{"podcast":{"title":"The Hoon","slug":"the-hoon-6684157","podcast_index_feed_id":6684157,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/102473/s/18499.rss","website_url":"https://thekaka.substack.com/s/hoons","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/102473/s/18499/5a77ee184097a3059717adbfeb36cf87.jpg","author":"Bernard Hickey","episode_count":217,"summary":"Bernard Hickey's discussions about the political economy in Aotearoa-NZ and in geo-politics, including issues around housing affordability, climate change inaction and child poverty reduction.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-17T06:20:17.555092+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-hoon-6684157"},"episode":{"title":"The Weekly Hoon: The Middle East fuel crisis & more","slug":"the-weekly-hoon-the-middle-east-fuel-crisis-more-2","published_at":"2026-04-23T18:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-hoon-6684157/the-weekly-hoon-the-middle-east-fuel-crisis-more-2","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-hoon-6684157","url":"https://thekaka.substack.com/p/the-weekly-hoon-the-middle-east-fuel-614","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/195246570/d882c6fe3f0edfb7dec3a1f5308bbae3.mp3","summary":"The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night featured co-hosts Bernard Hickey & Peter Bale in Auckland talking with regular guests Cathrine Dyer from Wellington and Robert Patman in Dunedin about geopolitics, the economy, climate change and politics. This edition also includes discussions with special guests Jonathan Lyons, PhD from Vancouver and Shamubeel Eaqub in Auckland on Iran and social cohesion in New Zealand, respectively. This week: * Bernard and Peter began with a chat about the conflict in the Middle East and the fuel crisis, along with Christopher Luxon ’s leadership vote in the National Caucus and the ensuing clash with Winston Peters . * Bernard mentioned in passing a podcast series he recently listened to on the Suez crisis and compared New Zealand’s current fuel crisis to the 1973 fuel crisis. Peter referred to a Guardian article about Donald Trump’s voter fraud claims this week. He also referred to a podcast on Israel and a collapse in US voter support for Israel mentioned in an Ed Luce article in the FT. Bernard mentioned a WSJ-$ article on the drama in Trump’s White House. * Bernard, Peter and Cathrine then talked about this week’s report from The Macdiarmid Institute on CleanTech. There’s more commentary on that from the Science Media Centre . Cathrine mentioned the ideas of Joseph Tainter , who wrote a book called The Collapse of Complex Societies. * Bernard, Peter, Robert and Jonathan talked about events in the Middle East, including the history of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC ) and Jonathan’s substack post about how the assassination Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamanei also killed off his religious edict against nuclear weapons. * Bernard, Peter and Shamubeel talked about yesterday’s second…","meta_description":"The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night featured co-hosts Bernard Hickey & Peter Bale in Auckland talking…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3582,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-hoon-6684157/episodes/the-weekly-hoon-the-middle-east-fuel-crisis-more-2/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-hoon-6684157/the-weekly-hoon-the-middle-east-fuel-crisis-more-2.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}