THE CRYPTID FACTOR with Rhys Darby and David Farrier (oh, and their producer Buttons). Every Sunday they'll be discussing all things cryptid – from Bigfoot to the Loch Ness monster to the Mongolian Death Worm... not to mention some topics closer to home.
They'll have interviews, analysis, eyewitness accounts... and of course, music and banter.
Join Rhys and David: Come with them, as they (and you!) step into the exciting world of cryptozoology.
Oh they'll be playing their favourite tunes, too.
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This show aired 8 November 2009
This Week's Bits
In TWB this week: the Seabed & Foreshore review; Corngate: Redux; Fiji and NZ boot out each other's diplomats and it's 20 years since the Berlin wall was pulled down.
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MP3, 15m38s, 3.6MB
The Weekly Round Up
This week: Mikey gets cracking with Fancy New Band Big Punch; Troy talks to Animal Collective's Avey Tare and Chris the lawyer survives a fitting farewell via explosives.
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MP3, 10m23s, 2.4MB
The Sunday Breakfast School Fair Review
As the days get longer and warmer schools around the country shake themselves into fundraising mode and put on their school fairs and galas.
Myself and sometime SB contributor Bronwyn Bent enjoy a good school fair, so we thought we'd take along a recording device to put down our thoughts on a few fairs we visited this weekend.
The fairs this week include: Michael Park School in Ellerslie, which we gave a 3 out of 5, and St Francis School in Point Chevalier, which recieved a 4.25 out of five.
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MP3, 10m19s, 2.4MB
Games Burnett
This week Games reviews the much anticipated Borderlands from Gearbox Software and he also looks at the new version of computer and electronic pricing comparison website pricespy.co.nz which has new owners and a new and despised interface.
The progress on the new community created pricespy rival can be followed here.
Here's the new pricespy (ugh).
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MP3, 15m22s, 3.5MB
Luke Murray of Film
The programmer for the Rialto Channel, Luke Murray, pops in to tell us about the channel's new director series involving the work of Kubrick, Loach, Kurosawa and others.
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MP3, 6m44s, 1.5MB
News Rage with James Coe
Coe rips the Herald On Sunday a new one.
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MP3, 13m26s, 3.1MB
Listen To My Opinion
In something of an oversite James and myself forgot to talk about this little beauty from the Herald On Sunday. What a business size load of tabloid-style-news night soil.
It seems the Herald will drum up anything they can to fill their little weekend pamphlet. In the second paragraph David Fisher writes: "The former Push Push rocker, now a 95bFM morning DJ, amassed at least $20,000 in traffic fines over a number of years." A couple of paragraphs on it's clear that 20k figure has been more or less pulled out of his arse by quoting Mike: "He would not confirm the amount involved but, when told another offender had $70,000 wiped, said that was "three times as much as me". And let's be clear, Fisher, DJing in public is not the same job as hosting a breakfast radio show just like writing for the HOS is not the same as providing the country with informative news stories about issues (and here's a few important concepts to take note of), that are pertinent and important. And while we're at it, referring to this "revelation" as a blow to Mike after he "split up with his actress wife Claire Chitham" is shameful.
But this disappears into the ghostly fog that is the Herald's editorial department if we compare it with the paper's editorial. Are you shitting me? Have you just mentioned Mikey's parking fines and the Paul Dally case in the same piece? I must have been mistaken, hang on I'll double check. Sweet flying Christ yes, I was right. You've written an editorial inviting comparisons between Mike's fines and a rapist/murderer. A colleague described this as "confused." I describe this as pure shite and you're up to your elbows in it, hiding whatever point you think you were making. Particularly amusing is the call for justice to be "driven by emotion, rather than reason." The Herald can take the moral high ground here, yet can drag Mike's name through the mud. This is not journalism or considered opinion: this is driving sales by stoking the public ire.
Jesus wept, I need a milkshake.
(Just to be clear: I've worked with Mike for a number of years at bFM and even if I didn't know the guy I'd still be writing this now.)