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New Zealand police say hostel fire that killed 6 was arson
"New Zealand police announced they had arrested and charged a man with arson in connection with a fire at a Wellington hostel, police said the investigation into the fire, which killed several people, is ongoing, and they could far more serious charges in relation to the deaths at the scene, the suspect is scheduled to make his first appearance at the Wellington district court earlier police removed the first two bodies from the loafers lodge hostel and said they plan to remove more the following day. New Zealand police inspector Dion Bennett said it's possible they could find more victims as officers continue their scene examination. The damage on the third floor is significant. The debris is piled high. And there is much for them to move and search underneath the fire ripped through the building in the middle of the night, forcing some people to flee in their pajamas.
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New Zealand police say hostel fire that killed 6 was arson
"New Zealand police say they believe a fire that killed at least 6 people in a Wellington hostel was awesome, and they've launched a homicide probe. Police inspector Dion Bennett says an investigation into the fire and the resulting deaths is gathering pace. We are treating it as an arson. I'm not prepared to save Y or the reasons for us treating airs in arson other than to say that we are. Bennett adds they haven't yet arrested anybody. Investigation
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At least 6 people killed, 11 injured in New Zealand hostel fire
"And overnight fire at a four story hostel in New Zealand's capital has killed at least 6 people. Prime minister Chris hipkins has still the a.m. morning news program that he understands a number of people have been confirmed dead in the fire in Wellington, and that there are likely to be more others are severely injured. Senior policemen Dion Bennett says it's best to not speculate on what exactly happened until we know more facts. At this stage, the fire is unexplained. And place of boarding specialist investigators investigative
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It's almost Oscars time. Here's everything you need to know
"Chef Wolfgang Puck is previewing his annual Academy Awards menu. The world famous chef has been catering the Oscars for 29 years and he starts planning the menu about four to 6 weeks in advance. We make for years now our smoked salmon Oscars with Caviar and we make the chicken pot pie with black truffles and we make always different kind of ani lotes. Just as the Oscar nominees change every year, puck makes some changes to his menu. We're going to have a English try for a bit cherry and we're going to have fish and chips. The best way gluten free and I've been saying and then one SPS is done. We're going to have a beef Wellington. There will also be chocolate cigars and cocktails with gold flakes, puck is concentrating on the food, but he's also following the Oscar ceremony. It was really a good way to enjoyable movies. So I think Tom Cruise, maybe might not win, but he might win as they produce. And park smoked salmon is shaped like an Oscar. I'm Ed Donahue
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"wellington" Discussed on The Economist: The Intelligence
"Thanks for playing. 49 hours declaring it a riot. I can't please one adviser trying to reach and give the two years ago an indelible memory was formed as supporters of defeated president Donald Trump stormed America's capital building. The insurrectionists were in large part from America's gaggle of extreme right groups who believed mister Trump's lie that the election had been stolen from him. But that was just the principal preoccupation at the time for the far right, which it seems has a habit of shifting its focus. These days, it's a different issue motivating them to take to the streets. So after January 6th, 2021, when supporters of Donald Trump stormed the capitol building in D.C., a lot of far right groups actually went underground. Aaron Braun is The Economist West Coast correspondent. There was a really robust response from law enforcement and tracking them down and there was a lot of media scrutiny, so they kind of suspended their activities. But a group that tracks political violence suggests that these far right groups are mobilizing again, but in very different ways. And the chief example of that is that protests and events against lesbian gay bisexual and transgender people or LGBT Americans are on the rise. So what exactly did this study look into and find? So the armed conflict location and event data project, which is better known as a club, began to collect data on the United States in 2020. And since then, this recent report has tallied events between the start of that year and the end of 2022. And they looked at all kinds of organizing by far right groups, which includes groups like the Proud Boys or the oath keepers, the three percenters. And their activities include everything from actual protests to recruiting events to training, to disseminating propaganda and then actual acts of violence. And acorns found that protests against LGBT Americans more than tripled in 2022. They accounted for about two thirds of all far right events in December, and they've become actually the second biggest driver of protests among far right groups. And not only that, but this hatred against LGBT Americans among far right groups is spreading far right groups only protested against LGBT Americans in about 6 states in 2021, but 18 in 2022. Which is surprising because so much far right activity has centered in the past on racial hatred. Yeah, the way that I think about the results of this report is kind of a window into how the culture wars are changing. So racial hatred is still actually the biggest driver of far right groups, a belief in white supremacy or white nationalism was the most popular driver in 2022, about 21% of demonstrations last year were inspired by white nationalism up from 15% the previous year. So that's still more than the protests we've seen against LGBT people, but it's kind of the rapid growth against LGBT people that is concerning. And just one example of the way that white nationalism or even the backlash to racial justice comes into these protests is if you think about the protests in 2020 after George Floyd was murdered by a police officer in Minneapolis, a lot of Americans took to the streets to protest for racial justice and against police brutality and many far right groups formed their own protests protesting the protests. And you mentioned the attack on the capitol, which was clearly partly driven by these kinds of far right groups. So if you think of these protests as a timeline of the culture wars after the anti Black Lives Matter protests wound down and in their run up to the 2020 presidential election, we saw a lot of pro Trump activity and then stop the steal events, which was Trump's rallying cry against what he needed to be a fraudulent election. And then we saw a lot of actually very dispersed separate far right groups band together against COVID-19 vaccines and public health restrictions in 2021 once the vaccine started to be rolled out in America. Then we saw a lot of anti abortion sentiment after somebody leaked a draft opinion of the Supreme Court suggesting that they might overturn roe V wade. And then we see this rapid rise in anti LGBT events towards the end of 2022. And you said that there was a greater geographical spread as well. So as much as there is a moving with the times and raising the most hell possible, there is a greater amount of it all told. The geographic boundaries of their activity is growing. But the number of events that these far right groups are putting on. It has actually stayed roughly the same from 2021 to 2022. There was a modest increase, and the number of groups organizing these events is actually shrinking also far right activists are kind of coalescing around a few big groups like the Proud Boys, like the patriot front, which is a white supremacist group, and the anti semitic goyim defense league. So we're seeing this centralization of activity around a few big groups. I think the thing that people are worried about and seeing more people active in fewer groups is that for a very long time, the far right was this decentralized network of groups that oftentimes didn't talk to each other at all. And now with social media and various new platforms, their cross pollinating. And so the worry is that this could potentially make them more dangerous or at least louder. Aaron, thanks very much for your time. Thanks for having me, Jason. That's all for this episode of the intelligence. Let us know what you think of the show. You can get in touch at podcasts at economist dot com. 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"wellington" Discussed on The Economist: The Intelligence
"First up, though. Last week, a surprise announcement in New Zealand marked the end of a story political career. The summer I had hoped to find a way to prepare not just for another year, but another tomb, because that is what this year requires. I have not been able to do that. In a tearful goodbye, Jacinda Ardern stepped down as the country's leader. And so today I'm announcing that I will not be seeking reelection. And then my tumor's prime minister will conclude no later than the 7th of February. Few saw the departure coming, an Arden is leaving her job at a tough time for her party. High inflation, a stumbling economy, and a lack of affordable housing are contributing to a gloomy political atmosphere. I take on this job at a challenging time for New Zealanders. COVID-19 and the global pandemic created a health crisis. And now it's created an economic one. And that's where my government's focus will be. Yesterday, the Labor Party confirmed Chris hipkins as its new leader. He'll take over his prime minister on Wednesday. 9 months out from an election in October. He'll hope to recapture some of the star power of his predecessor. Who made prove a hard act to follow. Jacinda Ardern is a professional politician. She hasn't done anything else except politics and she's crammed a lot of politics into a still relatively short career. James asked till as our Asia editor. She was an MP by the time she was in her mid 20s. She became the deputy leader of the labor party, the center left party in New Zealand in 2017 and very shortly after that, the leader and then the leader of a minority government as prime minister. So she's been prime minister of New Zealand for 5 years and it's been a very eventful 5 years. So let's discuss that. Tell us about her tenure in office. I'll tell you an office is punctuated by some big events, not long after she became prime minister, a terrible islamophobic terrorist attack in Christchurch in which 51 people were killed and she sort of rose to that tragic occasion in a way that gave her not only a lot of support in New Zealand, but made her a global figure, and she followed that up the following year after the pandemic struck by being a very sympathetic and decisive face of public policy in New Zealand at a time when all the world was wrestling with the same questions locking down, leaving open the economies following public health guidance to the letter or not. And she very, very definitely sticking to the public health guidance became the sort of poster child of that view of a public policy response to the pandemic. And she was a global figure as a result of that. And hugely popular in New Zealand, one of the majority in 2020, which is an extraordinary feat in a proportional representation system where smaller parties more popular share of the vote. So she was enormously successful internationally and domestically that popularity, especially in New Zealand, has been ebbing of late as the sort of economic aftershocks of the pandemic and of indeed her particularly stringent approach to following public health guidelines locking down the economy, have taken their toll. But it's been a remarkable 5 year spell and the fact that the prime minister of New Zealand has been as globally recognized as she has been is in the law of itself something extraordinarily noteworthy. I think that's exactly right. Most people would struggle to name another New Zealand leader. What was it do you think aside from her pandemic response that struck such a chord with so many people? Well, no doubt her youth, the fact that she was a woman and there's a great human backstory to her premiership. She was the second woman to give birth in office after Benazir Bhutan Pakistan. And she seemed, I think, to justify that sort of soft focus coverage of her premiership by speaking in this very sympathetic authentic way. She spoke the language of sympathy and love and respect and honesty, and people responded to that very well. Globally too, we should acknowledge that she rose to prominence at a time when the western world is extremely concerned about the rise of populist leaders Donald Trump in 2016 in America, Boris Johnson, the populist of a different kind and a populist nonetheless in the UK, not long afterwards. And she seemed like a sort of antidote to that brand of politics. And I think that internationally, that's still her reputation if her star may have waned a bit in New Zealand. And even with those accomplishments and that popularity and the global profile, she stepped down. Why? What went wrong? Well, if we take her at her word, she's just drained by the physical and mental effort of running the country at this eventful time and at the same time trying to maintain some sort of work life balance. She's the mother of a young child and being an attentive mother to that child is part of her commitment and indeed part of her politics almost. But it's also true and clearly relevant that a political fortunes have taken a deep dive. She was last month rated positively by less than 30% of New Zealanders. There's an election during October, which her party is not expected to win. And so she's leaving when her reputation is still very strong internationally, but her political prospects are rather weak in New Zealand and it's reasonable to suppose that that as well as the sort of the terrible toll that the job is taking on her as a mother of young child is also part of her reasoning. And yesterday, her successor as head of the Labor Party and therefore, as prime minister, was chosen. He'll be sworn in on Wednesday. What can you tell us about Chris hipkins? So Chris hipkins is, first of all, a great ally of Jacinda Ardern's and functionary of her government. As I take on this role, I want to acknowledge our outgoing prime minister, my very good friend to send to our June. She's been one of New Zealand's great prime ministers. Jacinda provided inspirational leadership. He was the COVID response minister, so absolutely associated with policies of hers that have helped make her unpopular. So we don't expect a great change of tack from hipkins administration. In style, in persona, he's a different kind of politician, also a professional politician who's been in politics throughout his career, but he's sort of lower key. He's respected by his peers as an efficient administrator. He is said to have a sort of low key humorous political style, but he just sort of takes the star power out of the office and I suppose it's reasonable to think that that star power was irritating New Zealanders as they start to worry far more about bread and butter issues, high inflation, uncertain economy, than take pride in Jacinda Ardern's globally starry
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Meet the man set to replace Jacinda Ardern as New Zealand PM
"New Zealand's education minister is set to become the new prime minister after he was the only candidate to enter the contest to replace Jacinda Ardern. Chris hipkins must still gar a support from his Labor Party colleagues, but being the only candidate that is just a formality now. Hipkins from hutt valley near Wellington told reporters how he felt about his upcoming new role. Look, it's a big day for a boy from the hat. And look, I'm really honored and humbled by
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Britain and world say final goodbye to Queen Elizabeth II
"The last post has been sounded at the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II as the nation falls silent to honor Britain's longest reigning monarch The king had led members of the royal family in a procession behind the coffin to Westminster Abbey where world leaders were among the congregation of the hour long service during the sermon the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin wilby remembers Queen Elizabeth Now gone from us she was joyful Present to so many touching and multitude of lives The coffin left the Abbey to proceed by gun carriage to Wellington arch before the queen's laid to rest later next to her beloved husband Prince Philip at saint George's chapel in Windsor Charles De Ledesma under
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Palace reveals details of queen's state funeral on Monday
"Buckingham Palace has released details of proceedings which will follow the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II on Monday Two minutes of silence will be observed across the UK at the end of Queen Elizabeth II's state funeral at Westminster Abbey on Monday giving the public across the nation a chance to pay their respects to the late monarch then Elizabeth's coffin will be transported through the historic heart of London from Westminster Abbey to Wellington arch near Buckingham Palace on a horse drawn gun carriage with Charles and other royals walking behind Charles De Ledesma
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"wellington" Discussed on The Amateur Traveler Podcast
"A bit of a mission to get to, but you get amazing views out and you can see the snow on the rheumatoid ranges to the north. You can see all of the harbor and then you can see out south towards the coast as well. It's very much a bush walk on the white app. So really kind of peaceful, beautiful, getting up there. Bush work meaning there is not an established trail. There is a trail. It's just through the bush. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. There's a really good network of walking trails through the city. Okay. But it's not paved or anything. Excellent. One thing that makes you laugh and say only and Wellington. This really weird art and Wellington sometimes. Okay. And so we had this one that was on top of the city gallery, in civic square, and it was this hand with an eyeball on it. And it was on top of the building and looking down at everybody, just for months. It was very weird. Okay. But then I think the canceled fire works was a good one. It was just like, we want to have fireworks for molding new year, but there's a whale and the harbor. So we cut. That is unusual. That is different. Yeah. Excellent. And if you had to well actually one more. So you've moved away from Wellington, the thing you missed most about Wellington. Besides the people and the Friends, is what? I missed the food. I was a good flat white at a cheese God. Excellent. And if you had to summarize Wellington in just three words, what three words would use? Wendy, foodie and outdoorsy. Excellent. Our guest began has been Kate from Kate abroad dot com and Kate if we wanted to send people to your best post on Wellington, where are we going to send them? I recently wrote a post about the lane ways in Wellington. It's the way that Wellington similar to Melbourne and Australia and lots of different laneway precincts in the city where you can see street art, get some great food, so I definitely recommend checking that one out. And when you say lane ways, I'm hearing alleys. Small spaces in between blocks. Yes, actually. No, it did. You speak a similar language, but occasionally we run in other things. Okay. Yeah. Got it. Excellent. We'll put a link to that in the show notes. And keep thanks so much for coming on amateur traveler and sharing with us your love for Wellington. Thanks so much for having me, Chris. I'd like to extend a thanks to the patrons of the show who helped support the show financially. You too can become a patron of the show and find out what you can get for that by going to Patreon dot com.
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"wellington" Discussed on The Amateur Traveler Podcast
"Yes, you can kind of tour around this Thornton fear, arrow valley fair, new town. Is a really fun one. And these tend to be on the weekends. I'm guessing? Yes. Okay. So they'll be on a Saturday or Sunday in summer that spread out around the summer. So just depending when you're there. Thornton and new channel, the two biggest Thornton tends to be December and newtown in the new year change bed. Okay. And then Cuba dupa, which is the keyword street, first of all. It's been a bit less of a thing through COVID years, obviously. Right. But they shut down the street for the day. And you get lots of live performers. There's usually a couple of stages that will have local bands performing and all of the restaurants and cafes along Cuba street will sit up in a stall in front of the spot and make street food for the day. And it did get canceled in 2022, but they're planning to have it in the end of March in 2023. So we shall see. Yeah. So yeah, that's a lot of fun. Excellent. Anything else we need to cover in terms of neighborhoods, things to do side trips. So I've covered off our valley, Cuba street area, cube street has night markets every weekend as well, which can be quite good. It's mostly food tracks. There's also so they're kind of waterfront area has to papa. It has a theater oriental bay in all of that. I think through the food is a huge part of Wellington that's worth maybe talking about a little bit more because it's really kind of a culinary capital of New Zealand. So there's Wellington on our plate, which is the big foodie event of the year. But there's also some really top restaurants in the city. So the two I would mention there is here Kai. So that is by manik physio, who was on she was on Gordon Ramsay's show recently, actually. Okay. As a top New Zealand chef who does a lot of Maori and Polynesian cooking styles in her restaurant. So she's got a restaurant in the mount cook suburb of Wellington, which is very difficult to get into, but amazing if you can. Okay. So if you're planning a trip away in advance, that's worth looking into. Lots of native ingredients. Things like that, lots of seafood. Just really interesting, amazing food. And then Rita in our valley, which is just in this little house in the suburb tucked away, you wouldn't know it was there. But does incredible food is more European influences there..
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"wellington" Discussed on The Amateur Traveler Podcast
"That's a really good option. So you can do it as kind of a two or three day trip to do the whole thing. Okay. Or just jump on parts of it as you go. And do people are there normal places that people stay in the trip? I see that there's planning guides and things for that, but are there places that you would recommend along the route? Not personally. Okay. I haven't done the whole thing. I've just done sections of it around the hat. So yeah, I think not anywhere I could personally recommend this, sorry. That's all right. If you are heading to white it up, though, would recommend an Airbnb in Martin brough. There's a lot of sort of holiday homes of wellingtonians out there that get rented out as they're being based at a quite nice. Okay. Got it. Any other side trips we want to talk to or anything else we want to do while we're out in this area. So in that area I think winery tour is the Stonehenge stargazing set probably the main thing. But I would also recommend a side trip to the company coast. That's on a train line from Wellington, so that's super convenient. You can jump on at Wellington station and jump on and off at any point as you go. So a couple of things to do out there. You can take the ferry over to kapiti island. It is kind of privately chartered so you have to book away in advance. But it's a nature and scientific reserve. So they do, I believe they have kiwis out there now. And kiwi, the bird not kiwi, the people who grew up in New Zealand. Yes, and not kiwi the fruit. And I keep it the fruit. Yeah. Yeah. Gave me the small bits. You could see out there. You can kind of do a glamping thing overnight on kapiti island. Which is quite nice. There's whale watching tours in that area, although I would say with whale watching and Wellington. Sometimes they just come into the harbor. Yeah. So you might be walking around Wellington waterfront and see a huge crowd of people and they're all trying to take photos of a whale and the harbor. A few years back, we had to cancel some new year fireworks because there was a whale and the harbor and nobody knew how it would react. Yeah, so you can do where you're watching tours, a couple of coasts where there's a walkway that's been put in a recent years, which is called the Pikachu. Every time you say something and I think I've got to Google this and put it in the show notes. I just have to laugh at some of the Maori words because of that one I may have you mailed to me. Okay. Yeah, that's fine. Yeah, so that's a ten K track from high academic to put it all away. It is really cool. It's on the side of the cliff, basically, and I've got suspension bridges, and then all of that so you get beautiful views out to the islands. Really popular thing to do on a nice day. It looks beautiful. It is, it's really nice. If you get a windy day, this is speech and bridges. It could be a bit of a throw ride. I could well imagine. There's lots of good food that's popping up in the company coast as well. Okay. So there's salt and wood collective, which is doing sort of American barbecue, which is different to kiwi valve here. So when you say American barbecue, we've got at least 5 different styles that I know of..
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"wellington" Discussed on The Amateur Traveler Podcast
"Will you've been teasing us a bit with weta and with Peter Jackson and Lord of the Rings. Yes. Are you going to keep teasing me or are you going to talk about where we can see more about that? Yeah, so a couple of places for that. You can actually do Lord of the Rings to us from Wellington without take you to a lot of the different places where they were shooting the show in the city. So I did one of those myself when I was younger. I have a brother who's a huge Lord of the Rings fan and you can go on the side of mount Vic. There's a spot where they take the photos with the hobbits of running in the Woods and you can get the giant perspective and see how the films were shot to make the hell that's looked a little and the other characters look much taller and then I'll be speaking a bit more about the tangy little pinnacles is one of the famous sites for more of the rings and it's kind of a day trip from Wellington definitely worth going to and there's a few other things around there. But the real destination for it is where to workshop. So that is on the mirror Peninsula, one of the suburbs of Wellington. And on the drive there, you'll see this giant Wally wood sign. In the hills. I don't remember that. Okay. Yeah. Bit of a knock off of Hollywood. Okay. But one of the latest looks like it's big blowed away. It's very odd theme for Wellington. Yeah, so you can go to where to workshop and do a tour of the as the best way to see it and they show you a lot of the actual props and things from the movies that I've done. So they've done a lot of the rings they've done ever tap. I've done quite a few others since then as well. And they have things like the masks that the orcs wore and you can see how they did the makeup and all of those different things. So they do kind of adult tours and more kids tours that have sort of painting and things like that involved as well..
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"wellington" Discussed on The Amateur Traveler Podcast
"And it's about kind of 20 to 30 minutes to the summit from oriental bay and you get beautiful views all across the bay. Got it. And this is the mountain that was named after Queen Vick. Yes. So it's a Victoria. I'm not Victoria. Yep. And it's part of a bigger skyline walkway that connects the whole city. So you can walk from that Victoria all the way to the south coast or up into the hills by the eastern suburbs. Okay. So doing a bigger chunk of that walk as the great option if you've got a few days there and want to go for a longer hike. Got it. And so in oriental bay, you've got to have fish and chips on the beach. If you're there at dinnertime. Okay. So my favorite place to go is the chipotle on Marjorie bank street. And you get your fish and chips and new newspaper or your paper box and take it down and eat it by the beach or there's also some really cute sheds in oriental bay that you can climb on top of great place to get a photo. Very bright primary colors. Painted up there with the little boats in the background. Okay. Yeah, that's kind of the closest beach area to the city. But from there, you're really close also to papa, which is the national museum in absolutely worse spending half a day, or even a full day at. Yes. Yeah, all of the other museums and Wellington are taken skip those go to papa, take your time there. The scale of our war exhibit that was designed by Peter Jackson and where to workshop the team behind her and Lord of the Rings and things is incredible. You've got these mess of scale models. And it's about Gallipoli, which is the main battle World War I that New Zealand soldiers were involved in. So for those who are not familiar, Gallipoli being a Peninsula in turkey and a place where the amateur traveler turkey trip will be going in September, so if you happen to have some friends from one of the anzac countries, they might appreciate that. Very significant Australians in New Zealanders. Right, exactly. And that's in KPop. Yes, so the exhibit isn't a papa. Is that new then a new exhibit? No, so it's been there for about two years now and I believe it's continuing through to 2025. Got it. Hope that would count as news. It's been there since I was in te papa. Got it. Well, and I recall that that was a good museum for an introduction into the local Maori culture as well. Absolutely. So there's a lot there on the history of New Zealand and right from when the Maldives arrived to New Zealand through their history and then when the European settlers arrived, the Maori land was New Zealand land wars and the history since then including the treaty of waitangi between the Maori and the Europeans in New Zealand. So great way to get introduced to that. You can see things like a moldy walker, which is the canoes that they arrived in New Zealand in hundreds of years ago..
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"wellington" Discussed on The Amateur Traveler Podcast
"So definitely come in that period and you'll be able to make the most of swimming, kayaking, a lot of the hikes, some of the man accessible in the middle of winter just because of river levels mad things like that. So for any of that, have between Christmas and Easter as ideal. Well, and you see that it's not as good. I wouldn't say the weather there gets bad, though. In the sense of like cold and snowy or things like that, I think I was there in June and it was some rain, but that was about it. Yes. It's node once, in my 6 years of wellness. And it was the lightest know you've ever seen. I think we got the bureau of meteorology people out to say yes, that was actually, it wasn't just a bit of hail. We all got very excited about it. Excellent. And so we were oriental bay. We're having our brunch. Yeah. So from oriental bay after brunch, you can hire kayaks and kayak around the harbor. So you can do that either from queens wharf, which is just off lampton key, or from oriental bay and go back and forth between the two or further around the headland from oriental bay. And they're set up that if I can leave the kayak if I do a one way and get back and all that. You can between oriental bay in Queens wharf. Okay. That not if you go further afield. Got it. There's also bikes that you can hire these croc bikes that have taken off. They kind of look like tuk tuks, except there's nobody driver yet. So it gets a bit chaotic when you get groups of teenagers on them, but a bit of fan to kind of go around the base. So when I say the base, the Wellington coastline goes for about 50 kilometers from queens wharf in the central city, right around to a fellow bay on the south coast, and that faces overcook straight to the south island. So you can run bike walk in each section of that. And it also runs north to the hat, which is an extension of Wellington in the hat river valley, but that section from the city to the hat is not really walkable. Okay. Well, and you said croc bikes and that is an expression that I didn't know at all. We would call them bicycle series. So unlike a pedicab, there's no one in the there's no back. There's no one in the back and somebody in the front, but you're sitting next to each other in two or four people and then peddling to go where you want. Yeah, I've never heard that expression. Yeah, I don't know. It's just what I've seen them called exactly the same thing. Crocodile bikes are a new one to me. Excellent, so we've got our croc bike. We were biking around the harbor and then where are we going to or what are we doing next? So one of the things that everyone does recommend and Wellington is climbing mount bag. So Wellington is very hilly. If you want to walk anywhere that's further than two blocks back from the water, you'll be climbing hills. So you get very fat low like that. So mountain Vic is the most accessible hill to climb. It's not really a mountain that's just called that..
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"wellington" Discussed on The Amateur Traveler Podcast
"And I got my bags back on the road. I'm heading out there and I'm ready to go look at real good in my passport oh no. Amateur traveler episode 797. Today the amateur traveler talks about breweries and bays wineries and whales, hikes and hobbits as we go to Wellington, New Zealand. But maybe not maybe not to the day welcome to the amateur travel arm your host Chris Christensen, let's talk about Wellington. I'd like to welcome to the show Kate from Keita broad dot com who's come to talk to us about Wellington New Zealand. Kate, welcome to the show. Thanks, Chris. And Kate, what is your connection with Wellington? So I lived in Wellington for 6 years until very recently. First move there is a brand new university student and ended up living and working there for 6 years. And your originally from New Zealand as we established before we started recording. Yes, I am. So I'm from Hamilton, which is about 6 hours drive north of Wellington. And so I moved to Wellington from Hamilton at 17. Excellent. Excellent. And why should someone go to Wellington, New Zealand? So Wellington, the capital city of New Zealand, but highly underrated. It's got the nickname now of coolest little capital and it really is because you've got so much outdoorsy things that you can do there at space around the Wellington harbor, but also you've got mountains, around lots of hikes, things like that. But it's got also a bit of a hipster reputation, which you definitely find if you go for a walk down Cuba street, but that means there's a real strong foodie culture and based around the arts as well. It's the home Peter Jackson, of Lord of the Rings. It's lots of Lord of the Rings and scenes around Wellington that you can go and visit and you can also see the workshop world there, movie magic is made. Excellent. And what kind of itinerary are you going to recommend for us? Well, so I'd recommend that if you're spending about a week in Wellington, you base yourself around a suburb or an area for the first few days and then venture out of the city for some short trips. So one of my favorite areas in Wellington is our valley. It's very much got that kind of hipster vibe. You'll find things like an old video store there. There's a great walk at the pole hill reserve where you can get spectacular views of the city better than mountain vac, which is recommended in a lot of tourist guidebooks..
Serienweise - Der Serien Podcast
"wellington" Discussed on Serienweise - Der Serien Podcast
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Serienweise - Der Serien Podcast
"wellington" Discussed on Serienweise - Der Serien Podcast
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Whores Talk Horror
"wellington" Discussed on Whores Talk Horror
"I just wanna say you. i love it. Well played thank you for that. Thank you i often. Humorous is the best way to try and hopefully change idiots. I completely otherwise it just defensive. I also listened to that interview. And i have a quick comment. I would like to make because you also mentioned the name. Sharon and that his mind. I think you were trying to throw all. Sharon's under the bus with all the karen prime. But then you had deemed yourself by saying sharon's are a little more quote rough and ready and quote and you apologize to all the. Sharon's so i just want to say on behalf of all the sharon's of the world we collectively accept your apology. Why appreciate it. And i end up on a date with david died. Yeah although you did. I have to be remiss. If i didn't mention that you had mentioned your middle name is lorraine and in that same article. Embarrassing thing isn't embarrassed. Don't be embarrassed mentioning this. Because i did spend time with family recently including my two year old baby cousin that i've not been able to see because of the pandemic whose name is rainy. She was named after her grandmother. Lorraine and i want to give a quick shout out to her godmother. Julie who's a fan of our show and i told her we were going to be interviewing you and she freaked out. So what's up julie. But there are other lorraine's on you have a great time with your goddaughter. Rining rains making a comeback rainy for sheer. I like it erin. I'm gonna make a new show and didn't she cooled. i'm like. I said we one of them. One shows is country. Calendar the show. But i'm gonna make show country kuranda register around new zealand to cairns and they had cool asked and then it was like well. Yeah cares his co. nights yes. I'll watch it. I'll totally them. Yeah i'll be waiting say well. We want more wellington paranormal. I and that guy with summit. It's on its way so don't get nervous but whenever we do an interview we like to do a little lightning round with our our interviewees. So we're gonna we're gonna do lightning round. Are you ready. Yes ready okay. Cool record for kind of yeah. It's not it's not you know. Call the light.
Whores Talk Horror
"wellington" Discussed on Whores Talk Horror
"He does the had we not create these amazing even getting a cool from him. Maybe a year later saying would you like to make it made it. Pray for coffey. Good idea to to to pitch to you. I and it was decided that the culture really funny maybe the as us and would you be okay. Sure so it was. I thought i had been a tv shows. I'll give it a go thinking so it probably probably an even take so long no idea. Something like teaching. You take something that happens at the same time. Tv it's like you say something that takes a year off and you know and you you seem like a natural i mean you so you had no previous acting experience prior to what we do in the shadows just would really good ideas myself. And that's pretty much what i do in the show. So okay and you know. We probably should've mentioned this earlier. But for those of us for those people out there listening who have not seen the show. How would you describe. Wellington paranormal untroubled as a monkey. So shows that is in the the session like we're gonna play local play stephen which follows place around round. Say what they actually doing. So it's like that but relate with edit paranormal in states where we're trying to deal with different paranormal phenomenon and trying to solve the case or just book y safely eighty who sort of aside from the us internationally. Are you guys shocked at all or surprised by the success of the show. Are you kinda like thanks for catching up. Everybody we've been on for like three seasons. Now i'm always. I'm always so happily surprised. It's very lovely. it's. It's so nice that i'm a obviously my mom and dad from england so i've got some have been ever worst show that high on the tv care like you love it. Apparently like you know it's funny that we're sixty countries around the world. Apparently muslim bake. They can't get enough of what i would say my like fan country but i'm happy with.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
"wellington" Discussed on The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
"Nba. This is chris palmer. Nba saying fsu has hit rock bottom. No culture no fight no effort poorly coach time for a coaching change. Mike norval must go. You've reached a special kind of bad when the people from the nba. You're coming over and his first bomber. I know he's got plenty of elza spare but make sure you pronounce the els in his last name. Dan did i not use it. Call the mike norval which he's begging for you because you just cut a couple of els out of off of his record but it's mike l. Not the most impressive thing that anyone did with els this week and you see after fresno state fresno state Hasn't been this good since the days of Moustachioed pat hill. That guy that is a bad man. Pat hill beats ucla. I think everybody was saying chip. Kelly was back beats. Ucla and then the fresno state twitter account puts up the hollywood sign with only the else good banter. There's a lot of good panter. West virginia had exit sandman and michigan. State did the thing where they took a turn the upside down which. I don't like normalizing. This is not okay not okay. it's not okay. Someone did that to me in atlanta and others are. We gonna have a problem i said. Hey good game and they turn the upside down that someone just going with the middle finger like this you. It's so disrespectful. Why don't we offer this. Are we going to have a problem. Is something i haven't heard since march schleyer spin it at you when you got into a twitter spat with him and then ran away. Yes which is very intimidating. Which is why. I just replicate it. Stay i was like a man. I i was very intimidating when he said we're going to have a problem here so now anytime i get new and almost confrontation just say that because i realized how disheartened i was doing it now. Very different body types marks lower than i. His neck is bigger than my torso. I thought the michigan state wide receiver was at neyland. I thought that he did it well. He scores a touchdown ends. The game jumps up in the air holds up the you and then flips it down and i sent you it in slow motion simply to enrage it's not it really is. It's not cool not cool. Did it work to incentive. We're making this a bit now. People are inventions. They can send it to me and we're not good. You're telling me off. And i don't like it. I take personal laughing. I swear to god don't do that to me. It's not a laughing. It's not a laughing matter. Do you catch me in the wrong moment. We're gonna have a problem. Is the upside down. You the complete opposite of a see you in january and that was a little jealous watching sunday night football. Because i imagine the ravens and chief's fan base is were also exchanging.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
"wellington" Discussed on The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
"Doing in my living room figured it out performance so jump pass. Wow occasionally we'll throw it into triple coverage but god's passed a strong body that's chris. I'm outgrown two. Times is in college and yet no one talks about that. It's amazing on a field of world. Class athletes that includes tyreek hill. Okay includes patrick mahomes. That guy stands out. He's the best athletes on that fields using that master. Not to stand down now. Way is surprising dimsdale. He is the reason. He's playing quarterback and the reason confused bill polian is because he is more athletic. Could then anyone on the field and we are making a move ever ever so quickly. I guess i would say given the feet. Were talking about one kyle. Murray is doing where we're forgetting about the size. And how your hands size. And all that stuff and i does not seem that we're headed toward an an evolution in time where we're going to arrive at every team's best athlete is going to be the quarterback in tampa right. You'll still be there. I love that we can say. He's not an athlete while at forty four. He's doing athlete things that we've never seen before god said flatly. Go ahead dan. I defy you to say he won't be doing it at fifty and i was scared to say a. How could you doubt the man at this point. I mean honestly. Because he's sasha baron cohen's a you have him like you have him at fifty. Sasha baron cohen is actually a little bit older he's fifty but there are all sorts of fifty year olds out there. That can't be doing what tom brady is doing. I can't believe that i'm still here talking about this. And is and it's not going to. It's not going to let up. No and here's the other thing grog at least through the first two games of this season looks like rock as prime. I mean he looks fantastic. It's amazing this is a different gronk than we saw last season. I mean i will say it again. Because i really do feel like. We underestimated the fact that the tampa bay bucks won the championship with an antonio brown. Who didn't look like the antonio brown that they got antonio brown was the best receiver in this league. Stu gods wasn't that long ago but then everything that happened with him made last year thing. That didn't fit on top of everything else. That brady has done was brady. The only public person on antonio brown's side during all of that was he the only one that antonio brown can look at it and say well. That guy never left my side when i was dealing with things and then what do they do yesterday. Because mike evans only had three catches in the first game they because it's atlanta right and they know he's eight now in atlanta's broken. He got him a couple. Just got a couple at forty four years old. Hey mike here. A couple of touchdowns here are tidies as they call them in a really annoying fash. There are a couple of guys i feel bad for. I have no idea what happened. The scotty miller. And i have no idea what's going on with cameron rates. That used to be go-to guy. I mean that's like the seventh guy. He throws dude our looks at now and oj howard. He picked wisely you. Can we stop talking. About whether or not sean payton has fixed. Jameis winston lazic. Are we just going to do this. Every are we gonna do it every week. We're going to go back and forth. You guys were arguing that the quarterback for the bucks was blind. Got an eye surgery. Nobody in the league knew it. Nobody nobody in the you guys were arguing after week. One that he had gone from blind to being able to see and from thirty interceptions two five touchdowns in a game because he had some sort of ice. Now dan week. To what are we doing. Week to pit. Carolina panthers for real. Yeah wow they do that to janus mighty good team. They got there and the ambiguous carolina area. Also maybe sean payton not a quarterback whisperer after all. We're going to change that from week to we. Hotseat item is the best quarterback coach in the history of the nfl last week. One game. that'll do it. He's only got two receptions. I mean brady has to those was ready to schedule appointment. Get lake last week if that had been thing. Do you realize you guys realize what a great spokesman for jameis winston would have been. He could have. He would've corner this market on on fixing your eyesight. If he could have just replicated week one every week for the rest of his life as opposed to being jameis winston week to meena had that one called she said and these are the things that are always confusing to me. Because i thought that was surprising. Result to me that sat there saints. Whatever it was minus. Three and a half. And i'm like well you got i mean. Look at look at the saints. It sam darnold but they had their secondary out or two of their corners. Where out and and we don't pay attention to that stuff well. Gamblers do obviously gamblers. Good one so good gamblers. We are not paying attention to that. I on the other and we'll turn on the game. And i'm like i picked the over. Wait a minute. Why is it four hundred miles per hour winds and snow. That'll happen to be regularly. Put this on the poll gear at lebatardshow. Do you often turn on your television after gambling on team and her surprised by the wind and snow committing condition. It's something we should be looking for sure. I am admitting on the front end scientific. I could probably use slightly more information than i have. But i feel like most people listening to this would've said you know what i got the saints in that game. I got the saints against carolina. I will take them on the money line. I will take them in my survivor pool. There was a stretch. It was last season where there were three consecutive games in cleveland. I think we all.
Encyclopedia Womannica
Influential Educators: Dame Marie Clay
"To come. Let's talk about mari clay. Mari was born in nineteen. Twenty six in wellington new zealand. When she was five years old. Her parents divorced. Mari lift primarily with her mother but bounced between both parents houses. As a result. Mari ended up pretending four different primary schools. Something that would later influence her career trajectory in one thousand nine. Forty-five mari earned her primary school teaching credentials at wellington college of education following her time at wellington mara went onto earn both her bachelor's and master's degree her master's thesis focused on finding solutions for teaching special. Needs students. how to read and write in the nineteen fifties. Mari was awarded a fulbright scholarship. The award allowed her to continue her research at the university of minnesota and developmental child psychology and childhood literacy during her studies. Mari came to disagree with the prevailing literature about the ability of low achieving students to learn to read instead. Mari developed her own viewpoints. That would shape her research for decades to come. After finishing her fulbright mar moved back to wanganui new zealand where she taught elementary school and worked as a school psychologist. Then in nineteen sixty. She moved to auckland and joined the university of auckland's faculty. She taught educational psychology while pursuing her doctoral degree she was interested in understanding how children learn to read and how teachers could better support. The children who are falling behind. Her research was unique because it focused on closely observing a child's development over time
Scranton Talks
Ep2: Chatting It Up With Drought's Hannah Black & Megan Petersen
"So we come back from multiple callbacks, 'cause we were like, there's no way. Things don't work out like this for us. But it just did. And so casting was really, really fun. And everyone ended up just being local to Wellington. Because like you guys are saying there's so much talent outside of Atlanta. And LA and New York. There's so much talent in those places for sure. But the best roles at least for our film were right here. So. Yeah, exactly. And sometimes that works even better because again, like you're saying you got to have sort of a family on set because if you don't have that relationship that you're having fun, you know, because I think it should be about having fun being professional, but if you're not having fun, I mean, then it's not, you know, the production value is not there either. Long amounts of hours with each other. And very hot conditions. So we'll talk about weather, right? So when we were following it, I thought you would talk about hot conditions. There's always something that happens on the set. There's always a setback there's always something, so maybe you can, you know, most people talk about, you know, oh yeah, we had this, we had that, but you girls had something bigger, maybe you can tell us about that. Yes, because what's so funny, I'll tell you is that we had all the typical things like our grip truck got stuck in the sand, our ice cream truck broke down. And we rarely ever talk about those challenges because they are all, you know, I guess overshadowed by the fact that this film is about no rain and on day 12 of production we had to stop everything because a hurricane for hurricane that category four hurricane. It was headed towards Wilmington. And not moving. And he was coming right towards our city. So we had to stop on day 12 with an 18 day shoot and everyone evacuated to places like Charlotte or Atlanta. And we were stuck outside of our town for two weeks. I didn't know what we were going to come to when we came back. Because when Lincoln essentially became an island, it flooded everywhere. We weren't sure if our locations were going to be okay. And not even just for our films, but because those people who came our family do, and we didn't want their businesses to damage. There was a lot and I was also going out of the country during that time. So amazing Hannah, somehow put the Tetris of our crew to schedule back together and everyone was able to come back two months later to film. But then it was 44°. Okay. So one question about that, I mean, so when you have something like that, I said back. It's very hard on your motivation. It's very hard because now you're like, what am I going to do? And it takes a toll, especially if you're an artist, you're trying to create something that's meaningful, and now you have a big setback. How do you bounce back from that emotionally? You know, just say, you know, I just keep doing it. Keep doing it. Besides that you have the responsibility of finishing, but just more in the sense of like a personal, you know, no. The question. Hold on, but you think that's okay. Like, how did we do that? I think part of it is just we have invested so much already. And I think we could say just ourselves invested, but then when we look at our crew and our cast and all the people that contributed to this crowdfunding campaign and shared our film like when we are doing our campaign, it's like it didn't feel like it was our movie and felt like it was our communities movie. And so it had to, we had to finish it. We had to keep on going, even though we were tired, because not only us but so many people aboard their heart and soul into making this happen. And it just, it just wasn't really an option to be like, well, you know, we tried our best. And we had a lot, I mean, a hurricane was big, but we also hit some equally challenging things during that production after production before production. Just a lot of lifestyle, hard stuff in between. And so it's kind of like, I don't know. We just kind of had, I think also 'cause we're a partnership. So when one person is tired, the other person can lift them up and vice versa. Megan, what do you think? Yeah, the thing I was thinking of is a lot of times those setbacks I think we used as motivation to be like, this will not stop us. And it almost made us get more fire. Every once in a while it gets to you. And I think that that's when it's okay to call up your friend or like I got to just call it Hannah. And sometimes we're like, I can't do it today. Like today I take a break from the movie. Because maybe these are a can be at least a nonstop thing you're working on. You can really get burnt out on it. And the thing we didn't want to do is get so tired that we made a wrong decision. Out of just because we felt fired. So the process of making the movie took longer than I think some do, but a lot of that is in part because we allowed ourselves to take a breath if we needed it. Yeah, that's extremely important. I mean, you pretty much said it like you have to step back and do something fun, relax and then come back to it, right? I mean, that was guilty. I feel guilty. Exactly. Well, I mean, I was going to ask you about what your advice for filmmakers was, but I can not set out, but let me make sure that's where it doesn't have another question. And then I'll ask my final question that you girls go with just show the trader one more time do a little plug for Amazon Prime because I know that it's on Amazon Prime and then go from there. I'll check well also if we have any questions on our site. It was exploring your social media. And I was interested because you put it on your Facebook our hopes, raise autism awareness, brand jobs to our community, provide opportunities for women to live if you want it to elaborate on those. Yeah. I think it was really cool. We were able to pay our crew and we were really proud of that. It wasn't a huge amount. But we were also able to give them an interest in the film. So once the film makes money, our hope is that it does because we don't have investors. It is our crew and our cast and we can give that money back to them. In 2018 when we filmed our town was in a really big world for any filmmaking happening in the area. And it kept everyone energized. I think it kept. It gave people opportunities for roles they hadn't begun before. And now they've moved on to studio productions in our doing those roles. So I think got that goal and yes, number one is to raise autism awareness and acceptance in this film to get people talking about it. And to just promote the message that there is no such thing as normal. And we are here to accept each other but also ourselves. And then finally, from when it in film, you know, one of the reasons we set out to even write female characters is because we are actors first. And we auditioned for a lot of roles that were very grateful to audition for their typically very small and they could be like dumb blond or quirky white dress and we're like, ah, women are so much more than that. And so our hope is that people can see two female characters interacting that just have a family relationship and the complexities that come behind that. So those are our hopes. Thanks for reading those. I clearly asked about them. That's awesome with those goals that you have for this film. I was just amazing. Yeah, and I think that's important. That's very important to have goals. I mean, other than that, I think you have given great advice throughout the whole talk right now, which is really what we want to do. And I think you couldn't have said it better that, you know, you're doing this for yourself. Obviously, but also people get opportunities because they do a project. You know, like not a lot of times, you know, people are just doing something in the last 6 because something there's always someone watching, right? I always say that. There's always someone looking at your staff and then seeing what's out there and it's great that you're actors or maybe someone got a production somewhere out of that. And I think that's the most rewarding experience that you can get as a filmmaker to really see somebody in your film, making it as well. So we're going to do a little plug. How do we find your film? So I'll put it on the comments after the link, but yeah, so you can find drought on Amazon Prime. This week actually we're running a special where you can rent for 4.99 and purchase for 9.99. But then at the end of this week, you'll go back up to its normal price. You should just buy it then, right? You know? Yeah. And if you like it, it would mean so much if you guys rated it and murdered you. I'm an honest review. You know, that's really important to us. So yeah, it was on prem. Okay. All right. So this is I promise this is the last question, okay? So this is just if you were to tell yourself before you even started this project. One thing that you would have done differently, maybe just or you would have told yourself before you got this project going like that, maybe yeah, we could have gotten different at different ways. You know, like, oh, sorry, Meg's. You know, you go first. I was thinking you have sex. Okay. I feel like everything was supposed to happen the way it was. So I wouldn't change anything because had learned so much. The learning curve on this project was huge because every single role that Megan and I stepped into was new. But I will say if I could go back and tell myself something that I'll continue to tell myself for the next projects that we do, I really struggled on set and only Megan really knows this. As a director, because I felt like I was completely under qualified, which I was and still am. But I felt like I needed to know everything. Especially technical stuff, which I was not familiar with at all. And so I really got in my head when I was in director mode that I just was so inadequate and it made it was just really unhealthy. Unhealthy thoughts, you know, of like, I'm not good enough or like, no one's gonna listen to me, all that stuff. It's such a waste of time. And so what, maybe I don't know all the answers, but that's why you have a team. So I think I would go back and tell myself just chill. Just trust your gut. You know that other people are working just as hard, you don't have to know the answers, and that's why you have all these great people with you. So yeah, I think that's maybe something that I go back and tell myself. Intel others, you don't have to know everything, just take it one step at a time. That's perfect. Yeah. You know, it's going to sound cheesy. It's mine. It's about the same. I would think in my modes though if I don't know something, I try to learn everything I can about it. And sometimes you just don't have the capacity. I don't need to know everything that the gaffer is doing. As I do more or sound or the first AC or DIT, you know, I wanted to know everyone was doing. I think that comes from a good place. And I think what Hannah's talking about comes from a place of wanting to be a good team, team member. But being a good team member is sometimes releasing responsibility and letting people do what they're there to do. And as we do more projects or as you can do more projects out there, you'll learn more and more each time. And you'll feel, I think more like you have more knowledge of everything going on. It's okay if you don't. That's perfect. I think that's perfect by this way. I mean, pretty much what we've been saying and we're gonna keep saying it and we're gonna try to do this little segment as much as we can find filmmakers that are doing great things in this area and outside this area because I think we're all connected anyway. So maybe one, maybe one day we'll get to work in a project together, and definitely. Ladies, we wish are the best and the best of luck on your future and it looks like it's gonna be a pretty good one. I mean, you have a great movie that I think is going to inspire not only filmmakers, but just anyone looking to just be creative. Thank you so much for listening to our Scranton talks podcasts, and I hope you enjoyed your time with us. Be sure to catch our next episode as we chat with director and filmmaker Tristan Marcellus Winfrey about his film the helium against documentary. He is a huge advocate for mental health awareness, and he uses his platform to make change in the world one step at a time. Be sure to visit our website, WW our creative hub dot com. If you're interested in watching the film drought, be sure to check it out for rent and purchase on Amazon Prime Video. And be sure to follow them on Facebook and Instagram as well. And be sure to subscribe to the screen toxic podcast, to stay up to date on our latest episodes. And be sure to tell all your Friends about us.
Pop Culture Happy Hour
"wellington" Discussed on Pop Culture Happy Hour
"Welcome back joining us from her home in washington. Dc is days rosario. She's an executive producer at stitcher with the show. Celebrity book club with chelsea avantis and the distraction among others. Hey daisy hey glenn how's it going. It's going so. Let's get to it a wellington paranormal airs sundays on the cw and streams the following day on hbo. Max and even though we're only getting the first season of it now in the us in its native new zealand three seasons of the show of aired with four on the way so keep in mind that clement. Nypd started making wellington paranormal years before they started working on the american tv. Adaptation of what we do in the shadows for fx wellington stars. Karen o'leary as officer o'leary and mike minogue as officer wait for it minogue to largely clueless willington cops who get drafted into the top secret but low rent. Paranormal division of the wellington police force led by their true believing sergeant played by mockup poet to as a very cops like documentary crew follows them around o'leary and minogue periodically turned to the camera to bloviate in very officious weighs about public safety and the dangers of recreational drugs while behind them ghosts and zombies and aliens and vampires literally get away with murder. Daisy our lugging wellington paranormal. I mean it's just fun like in a time where everything is so stressful..
Pop Culture Happy Hour
"wellington" Discussed on Pop Culture Happy Hour
"Support for this podcast and the following message come from the new wells fargo active cash credit card. It's ready for your every move. With no caps or categories to track just unlimited two percent cash rewards on purchases terms apply learn more at wellsfargo dot com slash active cash. The very funny mockumentary series. Wellington paranormal follows a pair of new zealand police officers as they investigate strange occurrences in around nation's capital city. It's technically a spin off of the two thousand fourteen film. What we do in the shadows from jemaine clement and tyco. It as its two leads are playing the same characters they did in that. Fill it shares. What we do in the shadows bone-dry deadpan mix of horror and humor but what sets wellington paranormal apart. He south seamlessly channels. That sensibility into the very familiar format of the tv show cops. I'm glen welded into down..
BBC World Service
Former President Trump Holds First Rally Since Leaving Office
"A rally Saturday night in Wellington, Ohio, his first rally since leaving office. He repeated his false claims that the 2020 presidential election was tainted by fraud. Calling it the scam of the century. Event was held to promote the candidacy of Max Miller, a former White House aide who is mounting a primary challenge to Republican Congressman Anthony Gonzales. Gonzalez was one of 10 Republican House members who voted to impeach Trump for his role in the January 6th insurrection. The U. S men's
WTOP 24 Hour News
Biden Spends Father's Day Golfing With Grandson
"The White House says President Biden spent father's Day golfing with his grandson, Robert Hunter Biden, the second At Fieldstone Golf Club in Wellington, Delaware. Mr Biden's 15 year old grandson is the son of his late son, Beau
WBZ Afternoon News
MBTA Extends Shuttle Service On Orange Line After Boston Derailment
"MB Ta says service will now stay suspended on the Orange Line until April. 11th shuttle Busses will keep running as they have been between Sullivan Square and Oak Grove again. The rest of the line is running. Okay, but it's this stretch here where you will have to take a shuttle bus. Course crews have been out there doing repairs since last week when the train derailed right by Wellington Station. Workers still have to replace the track crossover where this happened, and they also have to replace track on both sides of the station platform. By the way, investigators say, they still don't know what exactly caused that derailment. Alright, 6 33 as promised. Let's go back to the highways now in traffic
Talking Tech
Happy anniversary, Animal Crossing!
"This day one year ago. The nintendo switch game animal. Crossing new horizons launched when we were all hunkered down at home trying to keep ourselves and family safe amid the pandemic we had this digital island oasis where we could fish build plante and simply enjoy our surroundings without worry joining us now to talk about. The anniversary of animal crossing is first time. Guest felicia wellington rebel and engagement editor with usa. Today who has written a very delightful piece exploring nine other cozy nintendo switch games for fans of new horizons felicia. Thanks so much for being here. It's great to have you. Thank you for having me so when i play new horizons. I didn't really know a lot about animal crossing. I knew bits here. And there. But i really didn't play much before this. How familiar were you with animal. Crossing before you started new horizons. I guess i'm not so different. I mean i was pretty familiar. Played new leaf that was for three d. s. Forget when that came out maybe like twenty eleven twelve and pocket camp. I was really can't probably because it was on ios. And i get engaged with it a little bit more often than like up either held or you know a conflict playing a console game and i knew it existed before that and i'd heard amazing things and the characters are in other games but i think this is the first time even outside of pocket camp that i just really like all the things. Let's all things here. I you know the thing that that struck me. When i was first playing new horizons last year was just it felt so peaceful and it felt nice to just concentrate on really simple things like i need to find another type of fruit to grow in my island or oh i need to build a new room in my house or oh and need to find something i need to build this or find this fish and it just felt so simple and compared with what we were dealing with in real life it was just so nice to get away What did you enjoy. Most about playing new horizons. Definitely all of those things. I think it the game releasing at the same time that everything shut down and i'm in a state that was one of the first Completely shut down New jersey and so it really was just. It was like a place to visit. It was a social outlet Because you can buy friends to your island etcetera but you're also just interacting there were all these new interactions in the game that yeah going on a year. You're just like you already said that twice today. My island villager. But in the beginning it was all very brand new. You're still inviting people. The goals were still fresh. It was kind of. Like what do i want my island to look like and i just couldn't get enough and i still enjoy a lot of those same things as the new releases. Come out. I really do like i know that. Not everyone is pleased with some of their choices but the very fact that it's just constant new materials over the span of not just this past year but i think they've got stuff plan for the next couple of years. I think that's amazing. And i know it's not too different from previous games. I'll take a very much been a thing to look forward to In a world where we don't have a whole lot of things we can go out and experience and so being able to go into this digital world and really look forward to some of those goals are really kind of grind away at something. Adorable has been been a lot of fun. Yeah that was one thing i love to is meeting the neighbors you know and be able to socially interact with people because it's hard when you're guaranteed you can't really see anybody in person and that was like a nice little kind of weird thing where you know you just got to meet your neighbors and hang out and talk and stuff and it was such a simple thing but it was just really great to yeah. I absolutely love it. I know that some of the same functionality and previous games where like you could find out like their favorite drink and music is isn't quite in this game yet but in the beginning i didn't care it was just like who's moving to my island because you know some of those first ones you don't have a choice And then you're traveling from ireland. Define the person that you want or even just like looking up who you might wanna. Is this person still in the game. Who were the new characters. I don't know there was just a lot of i. I'm gonna call it collection. Finding you know where it's just like. Ooh all these new opportunities. What are what are the possibilities. Which ones do i want with my aesthetic. I don't know there's a lot of fun in that almost like childlike wonder. That's there yeah absolutely. So let's talk about your piece. You mentioned nine switch games. The player should consider if they love animal crossing if we had narrowed down to three. Which would you choose bellboy. Fine giving getting to nine okay fair. There were a lot of games on there. And they're all kind of open world. So i can see why you might just want some top choices. So let's see well. Ledge legends zelda is like a forever recommendation. So i'll pick three others. That one counts though. It's like your bonus always recommended any game in that franchise that whole series So well last campfire. I think is one of my favorite games on the list. No no no offense to all the others are all great but there is something about that game. It's a little haunting but Not in a bad way but oh kind of like. Wow like a very emotional game but i just i'm so drawn to it. I really enjoyed playing it. The puzzles I don't know everything about that. Game just really drew me in and another emotional one was Spirit fair. I think that when a lot of people recommend mount one it was really good. I'm happy check that one out. At first i was like. I'm gonna cry when i play that i'm good. I've done enough crying. But it really is just a great game and i'm really. I'm really thrilled. That i tried that one. I almost passed on it. And then i should say star valley which is great. But i'm gonna say little would as the third choice and here's why you can't really go wrong with you either one. They're pretty similar like very similar and they're probably both the most similar to animal crossing. But when i pick up the switch i tend to feel drawn to littlewood a little bit more. Sorry starting valley. I just i just open it way. More than i do start started valley little would so that will be the recommendation simply because at that because ultimately when i pick it up what do i go to play the most. If that's it then that's one. I should recommend okay. I'm going to have to try little would on the switch at. It's like super indy. I think it was just one guy who i think. He had a kickstarter for it and finally got it published. And i don't know. I really i really like it
WBZ Afternoon News
Restaurants In New York City’s Asian Communities Especially Hopeful Increased Indoor Dining Capacity Brings More Business
"The tri State area are expanding operations, including in New York City, where indoor dining is now allowed at 50% capacity as CBS is Allie Bowman reports. Restaurants in Asian neighborhoods are especially hopeful that this We'll bring in much needed business. It has been hard on every restaurant and some business owners say anti Asian xenophobia made it especially difficult for restaurants in Chinatown cannot help feed it earlier than most, because Asian Americans stopped coming as well. People over fearful thinking associate actually aren't early on last year. Wellington Chen is with the Chinatown Business Improvement District. He says the recent rise in anti Asian hate crimes is deterring customers all over again. And business owners say that fear from the rise in hate crimes has resulted in less customers, fewer customers and less foot traffic coming through the door. State and
PhotoBiz Xposed
How to grow your photography business
"I learned about today's guest in a race interview with new zealand. Based photography michelle fi in that interview she mentioned popping portraits and off we on a wild tangent about this incredible sanding concept generate leads. Get none in the local community and supplement. You'll photography income with these mini sessions. The founder of poppy and portrait is with us right now and she started her photography business ten years ago and she says if y'all from wellington new zealand and you don't know at least one person who she's photographed. That would be a big surprise now. In addition to her photography business she's busy taking popping portraits iran new zealand australia and soon to be right around the world. I'm talking about anna cunningham and i'm wrapped deci. Welcome to the podcast. Anna having inc smart pleasure. So i'm guessing you can sit me right here. You started out as a photographer. Things were going well. And you thought of popping portrait's and that's taken off. Is that the white vein. Yeah i think it's probably a little bit lease teaching basically yeast. it was a Like everybody else. Just above trying to find the knicks clients and shooting portraits in the outwitting and mostly newborns and things like that and been accustomed who i had photographed a couple of times photograph. The waiting in the in the head. They first baby and she wanted to do a monthly station with a baby to catch them. Growing and i started thinking about how could make that work. I don't kinda thing. I don't think that she will become to have a full season. E remittance costly says figuring. Trying to figure out how i can make it affordable hip also with off me and came up with the idea of just having Almost day for my studio. Our something. I could have a few people come along. He wanted to the same thing in the kind of way poppins originated in from there. It just basically exploded gun huge so exciting. Do you still do you. Pinch yourself now looking at the business and saying where it is and where it's potentially going absolutely insane. Yeah i don't know what's going on when i sort of. Thank you know like the last five years it just yet blows my mind. I'm real so for the listener. The hasn't heard machel's interview. Can you briefly explain. What popping poetry taw. Yes so basically. It really is like can feel studio A chance to the and allow as many customers as you can ends account through Just one votes hiking of the little one usually babies in the first year but we do children ages. And i just come in. They come in sit now and tried cheer and they have a quick easy fighter. Technically try and get a lovely smile out of age child in move on. We move onto the next Today and in we've taken out. Will they sort of like classic in choosing that sort of jesuit just pick one gripe voted for the parents Directly to them ready to download. So it's kind of designed to be the most simple most quick most easy thing possible for And the parent and the most affordable is also ageism for just twenty dollars a pop and that's twenty dollars new zealand currency. Yeah it's currency for obviously up riding in australia is also twenty dollars Where are you opening or planning to open. Where else are you in the world. So i think recently sort of changed tech takes a little bit. We were originally planning into tight. Little any around and around the world everywhere Having moved into australia in spain not crazy with coveted thing. I've decided sort of just a focus on what we've got with australia and new zealand change tactics for the rest of the world. Who will planning to do as release another vision. Vowel suffield website software. That we've made and have that available Around the world. Who interested in joining something very similar to what opponent is what little any has bet dropping out will of the branding of the constraints that come was working with the french Don into brand thirty establish pretty excited about what that is gonna look like and hoping to get off the ground around about eight cruel. Twenty twenty on so International listeners if anyone is inspired by the idea opens Get in touch with me now. And i can keep you up to date when we have a bit more information about launch. That new wave that that's coming soon. It sounds like you'll becoming a software company and app company is at riot or you still focused on photography. I'm just. I'm doing everything and i'm just moving with the business going from one state to the next as i have done pretty much the whole way through but yeah the is going Toes for years ago. Now patented with dave who's developed out software online software that created that handle if the booking in administration image delivery in all of that full poppin. So it makes it super easy today. Obviously for the twenty dollar price point. You don't want to be spending your life during edmund Basically crucial is. Yeah so now that we've developed that software it's kind of a case of making the most of that and pushing it out using why's that. Maybe we didn't initially conceptualize. But now maxine
The Gays Are Revolting
Embracing sexuality as a person of faith with Pastor Alex Pittaway
"We're joined by alex piece away. Who is a gay passer from. He's been alex welcome. Thanks so much. I wanna ask you now. You are a reverend. what do we call you. Is it like the queen. Reverend i after all look just postures just alex titles such ranks so called. Alex lit for the lord. Sure what god one bless you. I've never heard that you discover the podcast through gay christian bible study. I think there has to be the first time anyone had about the gays revolting through a christian bible. Study that you know of in a positive It was actually It was the first month that i moved to brisbane and someone who's a really great Sort of leader in our church. He was running a group. A bible study for gay christians and he affectionately called homo group and he invited me along one night because a lot of people in my church go there. And so we We're looking at a pace of scripture which talks about being counter cultural as a reference point. It was this podcast And people were discussing. What gaza garage in the vein of being sort of counter cultural. And they're sort of version of counter. Cultural will being counter cultural by being quia by being gay by being lgbt. I and Being christian being spiritual at the same time And so yeah it was. it was through here that That i i had it Gosh that would have been way back in two thousand eighteen. I think july august. And how long have we been doing show by we've shed a lot of biblical moments on. It's not a surprise to me that they might be studying your trips to wait on. Wellington dotting the alex. You're the possible for church. Made up mostly of lgbt on people who've been rejected from mainstream churches yes so Mcc has been around in brisbane for forty five years And you know we've been cold at the church For gay people We've been cold especially during the eighties and nineties. The the church that has aids We have an aids quilt by sydney congregation in brisbane congregation. And for a while we were the only people who would do funerals for people who died of aids in nineteen eighty s and ninety s And we lost about one third of all of pastas globally. hiv aids. Yes so we're very much a church run by the people. It's called dumb. If you're a church history node like me then Congregational model of church. Which means that the church decides the pasta is the church decides what direction even what beliefs the church has is very much a grassroots organization. And it's not so much sort of top heavy pasta decides everything Organizations is much more much more grassroots than that overall. Unfortunately in australia the landscape spiritually is very very tough for gay people. I think melbourne is probably the most a gay affirming city in terms of church. Wise there are just many many more gay affirming congregations. When i say affirming it means you don't just have to sit at the back and we'll take your money but don't you think that you can get married or anything else. It's people know we will do your marriage. We will Support your relationships we. We're not trying to secretly ten. You straight we don't think you're going to hell. And we fully welcome you. So there's many of those In melbourne including mcc melbourne including several anglican churches several uniting churches in sydney. This probably about five or six in brisbane. There's just three out of hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of churches. And it's it's sad because you know in america despite america being a much more conservative place in indianapolis the city that i studied in to be a pasta. There are something like thirty five. Well affirming churches
Snap Judgment
President-elect Joe Biden declares "clear victory" and calls for unity
"After a cliffhanger vote count, Mr Biden is projected to have won the states of Pennsylvania and Nevada, taking him over the crucial threshold of 270 electoral college votes. President elect up to the stage a few hours ago to officially declare victory in front of a crowd in his hometown of Wellington, Delaware. The people of this nation have spoken. They've delivered us a clear victory. A convincing victory. Victory. For we, the people Way one with the most votes ever cast from presidential ticket in the nation. Joe Biden has said he wants to restore the soul of the United States and Americans needed to stop treating their political opponents as enemies call for unity was echoed by the vice president elect Kamila Harris. You chose hope. And unity, decency, Science and, yes, truth you chose Joe Biden as the next president. And Joe is a healer, a uniter, a tested and steady hand. One person who knows Joe Biden well as Amy Pope. She worked alongside him for a number of years. In her former role, is US deputy Homeland security adviser to President Obama. She's now an associate fellow at the think tank Chatham house and she joins me now. Amy, What kind of President Will Joe Biden B? How will he differ from the last Democratic party President Barack Obama. Joe Biden is really a kind of Washington expert, Hey, has a long history in the Senate. He knows many, many, many of the key political influencers and legislators in Washington and he's the kind of person who just has gotten to know them and build relationships with them on And for that reason, I think he's coming in at the right time in terms of trying to build relationships across the island and get something done. Do you think that he really is going to be able T turn that to his advantage? It just seems that there's so much animosity in US politics right now. I think it's going to be tough. And I think even for someone like Mitch McConnell, with whom who's the Senate majority leader with whom the president elect has a strong relationship, there will be pressures on him not to find common ground and not to cooperate. But on the flip side, there are a lot of Americans who are looking for Congress and the president to work together. Who are looking for some level of functioning capacity within Washington. They'll feel that pressure to it's hard to see how this will play out, and it'll depend frankly, about what the voters were saying to their members. Amy, I'm going to bring my guests in
Between The Lines
NZ election: why voters chose 'health over wealth'
"Into mania in. New Zealand. Tonight. New Zealand has shown the Labor Party, its greatest support and at least fifty years. End For that. I only had two simple words. Thank you. Well that was prime, minister? I done this she celebrating her emphatic election victory last weekend. Now the significance of the Labor Party landslide. It's not just that it's seen as a reward for her decisive response to the COVID crisis. It means New Zealand now has its first single-party government in decades. So what does the mandate main for new? Zealand's economic landscape as it faces its worst recession in nearly a century. We'll deliver a progressive transformation across the ditch. What happens if New Zealand does not sort ad its economic challenges quickly. trans-tasman cousins could I become fouled state? All of the heart, which is executive director of the new. Zealand initiative and Josie. PAGARINI is the executive director of the Council for International Development both a based in Wellington all of Josie welcome to. Radio National. Hello Tom. JC How do you account for Cinderella Dunes emphatic victory. Well, I mean you've got to say the popularity is genuine people lover. She's like a superstar she goes into to shopping malls and gets mobbed but I think you'd say you'd have to say to that that election campaign was incredibly disciplined Labor wanted a covid election. They wanted election that was about who stopped US getting sick not who's going to get us back to work and they succeeded in getting that they also wanted election that was focused not on labor, not particularly on policy, but almost entirely on just cinder. So if you the completely unscientific focus. Group in the Texas, you'd ask a taxi driver who you voting for, and let's say I'm voting for just under the all of a juicy. He reflects the Conventional Wisdom Abacha in Dorado and that her aggressive handling off covered and not to mention her response to the mass shooting of Muslims in in Christchurch earlier last year the gun control measures she put in place all that explains Justin, Dryden's remarkable political popularity. She's also received widespread global price for being a stateswoman who's kept New Zealand you nodded even in the face of multiple crises, your not fanned. Why? Well. First of all, I would agree with our choice just as remarkably popular and. This scenes from her election campaign were quite telling wherever she turned up. They were hundreds of people around her celebrating her. My experience with taxi drivers though is a bit different, maybe different taxi companies are us. Last The last few times I had known taxi drivers They complained that their businesses stoned at the city's undying out that we are not recovering properly from the crisis. That business is simply not what it used to be an typically detect Texas. Of course when I'm flying from Wellington to Auckland, and have to get to the CD and you can see the traffic in the city, the city looks kind of dead. We've got a massive challenge ahead on the economy in these eland, and that's why I haven't really seen much from the government in general plans of how to revive the economy and how to get us out of they have effectively beaten the virus now twice. But they haven't actually given us any clear indication how they're going to lift us out of this because the protections for public debts for unemployment. From monetary policy, they actually scare me when you look at them many New Zealand business figures share all of skepticism is fair Point Jersey. Yes, it is because the election really did focus on cousin who it was absolutely about who stopped US getting sick and so it was actually really hard to get any coherent debate about what is the plan B if we don't get a vaccine next year, what is the retail kind? So it was all very vague that staff and. You're right. All of you got different taxi companies to me to probably but another thing I heard in Texas a lot was all well if it's between wealth and health, I'm GonNa pick health and just send a picked health. Well, of course, you know we know that that's a false dichotomy it's not health or wealth. If you country is unable to trade and you borders closed long-term, then you're not going to raise the revenue to be able to have decent hospitals. You're not going to get your school buildings. Renovated and so on, and you're not going to be getting elective surgery and people are actually going to get unhealthy. So but it was no one wanted to hear that town that was the thing. No one wanted to hear a debate about next year they just wanted to know that. Anti Cinde was gonNA look after and that was it. Yes we'll enjoys does mentioned the vaccine just interested in like most western leaders frankly, she's pretty policy on the likelihood of a vaccine in coming months but the question here is what if a readily available vaccine if it ever happens what if it's a long way off I mean for how long all of our the present measures sustainable I mean, how long can you zeal and cut itself off from the outside world? Well I think that is actually a political question not an economic run from an economic perspective I. Think it would be desirable to New Zealand to the words more quickly but can do the safely. We can still have proper border to ensure that when we opened up to the word again, we do this without importing the virus. But I think the government sticks to the precautionary principle at the moment, and that's a political decision because the public doesn't want the government do anything outspent opinion polls before election showing that more than seventy percent of New Zealanders what actually like to keep the borders Morris close and these are people who probably don't have any immediate travel plans or maybe don't have any family abroad. Heavily business to do abroad, and so for them life is quite pleasant as long as they also keep their jobson New Zealand's, and so they would rather electric continue the status quo until that vaccine arrive. So it is difficult for the government to go against this when the public is. So strongly in favor of just keeping the border shut as they are but at some stage will just have to a because some the economic consequences of this some prolonged isolation are going to be enormous Jesse is point. Absolutely, you could not get a discussion out during the election campaign about elimination versus suppression of the virus, and so it was it was almost impossible to talk about the plan. B. If the vaccine doesn't turn up which let's face it, it's unlikely tuneup and be available next year so. Realistically the from left or the right of the political spectrum. It was really hard to talk about how long do our border stay closed, and those of us myself included who were trying to say, you know look closing the borders as a six month policy not a two year policy. He can't possibly maintain a closed border and keep trade going even though we can still export milk powder and so on. But the ability for our businesses to connect with the world and so on for us to travel is just not feasible but whenever I said that I would get attacked on twitter and everywhere for being the head of a capitalist difficult. So you could not get a good debate going about this even though the w eight show for example was saying, Hey, you know strict lockdowns and we've had very strict lockdowns for lockdowns are not the best approach if you're doing a cost benefit analysis on either health or economic growth.