Matt Heath & Tyler Adams Afternoons

Work hard, play hard - that was broadcaster Guyon Espiner's life with booze. But blackouts, bad hangovers and even an embarrassing incident with Helen Clark wasn't enough to stop him drinking - until two years ago. He's now made a documentary called PROOF about kicking the habit, New Zealand's drinking culture and the influence of the alcohol industry. Guyon Espiner joined Simon Barnett & James Da...

Candy Lane is a professional dancer, choreographer, television presenter and TV star.   She co-presented TVNZ's Dancing With The Stars and also choreographed New Zealand's Got Talent, The Singing Bee and Stars in Their Eyes. She has just finished taking part in the hit TVNZ show Celebrity Treasure Island where she made it to the final 6.   In 2014, she was awarded the Queens Service Medal for her...

Gareth Abdinor is an Employment Lawyer and Partner with Malley & Co solicitors. He regularly joins Simon Barnett and James Daniels to answer all listeners' employment related questions. Today, he joined the show to answer questions about redundancy, compulsory vaccination and workplace injuries amongst other things. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Government has introduced changes to help ease the impacts of COVID-19 restrictions on both commercial and residential tenancies. As part of the COVID-19 Response Legislation Bill, measures are being taken to help businesses resolve disputes over commercial rent, as well as provide greater certainty for landlords and tenants by protecting residential tenancies from being terminated during COVI...

In a past life, Mike King was one of New Zealand's most well-known entertainers, but that role changed dramatically with the inception of the radio show The Nutters Club Newstalk ZB.  That’s evolved to see Mike become a prominent mental health educator and Ambassador for both I Am Hope, the Key to Life Charitable Trust. Add to that Gumboot Friday which is raising money to provide free and timely c...

From the outside, weight loss surgery appears to be a cure-all for obesity and related diseases - the easy way to drop a lot of weight and keep it off for good. A great article from Rebecca Blithe about the varying successes of this purported marvel of modern medicine appeared in the NZ Herald today and it got us talking about weight loss. A man known to most New Zealanders called in to tell his w...

Niki Bezzant is an award-winning writer, speaker, commentator, and Health Editor for Woman Magazine.   She’s made a successful career from her passion for food, health, nutrition, and wellbeing.   Every second Wednesday Niki takes your questions and calls on everything nutrition, food, and health. This week we had some great questions on weight loss, MSG, frozen vegetables, exercise habits and liv...

Revelations today that former All Blacks prop Hayman has been diagnosed with early-onset dementia and probable CTE, aged just 41. In a statement, New Zealand Rugby CEO Mark Robinson has offered his thoughts saying Hayman wore the black jersey with distinction. Robinson stressed the importance of player safety and wellbeing as NZR's number one priority, and their desire to continue contributing to...

Westpac New Zealand's cash earnings shot up by 56 per cent to $1.01 billion in the year to September, boosted by a $404 million turnaround in asset impairment charges.  Net interest income benefitted from a 3 basis point increase in margins and lending growth of 5 per cent driven by $5.7b in mortgage growth.  Deposits increased by 7 per cent, or $4.9b, which fully funded the bank's loan growth and...

Climate scientist Dave Frame joined Simon Barnett and James Daniels to discuss the All Blacks' deal with petrochemical company Ineos and why he was one of the 100 people that signed the open letter denouncing the deal. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dr Anthony Jordan is the Northern Region Health Coordination Centre’s clinical director and one of only two Maori immunologists in Aotearoa.  His motivation working with the vaccination programme is ensuring equal access for all Māori to both the vaccine and to informed korero about why getting vaccinated is the best way to protect whanau and the community from COVID-19. He joined Tyler Adams (in...

Gareth Abdinor is an Employment Lawyer and Partner with Malley & Co solicitors. He regularly joins Simon Barnett and James Daniels to answer listeners' employment related questions. Tyler Adam's was in for Si today as they discussed Kiwisaver contributions, company cars and the wage subsidy among other things. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Radius Care founder and chairman Brien Cree joined Simon Barnett and James Daniels on why he's decided to go against Ministry of Health guidelines and allow visitors into rest homes for residents' mental health. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Otago University epidemiologist Professor Michael Baker joined Simon Barnett and James Daniels to discuss the Government's press conference from this morning and the traffic light system. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Patrick Gower is one of our most recognised and popular TV personalities.   After writing for the NZ Herald, he began a five year run as TV3's political editor in 2012, forging a reputation for his hard-nosed style.   Along the way he covered many high profile stories from Parliament. He also achieved web fame when a 16-second long ‘thug life’ musical parody went viral in 2014.   After returning t...

Niki Bezzant is an award-winning writer, speaker, commentator, and Health Editor for Woman Magazine.   She’s made a successful career from her passion for food, health, nutrition, and wellbeing.   Every second Wednesday Niki will be taking your questions and calls on everything nutrition, food, and health. This week we had some great questions on coconut oil, sports training and the One Meal A Day...

Property commentator Ashley Church joined Simon Barnett and James Daniels on National and Labour joining forces on the Housing Supply Bill, which will see as many as 105,500 homes built in a decade. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Auckland University vaccinologist Helen Petousis-Harris joined Simon Barnett and James Daniels to discuss Super Saturday, where the Prime Minister is hoping that 100,000 people will get vaccinated. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sir Ian Taylor became a household name as a television presenter in the 1980’s notably for TV series 'Spot On' He founded Taylormade Media in 1989 as a television production company, before establishing Animation Research Limited the following year.   Animation Research quickly became one of the top computer animation companies in New Zealand and known internationally for its work, particularly in...

Dr Anthony Jordan is the Northern Region Health Coordination Centre’s clinical director and one of only two Maori immunologists in Aotearoa.  His motivation working with the vaccination programme is ensuring equal access for all Māori to both the vaccine and to informed korero about why getting vaccinated is the best way to protect whanau and the community from COVID-19. He joined Simon Barnett an...

Health Minister Andrew Little joined Simon Barnett & James Daniels to discuss the health system's ability to cope with Covid and home isolation for positive cases as cases are expected to double in the next fortnight. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Gull general manager Dave Bodger joined Simon Barnett and James Daniels to discuss why New Zealand fuel prices are now at a record high, with fuel price tracking app Gaspy noting the national average price for 91 octane petrol currently sits at $2.39. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Gareth Abdinor is an Employment Lawyer and Partner with Malley & Co solicitors. He regularly joins Simon Barnett and James Daniels to answer all listeners' employment related questions. Today, he joined the show to answer questions about being split into seperate work bubbles, mandatory vaccinations and medicinal cannabis at work, among other things. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for pr...

A curious case before the Court Of Appeal has seen a Christchurch engineer fail to get half the sale proceeds of his ex-wife’s veterinary clinic. Kirsten and Shaune​ Wylie started living together in 2005 and married in March 2008. Their marrage lasted seven years. They both had assets and business interests of their own and had signed an agreement contracting out of the Property (Relationships) Ac...

Professional golfer Michael Hendry rang Simon Barnett and James Daniels to offer some of his suggestions for MIQ after Sir Ian Taylor's plan for MIQ was approved by the Government. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.