Chewing the Fat

20/08/2021

I've started a new podcast! With a better host and all that cool stuff - it's just better. Next week - clinical psychologist/psychotherapist in a NZ prison, Jacobus 🤔

Listen to Dirty Dirty Talk (this is not a s*x podcast) on Spotify. Kiwis have a unique perspective to offer the world on all the dirty stuff going on around us in New Zealand and around the world. This is a podcast where we get down and dirty with the weird and wonderful, navigating the difference b...

16/03/2021

How does someone become s*xually attracted to animals? Is there confusion, shame, embarrassment? Find out in this strange deep die into Zo*****ia!

https://podcasts.apple.com/jp/podcast/chewing-the-fat-podcast-with-mike/id1539553619?l=en&i=1000509180957

‎Show Chewing the Fat Podcast with Mike, Ep Steve Lebrasky - Zoophile/Bestiality Practitioner (ZETA Germany) - Feb 15, 2021

11/02/2021

Ever wondering what it's like to be a funeral director? How is our perception of death changing? Listen to Mike chat to Bev, a funeral home director!

https://podcasts.apple.com/jp/podcast/chewing-the-fat-podcast-with-mike/id1539553619?l=en&i=1000508251905

‎Show Chewing the Fat Podcast with Mike, Ep Bev Boucher - Funeral Director, Funeral Home Owner/Operator - Feb 8, 2021

16/12/2020

This week: Tali Williams is a union organiser having worked for First Union, SFWU, EPMU and Finsec, she has travelled to the Middle East as part of Kia Ora Gaza and wants to remove parliamentary politics.

https://podcasts.apple.com/jp/podcast/chewing-the-fat-podcast-with-mike/id1539553619 =029023de-b28d-4f6e-889b-68b586090306

09/12/2020

PHIL DONOVAN & JORDAN HENNING are anarcho-capitalists (anarchism through a framework of pure capitalism) and co-directors of the blog, Anarkiwi.org.

We talk about dismantling the nation state and their institutions, slavery in socialist societies, whether freedom is absolute or relative, legislating against in**st, and Phil's experience as president of Young ACT.

https://podcasts.apple.com/jp/podcast/chewing-the-fat-podcast-with-mike/id1539553619?i=1000501665117

‎Chewing the Fat Podcast with Mikeの番組、エピソードPhil Donovan/Jordan Henning - Anarcho Capitalists-2020年12月7日

02/12/2020

02/12/2020

This week's episode! Elizabeth Collins is an abolitionist vegan, advocates for anti-speciesism, operates a vegan advocacy cart, and has a podcast, NZ Vegan Podcast.

We chat about concepts of property and personhood with animals, the welfarist vs. abolitionist debate, the compatibility of veganism in a globalised and industrialised world, whether Mollusca and insects have sentience, moral schizophrenia, why she started NZ Vegan Podcast, & her favourite vegan recipe for non-vegans.

Links:

Moral Schizophrenia: http://www.abolitionistapproach.com/a-note-on-moral-schizophrenia/
Abolitionist v Welfarist Debate: http://www.abolitionistapproach.com/my-dinner-at-eriks-happy-meat-diner/ #.Vhy2P8uFu0c
The book Elizabeth cited: http://www.abolitionistapproach.com/books/introduction-to-animal-rights-your-child-or-the-dog/ #.V1aIIlcyeA0

Quinoa w/ lentils & sauteed greens
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-RyX3guVME4Mm5ZVHlUSy1URFQzQjRzUEFyZGVIT1FRbGxR/view?usp=sharing

26/11/2020

Finally back! Listen on Spotify, Stitcher, Apple Podcasts or wherever else! 👏🤩

https://podcasts.apple.com/jp/podcast/chewing-the-fat-podcast-with-mike/id1539553619

24/09/2020

Working on it

12/07/2020

New episodes coming soon, I promise 🤤

13/05/2020

24/03/2020

Hello Fat Chewers! I was recently a guest on a local Japanese podcast, Voices in Japan, and thought maybe all the home dwellers might like a listen 😉🌭🍻 Tomoko and I shared our experience of bumming around Japan last summer. Burke and Ben's podcast is a great time - enjoy!

https://www.stitcher.com/s?eid=68130543&refid=asa

Mar 18, 2020 - Mike from New Zealand and Tomoko from Japan join the podcast for the second time. On today's show they talk about their 6 month trip, in 2019, through all 47 prefectures in Japan. We talk about the amazing free campsites that they found online, working at a hotel for 2 months, favouri...

24/04/2019

For two long years, my mouth has yearned for some fat to chew - new episodes coming soon! 😋⏰🍗🧘‍♀️

Including new shows with: A key actor from Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, a veteran cheese judge, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur who lost everything, a professional sumo wrestler, a lamp maker, a scientist who searches for extra-terrestrial life, a historian whose speciality is smell in the early modern period of Asia and David Seymour, the most beloved and revered MP of all of New Zealand – PLUS MUCH MUCH MORE!

25/04/2017

Would North Korea nuke NZ? Find out here from our chat with Peter Wilson, DPRK advocate.

https://www.mixcloud.com/mike-kumagai/episode-35-peter-wilson-part-i-north-korean-advocate-nz-dprk-society/

PART ONE: NORTH KOREA - THE BIG PICTURE PETER WILSON is the secretary for NZ-DPRK Society - a North Korean advocacy group based in New Zealand. MIKE gets Peter's take on why NK does weird stuff, why America needs NK to do weird stuff, the technocrats' influence, and how NK is both totalitarian and n...

01/03/2017

Pictures from the show: https://www.mixcloud.com/mike-kumagai/episode-57-geoff-dale-award-winning-photojournalistnews-photographer/

26/02/2017

This week on Chewing the Fat:

GEOFF DALE has been a photographer for 47 years and covered some of NZ’s biggest moments, released a book, Press Pass, and has won five QANTAS awards for his photography.

We chat about how to read a situation and get the best picture to tell the story, how it felt to be covering major historical moments in NZ, the changes in photography and photojournalism, favourite gear and film stocks, plus Geoff takes us through his favourite pictures in his book, Press Pass.

21/02/2017

New podcast up!! BEV BOUCHER is a funeral director and owns/operates the funeral home, Shone and Shirley Funeral Directors. LINK BELOW

We chat about whether she’s become desensitised to death, how she deals with people from accidents and babies, the process of handling a body, changing perceptions of death, funerals and the industry, how competitive the funeral industry is and how to get involved, 30 years unclaimed cremations, similarities with Six Feet Under, listener questions, plus much more.

https://www.mixcloud.com/mike-kumagai/episode-56-bev-boucher-funeral-director-funeral-home-owneroperator/

BEV BOUCHER is a funeral director and owns/operates the funeral home, Shone and Shirley Funeral Directors. We chat about whether she’s become desensitised to death, how she deals with people from accidents and babies, the process of handling a body, changing perceptions of death, funerals and the in...

19/02/2017

This week! BEV BOUCHER is a funeral director and owns/operates the funeral home, Shone and Shirley Funeral Directors.

We chat about whether she’s become desensitised to death, how she deals with people from accidents and babies, the process of handling a body, changing perceptions of death, funerals and the industry, how competitive the funeral industry is and how to get involved, 30 years unclaimed cremations, similarities with Six Feet Under, listener questions, plus much more.

15/02/2017

ELIZABETH COLLINS is an abolitionist vegan, advocates for anti-speciesism, operates a vegan advocacy cart, and has a podcast, NZ Vegan Podcast. LINK BELOW

We chat about concepts of property and personhood with animals, the welfarist vs. abolitionist debate, the compatibility of veganism in a globalised and industrialised world, whether Mollusca and insects have sentience, moral schizophrenia, why she started NZ Vegan Podcast, and her favourite vegan recipe for non-vegans.

https://www.mixcloud.com/mike-kumagai/episode-55-elizabeth-collins-abolitionist-vegan-podcaster-and-advocate/

13/02/2017

A sneak peek into a show coming up: a funeral director at a funeral home! How do you deal with babies who have passed away, how long does it take to cremate someone, why Bev does her job, and much more.

18/01/2017

Coming soon to some speakers near you: adult diaper lovers.

05/12/2016

Tonight's show will be Chewing the Fat's two year anniversary and last show of 2016. We'll be talking about stuff if I don't forget to do the show.

Join us or be square.

22/11/2016

Journalism, you say? Washington Post are pretty neat

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/for-the-new-yellow-journalists-opportunity-comes-in-clicks-and-bucks/2016/11/20/d58d036c-adbf-11e6-8b45-f8e493f06fcd_story.html?tid=ss_tw-bottom

Disillusioned college grads find a lucrative niche with a site that stokes the alt-right and plays fast and loose with facts.

16/11/2016

In a world of partisan media, Chewing the Fat jumps on the band wagon and talks about . Join in our collective revulsion that is the .

Warning: explicit language.

https://www.mixcloud.com/mike-kumagai/episode-54-trump/

We have many drinks and discuss the train wreck that is the Donald and the presidency.

16/11/2016

Podcast tomorrow: We ride the train, and we ride it hard. P.S. The fireworks are entirely coincidental.

01/10/2016

This is what Donald J. Trump would say if he knew Chewing the Fat existed

13/09/2016

Episode 53 - RALLY FOR DEMOCRACY – We talk to loads of people about democracy, TPPA, and what it all means to them.

We chat to Barry Coates (It’s Our Future), Marama Davidson (Green Party MP), Jason Kerrison (former Opshop singer), Joe Carolan (Unite Union/Socialist Aotearoa), Penny Bright (Auckland mayoral candidate), Auckland Peace Action, West Papua Action Auckland, Kiwi Daddys and a lot more.

https://www.mixcloud.com/mike-kumagai/episode-53-rally-for-democracy-what-is-democracy-and-the-tppa/

Or poorboyradio.com 9pm tonight

12/09/2016

On this week's show we chat to Auckland mayoral candidate, Penny Bright, and many others at the Auckland Rally for Democracy

07/09/2016

Podcast up: Post Psychedelic Existential Dissonance

QUINN MENTON shares his unique story of his first time taking psychedelic drugs and the consequences thereafter.

We chat about being detained whilst on mushrooms, reframing his existence after his drug experience, sympathising with kamikaze pilots and self-immolation, new appreciation of ‘god’, interrogating death and whether su***de is the right solution, and finding purpose and value in life after realising that there isn’t any.

https://www.mixcloud.com/mike-kumagai/episode-52-quinn-menton-post-psychedelic-existential-dissonance/

01/09/2016

New podcast! PANEL SHOW – is it worth spending millions of dollars on the Olympics?

BENJI, SHANNYN AND MIKE talk about why we spend so much money on sports and if that money could be better spent, where and how sport enters a balanced society, if it’s fair to compare sports and art, and how we would feel if arts funding was cut and spent on social issues such as combating poverty and crime.

https://www.mixcloud.com/mike-kumagai/episode-51-olympics-panel-show-is-worth-spending-millions-of-dollars-on-the-olympics/