Jack Yan: the Persuader Blog: <em>Letter from New Zealand</em>, no. 3

Letter from New Zealand, no. 3

In my latest Letter from New Zealand, I discuss the release of Steve Centanni and Olaf Wiig, the Fox News journalists kidnapped by a Hamas faction called the Holy Jihad Brigades. I also go on about the Labour government’s failures, and why Dancing with the Stars even needs to be on the TV news, or, for that matter, last night’s Emmy Awards. I must say that the Podcast is meant to be semi-humorous, before anyone out there issues a fatwa against me.

0.00 Welcome
0.48 Springtime in New Zealand
1.35 New Zealand through immigrants’ eyes in the 1970s
2.00 We had values in New Zealand—but the economy is hardly a good legacy
2.57 Praise for Helen Clark, but not her Cabinet
3.13 Hamas and the release of Steven Centanni and Olaf Wiig
5.11 When people turn to terrorism
6.06 The Emmys on the news
6.51 Dancing with the Stars on the news
7.44 The purpose of the news
8.19 Who are the Holy Jihad Brigades?
9.02 The motives of a Hamas faction: show me the money
9.57 Jack Bauer can phone the President on 24
10.58 The branding of Hamas
11.44 Closing

Click here for the sound ﬁles at the Internet Archive (in two MP3 qualities and Ogg Vorbis).

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Fantastic Podcast -- I love your thoughts about programming and 24!

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Peter Begley: 8/29/2006 06:25:00 PM

Thank you, Peter! But I think I need to shorten these—when I edited it in Audacity, I got tired of hearing my own voice!

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Jack Yan: 8/29/2006 11:20:00 PM

I don't listen to many Podcasts, but the length didn't bother me at all. I can say that I have listened to a few 1-2 minute shows that really should have been 10-15 seconds... In contrast, you packed in a lot of information and kept me listening and quite interested throughout the whole program.

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Peter Begley: 8/30/2006 12:51:00 AM

Thank you, Peter! In that case I will not worry too much about length, and concentrate on delivering good content.

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Jack Yan: 8/30/2006 02:49:00 PM