102 – Tāwhaki the Bold: Part 2

After his adventures in Episode 98, Tāwhaki lives a long and prosperous life but his final journey leads him somewhere he couldn’t have expected.

101 – Bulls**t! A Gameshow with Guests: Round 2

I am currently writing the next set of episodes so to tide you over for the next wee while I invited some more guests to come and play a fun little gameshow with me! This time we are celebrating the history podcast community that helped HANZ to where it is today.

100 – Bulls**t! A Gameshow with Guests

We made it! Triple digits! To celebrate this amazing occasion I got some of my podcast friends to come on and play a little history themed gameshow with me! Based on the CollegeHumour game Um, Actually? (which I have renamed Bulls**t!), I give the players a NZ history related statement that has something false about and they have to guess what it is. Obviously this is just for fun and not a normal, informative episode so I hope you have a good laugh!

99 – My Birb of the Year 2022

It’s that time of year again! The Forest and Bird competition to see who is Aotearoa’s Bird of the Year is back on! Every year I pick a native or endemic bird to talk about to teach you about some of the weird and wonderful birds we have. This year I chose the mātātā or fernbird!

98 – Tāwhaki the Bold

We tell the story of Tāwhaki, a fairly famous demi-god like figure in Te Ao Māori. In this episode we have two stories. In the first he gets mugged and then does a Noah in retaliation and in the second he goes searching for his parents and murders a bunch of fish in the process.

97 – The West Coast Beer Boycott

In our final addendum to the Speight’s episodes, we talk about the West Coast Beer Boycott which we had to skip over but is actually a really great story pitting the strong unions against an association of pubs. All over a one penny increase in the price of beer.

96 – The Six O’Clock Swill

Today we talk about what has probably had the biggest impact on Aotearoa’s drinking culture, the (sometimes) legally enforced six o’clock closing time for pubs that went from 1918-1967. However you may know it by its more colloquial name that came about due to the rush of drinking it encouraged for those who finished work at 5pm, the six o’clock swill.

95 – Temperance and Prohibition

As a sort of epilogue to our Speight’s episodes I am delving into the prohibition movement a little deeper to give you a fuller understanding of who these people were and what was going on!

94 – Speight’s: Good on ya mate

The final episode on our series on Speight’s where we see a manager rise to the challenge presented by the behemouth that is DB.

93 – Speight’s: Rivals

Things once again start looking up for Speight’s as they get their flashy new bottling house up and running but perhaps are too focussed looking inward as a rival decides to move in right on their doorstep.