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By Alicia McKay

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Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is

The Alicia McKay ShowNov 20, 2022

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Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is

Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is

This week, Alicia talks about how to live your values and put weight behind them, taking a look at two recent stories in New Zealand current events. We look at the Starship Foundation's rejection of a donation from gambling proceeds, and pay parity for the Black Ferns, to ask: what does it mean to really live your values? How do we accept challenges and failures as opportunities to make a stand? What happens when we don't? Enjoy!

Nov 20, 202235:27
On Littering

On Littering

In this episode, Alicia talks about littering - what it means to shed our detritus, physically, digitally or even emotionally...

Nov 16, 202233:11
Fake Diversity
Sep 23, 202232:24
Long Live the Queen?

Long Live the Queen?

Alicia McKay tackles the media madness surrounding the death of QEII, gets under the skin of royalism and exposes the irony and hypocrisy of declaring a public holiday for the Queen in Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori. Constitutional monarchy is dead. Long live Aotearoa.

Sep 16, 202232:54
Systems, Elbows and The Family Man
Sep 09, 202230:21
Guilt, Gloriavale and Gangs

Guilt, Gloriavale and Gangs

This week, Alicia tackles the guilt of conscious consumerism in a world designed for bad behaviour. the hypocritical way we treat cults and gangs, domestic labour inequity, Leonardo DiCaprio and Louis CK. 

Sep 02, 202236:41
#BigRantEnergy - The Good Old Days, Toxic Positivity and Punch-Down Politics

#BigRantEnergy - The Good Old Days, Toxic Positivity and Punch-Down Politics

Alicia channels her best rant energy on this week's show, tackling:

- Sickness, and the idea that lifting restrictions will help businesses

- Simplified nostalgia and the problem with the good old days

- Low-rate political rhetoric that hates on the poor

- Cruel optimism and toxic positivity.

If you need a good rant in your life, this is the episode for you.

Aug 19, 202226:25
Human Meatball

Human Meatball

Today we discuss the deep shame of being caught in an act of petty shenanigans, the great human meatball, and the perils of being blacklisted by both the Russian government and a retailer in Dunedin.

Aug 12, 202232:17
Language, Audacity and Penis Art

Language, Audacity and Penis Art

Alicia rants about internet trolls with the audacity to correct people's lived experience, Callum shares some controversial public art and we contemplate the power of language and social media.

Aug 05, 202227:22
Poverty, Privilege and Romance

Poverty, Privilege and Romance

In a stormy week of disrupted travel, the gang talk about things we take for granted, the Samuel Vines Boots theory of poverty and the dangers of romanticising past poverty through the distorted lens of nostalgia. 

Jul 22, 202232:37
Alicia Reads - June Book Summary

Alicia Reads - June Book Summary

Keep up with Alicia's prolific reading habits in this special episode on books. In June 2022, Alicia read 14 books - and in this episode, she covers off her favourite picks. Enjoy!


Bullshit Jobs
The Rise of Pointless Work, and What We Can Do About It
Author: David Graeber

Here Goes Nothing
Author: Steve Toltz

Klara and the Sun
Author: Kazuo Ishiguro

Ghost Lover
Author: Lisa Taddeo

Boys Will Be Boys
Power, Patriarchy and the Toxic Bonds of Mateship
Clementine Ford

Young Mungo
Author: Douglas Stuart

Bloody Woman
Author: Lana Lopesi

Four Thousand Weeks
Author: Oliver Burkeman

Jul 15, 202240:07
Zombie Prime Ministers
Jul 08, 202229:26
Feral Chickens Come Home to Roost

Feral Chickens Come Home to Roost

An outbreak of feral chickens disrupts the news cycle, and their language is everywhere. We chat about Alicia's slow burn love for Wordle and its many variants, and CV guides us through life under a lunatic. Happy Friday!

Jul 01, 202231:05
Deckless Vessels

Deckless Vessels

We talk kiwi accents, how you fut in the mux, and how a deckless vessel nearly caused an international incident.

We explore Terry Pratchett's idea of substitions - the opposite of superstitions.

Callum talks make-up for men, and describes an experience of being his unusual self.

Jun 24, 202233:36
Pyjamas and fruit baskets
Jun 17, 202232:35
Politicians, The Queen and Mushy peas

Politicians, The Queen and Mushy peas

Join Alicia, Cam and special guest CV as we talk political change in Australia, the queen and retribution, health and health behaviours!

May 27, 202233:37
Can you trust your own brain?

Can you trust your own brain?

Cam and Alicia chat from their respective locations across the Tasman. Alicia is pretty sure she's contracted as a human over the last two years, and Cam wonders how the chances of being eaten by a 2017 crocodile will influence Australia's federal election. Oh and Alicia has well and truly taken the swearing shackles off.

May 20, 202233:01
Going analogue, The Streisand Effect, and weird smells...

Going analogue, The Streisand Effect, and weird smells...

Join us today as we discuss going analogue in a digital world, why does Christchurch smell weird...  the phenomenon that is The Streisand Effect, and more! 

May 13, 202228:21
GSD in the Public Sector Series: Mastering the Management and Governance Relationship with Monique Davidson and Alex Walker

GSD in the Public Sector Series: Mastering the Management and Governance Relationship with Monique Davidson and Alex Walker

Alicia is joined by Monique Davidson, (outgoing CEO of Central Hawkes Bay District Council and incoming CEO to Horowhenua District Council) and Alex Walker,(Mayor of CentralHawkes Bay)to talk about how to master the relationship between governance and management to drive results.Monique and Alex achieved incredible success in transforming not just their organisation, but the relationship between Council and community. They put their results down to the quality and openness of their relationship and a commitment to shared outcomes. This is a fresh, helpful conversation between two incredible leaders that is well worth listening to!

May 03, 202201:01:49
The Early, The Lucky, and The Disgruntled Listener
Apr 29, 202237:50
Possums playing piano, regrets, and posthumous trolling.
Apr 22, 202235:23
Disarming

Disarming

Alicia and producer Cam traverse the discomfort of hypocrisy, and wonder what life would be like if you didn't know what to do with your arms. 

Apr 08, 202233:49
Influence, Invisible Labour and Celebration
Apr 01, 202233:00
Information Overload, Progressive Ideology and War
Mar 25, 202238:39
Good News, Bad News and Graphic Design
Mar 18, 202245:21
Cockroaches and COVID

Cockroaches and COVID

Alicia and Producer Cam talk cockroaches, COVID, #IWD22, virtue-signalling and book recommendations, and Alicia rants on short-termism in politics.

Mar 11, 202244:06