Permit To Think

About Permit To Think

Meaningful stories and conversations from the fringe of societal norms.

Publisher

Mike Dawes, IRONBOUND Media

Category

society & culture · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

3 Dec 2021

Latest episode

18 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

4 of 33 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   18 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Tom Bie & Paul Puckett

   Host Mike Dawes interviews Tom Bie, editor of The Drake magazine, and artist Paul Puckett about their fly fishing careers shaped by Westbank Anglers.

2. 

   12 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Cosmoledo - Blue Safari Fly Fishing

   Host Mike Dawes interviews Westbank Anglers Operations Manager Colin and Blue Safari Managing Director Keith Rose-Innes about the unparalleled fly fishing experience at Cosmoledo Atoll.

3. 

   13 Apr 2026

   New Zealand Trip Recap

   "Where are the small fish?" This is a question that routinely comes up when fly fishing for trout in areas of New Zealand. Mike Dawes joins up with Ben Hall and Sean Andrews, two highly experienced New Zealand trout guides, to share some of the highlights of a recent trip to the Taupō region of NZ's North Island. These guys discuss some of the characteristics of South Island and North Island fly fishing, the necessity of team work and strong wading, and the thrill of observing Ben maneuver the helicopter into super narrow and super fishy areas!

Inside a recent episode

Tom Bie & Paul Puckett

Published 18 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And sometimes they're high school kids, right? I mean, just reporting and journalism is a little different. There's a lot of people out there that weren't as fortunate as some of us to grow up and get that training in a newspaper or work for some of the other bigger outside magazines and have a an editor there that's willing to work with you, but that the creative process and putting together longer stories, whether it's, I don't do a whole lot of fiction, but this fiction type techniques, uh, I'm, I'm constantly amazed by how good a lot of those, the artists are in that way. And that's the, I mean, I credit that largely with the magazine still being around. […]

Who has been a guest on Permit To Think

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Tom Bie
• Paul Puckett
• Colin
• Keith Rose-Innes

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

43 ratings

Spotify

4.7 / 5

13 ratings

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