The complete show bible.
Every segment. Every contributor. Every editorial principle.
A cultural zeitgeist platform woven together like a weekly top 40 —
classics, new and old, truth, music, and the things that actually matter.
Each segment recurs every show. The slot is familiar. The content is fresh. Together they cover music, culture, food, fashion, activism, conversation and truth — the full range of what it means to be alive and paying attention right now.
The Top 20 Auckland Memories chart segment with Manuel Bundy.
Luke and Manuel standing at the bar. Music-led. Conversation-led. The week in Auckland sound — what made it, what shaped it, what's being forgotten. Manuel brings the west Auckland perspective, the institutional memory, the unfiltered opinion.
Format: chart countdown, stories behind the tracks, cultural context, live disagreement welcome. Goes where it goes.
Luke's vinyl library is 4,000–5,000 records deep. This is where they live on air.
A friend, a guest, or a contributor joins Luke at the decks. A record drops. A conversation starts. The music is the door — what it means, where it came from, what it changed, what it reminds them of. No script. No prep. Just the record and the reaction.
The most intimate segment of the show. The one that reveals character.
Food. What's going into our bodies. Who's making it. Why it matters.
Not a cooking show. Not a review segment. A conversation about food as culture, identity, health, and community. Who's doing something extraordinary with food in Aotearoa right now — and why we should all know about it.
Anchor contributor: Curry Concierge. Guest chefs, food producers, kai advocates, nutritionists, farmers. The segment that makes people hungry and curious at the same time.
Young NZ designers and brands doing something real — not fast fashion, not extraction.
Fashion as identity, craft, and values. Who's making things in Aotearoa that matter. The designers nobody outside their community has heard of yet. The brands building something with intention. The stories behind the clothes.
Standing format means the host is always wearing something. What Luke wears on the show is editorial. It matters. It's a conversation starter and a platform for emerging NZ makers.
Hundreds of causes. Hundreds of stories. Being buried on purpose. This segment surfaces them.
WTPW is Luke's segment. The mask comes off the filter — the character speaks. Every Sunday, a selection of causes, campaigns, and stories that the mainstream media is not covering — because they're inconvenient, because they're too local, because powerful interests don't want them heard.
Not a rant. Not a lecture. A platform. Short, sharp, honest. "This week in things that matter and aren't making the news..." — then the music brings you back.
WTPW is also the segment that builds the show's community fastest. People send in causes. The show curates and airs. The audience feels ownership. The show becomes their voice.
Multiple guests. One topic. Standing at the bar. Anything can happen.
2–3 guests simultaneously. A topic drops. The conversation goes where it goes. Luke holds the space — curious, honest, willing to push. No false balance. No safe answers. The energy is live and unpredictable.
The panel is the segment where the show's editorial identity is most visible. The music stops. The truth starts. Then the music brings everyone back.
What dropped this week globally. What's building. What nobody in NZ has heard yet.
Luke DJs through the global week in music — underground producers, festival tunes blowing up, Aotearoa music doing something internationally. Then the stream guests join live from wherever they are: London, Paris, New York, Croatia, Tulum.
Producer books minimum 2 global stream guests per show, confirmed 48hrs prior via Cleanfeed. Their week in music. Their perspective from wherever they're standing.
The show's wellness identity on camera. Not a sponsor spot. A practice.
Luke's own wellness routine — sauna, ice bath, movement, breathwork — submitted as contributor content mid-week and aired as a segment on Sunday. Guest contributors: sports nutritionist, movement coach, breathwork practitioners.
This is where Magic Mind, the champion's breakfast, the run club finish line, and the non-alcohol brand activations all live naturally. The segment that makes the sponsor conversations easy.
Like a weekly top 40 — the slots are familiar, the content is always fresh. Classics and new. Local and global. Music weaves through everything. The clock below is a guide, not a prison.
Select contributors submit content mid-week. The show curates and airs Sunday. The show becomes a collective voice — not dependent on Luke being everywhere. Each contributor has their own segment home and their own audience they bring with them.
These are not one-off segments. They are the show's ongoing editorial commitments. Each one has multiple voices, multiple perspectives, and no settled answer — which makes them perfect for the format.
Why are we still letting this happen? Let's get to the bottom of it.
Matt Watson — the campaign voice. Commercial fishermen opposing the bill — their livelihood, heard fully. The Greens — the policy case. An elder voice — someone old enough to have watched this unfold over decades and who understands what the sea used to look like. Tane Tarlton on location from the water.
This is a full Sunday show built around one topic. Music underneath throughout. The most important conversation we can have about NZ waters right now.
Is it all doom and gloom? Or is there a future where technology actually serves humanity?
Is it one or the other — or is there a path where sustainable choices and technological progress coexist? The show exists because of AI infrastructure. That tension is honest and interesting and worth exploring publicly.
A UFC fighter choosing te reo Māori. That's a story about what it means to be here.
Not political. Human. Identity, respect, belonging. The kind of story that travels across every demographic in the audience because it asks the same question of everyone: what does it mean to actually be from here?
The inbox. Every week. What are people trying to say that nobody will let them say?
Audience submits causes. Community Coordinator manages the inbox and surfaces the most important. Luke curates and airs 3–5 on Sunday. Brief, clear, no doom spiral — just: here's what's happening, here's what you can do, here's who to follow.
Whether this sits inside Attention Disorder as a segment or runs as a separate stream is undecided. The three voices are confirmed. The content is real. The decision is timing and format.
Options: (A) A dedicated Stars segment within the Sunday show — sits after WTPW, before the closing set. 15–20 minutes. (B) A standalone separate show or stream — its own identity, its own audience, separate from Attention Disorder. (C) Both — the Stars segment on the main show, expanded into its own property once the audience is established. To be decided once Chapel residency is underway.
Luke wears a bespoke Mexican wrestling mask as his show character.
Identity hidden. The mask removes appearance from the equation entirely. What matters is the voice, the music, and the ideas. The character is bolder than the person. The show is called Attention Disorder — the host wearing a mask is the perfect visual punctuation of that name.
Mystery builds mythology. The audience doesn't know who's behind the mask. That creates intrigue, longevity, and a character that can exist independently of Luke Thompson the person. The show grows without being tied to one face.
References: Daft Punk. Marshmello. MF DOOM. The mask is proven in music culture globally. Each used a mask or helmet to separate character from person — and each built a more enduring identity because of it.
The AD mask is different: it is rooted in Aotearoa. It carries the peaceful activist identity. It is the face of a show that speaks truth — and the irony of a masked host demanding honesty is intentional and powerful.
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