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#BHN Big Hairy News

Big Hairy Network

Award winning podcasters Pat and Chewie host a news commentary show that is broadcast weekdays Big Hairy News, or #BHN, gives the space needed to cover off the stories covered rather than the two and a half minutes the mainstream media gives guests between weather and the next ad break.

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01:41:08

#BHN Byron Clark on Chch anniversary | Seymour...

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2025/03/18

Byron Clark on the Christchurch massacre anniversary and the actions of the Free Speech UnionDavid Seymour launches ACT LOCAL and thinks Jesus would vote ACTIsrael breaks ceasefire and bombards Gaza leading to the deaths of at least 200 people as a response to Hamas still holding 59 hostagesDestiny Church associates protesting a Drag Story Time event have been in court for the first time today with six of the seven accused denied name suppression as they chose to spread their deeds on social media

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01:52:38

#BHN Chippy LIVE at 9pm | Seymour on Q&A | Mahmoud...

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2025/03/17

Chris Hipkins is with us LIVE at 9pm talking about his state of the nation speech, his focus on tax for the next 18 months and how Labour will win the 2026 election. David Seymour was on on Q&A in the weekend where we saw a more reserved Jack Tame pressing him and several topics including School Lunches, which is what we'll look at tonight. Mahmoud Khalil, a pro Palestinian protestor, green card holding, husband of US Citizen in the US exposes the hypocrisy on the right who are doing

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00:28:28

#BHN Barbara Edmonds on Luxon's infrastructure w@nkfest

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2025/03/15

Barbara Edmonds is LIVE at 9pm talking the Government's infrastructure summit that she is attending today, and speaking at tomorrow=================================Come support the work we're doing by becoming a Patron of ⁠⁠#BHN⁠⁠ www.patreon.com/BigHairyNews⁠=================================Merch available at www.BHNShop.nz Like us on Facebookwww.facebook.com/BigHairyNews Follow us on Twitter.@patbrittenden @Chewie_NZFollow us on BlueskyPat @patbrittenden.bsky.socialChewie

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01:57:00

#BHN Aucklands homelessness crisis | Benefit...

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2025/03/15

Tonight we will discuss the story of a young woman who has spent 13 weeks in hospital and has had her benefit cut to $55 a week.Chris Bishop is seeking input from international investors for a potential upgrade. He has also stated all roads of national significance are up for consideration for tolls. Detective Rogers and Magenta spoke to Aaron Hendry from Kick Back about the issues that homeless young people are facing. He discusses what this government has done and what it could do to solve this

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00:27:08

#BHN Dr Olivier Jutel on the Callahan Institution...

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2025/03/14

Dr Olivier Jutel joins us to talk about a NZ DOGE copycat scheme being pushed by Callaghan Innovation and Web3NZ=================================Come support the work we're doing by becoming a Patron of ⁠⁠#BHN⁠⁠ www.patreon.com/BigHairyNews⁠=================================Merch available at www.BHNShop.nz Like us on Facebookwww.facebook.com/BigHairyNews Follow us on Twitter.@patbrittenden @Chewie_NZFollow us on BlueskyPat @patbrittenden.bsky.socialChewie @chewienz.bsky.socialEmily

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01:20:35

#BHN Barbara Edmonds LIVE at 9pm | Kieran on school...

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2025/03/13

Barbara Edmonds is LIVE at 9pm talking the Government's infrastructure summit that she is attending today, and speaking at tomorrowKieran McAnulty is jumping into the conversation about school lunches as the company who supplies lunches in his district is the one that has just gone bankrupt. He is calling for the contract to go back to the previous suppliers to get healthy lunches back onto school kids desksWinston Peters has shown again that he is all bluster when his own party has DEI

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01:37:46

#BHN NZ's DOGE in the works | Charges for Destiny...

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2025/03/12

Dr Olivier Jutel joins us to talk about a NZ DOGE copycat scheme being pushed by Callaghan Innovation and Web3NZFour people have been arrested and had assault-related charges filed against them as part of an ongoing investigation into a Destiny Church-linked protest.Seems that schools that were getting lunches from Libelle are not as enthusiastic as Mr Seymour about the liquidation and the poor man is now being attacked by the woke media with gotcha questions when asked about things he said in the

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01:37:54

#BHN PM has to defend School Lunches and war on woke...

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2025/03/11

The Government has faced further scrutiny in Question Time today after a provider for the much-maligned school lunch programme, responsible for 125,000 meals daily, announced liquidation.Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has given weight to Winston Peter's war on woke by suggesting he may integrate Peters' DEI Bill into new legislationTeachers at schools are still providing lunches for some students as they claim that the meals turning up are inedible and are feeding pigs, in the kinds of

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01:38:52

#BHN Chippy on CGT | Simeon on bowel cancer | Sam...

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2025/03/10

Chris Hipkins was asked on Q&A if his party will be campaigning on capital gains tax at the next election, Hipkins says Labour hasn't decided yet. We wonder if not answering this is a net negative, a net positive or neutral at this stage in the cycle.Friend of the show Sam Seder went on Jubilee's Surrounded show where he faced off against 20 young conservatives. One answer in particular seemed to sum up the views of the modern conservative millennial and Gen Z crowd which showed how

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01:49:38

#BHN Health NZ, Levy is out, private secor in |...

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2025/03/07

Simeon Brown made a big announcement today regarding Te Whatu Ora, sacking Lester Levy, reinstating the board, and relying on the private sector to reduce the surgery wait list by mid-year.Chris Hipkins speaks at the Labour's State of Nation, announcing portfolio reshuffles, new portfolio and the party's main priorities heading into the election 2026.Winston is back in the news, this time with his 'anti-woke' targeting diversity targets in the public sector.That and much more in

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01:30:54

Clint Smith on sacked Phil Goff | Defunded cancer...

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2025/03/06

Clint Smith joins us to discuss this governments dysfunctional leadership, after Winston takes it upon himself to fire Phil Goff who was the High Commissioner to London.Simeon makes the news for two high profile stories:Money that was allocated to a free bowel cancer screening programme targeting Māori and Pacific peoples was scrapped in favour of "equality" instead dropping the eligibility by only 2 years.Simeon ignored advice to not appoint a gas lobbyist to the energy savings board, who didn't

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01:26:55

#BHN Trump's SOTU | Seymour says 'stop politicizing...

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2025/03/05

US President Donald Trump today took credit for "swift and unrelenting action" in reorienting the nation's economy, immigration and foreign policy as he updated Congress and the American people on his turbulent first few weeks in office, which have featured a dismantling of the federal government, tensions with America’s allies and a trade war compounding economic uncertainty.David Seymour says he's been upfront about issues with the revamped school lunch programme and is solving

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00:28:30

#BHN Willie Jackson on the ACT Party referendum and...

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2024/02/04

Willie Jackson joins us to talk about the current state of relationship between Maori and the new Government.We hear how the Kingitanga Hui went, how was Ratana and if Shane Jones believes all the nonsense he is currently spouting. ================================================ Come support the work we're doing by becoming a Patron of ⁠⁠#BHN⁠⁠ www.patreon.com/BigHairyNews⁠ Merch available at www.BHNShop.nz Like us on Facebook www.facebook.com/BigHairyNews Follow us on

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00:28:47

#BHN Jordan Rivers on shadow banning stories around...

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2024/02/04

Jordan Rivers is an award-winning actor and film maker and is known as an influencer with 179,000 followers on Tik Tok. Jordan has seen a trend in his Tik Tok videos that if he uses certain phrases and words about Donald Trump and the Israel/Gaza conflict his videos either get stuck in a processing loop never to make it to his followers, or if they do make it the views they receive appear to confirm the idea of shadow banning/deprioritizing of this kind of content and we wanted to know why so

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00:27:12

#BHN Professor Margaret Mutu talks te tiriti and the...

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2024/02/03

Professor Margaret Mutu joins us to educate us about te tiriti and shares some opinions on the relationship between the Crown and Māori at the moment. ================================================ Come support the work we're doing by becoming a Patron of ⁠⁠#BHN⁠⁠ www.patreon.com/BigHairyNews⁠ Merch available at www.BHNShop.nz Like us on Facebook www.facebook.com/BigHairyNews Follow us on Twitter. @patbrittenden @Chewie_NZ

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00:21:26

#BHN David Seymour's State of the Nation was just a...

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2024/02/02

David Seymour made a 'State of the Nation" speech over the weekend. An even that no one asked for and no one needed so why did he do it? It seems pretty clear that this was a fundraising activity and a 'thanks' to funders from prior to the election wrapped in the cloak of the state of the nation speech. ================================================ Come support the work we're doing by becoming a Patron of ⁠⁠#BHN⁠⁠ www.patreon.com/BigHairyNews⁠ Merch available at

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01:21:13

#BHN Willie Jackson LIVE | Is traditional TV over? |...

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2024/02/01

Fingers crossed for an on time flight for Willie Jackson, as he's booked to be LIVE with us from 9pm where we can take your questions and comments. Communications Minister Melissa Lee has been briefed that there is an "uncertain future" for "traditional television broadcasting". Maybe not the biggest headline in the country today, but interesting as what #BHN is and our social media conversation last night with Jordan Rivers A Photoshopping scandal has hit Australian as

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01:17:19

#BHN Is TikTok shadow banning Gaza content? | Luxon,...

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2024/01/31

Jordan Rivers joins us to talk about his TikTok account with 175,000 followers that seems to be getting shadow banned when Jordan talks about issues around Gaza. Is this happening or is this a simple algorithm anomaly that some of his content is getting tons of view, and the ones about Israel and Gaza aren't? Christopher Luxon was sweaty and stammering on Breakfast this morning getting grilled on when Kiwis would see an impact from National getting the cost of living crisis under control along

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01:23:45

#BHN Prof Margaret Mutu LIVE | James Shaw resigns |...

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2024/01/30

Prof Margaret Mutu joins us to talk about where Māori are right now with this new government and what does the next 3 years look like A surprise decision today as James Shaw resigns from Parliament which will come into affect in March Seymour and Luxon disagree on one of ACT's core principle of the treaty which is Luxon sees the treaty as a agreement between the Crown and iwi, whereas Seymour wants to see the treaty officially be between the Crown and all New

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01:15:57

#BHN Israel vs South Africa part-decision | Seymour's...

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2024/01/29

Israel vs South Africa part-decision at the Hague leave both parties not being winners...or losers. But many are making the claim it was a win for Israel. It was not David Seymour's "State of the Nation" speak a complete snore fest and predictable meat for his followers Chloe Swarbrick spoke out this morning on rumours that she was with, Golriz Ghahraman when Ghahraman allegedly shoplifted. Rumours have been going around the internet that Swarbrick was in some of the store footage,

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