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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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00:12:03

#BHN Matthew Hooton on Luxon's leadership and...

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2023/11/24

Christopher Luxon has been placing his negotiation skills along with his merger and acquisitions experience as a way to put together a coalition quickly and to get on with the business of government Matthew Hooton inspects Luxons business experience and comments on how that is working for him in political negotiations. Finally, we must never forget to hold the next government accountable to the standards they set for the previous one. They called out Labour for spending and not tightening their

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00:13:53

#BHN Luxon didn't tell Seymour or Peters a deal had...

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2023/11/23

Christopher Luxon announced what sounded like a done deal in the coalition talks. Problem was he hadn't informed his fellow coalition leaders that they had agreed to a deal. Also, we continue to ponder, why parties that told us that the government needed to tighten its belt because the public had to...are so free and easy with a massive, unnecessary spend on these talks? ================================================ Help us by nominating #BHN for the people's choice award at

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01:29:20

#BHN New Government announced tomorrow | Problems...

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2023/11/23

The new National, ACT, NZ First Government will be announced tomorrow, All parties are keeping their cards pretty close to their chest so we might have a bit of a think about what we expect to see There may be some problems with a cease fire between Israel and Hamas. It's been put back a day but at the same time, there is an idea floated that if they get to a cease fire, it might last longer than 5 days. The idea is an additional day for each group of 10 hostages released Discord will be open

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01:11:30

#BHN Gerry Brownlee on The Working Group | Peters and...

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2023/11/22

Gerry Brownlee joined Bomber, Shane te Pou and Damien Grant on The Working Group where Damien uses the Russia versus Ukraine to make a comparison, problem is in his comparison he labels Israel the "Russia" of this conflict...who I think are the bad guys? Handbags at 40 paces with Winston Peters and David Seymour scrap over the Deputy Prime Ministership. Honestly this is two men measuring their...well you get it...as both are desperate for the other not to have the position more than them

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01:11:34

#BHN Coalition policy negs over | National can't...

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2023/11/21

Coalition policy negotiations are over and it seems that the three parties are now talking about Ministerial positions with David Seymour making a run for Deputy PM. How times have changed. It wasn't but 10 weeks ago that Seymour vocalised no interest in the position, but now he's likely keener to see Winston not in the position, than his desire to have it National MP has been caught out making tasteless comments with racial undertones, so it appears this leopard can't change their

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01:35:38

#BHN Swarbrick challenges Seymour on Gaza | Hooton on...

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2023/11/20

Chloe Swarbrick challenges David Seymour on The AM Show this morning asking questions that journalists refuse to ask politicians Matthew Hooton speaks over the weekend on where the coalition negotiations are and how they are making Luxon look Gerry Brownlee spoke with Breakfast this morning on calls for a cease fire. It seems National is saying everything right now about a cease fire, and their desire for one, but just won't say the words "we call for a cease fire", why are they

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00:07:18

#BHN Trump's former lawyer explains how Bill Maher...

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2023/11/19

One of Trump's former lawyers confirms Bill Maher was right, Trump had a plan to never leave office even if he lost...he was just too incompetent to carry out that plan ================================================ Help us by nominating #BHN for the people's choice award at https://www.nzpodcastawards.com/nominate. As part of the nomination, you need to share a link to the podcast. Please use this one https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/bhn-big-hairy-news/id1629215711 Help us beat

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00:06:10

#BHN Kari Lake evisorated by Republican podcaster

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2023/11/19

Republican conspiracy theorist candidate Kari Lake eviscerated by Tim Miller calling her out on all her nonsense. Republican culture wars are a losing formula at the moment. Who know what will happen in 2024 ================================================ Help us by nominating #BHN for the people's choice award at https://www.nzpodcastawards.com/nominate. As part of the nomination, you need to share a link to the podcast. Please use this one

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00:16:22

The WHO Calls Israel's incursion into a Gazan...

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2023/11/19

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a press conference in Geneva that patients and staff must be protected even if hospitals were used for military purposes. "Hospitals are not battlegrounds," he said. "Israel's military incursion into Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City is totally unacceptable." ================================================ Help us by nominating #BHN for the people's choice award at https://www.nzpodcastawards.com/nominate. As part of

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00:07:40

#BHN Why is MFAT starting to remove Māori from some...

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2023/11/19

A leaked email from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade shows Māori has been removed from an official document template. The ministry says they've made the adjustment while the country waits for a new government, but the outgoing Foreign Minister had previously championed the official use of te reo. ================================================ Help us by nominating #BHN for the people's choice award at https://www.nzpodcastawards.com/nominate. As part of the nomination, you

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00:16:49

#BHN Dr Anna Brooks on the fifth wave of COVID

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2023/11/18

Dr Anna Brooks joins us to talk about the fifth wave of COVID and to remind us that COVID has never gone away, it's just being ignored. We also find out that NZ is still behind when it comes to vaccines, with the current vaccine available is the one that has been in place for over a year so not up to date for the most recent version of COVID even though that vaccine is available in other countries. ================================================ Help us by nominating #BHN for the

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00:10:17

#BHN Pro-Palestinian protests are asking for the...

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2023/11/18

The pro-Palestinian protests are being pigeon holed by many and the violent and unruly group however those protests are calling for a cease fire, they are calling for fewer people to be killed. Many in the media, and many world leaders including Chris Luxon are not calling for a cease fire, this means the status quo remains and these leaders are, even if it's unwittingly, calling for the deaths to continue. ================================================ Help us by nominating #BHN for the

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00:09:20

#BHN The skills of being a CEO are different to the...

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2023/11/18

The Working Group hosted Matthew Hooton and NBR Senior Journalist Maria Slade and talked about Christopher Luxon constantly citing his business credentials as a skill set to make him a good Prime Minister. We've disagreed with that for a long time, the conversation on TWG wasn't complimentary for Mr Luxon either. ================================================ Help us by nominating #BHN for the people's choice award at https://www.nzpodcastawards.com/nominate. As part of the

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00:15:51

#BHN Dunedin's Jewish Congregation's solidarity with...

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2023/11/17

The Dunedin Jewish Congregation wrote a public letter supporting and standing in solidarity with Dunedin's Palestinian, Arab and Muslim citizens in these trying times in the middle East. The letter can be seen here https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RcOqlp6MNaOmImNTbaoH4HSTgIMguT-Q/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=100250621037873532914&rtpof=true&sd=true In that letter, among other things, the Jewish Congregation stated "We all believe that violence will never be the way forward,

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00:17:37

#BHN Craig Renney on post-election coalition talks

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2023/11/17

Mr Luxon seems to still be talking about his tax cuts happening as promised pre-election all while not committing to how to pay for them post-election. We thought we'd get CTY's Craig Renney on to talk about the apparent gap between what was promised pre=election and the difficulty to implement it post-election ================================================ Help us by nominating #BHN for the people's choice award at https://www.nzpodcastawards.com/nominate. As part of the nomination

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01:14:52

#BHN Coalition talks continue | MFAT removing Te Reo...

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2023/11/16

Coalition talks continue at a cost of thousands of dollars a day, the three amigos seem to be talking about a resolution soon, but still as of today, we do not have a new government for NZ MFAT removing Te Reo Maori from some of its briefing papers prompting questions around if this is a sign of things to come under a National led coalition The WHO has condemned the IDF hospital breach in Gaza calling it "Totally unacceptable". Israel is now saying they have evidence that the hospital is

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01:20:01

#BHN Dunedin Jewish Congregation supporting Dunedin's...

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2023/11/15

The Dunedin Jewish Congregation wrote a public letter supporting and standing in solidarity with Dunedin's Palestinian, Arab and Muslim citizens in these trying times in the middle East. Secretary to the board of the DJC Keren Segal joins us to talk about the reason behind the letter and her perspective on the current war in Gaza. The letter can be seen here

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01:21:51

#BHN Announcement tonight on #BHN 2024 | Winston...

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2023/11/14

We'll have an open and honest conversation with you tonight about where BHN is at and what are the possibilities for 2024 and how you can be involved More coalition negotiations happened today but Winston called in missing making it clear that he wants to send the message to Luxon that he can make or break a government anytime he wants Analyst Geoffrey Miller has spoken out today saying that international pressure is becoming to strong for Israel to continue as it currently is. Is he right

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01:29:20

#BHN Luxon on coalition talks | Craig Renney on...

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2023/11/13

Christopher Luxon was on breakfast television talking about coalition talks and where his tax cut pledges are at today, as compared to when he made them in the run up to the election CTU policy analyst and economist Craig Renney joins us to talk about where coalition talks are at and where National is at today, based on their policy promises prior to the election Suella Braverman might have something to teach NZers about opening up the door for racists and xenophobes to walk through. Bomber

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00:05:15

#BHN Caller Liam says to ACT 'don't create this kind...

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2023/11/12

Discord caller Liam chats with Bomber and Pat about the stance that ACT is going to have a problem when the words they are using, and the stances that they are taking, blow up in their face.Then they will need to own the fallout from their positions even if that fallout goes places they weren't expecting. ================================================ Help us by nominating #BHN for the people's choice award at https://www.nzpodcastawards.com/nominate. As part of the nomination you need to

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