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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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00:08:13

#BHN Destiny Church crashes Christopher Luxon's press...

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2023/08/29

Destiny Church and Freedoms NZ are looking to disrupt other parties' political outings. Prime Minister Chris Hipkins said "it's clear that [Freedoms NZ co-leader] Brian Tamaki and his mob are very determined to disrupt the election campaign". "Ultimately, that's anti-democratic. They're denying all New Zealanders the right to hear from all political parties. Christopher Luxon is absolutely entitled to hold a press conference. He's entitled to share his views with

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00:12:53

#BHN Will ACT and NZF drag National further right?

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2023/08/28

Christopher Luxon continually tells media that Labour will need to bend to the will of The Greens and Te Pati Māori, however it seems no MSM interviewer has yet pointed out that if that was the case, then what about National bending to the will of ACT and NZ First +++++++++++++++ Come support the work we're doing by becoming a Patron of ⁠#BHN⁠ www.patreon.com/BigHairyNews⁠ Like us on Facebook www.facebook.com/BigHairyNews Follow us on Twitter. @patbrittenden @Chewie_NZ

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01:21:00

#BHN Batchelor threatens to sue Disinfo Proj and TVNZ...

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2023/08/28

Julian Batchelor has threatened to sue Sanjana Hattatowa and TVNZ claiming they have defamed him by, among other things, racist and using racist rhetoric. Batchelor also said the quiet part out-loud when he confirmed the two-tiered justice system where the wealthy usually win as they have the money to keep going until the other party needs to pull out because of finances. We have defamation lawyer Robert Stewart on to talk about what defamation is, and how it applies to these accusations by

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01:02:47

#BHN van de Molen out | Can the Greens be #1? | Will...

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2023/08/24

Special Beardie Host tonight Shane Te Pou How much power will the minority parties wield post election 2023? Luxon is continuously warning voters about how the Greens and TPM will drag Labour to the left, but no journalist anywhere seems to challenge him on if ACT and NZF will drag National to the right. Also, 2 months ago Simon Wilson floated the idea that ACT could "be well placed to become the dominant party on the right in 2026" depending on their result this election. Can we say the

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01:15:42

#BHN Matt Bowden on Labour's Vape Policy | ACT's...

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2023/08/23

Former Party Pill King, Matt Bowden, joins us to talk about Labour's policy to reduce the number of vaping stores. Matt's party pill empire almost ceased overnight in 2014 when the then government banned BZP party pills so he is someone who has kind of seen this before. In the least surprising headline in the world, ACT's has an issue as they have numerous candidates who are anti-vax, anti-mandate and aggressive towards Jacinda Ardern. Colour us surprised Michael Woodhouse says

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01:18:36

#BHN Representation versus appropriation | Do kiwi's...

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2023/08/22

There is a lot of chatter on the internet at the moment about representation in film versus appropriation based around Bradley Cooper, playing Jewish composer Leonard Bernstein whilst not being Jewish himself. There are many people in society that would abhor playing a minority when the actor is not part of that community, but there was no issues with Bradley Cooper playing Bernstein. Let's look at this and see what people think. TVNZ released another night of polls asking if kiwi's want

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01:32:43

#BHN Latest TVNZ polls | ACT wants performance pay in...

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2023/08/21

We picked the leader NZ's needed and many people saw him on Newshub nation this week ACT has announced they want performance-based pay for public executives who currently "have few incentives to cut waste". The Public Service Association was on The AM Show this morning and had to put up with Ryan Bridge who firstly doesn't understand the issue, and secondly wouldn't accept what the expert guest was offering. Minority fringe parties have started a campaign of crashing other

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00:58:07

#BHN SPECIAL Disinformation Proj Research Director...

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2023/08/18

David Seymour made a statement that he considers a joke about the Ministry for Pacific Peoples saying he'd like to "send a guy called Guy Fawkes in there and it'd be all over" Since then he has doubled down by saying "it'd be a bit funny if we could just blow it all up" speaking of what he considers too much bureaucracy in government. We invited on Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa to find out if there was research to show any links between violent rhetoric, even if it was a

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00:55:40

#BHN Phillip Mills on wealthy paying more tax |...

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2023/08/17

Unforseen circumstances have come up to make it impossible to do a livestream tonight. Please enjoy this best of with some amazing conversations Phillip Mills is the CEO and Founder of Les Mills International has signed onto an open letter on tax with about one hundred other high net worth individuals asking to pay more tax. The letter states, "We think Aotearoa needs more tax to respond to floods and cyclones, to improve services like health and education, to tackle inequality, and to support

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01:03:30

#BHN Hooton's advice for Chippy | National's new...

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2023/08/17

We're not jealous at all but Chippy was on with Bomber on The Working Group Podcast and got some interesting advice from Matthew Hooton in how to jump a few percentage points in the polls. National has a new dilemma that in part is their own fault, and is in part indicative of what we are seeing on right wing media circles at the moment and that is National giving space and weight to arguments over definitions of words around gender...and now when that group which in part they have

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01:10:33

#BHN When do people decide to vote? | Conspiracy...

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2023/08/15

Newshub spoke with Victoria University academic Lara Greaves about when people decide to vote? When is the busiest time to convince them to vote for you. Colour us surprised but Sean 'Karen' Plunket hosted the producer of a new conspiracy theory film set amongst the Wellington Protest. With the disinformation flowing (which we'll show you) in the interview, one can only imagine how flawed the film itself is going to be. Trump indicted...again again..I mean we joked last week "it

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01:15:50

#BHN How bad would NZ First be for NZ? | Threats to...

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2023/08/14

How bad would NZ First be for NZ? We'll take a look at some more unthought out Winston Peters Rhetoric tonight and have a look at who are the people on the NZ First list who Winston would bring in with him. Finally, it seems that Newstalk ZB has begun a campaign against Winston and whilst we don't want to see NZ First there, it is still interesting as to why ZB have made a decision to go on attack. Counterspin has threatened to sue Sean 'Karen' Plunket because of hurty words

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00:18:04

#BHN David Seymour goes pretty much unchallenged on...

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2023/08/13

Simon Shepherd from Newshub was ill prepared to counter David Seymour's talking points at his last The National appearance, he did make one good point about Seymour being pro-partnership when they were doing it but overall, Seymour walked all over the Newshub host. We get frustrated as these journalists have access, but they also need to kiss the ring to keep access and therefore either choose to not engage with serious conversations, or don''t know how to. Either way politicians in NZ

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00:27:02

#BHN Sean Plunket gets sucked into amplifying...

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2023/08/13

Sean 'Karen' Plunket realizes mid "interview" that he is amplifying CounterSpin talking points and conspiracy theories. Plunket is prepared to use any minor objection to negate any opposing voices, but if it's a narrative he wants to further, he shows that conspiracy theorists and opinions are welcome to use his show to further their ideologies so long as it helpd im tell the story that he wants. On could argue that it's the "enemy of my enemy" tactic, but

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00:09:14

#BHN Drag Queen tops US Christian music charts

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2023/08/13

Christian music artist, and drag queen, Flamy Grant and her colleague and friend Derek Webb were called out by MAGA Pastor Sean Feucht claiming that they were signs of everything wrong in the church. In response Flamy went on her TikTok and asked her followers to support a song she had made...which in turn took it to #1 in the Apple Music Christian Music Charts. Not only that but it stayed there for several days and with the support that Flamy got, tons of new opportunities have opened up for her

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00:32:24

#BHN Dr Tracy Clelland on Nicola Willis; call for...

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2023/08/12

Dr Tracy Clelland from the University of Canterbury works and researches in the field of sexuality education. Tracy has recently posted a piece on The Conversation to respond in part to Nicola Willis stating that sex education was a job for her and her husband, “based on our values and our views of the world […] I want my education system focused on teaching my children how to read, how to write and how to do maths”. Link to Dr Clelland's article

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00:21:07

#BHN Karen Plunket proves himself a "cuck/beta male"...

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2023/08/12

Raf Manji was door-stopped by The Platform early on Friday morning and had to inform Sean Plunket that he wasn't interested in going on his platform. Plunket took offence and showed his belly as someone who thinks they are some kind of gatekeeper to votes that TOP needs, as opposed to an unethical vile human being who only bottom feeding, dishonest political figures are willing to talk to. +++++++++++++++ Come support the work we're doing by becoming a Patron of ⁠#BHN⁠

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00:12:51

#BHN National's coming for your kids cellphones

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2023/08/12

Christopher Luxon has hinted that National will ban cellphones in school, how? Well, that's a great question. Many parents and teachers will be into this idea but it still doesn't explain how the party rallying against mandates, suggesting parents are the people best to make decisions for their children's learning and generally criticising the left for being too authoritarian...wants to now mandate a ban no matter what the school, parents or children want. +++++++++++++++ Come

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00:11:11

#BHN Will ACT drag National to the right and if so...

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2023/08/12

ACT wants to lose the first free year of tertiary education, National says it's not their policy. ACT wants the gun registry gone, National wants to keep it. ACT wants to cut 50% of the staff at MBIE, ACT wants to make one billion dollars of cuts on day one and so on, and so on, and so on. How far will ACT drag National to the right and who will have the power post an ACT National election win +++++++++++++++ Come support the work we're doing by becoming a Patron of ⁠#BHN⁠

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00:18:32

#BHN Chippy's wind and renewable energy plan

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2023/08/12

Prime Minister Chris Hipkins announced a new policy to help make NZ function on 100% renewable energy with a wind, solar and geothermal package. It feels a bit blah, and we're a;ways going to ask where was this last year...but in an of itself it's pretty good with some good upsides for power consumption and job creation. +++++++++++++++ Come support the work we're doing by becoming a Patron of ⁠#BHN⁠ ⁠https://www.patreon.com/BigHairyNews⁠ Like us on

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