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There was a major computer glitch tonight and we cut all the issues out so if the first part of the show feels a little truncated, it is so you don't have to hear Pat trying to figure out the issue for 19 minutes. At about 6.5 minutes regular broadcasting continues Chloe Swarbrick clashes with Brooke van Velden on Breakfast this morning calls the new governments near 200 policies already '...

Director of ASH, Ben Youdan, joins us to talk about what the downstream effect for NZ based on the National government getting rid of the Smokefree 2025 legislarion Nicola Willis and Christopher Luxon (along with David Seymour) talk very uncomfortably about how more NZ's will die from smoking due to their cancelling of Smokefree 2025, but wealthy people will get their tax cuts David Seymour ta...

Someone forgot to tell Damien Grant that Russia are the bad guys in the Russian/Ukraine conflict as today he starts an analogy as to how many people have died in Gaza, relates it to the Russia/Ukraine war...and then compares Israel to Russia. It's all very strange ================================================ Help us by nominating #BHN for the people's choice award at https://www.nzpodc...

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Christopher Luxon said pre-election that the "National party is at it's best when it's truly a national National Party representing all the diverse communities of New Zealand." The elected National Party is 80% Pakeha, 70% male with 0% Pacificia representation. The ladies and gentlemen, I give you Cameron Brewer Is it any wonder they get labelled racist and misogynist? And then n...

Again, we have an example of a politician on the right saying they want a solution, then refuses to state that solution. David Seymour says a two state solution is what is needed, but then refuses to acknowledge Palestine as a sovereign country...which is what you need for a two state solution. Needless to say Chloe Swarbrick takes Seymour, and host Ryan Bridge, to task on their mumble mouthed bot...

Gerry Brownlee sends such mixed messages where he says National wants a ceasefire, but still refuses to call for one. The most concerning part of the fence sitting by National is when Brownlee says National only thinks there can be a ceasefire when "both parties" fulfill certain conditions. When he is asked what those "conditions" are, rather than explaining where "both pa...

NZ has a new Government, announced today with Christopher Luxon, David Seymour and Winston Peters announcing to the country the make up of that Government. We'll jump on tonight, maybe with a guest or two (we'll see how the afternoon pans out) and have a look at what we have to lead the country for the next 3 years ================================================ Help us by nominating #BHN...

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 st...

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? ======================...

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 t...

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...

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 m...

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 de...

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. Plea...

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 t...

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 nomina...

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 peopl...

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 count...

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 death...

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 f...

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...

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...

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 cal...

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 https://docs.google.com/document/d/...