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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...

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,...

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 lo...

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 wh...

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 Hattot...

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 f...

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...

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 fla...

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 o...

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...

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...

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 f...

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 a...

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. +++...

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 t...

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...

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 P...

Come join the conversation tonight as we speak with Raf Manji, leader of the opportunities party We're live and are happy to take your questions and comments in the chat +++++++++++++++ Come support the work we're doing by becoming a Patron of ⁠#BHN⁠ ⁠https://www.patreon.com/BigHairyNews⁠ Like us on Facebook www.facebook.com/BigHairyNews Follow us on Twitter. @patbrittenden @Chewie_NZ

Dr Tracy Clelland has written a piece for The Conversation, in part, responding to Nicola Willis saying that sex education was a job for her and her husband. Is home the best place for children to learn about sex? Is school? Or is a combination of both what we should be aiming for? See the article here https://theconversation.com/ignore-the-politics-many-parents-want-to-work-with-schools-on-sexual...

The National party is floating ideas to ban phones in schools which many parents will think is a great idea but one has to wonder if the party of less government regulation and interference will continue to insert themselves into the education system...also, if it's questionable for National to suggest this policy, imagine what their "libertarian" partners in ACT will have to say abo...

Karen Plunket's at it again refusing to take a 'no' from a potential guest when Raf Manji from TOP didn't return his, or his producers, calls Plunket called him live on air. Plunket then went on to demonstrate the cuck that he is by being very clearly offended by Manji not want to come on his show voicing distain for The Platform. We'll take a look at this clip tonight and ask...

Martin 'Bomber' Bradbury joins us to talk about voting strategically versus voting ideologically. We might also bounce off Bomber the latest Performance Ratings for Luxon and Hipkins and maybe even look at what the government is focused on +++++++++++++++ Come support the work we're doing by becoming a Patron of ⁠#BHN⁠ ⁠https://www.patreon.com/BigHairyNews⁠ Like us on Facebook www.face...

Rev Scottie Reeve was removed from a Julian Batchelor anti co-governance meeting in Wellington. We want to know why Scottie attended and what happened after the cameras were off. +++++++++++++++ Come support the work we're doing by becoming a Patron of ⁠#BHN⁠ ⁠https://www.patreon.com/BigHairyNews⁠ Like us on Facebook www.facebook.com/BigHairyNews Follow us on Twitter. @patbrittenden @Chewie_NZ

Trump indicted...again. In the indictment, brought by the special counsel Jack Smith, it outlines in stark detail how Trump and his allies knowingly spread false allegations of election fraud, convened fraudulent electors and attempted to block the certification of the election on January 6. +++++++++++++++ Come support the work we're doing by becoming a Patron of ⁠#BHN⁠ ⁠https://www.patreon.c...

The latest Newshub poll is not good news for the left, although...for the very, very optimistic...you could say that within margin of error it's still anyone's game. There are some weird anomalies in there like how unpopular Christopher Luxon is and how trusted Chris Hipkins is and also how well voters think Hipkins treated the Kiri Allan debacle. +++++++++++++++ Come support the work we&#...