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Elon 'free speech absolutist' Musk has started purges journalists and accounts that it seems he doesn't like. Journalists reporting on him and his quickly failing Twitterverse seem to be the target of Mr Musk's ire. It looks like Elon is basically picking and choosing who he is personally offended by...and banning them.           NZ economy is 'stupendo...

Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown has demonstrated today he is unfit for office thinking he can speculate and offer opinions on Auckland Airport that in turn causes the partly owned Auckland City company to have to halt share trading. Wayne Brown is well out of his depth and won't last the full term           NZ bans smoking and even right wing echo chambers l...

If we are supposed to separate church and state should we be opening up local or central government with a prayer? What about when it's part of the cultural identity of the country...the question is to karakia or not to karakia?       Dave Chappelle brought Elon Musk up onto stage at one of his sold out concerts and he was royally booed by a pretty good percentage of the a...

David Seymour wins the playground game that happens in the house today when he got the PM to call him an 'arrogant prick'. She is correct, he is, but in the game of politics if you can get someone to lose their cool...and have to apologise...then you win.   The Ombudsman report has shown that the Government was too cold and calculating when making rules for allocating spaces for MIQ. One of t...

The sensible-court-case-of-the-year award was handed out today when guardianship of Baby Will has been granted to the court so he can finally have his emergency, lifesaving heart operation.           COVID numbers surging again and when the numbers were this bad in March we were in level Red where masks were mandated, and household contacts also isolate...

Labour has been mauled today over their about face when it comes to Entrenchment of 3 Waters. It seems that some are pointing the finger directly at Nanaia Mahuta while the Prime Minister is still claiming an own goal for the whole team   Minister Willie Jackson apologises for his performance on Q&A this weekend. The Prime Minister has voiced her displeasure with the interview and Jackson...

Willie Jackson implodes on Q&A over the weekend with a patronizing tone to host Jack Tame and almost veiled threats of Tame losing his job because of his "negative" interview.    The Government announced the 'Entrenchment' clause is gone burger and spent time today explaining it was the Greens clause, it was a mistake we tried to push it, we've admitted the mistake so nothing to see...

If you didn't believe it could be true, Kanye 'Ye' West has made it worse with a appearance on Alex Jones' Info Wars citing "I like Hitler" and spending time professing the positives of who Hitler was. When Alex Jones is as close to the voice of reason in a conversation you know it's hit a new low    Audio of Graham Philip has come to light where he has described the actions he could tak...

The conversation (I refuse to call this a debate) rages on about Baby Will and his parents' decision to not allow him to receive blood from people who have received a vaccination. Today many experts weighed in including medical experts on what it would mean should the parents win to the system and medical professionals who explained why it's not just a simple thing to get blood for Will from unvac...

Kanye 'Ye' West has another meltdown when he stormed out of a podcast when the host wouldn't acknowledge is was "the Jews" who were treating him badly as opposed to "corporate media" which is what the host was talking about. Seems that being thin skinned is a pre-requisite for running for President in 2024 an attribute that both Ye and his friend Donald J Trump has in spades   Te Whatu Ora we...

Christopher Luxon's petticoat is showing as it's revealed that we, the public, are paying for the rent of his electorate that Mr Luxon owns. This is all completely legal, but the hypocrisy comes in when it's Mr Luxon screaming about government spending, while clipping the ticket himself and benefitting from government spending but also because he has been critical of Labour MPs who also have playe...

A dive into the events following the murder of Janak Patel with the PM doing interview rounds this morning, and then announcing new funding for small business owners this afternoon   We speak with criminologist Dr Fairleigh Gilmore about the truth on crime in NZ at the moment. Is it as bad out there as we are being told in the media...are we on the edge of criminals running amok in our street...

David Seymour is not happy with Prime Minister Jacinda Arden's movements at the moment claiming she should not have travelled to the Chatham Islands instead stating she should have stayed in her electorate after the tragic killing of a Dairy worker in Sandringham. This may be a fair call...however...it would be interesting to know what Mr Seymour did after a 2021 double killing in his electorate t...

Pat has an interview with progressive American activist of 40 years David Fenton dropping Friday morning and tonight we'll play some clips where David explains how the left does not have a winning formula if they focus on identarian politics and what they can learn from the right   ACT wants bulk funding back saying that "should receive funding based on attendance" which seems to have gone we...

The Reserve Bank has raised the Official Cash Rate to a level not seen since 2008. They now sees the OCR peaking at 5.5% and holding there for a year and are forecasting a recession from mid-2023   Christopher Luxon is walking back his tax cuts for the top tier message that National has been promising since he became leader. He is blaming Labour for the state of the economy for not letting hi...

President of Te Tai Tokerau Principals Association Pat Newman on Christopher Luxon's comment of truancy and children being absent from school. Pat also shares his views on boot camps and operating a school under a National government   Dietrich Soakai is a Youth Development Worker based in Canterbury and joins us to talk about how to best help youth in at-risk situations. Is the National/ACT...

The Supreme Court has ruled today that not allowing 16 and 17 year old's is discriminatory and has thrown the ball to parliament to see if they will decide to lower the voting age. Tonight, we speak to Sanat Singh, Co-Director of Make it 16 to see where we are at.    The government last week has made an amendment to hate speech laws that seems to not make anyone happy, it doesn't change...

Katherine Mangu-Ward is a leading voice of American libertarianism and editor-in-chief of "Reason," the magazine of "free minds and free markets." In tonight's one-hour special Pat and Katherine talk about what it would look like to have a Libertarian society, the positives, the negatives and why do Libertarians seem to always be on the Right of politics when if you're core belief was one of freed...

Tracey Barnett has been a contributing commentator and columnist for The New Zealand Herald, The Sunday Star Times, TV3, TVNZ, Newstalk ZB, bFM and Radio Live, among many others. Tracey is passionate about women’s issues, data dignity and the current train wreck of US politics.   Moana Maniapoto confronts David Seymour about his dog whistling and use of language that is inflammatory and inacc...

Heeeeee's back! Donald Trump announces his bid today to get back into the White House in Jan 2025...it was as mad as you would think, and we'll have a look at it tonight   Christopher Luxon's had to u-turn today as he forgot his policy in an AM Show interview then revealed his what he actually meant to say was already a u-turn on previous statement. Luxon has also had to backtrack significant...

We're going to play you a wonderful wee video tonight that originally played on MSNBC showing a loooooong list of Republican commentators certain of a red wave in the US midterms. We'll also bring you up to date with where the elections are at.   The NZ Herald is reporting that Stuff journalists are likely to go on strike if negotiations around pay and conditions of future pay increases aren'...

Dr Siouxsie Wiles joins us to talk about COVID on cruise ships and the latest COVID numbers released by the Government. What we can do moving forward. With so many of us feeling down heartened in what's happening in society today when it appears we are now stuck with COVID and most all of us can't see ourselves keeping things like mask restrictions in place for ever.   Assoc Prof Grant Duncan...

Massey's Associate Professor Grant Duncan says that Newshub's recent poll reporting is misleading and explains that "the job of political reporters is to tell us the facts and to give us some critical context to current events and opinion polls"   After centuries of waiting, arguing, fighting and conflict we can finally say that today Jesus Christ has been verified as real and it's all thanks...

Nomiki Konst is an American political commentator and the Director of Matriarch a PAC dedicated to helping “progressive working women candidates run for elected office.” Nomiki joins us to talk about the election results from the mid-terms, what went right, what went wrong, why the "no red wave" celebrations are probably misguided. For those Nomiki and Sam Seder's Majority Report may also know abo...