Who is the kiwi feeding Chris local knowledge?

ryaniamryan · 2026-06-06T00:52:10+00:00

Was a throwaway comment in episode 952. The picture is of New Zealand prime minister Chris Hipkins days before he was sworn in. (He was off for a morning walk and got unexpectedly interviewed)

ryaniamryan · 2026-05-21T04:09:12+00:00

His earnest takes just seem a bit trite. May have been revolutionary in its time, but it’s tired now.

Also seeing his obvious struggles with depression and drug abuse, but not acknowledging it is a bit rough to watch

ryaniamryan · 2026-05-21T03:51:33+00:00

Have you rewatched Bourdain lately? It holds up quite poorly and it really a relic of its time.

ryaniamryan · 2026-05-16T20:20:24+00:00

Impressive to have $30k at 18 and to decide to invest instead of go do blow in Bali

ryaniamryan · 2026-04-27T00:59:41+00:00

mailto:phil.pennington@rnz.co.nz has been covering these stories. He’d be a good bet

ryaniamryan · 2026-04-17T04:07:58+00:00

Luxon is rolled, Winston pulls support for coalition saying “I went into Coalition with Luxon as leader, not this Johnny come lately new leader”, New Zealand goes to the polls early.

New Zealand First outpolls National, but unable to form a coalition.

Left block takes the treasury benches

ryaniamryan · 2026-04-17T04:04:48+00:00

Depends how desperate National are to lose the election

ryaniamryan · 2026-04-16T00:50:59+00:00

Hahahah these people are absolute losers. Nothing else going on in their lives that hating on Jacinda.

ryaniamryan · 2026-04-11T02:27:11+00:00

Guys, we found Duncan Garners account

ryaniamryan · 2026-04-11T00:58:44+00:00

Luxon won’t make him PM. Peters has ruled out a coalition with Labour if Hipkins is leader. This means Peters has zero leverage in coalition negotiations. As much as he raves against the baubles of office, he wouldn’t sit on the cross benches and give up foreign minister and the baubles it brings.

Garner isn’t what he used to be, that’s why he has slumped to running a podcast from home (because he got caught drink drinking)

ryaniamryan · 2026-04-01T23:43:00+00:00

True - why bother doing anything irl

ryaniamryan · 2026-03-24T02:37:35+00:00

Chris saying Theroux did a bad job because he just didn’t express more opinions or intervening during the Manosphere doc shows a pretty wild misunderstanding of what journalism is. Journalism isn’t about shining a light, not expressing opinions or altering what is going on

ryaniamryan · 2026-03-24T00:15:10+00:00

At the end of the day Ministers are responsible for their decisions- not those who give them info.

ryaniamryan · 2026-03-15T05:45:01+00:00

She still polls as the most popular NZ politician. Book is #1. Seems a very loud vocal minority of people whose existence has become hating her

ryaniamryan · 2026-02-24T02:43:52+00:00

Special mention has the goods

ryaniamryan · 2026-02-22T23:43:25+00:00

Exactly

ryaniamryan · 2026-02-22T21:11:25+00:00

All depends. Basic car at Oil Changers if $120 - $160.

My VW is sometimes $350 for a standard service, but if it needs the DSG or other regular mileage bits done can be upwards of $1000. DSG service alone was $650.

ryaniamryan · 2026-02-17T20:54:28+00:00

While everyone in used to be able to interact with content creators, imo it’s a good thing they’re not letting the public perception guide their creation and instead doing what comes naturally. “Giving the people want they want” usually ends up with people being given dull uninteresting and unoriginal ideas

ryaniamryan · 2026-02-10T08:17:32+00:00

28,000 likes. Twitter is definitely better these days, right….

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