1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:03,079 Speaker 1: News talk sai'd be Barry Soapers here, Barry, good afternoon, Good. 2 00:00:02,960 --> 00:00:05,680 Speaker 2: Afternoon, Ryan. I should be talking this afternoon about, of 3 00:00:05,720 --> 00:00:08,840 Speaker 2: course the road cones. That was the big announcement. Yes, 4 00:00:08,920 --> 00:00:11,280 Speaker 2: at the Prime Ministerial press conference, are going to do 5 00:00:11,320 --> 00:00:13,040 Speaker 2: away with a lot of them. Is going to be 6 00:00:13,640 --> 00:00:17,240 Speaker 2: a road code hotline. So if you're pissed off at 7 00:00:17,320 --> 00:00:20,400 Speaker 2: road cones, get on the blower and say, look, remove them. 8 00:00:20,400 --> 00:00:23,880 Speaker 2: If they looked as though they're serving no purpose. I've 9 00:00:23,880 --> 00:00:27,040 Speaker 2: got to say, they drive me nuts. And I look 10 00:00:27,120 --> 00:00:29,480 Speaker 2: for the work going on around them, and I very 11 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:30,159 Speaker 2: rarely see it. 12 00:00:30,240 --> 00:00:32,559 Speaker 1: So never there. I like that idea, great idea, and 13 00:00:32,600 --> 00:00:34,720 Speaker 1: lots actually will we will come back to this after 14 00:00:34,880 --> 00:00:36,640 Speaker 1: five o'clock the evening, because there was lots in that 15 00:00:36,680 --> 00:00:40,240 Speaker 1: announcement that was interesting, especially if you're a business owners. Yes, 16 00:00:40,320 --> 00:00:42,960 Speaker 1: after five or ten more. But right now, the attention 17 00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:47,080 Speaker 1: of the days turned to Parliament's first non binary MP 18 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:48,240 Speaker 1: taking the week off. 19 00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:51,239 Speaker 2: Yeah, well he's taken the week off this week, according 20 00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:55,520 Speaker 2: to his political boss, Chloe Swarbrick, because of death threats 21 00:00:56,760 --> 00:00:59,880 Speaker 2: now images were sent to me over the weekend by 22 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:04,039 Speaker 2: a gay friend of mine. So and he was disgusted 23 00:01:04,040 --> 00:01:06,960 Speaker 2: at what he had seen. And when I first saw 24 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:12,039 Speaker 2: the images, it was Benjamin Doyle kissing a young boy, 25 00:01:13,280 --> 00:01:16,120 Speaker 2: and I assume that it was his son, and I 26 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:18,880 Speaker 2: kissed my son all the time, and I thought nothing, 27 00:01:19,319 --> 00:01:24,160 Speaker 2: not much more of it. But it was under the 28 00:01:24,160 --> 00:01:30,759 Speaker 2: headline of Bible about bussy and that means bussy means 29 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:34,200 Speaker 2: it's slang that some members of the queer community use, 30 00:01:35,520 --> 00:01:40,720 Speaker 2: commonly referred to as your backside. Essentially. Swarbrick Chloe Swarbrick 31 00:01:40,880 --> 00:01:45,679 Speaker 2: was standing al alongside her co leader Mardamer Davidson and 32 00:01:45,760 --> 00:01:48,880 Speaker 2: she came out with art have to say the biggest understatement. 33 00:01:49,320 --> 00:01:53,040 Speaker 2: When asking the Prime Minister to step into silence, his 34 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:55,040 Speaker 2: Deputy Prime Minister Winston. 35 00:01:54,720 --> 00:01:56,880 Speaker 3: Ped, we really didn't want this to get into the 36 00:01:56,880 --> 00:01:59,360 Speaker 3: public sphere. I think that there is absolutely no benefit 37 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:02,520 Speaker 3: to all of us our time right now discussing conspiracy theories. 38 00:02:02,560 --> 00:02:04,560 Speaker 3: But the reality is that it is resulting in real 39 00:02:04,560 --> 00:02:06,720 Speaker 3: wild time and danger towards a member of Parliament, to 40 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:09,800 Speaker 3: their child and to the broader Rainbow community. So what 41 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:12,200 Speaker 3: we'd like to see from the Prime Minister is some 42 00:02:12,360 --> 00:02:14,840 Speaker 3: leadership and to shut this down and to stop it 43 00:02:14,919 --> 00:02:17,639 Speaker 3: right now. What we're talking about as a member of 44 00:02:17,680 --> 00:02:20,520 Speaker 3: the Rainbow community in the context of the Rainbow community, 45 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:24,639 Speaker 3: using terms that have specific meanings within pockets of the 46 00:02:24,720 --> 00:02:28,360 Speaker 3: Rainbow community, with irreverence and absurdity. We have to notice 47 00:02:28,440 --> 00:02:31,680 Speaker 3: that again the Rambo community has frequently been targeted by homophobic, 48 00:02:31,720 --> 00:02:33,320 Speaker 3: transphobic and otherwise attacks. 49 00:02:33,960 --> 00:02:35,040 Speaker 2: God, she went on. 50 00:02:35,440 --> 00:02:36,119 Speaker 1: She always does. 51 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:39,920 Speaker 2: And I've got to say, I saw Winston Peter's post 52 00:02:40,160 --> 00:02:44,000 Speaker 2: on x and it was what he said, essentially was 53 00:02:44,320 --> 00:02:48,040 Speaker 2: how are Benjamin Doyle's own social media posts that he 54 00:02:48,200 --> 00:02:52,959 Speaker 2: posted himself suddenly disinformation which is what he's been accused 55 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:57,440 Speaker 2: of spreading. Peter's doubled down today on his original social 56 00:02:57,480 --> 00:03:03,160 Speaker 2: media posting wanting some memori is some answers from Doyle, 57 00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:06,639 Speaker 2: who's taking the week off like we said, Peters said, 58 00:03:07,360 --> 00:03:09,720 Speaker 2: but not on these words. I have to say what 59 00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:16,200 Speaker 2: they should be fronting up to explain themselves. 60 00:03:13,639 --> 00:03:18,480 Speaker 4: What does bushy gole law mean? What does it mean 61 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:20,680 Speaker 4: with all those photographs by the fifty two posts being 62 00:03:20,720 --> 00:03:23,280 Speaker 4: taken down? Have you seen them? You journalists? But asked 63 00:03:23,320 --> 00:03:25,920 Speaker 4: every other member of Parliament thousands of questions. Not a word, 64 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:28,160 Speaker 4: not a silver, not a sound, not a mutter, not 65 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:30,880 Speaker 4: a murmur, and you think that's journalism. Sorry, I'm going 66 00:03:30,919 --> 00:03:32,560 Speaker 4: to get you to do your job. I would like 67 00:03:32,720 --> 00:03:34,920 Speaker 4: him to explain himself. That's all I'm asking. All I 68 00:03:34,960 --> 00:03:36,840 Speaker 4: did was get the information and say, hang on, this 69 00:03:36,880 --> 00:03:38,960 Speaker 4: is alarming. I want some answers. 70 00:03:39,320 --> 00:03:42,920 Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, Chris Lackson also said in his news conference 71 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:46,800 Speaker 2: that the language and the Doyle post was inappropriate. 72 00:03:47,240 --> 00:03:49,400 Speaker 1: Oh so he has that that those are the words 73 00:03:49,560 --> 00:03:52,480 Speaker 1: is inappropriate? Because what about the issue that he that 74 00:03:52,640 --> 00:03:55,800 Speaker 1: they forgive me And I don't do that on purpose. 75 00:03:55,880 --> 00:03:59,800 Speaker 1: I do know, I know, because somebody has a pronoum 76 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:01,840 Speaker 1: want to use, I've got no problem using it. But 77 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:03,880 Speaker 1: sometimes I do. You know, you do slip up, especially 78 00:04:03,880 --> 00:04:06,880 Speaker 1: if you're speaking about it a lot. But what about 79 00:04:06,920 --> 00:04:10,320 Speaker 1: this idea that they are the Greens early childhood education 80 00:04:10,600 --> 00:04:14,360 Speaker 1: and a spokesperson, Yes, you know. Is that a problem 81 00:04:14,360 --> 00:04:15,200 Speaker 1: for the Greens better? 82 00:04:15,280 --> 00:04:17,880 Speaker 2: Well, look, I think this whole thing is a big 83 00:04:17,920 --> 00:04:20,080 Speaker 2: problem for the Greens. And the understatement, of course that 84 00:04:20,200 --> 00:04:23,680 Speaker 2: was made by Chloe Swarbrick is that she didn't want 85 00:04:23,680 --> 00:04:26,480 Speaker 2: it to get into the public arena. Of course they 86 00:04:26,480 --> 00:04:29,280 Speaker 2: didn't want it into the public arena. This is exactly 87 00:04:29,320 --> 00:04:33,240 Speaker 2: what the Greens don't want, just like the outpourings of 88 00:04:33,279 --> 00:04:36,760 Speaker 2: Tamitha Poul for goodness sake. Over the weekend, here she 89 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:43,640 Speaker 2: was at the Cuba Duper Festival, singing well sorry, jiving 90 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:46,800 Speaker 2: along and making out that she's singing in a microphone. 91 00:04:47,360 --> 00:04:52,120 Speaker 2: There were a number of anti police songs, rap songs 92 00:04:52,200 --> 00:04:56,520 Speaker 2: being sung. Now, of course she's said about the police 93 00:04:56,560 --> 00:04:59,560 Speaker 2: that they should be abolished and should be replaced by 94 00:04:59,800 --> 00:05:04,440 Speaker 2: God only knows what Chloe Swarbrick. She was asked how 95 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:08,919 Speaker 2: appropriate was that the limits that the one of the 96 00:05:08,960 --> 00:05:12,240 Speaker 2: limics lyrics said the police have a little gun, so 97 00:05:12,320 --> 00:05:14,320 Speaker 2: when I'm on the street, I walk around with a 98 00:05:14,360 --> 00:05:17,159 Speaker 2: bigger one to be played. She said, there are other 99 00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:19,880 Speaker 2: issues more important to be discussing than that. Of course 100 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:22,080 Speaker 2: there are. I just wish the Greens wouldn't give us 101 00:05:22,360 --> 00:05:27,120 Speaker 2: these to discuss. Imagine Paul veiled in a Palestinian scarf 102 00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:30,960 Speaker 2: as she was bopping to this speak, which he posted 103 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:42,359 Speaker 2: on social media. Yeah see, I'd be driving along to 104 00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:45,440 Speaker 2: that as well. But do you I think it's inappropriate 105 00:05:45,520 --> 00:05:49,520 Speaker 2: that their police spokesman was up there leading the chant. 106 00:05:49,720 --> 00:05:51,440 Speaker 1: Do you think they'll call the police in over the 107 00:05:51,440 --> 00:05:54,479 Speaker 1: death threats. Well, that's the question, that's. 108 00:05:54,480 --> 00:05:59,080 Speaker 2: That was put to Chris Luxon. Actually will the police 109 00:05:59,080 --> 00:06:01,000 Speaker 2: be calling it? Well, I mean he's got nothing to 110 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:03,400 Speaker 2: do with The Greens think it's a great concern. They 111 00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:07,200 Speaker 2: should be doing themselves and we should be asking how 112 00:06:07,240 --> 00:06:09,520 Speaker 2: long is this man going to be off parliament? 113 00:06:10,080 --> 00:06:12,800 Speaker 1: This person sorry this do you call it a person? 114 00:06:12,920 --> 00:06:13,080 Speaker 4: Why? 115 00:06:14,279 --> 00:06:15,880 Speaker 2: How long are they going to be out of partner? 116 00:06:15,920 --> 00:06:17,880 Speaker 1: Yeah? Well good point, at least at the end of 117 00:06:17,880 --> 00:06:20,159 Speaker 1: the week. We're told for now an we so we'll 118 00:06:20,200 --> 00:06:22,200 Speaker 1: have to wait and see Barry. Thank you very much 119 00:06:22,240 --> 00:06:22,520 Speaker 1: for that. 120 00:06:22,640 --> 00:06:23,080 Speaker 2: Tears. 121 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:25,359 Speaker 1: Winston Peters will be on after Fight. 122 00:06:25,800 --> 00:06:28,000 Speaker 4: For more from Hither Duplessy Allen Drive. 123 00:06:28,160 --> 00:06:31,599 Speaker 1: Listen live to news Talks. It'd be from four pm weekdays, 124 00:06:31,720 --> 00:06:33,920 Speaker 1: or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.