The Working Group End of Year Special with Winston Peters, Sean Plunket and Damien Grant
The awful, dreadful and terrible NZ on Air funded Spinoff exercise in mediocrity ‘Gone by Lunchtime’ won the 2022 NZ Podcast Award last night and the show that beats them (our one) didn’t even get nominated!
Here we are beating them with no funding from NZ on Air at all…
…Can you believe their dreck wins awards?
Isn’t it wrong?
So wrong!
Gone by Lunchtime winning makes NZ the land of the long white mediocrity.
My disgust at something as tedious as Gone by Lunchtime winning aside, The Working Group has brought together combinations of opinion you would never see anywhere else and we have covered the weeks events with far more accuracy than fucking Gone By Lunchtime!
Our live-streamed Auckland Mayoralty debate and our live-streamed Hamilton West By-election coverage were well received…
…and our show has received write ups and reviews…
…oh and far more funny. Oh Jesus our show is just so much funnier than Gone By Lunchtime isn’t it? Gone By Lunchtime is like a wanky RNZ dinner party where you are stuck between Duncan Grieve, Toby Manhire, Alison Mau and Guyon Espiner all arguing over who hates heteronormative white cis males the most!
A plague on all Spin-offs houses, and batches and property investments.
Our final show for 2022 is 7pm tonight wrapping the year politically and making predictions about the election next year with NZ First leader Winston Peters and Talkback shock jock and best mate of David Farrier, Sean Plunket.
Damien Grant will also
be present.
Issue 1 – Parliament Lawn Protest: The critical moment that shaped a year of political extremism
Issue 2 – 2022 economy vs 2023 recession
Issue 3 – 2022 political winners & losers
and Issue 4 – 2023 Predictions
7pm live-streamed tonight – The Working Group – NZs best weekly political podcast that isn’t funded by NZ on Air (or recognised by the NZ Podcast Awards).
Our thanks to the best political blogger in NZ Chris Trotter, former Chief of Staff for the Labour Party Matt McCarten, National MP Gerry Brownlee, Taxpayers Union lesser demon Callum Purves, NBR Senior Journalist Maria Slade, National MP Chris Penk, Broadcasting Minister Willie Jackson, Unionist Mike Treen, Taxpayer’s Union Pope Jordan Williams, Agent provocateur Ani Obrian, Podcaster Shane Te Pou, ACT Party Deputy Brooke Van Veldon, ACT Party Leader David Seymour, Minister Michael Wood, Podcaster Tau Henare, People’s Hero Efeso Collins, National MP Chris Bishop, National Party Finance Spokesperson Nicola Willis, Right wing Svengali Matthew Hooton, Right wing think tank villain Dr Oliver Hartwich, Philosopher Jamie Whyte, TOP Leader Raf Manji, Economist Bernard Hickey, NZ Herald Political reporter Thomas Coughlin, People’s Hero Sue Bradford, Media expert Professor Wayne Hope, ACT MP Nicole McKee, former Green Party MP Gareth Hughes, Academic Dr Jarrod Gilbert, National MP Mark Mitchell, former National Party leader Simon Bridges, former Green Party leader Russel Norman, podcasting up and comer Jack Tame, NZ First leader Winston Peters, guy who is making Today FM weep Sean Plunket, 232nd most important Stuff columnist Damien Grant, our twitter panel of Tim Selwyn, our sponsor Gravity Credit, our podcast studio team and You our loyal audience.
We will gloriously return in the new year to wage more war on the mediocrity of Spinoff and give you our dear viewers more insight and oversight into the election.
The podcast broadcasts live 7pm Tuesdays from our purpose built studio bunker ADJACENT to Mediaworks studios on Facebook, YouTube & The Daily Blog and posted up afterwards on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Rova & YouTube
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/12/jacinda-ardern-doesn-t-apologise-over-miq-lottery-system-as-documents-reveal-govt-considered-imprisoning-kiwis-who-used-loophole.html
“A few Kiwis who couldn’t get a spot did find another way to get in, a wide-open backdoor. They would get to Auckland on a transit flight, but not get on the last leg.
Newshub can reveal the Government considered locking up those Kiwis after the loophole was uncovered.
Documents obtained under the Official Information Act show officials thought about making it an offence punishable by up to six months in jail or a $12,000 fine.
“Not a single person in any of the emails raised an ethical problem with putting New Zealand citizens in jail for coming back to their own country,” said lawyer Tudor Clee.
I’m sure the government considered a multitude of options under several scenarios while leading us through a GLOBAL HEALTH EMERGENCY (shouty caps intentional).
The fact is, NO ONE WAS EVER LOCKED UP FOR RETURNING HOME. So it was considered but never actioned.
Beaurocratic middle management types have a very low ethical and moral bar, on the whole. They’re paper pushers and number crunches mostly. They don’t see people. They see baubles and likes. No offense meant to those who do not fit this general mold.
Martyn your show is a must watch. I don’t think I have missed a single episode. Its funny, its informing and its refreshing. It brings people together who have diverse views (as opposed to cancelling people. Listening to people with views I don’t agree with on your show has helped me to see that despite their views, these people are human beings. I particularly like it when people with diverse views end up agreeing on things. Getting people like this together to talk is the real diversity and inclusion (I am glad you have gone for diversity based on views rather than a tick list of diversity)
I will miss it over the xmas (much deserved) break.
I think a couple of years back I listened to 10 minutes of the Spinoff podcast. It was deadly dull and self indulgant. Very self indulgent.
Congratulations on your “bestest”. It is a fantastic. I made a donation yesterday and encourage all others who read this site to do the same. Martyn is gold. Wishing you a very Merry Christmas.
Me too, 100% strike rate.
I find the humour hilarious particularly if Hooton is appearing and I love the diversity of views. It makes you realise just how lame party doctrine is in today’s complex world. Each guest brings insights worth listening to and its made me question whether our current approach to politics can ever deliver for NZers.
Agree about Hooten. I particulary like his comments about Andrew Kingston.
And yes a big thank you to Andrew to funding this.
Winston Peters, Sean Plunket and Damien Grant~!!
#MustWatch
I’m looking forward to this. 🙂
Catch and release.
wHILE, back yer pal his name as a talk back radio voice,i said the first terrorist attack on new zealand, was the bombing of trades hall,yer pall their said not,as greenpeace boming was the first,what a lie,the first terrorist attack was the boming of a workers building in WELLINGTON KNOWN as their care home Trades Hall.
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Dare care,grasp, and know humanity.