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New Zealand Accent In Films

1 items · 1 aliases · peaked week of 3 May 2026 · first seen 9 May 2026

A podcast episode discussing rising tech costs due to AI, a rare example of a natural Kiwi accent in film, and critical commentary on Shane Jones' offensive remarks about homelessness.

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  • Um, so tonight on the phone, on the phone, you can be on the phone, Chewy's on the phone, uh, tonight on the phone and on the computer, uh, we're going to be talking to you with whatever device you're on about things. Um, Shane Jones, honestly, has said one of the most disgusting things I have ever heard about homeless people. uh to a point where as a part of the conversation he basically goes oh i i'd get a van and i'd go just clear them all up tonight and i'm like i'm like please someone with a van offer that service to mr jones and take a camera for us go to shane jones and say here's the van i would now like to see you go to central wherever you are and clean up the homeless people because he obviously won't because he's obviously making it like tough man i'll clean up the mess using words like vagrants and it's and and oh my god so fucking mad and um basically saying that it's a myth that if we move them on we harm them it's just it's repulsive like i said to you the other day about shane jones ironically making the great replacement call this feels up there with that but it's maybe it feels even worse because he's actually talking about vulnerable people it's disgusting um yeah and one of the reasons we're doing that tonight is because karen in the bush talked about it this morning on breakfast are we going to see um the actual comment his their responses are mother bits and bobs as well of course uh the b uh the bsa went none eyes yesterday um i wasn't here to talk about that but it's been interesting kind of giving it 24 hours and and hearing all the worst people in New Zealand media go hooray about it
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