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Nitrous Oxide Sales Crackdown

2 items · 2 aliases · peaked week of 19 Apr 2026 · first seen 10 May 2026

The podcast discusses Chris Luxon's leadership vote, the police crackdown on illegal nitrous oxide sales, inflation data, and climate technology for storm prediction, highlighting themes of political courage, public safety, and economic uncertainty.

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  • Yeah. Dionne, it's good to talk to you, mate. Thank you so much. Good luck with that. That's Superintendent Dionne Bennett, Police District Commander for Central District. Tell me if you agree with me, but I don't care about names. I mean, I know there are rules and stuff like that, but I just, on the list of things that stress me out that people are doing that is illegal, this is like genuinely right down at the bottom, probably next to cocaine. No, actually cocaine stresses me out more. because there's a whole kind of like gang situation that goes on in organized crime and stuff nags doesn't stress me out because i really honestly believe if you're just doing bad stuff to your own body and you're only harming yourself mate you know you know the risks do what you want go away and go away and huff yourself to death over there and i don't really care does this is not health advice or criminal advice or advice to the police on how to do their jobs anyway what i care about where i would like the police to be directing their resources is This is the people who are sticking weird things in their arms like, I don't know, smoking the glass pipe, then not eating enough and sleeping enough, and then going and chopping people's arms off with machetes. That kind of thing freaks me out a whole lot more. It's where it starts to impact on your life that it stresses me out. Nangs is a solo endeavour by the looks of things. Anyway, how naughty from those retailers though. Just outright ignoring, I'm dealing with this at home. I've got a four-year-old, look him in the face and say, don't call mummy stupid. And he goes, you're stupid. That's what the retailers did, and maybe the police need me to come and sort them out when I'm finished with the four-year-old, although I'm losing that battle. The boss of the Cooperative Bank reckons that other banks' floating rates are too high. So if you have a look at your bank, big five banks, if your floating rate is sitting around 5.75 to 5.89, where they're basically all sitting, he says it's too high. And he has put his money where his mouth is. Okay, so everybody else's 5.75 to 5.89. Cooperative Bank, 4.99, 16 past 4.
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hdpa-drive Government / N-A

public safety over recreational use

Full Show Podcast: 21 April 2026
21 Apr
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