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Podcast Grassroots Movement

1 items · 1 aliases · peaked week of 5 Apr 2026 · first seen 11 May 2026

A Big Hairy News podcast episode covering the fuel crisis, placement poverty, and political debates between key figures, while also promoting a satirical enamel campaign and highlighting a grassroots podcast movement.

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  • and we'll probably put the enamels on the store next week so if you want to be the first in the world to own those things especially the enamels uh then bhn.nz forward slash shop so professional right now would already have that up and be pointing to it but i haven't i'm not a professional so i'll just do it later there we go there we go that's the pricks gear it's all there and as you can see the stickers are actually on there you can get them people have been buying them but the enamels are not yet up and not yet online so have at it bhn.nz forward slash shop all the other stuff is there as well obviously the stuff you know and love but specifically for the ditch the pricks merch bonuses in there as well see look not there no enamel no ditch the pricks enamel there yes is what it is Um, yes, that's it. The other thing I wanted to say, I'm sort of blowing our own trumpet a little bit. Maybe I shouldn't be. I was doing some work today on Gary Pinder's podcast. He's back from his break. He's back from his holiday and his first podcast drops tomorrow. And I was looking at our YouTube channel and I went like this. BHN upcoming show. The Frontline upcoming show tomorrow morning. The collective upcoming show Sunday night and then of course Patai with the Polies show that's just been live last Sunday and I just thought hey guys this is pretty cool We currently have a minimum of four shows rotating, with a couple of other shows up our sleeve yet. Craig is not back yet doing his show. We'll have to check out if the lockdown can resume or not. But we currently have four podcast active podcasts going. And for some reason, I was on spinoff's page the other day. Spinoff? It might have been stuff.
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