#47 Chris Hipkins
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What are the current challenges facing Kiwis today?
With everything going on in this world at the moment, with Iran, with Gaza, with fuel and the cost of living, I decided to get on someone that could potentially help us all.
They haven't affected regime change like they said they were going to. What they've done is just inflict pain on the rest of the world. And nobody knows how this is going to end.
So I sat down with Chris Hippekins and I asked him, I put all of those questions to him. What would you do different? What's your thoughts on it all? And surprisingly, he answered.
I think there's been a total lack of leadership there. We should have recognised Palestine as a state three years ago.
How does Chris Hipkins view the impact of rising fuel prices?
Whenever I sit down with politicians, I don't want it to be an ad for that political party. So I always try and find out the person behind the politician.
It's easy to look at life from your own advantages and your own perspective. Putting yourself in the shoes of someone else is a lot harder. You should always think about if this was the other way around, how would I feel about that?
So I got to know Chris a little bit more, peeled back the curtain about who he is, where he went to school, why he decided to become a politician, and what his why is. And before you all start bashing me saying I'm a Labour supporter, Anyone out there watching from ACT, from National, from NZ First, you're welcome here. Come on. Unfiltered with Dave Luteli. So don't forget to like, comment, share and subscribe. Chris Hipkins. Enjoy. Unfiltered is produced by the Team at Fanaticals and we are part of the Acast Network. Chris Hipkins, thank you so much for joining me, bro.
Yeah, good to be here.
How's it going?
Yeah, it's good. I mean, it's good for us. It's tough going out there, though, for a lot of Kiwis. Been out and about around the country over the school holidays. And be fair to say that there's a lot of Kiwis who are finding the goings pretty tough. The spike in the price of fuel has hit a lot of families really, really hard. A lot of small businesses really hard as well. But it was pretty tough going for them before then. So we've been just talking to them about what they're doing to get through and how they're supporting people through that.
Yeah, but how are you going?
Me?
Yeah.
I'm good.
What insights does Chris Hipkins share about leadership and politics?
Yeah, no, I'm good. You can probably see I lost a little bit of weight since I last spoke to you.
Is it less like conferences and all this sort of stuff when you're not in power?
Well, I'll have to confess, you know, because I had a bit of an exercise regime in the first part of last year and I just wasn't losing any weight at all. And then I had to change my diet. I actually did less exercise, but better dieting. It's all nutrition. And it was totally nutrition. Way too much sugar. Way too much sort of just rubbish in, rubbish in. And so I focused on hydration. So it's amazing. I didn't know... that part of my hunger wasn't actually hunger it was thirst and so when I started drinking a lot more water my appetite started to sort of dial back a bit which was a huge thing for me and especially it's a high pressure job you're in you know so high stress so you've got to look after yourself
How did Chris Hipkins' upbringing influence his political views?
Yeah. And so, I mean, I focused, I still try and do a bit of exercise, eat better. I adopted a rule that one of my old colleagues said to me, my old boss, Trevor Mallard said to me, if you're going into politics, don't eat while standing up. If you don't eat when you're standing up, you'll be all right. Because what happens is you go to places and you're always on the move and there's always food and stuff. And if you just restrict yourself to just three meals a day, then actually it's not so bad. So that's what I've been trying to do.
Yeah, with this, you know, speaking about the feeling that so many people are doing it tough, and I often talk about it with people. You know, you've got, for those people who only just had their heads above water pre-COVID, started to drown. Then you had the cyclone, the floods, the cost of living, now the fuel. Why, you know, it just seems like this government's doing nothing, nothing really to help.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What are the current challenges facing Kiwis today?
0:00–0:35
2
How does Chris Hipkins view the impact of rising fuel prices?
0:35–2:01
3
What insights does Chris Hipkins share about leadership and politics?
2:01–3:01
4
How did Chris Hipkins' upbringing influence his political views?
3:01–6:55
5
What are the root causes of the cost of living crisis in New Zealand?
6:55–14:29
6
How does Chris Hipkins assess the government's response to international conflicts?
14:29–15:07
7
What motivates Chris Hipkins to engage in politics?
15:07–16:57
8
What solutions does Chris propose for supporting struggling families?
16:57–39:10
Speakers
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