Media Insider: ‘Needs to grow … a bigger set of balls’ – BSA rejects complaint about Newstalk ZB’s Ryan Bridge’s reference to Prime Minister Christopher Luxon

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Post date June 30, 2025

A listener said the phrase was vulgar and disrespectful to the Prime Minister’s office.
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