Locker Room Lad

Arms Reform & Lotto Dreams
It’s just our mate Quentin (Q) Whitehead flying solo this morning, but we’re diving into two big topics. First up, New Zealand’s major gun law overhaul — what’s changing, why it matters, and Q’s take on whether these reforms hit the mark. Then we flip the script: if he ever bought a Lotto ticket and won $45 million, what would he do first? 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, Que. How are you this morning?

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Yeah, good Jenny here, good to be here, Thank you
for coming in.

Speaker 3 (00:05):
I think the other ones always get scared when it's
just going to be me and U because they just think, well,
they just make so much sense together.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Well that's right. Yeah, I think it's the other ones
of the problemly.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
One hundred percent.

Speaker 3 (00:15):
Let's put that officially on the record, as we know
that most of them are in christ Church and definitely
won't be up this early. But I thought this would
be something that you would have a few thoughts and
feelings on, Que. And that is the news that come
out yesterday that the government is replacing the nineteen eighty
three Arms Act with a new legislation aimed at improving

(00:35):
safety and restoring trust among legal gun owners. So yeah,
we were just written off a few of the key
changes together off here, and I sort of am thinking
there's nothing that I can really see that I strongly
disagree with it at this point.

Speaker 4 (00:52):
Yeah, yeah, I'm a bit the same, you know, from
what I haven't gone into it in depth, but yeah, no,
I pretty much agree with most of it. But you know,
after arms law was nineteen eighty three, well it's over
you to be to be overhauled, isn't it. I mean,
anything that was back in eighty three, you know, things change,
so yeah, there's been some massive changes. So yeah, it's

(01:14):
good that they've undated it, and they've probably, I think
pretty acts done a good thing here. I've actually made
people realize that, you know, the guns, actually guns don't
kill people, it's the people behind the guns. So yeah,
we've got to be more stringent on the sort of
people that own firearms. But then in saying that too,

(01:35):
you know, like I don't know what the stats are,
but I wonder how many of these gang shootings, especially
you know, the people that actually do the shootings, how
many of them are registered gun owners, how many of
them have firearms licenses? So yeah, I think it's more
about trying to keep the guns away from these people
and whatever we can do to do that. That's that's

(01:56):
got to be a good thing.

Speaker 3 (01:57):
Yeah, And I also think like it's as an interesting
seem to think it's a good call or perhaps an
interesting call, that they are going to bring in a
new independent firearms regulator, so that means under the new
Act that comes in, it won't be run by the police.

Speaker 4 (02:14):
Yeah, I don't really care who runs it, so long
as they do a good job of it. I mean,
the registering of firearms, that was something I was a
little bit nervous about after when they first sort of
brought it up and there was I don't know, somehow
there was some information got leaked by the police, or
there was a computer got hacked.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
I don't know the ins and outs of it, but.

Speaker 4 (02:38):
Registered firearms, their information got got out into the public.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
So that made me a little bit nervous.

Speaker 4 (02:46):
I've got guns in my foot cabinet, so you know,
they're just going to go through and it's a shopping list,
isn't it. Oh yeah, that's a rural address that's away
from anywhere. That's an easy one to target. So yeah,
whoever does it, I've got to under stand the importance
of keeping that information away from people up.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
Yeah, yeah it is.

Speaker 3 (03:06):
It's certainly interesting and no doubt there'll be lots of
chat around it.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
And we were just saying, you know.

Speaker 3 (03:11):
Would our thoughts be the same if we grew up
in different circumstances, which is hard to you know, sometimes
think outside that box. But if we were having this
conversation in the middle of a city. But then we
also wouldn't really know much about firearms, and that's dangerous
as well.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
Yeah it is.

Speaker 4 (03:29):
I mean, everybody's got their own point of view on it,
haven't they. But you know, I mean you take it
to the other extreme. You go to America, you know, like,
you know, they think it's fine to carry a fully
automatic weakment down the main street of some of their towns,
and in some states it's legal. You know, like it's
just absolutely absurd, But it's just we've got to make

(03:53):
sure that the people that are sane or or respond
enough to own firearms and use firearms and their jobs
and their sport are able to do it unhinted, and
the people that shouldn't have firearms definitely don't, and just
make it safer because yeah, these mass shootings that are

(04:17):
happening in America, you know, they're just heartbreaking. You know,
like you'd be scared to send your kid to school
over there, and we don't want that to happen in
New Zealand. And gangs too, you know, we've got to
keep the firearms away from gangs. You know, it's all right,
forty fifty years ago when they were beating each other up.
But now when they're shooting each other.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
That's just yeah, yeah, we don't need that.

Speaker 3 (04:38):
In New Zealand, the reform will come up for consultation
and hopefully we'll be able to go and dive into
it and they'll be able to find a middle ground
where safety is one of the strongest components.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
All right, forty five million dollars Q.

Speaker 3 (04:52):
I want to know very shortly what you would be
doing with that, laugh and all the way to the
bank or the bottlestore more from our solo locker room.

Speaker 1 (04:59):
Shortly on forty five million dollars? What would you do?
What were so?

Speaker 2 (05:05):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (05:06):
First of all, have you ever bought a lot I
took it in your life.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
I don't think so.

Speaker 1 (05:10):
No, I'm so surprised. I am so Oh my goodness,
has Heidi?

Speaker 3 (05:16):
No? Would you thought, actually, this is going to piss
me off if you buy one today. I'm claiming stakes.
I am claiming stakes. No, but would you for.

Speaker 2 (05:26):
Forty five No? No, it's not something.

Speaker 4 (05:30):
I just the odds are so highly stacked against you.

Speaker 1 (05:35):
You've already won the lottery with Heidi?

Speaker 2 (05:36):
Is that what you're exactly? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (05:38):
No, I just I think, yeah, I'm not really under gambling.
As such, I'm pretty a little bit scientific in my thinking,
and the odds are just too far around of reach.
I just think, to me, it's just a waste of
money because the chance of winning is so slomn that
I'd be better off spending that money on the house

(06:00):
that I enjoy, you know, and whether.

Speaker 2 (06:02):
It's just a couple of cups of coffee.

Speaker 4 (06:04):
A week, I get real enjoyment out of that every
time I have one. So to spend that money or
lot tickets and get absolutely nothing, just get disappointed every
Saturday night or whenever it's drawn to me, all that's
doing is that twenty dollars or whatever it costs now
to buy a lotto ticket. It's actually giving me depression

(06:27):
every time I realize I haven't won it, whereas a
cup of coffee gives me a little buzz every time
I have one.

Speaker 1 (06:33):
I do see where.

Speaker 3 (06:34):
Your train of thought is with that, because as someone
who doesn't encourage it but also does it, you're right.
I live in the span Sea land for maybe twenty
four hours, and then my bubble absolutely is.

Speaker 1 (06:45):
Burst when I do chick it. But that's going to
change tonight.

Speaker 3 (06:50):
Yes, But if I was to give you a fortieth
birthday present. You opened the card and there was a
lot of ticket in there and you put it through
the scanner. Forty five million dollars. What are you doing
with it? Hopefully giving half to me?

Speaker 2 (07:06):
Well, yeah, i'd have to give some to you if
you'd brought me to the place.

Speaker 4 (07:11):
Yeah, but yeah, I don't know. It's a tough one,
isn't it. I'd probably give a little bit to my family,
not a little bit, not a huge amount, but just
the amount to just sort of help them on their way,
you know, whether it was a deposit on a house
that they could pay off themselves or Yeah. I wouldn't
actually give them physical cash.

Speaker 2 (07:32):
Yeah, and probably just invest the rest.

Speaker 4 (07:37):
Yeah, probably do a little bit more fencing on the
farm and maybe putting you outboard on the on the boat.

Speaker 1 (07:44):
Gold fences yeah yeah, well yeah, but I love.

Speaker 4 (07:47):
Improving the farm, so you know, And it's like the coffee,
you know, like every time I put up a fence
or put up any other native shelter belt, the enjoyment
that I get out of that is and I get
that on a daily basis every time I drive past it.

Speaker 2 (08:02):
So to me, the small.

Speaker 1 (08:05):
Yeah, wins.

Speaker 2 (08:07):
Yeah, yeah, I did just have a I'm.

Speaker 3 (08:09):
Going to sound a little bit like a politician here,
but I did just have an idea because we were sort
talking about like.

Speaker 1 (08:14):
How do you choose what charity? You know, everything like that.

Speaker 3 (08:17):
I fear I've come up with an idea and I
think you're quite like it, right. I think if either
of us win the lotto tonight.

Speaker 1 (08:24):
Which I think the aligh for me because.

Speaker 3 (08:27):
You won't have a ticket, I am, my charity is
going to be the Emergency Management Relief Fund.

Speaker 1 (08:36):
Are you put to go to farmers in our rural communities?

Speaker 2 (08:40):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (08:41):
No, you'll just keep it.

Speaker 4 (08:44):
Yeah, charities, as we were talking off you like, it's
so hard, isn't it. You know, like if you gave
to a charity, then you know which charity do you
give it to? You know, like all those charities out
there need help. I mean I don't really give to
any charity.

Speaker 2 (08:59):
I do give to.

Speaker 4 (09:02):
The ambulancers because you know, while I was playing rugby,
they're always on the sideline giving up their time and
I think they're just you know, really.

Speaker 2 (09:11):
Just cause so yeah, definitely for them.

Speaker 4 (09:14):
But yeah, I just think a lot of the charities,
some of them, especially stuff that goes overseas. It just disappears,
and the real people don't get it.

Speaker 1 (09:23):
Well, I'm going to take there as you one forty
five mil tonight, keep

Speaker 2 (09:27):
It, keep it yourself, all the way to the bed.