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September 16, 2025 • 17 mins

Hello there friend - today on the pod we'll tell you about Big Red Shefford - a guy running for local council in the Canterbury region.

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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(00:37):
the seventeenth of September twenty twenty five.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
Local elections are still looming large over for my my life.
At the moment, Jerry, someone's got into the conclave. I've
put it into the rundown for you at the bottom
of the page there.

Speaker 3 (00:55):
Agreed.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
Yeah, a bloke by the name of Bergrid, I know
berg Red. Do you know Bergrid oh Blood?

Speaker 3 (01:02):
You know berg Read from.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
The Shefford Yeah, from the Sellyn District councilor.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
He's a real estate agent in Roliston and.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
The Carmania Roliston Wood. I know berg Red are electing
three counselors. So obviously the other day we talked about
where we actually talked to Jermaine Ross and now we've
just had this one center to the conclove the Hoder
your breakfast private Facebook page which you can join the
safe space. Would you like me to read you Big
Red's credentials.

Speaker 3 (01:29):
I mean I could almost tell you them about you
reading that.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
How do you know Big Big Red?

Speaker 1 (01:34):
I met down in christ Church ones and I was
at an event and beg Reed came up and goes,
get a Jeremy Wells. I said, yeah, and he goes
Big Red. I said, good a Big Red. And he's big.
He's be six foot four. Yeah, and he's read. He's read,
but was read here. It'd be in his fIF mid

(01:55):
mid mid fifties. And uh. And he just got chatting away,
very very friendly feller telling me about Rolliston and about
how many houses Rolliston Ward. Oh, town of the future,
most successful real estate agent in Rolliston, Rolliston, probably Canterbury,
maybe New Zealand.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
Wow. Well this goes all the way to the top ten. Well,
he's running a man of the people. He's running for
Rolliston Ward Council. And I'll read you his.

Speaker 3 (02:21):
Entry for that.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
He lists himself. His official name on the ballot is
Big Red Shepard. That's powerful. My principal place of residence
is in the Carmania Rolliston Ward area. Big Reed is
straight off the written in third person. Big Red is
the owner of a business that employs over fifty people,
all from the local area. The thing about this is
because it's got his photo and then his name, I

(02:45):
assume he's written it, and so when I'm reading that,
I'm not thinking someone else writing it on his behalf.
I'm a picture in Big Red sitting down going. Big
Read is the owner of a business that employs over
fifty people, all from the local area.

Speaker 3 (02:56):
I feel like someone else has written as for Big Read.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
I know, but Big Read's too oh for sure. But
when you're looking at his face, it's like this is
Big Reed talking to it. Prior to that, he spent
eight years in the in Zied Army, completing tours in
Afghanistan and East Team will thank you for his service.
He has lived in Selwyn since two thousand and one
and is passionate about the area.

Speaker 3 (03:16):
Maybe your dad knows Big Red.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
We may do, although since two thousand and one, my
dad's been in Australia for about fifteen almost.

Speaker 3 (03:24):
Twenty years now.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
Understanding the importance of community, Big Reed has been behind
many local events and fundraising initiatives. What are they? You
asked Jerry. You will often find him behind the barbecue
at the Rugby School fates fundraisers and charity events.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
Yeah, he's very charitable, but very charitable.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
Having been in business ownership since two thousand and tier,
Big Reed understands the motto of go woke, go broke,
which is one of the key reasons why Big Reed
is standing in this year's local body elections.

Speaker 3 (03:50):
Exactly, go woke, go bright.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
I won't go broke man with the little spare time
he gets, and as you mentioned, Jerry doesn't have a
lot of spare time. He grows a vigi garden, feeds
his chickens.

Speaker 3 (04:01):
He feeds the chickens.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
Now this is I probably wouldn't have put feeding the
chickens on my ballot.

Speaker 4 (04:08):
I think he's just got chickens and he feeds them.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
Oh, we've all got chickens and we feed them. We
will feed in the chack chickens, right, and that's natural.

Speaker 3 (04:15):
Not man man who doesn't feed the chickens. I'll show
you not about that. That's right.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
That guy feeds chickens, and I want you to picture that.
I want you to picture that journalist out there who
shall remain nameless, honing a vape, putting Hoffman fell up,
Seamore Hoffman out in bay belly honing the vape. No,
I want you to picture him feeding the chickens over there, Yes, definitely. Well,
that chicken feeder is from way back. Those three they look.

Speaker 3 (04:40):
Like feeds chickens, including including beg Red.

Speaker 2 (04:43):
He also goes fishing and is constantly looking for his
next conspiracy, as many of them have come true.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
So I don't think.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
Big Red needed to put that last bit in there,
but that proves that did right.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
That Big Red could have stopped right after. You will
often find him behind the barbecue at the Rugby school feates,
fundraisers and charity events could have ended there and would
have been like you know what, Big Red, great, great guy.

Speaker 3 (05:08):
Yeah, but unfortunately he's still got another twenty four wards.

Speaker 2 (05:10):
And then and then he went the check something about
gok go broke yep. And if you could let everyone
know that I'm out here feeding them chickens, feeding them
to feed feeding them Chucks. Brother, all right, call me
David Yaga. The way I'm feeding Chucks.

Speaker 3 (05:26):
He feeds the chickens.

Speaker 2 (05:28):
David y You can what you can watch David Yuka
feed the chickens. You don't even have to pay for it.

Speaker 4 (05:32):
One of us chickens died and he cried. That's how
much he loves feeding his chickens.

Speaker 3 (05:36):
He's a real handy man, David Yika. Yeah, he is man.
He can do some stuff. That guy is he? Is
there anything that go can't do?

Speaker 2 (05:43):
Oh? Look no, evidently not.

Speaker 3 (05:45):
He might be the perfect man.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
Haven't I lived in the same house Did you know that?
Did you not at the same time?

Speaker 4 (05:50):
Okay, okay?

Speaker 3 (05:52):
Did you feel his presents? Were you? And then? But
first of him?

Speaker 2 (05:55):
I was in there before him, and he felt my prison.

Speaker 3 (05:58):
He's just like he was like he stirred your porridge.

Speaker 2 (06:01):
Yeah, he was like, oh, I feel like I feel
like someone feed the chickens.

Speaker 3 (06:05):
And you would have done plenty of chicken feeding in there.

Speaker 4 (06:11):
I've just gone on to Big Red's personal Facebook page
Brendan big Red Shepherd, and this is first person from
Big Red is this is this?

Speaker 2 (06:21):
Is this his like political thing or we're delving into things.

Speaker 4 (06:24):
I think it's I mean, it has made public so
you can see it, so it must be all right.
He says, no more woke ship less red tape, run
the place like a business, look after the locals.

Speaker 3 (06:36):
That is all.

Speaker 4 (06:37):
Let's go. I like that better than the other, is all.

Speaker 2 (06:40):
Let's go. Yeah, go do, Let's go.

Speaker 4 (06:48):
He's got the tea in there and no h so
let's let's go. Well, it's a formal document, isn't it.

Speaker 2 (06:53):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 3 (06:55):
Big Big Red did make a good mayor.

Speaker 4 (06:57):
Yeah, you believe it.

Speaker 3 (06:59):
Back to the community.

Speaker 4 (07:00):
I stand for that work ship and that's why you
wouldn't believe it as campaign slogan makes Selwyn greater again?

Speaker 2 (07:05):
Okay, breed Massa, no gas is your daughter this guy?

Speaker 3 (07:12):
Yeah, agreed. It is a good man, big greed actually
good man, good man. Brother.

Speaker 2 (07:18):
Do you have you heard of Robbie the Ghost Router Shiffard? Yes,
I have heard it through brother. Oh so Begridon goes
through to her brothers.

Speaker 4 (07:27):
Robbie Shifford, Brandon Shifford, Ghost Router and Big Red brothers.

Speaker 2 (07:31):
Bed and goes through to her brothers. Yeah do you know? Yeah,
everyone knows ghost How do you know? Goes goes through?
It is a big track. The drag racer down down
ash Burton ways right. Yeah, he's got a car with
ghost Ruter written on the side of it. You see
goes through it once. Man, you won't never forget.

Speaker 3 (07:48):
I wouldn't forget that.

Speaker 2 (07:50):
The brother there you go, there is a picture of
the ghost Ruder. Tell you what, Jerry, you are a ghost.
You won't forget ghost Ruder anytime. So maybe keeping it
away from keep bloody heard of geese away? Well you
so one feeds the chickens, one feeds the geese. Those things.

Speaker 3 (08:07):
The game is there Shepherd?

Speaker 2 (08:12):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (08:12):
Is he the third brother?

Speaker 2 (08:13):
Yeah, the hopeful Shippard. I think directly underneath that we
have a you'll see on the in the rundown. Actually
above it, Jerry, you will see a photo of a
of what you may be able to make out. It's
from the conclave. Andrew Beeman shadowed Andrew Beeman. He's a
Canadian listener. Hi, all Canadian listener here or Canadian listener here.

(08:38):
I haven't had that and I apologize to you, Andrew.
That was racist. Love starting my day with the pod
and record of the radio show, record of the radio show.
After all the heat, Jerry got over his keyboard. I
thought I'd share my work keyboard all the best and
it is it looks like if I had to describe that,
it looks like a keyboard that has been spray painted
over with the fake snow spray paint Christmas time.

Speaker 3 (09:00):
Yeah, do you reckon that? What? So? Do we know
what that stuff is? That? Is it fake snow? What
is that?

Speaker 2 (09:05):
It looks like some sort of shavings or something and
real snow? Andrew, if you could follow in fact, I'll
leave it comments in there.

Speaker 4 (09:10):
Is it just like from a fire extinguisher?

Speaker 3 (09:13):
What is that?

Speaker 4 (09:14):
H I reckon, it's firing.

Speaker 1 (09:16):
I reckon, it's fire extinguisher. You don't want to get
one of those fire extinguishers in the face.

Speaker 2 (09:22):
No, well, it does suffocate you.

Speaker 3 (09:25):
Not good stuff, that stuff.

Speaker 2 (09:26):
No, they work by sucking the oxygen out of the room.
So that's just gonna shoke you unconscious. There's also been
a video of Sydney Sweeny posted into the group chat, which,
while I appreciate, I just don't think I can publicly endorse.

Speaker 4 (09:39):
She's not even that hot in that video.

Speaker 2 (09:41):
No, she's not even that hot.

Speaker 1 (09:42):
Man. She's got real acting chops and I don't care.
I mean That's what I'm focused on, her acting ability.

Speaker 4 (09:49):
Same here, What do you reckon when I are in
that video, where would you go?

Speaker 2 (09:51):
Three out of teen, I'm not doing this. This is
what that was like. Literally my first point here was
that I'm not doing this.

Speaker 3 (09:57):
Four. Have you guys seen Nico Valley yet? Have I
sat down.

Speaker 2 (10:01):
And watch I'll put that'll be one hundred and fifty
ninth show on my list, sixty nine of the which
you've given me.

Speaker 3 (10:08):
We're not watching anything at the moment.

Speaker 2 (10:10):
I don't really watch anything. What I just get home,
steer at the floor, and then go to.

Speaker 3 (10:15):
Be doing too much gaming.

Speaker 2 (10:17):
All I do, Jerry, is make great radio and count
the profits. And when the counting is done, it's back
to work. Okay. And that's how I'm living my life now.
You can, you can fretter your time away on your
bloody nip.

Speaker 1 (10:30):
You to know when to hold them, know when to
fold them, know when to walk away, and know when
to run.

Speaker 2 (10:34):
Well, what I will say to that, Jie. What I
would say to you, Jerry, is I never count my
money when I'm sitting at the table. There'll be time
enough accounting when the dealing's done.

Speaker 4 (10:44):
Okay, we're quite clean and notes how to run? I mean,
the guys drop six and a half key those.

Speaker 2 (10:49):
And a half by the way, mind you, I don't forget
the heart. I don't fucking forget the half that happened
overnight when I got crook guts. It's a croock guard
about one or two in the morning. Yeah, it was
one of those ones where you know, you start having
a nightmare about it. And yeah, was.

Speaker 3 (11:06):
It a spie or a.

Speaker 2 (11:09):
Dude's spewing sober?

Speaker 3 (11:10):
That's a who hate spewing? Yeah? Can we take it break?

Speaker 2 (11:13):
Yeah? Can we take a break? And I want to
go for a spew you.

Speaker 3 (11:16):
With weir no matter what, got money, You're my man,
and you're looking enough.

Speaker 2 (11:21):
And every time everybody, I think there's something so funny
about New Zealand local elections because no one wants to
do the job. I mean, famously, Jamaine Ross come on
the show yesterday to to tell you not to vote
for him. And so it's only I've gotta be honest,

(11:45):
it's only I don't know what word to use here.
It's like it's a certain type of person who wants
to be mere well, who wants to well, who wants
to be exactly do you want to be? And this
is I've gonna. I've got a long held theory that
the reason we've got so many rules in this country,
and we do. We have so many there's so many
things you're not allowed to do any other country. You

(12:06):
go overseas, you're able to do whatever you want. It's like, oh,
there's no guardrail over that cliff. Yeah, don't walk towards
the edge of the cliff, you know what I mean.
But we put rules into you, buddy, won't go work,
go broke. And it's because ninety nine percent of us
couldn't give a shit, so we're not going to go
for mere, but that one percent of wounders. That's like,
I want to be the guy who decides all the rules.

Speaker 3 (12:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (12:29):
And the thing is local body rules. Local body actually
has a pretty big effect on your life. It's all
the driving, it's the roads, the speed humps, road dones,
it's all of the by laws, it's all of the crap.
But the weird part of the system, and I think
we've talked about it before, is that as a mayor,
you really don't have any power. I mean, I think

(12:51):
more people would probably be into it if they could
actually do stuff, do those things, but you're one vote
on a council.

Speaker 3 (12:56):
You are one vote.

Speaker 2 (12:57):
All you're gonna do is look at the aucklandmere who
is constant winging about road cones. Dude, you're in charge
of the people that put the road cones out take
the road.

Speaker 3 (13:05):
But he's not. He's one vote.

Speaker 2 (13:08):
But I tell you what's really disheartening is having a
mere winging about the rules of his own city. You're
the guy, who are you complaining to. We voted you
and to fix that ship. You fix it? By the way,
his campaign as fix Auckland, right, what do you mean
fix You're in charge?

Speaker 1 (13:25):
But he must have done some research to say that.
People see him as an outlier on his own counsel
and people like that.

Speaker 3 (13:31):
People like the fact that he gets stuck into his
own people. But to his points, he doesn't decide who
the other people are. There's a bit of a problem there.
I mean, for example, do you know how many of
the counselors do you know? One? I know him. I
know who's the woman with the.

Speaker 4 (13:50):
Face Disy Disy, you mean Auckland, Disney Simpson.

Speaker 1 (13:56):
I know Mike Lee only because he's been the for
about forty five thousand years.

Speaker 3 (14:02):
There's actually a website that you can go on.

Speaker 1 (14:03):
I learned this on the Matt Heath radio program yesterday
that there's a guy that's who's got a list of
all of the counselors and all of the issues that
they've voted, oh yeah, and how they voted on.

Speaker 2 (14:18):
And you can organize them by yeah.

Speaker 3 (14:20):
Yeah, so you can work out the things that you
like and the things you don't.

Speaker 2 (14:22):
It's like at the election when they put that thing
out and it just asks you your opinion on all
the different policies and all the different issues voting yeah,
yea yeah, and then it's like all tells you that
you're based on that yeah yeah, yeah, exactly, tell.

Speaker 3 (14:35):
That you're an act.

Speaker 4 (14:38):
The best way to get attention, I think because one
of the candidates that's come to my attention is Linda Cooper.
And the reason that she's come to my attention is
because on social media someone turned her billboard into Linda Cooper.
But now I know, now I actually know who she is.
Yeah yeah, So if you can come up with something clever,
a viral, yeah, and then you just go and go

(14:59):
into laze your own bill Yes, I'll tell you where
smells vote for me?

Speaker 3 (15:04):
Yeah, do I get a Hitler mustache? Yeah, that's that's
that one. So easy to do.

Speaker 2 (15:09):
You'd get a Charlie Chaplain, Yeah, so easy to Charlie Chaplin.
You maybe a missing tooth and a mono brow my patch.

Speaker 3 (15:15):
That's good.

Speaker 4 (15:15):
I did show you in Aning Pirate.

Speaker 2 (15:19):
I'll tell you what A group of power is haunting them.
That's the out of Doue financial At the moment, I
think she's aied her billboards and it's just got that
little you know, when there's just something's a little too
good looking at the moment, it just looks like AI.

Speaker 3 (15:32):
Yeah, I'm not sure where I sit on hoardings.

Speaker 2 (15:35):
I don't like them, no neither.

Speaker 3 (15:37):
I'm sitting in parks and stuff like that.

Speaker 1 (15:39):
For me, it's kind of like, I know, it's only
every now and then they pop up.

Speaker 2 (15:42):
But it's messy, though, isn't it.

Speaker 3 (15:44):
I like it?

Speaker 4 (15:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (15:46):
What a completely unrelated note. You know when you see
and and because it's messy and that's what of Noisier.
You know what you see in a movie where someone
like spills the whole thing of milk, or like something
real messy happens. Do you ever sit there and look
at that and go, who's going to clean that up?
And how out does it take you out of the movie?

Speaker 3 (16:02):
Yeah, one hundred percent.

Speaker 2 (16:03):
Yeah, that happens to me every time I'm watching a
movie and there would just be like some big explosion
in the back of the fun is going to clean that?
It's not me say that for nothing.

Speaker 1 (16:12):
Has anyone else got a car special car vacuum in
kit that goes on there vacuum one of the really long,
skinny things that looks like a weird little what do
you call that thing? You can get down nozzle, it
can get down the side of.

Speaker 2 (16:32):
Well, that's one.

Speaker 3 (16:33):
Got one of those? Yeah, you go one at home? Yeah?
One could? You could I borrow?

Speaker 2 (16:37):
We only fits a Dicon, but this.

Speaker 3 (16:40):
Is it's all standard hoot a Hoover.

Speaker 2 (16:45):
What are you going to get a Luxe?

Speaker 3 (16:46):
I'm going an electroluxe?

Speaker 2 (16:47):
You do get a lux Yeah, Luxe? Hoover dicing jeez,
our powers combined.

Speaker 4 (16:51):
Likes Hoover Dyson sounds like a Warriors player.

Speaker 2 (16:57):
Sign that it does. Luck starting and second row luck
super dice.

Speaker 4 (17:06):
You know he's in a shitty season, lucksper dice.

Speaker 3 (17:09):
What is the post contact me?

Speaker 2 (17:11):
Does he got to do? To get into the main squad.
Luck suber Dison was my flee. Simon Mannering, So Mannering
middle Clubman of the Year, People's Choice, Luck suver Dison.

Speaker 3 (17:21):
Yeah, I reckon, he's playing in the league down.

Speaker 2 (17:25):
Super Dice, all right? Should we knocked this thing on
the any better than Luck suber Dice? In fact, cut
the first seventeen minutes off this bitch.

Speaker 3 (17:38):
Okay, so h
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