Full Show Podcast: 04 August 2026

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Speaker 2 (00:28):
Well, hello to you, welcome into shoesdaye show. Great to
have your company as always, and hope you're having a
pretty good day. Thanks for giving us a listeners well
gad Amette.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
Yeah, and a big hello to those that are freezing
their butts off in the south. You know, my beautiful
hometown of Dunedin.

Speaker 4 (00:45):
Very close, yeap, very cold, a lot of snow.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
A lot of snow, a lot of things closed. Took
to my son this morning. He's you know, nice and
warm and is in his flat. Yep. I was thinking
about this and he said to me, oh, how cold
is it in Auckland. I said fourteen degrees and he said,
that's not really that cold. Yeah, it's pretty mild, but
it feels cold. It's all comparative, right it is. Yeah, yeah,

(01:08):
I think it was colder than that in the morning.
But I've talked about this before in winter and just
a great way to make yourself feel cozy as you
put a fake fire on the TV. YouTube fake fires.
There's heaps of them out there. Also on your Samsung
TV's got a fire channel, just play fires all the time.
I got up this morning and Tracy was out at

(01:29):
the gym. Once she was out, I put every TV
in the house on a fake fire. You feel warmer.
I mean it's getting warmed electronically, yes, yeah, electronically the
heat pump is warming the place the heat pumps. But
I put five TVs on with fake fires. Something I
felt like being in a Viking hall or something that's
a nice on beyond. It felt so warm. It works.

(01:51):
It works. It fires up your primitive brain because you
feel like there's a fire on there crackling away. We're
all evolved to steer into the fire and feel great.
I seriously recommend, and you'll be laughing. You'll be going,
your idiot. It never it would never feel as cozy
as a real fire. And maybe that's true, but again,
it gets ninety percent there. You feel very cozy having
a couple of fake fires going.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
I was saying to this year off here, and I'm
loath to admit this, but I've got an actual real
fire in our rental and I was lording it over
you and saying, yeah, your digital fire, I've got a
real fire. But what I found is it's a lot
of edmund to start an actual fire. So I very
really do it. I mean, if I get home after
the show today, the house will be very cold, highly
unlikely I'm going to light that fire.

Speaker 3 (02:33):
So you've got it's it's a real fire, so you
put it on board.

Speaker 4 (02:36):
Yeah, because I've got I've got to cut the kin lean,
I've got to stack the kin lean, I've got a lighter.
I'm going to make sure it's going. Then you've got
to tend the fire the whole night. So instead we
just look lock ourselves in the lounge, but the heat
pump on, and maybe I'll try you a little trick.

Speaker 3 (02:49):
I'll get a wee digital fire going based off a
little TV and put it in the fireplace. Set up
a fake fire if that's what you do.

Speaker 4 (02:56):
But let's get into this discussion.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
So we've been hearing a lot about the cost of
living and the pressure it's putting on Kiwi households, and
the surveys keep on coming. The latest came this morning
from a new stuff which found they say thirty nine
percent of New Zealanders fear worse off financially than they
were a year ago. It also shows the impact isn't
been felt evenly. Women are reporting a tougher time, with

(03:20):
forty four percent saying the situation is worsened compared to
thirty four percent of men.

Speaker 3 (03:26):
This is opten, though, isn't it. It is? Yeah, so
when people opt in, they opten to complain. Yeah, very
interestingly speaking.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
Yeah, So the methodology is they went out to fifteen
hundred adults. It wasn't opt in, and they were surveyed
between late April and the end of May. But obviously
it is an opt in because they asked them to
want to take part and they said no, thank yeah.

Speaker 3 (03:47):
No, But that doesn't an optime. So I'll take back
what I said about it being opten. It's not like
a web straw pole.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
Okay, continue right, Yeah, yeah, so that was their methodology.
But you know that thirty nine percent of New Zealand
is saying they are worse off financially than they were
a year ago. It's not a new headline, is it.
Over the last couple of years. When it comes to
the cost of living.

Speaker 3 (04:03):
Absolutely but what can you do about it? Now? This
might be controversial. We could get back on this on
Our Weight one hundred and eighteen eighty but Modern Wisdoms,
which is a fantastic podcast by Chris Williams, a brit
living in Austin, Texas, and he was talking to American
entrepreneur Alex Hermosey. They were talking about if you're feeling

(04:26):
the pinch, a little idea of something you might want
to dry.

Speaker 5 (04:31):
If you're poor, try the Buy Nothing Challenge. The buy
nothing challenge for thirty days, buy nothing except food, rent, gas,
and insurance. Don't bring your wallet with you when you
leave home, pack lunch, see how much you save, repeat
until you have as much as you want. Being good
with money literally just means spend less than you make

(04:51):
and put the extra in things that go up, not down.

Speaker 6 (04:54):
I strongly encourage to buy nothing challenge because one you
realize how little you can really live on, and when
you realize how little you can really live on, you
realize how much more risk you can actually take. Because
the apparent downside of what if I lost everything becomes
incredibly tangible, which is like while I lived on two hundred.

Speaker 3 (05:11):
Dollars, five hundred dollars not even that bad. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (05:13):
We often say that we'll be happy, like we already
have the things that we said we want that would
make us happy.

Speaker 3 (05:20):
Yeah, So how little can you live on the thirty
day no spend challenge? Spend no money? What do they
call it? The spend nothing, the.

Speaker 4 (05:28):
Buy nothing challenging challenge?

Speaker 3 (05:30):
Immediately forgot So except for food, rent, gas, and insurance,
spending nothing outside of the house. Is it possible? Because
surely you need to do that if you're in financial diastrates,
or if you're saving up something or you want to
move something, you spend your money on something a little

(05:51):
bit more, you know, something for your future. I think
a lot of us walk around with the sinking feeling
that we're just wasting a lot of money. Yeah, and
I don't think that nearly makes it feels as it
makes us feel as happy as we think it does.
There's this text here saying that people are addicted to

(06:15):
the dopamine hit of spending, you know, buying things they
don't need. And look, we're being marketed to all the time,
and you know, good on businesses their jobs to try
and extract their money from us. Yes, and if everyone
went into the buying nothing challenge would be terrible for
the economy. But you know, if you're walking around and
just feeling like you are just wasting money that you

(06:38):
don't have, that's a horrible feeling, right, So whatever the
dopamine hit you get from buying stuff, that constant creeping
feeling that your life's out of control because of your
spending is not good either.

Speaker 7 (06:50):
It.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
I think that's part of the trap, that if you're
feeling pretty miserable in life because you don't have money,
and then you get a temptation of buying something that
you think is going to give you a boost, and
then you're in a worse situation.

Speaker 4 (06:59):
Yeah, I think that's part of it.

Speaker 2 (07:00):
So the thirty day buy nothing challenged, do you think
you could make that work? That is buying nothing except
for food, rent, or mortgage and insurance for thirty days.

Speaker 3 (07:10):
Yeah, So what to cut out? What do we spend
that we don't need to spend? This Sextas says, hey guys,
this is anita. Hey guys, how about adding no takeaways? Now,
that would be a good challenge.

Speaker 2 (07:22):
That would be part of it. Yeah, that wouldn't be
part of the buy Nothing challenge. Well, that would be
a strong part of it. Yeah, yeah, no takeaways, no takeaways.
You're gonna make your mail, You're gonna make your meals
at home.

Speaker 3 (07:30):
What do you reckon?

Speaker 2 (07:31):
I one hundred and eighty ten eighty Do you think
you could do this challenge? Have you tried to do
something similar? And what do you think you can cut
out of your life? If you are feeling that pinch
of cost of living? Tell us what about beers with
the boys?

Speaker 3 (07:42):
Nah?

Speaker 2 (07:43):
Nah, nah, can't be part of it? I mean, is
that is that in the food category? Maybe loosely? Maybe loosely?

Speaker 3 (07:49):
What about going out for beers with the boys and
never doing your round? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (07:53):
That works, that works.

Speaker 8 (07:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (07:55):
Hundred and eighty ten eighties a number to call thirty
pas one.

Speaker 1 (07:58):
The big stories, the big issues, the big trends and
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Speaker 2 (08:06):
That'd be there's sixteen past one, so we're loosely talking
about the cost of living. There's another survey up by Stuff,
this one saying thirty nine percent of kiwis feel worse off.
And then they did a year ago. But we're talking
about a challenge going viral online. It's called the Buy
Nothing Challenge. That is, you buy nothing except for food, rent,
or mortgage, fuel and insurance for thirty days.

Speaker 3 (08:30):
Well, we just had Darcy Watergrave come in here and
he said, written on his kitchen blackboard is the He's
just got buy nothing written on the blackboard in the kitchen.
So he just just to stop and buying stuff that's nothing.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
He does have a lot of nice shoes. I was
going to say, Darcy, when was the last time he
bought some shoes?

Speaker 7 (08:47):
Mate?

Speaker 2 (08:47):
He's listening to us on delay. He's given a big
thumbs up. Your wait, it will start to hit him
in about seven seconds.

Speaker 3 (08:54):
He also went on our holiday to London recently as well.
That's right, Yeah, yeah, he had a nice holiday in
London as well. Mate. But anything, yep, yes, do big things.

Speaker 7 (09:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (09:04):
So are you like Darcy water Grave? Are you into
this buying nothing challenge? Do you think you could do it?
And what if you tried to carry out? If you
are feeling it? Puncher one hundred eighteen eighty.

Speaker 3 (09:12):
Yeah, let's go to Karen. Welcome to the show. You're
the Queen of Frugal.

Speaker 9 (09:16):
I am.

Speaker 10 (09:16):
Yeah, but just before, just before you said that, when
you were saying, if everybody does this challenge, it'd be
bad on the economy. What annoys me is when the
economy was booming, there was no trickle down effects. So
and like you know, with there not been any merit
based remeneration anymore in the lower wage economy. I mean,
it's pointless to try and be high achieved as well.
But anyway, that's about the point. Getting back to frugal, Yeah,

(09:38):
I believe in it. I do it all the time.
I'll budget it wildly, but tell you the truth, my
life's never been better.

Speaker 3 (09:45):
Okay, So what kinds of what kind of frugility do
you run? Karen? Give us some examples.

Speaker 10 (09:51):
Well, I've retired early for a start by doing it.
So what I've done is fragility, Wayne, Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (09:58):
Not frugility, fragility So sorry I talked.

Speaker 10 (10:02):
Hey, frigidity as well, living on my own. That saves
me a lot of money. Okay, So what I did
got rid of subscription memberships. You know, our budget, my food,
look at my electric costs. I warm myself instead of that,
I said, like an old.

Speaker 3 (10:20):
Witch like, but not when you yourself?

Speaker 1 (10:25):
It socks.

Speaker 10 (10:26):
It sucks, like like Nora Batty, but I don't care
because I ain't going out there to work right a
sexy babe. I just want to keep warm. You know,
there'll be some someday likes Nora Batty out there, but
at the moment, I'm not interested in anywhere. You know,
basic home, cookine, go to the beach, take picnic, things
like that, see family friends, look at three things that exhibitions, libraries, beaches, forests.

(10:52):
I've never been happier. It's like being back in the
nineteen sixties, you know, keep my sports. All my providers
like for technology, for lower cost Wi Fi, they were
really good. I was paying about fifty dollars a month.
I didn't even realize for extra that I didn't to
be looked at. Electricity providers did everything. I went basically

(11:12):
through all my budget and looked at it.

Speaker 8 (11:14):
Or I could cook.

Speaker 10 (11:15):
Coffs and all this, and I actually eat really well.
You know, I've just had a lovely scrambled egg on
toast for my dinner.

Speaker 3 (11:22):
It was lovely, lovelyment Karen, Well, my friends come around here,
I go out.

Speaker 10 (11:29):
My family buy me things like cinema tickets for bus days,
Mother's Day and things like that. I love going along
the harbor front and just watching the world go by.
I like people watching. I like going museums. I like
going libraries, beaches.

Speaker 3 (11:45):
Yeah, that kind of libraries, beaches. They're all free.

Speaker 10 (11:48):
I watched YouTube, YouTube podcasts. I got rid of TV.
I don't like media stuff. I don't buy newspapers. I
watched YouTube. I get everything I need on.

Speaker 3 (11:58):
YouTube news free service.

Speaker 9 (12:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (12:02):
No, yeah, you guys as well, you know, listen to
you guys as well. What else I could go on forever?
I wor thrift, beautiful wardrobe, all thrift. It's gorgeous, stunning, sustainable,
recycle it back to other people when I'm finished with it,
get some real bad and so, you know, keep that
battering going around and looking after other people.

Speaker 3 (12:24):
You sound like you're proud of what you're running here.
You've made it, and.

Speaker 10 (12:30):
I've spread it around. I tell everybody, because at the
end of the day, if we're gonna you know, like
I said, what's the point. Not because the governmental deility now,
but what I'm saying is, if you're going out there
and you're very productive, very you know, like high achieve
and everything, which I've done that as well in the past,
but you don't get any rewards anymore, and you're burning
yourself out and your body is the mind of burning out.

(12:52):
You end up paying more medical anyway. So at some
point you've got to pull.

Speaker 11 (12:56):
It all in.

Speaker 3 (12:57):
What did you start? What would your book be called? Karen,
Queen of Crane of Queen.

Speaker 10 (13:05):
Through the System?

Speaker 4 (13:08):
Provocative? That will sell.

Speaker 3 (13:10):
But if you're you know, just burning money for stuff
that doesn't make you happy. If going to the Museum
Beaches makes you happy, catching up with friends makes you happy,
all that stuff is. It's free.

Speaker 10 (13:21):
It's like being back in nineteen sixes, before all this big,
big growth stuff came along.

Speaker 5 (13:26):
You know.

Speaker 3 (13:26):
I tell a lot of people that a lot of
Last of the Summer wine fans are texting in with
your Norabeddy reference. Yeah.

Speaker 10 (13:34):
Look, I can be very polarizing. You either hate me
because I'm either good at what I'm doing, or your
love me. And that's the nature of people. They'll either
hate you or they'll love you. And that's the other thing.
You don't give a toss what people think.

Speaker 2 (13:48):
There you go, great, you're getting a lot of love
on the teas machine, Karen. So, how you like Karen
one hundred and eighty ten eighty, So many teaks coming through.

Speaker 3 (13:56):
Craigsy as, I could not live like that. What a
miserable existence. But you say that, Craig, And yet how
happy was Karen? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (14:02):
Exactly?

Speaker 3 (14:02):
Yeah, So Craig, all your frivolous expenditure or your fancy
glad rags and handbags, you know, are they making you?
Are they making you happy? Craig, Yeah, because Karen's found
a way of being happy without Ley spending all that money.
Oh what one hundred eighty ten eighty, Craig, Come on, true,
says me, who sprays money around like a fire? Certainly

(14:24):
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willis fine, it's Minister back with So given that we
were below three four four weeks and didn't stop, do
the same rules apply or are we just going to make
this up as we go along?

Speaker 12 (15:43):
Now?

Speaker 13 (15:44):
Well, the trigger that cabinet has agreed is if it
goes under three dollars a year. We think that would
be reason to come back to cabinet at that point.
Will also have the future's data. If you've seen the
oil price come down significantly, ye'd expect that to continue
once we remove these supports. The only way they can
go back and is with legislation. So we want to
be sure once we've taken this off that we're ready

(16:06):
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Speaker 2 (16:15):
So, with all the concerns of the cost of living
and how much things are costing in everyday life, a
viral challenge that is doing the rounds at the moment
is called the Buy Nothing Challenge, That is buying nothing
for thirty days other than food, your.

Speaker 3 (16:28):
Rent, or your mortgage, fuel, or insurance.

Speaker 4 (16:30):
Could you do it?

Speaker 14 (16:31):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (16:31):
Eight hundred and eighty ten eighty is that number to call?
And what have you tried to cut out in your life?

Speaker 4 (16:35):
If you are feeling the pinch?

Speaker 3 (16:36):
What about rates? Your muppets, This is tex.

Speaker 4 (16:39):
It's kind a part of it. You got to pay
your rates.

Speaker 3 (16:41):
Yeah, you gotta pay your tax and your rates. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah,
you can't cut that one out. That's that's important. That's
a false economy.

Speaker 10 (16:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (16:48):
The council will Yeah, you don't want the council take
in your house.

Speaker 3 (16:51):
Don't have kids. There's a saving right there, all right,
you can make some money from kids though with this
potentially with this new New Zealand First policy.

Speaker 4 (17:00):
That's right. Yeah, five K year per child.

Speaker 3 (17:02):
Potentially forty five k of a three years. It's not bad.

Speaker 4 (17:05):
Yeah, that is frugality.

Speaker 3 (17:07):
They walk costs more than that though, yes.

Speaker 4 (17:10):
Yeah, yeah, it's a drop in the bucket.

Speaker 3 (17:12):
One hundred and eighty ten eighty c number to call
a nineteen nine two certis get I been.

Speaker 15 (17:17):
Okay, guys, Look I don't at the moment. It's a
tale of too Islands.

Speaker 14 (17:21):
A like.

Speaker 15 (17:22):
I've got a lot of friends in the North Old
and doing it really tough.

Speaker 16 (17:25):
Now.

Speaker 15 (17:25):
I've got a lot of mates here in Canterbury. Mate,
we're doing sweet airs. We're fine. There's no cost of
living anymore. Like well, you're talking about cutting back. That
was twenty twenty four, twenty twenty three for us, you know,
and it was since the we come on to a
bit of home loan rate. Any any issue costs, we've

(17:46):
got it. Just you know, they're just covering what we're
saying in the home loan retainments so fine, because you.

Speaker 3 (17:53):
Always hear that in the stats at Tiger in Canterbury
particularly doing really well, so that stops about Wellington, it
would seem. Yeah.

Speaker 15 (18:00):
Yeah, and like I remember, you know, twenty twenty four,
you know, come off the COVID Homeland rates onto the
high ones and yeah, that that was an absolute shock.
You know, we were what I was using is you know, we.

Speaker 17 (18:15):
Had to cut our grocery bill quite a bit, and
we started using chat TV T and just putting in
chat b T what items we had in the cupboard
and fridge, and it's amazing what it spits out on
what you can actually make with what you've got at home.

Speaker 3 (18:31):
Would you ever consider, you know, running a really really
tight budget even in the good times been.

Speaker 15 (18:38):
Yeah, we did, Like we cut back Netflix, sky TV,
we cut back the holidays, just staying in a tent
at a campground instead of.

Speaker 3 (18:46):
A nice hotel.

Speaker 15 (18:48):
So yeah, you could actually say that, but there's nothing
like jumping in the car driving in a hotel. You know,
you get a nice hot shower and that. So yeah, look,
look there's a lot you can do, but yeah, I
think at the moment it's definitely the tail of two
Islands eight, because I don't know anyone there. I knew

(19:09):
that's struggling at the moment. Hey, everyone's having decent pay rises,
the construction and the trees booming. We've got so much
work on and yeah, it's like the Cost of Livings
twenty twenty.

Speaker 18 (19:19):
Four for us.

Speaker 3 (19:20):
Just a bunch of winging jaffers and Valentonians just complaining
about it. For the rest of the country where you
guys are on fire.

Speaker 4 (19:26):
Turn that fround upside down, aucklint.

Speaker 8 (19:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (19:28):
Yeah, it has the weather down there today though, Ben.

Speaker 15 (19:31):
It's been pretty roughly them and cold today.

Speaker 3 (19:34):
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, but you've got money to run. That's right.

Speaker 4 (19:40):
Good on you, Ben, Thank you very much. So are
you with Ben?

Speaker 2 (19:43):
Do you think it is a tale of two different islands?
Is it far better in the South Islands the Sticks?
There's no crisis in the regions? Okay, this tix says
love your show, yep, Ben's.

Speaker 3 (19:52):
Right, christ Chitch going off?

Speaker 4 (19:54):
Okay, are you experiencing that?

Speaker 2 (19:56):
Tell us so one hundred and eighty ten eighty if
you're in christ Church or the South Island or in
the regions, how was life going when it comes to
the cost of living and do you think you could
do this by nothing? Challenged for thirty days, keep those
ticks coming through A nineteen nine two antaking new calls
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Speaker 4 (21:30):
Thank you very much. Ray Lean. It is twenty six
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Speaker 3 (21:34):
This Texas says, I've always been It's always been better
in the South Island, just no one has noticed. And
we like it that way, says this texta from Graymouth. Okay,
don't know where that Kenniby caller is calling from. I'm
thinking fairy Land. I'm in Canterbury and everyone I know
is struggling the rest of the country. That's from Steve Okay,
the North Island, says the sister was still catching up
from lockdowns the South Island and have this hope you're

(21:58):
freezing down there? Okay, Okay, ruthless so great. So what's
Wellington's excuse? Cook? Strangely, Wellington also didn't have the mess
of lock bounds at Auckland exactly. Strangely where the politicians were. Yeah,
it's not like Wellington's doing well.

Speaker 14 (22:14):
Is it?

Speaker 4 (22:14):
Yeah? What's going on down there?

Speaker 3 (22:15):
Ah? A few cuts there, some problems. Yeah, this is
an interesting text. Hey guys, I love you, guys, thank you,
thank you, But you're wrong here. Why is it up
to the poor to spin less? Why not the rich?
That's quite a difficult question answer. I think you know, anyone,
anyone can spend less. But I guess if you're rich,

(22:37):
then the motivation to spend less would be not as
big because you'd have, you know, discretionary spending.

Speaker 4 (22:44):
That's right.

Speaker 3 (22:45):
Yeah, but you know what this this guy said, what's
his name, Alex Hermosi said, it is great to see
how cheaply you can live because it reduces anxiety from
your life because you then know that you can live
that way. Because a lot of people go, how would
I live without everything I've got now? And they look

(23:07):
around and go, I know, how with everything I've got now?
But if you prove you can, then he says, you
can take more risks and perhaps no matter how much
money you want, you want to look cheaper and invest
it in things that will grow the amount of money
if you got.

Speaker 2 (23:21):
Yeah, there's a benefit for anybody, no matter how much
you're earning. But what do you say, Jurikon, You could
do the thirty day challenge. Oh, one hundred and eighty
ten eighty is the number.

Speaker 3 (23:30):
The thirty day No spind challenge. Well we going to
play that audio again.

Speaker 2 (23:33):
Yeah, let's have a play about it. Let's have a play.
So this is the viral thirty day Buy Nothing challenge.

Speaker 5 (23:38):
If you're poor, try the buy nothing challenge. The buy
nothing challenge for thirty days, buy nothing except food, rant gas,
and insurance. Don't bring your wallet with you when you
leave home, pack lunch, see how much you save, repeat
until you have as much as you want. Being good
with money literally just means spend less than you make

(23:59):
and put the extra in things that go up, not down.

Speaker 6 (24:01):
I strongly encourage to buy nothing challenge because one you
realize how little you can really live on, And when
you realize how little you can really live on, you
realize how much more risk you can actually take, because
the apparent downside of what if I lost everything becomes
incredibly tangible, which is like, while I lived on two
hundred dollars, five hundred dollars not.

Speaker 3 (24:19):
Even that bad.

Speaker 6 (24:20):
Yeah, we often say that we'll be happy like we
already have the things that we said we want that
would make us happy.

Speaker 4 (24:26):
So there you go.

Speaker 1 (24:27):
Mates.

Speaker 3 (24:28):
Your thoughts on this buy nothing challenge?

Speaker 20 (24:31):
Yeah, well most people do that in or come anyway
and lockdown.

Speaker 3 (24:35):
H Yeah. Although there was a lot of parcels arriving
at people's houses and a lot of a lot of
a lot of ordering and crap. They didn't eat, taste
of personators and anywhere.

Speaker 20 (24:45):
Can go to that star, Like, just spend it on
your money to make money gus on rubbish?

Speaker 3 (24:51):
Yeah, do you have? How many do you have any
luxuries in your life, Matt that you you could cut
back on?

Speaker 20 (24:56):
Oh yeah, cut back on hapes. I'm probably lucky your name.

Speaker 3 (24:59):
That's going all right, you know.

Speaker 20 (25:00):
But what I'd like to say about the cost of loving,
I think it's being blowing out of proportion of it, Like, oh,
things are a couple of warriors. Ga, it's the sellout.

Speaker 18 (25:09):
You counted all black necks to sell out.

Speaker 20 (25:11):
You go the football they have to sell out and
the company that bad.

Speaker 3 (25:16):
Yeah's at some point it is interesting because how long
have we been saying that we've had a cost of
living crisis? That's cool shit, At least the last two years,
probably a little bit longer. That might just be the
cost of living. At some point, if the cost of
living crisis goes along, you just go, well, that's the
cost of living. What can you do? And yeah, and

(25:36):
if and if and if you are struggling, then you
have to do the no, the buy nothing challenged, don't you.

Speaker 20 (25:43):
I'll say the key ways that thinky Gillan's extensive and Auckland.
I've done a bit of traveling and it's bloody well.

Speaker 2 (25:49):
Not what what What countries are you comparing or cities
that you're comparing to?

Speaker 20 (25:55):
Oh, Canada was there last year?

Speaker 21 (25:57):
Real spensive.

Speaker 20 (26:00):
But the corse flakes there was thirteen dollars fifty Canadians.

Speaker 4 (26:04):
It's a lot for corlf flakes thirteen marks Canadian. I
don't know what the exchange rates, but that's yeah, it's
a lot of money.

Speaker 20 (26:12):
Exchange rate into it just exten even if you're earning it.

Speaker 2 (26:16):
Yeah, do you know where all your your money is
going though, Matt, because I would assume, and I'm in
this category that a lot of people when you look
at your finances, there'd be so many things that you'd
buy without even thinking about it, and then you get
to the end of payday and you think cheap is
where's all my money go? Surely there'd be little bits
and pieces you do on a daily basis, weekly basis
that you wouldn't even think about.

Speaker 20 (26:36):
Yeah, that was probably a big one.

Speaker 3 (26:39):
Yeah, yeah, But I mean, if ol cole brings you
joy and you've got the money for it, I guess
that's the thing, right if you don't, If you don't
have the money for something, then you can't spend it,
and if you do, you're making your life terrible, right, Yeah,
But I guess that's all the part of it, isn't
it the decision you make? Hey, thanks for your cool Matt.

Speaker 2 (26:57):
So Matt reckons it would be easy as do you agree?
Oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty have you already
tried to do something like this? Tell us nine two
ninety two is the text number.

Speaker 3 (27:04):
People who live above their means will never experience peace,
but people who live below their means will live in peace.
Most will never experience If you need less you have
more From Daniel.

Speaker 4 (27:14):
Home three poetic.

Speaker 2 (27:16):
I think there's a lot in that though, that you
know the number of people out there living above their
means I think they're starting to change. There was another
report out today from Centric showing that the number of
kiwis who are refusing to borrow money because they're a
lot more careful now, that is starting to go down.
So the people that actually are in in debt to
credit companies in the bank is improving. But there, I mean,
that's the keeping up with the Joneses, right, And look,

(27:38):
I'm not being disparaging of those at the bottom that
generally may need to borrow to try and put food
on the table, but there's a lot of other people
that borrow for pretty frivolous things.

Speaker 3 (27:47):
James says, don't bring wallet when you leave home means
no ID if you get pulled over. Yeah, but who cares? Hmmm,
I mean just take your pick hand on it. Just
take your license with you, ye.

Speaker 7 (28:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (28:02):
The police need to stop making you take a license
with you because I was pulled over by the cops
and then they had a full picture of me, all
my information in the car. Yeah, so what do I
need my license? Exactly? I've got it in the system.
Do they still find for that? Okay, James, if you're
worried about that, take your license with it.

Speaker 4 (28:17):
Yeah, eas effects right there.

Speaker 3 (28:18):
But the general idea is that you don't buy anything
when you leave the house. You leave the house with
the lunch that you're going to eat, yep, and you
don't buy a coffee. You have the coffee at home.

Speaker 2 (28:28):
Bring the instant coffee with you. Oh eight hundred and
eighty ten eighty is the number to call. It is
nineteen to two. We'll be back in a few minutes.

Speaker 1 (28:36):
Your home of afternoon talk Mad Heathen Tyler Adams afternoons call, oh,
eight hundred eighty ten eighty youth talks.

Speaker 3 (28:43):
They'd be sixteen to two.

Speaker 2 (28:45):
So we're talking about a viral challenge called the buy
Nothing Challenge, that is, buy nothing for thirty days except
for the absolutely absolute essentials food, mortgage, slash, rent, fuel,
and insurance.

Speaker 4 (28:55):
Could you do it?

Speaker 2 (28:56):
If you are feeling the so called cost of living
crosses A lot of people saying guys or the equivalent
of this, by nothing. Okay in theory, but the small
medium retail sector amongst others, is going to grind into
a whole.

Speaker 9 (29:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (29:08):
I mean, if I actually thought anyone would do this, then.

Speaker 4 (29:11):
We wouldn't be provided.

Speaker 3 (29:12):
I'll be worried about I'd worry about retail. Yeah, because
because that's the thing. The economy needs people to spend money,
and the economy needs mints people to spend more than
they earn, and the economy needs people to you know,
have luxuries. So that's that you get growth, right, that's right? Yeah, yeah,
I mean if everyone was shut down, but you know,

(29:36):
if you if you're spending outside your means, then that's
not good either. It's not good for your economy.

Speaker 4 (29:42):
No exactly term you've done this challenge.

Speaker 22 (29:47):
It wasn't voluntarily like sort of sold my house and
my sentiment on my house was delayed by it was
a number of weeks. I think it was six weeks
in the end, and we had no option. But I'm
sure that we didn't spend any money because it didn't
seem that it was on the horizon of it. You've

(30:07):
be going away. It finally did so. But I've spent
twenty id years in Australia and I've moved back because
the cost of living here is cheaper. So when I
hear people whining about things costing too much, they need
to look at places like Western Australia and parts of
Queensland where you know, you're a thousand dollars a week rental,

(30:29):
like you know, and the cost of fuel is up there,
and you know, wages aren't as good as people The
myth of being in a mine, it's it's not as
good as people said is because everything else is so expensive,
like in the supermarket.

Speaker 3 (30:44):
Yeah, yeah, there's been there's the cost of living crisis
has been in the news for a very very long time,
hasn't it. And yeah, I wonder if that's I wonder
if it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy in a way.
But hey, Tim, you know, once you'd lived like that
so frugally, did that change? Did you learn anything about yourself?
Did you learn how you could could live?

Speaker 23 (31:04):
Uh?

Speaker 22 (31:05):
Yeah, I learned that I have a lot of guilty pleasure.
I weren't that. Yeah, I didn't really spend a lot
before that, But then you realize, you know, there's certain
things that you buy super market that you're like, well,
that's really expensive, Like you know, like for example, like
the most fancy block of cheese, you know, can go

(31:27):
to other things. You know that the price that you spend,
So that's just a comparison. You know, there's other things
that I noticed that, you know, you know, for example,
going to the special station and felling up every single
time is what I would do, Like if you had
no money, like you spend twenty or thirty dollars, you know,

(31:49):
and try and figure out that that will get you
buy like rather than filling up every time, because it's
what I need to have. Have that that money in
your your pocket because you know, you might need it
for a doctor, or you might need it for someone else.

Speaker 3 (32:04):
So yeah, yeah, thanks very much. Time.

Speaker 2 (32:08):
I food wastage is probably something for a lot. I mean,
certainly in my household. I don't want to pass judgment
on anyone else, but the amount of food we throw
away because we didn't use it because I was too
tired to maybe cook it, I mean that does my head.
And when we get to the end of the week
and I'm like, oh my god, we didn't use that chicken.

Speaker 3 (32:23):
Yeah, oh you're throwing away meat? Yeah evil?

Speaker 4 (32:26):
It is evil.

Speaker 3 (32:28):
Being has died to feed you. It would have been
a taste in you too. And you're out ordering an
uber et, so you're out spending money before you eat
the chicken that you've already bought. Yeah, that's shocking, but
you know, I wonder the joy of spending money on
things compared to the stress of having no money. If

(32:49):
you see what I'm saying, you might actually get more
happiness by living below your budget as opposed to over it.
There's an illusion that spending makes you happy. It doesn't. Necessarily.

Speaker 4 (33:02):
It's a very short term thing.

Speaker 3 (33:03):
I just suggested this buy nothing challenged to my wife
by a text. She replied, no, thanks, So I guess
we won't be doing it.

Speaker 4 (33:10):
Yeah, okay, that's the problem when you got to get
someone else house across the line.

Speaker 3 (33:14):
Matt he'th telling us to spend nothing after he says
at the start of the show that he has five
TVs playing fake files all day. Lucky for some you try.

Speaker 4 (33:21):
It, I mean, is it five TVs?

Speaker 3 (33:24):
Might be four TV, might be four TVs? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
fair enough?

Speaker 2 (33:28):
All right, get those calls coming through eight one hundred
and eighty ten eighty and taking new calls nine to
sorry your TeX's nine two ninety two. Could you do
the buy nothing challenge for thirty days?

Speaker 3 (33:36):
Have you done it? Tell us it is eleven to two.

Speaker 1 (33:40):
Matt Heath Taylor Adams taking your calls on eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty. It's Matt Heath and Tylor Adams
afternoons News Talks.

Speaker 4 (33:48):
V News Talks.

Speaker 24 (33:50):
It be.

Speaker 2 (33:51):
It is eight to two and we're talking about the
cost of living in a viral challenge called the Buy
Nothing Challenged for thirty days.

Speaker 3 (33:57):
Interesting news, guys, it's snowing and Mirama Wellington bizarre snowing,
Wellington snowing and Karori.

Speaker 2 (34:05):
Andrew just came in and showed a video from your niece.
I believe it was Andrew and it definitely looked like
snow not sweet.

Speaker 3 (34:11):
Yeah, whoo whoo. It is big news for the people.
A Wellington hesitates on the topic. We're talking about they
buy Nothing challenge. If the media who clearly want regime
change to protect their cushy jobs. Oh, keep crying cost
of living for clicks for three straight years. Is it
a cost of living crisis or just the cost of living?

(34:33):
It could be more, it could be less expensive. It
is what it is. Get on with it. No one
is starving in this country, despite what the hysterical Chardonay
liberals tell us from their cozy Auckland village.

Speaker 4 (34:42):
Interesting.

Speaker 3 (34:43):
Of course, you should live within your means. The cost
of living crisis is the cost of listening to you
left wing media. I'm not going to read that last week, Okay,
thank you. But we're saying that, we're saying that, we're
discussing the concept of they're buying nothing. Thirty day challenge, Yeah,

(35:04):
could you do it? Oh eight hundred and eighty ten
eighty is the number to call, no doubt. If you
don't have the money, then you were going to be
forced to do it right. And if you don't think
it would otherwise going to terrible debt and be in
a horrible.

Speaker 2 (35:14):
Situation, that's right. And if you don't think it is
a crisis, then spind up large. The economy will thank you.
Nix p Leicsko to Shelley get a Shelley. Hello, Hello,
what's your view?

Speaker 11 (35:25):
How are you? Yeah? I've been living through most of
my life. I'm sixty five. I remember my daughter saying
to me about twenty years ago, she's forty five. Now, Mum,
you can afford that. Stop being so frugal. And I
turned around and I said, well, that's why we can
afford it now, because we watched what we spent and

(35:51):
we went through times of paying twenty one percent interest rates.
On a farm things like that, and had natural disasters
happen while we were doing that, but we got through,
and yeah, here we are now, and I still it
becomes a habit, and I love the challenge. I love

(36:14):
going to the op shops. I go and buy new
clothes and the designer shops, but I buy off the
sale wrecks things like that. You can get up really
good bargains, you know, for the same price as something
cheaper at the same price, but you get a designer label.

(36:35):
You know, it's how you do it.

Speaker 3 (36:38):
And do you feel like you missed out on anything
by this chilling No?

Speaker 11 (36:42):
No, I've been traveling. I've been doing lots of stuff
in my later years because of what I've done in
my earlier years.

Speaker 3 (36:50):
Right, And so did you invest the money you saved?

Speaker 11 (36:55):
Yes, yes, we invested in our farm things like that,
watched what we spent, worked really hard, and the outcome
has been good.

Speaker 2 (37:11):
Do you think it is a bit of a lost
art Shelley that you know? I think it's a fair
argument to make that it was pretty normal to live
frugally in the seventies even eighties, but through you know,
some decades of abundance, maybe as many people who lost
that art to live on. It's not be a buny, yes,
but to just you don't need to buy as much
craps as people do.

Speaker 11 (37:29):
Exactly before I became a grandmother down and Vitago, I
ended up volunteering for this thing called super Grands because
I wanted to do some community work and basically we
went in to help people budget and teach them how
to cook and things like that. We are letting that now.

(37:52):
We need people need to go right back to basics,
not waste food. I can look at somebody's fridge and
say I can make you a really cool meal. That's
my passion, you know, that's my supers.

Speaker 3 (38:07):
I'm going to send you a a picture of my
fridge and see what we could throw together tonight.

Speaker 18 (38:13):
Yeah. But it's like you got before.

Speaker 3 (38:15):
We before we give up and order and overreach.

Speaker 11 (38:18):
Yeah, yeah, don't give up. So it makes you know
how to do it. It's like a little light turned on.
It's so easy. It's like, you know, I live by
myself now, and it's really hard cooking for one when
you're used to cooking for a huge farming family. You know,
from anywhere from six to fifteen people at a time,

(38:38):
So I cook and bolt and I freeze it.

Speaker 3 (38:41):
Well, good on your Shelley.

Speaker 4 (38:42):
Yeap, that is the way to do it.

Speaker 3 (38:44):
We have to go.

Speaker 4 (38:44):
We do this.

Speaker 3 (38:45):
Testa says it's a cost of consumerism crisis, not a
cost of living crisis.

Speaker 4 (38:51):
Yeah oooh that's some insight right there.

Speaker 3 (38:54):
Snowing an island bay.

Speaker 4 (38:55):
Okay, good discussion.

Speaker 3 (38:57):
Thank you very much.

Speaker 2 (38:57):
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Speaker 2 (39:11):
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back into the show.

Speaker 4 (39:15):
It is Sex pass too, so it's all go for
snow in the South as a polar blast.

Speaker 2 (39:21):
Seems to grip much of the country. Police and to
need in urging people to avoid traveling least absolutely necessary.
A lot of snow and dunners looks absolutely beautiful. And
the latest that we just had in via text was
it snows starting to fall in parts of Wellington.

Speaker 3 (39:35):
It's snowing in Johnsonville. M this text Pauline says it's
snowing in Mount Victoria, Wellington. Maria says snowing in Island
Bay only other time, and it's ever snowed here was
twenty eleven, says Maria. Hi, guys, it's also snowing in
Island Bay. Did I already say that? That's a different
text of saying that. So that's confirmed. Tyler and Matt

(39:58):
snow flurries in Tawa. Good on Tawa, it's cold too. Yeah,
and the seat says it's snowing in Ohacuni.

Speaker 4 (40:04):
How good for the skifield. Yeah, Mount Rupe will be
looking beautiful.

Speaker 3 (40:08):
The thing is right. As I talked to my son
in Dunedin this morning and he was saying it's snowing.
It's snowing. Because he's been brought up in Central Auckland.
Often think it's odd being a duneed night. As I
am that I've brought up a couple of Central Auckland kids. Yeah,
what happened When I was growing up. I used to
think people in Auckland were so glamorous like that. It's

(40:29):
like people that are growing up in Hollywood or something.

Speaker 4 (40:30):
Yeah, the big city lights.

Speaker 3 (40:31):
Absolutely, you go wow, look at them. They've got a bridge.

Speaker 4 (40:34):
I thought they were coming from Christian Yeah.

Speaker 3 (40:36):
Yeah, and then I brought up a couple of them.
But anyway, my son's down there in Dunedin and he
goes it's snowing outside. He was so excited it's snowing, snow.
And then, you know, I found a little bit nostalgic
for living in a city that actually has a winter,
because what is it today in Auckland's fourteen degrees yep,
and look it's definitely colder than it is in summer.

(40:58):
It is there's a chill out there, and there's there's
a bit of rain about. But what it just sort
of begs the question is this true? Someone says snowing
in kotaile. I need to confirm that, Kevin, you need
to no way, no way, We need pictures, mate. You
never give that. But which area, which city, which town

(41:19):
in New Zealand has the best winter? Let's talk about that.
One hundred and eighty ten eighty.

Speaker 2 (41:22):
Yeah, nine two ninety two is the text number, because
you know a lot of people, maybe even in the south,
you'd say, come on, get you know, the winterless north.
Surely it's better up in the north. But a lot
of people push back of that idea.

Speaker 3 (41:35):
Yeah, because you could say Dunedin right. So average winter
temperature seven point three degrees yep, but the winter rainfall
tiny one hundred and sixty five millimeters, but three hundred
and thirty three sunshine hours. So it's cold, yes, er
than some places, but dry as yes. And so it

(41:57):
depends what you like, because you know, cold but dry
is probably better than warmer but soaking wet.

Speaker 2 (42:06):
Absolutely, you're speak in my language those creps South Island
mornings in winter. But what do you say? Where is
the best place in New Zealand to have winter? Oh
eight hundred eighty ten eighty is number to call it?
Nine two nine two. And hey, if you're in Wellington
or Kaititia and it's knowing by all means, give us
a call and let us know how thick it is
and what people are doing around you. Nine two nine
two is the text number back for surely it is

(42:28):
ten past two.

Speaker 1 (42:30):
Your home of afternoon talk Mad Heathen Taylor Adams afternoons
call Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty news talk.

Speaker 3 (42:37):
SIB.

Speaker 2 (42:39):
News talks there be it is twelve past two. So
where is the best place to be over winter?

Speaker 4 (42:44):
In New Zealand.

Speaker 3 (42:44):
Oh, eight hundred and eighty ten eighty is at number.
This text is definitely not Auckland because of all the Auckland.

Speaker 4 (42:49):
It's oh, how dare you?

Speaker 3 (42:51):
That's a horrible things.

Speaker 4 (42:53):
That's rough on the Jeffers.

Speaker 3 (42:54):
To be fair, there's not a lot of Aucklanders in Auckland.
I mean, there's no Aucklanders in the studio right now.
We're in Auckland.

Speaker 2 (42:59):
That's right, good points. Yeah, a lot of South Islanders
in the studio. Ed, where do you reckon?

Speaker 9 (43:05):
Oh, Cannibry, where I'm sitting here in the porch, the
sun shining through the window here, it's beautiful.

Speaker 4 (43:12):
How much snow on the on the porthills?

Speaker 3 (43:14):
Then, oh, there's quite a bit.

Speaker 9 (43:17):
When I came in from the city there was quite
a bit around the tops. But down here on the
fare there was a wee bit this morning, but it
just melted away. Where we get four seasons here in
the day, of course, and you know it's all good.

Speaker 2 (43:36):
It is all good. I mean, I'm with you in
christ Uch. I might be biased, but I think christ
UACh is one of the better places they ever winter,
because you get a decent amount of sunshine hours, right,
and that cool crisp morning you look over and you
see just the hint of the Southern Alps in the morning,
you get the beautiful Port Hills.

Speaker 4 (43:50):
I mean, christ you.

Speaker 9 (43:52):
Couldn't you couldn't live anywhere better?

Speaker 23 (43:56):
Good?

Speaker 9 (43:56):
And you know you can live here with no money.

Speaker 16 (43:59):
I live here with no money.

Speaker 9 (44:01):
We're on a budget.

Speaker 3 (44:04):
We're on a budget, frugal and happy like you're styling.

Speaker 9 (44:09):
Yeah, thank you, you go.

Speaker 3 (44:10):
Well maybe on your end, well you say a lot
of sunshine hours in christ Church. I'm looking at the
total sunshine hours in across the winter three months, four
hundred sunshine hours?

Speaker 4 (44:22):
Is that good?

Speaker 3 (44:23):
What was Donners? Well? Nelson's closer to five hundred done
as is three hundred and thirty. You've got seven hundred.
You've got seventy more sunshine hours than than Dunedin. Yeah,
you got in your average temperature in christ Church six
point six average winter temperature, of course, but not a
lot of rain one hundred ninety one millimeters of rain

(44:44):
in christ Church.

Speaker 2 (44:45):
Want So what do you say? One hundred and eighty
ten eighty number to call get a Calvin.

Speaker 7 (44:49):
Hi, chaps, just calling from Dunedin. So I work in
the CBD in the bus hub yep, and our office
closed at ten forty five this morning due to police
advice not to drive and unsure what the road conditions
would be like later in the afternoon when everybody's going
home and we've got worse to come because this frost
expected overnight, which will form black ice as the wet

(45:12):
roads freeze.

Speaker 3 (45:13):
Ah right, So when when all those you know, the
busses aren't going, is that because you know, obviously Danan's
got a lot of hells, so not even along the
flat the busses can't even run down George Street. I
guess they can't run down George Street anymore.

Speaker 7 (45:29):
Well, the buses were going early this morning before the
snow arrived. I got to work about six o'clock. They
were going, they stopped and then the buses did start again.
But you're right, only on the flat route, so sim clear,
non beech and killed.

Speaker 3 (45:44):
Yeah, yeah, did you see about a carnage around this morning, Calvin,
I'm just looking at a few photos of some minor prings.

Speaker 7 (45:52):
I didn't see any myself because I've got to work
before the snow arrived. But I worked right up at
Walworths car Park and that was quite treacherous because you know,
when the snow turned to slush. But according to the
weather man on Jamie mcaire's Country this afternoon, we're at
cross across the country right up to Northland, not quite tire,

(46:14):
not specific, but he did say right up to Northland.

Speaker 3 (46:18):
Yeah, the black ice is is a real thing.

Speaker 10 (46:21):
You know.

Speaker 3 (46:21):
I grew up in Dunedin at Calvin and that that
black ice London streets as real. It's a real one.
For the black ice that you got, you got to
you got to know what you're doing.

Speaker 7 (46:33):
You heard Jamie this afternoon. But he actually tried coming
into the radio station down Stuart Street and he got
so far and he thought this was no good, so
he turned around. He parked on the fled up by
Tagger Boys High School and he thought he'd walk down,
but unfortunately he didn't have the right foot were on.
So I think he actually turned around, went home, changedes.

(46:54):
What were the innue to walk and.

Speaker 3 (46:56):
Did he put crampons on or something? I think he
possibly needed them and to go home for the ropes
Stuart Streets as I mean, right into the city. That
that's a decent angle, you know. Of course, London Street
comes off Stuart Street. But yeah, if you if you're
get you can get a pretty long slide on down
Stuart Street. What about Halfway Bush? Every every year there's

(47:17):
that shot on the news. We are those cars coming
around a corner and halfway Bush and sliding off the way.
Has there been any of that action up that way?

Speaker 7 (47:24):
Well, there was a bus oft jeck Knife at the
bottom of Stuart Street on Parker Valley Road.

Speaker 3 (47:28):
Yep.

Speaker 7 (47:29):
Obviously the Northern Motorway was closed. There was townage at
the Southern Motorway at the top of Lookout Point by
the fire station because the stopped and couldn't you started again,
So basically the entrance to the city from both sides
was blocked.

Speaker 3 (47:42):
Wow, as this as this abnormal for you? Calvin, You've
experienced a few winters in Dunedin, I'm assuming is this
is this sweet ass for Dunedan had.

Speaker 7 (47:53):
Sixty winters in Dunedan, so I think I know about them.

Speaker 3 (47:56):
That's not enough as a sample for me. What do
you reckon? Where does it sit in across sixty years
of winters.

Speaker 7 (48:03):
Well, this snow's come late this year. Normally we'd expected
we're going to get there. We'd expect it the sort
of around May, but the fact that it's coming down
at sea level strange enough. We had it in the
bus hub, which is you know, quite low, but then
out where I live and s Kilda we had none
at all, so there was temperamental about where it decided
to lie.

Speaker 2 (48:25):
Calvin, thank you very much for giving us a call mate.
All the best down there. But it's so yeah, certainly
sound like one. Not quite for the record books, but significant.

Speaker 3 (48:33):
So one of the great things about growing up in
Dunedin is that most people live on the hills, but
a lot of the stuff you have to do is
down the hill. So when it snows, you've just there's
a real high chance that's store will be the lowest. Yeah,
massive chance.

Speaker 2 (48:45):
It's a great, great moment. Oh one hundred and eighty
ten eighty. If you are in Dunedan, how's it going
for you? But also where is the best place full
winter in New Zealand.

Speaker 3 (48:53):
Average temperature Dunedin across the winter months seven point three degrees,
one hundred and sixty five millimeters of rain, three hundred
and thirty three hours of tat all winter sunshine. That
sounds pretty good, yeah, yeah, what do you say, tell
us so e one hundred and eighty ten eighty it
is nineteen past two, back very shortly snowing in East Tamaki.

(49:14):
Really really the.

Speaker 1 (49:16):
Big stories, the big issues, to the big trends and
everything in between. Mad Heathen Tyler Adams afternoons used Talks EDB.
Matt Heathen Tyler Adams Afternoons call oh, eight hundred and
eighty ten eighty on News Talks EDB.

Speaker 3 (49:34):
Twenty one past two.

Speaker 2 (49:35):
So with the snow scenes and the likes of Dunedin
to a lesser extent, Christ Judge, but also now snowing
and Wellington. The question of asked you is where is
actually the best place to have winter in New Zealand?
Is it the deep South or is it up in
the north. What do you say, oh, eight hundred and
eighty ten eighty And if you want to send a
text nine two ninety two is that number?

Speaker 3 (49:54):
Someone skied down Baldwin Street and dunedan Judy, which is
the steepest street in the world. Baldwin Street, That's what
it's all about. Yeah, yeah, up in Northeast Valley. My
sister used to live at the top of Baldwin Street
and one day they got the house robbed. So the
person walked all the way to the top of Boarding Street.
They were right at the top. Yep, robbed their house

(50:14):
and was so shagged that they got busted having a
break halfway down. Oh that is amazing. That is amazing
with my sister's TV. Yeah, yeah, that is some good
protection right there. Hey, guys, you can't bet Wellington in
the summertime. It's my favorite day of the hour. It's
a bit chilly here in Brisbane, says this Texter. Just
dropped to twenty two degrees and a cloud came over

(50:37):
and blocked the sun for a minute. Had to put
a T shirt on yesday. I just stay glad you're
joining it over there, mate.

Speaker 4 (50:45):
A couple more teas coming through, but let's go to Evan.

Speaker 3 (50:48):
Get a Evan.

Speaker 25 (50:50):
Yeah, Tyler, i'd have to discoury what you said about christ.
If you're working outside, it's seem as cold, damp, you
don't really get much sunshine and just hangs in around
the hills most of the day, or the east blows
in all work at fear over the West coast and

(51:11):
the winters a lot better because yeah, because they are
blocked from the southerly, and this subtherly pushes out to
the kennary Otago side and they'll get sunshine. And again
I'm not saying it's warm, but it's probably warmer than
christ Chitch but granted comes springtime. Yeah, it does rain.

Speaker 3 (51:36):
So so what's your so your your evaluation is that
christ Church winter's a rubbit.

Speaker 18 (51:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 25 (51:44):
Yeah, it just hangs in around the hills, across the hangs,
across the city and it's like depression.

Speaker 3 (51:53):
What what's the what's the wind you don't want in
and around christ Church? Is that the easterly? There's a
few winds we don't like.

Speaker 25 (52:05):
Eastly?

Speaker 3 (52:06):
Yeah, I don't know even.

Speaker 2 (52:08):
I mean, like, I see what you hear saying about Greymouth,
but that rain aspect and winter no.

Speaker 25 (52:13):
No, because the Greymouth gets the barbers. Oh god, the
barber Yeah, it comes down the river.

Speaker 3 (52:21):
Because Greymouth is not a good place to be in winter.

Speaker 25 (52:25):
Yeah, so wish sports has been because I don't have
the river acting for it as much.

Speaker 3 (52:34):
I'll tell you what the the the the the restaurant
at the Hoker Tuka Beach View Hotel, is it take
a beach view? I think that's what it's called ya
the beachfront, that's it, boy, that has that. They have
a good food there. Oh my god, the lamb shanks
at the Hoker Turker Beach Front Hotel. That'll get you

(52:56):
through a winter.

Speaker 4 (52:57):
My goodness, that's hardy hearty fear right there.

Speaker 3 (52:59):
Well, what's the big old parban Graylan, the the one
right by the river, the famous one and Greymouth in
Greymouth would say, yeah in Greymouth here, yeah, Gradling's the railway. Yeah,
it might be that one. Because when the barber was

(53:21):
I was involved in in a function at that and
it was so cold that I couldn't walk. We had
the Emerson's tiny pub in the in the front yard
of their pub and that was about probably two meters
from the door, and I could barely make it. I
was like Shackleton trying to get back to the endurance.
And yet all the locals were lining up and shorts

(53:43):
and they love it. They could handle it. Yeah, the
locals can handle the barber.

Speaker 25 (53:47):
Yeah, the bar was not winter.

Speaker 2 (53:50):
Yeah, they're built tough even, Thank you very much, mate.
See you with Eavan. Is winter's over on the west coast?
Is that the place to be? Tell us?

Speaker 3 (53:58):
Plenty of things covered through so controversial to say that
christ Church has the worst winters in the country. Did
I give those stats six point six degrees average temperature?
I mean you kind of average of just one thing.
It's it's how low it goes is another thing. I
don't have those stats. Yeah, one hundred and ninety one
milimeters rain four hundred hours of such a.

Speaker 4 (54:17):
Do you think you do forget?

Speaker 2 (54:18):
I mean, look, you'll throw from Dunedin on from christ Church.
Do you think now that we've been up here. I've
been up here almost two years. You've been up here
a lot longer that we forget how busily cold those
mornings are, and the likes of Dunedin and Graymouth. You know,
you kind of forget that just thinking back now. And
I had a different car. It was a terrible car.
But in the morning I didn't even bother putting any
heat pump on. I just wrapped up in the puffer
jacket and everything else. I had shiver my way to

(54:40):
the car, try and crank up the heating as much
as possible and give it as much gas and annoy
the neighbors, just to try and heat the engine up,
just to try and de ice the extrall the you know,
the windscreen.

Speaker 4 (54:51):
You forget about all those moments.

Speaker 3 (54:52):
When what about the moments in citralist Igo And it
has happened to me And when we're growing up in
Dunedin where you go to turn the water on in
the morning and it goes come gun gun gun gun
gun gun gun gun gun gun gun gun gun gun
gun gungunundun dun dung doung. Yeah, because the pipes are frozen.
Don't get that up here in Auckland's you sell out
South Islander Tyler now living in Auckland.

Speaker 7 (55:12):
How dare you.

Speaker 3 (55:13):
Suggest that Graymouth has a bad winter? Pretty pretty tough,
pretty tough. I mean the bears, the bear prices are good.
It's an impressive winter.

Speaker 4 (55:22):
It is an impressive winter, your hardy folk over there.

Speaker 2 (55:25):
Oh, one hundred and eighty ten eighty is the number
to course, So where do you think the best place
is to have winter in New Zealand?

Speaker 3 (55:30):
Tell us?

Speaker 2 (55:31):
And if you want to send a text, ninety two
ninety two is that number. And if you want to
tell us the conditions in Wellington or Duneda for that matter.
By all means we're getting a lot of techs from
Wellentoni and saying that they loving the snow slash sleets
that is starting to hit the ground.

Speaker 3 (55:44):
Fuga Ray has a rubbish winter cysus.

Speaker 4 (55:46):
Texter Okay, all right?

Speaker 3 (55:47):
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Speaker 3 (57:03):
You can see the story at NZ Herald dot co
dot nz. Back to Matt Eath and ti Adam, thank.

Speaker 4 (57:09):
You very much, ray Lean.

Speaker 2 (57:10):
So where is the best place to have winter in
New Zealand? The South Island always seems to get a
bit of a bad rap for being too cold. But
if you're in the South Island or Dunedin or christ Church,
how much are you loving the snow that is hitting
the ground as we speak.

Speaker 3 (57:23):
So a bunch of people are saying it's Rivington's Pub
and Graymouth. Matt, you're softy. It was Rivington's hotel in
Greymouth and you were a soft See. I'm pretty sure
it was the spates Alehouse, Graymouth. And my friend Jeremy
Wells he uh right around with a shirt off on

(57:44):
a BMX in front of it and got very cold.
I bet he did. Yeah, but is that I think
Rivington's is further in from the river. Yeah, and I
don't think it's in business anymore.

Speaker 2 (57:54):
Yeah, because you've got a spates alehouse right on the corner,
but of course directly across from the river.

Speaker 3 (57:59):
Yeah, but by the Cobden rail bridge. Yeah, that's it. Yeah, yeah,
you get that's you see the thing about the spates
alehouse Graymouth as that is right line for the doctor.
Not the doctor, the barber. The barber comes up there
and clips the back of you. Yeah, you're here. It
is brutal and Graymouth. Oh one hundred and eighty ten Eightyes,
some to called gee Rachel.

Speaker 8 (58:18):
Oh good bay guys. Hi Hi, I was just ringing
up to let you know Hawks Bay up in the
North Island. Oh's a pretty good winter. We don't get
much rain, we get a lot of sun still throughout
the winter. And yesterday it was a thick minus three
degree frost, but then by three o'clock it was nineteen degrees.

(58:42):
Oh nice and money. Yeah, quite the difference.

Speaker 10 (58:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (58:46):
I think that's right up there with with a win
of the Hawk's Bay. I mean you've got it all there,
don't you. You get the crisp, beautiful mornings and then
like you say, it usually heats up pretty well by
by mid afternoon.

Speaker 11 (58:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (58:58):
Yeah, has it ever been snow.

Speaker 3 (58:59):
And Hawk's Bay.

Speaker 8 (59:01):
Yes, occasionally. I think maybe once every fourth year we
get enough for the kids to haul of it off
the tramp and build a snowman. That's about thirty centimeter.
Not much, but yeah, it is quite exciting if we
ever do get it.

Speaker 4 (59:17):
How in land are you guys?

Speaker 8 (59:19):
We are We're all Hastings where I am, so we're
not far from the Royal Heney Rangers, so we get
a bit frostier out my way. And yet we have
had snow a few times that living in town as
a child we never had snow, so it's quite the novelty.

Speaker 3 (59:36):
So do you know you don't hang hanker for?

Speaker 26 (59:40):
Is that the word?

Speaker 3 (59:41):
A brutal winter that makes the summers just all the better?
And you know a town of four seasons where everything
is so distinctly different. Rachel, No, not so much.

Speaker 8 (59:57):
We could deal with a bit more rain, I will
say that, but yeah, like the crisp and the sun.

Speaker 4 (01:00:02):
Yeah, it's good place. Hawks Bay.

Speaker 2 (01:00:04):
Thank you very much for giving us a call, Rachel. Two,
if you want to send a t where is the
best place to spend winter in New Zealand? Some great
tics coming through disgusted.

Speaker 3 (01:00:13):
That no one has mentioned Nelson, yet says this Texter
clearly the best winters, but what is the best winter?
I mean that has probably the most sunshine hours around Nelson, Blenming,
Blenham Molder right, yep, and quite low rainfall and reasonable
average temperature of eight point three. I mean that's pretty good,

(01:00:33):
isn't it. It's not bad. It's kind of a nothing winter,
isn't it. Yeah, it's kind of like just like cold summer.

Speaker 2 (01:00:39):
That was my problem with Nelson growing up in Nelson.
There was kind of, you know, nothing to the winter,
and I don't know what was the average rainfall. Seems
to rain a lot Nelson over winter would just say
that average rainfall was math for.

Speaker 3 (01:00:49):
Nelson, Nelson all the total winter rainfall is two unred
sixty two millimeters. It feels a bit light, Yeah, it
feels a bit light. You want more than that? I'd
like a bit more than that, Yes, Matt. It was
the spates Ale house in Graymouth. Couple of my staff
went to it, met you or off your chops, right.

Speaker 4 (01:01:14):
You needed to be a jacket because it was bitterly gold,
so you needed to get that on. And then you
know what happened from there I was.

Speaker 3 (01:01:20):
I wasn't off my chops. I was just combobulated by
the barber, That's what it was. I went nothing to
call get Allen, Hell, get a what do you reckon?

Speaker 7 (01:01:31):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:01:32):
Yeah, what I read?

Speaker 2 (01:01:34):
Oh, Ellen, I think you're on the road, just on
the desert road. So ah, this was a live report
from the desert road. But I think we've just lost you. Ellen,
You're still there and we'll come back. Snow's cut them
off at the time.

Speaker 3 (01:01:46):
We've got Sean. Your thoughts busy, very good.

Speaker 11 (01:01:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 18 (01:01:52):
I think people get wound up about temperature as as
a feeling or as a gay job of how well
it feels. I mean, I probably live in the coldest
place now. I'm in ext North.

Speaker 22 (01:02:04):
Islander and I Regon.

Speaker 18 (01:02:06):
It's that the warmest, most comfortable place I've ever lived
in on a place called in a place called Ernsclode,
just between Clyde and Alexandria, Central Ozaga. Beautiful and yeah,
we've got I've got my sunny's on on the beautiful
sunny day of and I'm obviously farming, and I've just

(01:02:28):
finished for the day and I'm just heading out in
the hills for a mountain boat rides. But I grew
up in the central North Island and Toga and and
then I did a weep bit of living in the
central White Caddow sort of Moronsville Tiero area, and that

(01:02:50):
was temperatureized was the warmest place I lifted, but it
felt like the coldest place of ever lifted because it
was just it was just buddy damp, which we don't
we don't get here we you know, you look at
the gems, you go, it's minus in and you go,
oh do I put a jacket on that? It's not

(01:03:11):
his net cold to put a jacket on, you know,
it just doesn't feel cold.

Speaker 10 (01:03:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:03:15):
We you're living though. That is the hottest and the coldest,
right so, and incredible autumn. It's got that. That is
if there's anywhere in New Zealand around that area between
you know, Alexandra Clyde, that is that has the four
seasons right on display.

Speaker 18 (01:03:32):
Without a doubt. And I mean when you say the hottest,
you did, right, it's certainly the temperature. Same thing. The
temperatures are hotter than anything I experienced in the Northold,
but we've got no humidity, so it's just it's just
beautiful as in Yeah, it's thirty six degrees. Go, oh,
that's probably should be hot. But it just where you
go to twenty two degrees in the central white kadow

(01:03:54):
and it feels like a sauna. It's yeah, it's so
the temperature is totally irrelevant.

Speaker 3 (01:04:00):
Yeah right, what about what about feel fat? What about
when your pipes freeze over sean?

Speaker 18 (01:04:07):
Well, you have a house, it's called central heating. I
mean see, that's the other thing. I moved to the
cfl and thirty years ago and as it tears out,
every house of either lived in is that central heating?

Speaker 7 (01:04:21):
Yeah?

Speaker 18 (01:04:21):
Right, where you're right, I can. I do remember in
Toker getting up in the morning for the first one
one morning and the water in the bottom of the
bowl was frozen.

Speaker 3 (01:04:32):
That's disappointing. Well, it's better than the other way around,
on the frozen, that's true. Yeah, yeah, you know, on
that sticking around, I think as well. I think I think,
you know, if your house is designed for where you are,
that's good. And you know, I grew up in Dunedin,

(01:04:52):
and as I keep saying, but I feel like a
lot of the houses in Dunedin were built like they
were going to be in California. Or something. They just
put the and it was like people were missing how
cold it was, and so there wasn't the central heating,
there wasn't the insulation because people are kind of living
in a fantasy that wasn't that cold. But if you
live in a really cold places like people that live

(01:05:13):
in Canada, right, yeah, you have to have your your
your winter game sorted out and then you're then you're
super cozy. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:05:20):
Well look at the sweetish and the finish. I've got
it sorted.

Speaker 2 (01:05:22):
But you also had an outside toilet matteath. I mean
that takes it to the next level.

Speaker 3 (01:05:26):
Yeah, yeah, that's not great that there's no doom scrolling
in an outside toilet in Dunedin and winter you're you're you're.

Speaker 2 (01:05:34):
In a breath, ready to go as soon as you
walk out the door of the house. Yeah, you're running
for it.

Speaker 7 (01:05:38):
Is right.

Speaker 3 (01:05:39):
You get the job done, You certainly do, all right.

Speaker 2 (01:05:41):
Oh one hundred and eighty ten eighty is that number
to call? Where is the best place to have winter
in New Zealand in your view?

Speaker 3 (01:05:47):
Tell us?

Speaker 4 (01:05:47):
And if you want to send to teake nine two
nine two's that number? It's twenty to three.

Speaker 1 (01:05:51):
The issues that affect you and a bit of fun
along the way. Matt Heath and Taylor Adams. Afternoons News
Talk said.

Speaker 3 (01:05:58):
Be seventeen to three. Where is the best place to
have winter in New Zealand? Nothink.

Speaker 2 (01:06:02):
We've got Alan back with a live reports on Napier Road.

Speaker 4 (01:06:06):
Get Allen.

Speaker 24 (01:06:07):
Oh yeah, snowing just nice and gently up on the
Mohawka Road. We got all the cars jumping out for
pictures as you do.

Speaker 3 (01:06:18):
I bet.

Speaker 4 (01:06:20):
How much snow we talking about, Allen? Is it a decent,
decent fall.

Speaker 24 (01:06:24):
It's only just starting to settle on the top of
the hill up there now, but coming down the wipers
that go, so it'll be good later on tonight.

Speaker 3 (01:06:35):
And and no crazy behavior on the road as of yet, Ellen.

Speaker 7 (01:06:41):
Not yet.

Speaker 24 (01:06:43):
I think it'll be too cold. You guys go touch
yourself up in the house, won't you with a blanket?

Speaker 3 (01:06:49):
Electric blanket?

Speaker 8 (01:06:49):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:06:50):
Yeah, yeah?

Speaker 24 (01:06:51):
He pump on good place for the winter, A good
place for the winter.

Speaker 3 (01:06:56):
Troy telpo Oh, yes.

Speaker 24 (01:07:02):
You've got a mountain to go play on if you
want to do that.

Speaker 3 (01:07:06):
It was it wasn't impressively cold and topol last weekend.
I've got to say beautiful but impressively cold.

Speaker 18 (01:07:13):
Yeah it keeps the bugs away.

Speaker 1 (01:07:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:07:18):
Queenstown of the North Islands, Yeah, beautiful, huge fan of tapul. Yeah,
good on, Yellen.

Speaker 4 (01:07:22):
Stay safe out there, mate. Plenty of texts coming through.

Speaker 3 (01:07:25):
The six says, come on, guys, let's be honest. This
is a big cover up. Wellington is the worst weather
in every single season. It is the worst weather in
the world. Winter is a test here, it's a struggle.
Then you get to summer. I'm surprised we have any
sports stars. Sport is always canceled or your wish it was.

(01:07:47):
I'm angry at Sir Peter Jackson for staying here. He
could live anywhere. I have to stay here because I
like my wife and she loves it. But Sir Peter Jackson,
get out. It's just lazy. The big bone bastard even
has his own jet. Get out.

Speaker 4 (01:08:00):
It's pretty dire when you're angry at Peter Jackson for
staying in a place that you say you shouldn't stay in.

Speaker 3 (01:08:06):
But we all know it's stuff in Wellington. We're the wise.
Whatever season that you're living there, I won't hear a
bad word about it. Wellington's a fantastic city. I mean
it's challenging. But you know, as he says here, you
know what did he say? Then you get summer. Oh
it's a it's a challenge, it's a test. Yeah, yeah,
it's a struggle. Makes you're hearty. I mean Wellington has

(01:08:28):
a lot of rainfall. But also you can't really run
an umbrella. I think that is the that is the difficulty.
Not too bad.

Speaker 26 (01:08:37):
What is it?

Speaker 3 (01:08:37):
Four hundred and ten millimeters rainfall? So that's well that No,
that's quite a lot. Actually that's more than Auckland's. Yeah,
lessen fang at A that's yeah, that's pretty much the
second most. So there's quite a lot of rain and
a lot of one but reasonable nine point six average.
It's a lot warmer than in Picago or Dunedin or
christ Church.

Speaker 2 (01:08:55):
So it's the accommodation though if you have you know,
you've got some significant rain, but then you can't even
take out the brawley because that's going to be swept away.

Speaker 3 (01:09:01):
I mean that is challenging conditions in Wellington. What do
you say Wellingtonian's Oh, eight hundred and eighty ten eighty
is number to call? Well that is a Wellingtonian firing
shots telling Peter Jackson to get out fin crivate jet
firing shots at himself.

Speaker 2 (01:09:14):
The sticks to says, geta guys. Often here people referring
to Auckland and the North Island is subtropical. Having a
master's degree in geography, this didn't seem to make sense
to me, so I looked into it. All of New
Zealand sit squarely within the temperate zone. The subtropics begin
closer to the Gold Coast and latitude, and the tropical
zone is clearly marked by the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn.
Love your work, guys, ah y, thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:09:36):
I'm a South Island who lived in northern Canada for
three years. This is text to try negative thirty five
degrees for the coldest four months in winter and you
never drove on the actual road for seven months and
no one complained about the temperatures and driving on ice
for seven months without a single accident. Everyone adapted, cheers Paul, Yeah,
you got a You can't let your cat go out,
can you in Canada because you'll won't come back. Well,

(01:09:57):
you ed up with a catsicle. Yeah. I was talking
to a mate who was over in Canada and he
was walking down a street heavily covered up. You know,
you can't even have any of your face showing. Saw
just a cat frozen on top of a car.

Speaker 4 (01:10:10):
Jesus, that's confronting.

Speaker 3 (01:10:12):
The cat of God now and then it became a
cat's call.

Speaker 2 (01:10:14):
Yeah, keep those things coming through. This one says get
a lad. Sorry to be the grinch that stole winter.
But when the media say snow and Wellington to quantify
that it was sleeting briefly in town, the ground is
wet and the snow plows aren't out yet, just yet,
it's bleep and freezing. Those stained warm New Zealand. John
from Wellington just snowed in Karori. There you go, says

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this text. All right, the best place to have winter
in New Zealand as Fiji.

Speaker 3 (01:10:40):
It is great in Fiji in winter, lovely and warm.

Speaker 4 (01:10:43):
Yeah, not much snow and Fiji a lot of ticks
coming through for Wantaka and I can't I can't push
back on that. I think Wonaicer is a beautiful place
to spin in Wellington. A lot of sunshine, not a
hell of a lot of rain, and obviously with those
mountains to look back on, I mean, can you beat Wanaka?

Speaker 3 (01:10:59):
Allan says Hello, just had a spectacular snow shower at
two hundred meters in western hills of Wellington, like being
in a ski movie. Good times, Good on Ellen.

Speaker 2 (01:11:07):
All right, oh one hundre at eighty ten eighty. If
you're in Wellington at the moment, how is it actually looking?
Is it snowing or is it more sleeting? And if
you're in Dunedin at the moment, how was your start
to the day and how is it looking right now?

Speaker 3 (01:11:18):
Tell us the sex is How dare you read out
those horrible words about Wellington? I just call them how?
I said, no, no, no, I just read out. I'm
just sharing what people want to want to share. Nothing
censored on the show, I didn't. It's all open, no
way did endorse what they said?

Speaker 4 (01:11:36):
Yeah, if you want to push back by all means
nineteen nine two is that text number?

Speaker 3 (01:11:39):
It is twelve to three.

Speaker 1 (01:11:40):
Beg very shortly the issues that affect you and a
bit of fun along the way, Mad Heathen Taylor Adams
Afternoons News Talk, sa'd be.

Speaker 4 (01:11:50):
It is nine two three.

Speaker 3 (01:11:51):
So where is the best place to have winter in
New Zealand?

Speaker 2 (01:11:53):
O eight hundred and eighty ten eighty on the back
of this quite significant snowfall happening in Dneed in other
parts of the South Island seems to be moving north.

Speaker 3 (01:12:01):
What do you reckon?

Speaker 2 (01:12:02):
Tell us nine two nine two if you want to
send a text as well. Robin, how are you this afternoon?

Speaker 16 (01:12:08):
I'm fine.

Speaker 14 (01:12:09):
I wanted to let you know that I'm at Why
can I beach on the Cavity coast? Where in sunshine?
And I can see nothing but blue sky from my
lounge except the clouds are a long way out to sea.

Speaker 4 (01:12:23):
Windy.

Speaker 14 (01:12:24):
Oh it's bloody, the windows cold, but we're in the sunshine.

Speaker 10 (01:12:29):
And I got the washing dry today.

Speaker 14 (01:12:33):
You have My parents in nineteen sixty seven moved from
Palmerston North to Dunedin.

Speaker 18 (01:12:39):
They lived at Saint Leonard's.

Speaker 27 (01:12:40):
Mum worked at Whitcliffe Press.

Speaker 14 (01:12:43):
She had a nineteen thirty nine Austin seven that she
drove into town every day to go to work. But
she was always scared in winter time because there were
always cars sliding into the harbor.

Speaker 3 (01:12:57):
There are some great memories there. So do you think
the snow is going to hit your Robin? Coming north?

Speaker 18 (01:13:03):
It'll be on the hills, but not us, not at
the beach.

Speaker 2 (01:13:06):
It's too windy, Yeah, fall down a new Brighton and
Christos though never say never, little dusting.

Speaker 14 (01:13:14):
My ex brought heads and visitors from the UIs out
here many years ago and they happened to be down
south and so they went to Bluff and here was
snow on the beach and these guys couldn't get over it.

Speaker 10 (01:13:27):
But there was snow on the beach.

Speaker 4 (01:13:29):
Yeah, it's pretty incredible when that happens.

Speaker 11 (01:13:31):
Oh, beautiful pictures.

Speaker 7 (01:13:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:13:34):
So why can't I beach the place to be today? Robin?

Speaker 14 (01:13:37):
Oh ye, well, yes, no bike riding today, it's too cold.

Speaker 3 (01:13:42):
Fair enough. Glad you got the washing dry as well, Robin,
thanks very much for giving us a call. I'll tell
you what. On the other side, the Portobello Road and
duned and that is a that's a good place to
make sure you don't go off the edge coming in
coming in from Saint Lennon's, you know, through Ravens born
past Ravens board and stuff. You know you want to
have you what's about you? But oh yes, the ports

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that's that's a challenging road. It's a test and the
best of conditions.

Speaker 2 (01:14:11):
Yeah yeah, oh, one hundred and eighty ten eighty is
the number to call if you're down in Dunedin right now,
how's it actually going as the sun come out?

Speaker 4 (01:14:18):
Is it still snowing? Plenty of texts coming through.

Speaker 2 (01:14:21):
This one sees okay, guys, Nelson absolutely best during winter, crisp,
frosty starts, then blue skies and sunny days. Diapers, no
dippers in water every morning six to seven am year around,
peddler's out in sea, swimmers all around as well.

Speaker 3 (01:14:35):
That is the best. This says, stop minimizing our snow.
It is snow and Wellington and this texta says, just
to confirm, I was brought up in toned and I
know what snow looks like. What we got in Holloway Road,
Wellington this afternoon was snow. Keep those coming through, defend yourself.
Wellington wasn't sweet as some people are trying to claim.

Speaker 2 (01:14:53):
Yeah, hi boys, light slow hail in Palmerston, North all right,
that's pretty North.

Speaker 3 (01:14:59):
Nelson absolute best during winter, crisp, frosty starts, then blue
skies and sunny days. Dippers in water every morning six
or seven aas year round, peddlers out and sea swimmers
all year round. Lovely uh in this one time and
a good place for winter in Chang my right now?

Speaker 10 (01:15:17):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:15:17):
Well, uh, rad you're in Wellington right now, are you? Yeah?

Speaker 28 (01:15:22):
My, look, I'm in Wellington.

Speaker 16 (01:15:24):
I want to defeat Wellington.

Speaker 7 (01:15:25):
Might.

Speaker 28 (01:15:26):
It's a beautiful, bureauful city. Even if in this weather,
I'm still wearing my shorts all year round. I'm a
trady even this weather. Might, I'm on my short I can.

Speaker 3 (01:15:36):
Prove it all right, Okay, I don't want to be
anywhere else. What else? So you got shorts? What's on
the upper half of you?

Speaker 11 (01:15:45):
Radu?

Speaker 25 (01:15:46):
Oh?

Speaker 18 (01:15:46):
I have at my vest and.

Speaker 3 (01:15:51):
The satment. Are you very starly tough enough?

Speaker 27 (01:15:53):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:15:53):
Not enough mine?

Speaker 28 (01:15:54):
It is just a little bit dries but nothing nothing
there for degrees?

Speaker 3 (01:15:59):
Are we talking long shorts? Work shorts? Spike shorts, work shorts?

Speaker 9 (01:16:05):
No, no work shorts.

Speaker 28 (01:16:06):
Right, I'm not allowed my studies on the summer in
all my work.

Speaker 29 (01:16:10):
Stubby might but not no stubby at work.

Speaker 3 (01:16:12):
But you're wearing a decent sock. The errata.

Speaker 28 (01:16:17):
Enormous ok here in my my world, Woods, that's it?

Speaker 1 (01:16:20):
Say it?

Speaker 3 (01:16:21):
Yeah? And and it doesn't matter what happens. It doesn't matter,
doesn't marry the weather might doesn't matter.

Speaker 28 (01:16:26):
Whatever it will be Wellington is the best place.

Speaker 3 (01:16:28):
I love it good.

Speaker 28 (01:16:30):
I tell you guys twenty something years ago, when it
come from Romania, I want my wife to come in
New Zi, I says, never have the weather we have
in Roumania. Sometimes we have minstony degrees. Yeah, in the winter,
there's no winter for us. That's a beautiful weather.

Speaker 6 (01:16:45):
Man.

Speaker 26 (01:16:45):
Ah.

Speaker 4 (01:16:46):
We just need hard enough.

Speaker 3 (01:16:47):
It's all relative, isn't that.

Speaker 28 (01:16:48):
It's said, Look Wellington, when you said someone with the umbrella,
I says, that is not for Wellington. Okay, we never
were habit or umbrella and Wellington we love winter, you
love it. One thing what I learned about Wellington this
is the wind and the craft weather keep nasty people away, the.

Speaker 4 (01:17:06):
Way that keeps nasty people away.

Speaker 3 (01:17:07):
And Radu and his shorts. Yeah yeah, good man, Radu.
See that's what it takes. What an uplifting way to
end the hour.

Speaker 4 (01:17:16):
Absolutely, what a great discussion that was.

Speaker 3 (01:17:18):
Shame on that person that was shaming Wellington, y shaming
Sir Peter Jackson for not getting out of Wellington on
his private jet.

Speaker 4 (01:17:24):
Peter Jackson wants to stay in Wellington. You can stay
in Wellington. He's a great Wellingtonian, great discussion. Thank you
to everyone who gave us a buzz. And if you're
down in Dneida and hope you're staying warm. And if
it's still snowing, stay safe out there. But coming up
in a few minutes after the news, a new topic
for you. Stand by for that.

Speaker 2 (01:17:43):
But new sport and weather is fast approaching. Listening to
Matt and Tyler, good afternoon to you.

Speaker 1 (01:17:49):
everything in between. Matt Heath and Taylor Adams Afternoons News
Talk said.

Speaker 4 (01:17:58):
Be good day to you, Welcome back into the show.

Speaker 2 (01:18:02):
It is seven past three and grant to have your
company on this Tuesday afternoon. So key, we drivers have
big knowledge gaps on navigating roundabouts, using bus lanes, and
interacting with cyclists. So recent study has found this is
the AA, the Automobile Association. So they had to study people,
Yeah good people, where they asked five hundred and thirty
five licensed drivers twenty four questions around road rules and

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driving behavior.

Speaker 4 (01:18:27):
The majority of participants.

Speaker 3 (01:18:28):
Answered less than seventy percent of those answers correctly. Yeah right,
So big gaps in people's knowledge. The lowest there was
somewhat the lowest score recorded was five out of twenty four.
That's that is poor. Well, the highest no one got
all of it, highest out of the entire survey was
twenty three out of twenty four.

Speaker 4 (01:18:46):
Not bad from that person.

Speaker 3 (01:18:47):
Do you need to know the road code? Though?

Speaker 6 (01:18:49):
Really?

Speaker 3 (01:18:50):
Do you need to know the whole road code? Don't
you just sort of basically know you know, you know
it for the test and then you pass and then
you sort of work it out as you go round? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:19:00):
Yeah, you just get the beer basics and then you
figure it out as you go.

Speaker 3 (01:19:04):
Or New Zealand drive? Is this representative of New Zealand
of drivers being out there not knowing what they're doing?
I mean, does anyone really know what you do on
a round about? I think I do.

Speaker 4 (01:19:14):
I bet myself to know what to do it around about?
But what do you say, oh, one hundred and eighty
ten eighty are we bad drivers here?

Speaker 9 (01:19:19):
I mean?

Speaker 2 (01:19:20):
This is this study has led to the AA suggested
a new scheme where drivers take an optional test when
renewing their license and if they do that they get
a discount on the fee.

Speaker 4 (01:19:29):
I mean, do they really need us to go through?

Speaker 2 (01:19:30):
Because that is the very that's before you start your
learner's license, right, you've got to go through those punishing
questions on what's in the road code and lea's to
be honest, some of those questions do they really matter?
Like what exactly per millimeter your tread should be to
pass warrant? I mean you know what a bull tire is?

Speaker 3 (01:19:46):
Yeah? And do we really need to know how to
interact safely with cycle? Let's don't they all in bike lanes?

Speaker 6 (01:19:50):
Now?

Speaker 4 (01:19:53):
If you want to answer that one, I'll leave the fifth.

Speaker 3 (01:19:56):
No, I don't know New Zealand is particularly bad drivers
because this suggests that New Zealand drivers driving around not
really knowing the rules.

Speaker 26 (01:20:03):
Right?

Speaker 3 (01:20:04):
Are we Are we particularly bad? I don't know. I
have found that.

Speaker 2 (01:20:07):
And a round about, I've got to say people hitting
into roundabouts and they go a bit crazy with their indicator.
I think they're really trying to do the right thing.
But when you're indicating seven seven different directions when you
go into the roundabout, I mean you're probably better just
not indicating at all.

Speaker 3 (01:20:22):
Yeah, right, okay, so my understanding of a roundabout right
as you indicate to get on? Oh, do you need
to indicate to get on? Because there's the only one
way you can get on.

Speaker 4 (01:20:32):
Yeah, no indicating to get on, So I mean you could,
Yeah you could.

Speaker 3 (01:20:35):
Yeah, you don't really need to know. I mean, it
just shows that you're not insane. You're not going to
go the other way. Yes, telling people to get the
hell out of the way. But once you're on, you
indicate until you're going to get off. If there's multiple exits,
you don't indicate until you're going to get off, and
then you indicate to get off.

Speaker 2 (01:20:51):
Bang on, you would have passed. It's a tick for you,
may eth who doesn't know that, Well, you think so,
but some people keep indicating around the whole thing.

Speaker 3 (01:20:57):
Yeah, Well, what are the biggest gaps in people's knowledge?
Hundred and eighty ten eighty.

Speaker 2 (01:21:00):
Nine, two ninety two is the text as well, are
we bad drivers? And what do you reckon about? This
idea from the ai AA tell us it is ten
past three, we'll be back in a few minutes.

Speaker 3 (01:21:10):
His talk said, be it is twelve bars three.

Speaker 2 (01:21:14):
So the AA says, key, we drivers have a big
knowledge gap on navigating roundabouts, using bus lanes, interacting with
cyclists as after a recent study, so they surveyed five
hundred and thirty five current drivers, and the majority of
participants answered less.

Speaker 4 (01:21:28):
Than seventy percent of the questions quickly.

Speaker 3 (01:21:30):
Ah haha, you guys, is so wrong when indicating well
using a roundabout?

Speaker 1 (01:21:34):
Are we no?

Speaker 4 (01:21:36):
I call bs on that. I know my roundabouts.

Speaker 3 (01:21:38):
Daniel says that a roundabout indicate if you're turning, if
going straight, only indicate left after passing first exit. Not hard,
but so many people get this wrong.

Speaker 4 (01:21:49):
I think that's what you said, wasn't it?

Speaker 3 (01:21:50):
Around about indicate if you're turning, if going straight, only
indicate left after passing first exit.

Speaker 4 (01:21:57):
But hang on a minute, that's what you said there?

Speaker 3 (01:22:00):
Are you supposed to indicate right the whole time that
you're not? Had a minute we're talking about it. We're
talking about a one lane roundabout here to keep simple right?

Speaker 14 (01:22:08):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (01:22:09):
Yeah, So you go in maybe I don't know what
I'm talking about it.

Speaker 2 (01:22:11):
And if you're not going straight, yeah yeah, then you
indicate rights. But then you still indicate left when you
exit the roundabout.

Speaker 3 (01:22:18):
Don't you sorry? Guys, you're wrong. Don't be sorry. We
should be sorry. You indicate in the direction you intend
to go at a roundabout and indicate off as you exit,
you don't indicate onto the roundabout. No wonder there are
accidents at roundabouts. No one knows which way you're going.
Go and get some lessons. No, never, never, never. I
would rather I would rather just muck through than get

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another lesson.

Speaker 4 (01:22:40):
Yeah, you know the basics. No, you'll keep indicating a way.

Speaker 3 (01:22:44):
But what would be the end of the world if
you indicated getting onto a roundabout, Like, why would that
cause an accident? So if you come up to a
roundabout right, yeah, and you're stopped and you're going to
go left. I mean, anyone knows you're going to go left,
what would be the big problem indicating before you went on?

Speaker 2 (01:22:58):
There's only one way in if it's a single lane. Yeah,
So it's not going to do any damage, is it.
Is it really going to confuse people?

Speaker 8 (01:23:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:23:04):
I mean they might just go idiot. Of course. I
know what you do it it's yeah, and that's whine.

Speaker 10 (01:23:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:23:08):
Oh, one hundred and eighty ten eighty number, get Julia.

Speaker 30 (01:23:11):
Hello, Hi, Sorry, I've lost my voice of it.

Speaker 3 (01:23:14):
That sounds that sounds cool, husky, No it doesn't.

Speaker 30 (01:23:18):
I moved from Australia and I always get sick when
I come back to New Zealand.

Speaker 3 (01:23:23):
What do you think that is?

Speaker 30 (01:23:26):
I'm not sure. Actually I know that the weather's a
lot cooler head than in Queensland.

Speaker 3 (01:23:32):
Maybe we've got weird diseases here.

Speaker 30 (01:23:34):
Yeah, I did go to I have been going to
the gym and I did hear Jim was saying that
there's sick from work, but they've come to the gym,
so it's a hot bit of diase out of it.

Speaker 9 (01:23:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:23:47):
Are people wiping wiping down the machines, Julia?

Speaker 30 (01:23:51):
I definitely, I'm wiping before and after.

Speaker 4 (01:23:53):
Definitely are other people.

Speaker 30 (01:23:56):
I haven't been paying attention to them, to be honest,
some people go crazy.

Speaker 3 (01:24:01):
They treat it like it's a surgery. Give amount of wiping,
the wipe the whole machine even but they haven't been
any minute. But that's not what we're talking about, Julia.
Roundabouts your thoughts.

Speaker 30 (01:24:10):
So what I feel is if you're taking the first exit,
you indicate left heading into the roundabout right, any of
the other exits, you'll use your right indicator until you're
exiting at the exit and you use your left in the.

Speaker 27 (01:24:22):
Coda right, So you leave, you leave your right confusion,
you leave your.

Speaker 3 (01:24:27):
Right indicator on just to say I'm not I'm not
turning off.

Speaker 30 (01:24:30):
I'm not taking the first exit. I'm going straight through
and I'm going to take another exit.

Speaker 3 (01:24:35):
But wouldn't people know that because you're not indicating. So
not indicating mean something.

Speaker 30 (01:24:39):
People like I've just come from AlSi and sometimes they
indicate left, but they actually go straight through. They're not
taking the first exit. So it's confusing.

Speaker 3 (01:24:48):
Yeah, that's confusing.

Speaker 1 (01:24:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:24:49):
Yeah, So the worst thing you can be doing is
indicating that you're going to get off when you're not.

Speaker 30 (01:24:53):
When you're not getting off, you're going straight ahead.

Speaker 12 (01:24:56):
Yeah yeah, I.

Speaker 3 (01:24:58):
Get that, But but does anyone go as far as
indicating right to say this staying on? Are a lot
of people doing that?

Speaker 9 (01:25:06):
Do you do that?

Speaker 30 (01:25:07):
I definitely do, I think because that's what I was
for back in the day.

Speaker 2 (01:25:10):
Yeah yeah, yeah, that's not the most important part though,
was it. The most important part is indicating when you
jump off at the exit.

Speaker 30 (01:25:17):
Yes, that's what I mean. If you're if you're going
straight ahead, you're using your right indicator. But once you
exit at the exit, you want to take use your
left indicator.

Speaker 3 (01:25:26):
Yeah, all right, good luck with that croaky throat. It
does sound cool though, Yeah, thank you very much. Is
this in the road code? This text? You're seeing this
through he who hesitates gives way?

Speaker 4 (01:25:36):
Don't if it's in the road code, I mean the
street code.

Speaker 3 (01:25:40):
Maybe? Well, I mean there is a bit of that
in the in the roundabout, right, So in the roundabout,
you you know, because you got right away, because you're
on there. Yeah, so you got to get on there.

Speaker 2 (01:25:48):
You can't muck around. If you hesitate, you've lost your chance.
You've got to wait for the people to come round.
Don't muck around. Just bet yourself the sixes.

Speaker 3 (01:25:56):
I love New Zealand, but you guys are terrible on
your roundabouts.

Speaker 4 (01:25:59):
Okay, okay, tell us more. We need more context.

Speaker 2 (01:26:02):
Oh, one hundred and eighty ten eighty is the number
to call. We've got to play some messages. But just
before I do that, should we do some questions out
of the road code right now? I haven't done this one,
so I don't know. I guess we'll both do it
all right, Here we go. It's quite a confusing one, actually.
What is the least distance of clear roads you must
have in front of you when you have finished passing
another vehicle? And the options are fifty meters one hundred meters,

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one hundred and fifty meters two hundred meters meters. I'm
going to go one fifty, all right, so we'll to
two hundred meters here, submits.

Speaker 3 (01:26:32):
I mean I'd deal with fifty, but we were both
roll What is it?

Speaker 4 (01:26:36):
The answer was B one hundred meters all right. Last
question one, I.

Speaker 3 (01:26:40):
Was just trying to come across. I was kind of
virtue signal that I was overly safe. Very all right.
Tell us your thoughts.

Speaker 2 (01:26:47):
I one hundred eighty ten eighty A Kiwi's bad drivers
and what is the worst behavior you see on the road.

Speaker 4 (01:26:52):
It is eighteen past three.

Speaker 3 (01:26:53):
Clearly Tyler and I should hand in our licensees. Not
a great start.

Speaker 1 (01:26:56):
More soon, Mad Heathen Taylor Adams afternoons call oh eight
hundred eighty ten eighty on used talk Z B.

Speaker 2 (01:27:06):
Twenty past three. So the AAC as many of us
don't know the road codes. Does that really matter? And
are we bear drivers in this country?

Speaker 4 (01:27:12):
What do you reckon? I E one hundred and eighty
ten eighty or if you want to send a test
me artext message round two nine two se that number.

Speaker 3 (01:27:17):
This makes a really good point Keeps are the worst
drivers in the world on the roads. However, on the
racetrack some of the best. Yeah. I got to say that,
you got your Liam Lawson's, you got your Matte Pains,
your Ryan Woods.

Speaker 4 (01:27:29):
Good at speed? Yeah, speed and handling.

Speaker 3 (01:27:31):
Yeah. So does the road code really matter? Does it
matter to those guys? I've done all right, the different
set of skills. Yeah. I mean if you watch the
superscar supercars, there's a lot of tailgating in the supercar.

Speaker 4 (01:27:43):
Yeah, very true.

Speaker 3 (01:27:45):
Point two behind, Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:27:47):
I one hundred and eighty ten eighty is the number.
Get a grant?

Speaker 3 (01:27:51):
Good a, how are you very good?

Speaker 4 (01:27:52):
What's your thoughts?

Speaker 12 (01:27:54):
Well, where I live, if i'm if I'm heading north,
in the main street of my township, is a pedestrian crossing.
Now we all know what a pedestrian crossing is. Yes,
and then twenty five five minutes over the pedestrian crossing
there's a raised piece in the road to allow people
to cross, and the right in the center of the road,

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they have a point where you should stop and allow
the traffic to keep going. Then when the traffic is gone,
then you can cross the road again. So you've moved
another twenty five meters down and we've got a roundabout
and on the roundabout there's four entries and four exus,
whatever way you want to look at it, and they've
got the four raised sections of the road where people

(01:28:42):
can cross the road. Now people think it's a pedestrian
crossing and you'll be going through the roundabout and if
you go, if you charged towards them, they'll give you
a bird or give you a juice or whatever. So
that's one thing that you receive. And then on the
other side of it, I've seen witnessed and friends of
witness where people will stop in the middle of the

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round about because I've entered it and where the exit is,
they've got this raised piece where they think it's a
pedestrian crossing and they stop and the car that's behind
them drives up there.

Speaker 18 (01:29:15):
They're bum because they.

Speaker 3 (01:29:16):
Don't know either that it's actually what's the bit for.

Speaker 12 (01:29:21):
Well, it's it's meant to be a point where people
can cross the road. But in theory what it's meant
to be is like a pedestrian crossing is a pedestrian as.

Speaker 3 (01:29:30):
A place someone can cross the road, but it's not
the same as a pedestrian crossing and that you have
to give.

Speaker 18 (01:29:35):
It hasn't got it. There's no sebra crossing. So theoretically
the cross on one side, stop in the middle, and
then as soon as the traffic is free, they cross.
But people not knowing the rules of the road.

Speaker 12 (01:29:49):
They'll enter into the into the roundabout and they'll stop
smack in the middle of the roundabout and let that
person that's standing there waiting.

Speaker 3 (01:29:58):
That seems confusing.

Speaker 12 (01:30:00):
Because they don't they don't know the rules. And you know,
like having those crossing points is fine, but why don't
they put a sign for the walking public and the
drivers saying this is not a pedestrian crossing. There's never
been anything said. No, I've spoken to mates mine and
Auckland and they've never heard of these crossing points. No,

(01:30:20):
I'm they seemed to be a South Island thing. Like
I should take a photo and send it to you guys,
because it's just so confusing.

Speaker 3 (01:30:28):
I mean, I'd love that. I'm just trying to get
my head around it. But yeah, you send us the photo.
Three thanks Grant. One thing I don't understand is pedestrian
crossing is why are they raised? Just what's the advantage
because I mean, if you if you're you're already on
the pedestrian costing. Once the raised nature of it affects you.

Speaker 2 (01:30:45):
It's not going to slow anyone down until it's too late. Yeah,
So they're just a waste of bitumen.

Speaker 3 (01:30:50):
So you could ever, I mean, if you're going to
do anything, it ever speedbump before the pedestrian costing. But
raising them, I mean that's why they were getting those
five hundred thousand dollars pedestrian crossings. That's right, Yeah, because
people get excited and over engineered them when they really
just need a bit of paint.

Speaker 2 (01:31:04):
Yeah, if you're in the game, and no, let us know,
nine to nine two is the text number, Graham. You
want to have a chat about roundabouts too?

Speaker 23 (01:31:11):
Yeah, Yeah, your biggest faux pa was saying, what's wrong
with stopping when you arrived at aroundabout? But the lady
was right about the first exit thing, and if you're
not going left at the first exit, don't indicate left.
The biggest thing that went wrong was when they introduced
it and the top police dog came on and he said,
you must indicate when you arrive at a roundabout and

(01:31:32):
we'll be watching and giving tickets. If you don't, now
the only choice is to indicate left or indicate right.
So if you arrived at a roundabout and you're not
going right, you thought, hell, I got to indicate, so
you indicate left, and of course all the people waiting
at that first exit, so you indicate left and think,
oh god, you're going left and pulled out and next
minute you.

Speaker 16 (01:31:51):
Were hitting them.

Speaker 3 (01:31:52):
So yes, So basically you'd indicate if you wanted to
indicate before you got on the roundabout right. I mean,
you could arguably indicate right, because you can't actually go right,
so that'd be suggesting that you were staying on the
route about. But as soon as you get on the
roundabout you have to stop indicating, is what you're saying.
So if you're indicating left, you get on the roundabout,
which is necessary as soon as you get on there,
if you're not getting off on their first exit, then

(01:32:13):
would you start indicating right or would you Well.

Speaker 23 (01:32:16):
The problem with indicating right, The biggest problem is they
didn't differentiate between little roundabouts and big roundabout. Big roundabouts
you get on and then you go around, then you
get off. But the whole purpose a roundabout is the
use the flow of traffic, and in the middle of
town when it's basically crossroads, and they used to have
stop signs. It was silly when there was no traffic

(01:32:37):
to have to stop so to change safe fuel the time.
If there's no one there, you can sail through. So
what they did they put a little weed dot in
the middle of the road and called it around about.
But basically, if you're going straight through, you're not actually
going around and round about. Yeah, but if you indicate right,

(01:32:58):
then you're slowing up the people that are ahead of you.
That if you're going straight and the people oppositely you're
going straight and you indicate right, they're there waiting for
you to turn right, you're going straight ahead. And by
the time you get past at midpoint to not confuse
the people on your left. Then if the people straight
ahead can't see your left, blinker anyway. But as long

(01:33:19):
as you're not turning right, then they are happy to
go ahead. And you know, where I live near a
major little roundabout and heaps of traffic and it flows
good if people, you know, stick to those rules.

Speaker 3 (01:33:33):
So you're saying, essentially, if you're into a roundabout and
you don't and you don't take the first left. If
there's just if there's just a left going straight through you,
it's a good point. You are just going straight. Yeah,
someone's just made a deviation of the straight that's right.

Speaker 23 (01:33:48):
You If you indicate left because you think you have to,
because you've got to indicate when leaving a roundabout and
it's such a small intersection, you think cracky. I can't
wait till I'm in the middle of the intersection before
I turn left. I have to turn I have to
indicate straight away. As soon as you indicate left, you're
basically telling those people waiting at the round about, you know,

(01:34:10):
on your left, your turning least, so they think I
got turning left that proceeeding and you're not. You're going
straight ahead.

Speaker 4 (01:34:16):
Yeah, can't do it to early?

Speaker 3 (01:34:17):
Good point.

Speaker 2 (01:34:18):
Yeah, thank you very much. O. One hundred and eighty
ten eighty is the number to call if you want
to send a text. Ninety two nine to two is
that number.

Speaker 3 (01:34:25):
So we got we've got time to go to Scott
for the for the new headline. Yeah, let's have jet
to Scott because he's good a good eight to second. Sorry,
good a Scott. You've you've done a few k's a year.

Speaker 26 (01:34:35):
Yeah, a little bit, right, Okay, So this rule chamban as,
I've been a sales rep with the whole indicating to
leave the leave the round about it any exit, so
the first okay, So let's do this like with Google.
First exit as a left tune right perfect.

Speaker 10 (01:34:48):
We all know that right.

Speaker 26 (01:34:49):
Second exit is do not do anything to not touch
an indicator until you're coming off.

Speaker 1 (01:34:57):
Into that new into that lane.

Speaker 26 (01:34:59):
You just flick the indicator on left, you to let
the right hand traffic know that you're turning left.

Speaker 21 (01:35:05):
Into or going straight to ahead if you like in.

Speaker 26 (01:35:07):
The old days you spent t hit and didn't put
in the indicator on right. But now as you leave
the roundabout, you put your lift in the cator on
to go into that lane.

Speaker 3 (01:35:16):
Right now, people, that's telling people that are about to
get on getting off that I'm getting off. Yeah, correct.

Speaker 26 (01:35:23):
Now, if I go to the third exit, I put
my right indicator on to let people know I'm going
round the roundabout.

Speaker 18 (01:35:28):
And let's say I'm coming off at that third end
at that third intersection the exit.

Speaker 26 (01:35:35):
Sorry, I will put my left indicator on now as
I exit the roundabout into the third lane.

Speaker 21 (01:35:41):
And vice versa.

Speaker 26 (01:35:42):
If I got a fourth or a first door.

Speaker 3 (01:35:43):
Go right round the round about.

Speaker 10 (01:35:44):
Let's say I want to go right round because I.

Speaker 3 (01:35:46):
Know me and I don't know where I'm going, I
put my left.

Speaker 26 (01:35:49):
I put my left indicator on to exit there as well.

Speaker 22 (01:35:53):
So right, and if I'm just going to go round
round round and round round.

Speaker 26 (01:35:56):
I just put my right in the cator on and
just sit there until my tank runs out.

Speaker 8 (01:35:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:36:00):
Yeah, so you're putting thing, You've nailed it. Well, there's
a few people that have done that, Royal Oak and
Auctond I think that have just gone round around lost
their nerve. People from out of town and they've just
go around until they run out of guess that stuck there.

Speaker 10 (01:36:13):
Brilliant, Yeah, brilliant.

Speaker 3 (01:36:15):
Yeah, so that's pretty nice and simple, right, Yes.

Speaker 26 (01:36:18):
The people they put their right indicator on and then
I'm sitting at a gibway and then they just go straight.

Speaker 1 (01:36:23):
My lordie, I'll tell you what. That's a that's a
real peeve.

Speaker 3 (01:36:26):
Yeah. Yeah, because because you've you've told yeah, absolutely, because
you have told them they can't go, but they can't.

Speaker 7 (01:36:33):
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 30 (01:36:34):
Yeah, Yeah, it's pretty much it.

Speaker 15 (01:36:35):
Boys, it's nice and simple.

Speaker 3 (01:36:37):
There you go. So about seventy five thousand companies are
on the road a year for you, is that right,
Scott correct? Yeah, yeah, yeah, and that's that's why he's
got it sort of.

Speaker 16 (01:36:44):
There you go.

Speaker 2 (01:36:45):
It's as simple as that. Thank you very much for that, Scott. Oh,
one hundred and eighty ten eighty is and number to call.
Are we bear drivers? You got time for one more
question from the road code mat Heath.

Speaker 4 (01:36:54):
I think you're gonna like this one. Surely we're not
going to get it wrong. Okay, right, here we go.

Speaker 3 (01:36:58):
So you see a pedestrian carrying a white cane crossing
the road. What should you What should you do?

Speaker 4 (01:37:05):
A toot your horn to let them know you're there?

Speaker 3 (01:37:07):
Candy cane, A white cane? What kind of cane? So
it's a blind person? Oh okay, so a blind person
can't see? Okay, so the option A is too. Why
didn't you just say a blind person because all kinds
of people can carry canes? I I had to google it,
but that's how it's written on the road Coache. Someone
could be pretending to be Willy Wonko.

Speaker 2 (01:37:22):
Yeah, they should say by blind person. Actually, anyone can
have a white cane. So okay, you see a blind
pedestrian crossing the road, what should you do? Toot your
horn to let them know that you're there and that
they should hurry up, b stop and wait for them
to cross, or see speed up and.

Speaker 3 (01:37:36):
Pass in front of them. Definitely not that one. You
can go around them if they've kind of pass the
danger zone, you could just kind of just go around them,
go on the inside of them.

Speaker 4 (01:37:46):
Yeah, I mean to your horn to let them know
you're there as a kindness in a way, but not
to hurry them up.

Speaker 1 (01:37:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:37:54):
No one knows the answer to that one. Yeah, it's impossible.

Speaker 4 (01:37:57):
Let's just try a toot your horn to let them
know you're there. It's wrong, it was b you meant
to stop and wait.

Speaker 3 (01:38:02):
Yeah, that's what I said. Yeah, okay, keep keep those
calls coming through. Oh, one hundred and eighty ten eighty.
It's twenty nine to two four.

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Speaker 4 (01:39:29):
Thank you very much, Raileen.

Speaker 2 (01:39:31):
So we're talking about ki we driving behavior that AA
asked five hundred and thirty five licensed drivers twenty four
questions about road rules and driving behavior, and they found
the majority of participants answered less than seventy percent of
those questions correctly.

Speaker 4 (01:39:44):
So are we terrible drivers in this country? What do
you reckon? I? One hundred and eighty ten eighty.

Speaker 3 (01:39:48):
This person asks a good question, how do you know
someone's blind? Your knobs because I've got the white cane.

Speaker 10 (01:39:52):
Yeah, but.

Speaker 2 (01:39:55):
Look, that was just how it's written. I'll take that
up with the whoever writes the questions for the road code.

Speaker 3 (01:40:01):
There needs to say someone with a white cane in
front of them tapping the ground. Yeah, because because their questions,
did you see someone with the white cane? I mean
they might just be carrying the cane. Yeah, it could
just be very dapper. They might be have bought the
cane for their blind friend and they're taking the home.

Speaker 27 (01:40:14):
True.

Speaker 3 (01:40:16):
The ticks number get.

Speaker 27 (01:40:17):
A like those canes collapse, come on, good boy, yea
yeah yeah they good show guys, nice show.

Speaker 9 (01:40:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 27 (01:40:28):
Look what really drives me nuts when I was driving
and really rips Miamis to shreds is these these absolute nutters.
They get on a motorway on rape yeah. Right, and
just as that passing over there to the threshold, they
come to complete stop waiting for a gap.

Speaker 8 (01:40:49):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's.

Speaker 27 (01:40:52):
Just a Meanwhile the traffic's building up behind, you know,
the drivers behind them. That's just like, that's really really,
really really dumb.

Speaker 19 (01:41:03):
You know.

Speaker 27 (01:41:03):
They obviously don't get the get the thought of merging.

Speaker 3 (01:41:09):
Like as that pay, you go on, you take, you
take it right to the end and you get on exactly.
That's a lot of people don't know that. They think
they think it's as soon as you can get it on,
and they're terrified that they're going to run out of
space before they get let in.

Speaker 27 (01:41:26):
Oh that's where they that's where they should actually hand
their license, and they've lost.

Speaker 3 (01:41:30):
The I think I think that's a lot of it.
I think that a lot of problems on the road
are a lack of confidence that yeah, yeah, they are
and that merge. That merging is one of the parts
of driving that takes the most confidence, I guess, because
you just got to you've got to trust, you got
to trust in the system.

Speaker 2 (01:41:50):
Do you think some of it is Mike as well,
that people think it's more polite. If they try and
jump into the motorway early, then they're not getting ahead
of other people unfairly.

Speaker 4 (01:41:58):
I think that's the mentality that some people think.

Speaker 2 (01:42:00):
If they go say it's choc a block and and
you've got to find your way in a lot of
people would think it's polite to try and jump at
the first opportunity. So I don't want to unfairly get
in front of all of these people. But that's a
poor way to think.

Speaker 23 (01:42:14):
You know.

Speaker 4 (01:42:14):
What they say is it is it's be predictable, don't
be polite on the roads.

Speaker 18 (01:42:18):
Yeah, yeah, Yeah, that's it.

Speaker 27 (01:42:20):
That's it. It's like, you know, build up the motorway
speed going down the on ramp and then you've got
a lane there which you can go into and then
merge into the traffic. They seem to think it's to
stop sign.

Speaker 10 (01:42:35):
And it's like what are you doing?

Speaker 4 (01:42:38):
Yeah something where many of us have said in the
car while we're driving, Mike, but yeah.

Speaker 27 (01:42:45):
Just stand out one one other thing, aeother thing. Now,
if you guys would too muppets.

Speaker 3 (01:42:50):
Right, just imagine.

Speaker 27 (01:42:54):
Yeah, just imagine exactly which ones would you be.

Speaker 3 (01:43:01):
Yeah, that's a really good question. I probably look I'd
like to be Doctor Teeth from Doctor Teeth the Electric Mayhem,
if I could be, if I got to choose Mike.

Speaker 27 (01:43:14):
Well, I think you two guys are the the two
old guys up in the circle there.

Speaker 2 (01:43:21):
Yeah, a lot of people say that one. Funnily enough, Mike,
I've always seen myself as a bit of a kermit.

Speaker 8 (01:43:28):
A.

Speaker 3 (01:43:29):
Uh, you're a bit of a Gonza. Uh No, Stepper
and Waldorf. Great, great, great couple of guys. Step on.
I'll be proud to be stepping on the water, I
thinks for that, Mike. Yeah, they know what they're doing
in life. Thanks very much for your called Dan, What
do you reckon?

Speaker 29 (01:43:44):
Yeah, how's it going?

Speaker 3 (01:43:45):
Very good?

Speaker 29 (01:43:46):
I want to talk about the roundabout because the last
two guys just nailed it, and that woman with a
bad voice needs to take the license again. Now New
Zealand drivers are just so bad. It's unbelievable. How the
basics are just not there. I mean, merging can't do it,

(01:44:07):
give way, no one of the things. You know, there's
a couple of pit hates, and that people won't keep
left when overtaking, and then if somebody overtakes them. It
seems like a slight on their man, How do you
get one car in front of me that we will
have to stop or far up the road anyway, you know,

(01:44:29):
so the light goes green or or there's a gap
in the traffic and the person that had the start
finites there, cigarette huts the car into gear, idols forward around.
By the time they go around, the lights read again,
and it's just like no one else exists on the road.
Don't worry about it.

Speaker 22 (01:44:46):
That's fine.

Speaker 3 (01:44:47):
Do you get on your horn on that kind of situation?

Speaker 23 (01:44:49):
Dan Oh, like a demon?

Speaker 3 (01:44:52):
How long do you stay on that horn? For punitive?

Speaker 29 (01:44:59):
That's just like the angels coming from me.

Speaker 3 (01:45:02):
Because because there's a friendly there's a friendly way to
remind someone to get off their phone and pull out,
which is the book. But there's also there's also the
abusive way to get on a horn, which is holding
it for a long period of time one hundred.

Speaker 29 (01:45:16):
But the other thing that is frustrating is, you know,
if the government really cared about broa't safety road deaths,
they actually start hammering down on these fundamentals that are
failing and causing people to you know, just drive horribly.
But instead it's just speeding, speeding, speed camera speak camera.

(01:45:37):
It's just it's the easy band aid thing without fixing
the you know, the lack of drivers training and how
easy it is to see the license here.

Speaker 4 (01:45:45):
Dan, thank you very much for your call. Do you
agree with Dan? And if you want to send text
nine two ninety two is that number? Plenty of techs
coming through.

Speaker 3 (01:45:53):
As it says in the Road Coast says Jeremy merged
like a zip not an e. F Wort says in
the Road Coade.

Speaker 4 (01:46:00):
Maybe it should. It's pretty clear cut, isn't it pretty clever?
Keep those decks coming through? It is eighteen to four
Back in a moment.

Speaker 1 (01:46:08):
Matt Heath, Tyler Adams with you as your afternoon rolls on.
Matt Heath and Tyler Adams Afternoons News Talk, sa'd be.

Speaker 4 (01:46:16):
Sixteen to four. So are we bad drivers in this country?

Speaker 2 (01:46:19):
The AA did a survey of five hundred and thirty
five current drivers and most of them failed are the
road code questions?

Speaker 4 (01:46:25):
They were asked, So what do you reckon?

Speaker 3 (01:46:27):
Rachel? Sorry, as I said, Rachel, what's Rachel? Rachel says, Hey,
Matt and Tyler, I'm a sixteen year old lunar driver
who is currently taking driving lessons. I had to listen
this morning. There was a situation where I was giving
way at a roundabout. There was a van who wasn't
indicating at all, as one does. I think he must
be going straight ahead wrong. I go to start driving,

(01:46:49):
and of course he then decides to indicate, saying other words,
my structure had to slam his foot on the break.
The point is indicating, especially through a round A point
is a rule for a reason.

Speaker 2 (01:46:59):
Good text that one. Hopefully that didn't mean they failed
that particular test. Yeah, I mean when the instructor has
to slam on the brakes, it's usually not a good sign.

Speaker 4 (01:47:07):
But that was clear not your fault.

Speaker 3 (01:47:09):
Well that's an instructor, not a test. Yeah right, listen
a driving listen. Yeah yeah, I mean I guess you
can fail a driving listen pretty bad.

Speaker 21 (01:47:21):
Just a quick one before my point. They always say,
before you're doing a maneuver, you've got to indicate a
minimum of three seconds. It's impossible to do when you're
going down the roundabout.

Speaker 3 (01:47:32):
Oh yeah, that is a good point.

Speaker 21 (01:47:34):
So but what would you do if a cop came up?
You were sitting at a red light and a cop
came behind you or a fire engine.

Speaker 4 (01:47:41):
With its light slashing move out of the way.

Speaker 21 (01:47:44):
Would you go through the red light to do that?

Speaker 14 (01:47:47):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:47:48):
Explain that again, sorry, Craig.

Speaker 21 (01:47:51):
I was I was looking the truck, Yeah I was,
And a cop car came up behind me with his
light slashing, come up with an The only way he
could get through was for me to go through the
red light, which I safely could. But I've got a
red light caverine ticket and wrote in and I wasn't
let off. You won't now there's at emergency vehicle behind

(01:48:14):
me or whatever. There's no way you'll go through a
red light.

Speaker 3 (01:48:18):
It's a great question because so there was no way
you could show me to the left or right your
gender truck a track you could do that.

Speaker 4 (01:48:25):
Yeah, so I stay.

Speaker 21 (01:48:27):
I probably. I've got a yellow beacon on the roof.

Speaker 18 (01:48:29):
I turned that on.

Speaker 21 (01:48:31):
There were really no cars coming, so I went through.
The cop took off at a great rate of knots
and I get a red light camera.

Speaker 18 (01:48:41):
Fine in the post, Well did.

Speaker 3 (01:48:43):
You get a form letter? Do you think actually someone
looked at it or because you know often they just
have that automatic that automatic. Nah, we're still going to
find you. But I mean, if you had no choice,
there'd be I mean, they must understand that that situation
can sometimes happen.

Speaker 21 (01:48:58):
So I've locked into it and you're not allowed to
go through, So I would just sit there now, could
be frustrating someone's life on the line.

Speaker 3 (01:49:07):
But so so they're saying, so you're so instead of
going through because you'd hope because of the sirens there
that everyone is not going through, right, it's because because
the because the emergency services are going to go through.

Speaker 21 (01:49:22):
So yeah, they're allowed to go through.

Speaker 3 (01:49:24):
That's a that's a very complicated little situation, isn't it.
Because you know, if you're going through just in front
of them, then people should be stopping anyway for the police,
and if they can't get past, then they're gonna have
to wait, what for the entire cycle?

Speaker 21 (01:49:39):
That's right, you please fire an ambulance. You're going to
allow them, you know, you can do whatever it is
to get those services through it. But no, it's illegal
for anyone to go to event like others the net,
so they they gotta wait if they.

Speaker 25 (01:49:55):
Can't get through.

Speaker 3 (01:49:56):
Well, that's complicated.

Speaker 4 (01:49:57):
Yeah, it doesn't make much sense.

Speaker 2 (01:49:58):
But if them's the rules, I mean, it's a good
PSA that you've just given everyone, Craig.

Speaker 21 (01:50:02):
Yeah, yeah, but the three sick rule that always tells
me if you're going straight ahead and around them left,
or if you're going around part straight ahead you undercate
because you can't do it unless them, you know, with
the three checond rule.

Speaker 4 (01:50:21):
Yeah, thank you very much for that, Craig. That's a
spinner on the works on the roundabouts.

Speaker 3 (01:50:25):
The New Zealand rules for emergency vehicles. When a police car, ambulance,
fire engine, or other emergency vehicle approaches with flashing red
or blue lights and or a siren, you must make
way as soon as it is safely practical. That means
pulling to the side of the road and stopping if
necessary so it can pass. So they must say that
it's not safely practical to go through the lights.

Speaker 26 (01:50:51):
Right.

Speaker 3 (01:50:51):
That's sort of the opposite, isn't it, So you're you're
doing nothing. Check your mirrors and DIGITIFI where the emergency
vehicle is coming from. Signal left, Move as far left
as you can safely, stop if necessarily, or remain stopped
until it has passed before moving a game. Check for
additional emergency vehicles another way, another another maybe following closely behind.

(01:51:12):
There you go.

Speaker 4 (01:51:12):
It's a beautiful reading voice.

Speaker 3 (01:51:13):
I'd listening.

Speaker 4 (01:51:14):
Need to get that on the Telly David, you had
a tricky situation on the roundabout.

Speaker 21 (01:51:20):
I did.

Speaker 16 (01:51:21):
I've got a question for you as well. Hopefully we're
ready well for you for your listeners. Perhaps, Okay, the
roundabout thing, there was a car that exited a roundabout,
turned left with the intention of going straight ahead. Just
along from there was an entrance exit to a shopping

(01:51:43):
center and I was coming out. Now I see his
left hand indicator going and imagine he's turning into the
shopping center. But it hadn't canceled from coming out of
the roundabout, so he was going straight through, and I
was thinking he's turning into the shopping center. So I
nearly took him out.

Speaker 3 (01:52:01):
Yeah, right, tricky because it wasn't it wasn't enough of
a turn to automatically turn off his indicator line. So yeah,
that's up to him to be, you know, in the
perfect world, onto it enough to know I'm out of
the I've got to fick that off myself, otherwise I'm
coming up. He's telling you that you can pull out. Basically,
isn't he yeah, yeah, that's right. That is a tricky one. Okay, yeah,

(01:52:23):
gray areas.

Speaker 16 (01:52:24):
Yep, not my question. Okay, Okay, different scenario. I've wondered
this for quite a long time. In a modern car,
say I'm the passenger and the driver who's something. He
has a brain aneurysm or something like that, and in
an instant he's unconscious, he slumped over the wheel, his

(01:52:46):
foot's probably gone flat to the floor on the accelerator.
Cars going off like a rocket. What do I do
modern cars, there's no handbrake. I can grab big get
I mean, there's a big hump between me and him.
I can't get my leg over to try and put
it on the brake. I don't have a key I
can turn off?

Speaker 10 (01:53:03):
What do I do?

Speaker 14 (01:53:05):
So?

Speaker 3 (01:53:05):
Hell of a scenario that you've crafted, to hear David.

Speaker 16 (01:53:08):
The other That's quite doable, isn't it. I mean, I
can imagine that actually happening. So I thought I'll ring
some experts. So I rang the bow. I rang the
Volkswagon dealer because I've got a VW car, and I said,
what do I do? Probably got a journior person but
didn't have a clue. So I thought oh, you enough,

(01:53:29):
So I rang the AA. I thought they probably know
I never thought of it, no idea. So I rang
the n z t A. I said to them, what
the person is supposed to do? I didn't know, So
I rang the police. Didn't know.

Speaker 3 (01:53:45):
You've been very thorough, David.

Speaker 13 (01:53:47):
I like it.

Speaker 16 (01:53:49):
And so then I got a phone call back from
the VW dealer and he said to me, well, he says,
if you've got a VW car that's only in the
last a year or two old, which mine doesn't, He
said to me, then if you've got the lane departure
switched on, what will happen is that the car will

(01:54:11):
sense that he's drifting out of his lane, and it'll
give him a little tug on the steering wheel to
to let him know. If he doesn't respond to that,
then the vehicle will see the shudder up the steering
wheel to work him up. If he doesn't respond to it.
To that, then the car will automatically unlock the doors,

(01:54:32):
put on the hazard lights, and bring the vehicle to
a standstill.

Speaker 3 (01:54:36):
But how quickly does it do that? I mean, you
could have a lot could have happened before that kicks in.

Speaker 16 (01:54:44):
Yeah, it may have somebody's life. But most cars wouldn't
do that. So what happens to those people?

Speaker 3 (01:54:50):
They just well, I mean, you might have to do
some pretty fancy steering with your right hand.

Speaker 16 (01:54:58):
And possibly see if you can knock the hasin and
neutral might blow the motor up, but at least.

Speaker 3 (01:55:06):
Yeah, so curly one, David, Yeah, very curly one. Thank
you very much. Right, we've got to play some messages.
It is seven minutes to fall back in a month.

Speaker 1 (01:55:14):
everything in between. Matt Heath and Tyler Adams Afternoons, used talks, EDB.

Speaker 4 (01:55:23):
New stalks, EDB.

Speaker 3 (01:55:24):
It is four to four. All right, that's the end
of the show. It is all right, okay, thank you
so much for listening. Thank you for all your calls
and text. Now, Tyler, why am I playing this nineteen
eighty six cover by The Bangles of a Paul Simon song,
No Idea?

Speaker 14 (01:55:41):
May?

Speaker 3 (01:55:41):
Heath? Why are you playing this one? Because it's the
hazy shade of winter and we were trying to work
out which was the best region in New Zealand and
winter and things got hazy. How good? All right? You said,
busy you will let you go. I'm at Heath. That's
Tyler Adams and we're back live on your radio tomorrow afternoon.
Until then, give a taste a kiwik let's put this show.

Speaker 4 (01:55:58):
Out of its misery.

Speaker 3 (01:55:59):
I want to see you durn't well, durn't

Speaker 1 (01:56:06):
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