Full Show Podcast: 06 March 2025

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
Hello you great New Zealanders, and welcome to mattin Tyler Afternoons.
Full Pod number eighty one for Thursday, the sixth of March.
Fantastic show today, Cyclone stories, Yeah they were good. The
cyclone stories we day and also rage quitting work stories
came out, a lot of shocking behavior from New Zealanders

(00:38):
and then some love for the movies at the end.
A great show. Thoroughly enjoyed it. I hope you do too, Download, subscribe, share,
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Speaker 3 (00:49):
I love you all right then give a taste KIWI.

Speaker 4 (00:52):
Talking with you all afternoon.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
It's Matt Heath and Tyler Adams Afternoons with the Volvo
XC ninety News Talks EDB.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
Welcome into the show. I hope you're doing well on
this Thursday afternoon, seven past one, Get a Mets, get
a Tightler.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
Good everyone, And as I said to you before, Tyler
pretty tired after stay out watching the Championship champions Trophy,
go the black Caps.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
Oh man, so good, so good.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
Now this whole phil Goth thing being sacked by Winston Peters. Yes, boy,
oh boy, pretty good job you've got there as the
High Commissioner to.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
The United Kingdom. You know, you're in position.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
You're in Parliament, you're in you then you're mayor, and
then you're the you know, the High Commissioner, and then
you just keep your mouth shut and don't put your
hand up for Trump to put tariffs on our country.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
So this is what he said.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
This is what he said at an event in London.
I was rereading Churchill's speech to the House of Commons
in nineteen thirty eight after the Munich agreement, and he
turned to Chamberlain. He said, you had the choice between
war and dishignor. You chose disignor. Yet you will have war.
Goff said. This is according to report in the Post.
President Trump has restored the bust of Churchill to the

(02:03):
Oval Office. But do you think he really understands history?
Do you think that full God needs to be taking
shots at Trump from his position as the High Commissioner
to the United Kingdom. An event like it just seems.

Speaker 3 (02:18):
Silly, silly man, because we all know High Commissioner, whether
it's British, Irish, whatever, that is a plum position. And
that's a position that you get at the end of
your career. You've done al right, here's a nice position
for you to see out the rest of your days.
And you know, and fine luxury and good pay and
good honor and you go and.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
Cock it up. It just didn't need to say that, No,
just kicking Oh and you know, yeah, someone puts that
up on X Yeah. Jd Vance sees it. Boom it
has a word to trumpy. Two thousand percent tariffs on
New Zealand meat imports. So they're currently our second biggest
trading you know, exports to America are just a below

(03:00):
China as a number two, aren't they at the moment.

Speaker 3 (03:02):
Yeah, we're exporting a lot of red meat there.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
So I don't know. I don't know if that was.

Speaker 3 (03:08):
A great idea. Phil Golf well its cerainly wasn't because
he's gone now and the Goldberger and Winston Peters, I mean,
he is a man that plays the game, so I
think wise for Winston Peters to say, fell you right
royally stuffed up there you got to go.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
I mean I've been to the digs they've got over
there in London for the New Zealand ambassador and you
know New Zealand house over there. It's pretty flash.

Speaker 3 (03:30):
It's good time. Yeah, it's a good little job at
the end of your career. Wasn't Mallard's he got the
Irish Commissioner gig?

Speaker 2 (03:36):
Didn't he?

Speaker 3 (03:37):
I think he did? And again plumb positions. So Phil
GoF come on man, yeah, onto today's show after three o'clock.
Can cinemas survive the streaming giants and the costs of
getting to the movie theaters?

Speaker 5 (03:54):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (03:54):
We meant to talk about this yesterday but we got
absolutely drowned in the sea of horse dropping talk around Northland,
a record amount of text and phone courts on that
it's a great It was a great chat, but it
meant that we didn't get round to Shawn Baker, director
of Nora, and his heartfelt plea for people to go
back to the cinemas. Question is why aren't we going
to the Cinners anymore? Cinemas anymore? Is it because it's

(04:16):
too expensive? Is it because the movies aren't aren't the
same as they used to be? A quality drop off?
Is it just because streaming is so good? Movie is
an old art form and it's now you know limited series,
is it now? The binging on Netflix and Amazon and
such laziness. Yeah, that's gonna be a good chat after
because I say going to the movies is the best

(04:38):
way to watch a movie. Yeah, it's when someone's directing
a movie that's what they're thinking about. And a Netflix movie,
I think there's something that gets into a director's head
when they're directing for streaming that makes them not make
a great movie.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
I could be wrong, but I think there may be
a little bit of a resurgence of people going back
to the movie theater. But that's the discussion after three
there all the time, mate, Yeah, you certainly are after
two o'clock. On the back of Adrian or quitting, can
we call it rage quitting for Adrian or we might
be getting a little bit ahead of ourselves there, But
it looks like you may have packed the say it's.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
Rumors that he's rage quitting. You know, Hosking said this
morning that he packed us head and quit. Yeah, so
on the back of Hosking saying that Adrian or rage quit,
we want to talk about rage quitting. Have you ever
just thrown your toys and walked out, flip the desk
just quit. Just quit on the spot. It's been too far,
you're not taking any more, and you've just walked out.

(05:29):
I personally have never done it. I've come close, but
I've never done it. There's a certain amount of you know, regret,
I imagine that comes into that situation instead of just
negotiating your way out. But maybe this point times when
rage quitting is the right option, because.

Speaker 3 (05:45):
If you get to that level of anger where you
just just say, flip the table up, flick a bird
to everybody around, and just storm out. You've been have
a backup plan now you're going to pay the mortgage
going forward. But it could be quite cathartic if you've
got that plan ready to go and you're able to
do that. Loved to hear yourself.

Speaker 2 (06:00):
But if it turns out Asian did Adrian or did
rage quit, he left a lot of money on the
table because he was making over eight hundred thousand a year. Yeah,
exactly a half years to go.

Speaker 3 (06:09):
All right, Now, let's have a chat about tropical Cyclone Alfred.
It is due to hit landfall in Australia in the
next twelve hours on the Gold Coast and near Brisban.
Millions have been worn to brace for days without power. Thousands,
tens of thousands have been asked to evacuate or at
least hunk it down, so it is.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
Dangerous and life threatening flooding. Flash flooding has been wards
signific significant damage to property. Seventy thousand sandbags have been
collected from the British the Brisbane City Council by Monday
and now they've up twenty four our sandbag production. And
there's diy sandbag sites at the moment where people go
and fill up their own bags. So they are very

(06:48):
very concerned over here over there.

Speaker 3 (06:50):
And we want to hear from you if you are
listening over in Australia. Oh, eight hundred and eighty ten eighty,
We know we do have listeners in Australia. And if
you've got family over there, what are you hearing from
your family members on the Gold Coast? Edinburgh has been
and you worried, they worried. Is it concerning love to
hear from you?

Speaker 2 (07:06):
Yeah, one hundred and eighty ten eighty. Have you checked
in with your friends and family over there? And also
you know your your stories and your experiences of facing
these kind of weather events here in New Zealand or
around the world.

Speaker 3 (07:16):
YEP nine two nine two is the text number, and
very shortly we're going to be having a chat to
Abbie Coleman. She is from the B one oh five stab,
Abby and Matt Breakfast show in Brisbane, So going to
have a chat to her about what's happening on the ground.
It is thirteen past one.

Speaker 6 (07:32):
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Speaker 4 (07:37):
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Speaker 1 (07:38):
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Speaker 3 (07:44):
B Good afternoon. It is sixteen pass one. As we
all know, tropical cyclone Alfred continues to approach the Australian coast.
It looks likely to hit landfall when the next twelve hours.
Millions have been worn to brace for days without power.
Tens of thousands have been asked to evacuate. On the
line now is Abbie Coleman from the B one oh

(08:04):
five stab, Abby and Matt Bretford Show in Brisbane. Abbe
very good afternoon to you.

Speaker 7 (08:10):
Afternoon to you gentlemen as well.

Speaker 2 (08:12):
Heavy what's the feeling like on the ground over there?

Speaker 7 (08:15):
Do you know it's really quite strange because we've been
getting warnings about this for you know, the last few days,
and we, like you said, we were expecting it to
happen very early on Friday morning. And now I'm looking
outside over the Brisbane River. We're in the city here,
and look, it looks a little bit moody outside, but
it's so surreal because it's calm. There is no indication
that a cyclone is on its way, and that's because

(08:36):
it's actually been I guess delayed. He's a moody, moody,
moody person, so it's been delayed, and there are expecting
it to come through now late on Friday or even
possibly Saturday morning. But it just feels strange because everyone's
like trying to prepare for something and we're not used
to cyclones, like tropical cyclones in Brisbane and the Gold Coast.
You know, it hasn't happened in fifty years. So I

(08:58):
guess the main concern as well is about the rainfall
of what's going to happen, because one thing that Brisbane
and Queenslanders are quite aware of is the flooding. So
I think everyone's just on so much alert for obviously
the wind, but possible flooding. We've been told to expect
that there would be power outages as well, So I
guess with schools out and kids at home with no WiFi,

(09:20):
that's probably going to be everyone's nerves are going to
be fried.

Speaker 8 (09:24):
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 3 (09:24):
I hear there's been a record amount of sandbagging going
down and you're seeing a lot of sand bags being
piled up.

Speaker 7 (09:30):
Do you know people have been lining out throughout the night.
They actually shut it yesterday evening and now they've just
reopened it obviously because it's common than what we expect today,
but people have just been filling sandbags because I guess
last time it was flooded, we didn't have enough. But
I don't know if you've seen the footage, but people
are fighting over toilet paper.

Speaker 3 (09:49):
And sandag basic.

Speaker 7 (09:51):
Yeah, so it's the site of the commodity during any
sort of disaster. It's the toilet paper that's a shortage again.
But yes, shops are actually shutting. The PM has said
that our shops are shut this afternoon and then really
don't know when they're going to reopen.

Speaker 3 (10:06):
Yeah, and how was the general behavior of people let
the supermarket? Clearly everyone goes for the toilet paper aisle
each time, but was the general behavior pretty orderly.

Speaker 7 (10:16):
Look, i'd like to tell you, but I just stole
some rolls from work. I actually didn't go yeah to
the shops. Now everyone's been cool. It just seems, you know,
it just seems like COVID again. You know, we're used
to I guess lockdowns, and that's what it feels like.
But you know, we've had every part of the government
say hey, please do stock up. So although you kind
of go, oh god, here we go again, everyone's stocking up.

(10:38):
I think everyone's just gone by the necessities. But at
the same time and everything is sort of you know,
running out.

Speaker 2 (10:44):
Well, what's the area that's affected at this point? Has
that changed? Is it the same areas that were being
talked about a couple of days ago.

Speaker 7 (10:53):
Well, we're always getting different reports, and I know the
weather does change, so that's the updates. They're still expecting
that Brisbane is going to be in the eye of
the cyclone, but they have said it's going to be
anywhere from the Sunshine Coast down to the Gold Coast.
At the moment, the Gold Coast actually does have bad weather.
So for any New Zealanders that haven't come to Queensland,
please do not now, but you know in the future.

Speaker 2 (11:16):
There's still a couple of us that have remained in
the country, but most of us are on the Goldie
at the moment.

Speaker 7 (11:21):
Yeah, well, I'm pretty sure a lot of you have
present family in the Goldie. It's full of lovely kiwis.
But that's only an hour. It's only an hour and
a bit down the road. And they actually do have
because you know, it's coastal areas, so they've already got
that bad weather that is affecting them. So I guess. Yeah,
it just seems like everyone's going through a different experience.
There's some people that are still kind of non believers

(11:44):
since it's been delayed. But yeah, I know, well I
was trying to say that kindly, but it's just my
husband who still hasn't tied down the trampoline.

Speaker 9 (11:54):
On that.

Speaker 2 (11:54):
What's your personal concern levels and are you going in
to do the show on the radio tomorrow?

Speaker 10 (12:00):
Well, we weren't going to.

Speaker 7 (12:01):
We've actually taken some equipment to be able to broadcast
from home, but with a dog scared of storms, rible
Queenslander and they are, you know, three kids home from school.
I was like, please don't let us, but it looks
like it's going to be safe for I guess us
to come back in. It's just a strange thing where
some houses can be affected and some can't because like

(12:22):
I said, everything you know, I guess is around the river.
It goes all throughout the city. But the concern is
that there's a lot of low lying areas that get
flooded regardless. So you know, in one suburb you can
have some houses affected and some not. So I guess
that's why it's just been so desperate with the sandbags.
So yeah, So I guess my personal concern is I've
got some neighbors and some friends that will be affected,

(12:45):
and then others of us will be okay. But they
have said, you know, to stay off the road. So
I think we just have to wait and see see
how it goes. We just don't. I just it's bizarre
because we're not used to cyclones here.

Speaker 2 (12:56):
Yeah. Yeah, and someone else who's not used to cyclones,
And look, this is a huge this is obviously the
most important issue here. But I hear Ice Cube is
hunkering down in a hotel.

Speaker 7 (13:08):
Yeah yeah, Well he's spokes to be on tour. I
was trying to work out if he's secretly filming a
guest role in Anaconda the second which no one asked for.
That movie is the first thing go well, but yeah,
they're doing a remake, so I'm presuming he's got a
guest role in that. But he's on a music tour
as well, so he's bunker down. It's his first ever

(13:29):
cyclone as well, so I guess he's going to be
posting a lot of photos. I don't know. I can
can emergency pack down to him if you want.

Speaker 2 (13:35):
Yeah, please do.

Speaker 3 (13:36):
Yes. Thought some priers to ice Cube and there's a
confident from that and Tyler. Yeah, yeah, it's a confidence
thing having ice Cube and a disaster though, wasn't it.
You hope things will be all right if ice Cuba's there.

Speaker 7 (13:45):
Yeah, I've been straight out of Compton.

Speaker 2 (13:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (13:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (13:48):
Confidence.

Speaker 2 (13:49):
As I said before, he was great at the game
two of the World Series Dodgers at let's not talk
about Ebbie.

Speaker 3 (13:57):
Thank you very much, go neb some more toilet rolls
from work and all the best and hopefully we'll Chad
in a few days.

Speaker 7 (14:04):
Yeah, sounds good. Thanks guys, Thanks for kring that.

Speaker 3 (14:07):
Is Ebbie Coleman from the B one oh five Stave,
Abby and Matt Breakfast show in Brisbane. So we want
to hear from you if you're over illustrator at the
moment and you're bracing for impact of tropical cyclone Alfred.
Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty nine two nine two
is the text number yeah?

Speaker 2 (14:22):
Or if you've reached out to family given the ring,
how your family over there are feeling about things ahead
of Alfred? Or are your experiences in cyclones both local
and around the world?

Speaker 3 (14:35):
Yep oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty s the number
call twenty two past one, putting.

Speaker 1 (14:41):
The tough questions to the newspeakers the mic asking Breakfast.

Speaker 13 (14:45):
Adrian Nor's departure seemingly coming out of nowhere. Former Reserve
Bank Senior staff for Jeff Mortloux with us as he
packed us.

Speaker 11 (14:50):
Said he appears to have with no apparent reason for it.

Speaker 13 (14:54):
Could we read into it that the funding debate between
the government and the board at the moment might have
something to.

Speaker 4 (14:59):
Do with that.

Speaker 11 (14:59):
That would be a reasonable interpretation. I think the understanding
I have is there have been tensions between the Reserve
Bank and the Minister over the funding negotiations, and that
wouldn't surprise me given how much the budget has increased,
just how much they have been spending in the last
seven years under.

Speaker 13 (15:19):
Asian Or back tomorrow at six am, the mic asking
Breakfast with Baby's Real Estate News Talk ZB.

Speaker 3 (15:25):
It's twenty five pass one and we are talking about
tropical cyclone Alfred. It is due to hit landfall on
the coast of Australia in the next twelve hours. But
if you've been in a cyclone, loved to hear from
your on eight hundred and eighty ten eighty And if
you've got friends and family over there, or indeed you're
in Australia right now, keen to hear from you.

Speaker 2 (15:44):
This text here from Sheery. I rang my brother who
lives on Russell Island. He reckons media and making more
of it than what it is. He said, it'll be
a bit windy for sure though from Sheerry, we'll see
the attitude stuck on Morton Island to be interesting.

Speaker 3 (16:00):
Ellen, how are you this afternoon?

Speaker 14 (16:02):
Good?

Speaker 15 (16:03):
Thanks guys. I know this was a long time ago
that I was ten when in the Bay of Plenty
we experienced cyclanes as well and we don't get many
cyclones in New Zealand, and really we we felt the
full force of the wind, which is really the scariest

(16:26):
thing because it's just relentless and even for you know,
you experience say, loud music for an hour and year headphones,
you know, but you multiply that by fifteen or twenty
hours of the same thing, you get the idea that
that's just it's just coming at you all of the time.
And that was the way any saw.

Speaker 2 (16:47):
Right, Sam, was that when when was that? Where they
have been late sixties then of course.

Speaker 15 (16:52):
Ninety sixty eight and we were in the Bay of Plenty.
And just to give you an idea of how strong
the wind was, we had a great freak tree outside
our house and it was stripped beer of fruit and
leaves and they were green. So you try and pull
a green fruit like a lemon or a off a tree.

(17:12):
The wind did it for us. It stripped the tree completely.
It was so powerful and it blew. I woke up
in the middle of the night and there was also
rain water coming down the inside of my wall that
had been blown under the roof and from the side
of the house that was facing the wind. And I

(17:35):
was two rooms in.

Speaker 2 (17:37):
Wow, wow, how old are you in the strip?

Speaker 15 (17:40):
And Allen I was ten, right, So we evacuated and
and you know, there was a lot of rain and everything,
but it was the howling wind that was the thing
that was the scariest. So you know, I mean, and
that we were in the vave Penny. We just the

(18:00):
way any storm was a combination of two trunks that
collided in Wellington. And so it's far and away probably
the worst storm we've ever had. But there weren't as
many people as there are now we've got that sort
of storm now that the damage would just be catastrophic.

Speaker 2 (18:19):
Wonder what the messaging was. What was the messaging like,
I mean, you're only tense, so it'd be hard to
remember it. Right now we're you know, they're tracking Alfred constantly.
There there's updates, they know where it is and stuff.
The messaging would have been very different back then, just
wouldn't have known as much and harder to find out
what was going on.

Speaker 15 (18:35):
I guess you probably would have read about it in
the newspaper afterwards. That was probably the need to forecasting,
you know that. I think the Herald used to publish
and where the map where they thought things were going
to go. But there was no live warnings or you know,
evacuate or hunt it down or get out or.

Speaker 12 (18:54):
Anything like that. You just had to deal with it.

Speaker 15 (18:57):
So, you know, we were I think without power and
water and and infrastructure for quite a few days after that.

Speaker 3 (19:07):
Do you mean of the clean up as a as
a ten year old, did you have to get out
there and help.

Speaker 16 (19:13):
It?

Speaker 4 (19:13):
Was?

Speaker 15 (19:13):
You just cleaned up your own place and then just
got on with it, because there was no such thing
as civil defense and the way there is now and
we were and where we were in the Bay plenty,
we might as well have been on the moon. I mean,
it was quite remote compared to now, and so you know,
you just you just have to adapt and get on

(19:35):
with it. And so but the scary thing was just
the wom it was lowing all of the time and
not knowing when it's going to end.

Speaker 3 (19:45):
At what point did you hear about the yan e Allen?
Was that a few days after?

Speaker 15 (19:51):
We would have probably heard it on the radio as
it was happening. I seem to recall that. And obviously
the Herald would have published articles because the paper was
probably apart from the radio was one of the few
forms of communication. There was TV, but that didn't come
on until later in the afternoon, so they wouldn't have

(20:13):
had live TV or anything.

Speaker 2 (20:15):
I think I think that I think there was a
there was a moment in history. I should look this
up where they rushed, you know, broadcast live broadcasting equipment
for the for the television to as close as they
close as they could, and it was one of the
first times that ever used that stuff. I should look
into it. But there's there's quite an amazing story about that.
Someone might might know the details on eight hundred and

(20:36):
eighty teen eighty, but I think it was a significant
broadcast in New Zealand history.

Speaker 15 (20:41):
Yeah, probably because it was in Wellington, so there would
have been a crew. Yeah, probably able to get there,
you know. I had it happened, you know, say as
the Tang White disas so there was you know, there
wouldn't have been anyone capable of getting there so quickly.
So yeah, it was fortunate. I guess from that point
of view that it happened.

Speaker 2 (21:02):
TV was very regional back then, wasn't it.

Speaker 15 (21:04):
Oh absolutely, so yeah, I mean it was kind of
like after the event even immediately after the event. There
was never any forecasting in the way there is now. Yeah,
you had no way of knowing, and there was no
immediate real time news spaces or civil defense warnings or
anything like that.

Speaker 2 (21:23):
Well, thank you so much for your call.

Speaker 3 (21:24):
Ellen. Interesting stuff. Absolutely. Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty
is the number to call. Love to hear from you
if you have experienced a cyclone here in New Zealand
or indeed in other places around the world. And if
you've got family members over in Brisbane Gold Coast and
you've been in touch with them over the past twenty
four hours, love to hear from you as well. Oh,
eight hundred eighty ten eighty.

Speaker 8 (21:45):
Yeah. Up.

Speaker 3 (21:45):
Next, we've got Nick who's got a daughter at Brackenridge
in North Brisbane, right by the river mouth, so we'll
find out what's happening with her. Headlines next.

Speaker 4 (21:56):
You talk, sa'd be headlines.

Speaker 17 (21:58):
With blue bubble Taxis. It's no trouble with a blue bubble.
The Foreign Minister has sacked former Cabinet minister and Labor
leader Phil Goff, as our British eye can The Post reports,
Winston Peter Sayskoff's position is untenable after he asked if
the US president understands history as he withholds aid from

(22:18):
Ukraine Treasury says the crown deficit is roughly one point
two billion dollars smaller than anticipated, and tax revenue six
hundred million dollars higher government expenses with six hundred million
under forecast. Police are investigating a child's death on Monday
after being injured in a driveway in the far North Kayo, Queensland,

(22:41):
is embracing as tropical cyclone Alfred barrels towards the east coast,
expected to hit in full force tomorrow and Saturday. Auckland
University unionized staff a striking for a living wage. I've
gathered at the city campus until two thirty today, supported
by students. Picky eating is in the genes, so how

(23:02):
do you know if your child is a problem feeder?
You can see more at ensid Herald Premium. Back to
Matteathan Adam.

Speaker 3 (23:08):
Thank you very much. Ray Lean, and we're talking about
tropical cyclones on the back of course of cyclone Alfred's
nearing the coast of Australia. It's due to land for
the next twelve hours.

Speaker 2 (23:18):
Yeah, and I've just been watching a documentary on the
Waheni disaster during that break and how the television in
New Zealand tried to cover it because they weren't network
so they were having to drive to get it down
to christ Church. So I was far from live. They
were having to drive the footage down the country to
Kaikora and then filming it off a screen and then
getting the footage and then driving that down to christ Church.

(23:40):
So that's how long it took to get the footage
of the Heeni disaster down.

Speaker 3 (23:44):
You know, they had to do it by the road.
That is news reporting, isn't it that on film?

Speaker 2 (23:50):
It's phenomenal. That's only nineteen sixty eight.

Speaker 3 (23:52):
Yeah, far out. Plenty of great tips coming through on
nine to nine to two. Guys have been in a
few tropical cyclones in New Zealand. Bowler is the one
that stands out for me. Terrifying at the time and
a lot of image done, but certainly wasn't the worst
to keep those teachs coming through on nine to nine.

(24:13):
Two oh one hundred and eighty teen eighty is the
number to call though, So.

Speaker 2 (24:16):
When was cyclone Bowler?

Speaker 3 (24:18):
That was there was nineteen eighty eight oh yes, nineteen
eighty eight.

Speaker 2 (24:23):
Uh, neck quite on the show. You've got a daughter
that's right in the thick of it at brecken Ridge,
just north of Brisbane.

Speaker 8 (24:31):
Yeah, okay, guys, Yeah, talking about the Wahenee. So I
was in the Hut Valley. I was eight years old
at a time, and we got the day off school.
So that was pretty bloody good information. I do remember,
you know, the wind just thundering really loud. You know.
The big thing with the Wahene was that those all

(24:53):
those poor people they got swept over to Eastbourne. Yeah,
it was only road from Wellington around into Estpourt. My
mother had a lot of friends around there, and many
of them tried to you know, rush around there. But
the people that were living there, the few people were there,
they were the ones going to the rocks and pulling
these you know, injured and new people up over the

(25:16):
horrendous rocks and so.

Speaker 3 (25:21):
Oh you're just cutting out there a little bit, neck
But yeah, so obviously the memories of Wahini. But with
your daughter and breaking Ridge at the moment, have you
managed to make contact with her, how is she feeling?

Speaker 8 (25:34):
Yeah, Yeah, she's actually managed to get get out this morning,
which I'm very happy about. She was due to go
to a continent in Melbourne. She got on a six
thirty flight this morning and they've just closed the airport
now a Jetstar have just canceled all flights.

Speaker 3 (25:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (25:52):
Talking to her last night, I mean, she's only been
there a year and I said, so we haven't seen
her new new place for shears and I said, so,
are you you know upp a bird or the flat?
And said, yeah, I guess we were on the flat,
but you know, we should be okay because there's lots
of wetlands around us. It's not bloody good. And that's

(26:12):
what started looking on the map and realizing, you know,
there's close to the mouth of the river, huge amount
of wetlands in that area, and yeah, no doubt there's
going to be a lot of flooding around there. She's
left a dog with us with a flatmais and hoping

(26:33):
they'll be okay, But it looks like the gold Coaster
is going to get really soaked. I was just looking
the talking five hundred mills over two and a half days.

Speaker 2 (26:44):
Has she did you know if she did any sandbagging
before she left it?

Speaker 8 (26:49):
Yeah? I saw that everybody was chasing after after that
stand bag. But no, I mean it's the thing, you know,
Young Simpson's I mean she actually is born in Hong
Kong and we lived there for five years. And in
Hong Kong, four or five times a year we have
a we have a cyclone cyclone warning. We had our
trampoline blown over a cliff one year, and there was

(27:12):
just constant. Hong Kong was incredible because they used bamboo
for the scaffolding. Yeah, and so there was just bamboo
just flying down the streets, corrugated iron sheet. Quite a
few people were decavitated corrugated iron sheets. But they did
have it down. They had a great early warning system

(27:34):
and they had four levels and goropped a level two.
Everybody just obeyed and stayed inside and they were all
prepared and that the major risk really was being out
on the street and exposed to things.

Speaker 2 (27:46):
Yeah, man, can it can absolutely rain. I was at
Ocean Park when I was visiting Hong Kong when a
black rain came through and Dad, that is crazy stuff.

Speaker 3 (27:56):
Well what does that mean? Black rain? Is that that's
the local term? Is it?

Speaker 2 (28:00):
It just basically turns into night and then absolutely jumps
like you've never experienced.

Speaker 3 (28:06):
That sounds terrifying.

Speaker 8 (28:08):
Yeah, we actually we were up sitting here in Richmond
and as we had it about six or seven years ago,
We're going down the highway and it was a fairly
clear sky and suddenly there was just the sky just
went black and it just pelted down. We had to
pull off the road and something like I don't know,
one hundred mills came down and in a couple of
hours we were in the nearest pub and the car

(28:31):
park flooded and then the main road of Richmond, Queen
Street just became a river that actually did a lot
of damage. It poured into all the shops and things
and there within an hour or two, you know, there
was there was a foot of water flowing down the
main road between the shops.

Speaker 3 (28:46):
So apocalyptic.

Speaker 2 (28:48):
Well, I hope you I hope your daughter's house holds
up all right, and breck and ridge.

Speaker 3 (28:53):
But it's good that she's out of the neck.

Speaker 8 (28:55):
Yeah, very happy. Yeah, yes, guys, thanks for discussion.

Speaker 3 (28:58):
No, thank you very much. Mate.

Speaker 2 (29:00):
When that you know that that Ocean Park situation where
were just an absolute crazy rain came down and Ocean
Park is like a theme park in Hong Kong, It
was really really cool, amazing roller coasters right on cliffs.
There's probably a lot of people listening that've been there.
It's really really cool theme park. But the rain just
started coming down. It was completely insane black grain, and
I totally saved the day, did you well. I ended

(29:22):
up in this sort of tint sort of room that
was sort of half tent half room. It sort of
had like canvas windows, and then it had these these
tough windows, and then everyone was freaking out and screaming
in there as everything was whacking around like we were
inside some kind of slapping clam's mouth, and me and
my friend just battled the rain, Me and my friend Blair,

(29:43):
who lives over in Hong Kong, and we sealed the
windows and we strapped down the things and we got
everyone down on the ground and we got a round
of applause.

Speaker 3 (29:50):
Oh you've got a round of applause.

Speaker 2 (29:52):
Got around of applause.

Speaker 3 (29:53):
How did you nail down the windows on a tint, Well,
you just take them up.

Speaker 2 (29:55):
We're to nail down the windows. We just sort of
that metaphorically put on the line. We strapped them down,
We held them down through the worst of it, and
we got a massive round of applause, So you know what,
good on me?

Speaker 3 (30:08):
Yeah, good on you. Did you get a past for
life at that amusement park? No, no, they must have
tricked there isn't they, Harry I.

Speaker 2 (30:14):
Mentioned from Ocean Park here o'heath. Well, if there's anyone
that's running Ocean Park, Hong Kong listening, then you know,
you know, I mean, you can still make it up,
you know me a trip on the on the roller coaster.

Speaker 3 (30:22):
Oh, eight, one hundred eighty ten eighty is the number
to call. We've got full lines, but if you can't
get through, keep trying. Nine two niney two is the
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Speaker 1 (30:33):
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Speaker 3 (30:43):
That'd be good afternoon. We're talking about tropical cyclones. On
the back of Cyclone Alfred, which is due to make
landfall on the coast of Australia and about twelve hours.
Some concern over there, a lot of evacuations, concern about
power outages for a few days, but getting a lot
of texts about historic cyclones that have hit New Zealands.

Speaker 2 (31:04):
Guys, I was literally in the middle of Gabriel with
four meters of water going through my house. So I
feel for our Australian friends. Thanks Mars.

Speaker 3 (31:11):
Matt.

Speaker 2 (31:12):
There is a sizeable Timeruvian dysporia on the Gold Coast.
Pray for them. Now I'm going to try and translate
that is that a lot of x X Timeruvians have
moved to the Gold Coast.

Speaker 3 (31:24):
I think that's what it means. Timeruvian. That is, is
that what they call down.

Speaker 2 (31:27):
There to Timeruvian?

Speaker 3 (31:28):
Yeah, that rolls off the Toungan now like that the
great town of Timaru, Caroline Bay Radio Caroline Today, tomorrow
timrou It's on. Yeah. Well, we certainly pray for the
people of Timaru who are living on the Gold Coast.

Speaker 4 (31:40):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (31:40):
I drove a taxi in colin Gata for a cyclone
Debbie a few years ago.

Speaker 3 (31:45):
Boy, that would have been interesting.

Speaker 2 (31:46):
I was in cyclone Pam in Vanuatu twenty fifteen. Bottled
water was number one item to purchase then Canned food
always tougher in the islands due to poor infrastructure and
village where they're made of huts primarily. Flooding in seasage
are real risks. Is this text to thanks for that?

Speaker 3 (32:01):
Yeah? This one here, kiddy guys. Nineteen eighty eight cyclone
Bowl and my wife and I had just come back
to Auckland from Wahiki Island and on our honeymoon. We
decided to stay a night at a rework campsite. That night.
At around midnight, we woke up with heavy rain coming
into our tents. We packed up straight away and began
driving back to Tartanaki as my wife was worried about
our parents. Ten or so hours later, driving through strong

(32:24):
winds and rain, with trees partly across the road and
power lines wiping at times in front of us, whipping
at times in front of us, we arrived home to
a total mess everywhere, and both our parents thankfully were okay.
A somewhat silly time to try and make that drive.

Speaker 2 (32:41):
Allison, welcome to the show. You've been through a few
cyclones in Western Australia.

Speaker 10 (32:46):
Oh yeah, I've been for a couple and I've also
got family ride on the Gold Coast ones one hundred
meters off the beach, which is a bit of a concern.
And I've also experienced winds of up to two hundred
and thirty till hour. Wow, I'm pretty you know, not
used to it, of course, but have had experience with that.

Speaker 2 (33:08):
Tell us about the thirty kilome our wins Ellison.

Speaker 10 (33:11):
That wasn't even it wasn't supposed to be a sight
clone that happened in New Zealand here and I live
on Manicow Harbor basically and like a funnel going through
and it was a really bad storm we had here
a few years ago, and I just put my house
on foundations, you know, like the wooden piles, and I

(33:31):
felt like I was in the scene from the Exorcist.
And then I just heard this big crash and my
neighbor and I just put up this really lovely garden
shed and I go out come around the corner where
from the sheltered part, and I nearly got blown away
and the shed just went completely off its foundations and
ended up in the harbor and a little bit ended

(33:52):
up on the farm and farm next door. Yeah, but
two hundred and thirteen that I was it was terrifying.
And the one in Western Australia, the main one that
went through. I lived in an old house there. I
went to house and they had a big tin you know,
corrigated iron points along the back and honestly, the wind

(34:14):
just came in and just picked it up like it
was nothing and just threw it and the house survived.
But it's not too good afterwards.

Speaker 3 (34:22):
Terrified.

Speaker 10 (34:23):
So no, it's it's it is terrifine, you know. I
think I was more scared. And the one that happened
at my house just with those ones of two hundred
and thirty and they were clopped at that coming through
the font of Domnicow Harbor. Yeah, and it was it
was horrible. And honestly, I'm sitting in bed thinking, God,
honestly in the exist or something, thank you so.

Speaker 2 (34:46):
Much for me called Allison. I mean that's two undred thirty.
I mean Gabriel I think got up to one hundred
and sixty five something like that. Yeah, and boy, the
damage that Gabriel did in twenty twenty three phenomenal.

Speaker 3 (34:57):
This Texas says, it's a magnificent, beautiful sunny day. And
NUSA heads love NUSA.

Speaker 2 (35:02):
Oh God, I love NUSA.

Speaker 3 (35:03):
That is a good place.

Speaker 2 (35:05):
Nusa's Surf Club. Yeah, my boy, I've had some good
times there. Yeah, the Chicken Parmi, oh my god, chick
and Tinity at the noose?

Speaker 3 (35:13):
Are you allowed? No, I'm not allowed back in there,
but for a couple of years at least.

Speaker 10 (35:18):
No.

Speaker 3 (35:18):
Well, I left to fake my ID to try and
get my membership again. Right, Oh, eight one hundred and
eighty ten eighty is the number of call and the
text number nine to nine too. It is ten to.

Speaker 1 (35:29):
Two Matties Tyler Adams taking your calls on eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty Matten Taylor. Afternoon with the Volvo
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Speaker 3 (35:43):
Talks afternoon, Jubbi, how are you?

Speaker 18 (35:49):
Yeah, good afternoon guys. A concern there and here, But firstly,
just want to congratulate all you guys with your winning
the cricket last night. But more to the point, it's all.

Speaker 3 (35:59):
Right, you guys have it rough in this semi finals.

Speaker 2 (36:01):
What is it about semi finals?

Speaker 3 (36:03):
Big of you?

Speaker 4 (36:04):
Don't jubb again? Yeah?

Speaker 18 (36:05):
Focus again?

Speaker 19 (36:06):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (36:07):
Yeah, Well, look, as part of it's big of you
to to to say that thank you, and we accept that.

Speaker 3 (36:13):
We're big to accept.

Speaker 18 (36:16):
I'm sure you are now. You know, we've got a
lot of mixed messages here because my daughter's in Paradise
point first time in Australia, gone for holiday of ten
days with her boyfriend and the family. And yeah, as parents,
we're getting a little bit concerned because they're living in

(36:36):
a house there. She's sending us photos of how much
it's raining, then all of that communicating over what's up.
But they reckon there's no they don't have a plan
like them as a family, because the people in and
around there are evacuating and it's got sandbags and stuff,
and it just seems like they have a plan. And

(36:59):
I'm just thinking, you know, we're communicating with them with
what's happening. So I'm not sure where do these people
have to go if they ask them to evacuate, we
can they go to? Yeah, from what we see on
the news and what they tell us, it doesn't seem
to be like obviously the storm hasn't hit yet, but

(37:20):
it's coming, and yeah, it's very mixed messaging. Yeah, a
little bit concerning, to be fair.

Speaker 3 (37:26):
I can see that I'm just reading a report on
nine news website and that appears to be the case
that there's a bit of confusion about where people should
be going to get the official information about evacuation, where
to get sandbad's what happens if you need help. So
it appears that authorities are trying to get a handle
on that now, just in terms of getting that official
advice out there. But your your daughter and the boyfriend,

(37:49):
are they feeling a bit concerned or are they are
feeling okay?

Speaker 18 (37:52):
At the stage? I think it's more so my wife
and my daughter. Before. The daughter is very concerned because
she's getting nervous. She feels they don't have a good
enough fan in place to evacuate, and the mom is
breathing and the father's in my neck and saying we
need to do something, we need to find out more, and.

Speaker 4 (38:11):
It's just a disaster, yeah, before the disaster.

Speaker 3 (38:14):
Really yeah, Well, you know, all the best your daughter.
I hope she stay safe. And thank you so much
for your call, Jobby. Absolutely well, thank you very much
for all your phone calls and text on that trunkload
of text so we'll be keeping you updated. Of course.
On cyclone Alfred, as it nears the coast of Australia,
it has slowed down somewhat it was due to hit

(38:35):
land for the next twelve hours, but of course we
will bring you the latest today and into tomorrow as
that event progresses. Right after two o'clock, Yeah, we're changing up.
Have you ever raged quit? Have you ever seen anyone
rage quit?

Speaker 2 (38:49):
That's on the back of rumors that Adrian or packed
us sad in the rage quit.

Speaker 3 (38:55):
We want to hear your stories, all the juicy bits
of it. And if you've had someone in your office
rage quit or you were the boss, love to hear
that as well. Oh, eight one hundred eighty ten eighty
is the number to call. Nine two ninety two is
the text number. New Sport and Weather coming up. You're
listening to matt and Tyler. Very very good afternoon.

Speaker 1 (39:12):
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(39:49):
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ninety on News Talk.

Speaker 3 (39:56):
Welcome back into the show. Great to have your company
as always, hope you're having a great afternoon and thank
you very much for the phone calls and the teas.
On the tropical cycclone, as mentioned, we will keep you
up to date as cyclone Alfred make slam floor fall
in Australia over the next twelve hours. But let's change tac. Yeah,
let's change TAC.

Speaker 2 (40:15):
Let's change TAC to packing a sad and rage quitting.
On the Mic Hosking Breakfast Show this morning, this was said.

Speaker 13 (40:23):
He's packed a massive sad because that's the sort of
person he is. And he's stormed off on holiday and
that's the beginning of the middle and the end of it.

Speaker 2 (40:32):
So talking about Adrian or there, Yeah, no guesses for
that was So he's packed a sad, Yeah, and he's
rage quit and he's gone on holiday, according to Oscar
Adrian or So we want to talk about rage quitting.
Is it a good idea? Have you done it? Have
you seen people do it? Have you thought about doing it?
You're thinking about doing it right now, just flipping your
desk and leaving.

Speaker 3 (40:51):
Yeah, love to hear from you at one hundred and
eighty ten eighty. Have you ever thought about rage quitting?
Have you ever been in a job you thought, you know,
what'screw this? I'm just going to give a massive middle
finger to the boss and storm out.

Speaker 2 (41:02):
Well, look, I've definitely fired up at work on a
number of occasions. I mean, there's video out of me
out and about on the internet when I went got
angry at work and ripped my shirt off and ran
around a studio smashing things. Yep, that's up there. But
I didn't quit. I probably should have been fired, but.

Speaker 3 (41:22):
There wasn't the video in the studio. No, this is
no yeah, yeah, shoot off. But everything was kept in
one piece.

Speaker 2 (41:28):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, this was this was anger over. Yes,
she was long dead.

Speaker 3 (41:34):
We don't need to make it up.

Speaker 2 (41:35):
But I've never raged quit. I've seen people rage quit though, too.
It's an interesting thing to do. You have to reach
a level where you were willing to sort of Jerry
Maguire yourself. And I know Jerry Maguire was fired, but
just sort of making a big scene in front of
everyone and then walking out. I imagine there'd be a
hollow feeling when you were going down the stairs, you know,
and there'd be a sort of anxious drive home when

(41:55):
you're thinking about what you've done.

Speaker 3 (41:57):
Yeah. I think for a lot of people who may
have done it and they didn't get the kind of
the slow clap from everyone in the office, like yeah,
if you didn't get that, then you'd be feeling like,
this didn't quite go to plan, did it. Nobody's cheering
me on here.

Speaker 2 (42:10):
Well, look, Tyler, as you know, I've written a book
and one of the chapters is on anger, and I
wrote that chapter in my book of Life is Punishing
because I was a had anger, and I think that,
you know, before your rage quit, you should probably just
let the levels just you know, time is anger's enemy,
as the saying goes, So I think if you're going

(42:31):
to quit, then you need to quit in a way
that's advantageous to you. I mean, I'm sure, but then again,
it might just feel really, really really good to flip
the bird, flip the table and walk out. That might
feel great.

Speaker 3 (42:44):
But if you just do a couple of the breathing
exercises you mentioned in the book, it was a good chapter.
I loved a lot, and just keep it five minutes,
maybe you might feel different about it. But I mentioned
a little bit earlier, I've seen some rage quitting and
it was at a job at sea lots. And nothing
against sea lots. They paid well, but it was a
kind of a tough job. Well people won't say it's tough.
It was putting fish on a conveyor belt. But the
high turnover and a lot of tourists who would come

(43:07):
in and on day one they'd be there for maybe
three hours before they just chuck fish in the air
and say bugger this and storm out.

Speaker 2 (43:14):
And it was a regular Is that the classic thing
where you were on there? Is that the classic thing
where you well, you know, you're at the end of
the convey a bount it's just going up and you
can't keep up. Because I can imagine that would be very,
very frustrating.

Speaker 3 (43:28):
Yeah, I think it was that, And you know, I
don't want to knock the tourist too much, but clearly
they weren't up for the task of putting fish on
a convey about and contributing to the New Zealand economy. Hey,
now we're going to take some calls and phone calls
on this, but.

Speaker 4 (43:46):
This is news, talk said, be breaking news.

Speaker 3 (43:49):
Yeah, cheepers and breaking news in New Zealand. Chief executive
Greek four and he has resigned, stepping down in October
for and has indicated he believes the airline is set
up well to continue its trajectory of growth and innovation
and the time is right for him to take on
a new challenge. What the heck is happening? Yeah, I
don't know.

Speaker 2 (44:08):
I don't think that's a rage quit because he's stepping
down in October. He hasn't just thrown his hands up
and walked out. But interesting because I've just heard a
few interviews with Greek four and recently and he, you know,
he was talking big about the challenges and boy, oh boy,
there's a lot of challenges running in a running a airline.

Speaker 3 (44:29):
That's yeah, yeah, say air Force an airline. Well, but
at the moment in five, yeah, for Greg four and
going from Walmart where he was getting paid mega millions
of dollars to go into Air New Zealand and he
was still getting a good salary, but he took a
big pay cut and then had to go through the
challenges after COVID and all the rest of it. He
could a time for Greek Forum, but there will be
plenty more on that story as the afternoon progresses.

Speaker 2 (44:52):
I mean, he's been trying to run an airline when
they didn't have the engines they need and they don't
have all the planes they need to run it properly. Yeah,
so it's definitely been challenging for Greek Forum. But interesting
absolutely not part of our rage quick conversation.

Speaker 3 (45:07):
No, so the phone lines have led up, but we
want to hear your stories. Have you rage quit and
love to hear what happened? And have you seen it
happen in your workplace? Perhaps you're with the bots and
one of your employees just decided to rage quit. Oh,
eight hundred and eighty ten eighty is an number to call.
Nine two nine two is the text number. It's twelve
past two.

Speaker 8 (45:26):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (45:27):
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with the Volvo XC ninety, turn every journey into something special.
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Speaker 3 (45:40):
News Talk ZEDB. Have you ever raged quote? Or have
you seen one of your colleagues or employees rage quits?

Speaker 2 (45:46):
Yeah, we're putting this on the back of rumors that
Adrian or packed a sad and rage quit. We don't
know for sure. We don't know anything yet because he
hasn't told anything anyone anything. It is made no statement,
and so we don't know. But there are vibes. Yeah,
this is a heavy, heavy feeling of a rage quit
having gone down. A lot of vibes, there's a lot
of the vibe that are sad has been packed. Yeah yeah,

(46:07):
I mean he was meant to be the keynote speaker
at a very high, high esteemed event and he's not going.

Speaker 3 (46:13):
To turn up today, I believe. Yeah, so I can
find him. Yeah, so he's booked him for that. All right, Okay,
here we go, Jenny, Your husband rage quit?

Speaker 8 (46:24):
Yes he did.

Speaker 14 (46:26):
He was in a very trying industry on the West coast,
and this day he decided he just had enough.

Speaker 16 (46:33):
Yep.

Speaker 14 (46:34):
So he was throwing his gear out, throwing his toys
out the cot and his boss was trying to entice
and just settle down and just have a good think
about it. But anyway, no, he threw his toys out
and he came home. And then six weeks later they
all got made redundant and all got paid out.

Speaker 3 (46:49):
Ah no, oh my goodness.

Speaker 14 (46:52):
But he couldn't tell him. He just said, go home
and ever think I have a think about it. You'll
be back And he went, no, I won't be back here.
Six weeks later they pulled the pin on the forestry
over there and yeah.

Speaker 2 (47:05):
Wow, so how much money do you think he must
out on?

Speaker 17 (47:09):
Or quite?

Speaker 14 (47:10):
But he'd been with them for about nine years, I suppose. Wow,
and never looked into that side of it, mate, Yeah, wow,
it didn't want to know.

Speaker 2 (47:20):
And so had this been building up for a while
before the rage quit?

Speaker 14 (47:24):
Oh not really, but they were just put into a
really dense block of gorse and crap. And yeah, he'd
done it for a week and then this final day
just went I'm over this, threw the toys out in
a way home.

Speaker 3 (47:39):
So was the upset of the boss because it sounds
like the boss tried to, you know, help him out.
But that is difficult for the boss to say. You know,
I can't tee you anymore. But I'm just telling you,
don't quit yet. Just hang on there for a little
bit longer.

Speaker 14 (47:53):
About it, go home and think about it. But he
was hot, heated and ahead.

Speaker 3 (47:56):
Enough did he?

Speaker 2 (47:59):
How long until he found work again? After that?

Speaker 8 (48:02):
Oh?

Speaker 14 (48:02):
Not long. He was pretty pretty much employed again.

Speaker 8 (48:05):
Yet it was a hard time over there.

Speaker 2 (48:08):
But yeah, what's left a bit of residency on the table?

Speaker 3 (48:11):
Yeah, yeah, what did what decade was it in Genny?
I take it he was on hot demand and forestry
back in those days.

Speaker 14 (48:19):
No, but he'd been with them a long time, so
he'd sort of worked his way up through the ranks.

Speaker 3 (48:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (48:23):
Right.

Speaker 2 (48:23):
And the obvious question, Jenny is what did you say
to him when he got home and he said that
he'd rage quit.

Speaker 14 (48:29):
I couldn't really say that on here.

Speaker 3 (48:33):
Was there before or after the redundancy question came into play?

Speaker 14 (48:37):
Oh, that was well before, well before, so it was yes,
otherwise could have been anyway. I pulled up in the
car at the same spot where he was working for
all these boys, and I pulled up to drop them
off at work, and we were not far off getting married,
and I was a driving this old car and I
did a ywie and the battery fell over under the
bonnet of the car, and the car caught fire, and

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somebody yelled out, eight, he's a car on fire down there.
So Brian had to run down to me at the car.
A wedding dress was in the car. I still in
the pajamas. I had to jump out the car grab
my weeding dress. So you can imagine, you can imagine
what that was.

Speaker 3 (49:14):
Right, Yeah, that is that is guy.

Speaker 2 (49:17):
That's a cinematically dramatic situation you went through there, Jenny.

Speaker 3 (49:26):
Day, Thank you so much for you called Jenny great story. Yeah,
I mean that. Thankfully, he found work pretty quick again.
But that would hurt, wasn't it. A couple of weeks
down the track redundancy and you could have got a
nice little payout.

Speaker 2 (49:38):
James, you witness the spectacular rage quit.

Speaker 8 (49:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 20 (49:43):
You're working in London in the late sixties in North
Orderly Street, which is a street that runs between Oxford
Street and Grosvenor Square. And we were in an office
or an open town office that actually went under like
the old cold cellars, and that went right underneath the
footpath and there was a set of stairs coming down.
There was about on nine desks. The boss had a

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semi enclosed office at one end, and I was of
the desk the other end, and I was supervising the
wade schedules for maintenance people on a lot of big
buildings in London. And I got a phone call from
this super at one of the buildings. I won't say
what nationality was, but he was a bit fiery and
he knew that in those days the tax system, if
you had a couple of weeks off, the tax system

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would actually automatically adjust because it was rose pay to
date and that's the amount of TAXI should pay. So
if you had a couple of weeks off, you'd actually
be due tax back. And this guy had a couple
of weeks off, and he knew he was due tax back,
but unfortunately, if it reaches a certain amount, we can't
reimburse it. It has to go to the inland Revenue

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or the tax department. Well, I had several pilot fiery
arguments with this guy over the phone, and then the
worse it got, the less I could understand him, and
I said, look, you just have to come in and
see the head of department. So a few hours later,
there was this plump, clump, clump down the stairs and
I locked up to see this guy down the stairs
and he had a big can of paint with him,

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and the boss's office was right at the bottom of
the stairs and had had that it was enclosed on
two sides with that glass that you can't see through,
like room glass. And I looked at that, Oh god,
and he's walked in the next.

Speaker 12 (51:28):
Thing, all the windows just to what.

Speaker 20 (51:34):
Wins three before gel and.

Speaker 3 (51:38):
It's so good and stormed off.

Speaker 20 (51:42):
Actually erased the criminal damage, but.

Speaker 3 (51:45):
He made his point. Yeah, uh, and so did you
did you get to see in the office. Like you said,
you've seen that. The I guess the most comic version
of it was all the paint covering the windows. But
did you actually.

Speaker 10 (51:55):
See the possible.

Speaker 20 (51:58):
All the paperwork.

Speaker 2 (51:59):
And get did he get it over the boss?

Speaker 17 (52:02):
Oh?

Speaker 12 (52:02):
Yeah, the three sixty.

Speaker 20 (52:08):
It was a big can of paint that went.

Speaker 2 (52:10):
Everywhere and then and then did you just storm out
past you?

Speaker 20 (52:15):
Yeah? Well I was at the far end of the
office and the bosses little cubicle was at the other
end where the stairs were, and he just dashed out,
But I don't think he got before the cops grabbed them.

Speaker 3 (52:27):
Yeah that's glorious. I mean, that's a man that knows
there's no going back from that. Yeah, that's yeah, that's right.
That's your burning bridges. Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 20 (52:36):
Well, the silly thing was he only had to wait
maybe ten days, and he would have been reimbursed as
tech normally I could do it just with each pay.
Yeah right, we're only going to do that ten days.
But he wondered that there again, and it couldn't be
convinced that he was.

Speaker 2 (52:51):
So he was weighing up wait ten days or get it.
Going to the office with a bucket of paint and
throw it everywhere and he went for option B.

Speaker 21 (53:02):
I'm not sure why.

Speaker 20 (53:04):
I'm sure it wasn't the best option, but.

Speaker 2 (53:08):
Thank you so much for your call, James.

Speaker 3 (53:09):
Great story text here. Gooday, guys, my friend didn't exactly
rage quitt. He threatened to leave if the boss wouldn't
meet and offer from the opposition. Of course he was bluffing,
But the next morning when he walked into the office,
the boss had spent all night putting up balloons and
had a cake, sandwiches all seet out and a huge
sign saying farewell to krant witshes for the future.

Speaker 4 (53:32):
Very good.

Speaker 2 (53:33):
Oh yeah, look, there's so many texts coming through, but yeah,
oh wait. One hundred eighty ten eighty. Have you witnessed
a rage quit?

Speaker 4 (53:40):
Have you?

Speaker 2 (53:41):
Or have you just witnessed a pretty spectacular sad being packed.

Speaker 3 (53:44):
In an office?

Speaker 2 (53:46):
Or have you done it yourself? Love to hear from
someone that's actually rage quit, someone that's rage quit and regretted,
regretted it. But there must be people out there that
rage quit and just felt fully satisfied by it and
still stand by it as a decision.

Speaker 3 (53:59):
Absolutely, love to hear from you. Oh, eight hundred eighty
ten eighty twenty three past two.

Speaker 1 (54:08):
Heathan Tyler Adams afternoons call oh eight hund on news
Talk said.

Speaker 3 (54:13):
Twenty five past two, and there's some great stories that
have come through on nine two ninety two.

Speaker 2 (54:18):
That's right, we're talking about packing a sad in the office,
rage quitting. This is on the back rumors of rumors
that Adrian or the Reserve Bank governor Rage quit yesterday.
You have anything different than it's a strong vibe, packed
a mess of said and quit. But anyway a lot
of people have done it are Richard, Welcome to the show.
You want to talk about anger?

Speaker 21 (54:40):
A Hello, Hello Tyler.

Speaker 9 (54:42):
I haven't heard from it for a while. Haven't you
run for a while?

Speaker 3 (54:45):
Yeah? Kay, Richard, you're a box lues.

Speaker 9 (54:50):
Well, I haven't got really anything to say. Matt brought
up a good point in time. Is a great enemy
of anger. But at the end of the day, the
only anger I'll you ever seen, and I'll always remember
the word anger. Put the letter D in front of them.

Speaker 3 (55:04):
What do you got danger? Yeah? I was about to
say danger.

Speaker 21 (55:17):
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 9 (55:20):
The only instantent iverhood I was. I remember working at
an institution many many, many, many many years ago and
the head technician at the time there. He was a
difficult individual. He was difficult, you know, and I'm very
extroverted as a hotel that he was like yourself. But
he was very, very difficult, and I'll never forget one day,

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this was like filling up the hot water cylinder into
the teapots, you know, those massive teapots. And the head
technicians said to the this bloke and as I said,
it was difficult, he said, please watch this, so he did.
He comes back about two minutes later, the flour was
completely flooded. He went off the stealing the head technicians

(56:05):
but just said, well, you told me to watch it,
so I watched it.

Speaker 3 (56:08):
Yeah, that is interested.

Speaker 9 (56:13):
That's a I think you've got the news coming out
and it's good to hear from your time.

Speaker 3 (56:17):
Likewise, Richard, thank you very much. Mate. Nine nine two
is the text number, kiddy, guys, great show. I worked
on commission. My boss constantly made errors with my pay.
I was fed up one day and told him he
was like a broken watch, only right twice a day.

Speaker 18 (56:34):
I left.

Speaker 3 (56:34):
Five minutes later from.

Speaker 2 (56:35):
Robert, Yeah right, okay, an insult and a leave. Hey,
here we go. I flipped out when driving a school
bus and temperatures of minus five in the bus without
any form of heating. I walked into the boss's office,
threw keys on his desk, and said, see ya nice.

Speaker 3 (56:52):
Yeah, that sounds good.

Speaker 2 (56:54):
Hey, guys, there's some great stories out there of airline
captain's rage quitting. It seems delays upon DeLay's broken man.
So he taxied back to the gate, shut down the engines,
and walked off with hundreds of people sitting on board
with nowhere to go. Dave, that's an interesting thing, actually, isn't,
Because you know when you're sitting on a plane and
they're saying, there's the delays, and we've got you know,

(57:14):
we say we've got the problem with the paperwork. We've
just got to do that technical eras we out. Yeah yeah,
but I mean the technical areas you understand. But you
know when it's the paperwork, they do sound particularly frustrated.
You know, we've got a delay with the paperwork. And
you know you always think, well, that's annoying for me.
You don't think that the pilot's not sitting there going woo.

Speaker 3 (57:33):
He's chucking your keys out the window and walked off.

Speaker 2 (57:35):
You don't want an angry pilot.

Speaker 3 (57:36):
There you certainly don't.

Speaker 9 (57:38):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (57:38):
Eight hundred eighty eighty is the number call if you
have rage quit, love to hear your story. And if
you've been in an office with someone's rage quit.

Speaker 2 (57:45):
Yeah, witnesses of rage quitting, we want to hear from you.
Eight hundred eighty ten eighty is the.

Speaker 3 (57:51):
Number you talk, said the headlines.

Speaker 17 (57:57):
With blue bubble text. See it's no trouble with the
blue bubble. And New Zealand Chief Executive Greek Forun has resigned,
stepping down in October. He's had the jobs February of
twenty twenty and says it's the right time for him
to take on a new challenge. Former PM Helen Clark
says Winston peters sacking of our UK High Commissioner for

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questioning Donald Trump's understanding of history looks like a thin excuse.
Local government Minister Simon Watts says government intervention is an
option as he calls Wellington Water into his office for
a please explain over a finding it hasn't been getting
value for money and was susceptible to fraud. Public health

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two hundred and fifty thousand New Zealanders have the enduring condition.
It says it ranges from mild impairment to severe disability.
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Speaker 3 (59:14):
News talks here, b thank you very much, Ray Lean,
and we're talking about rage quitteen.

Speaker 4 (59:20):
Star please quit his job.

Speaker 3 (59:21):
Sylle waiting on that?

Speaker 4 (59:22):
Have you?

Speaker 3 (59:28):
You you're cooluck you im up?

Speaker 2 (59:34):
Okay. One of the great cinematic rage quits of all time.
Guess what if you know what the name of that
movie is, sticks It through on nine two nine two.
It's kind of a scure movie, but it's a movie I.

Speaker 3 (59:45):
Like, yeah, absolutely, And we're getting some great stories about
people who have a rage quit or seen quite the
rage quit from a colleague or indeeda boss. This one here,
giddy guys, we were having our child at Auckland Hospital.
The heads of the birthing unit rage quit just before
my wife was about to give birth. They had twenty

(01:00:07):
three girls, was holding on into a replacement could come in. Wow,
that is crazy rage quitting.

Speaker 2 (01:00:13):
When my first son was being born, and the and
the the operating theater that it had to go into.
There was a huge argument between the doctor and and
the anetheist, and the antis threw the like a drip
across the room and stormed out. And I'm sitting there going,
what the hell? It was like watching a medical drama.

(01:00:36):
They just they had this argument and this incredibly important
moment in our lives over the top of the situation,
started screaming at each other and then suddenly the drips
flying across the room.

Speaker 3 (01:00:47):
You were in the room at the time.

Speaker 2 (01:00:49):
And I started firing up, going can you guys zone in?
And I got I got let out of the berthing.

Speaker 3 (01:00:54):
Sweet. It was so it was like you got marched down.
I got marsh oh man, Just who were specking you?
At that point? Was that the anethetist was saying, I'm
looking after this, I'm looking after this couple.

Speaker 2 (01:01:07):
None of them were bad me. They were having their
own little argument. I just said, hey, guys, in a
very polite and calm fashion. I just said, hey, can
we zone in here? And then I got my match's
crazy anatomy. Yeah, hey guys, interesting chat. My rage quit
incident was that McDonald's twenty five years ago, a busy
Friday night on drive through. The manager started getting annoyed

(01:01:27):
at the backing up of cars and implying it was
my fault. I literally looked at him and said, do
a bit of job. Didn't stick around after that, just left.

Speaker 3 (01:01:37):
Yeah, good work. Yeah well yeah, I mean, well, at
least you, if you've got something to you got a
backup ready to go to. That's the thing with rage quitting, right,
is you better have something to go to. If you've
got rent to pay, mortgage to pay, you've got food
to put on the table. Make sure you've got a
backup plan before you say to your boss, Hey, you
know what, boss, screw you man, I'm out. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:01:58):
A righteous rage quitting, you know it might be justified, right,
So you need to make a point and make the
person that's doing something wrong realize that how bad they
are behaving. Right, But ultimately you can end up in
a situation where you damaged yourself and not them at all.
You've just quit, right, and the boss is like, oh, okay,
you know, so you want to make sure that your

(01:02:18):
rage quit is actually going to make the point that
you think it's going to make. I delivered, Crates says
this text of milk. Last night, I got a delivery
site half a truckload spilled. I must rage quit. However,
I managed to calm down just before I did, and
spent the next three hours cleaning up. However, I'm very
anxious about going to work now.

Speaker 3 (01:02:36):
Oh you poor bugger. This one hears his Kiday. Guys
don't know how true it is, but I heard a
story about a petrol station worker who was fed up
on his last evening. He put a note on the
window saying please be honest and left. Wow. So he
was just like he just stormed not and it didn't
even tell anybody. And see, he turned a petrol station
into an honesty box. Wonder how that worked out for

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the bit of station.

Speaker 2 (01:03:00):
In the perfect world. You know, often think about this
in the perfect world, because I don't steal stuff. If
there was a petrol station that was our honesty boss,
a box you know you paid and there was nothing there,
no security, know anything, or a shop where you just
paid ninety five percent of people probably I don't know
what the number is, would just you know, go into
the store, get their groceries and pay.

Speaker 3 (01:03:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:03:21):
And most people, if you had an honesty bock petrol station,
we'll just go full up and pay and this drive off,
you know. But we have all this effort and security
and systems in place just for the five percent of
people that would knick stuff. Hi, guys. In the words
of Don Henley, sometimes you get the best light from

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a burning bridge.

Speaker 3 (01:03:42):
How true is that? On the money?

Speaker 2 (01:03:43):
I think so, I guess to unpack that metaphor that
you know, you're burning a bridge and there's a lot
of joy in the burning of the bridge.

Speaker 3 (01:03:53):
Yeah, but does that that's that's that's buddy poetic from you,
lyric great lyric. But that best light, how long does
that really last before you start to regret maybe burning
that bridge down? Yeah, well, if you want to cross
it again, then that best light'll be so good. Yeah. Oh.
Eight hundred eighty ten eighty is the number to call.
Love to hear your quitting stories, particularly the rage quitting stories,

(01:04:15):
and if you're a boss listening right now, love to
hear your stories about an employee who decided to rage quit?
How did that happen? What happened? How did you feel
about it? I imagine there'd be a lot of bosses
out there that'd be pretty happy if an employee employee
sometimes rage quit. The'd be thinking, thank god, Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 2 (01:04:32):
So I was reading this text before, where has it got?
So many texts coming through, and it was the basic
gist of it was they, ah, yeah, I'll try and
find the text. But the idea of it was that
they goaded someone into rage quitting. You know, So you've
got to be careful that that that blow up that
you're having isn't actually the end game for the person

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that's you know, your employee, your boss or whatever. Yeah,
you know, you know they they, I mean, people are
quite capable of engineering a situation where you blow up.
Blow up for their own means.

Speaker 18 (01:05:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:05:05):
Absolutely.

Speaker 7 (01:05:06):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (01:05:06):
Eight hundred eighty ten eighty eight. The number to call
will play some messages and be back very shortly. It
is twenty one to three, A.

Speaker 4 (01:05:14):
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Speaker 3 (01:05:24):
Talks' b good afternoon. It is nineteen to three and
we're talking about rage quitting.

Speaker 2 (01:05:30):
That's right, because there are rumors that Adrian or the
Reserve back governor packed a sad and rage quit yesterday.

Speaker 3 (01:05:36):
And when I say rumors.

Speaker 2 (01:05:38):
Mike Coskin said that he did on this breakfast show
this morning. Now, this was the text that I unprofessionally
couldn't find before. This is going to be good because
I've got so many coming in organized to rage quit.
Coo annoyed our bank, calling him a word that rhymes
with banker, I wonder what that is, and a number
of other expletatives. Bank threatened to put receivers in So
we directors needed to get him to quit or we

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would have needed a large payout. Two of us needled
him for two hours at a board meeting and then
he rage quit, got it in writing, announced to start
or he could change his mind. That's so that's what
I'm talking about. You've got to be careful that your
rage quit isn't a statement, but it's what it wanted,
and it calls to mind the words of the great
Stoic philosopher Epictetis when he said, any person capable of

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angering you becomes your master. He can anger you only
when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him. And
so that's if you get angered by someone, they are
in some way controlling you, they have become your master.
So but if you can master your rage, then they
have no control over you, and you can maybe make
a sensible decision about your employment situation.

Speaker 3 (01:06:43):
Very wise. I mean that is Macavelian two hours needling.
The poor bloke fully certainly flipped out. Get a Russell.

Speaker 2 (01:06:50):
You've raged quit twice.

Speaker 12 (01:06:52):
Yeah, I've raged Quod twice, all right, so you go.

Speaker 8 (01:06:57):
Okay.

Speaker 12 (01:06:57):
So I was working with a contract. There's just the
two of us. We had a truck each. We go
to a job. We do a job. I stopped the smoker,
so we get the truck, really go and do some paper.
I'd take my truck out to the job. I'd have
my smoker on my lunch or whatever. Then he'd come
and in. We'd smash out the work and go home.
And he says, you're responsible for your own lunches. Blah

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blah blah. We were having issues.

Speaker 9 (01:07:22):
I stopped.

Speaker 12 (01:07:23):
I stopped on the way to the job to have
my smoker. He drove past and beat out. I sort
of waved to him. I got to the job and
he was just breaking my balls over stopping for lunch.
And now he's two minutes late and blah blah blah,
and know it says, here you goes. The keys are
in the truck. He's shet off my back, She'll come
to your ship. I walked over to the truck. We

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were out in the middle of nowhere, two trucks. I
walked over to the truck, grabbed my lunch big and said,
see you later. They did this stage. I was only
a team anyway, but but it felt blay good.

Speaker 2 (01:07:57):
Did you have any way back to back to civilization?

Speaker 3 (01:08:01):
Okay?

Speaker 12 (01:08:02):
I walked.

Speaker 2 (01:08:04):
How far was that?

Speaker 8 (01:08:06):
That wasn't wellingtons, That wasn't too far?

Speaker 15 (01:08:08):
And I just looked my time.

Speaker 12 (01:08:09):
Out and got a ride.

Speaker 2 (01:08:11):
And how did you feel when you're walking? Did the
rage subside? Quickly?

Speaker 18 (01:08:16):
Felt?

Speaker 12 (01:08:17):
It felt blandy because there's a baby every small thing
to micro manager, and it'd been coming for a while.
And the skills I've got in the job, I got
ahead say I could pick another one up. That doesn't matter.
The other other time that I was working for a

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plumbing company out out in that valley, and the boss
was taking over. I had a bet with one of
the managers that that I knew ten people that were
going to leave, they would all leave before me. So
come around Christmas. Two of the guys waited until the
Christmas bonuses were actually cleared in the bank and he resigned.
The victim immediately. I was the thirteenth person in three

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months to leave. I went in and I.

Speaker 9 (01:09:07):
The boss's son.

Speaker 12 (01:09:07):
He was taking over from the boss, and in both
of them they're great is managers. He come home and
yelled at me, and I said, well, you don't want
me here, here's my resignation. Once the time and you
look at his watch. It was ten o'clock in the
morning on a Friday morning. I says, okay, here's my resignation.
At ten o'clock next Friday, I am leaving, not finishing

(01:09:28):
the day on Friday. I hope to give you a
week notice because I get paid. Wigkly, I've been here
a year and a half. Here you go. H He
come back and he says, I don't really want you here,
so just go now pay you for the week. So
wasn't quite walk out the door and storms and trips,
but I got a week's play out of it.

Speaker 3 (01:09:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:09:47):
And so Russell, what has your job at the moment?

Speaker 9 (01:09:52):
Oh that's all right, yep.

Speaker 3 (01:09:54):
Not not planning a rage quit at any point?

Speaker 16 (01:09:56):
Nah?

Speaker 12 (01:09:57):
Nah?

Speaker 2 (01:09:58):
Is that behind you? Is the getting behind you?

Speaker 17 (01:10:01):
Nah?

Speaker 12 (01:10:02):
Nah? It's it's not that if they treat you right.

Speaker 18 (01:10:06):
Yeah, you don't do this.

Speaker 3 (01:10:08):
Sort of any advice to anyone out there considering rage quitting.
You're pretty much an nextpert.

Speaker 8 (01:10:14):
It feels bloody good.

Speaker 12 (01:10:18):
Job afterwards. Most of the time. It's not isolated events,
is what I'm saying. You know, it'd been building for
months and that's like, well, I'm not going to put
up with your anymore. You're not listening to me. I
did go and say to them, Hey.

Speaker 2 (01:10:35):
Yeah, uh, we'll treat me well well, Russell. If you
if a rage quite again, give us a call and
keep us updated. Thank you so much for your for
your call. Appreciate that. Text to here says hey, guys,
are you aware that in New Zealand CEO Greek forun
has resigned. Yes, we just revealed that as some breaking us. Yes,
fore and has indicated believes the airline has set up

(01:10:57):
well to continue its tradictory of growth and innovation, and
the times right for him to take on a new challenge.

Speaker 3 (01:11:02):
It wasn't a rage quit though. No, he's going to
see out his term to October and we're hoping leave
their airline and good hands for whoever the next CEO
is quick. Couple of tics here, get a team. Not
so much rage quitting, more revenge. I used to work
in the UK's largest bank in the City of London,
the main banking district back in the day, on the

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trading floor. If someone had peed us off during the week,
we do this. We'd get their fax number, and last
thing Friday we'd dial their fax number. But when the
faxes had paper rolls, we'd loop the paper roll and
stick it together with tape. We'd then press send. The
bank's numbers were with HOWD and the company's fax machine
receiving our revenge facts would have just been spelling paper

(01:11:45):
out all weekend until the paper ran out. That's from
Jay and Wellington. That is great revenge. Did you ever
work in the era of fax machines?

Speaker 4 (01:11:52):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:11:52):
Yeah, because what about when you used to get fax
spam like a fax machine would start going off, and
you'd go over there and you rip it off and
it's an ad.

Speaker 3 (01:12:00):
Yeah, it's get away from a fax machine. Where do
you get our fax number?

Speaker 4 (01:12:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:12:03):
It's one thing to you know, wring someone or email
someone with spam, but you're using up paper and ink.

Speaker 18 (01:12:09):
You know.

Speaker 3 (01:12:11):
This one here says guys. I went for a small
company years ago. The boss was a power hungry person
and just me as a trade. He was going on
holiday and scored me up on how the business works
and told me I would have the phone, etc. A
week before he left to go on holiday, I resigned.
He had to cancel his holiday. I left him with
no way to employ someone to fill the role before

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he left. Was the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.
When you turn the power game back on them. That
is a beautiful rage quit.

Speaker 2 (01:12:41):
Ah, so much rage quid in coming through High and Tyler.
In my mid fifties, I got a job mowing lawns
for a guy who was an alcoholic and used to
lose his rag and rage in the face of employees.
So were all young fellas. He done it to me
One day, I calmly explained that this method of communication
would get a different result. From me. He took a
step forward and shot at me a quick left right combo,

(01:13:02):
and I had a new job by lunchtime. Henry, Okay,
that's a real rage situation.

Speaker 3 (01:13:07):
Old move. One hundred and eighty ten eighty is the
number to call. Nine to nine two is the text number.
It is eleven to three.

Speaker 4 (01:13:15):
The issues that affect you, and a bit of fun
along the way.

Speaker 1 (01:13:18):
Matt and Taylor Afternoons with the Volvo xc N eighty Innovation,
Style and Design.

Speaker 4 (01:13:24):
Have it all. News Talk sed B.

Speaker 3 (01:13:27):
News Talks ed B. We are talking about rage quitteen
and some great stories have come through on nine to
nine to two.

Speaker 2 (01:13:35):
A lot of people pushing back on Russell's rage quitting.
Who's who had had rage quit twice? Sounds like Russell
is the problem. You don't pay someone out a week
unless they cause a lot of problems. Hey, guys, sounds
like rage quitter Russell is the problem. The company's left.
We're better off without them. Hey, sounds like Russell is
the problem.

Speaker 3 (01:13:55):
You go out? Yeah, and Russell, thank you very much
for sharing your stories.

Speaker 2 (01:14:00):
I once went to collect the product from a supplier.
The only called on his operations manager to help me.
He goten raged. They got into a verbal scrap and
the manager rage quit. In the spot, he threw his
keys at the owner, but missed and hit me in
the head. Collateral damage from the rage.

Speaker 3 (01:14:18):
Quit, guys, not so much a total rage quit, but
a memorable one. A staff member quit, letting the boss
know how he found. Then he got the pole truck,
which was used to move a single wooden power pole around,
and he poked the pole through the driver's side window
of the boss's car, then out the passenger window through

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the truck, keys out and left. Took a couple of
days to get the pole removed from the car. The
man is still considered a hero from Gym.

Speaker 2 (01:14:47):
It seems like throwing keys is a big part of quitting.
We've heard a lot of these stories. I wonder if
this is the same guy. It'd be a huge coincidence
if this was the person who hit the other person.
The best thing I ever did threw my keys at
a boss and walked out. Saw him today while getting
a coffee with a client.

Speaker 3 (01:15:03):
It would be quite cathartic just throwing keys, because I've
got a bit of heft to them. Guys, Yes, rage
quits on three occasions. The first one was a factory job.
My factory supervisor, Rage walked out one day. The next
day passively aggressively dismissed him for serious misconduct, kind of

(01:15:26):
kind of meaninglessly but kind of funny.

Speaker 2 (01:15:28):
Yeah, I got a new manager. Once major arguments ensued,
Rage quit convinced to withdraw that decision first. Fast forward
ten years. That manager can be easily attributed to my
success and as a great friend. He was the best
man at my wedding two years ago. Don't act on
rage team. Yeah, yeah, what.

Speaker 3 (01:15:46):
A great text to end on that is. That's like
another movie plot, isn't it.

Speaker 2 (01:15:50):
Yeah, Well, I was thinking about you know, I've written
extent extensively about anger in my life and I reckon
there's a few pretty good quotes on anger. If you
think about rage quitting, there's a couple of things you
can think about. Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more
hurtful to us than the injury that provoked it. That's
from Seneca, why you know, the ancient Roman statesman and philosopher.
He Basically what that's saying is often your rage causes

(01:16:14):
more damage than the thing that started the rage, and
you end off and end up in a worse person
position than you were. Epictetus once said, any person, as
I was saying before, capable of angering you becomes your master.
He can anger you only when you that to happen.
And someone texted this, this is why Trump is master
of the universe because he angers everyone. That's so true.

(01:16:34):
People with Trump derangement syndrome, people that are just raging
and worrying and concentrating on Trump at all times, they
have to realize they've allowed Trump to become their master.
In some ways. He affects them every day. He controls
and he takes over their emotions on a daily basis.
He becomes in some ways their.

Speaker 3 (01:16:53):
Master rent free inside their heads, as they say.

Speaker 2 (01:16:56):
And the final quote on anger is the greatest remedy
for anger is delay. And you know we all know
that from our mum's telling us to go, Maddie, calm down,
all right, take it a breath and count to ten. Okay,
a few breaths, Maddie.

Speaker 3 (01:17:12):
And then you calm down, and that works whatever age.

Speaker 2 (01:17:14):
You are a couple of breaths. And then you do
make the decision that's best for you, and if you
want to, you quit in a way that is advantageous
to you.

Speaker 3 (01:17:23):
Just may not be hiffing the keys at the boss's head.
That's the best advice or at all. But thank you
very much to everybody who shared their rage quit stories.
We absolutely loved it. Coming up after three o'clock, are
you watching films in an antual cinema? A beautiful plea
from an Oscar winner Sean Baker, saying that we need
to get back to the cinema. That is the best

(01:17:45):
place to watch film. You're a massive advocate for getting
down to the cinema.

Speaker 2 (01:17:48):
Yeah, but what would get you back into the movies
if you're not going, you know, is it a good experience? Still?
What is the problem that's stopping you going to the movies? Oh,
eight hundred and eighty ten eighty is the number.

Speaker 3 (01:17:58):
Again, I was.

Speaker 4 (01:18:06):
Working for.

Speaker 7 (01:18:08):
You.

Speaker 2 (01:18:08):
Better not try and stand in my way and I'm
walking out the door.

Speaker 22 (01:18:15):
Take this job and shove it.

Speaker 4 (01:18:18):
I ain't working in.

Speaker 3 (01:18:22):
Take this job and chove.

Speaker 1 (01:18:35):
Talking with you all afternoon, It's Matt Heath and Tyler
Adams Afternoons with the Volvo XC ninety used talks.

Speaker 3 (01:18:42):
Be good afternoon, Welcome back into the show. Seven past three.
Great to have your company as always, Let's talk about
these cinemas. Can cinemas survive in New Zealand on the
back of streaming giants and costs challenging movie theaters up
and down the country and around the world.

Speaker 2 (01:19:00):
Yeah, so the Oscar ceremony was painfully boring, with probably
the worst crop of films I've ever seen Oscars and
a ceremony apart from Conan O'Brien, was very, very, very
lame and boring. Adrian Brody Uh made the most harrific speech,
the longest speech in Oscar's history, but let's not go

(01:19:23):
into that. Sean Baker, the director of a Noorra, he
spice things up and made a heartfelt plea for people
to go back to the cinemas. Let's have a listen
to that.

Speaker 23 (01:19:32):
So we're all here tonight and watching this broadcast because.

Speaker 4 (01:19:35):
We love movies.

Speaker 22 (01:19:36):
Where did we fall in love with the movies? At
the movie theater?

Speaker 4 (01:19:41):
Watching a film?

Speaker 22 (01:19:43):
Watching a film in.

Speaker 23 (01:19:44):
The theater with an audience is an experience. We can
laugh together, cry together, scream and friye together, perhaps sit
in devastated silence together. And in a time in which
the world can feel very divided, this is more important
than ever. It's a communal experience you simply don't get
at home. And right now, the theater going experience is
under threat. Movie theaters, especially independently owned theaters.

Speaker 22 (01:20:05):
Are struggling, and it's up to us.

Speaker 3 (01:20:07):
To support parents.

Speaker 23 (01:20:09):
Introduce your children to feature films in movie theaters, and
you'll be molding the next generation of movie lovers and filmmakers.

Speaker 22 (01:20:16):
And for all of us when we can, please.

Speaker 23 (01:20:18):
Watch movies in the theater, and let's keep the great
tradition of the movie going experience alive and.

Speaker 2 (01:20:22):
Wellet so normally I follow Ricky Gervais's beliefs on that
and say thank your agent and your God and off yep,
when it comes to people accepting awards. But I think
that's the kind of political message we want to hear
from from directors. They care about movies, obviously, and I
believe the movies are better in the movie theater. I

(01:20:44):
believe the communal experience. You feel the audience around you.
It's great to be around people. Sometimes they're annoying, sometimes
they get on their phone, sometimes they open a crisp
packet in the silent, dramatic part of the movie.

Speaker 3 (01:20:56):
But I love the experience.

Speaker 2 (01:20:58):
You're sitting in the dark, you're not allowed to turn
on your phone, and that's made quite clear, so you
have to concentrate on the movie.

Speaker 3 (01:21:05):
I love going to the movies. Yeah, but the numbers down.

Speaker 2 (01:21:09):
In twenty twenty four, the box office was off in
New Zealand ten point four percent. So decline decline of
ten point four percent, wow, you know. I mean there
was obviously a massive decline in twenty twenty when it
dropped off fifty percent, but that was for obvious reason.

Speaker 3 (01:21:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:21:25):
Yeah, So are you still going to the movies? If not,
why and what would it take for you to go
back to the movies? What are your complaints about?

Speaker 14 (01:21:33):
It?

Speaker 2 (01:21:33):
Is the quality of the movies. Have movies gone down
in quality? There has been a lot of talk about
the quality of script writing coming out of Hollywood not
being to the same level as it once was, and
the stories that are being told aren't necessarily the ones
that people want to see as as much. You know,
are the movies too long?

Speaker 3 (01:21:53):
Certainly that is a big part of it. You know,
if the movie is approaching three hours plus, bring back
the intermission, I say, But I am ashamed to admit
that I haven't been to a movie in a movie
theater since twenty twenty one. The Immortals was a Marvel movie.
That was the last movie I went to go see
in the cinema.

Speaker 2 (01:22:11):
Immortals. Oh that is terrible.

Speaker 3 (01:22:14):
It was terrible. Yeah, they had Angelina and Joelie in it. Yeah,
so maybe it was the PTSD after watching The Immortals
and I never went That was a truly bad movie.
But now I'm hoping there's a resurgence because when I
read the story and heard that speech from Sean Barker, Baker,
Baker other and hearing your passion for getting down to
the cinema, I can I can readily accept that watching

(01:22:37):
on a streaming service, I'm thinking of the you mean
the Eternal Eternals. There is the Eternals.

Speaker 2 (01:22:42):
Yeah, the Eternals.

Speaker 8 (01:22:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:22:43):
Sorry, And that wasn't a great film either.

Speaker 2 (01:22:46):
Terrible film. That was the film I was talking about.

Speaker 3 (01:22:47):
Yeah, yeah, but I can accept streaming it at home
is a very lazy way to watch a film. And
I say that as someone who does that god awful
thing that I'm on my phone. I'm sometimes checking on
the plot, which is stupid to do if you're watching
a movie. I'm going to get snacks and pausing and

(01:23:08):
just not paying attention to what is in front of me.
And that is a terrible way to watch something like
a film.

Speaker 2 (01:23:14):
And it's making and watching films like that is making
movies worse. Because there were some leak documents out of
Netflix and they were talking about two screen movies that
they're now for the streaming services because people like you
that don't concentrate on the movie and couse, these movies
aren't being made for the cinema. They're being made so
you can watch the movie while you're watching your phone.
So that means very simplistic plots, so you know what's

(01:23:37):
going to happen, very painful expository dialogue so you know
what's happening, so you can find out what's happening while
you're watching your phone. And that is depressing. If movies
start being not made for their artistic value, but so
some muppet like Tyler Adams can watch them while he's
on his phone, then that's a depressing for the for

(01:23:57):
the future of movies. We should watch them like the
director intending it and intended it to be screen in
a dark room on the biggest screen you can possibly get,
you know, Christopher Nolan movie. Yeah, for example, shot in imax,
so good to see those in the.

Speaker 3 (01:24:14):
Prestige, you know. Yeah, the cinematography, the soundscape, the rest
of it. But it gets even worse, Matt. Sometimes I
watch it on a laptop. In fact, most of the
time I watch on a laptop. So I am absolutely
doing a disservice to the film industry. But I, as
I say, I readily admit that. But I am hoping
there is a resurgence of getting back to the cinema. Yeah,
and can I just ask a question on getting back

(01:24:36):
to the cinema for myself? Is it okay to go
to the cinema by yourself?

Speaker 2 (01:24:40):
Yeah, it's cool. Yeah, it's cool, don't I reckon, don't
worry about being billy, no, mates, because what you think
anyone cares about you. They might look at you and go,
look that's sad sad man about for about fifteen seconds.
Then that's that they never think.

Speaker 3 (01:24:52):
The trailers start and everybody's getting entertained and nice. I'll
tell you what.

Speaker 2 (01:24:55):
Sometimes I go to a movie by myself just so
my friend doesn't annoy me in the movie. You know,
or my partner doesn't annoy me in the movie.

Speaker 3 (01:25:01):
Yeah, it's an escape. Oh, eight hundred eighty, ten eighty.
The phone lines have lit up. Let's get into it
is thirteen past three, good afternoon, it is sixteen past three.
Are you still going to the cinema to watch movie
and supporting local film, international film, but local cinemas? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:25:21):
And if not, why and what would it take to
get you back to the movies, because in my opinion
it's the best way to see the artwork that is cinema. Julia,
you've just returned from watching a movie.

Speaker 19 (01:25:33):
Yes, hi, Julie. Here, we're just jumping back. We love
the movies. We've recently moved to say recently, almost three
years ago, moved from Munterston in Tasmania to beautiful Queenstown.
But we've always loved the movies and we we're so
lucky down here because we've got Dorothy Brown's, which is

(01:25:54):
an arthouse movie theater out in Harrowtown, so, you know,
twenty minutes away depending on traffic.

Speaker 2 (01:25:59):
Sometimes our great theater. Has it still got the cat
living in there?

Speaker 19 (01:26:04):
No, he stocks says he had to have some tooth
surgery and he's now living with another family because he
just couldn't be cared for the way he needed to.

Speaker 2 (01:26:14):
But oh he was gorgeous.

Speaker 3 (01:26:18):
Yeah, absolutely, And what movie did you go to today?

Speaker 19 (01:26:23):
Well today it was a highly intellectual one called Spit Spitch.

Speaker 1 (01:26:29):
Yes, it was.

Speaker 19 (01:26:30):
About an Aussie.

Speaker 5 (01:26:32):
Look.

Speaker 19 (01:26:33):
It was so icy, it was so awkward. It was
just incredible about a dear guy who just always manages
to land on his left foot and save his right foot.
His laughing songs, and he became the English teacher at
the rush what he called him at the Moment and
detention center, so everything was f So he told them

(01:26:55):
about how the F word can be used to give
positive or negative connotations. But his grammar, of course, as
you can imagine, was atrocious. But anyway, he wanted the end,
so it was. It was a good story. But look
at what we loved, you know, for example, at Dorothy
Brown's they have not that I'm doing plates for anybody,
because we've actually just come back from Silkyotta in Guen

(01:27:15):
Danna's Silk. But you get the best of British. I mean,
the Oak was the most wonderful story about migrants who
were moved into this small village area because they could
afford to take in some semester people. And of course
the local issues can imagine that the local pub were
just absolutely outraged. You know, they're not part of us,

(01:27:38):
you know, oh we're going to be all converted to
Islam and all the rest of it. But as a
community they gradually won them over and it was the
most wonderfully heartwarming story. And we just love the fact
that you can. Doesn't matter what movie you go to,
you end up being entertained, challenged. Sometimes it's wonderful. We
just love it.

Speaker 2 (01:27:58):
And do you guys normally go Do you guys normally
go during the daytime like this?

Speaker 19 (01:28:04):
Yeah, but sometimes we go at night. And I must
admit we're head and this because we love restaurants, and
which is why we've moved.

Speaker 18 (01:28:09):
To cut down.

Speaker 19 (01:28:11):
But we tend to go roundabouts and we can either
have lunch beforehand and then go to a movie, or
we'll have a dinner movie or an evening movie and
then we'll go to dinner afterwards.

Speaker 2 (01:28:21):
How much you're paying for how much you're paying for
tickets to go to Dorothy Brown's or the Silky Otto, Well, if.

Speaker 19 (01:28:28):
We weren't selling this, and we're also members. I think
it's about nineteen dollars, so it's actually not expensive. I mean, okay,
yes it is if you're struggling to bear children, but
it's not exorbitant rare.

Speaker 3 (01:28:40):
Do you find if you watch a movie in your
own home that that experience is a bit hollow?

Speaker 19 (01:28:48):
Oh? Absolutely, because you get up to go to blue
and you pause it to go and get another drink
or you know, to oh I just remembered an email
I've got to deal with. At the cinema, you absolutely
get well, you're held of seat and yeah, and as
you say, it's a shared experience, I mean, mind you,

(01:29:09):
we've been in situations where sometimes for an afternoon setting,
we've been the only way there, or perhaps with only
half a dozen other people, and we don't cope because
it's cheaper there, and it's just that that was the
way it was. But we've also been indus years is
when there's been literally a full theater and it's true,
there's a combined experience and you laugh and.

Speaker 3 (01:29:31):
You go ah, yeah.

Speaker 19 (01:29:33):
That's sort of thing, and it's incredible and you walk
out talking about it.

Speaker 3 (01:29:39):
Yeah, oh, well, thank you so much for your Call's
it's a powerful positive movie attitude coming there from Julie. Yeah,
that is a great start to the conversation. And I agree,
even though I'm one of those people that haven't been
to the cinema for quite some time, I do agree
with everything that she's saying. It is that idea of

(01:29:59):
an escape and experience and having people around you and
you don't have your phone on you, so you can't
be as distracted and enjoying the snacks and all that
of it. And that's why I hope there's a resurgence.
And going by the text machine, it looks like there
may be.

Speaker 2 (01:30:14):
It's a Spit two.

Speaker 3 (01:30:15):
It's this movie that she went to a lot, of course,
because because I've got here, it says Spit, it says
David Wynham returns as John Spit, the iconic crime of
Australian cinema and the sequel to Getting Square.

Speaker 2 (01:30:29):
So Spit's a sequel.

Speaker 3 (01:30:30):
Rave reviews.

Speaker 2 (01:30:32):
Look, yeah, I think so. I think people like it well.
Rave reviews from Julian and her husband.

Speaker 3 (01:30:37):
Yeah, that's all you need. Eight hundred eighty ten eighty
is the number to call. Nine two nine two is
the text number.

Speaker 2 (01:30:44):
Are you going to the cinema? Or if not what
would take you back? And is watching a movie a
cinema the best experience you can have for viewing a movie?

Speaker 3 (01:30:53):
Love to hear from your eight hundred eighty ten eighty
twenty one past three.

Speaker 1 (01:31:00):
Matt Heathen, Tyler Adams afternoons call oh eight hundred eighty
ten eighty on Youth Talk SB.

Speaker 3 (01:31:06):
Good afternoon. We're talking about going to the cinema, the
physical cinema on the back of the speech by Sewan
Baker at the Oscars with the clarion called to please
get back to the cinema. That is the essence of
film and supports the film industry. If you are still
going to the cinema, I love to hear from your
on eight hundred and eighty ten eighty. And if you
haven't been for some time, why nine two ninety two

(01:31:29):
is the text number? Steve, how are you this afternoon?

Speaker 12 (01:31:32):
I'm good things guys, yourselves very good?

Speaker 3 (01:31:34):
And you don't go to the cinema that much anymore?
Why is that?

Speaker 22 (01:31:39):
No?

Speaker 24 (01:31:40):
One of my primary reasons as an aging male is
that I'm not sure my ladder.

Speaker 3 (01:31:44):
Will cope movie fair.

Speaker 24 (01:31:47):
No, that is that is really not the primary reason.
It is a factor but you know I do. We
still don't go to the movies, but they need to
be they need to be epic, big screen, you know,
audio unvisual experiences for us to get out now.

Speaker 12 (01:32:03):
And I've got a good TV at home.

Speaker 24 (01:32:04):
I've got a great boun system at home. We can,
you know, we can enjoy a movie, especially the more intimate,
not so big screen movies. And there's a lot of
movies out there now that I you know that they're
they're sort of like a step above quality television to.

Speaker 12 (01:32:22):
Me, they don't warrant the big screen experience.

Speaker 2 (01:32:25):
Yes, yes, Steves James Cameron is amazing at doing that,
isn't he He makes movies that have to be seen
in the movie theater. I mean, I would never watch
Avatar at home. I wouldn't either either of the Avatar
movies at home. It just wouldn't cross my mind to
watch my home. But I'll go to the theater because
it feels like an event.

Speaker 12 (01:32:44):
It's funny to mean to that people.

Speaker 24 (01:32:45):
I think that the Avatar was the last movie we
went to in the cinema.

Speaker 12 (01:32:49):
Big screen because.

Speaker 24 (01:32:50):
Because will identify those movies and go for that specific experience.
So so any you know, and cost was a factor,
but it's not a that's not a biggie, but it's
it's it's more of I'm going to go. I want
to I want to feel it and see it and
experience it as opposed to a well done drama. But

(01:33:14):
a well done drama is not going to have quite
the same impact on a big screen, especially with the
quality of equipment it's going to have in the home.

Speaker 2 (01:33:20):
Now, Yeah, that's an interesting one when you talk about
the quality of the movie and it being worthy of
going along in a way. I went to see Nosperrato
recently and I've raved about it on the show, but
it just felt like a movie that you needed to
see in the dark with a lot of other people.
It was, And I just don't feel like I would
have had the same effect on me if I was
just watching it in the TV with the lights on,

(01:33:42):
you know, with my kids on the phone, someone trying
to vacuum out it as my feet.

Speaker 3 (01:33:46):
Yeah. Well, June June was another film similar to that, right,
And I'm a bit gudget that I saw June on
a streaming service at home, Whereas I think that was
a film that deserve to be seen in the cinema,
just that soundscape, and so I missed a lot of
the essence of that movie by watching it at home.

Speaker 12 (01:34:04):
So I just think they're not making those big epic.

Speaker 24 (01:34:07):
Movies as much as they used to, you know, they
in my view, but anyway, that's just that's that's what
we speak before you.

Speaker 2 (01:34:15):
Yeah, thank you so much for your for your your
and put into that. Yeah, I do agree, like there
are movies that are made to be seen in the
movie theater, movies such as June, as you say, but
also another movie by the same director, Blade Runner twenty
forty nine. Yeah, so that that director, He's Arrival, Scario.

(01:34:37):
He makes movies that are designed to be seen in
the movies because they're so beautifully shot that they deserve.

Speaker 3 (01:34:45):
The you know, the the quiet room and the huge screen.
But is it a bit of a race to the
bottom And that might not be the right phrasing, but
because we're not going to the cinema anymore, directors are
not focusing on making a film that needs to be
seen in the cinema to have that full experience, which
is a loss for all of us, right if we're

(01:35:06):
not getting those same films to that agree that deserves
to be seen on a big screen with multiple speakers
and surrounds down and all that other good stuff. Then
they're just not going to make those films.

Speaker 2 (01:35:16):
Dennis Villanette was the director of those films. Yeah, yeah,
I agree. Maybe, you know, like that's why like a
sort of a a sort of eleude comedy, you know,
that doesn't give you along to the cinema anymore. And
that's why they're not making too many of them but
for the cinema, because people will just go, well, I
want as all watch that on Netflix.

Speaker 3 (01:35:36):
Yeah. Oh, eight hundred eighty ten eighty is the number
to call if you want to text you more than welcome.
Nine two ninety two is that number? Headlines worth ray
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Speaker 17 (01:36:54):
Back now to Matt Eathan Tyler Adams.

Speaker 3 (01:36:56):
Thank you very much, Raylean and we are talking about
the resurgence, hopefully of people going back to the cinema
on the back of Sean Baker's beach at the Oscars.

Speaker 23 (01:37:05):
So we're all here tonight and watching this broadcast because.

Speaker 4 (01:37:08):
We love movies.

Speaker 22 (01:37:09):
Where did we fall in love with the movies? At
the movie theater?

Speaker 4 (01:37:15):
Watching a film.

Speaker 23 (01:37:16):
Watching a film in the theater with an audience is
an experience we can laugh together, cry together, scream and
write together, perhaps sit in devastated silence together. And in
a time in which the world can feel very divided,
this is more important than ever. It's a communal experience
you simply don't get at home. And right now, the
theater going experience is under threat. Movie theaters, especially independently

(01:37:38):
owned theaters, are struggling, and it's up to us to
support them. Parents introduce their children to feature films in
movie theaters, and you'll be molding the next generation of
movie lovers and filmmakers.

Speaker 22 (01:37:49):
And for all of us when we can, please.

Speaker 23 (01:37:51):
Watch movies in the theater, and let's keep the great
tradition of the movie going experience alive.

Speaker 2 (01:37:56):
And well, there's something quite slippable about us delivery the
other sort of exacerbated Hollywood delivery on stage. But I
think the message is there. Yeah, you know, maybe get
the message out and then seen will smith up to
give them away. But there's a message about movie theaters.
I think that's you know, that's the art form. But
the problem is I go to a movie like Captain
America Brave New World, more like Captain America boring, you

(01:38:19):
will so you know, you go out and make the effort,
and then Marvel comes up with something like Captain America.
And if the fact that people can make a superhero
movie an action movie and make it boring and too long,
that that's shocking to me. If you can't make those
things exciting, then what are your chances?

Speaker 3 (01:38:38):
I went one hundred and eighty. Ten eighty is the
number to call. I mean, on that particular outing. You're
right that you've spent the money, you've got the snacks,
you're ready for some good entertainment. And if you get
let down by Diddy, Old Hollywood and Marvel, then that
kind of leaves a sour taste in your mouth, right.

Speaker 2 (01:38:53):
Yeah, it certainly does, but a delicious salty popcorn taste
in your mouth as well.

Speaker 3 (01:39:00):
Kareem, how are you?

Speaker 17 (01:39:02):
Hi?

Speaker 5 (01:39:03):
Good?

Speaker 21 (01:39:03):
Good? Thank you? Yeah, so I go to movie. I
watch most movies that are playing, and yeah, I think
it's probably out of boredom. I don't like sitting sitting
at home, and I'm not into streaming. I'm probably anti streaming.
So I support the movies and yeah, it's just a

(01:39:24):
gamble because yeah, most of them are boring. But I
didn't go along most evenings like an Ara, like you know,
I just went and watched Anura yesterday because you know,
after the Oscar winning whatever Best Pitcher or whatever it is.
I mean watched it and I was like, well, I
don't know it. It's because I watched so many movies.

(01:39:45):
It just kind of felt like, you know, it's probably
okay to watch it on streaming. You know, it wasn't
even a movie that was like it didn't deserve to
be watched in the.

Speaker 2 (01:39:56):
Cinema, which which is which is which is ironic because
Shawn Baker, the director of telling people to get out
to the movie there, and then you're saying that he
made a movie that that wasn't worth going to say, Well.

Speaker 21 (01:40:09):
I find most Oscar movies or all these awards that
all these movies are winning, I like to watch them.
It's there seems to be a lot other movies that
seems to be a lot better. Yeah, but I think
it comes down to personal take. So it is a
bit of a gamble.

Speaker 3 (01:40:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 21 (01:40:27):
But also with regarding the cost, I mean there's a
lot of ways around it in terms of you know,
there's most of the cinemas like they're offer memberships and
you know, rewards and discounts and you can go on
Mondays or Tuesdays or you know, you could. There's so
many ways to work around it. There's a movie of
the week, you know, cinema of the week, you know

(01:40:48):
howarts and events and silky artis do I love Mondays?

Speaker 18 (01:40:52):
You know.

Speaker 21 (01:40:52):
So there's a lot of ways to reduce the cost.
And I never ever buy food, like I do not
buy drink or popcorn or anything. I'm just spending twelve
dollars each time I go there, you know, or sometimes
ten dollars. Or once you want five or six movies,
the next one is free, you know, because you've wrapped

(01:41:13):
up the poems.

Speaker 2 (01:41:14):
Yeah, so what kind of movie do? What kind of
movie do you lean towards? You said, an aura? What
kind of board you? What about are you? Are you
in the big budget movies, the action movies? What kind
of would be your perfect movie to see in the theater?

Speaker 21 (01:41:29):
Yeah, definitely not Marvel movies. But sometimes I go and
watch them when I've like ran out of all the
other ones, and I kind of go, okay, let's just
go on watch one of these Marvel ones. And yeah,
I'm not into the Marvel or animated and all of
that stuff, But yeah, something something that impacts you, you know,
something kind of it's got a message. Those kind of movies.

(01:41:52):
It moves you, and you know you're connected and you
get lost in that world, and when you come out
of the movie, you're still living in that world. Like
sometimes you're driving around and you're going, oh my god,
and you're still thinking about it, and you're still researching
about it. What was the message or what did they
try to say? Yeah, you're going and looking at the
interviews of the actors and directors what they were saying

(01:42:12):
about the movie, and that's the impact that have on you.

Speaker 8 (01:42:15):
You know.

Speaker 3 (01:42:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:42:16):
I go for some movies and I look up the
YouTube clip that says ending explained.

Speaker 21 (01:42:22):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, so yeah, I know, I was
I don't know. I just felt it was very ordinary
compared to a lot of other movies, you know, And
again I don't like the Obviously, everyone can make their
own decisions, and I still would like most people to
go to movies. It's scary because I'm such a passionate

(01:42:42):
movie buff and sometimes I'm sitting there and it's like
nobody's there, and it's like, wow, is this a dying
And it's probably going to come back, you know, because
the streaming is so boring. I don't like streaming because
sometimes I get hooked into it and you're going from
one season to the other and you just stay home

(01:43:02):
all day, and.

Speaker 2 (01:43:03):
I don't like it sucks the life out of you.

Speaker 3 (01:43:07):
Have you seen I speaking of movies? Now, have you
seen the Monkey?

Speaker 21 (01:43:13):
Are not yet because I've been working my way through
all the other movies and Monkey is still still on
its list. But yeah, I've been watching a lot of
Chinese movies have come out for the Chinese New Year,
like right now they're playing the Legends of the Condor,
and the Chinese movie lately have been absolutely amazing, and

(01:43:34):
I'm sitting there thinking, oh my god, they have arrived
and they are giving Hollywood a run for their money,
and it's it's kind of scary in a way, sitting
there watching it, going, oh my god, are they taking
us over? You know, it's it's it's amazing. It's stunning,
like some of the movies that have come out of
China lately, the Creation of the Gods, the Legends of

(01:43:57):
the Condor and the recent even though I'm not into
the animated ones, Yes, that was absolutely stunning and I'm
not into you know, but I just thought being a movie,
but I've got to go and watch it. If this
is the highest grossing animated movie ever, higher than Inside
Out Too, which I haven't watched, but I just thought, no,

(01:44:22):
I've got to watch this, you know, and yeah, God,
I sound like Annabel White at the moment.

Speaker 3 (01:44:28):
We love it.

Speaker 2 (01:44:29):
Well, thank you so much for you call. Now there's
a passionate movie guy that it's going being disappointed by
the movies, loving the movies, and just going back because
he believes it. I mean, it does get you out
of the house. I mean that sounds like a sort
of a depressing way to describe, you know, you know,
like an activity. But getting out of the house is important,
getting out of the house, driving, talking to some people,

(01:44:52):
going and watching a movie and then coming home as
opposed to just getting home. Last night, I got home
from from from work at dinner and then went to
sit down and put white Lotus on, and I was like, hey,
I've just been staring at screens all day, working all day.
Just want to go for a walk. I just want
to experience something outside of working and staring into screens.

(01:45:13):
And so I went for a punishing walk was just
getting out of the house. But you know, getting out
of the house and go to movie it does. I
think it makes you feel better about life, even if
the movie isn't as good as it could be.

Speaker 3 (01:45:22):
Yeah, make an experience out of it. Oh, eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty is the number to call. It
is twenty to four.

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Speaker 3 (01:45:40):
Be good afternoons seventeen to four.

Speaker 2 (01:45:45):
So the top the top movies in New Zealand at
the moment, we're talking about going to the cinema and
whether people think it's worthwhile. The top movies at the
moment is Tina. Number two is Bridget Jones, Mad About
the Boy, Captain America Boring You World at three actual.
I shouldn't say that when I'm trying to get people
gradan movies and these are two, which is the animated
film we were talking about before, A Complete Unknown, the

(01:46:06):
Bob Dylan movie The Monkey. I want to see that.
So Stephen King Horror Conclave that was up for some
from Oscars with Ralph Fines in it. Yeah, apparently that's
pretty good movie. Officer on Judy and Move Faster at
number nine, and at number ten Widow Clickle Widow Clickle,

(01:46:26):
click Cool. There's a lot of artie movies in our
top ten.

Speaker 3 (01:46:30):
Yeah, but click cool.

Speaker 2 (01:46:33):
I could be, but I'm not going to go to
a movie called Wido click Cool.

Speaker 3 (01:46:38):
No, it doesn't sound like my sort of movie, to
be honest. Conclave I'm quite interested to watch, as they've
got realp not Ralph Fines. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:46:46):
Yeah, I can't go to that movie because it gives
me PTSD after when I was on that TV show
The Traders, And I just have to go up to
the Conclave every night in a hood and murder people.

Speaker 3 (01:46:55):
Oh one hundred and eighty ten eighty is able.

Speaker 2 (01:46:57):
To call Hannah, You reckon. Movies need to be reinvented
to get people along.

Speaker 16 (01:47:02):
Yeah, yeah, I reckon, Like I agree with the previous callers.
You know, it's kind of the epic movie that get
you there. I guess the ones I've seen are like
Oppenheimer June or or make it like an event like Barbie.
I went to the Barbie movie.

Speaker 8 (01:47:18):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 16 (01:47:18):
We went to Wicked as well.

Speaker 14 (01:47:23):
And one was really good.

Speaker 16 (01:47:24):
This is where I wonder if the movie theaters kind
of need to be a bit more like news outlets
maybe where you can't just keep serving up the same
old TV fame style as always an expect people to
keep tuning in. You know, maybe the movie fans need
to switch it up a bit to try and keep
people coming.

Speaker 2 (01:47:41):
Yeah, the Barbenheimer thing really went off, didn't it for something?
Someone came at that thing, and people went to Barbie.
But people loved Barbie when they were kids. They loved
the whole thing around it. It was a real event.
It was kind of going to Barbie and correct me
if I'm wrong. Hannah was more than just the movie.
It was sort of a you know, a friend's thing,
and it was an expression of your life as well.

Speaker 16 (01:48:03):
You know, people dressed up and more pink and all that.
And actually for us when we went Wicked, we had
the same thing my kids do, musical theater and the
musical theater company hide out, like in the whole theater,
like one hundred and fifty seats and like they filled
it and the kids all came with their families and
they all dressed up as you know, either Glinda or

(01:48:26):
you know, the pink or as Alphabra and the green. Yeah,
and it was great. It was a lot of fun.

Speaker 4 (01:48:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 16 (01:48:34):
But it's that kind of thing I think that gets
people along where maybe they might not otherwise, you know,
for families you go like for a school holiday activity
or like for a birthday party activity or that kind
of thing.

Speaker 2 (01:48:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:48:48):
And did you guys sing along to a Wicked Yes?

Speaker 16 (01:48:52):
Yes, absolutely, there was a bunch of musical theater kids.

Speaker 2 (01:48:58):
See, that's part of the communal you know, aspect of it,
isn't it. But getting together to watch a movie. You
can't get that many people in your lounge, and it's
fantastic to be around some people, some strangers and singing long.
I mean not every movie, you know, like it has
to be acceptable to sing along in the movie. I
have some very strict rules on people being quiet in
the movies. But you know, if that's what you're along

(01:49:20):
to do and everyone's on board, then I mean. I've
been to a few movie theaters. I went to a
special screening of Bohemian Rhapsody, the Queen movie where you
were supposed to sing along and that was awesome.

Speaker 3 (01:49:29):
I bet it was all right, Thank you so much
for your call. I get where she's coming from. But
isn't that what we used to have when we all
went to the cinema before streaming giants came along and
we could watch all these things and the comfort of
our own home as we kind of got hyped up
by cinema anyway, You know that we always knew as kids,
certainly for me, that there was a big movie coming up,

(01:49:51):
like The Matrix, for example. I was very excited about
The Matrix and a lot of hype around it, and
then that became an event in itself. Is that all
your friends are talking about it at school. Everybody wants
to go see the Matrix. You look forward to the
weekend when you get to go down and make an
event out of it. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:50:05):
I mean it was very different as well, when peopleatching
movies at home on their Phillips K nine on a
VHS that they had taped off TV. Like you know,
most of the movies I watched when I was a kid,
just over and over and over again, and then so
the quality of the viewing experience was far worse. Now
everyone's got a huge TV. They've got an amazing sound system,
so it's it's quite big. But I still think the

(01:50:29):
movies are made to be watched, well, some movies, as
Hannah is saying, some movies are made to be watched
in the movie theaters.

Speaker 3 (01:50:35):
Yeah, some of them. Who cares exactly, James, how are
you hi?

Speaker 22 (01:50:43):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (01:50:43):
Yeah? Well goes off there for a second. Yeah, I'm
one of those people who, up until the time I
unfortunately lost my sight, enjoy going to the movie theaters
to watch the movies. And I always thought the movie,
you know, if you're going to see such something like

(01:51:04):
you know, June or something like that, the cinema is
the best place to go and see it. Yeah, I mean,
I think the last film I went to see was
Man of Steel, and that was just before my site
gave out.

Speaker 3 (01:51:17):
Right, how long ago was that Man of Steel?

Speaker 5 (01:51:19):
That was around twenty thirteen, fourteen?

Speaker 2 (01:51:23):
Yeah, I like that. I like that movie. And so
that must be a rough for you. James, Like you've
you've you loved going to the movies, but you can't
can't see them anymore? Can you still enjoy movies with
the audio?

Speaker 5 (01:51:38):
I have been I haven't been to the cinema since then, so,
you know, because I can't really enjoy the movies without
with not seeing them promptly. You know. I do know
that some some cinemas run place you know, talking, you know,
give some descriptive things, but that's that's rare over here now. Yeah,

(01:52:01):
but yeah, no, the cinema was the best place to go.
I mean, granted, the the streaming things and that have
their place and things. I mean, I mean, like, let's
take take The Lord of the Rings. Things they've expanded
on that in the TV series on and I also

(01:52:27):
had the director's cut for those films.

Speaker 2 (01:52:32):
Yeah, yeah, well they're fantastic. Thank you so much, James,
and sorry to hear about your sight.

Speaker 3 (01:52:36):
Absolutely right. We're going to wrap it up very shortly.
It is ten to two four.

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Speaker 3 (01:52:52):
They'd be great discussion about cinema. On the line is
the director of the Riviera Cinema and Bellcluther. Chris Rottenbury, Chris,
good afternoon to you.

Speaker 8 (01:53:03):
Hire.

Speaker 3 (01:53:03):
You're going very well, Thank you very much. So we've
been having a great discussion about Chris.

Speaker 2 (01:53:10):
Chris, how is the theatrical business going at the moment.

Speaker 25 (01:53:14):
At the moment, I think it's on the bounce back,
which is nice since COVID all them operators, I think,
have been hanging out to twenty twenty five. That will
always the target. Make it to twenty twenty five and
breathe some sort of side relief. And I think we
are seeing that bounce back now since the delays from
the pandemic and from the delays for the strikes as
well that happened in twenty twenty three.

Speaker 2 (01:53:34):
How depended on you on the quality and popularity of
the movies that are coming out.

Speaker 25 (01:53:40):
Somewhat dependence. We personally like to try to push the
smaller budget films where we can. The bigger films they
get their own marketing from your disneys and things like that,
and we don't need to push them so much. So
we push the smaller independence and that's where we sort
of get our extra patronage just making people aware of
those films.

Speaker 2 (01:54:00):
What do you do have to do as a cinema
to get people to come along? What is the most
important thing you can do to get people to keep coming.

Speaker 15 (01:54:07):
Back from us.

Speaker 25 (01:54:09):
Personally, there's a few things. One is don't take yourself
too seriously. People out of the cinema, I think they
get a bit scared to do anything. You know they're
going to get told off. We're pretty silly on social media,
just doing very silly things. We just like to have
a laugh. I think that helps. And advantizing is a
big thing, you know, ladies Nights and things like that,

(01:54:30):
and really pushing those that gets people in that don't
come often, and then they see a loyalty programs and
things and that brings them back. It's just getting people
back since the pandemic. And I think once you get
them back once, if you give them a stellar experience,
they will come back again.

Speaker 3 (01:54:44):
And Chris, how do you feel about the future of cinemas.

Speaker 25 (01:54:49):
Future of cinemas I think are in a good place.
There will still be some to close, I think, and
it's not going to be for everyone, but what we
need to do is to continue to adapt and I
think alongside streaming, I think we can coexist.

Speaker 2 (01:55:08):
And this is a personal question because I'm not sure
the answer this. Are you supposed to pick up your
popcorn and all your mess on the seats or are
you supposed to leave it there for the person that
comes and cleans it up.

Speaker 25 (01:55:21):
I assume you leave it there first ione to come
clean it up with that question.

Speaker 3 (01:55:25):
Well, just I always have been doing that, and then
someone said to me, you're supposed to clean ups like
am I? Jeez? If I've just been being a terrible
person for years?

Speaker 25 (01:55:33):
No, I think common cares is to just put your
rubbish in the bins. Yeah, but when it comes to
popcorn and things that you can't.

Speaker 3 (01:55:41):
Pick up, you can't pick up every one of them
that you've dropped. Yeah, and watch.

Speaker 25 (01:55:46):
You actually we are back in. It takes two minutes
to clean up some popcorn.

Speaker 4 (01:55:49):
Not that at all? Love it?

Speaker 3 (01:55:50):
And wa'ts your pick for movies At the moment, I'm
looking at Mickey seventeen, which looks fantastic.

Speaker 25 (01:55:55):
Yeah, that comes out today. That looks absolutely fantastic. I
tried to watch that last night, but our power went out,
so I'm going to try again tonight and we'll see
how it goes. The other one will probably be Tina,
which is doing a business and it's an exceptional film
for most days teenage and up.

Speaker 3 (01:56:13):
Yeah, love it, Chris, Thank you very much mate. All
the very best. That is Chris Rottenbury from the Riva
riv Era Cinema and Bell Kluther. All the best mate,
great discussion.

Speaker 2 (01:56:26):
Yeah, get out to the movies.

Speaker 3 (01:56:28):
Yeah, I mean, judging by the text and phone calls,
people getting to the cinema is very much alive and well.
And that's a good thing because we need to be
supporting the movies and the cinemas. Here we go. I
went to the Silkyonden last week's or a Complete Unknown excellent, Yeah, brilliance.
All right then, all right then, thank you very.

Speaker 1 (01:56:45):
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