Full Show Podcast: 07 August 2026

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Speaker 3 (00:28):
Very good afternoon to you. Welcome into Friday's show. Great
to have your company and hope you're doing pretty well
so far. Now, May Heath, before we get in the
show today, just want to recap what happened with the
old meat peck situation. Say what is?

Speaker 4 (00:41):
Just say? Good things happen to those who bang on
about the stuff that they want. Because yesterday I was
talking about my lovely partner Tracy. She's got a birthday
on Saturday, and I was saying, do you know it
would be great if I could run a raffle at
her birthday party for a meat pack.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
Who doesn't want that?

Speaker 4 (00:58):
And I was thinking, how beautiful would it be in
romantic if it was the TL Tracy Sarah lydiot so
you know meat that lined up with that, and and
we got we got a whole lot of a whole
lot of text and from from butchers and people that
absolutely loved certain butchers across the nation. Yes, but one

(01:19):
particular butcher's got so many texts of people that that
love love them. But also one of the one of
one of the owners of the place's wife texted in,
ye and lady, they've turned up. That is Mapari meets
Gida Fellas. How you doing, So let's introduce ourselves. We'll

(01:42):
go down the line. So just jump into the microphone
there and just give us your first names. I'm Jeff,
Jeff Richard Rob and your wife was the one that
teakes through yesterday. And I'll tell you what they you've
absolutely delivered.

Speaker 5 (01:57):
Boys.

Speaker 4 (01:58):
Can you talk us through these meat packs that you've
you've put together at my Pari meets.

Speaker 3 (02:03):
Yep, we can.

Speaker 6 (02:04):
We've got a lovely We've got a couple of meat
packs Tomahawks.

Speaker 4 (02:09):
So that's for the Tracy.

Speaker 7 (02:10):
Yep, that's Tracy.

Speaker 3 (02:11):
I just said all we look at that tom Hawks.
I mean, geez, that's a quarter of a cow right there.
That is massive, huge. We've got the short loin as well.

Speaker 4 (02:19):
Yep, the loin was important. The sausages in the middle
for the s yeah, and and then the and then
look at these little variety of sausages.

Speaker 3 (02:29):
Many decent sausages there five six packs that.

Speaker 4 (02:32):
Everyone loves yep. And and then the loin. So it
took us through the loin. What is the loin?

Speaker 3 (02:39):
The loin is that's your surloin steak. And it's got
the t bone on the other side with the bone
and them, so that I fell on the other side.

Speaker 4 (02:46):
So it's your t bone yep.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
So I feel it. So looin absolutely bloody brilliant.

Speaker 4 (02:50):
And tell us about you, tell us about your shop
and your and your operation.

Speaker 6 (02:55):
Uh so we're sort of a pasture to plate business.
We slept all of our own beef from farmers that
we know and neighbors, family things like that. So all
angus beef decent, decent quality, and we sort of chase
some thing that a lot of other butchers may not
necessarily have. That's sort of what that's what we do.

Speaker 4 (03:12):
Yeah, right, right, And where are you exactly?

Speaker 6 (03:15):
We're on l Evan Mount Wellington's Yeah, but where did
you start off? Well, we actually started off at the
Cleveland markets, right, yeah, five years ago. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
so that's uh, that's where we dipped our feeding.

Speaker 3 (03:31):
Yeah, and so your background and butchery or on me,
I mean you're from farms or your butchers before you
started the sup Yeah?

Speaker 6 (03:38):
Yeah, yeah, so I was a butcher. Jeff and I
actually did butchery over in the Gold Coast together.

Speaker 1 (03:42):
Nice.

Speaker 8 (03:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (03:43):
So yeah, Jeff was playing golf semi pro and I
was and I was trying to be a plumber. You know,
we both failed, so we went butchering.

Speaker 9 (03:51):
You.

Speaker 3 (03:52):
Look, that's right, Look, that's keep going. Ticks just came
through no one better than my party.

Speaker 4 (04:00):
So yeah, so you guys got reputation and you're also
got great merch. Is that usual for a butcher to
have all some it? You've got the caps, You've got
the T shirts.

Speaker 3 (04:10):
I don't know. We kind of love ourselves, so we
thought you got to love yourself. Our faces on the
back of the shirt. Is that on the website as well?
People can get the merch in the shop. In the shop,
yeahs and hirts, but mainly me and what you big sellers.
What's the go to bangers? Our banger is a pretty
pretty Yeah. I've got a lot of awards on the
wall for our sasages, so they go pretty hard. It's

(04:32):
a great selection of sausage.

Speaker 4 (04:33):
Here met Heith, Yeah, smoke Venison I'm very excited about
us and Triple and Parmesan. Yeah, and.

Speaker 3 (04:43):
Oh you love this, Matt.

Speaker 4 (04:45):
How many have you won?

Speaker 10 (04:47):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (04:47):
Yeah, yeah, we'll start fro start throwing the silver and
bond bronze out, keep the gold ones.

Speaker 4 (04:54):
Oh well, I'll tell you what. My partner, Tracy, she's
in a recent article, said well she kind of suggested
I wasn't that a Romantica guy? And I think this
is guy's going to chann everything around the Tracy Siria
meat packs for her birthdage.

Speaker 3 (05:07):
Yeah, can't go wrong.

Speaker 4 (05:11):
Yeah, yeah, well, thank you so so much. Yeah, so
this is turning into cash for comment. It's what we
do here. We're not shy on it. Once again, where
we go? Where are you guys?

Speaker 3 (05:24):
We're on lav and Mount Wellington.

Speaker 4 (05:27):
Good on you, Rob, Jiff and Richard. Great New Zealand.

Speaker 3 (05:29):
Yep, you guys are awesome. Thanks very much for coming.
And if you want to go check them out, obviously
go to lun Air or you can go to Mapari
meets that's m A p A R. I Meets dot
co dot m Z Fellers. Great to see you, appreciate it,
Thanks very much, Love you mum. We'll catch up again
for a barbecue soon nicely said.

Speaker 4 (05:48):
Yeah, yeah, five o'clock tonight, right, yeah, bring it off. Yeah,
you're going to make a young lady very happy with
your meat.

Speaker 3 (05:54):
Pat certainly. Yeah, great fellas, all right, all right, we'll
be back very surely. It is twelve past one.

Speaker 2 (06:01):
The big stories, the big issues, the big trends and

Speaker 1 (06:06):
Matt Heath and Tyler Adams afternoons used talks.

Speaker 8 (06:09):
It'd be.

Speaker 3 (06:10):
Very good afternoon, Ji, it is a quarter past one.

Speaker 4 (06:13):
They just love people that set up a business and
they love doing it. And then just so many people
are texting you in saying how how good their businesses.
There's people that are fans of their business.

Speaker 3 (06:22):
It's it there for the love of its absolutely great guys.
Go check them out in the Pari meats. They're in
non ev and they've got a website Mapari Meatstalk Codo.
It's it.

Speaker 4 (06:29):
But all right, we're all right, let's move on from
the meat.

Speaker 3 (06:32):
Yeah, let's what to do.

Speaker 4 (06:33):
Let's let's move on from the meat.

Speaker 3 (06:34):
We've got to move on from the meats and we've
got to have a chat about invoices. So we want
to chat to you about the time it takes for
an invoice to be paid. This after Labor has released
a new policy if they were to get into government
that would they say help small businesses. Part of that
was raising the GST registration threshold from sixty thousand to
eighty thousand. But what we really want to talk about
is the other part of that policy. They would require

(06:55):
big businesses to pay small supplies within fifteen days on
invoices of twenty five thousand dollars or less, and also
publish how quickly they paid suppliers. And according to research
by Zero in July, small businesses in New Zealand waited
on average twenty four point one days to be paid
after issuing and invoice late payments. Meanwhile, we're four point
seven days. But as we know, for small businesses who

(07:17):
rely on cash flow, that can have a significant impact
on ongoing work, sorting, payroll, keeping, things ticking over if
you're operating on thin margins.

Speaker 4 (07:25):
Why is it that the larger companies take longer to pay?
I mean, I guess they've got more invoices to process,
but they would have dedicated people to process to the invoices, right,
I think yeah, rather than smaller customers having to do
it all.

Speaker 3 (07:39):
Themselves, and you think they have capital as well?

Speaker 4 (07:42):
Dugxy is. In our business, we have customs who pay
straight away on delivery, even though our terms are the
twentieth of the month following. We especially look after those customers.
But the larger the customer, the more likely they are
to extend payment.

Speaker 3 (07:54):
Is that something that you're facing? Is it the bigger
businesses that seems to be the lag yards when it
comes to paying invoices? And what do you do whether
it's just an individual household because you've done some work
with them, or whether it's a big business, what do
you do when someone doesn't pay their invoice on time?

Speaker 4 (08:11):
Yeah? What do you do? And so what does even
the government do in this situation when they're making this rule?

Speaker 11 (08:17):
Right?

Speaker 4 (08:17):
So what if you do that? You know you still
have to still as a small business to have to
go and take it to someone that's right to get
it sorted.

Speaker 3 (08:24):
Right, And you're quite right because they haven't specified what
the penalties are. They've just said they're required big businesses
to pay small supplies within fifteen days. But what happens
if they don't do that?

Speaker 4 (08:33):
Yeah? And but a few people are texting saying this
isn't a problem at all. People, nearly everyone pays at
the twenty three next month. This is a solution looking
for a problem, all right?

Speaker 3 (08:44):
Is that true? Tell us? I wait, one hundred eighty
ten eighty. If you're a small business or a big business,
what do you do when someone doesn't pay their invoice
on time? Are you starting to see more of that
with the so called cost of living whatever it is now?
It's certainly probably not a crisis after six years? Tell us,
I eight one hundred eighty ten eighty is that number?
It is eighteen past one, beg very surely.

Speaker 1 (09:04):
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Speaker 12 (09:09):
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he goes and ends the week by pulling the old
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liked Peter dunnpolitical commentator as with us. Could you argue that,
given we're allegedly going to vote for a three or
four year term anyway, why not tag this on the
end and it's actually no big deal.

Speaker 13 (09:27):
Well you could argue that, but if you were going
to argue that I would have thought you'd have made
that argument at the time that you announced you're having
the referendum on the four year term. Now I'm clear
to the fact that this court, everyone, including his own team,
by a measure of surprise, suggests that it wasn't part
of that original plan.

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Speaker 3 (09:48):
It is twenty one past one, So we're talking about
how long it takes to have your invoices paid. This
on the back of the Labor Party, they've got a
new policy they say will help small businesses. Part of
a big part of that policy would be for them
to require big businesses to pay small supplies within fifteen
days on invoices of twenty five thousand dollars or less.
So how long are you having to wait for your

(10:08):
voices to be paid? Is it a big issue for
your business? Would you support this sort of policy? And
what do you do when an invoice isn't paid? What
are your options at that point? Tell us so E
one hundred and eighty ten eighties number to call get
a Jeff ha You going boys very well?

Speaker 9 (10:23):
Nice. I think this a bit of a crop, to
be honest. Will you do a lot of insurance company
work and they pay us overnight?

Speaker 4 (10:32):
Right?

Speaker 3 (10:32):
The insurance companies, the big big insurance companies pay you
within twenty four hours.

Speaker 9 (10:36):
Yep, overnight. We sent submit an invoice and it is
paid within twenty four hours.

Speaker 4 (10:41):
That seems like it should always be the way with
a big company because you'd imagine they'd be have the
personnel to sort the situation out.

Speaker 9 (10:50):
So do you with much personnel? It's it's all done
with systems now. So if it's the voices correct and
it matches up with what they've allowed, yes, but it
pays you.

Speaker 4 (11:00):
So if it matches up with the purchase order or
whatever JEF.

Speaker 14 (11:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (11:05):
And then I mean if there's variables, then you'll go
back with variables. And then once someone signed that off
and you push the button to pay and it pays you, yeah, overnight.

Speaker 4 (11:13):
So and does it? And do you in your business?

Speaker 15 (11:16):
To you?

Speaker 4 (11:16):
Is there anyone that you do business with that is
slow and pain Yeah?

Speaker 9 (11:22):
I mean it's more it's more private companies, right, you know,
I guess everyone's hampered with cash flow issues when the
economy is like it is, so yeah, I mean people
stretch and then therefore you stretch and things like that.
But the big companies are the ones that actually are paying.
So maybe labor need to look into actually what the

(11:44):
issue is because it's not that as far as we
can see in our industry anyway.

Speaker 3 (11:48):
Just on the smaller guys and you say, yep, they're
a little bit stretched for cash at the moment. But
for you as a business, I mean, how much empathy
can you have in that situation because then as you
say that starts to affect you, it affects other people
down the line. So you've got to kind of stay
pretty hard on when your owed money. You've got to
get paid on time.

Speaker 16 (12:07):
Right.

Speaker 9 (12:09):
Well, I mean I've been in business for thirty years
and it's been the same for thirty years. So you know,
I don't think it go. I don't think a party
that knows nothing about businesses all of a sudden you're
going to change things.

Speaker 4 (12:20):
To do that. Do you think what this is is
they've looked at their numbers and they go, well, people
that run businesses aren't really voting for labor at all,
so let's flip them a few crumbs on something that
doesn't really doesn't really do a lot. But how are
they going to do it?

Speaker 3 (12:38):
They haven't said, And you're right, you know, that's the
thing with these policies is they have big headline announcements,
but the detail is missing. Usually closer to the election
they start to firm that up. But that's a good point.

Speaker 9 (12:48):
Do I bring my MP and say, hey, this guy
hasn't paid me.

Speaker 3 (12:52):
Straight to chippy?

Speaker 4 (12:53):
Well, it's kind of that. It's just more admin, isn't it.
So you're absolutely right. So I mean it's like if
you get robbed, then you have to go to the police,
but they may or may not do anything about it. Right,
So if a big company doesn't pay you, you can go, well,
you know, who do you go to? And then they go, well,
we're overrun and that we'll get to that in two months,
you know.

Speaker 3 (13:13):
Yeah, what about.

Speaker 9 (13:14):
The I'm I'm still waiting for a callback from one
of the political parties. Then I had issue building a
house with consent and red tape and things like that,
and I'm still waiting and that's nearly two years now.

Speaker 3 (13:27):
Okay, yeah, well that's not good enough. Just quickly, Jeff,
just on the publishing side of things. So that also
require those big businesses to publish how quickly they paid supplies.
Would that make a stick a difference? No, yeah, you do.
I think they would put a difference. Well, they argue
it would pot off. So if they publish and they
are not big payers on their invoices or they're very late,
their rationale is that it would put off people doing

(13:48):
business with them.

Speaker 9 (13:49):
Okay, So if you've got someone that sends you six
million dollars worth of business a year and they pay
you ten days late, what are you going to do?
You're going to stop doing their work?

Speaker 3 (13:57):
No, no, you wouldn't.

Speaker 9 (13:59):
Where's the other work going to come from?

Speaker 4 (14:01):
You go, I see that you guys pay ten days
later than this other company, So I will not take
your business a.

Speaker 9 (14:07):
Rental car which is the original car years ago and
base to pay ninety days.

Speaker 15 (14:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (14:14):
I mean if you know, you know, if you know
how how long someone's going to pay, then it's not
really a problem. Right. So if you do the work
and you know when you're going to get paid, then
then that's generally fine as long as you're reasonably solvent. Operation.

Speaker 3 (14:26):
Yeah, if you could rely on that ninety days though, right,
Jeff that if they, you know, for whatever reason, come
back and say, hey, we can't do ninety, we're going
to need another two months, that's when it starts to
become unstuck.

Speaker 17 (14:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (14:37):
Absolutely, what size would you say your business is, Jeff.

Speaker 9 (14:41):
Which you know about eight million years?

Speaker 4 (14:43):
In your interactions with them, in interactions with people that
are similar sized or smaller businesses than you, do you
do you come across many that tend towards being labor voters.
I haven't met a labor voter yet. Yeah, it's interesting that.
I guess that's what they've probably done. Right, As I
was saying before, they've gone, well, this is a block

(15:03):
block that doesn't vote for us, so shall we fluck
them from some crumbs? But it's not a way with Jeff.
I wouldn't say.

Speaker 3 (15:09):
No, no, you haven't got Jeff labor party. Oh eight
hundred and eighty ten eighty Do you agree with Jeff? Though?
Do you think this wouldn't make much difference? And in
terms of the big guys, they're actually better than the
small guys at paying their invoice? Tell us what you
think nine two ninety two is the text number? As well?
We'll do a couple of texts before we got the
headlines with ray Lean. This one says, get a guys,

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we won a contract with a multinational business. The payment
terms of ninety days had to accept to win the contract,
but it makes it tough to fund my staff.

Speaker 4 (15:38):
Yeah. My husband has a small business, was just himself,
and we stipulate on the quotes that fifty percent needs
to be paid when the job starts in final payment
is due in completion of contract work. In general, we
have no issues with this arrangement, Thanks Blinda. Yeah. I've
never ye, you know, got any work done on my
house or work done on you know, without any anything

(16:03):
really without paying fifty percent up front.

Speaker 3 (16:05):
Yeah. Yeah, I think that's a pretty common practice, isn't it?

Speaker 4 (16:08):
Just in terms of those Then it gets done and
you get the invoice and you pay it.

Speaker 3 (16:13):
Yeah. Does anyone really wait though, just on those smaller
invoices that I get a trading around to do some
work on my property and he gives me the invoice
or in fact any any service, I'm not waiting seven days.
Pretty much. As soon as that invoice lands, I know
roughly what it's going to cost, and I'm ready to
pay that pretty much then and there. That's isn't that common?

Speaker 4 (16:30):
What are you waiting for?

Speaker 3 (16:31):
Well, exactly, that's you know, because that's what we're hearing there.
There's some ticks coming through saying on those those smaller
ones for traders and people that provide a service. When
someone turns around and see and I can't afford to
pay you right now? Can you wait thirty days? I'm like, well,
how does that work? You know, you knew the work
was being done, You've asked for it, You've got the quote.

Speaker 4 (16:48):
But maybe something crazy has happened in your life, Tyler. True,
maybe a tree has fallen through half your house, you know, and.

Speaker 3 (16:55):
You've got to get them back.

Speaker 4 (16:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (16:57):
Yeah, it's a good point. Things happen.

Speaker 4 (16:59):
Lot things do happen in life.

Speaker 3 (17:00):
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Speaker 3 (18:24):
Thank you very much, Rayleen, and we're talking about having
your own voices paid on time. The Labor Party has
produced a policy going into the election that would make
big businesses pay their invoices within fifteen days of its
twenty five thousand bucks or less. So is this a
big problem for you as a small business? Tellus O
one hundred and eighty ten eighty to number to call.
Edward you're a salt trader?

Speaker 16 (18:46):
Oh yeah, I am. Indeed, I think this policy system
UNDERCRAT that's not going to change anything. And Chippy's just
probably realized that people know, people have memories that labour
has been very very not friendly to small businesses and
soul traders over the years. And hip an extra voted

(19:10):
going on there. But as policy waste of time quite
change anythink there hasn't been a problem. He's just scrapping
the straws.

Speaker 4 (19:20):
So Edward, you're a sole trader. And so when you invoice,
how do you do it? Are you you fifteen see
up front? Do you you know? Do you twentieth of
the next month? How do you do it?

Speaker 16 (19:37):
Opens? So I'm I'm an it contractor.

Speaker 4 (19:40):
Yep.

Speaker 16 (19:43):
Generally I get paid eiver on the twentieth or the
twenty fifth. It seems to be companies prefer those two dates,
so I voice at the end of eix months and
then get paid twenty twenty five days later. I've been
doing this for seventeen years and for a lot of
big IT companies, for government departments and for corporate entities,
and I've never ever ever had a late payment or

(20:05):
not being paid.

Speaker 3 (20:06):
How much of your time do you spend on account
checking whether you've been paid and voicing all that kind
of stuff?

Speaker 7 (20:11):
You do hard?

Speaker 16 (20:13):
Did anything? Mate? Maybe since Henry came in, I used
to do it myself, but even then I don't need
to take probably three hours a month, Henry, it takes
me probably twenty minutes a month.

Speaker 4 (20:25):
As a sole trader. Are you are you getting there?
This is just I don't know why I'm asking this quest,
simular just jumped in my head. Do you get in
the WHT taken off and the you know when it's paid? Yeah?

Speaker 16 (20:35):
Yeah, So I usually go for twenty WHT. That kind
of guarantees I won't get a tax bill and I
might even get some back at later the year.

Speaker 3 (20:45):
Yeah, I mean, I mean that's that's that's great, doesn't
it because you know that you're doing the job and
you're paying the tax and you know you're not going
to get a surprise at any point.

Speaker 16 (20:54):
Yeah, exactly what I mean. When I'm doing it myself,
I worked out there on average, once i'd taken out
all the costs and all that GSTO returns, et cetera,
I was probably paying about twenty three percent tax. Twenty
five is a good state number.

Speaker 3 (21:07):
Yeah. Do you only deal with the bigger guys in
or do you deal with smaller businesses as well?

Speaker 18 (21:13):
Uh?

Speaker 16 (21:15):
My track records?

Speaker 3 (21:17):
Oh I think you Yeah, sorry, you're back.

Speaker 10 (21:20):
Yep.

Speaker 16 (21:21):
Mainly bigger guys for government departments. I t companies like
Spark and Fujitsu and IBM, and for them, I never
really done any That's not true. I did do a
contract for eight months for a small consultancy firm, and
that was dealing with lots of little, small shops. And yeah, absolutely, I.

Speaker 4 (21:42):
Guess the only people that aren't paying and the people
that are in terrible you know, are going out of business.

Speaker 15 (21:46):
Right.

Speaker 4 (21:47):
So anyone that's running a business that's working as successful
as paying bills, right, you're know, as you're not running
a business. If you're not paying the bills, you're not
running a business. You're going backwards, right.

Speaker 16 (21:57):
So it's really I mean, there's nothing to gain from
paying lates if you're a big business. I mean, all
you're going to do is get a bad reputation. Yeah,
going to see for anybody. Oh you might say you
have a few bucks on a little bit of percentage
of interest you might have earned by holding your freench
a week, but but nothing really worth even sneezing about.

Speaker 4 (22:17):
Yeah right, thank you, it would think for you.

Speaker 10 (22:19):
Cool.

Speaker 3 (22:19):
Yeah, good to get your point of view. Do you
agree with Edwards?

Speaker 4 (22:22):
Will you trying to look up what WHT is?

Speaker 3 (22:24):
Yeah, I was going to ask, and then I.

Speaker 4 (22:25):
Withholding tax oh yes, right, yeah, So like you know,
if you're a you know, if you're a company, you
invoice plus GST.

Speaker 3 (22:36):
And if you're a sault trader, you invoice plus a
plus twenty GST and then they take off whatever you're
withholding taxes for the code for the particular industry or
business or you know what you're doing, gotcha, Okay that
makes sense here, Yeah, And.

Speaker 4 (22:51):
So if that's done at that point, then it's then
it's going to the IRD. And then at no point
during the year do you suddenly get a massive tax
bill because it's being paid with each job. Yeah, you
see what them saying?

Speaker 3 (23:01):
Yes, all right, keep those teams coming through A nine
to nine two and on one hundred and eighty ten eighty.
Have you had any issues with your envoye is being
paid on time? The average for small businesses is twenty
four point one days. Is that a problem for you?
Tell us?

Speaker 4 (23:15):
Yeah, so twenty four point one days. If most people
are invoicing the twentieth of the next month, then twenty
four point one day doesn't seem so bad, doesn't it.

Speaker 3 (23:22):
What is it different then?

Speaker 10 (23:23):
For?

Speaker 3 (23:23):
And I've got no problem of this, But then you
get a trade that comes round and it's not business
to business, it's business to client. But why is that
expected within seven or fourteen days? Again, I've got no
problem with that. But why is it different when it's
business to business versus business to client?

Speaker 4 (23:38):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (23:39):
But so I do a bunch of invoicing right from
my various bits of work and with my company, and
I always just click.

Speaker 4 (23:48):
Just what I'm doing the invoice. So I just clicks
seven days because it's just there. Yeah, so it says number,
it's a week, it's due date, yep, I have to
put one into the invoice. So I've never thought about it.
And I've also never checked whether people paying seven days
or you know, I just if they haven't paid in
a month, that will come up as this invoice hasn't
been paid, right, Yes, my accountant will say that in
voice has been paid or whatever. Yeah, but I have

(24:10):
never ever done anything. It said for ten click out
because it's an option. Yeah, it seems nice. Seven days
seems like a round.

Speaker 3 (24:16):
Number, are you like? Matt Heath tell us so one
hundred eighty ten eighties. The number to call it is
twenty two to two. Back very surely have.

Speaker 1 (24:22):
A chat with the lads on eight hundred eighty ten
eighty Matt Heath and Tyler Adams afternoons news talk sai'd be.

Speaker 3 (24:29):
It is twenty to two. So Labor's got a new
policy that would make big businesses pay their invoices within
fifteen days if it's under twenty five thousand dollars. Is
that a problem you're facing as a small business owner? Oh,
one hundred eighty ten eighty is number so far.

Speaker 4 (24:41):
I've got a lot of small business owners saying that
this policy seems like a what is it that's a solution?
Looking looking for a problem. The six says, I'm a
sole trader and text and text and voice on the
day to be paid in twenty four hours. Oh okay,
I like that, Beth. Welcome to the show. How are you?

Speaker 8 (24:59):
I'm Jared?

Speaker 19 (25:00):
How are you?

Speaker 8 (25:00):
Guys?

Speaker 3 (25:01):
Very good?

Speaker 4 (25:01):
It's good, thank you?

Speaker 8 (25:02):
He oh, it's so cute. Look at them tryingn't know,
sweet the labor trying.

Speaker 3 (25:10):
They're giving gods or to try, aren't they?

Speaker 8 (25:12):
They are they have no idea what it means to
running business in New Zealand today, and really like that
is the least of our problems. Come on, guys, and
really they're are a thing right with us? You know,
there's such a stuid idea that you guys are thinking of.
Who is your coalition partner again?

Speaker 4 (25:32):
M hm, Well you got the Greens.

Speaker 8 (25:34):
You got the Greens, you maybe got top And what
are they going to do? First, small business in New
Zealand or medium sized business New Zealand are going to
make sure were they going to make sure that our
naughty band employers don't take advantage of our employees even
more than we are currently exploring them?

Speaker 3 (25:51):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (25:52):
Are you currently exploring your employees?

Speaker 8 (25:54):
One hundred percent all the time. That's all we do. Yeah,
we just exploit them all day and all night. In fact,
if they're not being exploited, I wake up for them
all the night and in a panic. What you don't
worry about them.

Speaker 3 (26:05):
You're making them move forty hours a week. You're making
them come in when they're at in that schedule to
be in there, you monster, Oh, I.

Speaker 8 (26:11):
Pay them on time. I worry about them and their
lives and kids and their mortgages and you know, all
the terrible things are terrible employers do.

Speaker 19 (26:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (26:23):
No, So I think it's pretty cute. I think good
on them for thinking of us and thoughts and pree
years later.

Speaker 4 (26:29):
So you think that, I mean, can you imagine these
policies working for you know, like winning a vote from
someone like yourself in the small business No.

Speaker 8 (26:42):
So the answer to that is no.

Speaker 4 (26:44):
What about have you thought it all about labor? Proposing
and increasing the GST registration threshold from sixty thousand to
eighty thousand.

Speaker 8 (26:51):
Yeah, No, that's a great idea.

Speaker 14 (26:56):
It's great for your first.

Speaker 8 (26:57):
Year in business. Yeah, but then that comes up very
quickly as well. It's not a huge threshold like you're
talking about kind of being able to pay your wage. Really, yeah,
I mean it's a nice thought, it's not going to
do any harm, but actually, how much is it going
to gain?

Speaker 4 (27:15):
Well, if you actually if it actually kept up with inflation,
since they set the sixty thousand, it should actually be
roughly one hundred and thirty thousand dollars is where it
actually should be. The threshold should be raised, But I
mean it must be pretty pretty annoying for some businesses
if you don't have a lot of expenses, like a
massuge or something, you go, you know, just not you know,

(27:37):
the threshold being so low for GST, but ye're not
going to get your best your vote best.

Speaker 8 (27:42):
No, no, but I'm only whole point with GST in
the first place. And I love those quotas. Even drug
dealers have to pay GUST. We all everyone pays gs T.
We pay it for almost everything. So yeah, it's kind
of it's a really fair text, just quickly bad.

Speaker 3 (27:58):
So you don't like what Labour's doing here, clearly, what
is the one big thing facing your business now that
it doesn't have to be labor or any party? What
could they do to make your life easier?

Speaker 8 (28:08):
Oh my goodness, not to like, I don't disagree with
with Chris Laxing when you kind of told us all
off the other day about stop minding, just get out
and do it. I kind of think that's where most
of us are at at the moment. We're kind of
over talking about like how negative things are and how
hard things are, and we just are working hard to
make things better.

Speaker 4 (28:28):
Yeah, I mean, does it really get you anywhere constantly
or anyone anywhere constantly saying how hard it is? And
once it's been going on for so long, you many
were on your live for so long. So if you're
waiting for things to get better before you, you know,
and waiting for someone to help you, and you could
be waiting for a very long time, and you could
miss a lot of your life.

Speaker 8 (28:50):
And also, most signers in New Zealand, we're business owners
because we've got hustle.

Speaker 3 (28:56):
Yeah, because we want.

Speaker 8 (28:57):
And we want to get stuff done and we think
that we can do it. And so most small business
owners in New Zealand mad hustle and out there doing it.
And yeah, now what.

Speaker 4 (29:06):
Do you think? It was such a big sort of
storm around those words that he said then around I
can't remember the exact words, but they're basically like relationshipeah.

Speaker 3 (29:15):
Yeah, that that you shouldn't look at the government as
a as a parent in your in your businesses, are
small businesses or a child.

Speaker 4 (29:20):
Why do you think that that blew up? Why people
got so offended by it? I mean, I'm not sure
how many people did actually get offended by it, but
we were told that people were offended by it.

Speaker 8 (29:30):
I don't think people were offended by I think it's
the problem with what he said is that it's true,
and people, in my experience, people don't get offended by
stuff that's not true.

Speaker 3 (29:41):
Yeah, I think there's something done that yeah.

Speaker 8 (29:43):
Yeah, yeah, And also you kind of go, okay that
and he's right, right, So he's true, and he's right,
But he did he need to say it? Probably not?

Speaker 20 (29:54):
Did he say it?

Speaker 8 (29:54):
Yeah?

Speaker 14 (29:55):
Is it true? Yeah? That is.

Speaker 8 (29:58):
I'm not looking for any handouts. I don't want anything.
We just want to get on and do the business.

Speaker 4 (30:02):
And but you want you want, you want to have
you want to be in a situation where there's not
ridiculous things that are stopping you doing your business, which
is a bit different from a handout, right, Beth.

Speaker 8 (30:12):
They are that's exactly. And you look at if we
get a center less government and the obstacles that always
come with it, instead of refining it and making it
easier putting in more retaate.

Speaker 3 (30:26):
Oh thank if you called Beth, Yeah, thank you very much.
Are you with Beth? Oh one hundred and eighty ten
eighty is the number to call, Sarah. You're a small
business owner as well?

Speaker 21 (30:35):
Oh yeah, Hi guys. So I've been owning a specialized
business for the last twenty plus years and have been
on a government advisory board actually talking about and debating
this actual initiative, and it was deemed at the time
that it would fail. And my business, my business specializes

(30:58):
in big corporate, so yes, being paid is difficult. Most
of the procurement teams in big corporate in New Zealand
and overseas have a standard ninety day policy and most
of my big corporates don't pay for six months, and
so it is it is a problem.

Speaker 4 (31:20):
Why do they not just just just part of my ignorance,
but why do they not pay for that length of time.
You'd think they just want to choose there and get
things organized.

Speaker 21 (31:29):
Well, yeah, but if you think about it, I mean
it's a procurement team and the accounting team that dictates,
the finance department that dictate it, not the people that
you're dealing with. The reason they do it is because,
if you think about it from a global perspective, that's
a shipload of money and that money is money that
they're earning a lot of interest on. So the line
that they can delay delay payments to non critical services,

(31:53):
of which you know sometimes a small business operator falls
under that and if you you know, they have all
their tricks up their sleeve, Oh you missed a you
missed a bullet point on the in voice, you didn't
format it properly or whatever. So on average, it takes
about six months to get paid. Yes, and you know,

(32:14):
when you the problem with this policy is really naive
about how business actually works. Like it's kind of like
it's aimed at you know, your local plumber who doesn't
get paid by Bunnings. I don't know, and you know,
you know, they might be named and shamed and all
of that. But if you're dealing with most of the

(32:34):
big corporates in New Zealand, the procurement and you have
to sign up with their terms of trade otherwise you
can't work for them. So there's terms of trade and
not a ninety days standard, and so what as a
small business, how are you going to turn around and say, oh, no,
the government said you have to pay me in fifteen days,
but in voices under twenty five k. They just laugh

(32:55):
and say, well that's fine in the next procurement round
se evada. I mean, you can't enforce it. How are
they going to enforce it?

Speaker 4 (33:02):
There was even discussed when you when you were on
these you know, these discussions about it sore. It was
discussed you how you would enforce it because would someone
just go, yeah, fifteen days I'm going to go to
what an authority to try and call the police?

Speaker 10 (33:16):
What was this?

Speaker 4 (33:17):
Yeah?

Speaker 21 (33:18):
I mean, I mean that's the thing is we did
a deep dive into it and thought like, on the surface,
it seems like a really nice thing to do, right,
look after our people who can't stand up for themselves.
I mean, big business to big business, you have some power.
They need you as much as you need them. If
you're a clever and innovative small business that happens to

(33:38):
be playing with the big boys. Sometimes, yes, there is
a shift of power. They have more power over you.
But the thing is you've fought so hard to win
that business, to get that business, and what you're going
to just say, ah, yeah, sorry, you have to pay
me in fifteen days. They'll just laugh and say, well, sorry,
the job's not yours.

Speaker 3 (33:57):
But how do you operate as a business it's six
months waiting for payment and is it guaranteed in six months?
Maybe it's a little bit longer, but how can you
operate on that if it's a big contract and you
need that money to pay pay or whatever it may be,
pay your staff, pay yourself. I mean, how do you
operate like that?

Speaker 21 (34:13):
So it's just about good financial management and most people
who are playing in this space with big corporates, because
this is what this policy is aimed at. It's not
your small business operator dealing with mom and dad. It's
you know, clients, it's big business.

Speaker 3 (34:30):
Right.

Speaker 21 (34:31):
When you're playing with big business, you're playing with big dollars.
So you have your finances in order, you have your
cash flow solid, and you make sure that you're planning
your incomings and your outgoing. So once you get into
a system, it doesn't matter whether you're paid six months
or fifteen days. You just have that to make sure

(34:52):
you've got that buffer to carry you through. I mean,
I would never run a business, be able to run
a business successfully where I was literally relying on the
next invoice being paid to be able to pay my staff.
That's just not how it works. If you're playing with
the big boy, you're playing with big dollars and you're
playing with long numbers, and that's a long time frame.

Speaker 4 (35:17):
Relate to either big businesses that are going out of
business or small businesses that are going out of business.
If you see what I'm saying, once it aren't yeah,
I mean, it aren't solvent, so therefore.

Speaker 21 (35:31):
Should they be in business. I don't know that sounds
really harsh, But what I'm saying is the two things
that I said, the two things that we found that
were the biggest problem with this type of policy. One
is you cannot just dip your toe in the water
with the private sector and think you can control it.
You've got to stay out of those market forces because

(35:52):
it could be have a detrimental effect to businesses who
are trying to operate. If they legislate, that's even worse
because if they legislate, who from overseas is going to
come and commission a small business in New Zealand if
they have to be paid in fifteen days, You're not
You're just not going to do that. I know we're

(36:13):
talking under twenty five thousand, but you know a lot
of that work, you're you're doing big jobs, but you're
only billing on invoices under twenty five thousand, but regularly,
so it would still apply to beg work pieces of work.
And I just think that the more governments try and
stick their nose into controlling mark them, you know, the

(36:34):
private market sector, the more complications will come from that.

Speaker 3 (36:40):
Nicely, said Sarah. Yeah, very articulate.

Speaker 4 (36:42):
Yeah, she was a good person to call up on that.

Speaker 3 (36:44):
Absolutely, Yeah, what do you say to that? Nineteen nine
two is the text number. It is seven to two.

Speaker 1 (36:50):
Matt Heath Tyler Adams taking your calls on oh, eight
hundred and eighty ten eighty. It's Mad Heathen Tyler Adams Afternoons.

Speaker 4 (36:57):
News TALKSB News Talks THEB.

Speaker 3 (37:00):
We're talking about a labor policy that they're taking to
the election to make big businesses pay their own voices
within fifteen days if it's under twenty five thousand dollars
or they say a couple of texts. Here you get
our guys, I work for a very large corporate. We
pay all invoices on the twentieth of the month following.
Most of our customers pay us thirtieth of the month following.
Please don't tarnish all big corporates. Not all play the

(37:21):
big boy games. That's from Anthony.

Speaker 4 (37:23):
Yeah, but it's interesting though when you when you get
the rundown from it from Sarah that the you know,
that's just the terms, right, So you when you sign up,
those are the terms that you sign.

Speaker 3 (37:37):
Up yeah with right, Yeah, you know what you're dealing with.

Speaker 4 (37:39):
Yeah? Yeah, So are you that really that evil? If
you go here's here's my business, there's a million dollars.
You know, well this is under twenty five thousand dollars. Right,
as she was saying, you can you're often invoicing a
lot of times, right, if those are the if those
are the terms, those are the terms, right yeah.

Speaker 3 (37:54):
And as she said, if you're a viable business, then
most of the time you need to have that cash flow.
And that's something you have to think about as a
business owner. Is not rely on one invoice or a
couple of invoices to keep you going.

Speaker 4 (38:05):
Yeah, but we've got hundreds of texts and a bunch
of calls, and everyone's saying they're not really having big
trouble getting paid on their own voice.

Speaker 3 (38:13):
So good luck with that one. Labor business doesn't seem
to like it. But a great discussion.

Speaker 4 (38:18):
Was that a solution looking for a problem.

Speaker 3 (38:20):
Seems to be Yeah, great discussion. Thank you very much
to everyone who gave us a buzz in text through
your thoughts on that one. Really enjoyed that discussion. But
coming up after two o'clock News Talks EDB, this station
get this one hundred years old on Sunday. How good
you're cudding. Yeah, we're going to take your memories and
your thoughts on that.

Speaker 2 (38:39):
Next the big stories, the big issues, the big trends,
and everything in between. Matt Heath and Tyler Adams Afternoons
News Talks EDB.

Speaker 3 (38:51):
Very good Afternoons. You welcome back into the show. It
is seven past two. So on Sunday, the ninth of
August nineteen twenty six, listeners for the very first time
heard the words one Z B. The Auckland station which
formed the foundation for this station. Now News Talks EDB
broadcast with three hours every Monday night. It was the
humble beginning of an iconic nationwide radio station. And we

(39:14):
this year on Sunday are celebrating one hundred years of
informing entertaining listeners. And I think, humbly said, been at
the heart of New Zealand's conversations for those one hundred years,
which is astonishing in New Zealand terms, actually worldwide terms,
for a radio station to exist for one hundred years.

Speaker 21 (39:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (39:32):
Well, I've been involved for one point eight percent, no,
one point six percent of that time, claim it. But
it's amazing one hundred hundred years this station once, he'd
be so many, so much history, so many legendary names
that have been involved. Yes, I've been learning about Aunt Daisy, yes,
way back in the day.

Speaker 22 (39:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (39:51):
Well, I heard Leyton Smith when he had a conversation
with Mike earlier this week about the one hundredth birthday
that he took over from Aunt Daisy, And there was
protests in the street originally saying same bring back Aunt Daisy.
But Lighton worked out pretty well in the end.

Speaker 4 (40:03):
Can we bring back Aunt Daisy? Maybe she could join
our show?

Speaker 7 (40:07):
There you go?

Speaker 4 (40:07):
Well, or if she moved on to another life, thinks
he's moved on.

Speaker 3 (40:11):
Yeah, yeah, I don't think you can bring it back.

Speaker 4 (40:12):
So one of the amazing things about News Talk Z'B
is how few breakfast hots have been across the one hundred years.

Speaker 3 (40:17):
Yeah, just four, just four in one hundred years, which
is astonishing.

Speaker 4 (40:21):
It's consistency, isn't it.

Speaker 3 (40:22):
It certainly is. Yeah. Yeah, So we're taking your phone
calls on this. So e one hundred eighty ten eighty,
one hundred years of news talk ZEDB, no matter how
long you've been a listening to the station for. But
what were the big moments that you remembered over that time,
maybe the big personalities, the snaffoos. There's been a few snaffoos,
but we want to hear what were the big moments
for you news TALKSB one hundred years?

Speaker 4 (40:43):
Yeah, and what does it mean to you as a station.
I think I personally think doing talkback is a look.
I might be blowing smoke up my own but but
I think talkback is a hugely important thing that you
can raise a topic and anyone in the country can
ring in and have a chat. Yeah. Whilst hundreds of
thousands of other New Zealanders listen. Still, that's got to

(41:05):
be That's got to be a pretty worthy thing, right.

Speaker 3 (41:07):
Democracy the kitchen table, isn't it? What do you say though,
Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty, give us a call,
tell us about your the memories of News Talks ZB
as long as you've been a listener, how long you've
been a listener, how you came into being a listener
on News Talk EDB and those big moments that stand
out for you. Nine two ninety two is the text
number is? Well it is nine past two. Will be

(41:28):
back in a few moments.

Speaker 1 (41:30):
Your home of afternoon talk Mad Heathen Tyler Adams afternoons
call Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty News Talk z.

Speaker 3 (41:38):
EDB, twelve past two. So as of Sunday, News Talk
ZEDB will be one hundred years old, which is astonishing
not just in New Zealand terms, but internationally as well
for a radio station. So taking your calls, I eight
hundred eighty ten eighty, what were the big moments for
you when it comes to what you've listened to, who
you've listened to on this particular station.

Speaker 4 (41:58):
Aunt Daisy, you've got Marina merv Smith full shown Homesie legend. Yes,
asking still here, still here, still here in the mowing strong.
Larry Williams, he's great New Zealander. He was Kerrie Woodham, Yes, yep,
great Lady, Eligiend, Chris Carter, Danny Watson, Oh, Danny, it's

(42:18):
funny for me that I'm on news talks. He'd be
because I had a character on a TV show that
I played when I was very young called Danny Parker,
and he was named after Danny Watson and Steve Parker
put together his.

Speaker 3 (42:29):
One name full circle moment.

Speaker 4 (42:31):
Layton Smith classic, the best pipes ever in the business.

Speaker 3 (42:35):
Yeah, absolutely, we.

Speaker 4 (42:36):
Would you say that's like whiskey and treacle poured slowly
over hot coals.

Speaker 3 (42:40):
That you described sums it up very well, actually, mate, Yeah.

Speaker 4 (42:43):
Djordane was there, of course, Heather Marcus Ryan, Yeah. Lots
of lights of fantastic broadcasters.

Speaker 3 (42:50):
Absolutely, yes, superstars in New Zealand. Now there's been a
lot of chat about Aunt Daisy, and particularly on lateon
Smith's story that he told with Mike Coskin a little
bit earlier. But here's she is Aunt Daisy and this
was her traditional greeting more than seventy years ago.

Speaker 23 (43:05):
Good morning, everybody, good morning, everybody. Well know, if I
can only get in all the answers for these different
recipes that have been sent for me. The Beatrip chutney
that somebody wants, I will give that quite soon now,
so I'll be ready because it's a new one from England.
It's the one that I've got from England, and it's
it is different from any of the beat trip chutney's,
the ones in the book or.

Speaker 3 (43:24):
Anything, isn't it gorgeous?

Speaker 4 (43:26):
Lots of syllables than everybody? Every yeah, very body.

Speaker 3 (43:31):
Syntax was was very clear, Yeah, very clear.

Speaker 4 (43:34):
I can understand exactly what Aunt Daisy's saying across. I
wonder if people used to have to you know, broadcasters
used to have to speak much more clearly and more
pronounced because the feed wasn't as clear, so you needed
to say every body. But it's the old BBC right,
the way you mumble and slur through this.

Speaker 3 (43:52):
It's gone downhill. Lots of sun, Daisy, all right? Oh
one d and eighty teen eighty is that number two
called gide Carolyn.

Speaker 14 (43:59):
Might be you two. I've got three main memories that
i'll very sight plea. Firstly, I was a child and
I'm blind, so right from early childhood, radio was number
one for me. The Sunday morning story session from seven
in the morning to nine am on Zby was wonderful.

Speaker 19 (44:20):
They actually had a club.

Speaker 14 (44:21):
Called the ten eighty Club that you could join and
you got a card and you got special entry to
places like the zoo and that.

Speaker 4 (44:32):
The memory it was the did you say the ten
eighty Club, Yes.

Speaker 3 (44:37):
Because that was that was the frequency, wasn't it.

Speaker 14 (44:40):
Yes, yes, that was the AM frequent.

Speaker 4 (44:43):
All right, so not the poison then later on and
so sorry, Caroline, what era did you start start listening?
Did you What's wrong?

Speaker 16 (44:54):
On?

Speaker 14 (44:55):
Nineteen seventies?

Speaker 8 (44:56):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (44:56):
Yep, yep, cool, yep, yep.

Speaker 14 (44:59):
Nineteen seventies through to the eighties. They in mid eighties
or thereabouts they had that the story session. So I
guess that was a way of keeping us kids away
from our parents so they could sleep an on a
Sunday morning. The other one is year two thousand and

(45:21):
the Sydney Olympics. All homes went over with a crew
of people and he audio described the opening ceremony of
the Olympic Games in Sydney on the radio, and that
has never happened again and as a blind person truly

(45:44):
appreciated that.

Speaker 19 (45:46):
Yeah, I really.

Speaker 4 (45:47):
Did, because that's the thing about radio, because you know,
obviously no pictures, so the detail that you have to
describe is so much more than say a commentary on
the video, right because they'll assume, yes, that there's a
certain amount that people can see. But Paul Holmes would
have been describing absolutely everything for you, Karen.

Speaker 24 (46:05):
Yes he was.

Speaker 14 (46:06):
And finally the last one quickly as a very naughty one.
Merv Smith had a spider called mccarrey that he used
to speak to every morning Monday to Friday, just before
eight am. Now going out to home eye the blind school.
We had a whole bunch of kids that used to

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get dropped off at our place and the school bus
would stop just before eight am to take us kids
to school, and we refused. We said, we're not going
out to the bus until we've finished listening to mccarrey,
and so they gave up and all the kids from
the butt that were on the bus piled off into
my mum's kitchen standing around the radio listening to Merv

(46:49):
and mcarrey.

Speaker 21 (46:50):
And a couple of years before.

Speaker 14 (46:53):
Merv died, we were presenting him with an award at
the Blind Foundation for his audio book reading. And I
actually got a chance to tell him that story. So
I'm really pleased that I was naughty and held up
the school bus.

Speaker 3 (47:07):
No, that's beautiful.

Speaker 4 (47:08):
Well, so you've been you've been listening for probably half
the existence of this whole situation here, if you've been
listening to since the seventies, it's good. Hey, we've actually
got we've got actually got some audio here. I think
we've rustled up some more from what's the spider.

Speaker 3 (47:23):
Called mckerry the Scottish Spider.

Speaker 4 (47:25):
Okay, okay, we've got some audio for you, Carolyn.

Speaker 1 (47:28):
Great Christmas to you all. Oh McCarry, Oh for a
Scottish spider, you look ridiculous, whether.

Speaker 4 (47:38):
With a bigger back boots on it, my word, and also.

Speaker 25 (47:41):
The the red jacket and the and the red hat,
and and you've got a bit of cotton all around
your face.

Speaker 3 (47:46):
Pretty left you killed time.

Speaker 4 (47:47):
Looks a bit ridiculously. I needn't mind him.

Speaker 23 (47:49):
I'm going up to Alaska.

Speaker 1 (47:50):
Why are you going to ask Ary?

Speaker 4 (47:52):
I'm going to I'm shaded forest.

Speaker 3 (47:53):
Prepare the Christmas stories, mate, boy, I think that'd be
a nice job for me. Where you going Alaska? But
Santa Claus doesn't live up there? Oh but what about
his wife?

Speaker 19 (48:03):
His wife missus Christmas?

Speaker 3 (48:04):
I'm merry Christmas.

Speaker 1 (48:05):
She'd go there, wouldn't she.

Speaker 3 (48:07):
Well, I'll ask you.

Speaker 7 (48:10):
Look you nor.

Speaker 3 (48:10):
Man, No, I'm not absolutely shut Which parishes up there?

Speaker 18 (48:13):
You know?

Speaker 10 (48:14):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (48:14):
How good that brings me some memories? Carolyn sure does.
Thank you?

Speaker 4 (48:20):
Yes, hey, well, thank you so much for ringing. Thank
you so much for listening over the years and continuing
to do. Thank you very much, Carolyn, So I eight
hundred eighty ten eighty. What are your memories of z
B over the last hundred years, the big moments that
stand out for you?

Speaker 3 (48:34):
Tell us O eight hundred eighty ten eighty is that
number to call? It is nineteen past two.

Speaker 2 (48:39):

Speaker 1 (48:44):
Matt Heath and Tyler Adams afternoons Used Talks ed B.
Matt Heathen, Tyler Adams afternoons. Call Oh, eight hundred eighty
ten eighty on news Talks EDB.

Speaker 3 (48:57):
Very good afternoon. It is twenty one passed to a
News TALKSB will be one hundred years old on Sunday.
So we're taking your calls on the big moments that
stood out for you over those one hundred years. Oh,
one hundred eighty, ten eighty is that number to call
a nine two nine two is the text number? Ghetto Peter, Yeah,
Hi Chap.

Speaker 26 (49:15):
My moment was when the Wahini was thinking and Patty
O'Donnell was on a spot there and the mother and
myself were up at Feating Heights watching it, and my
grandfather was on the ship there and he was bringing
back a new car from christ Church and Paddy was

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very descriptive like like he always was with the racing.
And my grandfather survived. He survived and was over at
Eastbourne and he would have been eighty eighty at that
at that time, and they after a long time we

(50:01):
were recovered at his car and he got his bowls
back and also they little transistor radio which is at
the museum here as a memory of the sinking of
the Wahini. So that was a real, a real important

(50:23):
spot for our family that our grandfather could have could
have died, but he didn't.

Speaker 4 (50:31):
Yeah, there wouldn't be there wouldn't be a lot of
your family if he had pad it No.

Speaker 26 (50:37):
Incidentally fell as my My athletic club was started in
the same year as the two ZB nineteen twenty six,
so we've been going one hundred years in Wellington, the
Kiwi Athletic Club. And of course we've got a big
dinner coming up on October the tenth. So there's any

(50:58):
listeners there, contact they go through the web page and
we'll welcome them along.

Speaker 4 (51:04):
Who's again, what's the web page again, Peter.

Speaker 26 (51:08):
Athletic Club. It'll come up there and all the details
are there. We're going to have a big We're going
to have a big dinner and quite a few important
people coming to end guest speakers.

Speaker 4 (51:21):
Yeah, it's calling Peter. So yeah, when the nineteen sixty
eight when the Wahini went down, I mean I've sent
a documentary on how TV was trying to move film
around to put it on television.

Speaker 3 (51:32):
That's right.

Speaker 4 (51:32):
So back then radio was your way to get the
information live, it.

Speaker 3 (51:36):
Was, yeah, and Patio O'donnald of course was one of
the radio pirates, so he was on the tity originally
for Radio Hodaki and then made his name when he
was reporting on that particular disaster and moved over to
z b But there you go. There's a bit of
a trend there.

Speaker 4 (51:50):
It's so very nautical. A few nautical disasters in his career.

Speaker 3 (51:54):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, how Gersting, Yeah, oh, one hundred and
eighty ten eighty is that number called nine two ninety
two is the text number? We're taking your memories or
the big moments from News Talk ZB over the last
hundred years. Of course it is the one hundred birthday
of the station on Sunday listening.

Speaker 4 (52:10):
To stories on Sunday morning. Loved hearing Bad Jelly the
Witch and Spike Milligan. Hey, I've got a question. Was
that on every Sunday morning they did? They was Bad
Jelly the Witch just always on? I think it was
because as soon as that every Sunday you had to
play Bad Jelly the Witch.

Speaker 3 (52:27):
Well, I remember listening to it every Sunday, So maybe
it was, if you know, was it on every Sunday.

Speaker 4 (52:32):
Playing it on four ZB and Dunedin?

Speaker 3 (52:33):
Yeah, oh, one hundred and eighty to eighty is that number?
Nine two ninety two is the text number. We'll get
to a few of the text right now. Actually, this
one says, gaday, guys, I go back to the kids
stories on Sunday morning with Alice Woolsley and Merv Smith
listening to Layton Smith not long after he stepped out
of his Melbourne Taxian into his z Bee studio. Bolt
hole went through the Larry Williams and the Murray dca Era,

(52:55):
Susan Wood and son of the Garbo turned corporate pot
dealer Andrew Tye, and so many others, And who could
forget the late great Sir Paul Holmes. An amazing stuf.
Congratulations on the one hundredth birthday. I won't be listening
for one hundred more if only awkward keep those teaks
coming through in on one hundred and eighteen eighty is

(53:18):
the number call. We've got the headlines with Rayling coming up.
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Speaker 3 (54:43):
Thank you very much, Rayleen, and we are talking about
the big moments for you. A head of news talks.
Heirb's one hundredth birthday on Sunday. Can you imagine that
is certainly rare in New Zealand and even internationally. O
eight hundred eighty ten eighty is the number two corn.
You can't mention Newstalks HEIRB without mentioning the late great
Sir Paul Holmes. And when Paul Homes arrived at Newstalks ZIRB,

(55:05):
that was one' ZB at the time. He was a
bit of an upstart from Welling. And we're told broadcasting
under a new format which was completely divorced from the
traditional safe, comfortable, warm style beloved by Aucklander's for generations.
But let's have a listen to Sir Paul Holmes first
are broadcast on news talks 'B.

Speaker 25 (55:22):
Let's have a look at the front page of the
newspaper this morning. Strikes stop works, although with somebody please
convince me of the difference between those two when it
comes to affecting the old hip pocket nerve causing inconvenience
for me and the and what have you firings and
the rebuildings of the fire ravaged ski lodgers. That's the
major thrust of today's front page of the New Zealand Herald,
A great dishing out of general gloom and affair smashing

(55:44):
of doom. Today the only real human face to the
news of the day from the Granny Herald front page
table is the wire story that Norman Jones, that inimitable
mouth from the South really is retiring from politics at
the next election through ill hell Wow Herald.

Speaker 3 (55:59):
Yeah, that was kind of like a of it. That's
like what a word's my things? Yeah, me and THEE
and what shall be very different style he first came
into it. It wasn't the old stuffy you know BBC style,
and nothing wrong with that at the time, but he
changed the game when he came on and had his
own unique style of broadcasting was something else.

Speaker 4 (56:17):
Well, the words per minute were massively up. Wuldn't they
they were? Yeah, he was there was rapid fire, rapid
fire chat. Yeah, but quite different than what he was
many years later he developed massively Paul Holmes, he did
into a very sort of friendly style.

Speaker 3 (56:31):
Yes, so taking new calls on this, I W one
hundred and eighty ten eighty is the number and nine
two ninety two if you want to send a.

Speaker 4 (56:38):
Text the old Granny the hero all day.

Speaker 3 (56:41):
Yeah, he wasn't shy on having a crack wow.

Speaker 4 (56:43):
And when was that? When was that audio from that.

Speaker 3 (56:45):
Was from nineteen eighty seven.

Speaker 4 (56:48):
So seven he was calling it the old grannie.

Speaker 3 (56:50):
Yeah, let old homesy loose. He'll go for you. A
few years later, was it now, Yeah, a couple of
ticks coming through. But let's have a chat to Heather.

Speaker 16 (57:00):
Get a Heather gooday, got a story.

Speaker 24 (57:07):
Would finish.

Speaker 27 (57:09):
Yes.

Speaker 24 (57:10):
I grew up in the fifties and one thing I
remember he was a bit of a trickster and came
around toll in April fourth Evye used to play jokes
on each other back. They're not as much now, but

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he made this announcement that there were these swarm of
huge bees coming and the only way to stop and
getting into the house and hurting you was put honey
on the doors and door knobs, and people all over
town did it. He got into trouble for.

Speaker 1 (57:49):
That, he did.

Speaker 3 (57:51):
He got into a lot of trouble for it.

Speaker 4 (57:53):
That's a great brand.

Speaker 3 (57:54):
That was a great brand. But it was beautifully delivered,
wasn't it either. I mean, it was the fact that
he was a trusted name and he just he just
delivered it with such beautiful dead pan humor and tongue
in cheek that everyone got taken him by it.

Speaker 24 (58:08):
Yeah, Mom wasn't taken in it. Was brilliant, Beau. He
used to be a neighbor. But she he that's the
work keeper speaking. It wouldn't happen anyway. Yeah, yea thousands
of people. They chose win for Honey to do it.

Speaker 3 (58:26):
That is brilliant. That is heither, thank you very much
for giving us a call. One hundred and eighty ten eighty.
If you want to jump in on this conversation, the
big moments and your memories of news talks be over
the last one hundred years. This text says, get a guys,
who remembers lindsay Yo and Buzzo bumble when he thought

(58:47):
he was off here and he said that should fix
the little buggers and all the mothers complained her hard.
That was very funny. That's from Ian and this one
here and says, get a guys, one hundred years. Wow,
where does the time go? I absolutely remember the likes
of Phil Sean Merve Smith and then of course Sup

(59:08):
Holmes and now Mike Hoskin. What an absolute fantastic milestone.
Too many memories to mention, but certainly covered some of
our biggest events we've ever had in this country.

Speaker 4 (59:19):
So a lot of people asking when did the one
get dropped from ZB and it became News Talks BEZB
because this one ZEDB two ZB three ZB for ZB.

Speaker 3 (59:27):
It is a very good question if you have been
listening and you know the answer to that by all
means nine two ninety two is the number. But of
course the one ZEDB so that was Auckland based before
it went nationwide, which wasn't long after Sir Paul Holmes
started as a breakfast host. But if you do know
those dates, let us know and give us a call.
One hundred and eighty ten eighty get a ron.

Speaker 19 (59:49):
Yeah, Bazo bumbled to one. I remember here is very good.
We never used to go into WoT work until Botho
Bumboard his little scene on the.

Speaker 3 (01:00:00):
Air and that was that was Lindsay, wasn't it? Yeah, Ngo,
that's right. Wellington Wellington Mornings.

Speaker 4 (01:00:09):
Yeah yeah yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:00:11):
And how old were you then, Ron.

Speaker 19 (01:00:15):
Ninety two now probably about sudy two something?

Speaker 4 (01:00:20):
Yeah, all right, you've only missed eight years of news
of z b RON.

Speaker 3 (01:00:26):
Yeah almost there from the beginning. Good on your ron,
Thank you very much for your call.

Speaker 4 (01:00:31):
Hey guys on Sunday Mornings. I remember the stories, or
rather the forty five's that were played eg Julianne and
Fergie Fang, Flip the little fire engine, Flip the little
fire engine. Little took the tugboat.

Speaker 3 (01:00:43):
These are great names, the pokey little puppy, Poky little puppy.

Speaker 4 (01:00:46):
I don't remember the person on the radio. And also
they used to call out children's names whose birthday was
great stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:00:50):
Yeah, and this one is a love zed be so
well structured and interesting, knowledgeable and articulated. Radio hosts will
always deliver a diversity of interesting topics. Couldn't imagine having
my daily dose. I couldn't couldn't imagine rather not having
my daily dose of z B A credit to all
connected happy one hundredth.

Speaker 4 (01:01:08):
Judging by the text machine. Then calls McCleary The Spider
in the nineteen sixty was huge, people loved them, super popular.

Speaker 3 (01:01:17):
Bring them back, yeah, bring them back. It's about time.

Speaker 4 (01:01:19):
Bring them back. Yeah, you know, can we do that
next time Hoskin's on holiday. She ofteners, bring back mcirey
the Spider.

Speaker 3 (01:01:27):
Get them, get them in for the breaky show. You'll
do well, all right, get those cools coming through. Oh,
eight hundred and eighty, ten eighty. What were the big
moments for you? When it comes to News Talks e
B over the last one hundred years, it is twenty
four to three.

Speaker 4 (01:01:38):
Back in the Mine, a fresh take on talkback.

Speaker 1 (01:01:41):
It's Matt Heathen Taylor Adams Afternoons. Have your say on
eight hundred eighty ten eighty News Talks.

Speaker 3 (01:01:47):
B twenty one passing. We're talking about the big moments
for you. When it comes to News Talks, he B,
which is celebrating its one hundredth birthday on Sunday.

Speaker 4 (01:01:54):
We were talking before about the pipes of Layton Smith
and a bunch of people texting through his voice. I
was trying to come up with a description of her,
and I'm not sure if I nailed it. It was
sort of whiskey and tree call poured across hock.

Speaker 3 (01:02:08):
It's very descriptive.

Speaker 4 (01:02:09):
Yeah, we let's have a listen to a bit of
Layton Smith. You didn't think you were going to be
here for Christmas.

Speaker 12 (01:02:14):
You were told you had two months to go, and
I had faith in you, and I think that that
should be rewarded you.

Speaker 4 (01:02:21):
I have some Paul rig Rose here, which is just
about my favorite, and I'm going to give you a
bottle of that so you can have it. On Christmas Day.

Speaker 10 (01:02:30):
Goodness, Gray, you're Clayton. Really, I listened to you every
morning and you do such good, kind, generous and thoughtful things,
and you make me feel a little well, you make
me feel harmpful in time.

Speaker 4 (01:02:45):
That's amazing because that's from the nineteen eighties, So Layton
had that voice the whole time. Yeah, it didn't grow
into it. It wasn't like Tom Waits later in his
career when he'd been smoking a lot and drinking a
lot and his voice kind of win.

Speaker 3 (01:02:57):
He was born with it.

Speaker 4 (01:02:58):
Can we start just to just have a little bit
of that, that Layton Smith voice again. You didn't think
you were going to be here for Christmas. You were
told you had too much beautiful and then you hear
the squeaky a shoe blast out Tyler.

Speaker 3 (01:03:10):
I'll just imagine Leaden Smith speaking like that at the
age of twelve. I think he said that ever since
his voice broke. That is how we sounded Mother, the
Super's too hot, Oh one hundred day, Today's love to
call get Michael.

Speaker 28 (01:03:25):
Matt Hey. This is such a good program. I was
born in fifty two, so I'm only not young or
not old, and I can remember we lived on a
farm in White Ketto and one did be I imagine
it was one zib we listened to and the request sessions.
That was good. My choice was either to go to
cricket with dad or and have a morning at whole morning,

(01:03:47):
or listen to the request session only have an hour
or whatever it was. And after that there was or
there was the Sanky Singers, and then there was Lloyd
Thorn in the brass band parade. Now I mentioned the
Sanky Singers. I'm now in a lifestyle village, not retirement
al right there, and we were do I I played,

(01:04:07):
but the music for them, and we I do ads
like I said, we're now mentioned from our sponsors and
broke with the inches, brokemand inches. That for the thing,
and the people will remember it, they say along. But
there was and I mentioned the Sink singers. I mentioned
the requests and had a guy come up afterwards and
he said, hey, Michael, I used to be in the
Sankee Singers. And he said they used to sing in

(01:04:31):
the town hall and that one's zib in it was
a Vulcan street, Balkan lane. Video is up right there,
and he said we used to record in there and
when I was at t Harwi School which is no more,
and we had a trip to walk on you know
how country kids went to the town and we went
into the one Z'B studios that was part of our thing.

(01:04:54):
And I can also remember on the on the Phil
co Bing Crosby wireless that we had. Now, has anybody
mentioned this q s f N No, have you had
that mentioned? Okay, so this is the in the sixties
and on Friday night they know, it was a cool
excitement because it was late night shopping in teams where

(01:05:14):
we lived, and there was QoS They mentioned q c FN.
Now I'll tell you next week what q s FN
was and next week and what it was was Queen
Street Friday night and they had roving reporters from ones.
They'd be up and down Queen Street.

Speaker 19 (01:05:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 28 (01:05:28):
So anyway, that was.

Speaker 4 (01:05:29):
Quite and just talking to people out on the tiles
what they're yeah.

Speaker 28 (01:05:33):
Yes, yeah, yeah, So there wasn't any there was proper
pavements and it wasn't all trees and whatever, and it
was traffic and it was sort of live reporting what's
happening in down Queen Street. Yeah, yeah, that was really good.
But you know, and I've got here my Children's Favorites.
Don Linden presents Children's Favorites to collectors addition, and it's

(01:05:55):
four CD pack that most of the stuff that we're on,
like the Little Strange, all the small on the Enchanted
Trump and all that sort of stuff, you know. So
Bing Crosby did the small one, which was what Pia jerago.
We had children crying everywhere on that. So that was
my stories there.

Speaker 4 (01:06:14):
Oh, thank you so much, Michael, appreciate it.

Speaker 21 (01:06:16):
Really the.

Speaker 4 (01:06:19):
Seems like it was more like sort of a variety
channel back in the day, right.

Speaker 3 (01:06:23):
But that's quite a bold idea back there to send
out some reporters on a Friday night the Queens Street
Friday Nights Show and just have them talking to drunk
people or people party, you know. I mean, I love
the sound of that. I want to hear it. But
that's quite a bold move to make.

Speaker 4 (01:06:36):
Yeah, absolutely get it out there now. Yah yeah, start
it back up. You might have to have security if
you're doing it now.

Speaker 3 (01:06:42):
Yeah, exactly. Michael, thank you very much for giving us
a call. Nine two ninety two is the text number
if you want to send us a text. Plenty coming
through this one says getta guys. I've been a radio
fan since the late fifties, started with a crystal set
when I was young. When I was a young mum.
Rather in the nineteen eighties, radio was my friend. We
had a new baby, no phone waiting list. In those days,

(01:07:04):
I was missing, not working. My family referred to Zidby
as the voices also invaluable after the Christian earthquakes, Long
live z B. That's from war Ring.

Speaker 4 (01:07:13):
I'll never forget the morning garage sales ses the sticks.
Every week, without fail, a woman by the name of
Louise Lois would call and say she wanted bottle jars, newspapers, cardboard.

Speaker 3 (01:07:23):
Every week she'd call. My thoughts were I'd hate to
live next to her. To her house must have been
like a tip loving all the reminist think, oh that
is gold, keep those things coming through.

Speaker 4 (01:07:37):
Layton Smith had a voice that could make a wolverine
purses James.

Speaker 3 (01:07:41):
Yeah, and a lot of people week at the NIE
still does.

Speaker 19 (01:07:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:07:44):
Absolutely. One hundred and eighty ten eighty is the number
to call. Dave, what's your thoughts, what's your memories?

Speaker 11 (01:07:51):
The fantastic Bruce Russellway the night is Yeah, And I
called him one night, we're doing a primate to Sam Hunt.
For some reason. We were talking about Sam Hunt, the poet,
of course, and about two quarters later the man himself,
Sam Hunt, called in.

Speaker 4 (01:08:07):
Oh wow and.

Speaker 11 (01:08:10):
Fantastic. He said, well, and everything doesn't have to rhyme,
because the thing that I did was and had another
bottle of beer and went inside and laid another bed
for trents them and had another bottle of bear. Unfortunately,
it seems to have gone down hill since from there,
poorly replaced, but Bruce Russell sadly and replaceable. And you

(01:08:35):
boys might have to hang up smoking. Yeah, the Paul
Holmes et ceteras.

Speaker 4 (01:08:43):
Of course, I've tried to human resources that news Talks
he'd be and asked if we could start smoking in
the studio to try and develop a late and sun
style voice.

Speaker 11 (01:08:55):
Like Paul Holmes used to do when he used to
put those records.

Speaker 4 (01:08:59):
Yeah yeah, the day he was smoking upstairs at TRN
when it was up on Cock Street.

Speaker 3 (01:09:04):
Yeah yeah, yeah. I got told stories of you know,
it was too late for my time. But when I
started news talk, z'db down in christ Shuts and they
had two guys in the morning just broadcasting locally, but
some mornings you couldn't actually see them, so there was
just the window and it was just the haze of
smoke and these mysterious broadcasters some are in there because
they were.

Speaker 4 (01:09:19):
Just for most of the history of newstalk, z'd be
the host would have been smoking while they're rodcasting.

Speaker 3 (01:09:25):
Yeah, yeah, Dave. Thank you very much for you your call,
Brian from muttamatter, how are you.

Speaker 29 (01:09:31):
I've got to listen to your show and enjoying it.

Speaker 14 (01:09:34):
Guys.

Speaker 29 (01:09:34):
I can give you a little bit of early history
of ZEDB one ZEDB please. It used to be on
a building down in Key Street, down by the wharves
in Auckland, and it was on a building that there
was a radio company called Radio Limited, which became Radio
nineteen thirty six Limited. My dad worked in the factory

(01:09:58):
who became factory manager. Right now, I think it would
have been somewhere around about nineteen thirty eight. The main
aerial cable going up the mast fractured at the top.
The joint came undone, and because it was quite calamity,
the station closed down and they said, how the hell
we're going to fix this. We can't get a ladder

(01:10:21):
up on the roof to get up the thing. And
Dad said, look, I used so I was a keen
YACHTI I can climb a yacht mast. I can climb
that mast. So he climbed up the mast and rejoined
the cable. And four days later there was a bit
of a storm and there was rott in the bottom
of the mast and the mass, whole mass came down.
They had to replace it. He was damned lucky it
didn't come down with him the top waving around on

(01:10:43):
the top of it.

Speaker 19 (01:10:44):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (01:10:44):
Yeah, absolutely, Yeah.

Speaker 29 (01:10:48):
I think they moved out somewhere around about the start
of the World War up to Vulcan Lane. I think
that would have been be correct, wouldn't it right?

Speaker 3 (01:10:56):
So world War two obviously, Yeah, yeah, I've heard the
talk of it moving to Vulcan Lane and then at
some point up to Cook Straight and then now we're
down on Graham Street.

Speaker 29 (01:11:07):
Last born in the early nineteen forties. One other interesting
thing my dad he carried on with radio nineteen thirty
six limited and during the war years he wasn't allowed
to go overseas because there was three of them were
making thedf sets. And then they from forty two forty three.
They were making the radar sets that were being shipped

(01:11:29):
up to England for the Second World War for the airplanes.
They made them hear in Auckland.

Speaker 3 (01:11:33):
Yeah, I'm just reading some information here, Brian. So nineteen
forty one the deco Durham Street Studios open. That would
be about the time, wasn't it.

Speaker 29 (01:11:43):
Yeah, Erwin Mettow when they moved off the radio nineteen
thirty six, building down at Key Street, the building still standing,
is still there. I don't know what's in it now,
but not us.

Speaker 4 (01:11:54):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, anyway, thanks for you cal Brian, appreciate it.

Speaker 8 (01:11:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:11:58):
Oh, one hundred and eighty ten eighty. Tell us about
the big moments you remember during news Talk CBS one
hundred years.

Speaker 4 (01:12:03):
Hi, guys, Laton Smith, the legiond and Saturday and Sunday
afternoons school Board program with Maraydeka Standing covered everything from
professional sport to playing marbles and someone's backyard. Brilliant stuff
yours please? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:12:15):
What a great podcast, right, I got to play some messages.
But if you want to send a tex nine two
ninety two is that number is well? It is ten
to three back in a moment.

Speaker 1 (01:12:24):
The issues that affect you and a bit of fun
along the way. Matt Heath and Tyler Adams Afternoons News
Talks EDB.

Speaker 3 (01:12:32):
News Talks EDB. We're talking about the big moments you
remember all your memories of News Talk ZB celebrating one
hundred years can you believe it? On Sunday at for ZB.

Speaker 4 (01:12:42):
And Stuart Street and dned and we had announcers not hosts,
such as Colin Lemon, Charlie Mouse, Neil Collins, Peter Sellers,
Noarl Robson, Ian Dickinson, Kathy Dowling and Daisy George Speed.
It's interesting the because I grew up in Dnedan, so
we had for z B before it. So yes, but

(01:13:03):
I didn't really put two and two together that when
I started at ZB that it was somehow related to
for zed B that I listened to when I was
a kid. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:13:10):
I mean it is a complicated history. When it was
one zed B, two Z'B, three Z'B and four ZB
and then it all came together. But I've also found
because you mentioned when did the we drop the ones
he'd b and it goes national, that was a nineteen
ninety four, so the one has dropped from ones 'd
B News talk Z'B goes national And here we are today, Dawn.
How are you?

Speaker 27 (01:13:28):
Yes, I've been here for half an hour.

Speaker 3 (01:13:32):
Thank you for holding on.

Speaker 27 (01:13:34):
That's all right. I wanted to remind you or ask
about Uncle Tom. Now, I always understood that Uncle Tom
and Aunt Daisy were the two people who started one,
said B. Now, Uncle Tom used to take a choir,
he had a choir. He was a Christian person. He

(01:13:55):
had a choir. And Uncle Tom and the Sanky Singers
were very famous. And the Sanky Singers were a group
of I suppose church people who sang hymns on Sunday morning.
I remember all the I'm ninety one, so I remember
a lot of the play, a lot of the pranks

(01:14:16):
that were played on one, said B by a certain
person who've mentioned his name before. But the radio has
always made a great deal to me as children. That
was all the entertainment we had. There were nine of us,
and we were all very happy and loving together. The radio, yep.

(01:14:38):
But the radio was our start listening. We could be
allowed or not allowed if we were punished we didn't
have the radio.

Speaker 4 (01:14:48):
But would you would the family sit around the radio
and listen?

Speaker 13 (01:14:52):
No?

Speaker 27 (01:14:52):
No, there wouldn't be enough chairs to sit around the radio.
But no, we all listened to it. The boys were
always outside having to help Dad. But for Alan and
I we were appeared together, not eighteen months between us,
and we did everything together. And I remember Uncle Tom

(01:15:15):
and the Thankye singers. We used to turn it on
for Greennie. She loved them and we used to go
to the town hall to hear them in the school holidays.
But Uncle Tom I haven't heard mentioned. I'm trying to
think of his other name, and I can't remember it.

Speaker 4 (01:15:30):
A look for you, Dawn, we'll see we haven't mentioned him.
Looking around, I mean, and Uncle Tom's a different thing
in twenty six days. We'll see what we can find there, Dawn.

Speaker 27 (01:15:40):
Yes, well uncle Tom. I always understood that Uncle Tom
and Aunt Daisy started the radio. I can't remember his
other name. Yeah you know, but I can't.

Speaker 4 (01:15:51):
Well, maybe someone to remember on nine two nine two, Well, yeah,
thank you so much for listening, since you're a child
and waiting in the line for thirty minutes.

Speaker 27 (01:15:59):
Yes, but I also wanted to say how much I
enjoyed the.

Speaker 4 (01:16:03):
Pranks, said, who was it still shown?

Speaker 27 (01:16:06):
You're still shown? Youws with the he'd say on a
there was a special day that there was cream in
the letterbox and we're sort of all tear down to
the letterbox to get the cream. And of course there
was never any there, but I mean the cream would
have just been during the war, would have been an
absolute luxury.

Speaker 4 (01:16:28):
Yeah, I thank you so much for you call Dona.
Thanks Dawn, and thanks for waiting for half an hour
to get on. There's a lot of people ringing in
to have a chat.

Speaker 3 (01:16:34):
Absolutely, so yeah, it was big, wasn't he, Honey on
the door handles cream in the letterbox?

Speaker 10 (01:16:40):
He was?

Speaker 3 (01:16:40):
And just quickly, if I've got time, I found out
a little bit of information about Uncle Tom. So it
was in the nineteen thirties that Uncle scrim and Uncle
Tom transformed the station News Talks ZB it wasn't called
that at the time, into an Auckland institution. So there
you go, Dawn, your memory didn't failure. You will bang on.
Should we keep this going?

Speaker 4 (01:16:56):
Yeah, I mean there's so many people trying to call
through and texts coming through, so let's keep this reminiscence.

Speaker 3 (01:17:00):
Give us a call. Well, e one hundred eighty ten
eighty is that number? Tell us your big memories, the
big moments of News Talks ZB that you can remember
in nineteen ninety two is the text number is, Well.

Speaker 4 (01:17:11):
We're one hundred years old this Sunday.

Speaker 2 (01:17:14):

Speaker 1 (01:17:20):
Matt Heath and Tyler Adams Afternoons News Talk.

Speaker 3 (01:17:23):
Said, be very good afternoons. You welcome back into the show.
Seven past three. Great heavy company on this Friday afternoon.
And we have been talking about one hundred years of
News Talks AB. It turns one hundred this station on Sunday,
Can you believe it?

Speaker 4 (01:17:37):
And this thing I'm reading here in News Talks AB
one hundred years established nineteen twenty six, this spoklet that's
going to be out in the in the paper, yes,
this weekend, right.

Speaker 3 (01:17:44):
That's right. Yeah, So here's I mean, there's a lot
going on behind the scenes ahead of that one hundred celebrations.
So this is a great read. Suddenly awesome, awesome pictures.
Oh my goodness, pretty incredible what they'll put together.

Speaker 10 (01:17:56):
And now I was.

Speaker 3 (01:17:57):
Proud to work for the station, but I'm reading all this.
What a history, A lot of history, mates, even prouder
than ever, A lot of mana a lot of Maner
in the station. Yeah, so some of the week that's
going on behind the scenes that you need to know about.
So it is going to be a massive podcast. It's
hosted by Mike Coskins and this series will bring you
the iconic names, the famous sounds, the moments and the
stories behind the news talk ZB name. The first episode

(01:18:21):
is launches on Sunday, so go follow the one hundred
Years of ZB podcast on iHeartRadio rather to make sure
you don't miss out. Then we've got the special commemorative
magazine of which Matt Heath is holding in his pretty
little hands right now, So that comes out on the
in the Hero rather on Sunday, so make sure you
get in while stock's last. And then there's a special

(01:18:44):
program in My Day with Roman Trevor's celebrating one hundred
years and also a program on Sunday nights.

Speaker 4 (01:18:51):
So mckerry was real spider, yeah, because there's a picture
of him here with merv Smith.

Speaker 3 (01:18:56):
He was legit. It was a real spider, yeah, exactly,
a real Scottish spider. I don't think they paid him enough,
but he came in and he did He did a
great job. Mckerrey.

Speaker 4 (01:19:04):
I like that they actually, because you know, it's radio.
One of the great things about radio is it's an
audio medium, so you don't have to your paint pictures
with your words.

Speaker 3 (01:19:13):
Yes, yeah, bar, but.

Speaker 4 (01:19:15):
MeV Smith was running a real spider puppet in the studio.

Speaker 3 (01:19:18):
He was yep, he was dedicated that man and the
spider for that matter. Now, we've been having a heck
of a lot of techs about Sir Paul Holmes and
asking to hear a little bit of that audio of
his first Bricky show, bearing in mind this was nineteen
eighty seven, so have a listen to Paul Holmes.

Speaker 25 (01:19:34):
Let's have a look at the front page of the
newspaper this morning. Strikes stop works, Although would somebody please
convince me of the difference between those two when it
comes to affecting the old hip pocket nerve causing inconvenience
for me and the and what have you firings and
the rebuildings of the fire ravaged ski lodgers. That's the
major thrust of today's front page of the New Zealand Herald.
A great dishing out of general gloom and a fair

(01:19:55):
smattering of doom.

Speaker 4 (01:19:56):
Today.

Speaker 25 (01:19:56):
The only real human face to the news of the
day from the Granny Herald front page table is the
wire story that Norman Jones, that inimitable mouth from the South,
really is retiring from politics at the next election through illhealth.

Speaker 4 (01:20:09):
A great smattering of what is it, a great dishing
out of doom and a smattering of great doom and
gloom gloom. Yeah, yeah, what's changed?

Speaker 3 (01:20:19):
That's right? Yeah, full circle moment, isn't it. And then
having a crack at Norman Jones. I don't know who
Norman Jones were, but the great mouth from the South,
I mean, fantastic what a broadcaster. So O one hundred
eighty ten eighty is the number to call?

Speaker 4 (01:20:31):
You don't know who Norman Jones is?

Speaker 3 (01:20:33):
No, I'm too young for Norman Jones. Who was Norman Jones?

Speaker 4 (01:20:35):
Is he in the national MP for Invercargo? He was
an invers he was he was an outspoken opponent of
the homosexual law reform, Old Norman Jones, right, outspoken opponent.

Speaker 3 (01:20:47):
There you go, Well, clearly, Holmes, he wasn't a fan.
Oh one hundred eighty ten eighty is that number to call?
What are your memories of news talks? Hed b Maureen
how are you hello, I've got a.

Speaker 26 (01:20:58):
Memory of Daisy.

Speaker 24 (01:21:01):
One of the things sort of became famous around the area.

Speaker 27 (01:21:04):
One morning she said, good morning, good morning, good morning.

Speaker 14 (01:21:08):
She said, it's a lovely day.

Speaker 24 (01:21:09):
The sun's shining.

Speaker 14 (01:21:10):
Wiped up my back passage.

Speaker 3 (01:21:13):
Yes, right, we've had a few takes on that. I mean,
it's only I'm sure the audio exists somewhere from Morange.

Speaker 4 (01:21:20):
You think she knew what she was doing, or she
was seriously just.

Speaker 15 (01:21:24):
Knew she was cold.

Speaker 3 (01:21:32):
She might have just she might have been cleverer than
we then, you know, she might have been running a
bit of a double on time to the potentially potentially
that was the funniest thing that she'd ever done to herself.

Speaker 22 (01:21:41):
It was really funny.

Speaker 28 (01:21:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:21:44):
Well that's a beautiful Yeah, and I thank you very much.
There's a beautiful memory. We'll try and find that audio.
Nineteen ninety two.

Speaker 4 (01:21:50):
There's a there's another one about sausages that a lot
of people are texting. And it's amazing because these things
would have been on here once people remember them for
decades and decades and decades.

Speaker 3 (01:21:59):
That's right, Yeah, yeah, incredible, Mike, how are you mate?

Speaker 15 (01:22:03):
Good guys, I was working for forty nine years for
any Zerrand and I joined in the seventies and we
had to ring up on night shift to MERV Smith
to give him the arrival flight arrivals. This is before
you can get it on the computer or anything like that.
And we used to have to get the arrival times.
And one morning I'd ring up it at five, rang

(01:22:24):
him at five o'clock and I said, Oh, it's Mikey
from me and his Zerrand.

Speaker 8 (01:22:26):
Oh Hi, Mike.

Speaker 15 (01:22:27):
He said, what's the arrivals? I said, well, I said,
then said six from Los Angeles coming at early. And
he said why is it coming at early? And I
couldn't lay my hands on why it was early. I said, oh,
it's coming downhill. Oh, he said, I hadn't thought of that.

Speaker 4 (01:22:40):
That's so amazing. All the different services that radio used
to do back in the day. So that was so
people wouldn't hit out to the airport at the wrong time.
Let listen when the planes were landing.

Speaker 10 (01:22:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 15 (01:22:50):
Then we got some special deals across I don't forget
which was a destination. But the chap I was on
was a very good friend of Merv And he he said, oh,
he said, no, he's my friend. And then he and
he said, just what I'll do, he said, just ring
up that he gave the name with this chap, he said,
and he will tell you all about it. We're on
night shift. We started at eleven o'clock the following night,

(01:23:12):
so that following morning he brings them up at ZB acid.
But God's sake, don't tell that, he said, I've been
besieged with people wanting me to call back telling me
these special deals.

Speaker 3 (01:23:25):
Right, that is brilliant, mate. Thank you very much for
your for our phone call. John, How are you this afternoon?

Speaker 15 (01:23:31):
Yeah?

Speaker 22 (01:23:32):
Great?

Speaker 19 (01:23:32):
Thanks.

Speaker 22 (01:23:33):
Yeah, I've got memories of ZB from one sid B
from the nineteen fifties. In the late nineteen fifties, I
was a member of Uncle Tom's.

Speaker 4 (01:23:44):
Choir, Right, can you talk us through Uncle Tom's choir?
So how did that actually work? John? So you were
recording live audio?

Speaker 30 (01:23:52):
Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 22 (01:23:53):
There was actually three choirs where we're all kids.

Speaker 26 (01:23:56):
We were all.

Speaker 22 (01:23:58):
Late while around twelve thirteen, that sort of age group.
There were three choirs. There was one on Friday night
of broadcast. They would kind of specialize in lot show tunes,
lifer sort of music. And then there was a Sunday
Morning Choir which was heymns, and the Sunday Evening Choir

(01:24:22):
which I was in, that was hymns as well, but
a little bit lighter than the Sunday morning session. And
we used to broadcast from the radio theater and Durham Street,
beautiful old building in art dayco styled book building that
unfortunately got bulldozed and knocked over in the in the

(01:24:47):
mad nineteen seventies eighties property Moon where a lot of
those fly by night property developers were. So John, we
have all our heritage buildings.

Speaker 4 (01:25:00):
So John, would you have the host there standing there
and then introducing you guys, and then you'd sing into
the mic and that would go you know, singing to
microphones as the choir and that would go out live.

Speaker 30 (01:25:12):
Yeah, dead right yeah.

Speaker 22 (01:25:13):
Uncle Tom would conduct us from the from the front
of course, and a penis named Bob Alderton. He was
the only accompanist we had, but we had rehearsals one
night a week. I used to come in on the
bus from tie Papper Dee Paeper. I was only probably

(01:25:36):
about eleven years old at good time, so I don't
think people would put eleven year olds on buses and
accompanied these days, perhaps they do, but it was a
different world back then, of course. But yeah, and all
radio ones that'd be there weren't a lot of other
radio stations, and those in those days, Radio how Raki

(01:26:00):
of course, they went to see about probably nineteen sixty
six and stirred things up, and then Radio so I
used to broadcast under contract. There was another station called
one WYD, which later became one z M, but they
one wy D only broadcast from nine in the morning

(01:26:23):
till ten at night. So when Araki went to c
the Broadcasting Corporation in those days leased the time in
the breakfast session in the late evening to Radio I
and it was only a few years later that they

(01:26:45):
granted private radio licenses. So Radio Haweraki and Radio I
were the first two private stations. And in fact I
got a job selling advertising for Radio I back in
the very early days. Yeah. So, but I used to
listen to ZB all the time because that was all

(01:27:08):
there was to listen to. Very little music that'd have.
The Sunday morning requests of course were always great, and
the Sunday lunchtime they had a request session because you
didn't hear a lot of music.

Speaker 4 (01:27:25):
So how long do you reckon? You've been listening to
news dog Z before then, then John, if you're.

Speaker 3 (01:27:30):
Performing on.

Speaker 22 (01:27:33):
Yeah, I'm seventy nine now, so I was. The early
fifties would be my earliest memories. I had a little
mental radio that my parents gave me and they made
a little shell for it, a little old valved radio,
and we used to listen to It's in the Bag

(01:27:53):
of course with Selwyn too Good at Night and you
know various. Aunt Daisy was always there. I never listened
to her, of course, but my mother did, and she
was on nine o'clock I think every morning from Welling.

Speaker 4 (01:28:09):
Yeah, wow, popular woman, aren't Daisy?

Speaker 1 (01:28:11):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:28:11):
I mean I like the idea of that. Let's go
back to that and we bring everything back. But I
like the idea of life choirs.

Speaker 3 (01:28:18):
Yes in the morning, me too. It's a bad start
of the day. Yeah, yeah, bring that back. Can we
get a live choir in the show? I think we
can make it happen. What's the budget like on the show, But.

Speaker 4 (01:28:26):
It kill management to cough up for a live choir
for us.

Speaker 3 (01:28:28):
I think Lock's not a bad singer, and she Mitchell
Hageman's a very nice singer. He could lead the choir.
This is all coming together. John, Thank you very much
for your phone call. Really appreciate it. Oh eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty is the number to call. Tell
us about your memories, the big moments that stand out
from the time you've been listening to news talks. Here
be ahead of the one hundredth birthday on Sunday, eighteen
past three his talks, it'd be afternoon you. It is

(01:28:52):
twenty one past three and we're talking about the big
moments for you as news talks. He'd be nears it's
one hundredth birthday on Sunday and there is plenty happening
ahead of that birthday. We'll tell you more about that
very shortly. But a vonn how are you this afternoon?

Speaker 19 (01:29:09):
Oh yes, Hi.

Speaker 3 (01:29:11):
Now tell us your memories.

Speaker 31 (01:29:14):
Well, it goes back to during the war when our
men were overseas. I'm hoping to stir some memories of
the elderly. Would remember you haven't mentioned John Maybury for

(01:29:35):
a long time.

Speaker 3 (01:29:37):
Nope, we haven't, but you feel free to talk up
John Maybray.

Speaker 31 (01:29:42):
He was in the studio a lot and there was
a lady used to be there with him. Linda somebody
I don't know if her name was Linda Greene. And
we used to go to the pictures on a Saturday
afternoon and go up to the studio and each one

(01:30:03):
would be asked to give an item. And then during
the war, I started when I was about three on
the stage at the at the Select Theater and I

(01:30:24):
was doing my acrobats.

Speaker 4 (01:30:27):
Had they adge three three?

Speaker 15 (01:30:29):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (01:30:32):
Can you still do some of that stuff now?

Speaker 13 (01:30:34):
On?

Speaker 28 (01:30:35):
Oh?

Speaker 13 (01:30:35):
No?

Speaker 17 (01:30:36):
Completely walk around?

Speaker 31 (01:30:41):
We would they would have a cake and a little
tray and they would have a birthday for somebody and
most of the appearance and people were there, people who
had men overseas and they have a community thing every

(01:31:02):
every one. I think it was one day a week
and we would take a piece of birthday cake down
on a week tray to people in the audience, right.

Speaker 4 (01:31:15):
And this was all broadcast out on z B.

Speaker 31 (01:31:18):
Yes, I don't know if they were broadcasting it then,
but he he was doing that and he was also
at the studio and his son John was on late
much later. When John gave up the theater, I just

(01:31:39):
thought that some might remember.

Speaker 3 (01:31:42):
We'll have it. Maybe someone contextro on nine two If
you can remember it was it Maybury. Yeah, John Maybury
and if you can remember, I believe and I just
had to look this up, but he was very famous
radio announcer in the early days who held those community
talent segments. But if you're know more, yeah with us
just says that he was. There was a bit of
an early rivalry with Selwyn too good, because Selwyn was

(01:32:03):
on Telly, but John Maybray was involved in the on
e equisites so do the community talent shows, the on
ear quizzers and and Selwyn was on the Telly.

Speaker 4 (01:32:12):
Oh more about Maybury? Yeah, seldom any good?

Speaker 3 (01:32:15):
Yeah exactly.

Speaker 4 (01:32:17):
I heard my first poodle song on MERV Smith's Breakfast
she loves You Boy. What a different sound. I was
about fifteen that time. Before that, I sang in the
Uncle Tom's Choir which was broadcast from Dunham Durham Lane.
But I'm not sure what station it went on.

Speaker 9 (01:32:31):
It was z B.

Speaker 4 (01:32:31):
Yeah, it was on z B.

Speaker 3 (01:32:32):
Yep, now one was on zb certainly was right? More
of your call shortly on eight hundred and eighty ten
eighty What were the big moments the memories for you?
Was z B nears it's one hundredth birthday. I should
say it is twenty four past three.

Speaker 1 (01:32:48):
Matt Heathan Tyler Adams afternoons call oh eight hundred eighty
ten eighty on news Talk ZEDB.

Speaker 3 (01:32:54):
It is twenty seven past three. We're talking about the
one hundredth birthday for ZB on Sunday.

Speaker 4 (01:32:59):
Imagine in another hundred years they'll be were playing YouTube
muppets that hosted the afternoon show. How are we going?
That was weird?

Speaker 3 (01:33:04):
Yeah? So what are they doing that?

Speaker 4 (01:33:06):
All the weird stuff they did? Yeah yeah, meat Steve
here from Papamore. I can remember as a teenager in
the seventies waking up in the morning to the national
anthem played by a banjo on z b oh.

Speaker 3 (01:33:16):
There would have been good na's to anthem on a banjo.

Speaker 4 (01:33:18):
We need to write all these things down and bring
them back. I live interviews of drunk people on Friday
night on Win Street.

Speaker 27 (01:33:24):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (01:33:24):
We need the choir back in with the piano.

Speaker 4 (01:33:26):
Live choirs, live game shows, and the national anthem starting
the day on a banjo.

Speaker 3 (01:33:31):
This is good stuff.

Speaker 4 (01:33:32):
This needs to come back as well. I missed the
stain lady who was on Saturday morning. All stains could
be fixed with uv light, vinegar and baking soda and pantyhose,
and then the tricky ones a cup of urine?

Speaker 10 (01:33:42):
Ah?

Speaker 1 (01:33:43):
Right?

Speaker 13 (01:33:43):
Is that true?

Speaker 3 (01:33:44):
Was there every Saturday morning? I mean, how many times
can you give out that tip?

Speaker 10 (01:33:47):
Isn't it?

Speaker 3 (01:33:47):
How many times you can say vinegar and urine?

Speaker 10 (01:33:50):
Can you?

Speaker 15 (01:33:50):
Really?

Speaker 4 (01:33:51):
I mean, isn't he just creating another stain?

Speaker 14 (01:33:53):
Exactly?

Speaker 3 (01:33:54):
Well, I'm just covering one stay with another one? What
stain is better than I'd rather have most stains than
a cup of urine and on it? Interesting, dake, But
thank you very much for your tags. Just before we
go back to the callers, a reminder there's some big
things happening over the weekend ahead of that one for
birthday celebrations. So there's a podcast hosted by Mike Hoskin.
The series will bring you the iconic names, famous sounds,

(01:34:14):
the moments and the stories behind the zib named. The
first episode launches on Sunday. Just go to iHeartRadio to
make sure you don't miss up. And there's also a
special edition of The Herald on Sunday. There's going to
be a commemorative magazine in that copy, so make sure
you picked that up. While stocks last.

Speaker 4 (01:34:31):
I started my sales career at one ZIB in Auckland
in nineteen ninety one, finally retiring in two thousand and eighty.
Working with all the fabulous hosts you've mentioned, the news team, copywriters,
engineers and so on. I mean, there's so many people
that it goes into putting a radio station. Yeah, it's
not just the show ponies like Tyler Adams. There's a lot,
just a lot of people that you do work in
the background. A big shout out, says this Texas to

(01:34:53):
the ZB sales team. Still close family today regards Addie.

Speaker 3 (01:34:57):
Yeah, nice, Barbara, You've got some memories today.

Speaker 17 (01:35:02):
There's a lot of reminiscence there. My husband used to
be sales manager at ZB in the seventies well, and
he reorganized because the boys were a bit lazy getting
out and getting their calls done. So he went to
the management and suggested that they be paid on commission only,
and of course that made everyone a wee bit s healthy.
But then he went and actually went on commission himself,

(01:35:25):
taking a percentage of theirs And it's amazing how it
picked up the sales. Because they didn't work, they didn't
earn and how did he go, oh, that was went well.
But he's had so many careers in this day. But
he also worked way back before that for as a
sound tech for So and Too Good on the and
doing the lever Hip parade and everything for then.

Speaker 4 (01:35:49):
He was the recording person for that the hit parade.

Speaker 17 (01:35:53):
And for S and two Goods in the Bag. He
was sound tech. We said, quite a bit of a
lot of history with the b and radio And for me,
I used to write satirical limerick for uh Meve Smith
on his breakfast show. I used to have the bard

(01:36:15):
of gott Allie on a Friday morning and it was
satirical things that was in David Long East time. I
remember doing one about him. But I used to write
the poetry for that.

Speaker 4 (01:36:24):
Every da have you got you? Can you remember any?
Can you remember the last lines of any? Barbara Rossa?

Speaker 13 (01:36:29):
No?

Speaker 17 (01:36:29):
I can remember it was I did did one. I
did one on when the Halaki they were having the
casino out on the boat before they had casinos in
New Zealand, but they weren't allowed them, and they had
that betting one on the ship out and they already golf.
Just one line and it was about a guy who

(01:36:50):
ordered up, ordered up some chips, got a pocket full
of plastic, but nothing past his lips.

Speaker 4 (01:36:57):
Any any lude ones or did you keep it clean
back then? Barbara?

Speaker 17 (01:37:01):
Well, but I did do it lovely. I won on
a Pool Homes Breakfast show. I wrote one on a
Valentine's Day one about andre Agus and it had doubler
on tundra all the way through it like andre Eggacy
dropping his balls to the court with a racket and anyway,
it was a good one and he loved it. So
I got a gold Fountain pen out of that one,

(01:37:23):
and then I did one for Mike Hoskings show about
It was for the two hundred and fiftyeth anniversary for
Oh God the Poet, the Scottish part and I'm happy
Robby Burns, Yeah that Burns, Yeah, Burns. Memorial were won
and he liked mine, and I got our thousand dollar

(01:37:45):
bottle of whiskey out of that one, A memorial bottle
of whiskey.

Speaker 3 (01:37:49):
Wow, He's that is high level kicking ass. Yeah, another
thing that we need to bring back, A thousand dollar
bottles of whiskey and dirty limericks. They will sound pretty good, right,
Plenty of takes have come through over the last nineteen minutes.
We'll get to some of those before we need to
get to the headlines. This one says, get a guys up,
listening to tuesday 'b with Rayleen Ramsey and Buzzer Bumble,

(01:38:11):
waiting for my birthday to be called out in the
cancelations for sport. Highlight was a money or the bad
call and convincing mum to go for the mystery prize.
It was a fridge.

Speaker 4 (01:38:20):
Did you say, Raylean Ramsey?

Speaker 3 (01:38:21):
Raylean Ramsey?

Speaker 4 (01:38:22):
What a coincidence?

Speaker 3 (01:38:24):
I know because she is coming up with the headlines.
Thank you just before we go there.

Speaker 4 (01:38:29):
This is the best memory for me was when Marcus
locked himself out of the studio mid show and then
had to call in and ran the radio show virus
phone while trying to get back into the studio live
on air. There was some good stuff, last quality radio
right there, absolutely right. The great Rayleen Ramsey is coming
up with the headlines. It is twenty eight to four.

Speaker 18 (01:38:46):
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Speaker 18 (01:38:54):
Tuvalu has asked for international help to locate the dummy
warhead China tested last month as the Pacific Islands Forum
debates issuing a joint rebuke. The nuclear capable missile passed
over multiple small Pacific states before landing near Tuvalu's territory.
Palmerston North shearer Dylan George Manthey, who admitted abusing three

(01:39:17):
lambs while sharing them, has been sentenced to six months
community detention. A large house fire has destroyed a home
in Dunedin. The blaze broke out in Caversham at twenty
to one this afternoon while fire and emergency career staff
were on strike nationwide, leaving volunteer brigades first on the scene.
Electric alternatives to gas could save households thousands of dollars

(01:39:41):
over time. The Green Building Council's new report finds the
economic stack up on electric appliances as natural gas supply
remains under pressure. I'm ready to fight Joseph Parker on
suspension relief and learning about promoting. You can see the
full story at ends in Herald dot Co dot enzet
Back to Matteth and Tyler Adams the Matteeth.

Speaker 1 (01:40:04):
And Tyler Adams Afternoons New Zealander of.

Speaker 4 (01:40:10):
I've got some great news for you newstorg ZEDB.

Speaker 3 (01:40:13):
It's time once again for the Matt Heath and Tyler
Adams afternoons on newstalk EDB New.

Speaker 4 (01:40:18):
Zealander of the Week.

Speaker 3 (01:40:20):
As always, three great New Zealanders shall be honored. And
remember any person, group, animal, snacks, smell, coach or radio
station can get a nod, So let's get on with it.
She was the greatest coach we ever had.

Speaker 4 (01:40:36):
Then for reasons still unknown, she was mistreated, faced secret
but undoubtedly pathetic player allegations, and was subjected to the
most bizarre, gutless and covert sports administrative own goal in
New Zealand sporting history. But she faced it all with
the dignity and grace of a true leader. And now
she is back and better than ever and powerfully redeemed

(01:40:58):
after an unbeaten silver Firms run finishing and US smashing
of Jamaica in the final to win gold at the
Commonwealth Games.

Speaker 3 (01:41:07):
Dangle totaler, elite coach, elite human and now a mad
Heath and Tyler Adams afternoons on New stewards EDB New
Zealander of the Week. It is sweet.

Speaker 7 (01:41:20):
It's so cool one for us to be in the contention.

Speaker 23 (01:41:24):
For gold medal, but intentionally get it over the line
and be successful as also for our sport.

Speaker 4 (01:41:30):
And the silver fans.

Speaker 3 (01:41:34):
A couple of days ago we heard a lot about
the unemployment rate rising to a ten year high.

Speaker 4 (01:41:40):
People love a negative stat, so that was the stat
you got.

Speaker 3 (01:41:45):
The stat you didn't hear was the positive one, the
fact that thirteen thousand more jobs were actually added in
that quarter.

Speaker 4 (01:41:52):
That's right, actual employment increased by thirteen k. So toil
all those New Zealanders getting on with it and hiring
and building businesses despite the challenging times.

Speaker 7 (01:42:03):
The wines love to.

Speaker 4 (01:42:04):
Bang on about.

Speaker 3 (01:42:05):
Good on, you keep going hard the obstacles wait and
you are mad He's and Tyler Adams afternoons, New Zealand is.

Speaker 7 (01:42:12):
Of the week.

Speaker 1 (01:42:15):
Good morning everybody, this is the station.

Speaker 25 (01:42:17):
One is that for a Scottish spidy you look ridiculously
Me a cabinet minister who found an agency that has
been found appallingly wanting the cup.

Speaker 19 (01:42:27):
Hearing is the sound of face Batty's raining time.

Speaker 3 (01:42:30):
All right, we welcome day women that all the miners
are dead?

Speaker 1 (01:42:33):
Are they wonder right? Larry PRIs are.

Speaker 17 (01:42:36):
Were visited here in Queenstield Rodents rang out from the
forty meters ship at a barts midnight and the crew.

Speaker 16 (01:42:41):
Scrambled team public reads.

Speaker 10 (01:42:43):
What is also the people that don't take public cred.

Speaker 17 (01:42:45):
You coming before?

Speaker 30 (01:42:46):
How you doen my experience?

Speaker 1 (01:42:47):
It's just a bureaucrats dream.

Speaker 4 (01:42:50):
On Sunday night of August nineteen twenty six, listeners heard
for the first time a radio station that would change
the country forever. This humble little Auckland Battler began broadcasting
for just three hours every Monday night, but it would
soon grow and more and have been actually spread across
the entire nation until this little station that could completely

(01:43:14):
dominated the New Zealandy away. And now in twenty twenty six,
that radio station is celebrating one hundred years of informing
and entertaining listeners, celebrating being at the heart of New
Zealand's most important conversations.

Speaker 5 (01:43:30):
The names shoff echoes through the ages, Aunt Daisy, Marina
merv Smith, Phil shown Home, Hosking, Larry Williams, Kerrie Woodham,
Chris Carter, Danny Watson, Leyton Smith, Angela Deordney, Heather, Marcus
Ryan and now powerful newbies grabbing the baton and sprinting
down the talkback track to triumph, like, for example, just

(01:43:52):
off the top of my head, just picking out a
couple of new names randomly from the current stable, names
like the truly great Matt Heath.

Speaker 3 (01:43:58):
And also Tyler Adams.

Speaker 32 (01:44:00):
Oh thanks mate, no worries, Tyler, I mean it, And
so a deep heartfelt congratulations to the thousands who have
worked in front of the mic and behind the scenes
at ZB over the last one hundred years of broadcasting.
You have built something that has been and continues to
be a broadcasting force, a Leviathan, a legend, but more

(01:44:25):
importantly used Talk zed B in your one hundredth year
you are the man Heath and Tyler Adams afternoons.

Speaker 7 (01:44:32):
On us Talk zed B New Zealand of the Week.

Speaker 4 (01:44:36):
Take it away, sir Haw and Morrison.

Speaker 1 (01:44:47):
Rrs.

Speaker 7 (01:44:47):
Please my son, we'll see you again tomorrow.

Speaker 4 (01:45:20):
It use doc said, be did firstday said.

Speaker 3 (01:45:33):
And still looking so very very good morning everybody, Mattie
and Tyler Adams highly highly deserved the New Zealander of
the wake out goods now there is.

Speaker 4 (01:45:52):
We got to shout out in some of the greats
during that.

Speaker 3 (01:45:54):
That's quite what an expector. But it's nice, great on there.

Speaker 4 (01:45:57):
It's nice of you, whoever did that.

Speaker 3 (01:45:59):
It is very nice. Now right, there is a lot
happening over the weekend in the head of that one
hundredth birthday fort ZB. On Saturday, in My Day, one
hundred years of ZB Special with Roman Trever's host of
special centenary edition featuring listener memories, nostoldier and stories from
across the decades. You can get it on the iHeart
app and the welcome splash page will celebrate ZB one

(01:46:20):
hundred years and there'll be some special elements inside the
app focusing on that as well.

Speaker 4 (01:46:24):
And moving on to Sunday, ninth of August, special anniversary content.
Throughout the day, you'll hear a unique station imagery, archive, audio,
historic moments and reflections celebrating a century of conversation listening.
Listen out for those retro news jingles.

Speaker 3 (01:46:38):
Yes, and we've got one hundred years of ZB podcast
that launches on Sunday as well as part of the celebrations.
It is hosted by Mike Hoskin and the series will
bring you the iconic names, the famous sounds, the moments
and the stories you love behind the ZB name. That's
all out on Sunday and if you want to get
amongst it, you just make sure you got to iHeartRadio
to make sure you don't miss out.

Speaker 4 (01:46:59):
And this is very cool. The special commemorative magazine I've
had to flip through. It's right here. Get the Herald
on Sunday for a free commeerative one hundred years of
ZB magazine celebrating the stations an impact on New Zealand.
There's some great pictures in here and amazing stories and
articles written by the likes of Mike Costkin, Carry Woodham
and Marcus Lash and Heather Duplicy Ellen.

Speaker 3 (01:47:20):
Yeah, looks really good.

Speaker 26 (01:47:22):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (01:47:22):
Absolutely. And finally, seven to ten pm on Sunday, the
commemorative broadcast one hundred years after ones He'd Be first
went to air. That's going to be hosted by Tim Rocksborough,
Frank Ritchie and Jax Donaldson. A special life program reflecting
the station's journey. Seven pm to ten pm Sunday. How good, right?
Coming up next, we are going to have a chant

(01:47:42):
to the Supreme Pie Award winner for this year's Pie Awards.
His name is Sonny Voe and the winning pie was
in bacon and egg pie. But we're gonna have a
chat to him in a few moments. It is sixteen
to four, the big stories, the big issues, the big
trends and everything in between.

Speaker 1 (01:47:59):
Matt Heath and Tyler Adams afternoons us talks that'd be so.

Speaker 3 (01:48:03):
In Auckland, a bakery's bacon egg pie has been named
the Supreme Winner at the Bakers New Zealand Supreme Pie
Awards a little bit earlier this week judges Ground Levy
and Bakery and Blockhouse Bay, Auckland for it's bacon and
egg pie. Of course, the owner is Sean Vowe, who
joins us on the line right now. Sewan, congratulations, Thank.

Speaker 30 (01:48:22):
You Matt, and thank you Tyler for getting my name right.
Thank you so much.

Speaker 4 (01:48:28):
What was the moment like when you when your name
was called as the Supreme Pie Winner.

Speaker 30 (01:48:34):
It was unbelievable. I couldn't believe it. Drink come true.

Speaker 4 (01:48:38):
And so it's a bacon and egg pie. So you
know what's the trick to a great bacon and egg pie.

Speaker 30 (01:48:47):
Just keep it simple really, just as a classic. You
don't play around with it too much and put in
what you like. But we always stick to what Dad
did and then we kicked his recipe the way.

Speaker 10 (01:49:00):
He did it.

Speaker 4 (01:49:01):
So what is in the recipe? Not giving away any
trade secrets because you're not putting You're not putting something
crazy like peas in there, are you?

Speaker 30 (01:49:09):
Oh No, We've never done anything like that. I've I've
seen mixed veggies and other bakery or onions and tomatoes.
But our one is just a nice smoke bacon, a
good tasty cheese, cream, eggs, a little bit of salt
and pepper and some nutmeg, and we do a nice
can't scramble mix for it as well.

Speaker 3 (01:49:29):
How important is the pastry, Shoran? Is that a big
part of it. You've got to have that beautiful flaky pastry.

Speaker 30 (01:49:35):
My pastry chef and I worked on the pastry for
about six months for this competition, and yeah, it's very important.

Speaker 4 (01:49:43):
What does it mean for your business to win this award? Shawn?

Speaker 30 (01:49:48):
It means everything to us. It's one of those things
that for your career and for your business. You know,
to be known as the best piemaker that year, you know,
it's incredible for the business, it's for the fifteen staff
that works there. As a massive achievement for everyone there.

Speaker 4 (01:50:08):
And have you shipped a few bacon and egg pies
since you won.

Speaker 30 (01:50:14):
We've been cranking out about a thousand pie every day.

Speaker 3 (01:50:19):
Yeah, that's a lot of work. That is incredible.

Speaker 4 (01:50:22):
Yeah, and with a bacon egg pie, because I'll have
one at any time of the day. But is it
is that just a breakfast pie or is it? Can
you have one at ten pm?

Speaker 30 (01:50:34):
I reckon, you can need it any time for me.
It's one of those pies where if you feel like
for breakfast or lunch, you can have it, or you
can have it as a chicken snack letter in the night.
It's just vetitiles. It's like pee wee classic.

Speaker 3 (01:50:49):
Sauce or no sauce on your ben e pie.

Speaker 30 (01:50:53):
Personally I like sauce, but my one like fee. We
just need it like the way it is.

Speaker 4 (01:50:59):
Yeah, you don't have tomato sauce on a bacon egg pie.

Speaker 3 (01:51:01):
Of course you do.

Speaker 4 (01:51:02):
You don't say.

Speaker 3 (01:51:02):
Look, you heard it straight from Sean's mouth. He loves
a bit of tomato sauce.

Speaker 4 (01:51:06):
So obviously sew and you make a lot of pie, right,
So were you surprised that it was the bacon and
egg one that that blew up, blew up for you
and won? That won the whole thing.

Speaker 30 (01:51:15):
A little bit surprised because we won it last year.
I thought it wasn't it going to be a repeat,
but then we won it as a supreme as well,
So very surprised.

Speaker 3 (01:51:25):
Yeah, and anything else you're working on to hit the
next next pie woods, you can't say too much, but
if you've got some thoughts on what you might put together.

Speaker 30 (01:51:34):
Maybe I'll stay away from the big neck next year,
so I might do you a beef pie or something
else nice.

Speaker 16 (01:51:40):
What is that?

Speaker 4 (01:51:41):
What I mean the quintessential pies that the mince and cheese, right,
isn't it? Isn't that the the like the I guess
what we say the the basic pie.

Speaker 30 (01:51:53):
I think missing cheese is the classic. But in the
last four months, I think or five months now, Cosmo
has gone around and changed the pie game. Everyone's doing
a double missing cheese, but we do the big Daddy
for cheese, which is the layered cheese, and there were

(01:52:15):
three layers of cheese and the cheese top.

Speaker 3 (01:52:18):
Sounds pretty good. Sean, Hey, make congratulations again, well deserved,
enjoy the win, and I'm sure you'll be cranking out
thousands more of those backing the pies over the next
couple of weeks. But thanks very much for having to
chat with us.

Speaker 30 (01:52:30):
Thank you so much, Lisa Lot told team and that's
whant to say one thing. I want to say thank
you to my wife.

Speaker 3 (01:52:37):
Thissel oh nice, Yeah, beautiful. You can't go wrong with that.

Speaker 4 (01:52:40):
It's the best part of the awards exactly. That's when
the bigger cause comes.

Speaker 3 (01:52:46):
You're a good man. That is Seawan Vough. He is
the owner of Lavage Bakery and Blockhouse by the Supreme
are winners of the bakals Pie Awards with their bacon
and egg pie. Right back very shortly. It is eight
to four the.

Speaker 2 (01:52:59):
Big stories, the big issues, the big trends and everything
in between.

Speaker 1 (01:53:04):
Matt Heath and Tyler Adams afternoons used talks'd.

Speaker 4 (01:53:07):
Be it is six two four all right, that brings
us in the show. Thanks so much for listening, and
thanks for all.

Speaker 3 (01:53:13):
Your calls and texts, and we got so many great
key weis calling that each week we peck a caller
of the week. And during our discussion about this place
to be in New Zealand over winter, tixter really late
into how terrible Wellington's weathering, So we gotta call from
Radu who defended the city. He loves.

Speaker 20 (01:53:27):
Even if in this weather, I'm still wearing my shorts
all year round. I'm a trade. Even this weather might,
I'm on my short. I can prove it all right.
I don't want to be anywhere else.

Speaker 4 (01:53:38):
Are we talking long shorts, work shorts, spike shorts.

Speaker 20 (01:53:43):
Work shorts, Nana work shorts. Right, I'm not allowed my
studies on the summer in the home.

Speaker 10 (01:53:48):
My work.

Speaker 20 (01:53:49):
Stubby might but not no stubby at work. But it
doesn't marry. The weather might doesn't matter. Whatever it would be.
Wellington it's the best place.

Speaker 3 (01:53:56):
I love it, good on it.

Speaker 20 (01:53:58):
Twenty something years ago when it come from Romania, I
got my wife to come in New Zealand, says, never
have the weather we have in Roumania. Sometimes we have
minus sony degrees. There's no winter for last night.

Speaker 1 (01:54:08):
It's a beautiful way of mat ah.

Speaker 3 (01:54:10):
We just need a hard enough.

Speaker 4 (01:54:11):
It's all relative, isn't it.

Speaker 20 (01:54:12):
It's sad. Look Wellington. When you say someone who's the umbrella,
I says, this is not for Wellington. Okay, we never
were with the umbrella and Wellington. We love winter. You
love it one thing? What Helena about Wellington? They says,
the win and the crap weather, keep nasty people away.

Speaker 3 (01:54:28):
Rado.

Speaker 4 (01:54:29):
What a great New Zealand.

Speaker 3 (01:54:30):
Yeah, what a good man he is great attitude a
the powerful headed two.

Speaker 4 (01:54:34):
Percy Ellen is up next, and after four pm the
CEO of Autism New Zealand on why diagnoses have tripled
in the last fifteen years and whether we should consider
it a good thing or not. But Tyler, my good friend,
why am I playing this ninety sixty three smash from
the Beatles debut album Please Please Meet?

Speaker 16 (01:54:52):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:54:53):
Is this love Me?

Speaker 18 (01:54:53):
Do?

Speaker 14 (01:54:54):
This?

Speaker 16 (01:54:54):
Has?

Speaker 7 (01:54:55):
Love Me?

Speaker 4 (01:54:55):
Do?

Speaker 3 (01:54:55):
Is this because we have a text during our great
discussion about zb's one hundredth birthday, Murse Smith, I think
played this, didn't he?

Speaker 4 (01:55:02):
That is one hundred percent correct? Yes, all right, I'm
man Heath. That's Tyler Adams and he'll be back line
on your radio Monday afternoon. Until then, give them a
taste of Kiwi.

Speaker 19 (01:55:14):
Love Me.

Speaker 14 (01:55:18):
Love Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:55:31):
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