Full Show Podcast: 08 April 2026

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:27):
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Speaker 3 (00:28):
Very good afternoon to you. Welcome into the show seven
past one. Really great to have your company. I hope
you're doing pretty well if you're listening now, you man
get everyone.

Speaker 4 (00:37):
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to get hold of us in nine to nine two
is the text as.

Speaker 3 (00:44):
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get next number, text number absolutely yeah. We love you,
our dear texter is we do it well. Most of them.
Most of them are very very good New Zealanders.

Speaker 4 (00:56):
I love this one.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
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Speaker 4 (00:57):
Great show, guys, always tune in as you come on.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
Oh, I see that great New Zealander. Thank you very much.
We love that sort of stuff and we love the
other stuff as well, so keep them coming in.

Speaker 4 (01:07):
You made that textuff that was great.

Speaker 3 (01:09):
Ticks by the way, just quickly before we get into it,
can I just say one of the joys small joys
in my life that I got to do last night
is light the fire for the first time. I know
we're not in winter yet, but you talked about it
was some pretty serious rain last night, so I thought,
even though it was verging on twenty degrees inside the house,
I just decided, now is the time to finally light
that fire. And ah, what a joy, what an absolute joy,

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just to have something so primal in the living room.
I dragged one of the cheers from the lounge and.

Speaker 4 (01:36):
To smash it up on the fire.

Speaker 3 (01:38):
Yeah, yeah, I did, Yeah, Dunedin style. But that was
just I thought. I just sat there and I read
a book for about an hour, and I thought, this
is nice. This is the life.

Speaker 4 (01:48):
Well, that is one of the great joys in life.
I was annoyed because I was like, oh, it's nice
and wintery and chilly, and I thought, look, maybe I
could get some heating on. But then the terrible heat
regulation of my partner. She's like, what are you talking about?
It's so hot. I mean that that is an issue
we need to deal with. One point. At one point
is couples with different heat regulations. Yeah, she's always too hot,

(02:12):
she's always she's always hot. But she's also said, she's
also always hot. She runs with it like she's got
some kind of internal furnace.

Speaker 3 (02:21):
Can I just make a suggestion in the bedroom, mett Heath,
you can take it or leave it.

Speaker 4 (02:24):
I'm not taking bedroom suggestions from you.

Speaker 3 (02:26):
To make the suggestion anyway. Double doovets, double douvets. I mean, look,
a lot of people scoff at the idea of double doovets.
But my partner made loves to crank the ac to
about I don't know, as cold as it goes negative seven.

Speaker 4 (02:40):
So so you run hot in your relationship, I know.
I see what you're saying. Now she runs like, yeah,
she runs hot hot. So do a woman just run
hotter than me?

Speaker 5 (02:46):
I think?

Speaker 2 (02:47):
I think?

Speaker 4 (02:48):
So you have like the equivalent of two kids single
bed doovets.

Speaker 3 (02:51):
Yep, yep, and it works. Yeah yeah, I mean you
know it can cut into the romance side of things
from time to time. But that's all right, nothing wrong
with But.

Speaker 4 (02:59):
I can't go to sleep without a spoon. I need
to spoon.

Speaker 3 (03:04):
You're gonna suck it up right on to today's show.
After three o'clock, we'll to ever talk about traveling to
a country. If you've seen it in a TV show
or a movie. There's an article in the Herald right now,
so it's called set jetting. But the author of this
particular article heads back at this idea of choosing to
go to a country because you saw it in a

(03:25):
movie or a TV show. Clearly it's massive for us.
We get a lot of tourists coming here because of
Lord of the Rings, but the author reckoned it has downsides.
Many locations fail to live up to their on screen versions,
leading to disappointment, and the trend can contribute, they say,
to overcrowding, environmental strain, and a more superficial travel experience
focused on chasing fictional worlds rather than engaging with real places.

Speaker 4 (03:48):
Harsh, What a load of rubbish? What's she judging where
people visit? People can visit for whatever reason. Why is
it more worthy to visit the Colisseum than it is
to visit the Halloween House.

Speaker 3 (04:03):
Yeah? It's travel judging, isn't it?

Speaker 4 (04:05):
Yeah? So what means?

Speaker 6 (04:07):
You know?

Speaker 4 (04:07):
You travel for what you care about? Right?

Speaker 3 (04:09):
Yeah? If it brings you joy? And what business is
it is? Some opinion? Rider?

Speaker 4 (04:13):
Is she going to wait at the airport in New
Zealand and go You're going to hobbiton how lame you like?
Lord of the Rings to you, how lamehy.

Speaker 3 (04:21):
Get a grip lady, But looking forward to your thoughts
on that after three o'clock if you've ever been to
a country specifically to see a movie set or TV set.
After two o'clock, New Zealand's new tu tax is officially
in play. So all low value goods worth less than
a thousand bucks coming into the country are now being
charged that low value levy or tax of two dollars

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and twenty one cent. So it's a bit of a
patch up, a customs loophole if you will. But when
it comes to your TEAMU buying, is this going to
have any impact on you and the crap that you buy?

Speaker 4 (04:52):
Personally? I think ordering anything from Timu is bad. It's
so bad for you, you and New Zealand. It's basically
a traitorous thing to do. Ordering from Temu just bringing
more junk in the country fills up our landfill, stresses
you because you know, as they say, your possessions own you.

(05:13):
After a while, if you have enough of them, some
must junk coming your health. But as two bucks is
going to make any difference for you in terms of
bringing in I know, that's not why because right now
what's happening is this team of stuff coming in. It's
actually costing us as tax bads to process it coming
in correct, So we're losing money on each thing. So
this is just writing that balance. But that might make
the difference on some punishingly small piece of crap that

(05:35):
you're bringing in, right you know, because some things are
incredibly cheap on TEMU. Yeah, so that two bucks might
be the difference, is it? I mean, it's not gonna
make It goes right up to one thousand dollars, doesn't
it. It does yet, So it's not gonna make much of
a difference if you're buying something for nine hundred and
ninety five dollars. Yeah, you're not going to care too
much about two bucks, are you.

Speaker 3 (05:50):
No, you're not. But looking forward to your thoughts on
that after two o'clock. Is this tax on TEAMU got
to make any difference for what you buy on that
particular website. But right now, let's have a chat about
anxiety levels with what's going on in Iran. So there
was it seemed a lot of anxiety over the past
twenty four hours on what might happen once Donald Trump's
deadline and expired. If you spent any time online, you
were probably hit with waves of dramatic worst case predictions

(06:13):
about everything falling apart. In reality, the outcome was far
less extreme. A ceasefire was reached with Pakistan acting as
an intermediary. Trump has said Iran agreed to reopen the
Strait of Horn moves as part of that deal, which
sits with a broader ten point plan both sides are
expected to work through over the next two weeks. Meanwhile,
in that background, New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters was
meeting with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Part of

(06:35):
that discussion centered on supplying oil to the Pacific. So
the last twenty four hours and even two months has
felt to many very overwhelming, bombarded on all sides with
his doom and gloom. But on Politics Wednesday this morning,
Mark Mitchell put some of that into perspective.

Speaker 7 (06:49):
I've got a really simple philosophy on this is that
we must stay laser focused on the things that we
can control and largely monitor what we can't and how
it might impact us in the future.

Speaker 8 (07:01):
And we've got to get on with it.

Speaker 7 (07:02):
We've got to accept the fact the world has changed.
We were small countries in the bot the world, knowing
osis are living. We've got to get on with things.
We've got to do the best that we can, and
that means focused on the things that we can control
and talking about the things that we can do, rather
than getting lost in all the minutia of what's setting internationally.
The world has changed and it's not going back, and

(07:22):
we just got to accept it and got to get
on with it.

Speaker 3 (07:24):
And on some Peters he was on with Mike as well,
and he said he wasn't buying into the storm or
gloom either.

Speaker 9 (07:29):
I'm very helpful of the future going forward. I mean,
sooner or later, Santy will prevail. Even in Iran. I
mean they've had forty seven years of wanton terrorism, either
by themselves or with proxies doing it. And sooner or later,
as people would say, if they've will have lost the stand,
somebody's going to make have to make sure it is enforced.

(07:49):
And they're doing it now in the streets of almost
But the reality is it cannot go on long term.
And I do not have that fatalistic view of some
have that they can survive doing that. No, it'll change
for the better in my view, and more quickly than
people think.

Speaker 4 (08:02):
It feels like we got gone from one huge thing
to another in twenty nineteen. We were just innocent, little
summer babes, weren't we what a time? And then since
COVID there's just been this creeping event after event after
event causing anxiety. And look, a lot of people have
been saying lately they feel stressed and scared and worried

(08:24):
all the time because of what's happening in the world,
Like there's this sort of constant, low level sense of
impending doom ticking away in the background, an ambient tension
in the year I might describe it as nice. And
they told me the other day he is waking up
in the middle of the night nearly every night, mind racing,
thinking about these big events. He then when I question

(08:45):
on this, and I said, how do you go back
to see me? And he goes, I get on my phone.
So basically, you've got the anxiety merchant right there. So
trying to go back to sleep by having all the
troubles of the world blasted into your face at the
intensity of a torchlight. Not a great way to get
back to back to sleep. But look, is it actually
sensible to be behaving like this? You know, as as

(09:06):
Mark Mitchell just said in that audio Tyler, as the country,
we've got very little, if any say on most of
these global events, and as individuals we have basically no say.
If New Zealand is a little paper boat on the
oceans of the world in a storm, you are one
of five million specks on board this paper yep. Do

(09:27):
you like that for a beautiful It's beautiful? Thank you?
So how much damage are we doing to our own
lives by pouring energy into stuff we can't influence instead
of focusing that energy on things we can influence. These
things that we can influence include our work, our families,
our mates are fixing the things right in front of us.
Late last night when I had to run out and

(09:48):
fix the fence that got blonde down in the storm.

Speaker 3 (09:50):
Good work.

Speaker 4 (09:50):
Yeah, that was something I could influence. Are it felt good?
So here's the question we want to discuss right now
on O one hundred and eighty ten eighty. Are we
spending too much of a lives on things we can't control?
What percentage of your day should be spent worrying about
world events? How much time should you spend talking, posting,
and thinking about d Trump personally? I reckon if it's

(10:11):
any more than five percent, you're burning energy that could
be used to make your own life and the lives
of people around you better. Sure, you want to stay
in form, but as you asked yourself, if you're obsessed,
and if so, is that helping you achieve what you
want to in your life? Does an obsession with world
events help you get ahead in life? Right? Does it?

Speaker 10 (10:31):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (10:31):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (10:32):
Interesting point.

Speaker 4 (10:32):
If you're spending your day simmering with anger or anxiety,
constantly feeding it through your news feed, is that really?
Is that really a good way to live? Or is
it kind of a negativity addiction? Something like it feels
important that you're doing something important but actually distracts you
from dealing with the parts of your life where you
can make a difference. Is that part of it? If
you can't change it, you can't be blamed for it.

(10:54):
So you can just feel like you're doing something important
but you're not really get anything done that you can
be blamed for the Yeah, So what's the right balance?
How much of your day should you give to global chaos?
And how much should you keep for your own life?

Speaker 3 (11:05):
This is going to be a great chat. Oh eight
hundred and eighty ten eighty is that?

Speaker 4 (11:08):
But to cool?

Speaker 3 (11:09):
The texts already coming through thick and fast. Ninet two
ninety two is that number, So we'll get into that
very shortly. It is seventeen past one. You're listening to
Matt and Tyler, the.

Speaker 1 (11:19):
Big stories, the big issues, the big trends and everything
in between.

Speaker 8 (11:23):
Matt Heath and Taylor Adams afternoons US talks. That'd be.

Speaker 3 (11:28):
Very good afternoon to you. How much mental energy should
you be invested in world events you've got no control over?
Oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty is the number
to call, Mike, What do you reckon?

Speaker 5 (11:38):
Good afternoon guys, Yeah, guys, it's been a while since
of phone into your show.

Speaker 3 (11:43):
How are you very good? Mate? Good to be back.

Speaker 5 (11:46):
Yeah, thank you, And I just want to check before
we move on with the topic. Are your guys fingers
all intact? After a lunatic dropped off double happy explosives
by Christmas to your studio.

Speaker 4 (11:58):
You're a great New Zealander, Mike, Thank you so much.
For that. The problem with those is that they're so
precious to me that I need, I need an opportunity
when it's worth letting them off, you know what I mean,
because they're a piece of history. So now they currently
sit in my lounge prize pride of place in the
tin and are probably going to be hand me downs

(12:18):
and and Mike, thank you so much. So when people
come around to my house, I come, come, come, come
with me. When my gen X buddies come around and
come look at this, and I opened the little tin
and show them and they they just they almost jump
up jump for joy seeing the mic. So thank you
so much.

Speaker 5 (12:36):
Oh that reminds me of that of pulp fiction.

Speaker 4 (12:41):
Yeah, the light reflects of their faces, so great. Thank
you so much for those.

Speaker 5 (12:47):
No, that's right, that's right. No, no, no, no, my pleasure.

Speaker 11 (12:50):
No.

Speaker 5 (12:50):
In terms of the topic, obviously around the world bigger
things happening, which are concerning many many people will rely
on twron spiritual God. And if people are high up
and power doing the wrong things, well just to and
karma comes swiftly but mysteriously, and therefore the rest of

(13:12):
us should not worry. And at a at a slightly
lower level people in power around the world and the
military and things. Of course, they've got the intelligence data,
they they've got the equipment, the technology to know what's
going on, and they obviously react accordingly to protect us,
you know, and their populations and things. So yeah, I

(13:36):
think everyone should should be confident and comfortable that and
relax because there's definitely things happening that are intervening to
prevent you know, disaster. So that that that That's all
I can say about that. But on another note, there's

(13:56):
a book around that that I've published and I used
a pseudonym. And the book I published using a pseudonym
should give lots of people a lot of confidence and
character building. And is it right to get a plug
quick plug? On the title it's called a lifeless Punishing

(14:19):
and I use the pseudonym.

Speaker 4 (14:22):
Sounds good.

Speaker 3 (14:23):
We're all right now, one, I think what pseudonym did
you use there, Mike? Yeah, yeah, good choice. Yes, yeah,
confusing for a lot of people.

Speaker 12 (14:32):
Yeah, full of full of philosophical, uplifting, advice from antiquities,
full of edification and encouragement.

Speaker 5 (14:44):
And of course I was joking, you know, I'm no,
I'm like a.

Speaker 12 (14:52):
Thief in the night.

Speaker 5 (14:53):
And that's to coin an old phrase from a piece
of scripture from antiquities. But Matt, that's a great book,
and yeah, thank you for sharing that with me. It's
amazing and I would suggest anyone who should come across
a copy to have a real and developed some sort
of self resilience in the world we live in. So

(15:14):
thank you guys, well, thank you Matt, and thank you too,
and God bless you.

Speaker 4 (15:18):
Thank you so much Mike, and once again, thank you
so much for the pohas that they have brought a
lot of joy to myself and a lot and my friends.
And we haven't even let one off yet, so so
big status symbol. I appreciate you. Cool mate, Thank you,
good on your mic. What a great new Zealander. Oh
on one hundred and eighty ten eighty is that number
to call? Do you agree with Mike?

Speaker 3 (15:39):
Is it easier to try and not get too deep
into the things you can't control? Like World Events nineteen
nine two is a text.

Speaker 4 (15:45):
This Texas says, follow the politics or the politics will
follow you. If you have your head too much in
the sand, a missile could hit you in the bum. Yeah,
it's the percentage of time you spent. I don't think
anyone's arguing that you shouldn't watch what's going on and
shouldn't be abreast of current events. I think that's important.
I think we probably should be more abreast of low

(16:08):
call current events and the stuff you can actually influence. Yeah,
it's a matter of how much of your time you
are spending on it, and is it becoming an obsession
that is robbing you of the energy to do what
you need to do to succeed in your own life. Yeah,
for yourself and your Family's really the question we're asking, So.

Speaker 3 (16:27):
What do you say, Oh, one hundred and eighty ten
eighty is that number of call? It's twenty five pass
one beg very surely.

Speaker 8 (16:33):
The headlines and the hard questions. It's the mic asking breakfast.

Speaker 13 (16:37):
To Washington, where our foreign minister has met with US
Secretary of Saint Marco Rubio Winston Peters as well us.

Speaker 4 (16:42):
What did they want from us specifically if anything?

Speaker 9 (16:44):
Well, actually it is more the same of what we've
been doing. Specific solidarity, that's important, organized crime, that's a
big way we've gotten. They say that.

Speaker 8 (16:51):
As well as the other point.

Speaker 9 (16:52):
They've also met a substantial offer of an aid program,
but the Cooks is concerned out a left field. This
is quite significant.

Speaker 4 (16:58):
So what the US have?

Speaker 13 (16:59):
Yes, so it's dueling aid programs between New Zealand, China
and the US.

Speaker 9 (17:03):
No, no, it didn't happen like that. But it just
happened to be the fact that they didn't mention it.
We thought, well, yeah, that's seriously does work.

Speaker 13 (17:10):
Back tomorrow at six am the Mic Hosking Breakfast with
Mayley's Real Estate News Talk zeb.

Speaker 3 (17:15):
Twenty eight past one. So how much should you let
uncontrollable world events occupy your mind? And also if you
find yourself getting a bit too deep in out, how
do you pull yourself out of that quagmire of doom?

Speaker 4 (17:25):
Yeah, I think it's stipe of addiction.

Speaker 3 (17:27):
I definitely is.

Speaker 4 (17:28):
You know, we get a bit of a doping hit
from negative news. And this is evolutionarily around how you know,
people that focused on bad things might climb a tree
and not getting by the tiger, So they get a
little dopeman hit by worrying about things and looking about things.
So think I think there's a kind of addiction to it.
People get an addiction spiral to the detriment of the
rest of their life. This Texas says. Easy for you

(17:49):
to say not to worry about it's interesting, easy for
you to to say not to worry about world events
with your cushy jobs on ZB great, well done for you,
big handclap. The rest of us need to watch out
for ourselves. I think anyone who isn't spending as much
time as they can angry at Trump as being irresponsible.
All of us should be raging against them. To anyone
who will listen to any opportunity we get, I will

(18:11):
keep doing that. Whatever you say from your diamond tower,
isn't it an iron Are we in a diamond tower?

Speaker 3 (18:16):
Apparently? To the white tower?

Speaker 4 (18:18):
Isn't an Ivory tower?

Speaker 3 (18:19):
Ivory tower?

Speaker 4 (18:20):
That's right? Yeah, isn't white tower? No, that's white castle.
It's a little burgers.

Speaker 14 (18:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (18:25):
But that you're missing the point here. I think anyone
who isn't spending as much time as they can angry
at Trump is being irresponsible. But if you're spending all
that time on something that you trump, you'll never talk
to Trump, you'll never have any influence on him at all.
So what else in your life that you could achieve?
What else that you could achieve for your family or

(18:46):
what just time you could spend with friends and family
are you missing out on And how fun is it
for them when you're raging constantly at them?

Speaker 3 (18:54):
Twenty four So it's no skirit off my nose if
you want to be angry at Trump twenty four seven.
But the point is it feels like a waste of
time to me, So maybe you've got a bit of
use of your time.

Speaker 4 (19:02):
I think you think you say. I think anyone who
isn't spending as much time as they can angry at
Trump is being irresponsible. I think it's irresponsible for to
willingly spend as much time as you can angry at
something that you can't have any effect on at all. Peter,
welcome to the show. Sorry, phone's not working.

Speaker 10 (19:22):
Do you have your phone away from where you sleep?

Speaker 3 (19:24):
A third point? That's a great que I actually have
mine right by my bedside table, Shane.

Speaker 14 (19:29):
I have to.

Speaker 10 (19:30):
I have to keep it further away if I don't
want to be updated. Otherwise it's just so easy. It's
like and then a book that you can't put down,
or an Netflix movie you just want to keep up
to date. That's what this, you know, It's like a
sports game. You can watch it live or you can
watch replay. When it gets interesting, people tend to like it.

(19:55):
And I find that the whole thing is not going
to go away because I think the US has planned
two years to be in that area and Israel and
you miss pieced sills or equipments, so it sort of
it seems to be a short term thing. If you're

(20:16):
beefing on the market, you want to watch it to say, oh,
it's going to go because there's a peace still and
then when you realize there wasn't going to be a peace,
steel it will go down again. And people making vast
sums of money by doing that if they get their
bit right, of course, but you can lose. And of
course what you can do is you can buy when

(20:36):
you go shopping, you can buy seeds, the plant in
the guard and you decide to catch the bus, buike
or electric car, buy or sell stuff on the market.
If you have money or car share, you know you
do have options. And if you look at what people did,
they did try to vote David Longian to be New
Zealand free, so you know we do have things. And

(21:01):
China is still trading with Israel, so no one's standing
up to Israel and including the New zeal And government.
So it's just going to continue. And I just think
this genocide enablement is setting you know what happens.

Speaker 4 (21:15):
Well, just to go back to what we were talking about, Peter,
because because you know we're we're heading down a path
of kind of what we're well, you know you said
before right that with sport, you can watch it live
or you can watch the repay. I'm a big baseball
fan and every day the Dodgers play, and I get
home and on my MLB app, I watch the condensed game,

(21:36):
which is a game of baseball. Could be three hours.
I watch it in fifteen minutes. Right, efficient efficient? So
is that a better way to operate with news? I mean,
if you if you're if you're playing the markets, then
that is your job and you have to be up
and you have to try and make a bet and
think which way it's going to go.

Speaker 10 (21:51):
Right, So I like the highlights. I must continue rug
than a couple of days.

Speaker 4 (21:56):
Yeah, So it was it better to watch news on
highlight rather than watching it in real time unless you
have a direct financial stake and betting each way either
way on what happens.

Speaker 10 (22:07):
No, I the in depth analysis that I get from
YouTube videos with people who experience in the American military.

Speaker 4 (22:16):
And how much how much do you reckon you watch
a day? How much of your time do you spend
watching or thinking about this kind of stuff?

Speaker 10 (22:23):
Peter, I'll probably watch one or two hours a day,
but it's worthwhile. A lot of it is live and
as we speak, like for instance, when they do Bai well,
when the Israel and America recently invade on the twenty
act of February, I saw that live with when in
Boubai talking about how things are going off in Dubai.

Speaker 4 (22:43):
Indid and what advantage did you gain in life by
seeing that live rather than finding it out about it later?

Speaker 10 (22:54):
Well to get someone's reaction, it was on live and
you're on live, just like are you?

Speaker 4 (23:00):
Are you anxious about this kind of stuff? Does it
seep over into the rest of your life? How's your
general feeling? Because we started this conversation, a lot of
people seem to have this impending sense of doom at
the moment, Peter, where they feel like things are expiraling
out of control and these are things that they can't affect,
they can't influence.

Speaker 10 (23:18):
So they can they can? They can? They can they
decide who they vote for every three years?

Speaker 4 (23:23):
Yep, they can do that.

Speaker 10 (23:25):
That's the only second they get every three years.

Speaker 4 (23:28):
Yeah, hey, we've got to go to.

Speaker 10 (23:30):
An air rape and they decide who they.

Speaker 4 (23:34):
I just finished your thoughts. Sorry, we've got to go
to got an air break coming in. But if you
just want to finish your thought before we go, Pete.

Speaker 10 (23:40):
Well, I think people have to realize that public opinion
does influence what politicians do, whether it's how much you
get in tax cuts or how to do it. So
public opinion is very important and informed public opinion as
opposed to brainwash, public opinion is as much better.

Speaker 4 (23:57):
Good on your Pete.

Speaker 3 (23:58):
Thanks thanks for your thoughts. So one hundred and eighty
ten eighty do you agree with Pete? Or do you
do whatever you can to stay away from the doom
and gloom of all events you can't control? Headlines with
when he is coming up.

Speaker 11 (24:11):
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if it didn't meet his demands. To open up the
Strait of hor Moves. He's pushed out his deadline two weeks,
agreeing to Pakistan's request to hold off military action for

(24:32):
two weeks. Iran's agreed to the cease fire and says
safe passage through the Strait of hor Moves may be possible.
Fuel stocks have risen since Monday's update. As of midnight Sunday,
we had sixty two point six days of petrol, fifty
one point seven of diesel and fifty three point five
of jet fuel in the country or on the way.

(24:52):
Police say diesel thefts are on the rides, with two
separate arrests this morning in christ Church's Sockburn and at
a work site in Hamilton's Peacock Forrest. And Bird and
the Environmental Defense Society have filed judicial High Court review
proceedings challenging the Conservation Minister reclassifying hundreds of thousands of
hectares of West Coast stewardship land plus the plumber is

(25:15):
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A Premium. Now back to Matton Tyler.

Speaker 3 (25:23):
Thank you very much, Wendy so where I've asked the
question how much mental energy should you be investing in
world events you've got no control over, specifically the anxiety
over the past twenty four hours over what was going
to happen in Iran. Clearly, as we know now it's
a ceasefire ideal for the next two weeks. But it
was something that was brought up on Politics Wednesday with
Mark Mitchell. Here's what he said to Mike this morning.

Speaker 7 (25:44):
I've got a really simple philosophy on this is that
we must stay focused on the things that we can
control and largely monitor what we can't and how it
might impact us in the future. And we've got to
get on with it. We've got to accept the fact
the world has changed. We're small countries in the pom
the world, knowing osis are living. We've got to get
on with things. So we've got to do the best
that we can, and that means focused on the things

(26:07):
that we can control and talking about the things that
we can do, rather than getting lost in all the
minutia of what's happening internationally. The world has changed and
it's not going back, and we just got to accept
it and got to get on with it.

Speaker 4 (26:19):
Lost in the Manuchaia. I think a lot of people
are that, aren't they. And not only does the world
not own New Zealander. Living within New Zealand, no one
knows you are living. So if you're going to spend
your time worrying about them in Ushaia, then hopefully that
you know you've got a stable job where they're going
to let you have your emotions and energies taken away

(26:41):
for something that you can't control. The six is, if
we put the same amount of energy into local council
politics as we do into Trump, our rates would be
much lower. That's from John. That's a really good point.
I think they would be. I think if people concentrated
with the laser like obsessive focus they do on America
and America's activities, on what was happening just in their

(27:01):
local community, then we wouldn't have had so many stupid
decisions made by counsel and we wouldn't keep voting in
absolute nutjobs onto councils.

Speaker 3 (27:14):
Yeah, and we don't. The proof's there. How many people
voted the last local body elections, less than thirty percent.
Could give give a crap about going down and voting
who you want to see in council.

Speaker 4 (27:22):
You've got people spend twenty four hours a day on
YouTube watching content and political content from the other side
of the world. Yeah, but wouldn't have any any idea
who was making the decisions in their council. Yeah, Phil,
welcome to the show.

Speaker 15 (27:38):
Oh hello, how are you?

Speaker 16 (27:39):
I like your program.

Speaker 15 (27:40):
You guys are Bree team and recome, so I like
bringing in when you guys are on.

Speaker 4 (27:44):
Oh, thank you so much. What's your name?

Speaker 15 (27:46):
I was just my name is Phil?

Speaker 3 (27:48):
I Phil is that short for Phillis.

Speaker 15 (27:50):
I was just now filmina o phil.

Speaker 3 (27:53):
Amina beautiful name.

Speaker 4 (27:54):
Yeah, good on your.

Speaker 15 (27:55):
Phil tally some mouthful so I don't want to use
the full and some people don't like it anyway. I
was just going to comment on that guy, Mike. I
don't I Mike who wrote that book. I came to
the tail end of it. But what I hit towards
the end sits right with me because I was one
of those initially when the skirmish happened between Israel and

(28:17):
America and Iran and all that, and I used to
be listening to different podcasters and all the other What
is that doing. It's not It's ridiculous. So what I've
done is just like what Mike said in this book,
I'm kissing, have a whole paradigm shift and think, for
all the worrying and all the things that are happening
around the world at any extra day to my life,

(28:40):
what should I do is just have a positive attitude
to what you have around you. Enjoy your family, coming
to gatherings, even on Easter Sunday. Do not bring things
or talk about politics that divide not the night. So
I am just changed to the during alerts on my phone.
Like for example, if I have lunch break, I just

(29:00):
turned onto the news stops, they'd be there. Quite you
guys are quite good at giving updates on what's happening around.
We also need to have wisdom as to what's happening around.
So I just feel if we really give positive vibes
around everybody, you know fear it brings in a lot
of antagonism and you just rush to you buy silly things,
You do things you know very stupidly. I mean Trump

(29:25):
and wherever our leaders are li our Crystopher luxm. You know,
when you go to management meetings and all that, they
don't tell you everything that happens within the boardroom do
they They just weed out what needs to be given
to public, and the people run with it and talk
and blow it out of proportions. So I just feel
that the way to go is to just be at peace.

(29:47):
Do what you can do around your community, look at
your own country, do what you can do to build.

Speaker 17 (29:53):
Up communities, neighborhood and all that sort.

Speaker 15 (29:55):
Of thing is a better way of doing and dealing
with this and listening to all the different podcasts. Each
one has got their own bills, so be it.

Speaker 16 (30:05):
Don't need to get it.

Speaker 4 (30:06):
So if you look around your life and you go
absolutely everything's faxed. So I've fixed everything. My family is great,
my social life is great, I'm killing it at work.
I've got extra extra energy. And with that excident, any
maybe maybe you could indulge that with other stuff. But
if everything's falling apart in your life and then you're
hiding away and you're outrage towards something you can can't control,

(30:28):
then you might ask yourself, why is there any different
to any other addiction?

Speaker 15 (30:33):
You know, that's right exactly. So that's why I would
just say, I'm an our national reader, I'm a Christian,
I'm a Catholic.

Speaker 17 (30:40):
I just find that, you know.

Speaker 15 (30:41):
Biblically, you need to really be a person of peace,
not a person of war. What Trum does, that's between
him and God and all the other things that hang around.
You don't judge, but you do what you can to
bring that peace around you and peace around the people
around you.

Speaker 3 (30:57):
Onfl oh on her as my neighbor. She sounds like
a good community player.

Speaker 4 (31:01):
Well she would love thy neighbor. Yeah, she would absolutely. Hey, guys,
I'm probably addicted to Global News. It doesn't negatively affect
my life at all. I'm just always listening to something. Well,
I'm doing something else. I usually have ZB on or
YouTube playing. It only costs me the money I spend
texting ZB well, thank you for your text. Nine two
nine Tower is the number. But it saved me money
and fuel as I filled up with fuel within hours
of the war starting. I just happened to be in town,

(31:22):
so I've topped up my tank. I didn't make a
special trip. Cheers jb On.

Speaker 3 (31:27):
See there's some people that like that that they can
not everything else going on, and they don't stress out
about it. Twenty four to seven. But that is easier
said than done for a lot of people. No problem
for JB. Good on your mate, good on. Yeah, it
is a quarter to two.

Speaker 18 (31:40):
Be very surely the issues that affect you, and a
bit of fun along the way.

Speaker 8 (31:45):
Matt Heath and Taylor Adams Afternoons News Talk zed B.

Speaker 3 (31:49):
It is thirteen to two and we are talking about
what's going on in Iran. How much mental energy should
you be investing in a world event? You've got no
control over.

Speaker 4 (31:58):
This, Texas says, the only thing I'm anxious about is
how the Wars go on Saturday night. That's from Jimmy
from PARMI Now Jimmy from PAMI. See. I think that
this is the problem with the world at the moment,
as people are trying to turn politics and global events
into sports and they have teams, yes, and they follow
it like sports. I think following sports is incredibly healthy yep.
And you know, you get a community around it, and

(32:20):
you go along to games and you watch people doing
incredible things at the height of athleticism. Sport is really
really positive thing in the world. And you can get
so anxious about your team that it hurts yep, But
in deep down you know that it does not really
that important.

Speaker 3 (32:40):
It's not going to change your life that much whatever happens.

Speaker 4 (32:42):
I think some people, as I just said, are turning
politics into sport. Yes, and that is a weird thing
to do, certainly a weird think. Picking your team and
just flying your colors and supporting your team no matter what,
is not a sensible way to live your life.

Speaker 3 (33:00):
No, well, just loosely on there. Last night I was
in politics and your life in sport. Just loosely on that.
Last night, I was looking at Google trends, and anybody
can go have a look, and it shows you what
has been the most googled in any particular country. And
I decided to ever a we look at United States.
So I've just put it back up the last twenty
four hours. What are Americans googling? Real Madrid versus Bayoun?

(33:20):
Diana Rossini, I don't know who that is. Audrey Plaza.
Must be something going on with Ray Stephens, National sc America.
There's one here, Higgs Gith News. So that's one related
to Iran Athletics versus Yankees, Katie Jackson, Wisconsin Supreme Georgia
special election, the Hornets versus Celtics, National versus Club America

(33:42):
Athena Strands, sporting versus Arsenal, so a lot of sporting
stuff there.

Speaker 4 (33:45):
So these are the top trending things on Google in
the last twenty four hours.

Speaker 3 (33:48):
Yeap, that's in America. Let's just go to New Zealand,
shall we. So here's the last twenty four hours. Diesel
over four dollars, a leader person overboard, Mariner rain, Trump
oil price, the twenty fifth Amendment for some reason, Fiji Airways,
Iran oil price, oil price today? What's going on in Iran?
Donald Trump news? So we are much more fascinating.

Speaker 4 (34:12):
We can't even vote this guy out, No, we don't
have that ability, and we're spending more time circling the
internet focusing on it. The Americans that are mainly looking
up sports results. And a very attractive actress called Audrey Plaza.
I don't know what she's been up to. She's had
some troubles, I understand.

Speaker 3 (34:31):
I'm going to google her now.

Speaker 4 (34:32):
She's fantastic in community.

Speaker 3 (34:33):
Yeah, great actress.

Speaker 4 (34:35):
Great actress. Yeah, I absolutely love it.

Speaker 3 (34:37):
Very stunny. But that says a lot, that does Mark.
How are you this afternoon?

Speaker 14 (34:42):
Ohm?

Speaker 10 (34:43):
Great?

Speaker 14 (34:43):
Guys, nice to be able to get on very much
like what that last caller bet about just being spiritual
and within yourself, and also the replay that you said
of what Mark Mitchell has said, and that's very very good.
My irritation at the moment is that it's drawing away

(35:04):
from New Zealand issues. Yeah, okay, you know the petrol
the fuel prices has gone up consequently. But you know,
from my way of thinking is, you know, if the
electricity prices and the food prices hadn't gone up so
much in the last four years, we might not be
crying so much about the increase in the fuel because

(35:26):
we would have had some hair groom.

Speaker 2 (35:29):
You know.

Speaker 14 (35:30):
It's the local issues that I feel are more important
than what we can't control overseas. And you're so right,
we've got no control. You have an interest in it
because it has a down downfield if.

Speaker 4 (35:43):
You watch it, you've got to watch it, Yeah, to
a certain extent.

Speaker 14 (35:46):
Absolutely, but don't buy into it, you know, And you know,
we also have to remember that all of us are different,
we all react differently, we all feel differently. Like your
call a Peter, I know for a fact, cause and
just about once or twice every day, and so his
circumstances might mean indeed.

Speaker 10 (36:09):
Yeah, yeah, and.

Speaker 14 (36:11):
Like mine, you know, I like to call in it
every so often occasionally because I'm disabled and isolated. So
being able to talk to somebody is good. But when
you're also isolated, is that danger of buying into something, Yeah,
and becoming in trap within that, and you've got to,

(36:31):
as Mark Mitchell says, focus on what you can control. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (36:36):
Well, thank you so much, Mark, and thank you so
much for bringing in. We really appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (36:40):
Great to hear from you. Right back very shortly. It
is eight minutes too too.

Speaker 1 (36:45):
Mad Heath Taylor Adams taking your calls on eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty.

Speaker 8 (36:49):
It's mad Heathen Taylor Adams afternoons News TALKSB News Talks.

Speaker 3 (36:55):
It'd be it is five to two. Quick couple of
texts here, Kiddo, Mett and Tyler. I think people should
just be thankful that they are still alive. We all
only live once, and while we are all alive, we
just want to make the most of each day. That's
from Jemma, nicely said Gemma. And this one quickly. We
live in New Zealand. It's paradise. Who cares what's going
on anywhere else? Honestly, just enjoy the freedom and serenity

(37:18):
we have here, get off that negative social media and
live real life.

Speaker 4 (37:21):
There you go. So, how do you deal with this
ambient anxiety that we started talking about at the start
of the art. We started talking about it and started
the oart. It makes sense, doesn't it. Maybe ask yourself
if there's anything you can do about what is happening
right now? Is there anything you can do about it?
If the answer is no, then find something that you
can do something about right now and then and do

(37:42):
that instead. And if you're freaking out, ask yourself, how
am I right now? How am I right this? For
a second. If the answer is I'm okay, right now
where I am, then then embrace some gratitude and get
out about your day.

Speaker 3 (37:53):
It's okay.

Speaker 4 (37:53):
You might be lying in bed freaking out and go,
how am I right now? I'm company and bed it's
nice in here, so I'm okay. I'll get in about that.
But if you find yourself watching more and more YouTube
and political stuff to the detriment of other stuff in
your life, then maybe ask yourself how that is any
different from any other addiction. Yeah, if you're doing something
that you can't stop doing to the detriment of other

(38:16):
stuff in your life. That's just an addiction. Yeap, might
want to sort that one out.

Speaker 3 (38:20):
That is a good PSA. Right off the myth and
get off the politics. Nicely said mate, great discussion. Really
enjoyed that thing. Get everyone who called antext coming up
after two clock. Tu Texts is officially in a play,
So if you're still buying stuff off Timu, we want
to hear from you. Oh ighte hundred and eighty ten
eighty is the number to call. Nine two ninety two
is the text. New Sport and weather fast approaching and

(38:42):
hope you're having a great Wednesday after noon. You are
listening to Matt and Tyler. Stay hip, We'll be back
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The big stories, the big issues, the big trends and
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Speaker 11 (39:07):
Be.

Speaker 3 (39:10):
Very good afternoon to Yeah, welcome back into the program.
Great to have your company on this Wednesday afternoon. It
is seven past two, so let's have a chat about Temu.
New Zealand's new Temu tax is officially in play as
of today, so this means all low value goods worth
less than one thousand dollars coming into the country is
commercial freight to being charged a levy or tax of

(39:31):
two dollars and twenty one cents. It patches up a
customs loophole allowing e commerce businesses like Temu to pay
next to nothing for approval on thousands of packages for
our first retails. Chris Wilkinson, he was on with Mike
this morning and he said it was good news for
products that bring no real value to New Zealand.

Speaker 19 (39:50):
It'll pause people for a while.

Speaker 20 (39:52):
And let's face it, most of the stuff that's coming
as stuff that people want but not need, right this
isn't essential. You see the demise of the two dollar
shops around the country. That's a perfect example of.

Speaker 10 (40:04):
Where this is going.

Speaker 20 (40:05):
You know, cheap type of disposable product, typically for one
off for short term use, not durable, not sustainable.

Speaker 3 (40:16):
So that was his thoughts. That's a pretty big serve
at the likes of Timu or that cheap crap coming
into the country. But we want to talk to you
about your Temu buying. Would this make you pause some
of the stuff that you're buying off Timu If there's
an extra two dollars and twenty one cents added to
what you're bringing into the country from overseas. And I
think he is right on the element of a lot

(40:37):
of the things that are coming in. The quality is questionable.
It is very cheap goods. They are a lot of
it's poorly made, and the value that it brings to
the New Zealand economy is basically mil Well.

Speaker 4 (40:48):
This thing is interesting though, because I didn't realize this,
but it's costing us money as the taxpayer to bring
it in just to process it. So this fee isn't
making us any money and it's not being put in
place to stemy TEMU sales. No in New Zealand because
we do have a free trade agreement with China. We do,
so things could be interesting if we're seen to be
putting a tariff on what they're up to. But it

(41:10):
was costing us money. So not only does Temu destroy
our local industry and fill our refuse transfer centers with crap,
it was also costing us money to process it. So
we were basically, as the taxpayer that isn't buying Temu stuff,
we were subsidizing these punishing overseas companies. Pretty crazy and personally,

(41:32):
I think ordering anything from Timu is so bad for
you in New Zealand as a whole that it's basically
a traitorous act. I think you should be tasered for it.
Two bucks and a taser should be the price. But
it's two bucks going to make the difference for you
might on some kind of tiny little piece of absolute
rubbish you're buying off Timu, but something closer to one

(41:55):
thousand dollars, because it goes right up to one thousand dollars,
right it does, yep. So if you're buying something for
nine hundred dollars, do you really care about two bucks?
In the EU they're bringing in I believe it's two
dollars to Euro per item in the package and three
euro for the package, right, so if you have ten
ten items in the package, then that's going to cost

(42:17):
you twenty three euro to get into there. So the
EU is definitely trying to hit back against China, which
always has an interesting effect on us because we kind
of need the Chinese economy to going well for our
economy to go well.

Speaker 3 (42:29):
Downe we certainly do. Yeah, we're pretty well tied in,
but they look good on the EU. Say what you're
well about the EU, but they are very protective of
their little union and they quite often bring in those
protection of style levees or rules.

Speaker 4 (42:42):
Here we go. Tyler's a big fan of Tariff's is
hell when it comes to TIMU for gold. Are you
happy with the way the EU treated us in the
late seventies such that we had huge butterstock piles and
nearly went broke.

Speaker 21 (42:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (42:55):
Yeah, they didn't treat us so good in the sevenies,
but go good on them now they're protecting their little
peace of the world.

Speaker 4 (43:00):
So what you think that we should we should watch
charge do the same thing. Charge two dollars per item
within the package. And let's just say so, it's the
same as the EU. Even though I could be making
up these numbers. It was something like this out of
the EU three three dollars per package. Do you think
we should do that to try and incentivize people to
buy New Zealand made or not buy crap?

Speaker 3 (43:21):
There's got to be to mountain to my eyes, there's
got to be a benefit for the New Zealand economy
if you're buying up large this cheap tat from China.
Go for gold. But there's got to be some sort
of win for the New Zealand economy. And if you
try and incentivize people within that case a bit more
of a tax or we've got to be careful with
the free trade agreement as you mentioned. But that incentivizes

(43:42):
people to buy stuff closert a home that is made
by New Zealanders, that keeps people employed, that keeps the
economy churning along. Is that not a good thing? I mean,
are we in this game to make China more wealthy
than it already is? Or he in this game to
try and help our country?

Speaker 8 (43:56):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (43:56):
Well New Zealand first, you're saying New Zealand first, that's
the name of a party I believe certainly is a
student tax. Look this text and says, what a stupid
tax on something that might bring a little joy to
someone's life. How is it a stupid tax? And if
why should if you're trying to bring something in to
bring a little joy into your life, why should the
rest of the taxpayer subsidize the processing fee? Because that's

(44:18):
all this does is that evens things out, so it's
cost neutral.

Speaker 3 (44:23):
It was a little loophole to the taxpayer.

Speaker 4 (44:25):
Yeah, and does TIMU bring a lot of joy or
does it Some very rarely bring joy, but generally just
bring despair as you look at this piece of crap
and then eventually put it into either the recycling bin
or or take it to the tip in the back
of your car.

Speaker 3 (44:43):
I think ten minutes of dopamine is probably what you're
getting from Temu. Surely there's these cheaper ways you can
get that. But what do you say, oh, eight one
hundred and eighty ten eighty are you still buying up
large on TEAMU? Is just going to make you change
what you buy on that particular platform or is that
not going to make a stick of difference?

Speaker 4 (44:59):
All the junk bought off Temo just fills up our landfill.
Says this text that we have become China's rubbishmen.

Speaker 3 (45:05):
Make cop New Zealand powerful text that one. So what
do you say I want hundre at eighty ten eighty
is the number nine two ninety two? Is that text?
It is twelve past.

Speaker 1 (45:12):
Two your home of afternoon talk Matt Heathen Taylor Adams
afternoons call, Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty us talk said, be.

Speaker 3 (45:24):
It is a quarter past too. So the Timu tax
is officially in play. What that means is all goods
worth less than a thousand bucks coming into the country
as commercial freight are being charged a levy or tax
of two dollars in twenty one cents. Is this going
to change the way that you buy things off Temo?

Speaker 4 (45:39):
The text says, love the show Boys, but I've got
to push back on this one, Matt, Timo has brought
me lots of joy. Okay, say it brings I didn't
say it didn't bring No, it didn't bring any joy.
I said, on balance, does it bring more joy or
disappointment as you take that crap that you feel bad
about ordering to the tip. But anyway, I'll finish this
person's text, I love the show Boys, but Temo has

(46:00):
brought me a lot of joy. Twenty water guns in
twenty costumes for twenty costumes for little troopers for a
party for my five year old. That does sound like
a lot of joy.

Speaker 3 (46:09):
Yeah, that is a heck of a lot of joy. Actually,
I mean it's cheap, cheap crap, no doubt about it.
But yeah, if the little kids are running around with
water guns and costumes, well that makes it tough.

Speaker 4 (46:18):
When I was a kid, twenty water guns and twenty
matching costumes for all the kids at my five year
old party. My parents went in Mautter for that. No, no,
but all that stuff, where is it now? Texta cas Row?
Is it in their bloody recycling bin?

Speaker 3 (46:33):
Seems one use thing.

Speaker 4 (46:35):
Are you keeping it forever? Ferishing those twenty water guns?
Or have you hit them in the recycling?

Speaker 16 (46:40):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (46:40):
Be honest, nineties of techs ricky, how are you?

Speaker 6 (46:45):
Yeah? Hi, I'm disturbing reteam and the fact that I
think people should be aware of that they haven't had
to pay GST in the past, and there's been a
bit of unfear on the other retailers. And I'm not
talking just about two dollars shops. That also the warehouse
and other large discounters. And the other fact of two

(47:08):
is that perhaps the reason they haven't been paying GSD
is that their partner and I'm not sure scentage there
they have. There's a New Zealand Post. New Zealand Post
is owned by the government.

Speaker 3 (47:20):
Yes, yep, coreat So so how does that relate to.

Speaker 6 (47:25):
Well, it's not it's not a fair it's not a
level playing field if they don't pay g s T.
The warehouse and others have to pay GSD and they
sell their goods. Yeah, it's not an even even sort
of pitch and it's high time that some people wake
up to the fact that they it's changing the scope
of the way in which we shop in New Zealand today.

Speaker 4 (47:48):
Yeah, that was interesting. You know, I hadn't thought about that.
But those two dollar shops are disappearing, aren't they, And the.

Speaker 6 (47:56):
It's not the two dollar shops. So yes, we used
to have Smith and Cowey's, and you know a lot
of good retail has gone.

Speaker 4 (48:04):
Oh yeah, because no, don know about the two dollar
shops are disappear, but the good, really real retail shops
were a victim before that. I mean they're a victim
of I mean because when you look at the warehouse,
the warehouse historically has has been selling a lot of
this crap and hasn't it as well? And that it
was it was I've just been reading I've just been
reading the history of Lydiad shoes. Do you remember Lydiad shoes,

(48:25):
Ricky Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean they were completely
destroyed by the warehouse. They're making fantastic products in New Zealand,
quality shoes designed in New Zealand manufactured in New Zealand,
and then with the rise of the warehouse importing the
stuff so cheaply, they they were they were done for nothing.

Speaker 6 (48:45):
Nothing. Nothing stays the same for ever. And you've seen
the evolution now in terms of the shoes that are
made of wool. All birds is highly valued. You know,
the shoes aren't really worth the price you pay for them.
But people were prepared to Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 (49:05):
Team, they've had to include the GST check out for
a while with haven't they.

Speaker 6 (49:10):
No, there's been no GST on them. If there has been,
then we would be we would have access to what
the total imports into New Zealand of Tamworth.

Speaker 4 (49:20):
I feel like Ricky assure that will double check. But
I'm pretty sure that was a change that came about
reasonably recently.

Speaker 6 (49:28):
Who paid the GST?

Speaker 4 (49:31):
Wow, I see what you're saying.

Speaker 3 (49:33):
Yeah, I mean, I'm just looking at it here. So
from the first of December twenty nineteen, most overseas businesses
sell goods to key we consumers are required to charge
GST on products valued at one thousand dollars or less.
So arguably so do we.

Speaker 6 (49:46):
Know how much GST New Zealand or Customs have charged
fifteen over the years.

Speaker 3 (49:53):
Yeah, it is fifteen percent?

Speaker 6 (49:57):
What is it in dollars and cents? And then you'd
be able to work out how much they've been selling
into New Zealand. I'd find that quite interesting.

Speaker 4 (50:03):
Yeah as well.

Speaker 3 (50:04):
Cool, we will look into that. Yeah, good bye you
make Yeah, I mean look just going on because that
rule change did come in in twenty nineteen, and going
on the Customs website itself, it did say but that
I mean the question is most It says most overseas
online marketplaces and businesses are required to charge that GST
at point of sale. But what does most mean? I

(50:25):
mean who gets away with it? Is Timu being quietly
getting away with it because of this free trader deal,
a deal that we've got with China. I mean it
starts to get a bit murky.

Speaker 4 (50:33):
Those importers of cocaine probably not paying it.

Speaker 3 (50:36):
No, no, and they should be. We get a lot
of money from that.

Speaker 4 (50:39):
Yeah, by the sounds of thing. Yeah, But do do
we mourn the loss of the two dollars shops? That's
because that's an interesting thing we see with their disappearing,
because people go directly to Temu. I guess they pay
rent in New Zealand and they hire people. Yeah, so
there is some advantage in them, although I'm not sure
that they're paying their copyright dues on their Marvel products.

Speaker 3 (50:59):
That their celler Yeah, questionable on that.

Speaker 4 (51:02):
So Ali Express have gsc at TMU. Sorry, Eli Express
have gst at checkout, not Temu.

Speaker 3 (51:08):
So why would Temu be exempt from that? Well, we'll
do some research. But if you know nine to nine two,
keep those ticics coming through.

Speaker 4 (51:16):
Matt and Tyler. Guy's fishing gear Drone fishing gear on
Timu is super cheap and great quality as so and
as so expensive in New Zealand.

Speaker 3 (51:24):
Is that a fair argument? Because I've got a lot
of mates to fish and they do get a lot
of their stuff off Timu and they say, like that
text or it is pretty good quality. If you need
sink a lura like a lure, and they do like
a fear point, if you buy that same lure in
New Zealand, it's about ten times the cost of getting
off Timu. I mean is that are you're still a
traitor at that point?

Speaker 4 (51:44):
I mean it is, mate, right now, you've been you
and I who aren't buying those lures of lures of
team have been subsidizing. So someone orders that through and
then it's actually costing two dollars two dollars twenty one cents,
you guys, twenty one cents. It was costing us to
process that lure coming in and the taxpayer was covering it.

Speaker 3 (52:04):
That was a dirty loophole. And I'm glad that's closed.

Speaker 4 (52:06):
There was dirty.

Speaker 3 (52:07):
Yeah, But what do you say, Oh, eight hundred eighty
ten eighty, are you still buying up large on TIMU?
What are you buying? And will this levy make any
difference to you? It is twenty two past two.

Speaker 2 (52:16):
S.

Speaker 1 (52:20):
Matt Heathen, Tyler Adams afternoons call oh eight hundred eighty
ten eighty on us talk ZV.

Speaker 3 (52:25):
Twenty four past two. So we're talking about TIMU. There
is a new tax coming into playt closed as a
loophole because we were as taxpayers subsidizing a lot of
the stuff coming into the country from TIMU. Is that
going to change your behavior? Oh, eight hundred eighty ten eighty.

Speaker 4 (52:38):
This isn't point. Just because you buy something from hunting
stores or fishing stores doesn't mean they didn't dispy it
from TIMU. Hipping on the shoff with a massive markup. Yeah,
that's a good point exactly. TEAMU stands for trash entering
my universe, not bad. I always wondered what it stood for.
This one says TEMI was trash? Did you really say
that racist? Much? Maybe think before you spout racist trash?

Speaker 3 (53:01):
What is that racist? How is the word trash?

Speaker 4 (53:05):
If someone said Fonterra is trash? Would I as a
New Zealander being besmirched racially by saying no?

Speaker 3 (53:15):
I don't know what the connotation is between trash and
any thought sort ofness.

Speaker 4 (53:19):
Haven't the Green's been calling Winston Peter's Timu trump.

Speaker 3 (53:25):
I think they tried stick right, he stick lever for that?
I think.

Speaker 4 (53:32):
I don't think by saying that you don't appreciate a
company from a particular country is racist. Pretty sure, in fact,
one hundred percent sure. In fact, I would say the
person that sent that text is an idiot. Yeah, yeah,
no offense, but you're a complete and utter moron.

Speaker 3 (53:50):
Thank you very much for your text. Cats, how are you?

Speaker 22 (53:55):
I'm good?

Speaker 23 (53:55):
Thank you?

Speaker 3 (53:56):
How are y? Very good? Nice to chat. So you're
an exporter.

Speaker 23 (54:00):
I am an exporter. I am a small New Zealand business.
We make a New Zealand made product. So on the
one hand, I really support that's charge because it does
level field a little bit. But at the same time
as they brought him this, the charging export is two
dollars forty eight per package.

Speaker 4 (54:21):
Oh, I didn't know that. Has it happened at the
same time?

Speaker 17 (54:25):
I don't know that same time?

Speaker 23 (54:26):
Yeah, now a minute, So that we're paying more than.

Speaker 4 (54:32):
To forty eight when it's coming out, but to twenty
one coming in. Yeah, and so that is the two
forty eight Sorry to be ignorant in this area, cap
but is that two forty eight new?

Speaker 23 (54:44):
Yeah, new, brand new came in on the first of April,
alongside all the extra charges they're paying for fuel. So
our average order value is fifty five dollars, so it's
literally five percent on our bottom line overnight.

Speaker 4 (55:00):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (55:00):
So what's the rationale for that? Just slipless through?

Speaker 4 (55:03):
Is that customs processing cost?

Speaker 23 (55:05):
Yeah, it's it's the same thing you'd think that they
would go, let's protect our exports. Yeah, because so we
export to Australia, Australia charge us as an importer into Australia,
and like they should like we should charge people importing
into New Zealands, but we shouldn't penalize our exporters. And

(55:27):
who would affects the most are the small guys. Because
if you're exporting a nine hundred dollar order two dollars
forty eight nothing, a fifty five dollar order like a's huge.

Speaker 4 (55:38):
So that's so it's per item, not I see, because
that's items wow, because Monday, because this isn't the case
for the products coming in. So I think it's per
package on the on.

Speaker 23 (55:51):
T right, No, no, no, sorry, there's per package okay, right,
but because our average package is only worth fifty five dollars,
So on Monday we paid three hundred dollars and export
charges that didn't exist last Monday.

Speaker 4 (56:06):
How about we charge from TIMU four dollars a little
bit more sixty nine, yeah, and not charge airy exports anything.

Speaker 3 (56:15):
So completely new charge because I've just had a look
here and you're being on effective for the first of
April twenty twenty six. This year, New Zealand is introducing
new customs charges for the low value goods exported at
two dollars forty eight. So to go from zero to
two dollars forty eight, I mean it feels like they've
slipped this through and then use Timo as the bad.

Speaker 4 (56:35):
Guy because exports do a material good to the country
because it's money coming in and helps with our balance
of trade. Right, Yeah, things coming in from do all bad.
All of it is bad, all of us bad.

Speaker 23 (56:49):
Right, So we we employed stustaining young people, we give
them skills, we train them up the reality that we're facing.
So the five percent is that's material. That's not five
percent extra. It's five percent on our bottom line, like
five percent of our already quite a small profit gone.
So we're going to have to move to a three

(57:10):
pl which.

Speaker 17 (57:12):
Is the stain local jobs gone.

Speaker 23 (57:14):
And that money that customs have so called going to
be getting, they won't get.

Speaker 3 (57:20):
So sorry, just to jump in there, what's a three
p what's a three pm?

Speaker 23 (57:25):
They're patty logstack. So we'll just one big shipment over
to Australia, right, and they've seen it from Australia, so
that's the same job's gone.

Speaker 4 (57:35):
They're blows.

Speaker 3 (57:36):
It does blow, it doesn't. It's not wrong.

Speaker 23 (57:39):
It's bonkers, right, it's so bonkers. And we're New Zealand made,
we're doing all the right things. Welcome a team charge.

Speaker 4 (57:47):
But yeah, because because because people for us is higher.
People may push back and say, look, you know you're
making money from this. This is the being the devil's advocate,
so why should other taxpayers cover it? But the thing
is A, it's more than the other one. And B exports.
We're an exporting nation. If we're going to spend their

(58:07):
money on anything, it should be supporting exporting. Yeah, that's
that's all of us need to be exporting everything we can.
I mean, no one wants to export the rubbishly speaking
to a microphone. That's not going to make it any money.
But everyone else needs to be working on exporting stuff. Hey,
so cat, what do you? What do you make? My
curiosity has been peaked.

Speaker 23 (58:28):
Oh god, you're gonna laugh at this. So I make
a travel adventure game where she started out as a
road trip game. So that's a whole different world of problems.
But just keep ten of our games can be played
without a car. Otherwise I would actually be crying in
a corner right now.

Speaker 4 (58:44):
What's in a minute? I think we've talked to do
you have you got a partner who's a male.

Speaker 23 (58:51):
I don't have a partner who's a male. I don't
I doubt he would have called in on the radio.

Speaker 4 (58:56):
These like those games, you know, car cricket and such.

Speaker 23 (59:00):
No, no, getting last game. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, I
don't know, the Lovely Guy getting Lost.

Speaker 3 (59:08):
I've seen it pop up on Instagram. Looks great, yeah.

Speaker 23 (59:11):
Yeah, yeah yeah. So we're just you know, I mean, god,
we've had to put it so much in five years,
but we have a whole bunch of walking at home
games and everything, and obviously we're not promoting our road
trip game at the moment. But it's you know, when
a whole bunch of things happen in a month, and
I'm like, this export charge is just the thing on
top of everything else that it's like great.

Speaker 3 (59:35):
So what did they actually so when they brought this
charge in on the first of April, what was the
correspondence with you as an exporter. Well, I'm just trying
to think of the rationale about why they're bringing this in.
Clearly it's to make some more money for the government,
but is there another rationale? But why do they have
to bring.

Speaker 22 (59:50):
This in.

Speaker 24 (59:52):
Now?

Speaker 23 (59:52):
So it's patched of cost recovery and they talked about
there being a lot of consultation and I'm pretty active
in my business circles. I'm part of the Chamber, part
of a lot of discussion groups. It didn't come up
in any of those. They had conversations with the courier companies,
but the consultation was so limited. I genuinely don't think

(01:00:12):
it's been thought through.

Speaker 15 (01:00:14):
And all the press.

Speaker 23 (01:00:14):
Releases it just talked about the importing chart, not the exporting.

Speaker 4 (01:00:20):
It just seems unlikely to me that it's more expensive,
even by twenty seven cents to do it the other
way then, you know, the one that does good for
our economy rather than the one that destroys our economy.
Just doesn't seem like it's twenty seven it's more expensive
to do that.

Speaker 23 (01:00:35):
Yeah, Yeah, it's just it feels like a mistake. We
contacted so many MPs, so much press, so much everything
to try and to look surely no one's thought about
this like it doesn't like it just doesn't passed the sniff.

Speaker 4 (01:00:49):
Test, because we were reading up about this this morning
when Tyler were an eye before the show. We're having
a chat about this is this topic, and there's no
mention of the other side of it anywhere in any
of the coverage that we were reading.

Speaker 23 (01:01:02):
It's really one sided.

Speaker 3 (01:01:04):
Yeah, sneaky, sneaky to push it through under the guise
of the bad guys.

Speaker 4 (01:01:08):
At Yeah, it's it's been called the team Timu tax
rather than the kick the bloody Exporter and the nuts tax.

Speaker 22 (01:01:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:01:18):
So what's the name of what do they get those games? Again?
Cat the.

Speaker 3 (01:01:24):
Lost game going getting game?

Speaker 23 (01:01:26):
So yeah, go buy time the kit chain these holidays. Yeah,
it could be a bit of exporting tax back.

Speaker 3 (01:01:33):
Yeah, go help cat cat out and thank you for
making us aware of that. We'll look into that further.
But are you like care are you an exporter and
you're facing this extra charge as well? I one hundred
and eighty ten eighty is the number to call, and
a couple of ticks coming through nine two nine two.

Speaker 4 (01:01:46):
Where do you think the sand pads at your local
hardware still come from? Haha? Love them? My tu dirty gear?
Oh do y gear for a quarter of the price
your dirty gear off Timu as well, that's your thing.
It's concerning that I saw di I y gear and
read it dirty gear. That something about your mind, see

(01:02:06):
something about the sickness of my mind.

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Speaker 3 (01:03:31):
Thank you very much, Wendy. So we started off this
conversation talking about the TMU tax and whether that will
change how or what you buy on that particular platform.
But we also had to call from cat before the
headlines talking about a new charge that's been put on
exporters in New Zealand of two dollars forty eight that
came into effect on the first of April.

Speaker 4 (01:03:49):
So it feels like a bigger story. It feels like
a bigger story to me. The sex is not to
forget retailers have to pay minimum wage of twenty four dollars.
What's the pay rates in China? That's the whole thing.
Isn't a New Zealand pusht all. It's manufacturing and production offshore,
and so they could import it and people could make

(01:04:10):
it without getting paid very much. Yeah and yeah, and
then we ship all our you know, our mining as
well over there, and then it's all out out of side,
out of mind, and then we import junk back and
rather than paying for quality stuff that has been made
in New Zealand. But that's something that we just decided
to do a long time ago, wasn't it.

Speaker 10 (01:04:27):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (01:04:27):
Absolutely, keep those teas coming through a nine two nine
to two. But joy, you still love Timu?

Speaker 22 (01:04:34):
Yeah, I normally agree with you guys, but not today
far enough.

Speaker 4 (01:04:39):
It's unlikely to agree with us even fifty percent. I'd
be happy with even fifty percent.

Speaker 3 (01:04:44):
That would be high.

Speaker 22 (01:04:45):
Yeah, nah, nah nah, You're totally wrong on this one.

Speaker 3 (01:04:49):
So what sort of stuff do you buy on Timu?

Speaker 22 (01:04:52):
Certainly not certainly not things like jewelry or clothes and
when you call it the things that you're after, but
you know, like things like I don't know, to be
like our faery lights or you know, all your little
knicknacky stuff that sometimes you know you're going to like
to kmar or it might have ten a diverting into
a lot of it, but they're doing it terribly. You know,

(01:05:13):
you might want some nice guard and solar lights, you know,
might have ten's, like yeah, twenty bucks a pop. You
might get ten same thing for five dollars of t
same thing. It doesn't matter. So they could chuck on
ten twenty dollars per order for meat, wouldn't make a difference.

Speaker 4 (01:05:29):
But Joey, just to push back a little bit that
that hardware store has been built here, so that's employed builders.
You've got people working in the store getting paid wages.
So there is a net good to New Zealand as
opposed to Team it's all net good as over there
and just money leaving our country.

Speaker 22 (01:05:49):
Yep, man, I agree with you on that. But if
I'm going to pay forty dollars for a light versus
four dollars, I just it's just just just can't do it.

Speaker 3 (01:05:58):
You reckon the.

Speaker 4 (01:05:58):
Mark is too much and there light and lies. The
entire problem, isn't it, because because we just can't compete
with the New Zealand even to sell it within a
bricks and mortar store.

Speaker 24 (01:06:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 22 (01:06:10):
Hey, what you want to do though, go on to
and have a look at the garden hoses.

Speaker 17 (01:06:13):
It will change your life the garden.

Speaker 3 (01:06:17):
Right, what's so special about the garden hoses? I don't
know how you.

Speaker 22 (01:06:19):
Can They're like a material sort of thing and like
they sort of extend in size by about three or
four times, and you're right around your house maybe twice,
and they never can't you wondering how you've brought by
with those other ones in the New Zealand Sun.

Speaker 3 (01:06:31):
It's like the slinky the slinky hoses.

Speaker 22 (01:06:35):
Yeah, I think they're advertise on TV as well, but
obviously there's a lot more expensive.

Speaker 4 (01:06:38):
Can you guarantee that I won't get a punishing spinning
wheel that's offered me something that seems like a scam
when I go there.

Speaker 3 (01:06:45):
You can't avoid that. It's part of the deal. If
you want your hose, your cheap garden hose, you've got
to do this spinning wheel.

Speaker 22 (01:06:51):
Going back to the staff thing. Have you ever been
served in Kamar, like really see.

Speaker 4 (01:06:55):
That Camar boy boy? You know when you when there's
something about having to queue right around the store, right
through the woman's undies section, just to get up to
then be parade with something, you're bound to grab something else.
I'm always going to grab myself an energy drink as
well as on way through the side that paying for it. Meanwhile,

(01:07:16):
all the stuff's on the floor as well.

Speaker 3 (01:07:18):
It's like a mental tasn anywhere going.

Speaker 4 (01:07:20):
Around and picking the stuff up and putting it up
off the floor.

Speaker 25 (01:07:23):
It's yeah, you enjoyed shopping the camera.

Speaker 4 (01:07:26):
Yeah, no, I see like that's a very good point, Joey.
I mean there, it's a high streets environment. They are
paying rent though in New Zealand.

Speaker 3 (01:07:32):
I'll give them that much and employee a handful of people.

Speaker 4 (01:07:34):
It looks like I assume a couple of people, a
couple of people per thousand square meats. Hey, thanks you
cool joy, appreciate it, Thanks for listening, and thanks for calling.

Speaker 3 (01:07:43):
Thank you very much.

Speaker 4 (01:07:44):
That is actually the extendable garden hose with ten function
high pressure for sixteen fifty eight.

Speaker 3 (01:07:51):
Ten functions A pushing the pushing the boat out.

Speaker 4 (01:07:53):
In New Zealand. One an amazing coupon bundle. Oh you
spun the wheel. I've just want to cuep on bundle?

Speaker 3 (01:07:59):
Did you much? Four hundred bucks?

Speaker 4 (01:08:01):
I need to sign under start.

Speaker 3 (01:08:02):
You need to buy another four products before you get that.

Speaker 4 (01:08:04):
I'm not doing that.

Speaker 3 (01:08:07):
Keep going, mate, going, spend the wheel again.

Speaker 4 (01:08:09):
If I get off at anything, if I'm on a
site and I get off at anything like sign up
now and get this or ten percent off if you
click this, I don't do it. Yeah, I hate it.
I just want to pay the price. I've locked out.
I don't want to involved in signing up to anything
or being involved in any kind of discount get out.

Speaker 3 (01:08:23):
Do you know what I realized with that whill You
can never lose. You can never actually lose. It says
there in small print. It's just for gaming purposes. Everybody's
a winner, absolute losers. Just give me the coupon.

Speaker 4 (01:08:36):
I'm not a winner when I say it because it
makes me annoyed.

Speaker 3 (01:08:38):
Oh one hundred and eighty ten eighties a number to Coller.
You're still using TEAMU. It is seventeen to three.

Speaker 8 (01:08:43):
Mad Heath Taylor Adams with.

Speaker 1 (01:08:45):
You as your afternoon rolls on mad Heath and Taylor
Adams Afternoons news talks.

Speaker 3 (01:08:50):
The'd be there's fourteen two three, So we're talking about
the TAMU tax. It is officially in play as of today.
Will that make you change the stuff you're buying off TEAMU?
Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighties. Number of cool nine
two nine two is the text?

Speaker 4 (01:09:04):
Why do you need fairy lights? This is text to
save your money by stuff you need, not what you want. Yeah,
sometimes you need fairy lights like at Christmas time. Welcome
to show.

Speaker 5 (01:09:14):
Will they go?

Speaker 4 (01:09:17):
Very good? Thanks for calling, I've got a team there.

Speaker 2 (01:09:20):
Story Oh good?

Speaker 4 (01:09:21):
Please share?

Speaker 17 (01:09:24):
Say over twelve months ago, my wife wanted some fake
moss for her Easter table display.

Speaker 4 (01:09:30):
Fake moss.

Speaker 17 (01:09:31):
So she ordered you some fake don't ask me why,
but she wanted fake moss.

Speaker 4 (01:09:35):
Okay, can just one before we continue? Well, her Easter
table display. What's that exactly?

Speaker 10 (01:09:41):
Well, just a table.

Speaker 17 (01:09:43):
She easter, she sets the table. Oh yeah, not about
boarding her sixteen people there and every year we have
a different theme. So last year part of the theme
required she thought she'd been putting some fake moss on
the table.

Speaker 4 (01:09:55):
Wow, how cool that she does that every yew, it's awesome.
I love that well themed table.

Speaker 17 (01:10:02):
It's a theme table every year. So after after she
purchased the moss, about a week went by and she thought,
I don't think I've ordered enough. I'll ordered some more.

Speaker 3 (01:10:12):
Fine.

Speaker 17 (01:10:14):
Anyway, one day it arrived and amazingly it actually wasn't
fake moss. What we've got was a bag of dirt.

Speaker 3 (01:10:23):
What a bag of customers I would want to hear
about that.

Speaker 17 (01:10:31):
Well, that's the part of the story. I got the
bag of dirt, and to be fair to TEAMU, the
bag of dirt did contain moss.

Speaker 3 (01:10:41):
And what was the dirt ratio?

Speaker 17 (01:10:45):
I think about one to ninety nine. So I'm looking
at it and thinking, right, so I've got a bag
of dirt out of China. I think we might double
bag it protect and I'll I'll bring up by a security,
which I did. That was quite interested and said they'd
come around and pick it up in a few days. Anyway,

(01:11:06):
week and half when by I hadn't been around and
the next door to came in and I thought, we'll
get the fake moss and we got another bag of dirt.
So now I go two bags of dirt, and again
to be fair to teammate, we didn't have a bit
of moss in the second bag, again with the ratio
of one to ninety nine, and there were a few

(01:11:27):
dead leaves to go in there as well. So double
bagged it up again, rang up by a security and said, look,
you know what do I do. You're coming to pick
it up.

Speaker 10 (01:11:34):
You will pick it up.

Speaker 17 (01:11:36):
And as I said to that, my concern was how
I got through customs. This is why we're getting everything
from drugs to a chief cigarettes through customers because you
guys don't. You can only find a very small percentage anyway,
any end, I gave up because they never buy a
security never came and picked it up, so I double
bagged it. So I think a few weeks went by

(01:11:58):
and I threw it out in the bin.

Speaker 4 (01:12:00):
How much you're paying for a bag of dirt from
Timo Will It.

Speaker 17 (01:12:05):
Was actually quite cheap. I mean, if anybody does want
out of China, I would suggest to see.

Speaker 4 (01:12:11):
I mean, if I'm going to do that kind of
easter table display, I'm just going to go into the
yard with a spade and come in and dump the
dirt on the table myself. I'll probably keep team out
of the max.

Speaker 17 (01:12:20):
But yeah, I think that's I think that's the way
to go.

Speaker 4 (01:12:25):
Yeah, was a quality dirt. Was a nice, fine quality dirt.
It wasn't just some some.

Speaker 17 (01:12:32):
You know, I think it was pretty good. It was
more like soil.

Speaker 3 (01:12:38):
Wasn't crazy, but a moisture in there.

Speaker 17 (01:12:41):
I think that from memory, I think they might have
been a little bit of moisture in there still, as
we could have grown something in it.

Speaker 8 (01:12:46):
Did you test it?

Speaker 4 (01:12:48):
Did your wife, you know, put a review on that
I'd give that one out of.

Speaker 17 (01:12:56):
I do recall when we opened it up on the
kitchen bench, she was pretty adamant to make sure we
bring the bench quite well.

Speaker 26 (01:13:02):
Yeah, did you keep the little bit of most When
she ordered this though she's not ordering, she didn't mean
for live mosso did she No, she thought it would
be like fine and pretend moss.

Speaker 17 (01:13:15):
Well, we assumed it was trying to pretend miss.

Speaker 4 (01:13:18):
It may not.

Speaker 17 (01:13:19):
It may have just said moss, in which case TAMU
may not. It may not have been false advertising at all.

Speaker 3 (01:13:24):
They said moss to send you to a local farmers.

Speaker 4 (01:13:29):
So what did you do for moss? For the table displayed?
What did your wife do to get the look for
Easter without this Moss?

Speaker 17 (01:13:36):
I would think I would think she went down to
one of our cheap two dollars shops and just found
something pretty basic and straight that would have done the job. Look,
we do privately and for work we do buy. We
do buy a lot of stuff out of Temo. And
again it's one of your previous callers said, just based

(01:13:57):
on price, you know, we can get things at probably
ten percent of the cost, and it's as purely your
business decision. That's why we do it.

Speaker 4 (01:14:03):
Well, there's twenty one new fee processing fee with Customs
going to change that for you another two dollars one
on your bag of.

Speaker 17 (01:14:11):
Dirt because I'm in Queensland.

Speaker 4 (01:14:14):
Ah, all right, it won't even affect you, will it.
So so if the Queensland get's overrun with the spotted
lantern fly or something, we'll know that it was your
bag of dirt that bought them and escape from the rubbishman.

Speaker 3 (01:14:28):
Thanks for your carl, Well appreciate it. Yeah, what a
great story. There you go. You want moss, you get
dirt from Timu. Maybe a little bit of moss on
the side. Oh eight, one hundred and eighty ten eighty
is that number to call? It is eight minutes to.

Speaker 18 (01:14:37):
Three the issues that affect you and a bit of
fun along the way Matt Heath and Taylor Adams afternoons
news talks.

Speaker 2 (01:14:45):
That'd be.

Speaker 3 (01:14:47):
It is six to three Bernards, you still enjoy Timu? Sorry, yes, yes,
there's you, my friend.

Speaker 2 (01:14:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 16 (01:14:55):
No, I've got a a Sharp, a vacuum cleaner and
the current most in the foot went up, so I
went to the Sharp agency. New Zilm couldn't help me.
Went on line and as you do, and it was
sixty seven New Zealand dollars from England plus about thirty

(01:15:19):
dollars courier. So I went to t who had a look.
It was thirty dollars and thirty two dollars I think
it was, and because it was over twenty dollars, it
was free shipping. So of course we hadn't got that
bit dubious. But when it arrived it was exactly as

(01:15:40):
I'm required for then and now my wife is happy,
so I'm very very pleased with Temu. And since then
I have got a little gadget that I've put in
each car you ordered one and you got two, one
ends for cutting their seat belt and one ends for

(01:16:00):
breaking the window. And it was a novelty sort of thing.
I didn't think I'd ever have to use it, but
we went down to willing To recently and as we're
going out of tai Happy, there was an accident and
people were jammed in their car and I was able
to use my little gadget and I was thrilled a bits.

Speaker 22 (01:16:20):
Well.

Speaker 16 (01:16:21):
They were thinking I would have to use it in
a million years, but we'll.

Speaker 4 (01:16:23):
Tell you what you know that's better than a bag
of dirt, isn't it?

Speaker 3 (01:16:26):
Certainly is. It's a lot better than saving lives. Yeah,
well done.

Speaker 4 (01:16:31):
Sometimes you get a bag of dirt and sometimes you
get a life saver.

Speaker 3 (01:16:34):
Yeah, burn a jackpot for you, mate.

Speaker 4 (01:16:36):
But whatever way a, you're going to have to pay
two twenty one an item yep, now at customs, but
the rest of us don't have to cover.

Speaker 3 (01:16:43):
It about time. Yeah, subsidizing dirty team.

Speaker 4 (01:16:45):
And I'm just on timur right now. I've got past
the spinning wheel of death, and I'm looking at all
the moth that is available, and I'm pretty sure I'm
looking at a bag of dirt here. Look at that.

Speaker 3 (01:16:57):
We're going to turn that round. Ah, Yes, that looks
like a sizeable bag a dirt. How much do they
want for that?

Speaker 4 (01:17:03):
They want a dollar ninety for that bag a dirt.

Speaker 3 (01:17:05):
But that's a good price.

Speaker 4 (01:17:06):
Actually, this just hopefully it doesn't come in with the
I don't know whatever terrible bio destroying bug you.

Speaker 3 (01:17:13):
Could get out of China and just roll that dice
and pressed by now. Yeah, great discussion, Thank you very
much the everyone who called and texts on TMU. But
coming up after three, the rise of Set jetting. This
is traveling to film and TV locations. An opinion piece
in the Herald having a crack at it. But if
you love to do that, we would be keen to
hear from you. Oh, one hundred and eighty ten eighty

(01:17:34):
is that number?

Speaker 4 (01:17:35):
Eighteen dollars seven for that Moss dreaming of the.

Speaker 1 (01:17:38):
Big stories, the leak issues, the big trends and everything
in between. Matt Heath and Taylor Adams afternoons News.

Speaker 8 (01:17:47):
Talk said, be.

Speaker 3 (01:17:51):
Very good afternoon, Sue. It is six pass three. Hope
you're having a great Wednesday afternoon. Really looking forward to
this next discussion. If you haven't heard of the rise
of set jetting, you're about to. This is people traveling
to film and TV locations. But an article in the
Herald that you can see today has a bit of

(01:18:12):
a crack on the so called set jetters. So this
article says there's a lot of downsides to people that
visit places like Thailand for the beach or Austria for
the sound of music. They say the author. Many locations
fail to live up to their on screen versions, leading
to disappointment, and the trend can contribute to overcrowding, environmental

(01:18:32):
strain and a more superficial travel experience focused on chasing
fictional worlds rather than engaging with real places.

Speaker 4 (01:18:40):
Is this person that's written this article.

Speaker 3 (01:18:42):
Super judge, isn't it? I'll get you the name, So
you're just.

Speaker 4 (01:18:45):
Going to sit there and write and ask her and
judge how other people travel and what they want to see.
But it's not up to her exacting standards as an
elitist traveler.

Speaker 3 (01:18:54):
That's exactly what she says, feels very very judgy.

Speaker 4 (01:18:57):
So by her, what is what are worthy things to see?
As deemed by this amazing traveler?

Speaker 3 (01:19:06):
She says, goes on to say, here it is my point,
perhaps we should simply cherish locations from our favorite TV
shows and movies and leave it at They're protecting them
for future generations as well of those who live and
work there. And perhaps movie and TV related over tourism
shouldn't just be blamed on tourist, but directors prone to
creating film friendly backdrops that don't just wreak have it

(01:19:27):
on the location in question, but also I result in
influxes of visitors who are often less sorely disappointed. But
she does make the point that travel that is based
on real world and real locations history, for example, in
her eyes, is a better way to travel.

Speaker 4 (01:19:45):
In her eyes, I hate this person. So is theres
something wrong? When I was recently in Los Angeles, Los
Angeles and I saw the Ncotomi Plaza as a huge
diehard fan, and that meant a lot to me.

Speaker 27 (01:20:00):
Yep.

Speaker 4 (01:20:01):
So she's saying it was shallow and disappointing for me
to see the building from my favorite movie.

Speaker 3 (01:20:05):
According yeah, yeah, one of my favorite movies.

Speaker 4 (01:20:08):
My favorite movie is the Original Gladiator yep. But one
of my favorite movies that wasn't shallow experience for me.
That's it's the I think it's the Fox Plaza in
Century City in Los Angeles.

Speaker 3 (01:20:20):
There would have been a cool moment. I mean they
were great films or a great film.

Speaker 4 (01:20:24):
Yeah, I mean there was only one in the Nakotomi Plaza.
But why is that a shallow piece of tourism? And
what's wrong with going to Hobiton to see the show?
I think going to going to Hobiton and Mada Matter
was one of the coolest places I've ever been. As
a huge fan of the Lord of the Rings movies,
especially their Fellowship of the Ring.

Speaker 3 (01:20:42):
We'd be screwed. Tourism would be screwed if that wasn't
a thing in New Zealand. We rely on people coming here,
Lord of the Rings, super fans coming here, going to Hoblton,
going to places in Queenstown, film locations. That is a
massive part of what being think.

Speaker 4 (01:20:55):
I believe the figure is twenty percent of people that
come to New Zealand as tourists come to see movie sets.
So what's wrong with that? What have you said?

Speaker 14 (01:21:04):
No?

Speaker 4 (01:21:04):
Hundred eighty ten eighty what film or TELEVI based what
do they call it? Set jetting? Have you got up to?

Speaker 3 (01:21:12):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:21:12):
It's clever, isn't it.

Speaker 3 (01:21:13):
It is very clever.

Speaker 4 (01:21:14):
It's like jet setting, but you flip it around set jetting.

Speaker 3 (01:21:17):
Yeah, genius.

Speaker 4 (01:21:19):
So because I mean you might, you might not go
specifically to that town to see it, but say, for example,
I was in Paris a couple of years ago and
I went to Suckle Clear because it's an amazing historical site,
but also it's got the steps where they shot that
massive fight scene in john.

Speaker 3 (01:21:39):
Wick that would have been amazing, And if.

Speaker 4 (01:21:42):
I'm going to be honest, I found that part of
it more interesting than I did the whole suckle clear
part of it.

Speaker 3 (01:21:50):
Heck, I'll tell you what. When we were in Being
Cock about ten years ago, and it wasn't the reason
for the visit, but while we were there we decided
to go to the rooftop bar that was featured in
The Hangover To and the shame we got from dirty
old Australian tourists. They were in co san Roe, which
is a pretty terrible place to be in the first place.
But when we see we're having a few beers there

(01:22:10):
and I was in Cosent Road and we said, we're
going to go to this rooftop bar from The Hangover Too,
because I love that movie and I'm really keep chicking
it under shame, loser, what do you want to go there?
Over priced? Man, that's embarrassing, So screw you. It was amazing.
It was over priced, but it was amazing.

Speaker 4 (01:22:25):
Well, you're lucky when you're on Coson Road that you
don't end up bundled up onto the back of atok
and taken to some lucky Buddha by way of some
suit like some Taylor, where you get bundled off the
top talk and measured up whether you want a suit
or not.

Speaker 3 (01:22:40):
It's a very famous day. It's a suit day only
for today. Oh one hundred eighty ten eighty is the
number to call.

Speaker 4 (01:22:46):
On our twenty twenty three trip to the US, we
went to quite a few sets that have been in movies,
says this texter. My most memorable was seeing Marty McFly's
house from Back to the Future in La Absolute Goal.

Speaker 3 (01:22:58):
That would have been awesome.

Speaker 4 (01:22:59):
So this horribly judgmental travel writer. What's your name again
so I can spit it out. Tamara Hanson, Sarah Hinson.
That's not this person seeing that. That's not a worthy thing.
That's not a worthing that they should You should only see,
you know, historically important sites, not to love because I

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tell you what, Tamara, Martam McFly's house is historically important
to me certainly.

Speaker 3 (01:23:26):
Yeah, what do you say though, Oh, e one hundred
and eighty ten eighty, Where have you been overseas that
was a film or TV set? And what was it like?
Can you hear your stories? It's twelve past three, talk
s afternoon to you. It's quarter past three. We're talking
about the rise of set jetting. This is traveling to
places where a movie or TV show has been shot.
If you've done that. Can you hear your story?

Speaker 4 (01:23:46):
Michael, Welcome to the show. You've done a bit of
set jetting.

Speaker 25 (01:23:50):
Yeah, Hello, good afternoon to you. I did many years ago.
There was a film when I was going to school,
years and years ago, and they were filming Tommy with
Roger Daltrey and the who Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:24:03):
Wasn't Stinging?

Speaker 4 (01:24:04):
That Sting was in that as well? Wasn't he? And
Tommy was he?

Speaker 10 (01:24:07):
We was us to be in.

Speaker 25 (01:24:08):
The crowd and stand on the stand on the silver balls.
But since then, I've been to various places. I don't
necessarily go on holiday to go to these places. It
just turned out. I went once and took my wife
to the to the down by to the Sahara. Trip
to the Sahara, and it transpired that we went to

(01:24:30):
where the Bedouin monks are and we we saw the
open where they filmed the opening scenes the Star Wars
and the English Patient. And we went to Austria one
time and we went to to the sound where they filmed,
just not actually to where that the set, but by
the set, like you know, to see where they.

Speaker 4 (01:24:53):
Was that Salsburg, Salisburg, Yeah, that's yeah.

Speaker 25 (01:24:55):
We went to the Christmas markets. We went on the
Christmas trip out there on Christmas Day.

Speaker 3 (01:25:00):
And that was it beautiful? Was it just like the movie?

Speaker 10 (01:25:03):
It was?

Speaker 25 (01:25:04):
It was fantastic. It really wasn't really really nice loads
of snat. But the sad thing was my cousin went
the following year and there was no snow and it
was pretty boring.

Speaker 4 (01:25:16):
So they do you agree with this this travel ride
here saying that these are shallow experiences compared to seeing
historical sites.

Speaker 25 (01:25:25):
No, I thoroughly enjoy it. You can go and see
historical sites where I lived in the UK, so we
went to many historical sites and and things like that,
and ships and like their houses in Parliament and things
like that. But these are just places that you go
and everybody sort of connects. Before we moved to New Zealand,
we went to we went to France and we saw

(01:25:47):
where they they was actually filming at the time, and
it was a TV program called Merlin.

Speaker 4 (01:25:55):
Sam Mill. Wasn't there wasn't it wasn't he?

Speaker 16 (01:25:57):
Yeah?

Speaker 25 (01:25:58):
And there was there was. There was also another one
we used to go to a place where they filmed.
Do you know the TV show Heartbeat?

Speaker 4 (01:26:06):
Oh yeah, with Beering and we.

Speaker 25 (01:26:09):
Yeah, we went there and then there's the railway station
just outside there, and there's there's a bridge that goes
over the railway station and if you turn around and
look up into the like into the sky and that
you can imagine. And we used to get the kids
to imagine and they used to say, yeah.

Speaker 10 (01:26:25):
And it's the.

Speaker 25 (01:26:26):
Last scene of the very first Harry Potter movie when
the castle is in the sky.

Speaker 4 (01:26:32):
Ah yeah, right, and.

Speaker 25 (01:26:33):
That's where that's that's where they filmed it. And we
just get the people to turn around and you even
had people that we don't even know going, oh, yeah,
I can see the castle.

Speaker 3 (01:26:42):
It's fantastic, it's brilliant. Did you say sorry, was it
in Scotland, the Harry Potter Castle?

Speaker 25 (01:26:49):
No, No, that's not.

Speaker 28 (01:26:50):
By go up to a place called Whitby Ah, and
that's they filmed it up there because basically the country
roads have got no no lines on them.

Speaker 25 (01:27:00):
And then when they filmed Heartbeat, they took it back
to the years and years ago and they needed roads
no traffic on them, double yellow lines and things like that,
so they filmed it up there.

Speaker 4 (01:27:13):
You can get on the the Harry Potter train that
that that that's a train that you can get on
with it.

Speaker 25 (01:27:20):
We went to the Harry Potter the place in the
cart remember where it was now when we took the
children back to the UK and they opened it was
my daughter's birthday and she opened the door to the
big castle that takes you in to the film set
where they filmed it all.

Speaker 3 (01:27:36):
Oh, yeah, I'm even looking at it now. That's where
they played quidditch.

Speaker 16 (01:27:39):
Yeah, that's it. Yeah, yeah, you can see all and and.

Speaker 25 (01:27:43):
They talk about the going to matter matter. There's a
good experience in Auckland by the sky tower.

Speaker 4 (01:27:51):
Yeah, that's great that I've been through that. The what
is it it's called the water whatever workshops.

Speaker 25 (01:27:56):
Work, yeah, all black.

Speaker 4 (01:27:58):
Yeah, they're great, it's really good. Yeah, they're brilliant. Thanks
for you call, Michael. I went to Oxford recently, and
you know the first lot of a lot of the
Harry Potter films are based around the look of Oxford. Yes,
for hogworts and stuff. But you can go to christ
Church College in Oxford. They've got that grand hall that

(01:28:18):
they shot the first one. And at the end of
the hall where they have the meals and stuff, and
Dumbledore's up up the front and that kind of stuff.
And so you can go in there and that is
an impressive spot. I mean it's it's a it's from
sixteenth century. So if you're doing that, and if you
walk around christ Church and there's different places in Oxford,
so you get in both. You get in the cack
as history. You know that hall was built in sixteenth

(01:28:43):
the sixteenth century, you know a Tudor dining hall. So
you're getting a bit of Harry Potter and you're getting
a bit of proper history as well. Do so there
you go, suck bad tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (01:28:53):
Yeah, oh, eight hundred and eighty ten eighty. See number
to call. We' getting plenty of texts coming through is
well nine two nine two is that number?

Speaker 4 (01:29:00):
The who related film that Sting was in Squadrophenia. I
got that wrong. It wasn't Tommy good memory.

Speaker 3 (01:29:07):
It is twenty last three.

Speaker 1 (01:29:12):
Matt Heath and Tyler Adams afternoons call oh eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty on Youth Talk ZB.

Speaker 3 (01:29:18):
Twenty three past three. We're talking about places you've gone
to where a movie or TV was filmed? Phil, How
are you gentlemen? Here you go very good? Where'd you go?

Speaker 21 (01:29:29):
Oh?

Speaker 24 (01:29:29):
Back in twenty nineteen, being a huge fan of Last
of the Summer War, and I went. I spent a
few days in home for Us in West Yorkshire.

Speaker 4 (01:29:38):
Can you explain, because I saw the Last of the
Summer Wine? But I could never get my head around
exactly what was going on. Coincidentally, just this weekend, a
bunch of my friends were sitting around a table at
a pub trying to remember what happened to that. So
it was there was It wasn't wine related. That's more
of a metaphor about them enjoying their later years and
are they They're wandering around trying to there's some lady

(01:29:59):
they like or something. What's the story to the Last
of the Summer Wine.

Speaker 24 (01:30:02):
It was just three old retired guys trying to fill
their days. And yeah, they used to describe Seinfeld as
a show where nothing happened, and some of one was
a little bit like that as well. You know, they
know they had the the you know, the hard case
compo and then two around him that sort of played

(01:30:23):
off that, and some of the writing was just superb.
But you know, I went there and I sat on
nour Betty's steps and they had.

Speaker 4 (01:30:30):
A cup Betty's.

Speaker 24 (01:30:35):
We went to the pubs they went to. So I
thank home first, is like, there's just an agricultural town
now farming again. You would there on holiday, you wouldn't.
You wouldn't get to alph them on holiday, now, would you.
I mean it's the same sort of thing.

Speaker 4 (01:30:49):
So Last of the Summer Around, Last of the Summer
Ryan started in nineteen seventy three and ran till twenty ten.

Speaker 3 (01:30:56):
Thirty odd seasons, wasn't it thirty season?

Speaker 16 (01:30:58):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:30:59):
Oh my goodness.

Speaker 24 (01:31:00):
And there was only one actor that appeared in every
episode right through to the end.

Speaker 3 (01:31:04):
Is that Peter Sellers?

Speaker 10 (01:31:06):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:31:06):
So did he start off as an old guy in
it and then thirty years later he was much older?

Speaker 24 (01:31:12):
Well, they came across as old fellows, but when I
first started in seventy three, they were only in there
early in the mid fifties. Yeah right, yeah, and they'd
all in real life, they'd all gone through the war
and everything like that. So you know, those guys at
that time were a bit older than than their ages
would say, So they came across as reasonably old. But look,

(01:31:35):
they just kept going and going and going, and people
kept watching it, so they kept writing them.

Speaker 3 (01:31:39):
Did you Yeah, did you run into any other fans
of Last of the Summer Wine while you were there?

Speaker 24 (01:31:47):
Oh well was the Other's a couple of people there
that through the tourists. They run a little mini bus
and you go in the minibus and the way you
go and they take you all around the countryside to
all the shooting locations that they did. There was always people.
You go to the site like Sid's Cafe, and most
of the people in there would be tourists. They wouldn't
be locals.

Speaker 4 (01:32:07):
So that's great for the you know, because this woman
writing this article saying that it's terrible for the towns
and it's you know, terrible for the environment such, but
imagine that people in that small town would be really
appreciative of the business and people coming in and spending
their money because they love the TV show. Phil Well I.

Speaker 24 (01:32:22):
Said, I went there twenty nineteen. That was years after
the show. Yeah, there was still people doing plenty of
business off the back of it. You're sholling souvenirs and
doing tours and all that sort of thing.

Speaker 4 (01:32:33):
Yeah, well, good on you, Phil. The text says absolutely
love your show, guys listen every day, but must once
again disagree with you. One hundred percent.

Speaker 3 (01:32:40):
Oh okay, right there, you go. Go on.

Speaker 4 (01:32:42):
Real history is real history. How can you compare the Colosseum.
How can you compare the Colosseum to the Back to
the Future House. How can you compare the Diehard Build
into the Civil Rights Museum in Memphis? How can you
compare some Harry Potter shitter with Pearl Harbor. Well, I
pushed back on a couple of things. The Colosseum, you
don't not everyone that's going to the Colosseum is going

(01:33:03):
because of the Roman history. A lot of them are
going there because of the Russell Crow movie. And a
lot of people going to Pearl Harbor might be going
there from the Pearl Harbor movie exactly. But I think
both can exist. My point is that I went to
Pearl Harbor and that was a truly amazing, real historic
place to go to, and it was incredible. You know,
you've got the Arizona. It's still sunk there, and you

(01:33:23):
can go out and stand above it and there's still
oil coming up and you look around you go, this incredible,
this is where it happened. That kind of history is incredible.
And I've been to the Civil Rights Museum in Memphis,
and you know, I cried for some reason. It really
hit me as I came out, and they keep the
hotel room that Martin Luther King Junior had been in
just before he got shot. And then you go across

(01:33:45):
the road and that small car park, and what was
amazing was how close the shooter was to him. You
think these historic events and they're so close, and you
stand and look out the bathroom window and the gun
that he was shot with is right there. That kind
of little history is amazing. But I also got pretty
emotional when I saw the Nakatami plaza and you can get.

Speaker 3 (01:34:04):
Fizzed up there. Ben Athletic was around that set as well.

Speaker 4 (01:34:07):
The point is, don't tell people, don't bloody yack people's young.
Whatever people want to travel and see is what they
want to see.

Speaker 3 (01:34:14):
That is a great saying, Yes, Andrew, how are you
this afternoon's mate?

Speaker 4 (01:34:19):
How are you going?

Speaker 3 (01:34:20):
Very good? Where did you go?

Speaker 2 (01:34:23):
Well?

Speaker 29 (01:34:24):
Where did the whole trip? We started off in Vegas
and went down the Extraterrestrial Highway to Area fifty one,
nice and then spend a day in a bit o day,
but go into Devil's Tower at Wyoming and just yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:34:41):
See, because I feel like I see Devil's Tower and
a lot of places. You know this, whenever you see this,
this is a type of if you know it's it's
the pretty iconic. You made it out of the mashed potato.

Speaker 29 (01:34:54):
Yeah, that's right. So when we're in Vegas, went to
this second hand place and they had these keyboards there,
and I said, oh, can we buy a keyboard? And
he goes, yeah, yeah. I said, I'm going to Devil's
Tower and I want to play that. We'll bring it

(01:35:14):
back and I'll just got you.

Speaker 4 (01:35:16):
Man. And so so how far can you get? How close?
Because you know in the movie, that's a big part
of the movie they're climbing up through the undergrowth to
get up to Devil's Tower. How can you go onto
the actual devils Tower into the actual mountain entry You
can't know, you can't.

Speaker 29 (01:35:34):
It's it's a reserve ground. But we got pretty close,
so close enough to.

Speaker 4 (01:35:39):
How close were you when you played the durn't durn't?

Speaker 29 (01:35:45):
How about half a mile?

Speaker 3 (01:35:47):
That's pretty good any response, any response.

Speaker 19 (01:35:50):
You're playing, oh we waited and waited.

Speaker 4 (01:35:55):
Well you've got to go really fast because the aliens
started once the Aliens said, in that movie they went
crazy and started playing. Great movie. Yeah, great movie. The
special effects don't stand up, but the just going and
how everyone slowly goes and slain in that this Richard Drayfus,
isn't it It was?

Speaker 16 (01:36:13):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:36:13):
Yeah, great great movie. Great, great Spielberg movie.

Speaker 3 (01:36:17):
Andrew thinks a lot of sorry you go.

Speaker 29 (01:36:20):
I've done a lot. We've been to that. I've been
to that village in Wales where the Prisoner was done.
That was pretty amazing.

Speaker 3 (01:36:26):
Whales where the Prisoner was done. Oh, the TV show
The Prisoner, Yeah, is that where they had that crazy island.

Speaker 4 (01:36:34):
With the bubbles?

Speaker 3 (01:36:35):
Said, yes, that's right. That would have made a phenomenal
I mean, I know about the Prisoner because Simpsons did
a very good parody of it, but that would have
been incredible to see.

Speaker 4 (01:36:44):
It's one of the craziest television shows ever made. Thank
you so much for your call, Andrew. Good on you.

Speaker 3 (01:36:49):
Thank you very much. Joe one hundred and eighty ten
eighty is an umble to call. Plenty of texts coming
through on nine to ninety two guys.

Speaker 4 (01:36:55):
Message for Tams. Dear Tams, when you start paying my
travel bills, you can start judging my travels until the
n best keep your snotty opinions to yourself. Love Alfie nicely, Yeah,
beautifully's head. So that's the whole thing about that call
that I found so annoying. What what? How how you
to decide? What's with if someone wants to fly all
the way here from Amsterdam to see the set from

(01:37:22):
you know, the Hobbiton's seat. Yeah, but what's wrong with that?

Speaker 3 (01:37:24):
Bring them in? We want their money. They fizzed on it.

Speaker 4 (01:37:27):
What was it any you know, was there any worse
than us flying over there to take some mushies?

Speaker 12 (01:37:32):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:37:32):
It was this Tomorrow woman, ten eighty is number to cool.
It is twenty nine to four.

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Speaker 3 (01:38:55):
Thank you very much, Wendy. So we're talking about the
places you've traveled to that we're a film or TV location.
This is on back of a pretty judgy article by
a travel rider called Tamara, who says that shallow be
going to historical sites.

Speaker 4 (01:39:10):
I love this text from Patrick. Went to Pearl Harbor,
very moving. I also then scooted over to see the
resort where Magnum p I was being filmed. Both worthwhile.

Speaker 3 (01:39:20):
Good on your Patrick, See that's what it's about.

Speaker 4 (01:39:23):
See because I went to Pearl Harbor. But I also
went to Turtle Bay and saw the Forgetting Sarah Marshall Hotel.

Speaker 3 (01:39:29):
That would have been cool, that would have been very cool.

Speaker 4 (01:39:31):
It's very cool.

Speaker 3 (01:39:31):
That's a great movie.

Speaker 4 (01:39:32):
That's a fantastic movie. So you can do you can
do both. Yeah, And as a huge Beatles fan, I
was blown away when I got to stand in the
main studio at Every Road Studios where they recorded so
much of their music. Although not a movie as such,
there is so much footage and still picks from the
studio to make it an iconic setting. It's quite amazing.
You know, I've never been to Liverpool. I'd love to

(01:39:54):
go to Liverpool and just go to all the sites.
I was watching something on it the other day. Actually
it was Paul McCartney going around.

Speaker 3 (01:39:59):
It was great.

Speaker 4 (01:40:00):
Have you seen that Pau McCartney's not allowed They try
and charge Pau McCartney to go into his childhood house
if I don't recognize him.

Speaker 3 (01:40:05):
Yeah, that is such a great watch.

Speaker 4 (01:40:07):
The Hogwarts train leaves from Fort William and Scotland really
fun day. We were amazed at the sheer number of
people who watched the train from the countryside, thousands of them.
As I said when I went to Oxford, Oxford is
completely rammed with taurists, just because it looks like the
first film. The design of Hogwarts is based on the
architecture of Oxford and the basic look of Oxford. Yeah,

(01:40:30):
and a lot of the first film was shot there
and stuff. But it's absolutely rammed, just rammed with tourists.

Speaker 3 (01:40:36):
And how cool is that. Just before we go to
the phones, do you want to hear the top three
in the world locations that people go to by numbers? Yeah,
let's do it all right. So number three Maya Bay
in Thailand copp made famous by the Beach Leonardo DiCaprio. Really, yep,
it's number three, peoples.

Speaker 4 (01:40:53):
It The book was good, the movie was rubbish.

Speaker 3 (01:40:56):
The beach look nice though, I mean they painted it
as the secret Little y Wais.

Speaker 4 (01:41:00):
Didn't the film company plant My understanding, this is the
film company they wanted. Film went there found the beach yep,
and decided it wasn't enough like the book, so planted
a lot of different plants and really messed up the place.

Speaker 3 (01:41:13):
Is that what they did?

Speaker 4 (01:41:14):
Yeah, which was ironic because the whole idea of the
the movie is that, you know, having real experiences.

Speaker 3 (01:41:22):
Yeah. Yeah. And number two is Saltzburg in Austria. The
sound of music that was I think it was Paul
who rang before He said he went to Saltzburg and
it was beautiful.

Speaker 4 (01:41:32):
A bunch of people have done that.

Speaker 3 (01:41:33):
Number one New Zealand's Lord of the Rings sites give
them them a taste. Hobbiton clearly, another one Hobbleton Hobbitton
at number one, but also they include locations in Queenstown
and elsewhere around New Zealand. But see that is what's
keeping tourism going Lord of the Rings and people who
fizz on that they come here and they want to

(01:41:53):
have those experiences. How good.

Speaker 4 (01:41:55):
But Tomorraw is shame on you because you should be
visiting some site of grim horror historical significance with more meaning.

Speaker 3 (01:42:05):
How grim?

Speaker 4 (01:42:06):
Yeah? Yeah, what's says Hi? This text is great text here, Hi,
it's up to the individual to assess what's important to them.
We don't all like the same place as things. She's
welcome to your opinion, but it's certainly not mine exactly.
Who knows what's important to you? Maybe that movie that
you go to visit you watched, watched with a departed

(01:42:26):
parent or something. Yea, so it was really important to
your family that movie. And then you go to the
to where part of it was shot and it has
a whole lot.

Speaker 3 (01:42:34):
Of significance exactly emotional attachment. Yeah, Maya, how are you
this afternoon?

Speaker 21 (01:42:40):
Birthday? Good?

Speaker 3 (01:42:42):
Ken you here? Where you went?

Speaker 21 (01:42:44):
Minneapolis to First Avenue and Paisley Park?

Speaker 2 (01:42:48):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:42:49):
Wow, people rain, purple rain.

Speaker 4 (01:42:52):
So what can you see there at Paisley Paisley Park?

Speaker 21 (01:42:57):
Pretty much everything, because it was even a studio where
like some of like Drop Dead Threads was filmed many movies,
many movies and adverts and music and still frequented by
all the well you know, all the rock stars. So no,
you have to do it. If you're a Prince fan,

(01:43:18):
you do. You have to do it. It's because you.

Speaker 4 (01:43:21):
See, because because someone sent me a picture that went
there and there was just Prince's love, sexy guitar on
a guitar stand and I mean the most like one
of the most must be one of the most iconic
guitars of all time.

Speaker 21 (01:43:33):
And yeah, it's all there, It's all there. It's all
his costumes from fine of the times and particularly this
year for Parade under the Cherry Moon movies. The Parade
album is forty years old, and so this year big
drop and album will be happening. And he has a

(01:43:54):
celebration every year. Cool and you can go there and
they have huge music everywhere where is there everywhere? If
you're a Prince fan.

Speaker 14 (01:44:04):
I am.

Speaker 21 (01:44:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:44:07):
Did you ever get to see Prince live? Yeah?

Speaker 21 (01:44:10):
Yeah, here the last one microphone fought four tickets, did
you do.

Speaker 4 (01:44:15):
You see the one was just him and the piano.

Speaker 21 (01:44:17):
Yeah, tickets.

Speaker 4 (01:44:20):
I did not go vi p. But it was such
a small venue. Was in the Atia Center, wasn't it,
And just him on the just to be in lucky people,
just to be in such a small room with Prince
just just there. It was. It was just phenomenal. I mean,
I was amazing. I also soon a couple of times.
I saw him a couple of times at the O
two Center and in London, But just what a absolute

(01:44:44):
genius obviously goes without saying yeah, even the show, not.

Speaker 21 (01:44:49):
To go to the after show with them.

Speaker 10 (01:44:50):
It was great because it's because that's what he was.

Speaker 24 (01:44:55):
He was there.

Speaker 21 (01:44:56):
He came in about half past two in the morning,
and half the club had gone or the you could
tell the people who didn't know him or didn't they
were just there drinking and having a good time, looking good.
And then he waited, so they all went and it
came up and he didn't play, but DJ played and
he hung out and kind of it was awesome. It's great,

(01:45:17):
Oh wow.

Speaker 4 (01:45:17):
How good?

Speaker 3 (01:45:18):
Yeah, that is very cool.

Speaker 4 (01:45:19):
Yeah, because that's what Prince used to do, so play
a big, long set and then he'd always be booked
into play somewhere else. You'd do another three hours at
another club later on.

Speaker 3 (01:45:27):
He's absolute genius, incredible performer. Peter, how are you Hey?

Speaker 19 (01:45:31):
Boys?

Speaker 16 (01:45:33):
By excellent.

Speaker 19 (01:45:34):
I was in Dallas watching the Cowboys play, and I
was in Daily Plaza and notice all these people standing
around taking photos And it took me about ten minutes
to click that I was actually on Elm Street. They
JFK was fassinating. Yes, it was amazing with the book
depository standing in the on the grassy knoll where the

(01:45:58):
second Gouvernment.

Speaker 4 (01:45:59):
Was and can you I love I love that you're
saying the second gunment. Obviously obviously, but I've never been.
But is it true that it's smaller than you would think?

Speaker 19 (01:46:10):
And so if it was, everything was true that Lee
Harvey took the shot, easy shot from seventh four on
that window, and yeah, there's a tour you can do
with the building. And they got the little glass perspects
and the rifle leaning up against the wooden barrel there
and you can see right down on our street. It's

(01:46:33):
a perfect, perfect shot.

Speaker 2 (01:46:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:46:36):
I love how that you were just there and you
were looking around, and we hang on a minute, and
this is one of the most famous sights in all
modern history.

Speaker 3 (01:46:44):
Do they let your light down? And do they let
your light down on the grassy knoll? And just eight up?

Speaker 19 (01:46:50):
Yeah, you can walk on the grass. And the thing is,
it's exactly how it was in sixty sixty three. It's
nothing change. There's only a few gardens missing it because
afterwards when I came home, I've watched the JFK movie
and then read all the footage from the cesser and
nothing's changed. It's all the same what it was back

(01:47:11):
in the sixty three. It's crazy, but there's nothing to say.
There's no signs or anything. It's just a sign on
the road that says Elm Street and then you just
click and it's kind of cool. But then, yeah, I've
been to the Sidefeld Diner in New York and the
Cheers Bar and Boston and you know all those those

(01:47:32):
on the beach at Bay what's there? And so it's
kind of cool seeing all those real places that you
kind of grow up watching.

Speaker 4 (01:47:39):
And yeah, here's meaning. So this article, as we keep saying,
she's saying it has no meaning to do that, and
you need to go to places with more meaning. But
and you know how much meaning something has to someone.

Speaker 3 (01:47:50):
It's a lot of meaning on Elm Street. Hell of
a lot of men.

Speaker 4 (01:47:53):
Yeah, well, I mean that one's a historical site though
she'd probab approve of that one.

Speaker 3 (01:47:56):
Yeah, but it was also part of that movie that
Ali a Stone movie. Yeah, it kind of works.

Speaker 4 (01:48:02):
So many people are talking about and this is something
that you would have to do if you went to Philadelphia,
which has run up the rocky stairs at the museum.

Speaker 3 (01:48:10):
Right, Yeah, how could you not if you see those stairs.
You've got to rock run up.

Speaker 4 (01:48:14):
I mean, and they've got they've got the Rocky statue
at the top, but you'd have to go dn't did
di dn't did di dn't, didn't dunt dun run up
the stairs.

Speaker 3 (01:48:23):
Well, fizzles me up, all right. Taking your calls on
one hundred and eighty ten eighty it is sixteen or four.

Speaker 1 (01:48:29):
Have a chat with the lads on eight hundred eighty
ten eighty Matt Heathen, Taylor Adams.

Speaker 8 (01:48:34):
Afternoons us talk, sa'd be.

Speaker 3 (01:48:36):
Very good afternoons you So we're talking about places that
you've traveled to that were a film or TV sets.

Speaker 4 (01:48:41):
I love I love this text that's come in just
after I said that I would like to go to
the Philadelphia Museum and run up the steps and do
the Rocky thing.

Speaker 3 (01:48:48):
All right?

Speaker 4 (01:48:49):
The travel writers is Graham Us throwing shade at does
have a point to a certain degree. Got dragged to
the Rocky steps at the entrance to the Philadelphia Museum
of Art that Rocky ran up. The number of muppets
doing rock impersonation is the total cringe. Quickly, speaking of
stallone went to Hope, BC in Canada and all the
carved wooden stars of him, which was created in memory

(01:49:11):
of the film which was shot there.

Speaker 10 (01:49:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:49:13):
I mean if you if you are running up those
steps at the Philadelphia Museum, there would be a cin
amount of humiliation and doing it, but you would still
do it.

Speaker 3 (01:49:24):
Yeah, if you get joy, if you do exactly.

Speaker 4 (01:49:27):
Yeah, like me and my friend, my friend Maniah and
I we restaged the fight from arm from the end
of John Work four on the steps of the Sokle Clerk.
There would have been amazing in front of a whole
lot of people, but we just did they laugh. Well,
it wasn't for them, it was for us.

Speaker 3 (01:49:45):
Did you laugh?

Speaker 4 (01:49:46):
I did laugh, laugh with joy. I love this one.
Smash Palace, Central Plateau awesome. Yeah, great movie Smash Palace, Yeah,
directed by Roger Donaldson. But the whole Smash Palace is
a fantastic place to go because all the different eras
of cars, so you just walk around and all these
cars that have been trashed over the years. So quite

(01:50:06):
apart from the fantastic Stick brunor Lawrence movie that the
Just Smith's Palace is really cool.

Speaker 3 (01:50:13):
Toney or near o'acune, no idea. Yeah, I'm going Paul,
how are you good?

Speaker 25 (01:50:19):
Thank you?

Speaker 27 (01:50:20):
How are you guys?

Speaker 3 (01:50:20):
Very good? Now you've been to the Prisoner Village?

Speaker 27 (01:50:23):
Yes, poor Marion and went there last year and it's
stunningly amazing and crowds of people all enjoying it. And
when you think that the series Prisoner was filmed, I
think in the sixties and it was a very weird series,
I must admit. Yeah, it's still got fans and there
were it was absolutely packed, but an amazing place. A

(01:50:46):
couple of other places. It was mentioned Salzburg with following
the sound of music, you know the places around there
for the sound of music. That's great. Also in New
York the Diner I think the movie was when Sally
met Harry with Ryan.

Speaker 4 (01:51:03):
With the famous soul have what She's having seen?

Speaker 27 (01:51:06):
Yeah, I'll have what Yeah, Yes, which is great and
also an oldie thing. Well, it depends who watches it,
but the Cobbles, Coronation Street, the set there still attracts
lots of people.

Speaker 4 (01:51:22):
Manchester, Manchester.

Speaker 27 (01:51:24):
Yeah, and so you can have a you can have
a pint in the Road's return and I think I
haven't been there, but I'd like to go there. And
I think you can have a summer Betty's Hot Pot,
which is just familiar to Coronation Street fans. So, I
mean these are places that people enjoy going to, and
how do you find how do you define historical anyway?

(01:51:46):
I mean it's an enjoyable thing for people to go to.
And sometimes it's a moving experience, like when people go
to places for example, like if you're an Elvis fan
going to Graceland's and things like that, which is fantastic,
which is yeah, and people I find that extremely moving.
So I mean it's a bit sort of highbrow sort

(01:52:08):
of you know, sort of talk. It's like talking down
to people.

Speaker 4 (01:52:13):
Yeah, so, well you can do you can do all
of it, the idea that.

Speaker 17 (01:52:17):
You can do all of it.

Speaker 27 (01:52:18):
Yeah, I mean Croplis is great, and the Pleyramids and
everything like that. It's not sort of the meaning them,
but you know, that's an ancient history and the Tower
of London is great and all those things terrific. But
you shouldn't sort of looked down. And it's so I
think she should pull her horns in a bit, you know.

Speaker 4 (01:52:39):
Yeah, Hey, speaking of Coronation Street, there's a piece of
audio that I want to I want to hire a
private investigation to investigate her to find this moment from
Coronation Street. It's storeboard Yorkshes you serve up storeboard Yorksh's.
It was just one for and I want to find
the footage of it or do anything to get it.

(01:53:00):
So if anyone, if anyone has any way, because there's
so many episodes.

Speaker 3 (01:53:03):
Of from you that if anyone's got it, Matt.

Speaker 4 (01:53:09):
House, anyone just happened to, you know, record that episode
storeboll You'll very.

Speaker 3 (01:53:17):
Good, right back, very shortly. It is eight minutes to four.

Speaker 1 (01:53:21):
The big stories, the big issues, the big trends and
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Speaker 3 (01:53:31):
It is six to four. Couple of texts. Get our
guys today. Great trip to Dubrovnik to walk the steps
of shame from the Came of Thrones.

Speaker 4 (01:53:40):
Oh did you walk them? The nude with people throw
so yeah, people of kings landing, throwing stuff at you.
There was a bell behind you.

Speaker 3 (01:53:48):
This is a good one yoday, guys. My son and
I stayed in the Michael Caine Room in Hanoi in Vietnam,
where he stayed while filming The Quiet American movie. I
even slept in his bed.

Speaker 4 (01:53:59):
However, I got dragged to the Friends experience in New
York City, says this textas so dragged her down to
the Ghostbusters fast.

Speaker 3 (01:54:08):
How cool?

Speaker 4 (01:54:09):
Ah wow? Can you? I don't know you can get out?
Just even going to the New York Library New York
Central Library from ghostbuses is very very cool. Yeah, it's
got the lions out the front that come to life
and such.

Speaker 3 (01:54:21):
How goods are going to.

Speaker 4 (01:54:23):
Hobarton was a thrill, But the big one was thirty
years ago, sitting on the steps of old Saint Paul's
in London with their young daughter and seeing feed the birds,
tuppence the bag Mary Poppins.

Speaker 3 (01:54:35):
That is beautiful. Yeah, very goods.

Speaker 4 (01:54:36):
All right, that brings us the end of the show.
Thank you so much for all your calls and text
Thanks for listening as well. A good time was had
by all the powerful here. The troop of c Allen
is up next with Reserve Bank Governor and A Brenham
about keeping the ocr steady. But right now, Tyler, why
am I playing this nineteen seventy nine banger from the Motels.

Speaker 3 (01:54:59):
It's a lovely June. I'm just trying to think of
the name ah total control as you got no idea
where you're playing total.

Speaker 4 (01:55:05):
Control because we were talking about concentrat on the things
you can control. Of course, getting to obsessed with world events.
You have no say on a message. It is what
do you have control over? Always a good idea to
spend the line share of your energies on that, rather
than obsessing about the stuff you can't do anything about. Nicely,
We'll be back live from midday tomorrow with more talk

(01:55:29):
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