Full Show Podcast: 16 April 2025

On the Matt Heath and Tyler Adams Afternoons Full Show Podcast for the 16th of April, NZ Defence and Customs have unveiled two Bluebottle Uncrewed Surface Vessels. Should we have as many of these as we can get?

In the age of dating apps, is it still ok to ask for phone numbers?

And what is it that people stick on their cars that annoys you? A Wellingtonian hated the eyelashes on a VW Beetle that parked in their street! 

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Helly you Great New Zealand and welcome to Mattin Tyler Afternoons.
Full pod Full show Pod number one hundred and ten.
Would you believe it for the sixteenth of April. It's
a Wednesday. Fantastic show boy, Oh boy. The chat about
drones went deep and loved talking to the boss of

(00:37):
Cyrus Aeronautics.

Speaker 3 (00:39):
The drones they create funny at.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
A mount monin. We we don't know these things are
happening in New Zealand. No, but there are people running
incredibly high tech industries in New Zealand and bloody good
on them. Then we go deep into relationships and whether
you should rock up to a lady and ask her
for a number varying views on that.

Speaker 3 (00:59):
Yeah, controversial, very controversial.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
I get called an absolute creep for my thoughts on that,
So that might be fun for.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
You and you deserved it as well.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
And speaking of creepy, you know beatles with eye lashes yep, Well,
a note has been left on a beatle with eyelashes
saying don't park around here. We don't like your kind
in this neighborhood.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
Your car looks like Nicki Minaj get out of town.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
And we were so excited about that we dropped the
topic about night works. So it's a great show today,
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Speaker 2 (01:53):
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Speaker 3 (01:58):
Well, good afternoon to you. Welcome into the show for
a Wednesday afternoon short week.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
Hope you're doing well. Get a Matt, get a Tyler,
get everyone. Welcome to the show. I'm excited about this one.
We've got some good topics. We certainly do. It's really
blame little clap I did there. It was like a seal.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
It's very fast.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
We've got some good topics.

Speaker 3 (02:18):
But we do add some great topics. Again, please don't
after three thirty. We've got Met and the Mechanicorn. This
is part of our Experts series that we do every Wednesday.
So here'll be take in your calls on our eight
hundred and eighty ten eighty after three thirty. If you've
got mechanical worries, he is the man to chet to.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
Yeah, if you want to early send them through to
nine two ninety two. Something wrong with your car, he
may be able to help you down the phone.

Speaker 3 (02:41):
Line yep after three Construction night works, A resident in Thornton,
Key and Wellington sayshies over the roadworks at all hours
of the night. But the big question we want to
throw to you is is that okay to be doing
roadworks at night?

Speaker 2 (02:52):
Do we need to get things moving in this country?
Just to start telling people to shut up so you
can't handle this? Some roadworks at night, big deal, cry
about it. Put some earphones in. We've got to get
things done. Yeah, we've got to move things forward. If
I had my way, there'd be three eight hour shifts
going at all time to get everything done as fast
as you can. Rip the band aid off and get going.

Speaker 3 (03:11):
Yeah, love it. That is half to three o'clock after
two o'clock. A Braves reporter. A Land of Braves reporter,
he has received a bit of blowback after asking for
a woman's phone number and a live on ear segments.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
Yeah, that's right. They are up on the roof and
the special zone and he was trying to convince one
of them to be a Braves fan, and the other
commentators said, why don't you trying to get her number?
And he asked for it, and some people have said
absolutely disgusting and creepy. But we want to talk about
a whether that was creepy, and b whether it's whether
men should be going up and asking women for their

(03:44):
numbers or is that a thing of the past. Yeah,
full disclosure, you did it. I meant my lovely partner
at a bar and I approached it. So am I
a creep.

Speaker 3 (03:56):
We'll find out after two o'clock.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
She's still around.

Speaker 3 (03:59):
Yeah, she's still around. Yeah, it seems all worked out.
But right now, let's have a chat about drones and
our own defense ful. So, the Defense Force announce this morning,
alongside with customs too, new state of the art sea drones.
They're called blue Bottles. This isn't a bid to combat
what they are calling transnational organized crime. We know that
it's out there and at first glance they don't look

(04:20):
like much. But these are four mrdable machines.

Speaker 2 (04:23):
These Australian made blue bottle us vs. They're called uncrewed
service vessels. They kind of look like a little cute,
little blue sailing ship. The ones I've seen with a
solar panel and they've also got wave generation electricity generation
where it goes back and forth underneath, so they can
stay out for a very very long time and surveil

(04:44):
large areas of our EEV. They are pretty cool, yeah,
very pretty cool. Well the actually, no, I'm going to
take that back. They're not that cool. I mean they're cool,
they do. They don't look cool. I mean we make
call cool looking. We make pretty cool looking at USVs
down to Mount MONGANOUI. The SM three hundred USV from
Cyros that is a sexy drone that is a much

(05:06):
cooler looking us When you brought up.

Speaker 3 (05:09):
A video of this blue bodel, it is to say,
the first thing you did was laugh out loud and say,
look at that thing, how could we? But then we
looked under the hood, but.

Speaker 2 (05:17):
It's not there. Like well, it's interesting because Trump was
just saying this today that he wants his military stuff
to look cool. But you know, we have I think
it's three hundred and thirty million hectares is if that's
the way you look at water our you know, exclusive
economic zone, that's a lot to a lot to cover. Yeah,
and so you can have your boats out there, you
can have your poseidons in the air, but you're going

(05:38):
to miss stuff. But you can have these blue bottle
US fees out just floating around the whole time sending
us information back on what's out there. Yeah, seems great.
We've got two of them. They've bought two of them.
Don't we need hundreds of them?

Speaker 3 (05:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (05:52):
If the Mano Annoy costs one hundred and thirty million
and these cost about, let's say one point five million each,
we got eighty six of these bad boys out in
the water for the cost of that one ship that
went down. Obviously we don't have the money from that
ship because it went down. Yeah, so it's not really
but as a comparison, Yeah, they can do hydrography as well.

Speaker 3 (06:10):
Yeah, I mean, I know there's still it looks unlikely
that the Manawanui as a vessel was going to be replaced,
but we're still waiting for the full breakdown that's going
to be announced in the budget. But this, on top
of between two hundred million and four hundred and fifty
million dollars that has been set aside so far to
spend on drones across the board. That is quite a
significant spend on this new technology.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
Should we And look, there's so much information coming out
of the Ukraine of War on the effectiveness of drones,
and it seems that things have taken a sizeable shift
in the in how wars are going to be fought
and it is going to be drones. So should we
be just shifting as much as we possibly can out
of a traditional warfare into drone warfare? And so you

(06:54):
may have these bottle blue bottle usv's out there, but
then do you back them up with you know, attack drones.
Some printers are drones? Yeah, I mean, is that how
you do it?

Speaker 3 (07:06):
But if we only lost one of those, right, and
something went wrong and it went under, yes, a million
bucks is a lot of money, but compared to one
hundred and thirty million dollars and the massive freak out,
the quite right freakout that we all had when we
lost that vessel, and the embarrassment wouldn't be the same.

Speaker 2 (07:22):
Right, the embarrassment of losing these blue bottles, And of
the own embarrassment is the way they look. They look
like a sailing ship drawn by a little kid. But
as I say, it's not about how they look. But
we could lose eighty six of these and it would
be the same cost as that man Nui.

Speaker 3 (07:41):
Yeah, I weight one hundred eighty ten eighty. Is this
where we need to be investing the resource that has
been allocated for our defense for spending I eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty And do we need to look
at the likes of predator drone? That makes people a
bit funny talking about predator drones, right, I mean, I
guess it's in the name. Is Primarily they are designed

(08:02):
to keell and take out targets and that is traditionally
something we haven't done in New Zealand.

Speaker 2 (08:07):
Here's a text, Hey guys, how did two robots cover
the whole coast of New Zealand? Waste of money? I say, yeah,
I mean that's exactly it. Tahi and the Rua are
probably not going to cover a lot of the coast,
but surely that's just just the start that yess them.
You also got a Turu and Afar and Arima coming
on the way I imagine and another one hundred surely, Yeah,

(08:27):
that's what we're saying. Really, is this how you want
the army to go? Yeah, eight hundred and eighty ten
eighty drones, drones, drones or man powerage man of crude ships.

Speaker 3 (08:40):
Yep, it is thirteen past one. Give us about one
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Speaker 3 (08:56):
B good afternoon, sixteen past one, and it appears our
defense forces go in all in on drone technology. The
latest announcement is these two are state of the blue
bottle uncrude serve as vessels effectively sea drones. That is,
to help combat serious transnational organized crime. These blue bottles
cost about a one point five million a pop.

Speaker 2 (09:18):
Yeah, I'm just trying to work that out. They haven't
actually said exactly how much they pay for it, but
previous deals that Australia has bought for their military, and
so I reckon about one point five million per yeah,
could be wrong, could be one point two for one
of these things. They can only go five knots I believe,
but they can be out there for a very long time.
My question is, so you find something, what do you do.

(09:40):
So you've got your little surveillance a blue bottle out
there USV, Yeah, yeah, uncrewed surface vessel, you find something, yep,
Then how long does it take for a frigate to
get there and hassle them, or a customs officer you know,
or a coast guard to get there and hassle them.
And so do we need to get some you.

Speaker 3 (10:01):
Know, some drones, some predator drones.

Speaker 2 (10:03):
Find drones, predator drones, because.

Speaker 3 (10:05):
We've always traditionally had defensive operations or vehicles designed to
be on the defensive rather than offensive, like predator drones.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
Yeah, but if you catch someone that's got an oversized
fishing hall, take them out to take them out, take
them out, take a shot, launch allan. How are you mate?

Speaker 4 (10:27):
Yeah, I'm fine.

Speaker 5 (10:29):
I'll come to both thrones. Those two small vessels that
the Navy has got at the moment. I suspect they'll
probably be monitoring the Upper North Island more so for
entry points coming in the country. But that signals the
location of anything, and then we're seeing out either at

(10:52):
the sidon or a haraon or even a hurk to
go monitor if a ship's not in the facility. So
we got those options.

Speaker 2 (11:02):
But we just got the new Have we got those
poseidons yet, the new ones that we were getting.

Speaker 1 (11:06):
Yeah, we've got them on on the deck already, right,
and so you can be armed as well, So yeah.

Speaker 3 (11:15):
They can be armed as well. So when it comes
to something like a predator drone, and it's fair to say,
you know, traditionally in New Zealand, yes we buy armaments
and we buy offensive aircraft and other but traditionally we've
always been about defense, right rather than offense. Do you
think we as a nation should be investing in the
likes of a predator drone fleet?

Speaker 5 (11:36):
Absolutely, a predator drone fleet, accordingly to our size at
least probably near a dozen of them, and they are
manned from on shore, so you're not going to lose
loss of pilots. It will only be the aircraft that's lost.
But they can be armed, and you can extend their

(12:01):
service area by putting a extra fuel tank on them
fuel pod, which will give them at a coverage and
they can stay out quite a while as well. But
I need me, you could actually put a inflatable underneath them.
They can drop. In a search and rescue situation where

(12:24):
the weather is too rough to fly a plane out
with people on, you can risk flying a drone out
and drop one over somebody. So there has a multi purpose.
But yeah, a little bit of kick ass rather than
a wet flannel on the hand would be far better.
We can put a shot across the bow if need me,

(12:47):
we should be there instead of just complaining and saying
don't do this, show them a bit of muscle where
we'll sink he if you do. Carry on.

Speaker 2 (12:57):
So you're comfortable with that idea that there's a blue
bottle out there just because he's the particular ones that
we're buying now for the Australians. But as I said before,
we also have a company in mounta Loong and that's
making maritime you know maritime drones. Have one of them
out there, they spot it and then a predator drone
comes out and threatens whoever it is to move on.

(13:20):
Even you know, fishing vestibles or people that are trying
to smuggle drugs into our country, you'd be happy with
that more than happy.

Speaker 5 (13:28):
I'd actually give the government a pat on the back
about tom. We got somebody with a backbone.

Speaker 2 (13:33):
It's pretty futuristic stuff, isn't it.

Speaker 6 (13:35):
So well, it's not.

Speaker 5 (13:37):
It actually happens now. It's just that we've set back
and set on. We're peaceful, we're loving, well love you.

Speaker 2 (13:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (13:46):
I mean with the investment into unmanned vehicles like these drones,
does that mean allan that we may see a reduction
and actual human beings in the defense force or will
there still be a massive need a need for those humans.

Speaker 5 (14:01):
We still need a massive need for humans right now
because we're under They are power than that area. And
then you need skilled staff to operate them so that
you are ready and you're going to be able to
put up where your mouths instead of just breed into everybody.

Speaker 2 (14:23):
Yeah. What these blue bottle ones, you know they have
you know, as everything does now. It touts its AI technology.
But you can set up a plan. In fact, I've
seen one with them out there and they've put the
the the what would you call it, it's it's it's
a journey to spell out the name of the company.
Oh yes, So you can set off where it's going

(14:45):
to be and where it's going to patrol. So that's
that's one thing you've set it off. You've set this
blue off bottle off. It's going to control it and
do it. And then and then I just wonder how
many people have to monitor that? So do you have
one person monitoring ten of these or do you have
one person per blue bottle watching it all the time. Yeah,
be interesting to see what the manning situation.

Speaker 5 (15:03):
So you can have one monitoring half a dozen comes
across something, it'll seem then alert and you'll look closely
at that one to see what it has seen and
then you'll take appropriate action. So, yeah, you can have
just one or two monitoring many. Yeah, it's not just

(15:24):
fixed on one or ten people looking after teen drones.

Speaker 2 (15:28):
Yeah yeah, all right, thank you so much for you
for your thoughts, Allen, appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (15:32):
Right, all right, see Allen, very interesting.

Speaker 7 (15:35):
No.

Speaker 3 (15:35):
One hundred and eighty ten eighty is the number to
call love to your thoughts about the investment and drone warfare.
This is on the back of the announcement of these
two effectively the sea drones. They are called blue bottle
uncrewed surface vessels. They do not have the ability to
launch any sort of armaments from them at this stage.

(15:56):
But this is also considering that two hundred million to
four hundred and fifty million has been set aside for
drones in the defense Capability plan.

Speaker 2 (16:05):
Hey guys, another person with all this talked about tech,
won't the pirates, drug dealers, illegals as such be keeping
up with the times to avoid the situation as well? Yeah,
I mean it's an ongoing war, isn't it, you know?
And they are only traveling at five knots, but they
can they can scan a large area around them absolutely.

Speaker 3 (16:22):
Oh, one hundred and eighty ten eighty is the number
to call twenty four past one.

Speaker 1 (16:26):
Putting the tough questions to the newspeakers the mic asking breakfast.

Speaker 8 (16:30):
Looks like the government's winning on the crime front. These
new stats from the Victims of Crime Survey show the
goal of producing victims by twenty thousand has been beaten.
Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith, who's.

Speaker 9 (16:39):
With usaid it's twenty eight thousand since October twenty three
when the government came in, and that's when there was
the baseline for the figure.

Speaker 10 (16:45):
So we wanted to reduce the.

Speaker 9 (16:46):
Overall number of victims of crime by twenty thousand from
that figure that it was, which was one hundred and
eighty five thousand New Zealanders a year of being victims
of violent crime. So rather than twenty we've gone down
twenty eight, which is very encouraging and it's good news
that we promised to restore law and order and we're
making good progress on that.

Speaker 8 (17:03):
Back tomorrow at six am, the MIC asking Breakfast with
May these real estate news talks v twenty.

Speaker 3 (17:10):
Six past one, and we're talking about investments and drones
from our defense force on the back of two new
sea drones called Tahi and Rua that have been purchased,
but also the air marks two hundred to four hundred
and fifty million dollars for drone technology by twenty twenty nine.

Speaker 2 (17:29):
Yeah, I think we need to spend some money on
these sm three hundred USVs out of Mount Monganui, the
Sires Jones, and we are looking at spending some money
on the wider drones in an enz DF has two
hundred million, two four hundred and fifty million. That's a big,
big gap there to spend on drones for maritime and
security surveillance by some of these call it like purely

(17:52):
on the what looks cooler? The ones made in New
Zealand look cooler than the Australian ones, even though they've
got different capabilities. We really ought to be realistic, says
this text, are about what we can achieve as a
small defense force. We will always have to rely on
partners should New Zealand be threatened. Therefore, given that this
is always likely to include partnering with Australia, we ought
to create a niche capability that we can offer to

(18:13):
them or a coalition. The notion that the NZDF could
defend New Zealand against the determined aggressor as folly as
for patrolling our eez, et cetera. These new capabilities are great,
but what do we do when we see real aggressors
on the high horizon? We are too small, as for
NZDF traditionally being all about defense. Really Gallipoli, World War two, Vietnam,
Afghanistan and Iraq not really about defense. Surely, thank you

(18:36):
for your texts, well thought out, Allen, Welcome to the show.

Speaker 11 (18:41):
Your thought on this, yeah, well, I was thinking, why
don't we start building some catamarants and carbon fiber on.

Speaker 12 (18:48):
Foils, they could have outboards or high speed motors when necessary,
but the rest of the time they could be sailing around.
We can build thousands of them in market for them internationally.
They could be the platform for the drones and for weapons. Yeah,
it'd be hard to because they're not the metal.

Speaker 2 (19:04):
We've got the skills in the New Zealand to build
that kind of thing, don't we.

Speaker 11 (19:08):
Yeah, I think differently, and we could have as you say,
they could be doing all the work everywhere. They have
containers slide onto them or off of whatever.

Speaker 2 (19:15):
Yeah. Well, a lot of these us USBs, because we're
talking about ones that they're solar and wave powered and
that they have a for a better description, a little
flat that wobbles back and forth under the water and
generates fills, you know, charges the batteries in them. But
they a lot of them also will will have fuel
on board. They'll have diesel on board so they can

(19:35):
fire up when they need to react a bit faster,
so they sort of float around. But yeah, I mean
it's a cool idea, the idea of carpent fire camrangs.
What are you talking the kind of stuff we get
and the sail gp.

Speaker 11 (19:53):
Yeah, that's all maybe a little bit bigger and a
bit you carry a few more people on board, and
haven't say you can slide containers on as well for
different you know, helping out countries if they've got flooding
or whatever.

Speaker 13 (20:04):
I mean, we could have a whole lot.

Speaker 6 (20:05):
Of different sizes, and in the industry, I would think, what.

Speaker 2 (20:09):
About how would you feel about having them armed?

Speaker 12 (20:13):
Why not?

Speaker 2 (20:14):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (20:15):
Yeah, I mean that is the question we've all got
to ask ourselves. Why not load them up? Alan?

Speaker 2 (20:24):
Do you so much?

Speaker 14 (20:25):
We call?

Speaker 3 (20:25):
I mean just back to his point about the canamarans
and and the skills that we've got here in New Zealand.
And you mentioned the very cool company down in Totong
CEOs is that he pronounce.

Speaker 2 (20:38):
It cirrus cerros is y r o s And they.

Speaker 3 (20:43):
As we speak, in negotiations or already delivering our drones
to the UK Defense Force. So we should be tapping
into that. That's crazy, we're not using that technology.

Speaker 2 (20:53):
If there's any country you know that can sort out
US vs. Maritime drones, then it's US. Yeah, surely exactly.
But you know, Text makes a really good point about
you know, testing these drones, because you're talking about getting
predator drones on board, you know, like getting them out
there big boys. So you know, one thing that they're

(21:14):
talking about a lot is that everyone's testing their drone
capabilities right now in the Ukraine War. And that might
seem mercenary, if that's the right word, but so many
countries are also using that war as a way to
find out exactly what you need in the modern environment.
So there's some calls that we need to be over there,

(21:35):
we need to be over there getting the stats before
we spend any money on buying drones to find out
what are the ones that work the best in a
modern conflict. But that is how do you feel about
that using an active war zone as R and D.
I guess that's the best place to do it.

Speaker 3 (21:52):
Yeah, well, it is the elephant in the room, isn't
it that if we are serious about having the likes
of predator drones or drones that can be armed, we
all know we can't push your foot around it. We
know that they are designed to take out targets and people.
That is what they're designed for. But ken he hear
your thoughts on this. Eight hundred and eighty ten eighty
is the number to call it. Is twenty nine to

(22:13):
two headlines with railing governor.

Speaker 15 (22:18):
You talk say, headlines with blue bubble taxis it's no
trouble with a blue bubble. Health New Zealand's looking for
people to start the next stage of construction on Dunedin Hospital,
saying foundation works will recommence midyear. The Health Minister is
accusing the Senior Doctors' Union of playing with patients' lives
after the venance to strike next month for better pay

(22:41):
and conditions. A person's died and three people are injured
too seriously after a two vehicle crash in Hawks Bay's
hung Oil this morning. State Highway too is still closed.
A man feed missing their cedar flat huts east of
Hawky Ticker is no longer in the bush and has
been found. Police were concerned after food and gear left

(23:02):
for a man named Vladimir had been untouched. Since March thirty.
New Zealand's population is reached five point three to one million,
four million people in the North Island more than one
point three in the South. Repairs on State Highway one
in the North Island have wrapped up for the season
and we'll restart in September. One hundred and nineteen kilometers

(23:23):
of roading have been fixed inside zero co founder's four
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Seymore at enzid Here all premium Back to matt Ethan
Tyler Adams.

Speaker 2 (23:37):
Hello, you're listening to newstalk z B Matton Tyler afternoons.
Tyla's just jumped out the door for some reason, so
I'm running this. We'll talking about drones and USVs. Which
the New Zealand Defense Force in Customs is investing in USVs.
Being being these unmanned maritime drones. Dave your thoughts on this, Yeah.

Speaker 4 (24:04):
All right, yeah, I think or not, they're definitely drones
in the future, and I think YMN has sort of
provided the blue run or New Zealand when they're very
the forest country in the Middle East. We've got the

(24:27):
GDP about Samaru and they're holding up the United States,
the US and Saudi Arabia hasn't been bombing them for
about twelve years, and you know, there's still resist thing
and they've shot down about four in U nine reap
the drones of the US in the last couple of

(24:48):
weeks and basically, you know, the capability is drones the
listing missiles, and they've got some edmense missiles. So if
we want to be serious about protecting ourselves from the day,
you know, the hypothetical effect attacked by someone make China, Yeah,

(25:09):
we need decent missiles, some drones and you know, ships
and stuff.

Speaker 2 (25:17):
How absolute, How does is this new technology and what
people are seeing in places like Ukraine and other areas
as you say, is that making just traditional you know,
frigates and such become essentially close to obsolete.

Speaker 4 (25:36):
Yeah, unless you've got a massive, incredibly extensive air the
fens they are sitting ducks in the water now. And
even like you know, if America decides to attack Iran,
there's quite a good chance that they could lose ships
and possibly in an aircraft carrier because Iran's got you
know a lot of hypericilling missiles which can't be shot down,

(26:00):
so mossiles sort of trumping boat, planes and ships out.
And you know another thing, Trump's talking about building a
Golden dome over America to stop you know, attacked by
strategic nuclear missiles. Potentially, there's no way in the world

(26:22):
that can work. Just can't you can't stop I've sunning
missiles with multiple independent warheads coming in, so yeah, that
it's it's kind of a way of like, you know,
maximizing the force for a relatively little money. Yeah, because

(26:43):
even even fighters are pretty under higher risk from their
defense muscles now.

Speaker 3 (26:52):
So effectively, Dave, we just don't have the money or
the capability, you know, if we want to be up
there and and compete, we have to have if freighters
effectively that cost billions of dollars, and we don't have
the air force all jets to back.

Speaker 2 (27:06):
Back that up.

Speaker 3 (27:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (27:08):
Yeah, I mean, if we're going to have ships, like
we just can't think that they're going to be as serious,
you know, an finantual shooting war with someone someone like China,
but that they're just going to die real fast. If
we want to defend our shaws, yeah, we need some
decent drones and a bunch of ballistic missiles. Well, I

(27:32):
designed mysels and and some decent air events. And I
also think we should buy it from Russia. Their stuff
is just as good as Americas, if not better. Their
head events is better than America's and it's way cheaper,
Like America's stuff is so expensive and we're all buying
and it's not you know the Russians are shooting it
down in Ukraine and know how to destroy all the

(27:55):
US missiles and their escort hundred systems, the best air
events system and other Politically it wouldn't be good. But
you know, if we are just one of the best
up for the cheapest price and should buy Russian.

Speaker 2 (28:11):
Right, I can imagine that being politically.

Speaker 10 (28:14):
Dave.

Speaker 2 (28:15):
So when you say, when you say Trump talks about
the Golden Dome, we've obviously all seen Israel and and
there what do they call it, the Iron Dome or whatever.
That that's that's that stops a lot of a lot
of stuff coming coming their way. But you're saying, now
there's that there's a new era where these kind of
air defense systems just can't keep up.

Speaker 1 (28:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (28:39):
Yeah, Well, the you know, the worst case scenario like
Russian's got mussiles, which are a two hundred tons ballistic
muscile without fifteen nuclear warheads, and they they do MAC
twenty through. Basically they go up in the space they're

(28:59):
doing that twenty and then they come down with the
fifteen warheads and decoys, so they can put about hundreds
of decoys so he can't shoot that stuff down. To
spell pastel.

Speaker 2 (29:14):
So yeah, yeah, it's terrifying stuff. Thanks to you call Dave.
We have put Katy Pierry in space though, well Amazon has.
They've deployed Katie Piri to space for eleven minutes, and
the nuclear level cringe of that event is some kind
of defense in itself.

Speaker 3 (29:31):
It would have been okay if they just kept her
up here up there, shot her into space. But a
couple of great texts coming through guys read the drones
and other military hardware. We already have rocket Lab. Throw
some government funding at that to open up military weapons
branch and make a statement. And the officer isn't there.
Oh that's two texts are put together. But yeah, rocket

(29:52):
Lab is certainly one of our success stories in terms
of what they've been able to achieve. Whether they would
have a defense arm of rocket Lab, who knows, maybe
Peter Beeck would be into it.

Speaker 2 (30:01):
Yeah, well, I mean we should be clear what we're
actually talking about here. You know, we're talking about these
these US fees that are out there well, which brought
we just brought to Blue Bottle uncrewed surface vessels, and
it's the Defense and Customs are working together on that.
So what they're actually looking for at This is not
necessarily a defense situation. It's more, you know, fighting against

(30:27):
people trying to bring drugs into the country. Really, that's
what they look at these things. So these little seven
meter long sailing boats that hit out there with a
bit of solar, a bit of other ways to fill
their batteries, and they just see what's going on. But
the problem I have with that is highlighted in this
text here from Paul. Hey guys, a few years back,
the Navy court and overseas vessel fishing illegally in New

(30:49):
Zealand waters because the boat refused to allow the Navy
to board them and put down the rope ladder to
invite them aboard. Our antiquated Navy vessel couldn't forcibly board it,
and the chase boat couldn't even keep up. And although
they were followed by the orions, the fishermen made a
clean getaway to the South America, disposing of their illegal
catch along the way. A ship running into a reef

(31:09):
isn't the Navy's most embarrassing moment. Being outsailed by fishing
boats is far more embarrassing, according to Paul, So, I
mean that's the thing. It's all very well having a
little blue bottle out there, or how many of you've
got out there floating around, unless you've got some way
to harangue them. And we've got the poseidons. Yeah, but
you know, it's all very well knowing what's going on

(31:30):
out there, you have to be able to deal with it.
In these blue bottles, they can only travel at five knot. Yeah,
and they have they just sort of basically a radar
situation out at.

Speaker 3 (31:41):
Sea exactly right. Coming up, we're gonna have a chat
to Samuel Vi. Here's the CEO of a totenger firm
called Sios Aerospace, who are designing and building some very
impressive drones. So looking forward to having a chat to
him next. It is sixteen to two.

Speaker 1 (31:58):
Your home of afternoon talk Mad Heathen Tyler Adams. Afternoons
call eight hundred eighty eight US talk.

Speaker 2 (32:05):
Say'd be good afternoon. It is fourteen to so.

Speaker 3 (32:08):
Joining us now is sam Via. He's the CEO of
SIUs Aerospace. It's a rapidly expanding robotics company that develops
and manufacturers, manufacturers cutting each uncrewed vehicles across eat Land
and c and it is a pleasure to have Sam
on the program. Now, Sam, good afternoon, Yeah, good afternoon.

Speaker 2 (32:27):
Hey, how long has Syrus been in business? Am I?
Am I pronouncing the name of your company correctly?

Speaker 16 (32:34):
Yeah, that's correct sires Serah Space. Yeah, so we incorporated
in January twenty twenty one, so just oving four years old.

Speaker 2 (32:40):
Now wow, And what exactly do you manufacture?

Speaker 16 (32:45):
So we develop manufacture basically uncrewed vehicles, so robotics and drones.
It's fair to say across AirLand and sea. So if
you like, you know the standard small drones that you
might be able to purchase online up to sort of
uncrewed helicopters planes, and then on the on land we

(33:05):
have autonomous uncrewed six wheeler graund vehicles through to maritime
sector on the water, so uncrewed boats.

Speaker 2 (33:13):
Yeah, we're talking about those today because of the purchase
of these blue bottles that are that are out of Australia.
What can uncrew uncrewed service surface vehicles do vesicles do?

Speaker 16 (33:27):
Yeah, so we call them us fees, so uncrewed surface
vestals us fees. They they can cover a broad spectrum
of different capabilities. So obviously the blue bottle is a
you know, is a fantastic U S fee. It's it's
meant for long endurance surveillance in the maritime domain. The

(33:53):
actual U S fees that sires does. We we actually
produce a range of US fees, but predominantly faster boats,
so up to sort of fifty knots uh you know,
so it was one hundred quimeters an hour boats which
can also do not just surveillance but also cargo transportation

(34:14):
as well.

Speaker 2 (34:15):
So I'm looking at the SEM three hundred USV that
you guys produce. It's a very cool looking machine, whereas
you've got to say the blue bottle is pretty underwhelming
looking and it's you know, it's not really it's not
really what it looks like, but it looks like a
kid threw it.

Speaker 1 (34:30):
Really.

Speaker 2 (34:31):
So what is the sort of difference there between the
SEM three hundred, for example, and the blue bottle?

Speaker 16 (34:38):
Yeah, okay, so the blue bottle is a is a
slow speed, longer endurance, more persistent surveillance drone if you like,
whereas our boat our us V is a higher speed
still with long endurance, but not quite as long as
the blue bottle boat drone us V.

Speaker 13 (35:03):
That can.

Speaker 16 (35:05):
Say, there's some illegal fishing going on and the New
Zealand waters. Our boat would be able to not just identify,
not just detect it, but would be able to accelerate
over to where the where the incursion occurred, to identify
the vessel and potentially track it until it leaves the

(35:26):
Leaves and New Zealand waters, as well as communicating the
that incursion back to the operator, which would be on
the New Zealand mainland.

Speaker 2 (35:36):
So is there any way that you can communicate so
as you say, a vessel that's doing something that it
shouldn't be doing in the New Zealand's ev you heat
up to it and the sum three hundred what what
do you can only surveil? Can it? Can it? Does
it have speakers? Can you relay messages to the people
on board? You know, move along? You're you're not supposed

(35:57):
to be doing what you're doing.

Speaker 16 (35:59):
Yeah, pretty much the world is your oyster in terms
of available payloads, right, so we could you know, it
could have right and you could have loud speakers on
if you wanted. We also have the capability to launch
aerial drones from the u SV as well that can
fly over the top of say that that that that

(36:21):
other boat, that ship, and you know even go down
to the bridge and identify the people driving their boats.
So there's there's a lot of capabilities right with USBs.
So ultimately the USB is really just a platform. How
I for example, customs and the DF want to customize
the platform is all based on what payloads might be

(36:44):
installed and integrated. And so we work with with a
bunch of customers typically overseas, and they have an array
of different payloads that they might want to have on
from from various different surveillance.

Speaker 17 (36:59):
Style of.

Speaker 16 (37:01):
Payloads, so you know, large radar systems, you know, different
camera types for to potentially even have an aerial drones
operating or even subse drones. So r o V is
operating from the US FEE for different applications.

Speaker 2 (37:17):
Would you ever have a weaponized USVU.

Speaker 16 (37:23):
Well, obviously that's hot in the press right now. We
we we we we typically develop a manufacturer just the platform,
so it's you know the So no, we don't make
weaponized products.

Speaker 3 (37:38):
Yeah, it's very impressive the vehicles you do manufacture. So
clearly New Zealand, you're based here in New Zealand, we
can be a world leader in this in this area.

Speaker 16 (37:47):
Yeah, absolutely, So to say we fly under the radar,
no pun intended, but yeah, so so New Zealand's got
some you know, not just size, but there's a there's
a number of other companies in New Zealand. There's certainly
a world leading in the in the in the drone,
the uncrewed vehicle technology industry, and certainly I think with

(38:10):
the recently announced DVP, obviously there's a few people think
in that New Zealand doesn't have technology, doesn't have an industry,
but certainly we've got a maid in technology that entered
DF PAN leverage.

Speaker 2 (38:23):
Yeah, there's an ZIDF has has said they're looking at
spending two hundred million to four hundred and fifty million
dollars in this area. Is that something that you can
put your hand up and provide for the NZDF.

Speaker 16 (38:37):
Yeah, absolutely, Yeah, we're very keen to support enter DF
in rolling out to this DCP.

Speaker 3 (38:44):
Brilliant Sam, great to chat with you all the best
and hopefully we'll catch up against So yeah, thank you mate.
That is Sam vi CEO of SIUs Aerospace International, which
is based right here in New Zealand.

Speaker 2 (38:57):
It is seven to two.

Speaker 3 (38:58):
Back in a moment.

Speaker 1 (39:00):
Matt heath Tyler Adams taking your calls on eight hundred
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Speaker 2 (39:07):
News Talks, Good afternoon, it is four to two.

Speaker 3 (39:13):
A couple of texts to wrap it up, guys, we
could do just like Russia and try and take over
one of the smaller islands just to test out our
trones and see what happens.

Speaker 2 (39:25):
Now, take over Fiji, good luck.

Speaker 3 (39:26):
Yeah, they've got quite a pretty stack.

Speaker 2 (39:29):
Now We've got a decent army Fiji, that's for sure.
So look, we've brought ourselves a couple of uncrude surfaced
vehicles to patrol our waters. A couple of bottlenecks out
of it.

Speaker 3 (39:38):
What are they called again, Jesus the blue bottles?

Speaker 2 (39:41):
Blue bottles out of Australia. But watch the space I
reckon the NZD. If we're going to have a lot
more drones operating in the future, what's called is you
can make them in New Zealand.

Speaker 3 (39:50):
Yep, very good. Love this yet great company, absolutely right.
Coming up after the news, A little bit of a
kerfuffle over a reporter in the US who asks for
a woman's number live on air.

Speaker 2 (40:03):
We're going to pick that up very shortly.

Speaker 3 (40:06):
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Speaker 1 (40:13):
Talking with you all afternoon. It's Matt Heath and Tyler
Adams Afternoons News Talk ZID be.

Speaker 3 (40:21):
Good to you, Welcome back into the show. So this
is going to be an interesting hour. And Atlanta Braves
reporter in the US. He has received a massive blowback
for effectively asking for a woman's phone number and a
live on air segment. The reporter's name was Wiley.

Speaker 2 (40:37):
That's right. People have called it creepy, people have called
it inappropriate, and he's been under the pump on social
media at least. But let's listen. Let's listen to the audio,
and let's see what you think.

Speaker 3 (40:50):
Wiley. How are things up there at the Corona Rooftop?

Speaker 14 (40:53):
Thanks are pretty great brand. We're having a lot of
phone up here at the Corona Rooftop. Who do we
get you wish your name?

Speaker 2 (40:58):
My name is Lauren Laurence, all right, and I'm Kayla.

Speaker 14 (41:01):
Kayla, and you guys hang out the rooftop lounge.

Speaker 2 (41:03):
Arpin once a year I come out to visit.

Speaker 14 (41:06):
Okay, well we timed it pretty well. A good How
are you guys feeling root for the Braves today?

Speaker 1 (41:11):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (41:12):
I'm hoping for the bus.

Speaker 2 (41:13):
What about you?

Speaker 14 (41:14):
Are you Braves fan?

Speaker 11 (41:15):
Now?

Speaker 4 (41:15):
Not?

Speaker 13 (41:16):
Quiet?

Speaker 17 (41:16):
Quiet?

Speaker 16 (41:17):
All right, I'm gonna I'm.

Speaker 14 (41:17):
Gonna go to work up here, guys, good luck the
rest of the way. Okay, Wiley got five innings, four
innings to get the numbers on it.

Speaker 2 (41:25):
Come on, get us some more Braves fans.

Speaker 14 (41:29):
All right, so they want me to get your number.
I'm dead serious, they're saying to my right, I shouldn't
believe me because she thinks you guys are are not
making this up. Even if you guys weren't, I might
use that in the future. That's pretty actually pretty good move.

Speaker 3 (41:43):
This is unbelievable.

Speaker 2 (41:46):
So the best part of this right now is that
Wiley could totally be faking. This might be the new move.

Speaker 16 (41:50):
You just walk around with a fan duel microphone and
an ear piecing and convinced fans that they're actually on TV.

Speaker 14 (41:56):
I should have thought of this years ago. I am speechless.
I got the number. We're good. I am without speech
fer Mine and I'm a little nervous broadcast history, So.

Speaker 2 (42:10):
What do you think about that? Just looking at some
responses to it, I think one of the most alarming
pieces of the Braves broadcast Bachelor moment is all of
the male journists who are hyping this behavior up when
they know they'd be the first to call out their
female counterparts for being unprofessional and a disgrace to sports journalism.
Another comment on it, it's so embarrassing for the loser men.
The insecurity is so loud it makes me cringe. This

(42:32):
is a number one sign of being a loser asking
for those numbers pathetic. The fact that they are literally
endorsing straight up creep behavior to get digits like it's
some weird seventy sitcom is absolutely disgusting. The hypocrisy on
display is revolting. Worst part is that nothing will happen
to the people involved, so there's just complaints and plants
and plates. Is there's something wrong with me where I

(42:55):
cannot see what the problem is. For a start, in
this situation, it's a joke because it's a broadcast, so
he's just having a laugh. He's been talking to the
woman off it started off as trying to turn them
into braves fans to him. At one point they asked
for my number, and she's really suggesting do you not
want my number? But is that creepy in terms of

(43:18):
a broadcast? Secondly, is it still okay for men to
go up and ask women for their numbers?

Speaker 11 (43:25):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (43:26):
How do you do it these days? Because that was
how you progressed. Any sort of relationship that you want
to get into, is that if you did meet someone
at a bar or a sports game or wherever, down
at the park and you strike up a conversation and
things are going well, at some point, you've got to
make the move to say, hey, can I please have

(43:47):
you a number because I'd love to go out with
coffee with you with some time or yeah, whatever it
may be. Whatever, that opening move is well for the outrage.

Speaker 2 (43:55):
Let's let's put let's we'll do two locks at this
right one? Is it in terms of the broadcast and
a lot of people saying the power ratio is wrong
because he is a big, famous broadcaster and she's just
a fan watching the game in the Corona area, So
is that is that wrong? And the second part that

(44:15):
we'll look at is okay for men to go up
and ask women's numbers if you're if you're a female,
how do you feel about that?

Speaker 13 (44:21):
Now?

Speaker 2 (44:21):
Obviously there's a creepy way you can do it, and
there's non creepy way way you can do it. But
what I as far as what he's doing in that broadcast,
where's the victim?

Speaker 10 (44:32):
So?

Speaker 17 (44:32):
Who?

Speaker 2 (44:33):
That's what I understand with the absolute outrage out there,
who is the victim in the situation? Because she chose
to give him his number, she didn't have to so,
and she seems to be laughing along with it.

Speaker 3 (44:46):
She was in on the flirtation elements of it, and
it was clearly entertaining for people who are watching it.
That's part of, you know, being a broadcast as he was,
is that he's got to be entertaining, right And that's
a wee jokey element there with the announcers and these
two women.

Speaker 2 (45:01):
So is it now just not okay to even flirt
with people on It's dangerous?

Speaker 3 (45:08):
Clearly it's very dangerous scene this sort of blowback. And
I don't know if he's come out yet to respond
to it, but I imagine at some stage he may
and I would be That's the gusting part is when
this sort of thing happens and we've reard that audio
and there is nothing untoward that happened in that audio.
From my point of view, if he has to come

(45:29):
out and say I'm really sorry, I got it wrong,
I'll be outraged.

Speaker 2 (45:31):
You Never apologize, That's the rule in these situations. Never apologize,
because then people sense blood and they keep coming for you.
And to be fair, a lot of people have come
out in social media and see what a legend this
guy is and he has been celebrated for it as well.
But one hundred and eighty ten eighty is it still
cool to go up and ask for someone you fancy

(45:53):
his number? Or is that creepy have has someone come
and ask for your number and it's ended up being
a fantastic experience and that's how your relationship started? Or
is it just not on and was the secreepy broad car?
So one hundred and eighty ten eighty.

Speaker 3 (46:09):
Love to hear from you. It is twelve past two.

Speaker 1 (46:15):
Wow your home of afternoon Talk, Mad Heathen Tyler Adams
afternoons call, Oh, eight hundred eighty ten eighty News Talk said.

Speaker 15 (46:23):
Be.

Speaker 3 (46:26):
Afternoon. It is a quarter past two.

Speaker 2 (46:30):
Okay. So as going up to someone and asking for
the number, okay or creepy? If it's okay, how should
it be done? And this is after a Braves reporter
at a baseball game asked for a woman for a
number on air and got absolutely slammed on social media.
This Texas says, yeah, it was not creepy. It was
a joke. The difference between whether it's creepy or flirty

(46:53):
is if the woman finds you attractive or not. The
people complaining are just jealous that no one asks for
their number. Cheers Mike. Yeah, there's a great Tina fe joke.
I think it was on Saturday Night Live, where if
a guy came up and talked to her and he
was hot, then she was happy with the flirtation. If
it was not, then she wasn't. And then it was
a while ago this one actually, so I don't have

(47:14):
Tina Fey would do this one now, but yeah, that
was the thing and basically the line, and it was
flutation is okay as long as I fancy you.

Speaker 3 (47:22):
Yeah, but how do you do it these days? I mean,
I've been in a happy relationship for many years, so
it's been sometime since I've had to do it, but
certainly when I was single, it was I mean, look,
there was a bit of a strategy to it, for
lack of a better word, that you had to strike
up a good conversation and hopefully things were going well
before you struck up the courage or before I struck

(47:42):
up the courage to say, hey, I'd love your number
and love to go out for a drink sometimes.

Speaker 2 (47:47):
And then at that.

Speaker 3 (47:47):
Point, maybe fifty to fifty success right, struck down fifty
percent of the time, fifty percent of the time got
a number. Yeah, but then then you've got to follow
up with the number and at that point, so that's
that's just step one, and then it's the texting the
next day making it.

Speaker 2 (48:03):
You strike me as the kind of guy that're beginning
a lot of numbers that were they just change one number,
so you nearly the number, so it seemed like they
were giving you the number to go away. In regard
with the social situation, you should give a girl your
phone number to give her the option of striking up
the relationship. Clive, that's an interesting one. See power move.
So you go up to someone you have a little shit,
did you like I want to work out with the

(48:24):
etiquette of this day. Would you just go up and
slide someone your number? Or is it something that happens
after a chat, because it does seem like quite an
American way to approach things, doesn't it. I mean in
New Zealand, doesn't it just been that people generally hook
up by just getting incredibly sesteemed and then no one
can quite remember how they got each other's numbers, But

(48:46):
when they talk about it after three years of marriage,
I'm not really sure. I think he came up to
me in a bar. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (48:50):
Do you still offer to buy someone to drink? I mean,
surely is at the first move, because then you're offering
something and then after that you go for the number. Oh,
eight hundred and eighty ten eighty is the number to call.

Speaker 2 (49:00):
I would like to hear from ladies on this please,
Oh eight one hundred and eighty ten eighty. How do
you feel if someone comes up and ask you for
your number?

Speaker 3 (49:07):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (49:08):
What do you want from that? How do you want
them to deal with it?

Speaker 18 (49:10):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (49:11):
Is it creepy? Or is the way that can be
done that isn't creepy? Andrew, Welcome to the show your
thoughts on this.

Speaker 6 (49:18):
Oh get it mate, Look, I just think it's the
quote gone there isn't it. I mean, clearly you read
the room. This is an opera premiere, it's a sports
broadcast entertainment, you know. So I think that people are
just jumping on the bandwagon. If you can go to
any number of YouTube videos now, and there are people

(49:41):
that don't go up and ask for numbers for this
particular reason. They're scared of the backlash.

Speaker 2 (49:48):
Yeah, I mean have you ever is that an approach
that you've used in everyday life? Andrew? If you've gone to.

Speaker 6 (49:53):
Ask for a number, mate was many years ago. So
I'm probably not the guy to ask, but work. Look well,
as I say, if you've got to read the room,
if you don't ask for a number of you you know,
if you clearly haven't got a shot.

Speaker 19 (50:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (50:09):
And in this situation, I don't We don't even know
the background of the broadcast, do we. He could be
happily married.

Speaker 7 (50:14):
I think he probably.

Speaker 6 (50:15):
I don't think his partner's going to go home and
justice because he was entertaining the on the TV.

Speaker 2 (50:21):
That's interesting thing.

Speaker 13 (50:21):
If he was.

Speaker 2 (50:24):
At home. Yeah, that is a brave move. But you
know anything for the entertainment of you know anything for entertainment, Jessica.
Your thoughts, well, I'm.

Speaker 20 (50:35):
I'm a supporter. I think we've lost the art of flirting,
and that makes it really hard for single females and
possibly single males to actually connect with people, especially sort
of later in life where you don't want to approach
people who are married and you don't know circumstances, so

(50:57):
people are more afraid or cautious about whether they they
are proactive like that. So I think I'm all for it,
and I think guys actually get a bad rap for
taking initiative and trying to be chivalry and just putting
it out there. A woman can easily say no.

Speaker 2 (51:17):
Yeah, I mean, what's the what's the line there? So
someone comes up and talks to you, Jessica, And this
is a hypothetical situation. I don't know what your relationship
situation is. I don't know if you're out there or
not on the market. Female, single female. So you're at
a bar and a guy sliddles up to you and
you have a little bit of a chat and then

(51:38):
he and then he asks for your number. I mean,
how long? What do you expect before the number can
be asked for what circumstances, Well, I.

Speaker 20 (51:47):
Think there needs to obviously be some good conversational connection,
and I think the safest way would be that a
guy offers up his number to say, and you know,
I'm really interested in you. I'd love to catch up
with you again. Here's my number. If you're king, give

(52:10):
me a bell, and then that way, there's no I've
got your number, you know.

Speaker 2 (52:17):
The woman? Do you think it's a little bit different
now because the number that you're giving out is your
personal cell phone number and in the classics sort of
ninety sitcom go up and get a number of someone,
it might have been a landline. So and you know
it wasn't wasn't so easy to target with scams or

(52:37):
you see what I'm saying.

Speaker 20 (52:38):
I think you've got to be I think you've got
to be careful about asking for someone's number. But I
think if you're offering up your own number, then that's
that's that's with the person, you know. And look, I
think you know that the example that you've given where
a guy the baseball or whatever and he's asked on

(52:59):
air for a number, I mean, give people a break,
you know, it's just it's a bit of fun. And yeah,
I think we've gone to PC in this in some cases.

Speaker 3 (53:13):
Do you think there is a reduction in men going
up to women to ask for numbers?

Speaker 2 (53:18):
Jessica?

Speaker 3 (53:18):
I mean, and because why, because they'll be they're on
the cowardly apps, because.

Speaker 20 (53:25):
They're billified, you know, like they're just they're just as
soon as something like that happens. It depends on how
I'm not going to use the word woke, but you know,
like it depends on the person you're dealing with, It
depends on their mental state, it depends you know, there's
so many things now that you have to be mindful

(53:46):
of that. You know, it's almost too.

Speaker 2 (53:49):
Hard, Like what about what do you think is more difficult?
Do you think is more forward asking someone or offering
someone your number to take things forward? Or offering to
buy a drink? Can I buy you a drink?

Speaker 20 (54:07):
I think that's fine too. Well, obviously you've got you've
got to assess the situation and like someone just said,
you know, read the room. It's not going to do
that if there's not kind of two way engagement.

Speaker 3 (54:24):
But where do you think that the fear is coming from? Jessica,
Is it actually coming from women in public areas or bars,
or you know, in this case of sports game where
they turn around and say, don't ask for that, you
creep or you know, they just give off that vibe
and the guy feels like he's been creepy. Or is
it that men are worse at handling rejection than they.

Speaker 2 (54:46):
Used to be.

Speaker 20 (54:49):
That's a good question.

Speaker 16 (54:51):
I don't know.

Speaker 20 (54:53):
I just think, yeah, you'd have to ask the men.

Speaker 3 (54:59):
Yeah, and we will do that eighty d eighty. But
I do wonder if it is you know, that they
can't handle any rejection sometimes, And I don't I don't
want to pile on to men because they get in
a bit of a pilon already. But whether you've got
to go out and get a lot of those, you know,
and that builds up your confidence, and then when you
get the yes, is they mean a bit more because

(55:20):
you've you know, you've put in the work, for lack
of a.

Speaker 20 (55:23):
Better word, Yeah, And I think also, you know, your
app situation now makes it so easy for people just
to reject and just you know, that's the other aspect
of it.

Speaker 2 (55:37):
Culture.

Speaker 20 (55:38):
You know, it's almost you've got to put a bit
of effort in to do the physical you know, like
the face to face thing, and that's almost you know
a little bit of it. It's probably that could be
too hard as well, when I can just go through
a you know, a list and you know, swipe left
or right. So that's much easier. It's faceless, there's no pressure,

(56:01):
you know, so I don't know that must it's awful.

Speaker 2 (56:06):
It's a grim situation because it's taking romance and you know,
meeting a partner right down to just hot or not
hot or not hot or not basically, which is.

Speaker 20 (56:18):
Yeah, yeah, exactly, and it's just on the face. You know,
it's face value when actually you know the deeper connections
and the common the commonalities of what you have with people.
With the connections, you know, it's based on interest and

(56:40):
you know a bit of physical attraction and body language
and the vibe you give off exactly any vibe from
a from a from an app.

Speaker 2 (56:50):
Yeah, so like a fugly guy, he can come out,
but he's got if he's got good chat and over
the course of five, five or twenty minute chat, get
a few laughs and then maybe hands the number and
you go, well, that guy wasn't all right, But if
Tyler's face had popped up on on the app, you
just swiped them away.

Speaker 3 (57:10):
All I can say is thank god I never had
to use them, Jessica that it sounds awful.

Speaker 20 (57:15):
You're lucky, you know. I think there's got to be
something if someone's got Dutch courage, you know, so to
have a conversation, and they deserve they absolutely deserve a chat.

Speaker 2 (57:25):
Will that is a person that's willing to risk something
to you know, possibly win your affections. They've gone out there,
They're not just swiping. They haven't done a cowardly message
that they've gone up. They've risked something. They've risked embarrassment
because and that is something to be not necessarily rewarded
by the number if you don't want to give it

(57:47):
or you don't want to take their number, but it
is something to be admired that they at least have
the courage of their convictions to go up and say all.

Speaker 6 (57:53):
And it's still in the hands of this female.

Speaker 2 (57:55):
So yeah, well, thank you so much for you called Jessica.
I really appreciate that.

Speaker 3 (57:59):
Yeah, she was great to chat to. Oh one hundred
eighty ten eighty. I'd love to hear your experiences on
being asked for your number, or if you've going out
or if you still regularly go out and ask for numbers,
is that still the done thing? Or do you get
the cold shoulder?

Speaker 2 (58:14):
Love to hear from you this Texas says, Hey, guys,
justic sounds lovely. Feel free to give her my number.
I don't know if that's appropriate.

Speaker 3 (58:21):
We'd have to go and ask that.

Speaker 2 (58:23):
You will ask her, and then I think she might
need to no more than just nine words from you
on a text. But is it still okay to go
up and ask for someone's number at a bar or
buy a drink for someone to try and move things forward?
Or if we just become and look, I'm going to
beg I guess I'm going to lead leading question here,
or if we all just become app based cowards.

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Oh add one hundred eighty ten eighties the number to
call twenty seven past two.

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Speaker 1 (59:49):
Matt Heath and Tyler Adams afternoons call OH eight hundred
eighty eighty on Youth Talk ZB afternoon.

Speaker 3 (59:55):
It is twenty nine to three and we're talking about
asking for phone numbers out in the dating world. On
the back of a reporter at a baseball game the
Land of Braves when he has been slammed online for
asking for a woman's number he was having to chat
to live on ear So can you get your views?
Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty is the number to call.

(01:00:15):
Is it still the dumb thing?

Speaker 2 (01:00:17):
The sixer says, no, yuck. I can tell you right now,
as a woman, we do not want men coming up
and offering us their numbers or asking for hours. Seriously,
this is creepy. The fact we were talking about this
in twenty twenty five blows my mind. Read the room, guys.
So she's saying that no woman wants men to come

(01:00:37):
up and offer their numbers or ask for their numbers.

Speaker 3 (01:00:40):
Yeah, well, if that's true, Read the room, ladies, Oh
eight hundred eighty ten eighty. When was the last time
someone asked for your number?

Speaker 2 (01:00:47):
How did you feel?

Speaker 3 (01:00:47):
Did you think it was a bit creepy? Or were
you thankful that this guy's got a better courage, a
better knounce, and he's actually doing what the other guys
are so fearful to do because we're so stuck on
the appt in the generation.

Speaker 2 (01:00:59):
I have been asked for my number quite a lot
since I've been in a relationship. I take it as
a compliment and say no, thank you and no harm done.
Good on the men for asking. That's from Kathy's so
two opposing views, where you set oh eight hundred eighty
ten eighty.

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Read this and more from Inside Economics at NZ Herald Premium.
I'm back to matt Ethan Tyler Adams.

Speaker 3 (01:02:33):
Thank you very much, Rayleen, and we're talking about a
situation that happened overseas. It was in Atlanta, Braves report
at the baseball over in the US. He has received
a big blowback for asking for a woman's phone number
and alive on ere segment. His name was Wiley Ballard
and he started off asking for the names of these
two women during the fifth innings and it was an

(01:02:54):
interview with fans, and after a brief interaction, one of
the announcers said, okay, Wiley, you've got four innings. Get
her number. I'm on it, he replied, and managed to
have a bit of a flirtation with the woman in
question and got the number the Sextasys phone.

Speaker 2 (01:03:08):
But what year is this?

Speaker 3 (01:03:09):
Have you up?

Speaker 2 (01:03:09):
It's not heard of sliding into DMS, ask her her
for her name, then stalk her on instant. Hey you
remember me boom date? Yeah, I go, I know if
I don't.

Speaker 3 (01:03:19):
Know that sounds more creepy using the word stalked.

Speaker 2 (01:03:22):
This text that says Matt Heath, you are gross your
poor girlfriends. So she was having a drink, you came
up and offered her your number. Leave her alone. Well,
she's it worked, it's been two years.

Speaker 3 (01:03:33):
Yeah, I don't think you're strong under that much.

Speaker 2 (01:03:34):
I offered her a spressy Martine. Oh yeah, it's a
good mart Yeah, she enjoyed it.

Speaker 3 (01:03:38):
Let's sealed the deal.

Speaker 2 (01:03:39):
Yeah, there we go. Anyway.

Speaker 3 (01:03:40):
Oh, one hundred and eighty ten eighty is the number
to call. Sarah. How are you this afternoon?

Speaker 19 (01:03:45):
I'll do well.

Speaker 11 (01:03:46):
Thanks?

Speaker 21 (01:03:46):
How are you?

Speaker 2 (01:03:47):
Yeah?

Speaker 12 (01:03:47):
Very good?

Speaker 3 (01:03:47):
And what's your view about being asked for a number?
Is it still the dumb thing?

Speaker 7 (01:03:52):
Well, I thought i'd I'm sure that I'm actually one
of the younger audiences. So I'm a twenty two year
old female.

Speaker 2 (01:03:58):
Perfect. We need, we need, we need this perspective. That's
what we've been craving. So thank you so much for
ringing Sarah.

Speaker 7 (01:04:05):
So, I think that both men and women should be
going up and asking for numbers, obviously after reading the
room and getting to know the other person, making sure
that they feel comfortable with it. And I do like
the idea of giving your number rather than asking for it.
Because it gives them the opportunity to, you know, turn
it down if they change their mind.

Speaker 2 (01:04:23):
Sorry you can Can you go back and say that
little that again? Sorry I just missed that.

Speaker 17 (01:04:28):
Yep.

Speaker 7 (01:04:28):
I just think that it is better to give your
number rather than asking for it, because if someone changes
their mind, you know, after a couple of hours, then
they don't have to do anything with it.

Speaker 2 (01:04:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:04:41):
I do think with the reporter though, there was a
bit of a power imbalance just because she was on
TV and if she said no to the number, or
you know, said anything wrong, then just kind of I
don't know, she looks like the bad person there.

Speaker 2 (01:04:56):
Ye have have you seen the actual footage of it, Sarah?

Speaker 7 (01:05:00):
I heard it just now.

Speaker 16 (01:05:02):
Loud.

Speaker 2 (01:05:03):
She and the footage. It's interesting because she's sort of
turned right towards them. She's smile and she makes the
comment when he says, so, you you get the feeling
they've been talking quite a loft loot because he's just
the guy they come to for color every now and then,
and so he's been talking to her quite a lot.
And when you get you can't you get the feel
looking at it in terms of you, as you say,

(01:05:23):
reading the room from my perspective, it looks like they're
having a bit of fun. And when he says to her,
they are asking me to get the number, she almost
dares them to admit that it's her mask of the
numb and she goes they so she's meaning, so she's
she's kind of meaning, why don't you man up and
say you want to get my number? If you know

(01:05:44):
what I'm saying?

Speaker 7 (01:05:45):
So right, right, Okay, Well in that case, I don't
really see the problem. Yeah, but again, because it's on TV,
I think it's just a little bit awkward.

Speaker 2 (01:05:54):
I'll tell you what. It was definitely an awkward piece
of television. I'll give you that much.

Speaker 20 (01:05:57):
It was.

Speaker 3 (01:05:58):
Yeah, and the announcers obviously, you know, they put them
in it a little bit. But just going back to
the situation in a bar in a public space, do
you find less men doing the shore approach now, Sarah,
or do you think it's about the same in recent years,
or you know, what, how was it viewed if someone
You're at a bar and you have in fine with
your friends and it's a girl's night out and then

(01:06:20):
a gentleman comes over and starts conversation, what's the initial
response from yourself.

Speaker 7 (01:06:26):
It's funny because I actually had this the other day.
I was out and a guy probably my age comes
up to me and puts his hand on my shoulder
and just goes wow. And I stood there and went
is there anything else? And he goes wow, and I
just I went again, I'm done. I'm walking away from there.

Speaker 21 (01:06:42):
So he definitely didn't get.

Speaker 2 (01:06:44):
My number fair enough. That is a pathetic attempt.

Speaker 3 (01:06:48):
Yeah, you've gotta have something to back it up. You
can't just say wow.

Speaker 7 (01:06:51):
Usually people come with full sentences, so he had nothing
more to say, and so I just went, Okay, that's
great as leading with.

Speaker 2 (01:06:58):
Him, Leading with the hand on the shoulders is quite
que quite intense, isn't it.

Speaker 7 (01:07:04):
That definitely was, and I think he was very out
of it. He was, and I'd had a few drinks
as well, so I just went, okay, sure, you're you're
out of it. I'm done. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:07:14):
It definitely sounds like he's pretty out of it if
all he's got is wow wow.

Speaker 9 (01:07:19):
And it was.

Speaker 7 (01:07:20):
It was on the way to the bathroom too, Yeah,
didn't help.

Speaker 2 (01:07:23):
Yeah, what what he's done there is he's probably been
thinking about you a little bit. And then he's decided
to make his move, and then he's just absolutely messed
it up during to being due to being esteemed idiot.
What about say you've been given you've got your number,
they've got your number, and you know, do you want
them to ring or tip?

Speaker 7 (01:07:43):
It's funny because as a young person, people don't ask
for numbers anymore. They ask for social media.

Speaker 2 (01:07:49):
Account Yeah, someone said, you muppets, have you not heard
of sliding into someone's DM?

Speaker 7 (01:07:54):
Exactly exactly? So they'll start with their left, but they'll
go like, oh, do you have Instagram? Not do you
have Facebook? I guess? But or Snapchat that's a big one.

Speaker 2 (01:08:04):
Yeah. Yeah, So you're saying, at your age twenty two sore,
if someone came up and asked your number, that might
be seem a step too personal.

Speaker 7 (01:08:13):
Yeah. I mean, for I guess your generation, number makes sense,
but for mine, no, that is out of the blue.

Speaker 20 (01:08:20):
Very weird.

Speaker 3 (01:08:20):
Yeah, fascinating, fascinating. What about the drink situation is that weird?
If this guy had a bit more now so he said, wow,
can I please buy your drink? Would that get fun?

Speaker 7 (01:08:33):
I'd go, yeah, sure, and then maybe we'd start talking.
But I had another guy asked for a drink, and
I said, look like I'm talking to somebody else, and
he said, okay, just as friends. Can I get you
a drink then? And that was a really great way
to go about it, because he made it very clear
he didn't want anything more out of it.

Speaker 2 (01:08:48):
What about the suave guy and a tuxedo sitting on
the other side of the room and he a drink
arrives to you, like some kind of expensive and impressive cocktail,
and then the person serving you goes that that drink
is from the gentleman over in the corner, and then well,
I double he looks at you and gives you a
little bit of a wave, maybe a fake shooting of
the gun boom, you know, with the hand. Would that

(01:09:11):
worked for you?

Speaker 7 (01:09:11):
I would be shaking in my boots. I'd ask the
bartend day if there was anything in that dream, if
they were the one.

Speaker 2 (01:09:17):
Who made it, used to do I'm describing a scene
from a James Bawn movie there that probably doesn't operate
in the in the real world.

Speaker 7 (01:09:27):
Outdated.

Speaker 2 (01:09:28):
I think, Hey, thank you so much for calling, so
I really appreciate your your your insights. That's fantastic, no
problem you have a great good luck good luck out there.

Speaker 3 (01:09:37):
Yeah, what a great call a couple of teks before
we're going to play some messages.

Speaker 2 (01:09:42):
This is an interesting text, Matt. Can you imagine the
fallout if Laura McGoldrick was single and at the ends
creeking on TV and when I was asking crowd members
for their phone number and a date? Not great from Mike.
I don't because I've seen a lot of people saying
that if it was it was a female broadcaster, then
there would be more of a problem. Because it's a
male broadcaster. It's fine. I cannot picture that. I think,

(01:10:05):
if anything, it would be be the other way round.
If there was a female broadcaster and she asked someone
for a number, it would have been seeing.

Speaker 3 (01:10:12):
I don't think we'd be asking, don't you hear it?
There'd be no blowback or very little anyway.

Speaker 2 (01:10:16):
I don't think it would have been international news like
this one has. But I mean, am I wrong? O?
We eight hundred and eighty ten eighty and yeah? Is
it okay to go up and slide someone your digits
if you fancy them? Yep?

Speaker 3 (01:10:28):
Is sixteen to three?

Speaker 2 (01:10:30):
Can I just rephrase that your number? That didn't sound right?

Speaker 3 (01:10:34):
Yeah, Yeah, let's just smooth over that. One hundred eighty
ten eighty is out digits and love to hear from you.

Speaker 2 (01:10:39):
It is sixteen to three.

Speaker 1 (01:10:42):
The issues that affect you and a bit of fun
along the way. Matt Heathen Tyler Adams Afternoons News.

Speaker 3 (01:10:48):
Talk said, B News Talk said, be here's a text.

Speaker 2 (01:10:52):
I've got a vaguect recollection of Chris Gale trying something
like this and an interview. That's right, he was. He
kept saying don'd blush baby when he was sort of
being a bit flirtatious on during some crick coverage. He
got quite a lot of pushback on that, which he
didn't care about because I saw him doing a DJ
seat recently on stage and he was just yelling don

(01:11:13):
blush baby, blush baby, over and over again. So he
was if he was in the wrong, he was unremorseful.
There does Chris gal for Yeah, welcome to the show.

Speaker 22 (01:11:23):
Hello, first of all, and heads up, I haven't seen
a piece of footage that you're discussing, so I'll put
that to one side. And the risk of a pylon
from all the younger ladies. I just want to say
that I feel really sorry for men. Now, it must
be really hard. The last one I gave my phone

(01:11:43):
number two was forty five years ago, and we've been
known for over forty years, so I've got no idea
what it's like now. But I mean, I don't think
this antient creepy about a man asking for your number.

Speaker 17 (01:11:58):
You can just say no.

Speaker 22 (01:12:01):
Yeah, And I think that the faithbook, stalking and all
of that were much more creepy. Yeah, I just want
to say, God, it must be I would hate to
be a young man.

Speaker 19 (01:12:15):
All of this.

Speaker 22 (01:12:15):
It sounds like a nightmare. I'm like, I'm old.

Speaker 2 (01:12:21):
Well, so when you say asking for your number, a
lot of people are saying that the better approach would
be someone to offer their number, so you could decide
to do that whether you wanted to come back to them.

Speaker 22 (01:12:34):
Well, this is how old I am. I met my
better half as years ago in England as things called discos.
Do you remember discos? Probably not.

Speaker 17 (01:12:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 22 (01:12:47):
It was at the end of the night when they'd
always put slow music on and we called it the
grub and grow music. So a man would walk across
the floor and say would you like to dance? And
you'd either have the option to say yes or no,
So I said yes to this man who asked me
and we danced and can I please have your number?

(01:13:09):
And I said sure, and he came across and I
gave him my number and he called me three days
later and we've been married.

Speaker 20 (01:13:17):
I was four to you.

Speaker 2 (01:13:19):
Wow, So how different with your life been if A
he hadn't got up the carriage to come over and
talk to you, or B you'd said no thank you,
or if someone had got in there and snaked you first.
That wasn't as great a person. It's a real siling
doors moment, isn't it.

Speaker 23 (01:13:35):
Yeah?

Speaker 22 (01:13:35):
Well, i'd actually I haven't spotted my husband's dead, and
I've actually spotted a rather handsome man who I was
hoping would come and talk to me, but apparently he
hadn't got the courage. So my now husband thought, well,
I'm going to get him quick.

Speaker 2 (01:13:50):
Yeah, and he did. So was this guy more handsome
than your husband?

Speaker 1 (01:13:56):
M it was?

Speaker 20 (01:13:58):
It?

Speaker 22 (01:14:00):
Well? No, my husband's really handsome. He was really handsome. However,
I did find out later that I'm glad that my
husband not the other guy because you're the guy. Isn't
that nice?

Speaker 17 (01:14:12):
Yes?

Speaker 22 (01:14:12):
So yeah, but I just thought that you speak a Muntians,
you know, you know, you'd sit there with your girlfriends.
You'd get up and you'd be down somewhere your humbug,
you know, and then you'd sit down and it's how
you know he's not and that's how he's coming over.

Speaker 7 (01:14:26):
He's coming over.

Speaker 2 (01:14:27):
It's lovely.

Speaker 3 (01:14:28):
I mean, that's part of what's lost though, Patricia. Imagine
your husband was quite a good dancer. Whereas young fellas
these days, I'm going to venture not many of them
are great.

Speaker 2 (01:14:37):
Well, just goes to back what I'm saying before. The
problem with the apps, right is it's just swipe, swipe, swipe.
And if you if you, you know, you may have
a lot to offer in terms of personality, in terms
of of imagination and you know where you're going in life.
But if you're just being swiped past, ye, you can't
really overcome that. But I think for the longest time,

(01:14:57):
and that's why they say, you know, the stats on
apps are really bad, Like you know, teen percent of
the men are getting ninety percent of the woman. Yeah,
because they're just going for the same people over and again.
But there was always a chance for you, maybe your
guy that wasn't quite six foot maybe a bit fugly,
but had good chat to win someone over, and often
that ended up being the better option for And look,

(01:15:18):
I'm not saying that about Patricia's husban because he sounds
pretty hot. Maybe not as hot as the.

Speaker 3 (01:15:21):
Other guy, but clearly swear goes a long way.

Speaker 2 (01:15:25):
But from both sides of it, the opportunity for someone
to you know, pitch themselves, yeah, in person is levels
the playing playing field because there's a lot of hot
a holes out there. There's a lot of hot people
that maybe on the on the swipe of the right option,

(01:15:46):
but in real life turned out to be just a
terrible player. Whereas the guy that just puts in the effort,
the old battler with a good chat, you know, maybe
he's the better option. And maybe in these days people
aren't getting to meet that guy.

Speaker 3 (01:15:59):
It's getting to the interview stage. They've had to look
at the CV and think, I don't know, pretty pretty
ho harm, but we'll give him a shot, get him,
get him to an interview, and then boob, hey, this
guy's actually bloody frondie, he's a good laugh. Let's hire him.
That's what's missing these days. Oh, eight hundred and eighty
ten eighty is the number to call.

Speaker 2 (01:16:15):
It is eight to three, the issues that affect you
and a bit of fun along the way.

Speaker 1 (01:16:21):
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Speaker 3 (01:16:32):
Us Talk saidb it is five to two three, and
that's what we're talking about, asking four phone numbers on
the back of a situation that unfolded in the United
States a reporter who asked for a fans number live
on air.

Speaker 2 (01:16:45):
And got quite a bit of pushback on social media.
On behalf of all single men in this d and age,
we can all agree that most women these days have
such high standards and expect a Cinderella story every time.
It's too much work. So for us, it's easier to
avoid the nile from a girl and just stay single.
And let's be real, if you do manage to pull
a bird, that relationship will probably fizzle out almost immediately.
But that's a camem text. This text says, I'm a

(01:17:07):
twenty four year old female and I love a man
coming up to me. I love the flirting and the
back and forth. To be honest, it's why I go out.

Speaker 3 (01:17:15):
Yes, good text. Some disparate views here Paul says, get
a guys. Most of your callers are bang on. Poor
old guys. Get a hard time. It's hard enough plucking
up the courage, and then when you do and fail,
you get critiqued by bitter ladies. I'll stay single forever
and I prefer it that way.

Speaker 23 (01:17:33):
Not me.

Speaker 2 (01:17:34):
I approached my lovely lady. Yep, she was key.

Speaker 3 (01:17:37):
And never give up, hope, Paul, never give up hope. Right,
that is a great discussion. Thank you very much to
everyone who phoned and text on that.

Speaker 12 (01:17:45):
One.

Speaker 3 (01:17:45):
Coming up, we want to have a chat about night
road works. It's kicking off in Wellington. One resident in particular.
It's always one resident, isn't it. Not a group of them,
But one resident is pretty irate that they're doing work
at all times and hours of the night.

Speaker 2 (01:18:01):
Yeah, I say, suck it up. Progress involves work and
twenty four hours work is better than eight hours of work.

Speaker 3 (01:18:08):
Okay, all right, all right.

Speaker 2 (01:18:10):
Also, we have our mechanic on, Yes, Matt the mechanic.

Speaker 3 (01:18:15):
He'll be on after three point thirty and it always
pays to get in earlier if you've got mechanical worries.
He's the man to chat to. Our eight hundred and
eighty ten eighty is the number to cour News, sport
and weather on its way. Great to have your company.
As always, you're listening to Matt and Tyler. We will
see you back here very surely.

Speaker 1 (01:18:51):
Your new home for insateful and entertaining talk. It's Mattie
and Taylor Adams afternoons on News Talk SEBBI.

Speaker 3 (01:19:00):
Good afternoon to you, welcome back into the show. Just
a reminder, in twenty five minutes time, we're going to
have Matt the Mechanic on as part of out Us
the Experts series. He is an expert when it comes
to everything mechanical. He's worked on pretty much every car
brand under the sun, and it paced again in early
he'll be with us for half an hour.

Speaker 2 (01:19:18):
Speaking of cars, Tyler, there has been some late breaking news.

Speaker 3 (01:19:23):
There certainly has. So this is just hit out inbox
and it is an absolute doozy.

Speaker 2 (01:19:28):
I find it really interesting. So we're going to put
the subject we're going to talk about, which is late
night roadworks to bed yep. Nice pun from its very good,
very clever it is. Yeah, I'll accept your applause. On
nineteen nine two for how funny I am? But this
is a very interesting, interesting note. Could you please read
it out to everyone? Tyler?

Speaker 3 (01:19:47):
Yeah, so this was a note left on a woman's
vehicle in Wellington. And here is the note. Dere beatle owner,
please stop parking around here. I don't enjoy seeing your
silly car with its silly eyelashes and pink sticking plasters.
It looks like a car version of Nicki Minaje. Please

(01:20:08):
refrain from parking here. There is Wilson's parking nearby or
other options. Yours, sincerely, the residence of Teatle Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:20:18):
So, I wonder how many people are backing that up?
So is that reasonable if you've just got a car
that is so rude and annoying that it's not actually
breaking any laws with its parking, but its cringe factor
is just so high that you can't stand it.

Speaker 3 (01:20:34):
I mean, that is it is. It is a fairly
obnoxious looking car. I mean, those eyelashes haven't been in
vogue since what the nineties? Even then I don't think
they were that cool looking. Then the plasters, I mean,
it kind of does look like the car vision of
Nicki minaj.

Speaker 2 (01:20:49):
Well, what are the most okay? So, what are the
most annoying? Car features that people have, like eight hundred
eighty ten eighty, like, for example, I know I said, like, wait,
hundred eighty ten eighty that it's a number. That is waight,
hundred eighty ten eighty is a number. But I know
people that get very annoyed with you know, those stickers
on the back of the cars. That's a you know

(01:21:09):
your family. Oh so you've got stink figures? Yeah, they
stick figures. A. I don't know what they're for. And
I know this is an old topic because these have
been around for a very long time. I don't know
what they're four. And but I don't really find them annoying.
I don't really care, but I do. I do find
eyelashes on beatles annoying for some reason. I don't know why.

(01:21:31):
It just seems like, Okay, I get it. And look,
this is coming from a huge fan of the movie
The Love Bug. You've seen that, yes, yeah, The Love Bug? Right,
fantastic movie. Do you know that was the movie that
got Tarantina, Quentin Tarantino into movies?

Speaker 1 (01:21:43):
What was that?

Speaker 2 (01:21:43):
He a love Bug or movie? He was taken to
it by as mum and her boyfriend and he saw
it and he goes. This was for the first time
I saw a movie and went, oh, I get movies.
This is amazing, love bo fantastic movie. So look the
personification of v d abs. I'm not one hundred percent
against in all those And Herbie goes Banana, great great movie.

Speaker 3 (01:22:03):
Yeah, Herby, Yeah, it's very Herby looking like I mean
the other one that comes to mind. I don't know
if it's done that often, but the fluffy dice dice
in the attached to the rear view mirror.

Speaker 2 (01:22:13):
You've got a problem with that. Yeah, it just looks
that's a classic one. Yeah, but it looks nef That's
a classic classic muscle car move. So would you leave
a note on a car that had get your get
your fluffy, get your fluffy dice out of here?

Speaker 3 (01:22:28):
Would I go so far as leaving a note?

Speaker 1 (01:22:29):
I might do?

Speaker 3 (01:22:30):
After this person?

Speaker 2 (01:22:31):
Can can this? Can this note actually be? Is this
actually real? Can someone as someone legitimately, I mean someone
legitimately so annoyed at someone's stupid eyelashes on their VD
that they've left a note? Or is there a little
bit of is a little bit of a prank in there?

Speaker 1 (01:22:51):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:22:52):
I mean it's quite well written. I mean, do I
say this that The funny part to me, the extra
funny part is it's actually written on a piece of
letter paper that says ends in me right on the
bottom corner. Now, I'm not saying that it's anyone from
this company. Those notebooks went far and wide, but that
just adds a little bit of entertainment value to me.
Do we know anybody that lives on Toato that works

(01:23:13):
for the company? I wite hundred eighty ten eighty.

Speaker 2 (01:23:16):
Well, Well, that's that's a hell of a clue. You know,
that's a that's a nineteen sixties Batman TV series level clue.
If they're trying to find out who did it that
they they write the note with a paper that says
where they work.

Speaker 3 (01:23:28):
Yeah, maybe it is just a distraction. They're trying to
push it towards somebody else who's got nothing to do
with it. But I went one hundred eighty ten eighty.
What is the most obnoxious things that you see on
cars these days?

Speaker 2 (01:23:39):
Yeah? And is it okay? Is it cool to put
a note on it and try and read card someone
from the area because they're part of their car?

Speaker 19 (01:23:50):
Is rude?

Speaker 2 (01:23:51):
Yeah? Loved it. I mean can you walk someone for
having a rude number plate, like an uncool number plate?

Speaker 3 (01:23:57):
Definitely you can. I've seen a lot of really stupid
personalized number plates up here in Auckland. I've just got
to say, I don't know, per capita, there is some
such dumb ones and you pay money for that? Why anyway?
Yeah eighty What are the obnoxious things you see on cars?
Love to hear from you? And also, if you've got
a personalized number plate, what does it saying?

Speaker 2 (01:24:16):
Why do you get it?

Speaker 3 (01:24:17):
It's twelve past three, good afternoon. It is called a
PRS three And we've asked you what is the most
obnoxious thing that you see on cars, including personalized plates.
If you've got a personalized plate, what does it say
on it?

Speaker 5 (01:24:32):
And why?

Speaker 2 (01:24:33):
Or are you like me?

Speaker 22 (01:24:36):
It?

Speaker 3 (01:24:36):
Just think that's so stupid. I've seen such stupid personalized plates.

Speaker 2 (01:24:40):
The boss of personalized plates and New Zealand already hates me.
Oh does he? Yeah, I've heard there's a great fight, Trish,
welcome to the show.

Speaker 7 (01:24:48):
Hi.

Speaker 2 (01:24:49):
What don't you like on cars? What annoys you?

Speaker 13 (01:24:53):
Well?

Speaker 24 (01:24:55):
It's kind of in two phases, really.

Speaker 20 (01:24:59):
Blue and red lights, but particularly when they're flashing and
my revision. They're really upsetting.

Speaker 3 (01:25:06):
Yep, yeah, that would be what the police. Yes, okay, right, okay, yeah,
I mean it does freak people out, but you know
it's the reason for it.

Speaker 2 (01:25:18):
Are they chasing you, Trish?

Speaker 20 (01:25:21):
Well, quite quite possibly, mirror. I guess. I wouldn't go
so far as to seek them out and put a
note on their windscreen or anything.

Speaker 19 (01:25:32):
Pretty good, but they're inclined.

Speaker 20 (01:25:34):
To do it for me.

Speaker 6 (01:25:36):
Are you what are you?

Speaker 2 (01:25:37):
Are you speeding? Are you over the limit? What are
you doing? Trish? That's attracting the police?

Speaker 20 (01:25:47):
I choose not to answer.

Speaker 3 (01:25:51):
You've done that before, Thank you very much. Real bad Exectrish, Yeah, yeah,
dangerous Dave, how are you, mate?

Speaker 13 (01:26:01):
You're fine, fine, you're you're you're asking a personal.

Speaker 3 (01:26:05):
And yes, have you got one?

Speaker 13 (01:26:08):
I have I've had on my car since two thousand
and four.

Speaker 14 (01:26:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:26:12):
And what does it say?

Speaker 13 (01:26:14):
It says do not, do not, do not. Basically, it's
a I've got the message. The top m bodment says,
bend your knees, then do not use your back like
like crane.

Speaker 2 (01:26:30):
Right. Oh that's a good that's that's a nice message.

Speaker 20 (01:26:33):
So d.

Speaker 16 (01:26:36):
Rings.

Speaker 1 (01:26:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (01:26:38):
Catchphrase from the nineties acc was was precious Precious.

Speaker 2 (01:26:44):
Was Precious McKenzie involved in that as well? At one point?

Speaker 21 (01:26:48):
I think he?

Speaker 13 (01:26:48):
No, No, he wasn't. He wasn't involved in anything like that.
But Lynn Ring did treat Precious mackenzie on a number
of occasions.

Speaker 10 (01:26:58):
Right, and so why before he went to the Olympics.

Speaker 3 (01:27:01):
Why did you love that campaign so much? Dave we
involved in that campaign?

Speaker 22 (01:27:06):
No?

Speaker 13 (01:27:06):
Well, Lean Ring's my father.

Speaker 2 (01:27:08):
Ah, right, that's that's that's a nice, nice connection.

Speaker 13 (01:27:13):
Yeah. Well, like I i'd pot the plate on in
two thousand and four. I've had it on seven different
vehicles over the years, and unfortunately my father he passed
away in two thousand, two thousand and three, so he
never got to see it.

Speaker 2 (01:27:31):
Oh, that's that's that's rough. What's the so dot it?
Why are we not being told because that was a
great message, don't use your back like a crane. Why
are we not being told then anymore?

Speaker 10 (01:27:42):
Or thought?

Speaker 2 (01:27:42):
That was just ingrained?

Speaker 3 (01:27:43):
Isn't it? Is that most people would bend from the knees,
Is that right?

Speaker 2 (01:27:47):
Not your back? Yeah? No, no, yeah, you're supposedly you're
supposed to sort of squat when you lift things up. Yeah,
I mean is that still a thing? Don't use you
back like a crane.

Speaker 3 (01:27:55):
Someone will know nine to two nine two is the
text number just on days one. I mean, that's not
a bad one, but I'd probably read that as donut
rather than do not.

Speaker 2 (01:28:03):
Nothing wrong with donut.

Speaker 3 (01:28:04):
Yeah exactly, I'd just be a bit confused about what
it meant.

Speaker 2 (01:28:06):
Chierlian, how are you.

Speaker 15 (01:28:10):
Good?

Speaker 19 (01:28:10):
Thanks?

Speaker 2 (01:28:11):
And yep you go yeah, sorry, I got well.

Speaker 25 (01:28:16):
I I won my Suzuki on Family of Feud. So
the kids convinced me into putting number one this on
the car, so and then and then put you know,
a little surrounding on it. Family and I asked about
when it happened. I got I said, oh she's precocious,

(01:28:39):
but it's quite fun.

Speaker 21 (01:28:40):
People come up to me said, did you.

Speaker 25 (01:28:42):
Really you know, and it's been a bit of a
talking point.

Speaker 3 (01:28:44):
Yeah that's nice.

Speaker 2 (01:28:45):
So family Feud was that the one that was was
on not too long ago? Die Inward?

Speaker 3 (01:28:51):
Yeah, yeah inward fantastic. How did you do it?

Speaker 2 (01:28:55):
Did you do pretty well?

Speaker 22 (01:28:57):
Well?

Speaker 21 (01:28:57):
So we won the car?

Speaker 2 (01:28:59):
Yeah that's pretty good.

Speaker 25 (01:29:01):
And about ken Ka, I think something as well, so yeah,
you know, the kids thought, no, it's a good ideas
that you don't want to carry.

Speaker 7 (01:29:07):
Off and nice.

Speaker 25 (01:29:08):
Well, yeah, you're quite right.

Speaker 2 (01:29:10):
Yeah, and there's that. It was the Suzuki Swift, was it?

Speaker 17 (01:29:15):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:29:15):
It was yeah, still going, still going okay, Yeah.

Speaker 21 (01:29:18):
No help driving.

Speaker 16 (01:29:19):
At the moment, I think of.

Speaker 2 (01:29:21):
Just you're driving at one hundred and ninety nine ks.
Hopefully that's impressive for a Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:29:35):
Yeah, it's getting up there.

Speaker 2 (01:29:36):
Thanks for you call, Julian, and congratulations on your family
feud win.

Speaker 3 (01:29:39):
Yeah, a couple of ticks here, guys. The testicles hanging
down from the towbar makes you look like an absolute wounder.

Speaker 2 (01:29:47):
Yeah, there's some of my neighborhood. There's a guy that
parks near my house. He's got a ranger with the testes.
I do walk past every day, and I'm slightly perplexed
by it. But I certainly wouldn't leave a note like
this guy has. I wouldn't leave a note. Could you
take testing induce me somewhere else?

Speaker 3 (01:30:05):
Yeah, I don't want to see your testes around here.

Speaker 2 (01:30:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:30:08):
Ten eighty is the number to call. Where we've asked
the question what is the most obnoxious things you see
on vehicles? On the back of a note that was
left on a beetle that had those god awful eyelashes
on the headlights in Wellington, But can you hear your thoughts?
Oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty is the number
to call. It is twenty one past three.

Speaker 1 (01:30:32):
Matd Heathen Tyler Adams. Afternoons call OH eight hundred eighty
ten eighty on news Talk ZB.

Speaker 3 (01:30:38):
Very good afternoon to you. It's twenty three pass three.

Speaker 2 (01:30:42):
A note has been left on a Veda bug with
eyelashes on its eyes, saying don't park here. Your car's
to annoy Yeah, dant me to read it out again? Yeah,
I want to hear it again.

Speaker 3 (01:30:52):
So it says the dear beatle owner, Please stop parking
around here. I don't underscore enjoy seeing your silly car
with its silly eyelashes and pink sticking plasters. It looks
like a car version of Nicki Minaj. Please refrain from
parking here. You're sincerely the resident of Tadle.

Speaker 2 (01:31:09):
Yeah. This Texas is the most annoying is the losers
that have speakers on the outside of their car playing
crap music at three am. Men past your house. I
wish I had an RPG susor Yeah. That's Texas's bullet
hole stickers and baby on board vias the Rey notices. However, However,
if they're on the same car, I approve the irony.

(01:31:29):
As for the note under the windscreen, maybe I should
post a note on my neighbor's letterbox to ask her
not to wear that obnoxious outfits she wears every Thursday.
I have to watch it walk down the street from
my kitchen window. How could someone have the gall to
criticize herbie? There's a lot in that. But so I
was explaining to this because the baby on board stickers,

(01:31:49):
some people are really annoyed about it because they go,
are you saying that I should drive carefully to protect
your baby? But isn't it that the baby on board stickers?
And of course Homer and the b Sharp's are a
fantastic baby on board song you might remember on The Simpsons?
But lovely, isn't it that I might do something crazy
because there's a baby on board? Isn't that why you
say it? It's kind of like having learner plates on

(01:32:10):
that at any minute you might have to spin around
and clean up some vomit and drive poorly. That's how
I talk.

Speaker 3 (01:32:17):
Then, when it goes further and it has the little
stick figures of everybody in the family.

Speaker 2 (01:32:22):
I don't get that. Yeah, I mean, with all due respect,
who cares?

Speaker 3 (01:32:26):
Who cares how many people you've got in your family?

Speaker 2 (01:32:28):
I wait, one hundred and eighty ten eighty Actually, nine
two nine two is the oracle of information whenever I
put it out there. It's better than an AI search.
It's better than a Google search. Why do people have
baby on board stickers on the back of their cars.

Speaker 3 (01:32:39):
Yeah, I one hundred eighty ten eighty is the number
to call as well. Guys, I saw a bumpersticker once.
That's said. I want to dial up my grandfather in
his sleep, not like his passenger's yelling.

Speaker 2 (01:32:50):
And screaming from Craig.

Speaker 3 (01:32:52):
Okay, yeah, that's a good bumpersticker.

Speaker 2 (01:32:54):
Uh John, how are you?

Speaker 22 (01:32:59):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (01:33:00):
Not too bad.

Speaker 24 (01:33:01):
I'm an obnoxious son, That's what I am.

Speaker 3 (01:33:03):
Right, Okay, what do you got?

Speaker 13 (01:33:05):
Yeah?

Speaker 24 (01:33:06):
Okay, so as you good. Imagine my parents make the
mistake of posting on Facebook. Hey we've just brought a
rap four. Hey how about this? Suggest a name for it?

Speaker 6 (01:33:15):
Yep, so so my my nephew.

Speaker 24 (01:33:18):
He suggested bum face as a name for the car,
and so althought, oh, yeah, that's great. So I said, yeah,
bum face, call it bum face. And then we had like,
if anyone gave any other suggestions, then I'd like reply
bum face. So we had this massive lobby group of
everyone calling their car bum face, and so they eventually

(01:33:40):
had to call it bumface. But they didn't put like
any significance on the car. So my my brother in
law snug I don't know if he drove over or
they visited, and he just snuck out and so he
put a surround around their number plate that said we
call this car bum face on the front of the back.

Speaker 17 (01:33:58):
It was so awesome.

Speaker 24 (01:33:59):
So so, yeah, we're pretty obnoxious.

Speaker 7 (01:34:01):
But yeah, that's that's my story.

Speaker 3 (01:34:04):
Yeah, proud and bumface bumface for the one.

Speaker 2 (01:34:09):
Okay, I've got the answer. People use baby on board
stickers primarily to alert other drivers and emergency responders that
there's a baby in the car's right there we go.
So some people get annoyed because they think they're going
they're showing off you've got a baby, or expecting people
to drive more carefully because they're around someone with a
baby in the car. The baby on board is very,

(01:34:29):
very important if there's an emergency responder, so that they
go to the back seat and get the baby out
if you've rolled or something. Yeah, you know, sort the
baby out first.

Speaker 3 (01:34:39):
That makes a lot of sense.

Speaker 2 (01:34:40):
So people that have been annoyed at baby on board stickers,
you're wrong. It's good to have a baby on boardstick
Now the family stick figures.

Speaker 3 (01:34:48):
I don't get that there goes too far. This tixt
sees guys the Beatles story and the eyelashes. I think
this person watches it being parked every day, and now
they are flirting with the owner. The next notes we'll
ask for a phone number from Jackie. Is pretty good, Jackie.

Speaker 2 (01:35:02):
Is that a treat of mean keeping keen type approach?

Speaker 3 (01:35:04):
Maybe it is. Yeah, I mean it was quite clever
writing your car's lame?

Speaker 2 (01:35:08):
Do you want to go on a day?

Speaker 3 (01:35:09):
It looks like Nicki Minaj, but I quite like your style, right.
I think that's where we'll leave it. Because standing by,
we've got Matt the Mechanic as part of our US
the Experts series, so you know the drill by Now,
Matt the Mechanicky is an expert in pretty much every
car brand under the sun. He said thirty eight years
experience as a mechanic. Can He'll be taking your phone

(01:35:30):
calls on oh, eight hundred eighty ten eighty. If you've
got a problem with your motor. He is the man
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Speaker 3 (01:36:57):
Thank you very much, Raylan, just before we introduce Matt.

Speaker 2 (01:37:00):
Yeah, so we're talking about those baby on board stickers
on cars, and I said that, you know, well, I
asked why they're on the exit. I didn't actually know
the baby on board sticks the primer sho alert other
drivers and emergency responders that there is a baby in
the car in the case of an accident. But as
Darcy water Grave steamed into the studio and said, you
should take them off then, because if they're to inform

(01:37:21):
the baby there's a baby in the car an accident,
if the baby's not in the car, then you should
take those off because otherwise emergency responders will be looking
for a baby that isn't there.

Speaker 3 (01:37:30):
Where's the baby, where's the baby?

Speaker 2 (01:37:31):
See if you take them off?

Speaker 10 (01:37:32):
And on.

Speaker 2 (01:37:33):
Currently, I'm teaching one of my sons how to drive,
so I've got the ol stickers on and I leave
them on all the time. And you know what, I've
noticed what people are mean to you if you've got
ol stickers on, tolerate a learner. They don't let you in,
they're grumpy, they get right up your girl.

Speaker 3 (01:37:47):
Yeah, okay, fascinating, But that has been a great half hour, right. So,
Matt Bullen has thirty eight years experience as a mechanic
in the automotive industry. He's worked for pretty much every
franchise brand from the Japanese through to the Europeans. And
you'll find him at Exile Autos and Fakatane and once
a month he joins us here at news Talk z
B to answer your questions about vehicles.

Speaker 2 (01:38:07):
Matt, get out of you.

Speaker 10 (01:38:09):
Good afternoon, guys.

Speaker 2 (01:38:10):
How are you very good? Let's get in with a
text message to start off. Hey, Matt and Tyler, I
have a question for your brilliant mechanic expert. Please. I
have a twenty sixteen Ford Transit custom van turbo Diesel
six SP manual and the engine malfunction warning keeps coming on.
It has had a software upgrades and numerous resets by

(01:38:30):
the Ford dealer, but no luck. It's so irritating, and
I'll never know if there is actually an engine fault.
I'm at the end of the road. Thanks matt Any thoughts.

Speaker 10 (01:38:41):
Yeah, you need to scan it and find out why
that the engine light comes on because one of the
sensors in the engine has detected a figure outside its parameters. Right,
Normally the sensors all have certain parameters that they lie within.
The common one isn't a oxygen sensor, you get very

(01:39:03):
it's common to have an oxygen sensor code. That may
be a faulty oxygen sensor. It could be an ELK
or a block air filter. It's just that the oxygen
sensor has detected a reading that it doesn't like. So
you need to scan it. Somebody's going to have to
scan it, find out what what code is causing that
light to come on, and start from there. If you've
been to the Ford dealer and they haven't been able

(01:39:23):
to do it, I'd probably recommend going what are electrician?

Speaker 2 (01:39:26):
Yeah, very interesting for you could just put a piece
of tape over the area where it flashes up so
you can't see it.

Speaker 13 (01:39:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:39:30):
Yeah, they can work for a little while. Mat Yeah,
not a good idea.

Speaker 3 (01:39:36):
A hundred and hundred eighty ten eighty is the number
to call if you've got a question for Matt. Now
is your opportunity, Sean, welcome the show.

Speaker 21 (01:39:43):
You got a question, Yeah, just a fairly general question.
I took a diesel vehicle to a mechanic with a
fuel injection issue which they said that fixed, and when
they were testing it or running it to make sure
a bearing not developed in the engine, which they said
was unrelated to the work that they have done. Sort

(01:40:05):
of thing, So what sort of It just seems really
busy up for people that had done just over one
hundred thousand k's to run a bearing whilst they were
fixing it to the thing. I'm just wondering if there's
any any rights you're entitled to it the punter.

Speaker 10 (01:40:23):
Yeah, look, it could be coincidental, but I don't like
coincidences that that is a bit weird to have that
happen while it's been serviced. Bearings generally run because they
run out of lubrication. So did they do any other week,
did they drain the oil, did they change did they
service it were What was the reason that the injectors

(01:40:44):
were done? Was it was it low on all pressure?
Maybe the injector fault was due to all pressure as well.
A lot of injectors rely on engine oial pressure to
operate as well. It may have been an existent condition.

Speaker 15 (01:40:57):
Yep.

Speaker 21 (01:40:58):
It was a crack in one of the injector lines
which they replaced and when they when the line was
cracked and let air into the system. So that's what
they were effectively remedying. So they replaced the lines and
bled it up, and they kept they kept the car
for quite a period of time to keep running it
and bleeding it. And they said, they left it idling
for a few hours and what have you to have

(01:41:19):
it go through. And then it developed this knock whilst
it was they were doing that.

Speaker 10 (01:41:26):
From based on that, it kind of sounds a little
bit suspicious. Well, you know, without actually seeing the vehicle,
but if it's developed a bearing knock, it's going to
need to be stripped down and have an engineery condition
to tell you why it did it. But it does
kind of sound a bit suspicious to replace the inject
the pipe. Really, it's you know, it's not it's not
a day's work. That's it can be a pretty quick
job to do. So, was it a franchise garage. Was

(01:41:52):
it the brand of the vehicle garage or was it market?

Speaker 21 (01:41:57):
It was at a Ford Mondeo and it was a
it was an NCAA mechanic, but it wasn't a franchise garage,
you know.

Speaker 10 (01:42:05):
Yeah, yeah, it does sound a little.

Speaker 2 (01:42:07):
Bit us Yeah, yeah, okay, thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:42:09):
Call Sean how that has helped all the best with
that one text question here, Matt, I have a Mitsubishi
per Pergerio and for about two days it made a
violent bang when starting it up. I was about to
take it to my mechanic and it's stopped and hasn't
done it since. Am I in the clear from damn?

Speaker 2 (01:42:26):
This is a classic. You're taking the mechanic and it
stops happening.

Speaker 22 (01:42:31):
Yeah, it is.

Speaker 17 (01:42:33):
Oh heck.

Speaker 3 (01:42:34):
I mean when he says violent bang, that edding violence
in there doesn't sound good.

Speaker 2 (01:42:38):
Well, it's a pageiro so it won't have a trunk,
so it can't be someone that's been shoved in the trunk.

Speaker 10 (01:42:44):
Yeah yeah, look, yeah, you need to somebody needs to
look at it. But if it's not doing it, it's
impossible to find. You know, when noises happen to a
customer and then they don't happen to ask. It's really
difficult to find if it's just when you're starting it.
It could be a front pulley, a creenk shaft or
something like that, but very difficult to diagnose without actually

(01:43:05):
doing it. You might just have to monitor it and
see if it keeps doing it, if it gets worse
or gets more regular than get into another garriage.

Speaker 2 (01:43:11):
Yeah, very good.

Speaker 3 (01:43:12):
Oh on one hundred and eighty ten eighty is the
number to call, And now is your opportunity to chat
to Matt. If you've got to worry about your motor.
He is the man to talk to. It is twenty
two twenty four.

Speaker 1 (01:43:23):
Matt Heath, Taylor Adams with you as your afternoon rolls
on Matt Heath and Taylor Adams Afternoons News Talks.

Speaker 3 (01:43:30):
It'd be afternoon and we do have Matt Bullen on
with us as we speak as part of our US
the Experts series Matt the mckennicas. He's now Matt, Thanks
again for your time.

Speaker 10 (01:43:41):
No worries, yem.

Speaker 2 (01:43:42):
You've got a question for Matt.

Speaker 23 (01:43:45):
Oh come here, Yeah, I haven't. Oh yeah, I have
a ninety one is in primer. It's an automatic and
when I put it into drive. It doesn't get mobile,
you know, for about ten seconds, and then it'll go.

Speaker 22 (01:44:02):
That's just from a cold start.

Speaker 17 (01:44:04):
When it's.

Speaker 10 (01:44:06):
And when you're driving it, you can you feel the
gears changing. Can you feel it going through the gears?

Speaker 23 (01:44:12):
Yeah, not not that smooth though, just a little.

Speaker 10 (01:44:18):
You go, Mat, Yeah, it might be an auto It
might be an automatic problem. It may also be a
command problem. Maybe stuck in third years. Sometimes it might
be in limp mode. But you're really probably gonna have
to get to an auto transmission specialist.

Speaker 3 (01:44:34):
Hopefully that helps.

Speaker 10 (01:44:35):
Kim, there's no lights on, there's no lights on the dash.
It's probably not an engine problem. That might be an
automatic transmission problem here.

Speaker 2 (01:44:41):
Yeah, good luck with that, Kim.

Speaker 3 (01:44:43):
Connie, how are you? You're on with me?

Speaker 21 (01:44:46):
Yeah?

Speaker 25 (01:44:46):
Hello, Matt.

Speaker 20 (01:44:48):
My daughters had had a tea.

Speaker 4 (01:44:50):
There keep squeaking.

Speaker 20 (01:44:54):
You start.

Speaker 10 (01:44:56):
There's the nist and tea is it?

Speaker 22 (01:44:59):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (01:45:00):
Yeah, and it just squeaks when she starts it.

Speaker 23 (01:45:03):
Yeah, there's squeaking noise.

Speaker 25 (01:45:04):
So she doesn't replaced recently the belts replaced.

Speaker 10 (01:45:11):
Yeah, yeah, okay, it does sound like a belt noise.
You could try when she starts it. If it's squeaking.
Turn the air conditioning on and off and see if
that makes a difference. That will load up one of
the belts. But if it just squeaks when it starts,
it does sound like if it's worse when it's wet
or is it? Does it do it all the time
or just when it's cold, starts laid out? Yeah, sometimes

(01:45:36):
when you get your belts replaced, sometimes they stretch a
little bit and you might need to go back and
have them readjusted.

Speaker 2 (01:45:41):
A Yeah, it could be a rodent sleeping in there
as well.

Speaker 3 (01:45:45):
Yeah, yeah, it could be a little little mice. Yeah yeah,
get a mate.

Speaker 2 (01:45:51):
You're on with Matt. What's your question?

Speaker 19 (01:45:53):
Oh yeah, yeah, mate, Yeah, Hey, I've got to pay
twenty seventeen holding Colorado.

Speaker 2 (01:45:59):
It'll turn over.

Speaker 21 (01:46:00):
But the what fire?

Speaker 19 (01:46:01):
I just wondered if you got an idea, just won't
it will tune, you know, crank crank, but at won
fire diesel? Diesel?

Speaker 21 (01:46:09):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 10 (01:46:14):
Has how long since it's been service? Has had has
A had a fuel filter?

Speaker 13 (01:46:20):
Yeah?

Speaker 19 (01:46:20):
You have changed You've changed all the filters.

Speaker 10 (01:46:23):
Okay, you've done that, You've done it yourself.

Speaker 19 (01:46:26):
Yeah yeah, yeah, And I'll bleed and I'll bleed when
the problem started out. Yeah, no, it's actually sort of
ah well, yeah, it's just sort of come on, I
just wondered if it was a you know, the electronic
or the fuel pumping the tank or whatever.

Speaker 10 (01:46:42):
But yeah, it's a bit of a just what a
Colorado system looks like. But you're probably going to have
to prime the fuel. If it's gone electric pump, you
can do it by cycling the key, turn the key
on and off a few times. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it hasn't.
It hasn't got a mechanical left pump that you can

(01:47:03):
pump by hand.

Speaker 12 (01:47:04):
No, no, no it's not.

Speaker 19 (01:47:05):
It's not not. My older one's got that, but one
of the newer ones that has not got to sort.

Speaker 10 (01:47:10):
Of yeah, yeah, sounds like a fuel issue. But you're
gonna have to get somebody. You're gonna have to get
somebody to have a look at that one. Probably Diesel
Special Store holding specially.

Speaker 2 (01:47:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 19 (01:47:28):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, no, I thought i'd just see
if you if you Matt.

Speaker 10 (01:47:33):
As well, it's very common to have them trap here,
and sometimes they can be hard to start. Rangers can
be really hard to start after you've changed the fuel footer,
so yeah, I try cycling it a few times and
get that fuel pumped up. But yeah, you might have
to get somebody to have a look at that one.

Speaker 2 (01:47:48):
Good luck, Kevin Nick. You're on with with Matt now
and you've got a question about your Sabari.

Speaker 17 (01:47:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 26 (01:47:57):
I've got a two thousand and five outback and the
driver's door and the passenger jaw on the driver's side.
He is a key for lock and unlock that clicks,
but it doesn't lock it unlocked. The other two doors
do that fine, and I'll try to turn the til
lock on off, but they make the noise. They don't
lock or unlock them.

Speaker 10 (01:48:19):
So the driver's door doesn't unlock.

Speaker 26 (01:48:21):
In the back door, yeah, the driver's door and the
back door on the driver's side, but they have a
two fine.

Speaker 10 (01:48:26):
But the other side, Yeah, probably a weak actuator in
the door.

Speaker 26 (01:48:32):
Do I protect the doors to bit sweat your water?

Speaker 10 (01:48:37):
Yeah, yeah, it's probably a weator. They I mean they
can't get dirty and just sticky and just really hard
to move. And they're not they're not just not powerful
enough to move them if they're too dirty. But probably
a weak actuator. It's a bit odd that it's both doors.

Speaker 26 (01:48:50):
Though, yes, weird that came at the same time.

Speaker 10 (01:48:54):
Who is that? Unlett your confidence pulling the pulling the
door panels off? You could try pulling the panels off
and trying it and see if it works with the
door panels off.

Speaker 3 (01:49:05):
Yeah, I mean that that feels like a pretty big
job for a lame Matt. I mean, would you if
you don't know what you're doing, it's probably not the
one to give a.

Speaker 10 (01:49:12):
Crack possibly something. I'll go to Anuto Electrician four as well.

Speaker 3 (01:49:15):
Yeah, no, very good. One hundred and eighteen eighty is
the number to call if you've got a question for Matt.
Now is your chance?

Speaker 2 (01:49:21):
This person says they've got a Toyota viits that has
a pair of testicles hanging off the toe bar. They
are now getting a bit of gravel rash. What can
I do about that?

Speaker 10 (01:49:31):
Perhaps give them a saucer of milk?

Speaker 3 (01:49:33):
Yeah, yeah, very good, good answer.

Speaker 2 (01:49:35):
That's that. Kevin. You've got an issue with your clutch, Yeah.

Speaker 17 (01:49:44):
It's two thousand and seven ra Yeah, HS three. It's
a six leader six bad men. When you drive it
real hard, the clutch can drop straight to the floor
and that won't lift back up. You have to lift
it up WoT. Yeah, not all the time, but sometimes

(01:50:07):
and when you're driving out.

Speaker 10 (01:50:10):
Yep. The last one I saw doing that, The last
one I saw doing that, and it wasn't an HSV. Well,
I can't remember what vehicle was, but the the firewall
had cracked and the whole assembly, the mount point for
the clutch pedal was loose. But it also could more
likely probably just the hydraulic problem. It could be a
master cylinder or a slave cylinder.

Speaker 17 (01:50:32):
I've replaced both of them.

Speaker 10 (01:50:34):
Okay, does and the clutch doesn't slip when you're driving
it normally. Pull of carpets, pull the carpets back, get
in there with a torch and just make sure there's
no cracks around whe whether clutch assembly has bolted, to
the mask, to the firewall, make sure the whole thing's
not moving.

Speaker 22 (01:50:52):
Ye.

Speaker 3 (01:50:53):
All the best with that, Kevin. That sounds like it
potentially could be serious. Text question Yeah, text questionnaire for
your map and this text series. It's a tough one
for you, holding VT. You get a lot of holding
questions today with a random misfire has good compression and
new plugs, leads, coil pack, sensors et cetera, et cetera.
What am I missing? Oh?

Speaker 10 (01:51:16):
Yeah, if it's common common plugs and leads on those, Yeah,
you need to I need to drive it, or somebody
needs to drive it. You can tell a plug miss
from a surge or maybe clean the throttle body. But yeah,
it's yeah, I'd need to drive somebody would need to
drive that.

Speaker 3 (01:51:35):
Yeah, very good. Rich Its you got some problems.

Speaker 2 (01:51:39):
With you and this in.

Speaker 22 (01:51:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 18 (01:51:41):
I bought a Bran new in this in extrail DPO
one in July twenty three from after driving it for
ten minutes to get home, there was black smoke pouring
out from under the desk. Ever since then as I've
had mirrors, windscreen, wipers, breaks, jamming on, so many things
go wrong with it, and had it for four months,

(01:52:02):
said it's all Focus.

Speaker 10 (01:52:05):
Three, it's all under warrant. You can take it back
to the scene.

Speaker 18 (01:52:07):
Yeah, they're doing it under warranty. But it keeps coming
back and there's nothing wrong with it. And I'm sure
having breaks geming on.

Speaker 20 (01:52:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 18 (01:52:15):
The latest one is the three three folks came up
on the screen, took photos of them and the car
stopped in the middle of the road and said do
not get back into the car. They head of the
car and they're replacing the ulternator on it, but the
brakes are still jamming on and they're out of the
two not quite two years I've had. It's spent five
months the workshop, but they're refusing to really do much

(01:52:39):
about it, supposedly changing.

Speaker 10 (01:52:43):
Yeah, I'd be going back to the sales department telling
them that you are not heavy with it and you
either want a refund or another car. Now, I can't
give you legal advice, but that's where i'd be go.

Speaker 3 (01:52:53):
Yeah, very good to your old car.

Speaker 10 (01:52:55):
Should not be doing that. Yes, a misachief I dealer
principal or the sales department.

Speaker 3 (01:53:01):
Yeah, someone phoned in apparently met and they said the
consumer guarantees that not that the purpose. Get a lawyer apparently, Yeah, yep,
potential there.

Speaker 10 (01:53:10):
Go back to the dealer principle and so this car
needs to come back on another one or my money back.

Speaker 2 (01:53:15):
Hey, this sixth and Mets is looking up Gavin daughter's
car from a two thousand and seven Mesa Alex Alexa.
Can you recommend any hatchbacks that are reliable and good
mechanically please? Coler Torota Coroler that's the best one.

Speaker 10 (01:53:31):
Yep, I got two?

Speaker 2 (01:53:32):
Okay, okay, right is it all? You've had a Corolla? Fantastic.
I think we've got time.

Speaker 3 (01:53:38):
Well, as long as you're quick and it metal will
just have to be a short answer, but we'll go
for it.

Speaker 6 (01:53:44):
Yeah, get it, guys.

Speaker 7 (01:53:44):
I love what you're doing here, great old dear.

Speaker 6 (01:53:47):
I bought a fencing business and I know the truck's.

Speaker 17 (01:53:50):
Been absolutely abused and I've abused it for about the.

Speaker 24 (01:53:53):
Last twenty thousand.

Speaker 19 (01:53:55):
K's just home big loads Dmax twenty twenty.

Speaker 6 (01:54:01):
There's a time to get rid of it.

Speaker 17 (01:54:02):
What do you reckon?

Speaker 26 (01:54:03):
There's a few things creeping in like clutches against sticky.

Speaker 19 (01:54:07):
Other than that, it's been pretty good.

Speaker 13 (01:54:08):
So do you think it can keep trying?

Speaker 3 (01:54:11):
All right, Matte, big question.

Speaker 10 (01:54:13):
They went great to begin with, very good, Well all
the best mate. You're accounting a new vehicle.

Speaker 3 (01:54:21):
Yeah, very good, Matt. We'll run out of time. Definitive
answer again, Yeah, get rid of the DMX Matt. Thank
you very much again, mate, Always enjoy having you on.
So we'll chet again at about a month's time.

Speaker 10 (01:54:32):
May worries that was awesome.

Speaker 3 (01:54:35):
Yeah, all right, that is Matt. Bollin met the mechanic
of course, part of our US the Expert series, and
there is always advice offered on the segment has done
in good faith and should always be confirmed by a
physical inspection of your vehicle. It is eight minutes to four,
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