July 5, 2024 • 29 mins
This week on The Highlight Reel James is feeling the cold on his bicycle while Simon eats something that tastes like plastic.
There's double the amount of physical cash in circulation than there was 10 years ago - Si and James want to know why we love cash so much?
The pair debate the Government's announcement on testing kids in primary school.
There's some sobering conversation about driving while tired and a good chat over plans to open up land for development and remove restrictions on the size of dwellings.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Simon Barnett and James Daniels Afternoons
podcast from News Talks, edb Chats, laughs and the best calls.
This is the Highlight Reel with Simon Barnett and James
Daniels Howard by News Talks edb Ooday Folks.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
We are joined by Rowena dank get A Row.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Hello team.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
You know.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
One thing row I love and have always loved about
Dunedin is it's a city, but it's small enough that
when there's a big event on you really feel it.
Everywhere celebrates it. And there's no bigger occasion almost in
Dunedin than when a Test match or a Super Final
comes to town.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Oh it's something else. It really is very very special
and it's also quite an amazing weekend if you've got
accommodation as well, because that's the yes you're here in Tonedan.
It's not getting tickets to the event, it's finding accommodation.
So that's why so many of the farmers I've spoken
to down here are actually able to make it in
for the game because their farms are within killey of
(01:03):
Forsyth Bar, so they're able to come and go to
the game and then home, which means there is a
bit more accommodation for out of town people. But yeah,
it is a real challenge. But the atmosphere this morning
was amazing. I just picked up Jason pine host of
Week in Sport here on Newstalks. He'd be he's flowing
from Wellington for the game.
Speaker 5 (01:21):
He said.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Everyone on his flight was basically a buzz with all blacks,
friends of ours who are farmers in Tartanaki who happen
to have sired the captain, the vice captain and one
of the other all blacks in the twenty three. Yeah,
they were on the same flight as well, and you
know they're so excited to be down here for the game.
(01:42):
I said to Robin, you know, as we're walking out
to the car, doesn't feel different and she said it does.
You know, I think that I've got the weight of
what Scott is feeling on their backs as well. And
you know, Paul Piney then had to listen to farming
chat all the way from the airport into town. You
know about whether there are are the heifers and their
cows are starting to bag up ahead of carving, which
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they are because they're not far away from carving up
there in Tuartanaki at the moment, and then what's going
on in the district, and yeah, poor Piney, but that
is a bit of a consideration for them. They'd love
to go to all of the All Blacks games in
New Zealand, but the farmer's calling and they said, usually
these games are a wee bit earlier and so they
can get to them before they really get into carving.
So they've had to actually pick and choose which games
(02:24):
they're going to. But this one is going to be a.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Really really special occasion.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
The octagon is blocked off here in Duneda and a
lot of the roads are blocked off. But yeah, are
just a real buzz in the city ahead of this game.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Can't wait. Thank you very much for saving have a
good one, thanks sir.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
The Highlight Reel with Simon Barnard and James Daniels.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
News Talk said be e cigarette packaging and flavor is
going to be tightly restricted in Australia. They've become the
first country to ban the sale of vapes outside pharmacies.
The new laws come in to effect this coming Monday,
so the domestic manufacture, supply, commercial possession and advertisement of
disposable and non therapeutic vapes are completely banned under these
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new reforms, which means, simply put, they'll only be a
vaiddal behind the counter at pharmacies. Also, they're going to
control the nicotine concentrations. This is a big deal.
Speaker 6 (03:18):
Should we follow in their footsteps over here? I'm kind
of conflicted on this one because I really enjoy using
a vape. I enjoy the tactile notion of what of
doing it? The social side of it, well.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
I'll tell you what. Australia has gone hard on the consequences.
Individuals selling non therapeutic vapes from Monday may risk up
to seven years in jail and two point two million
dollars in fines.
Speaker 6 (03:40):
Now, these aren't the consumers. These are the people that
are selling them.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
They're retailers and individual retailers. Hello there, Johnny, mate, how
I am?
Speaker 5 (03:48):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (03:49):
Yeah, I've been better. I'm just watching the puppy destroy
another bead and pull the heir out of the stuffing out.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
They cost you fourteen animals. I've been saying for years.
John Engleman, K pok, Now, what are you reckon about
pharmacy only for vapes?
Speaker 7 (04:03):
I think the pharmacist skilled might have made some political
donations for I think it's not the greatest plan. I
think it puts people in a situation and pharmacies where
they're going to have to play catch up very quickly.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
The problem we've.
Speaker 7 (04:17):
Got here is there's also a massive amount of vapes
being imported that are about to become illegal or phased out,
and a lot of them are faulty duds. And there's
been an experience here where a lot of people have
been buying vapes from stores and tearing and opening the
packet up, turning it on, and then it starts bubbling
and fizzling like my distillery, and gets hotter and hotter
(04:41):
as the lithium battery starts to melt, they start to
really cook and burn and change the chemical structure of
the ingredients that are in there. And we know from
overheating things that we can do massive damage to our
lungs and the access that kids have got. All over
my street, in my neighborhood, all around every shop that
sells them, there's broken vapes, even on the fore court
(05:02):
at the pedro station. We need enforcement, We actually need
somebody just stop retailers from selling chunk.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
So do you think you would support one part of
this legislation Johnny that says you know, single use vapes
know to that band?
Speaker 7 (05:15):
Yeah, yeah, I reckon, and definitely make them available so
people can continue to quit smoking.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
Make them accessible. But as for this like candy.
Speaker 7 (05:25):
Floss, watermelon, lemon squeeze, pebble over stuff, what are we
doing where we're holking children into vaping? And in my neighborhood,
the kids who are wedding school today are hiding in
the bus stop on the rain vaping. And this is
what's really gorinds my gears is the parents that are
allowing their teenagers to vape because they think it's better
(05:45):
than smoking.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Interesting too, Johnny, you point out the flavors because this
is also what they've done in Australia, which I support.
The vapes will have plane packaging, that's the first thing,
but like our cigarettes here, and flavors will be restricted,
so the only ones you'll be able to get are tobacco,
menthol and mint.
Speaker 7 (06:01):
Be like RepA band where everything in the stores to
labeled bears.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
The Highlight reel finished this sentence. James Cash is king
exactly well said, Hey, so it wasn't a jack up either.
I guess that where do I win some cash? You
get nothing? You know. I mean, we all live in
a world now of after pay. I love the tap
and go online shopping. Many people have oiled themselves of that.
(06:27):
But I guess, well, at least for me, I should
only speak for myself. There's been a mindset I suppose
that cash is on the way out. I haven't carried
cash forever. It's like it's just something I don't do.
You've now realized that you're not like everyone else, but
I still have this mindset that cash is on the
way out. Well, it's not true, because Susan Guthrie from
the Reserve Bank said currently there is nine billion dollars
(06:51):
worth of cash, that is notes and coins in the
system compared to ten years ago, that's almost double. Yeah,
So my question is I mean from a story on
oran Zed, there's a few quotes from various people they interviewed.
One person says he loves cash because he feels secure
with cash in his pocket. Others say carrying cash is
important to them as a mindset thing. If there's a
(07:11):
natural disaster earthquake, ye, cyclone, whatever, they go cash well,
I'll be able to get through this.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
Well, there's also people who are on budgets and if
they've got the cash in their hand, they know how
much they've spent.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
They can see it and touch it. That's funny, James,
because I'm one of these people. If I carry cash again,
it's just a mindset thing. I'll just spend it. I
am absolutely completely gobsmacked at how many texts we're getting
now from people saying they have two grand or more. Yeah,
it's like the movies. They've stored them behind paintings in
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their houses, under mattresses. Wow, Jonathan, Welcome to the show.
Speaker 8 (07:51):
My wife and I used to have a system we
actually learned from Dave Ramsey. He talks about a system
where you draw all your cash and you put them
into envelopes in different categories.
Speaker 9 (08:00):
Oh yeah, that's.
Speaker 8 (08:02):
Where you're not able to overspend and it puts the
limits on how you spending in a month on a
particular item.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
Ah.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
So it's a budget try kind of restraint.
Speaker 8 (08:11):
Yes, like a bunch of your kind of restraint.
Speaker 10 (08:12):
So we were when we got married, we had.
Speaker 8 (08:15):
Very different ideas of finance and how to spend and
who has more control so we drew money, we put
it in envelopes and we use that system to restrict
ourselves and we were able to save for our Hunster deposit.
Speaker 10 (08:28):
Well, I think it's good to have a bit of cash.
You just don't even know what might happen. I think
it's a good idea.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
So do you carry cash with you? Oh?
Speaker 5 (08:35):
I do?
Speaker 10 (08:36):
Yeah, I do, and I have cash at home as well.
How much a couple of hundred bucks?
Speaker 2 (08:40):
And your prime reason for carrying the cash, Colin, When.
Speaker 10 (08:42):
You pay for things with cash, you're less likely to
go and spend your money because you're pending out cash,
whereas if you've got a card and pay wave. If
you just do your card and it's easy. But when
you've got cash, you know, you think about it before
you go and buy something. It's another reason. But they're
working on a central bank digital currency, so that's eventually
going to come in and they'll get rid of cash.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
I wonder if you're right on that score, Colin, the
way they'll do that. Yeah, thank you very much mate.
Quick text to finish this text. It just blows my mind. Hi, guys,
I have a safe and there is ten thousand dollars
cash in it. Now, it's a fireproof safe. Every house
should have one. I've just woofed down a protein bar
and I basically hoovered it up because we had the
(09:25):
show to do and I don't know eating while I'm working.
But it tasted like plastic. And you don't eat the
wrapping you No, it's just that I've been reading about
protein bars, and of course they're loaded with protein. Really,
if I don't have huge muscles by four o'clock, I'll
be very disappointed. Was it nice? No, it tasted like plastic.
(09:46):
Tasted like I said, chemocromes. And there's a big move
for people that are, you know, like trying to bulk up,
and big move to protein bars, and nutritionists are worried
because they're sort of seen as a food substitute, but
they're not. And I can see why that tastes like
I've just eaten a shoe.
Speaker 6 (10:02):
Why don't you just eat protein? There's an idea, no, no,
no protein.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Well, it's hard to get that level of protein in
a quick hit, right, I have sure, I have you know, salmon,
a chin of salmon or what anyway, that's really boring.
But I've just eaten this thing and now it's sort
of it's wed somewhere between my chest and the bows
and it feels like molten plastic. So highly disappointing that
and two of my kids have got COVID for the
(10:29):
third time, for the third third greedy, and you haven't
even had it. I still haven't had it. I said,
keep those vermin kids away from me.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
The Highlight Reel with Sion James. The Highlight Reel with
Sion James.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Christopher Luxon and Education Minister Erica Stanford have announced standardized
testing in primary schools. From twenty twenty five next year,
all children in their first year of school will have
the opportunity to run through a phonics check to help
teachers understand how well a child can read words by
sounding out the letters. So that's the first thing. It'll
be done at the twenty week mark and again at
the forty week mark. So that's obviously ostensibly to help
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teachers identify and kind of offer maybe additional support where
kids need it. And then progression monitoring on reading, writing
and mask be also introduced for children in years three
through eight. That's what we're discussing. Is this a good
announcement today? A good initiative or do you have some
reservations about it? Right, let's go to the phones. Jane,
Hi there there, How are you doing that? Are you're
going well? Thank you? Agree or disagree with this announcement.
Speaker 11 (11:31):
I agree. I come from a different probably look at it.
My thought is more from a governance perspective in schools
and that the boards to determine how we prioritize financing
in schools can identify with good testing where we need
to really invest in our comaha teachers and and our
students because without that really clear sift thing, yes, they
(11:54):
may known well what's going on in their classrooms, but
ideally we need to understand where are our resk students,
Where are those students that really need to be prioritized
so that they can get their resources and the help
that they need. And I think testing probably gives the
boards in the schools throughout New Zealand, all our wonderful
board trustees an idea of how they can actually help
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within schools to elevate the learning of those for those
at risk students.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Good point. Actually, Jane eric Stanford has said specifically that
actually she said this testing will help teachers identify struggling
kids and provide parents with rich data regarding how their
children are doing. But how would that affect the finance
and finances? I mean, what can you petition through the
course of the year saying hey, look we need extra
resource here. Can you do that?
Speaker 11 (12:38):
Absolutely, you can prioritize. You manage to identify a group
of students that are really struggling in a certain area.
You can help with extra feeds and starving with resources
for those students with extra support, you know, and boards
can do that. You know, their budgets and schools allow
them to support their fami like their principle to really
work in those areas that need extra help. And so
(13:00):
I guess that standardized testing probably just just a better picture.
We do get a bit of that now, but maybe
having more standardized means that there will be more unity
or more when they transition to the next school. There
is a little bit more consistency and how our kids
are performing.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
That's a very interesting perspective, Jane, thanks for calling in.
Thanks Hi, Simon and James. Teachers by and large dislike
a national led government, as do unions. Sadly, rather than
doing what's best for the kids, A lot of teachers
seem to be still focused on themselves. Since the national
standards were dropped in twenty seventeen, it has been left
up to teachers in schools how to teach numeracy and literacy.
(13:36):
That was a bagbear of mind too. It seemed arbitrary.
The text goes on, my son dropped into the void
age nine. If I hadn't spent thirty to forty minutes
a day with him at home teaching him to read
and write, he would be struggling in high school. Says
Peter highlight Reel. There was a story today, very difficult
read actually about this Tope War family, and they really
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have been torn apart, they say, by the actions of
a dangerous driver. And I think what has added very
much insult to injury for them at least is that
they believe the sentence handed down to the woman who
caused the deaths of Jeanine and Linda Ball was quote
unquote failure of the justice system. Kim Blakeney Williams pleaded
(14:18):
guilty to two charges of careless use of a motor
vehicle causing death. She was sentenced to one hundred and
fifty hours of community work. A twelvemonth loss of license,
and she was ordered to pay ten thousand dollars each
to the families of both the victims. There was an
outpouring I think of you know, language and stuff about rage. Yeah,
and that sentencing. In one comment I think I read
(14:40):
is that at Judge Tompkins said this during sentencing that
it was difficult to prove a high level of culpability
on the part of Blakeney Williams and said it was
likely she had fallen asleep momentarily before the crash. So
that's interesting in and of itself. But Francesca Hollingdale, she's
(15:01):
a family spokesperson, and she was talking of the deaths
of these two and she said, in my view and
the view of so many others, a vehicle as a weapon.
You have to have a license to operate a vehicle,
the same as you have to have a license to
operate a gun. Yet when you misuse these two things,
the consequences are so incredibly different. Which is a thoughtful piece.
(15:21):
So that's what we want to discuss. Should there be
a harsher sentence for falling asleep at the wheel? Should
the judge have put Kim Blakeney Williams in jail for
three years because she fell asleep. Yeah, it was understood
that that's what happened, can I Martin.
Speaker 12 (15:35):
But I've been a lobbying for Pacific crowdsey driving legislation
for least ten years with the politicians. To someone that
picked up as private members built right, and I think
it's absolutely necessary to get this in place. I mean,
it's absolutely no different from someone basically drinking, but from
knowing that they've drunk a lot of alcohol and going
out on the road, or smoking a lot of pot
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going out the road, or for that man of being
dog tired.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Alisa says, Guys, it was an accident. What did they
expect the sentence would be the family? I feel for them,
but what did they expect? Convicted pedophiles get home to detention.
You get five years for murder, says Alistair, get a term.
In your view, this woman should have been sent to jail.
Speaker 11 (16:15):
I think she should have got manslaughter.
Speaker 5 (16:16):
But I think there should be a category of the
hecular homicide or the.
Speaker 7 (16:19):
Hecler manslaughter where there's certainly a novel nine ten, but
there's a disregard mate.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Thank you very much. We'll finished with this text it's
from a lawyer who's just text into the show. The
woman was charged with careless driving causing death, for which
the maximum penalty is only three months imprisonment. Where deliberate
bad driving is involved, the police can instead charge dangerous
driving causing death. Dangerous driving causing death has a maximum
ten years imprisonment in cases of carelessness, so.
Speaker 6 (16:44):
This was careless driving causing death rather than dangerous.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Henceforth the light of sentence. Thank you very much for
taking the time to text us the best moments from
the week.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
This is the highlight reel with Simon Barnett and James
Daniels cowered by newstalks empty.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
As the government's message and the crackdown on truancy got through,
Flight Center data has shown that families with school aged
children choosing not to take their children out of school
to travel during school term bookings have dropped thirty percent,
which is when a lot of families were taking their
kids out because they say.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
That until the government cracked down on truancy. Yeh in April,
when they said that they're going to introduce the traffic
light system of punishments for students and their parents, including
fines for parents and police referrals.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
So the whole cheap airfare thing didn't suddenly have quite
the glitz and glamor the mystique that it once did.
They go on to say, this is the flight center.
What some customers are telling us is that many schools
across the country now have firm rules against taking kids
out of school for travel that is not deemed as crucial.
I'll tell you what's interesting. The sort of the usual
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suspects for you know, outside of school holidays travel was Fiji, Australia, Raratonga,
but data has shown more recently some long haul destinations
including Balley, London, Los Angeles, in Hawaii. I want to
be in those families. So has the message got through?
(18:13):
Are you more reluctant to take your kids out of
school outside of the school holidays, to go on a
holiday to take advantage of cheaper affairs given these you know,
this crackdown. Would love your thoughts.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
Sonya Hi.
Speaker 13 (18:25):
Last year we went over Easter in school holiday, yeah,
six thousand. This year we're going in tune time and
it's crossing three.
Speaker 6 (18:33):
Are you worried about the fact that the government is
cracking down on that sort of thing?
Speaker 13 (18:37):
Well, he goes to school every other day.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
But Sonya, that's because legally they have to.
Speaker 13 (18:45):
It's not like he's not going to schools and he's young.
He's seven, so it's not he's still young enough. I
think we can do it, okay, because we're taking him
for almost a month.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Jeepers, did you get a note from your school, because
a number of schools are now emailing or putting them
in newsletters detailing the schools they expects around attendance, did
you have anything like that from your school?
Speaker 13 (19:10):
I didn't last trap, but again it was in holidays.
I haven't told the school about this trip yet.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
So do you feel a wee bit guilty or not?
I'm not trying to put it on you. I'm just
asking you no, not at all. Don't you okay?
Speaker 13 (19:23):
I mean, if you're saving that much money and he's
going to learn so much culture wise when're over there,
and like I said, he goes every other day, it's
not like.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
But Sonya, are you worried about him? You're rather are
you thinking you're lucky stars he's learning the Balinese culture?
Or are we thinking I just want to put my
feet up on a lazy boy or lounger.
Speaker 13 (19:43):
A bit of both.
Speaker 6 (19:44):
Yeah, Hey, sonya, how come you're taking him away for
a month.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
It's a long time to be away.
Speaker 13 (19:49):
And how he likes the surf, it's kind of our
He works hard, he likes the surf. So we go. See,
it takes about a week to get your fend the
south and it's too cold here, suping Christ right.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Well, we love your honesty, Sonya. Good luck.
Speaker 11 (20:07):
Yeah, I mean you've got to do it.
Speaker 13 (20:08):
You only you know, you've got to enjoy these holidays.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
And he's only seven. Once exactly, thank you, Sonya. Boy
Trash says I just heard Sonya. I have to say
that is irresponsible, selfish parenting. Barley culture, what a hoot.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Chats laughs and the best calls. This is the highlight
reel with Simon Barnett and James Daniels powered Bundy's talk said, be.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
I'll tell you something. We've got some sunshine and christ jets. Now,
most people probably don't give a flying fat rats bottom
about that, but we've had gray weather for well, it's
felt like ten days minimum.
Speaker 6 (20:47):
Yeah, but the thing is that it looks good but
it feels very very cold.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Yeah. I just rode in on my bike and my
feet are still frozen. Yeah, it'll be minus three tonight,
they tell us. Yeah, James rides and every day rain, hail,
sleet or snow. My daughter actually passed James and he
has some moll As wet weather gear on. He looks
ridiculous and warm, and she text me. This is yesterday.
She text me and goes, Dad, can James not a
(21:11):
Ford petrol? Tell them I'll give him a left to work.
So I told James we have gone to work.
Speaker 5 (21:17):
Now.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
I admire you, I respect you. Oh that's that very impressive.
Speaker 6 (21:20):
Could you buy me some nice warm boots for my
feet because I still frozen from riding in this morning man.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Bringing you the best of the week. You're listening to
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Speaker 2 (21:35):
Chris Bishop announced a slew of changes to New Zealand's
planning laws, and of course a number of these have
proved to be and are proving to be quite controversial.
So the Government's going to abolish council's ability to set
fixed urban rural boundaries. In other words, that kind of
basically flood the planes with the land available to develop.
And they'll also abolish the powers and this is what
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we want to hone in on. They're going to abolish
the powers that let counsels mandate whether a property needs
a balcony, so that's a side issue. And also they'll
abolish powers that let count consuls set a minimum floor
area for a development.
Speaker 6 (22:09):
So in this instance, size does not matter to this government.
And I have to say I'm actually on board with
this thing because I think it's just about the market
determining what will be sold.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
And so you think if a developer goes in there says, look,
I'm going to build forty twenty square meter apartments, you
think the market will determine whether or not they're sellable. Yeah,
Chris Biship did front foot that, and he said, and
I quote, people often complain to me about all these
shoe box apartments, and I agree that they won't be
the right housing solution for everyone. But you know what
(22:43):
is smaller than a shoe box apartment a car or
an emergency housing motel room. But the thing is that
people who are living in cars are not likely to
be able to get a deposit for a home. Let's
be honest. I wonder too, with the increasing number of
immigrants to our country, they might be more familiar with
smaller apartments, and so maybe these things at thirty square
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meters will sell. Text here says you're on crack, you guys.
I will go out and buy ten small flats and
rent them out. I will make it killing. Nobody will
buy them to live in. Calls coming in here, thick
and fast. Hello there, Jeremy, Welcome to the show. Hey,
how's it going good? Thank you mate? So yeah, Now
do you work in the construction industry?
Speaker 9 (23:25):
Currently a financial advisor so mostly helped buyers, but I
have worked for a developer selling New Zealand stock overseas before.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Right, So what do you think of the announcements today,
particularly around this minimum footprint.
Speaker 9 (23:37):
It's interesting, you know, in terms of finance, banks are
very reluctant to lend to small apartments like that, so
it'd be interesting to see how it kind of pans
out in terms of, you know, where the first home
buyers could even get into them. When it comes to
whether or not it's good property stock for New Zealand,
I think, you know, from my experience, people feel a
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lot of pressure and they're going to buy a home,
it's a lot of money, a lot of expense. They
want to feel confidence while they're buying, and often marketing
and what's impressioning on them from the environment around them
has a big influence to that. So I think if
we do bring a lot of this into New Zealand,
people will buy it, whether or not it's good.
Speaker 5 (24:16):
For them or not.
Speaker 9 (24:18):
But the profit and the wealth goes to develop its
I think there should be a bit more ownership on
their end as to what sort of homes that we're
putting into our country. I think we want our properties
to look beautiful forever, you know, not be big cement
block apartments right now.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
I totally hear your reservations. Thank you, Jeremy for taking
the time to phone us. I guess the thing is,
I wonder if just the way the world is now,
it's an expectation. I've certainly got it in this country.
I think, you know, we used to have the quarteracor
dream right. Well, I don't think people think that anymore,
which is why there's been all this infilling of homes
in every city. There was a couple of generations ago, though,
(24:56):
but there's still the mindset of New Zealanders is you
have some lawn. Yeah, you know, you have a fence. Yeah,
well that stuff, but it is changing front lawn in
many parts of the world now, apartment living is that
there's never an expectation to even own your own home. Ever,
so if we have to have smaller apartments, people can
still own them. That's better than renting text here, says
(25:19):
I Reckon. This could also be great for people who
don't mind having a smaller place but can be mortgage free. Sooner.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
The Highlight Reel with Simon Barnett and James Daniels available
worldwide on iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
We admire athletes when there's extreme athleticism, prowess, prodigious talent,
and you go, wow, you admire them, you respect them.
In some cases we idolize them, which I think is
personally wrong. Withe you go, that's just me being a
blue nose wowser. But then there are other sports that
are captivating for a whole different reason and you can't
(25:53):
really explain why. One such sport is the sport of powerslapping. Now,
if you haven't heard of powerslapping, it's kind of like, well,
it's violent. Dana White is the main man behind that.
He started the UFC, the Ultimate Fight Club, which a
lot of people love, a lot of people loathe, kind
of an equal measure and this is very brutal. This
(26:14):
is an aspect of UFC kind of condensed into bite
sized moments. So what you do? Two slappers, as it were,
these at their slappers are the literally slappers. They face
off over a podium. They look like they're on rhyds
and they each take turns to slap each other as
hard as they can over three to five rounds. And
(26:35):
the hoper is the dream is you knock your opponent
out cold, that's on or in the face, open hand Yep.
They do have fowls clubbings of fowl where the slap
fisting wraps around the back of the head fisting. Well,
you can't, You've got to have your hand open. Yeah,
I mean yeah, I don't think it's called that.
Speaker 5 (26:52):
That was it.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
I don't know. You're the one who's calling me. Yeah,
I don't think it's that, mate. It's well, you call it.
Speaker 6 (26:59):
Clubbing, yeah, clubbing, Okay, you call it clubbing.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
I think everybody calls it clubbing. I've heard nobody call it.
What you call it all right, yeah, carry on anyways,
so so we'll move on very quickly. So there. I
watched it and it's just it's I don't know, it's barbaric,
but it is compelling. I don't know. It's the anticipation.
Unlike most sports, you don't know what's coming here, you do.
(27:24):
You put your arms by your side and you sided
like I'm grimacing and clenching, waiting for it everything. And
when they smack you, it's in slow ma on occasions,
and you can see their faces wabble like an old
beagle hound. Then spray just gets scattered under all over
the atmosphere. It's like, oh, it's terrible. No, it's not
for me, Hi, Mike, here's go mate, good, thank you.
(27:46):
Is that a sport?
Speaker 5 (27:48):
Yeah, I'll tell you what. They's started over in Russia.
And they were big men, right, very huge men. Right.
They had one attempt to knock cry out with one
slack right you your hand is right, yeah, and it's
between ear and the jaw, right, yeah, and back and
they've give.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
Them three tenths one two bands right, yeah, hit back
as you go any higher you're qualified with you whom
that draw, you'll drop them and they a huge meme.
Speaker 5 (28:20):
Mate, and that's Russia rush. You started that. They have
a few hodkers and unbelievable man. Right then America decided
to dog it into it, right, yeah, America's laws. If
you can't knock the guy out with that one, hit
your bugget Hello.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Sandy, I've seen it.
Speaker 11 (28:37):
It's horrific.
Speaker 13 (28:39):
It's just it's tech.
Speaker 9 (28:41):
Said.
Speaker 11 (28:42):
You're wondering what's happening to the world today, and you
can just see it there.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Yeah, yeah, slippers, Michelle says, great, let's laugh at slapping
and encourage it, but don't be crying when you see
kids hurting others and filming it. Would the grown ups
please step forward? Says Michelle. You're not happy about that.
There was a sport that I used to play with
my brother called Indian League wrestling. And you'd lie on
(29:07):
the floor and the opposite angles and you'd go one,
you'd lift your I'd lift my left leg up. Philip
would lift his right leg up, so they were close together, right,
no leaves like a sister left leg versus left leg.
If he had his right leg.
Speaker 6 (29:26):
Are you sure you want to talk about this? It's
left leg on left leg, all right? Although what you
did in your own home is your business.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Sorry it was Jonty and either would do.
Speaker 5 (29:41):
No.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Sorry truly, Darling.
Speaker 5 (29:42):
What everyone does.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
In a long time, Sam Man, That's why she loved
me so much? Is it a hot in Near?
Speaker 1 (29:56):
For more from Simon Barnett and James Daniels afternoons, listen
live to News Talk said Be or follow the podcast
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podcast from News Talks, edb Chats, laughs and the best calls.
This is the Highlight Reel with Simon Barnett and James
Daniels Howard by News Talks edb Ooday Folks.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
We are joined by Rowena dank get A Row.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Hello team.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
You know.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
One thing row I love and have always loved about
Dunedin is it's a city, but it's small enough that
when there's a big event on you really feel it.
Everywhere celebrates it. And there's no bigger occasion almost in
Dunedin than when a Test match or a Super Final
comes to town.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Oh it's something else. It really is very very special
and it's also quite an amazing weekend if you've got
accommodation as well, because that's the yes you're here in Tonedan.
It's not getting tickets to the event, it's finding accommodation.
So that's why so many of the farmers I've spoken
to down here are actually able to make it in
for the game because their farms are within killey of
(01:03):
Forsyth Bar, so they're able to come and go to
the game and then home, which means there is a
bit more accommodation for out of town people. But yeah,
it is a real challenge. But the atmosphere this morning
was amazing. I just picked up Jason pine host of
Week in Sport here on Newstalks. He'd be he's flowing
from Wellington for the game.
Speaker 5 (01:21):
He said.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Everyone on his flight was basically a buzz with all blacks,
friends of ours who are farmers in Tartanaki who happen
to have sired the captain, the vice captain and one
of the other all blacks in the twenty three. Yeah,
they were on the same flight as well, and you
know they're so excited to be down here for the game.
(01:42):
I said to Robin, you know, as we're walking out
to the car, doesn't feel different and she said it does.
You know, I think that I've got the weight of
what Scott is feeling on their backs as well. And
you know, Paul Piney then had to listen to farming
chat all the way from the airport into town. You
know about whether there are are the heifers and their
cows are starting to bag up ahead of carving, which
(02:02):
they are because they're not far away from carving up
there in Tuartanaki at the moment, and then what's going
on in the district, and yeah, poor Piney, but that
is a bit of a consideration for them. They'd love
to go to all of the All Blacks games in
New Zealand, but the farmer's calling and they said, usually
these games are a wee bit earlier and so they
can get to them before they really get into carving.
So they've had to actually pick and choose which games
(02:24):
they're going to. But this one is going to be a.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Really really special occasion.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
The octagon is blocked off here in Duneda and a
lot of the roads are blocked off. But yeah, are
just a real buzz in the city ahead of this game.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Can't wait. Thank you very much for saving have a
good one, thanks sir.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
The Highlight Reel with Simon Barnard and James Daniels.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
News Talk said be e cigarette packaging and flavor is
going to be tightly restricted in Australia. They've become the
first country to ban the sale of vapes outside pharmacies.
The new laws come in to effect this coming Monday,
so the domestic manufacture, supply, commercial possession and advertisement of
disposable and non therapeutic vapes are completely banned under these
(03:07):
new reforms, which means, simply put, they'll only be a
vaiddal behind the counter at pharmacies. Also, they're going to
control the nicotine concentrations. This is a big deal.
Speaker 6 (03:18):
Should we follow in their footsteps over here? I'm kind
of conflicted on this one because I really enjoy using
a vape. I enjoy the tactile notion of what of
doing it? The social side of it, well.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
I'll tell you what. Australia has gone hard on the consequences.
Individuals selling non therapeutic vapes from Monday may risk up
to seven years in jail and two point two million
dollars in fines.
Speaker 6 (03:40):
Now, these aren't the consumers. These are the people that
are selling them.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
They're retailers and individual retailers. Hello there, Johnny, mate, how
I am?
Speaker 5 (03:48):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (03:49):
Yeah, I've been better. I'm just watching the puppy destroy
another bead and pull the heir out of the stuffing out.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
They cost you fourteen animals. I've been saying for years.
John Engleman, K pok, Now, what are you reckon about
pharmacy only for vapes?
Speaker 7 (04:03):
I think the pharmacist skilled might have made some political
donations for I think it's not the greatest plan. I
think it puts people in a situation and pharmacies where
they're going to have to play catch up very quickly.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
The problem we've.
Speaker 7 (04:17):
Got here is there's also a massive amount of vapes
being imported that are about to become illegal or phased out,
and a lot of them are faulty duds. And there's
been an experience here where a lot of people have
been buying vapes from stores and tearing and opening the
packet up, turning it on, and then it starts bubbling
and fizzling like my distillery, and gets hotter and hotter
(04:41):
as the lithium battery starts to melt, they start to
really cook and burn and change the chemical structure of
the ingredients that are in there. And we know from
overheating things that we can do massive damage to our
lungs and the access that kids have got. All over
my street, in my neighborhood, all around every shop that
sells them, there's broken vapes, even on the fore court
(05:02):
at the pedro station. We need enforcement, We actually need
somebody just stop retailers from selling chunk.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
So do you think you would support one part of
this legislation Johnny that says you know, single use vapes
know to that band?
Speaker 7 (05:15):
Yeah, yeah, I reckon, and definitely make them available so
people can continue to quit smoking.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
Make them accessible. But as for this like candy.
Speaker 7 (05:25):
Floss, watermelon, lemon squeeze, pebble over stuff, what are we
doing where we're holking children into vaping? And in my neighborhood,
the kids who are wedding school today are hiding in
the bus stop on the rain vaping. And this is
what's really gorinds my gears is the parents that are
allowing their teenagers to vape because they think it's better
(05:45):
than smoking.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Interesting too, Johnny, you point out the flavors because this
is also what they've done in Australia, which I support.
The vapes will have plane packaging, that's the first thing,
but like our cigarettes here, and flavors will be restricted,
so the only ones you'll be able to get are tobacco,
menthol and mint.
Speaker 7 (06:01):
Be like RepA band where everything in the stores to
labeled bears.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
The Highlight reel finished this sentence. James Cash is king
exactly well said, Hey, so it wasn't a jack up either.
I guess that where do I win some cash? You
get nothing? You know. I mean, we all live in
a world now of after pay. I love the tap
and go online shopping. Many people have oiled themselves of that.
(06:27):
But I guess, well, at least for me, I should
only speak for myself. There's been a mindset I suppose
that cash is on the way out. I haven't carried
cash forever. It's like it's just something I don't do.
You've now realized that you're not like everyone else, but
I still have this mindset that cash is on the
way out. Well, it's not true, because Susan Guthrie from
the Reserve Bank said currently there is nine billion dollars
(06:51):
worth of cash, that is notes and coins in the
system compared to ten years ago, that's almost double. Yeah,
So my question is I mean from a story on
oran Zed, there's a few quotes from various people they interviewed.
One person says he loves cash because he feels secure
with cash in his pocket. Others say carrying cash is
important to them as a mindset thing. If there's a
(07:11):
natural disaster earthquake, ye, cyclone, whatever, they go cash well,
I'll be able to get through this.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
Well, there's also people who are on budgets and if
they've got the cash in their hand, they know how
much they've spent.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
They can see it and touch it. That's funny, James,
because I'm one of these people. If I carry cash again,
it's just a mindset thing. I'll just spend it. I
am absolutely completely gobsmacked at how many texts we're getting
now from people saying they have two grand or more. Yeah,
it's like the movies. They've stored them behind paintings in
(07:46):
their houses, under mattresses. Wow, Jonathan, Welcome to the show.
Speaker 8 (07:51):
My wife and I used to have a system we
actually learned from Dave Ramsey. He talks about a system
where you draw all your cash and you put them
into envelopes in different categories.
Speaker 9 (08:00):
Oh yeah, that's.
Speaker 8 (08:02):
Where you're not able to overspend and it puts the
limits on how you spending in a month on a
particular item.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
Ah.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
So it's a budget try kind of restraint.
Speaker 8 (08:11):
Yes, like a bunch of your kind of restraint.
Speaker 10 (08:12):
So we were when we got married, we had.
Speaker 8 (08:15):
Very different ideas of finance and how to spend and
who has more control so we drew money, we put
it in envelopes and we use that system to restrict
ourselves and we were able to save for our Hunster deposit.
Speaker 10 (08:28):
Well, I think it's good to have a bit of cash.
You just don't even know what might happen. I think
it's a good idea.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
So do you carry cash with you? Oh?
Speaker 5 (08:35):
I do?
Speaker 10 (08:36):
Yeah, I do, and I have cash at home as well.
How much a couple of hundred bucks?
Speaker 2 (08:40):
And your prime reason for carrying the cash, Colin, When.
Speaker 10 (08:42):
You pay for things with cash, you're less likely to
go and spend your money because you're pending out cash,
whereas if you've got a card and pay wave. If
you just do your card and it's easy. But when
you've got cash, you know, you think about it before
you go and buy something. It's another reason. But they're
working on a central bank digital currency, so that's eventually
going to come in and they'll get rid of cash.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
I wonder if you're right on that score, Colin, the
way they'll do that. Yeah, thank you very much mate.
Quick text to finish this text. It just blows my mind. Hi, guys,
I have a safe and there is ten thousand dollars
cash in it. Now, it's a fireproof safe. Every house
should have one. I've just woofed down a protein bar
and I basically hoovered it up because we had the
(09:25):
show to do and I don't know eating while I'm working.
But it tasted like plastic. And you don't eat the
wrapping you No, it's just that I've been reading about
protein bars, and of course they're loaded with protein. Really,
if I don't have huge muscles by four o'clock, I'll
be very disappointed. Was it nice? No, it tasted like plastic.
(09:46):
Tasted like I said, chemocromes. And there's a big move
for people that are, you know, like trying to bulk up,
and big move to protein bars, and nutritionists are worried
because they're sort of seen as a food substitute, but
they're not. And I can see why that tastes like
I've just eaten a shoe.
Speaker 6 (10:02):
Why don't you just eat protein? There's an idea, no, no,
no protein.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Well, it's hard to get that level of protein in
a quick hit, right, I have sure, I have you know, salmon,
a chin of salmon or what anyway, that's really boring.
But I've just eaten this thing and now it's sort
of it's wed somewhere between my chest and the bows
and it feels like molten plastic. So highly disappointing that
and two of my kids have got COVID for the
(10:29):
third time, for the third third greedy, and you haven't
even had it. I still haven't had it. I said,
keep those vermin kids away from me.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
The Highlight Reel with Sion James. The Highlight Reel with
Sion James.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Christopher Luxon and Education Minister Erica Stanford have announced standardized
testing in primary schools. From twenty twenty five next year,
all children in their first year of school will have
the opportunity to run through a phonics check to help
teachers understand how well a child can read words by
sounding out the letters. So that's the first thing. It'll
be done at the twenty week mark and again at
the forty week mark. So that's obviously ostensibly to help
(11:09):
teachers identify and kind of offer maybe additional support where
kids need it. And then progression monitoring on reading, writing
and mask be also introduced for children in years three
through eight. That's what we're discussing. Is this a good
announcement today? A good initiative or do you have some
reservations about it? Right, let's go to the phones. Jane,
Hi there there, How are you doing that? Are you're
going well? Thank you? Agree or disagree with this announcement.
Speaker 11 (11:31):
I agree. I come from a different probably look at it.
My thought is more from a governance perspective in schools
and that the boards to determine how we prioritize financing
in schools can identify with good testing where we need
to really invest in our comaha teachers and and our
students because without that really clear sift thing, yes, they
(11:54):
may known well what's going on in their classrooms, but
ideally we need to understand where are our resk students,
Where are those students that really need to be prioritized
so that they can get their resources and the help
that they need. And I think testing probably gives the
boards in the schools throughout New Zealand, all our wonderful
board trustees an idea of how they can actually help
(12:15):
within schools to elevate the learning of those for those
at risk students.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Good point. Actually, Jane eric Stanford has said specifically that
actually she said this testing will help teachers identify struggling
kids and provide parents with rich data regarding how their
children are doing. But how would that affect the finance
and finances? I mean, what can you petition through the
course of the year saying hey, look we need extra
resource here. Can you do that?
Speaker 11 (12:38):
Absolutely, you can prioritize. You manage to identify a group
of students that are really struggling in a certain area.
You can help with extra feeds and starving with resources
for those students with extra support, you know, and boards
can do that. You know, their budgets and schools allow
them to support their fami like their principle to really
work in those areas that need extra help. And so
(13:00):
I guess that standardized testing probably just just a better picture.
We do get a bit of that now, but maybe
having more standardized means that there will be more unity
or more when they transition to the next school. There
is a little bit more consistency and how our kids
are performing.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
That's a very interesting perspective, Jane, thanks for calling in.
Thanks Hi, Simon and James. Teachers by and large dislike
a national led government, as do unions. Sadly, rather than
doing what's best for the kids, A lot of teachers
seem to be still focused on themselves. Since the national
standards were dropped in twenty seventeen, it has been left
up to teachers in schools how to teach numeracy and literacy.
(13:36):
That was a bagbear of mind too. It seemed arbitrary.
The text goes on, my son dropped into the void
age nine. If I hadn't spent thirty to forty minutes
a day with him at home teaching him to read
and write, he would be struggling in high school. Says
Peter highlight Reel. There was a story today, very difficult
read actually about this Tope War family, and they really
(13:57):
have been torn apart, they say, by the actions of
a dangerous driver. And I think what has added very
much insult to injury for them at least is that
they believe the sentence handed down to the woman who
caused the deaths of Jeanine and Linda Ball was quote
unquote failure of the justice system. Kim Blakeney Williams pleaded
(14:18):
guilty to two charges of careless use of a motor
vehicle causing death. She was sentenced to one hundred and
fifty hours of community work. A twelvemonth loss of license,
and she was ordered to pay ten thousand dollars each
to the families of both the victims. There was an
outpouring I think of you know, language and stuff about rage. Yeah,
and that sentencing. In one comment I think I read
(14:40):
is that at Judge Tompkins said this during sentencing that
it was difficult to prove a high level of culpability
on the part of Blakeney Williams and said it was
likely she had fallen asleep momentarily before the crash. So
that's interesting in and of itself. But Francesca Hollingdale, she's
(15:01):
a family spokesperson, and she was talking of the deaths
of these two and she said, in my view and
the view of so many others, a vehicle as a weapon.
You have to have a license to operate a vehicle,
the same as you have to have a license to
operate a gun. Yet when you misuse these two things,
the consequences are so incredibly different. Which is a thoughtful piece.
(15:21):
So that's what we want to discuss. Should there be
a harsher sentence for falling asleep at the wheel? Should
the judge have put Kim Blakeney Williams in jail for
three years because she fell asleep. Yeah, it was understood
that that's what happened, can I Martin.
Speaker 12 (15:35):
But I've been a lobbying for Pacific crowdsey driving legislation
for least ten years with the politicians. To someone that
picked up as private members built right, and I think
it's absolutely necessary to get this in place. I mean,
it's absolutely no different from someone basically drinking, but from
knowing that they've drunk a lot of alcohol and going
out on the road, or smoking a lot of pot
(15:57):
going out the road, or for that man of being
dog tired.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Alisa says, Guys, it was an accident. What did they
expect the sentence would be the family? I feel for them,
but what did they expect? Convicted pedophiles get home to detention.
You get five years for murder, says Alistair, get a term.
In your view, this woman should have been sent to jail.
Speaker 11 (16:15):
I think she should have got manslaughter.
Speaker 5 (16:16):
But I think there should be a category of the
hecular homicide or the.
Speaker 7 (16:19):
Hecler manslaughter where there's certainly a novel nine ten, but
there's a disregard mate.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Thank you very much. We'll finished with this text it's
from a lawyer who's just text into the show. The
woman was charged with careless driving causing death, for which
the maximum penalty is only three months imprisonment. Where deliberate
bad driving is involved, the police can instead charge dangerous
driving causing death. Dangerous driving causing death has a maximum
ten years imprisonment in cases of carelessness, so.
Speaker 6 (16:44):
This was careless driving causing death rather than dangerous.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Henceforth the light of sentence. Thank you very much for
taking the time to text us the best moments from
the week.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
This is the highlight reel with Simon Barnett and James
Daniels cowered by newstalks empty.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
As the government's message and the crackdown on truancy got through,
Flight Center data has shown that families with school aged
children choosing not to take their children out of school
to travel during school term bookings have dropped thirty percent,
which is when a lot of families were taking their
kids out because they say.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
That until the government cracked down on truancy. Yeh in April,
when they said that they're going to introduce the traffic
light system of punishments for students and their parents, including
fines for parents and police referrals.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
So the whole cheap airfare thing didn't suddenly have quite
the glitz and glamor the mystique that it once did.
They go on to say, this is the flight center.
What some customers are telling us is that many schools
across the country now have firm rules against taking kids
out of school for travel that is not deemed as crucial.
I'll tell you what's interesting. The sort of the usual
(17:52):
suspects for you know, outside of school holidays travel was Fiji, Australia, Raratonga,
but data has shown more recently some long haul destinations
including Balley, London, Los Angeles, in Hawaii. I want to
be in those families. So has the message got through?
(18:13):
Are you more reluctant to take your kids out of
school outside of the school holidays, to go on a
holiday to take advantage of cheaper affairs given these you know,
this crackdown. Would love your thoughts.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
Sonya Hi.
Speaker 13 (18:25):
Last year we went over Easter in school holiday, yeah,
six thousand. This year we're going in tune time and
it's crossing three.
Speaker 6 (18:33):
Are you worried about the fact that the government is
cracking down on that sort of thing?
Speaker 13 (18:37):
Well, he goes to school every other day.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
But Sonya, that's because legally they have to.
Speaker 13 (18:45):
It's not like he's not going to schools and he's young.
He's seven, so it's not he's still young enough. I
think we can do it, okay, because we're taking him
for almost a month.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Jeepers, did you get a note from your school, because
a number of schools are now emailing or putting them
in newsletters detailing the schools they expects around attendance, did
you have anything like that from your school?
Speaker 13 (19:10):
I didn't last trap, but again it was in holidays.
I haven't told the school about this trip yet.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
So do you feel a wee bit guilty or not?
I'm not trying to put it on you. I'm just
asking you no, not at all. Don't you okay?
Speaker 13 (19:23):
I mean, if you're saving that much money and he's
going to learn so much culture wise when're over there,
and like I said, he goes every other day, it's
not like.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
But Sonya, are you worried about him? You're rather are
you thinking you're lucky stars he's learning the Balinese culture?
Or are we thinking I just want to put my
feet up on a lazy boy or lounger.
Speaker 13 (19:43):
A bit of both.
Speaker 6 (19:44):
Yeah, Hey, sonya, how come you're taking him away for
a month.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
It's a long time to be away.
Speaker 13 (19:49):
And how he likes the surf, it's kind of our
He works hard, he likes the surf. So we go. See,
it takes about a week to get your fend the
south and it's too cold here, suping Christ right.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Well, we love your honesty, Sonya. Good luck.
Speaker 11 (20:07):
Yeah, I mean you've got to do it.
Speaker 13 (20:08):
You only you know, you've got to enjoy these holidays.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
And he's only seven. Once exactly, thank you, Sonya. Boy
Trash says I just heard Sonya. I have to say
that is irresponsible, selfish parenting. Barley culture, what a hoot.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Chats laughs and the best calls. This is the highlight
reel with Simon Barnett and James Daniels powered Bundy's talk said, be.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
I'll tell you something. We've got some sunshine and christ jets. Now,
most people probably don't give a flying fat rats bottom
about that, but we've had gray weather for well, it's
felt like ten days minimum.
Speaker 6 (20:47):
Yeah, but the thing is that it looks good but
it feels very very cold.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Yeah. I just rode in on my bike and my
feet are still frozen. Yeah, it'll be minus three tonight,
they tell us. Yeah, James rides and every day rain, hail,
sleet or snow. My daughter actually passed James and he
has some moll As wet weather gear on. He looks
ridiculous and warm, and she text me. This is yesterday.
She text me and goes, Dad, can James not a
(21:11):
Ford petrol? Tell them I'll give him a left to work.
So I told James we have gone to work.
Speaker 5 (21:17):
Now.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
I admire you, I respect you. Oh that's that very impressive.
Speaker 6 (21:20):
Could you buy me some nice warm boots for my
feet because I still frozen from riding in this morning man.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Bringing you the best of the week. You're listening to
the Highlight Reel with Simon Barnett and James Daniels, powered
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Speaker 2 (21:35):
Chris Bishop announced a slew of changes to New Zealand's
planning laws, and of course a number of these have
proved to be and are proving to be quite controversial.
So the Government's going to abolish council's ability to set
fixed urban rural boundaries. In other words, that kind of
basically flood the planes with the land available to develop.
And they'll also abolish the powers and this is what
(21:56):
we want to hone in on. They're going to abolish
the powers that let counsels mandate whether a property needs
a balcony, so that's a side issue. And also they'll
abolish powers that let count consuls set a minimum floor
area for a development.
Speaker 6 (22:09):
So in this instance, size does not matter to this government.
And I have to say I'm actually on board with
this thing because I think it's just about the market
determining what will be sold.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
And so you think if a developer goes in there says, look,
I'm going to build forty twenty square meter apartments, you
think the market will determine whether or not they're sellable. Yeah,
Chris Biship did front foot that, and he said, and
I quote, people often complain to me about all these
shoe box apartments, and I agree that they won't be
the right housing solution for everyone. But you know what
(22:43):
is smaller than a shoe box apartment a car or
an emergency housing motel room. But the thing is that
people who are living in cars are not likely to
be able to get a deposit for a home. Let's
be honest. I wonder too, with the increasing number of
immigrants to our country, they might be more familiar with
smaller apartments, and so maybe these things at thirty square
(23:05):
meters will sell. Text here says you're on crack, you guys.
I will go out and buy ten small flats and
rent them out. I will make it killing. Nobody will
buy them to live in. Calls coming in here, thick
and fast. Hello there, Jeremy, Welcome to the show. Hey,
how's it going good? Thank you mate? So yeah, Now
do you work in the construction industry?
Speaker 9 (23:25):
Currently a financial advisor so mostly helped buyers, but I
have worked for a developer selling New Zealand stock overseas before.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Right, So what do you think of the announcements today,
particularly around this minimum footprint.
Speaker 9 (23:37):
It's interesting, you know, in terms of finance, banks are
very reluctant to lend to small apartments like that, so
it'd be interesting to see how it kind of pans
out in terms of, you know, where the first home
buyers could even get into them. When it comes to
whether or not it's good property stock for New Zealand,
I think, you know, from my experience, people feel a
(23:58):
lot of pressure and they're going to buy a home,
it's a lot of money, a lot of expense. They
want to feel confidence while they're buying, and often marketing
and what's impressioning on them from the environment around them
has a big influence to that. So I think if
we do bring a lot of this into New Zealand,
people will buy it, whether or not it's good.
Speaker 5 (24:16):
For them or not.
Speaker 9 (24:18):
But the profit and the wealth goes to develop its
I think there should be a bit more ownership on
their end as to what sort of homes that we're
putting into our country. I think we want our properties
to look beautiful forever, you know, not be big cement
block apartments right now.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
I totally hear your reservations. Thank you, Jeremy for taking
the time to phone us. I guess the thing is,
I wonder if just the way the world is now,
it's an expectation. I've certainly got it in this country.
I think, you know, we used to have the quarteracor
dream right. Well, I don't think people think that anymore,
which is why there's been all this infilling of homes
in every city. There was a couple of generations ago, though,
(24:56):
but there's still the mindset of New Zealanders is you
have some lawn. Yeah, you know, you have a fence. Yeah,
well that stuff, but it is changing front lawn in
many parts of the world now, apartment living is that
there's never an expectation to even own your own home. Ever,
so if we have to have smaller apartments, people can
still own them. That's better than renting text here, says
(25:19):
I Reckon. This could also be great for people who
don't mind having a smaller place but can be mortgage free. Sooner.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
The Highlight Reel with Simon Barnett and James Daniels available
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Speaker 2 (25:31):
We admire athletes when there's extreme athleticism, prowess, prodigious talent,
and you go, wow, you admire them, you respect them.
In some cases we idolize them, which I think is
personally wrong. Withe you go, that's just me being a
blue nose wowser. But then there are other sports that
are captivating for a whole different reason and you can't
(25:53):
really explain why. One such sport is the sport of powerslapping. Now,
if you haven't heard of powerslapping, it's kind of like, well,
it's violent. Dana White is the main man behind that.
He started the UFC, the Ultimate Fight Club, which a
lot of people love, a lot of people loathe, kind
of an equal measure and this is very brutal. This
(26:14):
is an aspect of UFC kind of condensed into bite
sized moments. So what you do? Two slappers, as it were,
these at their slappers are the literally slappers. They face
off over a podium. They look like they're on rhyds
and they each take turns to slap each other as
hard as they can over three to five rounds. And
(26:35):
the hoper is the dream is you knock your opponent
out cold, that's on or in the face, open hand Yep.
They do have fowls clubbings of fowl where the slap
fisting wraps around the back of the head fisting. Well,
you can't, You've got to have your hand open. Yeah,
I mean yeah, I don't think it's called that.
Speaker 5 (26:52):
That was it.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
I don't know. You're the one who's calling me. Yeah,
I don't think it's that, mate. It's well, you call it.
Speaker 6 (26:59):
Clubbing, yeah, clubbing, Okay, you call it clubbing.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
I think everybody calls it clubbing. I've heard nobody call it.
What you call it all right, yeah, carry on anyways,
so so we'll move on very quickly. So there. I
watched it and it's just it's I don't know, it's barbaric,
but it is compelling. I don't know. It's the anticipation.
Unlike most sports, you don't know what's coming here, you do.
(27:24):
You put your arms by your side and you sided
like I'm grimacing and clenching, waiting for it everything. And
when they smack you, it's in slow ma on occasions,
and you can see their faces wabble like an old
beagle hound. Then spray just gets scattered under all over
the atmosphere. It's like, oh, it's terrible. No, it's not
for me, Hi, Mike, here's go mate, good, thank you.
(27:46):
Is that a sport?
Speaker 5 (27:48):
Yeah, I'll tell you what. They's started over in Russia.
And they were big men, right, very huge men. Right.
They had one attempt to knock cry out with one
slack right you your hand is right, yeah, and it's
between ear and the jaw, right, yeah, and back and
they've give.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
Them three tenths one two bands right, yeah, hit back
as you go any higher you're qualified with you whom
that draw, you'll drop them and they a huge meme.
Speaker 5 (28:20):
Mate, and that's Russia rush. You started that. They have
a few hodkers and unbelievable man. Right then America decided
to dog it into it, right, yeah, America's laws. If
you can't knock the guy out with that one, hit
your bugget Hello.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Sandy, I've seen it.
Speaker 11 (28:37):
It's horrific.
Speaker 13 (28:39):
It's just it's tech.
Speaker 9 (28:41):
Said.
Speaker 11 (28:42):
You're wondering what's happening to the world today, and you
can just see it there.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Yeah, yeah, slippers, Michelle says, great, let's laugh at slapping
and encourage it, but don't be crying when you see
kids hurting others and filming it. Would the grown ups
please step forward? Says Michelle. You're not happy about that.
There was a sport that I used to play with
my brother called Indian League wrestling. And you'd lie on
(29:07):
the floor and the opposite angles and you'd go one,
you'd lift your I'd lift my left leg up. Philip
would lift his right leg up, so they were close together, right,
no leaves like a sister left leg versus left leg.
If he had his right leg.
Speaker 6 (29:26):
Are you sure you want to talk about this? It's
left leg on left leg, all right? Although what you
did in your own home is your business.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Sorry it was Jonty and either would do.
Speaker 5 (29:41):
No.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Sorry truly, Darling.
Speaker 5 (29:42):
What everyone does.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
In a long time, Sam Man, That's why she loved
me so much? Is it a hot in Near?
Speaker 1 (29:56):
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