August 23, 2024 • 29 mins
This week on The Highlight Reel - Simon Barnett and James Daniels discuss the emerging trend of mystery travel: would you book a holiday not knowing where you were going?
Simon shows he's a bit sensitive about being called 'woke' when he and James talk about work life balance.
The St John Ambulance pay dispute seems to have been going on forever, the pair ask is it time for anything with a siren to be fully funded by the Government?
Also up for discussion, have we fallen out of love with the America's Cup?
And how often do you sit down for dinner with the family?
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Simon Barnett and James Daniels Afternoons
podcast from News Talks edb.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Chats, laughs and the best calls.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
This is the highlight reel with Simon Barnett and James Daniels,
towered by News Talks ED be Hello there, James, just like.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
That, Just like that?
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Yeah, Kelder, Simon Kilder, everybody, have you noticed anything different
over the last couple of nights?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
No, the moon.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
No, I wasn't looking at the moon. I was reading
the story about Janick Center, the world number one tennis
plaer who was found and failed a couple of drug tests,
but he's not been banned. Normally he would be banned
for two years, and so a lot of the professional
tennis players are saying, how double standard man, just because
the guy's number one in the world. He's the most
unassuming looking guy. He's really pleasant to listen to, obviously
(00:52):
a gifted tennis player. Where's he from? Only right? Okay,
he doesn't look Italian at all. He looks like it
does an Italian look like I remember that Swabee Mediterranean
sort of a look, whereas he looks like Ed Sharon.
He really pasty as he's redheaded. And but who does
Sharon look like?
Speaker 3 (01:12):
You know, there's stereotype people anyway, it drugs or something,
what is it?
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Well, yeah, he failed this test which tested for steroids.
But his team have said and which is why the
Anti doping committee led him off. His physiotherapist was using
a steroid cream for his own person. That is, for
the physiotherapist, some steroid cream and he had it on
his hands and then he massages jicks in his body
(01:40):
regularly and.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
That's how it got into it.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Infused into his body. They said it wouldn't be performance
and heart.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
So levels of the level and if it's over the level,
and he should be sanctioned.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Day exactly, that's what people are saying. But he didn't
because they say it's clear it was an error with
sport as an error. Ever an error you know the rules,
don't you. It doesn't matter how it's in your system.
If it's in your system, it's in your system. Exactly.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
Good a bill which even way you look at it,
he's a sinner.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Hey nice, very nice.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
I'm wondering how big the physiotherapist's finger is for that
to get absorbed and then into the fatty tissue and
then there is to be tested later on. What's good
for the goose is good for the gander and my
book and I don't care whether he's number one or
a number one hundred and one in the ranking.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Bell Thank you very much, Hi Lyle.
Speaker 6 (02:29):
Yeah, it's a fraud t isssue, isn't it. I don't
know about you, guys, And sometimes I've thought about this.
It was applied to me. This is a real person
we're talking about. No fault of there is. It's something
gone wrong, and everyone says he is a cheap.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Yeah, I'm with you. I'm with you. What he said
out James, you're quiet.
Speaker 7 (02:45):
Well.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
The thing is that they have conducted an investigation and
they found that he did have antabolic steroids in his system.
Black and white, you either have it or you don't.
And that's what all these other tennis professionals are saying.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Oh, that's because they're all jealous of him.
Speaker 6 (03:02):
No, I'm not saying that.
Speaker 8 (03:03):
There is a process and you've got to accept the process.
Speaker 6 (03:04):
What I'm saying, is it right?
Speaker 8 (03:07):
Imagine how that happened to our top kayaker and they'd
be totally out of character of absolute mistake and people
then slighted her our champion of our news. We'd be
really upset and so would she be, and rightly so.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
The best moment from the week. This is the Highlight
reel with Simon Barnett and James Daniels powered by News Talks.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Let's talk about Saint John Ambulance. Hartel Hornet Saint John
Ambulance officers have begun their strike action. You may or
may not be aware about the funding for Saint John's
and around eighty three percent of it is by the government,
but then the rest is funded by kind of a
hotchpotch of donations, fundraising by Saint John themselves and we've
(03:49):
all been open to that, sponsorships yep, and patient part
charges to make up the shortfall. Wellington Free Ambulance also
gets most of their funding from the government, but they
rely on about eight million dollars in fundraising each which
is a lot of fundraising. That's a lot of make
sales it llion dollars in fundraising each year to keep
their services free. They are absolutely free, hence the name
(04:10):
Wellington Free Ambulance. They don't apparently want one hundred percent
funding from the government, but you know, anything with a
siren should be the government's responsibility, shouldn't it everything?
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Yeah, that's a good way to describe it. Actually, yeah,
fire engines.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Fire engines are with foreign emergency in New Zealand through
levees and things.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
So you're right, that's right, you know, but the police
is fully funded, So why isn't Saint John or the
Ambulance Service fully funded? Like very much like the police.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
And also, I personally don't think and I feel for
them for the people striking, but I don't think it's
a good look having ambulances painted with strike action side.
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
It just felt the same way about the fire engines
as well. I suppose I did a wee at fire Service.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
I mean, it's a desperate last resort for them, and
I get that, But what do you think, get a
Phil you're a firefighter. Tyler's just whispered in my ear X.
Speaker 9 (05:02):
Fire Service X fire Service about ten or eleven years ago.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Okay, so you'll be very much familiar with this sort
of thing.
Speaker 9 (05:09):
Well, I think that the St John Ambulance and Fire
Emergency New Zealand should be merged by the government and
do something very similar to what they do in Los Angeles, Chicago,
New York and some of the other UK countries where
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if a firefighting crew responds to a fire related emergency,
a paramedic unit responds also some across manning and it
means that the firefighters are medically trained and can respond.
So if it was a medical call, you'd get a
fire emergency in New Zealand's medical response with a fire
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crew to back them up. I would suggest that if
we're talking about funding from the government for Saint john Ambulance,
then maybe we should be funding via fire emergency in
New Zealand's levies.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
So thank you for calling mate, Really nice to talk
with you. Oh you're welcome, Hilanda, Hi.
Speaker 10 (06:09):
Simon and James, how are Youandod?
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Thanks for calling up. So it's not working.
Speaker 10 (06:14):
No, it's not working unfortunately. You know, Saint John's has
done a wonderful job over its time. But you know
up here now in all Krunt I live in Fonger Paroah.
You know, yes, the firebrigade gets sent out first and
then an ambulance is coming. And I think that that's
the wrong the wrong set up anyway, there's not enough ambulances,
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so you're waiting forever for one to come, and I
think it's just, you know, a basic right of New Zealanders.
Speaker 11 (06:45):
We should be able to be able to pick up the.
Speaker 10 (06:49):
Phone, ring for help if we need it and get
that help. We're talking about lives here, Obviously something has
to be done.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Linda.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Great to get your thoughts. Thank you very much for calling.
Quick text from Sue Hi, Simon and James are resounding
yes to full government funding. I worked with the ambulance
Service for many, many years and have always believed that
successive governments took unfair and self serving advantage of the
ambulance service because these services and the charitable people who
supported them were provided an utmost good faith altruism, gratitude
(07:21):
and respect, or because governments wouldn't cough up because they
didn't need to as long as these people were giving
of their time.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
That's a reasonable question.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Actually, it's the highlight real.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
I think I'm pretty fair minded. I'm kind of you know,
I know, kind, people like to call me work. I
don't think I am you're kind, well, I hope i am,
but I tried genuinely to be fear with most things.
I'm not a hardliner. You will probably be more hardline
than me over certain instances. Oh but here's a story.
(07:52):
It kind of it got me animated. The headline to
the story said this how to set healthy work boundaries
and avoid burnout. And it was written by Philly Powell,
who's the CEO founder of well Being Tech, and I
quote well being first, work second, always then and this
(08:15):
is at five things. Spend a minute, says Philly in
the opinion piece to answer the following questions with brutal honesty.
So I did.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
I went through this check. I'll go through the questions.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Have you felt the need to work beyond your contracted
hours in the last month?
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Do you feel like you don't have enough energy and
need more sleep?
Speaker 4 (08:33):
Marginal? Do you miss out on social or family events
due to work? Not so much now, but I absolutely
have done.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Do you prioritize work demands over your personal life again
at times?
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Do you go the extra mile by staying late or
taking on extra projects occasionally?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (08:50):
So you've answered yes to more one or more of
those questions, And that, my boy, is a clear sign
that you don't have healthy work boundaries.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
I don't know. I read that and I thought, hang on,
I'm not for flogging the worker, and I'm not on
big businesses side necessarily, but I do think certainly. You know,
from when I started in the workforce, say eighteen through
to maybe mid forties fifty even, it was like work
was like I really thankful to have a job. I
really wanted to work hard. I really wanted to succeed.
(09:20):
I really wanted to work well for my bosses. I
really wanted to be well thought of by my bosses.
But I also wanted to be a good husband and dad.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
But you did go, You did answer yes to a
couple of those questions.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
There were so, yeah, there were some things I missed
family things because I had to work. There were weeks
where I'd be filming a television show, for example, and
I'd be weeks away from home, and you know, I
didn't like that, but I did it because I wanted
to be successful, one of my bosses to like me
and I and I was getting paid good money, yep.
And that's one thing I think sort of gets lost
in this work life boundary thing, is that there is
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an employer that's paying really good money. So you do
the job, well, well.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
I'll take you back to what Philly said at the
beginning of the opinion piece. Remember the quote well being first,
work second. Always yeah, I go no, no, it's work
first allows for well being. Second. You won't have your
well being without some work.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
The highlight reel.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
Worldwide, there's an emerging trend. It was a thing a
while back. It seemed to fade out. But it's called
mystery travel and that's where holiday it's kind of, as
it says, holiday makers embrace the unknown. They get on
a plane, well actually just prior to getting on the plane,
they find out where they're going. They pay good sums
of money. It's a sort of a curated experience travelers
sign up for and they don't know the destination. Often
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this was a thing. Do you remember the New Zealand
had Mystery Weekends. Mystery Weekends, that's what they were called.
I don't know BB fifteen twenty years ago. Well they're back,
and they're back with a vengeance. Apparently they're really popular,
but they've changed the name slightly. It's called Air New
Zealand's Mystery Break and you can choose one of four packages.
There's the Great Break, the Deluxe Break, the Luxury Break,
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and the family break. All you do is select a date.
You do get the opportunity to enter one destination you
don't want to go. It would be yours. I'm not
going to say, because then I'll never be allowed back
in that town. Where's one place in New Zealand you
don't want to go?
Speaker 12 (11:15):
Mate?
Speaker 3 (11:16):
I asked you first?
Speaker 4 (11:19):
Your place? Well, they're real popular. That's what the story
is about, James. How popular they've become again. And I
wonder if it's just because we like it. We want
a bit of excitement back in our lives, a bit
of mystery. Yeah, I quite like that, do you?
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (11:31):
I like that, but I just don't know what's around
the corner. That's why I walk into a bar because
I just enjoy the people watching the You never know
what's going to happen next.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Yees see. You and I are so different. You like
that I'm not sure what's going to happen, feeling on
the edge of web it. Yeah, I am the polar opposite.
I like to know exactly So you wouldn't do a
mystery break, would you know? Why would I pay a
travel agent or in New Zealand to come up with
a package. I've got the best package in town really
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pays to advertise folks, So that came out free.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Ad here would be.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
That came out wrong when I I've got the package
in the time, I mean my head designs are good.
Would would come up with the great shut up? James,
you know where you're going is what you're saying. I
like to be creative. I would want to, you know,
curate my own trap.
Speaker 7 (12:24):
Right.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
Yeah, So that's where you and I different. You're a
danger mouse, whereas I'm not see this text now James
and I are not saying this is right. They said
we ended up in Gore for our mystery weekend, very disappointing.
It was terrible. Yeah, now that's unfair to Gore because
my dad looks there in my movement.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
The highlight reel with Simon Barnett and James Daniels Hughes
talk said be.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
You might have read the story of Christopher Lax and
the Prome Minister says councils need to cut their cloth
before government steps into bail councils out. So then counsels
are saying, well, we're having to impose all these costs
on rate pass. What about if we were able to
introduce a bid tax. You know, it's basically a tourism levy,
and that would help offset some of the costs for
rate paths. You'd make it up through these tourists. And
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then Simeon Brown's is, well, that's not what the laws is,
so you can't do that. But the government's saying cut
your own coth before we help you out. That's all and.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Well, Simeon. You can change the law exactly as you are.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
Should the law be changed, so councils can impose local
councils your own one can impose a bid text. I'll
be all for it. That's five packs extra a night.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Yeah, whoop do you yeah?
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Jacob? Hello there.
Speaker 11 (13:33):
I think it's very naive of councils to want to
introduce a bed tax when hospitality in general in New
Zealand is struggling more than it has done well for
as long as I can remember. I mean Aucland is
an example. None of the hotels have been full for
at least six months now. They're struggling more now than
they ever I've done pre COVID, and a lot of
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that is due to just nothing driving tourism. So want
to come to New Zealand at the markets. The only
time you get hotels that are actually breaking even at
the moment and making some money is when there's a
big event. And how often do we have them at
the moment.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
What's the main problem with it, though, Jacob. There's a
few Texes pouring out and they totally agree with you
that tourism's straggling. This t this is you, two mags.
The country is backing the trend globally, tourism stored. Do
you really think a big text of five dollars, Jacob,
would actually prevent somebody from coming to a town and
staying the night.
Speaker 11 (14:29):
Well, it's another nailing the cost, and isn't it. I
mean you look at internal flights around New Zealand trying
to visit the regions. Just look at that for a cost,
you know, looking from christ Church to in Vocado, it
costs two to three times as much to travel to Australia.
You know, we've got tourists that are just not coming.
We want to encourage the tourists to come back to
New Zealand and visit the places and get out there
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in the rural areas. It's just another cost. It's going
to deserve them.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Jacob, appreciate your thoughts very much. Thanks for calling again. Hi, Beverly, I'm.
Speaker 7 (14:58):
A little bit harsh under the color about this particular subject.
I live in Palmist North. Our council here are very
irresponsible with the rate payers' money, and so are Horizon.
So it's a two pronged conversation here. Okay, it's all
very well putting this five dollars or whatever tax on tourists,
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but actually it's not dealing with the problem. The problem
is the immoral spending of the councils. They need to
be taught how to budget.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Well, Beverly, here's the good news. You've only got one
more year and then you can vote them out, and that's.
Speaker 12 (15:37):
What we've told them.
Speaker 7 (15:38):
We're going to ask tourists to pay extra money. That's
all very well, but let's start spending the money that
is coming in properly.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
First, the highlight reel.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
So this latest research says that only one in three
Kiwi families actually have dinner together at the table.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
The other interesting stat is that two thirds of families
say that they have a screen on during dinner time
and that's not necessarily at a table.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
And in other words.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
They could be sitting down watching on the couch, eating
off tennees.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
Hello there, Allison, how does dinner time work at your place?
Speaker 13 (16:11):
We're a fan believer and sitting at the table with
our six year old son so we can talk about
our day and just enjoy the evening.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Nice.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
Do your kids ever kind of go? I don't want
to do that.
Speaker 6 (16:23):
No, never, No.
Speaker 13 (16:24):
I grew up with that as well, so I just
you know, I loved it.
Speaker 8 (16:29):
And I was growing up.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
And why do you make it a priority? Why is
it important to you?
Speaker 13 (16:33):
So we can you know, hear anything at the table,
anything that happened in the day that wasn't good, that
was good. How how you know we're feeling?
Speaker 4 (16:41):
And this Texas is hell? No, the dinner table. We
don't even have a dinner table at our place, true, Simon.
Speaker 14 (16:51):
I was one of three boys, so when we started,
we always had the table. But and I had three boys,
and where was based on Sunday night, the sight of
the week, and we were always what, no matter where,
we were around the table on a Sunday night, and
(17:11):
it was It's always been special all around the world. Now,
But yeah, I think it's I think it's important. But
we we really enjoyed it and we loved it, and.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
It was that night I love that idea Sunday night
dinner with it will be a Sunday roast, Yes, Sunday roast,
and you'd all watch the Disney Wonderful World of Disney.
Speaker 15 (17:32):
It was.
Speaker 14 (17:32):
We did it with my parents and my brothers, and
then I did.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
It with my that's really good. Good on you, Simon,
thank you very much for calling in Hi, Peter.
Speaker 16 (17:41):
As we grew up as kids, it was always family
around the table. Mom and dad directed things. We did
the dishes afterwards without in the kitchen, and then each
grow up and yeah, we got jobs. We came back
on Sunday and their dinner with their family and once
my parents past, yeah, kind of carrying on for a
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little bit, but it became too messy because my brother
kids got older. My kids got older and once they
hit that eleven twelve age mark, like James is saying,
you've got activities that around five o'clock at night, six
o'clock of light, seven o'clock a light hockey on this night.
So and your partner made me working one night later.
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So you just member got around the table. But like
I said, I try once a week, do I sit down?
Speaker 4 (18:31):
But so it would be as infrequently as that once
a week for your family now, Peter.
Speaker 16 (18:37):
Yeah, once a week. And like last night, I sat
across from my daughter on the arms having dinner to
get We had dinner together in the same room and
we chatted about their day at school, even with the
TV on in the background. So we still have dinner together.
We're still in the same room, but it's just not
in a table setting. And to be honestly, be fair,
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my dinner table was better suited to build lego on than.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
The highlight reels.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
It's a pretty interesting story. It doesn't sound very good.
Murray's Day Intermediate in Auckland. A father stormed into the
classroom of that school, one of the classrooms there, and
threatened to kill a pupil after his son obviously had
been subject to some bullying and rough housing alleged should
a parent ever enter the school grounds to sort out
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a dispute. I was having a chat with somebody about
this off air, and they are a parent, and they
said they would have done exactly the same.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
I had to deal with that. When Jesse was a kid,
did you.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
Go onto the school grounds. No, Rachel makes a good
point on text. Hi, Simon and James. So let me
get this right. His child was bullied, so then he
went down and bullied another child.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
As an adult bullying a child, Yes, that's exactly what happened.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
Text yep, but this text has a different view. It
isn't necessarily okay. But I would do the same if
anyone bullied my son, came on, did.
Speaker 17 (20:02):
A stand Yeah, no, no, no, no, no, no. You
don't down to the school and threaten another student. First
of all, I doubt that the father of the parent
really examined all his options. If the principals are not
prepared to do something, go to the board of trustees.
If his son has been physically assaulted by the bully,
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go to the police and lay a complaint. But don't
go down and threaten to kill. Threaten to kill.
Speaker 12 (20:31):
I find this whole thing insane, to be honest, I
think it's ridiculous. I mean, as adults, we should we
have like a kind of power that these children are
quite vulnerable to, and to come in and kind of
like abuse that you don't know who that child's going
to end up being. I think I had something happened
to me when I was younger, and I still see
that guy around that did it to me, and I
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can tell you he's never going to be doing it
to anyone else again. So I just think it's I
think you've just got to be careful with how you're
reacting to their situations, and bullying a child just seems
kind of pathetic and sad to me.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
What did you do with that guy who had bullied
you at when you were younger? Did you confront him?
Speaker 7 (21:10):
Add all?
Speaker 12 (21:11):
Yeah, well I've seen someone to confront him.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
What age were you at that stage?
Speaker 12 (21:16):
About twenty twenty one?
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Okay, the highlight reel with Sign James.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
What with the Olympics and then the All Blacks tests,
I'd sort of forgotten about the fact that now we're
into the America's Cup.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
It's sort of snuck up on me. Oh hell, okay, right,
let's go. Yeah, so let's talk about that. Are we
falling out of love with the America's Cup? Hello, Troy, afternoon,
You'll be watching out.
Speaker 18 (21:39):
I'll be watching, but I'm dark as dark on Old
Dalton and Toe. But I'm a patriotic kiw So I'll
be watching one hundred percent.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
You are not alone in your thoughts about Grand Dalton.
Speaker 18 (21:49):
We k new Zealand taxpayers contributed millions and millions of
dollars into that he bent over the last however many years,
and what other audio events that you win and the
whole idea of the America's Cup, you win it, you
host it in your own country.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
Yeah, but if we were a very small cun there's
just not a lot of dough here.
Speaker 18 (22:08):
We've held it successful in the past, we held it
successfully here.
Speaker 9 (22:11):
We won it.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
Yeah, but everybody's caught up. It's like the all Blacks.
Everybody's caught up. The technology's advanced and we can't afford
to stay there.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
It's that other people will pay more for it.
Speaker 11 (22:21):
Troy.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
You know, we did spend taxpayers money on previous America's
Cup to bring people to the country to get their
economy going, and I think we did get some financial
benefits out of those taxpayer dollars.
Speaker 18 (22:33):
The tax take obviously, all the you know bring down
here and all that, I just find it. I still
you know, it's always a dollar, right, and they're making money.
They would have made money in New Zealand. We're going
to make as much money as they did overseas in
America's Cup was just like it's a ke We sporting icon.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
I heard this on the show this morning and I thought, man,
my spine's tingling. Have a listen. This is Grant Dalton
talking about one of the reasons they took it off
shore and the popularity of the America's Cup.
Speaker 19 (23:01):
When we had the event Naukland twenty one, we had
a combined audience over the course of everything of nine
hundred and fourteen million. And before this event even started,
like I'm talking two months ago, we were already up
to about seven hundred and fifty million apples for apples.
So from a growth point of view, being in Europe,
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time zone, et cetera, be it that you know, we're
not in New Zealand, and I understand the frustration of that.
It's certainly growing.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
That's Grunt Dalton, and then he went on to talk
about the coverage and how you the spectator, we the spectators,
we'll be able to enjoy it like never before.
Speaker 19 (23:38):
I think you'll see tomorrow when the whole graphics package
comes to weir a whole new look and a particular
new way to watch and understand the sport, because of
course we all know it's not an easy sport to understand.
I mean, Keywies understand it better than anybody. And we've
come up with a whole new mechanism that makes it
a more understanding.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
It's Grunt Dalton. I can't wait, you know, Dave, Hey
a man, how are you good? Thanks? What's your stuff
shared on?
Speaker 2 (24:04):
I have you shared on?
Speaker 20 (24:05):
Shooes on?
Speaker 13 (24:06):
Good on?
Speaker 20 (24:06):
You to go twelve o'clock tonight, you man, hey man.
That boat's called Team New Zealand. It's not called Grand
Dalton or nothing. It's the only boat there with the
country's name on it. That boat's made in New Zealand.
All that intellectual property for all those boats has made
in New Zealand. The hydrogen chose boats are made in
New Zealand. The money that that thing shows New Zealand
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is outstanding, man, Like the country's got to get behind
Team New Zealand and to get this Grand Dalton thing.
Grand Dalton's done announce standing job to keep that team
together and put us we're going up against like Britain's
got Mercedes designs behind it. We're up there, man, and
we're going to bring that cup home. So we've got
to get behind this man.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
I agree, And Southern Spas design a lot of the masks.
They're an Augand based company, and in fact a lot
of the other teams in the comp use Southern Spas mass.
I mean, we really do punch above our weight, don't we.
Speaker 20 (24:59):
Oh and then Walkworth men, there's a whole carbon fiber
industry behind it, all the hydraulics man. Come on, Come
on New Zealand and stop being like this.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
The highlight reel.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
Loads of people want to talk about this. There's a
suggestion by a group called the Period Place, and you're
probably familiar with the name because they campaigned very strongly
to get free sanitary products in schools and it was
adopted and a number of schools are trialing the program
and I don't think they'll go back on that. So
that's a good thing. But there's also a call from
them now to take the GST off menstrual products in
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this country as they do in the ukan Australia. That's
what we're discussing Doug today.
Speaker 15 (25:35):
Yeah, I think the GST thing might be a good idea,
but it did seem that it's going across quite a
lot of money to administer. And also, I mean these
are you very out these stats about x amount of
people who had to use old, old towels or old sheets. Yeah,
I don't believe any of that absolute nonsense. You're not
(25:55):
saying that what women have had to use sheets?
Speaker 4 (25:58):
No, I'm not saying that. I'm saying from the survey, Dug,
thirty six percent of women had experienced a period where
they couldn't afford the necessary period products at the time.
Speaker 15 (26:07):
No, I'm sorry, but I don't believe that for a moment,
not one moment. If someone's sob story, you think.
Speaker 21 (26:13):
Really, what did she think was used before sanitary pegs
were round?
Speaker 4 (26:18):
It's a good point.
Speaker 21 (26:18):
When I went to school, I had to use a
little towel that my mother had. She had quite a
few of them. I had a sister and we had
to use these little towels and they were pinned to
us by what we called a sanitary belt with safety pins.
Now what did he know? Did he think that we
didn't use anything?
Speaker 4 (26:38):
Doug, if you're still listening, you've upset a few people.
To be fair, OMG, tell that guy, Doug who thinks
that girls in their families can't afford period products. Is
actually lies. Tell him to go into a low decile
school and see how much these kids actually do, really suffer.
He is living in a superior bubble. I work in education,
and regardless of what he says, I can tell you
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it's all true. Hi, Rose, Doug's got.
Speaker 22 (27:03):
Me really right up. I think he's living under a
rock out of touch. I certainly do know a lot
of low disol areas where there are girls who certainly
go without and they are struggling. And I would certainly
be one of those people that would be very supportive
of removing the GSP Rose.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
Thank you very much, Simon. How about gst off medicine,
doctor's visits, paracetamol, cold and flu medication. How many kids
and people are suffering because they can't afford pain medication
and doctors, et cetera. Should we take the gst off?
Those highlight real Well, let's talk entertainment and lifestyle. Emma
Gleason and studio hellow Emma, Hey guys.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
A Kiwi radio host has gone viral in a spectacular fashion.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
Who did Yeah?
Speaker 23 (27:45):
The Heads presented? Ben Boyce has gone viral for a
recent trip to the drive through, So let's take a
listen to what happened. Then I want to get your
reckons on it.
Speaker 19 (27:54):
Hi, Hi fan, I'm kind of feeling skibvity, so I've
got off my yat so to come up to riz
up mac chicken please irl?
Speaker 16 (28:03):
Thanks?
Speaker 6 (28:03):
That sounds sigma, it's vibe check.
Speaker 14 (28:07):
I'm thirsty, so maybe have Do you have a minium lemonade?
Speaker 2 (28:11):
It sounds bussing? Do you have Sunday?
Speaker 15 (28:14):
Oh?
Speaker 22 (28:14):
If you have the Sunday now, will have the gritty
no cap m.
Speaker 14 (28:19):
Or my daughters are don't go chocolate weird flex small
b great, Thanks, it's all good.
Speaker 11 (28:28):
Yeat.
Speaker 23 (28:31):
Did you understand any of that?
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Not really sort of?
Speaker 23 (28:37):
I heard yeat, So I'll decode it a little bits
I had I confess. I did have to do my
research this one. So Ben Boyce is utilizing a whole
swathe of gen Z slang, mainly to embarrass his daughters,
who you can hear in the backseat audibly cringing. So
he's using words like busting, drip, skibbity riz and the
videos have gone viral. The I think it's garneed about
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five million views on Instagram as of this morning, when
I spoke to Ben to get some numbers I know,
and some celebrity have found it quite crack up, including
Paris Hilton who posted a laughing emoji, and apparently Ussin
Bolt liked the post too. So yeah, it's pretty You
can learn some things if you watch it and read
our explainer story on The Herald.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
I'll definitely have a look at the explainer. Thank you.
Speaker 23 (29:22):
IM a good weekend, guys, see you too.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
Chats, laughs and the best calls.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
This is the highlight reel with Simon Barnett and James Daniels,
towered by News Talks ED be Hello there, James, just like.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
That, Just like that?
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Yeah, Kelder, Simon Kilder, everybody, have you noticed anything different
over the last couple of nights?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
No, the moon.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
No, I wasn't looking at the moon. I was reading
the story about Janick Center, the world number one tennis
plaer who was found and failed a couple of drug tests,
but he's not been banned. Normally he would be banned
for two years, and so a lot of the professional
tennis players are saying, how double standard man, just because
the guy's number one in the world. He's the most
unassuming looking guy. He's really pleasant to listen to, obviously
(00:52):
a gifted tennis player. Where's he from? Only right? Okay,
he doesn't look Italian at all. He looks like it
does an Italian look like I remember that Swabee Mediterranean
sort of a look, whereas he looks like Ed Sharon.
He really pasty as he's redheaded. And but who does
Sharon look like?
Speaker 3 (01:12):
You know, there's stereotype people anyway, it drugs or something,
what is it?
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Well, yeah, he failed this test which tested for steroids.
But his team have said and which is why the
Anti doping committee led him off. His physiotherapist was using
a steroid cream for his own person. That is, for
the physiotherapist, some steroid cream and he had it on
his hands and then he massages jicks in his body
(01:40):
regularly and.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
That's how it got into it.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Infused into his body. They said it wouldn't be performance
and heart.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
So levels of the level and if it's over the level,
and he should be sanctioned.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Day exactly, that's what people are saying. But he didn't
because they say it's clear it was an error with
sport as an error. Ever an error you know the rules,
don't you. It doesn't matter how it's in your system.
If it's in your system, it's in your system. Exactly.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
Good a bill which even way you look at it,
he's a sinner.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Hey nice, very nice.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
I'm wondering how big the physiotherapist's finger is for that
to get absorbed and then into the fatty tissue and
then there is to be tested later on. What's good
for the goose is good for the gander and my
book and I don't care whether he's number one or
a number one hundred and one in the ranking.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Bell Thank you very much, Hi Lyle.
Speaker 6 (02:29):
Yeah, it's a fraud t isssue, isn't it. I don't
know about you, guys, And sometimes I've thought about this.
It was applied to me. This is a real person
we're talking about. No fault of there is. It's something
gone wrong, and everyone says he is a cheap.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Yeah, I'm with you. I'm with you. What he said
out James, you're quiet.
Speaker 7 (02:45):
Well.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
The thing is that they have conducted an investigation and
they found that he did have antabolic steroids in his system.
Black and white, you either have it or you don't.
And that's what all these other tennis professionals are saying.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Oh, that's because they're all jealous of him.
Speaker 6 (03:02):
No, I'm not saying that.
Speaker 8 (03:03):
There is a process and you've got to accept the process.
Speaker 6 (03:04):
What I'm saying, is it right?
Speaker 8 (03:07):
Imagine how that happened to our top kayaker and they'd
be totally out of character of absolute mistake and people
then slighted her our champion of our news. We'd be
really upset and so would she be, and rightly so.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
The best moment from the week. This is the Highlight
reel with Simon Barnett and James Daniels powered by News Talks.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Let's talk about Saint John Ambulance. Hartel Hornet Saint John
Ambulance officers have begun their strike action. You may or
may not be aware about the funding for Saint John's
and around eighty three percent of it is by the government,
but then the rest is funded by kind of a
hotchpotch of donations, fundraising by Saint John themselves and we've
(03:49):
all been open to that, sponsorships yep, and patient part
charges to make up the shortfall. Wellington Free Ambulance also
gets most of their funding from the government, but they
rely on about eight million dollars in fundraising each which
is a lot of fundraising. That's a lot of make
sales it llion dollars in fundraising each year to keep
their services free. They are absolutely free, hence the name
(04:10):
Wellington Free Ambulance. They don't apparently want one hundred percent
funding from the government, but you know, anything with a
siren should be the government's responsibility, shouldn't it everything?
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Yeah, that's a good way to describe it. Actually, yeah,
fire engines.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Fire engines are with foreign emergency in New Zealand through
levees and things.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
So you're right, that's right, you know, but the police
is fully funded, So why isn't Saint John or the
Ambulance Service fully funded? Like very much like the police.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
And also, I personally don't think and I feel for
them for the people striking, but I don't think it's
a good look having ambulances painted with strike action side.
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
It just felt the same way about the fire engines
as well. I suppose I did a wee at fire Service.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
I mean, it's a desperate last resort for them, and
I get that, But what do you think, get a
Phil you're a firefighter. Tyler's just whispered in my ear X.
Speaker 9 (05:02):
Fire Service X fire Service about ten or eleven years ago.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Okay, so you'll be very much familiar with this sort
of thing.
Speaker 9 (05:09):
Well, I think that the St John Ambulance and Fire
Emergency New Zealand should be merged by the government and
do something very similar to what they do in Los Angeles, Chicago,
New York and some of the other UK countries where
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if a firefighting crew responds to a fire related emergency,
a paramedic unit responds also some across manning and it
means that the firefighters are medically trained and can respond.
So if it was a medical call, you'd get a
fire emergency in New Zealand's medical response with a fire
(05:53):
crew to back them up. I would suggest that if
we're talking about funding from the government for Saint john Ambulance,
then maybe we should be funding via fire emergency in
New Zealand's levies.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
So thank you for calling mate, Really nice to talk
with you. Oh you're welcome, Hilanda, Hi.
Speaker 10 (06:09):
Simon and James, how are Youandod?
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Thanks for calling up. So it's not working.
Speaker 10 (06:14):
No, it's not working unfortunately. You know, Saint John's has
done a wonderful job over its time. But you know
up here now in all Krunt I live in Fonger Paroah.
You know, yes, the firebrigade gets sent out first and
then an ambulance is coming. And I think that that's
the wrong the wrong set up anyway, there's not enough ambulances,
(06:37):
so you're waiting forever for one to come, and I
think it's just, you know, a basic right of New Zealanders.
Speaker 11 (06:45):
We should be able to be able to pick up the.
Speaker 10 (06:49):
Phone, ring for help if we need it and get
that help. We're talking about lives here, Obviously something has
to be done.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Linda.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Great to get your thoughts. Thank you very much for calling.
Quick text from Sue Hi, Simon and James are resounding
yes to full government funding. I worked with the ambulance
Service for many, many years and have always believed that
successive governments took unfair and self serving advantage of the
ambulance service because these services and the charitable people who
supported them were provided an utmost good faith altruism, gratitude
(07:21):
and respect, or because governments wouldn't cough up because they
didn't need to as long as these people were giving
of their time.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
That's a reasonable question.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Actually, it's the highlight real.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
I think I'm pretty fair minded. I'm kind of you know,
I know, kind, people like to call me work. I
don't think I am you're kind, well, I hope i am,
but I tried genuinely to be fear with most things.
I'm not a hardliner. You will probably be more hardline
than me over certain instances. Oh but here's a story.
(07:52):
It kind of it got me animated. The headline to
the story said this how to set healthy work boundaries
and avoid burnout. And it was written by Philly Powell,
who's the CEO founder of well Being Tech, and I
quote well being first, work second, always then and this
(08:15):
is at five things. Spend a minute, says Philly in
the opinion piece to answer the following questions with brutal honesty.
So I did.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
I went through this check. I'll go through the questions.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Have you felt the need to work beyond your contracted
hours in the last month?
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Do you feel like you don't have enough energy and
need more sleep?
Speaker 4 (08:33):
Marginal? Do you miss out on social or family events
due to work? Not so much now, but I absolutely
have done.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Do you prioritize work demands over your personal life again
at times?
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Do you go the extra mile by staying late or
taking on extra projects occasionally?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (08:50):
So you've answered yes to more one or more of
those questions, And that, my boy, is a clear sign
that you don't have healthy work boundaries.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
I don't know. I read that and I thought, hang on,
I'm not for flogging the worker, and I'm not on
big businesses side necessarily, but I do think certainly. You know,
from when I started in the workforce, say eighteen through
to maybe mid forties fifty even, it was like work
was like I really thankful to have a job. I
really wanted to work hard. I really wanted to succeed.
(09:20):
I really wanted to work well for my bosses. I
really wanted to be well thought of by my bosses.
But I also wanted to be a good husband and dad.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
But you did go, You did answer yes to a
couple of those questions.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
There were so, yeah, there were some things I missed
family things because I had to work. There were weeks
where I'd be filming a television show, for example, and
I'd be weeks away from home, and you know, I
didn't like that, but I did it because I wanted
to be successful, one of my bosses to like me
and I and I was getting paid good money, yep.
And that's one thing I think sort of gets lost
in this work life boundary thing, is that there is
(09:53):
an employer that's paying really good money. So you do
the job, well, well.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
I'll take you back to what Philly said at the
beginning of the opinion piece. Remember the quote well being first,
work second. Always yeah, I go no, no, it's work
first allows for well being. Second. You won't have your
well being without some work.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
The highlight reel.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
Worldwide, there's an emerging trend. It was a thing a
while back. It seemed to fade out. But it's called
mystery travel and that's where holiday it's kind of, as
it says, holiday makers embrace the unknown. They get on
a plane, well actually just prior to getting on the plane,
they find out where they're going. They pay good sums
of money. It's a sort of a curated experience travelers
sign up for and they don't know the destination. Often
(10:40):
this was a thing. Do you remember the New Zealand
had Mystery Weekends. Mystery Weekends, that's what they were called.
I don't know BB fifteen twenty years ago. Well they're back,
and they're back with a vengeance. Apparently they're really popular,
but they've changed the name slightly. It's called Air New
Zealand's Mystery Break and you can choose one of four packages.
There's the Great Break, the Deluxe Break, the Luxury Break,
(11:00):
and the family break. All you do is select a date.
You do get the opportunity to enter one destination you
don't want to go. It would be yours. I'm not
going to say, because then I'll never be allowed back
in that town. Where's one place in New Zealand you
don't want to go?
Speaker 12 (11:15):
Mate?
Speaker 3 (11:16):
I asked you first?
Speaker 4 (11:19):
Your place? Well, they're real popular. That's what the story
is about, James. How popular they've become again. And I
wonder if it's just because we like it. We want
a bit of excitement back in our lives, a bit
of mystery. Yeah, I quite like that, do you?
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (11:31):
I like that, but I just don't know what's around
the corner. That's why I walk into a bar because
I just enjoy the people watching the You never know
what's going to happen next.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Yees see. You and I are so different. You like
that I'm not sure what's going to happen, feeling on
the edge of web it. Yeah, I am the polar opposite.
I like to know exactly So you wouldn't do a
mystery break, would you know? Why would I pay a
travel agent or in New Zealand to come up with
a package. I've got the best package in town really
(12:04):
pays to advertise folks, So that came out free.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Ad here would be.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
That came out wrong when I I've got the package
in the time, I mean my head designs are good.
Would would come up with the great shut up? James,
you know where you're going is what you're saying. I
like to be creative. I would want to, you know,
curate my own trap.
Speaker 7 (12:24):
Right.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
Yeah, So that's where you and I different. You're a
danger mouse, whereas I'm not see this text now James
and I are not saying this is right. They said
we ended up in Gore for our mystery weekend, very disappointing.
It was terrible. Yeah, now that's unfair to Gore because
my dad looks there in my movement.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
The highlight reel with Simon Barnett and James Daniels Hughes
talk said be.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
You might have read the story of Christopher Lax and
the Prome Minister says councils need to cut their cloth
before government steps into bail councils out. So then counsels
are saying, well, we're having to impose all these costs
on rate pass. What about if we were able to
introduce a bid tax. You know, it's basically a tourism levy,
and that would help offset some of the costs for
rate paths. You'd make it up through these tourists. And
(13:11):
then Simeon Brown's is, well, that's not what the laws is,
so you can't do that. But the government's saying cut
your own coth before we help you out. That's all and.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Well, Simeon. You can change the law exactly as you are.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
Should the law be changed, so councils can impose local
councils your own one can impose a bid text. I'll
be all for it. That's five packs extra a night.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Yeah, whoop do you yeah?
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Jacob? Hello there.
Speaker 11 (13:33):
I think it's very naive of councils to want to
introduce a bed tax when hospitality in general in New
Zealand is struggling more than it has done well for
as long as I can remember. I mean Aucland is
an example. None of the hotels have been full for
at least six months now. They're struggling more now than
they ever I've done pre COVID, and a lot of
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that is due to just nothing driving tourism. So want
to come to New Zealand at the markets. The only
time you get hotels that are actually breaking even at
the moment and making some money is when there's a
big event. And how often do we have them at
the moment.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
What's the main problem with it, though, Jacob. There's a
few Texes pouring out and they totally agree with you
that tourism's straggling. This t this is you, two mags.
The country is backing the trend globally, tourism stored. Do
you really think a big text of five dollars, Jacob,
would actually prevent somebody from coming to a town and
staying the night.
Speaker 11 (14:29):
Well, it's another nailing the cost, and isn't it. I
mean you look at internal flights around New Zealand trying
to visit the regions. Just look at that for a cost,
you know, looking from christ Church to in Vocado, it
costs two to three times as much to travel to Australia.
You know, we've got tourists that are just not coming.
We want to encourage the tourists to come back to
New Zealand and visit the places and get out there
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in the rural areas. It's just another cost. It's going
to deserve them.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Jacob, appreciate your thoughts very much. Thanks for calling again. Hi, Beverly, I'm.
Speaker 7 (14:58):
A little bit harsh under the color about this particular subject.
I live in Palmist North. Our council here are very
irresponsible with the rate payers' money, and so are Horizon.
So it's a two pronged conversation here. Okay, it's all
very well putting this five dollars or whatever tax on tourists,
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but actually it's not dealing with the problem. The problem
is the immoral spending of the councils. They need to
be taught how to budget.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Well, Beverly, here's the good news. You've only got one
more year and then you can vote them out, and that's.
Speaker 12 (15:37):
What we've told them.
Speaker 7 (15:38):
We're going to ask tourists to pay extra money. That's
all very well, but let's start spending the money that
is coming in properly.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
First, the highlight reel.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
So this latest research says that only one in three
Kiwi families actually have dinner together at the table.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
The other interesting stat is that two thirds of families
say that they have a screen on during dinner time
and that's not necessarily at a table.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
And in other words.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
They could be sitting down watching on the couch, eating
off tennees.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
Hello there, Allison, how does dinner time work at your place?
Speaker 13 (16:11):
We're a fan believer and sitting at the table with
our six year old son so we can talk about
our day and just enjoy the evening.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Nice.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
Do your kids ever kind of go? I don't want
to do that.
Speaker 6 (16:23):
No, never, No.
Speaker 13 (16:24):
I grew up with that as well, so I just
you know, I loved it.
Speaker 8 (16:29):
And I was growing up.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
And why do you make it a priority? Why is
it important to you?
Speaker 13 (16:33):
So we can you know, hear anything at the table,
anything that happened in the day that wasn't good, that
was good. How how you know we're feeling?
Speaker 4 (16:41):
And this Texas is hell? No, the dinner table. We
don't even have a dinner table at our place, true, Simon.
Speaker 14 (16:51):
I was one of three boys, so when we started,
we always had the table. But and I had three boys,
and where was based on Sunday night, the sight of
the week, and we were always what, no matter where,
we were around the table on a Sunday night, and
(17:11):
it was It's always been special all around the world. Now,
But yeah, I think it's I think it's important. But
we we really enjoyed it and we loved it, and.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
It was that night I love that idea Sunday night
dinner with it will be a Sunday roast, Yes, Sunday roast,
and you'd all watch the Disney Wonderful World of Disney.
Speaker 15 (17:32):
It was.
Speaker 14 (17:32):
We did it with my parents and my brothers, and
then I did.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
It with my that's really good. Good on you, Simon,
thank you very much for calling in Hi, Peter.
Speaker 16 (17:41):
As we grew up as kids, it was always family
around the table. Mom and dad directed things. We did
the dishes afterwards without in the kitchen, and then each
grow up and yeah, we got jobs. We came back
on Sunday and their dinner with their family and once
my parents past, yeah, kind of carrying on for a
(18:02):
little bit, but it became too messy because my brother
kids got older. My kids got older and once they
hit that eleven twelve age mark, like James is saying,
you've got activities that around five o'clock at night, six
o'clock of light, seven o'clock a light hockey on this night.
So and your partner made me working one night later.
(18:24):
So you just member got around the table. But like
I said, I try once a week, do I sit down?
Speaker 4 (18:31):
But so it would be as infrequently as that once
a week for your family now, Peter.
Speaker 16 (18:37):
Yeah, once a week. And like last night, I sat
across from my daughter on the arms having dinner to
get We had dinner together in the same room and
we chatted about their day at school, even with the
TV on in the background. So we still have dinner together.
We're still in the same room, but it's just not
in a table setting. And to be honestly, be fair,
(19:00):
my dinner table was better suited to build lego on than.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
The highlight reels.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
It's a pretty interesting story. It doesn't sound very good.
Murray's Day Intermediate in Auckland. A father stormed into the
classroom of that school, one of the classrooms there, and
threatened to kill a pupil after his son obviously had
been subject to some bullying and rough housing alleged should
a parent ever enter the school grounds to sort out
(19:28):
a dispute. I was having a chat with somebody about
this off air, and they are a parent, and they
said they would have done exactly the same.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
I had to deal with that. When Jesse was a kid,
did you.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
Go onto the school grounds. No, Rachel makes a good
point on text. Hi, Simon and James. So let me
get this right. His child was bullied, so then he
went down and bullied another child.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
As an adult bullying a child, Yes, that's exactly what happened.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
Text yep, but this text has a different view. It
isn't necessarily okay. But I would do the same if
anyone bullied my son, came on, did.
Speaker 17 (20:02):
A stand Yeah, no, no, no, no, no, no. You
don't down to the school and threaten another student. First
of all, I doubt that the father of the parent
really examined all his options. If the principals are not
prepared to do something, go to the board of trustees.
If his son has been physically assaulted by the bully,
(20:24):
go to the police and lay a complaint. But don't
go down and threaten to kill. Threaten to kill.
Speaker 12 (20:31):
I find this whole thing insane, to be honest, I
think it's ridiculous. I mean, as adults, we should we
have like a kind of power that these children are
quite vulnerable to, and to come in and kind of
like abuse that you don't know who that child's going
to end up being. I think I had something happened
to me when I was younger, and I still see
that guy around that did it to me, and I
(20:53):
can tell you he's never going to be doing it
to anyone else again. So I just think it's I
think you've just got to be careful with how you're
reacting to their situations, and bullying a child just seems
kind of pathetic and sad to me.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
What did you do with that guy who had bullied
you at when you were younger? Did you confront him?
Speaker 7 (21:10):
Add all?
Speaker 12 (21:11):
Yeah, well I've seen someone to confront him.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
What age were you at that stage?
Speaker 12 (21:16):
About twenty twenty one?
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Okay, the highlight reel with Sign James.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
What with the Olympics and then the All Blacks tests,
I'd sort of forgotten about the fact that now we're
into the America's Cup.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
It's sort of snuck up on me. Oh hell, okay, right,
let's go. Yeah, so let's talk about that. Are we
falling out of love with the America's Cup? Hello, Troy, afternoon,
You'll be watching out.
Speaker 18 (21:39):
I'll be watching, but I'm dark as dark on Old
Dalton and Toe. But I'm a patriotic kiw So I'll
be watching one hundred percent.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
You are not alone in your thoughts about Grand Dalton.
Speaker 18 (21:49):
We k new Zealand taxpayers contributed millions and millions of
dollars into that he bent over the last however many years,
and what other audio events that you win and the
whole idea of the America's Cup, you win it, you
host it in your own country.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
Yeah, but if we were a very small cun there's
just not a lot of dough here.
Speaker 18 (22:08):
We've held it successful in the past, we held it
successfully here.
Speaker 9 (22:11):
We won it.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
Yeah, but everybody's caught up. It's like the all Blacks.
Everybody's caught up. The technology's advanced and we can't afford
to stay there.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
It's that other people will pay more for it.
Speaker 11 (22:21):
Troy.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
You know, we did spend taxpayers money on previous America's
Cup to bring people to the country to get their
economy going, and I think we did get some financial
benefits out of those taxpayer dollars.
Speaker 18 (22:33):
The tax take obviously, all the you know bring down
here and all that, I just find it. I still
you know, it's always a dollar, right, and they're making money.
They would have made money in New Zealand. We're going
to make as much money as they did overseas in
America's Cup was just like it's a ke We sporting icon.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
I heard this on the show this morning and I thought, man,
my spine's tingling. Have a listen. This is Grant Dalton
talking about one of the reasons they took it off
shore and the popularity of the America's Cup.
Speaker 19 (23:01):
When we had the event Naukland twenty one, we had
a combined audience over the course of everything of nine
hundred and fourteen million. And before this event even started,
like I'm talking two months ago, we were already up
to about seven hundred and fifty million apples for apples.
So from a growth point of view, being in Europe,
(23:23):
time zone, et cetera, be it that you know, we're
not in New Zealand, and I understand the frustration of that.
It's certainly growing.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
That's Grunt Dalton, and then he went on to talk
about the coverage and how you the spectator, we the spectators,
we'll be able to enjoy it like never before.
Speaker 19 (23:38):
I think you'll see tomorrow when the whole graphics package
comes to weir a whole new look and a particular
new way to watch and understand the sport, because of
course we all know it's not an easy sport to understand.
I mean, Keywies understand it better than anybody. And we've
come up with a whole new mechanism that makes it
a more understanding.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
It's Grunt Dalton. I can't wait, you know, Dave, Hey
a man, how are you good? Thanks? What's your stuff
shared on?
Speaker 2 (24:04):
I have you shared on?
Speaker 20 (24:05):
Shooes on?
Speaker 13 (24:06):
Good on?
Speaker 20 (24:06):
You to go twelve o'clock tonight, you man, hey man.
That boat's called Team New Zealand. It's not called Grand
Dalton or nothing. It's the only boat there with the
country's name on it. That boat's made in New Zealand.
All that intellectual property for all those boats has made
in New Zealand. The hydrogen chose boats are made in
New Zealand. The money that that thing shows New Zealand
(24:28):
is outstanding, man, Like the country's got to get behind
Team New Zealand and to get this Grand Dalton thing.
Grand Dalton's done announce standing job to keep that team
together and put us we're going up against like Britain's
got Mercedes designs behind it. We're up there, man, and
we're going to bring that cup home. So we've got
to get behind this man.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
I agree, And Southern Spas design a lot of the masks.
They're an Augand based company, and in fact a lot
of the other teams in the comp use Southern Spas mass.
I mean, we really do punch above our weight, don't we.
Speaker 20 (24:59):
Oh and then Walkworth men, there's a whole carbon fiber
industry behind it, all the hydraulics man. Come on, Come
on New Zealand and stop being like this.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
The highlight reel.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
Loads of people want to talk about this. There's a
suggestion by a group called the Period Place, and you're
probably familiar with the name because they campaigned very strongly
to get free sanitary products in schools and it was
adopted and a number of schools are trialing the program
and I don't think they'll go back on that. So
that's a good thing. But there's also a call from
them now to take the GST off menstrual products in
(25:31):
this country as they do in the ukan Australia. That's
what we're discussing Doug today.
Speaker 15 (25:35):
Yeah, I think the GST thing might be a good idea,
but it did seem that it's going across quite a
lot of money to administer. And also, I mean these
are you very out these stats about x amount of
people who had to use old, old towels or old sheets. Yeah,
I don't believe any of that absolute nonsense. You're not
(25:55):
saying that what women have had to use sheets?
Speaker 4 (25:58):
No, I'm not saying that. I'm saying from the survey, Dug,
thirty six percent of women had experienced a period where
they couldn't afford the necessary period products at the time.
Speaker 15 (26:07):
No, I'm sorry, but I don't believe that for a moment,
not one moment. If someone's sob story, you think.
Speaker 21 (26:13):
Really, what did she think was used before sanitary pegs
were round?
Speaker 4 (26:18):
It's a good point.
Speaker 21 (26:18):
When I went to school, I had to use a
little towel that my mother had. She had quite a
few of them. I had a sister and we had
to use these little towels and they were pinned to
us by what we called a sanitary belt with safety pins.
Now what did he know? Did he think that we
didn't use anything?
Speaker 4 (26:38):
Doug, if you're still listening, you've upset a few people.
To be fair, OMG, tell that guy, Doug who thinks
that girls in their families can't afford period products. Is
actually lies. Tell him to go into a low decile
school and see how much these kids actually do, really suffer.
He is living in a superior bubble. I work in education,
and regardless of what he says, I can tell you
(27:00):
it's all true. Hi, Rose, Doug's got.
Speaker 22 (27:03):
Me really right up. I think he's living under a
rock out of touch. I certainly do know a lot
of low disol areas where there are girls who certainly
go without and they are struggling. And I would certainly
be one of those people that would be very supportive
of removing the GSP Rose.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
Thank you very much, Simon. How about gst off medicine,
doctor's visits, paracetamol, cold and flu medication. How many kids
and people are suffering because they can't afford pain medication
and doctors, et cetera. Should we take the gst off?
Those highlight real Well, let's talk entertainment and lifestyle. Emma
Gleason and studio hellow Emma, Hey guys.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
A Kiwi radio host has gone viral in a spectacular fashion.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
Who did Yeah?
Speaker 23 (27:45):
The Heads presented? Ben Boyce has gone viral for a
recent trip to the drive through, So let's take a
listen to what happened. Then I want to get your
reckons on it.
Speaker 19 (27:54):
Hi, Hi fan, I'm kind of feeling skibvity, so I've
got off my yat so to come up to riz
up mac chicken please irl?
Speaker 16 (28:03):
Thanks?
Speaker 6 (28:03):
That sounds sigma, it's vibe check.
Speaker 14 (28:07):
I'm thirsty, so maybe have Do you have a minium lemonade?
Speaker 2 (28:11):
It sounds bussing? Do you have Sunday?
Speaker 15 (28:14):
Oh?
Speaker 22 (28:14):
If you have the Sunday now, will have the gritty
no cap m.
Speaker 14 (28:19):
Or my daughters are don't go chocolate weird flex small
b great, Thanks, it's all good.
Speaker 11 (28:28):
Yeat.
Speaker 23 (28:31):
Did you understand any of that?
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Not really sort of?
Speaker 23 (28:37):
I heard yeat, So I'll decode it a little bits
I had I confess. I did have to do my
research this one. So Ben Boyce is utilizing a whole
swathe of gen Z slang, mainly to embarrass his daughters,
who you can hear in the backseat audibly cringing. So
he's using words like busting, drip, skibbity riz and the
videos have gone viral. The I think it's garneed about
(29:00):
five million views on Instagram as of this morning, when
I spoke to Ben to get some numbers I know,
and some celebrity have found it quite crack up, including
Paris Hilton who posted a laughing emoji, and apparently Ussin
Bolt liked the post too. So yeah, it's pretty You
can learn some things if you watch it and read
our explainer story on The Herald.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
I'll definitely have a look at the explainer. Thank you.
Speaker 23 (29:22):
IM a good weekend, guys, see you too.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
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