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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
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Speaker 3 (00:36):
Why this?
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Why can't I medical school thing? Which doesn't actually exist?
Is this going to be the straw that breaks the
coalitions back? The Wonaco McDonald's, which is also not a thing.
More anxt over that we've got the latest travel trends
for you.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
Or at least what people want them to be.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
But before any of that, Yes, the coalition government, while
we're talking about them, I think we're a year into
it now. Remember we were waited and we waited it,
and we waited and we finally got it. Well that
was a year ago, longer, doesn't it.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
I know the Prime Minister has been giving the obligatory
round of one on one interviews to various media outlets
to mark one year of the coalition. It contains the
usual stuff you would expect it to contain. For what
it's worth, I give them an easy seven out of ten.
This is the first proper MMP government, of course, that
we've had. Labour pretended the twenty seventeen through twenty deal
was the real thing, when in reality the Greens weren't
properly part of it. So three parties all signed up,
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all fully engaged, has it worked? Answer? Yes, what about
the treaty bill? I hear a few of the more
hysterical cry out. Even if you get carried away by that,
you can't argue that. Mainly this lot get on fine.
In Germany, their three party deal, of course, has collapsed.
Our three party deals rock solid. It's never stopped surprising me.
The media busy themselves, still looking for cracks and not
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giving appropriate weight to the idea that the reason there
are three parties is because they don't all agree on
the same stuff. Otherwise they wouldn't be three parties. MMP
has suffered because of two main issues. One party is
not getting on, two smaller parties vanishing while in government.
So far in this arrangement, neither seems to be happening.
All three parties continue to poll roughly where they started.
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All three parties have adhered to the agreement. Perhaps if
you're handing out prizes. You could argue in New Zealand
first to the best performers for Noah, the reason than
they actually look not just like they aren't going to
blow the place up, but dare I suggest constructive? Peter's
is outstanding as Foreign Minister Jones is a revelation in
a variety of areas. Act have real heft in the workplace, reform,
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children's matters, the treaty debate, schools, and regulation. The NATS
have very good performers in education, trade and infrastructure. Downside,
things aren't moving at the pace they should be, or
more importantly, need to be more. More, more needs to
be done. This country is in shocking shape and needs
urgent surgery, more doing, fewer announcements, but one year in
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overall there is a lot more on the upside than
the other side.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Do you feel like you're in shocking shape?
Speaker 2 (03:06):
I don't feel like I'm in shopping shocking shape. I mean,
I mean I'm in shocking shape, but I don't feel like,
you know, in that kind of shocking shape. I wish
Mike would stop telling us we're in shocking shape. Rewrapp, Yes, so,
as I was saying in the introduction, so the Coalition.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
It does seem to be a little hamstrung by itself.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
And as things like the wy Katto Medical School, is
that going to hamstring it even further.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
We talked with the Prime Minister about the business of
because we have SIMA on the program last week Visa
b Why Katto more doctors in the country, need to
train more doctors, Why Kata's options the third medical school.
Seymour suggested he wasn't particularly keen on it. He's seeing
the paperwork. The Prime Minister doesn't seem to be agreeing
with him, says he's not. The Minister of Health well
active suppliers with the Treasury document on why Katto Hospital.
(03:58):
So one of the things they said was as follows,
the Treasury does not support this Cabinet paper and the
recommendation to progress to detailed business case. We instead recommend
you ask the Minister of Health to seek broader cost
alternative option. Another point they made is New Zealand is experiencing, yes,
increasing shortage of doctors, but we do not consider that
progressing with this investment pathway represents the best value for money. Now,
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obviously governments don't have to take Treasure advice and half
the time they don't. But Seymour's point as Minister of
Regulation is that if it's going to cost a million
dollars a student, surely there are better ways to go
about doing it, and you don't have to eat the
cost of all the hardware that comes with it. So
anyway that Stachi is yet to unfold them just waving
the flag. So when it becomes news, you can go,
hang on, where ever heard that before?
Speaker 6 (04:38):
And the answer is on the my casking breakfast crikey
talk about setting the agenda as an argument that hasn't
happened yet about a medical school that definitely hasn't happened yet.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
I don't know what I find more weird that or
yesterday's angst about a harka that nobody understood was annoying
them until somebody translated it for them afterwards.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Can people just live in the time that they're living
and we'll go from there rerap? Of course they can't.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Of course we've got the people who are very upset
about the Wonica McDonald's, which also does not exist.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Yet.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
If you're arguing true democracy, then I suppose there is
nothing stopping somebody submitting a positive report when councils call
for input. But as I look at the numbers, as
I have been around the Wanica McDonald's stoush, it is
no surprise to see those who are against it outweigh
those who are for it three hundred and thirty nine
to twenty one. But then think about it, most people
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don't care. Most people will get on with life. So
it's a false economy, really, isn't. I mean, people who
don't like stuff will always complain more. Why Wanaka thinks
it's so different or special? I got no idea. I mean,
I love Wonicer, It's probably my pick of Central O
Tigo towns, but not because it doesn't have a McDonald's.
The district council is having a look at the application,
and for the life of me, I can't see why
it won't go ahead. You don't have to like fast
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food to accept the McDonald's is just another business, and
people should want businesses doing business because they employ people,
they put money into the community, and they pay tax.
Places like Wanaka have always suffered from a sense of snobbery,
and it generally comes at some point post the initial
discovery by the outside world, as long time locals start
to resent the incursion. It's not a brothel, it's not
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a gang pad, it's not illegal. It sells hamburgers. One
complaint objects to the fact it's highly visible, small clue
that's actually what business is aim for. Another says it
would have an adverse effect on the visual and esthetic values.
Very good submission, sounds important, says nothing. Everything's aesthetic if
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you want to see the esthetic as esthetic as of value.
Otherwise it's just known as the surrounding area. We can't
stop a law abiding business just because we don't like it,
or because we're a bit uppity. And given that, and
given the story isn't actually even new, this application has
been bubbling away for a while, we covered it earlier
on this year, you can question whether all this process
is actually just an exercise and waste. Given the outcome,
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I would have thought as a four gone conclusions.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
In this kind of situation where you want to take
the names of everybody who's argued against the Winnaker McDonald's,
either formally or informally or just text it in or whatever,
that there should be a master less of those people.
And then once the McDonald's is built and is operating,
they're not allowed to go there.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
No matter how hungover.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
They are and how much they really really really need
a chocolate shake or a six piece McNuggets, They're just going.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
To have to stip them rewrap it.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
And you think off the back of Mike's comment about
that that they might chut these people up, but no, no, no,
just enrage them further.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
Mike, the problem with McDonald's isn't this a tremendous number
of texts around this, and you're completely missing the point.
The problem with McDonald's isn't necessarily the restaurant itself, but
the people who frequent it. You can't stop a restaurant
or a business opening because you've decided that somehow the
people aren't up to scratch. It is a ridiculous thing.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
People are going to come from where I don't go
to that McDonald's that aren't already there.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
And it's all the people who drop the rubbish. So
every business in some way, shape or form is involved
in rubbish. Mike, Mark here and Wonaka, we can't wait
for McDonald's to land Wonka's, So that's good. So I've
had two texts positive Mike. It's the rubbish that people
throw around the countryside. It's not McDonald's, Mike, it's the customers.
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There is no way in the world a council can
prevent a business opening because the customers aren't good looking enough,
or the customers a low rent, or the customers toss
the wrapper out of a window. It is not the
business's responsibility of what you do with the box when
you buy a product, whether it's a television or a car,
or a car part or a hamburger. And if every
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business wasn't allowed to open because everyone was going, well,
it's sort of next to a mountain and that won't
look any good. And also when they buy whatever it
is they buy, they'll tip it, not use a rubbish pin.
I mean, if that's what it's come down to. Literally,
as I tried to seduced earlier on, the council is
wasting their time.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
They probably got rubbish burns down there. It's not Auckland.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
I wonder if they've thought of that.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
What would be the as McDonald's the worst for litter
in terms of takeaway litter that you see strewing around
the place, I mean.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Is it KFC?
Speaker 2 (09:28):
I feel like KFC is worse because you can end
up with bones in the box. And if you've got
bones in the box, you can't be leaving bones in
the box in your car when you're driving around, can you.
So that'll get that'll get turfed out, and then it's
just bones on the side of the road. And then
somebody takes the aborances speaking dog along and.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
They chew out the chicken bones which they're not allowed
to have. Or is that just me, might just be
a specific problem just to me?
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Rep Right, We're going to finish up with some travel trends,
some of which I didn't even know were a thing.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
The in and the ouse. It's the fizz with business fiber,
take your busines, just productivity to the next level.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
Right, buckle up, this is insane. Tourism industry is calling.
Next year twenty twenty, thrive economies start to pick back
up and we start to apparently start to travel. So
booking dot Com has asked us what we're looking at
doing next year. Nine key things. One I don't even
know that I'll get through nine because one I'll run
out of time, will be on my head'll explode. One
The first is called noc tourism. We're fascinated with space
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and the universe, and we want to do more around that.
So first of all, we can't. There's no ability to
go anywhere, so that's a complete not a waste of time.
Two immortality. We're increasingly prioritizing wellness. Fifty nine percent want
to go on a longevity retreat. Forty eight percent they
do a holiday that has the sole purpose of extending
your life. Thirty six percent would travel for cryotherapy. Once again,
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complete crap. I understand the extending your life going to
a wellness place, I fully get that, but cryotherapy is
not a holiday destination. Three AI itineries. Sixty eight percent
of us apparently going to use AI to help the trip.
Four multi gen mega trips. So we're shifting our focus
from saving for the future to creating lasting memories with trips.
(11:16):
Your memories are a thing. Travel Tuesday, so you got
Black Friday, Cyber Monday. Travel Tuesday is now increasingly a thing,
so people want to buy experiences. So fifty four percent
of Baby boom has already displashed the cash sixty five
percent so they'd pay for their kids or grandkids to
come along as well. Boys to zen as number five
rise in men only trips. I mean that's an age
old thing, isn't it really going off with the blokes
(11:38):
sex ageless adventures. We don't like the idea of a
quiet retirement. Twenty five percent say they want to push
the boundaries of their comfort zones and their older age.
Neuro seven neuro inclusive navigation. This is taking trips that
help neurodivergent travelers not to have a negative experience. Whatever.
Eight vintage voyaging fifty percent, so they intend to be
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thrifty or on the trip. That was the guy from
her who died the other day. He was, you know,
the Fromer's guid he died. He said, the Lesius bend,
the more you enjoy it. I found that to be
completely the opposite. Fifty three percent say they're also looking
to upgrade and change their wardrobe on the next trip. See,
I thought that was just me, and I don't say
that out loud because that makes me sound really weird.
I go on holiday to buy new clothes, mainly because
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I don't shop during the year, and I think while
I'm here, im as well buy new clothes. But fifty
three percent, so that's actually the majority of us go
shopping on holiday, So not weird at all nine the
Great Escape. We want to explore airports. We want to
explore airports with new, unique experiences. Sixty three percent of
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us want to experience a new airport. Fifty six percent
say now this, but it's true. Fifty six percent say
we feel less stressed before a trip at the airport's better.
That is true, and that's why Auckland Airport's going to
go well this summer. Twenty four percent say there would
take a trip to a country specifically if their airport
is known to be good. That's not as wacky as
you think, because you will a lot of people I know,
(13:07):
including myself, of board LA for that exact reason. I
flew to America last year to New York via San
Francisco for exactly that reason, to avoid LA. And that's
why CHANGI so popular. It's why do buy so popular
the seamless experience.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
I wonder if Mike doesn't realize what cryotherapy is, because
that's something that he does all the time with his
cold showers and his plunge pool. I don't know if
Mike would necessarily go on holiday in order to have
a cold shower and a plunge pall, even that he
owns both of those things at his place. But you
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imagine if you could go to a flashed airport that
had a plunge pool. Oh, you'd just be a Pegan Matt,
wouldn't you, Well, the opposite of the pig and mate, No,
I honestly don't know what I'm talking about, so I'm
going to stop. That was the rewrap, and I'll start
talking again tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
See then.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
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