April 18, 2026 • 40 mins
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going to talk about where's that line between how much
the bank will give you and how much you should
actually borrow, because I think you'll find that they are
two quite different numbers. Usually even with me, it was
like how much can I borrow?
Speaker 4 (01:36):
No?
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Why I wouldn't trust me to pay off that? And also,
are we too obsessed with interest rates? You know, you
want to buy a house, you want to buy an
investment property? Interest rates to what they are? I mean
we're all quippling in the media point twenty five percent
changing the cash rate? Are we too obsessed with it?
Do we need to chill out a little bit? We'll
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at five o'clock for the Parents God, we have a
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Public Health Fellow at University of Canterbury. And look, it's
about perf parenting. I mean, is everyone trying too hard
to be the perfect parent? Should we just relax a bit?
Everyone's worried that they're going to do something that's going
to traumatize and change their kids forever. And also we'll
dig into some of the common mistakes parents can make
in the early years, which maybe you should have aoid
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Three, parenting, property, politics plus money, health and the week's debates.
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Speaker 2 (02:48):
So I'm not gonna mess about with the long winded introductions.
So our first guest, look, he's the man of the
rural sector. He's all things to do with farming and
rural and whatever, anything to do with something that comes
out of the ground. It's the CEO of New Zealand
feed Field Days. It's Richard land Drew's Did I ever
(03:08):
play that? Richard? Just teen your mic on? Hang on,
don't touch that butt.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Okay, okay, now you did overplay it a wee bit.
But Field Days, Wow, massive event. We're just about fifty
five days to go.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Oh you're going to give it. I'm spreaking it. Yeah yeah,
so yeah, it's going to be great. But what's the
vibe being just because you know we've had some trouble
over in the straits of hormones and iran and things
and the price of diesel. Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
So we're nearly sold out of our exhibition sites. So
that's twelve hundred sites.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Aggry.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Business is booming across all our sectors. We're coming together
on during the tenth to give it the biggest show
we have in New Zealand this year.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
And when you invited me down to do my show
from there, I waiting for the official invitation for the
weekend collect to come a lie or I think, isn't it? Mark, Like, No,
you're not supposed to pre empt my next guest. Just okay,
we'll switch your mic off. Now my next guest. He's
done a lot in his life. But but you've all
heard it before because I've recited as CV from He's
(04:13):
done some interesting jobs, but you will know him as
probably the silver Fox of journalism. He is Mark Kreisel. Hello, Mark,
Now I think we need to turn a faighter up.
We just need to turn a hang on. No, No,
we're coming through another mic. Hang on a second, yeap, No,
(04:34):
I've just grabbed Richard's mic. Yeah, that's that's something that's
not working with the other mic. Let's just check that.
Here we go.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
I don't think, oh you didn't there, we got it properly, okay,
but I wasn't plugged in. Thank you for the shortest,
the shortest one I think I've ever had from you.
But I don't know if you realize that I too
have rural connections, do you. I used to be a
fencing contractor back in Tananaki, back in the day, and
(05:02):
my first job at Radio New Zealand was as a
rural report water and I used to be introduced as
meat gristle.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Have good meat gristle, mark krysl gristle. Now just gristle. Hey, well,
I prefer Actually I had some talk about this on
my talk show about people, you know, the jobs you
had as a youngster, and I was talking about and
did some hay bailing once, and somebody said, on you
know the fences, we always to look down on the
guys doing Oh yeah, yeah, bit of a rivalry there.
(05:33):
I think it's some stage it felt like I literally
the reason I did it was because I grew up
in write and so many of my brother's mates I
think had done hay bailing and it just seemed like
something I had to do as a write a passage.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
It was a great job, right, Okay, I know it's
just hard work.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Yeah, yeah, so all that's yeah. Obviously, is there anything
you're working on right now that you'd like to share
with us before we get them to the time ghost
writing a book at the moment, But I won't say
who it is working on?
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Going to say what sport?
Speaker 2 (06:06):
What sport?
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Yes, it's sport, A sports man. There you go. But no, no, no,
I'm not gonna I'm not say.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
I just assumed it wouldn't be a politician. I just
assumed sport for some strange reason. Yeah, well, if you
were going to write a politician's biography.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Winston Winston, absolutely, Winston Peters.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
And I spoke with the publisher the other day. That
is the holy grail. Everybody wants to see if they
can get Winston's.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
So, Winston Peters, we know you're a huge fan of
the show Mark krist and you may not like his politics,
but your lover's writing. He'd love to write your your
your biography. He'll even let you call it an autobiography,
and he'll just gost write it anyway. Hey, look, let's
get into it, guys, shall we. Now? Firstly, look, we've
just got to deal with us. I'm over the I'm
(06:53):
sort of over the story popping up and back and
and I think maybe we should think of the subject
of the story. Well, so the questions around Christopher Luxon's leadership,
the rumors possessed. I wasn't sure that Chris Bishop gave
the most marvelous interview yesterday and Husking when he could
have just put it to bed with a couple of
short sentences, but Husking did keep pushing And why wouldn't he? Mark?
(07:14):
What do you reckon?
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Well, they've got real problems the National Party, haven't they.
It's all in the numbers, and on those numbers at
the moment, they're going to lose a lot of their
front line MPs, the back benches. You know, they're strong
and most of the electorates. They'll probably win those back,
but they're they're on target to lose a hell a
lot of the seats. And I think, you know, the
(07:37):
problem seems to be Christopher lux And who was not resonating.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
With well the pot well look at it. No, No,
that's what it's just going to say is the problem
chrisoph luxe, and now is the problem just there? You
know whatever they inherited. Plus the world is all of
it crap at the moment? Is it on him? Because
can I just draw to attention that Labor still have
Chris Hipkins there, who's yet to announce a single policy,
and if anyone is excited by him being Prime Minister again,
(08:01):
then I'd say they're.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Up ten points from where they were at last election
them so do nothing is the way to succeed in politics. No,
parties don't like. Governments don't win elections, they lose them. Yeah,
so I think you have to bear that in mind.
But that's by the bye. This at the moment on
those numbers that the coalition government will be in quite comfortably.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
The center right government is holding the position.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Yeah, the story is not going away. This reaction to polling.
Who blinks first. I don't think anything's going to happen.
I'll be honest as a voter, I mean, I don't
really care, despite what I might have said, I don't
really care who the leader is.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
I like, but you should think if you're in the
National Party, you should be caring because you're going to
lose a lot of your front Now.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
I mean, I'm just saying as a voter, and I
don't care who the leader is. I just I just
look at what roughly, what sort of what policies I
agree with? And also what person what, what's what individual
ministers I'd like to send different jobs? Do I want
to see.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
Who?
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Do I want to see a Minister of health? Who
I want to see a Minister of Education, finance? Whatever?
Do I like Mitchell as a minister Police and Civil
Defense or whatever? What I prefer his opposite? Those will
be the questions, And obviously.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Are we asking a question to term of what minister
ministerial post would he like?
Speaker 4 (09:17):
I reckon the center would be well, it wouldn't be
a fence post.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Associate Minister of Sport, I reckon, So yes, so you
don't have to do all the hard work.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
We can still go to thereat emerging sports.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Minister of Arts and Sport. That would be me, I reckon.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Art's actually you would be good at because at least
I don't think I'd be a popular Minister of Arts
and Culture. No, I don't think i'd be popular because
the minister get rid of a lot of the box
ticking sort of way we fund what art is important.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
That's a loaded one, but only what you like. No, no,
not at all. But I think there's a way of
assessing things, but not based on whether you take particular
and cultural or sort of virtually signaling boxes.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Which minister broadcasting for Mark?
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Oh you god? Would you be? Would you be a
popular minister of broadcast?
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Look, I'm just happy being the member for Saint Mary's Bay.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Anyway, Hang on, so how hold it? Hold it? Hold it,
hold it, hold it. Someone's gone on here. Something has happened,
and I don't think we I've just recognized it. Richard
Lindrews has avoided making a comic on Christopher Luxe, and
so he changed the topic to which minister, minister or
post I'd like He'd like their minister for field Days,
if there was such a post. But we do actually
have one. It's Barbara Krueger. Oh seriously, Okay, what do
(10:34):
you what do you think of? What's your general reaction
to the to the leadership issues around lux and how
big a problem is it or is it just something
that the beltweiher will talk about and the average person
you know, well, the story is not going away.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
I mean, and it's been picked up and it doesn't
help when you have any view's like what happened with
Chris Bishop.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
So look, most people, most people who vote, have no
interest in politics, right So that so no, they don't,
and so they are mainly interested in They just want
someone who can tell them a story and tell him
was sorry, well this is something this guy can't do.
I think they'll be better off getting rid of him.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Who would you put in this place?
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Well, I don't. I don't think it matters. I think
it does matter, But no, because you're that close, you're
that close to the and it's complicated where you go.
Because I've spoken to National Party people this week who
are worried about the main contenders being on the left
of the party. So I think if you look at
what happened with Jacinda Adourn when Andrew Little stood down,
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you get a real momentum with a new new leader,
you get some wind in your sales. If they don't
do some nice hot air in your sales, they're going
to have far fewer seats at the cabinet, They're going
to have far less say and what that coalition is.
There's a good chance Winston keeps growing. He may want
the Finance minister, he may want to be Prime minister.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Well that would be absurd.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
No, but's it's not that he hasn't besought.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
But actually, I actually I don't know what outside aut
to it really, So.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
You have say, around I don't know, sixty five to
seventy percent of New Zealanders looking at center parties like
Labor and National, center right, center left, and they're going
to be like angry that their votes seem to count
for nothing.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
What do you reckon, Richard? What's the next topic on? Yeah? Look, look, look,
as you say, I don't think most people care too
much about politics, which is funny. But the idea that
we just get someone in to sell a story, I
find that a bit depressing that we go for a
storyteller rather than some people the one I thought I
would have though. If you are if you are a
list MP and you're worried about your gig, then sorry,
(12:38):
but more fool you find an electorate and have a
connection with a community. And that I got bugger all
time for m MP these days. I wish we were
back to FPP and we could everyone who was in
Parliament had an attachment to a particular elect electorate that
they were accountable to. Boomfer, I'd changed that and the
heart and a heartbeat mind, you probably mean we get
rid of Winston. Oh, I'm just kidding. Just anyway, Hey, look, look,
(13:06):
let's get on to some of the you know, the
local political issues. Changes to the warran to fitness system,
so it'll allow most light vehicles under fourteen years to
move to a two year warrant of fitness inspection Schedule one.
Industry groups not convinced, of course. I think probably those
with the vested interest in passing and doing a bit
(13:27):
more work and they'll there will be businesses will miss
out on this, but I'm all for it generally. I
think that the idea that maybe we should have an
accompanying increase for if you are found with a car
that is not in a warrantable position should be slightly heavy,
more heavily penalized, you know, because people say, oh, the
people just drive around ball tires. It's like, well, if
(13:48):
you do, you'll be in you'll be in the gun.
And why would you you know, why would you do that?
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Anyway, it's an over regulated industry. I think good change
cars now in terms of the data, what they're talking
about are safer, more reliable. I think it's a very
good move and essure about people drive around bull tis
they're doing it anyway. Issues with our roads and safety
at that's the angle that you're looking for, actually.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
About bad drivers, bad roads. I think speed, yeah, speed
and self phone shrinking. Yep. So there we are. I
think we're the new cabinet for the government. We might
want to change the ministries that you were looking to
do there. Yeah, Look, there's always a trade off, isn't there.
I think I saw was that bishop saying that there
(14:33):
were there'll be three more accidents or something.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
With accidents or deaths.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
I didn't quite get. I didn't quite get that either.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
I had reason a good idea about this to it
was kind of the extension of this because I think
there's a whole issue in terms of our driver's licenses,
our compliance on the road. But one thing we haven't
got is this compulsory insurance when you register your car. Now,
I think you know that's something that we should be
looking at. You know, we've got you know, we've got
Kiwi Bank, Kiwi Saver. How about Kiwi insurance it's.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
A good idea. I mean, most countries in the world,
you you can't get a car without well I don't
know about most countries, but a lot of countries overseas
you can't get a car without without insurance. And so
someone prayings into you and you don't even have third
or you bring into someone you don't even have third
party insurance. Then you get away scott free and the
other person's left carrying the bill. So I think, yeah,
(15:27):
I think it's it's probably a good idea. It's very
different when I grew up, like, oh my god, warrants
every six year, every six months you had to get
a warrant, and the cars were so old I don't
think it had a car for any younger than twenty
five years.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
I always remember the cyber relief I got when my
mark to Mark one forty escort got passed. You always
made sure it had a good Hey, moving on to
just this one about so Treasury has been ringing the
alarm bells around that there are going to be basically
fewer workers per retiree, and so Treasury has been arguing
(16:03):
that New Zealand's going to need higher taxes. We're going
to need to get more revenue, and so Inland Revenue
is doing a bit of work building on that, detailing
some suggestions either increasing the GST rate or taxing more
capital gains or something. And look, I guess it is
an issue about whether we can afford, you know, with
(16:24):
the number of retirees. Here'sn't it. I mean I would
just quickly raise the retirement age, but we've had that discussion.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
But that's not going to do enough.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Well, it depends how you raise seventy five.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
You know, guys, I do have a bit of an
issue with ID raising this. It's not their job, is
Treasury Originally okay, Treasury, I'm okay with, but I do
their jobs down your lane, the lane tax. They're about
administrating and gathering revenue. Treasury is about giving advice. So
I just think, you know, you know, we have enough
(17:00):
issues with actually tax collection and debt et cetera. Stay
in your lane, Treasury come out with this.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
But I think that the superannuation thing is a ticking
time bomb that someone needs to make some hard decisions
on degree right now. Raising the age is one thing
in Australia, it's means tested. It should probably be means
tested here. They should probably lift the minimum contribution for
Kiwi saber up to around ten twelve percent, like they
(17:27):
do in Australia.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
I think we hear we are every second in the year.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
But you have to be careful with raising the age
because there are a lot of people who do physical
labor the whole like you started off, well, I'm only
still alive because they gave it up.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
But the thing is, we do have to have some
tough conversations over a bunch of things. And it doesn't
seem at the moment that the political sort of sphere
is in any position for us, because we're still worried
about whether somebody you know, smiles nicely enough for the
camera as a suprime minister.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
But that's but that's that's democracy, that's politics. That's the
way it rolls, mate, that's the system you have. It's
no point in complaining about that. They've got to work
within that system. It's just maybe take this out of
the hands of the politicians, I mean, and give it
to someone else.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Can't do that, not chet tax changes. Somebody's got to
be accountable for it. We can't give it to a bureaucrap.
It has to be passed by someone tough, you know,
and we'll have to get your heads around it. So
you're going to be working till what age a you're
going to retire, Mark, you know.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
I've never been a natural work It's tim if I'm
not enjoying it, it's work, and I'm enjoying what I'm doing.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
I don't know many people are actually looking to retire
at sixty five. No, I think anyone just keeps working
because I don't know, keep busy, keep interested. Anyway. Hey, look,
we're going to come back with some really fun stuff
in just a moment because I'm just loving the Trump
Jesus Pope argument sort of thing. And we'll be back
in just a moment. My guests are Richard Lindrews and
Mark kris Or. This is the This is our panel
(18:50):
on the Weekend Collective twenty five past three. Yes, welcome
back to the Weekend Collective. Richard Lindr's and Mark Kreys
all are my guests today for our panel, and guys,
it's been an interesting week in American politics for a
whole bunch of reasons. Probably the most fun were the
battle that Trump has sort of issued in when he's
having a fight with the Pope. I'm not sure if
(19:13):
that one's gonna head Trump's way. It doesn't seem to
be hitting his way. But Pope Leo doesn't seem to
be backing down from, you know, saying what he thinks.
And we've got jd Vance saying that the Pope should
concern himself only with questions of morality rather than war.
It's like, I think the question of war might be
heavily related to also questions of morality. But anyway, what's
(19:33):
your take on it? Mark?
Speaker 4 (19:35):
I don't know why why you would bother to pick
a fight like this and then double down diversion. Yeah,
but they're still talking about the same thing. They're still
talking about war, and the pope's showing a backbone, I mean,
standing up. He isn't backed away.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
He's like he's righteous, Yeah, you know, but he's you're
going to give credit to Trump for having to crack
at everyone.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
I mean, he's got a chip on both shoulders.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
I love some of the memes though, I don't know
which one to point you to, but the's some brilliant memes.
But anyway, Yeah, he's the one I like the most
is Trump dressed as he is in that thing where
he puts himself as Jesus, And there's him standing in
that outfit at the door of a of an operating theater,
and everyone else is an operating theater, and they're all
(20:28):
turning to him as if liking He's like, I can't
mean what the caption is, but it's like I'm the doctor, right.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
I mean, I think he thinks he can get away
with anything anyway. That statement he said when he first
got elected that I could walk down you know, I
could fire a gun down Fifth Avenue and I wouldn't
get arrested. I think he genuinely believes he can do
whatever he can, and he's kind of backed up by
the Supreme Court. He can do whatever he wants to do.
I just don't know how helpful it is for him
(20:55):
in the big picture. You've got the midterms coming up
in November. Catholics voted for Trump in quite big numbers
in the last election, and a lot of those were Hispanics,
but also white Catholics in America. Why would you want
to get offside with them?
Speaker 3 (21:10):
He's risking that kind of deeping that political the religious
thing and alienating some of those their voting base. I
think it was a diversion tactic. He has a crack
at everyone ever since the assassination attempt has gone to this.
I'm close to the God than anyone else. Off he goes.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
So it was bizarre, to be honest with you, I mean,
to me, I just think a sanity stock is sliding anyway.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
But he's eccentric. I don't know if he's insane. I'm
maybe I think he's more more eccentric and I'm like
extreme narcissist, like totally believes he can do anything at all,
and maybe a bit of a sociopath and that he
(21:56):
doesn't care how what his words or his actions do
to other people.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
How long has he got to go before?
Speaker 4 (22:02):
He's not even through the second.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
I mean, I think, you know, I think the Republicans
will be nervous about what's happening with the midterms. What
will happen?
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Who know, look jacobath but he could but also he's
he's already you know, suggesting voter fraud could be a
factor here, and you know what's to stop and seizing
the ballot boxes or something. So you know, it's there's
a there's a lot lot to run. But it's interesting
these around the world now. The people that are back,
you know, aligned themselves with Trump, who had all barn
(22:34):
and Hungary for they sent somebody over there, sent jd.
Vance over there. Trump was very public about his support
for him, and he got smashed in a light and landslide.
So I think people it's a lot starting like it
used to be kind of funny and amusing and things
like that. But I think people are like, no, you're
actually like what you were doing in America or in
(22:56):
the Gulf now is affecting one. So I fill up my.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Ute and everyone takes them seriously because he occupies the
most powerful position in the world, and you know, he's
he has said some outrageous things. I mean, I like
the post of the comment from the Spanish premiere or
prime minister, you know, talking about the run thing. It says,
you know, I'm not not going to applaud someone for
turning up with just for turning up with a bucket
to help put out the farther they Lita, you know,
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there's something like that. But it does seem that, you know,
Europe and a lot of people who have done their
best to humor and I think the world is starting
to go even it got a little bit.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
I go back to the end of the first term,
the best line on the Trump presidency, and they asked
the Canadian professor wat what it was like living in
Canada during that time, and he said, it's like living
above a meth lab. And I think it's got that.
It's got that same kind of crazy energy. You don't
know what's going to happen, you know, and it's kind
(23:55):
of whiplash. So yeah, it'll be interesting to see how
this is just on.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
The fun one. I do like the story about Pete
Hegseth was that a Pentagon prayer meeting where I mean, look,
I can't remember how it was set up, whether he
knew he was creating from pulp fiction or whether or
not he did. But basically, instead of quating Ezekiel's twenty
five seventeen, it's pretty much channeling pure pulp fiction about
(24:19):
which samul Jacson's characters, about what he says before he
basically shoots someone, and there's he Seth was, you know,
doing it as a sort of prayerly invocation at a
prayer meeting. I don't know what to say about it, really,
I think what you can say. It's a great movie.
It has been reminded of that.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
I want to watch it again. It's dead baby.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
I wonder how many people will actually go and start
watching that, because that's often the gateway to going But oh,
I forgot about that movie. You might go check it out.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Tarotino director, but he also starred in it. There was
a great scene he was oh, yes, Johnny and the cleaner, Yeah,
the cleaner, Yeah, the Cleaner's coming.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Is that the one where the lineers bring it sending
the gimp? Is that from.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
Funny Things?
Speaker 2 (25:04):
People remember that anyway? Fun times? Hey, look I actually
tell you what. We might just take the break and
we'll come back in just to tick. This is News
talk z B back in the month. Yes, News Talks
B welcome back. This is the week in Collectiveton beverage.
And my guests for this hour's panel Ol Richard Lindrew's
and Mark Kreisel. Now onto the really really heavy topics.
(25:26):
This is a big one, this one. There's a petition
that is called on the Crusaders to keep the symbolic
match day horses on field, who we're going to see
the end of them unless something changes because well, a
variety of reasons I've seen, but basically the confined layout
around the field has meant those six horses which have led.
Now it's worth pointing this out let out the Crusaders
(25:48):
at every home game since nineteen ninety six, so thirty years.
Unless my arithmetics I suddenly got that wrong so that
they can't operate without risk. My take on it just
before we go to Ugents is, look, I'm not a Cantabrin,
I'm not a Crusaders fan, so I don't really care.
But I just sort of think. You know, they've got
(26:09):
a fantastic new stadium, and if I was in charge
of the stadium and I was the boss, I be
by the way, guys, those horses are not coming anywhere
near my beautiful pitch, full stop. Richard. Well, that's what happened.
They said there's no space. Yeah, the legacy. They talked
about safety and other things, and I mean, let's face it,
if you've got a footprint of a horse, you know,
(26:32):
these athletes, you know somebody twisters, Yeah, presstin field, But
you know, I mean the I think that what I
as they talk about fan engagement, fan connection, the biggest
fan engagement. Connection is having a great product and having
a winning team.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Yeah, having a winning team, had a great venue, excellent venue,
so downtown venue, it's it's going to be. It's a
Friday night, the first going against New South Wales.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Good.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
I'm not worried about the horses. I'm worried about the product.
It's interesting the different perspectives, Mark, because the producer of
the Weekend Sport, Andy McDonald, he told me I mention this.
He's really unhappy. He loved those horses. But he's a
young guy who can have who's his whole life that
he's known those horses. So he's got that childlike contemporance
and he was really hot when I see it.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
We can have horses, have the hobby horses, and I
have the celebrities going a lap around it. You know,
the ones with the sticks, little Shetland ponies. They're quite
they make quite a difficult the hobby horses, rocking horses
you mean, Oh.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
Yeah, I've done extensive research into this. Yes, Mark, no
one has has gone down. What happens when one of
them takes a dump, well.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
They go and pick it up. I'm pretty sure that
thirty years of this mark they've seen thirty years. I'm sorry,
you know, I think someone goes around and picks up
after them. Imagine that's your job on your CV. What
did you used to do? I used to pick up
pooh after the horses. You know.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
I think you know it's tough, but move on. The
hurricanes are going to anyway.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
I'll tell you something.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
I don't think hurricanes are going to Hurricane going to.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
I tell you something interesting. I did like that we have.
Andy was telling me about the rection from the sports fans.
But when I've done talk back on the overnights, I
put it out to all the christ Church listeners. Just
let me know what you think. How upset are you?
And in terms of general christ Church people, I didn't
have one single call from anyone who cared. But of
(28:22):
course if you listen to a sports show, that's where
you're likely to get the passionate, a few hate mails.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
And it's another maybe it's a it's another good way
of keeping her interest up in this new stadium and
things that's coming building in an atmosphere.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
The other conversation did spark was I'm trying to remember
some of the more memorable sports mascots over the years
and the one that popped into my Oh no, who
was the one? They had this guy and no one
could remember it. Nobody mentioned it. The Blues had a
character called Blue Thunder at one stage, remember that's embarrassing.
But the one that's cropped to mind for me was
(28:57):
Hoary Bop, who was an unofficial mascot for they have plenty.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
Richard, You've done a number of sporting events. I managed them,
you know, built them up.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
Has this ever been part of your Yeah, I've hired mascots, Superman,
Wonder Woman, I've done all done all that to get
a summer fan engagement. But this is a fantastic new stadium.
I'm not worried about the horses. I'm worried about the product.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
I have to do field days have a mascot. If
they do, you're under pressure.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
June ten to June thirteen this year, we'll have over
one hundred thousand people and we don't need mascots.
Speaker 4 (29:34):
When I was a kid growing up in Taranaki, we
had Ferdinand the Bull. I think I think they still
use it, but they had it was a really old
rickety you know thing back in the day.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
But we just loved The.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Best thing about the mascots is the Mad Scots. In
the season race they have in rugby where they all
line up.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
They hire a guy who is the sprint champions, tear
and one hundred meter champ.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
They put him in at a costume and he absolutely
destroyed the field.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
I think that's called Is that cheating? Yes?
Speaker 4 (30:03):
Yes, the great movie car ride there.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
And by the way, do you see that you've got
fellow that guy gout, gout?
Speaker 4 (30:09):
How good is he? What is he? Eighteen?
Speaker 3 (30:11):
How old is nineteen point sixty seven? For two hundred
meters out step faster than Bolt? This guy is a
machine and the Aussies are loving it.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Actually, wouldn't it be? You know what I really want
to see? I want to see because it's often the
Americans who dominate. And look, we loved Usain Bolt because
he was the charisma and a lot of fun and
all that. But I'd just love to see someone from
this side of the world. We'll own him destroying the Americans.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
Now, Prismane Olympics coming up, that's going to be close
to when is it a top? How good is that
for Australia in this part of the world.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
And how many years can you have as a sprinter?
Is how old is it now? Is eighteen? Well bolt was?
You know?
Speaker 4 (30:48):
So I think you got it and it's that explosive
you need, isn't it. Congratulations to Canda be on there
own christ Church on the new stadium though. I was
in Wellington when that stadium came in and it is
a game changer having something like that in the center
of the city. It just builds so much momentum and
vibe and it's a great addition. And I wish Auckland
(31:10):
had the guts to do one here.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Big cool you know what. I'm with you. Where would
you want yours? Though? Are you like me?
Speaker 4 (31:17):
Do you want it down at the waterfront? Second into
there is that one. There's another beautiful one. I saw
a design of just anything but Eden Perk.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Yeah, I'm with you, Mark.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
I mean, I don't know what the succession with Eden
parkers the back Eden Park. You know they've they've moved
the Criklum rugby out. Yeah, to call a maiden.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
So I think that we has a reason to replace
the Prime minister bad Eaten park decisions. Hey, by the way,
you guys careful with your recycling very much. Chosen to
a big fan because there's talk about now three strike
system for people who repeat latedly fail inspections. If if
they're not putting the if they're not putting the appropriate
(31:56):
stuff in their recycle bent.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
I know it can't be recycled.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Recycling is a mess in New ze One.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
It is.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
It is.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
We have disconnection. We have different rules and different councils.
Where's the national wide strategy. It's about education run than
punitive things.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Do you do your team? Actually? Okay, what do you separate?
Do you do your recycling?
Speaker 4 (32:17):
Yeah? I do?
Speaker 2 (32:18):
But do you know what numbers it is for one
too and five? One to and five?
Speaker 4 (32:22):
Do you to clean out your yogurt? Do the yogurt?
Speaker 3 (32:25):
Now?
Speaker 2 (32:25):
What I do?
Speaker 3 (32:27):
What I do?
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Know?
Speaker 2 (32:27):
On christ they do? Okay, they do it religiously down there.
But I'm actually they're really good. I think christ is.
I'm a huge fan. I tell you what.
Speaker 4 (32:37):
I love that food scraps, Ben, I can't get enough.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Of that, Okay, I just think what I waste them?
We do the food scraps?
Speaker 3 (32:45):
Well, okay, well it's two versus one in the studio
then so we win. We're still an MP, which it
could be a list MP.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
Well, it could be.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
But my point here is I think we have a
larger conversation about recycling, and we need a national wide strategy,
and it's just all over the place.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
This has been punitive for me. Well, I reckon if
you if you're going to have recycling and you use
the recycling, but if you're not going to do it,
and you if you are sticking the wrong stuff in,
I say, if you've got a big fine coming your wank,
but we suck it up, Princess, there's not so much
a fine.
Speaker 4 (33:18):
You just lose your bin.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
But also we actually pay for it and listen our
rates anyway, if we don't use the service, we've been
built anyway.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Yeah, okay, let's move on. Then okay, punish them, well,
look them, don't come on. How much compliance?
Speaker 1 (33:34):
I wasn't sure.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
I was quite convinced about from you by you. Then
when you said you you do do the recycling, you
split them. You looked a little. I was trying to
read chrisp Radio. We can't read people's expressions. I'm not
sure if I was. I'm not sure if you are,
you the one who makes you know? Who was the
efficient recycler in your household. No, we know, we know
this term. I just look.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
I think recycling is important, but I just think we
have a really disconnected nationwide strategy and councilors are all
over the place, so come on educate.
Speaker 4 (34:02):
I think some of those domestic duties you've got to
do them right. Stacking the dishwasher is another one which
I don't know. Yeah, is that what you do?
Speaker 2 (34:08):
Make?
Speaker 4 (34:09):
It's one of the things.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
Okay, on the onto onto more important things. Well, actually
I probably should have put this story a little earlier.
Speaker 4 (34:15):
More important.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
What do you think that the pharmacist powers to prescribe?
So the parents are going to be able to get
funded children's medication for a range of conditions directly from
the pharmacy without having to visit a GP. So it
means they can provide funded medication to children, so for
pain and fever management or rehydration and common conditions such
as scabies, head lice, and conjunctividis. It's a It's a
(34:41):
strange balancing act, isn't it? Because I don't between how
much you let pharmacists do. Pharmacists do And I don't
mean this in a patronizing way because they're dealing face
to face with the members of the public all the time.
And when, when when would it go too far? Because
I know I was chatting to a colleague who was
worried about it going too far. I'm not worried. I
mean I just went and got my jabs the other
day from a pharmacist, got the old.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
Co pharmacists, highly trained people with good medical records. It
is a balancing act. But don't have a system's approach,
not an individual approach. We have got issues with access
to healthcare. Okay, so this is about identifying what is
the problem. Here's the solution. Here's are these are common
conditions with any medical training systems approach. Good move a
(35:23):
you David seymour.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
Is, does it seem Moore?
Speaker 3 (35:25):
Is it?
Speaker 4 (35:27):
Especially in smaller centers, Quite often pharmacies take up a,
you know, a major role in helping people out. The
amount of good advice I've had from pharmacists before, and
flu shots, COVID shots, all those actually In fact, can
I just shout out to the guys at three lamps unique,
did you have an injection? It didn't feel a thing.
(35:49):
I didn't even know the needle. I had to ask
if you'd put it in, maybe you didn't know.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
What's what's your more favorite, your gpu, your pharmacist, who
do you feel other gp?
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Well, actually, funny thing, well, it depends, I mean how
much medication you're getting, because some people are feel they
know they're pharmacists a bit better. But actually, I think
that's one of the best moves of government's made, is
the ability for pharmacists to dispense various vaccines and the
flu in the covid ones an easy one. For instance.
I don't know if I would have done it by now,
(36:16):
but I always went up to our local shopping center
with my daughter to do a couple of things, and
we walked past the pharmacy and I saw a couple
of people waiting for the vaccine, and I said, oh, honey,
should we go get our shots now? And she went okay,
and we just went and got our shots. It was
that easy, and it only that was happening already. What's that? No, No,
what I mean is it's just one of the innovations
(36:37):
that's happened over the last few years with pharmacists doing
something that they need to do.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
I think this was a problem. We have a problem
with access to primary healthcare now and some of these
things shouldn't be adding to the waiting list.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
And if this helps take away from that, then that's
a good thing.
Speaker 4 (36:52):
I mean our pharmacist as well, that the advice we
get when we get medication, things like that don't mix
it good. This is amazing. Shout out to Freeman's Bay
Farmers Rule.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
Can you got anyone else you'd like to shout out?
I see you're going to shout up.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
Global communities need this. It isn't about urban centers. We
need farms to have a more important role to play
in urban sorry, in rural community.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
Should you on fire this afternoon? Well done, well done,
Well done you. We'll be back in just a minute.
It's ten to four. News Talk said b yes. News
Talk said b yes. The Mark cries and Richard Lindrews,
I love this last story. So the twenty thirty two
Olympic Games, which are going to be in Australia, they
are not weighing alternatives when even though concerns have been
(37:36):
raised over a venue that where they're going to be
holding the rowing, because it's renowned not just for strong tides,
but crocodiles and the crocodile on this picture. I'm like,
it's such an Australian story, isn't it. Now, don't worry
about the crocodiles, guys, just keep moving.
Speaker 4 (37:52):
Sounds performance enhancing to me, like putting an outboard motor
on the back. You wouldn't be mucking around, would You
wouldn't be in the water for two.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
I mean there's there's claims because of the tides, because
of disadvantages, because of placement, but just the question that
there could be crocodiles there, I think they should hold
the triathle in there as well. This is awesome, It's
so Australian. I love it.
Speaker 3 (38:15):
And the quote coming from the minister Minister Tamanda the
organizers were not looking elsewhere.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
That's just good. We're not going elsewhere. There's cross fast
I imagine to be honest, I just had my sort
of BS detective sort of thing. I'm thinking, well, there
it'd probably have crocodiles in the vicinity sort of. But
on the course itself, I imagine there's probably zero.
Speaker 4 (38:40):
Hi, it's pretty, but.
Speaker 2 (38:41):
Then again am I being naive?
Speaker 4 (38:43):
No, there's an issue with crocs in Queensland. Queensland, there's
there's a lot, they breed a lot, and there's and
there's some controversy around whether they are taking that seriously
enough and whether they're you know, killing them that sort
of thing. I've seen a croc I whipped a nausey for.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
Were you a crocodile hunt yourself?
Speaker 4 (39:02):
One?
Speaker 3 (39:03):
Oh? No?
Speaker 4 (39:05):
Survey and the desert up there, and we were up
in a place where the wild West. Yeah, but the
scariest thing I saw was in the croc It was
a king brown snake sliding across a bill of bomb
on top of.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
The bud.
Speaker 1 (39:20):
It is known.
Speaker 2 (39:21):
Yeah. Actually the funny thing is just the amount of
the number of poisonous animals and snakes. But it's the
spiders that do me in. And I remember going to
the Natural History Museum in Brisbane and it shows you
the most lethal spiders and it's got a map saying
here's where some have been found in the last twelve months.
And it's like someone with a shotgun everywhere, you know.
(39:45):
But the crocodiles, I think, what do you think? I
think they should hold the triathlon swimming part there as well.
Some good times.
Speaker 3 (39:52):
As I said, this is so Australian, it's brilliant and
everyone it's the Brisbane Olympics, but it's not actually in
Brisbane these events, so they are rural Queensland.
Speaker 2 (40:01):
Yeah, bring it on, fantastic, Yeah, Mayere the best man. Yeah.
Hey guys, gosh, we've got to wrap up. We've got
to move on. I know it's time to go. Mark,
lovely to see you you as well. Good luck with
the ghost writing and whatever biography you're writing. And Richard,
good luck with field days for fifty five days? Did
you say, oh think he's about that?
Speaker 3 (40:20):
Yeah, fifty five days June ten to June thirde and
four days of fun, good stuff.
Speaker 2 (40:25):
OK, mate, Well catch you soon. We will be back
with One Roofridio Show Peter and Norris talking about should
you borrow as much as the bank will give you
that and other questions on the One roof Ridia Show.
Next News Talks, it'd.
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(01:16):
to later in the show where we take your calls
for the One Roof Radio show. Peter Norris is whether us.
He's managing director director at O Peas Mortgages, and we're
going to talk about where's that line between how much
the bank will give you and how much you should
actually borrow, because I think you'll find that they are
two quite different numbers. Usually even with me, it was
like how much can I borrow?
Speaker 4 (01:36):
No?
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Why I wouldn't trust me to pay off that? And also,
are we too obsessed with interest rates? You know, you
want to buy a house, you want to buy an
investment property? Interest rates to what they are? I mean
we're all quippling in the media point twenty five percent
changing the cash rate? Are we too obsessed with it?
Do we need to chill out a little bit? We'll
dig into that with Peter Norris from Opea's Mortgages. And
at five o'clock for the Parents God, we have a
new guest on the show, Dr Miriam mcaleb. She's a
(02:00):
Public Health Fellow at University of Canterbury. And look, it's
about perf parenting. I mean, is everyone trying too hard
to be the perfect parent? Should we just relax a bit?
Everyone's worried that they're going to do something that's going
to traumatize and change their kids forever. And also we'll
dig into some of the common mistakes parents can make
in the early years, which maybe you should have aoid
(02:20):
them if you can shortly before six, we sports Rap
with Christopher Reeve. Oh we'll get a lot on again.
Warriors and Titans, Chiefs, Hurricanes, Brumbies and Druer and Force
and Crusaders. Oh, lots to get into. So yeah, welcome
to the Weekend Collective. It is eight minutes past.
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Talk Zebby.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
So I'm not gonna mess about with the long winded introductions.
So our first guest, look, he's the man of the
rural sector. He's all things to do with farming and
rural and whatever, anything to do with something that comes
out of the ground. It's the CEO of New Zealand
feed Field Days. It's Richard land Drew's Did I ever
(03:08):
play that? Richard? Just teen your mic on? Hang on,
don't touch that butt.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Okay, okay, now you did overplay it a wee bit.
But Field Days, Wow, massive event. We're just about fifty
five days to go.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Oh you're going to give it. I'm spreaking it. Yeah yeah,
so yeah, it's going to be great. But what's the
vibe being just because you know we've had some trouble
over in the straits of hormones and iran and things
and the price of diesel. Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
So we're nearly sold out of our exhibition sites. So
that's twelve hundred sites.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Aggry.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Business is booming across all our sectors. We're coming together
on during the tenth to give it the biggest show
we have in New Zealand this year.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
And when you invited me down to do my show
from there, I waiting for the official invitation for the
weekend collect to come a lie or I think, isn't it? Mark, Like, No,
you're not supposed to pre empt my next guest. Just okay,
we'll switch your mic off. Now my next guest. He's
done a lot in his life. But but you've all
heard it before because I've recited as CV from He's
(04:13):
done some interesting jobs, but you will know him as
probably the silver Fox of journalism. He is Mark Kreisel. Hello, Mark,
Now I think we need to turn a faighter up.
We just need to turn a hang on. No, No,
we're coming through another mic. Hang on a second, yeap, No,
(04:34):
I've just grabbed Richard's mic. Yeah, that's that's something that's
not working with the other mic. Let's just check that.
Here we go.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
I don't think, oh you didn't there, we got it properly, okay,
but I wasn't plugged in. Thank you for the shortest,
the shortest one I think I've ever had from you.
But I don't know if you realize that I too
have rural connections, do you. I used to be a
fencing contractor back in Tananaki, back in the day, and
(05:02):
my first job at Radio New Zealand was as a
rural report water and I used to be introduced as
meat gristle.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Have good meat gristle, mark krysl gristle. Now just gristle. Hey, well,
I prefer Actually I had some talk about this on
my talk show about people, you know, the jobs you
had as a youngster, and I was talking about and
did some hay bailing once, and somebody said, on you
know the fences, we always to look down on the
guys doing Oh yeah, yeah, bit of a rivalry there.
(05:33):
I think it's some stage it felt like I literally
the reason I did it was because I grew up
in write and so many of my brother's mates I
think had done hay bailing and it just seemed like
something I had to do as a write a passage.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
It was a great job, right, Okay, I know it's
just hard work.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Yeah, yeah, so all that's yeah. Obviously, is there anything
you're working on right now that you'd like to share
with us before we get them to the time ghost
writing a book at the moment, But I won't say
who it is working on?
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Going to say what sport?
Speaker 2 (06:06):
What sport?
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Yes, it's sport, A sports man. There you go. But no, no, no,
I'm not gonna I'm not say.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
I just assumed it wouldn't be a politician. I just
assumed sport for some strange reason. Yeah, well, if you
were going to write a politician's biography.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Winston Winston, absolutely, Winston Peters.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
And I spoke with the publisher the other day. That
is the holy grail. Everybody wants to see if they
can get Winston's.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
So, Winston Peters, we know you're a huge fan of
the show Mark krist and you may not like his politics,
but your lover's writing. He'd love to write your your
your biography. He'll even let you call it an autobiography,
and he'll just gost write it anyway. Hey, look, let's
get into it, guys, shall we. Now? Firstly, look, we've
just got to deal with us. I'm over the I'm
(06:53):
sort of over the story popping up and back and
and I think maybe we should think of the subject
of the story. Well, so the questions around Christopher Luxon's leadership,
the rumors possessed. I wasn't sure that Chris Bishop gave
the most marvelous interview yesterday and Husking when he could
have just put it to bed with a couple of
short sentences, but Husking did keep pushing And why wouldn't he? Mark?
(07:14):
What do you reckon?
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Well, they've got real problems the National Party, haven't they.
It's all in the numbers, and on those numbers at
the moment, they're going to lose a lot of their
front line MPs, the back benches. You know, they're strong
and most of the electorates. They'll probably win those back,
but they're they're on target to lose a hell a
lot of the seats. And I think, you know, the
(07:37):
problem seems to be Christopher lux And who was not resonating.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
With well the pot well look at it. No, No,
that's what it's just going to say is the problem
chrisoph luxe, and now is the problem just there? You
know whatever they inherited. Plus the world is all of
it crap at the moment? Is it on him? Because
can I just draw to attention that Labor still have
Chris Hipkins there, who's yet to announce a single policy,
and if anyone is excited by him being Prime Minister again,
(08:01):
then I'd say they're.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Up ten points from where they were at last election
them so do nothing is the way to succeed in politics. No,
parties don't like. Governments don't win elections, they lose them. Yeah,
so I think you have to bear that in mind.
But that's by the bye. This at the moment on
those numbers that the coalition government will be in quite comfortably.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
The center right government is holding the position.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Yeah, the story is not going away. This reaction to polling.
Who blinks first. I don't think anything's going to happen.
I'll be honest as a voter, I mean, I don't
really care, despite what I might have said, I don't
really care who the leader is.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
I like, but you should think if you're in the
National Party, you should be caring because you're going to
lose a lot of your front Now.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
I mean, I'm just saying as a voter, and I
don't care who the leader is. I just I just
look at what roughly, what sort of what policies I
agree with? And also what person what, what's what individual
ministers I'd like to send different jobs? Do I want
to see.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
Who?
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Do I want to see a Minister of health? Who
I want to see a Minister of Education, finance? Whatever?
Do I like Mitchell as a minister Police and Civil
Defense or whatever? What I prefer his opposite? Those will
be the questions, And obviously.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Are we asking a question to term of what minister
ministerial post would he like?
Speaker 4 (09:17):
I reckon the center would be well, it wouldn't be
a fence post.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Associate Minister of Sport, I reckon, So yes, so you
don't have to do all the hard work.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
We can still go to thereat emerging sports.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Minister of Arts and Sport. That would be me, I reckon.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Art's actually you would be good at because at least
I don't think I'd be a popular Minister of Arts
and Culture. No, I don't think i'd be popular because
the minister get rid of a lot of the box
ticking sort of way we fund what art is important.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
That's a loaded one, but only what you like. No, no,
not at all. But I think there's a way of
assessing things, but not based on whether you take particular
and cultural or sort of virtually signaling boxes.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Which minister broadcasting for Mark?
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Oh you god? Would you be? Would you be a
popular minister of broadcast?
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Look, I'm just happy being the member for Saint Mary's Bay.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Anyway, Hang on, so how hold it? Hold it? Hold it,
hold it, hold it. Someone's gone on here. Something has happened,
and I don't think we I've just recognized it. Richard
Lindrews has avoided making a comic on Christopher Luxe, and
so he changed the topic to which minister, minister or
post I'd like He'd like their minister for field Days,
if there was such a post. But we do actually
have one. It's Barbara Krueger. Oh seriously, Okay, what do
(10:34):
you what do you think of? What's your general reaction
to the to the leadership issues around lux and how
big a problem is it or is it just something
that the beltweiher will talk about and the average person
you know, well, the story is not going away.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
I mean, and it's been picked up and it doesn't
help when you have any view's like what happened with
Chris Bishop.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
So look, most people, most people who vote, have no
interest in politics, right So that so no, they don't,
and so they are mainly interested in They just want
someone who can tell them a story and tell him
was sorry, well this is something this guy can't do.
I think they'll be better off getting rid of him.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Who would you put in this place?
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Well, I don't. I don't think it matters. I think
it does matter, But no, because you're that close, you're
that close to the and it's complicated where you go.
Because I've spoken to National Party people this week who
are worried about the main contenders being on the left
of the party. So I think if you look at
what happened with Jacinda Adourn when Andrew Little stood down,
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you get a real momentum with a new new leader,
you get some wind in your sales. If they don't
do some nice hot air in your sales, they're going
to have far fewer seats at the cabinet, They're going
to have far less say and what that coalition is.
There's a good chance Winston keeps growing. He may want
the Finance minister, he may want to be Prime minister.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Well that would be absurd.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
No, but's it's not that he hasn't besought.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
But actually, I actually I don't know what outside aut
to it really, So.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
You have say, around I don't know, sixty five to
seventy percent of New Zealanders looking at center parties like
Labor and National, center right, center left, and they're going
to be like angry that their votes seem to count
for nothing.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
What do you reckon, Richard? What's the next topic on? Yeah? Look, look, look,
as you say, I don't think most people care too
much about politics, which is funny. But the idea that
we just get someone in to sell a story, I
find that a bit depressing that we go for a
storyteller rather than some people the one I thought I
would have though. If you are if you are a
list MP and you're worried about your gig, then sorry,
(12:38):
but more fool you find an electorate and have a
connection with a community. And that I got bugger all
time for m MP these days. I wish we were
back to FPP and we could everyone who was in
Parliament had an attachment to a particular elect electorate that
they were accountable to. Boomfer, I'd changed that and the
heart and a heartbeat mind, you probably mean we get
rid of Winston. Oh, I'm just kidding. Just anyway, Hey, look, look,
(13:06):
let's get on to some of the you know, the
local political issues. Changes to the warran to fitness system,
so it'll allow most light vehicles under fourteen years to
move to a two year warrant of fitness inspection Schedule one.
Industry groups not convinced, of course. I think probably those
with the vested interest in passing and doing a bit
(13:27):
more work and they'll there will be businesses will miss
out on this, but I'm all for it generally. I
think that the idea that maybe we should have an
accompanying increase for if you are found with a car
that is not in a warrantable position should be slightly heavy,
more heavily penalized, you know, because people say, oh, the
people just drive around ball tires. It's like, well, if
(13:48):
you do, you'll be in you'll be in the gun.
And why would you you know, why would you do that?
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Anyway, it's an over regulated industry. I think good change
cars now in terms of the data, what they're talking
about are safer, more reliable. I think it's a very
good move and essure about people drive around bull tis
they're doing it anyway. Issues with our roads and safety
at that's the angle that you're looking for, actually.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
About bad drivers, bad roads. I think speed, yeah, speed
and self phone shrinking. Yep. So there we are. I
think we're the new cabinet for the government. We might
want to change the ministries that you were looking to
do there. Yeah, Look, there's always a trade off, isn't there.
I think I saw was that bishop saying that there
(14:33):
were there'll be three more accidents or something.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
With accidents or deaths.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
I didn't quite get. I didn't quite get that either.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
I had reason a good idea about this to it
was kind of the extension of this because I think
there's a whole issue in terms of our driver's licenses,
our compliance on the road. But one thing we haven't
got is this compulsory insurance when you register your car. Now,
I think you know that's something that we should be
looking at. You know, we've got you know, we've got
Kiwi Bank, Kiwi Saver. How about Kiwi insurance it's.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
A good idea. I mean, most countries in the world,
you you can't get a car without well I don't
know about most countries, but a lot of countries overseas
you can't get a car without without insurance. And so
someone prayings into you and you don't even have third
or you bring into someone you don't even have third
party insurance. Then you get away scott free and the
other person's left carrying the bill. So I think, yeah,
(15:27):
I think it's it's probably a good idea. It's very
different when I grew up, like, oh my god, warrants
every six year, every six months you had to get
a warrant, and the cars were so old I don't
think it had a car for any younger than twenty
five years.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
I always remember the cyber relief I got when my
mark to Mark one forty escort got passed. You always
made sure it had a good Hey, moving on to
just this one about so Treasury has been ringing the
alarm bells around that there are going to be basically
fewer workers per retiree, and so Treasury has been arguing
(16:03):
that New Zealand's going to need higher taxes. We're going
to need to get more revenue, and so Inland Revenue
is doing a bit of work building on that, detailing
some suggestions either increasing the GST rate or taxing more
capital gains or something. And look, I guess it is
an issue about whether we can afford, you know, with
(16:24):
the number of retirees. Here'sn't it. I mean I would
just quickly raise the retirement age, but we've had that discussion.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
But that's not going to do enough.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Well, it depends how you raise seventy five.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
You know, guys, I do have a bit of an
issue with ID raising this. It's not their job, is
Treasury Originally okay, Treasury, I'm okay with, but I do
their jobs down your lane, the lane tax. They're about
administrating and gathering revenue. Treasury is about giving advice. So
I just think, you know, you know, we have enough
(17:00):
issues with actually tax collection and debt et cetera. Stay
in your lane, Treasury come out with this.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
But I think that the superannuation thing is a ticking
time bomb that someone needs to make some hard decisions
on degree right now. Raising the age is one thing
in Australia, it's means tested. It should probably be means
tested here. They should probably lift the minimum contribution for
Kiwi saber up to around ten twelve percent, like they
(17:27):
do in Australia.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
I think we hear we are every second in the year.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
But you have to be careful with raising the age
because there are a lot of people who do physical
labor the whole like you started off, well, I'm only
still alive because they gave it up.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
But the thing is, we do have to have some
tough conversations over a bunch of things. And it doesn't
seem at the moment that the political sort of sphere
is in any position for us, because we're still worried
about whether somebody you know, smiles nicely enough for the
camera as a suprime minister.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
But that's but that's that's democracy, that's politics. That's the
way it rolls, mate, that's the system you have. It's
no point in complaining about that. They've got to work
within that system. It's just maybe take this out of
the hands of the politicians, I mean, and give it
to someone else.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Can't do that, not chet tax changes. Somebody's got to
be accountable for it. We can't give it to a bureaucrap.
It has to be passed by someone tough, you know,
and we'll have to get your heads around it. So
you're going to be working till what age a you're
going to retire, Mark, you know.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
I've never been a natural work It's tim if I'm
not enjoying it, it's work, and I'm enjoying what I'm doing.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
I don't know many people are actually looking to retire
at sixty five. No, I think anyone just keeps working
because I don't know, keep busy, keep interested. Anyway. Hey, look,
we're going to come back with some really fun stuff
in just a moment because I'm just loving the Trump
Jesus Pope argument sort of thing. And we'll be back
in just a moment. My guests are Richard Lindrews and
Mark kris Or. This is the This is our panel
(18:50):
on the Weekend Collective twenty five past three. Yes, welcome
back to the Weekend Collective. Richard Lindr's and Mark Kreys
all are my guests today for our panel, and guys,
it's been an interesting week in American politics for a
whole bunch of reasons. Probably the most fun were the
battle that Trump has sort of issued in when he's
having a fight with the Pope. I'm not sure if
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that one's gonna head Trump's way. It doesn't seem to
be hitting his way. But Pope Leo doesn't seem to
be backing down from, you know, saying what he thinks.
And we've got jd Vance saying that the Pope should
concern himself only with questions of morality rather than war.
It's like, I think the question of war might be
heavily related to also questions of morality. But anyway, what's
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your take on it? Mark?
Speaker 4 (19:35):
I don't know why why you would bother to pick
a fight like this and then double down diversion. Yeah,
but they're still talking about the same thing. They're still
talking about war, and the pope's showing a backbone, I mean,
standing up. He isn't backed away.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
He's like he's righteous, Yeah, you know, but he's you're
going to give credit to Trump for having to crack
at everyone.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
I mean, he's got a chip on both shoulders.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
I love some of the memes though, I don't know
which one to point you to, but the's some brilliant memes.
But anyway, Yeah, he's the one I like the most
is Trump dressed as he is in that thing where
he puts himself as Jesus, And there's him standing in
that outfit at the door of a of an operating theater,
and everyone else is an operating theater, and they're all
(20:28):
turning to him as if liking He's like, I can't
mean what the caption is, but it's like I'm the doctor, right.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
I mean, I think he thinks he can get away
with anything anyway. That statement he said when he first
got elected that I could walk down you know, I
could fire a gun down Fifth Avenue and I wouldn't
get arrested. I think he genuinely believes he can do
whatever he can, and he's kind of backed up by
the Supreme Court. He can do whatever he wants to do.
I just don't know how helpful it is for him
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in the big picture. You've got the midterms coming up
in November. Catholics voted for Trump in quite big numbers
in the last election, and a lot of those were Hispanics,
but also white Catholics in America. Why would you want
to get offside with them?
Speaker 3 (21:10):
He's risking that kind of deeping that political the religious
thing and alienating some of those their voting base. I
think it was a diversion tactic. He has a crack
at everyone ever since the assassination attempt has gone to this.
I'm close to the God than anyone else. Off he goes.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
So it was bizarre, to be honest with you, I mean,
to me, I just think a sanity stock is sliding anyway.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
But he's eccentric. I don't know if he's insane. I'm
maybe I think he's more more eccentric and I'm like
extreme narcissist, like totally believes he can do anything at all,
and maybe a bit of a sociopath and that he
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doesn't care how what his words or his actions do
to other people.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
How long has he got to go before?
Speaker 4 (22:02):
He's not even through the second.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
I mean, I think, you know, I think the Republicans
will be nervous about what's happening with the midterms. What
will happen?
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Who know, look jacobath but he could but also he's
he's already you know, suggesting voter fraud could be a
factor here, and you know what's to stop and seizing
the ballot boxes or something. So you know, it's there's
a there's a lot lot to run. But it's interesting
these around the world now. The people that are back,
you know, aligned themselves with Trump, who had all barn
(22:34):
and Hungary for they sent somebody over there, sent jd.
Vance over there. Trump was very public about his support
for him, and he got smashed in a light and landslide.
So I think people it's a lot starting like it
used to be kind of funny and amusing and things
like that. But I think people are like, no, you're
actually like what you were doing in America or in
(22:56):
the Gulf now is affecting one. So I fill up my.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Ute and everyone takes them seriously because he occupies the
most powerful position in the world, and you know, he's
he has said some outrageous things. I mean, I like
the post of the comment from the Spanish premiere or
prime minister, you know, talking about the run thing. It says,
you know, I'm not not going to applaud someone for
turning up with just for turning up with a bucket
to help put out the farther they Lita, you know,
(23:20):
there's something like that. But it does seem that, you know,
Europe and a lot of people who have done their
best to humor and I think the world is starting
to go even it got a little bit.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
I go back to the end of the first term,
the best line on the Trump presidency, and they asked
the Canadian professor wat what it was like living in
Canada during that time, and he said, it's like living
above a meth lab. And I think it's got that.
It's got that same kind of crazy energy. You don't
know what's going to happen, you know, and it's kind
(23:55):
of whiplash. So yeah, it'll be interesting to see how
this is just on.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
The fun one. I do like the story about Pete
Hegseth was that a Pentagon prayer meeting where I mean, look,
I can't remember how it was set up, whether he
knew he was creating from pulp fiction or whether or
not he did. But basically, instead of quating Ezekiel's twenty
five seventeen, it's pretty much channeling pure pulp fiction about
(24:19):
which samul Jacson's characters, about what he says before he
basically shoots someone, and there's he Seth was, you know,
doing it as a sort of prayerly invocation at a
prayer meeting. I don't know what to say about it, really,
I think what you can say. It's a great movie.
It has been reminded of that.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
I want to watch it again. It's dead baby.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
I wonder how many people will actually go and start
watching that, because that's often the gateway to going But oh,
I forgot about that movie. You might go check it out.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Tarotino director, but he also starred in it. There was
a great scene he was oh, yes, Johnny and the cleaner, Yeah,
the cleaner, Yeah, the Cleaner's coming.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Is that the one where the lineers bring it sending
the gimp? Is that from.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
Funny Things?
Speaker 2 (25:04):
People remember that anyway? Fun times? Hey, look I actually
tell you what. We might just take the break and
we'll come back in just to tick. This is News
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And my guests for this hour's panel Ol Richard Lindrew's
and Mark Kreisel. Now onto the really really heavy topics.
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This is a big one, this one. There's a petition
that is called on the Crusaders to keep the symbolic
match day horses on field, who we're going to see
the end of them unless something changes because well, a
variety of reasons I've seen, but basically the confined layout
around the field has meant those six horses which have led.
Now it's worth pointing this out let out the Crusaders
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at every home game since nineteen ninety six, so thirty years.
Unless my arithmetics I suddenly got that wrong so that
they can't operate without risk. My take on it just
before we go to Ugents is, look, I'm not a Cantabrin,
I'm not a Crusaders fan, so I don't really care.
But I just sort of think. You know, they've got
(26:09):
a fantastic new stadium, and if I was in charge
of the stadium and I was the boss, I be
by the way, guys, those horses are not coming anywhere
near my beautiful pitch, full stop. Richard. Well, that's what happened.
They said there's no space. Yeah, the legacy. They talked
about safety and other things, and I mean, let's face it,
if you've got a footprint of a horse, you know,
(26:32):
these athletes, you know somebody twisters, Yeah, presstin field, But
you know, I mean the I think that what I
as they talk about fan engagement, fan connection, the biggest
fan engagement. Connection is having a great product and having
a winning team.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Yeah, having a winning team, had a great venue, excellent venue,
so downtown venue, it's it's going to be. It's a
Friday night, the first going against New South Wales.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Good.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
I'm not worried about the horses. I'm worried about the product.
It's interesting the different perspectives, Mark, because the producer of
the Weekend Sport, Andy McDonald, he told me I mention this.
He's really unhappy. He loved those horses. But he's a
young guy who can have who's his whole life that
he's known those horses. So he's got that childlike contemporance
and he was really hot when I see it.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
We can have horses, have the hobby horses, and I
have the celebrities going a lap around it. You know,
the ones with the sticks, little Shetland ponies. They're quite
they make quite a difficult the hobby horses, rocking horses
you mean, Oh.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
Yeah, I've done extensive research into this. Yes, Mark, no
one has has gone down. What happens when one of
them takes a dump, well.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
They go and pick it up. I'm pretty sure that
thirty years of this mark they've seen thirty years. I'm sorry,
you know, I think someone goes around and picks up
after them. Imagine that's your job on your CV. What
did you used to do? I used to pick up
pooh after the horses. You know.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
I think you know it's tough, but move on. The
hurricanes are going to anyway.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
I'll tell you something.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
I don't think hurricanes are going to Hurricane going to.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
I tell you something interesting. I did like that we have.
Andy was telling me about the rection from the sports fans.
But when I've done talk back on the overnights, I
put it out to all the christ Church listeners. Just
let me know what you think. How upset are you?
And in terms of general christ Church people, I didn't
have one single call from anyone who cared. But of
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course if you listen to a sports show, that's where
you're likely to get the passionate, a few hate mails.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
And it's another maybe it's a it's another good way
of keeping her interest up in this new stadium and
things that's coming building in an atmosphere.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
The other conversation did spark was I'm trying to remember
some of the more memorable sports mascots over the years
and the one that popped into my Oh no, who
was the one? They had this guy and no one
could remember it. Nobody mentioned it. The Blues had a
character called Blue Thunder at one stage, remember that's embarrassing.
But the one that's cropped to mind for me was
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Hoary Bop, who was an unofficial mascot for they have plenty.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
Richard, You've done a number of sporting events. I managed them,
you know, built them up.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
Has this ever been part of your Yeah, I've hired mascots, Superman,
Wonder Woman, I've done all done all that to get
a summer fan engagement. But this is a fantastic new stadium.
I'm not worried about the horses. I'm worried about the product.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
I have to do field days have a mascot. If
they do, you're under pressure.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
June ten to June thirteen this year, we'll have over
one hundred thousand people and we don't need mascots.
Speaker 4 (29:34):
When I was a kid growing up in Taranaki, we
had Ferdinand the Bull. I think I think they still
use it, but they had it was a really old
rickety you know thing back in the day.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
But we just loved The.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Best thing about the mascots is the Mad Scots. In
the season race they have in rugby where they all
line up.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
They hire a guy who is the sprint champions, tear
and one hundred meter champ.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
They put him in at a costume and he absolutely
destroyed the field.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
I think that's called Is that cheating? Yes?
Speaker 4 (30:03):
Yes, the great movie car ride there.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
And by the way, do you see that you've got
fellow that guy gout, gout?
Speaker 4 (30:09):
How good is he? What is he? Eighteen?
Speaker 3 (30:11):
How old is nineteen point sixty seven? For two hundred
meters out step faster than Bolt? This guy is a
machine and the Aussies are loving it.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Actually, wouldn't it be? You know what I really want
to see? I want to see because it's often the
Americans who dominate. And look, we loved Usain Bolt because
he was the charisma and a lot of fun and
all that. But I'd just love to see someone from
this side of the world. We'll own him destroying the Americans.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
Now, Prismane Olympics coming up, that's going to be close
to when is it a top? How good is that
for Australia in this part of the world.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
And how many years can you have as a sprinter?
Is how old is it now? Is eighteen? Well bolt was?
You know?
Speaker 4 (30:48):
So I think you got it and it's that explosive
you need, isn't it. Congratulations to Canda be on there
own christ Church on the new stadium though. I was
in Wellington when that stadium came in and it is
a game changer having something like that in the center
of the city. It just builds so much momentum and
vibe and it's a great addition. And I wish Auckland
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had the guts to do one here.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Big cool you know what. I'm with you. Where would
you want yours? Though? Are you like me?
Speaker 4 (31:17):
Do you want it down at the waterfront? Second into
there is that one. There's another beautiful one. I saw
a design of just anything but Eden Perk.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Yeah, I'm with you, Mark.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
I mean, I don't know what the succession with Eden
parkers the back Eden Park. You know they've they've moved
the Criklum rugby out. Yeah, to call a maiden.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
So I think that we has a reason to replace
the Prime minister bad Eaten park decisions. Hey, by the way,
you guys careful with your recycling very much. Chosen to
a big fan because there's talk about now three strike
system for people who repeat latedly fail inspections. If if
they're not putting the if they're not putting the appropriate
(31:56):
stuff in their recycle bent.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
I know it can't be recycled.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Recycling is a mess in New ze One.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
It is.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
It is.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
We have disconnection. We have different rules and different councils.
Where's the national wide strategy. It's about education run than
punitive things.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Do you do your team? Actually? Okay, what do you separate?
Do you do your recycling?
Speaker 4 (32:17):
Yeah? I do?
Speaker 2 (32:18):
But do you know what numbers it is for one
too and five? One to and five?
Speaker 4 (32:22):
Do you to clean out your yogurt? Do the yogurt?
Speaker 3 (32:25):
Now?
Speaker 2 (32:25):
What I do?
Speaker 3 (32:27):
What I do?
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Know?
Speaker 2 (32:27):
On christ they do? Okay, they do it religiously down there.
But I'm actually they're really good. I think christ is.
I'm a huge fan. I tell you what.
Speaker 4 (32:37):
I love that food scraps, Ben, I can't get enough.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Of that, Okay, I just think what I waste them?
We do the food scraps?
Speaker 3 (32:45):
Well, okay, well it's two versus one in the studio
then so we win. We're still an MP, which it
could be a list MP.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
Well, it could be.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
But my point here is I think we have a
larger conversation about recycling, and we need a national wide strategy,
and it's just all over the place.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
This has been punitive for me. Well, I reckon if
you if you're going to have recycling and you use
the recycling, but if you're not going to do it,
and you if you are sticking the wrong stuff in,
I say, if you've got a big fine coming your wank,
but we suck it up, Princess, there's not so much
a fine.
Speaker 4 (33:18):
You just lose your bin.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
But also we actually pay for it and listen our
rates anyway, if we don't use the service, we've been
built anyway.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Yeah, okay, let's move on. Then okay, punish them, well,
look them, don't come on. How much compliance?
Speaker 1 (33:34):
I wasn't sure.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
I was quite convinced about from you by you. Then
when you said you you do do the recycling, you
split them. You looked a little. I was trying to
read chrisp Radio. We can't read people's expressions. I'm not
sure if I was. I'm not sure if you are,
you the one who makes you know? Who was the
efficient recycler in your household. No, we know, we know
this term. I just look.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
I think recycling is important, but I just think we
have a really disconnected nationwide strategy and councilors are all
over the place, so come on educate.
Speaker 4 (34:02):
I think some of those domestic duties you've got to
do them right. Stacking the dishwasher is another one which
I don't know. Yeah, is that what you do?
Speaker 2 (34:08):
Make?
Speaker 4 (34:09):
It's one of the things.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
Okay, on the onto onto more important things. Well, actually
I probably should have put this story a little earlier.
Speaker 4 (34:15):
More important.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
What do you think that the pharmacist powers to prescribe?
So the parents are going to be able to get
funded children's medication for a range of conditions directly from
the pharmacy without having to visit a GP. So it
means they can provide funded medication to children, so for
pain and fever management or rehydration and common conditions such
as scabies, head lice, and conjunctividis. It's a It's a
(34:41):
strange balancing act, isn't it? Because I don't between how
much you let pharmacists do. Pharmacists do And I don't
mean this in a patronizing way because they're dealing face
to face with the members of the public all the time.
And when, when when would it go too far? Because
I know I was chatting to a colleague who was
worried about it going too far. I'm not worried. I
mean I just went and got my jabs the other
day from a pharmacist, got the old.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
Co pharmacists, highly trained people with good medical records. It
is a balancing act. But don't have a system's approach,
not an individual approach. We have got issues with access
to healthcare. Okay, so this is about identifying what is
the problem. Here's the solution. Here's are these are common
conditions with any medical training systems approach. Good move a
(35:23):
you David seymour.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
Is, does it seem Moore?
Speaker 3 (35:25):
Is it?
Speaker 4 (35:27):
Especially in smaller centers, Quite often pharmacies take up a,
you know, a major role in helping people out. The
amount of good advice I've had from pharmacists before, and
flu shots, COVID shots, all those actually In fact, can
I just shout out to the guys at three lamps unique,
did you have an injection? It didn't feel a thing.
(35:49):
I didn't even know the needle. I had to ask
if you'd put it in, maybe you didn't know.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
What's what's your more favorite, your gpu, your pharmacist, who
do you feel other gp?
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Well, actually, funny thing, well, it depends, I mean how
much medication you're getting, because some people are feel they
know they're pharmacists a bit better. But actually, I think
that's one of the best moves of government's made, is
the ability for pharmacists to dispense various vaccines and the
flu in the covid ones an easy one. For instance.
I don't know if I would have done it by now,
(36:16):
but I always went up to our local shopping center
with my daughter to do a couple of things, and
we walked past the pharmacy and I saw a couple
of people waiting for the vaccine, and I said, oh, honey,
should we go get our shots now? And she went okay,
and we just went and got our shots. It was
that easy, and it only that was happening already. What's that? No, No,
what I mean is it's just one of the innovations
(36:37):
that's happened over the last few years with pharmacists doing
something that they need to do.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
I think this was a problem. We have a problem
with access to primary healthcare now and some of these
things shouldn't be adding to the waiting list.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
And if this helps take away from that, then that's
a good thing.
Speaker 4 (36:52):
I mean our pharmacist as well, that the advice we
get when we get medication, things like that don't mix
it good. This is amazing. Shout out to Freeman's Bay
Farmers Rule.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
Can you got anyone else you'd like to shout out?
I see you're going to shout up.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
Global communities need this. It isn't about urban centers. We
need farms to have a more important role to play
in urban sorry, in rural community.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
Should you on fire this afternoon? Well done, well done,
Well done you. We'll be back in just a minute.
It's ten to four. News Talk said b yes. News
Talk said b yes. The Mark cries and Richard Lindrews,
I love this last story. So the twenty thirty two
Olympic Games, which are going to be in Australia, they
are not weighing alternatives when even though concerns have been
(37:36):
raised over a venue that where they're going to be
holding the rowing, because it's renowned not just for strong tides,
but crocodiles and the crocodile on this picture. I'm like,
it's such an Australian story, isn't it. Now, don't worry
about the crocodiles, guys, just keep moving.
Speaker 4 (37:52):
Sounds performance enhancing to me, like putting an outboard motor
on the back. You wouldn't be mucking around, would You
wouldn't be in the water for two.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
I mean there's there's claims because of the tides, because
of disadvantages, because of placement, but just the question that
there could be crocodiles there, I think they should hold
the triathle in there as well. This is awesome, It's
so Australian. I love it.
Speaker 3 (38:15):
And the quote coming from the minister Minister Tamanda the
organizers were not looking elsewhere.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
That's just good. We're not going elsewhere. There's cross fast
I imagine to be honest, I just had my sort
of BS detective sort of thing. I'm thinking, well, there
it'd probably have crocodiles in the vicinity sort of. But
on the course itself, I imagine there's probably zero.
Speaker 4 (38:40):
Hi, it's pretty, but.
Speaker 2 (38:41):
Then again am I being naive?
Speaker 4 (38:43):
No, there's an issue with crocs in Queensland. Queensland, there's
there's a lot, they breed a lot, and there's and
there's some controversy around whether they are taking that seriously
enough and whether they're you know, killing them that sort
of thing. I've seen a croc I whipped a nausey for.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
Were you a crocodile hunt yourself?
Speaker 4 (39:02):
One?
Speaker 3 (39:03):
Oh? No?
Speaker 4 (39:05):
Survey and the desert up there, and we were up
in a place where the wild West. Yeah, but the
scariest thing I saw was in the croc It was
a king brown snake sliding across a bill of bomb
on top of.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
The bud.
Speaker 1 (39:20):
It is known.
Speaker 2 (39:21):
Yeah. Actually the funny thing is just the amount of
the number of poisonous animals and snakes. But it's the
spiders that do me in. And I remember going to
the Natural History Museum in Brisbane and it shows you
the most lethal spiders and it's got a map saying
here's where some have been found in the last twelve months.
And it's like someone with a shotgun everywhere, you know.
(39:45):
But the crocodiles, I think, what do you think? I
think they should hold the triathlon swimming part there as well.
Some good times.
Speaker 3 (39:52):
As I said, this is so Australian, it's brilliant and
everyone it's the Brisbane Olympics, but it's not actually in
Brisbane these events, so they are rural Queensland.
Speaker 2 (40:01):
Yeah, bring it on, fantastic, Yeah, Mayere the best man. Yeah.
Hey guys, gosh, we've got to wrap up. We've got
to move on. I know it's time to go. Mark,
lovely to see you you as well. Good luck with
the ghost writing and whatever biography you're writing. And Richard,
good luck with field days for fifty five days? Did
you say, oh think he's about that?
Speaker 3 (40:20):
Yeah, fifty five days June ten to June thirde and
four days of fun, good stuff.
Speaker 2 (40:25):
OK, mate, Well catch you soon. We will be back
with One Roofridio Show Peter and Norris talking about should
you borrow as much as the bank will give you
that and other questions on the One roof Ridia Show.
Next News Talks, it'd.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
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