February 3, 2025 • 9 mins
Tonight on The Huddle, Trish Sherson from Sherson Willis PR and Josie Pagani from Child Fund joined in on a discussion about the following issues of the day - and more!
Palmerston North City Council is looking to ban fizzy drinks from eight venues - including sports stadiums. They claim it's to 'promote healthier lifestyle choices for residents and visitors'. Do we think this is a good idea - or is it overreach?
Prime Minister Chris Luxon is set to be spending Waitangi Day in the South Island - almost as far from Waitangi as it gets. Is this a good call - or a cowardly move?
The Grammys took place today, and the ceremony wasn't without controversy. Kanye West and his girlfriend Bianca Censori were escorted out of the Grammys after she showed up nearly fully naked. What do we make of this?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Huddle with New Zealand Southerby's International Realty, local and
global exposure like no other.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Tris Shurson Shurson Willis pr Is with us tonight. Hi Trish,
Hi Ryan and Josie PEGANI child fun Ceo is here too, Hey,
Josie Cura, Hello, Porda. Good to have you on the show.
So let's start with that. Should we the fizzy drinks?
Oh yes, let's Josie. I get annoyed by this stuff,
but I mean I'm quick to anger on, particularly coke zero,
(00:28):
which I know wouldn't technically be caught. What are your thoughts?
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Yeah, I mean one argument is that this is good
fun for all the family, brought to you by your
local organic military Jim homeopaths. I mean, it's sort of
fun police gone extreme. But there's a more important point.
I think that it's this is just a really bad
way to address the problem that he thinks he's trying
to address. I Kids drinking too many fizzy drinks and
(00:53):
sweets and sugar and so on. Because if you're going
to say that everything bad for you or everything that's
not good for you is the equivalent of a cigarette,
I you should never ever ever have it, then then
you're it's not it's not going to work right, So
we're all going to have a fizzy drink sometimes. And
the place that you have it is places like sports stadiums,
a day out with a family. You know, hey, get
(01:14):
some chips, get some chippies and have a hot dog
and yep, you can have a coke. If you're going
to make people feel bad about a treat, then you're
not going to get them to go. But business as
usual every day. We're not going to have fizzy drinks
and takeaways and KFC and whatnot. So yeah, it's just
it's just not effected. Is that's the thing that really
gets me. It's like, you're just and he sounds so smug.
(01:36):
Oh my god, it sounds so smug. It's not an
effective way of dealing with the problem he thinks he
wants to deal with.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Yes, but sometimes the right thing is not the popular thing.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Trish Yeah, yeah, said every politician who ever got voted out.
What this is an this is an idea that's absolutely
gone flat. Excuse the pun. And what makes me smile
here is that obviously these guys on the and woman
on the Palmestan North City Council.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
They have absolutely missed.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
The memo from their immediate past president Simmy and Brown,
Past Minister Simmy and Brown, who has given very clear
guidelines to councils that he wants them to get off
of this stuff swim in their own lane. And these guys,
instead of worrying about who's having a coke at the rugby,
(02:27):
they should be worrying about what's the quality of the
road to.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Drive to the rugby.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Are they looking after the potholes, the water, the rubbish,
the stuff that their ratepayers really expect them to do.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Yeah, it's and interestingly, Josie, this is part of which
I didn't existed, but part of a health policy. Should
a council have a bloody health policy?
Speaker 5 (02:46):
No?
Speaker 3 (02:47):
I mean, if you think it's realistic that every child
is going to eat raw carrots and drink water every
day of the week, then you know, I don't know
what planet they're living on. So you've got to have something.
You've got to do the best things first. What's the
best thing you can do to get people not to
drink fizzy drinks every day?
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Say?
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Well, I don't know, make the healthy stuff cheaper or
make the bad stuff more expensive. There are lots of
things you can do. This is just a really bad
way of doing it and it makes people feel like shit.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
Basically, if you give your child an here's a great
idea from from from here on and for those at
the Parmis North City Council who want to go with
this policy, it should be a scrouggen only catered lunch
from here on and at the council time.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Well a good point. Good point. I mean you wouldn't
you shouldn't be having red meat, shouldn't you. I mean
that gives you cancer apparently. Yeah, nothing, Just show your
fingernails and just well maybe.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
A green tea and an activated nut afternoon tea.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Yeah organic though only quite right.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Tricius and Josie Beganni on the panel.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
The Huddle with New Zealand Southeby's International Realty Elevate the
Marketing of your Home.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Trishas and josephmcganni on the Huddle tonight. Chris Luxen and
Dame Cindi Ketto will spend White Hangy Day in Akroa
this year in the South Island. That's Naitahu. It's about
as far away as you can get from White Hangy
and which I suppose is part of the appeal, but
good idea.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Well, I think politically Luxein's made the calculation that there
is no win for him in going to White Hangy.
I personally think this will be the biggest White Hangy
that we've seen that's been building over the last few years.
And if any one listening has never been to White
Hangy on White Ay Day, I would suggest that you go.
It is an absolutely it's a fantastic day. Luxeon wants
(04:48):
to separate himself from of course the Treaties, Principal's Bill
and all of the debate that will go on around
that this year. And obviously David Seymour will be at
White hang Ey. So the other I guess calculation that
the Prime Minister's press team will have made is that
he's down in Akiro. There will be, if you like,
(05:10):
clean pictures for him on White Hangy Day. He'll be
down there, There'll be some nice picks of things he's doing,
whereas you know, the main focus will be at at
White Hungy.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Yeah, Josie, what about you do you?
Speaker 4 (05:22):
I mean?
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Obviously a lot calm was presumably a lot calmer and environment.
And also we've still got Winston of course, and Seymour
going to White Tangy, so if there is anything going on,
you know, that's where it'll be.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Yeah, it's quite a clever move on Luxeon's part because
you know this is this is a place in unukou
Marai where the treaty was signed as well in nineteen
ninety eight, it was where the Crown delivered its formal
apology to night Tahu for breaches of the treaty. So
it's not it's not that he's you know, he's not
doing something that's nothing to do with the treaty and
nothing to do with White Haanngy. And I do think that,
(05:56):
you know, I've heard people say that White Haangy's our
national day where we shout at each other and we
have difficult conversations, and that's a good thing, except that
it's become more than that it had for most people.
It's just become a family day now where you try
and avoid the news and try and avoid seeing pictures
of people shouting and spitting each other, and it's a
real shame. I think that it can't be something more
(06:19):
like July fourth than the US or Bastille Day in France,
and maybe Matariki is going to be a day where
we feel more united as a country, because it certainly
doesn't feel like white Hangey is that day, and it
is possible to have that feeling on a day that's
quite quite difficult, like if you look at Martin Luther
King Day in America. My family live in Georgia and Atlanta,
(06:42):
where Martin Luther King lived and was born, and it's
a wonderful day and you have difficult conversations about race
issues in America on that day, but you also celebrate
something amazing, which is the civil rights movement. So I
just think it is really sad that it has become
something that most New Zealanders try and avoid.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Yeah, I think you're both absolutely right, Trisha and Josie
with us on the huddle tonight, Let's go to the
most important story of the day that has course the
Grammys and Kanye West. Now people will know Kanye West.
He's been a rapper for about twenty plus years now.
A long time. He was married to Kim Kardashi and
they had a bunch of kids and so it's very
very famous. Now he has come with his girlfriend, Bianca
(07:24):
Sensory to the Grammys, which is watched by you know,
millions of people around the world, and brought his girlfriend
and she has come literally but naked. Josie, she's not
wearing a little bit, she's wearing nothing.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Well, I didn't realize any of them were fully dressed.
It feels like for years they've all been nearly naked.
This is just the logical conclusion. And I do find
with these things like either they're up there telling us
that we're all racist, sexist, misogynists, or they're turning up
naked showing off their perfect bodies. Is that either shut up,
you know, put some clothes on.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Go awake, do the talking. I mean a nice one.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
It actually crashed the virtually crashed the internet, you know,
and so I don't know, for the first time in history,
people are searching the internet to look at a naked
lady who knew.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Well, this reminds me of a fantastic saying an old
colleague of mine used to have, which was all for
coat and no knickers. And that's exactly what it is,
exactly what Kanye's girlfriend wore to the Grammys. But think
about for her and Kanye. Well, think about every artist
that goes to the Grammy. That red carpet moment is
(08:41):
a huge moment for their particular brands and profiles during
the year. And these guys have absolutely nailed it, so
to speak.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Except the only problem with it is trish that normally
they're there for a promoting some designer. But you've got
if you've got no clothes on, you've got nothing to sell,
you know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Why naked? Well, I think I want to know they
both should have been.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Naked, sittled down Josie.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Go the full way. I mean, he's standing there like
some kind of like he's I don't know, he's got
a sort of pet on a lead or something. He's
sort of standing there behind a weird.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Like a pimple or something. It was weird.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Take it, take your clothes off, Cane.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
We know what Josie wants. Thank you, guys. Shas Willis
and Joseph BEGANI Child fun Ceo on the Huddle tonight.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
For more from Hither Duplessy Allen Drive, listen live to
news talks it'd be from four pm weekdays, or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio.
The Huddle with New Zealand Southerby's International Realty, local and
global exposure like no other.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Tris Shurson Shurson Willis pr Is with us tonight. Hi Trish,
Hi Ryan and Josie PEGANI child fun Ceo is here too, Hey,
Josie Cura, Hello, Porda. Good to have you on the show.
So let's start with that. Should we the fizzy drinks?
Oh yes, let's Josie. I get annoyed by this stuff,
but I mean I'm quick to anger on, particularly coke zero,
(00:28):
which I know wouldn't technically be caught. What are your thoughts?
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Yeah, I mean one argument is that this is good
fun for all the family, brought to you by your
local organic military Jim homeopaths. I mean, it's sort of
fun police gone extreme. But there's a more important point.
I think that it's this is just a really bad
way to address the problem that he thinks he's trying
to address. I Kids drinking too many fizzy drinks and
(00:53):
sweets and sugar and so on. Because if you're going
to say that everything bad for you or everything that's
not good for you is the equivalent of a cigarette,
I you should never ever ever have it, then then
you're it's not it's not going to work right, So
we're all going to have a fizzy drink sometimes. And
the place that you have it is places like sports stadiums,
a day out with a family. You know, hey, get
(01:14):
some chips, get some chippies and have a hot dog
and yep, you can have a coke. If you're going
to make people feel bad about a treat, then you're
not going to get them to go. But business as
usual every day. We're not going to have fizzy drinks
and takeaways and KFC and whatnot. So yeah, it's just
it's just not effected. Is that's the thing that really
gets me. It's like, you're just and he sounds so smug.
(01:36):
Oh my god, it sounds so smug. It's not an
effective way of dealing with the problem he thinks he
wants to deal with.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Yes, but sometimes the right thing is not the popular thing.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Trish Yeah, yeah, said every politician who ever got voted out.
What this is an this is an idea that's absolutely
gone flat. Excuse the pun. And what makes me smile
here is that obviously these guys on the and woman
on the Palmestan North City Council.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
They have absolutely missed.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
The memo from their immediate past president Simmy and Brown,
Past Minister Simmy and Brown, who has given very clear
guidelines to councils that he wants them to get off
of this stuff swim in their own lane. And these guys,
instead of worrying about who's having a coke at the rugby,
(02:27):
they should be worrying about what's the quality of the
road to.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Drive to the rugby.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Are they looking after the potholes, the water, the rubbish,
the stuff that their ratepayers really expect them to do.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Yeah, it's and interestingly, Josie, this is part of which
I didn't existed, but part of a health policy. Should
a council have a bloody health policy?
Speaker 5 (02:46):
No?
Speaker 3 (02:47):
I mean, if you think it's realistic that every child
is going to eat raw carrots and drink water every
day of the week, then you know, I don't know
what planet they're living on. So you've got to have something.
You've got to do the best things first. What's the
best thing you can do to get people not to
drink fizzy drinks every day?
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Say?
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Well, I don't know, make the healthy stuff cheaper or
make the bad stuff more expensive. There are lots of
things you can do. This is just a really bad
way of doing it and it makes people feel like shit.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
Basically, if you give your child an here's a great
idea from from from here on and for those at
the Parmis North City Council who want to go with
this policy, it should be a scrouggen only catered lunch
from here on and at the council time.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Well a good point. Good point. I mean you wouldn't
you shouldn't be having red meat, shouldn't you. I mean
that gives you cancer apparently. Yeah, nothing, Just show your
fingernails and just well maybe.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
A green tea and an activated nut afternoon tea.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Yeah organic though only quite right.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Tricius and Josie Beganni on the panel.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
The Huddle with New Zealand Southeby's International Realty Elevate the
Marketing of your Home.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Trishas and josephmcganni on the Huddle tonight. Chris Luxen and
Dame Cindi Ketto will spend White Hangy Day in Akroa
this year in the South Island. That's Naitahu. It's about
as far away as you can get from White Hangy
and which I suppose is part of the appeal, but
good idea.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Well, I think politically Luxein's made the calculation that there
is no win for him in going to White Hangy.
I personally think this will be the biggest White Hangy
that we've seen that's been building over the last few years.
And if any one listening has never been to White
Hangy on White Ay Day, I would suggest that you go.
It is an absolutely it's a fantastic day. Luxeon wants
(04:48):
to separate himself from of course the Treaties, Principal's Bill
and all of the debate that will go on around
that this year. And obviously David Seymour will be at
White hang Ey. So the other I guess calculation that
the Prime Minister's press team will have made is that
he's down in Akiro. There will be, if you like,
(05:10):
clean pictures for him on White Hangy Day. He'll be
down there, There'll be some nice picks of things he's doing,
whereas you know, the main focus will be at at
White Hungy.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Yeah, Josie, what about you do you?
Speaker 4 (05:22):
I mean?
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Obviously a lot calm was presumably a lot calmer and environment.
And also we've still got Winston of course, and Seymour
going to White Tangy, so if there is anything going on,
you know, that's where it'll be.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Yeah, it's quite a clever move on Luxeon's part because
you know this is this is a place in unukou
Marai where the treaty was signed as well in nineteen
ninety eight, it was where the Crown delivered its formal
apology to night Tahu for breaches of the treaty. So
it's not it's not that he's you know, he's not
doing something that's nothing to do with the treaty and
nothing to do with White Haanngy. And I do think that,
(05:56):
you know, I've heard people say that White Haangy's our
national day where we shout at each other and we
have difficult conversations, and that's a good thing, except that
it's become more than that it had for most people.
It's just become a family day now where you try
and avoid the news and try and avoid seeing pictures
of people shouting and spitting each other, and it's a
real shame. I think that it can't be something more
(06:19):
like July fourth than the US or Bastille Day in France,
and maybe Matariki is going to be a day where
we feel more united as a country, because it certainly
doesn't feel like white Hangey is that day, and it
is possible to have that feeling on a day that's
quite quite difficult, like if you look at Martin Luther
King Day in America. My family live in Georgia and Atlanta,
(06:42):
where Martin Luther King lived and was born, and it's
a wonderful day and you have difficult conversations about race
issues in America on that day, but you also celebrate
something amazing, which is the civil rights movement. So I
just think it is really sad that it has become
something that most New Zealanders try and avoid.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Yeah, I think you're both absolutely right, Trisha and Josie
with us on the huddle tonight, Let's go to the
most important story of the day that has course the
Grammys and Kanye West. Now people will know Kanye West.
He's been a rapper for about twenty plus years now.
A long time. He was married to Kim Kardashi and
they had a bunch of kids and so it's very
very famous. Now he has come with his girlfriend, Bianca
(07:24):
Sensory to the Grammys, which is watched by you know,
millions of people around the world, and brought his girlfriend
and she has come literally but naked. Josie, she's not
wearing a little bit, she's wearing nothing.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Well, I didn't realize any of them were fully dressed.
It feels like for years they've all been nearly naked.
This is just the logical conclusion. And I do find
with these things like either they're up there telling us
that we're all racist, sexist, misogynists, or they're turning up
naked showing off their perfect bodies. Is that either shut up,
you know, put some clothes on.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Go awake, do the talking. I mean a nice one.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
It actually crashed the virtually crashed the internet, you know,
and so I don't know, for the first time in history,
people are searching the internet to look at a naked
lady who knew.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Well, this reminds me of a fantastic saying an old
colleague of mine used to have, which was all for
coat and no knickers. And that's exactly what it is,
exactly what Kanye's girlfriend wore to the Grammys. But think
about for her and Kanye. Well, think about every artist
that goes to the Grammy. That red carpet moment is
(08:41):
a huge moment for their particular brands and profiles during
the year. And these guys have absolutely nailed it, so
to speak.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Except the only problem with it is trish that normally
they're there for a promoting some designer. But you've got
if you've got no clothes on, you've got nothing to sell,
you know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Why naked? Well, I think I want to know they
both should have been.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Naked, sittled down Josie.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Go the full way. I mean, he's standing there like
some kind of like he's I don't know, he's got
a sort of pet on a lead or something. He's
sort of standing there behind a weird.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Like a pimple or something. It was weird.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Take it, take your clothes off, Cane.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
We know what Josie wants. Thank you, guys. Shas Willis
and Joseph BEGANI Child fun Ceo on the Huddle tonight.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
For more from Hither Duplessy Allen Drive, listen live to
news talks it'd be from four pm weekdays, or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio.
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