February 15, 2026 • 11 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
You Talk said Hello, my beautiful genies, and welcome to
the Being the weekend edition, first of yesterday's News. I
am Glen Harton. Because it's the weekend edition, you'll get
Saturday as well as Sunday, so that's pretty good value.
Jack wants a word on EV's, Francesca wants a word
on the Winter Olympics, and then we'll give Russell Cooks
(00:43):
a word on Sales GP because it's got pretty interesting
one of the weekends for perhaps the wrong reasons.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Six sixty I've popped in to Sprook their new album.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Before any of that, David Seymour turned up to spruk
Ax State of the Nation address.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
You spend a bit of your speech warning about the
dangers of labor greens and Ta paty Mari getting back in.
Is that sort of the argument vote at or this
is what we get?
Speaker 5 (01:12):
It's half the argument. My job is to be a
representative and that means listening to people's concerns and expressing
them in the political arena. So the country goes in
the direction that the people paying the bills wanted to. Now,
the number one thing I hear from people is, look,
if those guys get in, I'm getting out of the
(01:33):
whole country. And I don't know how many people would
follow through on it, but it does show how seriously
people are taking the selection and how concerned they are
about having another dose of what we had just a
couple of years ago, probably worse when you add in
the influence of Tapati Mari and the Greens to labor.
So that's number one. But the main point of my
(01:56):
speech was that confident management is essential for our country,
but it's also not enough. The truth is that we
are slowly falling behind terms of wages. When people say
there's a cost of living crisis, it's partly about high prisis,
but I believe it's really about the way that wages
(02:18):
have not grown fast enough, and people who are used
to everything getting a percent or two better every year,
which they have for the last century. In the last
five years, real per capital wages, that is wages per
person after inflation, they've actually gone backwards. We're not used
to that.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Well, that sounds good. Then vote for ACT and you
pay all go up.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Apparently excellent.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
You've put into argument, really is it?
Speaker 2 (02:48):
I don't quite understand exactly how they're going to do that,
but it'd be good they can. Only that they haven't
done it so far. Maybe they're just waiting for some reason.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
News talk Z.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Been right, Jack wants a word on I don't know
what Jack drives.
Speaker 6 (03:11):
Maybe he will tell us, So think about it, right,
where is the incentive now for US car makers to
make good evs? Where's the incentive to push consumers in
the US towards electric vehicles. There's a reason that Tesla
has opposed scrapping the vehicle standards, and what will it
mean for US car makers trying to sell into markets
where emission standards are already in place. Ford for example,
(03:36):
China's used some pretty extraordinary methods to propel its clean
tech industries that have subsidized and propped up EV makers
in a way that foreign manufacturers say is anti competitive,
anti competitive and blatantly unfair. But look at BYD's extraordinary
vertical integration. Right, they own mining rights, they have revolutionized
(03:58):
battery technology. They have purpose built ships designed to the
perfect specifications to maximize the number of vehicles they can
export around the world at any one time. And honestly,
look at the quality, the features, and the price point
of Chinese evs, there's good reason they're proving so popular.
(04:19):
I don't think for a moment that evs are the
solution to everything, No, no, but I do think that
on balance, they are very likely to play a huge
part in domestic transport around the world in the very
near future. And if you agree with that, well, then
(04:39):
in my view, Donald Trump and the United States have
just thrown in the towel and more or less guaranteed
that China will dominate that electric vehicle.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
It was quite a bizarre presentation from President Trump last
week if you missed it, on the changing all the
rules and regulations about the future of the car industry
and the States. He certainly seemed to have a problem
with cars with compart us in them. And I didn't
(05:12):
know how to turn off the auto start stop functioning. Yeah,
that's why that's changed. Talk sib Right, We're going to
sort of do a couple of sports here, which I
think you can genuinely put under the This is the
umbrella of you've.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Really got to be into this, to be into this
kind of sports.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Although I think Franchisca would argue otherwise when it comes
to the wind to Olympics.
Speaker 7 (05:39):
The limited global infrastructure for many of these sports makes
reaching elite level even more impressive because pathways are narrower,
funding scarcer, and margins for air smaller. That they are
largely broadcast on PayTV in New Zealand also feels the
idea these sports aren't hugely common, but uncommon or not.
If you've been watching over the last week, surely you'll agree.
(06:02):
The camera work has been spectacular and the events have
been incredible to watch. My whole family have become obsessed
with ice dancing and figure skating. There have been some
serious controversies and sides taken during the week. Can I
just say, even though none of us could get ourselves
around an ice rink and really is an all sport
at the top end of competition, elite or as we
(06:22):
like to call it, high performance sport on the global stage.
Rugby's niche, so as netball. The America's Cup is an
elite sport and the Coast to Coast this weekend attracts
a small number of super athletes who will traverse the
South Island doesn't make their accomplishments any less impressive. The
Olympics exists not merely to platform the most popular sports,
but to honor excellence at the highest level that some
(06:44):
of those sports and not broadly accessible, does not diminish
the skill required to compete. In the last week, we've
seen human resilience, sportsmanship, courage, and technical mastery all done
in what can be very challenging environments. So, niche or not,
our keepe athletes and their fellow competitors represent the pinnacle
of their disciplines, and that alone warrants recognition and celebration.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
I mean, it's not a bad point being good in
a niche sport. I mean we've been celebrating that even
since the all black sort of thing. When you think
about it, and there's only about in six or seven
countries that really play rugby.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Controversial win.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
And then you've got sailing, which I do hate. And
when you're talking at elite sports, the elitist sports or
elite sports, elitist sports, and then come on, guys, and
then I just the sale GP sort of leave me
to go out there and watch these guys kind of
(07:53):
run each other over at one hundred ks an hour
on the water. But it all just sort of seems
to be a bit kind of like toss a coin
on the day, Is that who's going to win? I
don't know how much skill it's be like watching the
twenty twenty cricket sevens.
Speaker 8 (08:09):
I suppose I started by asking if the very rapid
growth of sale GP was what he imagined right from
the start.
Speaker 9 (08:16):
Was what we hoped for at the start. It's not
necessarily what we thought would happen this quickly. So yeah,
that's that's encouraging science. You know, we're definitely building very
fast and attracting new audiences in new markets, so you know,
it's encouraging to see. And I think I think the
(08:37):
racing product really stacks up. It's pretty clear that we
are getting fans from a much broader spectrum than just
the avid sailing fan. We're getting the racing fan, we're
getting the general sports fan, and we're also getting I
think the lifestyle sector that's coming along to our events
just to have fun.
Speaker 8 (08:56):
The fifties they are extraordinary machines, aren't they. Is there
still performance to unlock in the fifties, do you believe?
Speaker 5 (09:03):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (09:03):
Absolutely, particularly in the lighter ones, you know, which is
a real focus.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Yeah, give them what happened over the weekend.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Maybe they should be focusing a little bit more on
those heavier wins.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
What do you reckon news talk? Let's finish up here.
We're probably haven't they really?
Speaker 1 (09:21):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
I think it's hard to argue Sex Sex the new album.
There's something that they're doing right about the publicity machine
around them, certainly in this country anyway.
Speaker 10 (09:33):
Isn't they give me the ethos? Why did you want
to do every track in one take?
Speaker 11 (09:36):
Well, that actually wasn't the plan, was it.
Speaker 10 (09:38):
No, You're just so good you just got in there,
and you like, can't improve on the fiction.
Speaker 11 (09:45):
We had had the songs. Really, we had the studio
booked out, and we know, we decided we wanted to
at least try to capture things live and like. And
I guess we kept talking about trying a lot on
the human element of our process and off music right
in general. And no better way to do that than
kind of just press play and have everyone put their
noise through a can.
Speaker 10 (10:06):
You know, And what does the human element mean? Does
that mean like the kind of frege on that comes
from the pressure of all having to be in the
right head space in that moment or does it mean mistakes.
Speaker 11 (10:17):
Well, it ends up I guess to the lame and
it is mistakes. Yeah, but mistakes happen because we're forced
to consider each other in the process and listen to
the song intently and where you are in the song,
and you can iron out the mistakes. But we just
show we just chose not to, I think because once
we did try and iron them out, they actually the
(10:39):
spirit of the songs changed in a negative way, and
so we're just like, let's just stop tattooing with us.
And it was magic. It felt like magic making it.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
They should have called the album no Totu.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
It would have been a good name for it. I'm
just not exactly sure how you spelled tattoo.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Is that it?
Speaker 2 (10:59):
I'm a bit ignorant about the word. I mean, I
know what the what twittering around means, but is it
actually a word that you can write down exactly? Probably?
Speaker 5 (11:09):
Is?
Speaker 2 (11:09):
I probably? Is it something you can use when you're
playing scrabble? Got a bit off subject there, So let's
quickly finished the podcast. That was the week in edition
of it. We'll have the Tuesday one tomorrow on Tuesday,
when we'll be looking back at today.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
See you then, use Talk is Talking?
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Has it been.
Speaker 9 (11:33):
You?
Speaker 11 (11:34):
Keep me knocking and shure
Speaker 1 (11:40):
For more from us Talk sed B, listen live on
air or online, and keep our shows with you wherever
you go with our podcasts on iHeartRadio
You're listening to a podcast from news Talk, said b
follow this and our wide range of podcasts now on iHeartRadio.
Used Talk said be.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
You Talk said Hello, my beautiful genies, and welcome to
the Being the weekend edition, first of yesterday's News. I
am Glen Harton. Because it's the weekend edition, you'll get
Saturday as well as Sunday, so that's pretty good value.
Jack wants a word on EV's, Francesca wants a word
on the Winter Olympics, and then we'll give Russell Cooks
(00:43):
a word on Sales GP because it's got pretty interesting
one of the weekends for perhaps the wrong reasons.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Six sixty I've popped in to Sprook their new album.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Before any of that, David Seymour turned up to spruk
Ax State of the Nation address.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
You spend a bit of your speech warning about the
dangers of labor greens and Ta paty Mari getting back in.
Is that sort of the argument vote at or this
is what we get?
Speaker 5 (01:12):
It's half the argument. My job is to be a
representative and that means listening to people's concerns and expressing
them in the political arena. So the country goes in
the direction that the people paying the bills wanted to. Now,
the number one thing I hear from people is, look,
if those guys get in, I'm getting out of the
(01:33):
whole country. And I don't know how many people would
follow through on it, but it does show how seriously
people are taking the selection and how concerned they are
about having another dose of what we had just a
couple of years ago, probably worse when you add in
the influence of Tapati Mari and the Greens to labor.
So that's number one. But the main point of my
(01:56):
speech was that confident management is essential for our country,
but it's also not enough. The truth is that we
are slowly falling behind terms of wages. When people say
there's a cost of living crisis, it's partly about high prisis,
but I believe it's really about the way that wages
(02:18):
have not grown fast enough, and people who are used
to everything getting a percent or two better every year,
which they have for the last century. In the last
five years, real per capital wages, that is wages per
person after inflation, they've actually gone backwards. We're not used
to that.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Well, that sounds good. Then vote for ACT and you
pay all go up.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Apparently excellent.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
You've put into argument, really is it?
Speaker 2 (02:48):
I don't quite understand exactly how they're going to do that,
but it'd be good they can. Only that they haven't
done it so far. Maybe they're just waiting for some reason.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
News talk Z.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Been right, Jack wants a word on I don't know
what Jack drives.
Speaker 6 (03:11):
Maybe he will tell us, So think about it, right,
where is the incentive now for US car makers to
make good evs? Where's the incentive to push consumers in
the US towards electric vehicles. There's a reason that Tesla
has opposed scrapping the vehicle standards, and what will it
mean for US car makers trying to sell into markets
where emission standards are already in place. Ford for example,
(03:36):
China's used some pretty extraordinary methods to propel its clean
tech industries that have subsidized and propped up EV makers
in a way that foreign manufacturers say is anti competitive,
anti competitive and blatantly unfair. But look at BYD's extraordinary
vertical integration. Right, they own mining rights, they have revolutionized
(03:58):
battery technology. They have purpose built ships designed to the
perfect specifications to maximize the number of vehicles they can
export around the world at any one time. And honestly,
look at the quality, the features, and the price point
of Chinese evs, there's good reason they're proving so popular.
(04:19):
I don't think for a moment that evs are the
solution to everything, No, no, but I do think that
on balance, they are very likely to play a huge
part in domestic transport around the world in the very
near future. And if you agree with that, well, then
(04:39):
in my view, Donald Trump and the United States have
just thrown in the towel and more or less guaranteed
that China will dominate that electric vehicle.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
It was quite a bizarre presentation from President Trump last
week if you missed it, on the changing all the
rules and regulations about the future of the car industry
and the States. He certainly seemed to have a problem
with cars with compart us in them. And I didn't
(05:12):
know how to turn off the auto start stop functioning. Yeah,
that's why that's changed. Talk sib Right, We're going to
sort of do a couple of sports here, which I
think you can genuinely put under the This is the
umbrella of you've.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Really got to be into this, to be into this
kind of sports.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Although I think Franchisca would argue otherwise when it comes
to the wind to Olympics.
Speaker 7 (05:39):
The limited global infrastructure for many of these sports makes
reaching elite level even more impressive because pathways are narrower,
funding scarcer, and margins for air smaller. That they are
largely broadcast on PayTV in New Zealand also feels the
idea these sports aren't hugely common, but uncommon or not.
If you've been watching over the last week, surely you'll agree.
(06:02):
The camera work has been spectacular and the events have
been incredible to watch. My whole family have become obsessed
with ice dancing and figure skating. There have been some
serious controversies and sides taken during the week. Can I
just say, even though none of us could get ourselves
around an ice rink and really is an all sport
at the top end of competition, elite or as we
(06:22):
like to call it, high performance sport on the global stage.
Rugby's niche, so as netball. The America's Cup is an
elite sport and the Coast to Coast this weekend attracts
a small number of super athletes who will traverse the
South Island doesn't make their accomplishments any less impressive. The
Olympics exists not merely to platform the most popular sports,
but to honor excellence at the highest level that some
(06:44):
of those sports and not broadly accessible, does not diminish
the skill required to compete. In the last week, we've
seen human resilience, sportsmanship, courage, and technical mastery all done
in what can be very challenging environments. So, niche or not,
our keepe athletes and their fellow competitors represent the pinnacle
of their disciplines, and that alone warrants recognition and celebration.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
I mean, it's not a bad point being good in
a niche sport. I mean we've been celebrating that even
since the all black sort of thing. When you think
about it, and there's only about in six or seven
countries that really play rugby.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Controversial win.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
And then you've got sailing, which I do hate. And
when you're talking at elite sports, the elitist sports or
elite sports, elitist sports, and then come on, guys, and
then I just the sale GP sort of leave me
to go out there and watch these guys kind of
(07:53):
run each other over at one hundred ks an hour
on the water. But it all just sort of seems
to be a bit kind of like toss a coin
on the day, Is that who's going to win? I
don't know how much skill it's be like watching the
twenty twenty cricket sevens.
Speaker 8 (08:09):
I suppose I started by asking if the very rapid
growth of sale GP was what he imagined right from
the start.
Speaker 9 (08:16):
Was what we hoped for at the start. It's not
necessarily what we thought would happen this quickly. So yeah,
that's that's encouraging science. You know, we're definitely building very
fast and attracting new audiences in new markets, so you know,
it's encouraging to see. And I think I think the
(08:37):
racing product really stacks up. It's pretty clear that we
are getting fans from a much broader spectrum than just
the avid sailing fan. We're getting the racing fan, we're
getting the general sports fan, and we're also getting I
think the lifestyle sector that's coming along to our events
just to have fun.
Speaker 8 (08:56):
The fifties they are extraordinary machines, aren't they. Is there
still performance to unlock in the fifties, do you believe?
Speaker 5 (09:03):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (09:03):
Absolutely, particularly in the lighter ones, you know, which is
a real focus.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Yeah, give them what happened over the weekend.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Maybe they should be focusing a little bit more on
those heavier wins.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
What do you reckon news talk? Let's finish up here.
We're probably haven't they really?
Speaker 1 (09:21):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
I think it's hard to argue Sex Sex the new album.
There's something that they're doing right about the publicity machine
around them, certainly in this country anyway.
Speaker 10 (09:33):
Isn't they give me the ethos? Why did you want
to do every track in one take?
Speaker 11 (09:36):
Well, that actually wasn't the plan, was it.
Speaker 10 (09:38):
No, You're just so good you just got in there,
and you like, can't improve on the fiction.
Speaker 11 (09:45):
We had had the songs. Really, we had the studio
booked out, and we know, we decided we wanted to
at least try to capture things live and like. And
I guess we kept talking about trying a lot on
the human element of our process and off music right
in general. And no better way to do that than
kind of just press play and have everyone put their
noise through a can.
Speaker 10 (10:06):
You know, And what does the human element mean? Does
that mean like the kind of frege on that comes
from the pressure of all having to be in the
right head space in that moment or does it mean mistakes.
Speaker 11 (10:17):
Well, it ends up I guess to the lame and
it is mistakes. Yeah, but mistakes happen because we're forced
to consider each other in the process and listen to
the song intently and where you are in the song,
and you can iron out the mistakes. But we just
show we just chose not to, I think because once
we did try and iron them out, they actually the
(10:39):
spirit of the songs changed in a negative way, and
so we're just like, let's just stop tattooing with us.
And it was magic. It felt like magic making it.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
They should have called the album no Totu.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
It would have been a good name for it. I'm
just not exactly sure how you spelled tattoo.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Is that it?
Speaker 2 (10:59):
I'm a bit ignorant about the word. I mean, I
know what the what twittering around means, but is it
actually a word that you can write down exactly? Probably?
Speaker 5 (11:09):
Is?
Speaker 2 (11:09):
I probably? Is it something you can use when you're
playing scrabble? Got a bit off subject there, So let's
quickly finished the podcast. That was the week in edition
of it. We'll have the Tuesday one tomorrow on Tuesday,
when we'll be looking back at today.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
See you then, use Talk is Talking?
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Has it been.
Speaker 9 (11:33):
You?
Speaker 11 (11:34):
Keep me knocking and shure
Speaker 1 (11:40):
For more from us Talk sed B, listen live on
air or online, and keep our shows with you wherever
you go with our podcasts on iHeartRadio
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