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Speaker 2 (00:24):
For Beanies, and welcome to the bean for Tuesday. First
of first with yesterday's news, and you've been back one
day and I've already lost the ability to speak.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
In coherent sentences.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
First with yesterday's news, we're looking back at Tuesday. I
am Greenheart, and we're going to talk weight loss, drugs
and with the Farmax going to come to the party
on those upen Transport gets a serve from Andrew Dickens.
The black Caps get big apps from and Tyler is
one of the seemingly endless number of people.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Who got engaged over the summer.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
But before any of that, Greenland is up for grabs.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Trumpeters, I've never heard so much pushback as I have
for America doing the same thing, even though America is
the closest thing politically to us a democracy for now.
Trump may not like it, but he can be voted
out as president. She and Putin can't quite an important distinction.
I would have thought, does that mean I think it's
great that he's threatening economic armageddon over Greenland? No, is
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it cool He's taken Venezuela. Well no, not really. These
are short term decisions with long term consequences, and really
does intervention actually work out well? But this idea America
expanding its footprint in the world is somehow worse than
Russia or China doing the same thing, I think is
a little misguided. If one of the three had to
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rule the world, wouldn't you want Trump in charge? I
know it's a crazy thing to say, but isn't it true?
And all of this sort of naive nonsense about the
rule of law and international rules based system, Give me
a break. Russia and China haven't been playing by those
rules for years, and when they do play by those rules,
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it's more for show than anything else.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Wow. So the choices between putin g or Trump? Is
there a fourth option? Anyone? Anyone? Like literally anyone? News
talk zi been Okay, So we're firmly focused.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
I'm going I say, well, I mean, the whole world
on the rise and rise of weight loss drugs at
the moment, and I think we're a bit slow to
the party in New Zealand about talking about whether these
things should be publicly funded, and how much money they
can save our health system?
Speaker 5 (02:42):
And why the hell should US taxpayers pay for that
lot to get a magic potion because they can't say
no because they've got no self control. Haven't they heard
a personal responsibility You don't blah blah blah blah blah.
Funny thing is, let me point this out to the
personal responsibility brigade. The funny thing is, you don't hear
this lot ripping into people with high blood pressure or
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people with heart disease, or do I even say, people
with cancer. You don't hear the personal responsibility crew saying
those people shouldn't be on fimac's funding list. Because if
you apply the same logic that they apply to people
with obesity, the exact same thing could be said, couldn't it.
There's someone who smokes, for example, shouldn't get their blood
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pressure pills funded by the taxpayer. They don't say that,
so why should people with obesity be treated any differently?
They shouldn't you know that someone who smokes and gets cancer.
You don't hear the personal responsibility fanatics ripping into them saying, oh,
they made bad choices, they shouldn't get medications paid for
by my taxes, even though it might save or extend
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their life. And that's why we need to see obesity
in the same light that it is a disease, just
like any other disease, a disease people have not because
that they can't control themselves, but because of genetics, because
of hormonal issues, psychological issues. It's way more complicated than
just how much food your stuff in your mouth. And
that's why we as a society need to get our
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head around that. When you need to see the big
picture benefits of these drugs being publicly funded, the benefits,
the big picture benefits for everyone, because if these drugs
are a genuine option for people who have no way
of losing significant amounts of weight and no other way
of avoiding serious conditions like type two diabetes, then why
wouldn't you.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Funny thing about these drugs is that the more I
hear about them and I don't actually, I mean, I
probably do know people who are on them, but it's
one of those things that people are a bit shy
to talk about, isn't it. But yeah, I don't have
any first hand accounts of people who are on them.
But as I understand that, you've got to do exercise.
You've got to eat the right food and you've got
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to keep doing that. It's not like a magic potion
that suddenly you're super slim. And I can't help thinking
that if you ate the right things and did lots
of exercise, you might get there. Anyway, I've lost quite
a bit of a wait recently, and that's literally what
I did. I just stopped eating and drinking all the
things I like to eat and drink.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
And while I use talk zibban right, So, Auckland transport.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Don't you just love hearing about Auckland transport if you
live somewhere else in the country or indeed the world,
and maybe you do, maybe you like hearing us complaining
about it because you're not here now.
Speaker 6 (05:35):
Look, I use a faery, and in fact I used
one on Saturday to go to a sale GP watching party.
That meant I spent fifteen dollars return. It's basically seven
dollars forty one way and seven dollars forty bucks. It's
basically fifteen bucks. From February to first it'll be sixteen bucks.
That was fine because it was just me, but if
I took my partner that would be thirty two dollars
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return to go from Devonport to Newmarket in Auckland, and
that's getting very close to a price point that says
I can't justify using PT. And if there were three
of us, if I took a son, I might as
well just get an uber. And that defeats the purpose
of public transport, which is to get cars off the road,
to make public transports so efficient that you decided to
take it because it's good on price and it's good
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and convenience. I have no complaints about the journey. I
was there in half an hour. I also wondered what
the thinking was that meant that the Southern line from
town to ed sheerm was closed for maintenance. This was
a chance to let people experience alternative transport options. Why
didn't they just open it up one line? They didn't
have to open up the Western or whatever or the Eastern.
Just opened up that one and people could go from
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town to ed Sheeram. But no, Instead, people ended out
in buses, clogging up the motorway and some north Shore
residents were still trying to get home at two am.
And it reinforced the idea that not just trains are unreliable,
all public transport is and it's getting expensive. So all
can transport and all our transport operators get a load
of bad press, but it's not helped if they keep
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shooting themselves in the foot with their decision makers.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Listen to Andrew watch a watch the sale GP at
a party.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
It wasn't Perth bad day from all round really if
it was the day that New Zealand franklant.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
The Swiss at the sale duty anyway, Yeah, I agree.
I mean I'd take a couple of transport if it
was any handing at women in three thirty in the morning,
and if there was a train or a ferry that
we ever passed my house, which there isn't.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Right.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
The black Cats did rather well about this time yesterday morning.
As I record this twenty four hours before I record this,
does it make any sense anyway?
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Moving on? Yeah, they won that.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
One day series in India, which was quite an achievement.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
It was thanks mostly to Darryl Mitchell.
Speaker 7 (07:55):
Of course, when it comes to Darryl Mitchell, how inspiring
is he? David says, weren't the black Caps magnificent? Last night?
I couldn't go to bed. I had to watch New
and Young players doing it for each other with smiles
and happiness was so good to see. Also, that's a
magnificent stadium in India. Were gracious in defeat. Yeah, well
the stadiums were cool and great pictures to bad on
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and we won an India in a one day series
for the first time ever. I mentioned earlier on about
Darryl Mitchell that there's a couple of the things that
I love about sport. One that dies distraction from real life,
and two how it can be a metaphor for real life,
so it can be kind of what you want it
to be. And when Darryl Mitchell, you've got someone who
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was never destined for necessarily great things as far as
how others saw him as in he was good enough
to play domestic cricket, but people who followed the game
weren't saying, Oh, he's got to play for New Zealand,
and when he finally made it, it was, oh, he's
kind of a journeyman cricketer. That's nice for him, but
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you know, these aren't the glory days if he's now
who we've got, And he obviously didn't see it that way.
But he went from having a goodish record in domestic
cricket to now being the best player in the whole world.
And in the history of one day cricket, there are
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only two batters to average over fifty eight who have
played more than fifty games. One is Verak Coley, who's
probably the greatest one day batsman ever, and the other
is Darryl Mitchell. So the story I said earlier on
the story of not being defined by others, not not
allowing yourself to be boxed in by how others have
misjudged you or the limitations that others put on you.
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That to me is what I think is really genuinely
inspiring about seeing him do so well as a late bloomer.
It's really great, you know, it's just honestly awesome.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Yeah, I hope for bloom one day.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
How late can you be would get blooming? Do you
think fifty two? At the moment, I still got time,
haven't I?
Speaker 1 (10:11):
News talks it.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Bean, Right, Let's finish up here with somebody who's nowhere
near that age, Young Tyler on the afternoon show.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
He got engaged. He's not the only one.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
That News he got engaged over the holidays, telling these
people go do it, and then they go up and
do it.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Maybe I should use reverse I cool idea of it.
Maybe I should be telling them to do it.
Speaker 8 (10:35):
We arrived to the speech beautiful and had the dog
there with us, so found a nice little spot, got
the towels laid out, and then I said to me,
can you just go into the ocean with the dog
just for five minutes, which I'd never normally say.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
So instantly she's like, can you go into the ocean
with the dog? Yeah?
Speaker 8 (10:50):
Just take take Pepper over there into the ocean because
she needs to swim. It's too hot for Pepper. So
she needed a weird thing.
Speaker 7 (10:57):
How's going wrong with you?
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Tyler?
Speaker 8 (10:58):
Then I set up the little GoPro. So I brought
the GoPro out of storage and set that up just fine,
just behind the towels and got the angle just right.
But of course she turned around us like, okay, I
see what's going on here, so she knew by that point,
and then I had to call Lou back up and
got the dog to sit down, and then awkwardly dropped
the knee, stumbled with the ring. The ring fell out
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of my hand at one point and I had to
pick it back up. But she was crying, then laughing.
She said, I don't care about Yes, yes.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
She said, I don't care about the ring lovely.
Speaker 8 (11:29):
But about two minutes after that, without a word of
a lie, Pepper jumped back up, ran down the beach,
and in front of a lovely family enjoying enjoying a
nice down the beach, did a massive dump on the beach.
Here that'll happen, that will happen so apart from that,
super smooth.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
But it's great. It's great that it was so lovely.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
I mean, if I put down a blankey and set
up a goow pro, I think my partner would.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Think something else was happening.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
I don't know, but performative all that, and and then
going on a nationwide radio show and telling everybody what happened,
and then presumably posting it from the go pro footage.
I mean, I could talk about the proposal that I
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made to my future wife.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
For what the successful way.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
I think there were a couple of unsuccessful I had
several intems. I won't but yeah, items, it's one of
those things. I think you're better off just sort of remembering.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
I don't know that you actually want to hard cut
it in video evidence of it is.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Because then you can sort of embellish it and make
it sound more romantic, because he's got to do the
thing about it.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
He's got to tell everybody about the dog goes.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
The book is there on video, isn't it. He could
have just left that out anyway. Picture their own.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Good luck, guys, in spite of my best advice.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
I amgly at heart, happily married for nearly thirty years,
so happy.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
I'll see you back here again tomorrow with more happy
stories like.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
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