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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
Used Talk Said Talk. Hello, my beautiful beanies, and welcome
to the bean for Thursday versus yesterday's news. I am
Glen Hart. We are looking back at Wednesday. It looked
like there's an EU India f t A. Which is
it's a biggie the post shops this listed them all
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the time. Quite sure why this has gained so much
traction just yesterday. But anyway, service stations. I think Marcus
thinks they have been misnamed and he has got a
bathroom issue that he wanted to discuss on nationwide talk
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back before any of that. Judith Collins, that's it, crusher.
She's off to crush something else, somewhere else other than Parliament.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Too many politicians have one or the other. They're either
so serious about their work that they're boring, or they're
having so much fun that they're distracted from their work. Colins, though,
could crack a joke, She could smirk, She could raise
an eyebrow, she could giggle, enjoy firing off a handgun,
but still keep a lid on whatever portfolios She was
managing that day. It hasn't always worked for her obviously,
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to Loafa became a meme. Praying in church during the
twenty twenty campaign was just probably one of the weirdest
things you've ever seen. She was probably, you would have
to say, a better National Party leader on paper than
in reality. But she has been the Minister of Justice,
the Minister of Police, of Corrections, acc Defense, the Spies,
the Public Service, Revenue, Ethnic Affairs, Energy Space and the
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Attorney General. And that's not even the comprehensive list. You
do not have that many portfolios across two different governments
without being capable and Prime Minister's no that. But what
I think Jodph Collins was best at was the comeback.
There was the dirty Politics scandal a decade ago that
cost to her cabinet jobs, but she made it back
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into cabinet. There was the failed twenty twenty election campaign
as leader. She somehow managed to come back from that
not everybody would have been able to. And she has
finally here in twenty twenty six quit on her own terms.
There is a life lesson in this for all of us,
which is that politics will be just a little bit well,
there is a life lesson bus this for all of us,
which is weighed around. Long enough do the things the
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right way, you will make a comeback. And also politics
will be just a little less fun without Duco winning.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Douco. This is the first time hearing of Duco. Is
this a new branding exercise? Because she just doesn't want
to be crusher forever. She's always she's going to be
crushed forever. Surely, crusher forever. That's my campaign news talk,
Has it been right? So yeah, India to just sort
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of be trading away with whoever's gonna trade with them.
They don't really seem to be too bothered what you're
doing elsewhere in the world. As long as you're giving
them money for stuff. Might not be the worst idea
in the world.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Hipkins sounds pretty upbeat about it. Are just a few
questions that they're asking, but he says, Caucus is going
to look at it and make a decision. Of course,
it'll need to support, It'll need the support of Labor'll
need the support from across the aisle because New Zealand
first isn't keen on it.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
Now.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
The Europeans have just done a massive deal with Deli overnight.
Vonder Lane is there in India getting the red carpet
treatment from Mody. Combined, they make up twenty five percent
of the world's GDP massive and the market size two
billion people. They've been negotiating this for years and years,
like decades, finally have a deal, in part because of
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Trump's tariffs He's still got fifty percent on India, but
also because India has managed to secure protections for it's
what they call sensitive industries dairy. They say they have
prudently safeguarded sensitive sectors, including dairy. Now, we generally treat
trade as a bipart as an issue in New Zealand,
and there's little reason to think this deal will be
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any different, barring any major red flags with the details.
Of course, many of the details we actually don't know
yet as the public, but the opposition is being briefed on.
If that checks out, it's probably going to just be
a rubber stamping exercise. You would have thought, after all,
we are like the world's FTA cheerleaders. Basically, any international
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conference or meeting we go to, we run around with
a clipboard trying to sign people up. Come on, please
do a deal. So much so we actually have now
a check this morning. Seventy percent of our global trade
is covered by FTAs, and I think it's reasonable to
only expect that will increase, perhaps easier once Trump leaves
office too.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
It has Trump been causing problem we traded between Kendree,
I must have miss that. What's E been up to?
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Ques talk sibn okay.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
The ongoing anguish over not being able to queue up
at the post shop anymore. I mean, they're not closing
all of them down, but eventually surely they will. Amazing
to me that they still exist.
Speaker 6 (05:33):
I'm still hung up on sending cards to denote formal occasions,
but I faf around. I still owe a thank you
card to generous hosts from Christmas. A month has now
gone by. Their generosity was such that I need to
acknowledge it, and an email just doesn't do it yet.
I would have sent an email within days of Christmas,
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but because I'm still trying to find the right card
and get an actual physical voucher, it'll probably be Easter
before I post my thank you, and to thank you
delayed is an ill mannered ingrate, so there was no
postal service I could use that as an excuse rather
than just faffing around. But I still love sending cards,
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and maybe that's just a generational thing. There may be
those of you thirty and under are thinking, what, I
only get my speeding tickets in the mail, and that
is that, And I could easily do that online, but
some occasions just seem to require a formal thank you,
a formal handwritten I've taken the time to acknowledge what
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you've done for me, and I appreciate it. And I
would be really, really really sorry to see that go.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Just on cards, because that certainly is the only thing
I use a post shop for, as well as cards.
But just quietly, really, the only reason I seeing cards
is because I'm being too stingedy to send an actual present.
And it's almost like the harder they make it to
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send a card, the more value I reckon I'm getting
out of sending one instead of a prison, don't you reckon?
It's like, ah, well, we're to the trouble of sending
a card. It's almost as good as a prison, isn't it.
As they practically shake it hoping that there's about your
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included which deniver is anyway, I'm sure markets are sorry
to see the post. The decline of both shops. He
was he was talking about the decline of mailboxes the
other night, and now there's another thing that's in decline
as well.
Speaker 7 (07:42):
So yes, this is Margaret Thompson of hut Central and
her attempt to get air for herd.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Where do you go?
Speaker 7 (07:48):
What would you do? What were you if you were
eighty one with oustereoarth riders and rheumatat arth riders heading
till Kabernie and your car flesh year? What would you do?
And gus stations in general and what they do and
they don't do? Once upon a time you go there,
could I check you all in your water?
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (08:05):
Yes, please you relax. You just sit down in your car.
There's nothing to do. You had no phone, sit back.
What would you do when you waited for guests? I
don't actually know what you're doing. You'd sit there, felt
like lady muck, and they'd fill up your car, they'd
check your oil, check your water. These days, what are
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they more preoccupied with? These days? They're more preoccupied with
trying to give your diabetes by selling you. Ask you
if you'd like another chocolate bar. I've got a two
for one special on this. Would you like another one
of these? That's what I'd be doing. I'd be saying,
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hang on, let's go help your oil. And I thought
when z z Z Energy started they were big on that,
weren't they. They were very helpful.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Yeah, I don't remember that part because they very quickly
brought in the automatic read your car number plates. You can.
You don't even need the app. You can just drive in,
pump your gas and go and now and then you know,
recently we've had the see you later Z service station.
Now it's just a you go, so there's no person
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there at all. You're doing everything yourself. But like the
post offices, I feel like this is more a case
of most modern cars these days. Most people don't really
have to worry about chicking their oil and water because
unless there is something seriously wrong with your car, you're
probably not using that much. And that lady that Marcus
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was talking about at the beginning, there, can't you just
go to the garage go where they actually can fix
whatever's wrong with their car. Yeah, anyway, don't call them
service stations anymore. There is no service petrol station. And
then the this confusion news talks it Bean let's finish
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up with some something odd that came out of the
Afternoon Show yesterday. I'm gonna have to be more specific.
Speaker 7 (10:19):
I know.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
You can't just say that. That doesn't really narrow it down,
does it. Yeah? What creepy crawleys do you find in
your bathroom?
Speaker 8 (10:31):
Do you ever get slugs in your bathroom?
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Tyler?
Speaker 5 (10:34):
I haven't no nice slugs in my bathroom.
Speaker 8 (10:36):
I was just in Parliament yesterday. Chloe Warbrick was saying
that people, young people suffering the hardship of having slugs
in their bathroom, so many slugs that they're giving them names,
Oh cute. Yeah, but wouldn't you just get rid of
the slugs? I'm pretty sure, Like I wouldn't call myself.
I'm not suffering any hardship, but we've had slugs in
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our bathroom.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
Yeah, so I don't.
Speaker 8 (10:58):
Think having slugs in your bathroom as really an indication
of hardship. Probably indication of leaving the window open.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
It's a good point. How did they get there?
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (11:08):
I mean I've had a terrible problem with ants, and
what do I do? Just spray the hell out of them? Yeah,
lay down some ant bait.
Speaker 8 (11:15):
Yeah, I mean it's an interesting approach to it to
see slugs and spend the time giving them names, but
not spend the time picking them up.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
I'm going to call you sleepy, I'll call you sneezy.
Speaker 8 (11:27):
Also, is that the end of the world having a
slug in the bathroom? Like, I mean, what does a
slug in the bathroom do? I mean, cockroaches in the
kitchen are one thing. You know, you got to deal
with cockroaches in the kitchen.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
You do.
Speaker 8 (11:37):
Slugs in the bathroom, rats in the kitchen bad?
Speaker 5 (11:39):
Yeah, you don't want rats in your house at all.
Speaker 8 (11:41):
Is a rat in the kitchen? What we're going to do.
We're going to feast on rat. That's what we're going
to do. I mean slugs, slugs in the bathroom. What
we're going to do. We're going to name those slugs.
That's what we're going to do.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
Yeah, but you know you're not going to get an
infestation of slugs if there's a couple of slugs in
the bathroom unless you want to do like Chloe did
and name them and call them pets.
Speaker 8 (11:57):
I don't think she to be fair. She was just
saying that young people in New Zealand are suffering such
hardship that there's slugs coming into the bathroom and they're
having to name them. There's so many of them, right, okay,
But how many slugs would there have to be in
your bathroom the bathroom that there were so many that
you had to name them? Like I think, I think
I could get rid of a hundred slugs in my
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bathroom in under five.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
Minutes, flush them straight down the drain.
Speaker 8 (12:21):
But naming one hundred slugs that could take me two days.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
And how do you tell the difference between a slug?
You know, as soon as your name it and it
gets back into the group with the other twenty slugs,
you're got to have Which one did I call Jack?
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Again?
Speaker 7 (12:32):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (12:32):
So that happened. Surely the less slugs you have, the easier.
That's not a bad point. I can't believe I've just
said that Tyler made there. But the more slugs you have,
the less likely you are to name them, isn't it.
He's going to sit there and name slugs I've never seen.
I don't think I've ever seen a slug in the bathroom.
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Just put a bit of blitzen on the outside the
bathroom probably take care of that. I would have thought. Yeah,
I didn't. I mean, I guess the point that those
guys were making is that I don't think they think
that that is an epidemic that's sweeping the country. People
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thing to deal with slugs in the bathroom, and there's
worse places for them to turn up. I had a slug.
I've had a slug in the bed. I think the
dog brought one end. It was stuck to his ear.
He's got long me as my dog. And if he goes, yeah,
and the bushes when it's wet, you never know what
he's going to bring in that. He doesn't take regular
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barths a dog. He's a sort of a shower kind.
Speaker 8 (13:47):
Of a dog.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
This has got a bit all the very strange at
the end. But you're wishing that you'd finished up with
the service stations that aren't server stations anymore. A part Yeah,
you now, you've you've gone down this slug hole. You've
googled down the slug hole. I'm glad we got there
in the end. There you go. That was actually not
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a bad little button to put on the Internet. Now
I've ruined it by carrying on talking. I'll see tomorrow,
See tomorrow.
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