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June 12, 2024 14 mins

FIRST WITH YESTERDAY'S NEWS (highlights from Wednesday on Newstalk ZB) Will Prices Really Meet the Market?/Why the Ambulance Never Comes/Farming Doesn't Damage the Climate After All/Why Can't We Keep Windscreens Ice-Free?/That Very Common Debate We All Have Every Winter

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
Hello, my beautiful beanies, and welcome to the bean for Thursday.
First of yesterday's news. I am Glen Hart, and we
are looking back at Wednesday. Why the ambulance service and
it's a mess.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
We're going to get into this shortly.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
Sorry, I'm finding hard to find the words to describe
what's going on with the ambulance service. Dairy and agriculture generally,
they don't have to worry about their climate emissions anymore,
so that's great news for them, terrible news of the planet.
Speaking of the climate, don't worry. There's no global woman.
It's just cold. So I guess that's why we don't

(01:03):
have to worry about it anymore. And then snowboarding or
skiing that classic debate to finish up the good to
begin it, petrol prices are they actually going to be
on the way down now that the Commerce Commission has
got involved.

Speaker 4 (01:18):
Of course, the big test for this Commerce Commission warning
and an indication of consumer's power will be in Auckland
when that field text is removed from the first of July.
So Auckland will expect their gas to be eleven point
five cents cheaper immediately, wouldn't you. I mean, I'd definitely
be keeping an eye up for that. So look, I

(01:40):
think the attention from the Commerce Commission is good. It
is a reminder of us all to use whatever power
we have. But I think it is up to us
to make an impact that will help out at the pumps.
Can to hear from you. Are you impressed with the
Commerce Commission and what they're trying to achieve here? Do
you think they're actually going to have any say or
sway in the matter here to the power is with

(02:02):
the consumer. Do you have that option? Do you use it?
Do you do you make an effort to go out
of your way to shop and get the best price gas?
And if you are in Auckland, what do you think
the chances are that you're going to see that eleven
point five cents ref you know, reduced in the price

(02:26):
of petrol. I mean, I would expect all of it,
and I would like to see all of it. And
it's going to be really interesting to see how petrol
companies deal with that.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
Are the pies and chocolate bars going to get anytubber?
Are we going to see a three fo deal on
thin sized chocolate bars? Why do they make those ones
that are like more than one chocolate bars and one packer.
Why don't they just have an extra long one? Why

(02:56):
does it have to be divided into two little ones?
And I don't understand what's going on there.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
News talk ze been.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
So ambulances and the ambulance workers, so there's going to
be industrial action. It's still not getting paid what they
deserve and some of it still seems to be a charity.

Speaker 3 (03:18):
How can that be?

Speaker 5 (03:19):
It seems so weird.

Speaker 3 (03:21):
Anyway, here's what's going on.

Speaker 6 (03:22):
They are now going to still be doing the Code
purple and cold Code red callouts, which is like cardiac
arrest and life threatening stuff. But they are not committing
to doing anything else. If you hurt yourself indefinitely, and
by indefinitely they basically mean like until they get a
decent payoffer. This could go on for a year. They said,
Now can you imagine how much worse this is going
to make the Saint John's Ambo service, because it's already

(03:44):
not flash. I mean, there's a story in the papers
today of a seventy two year old guy who called
Saint John to say he was having a heart attack,
and he knew he was having a heart attack because
he'd already had two heart attacks before. And the AMBO said, no, no, nah,
it's going to be an hour or two away before
anyone gets to you because you're not having a heart attack,
you've got a chest In fiction, and then there was
a story just a couple of weeks by the way,
he did have a heart attack, just fyi. And then

(04:05):
there was a story a couple of weeks ago of
a seventeen year old girl who died of asthma. Asthma
a completely treatable situation. You just chuck some oxygen in
there and you'll be able to save her life. Died
of asthma because the operator coded it wrong and sent
the AMBO crew on a break instead of to save
her life. And by the time they realized the mistake,
my must have called a thousand times. By the time

(04:27):
they got there, not able to be saved anymore. Something
is wrong here with the AMBO service. I don't think
it's just funding. I mean, some of it obviously is funding,
Like we shouldn't be relying on a life saving service
that runs on donations. That's mental, but it's obviously bigger
than funding as well, because if you've got people incorrectly
coding events, which is happening quite often at the moment,
then I don't think funding is going to fix that. Anyway,

(04:49):
I've got to a point where I've just accepted it.
I've accepted the situation is what it is. I've made
myself an alternative plan. If we've got an emergency in
the house, I've got a plan for how I'm going
to get people to the hospital myself, because I do
not anymore think that I can rely on Sir John.
And I just wonder how many other people have got
to that point too.

Speaker 2 (05:02):
Need to know how as firstful it is when you're
having a heart attack and you're being told it's going
to be an hour. Like I was stressing out yesterday
because I'm going on holiday and I cocked up my.

Speaker 3 (05:13):
Prescription request.

Speaker 2 (05:17):
Because I've got some pearls that helped me go to
sleep at night because I'm an old man now and
I'm not going to get into what they're exactly for,
but anyway, the point is I was going to run
out of those pearls on my holiday if I didn't
have the repeat, and I cocked up the repeat because
it said that there was a repeat before June twenty four,

(05:37):
but I actually misread the label and it said before
to June twenty four, meaning the second of June twenty
twenty four, and so that repeat had expired. And then
I had to put another prescription requests through this thing,
and that was another thirty dollars down the lane. This,
of course, doing an automated online prescription. And anyway, enough

(06:03):
of my moaning. The point is that stressed me out.
Just that, so imagine being on the phone. Yeah, I'm
having a heart attack. Oh now, okay, I'll just slow
down their heart attack. This is it's a it's a
fine mess. We've got ourselves in us talk Zivin. But
dairy and farmers generally have gotten themselves out of the

(06:23):
climate miss. Apparently their carbon emissions don't count again, so
they were counting, they weren't counting, and they were counting, and
now they're not counting, so we can just carry on
fart away cows.

Speaker 7 (06:39):
By the way, the report of the previous government commission
to look at how we handle agriculture around climate change
was called hawokanoa. So tell me what that means. Literally,
anyone tell me what the translation of haywokanoa to English means.
And in that it was part of the ongoing angst
over the morification of New Zealand that we were talking
about yesterday, and how simply peppering a few touchy feely

(06:59):
phrases changed nothing when it came to language. So, hey,
wakanoa is in the bin and we will need to
find a new way to work out where agriculture fits
in the climate change. Here is the key point that
the current government forequented by the way by farmers like
Andrew Hogart, get that the previous government didn't. When it
comes to farming, we globally are as good as it gets.
If we made farming needlessly hard, we wouldn't produce as much,

(07:22):
which was always a stupid idea, given we sell what
we make and that's called foreign income. And when we
don't sell it, we eat it. And if we made
it too hard to farm, we would still need to eat.
It would simply have to be ground by somebody else
who isn't as good as we are. What is the
point in that? And then we get to the science
of it all, punishing people for a problem that science
is already and will increasingly help, if not address. It's pointless.

(07:44):
The obsession around the Paris Accord and cutting emissions at
the expense of all else has already played out disastrously,
of course, in oil and gas and our inability to
turn the lights on. The last thing we needed was
a drop in agriculture. The Australian opposition, you will note,
just this week, has already started talking about bailing on
the Paris Deal because it's unobtainable. It's not that we
don't want to get there. It's not that we don't

(08:05):
want to save the climate, it's not that we don't
want to do our best. It's just you can't promise
stuff you're never going to deliver. We signed up to
things we simply can't do, and Labour didn't appear to
care who they wrecked while chasing the illusion reality and
common senses back and not a moment to sing.

Speaker 2 (08:22):
It wasn't called Haywoker, by the way, I might insisted
on pouring it that many times. Yesterday it was Heywoker Echino.
He looked out a whole word.

Speaker 5 (08:31):
We never love it.

Speaker 2 (08:34):
And what it means is I mean, you can't discoogle
it up, So I don't know why couldn't be bothered
doing that.

Speaker 3 (08:41):
It means we're all in this together.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
And I think, as editorial would have been funnier and
more poignant if you had had translated that, because what
does we're all in this together mean when you're talking
about climate emissions? And I suppose it means that.

Speaker 3 (09:00):
If we don't do anything about it, we're all dead.
It's a bit depressing.

Speaker 2 (09:07):
Then let's move on. So yeah, anyway, backing the trends,
which and it's an indisputable that we've had twelve months
in a row of record high temperatures globally, but don't
worry about it because it's really cold here at the moment.

Speaker 8 (09:28):
Anyway, we are talking about defrosting your windscreen or de
icing it when you get up in the morning or
at night. I won't go out tonight. It might be
iced over. I'll enjoy that. I'll get my credit card
out of my wallet and I'll go scrape scrape, scrape, scrape, scrape,
and I'll sit in the car. I'll turn there, I

(09:51):
find a podcast listen to. On the drive home, I'll
turn the ear con up as high as it goes,
and I'll squirt some water on the windscreen and get
the windscreen wipers going back and forward. And when it's clear,
drive home. Be three minutes extra out of my day.

(10:15):
I'll make it up on the straight. I'm joking. And
then in the morning, I'll get up and I'll cut
a potato in half, and I rub the windscreen with
the half of the potato to what people do, and
then of course it won't settle. Did you know that?
Did you know about the whole potato trick?

Speaker 3 (10:37):
There you go?

Speaker 2 (10:38):
Yeah, the potato thing has been getting a lot of
a lot of hype over the last few days. It
does seem strange. We haven't really come up with a
a better method of preventing this from happening. The I
start windspring, we're still talking about cutting a potato in half.

Speaker 3 (11:04):
Is there a particular variety of potato?

Speaker 5 (11:08):
You know?

Speaker 3 (11:08):
Is it a should be using a pearler?

Speaker 2 (11:12):
Do you go?

Speaker 3 (11:13):
Agria does a camera work? He doesn't really use his
credit card for that, does he?

Speaker 2 (11:23):
It can't be good at credit cards?

Speaker 9 (11:25):
News talk?

Speaker 1 (11:26):
Has it been?

Speaker 2 (11:28):
The other thing that happens when it gets cold is
that it snows and then people like to go on
the snow.

Speaker 3 (11:33):
But how did I like to go on the snow.

Speaker 9 (11:35):
Back in the day, back in the or I don't know,
twenty years ago, you used to be guaranteed that you
could ski at Mount Hart at Queen's Birthday weekend. They
would always start at Queen's Birthday weekend. Right now we're
a few weeks after that. Yeah, a couple of weeks
after it. It's not happening.

Speaker 5 (11:49):
Is there's really little snow and same as Remarkables and
Coronet Peak, Kadrona down south, same with the North Island field.
So hopefully they'll get some snow. And you wouldn't want
to be a shareholder on a skifield, would you.

Speaker 4 (12:01):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (12:01):
No, I mean it's truly I you know, climate change
is definitely shifting the seasons. I can't wait. I'm looking
for snowboarding again. I actually love it. Feeling of freedom.
Have you a snowboard?

Speaker 1 (12:12):
No?

Speaker 9 (12:12):
I haven't. I've been a skier, but not a No,
not snowboarding. What do you like about that?

Speaker 5 (12:17):
Over skis completely It's like it's like running around the
house with no clothes on. It's like you're completely free. Right,
snowboard you've got, you know, whereas skiing there's always this
age old debate. But skiing you've got those big, ungainly
poles like those.

Speaker 9 (12:32):
Hell walkers, elegant looking though.

Speaker 5 (12:34):
Skiing yeah yeah, yeah, I don't think. And then if
you fall over, you've got skis and.

Speaker 9 (12:38):
The slalom, the way they turn. I find it very attractive.
I got to say, but no, I've never done snowboarding
because I well, I did try it once. I fell
over too many times and I thought, nah, not doing this,
and i's my skis.

Speaker 5 (12:51):
It's weird if you get on a board because you've
got no poles, so you just got your heels and
your toes and that's how you steer. And I love it.

Speaker 2 (12:57):
So nothing privileged or entitled about that conversation at all.
I'm sure everybody you're listening is that you're regular skiers
the snowboarders, aren't you?

Speaker 9 (13:06):
You just love it.

Speaker 3 (13:07):
You go there all the time. You've definitely got a
preference over which you'd like to do best.

Speaker 2 (13:19):
Any old thing, any old culture, any old snowsports. I
am a glen Hart that has been used to z being.
I wonder if I can still ski I've done it.
I haven't done it that much. I've done it for
the three or four times in my life, Max. I

(13:42):
sort of got the hang of it, not very good
at it. And I would never try snowboarding because I
can't skateboard. It seems like a similar sort of a thing.
I like the idea of a pole to help hold
myself up about doing it nude though. Anyway, this has

(14:05):
gone on too long again. This is in part so
we're going to stop it and I'll see that here
again tomorrow.

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