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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
Used Talk said Talk.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
My Beautiful Beanies, and welcome to the bean for Tuesday.
First of the Yesterday's News. I am Glenn Hart and
we were from back at Monday. Multi generational homes. Okay,
there was a reason why this came up. I can't
remember why it came up, but Andrew Dickens wanted a
word about it. Now, like extended families, all of them
(00:45):
in the same house.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
We're talking about the retail and how that's goings to
be going all right, And then I thought it might
it might have to be a podcast roulette, but I
think it just ended up being Marcus talking about the crumpets.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
So not quite so, Rueletti at the end. At the beginning,
we're going to talk about immigration and acts calls for
a bit of a reset there.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
So the first is their complaint that we have too
many unskilled fast food workers and not enough skilled biomedical
engineers coming into the country. The complaint may be fair,
but if we learned anything when just Cinder, Grant and
Chippy shut the borders during COVID, it was that this
country grinds to a halt if we don't have unskilled
workers coming in because there are jobs we found it
that we will not do as kiwis, like picking fruit,
(01:34):
and we need the foreign workers to come in and
do it. And if we don't have those foreign workers,
then the Kiwi bosses of those businesses, be they fast
food joints or orchards, will not get the work done.
Six dollars a day levey for infrastructure is also a
really weird policy from ACT. Given that they're a party
of lower taxes, Suggesting a tax that will inevitably be
passed on by the employers of those migrants to you
(01:55):
and I to pay is not a great idea. It's
also the kind of dumb political play that results in
dumb red tape that ACT then complains about years later
and campaigns on trying to get rid of.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Now.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
Having said all of that, some of the ideas in
here are half decent and worth considering when it comes
to voting in November. And I suspect that immigration actually
runs the chance of becoming one of the topics that
we do end up voting on. I know it's not
registering for most of us as something that we are
concerned about. It's not right up there and the issues
that voters are concerned about, but there are signs it
(02:26):
is more important out there to some people than many
of us realize. And you can see it and just
how much anngs The Labor Party in New Zealand first
had over the Indian fta's immigration aspect. So first immigration
policy out of the blocks for election year, not the last.
Probably I would say something somewhere between a six to
seven out of ten.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Wow, seems early to score policies, you know, before you
even know if you're going to be able to, you know,
like do anything about them. Let's never forget that parties
like ACT are minor parties. It's very easy in the environment,
(03:04):
isn't it to take everything to act? In New Zealand.
Verse says seriously, hues talk has been so I mean
here is thinking it seriously enough to give them a score.
I wonder how Kerrie Woodham scores it. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (03:18):
From the people who deal with migrants every single day,
it seems to be a whole harm from them. The
biggest criticism seemed to be, well, the work's already done
and that we're not really in a position to dictate
demands and make it difficult for migrants to come here.
There are other places they can go. We talked before
(03:41):
about the declining birth rates in the Western world. Everybody
wants skilled migrants. Everybody wants them, and we're not really
in a position to make it more difficult for migrants
to be here than it already is. I'd love to
hear from those who have applied for visas, who have
applied to move to New Zealand for a better life.
(04:03):
Is it what you thought it was? Does it need
to be made tougher? Do we need stronger English language requirements?
Doesn't make it easier to assimilate, to feel like a
Kiwi if you can speak the language.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
I think there's probably a few key phrases that you
do need to learn. I don't know if they're really
English as such, like year and no obviously nah, Yeah,
(04:40):
those two are kind of interchangeable, so that I can
see how that gets confusing, things like oh, I can't
complain when people will ask you how you are. Again,
that's a bit confusing, isn't it. There's a few things
like that, Yeah, Now that I think it's very difficult
(05:03):
to actually assimilate, isn't it. There's a bit us about
the word assimilate. Wasn't that what the Daleks wanted you
to do? Like it was? Do you talk sib No,
Matt and Tyler this week? I don't. I think they're
away for the week. So Dickens is in instead, and
(05:26):
he wanted a word about moving in with you parents
and your grandparents and your great grandparents.
Speaker 7 (05:32):
The multi generation home. Is it a dream come true?
Or is it an unachievable dream? What are the pros,
what are the cons and what are the consequences?
Speaker 2 (05:43):
I live in a multi generational situation. It's hard to say,
isn't it. I live on a property with two houses
on it, and I have a two bedroom house and
my daughter has a three bedroom house, and we just
sort of stumbled across it when we were toying with
the idea because she wanted to move to a bigger property.
Speaker 7 (06:01):
So who owns it?
Speaker 2 (06:02):
We own it and she is so she is a
divide in between us. And when Bill's men and things,
I pay my share and they pay their share, so
it's all divided up legally.
Speaker 7 (06:13):
What do you like about it?
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Oh, it's a great company. There's security and safety for me.
My four year old five year old grandson runs between
the property and keeps as entertained. We socialize together. We
sometimes have meals together, but not always, so it's just
safety and security and company.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
I suppose, Yeah, I'm related to someone who's moved in
with her daughter and her grandson. I think it was
just sort of a timing thing where people would moving
out of their houses and then it was easier for
them to buy a house together than it was to
(06:54):
buy to houses separately. I wonder if the daughter and
the grandson are getting more out of it, it'd be
I just go on the record saying be my worse fair.
I mean, I still live with my daughter, just because
she's never really one of my daughters, because she's never
(07:16):
really moved out. She did move out for a bit,
and then unfortunately I couldn't prevent her from coming back again.
I don't know how that happened. I'm still waiting for
all the reports and inquiries to come back, and then
hopefully we'll be able to come up with some kind
of action plan to make sure it doesn't happen again.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
You still see they.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Are things looking up economically or Is it just we've
got old data?
Speaker 8 (07:40):
The Devil wears Prada on Saturday night, I can tell you.
I can report was one hundred percent booked out for
all of the sessions, and they were running almost on
the hour, So that is a good thing. I've never
really rated Anne Hathaway's acting chops, but literally thousands of
middle aged women and glass of savvy b in hand
clearly did a survey. Aut today says retailers are worried
about the fuel shock, but I didn't see much reason
(08:01):
to be freaking out over the weekend. Now the bad news.
All the stuff we buy in this country comes by sea.
All the trunks, all the furniture, the non perishables come
over the ocean. Because we're an island, more than eighty
percent of our trade is done on a ship by
value and weight. Half of that trade imports and exports,
almost half done by the shipping giant MRSK, And a
(08:25):
little reported note to customers Friday, MRSK is slapping an
almost thirty percent fuel surcharge onto inland transport. The fuel
bill for imports is increasing twenty seven percent. The Aussies
is going up eighteen percent. This cost gets added to
all the stuff that we buy, so anything in country
right now will be cheaper than anything that is about
(08:47):
to be sent here. They started this new charge rate
on Friday, which does make my weekend in busy shops
and a gaye time at the pictures on Saturday night.
Fell somewhat like to use another movie analogy, a dinner
party aboard the Titanic as it listed into the Atlantic Ocean.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Yeah, I think there is an element of that, isn't there.
I mean, clearly, this is the end times. We've seen
the evidence of that everywhere we look, everywhere we go
ever since COVID. I hate saying COVID out loud in
case it materializes in front of me again. But certainly
(09:30):
you feel like a lot of people going, oh, well,
it's all going to hell in a handcart. Let's just
go out in a yeah, and a burning, fiery explosion
rather than a whimper. I don't know which part of that.
I don't know, are you exploding or whimpering? If you
go and see The Devil Wears Proud of Too news
(09:53):
talk has it been okay? So here it is now?
The reason I thought this was going to be a
podcast Roulette is because the file that was sent to
me is Marcus crumper Psychopath and tro loll and I
had no idea what a crumpet psychopath was. But then
(10:15):
I realized it was just a spelling mistake. And they
were talking about crumpets, which I think can make anybody
go about psycho, can't they crumpets? Mike.
Speaker 9 (10:23):
I haven't got much to say about crumpets, but I
like the concept. They look like they're great fun twice
a year and that's about it, and they are. They
always are. It's one of the few products that just
appears jet but like girl Guide biscuits and bluffoys to
oh what a bit of that. As soon as you
see them and think, gee, that's a good idea, I'm
going to buy a peck of those for me. What
(10:46):
I had to do with crumpets. I like to cook
them and the toaster, but it doesn't cook each side evenly,
and I like the top side. What do you call
the top side of a crumpet? Now, I don't know
the answer to that. I would imagine it so called
the holy side. But when I cook them, what I
(11:10):
do is I put them down on the toaster and
they come out and the top side is not cooked
as much.
Speaker 7 (11:18):
And then what I do.
Speaker 9 (11:21):
Is I put the toaster down, Yeah, and then I
put the side with the holes on. I put the
holy side hole down over the top grooves of the
toaster and spin that round. Yeah. There is a bit
(11:48):
of controversy about which side you should butt them on.
Some people butt them on the flat side and some
people flatter the button them on the holy side. If
you butted them on the flat side, the other word
for those sorts of people would be psychopath.
Speaker 6 (12:12):
And who would do that?
Speaker 9 (12:14):
What sort of psychopath would botter the crumber on.
Speaker 8 (12:16):
The flat side?
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Flip?
Speaker 9 (12:19):
I've actually a feeded and I've just seen an article
about who would do that. So crumpet techniques, cooking, crumpet
techniques and the best combination of food I'm steering towards
because we've got a mandolin. I've bought a mandolin. I
(12:42):
don't know why I put off to I bought a
mandolin because I was doing the origine.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
I was doing.
Speaker 9 (12:46):
Authentic style onion burgers, like that guy in New York
with the mandolin. When you've got to get the Onion's
revery fine the Oklahoma burger. But I would be inclined
to do whole fijoas on the mandolin and blue cheese
or am min into something on a crumpet on the
holy side, holy blockamole, So it.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Is expected a lot to unpack there. I mean, I
agree with Marcus about the battering the flat side. How
would that even work? It doesn't. It wouldn't absorb in,
It would just slide off, especially if the crumpet's still
hot when you're trying to do that. It's just a
(13:27):
waste of butter. But also, why is he trying to
get the holy side hard? And isn't that the whole
point of a crumpet? So you've got a hard side
and a soft side. I thought that was one times
as I've head a crumpet, man, my mouth is watering
though you're just thinking about it? Was he suggesting that
you'd put blackamley on the crumpet? I don't really have
(13:50):
a problem with that. A lot of people. That's another
divisive thing though, isn't it the ego savory on it?
Can you can you go savory on a crump I
quite like a peanut butter on a crumpet. Actually, it
doesn't get much more savory than that.
Speaker 10 (14:05):
Gosh, it's been a long time since I've had one though.
H Yeah, I don't know why. Why is he trying
to get it hard on both of them? Then the
butter is going to basically slide.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Off the top side if you get that too hard.
What a thoroughly absorbing podcast has turned out to be,
especially on the Holy Side. I'll see You on the
Holy Side tomorrow used.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Talking Talkings it Bean For more from News Talk said 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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follow this and our wide range of podcasts now on iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Used Talk said Talk.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
My Beautiful Beanies, and welcome to the bean for Tuesday.
First of the Yesterday's News. I am Glenn Hart and
we were from back at Monday. Multi generational homes. Okay,
there was a reason why this came up. I can't
remember why it came up, but Andrew Dickens wanted a
word about it. Now, like extended families, all of them
(00:45):
in the same house.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
We're talking about the retail and how that's goings to
be going all right, And then I thought it might
it might have to be a podcast roulette, but I
think it just ended up being Marcus talking about the crumpets.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
So not quite so, Rueletti at the end. At the beginning,
we're going to talk about immigration and acts calls for
a bit of a reset there.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
So the first is their complaint that we have too
many unskilled fast food workers and not enough skilled biomedical
engineers coming into the country. The complaint may be fair,
but if we learned anything when just Cinder, Grant and
Chippy shut the borders during COVID, it was that this
country grinds to a halt if we don't have unskilled
workers coming in because there are jobs we found it
that we will not do as kiwis, like picking fruit,
(01:34):
and we need the foreign workers to come in and
do it. And if we don't have those foreign workers,
then the Kiwi bosses of those businesses, be they fast
food joints or orchards, will not get the work done.
Six dollars a day levey for infrastructure is also a
really weird policy from ACT. Given that they're a party
of lower taxes, Suggesting a tax that will inevitably be
passed on by the employers of those migrants to you
(01:55):
and I to pay is not a great idea. It's
also the kind of dumb political play that results in
dumb red tape that ACT then complains about years later
and campaigns on trying to get rid of.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Now.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
Having said all of that, some of the ideas in
here are half decent and worth considering when it comes
to voting in November. And I suspect that immigration actually
runs the chance of becoming one of the topics that
we do end up voting on. I know it's not
registering for most of us as something that we are
concerned about. It's not right up there and the issues
that voters are concerned about, but there are signs it
(02:26):
is more important out there to some people than many
of us realize. And you can see it and just
how much anngs The Labor Party in New Zealand first
had over the Indian fta's immigration aspect. So first immigration
policy out of the blocks for election year, not the last.
Probably I would say something somewhere between a six to
seven out of ten.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Wow, seems early to score policies, you know, before you
even know if you're going to be able to, you know,
like do anything about them. Let's never forget that parties
like ACT are minor parties. It's very easy in the environment,
(03:04):
isn't it to take everything to act? In New Zealand.
Verse says seriously, hues talk has been so I mean
here is thinking it seriously enough to give them a score.
I wonder how Kerrie Woodham scores it. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (03:18):
From the people who deal with migrants every single day,
it seems to be a whole harm from them. The
biggest criticism seemed to be, well, the work's already done
and that we're not really in a position to dictate
demands and make it difficult for migrants to come here.
There are other places they can go. We talked before
(03:41):
about the declining birth rates in the Western world. Everybody
wants skilled migrants. Everybody wants them, and we're not really
in a position to make it more difficult for migrants
to be here than it already is. I'd love to
hear from those who have applied for visas, who have
applied to move to New Zealand for a better life.
(04:03):
Is it what you thought it was? Does it need
to be made tougher? Do we need stronger English language requirements?
Doesn't make it easier to assimilate, to feel like a
Kiwi if you can speak the language.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
I think there's probably a few key phrases that you
do need to learn. I don't know if they're really
English as such, like year and no obviously nah, Yeah,
(04:40):
those two are kind of interchangeable, so that I can
see how that gets confusing, things like oh, I can't
complain when people will ask you how you are. Again,
that's a bit confusing, isn't it. There's a few things
like that, Yeah, Now that I think it's very difficult
(05:03):
to actually assimilate, isn't it. There's a bit us about
the word assimilate. Wasn't that what the Daleks wanted you
to do? Like it was? Do you talk sib No,
Matt and Tyler this week? I don't. I think they're
away for the week. So Dickens is in instead, and
(05:26):
he wanted a word about moving in with you parents
and your grandparents and your great grandparents.
Speaker 7 (05:32):
The multi generation home. Is it a dream come true?
Or is it an unachievable dream? What are the pros,
what are the cons and what are the consequences?
Speaker 2 (05:43):
I live in a multi generational situation. It's hard to say,
isn't it. I live on a property with two houses
on it, and I have a two bedroom house and
my daughter has a three bedroom house, and we just
sort of stumbled across it when we were toying with
the idea because she wanted to move to a bigger property.
Speaker 7 (06:01):
So who owns it?
Speaker 2 (06:02):
We own it and she is so she is a
divide in between us. And when Bill's men and things,
I pay my share and they pay their share, so
it's all divided up legally.
Speaker 7 (06:13):
What do you like about it?
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Oh, it's a great company. There's security and safety for me.
My four year old five year old grandson runs between
the property and keeps as entertained. We socialize together. We
sometimes have meals together, but not always, so it's just
safety and security and company.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
I suppose, Yeah, I'm related to someone who's moved in
with her daughter and her grandson. I think it was
just sort of a timing thing where people would moving
out of their houses and then it was easier for
them to buy a house together than it was to
(06:54):
buy to houses separately. I wonder if the daughter and
the grandson are getting more out of it, it'd be
I just go on the record saying be my worse fair.
I mean, I still live with my daughter, just because
she's never really one of my daughters, because she's never
(07:16):
really moved out. She did move out for a bit,
and then unfortunately I couldn't prevent her from coming back again.
I don't know how that happened. I'm still waiting for
all the reports and inquiries to come back, and then
hopefully we'll be able to come up with some kind
of action plan to make sure it doesn't happen again.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
You still see they.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Are things looking up economically or Is it just we've
got old data?
Speaker 8 (07:40):
The Devil wears Prada on Saturday night, I can tell you.
I can report was one hundred percent booked out for
all of the sessions, and they were running almost on
the hour, So that is a good thing. I've never
really rated Anne Hathaway's acting chops, but literally thousands of
middle aged women and glass of savvy b in hand
clearly did a survey. Aut today says retailers are worried
about the fuel shock, but I didn't see much reason
(08:01):
to be freaking out over the weekend. Now the bad news.
All the stuff we buy in this country comes by sea.
All the trunks, all the furniture, the non perishables come
over the ocean. Because we're an island, more than eighty
percent of our trade is done on a ship by
value and weight. Half of that trade imports and exports,
almost half done by the shipping giant MRSK, And a
(08:25):
little reported note to customers Friday, MRSK is slapping an
almost thirty percent fuel surcharge onto inland transport. The fuel
bill for imports is increasing twenty seven percent. The Aussies
is going up eighteen percent. This cost gets added to
all the stuff that we buy, so anything in country
right now will be cheaper than anything that is about
(08:47):
to be sent here. They started this new charge rate
on Friday, which does make my weekend in busy shops
and a gaye time at the pictures on Saturday night.
Fell somewhat like to use another movie analogy, a dinner
party aboard the Titanic as it listed into the Atlantic Ocean.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Yeah, I think there is an element of that, isn't there.
I mean, clearly, this is the end times. We've seen
the evidence of that everywhere we look, everywhere we go
ever since COVID. I hate saying COVID out loud in
case it materializes in front of me again. But certainly
(09:30):
you feel like a lot of people going, oh, well,
it's all going to hell in a handcart. Let's just
go out in a yeah, and a burning, fiery explosion
rather than a whimper. I don't know which part of that.
I don't know, are you exploding or whimpering? If you
go and see The Devil Wears Proud of Too news
(09:53):
talk has it been okay? So here it is now?
The reason I thought this was going to be a
podcast Roulette is because the file that was sent to
me is Marcus crumper Psychopath and tro loll and I
had no idea what a crumpet psychopath was. But then
(10:15):
I realized it was just a spelling mistake. And they
were talking about crumpets, which I think can make anybody
go about psycho, can't they crumpets? Mike.
Speaker 9 (10:23):
I haven't got much to say about crumpets, but I
like the concept. They look like they're great fun twice
a year and that's about it, and they are. They
always are. It's one of the few products that just
appears jet but like girl Guide biscuits and bluffoys to
oh what a bit of that. As soon as you
see them and think, gee, that's a good idea, I'm
going to buy a peck of those for me. What
(10:46):
I had to do with crumpets. I like to cook
them and the toaster, but it doesn't cook each side evenly,
and I like the top side. What do you call
the top side of a crumpet? Now, I don't know
the answer to that. I would imagine it so called
the holy side. But when I cook them, what I
(11:10):
do is I put them down on the toaster and
they come out and the top side is not cooked
as much.
Speaker 7 (11:18):
And then what I do.
Speaker 9 (11:21):
Is I put the toaster down, Yeah, and then I
put the side with the holes on. I put the
holy side hole down over the top grooves of the
toaster and spin that round. Yeah. There is a bit
(11:48):
of controversy about which side you should butt them on.
Some people butt them on the flat side and some
people flatter the button them on the holy side. If
you butted them on the flat side, the other word
for those sorts of people would be psychopath.
Speaker 6 (12:12):
And who would do that?
Speaker 9 (12:14):
What sort of psychopath would botter the crumber on.
Speaker 8 (12:16):
The flat side?
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Flip?
Speaker 9 (12:19):
I've actually a feeded and I've just seen an article
about who would do that. So crumpet techniques, cooking, crumpet
techniques and the best combination of food I'm steering towards
because we've got a mandolin. I've bought a mandolin. I
(12:42):
don't know why I put off to I bought a
mandolin because I was doing the origine.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
I was doing.
Speaker 9 (12:46):
Authentic style onion burgers, like that guy in New York
with the mandolin. When you've got to get the Onion's
revery fine the Oklahoma burger. But I would be inclined
to do whole fijoas on the mandolin and blue cheese
or am min into something on a crumpet on the
holy side, holy blockamole, So it.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Is expected a lot to unpack there. I mean, I
agree with Marcus about the battering the flat side. How
would that even work? It doesn't. It wouldn't absorb in,
It would just slide off, especially if the crumpet's still
hot when you're trying to do that. It's just a
(13:27):
waste of butter. But also, why is he trying to
get the holy side hard? And isn't that the whole
point of a crumpet? So you've got a hard side
and a soft side. I thought that was one times
as I've head a crumpet, man, my mouth is watering
though you're just thinking about it? Was he suggesting that
you'd put blackamley on the crumpet? I don't really have
(13:50):
a problem with that. A lot of people. That's another
divisive thing though, isn't it the ego savory on it?
Can you can you go savory on a crump I
quite like a peanut butter on a crumpet. Actually, it
doesn't get much more savory than that.
Speaker 10 (14:05):
Gosh, it's been a long time since I've had one though.
H Yeah, I don't know why. Why is he trying
to get it hard on both of them? Then the
butter is going to basically slide.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Off the top side if you get that too hard.
What a thoroughly absorbing podcast has turned out to be,
especially on the Holy Side. I'll see You on the
Holy Side tomorrow used.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Talking Talkings it Bean For more from News Talk said 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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Ding dong! Join your culture consultants, Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang, on an unforgettable journey into the beating heart of CULTURE. Alongside sizzling special guests, they GET INTO the hottest pop-culture moments of the day and the formative cultural experiences that turned them into Culturistas. Produced by the Big Money Players Network and iHeartRadio.