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FIRST WITH YESTERDAY'S NEWS (highlights from Wednesday on Newstalk ZB)Scaling Back Retirement Aspirations/Drill! Drill! Drill!/Didn't We All Agree Fireworks Are Stupid?/So, About These Games.../Podcast Roulette

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
Hello, my beautiful beans, and welcome to the Being for Thursday.
First with yesterday's news. I am Glen Hart, and we're
looking back at Wednesday. I was gonna say, we're gonna
looking back at Friday. How could we do that without
ending time and space? Well, I mean it wouldn't be
the first time done that on this podcast, but you know,
it's Thursday. We're looking back at Wednesday and today. That

(00:44):
means we're going to talk oil and fireworks, careful not
to combine to both of those that will cause issues.
The Commonwealth games are happening apparently, and we're going to
do some podcasts. Really good to see a Matton Tyler.
Can't wait for that. Before any of that, listen at
the cost of Living, it's up about what people expected,

(01:07):
but apparently this might be heading the oldies the hardest.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
People tend to think of boomers as living the life.
They sell the business, they sell the farm, they retire
from their high paying CEO jobs. They've got the house,
the batch, the investment properties, the trips overseas. And for
some that is true, that is their retirement, and they've

(01:32):
worked hard and they look forward to it, and they
are they're living the life of Riley. But that is
not the reality for many of our older kiwis. The
vast majority are living on just the super and they're
crawling their way from payment to payment. The renters who

(01:53):
are doing it tough. Eighty percent of renters aged sixty
five and over are financially uncomfortable. They're worried. But even
if you own your own home, as I say, that
is no guarantee. You're worried about the roof that needs repairing.

Speaker 4 (02:11):
Or.

Speaker 3 (02:13):
Blocking off rooms so that you're basically living in one
room to try and save on the heating costs. What
are your options if you are owning your own home,
if you're renting, what are the options other than relying

(02:33):
on the government to top up your payments. Is this
how you imagined your retirement would be.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
I've got low expectations. I just want to sit there
and do nothing. Is that too much to ask? I
don't think that's very expensive. Is it maybe be able
to afford a couple of streaming services? That's not too
much to ask, is it news talk z bean right boil,

(03:08):
Let's talk oil. What's Ryan Bred You've got to say
about oil? I'm predicting he's going to say, Joe Jo
jog Joe Jill, Joe job. Let's get some That's what
I reckon He's going to say, let's find out. There
are two ways you can look at today's announcement. I reckon.

Speaker 5 (03:25):
This is the Aussie outfit en Z. They're called Zed Energy.
They've been given the nod to go have it a
look see off the coast of Tartanaki. It's important because
well they're the first company to be given this right
since the Adourned band. But there's already talk online about
the fact that this was the only application for this
particular permit. There was nobody else applying for this permit

(03:47):
one and it's a startup out of Australia. Now, you
could say, and some are saying, this proves the point
that there's not much interest in therefore, why bother anybody anyway?
What I actually think it tells you is that people
are bloody scared of the band coming back, and with
good reason. Labor in the Green say that they will
bring it back. I asked someone in sector about this

(04:09):
and they said, when that bullshit goes quote, when that
bullshit goes away, will get more interest. There's apparently another
handful of permits that have been applied for they are
not granted yet, but this Aussie startup is the first
and they're basically the guinea pig. They are the test run.
It's a small step on what will be a very

(04:29):
long road to rebuilding an industry that's basically in pieces
on the chopping room floor. The fact is labour doesn't
need to be sitting on the treasury benches to have
power over industry. They have it now though what corporates
call a regulatory risk, and they don't like those very much.
My question to Hipkins and Co. Is pretty simple. This afternoon,

(04:52):
New South Wales has just gone to market on two
tenders for offshore gas exploration. Why should they get the
jobs and not us? Why should they get the royalties
and not us? Why should they get the company tax
and not What is the point in being cool on
the climate when even our next door neighbors are doing

(05:14):
the exact opposite.

Speaker 2 (05:15):
Yeah, that argument doesn't really work for me personally, just
because some countries don't take climate change and their responsibility
towards it seriously. It's not a reason for us to
not do it. I really don't think that. And saying that,

(05:39):
you know, filled up my car with ninety five yesterday
again good Noah, noticing that ever widening gap between ninety
five and ninety one. I'm not quite sure. So I
bought a hybrid, which is good. That saves me money
because it's very economical, except I can only put ninety

(06:00):
five in it. I can't put ninety one in It.
Tricked me with that one. You talk so firewood, why
are we talking about fireworks at this time of the year.
He'll be a reason and Marcus will have it.

Speaker 4 (06:14):
Marcus, what the hell is National up to? Cross party
support to ban public private fireworks at long ast? Nationally
have said today that fireworks will not be banned. Act
once again getting what they want for me. It's not
that I know that there is a huge outswell of
people opposed to fireworks. The petitions was there were three petitions.

(06:35):
I think they were signed by one hundred thousand people.
But what I've always said, I've always said that no
government will ban them because the last thing a government
wants to be seen to do is interfering with people's
private rights to do what they want. I mean the

(06:55):
times that political parties or governments have gotten troubles when
they've tried to actually get out of their lane. I
think there was a situation where they've tried to ban
cats from dairies. There was a situation with the pressure
of shower roses and your pressure and showers. There was
something to do with light bulbs as well, when they

(07:15):
tried to ban sorts of light bulbs, and it never
goes well. And I think National is smart enough to
realize there is no votes in banning fireworks because people
don't vote. Yeah, it's not going to you'd lose votes,
but you don't win any So I'm not surprised. And
it seems to me that now this has happened, that

(07:39):
the whole fireworks discussion is off the back burner for
a long while. The other thing I thought was funny
about the fireworks petition, and I followed this quite closely
because I'm actually I'm into fireworks, but I'll followed this
to back quite quickly. And I think one of the
missteps they made, and I respect the woman from the
SPCA two, Doctor Dale. But I think one of the

(08:05):
mistakes that the fireworks petition people made is that Animates
drove a lot of it, and Animates are an Australian company,
and it seemed to me they were driving the petition
to try and carry brand recognition. It seemed to me
to be a bit cynical. So anyway, that's fireworks for you.

Speaker 2 (08:28):
Disappointed, disappointed at all of that, Yeah, I would love fireworks.
That's just one of those things that are pointless and
I can't why, Like all the reasons that we have
them are just stupid reasons, and there's a lot of
really good reasons to not have them. I didn't actually

(08:52):
know about the Animates thing, so I don't care about that,
but I kind of see what Marcus is saying. It's
got a bit of the flag debate I feel about it.
Isn't it that we've tried to change it, it hasn't worked.
It'll be generation before we get the chance again. Unfortunately,

(09:13):
did they have fireworks at the Commonwealth Games opening ceremony?
I assume there was an opening ceremony, even when Zoey Hobbes,
you know, made history yesterday winning a gold medal at sprinting,
which I don't think we've ever done before, and an anything,

(09:35):
we've never really been sprinters have two years. Apparently I
listed a word Bob. I don't. I can't quite explain
why I am the least enthusiastic about this Commonwealth Games
than any in history, other than what I keep coming

(09:57):
back to that nobody actually wanted to have it in
the first place in terms of hosting it, and honestly,
at that point he just go, why are we forcing this?

Speaker 6 (10:07):
Took a while for the Commonwealth Game get going, but
yesterday they finally did. Lewis Claibert took gold in the
two hundred meters butterfly in an insane burst over the
last fifty meters.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
You got to watch it.

Speaker 6 (10:17):
He's incredible. A race he even he called stupid.

Speaker 2 (10:20):
There we go, but he won.

Speaker 6 (10:21):
And that's a great feeling for the nation because no
disrespect to the earlier medalists, it's gold that gets us going.
And it's been a funny Old Con Games thus far
because no gold, but also it's a scaled down replacement event.
After Victoria lost their bottle and canceled their games and
Glasgow said, okay, we'll have a crack and it's been
plagued by no shows from high performance athletes who thought

(10:44):
it beneath their participation. But I've always liked the Commonwealth Games.
It's a good meet. To win at the Commonwealth Games
still supersedes any win in a national competition. To be
the best swimmer from amongst nations like Australia or England
or any of the other seventy four nations present is
a big thing. By the way, this is a record
attendance of countries now. When christ Church hosted back in

(11:05):
nineteen seventy four, they were called the Friendly Games. And
I've been watching these games on TV three and also
on Sky with the crowd goes wild team right, and
they've got that vibe of the Friendly Games. They celebrate
the great they celebrate the sport, but also the wacky,
the loose and the fun aspects of the games. Their
tongues are firmly in their cheeks. It's a good watch.
And the reason it's a good watch at seven o'clock

(11:26):
at night, it's a healthy antidote to their cynical and
world weary news. We get day in and day out
from a globe mired.

Speaker 2 (11:35):
And difficulty yeah. I mean that's a good point. Why
would you watch that? Guys, don't watch that. There's so
much good stuff to watch, and it doesn't have to
be the Commonwealth Games. I just rewatched all four John
Whick movies this week, back to back. I mean that

(11:55):
was sublime that experience. Yeah, so don't watch the other
stuff news talk.

Speaker 7 (12:04):
Has it been?

Speaker 2 (12:05):
Okay? Ah? You can always play for the part cars
really like to do on this podcast from times. At times,
I'm relying on Matt and Tyler. This time, the cat
Bear producer has sent me is called Frosty Sparpol. I've
got a few inklings about what this could be about,

(12:26):
but I'm probably wrong.

Speaker 8 (12:28):
There was frost on our sparple cover in the backyard.
It's not something you see a lot in Auckland. In fact,
there was a headline in the Herald saying sub zero
temperatures in Auckland caused frosts? Is that what the headline said?
Has you got it there?

Speaker 7 (12:43):
I'm just actually looking because you reminded me you sent
through that beautiful medical looking photo of all the frost.
I mean, it looked like a winter wonderland in your backyard.
But I did ask you you know, did that put
you off? Because I know you had this big thing,
this big dream of what are they pea shrubs that
you're trying to grow for a bit of privacy in
the backyard, Star Jasmine, Star Jasmine, you had this big

(13:04):
dream of the old natural situation in the in the
hot time. Did that put you off?

Speaker 2 (13:08):
This morning?

Speaker 7 (13:09):
Mate? We've seen the amount of frost you had on
top of this parple.

Speaker 8 (13:12):
Well, no, I didn't get up first thing in the
morning and do any o natural bathing. But last night
I did. Last night, I walked across the deck, you
defected from a modesty screen of Star jairsman from the neighbors,
and jumped into the spar in the nude. But yeah,
I didn't do it this morning. But I sent this

(13:33):
thing to my dad because you know he lives in
the South Island. I'm from the South Island.

Speaker 2 (13:36):
I sent this headline from the here Herald.

Speaker 8 (13:38):
Auckland is wake to freezing temperatures as as several West
South suburbs record negative one.

Speaker 2 (13:49):
Yeah, it's a slippery slope, isn't it. Even In our
news bulletins yesterday there was one where I'm not making
this up. Our lovely news reader neither read. I mean,
I'm not even going to call it a story. She
said that the current temperature in Auckland is three but

(14:09):
it feels like too that that she said that in
the news, Like how is it? And also where does
that leave you? Like if that happens again today is
today's story? Just like yesterday? It's cold again this morning.
You know the trend is cold. I mean the trend

(14:31):
is winter, right, I mean, why is this happening? Weather
isn't news? It just isn't. I mean, obviously some weather
is like it's when it gets hot that your whole
country burns down, like is happening in France, that's news.
But having a bit of frost on your spa pall cover,
you shouldn't be running the spa because it's time in

(14:53):
ye that's very expensive. I think it might be paying
that heat too much money you can afford to be
doing that. I'll see you back here again tomorrow, as
long as it's not too cold.

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