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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
Hello, my beautiful beanies, and welcome to the bean for Thursday.
First of yesterday's news. I am Glen Hart, and we're
looking back at Wednesday. Some confusing tourism stats. It might
be good or it might be bad. Some cone commentary,
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and it's also some commentary on what people do when
it's time to get off the plane. And Matt Heath
wants a sausage. But before any of that, two poles
with quite different results. How can that be? Is it
because there are two different audiences filling out the pole.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
It's like you're researching into an echo chambers. It's not
worth the time and the money if this is what
ARENZ is spending their money on, given that they are
funded by the taxpayer, I'd rather they spend it on
training up young reporters or allowing a veteran reporter to
(01:29):
spend some time doing some investigative journalism, rather than coming
up with a poll that supports their worldview, and which
is in direct contrast to the other taxpayer funded organization,
which is kind of paying its way at the moment,
which is one news. What is the point? How on
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earth can we take them seriously when they come up
with completely different results, and when all the data is weighed,
give an extra waiting quote, is are taken, samplings used?
It's an absolute croc. The Emperor is stark naked and
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shouldn't be taken seriously at all.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Look, I keep saying it, but I'll say it again.
Don't take any notice of this stuff. My advice about
a lot of stuff is just ignore it holes, weather forecasts,
economic forecasts, trump just just ignore it all. It eventually
will go away and won't affect you. Certainly doesn't seem
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to affect me. News talk been speaking of things that
went away. Tourists did over COVID. They have come back,
but perhaps not as much as the government's trying to
make out.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
New data which we get from the International Visitor Survey
shows a ten percent jump and spending on the previous year.
Sounds impressive, right, sounds like we're getting somewhere finally shaking
off those COVID cobwebs. But and this is where we
start to see the spe doctors earning their keep. Let's
not forget that we've been dealing with inflation outside of
the band over the past year, which means stuff costs more.
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Restaurants and hotels are included. So are we actually getting
more out of tourism than we were? And as the
jumping up and down from the minister and the government
actually justified, well, the measure of success ought to be
pre COVID. Right when everything was shut down, we battened
down the hatches and we basically kissed the world goodbye.
By that measure, spending is still only eighty six percent
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of what it was, only eighty six percent of twenty nineteen. Now,
the very same minister responsible for last night's press release
was the very same minister responsible for firing one off
on March fourth this year, celebrating a big boost in
tourism spending up to you guessed it, eighty six percent
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of pre COVID. So the longer than short of it
is nothing has changed in real terms between Marches pr
Exercise and June's. The Aussies and most of our big
competition for these international tourists reversed the trends and brought
them back. A long time ago. The number of tourists
traveling around the world recovered to pre pandemic levels last year.
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Instead of celebrating no real success month after month, we
ought to be asking ourselves why we're still such a
long way off the hip hot destination we were just
five years ago.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
This is another one of those weird things. I mean,
I know that it's quote good for the country unquote
to have lots of tourists here, but also I don't
really like them, so I don't mind if they don't come,
and you know, I'll get the place to myself. Q
talk s right, So health and safety, work place health
and safety stuff. What are they doing. They're trying to
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introduce a bit more to the common sense into it,
not make it quite so rigorous. I think that's the
gist of it. But also they want people to dobbin
road cones that shouldn't be there.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
They are worried about what work sife, work safe for
other might do if someone gets hurt on the roadside.
So what they do is that they go overboard to
show there being good boys, and then they shut down roads.
They don't have to shut down. They have way too
much traffic management that they don't need. They don't need
to staff mow traffic islands just in case they get
hurt by a passing car. And they lay thousands of
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k's of road cones for one little digger, just to
make sure that you go get the message. You got
to go around it, because what they're doing is butt covering,
and all of that costs us a huge amount of money.
Case in point, the raised pedestrian crossing that was planned
for Wayouku south of Auckland. The crossing was going to
cost sixty five thousand dollars. The traffic management was going
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to cost one hundred thousand dollars. It's estimated. I can
give you me many, many, many many more examples exactly
like that. Road cones are not a distraction. They are
the perfect example of the problem, which is obsessive health
and safety, too much money spent on it. I for one,
am very happy to see the road cones taken away.
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The whole problem scaled right back. And that are specific
to the road cones and broadly just about health and
safety in general.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Yeah, welcome to the age. You're living dangerously everyone. It's
not enough for rescuing in our lives, you know, it's
just leaving your front doors at resk isn't it. Let's
be honest. Things are about to get exciting city now.
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I'm not quite sure why Marcus was talking about getting
off the plane last night. I don't know if it
was anything to do with where is it? Is it
somewhere in Europe they're talking about finding people? Think my
po might be Germany. Finding people, the leaving their seats
before the seat outsign things, you know, when you come
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into the airport. What was happening? I s have half
heard a story like that.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
Someone wants to what's irks me night? I always think
the challenge about things that irk you is fine, a
reason not to get irked when I've spent a day
on planes today. And I'll tell you what. And this
sounds like bad stand up comedy material. And they always
come up with that when they're on planes.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
But geez, some.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
People are slow getting their bags out of the overhead locker.
A man, they wait for everyone to get off in
front of the thing. Oh, I might slowly put my
jacket on now, honestly, And we couldn't get off the
back because it was too it was torrential, but cheapest
creepers during a flight of like to go around so
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let's if we can sid a record to get off
this plane, and let's say if we can do it
quite quickly.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Oh, I didn't see him taking that point of view.
I thought he was going to complain about the people
who stand up and just stand around waiting for ages.
What's the point of that. I've never understood that just
wait some of the people who que to get on
the plane. It's like, just.
Speaker 7 (08:22):
What's the rush. Everybody will get there eventually, and you
won't guess what, You won't get any quicker by standing up,
hunched over, trying to hold your bag, bomking it on
people who are still sitting in their seats.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
That you can only go out as fast as you
can go out. People are so crazy, it's so.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Weird news talk has it been.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
I'm probably the weirdest host on newsborks you'd be at
the moment? Is Matt Heath. I mean, I've expressed my
reservations about hiring him as an afternoon host many times before,
and now all he wants is a sausage from the
sausage sizzle that they were having. They were launching some
podcast about sex or something, or relaunching it here in
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the building. Yesterday. And the outshot of all this is
that obviously the people who are on the radio doing
actual radio shows, like Matt Heath, they couldn't be down
there to get a sausage. Everyone, What do you love?
I love a sausages?
Speaker 8 (09:27):
Oh, I absolutely love a sausage.
Speaker 9 (09:29):
Who doesn't?
Speaker 2 (09:30):
So I am currently.
Speaker 8 (09:31):
Furious because this message just comes through into the work perks,
which is the thing we have here at this company,
saying to celebrate the launch of six six Life Season three,
our iHeartRadio podcast, we're putting up a free sausages. Were
downstairs right in the middle of our show.
Speaker 9 (09:48):
At two past twelve. They sent that email. I think
they did that on purpose. They knew we were about to
go to air, particularly you, because you the last time
we had a sausages. I've heard stories, Matt eth you
you took advantage.
Speaker 8 (09:59):
I went to the front, and then I went back
to the back of the queue and went to the front,
got another sausage, went to the back until us to
see that behavior.
Speaker 9 (10:06):
I'm impacted by it as well, which really upseting. I
did see Ethan Sells who he's going to come in
for entertainment. He was carrying two sausages up the stairs
when I was carrying out our coffees, and I said,
surely that's for us, Ethan, He said, no, you go
get your own.
Speaker 8 (10:19):
Would it kills someone? Look, I've already look, I've frieded
their product for them. Six Dot Life on iHeartRadio. It's
a sixy podcast with Morgan pen and Hadley Sprowl.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Yep.
Speaker 8 (10:30):
So I've promated it somebody to kill you to bring
us up two bloody sausages each with onions. Yeah, I
want buttered bread. It has to be white bread, buttered sausages, onions.
Sauce waddies, yep. I don't want any of those weird
you know, watered down sauce that you's.
Speaker 9 (10:46):
Going to take it. This was a lot of demands.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
No mustard, no mustard, all right.
Speaker 9 (10:51):
So either Haley or Morgan will be waiting for you
up here. We just we just want a couple of sausage,
that's all.
Speaker 8 (10:55):
I don't care who brings it up. Two for me
and one for Tylers. That's too much to ask.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
So of course he got his sausage to me. Somebody
went and got and one. But the most of the
stuff that happens in this building happens after I go home.
Most of the breakfast people, we don't get anything. There's
a lot of stuff that happens around lunchtime in this building.
Free stuff gets handed out. There's lunches, there's sausage, sizzles,
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there's drinks. In the afternoon. We're all at home. But
the breakfast people, like nouns we are going to bed early,
don't get any of that stuff. So I don't know
what man he says blaming about he got his sulted
in the end, and I am. I'm trying to start
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some beef, some beef sausage, perhaps with the heat. I
don't think he's paying any attention. It's almost like he's
not even listened to his podcast, if I had to believe.
Thank you for listening to it, and I hope you
do again tomorrow.
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