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My beautiful beanies, and welcome to the bean The weekend edition,
first of yesterday's news. I am being hard and we
are looking back at both Sunday and Saturday. How do
we do it? Will we do it? Like this? The
T twenty World Cup is nearly on. We haven't done
that well against India unfortunately heading into it, and as
T twenty ruining cricket generally Winter Olympics, it's also going
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to happen soon, but one of our most successful Winter
Olympians isn't going to be there. The twelve month prescription
thing is finally happening, and parenting is hard. But before
any of that, the Board of Peace, we're not having
a bar of it. That the right movie.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Any power it does have has been voluntarily ceded to
it by Nyians who can't be bother cleaning up their messes.
But the UN in itself has never had power, or
else they would have stopped any number of conflicts and
solved any number of crises. Plus the United States and
all the members of the Security Council have a veto,
so they were in charge of the thing anyway. But
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all of that has not stopped paddockmongers claiming that the
UN is coming to take away our rights over our
own country. So some say the border Piece is not
a formal replacement for the United Nations, but it sure
looks like Donald Trump's trojan horse to collapse the UN
and any influence it might have. And whether this border
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peace becomes influential or remains purely symbolic depends on how
many countries ultimately join and how it operates in practice.
So so far, thirty five countries have paid the sub
and signed up for it. New Zealand on Friday decided
not to and to keep with the UN as the
global body of peace, and they did a very care
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with no admonishment of the United States, which is a
smart thing to do, because I don't know if you've noticed,
the President of the United States is well, he likes
taking revenge, doesn't he. But this whole border piece thing,
it appears that Trump not only wants to make America
great again, but also make the world American and under
his yoke. So good luck to him on that.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
You don't hear people use the word yoke that often?
Do you not to be confused with yolk in an egg?
Did I pronounce that any differently at all? Once again,
I've been distracted by completely the wrong thing out of there,
and I can't even remember what we were talking about.
But I don't want to be thinking about Donald Trump's yoke,
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either as yoke or as yoke news talk.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Has it been?
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Right? Let's gets forty? So it finished up being four
to one India versus the Black Cats. And even when
we were involved and the just about the record number
of runs or third highest number of runs and a
T twenty match, we didn't get enough to beat them.
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So what's the point of even going to this tournament?
And what's the point of T twenty cricket at all?
Speaker 2 (03:21):
A T twenty World Cup played every two years, it's
coming up shortly. How do you assess its importance in
the cricketing landscape, to international players, to broadcast, as, to sponsors,
and to cricket fans.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
It's a difficult one. You know. I'm not I'm a
bit of a traditionalist, and I'm not a great fan
of the T twenty stuff, and I think One of
the hugest risks that cricket is facing is saturation. So
you know, the fans are constantly switching from one event
to another, players are switching from team to team. You know,
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you might have one of our best New Zealand tea
twenty players might play for say sixteams in a calendar year,
so it's a little bit difficult to get excited, I
think when that sort of stuff happening, I don't I
don't personally think that the T twenty World Cup is
as important as say, the ODIs are certainly tes snatches,
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but what I do recognize is that T twenty has
become the vehicle around the world for the growth of cricket,
that it is a format that probably is a lot
more attractive to younger people than the two other formats,
and therefore it has an important part to play. I
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think it would be great if the T twenty World
Cup could just be once every four years. And you know,
the ODI World Cup only occurs once every four years
and therefore has some degree of scarcity value, which which
is really good, but the T twenty World Cup doesn't
quite have.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
That question is can you have too much of a
good thing or too much of whatever sort of a thing.
T twenty is and I think, you know, you see
the crowds turn out for it, you see the viewership.
I don't think people can have too much of a
of a cerenly A short, shorter thing, isn't it? It's
shorter and it was a lot of runs the other day.
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I don't know. I don't know what to believe in anymore.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
Talk.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
I wonder who our next surprise Winter Olympian is going
to be. We really punch above our weight, don't we
when it comes to the Winter Olympics. I feel like
every time they have one and we go, oh wow,
we do this. We've got people who fly through the
year upside down and spinning around like Nico Porties, except
we don't have him anymore because he's not doing it anymore.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
It must be a bit of a funny time at
the moment because we're a few days out from the
start of the Winter Olympics and for the first time
in a long time, you aren't competing in them.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
How are you?
Speaker 4 (05:58):
How are you feeling going into the games?
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (06:01):
I feel I feel really good. It's really really nice.
Although yeah, I'm like, like in Larks right now is
currently where the New Zealand teams doing their peaking slash
holding camp pre Olympics, and so all of my friends
and fellow ex competitors and team athletes here right now,
and so I've been hanging out with them and actually,
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like currently Zoe and Ben Barklay are sitting in my
living room. So yeah, it's been nice. Yeah, it's been
nice to hang out with them and just like sort
of feel that we're at home and yeah, but it
feels really good, you know. It feels like again it
confirms that I made the right decision to sort of
stand back, and so yeah, it feels good.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
So just for our listeners who haven't like kind of
plotted that decision over the last year or two, so
just just just remind us what you decided, because it
sounds like, given the heights at which you need to
compete in the freestyle half fight, it sounds like a
very wise decision to me. But just remind us what
you decided.
Speaker 6 (07:06):
Yeah, So in October of twenty twenty four, I made
the decision to step back from competitive skiing, and then
went public with that decision in July of last year,
and that decision kind of just came from having been
in the high performance environment and the competitive environment since
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I was ten, and sort of, you know, having the
want to move into different areas, and we're lucky that
in our sport competitions and everything, and with the support
of sponsors, we can move into different areas such as
you know, making films and doing one off projects and
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that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
My daughter seems to have taken up snowboarding, and I
know what you're thinking. You're thinking, that's a weird thing
to say on the second of February. But we've got
a place called snow Planet just down the road from us,
and they were doing some kind of deal. So it
was very surreal experience. On Saturday, it was about twenty
six degrees out. She came back from spending several hours
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snowboarding and then put on her bikini and went out
in sunbathed straightaway. You get the Benz doing that sort
of thing. Do you get the Benz and sunburn at
the same time. I don't know. Right it seems like
it's one of these things that got a lot of
hype when it was announced, and then you started to wonder,
is it actually happening. When is it happening, Well, it's
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happening now, the twelve month prescription thing. Here's Simeon Brown,
the boss of it. So what was the priority with
this legislation?
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Was it about freeing up appointments for GPS cost saving?
Speaker 1 (08:44):
How would you describe the motivations for this bit of.
Speaker 7 (08:46):
Well, I thinks a couple of priorities behind this common
sense policy. Firstly, it's about increasing access to medicines, saving
patients money, but also freeing up access to our GPS,
which is critically important with too many in New Zealanders
waiting too long to get a GP appointment. So it's
a win win policy. And ultimately it allows New Zealanders
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to be able to get increased access to medicines as well.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
So who actually will be eligible for it?
Speaker 4 (09:14):
How is that defined?
Speaker 2 (09:15):
So people don't get their hope up about getting twelve
months of antibiotics?
Speaker 7 (09:19):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (09:19):
So yeah.
Speaker 7 (09:20):
Ultimately GPS and prescriptors will make the decision on a
case by case basis and consultation with their patients, and
ultimately it will be it'll be people with long term,
stable conditions who are most likely are going to benefit. So,
for example, someone like myself. I've got sthma. It's a
long term stable condition. In consultation with my GP, those
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will be the conversations you think about diabetes, epilepsy, other
conditions as well, where there's patients with a long term
condition at the moment they having to go back to
their GP every three months to get their prescription renewed.
Will actually under this new policy, they'll be able to
the GP will be able to give them a twelve
month prescription.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Yes, the timing of this is hasn't quite worked out
for me. Unfortunately. I am on so many different drugs.
There's so many different things, and some of those things, unfortunately,
are never going to get better, but they are treatable
or the symptoms of them are treatable in a long term,
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ongoing basis. And it certainly would be great if I
didn't have to fork out thirty bucks just to type
in a request for a repeat prescription every three months,
And if I only had to do that once every
twelve months, that'd be great. Or if I never had
to do it ever again, that'd be great. But we're
not quite there yet. But yeah, Anyway, what I was
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going to say is, so I left it till the
beginning of February to make an appointment with my doctor
to try and get all that sort of out, and
that he appears to be on leave this week, which
means that next week, when I've made the appointment on Tuesday,
that is my last pills on that day. So there's
something wrong and there's some delay. I don't know, not
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this Wednesday, but next Wednesday I might be dead.
Speaker 7 (11:09):
News talk has been.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
At least I won't have to parent anymore if that happens.
You know what I'm saying. You know what I'm saying,
that't you?
Speaker 5 (11:17):
Jack.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Look, I'm just convinced. I don't have any data on this,
but I'm convinced that school holiday programs and after school
care were not nearly as common or necessary when I
was a kid, let alone in the sixties or seventies
or eighties, Right, and then for younger children it's just
as challenging, right for kids who aren't yet at school. Sure,
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the government has increased its maternity provisions. When my mum
had us, she got nothing back in the day. But
while they provide twenty hours free childcare for children over
the age of three, maternity payments only go for the
first six months of a baby's life, even though supposedly
a child's first one thousand days are the most important,
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there's a two and a half year gap in support.
So the first six months you qualify for maternity support,
then you don't qualify for anything until your kid's three.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
So what's a.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Family to do if their grandparents aren't around or available
every day to help. If they don't have immediate support.
One parent can choose to stay home with the child,
or a parent can go back to work and effectively
redirect all of their income into childcare. Neither option is amazing.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
And look, New Zealand's.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Birth rate has massively dropped off in the last few decades,
same with our fertility rate. We don't yet face the
kind of population crisis that afflicts the likes of Italy
and South Korea. But as the eldest of four something
tells me the sale of Mitsubishi chariots has massively dropped
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off in recent years. You just don't see anywhere near
as many big families as with a norm a few
decades ago.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
And I want to be clear.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Right like, when it comes to our family, we are
very very fortunate. We are the privilege for for you. Right,
I'm lucky to be very well paid, we have support,
and yet it is still a real hustle. And I
can't help but think what for the working families who
don't have my income or support close by, or flexible
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employers or more help with childcare. For so many families,
it must be more than a juggle. It's a real struggle.
And honestly, I'm not sure that's in anyone's interest.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Which is why. And I just don't understand why this
hasn't caught on my idea, did never ever, ever, ever,
ever ever ever ever have his? Just more people need
to not be doing that. They can leave a leaf
out of Timas, which I think is advice that you
can follow in most directions than most subjects. Just do
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it like China does it most things. I mean curious
around human right, We don't want to get too bog downs.
I am great hat just as well. I'm not in
charge of anything. And I'll see you back here again.
Well I cipt this podcast. I'll see you back here
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