Friday has come once more which means it’s time for Kate Hawkesby and Tim Wilson to Wrap the Week that was.
They discussed the state of the conflict in the Middle East and the ceasefire negotiations, the follow up to the ‘Jury Duty’ TV show, and the upcoming return of the Artemis II.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Tim Wilson's with us morning mate, Good morning from Nelson.
Good aren't you're enjoying your school holidays?
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Ah, loving it, loving it.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
We're down here for Nanny's seventieth birthday party. So twenty
one grandkids she's got, so's it's full on, it's lovely.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Twenty one at seventy. Someone's starting young.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Started young and kept going. Actually, her first name's Paula.
And one of your sons married a another woman called Paula.
And so when Paula, Paula number two was in the
hospital having a baby, the nurses came running in. They're like, Paula,
shrivers are still at it, Come in, come in, have
a lot.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
And it was the other Paula seventy.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
So we'sh youre a happy seventieth for us, Katie. How
are you well do I'm excellent.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
I just want to congratulate you on being the sole
remaining optimist in the world. US cracking up this week.
The whole world imploding. We've got hysteria and skin mongering
over cyclones. We've got wars, we've got ceasefires going tits up,
we've got all the and you and the economy tanking
and you remain the only voice left in the media
going everything's cool, everything just trying.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
It was it was probably it's all six seven. It
was probably a little more nuanced than that. But I
appreciate the I do appreciate the sentiment do you do kdie?
Do you know the Hayden Jones?
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Not personally?
Speaker 2 (01:24):
What about you?
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Tim?
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Do you know?
Speaker 3 (01:27):
I could we're warm acquaintances. I think I heard what
you're saying at the.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
How distant was that? Where warm acquaintances are you? What
do you do to you?
Speaker 2 (01:40):
There's a story? Is there? No, there's not a story.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
He's he's actually he's a really lovely guy, and I
love what you know what he said about it's it's
a business decision. This is not the end of the democracy.
This is not the end of of of the world.
It's the end of a place. It's the shelf life
of a platform is over.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Exactly because I got a textize privilege to be a
good sort, I can confirm that Hayden Jones is an
amazing guy, so very humble, hard working and empathetic. He
does all the work himself, filming, interviewing and voiceover.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
So that was Paul so.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
It's very true. It just was a contrast into all
the bitching and nashing and self importance that goes on
among the media of people who think their programs and
their things are so grippingly you know that it will
last Trava.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
And they're not.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
But here's my point, Katie, about the positivity. Some of
my positivity is based on fact I called this water
end in sixty weeks it happened. The peace talks will
be fine, that will come to pass as well. We
got our petrol broadly sorted out. Not that people thought
about that because we got completely waylaid once we got
to the ceasefire. But if you think we got the
(02:43):
petrol sorted out, so we were running out of petrol
until we didn't. So there's this alarmist thing going on
in this country and I can't figure out why.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Could be COVID.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
There's an alarmist thing going on in this country where
everybody goes zero to one hundred into instant panic mode
and the default position now is misery and woe and
I'm having none of it.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
I think we've become addicted to it post COVID. I
think we've become addicted as a country, and it's made
because we're small and my oppic at the bottom of
the world. We've become addicted to kind of fear that
this cyclone hysteria is exactly the same thing. I think
we enjoy it. We enjoy working from home, shutting the bridge,
canceling plans, hunkering down. We love this kind of collective
(03:24):
Oh gosh, the world's imploding. We better all just do nothing.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
I think we've become addicted to it. Also also bad
news cells. Oh I guess what, everything's fine? Oh? Not
interested in that. Oh my goodness, the world's ending. Oh well,
tell me more, tell me more. This is just yeah,
there's in some sense the way we're wired.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
There's a person in the Herald this morning from the
met Service weather off as knew, was somewhere like that.
Who goes people? And yet this applies to you, Tim,
because you're clearly on holiday. You should adjust your travel,
think about adjusting your travel as a result of this
weekend's weather.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Are you?
Speaker 1 (03:56):
And more importantly, the follow up question is at what
point did she get the social license to start telling
you what to do?
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Yeah, I'll make my own decisions, and you know what
I think Nelson. Nelson might get a bit wet over
the weekend, but I think will be.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Okay, and yeah, I looked it up. I think we'll
be fine.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
But very good news for you on KFC. By the way,
in a couple of moments, and I need to no,
it's you. You won't believe now you've got my idea exactly.
You won't believe how good the KFC news is.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Right.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
This is the BYD. Now you know what that is? Yep, okay,
this is the BYD.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
There's that the electric car company.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Correct, this is the fang Chingbao Ti seven, So the
BYD fang Chingbao t I seven. They've announced overnight a
co lab with KFC, so it'll be spread to other byds.
But within the Fang Cha Boo t I seven is
the KFC button built into the infrastructure of the car.
(05:00):
You push. You push the KFC button to place your order.
You then drive to the local KFC in China and
then you plug in because there's a plug in point
at the KFC in China and recharge your car for
twenty minutes while you eat your pre ordered KFC.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Amazing company that wants to save the planet. At the
same time, want to wreck your body?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Don't ask me?
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Well, not doing it, not doing it, not having caves? Oh?
Actually wait, how often do cars need to reach out?
Speaker 1 (05:32):
It's a very good point. Yeah, once every two months,
You're okay. But if it's more than that, there are
thirteen thousand KFCs in China. That was the other stat
that I found somewhat interesting. Wow, anyway, Artemis, Katie, out
of ten, how much of ten? Like you've been gripped
and I barely seen you all week? For the fascination one?
(05:52):
You couldn't give the monkeys?
Speaker 2 (05:54):
What where?
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Where does Artemis its photos? It's re entry and the
various live crosses to NASA.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Where's it sit with you?
Speaker 4 (06:02):
For four or five? I mean interesting? But I have
we not sort of seen those.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Photos before, some of them.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Really the Earth looks the same from space, the Moon.
I don't know, I'm four or five. I mean it
was a nice story, you know, the guy who named
it after us?
Speaker 1 (06:23):
They did sound like a four amazing four or five? Yeah, yeah,
to be fair, what was your number ten?
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Look, in terms of effect on my life this week,
I'd say a zero, But but I did, I did
sort of. I love the comment by one of the astronauts,
that was Christina Cock, who was saying, when you look
back at Earth amongst the blackness, you know there's just
planet Earth sitting there.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
You realize what it is.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
That that whole You know that that we are actually
have something shared. We're just we're so unique and we're
so beautiful, and I think we forget that when we're
worried about the weather, you know, so worried about the
straight worried about what's happening.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Well, two things about that. I tend to favor the
unique thing. We're not unique if you believe in the
whole universe is full of other stuff. So that's open
to interpretation, of course. But the other important thing is
Katie's point about the photos. What I don't I get
the other side of the moon. We've not been there,
never been that far out fantastic, get that bit. But
when they say look at those photos, those photos have
been around for fifty years. There's thousands of those photos. Yes,
(07:25):
and they not only that. The most famous photo, and
this is the thing I'd forgotten about, the most famous
photo of all is the photo where in the bottom
left hand corners there's a little bit of the surface
of the Moon, and then the rest of the frame
is made up of the Earth, so you've got the
Moon in the front and the Earth in the background.
That photo was taken in sixty nine by a Kodak,
and they were saying how difficult it would be to
(07:46):
replicate it fifty years later, which only indicated to me
that in fifty years we've done next to nothing. If
it's still a problem, I mean, we should be going
back and forward to the Moon on a weekly basis.
It should be no big deal. And the fact that
we can only do something just that we did fifty
years ago speaks to our lack of progress. So I
would have thought.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
There were some feel good moments out of it. Can
I just say, though, if you want some feel good
viewing while you're when you're finished tying up your trampoline
and you're hunkering down over the weekend, if you've got
some Prime which people should have because Clarkson's Farmers on it,
what else is on it? There's some good stuff on it?
But anyway, Jury Duty Presents Company Retreat, Yes, what a
feel good piece of television. If you want to watch
(08:28):
that good family viewing wholesome.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Good plenty. How do you remember do you remember March Out?
Speaker 2 (08:34):
March out of ten k compared to the Artemis two hundred.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Well, I watched the two hundred and I cried, so
yeah too is great.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
What does Mike cry when he watches it?
Speaker 1 (08:47):
I wasn't moving, No, it wasn't.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
It was folding washing. Let's just feel good television.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Just to explain it more. People may remember Jury Duty,
which was the big prank program of several years ago
where the person was the only person the person being
pranked was the only person who knew didn't know they
were being pranked. Everything else around Dury Duty was actors
and they went through a whole trial. This is the
follow up several years later about a company retreat Rock
(09:16):
and Grandma's Hot Source Company and this guy who they
selected who didn't know anything that was going on during
the camp retreat, and they put that these actors are
brilliant the way the actors do it because they've got
to hold it together. They know this is a stitch up.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
It's all improv.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
It's all improv, and they seem set it. They go,
here's what should happen, but it's improv and The reveal
at the end is just the guy is a hero,
the guy who sort of just applied to be a
temp at rock and Grandma's hot source company and who's
got no idea. Well, no, he's a hero. I mean,
that's not giving it away. I mean, the war's over.
(09:54):
He's a hero. And the world's not going to end
this weekend with the weather, so I.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Mean, and it's all improv and that reminds me of
something we've just done.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Precisely you You nobody cried. No, I don't think anybody cried,
or maybe the boss I.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Tried on the inside when you're doing the artemis for.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
A few Kates, nice to see you have a good weekend.
Tim Wilson, Kate hawks Meg.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
For more from The Mike Asking Breakfast, listen live to
news talks. It'd be from six am weekdays, or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio.
Tim Wilson's with us morning mate, Good morning from Nelson.
Good aren't you're enjoying your school holidays?
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Ah, loving it, loving it.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
We're down here for Nanny's seventieth birthday party. So twenty
one grandkids she's got, so's it's full on, it's lovely.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Twenty one at seventy. Someone's starting young.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Started young and kept going. Actually, her first name's Paula.
And one of your sons married a another woman called Paula.
And so when Paula, Paula number two was in the
hospital having a baby, the nurses came running in. They're like, Paula,
shrivers are still at it, Come in, come in, have
a lot.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
And it was the other Paula seventy.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
So we'sh youre a happy seventieth for us, Katie. How
are you well do I'm excellent.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
I just want to congratulate you on being the sole
remaining optimist in the world. US cracking up this week.
The whole world imploding. We've got hysteria and skin mongering
over cyclones. We've got wars, we've got ceasefires going tits up,
we've got all the and you and the economy tanking
and you remain the only voice left in the media
going everything's cool, everything just trying.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
It was it was probably it's all six seven. It
was probably a little more nuanced than that. But I
appreciate the I do appreciate the sentiment do you do kdie?
Do you know the Hayden Jones?
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Not personally?
Speaker 2 (01:24):
What about you?
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Tim?
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Do you know?
Speaker 3 (01:27):
I could we're warm acquaintances. I think I heard what
you're saying at the.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
How distant was that? Where warm acquaintances are you? What
do you do to you?
Speaker 2 (01:40):
There's a story? Is there? No, there's not a story.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
He's he's actually he's a really lovely guy, and I
love what you know what he said about it's it's
a business decision. This is not the end of the democracy.
This is not the end of of of the world.
It's the end of a place. It's the shelf life
of a platform is over.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Exactly because I got a textize privilege to be a
good sort, I can confirm that Hayden Jones is an
amazing guy, so very humble, hard working and empathetic. He
does all the work himself, filming, interviewing and voiceover.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
So that was Paul so.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
It's very true. It just was a contrast into all
the bitching and nashing and self importance that goes on
among the media of people who think their programs and
their things are so grippingly you know that it will
last Trava.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
And they're not.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
But here's my point, Katie, about the positivity. Some of
my positivity is based on fact I called this water
end in sixty weeks it happened. The peace talks will
be fine, that will come to pass as well. We
got our petrol broadly sorted out. Not that people thought
about that because we got completely waylaid once we got
to the ceasefire. But if you think we got the
(02:43):
petrol sorted out, so we were running out of petrol
until we didn't. So there's this alarmist thing going on
in this country and I can't figure out why.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Could be COVID.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
There's an alarmist thing going on in this country where
everybody goes zero to one hundred into instant panic mode
and the default position now is misery and woe and
I'm having none of it.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
I think we've become addicted to it post COVID. I
think we've become addicted as a country, and it's made
because we're small and my oppic at the bottom of
the world. We've become addicted to kind of fear that
this cyclone hysteria is exactly the same thing. I think
we enjoy it. We enjoy working from home, shutting the bridge,
canceling plans, hunkering down. We love this kind of collective
(03:24):
Oh gosh, the world's imploding. We better all just do nothing.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
I think we've become addicted to it. Also also bad
news cells. Oh I guess what, everything's fine? Oh? Not
interested in that. Oh my goodness, the world's ending. Oh well,
tell me more, tell me more. This is just yeah,
there's in some sense the way we're wired.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
There's a person in the Herald this morning from the
met Service weather off as knew, was somewhere like that.
Who goes people? And yet this applies to you, Tim,
because you're clearly on holiday. You should adjust your travel,
think about adjusting your travel as a result of this
weekend's weather.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Are you?
Speaker 1 (03:56):
And more importantly, the follow up question is at what
point did she get the social license to start telling
you what to do?
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Yeah, I'll make my own decisions, and you know what
I think Nelson. Nelson might get a bit wet over
the weekend, but I think will be.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Okay, and yeah, I looked it up. I think we'll
be fine.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
But very good news for you on KFC. By the way,
in a couple of moments, and I need to no,
it's you. You won't believe now you've got my idea exactly.
You won't believe how good the KFC news is.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Right.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
This is the BYD. Now you know what that is? Yep, okay,
this is the BYD.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
There's that the electric car company.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Correct, this is the fang Chingbao Ti seven, So the
BYD fang Chingbao t I seven. They've announced overnight a
co lab with KFC, so it'll be spread to other byds.
But within the Fang Cha Boo t I seven is
the KFC button built into the infrastructure of the car.
(05:00):
You push. You push the KFC button to place your order.
You then drive to the local KFC in China and
then you plug in because there's a plug in point
at the KFC in China and recharge your car for
twenty minutes while you eat your pre ordered KFC.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Amazing company that wants to save the planet. At the
same time, want to wreck your body?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Don't ask me?
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Well, not doing it, not doing it, not having caves? Oh?
Actually wait, how often do cars need to reach out?
Speaker 1 (05:32):
It's a very good point. Yeah, once every two months,
You're okay. But if it's more than that, there are
thirteen thousand KFCs in China. That was the other stat
that I found somewhat interesting. Wow, anyway, Artemis, Katie, out
of ten, how much of ten? Like you've been gripped
and I barely seen you all week? For the fascination one?
(05:52):
You couldn't give the monkeys?
Speaker 2 (05:54):
What where?
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Where does Artemis its photos? It's re entry and the
various live crosses to NASA.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Where's it sit with you?
Speaker 4 (06:02):
For four or five? I mean interesting? But I have
we not sort of seen those.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Photos before, some of them.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Really the Earth looks the same from space, the Moon.
I don't know, I'm four or five. I mean it
was a nice story, you know, the guy who named
it after us?
Speaker 1 (06:23):
They did sound like a four amazing four or five? Yeah, yeah,
to be fair, what was your number ten?
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Look, in terms of effect on my life this week,
I'd say a zero, But but I did, I did
sort of. I love the comment by one of the astronauts,
that was Christina Cock, who was saying, when you look
back at Earth amongst the blackness, you know there's just
planet Earth sitting there.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
You realize what it is.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
That that whole You know that that we are actually
have something shared. We're just we're so unique and we're
so beautiful, and I think we forget that when we're
worried about the weather, you know, so worried about the
straight worried about what's happening.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Well, two things about that. I tend to favor the
unique thing. We're not unique if you believe in the
whole universe is full of other stuff. So that's open
to interpretation, of course. But the other important thing is
Katie's point about the photos. What I don't I get
the other side of the moon. We've not been there,
never been that far out fantastic, get that bit. But
when they say look at those photos, those photos have
been around for fifty years. There's thousands of those photos. Yes,
(07:25):
and they not only that. The most famous photo, and
this is the thing I'd forgotten about, the most famous
photo of all is the photo where in the bottom
left hand corners there's a little bit of the surface
of the Moon, and then the rest of the frame
is made up of the Earth, so you've got the
Moon in the front and the Earth in the background.
That photo was taken in sixty nine by a Kodak,
and they were saying how difficult it would be to
(07:46):
replicate it fifty years later, which only indicated to me
that in fifty years we've done next to nothing. If
it's still a problem, I mean, we should be going
back and forward to the Moon on a weekly basis.
It should be no big deal. And the fact that
we can only do something just that we did fifty
years ago speaks to our lack of progress. So I
would have thought.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
There were some feel good moments out of it. Can
I just say, though, if you want some feel good
viewing while you're when you're finished tying up your trampoline
and you're hunkering down over the weekend, if you've got
some Prime which people should have because Clarkson's Farmers on it,
what else is on it? There's some good stuff on it?
But anyway, Jury Duty Presents Company Retreat, Yes, what a
feel good piece of television. If you want to watch
(08:28):
that good family viewing wholesome.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Good plenty. How do you remember do you remember March Out?
Speaker 2 (08:34):
March out of ten k compared to the Artemis two hundred.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Well, I watched the two hundred and I cried, so
yeah too is great.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
What does Mike cry when he watches it?
Speaker 1 (08:47):
I wasn't moving, No, it wasn't.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
It was folding washing. Let's just feel good television.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Just to explain it more. People may remember Jury Duty,
which was the big prank program of several years ago
where the person was the only person the person being
pranked was the only person who knew didn't know they
were being pranked. Everything else around Dury Duty was actors
and they went through a whole trial. This is the
follow up several years later about a company retreat Rock
(09:16):
and Grandma's Hot Source Company and this guy who they
selected who didn't know anything that was going on during
the camp retreat, and they put that these actors are
brilliant the way the actors do it because they've got
to hold it together. They know this is a stitch up.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
It's all improv.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
It's all improv, and they seem set it. They go,
here's what should happen, but it's improv and The reveal
at the end is just the guy is a hero,
the guy who sort of just applied to be a
temp at rock and Grandma's hot source company and who's
got no idea. Well, no, he's a hero. I mean,
that's not giving it away. I mean, the war's over.
(09:54):
He's a hero. And the world's not going to end
this weekend with the weather, so I.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Mean, and it's all improv and that reminds me of
something we've just done.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Precisely you You nobody cried. No, I don't think anybody cried,
or maybe the boss I.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Tried on the inside when you're doing the artemis for.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
A few Kates, nice to see you have a good weekend.
Tim Wilson, Kate hawks Meg.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
For more from The Mike Asking Breakfast, listen live to
news talks. It'd be from six am weekdays, or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio.
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