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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Were we worried that there was what was the problem
with our worry as parents at that particular point that
they were they a bit languagey that band or was there?
Do you remember what the problem was?
Speaker 2 (00:09):
No, I don't think there was a problem with them.
I think they're pretty.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Innocent, are they?
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Sounds like Lulu? Lulu had a problem. Let's do what
Lulu tun date this week's term. That's the problem. Lulu
turned eight? Oh my goodness, yeahs fifty six.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
That's the one. That's the one younger than me, older
than Katie. That's how that works.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
She ran out of path on her walk this morning.
She's just she's not like she used to be. Hey,
just wanted to address Winston.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Because sorry, just just before I do that twelve tracks
and thirty six minutes and twenty eight seconds. Just want to.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Anyone care I do?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
I reckon?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
They don't. I reckon, they don't care?
Speaker 1 (00:50):
What else on the show? Don't you reckon? Anyone cares about?
Let's let's just do it.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
It's going to be a great weekend. It's going to
be a great drive out to the country.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
You too, If you want to showcase new music, I
reckon you play it. And you go, that's five sauce,
and then anyone who's interested can I either look it
up or get it. But I don't think you need
to give a dissertation on how many tracks, whether you
think that's a good amount or not a good amount.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
You know, I quite I quite like the dissertation consumers
what I'm telling you.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
That's what I'm telling I know that people better than
I think, Katie. The more I know you, I think more,
the more out of touch you are with regular New Zealanders.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
I think I'm getting out of touch with the well.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
I'm not on the radio anymore, so I'm probably I'm
probably increasingly out of touch.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Do you reckon?
Speaker 1 (01:32):
You could go back to breakfast television and do what
you used to do and crack the audience the way
you go back to.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Break here, I think I'd just be very diplomatic about No.
I'm not going to answer that.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Your silence speaks volumes.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Were you on breakfast with us? Tim?
Speaker 3 (01:52):
I parachuted in a couple of times in the holidays,
So did you. Yeah, someone's on.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
The late news with me. He was. He was my
letting your correspondent.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Yeah, yeah, that's how that's how I ended up the
US correspondent, actually what you do.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
In New York and said do do do some corresponding
on my late news? And there you were that's how
that works.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
No, no, no, no, no, it was actually I think look,
I was so I was so broke at the time
that someone came over and said, you can you know
I've got a cell phone or Motorola flip type. You
don't have a social Security number, you can't get a phone.
Won't you just pay this bill? In? The phone rang
and it was actually Pam Corkery. He said, is Lauren there?
And I said no. There was a silence and I said,
(02:35):
she said mate. He said, God, is Lauren there? And
I said no and she said oh. And I said
do you need a journalist? She said yeah. I said
I'm a journalist. And then she said what's your name?
And I said it. She said, oh, you'll do. The
next morning, I was at the studio in Times Square
doing the late news, and that's how Katie inherited me.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
It's funny you should mention New York. Can you give
me a what neighborhood term? I've never felt as poor
as I did this week? What what neighborhood when I'm
in New York, what neighborhood can I afford to stay?
And now given I can no longer afford to stay
where I used to stay?
Speaker 3 (03:14):
So where did you used to stay?
Speaker 1 (03:15):
I used to stay on the corner of six and
fifty ninth, which is just at the bottom of Central
Park South.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Yeah, right, was a central park with a central park
because we love the park.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
You see, I can't.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Afford to stay there anymore.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
We did drive through the Bronx and Harlem on the
way to the baseball would I could I afford the
Bronx or Harlem? Actually? You know what you could do
Spanish alam where I was right? It's not bad. You
dip down into the lower east side. But that might
not be it might it might still, you might be
just going down a bit. Why don't you drive the
upper east Side, which is just below that ambient beast side?
(03:49):
Have you been to the bagels there? And you could
still walk to the park. I just I can't afford
any of it, Tim, I looked at it. I looked
at didn't we get We've got to quote this week?
And given the dollars down at what is it down
to a US dollars, about three cents to a US dollar,
whatever it is, and it's like point four.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Andrew Keller he this morning it was was point four.
I think we can afford to stay for two days
at the YMCA if we're lucky.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
I think it was numbers of knights and numbers of people.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
And then at that point you were like, we need
to reduce numbers people nights, We need to reduce numbers one.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Oh dear, it's sounding like Brooklyn, you can't afford Manhattan anymore.
That's exactly what it.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Is, Kadie. You were going to say, Winston, I was just.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Going to say, I am concerned about the number of
voters who are swayed by the media. Not all, but
many still are. And the media these days are so
low brow and so out to lunch that it really
concerns me that Winston.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
I know he's doing playbook Winston and this is how he.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Rolls, but we need to be more sophisticated and kind
of I don't know, I just feel like I'm just
I'm having PTSD about the election year already before he
even started.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
But did you hear the interview? Didn't they explain himself
to the point that yesterday was essentially a non story.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Yeah, but no one will. It doesn't matter because people
have consumed it and that's that. That's the nyone's going
to pick that up and run that.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
And if it was essentially a non story, he would
he would have said, oh, by the way, this is
not a deal breaker. But it's not his job to
say that in a way, so he's kind of you're
you're right, Katie.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
I think it is the bottom line.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
That's because he was asked the question, but not not yesterday.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Oh yeah, that's what I mean to you. Well, that's
the prime just looking to see the herald that they
picked it up here, No, they.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Won't it and it's just Christ to the mill for labor.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
All it does is feed into their narrative that they
get excited about that the coalitions cross.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
For Why no, no, they haven't picked it up.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
No they won't.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Here's the dealer. I think I think that this is
this is sort of like all you know, it's like
archier sports critics, right, we're all we're all galvanized by it.
But I think most keywis aren't. They're disconnected from politics
until two weeks BEFO for the election. Then they start
thinking about it. Kiwi's are apolitical. Mostly we're not that
we're just tragics.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
I would tend to agree with you, and that's my
great hope, but I'm just not into this. Just what happened.
I think you're right, Katie, is that yesterday I just thought, Oh,
for God's sake, you can just see how much of
that do I have to wade through. And it's only
November of the year before the election.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
I know, But I think although we don't engage until
a couple of weeks before the election, I do think
we're big on the vibe.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
You talk to business owners, you talk.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
To anyone trying to hold stuff down, trying to hire people,
students trying to get jobs can't get them. You know,
there's a vibe out there, and we've got to look
at the mood and we're in a funk, and we've
really got to work hard to kind of move the
needle on that vibe because I think even though we
might not be politically engaged, all of us apart from us,
we've got a sense of how the country's tracking and
(06:55):
how we feel.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Well, let me tell you this, I've got I've got
I've got some hot news. So Q three, the infometrics
came out yesterday with the Q three forecast for the GDP,
in other words, the economy, and they've got they got
good growth. And in the beginning of the year in
Q one we had good growth and Q two we
fell down a hole? Or did we? So I'm told
there's a revision to the number coming that will be
(07:17):
to the positive. So if it is to the positive,
so that means we've got Q one, Q two, Q three,
in other words, the entire year in positive growth. And
then you juxtaposed you juxtaposed that against the mood and
the vibe that you talk. Okay, how do you explain them?
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Yeah, we've got to work harder. But that's the negative
bias of the media, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Well I think too, It's like maybe maybe we have
this sort of bad news sort of travels faster than
good news. So I think that's you know, if that's
if that's revised, and it will be about the economy,
right well, Bill Clinton, it's the economy, stupid. So if
the economy is tracking well, that will affect the.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Political But this is my point, and this is what's
so interesting. So everyone will say, oh, it's it's so hard.
I haven't got any money, But in this MANU fie
hundred and fifty dollars and having a good time at
Metallica getting pissed on long whites. So I mean, which
is it.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Sound jealous?
Speaker 3 (08:09):
I didn't see I didn't see you at Metallica.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
We got some long whites for the weekend. I'll get something.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
We used to have long whites. Remember when we had
long whites in the house.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
It was the kid's party, drink dijour, wasn't it discussing?
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Well, let's let's do something cheerful. It's National organ Donation Day.
What do you think would be the best organ you
could donate.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
My heart because it's so large.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
I'd see your brain is bigger than.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Actually I got a big.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
I'd say your spleen, not your liver.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
No one wants my tests this year. I did my
special tests and my muscans and Masons and my prods
and my probes and what what came back? Katie?
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Yeah, it's all a plus plus. But still I've seen
what you drink.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Drinks. He's off the fried food now. I heard him,
you know, saying I don't eat fried food.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
No, exactly. I shouldn't have said that out loud. That
sounded pratish. But so I'm just confirmed. For the record, Caddie,
I'm off the source. Tell people I'm off the source.
Apart from on the weekends.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Yeah, midweek, you're off the source.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Friday isn't midweek, it's.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
The whole week.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Yeah, okay, but here's the question. How much sauce on
a Friday? How much sauce on a Saturday?
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Case lots of sauce, tiny little bit.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Of what a thimble fall a poignant rose? Quick, give
me a break. We've seen the social media quick.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Quite No, it's the same photo repeated over and over
Arnt Deck on New Yorker hotel on Seventh Avenue, right,
mix of pleasant and inexpensive, across the road from Madison
Square Garden. Do you know that? Is that a good hotel.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Team across the road from Madison Square Garden? Yeah? I
mean you're okay, but yeah, you're you're starting to put
you're probably in your your financial.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
You know, my daughter is working in New York, living
in Brooklyn. We went to see you loved Brooklyn. Brooklyn's nice,
isn't it Bron's cool.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
I wouldn't mind chicking out Brooklyn.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
I think you go to go to Bellburg, you know,
Williamsburg where all the hipsters used to be. You'll see
this forty eight year old hepsters.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
That's the line, the high line, low line, round line.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
No, no highlights on the other side, west side. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Can I afford to?
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Maybe you could? Could you take a map when you
go there?
Speaker 1 (10:20):
And mink nice to see kay hawksby Tim Wilson.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
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