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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Huddle with New Zealand Southeby's International Realty, local and
global exposure.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Like no other tuddle of that's this evening. David farre
of Kiwi Blog and Dave Littally Butterbean Motivation. Now are
you two and especially you Dave? First time?
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Yeah, I feel like I've made it, make the big time.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Jeez, Dave, you've You're very easy to please. Now I'm
sorry that we've ended up with two chaps with exactly
the same name. So you're going to have to listen
carefully because there's going to be it's going to be
David and Dave. Okay, so one of you is casual
and the other one not. So want to start with you, David.
Is this government intervention into Wellington City Council looking a
little dodgy to you?
Speaker 4 (00:38):
No, not at all, Locke.
Speaker 5 (00:40):
It's probably the most popular thing.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
That could happen in Wellington. Uh.
Speaker 5 (00:46):
People. There's the official reasons for doing that, which as
they've backpacked on their long term plan and you know
rates have gone up, but there's a lot of other
issues to people think the councils above a bunch of
so they're just planning to see something has happened. Dave.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Here you are sitting in Auckland just sort of ring along.
Do you from this faraway? Have you got the same perspective?
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
I think when you do as bad a job as
they have done and Willington, you know, has to be expected.
I do a lot of talking and to corporates around
the country, and whenever I speaking one Inton, I always
asking her what's what's it like down here? And a
lot of what they say I can't repeat on air.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Yeah, do you not?
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Though?
Speaker 5 (01:26):
Dave makes Auckland look good by comparison?
Speaker 2 (01:28):
But hold on, David, I mean, like, don't be unfair
on Auckland, because actually I was talking to somebody about
this today. Wayne Brown is actually, regardless of whether you
look at relativity, doing a really good job, isn't he?
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Well?
Speaker 5 (01:41):
Seven percent rates increases, I would take over twenty percent,
very very happily.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Yeah, exactly, all right, Dave? Do you think that we
should feel bad? Do you feel bad about the fact
that there are businesses will who will have to cut
staff here in New Zealand and will probably have a
really hard time because David Seymour's decided to go with
a big multi net a big global company for the
food and schools program.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Look, we're all feeling it, not not just these companies,
community group's charities. Everyone's feeling the pinch. I think, you know,
it's it's good that they saved that money. What I'd
like to know is what they're doing with the savings.
That's That's more what I'm interested in.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Are they building hospital beds and stuff like that? Not
that I know of What do you think they're doing
with the money?
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Dave? Well? So is that Dave? David?
Speaker 2 (02:27):
There was a day that I knew it was going
to happen. There was a day.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Just call me better being, Heather.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
It's okay.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
I think it's.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
I think that you know, Look, they still they keep
talking this pre election about we're taking the money out
of bureaucracy and willing to putting into the community as well.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
We're all still waiting, you.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Know, we're on the I'm on the ground every single
day and we're all still waiting for this this investment
into community.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Yeah, David, I feel kind of surprised, and it probably
shouldn't be, but because I feel like David Seymour's got
his work cut out for him with with critics but
I feel surprised at how much negativity there is around
what is actually a pretty amazing thing to do, which
is to provide the food in schools, but on a budget.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
Yeah, lock, it is good that they've saved money, But
I guess what it comes down to is that people
probably don't think the governments that committed to the program.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
It wasn't actually given forward funding.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
So the government had this thing like, oh, we either
have to not keep with it or we have to
find a way to make it more affordable. And there's
probably some people who would probably rather that they hadn't
done the savings et cetera.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
There, So, yeah, you're good on them.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
In terms of the impact on businesses, I think it's
a bit like public service cuts. On an individual level,
you feel totally terrible for someone impacted, but the macro level,
you say, look, it had to happen. Money just doesn't
you open run come off trees.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Yeah that's fair, but I mean I see you've actually
shut down there some the food program. You doing your food?
Why is that?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Oh just too hard to keep it going. We're winding
it down. This will be our last Christmas. After we
do our Christmas event We're also going to Tiquita do
the same thing there. It's just too hard to keep
coming up with the money it requires, is I just
can't do it? And yeah, I hope. I'm trying my
best doll now to not have to do it. I'm
going around knocking a lot of doors with my hat
(04:24):
out and so let's see.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
What are you because are you relying on donations?
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Are you.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Donations our own money and government funding? So it really
is a combination of community business and all governments working together.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
How sure are you a lot?
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Like a lot to me? Well, a lot to me
could be one hundred bucks, it could be one hundred thousand.
How shall we look?
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Look if we had at our current level, if we
had I mean I was speaking to it today, who's
going to go around to some of his rich mates
and ask, you know, if we had two hundred and
fifty to five hundred grand a year, we could continue
at the what we're doing. But we're we're still going
to focus on our recruitment, which is where we're that's
(05:06):
what we are. We're hand up, so we'll still support
with everything we're doing.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Now, Yeah, that's a lot of money to find it, right,
we'll take a break, come back to you guys in
a tick the Huddle.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
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Speaker 2 (05:18):
Back of the Huddle, Dave la Teally butter Bean and
also David farre but I been let's start with you
on this one with her Antonia Watson. Right, So the
am Z boss appears before the Select Committee today and
can't remember exactly how much she gets paid. Is that weird?
Or if you're earning two point five million year around
about then you just do stop counting?
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Oh, I mean when you're earning that kind of money, jeez,
I mean, I know every single cent that's coming in
and out of our charity and of our business there
and my account.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
It is weird.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
But I think maybe it's the way it's all structured
with bonuses all this type of stuff. Again, though, you know,
what are they doing with the profits they make? And
that's what I want to know. What are they reinvesting
into these communities?
Speaker 2 (05:58):
No, they're giving it to the shareholders. That's what's happening.
That is why they're going to do it.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
What do you reckon?
Speaker 2 (06:02):
David? I mean, I want to I feel like I
feel like, look, she earns a lot of money, right,
and a lot of people are gonna be cross with that.
But cut in some slack, as Dave says, it is.
It is all bonuses and stuff like that. Who would
at her level, who would be keeping account of that?
Speaker 5 (06:16):
Yeah, look, it's weird for us, but I think it's
very not weird for a bank CEO, partly because she
will be unie enough that she doesn't check how much
pay has gone into accounting report nite.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
I do. I even though I get paid.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
By my own company, I always check my pacelet, which
is weird.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
So you pay yourself, but you just you hold yourself
accountable for paying yourself the right amount.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
Well, my staff payde I just trust them, I cheat
pay me the right amount. But also, yeah, a lot
she will head these you know, twenty percent rust opinion
on this, on that, and they'll pay every quarter. So
she should have given the answer, what says, are you
know my base is around one point eight but you
know there's stuff on top.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
But it's not surprising. No, no, no, no.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
I think sometimes they're too embarrassed to talk about the money.
That's the problem we have in New Zealand. Yeah, people
are too embalocked. Man, if you're rich, it's good. But
for me again, encourage people to be rich and successful,
celebrate that, but not forget the help the less fortunate.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
No, no, too right. Listen and David, do you think
that what Anikam Moore said in that podcast about Chris
Luxen and about political parties trying to get brown people
into their teams was bad enough to pull the podcast?
Speaker 4 (07:26):
No?
Speaker 5 (07:27):
Not not at all. Uh, it's nothing that we don't
hear from lots of people. It was obviously when when
they first pulled it, I thought, oh, Kerry Messive really
gone over the top, Etcio. But what they were saying
is not suff I agree with. But I didn't see
anything there that would say you can't run this on here.
(07:48):
Sure you might not run on cheap point, but this
was a na.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Mother But I mean, I listened to it, this is
the arran Z podcast. It was pulled. I I'd say
I had puzzled idea exted friends. I was like, what happened?
How much do these two birds lose their minds? And
then I heard it. I was like, well that's nothing, what's.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Up with that?
Speaker 5 (08:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (08:07):
I don't think it's too much of a big deal.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
I always do wonder that if it was if it
was someone talking about us, you know, the a brown person,
and that way, would there be upraw, So.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
There would be And you raise an interesting point, but
I being what do we do about that though?
Speaker 4 (08:22):
So?
Speaker 2 (08:23):
I mean, if we're prepared for Anika Moore to say
this about a white politician, how do we get ourselves
around to being okay about her saying it about a
brown politician.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
If you're okay with that, you've got to be okay
with the other. That's that's that's the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
So then maybe so then maybe are we being unfair
on our ins because they are applying the same principle
to themselves. They would not be okay with her saying
that about a brown politician, therefore they are not okay
with her saying that about a white politician.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
Yeah, I think so. I think you just have to be consistent.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
I mean, if something happened with the brown person, I'd
be the first one online talking about it. So, you know, again,
I think it's just being consistent.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Maybe, so, Hey, how good is it David to have
the uber eats coming to small town. So next time
you take a trip to not An O'wonica, you can
get your MACI D's delivered to your door.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
It's wonderful.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
I user is not all the time, but you're every
cup two three weeks when you're busy. If you're traveling,
you don't want to go through and lock up where
all the places are and drive out to them, et cetera.
You just push a button on your phone and your
food turns up as great.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
Even when I say.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
At hotels, I don't use the hotels anymore, I just
give I always feel embarrassed when they deliver my Uber
eat to me at the reception of the hotel. But
I take the embarrassment for the fact it's one due
the price and I can eat in my room.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Okay, but I mean I don't do you use it?
Speaker 3 (09:50):
I do use it, and I do also do it
at hotels, but I ask them to save the embarrassment, David,
I just get them to deliver it straight to the door.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
So how do they get up the lift?
Speaker 5 (10:02):
Though?
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Like you, sometimes you need to swipe key to get
up to the third floor.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
Yeah, surely they can. They figure it.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Out, But I'm not a fan of this only because
I mean, I mean, it's good that it's going to
create more business than all this type of stuff, But again,
I think we're a serious health crisis with OBEs. Again,
everything related to it making it easier to get crap
food is not going to be.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Two right. You can obviously get healthy things delivered as well. Guys.
Thank you, I really appreciate it. Dave Lttelli and David
Farrer out Heart of This Evening.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
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