June 13, 2024 • 12 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
You're listening to a podcast from News Talk sed B.
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iHeartRadio Used Talk sed BE you Talk said.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Hello, my beautiful beanies and welcome it to the bean
for Friday. First of Yesterday's news, I am Glenn Hart
and we are looking back at Thursday. Mike Hosking wants
to raise some concerns about the tourism industry. Kevin Spacey
has been interviewed by Piers Morgan. So some people have
(00:47):
watched that the old Android versus Apple debate and the
old is pumpkin soup? Any good debate? Is it? A
debate might be by the end of this podcast, but
before any of that, so banking is going to get
a good hard going over. The inquiry is underway.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Rural community is saying we need to keep it. We
need to continue to have bank branches and our communities. Look,
it might just end up being a representative in your area.
It might be a relationship. Over Zoom. Companies like One
New Zealand are working hard to make sure we have
one hundred percent coverage around the country when it comes
(01:27):
to being connected. So maybe farmers like the rest of us,
have to move with the times and understand that a
relationship with your banker might look a little bit different.
We've all had to do that, haven't we. So look,
if you are a farmer, how important is this inquiry
and the issues you're facing regarding banking? Is it an
(01:48):
issue across the board? Because when I was watching TV
and Z one news last night and there's a couple
of farmers going, no, that's fine, good relationship from the bank,
don't have a huge amounity, everything's fine. So what is banking?
What impact is banking actually having on your confidence? Look,
I'm crossing the fingers we'll see some action out of
(02:09):
this inquiry. Call me optimistic or naive, but I think
we would all like to see more competition in banking.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
There are some things, aren't there, you know? And it's
it is a lot of these things that we're having
these inquiries into lately, your banks, your power companies, your
internet providers, where it's just too hard to shop around.
Once you're with one, you're tend to stick with one
unless they do something really bad, really dumb. It's too
(02:40):
hard to change.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
We can't be bothered news talk has it been now?
Speaker 2 (02:48):
The great tourism recovery. Is it happening or isn't it else?
Mike's been trying to find some evidence of it, and
I think he's been struggling.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
We are at seventy three percent. These are the tourism numbers.
We're at seventy three percent of pre COVID. Remembering pre COVID,
of course, is twenty nineteen, five years ago. We haven't
recovered from five years ago. In fact, we show increasingly
little sign of actually doing so. And yet here is
the real worry. No one seems to care. We are
the minister on the program, Minister of Tourism on the program.
(03:17):
A couple of weeks ago, he used the fatal line
when I asked him whether he was worried. No, now,
he said, the industry tells me we're tracking well. And
that's the problem with some ministers. If you're not immersed
in your subject, any amount of BS can cross your
desk in you are none the wiser. The industry has
recently launched what they call a new initiative, and that
involves trying to get people here year round. One that's
not new. We've tried it before. Transseasonal tourism is not
(03:39):
a new thing. At all, and two still doesn't address
what I would call the alarming lack of bounce back
as Europe is jammed over jammed. Actually, if you ask
those in places like Mi Yorka and Venice, we are
still waiting to get back to where we once were
five years ago. Capacities, back planes are in. That's no
longer an excuse. So what is our excuse? Why are
we not concerned? What happened to the magic of New Zealand?
(04:02):
The dollars fantastic. It's one of the few upsides of
having a hopeless currency.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
It's cheap to be here.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Not only aren't the numbers any good or get a
lot better? No one seems to be alarmed about it,
and the question is why not.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
I'm so glad I've got my hosting to be worried
about things on my behalf because I just don't have
the energy. I think this is going to be the
theme of the podcast today. I don't have the energy
to shop around for banks and power companies and internet providers,
and I don't have the energy to worry about the
tourism industry. I need a holiday.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
Is that?
Speaker 2 (04:34):
What's going on? Why am I? Why do I not
have enough energy for these things.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
You talk, siby, Right.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
So this week Kevin Spacey, a bit of a blast
from the past, sat down with Piers Morgan, also a
bit of a blast from the past, unless you you
aren't ever watcher of his show on YouTube, and it
was a reminder that he's never actually been convicted of anything.
I know that. I didn't realize that either until you know,
(05:03):
this all came around again.
Speaker 6 (05:04):
So at the stage, basically Kevin Spacey's had nothing proven
against him, but don't Unfortunately, I don't think that's going
to be enough. And I don't want you to get
me wrong and think that I'm cheering for the end
of Kevin Spacey's career because he's a brilliant actor and
I would like him to be given another chance just
for the quality of what we watch, but also because
I think he deserves another chance. I mean, I don't
think that being a creep warrants being canceled like he has.
(05:27):
He's lost everything, he's lost friends, he hasn't heard from
what's the name who played Robin his wife in the
House of Carts or her name is Robin? I don't
really know anybod I don't want to know who she
is now, because she's obviously evil. His beautiful home in
Baltimore is going to go under the hammer today in
the States because he can't pay his bills. He owes
millions to lawyers for the court cases. He says, he's
flat broke. He doesn't even have any way of making
(05:47):
money now because he's been canceled by Hollywood. No one
wants to hire him, and he was even scrubbed out
by Ridley Scott in a movie that he'd finished shooting.
They got someone else and to play the character and
replace him. If there's one thing that we've learned from
Me Too and the cancel culture that came with it,
it's that the mob mentality in this world is unforgiving.
(06:07):
And even if he's done legally nothing wrong, being a
creep I think will probably be enough to keep him canceled.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Unfortunately, it is still unclear, isn't it even now, even
in twenty twenty four, where to draw the line is
being a creep? I mean, you should probably not have
many friends if you're a creep, But should you have
no career and no opportunity to have a career. Too
late for him to reskill should take to take up
(06:38):
a job where you know you don't have to interact
with other people podcasting, for example, nobody here except me, right,
So yeah, Apple's got their big Worldwide Developers conference this week.
(06:59):
So smartphones and the rise and rise of Apple and
other tech companies have been very top of mind for people,
including sign James.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
Been a busy old morning. So farn, what's been busy
for you? I was just on the phone a lot,
you were.
Speaker 7 (07:16):
Yeah, while we're while we're hanging around waiting to start,
and you're always on the phone. It's like you're on
your TikTok or something.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
I know. Do you know how much my phone battery is?
Fifty two percent? And it's only the start of the day,
It's halfway through the day. I've only got fifty two percent?
Speaker 7 (07:28):
Did you start off with.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
A Hundi with a Houndi and you're on fifty two year?
But I reckon Apple have programmed and that, you know,
that planned obsolescence thing. I reckon. This is an iPhone fourteen,
so it's pretty much the latest Jen Hell yeah, rich guy. Well,
and you know my battery is draining faster than the old.
Speaker 7 (07:46):
Well, I've gotten I think I've gotten eleven actually, yeah,
which is old school, but I started off with one
hundred percent and I'm on seventy nine and I've been
through all my active social media, very active as you know.
But oh well, you need to get you you need
to trade into the new iPhone fifteen pro Max.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
Do you know we should have a chat one day
about people that have tried to change their phones because
I had a I've always had Apple and then there
was a deal on through my telco and I thought,
maybe I'll change the Samsung so and I like the phone,
that's right. I liked the hardware. It was one of
those flip phones. That's my year. So I changed. Oh
did you? Oh? Man? Honestly, I went to bed that night.
(08:25):
I was so blooming tense and I was trying everything nothing.
The platform was all different, the excess was different. Of course,
the the Apple Store wall, it's not the Apple Store.
What do they call it?
Speaker 7 (08:34):
The yeah, what is it?
Speaker 5 (08:36):
Android something? Android something?
Speaker 7 (08:38):
Because I was.
Speaker 5 (08:40):
I rang them the next day, Get me out of
this phone. I want my one bag. I stay with Apple.
Oh what a? Because of course that's the other thing
with Sam Sung. If you've got an Apple Mac and
you you've got Apple TV. Everything just thinks it's.
Speaker 7 (08:51):
All works in AI, Apple Intelligence.
Speaker 5 (08:54):
Coming, joking, No, it's coming. Did you see it? Well,
Apple Intelligence? Oh? Is it really? Yes?
Speaker 7 (09:00):
I thought someone saying I thought there was a joke
that someone was making.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
No, No, it's all happening. It's in It's in play
like very soon. If you've got an Apple device, you're
going to get what they call AI Apple Intelligence, right,
but it's accessing the actual gi AI. So it's going
to be really cool.
Speaker 7 (09:16):
So AI starts for stands for artificial intelligence. But now
Apple are taking over the artificial But.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Is that real? What's any of that conversation real? They
can't really be that stupid, can they. I mean, as
James pointed out, there has been a whole generation of
phones since silence phone. We'll start so he doesn't have
(09:46):
the latest gym. Yes, they're right about the intelligence thing,
but with James's pretending that he hadn't heard about that.
It was a couple of days ago that they announced that.
And also it's not that hard to change between platforms.
Speaker 7 (10:05):
I do it all the time.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
I review the.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
News talk Zi Bean.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Right, we're going to finish up here, terrible weather. I
don't know where you are, but overnight an Auckland cold
and Hibbie heavy rain. Very good weather for pumpkin soup.
If you like pumpkin soup, of course.
Speaker 8 (10:31):
Marcus, kids love pumpkin soup. Can add more water and
graded carrots. I don't think kids do. Actually, we've always
struggled with pumpkin soup. Pumpkin soup is fun, fun, until
you finish all the toast and it's like it's a marathon.
The key to pumpkin souper is having very small bowls
(10:53):
because it's Pumpkin souper is boring? Oh you even dry
My pumpkin soup is not boring. Try your pumpkin soup.
What is it boring? You put everything in, You put nutme,
you put the always kind of hard work.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
I just never know where I'm going to end up
with Marcus. Some days I agree whole happily. He's polarizing,
he's polarizing even with me. And other days I couldn't
disagree more. Love love a good thick humkin soup. I've
got I've got a brawn. What do you call those things?
(11:34):
You know, the the big giant jokes that you that
you're mixed up up and you know, make smooes in him.
What are those things called? Completely gone out of my
mind anyway, you know what I'm talking about, the blades
at the bottom. Anyway, it's got a soup function. So
it's pretty industrial. This thing very loud. You're just about
needing ear blugs to use it. But yeah, it'll it'll,
(11:57):
it'll basically bash everything up into a soup you want to.
I love a thick soup, but he is. I do
agree with him about the toast. I would prefer to
have the toast to soup balance go all the way
to the end of my my bowl of soup. So
he's right about that part. Who doesn't like pumpkin soup
(12:21):
except Marcus apparently. Okay, I will leave it there, and
I will leave it there for a couple of weeks.
I'm on holiday. I told you I needed some leave
and that my energy levels were waning. So I'm going
to try and find somewhere hot where they're not serving soup,
and I will be back with you the beginning of
(12:42):
Die Sue Talk Talk d Bean.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
For more from News Talk said B listen live on
air or online and keep our shows with you wherever
you go with our podcasts on iart Radio
You're listening to a podcast from News Talk sed B.
Follow this and our wide range of podcasts now on
iHeartRadio Used Talk sed BE you Talk said.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Hello, my beautiful beanies and welcome it to the bean
for Friday. First of Yesterday's news, I am Glenn Hart
and we are looking back at Thursday. Mike Hosking wants
to raise some concerns about the tourism industry. Kevin Spacey
has been interviewed by Piers Morgan. So some people have
(00:47):
watched that the old Android versus Apple debate and the
old is pumpkin soup? Any good debate? Is it? A
debate might be by the end of this podcast, but
before any of that, so banking is going to get
a good hard going over. The inquiry is underway.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Rural community is saying we need to keep it. We
need to continue to have bank branches and our communities. Look,
it might just end up being a representative in your area.
It might be a relationship. Over Zoom. Companies like One
New Zealand are working hard to make sure we have
one hundred percent coverage around the country when it comes
(01:27):
to being connected. So maybe farmers like the rest of us,
have to move with the times and understand that a
relationship with your banker might look a little bit different.
We've all had to do that, haven't we. So look,
if you are a farmer, how important is this inquiry
and the issues you're facing regarding banking? Is it an
(01:48):
issue across the board? Because when I was watching TV
and Z one news last night and there's a couple
of farmers going, no, that's fine, good relationship from the bank,
don't have a huge amounity, everything's fine. So what is banking?
What impact is banking actually having on your confidence? Look,
I'm crossing the fingers we'll see some action out of
(02:09):
this inquiry. Call me optimistic or naive, but I think
we would all like to see more competition in banking.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
There are some things, aren't there, you know? And it's
it is a lot of these things that we're having
these inquiries into lately, your banks, your power companies, your
internet providers, where it's just too hard to shop around.
Once you're with one, you're tend to stick with one
unless they do something really bad, really dumb. It's too
(02:40):
hard to change.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
We can't be bothered news talk has it been now?
Speaker 2 (02:48):
The great tourism recovery. Is it happening or isn't it else?
Mike's been trying to find some evidence of it, and
I think he's been struggling.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
We are at seventy three percent. These are the tourism numbers.
We're at seventy three percent of pre COVID. Remembering pre COVID,
of course, is twenty nineteen, five years ago. We haven't
recovered from five years ago. In fact, we show increasingly
little sign of actually doing so. And yet here is
the real worry. No one seems to care. We are
the minister on the program, Minister of Tourism on the program.
(03:17):
A couple of weeks ago, he used the fatal line
when I asked him whether he was worried. No, now,
he said, the industry tells me we're tracking well. And
that's the problem with some ministers. If you're not immersed
in your subject, any amount of BS can cross your
desk in you are none the wiser. The industry has
recently launched what they call a new initiative, and that
involves trying to get people here year round. One that's
not new. We've tried it before. Transseasonal tourism is not
(03:39):
a new thing. At all, and two still doesn't address
what I would call the alarming lack of bounce back
as Europe is jammed over jammed. Actually, if you ask
those in places like Mi Yorka and Venice, we are
still waiting to get back to where we once were
five years ago. Capacities, back planes are in. That's no
longer an excuse. So what is our excuse? Why are
we not concerned? What happened to the magic of New Zealand?
(04:02):
The dollars fantastic. It's one of the few upsides of
having a hopeless currency.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
It's cheap to be here.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Not only aren't the numbers any good or get a
lot better? No one seems to be alarmed about it,
and the question is why not.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
I'm so glad I've got my hosting to be worried
about things on my behalf because I just don't have
the energy. I think this is going to be the
theme of the podcast today. I don't have the energy
to shop around for banks and power companies and internet providers,
and I don't have the energy to worry about the
tourism industry. I need a holiday.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
Is that?
Speaker 2 (04:34):
What's going on? Why am I? Why do I not
have enough energy for these things.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
You talk, siby, Right.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
So this week Kevin Spacey, a bit of a blast
from the past, sat down with Piers Morgan, also a
bit of a blast from the past, unless you you
aren't ever watcher of his show on YouTube, and it
was a reminder that he's never actually been convicted of anything.
I know that. I didn't realize that either until you know,
(05:03):
this all came around again.
Speaker 6 (05:04):
So at the stage, basically Kevin Spacey's had nothing proven
against him, but don't Unfortunately, I don't think that's going
to be enough. And I don't want you to get
me wrong and think that I'm cheering for the end
of Kevin Spacey's career because he's a brilliant actor and
I would like him to be given another chance just
for the quality of what we watch, but also because
I think he deserves another chance. I mean, I don't
think that being a creep warrants being canceled like he has.
(05:27):
He's lost everything, he's lost friends, he hasn't heard from
what's the name who played Robin his wife in the
House of Carts or her name is Robin? I don't
really know anybod I don't want to know who she
is now, because she's obviously evil. His beautiful home in
Baltimore is going to go under the hammer today in
the States because he can't pay his bills. He owes
millions to lawyers for the court cases. He says, he's
flat broke. He doesn't even have any way of making
(05:47):
money now because he's been canceled by Hollywood. No one
wants to hire him, and he was even scrubbed out
by Ridley Scott in a movie that he'd finished shooting.
They got someone else and to play the character and
replace him. If there's one thing that we've learned from
Me Too and the cancel culture that came with it,
it's that the mob mentality in this world is unforgiving.
(06:07):
And even if he's done legally nothing wrong, being a
creep I think will probably be enough to keep him canceled.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Unfortunately, it is still unclear, isn't it even now, even
in twenty twenty four, where to draw the line is
being a creep? I mean, you should probably not have
many friends if you're a creep, But should you have
no career and no opportunity to have a career. Too
late for him to reskill should take to take up
(06:38):
a job where you know you don't have to interact
with other people podcasting, for example, nobody here except me, right,
So yeah, Apple's got their big Worldwide Developers conference this week.
(06:59):
So smartphones and the rise and rise of Apple and
other tech companies have been very top of mind for people,
including sign James.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
Been a busy old morning. So farn, what's been busy
for you? I was just on the phone a lot,
you were.
Speaker 7 (07:16):
Yeah, while we're while we're hanging around waiting to start,
and you're always on the phone. It's like you're on
your TikTok or something.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
I know. Do you know how much my phone battery is?
Fifty two percent? And it's only the start of the day,
It's halfway through the day. I've only got fifty two percent?
Speaker 7 (07:28):
Did you start off with.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
A Hundi with a Houndi and you're on fifty two year?
But I reckon Apple have programmed and that, you know,
that planned obsolescence thing. I reckon. This is an iPhone fourteen,
so it's pretty much the latest Jen Hell yeah, rich guy. Well,
and you know my battery is draining faster than the old.
Speaker 7 (07:46):
Well, I've gotten I think I've gotten eleven actually, yeah,
which is old school, but I started off with one
hundred percent and I'm on seventy nine and I've been
through all my active social media, very active as you know.
But oh well, you need to get you you need
to trade into the new iPhone fifteen pro Max.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
Do you know we should have a chat one day
about people that have tried to change their phones because
I had a I've always had Apple and then there
was a deal on through my telco and I thought,
maybe I'll change the Samsung so and I like the phone,
that's right. I liked the hardware. It was one of
those flip phones. That's my year. So I changed. Oh
did you? Oh? Man? Honestly, I went to bed that night.
(08:25):
I was so blooming tense and I was trying everything nothing.
The platform was all different, the excess was different. Of course,
the the Apple Store wall, it's not the Apple Store.
What do they call it?
Speaker 7 (08:34):
The yeah, what is it?
Speaker 5 (08:36):
Android something? Android something?
Speaker 7 (08:38):
Because I was.
Speaker 5 (08:40):
I rang them the next day, Get me out of
this phone. I want my one bag. I stay with Apple.
Oh what a? Because of course that's the other thing
with Sam Sung. If you've got an Apple Mac and
you you've got Apple TV. Everything just thinks it's.
Speaker 7 (08:51):
All works in AI, Apple Intelligence.
Speaker 5 (08:54):
Coming, joking, No, it's coming. Did you see it? Well,
Apple Intelligence? Oh? Is it really? Yes?
Speaker 7 (09:00):
I thought someone saying I thought there was a joke
that someone was making.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
No, No, it's all happening. It's in It's in play
like very soon. If you've got an Apple device, you're
going to get what they call AI Apple Intelligence, right,
but it's accessing the actual gi AI. So it's going
to be really cool.
Speaker 7 (09:16):
So AI starts for stands for artificial intelligence. But now
Apple are taking over the artificial But.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Is that real? What's any of that conversation real? They
can't really be that stupid, can they. I mean, as
James pointed out, there has been a whole generation of
phones since silence phone. We'll start so he doesn't have
(09:46):
the latest gym. Yes, they're right about the intelligence thing,
but with James's pretending that he hadn't heard about that.
It was a couple of days ago that they announced that.
And also it's not that hard to change between platforms.
Speaker 7 (10:05):
I do it all the time.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
I review the.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
News talk Zi Bean.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Right, we're going to finish up here, terrible weather. I
don't know where you are, but overnight an Auckland cold
and Hibbie heavy rain. Very good weather for pumpkin soup.
If you like pumpkin soup, of course.
Speaker 8 (10:31):
Marcus, kids love pumpkin soup. Can add more water and
graded carrots. I don't think kids do. Actually, we've always
struggled with pumpkin soup. Pumpkin soup is fun, fun, until
you finish all the toast and it's like it's a marathon.
The key to pumpkin souper is having very small bowls
(10:53):
because it's Pumpkin souper is boring? Oh you even dry
My pumpkin soup is not boring. Try your pumpkin soup.
What is it boring? You put everything in, You put nutme,
you put the always kind of hard work.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
I just never know where I'm going to end up
with Marcus. Some days I agree whole happily. He's polarizing,
he's polarizing even with me. And other days I couldn't
disagree more. Love love a good thick humkin soup. I've
got I've got a brawn. What do you call those things?
(11:34):
You know, the the big giant jokes that you that
you're mixed up up and you know, make smooes in him.
What are those things called? Completely gone out of my
mind anyway, you know what I'm talking about, the blades
at the bottom. Anyway, it's got a soup function. So
it's pretty industrial. This thing very loud. You're just about
needing ear blugs to use it. But yeah, it'll it'll,
(11:57):
it'll basically bash everything up into a soup you want to.
I love a thick soup, but he is. I do
agree with him about the toast. I would prefer to
have the toast to soup balance go all the way
to the end of my my bowl of soup. So
he's right about that part. Who doesn't like pumpkin soup
(12:21):
except Marcus apparently. Okay, I will leave it there, and
I will leave it there for a couple of weeks.
I'm on holiday. I told you I needed some leave
and that my energy levels were waning. So I'm going
to try and find somewhere hot where they're not serving soup,
and I will be back with you the beginning of
(12:42):
Die Sue Talk Talk d Bean.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
For more from News Talk said B listen live on
air or online and keep our shows with you wherever
you go with our podcasts on iart Radio
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