September 17, 2024 • 12 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
Hello, my beautiful beanies, and welcome to the bean for Wednesday.
First with yesterday's news, I am Glen Hatton. We are
looking back at tuesday building costs in the council and
it's just hard to get anything done.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
This is just an ongoing.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Hanging in the ass as I will get into this shortly.
The Commonwealth Games. It looks like Scotland might be putting its.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Hand up, but.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
It's just dying along drawn out death, isn't it listening?
And have you ever bought street stockings? But before any
of that? So a poll me it's a Courier poll,
do we? Is that the one that we never believe
until it says things that we like, the one.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
The preferred PM numbers are interesting. Chippy's gone off a cliff.
The trend is down and that's this result in particular
as a shocker. He's down six point one points to
twelve point six percent, Luxen thirty two point seven percent.
So Chippy is now almost within margin of era with
not luxin but Chloe on seven point two percent. The
(01:32):
other number is the NZII quarterly consensus starter we've been
talking about. Not so great for us, at least in
the short term, a big fat zero GDP growth in
the year to March, which is depressing because we've had
almost two years of recession or close to it now
and people just want to see the country firing again.
We want to see it spark. And that's where Luxin
will be happy to see this projection two point two percent,
(01:56):
that is growth expected in the year to March twenty
twenty six. And we know what else is happening in
twenty twenty six. Right an election, it's humble two point
two percent. It's not run away, but after these parts
past few years, it's like electoral fairy dust. People don't
generally vote on race relations, the politics of envy, climate change.
(02:17):
They vote basically on how rich they feel and who
might make them richer. And lux and at least on
these numbers would appear to have the upper hand on
that front.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Yeah, I don't know that the labor parties have a
really campaigned that much on we're going to make you
feel richer. I don't know that's really their thing, but
maybe they need to work on there. Maybe we need to.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
I don't know news talk ze.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Been anyway, Yeah, not great news, so Hapkins. And of
course the countdown clock is on, isn't it. How long
has he got left as Leber as liber leader?
Speaker 3 (03:03):
How long as I got left talking for the podcast?
If I can't even pronounce the red leader? How long
has Hittin's got left? Who replaces them? If they do
get rid of them?
Speaker 5 (03:12):
Seriously too much associated with the past, with the COVID years.
There will be some die hards who say they saved lives,
who will think that by being there as reputations enhanced.
I think the majority say no. When you look at him,
(03:33):
you see the COVID years, you see enormous waste of
taxpayer money. When he said, oh yes, we want to
borrow more and tax more, I almost fell off my chair, Like,
you seriously expect the electorate to trust you with more money?
You have got to be kidding. So twenty five twenty
(03:57):
four to twenty five percent is when the previous labor
leaders have been Gomburger have been asked to look at
other options within the job market. Perhaps they're talent could
be a bitter served elsewhere. Labour's on twenty six percent.
(04:17):
Is Chris Hopkins the man to lead Labor into the
next election, or does he need to make room for
new ideas, fresh ideas, a new Labor leader.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Or lastly, do they just roll it up, wind it up,
let's not worry about labor anymore, shut it down and
we'll let other parties be the opposition instead. You know,
just look it outside that It just seems like a.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Bit of an effort, doesn't it. Flogging this dead horse.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Speaking of flogging dead horses will discuss the future of
the Commonwealth game, surely, But in the meantime, flogging a
horse flogging the councils? Are the councils flogging the building industry?
Why is it so hard to build anything? Why does
it cost so much?
Speaker 6 (05:09):
There seems to be quite often staff members within the
council that are working against them or trying to fudge
the numbers to get it across the line.
Speaker 7 (05:17):
There's also a mentality that it's got two hundred and
thirty thousand per both for a camera. It's a better
job and a much more important job, and there for
a much more thorough job than the one that twenty
five grand. Because the twenty five grand must be crated. Yeah,
so they they don't look into why why. They also
have a mentality that's right, we've got eight million to
(05:39):
spend this year. We're a month from the end and
we've only twent seven hundred and fifty thousand. We've got
nothing on tie something and spend it. I'll take it
off us.
Speaker 6 (05:48):
Yeah, well, yeah, clearly that is, you know, I mean,
particularly in roading contracts. I think we all understand that.
Hence why you know, when it comes to the end
of the financial year, all of a sudden it's coned city.
Uh and that's coming. There's still coming from the text path.
Speaker 7 (06:01):
Yeah, I know it's got The model's got to change,
I would personally, because we don't even appoint as rape.
We don't even appoint CEO now disrecounts where I am.
It's just about to get a new CEO, thank every
god under the sun in fifteen years. We don't control
this renumeration or hers. We don't control their appointment. We
(06:21):
don't control anything.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
I say.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Yes, all that was off the back of Wayne brown
Auckland's super mare whinging about the cost of some beach steps,
and when I saw that. I thought, oh, geez, how
many millions if they've been on those, But it was
actually johndred and sixty three thousand. I said a lot
for beach steps. Like I say, I thought there was
(06:46):
going to be millions, but maybe I just don't know
how much beach steps cost.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
I like it when people.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Say renumeration instead of remuneration, but they're renumbering your salary.
It's just a personal thing that I like. I don't
know if you like it or like me pointing it out,
So we better.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Move on, right. So the Commonwealth Games, it seems like
forever since we've had a Commonweld Games. I don't actually
do you remember even where they were? No? You say
you do, but it took you a minute, didn't it.
That's right? And I still don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
But anyway Scotland might be doing the next week or
some down the track somewhere.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Why would they want them.
Speaker 8 (07:31):
It's only doable because the Aussies are paying a multimillion
dollar penalty to the Scottish to basically help them host it,
and then there's some private money to get it across
the line, and they're also using venues that were already
there because they hosted the Games ten years ago, so
you can see all of these things make it feasible, right,
but only just, and only if they cut the number
of sports. Even if the Scots do sign for twenty
(07:55):
twenty six, there is no one signed for twenty twenty
thirty and there's no one signed for twenty twenty thirty four.
And I think almost the most sobering thing about all
of this is that outside of the UK, two countries
have hosted the Games an equal number of times, and
for the most number, right, it's Canada and Ozzie. So
the UK's hosted it like nine times in its history.
(08:16):
Canada and Ozzie have hosted the Games five times each.
Australia just pulled out of hosting it in twenty twenty
six and Canada just pulled out of hosting it in
twenty thirty. Now, if the two countries that have hosted
it the most number of times outside of the UK
and only done it because they're basically the richest countries
in the Commonwealth, if they even don't want to host
the Games anymore, what does that tell you about the Games?
(08:37):
It tells you that these games are on life support
big time. So if you love the Commonwealth Games, get
yourself to Glasgow in a couple of years time, because
these games might not survive any longer than that, and
even if they do, they might be so scaled back
in the future. Whatever survives might be such a shadow
of itself that I don't know that it's going to
be the Commonwealth Games of old at all.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
You reckon they get rid of the sports that they're
going to get rid of. I'll just go by which
what are the most expensive to have? I can never
remember which sports are in the Cornwealth Games and which
ones will be in the Olympics, because there's different ones.
But you don't You've never had long bowls at the Olympics,
but you definitely have had that at the Cornwell Games.
(09:20):
I don't know if they still do. I don't know
how expensive it is to run. Surely they could punch
some pennies if people just bought a plate. I think
warm bowlers are used to that sort of thing, aren't they.
I remember us being winning a lot of medals once
at a Normwealth Games and warm bowls.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
But yeah, I don't know how pricey that is. But yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Mean, if they if they do wind it up eventually
imagine how valuable Cornwealth Games medals are going to be.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
But they shall be collective on them.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
News talk.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
We're going to finish up here perusing some of the
stuff that you can just buy on the street these days.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
No, I'm not talking drugs or uns or even elicit tobacco.
I'm talking stockings.
Speaker 9 (10:14):
Could you tell me, Elaine? And I've often thought about
this because I might have been reading something more recently
about someone that was selling stockings on the street.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Why would they sell them like that?
Speaker 9 (10:24):
Why didn't they sell them in shops because they were
so brand new? Is it?
Speaker 6 (10:28):
Well?
Speaker 2 (10:28):
I think they might have been slightly warm.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
I don't know.
Speaker 9 (10:31):
Yeah, yeah, you know what, Yeah, I'm hearing yes. And
they also put hume and also a good thing to say,
a good thing to sell because you could fut a
lot of them in a small space and if the
police came, you could just take your bag and off
your guard off.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Just and that he called them sort of sounded like spooker.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Or a spooker.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
That seems like a better word to me.
Speaker 9 (10:57):
They returned to all of these ones in the Caledonian
Road maggot is baker boys okay, and did he make
good money with it.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Elane, No, just enough to get by.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
I think.
Speaker 9 (11:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
I know some people who were walking along k Road
fairly recently on their way to dinner, and a woman
came up to them, not to sell them stockings, but
but to try and sell them drugs. And I only
raised that because she had no pants on, so maybe
(11:36):
she needed to go a little bit further and see
the guy who was selling the stockings. It sounds like
quite a sit of a self sustaining economy in many ways.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
The street, the street, I am Glen have.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
You won't get a better deal on a podcast than
this one, and we'll see you back here. I'll be
here on the same in the same puzzy on the
same street tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Then talking.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
For more from Used Talk st B. Listen live on
air or online, and keep our shows with you wherever
you go with our podcasts on iHeartRadio.
You're listening to a podcast from News Talk SEDB. Follow
this and our wide range of podcasts now on iHeartRadio,
Used Talk SEDB Talk.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Hello, my beautiful beanies, and welcome to the bean for Wednesday.
First with yesterday's news, I am Glen Hatton. We are
looking back at tuesday building costs in the council and
it's just hard to get anything done.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
This is just an ongoing.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Hanging in the ass as I will get into this shortly.
The Commonwealth Games. It looks like Scotland might be putting its.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Hand up, but.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
It's just dying along drawn out death, isn't it listening?
And have you ever bought street stockings? But before any
of that? So a poll me it's a Courier poll,
do we? Is that the one that we never believe
until it says things that we like, the one.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
The preferred PM numbers are interesting. Chippy's gone off a cliff.
The trend is down and that's this result in particular
as a shocker. He's down six point one points to
twelve point six percent, Luxen thirty two point seven percent.
So Chippy is now almost within margin of era with
not luxin but Chloe on seven point two percent. The
(01:32):
other number is the NZII quarterly consensus starter we've been
talking about. Not so great for us, at least in
the short term, a big fat zero GDP growth in
the year to March, which is depressing because we've had
almost two years of recession or close to it now
and people just want to see the country firing again.
We want to see it spark. And that's where Luxin
will be happy to see this projection two point two percent,
(01:56):
that is growth expected in the year to March twenty
twenty six. And we know what else is happening in
twenty twenty six. Right an election, it's humble two point
two percent. It's not run away, but after these parts
past few years, it's like electoral fairy dust. People don't
generally vote on race relations, the politics of envy, climate change.
(02:17):
They vote basically on how rich they feel and who
might make them richer. And lux and at least on
these numbers would appear to have the upper hand on
that front.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Yeah, I don't know that the labor parties have a
really campaigned that much on we're going to make you
feel richer. I don't know that's really their thing, but
maybe they need to work on there. Maybe we need to.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
I don't know news talk ze.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Been anyway, Yeah, not great news, so Hapkins. And of
course the countdown clock is on, isn't it. How long
has he got left as Leber as liber leader?
Speaker 3 (03:03):
How long as I got left talking for the podcast?
If I can't even pronounce the red leader? How long
has Hittin's got left? Who replaces them? If they do
get rid of them?
Speaker 5 (03:12):
Seriously too much associated with the past, with the COVID years.
There will be some die hards who say they saved lives,
who will think that by being there as reputations enhanced.
I think the majority say no. When you look at him,
(03:33):
you see the COVID years, you see enormous waste of
taxpayer money. When he said, oh yes, we want to
borrow more and tax more, I almost fell off my chair, Like,
you seriously expect the electorate to trust you with more money?
You have got to be kidding. So twenty five twenty
(03:57):
four to twenty five percent is when the previous labor
leaders have been Gomburger have been asked to look at
other options within the job market. Perhaps they're talent could
be a bitter served elsewhere. Labour's on twenty six percent.
(04:17):
Is Chris Hopkins the man to lead Labor into the
next election, or does he need to make room for
new ideas, fresh ideas, a new Labor leader.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Or lastly, do they just roll it up, wind it up,
let's not worry about labor anymore, shut it down and
we'll let other parties be the opposition instead. You know,
just look it outside that It just seems like a.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Bit of an effort, doesn't it. Flogging this dead horse.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Speaking of flogging dead horses will discuss the future of
the Commonwealth game, surely, But in the meantime, flogging a
horse flogging the councils? Are the councils flogging the building industry?
Why is it so hard to build anything? Why does
it cost so much?
Speaker 6 (05:09):
There seems to be quite often staff members within the
council that are working against them or trying to fudge
the numbers to get it across the line.
Speaker 7 (05:17):
There's also a mentality that it's got two hundred and
thirty thousand per both for a camera. It's a better
job and a much more important job, and there for
a much more thorough job than the one that twenty
five grand. Because the twenty five grand must be crated. Yeah,
so they they don't look into why why. They also
have a mentality that's right, we've got eight million to
(05:39):
spend this year. We're a month from the end and
we've only twent seven hundred and fifty thousand. We've got
nothing on tie something and spend it. I'll take it
off us.
Speaker 6 (05:48):
Yeah, well, yeah, clearly that is, you know, I mean,
particularly in roading contracts. I think we all understand that.
Hence why you know, when it comes to the end
of the financial year, all of a sudden it's coned city.
Uh and that's coming. There's still coming from the text path.
Speaker 7 (06:01):
Yeah, I know it's got The model's got to change,
I would personally, because we don't even appoint as rape.
We don't even appoint CEO now disrecounts where I am.
It's just about to get a new CEO, thank every
god under the sun in fifteen years. We don't control
this renumeration or hers. We don't control their appointment. We
(06:21):
don't control anything.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
I say.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Yes, all that was off the back of Wayne brown
Auckland's super mare whinging about the cost of some beach steps,
and when I saw that. I thought, oh, geez, how
many millions if they've been on those, But it was
actually johndred and sixty three thousand. I said a lot
for beach steps. Like I say, I thought there was
(06:46):
going to be millions, but maybe I just don't know
how much beach steps cost.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
I like it when people.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Say renumeration instead of remuneration, but they're renumbering your salary.
It's just a personal thing that I like. I don't
know if you like it or like me pointing it out,
So we better.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Move on, right. So the Commonwealth Games, it seems like
forever since we've had a Commonweld Games. I don't actually
do you remember even where they were? No? You say
you do, but it took you a minute, didn't it.
That's right? And I still don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
But anyway Scotland might be doing the next week or
some down the track somewhere.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Why would they want them.
Speaker 8 (07:31):
It's only doable because the Aussies are paying a multimillion
dollar penalty to the Scottish to basically help them host it,
and then there's some private money to get it across
the line, and they're also using venues that were already
there because they hosted the Games ten years ago, so
you can see all of these things make it feasible, right,
but only just, and only if they cut the number
of sports. Even if the Scots do sign for twenty
(07:55):
twenty six, there is no one signed for twenty twenty
thirty and there's no one signed for twenty twenty thirty four.
And I think almost the most sobering thing about all
of this is that outside of the UK, two countries
have hosted the Games an equal number of times, and
for the most number, right, it's Canada and Ozzie. So
the UK's hosted it like nine times in its history.
(08:16):
Canada and Ozzie have hosted the Games five times each.
Australia just pulled out of hosting it in twenty twenty
six and Canada just pulled out of hosting it in
twenty thirty. Now, if the two countries that have hosted
it the most number of times outside of the UK
and only done it because they're basically the richest countries
in the Commonwealth, if they even don't want to host
the Games anymore, what does that tell you about the Games?
(08:37):
It tells you that these games are on life support
big time. So if you love the Commonwealth Games, get
yourself to Glasgow in a couple of years time, because
these games might not survive any longer than that, and
even if they do, they might be so scaled back
in the future. Whatever survives might be such a shadow
of itself that I don't know that it's going to
be the Commonwealth Games of old at all.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
You reckon they get rid of the sports that they're
going to get rid of. I'll just go by which
what are the most expensive to have? I can never
remember which sports are in the Cornwealth Games and which
ones will be in the Olympics, because there's different ones.
But you don't You've never had long bowls at the Olympics,
but you definitely have had that at the Cornwell Games.
(09:20):
I don't know if they still do. I don't know
how expensive it is to run. Surely they could punch
some pennies if people just bought a plate. I think
warm bowlers are used to that sort of thing, aren't they.
I remember us being winning a lot of medals once
at a Normwealth Games and warm bowls.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
But yeah, I don't know how pricey that is. But yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Mean, if they if they do wind it up eventually
imagine how valuable Cornwealth Games medals are going to be.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
But they shall be collective on them.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
News talk.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
We're going to finish up here perusing some of the
stuff that you can just buy on the street these days.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
No, I'm not talking drugs or uns or even elicit tobacco.
I'm talking stockings.
Speaker 9 (10:14):
Could you tell me, Elaine? And I've often thought about
this because I might have been reading something more recently
about someone that was selling stockings on the street.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Why would they sell them like that?
Speaker 9 (10:24):
Why didn't they sell them in shops because they were
so brand new? Is it?
Speaker 6 (10:28):
Well?
Speaker 2 (10:28):
I think they might have been slightly warm.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
I don't know.
Speaker 9 (10:31):
Yeah, yeah, you know what, Yeah, I'm hearing yes. And
they also put hume and also a good thing to say,
a good thing to sell because you could fut a
lot of them in a small space and if the
police came, you could just take your bag and off
your guard off.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Just and that he called them sort of sounded like spooker.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Or a spooker.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
That seems like a better word to me.
Speaker 9 (10:57):
They returned to all of these ones in the Caledonian
Road maggot is baker boys okay, and did he make
good money with it.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Elane, No, just enough to get by.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
I think.
Speaker 9 (11:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
I know some people who were walking along k Road
fairly recently on their way to dinner, and a woman
came up to them, not to sell them stockings, but
but to try and sell them drugs. And I only
raised that because she had no pants on, so maybe
(11:36):
she needed to go a little bit further and see
the guy who was selling the stockings. It sounds like
quite a sit of a self sustaining economy in many ways.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
The street, the street, I am Glen have.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
You won't get a better deal on a podcast than
this one, and we'll see you back here. I'll be
here on the same in the same puzzy on the
same street tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Then talking.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
For more from Used Talk st B. Listen live on
air or online, and keep our shows with you wherever
you go with our podcasts on iHeartRadio.
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