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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
You Talk said Hello, my beautiful beanies, and welcome to
the bean for Friday. First with yesterday's news, I am
Glen Hart. We are looking back at Thursday. We are
yet with health insurance in this country? Is it too expensive?
Is it worthwhile? What's going on? More capital gains? Text talk? Please,
(00:41):
I'm begging everybody to just stop talking about this. It's
just so boring. Ryan has noticed a naptick in charity
door knockers, and we've got some car stereo chat to
finish up with. But the first is the warehouse really
in big, big, big, big trouble is it? All I
know is one of the ones I was parked out
so I recently has painted itself pink for Barbie. That
(01:04):
was odd.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
I mean, you want to go buy a pair of
kiddy shoes for twelve bucks that they can just break
on the scooter and who cares about them? I checked
out both the warehouse and Kmart. I went to Kmart
because it was the same price, but Kmart had much
cooler stuff. There's a problem for the warehouse right there.
That is a massive consumer base that they are losing
consistently to kmart. Noel Leming. Oh my gosh, rubbish service.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Rubbish service.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
You want to see rubbish service going to nol Leming.
My husband tried to buy me a watch from a birthday.
The other day was last week, right, So he went
in and he asked them to help him find an
electronic watch that could be paired with the phone that
was waterproof so I could go surfing with it. They
didn't know which watches were waterproof, so as a result,
I had my birthday eight days ago. I still haven't
(01:48):
got a watch. I don't really care who cares, but
I had to google for him what watch was waterproof?
By the way, Noel Lemming, it's the Apple Watch, just
the most famous one, right, That's stuff they should know.
I try to buy myself a vacuum cleaner dice in
recently as a treat. I went onto noele Leming's website.
Had to call to double check because the store said
they only had one and I wanted to make sure
(02:09):
they did actually have one. They never called me back,
so I just bought it from Dyson online for about
one hundred bucks cheaper directly Torpedo seven, which they sold
for a dollar. We called them ages ago, months and
months and months ago to see if we could get
a replacement battery charger for the electric bike because the
thing was broken. They said they don't have battery charges anymore.
A few weeks ago, my husband met one of the
(02:29):
guys who actually has bought a Torpedo seven from the warehouse.
He gave my husband two battery charges, so they did
still have the battery charges. Now that's not just one problem,
that's multiple problems. And I just do not know how
the warehouse turns this business around.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Heather and Barry is not very good at shopping. It
sounds like they make some terrible, terrible decisions. And also,
why would you not just go straight out and get
an Apple Watch straight away? That was weird that bit.
Does BARRYE not know what an Apple Watch is?
Speaker 5 (02:59):
Great?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Great birthday news talk zeb Bean. Okay, we does a
really exciting stuff coming up for you on the podcast,
including more talk about the capital gain sex, so then
you won't want to miss that. The first ap let's
talk about health insurance.
Speaker 6 (03:16):
The health insurance thing is such a difficult one because
the more you're likely to need to rely on it,
ie you get a bit older, the more flaming expense
of it is.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
Absolutely, and I mean it's kind of terrible at the moment.
I work in pharmacy, but we have a lot of
customers come in just to get some advice from our
pharmacists because they can't even get in to see their GPS.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (03:42):
I often Actually that's why I think the nurse a
good GP practice, which has a good sort of interfacing
with the nurses and everything. I often just say, look,
can I come and see the nurse if I've got
a question, you know, got something I want to get
checked out, and then he or she will take a
look and then go I'll just get the doctor to
take a quick look at this just in case. All
they'll go on.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
That's fine, Yeah, absolutely, But I think the public sector
has been on a downhoad slave for a very long time.
New sort of doctors Quinnic open Up and Parmerson as
years ago, and at the time my dad was really
insistent that I register as one of their patients. And
I couldn't quite understand why he was being so forceful,
but I get a place if he tried.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Now, it's tricky, isn't it. It does seem to be
the case that by the time you really need it,
you've got too many conditions to make it worthwhile my
father in law always said the best health insurance is
to pay off your mortgage. That seemed like pretty good
(04:44):
advice talk. Okay, here it is the moment you've been
waiting for more discussion around the possibility of a capital
gains text. I know, I know. Why didn't I put
us at the beginning of the podcast? That's where you
really wanted it right.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Robertson admitted he had had to swallow a deard rate
by standing by as Prime Minister when he wanted to
introduce the capital gains text. This is the Chris Hipkins
who released a statement saying, I am confirming today that
under a government I lead, there will be no wealth
or capital gains tax after the election. End of story.
(05:22):
So this is why you cannot have former prime ministers
leading an opposition, because they have absolutely no credibility when
their statements from only a few months back come back
to haunt them. His credibility on a capital gains tax
is shot. Barbara Edmonds get her up there talking about it.
(05:46):
She's untainted. She doesn't have the ghost of Chris Hipkins
from yesteryear, well yester month coming back to haunt her.
Carmel Sepperlone Hell, Jim, the guy who serves the drinks
at three point two, get him up there to say,
I think a capital gains tax would be fabulous. You
cannot have Chris Hipkins calling for a cap gains tax.
(06:11):
He has absolutely no credibility. But the issue is simply
not going to go away, and I think sooner rather
than later, we need to adopt I even think Sir
Michael Cullen's recommendations were not unreasonable. There will come a
time where it will be introduced and we need to
(06:34):
do it credibly and not in the knee jerk reaction,
and with the best interests of the entire country at heart.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
So yeah, it seems to be an obsession with the
Labor Party at the moment. For some reason, they just
seem to be determined to make themselves even less popular
than they already are. I hope we get to talk
more about capital gains tack next week. It's just been great.
Can't wait? Right? Is it time for Ryan Bridge? To
(07:04):
fortify his house because he's just it seems like he's
being hassled. There's a knock at the door over five minutes.
Speaker 7 (07:13):
Have you noticed what's with all the door knocking that's
going on at the front door at the moment. Has
anyone else been getting this? I think it must be
because it's summer and you know it's lighter later, et cetera.
A lot of charities coming. Every man and his dog
seems to be coming to the front door and knocking
at the moment, and they seem to be they're not
from the charities that they're there to represent. I think
(07:34):
they're contracted. They're a separate company that's contracted to do
the door knocking and try and collect the donations. Last
night we had someone from Hello Fresh. I was like,
goodbye Fresh, Sorry, it's dinner time. Has anyone else noticed
that it's nine nine two is a number to text.
I find it a little intrusive. I find it annoying,
(07:55):
and it's probably my fault because you can not that
I should say this, but you can actually get to
my front door without going through much in the way
of security, and actually you can see straight into the
living room once you get to the front door, so
that's on me. Maybe I need to be behind a
big gate like everybody else, of an intercom, you know,
but I would like to think you could have a
(08:16):
you know, a pretty open house and not be disturbed.
Maybe I need like a no circular sign for your letterbox.
Maybe I need a no door knocking sign so that
people don't come by. But I just want has anyone
else noticed this going on at your place?
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Personally? No, I mean it has about as much as
it normally does. The kind of people they seem to hire,
I think that they're a kind of people who wouldn't
would deliberately ignore a no door knocking sign anyway and
(08:51):
just assume that it doesn't because they always have to
sort of self righteous like, how could you possibly not
want to donate to this cause it's such a good
door kind of a Often they not in order to
knock on my door, in my doorbell. They've woken me
up because they have a little afternoon then anet because
(09:11):
when you get up in the middle of the night
to go to work, you have food to stay alive,
and so they just take one look at me in
my pajamas and they usually run off run.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
To the hills news talk has it been?
Speaker 2 (09:27):
So what I'm suggesting there is that you keep a
pair of pajamas on standby by the front door so
you can skip people away. We're going to finish up
with some car stereo chat.
Speaker 8 (09:36):
How important is a CD player in a car because
none of the British car makers are making cars with
CD players anymore, and they reckon they've been letting down
music fans. But I don't know of anyone that listens
to CDs in their car anymore. In fact, I just
(10:02):
think that we've got CDs out of our life, So
if we have a car with a CD player, we
wouldn't have anything to play because I think most people
wouldn't have a CD player around the house. So if
you've got one in the car, then you've got to
kind of fear it around cupboards to find what CDs
you've got, and then they normally that one CD stays
(10:22):
in the CD player forever until you've ever listened to it.
I think I'm right on that. Do you want to
say and mentionally think about that? But I wouldn't if
I was buying a car, I wouldn't be worried about
the CD player would be the least of my I
prefer a cigarette lighter to a CD player, and I
don't smoke. I just like those way those car cigarette
(10:44):
lighters work and how you can plug other stuff into
I love a cigarette lighter in a car.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
I don't know what's happening on the podcast today. How
out of touch are the people who host news talks
you'd be. You've got somebody who doesn't really understand what
a smart watchers and where they should be buying them from.
And you've got another person who's still trying to use
CDs in their car and love cigarette lighters. I mean,
the cigarette lighter thing is weird, isn't that? Like in
(11:12):
my lifetime, I may have seen somebody actually light a
cigarette with a cigarette lighter from a car once, and
I'm not even sure about that. It might have just
seen it in a movie, but I've definitely seen cigarette
lighters being used to power a whole lot of things.
So it's weird, isn't it that they invented something that
(11:32):
ended up being used in a completely different way and
it should have just been a power outlet from the start.
So that is odd? But come on, guys, see DS
who even has CDs. As I've said before, I just
want my next car to have the kind of Bluetooth
that automatically keeps playing the thing that I was listening
(11:54):
to when I stopped the car last because my Bluetooth
system doesn't do that, and that's what I want. I
probably sound like an out of touch studdy duddy yet
on that note, have a weekend and we'll see their
grey with a weekly edition.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Of the News Talking, Talking zid Bean. For more from
News Talk sid 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 sed B.
Follow this and our wide range of podcasts now on
iHeartRadio Used Talk SEDB.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
You Talk said Hello, my beautiful beanies, and welcome to
the bean for Friday. First with yesterday's news, I am
Glen Hart. We are looking back at Thursday. We are
yet with health insurance in this country? Is it too expensive?
Is it worthwhile? What's going on? More capital gains? Text talk? Please,
(00:41):
I'm begging everybody to just stop talking about this. It's
just so boring. Ryan has noticed a naptick in charity
door knockers, and we've got some car stereo chat to
finish up with. But the first is the warehouse really
in big, big, big, big trouble is it? All I
know is one of the ones I was parked out
so I recently has painted itself pink for Barbie. That
(01:04):
was odd.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
I mean, you want to go buy a pair of
kiddy shoes for twelve bucks that they can just break
on the scooter and who cares about them? I checked
out both the warehouse and Kmart. I went to Kmart
because it was the same price, but Kmart had much
cooler stuff. There's a problem for the warehouse right there.
That is a massive consumer base that they are losing
consistently to kmart. Noel Leming. Oh my gosh, rubbish service.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Rubbish service.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
You want to see rubbish service going to nol Leming.
My husband tried to buy me a watch from a birthday.
The other day was last week, right, So he went
in and he asked them to help him find an
electronic watch that could be paired with the phone that
was waterproof so I could go surfing with it. They
didn't know which watches were waterproof, so as a result,
I had my birthday eight days ago. I still haven't
(01:48):
got a watch. I don't really care who cares, but
I had to google for him what watch was waterproof?
By the way, Noel Lemming, it's the Apple Watch, just
the most famous one, right, That's stuff they should know.
I try to buy myself a vacuum cleaner dice in
recently as a treat. I went onto noele Leming's website.
Had to call to double check because the store said
they only had one and I wanted to make sure
(02:09):
they did actually have one. They never called me back,
so I just bought it from Dyson online for about
one hundred bucks cheaper directly Torpedo seven, which they sold
for a dollar. We called them ages ago, months and
months and months ago to see if we could get
a replacement battery charger for the electric bike because the
thing was broken. They said they don't have battery charges anymore.
A few weeks ago, my husband met one of the
(02:29):
guys who actually has bought a Torpedo seven from the warehouse.
He gave my husband two battery charges, so they did
still have the battery charges. Now that's not just one problem,
that's multiple problems. And I just do not know how
the warehouse turns this business around.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Heather and Barry is not very good at shopping. It
sounds like they make some terrible, terrible decisions. And also,
why would you not just go straight out and get
an Apple Watch straight away? That was weird that bit.
Does BARRYE not know what an Apple Watch is?
Speaker 5 (02:59):
Great?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Great birthday news talk zeb Bean. Okay, we does a
really exciting stuff coming up for you on the podcast,
including more talk about the capital gain sex, so then
you won't want to miss that. The first ap let's
talk about health insurance.
Speaker 6 (03:16):
The health insurance thing is such a difficult one because
the more you're likely to need to rely on it,
ie you get a bit older, the more flaming expense
of it is.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
Absolutely, and I mean it's kind of terrible at the moment.
I work in pharmacy, but we have a lot of
customers come in just to get some advice from our
pharmacists because they can't even get in to see their GPS.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (03:42):
I often Actually that's why I think the nurse a
good GP practice, which has a good sort of interfacing
with the nurses and everything. I often just say, look,
can I come and see the nurse if I've got
a question, you know, got something I want to get
checked out, and then he or she will take a
look and then go I'll just get the doctor to
take a quick look at this just in case. All
they'll go on.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
That's fine, Yeah, absolutely, But I think the public sector
has been on a downhoad slave for a very long time.
New sort of doctors Quinnic open Up and Parmerson as
years ago, and at the time my dad was really
insistent that I register as one of their patients. And
I couldn't quite understand why he was being so forceful,
but I get a place if he tried.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Now, it's tricky, isn't it. It does seem to be
the case that by the time you really need it,
you've got too many conditions to make it worthwhile my
father in law always said the best health insurance is
to pay off your mortgage. That seemed like pretty good
(04:44):
advice talk. Okay, here it is the moment you've been
waiting for more discussion around the possibility of a capital
gains text. I know, I know. Why didn't I put
us at the beginning of the podcast? That's where you
really wanted it right.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Robertson admitted he had had to swallow a deard rate
by standing by as Prime Minister when he wanted to
introduce the capital gains text. This is the Chris Hipkins
who released a statement saying, I am confirming today that
under a government I lead, there will be no wealth
or capital gains tax after the election. End of story.
(05:22):
So this is why you cannot have former prime ministers
leading an opposition, because they have absolutely no credibility when
their statements from only a few months back come back
to haunt them. His credibility on a capital gains tax
is shot. Barbara Edmonds get her up there talking about it.
(05:46):
She's untainted. She doesn't have the ghost of Chris Hipkins
from yesteryear, well yester month coming back to haunt her.
Carmel Sepperlone Hell, Jim, the guy who serves the drinks
at three point two, get him up there to say,
I think a capital gains tax would be fabulous. You
cannot have Chris Hipkins calling for a cap gains tax.
(06:11):
He has absolutely no credibility. But the issue is simply
not going to go away, and I think sooner rather
than later, we need to adopt I even think Sir
Michael Cullen's recommendations were not unreasonable. There will come a
time where it will be introduced and we need to
(06:34):
do it credibly and not in the knee jerk reaction,
and with the best interests of the entire country at heart.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
So yeah, it seems to be an obsession with the
Labor Party at the moment. For some reason, they just
seem to be determined to make themselves even less popular
than they already are. I hope we get to talk
more about capital gains tack next week. It's just been great.
Can't wait? Right? Is it time for Ryan Bridge? To
(07:04):
fortify his house because he's just it seems like he's
being hassled. There's a knock at the door over five minutes.
Speaker 7 (07:13):
Have you noticed what's with all the door knocking that's
going on at the front door at the moment. Has
anyone else been getting this? I think it must be
because it's summer and you know it's lighter later, et cetera.
A lot of charities coming. Every man and his dog
seems to be coming to the front door and knocking
at the moment, and they seem to be they're not
from the charities that they're there to represent. I think
(07:34):
they're contracted. They're a separate company that's contracted to do
the door knocking and try and collect the donations. Last
night we had someone from Hello Fresh. I was like,
goodbye Fresh, Sorry, it's dinner time. Has anyone else noticed
that it's nine nine two is a number to text.
I find it a little intrusive. I find it annoying,
(07:55):
and it's probably my fault because you can not that
I should say this, but you can actually get to
my front door without going through much in the way
of security, and actually you can see straight into the
living room once you get to the front door, so
that's on me. Maybe I need to be behind a
big gate like everybody else, of an intercom, you know,
but I would like to think you could have a
(08:16):
you know, a pretty open house and not be disturbed.
Maybe I need like a no circular sign for your letterbox.
Maybe I need a no door knocking sign so that
people don't come by. But I just want has anyone
else noticed this going on at your place?
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Personally? No, I mean it has about as much as
it normally does. The kind of people they seem to hire,
I think that they're a kind of people who wouldn't
would deliberately ignore a no door knocking sign anyway and
(08:51):
just assume that it doesn't because they always have to
sort of self righteous like, how could you possibly not
want to donate to this cause it's such a good
door kind of a Often they not in order to
knock on my door, in my doorbell. They've woken me
up because they have a little afternoon then anet because
(09:11):
when you get up in the middle of the night
to go to work, you have food to stay alive,
and so they just take one look at me in
my pajamas and they usually run off run.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
To the hills news talk has it been?
Speaker 2 (09:27):
So what I'm suggesting there is that you keep a
pair of pajamas on standby by the front door so
you can skip people away. We're going to finish up
with some car stereo chat.
Speaker 8 (09:36):
How important is a CD player in a car because
none of the British car makers are making cars with
CD players anymore, and they reckon they've been letting down
music fans. But I don't know of anyone that listens
to CDs in their car anymore. In fact, I just
(10:02):
think that we've got CDs out of our life, So
if we have a car with a CD player, we
wouldn't have anything to play because I think most people
wouldn't have a CD player around the house. So if
you've got one in the car, then you've got to
kind of fear it around cupboards to find what CDs
you've got, and then they normally that one CD stays
(10:22):
in the CD player forever until you've ever listened to it.
I think I'm right on that. Do you want to
say and mentionally think about that? But I wouldn't if
I was buying a car, I wouldn't be worried about
the CD player would be the least of my I
prefer a cigarette lighter to a CD player, and I
don't smoke. I just like those way those car cigarette
(10:44):
lighters work and how you can plug other stuff into
I love a cigarette lighter in a car.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
I don't know what's happening on the podcast today. How
out of touch are the people who host news talks
you'd be. You've got somebody who doesn't really understand what
a smart watchers and where they should be buying them from.
And you've got another person who's still trying to use
CDs in their car and love cigarette lighters. I mean,
the cigarette lighter thing is weird, isn't that? Like in
(11:12):
my lifetime, I may have seen somebody actually light a
cigarette with a cigarette lighter from a car once, and
I'm not even sure about that. It might have just
seen it in a movie, but I've definitely seen cigarette
lighters being used to power a whole lot of things.
So it's weird, isn't it that they invented something that
(11:32):
ended up being used in a completely different way and
it should have just been a power outlet from the start.
So that is odd? But come on, guys, see DS
who even has CDs. As I've said before, I just
want my next car to have the kind of Bluetooth
that automatically keeps playing the thing that I was listening
(11:54):
to when I stopped the car last because my Bluetooth
system doesn't do that, and that's what I want. I
probably sound like an out of touch studdy duddy yet
on that note, have a weekend and we'll see their
grey with a weekly edition.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Of the News Talking, Talking zid Bean. For more from
News Talk sid 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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