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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 Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
First with yesterday's news, I am Glen Hart, and we
are looking back at Monday where our foreign investment was
well and truly on the table with both ACT and
New Zealand first, really wanting to tune it up. Where
are we at with health and who makes the hard
calls when it comes to prioritizing who you're going to
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treat because there's just not enough money to treat everyone.
Marcus has been watching some America's cup I think and
are you low rent? Am I low rent? Who is
low rent? And who isn't? Before any of that, it's
one year of this coalition government.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
How they been There is the.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Sense of disappointment. You can see it in the polls.
We've got a poll coming out tonight. I don't know
what it says, but the most recent pole before that
is the one on Friday, which was the Curier Pole
Taxpayers Union pole has the combined government parties if you
add them all up on just slightly more than fifty
two percent. Now that's not resounding popularity, is it, especially
when you consider how much we in the end hated
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what justind Ardune and Chippy were doing. You would expect
that the Lot that comes up and cleans up after
them would have this massive wave of popularity. But no,
and I reckon the problem that we've got is actually
that we're not comparing them to Jacinda Ardune's lot. We're
comparing them to John Key's government, and they're not John
Key's government. That's actually what we wanted after all the
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drama of Jacinda and COVID and the poor spending that
was going on. I think what we really wanted to
do was go back to the glory days and the
settled healthion days of John Key being in charge and
us getting richer while we ride that economic wave of
Chinese demand for all of our products. Right, we were
getting rich and things politically were settled, and it was
an awesome time, and that's what we wanted. But then
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what we got instead is a couple of recessions. Not
this government's fault, but until the economy improves and we
feel richer, their poles will suffer for it. And what
we got was Chris Luxen kind of like a John
Key minimy, but not John Key and the guys running
a three party proper MMP coalition government for the first
time that squabbles with itself and is having to undo
all the unpopular stuff that just Cinda did, but which
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comes with feeling of fractiousness, isn't it again not their fault,
But as long as there is upheaval and angry commentators
in the Herald and non stuff, their poles will suffer
for it. I think a year in, I think this
government is actually doing a great job of doing exactly
what it said it would do and doing it really fast.
But I don't think it will ever be rewarded for it. Politically.
I think it will always be a little bit of
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a sense of a disappoint disappointment around this coalition government.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
I guess in two years time, Oh my god, it's
only two years way now. If you're feeling better about
life than you were a year ago, three years ago,
by the time we get to then in two years time,
if you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
You'll go, yeah, no, they had done a good job.
Did any of that make sense? Oh my god?
Speaker 1 (03:18):
It's moved on news talk, has it been right?
Speaker 3 (03:22):
So yeah, the minor members of this coalition, if you
can call David Seymour and Winston Peter's minor really came
out over the weekend with a big push to ramp
up foreign investment.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
So that's a good idea, isn't it? Or is it?
I don't know, let's find out.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Winston Peter's made his big announcement yesterday that New Zealand
First wants to see a one hundred billion dollar future
fund set up to ensure we have the money for
all the big infrastructure projects that need doing. Money, of course,
would have to come from overseas, which is why he
said to Mike this morning that he might not be
so hard lying on foreigners buying houses here if it
means getting the type of investment he wants.
Speaker 6 (04:05):
Sorry, he's going to come in with the lousy twenty minute.
We're not going to be cutting ice for him. But
if he's in with a whole sheeting with a whole
lot of money beyond that, we'd consider it, because you
know the first thing they're going to do is spend
about five or six million on twenty five million dollar
investment I dreaming and gone in the house. I think
it's one quarter gone straight up.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
Okay, okay, all right, you're open that you are open
to the idea.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
But because here's my point.
Speaker 7 (04:31):
My point is that if you want to invest in
a COT.
Speaker 6 (04:35):
As a center for the right investor, we'll consider anything.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
You see.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
I thought it was there's a little there was a
little bit of weirdness about the two announcements. I thought
it was kind of weird that mister Peter said this
morning that he hadn't seen anything before David Seymour announced
the changes to the foreign investment rules on Saturday. But nevertheless,
that was the only bit of weirdness. Nevertheless, they seem
to be on the same page, and I'm with them
on this one. I'm with the government. I think we
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have no choice but to make it easier for foreign
investors to buy in New Zealand companies and properties for
the simple reason that we're a tiny outfit and we
are dreaming if we think we can do it all
on our own, and also because if we don't attract
these investors, they will go somewhere else, somewhere else that
doesn't put up as many barriers as we do.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Yeah, I guess do we need to figure out what
our brand is because I don't think we remember we
used to be clean and green. I don't hear a
lot of people talking about that these days. That seems
to be that anti progress cleaning green. So what is
our brand? I'm just not quite when mister Peters was
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talking about in the Weekend, you know, back when we
were number one in the world, I'm still just not
quite sure about what we were number one in.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
The world at.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
If we can just figure that out, then we can
wind back the clock. Apparently we can go back in time.
We can be whatever that was, and the investors will
come floating.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
In apparently easy use talk sidy.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
And then we'll have enough money. Hopefully you pay for
everybody's operations and not just some of them.
Speaker 8 (06:00):
The number of people sixty five and over, which was
around seven hundred thousand a few years back, that will
quadruple by mid twenty four, quadriz The number of people
ninety and over thirty one thousand, that will quadruple in
twenty years, So we'll have one hundred and twenty five
hundred and thirty thousand ninety plus year olds in New Zealand, Now,
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if you're a doctor, you've got two people, both as
sick as each other. One's forty, one's ninety. One might
die if you treat the other first.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
What do you do?
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Serious question?
Speaker 8 (06:37):
I mean to me, The obvious answer is, well, one
person has had ninety years on this planet. You know
you treat the young one first, don't you? Because the
older ones had more life to live. Am I saying
let's stop treating patients based on need and discriminate against
the elderly. No, because I love my grandmother, you know
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what I mean. We have to do it on who's
sickst who's closer to death, all that sort of stuff.
But I am curious for those who work in it healthcare,
is there a touch of bias on who you might
treat first. I know you've got the Hippocratic oath, etc.
But if you if you're presented with a situation like that,
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how do you respond to it?
Speaker 3 (07:22):
That's where your AI is really going to become in handy,
I reckon. So you don't have to worry about those
sorts of decisions you know, have to agonize over them.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
You can just turn it over to the computer and
let it make the decision for you, and I'm sure
that people at the other end of those decisions have
been delighted.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Or dismayed, but you might not even have to know.
All right, Jo, have you been absolutely glued to every
moment of the America's Cup.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
I know I have. Oh, oh boy, wow, I think
Marcus actually has been watching it.
Speaker 9 (08:02):
Oh the America's Cup. Also, Sir Ben Ainslie has got
some publicity Pep spared publicity for the situation where he
abused the commentator Steph mccaibor. But every time I've watched it,
I thought it's incredibly clunky, cumbersome and awkward to have
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to answer kind of a name question straight after you
finished a race. I mean, obviously they're trying to drive
the audience to get people kind of watching it, but
I just thought didn't seem right to me. Kind Of
let them recover a bit from the race and have
a bit of a debrief before you chuck the mic
at them, and most of them behave, can do? Most
behave with much more dignity than I thought they would
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have anyway.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Wow, Imagine I mean imagine watching the America's Cap for
a start, but imagine actually watching the post race.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Press conference far out?
Speaker 3 (09:02):
What's going on in your life that you even't got
anything bigger to do than that? I don't know, being asleep,
rearranging the outdoor furniture.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Anything really.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
News talk been might just a bit low ran? Is
that why I don't understand these things?
Speaker 7 (09:20):
So this is a great story in the New Zealand.
Here are the sixteen tannelltale signs. You're more common than
you think, according to an etiquette expert, so common. This
is William Hansen. He is the author of a newly
released book, Just Good Manners, and he went on to
say common can be defined in different ways, but it
really means being overly mainstream or a bit naff.
Speaker 10 (09:42):
Well, it sounds horrible the term common, doesn't It sounds
like a class system you're trying to impose on people.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Common.
Speaker 10 (09:48):
Yeah, I would say I'm pretty common.
Speaker 7 (09:50):
You're in touch with the common man.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (09:52):
No, I would say I am the common man. I
would say I am the quintessential common man. That's what
I would say.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (09:57):
Well, the interesting part about this story is he mentioned
some things that I would never think to consider to
be common, like mounted televisions.
Speaker 10 (10:05):
Now, I can't believe that because the mountain televisions are
a fantastic the idea that having a mounted television is common. Also,
anything bigger than forty six inches is suspect. According to
this guy, anything less than forty six inches is a
waste of time. I mean, we waited our whole lives.
I remember a twenty nine inch television back in the
day with the tube television, the cat, theayid rode. Yeah,
it was took up half the room. But now it
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can just sit on your wall mounted. Do you have
the biggest television you can afford?
Speaker 7 (10:31):
I thought that looks tidy. You know, that's upper class,
even the mountain TV. Apparently not.
Speaker 10 (10:35):
Well, my Costing has just got a seventy inch television.
I heard, you know, is he common?
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Well?
Speaker 7 (10:40):
You couldn't call Hoskin low rent, could you?
Speaker 2 (10:42):
No, you couldn't.
Speaker 7 (10:43):
He's high class. G and t's apparently a low rent now.
Speaker 10 (10:47):
Right, a classy airs. Gnt's are a very classy drink.
Someone's saying eating on public transport is common.
Speaker 7 (10:54):
And one that really hurt you. Yeah, and it probably
hurt me even though I don't have this yet. Was sparples. Yeah,
spar pools are tasteless.
Speaker 10 (11:02):
I think I'm a sort of a castle type person
where everything that I think is flash and something to
be sellbraided than that you're doing well in life. Like
having a spar pole they're saying is common big TV's
spar poles. That's how you know you've made it. That
that's when you're doing well in life.
Speaker 7 (11:17):
Yeah, quintessential middle class to me is a sparple. And
I'm still waiting to get there, but I'll get there eventually.
Speaker 10 (11:24):
And this guy having a go salted caramel or caramel
as some people call it, salted.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Caramel, Come on, that's low.
Speaker 8 (11:31):
That's classy.
Speaker 10 (11:31):
Salted caramel as classy as you get.
Speaker 7 (11:34):
That's a step above caramel. You get a little bit
of salt on that.
Speaker 10 (11:36):
I couldn't believe that people are saulting caramel at one point,
and now now I'm all about it once again.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Tyler and Matt haven't quite got their backs right. I
think it's a seventy seven inch, not just a seventy
inch that Hosking has got on his wall. But yeah,
never mounted TV because you'll go too high with it
probably and you want it more or let a high level.
When you were sitting on the couch and nobody's going
to mount a TV on the wall at that low
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that's where you want. You're nice slowtainment unit and that's
why they packed a stand in the box. A little
bit of advice there. It's nothing to do with being
low rental night or classy. It's just optimum viewing angles.
You don't want to be raising your head up to
see your TV and then how big it is like
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sitting at the front row of the movies your stiff neck.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
I'm Glen Hart.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Thanks for listening to this at whatever angle you've been
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exciting angles like that tomorrow.
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