February 10, 2025 • 11 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Used Talk said, be you talk.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Hell. I'm my beautiful beanies, and welcome to the bean
for Tuesday. First with yesterday's news, I am Glen Hart,
and we are looking back at Monday the speed limit thing.
I feel like we've been over sold on the speed
limit thing. We'll find out what Andrew Difference thinks about that.
Surely the super Bowl happened yesterday. Apparently and Ed Sheeran
(00:47):
didn't get his basking license since I was told to
move on. We'll find out where at the end of
the podcast. But first out, foreign investment, please come, come on,
rich guys and girls, well, however you identify, as long
as you're rich, please come.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Whether those changes are confirmed or just signaled, be the
most important thing on the minds of those investors. More
important is the chance of a left wing government swooping
back into power here and reversing a whole bunch of
the stuff that the government's just been loosening. The fast
Track Bill, the rich list of residencies, the regulatory changes,
(01:24):
the Foreign Investment Agency, all of this stuff adds up
and paints a picture of our small country as a free,
open trading nation that welcomes outside capital and doing deals.
Worse than rushing to announce the corporate tax cut would
be the prospect of it being undone within a year
should Labor get back into power. Their economic formula, as
(01:48):
proven during their last term and in statements given by
leader hip consents, is not to grow the economy at
a rate of knots and thereby increase the tax take,
but rather to increase the tax take and further strangle
the economy. Luxon needs this summit to show Kiwis that
he can do the job, that he can grow the
w that he can grow our chances of success, and
(02:12):
in doing so he may comfortably secure the right to
govern Hell even alone after twenty twenty six, and that
would give those leather chaired leed jet passengers something to
be confident about.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
It comes down to the It just seems to keep
coming back down to the to the electoral term. We
caught the parliamentary term, the three year term. You know
what I'm talking about? Like, you know, if you were
put in charge of a business that was in a
lot of debt and you were only given three years
(02:46):
to turn it around. Is that realistic? Maybe it is.
I don't really understand how to do business.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
News talk ze been.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Kerry Woodham has also been thinking about these announcements opening
the doors to the foreign investors. She's got a few
questions though, I think.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
I think Simon Bridges in the Oakland Chamber is probably
quite right. I don't understand how foreign investment is going
to grow our economy. I can understand how bringing money
in and just using it as as an investment opportunity
to offset your other investments. If you're a wealthy foreign
investor just allows you to slush money around, how does
(03:29):
it grow it? Is it going to be the next
rocket label, the next zero or how I mean? Art
galleries and golf courses are all very well and good,
but they're lovely, gorgeous vanity projects and gifts to New
Zealand from wealthy investors that don't really generate jobs. Where
where's the benefit to the ordinary Kiwi? And that was
(03:51):
the question that Andrew Dickens asked smon Bridges too. So
the government has banged the sign on the shop door
and is setting about telling the world we are open
for business. But what sort of business?
Speaker 5 (04:07):
You know?
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Is it going to franchises, is it going to nail bars,
is it going to fast food chops? Is it just
money going round and round in a continual cycle within
the economy. How do we ensure it's going into these
businesses where we've got brilliant ki entrepreneurs, brilliant startup businesses
(04:29):
that need that extra capital to go to that next level.
How do we direct it there?
Speaker 2 (04:34):
I'm I was quite pleased to hear Kerry talk about
you know, just start asking a few questions. And it's
a bit like what I was saying a couple of
weeks ago, off the back of the success in quoteation
Marx of the sale GP, So how does that success
actually help me personally? Like, because some people are doing
(04:59):
good business in some sections of society, how does that
personally help me? And again, like I said, I don't
understand buss, don't understand economics. I always just have more
questions than answers.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
So let's move on us talk side.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Actually, another host on Newsbooks is be asking questions just
kind of dig a little bit deeper in behind the
government policies. Is Andrew Dickens, who's standing in on early edition.
At the moment a few vague concerns about this whole
Let's put all the speed limits back up again, because
(05:36):
it turns out that perhaps not everybody wants the speed
limits back up.
Speaker 6 (05:39):
I'd just take the time to applaud the outbreak of
common sense exhibited by Chris Bishop, the new Minister of Transport.
He has decided to revisit some of the blanket speed
limits imposed by his government in the wake of concerns
by locals. Can I just say it's his government that
does the blanket speed limits. They are the ones who
said fifty one hundred or one ten over all roads,
no matter the condition of the roads or their usage,
(06:00):
and they use the blanket speed limit phrase as a
vote catcher at the election. But the old government actually
left most speed limits in the hands of local authorities,
their roads, their rules. The Labor government issued a schedule
of over three hundred sections of road on the state
highway network, which are the only roads they control. So yeah,
there were those, but that central was put in place
over dangerous roads, mainly around rural schools who are concerned
(06:23):
at motors screaming pass at pickup time. At one hundred
k now. Chris Bishop has come out and indicated he's
going to listen to local concerns, which is a good
thing because until you use a road, you don't know
what an appropriate limit is. There's no way a central
government bureaucrat locked up in Wellington has any idea of
that local reality. Ask the people about how they feel
(06:45):
about the roads. And that's what Chris is doing, which
is smart and that's a good thing. Congratulations Chris.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
The thing that really bugs me about this whole issue
is there, you know, it's sort of being sold as
thea're putting the flemits back up again. But I'm pretty
sure the road outside this building where I come to
work at half past three, three forty five a m
(07:14):
is at thirty kilometers an hour moment that road with
no cars on it at all at that time? Does
that seem sensible my point, that's not going to change
anytime soon because that's an autoint council thing, not a
government which is and that that's dumb and I would
like to that. And now, it was Super Bowl Sunday yesterday.
(07:42):
Yes I know it was Monday, it was Sunday. In America,
it's hard to understand but not just because of the time.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
Difference American football. One big feti banging into another big feti.
Then they all they make half a yard and all
fall over. I mean everyone jumps up and hot dogs around.
The hotdogging is just oh my god. Those guys wouldn't
last five minutes on the rugby league paddock. That open
their trap and they would that would be met with
(08:12):
an almighty punch in the face and told to get
on with the game.
Speaker 7 (08:15):
Yeah, but there's I mean, it's a totally different game.
So you have a different set of skills, right, So
you've got to have your offensive and defensive lines, and
that's where your big fatties are and they fight each other.
But then you have got then you've got absolute athletes.
The wide receivers are you know, you've basically got Olympic
sprinting athletes there. You've got your running backs. They are
(08:36):
totally different shape as well. So one of the great
things about run.
Speaker 5 (08:41):
Every time they miss a tackle, always that they should
have made the allways you hear about is the greatest
athlete on the planets. Just for once, can't they just say, God,
that was a terrible mistackle. Take them around the legs
for goodness sake. But look, I'm hoping today that the
Philadelphia Eagles lose because, like you, Tyler, I'm a massive
baseball fan, and I don't want the Eagles using up
(09:02):
what little good luck Philadelphia sports teams get. And so
my Phillies bloody, you know, because I know you're a
Dodgers fan and that annoys me. And I'm sure and
here's a bandwagon happening there. I'm sure of it. I'm
sure there's a bandwagon happening there.
Speaker 7 (09:17):
But anyway, I've been I've been with the Dodger since
before they had any success at all, and then I've
just been.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
When we can't come together.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
A Man United fan too. Let me get your man
United fan too. Probably I don't want I don't want
the Eagles using up any Philadelphia good luck. And might
Phillies have to win the World Series this year?
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Yeah, I just don't think that it does. Do places
get dealt out a quota of luck for their sports teams.
It doesn't sound particularly scientifically, and of course it didn't
work out for that guy anyway, and Nick with the
Eagles absolutely defying the odds and doing the business. But
(10:04):
I do agree with them. It's a strange game that
I've never really got into watch too much, starting and
stopping and changing the teens and all. Let carry on
very odd news talk has it right now? We're going
to finish up with Marcus talking basking because something dear
in my hat, because that was indeed my first full
time job when I left school.
Speaker 8 (10:25):
Police in India, stop ed shearing some some prompt you
street concert? Good on them, always popping up hassling some busker,
isn't he odd ed? Oh look at there singing my song?
Mind if I jump in here?
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Oh, it's be crazy.
Speaker 8 (10:42):
They're always trying to get a viral kind of a
thing going on, aren't they. I'm sure they plant the
buskers to sing the songs.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Oh that's very cynical. I was supposed to be the
cynical guy news thoughts. It'd be not you. Marcus. Did
you watch the Ed Sheeran documentary because it last year
that it came out, And I have to admit there
was a part of me that went, is this all
(11:11):
a bit staged? Is all a that sort of designed
to make them look real? Is me being unfair on him?
Because I like a bit of you Jar and don't
get me wrong, I'm not I'm not an each hearing
hater by any scripts of the imagineer. But yeah, how
many how many viral videos of him ambushing a basca.
(11:37):
Actually I'm with Marcus now, Actually I've completely taken my mind. Yep,
I'm with Marcus. I'mle at heart. That's been used because
he had been come back for more cynical texts like that.
Speaker 7 (11:47):
Tomorrow, su Talks Talking It been
Speaker 1 (11:53):
For more from news Talk said, be listen live on
air or online, and keep our shows with you wherever
you go with our podcast on iHeartRadio
You're listening to a podcast from news Talk, said, b
follow this and our wide range of podcasts now on iHeartRadio.
Used Talk said, be you talk.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Hell. I'm my beautiful beanies, and welcome to the bean
for Tuesday. First with yesterday's news, I am Glen Hart,
and we are looking back at Monday the speed limit thing.
I feel like we've been over sold on the speed
limit thing. We'll find out what Andrew Difference thinks about that.
Surely the super Bowl happened yesterday. Apparently and Ed Sheeran
(00:47):
didn't get his basking license since I was told to
move on. We'll find out where at the end of
the podcast. But first out, foreign investment, please come, come on,
rich guys and girls, well, however you identify, as long
as you're rich, please come.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Whether those changes are confirmed or just signaled, be the
most important thing on the minds of those investors. More
important is the chance of a left wing government swooping
back into power here and reversing a whole bunch of
the stuff that the government's just been loosening. The fast
Track Bill, the rich list of residencies, the regulatory changes,
(01:24):
the Foreign Investment Agency, all of this stuff adds up
and paints a picture of our small country as a free,
open trading nation that welcomes outside capital and doing deals.
Worse than rushing to announce the corporate tax cut would
be the prospect of it being undone within a year
should Labor get back into power. Their economic formula, as
(01:48):
proven during their last term and in statements given by
leader hip consents, is not to grow the economy at
a rate of knots and thereby increase the tax take,
but rather to increase the tax take and further strangle
the economy. Luxon needs this summit to show Kiwis that
he can do the job, that he can grow the
w that he can grow our chances of success, and
(02:12):
in doing so he may comfortably secure the right to
govern Hell even alone after twenty twenty six, and that
would give those leather chaired leed jet passengers something to
be confident about.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
It comes down to the It just seems to keep
coming back down to the to the electoral term. We
caught the parliamentary term, the three year term. You know
what I'm talking about? Like, you know, if you were
put in charge of a business that was in a
lot of debt and you were only given three years
(02:46):
to turn it around. Is that realistic? Maybe it is.
I don't really understand how to do business.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
News talk ze been.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Kerry Woodham has also been thinking about these announcements opening
the doors to the foreign investors. She's got a few
questions though, I think.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
I think Simon Bridges in the Oakland Chamber is probably
quite right. I don't understand how foreign investment is going
to grow our economy. I can understand how bringing money
in and just using it as as an investment opportunity
to offset your other investments. If you're a wealthy foreign
investor just allows you to slush money around, how does
(03:29):
it grow it? Is it going to be the next
rocket label, the next zero or how I mean? Art
galleries and golf courses are all very well and good,
but they're lovely, gorgeous vanity projects and gifts to New
Zealand from wealthy investors that don't really generate jobs. Where
where's the benefit to the ordinary Kiwi? And that was
(03:51):
the question that Andrew Dickens asked smon Bridges too. So
the government has banged the sign on the shop door
and is setting about telling the world we are open
for business. But what sort of business?
Speaker 5 (04:07):
You know?
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Is it going to franchises, is it going to nail bars,
is it going to fast food chops? Is it just
money going round and round in a continual cycle within
the economy. How do we ensure it's going into these
businesses where we've got brilliant ki entrepreneurs, brilliant startup businesses
(04:29):
that need that extra capital to go to that next level.
How do we direct it there?
Speaker 2 (04:34):
I'm I was quite pleased to hear Kerry talk about
you know, just start asking a few questions. And it's
a bit like what I was saying a couple of
weeks ago, off the back of the success in quoteation
Marx of the sale GP, So how does that success
actually help me personally? Like, because some people are doing
(04:59):
good business in some sections of society, how does that
personally help me? And again, like I said, I don't
understand buss, don't understand economics. I always just have more
questions than answers.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
So let's move on us talk side.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Actually, another host on Newsbooks is be asking questions just
kind of dig a little bit deeper in behind the
government policies. Is Andrew Dickens, who's standing in on early edition.
At the moment a few vague concerns about this whole
Let's put all the speed limits back up again, because
(05:36):
it turns out that perhaps not everybody wants the speed
limits back up.
Speaker 6 (05:39):
I'd just take the time to applaud the outbreak of
common sense exhibited by Chris Bishop, the new Minister of Transport.
He has decided to revisit some of the blanket speed
limits imposed by his government in the wake of concerns
by locals. Can I just say it's his government that
does the blanket speed limits. They are the ones who
said fifty one hundred or one ten over all roads,
no matter the condition of the roads or their usage,
(06:00):
and they use the blanket speed limit phrase as a
vote catcher at the election. But the old government actually
left most speed limits in the hands of local authorities,
their roads, their rules. The Labor government issued a schedule
of over three hundred sections of road on the state
highway network, which are the only roads they control. So yeah,
there were those, but that central was put in place
over dangerous roads, mainly around rural schools who are concerned
(06:23):
at motors screaming pass at pickup time. At one hundred
k now. Chris Bishop has come out and indicated he's
going to listen to local concerns, which is a good
thing because until you use a road, you don't know
what an appropriate limit is. There's no way a central
government bureaucrat locked up in Wellington has any idea of
that local reality. Ask the people about how they feel
(06:45):
about the roads. And that's what Chris is doing, which
is smart and that's a good thing. Congratulations Chris.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
The thing that really bugs me about this whole issue
is there, you know, it's sort of being sold as
thea're putting the flemits back up again. But I'm pretty
sure the road outside this building where I come to
work at half past three, three forty five a m
(07:14):
is at thirty kilometers an hour moment that road with
no cars on it at all at that time? Does
that seem sensible my point, that's not going to change
anytime soon because that's an autoint council thing, not a
government which is and that that's dumb and I would
like to that. And now, it was Super Bowl Sunday yesterday.
(07:42):
Yes I know it was Monday, it was Sunday. In America,
it's hard to understand but not just because of the time.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
Difference American football. One big feti banging into another big feti.
Then they all they make half a yard and all
fall over. I mean everyone jumps up and hot dogs around.
The hotdogging is just oh my god. Those guys wouldn't
last five minutes on the rugby league paddock. That open
their trap and they would that would be met with
(08:12):
an almighty punch in the face and told to get
on with the game.
Speaker 7 (08:15):
Yeah, but there's I mean, it's a totally different game.
So you have a different set of skills, right, So
you've got to have your offensive and defensive lines, and
that's where your big fatties are and they fight each other.
But then you have got then you've got absolute athletes.
The wide receivers are you know, you've basically got Olympic
sprinting athletes there. You've got your running backs. They are
(08:36):
totally different shape as well. So one of the great
things about run.
Speaker 5 (08:41):
Every time they miss a tackle, always that they should
have made the allways you hear about is the greatest
athlete on the planets. Just for once, can't they just say, God,
that was a terrible mistackle. Take them around the legs
for goodness sake. But look, I'm hoping today that the
Philadelphia Eagles lose because, like you, Tyler, I'm a massive
baseball fan, and I don't want the Eagles using up
(09:02):
what little good luck Philadelphia sports teams get. And so
my Phillies bloody, you know, because I know you're a
Dodgers fan and that annoys me. And I'm sure and
here's a bandwagon happening there. I'm sure of it. I'm
sure there's a bandwagon happening there.
Speaker 7 (09:17):
But anyway, I've been I've been with the Dodger since
before they had any success at all, and then I've
just been.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
When we can't come together.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
A Man United fan too. Let me get your man
United fan too. Probably I don't want I don't want
the Eagles using up any Philadelphia good luck. And might
Phillies have to win the World Series this year?
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Yeah, I just don't think that it does. Do places
get dealt out a quota of luck for their sports teams.
It doesn't sound particularly scientifically, and of course it didn't
work out for that guy anyway, and Nick with the
Eagles absolutely defying the odds and doing the business. But
(10:04):
I do agree with them. It's a strange game that
I've never really got into watch too much, starting and
stopping and changing the teens and all. Let carry on
very odd news talk has it right now? We're going
to finish up with Marcus talking basking because something dear
in my hat, because that was indeed my first full
time job when I left school.
Speaker 8 (10:25):
Police in India, stop ed shearing some some prompt you
street concert? Good on them, always popping up hassling some busker,
isn't he odd ed? Oh look at there singing my song?
Mind if I jump in here?
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Oh, it's be crazy.
Speaker 8 (10:42):
They're always trying to get a viral kind of a
thing going on, aren't they. I'm sure they plant the
buskers to sing the songs.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Oh that's very cynical. I was supposed to be the
cynical guy news thoughts. It'd be not you. Marcus. Did
you watch the Ed Sheeran documentary because it last year
that it came out, And I have to admit there
was a part of me that went, is this all
(11:11):
a bit staged? Is all a that sort of designed
to make them look real? Is me being unfair on him?
Because I like a bit of you Jar and don't
get me wrong, I'm not I'm not an each hearing
hater by any scripts of the imagineer. But yeah, how
many how many viral videos of him ambushing a basca.
(11:37):
Actually I'm with Marcus now, Actually I've completely taken my mind. Yep,
I'm with Marcus. I'mle at heart. That's been used because
he had been come back for more cynical texts like that.
Speaker 7 (11:47):
Tomorrow, su Talks Talking It been
Speaker 1 (11:53):
For more from news Talk said, be listen live on
air or online, and keep our shows with you wherever
you go with our podcast on iHeartRadio
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