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Speaker 2 (00:22):
Hello, my beautiful beanies, and welcome to the bean for Tuesday.
First of yesterday's news. I am Glen Hart, and we
are looking back at Monday. It's time for everybody to
increase their defense spending because Donald Trump says so basically
amazing overseas investment is on. Bring it on, overseas. Come on,
(00:50):
Why do they do the decimal places with the overs
in cricket and get it wrong every time. I'm glad
Marcus is onto this and Matt goes to the City
of Love.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Hamilton.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
But before any of that, Yeah, these Chinese warships of
banging and bonking around in our waters were adjacent waters.
It's a bit of a worry, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
This happens at the same time that the Cook Islands,
of course, have signed that deal that we've been talking about,
and then that deal that includes wharf construction, and you
read that and you wonder how naive and stupid was
Matt Brown for going there at this time and actually
signing up a deal that actually talks about wolf construction.
I mean, of course new wolves are lovely until one
(01:40):
day the Chinese navy starts using them as a staging
point to invade the Pacific. And that's going to the
worst case scenario. It's even when they come and stay,
just come and stop there for a bit to refuel.
You got to Chinese boat and news shorts asked Aukland
is how they felt in the old days when the
American submarines used to come here and just park up
in their bay. You felt like you were a target. Anyway,
(02:00):
this is what the Cook Islands has committed to. So
this all begs the question why New Zealand never built
a deep water base on the island years ago. Why
we did not build a wharf. We built the International airport,
which of course is the island's lifeline, but that airport
is also a military base if it needs to be.
Why didn't we build a port, and why don't we
(02:21):
have a New Zealand ship stationed over there semi permanently.
This is the This is the entry to the Pacific.
The Cook Islands are a semi autonomous part of New
Zealand and a fine place for us to put a base.
It should have been our forward base from the get
go if we were serious about defense, and have we
ever been serious about defense? So why didn't it happen?
(02:43):
Same thing? Everything else is falling apart. We don't like
spending money. Well, that is a false economy. Now China
has stolen a march from right under our feet or
should I say our flippers.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
It's kind of like insurance, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Somewhere along the line we decided we just couldn't afford
the insurance, so we thought we'd take our chances, and
sooner or later, that kind of decision comes back to buy.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
You, it, doesn't it. Used talk zep been valuation. Apparently
we're going to spend more.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
We're going to start paying that insurance. Quite sure we
were getting this money from but there you go.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
But I think it's crunch time. We either don't have
a defense force, which is we're dangerously close to not
having one. People despite the fancy schmancy recruitment posters, people
aren't signing up because they know that the houses are appalling,
(03:43):
that that's a struggle to get anything you need to
do your job properly, that people are leaving in droves.
So it's crunch time, and I say, we either commit
and build up our defense forces again to do our
bit to help with global security, or we abandon it
(04:05):
all together. We can't go on in this kind of
semi semi demi world that the defense force is living in.
They haven't got enough to do their job properly. They're
not valued. Either value them and commit, or put the
money into the choirs and the candles and be done
(04:28):
with it.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
I don't like it. I've got this very uneasy feeling.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
As I watched country after country pledge more and more
money to defense spending, as you know, because Donald Trump's
hold US resources out of various conflicts and commitments. I
(04:56):
wish we could just all get together and agree to
not spend anything or that, because you know, defense spending
isn't really defense spending, it's offense spending, you know. I
guess that's the way the world works, and it's kind
of cyclical like everything else.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
And it's a dangerous.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Time right now, Boom, you talk save now time to
let overseas investment. And speaking of superful things, we've decided
we'd like some of that bit of foreign money and
our injectment into our economy and I don't think we're
that worried about.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
The strings attached. We'll take it where we can get it.
Speaker 6 (05:41):
And some country wants aid, or there's a climate change
fund to contribute to. Oh yes, yes, please and thank
you all. Definitely put some money in for that solar
panel in the Pacific.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
We love it. But then when.
Speaker 6 (05:52):
People try to give us money, we say no. We
turn up our noses. We're quite pious, quite virtuous, and
say no to things, which is odd. No to that money.
It's dirty. It's from a businessman. It's quite an unusual thing.
So quick to giveth but not to receiveth. Which is
(06:13):
why today I just couldn't with Barbara Edmonds from Labor
opposing Seymour's changes to our laws that were renounced yesterday.
She came out and said water assets would be sold.
And that's bad, she says, because they're strategically important to
the country. And if you read the cabinet paper, which
I did today, you will find that certain strategically important
(06:36):
businesses must undergo a national interest assessment before anything goes further.
So you look up in the legislation what is a
strategically important business? And guess what you find. The list
includes ports, airports, electricity, telecom and wait for it, water assets.
(06:59):
So there are some restrictions Barbara Edmonds will find hopefully
loose enough to move us from last place on that
friendly for investment list.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Are they allowed to invest in rubbish bins because once
again I found myself too far away from a than
with a plastic vehicle a dog poo in my pocket
last night, had to carry it all the way home.
Or is that sort of sensitive critical infrastructure that we're
(07:32):
not allowed foreign investment And I'd love to bring back
the bins anyway, right, So weirdness and sport, it's good
to call this out. I think this whole, you know,
as somebody's done six point three overs, they haven't done
six point three overs, they've actually done six point five
overs because they're gold three balls. That's half and over
(07:55):
that shit point five of it. And then it all
changes the meeting so that the calculations are wrong. And
I'm glad Marcus is onto this.
Speaker 7 (08:02):
The cricket score one hundred and four for three, twenty
one point twenty one. I hate how it's is twenty
one point three overs because twenty one point five os.
It's thwenty one overs and three balls. That does my
head in more than anything they say twenty one and
three over six. I don't know why they've never started
doing that. You can't put twenty one point three. It's
(08:25):
making a mockery of the whole decimal system. They've got
twenty one point four. Actually it's not twenty one point four.
It's twenty one point sixty sixty six sixty six. If
anything about cricket coverage drives me crazy, it's that they
(08:45):
need to write how many the percentage of the over
is over.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
It's the weirdest thing, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
I mean, given that they're just so into stats in cricket,
that's one thing that they've just decided, Ah.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Don't worry about it.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
News talk, has it.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Been be fair? That's an attitude I'm usually behind, don't
worry about it attitude. I think it might be something
to do with growing up in Hamilton.
Speaker 8 (09:09):
I've actually never been to the Hamilton Gardens before and
they are.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Very very cool.
Speaker 8 (09:13):
They are well class, they spectacular. Everyone needs to talk
about the Hamilton Gardens more absolutely.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
And as part of your trip away, you also spent
some time at a farm.
Speaker 8 (09:21):
Yeah, that's where I've been staying in Cleveden as well
lately and hanging out with some buffalo. And I didn't
realize that buffalo farming was really a thing in New Zealand,
so I thought it was around the fringes. But buffalo
are very cool, They're very good. I drank some buffalo milk,
I ate some buffalo meat, and I hang out with
some beautiful buffalos and Cleveden. So we want to talk
about different types of livestock in the country later in
(09:41):
the show. You know what else the people are find milling?
And how do you do it? How do you how
do you send a weird animal to the abature? How
do you make a living out of odd animals that
doesn't have to be there to odd? I know a
lot of people have got the EMUs going.
Speaker 6 (09:54):
Yeah, EMUs. Yea el packers was massive for a while.
Speaker 8 (09:57):
Yeah, what are we doing with the old packers? I
see el peckers all over the shop?
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Is it just for their wool?
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Must be?
Speaker 8 (10:01):
What else are we farming?
Speaker 6 (10:02):
Can you get elpecker milk?
Speaker 8 (10:04):
I've never milked an elpecker, but I ca but Tyler,
there's a lot of things I haven't milk.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
Wow, good god, it's good tonight.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
There's buffalo milk. What they make the buffalo melts arella
out of? And also did he have the buff buffalo wings?
And how big are the wings?
Speaker 3 (10:25):
How high do they fly?
Speaker 2 (10:29):
I was hoping he was going to spend more time
talking about Hamilton to be perfectly on City of Love.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Oh well, I am a green hat that has been
newstalks been.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
I'll be back here with more ridiculous dead jokes for
you tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
I will see you then.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
US Talkers Talks it been for more from news Talks.
It'd be 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.
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
Hello, my beautiful beanies, and welcome to the bean for Tuesday.
First of yesterday's news. I am Glen Hart, and we
are looking back at Monday. It's time for everybody to
increase their defense spending because Donald Trump says so basically
amazing overseas investment is on. Bring it on, overseas. Come on,
(00:50):
Why do they do the decimal places with the overs
in cricket and get it wrong every time. I'm glad
Marcus is onto this and Matt goes to the City
of Love.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Hamilton.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
But before any of that, Yeah, these Chinese warships of
banging and bonking around in our waters were adjacent waters.
It's a bit of a worry, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
This happens at the same time that the Cook Islands,
of course, have signed that deal that we've been talking about,
and then that deal that includes wharf construction, and you
read that and you wonder how naive and stupid was
Matt Brown for going there at this time and actually
signing up a deal that actually talks about wolf construction.
I mean, of course new wolves are lovely until one
(01:40):
day the Chinese navy starts using them as a staging
point to invade the Pacific. And that's going to the
worst case scenario. It's even when they come and stay,
just come and stop there for a bit to refuel.
You got to Chinese boat and news shorts asked Aukland
is how they felt in the old days when the
American submarines used to come here and just park up
in their bay. You felt like you were a target. Anyway,
(02:00):
this is what the Cook Islands has committed to. So
this all begs the question why New Zealand never built
a deep water base on the island years ago. Why
we did not build a wharf. We built the International airport,
which of course is the island's lifeline, but that airport
is also a military base if it needs to be.
Why didn't we build a port, and why don't we
(02:21):
have a New Zealand ship stationed over there semi permanently.
This is the This is the entry to the Pacific.
The Cook Islands are a semi autonomous part of New
Zealand and a fine place for us to put a base.
It should have been our forward base from the get
go if we were serious about defense, and have we
ever been serious about defense? So why didn't it happen?
(02:43):
Same thing? Everything else is falling apart. We don't like
spending money. Well, that is a false economy. Now China
has stolen a march from right under our feet or
should I say our flippers.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
It's kind of like insurance, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Somewhere along the line we decided we just couldn't afford
the insurance, so we thought we'd take our chances, and
sooner or later, that kind of decision comes back to buy.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
You, it, doesn't it. Used talk zep been valuation. Apparently
we're going to spend more.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
We're going to start paying that insurance. Quite sure we
were getting this money from but there you go.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
But I think it's crunch time. We either don't have
a defense force, which is we're dangerously close to not
having one. People despite the fancy schmancy recruitment posters, people
aren't signing up because they know that the houses are appalling,
(03:43):
that that's a struggle to get anything you need to
do your job properly, that people are leaving in droves.
So it's crunch time, and I say, we either commit
and build up our defense forces again to do our
bit to help with global security, or we abandon it
(04:05):
all together. We can't go on in this kind of
semi semi demi world that the defense force is living in.
They haven't got enough to do their job properly. They're
not valued. Either value them and commit, or put the
money into the choirs and the candles and be done
(04:28):
with it.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
I don't like it. I've got this very uneasy feeling.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
As I watched country after country pledge more and more
money to defense spending, as you know, because Donald Trump's
hold US resources out of various conflicts and commitments. I
(04:56):
wish we could just all get together and agree to
not spend anything or that, because you know, defense spending
isn't really defense spending, it's offense spending, you know. I
guess that's the way the world works, and it's kind
of cyclical like everything else.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
And it's a dangerous.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Time right now, Boom, you talk save now time to
let overseas investment. And speaking of superful things, we've decided
we'd like some of that bit of foreign money and
our injectment into our economy and I don't think we're
that worried about.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
The strings attached. We'll take it where we can get it.
Speaker 6 (05:41):
And some country wants aid, or there's a climate change
fund to contribute to. Oh yes, yes, please and thank
you all. Definitely put some money in for that solar
panel in the Pacific.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
We love it. But then when.
Speaker 6 (05:52):
People try to give us money, we say no. We
turn up our noses. We're quite pious, quite virtuous, and
say no to things, which is odd. No to that money.
It's dirty. It's from a businessman. It's quite an unusual thing.
So quick to giveth but not to receiveth. Which is
(06:13):
why today I just couldn't with Barbara Edmonds from Labor
opposing Seymour's changes to our laws that were renounced yesterday.
She came out and said water assets would be sold.
And that's bad, she says, because they're strategically important to
the country. And if you read the cabinet paper, which
I did today, you will find that certain strategically important
(06:36):
businesses must undergo a national interest assessment before anything goes further.
So you look up in the legislation what is a
strategically important business? And guess what you find. The list
includes ports, airports, electricity, telecom and wait for it, water assets.
(06:59):
So there are some restrictions Barbara Edmonds will find hopefully
loose enough to move us from last place on that
friendly for investment list.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Are they allowed to invest in rubbish bins because once
again I found myself too far away from a than
with a plastic vehicle a dog poo in my pocket
last night, had to carry it all the way home.
Or is that sort of sensitive critical infrastructure that we're
(07:32):
not allowed foreign investment And I'd love to bring back
the bins anyway, right, So weirdness and sport, it's good
to call this out. I think this whole, you know,
as somebody's done six point three overs, they haven't done
six point three overs, they've actually done six point five
overs because they're gold three balls. That's half and over
(07:55):
that shit point five of it. And then it all
changes the meeting so that the calculations are wrong. And
I'm glad Marcus is onto this.
Speaker 7 (08:02):
The cricket score one hundred and four for three, twenty
one point twenty one. I hate how it's is twenty
one point three overs because twenty one point five os.
It's thwenty one overs and three balls. That does my
head in more than anything they say twenty one and
three over six. I don't know why they've never started
doing that. You can't put twenty one point three. It's
(08:25):
making a mockery of the whole decimal system. They've got
twenty one point four. Actually it's not twenty one point four.
It's twenty one point sixty sixty six sixty six. If
anything about cricket coverage drives me crazy, it's that they
(08:45):
need to write how many the percentage of the over
is over.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
It's the weirdest thing, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
I mean, given that they're just so into stats in cricket,
that's one thing that they've just decided, Ah.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Don't worry about it.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
News talk, has it.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Been be fair? That's an attitude I'm usually behind, don't
worry about it attitude. I think it might be something
to do with growing up in Hamilton.
Speaker 8 (09:09):
I've actually never been to the Hamilton Gardens before and
they are.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Very very cool.
Speaker 8 (09:13):
They are well class, they spectacular. Everyone needs to talk
about the Hamilton Gardens more absolutely.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
And as part of your trip away, you also spent
some time at a farm.
Speaker 8 (09:21):
Yeah, that's where I've been staying in Cleveden as well
lately and hanging out with some buffalo. And I didn't
realize that buffalo farming was really a thing in New Zealand,
so I thought it was around the fringes. But buffalo
are very cool, They're very good. I drank some buffalo milk,
I ate some buffalo meat, and I hang out with
some beautiful buffalos and Cleveden. So we want to talk
about different types of livestock in the country later in
(09:41):
the show. You know what else the people are find milling?
And how do you do it? How do you how
do you send a weird animal to the abature? How
do you make a living out of odd animals that
doesn't have to be there to odd? I know a
lot of people have got the EMUs going.
Speaker 6 (09:54):
Yeah, EMUs. Yea el packers was massive for a while.
Speaker 8 (09:57):
Yeah, what are we doing with the old packers? I
see el peckers all over the shop?
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Is it just for their wool?
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Must be?
Speaker 8 (10:01):
What else are we farming?
Speaker 6 (10:02):
Can you get elpecker milk?
Speaker 8 (10:04):
I've never milked an elpecker, but I ca but Tyler,
there's a lot of things I haven't milk.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
Wow, good god, it's good tonight.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
There's buffalo milk. What they make the buffalo melts arella
out of? And also did he have the buff buffalo wings?
And how big are the wings?
Speaker 3 (10:25):
How high do they fly?
Speaker 2 (10:29):
I was hoping he was going to spend more time
talking about Hamilton to be perfectly on City of Love.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Oh well, I am a green hat that has been
newstalks been.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
I'll be back here with more ridiculous dead jokes for
you tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
I will see you then.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
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