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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
Hello, my beautiful beanies, and welcome to the bean for Wednesday.
First of yesterday's news, I'm Glen Hart. We're looking back
at Tuesday. I think Ryan was the host yesterday who
had a few reasons for you why labor won't do
very well in the next election. This just seems to
be a regular thing that we're on too these days.
(00:50):
CV and Z and the FIFA World Cup and making
you pay for the games. It's now the best time
to not have kids. See if you can figure out
whether that made sense that that last bit that I
(01:11):
just said, and what's with the uber eats in the
middle of the night. But before any of that, the
supply chain is still under a lot of pressure. Apparently
it's because we still haven't got our act together at
our ports.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
When it comes to making these big deep sea ports.
This is where you need to fast track it. Can
you imagine five years from now we'd still be going
through the consent process. Now, there's been much talk in
recent years about how to improve our ports because the
(01:44):
decision makers know just how important it is to get
our goods to market. We've talked about trying to increase
the ports in Auckland, and that is indeed what they're
going to do, expanding some of the wolves there. By
twenty thirty, there should be more space there. The automation
(02:04):
was tried, that didn't work for very obvious reasons. There's
been talk of moving the port north. I think that's
dead in the water. Despite MARTA's best intentions, Port of
Todonger has been trying to to grow its space. It
is monolithic already when you go to the mount it
(02:25):
is dominated by the port. But size doesn't matter in
this case. We need productivity, we need efficiency. We need
to get these ships in and get them out far
more quickly than we're doing now.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
This is one of those classic things where we look
at the rest of the world and say, how come
we're doing so much worse than the rest of the world.
A lot of commentary yesterday morning on the Mikehosking Breakfast
about how good Singapore is and how compared to how
useless we are, and of course nobody seemed to bring
up the fact that Singapore is actually in the middle
of everything. It's on the way to places where people
(03:02):
have to make a special trip to come down here.
That's sometimes we just can't have nice things people.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
News talk ze been.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Anyway, we do have the Labor Party, lucky lucky ass.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
In twenty twenty three, they were talking about doling out loans,
maybe even grants or taxpayers support to secure land for
a third entrant. Now, there's nothing wrong with an e
we lead supermarket chain. There's nothing wrong with a third
chain at all. Hell, we would all like to see that.
But do we want it to be taxpayers supported? That's
the question. If private capital can't make it work at
(03:37):
these prices, what chance would the state have. The problem
with this stuff is it feeds that perception. And the
only response labor has to anything is more money, throw
more money. Can we build anyone? There's a philosophical question
here which Hopkins needs to answer. But of course Hipkins
isn't answering any questions because he's got a ban on
(03:59):
policy till at least Christmas.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Is a real disconnect, isn't there Like anybody who listens
to the news talks, you'll be who is a host
on news talks you be is a fan of news talks,
you'd be seems to be able to see what's wrong
with labor. Not a fan of labor, doesn't think they're performing,
that thinks the useless, blah blah blah. And yet people
(04:24):
who are being asked who they're going to vote for
in polls, quite a few people still sort of say
labor for some reason. So, yeah, this is a sign
of this. Is this what we've seen in other parts
of the world where it's just a massive division between
left and right and nobody really knows that much about
(04:49):
what the other people are doing or cares. It's not
ideal talk. Okay, so the World Cup is going to
be on TV and C. This is the thiefa World Cup,
the football, the soccer. I don't think you're supposed to
for what soccer?
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Are you?
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Even though it's pretend to clear of soccer anyway, This
once again show a disconnect. There's a lot of people
out there who just don't know how to use their
TVs properly.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
I think for them it is absolutely a game changer,
because this will be the first time that TVNZ is
popping content up behind a paywall, and I'm amp for them,
I really hope for them that it goes well, mainly
for selfish reasons, which is that we taxpayers then don't
have to end up bailing TV and Z out in
the future. I think the days I mean, I've come
to terms with the fact that the days of TVNZ
paying the government a dividend are probably long gone. The
(05:44):
way it looks right now with the media market, I
think what we should be hoping for is that TVNZ
just washes its own face and doesn't come looking for
help to survive. But for that to happen, they need
to figure out how to take themselves from a linear
TV free to all offering to a digital streaming, some
of it behind a paywall offering. This is the only
way that they're going to make enough money to keep
broadcasting to us without us having to chuck heaps of
(06:06):
money at them. And even as I say that, I
suspect that we will still have to chuck heaps of
money at them in the future just to keep Kiwi
shows available. Maybe the best that we can hope for
is that it's actually not heaps, just a little bit
of money that we're chucking at them. Who knows, And
maybe it's not even just for selfish reasons. Maybe I'm
also hoping it'll work because I'm hoping that our national
television broadcaster finds a way to survive and thrive in
(06:27):
a new digital world so that we can keep watching
ourselves as Kiwi's back on tally, which I do think
is important. Either way, I have my fingers crossed for
them that they nail this and that this is the
start of something really good for them.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
I mean, as long as it's somewhere and if you
really want to watch hundreds of football games, you'll be
able to. So given that you can watch all the
football you want, is this really the worst time that
it's ever been to have kids?
Speaker 6 (06:56):
Yike's the poor person earlier text thing that the world
is too awful for children, such a sad outlook. It's
the climate change ideology that a lot of our young
have been raised to believe self extinction of the West
via misplaced Yeah, nice means And that year that was
the worst year ever of people, Because that person was
saying before that we live in the hardest time ever.
Look up five thirty six AD. That was a bad year.
(07:20):
That was a bad year. Eighteen months of darkness after
a volcano and an Iceland. Yeah, terrible.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
When you told me to look that had up about
six months ago, that was grim. That was grim reading.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
That was a tough year.
Speaker 6 (07:31):
Mysterious fog, crop failure and famine, societal collapse come out
the back of it. Get the plague terrible.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
Twenty twenty five is a pretty good year.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Why thirty six bad time to have kids?
Speaker 6 (07:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (07:42):
I feel like since mat he started in the ARSSU show,
people are learning more stuff. I don't know if it's
good stuff, but it's differently stuff. He's certainly bringing stuff
to the table. I'll give him that news talk has
it been I think it's been part of why Marcus
lash has been so successful with his show. He brings
a lot of stuff to the table, even if he
(08:03):
has to order out for it.
Speaker 7 (08:04):
So I went to the dairy last night after work,
right and at midnight, and there were four or five
drivers there right picking up orders of food for people,
which I presume is milk run, Right, So milk run
(08:24):
is service that's like Uber eats, but you go to
a dairy or a shop and you buy food for people,
and people getting magnimized creams and bread and milk and
chicken and chips with chicken salt. Who are those people
who's buying stuff at midnight on a Monday and getting
it delivered? What's going on with those people? Are they
(08:47):
people that can't drive? Are they people staying up late?
Are they people that intoxicate? And what's going on? Who
would be using milk Run? In all my years, I've
never thought, oh, well, I'm going to get someone else
to go to the dairy for me. Now, as I say,
it's someone with that judgment. I'm not saying that that's
a bad or a lazy thing to do, but I'm
curious today what's happening in people's lives. They are doing
(09:08):
that because it must be pricey because you're buying it
from the night and day. I think down here and
it's getting delivered, so there be a premium on that.
But yeah, I'm thinking, wow, it's Monday night. So for
those who don't know milk run, yere, you go. I've
never used it, but you send. They've got a list
of items and people go and get those items for
and deliver it. Wondering wildly about it. Who's ever used
(09:33):
the service and what? And if you're just freaking tell
me within what circumstances you use milk run and I
mean the work is it's the workers seem pretty happy
for a chance to work and earn money, and there's
a service for it and there you know, it's one
of those it's one of those service economy jobs share
(09:53):
type things that they are doing. They're out there buying
shopping for people. I've got no idea who the market.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
Is, but I thought it.
Speaker 7 (10:01):
Imagine on a Friday night, there'd be people out with her,
you know, on the rezl Daz and I had come
home and thought, well, let's cook some sausages. Not a
Monday night at midnight. It made me think that maybe
I'm not really experiencing life properly if I'm not doing that.
If you got a comment on that, feel free to
come through. It's called milk Run and they go and beya.
(10:27):
I can imagine if they're making school lunches and they
go and court short without bread and something for the
school lunches, but it look like magnums and bread and
hot chips. I kind of almost wonder if there's a
secret society, is secret level I'm missing out on that
these people are sort of having this great life. They're
out there sort of I don't know what they're doing,
(10:48):
having cards evenings or something, and are forced to scene
out for food wherever else in the city is absolutely quiet.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Apart from that, it's quite cool that he's got a
dairy that's open after midnight, an all night dairy. Do
we have all night daaries here in Auckland? That sounds
like an exciting nightlife down south? Were marcuses? It must
(11:18):
be a big and well, I guess there is a
big demand. It's such such a big demand that not
only are people going there in person, like Marcus, but
they're sending out for stuff.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
From the dairy.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Imagine how expensive that stuff must be. Because it's already expensive,
you know, you buy a packet of party mix, it's
like six bucks at the dairy, and it's only two
dollars fifty on special at the supermarket. Not that I've
really researched this, you understand, But then imagine paying for
a delivery fee on top of that. You really have
to want the party max in the middle of the night.
Sometimes you do, though, don't you, And there'd be nothing
(11:51):
more satisfying than getting it. Although do you really want
to be answering your daughter people in the middle of
the night, who are bringing your party mix? I guess
if you really want it, you do. Yeah. See, you've
got to look at both sides of the argument, don't you.
I angly that that has been news to z Being.
We'll see you back here again in tomorrow for more
(12:11):
to the existential questions like that.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Use Talking Talking z it Bean.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
For more from News 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 Said Be
follow this and our wide range of podcasts now on
iHeartRadio Used Talk Said Talk.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Hello, my beautiful beanies, and welcome to the bean for Wednesday.
First of yesterday's news, I'm Glen Hart. We're looking back
at Tuesday. I think Ryan was the host yesterday who
had a few reasons for you why labor won't do
very well in the next election. This just seems to
be a regular thing that we're on too these days.
(00:50):
CV and Z and the FIFA World Cup and making
you pay for the games. It's now the best time
to not have kids. See if you can figure out
whether that made sense that that last bit that I
(01:11):
just said, and what's with the uber eats in the
middle of the night. But before any of that, the
supply chain is still under a lot of pressure. Apparently
it's because we still haven't got our act together at
our ports.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
When it comes to making these big deep sea ports.
This is where you need to fast track it. Can
you imagine five years from now we'd still be going
through the consent process. Now, there's been much talk in
recent years about how to improve our ports because the
(01:44):
decision makers know just how important it is to get
our goods to market. We've talked about trying to increase
the ports in Auckland, and that is indeed what they're
going to do, expanding some of the wolves there. By
twenty thirty, there should be more space there. The automation
(02:04):
was tried, that didn't work for very obvious reasons. There's
been talk of moving the port north. I think that's
dead in the water. Despite MARTA's best intentions, Port of
Todonger has been trying to to grow its space. It
is monolithic already when you go to the mount it
(02:25):
is dominated by the port. But size doesn't matter in
this case. We need productivity, we need efficiency. We need
to get these ships in and get them out far
more quickly than we're doing now.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
This is one of those classic things where we look
at the rest of the world and say, how come
we're doing so much worse than the rest of the world.
A lot of commentary yesterday morning on the Mikehosking Breakfast
about how good Singapore is and how compared to how
useless we are, and of course nobody seemed to bring
up the fact that Singapore is actually in the middle
of everything. It's on the way to places where people
(03:02):
have to make a special trip to come down here.
That's sometimes we just can't have nice things people.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
News talk ze been.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Anyway, we do have the Labor Party, lucky lucky ass.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
In twenty twenty three, they were talking about doling out loans,
maybe even grants or taxpayers support to secure land for
a third entrant. Now, there's nothing wrong with an e
we lead supermarket chain. There's nothing wrong with a third
chain at all. Hell, we would all like to see that.
But do we want it to be taxpayers supported? That's
the question. If private capital can't make it work at
(03:37):
these prices, what chance would the state have. The problem
with this stuff is it feeds that perception. And the
only response labor has to anything is more money, throw
more money. Can we build anyone? There's a philosophical question
here which Hopkins needs to answer. But of course Hipkins
isn't answering any questions because he's got a ban on
(03:59):
policy till at least Christmas.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Is a real disconnect, isn't there Like anybody who listens
to the news talks, you'll be who is a host
on news talks you be is a fan of news talks,
you'd be seems to be able to see what's wrong
with labor. Not a fan of labor, doesn't think they're performing,
that thinks the useless, blah blah blah. And yet people
(04:24):
who are being asked who they're going to vote for
in polls, quite a few people still sort of say
labor for some reason. So, yeah, this is a sign
of this. Is this what we've seen in other parts
of the world where it's just a massive division between
left and right and nobody really knows that much about
(04:49):
what the other people are doing or cares. It's not
ideal talk. Okay, so the World Cup is going to
be on TV and C. This is the thiefa World Cup,
the football, the soccer. I don't think you're supposed to
for what soccer?
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Are you?
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Even though it's pretend to clear of soccer anyway, This
once again show a disconnect. There's a lot of people
out there who just don't know how to use their
TVs properly.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
I think for them it is absolutely a game changer,
because this will be the first time that TVNZ is
popping content up behind a paywall, and I'm amp for them,
I really hope for them that it goes well, mainly
for selfish reasons, which is that we taxpayers then don't
have to end up bailing TV and Z out in
the future. I think the days I mean, I've come
to terms with the fact that the days of TVNZ
paying the government a dividend are probably long gone. The
(05:44):
way it looks right now with the media market, I
think what we should be hoping for is that TVNZ
just washes its own face and doesn't come looking for
help to survive. But for that to happen, they need
to figure out how to take themselves from a linear
TV free to all offering to a digital streaming, some
of it behind a paywall offering. This is the only
way that they're going to make enough money to keep
broadcasting to us without us having to chuck heaps of
(06:06):
money at them. And even as I say that, I
suspect that we will still have to chuck heaps of
money at them in the future just to keep Kiwi
shows available. Maybe the best that we can hope for
is that it's actually not heaps, just a little bit
of money that we're chucking at them. Who knows, And
maybe it's not even just for selfish reasons. Maybe I'm
also hoping it'll work because I'm hoping that our national
television broadcaster finds a way to survive and thrive in
(06:27):
a new digital world so that we can keep watching
ourselves as Kiwi's back on tally, which I do think
is important. Either way, I have my fingers crossed for
them that they nail this and that this is the
start of something really good for them.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
I mean, as long as it's somewhere and if you
really want to watch hundreds of football games, you'll be
able to. So given that you can watch all the
football you want, is this really the worst time that
it's ever been to have kids?
Speaker 6 (06:56):
Yike's the poor person earlier text thing that the world
is too awful for children, such a sad outlook. It's
the climate change ideology that a lot of our young
have been raised to believe self extinction of the West
via misplaced Yeah, nice means And that year that was
the worst year ever of people, Because that person was
saying before that we live in the hardest time ever.
Look up five thirty six AD. That was a bad year.
(07:20):
That was a bad year. Eighteen months of darkness after
a volcano and an Iceland. Yeah, terrible.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
When you told me to look that had up about
six months ago, that was grim. That was grim reading.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
That was a tough year.
Speaker 6 (07:31):
Mysterious fog, crop failure and famine, societal collapse come out
the back of it. Get the plague terrible.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
Twenty twenty five is a pretty good year.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Why thirty six bad time to have kids?
Speaker 6 (07:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (07:42):
I feel like since mat he started in the ARSSU show,
people are learning more stuff. I don't know if it's
good stuff, but it's differently stuff. He's certainly bringing stuff
to the table. I'll give him that news talk has
it been I think it's been part of why Marcus
lash has been so successful with his show. He brings
a lot of stuff to the table, even if he
(08:03):
has to order out for it.
Speaker 7 (08:04):
So I went to the dairy last night after work,
right and at midnight, and there were four or five
drivers there right picking up orders of food for people,
which I presume is milk run, Right, So milk run
(08:24):
is service that's like Uber eats, but you go to
a dairy or a shop and you buy food for people,
and people getting magnimized creams and bread and milk and
chicken and chips with chicken salt. Who are those people
who's buying stuff at midnight on a Monday and getting
it delivered? What's going on with those people? Are they
(08:47):
people that can't drive? Are they people staying up late?
Are they people that intoxicate? And what's going on? Who
would be using milk Run? In all my years, I've
never thought, oh, well, I'm going to get someone else
to go to the dairy for me. Now, as I say,
it's someone with that judgment. I'm not saying that that's
a bad or a lazy thing to do, but I'm
curious today what's happening in people's lives. They are doing
(09:08):
that because it must be pricey because you're buying it
from the night and day. I think down here and
it's getting delivered, so there be a premium on that.
But yeah, I'm thinking, wow, it's Monday night. So for
those who don't know milk run, yere, you go. I've
never used it, but you send. They've got a list
of items and people go and get those items for
and deliver it. Wondering wildly about it. Who's ever used
(09:33):
the service and what? And if you're just freaking tell
me within what circumstances you use milk run and I
mean the work is it's the workers seem pretty happy
for a chance to work and earn money, and there's
a service for it and there you know, it's one
of those it's one of those service economy jobs share
(09:53):
type things that they are doing. They're out there buying
shopping for people. I've got no idea who the market.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
Is, but I thought it.
Speaker 7 (10:01):
Imagine on a Friday night, there'd be people out with her,
you know, on the rezl Daz and I had come
home and thought, well, let's cook some sausages. Not a
Monday night at midnight. It made me think that maybe
I'm not really experiencing life properly if I'm not doing that.
If you got a comment on that, feel free to
come through. It's called milk Run and they go and beya.
(10:27):
I can imagine if they're making school lunches and they
go and court short without bread and something for the
school lunches, but it look like magnums and bread and
hot chips. I kind of almost wonder if there's a
secret society, is secret level I'm missing out on that
these people are sort of having this great life. They're
out there sort of I don't know what they're doing,
(10:48):
having cards evenings or something, and are forced to scene
out for food wherever else in the city is absolutely quiet.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Apart from that, it's quite cool that he's got a
dairy that's open after midnight, an all night dairy. Do
we have all night daaries here in Auckland? That sounds
like an exciting nightlife down south? Were marcuses? It must
(11:18):
be a big and well, I guess there is a
big demand. It's such such a big demand that not
only are people going there in person, like Marcus, but
they're sending out for stuff.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
From the dairy.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Imagine how expensive that stuff must be. Because it's already expensive,
you know, you buy a packet of party mix, it's
like six bucks at the dairy, and it's only two
dollars fifty on special at the supermarket. Not that I've
really researched this, you understand, But then imagine paying for
a delivery fee on top of that. You really have
to want the party max in the middle of the night.
Sometimes you do, though, don't you, And there'd be nothing
(11:51):
more satisfying than getting it. Although do you really want
to be answering your daughter people in the middle of
the night, who are bringing your party mix? I guess
if you really want it, you do. Yeah. See, you've
got to look at both sides of the argument, don't you.
I angly that that has been news to z Being.
We'll see you back here again in tomorrow for more
(12:11):
to the existential questions like that.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Use Talking Talking z it Bean.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
For more from News 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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