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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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):
Hello, my beautiful beanies, and welcome to the bean for Thursday.
First of yesterday's news, I am Glen Hart, and we
are looking back at Wednesday, which was the day when
they appointed well they announced the new Reserve Bank governor.
Just chicking. Is paracetamol all right to take?
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Or not?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Or will that turn me autistic? The ruapehu eruption. Don't worry,
it didn't happen yesterday. Happened in the nineties. But Marcus
wanted to talk about that, and the n wanted to
talk about the weather. But before any of that, the
mood of the boardroom was pretty dark. Cheer up, guys.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
We've lost a lot of highly skilled people out of
the construction industry in the last eighteen months. Now, with
the taps about to turn on, how do we ramp
up to ensure there's capacity in the market. They also
called for a compelling vision that stretches beyond a three
year election cycle. Again what we were discussing yesterday. So
(01:19):
there's a lot to work on, and Christopher Luxe and
Nikola Willis would do well to heed the advice, the
criticism and the positive remarks made by the business leaders.
All of these things we know, and all of these
things we've said. And while it is true that Labor,
(01:41):
the Greens and Tapatimari aren't inspiring confidence amongst business leaders,
to put it mildly, as a country, we need more.
We should want more than the least rubbish of two
coalition governments waiting for the economic cycle to finish. His
rotation is not the vision New Zealanders were promised when
(02:04):
a center right government was elected. They said there would
be growth, there would be productivity, that good times were coming. Yes,
it was a mess, they said they had the answer.
They promised that this coalition government, the National Party in particular,
has to do better, not just for the sake of
(02:26):
their own political futures, but for the sake of the country.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Yeah. I don't know about the boardroom, but definitely the
general vibe I'm getting is that people wondering, what's happened
to all this fast tracking ass kicking barnacle scraping guitar
out of the ditching. Where's the actual evidence of it?
(02:50):
We had? Well, where did those green shoots go?
Speaker 1 (02:54):
News talk has been, of course.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
The Reserve Bank has copped a lot of the blame
for the state that we're in, and I'll keep repeating
that it's the state a lot of people are in
around the world. I'm not sure how our is a
a bank defect of the rest of the world quite
so gravely, but anyway, so a woman from Sweden's gonna
(03:19):
sort it out.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Currently we don't get to know which way the committee
members voted, let alone why. And remember it's not just
Risbank that does this, it's the FED in the US,
the Bank of England. They all reveal who, some even
reveal why, So why don't we Here's hoping the Sweden
charge will help shape things up. Changes will be made,
(03:41):
Sunlight will be shone, a new dawn perhaps for number two,
the terrace after a dark and cloudy, let's face it,
roller coaster ride of terror under Adrian Or. Her name
is Aarna Breman. CV reads as you'd expect current Who
I see of the bank in her home country, the
Central Bank. They're academic jobs, chief economists at a retail bank.
She's moving here with her family, which is nice. Good
(04:03):
to see. I don't know how new Dydam First will
feel about us importing another micro and for a Kiwi job,
but there we go. So reality is most of the
heavy lifting. By the time she gets their feet under
the desk December First will hopefully have been done two
more reviews under hawksby October November. Then he's gone, not
(04:23):
just from the top job, but from the bank entirely.
And then they shut up shop, of course, for Christmas
till February. Let's hope as she enjoys what I'm sure
will be a welcome sunny Kiwi summer, she brings a
bit of that sunshine. After all, the best disinfectant to
number two the terraces Wellington.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
The Reserve Bank seems to be one of these things
that we've become fixated about. I mean, I've been doing
this for a couple of decades now, it's not longer.
It is longer, but I just don't like to think
about how that's longer. And it seems like we've just
become more and more fixated on the Reserve Bank, more
(05:01):
and more fixated on things like the GDP, like the
ocr It's become And when I say we, I guess
the news WHAT'SZP community, Because that's really the only time
that I touched the rest of the world is through
this station. I keep myself pretty much for myself the
rest of the time. Otherwise I think I go bonkers.
(05:24):
Use talk sidin am I having a reaction to some
of the drugs I'm taking. Is that what's going on?
Speaker 5 (05:29):
There is a simple reason why the number of cases
has increased, and it's not because of vaccines, but rather
the result of changes in the way autism is defined
and assessed. In the nineteen eighties, autism was tightly defined
and considered extremely rare. Then Asperger's syndrome, which is much
milder in severity than classic autism and much more common,
(05:50):
was added as a diagnosis. And then in twenty thirteen,
Asperger syndrome was eliminated as a standalone diagnosis and folded
into the newly introduced concept of autism spectrum disorder. Hence,
an increase in diagnosis is under that one umbrella. That
and more general awareness of ASD has led to more
(06:11):
people getting themselves or their children assessed. And yes, the
difficulty of diagnosing autism can lead to misdiagnosis as well,
but implying autism is something to fear, something that needs
to be raised, is offensive. Yes, there are high support
need cases which are hugely challenging for families, and yes,
living with the disability in a world that isn't designed
(06:33):
for you is difficult. But with support, autistic people live productive,
interesting and rich lives, and quite frankly, the world would
be much less without them.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
I'll actually go a step further and suggest that the
world wasn't designed for any of us. We just keep
trying to bend it to suit our needs, and in
the process we've broken quite a few bits of it,
and that the world would probably be better without all of us.
Right now. The eruption on Mountain were of hey, who
(07:12):
it happened back in the nineties. That's another thing I remember.
I mean I wasn't there or anything. That I was alive,
and so was Marcles. He loves remembering this sort of stuff.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
Barry was good luck, not good management that no one
was killed.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
So yeah.
Speaker 6 (07:29):
Blue September nineteen ninety five, lahars thundering down valleys, plumes
of spoke. Of course, the lajazare because the valley that
the lake at the top breaches its walls, which are
made out of ash and lava. So it went, and
the unrest lasted for a long time, lasted to the
(07:49):
middle of nineteen ninety six. I didn't realize it went
so long. Closed highways, closed airports that made power cuts
because pylon shorted and it damaged the turbines and hang
a poor power station. Thousand sheep were held grazing on
(08:12):
ash covered pastures, yep smoking DEBI went twelve k's high,
and rocks were thrown one point five k's from the crater.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
It's all coming back to me now, that's right. The
planes had to take the long way around, I think
because of the stuff in the air, and you can't
feed cheap ash. And there's a big lesson that we
learned out of that. That's good to know.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
News talk has it been.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Let's finish up with a bit of weather. Really a
pen about talking about the weather on the radio unless
it's significant weather, which hard ever is, even though they
keep telling us that there's going to be some.
Speaker 7 (09:02):
I love good weather, and I think it's spring that
I really struggle with, because, like I was saying to
an earlier caller that I can't stand winter. But I
know that winter is bad so that I look forward
to spring, even though I know that spring always lets
me down. And then when it does let me down,
as it is this week, I like to ride to work.
I feel so much better getting that exercise. I can't
(09:23):
ride when it's you know, absolutely pouring with rain. I
mean a few drops, I don't mind, but you know
when it's bucketing down three days in a row, and
then you see the weather forecast and you're like, oh,
it's twenty nine and sunny in Brisbane today. And yet,
as I keeps saying, we've we endlessly compare ourselves, then
we just make ourselves feel worse. And that surely also
(09:43):
has kind of an economic flow on effect in New Zealand.
As we're talking about two hundred and one New Zealand
is leaving every single year, fifty eight percent of sorry,
every single day. Two hundred one a year wouldn't be
an issue. Two hundred one people every single day, and
fifty eight percent of those going to Australia, a lot
to Queensland.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
I don't know if I'm moving to Australia because of
the weather these days, it's been pretty rubbish and a
places in Australia for quite a while. Are you can
depress yourself by looking around the world and seeing where
the weather is nice, but you can it also weeks
the other way. You can look around and see where
the weather is terrible. I mean, just yesterday there was
(10:24):
a report out of Australia forecasting floods and fires this summer.
It's for a change, so you know, I don't know
that you want to be moving there to that, do you.
Just this morning, I see the typhoon and hit Taiwan.
(10:47):
You've got to see that video of the water rushing
through the windows, just like something out of a I mean,
they always say something out of a movie, don't they,
But it was quite surreal. There's a giant two dimensional
panda sign in this I don't know if it was
a shopping mall or a restaurant or something, and then
the water comes rushing through and the sky gets washed
away past. It's very happy waving panda. So you know,
(11:11):
you don't want that sort of thing happening. And I
haven't seen that sort of thing happening here in New
Zealand recently, so that's good. You know how many nice
I'm gonna say life size, but it's some more of
a cartoon pander standing up waving. Look up the video
you'll see what I'm talking. I don't know how many
of those we have in New Zealand. It's not very
(11:33):
often somebody gets washed past one of those. Here what
I'm saying, This last bit's gone on a bit, and
often this last bit is often the bit that goes
on too long, which I suppose is the best place
to have it, because if you're if you get sick
of it, you can just stop and you haven't really
missed that much of the podcast, you know what I mean?
Until I just stop.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Used talking talkings it been for more from news Talk,
said B. Listen live on air or online, and keep
our shows with you wherever you go with our podcasts
on iart Radio
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):
Hello, my beautiful beanies, and welcome to the bean for Thursday.
First of yesterday's news, I am Glen Hart, and we
are looking back at Wednesday, which was the day when
they appointed well they announced the new Reserve Bank governor.
Just chicking. Is paracetamol all right to take?
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Or not?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Or will that turn me autistic? The ruapehu eruption. Don't worry,
it didn't happen yesterday. Happened in the nineties. But Marcus
wanted to talk about that, and the n wanted to
talk about the weather. But before any of that, the
mood of the boardroom was pretty dark. Cheer up, guys.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
We've lost a lot of highly skilled people out of
the construction industry in the last eighteen months. Now, with
the taps about to turn on, how do we ramp
up to ensure there's capacity in the market. They also
called for a compelling vision that stretches beyond a three
year election cycle. Again what we were discussing yesterday. So
(01:19):
there's a lot to work on, and Christopher Luxe and
Nikola Willis would do well to heed the advice, the
criticism and the positive remarks made by the business leaders.
All of these things we know, and all of these
things we've said. And while it is true that Labor,
(01:41):
the Greens and Tapatimari aren't inspiring confidence amongst business leaders,
to put it mildly, as a country, we need more.
We should want more than the least rubbish of two
coalition governments waiting for the economic cycle to finish. His
rotation is not the vision New Zealanders were promised when
(02:04):
a center right government was elected. They said there would
be growth, there would be productivity, that good times were coming. Yes,
it was a mess, they said they had the answer.
They promised that this coalition government, the National Party in particular,
has to do better, not just for the sake of
(02:26):
their own political futures, but for the sake of the country.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Yeah. I don't know about the boardroom, but definitely the
general vibe I'm getting is that people wondering, what's happened
to all this fast tracking ass kicking barnacle scraping guitar
out of the ditching. Where's the actual evidence of it?
(02:50):
We had? Well, where did those green shoots go?
Speaker 1 (02:54):
News talk has been, of course.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
The Reserve Bank has copped a lot of the blame
for the state that we're in, and I'll keep repeating
that it's the state a lot of people are in
around the world. I'm not sure how our is a
a bank defect of the rest of the world quite
so gravely, but anyway, so a woman from Sweden's gonna
(03:19):
sort it out.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Currently we don't get to know which way the committee
members voted, let alone why. And remember it's not just
Risbank that does this, it's the FED in the US,
the Bank of England. They all reveal who, some even
reveal why, So why don't we Here's hoping the Sweden
charge will help shape things up. Changes will be made,
(03:41):
Sunlight will be shone, a new dawn perhaps for number two,
the terrace after a dark and cloudy, let's face it,
roller coaster ride of terror under Adrian Or. Her name
is Aarna Breman. CV reads as you'd expect current Who
I see of the bank in her home country, the
Central Bank. They're academic jobs, chief economists at a retail bank.
She's moving here with her family, which is nice. Good
(04:03):
to see. I don't know how new Dydam First will
feel about us importing another micro and for a Kiwi job,
but there we go. So reality is most of the
heavy lifting. By the time she gets their feet under
the desk December First will hopefully have been done two
more reviews under hawksby October November. Then he's gone, not
(04:23):
just from the top job, but from the bank entirely.
And then they shut up shop, of course, for Christmas
till February. Let's hope as she enjoys what I'm sure
will be a welcome sunny Kiwi summer, she brings a
bit of that sunshine. After all, the best disinfectant to
number two the terraces Wellington.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
The Reserve Bank seems to be one of these things
that we've become fixated about. I mean, I've been doing
this for a couple of decades now, it's not longer.
It is longer, but I just don't like to think
about how that's longer. And it seems like we've just
become more and more fixated on the Reserve Bank, more
(05:01):
and more fixated on things like the GDP, like the
ocr It's become And when I say we, I guess
the news WHAT'SZP community, Because that's really the only time
that I touched the rest of the world is through
this station. I keep myself pretty much for myself the
rest of the time. Otherwise I think I go bonkers.
(05:24):
Use talk sidin am I having a reaction to some
of the drugs I'm taking. Is that what's going on?
Speaker 5 (05:29):
There is a simple reason why the number of cases
has increased, and it's not because of vaccines, but rather
the result of changes in the way autism is defined
and assessed. In the nineteen eighties, autism was tightly defined
and considered extremely rare. Then Asperger's syndrome, which is much
milder in severity than classic autism and much more common,
(05:50):
was added as a diagnosis. And then in twenty thirteen,
Asperger syndrome was eliminated as a standalone diagnosis and folded
into the newly introduced concept of autism spectrum disorder. Hence,
an increase in diagnosis is under that one umbrella. That
and more general awareness of ASD has led to more
(06:11):
people getting themselves or their children assessed. And yes, the
difficulty of diagnosing autism can lead to misdiagnosis as well,
but implying autism is something to fear, something that needs
to be raised, is offensive. Yes, there are high support
need cases which are hugely challenging for families, and yes,
living with the disability in a world that isn't designed
(06:33):
for you is difficult. But with support, autistic people live productive,
interesting and rich lives, and quite frankly, the world would
be much less without them.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
I'll actually go a step further and suggest that the
world wasn't designed for any of us. We just keep
trying to bend it to suit our needs, and in
the process we've broken quite a few bits of it,
and that the world would probably be better without all of us.
Right now. The eruption on Mountain were of hey, who
(07:12):
it happened back in the nineties. That's another thing I remember.
I mean I wasn't there or anything. That I was alive,
and so was Marcles. He loves remembering this sort of stuff.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
Barry was good luck, not good management that no one
was killed.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
So yeah.
Speaker 6 (07:29):
Blue September nineteen ninety five, lahars thundering down valleys, plumes
of spoke. Of course, the lajazare because the valley that
the lake at the top breaches its walls, which are
made out of ash and lava. So it went, and
the unrest lasted for a long time, lasted to the
(07:49):
middle of nineteen ninety six. I didn't realize it went
so long. Closed highways, closed airports that made power cuts
because pylon shorted and it damaged the turbines and hang
a poor power station. Thousand sheep were held grazing on
(08:12):
ash covered pastures, yep smoking DEBI went twelve k's high,
and rocks were thrown one point five k's from the crater.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
It's all coming back to me now, that's right. The
planes had to take the long way around, I think
because of the stuff in the air, and you can't
feed cheap ash. And there's a big lesson that we
learned out of that. That's good to know.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
News talk has it been.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Let's finish up with a bit of weather. Really a
pen about talking about the weather on the radio unless
it's significant weather, which hard ever is, even though they
keep telling us that there's going to be some.
Speaker 7 (09:02):
I love good weather, and I think it's spring that
I really struggle with, because, like I was saying to
an earlier caller that I can't stand winter. But I
know that winter is bad so that I look forward
to spring, even though I know that spring always lets
me down. And then when it does let me down,
as it is this week, I like to ride to work.
I feel so much better getting that exercise. I can't
(09:23):
ride when it's you know, absolutely pouring with rain. I
mean a few drops, I don't mind, but you know
when it's bucketing down three days in a row, and
then you see the weather forecast and you're like, oh,
it's twenty nine and sunny in Brisbane today. And yet,
as I keeps saying, we've we endlessly compare ourselves, then
we just make ourselves feel worse. And that surely also
(09:43):
has kind of an economic flow on effect in New Zealand.
As we're talking about two hundred and one New Zealand
is leaving every single year, fifty eight percent of sorry,
every single day. Two hundred one a year wouldn't be
an issue. Two hundred one people every single day, and
fifty eight percent of those going to Australia, a lot
to Queensland.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
I don't know if I'm moving to Australia because of
the weather these days, it's been pretty rubbish and a
places in Australia for quite a while. Are you can
depress yourself by looking around the world and seeing where
the weather is nice, but you can it also weeks
the other way. You can look around and see where
the weather is terrible. I mean, just yesterday there was
(10:24):
a report out of Australia forecasting floods and fires this summer.
It's for a change, so you know, I don't know
that you want to be moving there to that, do you.
Just this morning, I see the typhoon and hit Taiwan.
(10:47):
You've got to see that video of the water rushing
through the windows, just like something out of a I mean,
they always say something out of a movie, don't they,
But it was quite surreal. There's a giant two dimensional
panda sign in this I don't know if it was
a shopping mall or a restaurant or something, and then
the water comes rushing through and the sky gets washed
away past. It's very happy waving panda. So you know,
(11:11):
you don't want that sort of thing happening. And I
haven't seen that sort of thing happening here in New
Zealand recently, so that's good. You know how many nice
I'm gonna say life size, but it's some more of
a cartoon pander standing up waving. Look up the video
you'll see what I'm talking. I don't know how many
of those we have in New Zealand. It's not very
(11:33):
often somebody gets washed past one of those. Here what
I'm saying, This last bit's gone on a bit, and
often this last bit is often the bit that goes
on too long, which I suppose is the best place
to have it, because if you're if you get sick
of it, you can just stop and you haven't really
missed that much of the podcast, you know what I mean?
Until I just stop.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Used talking talkings it been for more from news Talk,
said B. Listen live on air or online, and keep
our shows with you wherever you go with our podcasts
on iart Radio
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