June 7, 2024 • 29 mins
This week on The Highlight Reel, there's a bit of a theme around embarrassment.
First —in an out of the mouths of babes scenario— one parent's weekend activities were revealed at Simon's grandson's first day of school. Then we learn about Simon's undies being on display at the airport, and finally how an innocent wink at a female co-worker went wrong.
Si and James got stuck into the thorny old issue of hospital parking and the fines incurred when you are already stressed.
The pair asked how long household appliances should last?
Wellington Mayor Tory Whanau’s ADHD diagnosis sparked a very interesting discussion about the increasing number of people being diagnosed with it later in life.
Plus, just how relevant is Shakespeare in 2024?
LISTEN ABOVE
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Simon Barnett and James Daniels Afternoons
podcast from News Talks EDB, Chats, laughs and the best calls.
This is the Highlight Reel with Simon Barnett and James
Daniels Howard by News Talks EDB.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Howdy, folks, welcome, great to have you with us. Hello, James, hother,
Simon and know my hawkkey mind. Welcome back to all
the other people around the country. I've just come from
seeing my first and eldest grandson, Monty Monty start school.
Oh my gosh, did you cry?
Speaker 3 (00:39):
No.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
I sat at the back with his mum and his dad.
Anybody that's a parent or a grandparent would be able
to relate the first day of school. And all the
little kids are there and they sit on the mat
and they go good morning, missus. Good and they still
do they still do it, and they're like scrumptious and
they're just delicious, these kids. And should I tell that?
(01:03):
So they go around, they all set in the circle,
So what's doing the long weekend? And one kid said, well,
my mummy had a boyfriend over. Was the mummy there? No,
you didn't hear that On the show, but I just
had to turn away like a kenn and go to
the back of the room because I was going to
burst out loving hysterical. My mummy had a boyfriend brilliant anyway, First,
(01:28):
our school was so called.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
The Highlight Reel with Simon Barnett and James Daniels News Talk.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Zaib, this is a personal story, but I'm happy to
share it. My daughter has two children. One is Mila,
one is Zeba Die. Zeb's just one and she's actually
pregnant again. Zeb I won't go into the personal details,
but he had to be taken to A and E
on Saturday night Sunday morning. Technically Sunday morning was three
am in the morning and she had to race him
(01:54):
to an E. Won't go into the details. He's fine,
may need a little mind of surgery, but that's all
by the by the fact that she was in there.
She was beside herself.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
She was on her own when she took him in
because her husband was looking after the other.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Baby exactly, and the other baby, Mieler, had gastro So
it's been a terrible forty eight hours. So there at home,
she's already rung out like a rubber band. Then zeb
starts howling, and he'd been howling since ten pm the
previous night because she rang me and said, Dad, what
should I do? And I go, I don't know. I'm's
not here she'd know. And so anyway, that lasted into
(02:27):
the early hours of the morning, racing to Annie, and
by the time three o'clock in the morning rolled around,
she was really worried that something serious was wrong. Now,
most parents have had times like this, and we've all
gone into A and E or the edy department. This
is three in the morning. She parked a car. You
can imagine the scene. He's one screaming and consolable. So
(02:47):
she races in. They take him to the surgeon et cent.
When she came out two hours later, she's got an
eighty five dollars parking ticket. Now she and a young
family starting off big mortgage. Eighty five bucks is a
hell of a lot of money, that is for anyone,
For anyone, I know people will be listening to the
same Well, they're the rules, simon, and they are, but
the rules need to change. Are they reasonable rules? Is
(03:09):
the question? Hi, Rachel, OHI guys.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
Interestingly, just talking about it being dark and scary, it's
like this, this is a real pet piece for me
because I've been to the hospital a bunch of times
and my husband's they take it at a bunch of
times trying to get me into the ed. But it's
like it should be the most successible place in the
city and it's not. It's so hard to get to.
It's so hard to get a park. If you've got
(03:33):
you say, screaming children or you've got a dementia person
with you, you can't just drop them and then go
and find the carp back. The answer is the council
who's got to find a space to put parking. And
I don't know why they don't use part of the
part of the park, part.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Of Hagley Park. You may, yeah, what's the answer, hello, Simon.
Speaker 6 (03:51):
I think the two components about this. First one is
that you probably want to park available around an emergency
area in a hospital and then in the night, and
probably a way you achieved that it's by having some charge.
The second component of that, though, is I think that
a similar system to what the roading is up up north,
where you've got a couple of weeks to pay for
that ticket afterwards, so you do not have to worry
(04:12):
about that at the time, and if anyone's violating that,
they get fined.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
That's a very good solution, Simon. Would that idea work
similar to a toll, a road toll? Yeah, so you
don't know Ronny actually changes hands. You don't have to
swipe your card. It's just all a bill later. You
got to pay it later. Nuether plate registration identification. I reckon,
that's quite good.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
The highlight reel.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
How many times have we bagged young people for never
getting off their cell phones? The old smartphone? They're always
on their TikTok, They're always on their Insta, they're always
on their WhatsApp, They're.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Always on their phones full stop, matter what they're on,
they're always on their phone.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Get off your phone. Well, now, Boomer, I say to you,
James Kuder Daniels, Well, what was your screen time, your
daily screen time last week? Please? Can you open up
your phone and tell us? Wait for this, folks, I've
got them hold on a year, drawn and court it.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Oh ar six hours fifty seven a day, it's average,
that's average.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Your average six hours fifty seven So seven hours? Yeah, yeah,
is that a lot a day? Yeah? Well, how come
you're on it so much.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Well, when I wake up, I go on it and
I read the paper, and then at night I might
watch a bit of Netflix on my phone.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Right, seven hours a day for James. Mine was five hours,
fourteen minutes per day last week. Yeah, but you don't
do social media.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
No, but that's still exactly Oh yeah, that is a lot.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
What are you looking at? According to twenty twenty three
research from Data reportless is a worldwide grouping the average
screen time for adults around the world six hours thirty
seven minutes a day on screen time. UK adults spend
the equivalent of fifty six days a year online, So
(06:11):
there is a rise for what they call dumb phones
for gen z well, younger people. Younger people because they
themselves far from we should bag then we should actually
take inspiration from it. They are saying we are spending
too much time online and on our phones. But what's
your average screen time?
Speaker 7 (06:32):
Well, I say, check last week, just eighteen hours and
two minutes.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
What eighteen hours, hours and two minutes.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Is your daily average, daily average? How on earth do
you do that?
Speaker 7 (06:48):
It's easy. I'm an uber driver. You start about six.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Thirty rah Google Maps.
Speaker 7 (06:54):
Yea and you leave it on all day and they
can half an hour break, you know, your fenders whatever
you like, could be four or five o'clock in the afternoon.
And a mate are using shut eye. I think that's
scouting screen time too.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Very interesting, but well I think you probably top the list. Mate.
Thank you very much for calling the highlight interesting story.
I read this morning suggesting that New Zealand needs a
minimum product lifespan law, and I thought, man, that is
a really good idea. In twenty twenty three, consumerian Z
did a study and they found, for example, mobile phones
James eighty nine percent of faulty devices phones were no
(07:34):
older than four years half were less than two years
old before they started uncovering some of these faults within
the hardware. And it's the same for a bit smartphones, TVs,
washing machines, vacuum cleaners. The problem is that we've all
asked ourselves the question on many occasions, is this worth
getting repaired or should I just ditch it and buy
a new one. Well, that's that throwaway culture that we
(07:55):
do have. Yeah. See, we had our washing machine, fact
and when it was seven years old, which is that
old for washing machine? Do you reckon. I'd say no, no, yeah,
I'd say they have to last for ten years a
big ticket item like that.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Anyway, Well, Consumer New Zealand says that it should be
lasting for ten years a washing machine? Do they They've
got a list out of how long these things should last.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
But anyway, it was seven years old. Okay, so that's good.
So seven years old. The guy comes out and I
know that's going to be a call out fee. And
he comes out and he goes, oh, yeah, here it is.
It's this part here, pulls it out and it's a
little plastic thing. And I said, why have they made
that in plastic? And he goes, why do you think?
And we sort of had a chuckle together. It keeps
them in business, doesn't it. Yeah? So I said, so
(08:38):
they could make it with a much more sturdy part,
and he said absolutely, But that's the planned obsolescence.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Yeah, but what about the other thing where with technology
going the way it does, improving exponentially, then do you
want an old school what becomes an old school washing machine?
Because you know, they get smarter and smarter every year.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
This is the problem though, Look, we do sound like
those two old guys in the balcony at the Muppets here.
But my washing machine does everything except cook my dinner.
Now it's all on what's seven years old?
Speaker 4 (09:09):
No?
Speaker 2 (09:09):
This is? I got a new one in there, right,
but this is it's all got Wi Fi? Why do I? No, James?
I want very basic? Why do I want some technology?
Is great? Wi Fi for your home? Are conditioning unit,
your heat pump? Great because you're at work it's freezing.
You've left it off or don't? I'd like the house
wollm whant to get home? Jump on Wi Fi? Bang
it from work? Great? Wi Fi for my washing machine?
(09:31):
What are we gonna do?
Speaker 8 (09:32):
Go?
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Oh, I didn't put my money's on. I'm gonna go
and watch those bad boys if you haven't put them
in the machine, have you?
Speaker 4 (09:37):
So?
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Why do here? Did you see what I'm saying? So connectivity? Yeah,
it's it's just stupid.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
I love that sort of stuff, which is why I've
got one hundred and ninety nine apps on my phone
case Highlight Reel.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
I've been following this story of Koha the Staffy. Kohar
is a Stafford dog and he basically ate two cats.
Unfortunately killed is a better word. Probably well, he did
kill them. But he didn't. He didn't use a baseball
bat he ate them, and so and so there was
a call to have him put down. The courts spared
(10:10):
him his life, but his own is going to be fined.
James and our producers today, Jess, because Tyler's got the
day off. Jess and James both think the dog should
be destroyed. I say, what a joke. He didn't attack anybody.
He chased a cat and ate the cat. That's what
animals do. They are animals. He's done it twice, so
who knows whether a human is next? Oh well, well
(10:31):
you don't put somebody down or an animal down based
on who knows what they'll do next. Right, You're getting
a lot of support on text, but I do disagree.
I just think if in any way he had gone
this is the dog quo gone for a human, Sure,
destroy the dog, but not for two cats. What do
you think?
Speaker 5 (10:46):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Eight hundred eighty ten eighty. I have to read this, text,
says Simon. I have massive respect for you and honestly
think you're in New Zealand's best broadcaster. This is not
what your mother. But the text goes, but there is
no excuse that you could come up with to justify
a wandering dog killing cats dangerous illegal? The dog should go.
(11:07):
Chris is also pretty heated. I've just lost all respect
for you. Simon. You should hang out with the morons
that support Trump.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Oh that's a bit dark. It's just an opinion, Okay, No,
I stand by it. God, Pete, should the dog be
put down?
Speaker 8 (11:26):
I think so. I think the judges made a bad
decision there because the end of the day, there's something
wrong with their dog, is socially imbalanced or whatever. And
I think the dogs, you want to do it the
third time I say that your two catuit smoking, you
wouldn't like it, So it's something wrong with the dogs.
Speaker 6 (11:43):
The end of the day, you'll do it again.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
But Pete, he's a dog. Dogs are animals. Animals chase
other animals.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
You know.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Cats torture their prey before you know, before they eat them,
because they're animals. They torture those little mice. They don't
do it because they're deranged. They do it because that's
in their DNA. My two poodles Peep were beautiful natured dogs.
But if they saw a cat, I tell you what,
they would have gone. The cat.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
The Highlight Reel with Sion James. The Highlight Reel with
Sion James.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
So James raised an issue with me yesterday off air,
and I thought this would be a great thing to
discuss on air. And it was on the back of
the release of the new look secondary English curriculum in
our schools for years seven to thirteen year olds, and
they're going to have compulsory Shakespeare and grammar lessons. Auckland
University professor Elizabeth Rater told arin Z the aim was
(12:36):
to create a knowledge rich curriculum. Heir here to that
every child throughout the country has the right to the
very best English language and literature. Shakespeare's plays would be
compulsory for senior secondary students. Amen to that, I say,
And then James says to me, why.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
What is it about Shakespeare? Why do we have to
learn about Shakespeare? If you want to, that's fine, But
making it compulsory.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
I go, yet, Well, on the basis of history alone,
one of the most lithic playwrights in history. Yeah, I
get that.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
Yeah, he's glorified by the Western world, there's no doubt
about that.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
But well, that in itself, think of the plays that
they would learn Hamlet, Macbeth, Midsummer Night's Dream, much Ado
about nothing, King lear Othello, Twelfth Night, The Tempest Macbeth. Yeah,
I would plague on both your houses. You have made
worms meat of me, I have it and soundly to
your houses. And he's doing this from memory. I was
(13:34):
Mecutio in Romeo and Juliet, and there was Mecutio's dying
scene right there.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
It's a genuine question, I go, is Shakespeare still relevant
forced feeding it to kids?
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Is Alexander the Great relevant to young people as Napoleon,
as Caesar? Oh well, don't.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
Start talking to me about the history, because New Zealand
history is much more important.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
But so it goes there. So no, But do you
see that in and of itself, that's a key point.
History is very relevant to you. It's just that you
don't necessarily have a bent towards Shakespeare. That the history
of Shakespeare the writer is so renowned, and his writing,
as I say, was so prolific. He was one of
the greatest writers.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
I'm not being judges so much as wondering whether other
people think is it relevant in this day and age?
Speaker 2 (14:18):
That's what it is. So he wrote one hundred and
fifty exceptionally famous poems. So as a playwright and a poet,
his language we still refer to today. So why would
you say it wouldn't be relevant.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
I think the whole purpose of going to school is
learning how to learn, rather than what you learn.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Did I Matt?
Speaker 9 (14:35):
Personally, I don't think there's any need to make it mandatory.
I mean, I definitely should still be optional if people
wish to learn about it. But I think some of
us a little well, all of it's a little bit
outdated now the way we speak. But yeah, some of
the stories are I think, go a little bit over glorified.
To be perfectly honest with you. What makes escially Romeo
(14:57):
and Juliet?
Speaker 2 (14:58):
That is which bit of Romeo and Juliet, Matt, I think.
Speaker 6 (15:02):
All of that?
Speaker 9 (15:03):
I mean they only knew each other.
Speaker 6 (15:06):
For four days.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Have you heard that Tinder?
Speaker 9 (15:12):
It was a relationship between a thirteen year old girl
and depending on what act you read, as a seventeen
year old to twenty year old male.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
But what a remarkable story. What a tragedy, I mean,
that is the classic tragedy. That's where the writing was
so spectacular. Matt. In Romeo and Juliet.
Speaker 9 (15:28):
Yeah, but I mean six people dying over the relationship
with a thirteen year old girl.
Speaker 6 (15:32):
I just think it's a little bit.
Speaker 10 (15:34):
Yeah when you put it that way, year you sort
of think, yeah, but you get but again in the
context back then, I mean he was born in what
fifteen hundred or sixteen hundred or something, so you know,
back then people regularly got married at twelve.
Speaker 9 (15:47):
I just think there's other things we could be learning
in that time. But I mean, it definitely should be
an option one.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
Another perspective from Jess Hi Sam James, I think we
use more French than Shakespeare in our day to day
cafe deja vu, a la carte, brunette, cliche, apostrophe, make
French compulsory, not Shakespeare's to be or not to be.
Let's make it not to be Mercy.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
The best moments from the week. This is the Highlight
Reel with Simon Barnett and James Daniels, powered by News
Talks EMP.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Let's talk about Finance Minister Nikola Willis. She was speaking
at a post budget visit to Queenstown yesterday and she
said that she wants international tourists to pay more for
the privilege of visiting New Zealand. She said, we've got
a huge infrastructure deficit in this country. They think something
in the vicinity of a trillion dollars for the next
thirty years. Where does the money come from. She's suggesting
(16:41):
upping our international visitor at Levy from thirty five dollars too,
she doesn't specify. So that's one question for you. How
much should we charge foreigners to come here? And she
also went on to say Nichola Willis that she's open
minded about charging foreigners to enter our national parks. We
have some of the most stunning countryside at the Tornad
edw National Park, the Funganui National Park, Nelson Lakes, abel
(17:02):
tasman Egmont, they go on and it's free. Should we
char people to enter our national parks? Aldarki Mount Cook
that'll be one of the most popular, probably.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
May Willy is what I say, of course we should,
although let's not let's not be silly about this. This
isn't going to fix the infrastructure deficit, but it's just
once again a point of principle that they pay far
too little to come here. We are worth more than
I mean thirty five bucks as an international visitor. Levy
is nothing. Well, talk about what they've paid to get here. Yeah,
(17:35):
that's a joke. It's not even gst.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
For goodness sake, I do want to say something in here, though.
James Nikola Willis is cognizant of the fact that we
don't want to put people off. She says as much
when she said this to the meeting yesterday. There is
a balance we need to strike. We need to make
sure we don't make this such an expensive destination to
come to that people stop wanting to come. Hi there, Sheila, Hi, Simon,
what do you reckon? They should put the fee too well.
Speaker 11 (17:59):
I actually haven't got an idea of what they should
put it up to.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
But what was it before thirty five?
Speaker 11 (18:05):
Yeah, thirty dirt cheap. So it could be three times
that because we all pay to go over seas when
we leave here in New Zealand, we pay double for
everything that we even look at. So I don't know
what our levees are and we go overseas, but I
know we have resort fees. When we're in your plant,
staying in a resort, it's a thirty dollars a day
(18:26):
resort fee.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
We're sort of suckers. In a way, aren't we shure
because we got the key we natures go.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
I don't want to rip people off here, but we've
got to also take advantage of what we offer.
Speaker 11 (18:36):
We're too soft and they're using everything, all our facilities.
Also they end up getting injured and they do go
to hospital and they don't pay. We are too soft
in this country and we need to start, especially places
like Queenstown and wrote a ruin. There's no place to
stay these days because you know, it's all taken up
other people and also done in Queenstown, there's no accommodation
(18:59):
for the people who work in the shops.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Well, that's exactly right, sheilo. It's a good point you
make about Queenstown because they heave in summertime with population
increase and there's only a very few rate payers actually
that live there permanently, so something's got to be done
to cover their lack of infrastructure. Good on this.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
We are too soft and we've got to put more
value on our assets. You know, you go anywhere in
the world, and I'm sure there's we go to National
Park from the USA, you go on the Great Wall
in China. You want to go on a beach in Jamaica.
You pay, you know, and we've just got to ground up.
I reckon we should be charging depending on where, like
(19:39):
if it was filed and I'll be charging two hundred bucks.
Speaker 12 (19:41):
Mate.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Look, I worked in the old cruise line industry for
five years and I'll tell you right and right now,
if you want to go on a day excursion you've
paid through the notes, doesn't matter. You know, you want
to sit on a beach and and thank Thomas or
payment islands. You know you pay to use a page.
We just got to get up with that. We've got
beautiful assets, as we all know, and we undervalue them.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Dave think thank you very much for passing on your thoughts.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Chats, laughs and the best calls. This is the highlight
reel with Simon Barnett and James Daniels Powered Babies Talk.
Speaker 7 (20:16):
Said Bee.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
I was on a flight with Jones to Top Walk
going to see her family. We went viral to do
her and so it's a small plane. When they unload,
they unloaded onto a kind of like little Paul trolleys
which are towed by an attractor. Then they toe all
those five trolleys little things round to a collection area
where you're going and get your bags, and just when
you see your bag and identify you just pull it
(20:37):
off the trolley yourself. Yeah. Right. So I'm waiting there
and I see a pair of my underwear what and
then I see a shirt of mine just being flung out.
People are going through the bags and my bag has
somehow ripped open, and people are just basically sorting through
my smalls to get to their own bags. And it's
(21:00):
like it's like a Junkyard sail, a jumble sale, and
it's my gear. Is this when you're on Dancing with
the Stars and they wanted to start man some of
his undies. I didn't even claim, but I just stood going,
who's that porschemarker? Wait until everybody just fasiting feverishly going
to get for gears? How embarrassing are you?
Speaker 8 (21:21):
Can?
Speaker 2 (21:21):
I Gary?
Speaker 12 (21:22):
Gay guys Simon, I was bloody driving and then he
drove off the road with your undy story mate.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
I couldn't believe it. Gary.
Speaker 12 (21:30):
You know what it is when you start singing like
Tom Jones, people are going to throw.
Speaker 13 (21:36):
Did not know that?
Speaker 12 (21:37):
Did do that?
Speaker 6 (21:38):
You just don't do it in the.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Good tip. Thank you, mate. I was so embarrassed, Like
I wasn't making that up, Gary, it was. I recognized
the Underwustralia. I thought, oh my gosh, that's my undies
and so I didn't go near good woman. Oh so embarrassing.
Speaker 12 (21:55):
The good thing about is in the holes and I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Look, don't even talk. I'm getting PTSD thinking about it. Now,
what what do you do? Gary?
Speaker 14 (22:05):
I look at the detainer and I went, I was
signing to Queenstown and pegged my all my costumes and
stuff into the bag and took off a muzzle kerry
bag and got down there and got to my hotel
room and I all got to the airport, no bags, like.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Nothing, and I've got to work.
Speaker 12 (22:23):
And I got to work, and so I panicked and
they said, look, we'll have a look, and I finally
got them twenty five minutes before going on stage. But
the ironic thing was, well, guys, I was doing a
corporate for in New Zealand.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Ah.
Speaker 11 (22:40):
That was quite classic.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Really, that is classic. What do you do as an entertainer?
What sort of costumes?
Speaker 6 (22:46):
Look?
Speaker 12 (22:46):
I impersonated Austin Powers. You may have seen me at
the students and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (22:51):
Yeah, So and I think we Mickey Simon doing the
Stars in your Eyes one night. Oh, did you get
my guys to see if they get more guys to
do my shows?
Speaker 2 (23:01):
That's exactly right. Good on you, Gary. Are you still
see you're still doing it?
Speaker 12 (23:06):
Yeah, it's been twenty four years and still doing it
still over the overseas and through New Zealand.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Good man. Oh, very nice to talk to you. Yeah,
that was basic. Thank you so much for calling.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Up, bringing you the best of the week. You're listening
to the Highlight Reel with Simon Barnett and James Daniels,
powered by News talks'd.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Be well, it's meyor Tory Farno has been diagnosed with
ADHD and significant traits of autism, and she said she's
had to adjust her work arrangements to manage her symptoms,
including shorter meetings and more rest. She also said the
diagnosis came as a bit of a shock, and you
probably heard in Raylan's news bulletin there she was receiving
(23:47):
professional support for her mental health and then you know,
through that she realized she had ADHD. So we want
to talk about that. Did you get a diagnosis late
in life and how do you manage that at work?
So Tory is asking for shorter meetings and maybe more rest.
There'll be some that will be cynical about that. There
(24:07):
are a lot who are cynical about that.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
But what we want to get down to is what
is ADHD and how do you get diagnosed with it?
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Colo Ray.
Speaker 13 (24:16):
My son was diagnosed with add when he was eight,
my daughter at twenty one, and I definitely have traits,
but never bothered to go and get diagnosed. I know it.
It's not a pretend thing. Auklam University has done a
lot of studies using an fMRI scanner, which scans the
(24:37):
brain of people that have ADHD, and you'll see the
person with ADHD their brain is firing all over the spot.
They can't stay focused on a task, and when they're
given coping skills. Some people aren't bad enough to need drugs,
but when they have the drugs, their brain calms down
(25:00):
and you can see it functioning in a more normal way.
It's a chemical balanced in the brain compared to what
we call normal.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Ray, can I ask you this, what symptoms did your children,
particularly your twenty one year old exhibit that made you
go hang on?
Speaker 13 (25:17):
She was good at school, you know, not brillant. She
was a B minus. You know, see kid just going along.
But she couldn't stay focused on anything, exactly the same
as me. If there's a job to be done, it'll
be left right up until the last minute and then
it's all on rush. Ritalin is one of the most
used and tested drugs in the world, and so a
(25:40):
lot of people get scared of it. But often those
that don't take it, like Tory, will develop drinking problems,
drug problems and everything because when they take the ritalin
it normalizes their brain.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Very interesting. Indeed, Newstalks had been the highlight reel.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
With Simon Barnard and James Daniels, available worldwide on iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Look, it's embarrassing. I can't explain why I've I've got
a winking habit and I do it to men and women.
Don't know you. I've done it to you, James, multiple times.
You do. And I can't explain it. I don't know
why it's and it's upset. It's habitual and it is
maybe it's a nervous tech. But when I see people
sometimes in lieu of saying hi, I'll just go and wink.
(26:25):
We're just direcdly old fashioned. I love it. Yeah, yeah,
I really like it.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
I don't know why you stress about it, but you
better tell the full story, because you got yourself into
a bit of a pickle.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Some of it. I think you generated yourself. I don't
know that it was as bad as you worry about it. Well,
because James is normally we normally go and get a
coffee together or whatever. I was on my own walk
through the newsroom and that there's four women that promotions
people down the end of the news office, and I
walked past them, and there's a lovely woman on the
(26:56):
end and she's yeah, she's just very nice. And I
winked at her as I walked past. I was on,
you know, even telling you, I'm thinking, shut up, simon
thinking about it. So I just go like wink and
she sort of looked at me, and I was like, oh,
my gosh, she's amused, was she? Well, I just hoped
(27:16):
she didn't think anything of it. So then I this
is where I'm dumb. I go, oh, oh, I'm really sorry.
I didn't mean to wink at you. Well I did
wink because I often wink, and but I didn't mean
to wink at you, because that's inappropriate, and so I
just want you to let you know that I wasn't
winking because I think you're anything. And then and I
was going like that, and then and as I'm going,
(27:37):
because then I wanted to say because I don't know,
I wasn't winking because you're attractive, because I don't think
you're well, you're attractive, but I'm not thinking that right.
So then I just then everybody is like the whole
world stopped and listened in to that moment in time.
And I don't know how I just ran open plany
a office and everyone heard it. YEP. I think I
just ended up running to the toilets and going, simon,
(27:59):
you drop kick, why do you keep talking? To shut up?
Jody used to say to me, I'm just dig and
digging through to China. And then leave.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
You leave the toilet as you're coming back past her,
you do.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
What well, because in the toilet, thinking how am I
going to go back out there?
Speaker 4 (28:21):
You couldn't get you couldn't get back to the studio
at less you been past them.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Yeah, that's it. So I go past and I think
because I'd already worked up my gag, so it wasn't awkward.
So I go past her again and I go really
obvious wink this time giddy up, which is you were
probably okay until the giddy up. But all right, what
does giddy even mean?
Speaker 4 (28:45):
Well, it means certain things to certain people, so i'd
be careful.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Let's not get it deeply into that.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
Yeah, what was her reaction?
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Well, everybody felt awkward for me, I think, and I
went home and thought about it. I was troubled, and
so I can't look at it today. Oh I just
ignore it. That's always the best. So my question is
winking is it still? Is it okay? Or is it
on the way out? It's definitely on the way You
don't wink. I'm sorry, I'm embarrassed. That's wrong.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
I think you're wrong there. It's the way that you
do it that It ain't what you do, it's the
way that.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
You do it that matters.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
And you didn't have any intention of being scody or
anything like.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
That, I think, do you Yeah? Do you think that?
Speaker 6 (29:31):
Mate?
Speaker 2 (29:31):
But do you worry you too much? Yeah? I know?
But do we think that winking? You just as a man,
you don't wink at a woman. You can wink at
a man jeepers, creepers. No, I don't think so. I
just don't. I think we call call time on the
winking for women at women. Is it okay? It's okay
for guys. Guys. Guys can wink at each other? Yeah,
yeah right.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
For more from Simon Barnett and James Daniels Afternoons, listen
live to news talks That'd be or follow the podcast
on iHeartRadio
You're listening to the Simon Barnett and James Daniels Afternoons
podcast from News Talks EDB, Chats, laughs and the best calls.
This is the Highlight Reel with Simon Barnett and James
Daniels Howard by News Talks EDB.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Howdy, folks, welcome, great to have you with us. Hello, James, hother,
Simon and know my hawkkey mind. Welcome back to all
the other people around the country. I've just come from
seeing my first and eldest grandson, Monty Monty start school.
Oh my gosh, did you cry?
Speaker 3 (00:39):
No.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
I sat at the back with his mum and his dad.
Anybody that's a parent or a grandparent would be able
to relate the first day of school. And all the
little kids are there and they sit on the mat
and they go good morning, missus. Good and they still
do they still do it, and they're like scrumptious and
they're just delicious, these kids. And should I tell that?
(01:03):
So they go around, they all set in the circle,
So what's doing the long weekend? And one kid said, well,
my mummy had a boyfriend over. Was the mummy there? No,
you didn't hear that On the show, but I just
had to turn away like a kenn and go to
the back of the room because I was going to
burst out loving hysterical. My mummy had a boyfriend brilliant anyway, First,
(01:28):
our school was so called.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
The Highlight Reel with Simon Barnett and James Daniels News Talk.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Zaib, this is a personal story, but I'm happy to
share it. My daughter has two children. One is Mila,
one is Zeba Die. Zeb's just one and she's actually
pregnant again. Zeb I won't go into the personal details,
but he had to be taken to A and E
on Saturday night Sunday morning. Technically Sunday morning was three
am in the morning and she had to race him
(01:54):
to an E. Won't go into the details. He's fine,
may need a little mind of surgery, but that's all
by the by the fact that she was in there.
She was beside herself.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
She was on her own when she took him in
because her husband was looking after the other.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Baby exactly, and the other baby, Mieler, had gastro So
it's been a terrible forty eight hours. So there at home,
she's already rung out like a rubber band. Then zeb
starts howling, and he'd been howling since ten pm the
previous night because she rang me and said, Dad, what
should I do? And I go, I don't know. I'm's
not here she'd know. And so anyway, that lasted into
(02:27):
the early hours of the morning, racing to Annie, and
by the time three o'clock in the morning rolled around,
she was really worried that something serious was wrong. Now,
most parents have had times like this, and we've all
gone into A and E or the edy department. This
is three in the morning. She parked a car. You
can imagine the scene. He's one screaming and consolable. So
(02:47):
she races in. They take him to the surgeon et cent.
When she came out two hours later, she's got an
eighty five dollars parking ticket. Now she and a young
family starting off big mortgage. Eighty five bucks is a
hell of a lot of money, that is for anyone,
For anyone, I know people will be listening to the
same Well, they're the rules, simon, and they are, but
the rules need to change. Are they reasonable rules? Is
(03:09):
the question? Hi, Rachel, OHI guys.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
Interestingly, just talking about it being dark and scary, it's
like this, this is a real pet piece for me
because I've been to the hospital a bunch of times
and my husband's they take it at a bunch of
times trying to get me into the ed. But it's
like it should be the most successible place in the
city and it's not. It's so hard to get to.
It's so hard to get a park. If you've got
(03:33):
you say, screaming children or you've got a dementia person
with you, you can't just drop them and then go
and find the carp back. The answer is the council
who's got to find a space to put parking. And
I don't know why they don't use part of the
part of the park, part.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Of Hagley Park. You may, yeah, what's the answer, hello, Simon.
Speaker 6 (03:51):
I think the two components about this. First one is
that you probably want to park available around an emergency
area in a hospital and then in the night, and
probably a way you achieved that it's by having some charge.
The second component of that, though, is I think that
a similar system to what the roading is up up north,
where you've got a couple of weeks to pay for
that ticket afterwards, so you do not have to worry
(04:12):
about that at the time, and if anyone's violating that,
they get fined.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
That's a very good solution, Simon. Would that idea work
similar to a toll, a road toll? Yeah, so you
don't know Ronny actually changes hands. You don't have to
swipe your card. It's just all a bill later. You
got to pay it later. Nuether plate registration identification. I reckon,
that's quite good.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
The highlight reel.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
How many times have we bagged young people for never
getting off their cell phones? The old smartphone? They're always
on their TikTok, They're always on their Insta, they're always
on their WhatsApp, They're.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Always on their phones full stop, matter what they're on,
they're always on their phone.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Get off your phone. Well, now, Boomer, I say to you,
James Kuder Daniels, Well, what was your screen time, your
daily screen time last week? Please? Can you open up
your phone and tell us? Wait for this, folks, I've
got them hold on a year, drawn and court it.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Oh ar six hours fifty seven a day, it's average,
that's average.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Your average six hours fifty seven So seven hours? Yeah, yeah,
is that a lot a day? Yeah? Well, how come
you're on it so much.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Well, when I wake up, I go on it and
I read the paper, and then at night I might
watch a bit of Netflix on my phone.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Right, seven hours a day for James. Mine was five hours,
fourteen minutes per day last week. Yeah, but you don't
do social media.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
No, but that's still exactly Oh yeah, that is a lot.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
What are you looking at? According to twenty twenty three
research from Data reportless is a worldwide grouping the average
screen time for adults around the world six hours thirty
seven minutes a day on screen time. UK adults spend
the equivalent of fifty six days a year online, So
(06:11):
there is a rise for what they call dumb phones
for gen z well, younger people. Younger people because they
themselves far from we should bag then we should actually
take inspiration from it. They are saying we are spending
too much time online and on our phones. But what's
your average screen time?
Speaker 7 (06:32):
Well, I say, check last week, just eighteen hours and
two minutes.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
What eighteen hours, hours and two minutes.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Is your daily average, daily average? How on earth do
you do that?
Speaker 7 (06:48):
It's easy. I'm an uber driver. You start about six.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Thirty rah Google Maps.
Speaker 7 (06:54):
Yea and you leave it on all day and they
can half an hour break, you know, your fenders whatever
you like, could be four or five o'clock in the afternoon.
And a mate are using shut eye. I think that's
scouting screen time too.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Very interesting, but well I think you probably top the list. Mate.
Thank you very much for calling the highlight interesting story.
I read this morning suggesting that New Zealand needs a
minimum product lifespan law, and I thought, man, that is
a really good idea. In twenty twenty three, consumerian Z
did a study and they found, for example, mobile phones
James eighty nine percent of faulty devices phones were no
(07:34):
older than four years half were less than two years
old before they started uncovering some of these faults within
the hardware. And it's the same for a bit smartphones, TVs,
washing machines, vacuum cleaners. The problem is that we've all
asked ourselves the question on many occasions, is this worth
getting repaired or should I just ditch it and buy
a new one. Well, that's that throwaway culture that we
(07:55):
do have. Yeah. See, we had our washing machine, fact
and when it was seven years old, which is that
old for washing machine? Do you reckon. I'd say no, no, yeah,
I'd say they have to last for ten years a
big ticket item like that.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Anyway, Well, Consumer New Zealand says that it should be
lasting for ten years a washing machine? Do they They've
got a list out of how long these things should last.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
But anyway, it was seven years old. Okay, so that's good.
So seven years old. The guy comes out and I
know that's going to be a call out fee. And
he comes out and he goes, oh, yeah, here it is.
It's this part here, pulls it out and it's a
little plastic thing. And I said, why have they made
that in plastic? And he goes, why do you think?
And we sort of had a chuckle together. It keeps
them in business, doesn't it. Yeah? So I said, so
(08:38):
they could make it with a much more sturdy part,
and he said absolutely, But that's the planned obsolescence.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Yeah, but what about the other thing where with technology
going the way it does, improving exponentially, then do you
want an old school what becomes an old school washing machine?
Because you know, they get smarter and smarter every year.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
This is the problem though, Look, we do sound like
those two old guys in the balcony at the Muppets here.
But my washing machine does everything except cook my dinner.
Now it's all on what's seven years old?
Speaker 4 (09:09):
No?
Speaker 2 (09:09):
This is? I got a new one in there, right,
but this is it's all got Wi Fi? Why do I? No, James?
I want very basic? Why do I want some technology?
Is great? Wi Fi for your home? Are conditioning unit,
your heat pump? Great because you're at work it's freezing.
You've left it off or don't? I'd like the house
wollm whant to get home? Jump on Wi Fi? Bang
it from work? Great? Wi Fi for my washing machine?
(09:31):
What are we gonna do?
Speaker 8 (09:32):
Go?
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Oh, I didn't put my money's on. I'm gonna go
and watch those bad boys if you haven't put them
in the machine, have you?
Speaker 4 (09:37):
So?
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Why do here? Did you see what I'm saying? So connectivity? Yeah,
it's it's just stupid.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
I love that sort of stuff, which is why I've
got one hundred and ninety nine apps on my phone
case Highlight Reel.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
I've been following this story of Koha the Staffy. Kohar
is a Stafford dog and he basically ate two cats.
Unfortunately killed is a better word. Probably well, he did
kill them. But he didn't. He didn't use a baseball
bat he ate them, and so and so there was
a call to have him put down. The courts spared
(10:10):
him his life, but his own is going to be fined.
James and our producers today, Jess, because Tyler's got the
day off. Jess and James both think the dog should
be destroyed. I say, what a joke. He didn't attack anybody.
He chased a cat and ate the cat. That's what
animals do. They are animals. He's done it twice, so
who knows whether a human is next? Oh well, well
(10:31):
you don't put somebody down or an animal down based
on who knows what they'll do next. Right, You're getting
a lot of support on text, but I do disagree.
I just think if in any way he had gone
this is the dog quo gone for a human, Sure,
destroy the dog, but not for two cats. What do
you think?
Speaker 5 (10:46):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Eight hundred eighty ten eighty. I have to read this, text,
says Simon. I have massive respect for you and honestly
think you're in New Zealand's best broadcaster. This is not
what your mother. But the text goes, but there is
no excuse that you could come up with to justify
a wandering dog killing cats dangerous illegal? The dog should go.
(11:07):
Chris is also pretty heated. I've just lost all respect
for you. Simon. You should hang out with the morons
that support Trump.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Oh that's a bit dark. It's just an opinion, Okay, No,
I stand by it. God, Pete, should the dog be
put down?
Speaker 8 (11:26):
I think so. I think the judges made a bad
decision there because the end of the day, there's something
wrong with their dog, is socially imbalanced or whatever. And
I think the dogs, you want to do it the
third time I say that your two catuit smoking, you
wouldn't like it, So it's something wrong with the dogs.
Speaker 6 (11:43):
The end of the day, you'll do it again.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
But Pete, he's a dog. Dogs are animals. Animals chase
other animals.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
You know.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Cats torture their prey before you know, before they eat them,
because they're animals. They torture those little mice. They don't
do it because they're deranged. They do it because that's
in their DNA. My two poodles Peep were beautiful natured dogs.
But if they saw a cat, I tell you what,
they would have gone. The cat.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
The Highlight Reel with Sion James. The Highlight Reel with
Sion James.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
So James raised an issue with me yesterday off air,
and I thought this would be a great thing to
discuss on air. And it was on the back of
the release of the new look secondary English curriculum in
our schools for years seven to thirteen year olds, and
they're going to have compulsory Shakespeare and grammar lessons. Auckland
University professor Elizabeth Rater told arin Z the aim was
(12:36):
to create a knowledge rich curriculum. Heir here to that
every child throughout the country has the right to the
very best English language and literature. Shakespeare's plays would be
compulsory for senior secondary students. Amen to that, I say,
And then James says to me, why.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
What is it about Shakespeare? Why do we have to
learn about Shakespeare? If you want to, that's fine, But
making it compulsory.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
I go, yet, Well, on the basis of history alone,
one of the most lithic playwrights in history. Yeah, I
get that.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
Yeah, he's glorified by the Western world, there's no doubt
about that.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
But well, that in itself, think of the plays that
they would learn Hamlet, Macbeth, Midsummer Night's Dream, much Ado
about nothing, King lear Othello, Twelfth Night, The Tempest Macbeth. Yeah,
I would plague on both your houses. You have made
worms meat of me, I have it and soundly to
your houses. And he's doing this from memory. I was
(13:34):
Mecutio in Romeo and Juliet, and there was Mecutio's dying
scene right there.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
It's a genuine question, I go, is Shakespeare still relevant
forced feeding it to kids?
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Is Alexander the Great relevant to young people as Napoleon,
as Caesar? Oh well, don't.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
Start talking to me about the history, because New Zealand
history is much more important.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
But so it goes there. So no, But do you
see that in and of itself, that's a key point.
History is very relevant to you. It's just that you
don't necessarily have a bent towards Shakespeare. That the history
of Shakespeare the writer is so renowned, and his writing,
as I say, was so prolific. He was one of
the greatest writers.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
I'm not being judges so much as wondering whether other
people think is it relevant in this day and age?
Speaker 2 (14:18):
That's what it is. So he wrote one hundred and
fifty exceptionally famous poems. So as a playwright and a poet,
his language we still refer to today. So why would
you say it wouldn't be relevant.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
I think the whole purpose of going to school is
learning how to learn, rather than what you learn.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Did I Matt?
Speaker 9 (14:35):
Personally, I don't think there's any need to make it mandatory.
I mean, I definitely should still be optional if people
wish to learn about it. But I think some of
us a little well, all of it's a little bit
outdated now the way we speak. But yeah, some of
the stories are I think, go a little bit over glorified.
To be perfectly honest with you. What makes escially Romeo
(14:57):
and Juliet?
Speaker 2 (14:58):
That is which bit of Romeo and Juliet, Matt, I think.
Speaker 6 (15:02):
All of that?
Speaker 9 (15:03):
I mean they only knew each other.
Speaker 6 (15:06):
For four days.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Have you heard that Tinder?
Speaker 9 (15:12):
It was a relationship between a thirteen year old girl
and depending on what act you read, as a seventeen
year old to twenty year old male.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
But what a remarkable story. What a tragedy, I mean,
that is the classic tragedy. That's where the writing was
so spectacular. Matt. In Romeo and Juliet.
Speaker 9 (15:28):
Yeah, but I mean six people dying over the relationship
with a thirteen year old girl.
Speaker 6 (15:32):
I just think it's a little bit.
Speaker 10 (15:34):
Yeah when you put it that way, year you sort
of think, yeah, but you get but again in the
context back then, I mean he was born in what
fifteen hundred or sixteen hundred or something, so you know,
back then people regularly got married at twelve.
Speaker 9 (15:47):
I just think there's other things we could be learning
in that time. But I mean, it definitely should be
an option one.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
Another perspective from Jess Hi Sam James, I think we
use more French than Shakespeare in our day to day
cafe deja vu, a la carte, brunette, cliche, apostrophe, make
French compulsory, not Shakespeare's to be or not to be.
Let's make it not to be Mercy.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
The best moments from the week. This is the Highlight
Reel with Simon Barnett and James Daniels, powered by News
Talks EMP.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Let's talk about Finance Minister Nikola Willis. She was speaking
at a post budget visit to Queenstown yesterday and she
said that she wants international tourists to pay more for
the privilege of visiting New Zealand. She said, we've got
a huge infrastructure deficit in this country. They think something
in the vicinity of a trillion dollars for the next
thirty years. Where does the money come from. She's suggesting
(16:41):
upping our international visitor at Levy from thirty five dollars too,
she doesn't specify. So that's one question for you. How
much should we charge foreigners to come here? And she
also went on to say Nichola Willis that she's open
minded about charging foreigners to enter our national parks. We
have some of the most stunning countryside at the Tornad
edw National Park, the Funganui National Park, Nelson Lakes, abel
(17:02):
tasman Egmont, they go on and it's free. Should we
char people to enter our national parks? Aldarki Mount Cook
that'll be one of the most popular, probably.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
May Willy is what I say, of course we should,
although let's not let's not be silly about this. This
isn't going to fix the infrastructure deficit, but it's just
once again a point of principle that they pay far
too little to come here. We are worth more than
I mean thirty five bucks as an international visitor. Levy
is nothing. Well, talk about what they've paid to get here. Yeah,
(17:35):
that's a joke. It's not even gst.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
For goodness sake, I do want to say something in here, though.
James Nikola Willis is cognizant of the fact that we
don't want to put people off. She says as much
when she said this to the meeting yesterday. There is
a balance we need to strike. We need to make
sure we don't make this such an expensive destination to
come to that people stop wanting to come. Hi there, Sheila, Hi, Simon,
what do you reckon? They should put the fee too well.
Speaker 11 (17:59):
I actually haven't got an idea of what they should
put it up to.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
But what was it before thirty five?
Speaker 11 (18:05):
Yeah, thirty dirt cheap. So it could be three times
that because we all pay to go over seas when
we leave here in New Zealand, we pay double for
everything that we even look at. So I don't know
what our levees are and we go overseas, but I
know we have resort fees. When we're in your plant,
staying in a resort, it's a thirty dollars a day
(18:26):
resort fee.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
We're sort of suckers. In a way, aren't we shure
because we got the key we natures go.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
I don't want to rip people off here, but we've
got to also take advantage of what we offer.
Speaker 11 (18:36):
We're too soft and they're using everything, all our facilities.
Also they end up getting injured and they do go
to hospital and they don't pay. We are too soft
in this country and we need to start, especially places
like Queenstown and wrote a ruin. There's no place to
stay these days because you know, it's all taken up
other people and also done in Queenstown, there's no accommodation
(18:59):
for the people who work in the shops.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Well, that's exactly right, sheilo. It's a good point you
make about Queenstown because they heave in summertime with population
increase and there's only a very few rate payers actually
that live there permanently, so something's got to be done
to cover their lack of infrastructure. Good on this.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
We are too soft and we've got to put more
value on our assets. You know, you go anywhere in
the world, and I'm sure there's we go to National
Park from the USA, you go on the Great Wall
in China. You want to go on a beach in Jamaica.
You pay, you know, and we've just got to ground up.
I reckon we should be charging depending on where, like
(19:39):
if it was filed and I'll be charging two hundred bucks.
Speaker 12 (19:41):
Mate.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Look, I worked in the old cruise line industry for
five years and I'll tell you right and right now,
if you want to go on a day excursion you've
paid through the notes, doesn't matter. You know, you want
to sit on a beach and and thank Thomas or
payment islands. You know you pay to use a page.
We just got to get up with that. We've got
beautiful assets, as we all know, and we undervalue them.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Dave think thank you very much for passing on your thoughts.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Chats, laughs and the best calls. This is the highlight
reel with Simon Barnett and James Daniels Powered Babies Talk.
Speaker 7 (20:16):
Said Bee.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
I was on a flight with Jones to Top Walk
going to see her family. We went viral to do
her and so it's a small plane. When they unload,
they unloaded onto a kind of like little Paul trolleys
which are towed by an attractor. Then they toe all
those five trolleys little things round to a collection area
where you're going and get your bags, and just when
you see your bag and identify you just pull it
(20:37):
off the trolley yourself. Yeah. Right. So I'm waiting there
and I see a pair of my underwear what and
then I see a shirt of mine just being flung out.
People are going through the bags and my bag has
somehow ripped open, and people are just basically sorting through
my smalls to get to their own bags. And it's
(21:00):
like it's like a Junkyard sail, a jumble sale, and
it's my gear. Is this when you're on Dancing with
the Stars and they wanted to start man some of
his undies. I didn't even claim, but I just stood going,
who's that porschemarker? Wait until everybody just fasiting feverishly going
to get for gears? How embarrassing are you?
Speaker 8 (21:21):
Can?
Speaker 2 (21:21):
I Gary?
Speaker 12 (21:22):
Gay guys Simon, I was bloody driving and then he
drove off the road with your undy story mate.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
I couldn't believe it. Gary.
Speaker 12 (21:30):
You know what it is when you start singing like
Tom Jones, people are going to throw.
Speaker 13 (21:36):
Did not know that?
Speaker 12 (21:37):
Did do that?
Speaker 6 (21:38):
You just don't do it in the.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Good tip. Thank you, mate. I was so embarrassed, Like
I wasn't making that up, Gary, it was. I recognized
the Underwustralia. I thought, oh my gosh, that's my undies
and so I didn't go near good woman. Oh so embarrassing.
Speaker 12 (21:55):
The good thing about is in the holes and I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Look, don't even talk. I'm getting PTSD thinking about it. Now,
what what do you do? Gary?
Speaker 14 (22:05):
I look at the detainer and I went, I was
signing to Queenstown and pegged my all my costumes and
stuff into the bag and took off a muzzle kerry
bag and got down there and got to my hotel
room and I all got to the airport, no bags, like.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Nothing, and I've got to work.
Speaker 12 (22:23):
And I got to work, and so I panicked and
they said, look, we'll have a look, and I finally
got them twenty five minutes before going on stage. But
the ironic thing was, well, guys, I was doing a
corporate for in New Zealand.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Ah.
Speaker 11 (22:40):
That was quite classic.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Really, that is classic. What do you do as an entertainer?
What sort of costumes?
Speaker 6 (22:46):
Look?
Speaker 12 (22:46):
I impersonated Austin Powers. You may have seen me at
the students and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (22:51):
Yeah, So and I think we Mickey Simon doing the
Stars in your Eyes one night. Oh, did you get
my guys to see if they get more guys to
do my shows?
Speaker 2 (23:01):
That's exactly right. Good on you, Gary. Are you still
see you're still doing it?
Speaker 12 (23:06):
Yeah, it's been twenty four years and still doing it
still over the overseas and through New Zealand.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Good man. Oh, very nice to talk to you. Yeah,
that was basic. Thank you so much for calling.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Up, bringing you the best of the week. You're listening
to the Highlight Reel with Simon Barnett and James Daniels,
powered by News talks'd.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Be well, it's meyor Tory Farno has been diagnosed with
ADHD and significant traits of autism, and she said she's
had to adjust her work arrangements to manage her symptoms,
including shorter meetings and more rest. She also said the
diagnosis came as a bit of a shock, and you
probably heard in Raylan's news bulletin there she was receiving
(23:47):
professional support for her mental health and then you know,
through that she realized she had ADHD. So we want
to talk about that. Did you get a diagnosis late
in life and how do you manage that at work?
So Tory is asking for shorter meetings and maybe more rest.
There'll be some that will be cynical about that. There
(24:07):
are a lot who are cynical about that.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
But what we want to get down to is what
is ADHD and how do you get diagnosed with it?
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Colo Ray.
Speaker 13 (24:16):
My son was diagnosed with add when he was eight,
my daughter at twenty one, and I definitely have traits,
but never bothered to go and get diagnosed. I know it.
It's not a pretend thing. Auklam University has done a
lot of studies using an fMRI scanner, which scans the
(24:37):
brain of people that have ADHD, and you'll see the
person with ADHD their brain is firing all over the spot.
They can't stay focused on a task, and when they're
given coping skills. Some people aren't bad enough to need drugs,
but when they have the drugs, their brain calms down
(25:00):
and you can see it functioning in a more normal way.
It's a chemical balanced in the brain compared to what
we call normal.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Ray, can I ask you this, what symptoms did your children,
particularly your twenty one year old exhibit that made you
go hang on?
Speaker 13 (25:17):
She was good at school, you know, not brillant. She
was a B minus. You know, see kid just going along.
But she couldn't stay focused on anything, exactly the same
as me. If there's a job to be done, it'll
be left right up until the last minute and then
it's all on rush. Ritalin is one of the most
used and tested drugs in the world, and so a
(25:40):
lot of people get scared of it. But often those
that don't take it, like Tory, will develop drinking problems,
drug problems and everything because when they take the ritalin
it normalizes their brain.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Very interesting. Indeed, Newstalks had been the highlight reel.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
With Simon Barnard and James Daniels, available worldwide on iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Look, it's embarrassing. I can't explain why I've I've got
a winking habit and I do it to men and women.
Don't know you. I've done it to you, James, multiple times.
You do. And I can't explain it. I don't know
why it's and it's upset. It's habitual and it is
maybe it's a nervous tech. But when I see people
sometimes in lieu of saying hi, I'll just go and wink.
(26:25):
We're just direcdly old fashioned. I love it. Yeah, yeah,
I really like it.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
I don't know why you stress about it, but you
better tell the full story, because you got yourself into
a bit of a pickle.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Some of it. I think you generated yourself. I don't
know that it was as bad as you worry about it. Well,
because James is normally we normally go and get a
coffee together or whatever. I was on my own walk
through the newsroom and that there's four women that promotions
people down the end of the news office, and I
walked past them, and there's a lovely woman on the
(26:56):
end and she's yeah, she's just very nice. And I
winked at her as I walked past. I was on,
you know, even telling you, I'm thinking, shut up, simon
thinking about it. So I just go like wink and
she sort of looked at me, and I was like, oh,
my gosh, she's amused, was she? Well, I just hoped
(27:16):
she didn't think anything of it. So then I this
is where I'm dumb. I go, oh, oh, I'm really sorry.
I didn't mean to wink at you. Well I did
wink because I often wink, and but I didn't mean
to wink at you, because that's inappropriate, and so I
just want you to let you know that I wasn't
winking because I think you're anything. And then and I
was going like that, and then and as I'm going,
(27:37):
because then I wanted to say because I don't know,
I wasn't winking because you're attractive, because I don't think
you're well, you're attractive, but I'm not thinking that right.
So then I just then everybody is like the whole
world stopped and listened in to that moment in time.
And I don't know how I just ran open plany
a office and everyone heard it. YEP. I think I
just ended up running to the toilets and going, simon,
(27:59):
you drop kick, why do you keep talking? To shut up?
Jody used to say to me, I'm just dig and
digging through to China. And then leave.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
You leave the toilet as you're coming back past her,
you do.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
What well, because in the toilet, thinking how am I
going to go back out there?
Speaker 4 (28:21):
You couldn't get you couldn't get back to the studio
at less you been past them.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Yeah, that's it. So I go past and I think
because I'd already worked up my gag, so it wasn't awkward.
So I go past her again and I go really
obvious wink this time giddy up, which is you were
probably okay until the giddy up. But all right, what
does giddy even mean?
Speaker 4 (28:45):
Well, it means certain things to certain people, so i'd
be careful.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Let's not get it deeply into that.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
Yeah, what was her reaction?
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Well, everybody felt awkward for me, I think, and I
went home and thought about it. I was troubled, and
so I can't look at it today. Oh I just
ignore it. That's always the best. So my question is
winking is it still? Is it okay? Or is it
on the way out? It's definitely on the way You
don't wink. I'm sorry, I'm embarrassed. That's wrong.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
I think you're wrong there. It's the way that you
do it that It ain't what you do, it's the
way that.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
You do it that matters.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
And you didn't have any intention of being scody or
anything like.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
That, I think, do you Yeah? Do you think that?
Speaker 6 (29:31):
Mate?
Speaker 2 (29:31):
But do you worry you too much? Yeah? I know?
But do we think that winking? You just as a man,
you don't wink at a woman. You can wink at
a man jeepers, creepers. No, I don't think so. I
just don't. I think we call call time on the
winking for women at women. Is it okay? It's okay
for guys. Guys. Guys can wink at each other? Yeah,
yeah right.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
For more from Simon Barnett and James Daniels Afternoons, listen
live to news talks That'd be or follow the podcast
on iHeartRadio
Popular Podcasts
Crime Junkie
Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.
24/7 News: The Latest
The latest news in 4 minutes updated every hour, every day.
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.