Full Show Podcast: 27 June 2025

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
Hello you great new said as Welcome to Matt and
Tyler Full Show Podcast number one, five fourth Friday the
twenty seventh, June twenty five. You know, we always say this,
but it always is. It was a really really good show.
The chat we had about Paul Henry was pretty good.
You gotta say pretty good.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
Yep, you got pretty good, pretty good.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
Got pretty spy, spicy, got a bit of finished smeller
up there.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
And you had a problem with Dan Corbett the with men.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
Yeah, look, we'll get into that. Maybe shouldn't have said that,
but you know it's out there now and it's about
to be on this podcast as well, so you know,
well there's no regrets. You know, the past isn't around.
We live in exact. Yeah, we live in the present.

Speaker 3 (00:55):
Good philosophy.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
The future is coming, the past is gone. We live now.
So those comments are made about Dan Corbett, that's in
the past.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
And the ether now you even listen to it.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
They're in the future for the listeners.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
Yeah, exactly. That's something to look forward to for you.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
Yeah, and then and then we did what one of
our producers ed hates and we just listed sports movies
that we liked. At the end of the show.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
That was a great hour. Love a good listical, particularly
sports movies.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
Now, yeah, Tyler, you've got some stuff you'd like to share.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
Yeah, I do, actually, and this is a big one.
So listen up, download, subscribe, give us a review all
of that good stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
And shall we tell them that we've got a week
off next week or should we just leave it?

Speaker 4 (01:31):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:31):
We should No, No, we don't need to mention that.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
We don't mention that.

Speaker 3 (01:35):
No, don't mention that.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
Okay, all right, we love you all right.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
Big stories, the leak issues, the big trends and everything
in between. Matt Heath and Tyler Adams Afternoons News Talk said, be.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
Very good Afternoons. You welcome into Friday show. I hope
you were doing well wherever you're listening in the country. So,
as we know, a local state of emergency has been
declared for Nelson, Tasman and Marlborough. We will get back
to that very shortly, but a quick rundown on what
is on the show today, Matt on Friday, as we
always do, after three New Zealander of the Week.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
Yeah, the joy is still out on who that's going
to be, So your suggestions, we appreciate it. On nine
to two nine two, who do you think has had
an outsized effect on this great and beautiful nation of
ours over the last seven days?

Speaker 3 (02:19):
Looking forward to that and also after three o'clock? What
is the greatest sport movie of full time?

Speaker 1 (02:24):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:24):
I went to IF one last night. I loved it
so well shot. It's basically top gun Maverick on the ground.
I love that from the same director, Brad Pitt's fantastic
in it. You have to suspend your sense of disbelief
a lot of stuff, specially if you're an F one fan,
you'll watch it and go that couldn't possibly happen. But
you know the drivers have done that. Yeah, the drivers

(02:45):
have suspended their sense of disbelief. You know, I've read
all the reviews from all of them. You know, Carlos
Sanz is like I truly enjoyed it. I think for us,
if one experts, we're going to see things a bit
like we sometimes see with Drive to Scythe where they
don't seem quite right, but you can tell they are
a bit Hollywood like, but I truly believe this will
attract more people to the sport. And I thoroughly enjoyed it.

(03:07):
And the way they filmed from the cars was so
realistic from my experience.

Speaker 3 (03:11):
Love that.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
So IF one drivers themselves like can enjoy it. And
Lando Norris has nice things to say, Fernando Alonso chle Clare.

Speaker 3 (03:22):
It's as high praise as you can get for an
IF one movie from an IF one.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
Driver because I loved the movie. But a lot of
people say, yeah, but that couldn't happen. He's sixty one.
He couldn't do that. You couldn't just rock up like
that after not doing quality, you know all these things.
It's like, yeah, it's a Hollywood movie exactly showcases the sport,
but it's had to put a story over the top
of it. But I loved it. It's two and a
half hours long, but I didn't get bored for a second.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
Love it. And that is after three o'clock, What is
the greatest sports movie of all time? After two o'clock,
out spoken broadcaster and former Breakfast HOS Paul Henry he
is making an extraordinary comeback to the state owned television
network TV in Z as a director on the new board. Henry,
of course, was forced to resign from TV and Z
in twenty ten following a series of on screen controversies.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
Yeah, it should be interesting when he wanders back into
the building because I remember he said quite a lot
about people in the upstairs offic especially around a laptop
that was I remember back of the day, there was
a laptop that was chained to the desk, and he
rarely ripped into the people upstairs that would not trust
their hosts, and their own solution was to shain it
to the desk. So, you know, he's had his go

(04:25):
and he's had to go at TVNZ management before, but
now he's going to be one of the people making
the rules and making the decisions. So have you been
fired from a job and then come back, what's that like?
And have you quit and come back and what's that like?
And have you fired someone and had to rehire them?

Speaker 3 (04:43):
Yes? And also very shortly this hour, we also want
to talk about the Defense Force. Career in the Defense Force.
If you've gone through and that the Defense Force or
had kids go through in the Defense Force, is it
a good career option? They are four thousand people short,
that's how many vacancies. They've got three thousand of those
vacancies a regular force positions seven hundred and thirty civillion. So,

(05:04):
if you've got kids lying up at a career in
the Defense force, how are you feeling as a parent
and someone that's gone through it?

Speaker 2 (05:10):
Well, if you haven't, why not?

Speaker 5 (05:12):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (05:12):
It looks like there's four thousand good jobs going.

Speaker 3 (05:14):
Get in there.

Speaker 2 (05:15):
Yeah, So why don't? I mean, do you not want
your kids? You know, do you hate the idea of
your kids going into the Defense force or or yourself
going into the Defense Force if you happen to be
of that age, or you know, in your late teens,
early twenties, or whenever you want to join the defense
first force. There's seventy seven hundred and sixty six civilian
vacancies as well as the three thousand and sixty six

(05:35):
regular force vacancies. So, if you've been in the Defense Force,
would you recommend it? If you are thinking of joining
or are joining, tell us why?

Speaker 3 (05:43):
Yeah? But as we mentioned just moments ago, a local
state of emergency has been declared for Nelson, Tasman and
Marlborough's heavy rain continues to fall high tide is expected
to put more pressure on infrastructure already impact impacted by
that ragin in the upper South so met civices and
orange heavy rain warning is in place. It continues to
be in place rather while parts of the State Highway

(06:04):
six sixty and sixty three remain closed Nelson Mere, Nick
Smith's a number of local roads that also shut due
to surface flooding. We are expecting to chant to Emergency
Recovery Minister Mark Mitchell in about ten minutes time, so
we'll get the laatest from the Minister on what's happening
on the ground in Marlborough, Blenham, Nelson. And I've got
to say a bit of an update. I mentioned earlier

(06:26):
that we were due to drive down to Picked and
get on the ferry tomorrow morning and go to the
Marlborough Sounds. But from the parents in law, both sides
to their batch have been washed out by slips. A right,
I'm going to have to rethink that.

Speaker 2 (06:39):
Yeah, yeah, Now there's a tornado strike that's somewhere in Auckland.
So if you've seen any of this activity, whether you're
in Marlboro or Nelson, wherever you are, you know anything
about this tornado strike at Auckland, then we'd love to
hear from you as well. Eight hundred and eighty ten eighty.

Speaker 3 (06:57):
Absolutely now on the line right now is Minister for
Emergency Management and Recovery, Mark Mitchell. Mark, very good afternoon
to you. Oh we're just having some issues with the
phone lines, so we've got the minister online. Five there, Minister,
good afternoon.

Speaker 2 (07:16):
Good afternoon, Hey, thank you for joining us. What are
the worst hit parts of the country.

Speaker 5 (07:22):
Well, I mean it's we've got a cane on in
the country at the moment. Obviously Auckland has been hit
with with winds and thunderstorms and in a tornado obviously
down here, I'm down and blend him at the moment.
And we've obviously got heavy rainfall here and flooding, lots
of surface flooding. Obviously the river's been monitored and the

(07:46):
Spring Creek community has been evacuated as a precaution because
there is a stop beak out there that is not
that stable. And so the all the councils are responding
really well, obviously here with the Maya, the Dean Taylor,
I've spoken with Nick Samith and Nelson and Tim King
and Tasman. They're evactivated as well. The EOCS has stood up,

(08:06):
but everyone is taking decisions early and our first responders
are outstanding. The response is really good. There's been people
that people that need to be evacuated have been evacuated,
and everyone is well prepared at managing from what I
see right across the country the weather events that weve
been hit with at the moment.

Speaker 3 (08:23):
Are there any concerns over the next twelve hours for you,
minister understand high tide there's some caution around that. Is
it as it starts to come through? Is that the
main area of concern now?

Speaker 5 (08:34):
Yeah, talking to Nick Smith earlier there, Nelson's hight tide
was at eleven o'clock. That's what they were watching. So
we've got through that and the initial inform all the
information I have most recently is that they're starting to
things look like they're starting to improve there. But of
course it's still raining here and you're going to have
water that's going to come out of the hills and
it's trying to anticipate how much of that will arrive.

(08:57):
So look, that's what managing these events. It's our by
our obviously trying to use predictions and the information coming
through from our scientists and the METS Service. But the
one thing that I would say is that the response
that I'm seeing is outstanding. That's been proactive as they've
gone early, and everyone's highly organized.

Speaker 2 (09:19):
We're talking to a Minister of Emergency Management Mark make
sure what should people do in the affected areas.

Speaker 5 (09:25):
Just make sure that you keep checking the civil defense websites,
stay out of floodwaters because they're dangerous. You don't know
what's in them. And obviously cooperate and coordinate and be
compliant with any of our first responders and any of
the things that the councilor and first responders are trying
to do around public safety.

Speaker 3 (09:44):
And those messages as well. Minister, for anyone that has
been hit by flooding, they needed to get out of
their house, they're concerned about relatives checking on them, and
there are numbers and evacuation centers available for those people.

Speaker 4 (09:57):
That's right.

Speaker 5 (09:57):
Everyone's sort of keep in contact with each other, use
your phone networks, which teas are very good at doing.
On the police, for example, out that Spring Creek have
been very flexible in terms of how those checkpoints have
been run. They'll take people into their house. They need
to pick up the pedal, get something out to get

(10:18):
them back out again. So look from my perspective, right
from the start, and I've been monitoring this from yesterday.
All the councils from the MEAs down have been responsive.
They've been proactive. Everyone's well coordinated and it's a very
good response.

Speaker 2 (10:34):
Now you're down in blen Him. Have you heard anything
about this tornado in Auckland.

Speaker 4 (10:39):
Yes, I have.

Speaker 5 (10:39):
I've just got some initial information on that and actually
I will be traveling back to Auckland this afternoon and
get back on the ground where there are some issues
up there as well. Obviously I dealt with the one
and Munga Fi earlier in the year. The tornadoes are
very hard to predict. They just sort of turn up.
It's random, but of course they're capable of causing quite
a bit of havoc and chaos when they do. So

(11:02):
you know, I'll get more information when I hit the
ground up in Auckland.

Speaker 3 (11:05):
Yeah, Minista, thank you very much for having a cat
up with us and all the best down there.

Speaker 6 (11:11):
Yeah, thank you.

Speaker 5 (11:11):
Thanks sing us on.

Speaker 3 (11:13):
That is emergency Recovery Minister Mark Mitchell, and if you
are in those affect affected areas. We'd love to hear
from you what's happening on the ground at your place,
if you've been evacuated, if you're in the Spring Creek area,
or you're affected in Nelson. Oh, eight hundred eighty ten
eighty is the number to call. Getting a few texts
coming through on nine two ninety two as well, But
love to hear how it's going at your place of

(11:33):
you where are in the Upper South Island.

Speaker 2 (11:36):
Well, this Texas is today from Blenham having flashbacks today
toilet's gurgling due to sewer pressures takes us back to
christ Church and Koquarta earthquake days.

Speaker 3 (11:44):
Oh joy, yeah, yeah, feel that one. It is sixteen
past one. But look forward to your calls on eight
hundred and eighty ten eighty.

Speaker 1 (11:52):
The big stories, the big issues, the big trends and
everything in between. Matt Heath and Tyler Adams Afternoons us
Talk ZEDB.

Speaker 3 (12:01):
News Talk ZEDBS. So as we've just spoken to Emergency
Recovery Minister Mark Mitchell. There still some concern in the
Upper South Island with the flooding in the heavy rain.
The high tide has come and gone and Nelson. So
that is a good thing. But still some messages out
there for anyone affected to call civil defense and there
are evacuation centers available to you.

Speaker 2 (12:21):
And there's been talk about a tornado. Whenever I hear
talk about a tornado, I get excited. So I've got
some audio here from Assistant Commander of Fire and Emergency
in New Zealand, Dave Hatton, and he's describing the scene. Well,
there's a wow. I'm watching the video of it on
the heads and there all side.

Speaker 1 (12:42):
So we've had a small polent tornado pop.

Speaker 7 (12:46):
Through block our space and the effect of the building
behind us where the awning of that building has come
down and with power pole came down as well. And
we've just rendered per seen of state while using all
of our agencies to pick up the heavy stuff off
the road that gets poured away by truck and the roads.

(13:10):
We will come through and do it clean of the
road to make sure that's safe.

Speaker 8 (13:14):
For us O from the road.

Speaker 3 (13:15):
As soon as that's happened the next to the tenth.

Speaker 2 (13:17):
A few minutes, we'll be out of here.

Speaker 3 (13:19):
You go unreal, I mean, tornadoes in New Zealand. I
know they hurt, but far out. Welcome to Aukland exactly.

Speaker 2 (13:26):
Yeah, it's a bit of debris around, but it doesn't
look like anyone's been injured.

Speaker 4 (13:30):
No.

Speaker 3 (13:31):
A couple of texts to the Breakaday guys. Yes, it's
come down hard and heavy here in Blendham. We're pretty
close to Spring Creek. It appears hopefully that it is
starting to ease up a little bit, but certainly know
a lot of people who've been evacuated. Another big hit
for us here and more. But will be okay, there
you go, yeah.

Speaker 2 (13:52):
Says why do people need to know about whether who cares?
Just look out the window?

Speaker 3 (13:57):
Come on, mate, come on, jeez, come on, it's too
much as she'll be right attitude. Come on, you are
better than that.

Speaker 2 (14:06):
Really, because not all of us can look at like
that tornado. I was just talking about it. It's not
out my window.

Speaker 3 (14:10):
No, it's having gone. It's a st while it's taken
out part of blockhouse babe. It was out a window
in blockhouse bae. Exactly, Come on.

Speaker 2 (14:18):
Text Why people will talk about weather, Yeah, it's ninety
percent of what we talk about in New Zealand.

Speaker 3 (14:23):
That's what we do here, right. We are going to
continue to bring you updates on what's happening weatherwise up
and down the country, but particularly in the Upper South
Island is the afternoon progresses. But let's get into this
discussion about the Defense Force. So, as we mentioned a
little bit earlier, they've got almost four thousand vacancies, three
thousand of those a regular force positions, So that's a
lot of people they need to sign up to the
Defense Force. If you have been a part of the

(14:45):
Defense Force, why is it a great career choice? Why
do you think young people aren't getting into or eying
up a career in the Defense Force like they used to. Oh,
eight hundred and eighty ten.

Speaker 2 (14:54):
Eighty, Yeah, it looks like there's a bunch of money
coming into the Defense Force, so it might be a
good time to join. Or are people not joining the
Defense Force because of all the tensions in the world.
It's one thing joining the Defense Force, it's another thing
joining the Defense Force and having to go overseas and fight.
So if you've been in the Defense Force, would you

(15:15):
recommend it if you think of joining, tell us how
or why? And if you would never ever before join
the Defense Force and would hate for someone in your
family to join, then we'd like to hear from your
well as well. On eight hundred and eighty ten eighty.

Speaker 3 (15:28):
It is twenty three past one. You're listening to Matton
Tyler putting the.

Speaker 1 (15:32):
Tough questions to the newspeakers, the mic asking breakfast.

Speaker 9 (15:36):
The interweber is awashed currently telling me Erica Stamford is
the Wocist minister in the government and under the cover
of Dartan she is snuck into legislation commitment to the
treaty that entrenches it in a way we should all
be alarmed about. And Erica Stamford is, of course the
Minister of Education. You say what I mean, this is.

Speaker 10 (15:50):
What happens when you get a bunch of people who
get all whipped up with hatred and spout and complete
and uttered lies.

Speaker 9 (15:56):
It is correct to say it is in there, and
therefore some of the stuff that they're talking about can happen.

Speaker 2 (16:01):
Therefore they are correct.

Speaker 11 (16:03):
Well, hold on a minute, Yes it's there.

Speaker 3 (16:04):
I didn't put it there like that, claiming it's been
there for a very long long time.

Speaker 1 (16:08):
Are they legitimate questions? Yes?

Speaker 9 (16:11):
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Speaker 3 (16:15):
Talk z B afternoon twenty six past one.

Speaker 2 (16:18):
This Texas is thanks so much for finally reporting on
the top of the South Island weather conditions. We have
been without power all morning and cut off up the
Auteri Valley road. We only have use of the old
transistor radio for reporting. Nothing much to tell us what
was happening this morning. Powers just come back on and
finally connecting back. AM radio is still alive and well

(16:40):
pleased with that.

Speaker 3 (16:41):
Yeah, AM Radio, good to hear good on your AM
radio when all ours fails. AM radio was there.

Speaker 2 (16:46):
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Speaker 3 (16:50):
I'm kind of like it. But thank you very much
for those teps coming through and as we say, we
will keep you updated with all you need to know
is the afternoon progresses.

Speaker 2 (16:59):
But we are talking about, as we said, for the
three thousand and sixty six regular Force and seven hundred
and twenty eight civilian roles at a vacant in the
Army as of March twenty twenty five. Rob, welcome to
the show.

Speaker 8 (17:15):
There are you going guys? How about the weather?

Speaker 3 (17:18):
Yes, go on, that's a bit of it about And
now mate, you spent twenty years in the service, is.

Speaker 8 (17:26):
That right, Yes I did.

Speaker 12 (17:28):
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (17:29):
And what was the reason you first got into the
defense force? Was it something that you always wanted to
do as a kettle? Did you kind of fall into it?

Speaker 8 (17:37):
Two parts. My granddad and my dad were service members.
I hadn't thought about it. I got to my seventh
form year in school. It wasn't incredibly academic, and my
dad said to me, what are you doing? And I said,
I'm not sure mate. So I said, well, you know,
join the army or get a job type thing. So
to the army I went, and I sort of intended

(17:58):
to stay there two years and yeah, long story short,
I was still there twenty years later.

Speaker 2 (18:03):
Would you recommend it, Rob, That's.

Speaker 8 (18:07):
A difficult question. I think if you're young and you're
leaving school when you want someone to pay for your trade,
go for it. Get into it. It's you know, it's
it's awesome. If you saw them with an established family,
definitely not right. And I guess the one thing you
can say is it's not a job. It is a lifestyle,
and you need to commit one hundred percent because the
last thing you want to do when you're old is

(18:28):
be bad at your job. You've you'll get all the
money invested in you do your training, but it's a
lot of time away doing things. You know, you get
shipped around the country doing training, a lot of time
away from home. But you know, I wouldn't speak to
bad with about it was all good fun, enjoyed it.

Speaker 2 (18:47):
What made you finally leave Rob after twenty years?

Speaker 8 (18:51):
I guess my son was he was born when I
was sort of around the fifteen sixteen year mark. I
was up in way to your training recruits at the time,
and no time because I was training. I just wasn't
home miss out on all that. And we got to
a point where it was like, you know, I need
to I'm a I'm a father, I need to I
need to be that person. So I left and and

(19:14):
you know, it was a good time. I was coming
up there twenty year milestone because I was on a
twenty year contract in the days and it was like,
you know what, what be the time to end it?
And moved them to the real world and got a
real job.

Speaker 2 (19:25):
What was that like returning to the real world?

Speaker 8 (19:28):
Rob incredibly tough. You know, you you turn up every
on time, you turn up there looking sharp, you know,
being the best you every day. You know, and then
coming to work and the people I work with aren't there,
or there's some excuse for not being at work a
lot like trash and in all honesty, it taught me

(19:50):
a very long time to figure out that. And then
also the it sounds weird to say, the seriousness of
the real world, you know, in the army, like you know,
there's rules and regulations and there's times to be serious,
but day to day it is a it is a
Monday to Friday is an eight to four thirty during

(20:10):
normal trading times, and we have a lot of fun.
Then there's a lot of things said that you know,
definitely can't say out the end. There's a lot of
there's a lot of things that are different.

Speaker 2 (20:19):
Yeah, alys interesting. So in a way the real world
was less it was less formal than you were used to,
but the conversation was more formal. Is that what you're
saying or more guard.

Speaker 8 (20:30):
Yeah, that's a that's a really good way way to
put it. I mean, and everyone, you know, one thing
I've come to realize been out here is everyone's really
protective of their job or as in the army, you know,
it's the thing is you're always learned the role of
the person too up for obvious reasons. Yeah, out here
in the rule people are like, oh, they don't want
to share their job. They don't want to help you
because they're afraid you're gonna, you know, stands their job

(20:53):
from them. So it's culturally different, that's for sure.

Speaker 2 (20:57):
Yeah, But overall, after all that, in that twenty years,
you know, if there was one person looking at a
young person looking at taking one of these, applying for
one of these three thousand and six, these six regular
force jobs that are going, you'd recommend it.

Speaker 8 (21:11):
Oh, so Milka for the free trade and then get
out and live your Dreamah.

Speaker 3 (21:17):
Yeah, you're a good man, Rob, Thanks for giving us
a buzz. Oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty is
the number to call if you agree with Rob, love
to hear from you. If you disagree with Rob, can
have a chat with you as well. Headlines coming up
with ray Lean then we'll take more of your calls.
It is twenty nine to.

Speaker 12 (21:31):
Two Jus talk said the headlines with blue bubble taxis
it's no trouble with a blue bubble. An Orange Heavy
rain warnings been extended for the top of the South
Island until three this afternoon. A local state of emergency
remains in force for Nelson, Tasman and Marlborough, where another
forty millimeters of rain is forecast on top of what's

(21:53):
already fallen, and severe thunderstorm mornings have now been lifted
in the Upper North Island. Orange rain mornings have been
issued for Bay of Plenty this afternoon and Gisbon District tonight.
Police have charged a man after an exchange between two
vers early this morning in Auckland's Manorwa left one person
dead and one in a critical condition. Police alleged the

(22:15):
fifty six year old shoved another vehicle with his, causing
it to hit a tree. They say both parties were
known to each other. The body of Mary Party MP
Taku Tai tash Camp is now lying at West Auckland's
Huani Wai Titi Marai. Labour's Willie Jackson says the focus
now is paying tribute to her, not speculating on her

(22:35):
electorate replacement. Top Auckland chef warns other Kiwi blokes of
risks after near fatal tiny cut. You can see the
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Tyler Adams.

Speaker 3 (22:48):
Thank you very much, Ray Lane. So the Defense Force
has almost four thousand vacancies, three thousand irregular force positions,
seven hundred and thirty civilian roles. So I've asked the question,
is getting into the Defense Force a good career choice?

Speaker 13 (23:00):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (23:00):
More than six thousand vacancies each in the Navy and
the Air Force, and seven hundred and twenty eight civilian rolls.
So you're looking to do something in life. Look at
all those spots. Yeah, people looking to get a job,
We've got all them spots.

Speaker 3 (23:14):
Exactly.

Speaker 2 (23:14):
So do you think it's a good idea to join
the Defense Force? Have you joined it, have you got
someone that is joining it soon? Or do you think
it's a terrible idea? This business is we don't need
a defense force at all. Guys, do you really believe
that we need a defense force? What is their current role? Peacekeeping?
They do not get deployed in active service. Well they do.
I've talked to quite a lot of New Zealand's Defense

(23:36):
Force members that get deployed around the world.

Speaker 3 (23:38):
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 2 (23:39):
And you know it's not just defense as it were.
They also do a lot of civil emergency work as well.

Speaker 3 (23:46):
I for one, absolutely think we need a defense force.

Speaker 2 (23:49):
The sixers that I spent forty years in the UK,
then the New Zealand Army, and the reality is that
their career is very different these days. MZDF service people
no longer have exciting overseas travel opportunities available. I've talked
to people that do travel around the world. The equipment
for now is inferior and whilst the government has committed
to new capabilities, these will take years come online, particularly
given the fact that so many of those with the

(24:11):
necessary experience to help bring those capabilies online have left
or have been redundant in the last round of workplace savings.
As for that dude who has just phoned in, I
think it's very selfish to join and get a trade
and then leave. Shame on her, Wow, what anger in
that text. Shame Craig, Welcome to the show.

Speaker 14 (24:31):
Hey you Ghan. It's just coming from from a slightly
different point of view on the parent of someone who
went straight from school into the army. He did it
for his trade. He wanted to become a mechanical engineer,
so he's gone as a maintenance fitter. He's twenty now.
He's been in about two and a half years. And yeah,
as the previously I said, it's a good way to

(24:53):
get your trade. I mean, you know, my son's gone,
he's getting all his education provided for him. But it's
hard work. And as a parent, you know, I respect
very much what he's done, and I have a much
higher level of respect for even you on in the
unforces are to seeing what they go through. But yeah,

(25:16):
it's it's bloody hard. Don't think for a minute that
it's an easy way to keep your trade, because it's not.

Speaker 2 (25:23):
Can you see a circumstance with your son. So he's
in the forces to get a trade, that's his primary
reason for being there, But can you see a situation
where he ends up in some kind of active duty
in harm's way.

Speaker 14 (25:36):
Yeah, yeah, and if he if he does, that's he
knows and we know that that's what he signed up for.
That's that's part of part.

Speaker 8 (25:43):
Of the role.

Speaker 14 (25:43):
And and you know, good on him for doing it.
You know, he's he's a he's a tough he's a
tough kid. He was he was as a previous guy's year,
he wasn't the best of school. My son was was
good at school. He was he was a good scholar,
but he he wanted the excitement of the army. And yeah,
he's loving it, you know, as I say, he's been

(26:04):
in there two and a half years now. But you
hear a lot of people say, oh, just join the
get your training and training and then and then bug off.
But it's it's hard work. I mean, as I said,
he's a tough kid. But when he was going through
basic training, he was on the phone back home to
mom and Dad in tears because it's you know, they
do put you through a lot. They need to tune

(26:24):
into the soldier that you need to be. And you
don't get me wrong, he's not He's not a soft kid.
He was a black better, much larger of the age
ten right, he's a tough bugget. But it's bloody hard.

Speaker 2 (26:34):
But he's a tough bugger. But it was tough.

Speaker 14 (26:38):
Oh yeah, oh yeah. But you know, don't get me wrong.
Anyone that wants to do it, go ahead and do it.
It's fantastic, it's a great career, but it's not an
easy way to give you get your training and then
gage in the real world. If you if you're joining
for that reason, that's the wrong reason.

Speaker 3 (26:54):
You've got to be made a tough stuff to start with.
But I mean, just those skills that Rob talked about
and you've talked about as well, Craig. Discipline, the decisive
decision making, the physicality. You know, you get very fit
in the in the defense force. Those are skills that
are so valuable in real life that it's very hard
to find those anywhere else and get paid to do it.

Speaker 14 (27:14):
You know, yeah, one hundred percent agree. I mean, you know,
I've been told I manage a business in town. I've
been told by other people if two people were going
to a job, like in the field that that my
son wants to get into, if there's two people going
and ones had military training, one hasn't, the military training
will get it hands down because because of the respect

(27:34):
that the honor, the work ethic that they're taught and
that they had to do. So it's it's a great
career option. But don't permit it. I think it's an easy
way to do it because although you're not paying for
your trade, you're paying for it in bloodsweed and tears.

Speaker 2 (27:48):
Think if you call Graig yeah nicely said, yeah, that's
a good, that's a good. You know, it's a good, good,
I'm looking for searching clearly for the recommendation. Yeah, you know,
that's that seems like a good option for these these
what is it six hundred vacancies in both the Navy
and the Air Force.

Speaker 3 (28:05):
And if I would to go back in time and leave,
like when I left school, I didn't really know what
I was going to do, and I'm so lucky to
end up where I've ended up here. But you know,
as an outsider looking in and you're not quite sure
on what do you want to do in life, the
Defense Force, to me, such a great option, an amazing option,
right up there with the police, because you learn those
skills and you get that physicality and all those things

(28:26):
that are so valuable in life. Aside from the fact
that then you can start to specialize in trades and
digital communication.

Speaker 2 (28:33):
Yeah, but then all of a sudden, someone's firing. You know,
you're driving past an improvised explosive device, aren't you. Yeah,
So there's that side of it. Hey, guys, my son
joined the Army last year. Five days into his training,
he had an accident which resulted in a serious broken
nose and concussion. Unfortunately, he has had to resign as
they wouldn't send him for treatment and surgery. He now

(28:53):
will and wants to rejoin, but has to go through
the whole recruitment process again, which is emotionally and mentally
stressful as all the testing has been undertaken. Again, that's
from Sam. How actually, I mean I should know this,
But how hard is it to get into the the army.
I've got my sons, I've got my son's got a
couple of friends and they've had to forego it for

(29:14):
a year for certain things. I think, you know, I
think there's there's reasonably rigorous how you get in there, right.

Speaker 3 (29:20):
There's got to be a bar set, right, is to
make sure that you're fit enough and have enough basic
skills to do the training. As Craig said, you know,
it's not easy. His kid was a tough kid and
he had to push to to get through it. Oh
eight hundred eighty ten eighty is the number to call
if you've been through the Defense Force.

Speaker 2 (29:37):
Loved from you this, Texas says. Gooday, guys. In the
real world, New Zealand Defense Force trates are not sought after.
They tend to only complete work they're instructed to do.
They seem to have absolutely no initiative and they have
the initiative trained out of them, not all but most. Wow,
that's a controversial. Do you agree with that? I eight
hundred eighty ten eighty. If you've been in the Defense forces,
what do you think of bloody this guy who eighteen

(29:58):
to two.

Speaker 1 (30:00):
The issues that affect you, and a bit of fun
along the way. Matt Heath and Tyler Adams Afternoons News Talk.

Speaker 3 (30:06):
Said, be very good. Aftern we're talking about the vacant
season the Defense Force. Almost four thousand and three thousand
of those irregular force positions as getting into the Defense
Force a good career choice in twenty twenty five.

Speaker 2 (30:17):
So if you want to join the Defense Force, I'm
just looking at this here. You must be a New
Zealand citizen or hold a ZED resident class visa with
indefinite stay. Applicants must be able to obtain and retain
the required security clearance. Minimum application age is seventeen. General
acquire at least three years of secondary school. Some trades
if you're joining for a trade, still have academic prerequisits

(30:39):
equivalent to NCAA Level two. Must be medically and physically
fit for military duties. Worldwide fitness tested via nzidef's standard assessment,
so that's a multi stage fitsiness test. Recent changes have
adjusted their benchmarks. What do you got here? You gotta
have you must pass a cognitive aptitude test, right, so

(31:00):
you'd be out tyler and of offense during initial application screening.
Your residency, medical and fitness records are also evaluated. A
clean criminal record so that keeps me out, and a
good health history also, I'm out.

Speaker 3 (31:12):
Yeah, yeah, well we should give it a go. We
should give it a crack and see what they say
to us. But keen to get your thoughts on one
hundred and eighteen eighty. If your children are going through
the process of joining the Defense Force, I love to
hear from.

Speaker 2 (31:22):
You, Glenn. Your son joined up at seventeen.

Speaker 15 (31:26):
Correct, how are you going?

Speaker 16 (31:27):
Goes?

Speaker 8 (31:27):
All?

Speaker 2 (31:28):
Right?

Speaker 15 (31:30):
Yeah, good, Look he's seventy four now. He joined when
he was seventeen. I was one of those situations where
I got called into school and your son is probably
best out of school, not at school, because he's disruptive
and annoying everybody around him. So it was what are

(31:51):
you going to do?

Speaker 12 (31:52):
Boy?

Speaker 15 (31:52):
And he didn't know what I said, You're going to
join the Army or the forces. And look, he joined
the he joined the Army, he became he was based
down in Burnham, christ Church, became a fully qualified chef.
Loved it. Was in there for six and a half
years and only he left was he sort of had

(32:13):
a girlfriend up in Auckland and they were doing this
up and down, you know, one week he's up here
and expedition's down there sort of thing. So, yeah, it
was the best thing he ever did. He loved it.
And the funny thing is he now lives in christ
he's an electrician and he's just reapplied and been reaccepted

(32:34):
back into the Defense Force.

Speaker 8 (32:37):
He's back in.

Speaker 15 (32:38):
Yeah, he's still still a silly as he calls him.
But he got his papers back the other day with
acceptance and they really looked after him. He had to
have a back operation while he was in the Army,
was all paid for by the services. He had some
dental work done, it was all paid for. He's got

(33:01):
lifelong friends. And the funny thing was my father, who's
so he's ninety now, he was that he was in
the British Forces, and when we have a family reunion
and my son and my dadd are together. They almost
have a kinship, right, And I'm the one who didn't.
My dad used to say to me, join the army, son.

(33:22):
I was like, whatever, never did it, and I wish
to god, I wish god I did well, you know,
because you can see they've got a bond, and I'm
the I'm the third wheel. Yeah, And it's funny my
dad and my son can both also Dad's ninety, they

(33:45):
can both still recite there their rifle number, the serial number,
and their dog tag numbers. And that says you never
forget those things they drilled into you.

Speaker 2 (33:56):
Glenn. You said that when you were called into school
and your son was having some problems at school, but
when you went into the army interview, they obviously asked
some questions and decided he was maybe not right for school,
that was right for the army.

Speaker 15 (34:08):
It was it was like he was there for a
good time and he was just he wasn't naughty, asn't
smoking or anything. It was just like he was he
wanted to hang out with his mates more than do
the schoolwork. You know. Yeah, But look, he passed all
those tests and and he did a hell of a

(34:31):
lot of training to his fitness test up and the
good thing about it was his fitness test was down
at Victoria Park in Auckland there and parents were welcome
to come and watch them and do it. And it
was like carrying ropes, carrying cans. Work as a team,
you know, work individually, you know, crawling, running, sprending. You

(34:55):
know you can't drop all this, but you've got to
do ten laps, and but there's five of you got
to you know. It was just it was really good.
It was it was a pleasure to watch.

Speaker 2 (35:05):
And yeah, I think so much.

Speaker 3 (35:07):
Glean another endorsement from Glenn and to the point where
he wished he had gone because his son and his
dad had both been big members of the Defense Force.

Speaker 2 (35:16):
Yeah. Sorry, okay, you're off, Glenn, but we've got to
go to a break quickly.

Speaker 3 (35:19):
It is ten to two, back very shortly.

Speaker 1 (35:22):
Matt Heath, Taylor Adams taking your calls on Oh, eight
hundred and eighty, ten eighty. It's Matt Heath and Tyler
Adams Afternoons news Talks Evy.

Speaker 3 (35:30):
It is seven to two.

Speaker 2 (35:32):
My son joined out of school February twenty four. He's
loving the physical challenge. Currently in Townsville on the big
three thirty thousand troop joint exercise with the Aussie Singapore Canada,
living well, earning lots, turning into an amazing young man.
There you go, and yet there's three thousand and sixty
six regular force in seven and twenty eight civilian roles vacant,

(35:53):
and our armed services.

Speaker 3 (35:54):
To get in there. John, you were in the defense
and you loved it.

Speaker 17 (35:58):
I was, Yeah, I did love it. I joined when
I was eighteen. I left school when I was sixteen.
I had school certificate and the usual stuff, and I
was looking for a job. I had a couple of jobs.
One day I was walking past the recruiting center and
I thought, I think I'm going to join up. And
I did, and the best thing I ever did. That

(36:20):
was a changing thing in my life. I was there
for fourteen years, and you know, just just the camaraderie
working together. You know, being in the Defense force is
actually really really different. It's a great thing. And anybody
who's a bit unsure of what they want to do

(36:41):
in their life, I'll tell you what I went on.
I've gone on from the service and done a lot
of other things. I owned my own businesses, you know,
so I've done a lot of stuff, but I looked
back at those years and I never ever regret a
moment of it.

Speaker 3 (36:55):
John, might be a hard question, but what was one thing,
skill mentality you picked up in the defense force that
you think has served you the best in your life?

Speaker 17 (37:04):
You certainly learn to look after your mates, and you learn,
you know, and just some respect, you know. I think
I think it just teaches you some very very good
skills in life, some very good skills in life. And Yeah,
as I say, I certainly don't regret it, and I'd

(37:24):
do it again in a heartbeat.

Speaker 3 (37:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 17 (37:27):
And and young guys, especially young guys who are struggling
a bit, you know, get in there, enjoy it, you know,
make the most of it. You will come out you
will never ever regret it.

Speaker 3 (37:38):
Have you got any thoughts about why there are so
many vacancies at the moment? John, Do you think it
has kind of gone off the radar for young people
wheres they're getting out of high school, that it might
not be front and center when they're considering what they
want to do.

Speaker 1 (37:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 17 (37:51):
Look, to be honest, I haven't really I don't have
a lot to do with it anymore. But I have
heard a few stories, like people say to me, it's
not the thought it was, you know, like whether it's
got a bit namby pamby.

Speaker 3 (38:03):
I don't know.

Speaker 17 (38:04):
I mean when we were there, it was pretty tough
and you knew your place in the world. And when
you step down line, you know, you learned that that
was not what you did. Yeah, but it was very respectful,
so you didn't go away thinking I've been I've been
dicked or anything, you know, like it was all very positive.

(38:26):
I can't speak highly enough of it, but I thought
it was still the same as it was then then
make do it in a moment.

Speaker 3 (38:32):
Love it, John, You're a great advocate, and thank you
very much for giving us a buzz.

Speaker 2 (38:35):
We've got the other side of the equation here. This
Texas is stopped trying to get kids to join the army.
You two fascist Jesus h they will die and the
blottle beyond your hands. You couldn't handle it. You're willing
to send people to their death. Pathetic radio fascist you
discuss me well, thanks for your feedback texting. You seem
like an insane person, but thanks for your text. You
should probably see someone.

Speaker 3 (38:57):
What a little sourplus that person is yeah, but to
join in your life.

Speaker 2 (39:01):
Thanks for your text day, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (39:02):
Yeah, thank you as always right, That is where we'll
leave it, because after two o'clock we want to talk
about Paul Henry coming back to TV and ZED. Have
you been fired and then come back to that same
workplace or have you fired someone and had to rehire them?
That's next your new.

Speaker 1 (39:16):
Home for instateful and ed to Teening Talk. It's Mattie
and Taylor Adams afternoons on News Talk Sebby.

Speaker 3 (39:25):
Good afternoon, great to have your company is always on
this Friday afternoon. Hope you were doing okay wherever you're
listening in the country. This is going to be a
very interesting chat. So you might have seen the News
Outspoken broadcast from former Breakfast host Paul Henry. He is
making an extraordinary comeback to TV and ZED as a
director on an overhauled board. So as we all remember,

(39:46):
he was forced to resign from TV and Z after
a series of controversies.

Speaker 2 (39:50):
Yeah, let's have a listening to what he had to
say about this. His time at TV and ZED.

Speaker 11 (39:55):
One of the things that I was most proud about,
you know, because you mentioned mustache on a lady and diction.
And then there was that wonderful one where we were
talking about rats and I spat all over.

Speaker 2 (40:03):
Because I just was laughing so much.

Speaker 11 (40:05):
I took a water, take a quick stack, spat it
out all over the co So we're in the studio
and they had padlock to our laptops to the set.
Nothing says, I don't trust you. Pad lock in your
laptop to the set. I said, have you got a
hack saw? He didn't, but he brought one in the
next day. Halfway through the program, I said, this is offensive,
but they basically didn't trust anyone. Halfway through the program,

(40:25):
I get the hacks are out and star hack sawing
through to get the laptop out. To make a point,
whether you like Paul Henry or not, that is bloody entertainment.
It's because it's unpredictable and it's making a point. These
people who set up in their offices, you know, are
so bad at their jobs that they've decided the only
way they can protect their dull laptops is to padlock
on the set.

Speaker 2 (40:46):
Really, there you go? Or Bezel Brush himself great broadcaster,
certainly was it is. I've done a few TV shows
with them over the years, and he's always been very
very lovely but controversial at the time, and it was
made to resign. Was forced to resign, you'd have to say.
But there in that audio he's saying, you know, hassling

(41:06):
the people in the office that are so at their jobs.
So he's returning to the place he was forced to
resign from, and he's returning in a position of power.
Interesting to see how he influences things, and it'll be
interesting to see what the vibe was with him returning.
So have you been fired from a job and then
come back? Have you? Have you quit and come back
and what's it like? Have you fired someone and had

(41:29):
to rehire them?

Speaker 3 (41:31):
I mean, there's clearly going to be potentially a bit
of awkwardness with Paul Henry coming back into the new,
overhauled TV and Z board. But to everybody out there listening,
I imagine there's been lots of people in that situation
where you've maybe had to sack someone and then get
them back, or have you worse sacked and then they
needed you to come back. How do you deal with
that when you come back in and there are still

(41:51):
people there that wanted to see you go from that position.

Speaker 2 (41:55):
I know some people I'm not going to name names,
that just seem to have this quite insane ability to
go in media for you know, we're in the media here. Yeah,
and there wasn't too many ops, no, but there's some
people that seem to leave one place and disgrace and scandal,
go to the other place and then leave there and
disgrace and scandal and then get welcomed back into the

(42:18):
other place, leave that and disgrace and scandal and in
the back of the other place.

Speaker 3 (42:21):
So big boomerang, isn't it.

Speaker 2 (42:23):
Yeah, there seems to be some people that managed to
pull that off.

Speaker 3 (42:25):
Yeah. Oh wait, one hundred eighty ten eighty. If you
have been fired or sacked from a position and then
rehide at the same place, love to hear from you.
Nine two ninety two is the text number. As you
mentioned media, it's a very small industry in New Zealand,
but there's a lot of industries out there in New
Zealand that are quite small and there might not be
too many options. So if you've been in that position,
love to hear from you. And if you've fired someone

(42:45):
and then you need it to get them back, really
keen on your stories. I eight hundred eighty ten eighty
is the number.

Speaker 2 (42:50):
To call and look, if you just want to have
a chat about Paul Henry, we'll talk to you as well.

Speaker 3 (42:54):
Absolutely ten pas two.

Speaker 1 (42:56):
Wow your home of afternoon Talk Matt Heathen, Taylor Adams afternoons.
Call Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty you talk said, be.

Speaker 3 (43:06):
Good afternoon you thirteen part us two and we are
discussing Paul Henry. He is making a return back to
TV and Z, a place in which he was forced
to resign from in twenty ten after a series of
on screen controversies. But he's now going to be a
director on an overhauled TV and Z board.

Speaker 2 (43:24):
I just find the whole thing quite interesting. To be
forced to resign, it's really you'd have to take it
as there'd be some satisfaction for him. There absolutely so back.
But you know, I wonder if it's awkward. It's a
long time ago that he got fired. This text does
not think well of the man. The man should not

(43:44):
be at TV and Z. If you're fired, you are fired,
and there should be no way back. I've been fired
from two jobs. I would never go back, even if
they wanted me. Well, he wasn't really fired. I guess
he was forced out, you'd say, forced to resign, Yeah,
forced to resign. But wow, who's been fired from two jobs?

Speaker 3 (43:59):
Well, that's what I'm thinking. If you've been sacked from
two jobs, are you really fit for the workplace in general?
Should you be big fire stones?

Speaker 2 (44:06):
Being fired from one job is I mean laid off
as a different thing. Yeah, but fire suggests that you've
done something wrong and you've been you've been jettisoned, right.

Speaker 3 (44:14):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know if that takes it should
be throwing stones at poor enery.

Speaker 2 (44:17):
Jeff, Welcome to the show.

Speaker 4 (44:19):
Yeah, good afternoon.

Speaker 18 (44:21):
Yeah. I've got a very interesting story about being fired
and rehired. Now, I was working in Auckland as a
carpenter for a company and we were boxing up tilt slabs. Okay,
not an easy thing to get organized. There was a

(44:42):
guy there, a young guy there, and his uncle was
a foreman. Now he was going into the office and
doing nothing, but still in trouble. And sadly the foreman
came out and I had to talk to him and
I said to him.

Speaker 13 (45:00):
What what what? What?

Speaker 18 (45:01):
What he's saying? It is ridiculous, So he said, oh,
we'll just carry on.

Speaker 13 (45:05):
Jeff.

Speaker 18 (45:06):
Now, when it came to the pouring of the slabs,
you tie the lifting eyes in of a bar underneath
into the main steel. And I told him that and
he said to me, oh, no, we'll just shove them
into the concrete. So, to cut along story short, what
happened was when the crane lifted the tailt slabs up,

(45:28):
the lifting eyes all pulled out, and the flipping tilt
slab came flying down and caused considerable damage.

Speaker 3 (45:38):
Not a good day.

Speaker 18 (45:40):
No, well, it wasn't a good day because the point
is this guy was too busy listening to this young
guy and the guy the guy the foreman, Like I said,
the foreman was his uncle, but should have been listening
to me because I've had far more experience with these things,

(46:00):
and I knew about these lifting eyes.

Speaker 4 (46:03):
And apparently I went.

Speaker 19 (46:07):
Down the road.

Speaker 18 (46:08):
I was on another building and I got a phone call.
The foreman came out and says, hey, deaf, this guy
is on the phone. And when the and I said
to him, hey, mate, what do he want? And he says, oh, Jeff,
can you come back to this company and you can
be in charge of the tilt slabs, and I said tomorrow,

(46:29):
And I mate, I said, the trouble was you listen
to that young guy and you were not listening to me.
And I said, you know, this is what's happened. So
I said, can you imagine how much damage when that
tilt slab hit the deck? The seltzlab apparently was about
five or six meters off the ground.

Speaker 3 (46:50):
Yeah, So, Jeff, Jeff, did you go back? They would
have felt very satisfying when they gave you a call
and said we need you to come back.

Speaker 18 (46:57):
I actually did go back. And this guy, this young guy,
well he was under me, not him going into the office.

Speaker 3 (47:08):
Yeah, I won on you.

Speaker 2 (47:12):
There you go, you won.

Speaker 3 (47:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 18 (47:14):
Orman started to realize my experience because I've done a
lot of talk slabs in the buyer plenty here for
a company, and I knew about these things.

Speaker 3 (47:26):
Yeah, good on you, Jeff. That would have been very
satisfying for Jeff. I mean that sounded like an absolute
balls up on the work site. And as he said,
there was some nepotism involved.

Speaker 2 (47:35):
Do you think that's what Paul Henry's feeling now as
he goes into a director position?

Speaker 3 (47:38):
Absolutely?

Speaker 2 (47:40):
You do you got rid of me and now look
at me coming back.

Speaker 17 (47:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (47:45):
Well, I mean, look, who knows the exact details of it,
but it seemed like he was basically forced out. Yea,
I don't think he was actually fired. Hey, Chap's great
news with Paul Henry back at TV and said, smart move,
as he has much to offer with his years of experience.
Good for him getting a second chance. Cheers Jared. It's
a different job though he's gone from presenter to being host. Hey, guys,

(48:06):
I hope that woke left leaning Juno's are worried about
Paul Henry's entry back into the industry. Hopefully he can
sort them out.

Speaker 3 (48:12):
Yeah, a lot of support coming through with Paul Henry
being a director on the board of TV and z's.
But were keen to hear your stories If you've been
fired and then asked to come back into that job,
what happens? Yeah, And how good were you feeling when
you got that phone call?

Speaker 2 (48:27):
And how satisfying And have you had to go cap
in hand back to someone you fired and re employ
them a few years down the track after you fire them.
We'd love to hear from you. Oh, eight hundred and
eighty ten eight.

Speaker 3 (48:38):
It is eighteen past two.

Speaker 1 (48:44):
Matt Heathan Tyler Adams afternoons call oh eight hundred eighty
ten eighty on News Talk ZV.

Speaker 3 (48:49):
Very good afternoon. So Paul Henry is back at TV
and ZI as a director on the overhauled TV and
Z board after he was made to resign.

Speaker 2 (48:56):
And also hosts of The Chase in Zen of course
thanks to your text, Donner.

Speaker 3 (49:02):
Yeah, very good point.

Speaker 2 (49:03):
So not only back in charge, well he's never you know, back,
He's not only back on the screens, but he's back
in a management role or a director's role. So I
mentioned to be a cinmount of satisfaction for the man. Hey,
good I fellers, Lest we forget Jeremy Clarkson punch to
Top Gear producer Osin Tompman in the face. Jeremy Clarkson

(49:24):
has done all right since Love Clarkson's Farm. By the way, God,
it's a fantastic show. I've been fluid right up all
week and I've watched rewatch Series one. Have a good weekend.
Your series one is such a great series. But you've
got to say, if you're a producer, and I always
think about this sort of Jeremy Clarkson situation, Paul producing
because Top Guarn, Top Gun, Top Gear was such a

(49:45):
hugely successful show and just keep the host happy. You're
a two. I've worked as a television producer a lot
in my life, and the job is to make the
show happen and make sure everyone's feared, and make sure
things work, and to not get into a fight with
the host that makes you make all the money and
employs everyone there. That's your job. So you're actually that

(50:05):
guy was actually a rubbish producer.

Speaker 3 (50:07):
What a cock up for the be as well, because
that was the end of Top Gear no more. They
just couldn't get the numbers again. After Jeremy and the
other two.

Speaker 2 (50:14):
They're still trying with various muppets trying to do the show.
But then the Grand Tour was great and now Clarkson's Farm,
it's just such a fantastic show.

Speaker 3 (50:22):
So there you go, Andrew, good afternoon to you. Yeah man,
nice kay mate, nice chance. So what's your story?

Speaker 20 (50:30):
I just got a waste story about my uncle leaving
until Morburn and coming back. So he'd been a start
off at this place as an apprentice and he'd been
here about twenty years and then they split it off.
Into two businesses, and so they gave him as redundancy.
He said, twenty years of redundancy, see you later. And
then the next day when he went and started work

(50:51):
at the at the next company with the new company,
and my brother and dad actually worked at the original company.
That sort of stayed together and they would dark about
it at the time and you know, where's the grief.
So this companies that split off. That lasted about sort
of three years, and then it came back to the

(51:13):
original company again and they made him redundant again, and
then he got paid out redundancy again.

Speaker 4 (51:20):
And they had actually paid him from.

Speaker 20 (51:23):
When he started as an apprentice four years earlier.

Speaker 2 (51:27):
Again, well played uncle, that is that's pretty good. That's
pretty good for him.

Speaker 3 (51:35):
Yeah, not so much for the business. Yeah, but they
brought it on themselves by the sounds of it.

Speaker 6 (51:41):
Andrew, Yeah, for nineties sort of extremegance.

Speaker 2 (51:46):
Yeah. Well, there seems there seems to be a lot
of people at TV and z's because we're speaking about
TV and Z they constantly doing restructurings and making people
redundant and then having to hire them back. Yeah, and
I think there's people that have been in and out
of there four times.

Speaker 3 (51:59):
Yeah, Yeah, there's a heck of a lot of support
coming through via the text machine for Paul Henry being
appointed as director.

Speaker 2 (52:06):
He was dumped for being racist and said shame again
on TV and Z.

Speaker 3 (52:10):
Yeah, that one's not a supporter of Paul Henry.

Speaker 2 (52:13):
Yeah, so what he was done was it? I thought,
Paul Henry, here we go. I thought it was wasn't
too long ago. TV and Z were making a whole
lot of people redundant. They were all crying about it
on the news one night, about losing their jobs. I
watched it and couldn't believe that a business was losing
money and these people thought that they should be kept
in their job. This goes to show the mentality of
some I hope Paul Henry can come in and turn

(52:34):
it around so it can start making money again, says Max.

Speaker 3 (52:37):
Well that is That's a follow up question here is
do you think Paul Henry can help turn around TV
and Z? Can he help save terrestrial TV? If that
is what he's going for here? Really keen to get
your thoughts on our eight hundred and eighty ten eighty.
It's a hell of a job for him as a director.
He's not the only one who's got that ahead of him,
but I'm sure he has some lofty ideas on how

(52:57):
to fix what is going wrong with TV and Z.

Speaker 2 (53:00):
Hi, guys, putting Paul Henry on the TV and Z
woke board is like putting the cat amongst the pigeons.
I can't wait.

Speaker 3 (53:07):
Yeah, love to hear your thoughts. Oh, eight hundred and
eighty ten eighty is the number to care. How do
you feel about Paul Henry coming back to TV and
ZED as a director? Can he fix what is going
wrong with TV and Z And also if you have
been fired from a job and rehide again. Love to
hear your stories. It is twenty six past two. We'll

(53:27):
go to the headlines with Raylene and then come back
with more you listening to Matt and Tyler, Good afternoon.

Speaker 2 (53:31):
I wonder how much more satisfying Jeremy Clarkson's success has
been since been fired from top Gear just the whole time.
He just must be thinking about that producer that got
him fired and just laughing as top Gear is increasingly rubbish.

Speaker 3 (53:45):
And Amazon has paid him very very well. Yeah, so good.
It is twenty six past two.

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Speaker 3 (55:10):
Thank you very much, Raileen, And we're talking about outspoken
broadcast from a former breakfast o's Paul Henry. He is
coming back to TV and Z as a director on
an overhauled TV and Z board. He was of course
forced to resign from TV and Z in twenty ten
following a series of on screen controversies, later picked up
by TV three. And he's also back on the Chase,
and how back on the Chase as a host.

Speaker 2 (55:31):
So on in a management role. Management is that the world?
He's on the board, and he's also on the TVs probably. Hey,
this is what he had to say a few years
ago about another news organization.

Speaker 11 (55:43):
You know, the journalists who said, and I won't name them,
they were stupid enough to say, we didn't see this coming.
And yet they call themselves journalists. Year after year they
report multimillion dollar losses, they bemoan the loss of the
audience they see and promote, and at the very least
report on the proliferation of extra platforms. But they didn't

(56:04):
see that coming. TV three is obsolete, so is TV
and free to wear television is obsolete. Every single thing
that's happened for the last decade and a half has
been showing the new way. So to all of a
sudden be surprised that programs are closing down and networks
are shutting newsrooms down and things like that. It's just
beyond me if someone says news hub is closed down

(56:25):
and then goes out and gets into their electric car
and practically flies to wherever they're going, or doesn't go
anywhere because all the food's delivered to their door, or
because their bloody fridge ordered food for them, and you
expect still to be able to watch some stupid old
fashioned thing, you know that.

Speaker 3 (56:40):
I mean, it is some insightful comments. I've got to say,
because he was right, and this is a guy with
a lot of experience in broadcasting, and he, as he
said in that particular interview, that I saw this coming.
I said to the executive many times, we've got to change,
We've got to keep up with trends. Now, he's a
director on the TV and Z board.

Speaker 2 (56:58):
Yeah, well, it was interesting. Is he going to sit
down at the board and say this whole thing's obsolete?

Speaker 3 (57:02):
Yeah, Tesla's stop the flights.

Speaker 2 (57:06):
This whole thing that you're doing here is obslad.

Speaker 3 (57:08):
Yeah, I sing.

Speaker 2 (57:09):
Well, I mean maybe that's what TV and Z needs.
Maybe it needs someone that's coming in and says, what
are you doing? You guys didn't see all this coming.
And he's talking about news Hub there, but he's talking
about journalists in general that didn't see that, that was
surprised when they were when they were losing their jobs.

Speaker 3 (57:26):
Yeah, So I love to hear from you. Oh, eight
hundred eighty ten eighty. Do you think Paul Henry is
the man to help TV and Z fix what is broken?
There's no doubt about it. They have been losing audience
over the past five years, and beyond that, terrestrial TV
is harder and harder to get eyeballs. So is he
the man to try and help turn around TV and ZED.
Love to hear your thoughts on eight hundred eighty ten

(57:48):
eighty sorish you don't think he is the man to
help TV and ZED?

Speaker 13 (57:54):
How you yes?

Speaker 21 (57:56):
Yes, just my Jobe, Paul and is not the right
man because not only this is a sexist, is arrogant,
He just thinks of himself.

Speaker 2 (58:07):
How is he? How racist and sexists, sirih, What's what's
the example you've got.

Speaker 21 (58:13):
I don't know, I don't know how long you've known
him or how long you've been watching him, but but
he's made several exes remarks.

Speaker 6 (58:23):
What what?

Speaker 2 (58:24):
What remarks? Just just just just because if we're gonna
if we're going to accuse someone of that, we would
have to be very specific because it's quite quite a
full accusation you're making.

Speaker 21 (58:34):
That's the thing is that where one of the main
big one he made was he called one of the
Indian Olympic Games, uh, her name was Shia, and she
kept on saying she likes ship, she likes it all
the time.

Speaker 2 (58:52):
Well, let's let's find the audio of that. And I'm
not sure exactly what he said, but say, if my
name was amusing in another language, would it be racist
to note that?

Speaker 22 (59:05):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (59:06):
But okay, look if you take if you take for
up in Swedish, just the last name Heath somehow meant
I don't know something else in another language, would it
be racist to point that out?

Speaker 21 (59:18):
As long as yes, if somebody points it out, what
is the way you're saying it is long and you
try and correct it, It's fine.

Speaker 4 (59:25):
But I don't think you did.

Speaker 3 (59:27):
What about when you know, because there was some controversy
over the government General Siishi apologized for that and as
he had mentioned, we played the clip a little bit
earlier than in live television. Sometimes you say things in
the heat of the moment that is on your mind
and it's live TV. And in that instance he turned
around and he apologized. Does that make you think better
of it?

Speaker 21 (59:48):
Well, it's always already better to apologize and then and
come back for another day. So I'll give you give
me your points for that. But the thing is that
with him, with him, his whole demeanor is related to arrogance,
and I don't think he is actually in tune with

(01:00:10):
the real world now because he lives in a world
where where only the rich and the easy of living
here no idea how the guys on the ground level managing,
and you see and worse because the things things are
really bad.

Speaker 2 (01:00:27):
Well thanks for you, Paul. I guess we'd be in
trouble if we didn't have I mean, he's the host
of the Chase. But if you didn't have wealthy and
successful people on television, then you wouldn't have a lot
of Bradley Welsh would have to go.

Speaker 3 (01:00:40):
Yeah, well that's right.

Speaker 2 (01:00:42):
And if you removed everyone that's wealthy and successful from
every board in the country, then you probably wouldn't have
too many people on boards, because you know, if you're
good at what you do and you're competent, then a
byproduct of that is often wealth.

Speaker 3 (01:00:57):
Exactly, and no doubt about it was he was the
most popular breakfast host on TV and Z and he
upset a lot of people and a lot of people
loved him. But when he was forced to resign and
they had a our of a job trying to get
back to the numbers that Paul Henry bought it.

Speaker 2 (01:01:11):
And whatever you think about him, he didn't start off wealthy. No,
he didn't come from a rich family.

Speaker 3 (01:01:16):
Yeah, sorish. I appreciate your thoughts. Oh, one hundred and
eighteen eighty is the number to call. How do you
think Paul Henry will fare back at his old workplace
TV and Z as director? It is twenty four to.

Speaker 1 (01:01:26):
Three Matt Heath Tyler Adams with you as your afternoon
rolls on Matt Heath and Taylor Adams Afternoons, News Talks EDB.

Speaker 3 (01:01:37):
News Talks, ed B. It is twenty one to three,
and we're talking about Paul Henry coming back to TV
and ZED. Is he the man to start making some
changes needed at that organization?

Speaker 2 (01:01:48):
Michael, Welcome to the show.

Speaker 22 (01:01:50):
Yeah, Bonjoel, Guys, Bonjoe.

Speaker 14 (01:01:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 22 (01:01:54):
Look, I couldn't disagree more with the previous caller. I
think he got his facts wrong and maybe there's a
bit of bias and his aliens thwarts poor Henry. I
personally think that when he was when he was let
go from Breakfast, the show has never been the same since.

(01:02:15):
And when TV three picked him up years later, he
was the savior of Breakfast TV for that particular channel,
and it was a shame that he didn't hang around
much longer. Probably the reason why he only hung around
for maybe two or three years on TV three was
because I think it's quite demanding doing Breakfast television, getting

(01:02:37):
up at three o'clock to do a three hour shift,
five days a week, year and year out. But the
fact that he's coming back to TV and Z, not
just to the chase, but as a director, I think
he's going to I think he's his insight and his
knowledge and his input could possibly save TV and Z

(01:02:59):
And if he doesn't, then I think he is possibly
their last hope.

Speaker 3 (01:03:04):
Yeah, yeah, sorry, I was just going to say, as
a broad broadcaster in New Zealand, you'd put them right
up there with one of the best.

Speaker 2 (01:03:11):
Michael.

Speaker 22 (01:03:13):
Oh. Absolutely, I think I put him up on a pedestal,
right up there with Paul Holmes. God rest his soul.
And he too was let go unfairly by TV and ZED.
Not not just because well not because of his comment
about when he called someone a cheeky darky, which was
a bit tongue in cheek, but he was let go
a few years later because mainly because his show wasn't

(01:03:37):
rating as well as it used to, which was a
shame because ironically, he too was rehired a few years
later for Q and A, so he came back to
TV and Z, so all the more reason why I
guess Paul Henry should too.

Speaker 2 (01:03:52):
It seems to me that Paul Holmes comment was man
that she's worse than Paul Henry. It's an interesting situation, though,
isn't it, Because you are live or people are live
all the time, and if you're Paul Henry, you kind
of point you kind of pointed out things and laugh.
I mean there was a woman that had a mustache
and he pointed at it and laughed, and that might

(01:04:14):
have been considered cruel, but in the moments sometimes if
you see something and you think it's funny, it's hard
not I've struggled not to.

Speaker 3 (01:04:22):
Yeah, I mean that is authenticity, really, and that's what
people want to see in their broadcasters. And as he's
mentioned in a three hour show that he was doing
each day, sometimes he said some things that went over
the line, but that is what he was there to do,
to be his genuine self.

Speaker 2 (01:04:35):
Well, it's interesting because we talk about the comments that
Paul Henry made and you know he's the new host
of Chase in New Zealand. If you go to the
host of the og Chase, Bradley Walsh, I mean, what
about these comments here from him.

Speaker 22 (01:04:49):
What sport does Fanny Shmeller compete for Germany.

Speaker 2 (01:04:54):
A swimming, B show jumping or s skiing?

Speaker 1 (01:05:25):
You've put.

Speaker 4 (01:05:30):
Show jumping, yeah, watch put show jumping.

Speaker 23 (01:05:37):
I don't think it's skiing. No, you would not, you
would not, Yeah, you'd think swimming. It doesn't really have
a ring ring for me, like Fannish Smeller. So I
just thought kick you over the show jumping rule again.

Speaker 2 (01:06:12):
So the question is, should Bradley Walsh be forced to
resign from the chase? I mean, that was a number
of years ago that at the moment, I think it
was over seven years ago, that moment.

Speaker 3 (01:06:22):
Magic TV loved around the world.

Speaker 2 (01:06:24):
Should he, and also the contestant, and the and also
the entire audience? Yeah, be made to step down for
laughing at Fanishmellow's name.

Speaker 3 (01:06:35):
Exactly?

Speaker 2 (01:06:35):
What can you just find different names from different languages
funny without making any judgment about the person the character
of the person. It just so happens. There's a good
chance that Tyler Adams means something disgusting and some unknown language.

Speaker 3 (01:06:48):
I hope. So one hundred and eighteen eighties a number
to call yid A, Diane, Yes?

Speaker 24 (01:06:55):
Could?

Speaker 25 (01:06:55):
I don't?

Speaker 23 (01:06:57):
Yes.

Speaker 24 (01:06:57):
I'm very pleased with poor him. Is getting back him
to the TV. I think he's I put him in
Paul Homes category.

Speaker 25 (01:07:09):
Is he was top?

Speaker 24 (01:07:11):
And I think, well, poor Henry's up there as well.
I think he's an amazing person.

Speaker 3 (01:07:20):
What did you what did you love about him? In particular, Diane,
did you enjoy when he when he got a cheeky.

Speaker 24 (01:07:27):
I loved this wet. I remember having talked back about
dogs or we're talking about poodles and he had a
thing about poodles. I still vaguely remember it, but you know, yes, No,
he's a great radio host, so I think it'll just
carry on. It'll be just the same. And you know

(01:07:49):
with the TV as well, so it probably needs somebody
like him anyway, and he will have had heaps of experience,
you know, that adds to his to his you know,
to him, doesn't you know, his experience alone the world,
the experience that and he's got a great chance to you.

(01:08:11):
I think you can be with it, straightlaced about things,
but you have to, you know, take it all in
your stride.

Speaker 3 (01:08:18):
Yeah, thank you very much, Diane, Yeah, thank you. Oh
eight hundred eighty ten eighty is the number to call
love to hear your thoughts on this. We're going to
take a quick break because we're just having some issues
with the phone line. But when we come back that
we've got full boards at the moment, so really keen
to have a chat with you. If you can't get through,
keep trying. It is fourteen to three.

Speaker 1 (01:08:41):
The issues that affect you and a bit of fun
along the way. Matt Heath and Tyler Adams afternoons used talk.

Speaker 16 (01:08:47):
Z'd be.

Speaker 3 (01:08:49):
Very good afternoon to you. It is eleven to three
and we're talking about Paul Henry. He is coming back
to TV and Z, a place that he was forced
to resign from in twenty ten as a director on
the overhaul board. Is he the man to try and
turn around TV and Z and some of the challenges
that they've got. Eight hundred and eighteen eighty is the
number to call.

Speaker 2 (01:09:07):
I'll tell you a lot of people have understood the
Bradley Welsh thing and that the Chase fans are coming
out in force. You can't say anything bad about the Chase. Look,
I love the Chase, showing that it was an example
of Bradley Walsh making fun of someone's name Finnish Smeller
and laughing yes and saying that if.

Speaker 3 (01:09:25):
He was beloved for it.

Speaker 2 (01:09:26):
But no one has a problem with that, no ect,
No one had a problem with that at all.

Speaker 3 (01:09:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:09:30):
I I don't know how Finnish Smella fell about it.

Speaker 3 (01:09:33):
I think she was okay with it. They did a
skit about six months later.

Speaker 2 (01:09:36):
Actually she was okay with it and Fannish Smeller looked
so much different than I imagine Fannish Smello would look.
When I actually saw Fannish Smeller.

Speaker 3 (01:09:44):
Was she a downhill skier in the end?

Speaker 2 (01:09:45):
I think she was. She was absolutely Richard, Welcome to
the show.

Speaker 6 (01:09:50):
Are you doing guys?

Speaker 3 (01:09:52):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (01:09:52):
Good?

Speaker 6 (01:09:53):
I look, I just want to ring up and say, look,
I hope Graham Henry can not Graham Henry Paul Paul
Henry can turn it around. But I think really with
everything these days, it's funding and I don't know where
he's going to pull that big one out to improve
the content with. But anyway, I hope he can bring

(01:10:14):
a little bit of his personality into it, because the
guy likes to have it laughed. He was funned. He
could be senseful. And I think the trouble with today's
day and age everybody looks to take offense. If somebody
says or does something. The first thing most people now
do is is this offensive? Am I going to take offense?

Speaker 4 (01:10:34):
Yes?

Speaker 6 (01:10:35):
I want to take a sense. It's just ridiculous. I
work for the government and I say it, and the
government agencies all across the board. It's the age of wokeism.
Everybody's got to be sensible and serious and it's really disappointing.

Speaker 2 (01:10:52):
So do you think you think on the board, so
obviously on the Chase end Zyet. It's a bit different
because it's not a live show. It's edited. Anything super controversial, say,
is probably going to be cut out. But you think
he will bring that same kind of attitude that he's
had to you know, the t vn Z board.

Speaker 6 (01:11:11):
Well, yeah, well I hope he can instill it into
people sing some of these things. It's just that, hey,
it's okay as long as you're not an idiot about it.
You know, you can have a laugh at a giggle
because everybody else is probably doing the same if if
you're thinking it's funny as a presenter, ninety nine percent

(01:11:32):
of the time, everybody else's. But it's whether he can
instill that confidence in people and what sort of stuff
he's got to instill it with.

Speaker 3 (01:11:41):
Yeah, yeah, nicely, said Richard. Thank you very much for
giving us a buzz. Plenty of ticks coming through on this.

Speaker 2 (01:11:47):
The fact that Jeremy Wells is now seven sharp posts
is all we need to know about controversial figures being
allowed back into the mainstream. Yeah, I mean, I think
he was a.

Speaker 3 (01:11:59):
Wild card wasn't it. You know him better than that.

Speaker 2 (01:12:02):
I spent eleven years on breakfast radio, Jeremy Wells and
you before that. But I think the thing about Jeremy
he has always had a massive love of television, so
a lot of the stuff and needing media lunch and
the Unauthorised History of New Zealand and the shows he
was doing, was actually, in a way just fan boying
about television.

Speaker 3 (01:12:20):
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 2 (01:12:21):
So when he went into be on seven sharp, it
was didn't didn't seem so surprising to me because he
just loved Team Megan's head. He loved broadcasting and had
taken the piss out of it a little bit before
he got there.

Speaker 3 (01:12:32):
Yeah, Mark, you think they're get a mate? What's your
thoughts about what's happening with tvnzed Well, I.

Speaker 13 (01:12:40):
Just hope that they stopped doing all the replays. On
top of the replay and a replay, I get sick
of watching the same program four times in one day. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:12:50):
What shows are you talking about there, Mark?

Speaker 13 (01:12:53):
Well, the Wheelers. I liked The Wheeler Della. That's quite
a good program. But we've already seen one series and
then you get another series and it's just ongoing the
Oak Island that's been on, that's about two years by.

Speaker 2 (01:13:08):
Well, there you go. Maybe Paul will go in and
say no replays, no reruns.

Speaker 3 (01:13:12):
I love Oak Islands. It's a great show. Yeah, you've
seen that the money put on Oak Island.

Speaker 2 (01:13:17):
Yeah, but do you want to watch the same Surdaynavent again.

Speaker 3 (01:13:19):
Yeah, it's a great show.

Speaker 2 (01:13:20):
I tell you, what's the problem for terrestrial television if
you talk about replays and stuff as that. Young people
have got no concept of how TV works. My kids
were watching an episode of terrestrial TV, you know, one
of them's eighteen. One of these fifteen, they've hardly ever
done it before ye and finished and they were like,
where's the other episode? And I see the other episodes
on in a week at the same time, and they're like.

Speaker 3 (01:13:43):
Why, Yeah, I'm going to wait seven days to find
out what episode next. It was called a cliffhanger for
a reason. Those those are the good old But.

Speaker 2 (01:13:50):
I think TV and Z it's going to be leaning
more and more into TV and Z plus. I imagine. Yeah, Geene,
welcome to the show.

Speaker 26 (01:13:57):
Are you there, Maddon Tyler?

Speaker 3 (01:13:58):
We certainly are, Gene.

Speaker 26 (01:14:00):
Oh, thank you. I think I watched a lot of
Paul Henry. He's an intelligent and capable man, but he
needed a bit of softening. I was glad to see
when he went on that kind of impossible trip overseas
that was portrayed on television that he seemed to be
learning a bit from it and becoming a bit softer,

(01:14:23):
because I was not impressed by the way he used
to speak demeaningly about his mother. And she must have
been a very strong woman to have raised him, I
could imagine, and he.

Speaker 4 (01:14:34):
Spoke to her as being.

Speaker 2 (01:14:39):
I always thought he was very lovely about his mum.
I know that he was absolutely loved.

Speaker 26 (01:14:45):
It was the audience that persuaded him. They kept at him,
telling him he should contact his mother more often, and
he did take her on some adventures, and she came
across as a as a tough little woman. And believe me,
people in retirement homes are not always bewildered. Hear a
lot of us because our skeletons are wearing out.

Speaker 3 (01:15:06):
Yeah, And I had the same impression of Matt Jean
that I worked at a radio station Paul Henry was
hosting and he had a regular segment with his mother,
and it was a lovely, banterish type relationship. They loved
making fun of each other. Oh no, we've lost Jean.
That's all right. She which wasn't having it. That's fine,
she's hung up on you, Tyler. That's right a lot

(01:15:26):
of people do. I think we've got time for one
more quick call, Lisa. You absolutely loved Paul.

Speaker 1 (01:15:33):
Henry how boys.

Speaker 27 (01:15:37):
Yeah, God, that day. I was watching that day with
the Sheila dish. If I can say it, and you have, sorry,
and that was the accurate way to say her name.
The fact was he laughed and laughed, but I did too,

(01:15:57):
and I don't think I was alone, Like I just
was laughing the whole morning. And my point really just
combs up to this with her mom breakfast. It hasn't
been the same since he left.

Speaker 2 (01:16:08):
I mean, it's a long time ago, though, wasn't It's
that that's fifteen years ago. Amazingly, during my.

Speaker 27 (01:16:13):
Nursing degree, I remember the day vividly and I was
laughing through the whole morning. Now, who makes you do
that nowadays?

Speaker 4 (01:16:21):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:16:22):
And just met and Tyler in the afternoons. It's about it.

Speaker 27 (01:16:26):
Yeah, sorry, Yeah, no, he's grand. But they're going to
have to listen to him, otherwise he's going to, you know,
leave again. They need to take his advice.

Speaker 3 (01:16:38):
Thank you, thank you, thank you for your call, Lisa, yep, so,
thank you very much and what a great discussion. Thank
you very much to everyone who phoned and called on
that one in so many texts.

Speaker 2 (01:16:49):
And yeah, Paul loved his mum. He named his boat
after his mum.

Speaker 3 (01:16:53):
Yeah exactly.

Speaker 2 (01:16:54):
OK.

Speaker 3 (01:16:54):
Yeah, good to put that one to bed. Right after
three o'clock, we have the new Zealander of the week.
Who will it be that's coming.

Speaker 1 (01:17:01):
Up talking with you all afternoon. It's Matt Heath and
Taylor Adams Afternoons News Talk ZID.

Speaker 3 (01:17:09):
Be very good afternoons. You welcome back into the program.
Seven pass three. Great to have your company is always
on this Friday afternoon. This is going to be a
great chat. The greatest sports movie of all time.

Speaker 2 (01:17:21):
Before you go into that, Tyler, my good friend, can
I just I just want to finish up, just Tyler
not on something from the last hours.

Speaker 3 (01:17:29):
That absolutely and I apologize you did say you wanted
to do that and I've got ahead of myself there.

Speaker 2 (01:17:34):
Just someone has texted in something that I always think
and I want to know the answer for it on
TV news. So we were just talking before about Paul Henry,
director on the board or director of the board of
TV and Z yep coming in and people have been
texting in with a lot of their suggestions on how
to save TV and Z if you believe it needs saving.

(01:17:56):
I don't know. I don't know. But anyway, this text
here on TV news. What's the point of hearing about
today's weather? I've been asking this since I was a kid,
and I always forget to ask someone in the note
it's already been no use to me. Just tell me
about the weather tomorrow. Why this has been bugging me

(01:18:17):
since I was five years old. Now I know what
the weather's like, I've just been through it. Why are
you telling me what the weather was today? But I'm
vaguely interested in what the weather is tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (01:18:27):
But does it hark back to the golden old years
where you'd have a really hot day and you didn't
quite know the temperate change. Oh man, it's hot today,
and then you sit around at six o'clock and you
wait for the weather and see, see told you thirty
two degrees.

Speaker 2 (01:18:38):
Okay, Well, maybe that's a little bit of a dopamine
buzz for the quarter of a second when they mentioned
Dunedin when I was a kid growing up. But why
am I hearing about Palmeston North Wellington?

Speaker 3 (01:18:51):
I mean, spending almost fifteen minutes on the bloom and
weather like I know what's going to happen a week away.

Speaker 2 (01:18:58):
Listing everything from one end of the country to the
other that's already happened today. Yeah, I don't care. I
don't care.

Speaker 3 (01:19:03):
I kind of like Dan though, Damn weather Man something
it's something quirky about him.

Speaker 2 (01:19:08):
He looks like he's ridden a lot of horses in
his life. He's got quite bold legs, but he seems
to know the weather. Yeah, the Dan Corbett on the
weather gul But yeah, is it just because and look
I'm going off topic here? Is it because you say
your grandma lives in you live in christ Church and
your grandma lives in Wellington and you want to go, oh,

(01:19:29):
and you find out that it was minus seven and Wellington,
and you know, give granny a ring and ask if
she's all right? Is that what it is?

Speaker 3 (01:19:36):
If that's you nine two nine two, I mean, that's
certainly not me. I never watched the TV and said weather.
So what's the appeal? It's a good text.

Speaker 2 (01:19:42):
I was so glad someone texted that, because I've been
wondering that my whole life, not enough to ever ask anyone.
There we go.

Speaker 3 (01:19:49):
That's a free before you, Paul Henry, if you're listening,
just get rid of the weather. Nobody needs it, all right,
So we want to talk about the greatest sports movie
of all time because you don't find.

Speaker 2 (01:19:57):
Hearing about the barometric pressure. I don't mind hearing that
there's a bloody channel of weather going down there. I
don't mind that stuff. I just don't want to hear
about the weather that's been.

Speaker 3 (01:20:07):
When we used to have I don't know whether I
should be saying this, but when we used to have
the levels of frost that was on our weather report
here at news talks, the'd be when they got rid
of that, oh man, the uproar there was solow, so
you'd have the levels of frost, you'd give the frost report.
And then the time constraints came in and there was
no more time for the frost report. And then when
they got rid of that, particularly in christ Jews, there
was there was almost a riot as Evele got really

(01:20:29):
upset when there was no more degrees of frost because
you have degrees of frost do Yeah, it didn't mean
anything to me. I mean to me, a frost as
a frost, a sicely outside, you know that's a frost.
But there were degrees of frost, and a lot of
people got upset about that.

Speaker 2 (01:20:42):
All right, Well, I grew up in Dened's there's a
lot of black ice going on, so you know that
would have been a low degree of frost. Imagine, yes, yeah,
now it's it's it's the palette. We've gone off? Peace?

Speaker 3 (01:20:52):
Who have gone Miles?

Speaker 2 (01:20:53):
Peace?

Speaker 3 (01:20:54):
I blame me, You should blame yourself. Let's talk about
IF One movie.

Speaker 2 (01:20:58):
You saw that. I went to the IF one movie
last night, and luck, I guess if this is a
movie review, I'll say I absolutely loved it. It's directed
by the same guy that directed Top Gun Maverick, which
is one of my favorite movies of the last ten years.
And I've got to say he's done it again. In fact,
when I say he's done again, he's pretty much done

(01:21:19):
the exact same movie, but with weeks. It works with
Formula one instead of you know, fighter pilots, and it's
two and a half hours. But I did not get
bored for a second. The shots of the racing are incredible.
Brad Pits amazing in it. He's got so much gravitas
now that he can hold it together. The other main

(01:21:41):
actor in it, Damson Idris, is as great. There's a
lovely Irish woman in it that I'm now in love with.
The movie was just so good and cheeseball is all hell.
So it's IF one. I'm a big IF one fan.
And and so they've had to do a layer over everything,
you know, and so you're asking questions about the credibility

(01:22:04):
of it. You know, you have to, you have to
suspend your disbelief. But I was thinking about this, and
I think people that go in into it and they
want to come out and go, ah, you couldn't. That
wouldn't happen in F one. He wouldn't be able to
just rock up without turning up to Quali. He wouldn't
be able to He wouldn't be able to be sixty
one and be in the car. It wouldn't be There's
so many things in it that you look at it

(01:22:25):
and you go, well, that couldn't possibly happen. But they've
got to make a Hollywood film, they've got to make
a story out of it, they've got to make an
emotional connection.

Speaker 3 (01:22:31):
Out of flights of it.

Speaker 2 (01:22:32):
So I just go to people that are going to
go and see it this weekend and I thoroughly recommend it.
And if the F one drivers can suspend their disbelief,
then you can. This is what Liam Lawson said about it.
I think it's going to be huge when it comes out.
Here has the pensil potential to be one of the
biggest movies of the year. It captures the feeling of
being in Formula One, and that's really really cool. It

(01:22:53):
wasn't really I wasn't really racing when it was filmed,
so I was surprised when I got in there because
he appears in it a little bit. I'm sure if
you're a fighter pilot and you're watching a movie like that,
you're going to pick apart things in there that you
might see differently. And I can imagine someone who watching
IF One for the first time watching this and they're thinking,
this is amazing. You can always put poke holes. But

(01:23:14):
it's a movie at the end of the day, and
I'm sure it's the same if you're watching top Gun. Yeah,
I mean so if he can suspend his belief and
he is actually an F one driver and not just
a fan or as Shirley Clair said, Ferrari driver, we're
looking at it as Formula one drivers and we'll always
try and see all the small details that are not
exactly accurate. But it's just very Hollywood like, and I

(01:23:35):
think that's really cool because it's not for IF one drivers,
it's for a broader audience. So if they can suspend
their disbelief, you can. So I suspended it. I loved it.
It was emotional. Yeah, it was bloody great.

Speaker 3 (01:23:47):
Two and a half hours of absolute if one joy
an entertainment package.

Speaker 2 (01:23:51):
Absolutely yeah, love test.

Speaker 3 (01:23:52):
Oh eight one hundred eighty ten eighty. So IF one movie.
It is getting rave reviews and Matt absolutely loved it
and says, goes down and see it. But what is
the greatest sport movie of all time? And there are
so many fantastic sport movies out there, but I'd love
to hear what you say, oh, eight hundred and eighty
ten eighty.

Speaker 2 (01:24:08):
Come on, Matt, I like to see what today's weather
was doing in other places where friends and family live.
Just suck it up your muppet cheers, Graham.

Speaker 3 (01:24:15):
Okay, well, I reckon Dan sent that through the weather man.
But right now it is fourteen past three.

Speaker 2 (01:24:22):
Every Friday on Matt and Tyler. Afternoons on ZB we
name the New Zealander of the Week in honor that
we bestow on your behalf to a newsmaker who's had
an outsized effect on our great and beautiful nation over
the previous seven days. As always, there will be three
nominees but only one winner, So without further messing around,
let's go. Nominee one also gets the time off work

(01:24:43):
to kick ars award. They got smashed ten nil in
their first game, six nil in their second, but in
the spirit of so many keys before them, a lack
of cash, glamour and a sniff of humiliation didn't hold
them back. This team of trainee teachers and barber's held
Argentina's most successful club to a one all drawer, an
amateur Kiwi club playing international superstars at the FIFA Club

(01:25:06):
World Cup, and for that City FC, you are nominated
for New Zealanders of the Week.

Speaker 3 (01:25:12):
Yes, leads.

Speaker 2 (01:25:13):
By the way, confusingly, they aren't the Auckland FC from
the A League. They are another one. There are another
Auckland FC, Auckland City FC Okain highly confused. Yeah there's
a very confusing Nominee two also gets the red card
the Whole District Award. They volunteer every weekend for nothing
more than a love of country, community and the good
of their sport. For that, some of them get abused,

(01:25:33):
threatened and sometimes assaulted by the worst PS's this country
has to offer. Hot Offenua capity. Rugby Union has so
many dickheads hassling them they have had to shut down
all rugby for a weekend. It's not cool. Referees across
the country. For all you do, for all of us
and all our kids, you are nominated for New Zealander
of the Week. Yes, refs and if you see someone

(01:25:56):
hassling a ref, call them out. If you see someone
assaulting a ref, call the cops. If you find yourself
abusing a ref, give yourself an uppercut to go home.

Speaker 3 (01:26:04):
Yeah nice, you said, But.

Speaker 2 (01:26:07):
There can be only one and these guys couldn't be
more deserving. When things go wrong and you're miles from holp,
these heroes bring rescue from above. Everyone knows choppers are cool.
That's why billionaires want to land them in fancy Auckland suburbs.
But choppers that pull kiwis out of the water and
the bush and off the ground when our hearts explode
or when our hair doos go up in flames, these

(01:26:29):
are the coolest of all choppers, as is everyone and
the crew on the ground and in the air. But
thump thumping your way to save us. West Back Rescue Helicopters.
You are the best of us, and you are the
mattin Tyler afternoons. New Zealanders of the wee w donut
now at Chopper Appeal, Dot Coto and Zed. You don't

(01:26:49):
know when your loved ones may need them.

Speaker 28 (01:26:53):
Legends.

Speaker 29 (01:27:12):
We were climbing over the Heritage I Rock at Waterpool
and my friend lost his pudding and he slid all
the way down into a bit of a ravine.

Speaker 14 (01:27:20):
I ran all the way back.

Speaker 29 (01:27:21):
To Wadapool Lodge there and we made a phone call.
Whist back calicopter came out at the land on the
beach and they pulled him off the rock.

Speaker 12 (01:27:27):
We live in Tolmunui, so Whitecado's our hospital.

Speaker 26 (01:27:32):
My grandson broke his elbow at school. They chopped him in,
they pinned his elbow, and he was home, you know,
sitting the operation was finished.

Speaker 29 (01:27:41):
My daughter was diving off the point and a sting
ray came up and drag its barb through her forearm.
So yeah, and she was sort of going into shop.
They had us on the line. The helicopter appeared and
it was great. My brother he.

Speaker 13 (01:27:54):
Actually fell out of the tree and Corimandel.

Speaker 2 (01:27:57):
Town, I love Coromandel Town.

Speaker 27 (01:27:59):
So he actually died in the helicopter and they brought
him back to a Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:28:03):
Oh my goodness.

Speaker 3 (01:28:04):
And so when your dad called one one one, how
long before you saw the chopper coming in the distance.

Speaker 4 (01:28:10):
It was sort of quite They got there before the ambulance.

Speaker 16 (01:28:13):
My hair coult on science.

Speaker 3 (01:28:15):
Wow, and how did that happen?

Speaker 2 (01:28:17):
Gloria.

Speaker 16 (01:28:17):
There was a power blackouse. We lit a candle yes
and at that time I snowed and I sent my
head down to light it, and I'd put lacker on
my head and it just went through. All I remember
was hearing wash wow, and I was standing there all
a light. My t shirt had bent into my back

(01:28:39):
and the Westpac helicopters landed me on the roof of
Middlemoor Hospital.

Speaker 21 (01:28:46):
Z me.

Speaker 3 (01:28:48):
Very good afternoon, June twenty one, past three, and we've
asked the question, what is the greatest sporting movie of
all time? Mat you saw if Won the movie last night?
Loved it.

Speaker 4 (01:28:57):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (01:28:58):
I'm not going to say it's the greatest sporting movie
of all time, but it is a great movie and
I really loved it. Delivered everything you need. I think
for movies to make you go to a theater, they
have to add something that you can't get at home.
And this movie is just so good on the big screen.
It draws you into the cars. The way they've shot it,
the way they've placed the cameras in the cars, It's

(01:29:18):
un unbelievable, the experience, you feel, the g force when
they hit the corner.

Speaker 3 (01:29:22):
I'm getting excited.

Speaker 2 (01:29:24):
It's so good. But is it the greatest sports movie
of all time? I don't know. I got pretty emotional
at the end of it.

Speaker 3 (01:29:31):
Nice that's part of it.

Speaker 2 (01:29:32):
I'm not willing to say it's the greatest sporting movie
of all time, but I'd say it's the movie you
absolutely need to see in the theaters.

Speaker 3 (01:29:38):
Oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty C number to
call Joe.

Speaker 2 (01:29:40):
Welcome to the show.

Speaker 3 (01:29:43):
Hey you Joe Jay, We do have Joe there. We'll
just make sure that fader is up and on get
a Joe. Yeah, hi guys, nice to chat with you.
So you went to go see IF One the movie
last night? Yeah, we went, I mate, Oh yeah, nice
way to do it.

Speaker 30 (01:30:00):
It was just tremendous. Just gave it everything that you
expected and more. Actually, I mean me and your pretty
well Formula one fans. We've been to a few lives,
but I didn't realize for a minute that that's what
those drivers actually see. You just see a whole new

(01:30:22):
life to each one. The tracks were amazing, the footage.
See how Liam Lawson there for us.

Speaker 2 (01:30:29):
But yeah, he was just in there for a little bit.
That's very we got very excited, really popped up.

Speaker 30 (01:30:35):
Yeah, the Irish twang and rare.

Speaker 2 (01:30:37):
It's just a little bit of love.

Speaker 26 (01:30:41):
Act like that.

Speaker 2 (01:30:43):
Yeah, he's got so much gravitask now with age. I
was just thinking his voice is gruffer. He's just you know,
and once upon a time Hollywood was sort of when
you first saw that older Brad Pitt and he was great,
wasn't he? Did you did you find this story, emotionally
engaging joy.

Speaker 30 (01:31:02):
One hundred did to the end. In fact, we're going
to go back on the weekend. Yeah, just saw a
whole new light on every track around the world. Yeah,
and just so you'd so want to throw yourself into
F one and just watch it more.

Speaker 2 (01:31:17):
Do you think it's going to grow? If one, because
that's the reason, isn't it. If one's huge sport, then
Drive to Survive made it even bigger. And now this
movie it's Do you think it's going to open it
up to a whole new audience?

Speaker 30 (01:31:30):
I think it will. I mean the money behind it
is insane, right, they have those lasers on those cars
and the.

Speaker 2 (01:31:39):
Yeah, yeah, I mean you're spending two hundred million dollars
on a sports movie. Sports movies don't normally cost two
hundred million dollars. That's normally the budget you have for
you know, big action films, and what they've spent it
on is just just filming it. How good when they're
actually on the track. There's a point Joe where there's
the national anthems. And I watched the making of it,
and so they actually got Brad and the other actor

(01:32:03):
what's his name, Damson and the Apex gear out on
the out actually standing out there at Silverstone for the
national anthems. It would have been great to be there
for that one.

Speaker 30 (01:32:14):
But even seeing the huge Ferrari flags in the stadiums,
in the crowds, you know, the planes, just the different
places that put on, the different things.

Speaker 2 (01:32:24):
Yeah, it's a bit it's you know, you go, you go,
Joe Money talks.

Speaker 13 (01:32:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:32:28):
Yeah, it was weird because it's obviously shot a couple
of years ago, so there was a bit of people
in different cars.

Speaker 30 (01:32:35):
But even that's throughout you know this and you know
it's just brilliant.

Speaker 3 (01:32:40):
Yeah, and someone who hasn't seen it, what what tracks
did they film on?

Speaker 2 (01:32:45):
So they were well a number they were in They're
in Japan, they were in UK, there were a w
Abi where else were they? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:32:56):
How cool it was.

Speaker 17 (01:32:58):
It was just awesome.

Speaker 2 (01:33:00):
The Monza Spa they were Las Vegas at one point.

Speaker 13 (01:33:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:33:06):
Yeah, so they went all over all over the show.

Speaker 30 (01:33:09):
Yeah, and then just even the ending was you know,
with the card I'm not going to give anything away
or anything, but.

Speaker 2 (01:33:16):
You know, the ending was hilarious too, I know, and
so I don't want to give anything way on the
ending at all, so I won't but I'll just say
to you, I didn't think it was going to go
that way, but I was happy it did.

Speaker 3 (01:33:25):
Oh that's a good ease.

Speaker 2 (01:33:26):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, one hundred yeah. So thank you so
much for your call, Joe.

Speaker 3 (01:33:30):
Yeah, lovely to chat with you. That is a hell
of an endorsement. To go see it again this weekend?

Speaker 15 (01:33:34):
Right?

Speaker 3 (01:33:34):
What is the greatest sporting movie of all time?

Speaker 15 (01:33:37):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:33:37):
Eight hundred and eighty ten eighty. So many texts coming
through nine two nine two is that number? But love
to hear from you on oh, eight hundred eighty ten eighty.
It is twenty six past three, bag fory surely.

Speaker 1 (01:33:52):
Mad Heathen Tyler Adams afternoons call oh eight hundred eighty
ten eighty on yous talk ZV very.

Speaker 3 (01:33:58):
Good afternoon, twenty nine past three. What is the greatest
sports movie of all time?

Speaker 2 (01:34:02):
Pimett and Tyler. My top sports movie would be forty
two about Jackie Robinson, which tells the story of his
groundbreaking entry into me Agor League baseball and the challenges
he faced as the first African American player in the
modern era. I have never seen that movie, but I'm
a huge Dodgers fan and a huge Jackie Robinson fan,
and you know they regularly, you know, they've retired forty
two and once a year the whole team plays with

(01:34:23):
Jackie's number on their shirts. Yeah, makes it confusing for
the commentators.

Speaker 3 (01:34:28):
I've heard a lot of good things about that movie.
I haven't seen it either.

Speaker 2 (01:34:30):
Yeah, actually, why haven't I seen that? I'm the thing
with baseball is so much baseball to watch, one hundred
and sixty two regular season games that by the time
you've watched all the by the time you watched all
the games watching extra movie content.

Speaker 3 (01:34:46):
As someone who knew bugger all about baseball the movie,
I loved Moneyball. I thought there was a phenomenal movie,
and the good thing was that I didn't need to
know too much about baseball in general. It was more about.

Speaker 2 (01:34:59):
It's a sports film for data nerds and strategists, really,
isn't it.

Speaker 3 (01:35:02):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that is me to e.

Speaker 2 (01:35:04):
But yeah, well, Brad pitts that's a Brad pitt movie
as well.

Speaker 3 (01:35:07):
Exactly.

Speaker 2 (01:35:07):
He's very good, very good. The real story about Billy
Bean's quite interesting, and you know, you know, if you
go forward after Moneyball the next season, I'm not going
to get into it. I'll get Baseball Nerdy on it.

Speaker 3 (01:35:18):
Oh, eight hundred eighty eighty is the number to call.
We're getting a whole bunch of ticks coming through. A
lot of people have seen if won the movie and
loved it as well, but really keen to get your
thoughts on the greatest movie of all time sports movie.

Speaker 2 (01:35:30):
James says, Happy Gilmore and it's got to be right
up there, Worth one of the greatest comedy sports movies
of all time. I'm fearful of Happy Gilmore too. I've
watched all the trailers and they seem to be just
rehashing all the jokes from the first one. Sometimes, if
you've just got a movie in our memories of Happy
Gilmore are so so good. And I'm just worried that Sandler.

(01:35:52):
He's going back, He's going back to the well, and
I think he might soil it. I'm worried about it.
I'm worried about Happy Gilmore too.

Speaker 3 (01:36:00):
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Speaker 3 (01:37:24):
Thank you very much, Raylan, And we're talking about the
greatest sport movie ever made. So many tecks coming through
in full lines at the moment. If you can't get through,
keep trying on. Oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty.

Speaker 2 (01:37:34):
Bend it like Beckon. This person says, Field of Dreams. Absolutely,
build it and they will come. That's a very emotional one.

Speaker 3 (01:37:42):
Yeah, I mean right up there.

Speaker 2 (01:37:43):
I mean there's not a lot of sports movies that
blend ghosts with sport. Field of Dreams does it.

Speaker 3 (01:37:49):
They made it work.

Speaker 2 (01:37:50):
And every year they play a game. MLB plays a
game on the Field of Dreams field. Yes, out out
there by the corn fields, nol. You've got a few.

Speaker 3 (01:38:01):
Kid, I Noel? Hello, Yeah, can I mate?

Speaker 4 (01:38:07):
Can you hear me?

Speaker 5 (01:38:07):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:38:08):
It's all loud and clear. So you've got a few
sports movies you want to mention.

Speaker 4 (01:38:14):
Yeah, there's a few. Glory Road, who's your.

Speaker 11 (01:38:18):
Rudy?

Speaker 4 (01:38:21):
What's the other one? Remember the Titans? So yeah, Friday
Night Lights. Yeah, as you can tell, I'm a sports
fan and i'd just like to say, I watched the
Baseball World Series last year?

Speaker 2 (01:38:42):
How good was Game five?

Speaker 4 (01:38:45):
And I wasn't a baseball fan, I had some time
to watch it.

Speaker 14 (01:38:50):
I'll got hooked.

Speaker 4 (01:38:51):
I am now hooked, and I am now a Dodgers fan.

Speaker 2 (01:38:54):
You well will, You'll be pleased to know right now
I'm wearing a show, Hey or Tony hat and how
great is that man opening the pitching?

Speaker 4 (01:39:03):
And then I don't realize how riveting it was.

Speaker 2 (01:39:06):
Yeah, I watched the Wolf seeres Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:39:09):
But yeah, coming back to the movies, I'm a sports fan.
So all those sports movies, American sports seemed to have
the best stories, right the Gridlon Gang true story? Remember
the Titans A true story? Friday Night Friday Night Lights
true story? All right, Glory Road true story? All right,

(01:39:33):
Who's true story? So yeah, it's I love my sportsman.
So I'm into the sports sports movies.

Speaker 2 (01:39:44):
Good on, you know, and welcome to Dodgers fandom because
it's the Dodge has been a big part of my
life for the last ten years. You made him very
happy when you see that Freddy Freeman.

Speaker 3 (01:39:55):
Great.

Speaker 4 (01:39:55):
Yeah, I recorded it and I watched because I wanted
to see the show. Otani pitch his first pitch this year. Yeah,
and he pitched an eight mile an hour boar after
not pitching for it. I didn't realize he's that good.
He's a relief well.

Speaker 2 (01:40:15):
For for show. He sees himself as a picture first
and and and a second. Yeah, so that's the way
he's always seen himself. But he's just such so good.
I mean, he's what's he on? He's on twenty eight
home runs this year already. So and so to have
someone like that, I mean, people that don't know baseball,
it's not really a thing to be a starting picture

(01:40:36):
and to bat. I mean there was Babe Ruth, but
but but he can do it. And not only to
do that, he does it an incredibly high high level.
And he's such a great guy. Did you see in
the series with the Padres where you know he got
hit by that that that picture one hundred miles for
hour and he just goes and waved him off. You know,
the dugout was about to clear. You had Clayton kursor

(01:40:58):
jump and the old man was jumping the barrier to
come and throw hands. But show he's like, ah, one
hundred miles in our base ware with the chest I
don't get Yeah, you.

Speaker 3 (01:41:07):
Guys need me here, No, you and man can just
talk about baseball until the end of the show.

Speaker 2 (01:41:11):
Don't get me started on Hey, thank you so much
for you call, Noel. Appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (01:41:17):
Yeah, great call. One hundred and eighty, ten and eighty.
Holy moly, there was just a bunch of ticks that
flowed in, Oh you.

Speaker 2 (01:41:22):
Taller Dagga Knights, because we were talking about what's you know,
this is the greatest sports movie of all time. We're
talking about this because if One is out and I
think it's a fantastic sports movie. But we're also talking
about Secondary, which is the greatest sports comedy movie of
all time. Yes, and I was saying, maybe that's Happy
gilm or a lot of people saying Dodgeball Love Dodge
the true underdog story, great movie, and a lot of
people saying Taylor Daga Knights.

Speaker 3 (01:41:44):
They are some phenomenal sports movies, comedy movies. Get a
fell Okay, Tyler, Matt, how are you good? What's your movie?

Speaker 14 (01:41:54):
I don't know it's the.

Speaker 31 (01:41:55):
Greatest movie of all time because they're sort of coming.
They're all coming in now as people mention them, you know,
like I thought of Jerry McGuire for you know, it's
just a good, laughing, hardcase movie.

Speaker 2 (01:42:05):
Yeah, that's that's that's that's a good movie. I mean,
serious drama. You had me at a Hello, show Me
the Money.

Speaker 31 (01:42:11):
Yeah that's yeah, that's right. That cat's phrasing it all
the time. Age Over the Money and Field of Dreams
just had a nice little feel good factor about it,
you know.

Speaker 6 (01:42:21):
But I've got a movie.

Speaker 31 (01:42:23):
I got a movie that I watched and it really
sat with me because it's actually like the fellaw just
said about having the true aspect of historical fact and
true aspect about it. And it was a movie about golf,
and I know that's not everyone's thing, but it's called
Tommy's Honor.

Speaker 2 (01:42:40):
Yes, yes, yeah, it's a great movie. It's about the
origins of golf, isn't it. It's about origins of golf
in Scotland.

Speaker 31 (01:42:49):
Yes, that's right. Yeah, that's rights.

Speaker 14 (01:42:51):
And it's got everything in it.

Speaker 31 (01:42:53):
And because it's basically historically true as well, I'm based
on facts.

Speaker 21 (01:42:56):
You know.

Speaker 14 (01:42:56):
It's got tragedy, it's.

Speaker 31 (01:42:57):
Got comedy, it's got heart warm, it's got all good.
It's basically about a father and a son and yeah,
Old Tom Morris was his name, and he was the
first greenkeeper at Saint Andrew and he and he was
a champion golfer, won the Scottish Championship a couple of times,
and then his son started playing as well. But it's

(01:43:18):
just a great movie, you know, like I say about
and you look at some of the things in it too,
where back in those days the greens were the same
length as the fairway.

Speaker 14 (01:43:28):
There was no actual distinction.

Speaker 31 (01:43:30):
And the word stemy was actually I think came from
that were from from.

Speaker 14 (01:43:36):
The golf from that movie, were not from that movie,
but came from.

Speaker 31 (01:43:40):
The origins of golf, because back in those days I
didn't notice. And this was it was good at learning
learning as well that in those days, if you were
on the green and someone was going to go for
the whole for their part, you could actually just put
your pack your ball in front of their ball and
completely block them from doing it. And it was called
stymy in them.

Speaker 2 (01:44:00):
Right, and that was quite kind of like it was
kind of like croquet in that regard, yeah, yeah, yeah,
And it was quite legal.

Speaker 31 (01:44:07):
And of course the only way that you could try
to get the ball in the whole then was get
a pitching wedge and jump it over the ball and
again it was all quite legal.

Speaker 2 (01:44:16):
Yeah, that's pretty interesting. Beautiful shots of Saint Andrews in
that movie.

Speaker 3 (01:44:21):
Yeah, Tommy's Honor is the name of that that movie.
But Phil, I know you're a golf fan, mate, and
nobody has ever seen this movie when I mentioned it.
But it's called the Greatest Game Ever Played, and it's
got Shia Laboof in it, and it's about Francis were
Met and he won the US Open in nineteen thirteen.
Have you seen that one?

Speaker 1 (01:44:41):
Ah?

Speaker 17 (01:44:42):
No, I'll check that out.

Speaker 31 (01:44:43):
But when you see it about them winning the what
did you say when he was the US Open?

Speaker 3 (01:44:48):
So it's got Shia Laboufho's a well known actor, but
he plays Francis we Met, who was an amateur golf
champion and it was a surprise winner the nineteen thirty
US Open. But not many people have seen it. I
freaking love that movie.

Speaker 2 (01:45:01):
So yeah, yeah, all right, the World's Fastest Indian. This
person says, that's a fantastic movie, especially for people like
me with in the cargo. Yes, I'll tell you when
my mum went to world Fastest Indian with her because
She's from from uh in Theicargo and she was complaining
about Anthony Hopkins accent because and she was like, he
hasn't got it right. His accent is not right. And

(01:45:23):
I said, what do you mean it sounds pretty good
and she goes, no, that's from the other side of
in Viicago because she grew up on the same street.

Speaker 3 (01:45:29):
That has had is a great line, right, Oh, eight
hundred and eighty ten eighty is a number to call that?
What is the greatest sporting movie of all time? Love
your thoughts? It is seventeen to four.

Speaker 1 (01:45:38):
The big stories, the big issues, the big trends and
everything in between. Matt Heath and Tyler Adams afternoons used
talks that'd be.

Speaker 3 (01:45:47):
It is a quarter to four and we're talking about
the greatest sport movie of all time. There has been
thousands and thousands of texts coming through this. One says
Phantom of the Open, a gorgeous movie about Maurice Flickoff
who emerged as a fraud entering the British Open twice
and couldn't play golf.

Speaker 2 (01:46:05):
Escaped to victory No. Naety one. That is a fantastic movie.
They used to be on TV all the time when
I was a kid, Escape to Victory Phil was on
every week. My favorite form is the original F one
movie called Grand Prix from around nineteen sixty seven. Yeah,
that was a that was a hol of a movie.
That's a key Chris Amon and Bruce McLaren make cameos
at a party. I have it on VHS. Second favorite

(01:46:27):
is called Lamon's It was produced and started. Yeah, that's
a great Steve McQueen movie.

Speaker 4 (01:46:31):
If you.

Speaker 2 (01:46:33):
No one has looked cooler than Steve McQueen locks and Lemon,
and you know he did the stunt driving himself.

Speaker 3 (01:46:38):
I had to watch that on the weekend in You've
got a boxing movie that you reckon is one of
the greatest.

Speaker 4 (01:46:45):
Yeah, kid gell ahead. It was just he got mixed
up with all the gamester got his hands broken.

Speaker 3 (01:46:54):
Right, and so the movie is called ked gallahads k
Oh the Elvis Presley movie.

Speaker 18 (01:47:01):
That's it?

Speaker 2 (01:47:02):
Yeah right, Well year was that out.

Speaker 4 (01:47:06):
About ninety six nine or something?

Speaker 2 (01:47:09):
Wanted was when was the last time you saw it?

Speaker 4 (01:47:11):
Ian close when I was a kid.

Speaker 2 (01:47:16):
A interesting to see.

Speaker 4 (01:47:18):
I just remember, I just remember get him getting his
hands broken, and I don't.

Speaker 2 (01:47:23):
Know, you should you should? You should maybe should you
should get it again. It would be so interesting to see,
you know, you should find it again and watch it
and come back to us and tell us what you
think having watched it as a kid and then watching
it again as as an old adult. It would be
really in the picture theater. Yeah, it'll be It'll be
available somewhere that ian.

Speaker 3 (01:47:44):
Yeah, yeah, you'll be able to find it. But that is,
by all accounts quite a good movie, Peter.

Speaker 25 (01:47:50):
What you The one I thought was one of the
best I've seen over the years was Chariot to Fire.

Speaker 2 (01:47:57):
Oh yeah, great theme from Vangelists.

Speaker 25 (01:48:00):
Yes, and it featured our ex governor general rored poet
but he didn't want to be named in the film,
and I think his name was Watson. I've seen it
a couple of times and I've really really enjoyed it.

Speaker 2 (01:48:16):
Yeah, so there would have been about in the early eighties,
sort of about maybe eighty eighty one.

Speaker 25 (01:48:21):
Yeah, that's right. I've got a I've actually got a
CD of it here. It's still at home here and
play it every so often just to keep the memory going.
In the athletics.

Speaker 3 (01:48:34):
That's an absolute classic, isn't it. And I think it
did pretty well at the Academy Awards from memory as well.

Speaker 14 (01:48:38):
Peter.

Speaker 25 (01:48:40):
Yes, that's correct, Yeah, that's right. Anyway, we've got we've
got another good runner, the girl Hobbs coming on there.
She might feature in a final one day for it.

Speaker 3 (01:48:51):
Isn't she doing well? Zoe Hobbs? But does this bring
back memories? Peter?

Speaker 1 (01:48:55):
Here in the song, that's that, that's the one.

Speaker 25 (01:48:58):
I'm going to have it at the funeral.

Speaker 3 (01:49:00):
E A good choice. Good choice.

Speaker 2 (01:49:02):
I mean your funeral will be Peter very much as
you're a good man.

Speaker 3 (01:49:07):
Thank you very much, Peter. Water Tune, water Tune.

Speaker 2 (01:49:12):
I'm just watching the video because I just brought it up,
and it's got pictures of them running, you know, set
post World War One English team running for the Olympics. Yeah,
but Evangelist he's smoking a cigarette. So the video from
nineteen eighty one as a juxtaposition between these athletics athletes

(01:49:33):
running and him just slamming a drry in front of
the piano.

Speaker 29 (01:49:36):
Love it.

Speaker 3 (01:49:36):
What a time, What a time. I think we've got
time for a few more. But there's so many teachs
coming through. We'll get to some of those as well. Helga,
how are you?

Speaker 16 (01:49:47):
Oh?

Speaker 21 (01:49:47):
Good.

Speaker 32 (01:49:47):
Thank you. I'm ringing in about the movie Concussion, to
do with the American footballers getting heads and trees and
committing suicide.

Speaker 3 (01:49:58):
It was Will Smith, wasn't it. He played the doctor.

Speaker 32 (01:50:02):
Yeah. I thought that was really good because look at
all our boys having problems and the all blacks today too,
so it was really a nightmoon.

Speaker 2 (01:50:10):
Yeah right. I haven't seen that movie.

Speaker 3 (01:50:12):
I neither of I but sorry you go, Helga.

Speaker 32 (01:50:16):
Yeah, it's really encouraging because I've had concussion on I
didn't do that in sports, but I had concussion three times,
and you do does into your brain. But no one
would listen to these men. They were going mad. And
then this African doctor, based on the true story, he helped. Yeah,
just out of interest.

Speaker 2 (01:50:36):
Yeah, yeah, So thank you for you, cal Helger.

Speaker 3 (01:50:38):
I've just looked it up. The doctor's name was Bennett's
o'marlu and I think he was a bit of a
godfather in terms of looking into the concussions what the
long term effects were. But Will Smith, no doubt about it.
Good actor.

Speaker 2 (01:50:49):
Christopher Cromwell says rad which was a great BMX movie
from the eighties. Was there another BMX movie called something
like Gleaming the Cube starring Nicole Kidman.

Speaker 3 (01:50:57):
The Cube. I'm just looking at it up now. I
haven't seen it.

Speaker 2 (01:51:00):
Is that a real thing?

Speaker 3 (01:51:02):
Yes, you're right, Gleaming the Cube. Christian Slater, Tony Hawk.
Oh no, that's that's a skateboard movie.

Speaker 2 (01:51:10):
All right? Where am I getting Gleaming the Cube from anyway?
Cindrella Man, A lot of people texting through that. The
fantastic Russell Crowe movie. That's that's that's an absolute pearl
of that film. He deserved an oscar for that, but
he was, you know, throwing a lot of punches in
real life at that point, so he sort of wasn't
flavor of the month.

Speaker 3 (01:51:27):
Yeah, few ticks for any given Sunday as well. Al
Pacino and I believe Oliver Stone directed that. That was
quite an intense movie. I loved it.

Speaker 2 (01:51:34):
It's great. But yal Pacino, Yes, Yalpacina. Does chess count
as a sport?

Speaker 12 (01:51:40):
Is?

Speaker 2 (01:51:40):
Of course it does? Because Yeah, there's a fantastic Kiwi movie,
dark Horse. That's that's a really great movie. Cliff Curtis, Yeah,
love it.

Speaker 3 (01:51:48):
So many texts and sorry we couldn't read them all out,
but we appreciate you sending through so many great movies.
That is where we'll leave it. We've got to take
a quick break, but back with more very shortly. It
is eight to four.

Speaker 2 (01:52:00):
There's about forty thousand texts coming through.

Speaker 17 (01:52:03):
So good.

Speaker 2 (01:52:03):
Yeah, the big.

Speaker 1 (01:52:06):
Stories, the big issues, the big trends and everything in between.
Matt Heath and Tyler Adams Afternoons U Stalks EDB coming
up at four, it's Heather Duplessy Allan Drive.

Speaker 10 (01:52:18):
Major is taking former Speaker Trevor Malla to callt over
the Parliament protest for weaponizing baby Shark. Why is the
IID suggesting we should increase GSD plus more one of PACIFICA.
It is so strapped to cash now it might not
even make it back next year. So should we the
taxpayer prop them up?

Speaker 1 (01:52:34):
What do you think asking the questions? Getting the information
you need? Heather Duplessy Allan Drive with One New Zealand
next on News Talks EDB.

Speaker 3 (01:52:44):
That is almost us.

Speaker 2 (01:52:45):
Yeah, it was bm EX Bandits with Nicole Kingman. That
was the movie I was trying to remember. Well, thank
you for all your great New Zealanders for listening to
the show. Thanks so much for all your calls and
text We've had a great time chatting. Hope you have too.
Now every Friday on the show we like to honor
one caller with the Caller of the Week award, and
this week's winner is Scotty.

Speaker 19 (01:53:01):
Okay, I don't think know what she looks like, but
now you did that. Well, who in their right mind
goes and makes beef well Inson for like X and
laws or people that you despise or hate or got
anything against you, like if you're my ex and laws
that I'd just like you'd be lucky to get beans
on taste, to.

Speaker 4 (01:53:22):
Get macro andy cheese a thing.

Speaker 19 (01:53:23):
Not a beef well into, and you wouldn't go out
foraging for mushrooms to body make it extra special and stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:53:30):
If you yeah, there you go. That's Scott a Y.
The Mentile Afternoons podcast will be out in about an hour,
So if you missed our chats on joining the Army
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The two per c Isllen is up next. But right now, Tyler,
my good friend, tell me why I'm playing this song?

Speaker 3 (01:53:51):
Oh theme songed a rocky what a great sporting menia.

Speaker 2 (01:53:55):
Because Rocky from nineteen seventy six, in my opinion, is
the greatest sporting movie of all time. Love that gritty
underdog story anyway, Give me a taste a Kiwi. You
see you in a few weeks. Love you.

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