Full Show Podcast: 15 September 2025

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Speaker 3 (00:58):
Said, be good afternoons you welcome into Monday. Hope you
had a fantastic weekend all things considering whatever you were
doing in this beautiful country of ours.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
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you for tuning into our show. We have a I'm
going to say, well above average three hours of radio plan.

Speaker 3 (01:17):
I'd agree with that. Yeah, you're lucky. Lucky people. Well
above beverage is pretty good. Now, mate, you were talking
about on Friday you were set for quite a big
run on Sunday.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
Oh yeah, right, that's not on the air. I was
talking to you about privately. Yeah, part of my training
for a marathon. At the end of the hour, yep,
planning to do a thirty k run around Auckland.

Speaker 3 (01:36):
Just just on my own volition. And how'd you go?

Speaker 2 (01:38):
Look, it went really well. I was running up the
Northwestern Motorway, up the cycle track, that way walking track,
and into an incredibly strong wind with torrential rain blasting
me right in the face. And I stuck that out
and kept running and you know, to get my k's up.

Speaker 3 (01:56):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
But then my T shirt, my single got really wet,
and then as it starts to dry out, I mean,
how do I put this politely? The chafing caused my
nipples to believe, and that's something that runners will have
probably been will be familiar with. Yeah, so I should
have take those bad boys up. I really should have,
because it made the next twenty k of that run

(02:19):
quite challenging.

Speaker 3 (02:20):
That is a hard thing to predict if it's never
happened to you before. And as you say, Sunday she
was full noise weatherwise, but then to get the old
chafing nipples. Yeah, as you say, hey, this is something
for a runners, a piece of advice. And I'm not
sure how many runners are out there, long distance runners,
you know, if you can call me a long distance runner.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
That was a twenty six k run. Yeah, yeah, yep.
But if you plan out your run to the drinking
fountains so you can look up at line where drinking
fountains are, and then you don't have to run with
one of those camel packs packs for hydration. Yeah, you
just map it out and do a run that every
you know, five to ten k there's a drinking fountain. Yeah,

(03:00):
that's just such a smart way to do it. A
friend of mine who's a very successful runner, pointed that
out to me in the weekend.

Speaker 3 (03:06):
That is a great thing. But you spent so much
money on that week camel pack and you look, you
love it now, don't you.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
I think there's something humiliating about running as slow as
I do. This is the term all the gears and
no ideas, So I'm always when I'm not that great
at something. I don't like to spend too much, you know. Yeah,
it's like when you come out to bat and you've
got like a really flash cricket bat and you get
cleaned out. Yeah, second delivery, y. You know this is

(03:34):
about that.

Speaker 3 (03:35):
Yeah, you want the worst gear possible just in case. Yeah.
Right on to today's show after three o'clock. An interesting
question that you saw online, man, and I think this
is going to be a great conversation. What improved your
quality of life so much you'd wish you'd done it sooner?

Speaker 2 (03:50):
Yeah, So at some point in your life you discover
something that you add to your life and you go,
oh my god, I've wasted twenty five years without this
piece of philosophy, this bit of advice, this device potentially,
whatever it is. Yeah, yeah, I think there'd be a
great chat after.

Speaker 3 (04:07):
Three, looking forward to that. After two o'clock, we want
to talk about an opinion piece by Verdi Johnson. So
in the article, her friend had a very blunt claim,
New Zealand's broken and you're dumb to stay.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
New Zealand is broken and you're dumb to stay. Wow,
that is I find that quite intense to say that
that you're not only are you struggling potentially, but you're
dumb to continue the struggle in the country that you're in.

Speaker 3 (04:33):
It's very defeative, isn't it. I mean the article was
mentioning and we do know there's been thousands of New
Zealanders that have upsticked and tried to make it go
of life in Australia or other places around the world.
But to say that if you don't get out of
New Zealand you're an idiot because nothing is going on here.
What a defeatist atitude?

Speaker 2 (04:50):
Well what about this text are from this couple that
are originally from England that came here fourteen years ago,
and they say a place is what you make it.
If you can't make it here, then honestly you'll struggle
anywhere else. Yeah, I think there's something to that, right.
I think, you know, for a start, not dumb to
be in New Zealand in terms of countries in the world.

(05:10):
Even if we've got our problems at the moment, in
my opinion, it's still a fantastic place.

Speaker 3 (05:14):
To live, so much going for it.

Speaker 2 (05:16):
Secondly, you know, up upping sticks and going somewhere else
and running away from the fight may suggest you're not
the type of person that's up for the fight.

Speaker 3 (05:24):
Yeah, Ondred percent, I mean it's.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
Sure go for better options because you can see out
there and you want to express yourself. I'm not going
to hassle someone for that. Yeah, But to be dumb
to stay here, I don't know. I think I think
if you've, if you've, I think you can make it work.

Speaker 4 (05:37):
Now.

Speaker 2 (05:37):
I think there's enough people making it work that it
is possible to make it work.

Speaker 3 (05:42):
Looking forward to your thoughts on that after two o'clock.
But right now, let's have a chat about the new
seventy million dollar fun to lure international acts like Coldplay,
Pool Jam, Taylor Swift and many more to this country.
So forty million dollars of that will be set aside
to secure major events, plus extra for regional tourism and infrastructure.
The goal is to compete with Australia, pump life into

(06:03):
local economies and attract more international visitors. So Brenda eckles,
he's one of our most successful event promoters and here's
what he said to my cost in this morning.

Speaker 5 (06:12):
It's just a phrase. The cost of large shows coming
to New Zealand. So I guess in a sense the
artist benefits from it. The promoter doesn't really, But it's
the cover of things like the fact that our dollar
is weak against the US dollar. Most deals done in
the US dollars. Freight costs have gone through the roof
production costs and stage and such like. In the case
of Taylor Swift that was never going to come to

(06:33):
New Zealand. It only went to Malwoom, Sydney, didn't do Brisbane,
Adelaide or Perth. It would not have worked in even part.
But there are many many other artists who I think
you'll find you with this fund. In the next three
months or so, we'll read more announcements for next summer.
I think the government's recognized it's so good for the
psyche of New Zealand they have these shows come. Plus

(06:54):
all the associated businesses profit from it too. It's good
for everybody.

Speaker 6 (06:57):
It's a subsidy, isn't it.

Speaker 5 (07:01):
Yeah, in a way it is, but it's the cost
of getting to New Zealand and putting on that show.
In New Zealand, there's a whole lot of new artists
in a coming through now that are playing stadiums, not arenas,
not Spark Arena, but anyt in Park or Western Springs
will go media type venue. They're starting to come through
now and we need to make sure that we get
them to New zealanm Not only that, we're going to
have two great markets now. Closest is coming on very

(07:25):
very soon. That's a covered stadium that's going to change
the landscape as well. So I think it's a smart
thing for the government to do.

Speaker 3 (07:31):
So interesting comments there from brand Eckles. Smart thing for
the government to do.

Speaker 2 (07:36):
This text is pushing back more fun for the rich. Well,
the rest of us can't afford to go to these
shows and we get nothing. Well, I mean the agment
is that there's an economic boost, so you know, there's
benefits for hospital and the people that are working there.
So even if you're not going to the show, it's
not just about the artists or the event coming to
New Zealand and getting to see it. It's also about

(07:58):
their wider effect it has on the economy. Yeah, well,
you know, you don't have to be jealous of everything.
Just because someone's having a good time at a show
doesn't make your life less your miserable.

Speaker 3 (08:07):
Sid But on that note, Eden Park CEO Nick Saunter.
He was on with Ryan Bridge and he said this
fund is sorting needed.

Speaker 7 (08:14):
Well, we welcome the PM's announcement yesterday. This is great
news for business. Historically, music content hasn't been available to
attract funding from central government, so it hasn't been available
for us to go out and secure content. Globally, it's
been focused more on the sports and major event content
like World Cup. So this is a paradigm shift for us.

(08:37):
It makes us competitive with the East Coast of Australia.
Similar funds are available in the likes of Britain and
Sydney and Melbourne, so and we Eden Park is uniquely
positioned now capitalize on this opportunity.

Speaker 3 (08:48):
And that's one of the big points in this funding
announcement right is we've got to be more competitive with Australia.
They are getting some big international acts, we know that,
and they're missing us along the way. So unless we
can bring that competitive element to it, it's going to
keep happening.

Speaker 2 (09:03):
Well yeah, and also you when there's a huge artist
that doesn't come to New Zealand, what do potentially ten
thousand New Zealanders do they upsticks, get on a plane,
go to Australia and blast all their cash into the
Australian economy.

Speaker 3 (09:18):
Yeah, we want their cash, Yes, spend it here. But
what do you say? I wait, hundred and eighty ten
eighty Will this actually work? Can this funding boost really
change the game for New Zealand's events scene or do
you see this as just political glitter with no lasting payoff? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (09:32):
I mean there seems to be a lot of people
texting through that seem quite anti event, which I didn't expect.

Speaker 3 (09:37):
Yeah, keen on your views. I eight one hundred and
eighty ten eighty is the number to call.

Speaker 2 (09:41):
And we've got our first. We can't pay for a
proper Dnedian hospital and you Aucklanders want to put on
more events. This isn't an Auckland thing. This is a
nationwide thing, so people that are getting confused here, it's
not an Auckland only event fund.

Speaker 3 (09:56):
It is for everywhere that was fast though in the
old Dunedan hospital.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
I knew then in hospital would come in.

Speaker 3 (10:01):
It is sixteen past one. Love to hear your thoughts, the.

Speaker 1 (10:06):
Big stories, the big issues, trends and everything in between.
Matt Heath and Tyler Adams afternoons used talks that'd be.

Speaker 3 (10:14):
It's eighteen past one, so we're talking about the events
funding boost of seventy million dollars. Forty million of that
will be set aside to lure the big international acts
here so they no longer buy pass New Zealand. What
do you say, is that the kind of investment we
need right now or should the government focus else? We
are one hundred and eighty ten.

Speaker 2 (10:30):
Eighty, Steve says, Hi, guys, subsidizing entertainment for keewis as
a waste. Just put the ticket prices up. The net
effect of a big act coming here is dollars times
million dollars x million transferred from our bank accounts in
New Zealand to theirs. Money that supports new money coming
to New Zealand is good. I the international sports tournaments,
a physics conference, a physics.

Speaker 3 (10:50):
Conference, that's that's out of that.

Speaker 2 (10:53):
Yeah, I mean there is that side of it that
you do dump whole lot of money even as a brand.
Hill said Taitay was never going to be able to
come to New Zealand because the logistics of it. Yeah,
but you know, you do dump a bunch of money
into Tata's account, you know, and the true and absolutely,
but also into the restaurants and bars in the area.

(11:14):
And isn't really just an economy taking money out of
someone's account and putting and someone else do's something.

Speaker 3 (11:19):
That's how it works, right, one hundred percent. You want
to get people out of their home, Yeah, opening up
their wallet and spending some money because that flows through
the rest of the economy and starts to boost it up.

Speaker 2 (11:28):
And if you're in a region, if you put something
on a christ ititch and people from other regions come out,
it helps some money to go for one region into another.
And maybe if people choose to spend money on an
event in New Zealand, they don't spend money on event overseas,
or they don't spend money on timu and where the
money just goes straight overseas.

Speaker 3 (11:43):
Yep. Nicely said, Oh one hundred and eighty ten eighty
is the numbered call get a job going very good?
And what are you reckon about this funding boost?

Speaker 8 (11:54):
Well, I think it's probably a bit of unphar in
the sense that there's people not going to get to
use it. However, if you go to do it, yeah,
you should also support the New Zealand local banks and
have them as you're you know, what do you call
it the hot the cover bands or what if it's
not cover bands but your bands that come on first

(12:15):
before the main gig. So it advertises them around the
world and gives them put of a break or chance.

Speaker 2 (12:22):
If someone came to this funding and said, look, they
wanted to put on the equivalent of say Homegrown a
new festival and I don't know, say christ Church with
a bunch of New Zealand bands, then surely that this
fund would be open to them, right, I hope. So
you'd hope that they could contest for it and say,
you know, we've got a good case here and it's

(12:42):
going to be all New Zealand bands, then that would
be pretty good. I mean homegrownings are very successful festival
Yeah yep.

Speaker 8 (12:50):
But I even mean if you're bringing somebody open from overseas.
That's what gives these little bands of brain as you know,
the guys that kick off. It's the same as we
do with breaking and other stuff. You have the kidchens
or something like the brain and gives them, you know, confidence,
and gives them coverage and gives them all sorts of things.

Speaker 2 (13:08):
So do you say we should we should mandate. We
should mandate John that when a band comes over, a
big band, that they have to have, you know, a
couple of Kiwi acts opening for them in front of
the big crowd.

Speaker 8 (13:19):
Not mandated. But if we're putting money in towards it,
why can't some of that money go towards supporting our
own local people.

Speaker 3 (13:26):
It's not a bad idea. They definitely need support, you know,
our local music industry. It's tough out there, particularly for them.

Speaker 2 (13:32):
Well when you're when you're getting you know, the tax
breaks that come with putting shooting a movie in New Zealand,
there are rules around making sure that you're employing New
Zealand is on it, and you know, you get New
Zealand actors in the situation. Yeah, so I mean maybe
you could say that you've got to if you're going
to bring over and I keep saying, you know, if

(13:53):
ac DC are playing here, then Alien Weaveronry have to open.

Speaker 3 (13:56):
Yeah, that would be a great opening for Acadeca.

Speaker 2 (13:58):
And then you know, yeah, I mean the the you know,
the main actor doesn't care, they're not they're not even
at the stadium before the helicopter flies them.

Speaker 3 (14:06):
In exactly oh eight hundred eighty two is the number
of call with spending forty million dollars to a track,
major event, a smart investment, or just political showmanship. If
you want to say to take ninety two nine two,
but love to hear from you on oh, eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty. It's twenty two past one.

Speaker 1 (14:21):
Putting the tough questions to the newspeakers the mic asking breakfast.

Speaker 6 (14:25):
I'm minister Christopher Laxana is with us speaking of protests.
Who decides in this country to close the bridge when
people want to walk across it in protest?

Speaker 3 (14:33):
Yeah, like I said, that's an NZTA decision.

Speaker 2 (14:35):
Yeah, no it is.

Speaker 6 (14:35):
But do you know the person and there and why
are they to do by time? Why are they allowed
to do that?

Speaker 1 (14:39):
Well?

Speaker 2 (14:39):
I don't know, but that's the difference.

Speaker 6 (14:40):
You mean, are you're the prime minister of this country.
How is it that somebody goes, oh, yeah, we'll just
close a bridge.

Speaker 9 (14:45):
Yeah, I mean we're in an inconvenience to people.

Speaker 2 (14:46):
Should there be something done about that?

Speaker 6 (14:48):
If we can't trust the MZTA and the police to
make sensible decision, should you step in and go here
are some rules that you need to adhere to.

Speaker 2 (14:54):
Yeah, we can have a look at it, but it's
enough other places that people can protest, and we want
people to be able to feel free to do so.

Speaker 6 (14:59):
Back tomorrow at six am the Mic Hosking Breakfast with
Maybe's Real Estate News Talk z B.

Speaker 3 (15:05):
Very good afternoon. You we're talking about these seventeen million
dollar f fund announced by the government. Forty million of
that will go to secure and in big international acts.
Do you think this is money well spent or do
you think it's going to be harder to make work
than the government believes? One hundred and eighty ten eighty.

Speaker 2 (15:19):
The Stick says, God's so sick of rich wankers like
you two celebrating going to these concerts. Most people in
New Zealand don't have enough to eat. We aren't going
to cold Play, so why would our taxes go to
YouTube a holes and your dorkland going to lame bands
and showing off about it. But it's not just bands
and yeah, and it's not just Doorkland.

Speaker 3 (15:39):
Yeah, I mean, thanks are staying reasonable in your argument there.

Speaker 2 (15:42):
But most people in New Zealand. Look, I'm going to
push back on most people in New Zealand don't have
enough to eat. We have an obesity problem in New Zealand.
Most people in New Zealand have too much to eat. Yeah,
I mean, and we're very lucky to live in a
country with an abundance of food and that hasn't been
the case for most of history. But to say that
most people in New Zealand don't have enough to eat,
you know, so I pushed back on the I'm not

(16:03):
going to push back on us being a holes. No,
that seems that is very true.

Speaker 3 (16:06):
Yeah, yeah, you're right on the money there.

Speaker 2 (16:08):
You have that one, Steve.

Speaker 10 (16:10):
You know, Steve, how's the game Boys?

Speaker 3 (16:12):
Very good? So what do you reckon about this funding?

Speaker 10 (16:16):
Firstly, I just want to say classic texture previously basic.

Speaker 3 (16:20):
Yeah, we get a few of those, Steve.

Speaker 10 (16:22):
I mean really, I mean the guy needs to go
home and do some homework. But anyway, look, I don't know.
I just I mean, the government doesn't know where to
put its money at any time, no matter what side
of that dinner plate they eat from. But I just
think that you know, with Sydney you've got eight million people,
Melbourne butt nearly five million or whatever. If they have

(16:43):
something in Brisbane or Gold Coast, they got the stadiums
that can that can fit them in. Eden Park's not
big enough to hold these huge, big conscerts. I mean,
Melbourne's a hundred one hundred thousand. What is Eden Park
forty four or something fifty five. I don't know how
they're going to do the numbers. I don't think it's
going to work. But that's just my personal opinion. I mean,
what do you guys, what do you guys think?

Speaker 2 (17:01):
Well, it's good enough for Metallica, one of the biggest
bands the world. They're playing at eden.

Speaker 10 (17:05):
Park, Old boys, come on, Yeah, you know why why
they're coming on tour again is because they run out
of money.

Speaker 2 (17:16):
I think you're right in that will only ever be
an extra show on the Australian tour, to the point
where sometimes they get here and they think they are
still in Australia because they don't know the difference. But
you know, if it's the difference between adding one more
show to the tour and you know, I think it
was nixt Saunner was saying on Ryan Bridge this morning

(17:38):
that these other places in Australia off of these kind
of subsidies. So when you when you're bargaining, yeah, yeah,
so maybe we maybe we pry one off Adelaide, if
you if you know what I mean. You know they're
definitely gonna have Melbourne and Sydney in there. Obviously they'll
be silly not to but maybe we just get one
more added when they were just going to go home
at that point.

Speaker 10 (17:58):
You know, I mean smaller. I mean, I don't know,
I just think smaller, smaller events I prefer to go to,
you know, I prefer to go to the I mean
the last big event I went was Robie Williams. I
mean that was where that at the place where Warriors
play in the Neilson Street stay in there.

Speaker 3 (18:15):
Yeah that's smart. That would have been a great show.

Speaker 10 (18:18):
I was was. But you know now I just go
to the small ones because that's just my age. I
don't want to have too many people are out, but
that's just me.

Speaker 3 (18:27):
Yeah, it's a fair point. And when I when I
read this story, I thought, exactly that is how we
ever going to compete with Australia just in terms of
infrastructure and their population base. But as you'd remember, Steve,
this year we had some big players that I wouldn't
go see myself, the likes of Drake and a wrappical
Travis Oh god, I've just forgotten his name, but they
are big names internationally. But then those guys, Drake in particular,

(18:50):
just said, I know I've had a change in schedule,
so I'm not going to come to New Zealand anymore.
So maybe a contestable fund and they take it on
the end of Australia means they're not just going to
ditch us at the last minute because they can't be asked.

Speaker 10 (19:02):
But do you think it was not just ticket sales
that they turned it down? So if they don't get
the ticket sales or the numbers, they are not going
to come in anyway.

Speaker 3 (19:08):
Yeah, well, interesting question for Drake. I don't like Drake,
but a lot of people do. I'd be super surprised
if that wasn't a sell out in New Zealand.

Speaker 2 (19:15):
I think the thing with Drake is, if you look
into it, he got offered more money to do a
European tour at the same time, so.

Speaker 3 (19:22):
We got out.

Speaker 10 (19:23):
We got out glan for Drake as well. Can you
get a what a winsloan to go to see Drake?

Speaker 3 (19:30):
A question?

Speaker 2 (19:31):
Maybe the government is looking to that.

Speaker 3 (19:34):
Sorry guys, sorry, that is gold Steve, you're a good man. Hey,
great to chat with you. Thank you very much. One
hundred eighty ten eighty is the number to call. Do
you agree with Steve? Do you think there's just no
way we can legitimately compete with Australia for these events
or is this a step in the right direction.

Speaker 2 (19:51):
The sex is, how dare you? I work in a
food bank and people are starving out there? That's from Joy.
Good on you for working in a foodbank, congratulations, But
I'm pushing back on the idea that this person said
most people in New Zealand don't have enough to eat.
It's clearly not the case that most people don't have
enough to eat, and it is also clearly the cave
that obesity. It kills more people in New Zealand than starvation.

(20:13):
So good on you for working in a food bank.
And I'm sure there are people out there that really
really appreciate your help. So absolutely good on your joy, yep.
But the term most people in New Zealand don't have
enough to eat is just wrong, absolutely objectively wrong. Yeah,
one hundred percent, most people in New Zealand have too
much to heat.

Speaker 3 (20:31):
Yeah, very true.

Speaker 11 (20:32):
Right.

Speaker 3 (20:32):
Headlines with Wendy coming up. Then we're going to carry
this on. How do you feel about the seventy million
dollar contestable fund for events? Is it going to work
or is it just political grandstanding?

Speaker 2 (20:42):
You gruby docklander.

Speaker 3 (20:43):
This docklander thing again. Look me up here for one
year and then you're a docklander.

Speaker 2 (20:48):
I'm from the Deed and he's from Nelson's.

Speaker 5 (20:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (20:51):
I love it up here, but I've I.

Speaker 2 (20:53):
Had a shower a couple of days ago. I don't know.
How are we grubbing you docklanders?

Speaker 5 (20:57):
Eight?

Speaker 2 (20:58):
Nothing wrong with being a docklander anyway.

Speaker 12 (21:02):
You talks'd be headlines with blue bubble taxis. It's no
trouble with a blue bubble.

Speaker 2 (21:07):
Six.

Speaker 12 (21:08):
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door of Nikola Willis's electorate office in Wellington, staging a
sit in over the situation in Gaza. Christian leaders have
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in Auckland's Pakuranga. They're calling on the government to sanction Israel,
and the Greens are calling for stronger action on Gaza
as Act backs one of their MP's controversial comments on

(21:30):
protesters Act list. MP Simon Court says those at the
weekend pro Palestine protests will quote playing terot dress up,
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(21:54):
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(22:16):
Now back to Matson Tayler.

Speaker 3 (22:17):
Thank you very much, Wendy. We're talking about the seventy
million dollar boost to the events industry. Some of it
will go to infrastructure as well, but forty million dollars
has been set aside. So what do you say, do
Big Overseas X actually need some funding to come to
New Zealand or is this a bit of a glittery
announcement by the government I one hundred and eighteen.

Speaker 2 (22:35):
Eighty guys, this announcement sounds very much like John Key's
cycle track after the GFC from Dave. Actually, you're right
because part of the money is going to the whereas
I thought that there was part of this money, yeah,
is going to the cycle tracks.

Speaker 3 (22:50):
There was ten million set aside specifically for cycle ways.

Speaker 2 (22:54):
Ten million for tourism infrastructure upgrades including cycle trails. That's
in the widest seventy million funding boost, but forty million
dollars that we're talking about as events Attraction Package for
large scale international acts and sports from twenty twenty six.
Though no accurate though the cycle tracks are in there.

Speaker 3 (23:12):
They're lovely cycle ways down to meat Tiger Wow.

Speaker 2 (23:15):
I mean they're fantastic in so many different places across
the country and they do bring tourists thin and they're
a great thing, absolute great thing. And my humble opinion,
so many texts coming through on this, hey, guys, that
text claiming he can't afford to eat and why should
our taxes support rich people's consonants. If he actually can't

(23:36):
afford to eat, then he will not be paying tax
unless he is financially ignorant mots.

Speaker 3 (23:41):
Thank you for that.

Speaker 2 (23:42):
I mean, if you can't afford it, you are unlikely
to be paying a whole heap of tax I would
argue that music events whil'st great for morale, et cetera.
Big conferences stunit make much more money in the hospitality sector.
Sector is not sexter sextor is a totally difference and
sector and boost tourism. Imagine how much two hundred doctors
with their wives here for a week or more would

(24:03):
spend in the country without spending money overseas to artisan agents. Yeah,
what are the kind If someone said before, like physics,
there's some kind of physics conference that's coming to New Zealand.
Those kind of things are great if you can bid
for New Zealand to be and that's why we've attempted
to build a conference center, but it's taken about four
hundred years due to various fires in Auckland.

Speaker 3 (24:24):
It's getting there.

Speaker 2 (24:25):
But those obviously are fantastic for New Zealand. If you
can make our destination and a whole lot of people
come here and do something.

Speaker 3 (24:31):
The conference industry is huge sy it brings a lot
of money. Craig how are you.

Speaker 13 (24:36):
Hey, guys, how are you good? Yeah, they're saying all
about the concerts. This is an event, you know, a
few years back Bill Buckley at Preston Spring Sport and
the World Speedway m solo bikes now for that weekend

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and I guess they stayed on. But it was a
one day event at brought and I think there was
about three thousand an excess of three thousand people Poland
there was thousands of thousands of Australians, people from all
over Europe the Western Springing Stadium. The flags were just

(25:17):
so global. So you know this would when we save
our speedway and the tracks, the tracks will remain. Obviously,
this fun could help to bring in events like that.

Speaker 2 (25:31):
Yes, So if there's an event and it could be
held somewhere in Australia and there's there's a place in
Australia that's looking at putting it on and their local
areas putting up some extra money to make it happen,
then we can go in and we can haggle for
it and and those kind of events. I mean that's yeah.

Speaker 14 (25:51):
And as it's not just music, there's so many events
that can come and.

Speaker 13 (25:57):
Bring because the music concerts.

Speaker 14 (26:00):
They're not going to bring in many international people and
that's where it's not going to create a lot of tourism.
You might get some over the Dutch, but they're not
going to be flying for Poland to come and see.

Speaker 2 (26:14):
Yeah. Unlucky.

Speaker 3 (26:17):
But even things, I mean, I can't understand why we
haven't had a major UFC fight in New Zealand considering
the caliber of some of our ones.

Speaker 2 (26:24):
I mean, to a major UFC fight and it's spuck.

Speaker 3 (26:27):
Okay, take that back then. So we've had a couple,
but more of those please. But WWE that was over
in Australia, that would have been fantastic. They have here
mass surf buy in for something like WWE.

Speaker 2 (26:41):
Yeah, yeah, I'll tell you what would be fantastic. You
know the great word you're talking about there at wisteron Springs.
But also if we could get if we could get
one of the State of O Games, Oh, then you
would be getting a lot of Australians coming here. Yeah, yeah,
thank you for your call. Craig. As a concert goer
and being to a lot of them, there was talk

(27:02):
about that. Did I dream that that? Last week? There
was some talk about a potential it doesn't seem real
nice out loud a potential state of Yeah, it was
in Auckland.

Speaker 3 (27:13):
It was we're getting pretty close or has it already
been Announcestandard. We'll try and find that information.

Speaker 2 (27:17):
Yeah, Outbird Australia on Quintessential Australia. Give the AFL final
take it off. As a concert goer and being to
a lot of them, there's not too many New Zealand
bands I haven't seen, and I want to see them
open for an overseas act. No offense to the Kiwi bands,
but music is not like the old school as it
used to be. Don't put up the prices, don't put

(27:37):
bid taxes on. Most of the big bands are worth multimillions.
Sure they could afford it if they really wanted to come.
If it wasn't for the fans, they wouldn't have it. Okay.

Speaker 3 (27:49):
I just got to think, you know, the likes of
Bruce Springsteen last time he came here. I might be
wrong on this, but I believe Bruce Springsteen came here
because he genuinely loved New Zealand and he wanted to
be here and it was important for him to get
on our soil. But I don't know if he made
much money from that leg of the journey. So that's
a hell of a thing to ask of an artist

(28:09):
that might just be good pr. I'm heapy to be
proven wrong there.

Speaker 2 (28:12):
This is what he said.

Speaker 3 (28:13):
Well, he came to christ Chooch because it was not
long after the earthquake, and he did make a point
there and it was in the news, and maybe this
is just good pr that he wanted to specifically come
to christ Jooch even though it was in that god
allful temporary stadium and you could only get fifteen thousand
people in there.

Speaker 2 (28:27):
Oh yeah, fifteen thousand probably wouldn't have whis structure around.
Bruce Springsteen. I went to considered Mount Smart Bruce Springsteen,
and he did the Born in the USA album was fantastic.
I would sooner tat forty million was put to nurses
and police deliberately left teachers off because it's the system
that's broken. Clive Well, I mean, the thing is, how

(28:52):
do I put this? There is something about events that
they're great for the morale of the you know, they
do more than just bring money into a region. They
bring people together, They create memory. I really believe they
raise morale, you know, and I think you can't sort

(29:14):
of you can't deny the positive feeling in a city
of big things that coming to that city and things
are happening in that town. It makes you feel international,
It makes you feel like you can experience just the
best in the world without getting on a plane. Yeah,
and I think that is that is huge. And we
can always go and look at where we're spending money

(29:37):
and go you could put it here, You could put
it here. I mean that's always the debate. But it
can't always just be on things that aren't. You know,
just the fact that some things are fun doesn't mean
that they should be ruled out.

Speaker 3 (29:45):
It doesn't have to be one or the other. We
can do multiple things. And you know, as the saying goes,
we can walk and chew gum at the same time.
But what do you say, Oh, one hundred and eighty
ten eighty is the number to call at seventy million bucks.

Speaker 2 (29:57):
WWD has been to New Zealand. Did the security for
it in christ Church? That's from Ken.

Speaker 3 (30:01):
Okay, I've been wrong a couple of times. Bring them
back right. And we've just been handled some information about
what the situation is with State of O. So will
tell you exactly what is happening next. That is seventeen
to two.

Speaker 1 (30:16):
A fresh take on took Back. It's Matt Heathen, Taylor
Adams afternoons. Have your say on eight hundred eighty ten
eighty US talks there'd be.

Speaker 3 (30:24):
It is fourteen to two. So is the seventy million
dollar funding boost for big events and international acts going
to be a game change? I love to your thoughts
on our eight hundred and eighty ten eighty now mentioned
before the State of Origin. So here's the story out
from the Daily Telegraph last week. The NRL was preparing
to take rugby league's biggest stage across the Tasman, with
plans in motion to stage men's and women's State of

(30:45):
o fixtures in New Zealand and consecutive years and what
would mark a landmark moment for rugby league. The Daily
Telegraph reported that the codes one hundred million dollar showpiece
could have a head overseas to New Zealand for the
first time in twenty twenty seven.

Speaker 2 (30:59):
See that would be fantastic. You know, if we could
make that work then you're going to have so many
Australians coming over here and you absolutely fleece them and
the bars restaurants.

Speaker 3 (31:11):
And come on over and give us your money.

Speaker 2 (31:14):
The STIX has said still forty million would be more
useful in their health sector. Now it's interesting what you
what you mean by health, because I think there's health
benefits and people having something to look forward to. So personally,
I'm really looking forward to the Metallica concert and the
Monster trucks and that's really helping my mental health thinking
about how fun they're going to be. So health isn't

(31:37):
all about hospitals and doctors. It's the mental health of
the nation and having fantastic, joyous events that bring people together.
It is great for people's health. It's been proven over
and over again. This is a funny text that someone said,
two hundred doctors in their wives. Come on, remember what
country Centuri all some of the two hundred doctors in

(31:58):
their wives. Yeah, I mean, it's getting to the point
where there's more female doctors than male docts, especially if
you go to med school. It's some crazy how many
more females there are than males. But it's kind of
like that joke that Reddler father and son are and
a car crash. The father dies. The son has rushed
to the hospital and the surgeon says, I can't operate
on this boy because he's my son. How is this possible?
And that used to tract people to go was because

(32:19):
the doctors is mother.

Speaker 3 (32:20):
Yeah, but as true, everybody didn't matter if you're a
man or woman. That throw a lot of people. Yeah, yeah,
so you get your point. Two hundred doctors in their husbands.

Speaker 2 (32:29):
Yeah, there will probably be one hundred and ninety doctors
in their husbands and ten doctors and their wife.

Speaker 3 (32:34):
Yeah, Sody, how are you mate?

Speaker 15 (32:38):
Okay, guys good, Yeah. Look, I just think there's going
to be a return on investment for that money spend.
You know, you're talking about, you know, having a feel
good factor and what have you in the local economy
and you know, internal internal tourism, and maybe there won't
be that many people. Let them, Let's say Taylor Swift
comes to comes to New Zealand, maybe there won't be

(33:00):
a lot of international tourism generate, you know, of people
coming to see the show, but there will be the
promotion that she would generate through her you know, I
don't know how many followers she got, tens tens of
millions hundreds of followers who see see her in New Zealand,
and she might post a picture of down a pH
or Queenstown or whoever it might be. You know, that

(33:23):
kind of exposures worth gazillions of dollars and that's that's
where the return will come from. Plus, you know, to
set up a big gig, like whether it's at Eden
Park or the new stadium down in christ which whatever
it might be. You know, there's lots of local tradees
and staffolders and lighting people and video people and all
the caterer. There's a lot of money flows in from

(33:47):
overseas to the local economy. It's not just sort of
internal money flowing around by the by Kiwi's traveling to
see the shows. There's lots of lots of external money
comes in as well. So I look, I'm an amateur
in terms of the return on investment, but I imagine
one of the boffins has done, you know, one of
the bureaucrats has done some numbers around this. There's got

(34:10):
to be a financial return on investment having been calculated
that might be real or imagined, you know what I mean,
sort of some fancy number pluck out of the air,
but there will be a lot of it flow into
the country.

Speaker 2 (34:22):
And also money moving around the internal economy is also
a fantastic thing. I mean, we have to put things
together such that people will get out of their house
and spend their money at a restaurant or a bar.
You know, that's how an economy works, right. And if
that money is not spent on TIMU and instead spent
on a local bar or a local restaurant, or that

(34:44):
money is not spent in flying to see that artist
in Australia and instead spent in New Zealand, then that's
a boon for the economy as well.

Speaker 15 (34:52):
Well totally. You know, there will be some internal you know,
employment created through the employment created through internal flow of funds.
But my point is I reckon there'd be a lot
of external funds and a lot of external interest generated
in New Zealand and about New zeal YEA good on.

Speaker 2 (35:13):
You, Tony, thank you for your call re spending on
nurses instead. International tourum is the only export sector that
generates GSD. Foreign has paid one point seven billion in
GSD last year and we don't invest that much back
into tourism. Tourism already pays for hospital, schools and police.
We just don't give the tourism credit it needs. And yes,
in the seventy million dollar announcement from the government, a

(35:35):
bunch of it is for tourism infrastructure upgrades and ten
million dollars for regional tourism campaign aim incentivizing overseas visitors.
And ten millions dollars events boost funds, set to strength
and events and draw international opportunities. So there's a lot
going on in this.

Speaker 3 (35:52):
That's a great text though, and they're quite right that
tourism does subsidize health spending and education spending and a
lot of others spending that we have to do. But
tourism helps bring in some of that money we utilize.

Speaker 2 (36:04):
We have to come up with ideas that increase the
amount of money that comes into the country. And whilst
we really want to pay everyone more, you know, money
that is taxed off the people here and then given
back to the people here doesn't really grow the economy.
It just moves the money around.

Speaker 3 (36:18):
Yeah, yep, spot on right. Oh, one hundred and eighty
ten eighty is the number to call. It is eight
to two back very shortly.

Speaker 1 (36:25):
Matt Heath Taylor Adams taking your calls on oh, eight
hundred and eighty ten eighty it's Matt Heath and Taylor
Adams afternoons news DOORGSB.

Speaker 3 (36:35):
News DOGSB. It is five to two, so many ticks
have come through on nine to two, nine to two
on this one.

Speaker 2 (36:40):
Concept using New Zealand ticket purchases spends most back in
New Zealand, then profit out of the country to the Star.
So I get you saying yeah, sounds like someone might
have voiced to text this one. So yes, it gets
peeps out of the house, but overall cash leaves New
Zealand and government gets GST. But others than that, it
is not even cost neutral. That's not what people are saying.

(37:04):
Why can't the government use their funding correctly? Look at
Regional Growth Fund. We've applied for this under labor and
got squat. National in June twenty twenty three promised us
the world applied for a regional GF and not even
a reply. We manufacture paper bags in Topor and now
employee forty five staff, creating not only jobs but putting
meals on forty five tables. Good on you, Steve.

Speaker 3 (37:23):
Yeah, I mean it's a good question about why you
haven't managed to get some money out of the contestable fund,
But that's slightly different to the seventy million dollars.

Speaker 2 (37:30):
Joanne says. What seems to be missing in the argument
from people who are offended that others can attend concerts
is the flow on effect to the whole economy from
these events, and that flow one will affect employers and
many other businesses who may in turn employ more people
or increase wages, and those businesses and their employees will
then support further businesses. That's why it's a good idea
and good for all.

Speaker 3 (37:49):
This is Joanne right, jo Anne, well done? Good? Whoa right?

Speaker 2 (37:55):
What a great New Zealander?

Speaker 3 (37:56):
Joanna's great New Zealander. Great chats coming up to two
o'clock though, this is going to be another good chat.
Are you dumb if you stay in New Zealand's according
to an opinion piece just written, Yeah, maybe so can
your views on this? So eight undred and eighty ten
eighty is the number to call. Nineteen ninety two is
the text number. Horrible thing to say that is coming
up very shortly, News, sport and weather coming up.

Speaker 1 (38:21):
Talking with you all afternoon. It's Matt Heathen Taylor Adams
Afternoons news Talks.

Speaker 5 (38:27):
It'd be.

Speaker 3 (38:29):
Afternoon to you. Welcome back into the shelter, seven past two.
Hope you're doing well on this Monday afternoon. Now, this
is going to get a few people racked up, and
that's a good thing. We want to talk about an
opinion piece Verity Johnson has written. Now I don't know
too much about Verity Johnson, but she's a regular writer
across the road at one of our competing newspaper organizations.

Speaker 2 (38:49):
Her name sounds like a character from a western.

Speaker 3 (38:54):
Yeah, very old, isn't it Verity Johnson. But the article
she's written, and she writes a few of these quite
inflammatory articles, but in this one, her friend has a
very blunt claim about why people are leaving New Zealand.
Here is the quote. New Zealand is broken, are broken,
and you were dumb to stay.

Speaker 2 (39:12):
Wow, so I'm dumb because I choose to stay here.

Speaker 3 (39:16):
According to her friend. Yeah, I don't know what Verity's
friend's name is. She didn't mention that Verity's friend h yeah, friends, yeah, yeah,
the old friends. But she did say and as we know,
there are thousands of people leaving New Zealand each month.
Many say they are pushed out by economic struggles and
rising costs, but many are wondering people actually leaving the

(39:40):
situation this country because it truly is that bad, or
there's this negativity bias that is just set in all
this gloomy talk and people are getting caught up too
much in this idea that New Zealand is rubbish. I'm
going to make my life in Australia.

Speaker 16 (39:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (39:56):
Well, she's saying that New Zealand is breaking its social
promise of a fair shot at a decent life, with
many staying behind only because they can't afford to leave.
I mean, is it really that bad? I feel like
post COVID, we've got it, We've got a win on. Yeah,
it's not that bad for most of us. It's not

(40:17):
that bad that the social promise has been broken. So
are you dumb to stay or are you proud to stay?

Speaker 3 (40:24):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (40:25):
And look, as I was saying before, look I don't
feel dumb. I feel awesome being here. I was running
on Saturday and this costs nothing around around the Western
Springs absolutely beautiful and up the Northwestern Motorway track and
I was just looking around going this has cost to
me nothing. This place is absolutely beautiful and I think

(40:46):
if you can't make it work here, you might be
surprised when you find that you can't make it work elsewhere.
It's always worth asking the question, is that you who
just needs to go harder, rather than the country you
are in gooing harder for you?

Speaker 3 (40:59):
Yeah, And I think that's a critical point, right. There'll
be many of these thousands of people leaving for a
so called better life and more opportunity over in Australia
that will find pretty quickly, yeah, they haven't managed to
make a good go of it.

Speaker 2 (41:13):
And there would be people in other countries that would
hear you saying this about New Zealand and the opportunities
that are here. They would be shocked that you look
at New Zealand and go that the social content has
been broken and that we're only staying here because we
cannot leave. I mean, I think that suggests you haven't

(41:33):
really had a look around what much of the rest
of the world is. Like this text that I read
out before when we first brought up this topic, I
thought i'd read it out again because it's a good one.
I'm originally from England and came out here fourteen years
ago with my partner in just one tiny suitcase each.
We were instantly welcomed. Both found jobs straight away, not
well paid, but still it was a start. A few

(41:54):
years in and we both started our own businesses construction
and jewelry, and together with lots of hard work, we
found them to be very successful and we got to
live in total paradise with the wilderness less than five
minutes away. Couldn't rate news even living higher. A place
is what you make of it. If you can't make
it here, then honestly you will struggle anywhere. I mean,

(42:15):
what's that saying about New York. If you can make
it here, you can make it anywhere. If someone once
said to me about it's actually the other way. If
you can't make it in New York, you can't make
it anything.

Speaker 3 (42:24):
Yeah. Oh, one hundred eighty ten eighty is the number.

Speaker 4 (42:27):
Call?

Speaker 3 (42:28):
So do you feel dumb for staying in New Zealand?
Love to hear your thoughts on this one. Nine two
ninety two is the text number. It is eleven past two.
Let's get into it. Wow.

Speaker 1 (42:38):
Your home of afternoon talk, Mad Heathen Taylor Adams Afternoons
call oh, eight hundred eighty ten eighty. News Talk said,
be for.

Speaker 3 (42:48):
A good afternoons? You fourteen past two? So do you
feel dumb for staying in New Zealand? That was one
of the claims. Verity Johnson, an opinion writer over at
another competing newspaper company, wrote, she basically said one thousands
leaving every month. Many say they pushed out by economic
struggles and rising costs, and a so called friend of
hers said New Zealand's broke in your dumb distace. So

(43:08):
how do you feel about that? One hundred and eighty
ten eighty.

Speaker 2 (43:11):
Daryl, Welcome to the show.

Speaker 16 (43:13):
Okay, hey, I normally agree with you guys, but I
do actually agree with this young lady. I've spoken to
you guys before. We spoke earlier or a few months ago,
regarding when you guys were talking about homeschooling, and I
told you I had a good friend that moved over
to the Gold Coast. Well, they've been over there for
a while and they've taken up this this deal with

(43:35):
the album easy Whereas if you're in Australia and you've
been there for more than twelve months, you can get
a youth package. I don't remember what they call it.
I'm sorry, guys, but anyway, they've just purchased their own home.

Speaker 17 (43:49):
This is.

Speaker 16 (43:51):
His daughter and his son have now bought a bought
a property over there. They saved money, they've been over
in Australia. They've they've they've been working over there, they've
saved deposit, they've done all the stuff that needed to
be done to prove that they're going to be staying there.
They need a boo movement of this property. But they've

(44:12):
done the whole done thing. There's just nothing like that
in New Zealand that is available to youth to be
able to move in to. And the home is a
two bedroom home. It's five hundred and thirty three thousand.
But what could you buy for five hundred and thirty
three thousand, you know. And this is on the Gold Coast, Australia,

(44:32):
in a place called Labrador, So I mean it's it's
it's not the flashiest area, but it's still not It's
like a ten minute walk to the beach and all
the rest of it. But yeah, there's just nothing to
compare that to New Zealand. So I do agree. You know,
you'd be crazy not to go right.

Speaker 2 (44:52):
Do you feel, as Veriti's friend has said that you're
dumb to stay here because you're Are you staying here?
Are you going down? Don't leave us? By the way,
I've got it.

Speaker 16 (45:06):
I'm very fortunate of I've got a mother and father
in law that have ever a property over there since
two thousand and we do go over on a regular basis,
and we're about to go over in another couple of
weeks actually, and we're going to go look at the
new property that these guys.

Speaker 5 (45:22):
Have just purchased.

Speaker 16 (45:23):
I mean, we're all excited, you know, I mean fantastic.
I mean one's nineteen, the other one's twenty one, so
and that's incredible, you know, nineteen and twenty one year
old actually moving into their own home, obviously together brother
and sister. But still you know they're on the ladder.

Speaker 3 (45:44):
Yeah, what about is that an Australia there. I just
say that because my older brother is a Newcastle and
they've just managed to get into a property. But they
had to pay a lot of money for it. I
think it was nine hundred thousand dollars Australian and he
is forty three, so they had to work their butt
off to try and get into that property.

Speaker 7 (46:00):
Right.

Speaker 16 (46:01):
Well, they've been in Australia for about eighty months and
during that period you've been obviously all working. The whole
family's in working and this property is on the Gold Coast, Australia.
It's a place called Labrador, which.

Speaker 3 (46:21):
Is a great name for a place between love a Labrador,
good dog, good place.

Speaker 16 (46:25):
Yeah. But yeah, it's basically a very very central area.
But yeah, it's you know, it's in a block of
I think it's a block of twelve, so it's it's
not extravagant.

Speaker 2 (46:42):
You know, how much do you say five thirty Did
you say five thirty three?

Speaker 16 (46:46):
Yeah, five thirty three.

Speaker 2 (46:47):
I think if you call Darryl, I mean you could do.
I mean christ Church. Everyone's been talking about christ Church
and the great results down there and how that's growing
and everyone's moving down the air and it's I mean
every time I go down to christ Church it seems
like it's just getting better and better.

Speaker 3 (47:01):
Yeah, and it.

Speaker 2 (47:02):
Actually feels like the most vibrant part of the country
at the moment.

Speaker 3 (47:05):
Great city. You can make up a start at home
for six hundred absolutely, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (47:08):
You could pick up a very nice townhouse in christ
Church for that much.

Speaker 3 (47:11):
Easy. Yeah. I think we had a beautiful three bedroom
that we paid five thirty four or four years ago. Yeah,
granted it's gone up a bit since then, but that's
a three bedroom with quite a big section. So to
do the old two bedroom townhouse, I think easily you
can get something nice for five point fifty.

Speaker 2 (47:28):
This is what I think. Boys, ask not what your
country can do for you, but what you can do
for your country. I must be thick as then because
I have stayed here and loved this country God's own boys,
God's on. No Snoke's going to bite you here. Philm Yeah, yeah,
I mean I'm kind of like that to say that
you're dumb to stay here. You know, you're running away
from the fight. I mean, this is my country. Yeah,

(47:49):
so there's something to be honorable to make it work here. Yeah,
you know, and I imagine most of those people leaving
and I may come in here and make it better
here because I mean, yeah, I mean, let's go to
You know that there's something to say for doing the
thing for the community where you are. Jerry, Welcome to
the show Mate.

Speaker 4 (48:10):
Looks at the second time in seven days, you guys
are ring me to come on air, but you're going
to have to fight with Kerry in the morning from
nine because I am her favorite. She has told me
this many times.

Speaker 3 (48:21):
Jerry, So mate, let's have a chat about Australia and
the land of so called milk and honey.

Speaker 2 (48:26):
Do you believe that.

Speaker 4 (48:28):
I think New Zealand's in a very very difficult position.
I think that we were, you know, we will promise
it in you know, an election, whether you've had a blue, red, green,
yellow and indigo or purple, that you know, we were
going to pull ourselves out of the coming battle. And
the battle has proven itself to be very very very

(48:51):
difficult for middle class and also the lower economic class
as well, you know, and that that seems to be
a grueling hangover which we can't seem to shake. You
guys mentioned about you know, is it greener on the
other side? And you know, I think each country genuinely

(49:12):
has their own merits. The one problem in New Zealand
we do have is we are the smallest fish in
the world's biggest ocean and for us to export is
horrifically expensive to get our product out there. Also for
us to import, it's the same thing so whether we're
importing you know, elitical goods or you know, bedding or
whatever it might be, or hardware, you know, there's no

(49:35):
next stop on the shipping route. They come to New Zealand,
they pick up the chip boarding or their woodchips, and
off they go again. Where we don't have a position
where we can be a strong export partners. That has
to either get flown out ship back to Australia and
then distributed across the world. And that just unfortunately has
its costs to the manufacturer or the wholesaler. But in

(49:57):
saying that, I can see why this article that you
guys brought up at the start has started to obs
get some traction, particularly with you guys, because it's obviously
struck a nerve which totally understand. You know, like we
you know, I'm thirty four now. When I was growing
up here in the little old South Island, New Zealand,
I was so proud to be in New Zealander. You know,

(50:18):
we were clean and green, we had a great living,
a great economy. People could have thought buy their own
home with only you know, they're ten thousand deposit back
when I was a young lad. And now that's changed,
and the problem with that is to get into a
house unless sure a doubling come earner, so you know,

(50:39):
wife and no kids or boyfriend, whatever you're whatever team
you're batting for, girlfriend and girlfriend or whatever. You know,
you have to have that now to get into a house,
because to have something to save you one hundred and
fifty thousand dollars to buy their own house, particularly when
money is so tight, it's quite a stretch. So as
I might have said in my text to the show

(51:02):
was if you were someone graduating, you've got a seriously,
you know, think about it. Am I going to get
a job and how I'm going to get paid for
what I'm worth? Because if you're not, you've seriously got
to consider going, you know, potentially moving to get the money.
I would advise not to be the lady in the
paper recently who you know, was sixty four years of

(51:22):
age and is still a student land one hundred thousand dollars.
That's probably just mismanagement for the best part. But you know,
every year our wages seemed to go up, which you
know mistigates or minimizes the trained professionals from actually being
worth what they're worth. You know, and I'd say the
same for you guys. You know, you guys are well
cultured journalists and you know disc jockeys and journalists you

(51:44):
know well well you know, you know, okayalking.

Speaker 2 (51:51):
Talking here, blathering mouth, you know what I mean.

Speaker 4 (51:55):
Like, you know, like whatever your job was fifteen years
ago is worth less than what you know today. That's
just the reality of it. And the Reserve Bank has
let the whole country down. I think Duncan Garner had
a very good point into one of us podcasts that
you know, the Reserve Bank needs to actually drop the
rate so far that we actually start see an increase

(52:16):
inflation to get an m pull it back. Because right
now I'm in retail and I'll tell you right now,
I'm the lowest paid in the business and I employ
seven people.

Speaker 5 (52:25):
How does that work?

Speaker 3 (52:27):
Yeah, Jerry, thank you very much for giving us a
buzz lovely to get your thoughts.

Speaker 2 (52:32):
There are companies that have scale out of New Zealand,
of course, you know, I mean Fonterra famously, Fisher and Pykel,
zero Rocket Lab.

Speaker 3 (52:42):
Yeah, even old les Mills. Yeah, yep, very true. I mean,
the more that I'm hearing these arguments from people saying
they can see why younger people in particular are going
across to Australia. Nothing wrong with chasing opportunity, and if
you've got something lined up or you can see away
to set yourself up for life, of course you do that.
But the thing I really pisses me off about this

(53:02):
article is the defeatism that things apparently, and I don't
believe this, but if people people think that crap here,
just upsticks and leave instead of staying here and making
things better in your own home, in your own country,
and I worry that's kind of beested new certainly.

Speaker 2 (53:19):
Nothing to be And the suggestion in this article is
you should be proud, and you're an idiot to stay.
So she's basically saying in this article that there's no
reason to stay here other than what it can do
for you as a country financially. That they would never
take into account that you may care about your community,
and you may care about your country, and you may
be patriotic and you want to make the place the better.

(53:42):
And you know, if you're in the case of Jerry,
that we were just talking to employee people and fight
the good fight for your country. They would someone like
this in an article like this that would never cross
their mind that there may be there is virtue and
that it's just where can I get the absolute best deal.
But I would also say this Texas says, my son's
been in Perth less than a year, managed to buy
a two bedroom apartment last week, moves in this Wednesday.

(54:05):
You can buy a two bedroom apartment in New Zealand
for not very much. You know, if you decide to
live in the center of Auckland and then sure that's going
to be hard to do. But there's plenty of places,
and there's there's places, and I'm talking about christ Church.
We're not driving that far compared to where you driving
an Australian city into into work. That you can get
a good place for a reasonable amount. And what we

(54:27):
seem to do in New Zealand is compare not like
for like we go, Oh this is how much as
it is in the center of Auckland. But my cousin
bought a place in rural Queensland.

Speaker 3 (54:36):
To Womba for two hundred thousand dollars to Womba, oh
eight hundred.

Speaker 2 (54:42):
To buy a house in Sydney, then good luck to you.

Speaker 3 (54:44):
Yeah, at least you got a Spear five mil OH
eight hundred eighty ten eighty is the number to call.
Do you feel dumb for staying in New Zealand? Love
to get your thoughts? Nine two nine till it's a
text number.

Speaker 1 (54:57):
Matt Heathen Tyler Adams afternoons call OH eight hundred eighty
ten eighty on news talk sibs twenty eight past two.

Speaker 3 (55:04):
Do you feel dumb for staying in New Zealand?

Speaker 2 (55:06):
Here go? This is a great text from JB.

Speaker 10 (55:08):
Hi.

Speaker 2 (55:08):
Guys, grinds my gears when someone calls me dumb for
being patriotic and making my home a better place. Yeah, exactly.
This annoys me about that article. There's no suggestion that
you would stay here and fight the good fight for
the great country of New Zealand. This six says, hey, guys,
I who'd you mention that you can buy a two
bedroom townhouse for five hundred and fifty thousand. I hate
to burst your bubble, but a two bedroom townhouse and

(55:30):
a block of eight to ten with no garage or parking,
only on street parking will cost you six hundred thousand plus.
A standalone with garage and parking will sit you back
eight hundred and fifty thousand plus if you're lucky. A
great show, cheers Raymond. So we were talking about christ Chitch.
So I'm just looking at here for five hundred and
nine thousand. Oh actually that's a one bedroom all right, okay, okay,

(55:50):
fair cop three bedrooms, two bathrooms in Saint Albans, christ Church,
six hundred and eighty five thousand. That's got a park.
Here we go here, Look this looks bloody good. Six
hundred and nineteen. This is Peterborough Street.

Speaker 3 (56:04):
Oh that's right in the middle.

Speaker 2 (56:05):
Two bedrooms rooms, yeah, six hundred and nineteen. It's good value,
worth a park.

Speaker 3 (56:12):
This one here four nine to nine and it's in
Salisbury Street ride in central christ Church. Three bed one
bath one garage.

Speaker 2 (56:20):
Yeah, look at this spacious three bedrooms garage plus parking
in Addington. Three bedrooms, two bathrooms are eight six hundred
and eighty nine thousand.

Speaker 3 (56:34):
Jesus good value.

Speaker 2 (56:36):
Yeah, so you can I mean, I mean maybe the
five point fifty. You know, you have to look around.
But my point was really that, you know, compared to
the distances that you drive in some of these big countries,
you can buy what would seem to be on the
outskirts of christ Church, which is actually only a ten
minute drive at best into work and get some incredible

(56:57):
value down there, you know. And I've talked to people
that have moved to christ Church from overseas and they
laugh at people talking about their commutes, because if you're
from the United Kingdom then you just laugh at the
idea that fifteen minute drive to work is a problem.

Speaker 3 (57:12):
It's all about context.

Speaker 5 (57:13):
I wasn't it.

Speaker 3 (57:13):
Because when we were shopping for the first time, I
think I've told you this, and we brought out in Parklands,
which is by the beach. I thought it was out
in the sticks and I said to made so man,
we're miles away from the Senate City. It was ten
minutes in ten minutes into the center city is miles out.

Speaker 2 (57:26):
And I've got a text here saying pushing back on
Labrador Gold Coast. Labrador Gold Coast is not a good area.

Speaker 3 (57:35):
It had it all with the.

Speaker 2 (57:35):
Name either away from the central popular areas. Yeah, so
that's the thing we keep comparing. Someone will have an
example of something that's happening in Australia, but you've got
to compare a light to like in New Zealand.

Speaker 3 (57:45):
Yeah, very true. Oh, eight hundred and eighty ten eighty
is the number to call. We've got full wards. If
you can't get through, keep trying. It is twenty nine
to three.

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Now back to Mason Taylor.

Speaker 3 (59:14):
Thank you very much, Wendy. So we've asked the question
are you dumb to live in New Zealand? And the
reason we've asked that is because that was one of
the statements in an opinion piece by Verity Johnson. Quite inflammatory,
a lot of people.

Speaker 18 (59:26):
Angry from a friend of hers, from a friend of
her of hers, Cody, welcome to the show, Cody, are
you there?

Speaker 3 (59:38):
Hello? Hello? Cody A Cody, Cody, Cody. We'll get Cody back.
Maybe Cody's on the Cody's.

Speaker 2 (59:45):
Get a Jamie.

Speaker 8 (59:48):
Hi.

Speaker 19 (59:48):
How are you, gentlemen?

Speaker 3 (59:49):
Very good, very good.

Speaker 2 (59:50):
We said that simultaneously, jinx.

Speaker 19 (59:54):
Hey in regards to Verity Johnson.

Speaker 20 (59:57):
Yeah, comment is right on the mark, and I'll tell
you why there's a little bit of.

Speaker 19 (01:00:02):
Humor in us. My wife and I Ah and our
second piece. We have two sons.

Speaker 1 (01:00:07):
One is.

Speaker 20 (01:00:11):
Very right and he's a leader in robotics. He's worked
in for a Ferrari, worked all over the world. And
the other day this is why I'm having a chuckle, gentlemen,
he goes, Papa, I've got to be the dumbest person
in New Zealand.

Speaker 19 (01:00:26):
And I said, I won't mention his name because he's well. No,
I said, why is that son? He said, well, I
could be making millions around the world, but I I
love my country, I love my family, and I'm here
and it's what I can do in this country for

(01:00:46):
my children. There we go.

Speaker 2 (01:00:52):
I can hear the national anthem playing in the back
of my head when you say that, what a great
New Zealander your son as.

Speaker 19 (01:00:59):
But for your own son. And I've got another son, tourn.
Their partners leaders in that in their fields as well,
in medicine and what have you. And yeah, these are
good girls. And where I'm just simply going with this
Matt and Tyler and for your listeners, the four of
them actually acknowledge they are in their minds the dumbest

(01:01:22):
human beings in New Zealand. But without I'm going to
be careful here. As my late father said, still praise,
there's no recommendation, but they are actually leaders in their fields.

Speaker 2 (01:01:32):
With the New Zealand Yeah, well it sounds like you've
got to impress.

Speaker 3 (01:01:36):
A family and like that. That's the whole point is.

Speaker 2 (01:01:41):
We should celebrate people that could go and take the
big money overseas but choose to stay here and make
a real mark here for their family, their community and
the country as a whole.

Speaker 3 (01:01:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:01:55):
I mean those that's fantastic. I mean you're great. But
we seem to have this attitude in New Zealand. We
go no, No, you're an idiot. You should go. You
should get out of here. We're rubbish, but go away. Yeah,
make money over there, make make Australia better.

Speaker 3 (01:02:10):
Wake defeative. But when did that start? Generally? Because I
love this country and it has given me a lot
of news. It's got its problems, but that internal I'm
not going to bugger off and leave because New Zealand
can be kick us again and I want to be
a part of that. So when do we stop thinking
like that?

Speaker 2 (01:02:25):
Cody? Can we get you.

Speaker 21 (01:02:26):
Now you can you hear me at this time?

Speaker 2 (01:02:28):
Yeah, yeah, I'm not sure what happened there, but I'm
glad to have you now. Cody, your thoughts on.

Speaker 21 (01:02:33):
This at the phone travels today. Yeah, I grew up
in Southland. I've lived in a few countries, so I've
lived in Australia, I've lived in Singapore and more recently
I lived in the States and is a few of
the callers have said the grass as a noise greener
Australia obviously lots of Australians, which I'm not a big
fan of. But it's it's I don't know you guy

(01:02:54):
talking about Perth earlier on that person is boring his sin,
like there's only thing to do in pursase fly somewhere else.

Speaker 2 (01:03:00):
I was thinking that.

Speaker 3 (01:03:03):
The opera house is pretty nice for one one look
and then and then after that, is there a Perth
opera house?

Speaker 4 (01:03:09):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:03:09):
Sorry, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:03:11):
I don't know how Tyler, I don't know how good
the Perth opera housesry about the.

Speaker 21 (01:03:17):
Coddy, Yeah, I like Singapore store as well, where there's
a concrete jungle. And the States obviously were we see
the States in the news all the time at the
moment for the wrong reasons, Like New Zealand is expensive.
You've got this, You've got the scenery here, you've got
the nature, you've got the beaches, the seasons, like we've
certainly got the seasons obviously ten seasons in one day
at the moment, which is a bit of pain. But
I like that, you know, Like I lived in in Singapore,

(01:03:39):
there's just it's just hot. You meid, every day you're living.
You're living in the middle of a big city. The
States was all right, but people were trying to leave
there as well. Like you know, the people are just
you might think it's a great place, but there's just
as many people trying to live there, I guess per
capita as there is in New Zealand and Australia.

Speaker 22 (01:03:55):
Like I was there last week.

Speaker 5 (01:03:56):
I don't.

Speaker 21 (01:03:56):
I don't know, Like it just doesn't do much for me.
But you've got the other in towns, Like you've got
your nice cities, but there's just nothing around them.

Speaker 3 (01:04:02):
Now around here.

Speaker 21 (01:04:03):
You've got in the mountains, you've got the beach, the
pocket lake. You know, you just don't have there that
You've got to drive. It's four hours to go on
ear from Townsville and it's just a kens which is
another city which is basically the same. Yeah that's my opinion.

Speaker 19 (01:04:16):
Anyway.

Speaker 2 (01:04:16):
Now, good on you, Cody. I'm glad we got through.
Now it's funny you're talking about the Perth Opera House.

Speaker 3 (01:04:22):
Is there actually they actually got there's actually a bold
I'm just looking at it.

Speaker 2 (01:04:25):
There's a bold one point two billion on a plan
to make an opera house that looks like a giant
in Chilada.

Speaker 3 (01:04:32):
Well, there you go. That's what I was talking about.

Speaker 2 (01:04:33):
All of this actually pretty cool if they made it.

Speaker 3 (01:04:35):
Perth Opera House. Oh yeah, Oh it's funky.

Speaker 2 (01:04:41):
Yeah, fun I mean they haven't made it yet, so
you know that's not going to draw you to Perth.
But but there are suggestions that they should spend one
point two billion, and obviously this one's heavily influenced by
the Sydney Opera House.

Speaker 3 (01:04:52):
Yeah yeah, Now we've got an email through here from
somebody who lives on the Gold Coast. Have we got time? No,
we'll play some messages and then read that out. But
can you hear your views? I on one hundred and
eighty ten eighty do you feel dumb to staying in
New Zealand? Did it is nineteen to three?

Speaker 1 (01:05:08):
Stories the big issues, the big trends and everything in between.
Matt Heath and Tyler Adams afternoons used talks.

Speaker 3 (01:05:15):
That'd be afternoon. It is sixteen to three. Are you
dumb for living in New Zealand? According to Verity Johnson's friends,
you might be.

Speaker 2 (01:05:22):
Hey, guys, I'm tired of hearing and negativity about this beautiful,
spacious country just when we need positivity. Most people have
all they really need, but not what they want. Life
will get better. Yeah, yeah, we go that. I mean,
what's you know? That attitude has become unfashionable to just say,
you know, we live in a beautiful country. Let's make

(01:05:42):
it work. Let's all knuckle down together and do it
and make New Zealand fantastic.

Speaker 3 (01:05:48):
We used to be like that. Now good email here
from a fellow who is living in the Gold Coast.
You see get a Matt and Tyler. I lived on
the Goldie for the last eighteen years and it's a
fallacy that everything is better and cheaper in Australia. The
Gold Coast particularly is facing significant infrastructure issues due to
the influx of people from overseas Victoria and New South Wales,
which has been poorly managed and can't keep up with
the population. Traffic is horrific, there are not enough houses

(01:06:11):
or rentals, headlines of the cost of living crisis and
difficulty for first time buyers to purchase homes. Of the
same rhetoric in all of Australia. Despite being fortunate enough
to own our own house next to the beach, which
is the so called dream, my Australian partner and I
are planning to move to New Zealand within the next
year because we are sick of the so called lifestyle,
overpopulation and simply miss being close to family in Sunny

(01:06:33):
Hawk's Bay with a glass of wine in hand.

Speaker 2 (01:06:35):
Yeah, and there's a lot to be said to be
close to your family, absolutely huge in the quality of life.
I believe Melbourne has been compared to Johannesburg in the nineties.
It sounds to me like in some places it's worse
in ours than here. And if you compare apples for apples,
it's probably no better, I would suggest. And over in
ours there are things that everything wants to bite you,
sting you or kill you. Yep, there is that, and

(01:06:56):
that's just the humans before you get onto the wildlife.
Now welcome to the show.

Speaker 23 (01:07:02):
Hey, thank you, thank you. I want to see you
challenge this topic of moving to Australia. Myself, my wife
and our two young kids. We love it here. You know,
we think we we we're doing all right. We've got
decent jobs, like earning decent money, I believe, and recently

(01:07:25):
as well, we just bok a like our dream home.
And as for us, we had to be realistic about
you know, where we buy a house and stuff like that,
like you mentioned earlier on like if you go to Australia,
if you want to buy a decent house in the
middle of Sydney, you'll be paying like paying three million
dollars for that. And for us, it's the same thing

(01:07:47):
sing in Auckland if you want a decent house and
you'll be looking at like decent money in the middle
of Auckland. But if you look like just you know,
feder out, you'll buy like you'll be able to get
a nice house or probably the same amount. You'll be
able to buy a nice house in Australia if you
look fed out of Sydney the middle from the middle

(01:08:09):
of Sydney and stuff. So yeah, I don't think. I
don't think I'm dumb for living in this country. Neither
the other thing as well. I moved here, and I
remember because I moved here from at a young age.
From a young age, I lived here, and I remember,
like my parents getting support from the government to you know,

(01:08:29):
to support us growing up and gat stuff. So for me, like,
I want to give back to the country that supported
me at a young age, you know, continue living here,
paying my tax to give back to the country. And
I think it's a beautiful country. Nego And yeah, I
don't assistantly, don't think I'm dumb living here.

Speaker 2 (01:08:50):
Yeah, neither you're here, what a good man. Good on.

Speaker 3 (01:08:53):
You need more people like you nearrow.

Speaker 2 (01:08:54):
Yeah, I mean I would have thought like giving back. Yeah,
maybe that's what maybe that could be in your mind
somewhere in the mix of your life. Hey, guys, just
came back from Perth this morning. It ain't the Lucky
country anymore. The place is fear or gross. Cost of
living way more expensive. New Zealand housing was cheap. We
did see some cheap houses, but cost of living ridiculous.

(01:09:15):
It ain't the Lucky country anymore. Fellas.

Speaker 3 (01:09:17):
Yeah, good on, you keep those teas coming through on
nine to nine to two, Darryl, what are you reckon about?
Good yed a mate? What are you reckon about? Good
old New Zealands?

Speaker 24 (01:09:28):
Oh may this place rocks lock. I've traveled a lot
and I think sometimes we keep looking at while we
don't have. Let's look at what we do have, mate,
When we can go to a place like Queenstown, Wanakatalpo,
the mount, go bush, shoot deer, like there are so
many cool things, go swimming, go surfing, and we don't

(01:09:48):
get bitten by every bliming thing. And look at us
either getting chomped every five minutes. It with seem I
think they've they had four shark fatalities this year. We
don't have beers, we don't have monsters in our jungles.
Are ar's quite like a few lions and tigers because
I like cats.

Speaker 3 (01:10:01):
That will be cool.

Speaker 24 (01:10:02):
Yeah, yeah, but like we have so much. I think
the problem of the world is people have forgotten how
to get on with others who might look different, sound different,
dress different, or be of a different race, creed or color.

Speaker 25 (01:10:16):
Who cares?

Speaker 24 (01:10:17):
We're all people, you know what? Like I think a
really neat thing I say to people. If you drop
down dead, because I work in help, I will jump
your chest. I'm not going to pause and wonder if
I'm the right this to do it. I'm just going
to do it, you know, because at the end of
the day, if I fall over, you need to help
me out. Now that's a world problem, that's not a
New Zealand problem. But mate, we have the most beautiful

(01:10:38):
country in the world condensed into a small space. Why
aren't we more thankful? We just need to celebrate.

Speaker 2 (01:10:44):
It absolutely down, Yeah, absolutely, well, seed.

Speaker 24 (01:10:47):
My friend, I don't want to I don't want to
live anywhere else. Like I may go overseas you know
and do another Are we sometime with my wife? Maybe
we will one day, but not right now. In this place.

Speaker 13 (01:11:00):
It's great.

Speaker 24 (01:11:01):
Sometimes we do it tough because the economics do what
economics does, and different governments do what they do. Absolutely,
but hey, guys, it's not all bad. We've got the
nicest food in the world. Why does the world want
to keep buying our food?

Speaker 5 (01:11:14):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:11:14):
Yeah, you got on good on a patriot you are,
Daryl love it.

Speaker 2 (01:11:19):
The six says, I love this country and tough times
are tough. I don't regret scraying staying. We don't know
how much of a chance we have to make something
truly amazing here. We just need to stop complaining and
get on with it. Okay, there you go to thank you?
Uh should we got time for John here? Welcome John
to the show.

Speaker 22 (01:11:40):
First of all, my blood is buying here. So her
friend she's done first to make that comment. And her
friend is even dumrous. You got dumber and dummer yep. Agree,
But now I'm quite happy to find out where she
live in a packer bags because and tough gets going,
as we all know, just eat, just tough it out.

Speaker 26 (01:12:01):
M Yeah for christ everyone's.

Speaker 22 (01:12:07):
Seriously.

Speaker 3 (01:12:08):
Yeah, so you're you're sick of the Kiwi Beiching or
or New Zealander's beaching the around country?

Speaker 22 (01:12:13):
John, Well, not everyone, No, we're all look and she's
got a platform there and that's what she's used it for.
So if she's that's her view, well pack up. It's
tough everywhere and she's going to get a good dose that. Obviously,
people worldwide have traveled and I don't know a situation,
but she's well, our eyes haven't been opened, really, I

(01:12:37):
have traveled like every worldwide.

Speaker 2 (01:12:39):
I can tell by your eccdent that you've lived somewhere
else before you've lived here, John, Yes, correct?

Speaker 3 (01:12:47):
And would you ever leave New Zealand? John, Or you're
here for life?

Speaker 22 (01:12:51):
Oh, my daughter's here and she's happy as and I'm
here over twenty five years of his So no, like
my brother, I haven't keepn touch in Ireland, West of
Ireland and it's a mess over there. So and he's
just beending every years ago was going there and stay
where you were. So before she writes down and use
his hor pen like I said to her in front
of her, So you were saying your parents and your

(01:13:12):
grandparents are done.

Speaker 3 (01:13:14):
Yeah, it's a good point, very good point.

Speaker 2 (01:13:16):
Well interesting, I think that. So she's saying it's a
friend that said that, so it's not necessary here, although
she's written the article, and the article does sort of conclude,
I'd say that what is he No, Let's say, once
leaving was seen as a useful adventure, but now it's
often out of necessity. She wants that New Zealand's breaking
its social promise of a fear shot and a decent life,
with many staying behind only because they cannot afford to leave.

(01:13:40):
Maybe some people are, but some people are here because
they freaking love it and want to make it better
exactly and want to stick it out.

Speaker 5 (01:13:47):
You know.

Speaker 3 (01:13:48):
Oh, one hundred and eighty, ten to eighty is being
number to call. We've got to play some messages, but
bag very shortly loved here your thoughts eight two three.

Speaker 2 (01:13:55):
And also just the stick it out. I mean, I
don't you're not sticking it out. You're lucky to be here,
We're lucky to be in this beautiful freaking country country.
We're not sticking it out. There's always you can always
imagine something better, but you've got to remember wherever you
go there you are. As the saying is nice said,
I mean, how many people, you know, we can come
up with these stories where it goes really well, but

(01:14:16):
how many people go over there and realize it was
actually them that there were a problems and you actually
just have to sort your crap out wherever you.

Speaker 3 (01:14:23):
Are when they come crawling back here the issues.

Speaker 1 (01:14:26):
That affect you, and a bit of fun along the way.
Matt Heath and Tyler Adams Afternoons News TALKSB.

Speaker 3 (01:14:34):
News Talks B. It is four to three, so do
you feel dumb for staying in New Zealand. It was
a point articulated by Verity Johnson in an opinion piece,
and it certainly rarked a lot of people up on
text and on the phone lines. But a fantastic chat
quick one here you get a guys, great show with
in New Zealand. Travel all over the world every week.

(01:14:55):
I can't get weight to get home to our beautiful nation. Yeah,
nicely said, And wish we could read out all the
tics that came through, but almost smoke the machine out,
But thank you very much.

Speaker 2 (01:15:08):
Yeah, I mean New Zealand isn't perfect, but no errors.
But it's pretty good here, you've got to say. And
I believe it's worth fighting for. If you can't make
it work here, maybe that's a failure and not a virtue.
I think too many people celebrate that New Zealand's bad
and congratulate themselves for leaving. You know, this country is

(01:15:28):
pretty good. Let's let's make it better, right, yep, nicely,
Why don't we just make it better?

Speaker 3 (01:15:31):
Yeah, beautiful country we've got here, right coming up after
three o'clock. What improved your quality of life so much?
You'd wished you had done it sooner.

Speaker 1 (01:15:41):
Your new home for insightful and entertaining talk. It's Mattie
and Taylor Adams afternoons on news Talk.

Speaker 3 (01:15:49):
Sebby, Good day to you, Welcome back into the program.
It is seven past three. Hope you Monday afternoon is
going pretty well. Some good discussions the last couple of hours,
and this one is going to be good as well.
So it is. It's a question that met you saw
on social media and it's a hell of a quick
What improved your quality of life so much you wish

(01:16:12):
you'd done it sooner? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:16:14):
I mean it could be a behavior, it could be
something that you bought. It could be having kids, yep,
one of those things, right, And it's it's been blowing
up on social media, this question, a lot of people
saying it. You know what, I think the thing that
changed my life that I wish i'd known earlier was
just stress, stress breathing, just doing the big And we've

(01:16:36):
talked about this on the show before, but boy, that
changes my life and I use it so often.

Speaker 3 (01:16:41):
That is a big eage free to use.

Speaker 2 (01:16:43):
Just a big inhale through the nose and then a
big exhale when you get stressed, do that three times
and or annoyed or whatever, or you just want to
reset your brain. So handy, it's like having a reset
switch because often think that it's funny with the human
condition is that we don't really have the controls. But
we can't just go to sleep. We can't shut ourselves down.

(01:17:04):
Be nice if we did, and we and we can't.
You know, there's lots of things that we can't do.
We can't like unleash certain things, you know, jettison things
from our body when we don't want them anymore. There's
lots of things that are unmachine like. Yes, and we
don't get handed a you know, a instruction manual when
we're born. But one thing you can reset it with

(01:17:26):
is with you know, stress breathing. You just do it
and it all it is is deep breathing, breathing in
and breathing out three times. And no matter how stressed
or how hard something is, or whether you can face
something or you're nervous or anxious, you can just reset
yourself and move forward.

Speaker 3 (01:17:43):
It's incredible game changer. I've said this before on the road.
Help me helps me all the time. Yeah, if I
get a little bit angry, little bit irate.

Speaker 2 (01:17:51):
Why did no one tell me that? At school? Someone's
immediately said, keii fruit absolutely massive game changer. I mean,
I've only recently found and I keep going on with
key fruit. In fact, I was at the Warriors and
I just happen to be eating the kiwi fruit when
I was walking through the crowd, and someone that was
enjoyed our show when you're true, it's true what you
say about your eating key we fruit. True, folks, if
only I'd known that kiwi fruit were not just a treat,

(01:18:11):
but they were actually fantastically good for you, especially in
terms of fiber. In the amount of fiber you get
in a green kiwi fruit is better than anything else
you're going to get, and it's delicious. So why did
anyone tell me till three weeks ago that keewi fruit
were the savior of good health? Because I'd love to
slam kiwi fruit while life I thought it was a treat.

Speaker 3 (01:18:30):
I see how much you fizz up when anyone mentions
kiwi fruit. I love it the one for me And
this is actually very recently, so sleep in general, trying
to make that more of instead of you know, this
whole I don't need to sleep that much, and I
can kick ass and get up to early making sure
that I'm trying to get my eight hours. But that's
not the thing because it's a bit boring. The genuine

(01:18:50):
thing that's made such a difference in the past year
independent blankets. So I've got my blanket and Mae's got
her blankets. That has been a game changer because she
always runs a little bit hotter than I do, right,
so I need something a bit lighter. She's got the
big bad Boy.

Speaker 2 (01:19:07):
Yeah, but Tyler's sleep. It's not only for sleeping. So
isn't the sheared blanket? You know things can happen under
the sheared blanket.

Speaker 3 (01:19:13):
Yeah, We've got three blankets so that. We got the
white intac blanket as well, so that comes out on Saturdays.

Speaker 2 (01:19:21):
So Tyler, why are you putting? Why are you laying
down the romantically? Yeah? No, yeah, I see, because I
mean that's a sleeper is an incredibly important thing. And
I talked about this on the show months ago. The
idea of making yourself a sleep hero, where you do
everything you can and you focus so much of your
life to make sure you can have a good sleep.

(01:19:41):
And if that involves dimming the lights in your room
and all those kind of things. Yeah, this business, says, hi,
guys are an electric bite completely changed my life at
the age of sixty four. It got me out and
about exercising and lots of fresh air and sunshine.

Speaker 3 (01:19:54):
That's a great one.

Speaker 2 (01:19:55):
Actually, a couple of people are texting through on getting
out and getting sunshine, getting out because for the longest
time we were told that we needed to be very
careful around sunshine and you know, slip slop, slap and stuff,
which is a good idea. You don't want to get
horrifically sunburned, but you need to have sunlight and morning sunlight.

(01:20:16):
As this person says, getting ten to twenty minutes of
sun early in the day improved sleep and mood dramatically
and has changed my life. Yeah, if you can before
work get out and just walk around, boy, that's good
for your mood.

Speaker 3 (01:20:29):
Yeap, Oh, one hundred eighty ten eighty is the number
to call what improved your quality of life so much
you wish you had done it sooner. Nine two ninety
two is the text number. Beg very shortly. It is
eleven past three. His talk said, be fourteen past three.
So what improved your quality your life so much you'd
wish you'd done it sooner.

Speaker 2 (01:20:47):
I was just saying how Kiwi fruits and eating Kiwi
fruit has changed my life with the high fiber and
how delicious they are. And I said that I ran
to someone when I's hit the Warriors, anyone, you are
definitely walking the talk, Matt. I was the man who
bumped into at the one New Zealand box where the Warriors.

Speaker 3 (01:21:03):
Yeah, it was Jemmy fruit, mate.

Speaker 2 (01:21:04):
It was just a coincidence. I just saw on the
fruit platter some ki fruit and I just and I
piled up zero and get as much kiwi freed down
me as this is going to sort me for twenty four?
Can Bob? What was the one thing that changed your
life so much you wish you'd found it earlier?

Speaker 25 (01:21:19):
An evolved electric skateboard all terrain? Mate?

Speaker 3 (01:21:22):
All right?

Speaker 2 (01:21:24):
Can you can you describe that to me? Is it've
got big wheels? Is it one of those things that
you have you're holding your hand and you press the
button kind of thing. It's got a controller?

Speaker 25 (01:21:33):
Yeah, yeah, it's got seven in t wheels, made all
terrains fifty ks an hour down bike trigs.

Speaker 27 (01:21:40):
I got it.

Speaker 25 (01:21:41):
I got it from your seventy first birthday by my wife,
who also up to my insurance premium.

Speaker 4 (01:21:49):
You have.

Speaker 2 (01:21:49):
You had had many spills on it.

Speaker 25 (01:21:51):
Bob, two trips to the A and E. But they
were really nice.

Speaker 2 (01:21:56):
They were nice to you.

Speaker 17 (01:21:57):
The drugs were nice.

Speaker 2 (01:21:58):
The drugs were nice.

Speaker 25 (01:22:02):
No, No, I know thebigitous magic made. I mean you
get out in the bout and it's like, have you
a snowboarding Yeah? Yeah, it's exactly the same as snowboarding,
but you've got the power and control. I love passing
guys my agent all dressed up and their like are
on their bike.

Speaker 3 (01:22:22):
Be a good feeling.

Speaker 2 (01:22:22):
Now, Bobby, you're using it purely recreationally or is that
how you're getting around town?

Speaker 25 (01:22:28):
Just recreationally? But if I'm going into town to get something,
I'll check it in and go and do the banking
and stuff like that.

Speaker 2 (01:22:36):
And how did you get one? Was it a prison
or did you just one day think that's what I want?

Speaker 25 (01:22:42):
Well, actually it's a really strange story because I was
longboarding with just push longboards and I was talking to
I was collecting for Tenter Society, and I was talking
to a funeral director who happened to pull up and
make a donation, and he asked me if I'm still
on the longboard and I said, yeah. My wife's been
looking at these electric boards, but your two and a

(01:23:02):
half grand And he says, mate, you're a long time
did get one? And I thought, well, okay, no, so
she got me one.

Speaker 2 (01:23:10):
Oh that's brilliant.

Speaker 3 (01:23:11):
Bob changed his life here here the electric skateboard. I mean,
that does sound pretty kick ass. And he's seventy two.

Speaker 2 (01:23:18):
William, what changed your life that you wish you'd got earlier?

Speaker 26 (01:23:23):
Oh, this, guys, I really really wish i'd started early.
I'll try to keep it really short. Due to life circumstances,
I was about fifty eight, you know, as poor as
a church mouse, and I couldn't afford a holiday. So
I threw a bed in the back of the van
and went away for three days and had a fantastic time.
It cost me seventy five dollars and I got back.

(01:23:45):
I started a YouTube channel, and someone else wanted the band,
so I built one for them, And this year we're
going to I'm gonna have two hundred Campa vans built
and sold. And it's just a fantastic way to it's
then you just get out, take time to smell the
flowers and relax, you.

Speaker 3 (01:24:03):
Know what Nicely said. So when you say what you've
built too high for? Can avenge yourself with him?

Speaker 26 (01:24:10):
Yeah? Yeah, I started with one that that a one
that I built, and then someone else wanted one and
ended up starting a company and runs along side the
YouTube channel. So we'll hit two hundred this year. And
I just every every weekend or every chance I get,
I'm out camping and just relaxing.

Speaker 3 (01:24:28):
You know, mate, you're loving the dream. So can people
get in touch with you if they if they want
a bit of hand with with designing a camp event.

Speaker 26 (01:24:37):
Yep, yeah we can do that because we build all
the furniture, We do all the certifications and the manufacture
them basically, so well, they can kick out the YouTube
channel if they want to get inspired to just get
out of the rat race. Can I say that the channel? Okay,
it's Kiwi van Man van Man.

Speaker 10 (01:24:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 26 (01:24:59):
Yeah. And I always tell people they're gonna they're going
to be healthy and a little longer if they just
take time to get out, relaxing and join nature.

Speaker 3 (01:25:06):
You know, I'm just having a look at your YouTube channel. Now,
Oh it's very swish mane. I'm just having a look
at your regular tramping. There was three weeks ago. You're
over at Reglan, will you.

Speaker 26 (01:25:22):
I know it was quite a while ago. I'm going
to Regland. Yeah, I've going to Regland very soon actually,
but there's a whole group of us going. They all
own the events that I've built and we go away,
we have a great time.

Speaker 3 (01:25:33):
Where's the best place to set up?

Speaker 26 (01:25:37):
Well, so lucky in New Zealan. You know, you don't
have to drive far. There's just beautiful places in every direction,
you know, so I love places like well if I
if I give you the name over the radio, there'll
be thousands of people there. It mon't be very good anymore.

Speaker 3 (01:25:55):
Yeah, keep your secrets.

Speaker 2 (01:25:56):
Well, well, I don't know if you're keeping your secrets
that well. I'm looking at your videos.

Speaker 3 (01:26:02):
Yeah, you've got to subscribe to get the secrets. Yeah.

Speaker 26 (01:26:05):
Well, we're just so lucky. And you see on there's
so many beautiful places as you can go, and it
doesn't cost a lot of money just to get out
into nature, you know, go for a walk or a
hike or a camp.

Speaker 2 (01:26:14):
I look at this I'm looking at your trip to Miranda.
Look at that bloody beautiful mate, Yeah lovely. Oh look,
you're a good looking fella as well, aren't you? Look
at that?

Speaker 26 (01:26:26):
Say that?

Speaker 16 (01:26:27):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:26:27):
Good? Ten lots of time in the sand, which is
a good thing.

Speaker 2 (01:26:33):
Good on you, William. Check out Kiwi van Man on YouTube.

Speaker 3 (01:26:37):
Fantastic Oh one hundred and eighty ten eighty is then
able to call what improves your life so much you'd
wish you've done it sooner?

Speaker 2 (01:26:44):
Tim says I wished I've got a better wife earlier
regards to him, I mean, yeah, you're always looking for
the best possible partner, and look at.

Speaker 3 (01:26:50):
Has granted to him. That one says buying a wardrobe
of good quality, properly fitting clothing that I actually like,
agonizing over what to wear every morning because this doesn't
fit properly. This one has a stain. I just wore
that yesterday. I don't like how it sits on my body.
Would start my day off very badly.

Speaker 2 (01:27:06):
This text says cluttering changed my life, cleared my mind.
Stop buying stupid crap, Stop opening a life looking for things.
Oh I see, yeah, taking ninety percent of stopped spending
most of my life looking for things. Taking ninety percent
of my clothes to close bank mean that it's much
quicker to get dressed in the morning. Yeah, I mean,

(01:27:27):
that's something that really improved my life. When one day
I just thought, why have I got all these clothes
that I don't wear that I'm having to flick through
in a cupboard? So I just took it all. I
did this what this person said, I just took most
of it. What I did is I held something and
I allowed myself three seconds to decide whether I liked
it or not, and if I couldn't think of when
i'd last warn it, put it on a big pile.

(01:27:49):
See how I was Massive makes your life so much
better to get rid of stuff, so you're not flicking
through stuff that you never use.

Speaker 3 (01:27:56):
I just can't say no to it, you know. Me
and shoes, I've got shoes that I was wearing ten
years ago. I just can't be here to throw them away.

Speaker 2 (01:28:03):
Get rid of them, get rid of them, get rid
of all of it.

Speaker 3 (01:28:05):
They might come in handy at some stage.

Speaker 2 (01:28:06):
Yeah. You know, your positions start to own you if
you have too many of them.

Speaker 3 (01:28:10):
Yeah, Oh, eight hundred eighty, ten eighty is the number
to call. What improved your life so much that you'd
wish you'd done it sooner?

Speaker 2 (01:28:17):
Hi, guys, the best thing I've got that was made
a difference in my life is my husband married five
years now and my life is so much easier. Life
shared experiences, found them late in life, but happy to
have the years ahead to share.

Speaker 3 (01:28:30):
Good on your debbie, that is beautiful. It is twenty
two past three.

Speaker 1 (01:28:38):
Matt Heathen Tyler Adams afternoons call Oh eight hundred eighty
ten eighty on News Talk ZB.

Speaker 3 (01:28:44):
It is twenty five past three. So what improved your
quality your life so much you'd wished you'd done it sooner?
Plenty of ticks coming through a nine to nine two.

Speaker 2 (01:28:52):
What do you do when your local op shop doesn't
want the clothes? Well, you know, I mean I've never
taken the op shop. I've always put them in clothing bins.
But I guess if no one wants the clothes then
they're rubbish. So you put them in the pin.

Speaker 3 (01:29:02):
Right, Yeah, yeah, a fun trip to the dump.

Speaker 2 (01:29:05):
If you've got clothes that you don't want and no
one else wants them, I think they then become rubbish.

Speaker 3 (01:29:09):
Yeah you did the old rump t shirts. Don't take
those down to the op shop.

Speaker 2 (01:29:13):
Yes, So what improved the quality of your life so
much you wish you had done it or started doing
it earlier? Blair, Welcome to the show.

Speaker 27 (01:29:23):
Good afternoon, guys.

Speaker 3 (01:29:25):
Getting a dog, yeah massive, Getting a dog?

Speaker 27 (01:29:28):
Yeah yeah. I'd never owned a dog grown up, never
had a dig We'd always had cats. But then we
were sitting at home one night in the neighbors. Their
kids had found an abandoned puppy sitting in the middle
of the road and they brought him over or brought
her over to us, and it's kear of little face

(01:29:50):
and there or whom written and everything couldn't say no,
So we kept it. And it was a learning thing
for both of us because as I am my wife,
because as I say, neither of us had ever had
a dog before. But through the training and the you know,
fashioning it to be the sort of dog she was,

(01:30:12):
she brought us so much fun, so much joy, so
much happiness, and so much love. And then unfortunately she
got the big c and passed away. And then no,
it's all good, because you know, shit happens. But Masalie
ends up getting a puppy. Now he's living next door
to us, so we've cut a hole on the fence,

(01:30:32):
and his dog equally shares his time equally roughly about
a twenty at our place.

Speaker 3 (01:30:40):
Is a good neighbor and he's he's.

Speaker 27 (01:30:43):
Again just a beautiful dog who just brings love and
fun and happiness and joy and everything that goes with
owning a dog. And I'll never go back to cats
and cats.

Speaker 19 (01:30:54):
To a holes I love.

Speaker 2 (01:30:57):
That just makes me so happy. The idea of a
puppy that knows it can run through the fence and
see another group of people to run around and get
love from, get pats from, and you run back to
the other house.

Speaker 4 (01:31:07):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:31:07):
That's so that's so cute. That feels me full of joy.
But yeah, dogs bring you so much happiness. They do
all these studies and they just say that there's something
about the symbiotic relationship between dogs and humans that they
just make us feel better out life about if we
have them around, just great.

Speaker 3 (01:31:23):
And just getting out to go for a walk, right,
the very fact that if you've got a dog, you've
got to go out and walk them for their benefit.
But holy moly, you get a massive benefit from that.

Speaker 2 (01:31:32):
Oh yeah, and you meet people, yeah, to discuss your
dog with them. I'm changing the name of dog from
Colin to Warren. I decided on the walk this morning. Okay,
why just because I called my dog Colin before, you know,
before Colin from accounts?

Speaker 3 (01:31:49):
Ah right, yes, and now I just whenever.

Speaker 2 (01:31:50):
I go, people go Colin from Colin from accounts? No. No,
Usually he's been around longer than that TV show.

Speaker 3 (01:31:57):
Okay, all right, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:31:58):
So I thought i'd start calling him Warren.

Speaker 3 (01:32:00):
What if they call him Wizer though?

Speaker 2 (01:32:02):
That's what's wrong with that little was the dog?

Speaker 19 (01:32:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:32:04):
Okay, John oh eight one hundred and eighty ten eighty
is the number call in a whole bunch of teaps
coming through. What improved your quality of life so much
that you'd west you've done it sooner?

Speaker 2 (01:32:14):
I agree with this best thing ever YouTube premium, no
ads ever, game changer would never look back. Yeah. YouTube
premium is bloody great?

Speaker 4 (01:32:22):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (01:32:23):
Whenever I go on YouTube without YouTube premium and the
ads come up, there's like so many goddamn eds.

Speaker 3 (01:32:28):
There is a lot of ads, no doubt about it.

Speaker 2 (01:32:30):
Three D things Yeah, I mean you might as well
be watching TV again.

Speaker 3 (01:32:35):
It's twenty nine past three headlines with Wendy coming up
then taking more of your course.

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Speaker 3 (01:33:59):
Thank you very much. Wendy sort of ask the question,
what improved your quality of life so much you'd wish
you've done it sooner. Quite a few texts coming through.

Speaker 2 (01:34:07):
This business is drinking more water. Yeah, I mean I
actually say water's gross. I refuse to drink.

Speaker 3 (01:34:13):
It, but you need it.

Speaker 2 (01:34:16):
But there's the saying you're not hungry, you're thirsty, And
a lot of times when you just go to eat
and you get fat because you're eating, when you're actually
just thirsty.

Speaker 3 (01:34:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:34:25):
So I think I've talked about in the show before.
I've got those little water drops now that flavor the water.
Oh yeah, a little water drops.

Speaker 3 (01:34:32):
And what are you going for at the moment but
a kiwi fruit flavor?

Speaker 2 (01:34:36):
Yeah, I haven't tried that. I'm running a watermelon one.
I find the name of these drops you get. They're
just a little thing that you get from the supermarket
and you just go put a few drops in there
and it flavors the water, so it's not bland water.
Yeah ideal, But yeah, hydrating hugely.

Speaker 3 (01:34:52):
We need it, look hugely important to hydrate. This one's
quite deep giddy guys. The biggest thing that helped me.
I stopped caring that not everyone is going to like you.
All you need to do is like yourself. Absolute game changer.
Harder to do, easier to say, but it is massive.

Speaker 2 (01:35:09):
Yeah, absolutely, this business is. Buying an infred sauna and
using it daily has changed my life, better sleep and
less stress. How much is an infrared sauna.

Speaker 3 (01:35:17):
It's a good question. I love the idea and yeah,
because there's heaps.

Speaker 2 (01:35:21):
Of talk that you know, saunas are just so good
for your health. Yeah, mental health and physical health is
my But as an infrared sauna better than a you know,
like pouring on the rock. So they just cheaper because
you don't have to run a fire in the air
or whatever. You don't have to run a heating thing.

Speaker 3 (01:35:35):
Yeah, good question with this one. So I'm looking at
a revel Cora two person infrared sauna three thousand bucks
bed down from six thousand.

Speaker 2 (01:35:45):
And that sits outside of your house? Or is that
one outside? I think that'd be quite cool doing a
briefing course and not taking all blacks results personally took
a long time to recovery from Lord's twenty nineteen. Oh yeah,
black camps results PTSD though. Yeah, there's no good way
to look at Lord's twenty nineteen. There's no This is
a rabbit hole there.

Speaker 3 (01:36:05):
Yeah, that's a great one.

Speaker 28 (01:36:06):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (01:36:07):
One hundred and eighty ten eighty is the number to call?

Speaker 2 (01:36:10):
John?

Speaker 3 (01:36:12):
How are you.

Speaker 2 (01:36:14):
One second? There we go? Sorry, a bit of a
problem with that phone's there? John, Welcome to the show.

Speaker 3 (01:36:19):
Is the game very good? So what was it for you?
What did you change? That was an absolute mess of
game changer?

Speaker 26 (01:36:27):
Getting back in the surf?

Speaker 21 (01:36:28):
Oh yeah, after twenty years.

Speaker 11 (01:36:30):
I should have done it years ago.

Speaker 2 (01:36:33):
And how did you do? Do you find it easy
to get out there? Or or is it is there
a bit of rigamarole? Edmund Edmund around getting out into
the water.

Speaker 11 (01:36:43):
Uh, it wasn't too bad, but punishing the first couple
of times, but he near wricked me. But but it's
been good getting the and even the wife and the
kids out there as well, oh, yeah, can't beat it.
I know something about sitting in the ocean.

Speaker 2 (01:36:56):
Yeah, it's nice.

Speaker 11 (01:36:58):
Not no cell phones, no bloody bags.

Speaker 2 (01:37:01):
It's it's spiritual, isn't it. Out there beyond the breakers,
watching the world.

Speaker 3 (01:37:05):
Yeah. I'm a terrible server, but that, I mean, that
is the thing I love the most is just sitting
past the break and just bobbing around. I never caught
any waves, but that wasn't the point. It was almost meditative.

Speaker 11 (01:37:15):
Yeah, yeah, brilliant.

Speaker 3 (01:37:17):
Where rouse your surf?

Speaker 26 (01:37:19):
Ah something?

Speaker 11 (01:37:20):
Most of the time at the moment.

Speaker 3 (01:37:21):
It's good spot, real good spot. God on the long board?
Are you on the long board?

Speaker 26 (01:37:26):
Yeah?

Speaker 11 (01:37:26):
Switch it up between I've got a couple of boards,
so I've spins the size. But yeah, most of the
time on the long board out there, and it's there's
normally quite a lot.

Speaker 5 (01:37:34):
Of people out there, so it's pretty good.

Speaker 2 (01:37:36):
How often are you getting out there, John, Oh?

Speaker 11 (01:37:41):
When when We've been pretty quiet the last few weeks,
But when we first got back into it, we were
doing probably getting out there three or four times a week.

Speaker 2 (01:37:48):
Wow, that's pretty good. Well, if you want to start surfing,
surfing is there's still a lot of pushback from people
getting annoyed at first time surfers and a bit of
a god, you don't know what you're doing. You're getting
in the way going on, not.

Speaker 11 (01:38:03):
By some places, but like you go to some happy
airs and you can there's a ring lock of the
can just pull up and pay fifty dollars for the board.
They give you a wetsuit as well, and just get
into it.

Speaker 3 (01:38:14):
Yeah. Love that. I mean, just go back to the
long board. When I was surfing, it was out in
Sumner and it always used to annoy me a little
bit seeing the old boys on the long board and
I couldn't catch a wave to save my life. But
the old boys would just take it right from the
back all the way in and they look like that,
we're having so much fun. A couple of them had
dogs on the long board as well, So I thought
to myself, next time, I'm just getting a long board

(01:38:34):
way easier, looks way more fun.

Speaker 2 (01:38:39):
What you saw more than one person with a dog
on the front?

Speaker 3 (01:38:41):
Yeah, yeah, Wow, have you ever seen that? John down
at Sumner There's one old boy and he's got his
wee dog on his long board.

Speaker 2 (01:38:46):
I love that.

Speaker 11 (01:38:47):
Yeah, Yeah, there's definitely there's definitely a lot of old
boys out there bloody blowing away on how many they
might live in the dream, just live on the beach.

Speaker 2 (01:38:56):
Yeah, it's a good life, right, Thank you for your call, John,
appreciate it. Took up singing four years ago at fifty six.
Now I'm a vocalist with a big band here in
christ says Grant.

Speaker 3 (01:39:06):
Nice too good.

Speaker 2 (01:39:07):
I have to agree, lads, dogs are the best. You
can go out for ten minutes and come home and
I think you've been gone for days. So much joy. Yeah, absolutely,
this person said, could not agree more about dogs is
excellent check magnets. Could not agree more about dogs? Excellent
check magnets with a sort of chieky eye emoji.

Speaker 3 (01:39:27):
Yeah, nicely, said Tom. People agree with it.

Speaker 2 (01:39:30):
Doing well out there with his dogs. Yoga. A lot
of people texting through it and saying yoga. I did
yoga every day for a year. Yeah, just sort of
as a challenge.

Speaker 3 (01:39:39):
Yeah, how did it go?

Speaker 2 (01:39:40):
Yogi twenty three? Very good?

Speaker 3 (01:39:43):
Get pretty limber?

Speaker 2 (01:39:44):
You got pretty limber? Yeah, I mean initially when you
start yoga you think it's you kind of feel bit
weird going to the class. You're a bit worried about flatulence.
You know, you don't know if you're going to get bored,
but eventually you start going and actually the hour goes
really quick, and there's a bit at the end is
called vasna where you get into corpse pose at the end,
and because you've been stretching your body and it's been

(01:40:05):
slightly painful, it just feels amazing. Five minutes to the
end of just lying on your back, resting and meditating
makes you feel bloody great about life and tell you.

Speaker 3 (01:40:13):
A good way to start a day. Oh, eight hundred
eighty ten eighty is the number to call. So what
improved your quality of life so much? You'd wish you'd
done it sooner?

Speaker 1 (01:40:22):
Matt Heath Taylor Adams taking your calls on eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty. It's Mad Heathen Taylor Adams afternoons
news talks.

Speaker 3 (01:40:30):
They'd be very good afternoon you. So what improved your
quality your life so much? You'd wish you had done
it sooner? So many ticks coming through on nine two
ninety two.

Speaker 2 (01:40:37):
Humiliating that I did yogi every day for a year
and I forgot that it's savasana.

Speaker 3 (01:40:41):
Savasana that's the corpse pos right, so that at.

Speaker 2 (01:40:44):
The end, at the end of your your yoga session,
you lie down and you just go into this mediative state.
That's so life affirming.

Speaker 3 (01:40:53):
I can see you almost going into that now. Yeah,
sounds good.

Speaker 2 (01:40:56):
Savasana.

Speaker 3 (01:40:57):
Savasana is the text number. Oh that's a great one, guys.
I bought a Rumba robot vacuum cleaner. Absolutely changed my life.
Highly recommended. Oh yeah, right, the old rumber, the stress out.

Speaker 2 (01:41:13):
I know a few people that run a rumber. I
was run at my mate's house and he ran a
rumor and this might rumbor, and it might be this
might not be used, but it rumored across the carpet
and then it went into mopping phase in his kitchen.
Oh and it started laying down some water and mopping
up the kitchen.

Speaker 3 (01:41:28):
And I was like, I could do that. Yes, that
is high tech ide. Hundred eighty ten eighty is the
number to call.

Speaker 2 (01:41:34):
I purchased an electronic drum kit. Drumming is therapeutic for
me and really helps with the stresses. And this was
meant I can play at midnight if so need to.
My acoustic kit just doesn't always do. The trick was
game changing. For me. Yeah, I mean it's a lot
to be smashing a full acoustic drum kit in the
middle of the night. But if you want, you know,
I've done a bit of drumming in my time. Yeah,
it is definitely therapeutic.

Speaker 3 (01:41:55):
Yeah, Craig, Craig, how are you? Oh, I think we've
just lost Craig. So we'll get Craig back. I one
hundred eighty ten eighty is the number to call. And
this one here from French I believe. Hey, you guys,
best thing I've done is add sea salt and buy
carb soda and my water and no deodorant is used
by carb soda. Also have cay and pepper shots in

(01:42:17):
the morning from Frenchy. So why does that mean you
don't have to use the deodorant sea salt and buy
carb soda.

Speaker 2 (01:42:24):
Yeah. Look, look, I hear a number of these people
say that they've got these solutions to a body odor
that don't involve using dedorant. And look there's a couple
of people I know, they're always talking about us and
they stink. Yeah, you know, they go, I've got the solution.
I don't do this. I don't wash myself because I've
got natural. You know, the soap removes your ability to

(01:42:44):
fight the netural odors. What it does is you get
used to your own body odor and you think you
don't have it.

Speaker 3 (01:42:49):
Exactly, That's exactly it. I think we've got Craig back now. Craig,
how are you, mate?

Speaker 25 (01:42:55):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:42:55):
Good a guys, And what was it for you?

Speaker 5 (01:42:58):
Man?

Speaker 28 (01:42:59):
Oh?

Speaker 29 (01:43:00):
Look, honestly, this is the greatest opportunity in my life.
It's like, so, I'm sixty years old, I've just decided
to sell a rental property. I'm tired of the abuse
that we get as landlords. And it's like, hey, I'll
sell my rental property and buy a bloody big truck
and a caravan.

Speaker 3 (01:43:20):
Love it. We can hear the excitement in your voice, Craig. So,
was there always something you wanted to do?

Speaker 2 (01:43:25):
Sorry?

Speaker 3 (01:43:25):
Mate? Was that always something that you wanted to do?
You've been planning this for some time? Yeah?

Speaker 29 (01:43:30):
Absolutely, but I kind of had it like five years
down the track, but were sitting a head and it's like,
oh god, I just give up on us, Like, let's
do it earlier, Like what you can still do it.

Speaker 2 (01:43:43):
It's something that sometimes happens when you finally give up
on something that's stressful. You finally go Na, that's not working.
I'm just going to get out of it, get out
of the game.

Speaker 5 (01:43:54):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (01:43:54):
And you realize why was I pushing this uphill? Was
never going to get what I wanted?

Speaker 3 (01:44:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 29 (01:44:01):
I think that's a big part of it. It's like
you're always trying to do the right things, like your plan.
You make these plans like a long term in advance,
like for me for twenty years, I've been playing my retirement. Yeah,
and it's actually hang on, let's through a five years earlier. Yeah,
click that that property, because my god, landlords are just

(01:44:24):
treated like crap today. So it's like, okay, all right,
all right, yeah, yeah, well let it go, and I'm
going to buy a big Detroit diesel and bag a
rock with a huge caravan.

Speaker 3 (01:44:35):
Where's the first spot you're going, Craigh looks up on
the mate. Obviously, nice beautiful telling there, Craig, You're not alone.

Speaker 2 (01:44:43):
There's so many people that been texting through and we
talked to a gentleman before that's done the same, and
and just getting out and getting out in the caravan
or a mobile home or whatever seems to bring people
so much joy you know, so good on you, Craig.

Speaker 3 (01:44:59):
Yeah, go well.

Speaker 29 (01:45:01):
Mate, you love it.

Speaker 3 (01:45:03):
Craig, thank you very much. I can see the appeal
of that absolutely is not being tied down to any place.

Speaker 2 (01:45:08):
This sort of ties in with our topic of the
last hour. This person said the thing in their life
that made their life so much better and they wish
they've done it earlier.

Speaker 3 (01:45:16):
Moving to New Zealand, nicely said, nicely said Andrea.

Speaker 2 (01:45:20):
Welcome to the show.

Speaker 17 (01:45:22):
Hey guys, thanks for having me. I was just listening
over the last forty minutes since your segment starts and
been thinking deeply. And my take on that one is
flat shoes. So Sin's COVID women particularly used to have
to wear all sorts of you know, menagerie of shoes
and high heel shoes and all sorts of shoes, and

(01:45:44):
kind of the sneakers came in during COVID. The white
sneakers were okay, et cetera.

Speaker 28 (01:45:48):
At work.

Speaker 17 (01:45:49):
And also now there's great shops that I go to,
which is bed shoes, so shout out to them.

Speaker 2 (01:45:56):
They are the bead shoes B.

Speaker 29 (01:46:00):
A R. E. D.

Speaker 16 (01:46:01):
Is really good.

Speaker 19 (01:46:03):
Yep.

Speaker 17 (01:46:03):
Yeah, and there's a number of quite amazing shoes around
now that you don't have to wear really painful shoes
like you used to for like thirty years, so as well.
So yeah, that's my two cents worth.

Speaker 2 (01:46:17):
It must be full on. I often think about this
wearing high heels to work every day, as some people
do that that must that's a lot to deal with
it in a day, as well as everything else you
have to do.

Speaker 16 (01:46:28):
Just that.

Speaker 2 (01:46:30):
The intensity of that are you are you running the platforms?

Speaker 11 (01:46:32):
Are they?

Speaker 4 (01:46:33):
Are?

Speaker 2 (01:46:33):
They sneakers but with a bit of height on.

Speaker 17 (01:46:35):
Them possibly, I can't confirm, nor to di.

Speaker 3 (01:46:40):
Just having a look at the website, they're pretty styly flats,
I've got to say, very cood.

Speaker 2 (01:46:45):
Yeah anyway, good on your Andrea. And also like if
you get attacked by ninja's in the middle of the night,
you can you can run away. I always think it's
risky to go out in your eye heel jewice.

Speaker 3 (01:46:56):
It's a big fear for you, isn't it. That's not
the first time you brought up the old ninja attack
and you've got to be prepared for it anytime, Like
if you have.

Speaker 2 (01:47:02):
To run across some grass to get away, you know, Yeah, I.

Speaker 3 (01:47:06):
Think we've got time for more, get a Monty, how's
it going? Very good? And what's improved your quality of
life so much? You wish you'd done it sooner.

Speaker 28 (01:47:17):
I'm still a young kid. But when I was seventeen,
I bought a Citron Bolinger, like a little white van yep,
and so a bit in the back of it for
me and a mate. And every time I get the
opportunity go around the country and have a sleeping at
her camp.

Speaker 3 (01:47:35):
That's the good life, Monty. So what is it the
Citron Citron Berlinger did you say?

Speaker 28 (01:47:41):
Yeah, a little Citron bolinga diesel.

Speaker 2 (01:47:43):
Yeah, right, And so what kind of place has he
been staying, Monty? In the in the back you're going
to beaches and such o.

Speaker 28 (01:47:51):
I it's a one hundred mile bay tapo.

Speaker 22 (01:47:55):
Nice.

Speaker 2 (01:47:57):
Do you ever get the knock on the window and
be told to move on by the authorities when you're
when you're sleeping in the back of your van?

Speaker 26 (01:48:04):
Not not yet?

Speaker 3 (01:48:06):
Yeah, you should get You should get one of those
self contained stickers, Monty. Everybody does it. Just weake that
on the back of the vein and they'll leave you alone.

Speaker 28 (01:48:14):
Yeah, exactly, that's not a bad idea.

Speaker 2 (01:48:15):
Actually, yeah, are you leaving little Are you little leaving
little piles of leavings with a little bit of TP
on top of them in the bush? Or are you
using the public facilities?

Speaker 28 (01:48:25):
I hope not a pretty good job of cleaning it up.

Speaker 3 (01:48:30):
Just buriant deep Monty. Now we'll find it.

Speaker 2 (01:48:34):
You take it, take a shovel berrier hole.

Speaker 3 (01:48:36):
Yeah, exactly, Verian deep.

Speaker 16 (01:48:39):
Right.

Speaker 3 (01:48:39):
A few texts coming through here on nine two niney two.
This one says, guys cutting out alcohol. I don't criticize
anyone who drinks, but I was a problem drinker. Stopping
that cycle improved everything about my life.

Speaker 2 (01:48:52):
A bit of trivia for Matt about savasanah. The word
can be drived into two parts, savah and asana, which
literally means a corpse position. The body is relaxed to
that level. Yeah, it does feel like that corpse pose
after yoga. I really recommend yoga. I mean, I know
it's challenging thought for a lot of people. You feel
like you might get bored, It might be hard, it
might be humiliating getting into the downward dog in front

(01:49:14):
of people, et cetera. Yeah, but if you can get
yourself along to a yoga crass, that just makes every
part of your life better. I mean, I've said it before.
I felt like I was made out of week books,
and when by the time I've done a year of yoga,
I felt like I was made out of eels. If
that makes sense. No, I love it.

Speaker 3 (01:49:28):
Oh eight, one hundred and eighty ten eighty is the
number to call. What improved your quality your life so much? Yeah,
wish you'd done it sooner? It is ten minutes to four.

Speaker 1 (01:49:36):
The big stories, the big issues, the big trends and
everything in between. Matt Heath and Taylor Adams Afternoons used
talks it be.

Speaker 3 (01:49:46):
News talks the b It is seven to four. So
what improved your quality of your life so much? You'd
wish you'd done it sooner?

Speaker 2 (01:49:51):
This is a really good one. Not checking the time
during the night. That is a really good lesson to
learn if you wake up in the middle of the night,
because you know, we know that sleep is so important
for it for our health and in a number of ways,
mental health, physical health, and it's the most important thing,
one of the most important things anyway. But if you
wake up and you're looking at going back to sleep,
grabbing your phone and blasting itself in the face with

(01:50:12):
a bright light to check the time. Yeah, just convince
yourself that you want to go back to sleep. You know,
if you're going to alarm see it, that'll wake you up.
But just don't check the time, because then you start
doing the calculations of how many more hours I've got,
all this kind of stuff. It gets complicated. That's such
a good point.

Speaker 3 (01:50:26):
Hard to do, though, but you have to keep the
phone out of the bedroom. I've found that I don't
actually have the phone next to me anymore.

Speaker 2 (01:50:31):
Don't you know.

Speaker 3 (01:50:32):
Really this is a great one, throwing out all my
socks and buying a single type. No more looking for
peers that go missing.

Speaker 2 (01:50:39):
Oh yeah, that's good. I just pulled a massively long
here out of my nose. It's been annoying me, and
I wish I'd found it earlier. Well, it amazes me
how here can just grow Suddenly. One day, your nose
it's just fine, and then suddenly it's there's one here
curling around your nose like a waus.

Speaker 3 (01:50:57):
Yeah, just the rogue outline. It just just wants to
take on the rest of the hears.

Speaker 2 (01:51:01):
It does feel a lot better when you get rid
of it. It certainly does, or right just looking at
through these things. Oh, here we go, gazer, We welcome
to the Where am I going here? My phone's messing up? Gether.
We've got thirty seconds. But thank you so much for
you call. What are your things that make life better?

Speaker 9 (01:51:18):
Okay, I'm seventy six and I'm still surfing longboard as
you were talking about. I've been doing yoga for about
sixty odd years at least, and breathing as well. So
and also getting back into the cycle as you've described,
getting up and getting that early morning sun and it's

(01:51:41):
made a huge difference in my life.

Speaker 16 (01:51:43):
That's kept me going.

Speaker 9 (01:51:44):
I can still get in the water and bounce around.
So I just thought I would throw that into the
mix and say, yeah, all of those things are just X.

Speaker 16 (01:51:53):
On it on you.

Speaker 3 (01:51:55):
That is a perfect less Thank you very much for
giving us a buzz gezer.

Speaker 2 (01:52:00):
All right, so just let's collate some of these things.
Getting out and about in some kind of mobile camping situation,
giving a dog deep breathing, decluttering. Moving to New Zealand
from Australia. We had about five of those drinking more water,
flavoring it with lemon juice, getting a sauna, getting out
of the landlord game, getting on the flats and out
of the high heels, and nasal hygiene.

Speaker 3 (01:52:20):
Yep, what a great list. What more can you want
in life?

Speaker 1 (01:52:23):
All right?

Speaker 2 (01:52:24):
That brings us to the end of the show. Thank
you so much for listening everyone, It's been a great show.
The pod will be out very soon if you missed
it here The Dupasy Island is up next. But right now,
tout Tyler, my good buddy. Why am I playing this song?

Speaker 3 (01:52:37):
Quill the ocean when the going gets tough?

Speaker 12 (01:52:39):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:52:39):
This was the great chat we had about we should
be loving New Zealand because one of the callers mentioned
the line similar.

Speaker 2 (01:52:45):
To this, Yeah, yeah, when the going gets tough, the
tough get going. They don't run off to Australia. All right,
wherever you are, what have you're doing until tomorrow afternoon?
Give them a taste of Kiwi from us?

Speaker 29 (01:52:55):
All right?

Speaker 2 (01:52:56):
I love Years, Sea Years.

Speaker 10 (01:52:58):
Madam Taylor Taylor.

Speaker 1 (01:53:00):
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