FIRST WITH YESTERDAY'S NEWS (highlights from Wednesday on Newstalk ZB) That's Why They Call it Work/Show Me These Green Shoots/On the Beat/Look Out for Dolphins/How to Tell if Movies Are Good
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Said, Hello, my beautiful beanies, and welcome to the bean for Thursday. First with yesterday's news, I am Glenn Hart, and we are looking back at Wednesday.
How confident are we feeling?
Another one of these confidence surveys has come out, and so that'll be definitive. That'll us know for sure how we're all feeling. It's good to have somebody tell you how you feeling, isn't it. We've got more cops on the beat. Is that good or bad? Those two people up in space? Aren't there anymore? Back down here with the dolphins? And what's happening with the eleventh Saw movie. I know you've been wondering about this, so we'll tell you. But first up, apprenticeships the path to work for kids who aren't really into.
UNI, learning a trade is hard work. And if you haven't been inculcated into a culture of getting out of bed, turning up on time and putting in a full day's work, or if you have but you don't like the sound of it, you'd much rather float around university and just sort of see if you can find something that sparks joy well, then a trade is not going to appeal, is it? And I wonder if that is what it is. It's like the young people who look at their parents who farm or who own their own businesses and work six seven days a week and think, no, not really for me, thanks very much. That is far too much like hard work. I wonder if that is the problem. We've been tinkering and throwing millions and millions of dollars into trying to get young people into apprenticeships, but they look at influences on TikTok and they think, huh, do I want to do that? Or do I want to get up at five point thirty, travel into work, work really hard for the day, and then come home and do it all again tomorrow. Love to hear your thoughts. I'm only guessing. I'm only surmising. You're the ones on the ground, You're the one with your boots in the mark. You tell me, is it all about snobbery when it comes to your own children? What do you want them to do.
But get out of my house. It's all I want them to do is to go away. From me.
And stay away and not come back. Because they did go away and then they came back again. When your kids are too old to be referred to as kids, they shouldn't be in your house if they either both go away at the same time. Again, we're gonna move. We're going to move somewhere smaller, and we're not going to give them the code to the front door.
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Harsh parenting there, but you know these are harsh times, or are they?
Where are these green shoots? I keep hearing people talk.
About promise land anywhere with a rural backbone, people are feeling good. You've got dairy prices up, you've got beef prices up, you've got exports pumping, and people feel good. Same thing in the regions with tourism. You can see the tourists, you can hear the accents, you can hear the tills ringing, and everything's honky dory. We need to keep that hope and optimism alive because we have spent and you read this report far too long, scraping the bottom of the economic barrel in this country. We have been we haven't been, I should say, above one hundred in this survey which basically means feeling net positive since twenty twenty one, you go back further. We were above one hundred for basically the twenty years pre COVID, except that tiny bit during the GFC. We've been down in the dumps for five years, five long, hard years. And we were three points in the last survey, just three tiny points from hitting one hundred once more, rising from the ashes, dusting ourselves off, shaking it off, and soldiering on. And now we're back eight points, a slight setback. But we'll push through, won't we. Once the markets adjust to the pace of Trump's tariffs, once commerce finds a way around cost, we'll be back on our way to the top of that economic mountain where we're all belong.
Any trouble with mountains is they do have two sides, don't They go out to the top, and then, if you keep knowing, eventually end up back down at the bottom again, don't you. But then there's another mountain that you can go up again.
Us talk Sydney.
So we've got a new police station's opening, We've got more cops on the beats.
I think Andrew's happy about all this cops.
I got to stay on the beat at the Uckland CBD. The government will boost anti crime measures across Central Auckland with one point three million dollars worth of funding as a result of the Proceeds of Crime Fund. Now that Proceeds of Crime Fund CAVIN in two thousand and nine. It lets the New Zealand Police seize money in assets that have been obtained directly or indirectly from crims and once all the legal matters are addressed, the recover money is placed in the Proceeds of Crime Fund to be spent. And the whole thing was announced by the Auckland Minister Sibbey and Brown, Minister for Everything and Associate Justice Minister Nicole McKee, and it's been greeted wholeheartedly by retailers and residents. It'll see the new Federal Street station open twenty four to seven. By the way, that station will open in the middle of the year. And of course all of this is a good thing. My question has always been why did we stop doing this in the first place. The cop on the beat is assigned to one and all citizens and criminals that the police are in control of the streets, not the rat bags. For me, it's the first thing the police should fund, not the last. And that perception that it's not important is just reinforced to me by the new funding coming from the Proceeds of Crime fund and not the general budget. And another question I have who thought that no cops on the beat was a good idea in the first place. It's tempting to blame Cuddle's Costa in the last government who was soft on crime. But it's been going on far longer than that. It's another example of public service being told to cut budgets and then going and cutting the good stuff instead of the bad. And one more thing about the funding. This is not just a problem for Auckland. It's nationwide. It's in all our cities and towns and Burban shopping centers. What about them? Well, we're going to wait to see if the budget which is forthcoming will show a changed emphasis.
My question around this is why is it called being on the beat.
I've done a quick search and I've asked AI.
And while they all agree that community policing is called being on the beat, I've not been able to.
Find the origins of it.
And I'm just hoping it's something to do with beating people up that's all.
So Butcher and Sonny back from space.
I'm not everybody seems to call her sonny in America, but here lots of people call her Sonny.
How good is that splashdown off Florida's coast, Oh.
Mate, I've been obsessed by it all morning watching the live stream.
Nominal amazing. Butch Wilmore, I mean, what a fantastic name for an astronad. If you're going to name an astronaut, you'd name them either Buzz light Year or Butch Wilmore.
You trust a man called Butch.
And Sunny Williams so nine months up on that mission, so they're only supposed to be up there for a few days. But Boeing crap the bed, and so SpaceX has gone up in the dragon and brought them back down.
Lucky.
You know.
I've read a couple of.
Books by astronauts, one by Chris Hadfield, the Canadian astronaut. He talks about when you land on Earth again after you've been on the space station for a period of time, And he wasn't up there for nine months, but how long was he up there? A long time? Anyway, he said, you just leagus a jelly your heart doesn't work just because you've been in low gravity, so you haven't had that resistance all the time. No matter how many exercises you do, you still become jelly. So apparently it's quite a You get back on to Earth and you're happy to be there, but there's a huge feeling of depression that comes on you because you're weak and you're not going to go back up to space again, and being space is an incredible thing.
I saw them dragging them of that capsule and they had to drag them out. They literal rag dolls. I mean they were in good form and giving the thumbs up. Yeah we made it, but there was nothing left to them really.
Yeah.
I mean the capsule looked like a cyborg from Doctor Hoop that they were climbing up.
The mouth off.
But yeah, they're gonna have a bit of a recovery. But they'll just be glad that they're down, because they must have been questioning whether they would ever go down.
You're up there.
You don't know what's happening on Earth. There's politics this things are changing, ye. Biden didn't want Elon must have be involved in bringing them down before the election because it would look bad for his campaign, so they had to wait a bit longer. But now they're down and Bitch Wilmore and Sernie Williams welcome to earth.
Yeap.
And how amazing was that live stream? I mean just the camera angles, the footage inside the capsule, the drones following it into the sea as it landed just outside of Florida, and it was incredible. I was just glued to that live stream all morning.
I love it.
Yeah, I'm seeing a capsule landing with some parachutes. It's very very cool.
I'm sorry to get bogged out on this, but it makes a difference if you call who sonny or sonny, because you can have Butch and Sundance or something like that as a headline and dolphins. Obviously, I hope they didn't land on any dolphins.
William who were.
That was the case. But I guess you can let people off forgetting the sunny sunny thing wrong?
But what about the boch part.
Bitch Wilmore and Serny Williams welcome to it.
Yeah, I thought I heard that.
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We're going to finish up?
Yeah with that news I promised you at the big beginning of the podcast What's Happening with Saw?
Eleven?
By the way, the last of the Saw films is a w It was gonna be the eleventh, but they've pulled the pin on that.
Production was kentled this week.
I think if you've seen one of the Saw movies, you've seen too many of them. They were horrific. Why you'd want to see eleven? I've got no idea, no idea in the world.
It's interesting. I really enjoyed the first few movies. I didn't realize they'd made ten of them, though I haven't definitely haven't seen all ten. I'm not quite sure how many I have seen, probably at least four or maybe five. I'm gonna have to go and look those up there. I really like them. I mean, yes, they're terrible, and by that I mean visually terrifying.
But yeah, I thought they were good.
But that's one of those things with movies and movie reviews you need to listen to, you know, Like I don't know what Marcus's opinions are of a lot of other movies, and so I don't think still have a baseline, like if I disagree with everything that he likes and disagree with everything that he hates. Then that's all valuable information because if he likes something, then I probably won't like it, and if he doesn't like something, I probably will.
You see how that works anyway.
I hope you like this despite what people say, and if you do, I'll see you back here again to morrow.
Actually if you didn't come.
Back to memorrow, because it might be completely different tomorrow. It's really quite variable day.
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