Full Show Podcast: 13 February 2025

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
Hello you great New Zealanders. So this is podcast. I
think it's either sixty five or sixty six. Must be
sixty six. Thirteenth of February twenty twenty five, Maddy said
to shoot off to a client of vent. He's doing
the hard yards, entertaining a massive audience for I think
he's winging it for a good thirty minutes. But we

(00:37):
wish him luck anyway. This show, fantastic show. Some good
chit about Valentine's Day? Do you have to give your
partner something special on Valentine's Day? Or is it just lazy?
Emette gets himself into a bit of trouble bashing the royals,
So great show. Give him a taste of Kiwi, as
Maddy would say, And yeah, set to download all that

(00:59):
good stuff, all right.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
See yup your new home for insightful and entertaining talk.
It's Mattie and Taylor Adams Afternoons with the Volvo x
eighty on News Talk SEV.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
Good Afternoons. You welcome into Thursday. What a beautiful day
up here in Auckland. Pretty good around the country, is this? Yeah,
I've just said a wee.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
Look.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
How's it in my beloved Dunedin Donner is high of
fifteen degrees, little bit of cloud but mostly sun. What
about Christy, it's your old hometown until we moved up here.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
High of nineteen degrees, little bit of cloud but mostly sun.
I mean, it's to do the whole nation, and why
not let's bring it back with a jet.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
What about your town of birth? Nelson?

Speaker 2 (01:39):
Oh, Nelson's always stunning. Not a cloud in the sky
by the looks of it. A high of twenty one degrees.

Speaker 3 (01:43):
What sunny and Nelson or Blenham?

Speaker 2 (01:45):
Oh, that's controversial, Yeah, because Nelson was top of the
table for a long time and then along came dirty
old Mulburn Blenham and took it away from us, and
then it took us ages to get it back. But
I think over the last five years Blenham has probably
got it more than Nelson.

Speaker 3 (01:59):
I used to pic Cheries and Blenham when I was
in the holidays, when I was growing up, you know,
when I was at high school, and boy, oh boy,
the heat and the days it just seem like I
don't think I ever saw a bad day when I
was picking cherries and len them.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
How many cherries did you eat across a good eight
hour shift. None of the smash for you.

Speaker 3 (02:16):
None of the export ones, mate, you're going to have.
They're very very particular on the tubs for the ones
they're sending overseas. You don't touch those ones. But the
odd one with the little black eye on it, Yeah,
slam that up.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
The You've got to fuel yourself to cherry picker. Yeah right, Hey,
onto the show today after three o'clock. Interesting story on
the New Zealand here Media Insider by Shane Curry. But
a bit of a battle going on with the global
streamers and money to actually produce some of these hit shows.

Speaker 3 (02:44):
Yeah, there's a recommendition to the government that they force
them to pay a certain amount of their money towards
producing New Zealand shows. But we want to ask how
important is it for you to have New Zealand shows on.
Is that a hugely important thing you do? And do
you think that the streamers, your Disney Plusses, your Apples,
your Netflixes, your Amazon primes should be forced to play

(03:05):
New Zealand content in New Zealand.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
Yeah, that's going to be a good chat and a
reminder at the end of that hour and interview with
John Opryor on his new show.

Speaker 3 (03:13):
Vince Yeah, starting on TV and z oh no sorry
three three now, Yeah, eight thirty tonight. No, it's so
it's on three tonight at eight thirty in the now
and Demand three now. So there's an example of a
New Zealand show. By all accounts, haven't seen it yet,
but by all count's very good. Do you want Do
you want to see it? You can see it?

Speaker 2 (03:31):
He can sounds like a good show and he's a
good man. John.

Speaker 3 (03:34):
It's not on Netflix, but you can see it.

Speaker 4 (03:35):
There you go.

Speaker 3 (03:36):
That's going to be a good discussion after three a
half to two o'clock. Valentine's Day, that's what I want
to talk about. One hundred and eighty ten eighty nine
two two is the text number? Is Valentine's Day still
a thing? Do you still have to get your partner flowers?
You still have to take them out for dinner? As
I as I told you before, Tyler, I've got tickets

(03:58):
to the rugby on Saturday. Yeah for me and my partner.
Is that enough?

Speaker 2 (04:01):
How lucky Tracy, is what have you got on a
Christmas an iron?

Speaker 3 (04:06):
Is that enough? I mean, I feel like it's off
the radar is a compulsory thing, and is it always
one way? Does it have to be like right now?
Is your partner may have planning something for you for
Valentine's Day or is it just one way traffic?

Speaker 2 (04:22):
Well, we've had that discussion and we did say that
we're not going to buy each other anything for Valentine's Day,
but I always buy her something. But ay, that's going
to be a good chat after two o'clock. But right now, Tyler,
right now we are talking about the Royals and the
influence they still have or don't have on us as
New Zealanders and the rest of the world for that matter.

(04:43):
It's on the back of a story out of the
UK where a palace saurce claimed that officials would no
longer release details of Princess Kate's clothing for every day engagement.

Speaker 3 (04:56):
Yeah, it coursed it a massive fraua and the person
that said that has walked those comments back a little bit.
But it got me wondering do people still care about
the royal family? Is it that much of a farraua
what Caate Middleton? Is she that much of a fashion
icon that it makes a big difference? Do we care?
Do we care about the Royal family? Because I feel

(05:17):
it doesn't come through my feed No, that doesn't pop
up in my in my bubble. Well, I don't know.
I don't. I feel like the Royal family is and
I like a lot of time for the Royal Family.
I've got a lot of time for Worll. I've got
a lot of time for Kate, absolute breath of fresh air,
I've got. I like Charlie. I've got a lot of
time for Charlie as well. Hate Harry, hate him to bits,

(05:38):
got no time for Megan. But but I just don't
feel like they have there are fashion icons anymore.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
They've dropped off considerably after the Harry and Meghan situation,
and I think that that is the point. I think
they need controversy to be relevant. Without the controversy, without
something dramatic happening within the royal family, they kind of
just drop off and nobody cares outside of the UK,
nobody cares.

Speaker 3 (06:03):
Yeah, But I loved the Queen. I thought the Queen
was great and it was it was the way that
she was just the Queen, her complete and uttered devotion
to her country and the keep calm and carry on
approach that she brought to everything. She was like a
she was like a rock. I know Diana used to
talk about her rocks, but the Queen was just this constant,
the steady, and whatever the scandal was, she operated in

(06:25):
the perfect way for it. So I think that. But
then again, was the queen of fashion icon?

Speaker 2 (06:30):
Wow, yeah, she would have been in her early days.
I imagined rock to Tiara. Didn't see not many people
have Tiara's but she certainly looked good in one. I mean,
King Charles, he wouldn't be the same Woody and let's
be frank. Charles seems like a really nice guy, and
I'm sure he's going to be a decent king. But
he's a strange guy, very strange guy. If you believe
the tabloids in.

Speaker 3 (06:48):
The UK, he's a strange guy.

Speaker 2 (06:49):
Well you know when they had to cook him twelve
different boiled eggs and he had to lect which one
he wanted, and he had his teddy bears and he
had the Scottish bagpipes to wake him up at seven
fifteen every morning. I mean that is strange behavior, unless what.

Speaker 5 (07:01):
Do you do that?

Speaker 3 (07:02):
No, I don't, but I thought it was cool. It
was a different tune every day. But that was great
for the bagpipist, if that's the way you say it
to us. He loved it was great work life balance
for him. So you get up in the morning he looked,
you know, and then he plays a little tune to
wake up Prince Charles, and then he'd spend the rest
of the day thinking about what the journey you'd play
for the next morning.

Speaker 6 (07:18):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (07:18):
I think i'd be a very weird guy if I'd
been brought up in the royal family as well. Yeah,
but yeah, so do you not care about the royal family?
Do you care about the Royal family? Are they an
influence on your life?

Speaker 4 (07:29):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (07:29):
Wait, hundred and eighty ten eighty nine two nine two
is the text number.

Speaker 2 (07:32):
It is thirteen past one. Let's get into it.

Speaker 1 (07:36):
The big stories, the big issues, the big trends, and
everything in between. Matt and Taylor afternoons with the Volvo
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Speaker 2 (07:50):
News talk there be. It's a quarter past one, quick
six here from lowest Tyler. Please get your facts right.
Andrew is the teddy beer weirdo. Yeah, there's a few
weirdos in the royal family, certainly a prince. Andrew's right
up there. In fact, i'd go further than that, says,
well night, let's not go down that track.

Speaker 3 (08:05):
Hi, guys, my two cents worth a Charles should have
stepped down aside and taken William under his wing, and
he should have been king. We needed someone young enough
to lead the world in this day and age. It's
more modern, and it's beyond Charles because he could not
match his mother in any way, shape or form. Thanks Simon. Yeah,
I don't know about that. Yeah, I mean I got Yeah.

Speaker 2 (08:28):
I've changed my opinion on King Charles when he had
to step in as king when Elizabeth passed away. And
you're quite right, she was a phenomenal queen, no doubt
about that, and I thought, oh goodness, gracious not Charlie.
But I've changed my opinion of him. He's been a
pretty good king. So I thought that he stepped up
to the mark.

Speaker 3 (08:45):
I thought that whole pantomime and all the crazy stuff
they did, and his inauguration inauguration, coronation, the weird shower
curtain and the changing into different things, and where they
kept all that stuff and where all that protocols was
written down. I thought all that stuff was really really
weird and cool.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
Yeah, yeah, well, even him losing his rag a little
bit when he was signing whatever he was signed, and
I though, ah, yeah, fair enough. Oh, one hundred and
eighteen eighty is the number to call, Richard. How are
you this afternoon?

Speaker 7 (09:13):
Oh, good afternoon, good afternoon. Yeah, I'd like to speak
a little bit about the monarchy. When my former life,
I was executive officer to the Governor General, and I've
traveled with the royal family, okay, and I believe in it,
not through the ideas of stupid women's magazines, but the
constitutional role of it. You talked about the coronation then.

(09:35):
The first coronation of an English king was in about
nine seventy five, and the ceremony has remained largely the
same right through to the present day, with the symbols
of office. And I thought the coronation was beautifully done.
It wasn't quite as lavish as the Queen's won, but
all the various elements who were brought into it, the
different ethnic groups were brought into it, the religious leaders

(09:58):
from all religions. I thought the coronation was a relevant
one for today while still maintaining the traditions and the
symbols have been going on for over a thousand years.

Speaker 3 (10:08):
Hey Richard, do you know, Richard, you know, just before
you go on with that, do you know where they
keep all that stuff? So that was all that Today.

Speaker 7 (10:16):
If you visit the Tower of London, there is the
jewel House where all the Crown jewels are on public display.
It's magnificently done. When I was very young, I were
a just and one round tower.

Speaker 1 (10:27):
The whole lot of.

Speaker 7 (10:30):
You know, they were grilled in. Now you can walk
into the jewel House. It's all done in the darkness
and you can walk through with all the symbols. It's
magnificent and you go on a moving platform.

Speaker 3 (10:41):
Through it all.

Speaker 7 (10:42):
And the first Crown jewels. Of course, we're largely destroyed
by Oliver Cromwell, and there is a special tower where
all the old crowns are kept without the jewels in them,
right through the sentries. Cromwell didn't melt them all down,
but the largely the present Saint Edward's crown was all
done for the restoration of King Charles the Second and

(11:03):
it's magnificent. It's a symbol as part of my psychic
and my life, and I think a lot of people
in New Zealand are deeply impressed when they go and
see it. It's a symbol of a thousand years of
history and the coronation I thought this year last year
when it was done, was just magnificent. It was beautifully done.
There were all the different elements and the communities in

(11:24):
Britain that have made up Britain. Britain has been one
of the few countries in the world that has accepted
people from all walks and ethnicities into it when it
has been shocking horrors in the different countries. Now, I
think the king is doing an outstanding job. And when
people talk about the constitutional monarchy, the day to day
running of the country is in the elected people's representatives,

(11:46):
the Prime Minister and the government. But if the one
power that the king maintains is that if there is
a constitutional crisis in the country, the King has the
right to dissolve Parliament and call for a general election.
So I think that the symbols of the royal family
and what they do in the workaday life is quite outstanding.
And as head of the Commonwealth, I mean many of

(12:08):
the media people disparage the Commonwealth, but it provides scholarships
for young people to travel in between the different countries.
It's outstanding organization. I think a little bit speaking less
generally about things in a slightly disparaging way, and look
at the history and what it means. We're very lucky

(12:28):
in New Zealand because we have we're a constitutional monarchy
as our Canada, Australia, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands.
He's king of all those countries and they choose, they
choose to have the king.

Speaker 3 (12:42):
Now, Richard, you said before that thank you for that,
that rundown and well well put by you. When you
said that you had traveled a little bit with members
of the royal family. What era was that? What what
members of the royal family were you working around.

Speaker 7 (12:57):
President, King, Prince Michael of Kent. Yeah, quite a few
of them with them.

Speaker 3 (13:03):
So with Charles, did you say, yes.

Speaker 7 (13:06):
Yes, indeed when he was Prince of Wales.

Speaker 3 (13:08):
What sort of era was that?

Speaker 7 (13:10):
That would be the nineteen eighties, nineteen nineties.

Speaker 3 (13:14):
And did you see him in a sort of a
casual way, did you see what kind of person he was.

Speaker 7 (13:20):
I saw how he reacts to people and how they
react to him, and he's quite outstanding in the way
he remembers people. He is trying to put his own
stamp on the monarchy. Every monic changes, but puts their
own stamp on his monarchy. I don't like the word
change at all. I think that's silly, because you know,

(13:40):
if it ain't broke, don't fix it. And he I
prefer the word evolving. The monarchy evolves to suit. The
time the United Nations did a servero the ten most
stable countries in the world, and the first seven of
them were constitutional monarchies.

Speaker 3 (13:55):
Now, Richard, what do you say to people like Tyler
here who said he thinks Charles is a bit weird
but strange.

Speaker 7 (14:02):
Yeah, well, I think that's a bit silly. Really, I
don't thinking things strange about him. He's not strange than
many other people. In fact, he's well educated. He's up
with music as charities. When he founded the Prince's Trust,
of which he has a number of very distinguished people on,
including David Beckham, to Stephen Frye and various other people.

(14:24):
They have put over half a million young people into
work and provided future careers for them, and many of
them were just Dropouts's we should look at the positive
things and not worry about the Princess of Wales clothes
or anything stupid and women's weaklies. We should look at
the constitutional monarchy as they provides to us.

Speaker 1 (14:43):
Well.

Speaker 2 (14:43):
I like your philosophy, Ratcherd, but the truth of the
matter is how do you stay relevant to Let's call
the common people the hoy peloy, because that is how
you stay relevant, right And I understand that there are
traditions that need to be kept in place and honor
that needs to be respected there. But if you're going
to stay relevant with the common people, you need to

(15:04):
attach yourself to things. They're interested in it, and they
are interested in industries.

Speaker 7 (15:08):
I think that the king does do that. I don't
like the word hoipoloy and common people. Just put the
citizens of a country. He remains relevant and if the
citizens of those countries don't want him, then they can
call for a referendum and the monarch and could be ambolished.

Speaker 3 (15:24):
But I guess the citizens Richard of the country. Some
of those citizens are I guess what we're talking about here.
Some of the citizens of the country are very interested
in what Cape Middleton wears. And that's part of being democracy,
that's the part, that's the way they want to engage
with the royal family.

Speaker 7 (15:39):
That yeah, well that's very true. But I think to
sort of trivialize things about the royal families out actually
looking at their constitutional duties and what they do is
I think a bit su of mischief making for just
for the sake of it.

Speaker 3 (15:54):
Really, thank you so much for your call. Richard really
appreciates that.

Speaker 2 (15:57):
Take that that we call it a start. Yeah, and look,
I understand what rich is saying about those traditions that
must be honored and kept respectful. But if you are
not interesting to the common people, not commoner, I'm part
of the Hoy paloy. If you don't, if you're not
interesting to most of the population, then you're irrelevant.

Speaker 3 (16:15):
Thisson, here's this text said that fellow put you in
your place. The coronation was outstanding. Listen, Pauline, I was
the one that said the coronation was outspanding. I thought
it was excellent. I thought it was so cool with
all that stuff they whipped out, and the shower curtain
and he went behind and all the protocols. I love that.
I love that that was waiting for that time for
him to do it, and they wheeled all the stuff out.

(16:36):
It was I thought it was incredible.

Speaker 2 (16:38):
Nicely said, but you keep telling them, Pauline, don't let
him off the hook. Going one hundred eighty eighty is
the number to call. Nine two ninety two is the
text number.

Speaker 3 (16:45):
Richard was great.

Speaker 4 (16:46):
He was.

Speaker 1 (16:48):
Putting the tough questions to the newspeakers, the Mike asking breakfast.

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Speaker 8 (17:07):
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Speaker 2 (17:33):
Good afternoon, it is twenty seven past one and we're
asking about the Royal family. Are they still relevant or
do they still carry influence for people around the world
and particularly here in New Zealands. A lot of fans
of Richard, our previous caller, excellent caller, Richard for Prime Minister.
He certainly was a big fan of the royal family

(17:54):
and the decorum and traditions of the Royal family.

Speaker 3 (17:57):
And look at this text. I like this one. Matt.
I'm liking you more, especially after your kind comments about
the Queen.

Speaker 1 (18:03):
You say.

Speaker 3 (18:05):
Love the Queen. Diane, welcome to the show. Your thoughts
on the Royal family and Cape Middleton.

Speaker 9 (18:10):
Him, Matt and Thailand. Now Thilert, you should get out
and about more. I've had two lovely conversations with Prince
Charles when it was Prince Charles and that, and I
have when he was playing polo in Australia and then
another time when he came to the Opera House, Prince William.

(18:31):
He's I've chatted to him twice too when he came
over here and that, and they actually sent me a
wedding photo of them, did they, Yes? And that was
after the airlines lost all my luggage with all my
royal souvenirs because I was over there when he got
married and that, and when the Queen's mother died. I
just happened to be in the UK at the time.

(18:53):
And that's so nice. I think we saw, you.

Speaker 3 (18:55):
Know, Diane, did you give any of that stuff back?
Was it lost? Forever?

Speaker 9 (18:59):
Lost forever? It was the whole case ful, you know,
it was U.

Speaker 10 (19:10):
No.

Speaker 9 (19:10):
I had, you know, the official program, yes, Prince William's
wedding and you know, some souvenirforts and that, but it
was in the secure area at Los Angeles Airport and
they couldn't find it and that, so I thought we'll
have just one get the copy of the official program.
That's so I just, you know, penned a letter to

(19:32):
Prince William and that in the secretary reply and said,
Prince William and Catherine would like you to have this photograph.
So I've got that frame and Pride price in my lounge.
But I thought Tyler would have been into the royal family.
You know, as I said, he's got to get out more.

Speaker 3 (19:49):
You know, the only member the Royal family that Tyler likes,
Diane is Harry Hey.

Speaker 2 (19:54):
Wrong, he's put my bottom drawer now I didn't have.
He's not on thelf anymore.

Speaker 9 (20:02):
No, No, he's related to the He's down on the
bottom drawer now after his behavior and all that which
I think was discussing. And I actually borrowed the book
from the library on sphere and I've never read so
much garbage in all my life.

Speaker 3 (20:20):
This is my problem with Harry, and I know everyone
said it. He's complaining, he's taking the tabloids to court,
he's asking for his privacy whilst writing a book revealing
the most sordid and private details about other members of
his family. That way I mean that is that was discussing.
Completely hypocritical from Harry. Shoot him into the sun, I say.

Speaker 9 (20:39):
Yeah, But the members of the Royal family like see
I actually spoken to well, it was the Queen's press
secretary when he came out to Australia and they left
some stuff behind at Government House when I was found.

Speaker 11 (20:53):
There, and that's so.

Speaker 9 (20:56):
No, I've met the Duke of Canton.

Speaker 3 (20:59):
Who's your favorite right now, Dane.

Speaker 9 (21:03):
Well, I like all the one setter in the front now,
like Andrew, he's out and that. But I think William
and Catherine will be good when they do it. And
I feel a bit sorry for a prince I'm in
King Charles because he doesn't look well really and that
and that. But now I've been to most of the

(21:25):
royal residents.

Speaker 2 (21:26):
Very nice, and that's so.

Speaker 12 (21:28):
You know.

Speaker 2 (21:29):
I like Catherine, Diane, I like Catherine.

Speaker 9 (21:31):
Yeah, she's lovely. I've got some beautiful photos of her
with the father and the car going to the wedding
and when they came back and and that. So now
I've got some nice photos.

Speaker 3 (21:45):
Diane. Will put you in the camp of the in
the in the box are very supportive of and interested
in the royal family to the state.

Speaker 9 (21:52):
That's right. And if Tyler wants a nice photo, I'll
send it through film.

Speaker 13 (21:58):
Well which one he'd like?

Speaker 2 (21:59):
Like one of Megan? If you've got one of those,
you just get it out of the bottom shelf and
I'll take that.

Speaker 9 (22:08):
No, no, no, it's in the bottom drawer where it stays.

Speaker 2 (22:14):
Surprise the state.

Speaker 3 (22:16):
Thank you so much for your call, Dane, And yeah
that was listen that that's lovely. That lifelong interest in
the Royal family. She's met a bunch of them, She's
visited residences. That's that's real commitment to the Royal family.
You love to hear that.

Speaker 2 (22:30):
Yeah, it's beautiful. But you know what has the Royal
family done for me lately? Ten eighty is the number
to call? Oh, headlines coming up with ray Lean. It
is twenty eight past two.

Speaker 3 (22:40):
When we come back. Okay, do you want to have
a guess on this? How much is the Royal family,
the UK Royal family worth?

Speaker 4 (22:46):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (22:47):
The whole family, and the whole family and all there
are state and assets and jewelry the UK family. Yeah,
I guess Yeah, I'm going to take a punt at
fifty billion dollars.

Speaker 3 (23:00):
Okay, all right, Well we'll have a guess on nine
two nine two, and I'll tell you when we come back.

Speaker 1 (23:07):
Ju's talk it.

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Eath and Tyler Adams.

Speaker 2 (24:22):
Thank you very much. Ray Lean and we're talking about
the influence and relevancy of the royal family.

Speaker 3 (24:29):
This is on the back of a story where Kate
Middleton's people said that they weren't going to publish what
dresses she was wearing when she was out and about.
They've kind of walked that back a little bit since then,
but it just struck me. Do people still care about
what Princess Kate Kate wears?

Speaker 2 (24:46):
Well, according to our text machine, absolutely they do. Jane's
not very happy. Did I say this? She is no
longer Kate Middleton? She is Kate Windsor would you like
your wife to be referred to by her maiden name?
From Jane fair Point?

Speaker 3 (25:03):
K Fairpoint? Get it right, Tyler gees, even though I
just got it wrong seconds ago. So before the break,
I asked the question, how rich is the Royal family
in total? Across all of them they combined wealth of assets?

Speaker 2 (25:16):
I said, fifty billion dollars.

Speaker 3 (25:18):
We've got a thirty billion in the in the in
the text of ninety two, we've got four hundred billion. Here,
we've got seven hundred billion. Boy, they really rate them.
We've got twenty billion. We've got a crap load. We've
got five hundred billion, got one point eight billion The
answer is twenty eight billion dollars, so six percent of

(25:39):
what Elon Musk is worth. The entire Row family.

Speaker 2 (25:42):
Still a lot of money, though, want know it's.

Speaker 3 (25:43):
A lot of money. A lot of that has wound
up in castles, I guess and landrovers.

Speaker 2 (25:47):
Harry get he wants a slice of that? Yeah, Oh,
eight hundred and eighty ten eighty is the number to call.
Are you still a massive fan of the Royals even
though they've kind of dropped off the headlines in recent times?
Love to hear from you, Bob, How are you.

Speaker 6 (26:04):
Great man? How are you doing it?

Speaker 2 (26:05):
God?

Speaker 3 (26:06):
I understand you're a Harry fan.

Speaker 6 (26:09):
Yeah, I've wanted the chapter math more than anything. He's
sitting back there saying that he hates Harry. I find
that hard to understand. What don't you like about him?

Speaker 3 (26:25):
Okay, well, what I don't like about Harry is that
he is taking tabloids to court. He's complaining about things.
He's asking for freedom, he's doing for privacy. He's doing
the Privacy World Tour at the same time when he
was asking for that. He took a huge amount of
money to write his book Spear, where he revealed some
really intimate secrets and basically run the full tabloid on

(26:46):
his own family, which I just found absolutely disgusting. You
can't the two things can't be the same. You can't
hold the two things that you want privacy yourself. But
you're willing to just make money revealing all the secrets
of your family.

Speaker 6 (27:01):
Well, do you believe that the people that were supposed
to play homage to you, but all these luridy details,
the word you chose lew it should be hidden away
and might be shown to the people who pay homage
to them.

Speaker 5 (27:18):
What you expect, Well, I would, I would be pretty young.

Speaker 3 (27:21):
I'd be pretty angry if one of my sisters wrote
a tell all book and revealed a bunch of stuff
about my other sisters to everyone, I probably wouldn't talk
to them after that. Whether whether they're whether you know,
you're a celebrity family or you're a royal family, or
well known or not well known. I think there's a
huge amount of betrayal if you share secrets that other
people in your family don't want other people to know.

Speaker 6 (27:43):
Well, in that case, you should have a reveal both
secrets the people you don't want to share them.

Speaker 3 (27:49):
But well, Harry Harry. Harry observed things and shared them.
It wasn't necessarily things that had been shared with him.
He just he just aired the dirty laundry of his
family for money. Is really my problem with him.

Speaker 6 (28:05):
I don't think that's the case at all, And I
am you take him the task about the fact that
he had your audacity to take the tabloid press to
court when they treated him and his wife the way
they did, and he was proved to be correct and
got played accordingly.

Speaker 3 (28:25):
Okay, But but what all I'm saying is, sure, take
the tabloid press to court for invasions of your privacy,
But if at the same time you're taking a whole
lot of money to invade other members of your family's privacy,
it seems like a bit of a hollow move, doesn't it.
It seems like your moral compass might not be as
at pointing as north as you it should be. That's

(28:48):
my point.

Speaker 6 (28:49):
I think he got badly treated in that royal so
called royal family. To me, the whole royal family died
when the queen died. The rest of them are just
sitting there making money from those who look at them
and say they're wonderful people, and I believe they.

Speaker 3 (29:08):
Are totally Hang on a minute, so you're anti the
royal family, but so just just Harry and.

Speaker 6 (29:14):
Me, where where that money comes from?

Speaker 3 (29:19):
That they've got wow lands, you know, ancestry.

Speaker 6 (29:24):
Why where do they get the land from?

Speaker 3 (29:28):
Well, I mean, well yeah, I mean taken in in
the past. They're the royal family. They've got got their lands.
I mean that's kind of the way it works, isn't.

Speaker 6 (29:36):
It like putin where if you want some they go
and take it.

Speaker 3 (29:43):
Well, I don't know, like if I'm probably going to
give them. You know, when I die, my kids will
get my houses. I mean they're not bucking in palace,
but that it will go on to them, I would imagine.
Is that wrong?

Speaker 1 (29:57):
Me?

Speaker 6 (29:58):
I do the principle.

Speaker 2 (30:00):
So you want to see to a republic, do you, Bob?

Speaker 6 (30:06):
I don't think we could be any worse. Tell me,
tell me a couple of things that the world family
has done for you to see them? Well, well, you know,
it is the basis, it is the you know at
the end there, it's the basis of parliamentary system.

Speaker 3 (30:24):
And you know they're the you know, we're in the
constitutional monarchy. The stuff that Richard was talking about before.
That's pretty good. I know from an English perspective, they
bring a lot of money around tourism. They've they've made
some good visits down here and and they bring a
lot of happiness to people. So I don't know they've
They definitely haven't done nothing. And that don't cost us anything.

(30:45):
Un it's they're visiting.

Speaker 6 (30:48):
I disagree with you. They cost us all lot.

Speaker 3 (30:50):
What do they cost us?

Speaker 6 (30:53):
Well, there's money paid to the Commonwealth all part of that.

Speaker 3 (30:58):
Yeah, well that'll be interesting to look that up. Actually,
do we pay it all for the royal family? Do
we contribute? I feel like they would be very controversial.

Speaker 2 (31:05):
I think we The last time they did visit, we
contributed about a million bucks.

Speaker 3 (31:10):
But when they visit, we paid we cough up when
they visit, I think for the security and such.

Speaker 2 (31:15):
Yeah. I mean, once upon a time, Bob, I would
have been in your camp what you're saying here, But
I've changed my tune. I think the modern royal family
is very different to the old English monarchy. That maybe
you know that hierarchy and class system obviously was a
lot different than it is today. Is that the monarchy
don't have any real constitutional power. They are figureheads, and

(31:36):
they are good figure heads for New Zealand for one,
and for the UK.

Speaker 3 (31:40):
Yeah, oh, I think so much for you call Bob,
appreciate that you think Prince Andrew's a good figure hit
he's banishedished.

Speaker 2 (31:48):
Well, just going back to Bob, I think I thought
Bob said that Queen Elizabeth was a good queen and
she was certainly the driving force behind she's dealing with
that the Harry and Meghan situation.

Speaker 3 (32:00):
She's a once in a generation human being. The Queen,
how much she sacrificed in her life for what she
believed was right and to try and be what she
thought was the quintessential moral and sort of a a
personification of what she thought England should be and the

(32:21):
stable personification of what she thought England should be.

Speaker 2 (32:24):
And it's an incredibly difficult job, right to be a queen.
But if you've got to change something, you get to
change it.

Speaker 3 (32:28):
From the insert, I'd say Britain, not England. There's a tendency,
says the text that are confused two issues. Some of
the individuals within the royal family may be far from
acceptable with their pavor, but the system of the monarchy
has huge benefits for democracy. See I mean that's a
very good point, isn't it. Any family, in any group
of people, you can pick out some people that are
less than exemplary. But like say, on this show, I'm

(32:51):
a moral paragon of moral virtue, whereas you're a you're
a sort of moral scumback. But you know that doesn't
mean that this whole show should be tired with the
way you behave.

Speaker 2 (33:03):
Or maybe it should be eighty is a number to call.
It is a quarter. The two will take a few
more funk calls.

Speaker 1 (33:09):
Shortly, your new home of afternoon Talk, Matt and Tyler
Afternoon with the Volvo XC ninety turn every journey into
something special. Call eight News Talk said.

Speaker 2 (33:23):
Be good afternoon. It is twelve to two.

Speaker 3 (33:26):
We're talking about the royal family and whether you still
follow them, whether they're still relevant to you. What do
they mean to you? Jane, welcome to the show. You
want to talk about Harry's book.

Speaker 11 (33:37):
Yes, you're saying that he has spilt the beans to
get money for himself. Well that's not right. If you
read the front of his book, all the proceeds of
his book for Sheer has gone to an orphanage. And
somewhere in Africa, Nigeria or somewhere like that, he gets
nothing from the proceeds a minute.

Speaker 3 (33:57):
I think I think he got hit. The book generated
twenty seven million and he gave one point five million
to charities my understanding, No.

Speaker 11 (34:03):
I don't believe that.

Speaker 3 (34:05):
That's what.

Speaker 11 (34:05):
No, in the book it says the money from this
book goes to this wolfanage.

Speaker 3 (34:10):
Well, some of the money from the book went to
the orphanage, but most I mean, look good on on
one point five million is great for him to give
to charity. I appreciate that, but it's my understanding that
he made a good whack of cash for himself. But
even if all the money did go to charity, what
do you think about sharing the secrets of your family

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that they don't want to share.

Speaker 11 (34:32):
You guys just brought up about the traditional royalty. You know,
it's in the past. And here's Harry who's a young
modern man. He wants to break away from that traditional setup,
and so he does. He marries a modern woman, they
move to another country, and all he's got is, you know, criticism. Well,

(34:54):
I think he's done the right thing.

Speaker 3 (34:57):
Yeah, but.

Speaker 11 (34:59):
And he's trying to put his side of the story.
You know, we hear the other side of the story
from the media that's very biased towards Harry and Meghan.
He's just written the book to try and straighten out
the situation.

Speaker 3 (35:12):
What do you think, Jane, of the the woman that
he gave so many details of that he lost his
virginity with. He gave so many details of her that
she was immediately outed by the press. That was surely
a breach of confidence. And he didn't.

Speaker 5 (35:25):
Talk to me.

Speaker 11 (35:25):
I don't know her name, and I've read the book,
so it didn't make any difference to me.

Speaker 3 (35:29):
I talk about people about fifteen seconds to google and
find out who it was.

Speaker 11 (35:34):
Well, I mean, how many how many other men in
the world have have done that and have had no criticism.
I mean, he's just out on a pedestal.

Speaker 3 (35:44):
What about kiss and tell though, the rule that the
moral code of you never kiss and tell?

Speaker 11 (35:50):
Well, this world is crazy at the moment. There's an
awful lot of other things going on beside to kiss
and tell. So who knows, But get off Harry's back,
That's all I say.

Speaker 3 (36:01):
All right, shoot him into the same Come on, mate, on, Harry.

Speaker 2 (36:09):
One hundred and eighty ten eighty is another to call.
We'll take a few more calls very shortly. It is
ninety two.

Speaker 1 (36:17):
Maddies Tyler Adams taking your calls on Oh, eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty Madden Tyler Afternoon with the Volvo
XC ninety tick every box, a seamless experience awaits News.

Speaker 2 (36:28):
TALKSB, News TALKSB. It's seven to two, Jen, very good
afternoon to you.

Speaker 3 (36:35):
Welcome to the show. You're visiting from the UK and
you're a fan of the Royals.

Speaker 12 (36:40):
Yes, I am originally in New Zealander, but I've been
living in London now for nearly thirty years, so I've
become a greater fan since living there.

Speaker 4 (36:51):
I think.

Speaker 3 (36:53):
You've got one of those beautiful hybrid accents, Jan, You've
got one of those beautiful hybrid accents where just a
little bit of the British sprinkled on top.

Speaker 6 (37:00):
I'm losing it.

Speaker 12 (37:02):
I'm losing it through what'sapp Actually a New Zealand family
on it on a weekly basis, so sort of English
as I probably would like it. But anyway, but now
I think I think they've it's spart consistency and you
know where we have prime minister's presidents changing every three,

(37:23):
four or five years. I just think the as you know,
head of a constitution, I think they've got they do
bring quite a lot of great things to you know, London,
and hope hopefully it's still with a Commonwealth. Although you know,
I can understand, you know, the younger generation coming through

(37:43):
have you know, different views and different ideas. But I've
been really impressed what they had done. I think Charles
will stepped up the plate he got. He's got very
involved in lots of issues that you know, across the religions, environment,
many other things, agriculture. Just now, I was showing what.

Speaker 3 (38:06):
You see Jen before about the consistency that is a
and I think that's why it's so shocking when the
Queen died because for most people the Queen had been
a consonant across our lives and a constant person like
not only was she there the whole time, she was
a paragon of virtue for the whole time as well.
It's something to look up to. So that was quite
something when she passed, wasn't it.

Speaker 1 (38:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (38:28):
I mean, while I went to see the flowers, I
saw a glimpse of the funeral cortege. But everyone that
I was aware of made a point of even watching
it on television or actually doing things. And London was
a buzz with a lot of Americans, a lot of

(38:49):
foreigners when she actually died, and I met quite a
few people who'd flown in, particularly from the State, and
for them also they saw her as a constant Ciga
as well. I do think that the new generation coming
through will bring different things, and also I think they're

(39:09):
great as patrons of charities. They've done so much more.
I mean, William is doing a lot with homelessness. I
think Committa's doing a lot with refuge and a lot
of different things.

Speaker 3 (39:23):
So yeah, we've got to go, jan So we've run
out of time. But thank you so much. Thank you
so much for you Paul already. I really appreciate it.
The right way to finish the answer to the question,
do people still care? Well, listeners to our show really care.
This's been very a negative word about the Royal family
apart from.

Speaker 2 (39:40):
Harry, hundreds and hundreds of text and controversial about Harry.
I'd say it's probably ninety percent Harry hate, ten percent
Harry love. Yeah, yeah, right, very good. After two o'clock.
Let's chat about Valentine's Day?

Speaker 3 (39:53):
Is that old thing still going?

Speaker 4 (39:55):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (39:55):
Eight, it's the number to call. Ninety two nine two
is the text number. New Sport and Weather on its way.

Speaker 1 (40:02):
Talking with you all afternoon. It's Matt Heath and Taylor
Adams afternoons with the Volvo X ninety us talks.

Speaker 2 (40:09):
Indeed, good afternoon to you seven pass too great to
have your company as always. Well, tomorrow the day of love.
Valentine's Day?

Speaker 3 (40:20):
Yeah, is that still a thing? People still doing that?
One hundred and eighty ten eighty nine two nine two.
When you say I'd like to hear from a florist, actually, yeah,
give us a ring for your florists. You're busy? Is
it as busy as usual? It just feels like it's
not the same thing. I'm wondering if i have to
do anything but tomorrow. I've get the feeling that, as
I was saying before, I've got some tickets for the

(40:41):
rugby on Saturday Chief Soursss Blues at Edon Park.

Speaker 2 (40:43):
So I at the start of the season, that is
is incredibly romantic.

Speaker 3 (40:47):
Yeah, on the Saturday day later, But how much do
you have to do for Valentine's Day? Is it is
a relationship still healthy if you don't do anything for
Valentine's Day? Or is that a signal that it's all over?
And does it have to go both ways to both partners?
So are both people gearing up to do something?

Speaker 2 (41:05):
I'd hope. So, I mean, these are all great questions.
Do you think this year is different that it's starting?
You feel like this year it's Valentine's Day, it's crept
up on us and it's weighing. And if you don't
to get Troy, You've got Tracy the rugby rugby ticket,
so that's something. But if you don't turn up with
flowers tomorrow, is it okay? You want to pass? Is
what you're asking for you?

Speaker 1 (41:24):
No?

Speaker 3 (41:24):
I just I just I'm not sure if I want
to pass. I just don't plan to do anything. But
is that a bad thing? And is that?

Speaker 4 (41:32):
So?

Speaker 3 (41:32):
My question also is like you're planning to do something
for your partner Tyler.

Speaker 2 (41:36):
Well, I'm undecided. Actually, for the first time in many years,
I'm undecided because we already had that chat. We just said, look,
we've got some big bills coming up that we need
to sort out, and let's not buy overinflated flowers or
do anything too crazy this year, because then we can
do something nice down the track on a day that's
not Valentine's Day, and we don't buy into all the
you know, Valentine's pr nonsense. But that was the conversation

(41:59):
we had. But in the back of my mind, I'm
thinking I should still pick up flowers for May tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (42:05):
Yeah, right, because maybe that's not what she really means. Yeah,
maybe she wants to buy into that, but maybe part
of her heart will be slightly broken when you don't
do anything, or if you don't do anything.

Speaker 2 (42:14):
Well, that's right, because we've had that chat every Valentine's
Day for the probably the last five years, and we
always say we're not going to get each other anything.
But then I will, on the way home from work,
swing into the florist and get a nice bouquet of flowers,
nothing too crazy, just something to say, hey, I love you.

Speaker 3 (42:30):
But how okay, another question for you. How come the
one half of these relationships gets two days. They get
Mother's Day and they get Valentine's Day. And everyone knows
that if you're a father, you don't want Father's Day
to be celebrated, because that's just that's just upping expectations
for Mother's Day.

Speaker 2 (42:49):
You reckon it's one side and it just goes one way.
You're a brave man. Oh, eight one hundred eighty ten eighty.
Because the argument always is that I buy flowers for
mave on her birthday, Valentine's Day and something nice on Christmas,
you know, for those occasions. But when it comes to flowers,
it's usually only Valentine's Day once a year. So I
think the give it is fear that I'm only doing

(43:10):
it because there's that pressure of its Valentine's Day. Everybody
else is getting flowers. But is that kind of just
a bit tokenism.

Speaker 3 (43:20):
Yeah, well, this text to here on nineteen ninety says,
don't buy flowers, write her a little love poem, mean
us more. That is nice, means more than flowers. And
this text has said this will be our forty seventh
Valentine's Day and we still celebrate it, making a special dinner.
Please don't say my name. Thanks, I won't say your name. Michael,
that's not his name.

Speaker 2 (43:42):
Eight hundred ten eighty nine two niney two is the
text number. Do you still make a valid effort on
Valentine's Day? Is it nice to do you? Is that
expectation have still alive in the relationship?

Speaker 3 (43:54):
Yeah? Is it the end of the relationship? If you
don't is on the way out. And also I'd like
to hear from Floris, as I said before, you're as
busy as you normally are. One hundred eighteen eighty nine
two niney two is our text number.

Speaker 1 (44:08):
Your new home of afternoon Talk Matt and Taylor Afternoon
with the Volvo XC ninety turn every journey into something special.
Call eight hundred eighty eighty News Talk said, be the talks.

Speaker 2 (44:22):
There's thirteen bars to some great texts coming through on
Valentine's Day? Are you asked the question? Is it still
a thing? Do people still make an effort? Do we
just need to be honest with ourselves that it's marketing
ploy and and do we really need to buy the
flowers on the choplet?

Speaker 3 (44:37):
What do you think about this text? Here? Tyler? Tyler
put a ring on her finger and forget about Valentine's
Day forever. It's from Mecca.

Speaker 5 (44:42):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (44:43):
Wow?

Speaker 2 (44:43):
Does that mean no one flowers for well the rest
of our lives?

Speaker 3 (44:46):
Yeah? All right, Jason Jason, your thoughts on Valentine's daye
a mate, good mate?

Speaker 15 (44:53):
Well, why do you annoy? I share the same that your boys.
So we have our twenty nine winning andifishery in March,
and we have never celebrated Valentine's Day into quote, my
good lady, if you have to buy any flowers on
a day they tell you to, that's not love. We
try and do informations all the time and tell each
other how we feel about it. And for us, you

(45:14):
have to do it on what could be viewed as
a very commercial day, it just feels real flat for us.
So we never have and never will. And you know,
for me, it's buying flowers on the off chance you
have a bad week or something happened, just when to
brighten the day, and you do it then. So yeah,
with who we are, it's all over for us. It's
not a we don't do Valentine's points.

Speaker 3 (45:32):
Jason, how many times a year would you buy your
partner flowers on a whim? Or is it just when
you've done something wrong?

Speaker 15 (45:39):
Oh? Wow, nice, nice son, buddy. I never do it
when you're when you're done something bad, because that mans
things even worse and rotten flowers. I'll buy my girl
flowers three or four times a year.

Speaker 2 (45:50):
Oh yeah, nice, and just randomly for no reason.

Speaker 10 (45:53):
Yeah yeah, yeah, no reason at all.

Speaker 15 (45:55):
Because something have a reason, then well, hey it works
for us, right And then I don't know if it's
growing any points all love. Hopefully it's the latter, But
my girl said he loves it, and we put them
in the VARs. You talk about having flowers and know
shetails of friendship came.

Speaker 10 (46:11):
Just because I.

Speaker 3 (46:14):
Love that, because because really it could be seen. So
the flowers that Tyler will invariably get for his partner tomorrow,
it sounds already by what he's saying, it feels obligated
to so he doesn't get in trouble. So those flowers
aren't nearly as meaningful as yours. Jason, you're just driving home,
you get overwhelmed with feelings of love for your partner,
pick up the flowers and just present it. She's not

(46:36):
expecting it, maybe she's had a bad day. She gets
flowers from you. That is a beautiful thing and completely
outside of commerciality. That's just pure love from Jason. I
respect that.

Speaker 2 (46:45):
But when I said smart before, I made it seem
like some sort of strategy just to make sure that
you're on there and the good books for the rest
of the year. But I don't know if I do
it out of a sense of obligation. It's more that
I wouldn't want May to feel like she's missing out.
That if one of the colleagues had flowers delivered to
her workplace and May didn't get flowers from me, I

(47:08):
think just a part of her. She might not say it,
but a part of it would be thinking Tyler really
dropped the ball this year.

Speaker 15 (47:15):
Yeah, it's interesting, isn't it? Because I have gone back
two minutes sent flowers to my wife's work on a
non Valentine's Day, and the amount of happiness that brought
her and the rest of everybody, And to your point before,
it was very funny. Three people are going, oh shit,
what's he's done wrong with something? You wrongs at the Anniversity?
Nothing to book up just right when you look at it.

(47:35):
For not a large investment, so so many to turn
up at work, unrequited, unexpected, It just makes you da't
In fact, I made it whole week.

Speaker 6 (47:43):
You know.

Speaker 14 (47:43):
That's that's how.

Speaker 15 (47:44):
We've alved you. If you fill your soul boys. And
that's about not about money, right.

Speaker 3 (47:47):
Yeah, So the dodgy guys around the office, when those
flowers are right from Jason, the dodgy guys around the
office are going he's cheating on his wife. I've got
a question for you, Jason. How often does your wife
do reciprocal lovely things like that for you?

Speaker 15 (48:06):
Well, he doesn't buy any flowers in arms or the
lord dry bature the house, sorry to swear, and my
wife does all the cocky. But now and then we
would have surprised each other and go right to date night.
Come on, we're going out and we're going to do
something special just for us. So probably five or six
times a yeah, we do the same thing and just
you know, on the CAUF just goes sign up, this
is going to do something for us and makes it
more it's more from the heart for us, guys. It
means something that way.

Speaker 3 (48:26):
Well, good on you, Jason, and it seems to be
working out for you. You seemed like a great man and
it seems like you've got a great relationship going on.

Speaker 2 (48:32):
Solid relationship ode hundred eighty ten eighty. Is it reciprocal
both ways? Do you if you're in a relationship and
you both get each other gifts. Is that important to
you or are you more sort of in the camp
of Jason's relationship where you just surprise them with something
nice at random occasions.

Speaker 3 (48:50):
Hey guys, Mike, ye it great show. Thanks Mike. I
did not buy a gift one year and boy did
you get angry? So tell Matt to buy something.

Speaker 2 (48:59):
Sens a minefield. Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty is
the number to call. It is eighteen pass two.

Speaker 1 (49:11):
Mad Heathen, Taylor Adams afternoons call oh eight hundred and
eighty ten eighty on news talk z EDB.

Speaker 2 (49:17):
News talk ed B. It is twenty past two, and
we'll asked the question is gifting flowers or chocolates? Are
doing something nice on Valentine's Day? Still a big thing?
Is a relationship?

Speaker 3 (49:28):
Is it essential? Yeah? Yeah, we look if we're saying before,
if you're florist, was ruing O one hundred and eighty
ten eighty, tell us how busy you are, because I
just feel like it's not as much of a thing
all of a sudden, I feel like it's missing me
by But is that just because I'm operating in a
strange bubble these days.

Speaker 2 (49:43):
I think it's dangerous. That's dangerous thinking. It is a
bit of a minefield, though, Logan, how are you, Yeah,
I'm very well.

Speaker 16 (49:50):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (49:50):
How you guys doing good? And what's your take on this?
You're going to pick up some flowers tomorrow?

Speaker 16 (49:57):
Yeah, no, no, we do do, Valentine said, well, we
usually do it by going out to dinner. We don't
do the don't do the flowers thing on Valentine's say intact,
I only give my wife flowers when she's done something wrong.

Speaker 2 (50:09):
Right, okay, right, okay, carry on.

Speaker 16 (50:13):
Comergic doesn't see but it works or whatever she's done,
she never does it again.

Speaker 3 (50:22):
Right, Does she come up in hives or something?

Speaker 16 (50:25):
Oh no, she just sh just sneeze us for a few.

Speaker 6 (50:28):
Hours, you know.

Speaker 3 (50:31):
So that's that I would call that romantic terrorism.

Speaker 2 (50:33):
Yeah, it's almost like having a bit of a spray bottle,
just to you know, give her a spray which she
does something wrong.

Speaker 16 (50:39):
Well, yeah, it's a little bit like that, but but
that does work for anyone out there.

Speaker 3 (50:43):
Yeah, okay, all right, thank you for your advice. Logans
sage points.

Speaker 2 (50:48):
From romantic terrorism. I like that. Vaughn, how are you
I'm fine now.

Speaker 17 (50:58):
Never, yeah, and never acknowledge some time to day. And
my husband did believe in mothers. Say he encouraged the
kids that they should give me little gives us any
time they felt appreciative for efforts.

Speaker 3 (51:13):
And how often does that happen?

Speaker 7 (51:15):
What's gore wrong?

Speaker 3 (51:17):
How does how often does that happen? Yvonne? That they
give you presents because they're appreciative of your efforts.

Speaker 17 (51:23):
When they were lit all not so great, but once
they became teenagers and my time is great, my daphin
not so great?

Speaker 2 (51:32):
And so so do you?

Speaker 3 (51:35):
Did you ever feel disappointed? Did you ever have on
a Valentine's Day? Anyone else is getting flowers and you didn't?

Speaker 6 (51:40):
Never?

Speaker 17 (51:42):
Never, because he often showed appreciation by taking me out
for dinner frequently for a while they're more muchly or
he would come home with chopless or something like that
for me.

Speaker 3 (51:55):
Did he ever accidentally give you a prison on Valentine's
Day just because he was overwhelmed by love? Actively won't
on Valentine's Say?

Speaker 12 (52:03):
Why?

Speaker 17 (52:04):
Because I think what florish through was a bright flower
rose is explortion?

Speaker 2 (52:10):
Yeah, I mean that's logical, von But I mean, yeah, honestly,
was this some part of you that thought I wouldn't
liked some roses on Valentine's Day? Just a small part
of you.

Speaker 17 (52:22):
No, occasionally if you would go out to the garden
and a rose for me, because I had a large
rose garden in those days. Yeah, we never felt we
never felt the knee. If you have to wait for
a commercial to show you that it's time to by,
you're a partner, your lover, a present, a ready value.

Speaker 2 (52:46):
So would you you'd prefer flowers just on a random
day of It's certainly not on Valentine's Day, But if
your lovely husband just turned up with some roses on
a random Wednesday, that would mean far more.

Speaker 3 (52:57):
Yep, oh, thank you, Yvonne. It sounds like you've got
things sorted out in your life.

Speaker 1 (53:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (53:02):
I had one hundred and eighty ten eighty is a
number to call eight years von still there? Could you
say it on back?

Speaker 10 (53:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (53:09):
Avon? What do you reckon about Matt's idea of shouting
his lovely partner Tracy a ticket to the.

Speaker 3 (53:15):
Rugby Sydney.

Speaker 17 (53:20):
Ruby game?

Speaker 1 (53:21):
Did you all right?

Speaker 6 (53:22):
Well?

Speaker 2 (53:22):
There you okay, take of approval?

Speaker 1 (53:24):
All right?

Speaker 3 (53:27):
Well, the thing with florist, right, is that they've got
a perishable good, right. Yeah, So you can't stock up
in advance on flowers for Valentine's Day, can you.

Speaker 2 (53:38):
No, that's how to freeze them.

Speaker 3 (53:39):
And that's the why they've got you over a barrel.

Speaker 2 (53:40):
Yeah, they got you by the curlies.

Speaker 1 (53:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (53:42):
And also it's pretty clear if you've just grabbed one
out of someone's garden or you've hit it down to
a community garden and grabbed them. You just come home
with I don't know, a daisy chain that you've picked
up of the boom.

Speaker 2 (53:53):
Even the ones outside of dairies, and no knocking dairies.
But you've got to go for the full hole red roads,
don't you.

Speaker 6 (53:59):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (54:00):
One hundred and eighty ten eighty is the number to call.
A quick couple of texts and we've got the headlines
coming up. Guys. It's the equivalent of a whole holiday. However,
it's frowned upon if you turn up without flowers. See,
that is the conundrum that everybody knows it's commercial, and
everybody knows that it's a good day for floris, and
this is when they make their money for most of

(54:20):
the year. But if you don't play the game. There
is that slight element of danger that you're going to
upset your partner.

Speaker 3 (54:27):
Especially if you haven't been getting gifts leading up to
that situation. So it's all very well. I've had a
couple of calls where there's been moments of spontaneous flower
buying and spontaneous gift giving. But if you haven't been
involved in any of that, and you come up to
Valentine's Day, and that also includes the days of you
not doing something nice, that's in the problem. This ticks
here on nine two nine two. I've just been to
the supermarket guys and they've got single roses in a

(54:49):
box for forty five dollars.

Speaker 2 (54:51):
Woo see that's it. That's when they're make in their cash. Oh,
eight hundred and eighty ten eighty is the number to
call headlines with ray Lean coming up. Then we'll get
to more of your phone calls. It is twenty seven
past two.

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Speaker 2 (56:19):
Thank you very much. Ray Lean, and we're talking about
Valentine's Day? Is it mandatory or sensible to be getting
your partner something for Valentine's Day? Tomorrow, Matt, your question
in it, you're wondering whether you're going to get in
trouble if you don't get your lovely part Let's see anything, well.

Speaker 3 (56:34):
Let's not talk about specifically about me. Let's keep it generally.
You don't want to be I don't want to be
airing my dirty laundry and my and my lack of
plans for anything to do with Valentine's dat It's not
about me, Tyler. No, but hundred and eighty ten eighty
nine two nine two's the text number? Is it obligatory?
I tell my partner, would she rather me give her

(56:55):
a gift on a day when everyone does it? Or
would she rather a spontaneous day when I do it
on my own terms, which means I'm thinking of her.
She's still waiting. But good things take time.

Speaker 2 (57:05):
Oh that's good.

Speaker 3 (57:06):
My late husband never brought me flowers. He would bring
me firewood that rated higher to me than a bunch
of overpriced blooms any day. But as sometimes when you
when we were on the farm, he would pick me
a stray daisy or other wildflower. Huge points every day
was Valentine's Day on that specific day. From Carol that's beautiful.

Speaker 2 (57:25):
It is lovely mylowers.

Speaker 3 (57:27):
And this textas says, deciding not to do Valentine's Day
is a massive flex. Charlene used to be a florist.
Your views of Valentine's Day?

Speaker 18 (57:38):
Yeah, and you probably wouldn't get a forest calling at
the moment, they'll bet I was thinking that is just
crazy And if you can afford it, I would highly
recommend support your local forests rather than a supermarket a
lot of florests. This as a profit for the whole. Yeah, no,
as Valentine's Day and Mother's Day, so you don't have

(58:02):
to go red roses either, like there's lots of other
beautiful flowers that probably be in better condition.

Speaker 19 (58:08):
You know, And I think, I think, why not?

Speaker 18 (58:11):
Why not take your partner? If your partner has social media,
I highly suggest you get even a little box of
chocolates because everyone posts what I got, what I got?

Speaker 10 (58:23):
I got?

Speaker 18 (58:24):
You kind of felt at my left dad or that's sad,
and I just thank for a sake of a cat
and a box of chocolate. Why not make your partner
feel FISHO.

Speaker 3 (58:33):
What's the stress like for a florist around Valentine's Day?
Because as you say, you've got to make your profit
there buying and enough flowers, enough people coming in, working
out the price because you know a lot of people
say that flowers really pump up the price around Valentine's Day.

Speaker 2 (58:48):
What's the pressure, Like, oh, it's crazy.

Speaker 18 (58:51):
It's a box of early starts and like working on
the way hours of the morning, and you've got to
hire like a lot more people to come at because
like it's perishable good. You can't press that much in
ad but you have a week Tom kind of get
everything and prep and make.

Speaker 19 (59:08):
All the bouquets by the day or two beforehand, and
we need extra people on the prices of flowers from
the glowers go up and it's a lot of what
you don't get more driver than to deliberate and.

Speaker 18 (59:23):
The costs of everything include it, so you don't know.
You don't want to have any flowers left over the
next day because no one wants three roosers on the
first day of So I engage like what to buy,
make sure you have a map, you're not too much
is like rarely tucky as well?

Speaker 3 (59:40):
Do you do you have have the time even though
there's all the stress around getting the flowers together for people.
Do you have time or there's mental space to go?
And there's beautiful people running in, the amount of love
coming in and out of the shop, does that does
that have a register? You're just crazy stressed.

Speaker 18 (59:57):
It's fun, it's it's fun and it's it's nicely and
so a time to day is very funny. And to
Mother's Day there's more mothers than mothers, and mother say
the orders come in, you know, sometimes a month ahead
of Mother's Day, Valentine's Day. Men are very unorganized and
they'll just turn up on the day and that's really

(01:00:20):
hard to gauge what to get. So it is really
it's wait, it's just life to celebrate it.

Speaker 2 (01:00:25):
So aside from roses, what is the flower that you'd
recommend the most? So if I turn up and you're
behind the counter and I say, look, I don't really
know what my partner's into. What would you recommend?

Speaker 18 (01:00:38):
Well, if she likes frights or tanks. And there's so
many different ones long lasting as like Crossanthians, Astromeria, and
they're quite cheaper as well, but they make big bunches,
popping in some grainary to really make the bouquet look
faller and definitely some nice wrapping around it.

Speaker 3 (01:00:56):
And do you as a florist, did you want to
receive flowers? Because that most an interesting position to be in.
Someone whose partner is a florest last thing they want
is to be some flowers on Valentine's say they don't
want to see them.

Speaker 18 (01:01:10):
No, of course you want flowers. Don't want flowers, but
we love flowers. But I also know the mark having
you know, I'm just kind of romance kind of weirs
off when you have joint bank accounts and.

Speaker 10 (01:01:25):
Gone.

Speaker 18 (01:01:26):
So it's definitely when I was stagger, it's really great.
And I still get flowers on Valentine's Day, which is
really nice.

Speaker 3 (01:01:33):
That's lovely.

Speaker 2 (01:01:34):
But you mentioned the social media and that's just a
big thing at the moment. And I know comparison is
a thief for joy and all that. It's all very
logical and sound, but you know, when if if I
don't get made flowers and she sees all her other
friends on social media getting flowers, they'll be a part
of her.

Speaker 3 (01:01:48):
That can be quite Can't you just ai some flowers
into a picture and.

Speaker 18 (01:01:55):
Get you know, random photos, But yeah, it's a sleepers joy.
It just can't help but feel a bit.

Speaker 3 (01:02:00):
Scattered, you know, envious, so from from your position, and
you're out of the game now. You're not a florist now,
so you're not you're not trying to sell it, but
you're saying, as you got to get You've got to
get flowers. You can't you can't. You can't just let
it slip through and try and express them another day.
It's important to get them on Valentine's Day.

Speaker 18 (01:02:19):
No one day, you know, just one day every year.
I'll get you so many brownie points. And there's lots
of different budget options as well. And yeah, support your
local florest is all I can say as well.

Speaker 3 (01:02:30):
Oh, thank you so much for you call, Charlene. Really
appreciate your insights into the world of florists. Hey, guys,
that makes florest is wrong. I ordered flowers and goodies
from my local florists on Monday, two hundred dollars well
spent to stay in the good books. Oh wait, wrong then,
I'm not quite sure.

Speaker 2 (01:02:47):
Yeah, I mean she was kind of advocating quite well
for florist's I thought, quick tickes to Kiday. Guys, we've
been married for forty five years. Every day is a
Valentine's Day, three kids, seven grand kids, It's been awesome.
Just do something special every day. You don't need to
fall into a commercial trap of Valentine's Day regards crag.

Speaker 3 (01:03:08):
So he's doing something every day?

Speaker 2 (01:03:10):
Yeah, come on, Cray, Craig, give us a call.

Speaker 1 (01:03:12):
What are you doing?

Speaker 3 (01:03:13):
Forty five years? Every day is Valentine's Day? Three kids,
seven grandkids, and he's and it's been awesome. And he's
just doing something every day. I mean, what is that
doing the dishes?

Speaker 2 (01:03:21):
Yeah, the same thing. You're going to run out of
ideas after the first year, surely.

Speaker 3 (01:03:24):
As they're just saying a nice word or two here
and there. How much work are you putting in, Craig?
How much do you have to do to make Valentine's
Day every day?

Speaker 2 (01:03:32):
Craig, give us a call. We've got so many, so
many questions for you.

Speaker 3 (01:03:35):
I'm taking my girlfriend to the most romantic place in
the world, the meat Stock Festival in Hamilton, where there'll
be lots of guys rubbing there.

Speaker 2 (01:03:42):
Oh, Paul, it's almost Valentine's Day, mate, Keep it plea,
you're better than that. It's hardly romantic, mate. Oh, had
one hundred and eighty ten eighty is the number to
call the issues.

Speaker 1 (01:03:53):
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Speaker 2 (01:04:02):
Youth talk said, be good afternoon. It is tweeted three
we get some great text. Valentine's Day? Still a thing?

Speaker 5 (01:04:10):
Is?

Speaker 2 (01:04:10):
And do you make an effort to get your partners
something because it expected.

Speaker 3 (01:04:16):
That button wasn't working. That wasn't, that wasn't. There wasn't
user era, the button didn't work. What do you fellas
want for Valentine's Accept the obvious? That's from Rachel. I'm
not sure what you're talking.

Speaker 2 (01:04:24):
Aboutquite like some flowers as well, Rachel, that's what you're
talking about.

Speaker 3 (01:04:27):
Yeah, Hey tomorrow, I finished work at twelve and we
will spend the rest of the day together, having a
special afternoon with my sweetheart. No gift, just special time together, David.
Very no gift, spicy because no gift, no gift for you,
just lovely time together.

Speaker 4 (01:04:43):
I like that.

Speaker 3 (01:04:44):
Emma, how are you?

Speaker 6 (01:04:47):
How are you?

Speaker 4 (01:04:47):
Guys?

Speaker 2 (01:04:48):
Very good Valentine's Day? Are you expecting something nice?

Speaker 20 (01:04:53):
I don't needcessarially expect something myself. I tend to on
a stay home mum at the moment, and my husband works,
so I tend to try and do something for him.
So I was just telling the guys before that last year,
I organized sort of a picnic dinner on the beach.
I've got you got our kids because we couldn't get

(01:05:16):
rid of them for the night or anything. Yeah, and
just took like a little gas cooker down and cooked
up some sausages in the pan and a couple of
goods for the hobby and we had a great little afternoon.
Just told I didn't tell him until I'll say, seem
a message close to his home time to saying meet
me at such and such beach, And that was our
Valentine's evening.

Speaker 3 (01:05:35):
Well that's lovely and good on you. But do you
expect anything at all?

Speaker 13 (01:05:42):
Really?

Speaker 11 (01:05:42):
No, I don't think.

Speaker 20 (01:05:44):
I mean, I it would be nice, but I think that,
you know, I think it doesn't have to be always
like the guys, you know what I mean. It can
you know, it can be like a Roles reversed thing.
Like you know, I'm not expecting anything from my husband.
If he did something that would be great. I don't
really get into the flowers. I love flowers, but I

(01:06:04):
just think that you know, there are a lot of
money for I'd rather into something else.

Speaker 3 (01:06:09):
I love that contrast between I love the contrast your
beers and sausages. That's what you're giving them as opposed
to flowers.

Speaker 20 (01:06:20):
It was deep and he was happy.

Speaker 21 (01:06:22):
Beers.

Speaker 2 (01:06:22):
It was.

Speaker 12 (01:06:25):
Yeah, perfect.

Speaker 3 (01:06:26):
So you're telling me that there's no part of you
that goes I've got this. I've got this barbecue together.
We're going down to the beach. I've got the beers,
I've got the sausages. Will it kill you to get
me something?

Speaker 6 (01:06:38):
You know?

Speaker 22 (01:06:39):
Do you reckon?

Speaker 20 (01:06:39):
I should just wait and see what happens this year.

Speaker 2 (01:06:42):
Yeah, yeah, let us know how it goes, because you know,
it's a mind field that you're you're.

Speaker 3 (01:06:48):
A lovely just act really precically when he gets home
and he has got you anythink and just never quite
say why.

Speaker 2 (01:06:58):
Yeah, yeah, be expecting something nice If you're great, thank
you very much. See that is a nice That is
a nice Valentine's Days and a couple of beers down
at the beach. But yeah, I mean, if that was
I was in that situation and may have said of
organized something nice tomorrow. At that point, I'd be like,
oh right, I better step up to the plate here,

(01:07:20):
because maves organize something really nice.

Speaker 3 (01:07:22):
If you just lie down on the beach, you're like
slamming some beers on your third snag and you haven't
done anything. I think things will start to get frosty.
Used to be a curious as this texter hated Valentine's Day.
Start early in the morning and finish late delivering the
bloody flowers. Still hate it because of that team cheers Gary.
Yeah he's got a anti anti Valentine's Day origin story.

Speaker 2 (01:07:46):
Right TSD there This one from and guys red roses
and chocolates make me feel generic, not special, and completely
ignores the fact that A I don't like roses and
B I can't eat chocolate. It's just aggravating. Go figure.
Nothing is better than a run of the mill something
just not flowers and chocolate.

Speaker 3 (01:08:05):
So that's harsh, isn't it. So it's the thought the
count right, you don't like roses, well you know he's
still got your roses. You don't like chocolate, you can't
chocolate makes you you know, you know what a cantat chocolate?

Speaker 2 (01:08:18):
I mean, is it the thought that counts though? Because
flowers and I'm not knocking florists here, and they rely
on Valentine's Day to make some money. But it is lazy.
Let's be honest here. That is a lazy gift on
Valentine's Day.

Speaker 3 (01:08:30):
Yeah, this is another one from Marie's agreeing with Rachel
before we all know what guys actually want on Valentine's Day,
not just Valentine's Day.

Speaker 2 (01:08:39):
Oh, eight hundred and eighty ten eighty is the number
to call question for you flowers? Genuinely? Is that the
lazy gift on Valentine's Day? If you are getting flowers
each day on Valentine's Day? One, do you expect them?

Speaker 4 (01:08:52):
And too?

Speaker 2 (01:08:52):
If you get them, do you kind of feel like
that's the cheap option? Do you prefer something with a
bit more pizazz behind it? Love to hear from you?
Nine two ninety two is the text number. It is
bang on quartered to three.

Speaker 3 (01:09:04):
Well, this is a spicy text from jest that I'll
share when we come back.

Speaker 2 (01:09:07):
We'll looking forward to this.

Speaker 1 (01:09:10):
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Speaker 2 (01:09:22):
Good afternoon. It is twelve to three. We're talking about
Valentine's dat is tomorrow and the quest well apparently the fourteenth.
Oh god, it's creeped up on us, isn't it. And
the question we'll put to you is, do you think
it's mandatory to buy your partner flowers chocolates? Do something nice?
Controversial via text?

Speaker 1 (01:09:42):
Here we go.

Speaker 3 (01:09:42):
Honestly, since listening to you guys, I've just booked my
wife into a one hour full body massage and a
pedicure two hundred and fifty bucks. Just had baby one
month ago, and that's the very least I can do
good on you thanks to remind us is Brad. I
hope I've given that away. I won't say where where
he's from, but yeah, that is nice.

Speaker 2 (01:10:02):
That is a nice.

Speaker 3 (01:10:02):
Valentine's a massage A massage, Yeah, people love massages are here,
but people are like, I've got.

Speaker 2 (01:10:10):
Can I just ask for your opinion? Met eth on
a potential Valentine's gift for mave a car cleaning service,
car car Valet, car Valet.

Speaker 3 (01:10:22):
Yeah, that's shockingly unromantic isn't it.

Speaker 2 (01:10:25):
It's just a car valet, Yeah, just a clean of
the car, isn't there. There's kind of romantic that she
keeps talking about that she needs to take her car
down to get the car clean.

Speaker 3 (01:10:33):
Yeah, for Valentine's Day. Yeah, it's that's worse than me
taking my partner to the rugby.

Speaker 2 (01:10:39):
That's practical, though she's been asking for it. Chris, how
are you.

Speaker 21 (01:10:47):
Were you Tyler? I see you saw my check.

Speaker 2 (01:10:50):
Yes, and I've got your little email here as well,
but I needed to have a check to you more
about it. So your your birthday is actually pretty close
to Valentine's Da Chris, Yeah.

Speaker 21 (01:11:02):
I just I'm quite happy to celebrate my booth. I've
never really needed anything on Valentine's Day. It's how I've
always felt.

Speaker 3 (01:11:12):
Are you getting presently? Are you getting presents on your birthday?

Speaker 1 (01:11:15):
Well?

Speaker 6 (01:11:16):
I hope.

Speaker 21 (01:11:16):
So that's a great husband and two lovely adult children.
They usually treat me like a queen on thatt Day,
so I'm.

Speaker 3 (01:11:24):
Pretty lucky you get Do you get flowers?

Speaker 2 (01:11:28):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:11:28):
No?

Speaker 21 (01:11:32):
No, Like I said in the email, if it's got
a zero on it, and I'm not going to tell
you what the zero will be on my next birthday.
Flowers would be nice on that occasion, but otherwise, no,
I don't worry too much.

Speaker 2 (01:11:44):
But surely, Chris, you know I mean because you give
me a bit of stick about my lovely partner Mave
and that's fair enough. But surely just getting a nice
rose on Valentine's Day from your hobby is a nice thing.

Speaker 21 (01:11:58):
I've got plenty of flowers in my garden if he
wants to go out and catching in roses? Do need
deep kidding, It's just going to say to you, Twilight,
your young ladies had to make a big change in
who life too to go to where you are.

Speaker 2 (01:12:14):
Yes, and it's time, okay, right, sure, I'm sure.

Speaker 21 (01:12:21):
Some of your old listeners will be. We've all been waiting.

Speaker 3 (01:12:24):
So Chris, you're saying, put a ring on it tomorrow.
Get on the knee, Yeah, get down on the knees expensive.

Speaker 2 (01:12:30):
Than roses, and roses are at a premium right now.

Speaker 3 (01:12:33):
I'm sure she'll be fine with anything that you get.
Thank you, Chrisphew. Call hey guys. It used to be
that Valentine's Day was when you sent an or received
an anonymous card as from a secret admirer. It was
quite the thrill to think someone fenceed you from afar
lad of Valentine's Day became too commissionalized. So haven't I
hobby and I focused more on the wedding anniversary? Love

(01:12:55):
you both long time. Thank you for that. Yeah, I
mean are people still sending secret Valentine's? Are you supposed
to do that? Or is that in the current environments
that can considered some kind of work harassment?

Speaker 2 (01:13:06):
Yeah? And what age does that kind of to stop happening?
And that's kind of like after you're eighteen does that
still carry on?

Speaker 3 (01:13:12):
And what do you get from a secret Valentine?

Speaker 2 (01:13:14):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:13:15):
How do you how do you follow up on that?
Do you give a secret Valentine? Then throw a wink
across the office? How does that work?

Speaker 6 (01:13:21):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:13:21):
Do you keep the card? And yeah, this is a
great text here, get a guys next year, buy a
beautiful potted plant, EG and or kid a week before,
keep it at work. So every year for Valentine's you
give a long lasting pain to represent the long lasting love.
Stop allowing the capitalist system blending you dry. Thank you

(01:13:45):
very much for that text.

Speaker 3 (01:13:46):
That's from Paula stew Your thoughts on Valentine Day and
car washes, Well.

Speaker 10 (01:13:53):
Not so much car washes, but Todd, I think you're
you're the your car, Well there's car what's your car washes?
The thinking man's kitchen appliance. You know, if I bought
my wife a fry pan or a new dishwasher, I
should have just packed my bag and left home. And
I think a car washers right up there with that. Matthew,
I think you've thought it through too much.

Speaker 2 (01:14:14):
Well, you know the fact she's been asking for it.
I just thought, you know, that could be something a
bit more, a bit more different than flowers. Flowers to me,
is a little bit lazy that everyone's expecting that. So
just giving her a car valet to clean her car,
that's what she's been asking for.

Speaker 1 (01:14:29):
But you three and.

Speaker 10 (01:14:30):
Sixty, three hundred and sixty four other days were to
give that or make just like if your wife does
want it this washer, three hundred and sixty four days
besides Christmas and Valentine's that war three days for I'm
an old fart, so a little bit of.

Speaker 2 (01:14:44):
Advice, fair enough. I've got a lot of texts saying Tyler,
you're an absolute idiot.

Speaker 3 (01:14:49):
Thanks my last thanks for that, thanks for that due.

Speaker 2 (01:14:52):
Yeah, yuh menissa, I think am I saying that?

Speaker 18 (01:14:56):
Right?

Speaker 2 (01:14:56):
MENIESA good afternoon, chiah hi hi.

Speaker 22 (01:15:01):
I thought, yes, I always tried to work at this time,
and I listened to the show when I thought, today
I need to call him in that Valentine's Day is
great because going back when I was twelve years old,
another boy in our neighborhood who was also twelve, an
annoying boy, sent me flowers on Valentine's Day and I

(01:15:24):
was at a private school at that stage or girls.
So I got into a lot of trouble because he
sneaked in the flowers through his cousin's sister. So I'm
forty two now being married to that annoying boy for
fifteen years.

Speaker 19 (01:15:42):
So to be really honest, it's just.

Speaker 22 (01:15:44):
Young love, right, It's the start of young love. And
I remember when we were young, really young. I know
that all people call him and say it should be
every day to commercialize, but I feel like, who cares.
We've got these busy routines now, and why not take
the opportunity of this commercialized day and just live back

(01:16:06):
that memory of Valentine's Day back when, back when you
were sixteen seventeen and you got the secret admirer or
you know, it's just wonderful.

Speaker 3 (01:16:16):
So how did you how did you track down to
meet your current husband from the from the flower didn't
have his name on it or was it completely anonymous?

Speaker 22 (01:16:27):
Yes, I realized that he saved all his pocket money
to get me these fancy flowers, and I hated him
for it because and he rang me later and said,
because we had we didn't have cell phones at that time.
This is originally I'm from Sri Lanka. So when he
rang in and my brother picked up the phone and
he had to keep the phone and ring me again,

(01:16:47):
and he said, did you get my flowers? And I said,
I Am never going to talk to you again because
I thought you've got me so much trouble mat We
always go back to that moment. And I've just bought
him his gift on my way to work today. But
it's a simple it's just a simple banker's lamp for

(01:17:12):
his desk. But the years that things are really tough,
like last year he was made redundant, Andy thinks were tough.
We just got a pizza from Dominos and we watched
our DVD wedding DVD that's pretty and and when years
are great, Yeah, well we just you know, go all out.

(01:17:33):
And I've also bought my daughter cards for Valentine's Stage,
just to remind her that she's loved. It's not just
about the couples.

Speaker 3 (01:17:42):
That's brilliant, you know.

Speaker 20 (01:17:43):
I just I just wanted to have that.

Speaker 22 (01:17:46):
Start a feeling, you know, rebec and there's nothing wrong
with it, honestly, think everyone.

Speaker 3 (01:17:52):
Thank you so much for recall. And I think a
lot of people agree with you. This person doesn't, though,
I have two words for Valentine's Day bar humbug clives
into well a good hour. So w does that this
one season? Les Tyler washes the car with a shirt off.
Then it's not very romantic at all.

Speaker 2 (01:18:07):
Nobody wants that, particularly may good discussion. So where does
that leave us? As Valentine's Day is still a thing?
I think it kind of is.

Speaker 3 (01:18:14):
Yeah, it seems to be. Yeah, it seems to be controversial,
but still a thing.

Speaker 2 (01:18:17):
Very good discussion. Right after three o'clock, new topic on
the table. Do we really care about seeing New Zealand
on our screens? We'll tell you more very shortly. Oh
eight hundred and eighty ten eighty is the number to call.
Nine two nine two is the text number. Newsport and
Weather on its way.

Speaker 1 (01:18:36):
Your new home for insightful and entertaining talk. It's Maddie
and Taylor Adams Afternoons with the Volvo xc N eighty
on News Talk seven.

Speaker 2 (01:18:46):
Good afternoon, Welcome back into the show seven past three
and just a reminder, in about forty minutes time we
having a chat to John O Pryor about a new
show that will be on here very soon.

Speaker 3 (01:18:59):
Yeah, that's right. Vince starts at eight point thirty pm
tonight on Channel three and available on three now as well,
which brings us to the subject of this hour's chat.
One hundred and eighty ten eighties the number nine two
nine to two if you want to give us a text.
Government document proposes an overhaul of media regulation and funding agencies,

(01:19:21):
as well as new requirements of global streamers to invest
in New Zealand content. Global streamers such as Netflix, Apple,
Disney Plus and Amazon would be required to invest in
New Zealand productions and content under a range of new
media proposals unveiled by the government today. Smart Television this
is the one seems extreme to me, smart television manufacturers
would be required to ensure New Zealand apps such as

(01:19:42):
TV and Z Plus and Freeview are given prominence on
their content menus. Right now, global streamers such as Apple Plus,
Netflix and Amazon have prior a place in many smart
TV lineups. I mean my remote as Netflix and Amazon
Prime on it one of my remotes. And interestingly enough,
my Samsung TV plays Samsung Television, which is fantastic because

(01:20:04):
it's got Cricket Gold as a channel on there. It
just plays old cricket games from the It's full rotation.
That is a fantastic channel. But the question is is
New Zealand content on air? I mean, we have New
Zealand and ear and that's because we believe as a nation,
it would seem that money Kespas money needs to be spent,

(01:20:24):
should be spent on putting New Zealand on our screens.
They are still doing that, but New Zealanders seem to
have moved away from the screens that they're putting New
Zealand content on. And the likes of Netflix, Amazon and
Disney Plus don't necessarily want to have New Zealand's product online.

Speaker 2 (01:20:43):
Yeah, and they just go by viewing habits.

Speaker 4 (01:20:45):
Right.

Speaker 2 (01:20:45):
So on New Zealand's Netflix, there's currently only nine listed
New Zealand movies and TV shows. So what does that
say about us?

Speaker 3 (01:20:54):
Is this on Amazon Prime?

Speaker 7 (01:20:56):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:20:56):
No, this is on Netflix? Oh okay Netflix. So right now,
if you load up Netflix and have a look and
look at New Zealand content, there is just nine movies
or TV shows listed on New Zealand Netflix. So that's
not a good look for us as a country, right
because clearly Netflix has algorithms there based on viewing models

(01:21:16):
and what we love to view. And as kiwis, it
appears that we are not wanting to watch our own stories.

Speaker 3 (01:21:23):
How much stuff is on Amazon Prime. On Amazon Prime
had just over ten New Zealand titles in the catalog.
That includes my movie The Devil Demito, great movie that's
on Amazon Prime.

Speaker 2 (01:21:31):
Fantastic that counts.

Speaker 3 (01:21:33):
That's a movie from two thousand and seven.

Speaker 2 (01:21:35):
Yeah, But the big question is, I mean, do we
want to see our own stories on our screens?

Speaker 4 (01:21:41):
And I do.

Speaker 2 (01:21:42):
I want to see our own stories on our screens.
I don't want most of the entertainment and the content
to be Americanized, No doubt it has been and it
will continue to be, but I think it's incredibly important
that we have our own stories and our own creatives
and our own actors and directors and everybody else that
is behind the scenes in film and TV. We've got

(01:22:03):
to showcase that stuff and that's worthy of textpayer investment.
But at the same the same argument it has to
be good.

Speaker 3 (01:22:11):
Well, you can say that, but what they're actually asking
for is for the likes of Netflix and Amazon Prime
to pay five percent, like to pay a sort of
some kind of five percent levy towards New Zealand production,
so they have to actually pay for the content. So
you know, you've got New Zealand on ere, They're not
only saying you have to play it, but you have
to pay for it, which is interesting. I mean there's

(01:22:35):
always a chance that they just go nah and leave
New Zealand, right, Yeah, but yeah, what is it that?
Why is it that we need to see in New
Zealand on our screens? Why is it exactly eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty and what is the kind of
stuff from New Zealand that you want to see on
your screens? Because if any given time, there are these
buzz TV shows out there in the world shows that
people are talking about, and if New Zealand made one

(01:22:57):
of those buzz TV shows, then surely the streamers would
come flooding in to buy it, right. So what we're
saying here is not only we're paying for these shows
been played on certain platforms, but not only that, not
only do we want New Zealand on air, we want
New Zealander New Zealand productions on air where people are watching.

(01:23:19):
So people do have the ability to go to TV
and Z Plus I go there a lot. There's some
fantastic stuff on there. So not only do we want
it there, we want it right in people's faces where
they are. So people are drifting to Netflix, So we
want New Zealand there bang right there. So not even
any effort, but surely if there's a fantastic show, people

(01:23:40):
would just flick over to the other wrap and watch it.

Speaker 2 (01:23:42):
Well, what's your take on it? Because you've had a
long career and you still continue to have a career
in film and TV and that creative side of the industry.
Do Netflix have a responsibility to provide some sort of
New Zealand content?

Speaker 1 (01:23:55):
See?

Speaker 3 (01:23:55):
I don't know if they do, but I think they
should because I think the industry is a fantastic thing
and there's so many creative people involved in it, and
we want to keep that industry going. And look, Netflix
shoots a lot of stuff down here. Yeah, well, you know,
there's a lot of productions that are shot down here.
That the exact number, I'm not sure, but Amazon has
shot stuff down here before it's shot The Rings of
Power turned out to be a terrible show, and they

(01:24:15):
up stick pretty quickly around the COVID times. But so
I want it, but do they morally owe us too?
I'm not one hundred percent sure O.

Speaker 2 (01:24:26):
Eight one hundred A. Yeah, I'm mixed on it because
things have changed dramatically over the past what five six
seven years since these streaming giants have come to the
fore across the board when it comes to entertainment. But
what is their responsibility to providing New Zealand content? And
I think, as you mentioned before, some of these demands
from the government are overbearing and probably a bit much.

(01:24:49):
And it may be that Netflix and Amazon and Disney
say thanks, but no thanks, you're asking a bit much. Well,
you know what you want from you.

Speaker 3 (01:24:55):
Look at some Netflix has massive hits from around the world,
doesn't it so Squid Game for example, Yeah, so that's
a Korean show that has blown up around the world.
Do New Zealand just need to make its own squid Game?
Do we need to make stuff that the rest of
the world wants that that forces Netflix to play it,
or Netflix commercially wants to play it, or do we

(01:25:15):
want to make our stuff and force them to play it?
Do you see what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (01:25:18):
It's got to be the former, and we've done that right.
The Broken Wood Mysteries is the one that was fairly
recently that did phenomenally well internationally.

Speaker 3 (01:25:26):
Broken Wood Mysteries sells all around the world.

Speaker 5 (01:25:29):
Great show.

Speaker 3 (01:25:29):
Yeah, my dad loves it. Yeah, absolutely love that. It's
a fantastic show. It sells all around the world because
it fits into what people want to watch. There's a
love around the world for those sort of cozy crime
shows like Midsummer Murders and such. What we do in
the Shadows, Yeah, well what we're doing, well, what we
did in the Shadows is an American production of a

(01:25:50):
New Zealand idea. So it was a New Zealand film
that then got a series in the States for effex right,
So it was a great show, So does that count.
That's kind of seeing they're seeing New Zealand ideas on here.

Speaker 16 (01:26:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:26:02):
Oh, eight hundred eighty ten eighty. This is going to
be a good discussion. The techs are coming through thick
and fast on nine to nine two. But we'll play
some messages and come back with some of your some
of your calls. It is fourteen past three, good afternoon,
seventeen past three. How much do we really care about
seeing New Zealand stories and content on our screens? This
is on the back of global streamings such as Netflix, Apple,

(01:26:24):
Disney and Amazon would be required to invest in New
Zealand productions and content under a range of new media
proposals unveiled by the government.

Speaker 3 (01:26:34):
And what are the shows in our history that we
believe would make it globally? Shows that are so fantastic
that Netflix would jump on board and be happy to
spend money on because they'd go like a squid game.
So looking back in time, what are some fantastic television
shows in New Zealand?

Speaker 2 (01:26:54):
Yeah, oh, eight one hundred and eighty ten eighty. I
can think of one outrageous fortune.

Speaker 3 (01:26:58):
Oh yeah, yeah, hey, So for example, this will be interesting.
So for example, a five percent levy would generate approximately
twenty five million dollars, so that's what they're saying. So
you do it five per levy on the likes of
Netflix and Amazon Prime of what they earn, and they
invest back into New Zealand television production. See I mean,
to make television shows is an incredible expense of particularly

(01:27:19):
drama and as opposed to reality TV shows, it's incredibly expensive.

Speaker 2 (01:27:25):
Yah, Tanya, good afternoon to you. So you had a
chat to some French ladies about New Zealand programming not
too long ago.

Speaker 23 (01:27:34):
Yeah, it was very, very strange. I was on a
bus arm out of London heading to Stoneheinge for our
day trip Core and there were three pension or aged
ladies from France on the trip and when they realized
I was from New Zealand, they couldn't stop.

Speaker 21 (01:27:52):
Raving about the TV series of.

Speaker 23 (01:27:56):
Broken Woodness, which I'd never heard of, which is really random.
I'd never heard of it, but they were going how
amazing it was, and then they wanted to know about
New Zealand and whether they should come in bizzards.

Speaker 2 (01:28:10):
Which is fantastic and I look hand up honesty, cor
I haven't seen too much of the Broken Wood Mysteries,
but I know it is a massive hit internationally. It's
a huge, it's more so than here.

Speaker 3 (01:28:19):
I know a few people that are on the show,
Jason Hoyt, great New Zealander, yes, and Fern Sutherland. They're
fantastic actors. But they've both told me that it's huge
in France, that Broken Wood Mysteries is a bona fide
hit in France. It's interesting, isn't it. So they'd be
dubbed voices, Yeah.

Speaker 23 (01:28:37):
They said it was dubbed in French and so that's
quite interesting, but they I mean, it's a sales pitch
for New Zealand.

Speaker 2 (01:28:45):
I guess certainly is. Yeah, and when it comes to
our stories been on our screen tone, you do think
it is important that the likes of Netflix maybe comes
to the table to put on productions that showcase New Zealand.

Speaker 23 (01:28:58):
Yeah, definitely. I think there's definitely scope for that, and
I think more and more New Zealanders would probably be
chaining into Netflix to watch those sorts of things. I
just think that's a one one for everyone.

Speaker 10 (01:29:10):
Really.

Speaker 3 (01:29:11):
Do you think they should be forced to do that? Though?
If they're going to be in New Zealand should be
because that's what they're suggesting. They're suggesting this government a
government document an overhaul of the system god global streamers
such as Netflix, Apple, Disney and Amazon would be required
to invest in New Zealand productions and content under a

(01:29:31):
range of new media proposals. That that's that's what they're saying.
So that's a levy of One of the suggestions is
five percent, So Netflix would have to give five percent
of what it earns in New Zealand towards New Zealand productions.
Would you support that?

Speaker 23 (01:29:47):
Yeah, I guess I probably would in that respect because
it's only going to help New Zealand, the film industry
and the media industry. I certainly don't don't have a
problem with that at all. But whether that's possible or not,
I don't know. And whether the Netflix and that will
agree with that, I would doubt, but.

Speaker 1 (01:30:05):
You know, you never know, you never know. What.

Speaker 3 (01:30:08):
Thanks so much for you call, Tania.

Speaker 2 (01:30:10):
Appreciate it great to chat. Thank you very much.

Speaker 1 (01:30:16):
Matt Heathen Tyler Adams afternoons call oh eight eighty eighty
on news Talk ZENV.

Speaker 3 (01:30:23):
Good after noon. We were talking about where the Netflix
and Amazon and Apple and such. The streamers, the big
international steamers should be forced to play in New Zealand
content on their platforms and levied to spend money on
New Zealand productions. We asked what shows we think would
make it internationally make the muster. Interestingly enough, Netflix has

(01:30:44):
bought The Casketeers that are a New Zealand show paid
for by New Zealand their money, and was loved enough
by Netflix executives to buy it and play it over
in the United States and around the world, which is great.

Speaker 2 (01:30:57):
Is it a little bit sure?

Speaker 3 (01:30:57):
It's Netflix?

Speaker 10 (01:30:58):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:30:58):
Is that a little bit chicken and egg though, So
you've got to have that investment to be able to
create a TV show or a film. It's successful in
the domestic market and News Zealand and only then will
Netflix pick it up. I mean it's a tough one,
isn't it.

Speaker 3 (01:31:12):
Yeah, well, yeah, exactly it is. I mean, yeah, this
person says Terry t O Stick of the Dump and
Meet the Feebles, Meet the Feebles. Yeah, that's shocking movie.
Meet the Feebles. Great movie, but shocking movie. Terry t
and the Terry t O remake was fantastic as well,
but a Stick of the Dump wasn't a New Zealand production.

Speaker 2 (01:31:32):
Stig of the Dump.

Speaker 3 (01:31:32):
I've never heard of this, I believe of the Dump.
I'm trying to remember. I think Stick of the Dump
was a show where there was sort of a cave person,
a caveman who lived in a dump. But I'm pretty
sure that was an English show. This Texas says, do
you guys seriously think New Zealand even rates a thought
to the bosses at Netflix or Amazon? Though it probably doesn't.
They probably don't. But the idea of this government document

(01:31:55):
is to levy them and make it, you know, change
the law so they to be in New Zealand, they
have to pony up a certain amount of money towards
New Zealand productions. Aaron, your thoughts on this, Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:32:11):
Hi guys, So two things. Yeah. Firstly, I agree that
they should have to put the money in towards some
local productions, So I've got no problem with that. You know,
if those companies are going to suck, say twenty million
dollars a month out of the New Zealand, which is
probably in the vicinity of where Netflix is at now,

(01:32:32):
I would have thought then some of that money should
be tuning back into productions made here. But I also
believe the film commission and ends on the air funding
model needs to be flipped on its head. Like the
current system as crap. It's all about DEI and ticking
boxes and all this other rubbish. Get down to business

(01:32:53):
and start funding shows and movies made by New Zealanders
because that's a New Zealand story, not stories that are
just set in New Zealand. But as long as it's
made here by New Zealanders, I call that New Zealand mate.
And then make stuff that world wants to watch. Peter
Jackson's proven it, Tiger's proven it. Teewis can do it.
They can do it really, really well. So let's start

(01:33:15):
backing a few winners and stop backing some of the
crap that gets made just because it's in brackets. New
Zealand story and the cast and all the staff take
a whole lot of boxes to keep people happy. I
don't care who makes it in this country as well
as it's made here by Tewis, so.

Speaker 3 (01:33:33):
Made here in terms of helping out the business and
money going back into the system rather than necessary telling
new sealing stories. So you could have a horrific serial
killer series made in the Cargo, which made In the
Cargo out to be a town in Scotland or something.
You wouldn't care as long as as long as the

(01:33:53):
production was in New Zealand.

Speaker 4 (01:33:56):
Absolutely, because that's creating jobs and creating a screen industry
that can stand on its own two feet. But when
you're making really really naffed short films and the Commission's
putting tens of thousands of hundreds of thousands of dollars
into that brubbish that no one watches, it's a complete
waste of time. Record companies used to Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:34:16):
It's an interesting situation I think with government funding. There
was this fantastic story about Flight of the Concourse, you know,
that incredibly successful New Zealand duo that went over and
they made their show in New York, yep And it
was funded by HBO. Yes, And they were saying that
they got more less notes from HBO than they did

(01:34:38):
from they were doing a little skit on a comedy
show in New Zealand and the two of them, they
got less notes from HBO for this entire series than
they did for the government funded skit show they made
in New Zealand. So really to make people succeed and
make fantastic shows, this is the HBO model. You give them.
You find talented people and you give them money and
you get them to do what they want to do,

(01:34:58):
rather than choosing what they want to do, choosing what
you think is the right thing for them to make.
So what you're really saying is great idea, great people,
go and make it, and let's try and compete in
the same way as as as if it was an
international production and any kind of idea that you would
take to a Hollywood studio, I.

Speaker 4 (01:35:19):
Guess absolutely, because that's the only way to create jobs.
And New Zealand's got a ton of really really creative people,
especially in the Maori and Pacific communities, so you know,
let's get them into well paid jobs creating stuff for
the world, not just creating these terrible, terrible beverage stories.

(01:35:39):
Don't want to watch.

Speaker 3 (01:35:40):
Yeah, what, what's a New Zealand production that you rate
that's been on TV?

Speaker 4 (01:35:47):
Okay, that's going to sound really dumb. I think Country
Calendar should be sold to every living lifestyle channel in
the world. Great, it's motivational, that's a good show. But
some of our cooking shows. That Van Derhusen guy out
of Auckland that used to do the one with the
food truck. Then thing that would stand up on any

(01:36:08):
food channel in the world. So we need some good
sales people as well pumping that stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:36:13):
Well, I think I think those shows probably do sell
it around in the world. There are a lot of
shows that do sell and they sit in channels and
maybe in the middle of the day or whatever. They're
not necessarily primetime. But say Country Calendar, for example, it's
a fantastic show. It's beautiful, but then you compare it
to something like Clarkson's Farm, which is just a little

(01:36:33):
bit more commercial and visceral. You know, I'm talking a
lot about that at the moment. It's a great show there,
but you know, you want to showcase New Zealand. You
get someone like a big, big star like Jeremy Clarkson
and get him over to be on a farm in
New Zealand. Then you might be able to get something
that's more global, yeah, or a.

Speaker 4 (01:36:52):
Star from here to do it, you know, like sham
Neil's got his own winery. Dounce out still be angry
about politics and stuff, and you've got to show.

Speaker 3 (01:37:03):
Thank you so much for your call, Eric, appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (01:37:05):
I mean just thinking about the controversy over the government
funding for The Lord of the Rings, right, yeap, And
clearly Lord of the Rings the actual story has nothing
rarely to do with New Zealand. But how beneficial has
that movie franchise been to New Zealand and tourism? People
always talking about hobbiton or come into New Zealand to

(01:37:25):
do the Lord of the Rings trail and all that
controversy was just for nothing. Clearly it was incredibly beneficial
that one hundred and fifty million that the government put in.
We got that back and then some.

Speaker 3 (01:37:36):
Yeah, well now people are confused and they think the
Earth is New Zealand. It's been fantastic. Give the funding
to Moon TV. That's Leehart's fantastic TV show from back
in the day. But the thing with that show was
he mainly funded himself, so he would get sponsors on
board to make that show and then he's cut it
up into a bunch of bits and it's huge on YouTube,

(01:37:56):
you know, and you can also go to MoonTV dot
cod and z I think it is and watch it. Yeah,
so that's the other thing that we're competing with is
you take YouTube, that is the ultimate democracy on what
is good because people put everything up, they make it
for free, they put it up and if it's good,
it rises to the top, and then the people that
make it can make a whole lot of money. And

(01:38:17):
that's a really hard thing to compete with if you're
a funding body because you have to pick and choose
and put money in certain places. But YouTube people make
it and then what rises with the best rise at stop.
So there's a million ideas and maybe two come up,
but there's no investment from YouTube into those ideas, but.

Speaker 2 (01:38:34):
Just one group of creators from New Zealand. I think
they call themselves Viva La Dirty. Very very popular on YouTube.
I think they've got seven million subscribers exactly. I don't
think they got one single dime from New Zealand on air.

Speaker 3 (01:38:46):
Right, Yeah, not for a long time. So yeah, Viva
Dirt League hugely successful. Pas to work with them. They
work at Enzime, two of the main guys from that
and yeah, yeah, they've just battled their way up to
the up the top. And you know, they did give
a little recently. I think they raised ten million dollars
to build their studios out in West Auckland and they're

(01:39:07):
hugely popular and doing really well absolutely, but struggled to
get any funding in New Zealand.

Speaker 2 (01:39:12):
Yeah, some a lot of great teachs coming through on
shows that would have done great internationally as well. We'll
get to some of those very shortly. It is twenty
eight to four.

Speaker 1 (01:39:27):
US talks the headlines.

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Speaker 14 (01:39:38):
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Speaker 2 (01:40:39):
Thank you very much, srey Leane. And we've asked the
question how much do New Zealand stories and contact our
content bean on our screens really matter. It's on the
back of the government looking at forcing the global streaming
giants such as Netflix, Apple, Disney and Amazon to come
to the table and help. We must produce our contents.
Plenty of great texts on shows in New Zealand that

(01:41:01):
would have done well internationally. Guys who remembers funny business
classic KIW TVC is absolutely outstanding.

Speaker 3 (01:41:10):
Yes, will you do it?

Speaker 2 (01:41:11):
Yes? Sam Neil is apparently on TikTok and doing some
great dry humor from his farm. Would make a great
TV series from Sue.

Speaker 3 (01:41:20):
Yeah, Screaming Reels which sold to the Aussies. Yes, Streaming
Reels was Leehart's Fishing Show. It was interesting because it's
the comedy fishing show where they never caught any fish.
But it was sold to Australian Television and they sort
of didn't mention that it was a comedy show, and
so it just went out on air on Australian television,
I think on Channel seven over there on seven and

(01:41:40):
people just went, what is this. This is the stupidest
fishing show. Even they don't know what they're talking about.
They don't care any fish. If you know Lee Hat's humor,
if you didn't know that he was joking, that would
be quite a shocking TV classic ausies.

Speaker 2 (01:41:52):
Oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighties the number to cool.

Speaker 13 (01:41:55):
Hey you, Beryl, Hello Siah, Nearly going to sleep after
all that chat?

Speaker 3 (01:42:01):
Thanks are I thought it was sintillating, chair Beryl.

Speaker 13 (01:42:08):
Guys when you went to sleep, listen, I'll be honest
with you. I'm going to stick my south out like
a branch on a tree to say I feel quite
negative about New Zealand content. Putting aside Peter Jackson, who
is quite brilliant and brought money into New Zealand, and
that woman that wrote the book on the illusionists. I

(01:42:29):
think it was about Denniston and the gold Rush was
something down there. Most New Zealand stuff I just avoid
and if I've heard something good about it, and I
am a proud New Zealander, I mean, I'll give you
an example. I try on juke last night because I
haven't got the cable television. I thought, well, I'll listening

(01:42:52):
to this and it was eleven thirty last night on
juke called friggin' dangerous brow on the Road. I thought, oh, well,
local comedy. I feel like a laugh before bed, and anyway,
it just said the boys arrived in Haker ticker and
realize they know next to nothing. I've tuned into it
and I could hardly find anything. And honestly, I've got

(01:43:14):
an open humor. I hardly anything at all that I
found to laugh at. I think Shortland Street is short
Brain Street. And I just think that these people that
want to write something for TV, they really need to
get their act together. I mean, guys, New Zealand has
got a dry sense of humor. That's fine. And I'm

(01:43:36):
not telling you I haven't been to the odd movie
that's of New Zealand that I haven't enjoyed. There has
been the very odd one, so odd that I'd run
out and buy Losso when I found one. But you know,
at the end of the day, you go to a
picture theater and there are some obvious humorous parts and stuff,
and a lot of New Zealands are sittingy with dead

(01:43:58):
pans faces not laughing. So maybe it's New Zealand. New Zealanders.
They do have a dry sense of humor. I'm a
New Zealander, but there's very little I would say that
we're freddy looking at and I don't think Netflix should
be encouraged to take anything of New Zealand until some
of these writers improve.

Speaker 3 (01:44:19):
Thank you. Yes, she's gone hard on, but you know,
the New Zealand sense of humor. You've got to say
that Taikerway TD probably personified that New Zealand sense of
humor and movies like Boy and Hunt for the Wilder People,
fantastic movie Hunt for the Wilder People and as you say,
what we do in the Shadows, and he's gone on
to be hugely successful around the world. So that sense,

(01:44:42):
if that New Zealand sense of humor and flight of
the concords, Light of the Concords, I mean, I know
they're part of the same friend group, so you know.

Speaker 2 (01:44:49):
It wasn't that in on air they couldn't really understand
the humor. And shame on them because then, as you said,
they took it to New York, made it in America,
massive hit internationally, and New Zealand on he didn't get it.

Speaker 3 (01:45:00):
Yeah, And it's one of those kind of weird things.
So you say to Netflix you have to play, or
that you have to pay a levy to make New
Zealand stuff, there'll be another way. Look at it. Is
the New Zealand stuff that's so good that they want
to grab it, like you say, for the casketiers and
you know, hunt for the Will to people be incredibly
successful globally and as we said before, we're doing the

(01:45:20):
show's becoming an e fix TV show overseas.

Speaker 2 (01:45:23):
But becking ourselves rather than relying on the government to
strong arm them into coffin up.

Speaker 3 (01:45:29):
Yeah, although I would support the government strong arming them
into coughing up because I think the industry is fantastic
and I want people to have work.

Speaker 2 (01:45:35):
Yeah, very good, right, Oh, eight hundred and eighty ten
eighty is the number to callback very surely it is
twenty to four.

Speaker 1 (01:45:42):
Mattie Tayler Adams with you as your afternoon rolls on
Matt and Taylor Afternoons with the Volvo XC ninety attention
to details and a commitment to comfort news talks.

Speaker 2 (01:45:52):
They'd be good afternoon.

Speaker 3 (01:45:54):
A few texts here, Fellas. It's criminal that the international
acclaimed masterpiece The Devil Deared Me Too is no longer
on screens. Well, I can tell you that is one
of the New Zealand films. It is on Amazon Prime
so you can actually watch that.

Speaker 2 (01:46:05):
Do you get money for that every time it's watched?

Speaker 4 (01:46:08):
Well?

Speaker 3 (01:46:08):
I did get money for that at one point.

Speaker 2 (01:46:10):
Yeah, very good. Quick a couple of texts because John
Pryor is standing by guys. The Casketeers, as you mentioned,
are doing incredibly well overseas. The Crypton Factor, Woolle Valley
Gliding on the List goes.

Speaker 3 (01:46:24):
On the Lumineus by Ellen Lkassen. They made a version
of that with the BBC. Unfortunately you couldn't hear it
or really see it. It was dark and mumby.

Speaker 2 (01:46:31):
Yeah, absolutely right. Good discussion coming up very shortly, an
interview with John o'priyor, who's got a new show called
Vince on our screens very shortly. It is a quarter
to four.

Speaker 1 (01:46:44):
The big stories, the big issues, the big trends and
everything in between. Matt and Taylor Afternoons with the Volvo
XC ninety attention to detail and a commitment to comfort.
News Dogs VB on News Dogs.

Speaker 2 (01:46:58):
MB thirteen to four, speaking about TV shows we should
be getting behind?

Speaker 3 (01:47:03):
Yes. Johnoy Pryor has been a big name in New
Zealand media for a couple of decades, now hit TV show,
Massive Social Media Presence, Stunts, Pranks and currently on the
Jonathan Ben and Meghan Breakfast Show on the Hits. Now
he's going out on his own with a non Ben
show he's written, produced and start in a new comedy
starting on TV three tonight at eight thirty pm and
on demand on three now. And he's here with us.

(01:47:25):
So John O tell us about the new show, Vince.

Speaker 5 (01:47:29):
Well, it's basically about a self assess narcissistic broadcaster who
loses his job after an unfortunate incident at a children's
hospital whereas his trousers come down and live on television
and so essentially canceled, and he's trying to claw his
way back and get his job.

Speaker 3 (01:47:46):
Back, but he doesn't pull his trousers down. His trousers
just come down.

Speaker 5 (01:47:49):
They just come down.

Speaker 3 (01:47:50):
But that's a bit of a plot point, okay, because
this happened to you, didn't it At Christmas in the park.
You were getting a photo with some kids and your
pants came down. But that wasn't on purpose, that was unintentional.

Speaker 5 (01:48:01):
I had my arms around both children as their mother
was taking the photo, and the exact moment I'm pretty
sure she hit hit the photo button, the pants came down,
some vaping scllywag come up behind, and yeah, yeah it was.
It was a textbook down trail though. We'll give that
to The.

Speaker 3 (01:48:19):
Wiggles have been very careful about things like that, got
a lot of protocols in place when they're around kids.
They got their their fingers up, the finger guns, the
finger games.

Speaker 5 (01:48:25):
We had a photo with them and you go to
put your arms around them. They're like, no, no, slit's
finger guns.

Speaker 3 (01:48:30):
The finger guns was invented so you could always see
their hands. So everything was there was no questions ever
asked of the Wiggles. So you've done a lot of
I guess skip Baits comedy over the years with you
know Johno's New Show and The Jonavan Ben Show, but
it's a bit of a step up having to write
full episodes and a series arc. How was that It
was a.

Speaker 5 (01:48:50):
Huge learning experience, to be honest, mate. I know you've
obviously you've written a movie before and deviled in it before,
but you learn so much along the way, and it
was actually really very satisfying and humbling experience, to be honest,
because Jonathan Ben absolutely loved the years that we had
making that show. But it was such a a will wind,
you know, like a week to week will when we

(01:49:11):
were just meeting this deadline of Thursday night and Friday
night whenever it was on air, and so you never
as it was happening, got to really appreciate what was happening. Yeah,
it's not till after the offet.

Speaker 3 (01:49:22):
Like a radio show, it just goes and goes and goes.

Speaker 5 (01:49:24):
Never like one day and fifty years we were sitting
back and oh yeah we did. Some didn't appreciate it
at the time, but yeah, so I guess the difference
between when we're making that show and to what this was.
It was a very slow moving train. Like you you
write a pilot script you see, if a network wants it,
then you have to apply for your zealing on air
funding and they give you some development money.

Speaker 3 (01:49:42):
So it's all.

Speaker 5 (01:49:42):
It was all very slow, but actually in being so slow,
you get to appreciate and really put your all into
each step of the process.

Speaker 3 (01:49:50):
So you feel like you had the script just absolutely
screwed down by the time you started shooting. Yeah, because
it had been like three or four years by the time. Yeah,
and I would say, very slim chance of you getting
it on here.

Speaker 5 (01:50:01):
Yeah, it was a very surprised when when the funding
came through, and it was the whole thing was surreal.
I didn't really expect the funding to it through, and yeah,
just thanks to TV three for taking a gamble on it.
But you turn up to work and you probably had
this when you guys did your movie. You turn up
to it and you go, oh, this dumb idea that
that we had has now employed forty people, you know,

(01:50:23):
And yeah, I found that very humbling, kind of like
a war.

Speaker 3 (01:50:27):
Just the pure logistics of getting it done, the locations,
the lighting trucks. It's quite a thing into its south.
How did you find that whole process eye opening?

Speaker 5 (01:50:37):
I'll never watch another show sort of like this and
not appreciate how much work goes into it, like and
there's there's so many talented people in that industry. We
had to go around with the location scout and look
at locations and that, the catering, the makeup and quite
like everything, like even you'd walk into a beer room
and then someone would have to design the room the

(01:50:58):
stuff you've written down on paper not even thinking, and
so that part of it was really I.

Speaker 3 (01:51:04):
And they come up to you and they've done two
days work on one bit you wrote that you didn't
even think about. That wasn't even important, and they're like,
I've got that, and you're like, oh, you should have
just come and talk to me. I would have had
have deleted that and say if you.

Speaker 5 (01:51:14):
Were a life of time, You're like, these poor people's
been twelve hours trying to make this image that you
blindly wrote. But it's thankfully But yeah, well we had
a really great team.

Speaker 4 (01:51:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:51:23):
I'm always really impressed with the location people because things
you would never think about. You see an exterior of
a building and then someone walks in and something happens
and there's someone's had to deal with the parking for
all the trucks they get the they've had to get
the council across the line, get the permits, find space
for the catering. Argued with the neighbors. It's it's the

(01:51:43):
logistics are so intense, especially now, even more because back
when you were shooting jonaan being back then you could
be a but loose you just sort of turn up
at Mission Bay and hassle some people when it was
all lovely.

Speaker 5 (01:51:53):
You're right, Yeah, just the amount of the amount of
work that goes and you know, you just flick on
Netflix and you're like, don't like that show, and you're like,
three hundred people have just worked their guts out on
that for about two years and you don't even see
most of the work on the screen.

Speaker 3 (01:52:07):
So you're a famously nice guy. You never hear anyone
saying anything but positive stuff about John a right, and goes, God,
he's a great guy. But you've always sort of had
this tendency towards that shocking, edgy stuff. Yeah, why do
you think that is?

Speaker 5 (01:52:19):
My mum's got a very dark sense of humor, and
I think it came from my mum was a journalist
for the press in christ Church, and yeah, she spent
a lot of time at Thomas some of the politicians
and stories she would tell, like very dark senses of
humor in that in that world. And so yeah, I
think that's where I got it from. And I remember
actually when we were doing Chilo and Ben would film

(01:52:40):
the show live and as comedians, he was warming up
the audience, as they say. And then after the show, Mum,
she was at the show. She came up to Sam
and she's like, you're very good at that job. And he's, oh,
take you, you know, very commanding. You can you can
you can hold an audience like Hitler, And.

Speaker 4 (01:52:58):
What do you mean.

Speaker 3 (01:52:59):
She's like, well, he was.

Speaker 5 (01:53:00):
He was charismatic, he held a room, he held a
room's attention.

Speaker 3 (01:53:05):
So she's that's her sense of humor, right, So it's
come through to you. Yeah, And so you've obviously been
it's been Jhona and being done TV shows together. You
do the Hits Show, You've been very successful together. So
this is kind of the first project that's basically all John.
How's for a while? How's that?

Speaker 5 (01:53:23):
Yeah, it's it's been honestly, it's been different, it has
been weird. It's really felt unusual in parts, and we
both have since the TV show wrapped up, have just
been you know, pitching shows together and doing all sorts
of mate. If you want to tell you, if you
want to pitch for a TV show, we've got to
play desktop full of the mat.

Speaker 3 (01:53:43):
We'll pitch you a show.

Speaker 5 (01:53:45):
But no, none of me, excuse me, none of been
really sort of landing for you know, whatever reason. The
industry is having an interesting time at the moment. And so, yeah,
this wasn't sort of like mindfully me going I'm going
to go off and do something by myself. It was
just so genuinely must like you like writing, find it
really satisfying. And it just kind of started naturally that way,

(01:54:07):
was locked down the room with COVID during COVID, and yeah,
that's kind of so it wasn't like, oh, I'm going
to break away and do my own thing by any stretch.
And yeah, just over a four year period, the snowballs
started to grow with this idea.

Speaker 3 (01:54:19):
Yeah, did you use that script writning book? I sent
you that time.

Speaker 5 (01:54:22):
Yes, absolutely, that's bloody great And I've got to send
you one too. Have you read Rick Rubin's one?

Speaker 6 (01:54:28):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:54:28):
Yeah, Creativity or whatever it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I
just bought that for my son.

Speaker 5 (01:54:32):
That is so good. Yeah, if you if you don't know,
Rick Ruben is very famous music producer. He's produced some
of the world's biggest albums and just his approach to
creativity is amazing.

Speaker 1 (01:54:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:54:42):
Oh, well, you're a great New Zealander. I can't wait
to see the show. You've done so much good stuff
before and you're a beloved figure, so looking forward to
seeing your pants get pulled down and see where it
goes from there.

Speaker 5 (01:54:52):
Oh man, it's been a pleasure mate, Thank you you
enjoying this was the show.

Speaker 1 (01:54:55):
I love it.

Speaker 5 (01:54:56):
Yeah, I love dream Result, Dream Results. Manheath has got
the ultimate radio gig PERVERCT hours on the biggest station
and doing a great job.

Speaker 2 (01:55:07):
Cheers mate, Thank you very much, John O. And yeah,
Matt does have the greatest job and radio hey, thanks
very much for today. Thank you Maddie, and thank you
to all the Texters and listeners. Will do it all
again tomorrow Friday, of course, which means New Zealander of
the Week and topical tunes. We will see you tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (01:55:32):
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