NEWSTALK ZBEEN: What's the Rush?

FIRST WITH YESTERDAY'S NEWS (highlights from Monday on Newstalk ZB) Grow Up and Slow Down/Netflix Was the Only Winner/The ABs Are Alright/Coldplay Strikes Back/Never Wear Gumboots Neat the Ocean

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
Hello, my beautiful beanies, and welcome to the bean for Tuesday.
First of yesterday's news, we are looking back at Monday
and the Netflix boxing match that wasn't really a boxing
match between two people who don't really box. Mike Tyson's
too old and the other bloke isn't actually a boxer.

(00:48):
Get into that shortly. Ah, they're all blacks. Shame about France,
but they're going all right, and they Matt Heath's Magical
Coldplay Experience sort of part two of the Man Heath

(01:10):
Coldplay story, Return of the Killer Coldplay and Marcus falls
over because he did something incredibly stupid. But before any
of that, speeding. Now, John McDonald seems to be on
about speeding quite a bit. I can't I can't look
quote mag whether he's Florida or against it.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
How do we push the envelope a bit?

Speaker 4 (01:28):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:28):
I know, I know means test but it would be
a disaster. Although to be fair to doctor Darren Walton
at the University of Canterbury, he hasn't just he hasn't
plucked this idea out of thin air. He says, in Switzerland,
speeding fines are scaled to wealth. But I don't see
how that. I just don't see how that would encourage

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someone with plenty of money to slow down. They would
just go to here they pay the fine. And I
also don't buy this argument that speeding finds need to
be equitable. That's what the that's what the university guys say.
You know, we need an equitable fine system. Sorry, mate,
you speed, you get caught, and you should pag z
the same fine whatever your financial situation is. That's what

(02:13):
I think. But if this research is telling us today
that drivers ticketed for speeding are nearly three times more
likely than other drivers to be involved in the crash,
then something does need to change. And I do like
the idea of scaling up the speeding fine systems that
each time you get a ticket you get a high fine.
I don't like means testing though.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
I just don't why do people want to speed? Why
do they do it? And I'm not talking about people
who sort of accidentally go a little bit fast coming
down the hill. I mean, we've all done that, and
we should all be a little bit more attentive and
not let that happen. But the people who just you know,
they've just come up your ass, so tailgate you get

(02:56):
you out of the way so they can zoom pass
changing lanes. People, you don't get there any quicker. I
know you think you do. I mean, what's your average
distance of your trip? What are you going to You're
gonna get there like two minutes quicker than somebody else.
Come on, guys, grow up.

Speaker 5 (03:20):
News talk z bean.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
Weally become a grumpy old men man about worn stupid cars,
starving car right now. So the I can ever even
remember which Paul it is? I know, is there a
Jake Paul and a Logan Paul and one of them
was fighting Mike Tyson for some reason.

Speaker 6 (03:42):
How stupid and Netflix well they won the fight with
sixty five million viewers at peak. It's part of a
new strategy that they've got to get live sport events
to their subscribers, including those that are paying less but
getting fed ads on the platform. This is their clever strategy.
So their ads supported flip platform now accounts for fifty
of their new sign ups. It's grown to seventy million

(04:04):
new US news in just two years. It's a credible
These big tech bro Silicon Valley giant media companies, you know,
YouTube's all of those types. They're just going from strength
to strength, aren't they. And they're the ones that have
our attention. There are one, two, and three most streamed
in New Zealand, and yet we here in New Zealand
and Australia are trying to force them into news content

(04:26):
deals with us. We're battling with taxpayers cash to reinvigorate
failing state media companies to compete with these guys and
are doomed to fail battle. We're like the fifty eight
year old Mike Tyson who apparently nearly died before entering
the ring. They are the annoying twenty seven year old
new to boxing but bringing in the eyeballs Jake Paul,

(04:47):
these big tech companies. So what do we need to do?
Keep fighting, get more bloodied, get more bruised, or create
partnerships and try and get our content to their eyeballs?

Speaker 2 (04:58):
All right? So I love do you know what? I
actually love being ignorant of all this stuff. I love it.
It's amazing how these days you can you don't to
get very close to these sorts of things to know that,
oh no, it's not for me. I don't need to
be interested in this. I can ignore it completely and
move on.

Speaker 1 (05:17):
You'se talk, Sibby.

Speaker 2 (05:18):
Although I actually wonder if I am becoming a grumpy
old man because I'm starting to feel a little bit
that way about rugby as well. I haven't paid any
attention to the last couple of games at all, really,
I know. I mean I sort of make be aware
of the results. That's about it. Don't really know if
we played well or not who I don't even really
know who was playing. I assume Scott Robinson's still coaching.

Speaker 7 (05:41):
But a one point is not bad because you have
to think about where we're at with the squad.

Speaker 5 (05:45):
Right.

Speaker 7 (05:46):
This is Ray's first year. He took over a team
that frankly sucked a lot of the time, didn't they.
I mean, don't forget why we wanted to get rid
of Fozzy because these guys sucked. The All Blacks were
all over the show. They lost a series at home
to the Irish, they got smashed by the spring Box
twenty six ten. And that's not even to mention the
worst one, which was the Twickenham disaster with the box
got smacked smacked US thirty five, ethan. I mean that's huge.

(06:09):
That hurts, didn't it. So it's actually not bad to
turn those performances into a nearly clean sweep of the
Northern Tour in just one year now. I mean, look,
let's not pretend that it's perfect out there, because even
the match that we watched this week and was at times,
frankly a little irritating, wasn't it, if not horrifying. I mean,
the discipline's a major problem. Giving away three pointers all

(06:31):
the time is not ideal. There's that weird call to
try for two penalties in the last what was it,
six minutes of the game or something like that, when
they were obviously they should have gone for a try
and then they would have won.

Speaker 2 (06:42):
I mean, there was.

Speaker 7 (06:43):
Obviously the wrong call to make. And we're not even talking,
by the way. I'm talking about wins. But they're not massive,
convincing margins, are they. But let's be fair. I mean,
think of any other discipline out there right, Think of
a business, for example, where a CEO takes over. You
don't expect perfection in the first year. You don't expect
a CEO taking over a business to suddenly turn an

(07:04):
absolute stinker into a blinder. Do you you just want
to see that it headed in the right direction. You're
getting some improvement, and I think we've got it. I
think we can say short of something horrible happening this weekends.

Speaker 2 (07:15):
Has proven himself and to prove how ignorant I am
about rugby. I think I sort of gave the impression
on the podcast yesterday that the All Black season was finished.

Speaker 4 (07:26):
Who knew that they.

Speaker 2 (07:27):
Still had to play at a league anyone? I hope,
I hope they know to zoom they do. I don't
think there are any more Coldplay concerts, pretty sure about that.
By now you will have heard that Afternoon host Matt
Heath got himself a free run of Backstage because Chris

(07:51):
Martin heard his interview them with Mike cost King post
the first concert on Wednesday, and following all this anyway,
Matt Heath said, nice think about Coldplay. They personally invited
a back for the final show.

Speaker 8 (08:05):
It was so surreal, and what was really good because
it was cameras back there, so it wasn't one of
those situations where you meet a starr and you're trying
to get something from them like a photo or a signature.
It was just a real genuine experience and he had
a really good chat to me, and you could just
tell this is a really good guy that really preaches
what he lives what he preaches, you knowunds like about

(08:26):
you know, you know that the love you make is
equal to the love you take kind of situation.

Speaker 5 (08:31):
The review was glowing, no doubt about that, and if
you want to listen to it, you can get it
on week on demand on the zib website. But there
was part of that review where and you mentioned Mike
that you you thought Chris might have been a bit
of a punishable character to that.

Speaker 8 (08:44):
I started my review by saying, you know, I'm a
cynical guy, and you know, I always knew Chris Martin
was talented, but there's some sort of slight punishable nature
about him. And he didn't mention that. He said he said,
I loved your review, even though he described me as
punchable at the start, but then I see it after
seeing him live. And I've always loved their music. The
music's fantastic, But after seeing them live, I said in
the review, I would follow this guy into battle, and

(09:06):
I would follow that guy into battle. I think he's
one of the best front man I've ever seen, and
people see that's crazy to say that he's up there
with mc jagger and Freddie Mercury even though they're very
different frontmen, And now I stand by it. He can
hold the fifty thousand people in the palm of their
hands and everyone's smiling, and the guy can sing like
nothing else. Yeah, it's incredible.

Speaker 2 (09:27):
We were lamenting yesterday on the my hosting breakfast and
none of us got invited and we were all sort
of part of that every view as well. Without me,
I wouldn't agreeve been going to hair, But oh, I
know Chris Barton doesn't think about that, doesn't even very
hands out of the backstage invites. It also could have
had something of the fact that I've could have got
this one go today where the Cold Players were rough music,

(09:47):
if they're a rough man or not more popes than
that than rock. I do always, you know, publish the
caveat there.

Speaker 1 (09:57):
That I think they're great news talk Zi Bean.

Speaker 2 (10:01):
It's because of you, not rock. Doesn't mean you're not great.
Marcus isn't feeling too good because he wore his gum
boots into the ocean.

Speaker 4 (10:11):
What I parked the car, and boy, the tides low.
The tide was unbelievably low with the full moon like
unbelievably low, like as low as I was seen. I said,
I'll go out and get a couple of power No
rahui or nothing on. So I actually think, oh, well,
let's just check on the phone. The tide's just about

(10:32):
to turn. I'll be out there, way back in five
minutes ago, rushing out there kind of duskish, not really dusk,
but dusky ish. So go racing out there across the
rocks to get a couple of parw before the tide turns.
And wow, boy did I get a wake up call
because it was unbelievably slippery and gum boots. I never

(10:57):
thought of that, And boy, oh boy, did I come
a cropper. I the legs went from under me, and
yeah it was Peter almost ended up in the tide,
almost banged me head and end up in the tide.

Speaker 6 (11:12):
It was that.

Speaker 4 (11:13):
It just was one of those one of those split
second things, not thinking. Didn't have a witch about me
in gum boots, which was impractical running out there, and boy,
I nearly kind of saw my end of days. Anyway,
trouser leg covered in water, gum boot full of water,
got my way back to the house bruised but not bleeding,

(11:39):
hadn't punctured the skin, so.

Speaker 6 (11:43):
You gave herself a rube.

Speaker 4 (11:44):
Anyway, My cell phones rooted, total screen is completely broken.

Speaker 2 (11:51):
Is it not just one of the most basic things
that you're taught your whole life? Never wear your gumboots
anywhere near the ocean. I don't like walking on slippy
rocks these days. No matter what I'm wearing on my feet,
I could be wearing crampons. I still wouldn't do it
because of having broken both my shoulders slippery conditions, two

(12:18):
separate occasions. It's disturbing to me that Marcus is less
of an old man than me. Like if I if
that had happened to me, I'd have no arms left,
I'd be broken. I'd probably still be impaled on the
rocks waiting for somebody to come and save me. He
didn't even puncture any skin, so you know that part's impressive.

(12:41):
But seriously, don't wear your gum boots anywhere near the ocean.
And on that I'll leave you. That has been Newsks
It'd be will be back with more sage advice like
that tomorrow.

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