WEBVTT - The Panel: Maggie Smith, truancy, Bridgerton ball 0:00:05.761 --> 0:00:09.961 You're listening to the Weekend Collective podcast from News Talk ZEDB. 0:00:10.321 --> 0:00:14.281 And time to introduce my fabulous panel, my first my 0:00:14.321 --> 0:00:18.041 first panelist. She's no stranger than news Talk ZIBB audiences. 0:00:18.201 --> 0:00:20.881 And she's she's won the Old Award. You know, she's 0:00:20.881 --> 0:00:23.121 won the Old Award for news reading. She's and she's 0:00:23.201 --> 0:00:25.921 quite a good company. And it turns out, you know, 0:00:25.961 --> 0:00:29.041 she's not a bad sort and it's neither ready Marney, Hi, Neva. 0:00:28.761 --> 0:00:29.521 Good afternoon. 0:00:29.641 --> 0:00:31.641 I didn't want to sort of bang on about how many. 0:00:31.681 --> 0:00:34.521 Thirty I don't don't don't award because you know, I'd 0:00:34.521 --> 0:00:37.721 just like to fly under the radars counting there's only 0:00:37.761 --> 0:00:39.161 thirteen or fourteen, but that's okay. 0:00:39.241 --> 0:00:42.601 Actually, have you literally lost count? Have you literally lost count? 0:00:42.721 --> 0:00:46.201 Yeh? I mean, you know we're all stars here at 0:00:46.321 --> 0:00:52.241 ZIBB to them even you, oh. 0:00:52.161 --> 0:00:55.441 You scrape around the bottom of the barrel there love anyway, 0:00:55.601 --> 0:00:59.001 and joining me is he's coming through to us from 0:00:59.001 --> 0:01:01.281 the Wellington Studio. I don't know if he's won any awards, 0:01:01.281 --> 0:01:04.081 but he would probably win an award for just being 0:01:04.241 --> 0:01:08.481 so insufferrable, young and successful. And it's brad OL's economist 0:01:08.521 --> 0:01:09.721 Brown Owl's and hi, Brad, how are you. 0:01:09.761 --> 0:01:13.201 Going good afternoon? I'm well, thank you, and I'm enjoying 0:01:13.241 --> 0:01:15.481 the fabulous day that we seem to be having in Wellington, 0:01:15.521 --> 0:01:17.721 which sometimes is a bit few and far between. 0:01:18.281 --> 0:01:20.961 That was that too much saying you're insufferably young and successful. 0:01:21.481 --> 0:01:23.801 I was just trying to glance right over there really quickly. 0:01:23.801 --> 0:01:27.001 In fact, ah, you know, of course, I always I 0:01:27.001 --> 0:01:29.241 always mean it with love. But you of course see 0:01:29.321 --> 0:01:32.001 e Oven from Metrics house things going then for Metrics saying. 0:01:32.321 --> 0:01:34.321 Oh, look, there's always a lot happening in the economy, 0:01:34.321 --> 0:01:36.921 so our team is always pretty busy looking around at things. 0:01:37.241 --> 0:01:39.161 You know, interest rates are still the big one at 0:01:39.161 --> 0:01:41.921 the moment. Everyone wants to know what's going to happen next, 0:01:41.961 --> 0:01:44.481 and so we're still we're still tracking on and looking 0:01:44.481 --> 0:01:44.881 at things. 0:01:45.601 --> 0:01:47.721 Hey, by the way, actually, Neva, did you want to 0:01:47.761 --> 0:01:48.601 chip in there? I did. 0:01:48.641 --> 0:01:50.081 I want to just wanted to chip in there and 0:01:50.121 --> 0:01:52.321 say something to do you, Brad because we have never 0:01:52.481 --> 0:01:55.441 met face to face, but you know, I know you 0:01:55.481 --> 0:01:57.361 because every time I've been reading the news, you know, 0:01:57.401 --> 0:01:59.801 your name always pops up and we're always got new 0:01:59.881 --> 0:02:02.121 stories about you. But you know, when I knew you 0:02:02.121 --> 0:02:04.721 were coming on the panel today. My first thought was 0:02:04.761 --> 0:02:08.841 not a you as an economics expert, but you as 0:02:08.881 --> 0:02:11.641 a dancing expert, because. 0:02:11.321 --> 0:02:14.681 I am going to shake that I know well. 0:02:14.761 --> 0:02:17.441 And I thought that was the only Radio Awards event 0:02:17.481 --> 0:02:19.561 that I didn't go to, and I wish I was 0:02:19.641 --> 0:02:22.201 there because I love dancing and I'm sure I would 0:02:22.201 --> 0:02:23.681 have been dancing with Bread that day. 0:02:24.481 --> 0:02:26.961 That legend has just grown. I don't know whether you 0:02:26.961 --> 0:02:28.921 didn't need dancing at all based on what you've told me, 0:02:28.961 --> 0:02:32.121 but the impression is growing, and the legend is growing 0:02:32.161 --> 0:02:34.401 that you get Brad Olsen on the dance floor and 0:02:34.521 --> 0:02:36.841 stand back, baby. Look. 0:02:36.881 --> 0:02:38.921 All I can say is that Mike Costing owes me 0:02:39.201 --> 0:02:42.521 a lot for the muck that he's raked me through. 0:02:43.401 --> 0:02:47.281 And amongst ZB officers, I think, look to be honest. 0:02:47.361 --> 0:02:50.161 I haven't got the call up yet for whatever next 0:02:50.321 --> 0:02:53.481 edition of Dancing on Star Dancing with the Stars has been, 0:02:54.081 --> 0:02:55.721 so I feel like it kind of mean that good. 0:02:55.921 --> 0:02:59.041 Yet I think look to be clear and to confirm 0:02:59.121 --> 0:03:01.761 and deny all the rumors. All at once, there was dancing, 0:03:02.041 --> 0:03:04.961 but thankfully there's never a record of it anywhere. 0:03:05.121 --> 0:03:07.721 What read next time you come up to the Auckland office. 0:03:07.721 --> 0:03:11.881 Here at News Talk ZB, we are always dancing, especially 0:03:11.881 --> 0:03:15.001 the breakfast crew because we're here from four am, so 0:03:15.161 --> 0:03:17.281 you know, if you need to come in early, and 0:03:17.561 --> 0:03:19.681 when you're here in Auckland, it just comes through to 0:03:19.801 --> 0:03:23.041 ZB because we've always got the music blaring eighties though, 0:03:23.161 --> 0:03:24.201 eighties and nineties. 0:03:24.201 --> 0:03:26.521 But you know, I can see a show dancing with 0:03:26.561 --> 0:03:30.521 the economists. Oh I can we get brad Olsen. There, 0:03:30.521 --> 0:03:37.521 we get Tony Alexander, I've run out anyone else. 0:03:38.321 --> 0:03:41.401 That'll be a quick show. I mean, look, it's one 0:03:41.401 --> 0:03:43.601 of those things where I don't know if I do 0:03:43.761 --> 0:03:45.921 all that well with the eighties and nineties music, given 0:03:45.961 --> 0:03:47.641 that I was born in the late nineties and so 0:03:47.681 --> 0:03:50.241 therefore I'm not going to recognize all that many of them. Sorry, 0:03:50.361 --> 0:03:53.961 if we can do twenty tens pop on all the fort. 0:03:53.841 --> 0:03:55.641 Did you enjoy the little bit of Queen there though? 0:03:56.401 --> 0:03:58.521 I did, and I knew that song, which is important. 0:03:58.721 --> 0:04:01.041 Yeah, well, I mean, I mean, also, it's funny, isn't 0:04:01.081 --> 0:04:03.561 it that that there are bands of a generation that, 0:04:03.601 --> 0:04:06.241 even if you weren't alive, like probably be pretty familiar 0:04:06.241 --> 0:04:08.281 with a lot of ABBA's repertoire. I'm a huge Abba fan. 0:04:09.441 --> 0:04:11.361 I'm still going through my Abba sort of obsession at 0:04:11.401 --> 0:04:13.441 the moment. I don't know why. It's because YouTube keeps 0:04:13.441 --> 0:04:17.561 throwing me the clips and I had a crush on Agneta. Anyway, 0:04:17.601 --> 0:04:19.441 there we go. That's another thing. I'll probably talk about 0:04:19.441 --> 0:04:25.281 that with the counselor sometime. Anyway, Hey, by the way, Brad, 0:04:25.681 --> 0:04:28.201 you are I want to know about this. But I 0:04:28.601 --> 0:04:32.921 gather last time you were you were up in Auckland actually, 0:04:32.961 --> 0:04:35.001 of course, and you were gonna go to the test match. 0:04:35.161 --> 0:04:37.961 You had tickets and you said to me, I don't know, 0:04:38.001 --> 0:04:39.961 the weather's not looking too good, so even though I've 0:04:39.961 --> 0:04:43.121 got tickets, I might not go to an all Blacks Test. 0:04:43.281 --> 0:04:45.961 And now, of course you're in Wellington and you've got 0:04:45.961 --> 0:04:48.041 your all black shirt on. I want to know what 0:04:48.201 --> 0:04:49.721 happened and what's gonna happen. 0:04:50.601 --> 0:04:52.921 Well, yes, and and I think I told you that 0:04:52.961 --> 0:04:55.081 in confidence when I came into the studio last time 0:04:55.121 --> 0:04:57.001 and we got it through the airway. Well no, when 0:04:57.041 --> 0:05:00.081 I say in not really, I told it in jest 0:05:00.321 --> 0:05:02.721 and it became a larger part of the interview than 0:05:02.761 --> 0:05:04.641 I thought. But no, you're right, and look, I got 0:05:04.641 --> 0:05:07.161 a lot of feedback from people who said that I 0:05:07.241 --> 0:05:09.321 must go, that you know it's an all Blacks game 0:05:09.361 --> 0:05:11.601 and to just sort of toughen up, which, to be fair, 0:05:11.641 --> 0:05:13.561 was probably the message I needed to hear because in 0:05:13.601 --> 0:05:15.761 the end, my friends and I we did go. Yeah, 0:05:15.801 --> 0:05:17.841 we got pretty wet, but it was a good occasion. 0:05:18.081 --> 0:05:20.881 We won that game we played. Actually the boys played 0:05:20.921 --> 0:05:24.121 really well that game, which was fantastic. Today, hoping that 0:05:24.121 --> 0:05:26.841 we can also get things across the line, just hoping 0:05:26.881 --> 0:05:28.761 we can score in the last twenty minutes would be 0:05:28.761 --> 0:05:31.081 a good, good thing for the All Blacks. So yeah, no, 0:05:31.401 --> 0:05:34.481 looking forward to it, wearing my proud All Black shirt. 0:05:34.521 --> 0:05:36.241 Looking forward to going to the game later tonight. 0:05:36.801 --> 0:05:38.401 By the way, you did say lovely data is it 0:05:38.441 --> 0:05:38.961 lovely day? 0:05:39.601 --> 0:05:41.401 It is a lovely day. I will not get rained 0:05:41.441 --> 0:05:41.921 out today. 0:05:42.201 --> 0:05:44.201 It should be. I think it'll be a sell out 0:05:44.281 --> 0:05:47.481 there tonight, my brothers. I've got a lot of family 0:05:47.521 --> 0:05:50.041 members there in Wellington going to the game. I think 0:05:50.081 --> 0:05:52.321 there's about ten of them, so I've got a bit 0:05:52.321 --> 0:05:54.041 of fomo there. I think it'll be great. 0:05:54.361 --> 0:05:56.641 Yeah, I actually I love the I love the Wellington 0:05:56.681 --> 0:05:57.761 Stadium for a test match. 0:05:58.001 --> 0:05:59.481 There was the I think that, well, it's the curse 0:05:59.521 --> 0:06:01.001 of the Capital though, isn't it. 0:06:01.161 --> 0:06:03.601 Last time I was there. Actually I was singing the 0:06:03.641 --> 0:06:05.801 anthem for the All Blacks and this is how long 0:06:05.841 --> 0:06:09.921 ago it was. Guys. Scott Robertson was playing and scored 0:06:09.921 --> 0:06:11.561 the first try and I think it was against the 0:06:11.601 --> 0:06:14.681 spring Box and it was back in the time. I'd 0:06:14.721 --> 0:06:19.241 probably reheatd myself. But my girlfriend, my girlfriend at the time, 0:06:19.601 --> 0:06:23.641 No no, no, I'm warmed up, but my now wife, 0:06:23.681 --> 0:06:26.121 but girlfriend at the time. They give you tickets to 0:06:26.161 --> 0:06:29.121 the game, but she got also a ground pass so 0:06:29.161 --> 0:06:30.881 she could be right down on the sideline when I 0:06:30.921 --> 0:06:33.481 went to do the anthem. And afterwards there's no one 0:06:33.521 --> 0:06:35.321 to tell you to go and take a seat. So 0:06:35.361 --> 0:06:37.241 we watched the first five or ten minutes of the 0:06:37.241 --> 0:06:40.521 game like you would watch a club match, down on 0:06:40.521 --> 0:06:42.521 the sideline, and we were only a few meters back 0:06:42.561 --> 0:06:44.841 from it. Someone said you should probably go and take 0:06:44.921 --> 0:06:47.921 your seats. But I saw Scott Robertson, I think, and 0:06:48.201 --> 0:06:50.321 scored the first or second try, and he did it 0:06:50.321 --> 0:06:51.961 with a bit of a flourish. It was a dive 0:06:52.001 --> 0:06:54.081 over the line and he sort of arched his back 0:06:54.161 --> 0:06:55.721 and stead of kicked his legs and a start and 0:06:55.721 --> 0:06:57.761 I thought, oh, there's a shape, bony, there's a chap 0:06:57.841 --> 0:06:59.801 and of course we see him breakdancing. So there you go. 0:07:00.401 --> 0:07:03.161 Fun story. Yeah, maybe not that much fun. 0:07:03.561 --> 0:07:05.681 Oh no, I no, that is a fun story to 0:07:05.761 --> 0:07:06.241 tell us you. 0:07:06.601 --> 0:07:09.521 Yeah, it's quite It's probably one of the more intense 0:07:09.601 --> 0:07:10.961 things you can do to sing an anthem for a 0:07:11.001 --> 0:07:14.161 Test match. Anyway. The other thing in Wellington, guys, nieves, 0:07:14.201 --> 0:07:15.841 have you ever been to the World of Wearable. 0:07:15.481 --> 0:07:19.041 Ast I no, the World of Wearable Arts. Look, this 0:07:19.121 --> 0:07:22.121 is it's been going for thirty five years. It's on 0:07:22.201 --> 0:07:24.761 at the moment. They're expecting about thirty thousand people to 0:07:24.841 --> 0:07:27.481 attend up and down the country. I mean, it's not 0:07:27.601 --> 0:07:30.601 just national, it's global. And I am going to make 0:07:30.641 --> 0:07:33.601 an effort to go next year. Because there was a 0:07:33.601 --> 0:07:35.681 group of us here in the newsroom talking about it, 0:07:35.761 --> 0:07:37.521 and there were like half a dozen of us. I've 0:07:37.641 --> 0:07:39.961 never been. I did try to get tickets and it 0:07:40.001 --> 0:07:42.961 was sold out. But I'm really really impressed with it. 0:07:43.041 --> 0:07:45.281 I mean every time I see it on TV and 0:07:45.281 --> 0:07:47.641 it just looks amazing. I mean, Brad, you've probably been there, 0:07:47.761 --> 0:07:48.841 fifty thousand times. 0:07:49.121 --> 0:07:51.481 None. I bet I've never been. 0:07:51.721 --> 0:07:53.881 I've never been. I'm so sorry, but that is only 0:07:53.921 --> 0:07:58.001 because I don't have any real appreciation for arts, and 0:07:58.041 --> 0:07:59.721 I just I wouldn't know good art of it hit 0:07:59.761 --> 0:08:03.001 me in the face. But what is quite impressive is 0:08:03.481 --> 0:08:06.041 walking along today all of the businesses that have really 0:08:06.081 --> 0:08:09.521 got in behind it. A lot of signs up saying look, 0:08:09.561 --> 0:08:11.881 if you show your well To Wearable Arts ticket, you 0:08:12.081 --> 0:08:14.081 know you get a discount or you might get some 0:08:14.081 --> 0:08:16.321 something you know, a good option in there, which I 0:08:16.361 --> 0:08:19.201 think is good because look, people are struggling, but this 0:08:19.321 --> 0:08:21.361 weekend should be a big one for Wellington, a lot 0:08:21.401 --> 0:08:23.721 of people around and it goes for a while. I mean, 0:08:23.761 --> 0:08:25.921 I've got family that are coming down from Funky Day 0:08:26.441 --> 0:08:28.921 in two weeks time to be part of it. So again, 0:08:28.961 --> 0:08:31.961 you know, it is, like you say, a much bigger thing. 0:08:32.001 --> 0:08:34.121 I think it's been running what like thirty five plus years, 0:08:34.161 --> 0:08:37.881 so it's a big institutional piece and it is quite exciting. Personally, 0:08:38.161 --> 0:08:40.041 I feel like I'd be wasting a ticket, so I'm 0:08:40.081 --> 0:08:42.041 excited that it's sold out and that other people seem 0:08:42.081 --> 0:08:43.881 to be doing much better than I am. On the 0:08:43.921 --> 0:08:44.921 cultural front. 0:08:44.761 --> 0:08:47.561 It's not quite my bag. But actually this has meant 0:08:47.921 --> 0:08:52.801 I can imagine Neva you. I can actually imagine you 0:08:53.121 --> 0:08:56.401 in some amazing as an in some amazing outfit in 0:08:56.441 --> 0:08:58.681 that show for some reason, because you've got a certain 0:08:58.721 --> 0:09:00.561 style to you, and I can just imagine you rocking 0:09:00.641 --> 0:09:01.281 some sort of look. 0:09:01.441 --> 0:09:04.201 Well, is it because I like to wear costumes, but 0:09:04.321 --> 0:09:08.161 that's eaten vegetable costumes that are we're here in the newsroom, 0:09:08.441 --> 0:09:09.921 or animal costumes. 0:09:10.361 --> 0:09:12.641 I can just see you've got a certain style. 0:09:12.681 --> 0:09:14.801 I'd like to do that, But I just don't know 0:09:14.841 --> 0:09:17.881 about the catwalk though. It's it's you know, how I 0:09:18.001 --> 0:09:20.281 shimy down the catwalk. I don't think I could do 0:09:20.361 --> 0:09:23.641 that in a serious mode or wearing big high heels 0:09:23.681 --> 0:09:24.241 to lettos. 0:09:24.801 --> 0:09:27.481 I mean, John Key did it back in the day 0:09:27.521 --> 0:09:29.481 and seemed to sort of not stuff it up too 0:09:29.561 --> 0:09:31.641 much on the runway. Surely if he can do it all, 0:09:31.681 --> 0:09:32.881 the rest of us can give it a credit. 0:09:32.961 --> 0:09:36.521 Well, that's true, Brad. I like that idea, yep. Absolutely. 0:09:37.321 --> 0:09:39.881 Now just on the actually, we normally we start with politics, 0:09:39.881 --> 0:09:41.801 but of course I thought we'd you know, I thought 0:09:41.801 --> 0:09:44.801 we'd start with partly the reason I meant wanted to 0:09:44.841 --> 0:09:47.361 kick off of the World a Wearable Arts and also 0:09:47.401 --> 0:09:49.921 the test matches that you know what, Wellington's had a 0:09:49.921 --> 0:09:52.681 tough time and it's just nice to see the Wellington's 0:09:52.721 --> 0:09:55.281 going to be absolutely heaving. And I just want to 0:09:55.321 --> 0:09:57.201 know from you, Brad, who are you're on the spot? 0:09:57.601 --> 0:09:59.121 Is there a vibe in town at the moment with 0:09:59.161 --> 0:10:00.881 the AB's test and with the wow on. 0:10:01.761 --> 0:10:05.001 Oh absolutely yeah. I mean look walking around even yesterday afternoon, 0:10:05.041 --> 0:10:08.881 obviously people would come into the city before things kicked 0:10:08.881 --> 0:10:11.761 off this weekend, it was pretty busy. It was pretty 0:10:11.761 --> 0:10:14.401 hard to move on Lampton Key yesterday afternoon. And like 0:10:14.401 --> 0:10:16.521 I say, I've been out this morning, out and about, 0:10:16.561 --> 0:10:18.801 and yet it's sort of been heaving. And I think 0:10:18.841 --> 0:10:21.561 the exciting thing is there's sort of all different parts. 0:10:21.641 --> 0:10:23.481 You know, You've got the World Wearable Arts, which will 0:10:23.521 --> 0:10:25.761 attract a certain type of people. You've got the All 0:10:25.761 --> 0:10:28.841 Blacks Test, who will attract sometimes the same but also 0:10:28.921 --> 0:10:32.081 sometimes different groups. A lot of other people though obviously 0:10:32.081 --> 0:10:33.881 wanting to go and have some good food and drink 0:10:33.881 --> 0:10:36.441 around town. So I think that, plus you know, the 0:10:36.481 --> 0:10:38.561 weather is better at the moment, all of that is 0:10:38.641 --> 0:10:40.841 just a little bit more encouraging for what has been 0:10:41.401 --> 0:10:43.641 a tougher time. So again green as shoots starting to 0:10:43.641 --> 0:10:45.801 pop through. This is a good weekend for Wellington. 0:10:46.361 --> 0:10:49.801 Excellent stuff. And now on the entertainment news, I actually 0:10:49.841 --> 0:10:51.241 just caught up with us not long before we came 0:10:51.241 --> 0:10:54.481 on here. But there are some actors you know you're 0:10:54.481 --> 0:10:56.521 here when they've gone. Sometimes you think, oh, that's a 0:10:56.521 --> 0:10:58.761 bit sad. I mean, but she said an amazing life. 0:10:58.801 --> 0:11:02.721 But Dame Maggie Smith has died to many people. Professor McGonagall, 0:11:03.721 --> 0:11:05.761 known for the Harry Potter film. I still remember that 0:11:05.801 --> 0:11:07.681 line she says, I've always wanted to do that spell 0:11:07.801 --> 0:11:11.281 when she does some awesome spell. But anyway, any you're 0:11:11.281 --> 0:11:14.881 a fan of Dame Maggie's work there, Brad. 0:11:15.201 --> 0:11:18.441 Oh absolutely, I mean, like you say, especially Harry Potter 0:11:18.521 --> 0:11:21.121 was the big one for me. But I mean she's 0:11:21.241 --> 0:11:25.601 just she's done so many incredible you know, TV and 0:11:25.681 --> 0:11:28.881 film contributions. So I feel like the interesting thing is now, 0:11:29.241 --> 0:11:30.921 you know, when people are coming out with their tribute 0:11:30.921 --> 0:11:33.521 it's been quite nice to see that variety. You know, 0:11:33.601 --> 0:11:37.521 everyone remembers her for something different. So yeah, an impressive 0:11:37.601 --> 0:11:41.241 legacy she leaves behind. And I think the great thing 0:11:41.281 --> 0:11:43.681 there is that she's got, you know, so many different 0:11:43.681 --> 0:11:45.761 things that we can go back and watch and remember, 0:11:46.041 --> 0:11:47.641 and she was great in all of them. 0:11:47.761 --> 0:11:51.801 Yeah, I agree, definitely, Dave Meggie Smith one of my 0:11:51.921 --> 0:11:55.841 favorites at the age of eighty nine. Wow, what a 0:11:56.001 --> 0:11:59.401 life that you know, she certainly has lived life. She's 0:11:59.441 --> 0:12:02.321 been on has Brad said, you know a lot of 0:12:02.401 --> 0:12:06.481 movies and acting roles and plays and things. I loved 0:12:06.481 --> 0:12:08.921 her And Downtown air b that was you know. 0:12:08.881 --> 0:12:12.681 Varlet, Countess of Anthem. 0:12:13.041 --> 0:12:15.681 I watched it because of her. But she was just 0:12:15.761 --> 0:12:19.401 you know, just her, you know, just the way that 0:12:19.441 --> 0:12:22.281 she was in her acting ability and in her lines, 0:12:22.321 --> 0:12:24.201 the way she delivered her lines and you know those 0:12:24.241 --> 0:12:28.441 clipped tones and her humor. But yes, I mean that 0:12:28.521 --> 0:12:30.321 was probably one of the first stories I woke up 0:12:30.321 --> 0:12:32.281 to this morning at five am when I woke up 0:12:32.281 --> 0:12:35.321 and I went, oh, that's a nice reflection, you know, 0:12:35.401 --> 0:12:37.001 for her life. I mean, you know, she's had a 0:12:37.001 --> 0:12:39.201 great life living to eighty nine. People were saying, oh, 0:12:39.241 --> 0:12:41.801 that's that's said that she's dead, and I thought, well, no, 0:12:41.841 --> 0:12:43.561 not really. I mean, you know, she's had a good 0:12:43.801 --> 0:12:46.641 she's had a good life. And we've got great memories, 0:12:46.841 --> 0:12:51.321 and you know, globally everyone has you know, just been 0:12:51.361 --> 0:12:53.441 singing her praises from the King to. 0:12:54.081 --> 0:12:55.841 You know a lot of as well. 0:12:55.921 --> 0:12:57.641 The Prime Minister Sausages. 0:12:59.921 --> 0:13:01.641 Sorry, we've got to divert to that one. 0:13:01.681 --> 0:13:02.681 Did you get the name right? 0:13:02.921 --> 0:13:05.801 I still think that that's one of the best little 0:13:06.001 --> 0:13:09.641 misspeaks I've ever heard, when he's talking about the drama 0:13:09.721 --> 0:13:13.761 in Palestine and the Hamas, and then he says, we 0:13:13.801 --> 0:13:19.161 need the return of the sausages. Actually, I've got the hostages. 0:13:19.281 --> 0:13:20.681 For those of you who haven't heard it, here it 0:13:20.761 --> 0:13:22.121 is here call again. 0:13:22.001 --> 0:13:25.881 From immediate cessfire and Gaza, the return of the sausages, 0:13:26.521 --> 0:13:27.361 the hostages. 0:13:28.761 --> 0:13:30.721 That's fantastic anyway. 0:13:30.841 --> 0:13:32.841 It's one of those things though, right like I know 0:13:32.921 --> 0:13:35.361 that everyone flubs their lines every now and then, Jeez, 0:13:35.441 --> 0:13:36.921 I've done it. I'm sure that all of us have. 0:13:37.081 --> 0:13:40.801 But on something that important, on something that critical that 0:13:41.041 --> 0:13:44.321 I mean just really you know, foot in the mouth 0:13:44.401 --> 0:13:45.961 sort of syndrome there. 0:13:46.281 --> 0:13:49.441 I Actually I think the mistake he made was that 0:13:49.481 --> 0:13:52.001 he just paused and calmly corrected himself. But the pause 0:13:52.041 --> 0:13:54.361 made it look like he didn't realize and so anyway, 0:13:54.401 --> 0:13:56.241 there's all these wonderful sausage means. But we shouldn't have 0:13:56.361 --> 0:14:00.481 used that to step away from Dame Maggie Smith. But anyway, yes, 0:14:00.681 --> 0:14:03.921 I think a great contribution to the world of theater 0:14:04.081 --> 0:14:06.081 and cinema as well. Tell you what, we'll take a 0:14:06.201 --> 0:14:09.121 moment to just a week group. See there are go. 0:14:09.241 --> 0:14:11.441 Miss way up to week. 0:14:11.281 --> 0:14:14.801 Group where the program's being presented by Elma fud. Where's 0:14:14.841 --> 0:14:17.321 that wabbit. We'll be back in a moment. This is 0:14:17.361 --> 0:14:21.441 the Weekend Collective News talk said, it's twenty three minutes 0:14:21.481 --> 0:14:22.201 past three. 0:14:27.281 --> 0:14:31.001 I'm to sexty boon my shirt to sexty bomb my 0:14:31.121 --> 0:14:36.481 shirt so sexy it hurts, and I am too sexty 0:14:36.561 --> 0:14:42.001 formula lean to sexy bomb Lan yorkanjer Copan. 0:14:48.001 --> 0:14:50.761 And welcome back to the Weekend Collective of Actually sort 0:14:50.761 --> 0:14:52.561 of request of the sign. I couldn't remember what it was, 0:14:52.601 --> 0:14:56.521 but my producer Tyre was like, oh, yes, it's my favorite. 0:14:56.641 --> 0:14:58.721 But it was because it has the lyrics on the catwalk. 0:14:58.761 --> 0:15:00.241 On the catwalk and I was thinking of the world 0:15:00.241 --> 0:15:02.281 of wearable arts. I thought, let's but we didn't get 0:15:02.361 --> 0:15:04.761 that lyric. And I'm Tim Beverdges the Weekend Collective and 0:15:04.801 --> 0:15:06.961 of co of course, we also have the wonderful Brad Olsen, 0:15:07.241 --> 0:15:09.881 who I think this would be on your playlist, wouldn't it, Brad? 0:15:12.001 --> 0:15:14.561 But I maybe I should add it on. Maybe I should. 0:15:14.601 --> 0:15:16.121 It's not at the moment, but I could add it 0:15:16.121 --> 0:15:18.681 on alongside all the sort of other top forty pop 0:15:18.721 --> 0:15:21.001 pits that I've got at the moment, and you need. 0:15:20.881 --> 0:15:22.881 To add oh yeah by yeller of course, Becuse I 0:15:22.881 --> 0:15:25.961 can see that working for you too, Brad. Okay, just 0:15:26.401 --> 0:15:27.801 who needs who needs Spotify? 0:15:27.841 --> 0:15:33.561 And Shazam when you've got Tim Beverage, I mean, honestly. 0:15:31.881 --> 0:15:38.721 Shazam, right, neither? Look politics, okay, kids, we're going to 0:15:38.801 --> 0:15:42.361 do some politics. Maths funding, more maths funding, but they're 0:15:42.361 --> 0:15:46.881 taken away the Toreo funding. And basically it turns out 0:15:46.921 --> 0:15:51.681 that the Terreo, the Marii Language Initiative for teachers, was 0:15:51.721 --> 0:15:54.641 more than double the cost of similar courses, wasn't accredited 0:15:54.681 --> 0:15:56.081 as well, with a price tag of a million one 0:15:56.121 --> 0:15:59.481 hundred million. And anyway, they've they've they've canceled that. 0:16:00.001 --> 0:16:03.761 What's your reaction to you that, yeah, we'll look prioritizing, 0:16:03.921 --> 0:16:06.441 you know, the support for just just did lift the 0:16:06.561 --> 0:16:09.361 maths achievement in the classrooms. I mean, I can see why. 0:16:09.481 --> 0:16:12.601 I can understand. Look, maths is tough, and I think 0:16:12.641 --> 0:16:15.561 they said that that a lot of kids you know, 0:16:15.921 --> 0:16:20.521 falling behind failing. Funds need to be poured into that area, 0:16:21.361 --> 0:16:23.201 you know, just for the basics of the workbooks and 0:16:23.241 --> 0:16:25.841 things like that, where you know, it just wasn't happening, 0:16:26.961 --> 0:16:30.121 you know, in the same breast, you know, like I 0:16:30.201 --> 0:16:33.401 know that this program wasn't accredited the program, however, it 0:16:33.561 --> 0:16:35.561 was successful in some schools. You know, there's been a 0:16:35.561 --> 0:16:38.201 lot of mixed reaction, a lot of people, you know, 0:16:38.561 --> 0:16:41.281 from the education sector that are very unhappy about this. 0:16:42.121 --> 0:16:44.641 You know one school that where it was working and 0:16:44.681 --> 0:16:47.161 they could see that the teachers with today or you 0:16:47.201 --> 0:16:49.841 know Flatbush Primary School in South Auckland. You know, is 0:16:49.841 --> 0:16:52.121 it a case of robbing you know, Peter to pay Paul? 0:16:52.401 --> 0:16:55.121 I mean, you know, yeah, it's interesting. 0:16:55.161 --> 0:16:58.161 I think it gives the headline that any political side wants, 0:16:58.201 --> 0:17:00.841 doesn't it. So the you know what I mean, it's 0:17:00.921 --> 0:17:03.041 it's a story that everyone loves because they can they 0:17:03.121 --> 0:17:06.801 can tune it into their favorite gripe, don't you think, Brad, Yeah. 0:17:06.841 --> 0:17:09.441 I think everyone can take what they want from the headline. 0:17:09.641 --> 0:17:12.761 I think instructive for me was looking through a bit 0:17:12.801 --> 0:17:15.281 more of this, the fact that you know, an evaluation 0:17:15.521 --> 0:17:19.521 of the Today program has been done. It didn't find 0:17:19.521 --> 0:17:23.041 any evidence that directly impacted progress or achievement for students, 0:17:23.121 --> 0:17:26.121 and it couldn't quantify the impact on how much TODAY 0:17:26.281 --> 0:17:29.601 was used in the classroom. So I can understand that 0:17:29.681 --> 0:17:32.361 when there are limited funds, and certainly in education, there's 0:17:32.361 --> 0:17:35.041 obviously a huge amount of work to do that you've 0:17:35.081 --> 0:17:37.121 got to put money into places where you do think 0:17:37.161 --> 0:17:40.241 you can get some of those stronger results. And here 0:17:40.561 --> 0:17:42.921 it's not like it was taking from a program that 0:17:43.081 --> 0:17:47.001 was actually definitively making big progress. It wasn't able to 0:17:47.001 --> 0:17:49.321 be quantified, and so I think on that basis, I 0:17:49.361 --> 0:17:52.321 can understand why you'd make that decision to switch the 0:17:52.361 --> 0:17:53.001 funding around. 0:17:53.161 --> 0:17:57.801 Yeah, However, the bigger the bigger education announcement were a 0:17:57.841 --> 0:18:01.201 couple of things on the tightening of the truancy regulations. 0:18:01.921 --> 0:18:04.081 I editorialized a little bit about this during the course 0:18:04.121 --> 0:18:07.281 of the week. I don't know, I don't think it's 0:18:07.521 --> 0:18:09.881 I don't think the rules are really going to be 0:18:10.041 --> 0:18:13.481 that enforceable because the people whose kids aren't attending, and 0:18:13.601 --> 0:18:16.121 even Seamire acknowledge that we'll be finding where it can 0:18:16.121 --> 0:18:18.761 make a difference, but not where it heaps misery upon misery. 0:18:19.321 --> 0:18:21.561 To me, I think the legislation is just about sending 0:18:21.561 --> 0:18:24.681 a signal, which may in itself make a difference, don't 0:18:24.681 --> 0:18:25.481 you think, Brad. 0:18:25.921 --> 0:18:29.161 Oh, definitely. And I do worry sometimes when we get 0:18:29.161 --> 0:18:31.881 into these conversations, right when people sort of say, oh, well, 0:18:32.041 --> 0:18:33.721 we're going to do something and it's not going to 0:18:33.761 --> 0:18:35.841 do anything, and I go, well, I don't know. If 0:18:35.881 --> 0:18:37.881