1 00:00:07,133 --> 00:00:10,453 Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Teams podcast 2 00:00:10,573 --> 00:00:11,693 Speaker 1: from News Talks at Me. 3 00:00:12,813 --> 00:00:17,373 Speaker 2: Tell you what when I saw the latest migration statistics 4 00:00:17,373 --> 00:00:21,133 Speaker 2: this week and the net forty seven thousand New Zealand 5 00:00:21,133 --> 00:00:24,893 Speaker 2: citizens who had decided to move overseas in the last year, 6 00:00:24,973 --> 00:00:29,893 Speaker 2: I had an instantaneous reaction. Are you sure about that? 7 00:00:30,653 --> 00:00:31,213 Speaker 1: I wondered. 8 00:00:31,373 --> 00:00:34,373 Speaker 2: I mean, hey, I know our economy isn't exactly thriving 9 00:00:34,493 --> 00:00:37,293 Speaker 2: right now, but just out of interest, merely out of interest, 10 00:00:37,493 --> 00:00:42,613 Speaker 2: have you checked, you know, any news headlines lately. Israel 11 00:00:42,653 --> 00:00:46,293 Speaker 2: had just bombed Katar, Russian drones were being shot down 12 00:00:46,373 --> 00:00:49,493 Speaker 2: in Poland, the British government was in disarray, and Charlie 13 00:00:49,613 --> 00:00:53,373 Speaker 2: Kirk had just been assassinated. Put it this way, a 14 00:00:53,493 --> 00:00:57,933 Speaker 2: sustained economic malaise isn't half as bad as some of 15 00:00:57,933 --> 00:01:01,693 Speaker 2: the other problems facing the world right now. You know 16 00:01:01,773 --> 00:01:05,013 Speaker 2: how when there's a really big news event, how it's 17 00:01:05,093 --> 00:01:07,573 Speaker 2: kind of human nature, it's all anyone wants to talk about. 18 00:01:08,493 --> 00:01:11,453 Speaker 2: As terrible a week as it has been for the world, 19 00:01:12,093 --> 00:01:16,293 Speaker 2: it has been even worse on social media. A great week, nay, 20 00:01:16,373 --> 00:01:22,773 Speaker 2: a vintage week for really really bad takes. Tom Phillips 21 00:01:23,093 --> 00:01:26,813 Speaker 2: is a prime example to think even for a moment 22 00:01:27,613 --> 00:01:30,013 Speaker 2: that a man who has been using his children in 23 00:01:30,173 --> 00:01:34,813 Speaker 2: armed robberies, who has deprived them of any outside connections 24 00:01:34,973 --> 00:01:40,093 Speaker 2: or formal education, who's kept them in horrible, cold, dirty conditions, 25 00:01:40,133 --> 00:01:43,373 Speaker 2: and then ultimately expose them to a police shootout, to 26 00:01:43,533 --> 00:01:48,093 Speaker 2: think for a moment that that guy is misunderstood or 27 00:01:48,133 --> 00:01:53,373 Speaker 2: as some kind of hero shows our species perhaps isn't 28 00:01:53,413 --> 00:01:57,213 Speaker 2: as advanced as we would all like to think. And 29 00:01:57,253 --> 00:02:01,373 Speaker 2: then the Charlie Kirk assassination, My goodness, who would have 30 00:02:01,373 --> 00:02:03,893 Speaker 2: thought it was possible? But it may have been even worse. 31 00:02:04,013 --> 00:02:09,453 Speaker 2: At least the takes were thing really affected me. I've 32 00:02:09,493 --> 00:02:12,053 Speaker 2: been following Charlie Kirk for years. In fact, I actually 33 00:02:12,093 --> 00:02:16,093 Speaker 2: saw him speak in person in the US at what 34 00:02:16,213 --> 00:02:19,893 Speaker 2: was kind of a seminal event in his life. So 35 00:02:19,933 --> 00:02:22,733 Speaker 2: it was back at the Republican Convention in twenty sixteen 36 00:02:22,853 --> 00:02:26,613 Speaker 2: and he did a big presentation on stage. His assassination 37 00:02:26,733 --> 00:02:28,733 Speaker 2: has been one of those moments in which it feels 38 00:02:28,773 --> 00:02:32,853 Speaker 2: like we are watching a global superpower decline in real time, 39 00:02:33,573 --> 00:02:35,533 Speaker 2: you know what I mean. And then there was the 40 00:02:35,613 --> 00:02:39,853 Speaker 2: video everywhere, multiple angles of a father being shot in 41 00:02:39,933 --> 00:02:44,773 Speaker 2: the throat in front of his family, reposted, retweeted, re upped, 42 00:02:45,133 --> 00:02:50,093 Speaker 2: the algorithm, feeding a bloodlust, and then again. Of course, 43 00:02:50,293 --> 00:02:55,893 Speaker 2: the predictable, profound division, incredible bad faith takes on both 44 00:02:55,973 --> 00:03:00,413 Speaker 2: sides of a political chasm. People openly celebrating his murder, 45 00:03:01,133 --> 00:03:05,893 Speaker 2: others conveniently forgetting the ways in which they have excused 46 00:03:06,053 --> 00:03:09,413 Speaker 2: or demi or ignored political violence in the recent past. 47 00:03:10,453 --> 00:03:13,893 Speaker 2: I really think social media is responsible for some of 48 00:03:13,933 --> 00:03:18,413 Speaker 2: the worst aspects of our fraying world. It just takes 49 00:03:18,453 --> 00:03:21,453 Speaker 2: the worst parts of our nature as a species and 50 00:03:21,493 --> 00:03:25,893 Speaker 2: then acts as a force multiplier, don't you think. And yet, 51 00:03:26,773 --> 00:03:31,093 Speaker 2: and yet it still retains the capacity every now and 52 00:03:31,133 --> 00:03:34,573 Speaker 2: then to pull off something great. A terrible week for 53 00:03:34,613 --> 00:03:37,733 Speaker 2: the world ended with a little bit of goodness last 54 00:03:37,813 --> 00:03:42,253 Speaker 2: night on the Golden Bay Community notice Board facebook page. 55 00:03:42,973 --> 00:03:45,933 Speaker 2: If you haven't joined the Golden Bay Community Notebook notice 56 00:03:45,933 --> 00:03:49,453 Speaker 2: board facebook page, fear to say it has a diverse 57 00:03:49,573 --> 00:03:53,653 Speaker 2: range of posts. You get the full spectrum of things 58 00:03:54,493 --> 00:03:57,653 Speaker 2: on the Golden Bay Community notice Board facebook page. So 59 00:03:57,773 --> 00:04:00,853 Speaker 2: back in July, if it rainfall at the top of 60 00:04:00,853 --> 00:04:04,013 Speaker 2: the South Island dislodged a bench from its spot next 61 00:04:04,053 --> 00:04:06,973 Speaker 2: to the Tarkka River and for those of those of 62 00:04:07,013 --> 00:04:09,173 Speaker 2: you who know Golden Bay, it's kind of it's this 63 00:04:09,213 --> 00:04:12,533 Speaker 2: area near Panes Forward when you're just coming into Tarcica 64 00:04:12,613 --> 00:04:15,493 Speaker 2: having driven over the hill, an area where a lot 65 00:04:15,533 --> 00:04:18,773 Speaker 2: of the kids liked to go and domnoos into the 66 00:04:18,813 --> 00:04:22,453 Speaker 2: river and go swimming. And it was a memorial bench, 67 00:04:22,893 --> 00:04:26,973 Speaker 2: a bench made of heavy timber, beautifully crafted to remember 68 00:04:27,013 --> 00:04:30,373 Speaker 2: a young man named Jack who passed back in twenty eighteen. 69 00:04:31,053 --> 00:04:34,173 Speaker 2: But yesterday my mum forded a post on Facebook through 70 00:04:34,213 --> 00:04:39,293 Speaker 2: to the tame family chat. Jack's bench had been found 71 00:04:40,013 --> 00:04:42,573 Speaker 2: after being swept away in the flooding. It had traveled 72 00:04:42,613 --> 00:04:46,253 Speaker 2: the six or seven kilometers down the Tarcica River and 73 00:04:46,253 --> 00:04:50,373 Speaker 2: then into the ocean into Golden Bay proper, and then 74 00:04:50,453 --> 00:04:53,693 Speaker 2: over the space of two months, the bench had somehow 75 00:04:53,773 --> 00:04:57,693 Speaker 2: navigated the roughly one hundred and sixty kilometers from the 76 00:04:57,773 --> 00:05:02,693 Speaker 2: river mouth across cooked straight, somehow got round Durville Island 77 00:05:02,733 --> 00:05:05,813 Speaker 2: to wash up, albeit with a few barnacles on why 78 00:05:05,853 --> 00:05:08,813 Speaker 2: can I be each on the carpety coast Kevin Milne Country? 79 00:05:10,013 --> 00:05:15,613 Speaker 2: But how how to get Jack's bench back home after 80 00:05:15,693 --> 00:05:20,133 Speaker 2: such an epic journey. I'll do it free of charge. 81 00:05:20,173 --> 00:05:23,613 Speaker 2: Just get in touch, said someone called Steve on Facebook. 82 00:05:24,613 --> 00:05:26,693 Speaker 2: A little faith in the world restored. 83 00:05:27,493 --> 00:05:30,573 Speaker 1: For more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame, Listen live 84 00:05:30,653 --> 00:05:33,493 Speaker 1: to News Talks d B from nine am Saturday, or 85 00:05:33,573 --> 00:05:35,413 Speaker 1: follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.