Matt Heath & Tyler Adams Afternoons

Kiwi William Trubridge is one of the world’s greatest free diving talents and certainly one of this country’s finest international athletes.  He has 18 world records to his name, as well as being a five-time world free diving champion. He was the first person to dive unaided, that’s without fins, to 100m.  In January, he became a member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to free diving...

Otago University Associate Professor of Immunology James Usher joined Simon Barnett and James Daniels to explain how rapid antigen testing works compared to other methods of testing like PCR and saliva testing. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Niki Bezzant is an award-winning writer, speaker, commentator, and Health Editor for Woman Magazine.   She’s made a successful career from her passion for food, health, nutrition, and wellbeing.   Every second Wednesday Niki will be taking your questions and calls on everything nutrition, food, and health. This week we had some great questions on getting back into fitness after a back injury, suga...

Senior Mongrel Mob spokesperson Louise Hutchinson spoke to Simon Barnett and James Daniels about Sonny Fatupaitu, the head of the Mongrel Mob's Waikato chapter, being granted a border exemption to cross into Auckland. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Reserve Bank's throwing a bit of cold water on the economy. It's increased the Official Cash Rate to 0.5 per cent, the first change in more than 18 months. Cameron Bagrie from Bagrie Economics told Simon Barnett and James Daniels it's made the change because we're at near full employment, inflation's heading towards four per cent, and there's a booming property market. “What the Reserve Bank i...

One high profile Auckland restauranteur is preparing for a life with vaccine certificates. Leo Molloy told Simon Barnett and James Daniels there seems to be a certain consensus that this is inevitable. He says this is inevitable in transport here and around the globe, and questions why New Zealanders wouldn't prepare for this as the country vaccinates. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for...

The government has laid out its plans for Covid vaccine certificates in New Zealand. The Prime Minister has said that they will be used to lessen the risk in high-risk settings like hospitality and larger gatherings like music festivals. NZ Herald Wellington Business Editor Hamish Rutherford told Simon Barnett and James Daniels businesses will welcome the certificates. He says this is the carrot o...

Newstalk ZB's Political Editor, Barry Soper, joined Simon Barnett and James Daniels Afternoons to take us through all the details from todays 1pm Covid-19 update. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Senior New Zealand Herald reporter Anna Leask was at the press conference held by Detective Inspector Scott Anderson earlier to provide more detail on the triple homicide that has been reported today. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jimmy Barnes is a true rock and roll legend.   His nickname, “Barnesy”, conjures up thoughts of rock music at an ear-splitting volume, with hits like Good Times, Drivin’ Wheels, and Working Class Man .  Jimmy has been through it all, and literally lived to tell the tales. He has sold more records in Australia than any other local rock & roll artist, has enjoyed seventeen #1 albums, is a best-selli...

One of the country's largest steel building product providers is reinforcing its own Covid-19 defences by paying a bonus to workers if they get fully vaccinated. Workers will get $150 in cash, KiwiSaver contributions or company shares if they get both doses of the vaccine by mid-November. Steel and Tube GM of People and Culture Anna Morris told Simon Barnett and James Daniels it was both an incent...

Auckland Airport's leading an initiative aimed at incentivising more people to get vaccinated. The drive thru at its park and ride site, has administered more than 70-thousand jabs since last month, but is still only jabbing about half the rate possible. It's now launched a new campaign, which involves every one who scans in at the site going in a draw for tens of thousands of dollars in prizes. S...

Gareth Abdinor is an Employment Lawyer and Partner with Malley & Co solicitors.  He regularly joins Simon Barnett and Phil Gifford to answer listeners' employment-related questions.  Today he answered questions about covid wage subsidies, working from home and compulsion to vaccinate.   LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A friend of the Wanaka absconders called in to Si and James.   He said the couple are “very remorseful” and that they know they've made “a huge stuff up.”   But the friend says online backlash has gone way too far, with the couple even receiving death threats.  The friend said he spoke to the male absconder last night and he was “a broken man.”  LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy...

Rising property prices are making it crazily hard for first home buyers. The only way many young people have got themselves into a house in recent times is with finance from the "Bank Of Mum and Dad". But are prices now getting to the point that even that line of credit is drying up? Economist Tony Alexander joined Simon Barnett and James Daniels' on the show. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/liste...

Wet & Forget founder Rod Jenden has gone from doing an early-morning bread run in an old van to establishing an iconic multimillion-dollar New Zealand company.  He grew up in a state house in Ōnehunga, left High School at 15, finished a five-year boat-building apprenticeship, before a long journey in creating a business which now ships millions of litres of product to numerous countries around the...

Niki Bezzant is an award-winning writer, speaker, commentator, and Health Editor for Woman Magazine.   She’s made a successful career from her passion for food, health, nutrition, and wellbeing.   Every second Wednesday Niki will be taking your questions and calls on everything nutrition, food, and health. This week we had some great questions on the gastric bypasses, organics and how to gain weig...

An Auckland Councillor thinks hospitality businesses should be able to use footpaths and carparks for dining in lockdown. Councillor Richard Hills says it could be a new way to add revenue and keep hospitality alive through a challenging time. He says the idea's been rolled out across the world with a lot of success. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Paralympian William Stedman is only just back in NZ after a phenomenal medal haul at the Tokyo Olympics.   After winning silver in dramatic fashion in the long jump, he backed it up to finish third in the 400m.  It comes on top of bronze in the 400 and 800m in Rio in 2016.  He joined Simon Barnett and James Daniels to discuss his Tokyo experience.  LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for priv...

Newstalk ZB's voice of Canterbury sport Brian Ashby has decided it is time to switch off the 4am alarm clock. ‘Gash’ has been a sports reporter, reader, commentator, fill-in host and all round good guy. Brian has covered every Olympic Games since Sydney 2000 both on the ground (2000, 2004, 2008) or as a member of our Games commentary team (2012, 2016), this alongside the Commonwealth Games. He is...

Ruby Tui is an Olympic gold and silver medallist, having won gold with the New Zealand women's sevens team at Tokyo 2020 and silver at Rio 2016.  She was a member of the team which won a Rugby World Cup Sevens title in 2018. She was named New Zealand women's sevens Player of the Year in 2017 and World Rugby Sevens player of the Year in 2019. Off the field Tui is a regular contributor in the SKY TV...

Gareth Abdinor is an Employment Lawyer and Partner with Malley & Co solicitors.  He regularly joins Simon Barnett and James Daniels to answer listeners' employment-related questions.  Today he answered questions about Covid Lockdown wage subsidies and getting caught vaping at work among other things.   LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Olympian Emma Twigg's gold medal in the women’s single sculls at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics was a true story of perseverance having gone through four Olympics and two fourth place finishes before her moment of Olympic glory.  Alongside her Olympic gold, she is a 2-time bronze, 2-time silver and gold medallist in the same discipline at the World Championships. She has also somehow found time to achiev...

68 more cases of Covid-19 were announced in the community today, bringing the total outbreak to 277. Professor of Public Health Nick Wilson from the University of Otago says he and other experts still believe elimination strategy is the way to go, at least until we get high vaccination levels.  However, when asked about places like New South Wales where elimination doesn’t appear to be working, he...

Since the beginning of the Delta outbreak there have been long queues in various areas for covid tests and yesterday a record 50,000 Covid-19 tests were processed.   Richard Prebble in the New Zealand Herald suggested the alternative of rapid DIY Covid tests being brought into New Zealand to get people self-testing.  But Vaccinologist Helen Petousis Harris is sceptical of whether this solution wou...