Full Show Podcast: 13 November 2026

SPEAKER_1 (0:00)

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The big stories, the big issues, the big trends, and everything in between. Matt Heath and Tyler Adams Afternoons. Newstalk ZB.

Tyler Adams (0:19)

Very good afternoon to you. It is 7 past 1

Matt Heath (0:23)

I'm Matt Heath, and this is my friend, Tyler Adams. The number is 800 801080 Welcome to three powerful hours of live talkback radio in the best little country on planet Earth.

Tyler Adams (0:39)

Yes. Now, coming up very, very shortly. Question we've got for you is how much are you hating Microsoft today after a glitch that has pretty much seen it offline for many parts of the world? 800 801080 is that number to call?

Matt Heath (0:54)

Hey, I saw this thing before we get into that, and it made me think, right?

Someone posted this on a site called Rewind Your Nerves. Okay? I mean, there's lots of these punishing sites where people throw up little thoughts now and then. Yep. And I devour them.

Tyler Adams (1:13)

I like this stuff.

Matt Heath (1:14)

Oh.

Tyler Adams (1:16)

We got the Bismarck going off. That feels like that could be quite concerning with everything going on in the world at the moment. Or Producer Cat has just left her phone in the studio here, and I think this is some sort of alarm operation for our Producer Cat.

Cat, emergency.

Matt Heath (1:34)

Emergency.

SPEAKER_5 (1:35)

Is that your phone ring?

Tyler Adams (1:37)

That's like the Bismarck. That's all right, Cat. That's all right. I hope all is well.

Oh, that was terrifying.

Matt Heath (1:44)

One thing hosts, you know, leaving their phone on in the studio. I do that all the time, but Producer leaving her phone in the studio and on.

Tyler Adams (1:52)

With that sort of alarm.

Matt Heath (1:53)

When she's in the other room. That was terrifying.

Tyler Adams (1:57)

That was terrifying. Everything all right, Cat? Everything's under control? Everything is fine.

Tony (2:01)

I'm very sorry about that.

Matt Heath (2:03)

Hey, not at all. No, no problem at all. Microsoft's down. We're on edge. Yes. Yeah. So this person said, it's kind of sucks how casually people kill spiders.

This tiny thing is just trying to exist. It doesn't know what a bathroom is. It doesn't know it's in your house. It is no effing idea you paid 600 to 800 thousand dollars for the walls.

It wandered six inches in too far in the wrong direction. Now a creature the size of a skyscraper is chasing it with a shoe. Then we go hiking on the weekend because we love nature so much.

Tyler Adams (2:40)

That is deep. That is really deep.

Yeah. I'm going to have to have a serious thing about what I do with these crawlies.

Matt Heath (2:48)

I don't kill a spider. I'll get a jar and I'll get a bit of paper and I'll take a spider outside.

Tyler Adams (2:55)

You'll take them outside?

Matt Heath (2:55)

Yeah. I'll kill a fly. I'll kill any fly that comes anywhere near me.

SPEAKER_1 (2:58)

Screw the fly. Yeah.

Tyler Adams (2:59)

I mean, they don't do any good to anything.

Matt Heath (3:01)

But a spider, for some reason, I see a spider as being a higher form of life than a fly.

Tyler Adams (3:07)

What about the daddy longlegs? Do you keep them in the house just in the corner? Because arguably, as you say, there's a hierarchy of species you want in your house. So the one you really don't want is flies. Mosquitoes, you don't want the mozzies in there. But just having the little daddy longlegs up in the corner, you know you're a team. He's got your back. Hopefully, you've got the daddy longlegs back. You're both there to take out the nasties.

Matt Heath (3:28)

Do you keep a karma score because we got a bit of an ant attack the other day?

Tyler Adams (3:35)

Right.

Matt Heath (3:36)

And so the amount of bodies on the battlefield, when you go up against an ant colony, I mean, I must have killed 3,000 combatants.

Tyler Adams (3:50)

That is a tough day at the office for the ants.

Matt Heath (3:52)

Wonder what the karma count is on that.

Tyler Adams (3:54)

But that is a nice thing to think about on a Friday afternoon.

Matt Heath (3:57)

This text says, white tails have zero place on earth. The rest can stay.

Tyler Adams (4:01)

Okay. All right. 9292, how do you feel about that? But in the meantime, let's discuss this. How much are you hating Microsoft today? This is after its global outrage. It's been going on for almost 6 hours now, and it is affecting millions around the world, including hundreds of thousands of Kiwis. Microsoft says it's still trying to work aggressively to fix the problem. They don't think it's a cyber attack, but they actually don't know what is going on.