February 2, 2026 • 13 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
Used Talk Said Talk.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Hello, my beautiful beanies, and welcome to the bean for Tuesday.
First of yesterday's news. I am Glen Hart, and we're
looking back at Monday and this whole angst over the
Indian FTA. I mean, I say angst. It's mostly when St.
Peter's steering things.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Up, isn't it. And you can get some votes in
another commune.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
The twelve month prescription thing hopefully fired off this week
for some of us, back to school for many kids
as well. And then we're going to do some podcasts. Really,
I think this is actually the first podcast really of
the year. At the end of the podcast, first up,
so the add is formerly known as Prince Andrew. Just
(01:11):
when you thought he couldn't look anymore dodgy, there are
other photos to back it all up.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
My first thought over the weekend with all those weird
photos that was released in the latest run of the
Epstein Files was that I'm glad that his mum is
not around to see this, because I'll tell you, what
is one thing to read about what Andrew has done
and is probably still doing. It is quite another to
see photos of him and all falls on the floor
with an unidentified woman. I mean, that's weird, isn't it.
Probably the biggest thing that happened Andrew wise over the
(01:38):
weekend though, was not actually the release of those inexplicable photos,
but what they caused, which is the Prime Minister of
the UK, Keir Starmer, to pipe up and say something
about it, when he said that Andrew should testify in
the US Congress over what he knows about Epstein's crimes.
That's a big deal. Is a really big deal that
Keir Starmer said something, because the convention has been that
the royals stay out of politics and that politicians stay
(02:01):
away from the royals until now. Now, if we want
to get into hair splitting territory, you can say Andrew
was fair game to Kirstarma because he's not a royal
anymore since his titles were taken off him, but he
still is the brother of the king and so for
most people, they're not going to see the nuance there.
They're just going to see that the UK political leaders
having a crack at a royal. And as I've said before,
(02:22):
I think Actually, this is probably the biggest problem that
Andrew has created. He is eroding the magic of the Royals.
Sure you can make the argument that actually it's been
eroding for decades, maybe since the bad call from the
Queen with flags after Diana died, maybe since earlier, maybe
since Tampon Gate. Maybe it's salvagible. I mean, the Royals
have survived a lot, right, They've survived the abdication. They
(02:44):
can probably survive Andrew. But boy is he making them
work for it and opening the door to politicians giving
their reckens about the brother of the king. Well, hey,
what they're going to be hoping? That's a door that's
only temporarily opened, and it's only open for Andrew.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
So perhaps the most strange business about all of this
is the timing of that and the zeitgeist of it.
Was before people were particularly worried about Hi, it's private
photos and I'm doing italic speechmark fingers as I say that,
(03:21):
before people were worried about those, you know, getting any
any further than the people who are in the room.
Isn't it a lot of this stuff? I mean, now
you know Cloud Weeks and all that, that's a you know,
people are a bit probably, you know, unless they're heavily
under the influence or something, they're probably a bit more
(03:43):
circumspect about when they're photographed and when they're not. But
back in those days, you know, just a bit of
a laugh, wasn't it. Who's laughing now? News talk, right,
So we've seen it all before from Winston's playbook, his
election playbook. You know, Asians coming here and buying all
(04:05):
our houses. That that was a big hat for him,
just you know, foreigners coming here generally and on pushing
up the prices of houses and stealing our jobs. And now,
of course it's the Indians even though that really actually
want them to come here and do jobs that we
don't want to do.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
Producing the world's best dairy and sheep and beef and
kiwi fruit can all be admired and loved by the
world at a reasonable price. Now, Helen Clark knew this well,
so did Phil Goff, and they signed a deal to
in Beijing in two thousand and seven. Two way trade
then was eight billion dollars. It's now forty one billion dollars.
(04:47):
It's now our largest trading partner. We are on the
cusp of another bonanza. Just with a country much bigger
and a middle class that's about to crack open. It's
the third going to be the third largest economy in
the world. It's very close. However, some Kiwi politicians believe
(05:08):
this is somehow a bad thing, that's selling our best
produce to other countries at cheaper prices, unencumbered by another
tax regime. How is that not a good idea? Because
we have to take an extra seventeen hundred Indians on
working visas to come here. So what they work hard?
(05:28):
Guess what they hustle? Guess what they don't piss around
fishing at the beach or sitting on the couch when
they should be working. Migrants do the jobs that we
Kiwis feel that they're too poshed to do in society,
don't they. It's hard work, it's honest work, and it
needs to be done. Why not let the people who
want to work work. This country should be filled with
(05:52):
ambitious people who want to make the most of it,
and that's what FDAs do. And I can't understand people
who don't.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Well, like I was just saying, I don't know what
there is to not understand about appealing to close minded
racists to get their votes, and it's fairly.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Transparent, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Us talk said, So.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
It's frustrating when things that just make perfect sense take
a long time to bed in.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
And this is how I'm feeling about the twelve month
discription thing. Wait, you just get on with it and
do it. I don't understand why it's.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Taken so long to get here in the birthplace, and
why it still seems to be a bit of an effort.
Speaker 6 (06:35):
You know it should patients with long term conditions be
paying more, be paying one hundred dollars each on average more,
just to keep an arm of the business going. I know, unfortunately,
you know, if your local chemist is good enough, surely
(06:57):
they will stay in business because you will keep going
back there. You know they need your support to survive,
so you will go. The changes I think are good
and surely if you know, you might not see a
patient as often if there's year long prescriptions, But once
pharmacists are able to prescribe for certain conditions, surely that
(07:21):
will see a lift in business. I think it's a
good thing overall for New Zealanders, and the professions are
just going to have to adapt to survive. Oh eight
hundred eighty ten eighty is the number to call. I'd
really love to get your feedback on this one, especially
if you are involved in as a pharmacist or working
(07:46):
in a pharmacy. How are these changes really going to
affect you? Sometimes, I think when when the media approaches
sectors for comment, they'll find reasons to be against something
just for the sake of it, just because it seems
to be that's what you do. Very seldom do you
go yep, this is brilliant.
Speaker 7 (08:06):
Yep.
Speaker 6 (08:06):
There might be a bit of foot traffic falling off,
but we'll see that pick up when we're able to
prescribe dsins.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Yeah, it's a good point here, he makes there.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
It's one of the most frustrating things about life in
New Zealand, this whole finding reasons not to do something,
rather than jumping on board and going yay, let's jump
on board and go yay. I say, not sure how
many kids are saying yay.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Back to school? This is front of mind in the
Marcus Lash household. I think I quite like it when.
Speaker 8 (08:43):
I quite like it when first days at school go
really badly through well, actually listening to these shows in
the past, normally the first day it's called really badly
through just parental preoccupation with other stuff. So you might
(09:09):
have some comment on that. If your first day could
be primary, secondary, or intermediate. It's funny for me because
I can vividly remember my first day at secondary school
and my first at primary school. I can't remember my
first daid intermediate. I loved intermediate, no recollection. I don't
think I've suppresed the memory. I don't think anything under
WARLD happened, but you're just gone.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
The moose famished. So there we go.
Speaker 8 (09:33):
So it was interesting the first you know, that's fifty
five years on for my first at primary school, still
very very clear. They might have and I don't know
what happens. Why is it the adrenaline means that the
memory works better? Is that the way it works? So
you've got a first day at school story. I'd love
to hear about that, particularly if it's one that's I mean,
I don't want one that's heartbreaking. It was raining day,
(09:55):
so I picked up my boy from school and I
saw all the keen, nervous parents picking up their children from.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Well, I call it form one. I don't know what
year it would have been. They call it. They call it.
Speaker 8 (10:09):
Year three or something. I don't know, something some no
rhyme or reason any thing.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
I think the form one thing was the thing that
was no rhyme or reason. Year seven to seventy year
years we're at school? That actually makes perfect in My
favorite first day at school story was when I was
in the seventh form, year thirteen, otherwise known as We
(10:36):
all went nightclubbing that night. It was a Wednesday, and
many of us weren't actually old enough to go nightclubbing,
but we did. That's just what you do when you're
that age, isn't it. And you could spot all the
ones of us who did the next day because either
we weren't there or we were basically asleep with our
(10:57):
heads down on our desks. Half fun times, news talk?
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Has it been okay? Podcast?
Speaker 6 (11:04):
Really?
Speaker 2 (11:04):
At time? This is yeah?
Speaker 3 (11:05):
I'm pretty sure it was the first podcast reallet of
twenty six. Here we go, Met and Tyler, what have
you got for us? The cat that their producer has
sent me as simply titled Afghanistan driving story? I mean,
what could this possibly be about?
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Here we go?
Speaker 7 (11:23):
A few years back, I was driving in Tajikistan up
in Central Asia. There with be made of mine, and
I thought I kept from Kip and let him take
over the driving for a bit. We even swapt over
every now and again, and I must have dozed up
for about four or five hours in a good sleep.
And I wake up and at sunset and I'm like,
(11:44):
where are we mats, I don't know. We get out
of a small village and pulling out a map on
the bottom of the car frond of show of these
guys like, you know, whereabouts we were pointing on the
map into you know, into somewhere in Tajikistan. They're like
shaking their heads and they're pointing in northern Afghanistan. So
what what what had happened was we were driving by
this river and this big balley and my mate, as
(12:07):
he told me, he said that fought. He said the
road going down to the river looked a lot better
as I took that, drove across the river and just
kept on driving. So apparently the river was the border
between Tajikistan and Afghanistan.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Border hoppy, But when was this.
Speaker 7 (12:21):
Oh twenty twelve.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
Right, So Afghanistan was a dangerous place to be, Yeah.
Speaker 7 (12:29):
One, I think it just lucked out, like we stopped
and it was this village in north Afghanisa and there
was definitely like it was a tally village like. But
they once they found out we were doing some type
of charity event, they would seemed to be all sweet.
They thought of back up for us. We stayed the
night with them, you know, they put us up in
this village.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
Yeah, well there, I mean that is a warning for
falling asleep and let your mate drive that you might
end up in Afghanistan.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Pretty happy with that one, although the name of the
of the clips did give away the punchline.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
To the story a little bit.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
I would have preferred if they'd caught it thea Jikistan
driving story, and then you wouldn't have minded if you
wake up in Afghanistan. So yeah, I hate it when
you exidently wake up in Afghanistan. That's always such a hassle.
Wherever you've woken up today, thank you for waking up
with me, and I'll see you back here again tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Maybe you're listening as you went to sleep. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Thanks for that too, used talking talking, zied been for
more from us, talk said b listen live on air
or online and keep our shows with you wherever you
go with our podcast on iHeartRadio.
You're listening to a podcast from News Talk Said B
Follow this and our wide range of podcasts now on iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Used Talk Said Talk.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Hello, my beautiful beanies, and welcome to the bean for Tuesday.
First of yesterday's news. I am Glen Hart, and we're
looking back at Monday and this whole angst over the
Indian FTA. I mean, I say angst. It's mostly when St.
Peter's steering things.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Up, isn't it. And you can get some votes in
another commune.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
The twelve month prescription thing hopefully fired off this week
for some of us, back to school for many kids
as well. And then we're going to do some podcasts. Really,
I think this is actually the first podcast really of
the year. At the end of the podcast, first up,
so the add is formerly known as Prince Andrew. Just
(01:11):
when you thought he couldn't look anymore dodgy, there are
other photos to back it all up.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
My first thought over the weekend with all those weird
photos that was released in the latest run of the
Epstein Files was that I'm glad that his mum is
not around to see this, because I'll tell you, what
is one thing to read about what Andrew has done
and is probably still doing. It is quite another to
see photos of him and all falls on the floor
with an unidentified woman. I mean, that's weird, isn't it.
Probably the biggest thing that happened Andrew wise over the
(01:38):
weekend though, was not actually the release of those inexplicable photos,
but what they caused, which is the Prime Minister of
the UK, Keir Starmer, to pipe up and say something
about it, when he said that Andrew should testify in
the US Congress over what he knows about Epstein's crimes.
That's a big deal. Is a really big deal that
Keir Starmer said something, because the convention has been that
the royals stay out of politics and that politicians stay
(02:01):
away from the royals until now. Now, if we want
to get into hair splitting territory, you can say Andrew
was fair game to Kirstarma because he's not a royal
anymore since his titles were taken off him, but he
still is the brother of the king and so for
most people, they're not going to see the nuance there.
They're just going to see that the UK political leaders
having a crack at a royal. And as I've said before,
(02:22):
I think Actually, this is probably the biggest problem that
Andrew has created. He is eroding the magic of the Royals.
Sure you can make the argument that actually it's been
eroding for decades, maybe since the bad call from the
Queen with flags after Diana died, maybe since earlier, maybe
since Tampon Gate. Maybe it's salvagible. I mean, the Royals
have survived a lot, right, They've survived the abdication. They
(02:44):
can probably survive Andrew. But boy is he making them
work for it and opening the door to politicians giving
their reckens about the brother of the king. Well, hey,
what they're going to be hoping? That's a door that's
only temporarily opened, and it's only open for Andrew.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
So perhaps the most strange business about all of this
is the timing of that and the zeitgeist of it.
Was before people were particularly worried about Hi, it's private
photos and I'm doing italic speechmark fingers as I say that,
(03:21):
before people were worried about those, you know, getting any
any further than the people who are in the room.
Isn't it a lot of this stuff? I mean, now
you know Cloud Weeks and all that, that's a you know,
people are a bit probably, you know, unless they're heavily
under the influence or something, they're probably a bit more
(03:43):
circumspect about when they're photographed and when they're not. But
back in those days, you know, just a bit of
a laugh, wasn't it. Who's laughing now? News talk, right,
So we've seen it all before from Winston's playbook, his
election playbook. You know, Asians coming here and buying all
(04:05):
our houses. That that was a big hat for him,
just you know, foreigners coming here generally and on pushing
up the prices of houses and stealing our jobs. And now,
of course it's the Indians even though that really actually
want them to come here and do jobs that we
don't want to do.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
Producing the world's best dairy and sheep and beef and
kiwi fruit can all be admired and loved by the
world at a reasonable price. Now, Helen Clark knew this well,
so did Phil Goff, and they signed a deal to
in Beijing in two thousand and seven. Two way trade
then was eight billion dollars. It's now forty one billion dollars.
(04:47):
It's now our largest trading partner. We are on the
cusp of another bonanza. Just with a country much bigger
and a middle class that's about to crack open. It's
the third going to be the third largest economy in
the world. It's very close. However, some Kiwi politicians believe
(05:08):
this is somehow a bad thing, that's selling our best
produce to other countries at cheaper prices, unencumbered by another
tax regime. How is that not a good idea? Because
we have to take an extra seventeen hundred Indians on
working visas to come here. So what they work hard?
(05:28):
Guess what they hustle? Guess what they don't piss around
fishing at the beach or sitting on the couch when
they should be working. Migrants do the jobs that we
Kiwis feel that they're too poshed to do in society,
don't they. It's hard work, it's honest work, and it
needs to be done. Why not let the people who
want to work work. This country should be filled with
(05:52):
ambitious people who want to make the most of it,
and that's what FDAs do. And I can't understand people
who don't.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Well, like I was just saying, I don't know what
there is to not understand about appealing to close minded
racists to get their votes, and it's fairly.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Transparent, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Us talk said, So.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
It's frustrating when things that just make perfect sense take
a long time to bed in.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
And this is how I'm feeling about the twelve month
discription thing. Wait, you just get on with it and
do it. I don't understand why it's.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Taken so long to get here in the birthplace, and
why it still seems to be a bit of an effort.
Speaker 6 (06:35):
You know it should patients with long term conditions be
paying more, be paying one hundred dollars each on average more,
just to keep an arm of the business going. I know, unfortunately,
you know, if your local chemist is good enough, surely
(06:57):
they will stay in business because you will keep going
back there. You know they need your support to survive,
so you will go. The changes I think are good
and surely if you know, you might not see a
patient as often if there's year long prescriptions, But once
pharmacists are able to prescribe for certain conditions, surely that
(07:21):
will see a lift in business. I think it's a
good thing overall for New Zealanders, and the professions are
just going to have to adapt to survive. Oh eight
hundred eighty ten eighty is the number to call. I'd
really love to get your feedback on this one, especially
if you are involved in as a pharmacist or working
(07:46):
in a pharmacy. How are these changes really going to
affect you? Sometimes, I think when when the media approaches
sectors for comment, they'll find reasons to be against something
just for the sake of it, just because it seems
to be that's what you do. Very seldom do you
go yep, this is brilliant.
Speaker 7 (08:06):
Yep.
Speaker 6 (08:06):
There might be a bit of foot traffic falling off,
but we'll see that pick up when we're able to
prescribe dsins.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Yeah, it's a good point here, he makes there.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
It's one of the most frustrating things about life in
New Zealand, this whole finding reasons not to do something,
rather than jumping on board and going yay, let's jump
on board and go yay. I say, not sure how
many kids are saying yay.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Back to school? This is front of mind in the
Marcus Lash household. I think I quite like it when.
Speaker 8 (08:43):
I quite like it when first days at school go
really badly through well, actually listening to these shows in
the past, normally the first day it's called really badly
through just parental preoccupation with other stuff. So you might
(09:09):
have some comment on that. If your first day could
be primary, secondary, or intermediate. It's funny for me because
I can vividly remember my first day at secondary school
and my first at primary school. I can't remember my
first daid intermediate. I loved intermediate, no recollection. I don't
think I've suppresed the memory. I don't think anything under
WARLD happened, but you're just gone.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
The moose famished. So there we go.
Speaker 8 (09:33):
So it was interesting the first you know, that's fifty
five years on for my first at primary school, still
very very clear. They might have and I don't know
what happens. Why is it the adrenaline means that the
memory works better? Is that the way it works? So
you've got a first day at school story. I'd love
to hear about that, particularly if it's one that's I mean,
I don't want one that's heartbreaking. It was raining day,
(09:55):
so I picked up my boy from school and I
saw all the keen, nervous parents picking up their children from.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Well, I call it form one. I don't know what
year it would have been. They call it. They call it.
Speaker 8 (10:09):
Year three or something. I don't know, something some no
rhyme or reason any thing.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
I think the form one thing was the thing that
was no rhyme or reason. Year seven to seventy year
years we're at school? That actually makes perfect in My
favorite first day at school story was when I was
in the seventh form, year thirteen, otherwise known as We
(10:36):
all went nightclubbing that night. It was a Wednesday, and
many of us weren't actually old enough to go nightclubbing,
but we did. That's just what you do when you're
that age, isn't it. And you could spot all the
ones of us who did the next day because either
we weren't there or we were basically asleep with our
(10:57):
heads down on our desks. Half fun times, news talk?
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Has it been okay? Podcast?
Speaker 6 (11:04):
Really?
Speaker 2 (11:04):
At time? This is yeah?
Speaker 3 (11:05):
I'm pretty sure it was the first podcast reallet of
twenty six. Here we go, Met and Tyler, what have
you got for us? The cat that their producer has
sent me as simply titled Afghanistan driving story? I mean,
what could this possibly be about?
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Here we go?
Speaker 7 (11:23):
A few years back, I was driving in Tajikistan up
in Central Asia. There with be made of mine, and
I thought I kept from Kip and let him take
over the driving for a bit. We even swapt over
every now and again, and I must have dozed up
for about four or five hours in a good sleep.
And I wake up and at sunset and I'm like,
(11:44):
where are we mats, I don't know. We get out
of a small village and pulling out a map on
the bottom of the car frond of show of these
guys like, you know, whereabouts we were pointing on the
map into you know, into somewhere in Tajikistan. They're like
shaking their heads and they're pointing in northern Afghanistan. So
what what what had happened was we were driving by
this river and this big balley and my mate, as
(12:07):
he told me, he said that fought. He said the
road going down to the river looked a lot better
as I took that, drove across the river and just
kept on driving. So apparently the river was the border
between Tajikistan and Afghanistan.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Border hoppy, But when was this.
Speaker 7 (12:21):
Oh twenty twelve.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
Right, So Afghanistan was a dangerous place to be, Yeah.
Speaker 7 (12:29):
One, I think it just lucked out, like we stopped
and it was this village in north Afghanisa and there
was definitely like it was a tally village like. But
they once they found out we were doing some type
of charity event, they would seemed to be all sweet.
They thought of back up for us. We stayed the
night with them, you know, they put us up in
this village.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
Yeah, well there, I mean that is a warning for
falling asleep and let your mate drive that you might
end up in Afghanistan.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Pretty happy with that one, although the name of the
of the clips did give away the punchline.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
To the story a little bit.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
I would have preferred if they'd caught it thea Jikistan
driving story, and then you wouldn't have minded if you
wake up in Afghanistan. So yeah, I hate it when
you exidently wake up in Afghanistan. That's always such a hassle.
Wherever you've woken up today, thank you for waking up
with me, and I'll see you back here again tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Maybe you're listening as you went to sleep. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Thanks for that too, used talking talking, zied been for
more from us, talk said b listen live on air
or online and keep our shows with you wherever you
go with our podcast on iHeartRadio.
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Betrayal Season 5
Saskia Inwood woke up one morning, knowing her life would never be the same. The night before, she learned the unimaginable – that the husband she knew in the light of day was a different person after dark. This season unpacks Saskia’s discovery of her husband’s secret life and her fight to bring him to justice. Along the way, we expose a crime that is just coming to light. This is also a story about the myth of the “perfect victim:” who gets believed, who gets doubted, and why. We follow Saskia as she works to reclaim her body, her voice, and her life. If you would like to reach out to the Betrayal Team, email us at betrayalpod@gmail.com. Follow us on Instagram @betrayalpod and @glasspodcasts. Please join our Substack for additional exclusive content, curated book recommendations, and community discussions. Sign up FREE by clicking this link Beyond Betrayal Substack. Join our community dedicated to truth, resilience, and healing. Your voice matters! Be a part of our Betrayal journey on Substack.