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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
Hello, my beautiful beanies, and welcome to the bean for Friday.
First of yesterday's news. I am Glen Hart, and we
are looking back at Wednesday. We can't stop talking about
Benjamin Doyle because you know, he's a bit odd, and
we like obsisting about odd people and public life, don't we.
(00:43):
At least he turns out sometimes, whereas a lot of
politicians don't. They try to talk back with some greyhounds
on the afternoon show, and Marcus talks gadgets and that
sounds like it's up, my elie. I love a gadget.
Before any of that, the talk has been all tariffs
after the last couple of weeks, of course, and yesterday
(01:06):
everybody was loving me.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Guess a few if you lived in the seventies and
remembered the seventies, I was a child of the seventies
that wasn't directly affected by it, But if you lived
we were one of the most closed economies outside of
Eastern Europe, outside of the communist nations. Anybody who bought
(01:30):
anything overseas, cut off the label and hoped they weren't
picked up by customs. Otherwise a tariff was applied when
you brought it back into the country. Because we made
our own bras, and we made our own T shirts,
and we made our own Swan dries and rugby jerseys.
Everything was produced in New Zealand, and people had wages,
(01:52):
and they lived in small towns, and there were factories everywhere.
And then it exploded. Everything the old New Zealand was
gone and a new world order came in for better
and worse. I'm not entirely sure we can go back
to those days, nor indeed would we want to. And
(02:14):
perhaps it will all calm itself down over the next
but who knows. Like I say, grab the popcorn?
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Is it fun to watch? Is it fun to watch?
The end of the world as we know it?
Speaker 4 (02:30):
For some people? I suppose.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
News talks it bean.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Right, Benjamin Doyle interesting character.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
I know.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Look to people yesterday getting very upset about that. They
then debate. Makes succinct news stories hard to write. It's confusing.
What does Andrew make of it all?
Speaker 6 (02:58):
The Curious Case of Benjamin Doyle. Benjamin Doyle spoke on
the controversy surrounding them yesterday and basically called themselves stupid.
We found out that the Greens and actively asked him
to delete his accounts before he came into Parliament, those
accounts which introduced us all to the Bussy, but they refused,
wanting to stand up for what they is and who
(03:19):
they stand for. Given that if I was the Greens,
I would have gone to the next person on the list.
If Doyle wasn't going to drop it, I would have
dropped him. I said last week they should go, they
should go, and I stand by that. I don't see
the need for anyone so stupid and bloody minded in
a taxpayer funded parliament. Doyle says the Bussy stuff was
(03:39):
a knowing joke. I can understand that queens are all
always ironically calling each other queen's but that's not the
sort of joke I want to see in an MP.
But to claim Benjamin must be a child offender, I
thought was also a step far too far. In fact,
it's a heinous accusation unless you have the proof, and
that goes with the Hamish Cambel case too. So if
(04:00):
they want to put those haters aside, perhaps they need
to stand up for himself with a defamation suit or
even maybe let the wife speak out, but again that
will be difficult. So again, the easiest way to deal
with it all is just to slope out the door.
Benjamin carrying on is probably not worth the Yanks, and
this whole thing is an ugly and entirely avoidable situation.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Unfortunately, it does seem to be another one of these
things where you start to wonder how representative is our
House of representatives. You know, every time something like this happens,
you're going, did I vote for this?
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Hu's talk sib And that's, of.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Course, if they even turn up.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
A Gibsban council is the latest one in the news today.
Nick supater Is his name, paid forty thousand dollars a year.
Since October, he's been attending forty one percent of meetings.
Terrible number. He's not there more than he is there now. Usually,
most kiwis, most good, hard working kiwis, like the rest
of us, would feel shame if they had a record
(05:05):
like that. They'd be embarrassed, but apologized, apologize to us.
They'd make it right. Not this counselor. He blamed everyone,
but himself. He said he didn't understand why it was
such an issue. He said he was still technically within
the rules. Who cares? He said the council needed to
take responsibility.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
Not him.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
The council needed to take responsibility because of quote, technical
problems notifying members there.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Would be a meeting.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Come on the dog ate my homework. This doesn't stack up,
of course, why because the rest of the council has
managed to make it to eighty percent of the meetings,
So why couldn't he and why can't he take responsibility?
Same goes for the Greens. You break the rules, you
break the law, you shout in somebody's face, you grab
(05:53):
a constituent by the arm in the park. You're not
a thug, you're not a crook, You're a victim. You're
in Parliament to be your authentic self. Remember, you're speaking
your truth and you can do no wrong. The multi
party MP seats are regularly empty. In the house. Debbie
took off for a holiday and the cooks the other
month with her husband on a sitting week. And remember
(06:15):
the house only sits for ninety days a year, ninety
days out of three hundred and sixty five unless there's
a TikTok moment to be had, then nowhere to be seen.
It's annoying, it's expensive, and people are sick of it.
Worst of all, for the rest of us, it's very
difficult to have a true contest of ideas with an
(06:36):
empty chair.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Oh and I have some sympathy for the people who
don't want to go to meetings, because I certainly never
want to go to a meeting, and if I am
in the meeting, anything that I have to contribute is
not worth having me there. Anyway, you'd be better off
with an empty chair. Usually I'm just trying to make
smart ass remarks and get a laugh, and that's not
(06:58):
How foul is it? Now? Is it easier to get
a comment from an empty chair or from a couple
of greyhounds? Let's find out.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
First off, I'm going to try Twiggy treat twigs right.
It's a sea less celebrity on the phone.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
That's a compliment.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
We'll try the other one. Winston Winston's got his poor
in the air, good boy, Winston's a grown on.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Your news dogs, Winston Winston.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
Come on, Winston, come on something. So what they do is,
instead of purring, they sort of do us funny nicky
thing they made us. So when they when you when
you pet them, instead of like a cat or purr,
(07:55):
greyhounds stick their tongues out a little bit and so
they sort of sound like he was. Yeah, he probably
couldn't pick it up on the phone as a compliment, pouring. Yes, right,
so you've got his h the stamp of his approval.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Oh, that's good. It's actually Winston's the quarter of the
day so far.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Yeah, I appreciate with the little tongue aut Do you.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Reckon there are any dogs there? Do you reckon that
guy's got any dogs? Although mentally, when we get my
dog to try and talk on the phone, even though
you can hear Nana's voice on the other end, he
just looks confused. He just cops his head to one side.
He guys, how coming at that a bit of plastic
(08:42):
sounds like Nana and usually doesn't say anything as well.
So as far as Nana knows, we don't have a
dog either.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
News talks. It been right.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Let's finish that with gadget talk. I wonder if I'm
the Marcus loves gadgets as much as I do.
Speaker 7 (08:57):
I was up in my cabin today and I found my.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
I don't know what it's called.
Speaker 7 (09:11):
I found my Leatherman bracelet, because you know, Leatherman is
a multi tool, and this is a multi tool in
the form of a bracelet, and it's got all your
sockets and yeah, positive drive and your alan key and
(09:32):
everything on the bracelet that you wear, screwdrivers, the whole shebang,
things for your dive bottles, the works, and yes, there
you go. I don't know what it was called. It
was called a tread, a leatherm and tread. And I
found that and I thought, wow, look at that. How
(09:55):
useless and it was. It was bulky. The drill bits
kind of wore away quite quickly. It wasn't made of
strong enough steel, and I think all in all it.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Was probably a fail.
Speaker 7 (10:10):
Although it has got one function for breaking windscreens and windows,
which is probably quite good of your dog gets trapped
and a guitar in a car, so I'll probably use
that sometime, and I'm worrying. I quite enjoy wearing it,
but I just reminds myself of how useless the thing was.
And I undernd about buying it for a long long time,
but I couldn't not. I think in the end, I
think the scout shop was selling cheaply. I think I'll
(10:31):
get a bit of that. But anyway, the question I
have for you tonight, which might resonate with you, what's
the most useless device or gadget you've ever bought?
Speaker 2 (10:41):
I mean, that sounds like quite a useful gadget if
it was made better there, doesn't it kind of been
a genuine letterman? I think the Riddleman stuff is pretty
well made. It is quite hard to use something that's
wrapped around your wrist, though, isn't it?
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Is there?
Speaker 2 (11:00):
What wonder woman hears on who wrists? Stop being so silly?
That's the most useless decket I give.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Them, Bore.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
It'd be a lot of our people out there who
just immediately go to greedmaker, wouldn't I seems like a
good idea at the time if they talk about opposite
end of this picture and you've got your bread maker
and you've got your Yeah, Brian, I so useful breadmaker?
What was the point of that? I am green heart,
(11:34):
love a gadget. I'm away for a couple of weeks.
I'll see you back here towards the end.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Dator Us Talkers Talk zid Bean for more from News
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 be
follow this and our wide range of podcasts now on iHeartRadio,
Used Talk, SIDB Talk.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Hello, my beautiful beanies, and welcome to the bean for Friday.
First of yesterday's news. I am Glen Hart, and we
are looking back at Wednesday. We can't stop talking about
Benjamin Doyle because you know, he's a bit odd, and
we like obsisting about odd people and public life, don't we.
(00:43):
At least he turns out sometimes, whereas a lot of
politicians don't. They try to talk back with some greyhounds
on the afternoon show, and Marcus talks gadgets and that
sounds like it's up, my elie. I love a gadget.
Before any of that, the talk has been all tariffs
after the last couple of weeks, of course, and yesterday
(01:06):
everybody was loving me.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Guess a few if you lived in the seventies and
remembered the seventies, I was a child of the seventies
that wasn't directly affected by it, But if you lived
we were one of the most closed economies outside of
Eastern Europe, outside of the communist nations. Anybody who bought
(01:30):
anything overseas, cut off the label and hoped they weren't
picked up by customs. Otherwise a tariff was applied when
you brought it back into the country. Because we made
our own bras, and we made our own T shirts,
and we made our own Swan dries and rugby jerseys.
Everything was produced in New Zealand, and people had wages,
(01:52):
and they lived in small towns, and there were factories everywhere.
And then it exploded. Everything the old New Zealand was
gone and a new world order came in for better
and worse. I'm not entirely sure we can go back
to those days, nor indeed would we want to. And
(02:14):
perhaps it will all calm itself down over the next
but who knows. Like I say, grab the popcorn?
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Is it fun to watch? Is it fun to watch?
The end of the world as we know it?
Speaker 4 (02:30):
For some people? I suppose.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
News talks it bean.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Right, Benjamin Doyle interesting character.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
I know.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Look to people yesterday getting very upset about that. They
then debate. Makes succinct news stories hard to write. It's confusing.
What does Andrew make of it all?
Speaker 6 (02:58):
The Curious Case of Benjamin Doyle. Benjamin Doyle spoke on
the controversy surrounding them yesterday and basically called themselves stupid.
We found out that the Greens and actively asked him
to delete his accounts before he came into Parliament, those
accounts which introduced us all to the Bussy, but they refused,
wanting to stand up for what they is and who
(03:19):
they stand for. Given that if I was the Greens,
I would have gone to the next person on the list.
If Doyle wasn't going to drop it, I would have
dropped him. I said last week they should go, they
should go, and I stand by that. I don't see
the need for anyone so stupid and bloody minded in
a taxpayer funded parliament. Doyle says the Bussy stuff was
(03:39):
a knowing joke. I can understand that queens are all
always ironically calling each other queen's but that's not the
sort of joke I want to see in an MP.
But to claim Benjamin must be a child offender, I
thought was also a step far too far. In fact,
it's a heinous accusation unless you have the proof, and
that goes with the Hamish Cambel case too. So if
(04:00):
they want to put those haters aside, perhaps they need
to stand up for himself with a defamation suit or
even maybe let the wife speak out, but again that
will be difficult. So again, the easiest way to deal
with it all is just to slope out the door.
Benjamin carrying on is probably not worth the Yanks, and
this whole thing is an ugly and entirely avoidable situation.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Unfortunately, it does seem to be another one of these
things where you start to wonder how representative is our
House of representatives. You know, every time something like this happens,
you're going, did I vote for this?
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Hu's talk sib And that's, of.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Course, if they even turn up.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
A Gibsban council is the latest one in the news today.
Nick supater Is his name, paid forty thousand dollars a year.
Since October, he's been attending forty one percent of meetings.
Terrible number. He's not there more than he is there now. Usually,
most kiwis, most good, hard working kiwis, like the rest
of us, would feel shame if they had a record
(05:05):
like that. They'd be embarrassed, but apologized, apologize to us.
They'd make it right. Not this counselor. He blamed everyone,
but himself. He said he didn't understand why it was
such an issue. He said he was still technically within
the rules. Who cares? He said the council needed to
take responsibility.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
Not him.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
The council needed to take responsibility because of quote, technical
problems notifying members there.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Would be a meeting.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Come on the dog ate my homework. This doesn't stack up,
of course, why because the rest of the council has
managed to make it to eighty percent of the meetings,
So why couldn't he and why can't he take responsibility?
Same goes for the Greens. You break the rules, you
break the law, you shout in somebody's face, you grab
(05:53):
a constituent by the arm in the park. You're not
a thug, you're not a crook, You're a victim. You're
in Parliament to be your authentic self. Remember, you're speaking
your truth and you can do no wrong. The multi
party MP seats are regularly empty. In the house. Debbie
took off for a holiday and the cooks the other
month with her husband on a sitting week. And remember
(06:15):
the house only sits for ninety days a year, ninety
days out of three hundred and sixty five unless there's
a TikTok moment to be had, then nowhere to be seen.
It's annoying, it's expensive, and people are sick of it.
Worst of all, for the rest of us, it's very
difficult to have a true contest of ideas with an
(06:36):
empty chair.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Oh and I have some sympathy for the people who
don't want to go to meetings, because I certainly never
want to go to a meeting, and if I am
in the meeting, anything that I have to contribute is
not worth having me there. Anyway, you'd be better off
with an empty chair. Usually I'm just trying to make
smart ass remarks and get a laugh, and that's not
(06:58):
How foul is it? Now? Is it easier to get
a comment from an empty chair or from a couple
of greyhounds? Let's find out.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
First off, I'm going to try Twiggy treat twigs right.
It's a sea less celebrity on the phone.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
That's a compliment.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
We'll try the other one. Winston Winston's got his poor
in the air, good boy, Winston's a grown on.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Your news dogs, Winston Winston.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
Come on, Winston, come on something. So what they do is,
instead of purring, they sort of do us funny nicky
thing they made us. So when they when you when
you pet them, instead of like a cat or purr,
(07:55):
greyhounds stick their tongues out a little bit and so
they sort of sound like he was. Yeah, he probably
couldn't pick it up on the phone as a compliment, pouring. Yes, right,
so you've got his h the stamp of his approval.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Oh, that's good. It's actually Winston's the quarter of the
day so far.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Yeah, I appreciate with the little tongue aut Do you.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Reckon there are any dogs there? Do you reckon that
guy's got any dogs? Although mentally, when we get my
dog to try and talk on the phone, even though
you can hear Nana's voice on the other end, he
just looks confused. He just cops his head to one side.
He guys, how coming at that a bit of plastic
(08:42):
sounds like Nana and usually doesn't say anything as well.
So as far as Nana knows, we don't have a
dog either.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
News talks. It been right.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Let's finish that with gadget talk. I wonder if I'm
the Marcus loves gadgets as much as I do.
Speaker 7 (08:57):
I was up in my cabin today and I found my.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
I don't know what it's called.
Speaker 7 (09:11):
I found my Leatherman bracelet, because you know, Leatherman is
a multi tool, and this is a multi tool in
the form of a bracelet, and it's got all your
sockets and yeah, positive drive and your alan key and
(09:32):
everything on the bracelet that you wear, screwdrivers, the whole shebang,
things for your dive bottles, the works, and yes, there
you go. I don't know what it was called. It
was called a tread, a leatherm and tread. And I
found that and I thought, wow, look at that. How
(09:55):
useless and it was. It was bulky. The drill bits
kind of wore away quite quickly. It wasn't made of
strong enough steel, and I think all in all it.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Was probably a fail.
Speaker 7 (10:10):
Although it has got one function for breaking windscreens and windows,
which is probably quite good of your dog gets trapped
and a guitar in a car, so I'll probably use
that sometime, and I'm worrying. I quite enjoy wearing it,
but I just reminds myself of how useless the thing was.
And I undernd about buying it for a long long time,
but I couldn't not. I think in the end, I
think the scout shop was selling cheaply. I think I'll
(10:31):
get a bit of that. But anyway, the question I
have for you tonight, which might resonate with you, what's
the most useless device or gadget you've ever bought?
Speaker 2 (10:41):
I mean, that sounds like quite a useful gadget if
it was made better there, doesn't it kind of been
a genuine letterman? I think the Riddleman stuff is pretty
well made. It is quite hard to use something that's
wrapped around your wrist, though, isn't it?
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Is there?
Speaker 2 (11:00):
What wonder woman hears on who wrists? Stop being so silly?
That's the most useless decket I give.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Them, Bore.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
It'd be a lot of our people out there who
just immediately go to greedmaker, wouldn't I seems like a
good idea at the time if they talk about opposite
end of this picture and you've got your bread maker
and you've got your Yeah, Brian, I so useful breadmaker?
What was the point of that? I am green heart,
(11:34):
love a gadget. I'm away for a couple of weeks.
I'll see you back here towards the end.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Dator Us Talkers Talk zid Bean for more from News
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