March 2, 2026 • 11 mins
FIRST WITH YESTERDAY'S NEWS (highlights from Monday on Newstalk ZB) The Rules No Longer Apply/The Luxon Paradox/No Issues for Me, Thanks/Bermtalk ZB
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
You're listening to a podcast from news Talk, said, b
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
Used Talk said, be you talk.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Hello, I'm my beautiful beanies, and welcome to the bean
for Tuesday is yesterday's news.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
I am lean Heart. Were looking back at Monday.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Marcus is going to stick the boot into Christopher Luxen
at some point in this podcast, so listen out for that.
There was a Nipisos poll about issues.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Issues you can use and some boom talk. Oh it's
been a while had boom talk.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
So I'll be pleased to get some of that as
a little bit of light relief from the main issue
in the day, of course, around getting what it's got
coming to it or something.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Ideally the Iranian people would desire for themselves in a
peaceful transition from theocracy to democracy, but I would not
put money on it. Iran holds the world's third or
fourth largest proven oil reserves, representing about twelve to thirteen
percent of the global total as of early twenty twenty six.
(01:20):
That makes it of interest to many many countries, and
you'd have to wonder whether this is the end of
the United Nations and the re emergence of the strongest
country wins might makes right. There is absolutely no doubt
that the UN is a raughting, corrupt, inept gravy train
(01:44):
full of mediocre international officials. Who are I'm sure there
are some who are there for very very good reasons.
The vast majority appear to be there at to feather
their own nests. It's failing and has been failing for
a very very very long time. For a couple of decades,
it did good work. It kept the world peaceful. It
(02:07):
hasn't been working for a long time. Utterly and effectual
and costing countries are fortune to maintain for nothing. But
is Trump invading countries on a whim the best option
the next best alternative. There's got to be something in between.
He even went against his own constitution by going, you
know what, Iran, I mean, I'm going on, I don't know.
(02:32):
The world is an uncertain and uneasy place right now,
and I see no solution anytime soon.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
It's often difficult for us down here in the bottom
of the world, so far away from these things, the.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
You know, feel the full impact of what's going on.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
I'm supposed to go on holiday in May well be
couple of stopovers in Dubai.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
That's how I'm responding to it with worry and concern.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
In a generalize news talk ze Been.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
I'm sure you know. Wait, you realize in a situation either.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
I'll tell you what worries me more. It's not the
breakdown and the rules based order because Trump has conducted
an illegal air strike without the blessing of the UN.
It's what happens next. I mean, this argument about the
rules based order breaking down is not I think, as
scary or as effective as it may have been three four,
twelve years ago, because in that time we've seen what
little help these rules are for people. Pootner next, crime
(03:37):
here got away with it, invaded Ukraine, got away with it,
is still getting away with it. Then harmas attacks on
Israel happens, Nick and Yahoo responds that conflict carries on
and kills children unstopped for years. There is a generation
of young people right now who saw that happen, many
of whom will have no confidence in the rules based order,
and who will agree with older generations that the Security
Council veto power as a structural problem and that without
(04:00):
reform nothing can work and who will agree with Canada's
Mark Karney that the old rules based system has broken
down already and you shouldn't warn it. So counts Frank
Trump's action over the weekend with that argument is going
to convince very few people, I think. I think what
is more convincing and more worrying is what happens next.
Not just to Iran, with the next lot who may
take over may in fact be worse, just like the
(04:22):
Ayatollas took over from the Shah and were worse, But
what happens next to the Middle East, with the bombs
hitting Dubai's International airport, disrupting air travel through a global waypoint,
setting off Iran's proxies like Hezbola and the Hooties. It
can cause their own versions of trouble and regularly do.
But then also for the wider world with inflation and war,
nothing to celebrate for us and completely disruptive. Even if
(04:44):
you support these strikes, the idea that Trump has started
a chain reaction that he can't control or hasn't thought
through properly, is more worrying than the breakdown of a
rules based order that very few of us still believe in.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
I don't know that very few of us still believe
in them. I just think that it's become.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
So obvious that there's nothing anybody can do about it
when major.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Military powers beside the rules don't apply to them us
talk anyway. That's probably why I'm not prime minister of anything.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Although our prime minister apparently didn't look very great yesterday.
Speaker 6 (05:23):
I don't know how much we can talk about around
tonight because I just, I mean, I'm angry that people
just feel that they are just so powerless about the
whole thing, because you know, then, I don't think our
Prime minister has spoke with any kind of conviction or
didn't even seem to be across the facts today.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
It was.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
It was a woeful performance by Luxon. I mean, I
don't even know if that was his tactic to prevaricate
and sound so so misinformed.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
But anyway, it's the weird.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
It's the the paradox of luck, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Sometimes he seems so.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Onto it people go on about how we.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Can speak without notes, and then other times he seems
to just sort of disappear into a world of management
speak and corporate talk and completely missus the mark and
sounds out of touch.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
It's very odd set, right.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
So there's a pole and it was about the things that.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
We think are things and the things that we don't
think at things. And I think that's what it was about.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Is it what it was about? Right?
Speaker 7 (06:26):
We have a new issues poll out this morning tells
you what the issues are people actually care about. It's
from IPSOS A thousand people taken after White Thing and weekend,
so it's for February. The numbers are bad for National
because they should be winning on more of the issues,
but Luxon won't hate them because they're going in the
right direction on a few of the key ones. Significant
(06:47):
increase that their words not mine. Significant increase on the
cost of living for National after a period of trending
in the wrong direction. Another significant increase on healthcare and
hospitals for National, closing the gap from nineteen to twelve
points since October, with labor so still behind but catching up,
and after being overtaken on the economy, they've come back
(07:10):
to basically draw with the reds. Interestingly, concern from voters
about poverty and inequality is trending down despite the big
push in the media last week. What's that about the
reality is that Labor is still ahead though on three
of the five issues nationally head on one and they
are dead even on another. But no election, as you know,
(07:32):
is one or lost on a single issue. Is that
although COVID and twenty twenty in cost of living in
twenty twenty three were dominant, what the election will come
down to, As I've always said, and everyone is always
known as Winston Peters, now he has told me, he
has told us that he will not form a government
with Labour if one Hapkins is in charge and two
it needs propping up by the greensl to party Mardi,
(07:52):
he says they're nuts. So as long as the polls
stay roughly where they are, the National Party strategists will
be sticking largely to the same script and the same
game plan as we just heard from Nikola Willis a
few moments ago, and wait at the altar for Winston,
barring of course, any care pain snaffoos that might get
any of the above into trumble and offside with us
the voters.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
If I was polled and I would vote for no issues.
I want less issues in my life. If if you
have an issue free existence that a beg bless draw.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Which party is going to give me that news talk
it bean, We're going to finish up with some boom talk.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
As I said at the beginning of the pod, I
can't strangly remember the last time we did burm talk.
I mean, he certainly doesn't be deep. It sounds like
Matt's been spending some time on his booms.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Okay, right, big, So in the weekend, I got excited
by my neighbor's booms. I wasn't coverting as booms or
his cattle or his wife or anything, but I was
looking over going. God, he's got tidy edges. He's got
tidy edges on the other side of the road. So
I spent hours and hours on my berms, making them,
taking them right back to the to the actual boom,
(09:04):
because you know, you get creep grass, creep onto the pavement,
you do, yeah, yeah, and so so in the end
you're mowing the lawn, but it's creeping tidy.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
So I just I just went loose. It nearly killed me. Actually,
it was the most. It was the most. It was
more physically exerting than running a marathon, just out in
the hot suns, cutting my booms right back and making
us super tight burn.
Speaker 8 (09:25):
So you actually bought a line from a specifically for
the boom.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Yeah, but it's not the like the scrub cutter that
we used to have back on the farm, that's for sure,
the lime trimmer. The amount of the amount of cord
I went through, I mean I was getting through about
two meters of edge per having to pull the cord
out again on the line from it. But yeah, I
was just I was just thinking, you know, are we
weak sauce on our booms. It's all very well to
(09:51):
mow them, but niss, you've got tight edges. Are you
a disgrace to your neighborhood?
Speaker 8 (09:55):
What's even the points? Yeah, it's a big question.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
You've got to have tight, tight edges. Yeah, and I
think I think we need to start shaming neighbors that
are just doing the bare minimum of mowing the lawn.
Speaker 8 (10:06):
Reinvigorating boom pride happened to be bright.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Yeah, and I want to find I might start a
competition and it would be New Zealand's tightest boom. It's
not the most spectacular, it's not what you're growing on there,
but it's just how tight the edges are, how smooth
the lines are on your burn.
Speaker 8 (10:23):
That's a good distinction.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
I might be up there.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
I've had people stop me and ask me how I
get mine looking so good. You're just going to use
your line from of the right way and frequently don't
don't let it get out of control. Nothing worse than
a booms creeping its way out onto the path. I mean,
that just becomes a habit Hasard's part of the while,
doesn't it. The heads on scooters, elderly people on there,
(10:49):
you know, mobility devices.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
And people like me walking their dogs. We don't want
a repeat the terable shoulder a couple of years ago.
That's a damn sure. I am a glen Heart. That
was boom Talk, and I've forgot model.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Were not about to forget other podcast now so insignificantly
to that, and we'll be back with more tomorrow, not
necessarily boom Talk.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Probably the other stuff is used talking talking, said Bean.
Speaker 8 (11:21):
For more from us, talk, said b listen live on
air or online, and
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Keep our shows with you wherever you go with our
podcasts 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, be you talk.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Hello, I'm my beautiful beanies, and welcome to the bean
for Tuesday is yesterday's news.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
I am lean Heart. Were looking back at Monday.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Marcus is going to stick the boot into Christopher Luxen
at some point in this podcast, so listen out for that.
There was a Nipisos poll about issues.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Issues you can use and some boom talk. Oh it's
been a while had boom talk.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
So I'll be pleased to get some of that as
a little bit of light relief from the main issue
in the day, of course, around getting what it's got
coming to it or something.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Ideally the Iranian people would desire for themselves in a
peaceful transition from theocracy to democracy, but I would not
put money on it. Iran holds the world's third or
fourth largest proven oil reserves, representing about twelve to thirteen
percent of the global total as of early twenty twenty six.
(01:20):
That makes it of interest to many many countries, and
you'd have to wonder whether this is the end of
the United Nations and the re emergence of the strongest
country wins might makes right. There is absolutely no doubt
that the UN is a raughting, corrupt, inept gravy train
(01:44):
full of mediocre international officials. Who are I'm sure there
are some who are there for very very good reasons.
The vast majority appear to be there at to feather
their own nests. It's failing and has been failing for
a very very very long time. For a couple of decades,
it did good work. It kept the world peaceful. It
(02:07):
hasn't been working for a long time. Utterly and effectual
and costing countries are fortune to maintain for nothing. But
is Trump invading countries on a whim the best option
the next best alternative. There's got to be something in between.
He even went against his own constitution by going, you
know what, Iran, I mean, I'm going on, I don't know.
(02:32):
The world is an uncertain and uneasy place right now,
and I see no solution anytime soon.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
It's often difficult for us down here in the bottom
of the world, so far away from these things, the.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
You know, feel the full impact of what's going on.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
I'm supposed to go on holiday in May well be
couple of stopovers in Dubai.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
That's how I'm responding to it with worry and concern.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
In a generalize news talk ze Been.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
I'm sure you know. Wait, you realize in a situation either.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
I'll tell you what worries me more. It's not the
breakdown and the rules based order because Trump has conducted
an illegal air strike without the blessing of the UN.
It's what happens next. I mean, this argument about the
rules based order breaking down is not I think, as
scary or as effective as it may have been three four,
twelve years ago, because in that time we've seen what
little help these rules are for people. Pootner next, crime
(03:37):
here got away with it, invaded Ukraine, got away with it,
is still getting away with it. Then harmas attacks on
Israel happens, Nick and Yahoo responds that conflict carries on
and kills children unstopped for years. There is a generation
of young people right now who saw that happen, many
of whom will have no confidence in the rules based order,
and who will agree with older generations that the Security
Council veto power as a structural problem and that without
(04:00):
reform nothing can work and who will agree with Canada's
Mark Karney that the old rules based system has broken
down already and you shouldn't warn it. So counts Frank
Trump's action over the weekend with that argument is going
to convince very few people, I think. I think what
is more convincing and more worrying is what happens next.
Not just to Iran, with the next lot who may
take over may in fact be worse, just like the
(04:22):
Ayatollas took over from the Shah and were worse, But
what happens next to the Middle East, with the bombs
hitting Dubai's International airport, disrupting air travel through a global waypoint,
setting off Iran's proxies like Hezbola and the Hooties. It
can cause their own versions of trouble and regularly do.
But then also for the wider world with inflation and war,
nothing to celebrate for us and completely disruptive. Even if
(04:44):
you support these strikes, the idea that Trump has started
a chain reaction that he can't control or hasn't thought
through properly, is more worrying than the breakdown of a
rules based order that very few of us still believe in.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
I don't know that very few of us still believe
in them. I just think that it's become.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
So obvious that there's nothing anybody can do about it
when major.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Military powers beside the rules don't apply to them us
talk anyway. That's probably why I'm not prime minister of anything.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Although our prime minister apparently didn't look very great yesterday.
Speaker 6 (05:23):
I don't know how much we can talk about around
tonight because I just, I mean, I'm angry that people
just feel that they are just so powerless about the
whole thing, because you know, then, I don't think our
Prime minister has spoke with any kind of conviction or
didn't even seem to be across the facts today.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
It was.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
It was a woeful performance by Luxon. I mean, I
don't even know if that was his tactic to prevaricate
and sound so so misinformed.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
But anyway, it's the weird.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
It's the the paradox of luck, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Sometimes he seems so.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Onto it people go on about how we.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Can speak without notes, and then other times he seems
to just sort of disappear into a world of management
speak and corporate talk and completely missus the mark and
sounds out of touch.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
It's very odd set, right.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
So there's a pole and it was about the things that.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
We think are things and the things that we don't
think at things. And I think that's what it was about.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Is it what it was about? Right?
Speaker 7 (06:26):
We have a new issues poll out this morning tells
you what the issues are people actually care about. It's
from IPSOS A thousand people taken after White Thing and weekend,
so it's for February. The numbers are bad for National
because they should be winning on more of the issues,
but Luxon won't hate them because they're going in the
right direction on a few of the key ones. Significant
(06:47):
increase that their words not mine. Significant increase on the
cost of living for National after a period of trending
in the wrong direction. Another significant increase on healthcare and
hospitals for National, closing the gap from nineteen to twelve
points since October, with labor so still behind but catching up,
and after being overtaken on the economy, they've come back
(07:10):
to basically draw with the reds. Interestingly, concern from voters
about poverty and inequality is trending down despite the big
push in the media last week. What's that about the
reality is that Labor is still ahead though on three
of the five issues nationally head on one and they
are dead even on another. But no election, as you know,
(07:32):
is one or lost on a single issue. Is that
although COVID and twenty twenty in cost of living in
twenty twenty three were dominant, what the election will come
down to, As I've always said, and everyone is always
known as Winston Peters, now he has told me, he
has told us that he will not form a government
with Labour if one Hapkins is in charge and two
it needs propping up by the greensl to party Mardi,
(07:52):
he says they're nuts. So as long as the polls
stay roughly where they are, the National Party strategists will
be sticking largely to the same script and the same
game plan as we just heard from Nikola Willis a
few moments ago, and wait at the altar for Winston,
barring of course, any care pain snaffoos that might get
any of the above into trumble and offside with us
the voters.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
If I was polled and I would vote for no issues.
I want less issues in my life. If if you
have an issue free existence that a beg bless draw.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Which party is going to give me that news talk
it bean, We're going to finish up with some boom talk.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
As I said at the beginning of the pod, I
can't strangly remember the last time we did burm talk.
I mean, he certainly doesn't be deep. It sounds like
Matt's been spending some time on his booms.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Okay, right, big, So in the weekend, I got excited
by my neighbor's booms. I wasn't coverting as booms or
his cattle or his wife or anything, but I was
looking over going. God, he's got tidy edges. He's got
tidy edges on the other side of the road. So
I spent hours and hours on my berms, making them,
taking them right back to the to the actual boom,
(09:04):
because you know, you get creep grass, creep onto the pavement,
you do, yeah, yeah, and so so in the end
you're mowing the lawn, but it's creeping tidy.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
So I just I just went loose. It nearly killed me. Actually,
it was the most. It was the most. It was
more physically exerting than running a marathon, just out in
the hot suns, cutting my booms right back and making
us super tight burn.
Speaker 8 (09:25):
So you actually bought a line from a specifically for
the boom.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Yeah, but it's not the like the scrub cutter that
we used to have back on the farm, that's for sure,
the lime trimmer. The amount of the amount of cord
I went through, I mean I was getting through about
two meters of edge per having to pull the cord
out again on the line from it. But yeah, I
was just I was just thinking, you know, are we
weak sauce on our booms. It's all very well to
(09:51):
mow them, but niss, you've got tight edges. Are you
a disgrace to your neighborhood?
Speaker 8 (09:55):
What's even the points? Yeah, it's a big question.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
You've got to have tight, tight edges. Yeah, and I
think I think we need to start shaming neighbors that
are just doing the bare minimum of mowing the lawn.
Speaker 8 (10:06):
Reinvigorating boom pride happened to be bright.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Yeah, and I want to find I might start a
competition and it would be New Zealand's tightest boom. It's
not the most spectacular, it's not what you're growing on there,
but it's just how tight the edges are, how smooth
the lines are on your burn.
Speaker 8 (10:23):
That's a good distinction.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
I might be up there.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
I've had people stop me and ask me how I
get mine looking so good. You're just going to use
your line from of the right way and frequently don't
don't let it get out of control. Nothing worse than
a booms creeping its way out onto the path. I mean,
that just becomes a habit Hasard's part of the while,
doesn't it. The heads on scooters, elderly people on there,
(10:49):
you know, mobility devices.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
And people like me walking their dogs. We don't want
a repeat the terable shoulder a couple of years ago.
That's a damn sure. I am a glen Heart. That
was boom Talk, and I've forgot model.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Were not about to forget other podcast now so insignificantly
to that, and we'll be back with more tomorrow, not
necessarily boom Talk.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Probably the other stuff is used talking talking, said Bean.
Speaker 8 (11:21):
For more from us, talk, said b listen live on
air or online, and
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Keep our shows with you wherever you go with our
podcasts on iHeartRadio.
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