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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 Talk.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Hello, my beautiful beanies, and welcome to the bean for Wednesday,
first of your Space News. I am Gleen Hart and
we're looking back at Tuesday. These move on orders still
being talked about. The Bethtors sounds like a frustrating watch
(00:47):
for Heather Matt's trolley apology. And somewhere in there Marcus
is going to remember the Krimi Tunnel collect But before
any of that, the state of the nation according to Labor.
The state of that, according to Carrie Woodham.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Is not one for the history books. But commentators say
that was by design, Like Tim Murphy from Newsroom, Tim
says this was Labour trying to convey maturity, a little contrition, humility,
and to claim it could be the adult in the
room now and after the November seven election. Luke Malpus
from the Press says the speech was to present as
(01:30):
a calm port and a cost of living storm. To
be dependable, reliable and boring. Even that was the aim.
That's something Labor's achieved above all. Olse says Luke at
the stage of the game to not change the strategy
that has served Labor well so far, which is not
(01:50):
say much, not do much, not announce much, and it
has worked for them when there is nothing that you
can argue against as steady as she goes. They're just
letting the Coalition government make mistake or not work fast
(02:10):
enough or not be snazzy enough for the electorate. And
they're just sitting there and collecting the votes of the
center who are underwhelmed by the coalition government. Basically, they're
saying vote for this Chris because he's not Christopher Luxen
and we're not national But that works both ways. You
(02:35):
might not be wowed by the Coalition government and the
Prime Minister, but the message could be at least they're
not Labor Greens and te Partimori, and at least Christopher
Luxen isn't the Chris that was in charge last time.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
No, people are still calling their kids Chris or Christopher.
We're just trying to I don't I think I've heard
anybody being called Are any kids called Christopher out there?
One of those names that was very in vogue, wasn't that.
I certainly went to school with a few just don't
(03:10):
hear them anymore except run in the country news talk
been So this whole move on order thing, it's certainly
turned into one of those issues where it sounds like
there are more people against it for it, even though
that's probably definitely not the case. Let's find out where
(03:32):
Ryan stands.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
We care about them, of course we do. We're not
a holes. We donate our time and our money to
the city mission, to charities, We pay our taxes knowing
that they should be going to help in some way
improve their lives. But there are also a bunch of
idiots taking advantage with squirted bottles at traffic lights. They
can be quite aggressive and dangerous, not to mention, same
(03:54):
goes for rough sleepers on the footpaths and some of
our biggest cities. It's costing businesses. It's destroying the reputation
of entire swathes of city shops. These shops provide jobs
for the rest of us, especially our biggest city, where
foreign tourist's first impression should be not a punch up
between two ruffies on the footpath. So while the headlines
(04:17):
about this move on policy, like the crackdown on ram
raiders before it, or the hard line on ko tenants
who were throwing knives across the fence or bottles across
the fence to their neighbors before it. They will scream
cruel and mean in the papers, but I think they
are out of step with the reality of people and
(04:38):
the reality that these people are facing in their own lives.
The good grace cup hath run empty.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Yeah, it's important to keep some perspective about this. It's
on the scale of things. It's not that many people.
It seems like a lot of people, because it doesn't
take very many people to cause a problem or a
disturbance on a busy street. But at the end of
(05:05):
the day, surely we can figure it out, can't we.
I don't know why what makes me think that as
soon as I said that those words came out of
her mouth and the stupre thing to say talk right,
speaking of people saying stupid things. I think Heather found
it a bit of a precision of that. With the
Bethtter's I thought she was a bit confused about what
(05:29):
was going on. I thought it was just an awards ceremony,
is it not.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
They edited the end of another speech to remove the
phrase free Palestine, which begs the question why are they
removing the freeze the phrase free Palestine. I'm going to
guess it's because they're overreacting now that it's become cemented
in many people's minds that the BBC is completely biased
in the Israel Humas conflict, given that it got the
son of a Hummas leader to voice a documentary about Palestine,
(05:55):
and then it decided it was okay to broadcast a
bunch of Irish rappers saying that IDF soldiers should be killed. Now,
this is an overreaction rather than just a correction to
have no bias, because a correction would have left the
free Palestine stay in there right, because free Palestine is
actually a legitimate political position. To say out loud, it's
not offensive to people. There is a lesson in here.
(06:16):
Why I'm telling you this in New Zealanders because there
is a lesson in here, not just for the BBC,
not just for state broadcasters, but basically for all corporates
about picking sides on anything political. Sure, pick a side
on something political if you want to nail your colors
to the wall, if you think it's cool, but be
prepared that the public mood can change, and what you
think is cool right now may not be cool in
(06:37):
the future, because that is what happened to the BBC.
They clearly thought it was totally cool to publicly be
sympathetic to hum Us until it wasn't and since then
they have been trying to prove that they're not really
sympathetic to hum Us and they're actually making things worse.
And the Bafts is probably the best example of exactly that.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
The time to sort of wrap things up to the BBC.
They've got themselves into such a mess. Can we send
them off into space with the Royal family really get
to the business of moving on School City. Marcus does
love to start his shows remembering historic events when you
(07:20):
can't remember the future events obviously, so apparently he remembers
when the Kaimi Tunnel collapse happened.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
It was and I was five at the time, but
it was a new story that I certainly remember.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Now.
Speaker 6 (07:34):
Some of you will have better recollections about this than
I do, because I was five and TV was not great.
It was at its infancy. I shouldn't say it wasn't
great but rolling news. But I remember that being one
of those stories that people were very much fixated on
and following along. It went for eighty hours. Four people died.
(07:59):
There were twelve workers trapped in there, and I think
it was at the western side of the tunnel. But yeah,
I've never talked about this, and there is a memorial
(08:21):
for that also that's near the portal of the tunnel
for those people that did die. And of course tunneling,
as we know, is a very dangerous occupations. We look
at those people that died in the Milford Tunnel and
the Kaimi Tunnel, also the tunnel from Manapuri, the tunnel
racers there. I think in the Milford Tunnel day there's
(08:41):
to say a man a mile was the cost of it.
But yeah, I don't know if you anyone that has
the recollection of that. They'd been tunneling for five years
before it collapsed. It started nineteen sixty five, but it
was nineteen seventy on this day. On this day I
think was the caven not when those people were rescued,
But yeah, it was very much. It was very much
(09:02):
one of those news stories that galvanized the country, perhaps
not like a news story has done since.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
So he was five when that happened, in nineteen seventy. Oh,
that makes Marcus much older than me, much much much
older than me. I wasn't even thought of in nineteen seventy.
So I'm just delighted about that because the other day
(09:31):
I suggested that maybe we were of a similar generation,
right that where generations apart. I wasn't born until nineteen
seventy three.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
News talk has it been.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
I'm not sure how Matt Heath is, but it sounds
like he's got himself into a bit of trouble with
his domestic manager.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
I'd just like to make a public apology, Okay. As
I said at twelve, I said I'll make a public
apology at one, an enforced public apology. Yes, So I've
got a prepared statement here.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Okay, this is huge, this is messive.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
I would like to make a public apology around some
of the comments I made on Matt Heath and Tyler
Adams afternoons on news Talk z' be yesterday. Okay, I
insinuated that my lovely partner, Tracy had been delivered home
from a hen's party in the weekend on a shopping trolley.
There is no evidence to support this conclusion, and she
strenuously denies the claim. The shopping trolley arriving on our
(10:29):
boom is much more likely to be from an unrelated incident,
just because it's unfair for me to link these two events.
The fact she spent thirteen hours at a pool party
for her friend Hayley's hens Do does not link her
to the shopping trolley on the boom. Tracy has asked
me to add this, which she said Matt went missing
(10:51):
for two days on a stagdoo once. If anyone is
going to come home from a get together with mates
and a shopping trolley, it is Matt and not me.
I came home in an uber and have since showing
Matt evidence of this. I didn't even drink that much.
Hugely hypocritical of Matt, who was far from well behaved
when out with his friend, to suggest this of me.
So what I'd like to say to Tracy is this, Well,
(11:14):
this may all be well and good, but it does
seem a little bit coincidental that she was out her
hands Do and arrived home around about the same time
as the trolley arriving on the boom. But I do
apologize wholeheartedly for suggesting that there is a link between
the two events.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
That is big of you, mate.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Well done.
Speaker 5 (11:30):
Yeah, that is beautifully prepared statement. We need to hear
more about this steg To incident that you're involved in,
but maybe that's for another day, but we can put
that one to rest.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Make well done, all right, all right, let's move on
and everyone can be happy at home and work from
now on.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
It's a pit peeve of mine people who'd nick off
with shopping trolleys and just leave them miles away from
where they came from. I've walked a few sorry shopping
trolleys back to the supermarket or other business from where
they came. Whence they came where you say? And it's
(12:04):
always I always get about halfway back there, and then
I think, we know if they see me pushing this
whole think that I okay, but that's never happened. Why
do you know what he's ever been rushing out? And
think me either had a business shopping trolleys. I am
(12:24):
a glen Hart once again, finishing our podcast in the
most random way possible. It's been news talks. You've been
and we will do it again tomorrow totally equally as randomly.
I don't know how you measure that totally used talking
talk has it been for more from news Talk, said B.
(12:47):
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 1 (00:24):
Hello, my beautiful beanies, and welcome to the bean for Wednesday,
first of your Space News. I am Gleen Hart and
we're looking back at Tuesday. These move on orders still
being talked about. The Bethtors sounds like a frustrating watch
(00:47):
for Heather Matt's trolley apology. And somewhere in there Marcus
is going to remember the Krimi Tunnel collect But before
any of that, the state of the nation according to Labor.
The state of that, according to Carrie Woodham.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Is not one for the history books. But commentators say
that was by design, Like Tim Murphy from Newsroom, Tim
says this was Labour trying to convey maturity, a little contrition, humility,
and to claim it could be the adult in the
room now and after the November seven election. Luke Malpus
from the Press says the speech was to present as
(01:30):
a calm port and a cost of living storm. To
be dependable, reliable and boring. Even that was the aim.
That's something Labor's achieved above all. Olse says Luke at
the stage of the game to not change the strategy
that has served Labor well so far, which is not
(01:50):
say much, not do much, not announce much, and it
has worked for them when there is nothing that you
can argue against as steady as she goes. They're just
letting the Coalition government make mistake or not work fast
(02:10):
enough or not be snazzy enough for the electorate. And
they're just sitting there and collecting the votes of the
center who are underwhelmed by the coalition government. Basically, they're
saying vote for this Chris because he's not Christopher Luxen
and we're not national But that works both ways. You
(02:35):
might not be wowed by the Coalition government and the
Prime Minister, but the message could be at least they're
not Labor Greens and te Partimori, and at least Christopher
Luxen isn't the Chris that was in charge last time.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
No, people are still calling their kids Chris or Christopher.
We're just trying to I don't I think I've heard
anybody being called Are any kids called Christopher out there?
One of those names that was very in vogue, wasn't that.
I certainly went to school with a few just don't
(03:10):
hear them anymore except run in the country news talk
been So this whole move on order thing, it's certainly
turned into one of those issues where it sounds like
there are more people against it for it, even though
that's probably definitely not the case. Let's find out where
(03:32):
Ryan stands.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
We care about them, of course we do. We're not
a holes. We donate our time and our money to
the city mission, to charities, We pay our taxes knowing
that they should be going to help in some way
improve their lives. But there are also a bunch of
idiots taking advantage with squirted bottles at traffic lights. They
can be quite aggressive and dangerous, not to mention, same
(03:54):
goes for rough sleepers on the footpaths and some of
our biggest cities. It's costing businesses. It's destroying the reputation
of entire swathes of city shops. These shops provide jobs
for the rest of us, especially our biggest city, where
foreign tourist's first impression should be not a punch up
between two ruffies on the footpath. So while the headlines
(04:17):
about this move on policy, like the crackdown on ram
raiders before it, or the hard line on ko tenants
who were throwing knives across the fence or bottles across
the fence to their neighbors before it. They will scream
cruel and mean in the papers, but I think they
are out of step with the reality of people and
(04:38):
the reality that these people are facing in their own lives.
The good grace cup hath run empty.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Yeah, it's important to keep some perspective about this. It's
on the scale of things. It's not that many people.
It seems like a lot of people, because it doesn't
take very many people to cause a problem or a
disturbance on a busy street. But at the end of
(05:05):
the day, surely we can figure it out, can't we.
I don't know why what makes me think that as
soon as I said that those words came out of
her mouth and the stupre thing to say talk right,
speaking of people saying stupid things. I think Heather found
it a bit of a precision of that. With the
Bethtter's I thought she was a bit confused about what
(05:29):
was going on. I thought it was just an awards ceremony,
is it not.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
They edited the end of another speech to remove the
phrase free Palestine, which begs the question why are they
removing the freeze the phrase free Palestine. I'm going to
guess it's because they're overreacting now that it's become cemented
in many people's minds that the BBC is completely biased
in the Israel Humas conflict, given that it got the
son of a Hummas leader to voice a documentary about Palestine,
(05:55):
and then it decided it was okay to broadcast a
bunch of Irish rappers saying that IDF soldiers should be killed. Now,
this is an overreaction rather than just a correction to
have no bias, because a correction would have left the
free Palestine stay in there right, because free Palestine is
actually a legitimate political position. To say out loud, it's
not offensive to people. There is a lesson in here.
(06:16):
Why I'm telling you this in New Zealanders because there
is a lesson in here, not just for the BBC,
not just for state broadcasters, but basically for all corporates
about picking sides on anything political. Sure, pick a side
on something political if you want to nail your colors
to the wall, if you think it's cool, but be
prepared that the public mood can change, and what you
think is cool right now may not be cool in
(06:37):
the future, because that is what happened to the BBC.
They clearly thought it was totally cool to publicly be
sympathetic to hum Us until it wasn't and since then
they have been trying to prove that they're not really
sympathetic to hum Us and they're actually making things worse.
And the Bafts is probably the best example of exactly that.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
The time to sort of wrap things up to the BBC.
They've got themselves into such a mess. Can we send
them off into space with the Royal family really get
to the business of moving on School City. Marcus does
love to start his shows remembering historic events when you
(07:20):
can't remember the future events obviously, so apparently he remembers
when the Kaimi Tunnel collapse happened.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
It was and I was five at the time, but
it was a new story that I certainly remember.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Now.
Speaker 6 (07:34):
Some of you will have better recollections about this than
I do, because I was five and TV was not great.
It was at its infancy. I shouldn't say it wasn't
great but rolling news. But I remember that being one
of those stories that people were very much fixated on
and following along. It went for eighty hours. Four people died.
(07:59):
There were twelve workers trapped in there, and I think
it was at the western side of the tunnel. But yeah,
I've never talked about this, and there is a memorial
(08:21):
for that also that's near the portal of the tunnel
for those people that did die. And of course tunneling,
as we know, is a very dangerous occupations. We look
at those people that died in the Milford Tunnel and
the Kaimi Tunnel, also the tunnel from Manapuri, the tunnel
racers there. I think in the Milford Tunnel day there's
(08:41):
to say a man a mile was the cost of it.
But yeah, I don't know if you anyone that has
the recollection of that. They'd been tunneling for five years
before it collapsed. It started nineteen sixty five, but it
was nineteen seventy on this day. On this day I
think was the caven not when those people were rescued,
But yeah, it was very much. It was very much
(09:02):
one of those news stories that galvanized the country, perhaps
not like a news story has done since.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
So he was five when that happened, in nineteen seventy. Oh,
that makes Marcus much older than me, much much much
older than me. I wasn't even thought of in nineteen seventy.
So I'm just delighted about that because the other day
(09:31):
I suggested that maybe we were of a similar generation,
right that where generations apart. I wasn't born until nineteen
seventy three.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
News talk has it been.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
I'm not sure how Matt Heath is, but it sounds
like he's got himself into a bit of trouble with
his domestic manager.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
I'd just like to make a public apology, Okay. As
I said at twelve, I said I'll make a public
apology at one, an enforced public apology. Yes, So I've
got a prepared statement here.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Okay, this is huge, this is messive.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
I would like to make a public apology around some
of the comments I made on Matt Heath and Tyler
Adams afternoons on news Talk z' be yesterday. Okay, I
insinuated that my lovely partner, Tracy had been delivered home
from a hen's party in the weekend on a shopping trolley.
There is no evidence to support this conclusion, and she
strenuously denies the claim. The shopping trolley arriving on our
(10:29):
boom is much more likely to be from an unrelated incident,
just because it's unfair for me to link these two events.
The fact she spent thirteen hours at a pool party
for her friend Hayley's hens Do does not link her
to the shopping trolley on the boom. Tracy has asked
me to add this, which she said Matt went missing
(10:51):
for two days on a stagdoo once. If anyone is
going to come home from a get together with mates
and a shopping trolley, it is Matt and not me.
I came home in an uber and have since showing
Matt evidence of this. I didn't even drink that much.
Hugely hypocritical of Matt, who was far from well behaved
when out with his friend, to suggest this of me.
So what I'd like to say to Tracy is this, Well,
(11:14):
this may all be well and good, but it does
seem a little bit coincidental that she was out her
hands Do and arrived home around about the same time
as the trolley arriving on the boom. But I do
apologize wholeheartedly for suggesting that there is a link between
the two events.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
That is big of you, mate.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Well done.
Speaker 5 (11:30):
Yeah, that is beautifully prepared statement. We need to hear
more about this steg To incident that you're involved in,
but maybe that's for another day, but we can put
that one to rest.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Make well done, all right, all right, let's move on
and everyone can be happy at home and work from
now on.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
It's a pit peeve of mine people who'd nick off
with shopping trolleys and just leave them miles away from
where they came from. I've walked a few sorry shopping
trolleys back to the supermarket or other business from where
they came. Whence they came where you say? And it's
(12:04):
always I always get about halfway back there, and then
I think, we know if they see me pushing this
whole think that I okay, but that's never happened. Why
do you know what he's ever been rushing out? And
think me either had a business shopping trolleys. I am
(12:24):
a glen Hart once again, finishing our podcast in the
most random way possible. It's been news talks. You've been
and we will do it again tomorrow totally equally as randomly.
I don't know how you measure that totally used talking
talk has it been for more from news Talk, said B.
(12:47):
Listen live on air or online, and keep our shows
with you wherever you go with our podcast on iHeartRadio
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