April 7, 2026 • 14 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
Hello, I'm not beautiful Beanies, and welcome to the bean
for Wednesday. First with yesterday's news, I am Glen Hart,
and we're looking back at Tuesday once again. Chris lux
And is under the pump because he just hasn't been
very good at his job, the politics part of his job.
(00:44):
So we're going to have to get into that early
childhood here and how it affects the child's involved. The
Queenstown cable car still a thing, and is adamis too
a thing that we should be taking any note of
(01:04):
that notice of. But first up, Ryan Bridge, there is
a bit concerned that the young people of today are
so useless they don't even really realize the war's going on.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Look no further than Germany, where they're protesting over a
requirement for men aged forty five and younger to inform
the government of their whereabouts if they leave the country
for three months or more. If they go on a oe,
you've got to tell the government where you're going. It's
similar to a rule they had during the Cold War.
And it is basically preparing for a time when they
(01:35):
may need a return to conscription compulsory service. Norway, Sweden, Turkey, Denmark, Finland,
to name a few, already do this. The Korean pop
band BTS you heard them before, They've just celebrated the
end of their military service with a concert and soul
But overwhelmingly in the West, there is I don't know,
(01:56):
there's a bit of ignorance, would that be the word
antipathy of the threats that our leaders tell us we're facing.
It's like we don't quite believe that there are any
How could you teach the wellness generation, the influencer youths,
the zoomers as they call them, that in order to
enjoy the comforts of liberal democracy, sometimes you might have
(02:17):
to fight for them. You might have to make sacrifices
for them. We've not been to war, we've not experienced war.
We don't even want serious criminals, the criminal youths going
to boot camps, let alone us. There's a general feeling,
I think that wars are fought in far away lands
by somebody else, when evidence is mounting that one of
these wars might one day soon be fought closer to home,
(02:40):
and the others might actually be us Now I am
not a young person, of course, I don't actually know
if I was even a young person when I was
the age of the young person.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
I've always thought of, is it older than I am
makes me uniquely suited to work a breakfast radio where
it definitely makes you feel older than you are. Anyway,
that's beside the point. But I've always had this rather
naive view that if people didn't go off to war,
there wouldn't be any war. Do we try that news
talk ze been so Christopher Luxem wasn't able to clearly
(03:19):
stayed how many Marty people are in his hearty or
as cabinet or It was all a bit confusing and
a bit stupid and who cares? But apparently heather says
it's a bad look for him.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
He flubbed the Iran question four weeks ago, he flubbed
the how many Maori MPs and cabinet question today? And
the question now is well, what's he gonna flub next
month when it's only six months away from the election.
Two things have to improve for Chris Luxen to retain
the confidence of his caucus, which is on shaky ground
and for him to stay in the job. Number one,
his performance has to improve. Number two, National's polling has
(03:54):
to improve. Neither have been convincing today because today we
also had the polling out. The Taxpayer Union Caurier poll
came out. National is still sitting below thirty percent. What
that tells you is the twenty eight percent poll from
last month wasn't rogue. National really is polling them. Add
to it the fact that last week's reshuffle, which punished
Chris Bishop, was a fail. Because reshuffles are supposed to
(04:15):
make the Prime Minister look strong and as if they're
in control and have discipline. That just looked vengeful and
as if the Prime Minister is promoting sicker fants rather
than very capable MPs like James Meager because he may
or may not have been Chris Bishop's numbers man. And
it's made worse by the fact that it was rushed
into being last week because some loyal ministers warned the
Prime Minister the backbenches are starting to get nervous about
(04:36):
losing their seats. On the current polling that we're seeing,
this cannot continue for the next seven months until we
go to the election In November. The polls have to improve,
The Prime Minister's performance has to improve, or they are
going to have to roll him to save themselves. Now,
Chris Luckxen's best hope right now is that that interview
this morning doesn't get as much coverage as the Hosking
(04:58):
interview got last year simply because of ratings.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Ah yes, but of course it will be drip fed
into the social media streams of people who are aligned
with certain sides of the political spectrum, regardless of how
many people were actually watching at the time. That's how
it works these days. I'm more interested in how many
times are here they use the word flubbed, and I
(05:24):
determined I'm going to start using the word flubbed more often.
I love it. I might even change it. Could I
change the name of this to the flubber Cast? You
talk zibby not being so silekly in and get on
to what Andrew Dickens was talking about yesterday. So he
is hosted in the morning show at the moment, and
(05:47):
they've done this big study on kids who early in
life get shoved into care because you know, mom and
dad are at work.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
So in Australia they're actually expanding childcare subsidies. They realize
that two income families are the norm now it's the
only way you can afford to do it. So they're
expanding their childcare as subsidies. They're looking at alternatives, they're
looking at vouchers, looking at income splitting, and they're looking
(06:16):
at extended parental leave so the parents can actually stay
there and look after the kids for longer, rather than
putting them in the care of an early childcare center.
Advocacy groups have come out and says, well, if you're
worried about this, you can't just reduce your hours. But
what we really have to do is improve the quality.
So here's a question for you, how do you make
(06:36):
sure that we've got good early child here care quality
in the sector. The sector in Australia is under pressure.
There's been abuse allegations, there's workforce shortages. The government says
it's pay rise for educators and new funding for not
for profit centers aim to lift the quality and stabilize
the staffing, but it ain't work can yet. So basically,
(07:01):
this study reinforces that preschool remains strongly beneficial, but also
highlights that childcare is not a one size fits all solution,
and that the quality of care from the early child
care centers and the amount of time children spend in
it not too much. Both matter.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
My parents, and we've already tell this, and I'm very
old in this podcast. My parents were just as good
at ignoring me when I was at home with them
as I'm sure they were if I was somewhere else.
(07:44):
I don't think I was somewhere else, though I can't
remember where I was because I was, you know, that's
early childhood, and my memories don't go back that far.
So I think Andrew's what I'm saying is Andrews is right.
Some kids don't mind it, other kids it'll be devastating.
And the same could be argued for anything. Right, So
(08:06):
this cable care in Queenstown, everybody's going to be going
to work by cable car. Apparently it's got a sort
of an Auckland light rail field to it, doesn't it.
Speaker 6 (08:19):
So it has entered the fast track process. Now mostly
fast track makes me nervous when we're talking about conservation
land and where as I often say, we're being the
mayor from Jaws and we're putting short term financial gain
over what is ethically right, environmentally right, and all the rest.
But the fast track process isn't always going to be
(08:40):
all bad, and in this case, I think it would
be a good thing. Now, mostly for me, this is
not about the fast track process. It's just about whether
I think cable cars as a means or a method
of public transport, whether that idea has validity and absolutely yes.
So in case you haven't heard about this story, and
it has been around for a little while, but back
(09:01):
in the news today because it has cleared that first
hurdle of entering the fast track process, where do you
sit with the idea of cable cars for public transport?
Not just for Queenstown. And if you haven't been to
Queenstown for a while, Queenstown, despite a modest population, has
(09:21):
really bad traffic problems. So this is a very very
good idea for Queenstown. But what about if it was
not just Queenstown.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Yeah, I guess Queenstown's problem is that there's a big
lake there and everything's beside it, so there's really only
one road to get around, one main road. So I
guess that's why this has been proposed as a solution
to that issue. I feel like maybe get on a
(09:55):
boat might be. You know, there's that big lake there,
there's quite a lot of room on it. It just
came to me just then a cable boat news talk
been not being so silly, Glenn. I think I said
that before and this podcast were really we're going to
finish up here with Artemis too. They went further away
(10:19):
than anybody ever has. Sound sounds amazing. I'd love to
go further away than anybody ever has. And luckily for
them they are now on their way back. They didn't
just keep going. I don't think that was ever a risk,
was it.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
I'm absolutely with you, Matt says. Jen have been watching
the NASA a YouTube coverage day and have found myself
weeping a couple of times. The view of the moon
curve with the curve of the.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Earth behind it was just astonishing. Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
It is to really put things in perspective for me.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
More tears. Good on you, Jen, Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
And Christine says, I love what you're broadcasting right now.
Speaker 6 (10:51):
I thank you, Christine.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
I love you too, Christine.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Welcome to the show.
Speaker 7 (10:55):
Hey, boys, loving it, loving it, loving it. They just
can't get enough of it at the moment. It's it's
just one of those amazing things, you know when I
always remember back to when you know, the Shuttle first launch,
how amazing those photos were, and the technology for advance
and and now with Artemis and it's just great. And
(11:18):
my favorite video at the moment is Flat Earth is
reacting to the animals to launch.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
It must have been tough for them.
Speaker 7 (11:27):
Oh usual, When you get a chance, just check it
out because it's the funniest thing. Everything from the little
bit of steam coming at at the bottom of the
rockets before they ignite, and to the Jennison and then
the fake photos. It's brilliant. It's absolutely brilliant. And you
could see them just dying and dying in the in
(11:47):
the commentary, but the pilots, the astronauts unbelievable. I think
it's just awesome.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Yeah, I've been worried about how the flat Earthers have
been taking all this. I do feel like it's just
sort of more that they will treat everything as more
evidence of the grand conspiracy of the big cover up.
(12:22):
I do find it. There's a couple of things I
find pretty amazing that so it's fifty odd years after
the last time we're went nyemy near the Moon. When
I say we them, it's not ours. But over all
that time, we haven't figured out how to call back
(12:43):
when we're on the other side of the Moon. I
would have thought, I don't know, maybe a satellite, some
kind of geostationary satellite at the Moon could have relaid
a callback by now. Secondly, they can't make the toilet
work properly because that froze up, and then they had
(13:07):
to point the whole spaceship towards the sun to melt
the toilet the frozen toilet tube. And I told my
daughter that, and she was shocked that they were jittisoning
the toilet stuff into space, or trying to They were
failing because it was frozen solid. But eventually they've got it.
I think she's worried about that one day we're going
(13:29):
to be out there and there'll just be you know,
poos and whee floating past, and that planet Earth won't
be blue and there's nothing we can do. It'll be
brown and yellow. Make you think, doesn't it? And really
I think that is the value of space and going
to it lets you think. Makes me think about dumb things,
(13:53):
but other people will think about smart things, and I
think that's good. I'll see they're caringhiven more dumb things tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (13:59):
Use Talking.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
For more from News Talk Said Be listen live on
air or online, and keep our shows with you wherever
you go with our podcasts 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 Said Talk.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Hello, I'm not beautiful Beanies, and welcome to the bean
for Wednesday. First with yesterday's news, I am Glen Hart,
and we're looking back at Tuesday once again. Chris lux
And is under the pump because he just hasn't been
very good at his job, the politics part of his job.
(00:44):
So we're going to have to get into that early
childhood here and how it affects the child's involved. The
Queenstown cable car still a thing, and is adamis too
a thing that we should be taking any note of
(01:04):
that notice of. But first up, Ryan Bridge, there is
a bit concerned that the young people of today are
so useless they don't even really realize the war's going on.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Look no further than Germany, where they're protesting over a
requirement for men aged forty five and younger to inform
the government of their whereabouts if they leave the country
for three months or more. If they go on a oe,
you've got to tell the government where you're going. It's
similar to a rule they had during the Cold War.
And it is basically preparing for a time when they
(01:35):
may need a return to conscription compulsory service. Norway, Sweden, Turkey, Denmark, Finland,
to name a few, already do this. The Korean pop
band BTS you heard them before, They've just celebrated the
end of their military service with a concert and soul
But overwhelmingly in the West, there is I don't know,
(01:56):
there's a bit of ignorance, would that be the word
antipathy of the threats that our leaders tell us we're facing.
It's like we don't quite believe that there are any
How could you teach the wellness generation, the influencer youths,
the zoomers as they call them, that in order to
enjoy the comforts of liberal democracy, sometimes you might have
(02:17):
to fight for them. You might have to make sacrifices
for them. We've not been to war, we've not experienced war.
We don't even want serious criminals, the criminal youths going
to boot camps, let alone us. There's a general feeling,
I think that wars are fought in far away lands
by somebody else, when evidence is mounting that one of
these wars might one day soon be fought closer to home,
(02:40):
and the others might actually be us Now I am
not a young person, of course, I don't actually know
if I was even a young person when I was
the age of the young person.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
I've always thought of, is it older than I am
makes me uniquely suited to work a breakfast radio where
it definitely makes you feel older than you are. Anyway,
that's beside the point. But I've always had this rather
naive view that if people didn't go off to war,
there wouldn't be any war. Do we try that news
talk ze been so Christopher Luxem wasn't able to clearly
(03:19):
stayed how many Marty people are in his hearty or
as cabinet or It was all a bit confusing and
a bit stupid and who cares? But apparently heather says
it's a bad look for him.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
He flubbed the Iran question four weeks ago, he flubbed
the how many Maori MPs and cabinet question today? And
the question now is well, what's he gonna flub next
month when it's only six months away from the election.
Two things have to improve for Chris Luxen to retain
the confidence of his caucus, which is on shaky ground
and for him to stay in the job. Number one,
his performance has to improve. Number two, National's polling has
(03:54):
to improve. Neither have been convincing today because today we
also had the polling out. The Taxpayer Union Caurier poll
came out. National is still sitting below thirty percent. What
that tells you is the twenty eight percent poll from
last month wasn't rogue. National really is polling them. Add
to it the fact that last week's reshuffle, which punished
Chris Bishop, was a fail. Because reshuffles are supposed to
(04:15):
make the Prime Minister look strong and as if they're
in control and have discipline. That just looked vengeful and
as if the Prime Minister is promoting sicker fants rather
than very capable MPs like James Meager because he may
or may not have been Chris Bishop's numbers man. And
it's made worse by the fact that it was rushed
into being last week because some loyal ministers warned the
Prime Minister the backbenches are starting to get nervous about
(04:36):
losing their seats. On the current polling that we're seeing,
this cannot continue for the next seven months until we
go to the election In November. The polls have to improve,
The Prime Minister's performance has to improve, or they are
going to have to roll him to save themselves. Now,
Chris Luckxen's best hope right now is that that interview
this morning doesn't get as much coverage as the Hosking
(04:58):
interview got last year simply because of ratings.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Ah yes, but of course it will be drip fed
into the social media streams of people who are aligned
with certain sides of the political spectrum, regardless of how
many people were actually watching at the time. That's how
it works these days. I'm more interested in how many
times are here they use the word flubbed, and I
(05:24):
determined I'm going to start using the word flubbed more often.
I love it. I might even change it. Could I
change the name of this to the flubber Cast? You
talk zibby not being so silekly in and get on
to what Andrew Dickens was talking about yesterday. So he
is hosted in the morning show at the moment, and
(05:47):
they've done this big study on kids who early in
life get shoved into care because you know, mom and
dad are at work.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
So in Australia they're actually expanding childcare subsidies. They realize
that two income families are the norm now it's the
only way you can afford to do it. So they're
expanding their childcare as subsidies. They're looking at alternatives, they're
looking at vouchers, looking at income splitting, and they're looking
(06:16):
at extended parental leave so the parents can actually stay
there and look after the kids for longer, rather than
putting them in the care of an early childcare center.
Advocacy groups have come out and says, well, if you're
worried about this, you can't just reduce your hours. But
what we really have to do is improve the quality.
So here's a question for you, how do you make
(06:36):
sure that we've got good early child here care quality
in the sector. The sector in Australia is under pressure.
There's been abuse allegations, there's workforce shortages. The government says
it's pay rise for educators and new funding for not
for profit centers aim to lift the quality and stabilize
the staffing, but it ain't work can yet. So basically,
(07:01):
this study reinforces that preschool remains strongly beneficial, but also
highlights that childcare is not a one size fits all solution,
and that the quality of care from the early child
care centers and the amount of time children spend in
it not too much. Both matter.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
My parents, and we've already tell this, and I'm very
old in this podcast. My parents were just as good
at ignoring me when I was at home with them
as I'm sure they were if I was somewhere else.
(07:44):
I don't think I was somewhere else, though I can't
remember where I was because I was, you know, that's
early childhood, and my memories don't go back that far.
So I think Andrew's what I'm saying is Andrews is right.
Some kids don't mind it, other kids it'll be devastating.
And the same could be argued for anything. Right, So
(08:06):
this cable care in Queenstown, everybody's going to be going
to work by cable car. Apparently it's got a sort
of an Auckland light rail field to it, doesn't it.
Speaker 6 (08:19):
So it has entered the fast track process. Now mostly
fast track makes me nervous when we're talking about conservation
land and where as I often say, we're being the
mayor from Jaws and we're putting short term financial gain
over what is ethically right, environmentally right, and all the rest.
But the fast track process isn't always going to be
(08:40):
all bad, and in this case, I think it would
be a good thing. Now, mostly for me, this is
not about the fast track process. It's just about whether
I think cable cars as a means or a method
of public transport, whether that idea has validity and absolutely yes.
So in case you haven't heard about this story, and
it has been around for a little while, but back
(09:01):
in the news today because it has cleared that first
hurdle of entering the fast track process, where do you
sit with the idea of cable cars for public transport?
Not just for Queenstown. And if you haven't been to
Queenstown for a while, Queenstown, despite a modest population, has
(09:21):
really bad traffic problems. So this is a very very
good idea for Queenstown. But what about if it was
not just Queenstown.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Yeah, I guess Queenstown's problem is that there's a big
lake there and everything's beside it, so there's really only
one road to get around, one main road. So I
guess that's why this has been proposed as a solution
to that issue. I feel like maybe get on a
(09:55):
boat might be. You know, there's that big lake there,
there's quite a lot of room on it. It just
came to me just then a cable boat news talk
been not being so silly, Glenn. I think I said
that before and this podcast were really we're going to
finish up here with Artemis too. They went further away
(10:19):
than anybody ever has. Sound sounds amazing. I'd love to
go further away than anybody ever has. And luckily for
them they are now on their way back. They didn't
just keep going. I don't think that was ever a risk,
was it.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
I'm absolutely with you, Matt says. Jen have been watching
the NASA a YouTube coverage day and have found myself
weeping a couple of times. The view of the moon
curve with the curve of the.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Earth behind it was just astonishing. Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
It is to really put things in perspective for me.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
More tears. Good on you, Jen, Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
And Christine says, I love what you're broadcasting right now.
Speaker 6 (10:51):
I thank you, Christine.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
I love you too, Christine.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Welcome to the show.
Speaker 7 (10:55):
Hey, boys, loving it, loving it, loving it. They just
can't get enough of it at the moment. It's it's
just one of those amazing things, you know when I
always remember back to when you know, the Shuttle first launch,
how amazing those photos were, and the technology for advance
and and now with Artemis and it's just great. And
(11:18):
my favorite video at the moment is Flat Earth is
reacting to the animals to launch.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
It must have been tough for them.
Speaker 7 (11:27):
Oh usual, When you get a chance, just check it
out because it's the funniest thing. Everything from the little
bit of steam coming at at the bottom of the
rockets before they ignite, and to the Jennison and then
the fake photos. It's brilliant. It's absolutely brilliant. And you
could see them just dying and dying in the in
(11:47):
the commentary, but the pilots, the astronauts unbelievable. I think
it's just awesome.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Yeah, I've been worried about how the flat Earthers have
been taking all this. I do feel like it's just
sort of more that they will treat everything as more
evidence of the grand conspiracy of the big cover up.
(12:22):
I do find it. There's a couple of things I
find pretty amazing that so it's fifty odd years after
the last time we're went nyemy near the Moon. When
I say we them, it's not ours. But over all
that time, we haven't figured out how to call back
(12:43):
when we're on the other side of the Moon. I
would have thought, I don't know, maybe a satellite, some
kind of geostationary satellite at the Moon could have relaid
a callback by now. Secondly, they can't make the toilet
work properly because that froze up, and then they had
(13:07):
to point the whole spaceship towards the sun to melt
the toilet the frozen toilet tube. And I told my
daughter that, and she was shocked that they were jittisoning
the toilet stuff into space, or trying to They were
failing because it was frozen solid. But eventually they've got it.
I think she's worried about that one day we're going
(13:29):
to be out there and there'll just be you know,
poos and whee floating past, and that planet Earth won't
be blue and there's nothing we can do. It'll be
brown and yellow. Make you think, doesn't it? And really
I think that is the value of space and going
to it lets you think. Makes me think about dumb things,
(13:53):
but other people will think about smart things, and I
think that's good. I'll see they're caringhiven more dumb things tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (13:59):
Use Talking.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
For more from News Talk Said Be listen live on
air or online, and keep our shows with you wherever
you go with our podcasts on iHeartRadio
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