March 31, 2025 • 11 mins
FIRST WITH YESTERDAY'S NEWS (highlights from Monday on Newstalk ZB) Ferries? Sorted/Supermarkets? Sorted/Dangerous Dogs? Not so Much/Cones? Sorted/Robot Apocalypse? Not Quite Yet
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
I'm over for Beanies and welcome to the bean for Tuesday.
First with yesterday's news, I am Glenn Hart, and we
are looking back at Monday. I think we've sold the
supermarket duopoly. That's good. Brooke van Velden has solved the
excessive use of road cones, so that's good. The robot
(00:46):
apocalypse is starting. They might be less good, but before
any of that, we've also solved our faery issues with
the cooks straight faery. Great work.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Winston rails included, which Winston obviously is most happy about.
Two point four kilometers of lanes for trucks and cars,
space for forty rail wagons picked, and you're getting basically
a new port. It needs replacing Wellington. Yours will get
a spruce up and will be largely kept as is.
So the ships are going to be smaller than the
(01:18):
Ferrari versions that Nicola willis described in the previous labor governments,
but bigger than the current ones. We'll save billions on
upgrading the infrastructure, but we won't actually know for sure
and exactly how much. Until the work's done. We're going
to have to rely on the word of Minister Peters
and Willis until then. The most interesting part about today
(01:40):
was the Ministerial Advisory Group which Nicola Willis set up
to advise them on all of this stuff. They said
they recommended to the government that you go with just
the cars and the trucks, not rail Winston has put
his foot down and Cabinet has agreed, so he's got
his way. The other inesting part about today in politics,
(02:01):
Winston's introduced us to two brand new terms that many
of us were not previously aware of. One of them
is shunting. The other is bussy. The two are not
to be confused. On the railways, shunting means moving trains
onto a ship using tracks on the ship, so trains
will be shunted onto the new ferries once they hopefully
(02:22):
fingers crossed everybody arrived by twenty twenty nine. As for
the term bussy, well that's slightly more complicated. But Winston's
held a separate stand up about this issue today and
I'll let you know more about that before four thirty.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
I can't believe that Ryan is right this far in life,
and he's now the host of a prime time network
radio show, and he's never heard the term of shunting before.
It's very strange.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
News talk, has it been so?
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Yeah, there was a sort of a plan, I guess
the fairies.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Do we have sort of a plan for the supermarkets
or is it just more waffle?
Speaker 4 (03:06):
They want to see more compon petition in the grocery sector.
The writing is on the wall and supermarket owners must
know that the good times are over. As of well
pretty much as of the Labor government commissioning the Commerce
Commission to do a report into the grocery sector, identify
(03:30):
issues and look at ways of allowing more competition into
the market. When will that mean cheaper groceries? Not immediately,
but I'd say it would be sooner rather than later.
So I'd love to hear from you on this one.
It's it's interesting whenever we whenever we talk about more competition,
(04:00):
whenever we ask for suppliers to call in with their views,
we've only had it once, haven't we with our brain
enough to call in? I think there may well have
been not instructions, perhaps suggestions that it might pay to
stake quiet well, the market well, it's all while the
issue was still unresolved, because for one glorious day there
(04:27):
were suppliers ringing in outlining exactly what the issues were
for them, that any of the increased prices had very
little to do with them. They were being screwed just
like the rest of us. And since then nothing just
as a long.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Pro process, isn't it. I mean there must be an issue,
otherwise why would they start faffing around in the first place.
We still seem to be in the let's find out
if there's really an issue phase of things. In some ways,
don't we either you know with that or forget about it?
Speaker 5 (05:08):
Are right?
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Man? Man? I hate to be in charge, might be
only to be left to charge of anything for obvious reasons.
Speaker 6 (05:15):
You talks are so Andrew Dickens wanted to cover off
the horrendous dog attacks story, so I just will let
him have a say on that.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
Even the dogs whose jobs are to be security for
humans should not kill other humans, even if the humans
are bad. The only dogs who kill humans are dogs
who are owned or controlled by humans who do not
know how to control their dogs, and if they have
dogs who are not controllable. They are humans who don't
realize the threat those dogs pose. Therefore, they should not
(05:48):
be in charge of dogs. And when these things happen,
the concerns start raising rules and regulations that the bad
owners ignore, and the only thing they do is irritate
and criminalize the good owners. Any dogs that kill can
be that can be traced to an owner. To me
says that that owner must face a custodi or scent.
(06:08):
They're just as guilty as a dog because your weapon
just killed an innocent child. And I don't know how
you live with yourself, and don't you dare defend the dog.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
It's strange to me that we're allowed to have dogs
that are capable of doing this. What's the reason for that?
Mind you, there's a.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Lot of stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
I mean, I don't understand why we're allowed to have
guns either. Apparently we are, so.
Speaker 6 (06:38):
I think we shouldn't be allowed certain things.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Okay, it's time to lighten the mood. Oh well, maybe
it's not. I don't know. Brook van Velden's idea of
a cone hotline that certainly got Marcus's attention. There's too
many cones out there and it's harming people's mental health.
Is that what's going on?
Speaker 7 (06:59):
So I saw this in the newsday and I thought,
goodness gracious to me a road cone hotline, And I thought,
how well do I think that will go? Because in fact,
what happened with that very very thing is it just
about sunk John Major as the Prime Minister of Great Britain.
(07:25):
That's a very very famous thing. It's so famous it's
got its own Wikipedia page, and the Wikipedia page is
Cones Hotline. The Cones Hotline was a telephone hotline introduced
by the privacy United Kingdom John Major in June nineteen
sixty nineteen ninety two to allow members of the public
(07:47):
to inquire about road works on the country roads and
report areas where traffic cones had been deployed on a
road for no apparent reason. The telephone number on the hotline,
usually OH three four five five, oh four oh three
zero or oh three hundred and one two three five
triple I, was usually displayed on signs after sections of roadwork.
(08:11):
Between March ninety four to March ninety five, the hotline
was staffed by a single person doing office hours and
by the duty stuff. Out of hours, it moved to
an external contractor for six months before being brought back
at the house in September nineteen ninety five. The hotline
was widely seen as been a waste of government resources,
(08:31):
costing several thousand pounds per year to run. In September
nineteen ninety five, having fielded seventeen thousand calls, it was
announced that the hotline would transition into a new system.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Surely it would just be an app, now, wouldn't it.
There'd just been an option on Ways. Don't if you've
used Ways, it's like Google Maps or Apple Mass but
it's Ways and it lets you report things like you
know where.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
There's a shop car on the road or crash.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
You just tap a screen and you know. And you
could do that for cones. Couldn't you be an edited feature?
But I don't know if you could have a whole
cone app, because then that would look like BLC Media Player.
For those of you who know what that is, you'll
find that pretty funny. For those of you who don't,
(09:26):
you wonder what the hell I'm talking about, But you know,
and if you can be bothered going look up BLC
media Player, and I'm sure it will the jokes will
really last the amount of time and if it takes
you to.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Do that, news talk z been Okay.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
So we've got actual robots taking over now, fine, like
the robot apocalypse is actually happening, or is it?
Speaker 8 (09:59):
The first robots, the mystic robots that are going to
be tested outside of the lab, and you've probably watched
the Boston Dynamics videos out there, absolutely terrifying. They build
these robots. They can do parkrps. Now He've got the
terrifying dog robots and if you've seen the Black Mirror episode,
you know, put a gun on the top of one
of those and they're pretty terrifying, hunting you down. For
(10:20):
some reason, the people in Boston Dynamics, they seem to
bully the robots, which I don't like. They might remember that. Yeah,
they're always trying to kick them over and see if
they can stand up. But they are progressing really, really rapidly.
These one X robots are the neo Gamma. It makes
about that. In the past they've been very very noisy,
(10:42):
these robots, but now they sort of buzz around the
same volume as a fridge. And look, if you actually
look under the hood of these robots, they are having
to have quite a bit of human support behind the
behind behind them.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
So no, no, the robots apocalypse isn't happening yet. Yeah,
until they can get that. I'm pretty sure the robots
were supposed to be helping us. We were supposed to
be helping the robots. So yeah, until that, until that
power balance gets around the other way, I think we're
(11:16):
right for a few more years. Here. I am Glen Hart.
I am not artificial or intelligent, but I will be
here for you Tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
I'll see the.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
News Talk has Talking Said 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
podcasts on iHeartRadio
You're listening to a podcast from News Talk sed B.
Follow this and our wide range of podcasts now on iHeartRadio,
Used Talk, SEDB Talk Hell.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
I'm over for Beanies and welcome to the bean for Tuesday.
First with yesterday's news, I am Glenn Hart, and we
are looking back at Monday. I think we've sold the
supermarket duopoly. That's good. Brooke van Velden has solved the
excessive use of road cones, so that's good. The robot
(00:46):
apocalypse is starting. They might be less good, but before
any of that, we've also solved our faery issues with
the cooks straight faery. Great work.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Winston rails included, which Winston obviously is most happy about.
Two point four kilometers of lanes for trucks and cars,
space for forty rail wagons picked, and you're getting basically
a new port. It needs replacing Wellington. Yours will get
a spruce up and will be largely kept as is.
So the ships are going to be smaller than the
(01:18):
Ferrari versions that Nicola willis described in the previous labor governments,
but bigger than the current ones. We'll save billions on
upgrading the infrastructure, but we won't actually know for sure
and exactly how much. Until the work's done. We're going
to have to rely on the word of Minister Peters
and Willis until then. The most interesting part about today
(01:40):
was the Ministerial Advisory Group which Nicola Willis set up
to advise them on all of this stuff. They said
they recommended to the government that you go with just
the cars and the trucks, not rail Winston has put
his foot down and Cabinet has agreed, so he's got
his way. The other inesting part about today in politics,
(02:01):
Winston's introduced us to two brand new terms that many
of us were not previously aware of. One of them
is shunting. The other is bussy. The two are not
to be confused. On the railways, shunting means moving trains
onto a ship using tracks on the ship, so trains
will be shunted onto the new ferries once they hopefully
(02:22):
fingers crossed everybody arrived by twenty twenty nine. As for
the term bussy, well that's slightly more complicated. But Winston's
held a separate stand up about this issue today and
I'll let you know more about that before four thirty.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
I can't believe that Ryan is right this far in life,
and he's now the host of a prime time network
radio show, and he's never heard the term of shunting before.
It's very strange.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
News talk, has it been so?
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Yeah, there was a sort of a plan, I guess
the fairies.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Do we have sort of a plan for the supermarkets
or is it just more waffle?
Speaker 4 (03:06):
They want to see more compon petition in the grocery sector.
The writing is on the wall and supermarket owners must
know that the good times are over. As of well
pretty much as of the Labor government commissioning the Commerce
Commission to do a report into the grocery sector, identify
(03:30):
issues and look at ways of allowing more competition into
the market. When will that mean cheaper groceries? Not immediately,
but I'd say it would be sooner rather than later.
So I'd love to hear from you on this one.
It's it's interesting whenever we whenever we talk about more competition,
(04:00):
whenever we ask for suppliers to call in with their views,
we've only had it once, haven't we with our brain
enough to call in? I think there may well have
been not instructions, perhaps suggestions that it might pay to
stake quiet well, the market well, it's all while the
issue was still unresolved, because for one glorious day there
(04:27):
were suppliers ringing in outlining exactly what the issues were
for them, that any of the increased prices had very
little to do with them. They were being screwed just
like the rest of us. And since then nothing just
as a long.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Pro process, isn't it. I mean there must be an issue,
otherwise why would they start faffing around in the first place.
We still seem to be in the let's find out
if there's really an issue phase of things. In some ways,
don't we either you know with that or forget about it?
Speaker 5 (05:08):
Are right?
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Man? Man? I hate to be in charge, might be
only to be left to charge of anything for obvious reasons.
Speaker 6 (05:15):
You talks are so Andrew Dickens wanted to cover off
the horrendous dog attacks story, so I just will let
him have a say on that.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
Even the dogs whose jobs are to be security for
humans should not kill other humans, even if the humans
are bad. The only dogs who kill humans are dogs
who are owned or controlled by humans who do not
know how to control their dogs, and if they have
dogs who are not controllable. They are humans who don't
realize the threat those dogs pose. Therefore, they should not
(05:48):
be in charge of dogs. And when these things happen,
the concerns start raising rules and regulations that the bad
owners ignore, and the only thing they do is irritate
and criminalize the good owners. Any dogs that kill can
be that can be traced to an owner. To me
says that that owner must face a custodi or scent.
(06:08):
They're just as guilty as a dog because your weapon
just killed an innocent child. And I don't know how
you live with yourself, and don't you dare defend the dog.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
It's strange to me that we're allowed to have dogs
that are capable of doing this. What's the reason for that?
Mind you, there's a.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Lot of stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
I mean, I don't understand why we're allowed to have
guns either. Apparently we are, so.
Speaker 6 (06:38):
I think we shouldn't be allowed certain things.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Okay, it's time to lighten the mood. Oh well, maybe
it's not. I don't know. Brook van Velden's idea of
a cone hotline that certainly got Marcus's attention. There's too
many cones out there and it's harming people's mental health.
Is that what's going on?
Speaker 7 (06:59):
So I saw this in the newsday and I thought,
goodness gracious to me a road cone hotline, And I thought,
how well do I think that will go? Because in fact,
what happened with that very very thing is it just
about sunk John Major as the Prime Minister of Great Britain.
(07:25):
That's a very very famous thing. It's so famous it's
got its own Wikipedia page, and the Wikipedia page is
Cones Hotline. The Cones Hotline was a telephone hotline introduced
by the privacy United Kingdom John Major in June nineteen
sixty nineteen ninety two to allow members of the public
(07:47):
to inquire about road works on the country roads and
report areas where traffic cones had been deployed on a
road for no apparent reason. The telephone number on the hotline,
usually OH three four five five, oh four oh three
zero or oh three hundred and one two three five
triple I, was usually displayed on signs after sections of roadwork.
(08:11):
Between March ninety four to March ninety five, the hotline
was staffed by a single person doing office hours and
by the duty stuff. Out of hours, it moved to
an external contractor for six months before being brought back
at the house in September nineteen ninety five. The hotline
was widely seen as been a waste of government resources,
(08:31):
costing several thousand pounds per year to run. In September
nineteen ninety five, having fielded seventeen thousand calls, it was
announced that the hotline would transition into a new system.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Surely it would just be an app, now, wouldn't it.
There'd just been an option on Ways. Don't if you've
used Ways, it's like Google Maps or Apple Mass but
it's Ways and it lets you report things like you
know where.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
There's a shop car on the road or crash.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
You just tap a screen and you know. And you
could do that for cones. Couldn't you be an edited feature?
But I don't know if you could have a whole
cone app, because then that would look like BLC Media Player.
For those of you who know what that is, you'll
find that pretty funny. For those of you who don't,
(09:26):
you wonder what the hell I'm talking about, But you know,
and if you can be bothered going look up BLC
media Player, and I'm sure it will the jokes will
really last the amount of time and if it takes
you to.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Do that, news talk z been Okay.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
So we've got actual robots taking over now, fine, like
the robot apocalypse is actually happening, or is it?
Speaker 8 (09:59):
The first robots, the mystic robots that are going to
be tested outside of the lab, and you've probably watched
the Boston Dynamics videos out there, absolutely terrifying. They build
these robots. They can do parkrps. Now He've got the
terrifying dog robots and if you've seen the Black Mirror episode,
you know, put a gun on the top of one
of those and they're pretty terrifying, hunting you down. For
(10:20):
some reason, the people in Boston Dynamics, they seem to
bully the robots, which I don't like. They might remember that. Yeah,
they're always trying to kick them over and see if
they can stand up. But they are progressing really, really rapidly.
These one X robots are the neo Gamma. It makes
about that. In the past they've been very very noisy,
(10:42):
these robots, but now they sort of buzz around the
same volume as a fridge. And look, if you actually
look under the hood of these robots, they are having
to have quite a bit of human support behind the
behind behind them.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
So no, no, the robots apocalypse isn't happening yet. Yeah,
until they can get that. I'm pretty sure the robots
were supposed to be helping us. We were supposed to
be helping the robots. So yeah, until that, until that
power balance gets around the other way, I think we're
(11:16):
right for a few more years. Here. I am Glen Hart.
I am not artificial or intelligent, but I will be
here for you Tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
I'll see the.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
News Talk has Talking Said 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
podcasts on iHeartRadio
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