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March 16, 2025 • 14 mins

FIRST WITH YESTERDAY'S NEWS (highlights from the weekend on Newstalk ZB) It's Bad Enough Just Watching/Finance Stuff Is So Boring/Why Can't We Just Ignore Him?/What a Voice/Thirty Years In a Blink of an Eye

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
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Speaker 3 (00:22):
Hello, my beautiful beanies, and welcome to the bean the
weekend edition, first of Yesterday's News.

Speaker 4 (00:28):
I am Glenn Hart.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
And because it's the weekend edition, you don't just get
yesterday there before as well.

Speaker 4 (00:34):
Amazing, well good value.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
We're just going to wrap up the investments summit if
it was worth doing.

Speaker 4 (00:42):
The Trump tariffs have set the world on fire, and
not in a good way. Can you set the world
on fire in a good way? Suppose you can? A
Jeffrey Rush.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
He's got a new movie that's directed by a New
Zealand bloke. And then the lead singer of Train celebrates
thirty years of training.

Speaker 4 (01:04):
It's a band train spand but before.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
Any of that, if one weekend and a lot of
us who had a steep leading curve with F one
didn't we like, what's the difference between practice and qualifying?
And why there's the wrong tires make you go off
the track?

Speaker 5 (01:25):
It is cut right. There are only twenty of these seats,
so how do you how do you assess as ability
to balance those emotions effectively, I think.

Speaker 6 (01:34):
Just put the helmet on. What happens in a lot
of motorsport, you put the helmet on, and you trust
your instincts, and you trust your natural skill and what
you've got there in the first place to go out
and do the job. And you know, adrenaline as a
very powerful tool. I want to get that in that
sort of moment and get the tunnel vision and I guess,

(01:57):
do what you do best. Then you just got to
trust and bank yourself really. So yeah, he's obviously very talented.
That's what's got on there. Now he's got to make
sure he enjoys the moment and lets her talent do
the talking.

Speaker 5 (02:08):
And any car in any form of motorsport, are there
qualities that that all good drivers have in common.

Speaker 6 (02:17):
I think at the end of the day, you've got
to be patient as one of the biggest factors. It
takes a long time to get to the top of
any sport, particularly motorsport, but you know, you've got to
be willing to dig that much deeper. You've got to
be willing to take risks that maybe some others aren't
prepared to take, and you've got to be a good
team player. You know, despite Formula one that either being
one person in the car or any form of motorsport,

(02:38):
you know you've got to work well with your engineers,
your teammates. It's about that whole package. And you know,
New Zealand's got some very good training tools at a
disposable here through lights of the Motorsport Academy and things.
It helps young drivers loan some of those traits from
an early early age.

Speaker 3 (02:52):
That's Hayden Padden. They're one of our most successful motorsport.

Speaker 4 (02:58):
Stars. I always, I now feel like I've.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
I've cheated on Hayden Padden because I used to drive
your Day tween you and then when that got a
bit old and a bit long in the tooth, I
went to buy a new car and I've ended up
driving a Ford Poomer. Sure, I don't know which famous
motorsports stars drive Forward Plumbers, but I feel like I
can't really align myself with Yon Day anymore. Obviously so,

(03:27):
but yeah, my big takeaway from the weekend of trying
to understand what happens with Formula one is that this
car of Leamwrison seems to be impossible to drive.

Speaker 4 (03:39):
For some reason.

Speaker 3 (03:40):
He is to drive an impossible to drive car. Because
next with Stephen bucks of that way is what's going on?

Speaker 4 (03:47):
Talk right the investment man, I've got a lot of
high Let's thank goodn't that? It must have been exciting
to be there.

Speaker 7 (03:53):
What did you make of it all?

Speaker 2 (03:56):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (03:56):
I thought it was pretty upbeat to sort of see
the level of energy that we were putting out there.
And because let's be real, this was trying to present
a bit more of a shop front to the world
for news and all the projects that we've got going on.
We know we've got a lot of infrastructure that needs
to be built. We know there's a lot of money
that's going to be poured through those pipelines over the

(04:17):
next decade or so. But this is trying to get
some of those foreign investors over the line to go, look, actually,
there's a lot.

Speaker 4 (04:23):
To do here.

Speaker 8 (04:23):
You should invest here, you should keep some people here,
you should make sure that you're part of it. And
I think on that score, the fact that you've got
at least one big furd that said actually, okay, we'll
stick around sort of seems to show that it worked
quite well.

Speaker 7 (04:36):
What makes these PPPs attractive to foreign investors.

Speaker 8 (04:41):
Well, I think. I mean, there's a lot of work
obviously to be done, and having a project like that
it means that they have a return that they know
is going to continue to come forward. They know that,
you know, they need to stump up some of the
money as a private business themselves to start with, and
that means that they're also wanting to make sure they've
got the return. On the other side, for the government,
it means that they can sort of spread their costs

(05:03):
and their resource over a bit more of a longer
period instead of having a sort of stumped up at once.
They can make those progress payments over time.

Speaker 4 (05:11):
Yeah, sort of I sort of drifted off towards the
end of that. I hope you didn't. I hope you're
still with me. Hard you get excited about this stuff.
It's a bit like, you know, these.

Speaker 3 (05:24):
International events that are supposed to bring so much money
into the economy. You know, we had the news of
how much money Hospitality made out of the sale GENP
for example, here in Austin.

Speaker 4 (05:35):
But was I personally needed it off for that.

Speaker 9 (05:39):
News talk been sure I.

Speaker 4 (05:41):
Was, and I just didn't notice, right. So Jack Kaye
has been following the.

Speaker 3 (05:47):
The trade wars pretty closely. I think, how do you
deal with a problem like Trump.

Speaker 7 (05:53):
What's kind of lacking at the moment is a more forceful,
coordinated international response. So most countries are sucking up to
Trump and trying to kick their heads down, hoping not
to attract Donald Trump's eire But as Canada is bashed
by tariffs, it seems absurd, for example, that their king,
our King could possibly go ahead in welcoming Donald Trump

(06:16):
to the UK for an official state visit. What countries
are standing up for Canada? Winston Peters is in Washington,
DC this week, and from New Zealand's perspective, I reckon
there is probably no better person for the job at
this moment, and in those meetings in.

Speaker 4 (06:35):
Washington, d C.

Speaker 7 (06:36):
For now, we will no doubt continue to try and
maintain a low profile. You just have to hope that
behind the scenes, like minded countries are quietly coordinating on
a longer term strategy. Australia, Canada, the UK, EU countries

(06:56):
and yes, New Zealand. Because playing a small target game
only makes sense until, for whatever reason, you do catch
the President's attention, and it could be something so minor, right,
be a dumb tweet or a viral video, someone making
a speech in an awards evening, or an ill advised
comment from a diplomat. The temptation for leaders around the

(07:20):
world is to shut up and just hope that their
countries can slip by unnoticed. But in the long term,
that's no way to defeat a bully.

Speaker 3 (07:30):
Yeah, Jack is absolutely correct, because the only thing that
fuels the fire of a bully is attention. And if
you just walk out, leave the room, he's just sitting
there rounding to himself, putting his head against the wall,
isn't he.

Speaker 4 (07:51):
But nobody says prepared to walk out of the room.

Speaker 3 (07:53):
They just want to be in the room, on the
yellow chairs in the White House. It's weird, Okay, it's
celebrity time. Really Now as we head into this sort
of final two fifths of the podcast, i'd tell himn
exec direction on approximately But anyway, Jeffrey Raj, he's about

(08:16):
as famous as actor's kids.

Speaker 4 (08:19):
He's teamed up with a new Zealand director for the
latest project. Why why did he? Let's find out this film.

Speaker 7 (08:25):
Is directed by Kiwi James Ashcroft.

Speaker 1 (08:28):
How did you get involved?

Speaker 2 (08:32):
Look, you know there was a downtime for everybody on
the planet with a thing called COVID. It hit us
pretty hard in Melbourne, with a lot of lockdowns and stuff,
and so I didn't travel for a very long time.
And about twenty twenty two, about the middle of the year,

(08:55):
so we were in and around, going into lockdown or whatever,
and this out of the blue invitation came from James
offering me this extraordinary which I read and was completely
bowled over because I, you know, in twenty twenty one,
I turned seventy. You know my background in theater. You know,

(09:19):
I'd been playing seventy three year old when I was
twenty three. I was quite adept with like and makeup, grease, paint,
do you know what I mean, crape hair, spirit, gum,
the works. And then I thought, I don't have to
do that anymore. I just have to turn up. And

(09:40):
the good thing about it was that, well, the curious
thing about it was my agent had said, I think
he's an Iraqi war hero. I went, oh, And when
I read the script, you know, it's got a lot
of dark it's about bullying, really, you know. And I

(10:02):
had asked James about that. I said, why did you
write this? He said, I've got three daughters and they're
all less than twelve, and I'm just always been intrigued
by the genre of thriller or mystery or horror, but
I'm more concerned with consequences of bullying because it occurs
everywhere in institutions, within families, within countries. And I thought,

(10:27):
oh my god, you know, and by the end of
a we must have talked for an hour and a
half and we got on extremely well because I said, well,
you know, all I can say about your screenplay is
how impeccably written it is and the structure of it,
how it unfolds for an audience to enter into a
very slightly perverse world of putting a psychopath into the

(10:52):
middle of an aged care facility.

Speaker 3 (10:57):
That it just read brilliantly and gosh to go, great voice,
isn't it. Yeah, the role of Ginny Pine is the movie.
It's described as a rest home horror. So if you're
about to go into aious time, probably don't.

Speaker 1 (11:11):
Watch that one news talk has it been in my hand?

Speaker 4 (11:16):
I don't think he's really for various time Jesse yet,
but there has been pretty years. That's how yourself says
that any relate the y. He's in a angle train
by the way.

Speaker 9 (11:27):
So are you able to distill the magic? What is
it about train and and writing and performing music that
has allowed you to endure?

Speaker 10 (11:40):
You know, I think it's uh, it's my passion to
be competitive and also my open mindedness to really love
new music all the time. And there was a time
when we started to train and I was very critical
of other music because I was so competitive I and
it was also during a time of like shelf space

(12:02):
where we were selling CDs and if if somebody was
in that space, you didn't get that space. And so
that was a different time. But now it's much more
of a community of there's so much to love, why
not just love through it and learn from it? And
I think that that's what I continue to do and
it's helped me. Like I listened to a lot of

(12:24):
hip hop, and you know, I can't write those songs,
but I can definitely enjoy them. And there's always great
new artists from all over the world that I like
to try to connect with.

Speaker 4 (12:34):
How do you find new music?

Speaker 10 (12:39):
You know, back in the day, people would make playlists,
and now Spotify has a lot of playlists, so they've
learned from old school techniques of how to get people engage,
and so there are times where I'll find something like
there's a Montreal band that I love that I found

(12:59):
and then played it for my sixteen year old daughter
and she's like, oh, yeah, I.

Speaker 4 (13:02):
Know that band.

Speaker 10 (13:04):
And sometimes it comes from my kids ten year old
son who's listening to you know, basically classic heavy metal
right now and uh, and then my daughter's listened to
everything new. So I just keep having kids to turn.

Speaker 4 (13:18):
Me on to new music.

Speaker 10 (13:19):
So maybe when I'm a great grandfather, my grandchildren will
teach me more.

Speaker 4 (13:25):
Do they ever shame you?

Speaker 9 (13:27):
Do they ever say, come on, dad, what do you
mean you don't know this band?

Speaker 4 (13:30):
Dot dot dot? No it is.

Speaker 10 (13:34):
It's pretty funny like they they do love what I do,
but it wouldn't be their top list, you know, it's
it's not their their go to music, but they definitely
respect what I've done.

Speaker 4 (13:46):
Drive By It is the other like com when I
always go with hey, cel sister, and you tell that
by any drive By that was anything of that Big
de ran this this album too. Apparently I'm just looking
through some of the songs that are in the system here.

Speaker 3 (14:01):
It would crying one of those bands probably bigger than
you thought they were, or you didn't really know that
they were called Trained. You just knew the songs without
knowing the band.

Speaker 4 (14:14):
The happening sometimes, wasn't it. Anyway? He's happy enough and
I am too.

Speaker 3 (14:20):
What a weekend and what a week it's going to
be probably stay tuned to find out how it wents tomorrow.

Speaker 4 (14:28):
Well, how today win? Anyway, he's using this time geral business,
isn't it? He's then? Well, now news.

Speaker 2 (14:34):
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Speaker 1 (14:38):
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