September 5, 2024 • 11 mins
FIRST WITH YESTERDAY'S NEWS (highlights from Thursday on Newstalk ZB) No-one's Listening/We Don't Want Your Stupid Bins/Get a Haircut/No Sympathy for Raygun/September Is Not Halloween Month
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
My beautiful beanies, and welcome to the Bean for Friday.
First with yesterday's news, I am Glen Hart and we
are looking back at Thursday. Ryan wants a word about
food bins. Simon wants a word about long hair. Reagan,
the Australian not breakdowncer is back for some reason.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
And Halloween is already here even.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Though it's not October. But first up, so the grocery
price report. This is going to be an annual thing,
and then the first annual nothing happened.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
It was just bad for the whole annual.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Because they're not making a huge mat of it. You know,
those men and women who are out in the fields,
out in the orchards and the wet and the cold
and the wind and watching the weather forecast nervously praying
the hail doesn't come and ruin their crop. They're not
the ones making squillions. They're getting screwed down too. So
(01:28):
is it going to take from a coalition government that
really doesn't like regulation. Are they going to have to
swallow a dead mouse and say, okay, well we'll have
to regulate this industry because they're not doing it themselves.
The message from foodstuffs yesterday seem to be we are,
we're doing it, we're taking it seriously. Just give us time.
There's been a lot of change, We've had a lot
(01:48):
going on. It'll happen. Just cool your jets. Any change
is not happening fast enough for the Grocery Commissioner, so
as the consumer, as the supplier, do you see this
(02:09):
oversight of the supermarkets and the industry. Is it a
welcome change? Is it good to have an annual report
card to keep the pressure on the supermarkets? And what
in reality do you expect to see change as a
result of this pressure, of this castigation, of the threats
(02:30):
from the Grocery commissioner.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Castigation, that's a good word.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
I wonder if the supermarkets know that they are under
the thread of castigation, so.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Painful serious measures.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Indeed, news talk zi been so if you can't afford groceries,
of course you end up throwing half of them out
because they go off. And if you don't have a
waste disposal like I do, do you use those stupid
little bins.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
Do you know what else cost you eighty dollars a year?
A friend and I were chatting at the gym the
other day and he showed me his rates bill, which
he'd kindly brought to the gym to encourage him to
run faster. Anyway, there's an eighty dollar targeted rate for
the food compost bin. And he said, what's that for?
And I was like, it's the green bin that's on
the street that no one uses. Then he was running
(03:21):
faster than I've ever seen him run on the treadmill anyway.
So apparently sixty to sixty five percent of us don't
use them. And if you walk down this is the
food scrapspin. They know they have them in other parts
of the country. In Auckland, we've only got them just recently,
so we're all getting a bit used to them. But
eighty dollars a year is what you have to pay.
And I got quite angry when I thought about because
(03:42):
we were talking. If you're on a fixed income, eighty
dollars a year is a lot of money. If you're
a pensioner and you cannot opt out of this service,
who else can charge you for a service that you
don't want or need. What about a pensioner who's you know,
does her own or his own composting in the backyard.
(04:02):
They can't opt out of it. They have to have
this bin and they have to pay eighty dollars per
year for the privilege. It's like your barber sending like
a barber giving a lady a beard trom her and saying, here,
I'm going to charge you for that. I don't need it.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Oh well you have to have it? Why? Just because?
Speaker 5 (04:19):
And do you know what?
Speaker 6 (04:20):
They're all made of plastic, these bins.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
So how's that for the environment?
Speaker 3 (04:24):
I think?
Speaker 2 (04:25):
And they mostly made out of recycled plastic. Isn't that
the point? That's why they made out of plastic? It
was my understanding anyway. But yeah, that doesn't make you
feel any better when you see one blowing down the
street spreading smelly, rotten food everywhere.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Quos Talk SIBB.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
It's kind of a grumpy old man podcast today.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
So there's nobody grumpier or older than Simon Barnett and
he's not happy with what. Speaking of old men, what
Daniel Craig's done with us here?
Speaker 7 (05:00):
Daniel Craig of course, formerly James Bond slick ass. But
he's just released some what you call it advertis as
material for his new marketing for his new movie, and
he's grown his hair long.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Who doesn't like it?
Speaker 7 (05:15):
It's it's awful middle aged man with long hair. I'm sorry,
I know it's judgy, but it looks terrible. It ages you,
It makes you look like a hobo. It make I mean,
shall I just throw.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
You overhead long hare?
Speaker 7 (05:29):
Yeah? Yeah, but there has been long here was in
I had a mullet, you know, like I was, you know,
but not not when you're my age now long here.
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
I don't know why guys do it?
Speaker 7 (05:36):
Lots and do it? Yeah, Like, did you see Simon
Bridges recently?
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Simon Bridges?
Speaker 6 (05:41):
Yeah, he looks different, like.
Speaker 7 (05:44):
In a number of ways actually, And I like Simon
Bridges a real, real nice guy. And I hope his
wife's a massive listener to the show and she's lovely.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Okay, just down to cuts here?
Speaker 7 (05:55):
Cut is here?
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Yeah, weirdly specific reference, wasn't it. Simon knows that Symon's
wife is a massive listener of the afternoon show on
news doors be the only way that he could know
that is if he's been in a room with Soyman
(06:16):
and Symon said to him, oh, my wife loved your show,
which I think is always a backhanded compliments.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Well that's great. What about you now, Raygan?
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Why oh why would she have done this interview? I
think everybody had forgotten about her. Yeah, it's been a
week or two and now she stretched it all up again.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
What the hell.
Speaker 8 (06:41):
It's pretty clear you should not waste any of your
emotions feeling sorry for Raygan, because Reagan is not feeling
sorry for herself yet she is making the most out
of the situation big time. I mean the natural inclination,
obviously is to feel sorry for her, because she completely
embarrassed herself jumping around like a kangaroo on the Olympic stage,
and she's since been the subject of quite a massive
(07:02):
global pile on on social media and countless jokes at
her expense, and even some accusations that she'd her entry
into the Olympics, which do seem to be unfounded. But
she does not seem particularly ground down by the situation
at all. On the contrary, in that interview last night,
she seems to be kind of enjoying the ride she said, yep,
absolutely there will have There have been some tough times,
(07:22):
and I'm sure there will have been. But on the
other hand, she's quite enjoying getting messages from the likes
of Richard Branson telling her that he thought her performance
was plucky and that he would like to go her
to go on some cruises with boy George. Of all people,
as she says, what is life And that, by the way,
is the least of what is going right for Raygun
At the moment, She's already signed up with a talent
(07:44):
management agency. She is apparently the subject of a fierce
bidding war between TV networks who want to sign her
and apparently Dancing with the Stars, for obvious reasons, are
desperate to get her on the show. She's been the
subject of a skit on Jimmy Fallon's show, a Dale
has mentioned her on stage. She has been in so
many international newspapers now that I've actually completely lost count.
(08:04):
She would I reckon if she would be one of
the most famous miss athletes to have emerged from the
Paris Olympics, if not currently the most famous athlete. I
actually admire her. If I have to be completely honest
with you, because she is delivering to us right now
a masterclass in how to handle online abuse and attention.
Take the lemons, make some lemonade. All too often people
(08:26):
sit at home in a dark room. They go on
to the Twitter, they read the trolls, they let it
grind them down, and they go in the media and
they whinge about how sad life is. Raygun's not doing that.
Raygun is milking this for all it is worth. She
understands the value of what's happening to her right now
and got on her for that. So do not feel
sorry for Raygun. Raygun may have lost at the Olympics,
but I'll tell you what, she is winning it life
(08:47):
after the Olympics, isn't she?
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Is she?
Speaker 7 (08:50):
She?
Speaker 3 (08:51):
What a sad state of affairs?
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Er?
Speaker 3 (08:57):
No, I certainly don't feel sorry for her. You never
felt sorry for her all the way along?
Speaker 1 (09:03):
News talk?
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Has it been? Right? Let's finish up talking? How llween
hang on.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
There at least a month, if not a month and
a half, if not two months early.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
What's happening right?
Speaker 6 (09:16):
Start a campaign? This's Christmas band? The chocolates happen to
go to the warehouse today? I had to get quite
a cube. Anyway, Boy, there's some tet they bring in
for Halloween. I don't want this as a topic because boy,
(09:41):
it's not our culture. People bring up and say, oh,
whenever did Halloween? I mean, people can cellerbrate what they want.
But man, oh man, do they make some plastic junk
in the name of Halloween, like straight to the landfill?
(10:03):
And I guess that's what I'm not too worried about
if the warehouse goes to the wall, because honestly, they
have brought some junk into this country. I mean, do
people really need it anyway? Guess we've got to stop
buying it. But Halloween done and dusted, No one cares
to doude of a day? Is the election before or
(10:26):
after Halloween? What's Halloween? Is Halloween? When's Halloween? And elections?
Sky for? Because it em it's about then, isn't it?
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Yeah? Okay, how can you not know when Halloween is?
It's the thirty first of October. It's not there had
to remember last day of October.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
But in saying that, there's a house around the corner
from me they've got their Halloween decorations out.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
There's a Witch's League sticking out of a pop plant,
there's a ghost in the window. It's not Christmas.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Halloween doesn't go for two months, as it what. I
don't understand what's happening. There's no change there. I'll see
you back here again with the weekend edition. I probably
won't understand anything that happens on the weekend either, but
I'll still be talking about it on Monday.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
US Talk is Talking zid bean For more from Used
Talk zied B. Listen live on air or online, and
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follow this and our wide range of podcasts now on iHeartRadio.
Used Talk said, be you Talk said, Hello.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
My beautiful beanies, and welcome to the Bean for Friday.
First with yesterday's news, I am Glen Hart and we
are looking back at Thursday. Ryan wants a word about
food bins. Simon wants a word about long hair. Reagan,
the Australian not breakdowncer is back for some reason.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
And Halloween is already here even.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Though it's not October. But first up, so the grocery
price report. This is going to be an annual thing,
and then the first annual nothing happened.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
It was just bad for the whole annual.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Because they're not making a huge mat of it. You know,
those men and women who are out in the fields,
out in the orchards and the wet and the cold
and the wind and watching the weather forecast nervously praying
the hail doesn't come and ruin their crop. They're not
the ones making squillions. They're getting screwed down too. So
(01:28):
is it going to take from a coalition government that
really doesn't like regulation. Are they going to have to
swallow a dead mouse and say, okay, well we'll have
to regulate this industry because they're not doing it themselves.
The message from foodstuffs yesterday seem to be we are,
we're doing it, we're taking it seriously. Just give us time.
There's been a lot of change, We've had a lot
(01:48):
going on. It'll happen. Just cool your jets. Any change
is not happening fast enough for the Grocery Commissioner, so
as the consumer, as the supplier, do you see this
(02:09):
oversight of the supermarkets and the industry. Is it a
welcome change? Is it good to have an annual report
card to keep the pressure on the supermarkets? And what
in reality do you expect to see change as a
result of this pressure, of this castigation, of the threats
(02:30):
from the Grocery commissioner.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Castigation, that's a good word.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
I wonder if the supermarkets know that they are under
the thread of castigation, so.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Painful serious measures.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Indeed, news talk zi been so if you can't afford groceries,
of course you end up throwing half of them out
because they go off. And if you don't have a
waste disposal like I do, do you use those stupid
little bins.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
Do you know what else cost you eighty dollars a year?
A friend and I were chatting at the gym the
other day and he showed me his rates bill, which
he'd kindly brought to the gym to encourage him to
run faster. Anyway, there's an eighty dollar targeted rate for
the food compost bin. And he said, what's that for?
And I was like, it's the green bin that's on
the street that no one uses. Then he was running
(03:21):
faster than I've ever seen him run on the treadmill anyway.
So apparently sixty to sixty five percent of us don't
use them. And if you walk down this is the
food scrapspin. They know they have them in other parts
of the country. In Auckland, we've only got them just recently,
so we're all getting a bit used to them. But
eighty dollars a year is what you have to pay.
And I got quite angry when I thought about because
(03:42):
we were talking. If you're on a fixed income, eighty
dollars a year is a lot of money. If you're
a pensioner and you cannot opt out of this service,
who else can charge you for a service that you
don't want or need. What about a pensioner who's you know,
does her own or his own composting in the backyard.
(04:02):
They can't opt out of it. They have to have
this bin and they have to pay eighty dollars per
year for the privilege. It's like your barber sending like
a barber giving a lady a beard trom her and saying, here,
I'm going to charge you for that. I don't need it.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Oh well you have to have it? Why? Just because?
Speaker 5 (04:19):
And do you know what?
Speaker 6 (04:20):
They're all made of plastic, these bins.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
So how's that for the environment?
Speaker 3 (04:24):
I think?
Speaker 2 (04:25):
And they mostly made out of recycled plastic. Isn't that
the point? That's why they made out of plastic? It
was my understanding anyway. But yeah, that doesn't make you
feel any better when you see one blowing down the
street spreading smelly, rotten food everywhere.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Quos Talk SIBB.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
It's kind of a grumpy old man podcast today.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
So there's nobody grumpier or older than Simon Barnett and
he's not happy with what. Speaking of old men, what
Daniel Craig's done with us here?
Speaker 7 (05:00):
Daniel Craig of course, formerly James Bond slick ass. But
he's just released some what you call it advertis as
material for his new marketing for his new movie, and
he's grown his hair long.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Who doesn't like it?
Speaker 7 (05:15):
It's it's awful middle aged man with long hair. I'm sorry,
I know it's judgy, but it looks terrible. It ages you,
It makes you look like a hobo. It make I mean,
shall I just throw.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
You overhead long hare?
Speaker 7 (05:29):
Yeah? Yeah, but there has been long here was in
I had a mullet, you know, like I was, you know,
but not not when you're my age now long here.
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
I don't know why guys do it?
Speaker 7 (05:36):
Lots and do it? Yeah, Like, did you see Simon
Bridges recently?
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Simon Bridges?
Speaker 6 (05:41):
Yeah, he looks different, like.
Speaker 7 (05:44):
In a number of ways actually, And I like Simon
Bridges a real, real nice guy. And I hope his
wife's a massive listener to the show and she's lovely.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Okay, just down to cuts here?
Speaker 7 (05:55):
Cut is here?
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Yeah, weirdly specific reference, wasn't it. Simon knows that Symon's
wife is a massive listener of the afternoon show on
news doors be the only way that he could know
that is if he's been in a room with Soyman
(06:16):
and Symon said to him, oh, my wife loved your show,
which I think is always a backhanded compliments.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Well that's great. What about you now, Raygan?
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Why oh why would she have done this interview? I
think everybody had forgotten about her. Yeah, it's been a
week or two and now she stretched it all up again.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
What the hell.
Speaker 8 (06:41):
It's pretty clear you should not waste any of your
emotions feeling sorry for Raygan, because Reagan is not feeling
sorry for herself yet she is making the most out
of the situation big time. I mean the natural inclination,
obviously is to feel sorry for her, because she completely
embarrassed herself jumping around like a kangaroo on the Olympic stage,
and she's since been the subject of quite a massive
(07:02):
global pile on on social media and countless jokes at
her expense, and even some accusations that she'd her entry
into the Olympics, which do seem to be unfounded. But
she does not seem particularly ground down by the situation
at all. On the contrary, in that interview last night,
she seems to be kind of enjoying the ride she said, yep,
absolutely there will have There have been some tough times,
(07:22):
and I'm sure there will have been. But on the
other hand, she's quite enjoying getting messages from the likes
of Richard Branson telling her that he thought her performance
was plucky and that he would like to go her
to go on some cruises with boy George. Of all people,
as she says, what is life And that, by the way,
is the least of what is going right for Raygun
At the moment, She's already signed up with a talent
(07:44):
management agency. She is apparently the subject of a fierce
bidding war between TV networks who want to sign her
and apparently Dancing with the Stars, for obvious reasons, are
desperate to get her on the show. She's been the
subject of a skit on Jimmy Fallon's show, a Dale
has mentioned her on stage. She has been in so
many international newspapers now that I've actually completely lost count.
(08:04):
She would I reckon if she would be one of
the most famous miss athletes to have emerged from the
Paris Olympics, if not currently the most famous athlete. I
actually admire her. If I have to be completely honest
with you, because she is delivering to us right now
a masterclass in how to handle online abuse and attention.
Take the lemons, make some lemonade. All too often people
(08:26):
sit at home in a dark room. They go on
to the Twitter, they read the trolls, they let it
grind them down, and they go in the media and
they whinge about how sad life is. Raygun's not doing that.
Raygun is milking this for all it is worth. She
understands the value of what's happening to her right now
and got on her for that. So do not feel
sorry for Raygun. Raygun may have lost at the Olympics,
but I'll tell you what, she is winning it life
(08:47):
after the Olympics, isn't she?
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Is she?
Speaker 7 (08:50):
She?
Speaker 3 (08:51):
What a sad state of affairs?
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Er?
Speaker 3 (08:57):
No, I certainly don't feel sorry for her. You never
felt sorry for her all the way along?
Speaker 1 (09:03):
News talk?
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Has it been? Right? Let's finish up talking? How llween
hang on.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
There at least a month, if not a month and
a half, if not two months early.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
What's happening right?
Speaker 6 (09:16):
Start a campaign? This's Christmas band? The chocolates happen to
go to the warehouse today? I had to get quite
a cube. Anyway, Boy, there's some tet they bring in
for Halloween. I don't want this as a topic because boy,
(09:41):
it's not our culture. People bring up and say, oh,
whenever did Halloween? I mean, people can cellerbrate what they want.
But man, oh man, do they make some plastic junk
in the name of Halloween, like straight to the landfill?
(10:03):
And I guess that's what I'm not too worried about
if the warehouse goes to the wall, because honestly, they
have brought some junk into this country. I mean, do
people really need it anyway? Guess we've got to stop
buying it. But Halloween done and dusted, No one cares
to doude of a day? Is the election before or
(10:26):
after Halloween? What's Halloween? Is Halloween? When's Halloween? And elections?
Sky for? Because it em it's about then, isn't it?
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Yeah? Okay, how can you not know when Halloween is?
It's the thirty first of October. It's not there had
to remember last day of October.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
But in saying that, there's a house around the corner
from me they've got their Halloween decorations out.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
There's a Witch's League sticking out of a pop plant,
there's a ghost in the window. It's not Christmas.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Halloween doesn't go for two months, as it what. I
don't understand what's happening. There's no change there. I'll see
you back here again with the weekend edition. I probably
won't understand anything that happens on the weekend either, but
I'll still be talking about it on Monday.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
US Talk is Talking zid bean For more from Used
Talk zied B. Listen live on air or online, and
keep our shows with you wherever you go with our
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