September 17, 2025 • 13 mins
FIRST WITH YESTERDAY'S NEWS (highlights from Wednesday on Newstalk ZB) Thank God for AirPods/When the Gas Runs Out/Did You Know There's an Election Next Year?/Watching the Wrong Rugby/Some People Shouldn't Be Allowed On the Road
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
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Speaker 3 (00:24):
Hello, my beautiful beanies, and welcome to the bean for Thursday.
First with yesterday's news, I am glean Hart and we
are looking back at Wednesday. We're running out of gas
and it's happening fast, according to Shane Jones, so that's shame.
Will it be one of the issues we talk about
(00:45):
in next year's election? How can it only be next year?
Marcus wants to talk rugby. He obsas with the rugby
at the moment acually, and Tyler doesn't know what he's
doing where he's doing it when he's driving on the
Auto motorway, which is a bit of a concern. Before
any of that, It is a Manori language week, I believe,
(01:07):
because as you sure, the weather seems to be happening
in places that I don't understand, which is my fault,
it's not their fault. But yeah, this is the week
where I don't know where the weather's happening.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
If Shannon doesn't want to feel left out, he should
go and learn Mary like everyone else who's spending their
Wednesday nights in Maori language classes. Look just for the record,
So before you think I'm now on the Rauri side,
I'm not. I don't like that Rahwi's doing this because
he's obviously weaponizing the language and hiding behind it to
avoid answering tough questions, and then is pretending that he's
(01:39):
doing it for some noble reason of celebrating Mary Language week.
That's not what he's doing. But set aside his childishness,
he isn't titled to speak Mary exclusively if he wants to.
It is a national language, the man is fluent in it.
If this was a multi lingual European nation instead of
predominantly monolingual New Zealand, this would not be a problem.
I mean to be fair, AHOUDI probably wouldn't be able
(02:00):
to do what he's doing because the press gallery would
also be multi lingual and would be able to understand
what he's saying.
Speaker 5 (02:05):
But Shannon's complaint is a uniquely New Zealand complaint, isn't it,
which is don't speak the language because I can't understand it. Again,
tough bickies. It's really weird for me to hear this
from a labor party MP by the way, and I
would encourage Shannon to take up some Mardi language classes
with his free time, which there is a lot of.
When I'm talking about his free time, there is a
(02:25):
lot of because he's not doing a lot in opposition,
and maybe if there is a silver lining in that
I already being this juvenile, it is a gentle reminders
to the rest of us that if we also don't
want to feel like Shannon left out, there are classes.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
I mean, as I said before, it's my fault that
I don't understand where, know where there is happeningguage, but
I'm getting there slowly. I'm pretty sure I know where
Tomaky Makaro is now, but I can never remember what
Hamilton is, which is weird because given that I less
where I come from, I know it starts with Kitty Kitty,
(03:01):
and then I can't remember the rest of it. And
that's on me. I'm not blaming. I'm just saying we're
all ignorant, and Heather makes a good point. I just
don't know. There's always going to be a conflict of
some people of the one person's speaking in language that
another person doesn't understand.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
News talk has it.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Been hopefully the new EarPods will sort that yea pods,
but they now have that live translation, which yeah, that
there would be weird that would be using like here.
That is, it would be weird that we useing there
in our own country. But in my help. Moving on
(03:44):
to the gas supply, there is a match and I'm
not sure how they're going to fix that.
Speaker 6 (03:53):
If you.
Speaker 7 (03:55):
Are living in a small town where your major employer
is owned by a multinational, the answers they'll probably just
shut up shop, as we've seen happen in other small towns.
They'll look at the cost of finding an alternative energy
source and going yeah, you know what. No, If you're
(04:17):
a small town, locally owned business, you might think differently.
There might be more skin in the game for you.
You might be willing to make a huge capital investment
and resourcing the power supply to keep the plant open.
But ultimately, once you do the sums on the back
(04:39):
of an envelope, it just comes down to whether you
can afford to or not. And in that case, what
is the future of small town New Zealand is the
die cast? Are we looking at a rust belt decline
and a widening gap in societal well being unless we
(04:59):
can find alternative fuel or simply another way of keeping
small town New Zealand alive.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
I think I'm most worried about, of course, is my
stove won't work anymore, my stovetop, and then I have
to replace it with something, and then somebody will talk
me into doing induction, and I don't like induction. I
get that it's supposed to be very fast and efficient
and all of that, but I've also seen people think
(05:30):
that they're cooking things and then not cooking things because
the pan wasn't quite the right place or something seems
a bit flawed. And also you've got to buy all
new cookware for that as well. Stressing me out, man,
you talk. Okay, So the year is hurtling on, isn't it.
(05:55):
We're basically in the second half of September here, it's
basically October, so really where basically obviously basically so many
times now, But essentially we're one year away from an election.
Whenever that far away from an election, are we. That's
a problem with a three year term.
Speaker 8 (06:14):
The minnows hold the keys to the kingdom, be it
Winston with what will it be as best result ever
potentially or to party Malori with the overhand getting the
Left in twenty twenty six won't be a twenty twenty landslide.
The difference this time is how extreme some of those
smaller parties, or more to the point, some of their
MPs have become. Think Takuta on Indians, think Simon Court
(06:37):
on Palestine. It's not just rhetoric though, but policy too.
A separate Maldi parliament, renationalizing power companies, says Uncle Shane,
you name it, they'll go there. The temptation for the behemoths,
the broad churches, the big lots is to emulate what's
getting traction, to dip your toe in the pool of
radical ideas, to be establishment without looking or sounding like it.
(07:01):
Trump and the Mega Movement are the best example of
doing this. In the UK, parties that have been around
since Moses was a linebacker are being absolutely whipped in
the polls by newer upstarts with one thing on their
pledged cards radical change. The Conservatives have been around for
two hundred years, reform UK six. The big issues, of course,
(07:25):
do differ our cost of living malaise as their immigration,
So the temptation must be to embrace a bit of
that radical spirit and Labour might just do that. Yet
we just don't know what they're cooking up behind the scenes.
My prediction, though, establishment parties will do what establishment parties do,
stick to the script, copy paste the policies, hug the
(07:46):
center like a koala to a tree, and I hope
their buddies grab enough from the fraying edges to get
them across the line. Their bet is that crises come
and go, but established parties don't, even though the Brits
and the Americans show us they can and do.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Yeah, there's something not quite right. It's the more and
more this keeps happening, the more frustrating it is. That
we've gone from trying to give the minority a say
instantly to giving them all the power, which I don't
(08:24):
know how these things work. I'd rather just not think
about it, carry on with my life. And then, of
course you carry on with your life and you can't
even watch the women rugby anymore because it's so bad
unless you're watching. Are we just watching the wrong rugby?
(08:46):
I think Marcus has watched being watching some of the
right rugby.
Speaker 9 (08:48):
By the way, would the rugby the women's rugby? And
I kind of think that with the ended RF you
panicking about the Allbecks being so poor they should invest
more into the publicity of the World Cup, the women's
Rugby World Cup, because that's obviously the era of the
game that's growing. But yes, it seems like Canada's the
second ranked team in the world, so it goes England, Canada.
(09:13):
Then you said it might go England, Canada, France, is it?
So we're doing very lucky to win this semi final
this weekend, so that's going to be exciting. Hopefully we will,
but it's no sure I thought it'd be a sure thing,
but certainly not. England looks like they've the favorites to
win this thing. But yes, so the rankings are quite
like the New Zealand's chance of winning it is like
(09:33):
eight percent. So I'm surprised to see that. The women's
rugby rankings, I can tell you from Wikipedia or from
World Rugby. Yeah, it goes England, Canada, New Zealand, France, Island.
So England very much the.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Top of that.
Speaker 9 (09:54):
So we can probably do with our support. Well, they're
doing fantastically on social media. You're gonna dream of that
accessibility with the All Blacks.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Yeah, from from our side of things, and I'm talking
about you know, producers on radio shows dealing with New
Zealand rugby is like trying to get an interview with Taylor.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Swift News Talk z Bean.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Sorry, I lost interest in what I was talking about
there at the moment I said, Taylor Swift, I'm back
into it now. Apparently Tyler doesn't still doesn't know his
way around Auckland because he moved up from christ Church
and he's having trouble figuring out when it's one hundred
and when it's eighty.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
I was just calling to give Tyler a hard time
about his comment about driving through the Spaghetti junction and
not knowing when that channs eighty.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Yep?
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Do you honestly not know when that turns eighty?
Speaker 4 (11:03):
No?
Speaker 6 (11:03):
No, I don't know when it is. So I know
the eighty the eighties out of Spaghetti Junction and then
and I'm on the Southern Motorway heading towards Mount Wellington.
I got no idea where I can crank it to Andy.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Okay. So when you go to the Spaghetti junction, you
can turn lift up internew Market and then you've got
another turn off that takes you out to renew Era
and just as you pass it, tune up, there's a
big sign that says one hundred right there.
Speaker 6 (11:28):
No, no, I'm I'm on the every day.
Speaker 10 (11:35):
I'm knowing howbserve that you are and shot that you
are around, just basic things here in the studio. I'm
gonna go with cash on this one. And also there
everything is so well sewned posted in this country.
Speaker 6 (11:51):
I mean when I started saying this, Tach, the look
Met gave me just from across there. I mean, he
was just so confused with my statement. He didn't know
what to say.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
We've also what what is Tyler driving? Because most cars
these days they have the little camera that reads the
speed signs and then tells you what the speed limit is,
and that's that seems to work reasonably well until you're
somewhere where there's like a pass lane or something next
(12:20):
to you, and then it reads that speed sign instead,
and all of a sudden, you're driving along the motorway
and you're being told that you're supposed to be driving thirty.
So yeah, but I don't think that happens on that
particular patron. So I'm just say, is Tyler driving some
sort of Classic car. I mean, he's a successful radio
(12:40):
show hosts on a successful, well the most successful station
in New Zealand. Can you not afford a car that
reads the speed signs for them?
Speaker 2 (12:51):
World?
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Tyler?
Speaker 3 (12:53):
I am Glen hat, I'm so flesh. I do have
one of those cars that reads the speed signs. Humble Gregg.
I'll see you back here again with more of my
lording my large ys over you tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
News Talking Talking zid Bean. For more from News Talk
zied 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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Speaker 2 (00:20):
Used Talk Said Talk.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Hello, my beautiful beanies, and welcome to the bean for Thursday.
First with yesterday's news, I am glean Hart and we
are looking back at Wednesday. We're running out of gas
and it's happening fast, according to Shane Jones, so that's shame.
Will it be one of the issues we talk about
(00:45):
in next year's election? How can it only be next year?
Marcus wants to talk rugby. He obsas with the rugby
at the moment acually, and Tyler doesn't know what he's
doing where he's doing it when he's driving on the
Auto motorway, which is a bit of a concern. Before
any of that, It is a Manori language week, I believe,
(01:07):
because as you sure, the weather seems to be happening
in places that I don't understand, which is my fault,
it's not their fault. But yeah, this is the week
where I don't know where the weather's happening.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
If Shannon doesn't want to feel left out, he should
go and learn Mary like everyone else who's spending their
Wednesday nights in Maori language classes. Look just for the record,
So before you think I'm now on the Rauri side,
I'm not. I don't like that Rahwi's doing this because
he's obviously weaponizing the language and hiding behind it to
avoid answering tough questions, and then is pretending that he's
(01:39):
doing it for some noble reason of celebrating Mary Language week.
That's not what he's doing. But set aside his childishness,
he isn't titled to speak Mary exclusively if he wants to.
It is a national language, the man is fluent in it.
If this was a multi lingual European nation instead of
predominantly monolingual New Zealand, this would not be a problem.
I mean to be fair, AHOUDI probably wouldn't be able
(02:00):
to do what he's doing because the press gallery would
also be multi lingual and would be able to understand
what he's saying.
Speaker 5 (02:05):
But Shannon's complaint is a uniquely New Zealand complaint, isn't it,
which is don't speak the language because I can't understand it. Again,
tough bickies. It's really weird for me to hear this
from a labor party MP by the way, and I
would encourage Shannon to take up some Mardi language classes
with his free time, which there is a lot of.
When I'm talking about his free time, there is a
(02:25):
lot of because he's not doing a lot in opposition,
and maybe if there is a silver lining in that
I already being this juvenile, it is a gentle reminders
to the rest of us that if we also don't
want to feel like Shannon left out, there are classes.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
I mean, as I said before, it's my fault that
I don't understand where, know where there is happeningguage, but
I'm getting there slowly. I'm pretty sure I know where
Tomaky Makaro is now, but I can never remember what
Hamilton is, which is weird because given that I less
where I come from, I know it starts with Kitty Kitty,
(03:01):
and then I can't remember the rest of it. And
that's on me. I'm not blaming. I'm just saying we're
all ignorant, and Heather makes a good point. I just
don't know. There's always going to be a conflict of
some people of the one person's speaking in language that
another person doesn't understand.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
News talk has it.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Been hopefully the new EarPods will sort that yea pods,
but they now have that live translation, which yeah, that
there would be weird that would be using like here.
That is, it would be weird that we useing there
in our own country. But in my help. Moving on
(03:44):
to the gas supply, there is a match and I'm
not sure how they're going to fix that.
Speaker 6 (03:53):
If you.
Speaker 7 (03:55):
Are living in a small town where your major employer
is owned by a multinational, the answers they'll probably just
shut up shop, as we've seen happen in other small towns.
They'll look at the cost of finding an alternative energy
source and going yeah, you know what. No, If you're
(04:17):
a small town, locally owned business, you might think differently.
There might be more skin in the game for you.
You might be willing to make a huge capital investment
and resourcing the power supply to keep the plant open.
But ultimately, once you do the sums on the back
(04:39):
of an envelope, it just comes down to whether you
can afford to or not. And in that case, what
is the future of small town New Zealand is the
die cast? Are we looking at a rust belt decline
and a widening gap in societal well being unless we
(04:59):
can find alternative fuel or simply another way of keeping
small town New Zealand alive.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
I think I'm most worried about, of course, is my
stove won't work anymore, my stovetop, and then I have
to replace it with something, and then somebody will talk
me into doing induction, and I don't like induction. I
get that it's supposed to be very fast and efficient
and all of that, but I've also seen people think
(05:30):
that they're cooking things and then not cooking things because
the pan wasn't quite the right place or something seems
a bit flawed. And also you've got to buy all
new cookware for that as well. Stressing me out, man,
you talk. Okay, So the year is hurtling on, isn't it.
(05:55):
We're basically in the second half of September here, it's
basically October, so really where basically obviously basically so many
times now, But essentially we're one year away from an election.
Whenever that far away from an election, are we. That's
a problem with a three year term.
Speaker 8 (06:14):
The minnows hold the keys to the kingdom, be it
Winston with what will it be as best result ever
potentially or to party Malori with the overhand getting the
Left in twenty twenty six won't be a twenty twenty landslide.
The difference this time is how extreme some of those
smaller parties, or more to the point, some of their
MPs have become. Think Takuta on Indians, think Simon Court
(06:37):
on Palestine. It's not just rhetoric though, but policy too.
A separate Maldi parliament, renationalizing power companies, says Uncle Shane,
you name it, they'll go there. The temptation for the behemoths,
the broad churches, the big lots is to emulate what's
getting traction, to dip your toe in the pool of
radical ideas, to be establishment without looking or sounding like it.
(07:01):
Trump and the Mega Movement are the best example of
doing this. In the UK, parties that have been around
since Moses was a linebacker are being absolutely whipped in
the polls by newer upstarts with one thing on their
pledged cards radical change. The Conservatives have been around for
two hundred years, reform UK six. The big issues, of course,
(07:25):
do differ our cost of living malaise as their immigration,
So the temptation must be to embrace a bit of
that radical spirit and Labour might just do that. Yet
we just don't know what they're cooking up behind the scenes.
My prediction, though, establishment parties will do what establishment parties do,
stick to the script, copy paste the policies, hug the
(07:46):
center like a koala to a tree, and I hope
their buddies grab enough from the fraying edges to get
them across the line. Their bet is that crises come
and go, but established parties don't, even though the Brits
and the Americans show us they can and do.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Yeah, there's something not quite right. It's the more and
more this keeps happening, the more frustrating it is. That
we've gone from trying to give the minority a say
instantly to giving them all the power, which I don't
(08:24):
know how these things work. I'd rather just not think
about it, carry on with my life. And then, of
course you carry on with your life and you can't
even watch the women rugby anymore because it's so bad
unless you're watching. Are we just watching the wrong rugby?
(08:46):
I think Marcus has watched being watching some of the
right rugby.
Speaker 9 (08:48):
By the way, would the rugby the women's rugby? And
I kind of think that with the ended RF you
panicking about the Allbecks being so poor they should invest
more into the publicity of the World Cup, the women's
Rugby World Cup, because that's obviously the era of the
game that's growing. But yes, it seems like Canada's the
second ranked team in the world, so it goes England, Canada.
(09:13):
Then you said it might go England, Canada, France, is it?
So we're doing very lucky to win this semi final
this weekend, so that's going to be exciting. Hopefully we will,
but it's no sure I thought it'd be a sure thing,
but certainly not. England looks like they've the favorites to
win this thing. But yes, so the rankings are quite
like the New Zealand's chance of winning it is like
(09:33):
eight percent. So I'm surprised to see that. The women's
rugby rankings, I can tell you from Wikipedia or from
World Rugby. Yeah, it goes England, Canada, New Zealand, France, Island.
So England very much the.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Top of that.
Speaker 9 (09:54):
So we can probably do with our support. Well, they're
doing fantastically on social media. You're gonna dream of that
accessibility with the All Blacks.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Yeah, from from our side of things, and I'm talking
about you know, producers on radio shows dealing with New
Zealand rugby is like trying to get an interview with Taylor.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Swift News Talk z Bean.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Sorry, I lost interest in what I was talking about
there at the moment I said, Taylor Swift, I'm back
into it now. Apparently Tyler doesn't still doesn't know his
way around Auckland because he moved up from christ Church
and he's having trouble figuring out when it's one hundred
and when it's eighty.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
I was just calling to give Tyler a hard time
about his comment about driving through the Spaghetti junction and
not knowing when that channs eighty.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Yep?
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Do you honestly not know when that turns eighty?
Speaker 4 (11:03):
No?
Speaker 6 (11:03):
No, I don't know when it is. So I know
the eighty the eighties out of Spaghetti Junction and then
and I'm on the Southern Motorway heading towards Mount Wellington.
I got no idea where I can crank it to Andy.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Okay. So when you go to the Spaghetti junction, you
can turn lift up internew Market and then you've got
another turn off that takes you out to renew Era
and just as you pass it, tune up, there's a
big sign that says one hundred right there.
Speaker 6 (11:28):
No, no, I'm I'm on the every day.
Speaker 10 (11:35):
I'm knowing howbserve that you are and shot that you
are around, just basic things here in the studio. I'm
gonna go with cash on this one. And also there
everything is so well sewned posted in this country.
Speaker 6 (11:51):
I mean when I started saying this, Tach, the look
Met gave me just from across there. I mean, he
was just so confused with my statement. He didn't know
what to say.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
We've also what what is Tyler driving? Because most cars
these days they have the little camera that reads the
speed signs and then tells you what the speed limit is,
and that's that seems to work reasonably well until you're
somewhere where there's like a pass lane or something next
(12:20):
to you, and then it reads that speed sign instead,
and all of a sudden, you're driving along the motorway
and you're being told that you're supposed to be driving thirty.
So yeah, but I don't think that happens on that
particular patron. So I'm just say, is Tyler driving some
sort of Classic car. I mean, he's a successful radio
(12:40):
show hosts on a successful, well the most successful station
in New Zealand. Can you not afford a car that
reads the speed signs for them?
Speaker 2 (12:51):
World?
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Tyler?
Speaker 3 (12:53):
I am Glen hat, I'm so flesh. I do have
one of those cars that reads the speed signs. Humble Gregg.
I'll see you back here again with more of my
lording my large ys over you tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
News Talking Talking zid Bean. For more from News Talk
zied 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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