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June 21, 2026 14 mins

FIRST WITH YESTERDAY'S NEWS (highlights from the weekend on Newstalk ZB) Chloe's Coming for You/World Cups Are Pretty Fun/That Rugby Thing Wasn't Though/Revolving PMs/Is Suzy Undead?

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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 bodle for beanies, and welcome to the Being
the Weekly Edition. First with yesterday's news. I am Glenhart
and we're welcome back at Sunday and Saturday. It's kind
of why I call it the weekend Edition. Are the
FIFA World Cup, it's happening, it's on. It's great super rugby.
I think we're not going to build about that and
we'll never mention it over again.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
UK politics, sticky.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
Time for Starma and we'll finish up with Susie Cato
back from the dead.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
You can't be killed.

Speaker 3 (00:59):
But before any of that, Choe Spobrook and the wealth
tax not just not just it's not just the wealth,
it's a super wealth tax. He's going after the super rich.
I didn't even know we had any super rich.

Speaker 4 (01:13):
What happened with this accidental leaking of the policy on
an unlisted page of your website.

Speaker 5 (01:19):
What happened there basically just human error, if I could
be completely honest with you, It was uploaded and then
as soon as that was noticed because it seems like
people were googling in order to get around it and
get access to it early. As soon as we noticed
that that happened, obviously it was pulled down and then
we're just moved with the times, rolled with the punches

(01:39):
such as politics was.

Speaker 4 (01:41):
What was the rolling with the punch is going to be?
When were you going to put it? You know, put
that page live.

Speaker 5 (01:46):
Oh, at the same time that we were due to
do our stand up with all of the media. So
I guess at the end of the day, Look, it
was a few hours earlier than we had intended for
it to be out there, but we're really stoked to
see that people are talking about the actual content of
it and discussing what would look like to have an
economy that works for all New Zealanders.

Speaker 4 (02:03):
So you're promising a text cut for ninety six percent
of people while raising nearly six billion in extra revenue.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
So how does the work.

Speaker 5 (02:09):
Well, that works by implementing a super rich tax on
those with net assets above ten million dollars. And you'll
note that obviously is a bit of a shift from
where we've been in the past, because we've heard with
clarity from New Zealanders all around the country some concern
about you know who that would apply to and the
kind of equivalents with the family home and all of
those kinds of things, which which is why we've offered

(02:32):
that clarity that the people who would be impacted by
the super rich tax, so those with net assets and
excess of ten million dollars and only what is above
that ten million dollars, would be taxed at two point
five percent, which is still lower than what plenty of
domestic and international research tells us is the wealth kind
of compounding effect of around four point five percent per anam.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
So yeah, just driving a further wedge in this increasing
gap between probably left and right philosophies, and not just
in New Zealand, globally, people who want to be super
rich are heading towards being super rich, people who are

(03:16):
just quite rich, and then the people who've got no
chances that and feeling a bit distinct about the super riedge.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
It's a big gap.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
News talk z been.

Speaker 3 (03:27):
Luckily sport will bring us together as we all crowded
around our TVs at one stage or another because it's
streaming and you have to watch it live.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
But you know, all White's playing again today.

Speaker 3 (03:42):
Jack's pretty I think he's fizzing about this whole tournament,
isn't he.

Speaker 6 (03:45):
The US media is now awash with stories about Scottish
fans literally drinking bars dry around the city. So bars
in Boston have been running out of beer because the
Scottish fans are drinking so much. After their first World
Cup win and thirty six years the fans kept on partying,
so they walked out of the stadium. They marched across

(04:07):
the city led by pipers, and then completely took over
Fenway Park for a Boston Red Sox game. It was
so funny watching it. If you haven't seen it, you've
got to go and seek out the pictures. American baseball
fans outnumbered in a stadium by Scott's in kilts singing
Flower of Scotland.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
So joyous.

Speaker 6 (04:29):
But then add to that the fans from the Democratic Republic.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
Of Congo hoo.

Speaker 6 (04:33):
So most of them were singing and dancing in the stands.
But they have this tradition for their football team where
one man stands as a perfect statue for his hold
for his team's games. For all of the games he
is commemorating the country's first Prime Minister, Patrese Lamumba, the
man who helped lead Congo to independence from Belgium, And

(04:55):
he wears these kind of bright, beautiful clothes amidst the
frenzy of the activity around him. Even when his team scores,
he stands above the masses, perfect and almost unsettlingly still
for the whole game. A unique tradition, and one that
stretches so far beyond Congo, because fans all around the

(05:16):
world are like, hang on, what's the deal with this guy?

Speaker 2 (05:21):
Still?

Speaker 6 (05:22):
How could you go past the Japanese? I just don't reckon.
There can be a greater act of soft power in
all of world sport than having fans who carefully collect
all of the rubbish and clean up the grandstands at
the end of every game. It's so good, isn't it?
So respectful? So Japanese. For all of the controversy and

(05:44):
all of the appalling grift that comes with it, there
can be no denying football is the global game. And
I haven't even mentioned the football this morning, but let
me tell you, I for one, am utterly, completely hopelessly absorb.

Speaker 3 (06:02):
Yeah, it's quite fun watching some of the underdogs hold
their own and because even if you don't really care
about football, if you're back the side that's not supposed
to win and they start doing well, that's always fun.

Speaker 1 (06:19):
You talk sity.

Speaker 3 (06:20):
It may not have been clear who really was the
other dog going into Saturday night's Super EGI Final. I
think it was quite clear by the end of it.
And I'm just going to pretend these next few minutes
aren't happening.

Speaker 7 (06:32):
How was the night? How were the celebrations after the
game last night?

Speaker 1 (06:38):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (06:38):
That really nice? Yeah doing it hor my gas mixed
even more special with you know, your families, your friends,
the whole team here, the whole squad, management, everybody being there.
I guess made an access special. So yeah, we enjoyed
the night, and I think you enjoy the next couple
of days.

Speaker 7 (06:58):
And rightly so. Could you possibly have imagined such a
complete performance from your side in the biggest game of
the season last night?

Speaker 9 (07:08):
I knew we were.

Speaker 8 (07:09):
Ready to play well. We've been training, you know, the
last month really well, and a lot of stuff we've
been preparing and training we've been putting in the game.
So I knew, I knew we were ready to play well.
But yeah, by no means did we ever think, you know,
that score line would be possible, and I guess when

(07:30):
when things clicked, you know, and you've got on a
run and we got that, my man, it was hard
to stop. So so yeah, it was you know, it
was a we have a crazy score line, to be honest,
but yeah, I knew, I knew we were ready to
play well.

Speaker 7 (07:44):
At what point then during the game last night, did
it become apparent to you that's something spatial was happening
out there?

Speaker 8 (07:51):
Yeah, I'm not sure. I mean, I think when we
kicked that penalty, was it twenty nine? And at half
time it felt like we were right on top of
just just the way the men wore at halftime, it felt,
you know, super calm and but it was a real
sort of determination to you know, to continue to play
and to play well. And when we came out, you know,

(08:12):
we had a couple of poor kicks straight after halftime,
but when we I think we held them up over
the line of just short. That went along with just
sort of you know, building the pressure on them with
the scoreboard. I think it's been twenty ninety seven. In
those conditions, you know, who knows what could have happened
but after that and went up and scored you know,
two more tries. Yeah, we certainly felt, you know, at

(08:35):
that stage it'd be tough for the Chiefs to take
us back.

Speaker 2 (08:39):
Yeah, that was It was just weird, wasn't it. It
was just one of those Look. I don't know what
to say. I've never seen anything like it, except I.

Speaker 3 (08:52):
Have because not only have the Chiefs been to four
finals in a row and not won at any of
those four times now, but we've also been involved in
three out of four of the biggest Super Fun losses
of all time. These are records that I don't want

(09:12):
to keep breaking. But like I say, I think we'll
just forget about Super ragby now and never mention it again.

Speaker 1 (09:19):
Your city.

Speaker 5 (09:21):
So the.

Speaker 3 (09:24):
Blade of the guillotine is inexorably making its way towards
Starmer's neck.

Speaker 2 (09:34):
Am I taking that metaphor a little bit too far there? Maybe?
But anyway, he's on the chopping one.

Speaker 10 (09:40):
The latest report suggests that cabinet minister's loyal to Starmer
have told him he needs to set a timetable for
his departure before the end of the weekend. The key
question is, of course, where the Burnham has the experience
to be a successful prime minister. He certainly has more
than many recent leadership contenders. He served for years as

(10:00):
an MP, held cabinet level ministry roles, ministerial roles, and
spent nearly a decade as the mayor of Greater Manchester.
If you can argue, of course, running local government is
not the same as running the country, but few could
claim he lacks political credibility. There is, however, just something
unusual about all this, isn't there? If Andy Burnham does
become Prime minister, the immediate catalyst will have been a

(10:22):
by election decided by around forty five thousand voters. Seems
a little absurd, yet not unprecedented. The United Kingdom's habit
of changing prime minister's mid term means some have never
had to win a general election in their own right.
Makerfield has not chosen the next Prime minister, but it
may have chosen who gets the opportunity to become one.

(10:43):
So Kaer Starmer has seen this threat coming for some time.
This is the most slow motion, transparent leadership challenge we've
seen in a while. But something tells me that Kairs
Starmer won't go down without a fight. It's going to
be a very interesting few weeks or possibly days.

Speaker 3 (10:58):
I think she's got that last bit wrong. I think
he will go down without a fight. And as we've
seen from a lot of sort of left leaning ish
politicians around the world, they sort of they're be a
little bit out of touch with reality and they haven't
quite got their finger on the pulse. But I think

(11:22):
Starma will now be forced to realize that nobody likes
Hi and he hasn't got any friends, and at that
point you just go, okay, see you and the revolving door.
It seems to be how it works in UK politics

(11:42):
to the private It's.

Speaker 2 (11:43):
Weird that, you know, the electoral term.

Speaker 3 (11:45):
Is so long in the UK and yet the prime
ministers never last that long?

Speaker 2 (11:50):
Odd, isn't it?

Speaker 3 (11:52):
News talk ze been, and then start contrast Susie Cato
is bringing the Kids Show back again after all these years.
He just keeps going and going.

Speaker 2 (12:06):
Does she look younger now than she did?

Speaker 7 (12:07):
Then?

Speaker 5 (12:07):
You a good mon?

Speaker 9 (12:08):
Hello?

Speaker 2 (12:12):
Do you?

Speaker 6 (12:12):
Does that get stuck in your head as well?

Speaker 9 (12:14):
Yeah? Definitely. All of the songs that we write are
our earworms pretty much, so that today's episode is all
about baking a cake. We're baking a cake, surf Dan sweet,
we're making something yeah before our friends do we so much.

Speaker 6 (12:30):
Fun and does? But is it fun for you afterwards?
When you go home afterwards? Is it still like turning
around in your head at eleven thirty at night?

Speaker 9 (12:39):
For several reasons, because this time, not only am I
the presenter, I'm also the executive producers. Yes, I listened
to those songs quite critically and go, okay, we come
you to do be at an ex time and things
like that.

Speaker 6 (12:49):
So so give us the give us the kind of
genesis of the new series. Tell us why You and
Me is.

Speaker 9 (12:54):
Back because we need it because life are so fast
paced and kids are so involved in screens, and they're
heading off to school with small vocabulary and very little
opportunity to have conversations. So they're also not they're not
don't appreciate taking tunes and sharing and those sorts of things.

(13:16):
So we've had so many parents say, oh, I wish
there was something like You and Me that were slow
and gentle and conversational and would provide kids and oasis
the way they had as children. But it's face that
a lot of television programming back then was very much
like you and me. It was slow paced, it was
a conversation. It was a gentle discovery as opposed to this,

(13:39):
you know, cut cut, cut, cut, cut idiotit fast paced stimulation,
loud noises, all those sorts of things.

Speaker 3 (13:45):
Yeah, I hate loud noises. She's got a point there,
I do hate loud noises. Everything's just a loud noise
these days, isn't it. It's just loud noises competing to
be the loudest noise. I hope that the.

Speaker 2 (14:00):
Way I deliver this podcast to you isn't too loud.
It's really what I'm going for. I'm going for less noise.
I think you take the noise out and this is
what you get.

Speaker 3 (14:16):
It's just me. It's actually it's not pretty good when
you think about it like that. Oh well, whatever it is.
I'll be back again tomorrow with maybe even less noise hopefully.

Speaker 1 (14:27):
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