February 18, 2026 • 11 mins
FIRST WITH YESTERDAY'S NEWS (highlights from Wednesday on Newstalk ZB) Bite the Bullet and Pay for What We Need/Some Dogs Shouldn't Exist/Some Owners Are a Worry/Dad Joke of the Year
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
Hello, my beautiful beanies, and welcome to the bean for
a Thursday. First with yesterday's news, I am Glen Hart,
and we are looking back at wednesday terrible dog attacks,
so the dangerous dog discussion for cold once more, the
T twenty World Cup. It's getting to the nitty gritty.
But first up, nobody's really going to be paying nine
(00:44):
dollars one way on the harb of bridge?
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Are they come on? Guys, you'll either need to be
a little bit rich, or as happens overseas, your employer
might pay for your car or or you to your
truck to crossover. But what about everybody else, Well, don't worry.
When they build the new bridge, it'll have bus lanes
or public transport options or trains on it as well,
so you can get public trans and that'll be cheaper.
(01:10):
Most people they reckon in this report will opt for
the alternative, the public transport, which is fine so long
as public transport suddenly becomes reliable and more linked up
and bus drivers aren't getting stabbed and bashed all the time,
which is currently the problem they have. The other point
here is is nine dollars actually that much money in
(01:32):
the scheme of things. People cross the harbor by ferry
for about that price every day, but there is a
cap on how much you pay over time, of course,
and usually you haven't got your car running costs and
your petrol et cetera, et cetera, so driving we'll basically
become a premium option. The question then becomes, do you
not build something like this because nine dollars? And the
(01:54):
answer is simple, of course you do. If we complain
about the cost of building stuff and never build a thing,
we will continue this death spiral that we've been in.
We need productivity, growth, infrastructure, all those good things, and
they don't come from nowhere. They come from good planned investment.
What we need is decent financial controls on the design
(02:14):
and construction. We need a government doing the budget rather
than the gold plated version, and then we need the
government to agree with the one that comes after it
that this is in the national interest. This is a
national interest project. Mess with the bridge and you mess
with us, and then it's simple. You just get on
and build the thing.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
I just the cost benefit thing is just so like, sorry, guys,
you've got to spend the money on this, And no,
we're not paying eighteen dollars a day to go to
work on top of how much we already pay to
go to work.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Who wants to.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Pay to go to work?
Speaker 4 (02:54):
That's why we go to work.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
We get paid.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
News talk Ze Bean Anyway, Kerry reflected probably a little
bit more calmly about this than I have been.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
So it is it's grim reading say. Successive governments are
at fault, and so are we voters. We want everything
done for us, and we want the government to pay
for it. We don't want to pay more in tax
though when we want the government to pay for it,
we want all the benefits our great grandparents had in
the sixties without willing to pay the sort of tax
they were paying in the sixties. We have to wake
(03:28):
up and be willing to vote for governments that are
going to make tough decisions. And to help us do that,
national and labor need to join forces, get together and
agree on the tough stuff. That the age of universal
super needs to go up, allowing for people to collect
(03:51):
less earlier. Sure, when you've got the tough jobs. But
you know, we can dither around this viere, but ultimately
that's what needs to happen. We need to agree on
an infrastructure program that will involve maintenance and building and
won't be subject to the whims of politics. We're going
(04:13):
to need to see more governance, less politicking. We need
that to start this election. Otherwise the main parties will
be fighting it out to govern a country that isn't
worth living in.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Do you reckon calling for less politicking in an election year?
Is are kind of a waste of breath? Oh bold call,
and I fully support it. But hmm, you's talk sav right.
So another horrendous dog attack means of course that this
(04:49):
more calls for I don't know what are we call
for here?
Speaker 6 (04:53):
Can I suggest to you that we are too squeamish
about the fact that we need to kill dangerous dogs.
Shane Jones was on the radio this morning being interviewed
about the morning to death of that woman in Northland yesterday,
and he said that we need to kill dangerous dogs
like his father's generation would do in Northland. They to
shoot them. The interviewer did not want to talk about that.
He wanted to talk about other things like desexing the
(05:14):
dogs or punishing the owners. Shane Jones had to say
about three or four times that dangerous dogs need to
be killed before the interviewer would even acknowledge that he
had said that. And then after the interview came out
a news report with the headline severe jail terms needed
for owners of dogs. Shane Jones says, yeah, he did
say that. He did say they need to go to jail.
He also said, though, that we need to kill the dogs.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Now.
Speaker 6 (05:37):
I'm not ripping on anyone here because I think saying
that out loud is actually a very hard thing to
do unless you have reached that conclusion yourself. But tell
me you haven't reached that conclusion. Tell me Shane Jones
is wrong. The dogs at this property in question apparently
terrorized people passing by, according to a neighbor, and pack
attacked a neighbor's dog. Dog control had been called. They
visited the property, but the dogs were left there and
(05:58):
then the dogs killed their owner. Mid last year, a
girl was attacked in a park in Titani by a
roaming dog. The dog was seized and then it was
released by the council. The dogs that attack should be killed.
Last year in Auckland, there were nearly six hundred reported
dog attacks. Only six dogs were killed. Now I realized
we love our pets very very much, and that's fair enough,
(06:19):
but we need to get way tougher when dogs are
dangerous or actually attack. We need to lower the bar
right down on what we accept. But I suspect that
before we can get tougher, and before we do lower
that bar, we need to get way less squeamish and
actually talk about it like it is a real option
to kill these dogs.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
You could probably make an argument that dogs like this
shouldn't be born in the first place as well. It's
one of these weird things everybody sort of knows what
has to happen. It's a bit like the whole vaping thing,
like you know, everybody knows that it should just be
a prescription only thing that people can only have them,
you know, giving up smoking. But for some reason that's
(06:58):
just too hard. And it's a bit like that with
you know, bad breeds of dogs. You know, I've got
a dog love. My dog is bullet of more than anybody. No,
he's only about half a foot tall, and you know
(07:19):
he'd cuddle you to death. That's her risque. But other
than that, So that's not the kind of dog we're
talking about, is it? And we all know what kind
of dog we're talking about. Why do those kinds of
dogs even exist in the first place, Let's stop breeding
them that for some reason anyway, that's the way we
live it, isn't it. I'm not sure what kind of
(07:40):
dog Tyler has that sounds like people are going to
be more worried about him than his dog.
Speaker 7 (07:46):
Had a lovely morning, fantastic morning. But I just want
to talk about dog friends, and these are so I've
been walking up Mount Albert Reserve that's very close to
where we live. Absolutely love it. But over the pastor
of five months since we've been there, you start to
interact with a whole bunch of other dog owners that
are there at the same time. So, in terms of
the actual doggie friends Pep has made, there's Arthur, he's
(08:08):
a lurcher, he's park greyhound, he's part Collie. There's Bruno
who's this massive husky mountain dog beast, but he's a
lovable character. Lola who's a little bit of a mutt,
but she's adorable. She's tiny, she's a mutt, but she
loves to run around with Pepper. But also the people
that you meet. I know nothing about the people that
I meet apart from their names. There's Term, there's Sarah.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Oh you know people's names as well.
Speaker 7 (08:31):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, so I know the people name. But
it's just what's lovely about it is we kind of
talk about the same things each time that we turn up.
How's Lola doing? What sort of breed is she?
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Again?
Speaker 7 (08:40):
How old is she?
Speaker 5 (08:41):
Now?
Speaker 2 (08:41):
You moved?
Speaker 4 (08:42):
You haven't taken it deeper with them?
Speaker 7 (08:43):
No, I haven't taken it deeper yet.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
But it's just like, that's interesting that because I know
lots of dogs names, but I don't ever learn the
names of the people because it seems it's much easier
to go.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
You know, you'll run into some.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
People randomly on a dog park and you go, oh,
what's your dog called? You talk about your dog, and
you find the dog's name and you remember that next time.
But it's quite a big step, So what's your name? Yeah,
you've got to make that transition kind of breed to you. Yeah,
you know, you've got a lovely coat, that kind of thing.
It's a lot to say to a human.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Yeah, Oh, that might be the coolest thing that I've
ever heard that, he say. Actually, I'm going to use
that to do. I think it's because my dog breed
is so embarrassing that I don't like it when people
ask me what, Yeah, they say, is that a full
cocker spaniel, which he obviously isn't because he's got short
little legs, and so I then have to say and
(09:31):
explain what a miniche lebrus boodle is. And at that point,
I mean, they're doing all they can not to just
laugh me for it. So next time I'm going to say,
just before I answered.
Speaker 7 (09:44):
That, what breed?
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Are you news talk z it bean?
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Is that just a dad joke? We're going to finish
up here, perhaps with the an early entry for dad
Jokes of the Year from from Marcus. I think he's
a licensed to tell them.
Speaker 8 (10:03):
People are mentioning the t twenty, but I'm pretty sure
Australia can still go to the final eight if they
buy tickets. I think that's the way that one works.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
There's a Cooller on talkback last night on the Overnight
Show who was taking issue with the fact that we
give Australia such a hard time in the wake of
them missing out on the next round of the T
twenty World Cup. I think he was the lone ranger.
(10:39):
I don't think anybody rang and the support him on that.
So yeah, as I say, that's definitely an early contender
for dead joke of the Year, plenty of the year
yet over ten months. In fact, yes, we've nearly had
two months. Sometimes I am a green hat. That has
(11:01):
been the obviously have been. We'll get a few more
February ones and we see you then.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
He's talk Bean. For more from Used Talk sed 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 said B.
Follow this and our wide range of podcasts now on
iHeartRadio Used Talk said B Talk.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Hello, my beautiful beanies, and welcome to the bean for
a Thursday. First with yesterday's news, I am Glen Hart,
and we are looking back at wednesday terrible dog attacks,
so the dangerous dog discussion for cold once more, the
T twenty World Cup. It's getting to the nitty gritty.
But first up, nobody's really going to be paying nine
(00:44):
dollars one way on the harb of bridge?
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Are they come on? Guys, you'll either need to be
a little bit rich, or as happens overseas, your employer
might pay for your car or or you to your
truck to crossover. But what about everybody else, Well, don't worry.
When they build the new bridge, it'll have bus lanes
or public transport options or trains on it as well,
so you can get public trans and that'll be cheaper.
(01:10):
Most people they reckon in this report will opt for
the alternative, the public transport, which is fine so long
as public transport suddenly becomes reliable and more linked up
and bus drivers aren't getting stabbed and bashed all the time,
which is currently the problem they have. The other point
here is is nine dollars actually that much money in
(01:32):
the scheme of things. People cross the harbor by ferry
for about that price every day, but there is a
cap on how much you pay over time, of course,
and usually you haven't got your car running costs and
your petrol et cetera, et cetera, so driving we'll basically
become a premium option. The question then becomes, do you
not build something like this because nine dollars? And the
(01:54):
answer is simple, of course you do. If we complain
about the cost of building stuff and never build a thing,
we will continue this death spiral that we've been in.
We need productivity, growth, infrastructure, all those good things, and
they don't come from nowhere. They come from good planned investment.
What we need is decent financial controls on the design
(02:14):
and construction. We need a government doing the budget rather
than the gold plated version, and then we need the
government to agree with the one that comes after it
that this is in the national interest. This is a
national interest project. Mess with the bridge and you mess
with us, and then it's simple. You just get on
and build the thing.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
I just the cost benefit thing is just so like, sorry, guys,
you've got to spend the money on this, And no,
we're not paying eighteen dollars a day to go to
work on top of how much we already pay to
go to work.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Who wants to.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Pay to go to work?
Speaker 4 (02:54):
That's why we go to work.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
We get paid.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
News talk Ze Bean Anyway, Kerry reflected probably a little
bit more calmly about this than I have been.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
So it is it's grim reading say. Successive governments are
at fault, and so are we voters. We want everything
done for us, and we want the government to pay
for it. We don't want to pay more in tax
though when we want the government to pay for it,
we want all the benefits our great grandparents had in
the sixties without willing to pay the sort of tax
they were paying in the sixties. We have to wake
(03:28):
up and be willing to vote for governments that are
going to make tough decisions. And to help us do that,
national and labor need to join forces, get together and
agree on the tough stuff. That the age of universal
super needs to go up, allowing for people to collect
(03:51):
less earlier. Sure, when you've got the tough jobs. But
you know, we can dither around this viere, but ultimately
that's what needs to happen. We need to agree on
an infrastructure program that will involve maintenance and building and
won't be subject to the whims of politics. We're going
(04:13):
to need to see more governance, less politicking. We need
that to start this election. Otherwise the main parties will
be fighting it out to govern a country that isn't
worth living in.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Do you reckon calling for less politicking in an election year?
Is are kind of a waste of breath? Oh bold call,
and I fully support it. But hmm, you's talk sav right.
So another horrendous dog attack means of course that this
(04:49):
more calls for I don't know what are we call
for here?
Speaker 6 (04:53):
Can I suggest to you that we are too squeamish
about the fact that we need to kill dangerous dogs.
Shane Jones was on the radio this morning being interviewed
about the morning to death of that woman in Northland yesterday,
and he said that we need to kill dangerous dogs
like his father's generation would do in Northland. They to
shoot them. The interviewer did not want to talk about that.
He wanted to talk about other things like desexing the
(05:14):
dogs or punishing the owners. Shane Jones had to say
about three or four times that dangerous dogs need to
be killed before the interviewer would even acknowledge that he
had said that. And then after the interview came out
a news report with the headline severe jail terms needed
for owners of dogs. Shane Jones says, yeah, he did
say that. He did say they need to go to jail.
He also said, though, that we need to kill the dogs.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Now.
Speaker 6 (05:37):
I'm not ripping on anyone here because I think saying
that out loud is actually a very hard thing to
do unless you have reached that conclusion yourself. But tell
me you haven't reached that conclusion. Tell me Shane Jones
is wrong. The dogs at this property in question apparently
terrorized people passing by, according to a neighbor, and pack
attacked a neighbor's dog. Dog control had been called. They
visited the property, but the dogs were left there and
(05:58):
then the dogs killed their owner. Mid last year, a
girl was attacked in a park in Titani by a
roaming dog. The dog was seized and then it was
released by the council. The dogs that attack should be killed.
Last year in Auckland, there were nearly six hundred reported
dog attacks. Only six dogs were killed. Now I realized
we love our pets very very much, and that's fair enough,
(06:19):
but we need to get way tougher when dogs are
dangerous or actually attack. We need to lower the bar
right down on what we accept. But I suspect that
before we can get tougher, and before we do lower
that bar, we need to get way less squeamish and
actually talk about it like it is a real option
to kill these dogs.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
You could probably make an argument that dogs like this
shouldn't be born in the first place as well. It's
one of these weird things everybody sort of knows what
has to happen. It's a bit like the whole vaping thing,
like you know, everybody knows that it should just be
a prescription only thing that people can only have them,
you know, giving up smoking. But for some reason that's
(06:58):
just too hard. And it's a bit like that with
you know, bad breeds of dogs. You know, I've got
a dog love. My dog is bullet of more than anybody. No,
he's only about half a foot tall, and you know
(07:19):
he'd cuddle you to death. That's her risque. But other
than that, So that's not the kind of dog we're
talking about, is it? And we all know what kind
of dog we're talking about. Why do those kinds of
dogs even exist in the first place, Let's stop breeding
them that for some reason anyway, that's the way we
live it, isn't it. I'm not sure what kind of
(07:40):
dog Tyler has that sounds like people are going to
be more worried about him than his dog.
Speaker 7 (07:46):
Had a lovely morning, fantastic morning. But I just want
to talk about dog friends, and these are so I've
been walking up Mount Albert Reserve that's very close to
where we live. Absolutely love it. But over the pastor
of five months since we've been there, you start to
interact with a whole bunch of other dog owners that
are there at the same time. So, in terms of
the actual doggie friends Pep has made, there's Arthur, he's
(08:08):
a lurcher, he's park greyhound, he's part Collie. There's Bruno
who's this massive husky mountain dog beast, but he's a
lovable character. Lola who's a little bit of a mutt,
but she's adorable. She's tiny, she's a mutt, but she
loves to run around with Pepper. But also the people
that you meet. I know nothing about the people that
I meet apart from their names. There's Term, there's Sarah.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Oh you know people's names as well.
Speaker 7 (08:31):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, so I know the people name. But
it's just what's lovely about it is we kind of
talk about the same things each time that we turn up.
How's Lola doing? What sort of breed is she?
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Again?
Speaker 7 (08:40):
How old is she?
Speaker 5 (08:41):
Now?
Speaker 2 (08:41):
You moved?
Speaker 4 (08:42):
You haven't taken it deeper with them?
Speaker 7 (08:43):
No, I haven't taken it deeper yet.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
But it's just like, that's interesting that because I know
lots of dogs names, but I don't ever learn the
names of the people because it seems it's much easier
to go.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
You know, you'll run into some.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
People randomly on a dog park and you go, oh,
what's your dog called? You talk about your dog, and
you find the dog's name and you remember that next time.
But it's quite a big step, So what's your name? Yeah,
you've got to make that transition kind of breed to you. Yeah,
you know, you've got a lovely coat, that kind of thing.
It's a lot to say to a human.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Yeah, Oh, that might be the coolest thing that I've
ever heard that, he say. Actually, I'm going to use
that to do. I think it's because my dog breed
is so embarrassing that I don't like it when people
ask me what, Yeah, they say, is that a full
cocker spaniel, which he obviously isn't because he's got short
little legs, and so I then have to say and
(09:31):
explain what a miniche lebrus boodle is. And at that point,
I mean, they're doing all they can not to just
laugh me for it. So next time I'm going to say,
just before I answered.
Speaker 7 (09:44):
That, what breed?
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Are you news talk z it bean?
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Is that just a dad joke? We're going to finish
up here, perhaps with the an early entry for dad
Jokes of the Year from from Marcus. I think he's
a licensed to tell them.
Speaker 8 (10:03):
People are mentioning the t twenty, but I'm pretty sure
Australia can still go to the final eight if they
buy tickets. I think that's the way that one works.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
There's a Cooller on talkback last night on the Overnight
Show who was taking issue with the fact that we
give Australia such a hard time in the wake of
them missing out on the next round of the T
twenty World Cup. I think he was the lone ranger.
(10:39):
I don't think anybody rang and the support him on that.
So yeah, as I say, that's definitely an early contender
for dead joke of the Year, plenty of the year
yet over ten months. In fact, yes, we've nearly had
two months. Sometimes I am a green hat. That has
(11:01):
been the obviously have been. We'll get a few more
February ones and we see you then.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
He's talk Bean. For more from Used Talk sed 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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