February 22, 2026 • 12 mins
FIRST WITH YESTERDAY'S NEWS (highlights from the weekend on Newstalk ZB) Literally Not In My Backyard/That Photo/Delicious Rugby Results/Singing and Saving the Language/Baz Bends Time
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
Used Talk said, be you Talk.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Hello, my beautiful beanies, and welcome to the bean The
weekend edition, first of yesterday's news I am Glean Hartney
are looking back at Sunday and survey because it does
take two days at least to make a weekend. Andrew
and the photo and all the dodgy dealings the Six
Nations has been interesting, I suppose, results wise, Milana not
(00:51):
the movie the Woman in New Music discussed and as
Lerman the one and only joined Francesca yesterday. But before
any of that, we're moving on the homeless. This is
the right thing to do.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
So how would you just describe the problem that this
legislation is actually addressing.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
Well, look, I mean, we've obviously, over the last couple
of years had a real focus on fixing the basics
in terms of restoring law and order, and we've done
sentencing reform, We've done with gang patches for the bands
and dealt with all those issues. But one thing that
consistently still comes up is people's concern around anti social
behavior in our town squares. In our main streets, particularly
(01:36):
not just an Orphan but all around the country. And
you know, New Zealand is a fair minded people. We
want to look after those who are most in need.
We do need to kind of reclaim our town centers
and city streets for the enjoyment of people who work there,
who live there and want to come and have some fun.
(01:57):
And that's the problem that we're trying to deal with.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
What do you say to critics who say, look, this
is just sweeping our social issues under the rug or
under a different rug.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
Well, I mean, if if if this was the only
thing we were doing about it, then that would be fair.
But of course it's not. You know, on behalf of
all New Zealanders, the government and there's hundreds of millions
of dollars on welfare programs, on the housing first policies
to get homeless people into a housing accommodation.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith fair so many sounds in touch
with the people, doesn't he? He doesn't have that vibe,
does he? He doesn't have He does sound a bit
sort of separated from A guy drives past homeless encampments,
encampments other than rather than go down there, shake a
(02:48):
few hands and find out what's going.
Speaker 6 (02:50):
On with them.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
I'm not saying that he should have to.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
Do that, but.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Is that interesting? It's an interesting discussion around this already
news talk, has it been now somebody who's completely out
of touch with reality and always has been, since even
before he was born as Andrew the former prince or
ex princes Fox Newscap's referring to him as and Yes,
that picture of him slashed down in the back seat
(03:21):
driving away from the police station the other day, that's
going to be one of the most famous texts of
all time, isn't it. I mean, even Jack Tame saw it.
Speaker 6 (03:31):
I thought the King's statement yesterday was excellent. Might he
have felt a kind of strange relief at having already
stripped his brother of his royal titles?
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Yep?
Speaker 6 (03:42):
Perhaps there are still plenty of valid questions about why
the palace didn't do a whole lot more, a whole
lot sooner. But the statement yesterday was strong and uncompromising.
He was equivocal. He continued with his He was unequivocal. Rather,
he continued with his engagement, which I thought was an
excellent call, and in the face of a reputational crisis
(04:07):
for the palace. The King was a vision of relative
stability in those first few hours. Who can say now
what indignities remain for Andrew Mountbatten Windsor. Of course he
insists he has done nothing wrong, but just take a
step back for a moment. He spent his sixty fifth
birthday in a palace and his sixty sixth in a
(04:30):
police station. Theoretically, if he is charged and convicted, he
could face time in prison. That photograph yesterday will endure.
The photograph of him being driven away after ours in
police custody cut a pitiful vision of a man, one
(04:51):
that very few people will forget. And from Andrew's perspective,
worse could yet still be to count.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Ah, what a sad world it is that we've managed
to creator whim that in an environment where people like
these could do the things that they did. And there's
a sneaking suspicion that stuff like this still goes on
in the upper echelons of whatever whatever it is. Let's
(05:24):
hope not to the scale or severity. But anyway, moving on,
you talk, Zian, some delicious rugby results over the weekend.
I mean, obviously the most significant is the Chiefs going
to and O, But nobody will talk about that Crusaders
(05:47):
getting absolutely dicked by the Rumbies yesterday. As much as
I hate seeing a New Zealand team beaten by an
Australian team, there's something about the Crusaders losing and the
way they did it was quite yummy and that yeah,
at anytime England loses, it's a bit the same, isn't.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
It makes me mildly surprised that you've taken my call, James.
Speaker 7 (06:11):
I think we're very lucky that I have actually picked
up the.
Speaker 8 (06:15):
Phone, because you've got me prepping silver for Italy France tomorrow,
so knee deep in research, I see your How can
I refuse you?
Speaker 7 (06:25):
Piney? How can I refuse to your call?
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Well? It is it's great to chair too. Forty two
twenty one Ireland over England at Twickenham. What was the
story of this game?
Speaker 7 (06:37):
It was It's a story of complete mental disintegration, isn't it.
It's it's stunning to see the drop in England and
the total lack of performance, the total lack of leadership
from an England team which was having Mari Returj celebrating
one hundred caps, Jamie George in the front row, another centurion.
(07:02):
It's just bewildering and astonishing and I don't know. I'm
not sure if five minutes on the blow is going
to get to the heart of it, because nobody saw
this coming, least of all England themselves, and that is
part of the problem.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Interesting that this might just be a rugby thing, not
just an All Blacks thing, that that they so often
that these teams seem to just truck on thinking that
they're heading in the right direction, completely oblivious to the
fact that other people have actually got some better ideas
(07:38):
and some better strategies and maybe some better administration. Just
throwing that out there. What watching that Crusaders game yesterday
and then they look like the All Blacks stumbling around
with no plan B, making the same mistakes and giving
away so many penalties. It was kind of worrying in
(08:01):
a way. As I say also Toatious, right, let's get
on to entertainment. That the that's pink, that paint and
turial pursuits. Milana. I guess she was formerly a Moha hunter,
(08:22):
wasn't she. Anyway, she joined Jack Names Tonday morning.
Speaker 6 (08:27):
It is so exciting that you and the tribe are
going to be performing at the Arts Festival. But this
is a bit of a different performance in that you
have some friends.
Speaker 9 (08:36):
I have many friends. I've got a little bit carried
away Jack. There is a cast of thousands on stage.
My dear friend Patty Free is a little bit nervous.
But I do have two special guests coming in from overseas.
My last album, or Not was a collaboration with indigenous
vocalist singing in their language while Scotty and I performed
(08:58):
in Mardi. So I've reached out and I've got Comka
Kanaka Orlia coming in from Hawaii and she sings in
her native She's been a champion in terms of helping
reclaim the language. She's a school teacher as well as
are some members of my group. And Shellie Morris, who
(09:18):
sings in jan you Are. She's actually she was an
Australian of the Year a couple of years ago, and
she's used music to sort of put on records some
languages that are endangered. She's just done amazing and she
tells me she gets so nervous singing around the Aunties
because they've given her the evils and yeah, so I'm
really excited to have them come and join it.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Are nothing worse than an auntie giving you the evils
that could be worth going to just to see that happening.
Speaker 10 (09:47):
News talk z it been.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
We're going to finish up here with Baz Luhrmann, responsible
for some of the most amazing certainly the most amazing
looking movies going, and after doing that movie about Elvis,
he's now going to movie Elvis.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
When I heard that you were calling it Epoch, I thought, oh,
that's quite bold, but after seeing it, it is epoch.
The footage is absolutely incredible. So can you tell me
how you found it and where you found it?
Speaker 10 (10:23):
Look the quick short part of it, and I'll try
and be really quick because I really want to get
a very exciting part of it that made it all
come to live, which was actually in New Zealand in
the time I was spending Wellington. But what I do
want to say is I'm making Elvis the movie. I
hear from a guy called ernsch Augenstein and he's like
the number one absolute anything Elvis redone. He's the guy,
(10:45):
here's the got He's the best. And he says, you know,
there's rumors of this lost footage when they shot the
Vegas show. So I know, I go like, well, maybe
I can use it in the movie. So I get
because I got the funds. It's so expensive to go
into the salt mines. It's literally kept in the salt
mines underground in Kansas City to stop it from rotting.
(11:07):
I have the money, I say, go look for it
because maybe I'll use it in the showroom. Get there,
and I didn't actually go there, but I start getting
photographs of like in the MGM Bolts, boxes and boxes
and boxes of footage, right, so we get it out
and it ends up being like I mean, fifty nine
hours of footage.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Oh that's very triggering for me. It sounds a bit
like having to edit the Radio Awards every year, where
I've got to take a whole year's worth of the
Mike Husking great persons to wash it down into a
ten minute audio entry. I feel you, there's I feel
your pain. I am a green heart. That was how
(11:45):
I squashed a weekend into just under twelve minutes. Basically
what I do. I'm sort of a time lord in
many ways. Thank you for me, and we'll see you
back here again tomorrow. And by tomorrow that's meaningless because
this is podcast. When you might be listening to this
dozens of years into the future. It was a year
(12:08):
today from long time ago. Really borrow see how I
did it. I did that again, twisting time, just like that.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Edric used Talking Talking zid beam for more from Used
Talk zed 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.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Used Talk said, be you Talk.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Hello, my beautiful beanies, and welcome to the bean The
weekend edition, first of yesterday's news I am Glean Hartney
are looking back at Sunday and survey because it does
take two days at least to make a weekend. Andrew
and the photo and all the dodgy dealings the Six
Nations has been interesting, I suppose, results wise, Milana not
(00:51):
the movie the Woman in New Music discussed and as
Lerman the one and only joined Francesca yesterday. But before
any of that, we're moving on the homeless. This is
the right thing to do.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
So how would you just describe the problem that this
legislation is actually addressing.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
Well, look, I mean, we've obviously, over the last couple
of years had a real focus on fixing the basics
in terms of restoring law and order, and we've done
sentencing reform, We've done with gang patches for the bands
and dealt with all those issues. But one thing that
consistently still comes up is people's concern around anti social
behavior in our town squares. In our main streets, particularly
(01:36):
not just an Orphan but all around the country. And
you know, New Zealand is a fair minded people. We
want to look after those who are most in need.
We do need to kind of reclaim our town centers
and city streets for the enjoyment of people who work there,
who live there and want to come and have some fun.
(01:57):
And that's the problem that we're trying to deal with.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
What do you say to critics who say, look, this
is just sweeping our social issues under the rug or
under a different rug.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
Well, I mean, if if if this was the only
thing we were doing about it, then that would be fair.
But of course it's not. You know, on behalf of
all New Zealanders, the government and there's hundreds of millions
of dollars on welfare programs, on the housing first policies
to get homeless people into a housing accommodation.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith fair so many sounds in touch
with the people, doesn't he? He doesn't have that vibe,
does he? He doesn't have He does sound a bit
sort of separated from A guy drives past homeless encampments,
encampments other than rather than go down there, shake a
(02:48):
few hands and find out what's going.
Speaker 6 (02:50):
On with them.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
I'm not saying that he should have to.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
Do that, but.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Is that interesting? It's an interesting discussion around this already
news talk, has it been now somebody who's completely out
of touch with reality and always has been, since even
before he was born as Andrew the former prince or
ex princes Fox Newscap's referring to him as and Yes,
that picture of him slashed down in the back seat
(03:21):
driving away from the police station the other day, that's
going to be one of the most famous texts of
all time, isn't it. I mean, even Jack Tame saw it.
Speaker 6 (03:31):
I thought the King's statement yesterday was excellent. Might he
have felt a kind of strange relief at having already
stripped his brother of his royal titles?
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Yep?
Speaker 6 (03:42):
Perhaps there are still plenty of valid questions about why
the palace didn't do a whole lot more, a whole
lot sooner. But the statement yesterday was strong and uncompromising.
He was equivocal. He continued with his He was unequivocal. Rather,
he continued with his engagement, which I thought was an
excellent call, and in the face of a reputational crisis
(04:07):
for the palace. The King was a vision of relative
stability in those first few hours. Who can say now
what indignities remain for Andrew Mountbatten Windsor. Of course he
insists he has done nothing wrong, but just take a
step back for a moment. He spent his sixty fifth
birthday in a palace and his sixty sixth in a
(04:30):
police station. Theoretically, if he is charged and convicted, he
could face time in prison. That photograph yesterday will endure.
The photograph of him being driven away after ours in
police custody cut a pitiful vision of a man, one
(04:51):
that very few people will forget. And from Andrew's perspective,
worse could yet still be to count.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Ah, what a sad world it is that we've managed
to creator whim that in an environment where people like
these could do the things that they did. And there's
a sneaking suspicion that stuff like this still goes on
in the upper echelons of whatever whatever it is. Let's
(05:24):
hope not to the scale or severity. But anyway, moving on,
you talk, Zian, some delicious rugby results over the weekend.
I mean, obviously the most significant is the Chiefs going
to and O, But nobody will talk about that Crusaders
(05:47):
getting absolutely dicked by the Rumbies yesterday. As much as
I hate seeing a New Zealand team beaten by an
Australian team, there's something about the Crusaders losing and the
way they did it was quite yummy and that yeah,
at anytime England loses, it's a bit the same, isn't.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
It makes me mildly surprised that you've taken my call, James.
Speaker 7 (06:11):
I think we're very lucky that I have actually picked
up the.
Speaker 8 (06:15):
Phone, because you've got me prepping silver for Italy France tomorrow,
so knee deep in research, I see your How can
I refuse you?
Speaker 7 (06:25):
Piney? How can I refuse to your call?
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Well? It is it's great to chair too. Forty two
twenty one Ireland over England at Twickenham. What was the
story of this game?
Speaker 7 (06:37):
It was It's a story of complete mental disintegration, isn't it.
It's it's stunning to see the drop in England and
the total lack of performance, the total lack of leadership
from an England team which was having Mari Returj celebrating
one hundred caps, Jamie George in the front row, another centurion.
(07:02):
It's just bewildering and astonishing and I don't know. I'm
not sure if five minutes on the blow is going
to get to the heart of it, because nobody saw
this coming, least of all England themselves, and that is
part of the problem.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Interesting that this might just be a rugby thing, not
just an All Blacks thing, that that they so often
that these teams seem to just truck on thinking that
they're heading in the right direction, completely oblivious to the
fact that other people have actually got some better ideas
(07:38):
and some better strategies and maybe some better administration. Just
throwing that out there. What watching that Crusaders game yesterday
and then they look like the All Blacks stumbling around
with no plan B, making the same mistakes and giving
away so many penalties. It was kind of worrying in
(08:01):
a way. As I say also Toatious, right, let's get
on to entertainment. That the that's pink, that paint and
turial pursuits. Milana. I guess she was formerly a Moha hunter,
(08:22):
wasn't she. Anyway, she joined Jack Names Tonday morning.
Speaker 6 (08:27):
It is so exciting that you and the tribe are
going to be performing at the Arts Festival. But this
is a bit of a different performance in that you
have some friends.
Speaker 9 (08:36):
I have many friends. I've got a little bit carried
away Jack. There is a cast of thousands on stage.
My dear friend Patty Free is a little bit nervous.
But I do have two special guests coming in from overseas.
My last album, or Not was a collaboration with indigenous
vocalist singing in their language while Scotty and I performed
(08:58):
in Mardi. So I've reached out and I've got Comka
Kanaka Orlia coming in from Hawaii and she sings in
her native She's been a champion in terms of helping
reclaim the language. She's a school teacher as well as
are some members of my group. And Shellie Morris, who
(09:18):
sings in jan you Are. She's actually she was an
Australian of the Year a couple of years ago, and
she's used music to sort of put on records some
languages that are endangered. She's just done amazing and she
tells me she gets so nervous singing around the Aunties
because they've given her the evils and yeah, so I'm
really excited to have them come and join it.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Are nothing worse than an auntie giving you the evils
that could be worth going to just to see that happening.
Speaker 10 (09:47):
News talk z it been.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
We're going to finish up here with Baz Luhrmann, responsible
for some of the most amazing certainly the most amazing
looking movies going, and after doing that movie about Elvis,
he's now going to movie Elvis.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
When I heard that you were calling it Epoch, I thought, oh,
that's quite bold, but after seeing it, it is epoch.
The footage is absolutely incredible. So can you tell me
how you found it and where you found it?
Speaker 10 (10:23):
Look the quick short part of it, and I'll try
and be really quick because I really want to get
a very exciting part of it that made it all
come to live, which was actually in New Zealand in
the time I was spending Wellington. But what I do
want to say is I'm making Elvis the movie. I
hear from a guy called ernsch Augenstein and he's like
the number one absolute anything Elvis redone. He's the guy,
(10:45):
here's the got He's the best. And he says, you know,
there's rumors of this lost footage when they shot the
Vegas show. So I know, I go like, well, maybe
I can use it in the movie. So I get
because I got the funds. It's so expensive to go
into the salt mines. It's literally kept in the salt
mines underground in Kansas City to stop it from rotting.
(11:07):
I have the money, I say, go look for it
because maybe I'll use it in the showroom. Get there,
and I didn't actually go there, but I start getting
photographs of like in the MGM Bolts, boxes and boxes
and boxes of footage, right, so we get it out
and it ends up being like I mean, fifty nine
hours of footage.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Oh that's very triggering for me. It sounds a bit
like having to edit the Radio Awards every year, where
I've got to take a whole year's worth of the
Mike Husking great persons to wash it down into a
ten minute audio entry. I feel you, there's I feel
your pain. I am a green heart. That was how
(11:45):
I squashed a weekend into just under twelve minutes. Basically
what I do. I'm sort of a time lord in
many ways. Thank you for me, and we'll see you
back here again tomorrow. And by tomorrow that's meaningless because
this is podcast. When you might be listening to this
dozens of years into the future. It was a year
(12:08):
today from long time ago. Really borrow see how I
did it. I did that again, twisting time, just like that.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Edric used Talking Talking zid beam for more from Used
Talk zed b. Listen live on air or online, and
keep our shows with you wherever you go with our
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