All Episodes

April 21, 2026 14 mins

FIRST WITH YESTERDAY'S NEWS (highlights from Tuesday on Newstalk ZB) Wrong Leader Fights Another Day/NZ First Should Shut Up and Go Back to Where it Came From/Crying Weather Wolf/On the Chopping Block... or Blocks/Dude, Where's Marcus' Car

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
Transcript

Episode Transcript

Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
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 talk.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Now, I'm like beautiful beanies, and welcome to the being
for Wednesday. First of yesterday's news. I am Glen Hart
and we're looking back at Tuesday. So yeah, I don't
know why anybody's surprised about New Zealand first pumping out
the anti immigration talk. Happens with re election. It is
quite amazing, the goldfish memory of the electorate in general,

(00:45):
but an able cover that. Georgie weather preparedness, the irony
of weekend before last, you know, the cyclone that you
know it was bad in some places. That wasn't you know,
apocalyptic as opposed to the weather that we've had in
Wellington that nobody saw coming. Chopping board talk with Matt

(01:11):
and Tyler, and we'll finish up with Marcus losing his car.
But before any of that, yes, so lux And said, hey,
let's just put this to a vote, shall we, and
then hopefully put it to bed.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
Do you think that'll work?

Speaker 2 (01:23):
Will not have father keep staying with fire.

Speaker 4 (01:26):
Leadership votes are always a big risk. They are always
a guess. It doesn't matter what the MPs say to you,
doesn't matter if they say they're going to support you
when it comes down to it, and it's a secret ballot,
it's always a roll of the dice, and it takes
real steel to do that.

Speaker 5 (01:39):
And he had it.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
Now.

Speaker 6 (01:41):
Question of courses?

Speaker 4 (01:42):
Is that it right? Is it going to be quiet
all the way through to November's election? He's going to
be the leader, nothing more to say. Not necessarily, I
think this increases his chances of staying the leader because
it has to have killed off any of the spill
momentum that his detractors might have had, at least for now,
and it has to have lifted his confidence, and that
in turn has to lift his media performance, surely to god.

(02:03):
But ultimately none of that actually really matters, because it's
the polls that determine future. And if National keeps on
this downward trend that they've been on for two years,
and if it goes down another two percent, let's say,
and is sitting on twenty seven points something in the
next few weeks, all this is just going to start
up again because more MPs will stand to lose their
jobs and they will get freaked out and they'll start

(02:24):
the chatter again. But what this does is number one,
it buys them a significant amount of time to lift
those polls. And two, it has to earn him a
grudging respect from his MPs who now have to look
at this and say that he is more of a
formidable opponent than they may have thought he was. And

(02:46):
even if it's just a grudging respect for calling the
bluff of the leakers, that is what he has done.
It turns out they never had the numbers that they
pretended they had.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
It's you've got to hand it to hear that chiefs
super critical of lux and his leader as a national party. Obviously,
I not quite sure how that feels when you have
to then interview him, when you have to interview him
for either of them. Actually, at that point, I suppose
it's no different to Nike interview and Chris Pipkins about anything.
I suppose it's this funny old thing, isn't it, politics

(03:18):
news talk ze Bean. What I find less funny is
racist anti immigration policy really annoys me, and it, yes,
I just hate it, and I don't understand why anybody
would ever vote for a party that promotes them.

Speaker 7 (03:35):
Take away migrants from our economy, and the thing pretty
much falls apart. This is not Europe, where they are
overrun with boats and expensive hotel bills to house the passengers.
This is not the US, where illegal immigration and migrants
poured across a porous border until Trump came along. This
is New Zealand, separated from the rest of the world
by quite a large ocean called the Pacific and a

(03:58):
rather fussy policy, thank you very much. When it comes
to who comes here and why. If you look at
the numbers, they tell you we're doing a pretty good
job of migration. KWI migrants are less likely claim a benefit,
more likely to be employed, children, have better education outcomes
than native born New Zealanders. The idea that they steal
jobs from US doesn't stack up either, because an economy

(04:19):
doesn't have a cap on the number of jobs available.
Of course, job growth happens when demand increases, and migration
equals increased demand. Plus, they're more likely to take initiative
and start businesses, which you guessed it, actually employ people.
Migrants tend to be younger, so they contribute more to
taxes than the native born Kiwis. They also do jobs

(04:40):
that many of US think we're above just look at
those on the dole in the regions. Housing and hospitals
can be a problem, I concede, but that's a job
that can be fixed with better planning, laws, fewer regulations
and investment in health. So back to Marta Shane and
is but a chicken tsunami? Actually, the India FDA, as
far as we can tell, would allow just five thousand

(05:03):
three year visas at any one time. That is just
six percent of accredited employee work visas issued in a year.
By the way, ninety percent of those will be for
jobs that we've got shortages and engineers, it professionals, teachers.
This looks a bit like a beat up from Uncle Shane,
I have to say. And as for the colorful language,
actually most Keywis don't mind a bit of but a chicken,

(05:25):
thank you very much.

Speaker 2 (05:28):
Yeah, I mean Jones is entertaining until he isn't. Kind
of like Ricky Gervais, you know, stay in your lane.
You can't just say random stuff about everything, because so
lad some things need to be taken out of a

(05:48):
little bit. Seriously, you talk right, very rough weather in
the last few days for Wellington encaus. Thanks for the
warning guys. Oh no, there wasn't really one, was there?

Speaker 6 (05:59):
Sure enough? At ten o'clock that evening, the power went
off and I knew what and I was ready. And
the power stayed off until the next afternoon, round about
four o'clock it came back on. And thank you very
much to the North par team for working in nasty
conditions on a Sunday restoring power to the hookyanger. And

(06:21):
I don't have that much common sense. Nobody would ever
if I had to be summed up at my funeral,
say well, there was a girl with common sense. I
don't have that much of it. And you don't actually
need that much to get yourself ready. I don't want
to be helpless, and I don't want it to be dependent
on other people. I was up there on my own,

(06:45):
so I made sure that I could look after myself
to the best of my ability. It takes very little money,
very little effort, very little time, and, as it turns out,
not that much common sense to be prepared. And am
I the last person in the world to use a barometer?
I really think every home should have one, because if
you're not listening to the radio or you're not watching

(07:06):
the television news, or the cell phone tiers go down
and you can't look at the apps on your phone.
There are so many ways you can keep yourself informed.
Then you've got the barometer. They've been around since sixteen
forty five and have been accurate since then and still
are today. And when you look at that barometer plummeting down,

(07:28):
you know that the weather is going to change for
the worst, so you get yourself ready. I really think
we need to drive home the message that it's not
met service's fault if you are flooded out of your home.
They didn't cause the deluge. They cannot predict which house
in which street will be flooded. That's unfair to expect

(07:50):
them to do that. There are so many ways we
can keep ourselves informed, even the good old fashioned barometer,
which I absolutely swear by. Do not just sit there
waiting for people to tell you what to do and
when to do it. Use the brains and the common sense.

Speaker 5 (08:13):
That the good.

Speaker 6 (08:15):
Gods gave you, and stop blaming other people for natural
events that can't possibly be pinpointed to your personal address.

Speaker 2 (08:24):
Yeah, yeah, I do feel like there's a bit of
fine tuning that needs to happen though, because you know,
with the cyclone warning, you know everybody was about to die. Basically,
it was the impression that we got and I don't
recall hearing anybody about you. Grab your snorkel if you
live in Wellington anyway, use your right. It's time to

(08:52):
head back to the afternoon show. And once again, same question,
really with Matt and Tyler. Are these adult men really
able to function and adult life with the rest of us?

Speaker 8 (09:06):
How long would you keep a chopping board for for life? Yeah,
generational chopping boards, yep.

Speaker 5 (09:11):
One thing you don't do is put them through the
dish washer. What do you mean you don't put them
through the dish washer. If it's wooden, you don't put
it through the dishwa Why what happens?

Speaker 2 (09:18):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (09:19):
Okay, well I do that anyway.

Speaker 8 (09:21):
So plastic, it's something about getting making it crack so
more stuff gets inside it. Okay, yeah, okay, that has
happened to a count of the wooden boards. But the
reason I asked this question is I think chopping boards
are there for life. They hand me down, whether that's plastic,
whether that's that's wooden, whatever it is. But I turned
up yesterday and a lovely, lovely partner mate, she.

Speaker 5 (09:41):
Chucked out half of them. Really, I was furious, So
what do you mean you chucked out their chopping boards?

Speaker 8 (09:45):
We've only got three now, and I know that sounds
like a lot, but I like to have you.

Speaker 7 (09:49):
Your chopping board, rich mate.

Speaker 8 (09:50):
I like to have a good seven chopping boards on
my sleeve because I chop a lot. But I just
thought that is something you have for life. That was
one of those was handed down from my grandmother. I mean,
I don't think she cared about the chopping board. It
was just in a box and I said, I'll take
that right. Wow, that does seem like a lot of
chopping boards. If the seven, when does he kicked them
all because they were chopping board covered?

Speaker 2 (10:15):
I mean, we've got four. We've got four chopping boards,
two smaller ones that we really only used as for
putting hot hoots on. And I'm which I don't fully
understand because I'm pretty sure our bench top is impervious
to heat damage. But I guess you don't want to

(10:37):
take the rest for you. So if a hot pot
is to go on the bench, that goes on one over,
so that don't really count and those are the ones
that I'll use for cutting out fruit on too, because
you don't want to be cutting fruit on the same
chopping board as onions and garlic and that sort of stuff.
Do you nothing worse than onion? E galugy slice of apple?
But actually, I'm going to take it back about my

(11:03):
grown men adult comments I said about Tyler about earlier.
This is an interesting topic. I've decided news talk has
it been course? The king of setting up interesting topics
is Marcus lush Uh. Great one, great one last night
which sort of reached back to the previous night.

Speaker 3 (11:22):
Last night a woman who car stolen, And because I
am familiar with the phenic alphabet, I'm pretty sure it
was Romeo November Yankee thirty one that was the car
that was stole. It was a Zuzuki. Now, I wish

(11:42):
I could turn on the microphone tonight and give you
good news about that car. However, someone has gone on
the police Darter base. No stolen car has been reported,
so we suspect the car has been towed, which would
probably ring true, wouldn't it. I think you're more likely
to have your car toad than stolen. That would be

(12:03):
my take so that's what we thinks happened there. Tell
me otherwise if you've got it. Have you ever lost
a car? I have people friends who have lost cars
in big cities. It happens with small town people. I
don't say that disparagingly, but people have gone and parked
a car. Christ Church is always bad for it. I

(12:23):
don't know this was going to be the topic. I've
parked in a car park in christ Church and wandered
round and round to find it, and it is a
despairing thing to lose your car. And I had the
key that could click the remote, so I've got that
high up in my hand, clicking, clicking, clicking, clicking. I

(12:44):
don't know if it's on the wrong level or quite
what it was, but yes, and I suspect that this
person hasn't lost their car. It's been towed. So that's
not a happy update for you. The one.

Speaker 2 (12:52):
I have my car toad once and my first thought
was that it had been stolen. It's hard to know
what's worse, having your car stolen or having your car
toad depends on the car. I did have a car
stolen once as well, but it had a walkhead gasket

(13:16):
and so I was quite pleased when it got stolen
because I was hoping to be able to disclaim the
insurance to get a new car. And then they found it.
They found the car, and of course the fees had
driven it until they'd blown the head gasket and one

(13:38):
of my grandfathers farly on a fair way down the
Parkinson's Dementia Road. Unfortunately, he it seemed to be a
weekly occurrence that he would drive into town and then
walk home forgetting that he'd driven into town, or have

(14:00):
to get a ride home or a bus home or
a taxi or whatever, because he couldn't literally coldn't remember
even remotely. We read pack the car. Those are definitely
the guys of people you want driving around and they
I am a glen Hat, the driver of this podcast.
I'll pull up into your audio driveway tomorrow for more.

(14:23):
Did that work as a as a metaphor similar or whatever?
Those things are an analogy probably not.

Speaker 1 (14:29):
Used Talking talkings it Bean for more from us, talk
said b listen live on air or online and keep
our shows with you wherever you go with our podcast
on iHeartRadio
Advertise With Us

Popular Podcasts

Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang

Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang

Ding dong! Join your culture consultants, Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang, on an unforgettable journey into the beating heart of CULTURE. Alongside sizzling special guests, they GET INTO the hottest pop-culture moments of the day and the formative cultural experiences that turned them into Culturistas. Produced by the Big Money Players Network and iHeartRadio.

Bleep! with Ana Navarro

Bleep! with Ana Navarro

Fear thrives in silence and confusion. Ana Navarro rejects both. Her voice is an antidote to today’s chaos. Her new podcast, Bleep! with Ana Navarro, takes on today’s most pressing issues with the voices most connected to it: decision-makers, political leaders, cultural shapers, and people on the frontlines of the story. The conversations acknowledge the emotions we all feel—despair, sadness, fear— but emerge with knowledge, perspective, and hope. The belief is simple: fearless dialogue can transform fear into courage, and courage into change. When fear dominates the headlines, this show digs deeper. Because information, debate, and conversation don’t just ease fear, they give us power to shape the future.

Hey Jonas!

Hey Jonas!

Hey Jonas! The official Jonas Brothers podcast. Hosted by Kevin, Joe, and Nick Jonas. It’s the Jonas Brothers you know... musicians, actors, and well, yes, brothers. Now, they’re sharing another side of themselves in the playful, intimate, and irreverent way only they can. Spend time with the Jonas Brothers here and stay a little bit longer for deep conversations like never before.

Music, radio and podcasts, all free. Listen online or download the iHeart App.

Connect

© 2026 iHeartMedia, Inc.

  • Help
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Use
  • AdChoicesAd Choices