February 11, 2025 • 10 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
Hello, my beautiful beanies, and welcome to the bean for Wednesday.
First with yesterday's news. I am Glen Hart and we
are looking back at Tuesday. How can you be the
mayor of a town you don't live in.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Or just know? He drives our like Cambridge Moore?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Speaking of rowers, is it kosher to have old rowers
in your high school rowing team?
Speaker 3 (00:54):
But weird, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (00:56):
But first, up holes and driving land drovers, up the
steps of Parliament.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Up a couple of steps of Parliament.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Anyway, so far, so on track, and Luxon can say,
for heaven's sake, Bill, I'm doing the best I can.
I'm doing what I said I would do. But then
we have all the distractions and the simmering resentments the
Treaty Principles Bill, that fairy debarcle. I mean, we used
to give labor jip for announcements of announcements. That was
(01:28):
the king of all announcements of announcements. We've got David Seymour,
and then we've got the platitudes from the Prime Minister.
I don't know how many times you can say, I
get it. It's tough. I hear you. We're working on it.
We've got a really good discussion group coming up. But
you know, then you see Trump come into office and
(01:49):
and with a couple of hours he does what we
wanted the new government to do, and they still haven't
done it, and it's been yeah, over a year. Trump
does it in a matter of ours, And so we
grizzle and so we moan, like the kids in the
back of the car and the Prime Minister dad the
(02:12):
driver seize with resentment. I'm going as fast as I
can and it'll be great when we get there. You
are grateful riches. And in the meantime, the opposition parties, who,
if I'm going to stretch the analogy even further, are
the hoons in the laying outside of us and their
(02:33):
unregistered car, not licensed to drive. They toot the horn,
give us the fingers and think, wonder when those kids
want to get in the car with us.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Yeah, I'm that uncomfortable with the dad in the driver's seat.
Analogy there because my dad, you still always had to
see scene it rufe. He couldn't help himself. If there
was a long way, that's the way he'd go. And
I don't think that that is I don't think the voters.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Are going to love that news talk ze.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Been Anywait, how does Ryan Bridge see it?
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Has he been complaining from the backseat as well? Let's
find out.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
If we're wondering why our politicians keep doing weird, stunty stuff,
we need look no further than the system that we
use to elect them. First week back in the House
for twenty twenty five, it was the Mexican standoff. Remember that,
the shouting at foreign born MPs in the House. The
whole fiasco from New Zealand first dragged out for more
than a week. This week it's axe turn. David Seymour
(03:39):
wants some spotlight, so he's driven a land drover up
the steps of Parliament. Make no mistake, these are intentional
publicity stunts from our two minor government partners. They're designed
to keep the names of their leaders in the headlines.
Disappear from public and you might just disappear from Parliament.
Just ask Winston after one term with Heleno five to eight,
(04:01):
and again we just send it from seventeen to twenty
that is the problem with our political system. We don't
tend to reward ministers for being just good ministers, do
we We reward them for being good campaigners. We use
the Winstons of the world as either handbrakes or training
wheels for bigger parties. But once we're done with them,
(04:22):
the five percent threshold can crush them into irrelevance like
Judith Collins would a Subaru WRX. So we shouldn't be
surprised that our minor parties act out in the way
that they do. They're just reminding us that they're there
and in eighteen months time they'll need your vote again,
thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Actually, that would have been cool if Gooth Collins had
turned out instead of the security guy.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
And crushed the landrover. That there would have been the
old I don't.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Know, I'm not saying with David Seymour in it don't
get carried away.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
But have certainly got some attention for his charity that
he was doing it for.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Though us talk sid.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Anyway, Poles, why aren't they just sort of.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
A meaningless when we were literally at the opposite end
of the election cycle at the moment, aren't we We're
about as far away from an election as we can be.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
At the beginning of the middle year of a three
year term. So what's the point of them and why
would you do one?
Speaker 6 (05:31):
We're talking about polls. Do you take any notice of poles,
particularly eighteen months out on the back of course of
three consecutive poles showing a bit of a dip for
the current government and a bit of a boost for
the opposition. I wait under an eighty ten? Eighty is
the number?
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Call the Texas says.
Speaker 7 (05:46):
Whenever I get a call at ID, I always answer
with it's done, there's blood everywhere, or New Zealand Defense
Force want to fight?
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Then hang up?
Speaker 6 (05:54):
I love that.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
That's great.
Speaker 7 (05:56):
I used to get when I got scam calls back
in the day, or calls that are cold, cause I'd
always put my two year old son on and head
go hanging and just talk to them and tell them
about movies and stuff. Is a real talker. And then
they go they want to talk to your dad, and
I say, no, you go, and they just you just
leave that kid punishing their caller for us. And and
you know, a two and a half year old kid
can punish a cold caller for a long time.
Speaker 6 (06:17):
And how long did the cold caller go? They keep
just trying and put your dad on. No, no, you're
talking to me dad.
Speaker 7 (06:22):
They want to talk to you. No, No, I tell
them about finding Nemo, the fashion, the big water in the.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Fish, Those poor cold callers. Man. I used to have
a flatmate who you know.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
You'd answer the phone and they'd say can they have
a minute of your time? And you'd say short, time
starts now, and they would start on their spiel and
then he'd literally after exactly sixty secrets and say, times
are so Yeah. Always thought that was quite funny. From
(06:55):
nationwide politics to regional politics have come.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
How can you be the mirror of somewhere where you
don't want? That's pretty unusual, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
What are you to, Mahidrosdale telling people in Tarongo that
they're allowed unfluoridated water while you live in the more
civilized land of Cambridge.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Sure it's always been floridated.
Speaker 8 (07:18):
Now, people of Todong about the whole situation with your
mayor not moving to Todonga from Cambridge because he can't
find the right house and the right zone. Shouldn't you
have said that before he stood for MEA there was
contingent on him.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Finding the right house.
Speaker 8 (07:39):
I don't get it and I can't work out way
has it rented somewhere in the interim.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
It's so weird.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
I've spent half my life trying to find an excuse
to move to Totongo or at least the mount not
finding reasons not to move there.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Very strange news talk has it been?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Is this just something to do with being a rower?
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Like? What's with all these basically adult complete relations still
beyond the high school rowing team?
Speaker 3 (08:11):
A bit old, isn't it now?
Speaker 9 (08:13):
It only took nearly twenty years to address, but high
school rowing teams will no longer be able to have
year fourteen students and their crews. So these were young
people in their sixth year of secondary school, and of
course having those guys in they gave their crews an
advantage because it had an extra year of training and development.
They're old, they were bigger, and it's been a bugbear
(08:34):
of many schools wanting a level playing field, and they've
been finding this for twenty years. On many of the
year fourteens were back at school finishing their academic work
because their good rowers and they wanted to take advantage
of rowing Schottish overseas, but they needed to up their
academic marks, so they went back to school. But their
schools there still included them in their rep crews, because
(08:55):
why not, don't look a gift elephant in the mouth.
Critics of that decision said the problem was not just
the young adults themselves, the year fourteens, but also all
the others at the school who missed out on a
place in the boat because the year fourteens were there.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
Now.
Speaker 9 (09:11):
The first moves to police the practice involved putting age
limits on rowing crews, but it still saw some year
fourteen students with birthdays just after the cutoff competing. But
while they were technically the right age, they still brought
an advantage of an extra year's training. So now finally
the year fourteens are gone, and that's a good thing.
(09:32):
It stopped the attitude of schools who believed and win
at any cost. It's returned fairness in sport, and it
was good decision making because it showed that those struggling
with rules on say transgender athletes who've been through puberty,
that it is actually possible to be fair if you're
clear minded and decisive I just I mean.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
I felt weird enough as it was in the seventh form,
back in the old days, when they kicked me out
of school while I went into what they called the
transition to work class, like the world experience class. And
I only really did that so I I could stay
in the school orchestra and the choir and do the
(10:15):
school show, obviously, because I felt that it would be
weird for me to do those things if I wasn't
going to school at all. And also I don't think
I would have been allowed to, but maybe I would
have been, because listen, year, why.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Do you just want to stay at school for the
rest of your life?
Speaker 4 (10:38):
It's so.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Can I hate to get out of there. I am
Glen hat. That has been news school zaid being come
back tomorrow. It doesn't matter what age you are. Everyone's welcome,
even if you live in Changers.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
News Talking Talking zid bean For more from News Talk
Said 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 be
follow this and our wide range of podcasts now on iHeartRadio,
Used Talk, sed Talk.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Hello, my beautiful beanies, and welcome to the bean for Wednesday.
First with yesterday's news. I am Glen Hart and we
are looking back at Tuesday. How can you be the
mayor of a town you don't live in.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Or just know? He drives our like Cambridge Moore?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Speaking of rowers, is it kosher to have old rowers
in your high school rowing team?
Speaker 3 (00:54):
But weird, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (00:56):
But first, up holes and driving land drovers, up the
steps of Parliament.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Up a couple of steps of Parliament.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Anyway, so far, so on track, and Luxon can say,
for heaven's sake, Bill, I'm doing the best I can.
I'm doing what I said I would do. But then
we have all the distractions and the simmering resentments the
Treaty Principles Bill, that fairy debarcle. I mean, we used
to give labor jip for announcements of announcements. That was
(01:28):
the king of all announcements of announcements. We've got David Seymour,
and then we've got the platitudes from the Prime Minister.
I don't know how many times you can say, I
get it. It's tough. I hear you. We're working on it.
We've got a really good discussion group coming up. But
you know, then you see Trump come into office and
(01:49):
and with a couple of hours he does what we
wanted the new government to do, and they still haven't
done it, and it's been yeah, over a year. Trump
does it in a matter of ours, And so we
grizzle and so we moan, like the kids in the
back of the car and the Prime Minister dad the
(02:12):
driver seize with resentment. I'm going as fast as I
can and it'll be great when we get there. You
are grateful riches. And in the meantime, the opposition parties, who,
if I'm going to stretch the analogy even further, are
the hoons in the laying outside of us and their
(02:33):
unregistered car, not licensed to drive. They toot the horn,
give us the fingers and think, wonder when those kids
want to get in the car with us.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Yeah, I'm that uncomfortable with the dad in the driver's seat.
Analogy there because my dad, you still always had to
see scene it rufe. He couldn't help himself. If there
was a long way, that's the way he'd go. And
I don't think that that is I don't think the voters.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Are going to love that news talk ze.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Been Anywait, how does Ryan Bridge see it?
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Has he been complaining from the backseat as well? Let's
find out.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
If we're wondering why our politicians keep doing weird, stunty stuff,
we need look no further than the system that we
use to elect them. First week back in the House
for twenty twenty five, it was the Mexican standoff. Remember that,
the shouting at foreign born MPs in the House. The
whole fiasco from New Zealand first dragged out for more
than a week. This week it's axe turn. David Seymour
(03:39):
wants some spotlight, so he's driven a land drover up
the steps of Parliament. Make no mistake, these are intentional
publicity stunts from our two minor government partners. They're designed
to keep the names of their leaders in the headlines.
Disappear from public and you might just disappear from Parliament.
Just ask Winston after one term with Heleno five to eight,
(04:01):
and again we just send it from seventeen to twenty
that is the problem with our political system. We don't
tend to reward ministers for being just good ministers, do
we We reward them for being good campaigners. We use
the Winstons of the world as either handbrakes or training
wheels for bigger parties. But once we're done with them,
(04:22):
the five percent threshold can crush them into irrelevance like
Judith Collins would a Subaru WRX. So we shouldn't be
surprised that our minor parties act out in the way
that they do. They're just reminding us that they're there
and in eighteen months time they'll need your vote again,
thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Actually, that would have been cool if Gooth Collins had
turned out instead of the security guy.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
And crushed the landrover. That there would have been the
old I don't.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Know, I'm not saying with David Seymour in it don't
get carried away.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
But have certainly got some attention for his charity that
he was doing it for.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Though us talk sid.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Anyway, Poles, why aren't they just sort of.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
A meaningless when we were literally at the opposite end
of the election cycle at the moment, aren't we We're
about as far away from an election as we can be.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
At the beginning of the middle year of a three
year term. So what's the point of them and why
would you do one?
Speaker 6 (05:31):
We're talking about polls. Do you take any notice of poles,
particularly eighteen months out on the back of course of
three consecutive poles showing a bit of a dip for
the current government and a bit of a boost for
the opposition. I wait under an eighty ten? Eighty is
the number?
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Call the Texas says.
Speaker 7 (05:46):
Whenever I get a call at ID, I always answer
with it's done, there's blood everywhere, or New Zealand Defense
Force want to fight?
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Then hang up?
Speaker 6 (05:54):
I love that.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
That's great.
Speaker 7 (05:56):
I used to get when I got scam calls back
in the day, or calls that are cold, cause I'd
always put my two year old son on and head
go hanging and just talk to them and tell them
about movies and stuff. Is a real talker. And then
they go they want to talk to your dad, and
I say, no, you go, and they just you just
leave that kid punishing their caller for us. And and
you know, a two and a half year old kid
can punish a cold caller for a long time.
Speaker 6 (06:17):
And how long did the cold caller go? They keep
just trying and put your dad on. No, no, you're
talking to me dad.
Speaker 7 (06:22):
They want to talk to you. No, No, I tell
them about finding Nemo, the fashion, the big water in the.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Fish, Those poor cold callers. Man. I used to have
a flatmate who you know.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
You'd answer the phone and they'd say can they have
a minute of your time? And you'd say short, time
starts now, and they would start on their spiel and
then he'd literally after exactly sixty secrets and say, times
are so Yeah. Always thought that was quite funny. From
(06:55):
nationwide politics to regional politics have come.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
How can you be the mirror of somewhere where you
don't want? That's pretty unusual, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
What are you to, Mahidrosdale telling people in Tarongo that
they're allowed unfluoridated water while you live in the more
civilized land of Cambridge.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Sure it's always been floridated.
Speaker 8 (07:18):
Now, people of Todong about the whole situation with your
mayor not moving to Todonga from Cambridge because he can't
find the right house and the right zone. Shouldn't you
have said that before he stood for MEA there was
contingent on him.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Finding the right house.
Speaker 8 (07:39):
I don't get it and I can't work out way
has it rented somewhere in the interim.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
It's so weird.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
I've spent half my life trying to find an excuse
to move to Totongo or at least the mount not
finding reasons not to move there.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Very strange news talk has it been?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Is this just something to do with being a rower?
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Like? What's with all these basically adult complete relations still
beyond the high school rowing team?
Speaker 3 (08:11):
A bit old, isn't it now?
Speaker 9 (08:13):
It only took nearly twenty years to address, but high
school rowing teams will no longer be able to have
year fourteen students and their crews. So these were young
people in their sixth year of secondary school, and of
course having those guys in they gave their crews an
advantage because it had an extra year of training and development.
They're old, they were bigger, and it's been a bugbear
(08:34):
of many schools wanting a level playing field, and they've
been finding this for twenty years. On many of the
year fourteens were back at school finishing their academic work
because their good rowers and they wanted to take advantage
of rowing Schottish overseas, but they needed to up their
academic marks, so they went back to school. But their
schools there still included them in their rep crews, because
(08:55):
why not, don't look a gift elephant in the mouth.
Critics of that decision said the problem was not just
the young adults themselves, the year fourteens, but also all
the others at the school who missed out on a
place in the boat because the year fourteens were there.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
Now.
Speaker 9 (09:11):
The first moves to police the practice involved putting age
limits on rowing crews, but it still saw some year
fourteen students with birthdays just after the cutoff competing. But
while they were technically the right age, they still brought
an advantage of an extra year's training. So now finally
the year fourteens are gone, and that's a good thing.
(09:32):
It stopped the attitude of schools who believed and win
at any cost. It's returned fairness in sport, and it
was good decision making because it showed that those struggling
with rules on say transgender athletes who've been through puberty,
that it is actually possible to be fair if you're
clear minded and decisive I just I mean.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
I felt weird enough as it was in the seventh form,
back in the old days, when they kicked me out
of school while I went into what they called the
transition to work class, like the world experience class. And
I only really did that so I I could stay
in the school orchestra and the choir and do the
(10:15):
school show, obviously, because I felt that it would be
weird for me to do those things if I wasn't
going to school at all. And also I don't think
I would have been allowed to, but maybe I would
have been, because listen, year, why.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Do you just want to stay at school for the
rest of your life?
Speaker 4 (10:38):
It's so.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Can I hate to get out of there. I am
Glen hat. That has been news school zaid being come
back tomorrow. It doesn't matter what age you are. Everyone's welcome,
even if you live in Changers.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
News Talking Talking zid bean For more from News Talk
Said 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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