February 9, 2026 • 12 mins
FIRST WITH YESTERDAY'S NEWS (highlights from Monday on Newstalk ZB) When Did it Get So Big?/Unwarranted Interest In Interest/This Is a Job for AI/The Pals'll Get Ya, Every Time
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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 Tuesday.
First of yesterday's news, I'm Glen Hart, and we're looking
back at Monday and interest rates. One of those things
that we just become so obsessed with, isn't it interest rates?
Rian joins the party this morning our jury service. Are
(00:45):
we finally actually going to do anything about shaking it up?
Probably not?
Speaker 3 (00:50):
How you?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
And then Maths review of his long weekend, where it
went right, where it went wrong? Before any of that,
it was Super Bowl Sunday yesterday, even though it was Monday.
Here it even got here. There's attention.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Is it possible that there are some sporting events that
are just so big that they can basically do what
they want politically without suffering. Now I'm asking this because
of what's just happened during the Super Bowl halftime performance.
Bad Bunny was everything that the MAGA crowd expected him
to be and I suppose feared him to be. They
were already who was threatening, you know, some of them
threatening to boycott the halftime show, because Bad Bunny is
(01:27):
a vocal critic of Trump's ice rays, having spoken out
at the Grammys last week, and that was just the
latest and a number of speeches. A Trump aligned MAGA
group hosted an alternative halftime show featuring ked Rock and
so you know they were expecting something and it came
at the end of Bad Bunny's performance, surrounded by flags
from mainly South America. He made his point. He said,
(01:47):
God bless America, and then he name checked countries throughout
North and predominantly South America, which was obviously deliberately provocative,
being that ice is catching migrants from those countries. And
like clockwork, Trump then took the bait and immediately hit
the troth the truth social causing him to then have
a crack at the super Bowl. Now, my prediction on
this is that the super Bowl super is going to
(02:08):
weather this. It will beat Trump and MAGA on this
one because it always weathers the politics. I mean, you
remember back to Beyonce's Black Panther esque performance ten years ago,
there was criticism the Super Bowl was drawn into the
Colin Kaepernick taking the knee stuff. There has been low
level drama in intervening years, and yet the super Bowl
just keeps on setting records. We watch it from New Zealand.
(02:29):
Last year had attracted nearly one hundred and twenty eight
million viewers, making it one of the most watched US
broadcasts ever. I am firmly, firmly, firmly of the view
that you should never mix politics with sport because you
simply give some fans a reason to leave in an
age when you do not need people to leave. But
maybe there just are some events that are so big
they can afford to and not even Trump condemned their popularity.
(02:52):
And maybe the super Bowl is exactly that kind of
an event.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
It's when you're as old as me. It's very strange.
The super Bowl was something that we would have been.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Barely aware of.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Not so long ago here in Little On New Zealand,
and now it seems to be a big thing. I
guess the world just gets smaller.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
And smaller every day, doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
It's fascinating.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
News talk zed Bean.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Yeah, you've even got virtual recluses like Marcus lash watching it.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
How good was bad? Bunny? I watched the super Bowl.
Hard to concentrate on, though, but I watched all of it.
It wasn't much to watch, but the halftime the show
was unbelievable. I don't know how they managed to film
it without getting the camera people in the shots extraw.
(03:45):
There was one shot of a drone I could see,
but unbelievable, unbelievable. It's been very, very complicated rehearsal. They
had a number of times it was great. If you
didn't watch that, go and watch it. If you want
to watch Bad Bunny, go to tv n Z Plus
and got a Super Bowl and go to about two
hours forty minutes into it and watch that. For those
(04:07):
that don't know Bad Bunnies. In the Happy Gilmore movie,
is the waiter quite a good actor.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Actually, the kids.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
Love the Happy Gilmore movie. The sequel I was thinking, well, anyway,
that's on Netflix if you want to watch that. I
don't think it was one of those movies that was
crying out for a sequel, but the year go.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
It's odd when they do the sequel like a million
years after the original. It's like this recent season of
The Night Manager that was on ten years after the
original season. I think what they've got working for them
there is that Tom Hillston still looks incredible. Just saying
(04:53):
you talk right now. Something else apart from the super Bowl,
that we seem to be absolutely obsessed with these days,
interest rates.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
I guess it is your.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Biggest investment, and if you're paying a mortgage, it matters.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
We've spoken four about elections putting the kai bosh on
growth a bit, people hold back weak to see what happens.
We've spoken about Bill English's comments about our recovery, unlike
across the Ditch, coming in spite of a rebound in
house prices. In Australia, everything's hot, the weather, house prices, inflation, growth, employment,
(05:28):
everything's just hot, hot, hot. It's lightly on a different
hemisphere to us. There was a good podcast talking about
some of this of interest. It's called with the Westpac Economists. Now,
the RBA's rate is now three point eight five percent
ours two point twenty five. It's been about fifteen years
since there has been such a massive gap between the
(05:48):
two of them. We usually cycle closer together most of
the time, but we've drifted apart to the point where
one is so far over the hill we actually can't
see each other anymore. This is all by design, of course.
We have been way more aggressive, engineered the recession to
crash inflation, they went a lot softer to take into
account employment. They have a dual mandate. The Coalition got
(06:11):
rid of ours. The Aussies are now upping rates again
because their inflation is taking off again. Ours has a
mild case of fever, but nothing like their is sitting
at nearly four percent. Now. The question anyone thinking about
this stuff with a mortgage is asking themselves is this,
would you swallow a bit of inflation to have an
(06:32):
economy that's actually firing? In other words, in future, would
you rather this was handled the Aussie way or the
Kiwi way? And crucially, can our economy kick back in
together without its usual rocket fuel runaway house prices.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
I've got some great grandmother research for you, because basically
everything I know about small business I learn off the
domestic manager. She's in charge of a small business and
she's rushed off your feet at the moment, and that's
the only grand shuet I need to know about. So
once again we've got calls for dury service to be
(07:10):
revamped because only people who really want to do it
end up doing it, and nobody wants to be judged
by them.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
How on earth can you justify doing your civic duty,
which is really really important When it's sixty dollars a day,
you have to see it basically as a donation of
your time because you're not going to see the money back,
and employers take a big hit when they let their
employees off. And yet it is vitally important. You probably
(07:38):
don't see it as vitally important when you turn up
and see that kind of inefficiency. If you are somebody
who's in business for yourself, that kind of inefficiency smacks
you in the face, doesn't it. You look at that
and think, what on earth's going on here? There's a
million ways I could make this more efficient, less costly
to the taxpayer, and still get the job done, and
(08:01):
in fact, possibly get the job done better. I would
love to hear your experiences, especially if you have been
on jury service in recent times. How would you make
it better? Do the bills go far enough? Would you
like to see an increase in the fee paid to
those who actually make it onto juries? And when it
(08:23):
comes to juries, do you trust them? Would you select
trial by jury? If you found yourself in court up
on a serious charge, do you have faith that your
fellow new Zealanders would be able to reach a fair decision,
(08:45):
would be unbiased, unprejudiced. Understand the court proceedings. How much
faith do you have in your fellow man?
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Well?
Speaker 2 (08:53):
None so whatsoever? Obviously And also isn't this a classic
case for AI to take over? Why don't we just
have an AI jury. It doesn't have to be all
the same AI. It could be twelve different AIS. But
they've got nothing better to do, and we're better to
use them for that than for you know, creating a
Facebook profile picture out of a photo that you upload.
(09:15):
Seems to be going on at the moment.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
News talk has it been.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
I don't know what you got up to with your
long weekend, if you were lucky enough to have one.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
I was.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
It's been a lot of it and sunny for the younger,
which is nice. Mett, he's been all the way to
Wellington to see Nick Cave. I'm not I think it
was going well up to.
Speaker 7 (09:38):
A point, very emotional, but then this business is this,
this great line, and it's we've all had too much sorrow.
Now is the time for joy?
Speaker 4 (09:47):
So much.
Speaker 7 (09:51):
And arrow Bed feeling quite emotional and looking forward to
this iconic.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Line, boys said we've all and too much sorrow, Now
where's the time.
Speaker 7 (10:07):
And that exact moment, yeah, when I was just so
full of the emotion, and this guy dealing with his
grief and finding joy in his life, and this woman
who her fifties beside me at that second just vomited everywhere.
So I say, he went, we've all had too much sorrow,
Now is the time for joy? Just vomited everywhere around
(10:32):
me and then dropped all her drinks on the ground.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Oh no.
Speaker 7 (10:36):
And then and then people just started sort of basically
it was like a civil defense emergency, people trying to
get away from from the sick.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
And it was a great juxtaposition.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
I had some serious whiplash this other guy there, and then.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Right on that, I mean, there's some grotesque poetry today.
Speaker 7 (10:55):
Yeah, we've all had too much sorrow. Now is the
time for joy?
Speaker 4 (11:04):
So I hope that lady was right.
Speaker 7 (11:06):
She'd obviously had she had obviously preloaded few too many pals. Yeah,
she had definitely How did you know?
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Just a guess, just a guess, just.
Speaker 7 (11:15):
A guess, because she dropped four peals on the ground,
How did I know?
Speaker 4 (11:18):
So, where's the pals?
Speaker 7 (11:20):
The pals will get you.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Yeah, some drinks are easier to drink than others. I
had a knight on the How You kitshuscuring How You
Kitsu with Lemon, which is basically just vodka and soda
with a dash of lemon in it. I mean, I
didn't disgrace myself like that woman did, but apparently I
(11:44):
was behaving rather oddly towards the end of the evening.
I think I mon't just stick to normal drinks from
now on. I'm not a teenager anymore.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
I am Glen Heart.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
That has been. News Dogs, They've been, and we'll see
you back here again tomorrow for another one. Please drink responsibly.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Use Talking Dogs It Been for more or from News
Talk st 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, be you talk.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Hello, my beautiful beanies, and welcome to the bean for Tuesday.
First of yesterday's news, I'm Glen Hart, and we're looking
back at Monday and interest rates. One of those things
that we just become so obsessed with, isn't it interest rates?
Rian joins the party this morning our jury service. Are
(00:45):
we finally actually going to do anything about shaking it up?
Probably not?
Speaker 3 (00:50):
How you?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
And then Maths review of his long weekend, where it
went right, where it went wrong? Before any of that,
it was Super Bowl Sunday yesterday, even though it was Monday.
Here it even got here. There's attention.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Is it possible that there are some sporting events that
are just so big that they can basically do what
they want politically without suffering. Now I'm asking this because
of what's just happened during the Super Bowl halftime performance.
Bad Bunny was everything that the MAGA crowd expected him
to be and I suppose feared him to be. They
were already who was threatening, you know, some of them
threatening to boycott the halftime show, because Bad Bunny is
(01:27):
a vocal critic of Trump's ice rays, having spoken out
at the Grammys last week, and that was just the
latest and a number of speeches. A Trump aligned MAGA
group hosted an alternative halftime show featuring ked Rock and
so you know they were expecting something and it came
at the end of Bad Bunny's performance, surrounded by flags
from mainly South America. He made his point. He said,
(01:47):
God bless America, and then he name checked countries throughout
North and predominantly South America, which was obviously deliberately provocative,
being that ice is catching migrants from those countries. And
like clockwork, Trump then took the bait and immediately hit
the troth the truth social causing him to then have
a crack at the super Bowl. Now, my prediction on
this is that the super Bowl super is going to
(02:08):
weather this. It will beat Trump and MAGA on this
one because it always weathers the politics. I mean, you
remember back to Beyonce's Black Panther esque performance ten years ago,
there was criticism the Super Bowl was drawn into the
Colin Kaepernick taking the knee stuff. There has been low
level drama in intervening years, and yet the super Bowl
just keeps on setting records. We watch it from New Zealand.
(02:29):
Last year had attracted nearly one hundred and twenty eight
million viewers, making it one of the most watched US
broadcasts ever. I am firmly, firmly, firmly of the view
that you should never mix politics with sport because you
simply give some fans a reason to leave in an
age when you do not need people to leave. But
maybe there just are some events that are so big
they can afford to and not even Trump condemned their popularity.
(02:52):
And maybe the super Bowl is exactly that kind of
an event.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
It's when you're as old as me. It's very strange.
The super Bowl was something that we would have been.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Barely aware of.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Not so long ago here in Little On New Zealand,
and now it seems to be a big thing. I
guess the world just gets smaller.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
And smaller every day, doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
It's fascinating.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
News talk zed Bean.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Yeah, you've even got virtual recluses like Marcus lash watching it.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
How good was bad? Bunny? I watched the super Bowl.
Hard to concentrate on, though, but I watched all of it.
It wasn't much to watch, but the halftime the show
was unbelievable. I don't know how they managed to film
it without getting the camera people in the shots extraw.
(03:45):
There was one shot of a drone I could see,
but unbelievable, unbelievable. It's been very, very complicated rehearsal. They
had a number of times it was great. If you
didn't watch that, go and watch it. If you want
to watch Bad Bunny, go to tv n Z Plus
and got a Super Bowl and go to about two
hours forty minutes into it and watch that. For those
(04:07):
that don't know Bad Bunnies. In the Happy Gilmore movie,
is the waiter quite a good actor.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Actually, the kids.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
Love the Happy Gilmore movie. The sequel I was thinking, well, anyway,
that's on Netflix if you want to watch that. I
don't think it was one of those movies that was
crying out for a sequel, but the year go.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
It's odd when they do the sequel like a million
years after the original. It's like this recent season of
The Night Manager that was on ten years after the
original season. I think what they've got working for them
there is that Tom Hillston still looks incredible. Just saying
(04:53):
you talk right now. Something else apart from the super Bowl,
that we seem to be absolutely obsessed with these days,
interest rates.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
I guess it is your.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Biggest investment, and if you're paying a mortgage, it matters.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
We've spoken four about elections putting the kai bosh on
growth a bit, people hold back weak to see what happens.
We've spoken about Bill English's comments about our recovery, unlike
across the Ditch, coming in spite of a rebound in
house prices. In Australia, everything's hot, the weather, house prices, inflation, growth, employment,
(05:28):
everything's just hot, hot, hot. It's lightly on a different
hemisphere to us. There was a good podcast talking about
some of this of interest. It's called with the Westpac Economists. Now,
the RBA's rate is now three point eight five percent
ours two point twenty five. It's been about fifteen years
since there has been such a massive gap between the
(05:48):
two of them. We usually cycle closer together most of
the time, but we've drifted apart to the point where
one is so far over the hill we actually can't
see each other anymore. This is all by design, of course.
We have been way more aggressive, engineered the recession to
crash inflation, they went a lot softer to take into
account employment. They have a dual mandate. The Coalition got
(06:11):
rid of ours. The Aussies are now upping rates again
because their inflation is taking off again. Ours has a
mild case of fever, but nothing like their is sitting
at nearly four percent. Now. The question anyone thinking about
this stuff with a mortgage is asking themselves is this,
would you swallow a bit of inflation to have an
(06:32):
economy that's actually firing? In other words, in future, would
you rather this was handled the Aussie way or the
Kiwi way? And crucially, can our economy kick back in
together without its usual rocket fuel runaway house prices.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
I've got some great grandmother research for you, because basically
everything I know about small business I learn off the
domestic manager. She's in charge of a small business and
she's rushed off your feet at the moment, and that's
the only grand shuet I need to know about. So
once again we've got calls for dury service to be
(07:10):
revamped because only people who really want to do it
end up doing it, and nobody wants to be judged
by them.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
How on earth can you justify doing your civic duty,
which is really really important When it's sixty dollars a day,
you have to see it basically as a donation of
your time because you're not going to see the money back,
and employers take a big hit when they let their
employees off. And yet it is vitally important. You probably
(07:38):
don't see it as vitally important when you turn up
and see that kind of inefficiency. If you are somebody
who's in business for yourself, that kind of inefficiency smacks
you in the face, doesn't it. You look at that
and think, what on earth's going on here? There's a
million ways I could make this more efficient, less costly
to the taxpayer, and still get the job done, and
(08:01):
in fact, possibly get the job done better. I would
love to hear your experiences, especially if you have been
on jury service in recent times. How would you make
it better? Do the bills go far enough? Would you
like to see an increase in the fee paid to
those who actually make it onto juries? And when it
(08:23):
comes to juries, do you trust them? Would you select
trial by jury? If you found yourself in court up
on a serious charge, do you have faith that your
fellow new Zealanders would be able to reach a fair decision,
(08:45):
would be unbiased, unprejudiced. Understand the court proceedings. How much
faith do you have in your fellow man?
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Well?
Speaker 2 (08:53):
None so whatsoever? Obviously And also isn't this a classic
case for AI to take over? Why don't we just
have an AI jury. It doesn't have to be all
the same AI. It could be twelve different AIS. But
they've got nothing better to do, and we're better to
use them for that than for you know, creating a
Facebook profile picture out of a photo that you upload.
(09:15):
Seems to be going on at the moment.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
News talk has it been.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
I don't know what you got up to with your
long weekend, if you were lucky enough to have one.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
I was.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
It's been a lot of it and sunny for the younger,
which is nice. Mett, he's been all the way to
Wellington to see Nick Cave. I'm not I think it
was going well up to.
Speaker 7 (09:38):
A point, very emotional, but then this business is this,
this great line, and it's we've all had too much sorrow.
Now is the time for joy?
Speaker 4 (09:47):
So much.
Speaker 7 (09:51):
And arrow Bed feeling quite emotional and looking forward to
this iconic.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Line, boys said we've all and too much sorrow, Now
where's the time.
Speaker 7 (10:07):
And that exact moment, yeah, when I was just so
full of the emotion, and this guy dealing with his
grief and finding joy in his life, and this woman
who her fifties beside me at that second just vomited everywhere.
So I say, he went, we've all had too much sorrow,
Now is the time for joy? Just vomited everywhere around
(10:32):
me and then dropped all her drinks on the ground.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Oh no.
Speaker 7 (10:36):
And then and then people just started sort of basically
it was like a civil defense emergency, people trying to
get away from from the sick.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
And it was a great juxtaposition.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
I had some serious whiplash this other guy there, and then.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Right on that, I mean, there's some grotesque poetry today.
Speaker 7 (10:55):
Yeah, we've all had too much sorrow. Now is the
time for joy?
Speaker 4 (11:04):
So I hope that lady was right.
Speaker 7 (11:06):
She'd obviously had she had obviously preloaded few too many pals. Yeah,
she had definitely How did you know?
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Just a guess, just a guess, just.
Speaker 7 (11:15):
A guess, because she dropped four peals on the ground,
How did I know?
Speaker 4 (11:18):
So, where's the pals?
Speaker 7 (11:20):
The pals will get you.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Yeah, some drinks are easier to drink than others. I
had a knight on the How You kitshuscuring How You
Kitsu with Lemon, which is basically just vodka and soda
with a dash of lemon in it. I mean, I
didn't disgrace myself like that woman did, but apparently I
(11:44):
was behaving rather oddly towards the end of the evening.
I think I mon't just stick to normal drinks from
now on. I'm not a teenager anymore.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
I am Glen Heart.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
That has been. News Dogs, They've been, and we'll see
you back here again tomorrow for another one. Please drink responsibly.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Use Talking Dogs It Been for more or from News
Talk st 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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