November 26, 2025 • 12 mins
FIRST WITH YESTERDAY'S NEWS (highlights from Wednesday on Newstalk ZB) One's Probably Still Too Many/Everyone On the Bridge Again/Advice From a Non-Parent/Americans Will Believe Anything
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
Hello, I'm my beautiful beanis and welcome to the Bean
for Thursday, first of yesterday's news. I am Glen Hart,
and we are looking back at Wednesday. Why all of
a sudden does everybody want to do a protest match
across the harbobridge? And we need to knock down on
the head obviously, and we'll get some parenting advice. There's
(00:46):
nothing parents love more than getting advice from people who
aren't parents. And we'll talk about how weird Americans are.
But before any of that, so yes, let's get rid
of some of the at least some of these councils.
Why do we have a region of council as well
as a city council in the same place as we
seem to only have just realized that this is dumb.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
I mean, you could look at regional councils as like
a modern version of the Ministry of Works. You know,
a make work scheme for people in regions. Is that
a good enough for reason to keep them? You know,
obviously you're going to have people retained by the combined
(01:32):
territories boards. You're not going to see the whole sale
sacking of hundreds of people across the region. But it
will be streamlined. I mean it has to be. You
cannot tell me that having five hundred full time staff
and may have plenty for the regional council can be justified,
(01:56):
and nor can the number of councilors. People don't care,
they don't understand it. It's a whole other level of bureaucracy.
It needs to be stream lined. I mean, maybe you
think that the increase in your rates making a make
work scheme for counselors and staff and a regional councilor
(02:19):
is a worthwhile proposition. It's a money go round. You
pay to have an inflated regional council and the money
comes back to you if you're a retailer, because they
will spend to me. It just seems completely and utterly
redundant and unproductive. And the sooner it's streamlined into a
(02:44):
territorial board, into a streamline service, the better.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
The more we talk about this, the more ridiculous the
whole thing seems like. You know, most cities in the
world are bigger than the entire population of New Zealand
and they only have one council.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
You know what I mean, News talk, Zeen.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
I'm hoping that Heather is talking sense on this issue
as well. It's fine.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
You look at what's going on and we have way
too much bureaucracy at local government level. Right If you
take out the eleven regional councils and all their counselors
out of the mix of politics in this country, you
are still left with fifty six city councils and district councils,
and each of them with their twelve councilors or their
fifteen councilors or their twenty councilors sitting around the table.
(03:29):
We are a country of five million people, maybe six
million people, like we are as many people as they
have in the city of Melbourne. We do not need
this much local representation. Blen him.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
Don't mean to offend you. You don't need your own council.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
You don't need one separate from Nelson's which is just
down the road. You've got thirty thousand people, Nelson's got
eighty thousand people. Join up, share your counselors. Wellington City
once again does not need a Wellington City mayor, separate
from a portaour city mayor, separate from a hut city mayor,
separate from a lower hut mare, separate from a carpety
mayor join up to everyone else in the country. We
(04:05):
just think you're one place. Anyway, it is ridiculos that
Auckland has twenty councilors and then so many local boards.
That Auckland has one hundred and seventy elected politicians in
a city that is, by international comparisons, actually quite small.
Auckland has more politicians than the entire country has elected
to parliament just in Auckland. Across New Zealand, do you
(04:27):
know how many local politicians we have? Sixteen hundred, sixteen
hundred for a group of people as big as the
city of Melbourne. That's not even counting the people in parliament.
By the way, can I suggest that this has to
just be the start, right, we have to go further
this once we get rid of regional councils. We need
to start amalgamating so that what is currently sixty seven
territorial authorities becomes something more reasonable like ten or eleven.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Or preferably, as I say, one don't need any of it,
move on.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Us talk city.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Is this why we have things like people doing protests
by walking over the harbor of regions bringing the entire
city to a whole? Is that because of all these
different councils and authorities and things.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
Brian Tummocky is the latest and it's not about Brian
Tummocky or Destiny Chews, but he's the latest to put
in an application to have his protest in generary Yeah,
has bridge to better? Yes, protest? Yeah, this is a
really interesting question. Hey guys, happy with the blanket no
protest for the harbor bridge, but does that mean the
marathon can't do it as well? Cheers from Craig. Look, no,
(05:32):
I think the marathons that's totally different. That's a huge
amount of people getting together. That's a that's a community
wide thing.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Yeah, it's not.
Speaker 6 (05:42):
It's not pushing any barrow. In fact, if you're pushing
a barrow on a marathon, then that's impressive. I've seen
people that have run marathons knitting scarfs. Have you seen
those marathons?
Speaker 2 (05:50):
No, but they are legit.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Theyre doing it.
Speaker 6 (05:52):
At the end of the marathon, you get your time
and the length of your scarf. Rue, it's a real thing.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
It's amazing, incredible.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
I totally support that.
Speaker 6 (06:02):
But then again, I mean, can't you just run the
marathon if you want to go across the bridge, just
wave your protest flag as you run the marathon. Just
register into the marathon, give your name as whatever your
protest is, and wave your flag as you're running over.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
You found a massive loophole. And of course the other
thing with the marathon is that it starts at I
think before marathon starts at six thirty am, half at
six point fifty something like that. Yeah, good luck you
to your protest is up in time for that because
the least amount of disruption possible. Yes, So here we
(06:37):
go some parenting advice from somebody who is not a
parent and speaking as a parent. I just love that
sort of thing. I can't wait to hear what Ryan
has to say.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
School was basic. It was maths, reading, writing, a bit
of everything else. What we're learning as a society is
that where collectively we have taken our eye off the ball,
we've taken parenting to a level beyond usefulness. Do we
need cheap imported asbestos sand to engage toddler's No we don't.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Do.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
We need one thousand fun school subjects in place of
decent time on basic ones. No we don't do. We
need to tiptoe around kids not eating their veggies, as
was suggested yesterday, for fear that they may develop some
kind of eating disorder. No we don't do. They all
need cell phones that helicopter parents message constantly while their
kids should be learning at school. No we don't. We
(07:30):
didn't then and we don't now. And the results speak
for themselves. The Aussies abandon social media. Cell phone bands
in schools here are working. According to those results, yesterday,
students forced to do an hour of good old fashioned
maths a day made a full year's progress in just
twelve weeks. Kids are fatter than ever because of what
(07:52):
we're feeding them, so the meal time passive parenting thing
clearly ain't working. The good news is that it's not
too late to turn all this around. Frankly, parents and
teachers are the ones who need to grow up and
show leadership here, not the kids. Kids will follow the lead.
And the best news of all is that most of
(08:13):
this stuff is easier and cheaper. We've set expectations too high.
Boundaries too low and our kids are paying the price.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
So yeah, I mean, I don't know that wasn't really
parenting advice, was it. It was how to be a
kid advice, which Ryan obviously does have experiences. That's completely different.
I don't think you can base your parenting technique on
your experiences as a kid on the receiving end of
the parenting. I mean, I guess it's part of it,
(08:44):
but yeah, it's a bit like teaching somebody how to
be a manager by just being a worker. Doesn't quite work,
does it?
Speaker 1 (08:54):
News talk has it been?
Speaker 2 (08:56):
And yeah, so we watch with would you say, discussed horror,
fascination all sorts of things as America basically becomes a
flaming bag of dog cove on somebody's front doorstep or
(09:19):
all of our front doorstep. Really, they are weird, I
don't know, Americans, I mean getting weirded by the day,
don't you think, Marcus.
Speaker 7 (09:27):
The present of Americans that believe in aliens? Did you
see that today? Like it's quite extraordinary. There's new footage
out about Americans and aliens, And yes, and it's pretty staggering.
I think fifty more than a half. Here's the survey
(09:49):
survey says it's a youve survey of over a thousand
Americans asked if they thought aliens exist, fifty six percent
answer definitely or probably, and forty seven percent said that
(10:10):
visited the Earth, and another forty two percent saying it
occurred in recent years. Now, twenty eight percent of people
(10:31):
believed in Bigfoot, twenty three percent believed in the Yeti,
twenty two percent for the Ledgary Lockness Monster, and sixteen
percent for the Chappa Cabra, which I don't know what
it is. If you know what that is, let me know.
Cuba Capra not something I am familiar with. I don't
believe in any of them, particularly not the Yetty. I
(10:57):
don't know what the tuber capra is. It must be
some sort of online thing. Anyone know about that tuber
capra c chgpac a b. It attacks and drinks the
blood of livestock. It's reptilian like size of a small beer.
(11:21):
I could believe in that. That's a good eye. Yeah.
Goat sucker translates as tuba to suck, cabra to goat.
It seems to be a recent thing. There must have
been a movie about it for something to start telling
people about it. I've got no understanding, Tuba kepra if
you want to talk about that and the things you
(11:41):
believe kind of staggering.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
I always used to believe that it was impossible that
there wound aliens out there because of the infinite universe.
If the universe goes on forever, then they must be
there somewhere. But then, in a sort of a Hitchharker's
Guide to the Galaxy bit of logic, I heard somebody
talking about the fact that the chances of you know,
(12:10):
us being replicated anywhere else is so low, like the
chances that you know, the unique conditions that caused us
to be alive here at this moment, the series of events.
It's so remote that you divide that by you know,
the amount of space and dark matter of whatever else
(12:32):
out there, There's probably even more chance that there is
nothing out there than there is that there is something
out there.
Speaker 6 (12:40):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (12:42):
I have I explained that very well. Now that I
said it out loud, it seems to not make any sense.
Let's just stop talking and we'll start again where else?
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Use talking talking? It been for more from us, 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 Said Talk.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Hello, I'm my beautiful beanis and welcome to the Bean
for Thursday, first of yesterday's news. I am Glen Hart,
and we are looking back at Wednesday. Why all of
a sudden does everybody want to do a protest match
across the harbobridge? And we need to knock down on
the head obviously, and we'll get some parenting advice. There's
(00:46):
nothing parents love more than getting advice from people who
aren't parents. And we'll talk about how weird Americans are.
But before any of that, so yes, let's get rid
of some of the at least some of these councils.
Why do we have a region of council as well
as a city council in the same place as we
seem to only have just realized that this is dumb.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
I mean, you could look at regional councils as like
a modern version of the Ministry of Works. You know,
a make work scheme for people in regions. Is that
a good enough for reason to keep them? You know,
obviously you're going to have people retained by the combined
(01:32):
territories boards. You're not going to see the whole sale
sacking of hundreds of people across the region. But it
will be streamlined. I mean it has to be. You
cannot tell me that having five hundred full time staff
and may have plenty for the regional council can be justified,
(01:56):
and nor can the number of councilors. People don't care,
they don't understand it. It's a whole other level of bureaucracy.
It needs to be stream lined. I mean, maybe you
think that the increase in your rates making a make
work scheme for counselors and staff and a regional councilor
(02:19):
is a worthwhile proposition. It's a money go round. You
pay to have an inflated regional council and the money
comes back to you if you're a retailer, because they
will spend to me. It just seems completely and utterly
redundant and unproductive. And the sooner it's streamlined into a
(02:44):
territorial board, into a streamline service, the better.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
The more we talk about this, the more ridiculous the
whole thing seems like. You know, most cities in the
world are bigger than the entire population of New Zealand
and they only have one council.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
You know what I mean, News talk, Zeen.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
I'm hoping that Heather is talking sense on this issue
as well. It's fine.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
You look at what's going on and we have way
too much bureaucracy at local government level. Right If you
take out the eleven regional councils and all their counselors
out of the mix of politics in this country, you
are still left with fifty six city councils and district councils,
and each of them with their twelve councilors or their
fifteen councilors or their twenty councilors sitting around the table.
(03:29):
We are a country of five million people, maybe six
million people, like we are as many people as they
have in the city of Melbourne. We do not need
this much local representation. Blen him.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
Don't mean to offend you. You don't need your own council.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
You don't need one separate from Nelson's which is just
down the road. You've got thirty thousand people, Nelson's got
eighty thousand people. Join up, share your counselors. Wellington City
once again does not need a Wellington City mayor, separate
from a portaour city mayor, separate from a hut city mayor,
separate from a lower hut mare, separate from a carpety
mayor join up to everyone else in the country. We
(04:05):
just think you're one place. Anyway, it is ridiculos that
Auckland has twenty councilors and then so many local boards.
That Auckland has one hundred and seventy elected politicians in
a city that is, by international comparisons, actually quite small.
Auckland has more politicians than the entire country has elected
to parliament just in Auckland. Across New Zealand, do you
(04:27):
know how many local politicians we have? Sixteen hundred, sixteen
hundred for a group of people as big as the
city of Melbourne. That's not even counting the people in parliament.
By the way, can I suggest that this has to
just be the start, right, we have to go further
this once we get rid of regional councils. We need
to start amalgamating so that what is currently sixty seven
territorial authorities becomes something more reasonable like ten or eleven.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Or preferably, as I say, one don't need any of it,
move on.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Us talk city.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Is this why we have things like people doing protests
by walking over the harbor of regions bringing the entire
city to a whole? Is that because of all these
different councils and authorities and things.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
Brian Tummocky is the latest and it's not about Brian
Tummocky or Destiny Chews, but he's the latest to put
in an application to have his protest in generary Yeah,
has bridge to better? Yes, protest? Yeah, this is a
really interesting question. Hey guys, happy with the blanket no
protest for the harbor bridge, but does that mean the
marathon can't do it as well? Cheers from Craig. Look, no,
(05:32):
I think the marathons that's totally different. That's a huge
amount of people getting together. That's a that's a community
wide thing.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Yeah, it's not.
Speaker 6 (05:42):
It's not pushing any barrow. In fact, if you're pushing
a barrow on a marathon, then that's impressive. I've seen
people that have run marathons knitting scarfs. Have you seen
those marathons?
Speaker 2 (05:50):
No, but they are legit.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Theyre doing it.
Speaker 6 (05:52):
At the end of the marathon, you get your time
and the length of your scarf. Rue, it's a real thing.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
It's amazing, incredible.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
I totally support that.
Speaker 6 (06:02):
But then again, I mean, can't you just run the
marathon if you want to go across the bridge, just
wave your protest flag as you run the marathon. Just
register into the marathon, give your name as whatever your
protest is, and wave your flag as you're running over.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
You found a massive loophole. And of course the other
thing with the marathon is that it starts at I
think before marathon starts at six thirty am, half at
six point fifty something like that. Yeah, good luck you
to your protest is up in time for that because
the least amount of disruption possible. Yes, So here we
(06:37):
go some parenting advice from somebody who is not a
parent and speaking as a parent. I just love that
sort of thing. I can't wait to hear what Ryan
has to say.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
School was basic. It was maths, reading, writing, a bit
of everything else. What we're learning as a society is
that where collectively we have taken our eye off the ball,
we've taken parenting to a level beyond usefulness. Do we
need cheap imported asbestos sand to engage toddler's No we don't.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Do.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
We need one thousand fun school subjects in place of
decent time on basic ones. No we don't do. We
need to tiptoe around kids not eating their veggies, as
was suggested yesterday, for fear that they may develop some
kind of eating disorder. No we don't do. They all
need cell phones that helicopter parents message constantly while their
kids should be learning at school. No we don't. We
(07:30):
didn't then and we don't now. And the results speak
for themselves. The Aussies abandon social media. Cell phone bands
in schools here are working. According to those results, yesterday,
students forced to do an hour of good old fashioned
maths a day made a full year's progress in just
twelve weeks. Kids are fatter than ever because of what
(07:52):
we're feeding them, so the meal time passive parenting thing
clearly ain't working. The good news is that it's not
too late to turn all this around. Frankly, parents and
teachers are the ones who need to grow up and
show leadership here, not the kids. Kids will follow the lead.
And the best news of all is that most of
(08:13):
this stuff is easier and cheaper. We've set expectations too high.
Boundaries too low and our kids are paying the price.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
So yeah, I mean, I don't know that wasn't really
parenting advice, was it. It was how to be a
kid advice, which Ryan obviously does have experiences. That's completely different.
I don't think you can base your parenting technique on
your experiences as a kid on the receiving end of
the parenting. I mean, I guess it's part of it,
(08:44):
but yeah, it's a bit like teaching somebody how to
be a manager by just being a worker. Doesn't quite work,
does it?
Speaker 1 (08:54):
News talk has it been?
Speaker 2 (08:56):
And yeah, so we watch with would you say, discussed horror,
fascination all sorts of things as America basically becomes a
flaming bag of dog cove on somebody's front doorstep or
(09:19):
all of our front doorstep. Really, they are weird, I
don't know, Americans, I mean getting weirded by the day,
don't you think, Marcus.
Speaker 7 (09:27):
The present of Americans that believe in aliens? Did you
see that today? Like it's quite extraordinary. There's new footage
out about Americans and aliens, And yes, and it's pretty staggering.
I think fifty more than a half. Here's the survey
(09:49):
survey says it's a youve survey of over a thousand
Americans asked if they thought aliens exist, fifty six percent
answer definitely or probably, and forty seven percent said that
(10:10):
visited the Earth, and another forty two percent saying it
occurred in recent years. Now, twenty eight percent of people
(10:31):
believed in Bigfoot, twenty three percent believed in the Yeti,
twenty two percent for the Ledgary Lockness Monster, and sixteen
percent for the Chappa Cabra, which I don't know what
it is. If you know what that is, let me know.
Cuba Capra not something I am familiar with. I don't
believe in any of them, particularly not the Yetty. I
(10:57):
don't know what the tuber capra is. It must be
some sort of online thing. Anyone know about that tuber
capra c chgpac a b. It attacks and drinks the
blood of livestock. It's reptilian like size of a small beer.
(11:21):
I could believe in that. That's a good eye. Yeah.
Goat sucker translates as tuba to suck, cabra to goat.
It seems to be a recent thing. There must have
been a movie about it for something to start telling
people about it. I've got no understanding, Tuba kepra if
you want to talk about that and the things you
(11:41):
believe kind of staggering.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
I always used to believe that it was impossible that
there wound aliens out there because of the infinite universe.
If the universe goes on forever, then they must be
there somewhere. But then, in a sort of a Hitchharker's
Guide to the Galaxy bit of logic, I heard somebody
talking about the fact that the chances of you know,
(12:10):
us being replicated anywhere else is so low, like the
chances that you know, the unique conditions that caused us
to be alive here at this moment, the series of events.
It's so remote that you divide that by you know,
the amount of space and dark matter of whatever else
(12:32):
out there, There's probably even more chance that there is
nothing out there than there is that there is something
out there.
Speaker 6 (12:40):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (12:42):
I have I explained that very well. Now that I
said it out loud, it seems to not make any sense.
Let's just stop talking and we'll start again where else?
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Use talking talking? It been for more from us, 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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