December 3, 2025 • 12 mins
FIRST WITH YESTERDAY'S NEWS (highlights from Wednesday on Newstalk ZB) Which Side of the Thin Blue Line Are You On?/Mould-gate Continues/Covid's Money Tap/Why So Negative?/What's with All the Bottled Water?
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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 Thursday,
first of yesterday's news. I am Glen Hart, and we
are looking back at Wednesday. I can't believe we're still
talking about school lunches. Oh my god, anyway we are.
We're even talking still talking about COVID. I thought that
was finished. I thought we'd done. Am I being a bit?
(00:46):
Two nigatives? Are we all being a bit? Two negatives?
And Marcus wants a word on bottled water? But before
any of that, trust and police they're trying to improve it.
Recent events have in help, of course.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
What does satisfaction with service from offices mean? In recent times?
I had the car appropriated from an under ground locked garage.
The police couldn't have been more helpful. Admittedly, the car
was used by a five to zero one er to
commit an aggravated robbery, so you know, the car got
(01:20):
into bad company, so therefore it was found more quickly,
perhaps than if it had just been taken by a
joy rider professional. They were helpful, they were they had
a completely holistic understanding of crime, of the importance of
the victims of not me particularly, but those at the
(01:44):
wrong end of a firearm in the aggravated robbery. I
was really really impressed. What does satisfaction with service from
officers look like to you? Have you received it recently?
I would be very very interested to hear your thoughts.
(02:05):
What will it take to get eighty percent of New
Zealanders have in trust and confidence and police of New
Zealand is being satisfied with service? What do the police
need to do? I would argue, the police on the beat,
the police out there investigating, don't need to do much.
They're doing their job and doing it well. It's the
bosses that need a long, hard look in the mirror.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Yeah, I do we really do, do Joe, average public.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Like me?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Do we really delineate that match between the police we
see out on the roads, on the streets and the
people in the offices. It's all just one thing, isn't it?
Lift you game? Police? I think that's what we're saying
at the moment. I mean, Kuriy might have a point
that some of them don't need to but some of
them probably do.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
News talk, right.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
So this is like every day somebody else has got
more to say about school lunches, and I can't believe
that this one instance.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Of mulling food, which we've we've got a secure footage
now like this is we've got more evidence in this
than there was that the OJ Simpson trial.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
But she is correct in what she is claiming, which
means David Seymour's people and officials cannot be correct in
what they are claiming when they say that nine were
delivered and eight were taken away. So I asked them
for the evidence of that, because the delivery man is
signing a document when he's leaving, right, they will have
signed and sign out papers on that. I've been asking
them for hours for the proof of this not forthcoming.
(03:36):
We were told, oh, you know, we'll get you the infimationy,
I'll call this guy on this number year and you'll
be able to have Yet nothing. That guy on that
number never even answered the phone, So that calls that
into question. I mean, you have to question how truthful
the government's claims on this one. And I would say
it's not looking very good for them. But then on
the other hand, so at this stage it's one up
for Peggy, zero for David Seymour. But then on the
other hand, Peggy can't be trusted either because she keeps
(03:58):
saying she couldn't possibly have served those meals from four
days before because they were cold and they don't have
reheating facilities at the school. Actually, do a Google search
high out to community Camp has a full commercial kitchen
in cafeteria, which means they make food, so they can
definitely be reheating food. So I'm almost tempted to take
the one away from Peggy again. Called it zero for
both of them. I call it even not because both
(04:20):
of them are winners in this argument, but because both
have been tricky here. Peggy is playing politics because she
wants to discredit the supplied food so that her school
can get the food contract herself. That's what she wants.
David's playing politics because he wants to defend his food
in school's program, which has been subject to a couple
of years now of attacks. Neither side is clean here.
You can pick who you want to back on this,
because they're as good or as bad as each other.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
I mean, of the gazillion school lunches out there, we've
got one instance of a I love too the fact
that it couldn't have been the schools fault because they
don't have the facilities to reheat a meal or something. Honestly,
don't know what's happening.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Us talk silly.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
So I've got a cut here that's called COVID scam.
And I thought, oh no, how can it be about
COVID being a scam? That just conspiracy theory. And then
it turns out that it's just some idiot documenting fraud
during COVID wasn't quite the same thing.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
How he bought cars, a holiday, a house even with
this money. He was an MiQ boss basically submitted invoices
for work that never happened. One invoice was for three
hundred thousand dollars. Two of the companies the invoice four
didn't even exist. Now this is bad for two reasons. One,
how on onor Earth does some twenty five year old
(05:37):
who's been in the job for just five months bill
one point eight million dollars and get those invoices paid.
That's criminal who signed off on the checks, who was
in charge? That is outrageous. Number Two, the timing. The
judge in the case points out that the money went
out the door at a time when the government was
scrambling to deal with COVID. Except this guy was employed
(05:58):
October twenty twenty one to June twenty twenty two. We
were letting DJs through the border for rhythm and vines.
By then the Wiggle We're performing Big Red Car at
Spark Arena, So that doesn't add up in my mind.
It wasn't Panic stations. It was business as usual by
then for COVID. So who was writing the checks on
(06:20):
our behalf? Something tells me this guy probably wasn't alone
in taking the purse, taking us for a rider's taxpayers.
Give frauds us an inch, they'll take a mile. This was,
after all, peak adern Hipkin's money tap error, and the
tap was on and it was hosing out. We were
throwing money out the window like there was no tomorrow.
Was this the tip of the iceberg? And will anyone
(06:42):
other than the guy who duped us all be held
responsible for the fact it was allowed to happen in
the first place.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Isn't that a bit like holding the bank responsible for
bank robbers coming in and holding up the bank, or
the dairy owner responsible for somebody coming in and stealing
stuff from the dairy probably isn't I've probably got that wrong.
I'll get most things wrong, right. So with green shoots
(07:16):
and flickers and glimmers and signs of things improving, we're
looking for a lot of positive stories, aren't we. A
lot of people just can't help being negative. And I
think the Afternoon show is heading up?
Speaker 7 (07:29):
Are we too negative in this country? This Texas says
there's nothing more annoying than some relentlessly positive elitist twat
waffling on about how others should think ignoring their privileged
position in society that makes everything easier. Now, I think
there's something worse than that. There's nothing worse than apathetic misery,
guts trying to make their life meaningful for pretending they've
got hardships that are worse than other people. Compare yourself
(07:50):
to ninety percent of the other people on the planet.
You are in a privileged position, Texter, you are in
a very privileged position. But you're one of these people
that's always comparing to yourself to people in a better
position than you. That's going to floor And you know,
comparison is the thief for joy. Maybe I am an
Elita's sweat waffling on, But why don't you compare to
(08:11):
yourself with the person that's got no legs, that's living
in a dump and Mumbai, and then maybe feel a
bit better about your life.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Exactly. Some people are just never satisfied. There's two kinds
of people in this world. Is the people who are
easily satisfied like me, and then the people who are
never satisfied. And I think that those people, those two
different types of people should always marry each other, because
(08:38):
that's certainly what I did. I married somebody who's never satisfied,
and then you get a nice balance because you can't
just be somebody who's always satisfied with their lot, otherwise
you know, they never make any progress. But you also
can't be somebody who's never satisfied, because then you're just
miserable all the time, aren't you. So I don't know
(08:59):
how this turned into a relationship advice podcast, given that
I've absolutely no idea what I'm talking about. So let's
move on.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Set, right.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
I'm interested to hear what Marcus has to say about
bottle of water, and this can be highly devices.
Speaker 8 (09:14):
Of course, is he for again, here's a question for me.
I'm no trolley gazer at the supermarket. But I can't
help but notice it's a recent thing. Actually, maybe I
am a trolley gazer. People are buying a lot of water,
so some people half their trolley is giant bottles of water.
(09:38):
This is not Perrier or Evion. This is just giant
bottles of water or boxes with twenty four water and
like twenty four liter bottles.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
People are nuts for it.
Speaker 8 (09:55):
Why why are people buying all this water? What is
wrong with the tap water? I'm gonna missed the memo.
I can't work out way when it's so full on water?
Are they on bores and are worried? What's going on
for them? It seems as though within the nut last
year everyone switched to buying and drinking. I don't know
(10:18):
where it comes from. It always seems pretty sketchy. It's
not like brands, you know. It feels like it just
comes from I don't know where it's from. I'm not
saying there's anything wrong with the quality of it, but
what's wrong with the water out of the tap? So
if anyone can to answer me that, why you are
And this is said without judgment, I think I'm just
genuinely curious what's going on? Why have people decided that
(10:40):
we've got reticulated water they want no part of it?
Or are these country folk? You've got to realize if
I'm at the old packing slave and invers, half the
people will be rural folk. You can tell because the're
in the red bands and they're buying a lot of
dog food, and they're buying big trolleys of stuff like
they're doing a two week shop. But why they're buying
(11:01):
so much water?
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Maybe they've just bought a soda stream. I don't think
you're supposed to use tap water, supposed to have filtered
water at least, although that wouldn't make sense to buy
water in a bottle so you can put it in
your soda stream bottle and then put bubbles in it.
(11:23):
I'm a bit of I've just got a soda stream.
I've always wanted one ever since I was a kid,
and I got one for my birthday the other day,
which made me feel twelve years old, strangely straight away,
but very happy. And I've just I've just been drinking
bubbly water ever since, which also means that it seems
(11:46):
to spend every five minutes going to the toilet. I've
never drunk so much water. How do people drink water
all the time and not just spend their whole life
on the toilet. I don't understand anyway. Once again, I've
sort of I feel like I've revealed too many details
of my own life. You guys never give me anything.
It's just me the a very one way of this relationship. Anyway,
If you're interested in it again tomorrow, I'll see you
(12:10):
here for more disturbing details of my life.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
Hello, my beautiful beanies, and welcome to the bean for Thursday,
first of yesterday's news. I am Glen Hart, and we
are looking back at Wednesday. I can't believe we're still
talking about school lunches. Oh my god, anyway we are.
We're even talking still talking about COVID. I thought that
was finished. I thought we'd done. Am I being a bit?
(00:46):
Two nigatives? Are we all being a bit? Two negatives?
And Marcus wants a word on bottled water? But before
any of that, trust and police they're trying to improve it.
Recent events have in help, of course.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
What does satisfaction with service from offices mean? In recent times?
I had the car appropriated from an under ground locked garage.
The police couldn't have been more helpful. Admittedly, the car
was used by a five to zero one er to
commit an aggravated robbery, so you know, the car got
(01:20):
into bad company, so therefore it was found more quickly,
perhaps than if it had just been taken by a
joy rider professional. They were helpful, they were they had
a completely holistic understanding of crime, of the importance of
the victims of not me particularly, but those at the
(01:44):
wrong end of a firearm in the aggravated robbery. I
was really really impressed. What does satisfaction with service from
officers look like to you? Have you received it recently?
I would be very very interested to hear your thoughts.
(02:05):
What will it take to get eighty percent of New
Zealanders have in trust and confidence and police of New
Zealand is being satisfied with service? What do the police
need to do? I would argue, the police on the beat,
the police out there investigating, don't need to do much.
They're doing their job and doing it well. It's the
bosses that need a long, hard look in the mirror.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Yeah, I do we really do, do Joe, average public.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Like me?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Do we really delineate that match between the police we
see out on the roads, on the streets and the
people in the offices. It's all just one thing, isn't it?
Lift you game? Police? I think that's what we're saying
at the moment. I mean, Kuriy might have a point
that some of them don't need to but some of
them probably do.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
News talk, right.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
So this is like every day somebody else has got
more to say about school lunches, and I can't believe
that this one instance.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Of mulling food, which we've we've got a secure footage
now like this is we've got more evidence in this
than there was that the OJ Simpson trial.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
But she is correct in what she is claiming, which
means David Seymour's people and officials cannot be correct in
what they are claiming when they say that nine were
delivered and eight were taken away. So I asked them
for the evidence of that, because the delivery man is
signing a document when he's leaving, right, they will have
signed and sign out papers on that. I've been asking
them for hours for the proof of this not forthcoming.
(03:36):
We were told, oh, you know, we'll get you the infimationy,
I'll call this guy on this number year and you'll
be able to have Yet nothing. That guy on that
number never even answered the phone, So that calls that
into question. I mean, you have to question how truthful
the government's claims on this one. And I would say
it's not looking very good for them. But then on
the other hand, so at this stage it's one up
for Peggy, zero for David Seymour. But then on the
other hand, Peggy can't be trusted either because she keeps
(03:58):
saying she couldn't possibly have served those meals from four
days before because they were cold and they don't have
reheating facilities at the school. Actually, do a Google search
high out to community Camp has a full commercial kitchen
in cafeteria, which means they make food, so they can
definitely be reheating food. So I'm almost tempted to take
the one away from Peggy again. Called it zero for
both of them. I call it even not because both
(04:20):
of them are winners in this argument, but because both
have been tricky here. Peggy is playing politics because she
wants to discredit the supplied food so that her school
can get the food contract herself. That's what she wants.
David's playing politics because he wants to defend his food
in school's program, which has been subject to a couple
of years now of attacks. Neither side is clean here.
You can pick who you want to back on this,
because they're as good or as bad as each other.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
I mean, of the gazillion school lunches out there, we've
got one instance of a I love too the fact
that it couldn't have been the schools fault because they
don't have the facilities to reheat a meal or something. Honestly,
don't know what's happening.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Us talk silly.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
So I've got a cut here that's called COVID scam.
And I thought, oh no, how can it be about
COVID being a scam? That just conspiracy theory. And then
it turns out that it's just some idiot documenting fraud
during COVID wasn't quite the same thing.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
How he bought cars, a holiday, a house even with
this money. He was an MiQ boss basically submitted invoices
for work that never happened. One invoice was for three
hundred thousand dollars. Two of the companies the invoice four
didn't even exist. Now this is bad for two reasons. One,
how on onor Earth does some twenty five year old
(05:37):
who's been in the job for just five months bill
one point eight million dollars and get those invoices paid.
That's criminal who signed off on the checks, who was
in charge? That is outrageous. Number Two, the timing. The
judge in the case points out that the money went
out the door at a time when the government was
scrambling to deal with COVID. Except this guy was employed
(05:58):
October twenty twenty one to June twenty twenty two. We
were letting DJs through the border for rhythm and vines.
By then the Wiggle We're performing Big Red Car at
Spark Arena, So that doesn't add up in my mind.
It wasn't Panic stations. It was business as usual by
then for COVID. So who was writing the checks on
(06:20):
our behalf? Something tells me this guy probably wasn't alone
in taking the purse, taking us for a rider's taxpayers.
Give frauds us an inch, they'll take a mile. This was,
after all, peak adern Hipkin's money tap error, and the
tap was on and it was hosing out. We were
throwing money out the window like there was no tomorrow.
Was this the tip of the iceberg? And will anyone
(06:42):
other than the guy who duped us all be held
responsible for the fact it was allowed to happen in
the first place.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Isn't that a bit like holding the bank responsible for
bank robbers coming in and holding up the bank, or
the dairy owner responsible for somebody coming in and stealing
stuff from the dairy probably isn't I've probably got that wrong.
I'll get most things wrong, right. So with green shoots
(07:16):
and flickers and glimmers and signs of things improving, we're
looking for a lot of positive stories, aren't we. A
lot of people just can't help being negative. And I
think the Afternoon show is heading up?
Speaker 7 (07:29):
Are we too negative in this country? This Texas says
there's nothing more annoying than some relentlessly positive elitist twat
waffling on about how others should think ignoring their privileged
position in society that makes everything easier. Now, I think
there's something worse than that. There's nothing worse than apathetic misery,
guts trying to make their life meaningful for pretending they've
got hardships that are worse than other people. Compare yourself
(07:50):
to ninety percent of the other people on the planet.
You are in a privileged position, Texter, you are in
a very privileged position. But you're one of these people
that's always comparing to yourself to people in a better
position than you. That's going to floor And you know,
comparison is the thief for joy. Maybe I am an
Elita's sweat waffling on, But why don't you compare to
(08:11):
yourself with the person that's got no legs, that's living
in a dump and Mumbai, and then maybe feel a
bit better about your life.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Exactly. Some people are just never satisfied. There's two kinds
of people in this world. Is the people who are
easily satisfied like me, and then the people who are
never satisfied. And I think that those people, those two
different types of people should always marry each other, because
(08:38):
that's certainly what I did. I married somebody who's never satisfied,
and then you get a nice balance because you can't
just be somebody who's always satisfied with their lot, otherwise
you know, they never make any progress. But you also
can't be somebody who's never satisfied, because then you're just
miserable all the time, aren't you. So I don't know
(08:59):
how this turned into a relationship advice podcast, given that
I've absolutely no idea what I'm talking about. So let's
move on.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Set, right.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
I'm interested to hear what Marcus has to say about
bottle of water, and this can be highly devices.
Speaker 8 (09:14):
Of course, is he for again, here's a question for me.
I'm no trolley gazer at the supermarket. But I can't
help but notice it's a recent thing. Actually, maybe I
am a trolley gazer. People are buying a lot of water,
so some people half their trolley is giant bottles of water.
(09:38):
This is not Perrier or Evion. This is just giant
bottles of water or boxes with twenty four water and
like twenty four liter bottles.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
People are nuts for it.
Speaker 8 (09:55):
Why why are people buying all this water? What is
wrong with the tap water? I'm gonna missed the memo.
I can't work out way when it's so full on water?
Are they on bores and are worried? What's going on
for them? It seems as though within the nut last
year everyone switched to buying and drinking. I don't know
(10:18):
where it comes from. It always seems pretty sketchy. It's
not like brands, you know. It feels like it just
comes from I don't know where it's from. I'm not
saying there's anything wrong with the quality of it, but
what's wrong with the water out of the tap? So
if anyone can to answer me that, why you are
And this is said without judgment, I think I'm just
genuinely curious what's going on? Why have people decided that
(10:40):
we've got reticulated water they want no part of it?
Or are these country folk? You've got to realize if
I'm at the old packing slave and invers, half the
people will be rural folk. You can tell because the're
in the red bands and they're buying a lot of
dog food, and they're buying big trolleys of stuff like
they're doing a two week shop. But why they're buying
(11:01):
so much water?
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Maybe they've just bought a soda stream. I don't think
you're supposed to use tap water, supposed to have filtered
water at least, although that wouldn't make sense to buy
water in a bottle so you can put it in
your soda stream bottle and then put bubbles in it.
(11:23):
I'm a bit of I've just got a soda stream.
I've always wanted one ever since I was a kid,
and I got one for my birthday the other day,
which made me feel twelve years old, strangely straight away,
but very happy. And I've just I've just been drinking
bubbly water ever since, which also means that it seems
(11:46):
to spend every five minutes going to the toilet. I've
never drunk so much water. How do people drink water
all the time and not just spend their whole life
on the toilet. I don't understand anyway. Once again, I've
sort of I feel like I've revealed too many details
of my own life. You guys never give me anything.
It's just me the a very one way of this relationship. Anyway,
If you're interested in it again tomorrow, I'll see you
(12:10):
here for more disturbing details of my life.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
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