June 8, 2025 • 11 mins
FIRST WITH YESTERDAY'S NEWS (highlights from the weekend on Newstalk ZB) The Ultimate Match Made In Hell/Up the Wahs Indeed/Stop the Polls/Recommended Watching/Recommended Eating
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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 said, Hello.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
My beautiful beanies, and welcome to the Being the Weekly edition.
First with yesterday's news. I am Glen Hart, and we
are looking back at Sunday and Saturday. From my experience,
are some of the best days to have a weekend.
On the Warriors up the wars Indeed, Poles, I've got it.
I don't know how many times I have to say this, God,
(00:45):
stop doing them good, Stop taking your notice of them.
Francesca's got some recommended viewing for you, and then Jack's
got some recommended eating. But before any of that, the
Mask versus Trump romance has turned into wow, a major split.
(01:06):
Let's be honest.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Well, sure he has achieved some extraordinary things. I for one,
used to be a big fan. You only need to
log into x to see that one of the most
productive human beings in the history of our species is
these days dedicating an obscene amount of his time to
juvenile posts, lies, and conspiracy theories on social media. Unlike
(01:32):
Donald Trump, Elon Musk isn't charismatic, He isn't funny, the
more people see of him, the less they seem to
like him and his products. And despite his threats to
start a third political party and take down Republicans who
support the president and the president's bill, he doesn't have
anything like the pulling power or the kind of you know,
(01:55):
the cult support that Donald Trump enjoys. In April, Elon
Musk poured almost fifty million New Zealand dollars into a
single judicial election in Wisconsin and his candidate lost. This
wasn't like the federal elections. This wasn't a presidential race.
This was a single judicial election and his candidate lost.
(02:15):
If anything, Elon Musk's money and his support hurt the
guy's chances. So look, who knows where this feud is headed.
Maybe they will cool off and make up in a
few days time regardless, though, as far as I'm concerned,
there will only be one winner, and it won't be
Elon Musk.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Yeah, I feel like it's definitely a confirmation that your
relationship is not really salvagable when your ex posts on
Twitter sorry X, your ex hosts on X that you
(02:53):
are in the Epstein files. That's definitely a science. All
over news talk Z been What isn't all over is
the Warriors season. Far from it. I mean, just scintillating
performance from them over the weekend.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Was this your best performance of the season.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
Yeah, maybe, I'd say it was for sure from round
two mainly it was pretty good. But yeah, I thought
that was definitely our best performance where we put all
the pieces together, which is very pleasing.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
When you score forty points, obviously you're happy with the attack,
But are you just as satisfied, if not more, with
only conceding ten your second fewest points conceded this season.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
Yeah, definitely. I think our attack complimented our defense last
night and vice versa. I think we had to defend
our trial on and the end there betweenty two players,
and then we come up with in the set and
go the other way. I think we scored tries on
last place and kicks because our attack was so good
getting us down the field. So yeah, I think we
(04:03):
kind of pieced all our facets of our game last night,
which complimented each other really well.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Yeah. I mean that is the appeal of regular league,
isn't it. I mean, if you can score lots of
points and stop the other team from scoring many, the
rest peep of success, really, isn't it Unless you can't
carry on with that, it seems to be working for them. Yeah,
my continuous, continuous, continual question. The question I kept asking
(04:35):
again and again and again last week was why are
they doing polls? And more importantly, why is anybody taking
any notices of them? I feel like Tim was asking
the same sort of questions.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
What's the point of political polls at this time of year?
Speaker 7 (04:50):
Well, it gives you a snapshot on the government. Is
that relative to the other parties of course? Or you
always say, you know, don't look at any particular poll.
It's the trend that matters. And what all the polls
are telling us is that it's actually very close. You
mentioned the TVNZ and the RNZ read research. You know,
TVNZ had a majority of the center right, I think
(05:12):
of two seats are in zen is a majority of
the cent to the center left of two seats. Both
of those tell you it's very close indeed.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
Okay, so just explain to me. I've got a bit
of a beef, which you can probably allay with the
margin of area of three point one percent. So One
News spend a lot of time talking about all such
and such as down one or down two. It's all
within the margin of era being three point one percent,
which I understand means if somebody scores, say ten percent,
(05:41):
we're confident that they're in reality between seven and thirteen percent.
So can you put that in perspective for me, because
it's almost never any not even lip service paid to it.
Speaker 7 (05:52):
That's not quite right, of course, so that when they
talk about the the margin of era, what they mean
is sorry to put a stats head on, but go
for it. It's an air it's a confidence interval, and
so you you know, statistically it's it's it's either nineteen
or ninety five percent confidence. It's end that bound.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
So there you go. It proves it. They're absolutely worthless,
no point to whatsoever.
Speaker 7 (06:21):
As as.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Mister Sefton always us to say in sixth form stats,
the point of stats is you can tell lies and
have the facts to back you up. Something like that.
I wasn't really paying attention you talk, sill. Do you
need a viewing recommendation? Have you come to the end
of your your my list the things that you've added
(06:46):
to my list. We're talking about streaming silly.
Speaker 8 (06:50):
It's a crime drama filled with small town secrets buried
drama and grief. And at the heart of this film,
giving another acting masterclass is our very own key we legend,
Robin Malcolm.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Look.
Speaker 8 (07:03):
Every time I see Malcolm in a new role these days,
I say, oh, it's her best before Mormans. Yet she
is at the top of her game. But it occurred
to me this weekend. She's always been at the top
of her game, whether on Shortland Street, Outrageous Fortune, Jane
Campion's Top of the Lake, or Ossie Comedy's Rake, or
Upper Middle Bogan. But there's no doubt Malcolm just keeps
(07:25):
getting better. While many other actors discuss the difficulty of
getting work once a woman hits a certain age, Malcolm
reminds us that the middle years can be the glory years,
that a life of experience and hard work can lead
to roles of a lifetime. Recent performances and after the Party, Pike,
River and the Survivors are giving writers a reason to
(07:46):
write wonderfully layered, messed up characters for women like Malcolm
to play. And if you look at Robin's resume, you'd
think that she'd been employed consistently since walking out of
drama school in nineteen eighty seven. But I know it
hasn't always been easy. Being an actor is not an
easy life, no matter how damn good you are at it.
But watching Malcolm, along with Diane Taylor, pick up a
(08:06):
pen and create a project for herself, The Best Nominated
After the Party, proves he can be middle aged, relevant,
celebrated and seen if you want to be. It's hard
to take your eyes off her in The Survivor, but
just wait until you see her in Rob Psychy's new
film Pike River, which has been released in New Zealand
and October. Yep, you guessed it her best work yet. Seriously,
(08:30):
she is spectacular as Sonya rock House. There is no
doubt twenty twenty five is going to be a great
year for Malcolm, and I'm sure it's just the beginning
of an amazing third.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Act The Survivors. Sorry, I probably should have told you
the name of the program there whoops had apparently rubin.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Malcolm's in it news talk zeb been right.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Who doesn't love Nadia Limb? We all do. She's got
a new book out, but it's actually her old book,
but it's just what was What's the difference?
Speaker 3 (09:05):
So I can imagine that when the publisher comes to
you and says it's the tenth anniversary of Easy week
in Weeknight Meals that you kind of have two responses.
Like part of you is like, oh, this would be
a really good opportunity to share some other, you know, recipes,
if we if we do a bit of a tenth
anniversary special edition. But the other side of you is like,
h ten years, Oh my god, what so how do
(09:27):
you how do you how do you reconcile those feelings?
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (09:31):
Ten ten years goes faster. I feel like the older
you get, the faster time goes. I'm sure you know
lots of people feel that way. My mum always used
to say it, and it's and it's absolutely true. I mean,
I'm forty this year, and I started this journey out
when I was like twenty five, and gosh, the time's
just flown by. But it's often when like I've always
(09:52):
I've never been a great person at kind of looking
back in the past, but when anniversaries like this come around,
it's a good time to kind of look back and stop,
pause and reflect and go wow, just think think back
to ten years ago and what things were like back then,
and what I was doing then, and what I was
feeling back then, and what the business was like back then,
and you know, fast forward to now, and it's a
(10:14):
really good time to reflect and I think about I
remember creating this book, Easy Weeknight Meals, ten years ago,
and I was brand new into the industry. You know,
it was such a big deal to be creating a
cookbook and doing all the food starting for it and
creating all the recipes and writing them and editing them
and all of that. And now I've had, you know,
(10:35):
over ten years experience of doing it, and it's just like,
I can do it, you know, easy peasy.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Now. It's interesting that this trend that seems to be
happening certainly in the music world, you know, fortieth anniversary albums,
fiftieth anniversary albums, you know, they re released stuff. Nobody's
ever come up to me and said, oh, that's been
(11:00):
you know, twenty four years since you started working at
news towards their b Do you want to do some
of that news again?
Speaker 4 (11:10):
Why?
Speaker 2 (11:10):
That is been a pretty successful career, run awards a
lot of people. Listen, don't you want to hear those
some of the news again? No? Okay, Oh well, that's
what this podcast is about. Of course, although you don't
have to wait ten years, forty years, or fifty years.
(11:32):
It usually happens the next day. It's News Talks. He'd been,
so I'll be back with today's news tomorrow. Then News
Talking Talks it been.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
For more from News Talks at 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 said, Hello.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
My beautiful beanies, and welcome to the Being the Weekly edition.
First with yesterday's news. I am Glen Hart, and we
are looking back at Sunday and Saturday. From my experience,
are some of the best days to have a weekend.
On the Warriors up the wars Indeed, Poles, I've got it.
I don't know how many times I have to say this, God,
(00:45):
stop doing them good, Stop taking your notice of them.
Francesca's got some recommended viewing for you, and then Jack's
got some recommended eating. But before any of that, the
Mask versus Trump romance has turned into wow, a major split.
(01:06):
Let's be honest.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Well, sure he has achieved some extraordinary things. I for one,
used to be a big fan. You only need to
log into x to see that one of the most
productive human beings in the history of our species is
these days dedicating an obscene amount of his time to
juvenile posts, lies, and conspiracy theories on social media. Unlike
(01:32):
Donald Trump, Elon Musk isn't charismatic, He isn't funny, the
more people see of him, the less they seem to
like him and his products. And despite his threats to
start a third political party and take down Republicans who
support the president and the president's bill, he doesn't have
anything like the pulling power or the kind of you know,
(01:55):
the cult support that Donald Trump enjoys. In April, Elon
Musk poured almost fifty million New Zealand dollars into a
single judicial election in Wisconsin and his candidate lost. This
wasn't like the federal elections. This wasn't a presidential race.
This was a single judicial election and his candidate lost.
(02:15):
If anything, Elon Musk's money and his support hurt the
guy's chances. So look, who knows where this feud is headed.
Maybe they will cool off and make up in a
few days time regardless, though, as far as I'm concerned,
there will only be one winner, and it won't be
Elon Musk.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Yeah, I feel like it's definitely a confirmation that your
relationship is not really salvagable when your ex posts on
Twitter sorry X, your ex hosts on X that you
(02:53):
are in the Epstein files. That's definitely a science. All
over news talk Z been What isn't all over is
the Warriors season. Far from it. I mean, just scintillating
performance from them over the weekend.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Was this your best performance of the season.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
Yeah, maybe, I'd say it was for sure from round
two mainly it was pretty good. But yeah, I thought
that was definitely our best performance where we put all
the pieces together, which is very pleasing.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
When you score forty points, obviously you're happy with the attack,
But are you just as satisfied, if not more, with
only conceding ten your second fewest points conceded this season.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
Yeah, definitely. I think our attack complimented our defense last
night and vice versa. I think we had to defend
our trial on and the end there betweenty two players,
and then we come up with in the set and
go the other way. I think we scored tries on
last place and kicks because our attack was so good
getting us down the field. So yeah, I think we
(04:03):
kind of pieced all our facets of our game last night,
which complimented each other really well.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Yeah. I mean that is the appeal of regular league,
isn't it. I mean, if you can score lots of
points and stop the other team from scoring many, the
rest peep of success, really, isn't it Unless you can't
carry on with that, it seems to be working for them. Yeah,
my continuous, continuous, continual question. The question I kept asking
(04:35):
again and again and again last week was why are
they doing polls? And more importantly, why is anybody taking
any notices of them? I feel like Tim was asking
the same sort of questions.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
What's the point of political polls at this time of year?
Speaker 7 (04:50):
Well, it gives you a snapshot on the government. Is
that relative to the other parties of course? Or you
always say, you know, don't look at any particular poll.
It's the trend that matters. And what all the polls
are telling us is that it's actually very close. You
mentioned the TVNZ and the RNZ read research. You know,
TVNZ had a majority of the center right, I think
(05:12):
of two seats are in zen is a majority of
the cent to the center left of two seats. Both
of those tell you it's very close indeed.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
Okay, so just explain to me. I've got a bit
of a beef, which you can probably allay with the
margin of area of three point one percent. So One
News spend a lot of time talking about all such
and such as down one or down two. It's all
within the margin of era being three point one percent,
which I understand means if somebody scores, say ten percent,
(05:41):
we're confident that they're in reality between seven and thirteen percent.
So can you put that in perspective for me, because
it's almost never any not even lip service paid to it.
Speaker 7 (05:52):
That's not quite right, of course, so that when they
talk about the the margin of era, what they mean
is sorry to put a stats head on, but go
for it. It's an air it's a confidence interval, and
so you you know, statistically it's it's it's either nineteen
or ninety five percent confidence. It's end that bound.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
So there you go. It proves it. They're absolutely worthless,
no point to whatsoever.
Speaker 7 (06:21):
As as.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Mister Sefton always us to say in sixth form stats,
the point of stats is you can tell lies and
have the facts to back you up. Something like that.
I wasn't really paying attention you talk, sill. Do you
need a viewing recommendation? Have you come to the end
of your your my list the things that you've added
(06:46):
to my list. We're talking about streaming silly.
Speaker 8 (06:50):
It's a crime drama filled with small town secrets buried
drama and grief. And at the heart of this film,
giving another acting masterclass is our very own key we legend,
Robin Malcolm.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Look.
Speaker 8 (07:03):
Every time I see Malcolm in a new role these days,
I say, oh, it's her best before Mormans. Yet she
is at the top of her game. But it occurred
to me this weekend. She's always been at the top
of her game, whether on Shortland Street, Outrageous Fortune, Jane
Campion's Top of the Lake, or Ossie Comedy's Rake, or
Upper Middle Bogan. But there's no doubt Malcolm just keeps
(07:25):
getting better. While many other actors discuss the difficulty of
getting work once a woman hits a certain age, Malcolm
reminds us that the middle years can be the glory years,
that a life of experience and hard work can lead
to roles of a lifetime. Recent performances and after the Party, Pike,
River and the Survivors are giving writers a reason to
(07:46):
write wonderfully layered, messed up characters for women like Malcolm
to play. And if you look at Robin's resume, you'd
think that she'd been employed consistently since walking out of
drama school in nineteen eighty seven. But I know it
hasn't always been easy. Being an actor is not an
easy life, no matter how damn good you are at it.
But watching Malcolm, along with Diane Taylor, pick up a
(08:06):
pen and create a project for herself, The Best Nominated
After the Party, proves he can be middle aged, relevant,
celebrated and seen if you want to be. It's hard
to take your eyes off her in The Survivor, but
just wait until you see her in Rob Psychy's new
film Pike River, which has been released in New Zealand
and October. Yep, you guessed it her best work yet. Seriously,
(08:30):
she is spectacular as Sonya rock House. There is no
doubt twenty twenty five is going to be a great
year for Malcolm, and I'm sure it's just the beginning
of an amazing third.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Act The Survivors. Sorry, I probably should have told you
the name of the program there whoops had apparently rubin.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Malcolm's in it news talk zeb been right.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Who doesn't love Nadia Limb? We all do. She's got
a new book out, but it's actually her old book,
but it's just what was What's the difference?
Speaker 3 (09:05):
So I can imagine that when the publisher comes to
you and says it's the tenth anniversary of Easy week
in Weeknight Meals that you kind of have two responses.
Like part of you is like, oh, this would be
a really good opportunity to share some other, you know, recipes,
if we if we do a bit of a tenth
anniversary special edition. But the other side of you is like,
h ten years, Oh my god, what so how do
(09:27):
you how do you how do you reconcile those feelings?
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (09:31):
Ten ten years goes faster. I feel like the older
you get, the faster time goes. I'm sure you know
lots of people feel that way. My mum always used
to say it, and it's and it's absolutely true. I mean,
I'm forty this year, and I started this journey out
when I was like twenty five, and gosh, the time's
just flown by. But it's often when like I've always
(09:52):
I've never been a great person at kind of looking
back in the past, but when anniversaries like this come around,
it's a good time to kind of look back and stop,
pause and reflect and go wow, just think think back
to ten years ago and what things were like back then,
and what I was doing then, and what I was
feeling back then, and what the business was like back then,
and you know, fast forward to now, and it's a
(10:14):
really good time to reflect and I think about I
remember creating this book, Easy Weeknight Meals, ten years ago,
and I was brand new into the industry. You know,
it was such a big deal to be creating a
cookbook and doing all the food starting for it and
creating all the recipes and writing them and editing them
and all of that. And now I've had, you know,
(10:35):
over ten years experience of doing it, and it's just like,
I can do it, you know, easy peasy.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Now. It's interesting that this trend that seems to be
happening certainly in the music world, you know, fortieth anniversary albums,
fiftieth anniversary albums, you know, they re released stuff. Nobody's
ever come up to me and said, oh, that's been
(11:00):
you know, twenty four years since you started working at
news towards their b Do you want to do some
of that news again?
Speaker 4 (11:10):
Why?
Speaker 2 (11:10):
That is been a pretty successful career, run awards a
lot of people. Listen, don't you want to hear those
some of the news again? No? Okay, Oh well, that's
what this podcast is about. Of course, although you don't
have to wait ten years, forty years, or fifty years.
(11:32):
It usually happens the next day. It's News Talks. He'd been,
so I'll be back with today's news tomorrow. Then News
Talking Talks it been.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
For more from News Talks at 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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