May 4, 2025 • 12 mins
FIRST WITH YESTERDAY'S NEWS (highlights from the weekend on Newstalk ZB) Still Some Lollies Left In the Bag/The Superest Season Yet/Thanks For the Siege/Covid Really Sucked/Good To Know
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
Hello, my beautiful beanies, and welcome to the Being the
Weekend edition, first of yesterday's News. I am Glenn Hart,
and we are looking back at Sunday and Saturday, which
are the most popular days for weekends. You would have
watched some super Rugio over the weekend probably we'll get
into that. Ben McIntyre is an author and he's got
(00:44):
some interesting subject matter to Sinker's Teeth into. Lady Sex
has put out some new music effectually the first time
in a while, and Jack came remembers his granddad's house
for some reason before any of that. No, if you
haven't got any money for anything, as we will, well
where except for heaps of new helicopters for the Air force.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Then what is the principal aim of this purchase for
these helicopters? Is it combat and defense or is it humanitarian?
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Well, it's all of those things. So that's the great
thing with defense is that they take a multitask. So
the factors we do need to have maritime helicopters, we
are a maritime nation. We're the ninth largest search and
economic zone the world, but we also have the fourth
largest search and rescue area. So a lot of the
(01:37):
sort of work that defense does out in the Pacific
in particular, and the Pessimency is saving people, dealing with
and tracking drug smugglers, people smugglers, all that sort of
work they can get involved in, but also illegal fishing.
(01:57):
So these are some of the tasks that they are
engaged in. And as I've said before, we can do
a lot with drones, but a drone can't really boardership
and a gown can't really pick up someone out of
a boat in the middle of the Tesmancy, So you know,
(02:18):
we do need to have them.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Sounds like we should have given the helicopters to I
don't know search and rescue.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Why.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
I quite understood why. It's the forces responsibility to go
and save people who aren't actually involved in a conflict.
They're just yeah, they're boats broken down anyway, it's any money.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
A news talk, has it been?
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Right?
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Super rugby has been a funny old season, and by
that I mean probably quite good, really quite competitive. Even
the team at the bottom of the table has won
three games the Onana PACIFICA. They beat the Highlanders yesterday.
Good for them, terrible for the Highlanders of course. So
(03:04):
this is going to be all good news, doesn't it.
Here's the broken chair to give.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Them Alloyd, All eleven teams are still in finals contention.
You know, real Jeopardy. How important is it that as
many teams as possible remain competitive and remain in the
playoff hunt as we enter the final month of the competition?
Speaker 5 (03:23):
Hey, look, is that is a key part of what
we're hoping to achieve at the competition this year. I mean,
Jeopardy is so important to the integrity of any competition.
So the fact that, as you say, we have all
eleven teams in contention at this stage is tremendous in
terms of, you know, going to keep fan interest. I've
actually been hitting a little glance towards the last round.
(03:45):
I couldn't help it. And Dee with lineups like Blues
versus Orators and Brumbies versus Crusaders, I can see this
thing coming down to the last week, in the last
six places not being sorted out into the final round,
which is fantastic.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Lots of things I want to discuss with you can
we start with what's happening on the field on the grass,
the way that the rugby is being played. How happy
are you with the rugby that we're seeing every weekend?
Speaker 5 (04:10):
But we're delighted, obviously it's been at the end of
the day, the rugby that has been played is the
product that we've got. Fundamentally, if we're getting great games
like we are, that's why it's going to keep the
fans interested, keep the crowds engaged, keep viewership up for us.
And so you know, the things that we've tried to
(04:30):
work on link the shot clocks and the pace of
the game, tweaking the off side laws, ensuring that the
and just moves along at a faster pacem to be
working well for us, and fair play to the teams
and the clubs have come to the party in the
style of the rugby that they're playing.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Yeah, but annoyed obviously that the Chiefs had a little
hook up. I think what's happened there is that they
came in the style of the game and they let
the Hurricans have a win. They're on a week with
(05:08):
the Crusaders weren't playing, so I wouldn't have picked them
at the top of the table. Not a bad move.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Do you talk, Sivine? Right?
Speaker 2 (05:16):
I remember the siege of the Iranian embassy in London.
I'll come on you see you do anyway, even if
you don't, you can now read a book read about it,
because this blike's written a book about it.
Speaker 6 (05:28):
How do you settle upon a subject like this?
Speaker 7 (05:32):
Well, this is one I've always wanted to write because
I was seventeen when this happened, and it was the
most dramatic thing I've ever seen on television. It was
an incredible sort of dramatic real life performance. It broke
into the snooker, which we were all glued to, you know,
it was an incredible moment. And so I've always wanted
to write about it because it's one of those stories
(05:53):
that entered mythology very quickly. It became a sort of
story of sort of sas daring do and kind of
you know, fighting against the odds. And you know, actually
that the story itself is much more complicated than that.
It's much more interesting to much more dense and conflicted
story about individual Australia and about characters and personality. So
(06:15):
I've really enjoyed writing this one. It's been great fun.
Speaker 6 (06:17):
Yeah, it's remarkable the amount of detail you're able to
extract from all sides of the of you know, of
the crisis. But just to remind our listeners, can you
just give us the basic outlines of the of the
hostage crisis? What happened?
Speaker 7 (06:32):
Absolutely so. This was in April nineteen eighty the US
embassy hostage crisis was still going on in Tehran, and
six armed gunmen burst into the Iranian embassy in London
and took twenty seven hostages.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Imagine interrupting the snooker to cover a story like that. Unbelievable,
crazy times think in the eighties, sic City, it's not
that long ago that Lady six put out some new music,
but it's been a while and now she has got
(07:10):
some I feel like I could have seen that a
little bit more tidally somehow. Anyway, here she is.
Speaker 8 (07:15):
Is it seven years since we had an EP from him?
Speaker 9 (07:19):
It's seven years? And I feel like when nobody cares,
nobody counts the COVID years, So five years can we true?
Speaker 8 (07:27):
That is so true? Look, we've had two singles so far.
The full album is less than a month away. How
are you feeling about its release.
Speaker 9 (07:36):
I am breaking out in height, so that sees everything. Really,
It's just one of those things where I really feel
like it's been so long I have to get back
on the back in the I don't know whatever the
mode I guess, but I'm very excited. And as it's
coming together, it sort of starts to like reignite the engine,
(07:59):
and I'm starting to get more and more excited as
time progresses towards during the first which is when the
album drops.
Speaker 8 (08:05):
This is said to be your most personal project today.
It's dedicated to your mother, who passed away in twenty twenty.
Tell me a little bit about your mum.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
Ah Mom.
Speaker 9 (08:16):
She was like a force of nature, the matriarch of
our family. She was a take no crap kind of
say it like it is kind of woman, and she
ended up sort of influencing me in that way. I
ended up I had those traits also and myself, and
(08:40):
she was a real mentor to me in the way
that she lived her life and the things that she
did with her life. So her passing was huge.
Speaker 8 (08:48):
Major Carolina know. She passed away during COVID and I
often think just how incredibly hard it must be in
those times, dealing with someone passing away with all those
restrictions and things in place. Was that your experience?
Speaker 9 (09:02):
Oh absolutely, along with the hundreds of other Kiwis that
lost people during COVID. It was kind of like a
I imagine a nightmare situation. You sort of don't know
how she actually passed on the very first day of
lockdown one.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Jesus jarring when you hear things like that, isn't it?
I mean, I don't know about you.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
That I've.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Repressed so much about those times and it all comes
bubbling up to the surface when you hear a terrible
story like that. It's fun podcast, isn't it?
Speaker 1 (09:38):
News Talk?
Speaker 9 (09:39):
Zeth Bean.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Let's keep it whimsical and do a little tour of
Jack's granddad's house. For some reason, the.
Speaker 6 (09:45):
Neighbors back then were mixed. I remember Granddad telling us
once that if we hit the tennis ball over the fence,
it was probably best just to get a new one.
I doubt the police were strangers to the neighborhood. Inside,
I used to curl up in Granddad's lazy boy and
read Grandma's gossip magazines by the fire. On the times
(10:07):
we stayed over, we read old biggles stories that Granddad
had lying around. We'd all get covered in labrador fur.
And they had a faux grandfather clock in the living
room with a mechanism that filled every silence. Granddad lived
(10:28):
in that house for fifty five years. He raised his
sons there, He lost his wife there. When it finally
came time for him to leave, my cousin found his
war medals secreted away in one of his drawers. When
I came round the corner, the rain was pelting the windscreen.
It took just a moment to get my bearings. The
(10:50):
little place next door was gone, a similarly vast section
where once there was a humble cottage. It was now
filled with a tidy row of modern units. But there
was Granddad's. Some of the baby blue cladding was missing
on the front of these, the hudder kicker and the
flowers at the front had all been ripped out. I'm
(11:13):
sure the veggie patch out in the back is done,
but the house was still there. Tired, yeah, but still there.
Nothing lasts forever. I can't say with certainty when I'll
be back, but I know one day I'm going to
come around that corner and Granddad's place will be gone.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
What's a faux grandfather clock?
Speaker 4 (11:34):
Like?
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Is it not either is it a grandfather clock? Or
is it not a grandfather clock? I think I've heard
of grandmother clocks, faux grandfather clock And then did some
of you out there going what's the clock as you
(11:57):
lift up your phone and check the time? I am
a green heart that has been news towards. It's been
sort of all over the place today, wasn't it. I'm
sure it'll be a much more organized, more sequential, more
logical episode tomorrow. I don't know why. I'm sure if
(12:18):
that it's never really happened before, but it could have
happen tomorrow. Come back tomorrow and find out us.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Talking talking has it been? For more from News Talk
sid 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, be you Talk.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Hello, my beautiful beanies, and welcome to the Being the
Weekend edition, first of yesterday's News. I am Glenn Hart,
and we are looking back at Sunday and Saturday, which
are the most popular days for weekends. You would have
watched some super Rugio over the weekend probably we'll get
into that. Ben McIntyre is an author and he's got
(00:44):
some interesting subject matter to Sinker's Teeth into. Lady Sex
has put out some new music effectually the first time
in a while, and Jack came remembers his granddad's house
for some reason before any of that. No, if you
haven't got any money for anything, as we will, well
where except for heaps of new helicopters for the Air force.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Then what is the principal aim of this purchase for
these helicopters? Is it combat and defense or is it humanitarian?
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Well, it's all of those things. So that's the great
thing with defense is that they take a multitask. So
the factors we do need to have maritime helicopters, we
are a maritime nation. We're the ninth largest search and
economic zone the world, but we also have the fourth
largest search and rescue area. So a lot of the
(01:37):
sort of work that defense does out in the Pacific
in particular, and the Pessimency is saving people, dealing with
and tracking drug smugglers, people smugglers, all that sort of
work they can get involved in, but also illegal fishing.
(01:57):
So these are some of the tasks that they are
engaged in. And as I've said before, we can do
a lot with drones, but a drone can't really boardership
and a gown can't really pick up someone out of
a boat in the middle of the Tesmancy, So you know,
(02:18):
we do need to have them.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Sounds like we should have given the helicopters to I
don't know search and rescue.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Why.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
I quite understood why. It's the forces responsibility to go
and save people who aren't actually involved in a conflict.
They're just yeah, they're boats broken down anyway, it's any money.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
A news talk, has it been?
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Right?
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Super rugby has been a funny old season, and by
that I mean probably quite good, really quite competitive. Even
the team at the bottom of the table has won
three games the Onana PACIFICA. They beat the Highlanders yesterday.
Good for them, terrible for the Highlanders of course. So
(03:04):
this is going to be all good news, doesn't it.
Here's the broken chair to give.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Them Alloyd, All eleven teams are still in finals contention.
You know, real Jeopardy. How important is it that as
many teams as possible remain competitive and remain in the
playoff hunt as we enter the final month of the competition?
Speaker 5 (03:23):
Hey, look, is that is a key part of what
we're hoping to achieve at the competition this year. I mean,
Jeopardy is so important to the integrity of any competition.
So the fact that, as you say, we have all
eleven teams in contention at this stage is tremendous in
terms of, you know, going to keep fan interest. I've
actually been hitting a little glance towards the last round.
(03:45):
I couldn't help it. And Dee with lineups like Blues
versus Orators and Brumbies versus Crusaders, I can see this
thing coming down to the last week, in the last
six places not being sorted out into the final round,
which is fantastic.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Lots of things I want to discuss with you can
we start with what's happening on the field on the grass,
the way that the rugby is being played. How happy
are you with the rugby that we're seeing every weekend?
Speaker 5 (04:10):
But we're delighted, obviously it's been at the end of
the day, the rugby that has been played is the
product that we've got. Fundamentally, if we're getting great games
like we are, that's why it's going to keep the
fans interested, keep the crowds engaged, keep viewership up for us.
And so you know, the things that we've tried to
(04:30):
work on link the shot clocks and the pace of
the game, tweaking the off side laws, ensuring that the
and just moves along at a faster pacem to be
working well for us, and fair play to the teams
and the clubs have come to the party in the
style of the rugby that they're playing.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Yeah, but annoyed obviously that the Chiefs had a little
hook up. I think what's happened there is that they
came in the style of the game and they let
the Hurricans have a win. They're on a week with
(05:08):
the Crusaders weren't playing, so I wouldn't have picked them
at the top of the table. Not a bad move.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Do you talk, Sivine? Right?
Speaker 2 (05:16):
I remember the siege of the Iranian embassy in London.
I'll come on you see you do anyway, even if
you don't, you can now read a book read about it,
because this blike's written a book about it.
Speaker 6 (05:28):
How do you settle upon a subject like this?
Speaker 7 (05:32):
Well, this is one I've always wanted to write because
I was seventeen when this happened, and it was the
most dramatic thing I've ever seen on television. It was
an incredible sort of dramatic real life performance. It broke
into the snooker, which we were all glued to, you know,
it was an incredible moment. And so I've always wanted
to write about it because it's one of those stories
(05:53):
that entered mythology very quickly. It became a sort of
story of sort of sas daring do and kind of
you know, fighting against the odds. And you know, actually
that the story itself is much more complicated than that.
It's much more interesting to much more dense and conflicted
story about individual Australia and about characters and personality. So
(06:15):
I've really enjoyed writing this one. It's been great fun.
Speaker 6 (06:17):
Yeah, it's remarkable the amount of detail you're able to
extract from all sides of the of you know, of
the crisis. But just to remind our listeners, can you
just give us the basic outlines of the of the
hostage crisis? What happened?
Speaker 7 (06:32):
Absolutely so. This was in April nineteen eighty the US
embassy hostage crisis was still going on in Tehran, and
six armed gunmen burst into the Iranian embassy in London
and took twenty seven hostages.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Imagine interrupting the snooker to cover a story like that. Unbelievable,
crazy times think in the eighties, sic City, it's not
that long ago that Lady six put out some new music,
but it's been a while and now she has got
(07:10):
some I feel like I could have seen that a
little bit more tidally somehow. Anyway, here she is.
Speaker 8 (07:15):
Is it seven years since we had an EP from him?
Speaker 9 (07:19):
It's seven years? And I feel like when nobody cares,
nobody counts the COVID years, So five years can we true?
Speaker 8 (07:27):
That is so true? Look, we've had two singles so far.
The full album is less than a month away. How
are you feeling about its release.
Speaker 9 (07:36):
I am breaking out in height, so that sees everything. Really,
It's just one of those things where I really feel
like it's been so long I have to get back
on the back in the I don't know whatever the
mode I guess, but I'm very excited. And as it's
coming together, it sort of starts to like reignite the engine,
(07:59):
and I'm starting to get more and more excited as
time progresses towards during the first which is when the
album drops.
Speaker 8 (08:05):
This is said to be your most personal project today.
It's dedicated to your mother, who passed away in twenty twenty.
Tell me a little bit about your mum.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
Ah Mom.
Speaker 9 (08:16):
She was like a force of nature, the matriarch of
our family. She was a take no crap kind of
say it like it is kind of woman, and she
ended up sort of influencing me in that way. I
ended up I had those traits also and myself, and
(08:40):
she was a real mentor to me in the way
that she lived her life and the things that she
did with her life. So her passing was huge.
Speaker 8 (08:48):
Major Carolina know. She passed away during COVID and I
often think just how incredibly hard it must be in
those times, dealing with someone passing away with all those
restrictions and things in place. Was that your experience?
Speaker 9 (09:02):
Oh absolutely, along with the hundreds of other Kiwis that
lost people during COVID. It was kind of like a
I imagine a nightmare situation. You sort of don't know
how she actually passed on the very first day of
lockdown one.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Jesus jarring when you hear things like that, isn't it?
I mean, I don't know about you.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
That I've.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Repressed so much about those times and it all comes
bubbling up to the surface when you hear a terrible
story like that. It's fun podcast, isn't it?
Speaker 1 (09:38):
News Talk?
Speaker 9 (09:39):
Zeth Bean.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Let's keep it whimsical and do a little tour of
Jack's granddad's house. For some reason, the.
Speaker 6 (09:45):
Neighbors back then were mixed. I remember Granddad telling us
once that if we hit the tennis ball over the fence,
it was probably best just to get a new one.
I doubt the police were strangers to the neighborhood. Inside,
I used to curl up in Granddad's lazy boy and
read Grandma's gossip magazines by the fire. On the times
(10:07):
we stayed over, we read old biggles stories that Granddad
had lying around. We'd all get covered in labrador fur.
And they had a faux grandfather clock in the living
room with a mechanism that filled every silence. Granddad lived
(10:28):
in that house for fifty five years. He raised his
sons there, He lost his wife there. When it finally
came time for him to leave, my cousin found his
war medals secreted away in one of his drawers. When
I came round the corner, the rain was pelting the windscreen.
It took just a moment to get my bearings. The
(10:50):
little place next door was gone, a similarly vast section
where once there was a humble cottage. It was now
filled with a tidy row of modern units. But there
was Granddad's. Some of the baby blue cladding was missing
on the front of these, the hudder kicker and the
flowers at the front had all been ripped out. I'm
(11:13):
sure the veggie patch out in the back is done,
but the house was still there. Tired, yeah, but still there.
Nothing lasts forever. I can't say with certainty when I'll
be back, but I know one day I'm going to
come around that corner and Granddad's place will be gone.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
What's a faux grandfather clock?
Speaker 4 (11:34):
Like?
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Is it not either is it a grandfather clock? Or
is it not a grandfather clock? I think I've heard
of grandmother clocks, faux grandfather clock And then did some
of you out there going what's the clock as you
(11:57):
lift up your phone and check the time? I am
a green heart that has been news towards. It's been
sort of all over the place today, wasn't it. I'm
sure it'll be a much more organized, more sequential, more
logical episode tomorrow. I don't know why. I'm sure if
(12:18):
that it's never really happened before, but it could have
happen tomorrow. Come back tomorrow and find out us.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Talking talking has it been? For more from News Talk
sid 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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