July 4, 2024 • 12 mins
FIRST WITH YESTERDAY'S NEWS (highlights from Thursday on Newstalk ZB) The Kick-Ass Fast-Track Government/Time's Up for Tories/Biden Can't Go/Cold, Innit?/Salad Brain
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
You Talk said, Hello, my beautiful beanies, and welcome to
the bean for Friday. First of yesterday's news. I am
Glen Hart, and we are looking back at Thursday, and yeah,
we were building up to the UK election, which was
happening as I speak, might be finished by the time
you hear this. Another election, of course, is a few
(00:44):
months away yet the US presidential election. Will Joe Biden
be there when it happens. It's cold because we just
oh yes, this winter and Marcus and Salad and memory
to finish up with before any of that. Government's fixing
(01:05):
the housing problem by grabbing up more land and making
it available to actually put the houses on. Well, it's
a plan, I suppose.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
And market pressures is a story from a couple from
twenty twenty one. Market pressures will increase with more demand
as the population grows here and overseas. Only about fifteen
percent of land is flat with good soil and climate
that makes it ideal for food production, which means it
needs less irrigation and fertilizers. The Ministry for the Environment
(01:38):
set of productive land was not available for agriculture. It
forced less suitable areas to be used, requiring more fertilizer
and more irrigation, which could then hurt the wider environment.
I am absolutely not against building more homes, building more apartments,
building more houses. We have to oh, there's no two
(02:02):
ways about it, but we have to do it properly
to recognize that if we don't do it well, all
we're doing is tacking up a problem in the short
term while creating a much much bigger problem down the line.
And I think future generations will have more than enough
(02:23):
to deal with without us giving them even more problems.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Yes, so I think some people are just starting to
wonder if this whole fast track government, this kick ass
fast track government, as Christopher Luxeon would call it. It
does using the word kick ass, which is funny. It
meanses me anyway. Yeah, I think people are saying to
(02:50):
wonder if there will be a little bit of bars
and break down the track just starting.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
To we'll see news talk has it been.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Perhaps the biggest case of bars ever is about to
manifest itself in the UK, with the Electric deciding that
the Torri's time as well, and truly up snip elections?
Are they ever a good idea?
Speaker 5 (03:15):
If you are serving at the will of the people,
time will get you one way or another. Of course
your record counts, of course it does. But the clue
that time is the ultimate arbiter is in what the
outgoing party gets replaced with. Kostarmer leads a vastly better
version of the British Labour Party than Jeremy Corbyn ever did,
so in that sense he can quite rightly claim to
have reformed it. But it was such a basket case
that trick wasn't particularly hard, I would have thought. But
(03:37):
whatever it is that they are these days doesn't really matter,
the same way that whatever it was the New Zealand
Labour Party was in twenty twenty didn't really matter. People
don't pay attention to the detail. They should, but they don't.
They either don't care, or they don't inquire, or both,
and both are dangerous. Which is not to say British
Labor will be a disaster. They may or they may not.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Be.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
Forces well beyond government's control tend to shape national moods
unless you are particularly bad, as New Zealand labor very
quickly showed twenty seventeen through twenty twenty three. But it
is lesson in not looking far too much at the
minutia to explain the demise. Basically it is. It is
about as complicated as it gets.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Yes, it's fair funny is that the older you get,
I've become very philosophical about this sort of stuff. And
now in my sixth decade of life, you know, everything
just happens over time, and if you don't like what's
happening now, it'll change and something will happen next week,
(04:40):
next year, next decade.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Qu'es talk, Sibban, I.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Mean next decade. I don't think Joe Biden's going to
be around really.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
And it is more likely now that he leaves because
of the stuff that's happened in the last twenty four hours.
One of the most damaging thing that's happened is that
Reid Hastings, who's the co founder of Netflix and a
mega donor to the Democrats, has gone public and said
Biden needs to step down. He spoke to The New
York Times. He said he needs to step aside to
allow a vigorous Democratic leader to beat Trump and keep
(05:07):
us safe and prosperous. Now that makes him one of
the first major donors to break ranks. Now that he's
done it, watch others will do it too, because that's
how politics works. Another damaging thing is that the Wall
Street Journal has put out a poll that shows that
Trump now has a six point lead over Biden. Now
that is the widest lead that Trump has had in
(05:28):
almost three years. Makes it very, very hard for Biden
to beat Trump because Biden, in order to win, he
needs a two point lead, and he's now six points behind. Also, yes,
it's not over. Also, there are reports that Biden is
privately considering stepping down. Somebody's leak that that's damaging. Also,
there are reports that they are now seriously considering Kamala
Harris's his replacement. Someone's leaked that that's also damaging. What
(05:52):
this shows you is that you just can't gaslight people,
no matter how hard the Democrats have tried. You can't
pretend something that people can see is happening is not happening.
The Biden camp has tried very, very very hard to
gas light people since Friday. They said it was a cold,
they said it was jet lag, they said it was
just a bad night. They said, you have bad debates.
Sometimes they rolled out Barack Obama, They're rolled out Jill
(06:13):
Biden has rolled out the governors today. But in the end,
people saw what they saw. And now, being the fickle
person that I am, I'm changing my prediction. He's gone
not gonna stick it out.
Speaker 7 (06:25):
I can't.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Yeah, I can't believe that because I don't. I just
don't think that they've got a viable alternative. I mean,
polling shows that, you know, there's a couple of people
that they can put in there that might poll a
little bit better, but not significantly. It not like massively
so much that they are a good option. So yeah,
(06:47):
I can't see that happening. But anyway, what do I know.
Now it's the fifth of July. We're into well into winter,
and that means it's cold. I don't think this is news.
I think it's weather.
Speaker 7 (07:07):
I'll tell you something. We've got some sunshine and christ jittch. Now,
most people probably don't give a flying fat rat s
bottom about that, but we've had gray weather for well,
it's felt like ten days minimum.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Yeah, But the thing is that it looks good, but
it feels very very cold. Yeah, I just rode in
on my bike and my feet are still frozen. Yeah,
it'll be minus three tonight, they tell us. Yeah, James
rides in every day rain, hail, sleet or snow. My
daughter actually passed James and he has someone as wet
weather gear on. He looks ridiculous and she warm and
she text me this is yesterday. She text me and goes, Dad,
(07:41):
can James not a Ford petrol? Tell him I'll give
him a lift to work. So I told James, we
have gone to work.
Speaker 7 (07:48):
Now. I admire you, I respect you.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
That's very impressive.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Could you buy me some nice warm boots for my
feet because I still frozen from riding in this morning.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Man, anytime I start feeling cold, I think back to
when I used to ride my bike to school and
Cambridge when it was a black frost. Was when the
fold comes I over the couple of the frost, so
you can't see where you're riding. You get damp and
cold as your bike crunches over the ice that won't
mout all day long. And I'd be wearing the Jersey
(08:19):
mc jacket, Mabella clabor, my gloves, the scarf. You gotta
layer up.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
News talk Z bean.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
You tell the kids that these days and they won't
believe it. I used to have the saxophone strapped to
the back of the bike, my guitar on my back,
my school bag strapped to the top of the saxophone.
What a cool guy, I was, Hey, let's finish up here?
Is this salad talk or memory talk? I'm not quite sure.
Speaker 8 (08:47):
It's one hundred anniversary of the Caesar Salad and I
got to it.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
I thought, what is that?
Speaker 8 (08:52):
Does that have bacon or not? I've had to actually
go to the Wikipedia page of a Caesars how to
see it has bacon or not. Two things I blame.
One is the Internet, because it's almost as though I
think we've become less reliant on our memories, haven't we,
because we know that everything's there online. Is it true?
I often think that my memory has become less aggressive
(09:17):
or less reliable because it knows that everything's on the internet.
Speaker 7 (09:22):
Is it a thing?
Speaker 8 (09:23):
I think that's a thing.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Anyway.
Speaker 8 (09:26):
It is one hundredth birthday of the Caesar salad, the
world's most famous salad. What would be the second most?
Would it be the walled warf? When we say a
famous salad, there's only one sound that's famous, which is
the Caesar. But I think not only am I slightly famous,
is slightly angry at my lack of memory, but I'm
also slightly angry at people that have always quite often
(09:46):
your go places, and I say Caesar salad with smoked
chicken or with bacon, and I think both of them
are no no, because the thing about the Caesar salad
is the share, the share, strictness and sparsity of its ingredients. Anyway,
I don't know if anyone's got an exciting Caesar salad story.
(10:10):
It's just let us eggs, lemon, juice, and anchovies, I think,
with a bit of parmesan parmesan cheese on. Anyway, if
I googled famous salads, there wouldn't be many, would there.
There'd just be the Caesar and the Waldorf. I don't
even know what the Waldorf is. No one knows world's
most famous salady. You go the Caesar from Mexico.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
You see, that's a bit of a surprise, isn't it.
You think that being called the Caesar salad, it would
have had something to do with Julius Caesar, and it
would be more of an Italian thing. But He's right.
It should just be anchovies. The type of lettuce is
very important. Of course, it's got to be costs. It's
(10:56):
absolutely has to be costs, your fancy costs, not your
plain old costs, you know what I mean. And the Wardorf,
it's apples and walnuts. That's the main of your Waldorf,
isn't it. Understand By with croutons, I think you lift
off the croutons from the Caesars, but I think you're
(11:17):
going to have a few crutons in there. I like
it mostly for there. In fact, give me a bowl
of prutons and stuff a couple of anchovies on job.
They not be happy love anchovies. How can you not
like anchovies? Just don't look them in the eye. That's
that's my advice. Basically, it's just a heap of salt
and the fish and the plenty little fish. Think an
(11:41):
anchovy are a white day anything. I'm lean hat my
mouth watering. There's been news dooks. He'd be for the week.
I'll see you back here on Monday with a new
British government. That's gonna be exciting new.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Talks talking, said Bean. For more from News Talk, Said
b listen live on air or online, and keep our
shows with you wherever you go with our podcasts on
iront ready o
You're listening to a podcast from News Talk sed B.
Follow this and our wide range of podcasts now on
iHeartRadio Used Talk SEDB.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
You Talk said, Hello, my beautiful beanies, and welcome to
the bean for Friday. First of yesterday's news. I am
Glen Hart, and we are looking back at Thursday, and yeah,
we were building up to the UK election, which was
happening as I speak, might be finished by the time
you hear this. Another election, of course, is a few
(00:44):
months away yet the US presidential election. Will Joe Biden
be there when it happens. It's cold because we just
oh yes, this winter and Marcus and Salad and memory
to finish up with before any of that. Government's fixing
(01:05):
the housing problem by grabbing up more land and making
it available to actually put the houses on. Well, it's
a plan, I suppose.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
And market pressures is a story from a couple from
twenty twenty one. Market pressures will increase with more demand
as the population grows here and overseas. Only about fifteen
percent of land is flat with good soil and climate
that makes it ideal for food production, which means it
needs less irrigation and fertilizers. The Ministry for the Environment
(01:38):
set of productive land was not available for agriculture. It
forced less suitable areas to be used, requiring more fertilizer
and more irrigation, which could then hurt the wider environment.
I am absolutely not against building more homes, building more apartments,
building more houses. We have to oh, there's no two
(02:02):
ways about it, but we have to do it properly
to recognize that if we don't do it well, all
we're doing is tacking up a problem in the short
term while creating a much much bigger problem down the line.
And I think future generations will have more than enough
(02:23):
to deal with without us giving them even more problems.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Yes, so I think some people are just starting to
wonder if this whole fast track government, this kick ass
fast track government, as Christopher Luxeon would call it. It
does using the word kick ass, which is funny. It
meanses me anyway. Yeah, I think people are saying to
(02:50):
wonder if there will be a little bit of bars
and break down the track just starting.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
To we'll see news talk has it been.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Perhaps the biggest case of bars ever is about to
manifest itself in the UK, with the Electric deciding that
the Torri's time as well, and truly up snip elections?
Are they ever a good idea?
Speaker 5 (03:15):
If you are serving at the will of the people,
time will get you one way or another. Of course
your record counts, of course it does. But the clue
that time is the ultimate arbiter is in what the
outgoing party gets replaced with. Kostarmer leads a vastly better
version of the British Labour Party than Jeremy Corbyn ever did,
so in that sense he can quite rightly claim to
have reformed it. But it was such a basket case
that trick wasn't particularly hard, I would have thought. But
(03:37):
whatever it is that they are these days doesn't really matter,
the same way that whatever it was the New Zealand
Labour Party was in twenty twenty didn't really matter. People
don't pay attention to the detail. They should, but they don't.
They either don't care, or they don't inquire, or both,
and both are dangerous. Which is not to say British
Labor will be a disaster. They may or they may not.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Be.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
Forces well beyond government's control tend to shape national moods
unless you are particularly bad, as New Zealand labor very
quickly showed twenty seventeen through twenty twenty three. But it
is lesson in not looking far too much at the
minutia to explain the demise. Basically it is. It is
about as complicated as it gets.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Yes, it's fair funny is that the older you get,
I've become very philosophical about this sort of stuff. And
now in my sixth decade of life, you know, everything
just happens over time, and if you don't like what's
happening now, it'll change and something will happen next week,
(04:40):
next year, next decade.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Qu'es talk, Sibban, I.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Mean next decade. I don't think Joe Biden's going to
be around really.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
And it is more likely now that he leaves because
of the stuff that's happened in the last twenty four hours.
One of the most damaging thing that's happened is that
Reid Hastings, who's the co founder of Netflix and a
mega donor to the Democrats, has gone public and said
Biden needs to step down. He spoke to The New
York Times. He said he needs to step aside to
allow a vigorous Democratic leader to beat Trump and keep
(05:07):
us safe and prosperous. Now that makes him one of
the first major donors to break ranks. Now that he's
done it, watch others will do it too, because that's
how politics works. Another damaging thing is that the Wall
Street Journal has put out a poll that shows that
Trump now has a six point lead over Biden. Now
that is the widest lead that Trump has had in
(05:28):
almost three years. Makes it very, very hard for Biden
to beat Trump because Biden, in order to win, he
needs a two point lead, and he's now six points behind. Also, yes,
it's not over. Also, there are reports that Biden is
privately considering stepping down. Somebody's leak that that's damaging. Also,
there are reports that they are now seriously considering Kamala
Harris's his replacement. Someone's leaked that that's also damaging. What
(05:52):
this shows you is that you just can't gaslight people,
no matter how hard the Democrats have tried. You can't
pretend something that people can see is happening is not happening.
The Biden camp has tried very, very very hard to
gas light people since Friday. They said it was a cold,
they said it was jet lag, they said it was
just a bad night. They said, you have bad debates.
Sometimes they rolled out Barack Obama, They're rolled out Jill
(06:13):
Biden has rolled out the governors today. But in the end,
people saw what they saw. And now, being the fickle
person that I am, I'm changing my prediction. He's gone
not gonna stick it out.
Speaker 7 (06:25):
I can't.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Yeah, I can't believe that because I don't. I just
don't think that they've got a viable alternative. I mean,
polling shows that, you know, there's a couple of people
that they can put in there that might poll a
little bit better, but not significantly. It not like massively
so much that they are a good option. So yeah,
(06:47):
I can't see that happening. But anyway, what do I know.
Now it's the fifth of July. We're into well into winter,
and that means it's cold. I don't think this is news.
I think it's weather.
Speaker 7 (07:07):
I'll tell you something. We've got some sunshine and christ jittch. Now,
most people probably don't give a flying fat rat s
bottom about that, but we've had gray weather for well,
it's felt like ten days minimum.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Yeah, But the thing is that it looks good, but
it feels very very cold. Yeah, I just rode in
on my bike and my feet are still frozen. Yeah,
it'll be minus three tonight, they tell us. Yeah, James
rides in every day rain, hail, sleet or snow. My
daughter actually passed James and he has someone as wet
weather gear on. He looks ridiculous and she warm and
she text me this is yesterday. She text me and goes, Dad,
(07:41):
can James not a Ford petrol? Tell him I'll give
him a lift to work. So I told James, we
have gone to work.
Speaker 7 (07:48):
Now. I admire you, I respect you.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
That's very impressive.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Could you buy me some nice warm boots for my
feet because I still frozen from riding in this morning.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Man, anytime I start feeling cold, I think back to
when I used to ride my bike to school and
Cambridge when it was a black frost. Was when the
fold comes I over the couple of the frost, so
you can't see where you're riding. You get damp and
cold as your bike crunches over the ice that won't
mout all day long. And I'd be wearing the Jersey
(08:19):
mc jacket, Mabella clabor, my gloves, the scarf. You gotta
layer up.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
News talk Z bean.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
You tell the kids that these days and they won't
believe it. I used to have the saxophone strapped to
the back of the bike, my guitar on my back,
my school bag strapped to the top of the saxophone.
What a cool guy, I was, Hey, let's finish up here?
Is this salad talk or memory talk? I'm not quite sure.
Speaker 8 (08:47):
It's one hundred anniversary of the Caesar Salad and I
got to it.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
I thought, what is that?
Speaker 8 (08:52):
Does that have bacon or not? I've had to actually
go to the Wikipedia page of a Caesars how to
see it has bacon or not. Two things I blame.
One is the Internet, because it's almost as though I
think we've become less reliant on our memories, haven't we,
because we know that everything's there online. Is it true?
I often think that my memory has become less aggressive
(09:17):
or less reliable because it knows that everything's on the internet.
Speaker 7 (09:22):
Is it a thing?
Speaker 8 (09:23):
I think that's a thing.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Anyway.
Speaker 8 (09:26):
It is one hundredth birthday of the Caesar salad, the
world's most famous salad. What would be the second most?
Would it be the walled warf? When we say a
famous salad, there's only one sound that's famous, which is
the Caesar. But I think not only am I slightly famous,
is slightly angry at my lack of memory, but I'm
also slightly angry at people that have always quite often
(09:46):
your go places, and I say Caesar salad with smoked
chicken or with bacon, and I think both of them
are no no, because the thing about the Caesar salad
is the share, the share, strictness and sparsity of its ingredients. Anyway,
I don't know if anyone's got an exciting Caesar salad story.
(10:10):
It's just let us eggs, lemon, juice, and anchovies, I think,
with a bit of parmesan parmesan cheese on. Anyway, if
I googled famous salads, there wouldn't be many, would there.
There'd just be the Caesar and the Waldorf. I don't
even know what the Waldorf is. No one knows world's
most famous salady. You go the Caesar from Mexico.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
You see, that's a bit of a surprise, isn't it.
You think that being called the Caesar salad, it would
have had something to do with Julius Caesar, and it
would be more of an Italian thing. But He's right.
It should just be anchovies. The type of lettuce is
very important. Of course, it's got to be costs. It's
(10:56):
absolutely has to be costs, your fancy costs, not your
plain old costs, you know what I mean. And the Wardorf,
it's apples and walnuts. That's the main of your Waldorf,
isn't it. Understand By with croutons, I think you lift
off the croutons from the Caesars, but I think you're
(11:17):
going to have a few crutons in there. I like
it mostly for there. In fact, give me a bowl
of prutons and stuff a couple of anchovies on job.
They not be happy love anchovies. How can you not
like anchovies? Just don't look them in the eye. That's
that's my advice. Basically, it's just a heap of salt
and the fish and the plenty little fish. Think an
(11:41):
anchovy are a white day anything. I'm lean hat my
mouth watering. There's been news dooks. He'd be for the week.
I'll see you back here on Monday with a new
British government. That's gonna be exciting new.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Talks talking, said Bean. For more from News Talk, Said
b listen live on air or online, and keep our
shows with you wherever you go with our podcasts on
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