July 23, 2024 • 13 mins
FIRST WITH YESTERDAY'S NEWS (highlights from Tuesday on Newstalk ZB) Answer the Questions Or Don't. Why the Drama?/A Drunken Road to Zero/Cone Cash/Weka-Gate/The World In 2044
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
You're listening to a podcast from news Talk, said b
follow this and our wide range of podcasts now on iHeartRadio.
Used Talk said be you Talk said Hello.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
My beautiful beanies, and welcome to the bean for Wednesday.
First with yesterday's news, I am Glenn Hart. We are
looking back at Tuesday. Should the drink driving limit be zero?
And all those road cones gone yet like Sam and
Brown wants them? Weka Gate, eating Weka on TV and
(00:44):
getting away with it more or less? And what the
world will be like in twenty years time? But before
any of that, So Luxeon's not gonna answer quite as
many of the press galleries questions as he was before.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Is that?
Speaker 2 (00:56):
What's happening? What's happening?
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Monday afternoon at four o'clock, he is at a post
cabinet press conference with a press gallery ask him questions.
Tuesday morning, from seven o'clock, he does a round of
media interviews with Mike Hosking and the breakfast programs across
radio and TV, where he answers questions. Then later on
Tuesday morning, around about ten, he stops on his way
into the caucus meeting to let the press gallery ask
(01:18):
him questions. Tuesday afternoon, just before two o'clock, on his
way into the house, he stops to let the press
gallery ask him questions. Wednesday afternoon, just before two o'clock,
on his way into the house, he stops to let
the press gallery ask him questions. On the rare occasion
that a Prime minister is in the house on a Thursday,
he goes on his way to the house, stops to
let the press gallery ask him questions. Right, plus any
(01:40):
other press conference that he might then call during the
week to announce some government initiative, he will answer questions.
That is a lot of media to actually be doing
across a week, right, It's a lot more than you
would get, for an example, from other world leaders, for
example Joe Biden, whose press conferences are actually run not
by him but by his spokesperson. Now, this I think
is very different to Jacinda Ardun dropping her media interviews
(02:03):
because the kind of media interviews that she was dropping
with hard ones, you know, the ones with Mike Hosking,
who was arguably the best interviewer in the country, or
with Q and A and news Hub Nation, which were
long format interviews which means that you sit there sweating
and things start to get really difficult, or you might
recall she started refusing to take talkback calls. That's also
a bit awkward and unpredictable and can get a little
(02:24):
bit uncomfortable. Now, that is different to what's going on here,
which is just seeing the press gallery one fewer time
in the space of about seventy two hours. Let me
ask you this, right, what is it that the press
gallery want to ask on a Tuesday afternoon that they
couldn't have asked on a Tuesday morning or couldn't wait
to ask on a Wednesday afternoon.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
I just don't get how this is an issue. If
you didn't want to it, doesn't want to ask their questions,
to just carry on about his business and not answer
their questions. The only one who's made this an issue
is him. Very strange. People draw attention to these sorts
of things by saying that they're not going to do
these things when they could just not do them, and
(03:05):
nobody who had noticed, probably Zeben John McDonald out of
christ Church standing in for carry Wooden. At the beginning
of this week, I was wondering if we should just
have a no alcohol limit when driving.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
I mean, if someone's slurring their words were staging around
the place. It's pretty obvious, isn't it. But a lot
of the time, who would know whether or not someone
is okay to drive unless you've been keeping a record
of their alcohol intake. It's just a guessing game. But
if we had a zero alcohol limit, be easy. You've
had at least one drink, mate, you're not driving. No
argument's easy. Now, look as much as you maybe you do,
(03:48):
maybe you don't. But if you do, as much as you,
I love a glass of beer or a glass of wine.
I also like to think that I know when I
suld or shouldn't be driving after I've had a drink.
But even so, it's still a guessing game because no
one ever really knows. Two people have just talked about
I thought they knew, although it just didn't care. And
(04:10):
it is possible to go out and not drink. I
made of mine was having a party would have mean
last year out of town, and because it was out
of town, I had to drive out there myself, and
so I didn't drink. I had some no alcohol beers,
didn't think much of them. But I made a plan
and I stuck to it, which is what every person
would do if we made illegal for anyone to drive
(04:32):
with any alcohol at all in their system.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
It's a weird one, isn't it, Because I've always been amazed,
you know, when you hear about these people who are
two or three times over the limit or whatever. You know,
you board and it's just like the idea of getting
into a car and trying to drive it if you're
that slashed. I got breath tests the other night, and
I was actually a little bit nervous because I had
(04:55):
actually had a couple of drinks over the course of
the evening. I'd also had a large meal as well,
and I thought, oh, Franky, is this going to be
a bit of trouble? But no, completely clear, you see
what I mean like that? I mean I was fine
obviously or wouldn't have driven. But it's a purely one,
(05:19):
isn't it. You talk sid I'm just want to remember
if there were cones at the breath testing or whether
it was just a lot of police and their big
coats and their light up sticks. I'm not sure. But anyway,
are those kind of cones that are going to be going?
(05:40):
And how are those cones ever going to be going?
Speaker 6 (05:41):
The problem here is that We had this independent report
and we spoke about this yesterday from EY and it
was pretty damning. It basically said that the rules, the
current rules, incentivized contractors like traffics to cause maximum disruption
in order to maximize profits. And n ZTA looked at
eight hundred maintenance work sites this is on the highway network,
one hundred and forty five of them were not needed.
(06:04):
Doesn't that make you blood boil Auckland Council alone apparently
spending one hundred forty five million a year on road
cones and temporary traffic management. There was a contractor. This
is around the corner from my place, a quiet residential
suburban street. There was a contract to digging a hole
on the side of the road. Not a big hole,
just a small hole. I could not believe that they
closed the road down. There was down to one lane
(06:26):
with stop ghost signs. So this is the quietest street
in the neighborhood. I just thought it was madness. I
would never say anything to the workers, obviously because it's
not their fault, but clearly, after the EY report and
the message from NZTA, something needs to be fixed and fast.
Wayne Brown wants the power to set fees and charge
penalties if work drags on or wasn't needed in the
(06:47):
first place, and I say give it to them.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
To be fair. Wayne Brown is determined to pinch pennies
and grab money wherever you can get it from, try
and make the Aukland Council budget balance aka bring back
our rubbish bins so we can put our dog goose
somewhere anyway. Use course, right, if you eat a wicker
(07:10):
on TV? How much trouble should you get into you
exercised about this?
Speaker 7 (07:17):
Hardly the crime of the century really.
Speaker 8 (07:21):
No, So in which case do you think that the
punishment of a warning and a pretty strict to it.
Speaker 7 (07:28):
I mean the guy paid the Olderman price. He missed
out on us half a million dollars. Yeah, that was
the prize money. So funny enough that that show is
in on the platform called Peacock and it's not not
so you can't watch it in New Zealand, I believe, right.
And I also read that that ben eating goose eggs
(07:50):
and hedgehogs and eels and one piecee little wood then
as the Mali name for wakers. So yeah, he got
a warning and that's probably sufficient in my opinion.
Speaker 8 (08:05):
Do you think New Zealand's the right place to have
shows where people have to fend for themselves in the
wild In terms of food.
Speaker 7 (08:13):
Oh, look this pretty of other things they can eat.
I mean the forty days apparently that's how long they were.
Forty days across two hundred and fifty k's of terrain
in New Zealand, so you know, climbing mountains and caving
and paddling, and.
Speaker 8 (08:28):
I mean it look stunning. It would look stunning. I
just I just kind of wonder whether whether we're better
served with and here's your food at the end of
the day so that you don't go off and kill
any birds? Or is that or is that less of
an interesting show?
Speaker 3 (08:41):
How was it an.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Interesting show to begin with? Guys, stop watching reality TV?
It will write your brain. Mind you. I've got mixed
feelings about Wicker. Had many wicker encounters when I walked
the abel Tasman National Park domestic managers. Sandwich got stolen
(09:05):
at one point by a wicker, which just between you
and me was hilarious, but between me and who terrible
watch out for.
Speaker 8 (09:15):
The wicker.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
News talk has it been.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Could you eat a worker on the grounds that you're
just trying to eat your sandwich if the work has
already eaten your sandwich. Stupid thought. Let's finish up with
more stupid thoughts from Marcus. He's wondering what the world
would be like in two decades time. This is all
sparcked off because he went to the supermarket.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
I went to the supermarket briefly before work tonight, and
I hadn't noticed this before. But at the countdown there
is a separate shop that's now started just for pickup,
and you go on there to pick up your orders
that you've done. I know you get your groceries delivered.
(09:57):
I didn't know actually you'd phoned them through and you
go and.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
Pick them up.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Let's look at that other thing?
Speaker 8 (10:01):
What's that about?
Speaker 3 (10:04):
And then I thought, the the world's changing. It's changing
quite quickly. I think the world's going to be like
in twenty years time. What's your one prediction for what
the world's going to be like in twenty forty four?
Will there be supermarkets? Will there be the warehouse? Will
(10:26):
there be driverless cars? What do you think he's in it?
In twenty forty four will look like? Will there be planes?
Or will there be too much turbulence. Will there be
a Rana park? Will there be Canada geese? Will there
be g strings at the pools the New Plymouth? Will
there be coins? Will there be dollar notes? Will there
(10:48):
be bitcoin? Twenty it's not that far away. Twenty years time,
most of us will still be around touch something, wouldn't
What do you think? What will we be wearing? Will
we be wearing computerized clothing that we plug it? Because
if we're plugging our thin we're not going far.
Speaker 8 (11:09):
But what do you think?
Speaker 3 (11:10):
What do you think the world will be like in
twenty years time? Your best prediction will be the population
of New Zealand, will be the population of the South Island. Yeah,
there you go, twenty years time. What's the world?
Speaker 7 (11:28):
Look?
Speaker 3 (11:28):
You've got a prediction for I'd be curious to know,
will you if your mine goes like that? What are
you thinking? I'm not saying one of a competition. I
don't intend to be on air in twenty years time
saying oh you know, you know he had that twenty
year prediction time. Well, Janet's right, because she predicted that
would all be living on Mars, incacuse she just called
(11:49):
for Mars, asking where prize is do you think Marcus.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Meant that he doesn't intend being on air at all
in twenty years time, or that he just doesn't intend
talking about that particular topic in twenty years time. I'm
hoping it's the latter. Never get too much, Marcus. I
am concerned that he wasn't aware that you could pick
(12:12):
up your groceries from the supermarket. I'm also concerned that
he's still calling it Countdown, although I noticed I've got
a Woolworths at Silverdale, but.
Speaker 8 (12:21):
It's still called Countdown and.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Just a few k's away. They just not got rounded
changing the signage yet or what's going on there. My
Woolworth's loyalty rewards barcode still worked at Countdown even though
it's now Woolworths. I don't know what those rewards actually do.
I'd keep scanning it a blower his mind. I see
(12:53):
that the latest thing is that you can just get
them to bring it to your boot. Have you seen
that one? I don't know how long it'll take to
get to Dicago, but I guess they've got to change
it to all Worth first. Probably, I am glen ha
asking all those sorts of hard questions, and are we
(13:15):
beck with more of those probing inquiries.
Speaker 8 (13:17):
Tomorrow, I'll season News Talk is Talking sid Bean.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
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 b
follow this and our wide range of podcasts now on iHeartRadio.
Used Talk said be you Talk said Hello.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
My beautiful beanies, and welcome to the bean for Wednesday.
First with yesterday's news, I am Glenn Hart. We are
looking back at Tuesday. Should the drink driving limit be zero?
And all those road cones gone yet like Sam and
Brown wants them? Weka Gate, eating Weka on TV and
(00:44):
getting away with it more or less? And what the
world will be like in twenty years time? But before
any of that, So Luxeon's not gonna answer quite as
many of the press galleries questions as he was before.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Is that?
Speaker 2 (00:56):
What's happening? What's happening?
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Monday afternoon at four o'clock, he is at a post
cabinet press conference with a press gallery ask him questions.
Tuesday morning, from seven o'clock, he does a round of
media interviews with Mike Hosking and the breakfast programs across
radio and TV, where he answers questions. Then later on
Tuesday morning, around about ten, he stops on his way
into the caucus meeting to let the press gallery ask
(01:18):
him questions. Tuesday afternoon, just before two o'clock, on his
way into the house, he stops to let the press
gallery ask him questions. Wednesday afternoon, just before two o'clock,
on his way into the house, he stops to let
the press gallery ask him questions. On the rare occasion
that a Prime minister is in the house on a Thursday,
he goes on his way to the house, stops to
let the press gallery ask him questions. Right, plus any
(01:40):
other press conference that he might then call during the
week to announce some government initiative, he will answer questions.
That is a lot of media to actually be doing
across a week, right, It's a lot more than you
would get, for an example, from other world leaders, for
example Joe Biden, whose press conferences are actually run not
by him but by his spokesperson. Now, this I think
is very different to Jacinda Ardun dropping her media interviews
(02:03):
because the kind of media interviews that she was dropping
with hard ones, you know, the ones with Mike Hosking,
who was arguably the best interviewer in the country, or
with Q and A and news Hub Nation, which were
long format interviews which means that you sit there sweating
and things start to get really difficult, or you might
recall she started refusing to take talkback calls. That's also
a bit awkward and unpredictable and can get a little
(02:24):
bit uncomfortable. Now, that is different to what's going on here,
which is just seeing the press gallery one fewer time
in the space of about seventy two hours. Let me
ask you this, right, what is it that the press
gallery want to ask on a Tuesday afternoon that they
couldn't have asked on a Tuesday morning or couldn't wait
to ask on a Wednesday afternoon.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
I just don't get how this is an issue. If
you didn't want to it, doesn't want to ask their questions,
to just carry on about his business and not answer
their questions. The only one who's made this an issue
is him. Very strange. People draw attention to these sorts
of things by saying that they're not going to do
these things when they could just not do them, and
(03:05):
nobody who had noticed, probably Zeben John McDonald out of
christ Church standing in for carry Wooden. At the beginning
of this week, I was wondering if we should just
have a no alcohol limit when driving.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
I mean, if someone's slurring their words were staging around
the place. It's pretty obvious, isn't it. But a lot
of the time, who would know whether or not someone
is okay to drive unless you've been keeping a record
of their alcohol intake. It's just a guessing game. But
if we had a zero alcohol limit, be easy. You've
had at least one drink, mate, you're not driving. No
argument's easy. Now, look as much as you maybe you do,
(03:48):
maybe you don't. But if you do, as much as you,
I love a glass of beer or a glass of wine.
I also like to think that I know when I
suld or shouldn't be driving after I've had a drink.
But even so, it's still a guessing game because no
one ever really knows. Two people have just talked about
I thought they knew, although it just didn't care. And
(04:10):
it is possible to go out and not drink. I
made of mine was having a party would have mean
last year out of town, and because it was out
of town, I had to drive out there myself, and
so I didn't drink. I had some no alcohol beers,
didn't think much of them. But I made a plan
and I stuck to it, which is what every person
would do if we made illegal for anyone to drive
(04:32):
with any alcohol at all in their system.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
It's a weird one, isn't it, Because I've always been amazed,
you know, when you hear about these people who are
two or three times over the limit or whatever. You know,
you board and it's just like the idea of getting
into a car and trying to drive it if you're
that slashed. I got breath tests the other night, and
I was actually a little bit nervous because I had
(04:55):
actually had a couple of drinks over the course of
the evening. I'd also had a large meal as well,
and I thought, oh, Franky, is this going to be
a bit of trouble? But no, completely clear, you see
what I mean like that? I mean I was fine
obviously or wouldn't have driven. But it's a purely one,
(05:19):
isn't it. You talk sid I'm just want to remember
if there were cones at the breath testing or whether
it was just a lot of police and their big
coats and their light up sticks. I'm not sure. But anyway,
are those kind of cones that are going to be going?
(05:40):
And how are those cones ever going to be going?
Speaker 6 (05:41):
The problem here is that We had this independent report
and we spoke about this yesterday from EY and it
was pretty damning. It basically said that the rules, the
current rules, incentivized contractors like traffics to cause maximum disruption
in order to maximize profits. And n ZTA looked at
eight hundred maintenance work sites this is on the highway network,
one hundred and forty five of them were not needed.
(06:04):
Doesn't that make you blood boil Auckland Council alone apparently
spending one hundred forty five million a year on road
cones and temporary traffic management. There was a contractor. This
is around the corner from my place, a quiet residential
suburban street. There was a contract to digging a hole
on the side of the road. Not a big hole,
just a small hole. I could not believe that they
closed the road down. There was down to one lane
(06:26):
with stop ghost signs. So this is the quietest street
in the neighborhood. I just thought it was madness. I
would never say anything to the workers, obviously because it's
not their fault, but clearly, after the EY report and
the message from NZTA, something needs to be fixed and fast.
Wayne Brown wants the power to set fees and charge
penalties if work drags on or wasn't needed in the
(06:47):
first place, and I say give it to them.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
To be fair. Wayne Brown is determined to pinch pennies
and grab money wherever you can get it from, try
and make the Aukland Council budget balance aka bring back
our rubbish bins so we can put our dog goose
somewhere anyway. Use course, right, if you eat a wicker
(07:10):
on TV? How much trouble should you get into you
exercised about this?
Speaker 7 (07:17):
Hardly the crime of the century really.
Speaker 8 (07:21):
No, So in which case do you think that the
punishment of a warning and a pretty strict to it.
Speaker 7 (07:28):
I mean the guy paid the Olderman price. He missed
out on us half a million dollars. Yeah, that was
the prize money. So funny enough that that show is
in on the platform called Peacock and it's not not
so you can't watch it in New Zealand, I believe, right.
And I also read that that ben eating goose eggs
(07:50):
and hedgehogs and eels and one piecee little wood then
as the Mali name for wakers. So yeah, he got
a warning and that's probably sufficient in my opinion.
Speaker 8 (08:05):
Do you think New Zealand's the right place to have
shows where people have to fend for themselves in the
wild In terms of food.
Speaker 7 (08:13):
Oh, look this pretty of other things they can eat.
I mean the forty days apparently that's how long they were.
Forty days across two hundred and fifty k's of terrain
in New Zealand, so you know, climbing mountains and caving
and paddling, and.
Speaker 8 (08:28):
I mean it look stunning. It would look stunning. I
just I just kind of wonder whether whether we're better
served with and here's your food at the end of
the day so that you don't go off and kill
any birds? Or is that or is that less of
an interesting show?
Speaker 3 (08:41):
How was it an.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Interesting show to begin with? Guys, stop watching reality TV?
It will write your brain. Mind you. I've got mixed
feelings about Wicker. Had many wicker encounters when I walked
the abel Tasman National Park domestic managers. Sandwich got stolen
(09:05):
at one point by a wicker, which just between you
and me was hilarious, but between me and who terrible
watch out for.
Speaker 8 (09:15):
The wicker.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
News talk has it been.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Could you eat a worker on the grounds that you're
just trying to eat your sandwich if the work has
already eaten your sandwich. Stupid thought. Let's finish up with
more stupid thoughts from Marcus. He's wondering what the world
would be like in two decades time. This is all
sparcked off because he went to the supermarket.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
I went to the supermarket briefly before work tonight, and
I hadn't noticed this before. But at the countdown there
is a separate shop that's now started just for pickup,
and you go on there to pick up your orders
that you've done. I know you get your groceries delivered.
(09:57):
I didn't know actually you'd phoned them through and you
go and.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
Pick them up.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Let's look at that other thing?
Speaker 8 (10:01):
What's that about?
Speaker 3 (10:04):
And then I thought, the the world's changing. It's changing
quite quickly. I think the world's going to be like
in twenty years time. What's your one prediction for what
the world's going to be like in twenty forty four?
Will there be supermarkets? Will there be the warehouse? Will
(10:26):
there be driverless cars? What do you think he's in it?
In twenty forty four will look like? Will there be planes?
Or will there be too much turbulence. Will there be
a Rana park? Will there be Canada geese? Will there
be g strings at the pools the New Plymouth? Will
there be coins? Will there be dollar notes? Will there
(10:48):
be bitcoin? Twenty it's not that far away. Twenty years time,
most of us will still be around touch something, wouldn't
What do you think? What will we be wearing? Will
we be wearing computerized clothing that we plug it? Because
if we're plugging our thin we're not going far.
Speaker 8 (11:09):
But what do you think?
Speaker 3 (11:10):
What do you think the world will be like in
twenty years time? Your best prediction will be the population
of New Zealand, will be the population of the South Island. Yeah,
there you go, twenty years time. What's the world?
Speaker 7 (11:28):
Look?
Speaker 3 (11:28):
You've got a prediction for I'd be curious to know,
will you if your mine goes like that? What are
you thinking? I'm not saying one of a competition. I
don't intend to be on air in twenty years time
saying oh you know, you know he had that twenty
year prediction time. Well, Janet's right, because she predicted that
would all be living on Mars, incacuse she just called
(11:49):
for Mars, asking where prize is do you think Marcus.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Meant that he doesn't intend being on air at all
in twenty years time, or that he just doesn't intend
talking about that particular topic in twenty years time. I'm
hoping it's the latter. Never get too much, Marcus. I
am concerned that he wasn't aware that you could pick
(12:12):
up your groceries from the supermarket. I'm also concerned that
he's still calling it Countdown, although I noticed I've got
a Woolworths at Silverdale, but.
Speaker 8 (12:21):
It's still called Countdown and.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Just a few k's away. They just not got rounded
changing the signage yet or what's going on there. My
Woolworth's loyalty rewards barcode still worked at Countdown even though
it's now Woolworths. I don't know what those rewards actually do.
I'd keep scanning it a blower his mind. I see
(12:53):
that the latest thing is that you can just get
them to bring it to your boot. Have you seen
that one? I don't know how long it'll take to
get to Dicago, but I guess they've got to change
it to all Worth first. Probably, I am glen ha
asking all those sorts of hard questions, and are we
(13:15):
beck with more of those probing inquiries.
Speaker 8 (13:17):
Tomorrow, I'll season News Talk is Talking sid Bean.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
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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