October 24, 2024 • 11 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
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 bus safety is now.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Back in the headlines.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
After the death of a bus driver, So we're going
to get really get into that. Marcus updates us on
what video games his kids are playing at the moment.
But before any of that, the US election is only
a week in a bit of way. What is Heather
(00:59):
think about Kamala Harris Harris hue Choling.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
I said this to you last week. He is too
close behind her in the swing states. He will overperform
like he usually does in those states on the night
and then he's going to take them and that gives
them the numbers he needs to win. But you don't
have to take my word for it, because what do
I know. What about Nate Silva, a US selection wizard
today saying his gut says Trump wins. What about the
economist saying Trump wins with a fifty four percent likelihood
(01:23):
compared to Karmala's likelihood at forty five percent. What about
Wall Street Journal poll out today giving Trump a narrow
lead with voters here they have a more positive view
of him and a more negative view of Karmela. And
then you've got reports that the Democrats are panicking over
the fact that they think he's going to win. Now,
this was actually, if you cast your mind back, predictable,
because when there was all that talk of Biden's stepping down,
(01:45):
loads of people said, whatever you do, Democrats, don't p Krmela.
She won't win. She hasn't got what it takes, public
don't like her, doesn't know how to campaign. And there
was that flurry she got picked anyway, and then there
was that flurry of excitement and she got all this momentum.
But if you took a step back at the time,
which we did, which we did do at the time,
and we did say that excitement was about the thought
of her, the thought that she was going to be
(02:08):
the first black woman to become the president, and that
was really exciting, But the actual her remained the same boring, uncharismatic,
annoying voice word Salad's couldn't campaign, and that excitement was
always going to fade when people actually got to know her,
and people have got to know her, and the excitement
has predictably faded. As I say, totally predictable. If he
(02:30):
wins in a couple of weeks, which it looks like
he's going to, then we can say Carmela was a mistake.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
I'm not sure who else they had. I've been hearing.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
In some of my radical left wing podcasts that I'd
like to listen to them talking about how she's not
a big fan of like preparing.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
In advance for events.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
And I think that sort of showed with this town
hall yesterday, you know, friendly audience, friendly moderator, and Anderson Cooper.
And yet when he asked her if she thought that
Trump was a dictator, which was obviously the question of
the day, it was like she hadn't even occurred to
her that she was going to get as that questions.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
It was so strange.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Anyway, news talk has it been, all right, let's get
into the bust safety thing. Is it time to push
the Pennant butt in here or with the random one
off event.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
But when it comes to safety, that whole busting of
the gangs, the common Charies and the Mummies excellent. That
made me feel good, That made me feel positive, That
made me feel like things were happening. We were starting
to see a change. This yesterday afternoon unsettling. We need
(03:53):
to hear more details, of course, but how are you feeling?
Are you seeing more police around? I'm seeing fewer gang
patures where I'm living, and there used to be quite
a lot in my hood. Fewer gang patures. That makes
me feel better because I don't like the posture and
I don't like the swagger. I'm seeing more police. I'm
(04:17):
hearing from you less about crime. Does that mean it's
not occurring?
Speaker 2 (04:24):
So this there's been a lot of boy racer action
in my neighborhood.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
It could just be the.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Way the sound carries I said, I live on the
side of a bit of a dip, and you seem
to be able to hear stupid noisy cars from a
long way away. But given that it is Mark Mitchell's
electric in which I live, I would have really knocked
out on the head.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Qus talk.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Ryan Bridge wouldn't want to be a bus driver for
love nor money.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
By the sounds of thing.
Speaker 6 (04:59):
The problem of driver's safety seems to only be getting worse.
I was walking past the bus just a few weeks back.
There was a guy. He looked wild in the eyes.
You know the ones that just look crazy, You know
the ones that I'm talking about, swearing and yelling and
walking up to buses and kicking their doors. So every
time a bus would come along, the guy would just
kick their door, and he did it to several of them.
(05:21):
I didn't say anything. I was with other people. They
didn't say anything because you're just worried he's going to
go nuts at you. But we could carry on walking
down the road. When you work on public transport, you
cannot escape the public, and when the public is increasingly hostile,
there are more and more bad eggs on the bus.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Where do you go to?
Speaker 6 (05:43):
Nowhere? You can't go anywhere. And the long promised safety
screens are finally being installed, but as we heard on
the show a couple of months back, it'll take another
two years to even get to eighty percent coverage. There
are plenty of safe bus journeys out there, plenty of
drivers who love what they do, no doubt about that.
But the more you hear about these awful acts of
(06:03):
violence on or around our drivers you've got to ask
yourself is it worth the risk?
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Why isn't Elon mask working a little bit harder on
driverless buses instead of you know, drivers car driverless taxis
and hyperloops and space ships.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Obviously driverless buses are what we need, right.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Actually, speaking of technology, is more CCTV? Is that the answer?
Speaker 7 (06:31):
He said, the cop see or we can't charge you.
I think haven't had anyone.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
Let's go mate.
Speaker 8 (06:36):
The intention was, but you missed by so far that
that the haymakers were so bad that you couldn't be
charged for its.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
So of the story is if you ever get into
a scrap, just don't lean a bunch.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Right.
Speaker 7 (06:49):
But but on the same token, they can see everything.
Speaker 8 (06:54):
And I mean is that a good thing. I mean,
we're talking about the difference between private and public CCTV footage,
So people filming on their own properties or from their
properties out onto the street is one thing. But I
think we all, I mean most of us think it's
okay that the police will will have access to what's
happening out on public public property.
Speaker 7 (07:16):
Yeah, well on dairy farming and yeah it's been hit outline.
You know, we can't have it in the animals when
they get shot and taken away. But on the same
taken game to the cow shed, pinching motorbikes. Everyone's got
cct down there. And then you even go to the
stage where a teall truck guy doing deliveries to him
(07:38):
as he said, yeah, he's just the cameras in the truck.
Everything I do, you scratch your ear, you do anything,
you stop and they ring and even your own crowd
ring you up saying I say you mate, because if
he's running late and he bullshits, they know where he is.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Yeah, I've got a lot of I've got quite a
few cameras in my house. It doesn't annoy anything about them.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Is that doesn't necessarily stop people.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Doing things like I've had people caught on camera nicking
stuff off my front porch. That's happened to me a
couple of times. One time he caught the guy. One
time the police never got back to me. It was
a great helpful even though I had very clear footage
(08:26):
of the guy and then managed to identify me through
social media. But yeah, it doesn't actually stop them doing
it in the first place. We have CCTV that it
shoots lasers.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
At offenders when they're actually doing it. I'll get a
bit of a dangerous area to get into, wouldn't it?
Speaker 1 (08:46):
News talk?
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Has it been okay?
Speaker 2 (08:48):
And now we're gonna keep shooting things at people?
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Here? Are they people in Fortnite? Is it where they are? Anyway?
This is Marcus looking. He's been watching his kids play
video games.
Speaker 9 (09:00):
They do seem to enjoy playing Fortnite, and it's a
fairly recent thing for them.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
I've watched that.
Speaker 9 (09:11):
Yeah, And I guess the question I'm asking you about
that is I've watched.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
I thought, well, I'm not necessarily sure that I could
play it.
Speaker 9 (09:19):
It looks a bit complicated for me, with the hand
eye movement and the rapidity of it. Do we of
you out there, Do we ney of you out there
that are adults play those games? I'm not saying I
want to play them with the kids, but I just
looked at that. I thought, I mean, the kids seem
pretty compelled by them. How interesting how they're to play
as adults. I'm not entirely sure how Fortnite works. You're
(09:40):
all on a bus, it's in the sky, then you'll
jump out and conquer an island. Doesn't seem to get boring.
It looks to be a lot more exciting than Minecraft,
which always strikes me and looks a bit blocky. Don't
like the aesthetics of Minecraft. But he's watching Fortnite. I'm thinking, well,
actually I was tempted. So if anyone out there plays
(10:03):
adult video or anyone out there is now plays video games,
not those ones that are endless. I know, lot you're
obsessed with those shooting every well that one's probably a
shooting one as well. Anyway, you're hearing what I say.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Oh yeah, a lot of people play video games. Don't
worry about that. My problem with Fortnite is it spelt wrong.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
I really feel like there should be a UK English version.
Annoys me that you often get the choice of English
or UK English, which needs to be working under the
assumption that American English is the main English.
Speaker 5 (10:39):
Of course, is.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Pasonally not true.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Anyway, Night is not spelt in ite, and something needs
to be done. I am grown pi Old glen Hart
that has been used zed been for the week.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Have a good long weekend.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
We'll see you back here again with a long weekend
edition of z Bean.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
On Newsday Talk zed 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 iHeartRadio
You're listening to a podcast from News Talk sed B.
Follow this and our wide range of podcasts now on
iHeartRadio Used Talk sed BE You Talk said.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
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 bus safety is now.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Back in the headlines.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
After the death of a bus driver, So we're going
to get really get into that. Marcus updates us on
what video games his kids are playing at the moment.
But before any of that, the US election is only
a week in a bit of way. What is Heather
(00:59):
think about Kamala Harris Harris hue Choling.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
I said this to you last week. He is too
close behind her in the swing states. He will overperform
like he usually does in those states on the night
and then he's going to take them and that gives
them the numbers he needs to win. But you don't
have to take my word for it, because what do
I know. What about Nate Silva, a US selection wizard
today saying his gut says Trump wins. What about the
economist saying Trump wins with a fifty four percent likelihood
(01:23):
compared to Karmala's likelihood at forty five percent. What about
Wall Street Journal poll out today giving Trump a narrow
lead with voters here they have a more positive view
of him and a more negative view of Karmela. And
then you've got reports that the Democrats are panicking over
the fact that they think he's going to win. Now,
this was actually, if you cast your mind back, predictable,
because when there was all that talk of Biden's stepping down,
(01:45):
loads of people said, whatever you do, Democrats, don't p Krmela.
She won't win. She hasn't got what it takes, public
don't like her, doesn't know how to campaign. And there
was that flurry she got picked anyway, and then there
was that flurry of excitement and she got all this momentum.
But if you took a step back at the time,
which we did, which we did do at the time,
and we did say that excitement was about the thought
of her, the thought that she was going to be
(02:08):
the first black woman to become the president, and that
was really exciting, But the actual her remained the same boring, uncharismatic,
annoying voice word Salad's couldn't campaign, and that excitement was
always going to fade when people actually got to know her,
and people have got to know her, and the excitement
has predictably faded. As I say, totally predictable. If he
(02:30):
wins in a couple of weeks, which it looks like
he's going to, then we can say Carmela was a mistake.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
I'm not sure who else they had. I've been hearing.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
In some of my radical left wing podcasts that I'd
like to listen to them talking about how she's not
a big fan of like preparing.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
In advance for events.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
And I think that sort of showed with this town
hall yesterday, you know, friendly audience, friendly moderator, and Anderson Cooper.
And yet when he asked her if she thought that
Trump was a dictator, which was obviously the question of
the day, it was like she hadn't even occurred to
her that she was going to get as that questions.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
It was so strange.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Anyway, news talk has it been, all right, let's get
into the bust safety thing. Is it time to push
the Pennant butt in here or with the random one
off event.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
But when it comes to safety, that whole busting of
the gangs, the common Charies and the Mummies excellent. That
made me feel good, That made me feel positive, That
made me feel like things were happening. We were starting
to see a change. This yesterday afternoon unsettling. We need
(03:53):
to hear more details, of course, but how are you feeling?
Are you seeing more police around? I'm seeing fewer gang
patures where I'm living, and there used to be quite
a lot in my hood. Fewer gang patures. That makes
me feel better because I don't like the posture and
I don't like the swagger. I'm seeing more police. I'm
(04:17):
hearing from you less about crime. Does that mean it's
not occurring?
Speaker 2 (04:24):
So this there's been a lot of boy racer action
in my neighborhood.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
It could just be the.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Way the sound carries I said, I live on the
side of a bit of a dip, and you seem
to be able to hear stupid noisy cars from a
long way away. But given that it is Mark Mitchell's
electric in which I live, I would have really knocked
out on the head.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Qus talk.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Ryan Bridge wouldn't want to be a bus driver for
love nor money.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
By the sounds of thing.
Speaker 6 (04:59):
The problem of driver's safety seems to only be getting worse.
I was walking past the bus just a few weeks back.
There was a guy. He looked wild in the eyes.
You know the ones that just look crazy, You know
the ones that I'm talking about, swearing and yelling and
walking up to buses and kicking their doors. So every
time a bus would come along, the guy would just
kick their door, and he did it to several of them.
(05:21):
I didn't say anything. I was with other people. They
didn't say anything because you're just worried he's going to
go nuts at you. But we could carry on walking
down the road. When you work on public transport, you
cannot escape the public, and when the public is increasingly hostile,
there are more and more bad eggs on the bus.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Where do you go to?
Speaker 6 (05:43):
Nowhere? You can't go anywhere. And the long promised safety
screens are finally being installed, but as we heard on
the show a couple of months back, it'll take another
two years to even get to eighty percent coverage. There
are plenty of safe bus journeys out there, plenty of
drivers who love what they do, no doubt about that.
But the more you hear about these awful acts of
(06:03):
violence on or around our drivers you've got to ask
yourself is it worth the risk?
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Why isn't Elon mask working a little bit harder on
driverless buses instead of you know, drivers car driverless taxis
and hyperloops and space ships.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Obviously driverless buses are what we need, right.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Actually, speaking of technology, is more CCTV? Is that the answer?
Speaker 7 (06:31):
He said, the cop see or we can't charge you.
I think haven't had anyone.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
Let's go mate.
Speaker 8 (06:36):
The intention was, but you missed by so far that
that the haymakers were so bad that you couldn't be
charged for its.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
So of the story is if you ever get into
a scrap, just don't lean a bunch.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Right.
Speaker 7 (06:49):
But but on the same token, they can see everything.
Speaker 8 (06:54):
And I mean is that a good thing. I mean,
we're talking about the difference between private and public CCTV footage,
So people filming on their own properties or from their
properties out onto the street is one thing. But I
think we all, I mean most of us think it's
okay that the police will will have access to what's
happening out on public public property.
Speaker 7 (07:16):
Yeah, well on dairy farming and yeah it's been hit outline.
You know, we can't have it in the animals when
they get shot and taken away. But on the same
taken game to the cow shed, pinching motorbikes. Everyone's got
cct down there. And then you even go to the
stage where a teall truck guy doing deliveries to him
(07:38):
as he said, yeah, he's just the cameras in the truck.
Everything I do, you scratch your ear, you do anything,
you stop and they ring and even your own crowd
ring you up saying I say you mate, because if
he's running late and he bullshits, they know where he is.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Yeah, I've got a lot of I've got quite a
few cameras in my house. It doesn't annoy anything about them.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Is that doesn't necessarily stop people.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Doing things like I've had people caught on camera nicking
stuff off my front porch. That's happened to me a
couple of times. One time he caught the guy. One
time the police never got back to me. It was
a great helpful even though I had very clear footage
(08:26):
of the guy and then managed to identify me through
social media. But yeah, it doesn't actually stop them doing
it in the first place. We have CCTV that it
shoots lasers.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
At offenders when they're actually doing it. I'll get a
bit of a dangerous area to get into, wouldn't it?
Speaker 1 (08:46):
News talk?
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Has it been okay?
Speaker 2 (08:48):
And now we're gonna keep shooting things at people?
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Here? Are they people in Fortnite? Is it where they are? Anyway?
This is Marcus looking. He's been watching his kids play
video games.
Speaker 9 (09:00):
They do seem to enjoy playing Fortnite, and it's a
fairly recent thing for them.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
I've watched that.
Speaker 9 (09:11):
Yeah, And I guess the question I'm asking you about
that is I've watched.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
I thought, well, I'm not necessarily sure that I could
play it.
Speaker 9 (09:19):
It looks a bit complicated for me, with the hand
eye movement and the rapidity of it. Do we of
you out there, Do we ney of you out there
that are adults play those games? I'm not saying I
want to play them with the kids, but I just
looked at that. I thought, I mean, the kids seem
pretty compelled by them. How interesting how they're to play
as adults. I'm not entirely sure how Fortnite works. You're
(09:40):
all on a bus, it's in the sky, then you'll
jump out and conquer an island. Doesn't seem to get boring.
It looks to be a lot more exciting than Minecraft,
which always strikes me and looks a bit blocky. Don't
like the aesthetics of Minecraft. But he's watching Fortnite. I'm thinking, well,
actually I was tempted. So if anyone out there plays
(10:03):
adult video or anyone out there is now plays video games,
not those ones that are endless. I know, lot you're
obsessed with those shooting every well that one's probably a
shooting one as well. Anyway, you're hearing what I say.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Oh yeah, a lot of people play video games. Don't
worry about that. My problem with Fortnite is it spelt wrong.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
I really feel like there should be a UK English version.
Annoys me that you often get the choice of English
or UK English, which needs to be working under the
assumption that American English is the main English.
Speaker 5 (10:39):
Of course, is.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Pasonally not true.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Anyway, Night is not spelt in ite, and something needs
to be done. I am grown pi Old glen Hart
that has been used zed been for the week.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Have a good long weekend.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
We'll see you back here again with a long weekend
edition of z Bean.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
On Newsday Talk zed 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 iHeartRadio
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