October 29, 2024 • 10 mins
THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Tuesday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) They Keep Buying Into the Narrative/It Was Zero. Who Cares Why?/Boy Racers Make No Sense/Baseball Makes No Sense/Loud Engines Make No Sense
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
My beautiful beanies, and welcome to the bean for Wednesday.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
First of yesterday's news, I am Glen Hart, and we
are looking back at Tuesday. We're going to talk the
zero road toll, but we're also going to talk about
boy races. So it was kind of a Yuni yang there.
Why are people obsessed with baseball this week? And why
has Marcus been looking at Google street View? But before
(00:46):
any of that, why is Trump so bloody popular?
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Cast your mind back to Todd Muller, who was back
then the leader of the National Party. The biggest scandal
that he faced while he was in the leadership was
that he had mega hats on display, because you know,
Donald Trump is the baddie. But this is the interesting thing.
I don't think it matters as much to have a
crack at somebody for something like this anymore. Has lost
its punch this time around, doesn't carry the weight it
did back in twenty sixteen. Part of the reason, I
(01:13):
think is that moral criticism for choosing the wrong side
has been completely overused in the last ten years or so,
and anything that's overused eventually wears thin and loses its power.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
But also I think it's because it's not just a.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Case of good versus bad. I mean, there are other
things to take into account, like the economy, which is
more important, and Donald Trump wins on the economy apparently.
And many Americans also think the Democrats aren't as good
as a lot of us think, as many of them
think the Democrats are corrupt as they think Republicans are corrupt.
Kamala Harris is unappealing in her own way. She's doing
really weird things. One of the craziest things I've seen
(01:48):
her do is offer interest free loans to entrepreneurs as
long as they're black, not anybody else. I mean, set
the racial politics stuff aside, which I'm not into any way.
It's such a gross example of pork barrel politics. She
has lost the blackmail vote. She is chasing the black
mail vote, so she is prepared to give them basically
free money as long as they vote for her. How
(02:10):
unashamedly transactional is that, anyway? I think that's one of
the most interesting things of this election campaign. In the
us the fact that Donald Trump has shown, even if
he doesn't win, just through his popularity at the moment,
that his election in twenty sixteen was not a mistake,
because he's coming very close to repeating at this time around,
and that if people feel more empowered to say out
(02:30):
loud that he's the best candidate in some respects, they
are doing that, and also that criticizing them for it
just really doesn't sting as much as it did eight
years ago, doesn't.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
I mean, it's just really depressing.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
I've just been watching him do another thing, I don't
know what you call it, getting a gag all together
at Mary Lago and spouting off more half truths, indeed
out and out lies, which he said so many times
now that you know, he just has to refer back
to them to keep the narrative going, even though it's
(03:03):
a false narrative and people just love it.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Eh Zet been right.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Something that is no lie is that there was no
road deaths over the labor weekend.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
So surely that's something to celebrate.
Speaker 6 (03:19):
Why do we think this is Why do we think
this has happened this particular weekend? Is it the road
to zero that the previous government introduced. Is that the
fact we've had some road upgrades, some potholes fixed potentially,
or is it just random stats? You know, we should
really be looking at annual averages, not weekend blips which
can jump around a bit, A bit like as I
(03:40):
was talking to Andrew Ordison about earlier, a bit like
our weekend of sport last weekend, which was a bit
of a con job. It just so happened we had
a bunch of sporting finals on the same weekend. It
wasn't like we were, you know, comparing apples with apples,
like an Olympics tournament, was it?
Speaker 7 (03:56):
So?
Speaker 6 (03:56):
Was it one of those situations or and here's my theory.
We didn't really travel much this weekend. And this is
based on nothing other than my own experience. But I
was on Heckey Island at the weekend, enjoying the long weekend.
Beaches were nowhere near as full as they would normally be,
and this was on the good day when the weather
(04:18):
was nice. Restaurants same story, the wineries, the vineyards wound
as busy. Is the cost of living crisis affecting our travel?
I think it is. I think it's having a big impact.
Did you go away this weekend. Did you pack the car,
take the kids? Were you driving safely? Was there lots
of traffic? What was your experience? That is one theory
(04:39):
I have as to why our road toll is currently
sitting at zero.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
I had very few traffic issues, and I had to
drive up and down the new motorway.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
North of the high Business Coast for Walkworth.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
I drove up and down that a few times actually
over the weekend and it was a breeze. I think
that's the big part of it, Just big safer roads to.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Certainly help us talk sill.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
When you have cool, big roads, sometimes you have stupid
boy racers wanting to race their cars fast.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
And this is a thing that this doesn't seem to
be going away no matter how hard we try.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Why don't you pay to see just how good you
are and go round a track. Got enough money for
your cars, got enough money for the hideous RTDs that
are lit it all over the road after you've been there,
you should have enough money for an entry fee to
see just how good you are against reel drivers. We
(05:50):
have a fine history of motorsport in this country. We
also have a less salubrious history of oiks, entitled oiks
who see it as some sort of game not too
dangerous because they don't want to risk everything. Gives them
a little bit of a ooh, a little bit of
(06:11):
a to go up against all. Here come the cops. Yeah, yeah,
take them on. But I don't really know what the
police can do. They can direct all their attentions and
all their efforts over a weekend, and they can certainly
get their arrests, and they can certainly disrupt them for
(06:31):
a while, but again, like whack a mole, up they
pop another district another weekend.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
I'm still amazed that even in my neighborhood. I know
I bang on about this, but yeah, I literally live
in Mark Mitchell, Minister of Police's electra, and we still
seem to night after night just year cars going round
and round around, sometimes with very tight circles, and you
(07:00):
drive down the road and the next day and you
find that they've been doing donuts to the most part
weird places. Anyway, SR, Election fever isn't the only kind
of fever going on in the US at the moment.
I believe the World Series is happening with it. I've
got little to zero interest in baseball. But this guy
loves it.
Speaker 7 (07:19):
I'm a massive baseball fan. You name, God bless the
Philadelphia Phillies.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Were you a fan when Chase at Uttley was with
the Phillies?
Speaker 7 (07:30):
Absolutely, Oh yeah they were. They were some I'm mid
nineties Phillies fan. I chase up your two thousand and seven,
twenty and eighteen right through the twenty eleven. Won the
World Series in two thousand and eight. That's up there
with my marriage and birth of my children. My wife
knows that. So yeah. Look, and like you say, baseball
(07:50):
is an everyday thing, well nine out of every ten days,
so you've got to look forward to every day.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
It just in the background, doesn't it.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
Nick.
Speaker 6 (07:57):
I follow the Dodgers in there and there, and you're
just checking in. I've got a bunch of friends that
like it.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
And as you say, it's it's every day.
Speaker 6 (08:03):
One hundred and sixty two regular games in the season.
Speaker 7 (08:06):
Yes, yeah, and I will say that, Yes, the Dodgers
are more than likely going to win the World Series,
but my Phillies had the better of you guys in
the regular season, so that irks me. Look New Zealand
couldn't handle American sport. You know, the Phillies can pay
the Dodgers eight times and sell out in the season
(08:27):
and play and sell the stadium ount they play their
division rivals twelve thirteen, fourteen times, you know. And and
Americans just love it. And the thing with baseball is
kiwis poo whoett. But you try and hit a round
ball with a round bat. Every home run is basically
one hundred and fifty one hundred and fifty meters. It's
like four hundred and four to fifty feet to the fence.
(08:50):
You try and hit a round ball with a round
bat that far.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
I think a round ball with a round that It's
a bit like the breakdown what golf did actually as
well as La had a tiny ball with a long stick.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
When you put it like that, they sound a bit
or sorry, I mean.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
News talk. Has it been right?
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Let's finish up looking at things with Google three rules.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
I think Marcus has been working this. I don't know why.
Speaker 8 (09:22):
By the way, I've checked on Google Maps. There is
a the local community group came around and put numbers
on everyone's house, so there is a pole with the
street number on it. I've just checked on Google Maps. Please,
I made the lawns, because the lawns look so smart
on Google Maps today or Google street View. It's looking
(09:46):
that got to get it looks fantastic. It's always good
to do the edges just before Google the Google truck
comes around and takes a photo of your house.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Hosts.
Speaker 8 (09:54):
Yeah, fine, they got to do the lawns. I gotta
admit that it's fun with the electric mower, but it
or a battery mar But yeah, I missed the noise.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
That's me.
Speaker 8 (10:07):
I missed them always of the old old iron horses.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Oh, this is just like the boy races and people
who are into loud, stupid cars. I also have an
electric mark and beautiful powerful still with the mulching blade
which is even better, so it's almost silent to use
and I don't have to deal with any grass coppings.
As for anybody who longs for smoke and noise.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
I don't understand what that's about.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
It's wrong with.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
People anyway, but frustrated way in the podcast today.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Sorry about that.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
I'll try and calm down over the next twenty four
hours and you will have a calm and it's in
like Glen I'll.
Speaker 6 (10:46):
See the new talk is talk z It Bean.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
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 said B.
Follow this and our wide range of podcasts now on iHeartRadio,
Used Talk SEDB, You Talk said Hello.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
My beautiful beanies, and welcome to the bean for Wednesday.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
First of yesterday's news, I am Glen Hart, and we
are looking back at Tuesday. We're going to talk the
zero road toll, but we're also going to talk about
boy races. So it was kind of a Yuni yang there.
Why are people obsessed with baseball this week? And why
has Marcus been looking at Google street View? But before
(00:46):
any of that, why is Trump so bloody popular?
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Cast your mind back to Todd Muller, who was back
then the leader of the National Party. The biggest scandal
that he faced while he was in the leadership was
that he had mega hats on display, because you know,
Donald Trump is the baddie. But this is the interesting thing.
I don't think it matters as much to have a
crack at somebody for something like this anymore. Has lost
its punch this time around, doesn't carry the weight it
did back in twenty sixteen. Part of the reason, I
(01:13):
think is that moral criticism for choosing the wrong side
has been completely overused in the last ten years or so,
and anything that's overused eventually wears thin and loses its power.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
But also I think it's because it's not just a.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Case of good versus bad. I mean, there are other
things to take into account, like the economy, which is
more important, and Donald Trump wins on the economy apparently.
And many Americans also think the Democrats aren't as good
as a lot of us think, as many of them
think the Democrats are corrupt as they think Republicans are corrupt.
Kamala Harris is unappealing in her own way. She's doing
really weird things. One of the craziest things I've seen
(01:48):
her do is offer interest free loans to entrepreneurs as
long as they're black, not anybody else. I mean, set
the racial politics stuff aside, which I'm not into any way.
It's such a gross example of pork barrel politics. She
has lost the blackmail vote. She is chasing the black
mail vote, so she is prepared to give them basically
free money as long as they vote for her. How
(02:10):
unashamedly transactional is that, anyway? I think that's one of
the most interesting things of this election campaign. In the
us the fact that Donald Trump has shown, even if
he doesn't win, just through his popularity at the moment,
that his election in twenty sixteen was not a mistake,
because he's coming very close to repeating at this time around,
and that if people feel more empowered to say out
(02:30):
loud that he's the best candidate in some respects, they
are doing that, and also that criticizing them for it
just really doesn't sting as much as it did eight
years ago, doesn't.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
I mean, it's just really depressing.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
I've just been watching him do another thing, I don't
know what you call it, getting a gag all together
at Mary Lago and spouting off more half truths, indeed
out and out lies, which he said so many times
now that you know, he just has to refer back
to them to keep the narrative going, even though it's
(03:03):
a false narrative and people just love it.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Eh Zet been right.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Something that is no lie is that there was no
road deaths over the labor weekend.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
So surely that's something to celebrate.
Speaker 6 (03:19):
Why do we think this is Why do we think
this has happened this particular weekend? Is it the road
to zero that the previous government introduced. Is that the
fact we've had some road upgrades, some potholes fixed potentially,
or is it just random stats? You know, we should
really be looking at annual averages, not weekend blips which
can jump around a bit, A bit like as I
(03:40):
was talking to Andrew Ordison about earlier, a bit like
our weekend of sport last weekend, which was a bit
of a con job. It just so happened we had
a bunch of sporting finals on the same weekend. It
wasn't like we were, you know, comparing apples with apples,
like an Olympics tournament, was it?
Speaker 7 (03:56):
So?
Speaker 6 (03:56):
Was it one of those situations or and here's my theory.
We didn't really travel much this weekend. And this is
based on nothing other than my own experience. But I
was on Heckey Island at the weekend, enjoying the long weekend.
Beaches were nowhere near as full as they would normally be,
and this was on the good day when the weather
(04:18):
was nice. Restaurants same story, the wineries, the vineyards wound
as busy. Is the cost of living crisis affecting our travel?
I think it is. I think it's having a big impact.
Did you go away this weekend. Did you pack the car,
take the kids? Were you driving safely? Was there lots
of traffic? What was your experience? That is one theory
(04:39):
I have as to why our road toll is currently
sitting at zero.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
I had very few traffic issues, and I had to
drive up and down the new motorway.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
North of the high Business Coast for Walkworth.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
I drove up and down that a few times actually
over the weekend and it was a breeze. I think
that's the big part of it, Just big safer roads to.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Certainly help us talk sill.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
When you have cool, big roads, sometimes you have stupid
boy racers wanting to race their cars fast.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
And this is a thing that this doesn't seem to
be going away no matter how hard we try.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Why don't you pay to see just how good you
are and go round a track. Got enough money for
your cars, got enough money for the hideous RTDs that
are lit it all over the road after you've been there,
you should have enough money for an entry fee to
see just how good you are against reel drivers. We
(05:50):
have a fine history of motorsport in this country. We
also have a less salubrious history of oiks, entitled oiks
who see it as some sort of game not too
dangerous because they don't want to risk everything. Gives them
a little bit of a ooh, a little bit of
(06:11):
a to go up against all. Here come the cops. Yeah, yeah,
take them on. But I don't really know what the
police can do. They can direct all their attentions and
all their efforts over a weekend, and they can certainly
get their arrests, and they can certainly disrupt them for
(06:31):
a while, but again, like whack a mole, up they
pop another district another weekend.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
I'm still amazed that even in my neighborhood. I know
I bang on about this, but yeah, I literally live
in Mark Mitchell, Minister of Police's electra, and we still
seem to night after night just year cars going round
and round around, sometimes with very tight circles, and you
(07:00):
drive down the road and the next day and you
find that they've been doing donuts to the most part
weird places. Anyway, SR, Election fever isn't the only kind
of fever going on in the US at the moment.
I believe the World Series is happening with it. I've
got little to zero interest in baseball. But this guy
loves it.
Speaker 7 (07:19):
I'm a massive baseball fan. You name, God bless the
Philadelphia Phillies.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Were you a fan when Chase at Uttley was with
the Phillies?
Speaker 7 (07:30):
Absolutely, Oh yeah they were. They were some I'm mid
nineties Phillies fan. I chase up your two thousand and seven,
twenty and eighteen right through the twenty eleven. Won the
World Series in two thousand and eight. That's up there
with my marriage and birth of my children. My wife
knows that. So yeah. Look, and like you say, baseball
(07:50):
is an everyday thing, well nine out of every ten days,
so you've got to look forward to every day.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
It just in the background, doesn't it.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
Nick.
Speaker 6 (07:57):
I follow the Dodgers in there and there, and you're
just checking in. I've got a bunch of friends that
like it.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
And as you say, it's it's every day.
Speaker 6 (08:03):
One hundred and sixty two regular games in the season.
Speaker 7 (08:06):
Yes, yeah, and I will say that, Yes, the Dodgers
are more than likely going to win the World Series,
but my Phillies had the better of you guys in
the regular season, so that irks me. Look New Zealand
couldn't handle American sport. You know, the Phillies can pay
the Dodgers eight times and sell out in the season
(08:27):
and play and sell the stadium ount they play their
division rivals twelve thirteen, fourteen times, you know. And and
Americans just love it. And the thing with baseball is
kiwis poo whoett. But you try and hit a round
ball with a round bat. Every home run is basically
one hundred and fifty one hundred and fifty meters. It's
like four hundred and four to fifty feet to the fence.
(08:50):
You try and hit a round ball with a round
bat that far.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
I think a round ball with a round that It's
a bit like the breakdown what golf did actually as
well as La had a tiny ball with a long stick.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
When you put it like that, they sound a bit
or sorry, I mean.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
News talk. Has it been right?
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Let's finish up looking at things with Google three rules.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
I think Marcus has been working this. I don't know why.
Speaker 8 (09:22):
By the way, I've checked on Google Maps. There is
a the local community group came around and put numbers
on everyone's house, so there is a pole with the
street number on it. I've just checked on Google Maps. Please,
I made the lawns, because the lawns look so smart
on Google Maps today or Google street View. It's looking
(09:46):
that got to get it looks fantastic. It's always good
to do the edges just before Google the Google truck
comes around and takes a photo of your house.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Hosts.
Speaker 8 (09:54):
Yeah, fine, they got to do the lawns. I gotta
admit that it's fun with the electric mower, but it
or a battery mar But yeah, I missed the noise.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
That's me.
Speaker 8 (10:07):
I missed them always of the old old iron horses.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Oh, this is just like the boy races and people
who are into loud, stupid cars. I also have an
electric mark and beautiful powerful still with the mulching blade
which is even better, so it's almost silent to use
and I don't have to deal with any grass coppings.
As for anybody who longs for smoke and noise.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
I don't understand what that's about.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
It's wrong with.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
People anyway, but frustrated way in the podcast today.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Sorry about that.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
I'll try and calm down over the next twenty four
hours and you will have a calm and it's in
like Glen I'll.
Speaker 6 (10:46):
See the new talk is talk z It Bean.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
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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