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February 27, 2025 • 15 mins

FIRST WITH YESTERDAY'S NEWS (highlights from Thursday on Newstalk ZB) We Might Need to Read Up/Saving the Planet Just Isn't Good Business/KFC Doing Alright/Coffee Chaos Continues

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
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Speaker 3 (00:23):
My beautiful beanies, and welcome to the bean for Friday.
First with yesterday's news, I am Glen Hart and we
are looking back at Thursday. BP's done a u tune
on its net zero ambitions, like so many other companies
have recently. How's KFC getting on? And the great coffee

(00:46):
spill the barkle here at news Talks heed be further developments.
But before any of that, Man, citizens arrest has really
been the story of the week this week, isn't it?
Which does that indicate that it's been a bit of
a boring week?

Speaker 4 (01:01):
Citizens arrest can be made right now, but it can't
be made outside the hours of nine pm to six
am unless the goods being stolen are worth least one
thousand dollars. And you can make a citizen's arrest, but
you need to know your law. You need to know
whether the crime committed is going to attract a custody
or sentence of more than three years, and you need
to know the legal definition of reasonable. So when appearing

(01:21):
on Ryan Bridges Show last night. The Minister stammered and
under and art and then stressed it's only a proposal,
and he seemed vague on the rules of engagement, which
is what we all wanted and that is critical information.
In other interviews yesterday, the Minister also said the courts
will provide guidance as to the boundaries of the law.
So in other words, he's saying, have a crack and
if it all goes horribly wrong and the shopkeeper ends

(01:44):
out in court, well we'll figure out the rules better.
No wonder. Many in retail say it will change nothing.
It is a big risk taking on a criminal. You'll
probably discover they're much more at home with violence than
you are. Already though, we've seen shopkeepers defend their shop
from robbers with softball bets and not get into trouble.
So does it really help. We will see when it's written,
and at the very least, I would like to see

(02:04):
a good, robust law that enables shopkeepers to be able
to stop customers leave shops with stuff in their bag.
You may remember the well known criminal goal as Garment
got away with refusing a bag check. I hope that
sort of thing stops but so far the citizens arrest
law is I hate to say it. Here comes that phrase.
It's a bit of an announcement of an announcement, and
it needs a lot more work.

Speaker 3 (02:25):
Yeah. I think that's why laws don't just happen instantly.
You know, they have their second third readings and special
committees and all that pilava to you hash out the
actual details. I think laws are actually quite complicated, which

(02:47):
might be why it takes lawyers so long to become lawyers.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
News talk has it been?

Speaker 4 (02:54):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (02:55):
I don't think when the law comes into effect that
they just go, hey everyone, citizens arrest go. Don't think
that's quite Maybe I've got that wrong.

Speaker 5 (03:08):
You know who loves the idea can't wait? Destiny Church.
Destiny Church leader brand Tummcky says he's excited to receive
increased powers to police where law and order has failed.
If Tommocky wants something, I don't. The idea of his
buffhead's going around deciding what's right and what's wrong and
who's a criminal who's not gives me the he bees.

(03:31):
But the thing that gets me is did the government
not ask the police and retail in z and the
EMA whether they wanted to increase the powers of citizens arrest.
Call me naive, and in fact you did yesterday, and
in fact I accept.

Speaker 3 (03:49):
That I was.

Speaker 5 (03:50):
But I would have thought that before you set up
a working group, that the working group was as a
result of Retail in Z and the EMA and the
police and the dairy owners saying Loman, heck, we really
need to do something about these citizens arrest powers. We
really need to be them up. I would have thought
that it would have had the support of retail end

(04:13):
Z and the EMA and all these pivotal groups that
are actually involved at the coal face. If they say no, no,
thanks very much, leave it to the police, and the
police say no no. You know, we're highly trained, and
we still get hurt. Imagine what can happen to people
who don't have the training and don't have the equipment.
Who did they ask before they set this up? Who

(04:35):
wants this? Apart from Destiny Church, which really, as I say,
what's the hebes at me.

Speaker 3 (04:42):
Yeah, it's a good point, you know, given that the
representatives of Destiny Church don't even seem to be particularly
over the laws and their special book. You know, things
like you know, love tho neighbor, own judge with ub judge,

(05:03):
you know, all that sort of stuff. They don't really
seem to a good handle on those rules. I wonder
how much of a look at the fine detail of
the new citizens arrest laws they're going to do.

Speaker 2 (05:21):
Fun to watch us talks been haying fun to watch.

Speaker 6 (05:25):
Quite a bit lately.

Speaker 3 (05:27):
And I don't necessarily mean it literally. I sort of
mean it ironically. It's like watching all these multinationals, in
many cases governments doing complete U turns on their climate
change policies, you know, big, big multi nationals like BP
for example.

Speaker 7 (05:47):
The reason they've given is also quite obvious, and should
have been obvious to them the day they announced their
net zero dreams back before COVID. People like energy to
keep the lights on the wheels of industry turning, especially
when times are tough, and they've now woken up to
this fact. Well, I should say more accurately, their shareholders
have woken them up to this fact, and so they're

(06:07):
changing course. At the same time as we've got companies
quote unquote unwoking, you've got Trump and his drill baby
drill over in America. They've pulled out of Paris, plastic
straws are making a comeback. Dutton, who will be the
next Australian Prime Minister. On current poling, he has said
they'll scrap their targets for twenty thirty. That would put

(06:31):
them offside with Paris, and here nationalist held bent on
the targets. Winston and Seymour both seem to want out
of Paris, although Winston and Shane are the most gung
ho on this and exactly when it would happen. So
it is a fair question to ask, is it not?
Is New Zealand better off in or out of international

(06:53):
climate agreements? Is a market solution like the incentives our
farmers have been offered by Nesley and Mars at the
moment we spoke about that the other week. The better
way to go the carrot from the market rather than
the stick from the state.

Speaker 3 (07:05):
I wish that everyone would just be a little bit
more upfront about this whole business and just admit that
saving the planet is not good business, so we're not
going to do it. So enjoy everything while it lasts right.

(07:27):
KFC has been in the news. Is it I don't know.
I do know that they moved their headquarters from Kentucky, Texas,
which seen gods. But Marcus has been looking at how
successful they've been lately in New Zealand.

Speaker 2 (07:40):
How much KFC are you eating?

Speaker 5 (07:43):
Goodness?

Speaker 3 (07:43):
KFC through the roof.

Speaker 2 (07:44):
I always saw.

Speaker 6 (07:45):
KFC was on its last league. You go to a
lot of the places like a bomb site. There's no
dining in and there's cues for Africa but cheap.

Speaker 4 (07:53):
Can you say cues for Africa?

Speaker 2 (07:55):
Probably can't.

Speaker 3 (07:56):
But gee, you're eating a lot of it. Munch much?
Look at you?

Speaker 6 (07:59):
What if you turned your ovens into bookshelves? Is that
what you've done? No one's using the oven. It's just
much munch munch out goodness. I've thought KFC was once
a year on your birthday, washed your elbows. Didn't realize
it was like three times a week, and for lunch
as well. What the guy says, are people stuck in
traffic cheapest wouldn't be surprised.

Speaker 3 (08:24):
I don't give it.

Speaker 6 (08:24):
Give them the old school lunches contract day because Compass
haven't got long to get it in order or somehow.
I don't think the long game is to save school lunch.

Speaker 3 (08:34):
I don't saved.

Speaker 6 (08:34):
The long game is to bury that one. But see
how much KFC are you eating. Are they making a
fortune here? I asked ch gpt Ai, how much KFC
person eats? Would you go more than three times a week?
It seems like you might. I reckon, you have to

(08:55):
get into a habit of eating KFC to cope with it.
For your body, I reckon, if you're an occasional KFC person,
it's suddenly ramped up to have it often. I reckon
your body would rebel, well not rebel, but maybe stage
a coup anyway. So there we go, so well done

(09:18):
with those with shees and KFC because all those other
chicken places are opening, but still KFC more and more
profit despite Popeyes. And I was very surprised to hear that.
Googling about that all day about KFC. But yeah, through
the roof. In other countries it's not so good. It's

(09:41):
kind of on the down, it's on the decline. But
here we can't get enough of it.

Speaker 3 (09:46):
It's been my observation that people who are under KFC
are really into it. I think they put something in
one of them, and you know how they got the
secret herbs and spisors. I think the reason that their
secret is because there's something highly addictive in there. And
it seems to work more powerfully on some people. Some

(10:08):
people seem to be more susceptible to whatever that ddiculate
element is, and they are prepared to sit in a
drive frood field for a very long time in order
to get there.

Speaker 2 (10:18):
Be that daily or even several times a day news
talk bean.

Speaker 3 (10:25):
It's worse than coffee great Zig week then, so yes,
the coffee catastrophe continues b aftermath of it anyway, So
just to bring it up the speed, Matt Heath completely
destroyed the main newsboos they announced studio on Wednesday. Mike

(10:47):
Hoskin found out about this yesterday demanded that Matt Heath
be removed from the on air lineup. I think that's
firing that.

Speaker 2 (11:03):
I think this officially is the last I'd like to personally,
I'd like to make it. It don't come Monday. But
let's caol this the last warning, shall we?

Speaker 1 (11:11):
Wow?

Speaker 8 (11:12):
Okay, So shots fired there, and I'm just looking over
at the rubbishman here, and Hoskin doesn't empty the rubbishman
when he leaves because there's too chopped up little bits
of lemon in here. Yeah, and so, and I understand
he's on some kind of lemon detox or something. Yeah,
you can't leave fruit in the come on. And I
also to think Mike is confused when he says the
experiment in the afternoon. What he means is the future
of news talks, he'd be in the afternoons, if not

(11:33):
the future of broadcasting as a whole. And if it
is an experiment, it's the bloody Manhattan project in here, correct,
the mad Heath project in here, the mad.

Speaker 2 (11:41):
And Tyler project. Also, we did clean out the bins.

Speaker 8 (11:45):
I've committed enough crimes in my time to know that
you've got to clean up the evidence. So those thousand
wet paper towels were clearly Ryan Bridges. So I don't
know what he's doing on drive. Whatever it is, it's
moist yep. And as for the final warning, if you
don't like the crimes I commit, well working at a place,
you should see what I do to workplaces I've been
fired from. It's not pretty, Mike. It all hell, hath,

(12:09):
no fury, like a Matt Heath scorn. It will take
more than a few paper towels to clean up the mess.
When you cancel my contract, coffee will be the nicest
fluid being thrown around. Okay, having said that, we are
you know, you're only as you're only as good as
your improvements from your mistakes.

Speaker 2 (12:28):
Yep.

Speaker 8 (12:28):
The day before, So I have purchased the fort Knox
of coffee cups because I am still flouting the drinking
in the studio rule. But I've bought this gray thing.
It's got a scrow on lead. You could you could
throw this across the room and it wouldn't it wouldn't leak. No,
so there'll be there'll be no more coffee again in Okay.

Speaker 2 (12:49):
Live and learn. But not because Mike Costkin, see, just
because there is the sort of person you are, because
I'm a good person. Yeah, and I learned from my
mistakes and we move forward.

Speaker 3 (12:57):
And yeah, so we put that one to be at
a part apart from the lemon slices in the rubbish,
but we might bring that up with management.

Speaker 2 (13:03):
Yeah, I have written a memo about that, all right,
no citrus in the bin.

Speaker 1 (13:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (13:10):
There's been a weird development actually with the bins at
newstok Saib recently. So we've got these wire waste paper bins.
So there's kind of like a y mesh around the outside,
so they're literally, you know, for waste paper. There's no
can be no doubt about what that means. You've got
a wire bin for waste paper. Please don't put tea

(13:34):
bags in there, or banana peels or indeed anything that
is as Matt and Tyler quite what rightly used there
the word moist. I don't want any moist items in there,
and yet, especially if they're coming after the weekend. But
the development recently has been that they put a plastic

(13:58):
a big plastic bin liner clear pastic bag in these bins,
and I do worry that that's given people free license
to put the moist items in there. But the cleaners
don't envy these bins. I think the cleaners are a
bit scared to come anywhere near the news talks of

(14:20):
the studios, to be honest, because I mean, this is
the only radio station here that has people in it
stop doing stuff for twenty four hours, seven days a week.
So yeah, we do end up ebding our own bins.
And there's nothing worse than him to push a moist
pile of stuff into the big bend that you're ebbing

(14:43):
it into, and then you're going to wash your hands afterwards.
It's to hold the lava. So actually I've got beef
with both my husking and that heat. And maybe Ryan
Bridge if he was the moist paper towel person.

Speaker 5 (15:01):
Can we just not.

Speaker 3 (15:05):
Based paper only, guys. It's not that far out to
the kitchen. It where the proper bens are for tea bags,
the slices of lemon, for whatever you want. Put it
out there, guys. They're good to be listening. Surely they listen.
Who wouldn't listen to this? If you'd like to listen

(15:25):
to a weekend vision of it, come back on Monday
this season.

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