March 11, 2025 • 13 mins
FIRST WITH YESTERDAY'S NEWS (highlights from Tuesday on Newstalk ZB) Still Irrelevant Though/Kiwisaver Makes My Head Hurt/The Emperor's New Lotus/No Love for Lanyards
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
Hello, my beautiful beanies, and welcome to the bean for Wednesday.
First of yesterday's news. I am Glen Hart, and we
are looking back at Tuesday. KEI we savor. How are
we getting on with this? Do you want to talk
about Kerry Saber lately? Have you been watching White Lotus?
I think Matt and Tyler have and what's Marcus got
(00:43):
against the Lanyards? But before any of that, so this
poll which shows labor and front, what's up with that?
Speaker 3 (00:52):
People still aren't feeling better off and they're still waiting
a long time for a hip replacement. Dissatisfaction, disgruntlement, disengagement.
That's all part of the mid term blues. Speaking to
The Herald, Christopher Luxon said New Zealanders are going to
have an opportunity in twenty twenty six, which is not
that far away, to make a decision around Chris Hopkins
(01:14):
or myself, he said, and our respective governments. My job
is to make sure New Zealanders see that they're better
off under my government. We've come through a very tough time.
There are some green shoots that we're really encouraged about
on the economy. Ultimately, he said, New Zealanders are going
to judge me at the election in twenty twenty six
(01:36):
as to whether we've delivered for them on rebuilding the economy,
restoring law and order, delivering better health and education. So
do you agree that this is the government not being
able to sell its sizzle. The sausage is there, but
without the sizzle, there will be no success. There will
(02:01):
be no successful selling story. They might be right, you know,
and I could under stand wise some within national could
feel brast off. You know, we've got the policies, the
building bricks, the foundations to get New Zealand cracking again
and that will better everybody. But if people don't believe that,
(02:24):
if they don't believe the message, then they're going to
vote Labor and we're going to get a center left government.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
It's quite interesting to watch given the American election that
happened last year and how the Democrats just weirdly just
didn't see it coming. They just assumed that, you know,
(02:52):
they were cruising along to victory. And how would anybody
in their right mind vote for somebody like Trump a
second time. And it's very funny for me to sit
here listening to stuff happening on news doors the b
every day, which I mean, you know, nobody can deny
the majority of the opinion are going to hear is
(03:12):
sort of leaning to the right, and so it does
become this kind of an echo chamber, and people just
can't countenance the possibility that there are people out there who,
you know, like the idea of social responsibility, like the
idea of looking after people a bit more like the
idea of rehabilitating people in prison, not just putting people
(03:35):
away for life, all that sort of stuff, you know,
some of those things you talk about on news books
you'v and it des drives people absolutely insane, and they
can't believe a poll which shows, I mean, it may
or may not be accurate, but because it's not what
they think, it's not real. And I would have thought
(03:58):
that a whole lot of elections lately have shown us
that you can get really stuck in their echo chamber
and you can't hear your way out of it. News
talk has it been anyway, as Andrew dickins, hearing echoes
as well.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
We swamped the nation with cash at the start of
the pandemic unnecessarily, we can now say with hindsight, and
then of course we paid the price. It's not being nice,
so the government is going to be on the back
foot no matter who they are. I actually think the
surprising thing about this poll is how well the coalition
support is holding up. Sure Luxon has his problem, Sure
Seymour and Peters say the most triggering things, knowing that
(04:38):
there's a bunch of people who love it. But are
the opposition talking any sense at all? Are they acting
like that? Do any better? I went searching for policy
from Labor. Chris Hipkins over the weekend played kGy with
his party's positions. When asked about the capital gains tax,
he prevaricated and then talked cryptically about tax reforms.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
What does this mean?
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Is that what you're voting for? That's about all the
policy talk I can wrestle up from Labor. The Greens
of the Bowlding Party appear to still be on holiday.
So all this poll says is that our blocks are
evenly matched tribal terms, and the trick will be the
swinging voters who vote, of course for self interest and
they'll do that in eighteen months time, so let's see
(05:17):
what things are like in eighteen months time. A poll
at this time is like some small talk at a party,
but the party hasn't even started yet.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Yeah, and that's a very good point as well. I mean,
it's hard to say exactly how useful a poll is
the far away from an election, especially for somebody like me.
He's desperately trying to pretend that he'll never have to
do another election ever again. Still time. I suppose I
could find another job between now and then. I just
don't know what that would because I'm not good at anything.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
US talk SI.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Maybe if I just invested the right way. I mean,
I've got a KEYWI saver. That's a start, isn't it.
Isn't it wrong.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
We're almost at two hundred billion dollars, which is great.
The key we save a contribution, though the minimum is
still just three percent. The Australia millions have close to
four trillion dollars invested in their superfunds. They've got the
fourth largest savings pool in the world, even though their
population is fifty sixth largest. They outdo themselves massively. Their
(06:24):
contribution technically paid by the employer is eleven and a
half percent compared that.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
To our three.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
Have you ever driven on an Australian motorway and wondered
how do they pay for this? Some of that comes
from the huge retirement savings in Key. We say that
you have a great system. It's got lots of members.
We've got more than three million of us who are
signed up, but it's not growing fast enough for us.
It could be so much more than it is. We
(06:51):
of course came late to the party compared to the
Australians and there's nothing we can do about that now,
and their contribution rates have gone up over a much
longer period of time. However, making change now is probably
the smart thing to do. Doesn't mean that it's going
to be easy for any government to do right. That's
the problem. Convincing people that they need less of their
(07:12):
hard earned money today for tomorrow is not an easy sell.
But long term it's the right one. And the tolls
that we pay on that beautiful stretch of boat Away
that we're driving on up north or down south one
day might just be boomeranging back to us.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
So it's interesting to hear Ryan say I wasn't quite
sure there is he saying that the employer contributions should
go up, or that our contributions should go up, or
that all of the contributions should go up. This is
the problem. As soon as anybody starts talking about this stuff,
my head spins around at such a rate of knots.
I start generating my own gravitational field city. Now let's
(07:53):
talk about something I feel like I know a little
bit more about minoralist television. Have you been watching The
White Lotus? I have. I've watched the first three episodes.
And when I say i've watched it, I've watched it
with with the Mystic manager.
Speaker 6 (08:16):
She likes it.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
I secretly don't like it, but I'm happy to watch
it just because it's time to watch things together. I
like watching Walk, Doggins, Wolkon and Dogins drag Its Vulcan,
not Walker. I don't like anybody else in it. I
don't like any of the other characters. And this has
been my problem with it. It's all the way through.
It's just watching a whole lot of people you don't
(08:40):
like be horrible.
Speaker 6 (08:42):
Now, there's been a lot of shit about The White Lotus,
and I know you're a mess of fan.
Speaker 7 (08:45):
Yeah, I am, although I didn't watch a new episode
that came out last night. It's on Neon.
Speaker 6 (08:49):
Well, there's a headline that has just caught my attention,
and I'm in The White Lotus. Harry Potter star Jason
Isaac shocks fan with revealing nude scene. You can have
a read of it on the hero But I'm just
having a look at the picture. I'm just going to
turn this around. I mean, that's almost a little bit
basic instinct going on there. As if you needed another
(09:09):
reason to watch The White Lotus.
Speaker 7 (09:11):
Every season a White Lotus has some kind of full
frontal nudity in it, doesn't it you confronting some brand
In season one, Oh my god, there's a particularly confronting
scene that people have seen it will know, around a
certain father's operation. There's not going to details that. But yeah,
so I haven't seen White Loaders episode four.
Speaker 6 (09:31):
Well, I don't know if that's a spoiler or that's
just something to look forward to a.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
Huge spoiler.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Yeah, yeah, I feel like programs like this, there's an
Emperor's New Clothes affit that because you can't argue that
it's not a weird show. This goes right back to
shows like twenty peaks back in the old days where
if you've got caught up and watching weird shows that
(10:01):
that the hype seemed to be that they were good
shows because they were weird. But sometimes you need a
little bit more than just being weird. Sometimes you need,
like I don't know, a story, there are relatable characters.
That's sort of fun. I like the I like the
(10:22):
bets that you may show little bits of nature on
the white loaders, nice sunlight and the water and the
monkeys just in between scenes the actual scenes. I don't
care for.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
News talk has it been?
Speaker 2 (10:39):
We're going to finish up a little bit of lanyard talk.
This is a bit of a podcast roulette because what
is the cat that the Marcus's producer has sent me.
It's called Marcus hates a lanyard. So I don't know
what that's about. Let's have a listen. Just put explode
in my face. But that's the fun of podcast relet
isn't it. Here we go, Marcus, my keys are on
(11:01):
a lanyard. Now to minimum is losing them. Cheers Roger.
Speaker 8 (11:07):
This might come as as surprise to you. It might
not come as a surprise to you. I hate a lanyard.
Can't bear a lanyard always. They always look so terrible
around your neck with though sometimes when I go to
work and all they give me a lanyard, can't stand it.
(11:30):
And I judge people that were a lanyard. I think
the cheapest creeper is your life. What's happening that you've
got to have a lanyard around your neck like that?
Look you're working for NASA, go through top secret door.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
That's just me.
Speaker 8 (11:43):
If I ever have to have a swipe card on
a retractable string, I have it on my pant pocket.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Find that snazzier anyway. Although these days.
Speaker 8 (11:57):
I've got my swipe card for work and I've got
three cards and my wallet never leaves my pocket fits perfectly,
because you don't want to spend your life looking for
things you've lost.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Yeah, I certainly have gone with the retractable thing that's
gone to my belt loop because I'm not a fan
of the land yard either, And I'm going to be
perfectly honest. Although there is a sort of a it
(12:29):
does seem to have a bit more wear and tear
going on with the retractable thing on your belt loop.
They seem to last about six months and then it
either snaps or the bit that's connected to your security
card comes off, and then I'm going to go back
to the two dollar shop and buy another couple. So
I did this the other day, and that was quite
(12:50):
cool because I've managed to get red ones. I think
there are about three dollars forty eight actually have things
gone up at the two dollar shop conceptingly there also,
I thought we were all supposed to have chips in
our hands by now. Why have we still got cards? Anyway?
The flying car thing isn't it. It's just doesn't happen.
(13:11):
The self lacing shoes, Come on, Come on, science, stop
trying to cure cancer and get onto the stuff that
really matters. I am a glen heart. There's been news Talks,
you've been. We'll see you back tomorrow with more very
important news like that. News Talk has talks. It been
for more from News Talk sid B.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Listen live on air or online, and keep our shows
with you wherever you go with our podcast 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 Talk.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Hello, my beautiful beanies, and welcome to the bean for Wednesday.
First of yesterday's news. I am Glen Hart, and we
are looking back at Tuesday. KEI we savor. How are
we getting on with this? Do you want to talk
about Kerry Saber lately? Have you been watching White Lotus?
I think Matt and Tyler have and what's Marcus got
(00:43):
against the Lanyards? But before any of that, so this
poll which shows labor and front, what's up with that?
Speaker 3 (00:52):
People still aren't feeling better off and they're still waiting
a long time for a hip replacement. Dissatisfaction, disgruntlement, disengagement.
That's all part of the mid term blues. Speaking to
The Herald, Christopher Luxon said New Zealanders are going to
have an opportunity in twenty twenty six, which is not
that far away, to make a decision around Chris Hopkins
(01:14):
or myself, he said, and our respective governments. My job
is to make sure New Zealanders see that they're better
off under my government. We've come through a very tough time.
There are some green shoots that we're really encouraged about
on the economy. Ultimately, he said, New Zealanders are going
to judge me at the election in twenty twenty six
(01:36):
as to whether we've delivered for them on rebuilding the economy,
restoring law and order, delivering better health and education. So
do you agree that this is the government not being
able to sell its sizzle. The sausage is there, but
without the sizzle, there will be no success. There will
(02:01):
be no successful selling story. They might be right, you know,
and I could under stand wise some within national could
feel brast off. You know, we've got the policies, the
building bricks, the foundations to get New Zealand cracking again
and that will better everybody. But if people don't believe that,
(02:24):
if they don't believe the message, then they're going to
vote Labor and we're going to get a center left government.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
It's quite interesting to watch given the American election that
happened last year and how the Democrats just weirdly just
didn't see it coming. They just assumed that, you know,
(02:52):
they were cruising along to victory. And how would anybody
in their right mind vote for somebody like Trump a
second time. And it's very funny for me to sit
here listening to stuff happening on news doors the b
every day, which I mean, you know, nobody can deny
the majority of the opinion are going to hear is
(03:12):
sort of leaning to the right, and so it does
become this kind of an echo chamber, and people just
can't countenance the possibility that there are people out there who,
you know, like the idea of social responsibility, like the
idea of looking after people a bit more like the
idea of rehabilitating people in prison, not just putting people
(03:35):
away for life, all that sort of stuff, you know,
some of those things you talk about on news books
you'v and it des drives people absolutely insane, and they
can't believe a poll which shows, I mean, it may
or may not be accurate, but because it's not what
they think, it's not real. And I would have thought
(03:58):
that a whole lot of elections lately have shown us
that you can get really stuck in their echo chamber
and you can't hear your way out of it. News
talk has it been anyway, as Andrew dickins, hearing echoes
as well.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
We swamped the nation with cash at the start of
the pandemic unnecessarily, we can now say with hindsight, and
then of course we paid the price. It's not being nice,
so the government is going to be on the back
foot no matter who they are. I actually think the
surprising thing about this poll is how well the coalition
support is holding up. Sure Luxon has his problem, Sure
Seymour and Peters say the most triggering things, knowing that
(04:38):
there's a bunch of people who love it. But are
the opposition talking any sense at all? Are they acting
like that? Do any better? I went searching for policy
from Labor. Chris Hipkins over the weekend played kGy with
his party's positions. When asked about the capital gains tax,
he prevaricated and then talked cryptically about tax reforms.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
What does this mean?
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Is that what you're voting for? That's about all the
policy talk I can wrestle up from Labor. The Greens
of the Bowlding Party appear to still be on holiday.
So all this poll says is that our blocks are
evenly matched tribal terms, and the trick will be the
swinging voters who vote, of course for self interest and
they'll do that in eighteen months time, so let's see
(05:17):
what things are like in eighteen months time. A poll
at this time is like some small talk at a party,
but the party hasn't even started yet.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Yeah, and that's a very good point as well. I mean,
it's hard to say exactly how useful a poll is
the far away from an election, especially for somebody like me.
He's desperately trying to pretend that he'll never have to
do another election ever again. Still time. I suppose I
could find another job between now and then. I just
don't know what that would because I'm not good at anything.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
US talk SI.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Maybe if I just invested the right way. I mean,
I've got a KEYWI saver. That's a start, isn't it.
Isn't it wrong.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
We're almost at two hundred billion dollars, which is great.
The key we save a contribution, though the minimum is
still just three percent. The Australia millions have close to
four trillion dollars invested in their superfunds. They've got the
fourth largest savings pool in the world, even though their
population is fifty sixth largest. They outdo themselves massively. Their
(06:24):
contribution technically paid by the employer is eleven and a
half percent compared that.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
To our three.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
Have you ever driven on an Australian motorway and wondered
how do they pay for this? Some of that comes
from the huge retirement savings in Key. We say that
you have a great system. It's got lots of members.
We've got more than three million of us who are
signed up, but it's not growing fast enough for us.
It could be so much more than it is. We
(06:51):
of course came late to the party compared to the
Australians and there's nothing we can do about that now,
and their contribution rates have gone up over a much
longer period of time. However, making change now is probably
the smart thing to do. Doesn't mean that it's going
to be easy for any government to do right. That's
the problem. Convincing people that they need less of their
(07:12):
hard earned money today for tomorrow is not an easy sell.
But long term it's the right one. And the tolls
that we pay on that beautiful stretch of boat Away
that we're driving on up north or down south one
day might just be boomeranging back to us.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
So it's interesting to hear Ryan say I wasn't quite
sure there is he saying that the employer contributions should
go up, or that our contributions should go up, or
that all of the contributions should go up. This is
the problem. As soon as anybody starts talking about this stuff,
my head spins around at such a rate of knots.
I start generating my own gravitational field city. Now let's
(07:53):
talk about something I feel like I know a little
bit more about minoralist television. Have you been watching The
White Lotus? I have. I've watched the first three episodes.
And when I say i've watched it, I've watched it
with with the Mystic manager.
Speaker 6 (08:16):
She likes it.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
I secretly don't like it, but I'm happy to watch
it just because it's time to watch things together. I
like watching Walk, Doggins, Wolkon and Dogins drag Its Vulcan,
not Walker. I don't like anybody else in it. I
don't like any of the other characters. And this has
been my problem with it. It's all the way through.
It's just watching a whole lot of people you don't
(08:40):
like be horrible.
Speaker 6 (08:42):
Now, there's been a lot of shit about The White Lotus,
and I know you're a mess of fan.
Speaker 7 (08:45):
Yeah, I am, although I didn't watch a new episode
that came out last night. It's on Neon.
Speaker 6 (08:49):
Well, there's a headline that has just caught my attention,
and I'm in The White Lotus. Harry Potter star Jason
Isaac shocks fan with revealing nude scene. You can have
a read of it on the hero But I'm just
having a look at the picture. I'm just going to
turn this around. I mean, that's almost a little bit
basic instinct going on there. As if you needed another
(09:09):
reason to watch The White Lotus.
Speaker 7 (09:11):
Every season a White Lotus has some kind of full
frontal nudity in it, doesn't it you confronting some brand
In season one, Oh my god, there's a particularly confronting
scene that people have seen it will know, around a
certain father's operation. There's not going to details that. But yeah,
so I haven't seen White Loaders episode four.
Speaker 6 (09:31):
Well, I don't know if that's a spoiler or that's
just something to look forward to a.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
Huge spoiler.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Yeah, yeah, I feel like programs like this, there's an
Emperor's New Clothes affit that because you can't argue that
it's not a weird show. This goes right back to
shows like twenty peaks back in the old days where
if you've got caught up and watching weird shows that
(10:01):
that the hype seemed to be that they were good
shows because they were weird. But sometimes you need a
little bit more than just being weird. Sometimes you need,
like I don't know, a story, there are relatable characters.
That's sort of fun. I like the I like the
(10:22):
bets that you may show little bits of nature on
the white loaders, nice sunlight and the water and the
monkeys just in between scenes the actual scenes. I don't
care for.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
News talk has it been?
Speaker 2 (10:39):
We're going to finish up a little bit of lanyard talk.
This is a bit of a podcast roulette because what
is the cat that the Marcus's producer has sent me.
It's called Marcus hates a lanyard. So I don't know
what that's about. Let's have a listen. Just put explode
in my face. But that's the fun of podcast relet
isn't it. Here we go, Marcus, my keys are on
(11:01):
a lanyard. Now to minimum is losing them. Cheers Roger.
Speaker 8 (11:07):
This might come as as surprise to you. It might
not come as a surprise to you. I hate a lanyard.
Can't bear a lanyard always. They always look so terrible
around your neck with though sometimes when I go to
work and all they give me a lanyard, can't stand it.
(11:30):
And I judge people that were a lanyard. I think
the cheapest creeper is your life. What's happening that you've
got to have a lanyard around your neck like that?
Look you're working for NASA, go through top secret door.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
That's just me.
Speaker 8 (11:43):
If I ever have to have a swipe card on
a retractable string, I have it on my pant pocket.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Find that snazzier anyway. Although these days.
Speaker 8 (11:57):
I've got my swipe card for work and I've got
three cards and my wallet never leaves my pocket fits perfectly,
because you don't want to spend your life looking for
things you've lost.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Yeah, I certainly have gone with the retractable thing that's
gone to my belt loop because I'm not a fan
of the land yard either, And I'm going to be
perfectly honest. Although there is a sort of a it
(12:29):
does seem to have a bit more wear and tear
going on with the retractable thing on your belt loop.
They seem to last about six months and then it
either snaps or the bit that's connected to your security
card comes off, and then I'm going to go back
to the two dollar shop and buy another couple. So
I did this the other day, and that was quite
(12:50):
cool because I've managed to get red ones. I think
there are about three dollars forty eight actually have things
gone up at the two dollar shop conceptingly there also,
I thought we were all supposed to have chips in
our hands by now. Why have we still got cards? Anyway?
The flying car thing isn't it. It's just doesn't happen.
(13:11):
The self lacing shoes, Come on, Come on, science, stop
trying to cure cancer and get onto the stuff that
really matters. I am a glen heart. There's been news Talks,
you've been. We'll see you back tomorrow with more very
important news like that. News Talk has talks. It been
for more from News Talk sid B.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Listen live on air or online, and keep our shows
with you wherever you go with our podcast on iHeartRadio
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