March 18, 2025 • 13 mins
FIRST WITH YESTERDAY'S NEWS (highlights from Tuesday on Newstalk ZB) When Covid Catches Up with You/Willis Sharpens Her Blade/Blasting Off with India/Hitchhiking Weirdness/Why Feijoas Are Hated
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
Hello, my beautiful beanies, and welcome to the bean for Wednesday.
First with yesterday's news, I am Glen Hatt and we
are looking back at Tuesday. Look out, public service. The
Nichola Willis is coming after you with a scythe or
a sickle or a machete or something. Stay sharp night,
(00:43):
but good news for out of India. I think we've
got an FDA happening, is it? Maybe headchhiking and Fijos
will finish up the podcast, but let's begin it by
dredging up COVID stuff, reopening that old wound because a
(01:07):
few borrows money, you really need to pay it back.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
It didn't work when it came to allowing troublesome tenants
to stay on in caying order accommodation. I can't think
of a single sector where it actually worked. Just on that.
Anyone who did take out a business loan and doesn't
pay it back. I remember my accountant saying to me
(01:33):
it was a good eighteen months ago. She had businesses
who were taking the loan and saying, oh, we're not
going to pay it back. Why should we? There is
absolutely no need to. If they're stupid enough to give
us the money, we're not going to pay it back.
Surely there is a moral authority that if you can,
you should, and if you can and you won't, then
(01:54):
you must never ever talk about beneficiaries bludging off the
system ever again. Same with student loan defaulters. You have
no moral high ground at all. We can't move on.
It'd be wonderful to be able to move on, but
we can't move on when we are paying and paying
and paying for stupid, ill considered, poorly advised decisions, and
(02:20):
we're all going to be paying for a very very
long time to come.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
When you go through the.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Greatest international disaster in living memory, basically certainly of a generation,
there's probably is going to be a little bit of
ongoing fall out from that, isn't there? But I think
we've all decided that everybody did a terrible job of it,
and we're not going to do anything like that ever again.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
News talk ze been Even if there's.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Another pandemic, it'll be completely different next time and everything
will be lovely sort of out straight away now so
as a result if we think to be as a
result of what happened back in twenty twenty twenty one,
(03:18):
and part of what happened, apparently is the public service
between every bananas and blew out. I personally can't quite
see the correlation, but Sarah apparently and Nikola Willis is
going to sort it.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
The bills keep piling up. Defense. Remember Judith Collins came
on this program. She wants to double the spending to
ten billion dollars over time. Some of that will be capex,
but still kitching. The survivors of abuse in state care
must be compensated. It's the right thing to do, but
again kitching. Willis also mentions health kitching, education, kitchen police kitching.
(03:55):
So you add up all the kitchens, you get sick
of saying it. You add your debt servicing, and you're
starting to think about running out of the restaurant and
leaving the tab to someone else, or maybe some sneaky
new tax or a right Well. Willis says no to
that too. Nothing made you coming, except for the charities.
But that won't light the world on fire, throwing the
(04:15):
risk to global growth and therefore our export earnings. From
Trump's trade war, and then that could hit your tax take,
and add it all together, you're left with an unmistakable
course of action.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Cuts.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Willis has been busy beavering away on a plan for
months across all of government to do just this, to
make cuts, to cut programs that were nice ideas but
don't work. She's looked at cutting entire ministries and agencies,
but says it costs more to delete them in the
short term than you'll say, So none of that this
time round. But if you're working on a project right now,
(04:53):
if you're working on a program, a piece of work
that has no tangible benefit to a decent chunk of
US taxpayers, then brace yourself. You're on the chopping block,
and Willis is coming your way the aprons on. And
it's not a filleting knife in her hand, it's a
meat cleaner.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Ah filliping knife, meat cleaver. When I was listening off
all the other things that he could have been cutting
with less those two out which worked out well. Really,
Otherwise Ryan had to be repeating what I said. Is
ridiculous because I said it after he said it. I'd
be repeating what he said in advance. See how We've
been time in space with this podcast, isn't it amazing
(05:33):
us talk in more positive economic news. It looks like
we're well on the way to an FBA with India.
Which are they now? The biggest country in the world.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
They're up there space space is a no brainer. India's
already aiming for the Moon, They've already been there. We
have space, we have great tech. It is another sector
that we can benefit from India's expertise to help our productivity.
Our i is atrocious and with all eyes on Chinese
expansion in the Indo Pacific region, there are many reasons
for a closer relationship. That's why Chris Luck and us
(06:08):
talking right now at a defense seminar in India. And
if tensions were China increase, our manufacturers will need India's
cheap labor and on China, we need to have India
on our side the same way we walk the tight
rope with America on Pacific security and we still have
a relationship with China, So why will we While we
will always consider dairy as a cornerstone to our competitiveness
(06:32):
in global trade, we have often spoken of the need
to have some diversification in our export markets, and this
deal offers us a chance to grow and become broader
base and with a bit of luck. In fact, I'm
sure of it, dare we will join the ride as
years go by.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
So, just going back to the space thing, are we
exporting space to India or are they exporting it to us?
So I don't quite understand how that part works that
it brings into it. They did, so I think people
(07:08):
sort of forget that they were the first country to
land on the south pole of the Moon, as opposed
to that that one the other day where we got
live footage of the private company that was trying to
land something on the south pole and then they all
looked a bit plumb because it didn't work. I mean,
(07:35):
I found it amusing. They didn't seem to be that amused.
Have you ever picked up a hitchhoker? I don't know
why they were talking about this. Yesterday afternoon on thenoon show.
Speaker 6 (07:48):
Stop, the van went into the shop and came out
and there was a there was a girl standing by
the van. She was quite like a not a big
she was a big girl, like a like a rugby
player size big girl with a big knee bandage on
and limping around and she said, oh, I'm trying to
get to the bus station in Croydon. Can you give
me a list? And I said, well come any policy
(08:09):
was no lifts, you know, you know, no one in,
no one in the vehicles. And I said, oh, really sorry,
I can't. It was starting to spit rain a bit,
and she was sort of I felt a bit sorry
for I said, come on, it's only four or five
k down the road jumping, so she jumped in, took
her down in a chat and she was going to
her brother's twenty first birthday party apparently. So I dropped
(08:29):
it off at Crowdon Bus station and as I pulled away,
I was sort of a few hundred meters down the
road and in those days we had the old CB
radios and it was the you know, the head office
ringing meat off, calling me and the boss said, Matt,
are you alone? And I thought he is hidden camera. Yeah,
(08:50):
there's no cameras in the and I said, well, what's
up and he said well are you alone? And I
said yeah, and he said okay, where did you drop her?
I was like, what the hell? So I said, well,
Crowdon Croydon Central Bus Station and he said, okay, stay on,
stay on channel, and I could hear him talking on
the phone to someone else, and then he came back
and he said, right, just return to base. So I thought,
(09:11):
oh god, I'm in trouble now. So I drove back
to base. It's just probably an hour. It's a place
called Crawley and got back to base and they're a
big group of people who worked for the cheered when
I drove up, and I thought what I went into
went into his office and he said, mate, is said,
the reason the reason I was calling and I was
really concerned is because as the girl was getting in
(09:33):
your van, two nurses from the local asylum for want
of a better word, were running down the road trying
to catch her because she's a dangerous person.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
The big I am doing new draw a story out
and they a lot of details we didn't really ask
for in that story. Ah I I think I've mentioned
before I used to bust full time. That was kind
of my first job when I was school. And there
(10:08):
was another guy in Hamilton who used to bask as well,
and he would get a bit angsy if I was
in his spot before he ended up or what he
deemed to be his spot. He wasn't quite as committed
as I was. I used to do it four days,
five days a week, four hours a day, about eleven
(10:33):
in thirty through the two thirty three. He was there
some days, some days he wasn't. Anyway, he asked me
for a ride one day. This is after him. You're
getting really agro at me to stealing his spot. Another
day I gave it to her, gave him a right.
(10:53):
You know, baskets, you got to stick.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Together, right, news talk has it been right?
Speaker 7 (10:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (10:59):
What's going on with the theos? Because we got one,
we got three trees and we got one feed.
Speaker 6 (11:06):
Off close three trees with you.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
I've seen them in the job, so some trees must
be coming up with the goods.
Speaker 7 (11:13):
I've always been of the peace of mind that the
real New Zealand Easter egg is the humble fijoa, shaped
like an egg, arrives as time of the year. So
my question to you, right, and I'm genuinely curious about
the answer to this one. Fijoas probably New Zealand's adopted
(11:33):
national fruit, and it seems to be the fruit in
New Zealand that drives the most passion with Facebook pages
dedicated to fijoas and WhatsApp groups and Instagram accounts and
TikTok account It's all about the Fijar. People love them,
(11:55):
and people love them in such a way that they
think that there's special love for the Fijara is unique,
that they can love it in a way that no
one else can love it. It's quite it's like the
love of a child. So we are in fijo a season.
But I have one question for you about the fijoas.
Because it's a fruit, it's extremely polarizing and I've never
(12:23):
quite worked out why. So the question I want to
ask you because I love them, I et a bucket
of them. They let another bucket. They have a third bucket.
But the question I have for you fijo A people
or people have used other art Fijoa people. Is you
people that hate them?
Speaker 6 (12:44):
Why is that?
Speaker 2 (12:45):
My theory is they're one of those. There are a
few things that smell a lot stronger than they taste,
and as soon as you put fijar anywhere near anything else,
that's all you can smell or taste is fijar from
that point. So it's a bit overwhelming. What is it?
Speaker 4 (13:05):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (13:05):
The dragon fruit. No, it's not the dragon fruit.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
The star fruit.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
One of those Southeast Asian fruits, you know, the one
that tastes like vomit. I mean smells like vomit, but
it actually tastes really sweet. That's another one, and you
know people will love or hate that for obvious reasons. Yeah,
funny old things, aren't they, see Joe. Anyway, we don't
have to worry about it in our house. We're going
an allowed to buy them, can't buy them from the supermarket.
Not when they're falling off the trees. Is if they're
(13:31):
not falling off our trees. Because we only got one
fejar off three trees. I don't know what's going on there.
Speaker 6 (13:35):
Anyway.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Enjoy whatever fruit you've got on the menu today, and
we'll see they're hear again tomorrow for another News Talks.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
They've been us Talkers Talks it Bean. For more from
news Talks, it'd be 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 s Talk.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Hello, my beautiful beanies, and welcome to the bean for Wednesday.
First with yesterday's news, I am Glen Hatt and we
are looking back at Tuesday. Look out, public service. The
Nichola Willis is coming after you with a scythe or
a sickle or a machete or something. Stay sharp night,
(00:43):
but good news for out of India. I think we've
got an FDA happening, is it? Maybe headchhiking and Fijos
will finish up the podcast, but let's begin it by
dredging up COVID stuff, reopening that old wound because a
(01:07):
few borrows money, you really need to pay it back.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
It didn't work when it came to allowing troublesome tenants
to stay on in caying order accommodation. I can't think
of a single sector where it actually worked. Just on that.
Anyone who did take out a business loan and doesn't
pay it back. I remember my accountant saying to me
(01:33):
it was a good eighteen months ago. She had businesses
who were taking the loan and saying, oh, we're not
going to pay it back. Why should we? There is
absolutely no need to. If they're stupid enough to give
us the money, we're not going to pay it back.
Surely there is a moral authority that if you can,
you should, and if you can and you won't, then
(01:54):
you must never ever talk about beneficiaries bludging off the
system ever again. Same with student loan defaulters. You have
no moral high ground at all. We can't move on.
It'd be wonderful to be able to move on, but
we can't move on when we are paying and paying
and paying for stupid, ill considered, poorly advised decisions, and
(02:20):
we're all going to be paying for a very very
long time to come.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
When you go through the.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Greatest international disaster in living memory, basically certainly of a generation,
there's probably is going to be a little bit of
ongoing fall out from that, isn't there? But I think
we've all decided that everybody did a terrible job of it,
and we're not going to do anything like that ever again.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
News talk ze been Even if there's.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Another pandemic, it'll be completely different next time and everything
will be lovely sort of out straight away now so
as a result if we think to be as a
result of what happened back in twenty twenty twenty one,
(03:18):
and part of what happened, apparently is the public service
between every bananas and blew out. I personally can't quite
see the correlation, but Sarah apparently and Nikola Willis is
going to sort it.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
The bills keep piling up. Defense. Remember Judith Collins came
on this program. She wants to double the spending to
ten billion dollars over time. Some of that will be capex,
but still kitching. The survivors of abuse in state care
must be compensated. It's the right thing to do, but
again kitching. Willis also mentions health kitching, education, kitchen police kitching.
(03:55):
So you add up all the kitchens, you get sick
of saying it. You add your debt servicing, and you're
starting to think about running out of the restaurant and
leaving the tab to someone else, or maybe some sneaky
new tax or a right Well. Willis says no to
that too. Nothing made you coming, except for the charities.
But that won't light the world on fire, throwing the
(04:15):
risk to global growth and therefore our export earnings. From
Trump's trade war, and then that could hit your tax take,
and add it all together, you're left with an unmistakable
course of action.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Cuts.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Willis has been busy beavering away on a plan for
months across all of government to do just this, to
make cuts, to cut programs that were nice ideas but
don't work. She's looked at cutting entire ministries and agencies,
but says it costs more to delete them in the
short term than you'll say, So none of that this
time round. But if you're working on a project right now,
(04:53):
if you're working on a program, a piece of work
that has no tangible benefit to a decent chunk of
US taxpayers, then brace yourself. You're on the chopping block,
and Willis is coming your way the aprons on. And
it's not a filleting knife in her hand, it's a
meat cleaner.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Ah filliping knife, meat cleaver. When I was listening off
all the other things that he could have been cutting
with less those two out which worked out well. Really,
Otherwise Ryan had to be repeating what I said. Is
ridiculous because I said it after he said it. I'd
be repeating what he said in advance. See how We've
been time in space with this podcast, isn't it amazing
(05:33):
us talk in more positive economic news. It looks like
we're well on the way to an FBA with India.
Which are they now? The biggest country in the world.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
They're up there space space is a no brainer. India's
already aiming for the Moon, They've already been there. We
have space, we have great tech. It is another sector
that we can benefit from India's expertise to help our productivity.
Our i is atrocious and with all eyes on Chinese
expansion in the Indo Pacific region, there are many reasons
for a closer relationship. That's why Chris Luck and us
(06:08):
talking right now at a defense seminar in India. And
if tensions were China increase, our manufacturers will need India's
cheap labor and on China, we need to have India
on our side the same way we walk the tight
rope with America on Pacific security and we still have
a relationship with China, So why will we While we
will always consider dairy as a cornerstone to our competitiveness
(06:32):
in global trade, we have often spoken of the need
to have some diversification in our export markets, and this
deal offers us a chance to grow and become broader
base and with a bit of luck. In fact, I'm
sure of it, dare we will join the ride as
years go by.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
So, just going back to the space thing, are we
exporting space to India or are they exporting it to us?
So I don't quite understand how that part works that
it brings into it. They did, so I think people
(07:08):
sort of forget that they were the first country to
land on the south pole of the Moon, as opposed
to that that one the other day where we got
live footage of the private company that was trying to
land something on the south pole and then they all
looked a bit plumb because it didn't work. I mean,
(07:35):
I found it amusing. They didn't seem to be that amused.
Have you ever picked up a hitchhoker? I don't know
why they were talking about this. Yesterday afternoon on thenoon show.
Speaker 6 (07:48):
Stop, the van went into the shop and came out
and there was a there was a girl standing by
the van. She was quite like a not a big
she was a big girl, like a like a rugby
player size big girl with a big knee bandage on
and limping around and she said, oh, I'm trying to
get to the bus station in Croydon. Can you give
me a list? And I said, well come any policy
(08:09):
was no lifts, you know, you know, no one in,
no one in the vehicles. And I said, oh, really sorry,
I can't. It was starting to spit rain a bit,
and she was sort of I felt a bit sorry
for I said, come on, it's only four or five
k down the road jumping, so she jumped in, took
her down in a chat and she was going to
her brother's twenty first birthday party apparently. So I dropped
(08:29):
it off at Crowdon Bus station and as I pulled away,
I was sort of a few hundred meters down the
road and in those days we had the old CB
radios and it was the you know, the head office
ringing meat off, calling me and the boss said, Matt,
are you alone? And I thought he is hidden camera. Yeah,
(08:50):
there's no cameras in the and I said, well, what's
up and he said well are you alone? And I
said yeah, and he said okay, where did you drop her?
I was like, what the hell? So I said, well,
Crowdon Croydon Central Bus Station and he said, okay, stay on,
stay on channel, and I could hear him talking on
the phone to someone else, and then he came back
and he said, right, just return to base. So I thought,
(09:11):
oh god, I'm in trouble now. So I drove back
to base. It's just probably an hour. It's a place
called Crawley and got back to base and they're a
big group of people who worked for the cheered when
I drove up, and I thought what I went into
went into his office and he said, mate, is said,
the reason the reason I was calling and I was
really concerned is because as the girl was getting in
(09:33):
your van, two nurses from the local asylum for want
of a better word, were running down the road trying
to catch her because she's a dangerous person.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
The big I am doing new draw a story out
and they a lot of details we didn't really ask
for in that story. Ah I I think I've mentioned
before I used to bust full time. That was kind
of my first job when I was school. And there
(10:08):
was another guy in Hamilton who used to bask as well,
and he would get a bit angsy if I was
in his spot before he ended up or what he
deemed to be his spot. He wasn't quite as committed
as I was. I used to do it four days,
five days a week, four hours a day, about eleven
(10:33):
in thirty through the two thirty three. He was there
some days, some days he wasn't. Anyway, he asked me
for a ride one day. This is after him. You're
getting really agro at me to stealing his spot. Another
day I gave it to her, gave him a right.
(10:53):
You know, baskets, you got to stick.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Together, right, news talk has it been right?
Speaker 7 (10:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (10:59):
What's going on with the theos? Because we got one,
we got three trees and we got one feed.
Speaker 6 (11:06):
Off close three trees with you.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
I've seen them in the job, so some trees must
be coming up with the goods.
Speaker 7 (11:13):
I've always been of the peace of mind that the
real New Zealand Easter egg is the humble fijoa, shaped
like an egg, arrives as time of the year. So
my question to you, right, and I'm genuinely curious about
the answer to this one. Fijoas probably New Zealand's adopted
(11:33):
national fruit, and it seems to be the fruit in
New Zealand that drives the most passion with Facebook pages
dedicated to fijoas and WhatsApp groups and Instagram accounts and
TikTok account It's all about the Fijar. People love them,
(11:55):
and people love them in such a way that they
think that there's special love for the Fijara is unique,
that they can love it in a way that no
one else can love it. It's quite it's like the
love of a child. So we are in fijo a season.
But I have one question for you about the fijoas.
Because it's a fruit, it's extremely polarizing and I've never
(12:23):
quite worked out why. So the question I want to
ask you because I love them, I et a bucket
of them. They let another bucket. They have a third bucket.
But the question I have for you fijo A people
or people have used other art Fijoa people. Is you
people that hate them?
Speaker 6 (12:44):
Why is that?
Speaker 2 (12:45):
My theory is they're one of those. There are a
few things that smell a lot stronger than they taste,
and as soon as you put fijar anywhere near anything else,
that's all you can smell or taste is fijar from
that point. So it's a bit overwhelming. What is it?
Speaker 4 (13:05):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (13:05):
The dragon fruit. No, it's not the dragon fruit.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
The star fruit.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
One of those Southeast Asian fruits, you know, the one
that tastes like vomit. I mean smells like vomit, but
it actually tastes really sweet. That's another one, and you
know people will love or hate that for obvious reasons. Yeah,
funny old things, aren't they, see Joe. Anyway, we don't
have to worry about it in our house. We're going
an allowed to buy them, can't buy them from the supermarket.
Not when they're falling off the trees. Is if they're
(13:31):
not falling off our trees. Because we only got one
fejar off three trees. I don't know what's going on there.
Speaker 6 (13:35):
Anyway.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Enjoy whatever fruit you've got on the menu today, and
we'll see they're hear again tomorrow for another News Talks.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
They've been us Talkers Talks it Bean. For more from
news Talks, it'd be listen live on air or online
and keep our shows with you wherever you go with
our podcasts on iHeartRadio
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