March 26, 2025 • 12 mins
FIRST WITH YESTERDAY'S NEWS (highlights from Wednesday on Newstalk ZB) Not Everyone Would Agree/We Don't Need Another Stadium/Winston's Secret/Pandaland; Pros and Cons
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
Hello, my Detttle beanies, and welcome to the Bean for Thursday.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
First with yesterday's news.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
I am Glenn Hart, and we are looking back at Wednesday.
The National Stadium debate is raging on. I've been doing
this job too long. I feel like I've heard this
debate so many times. Anyway, Winston Peters still going strong.
What's his secret? And should Marine Land become Pandaland I
(00:55):
know how could you not listen right through to the
end of this podcast, But at the beginning of it,
we're going to talk about Green Party policies. I think
Ryan Bridges found one that he likes.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Matthews doubled in the past year in New Zealand. It
went up in all locations. Fourteen hundred kilograms of meth
consumed here in the last year. Social harm estimated at
one and a half billion dollars. It fuels gangs, it
finances gangs. It's bread and butter for gangs. But it's
(01:27):
clear and plain as daylight to see that they and
the cartels are winning the war on drugs. Any business
that doubles its exports and profits to another country is winning,
and we're spending hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars
trying to fight it. Governments of both stripes have tried this.
Would we call that a success? The Greens have some
(01:50):
truly ridiculous ideas, but on liberalizing our drug laws, I
actually agree with them. How else do you tackle a
monopoly but with competition? And why wouldn't you try when
the monopoly you're up against is so violent and so dangerous?
And why why wouldn't you try when everything you're currently
(02:11):
trying doesn't appear to be working well.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
I bet the our text machine, as we like to
call it here at News Doorks, it'd be melted down
after he said that. I don't think the vast majority
of news Talks be listeners have got any time for
liberal drug use laws. I wholeheartedly agree with Ryan's take,
(02:37):
of course, because you can't control something that you that
you've outlawed and pushed underground, certainly hard makes it a
lot harder. That's that'd be my logic on that. But
when I don't know anything about anything, so I'm just
following Ryan's lead on this, and I want to make
that quite clear before you DETECTIM news talk. All Right,
(03:03):
so the the National Stadium, I'm pretty sure I've seen
Steins and the greens Dans there even parishes. We're exclaiming
that it's a natural stadium. But why are we talking
about this again?
Speaker 4 (03:13):
The full Council still has to vote on it on Thursday,
so we'll see if anyone has any balls to actually
do anything. Now, by not feasible they mean not viable
without public funding. So we don't seem to have a
charitable billionaire in our midst so the dough would have
to come from the public purse. And this is a
question that every major city wrestles with. Other cities seem
to be braver. This week Brisbane casually announced a new
(03:35):
stadium to host the Olympics, calmly putting nearly four billion
dollars on the line. We are a growing nation and
we need a national stadium, and we need a venue
for the events that come, whether it's big sport or
big concerts or monster trucks. We've seen how much fun
for Eden Park has been this week, three different sports
in one week. We need a venue that's modern, complete
(03:55):
and full of character and recognize around the world. I
love stadiums. I'm super excited about Canterbury's takaha forstyth bar
is great and sky Stadium or you need new seats
and maybe a roof. But what do I want for
Auckland Now? First, I have to admit that I, like
many others, have gone to eden Park events for free,
both from eden Park and also businesses. Okay, that taken.
(04:17):
I would be happy for the Waterfront Stadium to go ahead.
We would never regret it in forty years time. I'm
also happy for an eden Park upgrade. After all, Sydney
completely ripped down the Sydney Football Stadium and rebuilt it.
But it really is time for someone to put their
neck on the block and just do it. We've been
talking about this ever since the World Cup. Every city
(04:39):
needs a cathedral and every nation needs a national stadium
and it needs to be iconic.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Let's do it.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Is he right about that? Does every city need a cathedral?
There's a few cities and around the world that don't
have one. Does every city need a cathedral?
Speaker 3 (05:06):
That's it?
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Where did that come from? Us? Talk syne And then
of course it does make you wonder because you sort
of yeah, you are sort of nodding along with Andrew
there and then and then we'll carry with them, goes,
hang on, do you actually need a stadium?
Speaker 5 (05:18):
No, we don't need another one bowl the others and
everybody can play nicely together in one big stadium. At
the moment, it looks like Eden Park's the most likely.
There you go, I've paid for me, lamb chop. But
right now the I mean, it's imagine your family budget
(05:39):
at the moment. Oh, wouldn't it be nice if we
built a beautiful new swimming pool out the back because
the kids are getting a bit older now, be lovely
with a nice little poolhouse next to it. Yes, it
would be lovely. Can we afford it?
Speaker 3 (05:54):
No?
Speaker 5 (05:54):
And that's what the waterfront Stadium is and why every
city in the country wants their own stadium. Honestly, as
Robert Hamlin said, it's it's the reason why is that
people just gets so excited, the decision makers get so
excited with all these reports of the extra economic benefit
(06:15):
that's going to come to this city, and it's going
to prosper and it's going to it's just going to
be the making of the city. No, it's not. No,
rate payers end up paying and paying and paying for
generations for a white elephant that nobody's allowed to write
unless you pay a bloody fortune to get on its back.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Are you allowed to ride elephants? Still?
Speaker 3 (06:36):
I think they.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Canceled that, didn't they.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
I mean when you think about it, they do just
sort of sit there empty for most of the time,
don't they.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Right.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
So, Winston Peters, there was a sort of a profile
piece done on him and he's, yeah, he's getting up
there age wise, still says to be going relatively strong.
Apparently got as fish and home baked bread. I don't
know if he's baking the bread, but he's giving his home.
(07:14):
He's giving home baked bread from someone. So anyway, and
Tyler got talking.
Speaker 6 (07:19):
He does have great genes though, because there was he's
got ten of his siblings are in their eighties and
his mum lived to ninety six, so there was a
genetic element to it. But he's also all about munching
on the fish heads for the amiaga. And although you've
got to say with mister Peters, he's at the odd
dart and he said the other risky he had not
(07:39):
drink in his life. Yeah, but you would say he's
an example of a of a powerful eighty year old.
Speaker 7 (07:45):
Clearly he takes it seriously. His diet quick A couple
of texts and we'll get to more of your phone
calls like this one.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Guys.
Speaker 7 (07:51):
I work for Fletchers and we get a full free
health check every year. Plus we have free access to
an act called Sounder, who you can talk to just
about anyone health, financial exercise. It is free for our
family members as well. I believe companies have a right
and expectation to look after their staff. Healthy and mentally
healthy staff equals less sickly. It's a win win.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (08:12):
But I think if you empower people and you tell
them that that's the one of their one of their
one of their missions in life, one of the things
they have to do is to be healthy. I think
whether it's a company or the country as a whole,
then I think people will lean into it. I just
don't think that's that that people walk around going it's
my job to stay healthy for the good of the
(08:33):
health system. I think people walk around going it's the
country's job to keep me healthy.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
And then well, then you've got people like me, don't
really think about it as very much at all, because
if I did think about it, I think I probably
would feel a little bit guilty because I don't lead
a very healthy lifestyle. I am consuming some heavily subsidized
(09:01):
medication to keep me alive. Mind you, I am keeping
it at least one doctor and one pharmacist in works.
Did good?
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Look at that that way?
Speaker 1 (09:16):
News talk? Has it been?
Speaker 2 (09:18):
So we've already talked about the National Stadium in this podcast?
What about the National Aquarium?
Speaker 8 (09:25):
Is there any good the National This is the old
place where they had the dolphins. This is the National Aquarium,
Hawks Bay A, Napier. Tell me if it's any good,
because I've never even once thought that would be a
fun place to go to. I guess I don't like aquariums,
but if someone said it was amazing, I probably could
(09:46):
well go to it. But what they are talking about
in Napier because it's running at a huge loss, right
because they've got to stay, they've got to cut staff
like all councils, and what they are thinking of doing
to make the aquarium financially sustainable and self paying. They're
saying it could become panderaland so there's some he wants
(10:09):
to lease panda bears from the Chinese government and bring
them to Napier. I'd go, and I'd pay a hundred bucks,
very very keen to see a panda beer. Don't know why.
I just think it's crazy. I mean tie zoo, I
meanty bears. Are they even a beer? I don't think
they are. I'd go and see pandas. I would get
(10:32):
totally caught up on the panda beer hype. They did
have them in Auckland when was it eighty six? They've
talked about having them in Willington. Now it seems as
though they want to get them for Hawk's Bay for
pandaland so there we go. There's a question for here
would you go? Would you go? And how much would
you pay? I'd like a panda beer thinged hotel. Also
(10:56):
don't hate thing that. You couldn't really put skins on
the floor, but I do something. It could be a
very very exciting event.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
You just have panda pillows. You have a lot of
soft toyed you know, cushions that like pandas and that
sort of thing. You don't have to actually make them
out of pandas, I don't think see it. I of
course wouldn't heavily against that, because I've made my feelings
about pandas very clear before their disgusting things, and I
(11:23):
think we should let them go extinct. Just the fact
that many of them absorb their own babies back into
their bodies before they can be born. I mean, that's growth, right,
Why would you want that animal to continue on? So
I say no to panders. I've never I don't have.
(11:44):
I went to Marine Land when it was Marine Land.
I don't know if I've been to the aquarium since
it has been the National Aquarium. I like aquariums, though,
I certainly like aquariums more than I like pandas. Let's
let's just leave it at that, and we'll come back
with more crazy hot tape like that.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Much us
Speaker 1 (12:07):
For more from use talk set 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,
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
Hello, my Detttle beanies, and welcome to the Bean for Thursday.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
First with yesterday's news.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
I am Glenn Hart, and we are looking back at Wednesday.
The National Stadium debate is raging on. I've been doing
this job too long. I feel like I've heard this
debate so many times. Anyway, Winston Peters still going strong.
What's his secret? And should Marine Land become Pandaland I
(00:55):
know how could you not listen right through to the
end of this podcast, But at the beginning of it,
we're going to talk about Green Party policies. I think
Ryan Bridges found one that he likes.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Matthews doubled in the past year in New Zealand. It
went up in all locations. Fourteen hundred kilograms of meth
consumed here in the last year. Social harm estimated at
one and a half billion dollars. It fuels gangs, it
finances gangs. It's bread and butter for gangs. But it's
(01:27):
clear and plain as daylight to see that they and
the cartels are winning the war on drugs. Any business
that doubles its exports and profits to another country is winning,
and we're spending hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars
trying to fight it. Governments of both stripes have tried this.
Would we call that a success? The Greens have some
(01:50):
truly ridiculous ideas, but on liberalizing our drug laws, I
actually agree with them. How else do you tackle a
monopoly but with competition? And why wouldn't you try when
the monopoly you're up against is so violent and so dangerous?
And why why wouldn't you try when everything you're currently
(02:11):
trying doesn't appear to be working well.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
I bet the our text machine, as we like to
call it here at News Doorks, it'd be melted down
after he said that. I don't think the vast majority
of news Talks be listeners have got any time for
liberal drug use laws. I wholeheartedly agree with Ryan's take,
(02:37):
of course, because you can't control something that you that
you've outlawed and pushed underground, certainly hard makes it a
lot harder. That's that'd be my logic on that. But
when I don't know anything about anything, so I'm just
following Ryan's lead on this, and I want to make
that quite clear before you DETECTIM news talk. All Right,
(03:03):
so the the National Stadium, I'm pretty sure I've seen
Steins and the greens Dans there even parishes. We're exclaiming
that it's a natural stadium. But why are we talking
about this again?
Speaker 4 (03:13):
The full Council still has to vote on it on Thursday,
so we'll see if anyone has any balls to actually
do anything. Now, by not feasible they mean not viable
without public funding. So we don't seem to have a
charitable billionaire in our midst so the dough would have
to come from the public purse. And this is a
question that every major city wrestles with. Other cities seem
to be braver. This week Brisbane casually announced a new
(03:35):
stadium to host the Olympics, calmly putting nearly four billion
dollars on the line. We are a growing nation and
we need a national stadium, and we need a venue
for the events that come, whether it's big sport or
big concerts or monster trucks. We've seen how much fun
for Eden Park has been this week, three different sports
in one week. We need a venue that's modern, complete
(03:55):
and full of character and recognize around the world. I
love stadiums. I'm super excited about Canterbury's takaha forstyth bar
is great and sky Stadium or you need new seats
and maybe a roof. But what do I want for
Auckland Now? First, I have to admit that I, like
many others, have gone to eden Park events for free,
both from eden Park and also businesses. Okay, that taken.
(04:17):
I would be happy for the Waterfront Stadium to go ahead.
We would never regret it in forty years time. I'm
also happy for an eden Park upgrade. After all, Sydney
completely ripped down the Sydney Football Stadium and rebuilt it.
But it really is time for someone to put their
neck on the block and just do it. We've been
talking about this ever since the World Cup. Every city
(04:39):
needs a cathedral and every nation needs a national stadium
and it needs to be iconic.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Let's do it.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Is he right about that? Does every city need a cathedral?
There's a few cities and around the world that don't
have one. Does every city need a cathedral?
Speaker 3 (05:06):
That's it?
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Where did that come from? Us? Talk syne And then
of course it does make you wonder because you sort
of yeah, you are sort of nodding along with Andrew
there and then and then we'll carry with them, goes,
hang on, do you actually need a stadium?
Speaker 5 (05:18):
No, we don't need another one bowl the others and
everybody can play nicely together in one big stadium. At
the moment, it looks like Eden Park's the most likely.
There you go, I've paid for me, lamb chop. But
right now the I mean, it's imagine your family budget
(05:39):
at the moment. Oh, wouldn't it be nice if we
built a beautiful new swimming pool out the back because
the kids are getting a bit older now, be lovely
with a nice little poolhouse next to it. Yes, it
would be lovely. Can we afford it?
Speaker 3 (05:54):
No?
Speaker 5 (05:54):
And that's what the waterfront Stadium is and why every
city in the country wants their own stadium. Honestly, as
Robert Hamlin said, it's it's the reason why is that
people just gets so excited, the decision makers get so
excited with all these reports of the extra economic benefit
(06:15):
that's going to come to this city, and it's going
to prosper and it's going to it's just going to
be the making of the city. No, it's not. No,
rate payers end up paying and paying and paying for
generations for a white elephant that nobody's allowed to write
unless you pay a bloody fortune to get on its back.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Are you allowed to ride elephants? Still?
Speaker 3 (06:36):
I think they.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Canceled that, didn't they.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
I mean when you think about it, they do just
sort of sit there empty for most of the time,
don't they.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Right.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
So, Winston Peters, there was a sort of a profile
piece done on him and he's, yeah, he's getting up
there age wise, still says to be going relatively strong.
Apparently got as fish and home baked bread. I don't
know if he's baking the bread, but he's giving his home.
(07:14):
He's giving home baked bread from someone. So anyway, and
Tyler got talking.
Speaker 6 (07:19):
He does have great genes though, because there was he's
got ten of his siblings are in their eighties and
his mum lived to ninety six, so there was a
genetic element to it. But he's also all about munching
on the fish heads for the amiaga. And although you've
got to say with mister Peters, he's at the odd
dart and he said the other risky he had not
(07:39):
drink in his life. Yeah, but you would say he's
an example of a of a powerful eighty year old.
Speaker 7 (07:45):
Clearly he takes it seriously. His diet quick A couple
of texts and we'll get to more of your phone
calls like this one.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Guys.
Speaker 7 (07:51):
I work for Fletchers and we get a full free
health check every year. Plus we have free access to
an act called Sounder, who you can talk to just
about anyone health, financial exercise. It is free for our
family members as well. I believe companies have a right
and expectation to look after their staff. Healthy and mentally
healthy staff equals less sickly. It's a win win.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (08:12):
But I think if you empower people and you tell
them that that's the one of their one of their
one of their missions in life, one of the things
they have to do is to be healthy. I think
whether it's a company or the country as a whole,
then I think people will lean into it. I just
don't think that's that that people walk around going it's
my job to stay healthy for the good of the
(08:33):
health system. I think people walk around going it's the
country's job to keep me healthy.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
And then well, then you've got people like me, don't
really think about it as very much at all, because
if I did think about it, I think I probably
would feel a little bit guilty because I don't lead
a very healthy lifestyle. I am consuming some heavily subsidized
(09:01):
medication to keep me alive. Mind you, I am keeping
it at least one doctor and one pharmacist in works.
Did good?
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Look at that that way?
Speaker 1 (09:16):
News talk? Has it been?
Speaker 2 (09:18):
So we've already talked about the National Stadium in this podcast?
What about the National Aquarium?
Speaker 8 (09:25):
Is there any good the National This is the old
place where they had the dolphins. This is the National Aquarium,
Hawks Bay A, Napier. Tell me if it's any good,
because I've never even once thought that would be a
fun place to go to. I guess I don't like aquariums,
but if someone said it was amazing, I probably could
(09:46):
well go to it. But what they are talking about
in Napier because it's running at a huge loss, right
because they've got to stay, they've got to cut staff
like all councils, and what they are thinking of doing
to make the aquarium financially sustainable and self paying. They're
saying it could become panderaland so there's some he wants
(10:09):
to lease panda bears from the Chinese government and bring
them to Napier. I'd go, and I'd pay a hundred bucks,
very very keen to see a panda beer. Don't know why.
I just think it's crazy. I mean tie zoo, I
meanty bears. Are they even a beer? I don't think
they are. I'd go and see pandas. I would get
(10:32):
totally caught up on the panda beer hype. They did
have them in Auckland when was it eighty six? They've
talked about having them in Willington. Now it seems as
though they want to get them for Hawk's Bay for
pandaland so there we go. There's a question for here
would you go? Would you go? And how much would
you pay? I'd like a panda beer thinged hotel. Also
(10:56):
don't hate thing that. You couldn't really put skins on
the floor, but I do something. It could be a
very very exciting event.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
You just have panda pillows. You have a lot of
soft toyed you know, cushions that like pandas and that
sort of thing. You don't have to actually make them
out of pandas, I don't think see it. I of
course wouldn't heavily against that, because I've made my feelings
about pandas very clear before their disgusting things, and I
(11:23):
think we should let them go extinct. Just the fact
that many of them absorb their own babies back into
their bodies before they can be born. I mean, that's growth, right,
Why would you want that animal to continue on? So
I say no to panders. I've never I don't have.
(11:44):
I went to Marine Land when it was Marine Land.
I don't know if I've been to the aquarium since
it has been the National Aquarium. I like aquariums, though,
I certainly like aquariums more than I like pandas. Let's
let's just leave it at that, and we'll come back
with more crazy hot tape like that.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Much us
Speaker 1 (12:07):
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air or online, and keep our shows with you wherever
you go with our podcasts on iHeartRadio.
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