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April 2, 2025 • 13 mins

FIRST WITH YESTERDAY'S NEWS (highlights from Wednesday on Newstalk ZB) Let's Just Leave Them To It/No More Nice-To-Haves/Don't Blame Shakespear/Free Power All Round/It's Someone's Dream Job

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
Hello, my beautiful beanies, and welcome to the Beans for Thursday.
First with yesterday's news, I am Glen Hart, and we're
looking back at Wednesday. The America's cap isn't coming Boo woo.
Teachers and schools now know what kind of English they'll
have to be teaching.

Speaker 3 (00:43):
Marcus has the power.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
And we're going to finish up with a little bit
of job satisfaction talk, talking about dream jobs, whether or
not you're doing yours. But before any of that, today
is Liberation Day. Yesterday it was the day before Liberation Day.
This is the Trump tariffs we're talking about.

Speaker 4 (01:04):
Reciprocal tariffs are basically broad based tariffs tax on imports
across all countries. They've been tight lit. The White House
has on so far on carve outs or exemptions, but
some countries are hammering the phones, begging for them on
Downing Street. They are panicked. Although Starmer says he's staying
calm and keeping cool, they're working the phones. Talk of

(01:25):
getting an economic deal has turned into just that. They
now say, it's likely going to get hit like everyone else. India,
they've been on the phones, which is ironic. They're notorious
for trade protectionism there, so it's a bit rich from them,
but their sheher market's been feeling the heat. Bonderlayan is
readying the war chest. The EU says they will fight back.

(01:45):
Britain won't. Neither will Vietnam, Neither will New Zealand. Luxem's
message today was much the same as Starmer's. Keep calm
and carry on agriculture. As we've been talking about since
the minute that Trump tweeted about this is on the cards.
The US overtook the Aussies this year, is our second
largest export market for goods thanks to red meat. That
could hurt, but applied equally to the Arntententennian and the Aussie,

(02:08):
perhaps not so much. It all depends on the number
ten percent we could stomach. Twenty five percent a bigger problem.
The real threat is the world's biggest economy going into
recession and the flow on effects of that. The smart
money has already been piling into gold and European stocks.
Tomorrow we find out what America First really means for

(02:31):
the rest of US now.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
For years I've been saying, and you may have even
heard me say that, I think we should cut America
off the face of the planet and send it off
into space because they wouldn't notice, and everybody else would
breathe a sigh of relief. And now it feels like
economically anyway, this is exactly what Trump's doing.

Speaker 3 (02:52):
So they save us a job. So I guess I'm
for it.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
News talk has it been so.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
No America's cup here. It wasn't here last time. I
don't care, never cared. Some people care, does carry care.

Speaker 5 (03:15):
I could make that case that if I put in
the money now, then I could put in the pool
and get the payoff later. Well, except it's so nice
to have right now. There are other priorities, and I
would say the government is absolutely damned if it does
and damned if it doesn't. This is the price we

(03:35):
pay for spending up over the last few years. I'm
sure we could find the money. Admittedly, this government doesn't
have Grant Robertson's knack of finding millions down the back
of the couch. He always seemed to pop up with
sixty million just when it was needed, or you know,
twenty million here, But what do the optics look like?

(03:57):
Cutting the ribbon at appeared down to need in hospital
while Auckland has a knees up on board boats and
drinking champagne. Sure that's going to look fantastic, isn't It'd
be bleating away about your unnecessary expense. And look at
the waiting lists. They're absolutely damned if they do, damned
if they don't. We were warned, Wise Souls told us

(04:21):
on the show during Labour's Hootswah, spend up hey, plenty
of taxpayers money to go around that ultimately we would
have to pay the piper. And this turning down the
opportunity to host an America's Cup is what it feels like.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
And to use Carrie's pool analogy, I've always said it's
better to know somebody with a pool than to have
one yourself. That way, when the water is cloudy for
no reason, or it's mysteriously leaking and you don't know why,
it's not.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
Your problem, you talk.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
So the government has issued its English editch the schools,
I don't know if they're happy about it. I'm talking
about what the curriculum is. What I'm talking about, couldn't
find the right words. If only I'd been better at English.

Speaker 6 (05:15):
So we all got on buses and we turned up
to the Mercury Theater and we were so rowdy that
a young Michael Hurst, who was playing the Danish Prince,
commented that this is the worst audience I have ever
encountered in the theater, A whole theater full of boys
hating Hamlet. We didn't even calm down during the sword fights. However,
that did not happen when we studied more modern texts

(05:35):
like Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman or even Thomas
Beckett's Murder in the Cathedral. Because I'll tell you why
those plays use language. We understood. Those plays had themes
we could relate to, as Shakespeare did not, to teach
you must engage. And much in all as we bemoan
the fall of Shakespeare amongst the young, he's still so
strong that his influence of the modern world will not fail.

(05:58):
So what will engage the kids? And I really don't know.
This generation is less engaged in all sorts of stuff
than ever so much so I had to explain who
Bob Gal was to my twenty six year old son
the other day. And speaking of rock and roll. I'll
tell you the most engagement I ever had at school
was when my English teacher said we should study the
lyrics of David Bowie's song Time from the Aladdinsane album.

(06:21):
And we loved it and we got into it in depth.
And let's remember here's another thing. In twenty sixteen, Bob
Dylan won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Would anyone mind
if he was added to the curriculum. I don't think so,
So what do you think?

Speaker 5 (06:33):
Well?

Speaker 6 (06:33):
By the way, I also see the new curriculum says
that spelling and keyboard lessons for children at intermediate schools
should be compulsory. You mean that not already? How do
I can survive in this modern world?

Speaker 5 (06:45):
You know?

Speaker 2 (06:46):
Andrew's example of the boys who went to the Shakespeare
was more of a sad indictment on the boys than
on the Shakespeare.

Speaker 3 (06:56):
I hope they all got the tension.

Speaker 1 (07:02):
School City.

Speaker 3 (07:03):
I used your power shout.

Speaker 2 (07:05):
I'll get a power shout every now and again. I
guess it depends who you win. I don't know what
I've done to deserve a power shout. And then sometimes
I get an email saying I've got to use a
power shout before it expires.

Speaker 3 (07:17):
You know what I'm talking about? Does Marcus know what
I'm talking about?

Speaker 7 (07:20):
There are some sort of services now, there are some
sort of things that power companies are doing, including one
of the well, I think they're all having kind of
schemes like this. One of the ones that Contact I
think it's Contact. Ha's got is between nine and twelve
you get free power. Now, what I want to know

(07:42):
if you, if you're one of those on one of
those plans where they give you a day free power
or three hours free power, I want to know how
creative you are getting and the things you are doing
to use all that power then, like are you tuning
the oven on fall and opening the door to heat

(08:03):
your house? Are you smelting aluminium? I don't even know
what the other things you could do that use a
lot of electroc one are the things you are doing
that uses a huge amount of electricity that you are
using when you've got your free power. Because we've got
to talk about this, because Naval got smart meters, the
power companies are desperate to do these sorts of things
like these sorts of gimmicks and you've got all the
free power for three hours.

Speaker 4 (08:25):
How are you using that.

Speaker 7 (08:28):
Free interest to hear discussions about that? Because this will
be interesting. Other people can do the same things when
you don't blow a fuse. But what happens when you've
got free power? How many things can you run? And
I'm curious to know what you can do to do
that because some of you will have become fixated about this.
Some of you probably got called out the window to
your neighbor's place, have you.

Speaker 4 (08:47):
I don't know.

Speaker 7 (08:49):
That's what I want to talk about that tonight. Techniques
to really not wrote their power companies, but use as
much as you can when you've got one of those
free windows.

Speaker 3 (08:57):
Yeah. So, like I was saying, I'm with Genesis, and
you can book.

Speaker 2 (09:05):
You can accumulate these hours of free power, and then
you can book whenever you want to use them. And
of course you try and predict when you've got visitors staying.

Speaker 3 (09:17):
And I've never been able.

Speaker 2 (09:17):
To reduce because I've got my gas with them as well,
and I've got gas hot water, and I've never been
able to deduce with that includes the gas with your
power shout. I suspect it probably doesn't. I've tried asking
the AI on the Genesis website. That don't seem to
tell me anyway.

Speaker 3 (09:38):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (09:39):
The other thing that you can do with them, though,
is they send you an email at the end of
the year saying, hey, have your book with us again,
Nick Gear, We're going to kick your power price the same.
It won't go up, so that gives you're a nice
smoke feeling when everybody's complaining about your price.

Speaker 3 (09:57):
Power price is going up.

Speaker 1 (09:59):
News talks it been.

Speaker 3 (10:01):
Well, we're going to finish up here.

Speaker 2 (10:04):
Discussing dream job because the surveys come out to say
that most people don't like going for his work.

Speaker 3 (10:10):
And I have a lot of job satisfaction. And Mike
Hosking doesn't understand this because he's always done a cool job.
But as I said yesterday, I had a podcast yesterday,
I think.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
Most people consider that it's called work because you don't
enjoy it, and you do work so you can go
home and do stuff that you do, like doing dream jobs.

Speaker 8 (10:38):
Talk to us. Well, I just said a sectum was
my previous job as a butcher, right.

Speaker 4 (10:45):
And why didn't you like being a butcher?

Speaker 8 (10:47):
Oh? Well, it's a dead end job. You're only ever
going to earn twenty eight fifty or thirty dollars an
hour as a butcher. But I gave that job away
two years ago and started my own business. I spoke
to Kerry about this a little while ago when she
was asking the similar questions, and yeah, I'd never look
back at butchering again. I'll never pick up a knife

(11:07):
and a butcher a fantasy.

Speaker 4 (11:09):
I mean, that's a great story, John, So what is
your business?

Speaker 3 (11:11):
What are you doing there?

Speaker 8 (11:13):
Well, now, my partner and I started a business called
Hedges and More in the Hawks Say, where we trim
people's hedges and mow lawns and do garden maintenance.

Speaker 5 (11:21):
I love that.

Speaker 8 (11:23):
I absolutely love it. Yet shouldn't be happiest Like I
get up in the morning and I look at the
calendar or my diary of what's going to be done,
and it's like, yay, I'm doing a hedge a hedge today.
Great stuff.

Speaker 3 (11:37):
It's interesting, isn't it that.

Speaker 2 (11:39):
There are people who enjoy doing things that you don't
like doing, Like I hate any kind of gardening.

Speaker 3 (11:45):
That guy likes it. But I guess that's why.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
I pay people pay him to do it, because they
don't like it either. So that's cool. Things sort of
generally balance out. I mean, I think it does come
a point. I don't think anybody really likes I don't know,
unblucking a block urinals. For example, if there's something that
happens here at work at the time a yurine all

(12:09):
gets blopped, and often think to myself, that's.

Speaker 3 (12:11):
Going to be somebody's job to sort that out. And
I don't know that their jobs that have maybe they
are satisfied when they do that.

Speaker 2 (12:19):
And I think that was able to help those people today.

Speaker 3 (12:24):
I had my doubts. The other thing I don't understand
is gone there, who ran rang and.

Speaker 2 (12:32):
Why he felt the need to tell people that he'd
already told this to another host when they were doing
a similar question another time. We don't need that information, John,
because it makes it sound like Matt and Tyler are
just doing a tireder would talk back topic that other people.

Speaker 3 (12:53):
Have already done, which of course is not what they
were doing at all. It's literally their discussion was based.

Speaker 2 (13:00):
On it on a new survey that has come out
on a tie old topic, so it was completely different.

Speaker 3 (13:09):
I am Green had.

Speaker 2 (13:14):
Media watch probably listening to it and saying, listen to
Gleen sticking the knife into his colleagues again. Never listened
to media watch. I don't see the point of it anyway,
my dear. I can't see the point of most things
that happen on that radio station. And if you don't
know what I'm talking about, don't look it up.

Speaker 3 (13:35):
You don't need to know. Just come back here and
listen to this again tomorrow.

Speaker 4 (13:39):
I'll see us talk Talk zid bean.

Speaker 1 (13:44):
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