April 28, 2025 • 12 mins
FIRST WITH YESTERDAY'S NEWS (highlights from Monday on Newstalk ZB) Mark Blames Mum/Who's to Blame for the Weather/Churches and Money/The True Cost of Flying the Fam/AI Apocalypse Update
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
Hello, my beautiful beanies, and welcome to the bean for Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
First of yesterday's news.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
I am Glen Hart, and we are looking back at
Monday weather alerts. What's gone wrong here? Has anything gone wrong?
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Here? Are there too many? Are they not enough? Taking?
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Then?
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Seriously are we not churches and their money and our money?
Who gets to leak?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Tore her about what the trouble with getting between airports?
And would you let AI do surgery on you? But
before any of that, should police officers be able to swim?
Speaker 4 (01:07):
The problem is that the government into still pretending that
it can pump out five hundred new police officers by
November twenty seven. That's not going to happen. I mean,
they are trying absolutely everything to be able to meet
their target. They've bumped up the number of training spots
they've got at the Police College from eighty to one hundred.
They're opening a new college in Auckland sometime this year.
They're now suspected of having waived in three unfit coppers
(01:29):
just to make up the numbers. But we know that
five hundred coppers by November twenty seven is not going
to happen because we've had a whole bunch of evidence right,
the numbers are not keeping pace in order to be
able to get to five hundred. The officials have warned
the government in the briefing papers it's not going to
be able to do it until midway through next year.
And Mark Mitchell admitted last year that they weren't going
to be able to do it, and then he got
told off by Winston. So now he's gone back. He's
(01:51):
gone back to pretending that he can do it, but
he's using some weasel words. He just says the number
is aspirational. Well aspirational as a politician's word. That's a
clue in and of itself. Look, I think to be honest,
I think the government itself just needs to be honest here.
If it's not going to make the number. Surely it's
better to be honest now and say you're not going
to make the number than it is to keep on
(02:12):
pretending and then miss the target in November, which is
inevitably going to happen, and surely it's worse for the
police to be busted doing this, waving three unfit people through,
even if it's fine that they do it, being busted
doing it is not a good look. And if that
is what we now suspect they're doing in order to
meet the five hundred, that's a very bad look, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Yeah? I mean it's hard. Do you want heaps of police?
You're going to live in a police state? Do you
want to live in a police state? Or do you
do you want police to get time?
Speaker 2 (02:46):
We had police Minister Matt Mitchell on Mike Husking and
Breakfast yesterday.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Maybe his mother taught him how.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
To tie the police news talk?
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Has it been weird? Anyway? We're going to move on
to the weather.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
Been some dodgy weather over the last few weeks.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Isn't there extremely dodgy in some places?
Speaker 5 (03:09):
More dodgy than people were expecting?
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Or do they just not take enough notice of the warning?
Who's to blame for the bad weather?
Speaker 6 (03:16):
If you're depending on government agencies to tell you what
to do and where to go and how you should cope.
I think that way lies disaster really because you'll think, well,
I haven't had a warning, so I should be fine.
(03:39):
People will let me know if I'm in danger, and
you start to lose your spidy instinct, you start to
lose your spidy senses. It's too many alerts too are
going to mean that people will just switch off. They'll
either switch off their phones and go, well, I'm not
going to have my heart racing and my pulse racing
(04:02):
and the adrenaline surging through me for a fire that's
happening ten suburbs over that really doesn't affect me. If
we start to switch off, then again, emergency services will
be blamed because they sent out too many. I suppose
(04:22):
it's helpful having someone to blame other than God and
the weather. But when did weather become such a big
deal that it dominates the news? Meteorologists are becoming the
new public health officials, and when did we stop using
(04:45):
our common sense and relying on government agencies to tell
us what to.
Speaker 7 (04:50):
Do and weather?
Speaker 6 (04:51):
Do you need to know through your emergency mobile alerts?
What is happening?
Speaker 5 (04:59):
Does that.
Speaker 6 (05:01):
Give you the opportunity to take precautions? They generally arrive
too late, and it's generally not in the area. What
purpose do the agency serve?
Speaker 2 (05:10):
It's a good question because nobody seems to know what's
going to happen with the weather.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
I mean, I just I might be imagining it, but
I feel like I.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Feel like they've never really been able to forecast the
weather very accurately, and I feel like they're getting worse,
not better. Although I did hear one caller calling to
Kirie show yesterday suggesting that they should teach kids how
to predict the weather at school by you know, looking
at it, like looking at clouds and things and going,
(05:44):
it looks like it's going to be there.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
I don't know, It's.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Almost like there's some kind of weird thing going on
with the climate that we should do something about.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
I've been a bit of talk recently about.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Churches and their money and whether they should pay tax
and stuff. We've also got churches telling us how to
spend our money as well. Apparently, Ryan, I'm a fan
of that.
Speaker 8 (06:10):
The church the state had been clashing of late. In
case you've missed it, we all saw those quote faith
leaders come out during the Treaty Principle's Bill and give
David Seymour a bolocking. What exactly is the endgame here?
That's my question? Are they like the good Bishop Brian
tummocky keen on getting into parliament themselves. The Salvation Army
(06:31):
does a report every year looking at the wealth of billionaires.
There's a lot of finger pointing and tisking about those
who've accumulated a lot of wealth, but what about those
who've got a lot but also give a lot. For
a good example, we need look no further than the
Catholic Church itself. It is one of the largest and
wealthiest organizations in the world. The Vatican, because of its
(06:54):
small population, the eighteenth wealthiest nation per capita. They boast
a huge real estate portfolio. Hard to work out exactly
what they're worth, but they reckon somewhere between seventy three
and two hundred and fifty billion dollars, so more than
the combined wealth of all the billionaires that this country's
ever known. To be honest, none of this bothers me.
(07:15):
I believe everybody should believe whatever God they want to
believe in, whatever after life they want to believe in.
That is religious freedom. Tithe to your heart's content, preach
till you're blue in the face. I respect your right
to think and pray as you want, but if you're
going to preach for the poor and against the wealthy.
(07:35):
Perhaps getting your own house in order might be a
good place to start, lest you come across a tad hypocritical.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
You know, I've often found churchy people to be surprisingly judge.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Given that.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Some of the some of the rules and regulations they're
supposed to follow, specifically say don't judge people.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
But what can you do? Now?
Speaker 2 (08:06):
It's getting more and more and more and more more
and more, more, more, more more expensive to fly around
the New Zealanders all sorts of strange fees, fees that
we'd never heard of before but are going up, and
that means that it's too expensive for many people to
fly now.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
If getting from one airport terminal to another has been
taken into account, but Marcus would like.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
It to be. But yeah, that awkwardly airport.
Speaker 9 (08:35):
I hate to say it, but when I saw that
Perdi parking, right, I mean, I don't love travel, but
when we are traveling and there's four of us, and
that comes with its own challenges. If you're not traveling
on your own, you got to you've got gear, you
got stuff. But when you've got to go and then
(08:57):
you've got to park a car and then you've got
to park and ride. Oh flip to me, that's a
holiday ruiner. At least in the cargo, we can walk,
park your car in town and walk, so it's not
that far. But that park and ride thing, that's just
end of a long trip. You're going to wait for
the shuttle to take it to the car to wander around. No, yes,
(09:20):
what every every airport should have the play should have
the train going right to it. But it should be
the first thing you think of when you do it.
That's my take and I'm staying with it anyway.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Yeah, we took the train.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
When I say we, the Hart family.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
There were four of us as well, from the San
Francisco airport into town.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Once there's a struggle for people with four suitcases on
a train, I know, that's always the answer.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
News talk.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
We're going to finish up here with the AI apocalypse update.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Apparently doctors this is hard.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
We're going to solve the doctors reportage so that we
surgeon just wee AI operate on us.
Speaker 7 (10:10):
Yeah, but what if Russian computer hacker transplants one of
your hands onto your forehead.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
There's always that risky.
Speaker 7 (10:17):
There's a high risk. Yeah, Rob welcome to show your
thoughts on areas of the world that AI is about
to take over.
Speaker 10 (10:26):
Hey, welcome guys, Thanks for the opportunity to chat to you.
I was just thinking that if you look at the industry,
for example, a lot of the procedures are pretty standard.
You know, identify that you've got a cavity, maybe do
a filling and stuffota. And with the current price of
the industry in New Zealand, it's truly unaffordable for a
(10:46):
huge proportion of the population. People just simply don't do it.
I'm from the South Island and let's not even talk
about the condition of people's teeth down here. Why would
we not want to take advantage of something for normal procedures. Obviously,
you know, if you've got a massive root canal or
(11:08):
something like that, maybe you need some expertise. But I
think it would be a massive asset to for a
dentist or even basic surgery to be conducted by a robot.
Speaker 7 (11:19):
And there's definitely a problem with how much deental procedures cost.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Its phenomenal I like how call welcomed Matt and Tyler
to their own show. Not enough of that if you
call it next time you call them welcome the host
of his own show or.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Her own show. I hear that it'll make me laugh.
You hadn't thought about the heck a thing.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
About your your robot surgery.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
AI surgery being heck. I don't know if I've got
a problem with my hand being.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Played on the ball here, don't it could be useful,
I am Glen Hart.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
I don't know what it would be useful for, like
when you bang here to give your keyboards that might
actually achieve something. I am Realien hat it's been a
wacky old newsbalks it'd been for Tuesday. Uh, I'm sure
it won't be nearly as wacky tomorrow, really sure, but
sure slightly sure.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
News Talking Talking zi bean For more from News Talk
said 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 Said be
follow this and our wide range of podcasts now on
iHeartRadio Used Talk Said Talk.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Hello, my beautiful beanies, and welcome to the bean for Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
First of yesterday's news.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
I am Glen Hart, and we are looking back at
Monday weather alerts. What's gone wrong here? Has anything gone wrong?
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Here? Are there too many? Are they not enough? Taking?
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Then?
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Seriously are we not churches and their money and our money?
Who gets to leak?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Tore her about what the trouble with getting between airports?
And would you let AI do surgery on you? But
before any of that, should police officers be able to swim?
Speaker 4 (01:07):
The problem is that the government into still pretending that
it can pump out five hundred new police officers by
November twenty seven. That's not going to happen. I mean,
they are trying absolutely everything to be able to meet
their target. They've bumped up the number of training spots
they've got at the Police College from eighty to one hundred.
They're opening a new college in Auckland sometime this year.
They're now suspected of having waived in three unfit coppers
(01:29):
just to make up the numbers. But we know that
five hundred coppers by November twenty seven is not going
to happen because we've had a whole bunch of evidence right,
the numbers are not keeping pace in order to be
able to get to five hundred. The officials have warned
the government in the briefing papers it's not going to
be able to do it until midway through next year.
And Mark Mitchell admitted last year that they weren't going
to be able to do it, and then he got
told off by Winston. So now he's gone back. He's
(01:51):
gone back to pretending that he can do it, but
he's using some weasel words. He just says the number
is aspirational. Well aspirational as a politician's word. That's a
clue in and of itself. Look, I think to be honest,
I think the government itself just needs to be honest here.
If it's not going to make the number. Surely it's
better to be honest now and say you're not going
to make the number than it is to keep on
(02:12):
pretending and then miss the target in November, which is
inevitably going to happen, and surely it's worse for the
police to be busted doing this, waving three unfit people through,
even if it's fine that they do it, being busted
doing it is not a good look. And if that
is what we now suspect they're doing in order to
meet the five hundred, that's a very bad look, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Yeah? I mean it's hard. Do you want heaps of police?
You're going to live in a police state? Do you
want to live in a police state? Or do you
do you want police to get time?
Speaker 2 (02:46):
We had police Minister Matt Mitchell on Mike Husking and
Breakfast yesterday.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Maybe his mother taught him how.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
To tie the police news talk?
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Has it been weird? Anyway? We're going to move on
to the weather.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
Been some dodgy weather over the last few weeks.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Isn't there extremely dodgy in some places?
Speaker 5 (03:09):
More dodgy than people were expecting?
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Or do they just not take enough notice of the warning?
Who's to blame for the bad weather?
Speaker 6 (03:16):
If you're depending on government agencies to tell you what
to do and where to go and how you should cope.
I think that way lies disaster really because you'll think, well,
I haven't had a warning, so I should be fine.
(03:39):
People will let me know if I'm in danger, and
you start to lose your spidy instinct, you start to
lose your spidy senses. It's too many alerts too are
going to mean that people will just switch off. They'll
either switch off their phones and go, well, I'm not
going to have my heart racing and my pulse racing
(04:02):
and the adrenaline surging through me for a fire that's
happening ten suburbs over that really doesn't affect me. If
we start to switch off, then again, emergency services will
be blamed because they sent out too many. I suppose
(04:22):
it's helpful having someone to blame other than God and
the weather. But when did weather become such a big
deal that it dominates the news? Meteorologists are becoming the
new public health officials, and when did we stop using
(04:45):
our common sense and relying on government agencies to tell
us what to.
Speaker 7 (04:50):
Do and weather?
Speaker 6 (04:51):
Do you need to know through your emergency mobile alerts?
What is happening?
Speaker 5 (04:59):
Does that.
Speaker 6 (05:01):
Give you the opportunity to take precautions? They generally arrive
too late, and it's generally not in the area. What
purpose do the agency serve?
Speaker 2 (05:10):
It's a good question because nobody seems to know what's
going to happen with the weather.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
I mean, I just I might be imagining it, but
I feel like I.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Feel like they've never really been able to forecast the
weather very accurately, and I feel like they're getting worse,
not better. Although I did hear one caller calling to
Kirie show yesterday suggesting that they should teach kids how
to predict the weather at school by you know, looking
at it, like looking at clouds and things and going,
(05:44):
it looks like it's going to be there.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
I don't know, It's.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Almost like there's some kind of weird thing going on
with the climate that we should do something about.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
I've been a bit of talk recently about.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Churches and their money and whether they should pay tax
and stuff. We've also got churches telling us how to
spend our money as well. Apparently, Ryan, I'm a fan
of that.
Speaker 8 (06:10):
The church the state had been clashing of late. In
case you've missed it, we all saw those quote faith
leaders come out during the Treaty Principle's Bill and give
David Seymour a bolocking. What exactly is the endgame here?
That's my question? Are they like the good Bishop Brian
tummocky keen on getting into parliament themselves. The Salvation Army
(06:31):
does a report every year looking at the wealth of billionaires.
There's a lot of finger pointing and tisking about those
who've accumulated a lot of wealth, but what about those
who've got a lot but also give a lot. For
a good example, we need look no further than the
Catholic Church itself. It is one of the largest and
wealthiest organizations in the world. The Vatican, because of its
(06:54):
small population, the eighteenth wealthiest nation per capita. They boast
a huge real estate portfolio. Hard to work out exactly
what they're worth, but they reckon somewhere between seventy three
and two hundred and fifty billion dollars, so more than
the combined wealth of all the billionaires that this country's
ever known. To be honest, none of this bothers me.
(07:15):
I believe everybody should believe whatever God they want to
believe in, whatever after life they want to believe in.
That is religious freedom. Tithe to your heart's content, preach
till you're blue in the face. I respect your right
to think and pray as you want, but if you're
going to preach for the poor and against the wealthy.
(07:35):
Perhaps getting your own house in order might be a
good place to start, lest you come across a tad hypocritical.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
You know, I've often found churchy people to be surprisingly judge.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Given that.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Some of the some of the rules and regulations they're
supposed to follow, specifically say don't judge people.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
But what can you do? Now?
Speaker 2 (08:06):
It's getting more and more and more and more more
and more, more, more, more more expensive to fly around
the New Zealanders all sorts of strange fees, fees that
we'd never heard of before but are going up, and
that means that it's too expensive for many people to
fly now.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
If getting from one airport terminal to another has been
taken into account, but Marcus would like.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
It to be. But yeah, that awkwardly airport.
Speaker 9 (08:35):
I hate to say it, but when I saw that
Perdi parking, right, I mean, I don't love travel, but
when we are traveling and there's four of us, and
that comes with its own challenges. If you're not traveling
on your own, you got to you've got gear, you
got stuff. But when you've got to go and then
(08:57):
you've got to park a car and then you've got
to park and ride. Oh flip to me, that's a
holiday ruiner. At least in the cargo, we can walk,
park your car in town and walk, so it's not
that far. But that park and ride thing, that's just
end of a long trip. You're going to wait for
the shuttle to take it to the car to wander around. No, yes,
(09:20):
what every every airport should have the play should have
the train going right to it. But it should be
the first thing you think of when you do it.
That's my take and I'm staying with it anyway.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Yeah, we took the train.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
When I say we, the Hart family.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
There were four of us as well, from the San
Francisco airport into town.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Once there's a struggle for people with four suitcases on
a train, I know, that's always the answer.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
News talk.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
We're going to finish up here with the AI apocalypse update.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Apparently doctors this is hard.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
We're going to solve the doctors reportage so that we
surgeon just wee AI operate on us.
Speaker 7 (10:10):
Yeah, but what if Russian computer hacker transplants one of
your hands onto your forehead.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
There's always that risky.
Speaker 7 (10:17):
There's a high risk. Yeah, Rob welcome to show your
thoughts on areas of the world that AI is about
to take over.
Speaker 10 (10:26):
Hey, welcome guys, Thanks for the opportunity to chat to you.
I was just thinking that if you look at the industry,
for example, a lot of the procedures are pretty standard.
You know, identify that you've got a cavity, maybe do
a filling and stuffota. And with the current price of
the industry in New Zealand, it's truly unaffordable for a
(10:46):
huge proportion of the population. People just simply don't do it.
I'm from the South Island and let's not even talk
about the condition of people's teeth down here. Why would
we not want to take advantage of something for normal procedures. Obviously,
you know, if you've got a massive root canal or
(11:08):
something like that, maybe you need some expertise. But I
think it would be a massive asset to for a
dentist or even basic surgery to be conducted by a robot.
Speaker 7 (11:19):
And there's definitely a problem with how much deental procedures cost.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Its phenomenal I like how call welcomed Matt and Tyler
to their own show. Not enough of that if you
call it next time you call them welcome the host
of his own show or.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Her own show. I hear that it'll make me laugh.
You hadn't thought about the heck a thing.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
About your your robot surgery.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
AI surgery being heck. I don't know if I've got
a problem with my hand being.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Played on the ball here, don't it could be useful,
I am Glen Hart.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
I don't know what it would be useful for, like
when you bang here to give your keyboards that might
actually achieve something. I am Realien hat it's been a
wacky old newsbalks it'd been for Tuesday. Uh, I'm sure
it won't be nearly as wacky tomorrow, really sure, but
sure slightly sure.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
News Talking Talking zi bean For more from News Talk
said B listen live on air or online, and keep
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on iHeartRadio
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