June 5, 2025 • 12 mins
FIRST WITH YESTERDAY'S NEWS (highlights from Thursday on Newstalk ZB) No Delay for Justice/Supermarkets Sorted/The Bill for Wrecking the Planet Is Due/Creepy, Sleazy and Just Yuck/Why Heath Is a Hot Mess
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
Hello, my beautiful beanies, and welcome to the Bean for Friday.
First with yesterday's news, I am Glen Hart, and we
are looking back at thursday supermarket competition, the grocery commissioner,
the plan when you of that have any effect.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Hey, great news everyone.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
You're going to get charged more for natural disasters.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
There's a levy for that. There's a levy for everything,
isn't it.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
That's Michael Forbes' character and the secret recordings and gross
And we're going to finish up with some shoelace theft,
as we often do. But before any of that, here
is the Broadcaster of the Year, winner of the Sepaul
Holmes Award last night, Heather du vas Allen, talking politics.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
It looks to me like it's finally dawning on the
Labour Party that the Maori Party are in fact toxic
to the Labor Party's chances of becoming government. The two
biggest clues today, I reckon during this punishment debate was
Adrian ruhaf Are basically telling the Mardi Party off for
their behavior and Labour also refusing to participate in the
filibustering that was originally planned. Labour would have, I mean,
to be fair. Labour would have to be dumb not
(01:32):
to see how people feel about the Marti Party's anticks
I mean. There was a poll out this morning r
and zed Reid Research. Most voters think the punishment for
the Mardi Party is about right or could actually be
harder fifty four percent of them. Only thirty six percent
of voters think it's too harsh. Even a sizeable proportion
of Labour Party voters think the punishment is about right
or could be harder thirty eight percent. Now, Labour is
(01:55):
smart to put some distance between it and the Marti
Party because the Marti Party made fools of them last time.
When Chippy got up and argued that the Marti Party
shouldn't get the full twenty one day suspension punishment because
they should have the right to represent their vote in
Parliament during the Budget Day debate and it's so important
blah blah blah, the Marty Party made major fools of Chippy.
By then, after all of that effort, he went to
(02:16):
not turning up to the debate.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Now.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
To be fair to Labor, this is not an easy
one for the party, right. This is actually a really
tough one for them to balance because they can't be
too friendly with the Marti Party because then they're going
to freak out Middle New Zealand. But they will need
the Marti Party probably to have the numbers to form government.
It's a tough one, but at least you can say
Labor has realized that the Marti Party are toxic, because
(02:39):
that hadn't appeared to have happened before.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
So that you go some more award winning content from
here there. In fact, she's so award winning I might.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Put her in the pod cast twice today.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Unfortunately she was busy doing stuff like that instead of
being out the awards, and we were all just sitting
there at the awards. Meanwhile she's, you know, telling everybody
how it is as usual on New Zealand's biggest.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Radio station, News Talk z Bean. That's kind of the
opposite of a harmble brags.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
A sort of a skitey, just an out and out brag,
a brag adocious brag. Let's move on, because I'm not
really doing very well with the adjectives and let's talk
supermarket competition.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
It's here. Finally we've got a plan. Get ready for
our prices. Everyone.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
They say consumers lose out because prices jump around more.
This can mean the average price is more expensive, and
it's harder for consumers to assess the value of products. Well,
can't we read the label? They don't offer any evidence
this is actually happening, nor do they offer any evidence
that a change would make things cheaper. Leap of faith
(03:55):
number two is that this saving will be passed on
to the consumer via the supermarket. Is there not a
flaw in this logic? Does essentially banning discounts really make
prices cheaper? If so, by how much five billion dollars?
Remember the industry's revenue is twenty five billion dollars a year.
(04:15):
If all of the discounts were handed down their chain
of command to us shoppers, we're expected to believe general
prices would fall by what twenty percent? Remember when they
set up the Grocery Commission under Labor, we were told
the supermarkets were making excess profits of three hundred and
sixty five million dollars a year. So we're well well
and above that now, aren't we there's a bunch of
(04:38):
other changes they've announced as well. Some of the stuff
is just proposed, its suggestions, it's voluntary. Some stuff needs
consultation and then reviews and twelve months and blah blah
blah more reports. By the time this is finished, I
will not only have lost the will to shop, but
potentially lost the will to live. I've never had the
(04:58):
will to shop. I hate shopping, and the reason for
that is because it makes me lose the will to live.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Use talk sivy.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Now, what is the NA sea levy? Well, basically, it's
going to be added on to our insurance bills.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Because things keep being disastrous all the time, and somebody's
going to pay for it.
Speaker 6 (05:17):
But for most people, their home is their castle. It
is their most significant financial investment. If they can't sell
their home, they can't move. They have to patch it
up and make do so. I would be really interested
to hear your thoughts on this one. Do we go
(05:38):
in this as we're all in this together, except that
we're living on the shaky aisles, that we are a
natural hazard magnet and that's the price you pay for
living in a bucolic paradise. Should some areas pay more
than others. Do you get the insurance companies who's business
(06:01):
business it is to gauge risk two basically set cover
across the country based on the riskiness of each region.
Do we ban the rebuilding on non flood areas? What
do you think the answer might be? As we struggle
(06:22):
to come to terms with living within our environment, we're
not so far removed from early settlers really, as we
try to balance the advantages and disadvantages of living where
we do.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Yeah, I mean we are literally finally paying the cost
of our climate destroying ways.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
That's what it comes down to, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Like you know, we all we've sort of been happy
to go ah, you know, renewables, that's all about hard
are fixing climate change, lowering our cab and emissions. It's
all just a bit inconvenient for us. Oh, hang on,
it's going to cost us actual money?
Speaker 3 (07:00):
What right?
Speaker 2 (07:03):
As I promised a double hat of Heather today because
she is the best broadcast during the country as of
last night at the Radio and Podcast Awards, also Marcus
lash was he got the best talk host award outside
of Breakfast and Drive. So I don't know if he
(07:26):
turned up to work because I didn't get any audio
from him last night, which is the other reason I've
got two lots of heather.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Right, this is a much higher level of creepiness than
audio recording a sex worker or photographing a woman fully
clothed at the gym. I'm not trying to minimize how
creepy that is. That is a level of creepiness, but
it is definitely a higher level of menace to be
filming a women only partially clothed with no top on
as she walks around her house at night, which apparently
(07:52):
is at least one of the examples, and there were
apparently reportedly multiple cases of this happening. Now, I do
understand we do not know all of the details of
what police were considering here, and perhaps you know, this
may have been kind of a difficult thing for them
to be able to judge. I want to hear from them.
What was the obstacle here? What evidence did they not
(08:13):
have in order to be able to charge them? Did
they not know who the women were or where the
women were? Did they need to find those women in
order to confirm that the filming wasn't consensual in order
for the case to work. Did he have the geolocation
on his phone, you know that shows where you take
the photographs that could have pinned the house. Did he
have that turned off? Did he have that turned off
it turned on? If they had none of this, did
(08:35):
they go looking for the women? Did they try to
find them? How hard did they look? Because to my mind,
when you've got somebody going around a bloke like this
reportedly looking through windows at women at night as they
get changed, that is something that the police need to
deal with as a priority. That's not just retail theft.
That is something very very creepy. And actually, if they
had managed to figure this out, and if they had
(08:56):
managed to charge them, they wouldn't be answering questions today
about how it was that he was in the Prime
Minister's office.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Yes, kind of a sleazy, yucky sort of thing they
have to talk about in this podcast to be honest,
Like I say, you know, I hate to have two
lots of heather to day.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
So what can you do?
Speaker 1 (09:15):
News talk see it bean?
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Right, Let's finish up on actually more crimes again, perhaps
not super serious, what's happened to Matt Heaths shoelacers?
Speaker 7 (09:30):
Okay, there's sometimes in your life when your family you realize,
you know, you think my family loves me, you know
I'm important to them, and there's sometimes you realize that
you're just a resource for them. Yep, you're just seen
as something to be exploited. So because of the Radio Awards,
I went down and I was in my cupboard and
I was deciding what suit I was gonna wear, just
flicking through them. And then I was deciding what shoes
I was going to wear, and then I noticed some
(09:50):
poor I noticed what I was looking down at the shoes,
and I noticed that all the lacers had been taken.
And so my sons, you know, they'll regularly steal my
undies and my socks, and I get that, but they've
gone through and just rinsed me of laceers. So this
is the way they look at the world. They go, oh,
my school shoes don't have lacers. They don't go, could
you get me some laces? They go, I'll just take
(10:10):
lacers off Dad's shoes and his special cupets.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
So they took them out of the shoes. When you
mentioned this earlier, I thought you meant like a fresh
pack of lacers that you stored just for an on occasion.
Like this. No, they took them out of the shoes,
runched my shoes of lacers. That's crazy behavior. I'm just
a resource.
Speaker 7 (10:26):
I seen a text to them saying, poor old dad,
no lacers on his shoes.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
That is so dead. That is such a teenager thing, though,
isn't it. So I need some new lacers.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
I'll just take dads, just strip the shoes and.
Speaker 7 (10:36):
At the time they're definitely I'll definitely tell Dad, I'll
definitely remember this, I'll definitely sort it out. And then
being a teenage boy, you'll never possibly remember it. Then
Dad's radio wards goes to put on his nice shoes
no laces. So I went up and ruined their school
shoes of lacers.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Oh good, yeah, fantastic for an eye the same laces back.
Speaker 7 (10:55):
They are in terrible actually a terrible condition. I couldn't
getting through the eye.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
He is the hottest of hot messes, that guy.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
I at the risk of going on and on about
the radio awards last night, which is for me because
I don't really love an award.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Process.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
But better side, I turned up last night, packed my
car down in the.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Basement, and there is Matt Heath.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Partially clothed I'm not even sure he had pants on
at that point. In the car park he was getting
his suit. I mean interested to hear that he's got
so many suits. I presume he was meaning that as
a joke. Perhaps maybe he just he does have a lot,
but he Yeah, he was getting dressed in the suit
in the car park for some reason.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
And poor old Tony Street, she looked fantastic in her
get up. She was getting out.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Of her car, and Sam Wallace was looking very deafer.
Jason Reeves had gone with white sneakers with his suit,
which was an interesting call.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
But yeah, he was all.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Distiveled and was literally still getting dressed. And then he
came upstairs and then proceeded to undo his pants again
to retack his shooting again in front of him. He's
got no shame that guy. Once again, I questioned whether
we did the right thing hiring him. He won a
lot of awards last night to be fair for work
(12:29):
at his previous station, So let's see what happens there.
I am everybody seemed to win a lot of awards
last night, which is good. I am who am? I
I can't remember who I am? Because Mike Hoskin didn't
mention me not that I'm bitter, but I'm somebody working
at the best station in the country for another year.
(12:51):
See you back here again on Monday for more.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
US Talk Talk Said Been. 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 iart Radio.
You're listening to a podcast from News Talk sied B.
Follow this and our wide range of podcasts now on
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
Hello, my beautiful beanies, and welcome to the Bean for Friday.
First with yesterday's news, I am Glen Hart, and we
are looking back at thursday supermarket competition, the grocery commissioner,
the plan when you of that have any effect.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Hey, great news everyone.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
You're going to get charged more for natural disasters.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
There's a levy for that. There's a levy for everything,
isn't it.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
That's Michael Forbes' character and the secret recordings and gross
And we're going to finish up with some shoelace theft,
as we often do. But before any of that, here
is the Broadcaster of the Year, winner of the Sepaul
Holmes Award last night, Heather du vas Allen, talking politics.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
It looks to me like it's finally dawning on the
Labour Party that the Maori Party are in fact toxic
to the Labor Party's chances of becoming government. The two
biggest clues today, I reckon during this punishment debate was
Adrian ruhaf Are basically telling the Mardi Party off for
their behavior and Labour also refusing to participate in the
filibustering that was originally planned. Labour would have, I mean,
to be fair. Labour would have to be dumb not
(01:32):
to see how people feel about the Marti Party's anticks
I mean. There was a poll out this morning r
and zed Reid Research. Most voters think the punishment for
the Mardi Party is about right or could actually be
harder fifty four percent of them. Only thirty six percent
of voters think it's too harsh. Even a sizeable proportion
of Labour Party voters think the punishment is about right
or could be harder thirty eight percent. Now, Labour is
(01:55):
smart to put some distance between it and the Marti
Party because the Marti Party made fools of them last time.
When Chippy got up and argued that the Marti Party
shouldn't get the full twenty one day suspension punishment because
they should have the right to represent their vote in
Parliament during the Budget Day debate and it's so important
blah blah blah, the Marty Party made major fools of Chippy.
By then, after all of that effort, he went to
(02:16):
not turning up to the debate.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Now.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
To be fair to Labor, this is not an easy
one for the party, right. This is actually a really
tough one for them to balance because they can't be
too friendly with the Marti Party because then they're going
to freak out Middle New Zealand. But they will need
the Marti Party probably to have the numbers to form government.
It's a tough one, but at least you can say
Labor has realized that the Marti Party are toxic, because
(02:39):
that hadn't appeared to have happened before.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
So that you go some more award winning content from
here there. In fact, she's so award winning I might.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Put her in the pod cast twice today.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Unfortunately she was busy doing stuff like that instead of
being out the awards, and we were all just sitting
there at the awards. Meanwhile she's, you know, telling everybody
how it is as usual on New Zealand's biggest.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Radio station, News Talk z Bean. That's kind of the
opposite of a harmble brags.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
A sort of a skitey, just an out and out brag,
a brag adocious brag. Let's move on, because I'm not
really doing very well with the adjectives and let's talk
supermarket competition.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
It's here. Finally we've got a plan. Get ready for
our prices. Everyone.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
They say consumers lose out because prices jump around more.
This can mean the average price is more expensive, and
it's harder for consumers to assess the value of products. Well,
can't we read the label? They don't offer any evidence
this is actually happening, nor do they offer any evidence
that a change would make things cheaper. Leap of faith
(03:55):
number two is that this saving will be passed on
to the consumer via the supermarket. Is there not a
flaw in this logic? Does essentially banning discounts really make
prices cheaper? If so, by how much five billion dollars?
Remember the industry's revenue is twenty five billion dollars a year.
(04:15):
If all of the discounts were handed down their chain
of command to us shoppers, we're expected to believe general
prices would fall by what twenty percent? Remember when they
set up the Grocery Commission under Labor, we were told
the supermarkets were making excess profits of three hundred and
sixty five million dollars a year. So we're well well
and above that now, aren't we there's a bunch of
(04:38):
other changes they've announced as well. Some of the stuff
is just proposed, its suggestions, it's voluntary. Some stuff needs
consultation and then reviews and twelve months and blah blah
blah more reports. By the time this is finished, I
will not only have lost the will to shop, but
potentially lost the will to live. I've never had the
(04:58):
will to shop. I hate shopping, and the reason for
that is because it makes me lose the will to live.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Use talk sivy.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Now, what is the NA sea levy? Well, basically, it's
going to be added on to our insurance bills.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Because things keep being disastrous all the time, and somebody's
going to pay for it.
Speaker 6 (05:17):
But for most people, their home is their castle. It
is their most significant financial investment. If they can't sell
their home, they can't move. They have to patch it
up and make do so. I would be really interested
to hear your thoughts on this one. Do we go
(05:38):
in this as we're all in this together, except that
we're living on the shaky aisles, that we are a
natural hazard magnet and that's the price you pay for
living in a bucolic paradise. Should some areas pay more
than others. Do you get the insurance companies who's business
(06:01):
business it is to gauge risk two basically set cover
across the country based on the riskiness of each region.
Do we ban the rebuilding on non flood areas? What
do you think the answer might be? As we struggle
(06:22):
to come to terms with living within our environment, we're
not so far removed from early settlers really, as we
try to balance the advantages and disadvantages of living where
we do.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Yeah, I mean we are literally finally paying the cost
of our climate destroying ways.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
That's what it comes down to, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Like you know, we all we've sort of been happy
to go ah, you know, renewables, that's all about hard
are fixing climate change, lowering our cab and emissions. It's
all just a bit inconvenient for us. Oh, hang on,
it's going to cost us actual money?
Speaker 3 (07:00):
What right?
Speaker 2 (07:03):
As I promised a double hat of Heather today because
she is the best broadcast during the country as of
last night at the Radio and Podcast Awards, also Marcus
lash was he got the best talk host award outside
of Breakfast and Drive. So I don't know if he
(07:26):
turned up to work because I didn't get any audio
from him last night, which is the other reason I've
got two lots of heather.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Right, this is a much higher level of creepiness than
audio recording a sex worker or photographing a woman fully
clothed at the gym. I'm not trying to minimize how
creepy that is. That is a level of creepiness, but
it is definitely a higher level of menace to be
filming a women only partially clothed with no top on
as she walks around her house at night, which apparently
(07:52):
is at least one of the examples, and there were
apparently reportedly multiple cases of this happening. Now, I do
understand we do not know all of the details of
what police were considering here, and perhaps you know, this
may have been kind of a difficult thing for them
to be able to judge. I want to hear from them.
What was the obstacle here? What evidence did they not
(08:13):
have in order to be able to charge them? Did
they not know who the women were or where the
women were? Did they need to find those women in
order to confirm that the filming wasn't consensual in order
for the case to work. Did he have the geolocation
on his phone, you know that shows where you take
the photographs that could have pinned the house. Did he
have that turned off? Did he have that turned off
it turned on? If they had none of this, did
(08:35):
they go looking for the women? Did they try to
find them? How hard did they look? Because to my mind,
when you've got somebody going around a bloke like this
reportedly looking through windows at women at night as they
get changed, that is something that the police need to
deal with as a priority. That's not just retail theft.
That is something very very creepy. And actually, if they
had managed to figure this out, and if they had
(08:56):
managed to charge them, they wouldn't be answering questions today
about how it was that he was in the Prime
Minister's office.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Yes, kind of a sleazy, yucky sort of thing they
have to talk about in this podcast to be honest,
Like I say, you know, I hate to have two
lots of heather to day.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
So what can you do?
Speaker 1 (09:15):
News talk see it bean?
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Right, Let's finish up on actually more crimes again, perhaps
not super serious, what's happened to Matt Heaths shoelacers?
Speaker 7 (09:30):
Okay, there's sometimes in your life when your family you realize,
you know, you think my family loves me, you know
I'm important to them, and there's sometimes you realize that
you're just a resource for them. Yep, you're just seen
as something to be exploited. So because of the Radio Awards,
I went down and I was in my cupboard and
I was deciding what suit I was gonna wear, just
flicking through them. And then I was deciding what shoes
I was going to wear, and then I noticed some
(09:50):
poor I noticed what I was looking down at the shoes,
and I noticed that all the lacers had been taken.
And so my sons, you know, they'll regularly steal my
undies and my socks, and I get that, but they've
gone through and just rinsed me of laceers. So this
is the way they look at the world. They go, oh,
my school shoes don't have lacers. They don't go, could
you get me some laces? They go, I'll just take
(10:10):
lacers off Dad's shoes and his special cupets.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
So they took them out of the shoes. When you
mentioned this earlier, I thought you meant like a fresh
pack of lacers that you stored just for an on occasion.
Like this. No, they took them out of the shoes,
runched my shoes of lacers. That's crazy behavior. I'm just
a resource.
Speaker 7 (10:26):
I seen a text to them saying, poor old dad,
no lacers on his shoes.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
That is so dead. That is such a teenager thing, though,
isn't it. So I need some new lacers.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
I'll just take dads, just strip the shoes and.
Speaker 7 (10:36):
At the time they're definitely I'll definitely tell Dad, I'll
definitely remember this, I'll definitely sort it out. And then
being a teenage boy, you'll never possibly remember it. Then
Dad's radio wards goes to put on his nice shoes
no laces. So I went up and ruined their school
shoes of lacers.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Oh good, yeah, fantastic for an eye the same laces back.
Speaker 7 (10:55):
They are in terrible actually a terrible condition. I couldn't
getting through the eye.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
He is the hottest of hot messes, that guy.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
I at the risk of going on and on about
the radio awards last night, which is for me because
I don't really love an award.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Process.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
But better side, I turned up last night, packed my
car down in the.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Basement, and there is Matt Heath.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Partially clothed I'm not even sure he had pants on
at that point. In the car park he was getting
his suit. I mean interested to hear that he's got
so many suits. I presume he was meaning that as
a joke. Perhaps maybe he just he does have a lot,
but he Yeah, he was getting dressed in the suit
in the car park for some reason.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
And poor old Tony Street, she looked fantastic in her
get up. She was getting out.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Of her car, and Sam Wallace was looking very deafer.
Jason Reeves had gone with white sneakers with his suit,
which was an interesting call.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
But yeah, he was all.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Distiveled and was literally still getting dressed. And then he
came upstairs and then proceeded to undo his pants again
to retack his shooting again in front of him. He's
got no shame that guy. Once again, I questioned whether
we did the right thing hiring him. He won a
lot of awards last night to be fair for work
(12:29):
at his previous station, So let's see what happens there.
I am everybody seemed to win a lot of awards
last night, which is good. I am who am? I
I can't remember who I am? Because Mike Hoskin didn't
mention me not that I'm bitter, but I'm somebody working
at the best station in the country for another year.
(12:51):
See you back here again on Monday for more.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
US Talk Talk Said Been. 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 iart Radio.
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Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Special Summer Offer: Exclusively on Apple Podcasts, try our Dateline Premium subscription completely free for one month! With Dateline Premium, you get every episode ad-free plus exclusive bonus content.