July 13, 2025 • 12 mins
FIRST WITH YESTERDAY'S NEWS (highlights from the weekend on Newstalk ZB) Nice to Get Away, I S'pose/Less Kick, More Click/Solar Might Eventually Make Sense/Politics Is So Fun/At Least Everything Ends
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
You're listening to a podcast from News Talk sed B.
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Used Talk said, be you talk.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Hello, my beautiful beanies, and welcome to the weekend edition
of news Talk zed BEEN. I am Glenn Hart and
we are looking back at Sunday and Saturday, some of
my favorite days to have weekends on the all blacks
a bit better, So that's good. Solar power is a thing.
The Wellington Mayoralty, well the Meyoror race. He's got quite sleazy.
(00:53):
And Maren Morris is a country music star going in
a new direction apparently. But before any of that, foreign relations.
Winston Peters, he's the Minister of Foreign Relations. He went
to Malaysia to do some.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
So what was your top priority on this trip?
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Oh? Look, it's really what the Prime mins of Malaysia
said when he talked about forging habits of collaboration. We've
got to work together and ensure that by dialogue and
diplomacy we make progress, because the outcome of not doing
that is a failure, and that's dealing with the devastation
(01:37):
and destruction of war. This is primarily the key objective
to get on with we've got differences expressed and see
if we can resolve them.
Speaker 5 (01:46):
So I've got a couple of things noted here, trade
versus security.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
I'm gathering from what you've said that really the prime
priority is security.
Speaker 6 (01:54):
Is that it.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Well, they're both because you know, without the security we
can't have trade. We've seen that in the you know,
the Red Sea at the mark where passages of transportation
and cargo own up the cost because of the breakdown
of a peaceful passage. All those things that have an
(02:17):
effect on this country miles and miles of course the
other side of the world, these things still have an
effect on New Zealand. So we're trying to do our
best to help it get on top of them.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
So presumably he has all that stuff has sorted and
we can carry on just doing good stuff from now on.
Well done, Winston Peter's excellent job News talk.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
Has it been.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Excellent job to the All Blacks. Much more convincing win
this week against I mean they called the first French
side that they played a sort of a B side
France B and then they changed twelve of the starting lineup.
I think I'm not quite sure what letter of the
alphabet we were up to with this side. Anyway, it
(03:01):
didn't work out very well for them.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
What were your first thoughts on the game when you
woke up this morning and had given it the overnight test.
Speaker 7 (03:09):
I think we were probably started with better intent in
the collisions than we did last week. I think we
found some flow with our tackles, so similar to last week,
just probably completed more in the first half.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
If we talk about the improvements that you were really
hoping for from the team and worked on during the week,
what were they and how happy were you with the
step up in those particular areas.
Speaker 7 (03:36):
I think on the defensive side of the ball again,
around our intent and our tackle height you were seen
last week in Dunedin. We probably we wrote a few
too many tackles, and against big sides, you know they
can just eat the game line up and continue to
play on top of you. So we were happy with
parts of that in the first half, which then a
(03:57):
few more turnovers than that we could attack from turnover ball.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
I was disappointed that somebody else in there, when asked
what they'd been working on during the week, the first
thing he said wasn't kicking it straight back to them
from defensive physicians. They did a little bit less of that.
(04:22):
They started some of it, but they are staying to click.
And I think when the when the when the all
wax click is less kick, which is good you talk
been now recently, over the last couple of years, we've
been on a bit of a journey with Jack Taye
as he has ventured into the world of domestic bliss
(04:48):
home life, you know, running a household. And I think
he's been looking at his power bills lately and he's
not happy.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
The huge surgeon soul that is being driven by economics.
Put simply, solar power is way, way, way cheaper than
other forms of electricity generation, and between batteries and solar panels,
the technology is only getting better and only getting cheaper.
Ten years from now. As reported in that article, the
International Energy Agency says solar power will become the world's
(05:22):
main source of all energy, so not just all electricity,
all energy. Solar is going to be number one.
Speaker 6 (05:31):
Now.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
Look, I'm not naive about sola's limitations. I mean, few
of us need reminding, especially given the last couple of weeks,
that there are times when the sun doesn't shine so much,
and right now in the depths of winter, when our
family's energy bill is at its highest, is the time
of year when solar panels on our rooftop would likely
be generating the least electricity. But if I just step
(05:55):
back for a moment and think about solar in the
context of the whole year, it makes increasing economic sense.
In summer, I reckon I could wipe off a massive
chunk from our energy bill, and whatever savings I make
then can contribute to offsetting the bills. In the middle
of winter. All I know, or all I knew when
(06:18):
I looked at my energy bill this week is at
five hundred and forty bucks. The status quo isn't going
to be sustainable for our family, And rather than debating
if we will go to solar, the only question for
us now is when.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
I see a lot of in my science fiction books,
which is pretty much the any kind of book that
I read, that everything's always running on solar power. They're
covered in solar panels, things are made out of fabric,
which is solar panel fabric. I'm still waiting for all
(06:53):
that stuff to happen. The most useful solar POWD thing
I've seen in recent years is Samsung TV remotes are
all solar power now, And weirdly, they made that technolog
g available for other companies to come along and use it.
You know, they didn't patent it or anything, and other
(07:14):
companies don't need to be using it. I don't know
what's going on there, but yeah, I mean, that's just
a whole lot of batteries that aren't going into the
landfill anymore. I guess I'm still a little bit nervous
of exactly the some pieces that are needed to make
a solar panel in the first place. And while Jackson's
it makes economic sense to run things on solar there,
(07:37):
it's still very expensive to install, you know, like a
like a household solar power system, isn't it. But yeah,
I'm not quite sure why. Yeah, we haven't got the
solar power panel fabric that I keep reading about in
my science fiction books. It makes me wonder if they're
more fiction than science. Annoying, right, I really find it
(08:02):
hard to care about this, this good sluging mat that
the Wellington Neural Elections is has send it into Some
people seem to be interested in this kind of sleazy gossip.
Speaker 8 (08:17):
Look, I'm a big advocate for voting in local body elections.
I want to have a say in who runs my city.
I know it's not the cool thing to do and
most people can't be bothered. But I love and appreciate
everything my city has to offer and I want to
be I want it to be great and an affordable
place to live. But to get people to vote, we
need candidates who are articulate, smart and decisive leaders. We
(08:37):
need people who understand the political environment, can work with
others and know how to get things done. Back in
twenty twenty two, Wellington City councilor I ownA and despaired
at how toxic and negative the campaigning was in that
local body election. More recently, Torrifano has called politics an
ugly place. Some of the issues highlighted by Crown Observer
(08:57):
of Wellington City Council Lindsay McKenzie are that it's an
overwhelmed council. There is public criticism by elected members and
dysfunctional relationships. If there was ever a time Wellington needed
a candidate who can convince constituents that they can as
mayor bring this council together and make it function, then
it's now, and yet here we are ten days after
(09:21):
candidate nominations open for local body elections and the dirty
politics is kicked off. Did Ray Chung write that email
out of genuine concern for his mayor Probably not. Has
the emails release been time to hurt his campaign? Probably yes.
So no one looks particularly great, do they. Wellington deserves better.
This isn't a big enough faux path for Chunk to
(09:41):
take himself out of the race. But if he's going
to continue, can I suggesce he takes a simpler approach
to dealing with issues. When the receipt, as the kids
say these days, is there for all to see, apologize
and take accountability. You don't need to overexplain. And if
you're ever asked whether you've had an orgy, just say no.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Oh, come on. Doesn't that make you more relatable to
the people if you've had a few orgies in your time? Well,
we all have, haven't we haven't we? No?
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Just all right?
Speaker 7 (10:15):
I feel like there.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Must be a few people who've had them. Otherwise, while
we had the word news talks, it been something else.
I don't understand and have very little time for his
country music. However, Marion Morris is a bit of a legend,
and I'm quite proudly and say that I've never heard
of this person before. We interviewed somebody on the Breakfas
(10:40):
show called James Eldean the other day. I think that
was his name, something called Jason Eldean, something Eldean. Anyway,
he's a legend as well, which I'd also never heard of.
So I've sort of made a business out of not
hearing about country music legends. I'm sure they're lovely.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
You're sort of in a kind of new era of
life a little bit with with dreamsicle. So tell us
what is a dream circle and what does a what
is a dreamsicle kind of repres.
Speaker 6 (11:10):
Oh my gosh, I didn't even think about that. Y'all
probably don't have those over there. So a dreamsicle is
like an ice cream cone, and at least there's different variations.
There's like a cream sickle. But then in Texas where
I grew up, we were on a could a stack street,
so that ice cream truck would go by in the
summertime and I would always get out of you know,
(11:33):
the hundred pictures of options, I would get the dreamsicle. So,
I mean that's been in my head for a long
time obviously as like a nostalgia thing, like a childhood thing.
But I named the record after that because well, there's
a song on the record called Dreamsicle that I wrote,
and it's just about you know, things that are you know, wonderful,
(11:53):
like are fleeting and we know that. But I think
just not mourning it too soon and just really being
present in the moment and enjoying what's in your hands. Yeah,
at that time is way more fruit fall then trying
to like rush through it or like moren that it's
over while it's still happening. Like I kind of fall
(12:15):
into that trap a lot. So it's just my own
reminder to myself to just stay present and enjoy like
the good and the bad things as there happening, because
it all ends.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
So on that cherry note that everything will end eventually,
presumably including country music. I'll leave you and if as
long as everything hasn't ended by this time tomorrow, I'll
be back with another news talk as they've been. Then
see you use talking doors it been.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
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 sed B.
Follow this and our wide range of podcasts now on iHeartRadio.
Used Talk said, be you talk.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Hello, my beautiful beanies, and welcome to the weekend edition
of news Talk zed BEEN. I am Glenn Hart and
we are looking back at Sunday and Saturday, some of
my favorite days to have weekends on the all blacks
a bit better, So that's good. Solar power is a thing.
The Wellington Mayoralty, well the Meyoror race. He's got quite sleazy.
(00:53):
And Maren Morris is a country music star going in
a new direction apparently. But before any of that, foreign relations.
Winston Peters, he's the Minister of Foreign Relations. He went
to Malaysia to do some.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
So what was your top priority on this trip?
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Oh? Look, it's really what the Prime mins of Malaysia
said when he talked about forging habits of collaboration. We've
got to work together and ensure that by dialogue and
diplomacy we make progress, because the outcome of not doing
that is a failure, and that's dealing with the devastation
(01:37):
and destruction of war. This is primarily the key objective
to get on with we've got differences expressed and see
if we can resolve them.
Speaker 5 (01:46):
So I've got a couple of things noted here, trade
versus security.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
I'm gathering from what you've said that really the prime
priority is security.
Speaker 6 (01:54):
Is that it.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Well, they're both because you know, without the security we
can't have trade. We've seen that in the you know,
the Red Sea at the mark where passages of transportation
and cargo own up the cost because of the breakdown
of a peaceful passage. All those things that have an
(02:17):
effect on this country miles and miles of course the
other side of the world, these things still have an
effect on New Zealand. So we're trying to do our
best to help it get on top of them.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
So presumably he has all that stuff has sorted and
we can carry on just doing good stuff from now on.
Well done, Winston Peter's excellent job News talk.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
Has it been.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Excellent job to the All Blacks. Much more convincing win
this week against I mean they called the first French
side that they played a sort of a B side
France B and then they changed twelve of the starting lineup.
I think I'm not quite sure what letter of the
alphabet we were up to with this side. Anyway, it
(03:01):
didn't work out very well for them.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
What were your first thoughts on the game when you
woke up this morning and had given it the overnight test.
Speaker 7 (03:09):
I think we were probably started with better intent in
the collisions than we did last week. I think we
found some flow with our tackles, so similar to last week,
just probably completed more in the first half.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
If we talk about the improvements that you were really
hoping for from the team and worked on during the week,
what were they and how happy were you with the
step up in those particular areas.
Speaker 7 (03:36):
I think on the defensive side of the ball again,
around our intent and our tackle height you were seen
last week in Dunedin. We probably we wrote a few
too many tackles, and against big sides, you know they
can just eat the game line up and continue to
play on top of you. So we were happy with
parts of that in the first half, which then a
(03:57):
few more turnovers than that we could attack from turnover ball.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
I was disappointed that somebody else in there, when asked
what they'd been working on during the week, the first
thing he said wasn't kicking it straight back to them
from defensive physicians. They did a little bit less of that.
(04:22):
They started some of it, but they are staying to click.
And I think when the when the when the all
wax click is less kick, which is good you talk
been now recently, over the last couple of years, we've
been on a bit of a journey with Jack Taye
as he has ventured into the world of domestic bliss
(04:48):
home life, you know, running a household. And I think
he's been looking at his power bills lately and he's
not happy.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
The huge surgeon soul that is being driven by economics.
Put simply, solar power is way, way, way cheaper than
other forms of electricity generation, and between batteries and solar panels,
the technology is only getting better and only getting cheaper.
Ten years from now. As reported in that article, the
International Energy Agency says solar power will become the world's
(05:22):
main source of all energy, so not just all electricity,
all energy. Solar is going to be number one.
Speaker 6 (05:31):
Now.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
Look, I'm not naive about sola's limitations. I mean, few
of us need reminding, especially given the last couple of weeks,
that there are times when the sun doesn't shine so much,
and right now in the depths of winter, when our
family's energy bill is at its highest, is the time
of year when solar panels on our rooftop would likely
be generating the least electricity. But if I just step
(05:55):
back for a moment and think about solar in the
context of the whole year, it makes increasing economic sense.
In summer, I reckon I could wipe off a massive
chunk from our energy bill, and whatever savings I make
then can contribute to offsetting the bills. In the middle
of winter. All I know, or all I knew when
(06:18):
I looked at my energy bill this week is at
five hundred and forty bucks. The status quo isn't going
to be sustainable for our family, And rather than debating
if we will go to solar, the only question for
us now is when.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
I see a lot of in my science fiction books,
which is pretty much the any kind of book that
I read, that everything's always running on solar power. They're
covered in solar panels, things are made out of fabric,
which is solar panel fabric. I'm still waiting for all
(06:53):
that stuff to happen. The most useful solar POWD thing
I've seen in recent years is Samsung TV remotes are
all solar power now, And weirdly, they made that technolog
g available for other companies to come along and use it.
You know, they didn't patent it or anything, and other
(07:14):
companies don't need to be using it. I don't know
what's going on there, but yeah, I mean, that's just
a whole lot of batteries that aren't going into the
landfill anymore. I guess I'm still a little bit nervous
of exactly the some pieces that are needed to make
a solar panel in the first place. And while Jackson's
it makes economic sense to run things on solar there,
(07:37):
it's still very expensive to install, you know, like a
like a household solar power system, isn't it. But yeah,
I'm not quite sure why. Yeah, we haven't got the
solar power panel fabric that I keep reading about in
my science fiction books. It makes me wonder if they're
more fiction than science. Annoying, right, I really find it
(08:02):
hard to care about this, this good sluging mat that
the Wellington Neural Elections is has send it into Some
people seem to be interested in this kind of sleazy gossip.
Speaker 8 (08:17):
Look, I'm a big advocate for voting in local body elections.
I want to have a say in who runs my city.
I know it's not the cool thing to do and
most people can't be bothered. But I love and appreciate
everything my city has to offer and I want to
be I want it to be great and an affordable
place to live. But to get people to vote, we
need candidates who are articulate, smart and decisive leaders. We
(08:37):
need people who understand the political environment, can work with
others and know how to get things done. Back in
twenty twenty two, Wellington City councilor I ownA and despaired
at how toxic and negative the campaigning was in that
local body election. More recently, Torrifano has called politics an
ugly place. Some of the issues highlighted by Crown Observer
(08:57):
of Wellington City Council Lindsay McKenzie are that it's an
overwhelmed council. There is public criticism by elected members and
dysfunctional relationships. If there was ever a time Wellington needed
a candidate who can convince constituents that they can as
mayor bring this council together and make it function, then
it's now, and yet here we are ten days after
(09:21):
candidate nominations open for local body elections and the dirty
politics is kicked off. Did Ray Chung write that email
out of genuine concern for his mayor Probably not. Has
the emails release been time to hurt his campaign? Probably yes.
So no one looks particularly great, do they. Wellington deserves better.
This isn't a big enough faux path for Chunk to
(09:41):
take himself out of the race. But if he's going
to continue, can I suggesce he takes a simpler approach
to dealing with issues. When the receipt, as the kids
say these days, is there for all to see, apologize
and take accountability. You don't need to overexplain. And if
you're ever asked whether you've had an orgy, just say no.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Oh, come on. Doesn't that make you more relatable to
the people if you've had a few orgies in your time? Well,
we all have, haven't we haven't we? No?
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Just all right?
Speaker 7 (10:15):
I feel like there.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Must be a few people who've had them. Otherwise, while
we had the word news talks, it been something else.
I don't understand and have very little time for his
country music. However, Marion Morris is a bit of a legend,
and I'm quite proudly and say that I've never heard
of this person before. We interviewed somebody on the Breakfas
(10:40):
show called James Eldean the other day. I think that
was his name, something called Jason Eldean, something Eldean. Anyway,
he's a legend as well, which I'd also never heard of.
So I've sort of made a business out of not
hearing about country music legends. I'm sure they're lovely.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
You're sort of in a kind of new era of
life a little bit with with dreamsicle. So tell us
what is a dream circle and what does a what
is a dreamsicle kind of repres.
Speaker 6 (11:10):
Oh my gosh, I didn't even think about that. Y'all
probably don't have those over there. So a dreamsicle is
like an ice cream cone, and at least there's different variations.
There's like a cream sickle. But then in Texas where
I grew up, we were on a could a stack street,
so that ice cream truck would go by in the
summertime and I would always get out of you know,
(11:33):
the hundred pictures of options, I would get the dreamsicle. So,
I mean that's been in my head for a long
time obviously as like a nostalgia thing, like a childhood thing.
But I named the record after that because well, there's
a song on the record called Dreamsicle that I wrote,
and it's just about you know, things that are you know, wonderful,
(11:53):
like are fleeting and we know that. But I think
just not mourning it too soon and just really being
present in the moment and enjoying what's in your hands. Yeah,
at that time is way more fruit fall then trying
to like rush through it or like moren that it's
over while it's still happening. Like I kind of fall
(12:15):
into that trap a lot. So it's just my own
reminder to myself to just stay present and enjoy like
the good and the bad things as there happening, because
it all ends.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
So on that cherry note that everything will end eventually,
presumably including country music. I'll leave you and if as
long as everything hasn't ended by this time tomorrow, I'll
be back with another news talk as they've been. Then
see you use talking doors it been.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
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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