July 31, 2025 • 12 mins
FIRST WITH YESTERDAY'S NEWS (highlights from Thursday on Newstalk ZB) Waving Waves Away/We're Not David In this Kiwisaver Scenario/Pausing for Breath
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
You're listening to a podcast from news Talk, said Bee
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
Used Talk said, be you talk.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Hello, my beautiful beanies, and welcome to the bean for Friday.
First of yesterday's news. I am Glen Hart, and we
are looking back at Thursday. We've got some here. We
save the comments for you. We'll reflect on the importance
of breathing. It's quite important breathing, isn't it dead Guy
(00:49):
him on that shortly, But first up, I hope you
didn't wash away in the tsunami.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
We decided it would be fine, so Helen went off
to catch the eight am fairy. She left the house.
I've never seen her since. I presume she caught a
fairy and she went to work. And as she left,
she said, look, if there's going to be a wave,
rather be on a big boat than sitting on the esplanade.
And I thought that was a joke, but then again
it might not be. But there were but she went
on a boat. As it turned out, everybody ignored the alert.
(01:18):
This morning. People walked dogs on beaches. The Northwestern Motorway
causeway did not close, even though it's at sea. Level,
nor did Tammockie drive, nor did all sorts of marine
parades right around New Zealand. They didn't close. We all
ignored the alarm. We all said enough, she'll be sweep.
Then we had the Minister Mark. He came on with
(01:39):
Kerry to explain why we had these alarms, and he
talked well and the main takeaway from all of that
was that he wanted to inform the people so we
could make an informed decision. Now, frankly, my family did.
We heard the alarm, We looked at the stuff that
was around. We made an informed decision. If we got
wiped out by a tsunami on a ferry at eight
(02:00):
o'clock this morning, it would have been our own stupid fault.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
We didn't.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
I don't mind the alert. I'd rather have a false
alarm and no alarm at all than a dangerous decision.
But the fear here is that too many people will
begin to ignore all alerts and will not make informed decisions,
and that could end badly. The information didn't seem to
be updated in the twelve hours after the earth quake hit,
(02:25):
and I wonder if our ocean monitoring is working, because, frankly,
I think the ocean. Monitoring is pretty important when it
comes to stopping a tsunami, or at least letting us
know a tsunami is on its way and we're all
about to die.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Yeah, it seems weird, doesn't it. We've got all these satellites,
and I mean, there's a hell of a lot of
boats out there, aren't there on the ocean?
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Well?
Speaker 3 (02:46):
I know the ocean is a big place, but with
something like this happens, can we not track a wave
if it's on its way?
Speaker 2 (02:54):
News Talk Zippen.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
It probably would be better if we knew whether or
not a wave was coming before we tell people that
it might be.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
What do you think it really is? The boy who
cried and does nothing but stress out my young children.
If anyone knows how to disable them, please let me know,
said Matt. Well, you know, I got one at four
o'clock yesterday as I looked over the mudflats to across
(03:26):
the water to a narrow channel. I thought, well, cricky,
I don't think we need to put the life jackets
on just yet or evacuate the house. But you know,
good to know, but six point thirty this morning, by then,
surely we would know if this was building in strength.
(03:46):
That is the advantage of distance. I get it. You know,
damned if they do. Damned if they don't tell people
these I mean, I would have thought that, you know,
nehveras reading of the of the weather forecast and the
marine forecast, expect you know, unexpected surges around the coastline.
(04:11):
Don't go down there until any possible threat is passed.
If you do, you take your risks, you take your chances.
It's on you. I don't understand. I mean, I can't
ever recall receiving these kinds of blearing four corn type
(04:33):
danger danger Will Robinson messages until COVID times, and I
don't think that they're proving particularly helpful. Complacency is dangerous,
I agree, but I would argue when you have too
many emergency alerts of things that do not happen, that
(04:58):
is going to inculcate complacency, and that will be dangerous.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
I mean, I roughly am aware of that these things
can travel long distances, and that that's because you're on
the other side of the world doesn't mean that you're
necessarily safe. But when that alert went off, the first
one at four point thirty or whenever, it was.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
I was asleep.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
It's a bit of a late daytime sleep for me,
but I was asleep. But I certainly wasn't asleep when
that bloody noise went off. And when I as soon
as I saw the word ken Chatka and the alert,
I went, hang on, that's I know exactly where that
is because I've played risk and that's one of the
regions that you can capture in risk. As soon as
(05:49):
I saw that word, I didn't even keep reading the alert.
I just rolled over and went back to sleep.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
You talk side.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
I wonder when Marcus sleeps. Does he go home and
sleep after doing the eight till twelve shift.
Speaker 6 (06:01):
Those damn alerts, I think, through no fold of their
own from incompetence civil Defense have gravely damaged their ability
to alert the population of New Zealand of something significant
(06:25):
is about to happen in a trusting and caring way.
Too many damn bb But what would you describe that noise?
There's too many of it for goodness sake? I think
probably after the floods and all the people were criticized
for not giving enough warnings. Now we've become warning happy,
(06:47):
but some people get them fifty times and some people
don't get them at all. And it's where there's people
in the same house. One person gets at four people, don't.
I did hit the guy talking on the wireless. What
apparently happens, right is you only get them if you're
near the sea. But what a shocker hasn't worked at all.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
I don't think anybody got them fifty times today. I
mean it's if you've got a smart watch like I have,
you get it, you get the same alert twice effectively,
and you've got to the hard to swipe away as well.
(07:33):
You could if we could opt out, don't You don't
seem to be able to opt out, like just go Look,
I'm prepared to take the risk of being washed away,
so I don't get worken up with my nanaete at
four thirty in the afternoon.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Use your set right Keywi Savor?
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Why would you have kie we Savor again every couple
of weeks? There is something wrong with Kiwi Savior.
Speaker 7 (07:54):
A couple of predictions for you this morning. One, the
National Party will campaign on a partial float of Kiwi
Bank at the next election. I think it's looking and
sounding more and more like they will. The question is
whether voters will care. I don't think so, as it
sales are not the great electoral disaster that they were
once portrayed. As asked John Key, who whipped Phil Goff's
butt in twenty eleven on a platform of partially privatizing assets.
(08:19):
It was a devastating loss for Phil Goff and the
Labor Party. Key, we savor another prediction for you this morning.
We will pay and our employers will pay I think
twelve percent before long. It's currently eight percent for a piece.
That will increase too, and the need for it to
increase is just look across the Tasman where they have
(08:41):
four trillion dollars in retirement funds. Our Key, we saver
balances collectively just over a billion is David and Goliath.
So we need to save more. And if we're serious
about the Kibank taking on the Aussies, they need more
cash too.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
I have decided I'm making it a bit of a
mission this year to try and stop people from using
the phrase David and Goliath, because every time they use it,
they seem to forget that day it actually won in
that story. And mostly they're using it like Ryan was
(09:19):
there because they're saying that we're way smaller than Australia,
and that we're doomed failed because of it. But what
we're actually going to do is headed in the head
with a fast flying stone. That it's that whole you know,
build it and they will come thing, which was never
(09:40):
actually said in that movie, Build it and he will come.
I've got to be in my bottom and.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
About that one too, news talk it be.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
What I should probably do is just take a few
deep breaths before moving on.
Speaker 8 (09:53):
A lot of love and rightly so. For James, that
caller we just had before the ads, it's go to
the ads and keep them on. But James are a
great guy. This guy's gold. Notice how much calmer he
is now compared to the start of the call. Yeah,
I mean, James brief for five seconds is so good
it stops a truck running through the head. Pauses are
not necessarily a problem. Yeah, I mean, we've talked about
(10:15):
this before on the show, the concept of the physiological side,
where you just take some time to breathe in through
your nose and then breathe out. The way you do
this one is to go so you breathe in through
your nose right up and then one extra sniff. It's
a complicated thing around filling the sex and your lungs completely,
(10:37):
even the ones that aren't fill and then exhaling longer
than you breathed in. You do that three times, and
it just gives you time to stop the migler and
the primitive parts of your brains firing up and going
so crazy, and just it so works. And the funny
thing is, you know, we have all these things and
neuroscientists come up with these things and therapists, but it
was what my mum used to say to me. You know,
(10:57):
I'd get angry and you'd go, okay, mathe, you just stop,
count to ten and breathe. You know, people have known
that for all of time, but sometimes we forget it.
And in these moments when you're feeling really intense, you
know you don't feel like doing it. Yeah, but if
you can just take you know, do three big breaths
in and out. Well, Seriously, it sounds sounds trite because
(11:20):
it's so obvious, but it really does help anything. So
thank you so much James for saying that.
Speaker 9 (11:24):
Genuinely. When I read that in your book and started
doing that, that has been a game changer. I mean,
I used it this morning when that guy in the
red truck splashed me with water. I just do the breathing, yeah,
and it helps immensely.
Speaker 8 (11:37):
Marcus Ralis said, how much worse are the consequences of
anger than the causes?
Speaker 7 (11:43):
How do you.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Feel when Matt he throws out little quotes from classic
literature like that in history? Does he does it make
him seem smart or a bit of a wanker? What
do you think? I quite like it. When Tyler was
(12:06):
doing his deep breath, it sounded like he was on
a joint. Also, did you notice that. I'm sure that
sort of thing wouldn't happen in the news talks studio.
I'm just saying what it sounded like. Jesus God, it's
just gone completely not so crazy at the end of
this podcast. I don't think you're allowed to say things
like that so crazy bananas? I think, can you say
(12:27):
bananas integrating towards bananas? Look, I don't care, I've stopped caring.
This is what happens on a Friday morning. I'll see
you back here again on Monday morning. I'll hear very
passionately and deeply about what it is, what's happened on
the weekend on Newstalks.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
D u's Talking Talkings it Bean.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
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 Bee
follow this and our wide range of podcasts now on iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Used Talk said, be you talk.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Hello, my beautiful beanies, and welcome to the bean for Friday.
First of yesterday's news. I am Glen Hart, and we
are looking back at Thursday. We've got some here. We
save the comments for you. We'll reflect on the importance
of breathing. It's quite important breathing, isn't it dead Guy
(00:49):
him on that shortly, But first up, I hope you
didn't wash away in the tsunami.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
We decided it would be fine, so Helen went off
to catch the eight am fairy. She left the house.
I've never seen her since. I presume she caught a
fairy and she went to work. And as she left,
she said, look, if there's going to be a wave,
rather be on a big boat than sitting on the esplanade.
And I thought that was a joke, but then again
it might not be. But there were but she went
on a boat. As it turned out, everybody ignored the alert.
(01:18):
This morning. People walked dogs on beaches. The Northwestern Motorway
causeway did not close, even though it's at sea. Level,
nor did Tammockie drive, nor did all sorts of marine
parades right around New Zealand. They didn't close. We all
ignored the alarm. We all said enough, she'll be sweep.
Then we had the Minister Mark. He came on with
(01:39):
Kerry to explain why we had these alarms, and he
talked well and the main takeaway from all of that
was that he wanted to inform the people so we
could make an informed decision. Now, frankly, my family did.
We heard the alarm, We looked at the stuff that
was around. We made an informed decision. If we got
wiped out by a tsunami on a ferry at eight
(02:00):
o'clock this morning, it would have been our own stupid fault.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
We didn't.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
I don't mind the alert. I'd rather have a false
alarm and no alarm at all than a dangerous decision.
But the fear here is that too many people will
begin to ignore all alerts and will not make informed decisions,
and that could end badly. The information didn't seem to
be updated in the twelve hours after the earth quake hit,
(02:25):
and I wonder if our ocean monitoring is working, because, frankly,
I think the ocean. Monitoring is pretty important when it
comes to stopping a tsunami, or at least letting us
know a tsunami is on its way and we're all
about to die.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Yeah, it seems weird, doesn't it. We've got all these satellites,
and I mean, there's a hell of a lot of
boats out there, aren't there on the ocean?
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Well?
Speaker 3 (02:46):
I know the ocean is a big place, but with
something like this happens, can we not track a wave
if it's on its way?
Speaker 2 (02:54):
News Talk Zippen.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
It probably would be better if we knew whether or
not a wave was coming before we tell people that
it might be.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
What do you think it really is? The boy who
cried and does nothing but stress out my young children.
If anyone knows how to disable them, please let me know,
said Matt. Well, you know, I got one at four
o'clock yesterday as I looked over the mudflats to across
(03:26):
the water to a narrow channel. I thought, well, cricky,
I don't think we need to put the life jackets
on just yet or evacuate the house. But you know,
good to know, but six point thirty this morning, by then,
surely we would know if this was building in strength.
(03:46):
That is the advantage of distance. I get it. You know,
damned if they do. Damned if they don't tell people
these I mean, I would have thought that, you know,
nehveras reading of the of the weather forecast and the
marine forecast, expect you know, unexpected surges around the coastline.
(04:11):
Don't go down there until any possible threat is passed.
If you do, you take your risks, you take your chances.
It's on you. I don't understand. I mean, I can't
ever recall receiving these kinds of blearing four corn type
(04:33):
danger danger Will Robinson messages until COVID times, and I
don't think that they're proving particularly helpful. Complacency is dangerous,
I agree, but I would argue when you have too
many emergency alerts of things that do not happen, that
(04:58):
is going to inculcate complacency, and that will be dangerous.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
I mean, I roughly am aware of that these things
can travel long distances, and that that's because you're on
the other side of the world doesn't mean that you're
necessarily safe. But when that alert went off, the first
one at four point thirty or whenever, it was.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
I was asleep.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
It's a bit of a late daytime sleep for me,
but I was asleep. But I certainly wasn't asleep when
that bloody noise went off. And when I as soon
as I saw the word ken Chatka and the alert,
I went, hang on, that's I know exactly where that
is because I've played risk and that's one of the
regions that you can capture in risk. As soon as
(05:49):
I saw that word, I didn't even keep reading the alert.
I just rolled over and went back to sleep.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
You talk side.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
I wonder when Marcus sleeps. Does he go home and
sleep after doing the eight till twelve shift.
Speaker 6 (06:01):
Those damn alerts, I think, through no fold of their
own from incompetence civil Defense have gravely damaged their ability
to alert the population of New Zealand of something significant
(06:25):
is about to happen in a trusting and caring way.
Too many damn bb But what would you describe that noise?
There's too many of it for goodness sake? I think
probably after the floods and all the people were criticized
for not giving enough warnings. Now we've become warning happy,
(06:47):
but some people get them fifty times and some people
don't get them at all. And it's where there's people
in the same house. One person gets at four people, don't.
I did hit the guy talking on the wireless. What
apparently happens, right is you only get them if you're
near the sea. But what a shocker hasn't worked at all.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
I don't think anybody got them fifty times today. I
mean it's if you've got a smart watch like I have,
you get it, you get the same alert twice effectively,
and you've got to the hard to swipe away as well.
(07:33):
You could if we could opt out, don't You don't
seem to be able to opt out, like just go Look,
I'm prepared to take the risk of being washed away,
so I don't get worken up with my nanaete at
four thirty in the afternoon.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Use your set right Keywi Savor?
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Why would you have kie we Savor again every couple
of weeks? There is something wrong with Kiwi Savior.
Speaker 7 (07:54):
A couple of predictions for you this morning. One, the
National Party will campaign on a partial float of Kiwi
Bank at the next election. I think it's looking and
sounding more and more like they will. The question is
whether voters will care. I don't think so, as it
sales are not the great electoral disaster that they were
once portrayed. As asked John Key, who whipped Phil Goff's
butt in twenty eleven on a platform of partially privatizing assets.
(08:19):
It was a devastating loss for Phil Goff and the
Labor Party. Key, we savor another prediction for you this morning.
We will pay and our employers will pay I think
twelve percent before long. It's currently eight percent for a piece.
That will increase too, and the need for it to
increase is just look across the Tasman where they have
(08:41):
four trillion dollars in retirement funds. Our Key, we saver
balances collectively just over a billion is David and Goliath.
So we need to save more. And if we're serious
about the Kibank taking on the Aussies, they need more
cash too.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
I have decided I'm making it a bit of a
mission this year to try and stop people from using
the phrase David and Goliath, because every time they use it,
they seem to forget that day it actually won in
that story. And mostly they're using it like Ryan was
(09:19):
there because they're saying that we're way smaller than Australia,
and that we're doomed failed because of it. But what
we're actually going to do is headed in the head
with a fast flying stone. That it's that whole you know,
build it and they will come thing, which was never
(09:40):
actually said in that movie, Build it and he will come.
I've got to be in my bottom and.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
About that one too, news talk it be.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
What I should probably do is just take a few
deep breaths before moving on.
Speaker 8 (09:53):
A lot of love and rightly so. For James, that
caller we just had before the ads, it's go to
the ads and keep them on. But James are a
great guy. This guy's gold. Notice how much calmer he
is now compared to the start of the call. Yeah,
I mean, James brief for five seconds is so good
it stops a truck running through the head. Pauses are
not necessarily a problem. Yeah, I mean, we've talked about
(10:15):
this before on the show, the concept of the physiological side,
where you just take some time to breathe in through
your nose and then breathe out. The way you do
this one is to go so you breathe in through
your nose right up and then one extra sniff. It's
a complicated thing around filling the sex and your lungs completely,
(10:37):
even the ones that aren't fill and then exhaling longer
than you breathed in. You do that three times, and
it just gives you time to stop the migler and
the primitive parts of your brains firing up and going
so crazy, and just it so works. And the funny
thing is, you know, we have all these things and
neuroscientists come up with these things and therapists, but it
was what my mum used to say to me. You know,
(10:57):
I'd get angry and you'd go, okay, mathe, you just stop,
count to ten and breathe. You know, people have known
that for all of time, but sometimes we forget it.
And in these moments when you're feeling really intense, you
know you don't feel like doing it. Yeah, but if
you can just take you know, do three big breaths
in and out. Well, Seriously, it sounds sounds trite because
(11:20):
it's so obvious, but it really does help anything. So
thank you so much James for saying that.
Speaker 9 (11:24):
Genuinely. When I read that in your book and started
doing that, that has been a game changer. I mean,
I used it this morning when that guy in the
red truck splashed me with water. I just do the breathing, yeah,
and it helps immensely.
Speaker 8 (11:37):
Marcus Ralis said, how much worse are the consequences of
anger than the causes?
Speaker 7 (11:43):
How do you.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Feel when Matt he throws out little quotes from classic
literature like that in history? Does he does it make
him seem smart or a bit of a wanker? What
do you think? I quite like it. When Tyler was
(12:06):
doing his deep breath, it sounded like he was on
a joint. Also, did you notice that. I'm sure that
sort of thing wouldn't happen in the news talks studio.
I'm just saying what it sounded like. Jesus God, it's
just gone completely not so crazy at the end of
this podcast. I don't think you're allowed to say things
like that so crazy bananas? I think, can you say
(12:27):
bananas integrating towards bananas? Look, I don't care, I've stopped caring.
This is what happens on a Friday morning. I'll see
you back here again on Monday morning. I'll hear very
passionately and deeply about what it is, what's happened on
the weekend on Newstalks.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
D u's Talking Talkings it Bean.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
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.
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