August 10, 2025 • 11 mins
FIRST WITH YESTERDAY'S NEWS (highlights from the weekend on Newstalk ZB) I'll Try to Contain Myself/What Are You On About?/Peter on Peter/Gazillions of Songs/Threads of Optimism
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
You're listening to a podcast from news Talk said Be
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
News Talk sed Be you Talk.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Hello, my beutiful beanies, and welcome to the bean for
Oh it's the weekend edition. First with yesterday's news. We're
looking back at Sunday and Saturday. In fact, this is
the one that you get two days for the price
of one. To be honest, there's always the same Rice's podcast.
The Green Party had their knees up, get together.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Whatever it is.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
I think over the weekend everything's going great for them.
Apparently not so great for Peter Leicester. Of course Peter
Montgomery remembers him. Guy Sebastian's the first winner of Australian Idol.
Is definitely a winner of Australian Idol, juz that was
(01:11):
a long time ago. He's got new music out, as
does Brett McKenzie. I don't think it is that has
ever won any Idol competition, but he certainly won a
few awards over the years. But before any of that,
Jack Scott to have a look at the CRL. Is
that what's happened.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
After riding along on a VIP tour yesterday with all
of the politicians and the movers and shakers. Auckland Mayor
Wayne Brown was in vintage Wayne Brown form. How was it?
The mayor was asked it was a ride in a train?
He said, we don't want excitement. Well maybe not, but look,
guilty is charged. Maybe it's the engineering, Maybe it's the
(01:49):
people watching. Maybe it's the broader sense of you know,
this is the kind of sense of momentum and life.
But whether it's a tube in underground or a subway,
I love a bit of subterranean mass transit. You know
you are a nerd when you're less excited about the
opening of New Zealand's first ic here than the transport
(02:10):
connection that you're going to take to get there. It's funny.
After years of construction, the second a of subway opened
in New York two weeks before I moved back home,
and one of the very last things I did on
my last few days living in New York City was
ride a loop. Not because I had somewhere to be,
but because I just wanted to see what all of
(02:31):
the fuss and money and effort had created out of
sight underneath my feet. Let me tell you, I cannot
wait to do the same thing here soon.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Wow, So somebody's into it. I mean, for those of
you outside of Auckland, you will have been hearing us
bang on and on and on and on about this
hole in the ground forever. I still don't actually believe
that it's ever going to happen. Anyway, we'll see news talk.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
Has it been right?
Speaker 1 (03:12):
The Green Party? How's it going to them? According to them,
it's going great. It's never been better because they're so great.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
So what's the vibe? How's it been gone?
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Gee?
Speaker 6 (03:23):
Good, good shape. Actually the members are pretty pumped. They're
really proud of the solutions and the deep work that
we've been doing and getting out on the community. So
really positive, pretty awesome.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
What's the goal of your party conference and your meeting
if I could put it?
Speaker 6 (03:39):
Yeah, sure a jim yep. Bringing our members together, reassuming
who we are and talking about the work that we've
got to do.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Basically, I had a look at.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
The actually didn't manage to get through. I've had to
scan through your speech and I've just to be honest,
in the first couple of pages, I thought I was
reading a speech by Rawity White and it's about the
White Treaty of White tangy centric approach to things. What
does that actually mean?
Speaker 6 (04:05):
Greens have always up howd t T or whiteang as
a founding document. When we talk about a party that
cares for Mokopon and for our planets, titidity justice is
essential to that. So that's something that we've always stood
on that we've always been proud of. We think every
party should be, you know, assuming tenitidity. But the Greens
have always had that as a core part of our chatter.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
But what does it mean for you?
Speaker 6 (04:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Sure, because I don't know.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
I mean, that sounds that sounds like something I've heard before,
But I couldn't tell you if I couldn't explain it
to someone else without you helping me out with that.
Speaker 6 (04:42):
Yeah, that's fair enough.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Yeah, I I'm a bit confused by that as well.
Is there a party that's just gonna you know, save
frogs and trees and green places? Can I vote for
that party?
Speaker 7 (05:00):
So?
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Yes, yadding personality Peter Lester has passed away, So who
better to talk to about this than well the voice
of yachting tell.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Us about the time that the two of you spent together.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Our greetings Jason. Yes, it's quite a shock and I'm
struggling to take it in. But I've known Peter for
well a very long time. I commentated out of Takapuna
Beach back in nineteen seventy seven in the second World
Okay Dinghies held in New Zealand the first back in
nineteen seventy and Peter Lester won that against some very
(05:39):
very formidable opposition. And then he subsequently went on to
be involved in the one Ton Cup when back in
the very early seventies that was a very big deal
for New Zealand sailing, and then onto the Admirals Cup,
winning that what was it in the late eighties eighty seven,
and then he had been a tactician in the America's
(06:03):
Cup and a couple of times New Zealand Sailer of
the Year, and then he morphed over into the transition
of a sailing broadcaster as well, notably as a sailing analyst.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Yeah, I think I did not spend enough time listening
to people Lessa's analysis because yachting has always been a
complete mystery to me and I've never understood anything about
it other than most of it seems to happen off
the water, but like Formula one racing in that regard city. Now,
(06:39):
I think guys Sebastian's got one of the greatest voices
in pop music. Where has it been lately? It seems
a while since it's been put out any music.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
You wrote gazillions of songs before whittling them down into
the select few that made this record, So talk to
us about that process.
Speaker 6 (06:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (06:56):
Look, look, I love writing. I'm writing every day. I
might not finish ideas every day, but constantly hearing chord
progressions and melodies and always putting little things into my phone,
and I'm constantly creating. And when it comes to an album,
I think early on, you know, I was on Idol,
so won the first Idle two thousand and three. I
(07:17):
think it sort of makes you feel like.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
It just makes me feel so old, Yes.
Speaker 8 (07:21):
I mean I was twenty one then. I don't do
the math. If people are watching, don't you look great?
Speaker 7 (07:27):
Guy?
Speaker 4 (07:27):
You've got just as energ because you're always.
Speaker 8 (07:29):
Forty three now. Yeah, But but just loving the writing
process and the creative process more than ever, I think,
just because I've honed in on all those skills of
production and engineering, and musicianship and you know, writing lyrics
and so it's it's yeah, it's something that is a
mentality that I had to change. I think I felt
(07:50):
this pressure like, don't take longer than a year or
you're going to like disappear, you know, become like disappeared
to obscurity. And then there's like the pressure of doing
the right thing by fans. You know, you don't want
to make them wait too long? What is too long?
And so I used to have that kind of mentality
(08:11):
govern a lot of my process, whereas obviously I get
older and navigating being a dad and everything else, and yeah,
I just got to this point where like I don't
want to release anything until I'm stoked with it, like
I want to love every song.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Yes, certainly being a dead ken caused you to lose
the will to live. I'm just reading between the lines there,
But from my experience anyway, news talk been so from
one of Australian's top musical talents to one of ours,
(08:49):
award winning Britt McKinsey. He's got a new album of
music at as well.
Speaker 9 (08:54):
What's the inspiration behind this album?
Speaker 7 (08:57):
I think the inspiration behind the album is kind of
a seventies live energy. I wanted a record that felt
like a group of people in a room play playing together.
I've got this amazing band of New Zealand musicians and
when we play there's a lot of there's a lot
of life and musical conversation going on, and I wanted
(09:18):
to capture some of that in a record in the
way that I think nineteen seventies records really did beautifully.
And then lyrically, the songs a collection of songs that
I wrote over about a year, and at the time,
you don't have a theme, and I didn't have a
real mission about what the album was going to be.
I just collected my favorite songs that came together. But
(09:41):
then when you in retrospect, you look back and you
see there are some threads of optimism and hope in
a kind of modern world of fairly disastrous global news
and events. And there's one song in particular, eyes on
the Sun, which I think really captures that, which is
(10:02):
about I had a friend who was just getting so
down about social division and and climate change, and I
could see that it was breaking her and I thought, gee,
you've also got to You've got to bring it's not
helping you thinking about these things, and you're not changing
them by thinking about them, so it's bringing their optimism
(10:23):
in amongst it.
Speaker 9 (10:24):
It is a wonderful time to be releasing this album.
I do feel like we needed It's just warm. It's upbeat,
but lyrically pertinent.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
You know.
Speaker 9 (10:30):
I think what you've just said there makes a huge
amount of sense from the experience that I had listening
to it. Eh piece band worked on this album with you.
That's quite big. Is that quite a bit of coordinating.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
The eight piece band is not something I would advise
your start. Like the amount of texts and emails to
coordinate a very simple like practice is pretty hilarious.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Yeah, people a lot of people to have in a band.
I mean, I know the Beatles did it with four,
but you know, orchestras seem to be able to get
together and rehearse. I'm still never quite sure with Britt McKenzie.
(11:15):
I know that he makes serious and I'm doing air
quotes their music beat days. Let's not flying the concords anymore,
But I always feel like he might just be having
a joke on everyone anyway, And if it is, I
(11:36):
think it's hilarious. I am having a joke on everyone.
We just haven't quite gotten to the punchline yet. Maybe
that might happen tomorrow. On tomorrow's News Talks, he'd been
I'll see you.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Then used Talking Talking zaid Bean for more from News Talk,
said b.
Speaker 8 (11:55):
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 Ranger podcasts now on iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
News Talk sed Be you Talk.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Hello, my beutiful beanies, and welcome to the bean for
Oh it's the weekend edition. First with yesterday's news. We're
looking back at Sunday and Saturday. In fact, this is
the one that you get two days for the price
of one. To be honest, there's always the same Rice's podcast.
The Green Party had their knees up, get together.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Whatever it is.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
I think over the weekend everything's going great for them.
Apparently not so great for Peter Leicester. Of course Peter
Montgomery remembers him. Guy Sebastian's the first winner of Australian Idol.
Is definitely a winner of Australian Idol, juz that was
(01:11):
a long time ago. He's got new music out, as
does Brett McKenzie. I don't think it is that has
ever won any Idol competition, but he certainly won a
few awards over the years. But before any of that,
Jack Scott to have a look at the CRL. Is
that what's happened.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
After riding along on a VIP tour yesterday with all
of the politicians and the movers and shakers. Auckland Mayor
Wayne Brown was in vintage Wayne Brown form. How was it?
The mayor was asked it was a ride in a train?
He said, we don't want excitement. Well maybe not, but look,
guilty is charged. Maybe it's the engineering, Maybe it's the
(01:49):
people watching. Maybe it's the broader sense of you know,
this is the kind of sense of momentum and life.
But whether it's a tube in underground or a subway,
I love a bit of subterranean mass transit. You know
you are a nerd when you're less excited about the
opening of New Zealand's first ic here than the transport
(02:10):
connection that you're going to take to get there. It's funny.
After years of construction, the second a of subway opened
in New York two weeks before I moved back home,
and one of the very last things I did on
my last few days living in New York City was
ride a loop. Not because I had somewhere to be,
but because I just wanted to see what all of
(02:31):
the fuss and money and effort had created out of
sight underneath my feet. Let me tell you, I cannot
wait to do the same thing here soon.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Wow, So somebody's into it. I mean, for those of
you outside of Auckland, you will have been hearing us
bang on and on and on and on about this
hole in the ground forever. I still don't actually believe
that it's ever going to happen. Anyway, we'll see news talk.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
Has it been right?
Speaker 1 (03:12):
The Green Party? How's it going to them? According to them,
it's going great. It's never been better because they're so great.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
So what's the vibe? How's it been gone?
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Gee?
Speaker 6 (03:23):
Good, good shape. Actually the members are pretty pumped. They're
really proud of the solutions and the deep work that
we've been doing and getting out on the community. So
really positive, pretty awesome.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
What's the goal of your party conference and your meeting
if I could put it?
Speaker 6 (03:39):
Yeah, sure a jim yep. Bringing our members together, reassuming
who we are and talking about the work that we've
got to do.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Basically, I had a look at.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
The actually didn't manage to get through. I've had to
scan through your speech and I've just to be honest,
in the first couple of pages, I thought I was
reading a speech by Rawity White and it's about the
White Treaty of White tangy centric approach to things. What
does that actually mean?
Speaker 6 (04:05):
Greens have always up howd t T or whiteang as
a founding document. When we talk about a party that
cares for Mokopon and for our planets, titidity justice is
essential to that. So that's something that we've always stood
on that we've always been proud of. We think every
party should be, you know, assuming tenitidity. But the Greens
have always had that as a core part of our chatter.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
But what does it mean for you?
Speaker 6 (04:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Sure, because I don't know.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
I mean, that sounds that sounds like something I've heard before,
But I couldn't tell you if I couldn't explain it
to someone else without you helping me out with that.
Speaker 6 (04:42):
Yeah, that's fair enough.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Yeah, I I'm a bit confused by that as well.
Is there a party that's just gonna you know, save
frogs and trees and green places? Can I vote for
that party?
Speaker 7 (05:00):
So?
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Yes, yadding personality Peter Lester has passed away, So who
better to talk to about this than well the voice
of yachting tell.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Us about the time that the two of you spent together.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Our greetings Jason. Yes, it's quite a shock and I'm
struggling to take it in. But I've known Peter for
well a very long time. I commentated out of Takapuna
Beach back in nineteen seventy seven in the second World
Okay Dinghies held in New Zealand the first back in
nineteen seventy and Peter Lester won that against some very
(05:39):
very formidable opposition. And then he subsequently went on to
be involved in the one Ton Cup when back in
the very early seventies that was a very big deal
for New Zealand sailing, and then onto the Admirals Cup,
winning that what was it in the late eighties eighty seven,
and then he had been a tactician in the America's
(06:03):
Cup and a couple of times New Zealand Sailer of
the Year, and then he morphed over into the transition
of a sailing broadcaster as well, notably as a sailing analyst.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Yeah, I think I did not spend enough time listening
to people Lessa's analysis because yachting has always been a
complete mystery to me and I've never understood anything about
it other than most of it seems to happen off
the water, but like Formula one racing in that regard city. Now,
(06:39):
I think guys Sebastian's got one of the greatest voices
in pop music. Where has it been lately? It seems
a while since it's been put out any music.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
You wrote gazillions of songs before whittling them down into
the select few that made this record, So talk to
us about that process.
Speaker 6 (06:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (06:56):
Look, look, I love writing. I'm writing every day. I
might not finish ideas every day, but constantly hearing chord
progressions and melodies and always putting little things into my phone,
and I'm constantly creating. And when it comes to an album,
I think early on, you know, I was on Idol,
so won the first Idle two thousand and three. I
(07:17):
think it sort of makes you feel like.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
It just makes me feel so old, Yes.
Speaker 8 (07:21):
I mean I was twenty one then. I don't do
the math. If people are watching, don't you look great?
Speaker 7 (07:27):
Guy?
Speaker 4 (07:27):
You've got just as energ because you're always.
Speaker 8 (07:29):
Forty three now. Yeah, But but just loving the writing
process and the creative process more than ever, I think,
just because I've honed in on all those skills of
production and engineering, and musicianship and you know, writing lyrics
and so it's it's yeah, it's something that is a
mentality that I had to change. I think I felt
(07:50):
this pressure like, don't take longer than a year or
you're going to like disappear, you know, become like disappeared
to obscurity. And then there's like the pressure of doing
the right thing by fans. You know, you don't want
to make them wait too long? What is too long?
And so I used to have that kind of mentality
(08:11):
govern a lot of my process, whereas obviously I get
older and navigating being a dad and everything else, and yeah,
I just got to this point where like I don't
want to release anything until I'm stoked with it, like
I want to love every song.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Yes, certainly being a dead ken caused you to lose
the will to live. I'm just reading between the lines there,
But from my experience anyway, news talk been so from
one of Australian's top musical talents to one of ours,
(08:49):
award winning Britt McKinsey. He's got a new album of
music at as well.
Speaker 9 (08:54):
What's the inspiration behind this album?
Speaker 7 (08:57):
I think the inspiration behind the album is kind of
a seventies live energy. I wanted a record that felt
like a group of people in a room play playing together.
I've got this amazing band of New Zealand musicians and
when we play there's a lot of there's a lot
of life and musical conversation going on, and I wanted
(09:18):
to capture some of that in a record in the
way that I think nineteen seventies records really did beautifully.
And then lyrically, the songs a collection of songs that
I wrote over about a year, and at the time,
you don't have a theme, and I didn't have a
real mission about what the album was going to be.
I just collected my favorite songs that came together. But
(09:41):
then when you in retrospect, you look back and you
see there are some threads of optimism and hope in
a kind of modern world of fairly disastrous global news
and events. And there's one song in particular, eyes on
the Sun, which I think really captures that, which is
(10:02):
about I had a friend who was just getting so
down about social division and and climate change, and I
could see that it was breaking her and I thought, gee,
you've also got to You've got to bring it's not
helping you thinking about these things, and you're not changing
them by thinking about them, so it's bringing their optimism
(10:23):
in amongst it.
Speaker 9 (10:24):
It is a wonderful time to be releasing this album.
I do feel like we needed It's just warm. It's upbeat,
but lyrically pertinent.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
You know.
Speaker 9 (10:30):
I think what you've just said there makes a huge
amount of sense from the experience that I had listening
to it. Eh piece band worked on this album with you.
That's quite big. Is that quite a bit of coordinating.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
The eight piece band is not something I would advise
your start. Like the amount of texts and emails to
coordinate a very simple like practice is pretty hilarious.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Yeah, people a lot of people to have in a band.
I mean, I know the Beatles did it with four,
but you know, orchestras seem to be able to get
together and rehearse. I'm still never quite sure with Britt McKenzie.
(11:15):
I know that he makes serious and I'm doing air
quotes their music beat days. Let's not flying the concords anymore,
But I always feel like he might just be having
a joke on everyone anyway, And if it is, I
(11:36):
think it's hilarious. I am having a joke on everyone.
We just haven't quite gotten to the punchline yet. Maybe
that might happen tomorrow. On tomorrow's News Talks, he'd been
I'll see you.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Then used Talking Talking zaid Bean for more from News Talk,
said b.
Speaker 8 (11:55):
Listen live on air or online, and keep our shows
with you wherever you go with our podcasts on iHeartRadio.
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