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August 18, 2025 • 14 mins

FIRST WITH YESTERDAY'S NEWS (highlights from Monday on Newstalk ZB) Nope. Me Neither/Some Meals Are More Important Than Others/Waiter! WAITER!/You Can Get Anything On Temu/Swearing and Blinding

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
Hello, my beautiful beanies, and welcome to the Bean for Tuesday.
First with yesterday's news, I'm Van Harten. We're looking back
at Monday. Heather is still talking about hospital food.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
Ryan wants to complain about gen Z.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
They were winding back o'dometers from the afternoon show and
Marcus James's thumb before any of that, can we nuclear
our way.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
Out of our power struggles?

Speaker 2 (00:53):
I don't mean political power, I mean actual power, you know, electricity.

Speaker 4 (00:57):
We decided it was absolutely abhorrent. We were never going
to have anything to do with nuclear power ever again,
even though we have X rays and even though our
hospitals leak more radiation than the most efficient nuclear powered vessels.
He thinks that we can forget about those long years.

(01:21):
He thinks that we can forget about the fact that
much of how New Zealand sees itself breakmatic, humble, innovators,
number eight, wire mentality, no nukes, no nonsense, give everyone
a fair go. He thinks that we can differentiate between

(01:43):
no nuclear weapons and the need for nuclear power on
the surface. It would solve all of our problems. I mean,
if we can make ourselves an attractive market to global
tech terms tech firms and being able to store all

(02:04):
this massive data in our country, the data centers, it
would solve our problems too around electricity. Is it worth
having the discussion or are you not prepared to even
talk about it? Surely the younger generation, those who weren't
around when we got this free son of excitement when

(02:25):
David Longi took us to the world. We took a stand,
and we were noble, and we were principled, and the
whole world knew who we were. Surely the younger generation
don't have their identity as a key we tied up
in that? Or do they?

Speaker 3 (02:44):
I wouldn't have thought so.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
Surely you can pick up I mean we only need
little ones, all right, we only need little nuclear reactors.

Speaker 3 (02:51):
It would probably just pick them up on TIMU quite cheap.
Can't you.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
Well arrive, flat pack, bung them together, get your data
center up and running?

Speaker 3 (03:03):
What could possibly go wrong? News talk Ze been now
so here, that is talking hospital food.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
The story, although I've already fetured it in one podcast,
I don't really know anything about it.

Speaker 3 (03:21):
I've missed it completely.

Speaker 5 (03:22):
They feed your child, but they don't feed you. So
I was in there for a couple of nights when
baby girl was about six weeks old earlier this year.
She had a bit of an infection, but they weren't
feeding me. So they gave me a couple of vouchers
and they said, dog head on down to the cafeteria
and redeem them, and I did. The wantons were rubbish,
so I don't mind them being banned, frankly. But the
second meal I had, which I think was a roast,

(03:43):
was actually excellent. Now, the important thing here is I
was breastfeeding, so I needed a lot of calories and
I needed a lot of fat, and so the fat
on the roast is really important for me to get
that in there so I can make some good milk
for the baby. Right, So them ordering the staff to
then go around cutting the fat off is actually not
good for breastfeeding mumps. Second thing, if you have a

(04:04):
kid who's in there sick for a while, and let's
just say the kid loves marshmallows their hot chocolate. Now
that band and the marshmallows from the hot chocolate that
might have been that kid's one little treat to brighten
their day, so that actually, frankly shouldn't and that is
what annoyed me so much on Friday. This is the
same kind of we know best attitude that you get
from the breasts best Nazis who try to prevent new
mums from getting formula when they're in hospital. Everyone's life

(04:26):
is actually different. Everyone needs different things to eat at
different times. Sometimes we need certain things for the nutrition,
Sometimes we just need a treat, Sometimes we need formula,
sometimes we need breast milk. It should be up for
us to decide what we're doing, and hopefully if Health
New Zealand takes a hint from the minister, it will
be up to us to decide.

Speaker 2 (04:43):
It's a fine line, isn't it, Because you know, it's
not like you know, prisoners on death row, you know
who are about to be executed and they get a
final meal, although for some people in hospital it will
be their final meal. So maybe it should be like
that where you can basically ask for anything that you want.

Speaker 3 (05:03):
What would I find? What would my death thrown meal be?

Speaker 6 (05:07):
What would it be?

Speaker 3 (05:08):
Ah, that's I've put the pressure on myself there you
talk sith a messy platter? Is it weird to say
a messi platter? Hummus and caramus ladder and Burgish bread. Oh,
I'm making my mouth water? Waiter, waiter, why can't you
get that? Waiter?

Speaker 6 (05:29):
I went out for lunch to a cafe the other
day and our table was served by a couple of waiters,
different waiters who all seem to have a similar vibe
about them. They just did not seem to care. No smiling,
no banter, no small talk, no polite conversation, just this
blank look on their faces. And you sit there and

(05:50):
you think, did they hear me? When you know what,
did they? You ever so politely repeat yourself in case
they didn't.

Speaker 3 (05:57):
But they did. They got it.

Speaker 6 (05:59):
There's just not really any engagement. Face colder than a
witch's tit, you know, riching bee face. They call it
no refills on your water? No, would you like another coffee?

Speaker 3 (06:10):
That sort of.

Speaker 6 (06:10):
Thing like hello, is anybody in there? Is anyone home?
Why is everyone moving around so slowly? Shouldn't you be
rushing around the joint taking orders and filling coffees? When
I was young, it was drilled into us when you're
waiting tables and you're taking orders. You work your way
from I was the dish peg out the back, you
work your way up to your front of house. You

(06:31):
feel pretty good about yourself, and you basically run around,
busy as a bee, trying to impress your boss, trying
to win your guests over taking wages on who might
get the tip? Can I help you, sir? What more
can I get you? You would help the elderly into
their seats. You'd bend over backwards basically to make everyone happy.
And these guys are getting well at least twenty three

(06:52):
dollars an hour. And I know what you're thinking. Maybe
I'm the a hole right, Maybe I've forgotten Mum's many
sermons on good manners and etiquette. So I asked the
people that I was out to lunch with e they
all thought the same thing. And I asked friends who
are teachers. I asked parents with kids around that age,
and guess what, they all noticed the same thing. Hell,

(07:14):
there's even a TikTok trend called the gen z stare,
which describes basically what I saw at the cafe, the
vacant look in a gen Za that they give you
in response to a question or a statement, and so
if it's on TikTok the obviously it's a real thing, right,
So the question is why was it COVID? Was it
everyone wearing masks? So much of how we communicate is

(07:36):
through facial expressions. Maybe they've missed out on years of
social cues and social norms. And then you think, well,
is it smartphones? You know, they people don't really know
how to interact anymore, or is it both? Or maybe
just maybe they just don't give a shit, you know,
maybe they just don't care. Maybe we have on our

(07:58):
hands a generation of young people who don't really think
they need to be bothering with mundane things like work.
Quick disclaimer for you before that gen Z has come
for me. Obviously, not an entire generation of young people.
There are great young people out there, and not every
cafe experience is the same. There are good ones too.

(08:18):
But you know, is this a thing you have noticed?

Speaker 2 (08:22):
I've had a few inn since lately with the place
where I'm eating doesn't.

Speaker 3 (08:26):
Want to sell drinks to people.

Speaker 7 (08:29):
It's very hard to get a second or a third
or crowded drinks. It's like they don't notice that your
glass is empty.

Speaker 3 (08:43):
You know you're not driving. Come on, at least a
second glass would be nice.

Speaker 2 (08:50):
I don't know if what generation those people were were
giving me drinks.

Speaker 3 (08:54):
Certainly all young people are useless. I know that's to
be true.

Speaker 8 (08:58):
Use your right.

Speaker 3 (09:01):
So what were they talking about on the Afternoon Show yesterday?
Winding back O dometers?

Speaker 8 (09:05):
What so we're talking about tampered O dometers. There was
a big police thing and they discovered hundreds of important
imported cars rather from Japan were found to have have
their odometer tampered with.

Speaker 3 (09:17):
How easy is it? Wow?

Speaker 6 (09:18):
This is whinding cars back. It's easy to do on
most as it now is now electronic and a good
bent tech person can do it, plus just the computer
to match. Hey, Sam, welcome to the show.

Speaker 9 (09:31):
Thanks for having me. Guys, and I just wanted to
you wanted to shed some light on the X tool,
which you can buy off Temu and pretty much it's
a OBD ball which can be used to correct your odometer,
whether that be winding in the kilometers back or whining

(09:51):
them forward. And it's easy to do this videos on it.
It takes five minutes. People overseas I guess already know
about this. Quite a few New Zealanders know about this,
and I have heard of quite a few stories people
taking their new you purchased secondhand vehicles in for a
service into Toyota or or or the likes of Toyota

(10:14):
or Ford or whoever whoever you're going to, and they
read the vehicle computer, which tells you the true kilometers
of the vehicle, whether it be from the transmission or
the or the engine computer. But you can definitely easily
wind them back with a tool that's under one thousand dollars.

Speaker 2 (10:36):
See, I told you you can get anything you want
on t Move. You were laughing at me before when
I suggested about the nucleary actors, and that's and some
people criticize me for shopping on tam Move. But some
things you can only get on t you can't buy them.

(10:57):
I can't just go down to super Cheap Auto and
get a thing to wind my headman to back?

Speaker 1 (11:01):
Can I news talk?

Speaker 8 (11:03):
Has it been?

Speaker 3 (11:05):
I think Marcus has been having some car trouble of
a different kind. I went home on Friday night.

Speaker 10 (11:09):
Oh that's good, the end of the end of the
week's work, and I thought I'll get got home.

Speaker 6 (11:12):
I thought I'll quietly.

Speaker 3 (11:12):
Shut my car door.

Speaker 10 (11:15):
And normally I shut it with quite a bit of gusto.
But I think, well, it's the end of the week,
and I thought I'll shut it quietly. So and in
the press of cutting it, shutting it quietly, cutting it shietly,
shutting it quietly, I put my thumb between the door
and the door frame. Well that's a funny pain, isn't it.
So now I've got one of those nails which is

(11:36):
red black, not quite sure was going to fall off.
It wasn't painful. I've done that before. I'll tell you
what I've done my nail twice badly. I've done my
nail on the car when I've jammed it on the door.
The other time I jammed the door, I had one
of those houses that had those old kitchens with those
of remove read bins, remove flower bins, and those flower

(11:59):
bins would there were bins that would pivot out. And
I put my thumb in that and I shlammed it shut.

Speaker 3 (12:06):
And boy did that hurt? Boid did that hurt? Boy?

Speaker 6 (12:10):
Did that hurt?

Speaker 10 (12:11):
At that stage, didn't know you're supposed to drill a
hole in an oil with a paper clips I didn't
know that wisdom, but boy, that was a sleepless night.
This one wasn't bad at all, but it came up
and colored quite quickly. I was looking at now wondering
if the nails going to go. And I know, if
you're a builder particular, people used hammers more now they
use all these electric hammers. But when they builders would

(12:31):
just done get a drill bit and drill the nail
through straight away. Why am I telling you this, I
don't know.

Speaker 2 (12:35):
The last one, I was doing some garden edging, and
it was that whole thing where you're hammering from a
weird angle and you just should you should just keep
your other hand out of it. I got my other
hand right in it, and there were some very There

(12:56):
was the stream of obscene language and the volume of
it that came out of my face.

Speaker 3 (13:07):
Wash.

Speaker 2 (13:11):
I think it was unprecedented. I was building the garden
with my daughter at the time, when she's still my daughter,
I mean, at the time she was there and I
don't think she'd ever heard such a stream of foul language,
and it's such a volume, so she thought it was

(13:32):
like something out of the exorcus. I've been possessed by
a hemmer spirit. So yeah, definitely I lost that now,
that's for sure. There I could share that with you.
It's good to get these things out, isn't it. It's
like drilling into it and relieving the pressure.

Speaker 3 (13:52):
I am lean hat.

Speaker 2 (13:54):
There has been news talks, he had been, will relieve
some more pressure with you tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (13:58):
I can see you, then.

Speaker 1 (13:59):
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