August 21, 2025 • 14 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
You're listening to a podcast from News Talk Said B.
Follow this and our wide range of podcasts now on
iHeartRadio Used Talk Said Talk.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Hello, my beautiful meanings, and welcome to the Bean for Friday.
First of Yesterday's news. I am Glen Hart. We are
looking back at Thursday and we're going to play some
a lot of podcast rouletts today. That's where I don't
listen to the audio and I don't know what it's about,
even though the producers who have sent it to me
have given it a title if you didn't know what
(00:47):
podcast letters, and I'm going to I'm going to do
it thrice. I'm going to do it with Heather, with
Matt and Tyler, and with Marcus. It's often with Marcus,
let's be honest. So there's going to be something to
do with happiness, something called fecal terrorism, and something to
do with cassettes. So that sounds exciting, doesn't it. Unfortunately,
(01:09):
the first is going to be really boring. It's going
to be about the ocr which we're thoroughly sick and
tired of.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
It's easy to get caught up in the hysteria of
calls for double shot all at once, but the bank
can have its cake and eat it to eat it too,
get businesses and households spending without risking inflation which is
touching cloth on three percent. Yes, they do look through
near term inflation, but there's also heat in the provinces.
It's not all about Auckland. And remember the days of
(01:37):
Adrian Or where the Reserve Bank hiked the rate quick
as a sherper up Mount Everest before nose diving it
back down again. You can achieve the same outcome without
risking overcooking things again, repeating the same mistakes. It's only
six or so weeks till the next call. If they
do need more, they can do more. There's no doubt
(01:59):
we've had a quarter two recovery blip, but we've had
promising July manufacturing data, we've got improving services set to
data out last week. All of that stuff is happening.
All of that stuff is good and showing promise. The
message is clear. Though. We're not walking back to Everest camp.
We are walking back to Everest camp. Rather, we're not running.
(02:21):
We're not in a hurry, we're not sprinting. And given
the over and undercooking that went on under or that's
probably the right speed. So I'm with the four in
Club twenty five with a caveat for now.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Man Ryan got into trouble with night Husking with that view.
I personally wasn't really paying that, but you can because
I didn't quite understand what was happening news talk ze been.
I'm sure Kerrie has got your finger on the pulse
of the economy and she can tell us whether it's
(02:58):
good or bad, and it's going to get better or worse.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Others who might have got their noses ahead and have
seen business start to pick up, I don't want to
go through that again. So they're stockpiling like sensible squirrels.
They're putting their little nuts in a corner so that
they've got a stockpile so that they don't have to
starve like that again. There was a really lovely woman
(03:21):
who I think she rang in a couple of days ago,
and she was in the painting and decorating, and she said,
I love people having money. I love people who've earned
a lot of money and have worked hard and been
lucky or however they've got their money because they spend
it with us, and without them spending we don't have
a company. I don't have a business. Love rich people,
(03:47):
she said, And that's right. I mean, you've got to
have that extra money so that the money go round
can continue. And right now people either don't have that money,
or if they do, they're a bit nervous about spending it.
God bless rich people who are go you. So I
(04:09):
would love to hear from you if you are in business,
if you are a member of a Kiwi household, where
are you at? Are you in a funk? I don't
think I'm being talked down by the opposition. That's not
how I feel. They're not ruining my buzz. They're not
dragging me down. I just need to get ahead of
(04:34):
the rates and the insurance. The mortgage rates have come
down a bit, so that's good. I think twenty six
will be okay, but that won't be any thanks to
the government or what it's done. To be perfectly honest.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
I am fascinated with how many. I mean, this isn't
a new thing, and I've been, you know, working in
current of fears for decades now, so you would have
thought I would have figured this out. But people, especially
people like my hosking, who I spend you know quite
a lot of time with every morning they seem very
(05:10):
worried about the country as a whole and the economy
as a whole. And people often say that, you know,
with elections, it's all about the economy, blah blah blah.
I do wonder, in this age where everything is sort
of curated to each person personally, whether if that's still
a thing, do people care about the whole economy or
do they just care about what's happened to them personally,
(05:35):
Because I feel like I don't know, people like Mike
Husking are probably doing okay personally and he's so worried
about the whole country. Good on them, You've talk okay,
it's triple podcast real at time. Buckle up, people, Anything
could happen and it probably won't. First bit of audio
(06:01):
is called happy editorial. What could that possibly mean?
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Now?
Speaker 5 (06:06):
Given how much doom and gloom there is about it?
The it may surprise you to know that the accompanying
pole also in the Herald article, actually agrees with them.
As unscientific as it is, most people rate their experience
of living in New Zealand as eight out of ten.
Twenty percent of people say they have an eight out
of ten experience. Then the next one up is ten
out of ten. That's fifteen percent. Seven out of ten
(06:27):
comes next. Thirteen percent of us say that, So seven, eight, nine,
and ten out of ten account for fifty eight percent
of the votes. Way more than half of us think
that we are living in a pretty great place now.
As I say, it's not it's not scientific, but it
is a nice reminder that actually most of us do
know how good we've got it. It's really easy to
(06:47):
fall into the trap of thinking the grass is greener
on the other side, which is why so many of
us are leaving heading off to places like Australia. Actually,
if the other side is Australia, once they get there,
they are going to realize it's not that much greener.
They're going to go through the same stuff with the
economy that they were going through back here in New Zealand.
Life over there is expensive as well. The other side
(07:08):
is Europe. It's definitely not greener over there. It's actually
tens of thousands of refugees arriving on your doorstep. It's
huge unrest over migrants in the UK, it's the threat
of war just across the border. Its cost of living
problems there too. Now I'm not pollyannaish at all about
New Zealand. I know life is expensive. I know there
are people who have never had to budget who are
now having to budget. I can see that the government
(07:30):
books definitely need tidying up, and we're completely overdue structural
economic trade change. But at least most things are headed
in the right direction. Education for our kids has been
sorted out, red tape is being cut, the economy is
turning around, the days are getting longer, and we live
in a safe place with a good work life balance
where our kids can grow up fairly healthy. So thank
you to the Police Commissioner of all people for reminding
(07:52):
us of that.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Well fure or that first one works need to work out.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
All right?
Speaker 2 (07:56):
It was quite nice, wasn't it? From here there? And
it sort of does go back to what I was
just saying before. Although we've got a lot of people
telling us how bad the economy is and how bad
the majority, do you ever seem to be doing all right? Now? Okay,
(08:16):
So that was part one of the three part but
the sort of the trip Tish Trip Triptich the Triple
Play podcast throughly here comes Part two, this might be
the one I'm most worried about. Actually, from the courtesy
of Matt and Tyler, I could have just gone with
(08:37):
the part that's the sugary drinks, and then I would
have known what it's about. But then in capital letters,
their producer has said, fecal terrorists. Let's see if we
can find out what that means.
Speaker 6 (08:50):
See, I've got a theory on the discussing state of
public toilets. I think it's not accidents. I think people
soil them on purpose, much like a dog leaves, you know,
wheeze on a tree to mark their territory. I mean,
there's no way that the bathrooms at bars and public
toilets can be that way, even even downstairs.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
That enzied me. There's the bathrooms down there.
Speaker 6 (09:14):
Shapers Gate two and Game three get destroyed daily.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Down there's an absolute state, absolute.
Speaker 6 (09:20):
State, and there's no way that there's people out there
that just can't can get into this building but can't
operate a.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
What did you call them? We well to go, fecal terrorists,
and I think that sums them up.
Speaker 6 (09:33):
I mean, what kind of insane person would mark the
territory with a bit of fecal terrorism?
Speaker 2 (09:38):
I mean clearly.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
I mean their teeth must be a sorry state as well.
Speaker 6 (09:41):
Actually, yeah, well, let's not go this. I guarantee fecal terrorists.
I reckon someone needs to do a study and compare
the teeth of fecal terrorists compared to people that can
use the bathroom properly, or choose to use a bathroom properly.
I reckon us people that use the bathroom's respect would
have much whiter and cleaner teeth.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Yeah, so that went pretty much as i'd fears. So
I guess I'm not disappointed. I mean I think I
was already disappointed. I was pre disappointed with that. I mean,
my theory on it is that nobody really wants to
use a public coilist, and so you really only do
(10:20):
it in an emergency, and if it isn't like a
fecal emergency, well then that's what happens, isn't it. You
know what I'm saying. It's just as well as this
isn't breakfast radio, although you might be listening to it
while you're having your breakfast, and to that, I'm truly sorry.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
News talk has it been right?
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Let's bring it on home. Marcus with the third volume
of podcast through lett. What have we got here? This
one's called Marcus Rents about cassettes. Here we go.
Speaker 7 (10:57):
I missed the days he and cassette on record pause,
waiting for your favorite soldia the ready to add to
a mixtape. Making a Spotify playlist is easy, but nowhere
near as much fun.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
That's right.
Speaker 7 (11:06):
There's got to be struggle with mus Do you know
how much struggle there was with music for most of us?
I mean, the music we wanted you couldn't hear on
the radio because the radio just played the top forty.
You get records imported, yet to buy records from overseas,
yet to buy postal notes or post of extremely complicating.
Get any form of music. Now it's all on Spotify,
(11:28):
there's no challenge. So yeah, cassettes were a big part
of that. People handing around cassettes of new songs, and
before there were memes and viral things, there would big songs,
sort of humorous things on cassette that you would be
passed from person to person. Oh, very very significant things
in the day. Cassettes, extremely significant. I still have some
(11:53):
with boxes of cassettes from many talk shows and things. Yeah,
you tape stuff, you tape stuff for radio awards and
things on cassettes.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Yes, I was one of those people who recorded music
off the radio. I'd have it on pause record and
then as each song started, I'd i'd un pause, and
then if it was a song that I wanted, I'd
have all of it. But yeah, and then you have.
(12:30):
You won't understand those kids. But they had these things
called chrome cassettes, which were much more expensive but had
a higher quality and meant that there was a lot
less hisss. These days people put hess on for effect.
I don't know. That's weird. And the other annoying thing
is occasionally you'd buy an album that was longer than
(12:51):
forty five minutes and it wouldn't fit on one side of
a SCENE ninety. So spiked The Beloved Entertainer from Alvis Costello,
for example, that was fifty three minutes and forty nine seconds.
Fifty three minutes and forty nine seconds. That's going nowhere
near forty five minutes one side of a C ninety.
So what do you do in that case? You've got
(13:14):
to spread that out over a over a C sixty.
It takes up a whole C sixty, then doesn't it
and then and even then, if the songs aren't the
right lenk, you still can't split it up. Very frustrating.
So I all up. I think that that triple version
of podcast really it worked out all right. I might
(13:34):
be wrong. I think Matt and Tyler's equal terrorists. I
think we could have done with a bit less of that,
And you would have thought that, given that I'm in
charge of how much of that went into the podcast,
I could have done something about that. But that's not
how podcast really it works. I am Glenhart, who knows
what will happen on Monday, because that's how we roll.
(13:55):
I'll see you then with a weekend edition. It's basically
the whole thing's podcast really on Monday.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Use Talks Doors It Bean 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 B.
Follow this and our wide range of podcasts now on
iHeartRadio Used Talk Said Talk.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Hello, my beautiful meanings, and welcome to the Bean for Friday.
First of Yesterday's news. I am Glen Hart. We are
looking back at Thursday and we're going to play some
a lot of podcast rouletts today. That's where I don't
listen to the audio and I don't know what it's about,
even though the producers who have sent it to me
have given it a title if you didn't know what
(00:47):
podcast letters, and I'm going to I'm going to do
it thrice. I'm going to do it with Heather, with
Matt and Tyler, and with Marcus. It's often with Marcus,
let's be honest. So there's going to be something to
do with happiness, something called fecal terrorism, and something to
do with cassettes. So that sounds exciting, doesn't it. Unfortunately,
(01:09):
the first is going to be really boring. It's going
to be about the ocr which we're thoroughly sick and
tired of.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
It's easy to get caught up in the hysteria of
calls for double shot all at once, but the bank
can have its cake and eat it to eat it too,
get businesses and households spending without risking inflation which is
touching cloth on three percent. Yes, they do look through
near term inflation, but there's also heat in the provinces.
It's not all about Auckland. And remember the days of
(01:37):
Adrian Or where the Reserve Bank hiked the rate quick
as a sherper up Mount Everest before nose diving it
back down again. You can achieve the same outcome without
risking overcooking things again, repeating the same mistakes. It's only
six or so weeks till the next call. If they
do need more, they can do more. There's no doubt
(01:59):
we've had a quarter two recovery blip, but we've had
promising July manufacturing data, we've got improving services set to
data out last week. All of that stuff is happening.
All of that stuff is good and showing promise. The
message is clear. Though. We're not walking back to Everest camp.
We are walking back to Everest camp. Rather, we're not running.
(02:21):
We're not in a hurry, we're not sprinting. And given
the over and undercooking that went on under or that's
probably the right speed. So I'm with the four in
Club twenty five with a caveat for now.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Man Ryan got into trouble with night Husking with that view.
I personally wasn't really paying that, but you can because
I didn't quite understand what was happening news talk ze been.
I'm sure Kerrie has got your finger on the pulse
of the economy and she can tell us whether it's
(02:58):
good or bad, and it's going to get better or worse.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Others who might have got their noses ahead and have
seen business start to pick up, I don't want to
go through that again. So they're stockpiling like sensible squirrels.
They're putting their little nuts in a corner so that
they've got a stockpile so that they don't have to
starve like that again. There was a really lovely woman
(03:21):
who I think she rang in a couple of days ago,
and she was in the painting and decorating, and she said,
I love people having money. I love people who've earned
a lot of money and have worked hard and been
lucky or however they've got their money because they spend
it with us, and without them spending we don't have
a company. I don't have a business. Love rich people,
(03:47):
she said, And that's right. I mean, you've got to
have that extra money so that the money go round
can continue. And right now people either don't have that money,
or if they do, they're a bit nervous about spending it.
God bless rich people who are go you. So I
(04:09):
would love to hear from you if you are in business,
if you are a member of a Kiwi household, where
are you at? Are you in a funk? I don't
think I'm being talked down by the opposition. That's not
how I feel. They're not ruining my buzz. They're not
dragging me down. I just need to get ahead of
(04:34):
the rates and the insurance. The mortgage rates have come
down a bit, so that's good. I think twenty six
will be okay, but that won't be any thanks to
the government or what it's done. To be perfectly honest.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
I am fascinated with how many. I mean, this isn't
a new thing, and I've been, you know, working in
current of fears for decades now, so you would have
thought I would have figured this out. But people, especially
people like my hosking, who I spend you know quite
a lot of time with every morning they seem very
(05:10):
worried about the country as a whole and the economy
as a whole. And people often say that, you know,
with elections, it's all about the economy, blah blah blah.
I do wonder, in this age where everything is sort
of curated to each person personally, whether if that's still
a thing, do people care about the whole economy or
do they just care about what's happened to them personally,
(05:35):
Because I feel like I don't know, people like Mike
Husking are probably doing okay personally and he's so worried
about the whole country. Good on them, You've talk okay,
it's triple podcast real at time. Buckle up, people, Anything
could happen and it probably won't. First bit of audio
(06:01):
is called happy editorial. What could that possibly mean?
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Now?
Speaker 5 (06:06):
Given how much doom and gloom there is about it?
The it may surprise you to know that the accompanying
pole also in the Herald article, actually agrees with them.
As unscientific as it is, most people rate their experience
of living in New Zealand as eight out of ten.
Twenty percent of people say they have an eight out
of ten experience. Then the next one up is ten
out of ten. That's fifteen percent. Seven out of ten
(06:27):
comes next. Thirteen percent of us say that, So seven, eight, nine,
and ten out of ten account for fifty eight percent
of the votes. Way more than half of us think
that we are living in a pretty great place now.
As I say, it's not it's not scientific, but it
is a nice reminder that actually most of us do
know how good we've got it. It's really easy to
(06:47):
fall into the trap of thinking the grass is greener
on the other side, which is why so many of
us are leaving heading off to places like Australia. Actually,
if the other side is Australia, once they get there,
they are going to realize it's not that much greener.
They're going to go through the same stuff with the
economy that they were going through back here in New Zealand.
Life over there is expensive as well. The other side
(07:08):
is Europe. It's definitely not greener over there. It's actually
tens of thousands of refugees arriving on your doorstep. It's
huge unrest over migrants in the UK, it's the threat
of war just across the border. Its cost of living
problems there too. Now I'm not pollyannaish at all about
New Zealand. I know life is expensive. I know there
are people who have never had to budget who are
now having to budget. I can see that the government
(07:30):
books definitely need tidying up, and we're completely overdue structural
economic trade change. But at least most things are headed
in the right direction. Education for our kids has been
sorted out, red tape is being cut, the economy is
turning around, the days are getting longer, and we live
in a safe place with a good work life balance
where our kids can grow up fairly healthy. So thank
you to the Police Commissioner of all people for reminding
(07:52):
us of that.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Well fure or that first one works need to work out.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
All right?
Speaker 2 (07:56):
It was quite nice, wasn't it? From here there? And
it sort of does go back to what I was
just saying before. Although we've got a lot of people
telling us how bad the economy is and how bad
the majority, do you ever seem to be doing all right? Now? Okay,
(08:16):
So that was part one of the three part but
the sort of the trip Tish Trip Triptich the Triple
Play podcast throughly here comes Part two, this might be
the one I'm most worried about. Actually, from the courtesy
of Matt and Tyler, I could have just gone with
(08:37):
the part that's the sugary drinks, and then I would
have known what it's about. But then in capital letters,
their producer has said, fecal terrorists. Let's see if we
can find out what that means.
Speaker 6 (08:50):
See, I've got a theory on the discussing state of
public toilets. I think it's not accidents. I think people
soil them on purpose, much like a dog leaves, you know,
wheeze on a tree to mark their territory. I mean,
there's no way that the bathrooms at bars and public
toilets can be that way, even even downstairs.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
That enzied me. There's the bathrooms down there.
Speaker 6 (09:14):
Shapers Gate two and Game three get destroyed daily.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Down there's an absolute state, absolute.
Speaker 6 (09:20):
State, and there's no way that there's people out there
that just can't can get into this building but can't
operate a.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
What did you call them? We well to go, fecal terrorists,
and I think that sums them up.
Speaker 6 (09:33):
I mean, what kind of insane person would mark the
territory with a bit of fecal terrorism?
Speaker 2 (09:38):
I mean clearly.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
I mean their teeth must be a sorry state as well.
Speaker 6 (09:41):
Actually, yeah, well, let's not go this. I guarantee fecal terrorists.
I reckon someone needs to do a study and compare
the teeth of fecal terrorists compared to people that can
use the bathroom properly, or choose to use a bathroom properly.
I reckon us people that use the bathroom's respect would
have much whiter and cleaner teeth.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Yeah, so that went pretty much as i'd fears. So
I guess I'm not disappointed. I mean I think I
was already disappointed. I was pre disappointed with that. I mean,
my theory on it is that nobody really wants to
use a public coilist, and so you really only do
(10:20):
it in an emergency, and if it isn't like a
fecal emergency, well then that's what happens, isn't it. You
know what I'm saying. It's just as well as this
isn't breakfast radio, although you might be listening to it
while you're having your breakfast, and to that, I'm truly sorry.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
News talk has it been right?
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Let's bring it on home. Marcus with the third volume
of podcast through lett. What have we got here? This
one's called Marcus Rents about cassettes. Here we go.
Speaker 7 (10:57):
I missed the days he and cassette on record pause,
waiting for your favorite soldia the ready to add to
a mixtape. Making a Spotify playlist is easy, but nowhere
near as much fun.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
That's right.
Speaker 7 (11:06):
There's got to be struggle with mus Do you know
how much struggle there was with music for most of us?
I mean, the music we wanted you couldn't hear on
the radio because the radio just played the top forty.
You get records imported, yet to buy records from overseas,
yet to buy postal notes or post of extremely complicating.
Get any form of music. Now it's all on Spotify,
(11:28):
there's no challenge. So yeah, cassettes were a big part
of that. People handing around cassettes of new songs, and
before there were memes and viral things, there would big songs,
sort of humorous things on cassette that you would be
passed from person to person. Oh, very very significant things
in the day. Cassettes, extremely significant. I still have some
(11:53):
with boxes of cassettes from many talk shows and things. Yeah,
you tape stuff, you tape stuff for radio awards and
things on cassettes.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Yes, I was one of those people who recorded music
off the radio. I'd have it on pause record and
then as each song started, I'd i'd un pause, and
then if it was a song that I wanted, I'd
have all of it. But yeah, and then you have.
(12:30):
You won't understand those kids. But they had these things
called chrome cassettes, which were much more expensive but had
a higher quality and meant that there was a lot
less hisss. These days people put hess on for effect.
I don't know. That's weird. And the other annoying thing
is occasionally you'd buy an album that was longer than
(12:51):
forty five minutes and it wouldn't fit on one side of
a SCENE ninety. So spiked The Beloved Entertainer from Alvis Costello,
for example, that was fifty three minutes and forty nine seconds.
Fifty three minutes and forty nine seconds. That's going nowhere
near forty five minutes one side of a C ninety.
So what do you do in that case? You've got
(13:14):
to spread that out over a over a C sixty.
It takes up a whole C sixty, then doesn't it
and then and even then, if the songs aren't the
right lenk, you still can't split it up. Very frustrating.
So I all up. I think that that triple version
of podcast really it worked out all right. I might
(13:34):
be wrong. I think Matt and Tyler's equal terrorists. I
think we could have done with a bit less of that,
And you would have thought that, given that I'm in
charge of how much of that went into the podcast,
I could have done something about that. But that's not
how podcast really it works. I am Glenhart, who knows
what will happen on Monday, because that's how we roll.
(13:55):
I'll see you then with a weekend edition. It's basically
the whole thing's podcast really on Monday.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Use Talks Doors It Bean 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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My Favorite Murder is a true crime comedy podcast hosted by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark. Each week, Karen and Georgia share compelling true crimes and hometown stories from friends and listeners. Since MFM launched in January of 2016, Karen and Georgia have shared their lifelong interest in true crime and have covered stories of infamous serial killers like the Night Stalker, mysterious cold cases, captivating cults, incredible survivor stories and important events from history like the Tulsa race massacre of 1921. My Favorite Murder is part of the Exactly Right podcast network that provides a platform for bold, creative voices to bring to life provocative, entertaining and relatable stories for audiences everywhere. The Exactly Right roster of podcasts covers a variety of topics including historic true crime, comedic interviews and news, science, pop culture and more. Podcasts on the network include Buried Bones with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes, That's Messed Up: An SVU Podcast, This Podcast Will Kill You, Bananas and more.
The Joe Rogan Experience
The official podcast of comedian Joe Rogan.