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Speaker 2 (00:23):
Hello, my beautiful beanies, and welcome to the Beans for Friday.
First with yesterday's news, I am Glen Hart, and we
are looking back at Thursday. We're back onto the supermarket giveaways.
It's funny supermarkets try to give away stuff and people
complained about it. When you do under why they've got
it CTE. We've got to do something about this. Probably
(00:51):
it had to know what exactly. And then we're going
to play a little bit of podcast roulette with Matt
and Tyler at the end of the pod. But first up,
supermarket competition. Yes, Nichola willis playing hardball or is she?
Speaker 3 (01:07):
You know, we've heard around the tree that other little
supplies set up and they try and I mean they're
never going to take on the big two head on,
but they're making inroads. I just don't understand. And clearly
it's me. I'm the problem. It's me, As that great
poet Taylor Swift once said, I'm the problem. It's me
(01:29):
because successive governments have decided this is so important that
they've set up review after review after review to look
at the practices of the Big two and sure the
Comments Commission under the last government did find things. But
do people really care that much that Nikola Willis mounted
(01:51):
an impassioned, fervent, incredibly eloquent attack on supermarkets and defense
of the consumer. We haven't got enough people to entice
(02:12):
competitors here. If we did, then they'd come, I mean,
short of subsidizing a bloody competitor. I don't know what
more can be done. What am I missing?
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Please tell me I miss Big Fresh. Not exactly sure
who had Big Freshes and who didn't, but there was
definitely one in Hamilton for a while, and they had
to the animatronic characters the various places around the supermarket
moving around, and they sing. They might have sung, They
(02:48):
might have been singing or saying stuff. That's fun news
talk has it been anyway? I sort of got off
the point there, Brian, help help get me back on
to the point about the supermarket competition.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Consultation up, the wazoo committees, petitions, Dunk and Web on
a soapbox. That's the corosite. Like Churchill said, the lesser
of two evils, it's taken them two years to get here,
but they could have just listened to our interview with
the former managing director of Costco back in March. Of course,
he told us all of this then, and the other
big problem real estate prices for those wanting to build
(03:24):
and develop and shipping. Getting your goods here to the
bottom of the world on their time frames is another
big one, especially when you're operating at scale like a Costco.
We spoke about this last week. They will tinker around
with the fast track the consumer laws and then plaster
their presses with the threat of breaking up the duopoly divestment,
(03:47):
forcing your pack and saves you will worse to sell
some of their stores to a new entrant, to a
third entrant, forcing your food stuffs to sell some distribution centers. Maybe,
And what I said last week is still true now.
Acts won't go for it, so it's a non starter.
Plus even the ComCom said it's risky as cost could
(04:08):
outweigh benefits. So Willis should stop with the threats. If
you own a supermarket right now and your livelihood is
being threatened, are you going to invest, are you going
to hire staff? Are you going to plan an expansion?
The threat is purely political and could end up doing
the opposite of what Willis wants it to do, so
(04:31):
just put it in the bin already.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Well, that's pleasing to hear that. I'm not the only
one who's atlasa and tired of hearing about this talk.
We're going to keep talking about supermarkets, though, but this
time we're back to things that they give away to
try to gear to shop there. I think Marcus is
back at Walworth's with the Disney discs whatever they are.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
New World smear Kitchen, where promo ends this weekend. Ticket
Holders have till the Sunday night to redeem all tickets
for whatever's left over if you can visit more than
one store and over the opposition. Willworth has had a
double s special today, two discs given out for every
twenty spent instead of one, and according to the self
checkout Lady, this week it'll be the final bonanza of
the Disney disc promo and all stores will literally be
(05:18):
giving them away on Sunday. I don't care what happens
in the supermarket Jiopoli, but if for any reason, Countdown
is that what they're called now Woolworths, If for any
reason Woolworth's goes broke. They are exactly their architects of
their own destiny, because that would have to be the cheesiest,
(05:40):
most rubbish promotion I've ever seen. How could they go
against that smere brazier with those tachy plastic discs that
has caused zero buzz. I get thousands of texts about
the swear nothing about Woolworth's.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
So yeah, on there mate.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Yeah, it's interesting to me that Pack and Save never
does it of course, and there's no loyalty card, there's
no collect your stickers, it's just stick man. And yet
every time I drive fath Tech and Save the car,
PACs fall. So, as I've said before, just stop giving
(06:26):
stuff away and not give prices down a bit?
Speaker 4 (06:30):
How about that?
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Okay, So we've had attention drawn to CTE this week?
Can't we too many people with well? Weird? Isn't it
that you can only find out about it after you
did well?
Speaker 6 (06:52):
It's fair to say World Rugby is copping it today,
even more so than yesterday. This is following the death
of Shane Christy, the former Highlander who had the headaches
and the memory loss and all those other symptoms that
were consistent with ct from too many head knocks. A
former Whales number eight with early on set dementia, Alex Popham,
has gone straight to World Rugby and the All Blacks
as Twitter accounts and told them they've got blood on
(07:12):
their hands and our very own Scotti Stevenson has written
a piece saying it's time to stop spending money on PR.
This is obviously for rugby, time to stop spending money
on PR and start spending money on helping the former
players with these symptoms. Absolutely, I mean there is no
doubt that World Rugby could be doing more right. The
standown period for a professional rugby player for a suspected
concussion is, what do you think, twelve days It's that's ridiculous,
(07:36):
twelve days, twelve days. In boxing it's thirty days. And
if they actually lose consciousness and they know they've lost consciousness,
it could be anywhere from six months up that they're
forced to stand down. I think we've all seen pretty
gnarly cases of head knocks recently, or players talking about
migraines over the summer period, only for them to be
back on the field when they if you were being careful,
(07:56):
should not be back on the field, and who knows
what World Rugby will be forced to do once these
lawsuits are successful. But here's the thing. Our ability to
keep blaming the rugby bosses is going to run out
if it hasn't already. No player in twenty twenty five
can blame world rugby if they end up with these
symptoms and years to come. No one playing rugby in
twenty twenty five doesn't know that if you take repeated
knocks to the head, you are opening yourself up to
(08:18):
future problems.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
We know that.
Speaker 6 (08:20):
In fact, we already knew it when Shane Christy was
playing professionally, even if we didn't know it as widely
as we do today. It is terrible that this may
be the thing that has happened to him. It is
terrible that it is undoubtedly happening to rugby players playing today.
But personal responsibility is now very much in play here.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Look at the risk of saying something out loud and
then having it magically appear or reappear, you know, like
beetlejuice or Voldemort. Remember when we were getting all anxsty
about running straight and how dangerous that was. It turns
out that, yeah, if you got big mustly heavy guys
(08:58):
that run at each other constantly for a living, bad
stuff happens to their heads. Do we need to stop
doing that? Should we start watching it? Should we just
go to the symphony taking a musical? It'll be my.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Vice news talk.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
I don't think I've ever been to a musical where
I've seen somebody trying to a defensive box kick and
then nobody chase it and not catch it the same. Right,
we're going to finish up here with IV. All right,
we're doing about a podcast relite here with Matt and Tyler.
So I haven't listened to this audio. I don't know
what it is. All I know is what it's called.
(09:41):
It's called Matt's Middle of the Night Pranking. M I
wonder what that could possibly be.
Speaker 7 (09:47):
I'm feeling pretty good about myself because I pulled off
last night one of the great practical jokes of my life.
I can only say this now because I know that
my lovely partner Tracy isn't listening. I know she's not.
So there's been a long guy on argument discussion where
I say she snores, and she says she doesn't. Yep,
she says she doesn't snore.
Speaker 6 (10:05):
Age old they also there.
Speaker 7 (10:07):
So anyway, last night I woke up in the middle
of the night and she was she was sleeping with
her little eye mask on nice and so I thought,
I'm going to get her here. So I filmed her
sleep and then in the background I did the snoring sound.
So it's it's video footage of her snoring.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
And you've got the wee video there. Yeah, yeah, here
you go.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Oh that's that's a trumpet.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
That is a massive trumpet.
Speaker 7 (10:38):
So then so I'm filming her asleep, but I am
making the snoring sound just to the side of the camera.
And then so I played it to this morning. I say, well,
the argument's over. You do snort.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Refutable there, I've got a video. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (10:52):
Well she had to accept that she snorts. So it's
one of the one of the great practical jokes. And
she goes, oh no, I never thought that.
Speaker 6 (11:01):
I'm so sorry, man, I'm so sorry all this time.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Yeah, well done done, one of the greats.
Speaker 7 (11:06):
There, Yeah, where you go. It's really it's really put
a spring on my step today. The success of that.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
It's fantastic.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Oh this is very triggering for me because you know,
we have a snoring situation on our house. I am
the supplier of the snoring. Sometimes I get I get
banned to the spare room, and I don't want to.
(11:36):
It's not like it's a hard thing, isn't it. It's
not like you're deliberately doing it. So I actually went
and bought a thing to stick in my mouth from
Kima's warehouse the other day, and it's it's quite uncomfortable,
I've got to say, but I reckon I'll get used
to it over time. It actually almost looks like I'm
(11:58):
a baby's dummy, So I think it's true what they
say that as you get older, you sort of revert
to being a baby again. And added with sticking down
in my mouth, it seems to help. Domestic manager seems
quite pleased about that. My snoring no longer sounds quite
so much like a lucky chainsaw. It must be hard
(12:21):
to sleep next to a chainsaw.
Speaker 7 (12:22):
When you think about it.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
I can't believe she's put up with it for so long.
I can't believe you only banished me to the spare
room and not just out of the house completely. Anyway,
what's up?
Speaker 5 (12:35):
What's up?
Speaker 7 (12:35):
With a lot?
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Say that I will try and get some sleep over
the weekend and I'll be back here, refreshed with a
week in edition of Newsbalk's ed Been on Mondays.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Here there used Talking talks Bean for more from news
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keep our shows with you wherever you go with our
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
Hello, my beautiful beanies, and welcome to the Beans for Friday.
First with yesterday's news, I am Glen Hart, and we
are looking back at Thursday. We're back onto the supermarket giveaways.
It's funny supermarkets try to give away stuff and people
complained about it. When you do under why they've got
it CTE. We've got to do something about this. Probably
(00:51):
it had to know what exactly. And then we're going
to play a little bit of podcast roulette with Matt
and Tyler at the end of the pod. But first up,
supermarket competition. Yes, Nichola willis playing hardball or is she?
Speaker 3 (01:07):
You know, we've heard around the tree that other little
supplies set up and they try and I mean they're
never going to take on the big two head on,
but they're making inroads. I just don't understand. And clearly
it's me. I'm the problem. It's me, As that great
poet Taylor Swift once said, I'm the problem. It's me
(01:29):
because successive governments have decided this is so important that
they've set up review after review after review to look
at the practices of the Big two and sure the
Comments Commission under the last government did find things. But
do people really care that much that Nikola Willis mounted
(01:51):
an impassioned, fervent, incredibly eloquent attack on supermarkets and defense
of the consumer. We haven't got enough people to entice
(02:12):
competitors here. If we did, then they'd come, I mean,
short of subsidizing a bloody competitor. I don't know what
more can be done. What am I missing?
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Please tell me I miss Big Fresh. Not exactly sure
who had Big Freshes and who didn't, but there was
definitely one in Hamilton for a while, and they had
to the animatronic characters the various places around the supermarket
moving around, and they sing. They might have sung, They
(02:48):
might have been singing or saying stuff. That's fun news
talk has it been anyway? I sort of got off
the point there, Brian, help help get me back on
to the point about the supermarket competition.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Consultation up, the wazoo committees, petitions, Dunk and Web on
a soapbox. That's the corosite. Like Churchill said, the lesser
of two evils, it's taken them two years to get here,
but they could have just listened to our interview with
the former managing director of Costco back in March. Of course,
he told us all of this then, and the other
big problem real estate prices for those wanting to build
(03:24):
and develop and shipping. Getting your goods here to the
bottom of the world on their time frames is another
big one, especially when you're operating at scale like a Costco.
We spoke about this last week. They will tinker around
with the fast track the consumer laws and then plaster
their presses with the threat of breaking up the duopoly divestment,
(03:47):
forcing your pack and saves you will worse to sell
some of their stores to a new entrant, to a
third entrant, forcing your food stuffs to sell some distribution centers. Maybe,
And what I said last week is still true now.
Acts won't go for it, so it's a non starter.
Plus even the ComCom said it's risky as cost could
(04:08):
outweigh benefits. So Willis should stop with the threats. If
you own a supermarket right now and your livelihood is
being threatened, are you going to invest, are you going
to hire staff? Are you going to plan an expansion?
The threat is purely political and could end up doing
the opposite of what Willis wants it to do, so
(04:31):
just put it in the bin already.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Well, that's pleasing to hear that. I'm not the only
one who's atlasa and tired of hearing about this talk.
We're going to keep talking about supermarkets, though, but this
time we're back to things that they give away to
try to gear to shop there. I think Marcus is
back at Walworth's with the Disney discs whatever they are.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
New World smear Kitchen, where promo ends this weekend. Ticket
Holders have till the Sunday night to redeem all tickets
for whatever's left over if you can visit more than
one store and over the opposition. Willworth has had a
double s special today, two discs given out for every
twenty spent instead of one, and according to the self
checkout Lady, this week it'll be the final bonanza of
the Disney disc promo and all stores will literally be
(05:18):
giving them away on Sunday. I don't care what happens
in the supermarket Jiopoli, but if for any reason, Countdown
is that what they're called now Woolworths, If for any
reason Woolworth's goes broke. They are exactly their architects of
their own destiny, because that would have to be the cheesiest,
(05:40):
most rubbish promotion I've ever seen. How could they go
against that smere brazier with those tachy plastic discs that
has caused zero buzz. I get thousands of texts about
the swear nothing about Woolworth's.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
So yeah, on there mate.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Yeah, it's interesting to me that Pack and Save never
does it of course, and there's no loyalty card, there's
no collect your stickers, it's just stick man. And yet
every time I drive fath Tech and Save the car,
PACs fall. So, as I've said before, just stop giving
(06:26):
stuff away and not give prices down a bit?
Speaker 4 (06:30):
How about that?
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Okay, So we've had attention drawn to CTE this week?
Can't we too many people with well? Weird? Isn't it
that you can only find out about it after you
did well?
Speaker 6 (06:52):
It's fair to say World Rugby is copping it today,
even more so than yesterday. This is following the death
of Shane Christy, the former Highlander who had the headaches
and the memory loss and all those other symptoms that
were consistent with ct from too many head knocks. A
former Whales number eight with early on set dementia, Alex Popham,
has gone straight to World Rugby and the All Blacks
as Twitter accounts and told them they've got blood on
(07:12):
their hands and our very own Scotti Stevenson has written
a piece saying it's time to stop spending money on PR.
This is obviously for rugby, time to stop spending money
on PR and start spending money on helping the former
players with these symptoms. Absolutely, I mean there is no
doubt that World Rugby could be doing more right. The
standown period for a professional rugby player for a suspected
concussion is, what do you think, twelve days It's that's ridiculous,
(07:36):
twelve days, twelve days. In boxing it's thirty days. And
if they actually lose consciousness and they know they've lost consciousness,
it could be anywhere from six months up that they're
forced to stand down. I think we've all seen pretty
gnarly cases of head knocks recently, or players talking about
migraines over the summer period, only for them to be
back on the field when they if you were being careful,
(07:56):
should not be back on the field, and who knows
what World Rugby will be forced to do once these
lawsuits are successful. But here's the thing. Our ability to
keep blaming the rugby bosses is going to run out
if it hasn't already. No player in twenty twenty five
can blame world rugby if they end up with these
symptoms and years to come. No one playing rugby in
twenty twenty five doesn't know that if you take repeated
knocks to the head, you are opening yourself up to
(08:18):
future problems.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
We know that.
Speaker 6 (08:20):
In fact, we already knew it when Shane Christy was
playing professionally, even if we didn't know it as widely
as we do today. It is terrible that this may
be the thing that has happened to him. It is
terrible that it is undoubtedly happening to rugby players playing today.
But personal responsibility is now very much in play here.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Look at the risk of saying something out loud and
then having it magically appear or reappear, you know, like
beetlejuice or Voldemort. Remember when we were getting all anxsty
about running straight and how dangerous that was. It turns
out that, yeah, if you got big mustly heavy guys
(08:58):
that run at each other constantly for a living, bad
stuff happens to their heads. Do we need to stop
doing that? Should we start watching it? Should we just
go to the symphony taking a musical? It'll be my.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Vice news talk.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
I don't think I've ever been to a musical where
I've seen somebody trying to a defensive box kick and
then nobody chase it and not catch it the same. Right,
we're going to finish up here with IV. All right,
we're doing about a podcast relite here with Matt and Tyler.
So I haven't listened to this audio. I don't know
what it is. All I know is what it's called.
(09:41):
It's called Matt's Middle of the Night Pranking. M I
wonder what that could possibly be.
Speaker 7 (09:47):
I'm feeling pretty good about myself because I pulled off
last night one of the great practical jokes of my life.
I can only say this now because I know that
my lovely partner Tracy isn't listening. I know she's not.
So there's been a long guy on argument discussion where
I say she snores, and she says she doesn't. Yep,
she says she doesn't snore.
Speaker 6 (10:05):
Age old they also there.
Speaker 7 (10:07):
So anyway, last night I woke up in the middle
of the night and she was she was sleeping with
her little eye mask on nice and so I thought,
I'm going to get her here. So I filmed her
sleep and then in the background I did the snoring sound.
So it's it's video footage of her snoring.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
And you've got the wee video there. Yeah, yeah, here
you go.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Oh that's that's a trumpet.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
That is a massive trumpet.
Speaker 7 (10:38):
So then so I'm filming her asleep, but I am
making the snoring sound just to the side of the camera.
And then so I played it to this morning. I say, well,
the argument's over. You do snort.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Refutable there, I've got a video. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (10:52):
Well she had to accept that she snorts. So it's
one of the one of the great practical jokes. And
she goes, oh no, I never thought that.
Speaker 6 (11:01):
I'm so sorry, man, I'm so sorry all this time.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Yeah, well done done, one of the greats.
Speaker 7 (11:06):
There, Yeah, where you go. It's really it's really put
a spring on my step today. The success of that.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
It's fantastic.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Oh this is very triggering for me because you know,
we have a snoring situation on our house. I am
the supplier of the snoring. Sometimes I get I get
banned to the spare room, and I don't want to.
(11:36):
It's not like it's a hard thing, isn't it. It's
not like you're deliberately doing it. So I actually went
and bought a thing to stick in my mouth from
Kima's warehouse the other day, and it's it's quite uncomfortable,
I've got to say, but I reckon I'll get used
to it over time. It actually almost looks like I'm
(11:58):
a baby's dummy, So I think it's true what they
say that as you get older, you sort of revert
to being a baby again. And added with sticking down
in my mouth, it seems to help. Domestic manager seems
quite pleased about that. My snoring no longer sounds quite
so much like a lucky chainsaw. It must be hard
(12:21):
to sleep next to a chainsaw.
Speaker 7 (12:22):
When you think about it.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
I can't believe she's put up with it for so long.
I can't believe you only banished me to the spare
room and not just out of the house completely. Anyway,
what's up?
Speaker 5 (12:35):
What's up?
Speaker 7 (12:35):
With a lot?
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Say that I will try and get some sleep over
the weekend and I'll be back here, refreshed with a
week in edition of Newsbalk's ed Been on Mondays.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Here there used Talking talks 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
podcast on iHeartRadio
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