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September 23, 2025 • 14 mins

FIRST WITH YESTERDAY'S NEWS (highlights from Tuesday on Newstalk ZB) School Makeover Nightmares/Too Late On Licenses Already/Nothing Is Safe/Hump-gate/Podcast Roulette

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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 Wednesday.
First with yesterday's news, I am lean hart't we are
looking back at tuesday digital driver licenses? How could there
be anything wrong with this? Thanks to RFK Junior, we
now know that parasita molecules is autism, So that's pretty interesting.

(00:47):
The speed bump story is it a story? And we're
going to play a bit of podcast. Really haven't done
that for a few days. Who should we do it
with today? I know how about marcut splash. But before
any of that, they're going to do up our schools
over the Christmas break, so that'll be nice. What are
they doing improving the indoor outdoor flow?

Speaker 3 (01:06):
Where?

Speaker 2 (01:07):
What are we looking at?

Speaker 4 (01:08):
This?

Speaker 5 (01:08):
A vision for card order? They saw the vision for
the schools. I mean, why weren't they saying, hang on
a minute, for that amount of money, we could get
three times the value. Put the brakes on, ty hooe,
let's look ahead for twenty years down the track and
see what we can get for that money. This is us.

(01:32):
It's our money that's being wasted and wasted and wasted,
and it's not being spent wisely. We need schools, we
need hospitals, we need roads. These are beyond party politics.
The leaders of the parties need to knock their heads
together and come up with a plan to give to us,

(01:52):
to say this is how we'll be spending your money wisely,
prudently and looking ahead to the years to come. The
leaders of the parties need to get together and say
to the construction industry, guarantee there will be this work
for the next twenty years, because this is what we need.

(02:14):
It's not that hard. This is what we need for
the planned population growth. Here is where we'll be building it.
These are the designs, and we've all got certainty for
the next twenty years. How bloody hard can it be?

Speaker 2 (02:29):
Well impossible, because whoever we vote for gets three years
to do something, and then they don't do something because
you can't do anything in three years, and then the
other lot and do all of the things that the
previous lot did. Then so it goes. It's I know,
the last time they was sort of talking about the
school infrastructure thing, I was starting to worry that if

(02:51):
they fast cracked them too much and did too much
via a template, I started feeling like everything was going
to they were just sort of going to be tilt slab,
blank concrete Soviet Union nineteen seventies looking buildings at all
the schools that will look executive the same. And I
wasn't sure that that was completely a great idea either.

(03:14):
Maybe it is, I don't know, but I don't can
go to school anymore. That's all I could say.

Speaker 1 (03:19):
News talk zet been right.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
Digital driver's licenses by the end of the year, fantastic.
Who possibly have a problem with that? I want everything
to be on my phone.

Speaker 6 (03:32):
A digital license system can't exclude those who don't have
access to the necessary technology or simpthingly prefer to keep
things offline. Groups like the elderly, rural communities and areas
with poor connectivity and people's low incomes could be disproportionately
affected by a full switch to digital. So it's good
keywi's will be given the choice to go digital or

(03:52):
stay with the plastic. Digital licenses may be a modern,
forward thinking move, but they do come with privacy risks,
and we were just sort of talking about this. You
can put all the security in place you like, but
no system is entirely immune to cyber attacks or accidental
or intentional leaks. As I mentioned, much of what we
do is already online, and I appreciate the IDs will

(04:12):
be decentralized and no data will be stored next personal information.
But as that use of the app increases, will that
remain the case?

Speaker 5 (04:21):
Now?

Speaker 6 (04:21):
I am probably sounding a little paranoid, but after having
almost fallen for a sophisticated scam which used hacked information,
I'm not relaxed about the amount of data I have online.
So if we're going to do this, we've got to
do it well. This can't be rushed, and it must
be the best version it can be from the start.
So I'm a person who never buys the first version

(04:44):
of a piece of tech. I always give a provided
time to sort out the kinks. I like to buy
the second or third generation version. And I feel the
same about the digital driver's licenses. I can understand how
practical they could be. I can appreciate how bringing everything
together could make dealing with numerous government departments easier. It
will even make creating fake licenses harder for the kids

(05:05):
to get into r and V So I'm for it
as long as I can make the move when I'm ready.

Speaker 2 (05:12):
I'm ready. I mean, they've been doing this in various
places in the world forever. Come on, guys, let's keep going.
And if it excludes elderly drivers, good. I'm not a
fan of elderly drivers. And the sooner i become an
elderly driver and I'm not allowed to drive anymore, the
better I hate driving you right, speaking of weird elderly people,

(05:36):
Trump and his mate RFK Jr. Sort of roped the
pharmaceutical world yesterday with their claims of a link between
well we call it paracetamol. Trump didn't know how to
pronounce it in America, but anyway, yeah, between that and autism,

(06:00):
because you know, the half of pregnant mothers take paracetamol
when they're pregnant.

Speaker 7 (06:04):
So everyone can believe whatever they like, right, that's the
world we live. You listen to your experts, oh, listen
to mine. You can make up your own mind, you
can do your own research, all that sort of stuff.
But this is what annoys me. You have these medical
experts come out and say that panidole, paracetamol completely safe,
completely safe, you know, and the PM said that too

(06:24):
today said it was completely safe, haveless.

Speaker 8 (06:26):
Parasnamol is safe. It's quite acceptable to be used by
pregnant women and others were dealing with fever. We're very
comfortable parasnamol being used in the way that it has
been as always. And I just encourage everybody if you're concerned,
check out the Ministry of Health website. But it's completely.

Speaker 7 (06:41):
Safe, completely safe. Now that's not true. Technically technically not true. Right,
No drug is completely safe. Take one hundred, you'll probably
pop a kidney. There is a one in a million
risks of some bad stuff happening to you. So it's
not completely safe. So, you know, it just annoys me
when people say this, People who are prone to conspiracy
or mistrust that kind of thing. They are listening to

(07:03):
these little bits in these little moments, and we knew
this announcement from Trump was coming, So why aren't people
a little more careful? And I don't mean to pick
on Christopher lux and specifically Sandra can see you're upset
with me about that already, but I don't mean to
pick on particularly, but just you know, if there are
people who have particular views something like this comes along,

(07:24):
they're gonna pounce.

Speaker 2 (07:25):
Well, nothing is completely safe. I'm not just drugs either.
I mean, I know I keep going on about this,
but I've decided to do something about the fat that
I'm grossly overweight, and that means that all the things
that I like to eat before I'm now not eating.
I find that's the best way to to eat healthily

(07:50):
is if you see something that you want to eat,
don't eat it, because it's probably going to kill me
if I keep eating it. Right, too many speed bumps.
Actually realize I haven't been paying much attention to this

(08:11):
story because I don't know. When I hear somebody complaining
about too many speed dumps, I think to myself, is
that a story? But then I saw the word Milldale
and I got interested because that's just around the corner
from my house.

Speaker 9 (08:23):
There are at least three different heights that I can
think of. On one of them is almost like, you know,
it's really high. But the problem is also with the
roads down in Milldale is the fact that they're very
narrow and you're you know, you've got all the yellow
markings where you can't park on the sides of the roads.
And I think it was last year or earlier this

(08:43):
year they had a house fire in there and it
was difficult for the fire of the gay to get there. Yeah. Yeah,
so that's not a good thing either. And not mentioned ambulances.
I mean, if you mention if you have a neck
and durin your in an ambulance and persons of a
fee the speed hunt which has happens, you know, if
it's dark or not very good weather whatever, that's not

(09:04):
good either, surely.

Speaker 4 (09:05):
So what do you think that the best approach is
or or is it just whatever the right amount of
all of these measures is. You support some of it,
but just not the amount that you've got, as in,
you support some narrowing of lanes so that people a
narrowing of roads that people drive more slowly, and you
support some speed bumps and some raised platforms, but not

(09:29):
to the extent where do you think you for.

Speaker 9 (09:31):
Well, quite honestly, I don't like any of them. But
in saying that there are some out west aalkhand way
where they have on the left hand signs or have
a bit of a concrete or something sticking out, or
they call them chicanes or something like that, And then
a little bit further out there's another one, so you
have to sort of weave in around it. Yet you
don't go over a bump. They're probably a better idea

(09:53):
and they use up. They have a lot of those,
or used to have the lot of those around Mount
even Way in the central city.

Speaker 2 (09:58):
Yeah, fascinating antids talkback yesterday talking about different kinds of
speed mitigation and suburban areas, particularly in Auckland. So really
compelling stuff for people and other places in the country.
I'm sure I'll be wanting to come up to have
a go of the speed bumps and the chicanes. I

(10:21):
don't think you should call them chicanes. That doesn't then
tend to make them sound like they're part of a racetrack.
And then you've got boy racer issues, haven't you, which
do definitely are a problem around my neighborhood. Probably not
Mildale though, where you've got three heights of speed bumps.

Speaker 1 (10:37):
News talk z Bean.

Speaker 2 (10:39):
Okay, that was a podcast Ruletty itself at last. First,
I had no idea it was going to be as
boring as that. I'm sure the knicks that won't be.
Here's what it says, Marcus solar redhead high. So I mean,
how could I not play podcasts roulette with the of

(10:59):
audio that Marcus has producer sent.

Speaker 3 (11:01):
Me the solar farm at nas Beat, which is going
to general enough power for seventy thousand homes. It's going
to be on six hundred and sixty hectores of land
with five hundred and sixty thousand solar panels. Yeah, and

(11:29):
I saw an article that I think it's just got
the go ahead, But then I can't find where I've
seen that article. That's the thing about subletting your memory,
isn't it Now it's got the green light. I mean
I saw that in the ODT, but I can't see
where it is. I've gone back to the ODT and
it's not there. The silly article.

Speaker 4 (11:44):
It could be me.

Speaker 3 (11:45):
That it could be my side, or something's gone wrong
with that. But that's a big farm. That's a big,
big solar light farm that many hectores. So you look
at that and you might want to tell me something.
I don't know what you'd say about that, but gee,
also that thought, Wow, that's a big film. The trouble

(12:05):
is sometimes your stories they scroll across a you've got
three or for stories and they scroll across. Here we go, Yeah,
it's got the go ahead. The new soul of Farm
in Central Otago six hundred and thirty eight hectares. He's
had a good or a bad thing. There's a guy
next door and his business is dogs, the real dog

(12:30):
equipment company.

Speaker 2 (12:31):
He reckon.

Speaker 3 (12:31):
It's going to ruin his business because people be banging
in the in the in the poles to put the
solar panels on.

Speaker 2 (12:39):
Yep.

Speaker 7 (12:40):
So that's that.

Speaker 3 (12:40):
So that's anyway, that's the two things that I want
to mention tonight. To begin with the twelve dollar pie.
Have you seen one that's more expensive? Just a bog
standing pie because people need to stop buying them. The
trouble is, if you're waiting for a plane, I guess
the pie is a good thing because you can actually
then join the queue. Where if you're sitting down with
things on a plate, you think it'll be nervous. You'd
be like, oh, hector, hector, what's happening now? I'll tell

(13:07):
you when there's bake pies. Guys go to the supermarket
before duck shooting and they're always making baker Neig pies.
One of the few times in South did we see
a lot of men in the supermarket? Someone says, how
long is a life span on each panel? Who am I,
Tony Timu? I don't know, I don't know. I reckon

(13:30):
you wouldn't want a hailstorm because a hailstorm could wreck
your soular farm.

Speaker 4 (13:38):
So there we go.

Speaker 3 (13:39):
That's a bit of what's going on for me. Oh,
by the way, today too is International Redhead's Day.

Speaker 2 (13:46):
Right, we got there in the end, I see, So
there wasn't really any connection between the three things at all.
It was stun It's probably the worst podcast really, I've
ever played that one. It did the opposite of blow
up in my face. It just sort of went just

(14:12):
going back to my diet. Obviously, I can't have a
twelve dollars pie or any kind of pie. The reason
I keep sharing this with you is that I feel
like if I keep making it public, it'll help make
me make me stick to it. Although they probably will
come a point when if I fall off the wagon,
that will be hilarious to everybody to listen to. It

(14:35):
hasn't happened yet, but you know it's early days. See
you're there here again. Tomorrow I'll let you know how
I'm going.

Speaker 4 (14:42):
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Speaker 1 (14:46):
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