October 7, 2025 • 13 mins
FIRST WITH YESTERDAY'S NEWS (highlights from Tuesday on Newstalk ZB) It's Just Harassment/Nothing Good Ever Came Out of a Meeting/Have You Checked the Mail Recently?/Triggered By How the Sausage Is Made
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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 Leon harton we're looking
back at Tuesday. So the local body elections are happening.
Did you realize that's what those orange envelopes that you've
stetched away in the butler's pantry are for? Does that
just me? Can you post them? And if you do
(00:45):
post them, will they get there? We're going to talk
about that at sut stage as well, and then we're
going to finish up with the weirdest trigger that warning
I've ever heard, perhaps certainly the weirdest that Matt He's
ever heard. But before any of that, these protesters at
Winston Peter's house, I mean, I think there's a lot
(01:06):
of stuff that was St. Peter's. Does that I think
we should produce about the Nonnor's house.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Come on, guys, women MPs, no gender specific MPs. They
are absolutely ropable about the level of vitriol and harassment
and violent language being used against MPs on social media.
What difference is it being outside somebody's home, absolutely no
(01:35):
difference whatsoever. They are the first to point the digeridoo
at people who have a different point of view and
express it vocally and violently and rightly, so nobody should
be subject to that. They want the police protection. They
demand that people have a right to be safe and
secure in their workplaces and to be able to do
(01:57):
their jobs. What the hell do they think these people
are doing their Internet trolls come to life and on
the backyard of the home of a fellow parliamentarian. It
would be absolutely inexcusable if they were experiencing the same
thing from those who had a different political viewpoint. The
(02:20):
weight of the law should come down upon any protesters
who did that to them and to these righteous, sanctimonious
vandals outside Winston Peter's house. Any point they are trying
to make is being drowned out by their own noise.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
I'm assuming he's got a decent security camera set up,
because it sounds like the because the person handed themselves in,
didn't they broke the window because I guess they knew
that there was no real way of Because I mean,
that's what's happened there. Mind you as I often mentioned
(02:58):
I got a package stolen from the front door. Once
had crystal clear footage of the assailant, was able to
identify them on social media, gave all that information to
the police and nothing happened anyway. So it doesn't always
work out just having a camera, does it. News talk
(03:20):
ze been okay. So local body elections. Have you voted yet,
don't worry You're in the majority if you haven't.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
So Hdanui already has its mayor even though the elections
are this weekend. It's Marie Black. No one's standing against her.
Munawatu already has its mayor, Michael Ford, no one standing
against him. There are more than eighty councilors who are
already elected across the country. There are several on the
Southland Regional Council already elected Lower Hut Southland or Taranga, Buller, Stratford,
(03:48):
Marlborough councils. Two of Auckland's councils already elected unopposed, three
of Christ churches. There are also empty seats that no
one wants to fill in community boards in the Routua Lakes,
New Plymouth, kaituk Air, Clifton, as well rural Hastings hand,
Miss Springs, Twizel, and Matoda. What that tells you is
you have more positions to fill, then you have people
(04:09):
who want to fill those positions. Now, just have a
look at your voting will please have a look at
your voting papers and vote if you can. I voted
in Auckland already, right. I had one vote for mayor,
I had one vote for council, and then I had
up to seven votes for my local board. I didn't
vote seven times for my local I didn't know who
all of those people were. I knew about five of them,
(04:31):
and at least two of them I knew for bad reasons,
so I didn't want to vote for them. So, you know,
I think we're asking We clearly are asking too much.
And by the way, in Auckland, we have one hundred
and seventy two local board politicians by the end of
this process, and I'm not even counting the local licensing Board.
The Licensing Trust members one hundred and seventy two, the
(04:52):
most junior of which which is the ward counselors, get
paid more than fifty four thousand dollars each. Now, I think,
looking at all of this, we are well overdue tipping
all of this up and changing it and massively reducing
the number of people that were paying to do probably
not a lot.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
So it seems to be working. This is my idea.
If you don't vote at all, you're voting for no counsel.
That actually seems to be what's happening, slowly but surely
with unfilled council slots.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Qu'es talk seven.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Yeah, if you have voted, can you ride in and
take your vote back?
Speaker 5 (05:28):
Citizens? Assemblies? You heard of these crackpot idea the Romans
once used. But Romans did lots of weird stuff that
we stopped doing, and this should be one of them.
They've got one on the boiler and Panganui you might
have heard of it. In Napier forty unelected locals have
just finished sitting around talking about where to put a
new swimming pool and what that pool might look like.
Four weeks later, eight hundred dollars per person, including refreshments
(05:51):
and god knows what else, one hundred thousand dollars in
total from the rates take. It's basically a catered chin
wag between neighbors and they call it an assembly. And
guess what they couldn't come up with a consensus on
where to put the pool. Despite all the expertise, the
opinion for Africa, the specialists, the Lamington's no location was decided.
(06:12):
You cannot make the stuff up. Why bother with a council,
why bother with a mayor, why bother with a government?
Like Keffer's d day sets and recycled period cups. These
citizens assemblies are very much in vogue with the radical
left across Europe right now, but they're also a massive
waste of time and money. And the more I read
about stuff like this, the more I think would be
(06:32):
better off dispensing with democracy and bringing in a dictator.
The Napier mayor Kirsten Wise was quoted as saying the
assembly's recommendations were an invaluable starting point and the journey
towards a new pool give me strength. An invaluable starting
point for a new swimming pool as a hole in
(06:53):
the ground.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Yeah, this is the point, is exactly the issue. As
soon as you get a bunch of people meetings for
the sake of having meetings, about half of those people
are going to find reasons not to do whatever it
is the thing that you're there to discuss to do.
So I don't ever remember. I mean I've been around
(07:17):
for a while. I don't ever remember so much discussion
about non participation in local elections in so many uncontested positions,
and mayors getting in because nobody else wants to be
mayor crazy.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
City.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
So slowly but surely, New Zealand Post is winding things
down with regards mail delivery that we're going from three
to two days now. Marcus is a bit behind on
all this.
Speaker 6 (07:46):
I think, how are we about the New Zealand mail
service and letters? It'll be down to two deliveries a week.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Now.
Speaker 6 (07:56):
I've had a letterbox for a long long time, for
thirty years, so I don't know what happens with the mail.
But in twenty thirteen the average person would send seven
point five letters a day, sorry, a week. That's twenty thirteen.
(08:18):
This year it is down to two. So it's fallen
by more than two thirds in twelve years to sunset industry.
In ten years there'll be no mail. But is this
devastating for you? Is this affecting you? Who out there
sends more than two letters a week? I wouldn't send
(08:42):
very many at all. We have a post office box,
but we get it about once a term. But yeah,
how's that?
Speaker 5 (08:49):
Ah?
Speaker 6 (08:52):
Ended post has a minimum obligation to live a mail
two days a week, down from three. I don't know
what the post he's doing the rest of the time.
I guess they do more than one runs, do they? Yep?
And the days must not follow each other, so it's
spread through the week. Fling about that? Is anyone out
there writing a lot of letters? And I'm curious to
(09:13):
know who you are. I'm looking at you, well, who
would you be mailing to. Maybe it's postcards, maybe it's
chain letters, maybe it's birthday cards. So if you're a
letter person, let me know. Or is everyone okay about this?
Have you realized now that it's on the way out
like checkbox and landlines? Or is this something that's got
you kind of.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
Freaked out?
Speaker 6 (09:36):
I kind of hoped you would be freaked out, because
talkback likes nothing more than people freaked out about something.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
The only thing we get in the post now is
I think is from the council. Speaking of councils, is
rates and water bills, And I don't know why we
get those in the mail. I'm not in charge of
those at our house. Domestic manager is in charge of
most things to do with money. I'm in charge of
(10:02):
certain bills and I'm definitely paying those online and not
getting any statements in the letter for some reason. Surely
you can we can get the rates bill in the
water rates. I would never question what she's doing, though,
you don't hand.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
The very tight shit news talk z it bean.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
We're going to finish up here where with something that
made Matt laugh when he was watching the news last night.
Is that right?
Speaker 5 (10:30):
Laugh?
Speaker 7 (10:30):
Hey, I was watching one news last night Tyler and
everyone listening your great New Zealanders across the country, and
I heard this.
Speaker 8 (10:37):
Hooky man, welcome back. Red Meat Processor Alliance Group is
warning shareholders the cooperative risks financial collapse. Now just a warning.
This story includes footage of meat processing.
Speaker 7 (10:50):
Wow, it's a of a trigger warning this, This footage
conveys meat processing. Who the hell thought that New Zealanders
were so soft? Yeah, New Zealand, with this history of
farming in the agricultural sector running the entire economy, thought
that they needed to put a trigger warning on about
(11:10):
meat processing. Who orders something like that? Does mom need
to put a trigger warning on the kitchen when she's
carving a chicken. Does Dad need to put a trigger
warning on the barbecue when he's cooking lamb chops? It's
so dumb if people don't like meat processing. Look, actually,
if people don't like meat processing, then why wouldn't they
want people to see it. Back in the day, the
(11:32):
band of Smith's had that song Meeter's Murder, and the
video was just meat processing. And the argument was I
think the singer of the band said, Morrissey said, you know,
if freezing works had windows, even want to be a vegetarian?
That was his idea of it. But how soft. It's
actually just insulting that there's anyone that thinks New Zealanders
(11:53):
are so soft that they can't handle seeing meat processing.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
To be fair, I eat meat, and the meat I
prefer is generally the stuff that looks less like the
animal that it came from. I'm more of a mint
slash burger slash sausage slash kebab on a stack kind
(12:19):
of a guy. I certainly don't want anything with bones
in it. I call that high maintenance meat, and I'm
not a fan. So actually, yeah, I can. I don't
know if I'm triggered, but I can do without seeing
literally how the sausage is made. I'll see you back
(12:40):
here again tomorrow. I'll try and keep some of how
this podcast has made mysterious, which I think I've failed
at that over the years, and I've told you about
pretty much all my secrets. You probably know so much
about it now that you could just come in here
and make it yourself. Get off of there as an option,
come in and make your own podcast. We charge for that.
(13:04):
Quebec Y is like a premium subscription here. Look, I'll
look into it. They're always looking for a non traditional
revenue around here. We could have it. We could have
one of those meetings that goes on forever, is catered
and then doesn't actually come to a conclusion. What a
what a brilliant callback when people love callbacks. We'll see
(13:27):
who knows what. I'll call back tomorrow. We can come
back tomorrow and we will find.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Out us Talking Talking Said 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.
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 beanies, and welcome to the bean for Wednesday.
First with yesterday's news, I am Leon harton we're looking
back at Tuesday. So the local body elections are happening.
Did you realize that's what those orange envelopes that you've
stetched away in the butler's pantry are for? Does that
just me? Can you post them? And if you do
(00:45):
post them, will they get there? We're going to talk
about that at sut stage as well, and then we're
going to finish up with the weirdest trigger that warning
I've ever heard, perhaps certainly the weirdest that Matt He's
ever heard. But before any of that, these protesters at
Winston Peter's house, I mean, I think there's a lot
(01:06):
of stuff that was St. Peter's. Does that I think
we should produce about the Nonnor's house.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Come on, guys, women MPs, no gender specific MPs. They
are absolutely ropable about the level of vitriol and harassment
and violent language being used against MPs on social media.
What difference is it being outside somebody's home, absolutely no
(01:35):
difference whatsoever. They are the first to point the digeridoo
at people who have a different point of view and
express it vocally and violently and rightly, so nobody should
be subject to that. They want the police protection. They
demand that people have a right to be safe and
secure in their workplaces and to be able to do
(01:57):
their jobs. What the hell do they think these people
are doing their Internet trolls come to life and on
the backyard of the home of a fellow parliamentarian. It
would be absolutely inexcusable if they were experiencing the same
thing from those who had a different political viewpoint. The
(02:20):
weight of the law should come down upon any protesters
who did that to them and to these righteous, sanctimonious
vandals outside Winston Peter's house. Any point they are trying
to make is being drowned out by their own noise.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
I'm assuming he's got a decent security camera set up,
because it sounds like the because the person handed themselves in,
didn't they broke the window because I guess they knew
that there was no real way of Because I mean,
that's what's happened there. Mind you as I often mentioned
(02:58):
I got a package stolen from the front door. Once
had crystal clear footage of the assailant, was able to
identify them on social media, gave all that information to
the police and nothing happened anyway. So it doesn't always
work out just having a camera, does it. News talk
(03:20):
ze been okay. So local body elections. Have you voted yet,
don't worry You're in the majority if you haven't.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
So Hdanui already has its mayor even though the elections
are this weekend. It's Marie Black. No one's standing against her.
Munawatu already has its mayor, Michael Ford, no one standing
against him. There are more than eighty councilors who are
already elected across the country. There are several on the
Southland Regional Council already elected Lower Hut Southland or Taranga, Buller, Stratford,
(03:48):
Marlborough councils. Two of Auckland's councils already elected unopposed, three
of Christ churches. There are also empty seats that no
one wants to fill in community boards in the Routua Lakes,
New Plymouth, kaituk Air, Clifton, as well rural Hastings hand,
Miss Springs, Twizel, and Matoda. What that tells you is
you have more positions to fill, then you have people
(04:09):
who want to fill those positions. Now, just have a
look at your voting will please have a look at
your voting papers and vote if you can. I voted
in Auckland already, right. I had one vote for mayor,
I had one vote for council, and then I had
up to seven votes for my local board. I didn't
vote seven times for my local I didn't know who
all of those people were. I knew about five of them,
(04:31):
and at least two of them I knew for bad reasons,
so I didn't want to vote for them. So, you know,
I think we're asking We clearly are asking too much.
And by the way, in Auckland, we have one hundred
and seventy two local board politicians by the end of
this process, and I'm not even counting the local licensing Board.
The Licensing Trust members one hundred and seventy two, the
(04:52):
most junior of which which is the ward counselors, get
paid more than fifty four thousand dollars each. Now, I think,
looking at all of this, we are well overdue tipping
all of this up and changing it and massively reducing
the number of people that were paying to do probably
not a lot.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
So it seems to be working. This is my idea.
If you don't vote at all, you're voting for no counsel.
That actually seems to be what's happening, slowly but surely
with unfilled council slots.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Qu'es talk seven.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Yeah, if you have voted, can you ride in and
take your vote back?
Speaker 5 (05:28):
Citizens? Assemblies? You heard of these crackpot idea the Romans
once used. But Romans did lots of weird stuff that
we stopped doing, and this should be one of them.
They've got one on the boiler and Panganui you might
have heard of it. In Napier forty unelected locals have
just finished sitting around talking about where to put a
new swimming pool and what that pool might look like.
Four weeks later, eight hundred dollars per person, including refreshments
(05:51):
and god knows what else, one hundred thousand dollars in
total from the rates take. It's basically a catered chin
wag between neighbors and they call it an assembly. And
guess what they couldn't come up with a consensus on
where to put the pool. Despite all the expertise, the
opinion for Africa, the specialists, the Lamington's no location was decided.
(06:12):
You cannot make the stuff up. Why bother with a council,
why bother with a mayor, why bother with a government?
Like Keffer's d day sets and recycled period cups. These
citizens assemblies are very much in vogue with the radical
left across Europe right now, but they're also a massive
waste of time and money. And the more I read
about stuff like this, the more I think would be
(06:32):
better off dispensing with democracy and bringing in a dictator.
The Napier mayor Kirsten Wise was quoted as saying the
assembly's recommendations were an invaluable starting point and the journey
towards a new pool give me strength. An invaluable starting
point for a new swimming pool as a hole in
(06:53):
the ground.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Yeah, this is the point, is exactly the issue. As
soon as you get a bunch of people meetings for
the sake of having meetings, about half of those people
are going to find reasons not to do whatever it
is the thing that you're there to discuss to do.
So I don't ever remember. I mean I've been around
(07:17):
for a while. I don't ever remember so much discussion
about non participation in local elections in so many uncontested positions,
and mayors getting in because nobody else wants to be
mayor crazy.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
City.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
So slowly but surely, New Zealand Post is winding things
down with regards mail delivery that we're going from three
to two days now. Marcus is a bit behind on
all this.
Speaker 6 (07:46):
I think, how are we about the New Zealand mail
service and letters? It'll be down to two deliveries a week.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Now.
Speaker 6 (07:56):
I've had a letterbox for a long long time, for
thirty years, so I don't know what happens with the mail.
But in twenty thirteen the average person would send seven
point five letters a day, sorry, a week. That's twenty thirteen.
(08:18):
This year it is down to two. So it's fallen
by more than two thirds in twelve years to sunset industry.
In ten years there'll be no mail. But is this
devastating for you? Is this affecting you? Who out there
sends more than two letters a week? I wouldn't send
(08:42):
very many at all. We have a post office box,
but we get it about once a term. But yeah,
how's that?
Speaker 5 (08:49):
Ah?
Speaker 6 (08:52):
Ended post has a minimum obligation to live a mail
two days a week, down from three. I don't know
what the post he's doing the rest of the time.
I guess they do more than one runs, do they? Yep?
And the days must not follow each other, so it's
spread through the week. Fling about that? Is anyone out
there writing a lot of letters? And I'm curious to
(09:13):
know who you are. I'm looking at you, well, who
would you be mailing to. Maybe it's postcards, maybe it's
chain letters, maybe it's birthday cards. So if you're a
letter person, let me know. Or is everyone okay about this?
Have you realized now that it's on the way out
like checkbox and landlines? Or is this something that's got
you kind of.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
Freaked out?
Speaker 6 (09:36):
I kind of hoped you would be freaked out, because
talkback likes nothing more than people freaked out about something.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
The only thing we get in the post now is
I think is from the council. Speaking of councils, is
rates and water bills, And I don't know why we
get those in the mail. I'm not in charge of
those at our house. Domestic manager is in charge of
most things to do with money. I'm in charge of
(10:02):
certain bills and I'm definitely paying those online and not
getting any statements in the letter for some reason. Surely
you can we can get the rates bill in the
water rates. I would never question what she's doing, though,
you don't hand.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
The very tight shit news talk z it bean.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
We're going to finish up here where with something that
made Matt laugh when he was watching the news last night.
Is that right?
Speaker 5 (10:30):
Laugh?
Speaker 7 (10:30):
Hey, I was watching one news last night Tyler and
everyone listening your great New Zealanders across the country, and
I heard this.
Speaker 8 (10:37):
Hooky man, welcome back. Red Meat Processor Alliance Group is
warning shareholders the cooperative risks financial collapse. Now just a warning.
This story includes footage of meat processing.
Speaker 7 (10:50):
Wow, it's a of a trigger warning this, This footage
conveys meat processing. Who the hell thought that New Zealanders
were so soft? Yeah, New Zealand, with this history of
farming in the agricultural sector running the entire economy, thought
that they needed to put a trigger warning on about
(11:10):
meat processing. Who orders something like that? Does mom need
to put a trigger warning on the kitchen when she's
carving a chicken. Does Dad need to put a trigger
warning on the barbecue when he's cooking lamb chops? It's
so dumb if people don't like meat processing. Look, actually,
if people don't like meat processing, then why wouldn't they
want people to see it. Back in the day, the
(11:32):
band of Smith's had that song Meeter's Murder, and the
video was just meat processing. And the argument was I
think the singer of the band said, Morrissey said, you know,
if freezing works had windows, even want to be a vegetarian?
That was his idea of it. But how soft. It's
actually just insulting that there's anyone that thinks New Zealanders
(11:53):
are so soft that they can't handle seeing meat processing.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
To be fair, I eat meat, and the meat I
prefer is generally the stuff that looks less like the
animal that it came from. I'm more of a mint
slash burger slash sausage slash kebab on a stack kind
(12:19):
of a guy. I certainly don't want anything with bones
in it. I call that high maintenance meat, and I'm
not a fan. So actually, yeah, I can. I don't
know if I'm triggered, but I can do without seeing
literally how the sausage is made. I'll see you back
(12:40):
here again tomorrow. I'll try and keep some of how
this podcast has made mysterious, which I think I've failed
at that over the years, and I've told you about
pretty much all my secrets. You probably know so much
about it now that you could just come in here
and make it yourself. Get off of there as an option,
come in and make your own podcast. We charge for that.
(13:04):
Quebec Y is like a premium subscription here. Look, I'll
look into it. They're always looking for a non traditional
revenue around here. We could have it. We could have
one of those meetings that goes on forever, is catered
and then doesn't actually come to a conclusion. What a
what a brilliant callback when people love callbacks. We'll see
(13:27):
who knows what. I'll call back tomorrow. We can come
back tomorrow and we will find.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Out us Talking Talking Said 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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