November 23, 2025 • 12 mins
FIRST WITH YESTERDAY'S NEWS (highlights from the weekend on Newstalk ZB) And We Even Won a Prize/Cancelling the Rugby/Way to Sell Your Book/Our Fanciest Ever Actor/Some Restaurants Just Get It Right
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
Hello, my beautiful beanies, and welcome to the bean The
weekend edition, first of yesterday's news. Should we look back
at both Sunday and Saturday.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
That's husually how we do it.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
The all blacks done and dusted for the year.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
So we'll wrap that up.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
So Tony Robinson, famous for playing balldrec, joined Jack on Saturday.
Jennifer ward Leland joined Francisca yesterday. She's got some big fancy,
snooty dooty position in the acting community, International Acting Community.
And then a restaurant. I've never heard of Jurn's forty.
(01:02):
But before any of that cop thirty, what have they
sorted out to? You know, that whole planet thing.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Do you have a good time at these things?
Speaker 5 (01:12):
No? Well, you know you're exhausted and I've just got
back and I've definitely feeling pretty jet lagged. It's a
long way to Brazil from New Zealand. But look the
reality is it's quality and you've got to go hard,
and we did that. We spent a huge amount of time,
we've got a lot achieved, and you know that's positive
(01:32):
for us. You've got to be at the table.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
What's it like with the sort of I think I
saw the figures around fifty six thousand delegates registered to
attend in person, and is there any sort of I mean,
you will have heard this, these sense of irony about
the fossil fuel burn just to get everyone there.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
Oh, look, there's a huge amount of people. But then
again it's one hundred and ninety four countries, so you know,
NGO participants, there's business, there's you know, all parts of
local community as well. There. I mean, don't forget Brazil's
a pretty big country with plus two hundred million people,
so you know, it was a It was a well
(02:11):
organized event in the main, with the exception of the
little incident at the end with the fire, but other
than that, you know, it was went pretty slow.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Well, New Zealand did win an award, didn't wait, what
did we get Fossil of the Day. How did you
feel about that?
Speaker 5 (02:24):
Well, we're not the only ones. I think Canada, Switzerland
and a few others we've had. I mean we've had
a few as well in the past. But look, the
reality is it's it's one of those parts of the
conferences by no means the focal point.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Fossil of the day. It wasn't me was it? We
heard of that.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Before news talks.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
It been right.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
So the All Blacks beat Whales. I thrashed them as expected,
although really the threshing only happened right at the end.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Of the game from what I was reading. That's right.
I don't watch the All Blacks match these days.
Speaker 6 (03:04):
How do you evaluate the final All Blacks performance of
the year.
Speaker 7 (03:08):
Yeah, oh yeah, Look, it was mostly important to us
that we put together the performance tonight.
Speaker 8 (03:15):
So yeah, generally pretty happy.
Speaker 7 (03:17):
I think we you know, we scored some good tries
and we played some good foot at times, and you know,
really put a really tenacious Welsh team away in the
end after after they came pretty hard early.
Speaker 8 (03:28):
But you know, I think we're a bit more.
Speaker 7 (03:30):
Accurate than we had been at times this season, which
meant we could hold on to the ball and be
confident to hold the ball and get to what and
score some tries. So we're yeah, we just wanted to
put a put a performance together that we were happy
with and what we've sort of worked at during the week.
Speaker 8 (03:46):
There's a lot of things we trained pretty hard to
get and we got tonight.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
Did you sense energy from players who perhaps have had
limited opportunities on the tour before tonight.
Speaker 8 (03:55):
Yeah, and that was all you know, you'd expect that,
wouldn't you know?
Speaker 7 (03:59):
We had We had young guys bring the energy, but
we also had guys, you know, especially the midfield, you know,
the older guys that played eighty odd tests who were
getting their opportunity and this you know, good professionals who
are always going to bring that energy and performance. So
it was a good mix, you know, the younger a
couple of younger boys getting opportunities and but you know,
it's easy when you don't get a game of forty
(04:19):
for three or four weeks to make some silly little
errors and that sort of thing. And I thought in
general we were able to build some pressure, especially the
back end of going to that second half and put
the wash away.
Speaker 8 (04:30):
So yeah, it's been a good week for energy. The
boys have been good.
Speaker 7 (04:33):
And these guys will always always front up on the
all black jersey when they get during the week, you know,
when they get an opportunity.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Yeah, so interesting.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
I was round at my mum's place yesterday and she
was trying to figure out how she could cancel her
sky Sports subscription now that that that game's done, it's
nothing else for her there, given that the cricket doesn't
seem to have in there with you know, the playing
games that have played in New Zealand.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Anyway, So.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Interesting that on the Skysport website, just as an aside,
very easy to add things like the sky Sports package
your account.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
You just click a button and it's pretty much done.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Slightly more complicated to take that off. It's weird, isn't
it that they don't just have a unsubscribe from the
service button. I'm sure if it's strictly kosher.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Anyway, you talk sib right, I remember Blake, and.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
I remember baldricks well with the Blake who played in
said Tony Robinson joined Jack on Saturday morning.
Speaker 6 (05:34):
The House of Wolf is your first piece of adult fiction.
So can you just tell us how tell our listeners
a little bit about it?
Speaker 9 (05:42):
Well, it's pretty ridiculous, really. I was seventy eight when
I decided to write a historic trilogy, but I did.
And yeah, and so the first book is called The
House of Wolf, and it's about King Alfred the Great,
(06:02):
the only king that the English called great, and it
was a long long time ago. It was the ninth
century AD. That's two hundred years before William the Conqueror
came to England. But the reason he is so great
is twofold. First of all, because he completely defeated the
(06:22):
Vikings at a time when nobody else was getting anywhere
near defeating them. Secondly, he was the king of Wessex,
which is like southern England, and he nicked Mercier, which
was the word for the Midlands in those days, glued
them together and used a bit of East Anglia, where
(06:47):
there were some Christian Vikings, so all three were glued together.
Initially they called themselves the Anglo Saxons, but then gradually
out of that came the word angle Land. In other words,
Alfred created England. And so you know, if that isn't
(07:09):
worth a story, what else is it.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
I don't know if the first word out of your
mouth when you're doing an interview to sprouts your new
book should be it's pretty ridiculous, really, I don't know that?
Or is that some clever sort of reverse psychology or
something good?
Speaker 3 (07:25):
On them? Right?
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Jennifer ward Leland, I mean acting Royalty in New Zealand,
and she's part of the Global Federation of Actors, which
now which is the first time in New Zealander has
had that role.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
What could that possibly mean?
Speaker 6 (07:42):
How significant is this appointment for you?
Speaker 10 (07:46):
Well, it's the first time New Zealand has been has
been up there on the Presidium of FEAR, which actually
stands for Federaci Internacional Ductor or International Federation of Actors,
and that's the global federation of performers, unions and guilds
all over the world. So it has about eighty seven
countries involved and we've made it four years ago to
(08:08):
the executive, so it kind of goes executive which is
around eight countries represented, then the Presidium which also those
people represent six countries, and then the President. So to
have been elected onto the Prasilium, which was I have
to say quite a surprise. I was in Birmingham for
the World Congress and assuming right rightfully so that New
(08:31):
Zealand would again be on the executive but then there
was a change of circumstance of the Presidium and next
thing I know I was I was being elected on
to that so it is significant and that little you know,
we're one of the smallest performers unions in the world,
in the world, but obviously our presence has been mighty.
Speaker 6 (08:53):
How good is it to be working on a global level.
You're excited to have the opportunity to.
Speaker 10 (08:59):
Look at the issues that the lot of areas are
facing on a global level. Yes, I am Francisca because
performers everywhere, you know, performing acting as a global industry.
The film industry is a global industry. Theater obviously as
much more as each country does it, but the screen
industry is global. People travel, the work travels, and we
(09:23):
can share resources, we can share ideas as a really
wonderful frantic exchange of of of ideas, and and also
a larger unions and guilds can support smaller unions and guilds.
And that's you know, that's really at the heart of it.
It's making sure that we try and make things better
for all performers all over the world because we all
(09:45):
face the same challenges.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Oh that's nice, isn't it that that's they've got that
going on just before AI takes over the entire industry completely.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Nice news talk has it been.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
That'd be so horrible. Sorry, sorry, mister Cinical strikes again.
We're going to finish up here. Back on Jack's show,
some restaurant that he likes has been a restaurant for
forty years, so I suppose that's impressive. So even though
as teenagers our friends were always asking their parents to
(10:23):
go to McDonald's or KFC, when each of us had
a birthday roll around, we would ask to go to Dmitri's,
And it turns out we weren't the only ones. We
might have thought it was a family secret, but it
turned out to be a family secret that was apparently
shared by half the people in Canterbury. After years and
(10:44):
years and years of serving up, however, many hundreds of
thousands or millions of souvlaki's, Dmitries has built his operation
into a gastronomic institution, from the little stand in the
Art Center to his Greek restaurant and his prominent spot
in Riverside Market. Today, Dmitries is a dining destination that
(11:07):
I reckon now ranks among New Zealand's best loved spots.
Speaker 6 (11:12):
Think about it. Queenstown has ferg Burger, Wellington has for Dolls,
christ Church has Dimitries. This week, Dimitries celebrates forty years
of operations in the Garden City. This is their fortieth
birthday weekend. Forty years four decades. So much of christ
(11:34):
Church has changed in that time. The CBD looks completely different.
Entire neighborhoods have gone entire new ones have popped up,
but some things have never changed. Lamb bread lashings of
Tatsiki Dmitri's success is sizzling, mouth watering proof you cannot
(11:55):
improve on perfection.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
It's funny, isn't it how some restaurants have to have
a complete change of identity every sort of two and
a half years. Now you go back to a restaurant
and it's not even called the same name anymore. Another
reskonts to single last forever. This is just a magic
formula here. Sometimes I think it's usually the people who
are running it for grip there.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
I am Glen.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
I run a podcast, So I hope you come back
for another forty years.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
I hope.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
I'm I don't want to be doing on the podcast, but.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
I'm nice to scoose. Forget I said anything, and we'll
see you tomorrow us talking talks it Bean.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
For more from News Talk sid 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, be you Talk said.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Hello, my beautiful beanies, and welcome to the bean The
weekend edition, first of yesterday's news. Should we look back
at both Sunday and Saturday.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
That's husually how we do it.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
The all blacks done and dusted for the year.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
So we'll wrap that up.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
So Tony Robinson, famous for playing balldrec, joined Jack on Saturday.
Jennifer ward Leland joined Francisca yesterday. She's got some big fancy,
snooty dooty position in the acting community, International Acting Community.
And then a restaurant. I've never heard of Jurn's forty.
(01:02):
But before any of that cop thirty, what have they
sorted out to? You know, that whole planet thing.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Do you have a good time at these things?
Speaker 5 (01:12):
No? Well, you know you're exhausted and I've just got
back and I've definitely feeling pretty jet lagged. It's a
long way to Brazil from New Zealand. But look the
reality is it's quality and you've got to go hard,
and we did that. We spent a huge amount of time,
we've got a lot achieved, and you know that's positive
(01:32):
for us. You've got to be at the table.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
What's it like with the sort of I think I
saw the figures around fifty six thousand delegates registered to
attend in person, and is there any sort of I mean,
you will have heard this, these sense of irony about
the fossil fuel burn just to get everyone there.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
Oh, look, there's a huge amount of people. But then
again it's one hundred and ninety four countries, so you know,
NGO participants, there's business, there's you know, all parts of
local community as well. There. I mean, don't forget Brazil's
a pretty big country with plus two hundred million people,
so you know, it was a It was a well
(02:11):
organized event in the main, with the exception of the
little incident at the end with the fire, but other
than that, you know, it was went pretty slow.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Well, New Zealand did win an award, didn't wait, what
did we get Fossil of the Day. How did you
feel about that?
Speaker 5 (02:24):
Well, we're not the only ones. I think Canada, Switzerland
and a few others we've had. I mean we've had
a few as well in the past. But look, the
reality is it's it's one of those parts of the
conferences by no means the focal point.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Fossil of the day. It wasn't me was it? We
heard of that.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Before news talks.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
It been right.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
So the All Blacks beat Whales. I thrashed them as expected,
although really the threshing only happened right at the end.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Of the game from what I was reading. That's right.
I don't watch the All Blacks match these days.
Speaker 6 (03:04):
How do you evaluate the final All Blacks performance of
the year.
Speaker 7 (03:08):
Yeah, oh yeah, Look, it was mostly important to us
that we put together the performance tonight.
Speaker 8 (03:15):
So yeah, generally pretty happy.
Speaker 7 (03:17):
I think we you know, we scored some good tries
and we played some good foot at times, and you know,
really put a really tenacious Welsh team away in the
end after after they came pretty hard early.
Speaker 8 (03:28):
But you know, I think we're a bit more.
Speaker 7 (03:30):
Accurate than we had been at times this season, which
meant we could hold on to the ball and be
confident to hold the ball and get to what and
score some tries. So we're yeah, we just wanted to
put a put a performance together that we were happy
with and what we've sort of worked at during the week.
Speaker 8 (03:46):
There's a lot of things we trained pretty hard to
get and we got tonight.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
Did you sense energy from players who perhaps have had
limited opportunities on the tour before tonight.
Speaker 8 (03:55):
Yeah, and that was all you know, you'd expect that,
wouldn't you know?
Speaker 7 (03:59):
We had We had young guys bring the energy, but
we also had guys, you know, especially the midfield, you know,
the older guys that played eighty odd tests who were
getting their opportunity and this you know, good professionals who
are always going to bring that energy and performance. So
it was a good mix, you know, the younger a
couple of younger boys getting opportunities and but you know,
it's easy when you don't get a game of forty
(04:19):
for three or four weeks to make some silly little
errors and that sort of thing. And I thought in
general we were able to build some pressure, especially the
back end of going to that second half and put
the wash away.
Speaker 8 (04:30):
So yeah, it's been a good week for energy. The
boys have been good.
Speaker 7 (04:33):
And these guys will always always front up on the
all black jersey when they get during the week, you know,
when they get an opportunity.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Yeah, so interesting.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
I was round at my mum's place yesterday and she
was trying to figure out how she could cancel her
sky Sports subscription now that that that game's done, it's
nothing else for her there, given that the cricket doesn't
seem to have in there with you know, the playing
games that have played in New Zealand.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Anyway, So.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Interesting that on the Skysport website, just as an aside,
very easy to add things like the sky Sports package
your account.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
You just click a button and it's pretty much done.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Slightly more complicated to take that off. It's weird, isn't
it that they don't just have a unsubscribe from the
service button. I'm sure if it's strictly kosher.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Anyway, you talk sib right, I remember Blake, and.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
I remember baldricks well with the Blake who played in
said Tony Robinson joined Jack on Saturday morning.
Speaker 6 (05:34):
The House of Wolf is your first piece of adult fiction.
So can you just tell us how tell our listeners
a little bit about it?
Speaker 9 (05:42):
Well, it's pretty ridiculous, really. I was seventy eight when
I decided to write a historic trilogy, but I did.
And yeah, and so the first book is called The
House of Wolf, and it's about King Alfred the Great,
(06:02):
the only king that the English called great, and it
was a long long time ago. It was the ninth
century AD. That's two hundred years before William the Conqueror
came to England. But the reason he is so great
is twofold. First of all, because he completely defeated the
(06:22):
Vikings at a time when nobody else was getting anywhere
near defeating them. Secondly, he was the king of Wessex,
which is like southern England, and he nicked Mercier, which
was the word for the Midlands in those days, glued
them together and used a bit of East Anglia, where
(06:47):
there were some Christian Vikings, so all three were glued together.
Initially they called themselves the Anglo Saxons, but then gradually
out of that came the word angle Land. In other words,
Alfred created England. And so you know, if that isn't
(07:09):
worth a story, what else is it.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
I don't know if the first word out of your
mouth when you're doing an interview to sprouts your new
book should be it's pretty ridiculous, really, I don't know that?
Or is that some clever sort of reverse psychology or
something good?
Speaker 3 (07:25):
On them? Right?
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Jennifer ward Leland, I mean acting Royalty in New Zealand,
and she's part of the Global Federation of Actors, which
now which is the first time in New Zealander has
had that role.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
What could that possibly mean?
Speaker 6 (07:42):
How significant is this appointment for you?
Speaker 10 (07:46):
Well, it's the first time New Zealand has been has
been up there on the Presidium of FEAR, which actually
stands for Federaci Internacional Ductor or International Federation of Actors,
and that's the global federation of performers, unions and guilds
all over the world. So it has about eighty seven
countries involved and we've made it four years ago to
(08:08):
the executive, so it kind of goes executive which is
around eight countries represented, then the Presidium which also those
people represent six countries, and then the President. So to
have been elected onto the Prasilium, which was I have
to say quite a surprise. I was in Birmingham for
the World Congress and assuming right rightfully so that New
(08:31):
Zealand would again be on the executive but then there
was a change of circumstance of the Presidium and next
thing I know I was I was being elected on
to that so it is significant and that little you know,
we're one of the smallest performers unions in the world,
in the world, but obviously our presence has been mighty.
Speaker 6 (08:53):
How good is it to be working on a global level.
You're excited to have the opportunity to.
Speaker 10 (08:59):
Look at the issues that the lot of areas are
facing on a global level. Yes, I am Francisca because
performers everywhere, you know, performing acting as a global industry.
The film industry is a global industry. Theater obviously as
much more as each country does it, but the screen
industry is global. People travel, the work travels, and we
(09:23):
can share resources, we can share ideas as a really
wonderful frantic exchange of of of ideas, and and also
a larger unions and guilds can support smaller unions and guilds.
And that's you know, that's really at the heart of it.
It's making sure that we try and make things better
for all performers all over the world because we all
(09:45):
face the same challenges.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Oh that's nice, isn't it that that's they've got that
going on just before AI takes over the entire industry completely.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Nice news talk has it been.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
That'd be so horrible. Sorry, sorry, mister Cinical strikes again.
We're going to finish up here. Back on Jack's show,
some restaurant that he likes has been a restaurant for
forty years, so I suppose that's impressive. So even though
as teenagers our friends were always asking their parents to
(10:23):
go to McDonald's or KFC, when each of us had
a birthday roll around, we would ask to go to Dmitri's,
And it turns out we weren't the only ones. We
might have thought it was a family secret, but it
turned out to be a family secret that was apparently
shared by half the people in Canterbury. After years and
(10:44):
years and years of serving up, however, many hundreds of
thousands or millions of souvlaki's, Dmitries has built his operation
into a gastronomic institution, from the little stand in the
Art Center to his Greek restaurant and his prominent spot
in Riverside Market. Today, Dmitries is a dining destination that
(11:07):
I reckon now ranks among New Zealand's best loved spots.
Speaker 6 (11:12):
Think about it. Queenstown has ferg Burger, Wellington has for Dolls,
christ Church has Dimitries. This week, Dimitries celebrates forty years
of operations in the Garden City. This is their fortieth
birthday weekend. Forty years four decades. So much of christ
(11:34):
Church has changed in that time. The CBD looks completely different.
Entire neighborhoods have gone entire new ones have popped up,
but some things have never changed. Lamb bread lashings of
Tatsiki Dmitri's success is sizzling, mouth watering proof you cannot
(11:55):
improve on perfection.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
It's funny, isn't it how some restaurants have to have
a complete change of identity every sort of two and
a half years. Now you go back to a restaurant
and it's not even called the same name anymore. Another
reskonts to single last forever. This is just a magic
formula here. Sometimes I think it's usually the people who
are running it for grip there.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
I am Glen.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
I run a podcast, So I hope you come back
for another forty years.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
I hope.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
I'm I don't want to be doing on the podcast, but.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
I'm nice to scoose. Forget I said anything, and we'll
see you tomorrow us talking talks it Bean.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
For more from News Talk sid 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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