November 24, 2025 • 13 mins
FIRST WITH YESTERDAY'S NEWS (highlights from Monday on Newstalk ZB) I Suppose It's Probably a Good Idea/Who's On Strike Today?/Pre-Wasted Food/That About Wraps It Up for Christmas Parties/Plane Crying
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
You're listening to a podcast from news Talk said Bee
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
Hello, my beautiful beanies, and welcome to the bean for Tuesday.
First with yesterday's news, I am Glenhart and we're looking
back at Monday. A lot of strikes, a lot of
industrial action, a lot of union action. Ryan wants to
say on that we're wasting a lot of food, about
two undred and fifty kilos each per year. It seems
like a lot, doesn't it. Marcus has got some Christmas
(00:45):
party advice for you, and we're going to get into
the whole phenomenon of airplane movies and why they make
you cry. But before any of that, can we savor nationals? Well,
they're basically putting it up, and of course that means
everybody's going to have to pay more.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Do you have enough invested and saved to get Did
it come as a bit of a shock or was
it pretty much as you expected that with the investments
you had, the savings, you had, the house that you'd
paid off that combined with the souper, you're just fine.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
People.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
There are a lot of people I think who don't
realize that when it comes to being poor, it's pretty rubbish,
but being poor and old is doubly rubbish. And unless
you start saving at a very young age, even a
little bit like look at the rich dad, poor dad,
(01:51):
even putting ten bucks a week away, Getting into that
habit of saving is the best thing you can possibly
do for yourself. I wish I'd had it hammered home
to me when I first started work. There are good
savers like being good at languages, people are who are
good at budgeting, and then there are hopeless ones. But
(02:14):
even hopeless ones need to know that even a little
bit set aside every payday is going to pay off
in the long run.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
It kind of urged me somewhat yesterday. Every time the
story was reported on it was it was they're raising
the rate to match Australia's. And I don't like an
Australian based policy decision, even if it's a good decision,
I don't. I don't want anybody to do things just
(02:48):
because it's the way Australia does things. I want us
to have our own ideas.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
News talk z it bean, can.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
We have our own idea? And it just happens to
be the same as Australia. No, no, I'm still I
can't reward that now. Very lot of you union stuff
goes on in this failure. Of course, I feel like
there's not quite as much here. And yet there have
been a lot of strikes lately, haven't there.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
There's a lot of strikes on at the moment, and
the unions, well, they change like wounded bulls for their services,
don't they. Some of them up to fifty bucks a
fortnite for the privilege, and they claim that they're in
it for the workers. Of course they do. They care
about them, they want to pay the conditions, they want
them to be better. They've worked their way up the
union ranks to help those at the bottom, etc. Et cetera.
But then once they get a bit of a profile,
(03:37):
they jump ship and where do they go? The Labor Party.
They're good mates and Craig Rennie he fits the bill
for this. He flits between the CTU and Grant Robertson's
office and he's been now selected to run in Wellington Base.
Flurfits Simons, who tried but failed to get elected for Labor.
She's surely going to try and weasel her way back
and onto the list somewhere Michael Wood he wants back in.
(04:00):
Can't get enough of it. You see, Unions are simply
not the premier league for these guys, are they. They're
the equivalent of the bench for the labor Caucus. It's
the place you go to keep your profile up while
you wait for another turn. It's sucking from the public
tit And there's nothing particularly wrong with this. But if
you're a low wage worker who believes these people are
(04:20):
your champions and are in it for you for negotiating
hard with your employees, for doing the mahi, and then
you realize, actually they've just been using this as a
bit of a flight path to feather their nest at
the beehive. Wouldn't you be a bit pissed off with that?
I would be. Not all union members are lefties, after all.
Sure many of them are, but most just want a
(04:40):
fair deal and a decent spokesperson, not a bunch of
political wannabes doing dress ups waiting for their time in
the national spotlight.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
I can't imagine paying fifty bucks a fortnite somebody to
be and I've never understood the union thing to be honest,
but I get that they speak to some people who
don't have the skills to speak for themselves. Is that
what they're supposed to do? You take that fifty dollars
a fortnite though, and stick it in your can. We
(05:10):
say that it'll probably help.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Us talk SIV.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
So we're wasting a lot of food, or are we?
I think either thinks the supermarkets might be to blame.
The super maggots are always the playing, don't they.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
It's everybody before the food gets to us, right, it's
the farmers, the growers. The process is the wholesalers, the
fruit and veggie shops, the supermarkets, all the retailers.
Speaker 6 (05:33):
They are doing two thirds of the wasting.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Most of the food that they throw away is edible,
seventy eight to eighty five percent of it can still
be eaten. Now, the report doesn't say why the food
is being wasted, but we can guess why it's being wasted.
I mean, the grower has maybe grown too many lettuces,
more than the supermarket once just leaves them lying on
the field. The apples come off the tree of funny
shape of consumer is not going to want that gets
thrown away.
Speaker 6 (05:56):
The flower has hit the best before date.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
No one's going to bake an entire thousand cakes with it,
so they just get rid of it. Nothing actually wrong
with the food. Now, this is where I wonder if
all of these guys have missed a trick, because I
don't mind a funny shaped apple as long as it
tastes good, and if it's going to cost me twenty
percent less than a perfectly shaped apple.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
I'm gonna buy it.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
I already buy the stuff from Woolworths in the odd
bunch bags. You know that's supposed to be cheaper because
it's not as perfect. I constantly ignore the best before
dates because I think they're far too conservative. Now I
realize that for some food processes, selling it a discount
just makes the exercise unjustifiable, because the cost of labor
for sorting out the duds and then transporting them, which
has a cost only to offer a discount might make
(06:38):
the whole exercise for them economically unviable.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
But if it isn't, if they can still make.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
A dollar while selling the product for cheaper, I reckon
that in a cost of living crisis, where groceries are
just so unbelievably pricey at the moment if we ever
had the chance to snap ourselves out of the subsession
with eating perfect apples. Now's the time sample of one here.
But I reckon there's a market for the edible off
casts at a cheaper price.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Edible off casts. That's going to catch you ring too,
it isn't it. I don't know if it's got an
advertizing ring to it, but I'm off down to edible
off gas get a few cheap packets of expired stuff.
It's a bit like the for fridge here at work.
(07:23):
A surprising number of cans of coke herro sugar in
the in the fridge out the back of the studio here?
Who's stashed all wet in there? But it is hard
to stay awake and in the studio sometimes I've got
I'm gonna say, right, so, yeah, we're really rollicking on?
(07:43):
And to do you rollck on.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
It?
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Can you rollck? Is it a verber? Is it just
an adjective? Rollicking? Anyway, I've got bogged down there. Let's
carry on with our Christmas parties. Marcus has got some
advice about Christmas parties.
Speaker 7 (07:59):
I've spoken to the boss today and I think it's
just four weeks till Christmas. I don't know if we're
having a Christmas party every year that I ask of
Dan and I can order a scavenger hunt, because they'd
be great, great fun with you know, different teams having
to do different tasks with Hosking and Heather and the like.
(08:21):
But they've never come back to us to organize that
so anyway, so I measure it to be a dance
partty downstairs or something. But if you are after a
Christmas party, my standard advice is, if you go in
to a Christmas party, you want to get a support person.
If you want to drink, you want to get a
support person that can just say, hey, that's probably enough.
(08:43):
I reckon that's your best advice. Otherwise, I'm sure they're
not going to sack you straight away, but probably when
it comes to kind of financial review, getting someone halfway
getting rid of someone halfway down there, you think, well,
actually they're fine, but boyoboard, did you see them doing
that at the Christmas party? And I reckon, that's where
they first on the list. So you want to get
some sort of super sub just track you're on that one.
(09:07):
I think a lot of will think they go to
the Christmas party and how much they've been how much
they think they've been underpaid. They try to recompense by
drinking that much at the Christmas party to make it good.
It never ends well if they actually think. I think
about it for a long long time. I think probably
the reasons to go to the Christmas party get lessons
(09:29):
every year. But that's just my thoughts. Do what you
need to do. But oh yeah, I think I'm at
the stage where I think a scavenger hunt would be
a much better thing on an escape room or something
like that. But anyway, I'm pretty much an office of one,
so I'm pretty happy with it. I'll organize my own
with Massadines.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
It was a very stranger fear last year. It was
in the afternoon. It was sort of an afternoon one,
and there were so many of us there that it's
sort of started in one large bar and then apparently,
well not apparently, then they sort of we sort of
(10:09):
took over another bar close by, which was a bit
of a surprise that that happened. I don't know. I'm
hopefully it wasn't a surprise to the people who were
running the bars, but there's a lot of people. It's
like everyone who works for ends of me all at
(10:30):
the same Christmas Patty, and I don't know who any
of these people are. I left fairly early on and
I wandered down to the bus stop, but on a
bus came home. I haven't actually paid too much attention
to what they're doing again this year. It's probably it'll
probably be in the morning this year. But they're not
(10:52):
what they used to be news talk. Has it been right?
We're going to finish up here? Crying on an airplane?
Apparently the snappings more often on an airplane. You know,
when you're watching a movie and you know, you get
back home and you go, oh, I watched this amazing
movie on the plane, cried and cried, and then somebody
(11:15):
else watches it. You know, what are you talking about?
Speaker 8 (11:17):
Do you know how you cry in romantic comedies and
such when you watch them on planes.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
Well?
Speaker 8 (11:23):
I was watching Diehard three only recently, and in the
bit where they think the school is going to be bombed, yes,
and someone says, you know, the whole of New York
City just called one you know one one what? And
I started crying because I was like, Oh, all these
poor parents that think their kids are going to be
bombed right but then, and so I locked up what
it was. And it's because in the back of your mind,
(11:44):
the amigdaler and the more primitive parts of your brain
are detecting that you're traveling at eight hundred and fifty
kilometers an hour and you're forty thousand feet up right right,
So you've actually got this heightened sense of emotion that
the front part of your brain, the prefrontal cortex, isn't
really registering. So you think it's standard, but you're actually
in a panic state. So you're already in a heightened
emotional state. So in the rom com, when Hugh Grant
(12:06):
rushes to the airport to meet meet the girly Loves,
that's more meaningful for you because you're in a heightened
emotional state. That's crazy, that's a great fact.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Is it a fact? Feel like it's not really a fact.
I've heard so many other explanations, something to do with
the air pressure or the dryness of the atmosphere, or
the fact that you're breathing in everybody else's farts. I've
had a lot of varias as to why it happens. Well,
so I don't remember Hugh Grant being a die hard.
Three and also nobody does one one one in New
(12:41):
York nine one one. I mean, I don't want to
sit here and dispect you the afternoon show the entire podcast,
because that's an idea for a whole other podcast. I
must go and talk to the guy in charge of podcasts.
Speaker 8 (12:59):
Many thanks to that idea, we get.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Some sponsorship behind that, perhaps all the people who can
with the people who sponsor things in the afternoon show.
It's like the anti Afternoon Show. I'm just brainstorming this
live during this podcast ideas for another podcast. Is that
interesting to listen to? Not really it? So we'll stop
(13:24):
that and I will start out up again tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
See the use Talking talkings it beam 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 Bee
follow this and our wide range of podcasts now on iHeartRadio.
Used Talk said, be you Talk.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Hello, my beautiful beanies, and welcome to the bean for Tuesday.
First with yesterday's news, I am Glenhart and we're looking
back at Monday. A lot of strikes, a lot of
industrial action, a lot of union action. Ryan wants to
say on that we're wasting a lot of food, about
two undred and fifty kilos each per year. It seems
like a lot, doesn't it. Marcus has got some Christmas
(00:45):
party advice for you, and we're going to get into
the whole phenomenon of airplane movies and why they make
you cry. But before any of that, can we savor nationals? Well,
they're basically putting it up, and of course that means
everybody's going to have to pay more.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Do you have enough invested and saved to get Did
it come as a bit of a shock or was
it pretty much as you expected that with the investments
you had, the savings, you had, the house that you'd
paid off that combined with the souper, you're just fine.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
People.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
There are a lot of people I think who don't
realize that when it comes to being poor, it's pretty rubbish,
but being poor and old is doubly rubbish. And unless
you start saving at a very young age, even a
little bit like look at the rich dad, poor dad,
(01:51):
even putting ten bucks a week away, Getting into that
habit of saving is the best thing you can possibly
do for yourself. I wish I'd had it hammered home
to me when I first started work. There are good
savers like being good at languages, people are who are
good at budgeting, and then there are hopeless ones. But
(02:14):
even hopeless ones need to know that even a little
bit set aside every payday is going to pay off
in the long run.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
It kind of urged me somewhat yesterday. Every time the
story was reported on it was it was they're raising
the rate to match Australia's. And I don't like an
Australian based policy decision, even if it's a good decision,
I don't. I don't want anybody to do things just
(02:48):
because it's the way Australia does things. I want us
to have our own ideas.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
News talk z it bean, can.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
We have our own idea? And it just happens to
be the same as Australia. No, no, I'm still I
can't reward that now. Very lot of you union stuff
goes on in this failure. Of course, I feel like
there's not quite as much here. And yet there have
been a lot of strikes lately, haven't there.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
There's a lot of strikes on at the moment, and
the unions, well, they change like wounded bulls for their services,
don't they. Some of them up to fifty bucks a
fortnite for the privilege, and they claim that they're in
it for the workers. Of course they do. They care
about them, they want to pay the conditions, they want
them to be better. They've worked their way up the
union ranks to help those at the bottom, etc. Et cetera.
But then once they get a bit of a profile,
(03:37):
they jump ship and where do they go? The Labor Party.
They're good mates and Craig Rennie he fits the bill
for this. He flits between the CTU and Grant Robertson's
office and he's been now selected to run in Wellington Base.
Flurfits Simons, who tried but failed to get elected for Labor.
She's surely going to try and weasel her way back
and onto the list somewhere Michael Wood he wants back in.
(04:00):
Can't get enough of it. You see, Unions are simply
not the premier league for these guys, are they. They're
the equivalent of the bench for the labor Caucus. It's
the place you go to keep your profile up while
you wait for another turn. It's sucking from the public
tit And there's nothing particularly wrong with this. But if
you're a low wage worker who believes these people are
(04:20):
your champions and are in it for you for negotiating
hard with your employees, for doing the mahi, and then
you realize, actually they've just been using this as a
bit of a flight path to feather their nest at
the beehive. Wouldn't you be a bit pissed off with that?
I would be. Not all union members are lefties, after all.
Sure many of them are, but most just want a
(04:40):
fair deal and a decent spokesperson, not a bunch of
political wannabes doing dress ups waiting for their time in
the national spotlight.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
I can't imagine paying fifty bucks a fortnite somebody to
be and I've never understood the union thing to be honest,
but I get that they speak to some people who
don't have the skills to speak for themselves. Is that
what they're supposed to do? You take that fifty dollars
a fortnite though, and stick it in your can. We
(05:10):
say that it'll probably help.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Us talk SIV.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
So we're wasting a lot of food, or are we?
I think either thinks the supermarkets might be to blame.
The super maggots are always the playing, don't they.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
It's everybody before the food gets to us, right, it's
the farmers, the growers. The process is the wholesalers, the
fruit and veggie shops, the supermarkets, all the retailers.
Speaker 6 (05:33):
They are doing two thirds of the wasting.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Most of the food that they throw away is edible,
seventy eight to eighty five percent of it can still
be eaten. Now, the report doesn't say why the food
is being wasted, but we can guess why it's being wasted.
I mean, the grower has maybe grown too many lettuces,
more than the supermarket once just leaves them lying on
the field. The apples come off the tree of funny
shape of consumer is not going to want that gets
thrown away.
Speaker 6 (05:56):
The flower has hit the best before date.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
No one's going to bake an entire thousand cakes with it,
so they just get rid of it. Nothing actually wrong
with the food. Now, this is where I wonder if
all of these guys have missed a trick, because I
don't mind a funny shaped apple as long as it
tastes good, and if it's going to cost me twenty
percent less than a perfectly shaped apple.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
I'm gonna buy it.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
I already buy the stuff from Woolworths in the odd
bunch bags. You know that's supposed to be cheaper because
it's not as perfect. I constantly ignore the best before
dates because I think they're far too conservative. Now I
realize that for some food processes, selling it a discount
just makes the exercise unjustifiable, because the cost of labor
for sorting out the duds and then transporting them, which
has a cost only to offer a discount might make
(06:38):
the whole exercise for them economically unviable.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
But if it isn't, if they can still make.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
A dollar while selling the product for cheaper, I reckon
that in a cost of living crisis, where groceries are
just so unbelievably pricey at the moment if we ever
had the chance to snap ourselves out of the subsession
with eating perfect apples. Now's the time sample of one here.
But I reckon there's a market for the edible off
casts at a cheaper price.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Edible off casts. That's going to catch you ring too,
it isn't it. I don't know if it's got an
advertizing ring to it, but I'm off down to edible
off gas get a few cheap packets of expired stuff.
It's a bit like the for fridge here at work.
(07:23):
A surprising number of cans of coke herro sugar in
the in the fridge out the back of the studio here?
Who's stashed all wet in there? But it is hard
to stay awake and in the studio sometimes I've got
I'm gonna say, right, so, yeah, we're really rollicking on?
(07:43):
And to do you rollck on.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
It?
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Can you rollck? Is it a verber? Is it just
an adjective? Rollicking? Anyway, I've got bogged down there. Let's
carry on with our Christmas parties. Marcus has got some
advice about Christmas parties.
Speaker 7 (07:59):
I've spoken to the boss today and I think it's
just four weeks till Christmas. I don't know if we're
having a Christmas party every year that I ask of
Dan and I can order a scavenger hunt, because they'd
be great, great fun with you know, different teams having
to do different tasks with Hosking and Heather and the like.
(08:21):
But they've never come back to us to organize that
so anyway, so I measure it to be a dance
partty downstairs or something. But if you are after a
Christmas party, my standard advice is, if you go in
to a Christmas party, you want to get a support person.
If you want to drink, you want to get a
support person that can just say, hey, that's probably enough.
(08:43):
I reckon that's your best advice. Otherwise, I'm sure they're
not going to sack you straight away, but probably when
it comes to kind of financial review, getting someone halfway
getting rid of someone halfway down there, you think, well,
actually they're fine, but boyoboard, did you see them doing
that at the Christmas party? And I reckon, that's where
they first on the list. So you want to get
some sort of super sub just track you're on that one.
(09:07):
I think a lot of will think they go to
the Christmas party and how much they've been how much
they think they've been underpaid. They try to recompense by
drinking that much at the Christmas party to make it good.
It never ends well if they actually think. I think
about it for a long long time. I think probably
the reasons to go to the Christmas party get lessons
(09:29):
every year. But that's just my thoughts. Do what you
need to do. But oh yeah, I think I'm at
the stage where I think a scavenger hunt would be
a much better thing on an escape room or something
like that. But anyway, I'm pretty much an office of one,
so I'm pretty happy with it. I'll organize my own
with Massadines.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
It was a very stranger fear last year. It was
in the afternoon. It was sort of an afternoon one,
and there were so many of us there that it's
sort of started in one large bar and then apparently,
well not apparently, then they sort of we sort of
(10:09):
took over another bar close by, which was a bit
of a surprise that that happened. I don't know. I'm
hopefully it wasn't a surprise to the people who were
running the bars, but there's a lot of people. It's
like everyone who works for ends of me all at
(10:30):
the same Christmas Patty, and I don't know who any
of these people are. I left fairly early on and
I wandered down to the bus stop, but on a
bus came home. I haven't actually paid too much attention
to what they're doing again this year. It's probably it'll
probably be in the morning this year. But they're not
(10:52):
what they used to be news talk. Has it been right?
We're going to finish up here? Crying on an airplane?
Apparently the snappings more often on an airplane. You know,
when you're watching a movie and you know, you get
back home and you go, oh, I watched this amazing
movie on the plane, cried and cried, and then somebody
(11:15):
else watches it. You know, what are you talking about?
Speaker 8 (11:17):
Do you know how you cry in romantic comedies and
such when you watch them on planes.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
Well?
Speaker 8 (11:23):
I was watching Diehard three only recently, and in the
bit where they think the school is going to be bombed, yes,
and someone says, you know, the whole of New York
City just called one you know one one what? And
I started crying because I was like, Oh, all these
poor parents that think their kids are going to be
bombed right but then, and so I locked up what
it was. And it's because in the back of your mind,
(11:44):
the amigdaler and the more primitive parts of your brain
are detecting that you're traveling at eight hundred and fifty
kilometers an hour and you're forty thousand feet up right right,
So you've actually got this heightened sense of emotion that
the front part of your brain, the prefrontal cortex, isn't
really registering. So you think it's standard, but you're actually
in a panic state. So you're already in a heightened
emotional state. So in the rom com, when Hugh Grant
(12:06):
rushes to the airport to meet meet the girly Loves,
that's more meaningful for you because you're in a heightened
emotional state. That's crazy, that's a great fact.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Is it a fact? Feel like it's not really a fact.
I've heard so many other explanations, something to do with
the air pressure or the dryness of the atmosphere, or
the fact that you're breathing in everybody else's farts. I've
had a lot of varias as to why it happens. Well,
so I don't remember Hugh Grant being a die hard.
Three and also nobody does one one one in New
(12:41):
York nine one one. I mean, I don't want to
sit here and dispect you the afternoon show the entire podcast,
because that's an idea for a whole other podcast. I
must go and talk to the guy in charge of podcasts.
Speaker 8 (12:59):
Many thanks to that idea, we get.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Some sponsorship behind that, perhaps all the people who can
with the people who sponsor things in the afternoon show.
It's like the anti Afternoon Show. I'm just brainstorming this
live during this podcast ideas for another podcast. Is that
interesting to listen to? Not really it? So we'll stop
(13:24):
that and I will start out up again tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
See the use Talking talkings it beam 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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