February 13, 2025 • 13 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
Hellom Over Little Beanies and Welcome to the Beans. For
Friday Firs with yesterday's news, I am van harton we
are looking back at Thursday insurance. It seems to be
going up with the up, so we'll find out what
Kerry Woodham thinks about that.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Shortly. No McDonald's for Wanaka.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Actually you're probably going to get one, but it's not
where they were initially going to put it.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
The Royals. We're over the royals, aren't we? Or are we?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
And then we're going to finish up sweeping our asses
off in Hamilton before any of that. Ukraine, I don't
know that what Pete pigsAs US defensive gretary here you say,
Moto was great news for.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
What's his name? Oh that's right, Selenski. I've forgoten already.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
And they announced that Ukraine would have to give up
land to Russia in any peace deal. Now that is
a change in US policy, and that is because of
a change in administration, and that's Donald Trump. Zelansky has
now said he's open to a land swap, but you
know that the land head swapped is not necessarily the
(01:29):
land Russia wants, you know, that land with all the
natural resources. So there's the negotiation to get through. It
is true that some Ukrainians would like to be Russian,
and it's certainly true that most Ukrainians want to be Ukrainian.
Any deal has to respect those two positions. But everyone
knows the war has to stop. Too many have died.
(01:52):
It's estimated there have been one hundred and twenty thousand
deaths in the combat, one hundred and eighty thousand injured.
The Russian numbers dwarfed the Ukrainian officials there say seventy
thousand Russians killed up to one hundred and twenty thousand wounded.
Much death, so much death, which I find hard to
(02:12):
imagine in this day and age. So bring on peace.
But one day there has to be an accounting, and
Vladimir Putin needs to know that blood is on his
hands because he started it and he'll have to end.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
It to Yeah, I guess the unfortunate thing is that
Putin seems to be only the impression that he didn't
start it, that it was started. Quite some time ago
by Ukraine. So I think that's that's kind of the issue.
I'm sorry, it all gets sorted out.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
It'll be fine.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
News talk, has it been right now?
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Insurance jeez, it seems to be.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
I was surprised. Actually, I brought a new car recently, and.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
I was surprised, not so much about how much it
was going to cost to ensure, but things like, you know,
the glass replacement, the windspreen replacement thing that you're sure
that they used to sort of throw that in as
an incentive, and now I'm paying quite a lot of
money for that thing.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
When did all this happen?
Speaker 6 (03:17):
Do you keep up the life insurance payments so that
of heaven forfend one of you dies, the other isn't
left with dreadful grief, parentless children and a five hundred
thousand dollars mortgage. Do you keep up the income protection,
which is incredibly expensive, so that if you get ill
(03:38):
and you can't work, you won't lose your home and
your business. Do you give up the health insurance because
you're a young couple and you've got two young kids
and hopefully you'll be fine. Do you go to third
party with the car when you're trying to make a
(03:58):
finite amount of money go in many many different ways
when you retire. You know, when you retire, do you
you don't have to pay income protection anymore? Do you
keep up the life insurance? Do you do it as
a you know, basically, pay the premiums as a gift
(04:19):
to the next generation coming up? Or do you spend
it in the here and now? What do you do?
You know, insurance is there in case. It's an investment
really that you hope you never have to cash in
on for most of it. If you have to cash
in on your insurance policies, chances are something's gone badly wrong.
(04:42):
Is it a nice to have or a must have?
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Of course?
Speaker 2 (04:45):
I famously cashed in my life insurance policy to buy
my girlfriend at the time and engagement ring. And at
that point I was really young, so my life insurance
was much so I wasn't much.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Of a ring.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
But she still said yes amazingly and was married all
this time later. It kind of was ended up being
my new life insurance policy, if you know what I mean.
It's a nice read meta thing to say on Valentine's Day,
isn't it?
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Guenn, Yes, it is very nice thing to say, Glen,
put yourself on the back.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Glen.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
During Kerry Shaw, I heard somebody bring up saying that
their son had just quarter a fourteen thousand dollars car
and because he was so young and new to driving,
they wouldn't ensure it for less than seven thousand dollars
a year.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Something back. Well, maybe it was you talk said a Wanaka,
you want this? McDonald's are not? Who's out?
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Not?
Speaker 7 (05:53):
Last night Queenstown District Deputy Mayor queen and Smith told
Andrew Dickens on news talks he'd be the proposed setting
and McDonald's wasn't a good fit.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
It may be parts of town where this activity might
be appropriate, and if this was within a commercial within
the town center or within the commercial zone within the town,
I there say there's very little that anybody could do
to stop that.
Speaker 7 (06:16):
So did McDonald's just get it wrong? Did they not
read the room being tucked away in the Three Parks
development or the center of town might have made it
easy to gain consent, But would even that have been
acceptable for locals? I say, good on the folks of Wanica.
Who doesn't love a David and Goliath battle? There apparently
over forty one thousand McDonald's in the world. There's one
about an hour away from Wanicah. Does another small town
(06:38):
need a golden Arch? I personally love rolling into New
Zealand towns, exploring what's on offer, finding the best homemade pie,
shout out to Miles better Pies in Tiano, and having
a chat with locals. It's always good to get away
from the familiar. Tourists don't visit a stunning place like
Wanica because it has a McDonald So it comes down
to the community. At the community feel it doesn't reflect
(07:00):
their values for whatever reason, protecting the vista, their brand,
local businesses, or just plain old snobbery. Then I say
go for it, fight the fight, just like the Magnificent
I caught it it.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
I can't say I've got super strong feelings on this one.
I don't love McDonald's except for the milkshakes.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Love the milkshakes.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
I don't know about the grimmad shake that myke Hoskin
keeps going on about the purple one. I haven't tried
that one. I do miss the green ones, the lime shakes,
and I really wish that they would still a spearmint shake.
Because that is my favorite lime milkshake.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
So I mean, I guess as long as you.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Can get a decent milkshake somewhere else in Winnaka, that's
the main thing. The people of Wanica sound like the
kind of people who are into the Royals. I'm not
sure where Diane comes from. She certainly is are they
still relevant or do they still carry influence for people
around the world and particularly here in New Zealands.
Speaker 8 (08:02):
Diane, welcome to show your thoughts on the royal family
and Kate Middleton.
Speaker 9 (08:06):
I'm Matt and Tyler. Now, Tyler, you should get out
and about more. I've had two lovely conversations with Prince
Charles when it was Prince Charles and that, and I
have when he was playing polo in Australia, and then
another time when he came to the opera House Prince William.
(08:27):
He's chatted to him twice too when he came over
here and that, and they actually sent me a wedding
photo of them, did they? Yes? And that was after
the airlines lost all my luggage with all my Royal
souvenirs because I was over there when he got married
and that and when the Queen's mother died. I just
happened to be in the UK at the time, and
(08:49):
that's so nice. I think we still you.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Know, you need to get it, Diane.
Speaker 8 (08:52):
Did you get any of that stuff back or was
it lost forever?
Speaker 9 (08:55):
Lost forever?
Speaker 2 (08:57):
I feel like Diane should have taken that as a sign.
She seems like she's pretty close. They're basically a close
personal friends. You're allowed to be into your close personal friends.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Yeah, I think we'll leave a generation below Diane. I mean,
I'm just making an assumption that a generation or two
above me.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
In the seniority.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
But yeah, I think given another couple of years, I
can I forget it. If it was a horror fam
the Mountain, I really hope.
Speaker 9 (09:33):
So news talk has it been right.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Let's bring it up talking my hometown.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
If it's I know that if it's hot and humid,
an Orban, I can only imagine what it's been like
down there.
Speaker 8 (09:48):
Is it kind of what sort of hot is it?
Is it like one of those hots that's like a
shirt sticks to your back hot. Because it doesn't seem
to be a very breezy kind of a place. Hamilton
doesn't like where the fog gets there and stays so
I'm curious though, what it's like. Are the crickets there?
How hot is it? I don't really like to target
particular places, but you're Hamilton. Has it been thirty degrees
(10:10):
for the last ten days? It must have been. It
seems like it's been a pretty hot summer. No one's complaining,
but Hamilton hot, hot, hot. They've only had one day
below twenty seven degrees celsius. Yeah, that's the peak. Obviously,
(10:33):
is not like that all day and all night. But
jep as creepers as hot. So what's Hamilton like when
it's hot? Because it feels like I don't know, you
go curious to know about that. Hamilton, Hamilton, Hamilton twenty
seven to does it feel i'mbeerably hot? Was a pleasant hot?
I guess what I want you to do is to
describe the Hamilton heat, because I haven't experienced it. Every
time I've been in Hamilton. It's been days which have
(10:54):
not been on mind. You we did go there when
the bus broke down. That was in January, but other
things on my mind. Anyway, get in touch if you're
in Hamilton. I'd be curious to know how that is
for you. Oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty or
text that through just a curious day about that heat?
Does it seem unseasonably hot? How do you describe heat?
(11:16):
I don't know, Like, is everyone jumping in the lake
and they're jumping in the river? Has it people gone
crazy and driving out to Ragland for a swim? What
do you do in Hamilton when it gets hot? What
would you do in Hamilton when it gets hot? You
can't go ice skating? You know what you do?
Speaker 2 (11:35):
You just want to die, is my recollection.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
All you can really do is by flat in a
shady place and wish for everything to be over.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
It's a There's an amazing book by a guy called
Kim Stanley Robinson you called Ministry for the Future. And
the opening scene of the book, there's a bunch of
people in India, I think they are that's a climate change,
postal apocalyptic climate hanging in front of.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
A book.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
And they it's so hot and so humid that they
all get into the water in a whole town. But
the temperature of the water, of course, is also hotter
than body temperature, and so basically, really, guys, and that's
what you feel like when it's like that In Hamilton,
(12:42):
City of Romance, City of Love. On the Day of Love,
I'll leave it there with that beautiful romantic thought, and
we'll see back here again on Monday with a weekend edition.
Hang in there, Hamilton, it won't stay as hot forever.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Probably Use Talking Bean.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
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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 Be
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
Hellom Over Little Beanies and Welcome to the Beans. For
Friday Firs with yesterday's news, I am van harton we
are looking back at Thursday insurance. It seems to be
going up with the up, so we'll find out what
Kerry Woodham thinks about that.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Shortly. No McDonald's for Wanaka.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Actually you're probably going to get one, but it's not
where they were initially going to put it.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
The Royals. We're over the royals, aren't we? Or are we?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
And then we're going to finish up sweeping our asses
off in Hamilton before any of that. Ukraine, I don't
know that what Pete pigsAs US defensive gretary here you say,
Moto was great news for.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
What's his name? Oh that's right, Selenski. I've forgoten already.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
And they announced that Ukraine would have to give up
land to Russia in any peace deal. Now that is
a change in US policy, and that is because of
a change in administration, and that's Donald Trump. Zelansky has
now said he's open to a land swap, but you
know that the land head swapped is not necessarily the
(01:29):
land Russia wants, you know, that land with all the
natural resources. So there's the negotiation to get through. It
is true that some Ukrainians would like to be Russian,
and it's certainly true that most Ukrainians want to be Ukrainian.
Any deal has to respect those two positions. But everyone
knows the war has to stop. Too many have died.
(01:52):
It's estimated there have been one hundred and twenty thousand
deaths in the combat, one hundred and eighty thousand injured.
The Russian numbers dwarfed the Ukrainian officials there say seventy
thousand Russians killed up to one hundred and twenty thousand wounded.
Much death, so much death, which I find hard to
(02:12):
imagine in this day and age. So bring on peace.
But one day there has to be an accounting, and
Vladimir Putin needs to know that blood is on his
hands because he started it and he'll have to end.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
It to Yeah, I guess the unfortunate thing is that
Putin seems to be only the impression that he didn't
start it, that it was started. Quite some time ago
by Ukraine. So I think that's that's kind of the issue.
I'm sorry, it all gets sorted out.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
It'll be fine.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
News talk, has it been right now?
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Insurance jeez, it seems to be.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
I was surprised. Actually, I brought a new car recently, and.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
I was surprised, not so much about how much it
was going to cost to ensure, but things like, you know,
the glass replacement, the windspreen replacement thing that you're sure
that they used to sort of throw that in as
an incentive, and now I'm paying quite a lot of
money for that thing.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
When did all this happen?
Speaker 6 (03:17):
Do you keep up the life insurance payments so that
of heaven forfend one of you dies, the other isn't
left with dreadful grief, parentless children and a five hundred
thousand dollars mortgage. Do you keep up the income protection,
which is incredibly expensive, so that if you get ill
(03:38):
and you can't work, you won't lose your home and
your business. Do you give up the health insurance because
you're a young couple and you've got two young kids
and hopefully you'll be fine. Do you go to third
party with the car when you're trying to make a
(03:58):
finite amount of money go in many many different ways
when you retire. You know, when you retire, do you
you don't have to pay income protection anymore? Do you
keep up the life insurance? Do you do it as
a you know, basically, pay the premiums as a gift
(04:19):
to the next generation coming up? Or do you spend
it in the here and now? What do you do?
You know, insurance is there in case. It's an investment
really that you hope you never have to cash in
on for most of it. If you have to cash
in on your insurance policies, chances are something's gone badly wrong.
(04:42):
Is it a nice to have or a must have?
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Of course?
Speaker 2 (04:45):
I famously cashed in my life insurance policy to buy
my girlfriend at the time and engagement ring. And at
that point I was really young, so my life insurance
was much so I wasn't much.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Of a ring.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
But she still said yes amazingly and was married all
this time later. It kind of was ended up being
my new life insurance policy, if you know what I mean.
It's a nice read meta thing to say on Valentine's Day,
isn't it?
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Guenn, Yes, it is very nice thing to say, Glen,
put yourself on the back.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Glen.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
During Kerry Shaw, I heard somebody bring up saying that
their son had just quarter a fourteen thousand dollars car
and because he was so young and new to driving,
they wouldn't ensure it for less than seven thousand dollars
a year.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Something back. Well, maybe it was you talk said a Wanaka,
you want this? McDonald's are not? Who's out?
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Not?
Speaker 7 (05:53):
Last night Queenstown District Deputy Mayor queen and Smith told
Andrew Dickens on news talks he'd be the proposed setting
and McDonald's wasn't a good fit.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
It may be parts of town where this activity might
be appropriate, and if this was within a commercial within
the town center or within the commercial zone within the town,
I there say there's very little that anybody could do
to stop that.
Speaker 7 (06:16):
So did McDonald's just get it wrong? Did they not
read the room being tucked away in the Three Parks
development or the center of town might have made it
easy to gain consent, But would even that have been
acceptable for locals? I say, good on the folks of Wanica.
Who doesn't love a David and Goliath battle? There apparently
over forty one thousand McDonald's in the world. There's one
about an hour away from Wanicah. Does another small town
(06:38):
need a golden Arch? I personally love rolling into New
Zealand towns, exploring what's on offer, finding the best homemade pie,
shout out to Miles better Pies in Tiano, and having
a chat with locals. It's always good to get away
from the familiar. Tourists don't visit a stunning place like
Wanica because it has a McDonald So it comes down
to the community. At the community feel it doesn't reflect
(07:00):
their values for whatever reason, protecting the vista, their brand,
local businesses, or just plain old snobbery. Then I say
go for it, fight the fight, just like the Magnificent
I caught it it.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
I can't say I've got super strong feelings on this one.
I don't love McDonald's except for the milkshakes.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Love the milkshakes.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
I don't know about the grimmad shake that myke Hoskin
keeps going on about the purple one. I haven't tried
that one. I do miss the green ones, the lime shakes,
and I really wish that they would still a spearmint shake.
Because that is my favorite lime milkshake.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
So I mean, I guess as long as you.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Can get a decent milkshake somewhere else in Winnaka, that's
the main thing. The people of Wanica sound like the
kind of people who are into the Royals. I'm not
sure where Diane comes from. She certainly is are they
still relevant or do they still carry influence for people
around the world and particularly here in New Zealands.
Speaker 8 (08:02):
Diane, welcome to show your thoughts on the royal family
and Kate Middleton.
Speaker 9 (08:06):
I'm Matt and Tyler. Now, Tyler, you should get out
and about more. I've had two lovely conversations with Prince
Charles when it was Prince Charles and that, and I
have when he was playing polo in Australia, and then
another time when he came to the opera House Prince William.
(08:27):
He's chatted to him twice too when he came over
here and that, and they actually sent me a wedding
photo of them, did they? Yes? And that was after
the airlines lost all my luggage with all my Royal
souvenirs because I was over there when he got married
and that and when the Queen's mother died. I just
happened to be in the UK at the time, and
(08:49):
that's so nice. I think we still you.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Know, you need to get it, Diane.
Speaker 8 (08:52):
Did you get any of that stuff back or was
it lost forever?
Speaker 9 (08:55):
Lost forever?
Speaker 2 (08:57):
I feel like Diane should have taken that as a sign.
She seems like she's pretty close. They're basically a close
personal friends. You're allowed to be into your close personal friends.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Yeah, I think we'll leave a generation below Diane. I mean,
I'm just making an assumption that a generation or two
above me.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
In the seniority.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
But yeah, I think given another couple of years, I
can I forget it. If it was a horror fam
the Mountain, I really hope.
Speaker 9 (09:33):
So news talk has it been right.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Let's bring it up talking my hometown.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
If it's I know that if it's hot and humid,
an Orban, I can only imagine what it's been like
down there.
Speaker 8 (09:48):
Is it kind of what sort of hot is it?
Is it like one of those hots that's like a
shirt sticks to your back hot. Because it doesn't seem
to be a very breezy kind of a place. Hamilton
doesn't like where the fog gets there and stays so
I'm curious though, what it's like. Are the crickets there?
How hot is it? I don't really like to target
particular places, but you're Hamilton. Has it been thirty degrees
(10:10):
for the last ten days? It must have been. It
seems like it's been a pretty hot summer. No one's complaining,
but Hamilton hot, hot, hot. They've only had one day
below twenty seven degrees celsius. Yeah, that's the peak. Obviously,
(10:33):
is not like that all day and all night. But
jep as creepers as hot. So what's Hamilton like when
it's hot? Because it feels like I don't know, you
go curious to know about that. Hamilton, Hamilton, Hamilton twenty
seven to does it feel i'mbeerably hot? Was a pleasant hot?
I guess what I want you to do is to
describe the Hamilton heat, because I haven't experienced it. Every
time I've been in Hamilton. It's been days which have
(10:54):
not been on mind. You we did go there when
the bus broke down. That was in January, but other
things on my mind. Anyway, get in touch if you're
in Hamilton. I'd be curious to know how that is
for you. Oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty or
text that through just a curious day about that heat?
Does it seem unseasonably hot? How do you describe heat?
(11:16):
I don't know, Like, is everyone jumping in the lake
and they're jumping in the river? Has it people gone
crazy and driving out to Ragland for a swim? What
do you do in Hamilton when it gets hot? What
would you do in Hamilton when it gets hot? You
can't go ice skating? You know what you do?
Speaker 2 (11:35):
You just want to die, is my recollection.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
All you can really do is by flat in a
shady place and wish for everything to be over.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
It's a There's an amazing book by a guy called
Kim Stanley Robinson you called Ministry for the Future. And
the opening scene of the book, there's a bunch of
people in India, I think they are that's a climate change,
postal apocalyptic climate hanging in front of.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
A book.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
And they it's so hot and so humid that they
all get into the water in a whole town. But
the temperature of the water, of course, is also hotter
than body temperature, and so basically, really, guys, and that's
what you feel like when it's like that In Hamilton,
(12:42):
City of Romance, City of Love. On the Day of Love,
I'll leave it there with that beautiful romantic thought, and
we'll see back here again on Monday with a weekend edition.
Hang in there, Hamilton, it won't stay as hot forever.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Probably Use Talking Bean.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
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air or online, and keep our shows with you wherever
you go with our podcasts on iHeartRadio
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