THE RE-WRAP: 0 for 2 On Dumb Policies

THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Friday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) Time to Turn Off the Net/Wait, There's an Election Happening?/Vale Giorgio/Mark the Week/Cars Are In the Eye of the Beholder

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:26):
Welcome to the Rewrap of Friday. All the best, but's
from the mic hosting breakfast on newsdalgs it'd be at
a sillier package. I am Glen harton today. Did you
know that there's a by election going on? It turns
out none of the electric seems to Georgio Amani has
passed away. Mike pays tribute to him. Will mark the
week because by jovis Friday, and that is what we do,

(00:49):
and the latest car sales stats are reviewed for you.
But before any of that, what about some of the
wacky policies that are trying to get past these days?

Speaker 1 (00:57):
What's with that?

Speaker 3 (00:58):
From the old cart before the horse Department? Two sitbacks
for ideas we thought we're going to work, or perhaps
we hoped we're going to work, but sadly I can
report this morning they are not ida. Number One, we
get big tech to pay for locally produced news. That's
Google paying a company like nz me for news that
ends up on their news feed. Deals to a degree
have been done specifically between some of the companies. But

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the government had the idea that as part of their
supporting of the troubled Media Plan, they could drag big
tech to the table to cough up. Turns out they couldn't,
They can't and they won't. See Australia had the same idea.
Donald Trump got wind of that told them that these
were American companies. If you tax them, he will whack
tariffs all over the place. We were waiting in the
wings to see how it all went in Australia before

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we gave it the full crack here. Neither of us
will be cracking anything. Idea number two banning social media
for kids one of those almost universally agreed upon feel
good ideas that was never going anywhere. Nice thought, just
not real. Australia had to crack at that too, and
like Idea number one, we're sitting waiting and watching to
see what they do. Their ban comes in in December.

(02:02):
It will not work. Why because we have a landmark
national studying this week and it's found it's impossis the
Age Assurance Technology Trials what they called it. It was
commissioned by the Australian government looked at everything their conclusion,
no single solution exists. Can you fiddle? Can you poke?
Can your produce? You can? We found I quote them.

(02:23):
We found a plethora of approaches that fit use cases
in different ways, but we did not find a single
ubiquitous solution that would suit all use cases, nor did
we find solutions that were guaranteed to be effective. And
this is where bandwagons come in. We all like to
hate on social media, we all like to protect kids.
We all want to be seen to be doing the
right thing, and government's are not devoid of that particular weakness.

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But the problem with governments is they shouldn't promise what
they can't deliver, and they were never going to be
able to deliver either ideas one or two. Not Australia,
not US.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
What if we just banned the internet completely, then you'd
take care of both one and two, wouldn't you? Admittedly,
then you wouldn't be able to hear me telling you
this great idea. So few flaws and thev and I'm
sure we can wake those out. The rewrap we're voting online?
Would that help with before turnout in the Tummocky Makaro election.

Speaker 3 (03:18):
Four thousand, two hundred and ninety one votes so far
and the gripping soap opera that is Tommicky Makodo. So
that's under ten percent of the vote so far. And
if you ever want to be disillusioned about democracy in
this country, here's your glamour story. Mind you. In the

(03:42):
general election they were shocking in terms of turnout, the
turnout for a country that does eighty one eighty two
something like that percent in a general election. Tomacky mccara
got sixty three, So I means the whole thing's pathetic?
Is it the candidates? Penny I don't know, but I've
seen and heard enough of him to believe that he's
very well respected and liked within Marridom. He seems pretty

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in effectual rest of the time to me or Renny,
I don't know from a bar of soap got around
to and watching the highlights is the wrong word. The
aspects of the Jack Tayman to you last weekend that
exposed her for being completely naive, hopelessly underprepared and little
shorter a shambles as a candidate, and that's there. I mean,

(04:30):
I'd have trouble probably getting excited about voting of ivors
enrolled in that particular electorate as well, But I mean
under ten percent. So tomorrow's a miracle day for turnout
or it's just a complete bust.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
Is there a way that we can ring some of
the people who haven't voted and ask them if they
know that there's a by election happening.

Speaker 3 (04:47):
It's not a big question. I fear that the result
would be even more depressing.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
The weird thing about the I mean, I don't want
to bash the idea of Maori seats or anything like that,
but it is you've you've sort of got to make
a special effort to enroll on the Maori roll, so
you think you would be fairly engaged or have I
got that wrong? Is that just one of those It's
a bit like a I don't know, a Netflix or

(05:11):
a Disney Plus subscription. You sign up for it and
then you forget that you signed up for it.

Speaker 1 (05:15):
Rewrap.

Speaker 2 (05:16):
So sad day in the for the fashion industry. Was
Georgio Armani passing away at ninety one?

Speaker 3 (05:24):
Not a bad innings, Yeah, Armoni ninety one. That's good,
long life, isn't it First designed to ban underweight models
from the runway when that particular topic became a thing.
Paul Smith. His continuity is down to earth nature. His
staying power and remaining as an unlisted independent company has
always been a huge inspiration for me personally. I thought
that was nice Maloney as an prime minister, with his
elegant sobriety and creativity, he was able to bring luster

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to Italian fashion and inspire the entire world in icon
a tireler's worker, a symbol of the best of Italy.
Thank you for everything that's nice. He put women in
a uniform of suits just as radical as Chanel. That
was the Financial Times. Concern over his health first expressed
in June this year. A Miss Milan directed a couture
show in Paris just recently in July. But he did

(06:08):
that remotely from his home in Milan, so he was
working from home as well. Everyone's doing it. If you
didn't know anything about fashion, you still knew about Georgia Omary.
That's true, isn't it started his career in medicine, actually
moved to fashion in the sixties, set up his own
label in seventy five. He owned the Olympia Milano basketball team,
did a partnership with Scuderia as in Ferrari char Leclair

(06:33):
spoke very nicely. A great honor to have had the
chance to meet and work with such an amazing person.
I bought an Amari T shirt, very nice one, I
thought one day in I think it was Hawaii, and
at the time my wife was with me, and she said,
that's fantastic. Let's buy that because it was very expensive.
And I still have it, and I still wear it,
and every time I wear it, she says, why have
you still got that? It's ugly ass. And that's what

(06:53):
happens in my fashion life. I do have a jacket though,
in Amari jacket, a leather jacket, beautiful deep blue one
that don't wear very often, but every time I wear it,
they go, oh, my god, isn't that beautiful? So fashion
stands the test of time, unless it's a T shirt.
Of course, in to.

Speaker 2 (07:08):
Wear, I've had a similar I've had similar experiences. But
the thing is, of course, while something might look good
on you at one time in your life, things can
happen not to the item of clothing, but to you
or in this case me or Mike, and you know

(07:29):
in the meantime that when you go to wear that
thing again, it doesn't look so good anymore. You know
what I'm saying, A rewrap. All right, with all the
evidence before me, it seems as though it's Friday and
it's time to mark the week.

Speaker 3 (07:44):
Time now to marke the week, little piece of news
and current affairs. It's more fun than a chat about immortality.
The Chinese Parade eight, I thought it.

Speaker 1 (07:52):
Was a beautiful ceremony. I thought it was very, very impressive.

Speaker 3 (07:54):
I mean, forget the politics as a thing, as a spectacle,
as a can you believe how in time those goose
Steppers are. It was spellbinding Clark, Key, Andrews and Carbo
four On balance, given what it was really about, I
think it was mistake being there. Trump and Courts twos,
I mean, worst week yet. I got them zero for
five this week, deporting to Guatemala, sacking people, the National Guard,

(08:16):
tariffs are now Harvard Supreme Court better come up big time.
Trump's death too. No, it's very active over the weekend,
sad reminder of just how thick, gallible and worryingly naive
some people are. And that's before, by the way, you
get to the morons who thought Taylor had dmd Eden
Park as a wedding venue. I'm not kidding. I watched
this yesterday. There are people who thought Taylor had directly

(08:37):
DMed Eden Park as a wedding venue. Bonds and Yields
three get on top of this one. Debts finally started
to come home to roost. From Britain to Japan, people
are worried, and the people who are worried to the
sort of people who crash markets. Teach us seven, big
increase in enrollments. Just wait till the unions get hold
of them and kill the buzz though Neil quickly six
did the right thing. Eventually, Aws seven on behalf of

(09:01):
too much of the New Zealand media. Can I say
sorry for their obsessive negativity and remind you not all
of us are like them? David Seymour seven.

Speaker 2 (09:07):
Consciously there are non Aukland listeners on the show, so
I apologize to them.

Speaker 3 (09:11):
He is right about Paris, and more people know it,
then we'll publicly ever admit it. Wind won from parks
to bridges to doors. Wind is this week's display of
modern day fear driven by obsessives who no longer can
think logically for themselves. Reese Walsh six. Personally, I didn't
find it funny but it hardly needed the tut tutting
it got. I mean, he's twenty three in a league player.

(09:33):
He's not Michael McIntyre the Warriors.

Speaker 1 (09:35):
Six.

Speaker 3 (09:36):
We've seend it properly, keep our fingers cross, and hopefully
enjoy the forum if we beat the Seagules one hundred
and fifty one Dell and don't rule that out. Foreign
house is foreign House. Adjustment seven common sense made more
difficult than an ever needed to be, really, but we
got there in the end, and we the tammicky by
affection two. I mean, is this the most pitiful display

(09:58):
of disinterest in modern democracy? If you thought port Wait
Katter was bad, this thing's going to look to hit
it out of the park. That's what the parks open,
and that's the week copies on the website. And if
you cut this out, by the way, the right shape
and color is sort of a pinkish kind of color.
You can in fact practice your own organ transplant.

Speaker 2 (10:13):
Yet is a pinkish kind of color might prefers a
pink highlighter. And I think, as we've discussed before, he
highlights all the things and buzzes and required sound effects
with pink highlighter, which didn't help last week when he
had written dang and not buzz. But I really need
to let that go. The rerap we're going to finish

(10:35):
up here for finding out which car is selling the most.

Speaker 3 (10:40):
At the moment, car sales things are looking better. Third
consecutive month we've seen a rise. New cars list is
in the country, sub's and passengers up twenty percent on
last year, So that's material up twenty percent on last year.
EV's still in a quote dramatic slump. Can we just
give up on EV's Can we just accept that government's

(11:02):
got it wrong, the Zealot's got it wrong. It's it's
not the future. Possibly a hybrid, possibly a PA Heaver
is the future. But BEVs are dead sharp increase in June.
So June, July and August now where we're seeing good,
good increases for August eleven thousand, seven hundred and thirty
nine cars, which is a seventeen and a half percent

(11:24):
game light passengers SUVs eight thousand, ninety which is a
nineteen percent increase from August of last year. BEVs and
plug ins are on a downward spiral. The industry calls
the numbers alarming. BEVs the total number of BEVs. Remember
I just gave you the number eleven thousand, seven hundred
and thirty eight new cars sold. The number of BEVs

(11:48):
in that number was three eighty five. It's none, it's
a joke. Ranger's back on top a shall lie, that's
not it's the rab still rav Ranger high Lux asx
Celtos in the Outlander are your top four or five
Triton Nevara Everest? And the shark that sharks ugly? Isn't
it the BYD shark? If you seen that? What a tank? Mind?

(12:09):
Joe fourteen hundred and twenty four. People disagree with me,
what do I know?

Speaker 2 (12:13):
I don't think the shacks. I quite like the shack
as you'd go. I particularly like the lights. I'm a
sucker for a fancy tail light, although it doesn't work
for me on the land Rover that those new land
Rovers the lights actually have the only things I like
about them. The beard shape looks like they've inflated them,
doesn't it. They just blew them up with a pump.

(12:38):
I am that again. I think Mike's partial to them,
so yeah, it just goes to shame. I mean, I'm
sure he wouldn't have any problem with my trusty four
boomer who knows I am a gleird hat. I'm going
to get into that Poma now and drive off at
the weekend, and then I'll be back here again on
Monday for more.

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