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March 31, 2025 • 12 mins

THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Tuesday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) So, No Tunnel Then?/Wellington Even Worse/No Impact Whatsoever/Never Underestimate the Fringe Weirdos/Cone-ageddon Has Been Cancelled

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
Rewrap.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
Okay there, welcome to the Rewrap for Tuesday, all the
best bets from the mic casting breakfast on news Talk,
said B. In a sillier package, I am glen Hart
and today is Wellington getting even worse? Hawk's Bay just
going up the road a bit and their solar farms.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
What's wrong with that?

Speaker 3 (00:43):
We've got a pole hole out in the morning that
seems weirdly uncomfortable. And Cone talks dead b at the
end of the podcast, before any of that.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
So we're getting some fairies, they'll have trains on them.

Speaker 4 (00:54):
If it wasn't a swing in the miss it wasn't
the Nickel will I mean, it wasn't the Nicola Willis.
Let's repeat everything I've said several times over on supermarkets.
But it certainly wasn't what was implied I would have
thought by the fairies Minister Winston Peter. So my impression
as a voater was by the end of March we
would be getting detail on new fairies. Did we get that?
Not really? I mean we got confirmation that new fairies
are coming, but we knew that anyway. We got confirmation

(01:15):
they'd be cheaper than Irex. But we assume that. But
what else did we get? And did you expect more? See?
I suppose in a way, what does it matter? If
it isn't costing four billion and it solves an old
chip problem, then really we've got bigger fish to fry
right now. I would have thought, No, I didn't expect
to know the total cost because I assumed there would
be some sort of tendering process which needed to remain confidential.

(01:36):
But and this is the bit that once again lumbers
the government with this ongoing, if not building, reputation that
they don't actually do anything. Just what is it that
has changed since Peter's got the job of the fairies
off Willis? Willis spent all of last year allegedly sorting
out the Irex mess. We're all on the same page
with Irex. Of course, it was the Labor government at
their best, start out with one thing, blow the budget

(01:57):
on something else four point one billion and climbing was
a scandal, but canceling it was easy, which Willis did.
Then we stood by and stood by and stood by.
So finally, as Christmas approached word of an announcement, and
the announcement was she'd lost the job and Winston had
got it. He was pro rail. She may or may
not have been. I don't know, but you didn't need

(02:18):
to switch bosses, and you didn't need another three months
to basically announce that you'd gone back to the drawing
board and you want something cheaper, two ships with current
infrastructures to support them. Tenders, open bids and tenders are
welcome as of today. Please. How hard's that? Because that's
where we're at. It's where we were in December, it
was where we were when we canceled iraqs, all that time,
all that water under the bridge for what. But I

(02:41):
suppose if they arrive by twenty twenty nine and sold
the issue yesterday, today and all the other days will
be long forgotten and we'll be several billion dollars better off.

Speaker 3 (02:49):
Do you get the feeling most people involved thought the
trains have sort of had their day, that that the
Minister of Trains and Ferries is pretty into them. So
I guess if you don't have the trains, what are
you the Minister of right rewrap all right, So Wellington's
at one end of that.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
Bit of state. Hiwa one, of course, I'm talking about
clock strake. Would you rather go there or go from there?
Interesting question?

Speaker 4 (03:20):
I sort of hinted at this the other day when
the monitor for the Wellington City Council put out a
second report. Now my question was given there was leaking
and dysfunction still and the punter allegedly was at their
WIT's end.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
What now?

Speaker 3 (03:32):
Hey?

Speaker 4 (03:32):
What now? Do we just get more and more reports?

Speaker 3 (03:34):
Well?

Speaker 4 (03:35):
Lo and behold another Wellington Operations had their own monitor
in the format the Commerce Commission, Yes, the aforementioned Commerce Commission,
who have been brought in to oversee the mess at
Wellington Water. Now the Minister has not seen any improvement,
apparently no real change and unless stuff happens, there are
rate rises gil or for no real gain. Also, he says,
So once again we ask what do the Commerce Commission do?

(03:55):
Do they write reports as well? And if those reports
tell us the place is still as shambles, how many
reports does it take for someone somewhere to actually fire
up a little bit of action. I can also add,
and this is an overarching observation, just how functional does
Wellington need to get before it literally implodes on itself.
The electorate changes last week they were all in Wellington.
Why because people have left and to be frank, who

(04:18):
can blame them? Then we come to Tamotha Paul, who
made what most observers seemed to suggest was one of
the most extraordinary comments about the police anyone's ever heard. Ever,
her good friends and labor called them stupid, The Prime
Minister call her insane, and yet she holds an electorate.
As I mentioned Abu aime ago are the good people
of Wellington Central And by no small margin, I might add,
they looked at her credentials, they decided all they liked.

(04:38):
They liked her enough to vote for her. Sir Wellington,
what's the story? Eh? What level of madness and dysfunction
are you willing to tolerate before change comes? Is change
ever coming? Do you actually want change? Do you mind
paying a lot more than you need to for stuff
that doesn't work? I mean it's a crummy council, a
lot of broken pipes in a mad mpok. As long
as I don't know you, cycle ways are fun to

(04:59):
ride on. Did I mention the trains can't beat Wellington
on a good day? So when Wellington was your last
good day? Why are you putting up with them?

Speaker 2 (05:09):
So it's interesting to hear Mike right off.

Speaker 3 (05:16):
People as being French and weirdos and nutters.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
Today if you were to do a pole, actually, we'll
come back and talk about the poles shortly rewrap.

Speaker 3 (05:31):
In the meantime, we've got solar farms happening or are
they not happening in Hawke's Bay? Are we into them
or aren't we into them?

Speaker 4 (05:43):
Let me ask you this question, so hawks By first
of all, I was right when I asked about the
wine the other day. I had a suspicion that there
are certain regions around the country as the picking continues
at this particular point in time in the wine industry,
that this could well be one of the great vintages
of all time. Because I'm sorry for the farmers who
are really dry and would like some water. I do
note this morning that the media watched the media in

(06:04):
the next couple of days with the atmospheric river. There's
an atmospheric river coming, and you just stand by for
the Herald to produce eight hundred and twelve thousand stories
between now and then.

Speaker 2 (06:13):
Please tell me it's not going to be a weather bomb.

Speaker 4 (06:16):
It's not a weather bomb. Not it's not a bomb.
But it is a river. It's an atmospheric river, and
it is headed our way. So it is only Tuesday.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
So we'll have stories for Chiver wrong about that, either.

Speaker 4 (06:27):
That we're not wrong about us not. You can't go
and take the seriously, Glenn. It's an atmospheric river anyway.
So for all the farmers who are dry, apologize, But
grapes love a bit of dryness in hawks By. I
know they're talking about this vintage being as good as thirteen.
If you know anything about wine, thirteen was one of
an ethereal vintage, one of the greats, and so I
think that they will not be alone in having a

(06:49):
particularly spectacular vintage, all of which is very good. But
I'm reading about solar and Hawk's Bay and the small
town of Ongong is going to be surrounded by three
solar farms. And the question then is how many solar
farms as too many solar farms, and how big their
need to be. One is one hundred and forty four hectares,
the other one the small one's thirst, and the third

(07:09):
one is two hundred and thirty nine So you've got
just quick maths for you had about four hundred and
fifty hectares of solar panels around a small town. Now,
I like a solar panel personally. I'm not against a
wind turbine, and I'm not against a solar panel. But
at four hundred and fifty hectares for as far as

(07:31):
the eye can see and further, that's a lot of
I mean, yes, it's renewable, fantastic, But if you're in
the middle of that, what's that due to your quality
of life? And that's sort of in a way where
we are heading.

Speaker 3 (07:44):
Hang on, hang on, how does a solar farm affect
your quality of life? I mean, I'm not a fan
of solar farms because I think they're not actually particularly
environmentally friendly. It takes a lot of rare earth materials
and stuff to make them in the first place, quite
a lot of faths setting them up, and then within

(08:05):
sort of fifteen twenty years.

Speaker 2 (08:06):
You've got to replace them all going to carry on
with it.

Speaker 3 (08:10):
So yeah, I don't know exactly how renewable solar farms are,
but in terms of affecting me, if there's one hundred
and thirty hectares of them, behind a hedge as I
drive past.

Speaker 2 (08:21):
Does it affect me at all? What's he talking about?
The rewrap? Right?

Speaker 3 (08:25):
We've the latest poll, and I do mean the latest.
Apparently this only came out this morning. Since when did
polls come out in the morning.

Speaker 4 (08:31):
I note that Radio New Zealand, using our money, taxpayers money,
have entered into the world of polling. So they appear
to have taken over the Read Research poll that TV
three has dropped or stuff has dropped because they don't
have any money. So it's now the Radio and New
Zealand Red Research pole, which I welcome to be fair
because the more polling the better. We all like a pole.
So this morning there is a poll, their first poll.

(08:51):
It's their inaugural poll. Oh my god, it's almost as
exciting as a liberation day tomorrow. But here is the poll.
What did the numbers tell us? National Act in New
Zealand first when the election If an election was held today,
that gets sixty two seats, which is enough to govern
national thirty three percent, Labour on thirty two, Act are
on nine, New Zealand first on seven, Green Party on

(09:13):
ten don't believe it to party Marion five has never happened,
never will. So the poll's wrong obviously, but it's still fun.
Undecided six point one percent at this particular point in time.
The key number, which is interesting is the country going
in the right direction. Forty three point five percent say yes,
so let's start that tide's turning for the government. Forty

(09:34):
three point five say yes, forty percent say wrong. So
when the tide is in the right direction, the government
of the day generally wins.

Speaker 2 (09:42):
Yeah, So there you go. Just go back to the
fringe weirdo natas who would vote for the Green.

Speaker 3 (09:49):
Party if they conducted that pole in my house, for example,
the Greens might get fifty percent of the voters and
in the house, luckily one of those voters is moving out,
so that'll that should swing with percentages a little bit.

Speaker 2 (10:03):
But yeah, I.

Speaker 3 (10:06):
Always have to remind you still, it'd be listeners right off,
the people who aren't listening at your hair the rewrap
because they're not listening, you see, so they don't know
what's going on. Then they don't know what's going on
according to us, maybe they're too busy on the phone
reporting road cones, what's.

Speaker 4 (10:24):
The corner over there by TV? And said, what's it
called a Nelson Street and.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
What and Victoria Street right, So.

Speaker 4 (10:32):
Yesterday perfect example. So the whole that's a major intersection.
So that's a major intersection. Yesterday morning, at about two thirty,
I saw the future and that the whole intersection was
being worked on. But there was a truck. There were
a small selection of cones, not too many, and there
were about half a dozen people and each and every

(10:54):
one of them was actually working. There were six people working.
There were a minimal number of cones. There was one truck.
I almost wanted to stop and say one, congratulations, two
take a photo to prove it so it can be done.

Speaker 2 (11:06):
Than if you'd done that, then you would have caused congestion.

Speaker 4 (11:10):
It's probably true.

Speaker 3 (11:11):
I mean I've told the story before, but it's one
in the faves. On my honeymoon, we were in Hong Kong.
First night in Hong Kong in a hotel. I can't
remember how many flows up, several floors up, and very tired.

Speaker 2 (11:28):
Because we've been doing a lot of traveling.

Speaker 3 (11:30):
Couldn't get to sleep though, because there was the noise
of jack hammers and other associated machines going on outside.
We look out the window and half the road's missing.
It's just a big hole in the ground and there's
a lot of construction going on. Long story short, I'll
leave out the part where we called somebody up and

(11:50):
he put a hand to his ear standing in the
doorway to our bedroom, not wanting to come in in
case he embarrassed my wife, who was in her night attire.

Speaker 2 (11:58):
I will leave that part out.

Speaker 3 (12:01):
But needless to say, we got out the next morning,
looked out the window and rush our traffic was driving
over and it was like we dremped the whole thing.
And once we got to Grand Level, discovered that they
hadn't just in fact put these giant, thick steel plates
over the construction and would be removing those again come
nightfall and start work again.

Speaker 2 (12:21):
Yeah. No, I can't remember why I started telling you
this story either.

Speaker 3 (12:25):
Imagine if you had heard me tell it before, it
must be screaming at me. By now, I've already heard this.
Move on, finish the podcast, for God's sake, you could
have stopped. You could have skipped to the end, like
it's literally just me doing this now, and then a
little bit of music.

Speaker 2 (12:42):
I'll see they're here again tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (12:51):
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