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Speaker 1 (00:09):
You're listening to a podcast from News Talk, said B.
Follow this and our wide range of podcasts now on iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
The Rewrap.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Okay there, welcome to the Rewrap for Friday. All the
best butts from the mic casting breakfast on news Talk,
said B and a sillier package. I am Glen Hart
and today wine is awesome and it's getting awesome there
all the time. We will mark the week because it
is Friday, and that is what we do. And are
we one of the happiest countries in the world. Find
out at the end of the podcast, but at the
(00:46):
beginning of it we should be, because we've gone up
zero point seven whatever the hell that means.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Except that the government are struggling in the polls. You
may well accept the general notion that part of what
is driving that is the lack of runs on the
board perhaps and impatience is frustrating some of us. We
voted to get rid of the last lot on the
understanding that things have been wrecked and destroyed and there
was this new lot that we're going to it right.
Trouble has been as they've tried to explain things. Fiscal
cliffs were a lot worse than anticipated, And the problem
(01:15):
with too many voters is we vote and move on,
and then when we re engage, we expect fixes to
problems that are more complex than we gave them credit for.
So this government has announced a lot, changed a lot,
but the simple to read runs on the board are
only starting to trickle through. The downturn on crime would
be one of them. I would have thought the police
focus on running up a few people so we feel
safe on the streets. That's a tangible. Are the targets
(01:36):
on emergency housing being met years ahead of schedule? That's another, surely,
and yesterday the gross domestic product the GDP surely one
of the most important of all. It is the economy,
and the economy is everything pays the bills retires that
it forks out for. The program sets the mood of
the nation. If you are growing, and as it turns out,
I think the good Lord we are. You are moving forward,
and moving forward is what gets popular governments and government's
(01:59):
re elected. Everyone as in the experts had the number
at anywhere between zero point three and zero point five percent, importantly,
of course, in the right direction, in the positive. The
actual figure zero point seven is better than expected. It
must be the best of news. I would have thought
for a country that has spent more time in recession
than virtually anyone, certainly anyone we compare ourselves to anyone
in the OECD. This cannot be overstated in terms of importance.
(02:23):
Zero point seven surely comes with the sense that there
is more where that came from. So maybe, just maybe
we can turn our backs on the dark days or
in our case, dark years, that have dragged this country
to places economically it's never really been. No, it is
not over, and yes there is much to do. But
such a decent dare I suggest better than expected number
will tell you the current government might have got a
(02:44):
grip on the worst of it and turn the tide.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
If the gendp keeps being positive, will we stop talking
about it? And if we do, there's something wrong with
that system a rewrap. It turns out that even when
it's positive, we are that positive.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Like the actual population in India who a middle class
is smaller than some European or agency. This is the
misery I'm talking about. Stop moaning. I already gave you
these figures. You're correct, of course, So one point two
billion Indians and the people with the actual dollars is
one hundred and thirty one hundred and forty million, so
you're correct, But one hundred and twenty hundred and thirty
million people with a lot of dough, it's still a
(03:22):
market worth chasing.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Yeah, you can always find a gray lining to the
cloud if you want to, can't you you can? I mean,
no matter how great things are, you'd always say up,
it won't last. So he called our audience sad sacks
and miserable basards this morning. But I do and I
have to say, why do people waste their time like
(03:45):
literally use their time, spend twenty cents to text and
stuff quite often? Isn't even correct? We had one person
saying correct, I could stand corrected, but I think you'll
find the number is point zero seven zero point seven,
And of course they were wrong and it's point seven. So
(04:09):
that was a waste of twenty seents right there.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Rewrap life too.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Sure have a wine and I don't mean wine, I
mean drink some wine.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Yes, fresh art of you this morning on our fabulous
Wine Industry. I was mentioned earlier on this week, of
course that the season looks really good, and I got
a lot of feedback on that the season pretty much
all over the country looks and we're in pecking now
ish and it looks to be a sensational vintage. There's
some stuff going to be left on the vine in
places like Marlborough because there are too many contract growers,
(04:38):
to many buying, growing too much bulk wine unfortunately. But
new numbers this morning recorded growth in twenty twenty four,
sixteenth consecutive year. This is to the States, only nation
to post a volume increased last year. So of all
the wine going into America from all the different countries,
only one country grew their market share, and that was US.
So there's some good news for you, and it's because
(04:59):
it's premium priced and this is what we like. So
sales of wine fifteen bucks or more a bottle is
up fourteen point four percent. Below fifteen bucks, it's only
up zero point eight so people will pay for quality,
and this is the message we need to get out.
Our second highest ranked country now trailing France. This is globally,
so France is the world leader in terms of quality wine.
(05:21):
We come second, White Dominates. This is continuing to be
my cause for concern. Ninety five percent of our shipments
to the world is serving on blanc. It's too much.
We need to we need to do something about it.
We've been talking about it for years. The industry now
runs a two point one billion that's to the June
year end of twenty four, two point one billion. They
(05:41):
were looking to crack two billion. They've well and truly
done it. This is brilliant. Exports to the States thirty
seven percent of the total exports exported now generally to
more than one hundred countries. It is our sixth largest
export group. The wonderful business of the wine. I may
just celebrate that news with a glass or two myself tonight.
And why don't you join?
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Ah, that sounds good. Let's go, let's go, hi, Except
I haven't quite betters the podcasts before. As soon as
it's the podcast, what is it? Ten past nine? Is
that too early for a while? The rewrap not too
early to mark the week, though, because it's Friday, and
that's what we do.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
So I'm now to mark the whet little piece of
news and current of incidents as popular as a capsule
that actually works and can get you back to Earth
GDP seven or point seven. It's a bigger number than
they thought and an indication that we have finally turned
the corner. Are the FTA seven? Now? The media got
a bit bogged down on the triviality of days. Whether
it's sixty or ninety or longer, it's not the point.
The point is that free trade is good for New
(06:39):
Zealand inc. Are the COVID loan deadline free? Whaat way? Sad?
Sad sad reminder of why the zero point seven and
GDP has taken so long to get here? Close to
a billion dollars is still owed? What do you reckon
the chances of that being paid back? Huh gim me
bad knock eight In some senses my hero of the
week net zero for Britain, she said, isn't real without
a level of economic carnage. She is not prepared to
(07:01):
put her country through rare honesty. You might not like it,
but it's true. Local government New Zealand four now this
week it was the Western Bay of Plenty quitting that organization.
Have they worked out they might have a problem. Speaking
of councils, fung Array and their fluoride meeting too. The
spinoffs blow by blow account of that meeting. It's gold
(07:21):
unless of course you live there and pay for it,
thence farcical? Are the JFK files five kind of the
conn of the week. There is no smoking gun on
a grassy knoll or not. Salary reviews seven. Yes, growth
adds to the general good economic news of the week's
salaries are still going up more than inflation. In other words,
we are winning ted Lasso eight another series. When they
(07:43):
said there wasn't another series. If won seven, you know
there was even later half a million of us watched
that race. That would make it the most watch program
of the week, or very close to it anyway. Grope
seven Pickings underway. I was in, Oh, nice pickings underway.
Quality in most areas is outstanding. Fontier a half year
profits seven I mean more numbers that show farming as
(08:06):
golden factors, if not better than gold are the war's
three means dreadful week. The Trump called to put and
that was a joke, and the ceasefire fell to bits
in the Middle East. Gold actually gold, eh gold is
gold at over three thousand, announced that that's troubled times
for you, isn't it? And that is the week copies
on the website and it was a special marking the
week cake this week that was cut earlier this week
to mark the thirty eighth birthday of news Talk zed B,
(08:28):
where at least three people were heard to say zied
B doesn't look a day over twenty seven.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
That better not be true about the cake, because I
certainly didn't get any. If he was cake, I saw
an email. I hope we're going an email. Maybe when
we turned four head it will actually bear a cake
three wrap. That's really all. What takes to keep people
(08:54):
heavy around here is cap.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Not saunas, though Finland's the happiest country in the world. Again,
I look at Valteri Botas, He's the only thing I know,
and he doesn't. He seems at peace with himself. But
apart from that, I don't look at Valterie Botas and go,
my word, what a happy chap. Anyway, this is the
unsponsored World Happiness Report. Apparently yesterday or today is World
(09:19):
Happiness Day, which is once again another stupid thing the
United Nations has invented. They did this test on lost
wallets and strangers, as it turns out, are about twice
as kind as people think. So they measure trusts, so
how many wallets they lose how many got put back?
And there was twice as many as you want. And
now here's the really interesting thing from my point of view. Actually,
(09:41):
I'll give you that in a moment. So ten through nine,
you want to do ten through one as better than
one through ten. Ten Mexico first time top ten Mexico,
so happy they'll be that president. The way she took
on Trump on the tariffs, I reckon Luxembourg nine Israel
really really right now, Israel is the eighth happiest place
(10:02):
in the world. Honestly, imagine what would happen if the
war stops straight to number one? Norway, Costa Rica. What
do you reckon's going on there? Netherlands? It will be
the drugs. Sweden and the usual suspect Sweden, Iceland and
Mark Finland. They're all interchangeable. But ninety percent of Finns
(10:25):
sauna every week, and that is the key to happiness
in my book. If you sauna every week, not only
do you live longer, but it's a communal They communally sauna.
I don't favor that myself, and I don't It's like.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
These ones that you see by the beach, you know, they.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Park up by the beach, yeah, very uncoon.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
And when I'm by the beach normally I'm quite hot.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Yeah, you know I want to get hot here, I
don't really want to exactly. And also I don't want
to be naked communally, I find that.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
I don't even want to be sitting on something that
somebody else has been sitting on communally.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
So I sauna each day, literally every day, at home,
by myself, and I find that to be good company.
But you cannot underestimate the health benefits of saunay.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
I swear that guy, and by that guy, I mean
Mike spends more time torturing himself than he does enjoying life.
He talks about enjoying life, but he's in cold showers,
He's in stifling hot rooms. I can't breathe in a sauna.
Am I the only one who can't breathe? I've tried it.
I've tried it multiple times. I go in there and
(11:27):
I can't breathe. How's that good for you? The secret
to a long life is every time you breathe out,
remember to breathe and again. Isn't that you live forever?
If you keep doing that? Anyway, I'm gonna I'm gonna
go off and do that now and have a wine.
I'm gonna breathe out, breathe and have a wine. It's
(11:50):
been a whole weekend doing that. Maybe see you back
here again on Monday. I'll be happy for.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
More from news talks that'd be listen live on air
or online, and keep our shows with you wherever you
go with our podcas Us on iHeartRadio.
You're listening to a podcast from News Talk, said B.
Follow this and our wide range of podcasts now on iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
The Rewrap.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Okay there, welcome to the Rewrap for Friday. All the
best butts from the mic casting breakfast on news Talk,
said B and a sillier package. I am Glen Hart
and today wine is awesome and it's getting awesome there
all the time. We will mark the week because it
is Friday, and that is what we do. And are
we one of the happiest countries in the world. Find
out at the end of the podcast, but at the
(00:46):
beginning of it we should be, because we've gone up
zero point seven whatever the hell that means.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Except that the government are struggling in the polls. You
may well accept the general notion that part of what
is driving that is the lack of runs on the
board perhaps and impatience is frustrating some of us. We
voted to get rid of the last lot on the
understanding that things have been wrecked and destroyed and there
was this new lot that we're going to it right.
Trouble has been as they've tried to explain things. Fiscal
cliffs were a lot worse than anticipated, And the problem
(01:15):
with too many voters is we vote and move on,
and then when we re engage, we expect fixes to
problems that are more complex than we gave them credit for.
So this government has announced a lot, changed a lot,
but the simple to read runs on the board are
only starting to trickle through. The downturn on crime would
be one of them. I would have thought the police
focus on running up a few people so we feel
safe on the streets. That's a tangible. Are the targets
(01:36):
on emergency housing being met years ahead of schedule? That's another, surely,
and yesterday the gross domestic product the GDP surely one
of the most important of all. It is the economy,
and the economy is everything pays the bills retires that
it forks out for. The program sets the mood of
the nation. If you are growing, and as it turns out,
I think the good Lord we are. You are moving forward,
and moving forward is what gets popular governments and government's
(01:59):
re elected. Everyone as in the experts had the number
at anywhere between zero point three and zero point five percent, importantly,
of course, in the right direction, in the positive. The
actual figure zero point seven is better than expected. It
must be the best of news. I would have thought
for a country that has spent more time in recession
than virtually anyone, certainly anyone we compare ourselves to anyone
in the OECD. This cannot be overstated in terms of importance.
(02:23):
Zero point seven surely comes with the sense that there
is more where that came from. So maybe, just maybe
we can turn our backs on the dark days or
in our case, dark years, that have dragged this country
to places economically it's never really been. No, it is
not over, and yes there is much to do. But
such a decent dare I suggest better than expected number
will tell you the current government might have got a
(02:44):
grip on the worst of it and turn the tide.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
If the gendp keeps being positive, will we stop talking
about it? And if we do, there's something wrong with
that system a rewrap. It turns out that even when
it's positive, we are that positive.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Like the actual population in India who a middle class
is smaller than some European or agency. This is the
misery I'm talking about. Stop moaning. I already gave you
these figures. You're correct, of course, So one point two
billion Indians and the people with the actual dollars is
one hundred and thirty one hundred and forty million, so
you're correct, But one hundred and twenty hundred and thirty
million people with a lot of dough, it's still a
(03:22):
market worth chasing.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Yeah, you can always find a gray lining to the
cloud if you want to, can't you you can? I mean,
no matter how great things are, you'd always say up,
it won't last. So he called our audience sad sacks
and miserable basards this morning. But I do and I
have to say, why do people waste their time like
(03:45):
literally use their time, spend twenty cents to text and
stuff quite often? Isn't even correct? We had one person
saying correct, I could stand corrected, but I think you'll
find the number is point zero seven zero point seven,
And of course they were wrong and it's point seven. So
(04:09):
that was a waste of twenty seents right there.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Rewrap life too.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Sure have a wine and I don't mean wine, I
mean drink some wine.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Yes, fresh art of you this morning on our fabulous
Wine Industry. I was mentioned earlier on this week, of
course that the season looks really good, and I got
a lot of feedback on that the season pretty much
all over the country looks and we're in pecking now
ish and it looks to be a sensational vintage. There's
some stuff going to be left on the vine in
places like Marlborough because there are too many contract growers,
(04:38):
to many buying, growing too much bulk wine unfortunately. But
new numbers this morning recorded growth in twenty twenty four,
sixteenth consecutive year. This is to the States, only nation
to post a volume increased last year. So of all
the wine going into America from all the different countries,
only one country grew their market share, and that was US.
So there's some good news for you, and it's because
(04:59):
it's premium priced and this is what we like. So
sales of wine fifteen bucks or more a bottle is
up fourteen point four percent. Below fifteen bucks, it's only
up zero point eight so people will pay for quality,
and this is the message we need to get out.
Our second highest ranked country now trailing France. This is globally,
so France is the world leader in terms of quality wine.
(05:21):
We come second, White Dominates. This is continuing to be
my cause for concern. Ninety five percent of our shipments
to the world is serving on blanc. It's too much.
We need to we need to do something about it.
We've been talking about it for years. The industry now
runs a two point one billion that's to the June
year end of twenty four, two point one billion. They
(05:41):
were looking to crack two billion. They've well and truly
done it. This is brilliant. Exports to the States thirty
seven percent of the total exports exported now generally to
more than one hundred countries. It is our sixth largest
export group. The wonderful business of the wine. I may
just celebrate that news with a glass or two myself tonight.
And why don't you join?
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Ah, that sounds good. Let's go, let's go, hi, Except
I haven't quite betters the podcasts before. As soon as
it's the podcast, what is it? Ten past nine? Is
that too early for a while? The rewrap not too
early to mark the week, though, because it's Friday, and
that's what we do.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
So I'm now to mark the whet little piece of
news and current of incidents as popular as a capsule
that actually works and can get you back to Earth
GDP seven or point seven. It's a bigger number than
they thought and an indication that we have finally turned
the corner. Are the FTA seven? Now? The media got
a bit bogged down on the triviality of days. Whether
it's sixty or ninety or longer, it's not the point.
The point is that free trade is good for New
(06:39):
Zealand inc. Are the COVID loan deadline free? Whaat way? Sad?
Sad sad reminder of why the zero point seven and
GDP has taken so long to get here? Close to
a billion dollars is still owed? What do you reckon
the chances of that being paid back? Huh gim me
bad knock eight In some senses my hero of the
week net zero for Britain, she said, isn't real without
a level of economic carnage. She is not prepared to
(07:01):
put her country through rare honesty. You might not like it,
but it's true. Local government New Zealand four now this
week it was the Western Bay of Plenty quitting that organization.
Have they worked out they might have a problem. Speaking
of councils, fung Array and their fluoride meeting too. The
spinoffs blow by blow account of that meeting. It's gold
(07:21):
unless of course you live there and pay for it,
thence farcical? Are the JFK files five kind of the
conn of the week. There is no smoking gun on
a grassy knoll or not. Salary reviews seven. Yes, growth
adds to the general good economic news of the week's
salaries are still going up more than inflation. In other words,
we are winning ted Lasso eight another series. When they
(07:43):
said there wasn't another series. If won seven, you know
there was even later half a million of us watched
that race. That would make it the most watch program
of the week, or very close to it anyway. Grope
seven Pickings underway. I was in, Oh, nice pickings underway.
Quality in most areas is outstanding. Fontier a half year
profits seven I mean more numbers that show farming as
(08:06):
golden factors, if not better than gold are the war's
three means dreadful week. The Trump called to put and
that was a joke, and the ceasefire fell to bits
in the Middle East. Gold actually gold, eh gold is
gold at over three thousand, announced that that's troubled times
for you, isn't it? And that is the week copies
on the website and it was a special marking the
week cake this week that was cut earlier this week
to mark the thirty eighth birthday of news Talk zed B,
(08:28):
where at least three people were heard to say zied
B doesn't look a day over twenty seven.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
That better not be true about the cake, because I
certainly didn't get any. If he was cake, I saw
an email. I hope we're going an email. Maybe when
we turned four head it will actually bear a cake
three wrap. That's really all. What takes to keep people
(08:54):
heavy around here is cap.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Not saunas, though Finland's the happiest country in the world. Again,
I look at Valteri Botas, He's the only thing I know,
and he doesn't. He seems at peace with himself. But
apart from that, I don't look at Valterie Botas and go,
my word, what a happy chap. Anyway, this is the
unsponsored World Happiness Report. Apparently yesterday or today is World
(09:19):
Happiness Day, which is once again another stupid thing the
United Nations has invented. They did this test on lost
wallets and strangers, as it turns out, are about twice
as kind as people think. So they measure trusts, so
how many wallets they lose how many got put back?
And there was twice as many as you want. And
now here's the really interesting thing from my point of view. Actually,
(09:41):
I'll give you that in a moment. So ten through nine,
you want to do ten through one as better than
one through ten. Ten Mexico first time top ten Mexico,
so happy they'll be that president. The way she took
on Trump on the tariffs, I reckon Luxembourg nine Israel
really really right now, Israel is the eighth happiest place
(10:02):
in the world. Honestly, imagine what would happen if the
war stops straight to number one? Norway, Costa Rica. What
do you reckon's going on there? Netherlands? It will be
the drugs. Sweden and the usual suspect Sweden, Iceland and
Mark Finland. They're all interchangeable. But ninety percent of Finns
(10:25):
sauna every week, and that is the key to happiness
in my book. If you sauna every week, not only
do you live longer, but it's a communal They communally sauna.
I don't favor that myself, and I don't It's like.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
These ones that you see by the beach, you know, they.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Park up by the beach, yeah, very uncoon.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
And when I'm by the beach normally I'm quite hot.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Yeah, you know I want to get hot here, I
don't really want to exactly. And also I don't want
to be naked communally, I find that.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
I don't even want to be sitting on something that
somebody else has been sitting on communally.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
So I sauna each day, literally every day, at home,
by myself, and I find that to be good company.
But you cannot underestimate the health benefits of saunay.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
I swear that guy, and by that guy, I mean
Mike spends more time torturing himself than he does enjoying life.
He talks about enjoying life, but he's in cold showers,
He's in stifling hot rooms. I can't breathe in a sauna.
Am I the only one who can't breathe? I've tried it.
I've tried it multiple times. I go in there and
(11:27):
I can't breathe. How's that good for you? The secret
to a long life is every time you breathe out,
remember to breathe and again. Isn't that you live forever?
If you keep doing that? Anyway, I'm gonna I'm gonna
go off and do that now and have a wine.
I'm gonna breathe out, breathe and have a wine. It's
(11:50):
been a whole weekend doing that. Maybe see you back
here again on Monday. I'll be happy for.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
More from news talks that'd be listen live on air
or online, and keep our shows with you wherever you
go with our podcas Us on iHeartRadio.
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