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THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Monday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) ...and Being Popular/The GoMedia Jinx/Where'd You Get Those Boots?/Russell Is Still Russell/Why Is Speed So Limited?
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
You're listening to a podcast from news Talk said, be
follow this and our wide range of podcasts now on iHeartRadio, rewrap.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
The Welcome to the rewrap for Monday, all the best
buts from the mic asking breakfast on news Talk said,
be in a sillier package. I am Glen Hart today
is go Media Stadium cursed? Who was best dressed at
the budget? Is Russell still called Russell? And why is
(00:46):
the speed limit only on one bit of one road
and not on the other? But before any of that,
is the government getting carried away to trying to implement
unpopular policies and will this come back to bite them
the next year's election.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
So Peter Dutton right in Australia, it is suggested We'll
never truly know, but it is suggested lost the election
because of his nuclear issue and work from home policies.
Now I personally think he lost because they ran a
hopeless campaign, but it is more than possible that he
floated a couple of ideas that the voter simply would
not stomach. And I'm wondering a Christopher Luxon is heading
(01:22):
in a similar direction here with the superannuation ideas, nuclear
makes sense. You can argue that nuclear makes sense working
from home headens productivity. You can argue cogently about that
as well. But the voter's always right, and being a
voter beats logic sometimes will the voter be right here?
On superannuation? Are there enough New Zealanders who have landed
on the very simple truth that sixty five as a
(01:43):
pension age is no longer sensible nor affordable. It's going
to be twenty eight billion dollars a year before you know,
twenty eight billion dollars a year and growing, which seems
worse now because we're broke, of course, but even in
the best of times, it's a stunning amount of money.
National are going to take it to the vote next year.
They may be saved from themselves, of course by New Zealand.
First of they're still in the mix, because that'll be
(02:03):
a bottom line for them, I'm imagining. But we reach
the interesting point where logic and a moe collide. Super
For many of us untouchable, it's a lifetime's worth of work.
I paid my taxes, even though that line isn't actually real.
I mean, we spent your taxes years ago and then
borrowed a bit more to keep the lights on. Sixty
five is the new fifty and post COVID old older
(02:24):
workers have never been in more demand. The days of
being out to pasture are increasingly gone. Sixty five is
not old. Imagine a day where you enter the workforce
knowing you need to take care of yourself because the
rules have changed. I mean, yes, if you strike trouble,
the pigion is a welfare payment, not an entitlement. But
we either have to change the narrative and mindset from
(02:44):
entitlement to welfare, or we need to up the age.
Even in upping the age over time, even giving years
worth of notice, it's still a very, very big core Politically.
It underlines our desire for free stuff basically or perceived
free stuff. Once you set a precedent with money, it
is fantastically hard to undo. But Luxon apparently is super
again to give it a crack. He calls it a
(03:05):
no brainer. First clue, aren't many who think it's a
no brainer. I mean, labour learned the hard way over
the capital gains tax. For goodness sake, it took them
three times to learn that. Lesson Luxon may be about
to learn something similar.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Yeah, I mean it's just basic human nature that the
electorate was heavy. For governments to spend other people's money,
just not theirs personally, that's the logic there the rewrap right,
So a game of football and a game of league
over the weekend at go Meett Stadium it mounts mart
(03:38):
and it didn't turn out well for the home side
on either occasion.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Is the ground jinxed? It's got to be the only explanation.
Saturday Auckland FC unable to lose all season, lose when
it counts. What sort of reflection do we have of
their inaugural escapades if they hadn't been so dominant for
the whole year. I think if they'd been sort of it,
they'd scraped home for the plate, it might have been different.
But they didn't. They won by a mile. Second trick
(04:03):
was to finish it off in the playoffs. Of course,
as it turns out they didn't even make the final.
I'm not sure complaining about the reference is the way
you conduct yourself. I mean, yes, the referee and left
a bit to be desired, and yes the complaint was
in fact accurate, but you lose with dignity, and besides,
it was only one goal in a long conversation of
what might have been is pointless, So it's a disappointment.
Here's the real question. Was Melbourne aside for the occasion
(04:24):
when it counts, when it's do or die, they turned
up Auckland to learn that particular skill. And then last
night on the same ground, in wet conditions that I
was pretty sure wasn't forecast, we get the Mighty Warriors
with a chance to vanquish what was a shocking start
of the season. Oh how long ago, it seems, based
on nothing, we wandered out into Las Vegas and we
got humiligated. What a world away that all appears. Until
(04:46):
last night, of course, when we were reminded, as if
we needed reminding that that part of a winning season
is about learning and improving. And yet we didn't. They
beat us again, not as badly, but when the opportunity
presented itself, when the Bulldogs got beaten as they did
last week, when the gap was there for two points
to put us on top of the table, we couldn't
(05:07):
wouldn't take it. Shall we blame those missing for origin?
Speaker 1 (05:10):
No?
Speaker 3 (05:10):
I don't think so that's like complaining about the refereeing upside.
We are still there. Of course the Raiders go up,
but they played an extra game. Never forget that no
real harm has actually been done, But we just didn't
seize the day. And that is what top level success
is all about, owning it when you can grabbing it,
when you have to be merciless and consistently merciless when
the opportunity arises. Two chances to missus, but at least
(05:32):
for one side, this is still very much potentially.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
If you wanted an example of being merciless in sport,
look no further than the Chiefs versus Milana Pacifica. Everybody
keeps saying things like what happened to Milana? And nobody
seems to say, wah, what's the Chiefs? I know, I
(06:01):
sound like I've got a chip on my shoulder, But
the evidence stacks up, doesn't it. Top of the table
again the way the right to recap last week's budget,
we'd had a look at what people were wearing for
some reason.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
By the way, you'll notice I didn't ask Nichola willis
what she wore on budget day. And it's one of
those most unfortunate things that we still obsess about that
sort of nonsense. And they followed it up. Another media
outlet followed it up yesterday. Chris Bishop, the aforementioned was
involved and he had a three Wise Men shirt and
a tie he'd bought in France, and he'd got a
soup from Half Had Men's Wear and made by rem Brandt.
(06:38):
And then Mike Butterick, who's another MP, he got involved.
He talked to Grant mcallum. Mcallum was wearing something from
Work and Style and Rod and Garnan. Then Carl Bates
got involved and he's got some arim boots. What I didn't.
The only reason I raised this, The only reason I
raised this is R. M. Williams boots, which are good boots,
but they're Australian boots. Most of the leather comes from womanui.
(06:59):
See I didn't know that, And you wouldn't adjoined those
dots automatically, would you. But that's the sort of gold
you get exclusively on this program.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
So then if I had a discussion as to whether
there was a sort of Fonterra style discussion to be
had here about whether one going to leather is missing
out and they could be making their own boots and
selling their own luxury boots, or whether that's just not
how we roll in New Zealand anymore. It's a rewrap
(07:26):
now it just checked. I think Russell is still still
called Russell, even though some people wanted to change it.
Here's Mike with the options.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
I noticed the New Zealand Geographic Board mucked around for ages,
and Russell's still going to be called Russell. It could
have been called chor Rarica, or it could have been
called kor rah RecA Russell or Russell korro Rarica, but
it wasn't isn't. And what I also note with a
great deal of interest is that first of all, this
is just a gargantuan waste of time having a geographic
(07:59):
board that spends lord knows how long investigating this, and
then they couldn't really make up their mind as to
what it could be. And if it gets a bit contentious,
then they sent it to the minister. When they sent
it to a minister, the minister was Damian O'Connor. And
you'll go, well, hold on, wasn't he in the previous government?
Yes he was. And once Damian O'Connor got that in
front of him, what did he do with it? Answer
was nothing, didn't do anything with it. Probably thought, oh,
(08:21):
it's a bit contentious, don't want to make a decision.
So they waited till the new government came along and
mister Pink is the new Land Information Minister, and he said,
I know what I'm going to call it. I'm going
to call it Russell. So he wins an our book.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Now I'm relieved that Russell hasn't changed its name, not
because I have particularly strong feelings about it remaining Russell.
But I can't pronounce Kodu rah Wecker's about as best
as I can do. I don't physically have the whatever
it takes to roll my ars, and I've talked about
(08:55):
it before. It's what held me back with my classical
singing career. Couldn't pronounce the Italian fine on the French,
passed all with the German, couldn't do the Italian, and
don't even talk to me about the Russian. So Kodu
raweka I just sound drunk every time I went there.
There rat Now something that is being changed is a
bit of the Northern Expressway, although not all of it,
(09:20):
and this has got Mike Hosking a little bit confused.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
So Walkworth is north of Auckland, don't even get me
started on the motorway. I didn't realize we've been stitched
up on this motorway, the motorway north of Auckland, which
is the brand new piece of motorway. There's a place
called Johnson's Hill. Out the other side of Johnson's Hill
is the brand new motorway that was opened about a
year or so back. Revolutionary changed everything. It's just absolutely
fantastic standing by for one hundred and ten kilometers. Now
turns out, as of today that one hundred and ten
(09:47):
kilometers has arrived. You can go one hundred and ten
kilomes now, but wait, not on the new bit, just
on a very very small section of the old bit,
which hasn't changed at all. So you can now go
faster on the old bit, but you can't go on
the new bit because they're still thinking about the new bit.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Why do we need another new bit? So then the
new bit now will be the old bit and then
that can go up.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Maybe.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
See normally that would just be stupid, But the way
the Cissy's right, we're trying to get into the lodgebubly
actually quite a good idea. So that that just gives
you an indication as to just how dysfunctional we are anyway,
where was over that? Yes, so I'm reading about the
north of Auckland and walk with The place is booming.
It's absolutely booming. And yet what's the problem. The problem
is the planners didn't see it coming for reasons best
(10:29):
known to themselves. We happen to buy up there seven
years ago. And one of the reasons we brought up
there seven years ago, we thought this place is going
to boom. It's going to be fantastic now if we
could see it, and we're not that bright, how come
they couldn't see it? And how come now the water
doesn't work and everyone's taken by surprise. When you can
see it coming, it's coming, right.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
I'm going to get that T shirt made up of
somebody as dim as my caskin can see it coming?
Why can't you? I am Glen Hart. That was the rerat.
I think I'm dimmer than he is, so I'm totally
in the dark. Hopefully we'll find some illumination tomorrow. I
see then it's a rerat.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Breen Rara.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
For more from News Talk st 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, be
follow this and our wide range of podcasts now on iHeartRadio, rewrap.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
The Welcome to the rewrap for Monday, all the best
buts from the mic asking breakfast on news Talk said,
be in a sillier package. I am Glen Hart today
is go Media Stadium cursed? Who was best dressed at
the budget? Is Russell still called Russell? And why is
(00:46):
the speed limit only on one bit of one road
and not on the other? But before any of that,
is the government getting carried away to trying to implement
unpopular policies and will this come back to bite them
the next year's election.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
So Peter Dutton right in Australia, it is suggested We'll
never truly know, but it is suggested lost the election
because of his nuclear issue and work from home policies.
Now I personally think he lost because they ran a
hopeless campaign, but it is more than possible that he
floated a couple of ideas that the voter simply would
not stomach. And I'm wondering a Christopher Luxon is heading
(01:22):
in a similar direction here with the superannuation ideas, nuclear
makes sense. You can argue that nuclear makes sense working
from home headens productivity. You can argue cogently about that
as well. But the voter's always right, and being a
voter beats logic sometimes will the voter be right here?
On superannuation? Are there enough New Zealanders who have landed
on the very simple truth that sixty five as a
(01:43):
pension age is no longer sensible nor affordable. It's going
to be twenty eight billion dollars a year before you know,
twenty eight billion dollars a year and growing, which seems
worse now because we're broke, of course, but even in
the best of times, it's a stunning amount of money.
National are going to take it to the vote next year.
They may be saved from themselves, of course by New Zealand.
First of they're still in the mix, because that'll be
(02:03):
a bottom line for them, I'm imagining. But we reach
the interesting point where logic and a moe collide. Super
For many of us untouchable, it's a lifetime's worth of work.
I paid my taxes, even though that line isn't actually real.
I mean, we spent your taxes years ago and then
borrowed a bit more to keep the lights on. Sixty
five is the new fifty and post COVID old older
(02:24):
workers have never been in more demand. The days of
being out to pasture are increasingly gone. Sixty five is
not old. Imagine a day where you enter the workforce
knowing you need to take care of yourself because the
rules have changed. I mean, yes, if you strike trouble,
the pigion is a welfare payment, not an entitlement. But
we either have to change the narrative and mindset from
(02:44):
entitlement to welfare, or we need to up the age.
Even in upping the age over time, even giving years
worth of notice, it's still a very, very big core Politically.
It underlines our desire for free stuff basically or perceived
free stuff. Once you set a precedent with money, it
is fantastically hard to undo. But Luxon apparently is super
again to give it a crack. He calls it a
(03:05):
no brainer. First clue, aren't many who think it's a
no brainer. I mean, labour learned the hard way over
the capital gains tax. For goodness sake, it took them
three times to learn that. Lesson Luxon may be about
to learn something similar.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Yeah, I mean it's just basic human nature that the
electorate was heavy. For governments to spend other people's money,
just not theirs personally, that's the logic there the rewrap right,
So a game of football and a game of league
over the weekend at go Meett Stadium it mounts mart
(03:38):
and it didn't turn out well for the home side
on either occasion.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Is the ground jinxed? It's got to be the only explanation.
Saturday Auckland FC unable to lose all season, lose when
it counts. What sort of reflection do we have of
their inaugural escapades if they hadn't been so dominant for
the whole year. I think if they'd been sort of it,
they'd scraped home for the plate, it might have been different.
But they didn't. They won by a mile. Second trick
(04:03):
was to finish it off in the playoffs. Of course,
as it turns out they didn't even make the final.
I'm not sure complaining about the reference is the way
you conduct yourself. I mean, yes, the referee and left
a bit to be desired, and yes the complaint was
in fact accurate, but you lose with dignity, and besides,
it was only one goal in a long conversation of
what might have been is pointless, So it's a disappointment.
Here's the real question. Was Melbourne aside for the occasion
(04:24):
when it counts, when it's do or die, they turned
up Auckland to learn that particular skill. And then last
night on the same ground, in wet conditions that I
was pretty sure wasn't forecast, we get the Mighty Warriors
with a chance to vanquish what was a shocking start
of the season. Oh how long ago, it seems, based
on nothing, we wandered out into Las Vegas and we
got humiligated. What a world away that all appears. Until
(04:46):
last night, of course, when we were reminded, as if
we needed reminding that that part of a winning season
is about learning and improving. And yet we didn't. They
beat us again, not as badly, but when the opportunity
presented itself, when the Bulldogs got beaten as they did
last week, when the gap was there for two points
to put us on top of the table, we couldn't
(05:07):
wouldn't take it. Shall we blame those missing for origin?
Speaker 1 (05:10):
No?
Speaker 3 (05:10):
I don't think so that's like complaining about the refereeing upside.
We are still there. Of course the Raiders go up,
but they played an extra game. Never forget that no
real harm has actually been done, But we just didn't
seize the day. And that is what top level success
is all about, owning it when you can grabbing it,
when you have to be merciless and consistently merciless when
the opportunity arises. Two chances to missus, but at least
(05:32):
for one side, this is still very much potentially.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
If you wanted an example of being merciless in sport,
look no further than the Chiefs versus Milana Pacifica. Everybody
keeps saying things like what happened to Milana? And nobody
seems to say, wah, what's the Chiefs? I know, I
(06:01):
sound like I've got a chip on my shoulder, But
the evidence stacks up, doesn't it. Top of the table
again the way the right to recap last week's budget,
we'd had a look at what people were wearing for
some reason.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
By the way, you'll notice I didn't ask Nichola willis
what she wore on budget day. And it's one of
those most unfortunate things that we still obsess about that
sort of nonsense. And they followed it up. Another media
outlet followed it up yesterday. Chris Bishop, the aforementioned was
involved and he had a three Wise Men shirt and
a tie he'd bought in France, and he'd got a
soup from Half Had Men's Wear and made by rem Brandt.
(06:38):
And then Mike Butterick, who's another MP, he got involved.
He talked to Grant mcallum. Mcallum was wearing something from
Work and Style and Rod and Garnan. Then Carl Bates
got involved and he's got some arim boots. What I didn't.
The only reason I raised this, The only reason I
raised this is R. M. Williams boots, which are good boots,
but they're Australian boots. Most of the leather comes from womanui.
(06:59):
See I didn't know that, And you wouldn't adjoined those
dots automatically, would you. But that's the sort of gold
you get exclusively on this program.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
So then if I had a discussion as to whether
there was a sort of Fonterra style discussion to be
had here about whether one going to leather is missing
out and they could be making their own boots and
selling their own luxury boots, or whether that's just not
how we roll in New Zealand anymore. It's a rewrap
(07:26):
now it just checked. I think Russell is still still
called Russell, even though some people wanted to change it.
Here's Mike with the options.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
I noticed the New Zealand Geographic Board mucked around for ages,
and Russell's still going to be called Russell. It could
have been called chor Rarica, or it could have been
called kor rah RecA Russell or Russell korro Rarica, but
it wasn't isn't. And what I also note with a
great deal of interest is that first of all, this
is just a gargantuan waste of time having a geographic
(07:59):
board that spends lord knows how long investigating this, and
then they couldn't really make up their mind as to
what it could be. And if it gets a bit contentious,
then they sent it to the minister. When they sent
it to a minister, the minister was Damian O'Connor. And
you'll go, well, hold on, wasn't he in the previous government?
Yes he was. And once Damian O'Connor got that in
front of him, what did he do with it? Answer
was nothing, didn't do anything with it. Probably thought, oh,
(08:21):
it's a bit contentious, don't want to make a decision.
So they waited till the new government came along and
mister Pink is the new Land Information Minister, and he said,
I know what I'm going to call it. I'm going
to call it Russell. So he wins an our book.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Now I'm relieved that Russell hasn't changed its name, not
because I have particularly strong feelings about it remaining Russell.
But I can't pronounce Kodu rah Wecker's about as best
as I can do. I don't physically have the whatever
it takes to roll my ars, and I've talked about
(08:55):
it before. It's what held me back with my classical
singing career. Couldn't pronounce the Italian fine on the French,
passed all with the German, couldn't do the Italian, and
don't even talk to me about the Russian. So Kodu
raweka I just sound drunk every time I went there.
There rat Now something that is being changed is a
bit of the Northern Expressway, although not all of it,
(09:20):
and this has got Mike Hosking a little bit confused.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
So Walkworth is north of Auckland, don't even get me
started on the motorway. I didn't realize we've been stitched
up on this motorway, the motorway north of Auckland, which
is the brand new piece of motorway. There's a place
called Johnson's Hill. Out the other side of Johnson's Hill
is the brand new motorway that was opened about a
year or so back. Revolutionary changed everything. It's just absolutely
fantastic standing by for one hundred and ten kilometers. Now
turns out, as of today that one hundred and ten
(09:47):
kilometers has arrived. You can go one hundred and ten
kilomes now, but wait, not on the new bit, just
on a very very small section of the old bit,
which hasn't changed at all. So you can now go
faster on the old bit, but you can't go on
the new bit because they're still thinking about the new bit.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Why do we need another new bit? So then the
new bit now will be the old bit and then
that can go up.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Maybe.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
See normally that would just be stupid, But the way
the Cissy's right, we're trying to get into the lodgebubly
actually quite a good idea. So that that just gives
you an indication as to just how dysfunctional we are anyway,
where was over that? Yes, so I'm reading about the
north of Auckland and walk with The place is booming.
It's absolutely booming. And yet what's the problem. The problem
is the planners didn't see it coming for reasons best
(10:29):
known to themselves. We happen to buy up there seven
years ago. And one of the reasons we brought up
there seven years ago, we thought this place is going
to boom. It's going to be fantastic now if we
could see it, and we're not that bright, how come
they couldn't see it? And how come now the water
doesn't work and everyone's taken by surprise. When you can
see it coming, it's coming, right.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
I'm going to get that T shirt made up of
somebody as dim as my caskin can see it coming?
Why can't you? I am Glen Hart. That was the rerat.
I think I'm dimmer than he is, so I'm totally
in the dark. Hopefully we'll find some illumination tomorrow. I
see then it's a rerat.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Breen Rara.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
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