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July 16, 2024 15 mins

THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Wednesday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) This Inflation Thing Seems Real Bad/What's Mainstream Anyway?/You Following the Trump Show?/Surely You've Heard of Phish?

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
Rerapkoday There and welcome to the Rewrap for Wednesday. All
the best bets from the mic asking Breakfast on Newstalk,
said B and a sillier package. I am Glen Hart
and today more on Darling Karna. I'm starting to worry
that Mike's become obsessed with her. Trump calls RFK Jr.
As a bit of a chin wag. Sounds crazy. And

(00:47):
we'll update you on how the US campaign's going generally,
and then we'll furnish up with some fish talk.

Speaker 3 (00:53):
It might not be the fish you're thinking of. But
before any of that. Inflation day to day, Happy Inflation
Day again.

Speaker 4 (00:58):
Welcome to CPI Wednesday, in fact, the day in which
we find out what happened to inflation in the June quarter.
What's different about this time is the Reserve Bank last
week changed their tune. Until recently, the misery they've inflicted
upon the economy was good news as far as they
were concerned. They were squeezing the for Jesus out of
the place, and this was going to have the desired
effect on inflation. Inflation, remember, needs to return to two

(01:20):
percent on average. When they feel it's arrived, they can
start cutting the cash rate. Cutting the cash rate is
the signal that this gargantuan cock up of an economic
experiment is finally coming to a close. The consensus among
the elites who pondered the stuff on a full time
basis is it will have reached about three and a
half percent, maybe a little bit lower. That would mean
a quarterly figure of about zero point four percent. If

(01:40):
you're getting zero point four percent on an ongoing basis,
it's not long before you work it out that we're
back in that one to three percent band. Now, there
are several questions, and indeed a very big issue lying
next to these figures. If the experts are right, it
merely means the cuts might might come late this year
as opposed to next year. But the big part, the
big question, is when a cut comes, maybe two cuts,

(02:02):
what then happens? What profoundly changes to make our lives
less backward and miserable than the un This, of course,
is nothing. This is not a game of jabbing you
in the eye, whereby when you stop jabbing, the pain
is over. No the pain goes on a cuttle who
alleviates the ongoing misery, But the doer nature and state
of the place doesn't transform overnight into a palm springs
like Wonderland. People don't start hiring and spending and partying.

(02:25):
At best, they stop bleeding. Even if the number today
is a decent one. We are into this, I think
for most of, if not all, of this year, and
I reckon into next year as well. The damage is
so great. It's like Ukraine. The bombing stops good news,
but the rebuild the work to be done. That's your
next story, and it's a long.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
And the alarming thing about all this is that I
knew that inflation it was sticky.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
Everybody keeps calling it.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
Sticky that We had a guy on the show today
who also described some of the aspects of the inflation
pressures as being chunky and funky. So yeah, if it's sticky,
you definitely don't want it to be chunky or funky.
And my experience, there's nothing worse than funky, sticky chunks.

Speaker 3 (03:10):
You know what I mean? Rewrap, I don't really know
what I'm talking about either.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
Hey, so Darling, this Darling Tana thing it's strating on.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
Isn't it right?

Speaker 4 (03:20):
Darlene Tana as she continues her woe is me, I've
been wronged road show. We might like to look to
a little bit of history for advice or instruction on this.
We have been here before. I believe it began with
Alamine Coopa, remember the name, many years ago, another woman
with very similar grievances to Tana. Is not fair? Who
is me hard done by? She was part of the
alliance in the early days of MMP when these new

(03:41):
lists MPs rolled into Parliament on nothing more than a
party's women said about causing trouble. Isn't it remarkable? Hey,
isn't it remarkable to think that three decades later we
still haven't learned how to run the system properly. It's
become embarrassingly obvious. The Greens aren't up too much when
it comes to candidate selection. Tana, who got voted for
specifically by no One scraped and scraped in twelve on

(04:04):
the list, now has the power to just hang about
the place and cause who knows how much trouble, and
of course paid for by us. Meantime, the party who
could do something aren't for reasons only they can try
and explain. They can't contact her, they won't release the
report we paid for, they won't tell us how much
it costs, and they're twisting themselves into indigestion over the
walker jumping law that would solve their problems except for

(04:26):
the fact they've banged on so loudly about it being unfair.
Here's the most important part of this. Chloe Swarbrick has aspirations.
She openly states she can take the party and overtake
Labor as the major left player. But how can she
even begin to do that when she can't even run
the place the size it is. How do you appeal to, say,

(04:47):
twenty eight, twenty nine to thirty percent of New Zealanders
when at twelve or thirteen you look at shambles, a dysfunctional, indecisive,
dithering shambles. If all they aspire to be is a
minor noise maker yapping away on the sidelines of an
MMP system that allows increasingly fringe operators a seat or two,
then this would be just another amateurish mess. But when
you see yourself in the mainstream, got to act like

(05:09):
you belong there and small clue, Chloe, this isn't it.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
Do they see themselves as it being in the mainstream
or are they anti mainstream?

Speaker 3 (05:18):
Get so confused about this, like, you know, this is
something you hear about a lot these days.

Speaker 2 (05:23):
You know, the main the NSM, mainstream media media. Some
people seem to think that that is Newstords B for example.
The other then there are other people who think we
aren't what's mainstream? I don't know.

Speaker 3 (05:41):
It all depends which bit of the stream you're standing.
And I guess rerap Okay.

Speaker 2 (05:46):
So funny old development in the old Trump a temper
assassination and the.

Speaker 3 (05:53):
Whole presidential campaign.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
And he gave RFK JR.

Speaker 1 (05:58):
A call.

Speaker 2 (06:00):
So this is after being shot, but before turning up
at the convention.

Speaker 4 (06:04):
So we've got a phone called Trump rings RFK now
RFK at this particular point when the phone goes ring ring,
I assume Rfk's phone goes ring ring. Uh, he's got
a videographer filming him. What just in case the phone
goes ring ring? What do you reckon this videography? Anyways?
For getting filmed? And when you see the film, look
up the film because it's pink that that's the story

(06:25):
in itself. I'm sure for a later day. His son
Bobby Asn't the third puts it online. Whoop's bad idea
deletes it, but not before we got hold of it.
So this is trump an RFK.

Speaker 5 (06:39):
When you when you's.

Speaker 1 (06:44):
A vaccination that is like very.

Speaker 5 (06:46):
Eight different vaccines, and it looks like it's been for
a horse, not a you know, Ted Bounder twenty baby.
It looks like giving you should be giving on a
hors system. And do you ever see the size of it?
Radulos massive and then you see the baby all of
a sudden decided to change radically. I've seen it too
many times. And then you hear that it doesn't have

(07:08):
an impact.

Speaker 6 (07:09):
Right, But you and I talked about that a long
time ago, and anyway, I would be I would love
you to do something, and I think it would be
so good for you and so big for you, and
we're gonna win.

Speaker 5 (07:22):
We you know, way ahead of the guy. And you know,
he's interesting. It was very nice. Actually he called me
and he said, how did you choose.

Speaker 1 (07:33):
To move to the right?

Speaker 5 (07:35):
Just you know, so I guess that people said, you
know I was if I was looking straight up, he said, I.
I said, I was just showing a jar, and I
didn't have to tell him. The chart was on all
the people pouring into our country, right, but uh now
I'm gonna just turn my head to show the jar
and something wrapped me. It sounded like a giant, like
the world's largest mosquito, and it was it was a

(07:59):
bullet over you know what did they call that an
AR fifteen or something?

Speaker 3 (08:03):
That was a big gun?

Speaker 5 (08:04):
I was a pretty pretty tough guns.

Speaker 4 (08:06):
Right, he's drugged up. I know he's like that all
the time.

Speaker 2 (08:13):
Well, I was just saying to Sam for my brother
fell off his bike yesterday and he's in hospital on
a morphine.

Speaker 3 (08:19):
Drip, right, if he rang it, I had.

Speaker 2 (08:22):
We were having kind of a random conversation and over
WhatsApp on the family chat, right, we were getting some
pretty random responses from him, and I just wondered, Yeah,
I want to a.

Speaker 4 (08:31):
Bit of morphine involved there, and so fluoride.

Speaker 2 (08:34):
They've talked about fluoride as well before.

Speaker 4 (08:36):
What I meant, what I'm actually interested in is whether
RFK actually seen anything at all where the Trump just
rings people up and somebody goes hello, and then for
the ten fifteen minutes following he just tells some stories
but that's that's out over the last twenty four hours. RFK,
by the ways, apologized the videographer should have won, not
been videoing to not posted it. So he apologizes to

(08:58):
Trump for all of it.

Speaker 3 (08:58):
Just trying to think how big a twenty pound baby.

Speaker 6 (09:02):
Would be.

Speaker 2 (09:07):
If you're about to inject it with what did you say,
thirty eight different vaccines at once or something? And also
interesting that this seemed to be the first time he
was aware of the phrase ar fifteen. Did you notice
that at the end he says, I guess that calling
it an AAR fifteen. You sure he's heard that in
the name of that before? And if not, why not?

(09:31):
Funny old guy? Isn't he as a rewrap honey?

Speaker 3 (09:34):
Old campaign? Where are we at as of this morning.

Speaker 4 (09:38):
Just bringing up to speak with all that's going on
in America? Given them so much going on in America, Biden,
if you're not aware yesterday the bullseye remark, A lot
of people have been texting me on that and you
too long a bo no pun intended. But when he
said it was time to put a bullseye, he was
on a private call, but he said it's time to
put a bullseye on Donald Trump. I mean to extrapolate
that out to what happened was ridiculous. But nevertheless, he

(09:59):
indeed suggested yesterday that it was probably a step to
a part and he chose his words incorrectly. As a
result of Saturday, RFK is now getting secret service prediction.
Elon Musk has announced he's going to give forty five
million dollars a month to a pro Trump super pack.
He hasn't actually done it yet, but monop what he

(10:20):
says doesn't happen, but that's what he said. As regards
the shooter the FBN, I've got nothing. They got his phone,
and they had his phone yesterday. They've still got nothing
by way of a motive. And it was this time
yesterday we're telling you about the secret documents the Florida trial,
the stuff they found of the toilet. The appeal has come,
so we got the ninety three page ruling yesterday. Justice

(10:41):
Department has approved plans to appeal, so we will stand
by for that. The important part of that is it
gets it out beyond the election, and if he wins
the election, when it comes to court cases involving himself,
Lord knows what he will decide to do.

Speaker 2 (10:57):
I mean, if this was like a TV show, it'd
be criticized for the plots too complicated, There's too much
going on.

Speaker 3 (11:07):
People don't know, you know, which plot line to follow.

Speaker 2 (11:16):
The Secret Service has come out today saying that they
did have information about an Iranian plot to assassinate Trump,
But there has to be no connection between that and
this young kid who ended up shooting at him surprise, surprise.

Speaker 3 (11:34):
Wouldn't it be.

Speaker 2 (11:35):
Great if there had been, though, Like imagine like he'd
gone to Tehran on a school exchange or something that
they'd given them Belie Harvey Oswald treatment. But no, don't worry,
the plot's not quite that complicated.

Speaker 6 (11:51):
So rewrap.

Speaker 2 (11:52):
So every Wednesday and Friday, I give Mike a piece
of paper for some information about some new release music
that I'm featuring on the show on those two mornings,
and sometimes he gets the name of the band and
the name of the album confused, especially if he's never
heard of either of them.

Speaker 3 (12:10):
But sometimes there's no excuse.

Speaker 4 (12:12):
So how do Fish become so popular? They're one of
the bands, according to the article by Mark Runyon of
concert to a Dot Org, one of the bands who
seemed to hold fans in a trance with no hits
on the radio. See, that's my problem. I'm a hit man,
I'm a go to hits guy, and so they got
no hits on the radio. I've never had a hit.

Speaker 3 (12:29):
Yeah, I just looked up our assistant here. You know
where we have who plays?

Speaker 4 (12:32):
Who plays all.

Speaker 3 (12:33):
The music on all our stations?

Speaker 6 (12:35):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (12:35):
Who not? So found their fame entirely through the Fish
sanctioned exchanging. The bootleg tapes in the eighties often been
compared to the Grateful Dead in terms of their place
in popular culture. Laid back yet rabbid fan base. That's
what you want to be, you want to be rabbied.
And yet at the same time.

Speaker 2 (12:53):
I believe they referred to as fish heads in the
same way that Grateful Dead fans are dead heads.

Speaker 4 (12:58):
Okay, it's pretty difficult to settle on one genre for them.
It's right, it's not an impossible says Mark Runyon, Top
concert to a doddleg.

Speaker 3 (13:07):
Yeah, I mean, what would you call this.

Speaker 4 (13:10):
In in a Viking?

Speaker 5 (13:15):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (13:15):
I think what kind of person plays to see the
band fish one hundred and fifty times? That was an article.
Another article, this one written by armand Rosen. But it's
not an article. You've give them a Glenn twenty nineteen,
so it gives a context. I suppose this is there
is a photo of a fishhead outside Hampton Coliseum in
two thousand and nine, Hampton, Virginia. He appears to be naked, but.

Speaker 3 (13:35):
I had to know.

Speaker 2 (13:36):
I mean, the photo only goes down to get It
does go quite, and it goes right.

Speaker 4 (13:40):
It goes down far enough to think he's got no
pants on. He's holding a cup of drink. He's holding
a sign and kneed tickets please. And he's got a
moose hat on and sunglasses, very poor sunglasses, sort of
dirty dog sunglasses and a moose hat. And he's got
to sign say need tickets please. And on the other
hand he's got a cup which maybe to be may
be homeless, and he's collecting money at the same time

(14:01):
or he maybe it's the thirsty I don't know. Anyway,
the man from whom I bought my ticket had seen
fish over one hundred and fifty times. Encouragingly enough, he
was an excellent physical shape and had a business and
a wife and multiple kids who were spending the running
closing hours of twenty eighteen, a safe and conspicuous distance
from Medisine Square gud So in otherwise, what he's trying
to tell you was the normal. Although they appear not

(14:23):
to be normal, they are normal. So there you go.

Speaker 3 (14:25):
I mean they're playing Medicine Square Garden.

Speaker 4 (14:26):
So doesn't everybody? Doesn't everybody nine minutes away from nine.

Speaker 3 (14:34):
You've heard of first?

Speaker 6 (14:34):
Right?

Speaker 3 (14:35):
pH? I sh a are.

Speaker 2 (14:41):
A thing anyway, Maybe you just have to be in
America to fully get it. I don't think there's a
huge crap or dead following here in New Zealand either,
so it's a similar thing to that.

Speaker 3 (14:51):
I think. Anyway, you can only do so much.

Speaker 2 (14:55):
I am Glen Hart, Study app Google apps, fish for
the pH.

Speaker 3 (15:01):
And we'll get back together again here tomorrow Sea then.

Speaker 6 (15:08):
M hmmm.

Speaker 1 (15:12):
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