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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
There and Welcome to the Rerap for Thursday. All the
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be in Asilia Package hither for the second last time today,
the old Today place name game has fired up again.
We don't get any more answers on New Jersey's drones
in New Zealand is changing their fuel type and it's
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raising a few eyebrows. And while we're talking about airplanes,
it was ours on fire or not before any of that.
It turns out the stats department can't count. Let's worry.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
This is embarrassing for Stats New Zealand. I don't know
if you've been following this, but there was a little
bit of a bit of a kerfuffle about how many
people lost their jobs in Wellington. So apparently Stats New
Zealand have been going around telling everybody that twenty thousand
people in Wellington have lost their jobs. They have just
had to correct that and in fact it's not twenty
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thousand people who've lost their jobs. It's two thousand people
have lost their jobs, which feels like quite a big
mistake for the numbers guys to be making. So what
that means is the actual number of job losses is
a drop of about a two percent in the capital,
not a drop of eleven percent. They're blaming coding eras,
which is what I would do that as well. I'd
say it's a coding era that caused that trouble. It
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was nothing to do with me as a coding era.
But I think that if we've got the guys who
are doing the numbers in this country unable to actually
properly do the numbers in this country, we have to start.
I mean, this is if you will worry if you
were like, I'm not convinced by Erica telling the kids
that they have to go and do an hour of
maths at school at primary school. Is this not evidence
that the kids need to do an hour of maths
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at school at primary school? When even your statistics in
New Zealand people can't quite figure out what's going.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
On so much for AI, surely you couldn't you just
plug that into chet GPT.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
You could probably just do that. You could probably just
I don't know you could. That feels like a strong
case for a consultant. How do you feel about that?
I feel like I would. I would send some money,
spend some money on the consultants, get them in to
help old stats New Zealand up.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Here's quite a big difference between the twenty thousand and
two thousand. I feel like they've never been the same
stats in New Zealand since their building was condemned for
not being an earthquake prooth and they would move out.
Remember that it was since then that there's there have
been a few random predictions and estimates and reports and things.
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I feel like, and now they're are twenty thousand numbers
out there. It stays out there as well. Like you know,
people will be Google searching searching it and they'll come
up with old articles and things where it'll be quoting
that number and they'll continue to believe that number. That's
how the world works these days, and it's post truth.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
But you know it's not rewrap.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
I mean, it's the place where you left when you
went to work is still there when you get back.
And by that, I mean it's still called the same name.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Hey, I'll tell you what's weird is this decision from
Chris penk about renaming some of the place names that
have been incorrectly named in Mardi Right, So the most
prominent of the two, he's renamed one of the parks
that one of the places in central North Island. Fair enough,
go for it. And he's also put a is given
is given that little weird, weird suburb around Spark Arena
in Auckland, you know, around Britain mart He's given that
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a name. So cool. But Potoni wanted to change to
pittel Ornair because Pottoni is just a made up name.
It's just it's like some dude arrived in New Zealand
heard pittel hoorn Air and went Pittoni and then it's stuck.
And so all that they were asking and Potoni is,
can we take it back to its original name, which
actually means something? And he goes nah, And he didn't
explain why. And I find that quite strange, but because
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I mean, I think I don't know. Would it be
that hard for us to figure it out? If you
saw Pottoni and pitte Hoorna written on a sign, you'd
kind of know what you We would know, wouldn't we.
So I'm not really sure, I'd love an explanation from
Chris actually on why he's done this. I'm underestimating the
level of confusion that this is going to cause, obviously.
The other one that I find even more perplexing is
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that takaninny actually should have macron, so it should be tarkaniny,
so it should be it should be a long a there,
And they ask can we do that please? And he
was like, Nat, why what's the problem? I mean, I
think if we looked at tacaninny and tarkaninny would we'd
figure we'd figure that out, wouldn't we? So why Anyway,
Chris does not appear to be giving interviews on this,
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which I find quite strange, and I'd love to have
a chat to him about it. So if Chris wakes
up in time, if he could maybe just quickly schedule
us in for a little bit, I'd be it is
so grateful just to understand what's going on here.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
I am. I don't really care that much when they
change the names, but it's the adding the macrons on
to things. I don't get how that's suddenly a thing.
It was never a thing until now, and now it's
a thing In the last few years, the rewrap our
macrons keeping Chris Pink up at night, as that why
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he wouldn't come on the show this morning.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Chris Pink is awake. They've got back to us, and
because we've said can you come on, Chris, can you
explain to us why you don't want pitter orner and
you don't want tucking a. Need to have a double
a in there so you know it gets pronounced properly.
Apparently he's unavailable because he's on parenting duties this morning.
And as if to because at this point you go whatever,
but apparently no, he said, no, no, he is. He
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left the Gallery Christmas party early last night because he's
on parenting.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
You know what kids be like at this time of year?
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Yeah? Is it particular? I mean, look, I'm very early
in this parenting journey. Is it quite bad at this time?
Speaker 2 (05:47):
I saw a woman in the que ahead of me
at the Harvey Norman photo desk yesterday, Yes, and yeah,
that was quite a battle that was going on there.
That was one grumpy kid.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Did the child want her to buy a photo?
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Well? No, the child couldn't quite understand why they didn't
have the Christmas cards that they'd been promised, oh dear,
And that's a whole other story about how Harvey Norman
is it delivering in time for Christmas?
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Man, you know you've got a battle on your hands
when the kid's obsessed with Christmas card for Christmas cards anyway,
So Chris is dealing with that. I mean, my look,
I'm very early on and as I say in the
Parenting Journey, but my advice to Chris is what you
want to do is you just want to put blue
Eye on in the lounge and you say to the kids.
You give the kids the granola or their porridge or
their toast or whatever it is that you're going to
give them for the brecky. You know, I don't know.
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I mean, if you want to health it up, you know,
chuck and chuck some avocado on a piece of vogels
and a couple of slices of tomato. And look, they're
getting a couple of vegetables right there and some nuts
and grains. So that's good work, that's good parenting. And
then you've got the bluey. If you feel bad about
the blue because you're like it's very early in the
day to have screen time, what you want to do
is just mute it and put the captions on, and
then they're not watching the screen, they're reading. So you're
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doing reading one hour of reading, plus you're getting your
fruits and grains and all your vegetables. And then while
they're busy reading the Blue Ey and eating all that stuff,
you come out and you go to your bedroom and
you take a call from us. That's how it would
work in my house. I just saying if I was
a minister, but as you can tell, I'm not a
minister for obvious reasons. Anyway, maybe in the future you
can think about that and then come on the show
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and talk. Just and by the way, BS, I'm just
gonna say this, BS on this story because Chris, as
far as I can see, has given no interviews. I
don't know why he's so weird about it. It's not
even that big deal. He's given no interviews. He doesn't
want to talk about this, so we will never know
why Chris has made the decision he is.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Yeah, just saying, don't try and order Christmas cards printed.
Your home printed Christmas cards will Harvey Normandy. You won't
get them in time. They're coming from Australia. Maybe that's
what Chris Bank was having to deal with as well. Boy,
this new Jersey drones story, is it a story? I
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think there's a lot of people trying to convince us
that it's not a story, which usually means it's a story.
And I was convinced it wasn't a story until so
many people said that it wasn't. And now I'm wondering
if it.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Is on the drones. You want an update on the drones,
give you an update. These are all updates that are
not updates, by the way, because everybody seems to be
doing the thing where they're like, oh, there's nothing to
worry about what we can't actually tell you. So what
happened is that the people who know what's going on
with the drones have given members of the US House
Intelligence Committee are closed door briefing, right, and so all
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of these people on the committee now know what's going
on with the drones. So they came out this morning
with Biden to tell us what's going on with the drones,
and it was all like, oh, it was all about
what's not going on with the drones rather than what's
going on, if you know what I mean. So it's
no aliens, no foreign actors, nothing, no laws being broken,
nothing to worry about here. Vast majority of sightings just
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normal aircraft, just drones being operated lawfully. Biden went on
to say, there's lots of authorized drones up there. I
think one started it, and they all everybody wanted to
get in on the deal. So basically one went up,
freaked some people out, and then everybody else decided to
start doing copycatting at night. It's not gonna wash, is it,
Because if you're giving a closed door briefing, why don't
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you just give an opened If there's nothing to see here,
do an open door briefing, let everybody in on it.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
So I feel like nobody's really asking the question why
New Jersey And the only thing that I can come
up with is that they're just, you know, really stepping
up the production values on Jewsey Shore maybe and they
want some nice wide nighttime drone shots.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Could be could look at this, and.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Then they can't tell anyone because then that would be spoilers.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Could be anything that's going on. But I mean, that's
that is a hell of a lot of a hell
of a lot of trouble to go to to keep
that particular plot line, you know, secret If.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
You want a bit more drone based humor, look at
Conan Must go On. I think it's on on Sky
and Neon. It's a I think there's four episodes of
a documentary series where Conan O'Brien travels around anyway. He
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takes a drone with them, and that's quite funny the
stuff that they do with the drone rerap and my opinion,
but then what would I know? I think here that
finds Air New Zealand's new choice of fuel reasonably humorous.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Coming up today, it's GDP day. So are we back
in our third recession in two years? Most likely we're
gonna have a chat to asb's chief economist after seven
Erica Stanford, Minister of the Year, on the compo that's
being offered to victims of Lake Alice and whether she's
actually got enough money for us. We're going to talk
to High Performance Sport about cutting the money for hockey
and saying completely no to E sports altogether. And then
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Mark Hadlow of the Lord of the Rings fame on
his new stage show about an angry old cyclist. After eight, look,
I couldn't help but feel ever so slightly irritated yesterday
by a New Zealand's big announcement. They put out a
statement trumpeting the fact that they have just splashed out
on the biggest shipment of sustainable aviation fuel yet and woo,
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they're going to punch power a whole bunch of flights
across the Pacific on animal and cooking fat leftovers. Now,
I'm sure that they think that they're doing good here,
but just got all my nerves because you know what
I'd like more than an announcement about what wonderful climate
warriors they are. It would be an announcement that prices
are coming down all that flights are going to run
on time for you know, just one day. Instead, what
I'm being told is they've just blown a whole lot
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of money, because this stuff is a lot more expensive
than normal jet fuel, blown a whole lot of money
on greenwashing themselves. Now, I think in New Zealand needs
to take a leaf out of the books of several
big businesses globally and maybe spend less time on trying
to fix the planet and more time on just trying
to fix their business. BP has sold its offshore wind farms,
drop back its emissions reductions goals. It's increasing its investment
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and guess what, Oil and Gas shell scaling back its
investments in renewables as well. Mercedes Benz abandoned its EV
goal gone back to sprucing up its combustion engines. Why
because that's their business. It's like cars. Combustion cars are
the business of Mercedes Bens. Oil and gas is the
business of BP, and flying a plane for as cheap
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and as punctually as possible would be the business of
Air New Zealand. I would have thought, now, I'm not naive.
I mean, I understand why they're doing this, right. They
firmly believe that there is consumer pressure to reduce their
climate harm. I think they are more worried about this
than they actually need to be. I think there's much
more consumer pressure on them getting prices down and just
getting us to our destinations on a time. A little
bit more focus on that, please, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
My Heathery also did a Lenk the editorial on coal
use as well, and basically made the argument that nobody
else seems to be taking emissions seriously shown why should we?
And Yeah, it's hard to argue, isn't it. It's only
the planet the re wrap. I mean as if you
know air and air travel and flying doesn't do enough
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damage to the planet, imagine if you actually set the
airplane on fire on the way.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Listen, I'm sorry to do this year, but if you're
embarrassed by our military gear breaking down, you're probably not
going to want to hear this one. We sent last
night an urban search and rescue team to van Awatu
to help them after the quake, but they, by the
looks of things, haven't got there. And the problem is
because the plane caught fire, or if it's not clear
that plane actually did catch fire, but there was an
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engine fire warning, so it might have been about to
catch fire, or might have been catching fire, or might
have been at risk, or who knows anyway, made false alarm.
Whatever the thing is, you can't fly when you've got
an engine in an engine warning coming through saxon catch fire.
So this is an old Air Force Hercules because and
I say old as if you didn't already know that
it was old. So the Hercules called got itself some trouble,
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so they had to be diverted through to New Caledonia.
So we're going to send a second plane this morning,
fingers crossed for that one to pick them up and
take them over. Hopefully they will get there climb.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
We've got a bigger, bigger yellow digger situation.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
It is one of the easy there. Yeah, well, I
think we've got a back it. We've got a series
of planes backed up just in case number one, number two,
number three go down.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
You know it was an autopilot problem, don't you, because
good things always coming three it'd be a fiery a
ship in a plane and don't work. It caused havoc
because of the self driving. I am a glean Hart
had to go and get on my new car doesn't
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actually have self driving, just reasonably rudimentary cruise control, so
it should be fine. What could possibly go wrong? And
I'll see you back here again for the final target Murrow.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
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