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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
Rewrap the Welcome to the Rerap for Friday, all the
best bits from the mic hosting breakfast on News Talks.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
He'd be in a sillier package. I am Glen Hart. Today.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
We're just going to have a little rifle through the
MP expenses lists, just for funzies, just for a bit
of a laugh, no skindle, just just for funds. We'll
mark a week because I look at my calendar it
looks like it's Friday.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
That's what we do.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
And then mister Starmer goes to see mister Trump in Washington.
But before any of that, MP's sorry MP, BP for
MP's on the brain BP. Yeah, you tuning their zero
ambitions just like everybody.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Really a couple of hard core reality checks this week,
as a result of the arrival of the Trump sequel,
BP summed up the climate dilemma very succinctly. I thought
we got it wrong on net zero. We got it
wrong on net zero. Net zero has become an unobtainable obsession,
a business decision for many thousands of companies all over
the world. Driven not by clear sighted intelligence but woke
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nonsense and a desire not to stand out from the crowd.
That mad, insecure feeling you had when you were ten
in the schoolyard, not to look different, say anything unusual,
or attract attention, as it turns out, stays with you
all the way up to the boardrooms. Who get sucked
into believing that spending billions, cutting jobs, foregoing growth would
somehow lead to saving the planet. We got it wrong
on net zero, so BP are back in the oil
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business because Trump said drill, Baby, Drill. That was a
campaign slogan in an American election with a flow on
clearly that affected the whole world. And then eight nothing
wrong with aid but a Labour prime minister in Britain
cut aid to pay for defense and the pole said
he did the right thing. Tty six percent of Britain
think there's been too much on aid. And when they
hear a transportation system for refugees in Eastern Europe uses
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a Porsche dealer and there paying for it, who can
blame them? Our aid in the Pacific, until recently largely unaudited.
The idea of helping the helpless is worthy, but the
reason it never ends is because AID becomes an industry
and the helpless really get actual help. UNRA, as a
UNAID agency, have a look at their record and see
how keen you are to keep giving. It is human nature.
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Most ideas start off well but blow out into a
combination of madness, waste, expansion, slackness until someone comes along
and says enough. The core principles of AID and a
cleaner planet remain laudable goals and ideals, but until we
can bring some discipline to the execution, some rigid to
the containment and parameters of the targets, and some realism
around what's actually practically achievable, it will always be hijacked
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by the tryhards, do good as and zalots. We will
always make the same mistake. It will end up needing
a German election type result or a Trump type victory
to bring us back to our senses.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Yes, certainly a Trump type result.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
As a smack in the face, is it that if
you're getting hysterical you get.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
A slap like that.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
I'm not sure I actually needed to actually hit myself
in the face to do that sound effect, but I did.
Those are the links I go to to provide you
with a quality, genuine podcast rewrap. So it's that time
of year when the list of MP expenses are published.
Why would you put anything on your ministerial credit card?
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Seriously, so on the expenses, I've got to give it away.
The wine prim it on a wine, a magnum of
pen and Wi from Pegasus. Very nice wine, very good wine.
Nicola Grigg bought that. I'm assuming for a gift. Two
hundred and fifteen dollars. This is from the MP's expenses.
Interesting things, Mark Mitchell, he doesn't escape our attention this morning,
called Markey Marky, Marky a lot of food and drink.
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Mark a lot of food and drink, including sixty dollars
one night on the old mini bar.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Well, as we know, that's about one bag of nuts
from him.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Well exactly, I mean there's that value for me. I
think the Minister's going to be asking himself that question.
Todd McLay, I'm assuming these are all gifts given HEA's
the Trade minister. Forty one dollars of glazed sprouts in Dubai.
Although having said that, if I was in Dubai and
I saw some glaze sprouts, so go jeez. What Are
they glazed sprouts? I have some of that.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
I don't think they come in any other way and
do I.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Think that's probably true. Minuka honey bottles their gifts, aren't they.
I'm from New Zealand have some Minuka honey bottles chocolate
Kiwi fruit? Is that cliche? Really?
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Are they doing that? So we've got the green, the yellow,
the red, and now chocolate.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
It's a very good question.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Yesday.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
That was from the International Airport though, So he's on
the run through. Melissaly is not even a minister anymore.
But I assume she did this before she got dumped.
Pastrimi sandwich kumra chunks. Come on, Shane Jones. Now, if
you know the history, you'll know why this is Shane Jones.
Nothing caught once, never want to get caught again. Paul Goldsmith,
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This is so Paul Goldsmith, four hundred dollars for a
twelve month subscription. Otter, what's that? It's an AI voice
to tech service. Of course it is Paul Simon Court.
Now he goes the Burger Fuel and he orders the
slow cook smoked pulled beef. Doesn't like tomato because he
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gets the tomato removed.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Picky Picky Picky.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Judith one hundred and seventy nine dollars for an HDMI
cable from JB Hi Fi. Got a Max gold beer
and some fries at the Big public House. A Max
gold beer and some fries.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Well that's all right, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
No four seventy five to five twenty five at night
for some accommodation in Brussels. That's cheap. Multiple receipts, multiple
for salmon. Chris Bishop eight hundred dollars on laundry and
the aforementioned Swip soda. Wait till I get the Prime
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Minister on this is Schwip soda acceptable? Prime Minister? Yes
or no?
Speaker 3 (06:12):
I mean what do you expect you're expecting to go?
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Like?
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Value house brand.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Hips is a funny one, isn't it. It seems to
have somehow maintained market share. I mean they had the statistics,
but I mean it's still there after all these years,
in spite of generally being more expensive than any other option. Yeah,
because there's really much difference between the Swips ginger Ale
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and the you know, value.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
House brand ginger Ale.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
People must obviously think there is, because it's still there.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Replet's hang on it's Friday and it's mark the week.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Turned out to mark the week a little piece of
news and camera of vents. It's as popular as a
five million dollar gold card to America and now mineral seven.
Ze Lensky at the White House tomorrow to sign. Tell
me the downside of that? What is the downside of that?
For goodness? Like Andrew Bailey three hypothetical he did resign.
It's a sad business. Was it a sackable offense?
Speaker 1 (07:11):
No?
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Does it put people off entering politics? I would have
thought so. But when you call somebody a loser and
grab an arm, can you survive that? Well, that's the
reoffense that was suckable, I think, wasn't it? Law and
Order eight are the violent crime stats and the new
detainment powers are tangible evidence of progress in the right direction.
Special economic zones sex, I get it, but it's got
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a what about me too? Vibe? Hasn't it? Really? Marsden
and the Rebuild two? I mean, that's what's wrong with
coalition deals, isn't it. They indulge in folly Tamu Three.
We're spending We're spending more there and less domestically. Never
underestimate the power of cheap crap tory fart out one.
Canceling her ZB slot is the beginning of the end.
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Canceling ZB slots doesn't tend to go well for voting patterns.
I speak from experience. Are the Warriors seven have unbeaten
in the off season and someverely ordinary blow up bat
wielding raiders to tackle? First up BMW and Mini seven
stalling production on the new ev version? Why the real
world Mercedes seven increasing production and investment and engines? Why
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the real world BP seven cutting investment in green stuff
and spending more on drilling for oil. Why the real
world are the tourism spent eight? Now we're almost back.
It's six last years, sadly, but think the Good Lord
were almost there? The farmers seven informetric Yes, today they
report telling us the economy's growth is going to be
driven by rural New Zealand. So God bless the farmer
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once again. Housing confidence six they call it a house
buying sweet spot. Manufacturing confidence seven back to expansion spending
seven up in every region.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Stop.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
I can't take all this good news. That's the week
copies on the website and seventy six percent of the
writers of this are replied to the email on what
five things they did last week?
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Yeah, I wonder if from Elon and Doge would have
accepted me just listing off every sound effect I used
in mark the week. There's definitely more than five rerap Yeah. So,
speaking of we're goings on in Washington, Secure Starmer turned
up today trying sort of smooth things over. Sure up
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the friendship that's gone back hundreds of years apparently, I
mean obviously gone back as far as the American Revolutionary War.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Sharp as whipped Starmer. First thing he's done with Trump?
Guess what he's done with something he's linked this from
the Japanese guy the other day and were Macron's not
popular because he's thick. So first thing Starmer does is
he goes, hey, would you like a state visit? Come
and meet the king? And he goes I've already had
to state visit, and goes, now I have a second one.
Come and meet the king because you met the queen
last time, we've got a king. Do you want to
come and meet the king? You start bucking in palace.
He goes, oooh you think they're getting on well already?
Speaker 2 (09:54):
The last thing I'd want to be honest, my response
would be, yeah, I will. I suppose I'll come, but
can you make sure that I don't.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Meet any of the royal family? The rewrap Anyway, they
talked about other stuff as well.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Now just Glenn makes a very good point. They've had
the yellow chairs, this is the White House, but they're
not or haven't televised. Maybe the lie bits later on,
we'll we'll find out. But he hasn't been in there
along though, as might think. He's probably getting the tour
and all that sort of stuff. You see Trump turn
up the other day there was a tour of the
White House, which I am very lucky enough to have done,
and he turned up. There's a corridor. It's very unusual
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place in the White House. There's a lot of sort
of tunnels and corridors. Anyway, there was one of those
tours on and then all of a sudden, from behind
the screen turned up Trump and they just started chanting Trump, Trump, USA, USA,
And he said Mlaney has spent a lot of time
lately organizing that the tour is just a perfect tour.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
And I thought, I thought she went home and then
only just came back the other day.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Doesn't mean that what he said was true. Glenn, It's
I keep forgetting that because he then went on to
say he looked at the guys doing the tree. He said,
you give them a special tour. Now the tour won't
have been any different, but they'll think they're on a
special to her.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Is it smaller than it appears? Very much?
Speaker 4 (11:04):
So Like it's like so much smaller than an appear
as you think, how do they get around under I've
been in I've been in the yellow room, in the
green room and stuff, and it's it's barely bigger than
a lounge. You think you would have thought they would
have built maybe some extensions, but they haven't gone there.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
I am.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
I am a fan of those secret doors that are
sort of built into the you know, just a part
of the wall opens and it turns out that was
a door. That's quite cool. I wish they'd done that
in my house. All the doors are just doors in
my house. And there's one that's hung the wrong way
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round for some reason. You've got to close that one
to get into the on Sweet bathroom, and if it
was the other way around, you could have just left
it open and have gone into the en Sweet bathroom.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
I don't know what.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Maybe they just ordered the wrong number of door handles
that go a certain way, so they've really painted themselves
at Is that something that I can fix myself? Anyway,
It's got a bit off topic there at the end.
Sorry about that. I'm sure that won't happen on Monday
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the next time we do another one of these.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Oh my sure.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Ninety nine percent surera.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
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