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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
The Rewrap.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Okay there and welcome to the rewrap.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
All the best bits from the mic asking breakfast on
News Talks ed B and a Sillier package. I'm Glen
Hart and today the rental market. What is really happening
with the rental market? Is it a good time to
rent or not? It's confusing work experience this whole you know,
getting kids into a trade, not just leaving school and
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going on a benefit.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
This this has sort of come up again.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
The QB's situation has a kind of a resolution and
aura rings explained. But before any of that, Trump called
Putin or Putin called Trump.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Trump waited around and then and called I think that's
actually what happened.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Right, So Trump is a bit stuck on this. It
was emphasized this is the readout from the Kremlin. It
was emphasized that the key condition for preventing escalation of
the conflict and working towards its resolution by political diplomatic means,
et cetera, should be the complete cessation of foreign military
aid and the provision of intelligence information to keep, in
other words, turn off the intelligence that's not happening. I'm
assuming it's not happening. In connection with Trump's recent appeal
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to save the lives of Ukrainian servicemen surrounded in the
Curse region, this is what Trump was talking about yesterday
when he was at the Kennedy Center. Putin confirmed that
the Russian side is ready to be guided by humanitarian
considerations and in the event of surrender, guarantees the lives
of Ukrainian Armed Force soldiers and decent treatment in accordance
with Russian laws and international law, which I think are
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probably two completely different things. The call was concluded, and
this hasn't been widely reported. This is why this show
is so good at what it does. Donald Trump supported
Vladimir Putin's idea to organize hockey matches in the US
in Russia between Russian and American players and the NHL
and kh Oh.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
There you go. It wasn't a vast after all.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
It was exactly so they got the hockey sort got
for that.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Yes, you know, you know you can can on chun
not to be distracted away from the really important issues.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Definitely.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
The rewrap right back here in New Zealand. Apparently it's
such a good time to rent. It's a renter's market
that landlords are having to bribe people to rent their houses.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Apparently, So a question for you to start off this morning,
who's right the rental market is like musical chairs. There's
a headline from yesterday, the rental market is like musical chairs.
Landlords are offering grocery vouchers and incentives to sign up
for rentals. But headline number two, even the middle class
are struggling to pay rent. But story number three, a
report I read by JB. Weir about wealth transfer, which
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is actually a story in itself, but upshot is we
are the seventh wealthiest country on earth if you do
the median I e. Half above, half below were the
fifth wealthiest. So if we're so wealthy, how come we
can't afford rent? And if we can't afford rent, how
come they're offering grocery vouchers to luris and none others
make sense? The answer, of course, lies in the specifics
of each story. The middle class line came from a
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unionist they called an economist in the story, so a
man with an agenda. Obviously, he cited a teacher on
sixty thousand dollars a year. Now teachers don't earn sixty
thousand dollars a year. We'll only the new ones do,
the young ones. But let's be frank, if you are
new and young and starting on those early wages, you
should be flatting. As for the voucher's story, well that's
a reflection of the good news. Rentals are not rising
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the way they were because of supply. Thousands more houses
are on the market. There are some more houses than punters,
so that sort of supply demand equation is good, of
course for the consumer. So if you drum up the
worst case scenario, guess what you'll find a problem closely
followed by a headline. But what of this wealth transfer
wealth interesting report? Billions is changing hands as the boomers
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die and the kids get the inheritance. Women are disproportionately
benefiting over men. It will carry on, apparently well into
the twenty forties, and is a reminder that we are not,
in fact a squalid, broke backwater that many would make
us out to be. Yes, we may well be a
low paid or low wage economy, but we are not
as economically divided as many would make out we are
not broken, and through things like housing, vast sums have
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been amassed and it's currently being bequeathed and left to others.
The trick is to read the detail, not fall for
the headline. Of course, can some not afford rent, yes,
of course, but it's not the norm. That's your story.
But then that doesn't make a good headline.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Is that a new phenomenum, phenomenon, a new trend. Good
normal doesn't make the news, does it. We don't ever
report here's what's just normally happening. It's got to be extreme,
it's got to be an outlier.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Otherwise it's not interesting. News has got to be interesting.
Right rewrap, And now.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
We've got another one of these cyclical stories that just
sort of seem to come up every so off in
every few months.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Are we worry about whether.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Students who are not academic are being trained for the workforce? Correctly,
I'm not explaining it very well. Let's have another go
with Mike and then me again.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Like normally I agree with your opinions and congratulate you
for voicing them, but today your comment about the dumb
kids leaving school while the smart ones going to university
was short sighted and maybe offensive. I don't think I
said it that bluntly, but and I certainly didn't mean it.
If I didn't, I apologize for that. But what I
meant was when I was at school, we had the
Dunce class, and that's what it was called. And the
Dunce class wandered off. And I was the only reason
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I remember it so distinctly is I was sure I
was in the Dunce class and I couldn't work out
why I was too. Yeah, why I wasn't going down
to the local factory Because it was the local Muns
factory down from Limwood High and the Edmunds factory was
just literally down the road. And I thought, man, what
I would give to go down to the Edmuns factory
and have a look at the Inmuns factory because I
was off doing you know, something other that I didn't
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want to do. So they sent them off to give
them an insight into what life was like in a
factory or a trade or working. And I thought that
was a good way to do it, because all the
rest of us were told that unless we got UI,
we couldn't go to university. And if we didn't go
to university, we'd amount to nothing. Blah blah blah. So
it's just an ongoing, long standing thing that's been stuck
in education for years that somehow your channeled automatically into
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university and if you don't go to university, there's something
wrong with you. So I'm the antithesis of that.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
But my one was called the Transition to Work Class. Yeah, exactly,
And so for four days of the six day school timetable,
you actually went out on.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Work experience and look what happened to you.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
And so they asked me what I would like to
do for my work experience, because other people in the
class were doing things like cleaning out the inside of
septic tanks, you know, helping out it old people's homes,
that sort of thing. And I said, I'd like to
be a musician, please.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
And did you yes? And are you no?
Speaker 3 (07:02):
But I did get to play in bars and cafes.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
At night and sleep all day for my four days
of work experience for the six day timetable. I feel
like that whole six day timetable thing was some kind
of secret exercise in getting us to do weird time
management and maths. Basically, I don't think that worked either,
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although maybe it is. How the reason I can now
count backwards in time when I'm playing.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Music out at the top of the hour, the rewrap.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Have you collected all your qbs yet? I think your
time is running out. I think it finished does finished
at the end of the month. I think it might
finish at the end of the month.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Shocking wing. Mike has now got his.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
I got the reason I didn't go on the Minecraft
this morning is I got a big box of the
qbs from the Woolworths.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Because they heard you how much you love them.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Yeah, it's the stupid style you have ever seen, so
they sent me at all for free. But I have
passed it on to is it is? And I believe
that it might answers on the hot desk next to me.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
And is there a collector's case in there?
Speaker 2 (08:03):
I heard them there's everything in there.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
I think the idea was because you were complaining about
what a method made of your hot disk. He can
now bung them in the case and then it won't
be such a mess.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
I had to stop. What Sam said was let's clicked
it all and put it on trade me and I
said Sam. I think I think, I said Sam I
think that's probably illegal. I don't think we can take
free stuff that we get and sell it. And Sam goes, no,
it's a really good idea, let's do it. And I
said no Sam. So therefore I couldn't get on Minecraft
because I was too busy hosing Sam.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Oh, you didn't have a chance to jump into Minecraft.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
No chance.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Just to peel back the curtain a little bit.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
We did an interview about Minecraft today, not about QB's,
because the New Zealand Tourism has teamed up with Minecraft
to have a New Zealand world in Minecraft. Mike had
absolutely less than zero understanding of what that was all
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about and tried to deliberately sabotage the show so it
wouldn't have time to do the interview, but he miscalculated
and we had each of time, so we had to
do it.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
That turn out to be quite interesting, the rewrap.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
We're going to finish up with something else that you
doesn't really understand anything about wearable tech.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
When you say that everybody's got.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
An aura ring, everyone's got an Aora ring.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
I know that.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
I know that you know one person who has no, no, no,
And she's the one person I know who has no no.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Look look at ESPN, Look.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
At ESPN internationally.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Everybody's got a round. But in New Zealand there are
a bit they're a bit cutting edge, still you reckon.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Well, no, it's just that there are There are lots
of different brands of smash.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Aura was the original though, wasn't it, and they updated
an The interesting thing I found out about the Ura
ring and I may or may not be speaking from
personal experience here with a person I know, but the.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Thing is the same person who was responsible for the
interior design of the ring tool that left the knobs
off the doors.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
But the thing about it is is that you become
reliant on the information in the morning. So if you
don't know what we're talking about, which wouldn't be the
first time on this program, in the morning you get
just endless amounts of data as to how you sleep, when,
how your day wents, and your blood pressure and your
heart rate and your sleep patterns and your deep sleep
and all that sort of stuff. But it's developing technology,
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and what happens is that people become very reliant and
they go, oh, well, I got a ninety two or
I got an eighty seven, Oh my god, my day's
over and I can't function anymore because the number is
not right and the line is read and it's not blue,
and I need to change my life, and so it
goes on. So I think we're becoming slightly slavish to
technology that may or may not be because my understanding
of the Aura Ring, the original material around it, was
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you were supposed to be a sort of a thirty
five year old. So it's all leveraged off a thirty
five year old and a bit of an athlete. So
if you're a thirty five year old athlete, you'll find
yourself doing remarkably well. If you're not a thirty five
year old athlete, it'll be giving you information that you
may or may not find beneficial or useful.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
I mean, I've tried the Samsung Galaxy Ring, which is
a similar sort of a thing.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Did it tell you to what? And move faster?
Speaker 4 (11:00):
What happens is you wake up in the morning less
and you think, oh, that was a terrible night sleeper,
and yet's terrible, And then you look it up in
the app and it goes yep, no, you're right, that
was terrible.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Here is your energy score.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
If you're not into wearing smart watches, but you don't
mind wearing a wing.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
We're wearing a wing, wearing a ring.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
Wearing a ring then, yeah, a smart ring like the
Era A ring or the Galaxy ring or there actually
are a surprising number of other makes and brands of
smart rings that will track various different things. Depending on
which one you get, that might be for you, Like,
I don't know that much about the eu A ring.
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I haven't used it myself, but I know that the
Galaxy Ring because I have tried back and you can
look at my review of that on the news or
ZB website. If you like that does things like it
It will automatically record your runs and your walks as
well as you know your sleep and your body temperature
and all that stuff. So yeah, I got a little
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bit I started geeking out there on tech.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Sorry.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Sorry if you still with me, Oh sorry, that just
tears to happen when I talk about gadgets. I'm going
to go off and play with some more gadgets and
I'll see you back here again for rera.
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