June 11, 2026 • 13 mins
THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Friday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) Oh, We're Watching/But No-One's Watching That/These Markets Be Crazy/What Dinos Are Wearing This Season
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
You're listening to a podcast from Newstalk zed B. Follow
this and our wide range of podcasts now on iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
The Rewrap. Okay, then welcome to the Rewrap for Friday.
All the best. But it's from the Mike Husking Breakfast
on Newstalk zb guest starring here duplessy Ellen for the
last time, and it's silly a package over the last
time this time anyway, I am Glen Hart and happy
space xip O day. We might talk about INSR plus
(00:44):
in there as well. If you don't know what that is,
standby and a very unusual little handbag slash purse for
you as well to consider. But before any of that, Yes,
it's the World Cup. It's underway, FIFA Football World Cup. Sucker,
Let's get.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Into it now.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
You know what I've learned to never ever do. It's
to predict that this year the Football World Cup is
going to be a flop, because it never is. Yes, yeah, absolutely,
they've got problems. I mean this year they've got problems
anywhere you care to look. A single ticket is so
pricey it would take you three months to pay it off.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Security is ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Parking itself costs about three hundred American dollars. Water costs
ten New Zealand dollars. Everything's a rip off. The US
won't let in an African referee. Iran doesn't want to
be there. They are our first up match. It's too hot.
There are too many teams, three host nations as a nightmare. Now,
maybe this is it, Maybe this is the year that
it all implodes for FEFA.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
But I suspect it isn't.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
I suspect this World Cup is going to go off,
just like the one without the beer and Qatar, just
like the one with all the corruption in Russia, just
like the one where the pickpocket's going to steal everyone's
stuff in Brazil. In the end, despite everyone hating FEFA
and their decisions, the World Cup itself is actually successful.
And the reason is simple because fans want to see
the stars, and this is where they see the stars.
(01:59):
And more importantly, this is where they see the stars
playing for their country, not some club in Europe. Hate
FIFA as much as you want, this is a good thing.
We do not at the moment have a lot of
go global moments to celebrate together. So a tournament of
the world's most popular game featuring the world's biggest stars.
I reckon something to be happy about. I suspect this
is going to be a success despite the predictions.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Yeah. I mean people are into football everywhere, so yeah, yeah,
No matter how corrupt, how many questions are asked about it,
how expensive it's turning out to be, how many referees
can't referee because that are allowed in the country. I
(02:40):
think he's right. I think it will probably still be
more or less a success, a rerap apart from anything else.
You get three opening ceremonies when you have it in
three different countries. Apparently.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Hey, we're seven minutes away from the first game in
the FIFA World Cup kicking off. Here is Andrea Bocholie
singing the FIA anthem and kiss.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
It cut arm. Why it's more than just a game.
It's hurt any.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Yeah, sounding a bit funky because David Ghetto got hold
of it, he's involved in it. We've had a debate
about whether Andre Andrea von Charlie looks good or not.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
I mean I thought he looked sharp.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
He came out on a little Marone jacket, sunglasses obviously
type black, well not tight like just fitting black trout
a little Little Black Show.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
I was just a bit shocked because I still see
him as that guy on the album cover, you know,
with the dark hair and the brooding.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
His gray head. Now he's he's sixty seven, isn't he?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
We look old him in sixty seven. He looks about
eighty seven to me. And that's from the guy who
you described as being one hundred years older this morning.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Five hundreds, five hundred years old.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
I just I was trying to just point out, if
you are advanced old old.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
I'm not saying that I disagree with you. I'm just
saying that that's how you describe me.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
I apologize. I don't need to get him any more
trouble than I already am. Right now.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Actually, I feel a it about five hundred years old
after this morning, because you know, I was having to
keep an eye on the football. Trump was promising everybody
that the will moves would open again. We just had
in the procession of UK defense officials resigning. This is
not the kind of quiet, subdued, easy going Friday morning
(04:17):
that I like. Lots of people also texted us this
morning saying they couldn't get the TV n Z FIFA
apt to work I'm not quite sure why they were
trying to get it to work when the football was
just on TV one normal anyway, but probably should have
been working and wasn't for them, so that that might
be something that they've got an issue with. Meanwhile, speaking
(04:38):
of weird online TV offerings, how about the rugby one?
You know, you know INZR plus. You've got it right,
You've been watching.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
It on the inn z our plus thing. You've got
to read gregel Paul's piece in The Herald about how
inzt are blue twenty five million dollars on making videos
to understand just it's just you're going to come out
understanding nothing other than things are nutty in this world.
So what And this is the one that Steve was
just talking about folding it into something else. They blew
twenty five million before they got to that point, I reckon.
(05:11):
I would realize probably at about two hundred thousand that
I had a problem. But anyway, so much went wrong.
My favorite thing that went wrong was when they decided
to make a documentary about the twenty twenty two Japan
and UK tour, and it was going to be behind
the scenes and it was going to be cameras and
the sheds getting to know the All Blacks. No one
told the All Blacks. They forgot to tell the players.
The day before the All Blacks left for the tour,
(05:32):
they called a crisis meeting in Auckland. Richie McCall was
there because he's an NZRC board member INZR CEO at
the time. Mark Robinson was there. Most of the like,
this is our serious. That is most of the executive
team are there. The coach, Ian Foster is there, Rob
Nichol is there, the Rugby Players Association boss, and then
Sam Kine, Dane Coles and Brody rittallicare there. And the
players are complaining because they hated it because they'd already
(05:54):
done the Amazon documentary and they hated it because it
diminished the mystique of the All Blacks and they didn't
want camera people they didn't know in the sheds. And
they agreed to a camera crew, but the only one
that they knew, and some areas were off limits and
some areas were on limits, and then they got a
production company involved, and then they filmed the thing, and
then they cut the thing and it was awful, and
so in the end, the whole thing was so rubbish
they had to get Andrew Shawen, who was a TV veteran.
(06:16):
One source says that after watching these early versions of
in their own words, that was the name of it,
shaw said, I'm just not seeing on screen where all
the effing.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Money has gone.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Now, I don't think we're ever going to see that documentary,
so we're never going to be sure of what Andrew
shaw saw there.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Anyway.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Another complaint is the stink name that end z I
got insed r plus it ens ed r plus stink name.
They were thinking about front Row, they were thinking about Scrum,
they even thought about All Blacks TV. Any of them
would have been better. My other favorite story was the
time that they tried to get justinto Ardurn and to
do some rugby content. This was twenty twenty three. Problem
was it was election year, so that wasn't a good look.
I would have said there were other problems with getting
(06:54):
justinto Ardurn and like maybe people you polarized the country
and turn people off the All Blacks. But anyway, then
they thought about Lord Nashi's busishes on tour, so they
thought about Tiger Waitity. That was quite a big get
for them. By the way, getting Taiker Waity. He actually
said yes and he did it. It's called Tour to
Rugby and it has Tiger Whitetity traveling around France by helicopter,
meeting former All Blacks like Jerome Kaino. It was signed off.
(07:16):
The total budget was a million dollars. You can go
and watch it see if you like. The problem with
this is Tiger whit Tit would only say yes to
it if his mate Bailey Mackie produced it. Bailey runs
an outfit called pung Le Productions. Bailey problem also on
the New Zealand Rugby board optics problem there, don't you
think where New Zealand Rugby is giving one of their
board members money to produce something and apparently it didn't
(07:38):
move the needle in terms of opinion and hype like enz.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
I hoped it would.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Now I'm going to say something that is potentially brutal,
but I do believe that this is completely and utterly true.
Rugby documentaries don't work, and none of this video content
stuff will work because rugby players are boring and I
think it's kind of ish. The same say, and I
don't just mean rugby union, but I mean rugby league.
I mean, all of the rugby players are boring. Think
about the rugby men in your life. You know you'd
(08:04):
be lucky if you get many, many feelings out of them.
They don't tap the depths of their emotions. Chuck a
couple of coronas in there and now you've got Now
you're having a hope. Now that's great. But then you
don't want to be filming the all Blacks while they're
sinking the heinies in the sheds, do you?
Speaker 2 (08:19):
So?
Speaker 3 (08:19):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
I feel like just abandon it. Once we get them
talking in front of the cameras, we will go well.
Much like Andrew Shaw, I don't know where all the
fing money has gone.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
It happens time and time again, doesn't it that people
sort of set up these streaming services that nobody asked
for and they wonder why they didn't work? I mean
famously seeing it. Even CNN couldn't get it to work
for them. So yeah, the rewrap. Another interesting thing I
was watching today was the market's reaction to Trump saying
(08:50):
random stuff about the Iran war, and more than any
other time before this, with the this whole Iran conflagration,
I just can't get over how the markets go up
and down based on what Trump's is? Like, why do
they believe anything that Trump ever says? Nobody else does,
(09:11):
do they?
Speaker 3 (09:12):
And yet the.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Markets react every single time he goes ah, yeah, no,
the straight up holl moves will officially reopen this weekend,
maybe probably just about definitely. You know, we'll see and
suddenly you know we're all back in the black again.
Come on markets, And then you know you've got SpaceX
(09:33):
and the IPO, and you know they can sometimes get
a rocket to take off and sometimes they explode.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Is there a risk that today's SpaceX IPO is just
a little over hyped? People are just thirsting for these shares,
aren't they. It's apparently more than four times oversubscribed. Banks
have decked their headquarters with SpaceX banners and toy rockets.
One asset manager has lowered its minimum account balance for
small investors and want to get in from one hundred
thousand USD to two thousand USD.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
What is it?
Speaker 4 (09:59):
Is this the hype that's coming from the AI furs
or is this just the Elon Musk connection a chance
to buy a little bit of Elon Musk. Either way,
I'd say it's a risky gamble, isn't it, But more
so if it's just based on Elon Musk hype. This
is a guy who absolutely is a genius, but he's
a flawed one and his ambitions are so audacious they
often don't bear out. Remember his prediction that he would
have humans on Mars by twenty twenty five?
Speaker 3 (10:20):
How did that go?
Speaker 4 (10:21):
So what do you think is going to happen with
his plan to put AI data centers into space laser
linking that stuff back to us. This is also a
guy who doesn't always deliver the best product. I mean, yeah,
the Tesla three sold like hotcakes, but the cyber truck
was a bomb. And this is a company that hasn't
even turned to profit yet, It makes a five billion
dollar annual loss and obviously obviously goes without saying it
(10:42):
will turn around pretty damn fast if he manages to
deliver on even one of his promises, which I'm assuming
is why Goldman Sachs is apparently expecting revenue from the
AI division to go from three billion dollars last year
to three hundred and twenty two billion dollars in four years.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
But it is a big call, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
And that is without us even discussing the risks of
buying into an IPO in and of itself, but especially
an IPO without a proper six month lockup period. Now,
ultimately all of this comes down to Elon Musk, doesn't it.
He's going to retain eighty percent of the voting power.
He's going to call the shots. He will be the
flawed genius who becomes a trillionaire, who will be responsible
(11:18):
for whether this is a brilliant investment in a company
that changes the world as we know it, or an
overhyped IPO.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
I mean, given that every IPA seems to be like
it's just all about hype, isn't it? The stuff I
don't understand. I don't understand people who buy things that
aren't really there. I just I will never understand it.
I'm an old fay. I'm five hundred years old, remember
the rewrap. You might even call me a dinosaur. That's
my effort to seamlessly segue into this next piece of audio.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Weirdest thing for sale right now.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
If you've got too much money and you're into having
things that you could go, oh, look, you've come to
my house. Let me show you all my weird stuff.
A clutch as in a handbag, A clutch made from
t rex skin. What they did was they took the
collagen out of a femur bone that they dug up
in Montana about twenty five years ago, and then they
instructed those at the collagen cells to start growing into
(12:08):
skin cells. And then it did, and then it made
the t rex skin, and then they fashioned a bag
out of it. And you can buy this clutch. I mean,
you have to suspend your disbelief here and absolutely believe
that this really is t rex skin. And because you
never get we can't prove that it's not. We don't
know the counterfactual.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
We don't know.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
But you have to believe it, and then you can.
You can pay eight hundred and sixty dollars for that.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
You could have a t Rex.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Clutch because presumably it had to be a clutch because
of the t rex's little arms. You couldn't have one
that just hung on the shoulder. There wouldn't work, that's right.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Honestly, how does Hoskin put up with you?
Speaker 3 (12:39):
I don't really have to know.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
You're constantly a derailing problem. I'm quite I have to
be honest with you like, there's a part of me
that's tempted because I've got into dinosaurs because this is
what happens to mums who have four year old boys.
I took him as a treat to the dinosaurs at
the Auckland Zoo Yestead. I've got to tell you about that.
Actually I would recommend this, but yeah, I know way
too much about dinosaurs right now. So I'm margin if
(13:03):
I could find spare age sixty, I might do.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
I get joke of the week, then the handbag Dinasa
or him beg or just dad joke of the week.
Just let's just dad joke right out. Well yeah, if
nothing else, I feel old. That's what That's what we've
learned out of this podcast today. I need a good
rest over the weekend, and we'll be back with somebody
called Mike hosking for you on Monday. See then.
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
The Rewrap. Okay, then welcome to the Rewrap for Friday.
All the best. But it's from the Mike Husking Breakfast
on Newstalk zb guest starring here duplessy Ellen for the
last time, and it's silly a package over the last
time this time anyway, I am Glen Hart and happy
space xip O day. We might talk about INSR plus
(00:44):
in there as well. If you don't know what that is,
standby and a very unusual little handbag slash purse for
you as well to consider. But before any of that, Yes,
it's the World Cup. It's underway, FIFA Football World Cup. Sucker,
Let's get.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Into it now.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
You know what I've learned to never ever do. It's
to predict that this year the Football World Cup is
going to be a flop, because it never is. Yes, yeah, absolutely,
they've got problems. I mean this year they've got problems
anywhere you care to look. A single ticket is so
pricey it would take you three months to pay it off.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Security is ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Parking itself costs about three hundred American dollars. Water costs
ten New Zealand dollars. Everything's a rip off. The US
won't let in an African referee. Iran doesn't want to
be there. They are our first up match. It's too hot.
There are too many teams, three host nations as a nightmare. Now,
maybe this is it, Maybe this is the year that
it all implodes for FEFA.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
But I suspect it isn't.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
I suspect this World Cup is going to go off,
just like the one without the beer and Qatar, just
like the one with all the corruption in Russia, just
like the one where the pickpocket's going to steal everyone's
stuff in Brazil. In the end, despite everyone hating FEFA
and their decisions, the World Cup itself is actually successful.
And the reason is simple because fans want to see
the stars, and this is where they see the stars.
(01:59):
And more importantly, this is where they see the stars
playing for their country, not some club in Europe. Hate
FIFA as much as you want, this is a good thing.
We do not at the moment have a lot of
go global moments to celebrate together. So a tournament of
the world's most popular game featuring the world's biggest stars.
I reckon something to be happy about. I suspect this
is going to be a success despite the predictions.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Yeah. I mean people are into football everywhere, so yeah, yeah,
No matter how corrupt, how many questions are asked about it,
how expensive it's turning out to be, how many referees
can't referee because that are allowed in the country. I
(02:40):
think he's right. I think it will probably still be
more or less a success, a rerap apart from anything else.
You get three opening ceremonies when you have it in
three different countries. Apparently.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Hey, we're seven minutes away from the first game in
the FIFA World Cup kicking off. Here is Andrea Bocholie
singing the FIA anthem and kiss.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
It cut arm. Why it's more than just a game.
It's hurt any.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Yeah, sounding a bit funky because David Ghetto got hold
of it, he's involved in it. We've had a debate
about whether Andre Andrea von Charlie looks good or not.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
I mean I thought he looked sharp.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
He came out on a little Marone jacket, sunglasses obviously
type black, well not tight like just fitting black trout
a little Little Black Show.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
I was just a bit shocked because I still see
him as that guy on the album cover, you know,
with the dark hair and the brooding.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
His gray head. Now he's he's sixty seven, isn't he?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
We look old him in sixty seven. He looks about
eighty seven to me. And that's from the guy who
you described as being one hundred years older this morning.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Five hundreds, five hundred years old.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
I just I was trying to just point out, if
you are advanced old old.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
I'm not saying that I disagree with you. I'm just
saying that that's how you describe me.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
I apologize. I don't need to get him any more
trouble than I already am. Right now.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Actually, I feel a it about five hundred years old
after this morning, because you know, I was having to
keep an eye on the football. Trump was promising everybody
that the will moves would open again. We just had
in the procession of UK defense officials resigning. This is
not the kind of quiet, subdued, easy going Friday morning
(04:17):
that I like. Lots of people also texted us this
morning saying they couldn't get the TV n Z FIFA
apt to work I'm not quite sure why they were
trying to get it to work when the football was
just on TV one normal anyway, but probably should have
been working and wasn't for them, so that that might
be something that they've got an issue with. Meanwhile, speaking
(04:38):
of weird online TV offerings, how about the rugby one?
You know, you know INZR plus. You've got it right,
You've been watching.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
It on the inn z our plus thing. You've got
to read gregel Paul's piece in The Herald about how
inzt are blue twenty five million dollars on making videos
to understand just it's just you're going to come out
understanding nothing other than things are nutty in this world.
So what And this is the one that Steve was
just talking about folding it into something else. They blew
twenty five million before they got to that point, I reckon.
(05:11):
I would realize probably at about two hundred thousand that
I had a problem. But anyway, so much went wrong.
My favorite thing that went wrong was when they decided
to make a documentary about the twenty twenty two Japan
and UK tour, and it was going to be behind
the scenes and it was going to be cameras and
the sheds getting to know the All Blacks. No one
told the All Blacks. They forgot to tell the players.
The day before the All Blacks left for the tour,
(05:32):
they called a crisis meeting in Auckland. Richie McCall was
there because he's an NZRC board member INZR CEO at
the time. Mark Robinson was there. Most of the like,
this is our serious. That is most of the executive
team are there. The coach, Ian Foster is there, Rob
Nichol is there, the Rugby Players Association boss, and then
Sam Kine, Dane Coles and Brody rittallicare there. And the
players are complaining because they hated it because they'd already
(05:54):
done the Amazon documentary and they hated it because it
diminished the mystique of the All Blacks and they didn't
want camera people they didn't know in the sheds. And
they agreed to a camera crew, but the only one
that they knew, and some areas were off limits and
some areas were on limits, and then they got a
production company involved, and then they filmed the thing, and
then they cut the thing and it was awful, and
so in the end, the whole thing was so rubbish
they had to get Andrew Shawen, who was a TV veteran.
(06:16):
One source says that after watching these early versions of
in their own words, that was the name of it,
shaw said, I'm just not seeing on screen where all
the effing.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Money has gone.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Now, I don't think we're ever going to see that documentary,
so we're never going to be sure of what Andrew
shaw saw there.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Anyway.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Another complaint is the stink name that end z I
got insed r plus it ens ed r plus stink name.
They were thinking about front Row, they were thinking about Scrum,
they even thought about All Blacks TV. Any of them
would have been better. My other favorite story was the
time that they tried to get justinto Ardurn and to
do some rugby content. This was twenty twenty three. Problem
was it was election year, so that wasn't a good look.
I would have said there were other problems with getting
(06:54):
justinto Ardurn and like maybe people you polarized the country
and turn people off the All Blacks. But anyway, then
they thought about Lord Nashi's busishes on tour, so they
thought about Tiger Waitity. That was quite a big get
for them. By the way, getting Taiker Waity. He actually
said yes and he did it. It's called Tour to
Rugby and it has Tiger Whitetity traveling around France by helicopter,
meeting former All Blacks like Jerome Kaino. It was signed off.
(07:16):
The total budget was a million dollars. You can go
and watch it see if you like. The problem with
this is Tiger whit Tit would only say yes to
it if his mate Bailey Mackie produced it. Bailey runs
an outfit called pung Le Productions. Bailey problem also on
the New Zealand Rugby board optics problem there, don't you
think where New Zealand Rugby is giving one of their
board members money to produce something and apparently it didn't
(07:38):
move the needle in terms of opinion and hype like enz.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
I hoped it would.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Now I'm going to say something that is potentially brutal,
but I do believe that this is completely and utterly true.
Rugby documentaries don't work, and none of this video content
stuff will work because rugby players are boring and I
think it's kind of ish. The same say, and I
don't just mean rugby union, but I mean rugby league.
I mean, all of the rugby players are boring. Think
about the rugby men in your life. You know you'd
(08:04):
be lucky if you get many, many feelings out of them.
They don't tap the depths of their emotions. Chuck a
couple of coronas in there and now you've got Now
you're having a hope. Now that's great. But then you
don't want to be filming the all Blacks while they're
sinking the heinies in the sheds, do you?
Speaker 2 (08:19):
So?
Speaker 3 (08:19):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
I feel like just abandon it. Once we get them
talking in front of the cameras, we will go well.
Much like Andrew Shaw, I don't know where all the
fing money has gone.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
It happens time and time again, doesn't it that people
sort of set up these streaming services that nobody asked
for and they wonder why they didn't work? I mean
famously seeing it. Even CNN couldn't get it to work
for them. So yeah, the rewrap. Another interesting thing I
was watching today was the market's reaction to Trump saying
(08:50):
random stuff about the Iran war, and more than any
other time before this, with the this whole Iran conflagration,
I just can't get over how the markets go up
and down based on what Trump's is? Like, why do
they believe anything that Trump ever says? Nobody else does,
(09:11):
do they?
Speaker 3 (09:12):
And yet the.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Markets react every single time he goes ah, yeah, no,
the straight up holl moves will officially reopen this weekend,
maybe probably just about definitely. You know, we'll see and
suddenly you know we're all back in the black again.
Come on markets, And then you know you've got SpaceX
(09:33):
and the IPO, and you know they can sometimes get
a rocket to take off and sometimes they explode.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Is there a risk that today's SpaceX IPO is just
a little over hyped? People are just thirsting for these shares,
aren't they. It's apparently more than four times oversubscribed. Banks
have decked their headquarters with SpaceX banners and toy rockets.
One asset manager has lowered its minimum account balance for
small investors and want to get in from one hundred
thousand USD to two thousand USD.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
What is it?
Speaker 4 (09:59):
Is this the hype that's coming from the AI furs
or is this just the Elon Musk connection a chance
to buy a little bit of Elon Musk. Either way,
I'd say it's a risky gamble, isn't it, But more
so if it's just based on Elon Musk hype. This
is a guy who absolutely is a genius, but he's
a flawed one and his ambitions are so audacious they
often don't bear out. Remember his prediction that he would
have humans on Mars by twenty twenty five?
Speaker 3 (10:20):
How did that go?
Speaker 4 (10:21):
So what do you think is going to happen with
his plan to put AI data centers into space laser
linking that stuff back to us. This is also a
guy who doesn't always deliver the best product. I mean, yeah,
the Tesla three sold like hotcakes, but the cyber truck
was a bomb. And this is a company that hasn't
even turned to profit yet, It makes a five billion
dollar annual loss and obviously obviously goes without saying it
(10:42):
will turn around pretty damn fast if he manages to
deliver on even one of his promises, which I'm assuming
is why Goldman Sachs is apparently expecting revenue from the
AI division to go from three billion dollars last year
to three hundred and twenty two billion dollars in four years.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
But it is a big call, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
And that is without us even discussing the risks of
buying into an IPO in and of itself, but especially
an IPO without a proper six month lockup period. Now,
ultimately all of this comes down to Elon Musk, doesn't it.
He's going to retain eighty percent of the voting power.
He's going to call the shots. He will be the
flawed genius who becomes a trillionaire, who will be responsible
(11:18):
for whether this is a brilliant investment in a company
that changes the world as we know it, or an
overhyped IPO.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
I mean, given that every IPA seems to be like
it's just all about hype, isn't it? The stuff I
don't understand. I don't understand people who buy things that
aren't really there. I just I will never understand it.
I'm an old fay. I'm five hundred years old, remember
the rewrap. You might even call me a dinosaur. That's
my effort to seamlessly segue into this next piece of audio.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Weirdest thing for sale right now.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
If you've got too much money and you're into having
things that you could go, oh, look, you've come to
my house. Let me show you all my weird stuff.
A clutch as in a handbag, A clutch made from
t rex skin. What they did was they took the
collagen out of a femur bone that they dug up
in Montana about twenty five years ago, and then they
instructed those at the collagen cells to start growing into
(12:08):
skin cells. And then it did, and then it made
the t rex skin, and then they fashioned a bag
out of it. And you can buy this clutch. I mean,
you have to suspend your disbelief here and absolutely believe
that this really is t rex skin. And because you
never get we can't prove that it's not. We don't
know the counterfactual.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
We don't know.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
But you have to believe it, and then you can.
You can pay eight hundred and sixty dollars for that.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
You could have a t Rex.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Clutch because presumably it had to be a clutch because
of the t rex's little arms. You couldn't have one
that just hung on the shoulder. There wouldn't work, that's right.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Honestly, how does Hoskin put up with you?
Speaker 3 (12:39):
I don't really have to know.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
You're constantly a derailing problem. I'm quite I have to
be honest with you like, there's a part of me
that's tempted because I've got into dinosaurs because this is
what happens to mums who have four year old boys.
I took him as a treat to the dinosaurs at
the Auckland Zoo Yestead. I've got to tell you about that.
Actually I would recommend this, but yeah, I know way
too much about dinosaurs right now. So I'm margin if
(13:03):
I could find spare age sixty, I might do.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
I get joke of the week, then the handbag Dinasa
or him beg or just dad joke of the week.
Just let's just dad joke right out. Well yeah, if
nothing else, I feel old. That's what That's what we've
learned out of this podcast today. I need a good
rest over the weekend, and we'll be back with somebody
called Mike hosking for you on Monday. See then.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
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