Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
You're listening to a podcast from news Talk, said be
follow this and our Wide Ranger podcasts now on iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Rep.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Okay there, welcome to the re rap for Monday. All
the best buts from the mic casting breakfast on news
Talk said be in a sillier package, I am Glenn Hart.
And today the elections, not the Australian election, but the
local body elections happened in the UK. Why is this
so interesting? We know why the warriors are so interesting.
(00:46):
There's a new oldest woman and some of our listeners
asked some terrible questions before any of that.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Farewell to survive Jones.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
It's a shame so many of the current media don't
really remember exactly why he was so famous.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
But I was very sad excuse me to hear of
the passing of Bob Jones. Sir Robert Jones are The
last contact I had with him, I think was last
year when he sent me a copy of his latest book.
They always came with a personal note. When I say personal,
a letter came with a letter. He would have dictated
the letter and had it typed up, and he signed
it himself. He was from a different era of sorts,
(01:24):
I never received an email from Bob, only letters. Last
time I dealt with him in person was in his
office in Wellington, over looking the harbor. That too was
from an era, beautifully set up as you can imagine,
but in a time and place kind of way, a
lot of paneling, a lot of staff. His office was
large on the corner. Of course, he smoked. That became
(01:45):
a thing in the Helen Clark days, by the way,
when she was busy making rules around smoking indoors. Bob
was having none of that because his office he was
the boss, if not the king. So last time I
was in his office, we had wine and we sat
amongst the swirling tobacco smoke coming out of his pipe.
The artwork was worth the trip alone. He had one
fantastic taste and two a fantastic collection. He also had
(02:05):
one of the best brain Gele ever encounter. What was
often lost, actually by many, in the barrage of cantankerous
Boobiage was the amount of knowledge and wisdom he had
gleaned from a lifetime of reading and travel. There wasn't
a place he hadn't been. He had more stories than
you ever had time to hear, and he had well
or time, but he had time to tell you. Small
irony are noted. On Friday night when I watched the television.
In their coverage, they made much of the Rod Vaughn
(02:27):
helicopter encounter, the irony being no one these days hires
a chopper to go looking for a fisherman. TV three
reflected the modern malayism, afraid to say his passing was
the second story behind the weather, even though the weather
was the day before his news. It showed a lack
of understanding of who Jones was and what he contributed
to the country. That's the problem with modern newsrooms these days.
The institutional knowledge has largely left the building. From business
(02:50):
to politics to public discourse, Jones was an invaluable addition
to the national psyche. Unafraid, bold, brilliant with the language,
and fantastically funny because he was fantastically irreverend even when
a reverence was wildly more tolerated than it is these days.
It was a great life and he was a great man.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
He was certainly prickly on occasion, that's for sure. And yeah,
it's weird that I wouldn't hear so much about as
boxing expertise, because I remember hearing him every second week
talking about what was having in the world of boxing
back in the day. There you go, right, So strange
(03:32):
goings on in the UK right now. It seems like Labor,
both Labor and the Tories are really struggling up against
some of the so called minor parties. Reform and the
Lib Dems Reforms keeps splitting the Conservative vote, which means
that the Lib Dems march on through.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
So here, what the hell's going on there?
Speaker 4 (04:07):
I'll tell you why. I think of all the voting
that's gone on over the weekend in the last couple
of days, and that includes Canada, of course, and everyone's
doing the whole anti Trump thing, which is probably true,
certainly a place like Canada, it's true. And then you
go to the safety of what you know, Singapore got
an increased vote, The People's Action Party got an increased
vote over the weekend eighty seven of ninety seven or
eighty five and ninety five, whatever it was, I can't remember.
(04:30):
They'd better than expecting, of course, elbows when you know,
flight to safety basically, And yet the exact opposite happened
in Britain. And what's significant about Britain is yes, it
was a local body election. But the difference between local
body elections in Britain and here is that they're run
by the party, so in other words, they're just mini
versions of the national general election. So your candidates are
all Tories, Conservatives, Labor Party, Lib Dems and Reform. Now
(04:53):
there was a by election in amongst the local body elections,
and Rod was telling us about it last week. It
was the Runkum and hellsby by election. Reform won it,
and this was a Labor seat that was so safe
to lay but it was inconceivable that's something someone like
Reform could come along and win this by election, but
(05:13):
nevertheless they did win it. Also, the Reform Party one
dominated not just seats and councils, but control of councils
in Kent, Staffordshire, Lincolnshire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Lancashire. And these
are people to the rights, so they're doge people. They
are people who are going to cancel work from home.
So once you control a council in Britain you can
(05:34):
make some genuine change. And they're going to be making
genuine change. And it was thought over the weekend by
very wise heads who know a great deal more about
the electoral process than I do in Britain. That one
is this can translate to the national equation, the national story.
So the suggestion from more than one bright spark was
that this is the end of the two party system
(05:55):
in Britain. This has been decimated now. So the lib
Dems are players, the Reform Party are certainly players, and
in amongst that you've got the Labour government, and you've
got these Tories who are down to a shell of
what they once were. So in other words, you'd a
four party system now, and that it's entirely possible that
this scenario will play out at the next general election. Further,
(06:17):
they said that if you extrapolate out the support that
Reform got on Friday and Saturday and put it into
a general election, they would be the government. In other words,
Nigel Farage would be the Prime Minister of Britain. And
that's why, to my mind, anyway was vastly more important
than any one of the other elections that was held
around the world, because largely within a margin, they turned
(06:38):
out the way you thought. What didn't turn out the
way you think is what happened in Britain. That translates
Britain has been changed potentially for it, And.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Of course the really depressing thing about that is that
I don't know how much about the Reform Party, you know,
but it has been infiltrated by some really overt races
racists as opposed to the less overt racists that actually
run the thing.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
So yeah, we'll see what happens there.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
A rerap Let's talk about more fun things like the
Warriors who just seemed to not be able to lose
at the moment fantastic.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
There seems some confusion around when it last happened, if
it ever has. In fact, I was told Friday that
it was twenty eighteen we last went six from eight
at the commentator Saturday night and for me in the
rain in Brisbane that it had never happened.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Ever.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Either way, what did happen is we won again. We
beat the Cowboys, which we were supposed to. But like
a lot in the Nral, it doesn't take a lot
for the unexpected to happen. And if you saw the game,
a couple of cowboy try showed they can slice you
apart fairly fast and fairly readily. And yes, the score
looked a little bit tighter, maybe than it should have
been by the end. But and here's the story, well
one of two stories. But the season one, our defense
(07:58):
is as good as it gets. In two. We don't
look flakely flaky the way we sometimes used to. Also,
we're still missing a bunch of top flight players and
we still look solid. And aside with depth, were still winning.
I mean, have a look at the table. We're virtually first.
The conditions were shocking, yet the game didn't fall apart.
Metcalf came to the party. In terms of kicking, he
didn't get them all, and the ones he did have
(08:18):
were the easier variety. But kicking aside, he's the star
of the show of course these days. In fact, he's
so good when he doesn't kick. You wonder whether it's
a shame he does kick, and that distracts from what
he does the rest of the time. Anyway, The nights
are next, and the thing about being in the top
of the table is every other side is below you.
The night's are tenth. Once we might have got a
little bit nervous about this, you know, when a lot
and then all of a sudden slip up. I don't
(08:38):
get that sense that this is going to happen. What
I see is a side that has come or is
coming of age. Now there's a resilience, a consistency there
where expectation weekend week out doesn't change. Great sides don't
wobble or have bad days or do inexplicable things. Still
early in the season, still only six of eight, but
I mean, you can only play one game at a time,
and as we said each week now Vegas aside, this
(09:00):
looks exemplary. This looks like our best season ever. This
looks like our year. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
I said last week that I'm just worried that because
we keep expecting the Warriors to trap up, they surprise
us by not tripping up. And as soon as we
start expecting them to win, that's where it's all going to,
you know, get turned sideways.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
So yeah, let's expect that. Keep just keep expecting the worst.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Expect them to go back to type and lose the
games they should win, and win the games they should lose,
and who knows what will happen rerap.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
So congratulations are in order.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
We have a new oldest woman, and obviously commiserations are
also in order.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
As a result of that.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
One hundred and fifteen British one. That was the other
thing that fascinating me over the week. Is it unusual
to have the oldest woman in the world or the
oldest person in the world of pomp? You don't think
is Pom's as long? Look do you? I mean nuns
in Southern America, parts of Japan.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
An old lady they found up on the hills in Italy. No,
you're doing the local village. She've been living in a
she's in the old person's home now, but she's one
hundred and fifteen factors of Friday, one hundred and fifteen years,
two hundred and fifty two days, So let's call it
virtually one hundred and sixteen. Ethel's the name, of course
it is. Everyone was born then was called Ethel.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Weren't they? So the Brazilian nun told you sister Lucas
died last Wednesday. So Ethel, who was born the twenty
first of August nineteen oh nine, last surviving subject of
Edward the seventh. That's impressive. She gets to be the
oldest person, so unusual that BRIT's lived that lot.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Do you reckon if you're like the third oldest person,
do you sit there every day.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
No looking through the obituaries, just going today. It could
be my dad.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
You'd run a book, you'd go odds on, she doesn't
look well, you know, the nun she didn't look well.
I think I'm quit. I think I'm quit. I said,
I think I'm quins in here, because you'd.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Be give me. They go out and they interview these
oldest people.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
They always seem surprisingly sprightly, don't they compared to the
other you know, you've I've got, you know, eighty year
olds in my life. I don't know how many ninety
year olds I know, but yeah, the ones that were
in their eighties. But let's just say I'm impressed when
(11:26):
I see those sprightly one hundred and fifteen year olds,
and I'll have what they're having, because that usually involves
a strong at least one strong drink a day more
often than not.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Yes, I don't think I want to live to be
that old.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
I already feel that old now the rewrap. Part of
the reason for that is, of course, the hours I keep.
I know, all I'm doing is sitting around, telling jokes,
showing off and playing with music.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
But because I have to get up in the middle
of the night to do it. You do feel it
after a while.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Mike, Why the hell do you get up at two
thirty when you start at six? Ten minutes shower, ten
minute bricky bricky hah, half an hour to get to work.
Surely no one's on the road at that time. You correct,
they're not drive to work at three point thirty. Sit
there for two and a half hours. Please explain. There's
a lot of good questions there, Hi, Mike, Can I
(12:29):
ask if your show doesn't start until five point thirty,
why do you have to get up at two thirty?
Speaker 3 (12:33):
No?
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Such a good question, Not such a good question.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
This show doesn't start at five thirty. When did it
start at five thirty? Glenn?
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Ummm, well no, September eleven, two thousand and one.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
It did that day five thirty start?
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (12:48):
So on that one day, Yeah, just the one day
and one day alone. Apart from that, it's never started
at five thirty.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
But you never know, do you?
Speaker 4 (12:55):
You don't. I don't know whether to laugh, to see
your question as cynical slash humorous, to call you in
moronic idiot, or just to sit here and weep.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
I mean, it's it's not true that There's no such
thing as a stupid question, is there?
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (13:17):
The idea that they think that the most acclaimed and
successful broadcaster in the country can just stroll into work
five minutes before the show goes to air is laughable,
and that only happened with the last guy, not this guy.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
I I supposed to admit that, Hi, I am weird hat.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Yes, I get up pretty early as well, mostly to
make podcasts, and I'll be back to do that again
for you tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
I'll see there.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
For more from News Talks. The'd be listen live on
air or online, and keep our shows with you wherever
you go with our podcasts on iHeartRadio.