July 13, 2025 • 13 mins
THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Monday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) I Don't know What's Happening/Instant Supermarkets/About This Slash Thing.../Fast Track to Nowhere
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
You're listening to a podcast from News Talk said B.
Follow this and our wide range of podcasts now on iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Rewrap and welcome to the Rewrap for Monday. All the
best but from the Mike Hosking Breakfast on News Talk
said B and a Sillier package hosted by Heather duple
c Allen this week, and she wants to check on
the progress with the competition being sorted. I've got some
(00:45):
exciting news on that slash is becoming more and more
and more and more of an issue. And then it's
road Cone again continues, unfortunately in spite of you know,
steps to stop it from continuing. But first up the
big by election. Hang on, we want Labor to win.
(01:05):
That's not very News Talks head, but is it.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
I'm not even going to hide. I hope like hell
that Labor wins this by election. I'm talking about the
Tamakimikoto by election that's been triggered by the death of
the Maori Party MP Takatai tash KEMP. There are only
two candidates here. You can either back the Maori Party
candidate or any kaipitter, or you can back Labour's Peni
Henata No one else is running and Labor, as far
(01:28):
as I'm concerned, needs to back this, needs to win this.
I'm backing them because I think it would be perverse
for the Maori Party to be rewarded for their carry
on in the last few months. I'm not even talking
about the Huker incident. That is not even the worst
thing as far as I'm concerned. I mean, look, it
would be unfortunate if they won because people supported them
giving the middle finger to the rules of Parliament. I
think that's a greater breach than doing the huka in
(01:48):
the first place. But that's not what I'm talking about.
I'm talking about the constant misinformation that they spread, which
no one calls them on. Thomas Coglan of The Herald
actually did call them on it this past weekend. He
pointed out that Mary Party has gone on Instagram and
claimed that the Regulatory Standards Bill would let judges quote
strike down Maori focused laws. Well, that's not true, and
(02:09):
as he said, that's flat out wrong. Not long ago,
as he says, and he's talking about the pandemic here.
Not long ago, that kind of thing would have been
labeled misinformation. And you know how that went once you
got labeled with some misinformation, you got ridiculed, you got
mocked by the media, you basically got canceled. Not the
Maldi Party. Their outright FIBs just get waved through, as
(02:31):
does them accusing other politicians of genocide, as does one
of them labeling a chap who outlawed homosexuality in his
country a hero. That kind of divisive, irresponsible and radical
brand of politics. I would hate to see rewarded in
this by election. And yet they have a chance. It's
going to be tight. I mean, last time there are
only forty two votes in it and they won it.
(02:52):
Since then, they've had a huge bump in the polls.
They've had massive profile with the Treaty Principal's Bill opposition,
They've had massive global international attention with the Hucker And
there is of course the sympathy element because they're the
ones who've lost their mp But I've got my fingers crossed,
not because I love what Labor's doing, but just because
I do not want to see the Malordi Party's way
of doing politics being seen to pay dividends.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
The old lesser of two evils situation.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Eh, how about a national actually, you know, identified some
of the issues in the electorate and ran astrong candidate
Nana know that.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Would never happen. I suppose it's a rewrap.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Actually, speaking of admitting defeat before you've even played the game.
How's the old supermarket.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Competition effort going?
Speaker 3 (03:43):
So to fix the ongoing problems that we've got with
the supermarket competition in this country, David Seymour's pitch to
an idea fast track any supermarket chain that wants to
open if they apply, give them permission in months, don't
take years, give them permission for all of the stores
that they want, not just one at a time, and
then give them an automatic liquor license for all of
the stores. Is this going to make a difference. You'd
(04:04):
think it probably would, given that our current rules make
it so hard that it took Costco three years to
get permission to build its store, and I Kia got
permission for Sylvia Park in Auckland, but only if it
allowed seven different Manifenua groups to pray over the site
a couple of times. Now, obviously the devil is in
the detail on David Seymore's idea, but this is hands
down the best idea that we've had so far from
(04:26):
this government on how to get competition into the supermarket sector,
because everything up to now you'd have to look back
on and say has been a non event, hasn't it.
I mean they've threatened the supermarkets, They've written letters to
the supermarkets telling them to fix their pricing mistakes. They've
commissioned analysis on what to do with the supermarkets, they've
issued a request for information with the supermarkets. But what's happened.
It's just been a big performance of doing something while
(04:47):
doing absolutely nothing at all. None of that has made
supermarkets more competitive. And same goes by the way for
what the government is doing with the pretense of fixing
banks while doing nothing, the pretense of fixing the butter
price by dealing to Fonterra, but nothing's actually going to happen,
the pretense of fixing the electricity prices which are still high.
There are only eighteen months or so left for this government.
(05:08):
They need to take a lesson from how voter patients
ran out with Ardern and Labor doing exactly the same
thing with all those market studies that went nowhere. Voters
have seen all of this kind of stuff before. We're
probably not going to fall for all the same cheap
tricks this time. Government has talked about fixing supermarkets. Now
it needs to do something about fixing supermarkets.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Now.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Maybe it's David Seymore's idea, maybe it's something else, but
do something.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Ah, yeah, do something.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
I think that could be.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
A common theme that's going to.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Present itself towards this coalition government over the next little while.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
More on that shortly. Actually now bad.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Ware that lots of water means questions, serious questions are
really being asked now about slash, all that stuff that's
left over from forestry that they just lead there to
wash to places where it shouldn't end up.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
I suspect that we're going to have another debate about
slash again because I don't know if you've seen what's
gone on in the South Island, top of the South
Island this weekend, but boy, oh boy, is there slash
absolutely everywhere. I got seen to video actually from somebody
in the Nelson, Tasman area last night, furious driving down this,
driven down the road just you would not believe it.
Just slash absolutely everywhere. News websites are now starting to
(06:31):
cover it looks pretty bad and NUTSI muti which is
in the Mutuika Valley. It's been hit particularly badly. One
guy has had the media around to his place. He's
shown them up the back of the place. There was
a small creek there, massive gouge out of the land.
There now piles of silt, splintered wood, reckons that there's
a trail that has backed up a couple of hundred
meters long. He reckons. All of the stuff is washed
(06:53):
down from the forestry block, which is just on steep
land about two k's upstream. Forestry companies because they know
they're going to cop it if people get angry about
this all over again, if kids are playing on the
logs and dying at the beach again like last time.
They've seen some representatives down to have a lot look
at it, and apparently, according to him, the forestry representatives
were left speechless. I am too, actually.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
I mean, we've had a bit of while weather lately
in Auckland, not nearly as bad as other plants of
the country, but I've had my own slash issues to
sort out. Palm crowns falling about the place of some
of which weren't even off trees on my section. But
the neighbor didn't rush around and sort that out. I
(07:38):
was on slash patrol the South. I'm trying to fit
one of those in the ben Boy the struggle, I
can tell you re wrap all right. Now back to
the subject of please can we do something? So I
think we thought that the road cone hotline or tip line,
(07:59):
or there's not even a line. It's a website, isn't it.
But anyway that something might actually happen if we took
part in that. But I'm not sure that it is happening.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
I loved the idea of the road Cone tip line
very much when it was when it was launched, to
the extent that I basically allowed anybody to use my name,
and many, many, many complaints were laid in my name.
But I am fast coming to the conclusion that the
road Cone tip line is a joke. Wayne Brown was
in the papers yesterday and I agree with him on this.
He says the mayor considers the hotline to be nothing
(08:31):
more than a pr stunt that does nothing to address
the underlying issue, and I agree with him on that.
I'll tell you why, right, Because how it works is
you fill out the little road cone tip line and
they've got we're spending money on this. It's costing us money.
So they dispatch a couple of people to go and
have a look at the road cones wherever you've complained
about them, whether it's an in the Giggle or New
(08:52):
Plymouth or Auckland or whatever. They'll send somebody out there
go look at the road cones, and invariably what happens
as the person gets there goes I'm t three ninety
nine right now, that's allowed. They are allowed to have
ninety nine road cones. Now you and I drive past,
we go that's too many road cones. But that is
exactly how many road cones they need, because that is
how many road cones they are supposed to have to
(09:12):
keep people safe. Now, what I can't figure out. So
what you need to do is you need to change
the requirement. Right whatever is making them put out all
those road cones, that's what you need to change. No
point us narking on them because they're not breaking the rules.
So change the rules. But what are the rules? Well,
I was trying to figure this out yesterday because I
think it's in the health and safety legislation, but it
could also be in work Safe's interpretation of the health
(09:34):
and safety legislation and what they tell the companies to do.
So I made some phone calls about it. I'll tell
you what no one can tell you. Not the Minister's office,
Brooklyn Valden's office. They've got no idea. Are called labor,
They've got no idea. No one knows what you need
to change to change the rules. But meanwhile, meanwhile Wellington,
water we Mere and Wellington they had this big hole
they were digging on Taranaki Street. They spent twenty one
(09:57):
million dollars on that big hole, two point seven million
of it. Traffic management as basically road cones right there.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
What's going on?
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Yeah, there's been a lot of motorway closures are on
my way to work in the middle of the night lately,
but I'm never quite sure if it is going to
be closed or not. And so I because sometimes they
say it's going to be closed and then it isn't closed.
And unfortunately Google Maps also thinks that it's going to
(10:24):
be closed when they say it's going to be closed.
Because I started checking my route to work. I mean,
I know the way to work, but just to make
sure you know that I'm taking the right detour, But
then i find myself on the detour looking across to
the motorway and seeing people driving up and down it
with no problems, and so I've gone I've taken a
detour I didn't need to take.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
So that's important a man. If we can stop that
from happening too, that it'd be good the re.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Wrap anyway, Heather did ask the Prime Minister about it
this morning and.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
There's a bit of management waffle.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
I'd have to say, we're not scraping barnacles off the
boat now, we're getting the car out of the ditch.
Come back from holiday, Heather, has he come back with
a vision for the country. No, just a word salad
of nothing. Hither the to me has got worse under
national Heather. It took six years to wreck the country.
You cannot fix that in eighteen months, which is a
fair point. Which is a fair point, but surely in
eighteen months you would at least start showing that you're
(11:19):
doing something about it. We're up for fast track or
we we love fast track hmm yeah. Hey, by the
way though, that I think I think if there's one
thing that we got out of that that we should
take some heart from It's that possibly David Seymour's idea
of the supermarket thing, where you fast track the supermarkets
so they can have they could just get permission to
open about ten of them at once, rather than going
one by one, you know, taking three years thirty years
(11:39):
before you get a supermarket. At least that idea is
probably It sounds like got some traction with them, Heather.
It's the traffic management organizations that set the policy for
how many road cones are required. Hither, I cannot believe
you spent so much of the valuable time you had
talking to the Prime Minister about road cones. I'm sorry,
but there are more bloody serious issues in the country
(12:00):
to be talking about now.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
That is an.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Absolutely fair point. However, I think can I just make
this case to you that the road cone situation I
think is emblematic of what is going on with this
government at the moment. So we all know we've got
an issue. So it's an emblem right, We've got an
issue with the road cones. There are too many of
them out there. So the government comes out goes, hey, listen,
we've got the tip line. Let's sort it out with
the tip line, So we all, you know, get excited
(12:22):
about the tip line. Is it actually changing the fundamental problem?
No it isn't. In which case, what is it? It's just
a performance, and I think there's too much of that
going on. Is there anything changing about the supermarkets yet? No,
there isn't. They've written letters that asked for RFIs it's
just a performance. Is there anything changing about the cost
of living in the butter No, there isn't. They've called
Fronterra in for a meeting. Is anything going to change,
(12:44):
No it isn't. So road cones are I think if
you think, hmm, what's going on? Just think about the
road cones. They're pretending to change things and nothing's actually changing.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
Yes, it's a grind.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
As we get the car out of the ditch and
turned up the right way and into first the second gear,
are we scraping the barnacles off the car? And where
does the rolling thunder into it? I believe me, I'm
compiling quite a library of lux in it. In fact,
I think I've got more luximisms now than I managed
to collect.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
Keyisms from back in the day.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
When you know the number of times he would say
text is when he meant texts and people making allegations
were alligators that sort of thing.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
But yeah, Lux is on a whole other level, so yes,
stay changed. I am Glen Hart.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
I'm collecting up stupid little things like that for no
reason other than my own personal entertainment, and I'll be
sharing more of that sort of thing with you tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
See then.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
Rewrap and welcome to the Rewrap for Monday. All the
best but from the Mike Hosking Breakfast on News Talk
said B and a Sillier package hosted by Heather duple
c Allen this week, and she wants to check on
the progress with the competition being sorted. I've got some
(00:45):
exciting news on that slash is becoming more and more
and more and more of an issue. And then it's
road Cone again continues, unfortunately in spite of you know,
steps to stop it from continuing. But first up the
big by election. Hang on, we want Labor to win.
(01:05):
That's not very News Talks head, but is it.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
I'm not even going to hide. I hope like hell
that Labor wins this by election. I'm talking about the
Tamakimikoto by election that's been triggered by the death of
the Maori Party MP Takatai tash KEMP. There are only
two candidates here. You can either back the Maori Party
candidate or any kaipitter, or you can back Labour's Peni
Henata No one else is running and Labor, as far
(01:28):
as I'm concerned, needs to back this, needs to win this.
I'm backing them because I think it would be perverse
for the Maori Party to be rewarded for their carry
on in the last few months. I'm not even talking
about the Huker incident. That is not even the worst
thing as far as I'm concerned. I mean, look, it
would be unfortunate if they won because people supported them
giving the middle finger to the rules of Parliament. I
think that's a greater breach than doing the huka in
(01:48):
the first place. But that's not what I'm talking about.
I'm talking about the constant misinformation that they spread, which
no one calls them on. Thomas Coglan of The Herald
actually did call them on it this past weekend. He
pointed out that Mary Party has gone on Instagram and
claimed that the Regulatory Standards Bill would let judges quote
strike down Maori focused laws. Well, that's not true, and
(02:09):
as he said, that's flat out wrong. Not long ago,
as he says, and he's talking about the pandemic here.
Not long ago, that kind of thing would have been
labeled misinformation. And you know how that went once you
got labeled with some misinformation, you got ridiculed, you got
mocked by the media, you basically got canceled. Not the
Maldi Party. Their outright FIBs just get waved through, as
(02:31):
does them accusing other politicians of genocide, as does one
of them labeling a chap who outlawed homosexuality in his
country a hero. That kind of divisive, irresponsible and radical
brand of politics. I would hate to see rewarded in
this by election. And yet they have a chance. It's
going to be tight. I mean, last time there are
only forty two votes in it and they won it.
(02:52):
Since then, they've had a huge bump in the polls.
They've had massive profile with the Treaty Principal's Bill opposition,
They've had massive global international attention with the Hucker And
there is of course the sympathy element because they're the
ones who've lost their mp But I've got my fingers crossed,
not because I love what Labor's doing, but just because
I do not want to see the Malordi Party's way
of doing politics being seen to pay dividends.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
The old lesser of two evils situation.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Eh, how about a national actually, you know, identified some
of the issues in the electorate and ran astrong candidate
Nana know that.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Would never happen. I suppose it's a rewrap.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Actually, speaking of admitting defeat before you've even played the game.
How's the old supermarket.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Competition effort going?
Speaker 3 (03:43):
So to fix the ongoing problems that we've got with
the supermarket competition in this country, David Seymour's pitch to
an idea fast track any supermarket chain that wants to
open if they apply, give them permission in months, don't
take years, give them permission for all of the stores
that they want, not just one at a time, and
then give them an automatic liquor license for all of
the stores. Is this going to make a difference. You'd
(04:04):
think it probably would, given that our current rules make
it so hard that it took Costco three years to
get permission to build its store, and I Kia got
permission for Sylvia Park in Auckland, but only if it
allowed seven different Manifenua groups to pray over the site
a couple of times. Now, obviously the devil is in
the detail on David Seymore's idea, but this is hands
down the best idea that we've had so far from
(04:26):
this government on how to get competition into the supermarket sector,
because everything up to now you'd have to look back
on and say has been a non event, hasn't it.
I mean they've threatened the supermarkets, They've written letters to
the supermarkets telling them to fix their pricing mistakes. They've
commissioned analysis on what to do with the supermarkets, they've
issued a request for information with the supermarkets. But what's happened.
It's just been a big performance of doing something while
(04:47):
doing absolutely nothing at all. None of that has made
supermarkets more competitive. And same goes by the way for
what the government is doing with the pretense of fixing
banks while doing nothing, the pretense of fixing the butter
price by dealing to Fonterra, but nothing's actually going to happen,
the pretense of fixing the electricity prices which are still high.
There are only eighteen months or so left for this government.
(05:08):
They need to take a lesson from how voter patients
ran out with Ardern and Labor doing exactly the same
thing with all those market studies that went nowhere. Voters
have seen all of this kind of stuff before. We're
probably not going to fall for all the same cheap
tricks this time. Government has talked about fixing supermarkets. Now
it needs to do something about fixing supermarkets.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Now.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Maybe it's David Seymore's idea, maybe it's something else, but
do something.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Ah, yeah, do something.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
I think that could be.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
A common theme that's going to.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Present itself towards this coalition government over the next little while.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
More on that shortly. Actually now bad.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Ware that lots of water means questions, serious questions are
really being asked now about slash, all that stuff that's
left over from forestry that they just lead there to
wash to places where it shouldn't end up.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
I suspect that we're going to have another debate about
slash again because I don't know if you've seen what's
gone on in the South Island, top of the South
Island this weekend, but boy, oh boy, is there slash
absolutely everywhere. I got seen to video actually from somebody
in the Nelson, Tasman area last night, furious driving down this,
driven down the road just you would not believe it.
Just slash absolutely everywhere. News websites are now starting to
(06:31):
cover it looks pretty bad and NUTSI muti which is
in the Mutuika Valley. It's been hit particularly badly. One
guy has had the media around to his place. He's
shown them up the back of the place. There was
a small creek there, massive gouge out of the land.
There now piles of silt, splintered wood, reckons that there's
a trail that has backed up a couple of hundred
meters long. He reckons. All of the stuff is washed
(06:53):
down from the forestry block, which is just on steep
land about two k's upstream. Forestry companies because they know
they're going to cop it if people get angry about
this all over again, if kids are playing on the
logs and dying at the beach again like last time.
They've seen some representatives down to have a lot look
at it, and apparently, according to him, the forestry representatives
were left speechless. I am too, actually.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
I mean, we've had a bit of while weather lately
in Auckland, not nearly as bad as other plants of
the country, but I've had my own slash issues to
sort out. Palm crowns falling about the place of some
of which weren't even off trees on my section. But
the neighbor didn't rush around and sort that out. I
(07:38):
was on slash patrol the South. I'm trying to fit
one of those in the ben Boy the struggle, I
can tell you re wrap all right. Now back to
the subject of please can we do something? So I
think we thought that the road cone hotline or tip line,
(07:59):
or there's not even a line. It's a website, isn't it.
But anyway that something might actually happen if we took
part in that. But I'm not sure that it is happening.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
I loved the idea of the road Cone tip line
very much when it was when it was launched, to
the extent that I basically allowed anybody to use my name,
and many, many, many complaints were laid in my name.
But I am fast coming to the conclusion that the
road Cone tip line is a joke. Wayne Brown was
in the papers yesterday and I agree with him on this.
He says the mayor considers the hotline to be nothing
(08:31):
more than a pr stunt that does nothing to address
the underlying issue, and I agree with him on that.
I'll tell you why, right, Because how it works is
you fill out the little road cone tip line and
they've got we're spending money on this. It's costing us money.
So they dispatch a couple of people to go and
have a look at the road cones wherever you've complained
about them, whether it's an in the Giggle or New
(08:52):
Plymouth or Auckland or whatever. They'll send somebody out there
go look at the road cones, and invariably what happens
as the person gets there goes I'm t three ninety
nine right now, that's allowed. They are allowed to have
ninety nine road cones. Now you and I drive past,
we go that's too many road cones. But that is
exactly how many road cones they need, because that is
how many road cones they are supposed to have to
(09:12):
keep people safe. Now, what I can't figure out. So
what you need to do is you need to change
the requirement. Right whatever is making them put out all
those road cones, that's what you need to change. No
point us narking on them because they're not breaking the rules.
So change the rules. But what are the rules? Well,
I was trying to figure this out yesterday because I
think it's in the health and safety legislation, but it
could also be in work Safe's interpretation of the health
(09:34):
and safety legislation and what they tell the companies to do.
So I made some phone calls about it. I'll tell
you what no one can tell you. Not the Minister's office,
Brooklyn Valden's office. They've got no idea. Are called labor,
They've got no idea. No one knows what you need
to change to change the rules. But meanwhile, meanwhile Wellington,
water we Mere and Wellington they had this big hole
they were digging on Taranaki Street. They spent twenty one
(09:57):
million dollars on that big hole, two point seven million
of it. Traffic management as basically road cones right there.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
What's going on?
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Yeah, there's been a lot of motorway closures are on
my way to work in the middle of the night lately,
but I'm never quite sure if it is going to
be closed or not. And so I because sometimes they
say it's going to be closed and then it isn't closed.
And unfortunately Google Maps also thinks that it's going to
(10:24):
be closed when they say it's going to be closed.
Because I started checking my route to work. I mean,
I know the way to work, but just to make
sure you know that I'm taking the right detour, But
then i find myself on the detour looking across to
the motorway and seeing people driving up and down it
with no problems, and so I've gone I've taken a
detour I didn't need to take.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
So that's important a man. If we can stop that
from happening too, that it'd be good the re.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Wrap anyway, Heather did ask the Prime Minister about it
this morning and.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
There's a bit of management waffle.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
I'd have to say, we're not scraping barnacles off the
boat now, we're getting the car out of the ditch.
Come back from holiday, Heather, has he come back with
a vision for the country. No, just a word salad
of nothing. Hither the to me has got worse under
national Heather. It took six years to wreck the country.
You cannot fix that in eighteen months, which is a
fair point. Which is a fair point, but surely in
eighteen months you would at least start showing that you're
(11:19):
doing something about it. We're up for fast track or
we we love fast track hmm yeah. Hey, by the
way though, that I think I think if there's one
thing that we got out of that that we should
take some heart from It's that possibly David Seymour's idea
of the supermarket thing, where you fast track the supermarkets
so they can have they could just get permission to
open about ten of them at once, rather than going
one by one, you know, taking three years thirty years
(11:39):
before you get a supermarket. At least that idea is
probably It sounds like got some traction with them, Heather.
It's the traffic management organizations that set the policy for
how many road cones are required. Hither, I cannot believe
you spent so much of the valuable time you had
talking to the Prime Minister about road cones. I'm sorry,
but there are more bloody serious issues in the country
(12:00):
to be talking about now.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
That is an.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Absolutely fair point. However, I think can I just make
this case to you that the road cone situation I
think is emblematic of what is going on with this
government at the moment. So we all know we've got
an issue. So it's an emblem right, We've got an
issue with the road cones. There are too many of
them out there. So the government comes out goes, hey, listen,
we've got the tip line. Let's sort it out with
the tip line, So we all, you know, get excited
(12:22):
about the tip line. Is it actually changing the fundamental problem?
No it isn't. In which case, what is it? It's just
a performance, and I think there's too much of that
going on. Is there anything changing about the supermarkets yet? No,
there isn't. They've written letters that asked for RFIs it's
just a performance. Is there anything changing about the cost
of living in the butter No, there isn't. They've called
Fronterra in for a meeting. Is anything going to change,
(12:44):
No it isn't. So road cones are I think if
you think, hmm, what's going on? Just think about the
road cones. They're pretending to change things and nothing's actually changing.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
Yes, it's a grind.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
As we get the car out of the ditch and
turned up the right way and into first the second gear,
are we scraping the barnacles off the car? And where
does the rolling thunder into it? I believe me, I'm
compiling quite a library of lux in it. In fact,
I think I've got more luximisms now than I managed
to collect.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
Keyisms from back in the day.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
When you know the number of times he would say
text is when he meant texts and people making allegations
were alligators that sort of thing.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
But yeah, Lux is on a whole other level, so yes,
stay changed. I am Glen Hart.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
I'm collecting up stupid little things like that for no
reason other than my own personal entertainment, and I'll be
sharing more of that sort of thing with you tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
See then.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
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