February 26, 2025 • 16 mins
THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Thursday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) Do We Want This Or Not?/Trump Might Actually Do It/Trump Won't Actually Do It/Mixing Water with Electricity/Coffee Chaos
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
Rewrap, Okay, dear, and welcome to the Rewrap for Thursday.
All the best, but's from the Mic Husking breakfast on Newsdalks.
He'd be in a sillier package. I am blen Hart
and today, well, we've got a Ukraine deal. It's to
do with Ukraine's minerals. Seems to be more to do
with that than perhaps the war as such, or is
(00:45):
it all connected, It's all a bit complicated. Has anything
to do with Trump is including his first cabinet meeting
this morning. Our power supply seems unnecessarily complicated as well,
and indeed under threat again. And also what is Matt
Heath doing at Newsdalks here'd be and should he continue
(01:07):
to be here? Before any of that? The citizens arrests rules,
except everybody wanted them until they got them, and now
they are getting cold feet.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
The trick, and we fail at virtually every time, is
to not get bogged down in the MINUTII. There are
not prizes for coming up with dumb scenarios to try
and catch the idea out amending the law to allow
greater use of locals to grab a scumbag and hold
them till the coppers arise is a good and it's
a welcome idea, and that the government are making tangible
(01:41):
and positive progress. If you think about it anywhere at all,
it's on the crime front. More people are in jail,
more people are being rounded up, more of us feel safe,
the police feel better about doing their job or being
allowed to do their job, and the citizens arrest nees
is merely adding to that progress. Coming up with scenarios
about criminals bringing bigger weapons to robberies won't happen the
same way. We haven't seen the gangs give the boot
(02:03):
to the coppers over patches at the Prime Minister's press
conference and I urge you to watch it. At the
Prime Minister's press conference this week with Goldsmith, Mitchell and
the Commissioner Chambers, they were asked about there being more
gang members inference being the laws failing. The more gang members, yes,
said Chambers. Police Commissioner Chambers. There are more gang members
because we're putting more groups on the register and the
(02:23):
arrests are not going up commensurately because gangs aren't flouting
the law and retail thugs are not going to flout
this one either. Thugs are cowarts and they're opportunists. They
try it on because they know they can. The moment
they know a guard in a supermarket can jump on
top of them, They're not going to bother the same
way they tried to get work when the traffic light
system came in for the job seeker. Bottom feeders are
(02:45):
essentially lazy. If it's easy, they'll abuse it, or they'll
nick it, crack down, games up, they will give up.
This sort of thing should be welcomed. This is what
we wanted. See, memories can't be so short that we
have forgotten the madness that filled our streets just a
year or so back. The ram raids, the gangs that
block the road with their intimidation, the non existent police
to round them up, the endless ankle braceletters who were
(03:08):
reff We hated that, We got furious at that. A
year and a half later, the changes happened. The statistics
have turned. Let's not get bogged down in a petty
game of but what if?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Yeah, Mike's very going high about this, is he? But
we are talking about potential acts of violence. One way
or the other or both ways. So I think there
do have to be some pretty clear guidelines. Anyway, it'd
(03:40):
be fun to watch where all this lands rewrap. What's
been less fun to watch is the three year long
now Ukraine War. Yeah, happy birthday. Is Trump actually going
to bring it to an end? You never would have
thought it, would you now?
Speaker 3 (03:58):
The word was. When Zelensky first saw what the US
wanted in a minerals deal, he screamed so loudly the
US envoy was left shaking. But here we are a
couple of days later, and he's on his to Washington
to sign it off Saturday our time. There's a lot
of chaos in the White House, mind you. As we've
said earlier on this year, there was a lot of
chaos last time, and mainly everyone survived. But what we
observed twenty sixteen through twenty and what sadly too many
(04:20):
are failing to remember, is that broadly the chaos is deliberate,
and what starts out as nutty ends up with something
resembling normalcy. The world has been tipped upside down. We
read America has left NATO and Europe and now backs Russia.
Has it or has it simply applied enough pressure and
doubt in order to bring a bloke to the table
to cut a deal. Depending on what's actually in that deal.
(04:42):
Where does this leave Europe ay I mean, is Europe's
still happy to have handed over all it has handed
over seemingly for little more than solidarity with a neighbor.
Or do they now look at the multi billion dollar
transfer of wealth to America as a missed opportunity. What
I think we know about Trump is he's not interested
in wars. He's interested in deals. He has the advantage
of being in charge of the biggest military operation on Earth.
He doesn't need to fight, he just needs to imply
(05:04):
he can. If the minerals deal is as reported to
this point, Ukraine has guarantees of sorts on security given
Americas in the business, of course of protecting their newfound interests.
The American economy gains, it sends a rare earth message
to China, it sets a precedent for American cooperation anywhere
on Earth, and it's a massive political win. This arrangement
could have been done at any point, but that's the
(05:26):
art of the deal, isn't it. It wasn't until Trump
did it. I mean, yes, he had to cause Zolanska
a dictator suggests he wouldn't have a country left freak
Europe out. But if you can end a war in
a month, and I'm not saying he has, but he might.
As unconventional as the approach may be, history will record
the result, not the method.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Yeah, I think saying a whole lot of random stuff
and hoping that's one of the random things that you
say sticks. I don't know if the net gain out
of that is worth any of the net damage that
might happen from the other random things that you see.
(06:04):
I guess if it ends a war, probably is. What
are these other guys doing that are sitting around a
cabinet table?
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Though, So this dose thing, we're back to the cabinet meeting,
which by the way, hasn't even started. Trump's just explaining
how the world is working before all the people sitting
They're all lined up next to them on one side,
as hig Seth on the other side, as Marco, who
must be thinking, I really like being overseas dealing with
other people rather than sitting in this room. Anyway, what
(06:30):
Musk who's there, And of course he's gone through no
confirmation whatsoever. Wasn't elected by a single person, but he
seems to be spending a lot of time explaining stuff.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
And taking a lot of plat and getting a lot
of death threats.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
By the way, I'd like to stack them up.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
But if we don't do this, America.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Will go bankrupt.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
That's why it has to be done. I'm confident at.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
This point, not got a word, you know, like wouldn't head,
It's got a lot of wouldn't do that. We can
actually find a twenty dollars and savings that.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Would be a Roughie Foreman puppets for seven to twenty
dollars budget.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
The interesting thing about those two fold interesting things. One
most of the people that worked from quick yesterday, so
he's got a recruitment issue. And the second one I
was watching a very interesting piece yesterday. They discovered who
the so called head, Elon Musk is not the official
head of DOGE. The official head of DOGE is a
woman whose name I can't remember, but it doesn't matter
because you've never heard of it. She's just she's just
(07:29):
a bureaucrat that they've made the head of DOGE. Now,
the problem was they wanted to talk to the head
of Doze this woman, but I think her name is Linda,
and they wanted to talk to Linda. But Linda's currently
on holiday in Mexico, so I don't know what we're
hang on.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Has she got a list of five things that she's.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Done, well, one of them is going on holiday to Mexico.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
It's Linda Yacarino is her name. So she was the
head of X Not sure if she still is. She's
the official head of DOGE apparently, but yes, she's not
at the cabinet meeting Elonsquez even though he's not a
member of the gabinet, And he was wearing a stupid
(08:10):
hat as well. Why does he keep trying to wear hats,
especially caps when his head is so giant? I mean,
I only do that when I'm out walking, and I
go to quite a lot of trouble to try and
find a cap that doesn't make my head look giant
like his head. The rewrappit back here and a little
(08:31):
Old New Zealand. We've got a little old power problem
looming yet again this winter, and it turns out it
might not be because we don't have enough water to
run our hydro. It's we can't get.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
To it morning Mike Meridian's comment regarding contingent storage as
a red hearing. Meridians able to access contingent storage when
the lakes reach a certain level, which coincidentally also triggers
an official conservation campaign. That level wasn't reached in twenty four,
so Meridian had no need to access. But the key
point is that they want the level lifted so that
the official conservation campaign has started sooner to reduce the
financial cost that Meridian would be subject to. But what's
(09:06):
wrong with that to save a bit of money? I mean,
is that suddenly a crime in this country? Now, is it?
I mean, if we've got water sitting there set to
go and we're paying eight hundred dollars for the spot price,
Come on, now we come to Shane Jones and Simon
Watts a proposal. Listen to this and see if you
understand a single thing that they're saying here, A proposal
by the Electricity Authority for mandatory non discrimination obligations for
(09:29):
electricity gent tailor sends a strong signal that any advantage
being provided to their own retailers will not be tolerated,
says mister Jones and mister Watts the EA is proposing
a progressive approach to non discrimination obligation, supported by increased
monitoring of gen Taylor's responses and consumer outcomes. If the
first step proves insufficient, the EA could escalate to more
prescriptive ways of leveling the paying field. What does that mean?
(09:51):
What does any of that mean? Proposed steps are one
principles based on non discrimination requirements. What's that mean? Two
non discrimination requirements set out in detail. What's that mean? Three?
All Gent Tailor's supplied hedge contracts must be traded through
a regulated market on equal terms for all buys. I
understand that. Here's the critical line that actually makes sense.
It only took them about five paragraphs to speak English.
(10:14):
The proposed measures send a strong signal that gent Tailor's
creating an advantage for their own retailers at the expense
of the affordability and security of New Zealand's energy supply
will no longer be tolerated. This means, in yet more
common sense, in plain language, this means Gent Tailors would
be required to treat independent retailers and generators the same
(10:34):
as they do their own retail ants. All of that's fine,
that's fantastic. And theory. That's fantastic. Let's hope they do it.
And as you heard, if they don't do it, then
they're gonna do something even more serious. So but the
problem is this, you can treat everybody. And this goes
back to the whole gentailor thing and whether you should
split these people up. It's exactly the same as the supermarkets.
There are two companies, maybe they need three. Maybe they
(10:56):
need to split the supermarkets up, Maybe they need to
split the gent tailors up. In the power But while
we're mucking around and talking about all of that, what
we are more concerned about, surely is do we have
enough water, do we have enough wind? If we have
enough wind, do we have enough propellers, Do we have
enough sun? Do we have enough solar panels? Do we
have enough renewables? Or we just going to continue to
port coal forever? In other words, can we turn the
(11:19):
lights on? Is the answer in regulation of gen Taylor's
and rules, or is the answer in the amount of
stuff that we have to produce the power? And if
we don't have enough stuff, what are we doing about that?
Surely that's the more important point. And if as the
man from Meridian says, there's plenty of water there and
(11:39):
we just need to get access to it. Why aren't
we getting access to it? And why is it we're
reliant on transpower, a monopoly government owned and government run.
And where are the EA in all of this? Where's
the electricity Authority? And what is it they actually do
When we're watching the spot price as we were last
winter at eight hundred dollars a gig?
Speaker 2 (11:58):
What for?
Speaker 3 (12:00):
So on? Whatever the hell you call?
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Yeah, that's another problem. We don't understand the measurements of
these things. I was looking up yesterday or the day
before how make oil New Zealand drills out of the
ground every year, and they measure that in peta jewels,
not barrels or liters. And once again I feel like,
(12:25):
you know, they tell you had so many Petta jewels,
but you've got no frame of you know, at least
converted into something we understand, like Olympic swimming pools or
VW beetle the re wrap. I'm not sure how many
Petta jewels of coffee Matt Heath's spilt yesterday, but it
caused a few issues.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Then we come to this experiment we're running in the
afternoon between twelve and four. Is it twelve and four
and twelve and three? It's twelve and four this Tyler
Matt show. What's going on here? You can tell on
panting here, My mate's topless. My computer's shut down here
the computer shutdown?
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Yeah, yeah, So spilled a coffee when everywhere, and you
know we're in the my Costing Memorial Studio. So you
got to You've got to clean up when you make
a mess. So immediately whipped my shirt off to wipe
down the bench. And yeah, still doing he's wrong.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
You don't clean up with him. It's what you do
is you don't let those sort of people into the
Mike Hosking Memorial Studio in the first place. And I've
told the management this and I said, first of all,
these clowns are nothing but trouble. They're going to cause
us nothing but difficulty. And was I right or was
I right? So apparently I only found out about this
through because I don't listen to them. Obviously you found
(13:39):
out about this through the grape vine.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Someone spilled their coffee every I'm not sure who it was,
we'll look.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
At the tapes.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
It was either me or Tightler.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
The evidence is there, man, I'm looking forward to seeing
that video.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
So we had to move to another studio and try
and piece together a show over there with very little tech.
But we're now back and no one tell Hosking about
this again. Kay, Please don't don't tell Hosking if you
see him out shopping as mention it. Because the coffee
has all been in a special stuff that's down and
there these.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Draws here, he'll never know.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
I tried to clean off for special pens and everything,
but it was a coffee of getting in here.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
It's been given a deep clean. It smells like lemon water,
which he's used to nobody.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
So cone of silence everyone. Here's the thing. I knew
about it this morning because I emptied the rubbishman because
those pigs don't do it, and so I empty the
rubbishman every morning. And in the bottom of the rubbish
bin are eight hundred and fifty seven thousand wet towels
that they've been It's sanitizing. The scene of the crime
went over exactly. Do the clean up the evidence, idiots,
(14:40):
And how many memos have been written over the years
about not spilling stuff in the studio. How many memos
I think this officially is a last i'd like to personally,
I'd like to make it don't come Monday, but let's
call this the last warning shell.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
We also, who just whips off their shirt to mop
up a spill like that and then go shirtless. You've
got to be pretty secure in your body image to
do that, so, you know, hats off to him. I said,
hats off, not jet off to him for that. But
weird choice. The memos we've been sent about this, and
(15:16):
mostly to do with reporting the spills, because sometimes people
do that and then obviously they've whipped off their shirt
and think that they've mopped it all up, but because
by that stage it's seeped into the inner workings of
a radio studio desk, and you can imagine the chaos
that coffee will then cause at that point if left unattended.
(15:37):
So of course, now the finger of suspicion points squarely
at him even more because that has happened in the past,
and maybe it's gone unreported and he's just wanted around
shirtless and nobody's understood why. So anyway, we'll see what
happens there. I am Glen Has I've got two shirts
(15:58):
on it the moment, surely, just to be safe, and
I'll see you back here again, fully closed tomorrow.
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
Rewrap, Okay, dear, and welcome to the Rewrap for Thursday.
All the best, but's from the Mic Husking breakfast on Newsdalks.
He'd be in a sillier package. I am blen Hart
and today, well, we've got a Ukraine deal. It's to
do with Ukraine's minerals. Seems to be more to do
with that than perhaps the war as such, or is
(00:45):
it all connected, It's all a bit complicated. Has anything
to do with Trump is including his first cabinet meeting
this morning. Our power supply seems unnecessarily complicated as well,
and indeed under threat again. And also what is Matt
Heath doing at Newsdalks here'd be and should he continue
(01:07):
to be here? Before any of that? The citizens arrests rules,
except everybody wanted them until they got them, and now
they are getting cold feet.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
The trick, and we fail at virtually every time, is
to not get bogged down in the MINUTII. There are
not prizes for coming up with dumb scenarios to try
and catch the idea out amending the law to allow
greater use of locals to grab a scumbag and hold
them till the coppers arise is a good and it's
a welcome idea, and that the government are making tangible
(01:41):
and positive progress. If you think about it anywhere at all,
it's on the crime front. More people are in jail,
more people are being rounded up, more of us feel safe,
the police feel better about doing their job or being
allowed to do their job, and the citizens arrest nees
is merely adding to that progress. Coming up with scenarios
about criminals bringing bigger weapons to robberies won't happen the
same way. We haven't seen the gangs give the boot
(02:03):
to the coppers over patches at the Prime Minister's press
conference and I urge you to watch it. At the
Prime Minister's press conference this week with Goldsmith, Mitchell and
the Commissioner Chambers, they were asked about there being more
gang members inference being the laws failing. The more gang members, yes,
said Chambers. Police Commissioner Chambers. There are more gang members
because we're putting more groups on the register and the
(02:23):
arrests are not going up commensurately because gangs aren't flouting
the law and retail thugs are not going to flout
this one either. Thugs are cowarts and they're opportunists. They
try it on because they know they can. The moment
they know a guard in a supermarket can jump on
top of them, They're not going to bother the same
way they tried to get work when the traffic light
system came in for the job seeker. Bottom feeders are
(02:45):
essentially lazy. If it's easy, they'll abuse it, or they'll
nick it, crack down, games up, they will give up.
This sort of thing should be welcomed. This is what
we wanted. See, memories can't be so short that we
have forgotten the madness that filled our streets just a
year or so back. The ram raids, the gangs that
block the road with their intimidation, the non existent police
to round them up, the endless ankle braceletters who were
(03:08):
reff We hated that, We got furious at that. A
year and a half later, the changes happened. The statistics
have turned. Let's not get bogged down in a petty
game of but what if?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Yeah, Mike's very going high about this, is he? But
we are talking about potential acts of violence. One way
or the other or both ways. So I think there
do have to be some pretty clear guidelines. Anyway, it'd
(03:40):
be fun to watch where all this lands rewrap. What's
been less fun to watch is the three year long
now Ukraine War. Yeah, happy birthday. Is Trump actually going
to bring it to an end? You never would have
thought it, would you now?
Speaker 3 (03:58):
The word was. When Zelensky first saw what the US
wanted in a minerals deal, he screamed so loudly the
US envoy was left shaking. But here we are a
couple of days later, and he's on his to Washington
to sign it off Saturday our time. There's a lot
of chaos in the White House, mind you. As we've
said earlier on this year, there was a lot of
chaos last time, and mainly everyone survived. But what we
observed twenty sixteen through twenty and what sadly too many
(04:20):
are failing to remember, is that broadly the chaos is deliberate,
and what starts out as nutty ends up with something
resembling normalcy. The world has been tipped upside down. We
read America has left NATO and Europe and now backs Russia.
Has it or has it simply applied enough pressure and
doubt in order to bring a bloke to the table
to cut a deal. Depending on what's actually in that deal.
(04:42):
Where does this leave Europe ay I mean, is Europe's
still happy to have handed over all it has handed
over seemingly for little more than solidarity with a neighbor.
Or do they now look at the multi billion dollar
transfer of wealth to America as a missed opportunity. What
I think we know about Trump is he's not interested
in wars. He's interested in deals. He has the advantage
of being in charge of the biggest military operation on Earth.
He doesn't need to fight, he just needs to imply
(05:04):
he can. If the minerals deal is as reported to
this point, Ukraine has guarantees of sorts on security given
Americas in the business, of course of protecting their newfound interests.
The American economy gains, it sends a rare earth message
to China, it sets a precedent for American cooperation anywhere
on Earth, and it's a massive political win. This arrangement
could have been done at any point, but that's the
(05:26):
art of the deal, isn't it. It wasn't until Trump
did it. I mean, yes, he had to cause Zolanska
a dictator suggests he wouldn't have a country left freak
Europe out. But if you can end a war in
a month, and I'm not saying he has, but he might.
As unconventional as the approach may be, history will record
the result, not the method.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Yeah, I think saying a whole lot of random stuff
and hoping that's one of the random things that you
say sticks. I don't know if the net gain out
of that is worth any of the net damage that
might happen from the other random things that you see.
(06:04):
I guess if it ends a war, probably is. What
are these other guys doing that are sitting around a
cabinet table?
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Though, So this dose thing, we're back to the cabinet meeting,
which by the way, hasn't even started. Trump's just explaining
how the world is working before all the people sitting
They're all lined up next to them on one side,
as hig Seth on the other side, as Marco, who
must be thinking, I really like being overseas dealing with
other people rather than sitting in this room. Anyway, what
(06:30):
Musk who's there, And of course he's gone through no
confirmation whatsoever. Wasn't elected by a single person, but he
seems to be spending a lot of time explaining stuff.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
And taking a lot of plat and getting a lot
of death threats.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
By the way, I'd like to stack them up.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
But if we don't do this, America.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Will go bankrupt.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
That's why it has to be done. I'm confident at.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
This point, not got a word, you know, like wouldn't head,
It's got a lot of wouldn't do that. We can
actually find a twenty dollars and savings that.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Would be a Roughie Foreman puppets for seven to twenty
dollars budget.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
The interesting thing about those two fold interesting things. One
most of the people that worked from quick yesterday, so
he's got a recruitment issue. And the second one I
was watching a very interesting piece yesterday. They discovered who
the so called head, Elon Musk is not the official
head of DOGE. The official head of DOGE is a
woman whose name I can't remember, but it doesn't matter
because you've never heard of it. She's just she's just
(07:29):
a bureaucrat that they've made the head of DOGE. Now,
the problem was they wanted to talk to the head
of Doze this woman, but I think her name is Linda,
and they wanted to talk to Linda. But Linda's currently
on holiday in Mexico, so I don't know what we're
hang on.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Has she got a list of five things that she's.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Done, well, one of them is going on holiday to Mexico.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
It's Linda Yacarino is her name. So she was the
head of X Not sure if she still is. She's
the official head of DOGE apparently, but yes, she's not
at the cabinet meeting Elonsquez even though he's not a
member of the gabinet, And he was wearing a stupid
(08:10):
hat as well. Why does he keep trying to wear hats,
especially caps when his head is so giant? I mean,
I only do that when I'm out walking, and I
go to quite a lot of trouble to try and
find a cap that doesn't make my head look giant
like his head. The rewrappit back here and a little
(08:31):
Old New Zealand. We've got a little old power problem
looming yet again this winter, and it turns out it
might not be because we don't have enough water to
run our hydro. It's we can't get.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
To it morning Mike Meridian's comment regarding contingent storage as
a red hearing. Meridians able to access contingent storage when
the lakes reach a certain level, which coincidentally also triggers
an official conservation campaign. That level wasn't reached in twenty four,
so Meridian had no need to access. But the key
point is that they want the level lifted so that
the official conservation campaign has started sooner to reduce the
financial cost that Meridian would be subject to. But what's
(09:06):
wrong with that to save a bit of money? I mean,
is that suddenly a crime in this country? Now, is it?
I mean, if we've got water sitting there set to
go and we're paying eight hundred dollars for the spot price,
Come on, now we come to Shane Jones and Simon
Watts a proposal. Listen to this and see if you
understand a single thing that they're saying here, A proposal
by the Electricity Authority for mandatory non discrimination obligations for
(09:29):
electricity gent tailor sends a strong signal that any advantage
being provided to their own retailers will not be tolerated,
says mister Jones and mister Watts the EA is proposing
a progressive approach to non discrimination obligation, supported by increased
monitoring of gen Taylor's responses and consumer outcomes. If the
first step proves insufficient, the EA could escalate to more
prescriptive ways of leveling the paying field. What does that mean?
(09:51):
What does any of that mean? Proposed steps are one
principles based on non discrimination requirements. What's that mean? Two
non discrimination requirements set out in detail. What's that mean? Three?
All Gent Tailor's supplied hedge contracts must be traded through
a regulated market on equal terms for all buys. I
understand that. Here's the critical line that actually makes sense.
It only took them about five paragraphs to speak English.
(10:14):
The proposed measures send a strong signal that gent Tailor's
creating an advantage for their own retailers at the expense
of the affordability and security of New Zealand's energy supply
will no longer be tolerated. This means, in yet more
common sense, in plain language, this means Gent Tailors would
be required to treat independent retailers and generators the same
(10:34):
as they do their own retail ants. All of that's fine,
that's fantastic. And theory. That's fantastic. Let's hope they do it.
And as you heard, if they don't do it, then
they're gonna do something even more serious. So but the
problem is this, you can treat everybody. And this goes
back to the whole gentailor thing and whether you should
split these people up. It's exactly the same as the supermarkets.
There are two companies, maybe they need three. Maybe they
(10:56):
need to split the supermarkets up, Maybe they need to
split the gent tailors up. In the power But while
we're mucking around and talking about all of that, what
we are more concerned about, surely is do we have
enough water, do we have enough wind? If we have
enough wind, do we have enough propellers, Do we have
enough sun? Do we have enough solar panels? Do we
have enough renewables? Or we just going to continue to
port coal forever? In other words, can we turn the
(11:19):
lights on? Is the answer in regulation of gen Taylor's
and rules, or is the answer in the amount of
stuff that we have to produce the power? And if
we don't have enough stuff, what are we doing about that?
Surely that's the more important point. And if as the
man from Meridian says, there's plenty of water there and
(11:39):
we just need to get access to it. Why aren't
we getting access to it? And why is it we're
reliant on transpower, a monopoly government owned and government run.
And where are the EA in all of this? Where's
the electricity Authority? And what is it they actually do
When we're watching the spot price as we were last
winter at eight hundred dollars a gig?
Speaker 2 (11:58):
What for?
Speaker 3 (12:00):
So on? Whatever the hell you call?
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Yeah, that's another problem. We don't understand the measurements of
these things. I was looking up yesterday or the day
before how make oil New Zealand drills out of the
ground every year, and they measure that in peta jewels,
not barrels or liters. And once again I feel like,
(12:25):
you know, they tell you had so many Petta jewels,
but you've got no frame of you know, at least
converted into something we understand, like Olympic swimming pools or
VW beetle the re wrap. I'm not sure how many
Petta jewels of coffee Matt Heath's spilt yesterday, but it
caused a few issues.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Then we come to this experiment we're running in the
afternoon between twelve and four. Is it twelve and four
and twelve and three? It's twelve and four this Tyler
Matt show. What's going on here? You can tell on
panting here, My mate's topless. My computer's shut down here
the computer shutdown?
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Yeah, yeah, So spilled a coffee when everywhere, and you
know we're in the my Costing Memorial Studio. So you
got to You've got to clean up when you make
a mess. So immediately whipped my shirt off to wipe
down the bench. And yeah, still doing he's wrong.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
You don't clean up with him. It's what you do
is you don't let those sort of people into the
Mike Hosking Memorial Studio in the first place. And I've
told the management this and I said, first of all,
these clowns are nothing but trouble. They're going to cause
us nothing but difficulty. And was I right or was
I right? So apparently I only found out about this
through because I don't listen to them. Obviously you found
(13:39):
out about this through the grape vine.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Someone spilled their coffee every I'm not sure who it was,
we'll look.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
At the tapes.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
It was either me or Tightler.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
The evidence is there, man, I'm looking forward to seeing
that video.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
So we had to move to another studio and try
and piece together a show over there with very little tech.
But we're now back and no one tell Hosking about
this again. Kay, Please don't don't tell Hosking if you
see him out shopping as mention it. Because the coffee
has all been in a special stuff that's down and
there these.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Draws here, he'll never know.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
I tried to clean off for special pens and everything,
but it was a coffee of getting in here.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
It's been given a deep clean. It smells like lemon water,
which he's used to nobody.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
So cone of silence everyone. Here's the thing. I knew
about it this morning because I emptied the rubbishman because
those pigs don't do it, and so I empty the
rubbishman every morning. And in the bottom of the rubbish
bin are eight hundred and fifty seven thousand wet towels
that they've been It's sanitizing. The scene of the crime
went over exactly. Do the clean up the evidence, idiots,
(14:40):
And how many memos have been written over the years
about not spilling stuff in the studio. How many memos
I think this officially is a last i'd like to personally,
I'd like to make it don't come Monday, but let's
call this the last warning shell.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
We also, who just whips off their shirt to mop
up a spill like that and then go shirtless. You've
got to be pretty secure in your body image to
do that, so, you know, hats off to him. I said,
hats off, not jet off to him for that. But
weird choice. The memos we've been sent about this, and
(15:16):
mostly to do with reporting the spills, because sometimes people
do that and then obviously they've whipped off their shirt
and think that they've mopped it all up, but because
by that stage it's seeped into the inner workings of
a radio studio desk, and you can imagine the chaos
that coffee will then cause at that point if left unattended.
(15:37):
So of course, now the finger of suspicion points squarely
at him even more because that has happened in the past,
and maybe it's gone unreported and he's just wanted around
shirtless and nobody's understood why. So anyway, we'll see what
happens there. I am Glen Has I've got two shirts
(15:58):
on it the moment, surely, just to be safe, and
I'll see you back here again, fully closed tomorrow.
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