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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
The Rewrap there and welcome to the Rerap for Friday.
All the best buts from the mic asking breakfast on
news Talks d be in a silly a packagiant Glen Hart.
Today we've actually got counsel making some good decisions evening.
Our head injury is the reason why nobody wants to
play rugby anymore. Just the theory will mark the week
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because it's Friday and that's what we do and things
that are powered. How many of those things do we
own and what sort of things? But first up, yes,
the rugby, forget about the head injuries for now. We'll
come back to that. What about all the money? Where's
that gone?
Speaker 3 (01:02):
I guess that is what press releases are for. And
then the Rugby Union press release yesterday, Chairman David Kirk,
the CEO Mark Robinson did their best to infer that
life financially for the sport is sensational despite the fact
it isn't. They lost money almost twenty million dollars, and
they lost money the year before that and the year
before that as well. Kirk ran the line that it
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was not a cash loss and they had one hundred
and seventy million ish in reserves. They also spooked the
fact that they were pulling in record revenue. Now I'm
a conservative when it comes to money. The fact they
pulled in record revenue and still lost money is your
real news. Because if you can't make dough when you're
raking it in, your model's broken. Mark Robinson admitted as
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much by saying, quote, there was further work needed to
achieve a sustainable financial model. This is no different to
your household budget. You get a pay rise, brought some
good coin into the house, but you're still not getting ahead.
And then you reassure yourself that although you did get
a pay rise, but spend it all and then some
don't worry, We've still got the savings account. Now, the
trouble for people like Kirk and Robinson is everyone's an expert.
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We all want to run rugby, and in a way
that's a good thing. I suppose we're not sure of
interested parties. But what you can't argue with is the
market rugby plays in the global sports market is booming.
The money out there for elite sport is eye watering.
Their revenue uptick indicates they might be seeing a little
bit of that. But the simple truth is you can't
bank the buck in the golden days. If you can't
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do that, you're going to get killed in the lean ones.
The experts who text me will tell you Robinson's a fall,
women's rugby is a drain. The provincial unions are run
by a people called Bruce who still drink handles a
beer every Friday night with the shirtfront's hanging out. But
what all of that florid verbiage from the well intentioned
doesn't address is the really big important question. If you
can't make money from your national game, either no sport
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can make money, which we know not to be true,
or something is wrong with the way the national game
is run. If you're still in the red when it's
raining money and your press releases have a desperation about them,
someone needs to be held to account.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Yeah, it's hard to sort something that's systemically flawed with
a press or release or two, isn't it. You can
only paper over so much the rewrap. Okay, so yeah,
and then we got this feedback.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Like, HII kids are smarter, do you know what, Grant,
I'm not sure that it'll partially be the story, but
I refer you once again to the bit of work
I saw from Carlos Signs, the IF one driver and
Tom Brady, the former NFL player, and he strolled into
what in many respects could be seen as a fairly
controversial area. He talked about the they've got a massive
HIA issue in American football and there's tremendous number of
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lawyers and billions of dollars being written out. His argument
was and why he stayed so long, and because Carlos
asked him about this way he stayed so long. He
stayed so long because he enjoyed it. And he believes
that the way you treat yourself, your body, your mind,
how you perform present yourself to the world, has got
a lot to do with longevity. And he strolled into
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this area saying that there's a lot of talk about
these hias and head injuries and contact sports. He believes,
and I think this is where he might have wanted
into verbally a little bit of trouble that if if
you maintain yourself in a certain way, you can avoid that,
Because he argues, I was there for eighteen seasons. I
never got any problems. I got hit all the time.
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To be fair, a quarterback doesn't get hit as much
as a front line or a defensive guy. But nevertheless,
I got hit lots of times and nothing happened to me.
And I know thousands of bon, thousands of bon thousands
of players who never got a scratch at all. And
therefore there are some people who are going through dreadful trouble.
But that tape is well worth having a look at to,
you know, see at least what you think about a
couple of high performing individuals. And I'm always into high
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performing individuals and how they conduct themselves and run their line.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Yeah, I mean, Tom Brady's perfectly normal, just like everybody else's,
despite of all those hard hits that he's had when
his team has let him down, as other teammates have
litten down and people have actually got through it. How
often has that happened from the teams that Tom Brady
used to play for anyway? But yeah, I mean perfectly normal.
I mean, just like all of us. We all get
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under Ama to design us specially made pajamas to keep
in our bioceramic particles. So we can sleep at night,
just like Tom Brady does. We all have a golf
tea at the end of the dock at our house
so we can drive golf balls out into the ocean.
It's just a normal guy with normal behaviors.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
It's a rewrap.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Now it's time to talk councils and instead of absolutely
slating them for weird decisions, this time we've got at
least three that are doing the right thing.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Can I congratulate a couple of councils here? First of all,
Palmerston North, well done on the fizzy drink vote this week,
get out of people's lives. I'm not a fan of
fizzy drink. I don't like fizzy drink. We shouldn't drink
fizzy drink, but we do. But that's up to us,
it's not up to council. So they were having a
vote on whether or not at local council facilities they
should be selling fizzy drinks. They decided we're not in
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this business, so they did good. Well done. Congratulations gismon council,
Well done. Congratulations. District Council voted to scrap restrictive alcohol
rules within the town center. I'm not a booze heead.
I'm not a booze hag. I don't like to go
to a pub on a Friday night.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
You're just a haggard guy.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Just a haggard guy. So but each to their own
and if that's what they think will fizz up the
downtown area of Gisbon, go for gold and all the
wowser's two thirds of submissions and this is the problem
with submissions. Submissions just because people submit as often as
not indicates their level of boredom in life or a
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professional bent that somebody is paying them to submit. Alah
Health New Zealand on McDonald's in Wanaka. So just because
two thirds of submissions are pose anything, you'll always find
people are posting. So Gisbone, congratulations, well done, one more,
three councils in a week. I'm exhausted by it. Katani District.
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We are not an airline. And this goes back to
Greg four and yesterday and as much heat does you
want to put on Greek four in an air in
New Zealand, for the regions, and what it costs in
the regions, et cetera. When they pulled out of Katani
and he Chatham said, we'll give it a crack. Air
Chathams can't make it work. So if er chathams can't
make it work, who can make it work. No one
can make it work. We're just too small. There aren't
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enough people. So air chathams go to the council and
they go, can we please have some money, to which
the mayor goes we are not an airline. Congratulations to
the council because you are not. You have agreed to
weigh the airport fees for the next six months. I
have no idea whether that's a lot of money or
whether it's going to save anything, but there will be
no other forms of financial support. The airline has requested
sad for Fakatani, sad for air Chathams. But the council
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is not in the business of writing checks with money.
They don't have to solve people's problems, the same way
that Gismond Council isn't in the business of telling you
whether you want to go downtown for a drink on
a Friday night, the same way the Palmestan Council isn't
in the business of you buying a can of Coca
Cola or not. Three councils, three quality decisions. It's been
a good week.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Ah yeah. I mean I've been working on this show
for a long time, very long time, and I don't
think I've ever heard those words on it before. Three councils,
three good decisions. It's been a very good week. I've
never heard any anything like that. This is this is
an historic day for Rerap. It is still just a Friday, though,
so you know what that means. We'll mark the.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Week time to mark the week. The little piece of
news and current events. It's as insightful as Warren Buffett
in a contemplative mood over an icy cold Coca Cola elbow.
Eight better than anyone, and I suspect even he expected
Nigel Farag eight. Dude, better than anyone, and I suspect
even he expected Trump six. You see the new and
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improved Oval office, between the redecorating tips, the movie move,
the GDP game backwards, Carne, the error announcement, whatever that is.
Are the deals he wants to do, the deals he
doesn't want to do. His withdrawal of another nomination defunding
of the Public Broadcaster is outrage over the Emmy nod
for the interview. He's suing over planeloads of illegals to Syria.
Lord knows how many court case and that's just this week.
Have you ever seen a more omnipresent international player? Harry too,
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I want reconciliation, but I might write another book. Is
he the thickest royal you've ever seen? Parmeerston North sixth
The Phizzy vote that went nowhere? Good on you get
out of people's lives. The egg forecast eight, Everything by
logs looks to be going up. The dairy auction nine,
it's almost ridiculously good. The job less rate six. The
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good news is it might well have peaked. Let's hope
so pay Equity six because it at least in part,
tries to make sense of a muddle made up by
do gooders who got hijacked and forgot the common sense
along the way. Oh and by the way, they used
our money to do it. Erica's email too, That was
the biggest waste of time. Pile of nonsense of the week,
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New Choppers seven. Like Judith so eloquently said, we are
going to turn up like a real country. Adrian Or's
farewell for Yeah, that's a statement. The saddest thing you
have ever heard six thousand bucks for water, juice and biscuits.
Sketches eight at nine billion dollars proves rudeness as no
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burri to riches. Now that is the week copies on
the website. And it is not true that small pieces
of old marking the weeks were found in some school
lunches this week.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Could you tell that I added and the first two
sound effects that the didiidoo and the Boris Johnson and
yelling at dude. I added the those in as a
last minute decision, with about thirty seconds before we were
back on air. Could you tell? And now I've ruined
it by telling you the rewrap. Mike became obsessed with
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our list he's got today. It's a list of things
that are powered I think, either by electricity or by
petrol or gas. And he was going through the list
and he had this done game, and he made Caden
tim guest certain numbers of things, and then he made
me do it.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Really interesting thing about the numbers is there are when
you talk about leaf blowers, only thirty thousand leaf blowers.
How come there were so many lines from three hundred
and sixty two thousand, three hundred and sixty two thousand
line troms versus seventy leaf blows. Don't you want to
tidy up what you've just done?
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Yeah? Well, they have these things called brooms.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
What doesn't say brooms that they don't run on petrol
greer dealing with pictures? Right, there's a lot of brooms.
Do you think i'd find a tremendous number of brooms?
Is what you're saying?
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Before I had my own leaf blower?
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Right, you had a broom.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
I had a broom.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Okay, that's a good sounding life. That sounds fun. Your
house sounds a lot of fun. Guess how many welders
there are?
Speaker 4 (11:34):
Though?
Speaker 3 (11:35):
This is the most interesting thing. So only thirty thousand
leaf blowers? There are seventy nine thousand welders. I haven't
got one, and I thought I had everything.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Is this residential or commercial?
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Is everything everywhere? The number of welders in the country.
There's not seventy nine thousand people in the business of welding,
So therefore there's a lot of domestic welders going on.
And how many righte on mohers twenty grand right now, Goglin,
how many right on mars.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Go twelve thousand?
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Not a bad guess eight thousand. How many gyroplanes.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Six hundred and thirteen.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Eighty The gyro's got.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
A you see a few about it. Yeah, maybe it's
just the same one coming back that.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Do you think I can remember the names of the
different kinds of Wilders? Why why didn't I say midwelder,
tig welder, stickwelder, flux called ac welder, plasma world. There's
so many different kinds, and they were all right on
the tipp and.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
My tongue, and I couldn't get it out. Well, only
there was some way I could make up for that
and record it and you know, re edit history. There was,
and so people could hear that I did actually know
what I was talking about. I mean, there was a
way to do that. I'll be back on Monday doing that.
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