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July 17, 2024 12 mins

THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Thursday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) Are They, Adrian?/That About Wraps it Up for the Greens/The President Show Gets Good/JD Upstages Himself/EV Update

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
Okay there and welcome to the Rewrap for Thursday. All
the best buts from the mic asking breakfast on news
Talks it'd beat and a sillier package.

Speaker 3 (00:33):
I'm Glen Hand today. I think it just arreched out
to the Green Patty.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
We're gonna have another look at what's happening with the
next exciting episode of the presidential campaign. Speaking of which
JD Varn's upstages as himself and we've got evs. They're
not really EV myths busted this morning. It's more of
an EV update before any of that. As far as
your inflation update goes, Oh, everything's fine, let's get moving, Adrian,

(01:00):
Let's keep moving.

Speaker 4 (01:02):
Adrian should give you the read after the announcement yesterday
on inflationist what the banks think the Reserve will do
and it's all been shifted. Of course, Q Bank, AESB
are the most bullish. I think I'm right and saying
A and Z are the only ones who've actually moved
on their interest rates because they've got the lowest number
in the among the majors in the one year eighty
month to year three year and floating at the moment.

(01:24):
But I don't think the others have moved since yesterday anyway, kiwibank,
I think the cuts are coming by Christmas or earlier.
If data continue to show calling A and Z, they're
going to pull for their expectation. They think now November.
It was February. Westpac are sticking to November asb the
most bullish or aggressive if you like. They think twenty
five points November would be the quote unquote bare minimum.

(01:49):
All the remaining ocr decisions of the twenty four period
are effectively live, so they're talking August and cuts could
come as soon as next month. I don't think that
will happen, but that's what they're saying, so we watch them.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
Wait yea, But Mike also thought that we were going
to be in the dog insievera and it was going
to be the end of the world and we were
never going to see good times if again.

Speaker 3 (02:09):
So you know, cheer up, mate.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
It's got rewrap nothing for the Green Party to cheer
up about it. At the moment, they seem to have
dug themselves A darling in Tanna sized hole that they
can't get out of.

Speaker 4 (02:18):
Executive summary. Ah, the executive summary changes little of anything. Firstly,
it is not the full report. We paid for the
full report. The full report is about being transparent. The
Greens can't claim transparency and honesty when they played dumb
games like the ones they are at the moment. Secondly,
it sort of doesn't matter. It says what it is
claimed it says, and so in that sense, it's not
really the story anymore. The original story was whether Darline

(02:41):
Tana was not what she claimed to be. The report
answered that seeing the written evidence, as we can now
apparently doesn't change the crime, does it, even though Tanna
disputes bits of it. Sadly, her foray into the public
are light. This week on the Telly has not served
her remotely well. She, as far as I could hear,
basically babbled and blustered and made literally no sense whatsoever,

(03:01):
leaving me with the impression she must be a nightmare
to deal with at the best of times, and God
knows what it's like to buy a bike from her. Anyway,
This isn't the point either. The point is she's an
interloper who may well have the brass neck to try
it on and turn up at Parliament next week and
tough it out. Which is the real story. What did
the Greens do? And given the answer to this point
is nothing, they are the real criminals. Are pleading and

(03:23):
asking her to quit hasn't worked, isn't working, probably won't work.
But think about this. Is it a tactic? Is it
a tactic that gets them out of actually doing anything?
Is this for both parties a cake and eat it scenario?
Tanna hangs in there until we all get bored, so
she's on the pigs back for the rest of the term,
accountable to no one. The Greens huff and puff do nothing,

(03:44):
hoping we also forget. But if and when we don't,
they can huff and puff some more, saying exasperatedly, and
we asked her to resign, but she wouldn't. The Walker laws,
of course, solve all of this, but they're so hoisted
by their myopic thinking on it they don't want to
embarrass themselves any further, even though it is the right
thing to do. They're also not off the hook on
the candidate selection. Having a one stop are you a nutter?

(04:07):
Will you embarrass? Clause is not enough to safeguard yourself.
As we've seen time and time again with this lot,
they actually have to, oh, I don't know, dig ask
a few questions. So if Tana's skin is thick enough,
she collects the money, passes go and laughs at us
and the Greens, well, surely if this is them at
their most decisive, Chloe's dream of overtaking labor is about

(04:30):
as well thought through as their candidate selection process.

Speaker 3 (04:33):
Mind you, I mean it could be worse.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
Compared to some other places of the world, our political
situation here seems pretty damn.

Speaker 3 (04:43):
Stable right now, Rewrap.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
I mean, take this exciting procedural drama that I've been
watching lately, the presidential campaign.

Speaker 3 (04:53):
Man, you just never know what's going to happen next.

Speaker 5 (04:55):
Do you.

Speaker 6 (04:55):
Now?

Speaker 4 (04:55):
In a world where many are wondering what has changed?
I can tell you something for nothing this morning what
hasn't changed? Night follows day, the US President and a
move I assumed design to take the temperature down as
he requested from the Oval Office. On my they said
that his term putting a bullseye. Putting a bullseye on
Trump was a mistake. I didn't see it as a mistake,
of course, what it was was at worst a clumsy

(05:17):
use of words before all the words got microscopic revision
post the assassination attempt on Saturday. Of course, no one
in their right mind surely would have thought Biden was
meaning bullseye as in shoot him, as opposed to bullseye
as in focus or hone in on him. Mind you,
a lot of people aren't in their right minds these days,
whether they're the ones on the roofs with guns or
on social media drumming up as much conspiracy as they

(05:38):
possibly can. I honestly believe my decision many years ago
to not be on social media served me very very well.
It's a cesspit of misery and madness. But back to reality.
The speech Trump will give tomorrow night at that convention
is apparently different to the one he thought he was
going to give. It will allegedly unite America, if not
the world. The bullets certainly didn't pierus his ego. The

(05:59):
tone from the White House and the Democrats generally has
been toned down as per request, but given night follows day,
it won't last. None of this will last. A president
from the Oval Office that's not you, nor is a
vague explanation come plea from higher ups who try to
say something useful when something like Butler happens. America is
besotted with guns, and they shoot each other a lot,

(06:21):
and there is no talking them down or changing their
minds or justifying their actions. So all a president can
do is say what Biden and all the others before
them said, which isn't a lot, which means in time
the language will revert, the mood will revert, and night
will follow day. This, as they say, is a false storm.

Speaker 2 (06:39):
Yeah, I mean, as I said yesterday when we heard
that conversation between Trump and RFK Jr.

Speaker 3 (06:45):
While it was mostly Trump.

Speaker 2 (06:46):
I think that's how most of the conversations with Trump
go to be honest, they're not really conversations.

Speaker 3 (06:51):
It's just Trump shouting at you.

Speaker 2 (06:53):
But yeah, yesterday, you know, and he seemed to not
know that, having never heard the name of the of
the gun, the AR fifteen, he seemed to be unfamiliar
with that terminology. When you've got somebody who's just been
shot with one being able to say that they know
what it is. I don't know how much it's going

(07:13):
to change here the rewrap.

Speaker 3 (07:15):
Back to the campaign. So Yeah.

Speaker 2 (07:18):
JD's Trump's right hand man now, and you know we
wait with bait of breath for him to speak at
the convention tonight, except he turned up in front of
a microphone this morning.

Speaker 4 (07:28):
Point at the national Convention, both parties are the one
for the Republicans at the moment of Milwaukee is that
it culminates in our time. It will be tomorrow afternoon
Thursday night in Milwaukee where the president will accept the
nomination or the president candidate or the presidential candidate will
accept the nomination and they will speak for the first
time and everyone will go nuts and have a great
party over the weekend. So JD vance is the lead

(07:51):
up to that. So this afternoon, our time, he's supposed
to be speaking for the first time, except he's speaking now,
So why on earth would you look to upstage yourself first?

Speaker 6 (08:00):
What I'll do after my remarks actually is trying to
take some photos and hang out. If you've got anything,
I'll mis sign you guys are going to hear me
speak tonight for a much longer time the you're going
to hear me speak today, And I'd like to get
and actually visit with you a little bit, So hopefully
you're ready, because I'd love to just talk with people
and answer some questions and take some photos.

Speaker 4 (08:19):
So he wants to take some photos and a selfie
selfie time preview himself for to Night's speech. Go figure.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
Was there something a bit sort of Sarah paliny about
that moment just where suddenly you felt like, oh JD
was feeling a bit more important than he actually is.
It's not the vice president just yet anyway, Hopefully he
won't try and persuade people that he can see Russia

(08:46):
from his house.

Speaker 3 (08:50):
Some of other Sarah Palin's greatest hits. Remember her, Oh
you don't. Oh that's right.

Speaker 2 (08:54):
We're living in a twenty four hour news cycle, of course,
so rerap. But do you remember when EV's with a
thing and that they were the way of the future
and everybody should have one.

Speaker 3 (09:04):
Now you don't remember that either, No, nobody does.

Speaker 4 (09:06):
A little bit of Evan used. There's a couple of
the interesting things happening at the moment. The EU had
a vote. It doesn't count, and I won't go into
the boring detail as to why it doesn't count, but
they will eventually get to a vote that does count.
The interesting thing about the vote that doesn't count is
there's a dozen countries and this is to do with
tariffs on Chinese cars. So what they're all Chinese evs

(09:29):
and there's a big scrap between China and the EU,
China and the US at the moment over whether too
much government money from China is going into these car companies,
thus making the price artificial. So when they go into
the marketplace, suddenly you're undercutting everybody else. No one else
can compete. That's the suspicion. So they had a vote.
But the problem, the counter problem for especially the Europeans,
is a lot of the countries who were voting have

(09:50):
car companies who are deeply embedded in China, your BMW's ralities, etc.
And so in the vote that doesn't count as a
whole bunch of countries who said, actually, no, we don't
like these tariffs on China and will pass thank you
very much, to which everyone went, what what are we
going to do now? Also yesterday GM announced to the
world that their plan to build a million evs in
America this year isn't going to happen because no one

(10:12):
wants to buy an EV. What they also announced the
end this morning was their upping production of a thing
called a Cadillac Escalate, which has a V eight and
is very expensive. It's about three hundred thousand plus New
Zealand dollars. It's it's topping that the market. People want engines,
they don't like evs. Then you come to a story
I stuggled upon yesterday in this very country, Kia have

(10:32):
taken thirty five thousand dollars off their EV nine, Their
top of the line EV nine is now thirty five
thousand dollars cheaper than it was the day before. So
once again I remind you if you'd wandered in, and
this is not to bag one Kia or anybody else.
I'm just just giving you the market. If you'd gone
into Kia a week ago and gone and tell you what,
I have one of those EV nines, thanks very much,

(10:53):
And they charged you one hundred and whatever, one hundred
and thirty six thirty seven thousand dollars, And you're waking
up this morning and suddenly it's thirty five thousand dollars less.
What do you think has happened to the value of
your car? Then, purely by accident, I'm looking through cars
yesterday I see advertised at the moment. And this is
just an example, the one I stumbled across a twenty

(11:15):
twenty four, in other words, a brand new our die
Tron GT. Now, as far as EB goes, they're okay.
They're a sportyish looking car. They're a fine car, very
expensive car. Normally they are three hundred and four thousand,
two hundred ninety dollars.

Speaker 3 (11:30):
Three of the money you save on petrol.

Speaker 4 (11:32):
Three, you've got to save all on money on petrol
to pay for that three hundred, four hundred and ninety
dollars brand new car readily available to be picked up. Now,
what do you reckon? They've knocked off the price just
to tempt you into an EV. They have taken off
eighty nine thousand dollars. Let's call it ninety. Shall we
see me dealing with the currency, Sam, Let's call it ninety.

(11:53):
They've taken off ninety thousand dollars off a new car
to convince you to buy an EV.

Speaker 2 (12:00):
Do you know how many of my car precisely that
I drive right now, I could buy just for the
ninety thousand dollars Sam, that they could they've taken off.

Speaker 4 (12:08):
It's quite fun.

Speaker 3 (12:09):
And then it's quite fun. The whole bullying, same thing.

Speaker 4 (12:12):
It's become a thing. It's very very popular.

Speaker 3 (12:15):
Yeah, I think Sam finds it fun.

Speaker 4 (12:16):
Have we made it into a podcast yet?

Speaker 3 (12:18):
Oh we haven't.

Speaker 4 (12:19):
Let's make it into a podcast.

Speaker 2 (12:21):
So if you're late to the party. Sam was rounding
numbers up or down or something the other day. Mike
had them a hard time about that, and so that's
what we were jumping on there. Too much of an
in joke probably. I always find that jokes are so
much funnier when you have to explain them, and they
have said that before. I am Blen Hart. I'll be
bet here to explain some more of our jokes tomorrow.

Speaker 5 (12:43):
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Speaker 1 (12:53):
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