August 1, 2024 • 10 mins
THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Friday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) It's a Big Problem to Solve/Mark the Week/Doesn't Matter if it's Not More Expensive if People Think it Is/Whittling Your Stick
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
You're listening to a podcast from newstalk EDB Follow this
and our wide range of podcasts now on iHeartRadio Rerap.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Okay there and welcome to the Rewrap for Friday, all
the best bits from the mic, asking breakfast on Newstalks,
'd beat and a sillier package. I am Glenn Hart
and today we will mark the week, because well that's
what we do on Fridays. Mike's got some interesting theories
on why tourists aren't coming here quite as much as
(00:47):
they should be. And we're going to finish up by
begging the grocery coommission out. But before any of that,
let's bag the health system and well celebrate the fact
that it seems they've got the sort of race based
policy out the window.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
So we in the week with a bit of good
health news. We've been way down this week, haven't we,
with the scrap over the four teen ish layers of management,
no doctors and argable at certain times of the day
for new CEOs and four regional operations that allegedly will
sort the mess out. Former board members snapping back at
criticism from the Prime Minister of myopic media, trying their
best to Outshane Retty in what may or may not.
(01:24):
Most likely the latter would be some sort of semi
scandal around his interpretation of the need to sack boards.
But but the good news the removal the cancelation of
the ethnic diversity equity adjuster. You remember that it was
a massive scrap under the last government who tried desperately
to explain that using race was a good way to
work out who to put at the front of the
(01:45):
non urgent surgery line five indicators. We use things like
age and location, but race was the one that got
most of us upset, given we thought we lived in
a fair and open country where race was not an
issue when it comes to publicly funded services like health.
It was predicated on the idea that mari are not
well served by health, and in some respects that's true.
But poor old Chris Hipkins, you might remember, God himself
(02:05):
woefully tied up and knots over an example of a
person who of rurally many of them maray and how
because you were rural you didn't have the same access
to doctors as you would in the city. Which is true,
But then neither do you if you live rurally but
aren't Maray that particular piece of logic seemed to elude them.
And when faced with the example of two people with
the same conditions and the same need fronting except one
(02:27):
was marrying one wasn't. Why was it fair that race
then made the difference? They couldn't quite offer an explanation
to balance that one out. Ironically, some of the health
service who reviewed it defended it, But people also seem
to be able to defend Mary Seats maray Wards Murray
funding services and entitlements that are purely race based. I
wondered they're so angsty about David Seymour's Treaty Bill. When
(02:47):
the scales are tipped that far in your favor, an
injection of balance and fairness and open democracy must be
a bit worrying. So in health the race equity adjuster
is going a reason, if not to celebrate, at least
to be relieved about.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Okay, Well, hopefully, little by little, one step at a time,
we can actually sought health. I hold your bread the rewrap.
Let's mark the week now instead, because it's Friday and
that is what we do.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
I'm now to mark the week, little piece of using
current of interdts as clear and refreshing as a glass
of sin water. Are the Olympics five child for New Zealand?
I mean, is it just me? I'm yet to really
feel it. I mean the rowing helped overnight could be
the time zone I guess, could be the middle count.
I'm hoping Week two provides a little bit more success,
a little bit more drama. Are the Greens two months
(03:36):
of procrastination culminated more procrastination with yet another letter. Imagine
if they had to actually make a decision. Are the
Worries eight cut the wire? They won? They're still in
the hunt, but selling out this week as we found
out your entire season and being the first and only
NROL club ever to do so tells you about support,
fandom and law. Yes, yes, yes, we've got the use
tonight Andrew cast of five yep, read the room, got
(03:59):
the memo tax cut seven because it's important to remember.
We are not a bank. We are not to be bled.
We are not a fiscal tap for incompetent politicians to
hose away hard earned coin In New Zealand six for
being at least honest about climate targets. Pumpkins seven now
the player in the summer of growth, prices have tanked
(04:20):
on the pumpkins. Good for the punter, of course, not
for the gra but good for the punter. And who
doesn't love rose pumpkin? Marii Wardlaws eight. Siman Brown, the
minister who drove that through inter law this week got
it and won A good day for democracy speaking, which
are the abolition of the health system's ethnic equity adjuster seven.
Health is about health, not race. Toy World seven Yeah,
(04:43):
back and rode a part of the Redeve love it
Bremworth seven two million to spr wooll is a wonderful
story not told widely and passionately enough. And we'll have
more on that in the next half hour. Joe Biden's three.
This is a very good afternoon writing op. It's about
Supreme Court reform, knowing nothing will come of it. It's
a bit of a sad Karmala Harris seven. I didn't
know she was black, since you see, doesn't seem to
(05:05):
have done a thing wrong. Really, if you think about it.
Money's flying in the polls. August six, I mean August. Yes,
it's the second of August. Explain to me where the
year's gone. That's the week copies on the website and
not one jot of this has any amount of AI
anywhere near at hashtag home of the good old did
it my self opinion piece. Apparently it's not as common
as it once was.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Yeah, you'll know when this podcast is being created by AI,
because you know it'll sound good, there'll be no mistakes,
it'll be nicely edited, and you know, exactly right for
time re wrap right now. Mike's been concerned for a
little while now that the tourism bounced back isn't bouncing
back quite as bouncy as he'd like it to bounce.
(05:45):
And people who've got some theories, but he doesn't agree
with some of them.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
There's a lot of text like this this morning, and
I don't accept it. Every time we talk about the tourism,
the same arguments put forward. Traveled to Southeast Asia recently
met many tourists from the UK, US and Canada. Many
commented that they'd love to visit New Zealand butt local
costs are too expensive. I reject that, Yes, we're expensive,
but not when you're coming from international places. You take
forty eight it was about forty five at the moment,
(06:11):
forty five pence you get a new Zealand dollar. You
take fifty something US since you get a New Zealand dollar,
traveling from there to here is dirt cheap. And that
doesn't explain why Europe is overloaded at the moment with
tourists because Europe is hideously expensive. Go look at a hotel,
(06:31):
go look at a meal, go look at an airfare,
and it is not stopping them. So this idea that
we're too expensive, there's something more to it than that,
because the facts just don't back it up.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
He can reject it as much as he likes, but
it's definitely cheaper to go to Bali than it is
to go in New Zealand, that's for sure. And the
other thing that I've noticed is that when I publish
my tech reviews on the News dogs'b website and the
technology page, often I'll get comments back because I'll publish
(07:05):
the price usually of the thing that I'm reviewing, and
people from over can't believe how much these things are,
even though more often than not that more or less
the same price as what they're paying for them. It's
just that they seem like they're more because of the
exchange rate. And it's amazing how people just can't get
their mind around.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
That's a rerap.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Anyway, Mike wasn't done there.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Mike, Iceland, twelve beers, two plates of chips, three hundred
and seventy dollars. You don't talk to me about Iceland.
How some was in Iceland last year and we broken
about a day and a half. And this is what
I'm trying to say. There's a couple of urban myths
floating around about New Zealand. One is we're expensive. We're not,
especially given the value of our dollar which is tanked.
And to the other one, tourists are not coming, Mike
to New Zealand because of gangs and all the crime.
That's another urban myth as well. The fact that we've
(07:45):
got trouble downtown Auckland, for example, is not preventing tourists
coming to New Zealand. It's like saying, well, I'm not
going to Italy because of all the beggars and the pickpockets.
It's like saying I'm not going to Britain at the
moment because all the knife attacks and the riots on
Leeds or Southport or London. So I'm saying I'm not dear,
wouldn't dere go to Texas, might get shot. I mean,
that's all theory. It's simply not. You'd never go to
New York if you're worried about crime. You'd never go
(08:07):
to New York and get the world flooded with tourists.
So it's something more than that.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
See once again's turning again. That's literally why I don't
want to go to any of those places, especially Texas.
I don't ever want to go to Texas, primarily because
of the idiots with guns. Planet he's living on, posting
world the rewrap. Okay, let's finish up by trying to
figure out what planet the grocery commissioner is living on
(08:31):
if he thinks he's ever going to be able to
bring the supermarkets to heal.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Tell you who wouldn't be on my top ten list,
this grocery commissioner. That was another labor brain fart. So
they invented a grocery commissioner. I think thinking a grocery
commissioner would do something about the supermarkets and tell me,
just tell me now, I've got a ten thousand dollars
prize right here, right now, first caller through, tell me
what he's done. Nothing, nothing, don't even bother picking up
the phone because he's done nothing. Yesterday he said, key
(08:58):
measures to improve competition isn't working, no couding. He started
a review of the grocery supply code that came forth
last September, and there are reports that supplies are concerned
about how they're being treated. So that was never going
to change. The grocery agreements that were sent out to
them in September. More than fifty percent of them are unsigned.
(09:19):
Could be, of course, because they've got better things to
do with their life than, you know, sign a bit
of paper from the grocery commissioner. But be that as
it may, there's a long standing and balance and power,
or so he continues to argue. He said he was
ready to and this is what you've always got to
be weary of. And he said, look, he seems he's
a coster. He's a he's an Andrew costa likable enough guy,
nothing wrong with him. Came from sanitary and pleasant sort
(09:41):
of bloke. But when you look and talk to him,
you think, are you the bloke to change things? No
you're not. I mean, for all I know, if you'd
give him a water blaster, he might have undone some bolts.
You know what I mean. You just don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
So anyway, what you're saying, you prefer somebody like with
a taser exactly God taser the super Man.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
When when somebody when somebody says something, and this is
what he says. He said, quote he was ready to
wave a big stick. So when somebody says that, you
will go, Actually, I better get my act together because
that big stick might be big and it might hurt.
I don't believe a word he says. So I just
don't know what he does for a living every day,
given literally nothing has changed in the supermarket sector. Since
(10:19):
he's right, he's whittling his stick, He's probably probably looking
for a stick. He's probably whittling a stick. He probably goes,
I haven't got a stick. A whittle one up for me, And.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
That's my new favorite. You've familion. If only have to
pronounce the word euphemism. Ah yeah, we'll manage to change
this to double entendre Friday sitting around whittling a stick.
I am a very immature Aglian heart. That was the
rebrap and we'll come back and do it all again
on Monday.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
See for more from News Talk, said b listen live
on air or online, and keep our shows with you
wherever you go with our podcasts on iHeartRadio
You're listening to a podcast from newstalk EDB Follow this
and our wide range of podcasts now on iHeartRadio Rerap.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Okay there and welcome to the Rewrap for Friday, all
the best bits from the mic, asking breakfast on Newstalks,
'd beat and a sillier package. I am Glenn Hart
and today we will mark the week, because well that's
what we do on Fridays. Mike's got some interesting theories
on why tourists aren't coming here quite as much as
(00:47):
they should be. And we're going to finish up by
begging the grocery coommission out. But before any of that,
let's bag the health system and well celebrate the fact
that it seems they've got the sort of race based
policy out the window.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
So we in the week with a bit of good
health news. We've been way down this week, haven't we,
with the scrap over the four teen ish layers of management,
no doctors and argable at certain times of the day
for new CEOs and four regional operations that allegedly will
sort the mess out. Former board members snapping back at
criticism from the Prime Minister of myopic media, trying their
best to Outshane Retty in what may or may not.
(01:24):
Most likely the latter would be some sort of semi
scandal around his interpretation of the need to sack boards.
But but the good news the removal the cancelation of
the ethnic diversity equity adjuster. You remember that it was
a massive scrap under the last government who tried desperately
to explain that using race was a good way to
work out who to put at the front of the
(01:45):
non urgent surgery line five indicators. We use things like
age and location, but race was the one that got
most of us upset, given we thought we lived in
a fair and open country where race was not an
issue when it comes to publicly funded services like health.
It was predicated on the idea that mari are not
well served by health, and in some respects that's true.
But poor old Chris Hipkins, you might remember, God himself
(02:05):
woefully tied up and knots over an example of a
person who of rurally many of them maray and how
because you were rural you didn't have the same access
to doctors as you would in the city. Which is true,
But then neither do you if you live rurally but
aren't Maray that particular piece of logic seemed to elude them.
And when faced with the example of two people with
the same conditions and the same need fronting except one
(02:27):
was marrying one wasn't. Why was it fair that race
then made the difference? They couldn't quite offer an explanation
to balance that one out. Ironically, some of the health
service who reviewed it defended it, But people also seem
to be able to defend Mary Seats maray Wards Murray
funding services and entitlements that are purely race based. I
wondered they're so angsty about David Seymour's Treaty Bill. When
(02:47):
the scales are tipped that far in your favor, an
injection of balance and fairness and open democracy must be
a bit worrying. So in health the race equity adjuster
is going a reason, if not to celebrate, at least
to be relieved about.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Okay, Well, hopefully, little by little, one step at a time,
we can actually sought health. I hold your bread the rewrap.
Let's mark the week now instead, because it's Friday and
that is what we do.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
I'm now to mark the week, little piece of using
current of interdts as clear and refreshing as a glass
of sin water. Are the Olympics five child for New Zealand?
I mean, is it just me? I'm yet to really
feel it. I mean the rowing helped overnight could be
the time zone I guess, could be the middle count.
I'm hoping Week two provides a little bit more success,
a little bit more drama. Are the Greens two months
(03:36):
of procrastination culminated more procrastination with yet another letter. Imagine
if they had to actually make a decision. Are the
Worries eight cut the wire? They won? They're still in
the hunt, but selling out this week as we found
out your entire season and being the first and only
NROL club ever to do so tells you about support,
fandom and law. Yes, yes, yes, we've got the use
tonight Andrew cast of five yep, read the room, got
(03:59):
the memo tax cut seven because it's important to remember.
We are not a bank. We are not to be bled.
We are not a fiscal tap for incompetent politicians to
hose away hard earned coin In New Zealand six for
being at least honest about climate targets. Pumpkins seven now
the player in the summer of growth, prices have tanked
(04:20):
on the pumpkins. Good for the punter, of course, not
for the gra but good for the punter. And who
doesn't love rose pumpkin? Marii Wardlaws eight. Siman Brown, the
minister who drove that through inter law this week got
it and won A good day for democracy speaking, which
are the abolition of the health system's ethnic equity adjuster seven.
Health is about health, not race. Toy World seven Yeah,
(04:43):
back and rode a part of the Redeve love it
Bremworth seven two million to spr wooll is a wonderful
story not told widely and passionately enough. And we'll have
more on that in the next half hour. Joe Biden's three.
This is a very good afternoon writing op. It's about
Supreme Court reform, knowing nothing will come of it. It's
a bit of a sad Karmala Harris seven. I didn't
know she was black, since you see, doesn't seem to
(05:05):
have done a thing wrong. Really, if you think about it.
Money's flying in the polls. August six, I mean August. Yes,
it's the second of August. Explain to me where the
year's gone. That's the week copies on the website and
not one jot of this has any amount of AI
anywhere near at hashtag home of the good old did
it my self opinion piece. Apparently it's not as common
as it once was.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Yeah, you'll know when this podcast is being created by AI,
because you know it'll sound good, there'll be no mistakes,
it'll be nicely edited, and you know, exactly right for
time re wrap right now. Mike's been concerned for a
little while now that the tourism bounced back isn't bouncing
back quite as bouncy as he'd like it to bounce.
(05:45):
And people who've got some theories, but he doesn't agree
with some of them.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
There's a lot of text like this this morning, and
I don't accept it. Every time we talk about the tourism,
the same arguments put forward. Traveled to Southeast Asia recently
met many tourists from the UK, US and Canada. Many
commented that they'd love to visit New Zealand butt local
costs are too expensive. I reject that, Yes, we're expensive,
but not when you're coming from international places. You take
forty eight it was about forty five at the moment,
(06:11):
forty five pence you get a new Zealand dollar. You
take fifty something US since you get a New Zealand dollar,
traveling from there to here is dirt cheap. And that
doesn't explain why Europe is overloaded at the moment with
tourists because Europe is hideously expensive. Go look at a hotel,
(06:31):
go look at a meal, go look at an airfare,
and it is not stopping them. So this idea that
we're too expensive, there's something more to it than that,
because the facts just don't back it up.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
He can reject it as much as he likes, but
it's definitely cheaper to go to Bali than it is
to go in New Zealand, that's for sure. And the
other thing that I've noticed is that when I publish
my tech reviews on the News dogs'b website and the
technology page, often I'll get comments back because I'll publish
(07:05):
the price usually of the thing that I'm reviewing, and
people from over can't believe how much these things are,
even though more often than not that more or less
the same price as what they're paying for them. It's
just that they seem like they're more because of the
exchange rate. And it's amazing how people just can't get
their mind around.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
That's a rerap.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Anyway, Mike wasn't done there.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Mike, Iceland, twelve beers, two plates of chips, three hundred
and seventy dollars. You don't talk to me about Iceland.
How some was in Iceland last year and we broken
about a day and a half. And this is what
I'm trying to say. There's a couple of urban myths
floating around about New Zealand. One is we're expensive. We're not,
especially given the value of our dollar which is tanked.
And to the other one, tourists are not coming, Mike
to New Zealand because of gangs and all the crime.
That's another urban myth as well. The fact that we've
(07:45):
got trouble downtown Auckland, for example, is not preventing tourists
coming to New Zealand. It's like saying, well, I'm not
going to Italy because of all the beggars and the pickpockets.
It's like saying I'm not going to Britain at the
moment because all the knife attacks and the riots on
Leeds or Southport or London. So I'm saying I'm not dear,
wouldn't dere go to Texas, might get shot. I mean,
that's all theory. It's simply not. You'd never go to
New York if you're worried about crime. You'd never go
(08:07):
to New York and get the world flooded with tourists.
So it's something more than that.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
See once again's turning again. That's literally why I don't
want to go to any of those places, especially Texas.
I don't ever want to go to Texas, primarily because
of the idiots with guns. Planet he's living on, posting
world the rewrap. Okay, let's finish up by trying to
figure out what planet the grocery commissioner is living on
(08:31):
if he thinks he's ever going to be able to
bring the supermarkets to heal.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Tell you who wouldn't be on my top ten list,
this grocery commissioner. That was another labor brain fart. So
they invented a grocery commissioner. I think thinking a grocery
commissioner would do something about the supermarkets and tell me,
just tell me now, I've got a ten thousand dollars
prize right here, right now, first caller through, tell me
what he's done. Nothing, nothing, don't even bother picking up
the phone because he's done nothing. Yesterday he said, key
(08:58):
measures to improve competition isn't working, no couding. He started
a review of the grocery supply code that came forth
last September, and there are reports that supplies are concerned
about how they're being treated. So that was never going
to change. The grocery agreements that were sent out to
them in September. More than fifty percent of them are unsigned.
(09:19):
Could be, of course, because they've got better things to
do with their life than, you know, sign a bit
of paper from the grocery commissioner. But be that as
it may, there's a long standing and balance and power,
or so he continues to argue. He said he was
ready to and this is what you've always got to
be weary of. And he said, look, he seems he's
a coster. He's a he's an Andrew costa likable enough guy,
nothing wrong with him. Came from sanitary and pleasant sort
(09:41):
of bloke. But when you look and talk to him,
you think, are you the bloke to change things? No
you're not. I mean, for all I know, if you'd
give him a water blaster, he might have undone some bolts.
You know what I mean. You just don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
So anyway, what you're saying, you prefer somebody like with
a taser exactly God taser the super Man.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
When when somebody when somebody says something, and this is
what he says. He said, quote he was ready to
wave a big stick. So when somebody says that, you
will go, Actually, I better get my act together because
that big stick might be big and it might hurt.
I don't believe a word he says. So I just
don't know what he does for a living every day,
given literally nothing has changed in the supermarket sector. Since
(10:19):
he's right, he's whittling his stick, He's probably probably looking
for a stick. He's probably whittling a stick. He probably goes,
I haven't got a stick. A whittle one up for me, And.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
That's my new favorite. You've familion. If only have to
pronounce the word euphemism. Ah yeah, we'll manage to change
this to double entendre Friday sitting around whittling a stick.
I am a very immature Aglian heart. That was the
rebrap and we'll come back and do it all again
on Monday.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
See for more from News Talk, said b listen live
on air or online, and keep our shows with you
wherever you go with our podcasts on iHeartRadio
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