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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
Rewrap there and welcome to the Rewrap for Tuesday. All
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And a sillier package. I am Glen harton today We're
going to talk text baby. It doesn't get more exciting
than that. Will worth going on strike. So that might
affect your weekly shop if it's happening when you do
your weekly shop, and boy has Apple got some new
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stuff for you and indeed some old stuff. But before
any of that, this Treaty Principles thing, it's completely out
of hand. What's coming on? Why have so many people
got so many opinions?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
As I watched the Prime Minister as I do post
cabinet each Monday, whether he regrets ever entertaining this Act
Treaty Principle's bill, because every time he talks about it
he done. This is on the head of a pennant.
We suggested that the draft bill was headed to Cabinet
for discussion yesterday. So a little bit of frothing at
the mouth from the media as they fired off question
after question as to where this thing might be heading.
Where it is heading by the ways to a first reading,
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then to Select Committee, and if David Seymour can't tender
the tired at that point, it will die for something
that most likely won't see its conclusion. We have spent
an awful lot of time and energy angsting over it.
It's been a long time, if ever in fact, that
we've waxed and waned and twisted and bent ourselves into
a knot over something that's basically just a debate and
exchange of ideas driven by the concept of being equal
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based on race. Is something we should aspire to. To
show you how mad it's all got. The Prime Minister
was able to bat away virtually all questions by simply
stating he doesn't talk about what happens in cabinet. But
then he said, I think mistakenly that he hadn't actually
seen a copy of the draft bill, meaning I assume
if he hasn't seen a draft it can't really been
talked about a cabinet, or can it. Someone then asked
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whether there actually was a draft bill at all, at
which point I think he'd worked out his error and
returned to talking about things that may or may not
have been talked about in cabinet, how he doesn't talk
about them outside cabinet, or indeed whether anything to be
talked about even existed. The sad thing about all this
is it shows we are not really up to much
by way of big debates in this country. Big debates
should not be feared. But when you have a three
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party government with two parties seemingly against an idea from
the start, one in particular looking increasingly anxious i e.
National not to mention the wider panic from the wide
Tangy tribunal to the churches, it reaffirms this is a
country where bold thinking doesn't often find a space to
be aired.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
It's amazing, it always does amaze me that there are
so many people who I just want to find reasons
not to do things, that they won't even listen to
what the thing might be, but before they decide not
to do it.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
It's so rewrap.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
And I think Mike shares my frustration on that one
just quietly. Well, I fak not quiet at all. I
think you've moaned to the entire country about it.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
I mentioned Retty earlier on and you know we know
the rules in this country. You can't have race based
health care until you have remarkably race based healthcare. And
Hawk's Bay and the Minister's got to dip his toe
in and say, by the way, rules are the rules.
And then we get to the business this coverage. And
Nicole McKey, she's very controversial figure according to some, particularly
in the media, and she wants to reform the gun law.
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She's working through that at the moment. There's another big
story this morning. There's two things in this country that
really get up my nose at the moment. One is
this open letter thing I mentioned yesterday and Glenn and
I are on the same page in this there's too
many bloody open letters in this country. Stop writing open
letters and the media needs to stop obsessing with covering
open letters. And the other thing is this bureaucratic advice.
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Every time that some agency gives a minister advice that
doesn't dubtail with what the minister or the Government of
the day are trying to do, that suddenly is news
some faceless wonk who wrote a piece of paper. He goes,
I don't think that what you're doing is going to
work very well. That isn't news. By it. So who
is this person, do they know what they're talking about,
do they have any level of experience or expertise? And
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why is it suddenly news. But this morning's example is
Nicole and m Keyho's getting more pushed back allegedly on
what she has to do with guns.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
I don't know whether to like the fact that he
brought me into it, that I agree with him about
the too many open letters thing, as though that adds
wait further way to the argument. I'm not sure that's
the case. I think that people think if I agree
about something, then that's probably wrong. There's certainly been the
pattern throughout my life anyway, So just ignore that and
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listen to mine Rerap. I certainly listen to him for
all my tax advice anyway.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Chris Hipkins wants a little bit of advice on his
journey towards twenty twenty six. Obviously I would drop the
tax bit because it's a pathway to nowhere. He might
like to look at what the Dems are doing in
the States in fact, and why they've closed the gap
so dramatically. Kamela Harris is running on hope and good vibes.
Now that's entirely superficial, of course, and doesn't stop a deficit,
but people love it. People to some degree vote on
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a brighter tomorrow, a better future. Tony Blair, if you
want to go back, his theme song was things can
only get better. It was a landslide. Trouble for Chris
is that by twenty twenty six is entirely possible things
will have got better, a lot better. And him rolling
along telling anyone who will listen that we need to
raise your pockets more will not be welcomed nor heard.
And that's before you get to the superannuation debate, which
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is partly tied up with tax of course, but in
many respects is a separate issue and nevertheless will get
entangled and what will very quickly become an omnie Shamnel's
omnie shambles, where any nuance and subtlety will well and
truly be lost. I mean, yes, more people are getting older, obviously,
but whether you're entitled to something from the state in
your so called golden years must be separated out from
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how it will be paid for. The great misunderstanding this
thinking is all based on has been Labour's downfall of course,
for years. Middle New Zealand are, in fact aspirational, always
have been. People like to do well for themselves. People
like the idea of working hard, of reaping those rewards
and sharing in the spoils. They like the idea of
being able to get ahead, to see tangible outworkings for effort.
They see people like Hipkins as sheltered wonks who've never
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been in the real world, never held a job in
the private sector, far less ever taken a risk and
started a company. Leaders of great success are those you
can relate to, like David Longie or Bob Hawk, those
who've done well in life like John Kee or the
once in a generation orators and hype merchants like Obama.
Hipkins is none of those, which is actually the biggest
red flag of all. But arriving with no charisma and
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a bad policy is political death.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Yeah. So, just to make that perfectly clear, try not
to get Chris Hopkins and Barack Obama confused. I know
it's an easy mistake to make, We've all made it.
But you've just got to take a moment and when
you see them, you say to yourself, now, hang on,
is that Chris Hopkins or is it Barack Obama? And
then move on from there the rewrap. Okay, it could
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be tricky at dash In for that sneaky chocolate bar
or buttle of milk at Woolworths, because there might not
be anybody to sell it to you.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
And then we come to people who don't want to
go to work today and this morning selection comes from
Woolworths and they're off the job for a couple of
hours between twelve and two. So if you're going to
do some shopping, if you were looking to get do
they do the click claques? Are they the same people
doing the click claques at the moment the glass containers
Willworths Research department quickly? Is it Warworths and the glass containers?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
H isn't Isn't that a new war promotion?
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Well, it could be, That's what I'm saying. I don't
know anyone. I'm saying. If you're collecting your glass contact.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
The Disney, the Disney collectibles, I think.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Are they Well, if you're after your Disney collectibles at
Walworth twelve to two, it's going to be no use
to you today anyway. The first Union who are behind this,
here's what they say. Workers are excited and enthusiastic about
taking part in the brand's first EBB of supermarket walkout.
Is that true? Do you think do you think that
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people who aren't going to work today are excited and
enthusiastic about striking or do you think they've made that up.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
They're probably excited and enthusiastic about not going to work. Yeah,
I don't know what I'd do without somebody there to
help me. When you've put the thing in the bag
and it doesn't register that you put it in the
bag and it thinks you sho uplifting and then they
have to come and authorize the thing, I don't know
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what I'd do.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
It's so rewrap right.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Speaking of new fangle technology, here comes this year's Apple launch. Now,
the phone's very interesting. Some of the other stuff very confusing.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Trending now as well, from the home of big brand cosmetics.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Now, when I say events, it wasn't a big event.
It was a big event because it's been built up
to and everyone went, oh my god, it's an Apple event.
But they don't have event, so I don't realize they
didn't have events anymore. No one turns up, no one
does anything. It's just a prerecorded thing and Tim goes hello,
here's what we've got anyway, first time ever. It's happened
on a Monday, because it's Monday in America, they think,
because they want to avoid the debate tomorrow, which means
they wouldn't get any headlines. It's the sixteen, the iPhone sixteen,
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but it's glow up Time, which is what they calling
it because SyRI now lights up when you use it.
It's boosted by Apple Intelligence. Anyway, hissed him.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Today, we have exciting announcements to share about Apple Watch
and air Pods, and we are thrilled to introduce the
first iPhones designed from the ground up for Apple Intelligence
and it's breakthrough capabilities.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Fantastic ten A series ten Apple Watch thinnest Ebba. We've
got a sixty new color.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
For it, jet black. It's our first ever polished aluminum
finish for Apple Watch. The case is made from our
durable aluminum alloy and polished using silica nanoparticles until the
surface achieves a reflective shine.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
You laugh, but when you see it, I do laugh,
like do luff. I mean, you've brought some pretty weaky
looking watches in your toil.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
That is true. You can also get it in titanium.
You can go another step and you can get an
Apple Watch Ultra two. The Ultra two came out last year.
Saying isn't the Ultra two we'll already get, Yes, it is.
You can also get that in black as well. We've
got AirPods AirPods four which come with better sound voice
isolation for phone calls. You cannot and shake your head
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to communicate with Siri, who presumably lights up at the
same time. Does she light it when you're not or shake?
You've got noise cancelation on the EarPods four as well.
They've also relaunched the AirPods Max. These are the headphones.
They're not new either, but they do have new colors,
possibly polished inside titanium or not. We don't know that part.
You can now charge it with the USBC d usbe
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it does all the USB's incredible. Then you've got the
EarPods Pro two with the soft ear tips. So that's
a bunch of software upgrades. There are very very helpful
with ear health apparently. So you're saying, do we have
a phone, Yes, we have a phone. It's the iPhone sixteen,
the base model up new exciting, larger size, sixteen plus
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got two new buttons.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
iPhone sixteen now has the customizable Action Button, allowing you
to perform a variety of functions with just a press.
The camera control provides instant easy access to the camera
with just a click action button.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
So the action button was on last year's Pro model.
Of course, the camera control is completely new the sixteen
Pro and the Pro Max. They are bigger than ever
and yes, yes they come in a tougher titanium finish,
total redesign from the ground up. You want some prices,
let's go for some prices. The Apple Watch ten starts
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at seven forty nine. The Airpod's four start at two
forty nine. Your basic iPhone sixteen one thousand, five hundred
and ninety nine. But you're a loser if you want
the iPhone sixteen based model. What you want, of course,
is the Pro Max. Now, the Pro Max is the
same price as a used car. So you are either
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want a car or you want a phone.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
And I think we all know that we'd prefer the phone.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Right three that's right, three thousand, one hundred and ninety
nine glorious New Zealand dollars.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
It's with a Terabyta storage imadgin're getting it in desert titanium.
To be honest, I'm not usually I don't usually care
too much about colors of things, but yeah, the desert titanium.
That's kind of like the sort of tarnish bronzy look,
which is pretty cool. And I know we made fun
of the the Watchers being black, but that it does
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look to be a particularly particularly cool kind of black.
I'm not making any sense in my I'm just fangirling
over these things. Yeah, so strange that they've relaunched things like,
you know, the EarPods macs, which has been around for
years now, and yeah, all they've done is got a
few new colors and you can charge it with the USBC. Anyway.
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I don't know why why they sort of spent time
at the launch talking about things that you could already buy,
but they did. But yeah, that the phones do look
actually genuinely exciting and it might be time for an upgrade.
I am a glen Hart. That was the rewrap and
we'll be back here again whatever device you're listening to
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this on tomorrow.
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