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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
I'll go there and welcome to the Rewrap for Tuesday.
All the best, but it's from the mic Costume, Breakfast
on Newstalk's ed Beat and a Cilia package. I'm Glenn
Hart today. Who are the labor leadership contenders of Hipkin's
popularity continues to weigh in the way it seems to
be who is David Buckingham? We'll find out meatless meat
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it's never going to catch on? And do you need
a hangar house in your life? But before any of that,
the trade deficit. This has got Mike worried. I think
we all are, aren't We don't we We're just going
around about our business, but in the back of our mind,
what about the trade deficit?
Speaker 3 (01:06):
The most telling partners didn't get enough coverage either. Most
telling part of the release of the draft of our
Critical Minerals List, which came out yesterday afternoon, is that
we have never as a country developed a comprehensive picture
of our mineral needs and weakness. As obvious question there,
why not part of a strong resilient economy is when
you do things yourself. See as a small country, we
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can't do everything. We don't have sort of domestic heft.
We don't have a natural domestic market for a lot
of large scale operations. Now, in some cases where we
do do things at scale, we sell it off. Sure,
of course we're quite good at some of it. Farming
would be an example, But it's why we don't make
cars because when we did it didn't work financially. We
are better bringing them in. But one of the great
economic quandaries we have is a thing called a current
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account deficit. We buy more stuff from the world than
we sell to it. This is not good. We could
mine more than we do. The fact that there are
thirty five minerals on the list, and by the way,
that list doesn't include coal or gold, means we have
a lot of minerals. Are we taking full advantage? Obviously
not we Why not, well, because a lot of people
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get angsty about mining. But as the miners will tell you,
it's an increasingly sophisticated industry that cleans up after itself
in a completely different way from the olden days. And
here is the simple truth. The world needs minerals. We
need minerals the same way we need power to turn
the lights on in our current predicament around generation and
supplies all the evidence you need to know. We should
be prioritizing jobs and cost of living over the ideology
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of renewables and conservation land. And those opposed are often
opposed no matter what. They aren't for turning a fern
and a snail beats a job in power, and that's
just the way they are. They are allowed to be obsessed,
but they shouldn't dictate economic travel. Minerals are an income stream,
a job stream, and a sensible, viable answer to a
lot of economic problems.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
And nobody knows how to sell minerals better on the
station than Mike Husking does. That's a little joke. Some
of you you might get at others perhaps not. You
might not get some of the network oudlobs that Mike
reads where you are. Just don't worry about it. Let's
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move on rewrap. Right. So it turns out poor old
Chippy probably not that chipper after some recent poll results.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Mike developing trend. When the opposition says the government policy
will be bad, it is in fact good e g
tax cuts not impacting inflation, cell phone bandoned schools is working,
starting to make any opposition claim less credible. I'm glad
you raised that because it brings us to the pole yesterday,
the Curier pole, the Taxpayers Union Courier Pole, which I've
got a complete copy of. And I'll come back to
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the finer detail in just a moment. But if you
missed the headline news the government are traveling well, which
is my overarching theory I've been thinking about for the
last couple of days. It started over the weekend when
Luxon and Mitchell made that announcement on crime in downtown Auckland.
I thought, those are the tangibles you're starting to see now.
Then we interviewed Erica Stanford yesterday and we saw the
Mount Albert Grammar, cultural change in schools, tangible change to
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what's going on in this country. And that's a government
that gets real. So the poll yesterday National on thirty
nine percent, they're up a bit New Zealand first six
point eight, they're down a smedge. It's all within the
margin and where it makes no difference. The upshot is
the government are doing well. They're sitting on sixty seven seats.
Hepkins is in trouble, and I'm officially starting the conversation
this morning that he needs to be rolled. Now. The
difficulty because his negativity rating is shocking the net favorability rating.
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The guy's tanking like a tanking thing. His net favorability
as dropped sixteen points. He's Christopher No mates, He's at
minus ten. Luson's at plus seven. Remember when we had
the conversation that Luson wasn't popular, no and got Luckson.
Luxon was a nerd. Luxon was a Weirdoh, Luxon came
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from the airlines. Luxon was a corporate Luxon nine too
many houses. And I said, you wait till he gets
to be prime minister and you'll change your view. And
sure enough we are meantime, old chipster who all can
all he can do is winge about everything, and he's
wrong on most of it. We've suddenly worked him out
for the Labor Party going forward, and it's an important one.
Is this a guy who can get his party back
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into government? Answer? No, So then the question is who
do you replace them with? And there's your real trouble,
because that party is so devoid of any real obvious talent.
He wins by default, name me a single labor MP.
And we've done this exercise on this program when we
get people on after ape, you know, with Mark and co.
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Over the years, we go through and look at the list,
their entire list of MPs, and we go, who's normal?
And my god, that's a hard that goes on. That
meeting goes on too long because it's one of those
meetings we go who's normal and they go, what about eh?
And I go really and they.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Eventually everybody just looks as their watch and goes pricisely.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
And so we ended up with Ginny Anderson. Now I
love Ginny A lot of you don't, but she was
the most normal labor MP we could find. Once Stewart left,
that's it. There's no one else there who's remotely normal
to replace Casipkins. But when you've got that level of favorability,
he's toasted.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
I don't think you had to be normal to be
in charge of a political party, do you. I mean,
have a look at what's going on in America at
the moment. Right it's time to find out who Mike
Hosking's hero of the Week is and It's only Tuesday.
How exciting is this?
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Can I just congratulate please? David Buckingham. David has gone
straight to the Privacy Commissioner. David is a Queenstown employment
consultant and he's laid an official complaint about the RD
and their business of taking all of our information and
not telling us and flicking it off to the social
media companies. He claims the hashing process. So what happens
is the IRD will tell you, Dar worry it's all
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hashed up and so the social media companies can't tell
whose information is what that, he claims David, and I
don't know enough about this because I'm not a hashing expert.
Is not accepted overseas as adequate to anomalize personal data,
which is the first time I'd heard that. So that's
a genuine con they've got a He also, David points
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out the social media platform's got a reputation for having
a disregard for the jurisdictions of sovereign nations like New Zealand.
Quite right, and he's urged the Commissioner to investigate if
it was legal and consistent with people's right to privacy.
I can tell you right here right now as they
may afflict my information off. I'm not happy. I don't
like it. They shouldn't have done it. They've overreached and
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we need to do something about it. So, David, you
so far, and it's earlier in the week. You are
my hero of the week.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
So any of you out there who are hoping to
be Mike's terror of the week this week, you're going
to have to play your socks up. It sounds like
the bars been set pretty high.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
A rewrap.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Now. We hadn't heard match about meat replacements, meatless meat recently,
so Mike decided today was the day he was going
to do something about that. What's happening with meat that's
not meat.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Beyond Meat are about to launch a whole muscle steak
alternative that mimics the taste and texture of Fill It
small warning it won't work. The other products they've produced
haven't worked either. They're an example of the so called
modern age using new tech and a theory to convince
themselves we are ready for change. People often underestimate how
slow we are to change, or indeed, how we really
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don't want to change at all. Beyond Meat is an
interesting story and worth reading. About if you haven't followed
it over the last couple of years. Essentially, they were
another form or another form of these ideas that got
plenty of seed money behind it based on what really
is a whim Farming, they argued, is too intensive, so
let's make your stake in a factory. Let's save the world.
Raising capital doesn't seem hard if you've got the right story.
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Whether the story ever makes money doesn't seem to bother people.
Solar is another industry currently falling apart but still raising
a fortune. The electric car industry is a headline act
in the art of getting ahead of the curve. So
this time Beyond Meat are trimming their product list and
selling you on fake meat based on health. Forget the planet,
this stuff's good for you. Of course, what fake anything
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does is make up for the fact it's not real
by inventing something that might make it seem real. Soft
drinks that are sugar free are your post a child.
Look at what makes it sweet? Oh it's not sugar,
so it's sugar free. But the replacement you don't want
to know about it. Fake meat is the same. It's
stuff full of things that aren't good for you. Because
one of the health lessons you learn faile early on.
If you study these things. Is natural? Is better? Processed?
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Is bad?
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Fake tends to be processed if not, in fact, ultra processed.
If meat is a worry for you, moderation is your answer,
not fake. I also have a theory that in complicated
and troubled times, which is the sort we currently live in,
leads us to want less upheable and less change. We
want comfort and surety. Fake meat isn't that? And Beyond
meat are about to find that out. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
I don't understand, and I've said this before, but I
don't understand the obsession with trying to make meat replacements
taste and feel like meat. I get that trying to
come up with a more sustainable form of meat, but
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you know, it's in terms of, you know, people who
just don't eat meat. They don't want it to taste
or feel like meat. We had, you know, kumra and
Kingwa burgers and our burgers last night, and we did
I didn't get them because I wanted that those petties
to taste like meat. Because I'm going to assure you
the kumra in Kinwa petty does not taste like meat
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and it didn't taste that much like Quenwa as well,
which is good because I hate Kingwa. So yeah, I
just don't think you hardline meat eaters. I don't think
are going to be swayed. I mean, you know, if
you can't scare them into different habits with the thread
of colon cancer, I don't know what you what you're
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supposed to do the rerap right now, once you've got
your indoor outdoor flow sorted, you know what your house
really needs? An airplane garage.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
I just put the thing I was going to talk
about away, but what it was about. It was about
Tiano Airport and they've come up with an idea and
the council runs Tiana Airport. This is in Manipurian Fjordland,
so the council runs and this goes back to the
house I was talking about last week in Monaco drive
at Highlands in central Otago. So Tiana Airport's got a
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couple of things. The costs are high, the numbers of
customers are low, so they're losing money. So what do
they do. Well, what they do is they employ some
people to say, come up with some ideas for us
to see how we can do it. So one of
the ones was boost domestic tourism and all that sort
of stuff. All of that's fine, but one of the
best ideas they've come up with is sell houses with hangers.
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Now there's a house for sale with a hangar somewhere
in the North Island. I think it's north of Auckland
at the moment. In fact, there may well be two
houses for sale with hangers associated and one of the
properties is being a lifestyle block has its own runway. No,
I don't need it. I'm making the say. Look, it's
all on my mind. I don't need the paperwork, mate,
don't worry about it. What else do you do around here? Actually,
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now that we raise it, have the rest of the
day off. And where was I? So there's two houses
and they both got hangars for people who love planes
as opposed to houses with people who love cars. So
not only that, one of the houses got its own runways.
So they came up with the idea at Tiana Airport,
why not build some houses that come with hangars. So,
in other words, if you've got a holiday home and
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then you could buy a house with a hanger, and
you could then buy yourself a plane and you can
go on holiday with your plane in your house.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Well that's what we were talking about, wasn't it a
paranoui the same thing. There are houses with hangers.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Well, there are houses with hangers, and there are also
houses with wharves and boats. So you've done it with
a wharf in a boat, you've done it with a
house and a hanger, and so why wouldn't you do
that at Tayana. The only thing about Tiana is slightly remote,
of course, but then again, if you've got your plane
not as remote as it used to be, very good idea. Congratulations.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Yeah, when it's not original, as we've discussed, you've got
hanger houses and paranui. I'm pretty sure there's at Dairy
Flat these houses with hangers there. There might be people
who own both in both places, so they could just
fly between their hangar house and Dairy Flat and their
hanger house and para. Who knows. I mean, if you
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haven't got a house with a hanger, I don't know
what you're doing. It probably solves that problem too that
they always use on insurance heads with you having something
tall tied to the roof your bikes or you're upside
down table or whatever, and then you damage it when
you drive into the garage. That wouldn't happen with a
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hanger much tall at all. Well, this has got completely
out of hand again, so it's time to end it again,
and we'll start it again tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
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