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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
A rerap I get there and welcome to the rewrap.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
All the vesperts from the mic asking great first on Newstalks,
they'd be in a sillier package.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
I am Glen Heart and.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Today we will mark a week because it is Friday,
and that is what we do. The Northern Art could
be getting a lifeline, could have made a rail line
life line work there, but never happened, damn it. And
oh look who came in to surprise Mike on his
last day before he goes on holiday.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Before any of that, Can public transport actually be good? Sometimes?
Speaker 4 (00:56):
Have a look at the Report House in Sydney into
their new metro line. Now this is the twenty one
billion dollar behemoth opened a couple of weeks ago and
was going to transform allegedly Sydney public transport. And it
seems at first report too working and in that is
the clue to public transport generally and whether or not
it's successful. Now the trouble with transport here, and let's
be honest, we're really only talking about a couple of
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cities i e. Wellington and Auckland that in theory have
systems outside of a few random buses. Wellington famously hopeless.
Auckland it's hard to tell whether they are far behind
or quite possibly even worse. Anyway, the early numbers from
Sydney show that there has been a large drop in
numbers through the busiest of the heavy rail stations. Now
the trick here is the build it and they will
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come scenario, which is the one that they will claim
they use in this country but has never really turned
out to be reality. See the buses Famously and Wellington
went up the wrong streets, ran out of gas, never
turned up in the first place. Now they'll claim all
that's fixed now, but the trains are still famous for
their problems. Auckland buses have been hit and miss forever.
They didn't have drivers for a while, But they too
will claim they fixed that particular problem. I mean, our
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kids over the years eventually refuse to go on a
bus at all for the simple reason they literally never
turned up and therefore they would never get to school
on time. The trains are permanently canceled still for never
ending schedule of maintenance, so the theory has never met
the reality and Sydney where it is working. The question
they will need to ask is having a new metro
taking people off heavy rail actually solving anything? And if
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people are leaving cars at home and taking the metro,
how many of them actually are there? If you're merely
shifting one commuter from a train to another train, that
doesn't strike me as a big time solution. If you're
moving them out of cars, though, you might be onto
something still early days, but four weeks in the falls
and train numbers are as high as forty percent. But
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then their system works, and in that consistency and ensuing
reputation for reliability is the real answer to the public
transport conundrum.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Yes. So, In other words, when you do things the
way they're.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Supposed to be done, people like them, and one lot
of them. I figure, rewrap right, Let's see if we
can do this the way it's supposed to be done
and will mark the week.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
On morning this morning, I think we managed it.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Time out to marke the week, little piece of news
and current events. It's more popular than Wali Day at
your house for Christmas. If you're a UK Labor MP
voting eight democracy is a wonderful thing. And we have
seen this week and new president for Sri Lanka and
the first vote cast in the American election. Tory four.
I've just sold my car recently to help pay the bills.
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Four times she opened her mouth, and four times the
whole just got bigger our mood. Seven. Overall turns out
we're satisfied with our lots. That's say, this week not
quite as good as it has been, but still pretty solid.
Liam Wilson nine. It's one of the biggest global sports going.
There are just twenty at the top and a QI
we once again right up there. Hashtag dreams come true.
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Fontira seven. What they are doing for farmers and by
connection to the rest of the country at a time
of real strife is not to be underestimated. Here we
fruit seven record value this weekend out So Fontira two
point zero basically work from home. Six. From the amount
of winging I've heard, you would have thought that we'd
been doing it so Victorian times. And we've got no
idea how to turn up at the office like you
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know each workday. David Seymour six.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Shit, well, who do you think I am?
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Jesus most effective? Polly of the week, got charter schools
into law, crackdown on the teacher only days as well.
Bowden Barrett's seven who Doesn't Love Body? Being used to
his full brilliant potential eh Nzen diplomatic ranking two street
the lowly institute. Three countries in the region went backwards.
We were one of them. Two words for you mahootera
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and plane four year terms five. I mean we got
a little bit excited about the possibility of a vote,
but by the time Luckxon turned up on here Tuesday,
it became fairly obvious. Fairly quickly. He was thought bubbling
for now, So don't hold your breath. Transpower for the
report stated the bleeding obvious. But the real trick now
is actually putting it right with the region and not
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whining about the cost. And Tonya Watson six praise the
Lord a CEO with a strong opinion on a controversial issue.
More please discourse and debate is really a bad thing.
And see you should not be afraid to get stuck
in And that is the week. Copies on the website
and testing this week has shown that a few mike
shredded versions of marking the Week with methane on a
nineteen to one ratio, you get bio mess that cows love.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
And I would have liked to have played another big
cow moo there like I had earlier on but I'm
only allowed to do one day because the cows respond
badly or something. And actually, now that I think of
that's when I played angry cat annoyses. It's not the cows,
it's the cats.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Oh damn. It was a missed opportunity rewrapped.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
All right. So did you know that Mike loves trains apparently,
well that's what he said anyway.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Northern Express. I was very excited to read yesterday, although
somewhat surprised. I'm a big train fan, not necessarily for
commuting to work, but for seeing a country. And if
you look at places like certainly Europe, but North America,
particularly in Canada, the tourist train experience has exploded again
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in the last handful of years, and you can get
some beautiful trains and some beautiful places to go in
a comparatively luxurious and slow sort of way, where you know,
skylights and all that sort of stuff. Anyway, I've never
worked out why they if you're looking at rail in
this country, and I think I sided with New Zealand
first in general on the value of rail and I
was listening to an interview with the head of main
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Freight yesterday and they're ropable with the government at the
moment over the lack of a consultation on the fairies
and whether or not the fairies should be rail enabled
or not, and Peters argues they should be anyway on
that side of it. If you've got rails and tracks,
males will use them. So the northerner, which is your
Auckland to Wellington experience, they've just introduced a commercial kitchen.
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There's going to be three premium carriages and there's going
to be meals on offer, and so it's an eleven
hour journey. You stop on the way tamar Eui, Tonguerero
and O'akuni and you get some beautiful food and some
roast chicken and some fratatas and some Whittakers dark chocolates,
some Capiti cheese platters. I mean, it all sounds very good,
doesn't it. And what I couldn't work out is why
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they haven't done this before. You know, if you come
to the country and you hop on a train, why
why is it you just want to sit in some
sort of crappy little seat in a crappy little train
go from Auckland to Wellington, when you could turn the
whole experience into something memorable, charged like a wounded ball
of course, because you know the American dollar the euro
goes a long one in this particular country and actually make.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
That I don't know.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
There was always a certain romance to getting off at
Tamaranui and getting a pie.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Was there again I've never done that?
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Yeah, Mum used to ship me off to Nana on
the on the was Nana in talan No no, no,
Nana was in Hamilton.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
But you had to get off in Tamanui.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Well for that, for to get the pie.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Grab the pie, yeah, and back on, back on. How
far down the line were you go?
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Well, we lived in Fielding and there were and they
were and.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Could you get a train to Fielding?
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Well that's the thing.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
There wasn't really a train station in Fielding, No, but
the train would stop.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
To pick you up at what you just decided.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
You just sort of stood there and this thing that
looked a bit like a bash shelter.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Wow, I know is still going out west for the
dollar as well, it's.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Just it's how the kids stuff like that these days.
They won't believe you.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
It's amazing. And you would like to think, Glenn, that
it wasn't that long ago, wouldn't you even.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Seems like it seems like yesterday. It seems like yesterday,
to be honest.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
I get pretty romantic about pies anytime anywhere, So I
don't know that that sort of rosy fond memory was
really anything to do with the.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Train, and wanted just to do with the pies. Rewrap right.
So it was a weird surprise morning this morning.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
This was this had all been pre arranged, and I
was the last one to hear of it, well nearly
the last one to hear of it.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
How many were gone? We only got one? Okay, Cady's
with us, Caddy, good morning.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
Good morning, hey Concretes on a fabulous interview with Liam Lawson.
I know you're excited because you've got to speak to him.
And while I would love to stay in chat, as
you know, we've got a house full of builders and electricians.
It's all got's a bit noisy here, and I do
understand Sammy's organized just a wee surprise for you to
take my place. So I think walking into the studio
any moment should be a little treat for you and
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the audience for after eight.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
So good luck with that, no frickin' way. How exciting
is that?
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (09:26):
That is made mine herring. I've missed you.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
I worry about you exactly, A man of your age.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Come and have a see. Just sorry, what was your
name again? Oh, David Williams, I remember now, remember Kate you?
Speaker 3 (09:46):
And then of course all manner of hilarity ensued, and
that turned into a pretty much a full length interview
with David Williams.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Over the next fifteen minutes or so. But you can
look up in the same place where you found this.
To be honest, the rewrap and a.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Lot of people didn't think that it was a real surprise.
David Williams wasn't even convinced that Mike was real surprised.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
I was certainly surprised.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Like I say, nobody had told me, not because they
were trying to keep it from me. They just didn't
think to tell me. I mean, I'm only the guy
running this show, not that I'm better.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
We were talking in the break, David Williams, We're talking
in the break. He wasn't convinced that was a surprise,
and he goes, you know how it is, and you're
expecting a surprise party, but you're not. Somebody will have
tipped you off, or you would have suspected that was
hand on heart. A genuine shock.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
I must assume, because Tim hadn't turned out there where
they just grabbed him over, was walking past.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Well, and it was his misfortune.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
There and there it was so tonight tomorrow night in Auckland,
and just lovely to catch up with them. That's why
I was wearing I'm wearing it's not a special pair
of shoes. It's just a different pair of shoes. K
He comes to me yesterday and goes, you got to
wear these shoes tomorrow because they're super cool shoes. And
I went, okay, whatever, didn't think anything more of it.
And he's come and gone and he just didn't mention
my shoes at all. So almost of time that was.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Because maybe he was just being polite because of course
being my shoes that are probably absolutely ridiculous. So I'm
thinking that's still how we will just do the show
from now on, where you won't tell Mike any of
the things that are going to be happening on it,
and he can be surprised by all of them because
people seem to love that and I can't see anything
going wrong with that at all, so that could be interesting.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
It won't.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
It won't be happening anytime soon, and by soon I
mean in the next week because Mike's on holiday. But
don't worry, I'll be back with hear that for you.
So I think that that will be a nice surprise
for everybody, and we'll see that.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
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