October 22, 2024 • 14 mins
THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Wednesday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) Not All Pasta Salads Are Created Equal/Is the Tana Thing Actually Over?/Too Close to Call/How Apps Work/It's Good to Be Average
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
A rerapday there and welcome to the rewrap for Wednesday.
All the best butts from the mic asking breakfast on
news Talk said be in a sillier package. I am
Glen Hart, Today's sister Darlene Tanna thing finally all finished?
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Surely not? The latest US polling doesn't really tell us anything.
Uber eats, Mike slams, Uber eats, and then we'll find
out whether your average or you aren't. But before any
of that, school lunches apparently, I mean, there's no such
thing as a free lunch, but a three dollar lunch
(01:00):
is pretty damn clothes, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Who doesn't love katsu chicken? Here's my question? But the
morning who doesn't love katsu chicken? And with katsu chicken
and the raps and the lasagna, David Seymour ha saved
us one hundred and thirty million dollars And all the
moaners and wines and whiners and hand ringers can say sorry.
It wasn't the end of the world. After all. Several
crimes have been committed in the school lunch drama, which,
of course crime number one. It should never have been
(01:23):
a drama at all because the previous government, and yet
another example of their wasteful, haphazard way of doing things,
should never have got into the school lunch program business
in the first place, because when they did, they worked
out they couldn't afford it and therefore only gave it
to a few, and many of the few didn't actually
want the lunches, but they had to take them because
the kid who did want the lunch couldn't be made
to feel bad, so the other three hundred had to
eat the sandwiches with them. Crime number two they only
(01:46):
funded it until the election, thus making it a fiscal cliff.
David Seymour should have killed the thing completely. We got
talk down to what we have now, which is three
dollars a pop. Crime number three. All the hand ringers
who were pined over and over and over about how
they wouldn't be any good and no one can make
food for three dollars, kids would go hungry. It's a scandal.
So it went fast forward, the menus out complete with
(02:07):
photos of food. Wouldn't you know it, for three bucks
you can do a pretty decent job. You feed kids,
you save money. We have a lesson and expenditure and wastage,
and a government promise has been delivered. The lunches were
eight dollars sixty eight under labor, now they're three. That's
quite the difference, isn't it. What cost almost half a
billion dollars now costs three hundred and twenty million. And
(02:28):
maybe the stories of the teachers helping themselves, or families
getting delivered the extras, or the farmers feeding it all
to the pigs will vanish along with the doubters who've
made it a pastime, if not a living, refusing to
believe a lot of what was done under labour couldn't
be done cheaper and better if only they'd paid attention
to detail and were driven more by practicality and less
by ideology and thought bubbles.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
I mean, there's pars of salads, and this pass of salads,
isn't it. Like most things, it's all about the sauce
at the end of the day, or the dressing. Like
I mean, if you get a nice pesto stirred through,
oh that'll get my mouth ordering every time. I don't
know that if you're going to stretch to pesto get
three dollars a servet re wrapped. Right. So we've got
(03:10):
a conclusion with the Darlene Tana situation, and it was
the conclusion that should have happened a long, long, long
long time ago.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Darling Tanner, of course, is gone. There are a myriad
of things you can say about this whole sorry saga. Firstly,
she has disgraced and embarrassed herself. She is not a
good example of the sort of person we would like
to think heads to parliament. Secondly, the Greens have disgraced
and embarrassed themselves. They selected a person who clearly was
not as she was described on the tin, so their
vetting process is seriously flawed. They dilly dallied and mucked
(03:41):
around with an issue that was clear cut. They involved
courts and time wasting, not to mention taxpayers money supporting
a person who sat in Parliament drawing a salary asking
questions it clearly should not have been there. Thirdly, the
walker jumping law is obviously a very good bit of
work and was designed for exactly the sort of shambles
from Alamone Kopu all those years ago to this very day.
The Parliament, through a flawed system, will sadly produce people
(04:03):
who were not up to it and deserve to be
dealt with. I suppose you can argue that Tana is
represent sentive of a system that reflects us, which brings
us to the complicated area, or whether the people in
Parliament should be a version of us or a version
of what we would like to think we are. Society
is full of Darline's, you just don't hear about them
every day. They don't necessarily end up in the public light.
(04:23):
For all the frail, fragmented, dopey, hopeless people that end
up as MPs, they are merely outworkings of the dopey
and hopeless that make up any community or town, or
business or grouping. We are run by a microcosm of us. Foolishly,
we like to think that if you wrap it up
in a suit, or give it respectability, or pay it
a bit of money, or have some trappings, the whole
(04:44):
process becomes elevated and the near doo worlds can't get
past the security Our councils are frequented by the robust
and experienced. We think Parliament is full of the bright
and the insightful. No such luck. Darlene Tana has been
a waste of time and an expensive mistake. But sadly
she is far from unique, and so too are a
lot of people we know.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
I don't reckon she has actually really gone. It's like
the Freddy Krueger movie. Just when you think they can't
come back, they do, and I reckon to come back
to life. Re Wraps of the scary Halloween style gem
are there for you. More scary than funny? Probably, so
(05:25):
does that count as humor? Not sure? How are the
Dens finding the polling at the moment pretty scary? I
think yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
The reference to polling the latest, the New York Times
polling and polling the average Pennsylvania, Michigan, Nevada, Wisconsin, and
North Carolina. North Carolina might be a little bit different.
Let me come back to that. But it's all within
such a small margin. No one's winning, no one's losing.
They're all within zero zero point two percent. So, in
other words, so far within the margin of era. It's
(05:54):
not even worth talking about. What I'm seeing a lot
of commentary around is the writer and the writer? Is this?
In recent elections In twenty twenty two, to twenty four
to twenty two being the midterm. Of course, in recent elections,
the polls tended to systematically underrest or overestimate one side,
so that happens, either of them could win and win
(06:14):
on the night easily, so all of this may be
for nothing. Nationwide, Harris is officially ahead by one point
on average. There's only one major national pole showing Harris
improving in any way, shape or form last week. Overall,
if you're looking once again at averages, it's moving towards Trump,
but once again not in a way that you would go, well,
(06:37):
there it is. He's won then, because you cannot even
begin to say that. North Carolina they think at this
point might be slightly different. There's a quinnipiac for Harris
ahead by three he Trump still holds a big lead.
In Georgia, there's a signal pole that has Trump ahead
by a point. So you got two poles. In North Carolina,
(06:57):
Trump's leading in one, Harris is ahead significantly. What's going
on Helene? Hurricane Eleen, so the cleanup still on. People's
lives are up ended. They've got bigger things and better
things to do, so they think the polling could be
all over the place. So Carolina isn't play. North Carolina
doesn't play. But as for the other, you know, the
swing states, there's nothing. There is literally literally nothing in
(07:19):
early voting today. By the way, opened in Wisconsin in person.
Trump got that last time by twenty one thousand votes.
So in these states that they should really feel confident
about now, not all of them are going to go
their way, but in these states that they should be
feeling pretty confident about, they're not, and not even closer.
And that's what makes it so fascinating on me.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
One of these ones where there are going to specific
counties that will hold the balance of power. What a
great way to choose the leader of the free world.
What could possibly go wrong?
Speaker 3 (07:51):
The rewrap right?
Speaker 2 (07:52):
A big day for uber eats or a big week
for uber eats. It's now available in a whole lot
more places than it was before.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
How excited are you blend him? Uber eats is coming
to you Uber eats if you having twelve new locations
around beautiful regional New Zealand Tower Pome Masterton Levin, Fakatani, Tokaraa, Tabamutuharra, Timuru,
Ashburt Nomuru, Wonka, paraparam and fielding, and so it is
just moments away from you being able to ring up
your favorite restaurant and then stand by for the twenty minutes,
(08:23):
twenty seven minutes, thirty three minutes, forty two minutes, forty
eight minutes while you wait for the person not to
be able to find your address and to serve you
cold food, and you too can experience what we have
loved and lapped up in the city for so many
successful years.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
You know it's an app. You don't ring the restaurant.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Do you not ring the restaurant? Well, we do and
then they deliver via the Uber. Is that different again?
What's the just quickly and you've got me on, don't
don't fire me up this morning, Glynn. There's a new
service from the supermarket. One of the supermarkets used to
have a truck and the truck never turned up. They
were useless. But the same supermarket, while still running the truck,
(09:00):
is running an Uber service now where your groceries come
in five six, seven minutes.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Talk about door dash, No, no.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Another service, but it's brilliant and I can't work out
why the supermarket would be running an Uber service. Milk
milk run, while milk Run is so fantastically successful, while
their truck service also paid for there, but is so
fantastically useless. Why would you run a good service and
a useless service together. That's my marketing question for you.
(09:30):
This morning, I had.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Food delivered recently and it arrived early for five minutes early. Yeah,
you can't. I don't think you can write write things
these things off completely, can you.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
It's a rewrap.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
You just have to average it out. I think sometimes
it's good, sometimes it's not. Sometimes it's just fine.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Average all the average numbers. I found it fascinating the average.
I gave you yesterday a couple of wage averages, but
the average are this is the status department average wage
in this country. And the problem with averages is there
are no averages, of course, and that's how you get
to averages. You get to averages by having people who
aren't average, and there some above and some below, and
then you average it all out and you call it
an average. But the average wage is sixteen hundred and
(10:14):
twelve dollars. That's a week. The per R rate coming in
at forty one dollars and fifty two cent. So you
can either feel good about that, or you can feel
bad about it, depending on where in life you are.
The average house value in this country I found interesting
eight hundred and five thousand dollars. The average KEIPI saver
balance I found worryingly low at thirty three thousand, five
hundred dollars. If you think that somehow is going to
pay for your retirement, I'd second guess myself. There savings account,
(10:37):
the average savings account was had fifteen thousand dollars eight
hundred and fifteen thousand, eight hundred dollars in the average
savings account. Average home loan, well, if you're a first
time it's over half a million's five hundred and fifty thousand.
But if you're just an average home loaner, it's three
hundred and eighteen thousand, one hundred and fifty one dollars.
What's your credit card debt? The average credit card debt
in this country is three thousand. But that gets complicated
(11:01):
because as that are debted in your moment, and when
the bill comes due to you pay you three thousand,
You pay your fifty seven dollars because you have to,
and then you keep the rest and then it all
adds up. Average credit score is actually quite good because
you get a credit score between apparently three hundred and
eight hundred and fifty three hundred not good, eight hundred
and fifty fabulous, average score seven to fifty two, So
(11:21):
we're quite good. That's that. That means you can go
and tap into a bit more money. Food bill. How
much do we spend each week? I was astonished at this.
The average is three hundred dollars a week on food.
One hundred and thirty nine of that's on general grocery,
thirty is on restaurants, twenty three a week on alcoholic beverages.
What's the twenty three? Is that one bottle of wine?
(11:43):
Do you think? Or is that?
Speaker 2 (11:45):
What?
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Would you get two bourbon and cokes at a what's
a bourbon and coke cost? I don't know what a
bourmon and co cost. It appears where you go, That's
what That's what I'm saying, And that's why we have averages. Glen.
It sort of spoils it, doesn't it. You can spend
I reckon you could spend eighteen dollars on a bourbon
and coke. You could, Yeah, exactly, you'd be foolish.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
I've had a flash ice cube and an umbrewller on
the side, precisely.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
What's a cheap bourbon and coke? Well, what's the cheapest
bourbon of coke? Where would you go and get right home?
Speaker 2 (12:12):
That would be we were poor cheap one mind. You
can't buy a bottle like a proper bottle of bourbon
for twenty three.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Dollars, No, you can't, precisely, So you'd have to save
up two locks two weeks worth of savings.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
And make it last. Maybe that bottle lasts for two weeks.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
How much of the bottle of bourbon.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Cost at least forty five dollars exactly.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
So two weeks is forty six. You haven't got the
money for the coke, so it's you're into your third
week of savings now for goodness sake, and then the
coke will go flatten. The third well, god, it's.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Complic to my general growthrey.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Exactly thirty five dollars a week on clothes. See, you're
not buying one on every color at thirty five dollars
a week. Are You're not at thirty five dollars a week.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Let's get one color a week exactly.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
You're not going in there and saying, ah, one on
every color. There's no one going into Frederick's. Are they
seven dollars eighty on footwear? It's not to have to
pay seven dollars eighty on footwear? Rent five sixty eight,
that's fairly well known. Power bill is interesting, two hundred dollars.
Does that surprise you? On average a month two hundred bucks?
(13:12):
So there you go, if you if all those numbers
tellied with you your average and congratulations.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
So yeah, the things that surprised Mike with the power
and the food bills because they were dramatically, drastically, insanely
lower than what he pays. So that's why he was surprised.
He talks about being in touch with the common man,
but a woman. And also I did I did quish
(13:40):
a little bit off here about how he thought the
kiwisaver average of thirty three thousand it wasn't enough. But
I'm assuming that that is the average that's in everybody's
QII saver accounts as we speak. So it's not just
the people who were about to retire and dip into
that money. Of course, people who've only just started working
(14:01):
and have set up their QUI saver, I assume, so
that would explain that would or not or is it
just a part of meaningless statistics that we should probably
shouldn't take too much noto soong, just like I don't
know the American polling, for example, I am Glen Heart.
I'll have more stuff that you shouldn't take any notice
of for you tomorrow.
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
A rerapday there and welcome to the rewrap for Wednesday.
All the best butts from the mic asking breakfast on
news Talk said be in a sillier package. I am
Glen Hart, Today's sister Darlene Tanna thing finally all finished?
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Surely not? The latest US polling doesn't really tell us anything.
Uber eats, Mike slams, Uber eats, and then we'll find
out whether your average or you aren't. But before any
of that, school lunches apparently, I mean, there's no such
thing as a free lunch, but a three dollar lunch
(01:00):
is pretty damn clothes, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Who doesn't love katsu chicken? Here's my question? But the
morning who doesn't love katsu chicken? And with katsu chicken
and the raps and the lasagna, David Seymour ha saved
us one hundred and thirty million dollars And all the
moaners and wines and whiners and hand ringers can say sorry.
It wasn't the end of the world. After all. Several
crimes have been committed in the school lunch drama, which,
of course crime number one. It should never have been
(01:23):
a drama at all because the previous government, and yet
another example of their wasteful, haphazard way of doing things,
should never have got into the school lunch program business
in the first place, because when they did, they worked
out they couldn't afford it and therefore only gave it
to a few, and many of the few didn't actually
want the lunches, but they had to take them because
the kid who did want the lunch couldn't be made
to feel bad, so the other three hundred had to
eat the sandwiches with them. Crime number two they only
(01:46):
funded it until the election, thus making it a fiscal cliff.
David Seymour should have killed the thing completely. We got
talk down to what we have now, which is three
dollars a pop. Crime number three. All the hand ringers
who were pined over and over and over about how
they wouldn't be any good and no one can make
food for three dollars, kids would go hungry. It's a scandal.
So it went fast forward, the menus out complete with
(02:07):
photos of food. Wouldn't you know it, for three bucks
you can do a pretty decent job. You feed kids,
you save money. We have a lesson and expenditure and wastage,
and a government promise has been delivered. The lunches were
eight dollars sixty eight under labor, now they're three. That's
quite the difference, isn't it. What cost almost half a
billion dollars now costs three hundred and twenty million. And
(02:28):
maybe the stories of the teachers helping themselves, or families
getting delivered the extras, or the farmers feeding it all
to the pigs will vanish along with the doubters who've
made it a pastime, if not a living, refusing to
believe a lot of what was done under labour couldn't
be done cheaper and better if only they'd paid attention
to detail and were driven more by practicality and less
by ideology and thought bubbles.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
I mean, there's pars of salads, and this pass of salads,
isn't it. Like most things, it's all about the sauce
at the end of the day, or the dressing. Like
I mean, if you get a nice pesto stirred through,
oh that'll get my mouth ordering every time. I don't
know that if you're going to stretch to pesto get
three dollars a servet re wrapped. Right. So we've got
(03:10):
a conclusion with the Darlene Tana situation, and it was
the conclusion that should have happened a long, long, long
long time ago.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Darling Tanner, of course, is gone. There are a myriad
of things you can say about this whole sorry saga. Firstly,
she has disgraced and embarrassed herself. She is not a
good example of the sort of person we would like
to think heads to parliament. Secondly, the Greens have disgraced
and embarrassed themselves. They selected a person who clearly was
not as she was described on the tin, so their
vetting process is seriously flawed. They dilly dallied and mucked
(03:41):
around with an issue that was clear cut. They involved
courts and time wasting, not to mention taxpayers money supporting
a person who sat in Parliament drawing a salary asking
questions it clearly should not have been there. Thirdly, the
walker jumping law is obviously a very good bit of
work and was designed for exactly the sort of shambles
from Alamone Kopu all those years ago to this very day.
The Parliament, through a flawed system, will sadly produce people
(04:03):
who were not up to it and deserve to be
dealt with. I suppose you can argue that Tana is
represent sentive of a system that reflects us, which brings
us to the complicated area, or whether the people in
Parliament should be a version of us or a version
of what we would like to think we are. Society
is full of Darline's, you just don't hear about them
every day. They don't necessarily end up in the public light.
(04:23):
For all the frail, fragmented, dopey, hopeless people that end
up as MPs, they are merely outworkings of the dopey
and hopeless that make up any community or town, or
business or grouping. We are run by a microcosm of us. Foolishly,
we like to think that if you wrap it up
in a suit, or give it respectability, or pay it
a bit of money, or have some trappings, the whole
(04:44):
process becomes elevated and the near doo worlds can't get
past the security Our councils are frequented by the robust
and experienced. We think Parliament is full of the bright
and the insightful. No such luck. Darlene Tana has been
a waste of time and an expensive mistake. But sadly
she is far from unique, and so too are a
lot of people we know.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
I don't reckon she has actually really gone. It's like
the Freddy Krueger movie. Just when you think they can't
come back, they do, and I reckon to come back
to life. Re Wraps of the scary Halloween style gem
are there for you. More scary than funny? Probably, so
(05:25):
does that count as humor? Not sure? How are the
Dens finding the polling at the moment pretty scary? I
think yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
The reference to polling the latest, the New York Times
polling and polling the average Pennsylvania, Michigan, Nevada, Wisconsin, and
North Carolina. North Carolina might be a little bit different.
Let me come back to that. But it's all within
such a small margin. No one's winning, no one's losing.
They're all within zero zero point two percent. So, in
other words, so far within the margin of era. It's
(05:54):
not even worth talking about. What I'm seeing a lot
of commentary around is the writer and the writer? Is this?
In recent elections In twenty twenty two, to twenty four
to twenty two being the midterm. Of course, in recent elections,
the polls tended to systematically underrest or overestimate one side,
so that happens, either of them could win and win
(06:14):
on the night easily, so all of this may be
for nothing. Nationwide, Harris is officially ahead by one point
on average. There's only one major national pole showing Harris
improving in any way, shape or form last week. Overall,
if you're looking once again at averages, it's moving towards Trump,
but once again not in a way that you would go, well,
(06:37):
there it is. He's won then, because you cannot even
begin to say that. North Carolina they think at this
point might be slightly different. There's a quinnipiac for Harris
ahead by three he Trump still holds a big lead.
In Georgia, there's a signal pole that has Trump ahead
by a point. So you got two poles. In North Carolina,
(06:57):
Trump's leading in one, Harris is ahead significantly. What's going
on Helene? Hurricane Eleen, so the cleanup still on. People's
lives are up ended. They've got bigger things and better
things to do, so they think the polling could be
all over the place. So Carolina isn't play. North Carolina
doesn't play. But as for the other, you know, the
swing states, there's nothing. There is literally literally nothing in
(07:19):
early voting today. By the way, opened in Wisconsin in person.
Trump got that last time by twenty one thousand votes.
So in these states that they should really feel confident
about now, not all of them are going to go
their way, but in these states that they should be
feeling pretty confident about, they're not, and not even closer.
And that's what makes it so fascinating on me.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
One of these ones where there are going to specific
counties that will hold the balance of power. What a
great way to choose the leader of the free world.
What could possibly go wrong?
Speaker 3 (07:51):
The rewrap right?
Speaker 2 (07:52):
A big day for uber eats or a big week
for uber eats. It's now available in a whole lot
more places than it was before.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
How excited are you blend him? Uber eats is coming
to you Uber eats if you having twelve new locations
around beautiful regional New Zealand Tower Pome Masterton Levin, Fakatani, Tokaraa, Tabamutuharra, Timuru,
Ashburt Nomuru, Wonka, paraparam and fielding, and so it is
just moments away from you being able to ring up
your favorite restaurant and then stand by for the twenty minutes,
(08:23):
twenty seven minutes, thirty three minutes, forty two minutes, forty
eight minutes while you wait for the person not to
be able to find your address and to serve you
cold food, and you too can experience what we have
loved and lapped up in the city for so many
successful years.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
You know it's an app. You don't ring the restaurant.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Do you not ring the restaurant? Well, we do and
then they deliver via the Uber. Is that different again?
What's the just quickly and you've got me on, don't
don't fire me up this morning, Glynn. There's a new
service from the supermarket. One of the supermarkets used to
have a truck and the truck never turned up. They
were useless. But the same supermarket, while still running the truck,
(09:00):
is running an Uber service now where your groceries come
in five six, seven minutes.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Talk about door dash, No, no.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Another service, but it's brilliant and I can't work out
why the supermarket would be running an Uber service. Milk
milk run, while milk Run is so fantastically successful, while
their truck service also paid for there, but is so
fantastically useless. Why would you run a good service and
a useless service together. That's my marketing question for you.
(09:30):
This morning, I had.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Food delivered recently and it arrived early for five minutes early. Yeah,
you can't. I don't think you can write write things
these things off completely, can you.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
It's a rewrap.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
You just have to average it out. I think sometimes
it's good, sometimes it's not. Sometimes it's just fine.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Average all the average numbers. I found it fascinating the average.
I gave you yesterday a couple of wage averages, but
the average are this is the status department average wage
in this country. And the problem with averages is there
are no averages, of course, and that's how you get
to averages. You get to averages by having people who
aren't average, and there some above and some below, and
then you average it all out and you call it
an average. But the average wage is sixteen hundred and
(10:14):
twelve dollars. That's a week. The per R rate coming in
at forty one dollars and fifty two cent. So you
can either feel good about that, or you can feel
bad about it, depending on where in life you are.
The average house value in this country I found interesting
eight hundred and five thousand dollars. The average KEIPI saver
balance I found worryingly low at thirty three thousand, five
hundred dollars. If you think that somehow is going to
pay for your retirement, I'd second guess myself. There savings account,
(10:37):
the average savings account was had fifteen thousand dollars eight
hundred and fifteen thousand, eight hundred dollars in the average
savings account. Average home loan, well, if you're a first
time it's over half a million's five hundred and fifty thousand.
But if you're just an average home loaner, it's three
hundred and eighteen thousand, one hundred and fifty one dollars.
What's your credit card debt? The average credit card debt
in this country is three thousand. But that gets complicated
(11:01):
because as that are debted in your moment, and when
the bill comes due to you pay you three thousand,
You pay your fifty seven dollars because you have to,
and then you keep the rest and then it all
adds up. Average credit score is actually quite good because
you get a credit score between apparently three hundred and
eight hundred and fifty three hundred not good, eight hundred
and fifty fabulous, average score seven to fifty two, So
(11:21):
we're quite good. That's that. That means you can go
and tap into a bit more money. Food bill. How
much do we spend each week? I was astonished at this.
The average is three hundred dollars a week on food.
One hundred and thirty nine of that's on general grocery,
thirty is on restaurants, twenty three a week on alcoholic beverages.
What's the twenty three? Is that one bottle of wine?
(11:43):
Do you think? Or is that?
Speaker 2 (11:45):
What?
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Would you get two bourbon and cokes at a what's
a bourbon and coke cost? I don't know what a
bourmon and co cost. It appears where you go, That's
what That's what I'm saying, And that's why we have averages. Glen.
It sort of spoils it, doesn't it. You can spend
I reckon you could spend eighteen dollars on a bourbon
and coke. You could, Yeah, exactly, you'd be foolish.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
I've had a flash ice cube and an umbrewller on
the side, precisely.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
What's a cheap bourbon and coke? Well, what's the cheapest
bourbon of coke? Where would you go and get right home?
Speaker 2 (12:12):
That would be we were poor cheap one mind. You
can't buy a bottle like a proper bottle of bourbon
for twenty three.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Dollars, No, you can't, precisely, So you'd have to save
up two locks two weeks worth of savings.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
And make it last. Maybe that bottle lasts for two weeks.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
How much of the bottle of bourbon.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Cost at least forty five dollars exactly.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
So two weeks is forty six. You haven't got the
money for the coke, so it's you're into your third
week of savings now for goodness sake, and then the
coke will go flatten. The third well, god, it's.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Complic to my general growthrey.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Exactly thirty five dollars a week on clothes. See, you're
not buying one on every color at thirty five dollars
a week. Are You're not at thirty five dollars a week.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Let's get one color a week exactly.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
You're not going in there and saying, ah, one on
every color. There's no one going into Frederick's. Are they
seven dollars eighty on footwear? It's not to have to
pay seven dollars eighty on footwear? Rent five sixty eight,
that's fairly well known. Power bill is interesting, two hundred dollars.
Does that surprise you? On average a month two hundred bucks?
(13:12):
So there you go, if you if all those numbers
tellied with you your average and congratulations.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
So yeah, the things that surprised Mike with the power
and the food bills because they were dramatically, drastically, insanely
lower than what he pays. So that's why he was surprised.
He talks about being in touch with the common man,
but a woman. And also I did I did quish
(13:40):
a little bit off here about how he thought the
kiwisaver average of thirty three thousand it wasn't enough. But
I'm assuming that that is the average that's in everybody's
QII saver accounts as we speak. So it's not just
the people who were about to retire and dip into
that money. Of course, people who've only just started working
(14:01):
and have set up their QUI saver, I assume, so
that would explain that would or not or is it
just a part of meaningless statistics that we should probably
shouldn't take too much noto soong, just like I don't
know the American polling, for example, I am Glen Heart.
I'll have more stuff that you shouldn't take any notice
of for you tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
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