October 30, 2024 • 12 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
You're listening to a podcast from news Talk said B.
Follow this and our wide range of podcasts now on
iHeartRadio The Rewrap.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Okay there, welcome to the Rewrap for Thursday, all the
best bits from the Mike Hosking Breakfast on Newstalk SIDB
and a Sillier package. I am Glen Hart and today,
why are we talking about our COVID response? I thought
we'd put all this behind us? What does that warning
light mean? Is Wayne Brown the happiest mirror on earth?
And what do you get for thirty dollars when you're
(00:51):
talking cannibase? But before any of that, the Election Study?
Why are we talking about the election? Didn't they happen
like a year ago?
Speaker 3 (00:57):
A good bit of reading, by the way to be
had as a thing called the Election Study. Now it
seems to have been published in various outlets this week,
and it's been produced by a bunch of political scientists.
It is designed, I assume are to give us some
insight into what we did this time last year in
the election. So it talked to voters about issues and
intent and in that it's fascinating but also a complete
(01:19):
waste of time. Now, the intent was about change. It's
a change election. The economy was shot, the price of
everything was a thing, so we wanted change. So far,
so accurate. That's what the report tells us now places
weight and I'm not sure why on what we say
around voting intent, For example, health, we want more money
for health, we said, do we really? I mean really?
(01:39):
Don't we always want more for health? Haven't we said
we want more for health literally forever? And given we have,
why don't we vote for the party that promises more
for health, which more often than not would be a
left leaning party, wouldn't it. The reason we don't is
because what we say and what we do are not
always the same thing, of course, and also along with
the desire for more of everything, we are, of course
(02:00):
cognizant in our quiet moments of the cost. Hence the
economy was shot, hence our vote for change. Now, the report,
and this is where it's sort of becomes pointless, looks
at the current government's mandate, what we wanted when we voted,
and what we've ended up with now. The mistake they
make in putting a microscope on all of this is
we each only have one vote. It's a very small,
(02:22):
very blunt instrument. If we had one hundred votes, we
could analyze ourselves to we were blue in the face,
sort of like a shopping list. The more dollars you have,
the more things you can buy. Our vote, in fact,
buys virtually nothing other than the knowledge we supported or
didn't the winning team. By the time our singular vote
is put to well in the big barrel, we call
an election, and as it turns out, three parties won
(02:43):
that election last time, and then they do a deal
to be able to work together and not scrap for
three years because we voted for MMP. Of course, what
we wanted, what we expected versus what we actually got
may or may not have a passing resemblance to each other.
A vote, if you want a simple and yet I
would argue more accurate assessment is simply a reaction to
(03:04):
a right and wrong direction of travel at any given
time in a country. Anything more specific you dream.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
It did make me laugh that keep going on and
on and on about how we have a singular vote,
a single vote. We've got a vote. We have two votes.
Do you not notice that you get two these days? Anyway,
So we wrap as to the question of whether you'd
vote to lock yourself down again or not should another
(03:31):
pandemic happen, because you know the COVID ones definitely over right.
What would you say to that.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
To tell you what, if this government wants a money
saving idea, then they can cancel the two COVID inquiries
we've got under at the moment and simply adopt Australia's.
Australias released yesterday's damning as indeed will ours be, and
ours will be pretty much the same as Australia's because
within a margin, we did pretty much the same thing.
The irony, if there is one, is that they had
versions of theirs, and here's a major lesson. Even with
(03:58):
the versions, it's broadly accepted none of them turned out
to be much chop. If we were a state of Australia,
we would have come in at the tighter or more
restrictive end of the Australian version. Places Victoria were very
much like us because they were run by two very
similar sort of people, Dan Andrews and Jacinda Adun. They
were hard left control freaks. Western Australia was an outlier
(04:19):
in the sense they had a lot of rules, but
not many of them applied inside the state. In other words,
they locked themselves off from the rest of the world,
but because they were self reliant, they got on with life.
New South Wales, run by conservatives, had the most lenient response.
But and I would have thought, this is the biggest outtake.
No matter what the response, faith and trust has been lost.
The rallying cry post COVID has been to learn the lessons,
(04:42):
so we're ready for next time? Are we ready for
next time?
Speaker 1 (04:46):
No?
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Will we ever be?
Speaker 2 (04:47):
No?
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Will it be worse? Yes? Why? Because, as the report suggests,
the big lesson we have learned is that the people
who run us aren't up to much, and they did
a lot of things we would never go along with again,
which does, of course present a very real issue. I
would have thought, because it's entirely possible there will be
a next time. These reports are also predicated on the
idea that those who ran it all learn their lessons.
(05:08):
Will they, of course not. The public service is full
of Ashley's and Cinders and Dans and Gladyses. And if
it's them or their milk running things next time, we'll
look exactly like this time. Except and this is where
the carnage will ensue. We won't be along for the ride.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
I think there were a few people we employ it
really along for the ride last time, to be perfectly honest.
But yes, I suppose it's made some good points there.
And these are all things that I hoped I would
never have to think about ever again. And I'm going
to stop thinking about them right now. The rewrap now.
And there's no bigger car expert I know than Mike Hosking.
(05:43):
And yeah, it turns out he doesn't actually know everything.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Quick question, If the coolant light starts flashing on your
car just out of nowhere, you're just driving along, the
coolant light starts flashing on your car, and at that
point you go, I tell you what, how hard can
it be to have a look at the coolant? So
you look at the manual and you open up the
menu and work out where the coolant is, and you
pop the bonnet and you look and go, my word,
(06:08):
that coolant looks it's full, it's beautiful, it's not leaking,
it's in tip top condition. Would that then lead you
to believe that it's the light So it's an electrical problem,
not a coolant problem. Now, if it's an electrical problem,
not a coolant problem. Do you back yourself on that
decision and simply carry on driving with the risk that
(06:30):
maybe it wasn't an electrical problem and it was a
coolant problem and at some point a tremendous amount of
heat's going to be coming out of the engine and
you basically buggered the thing. Or were you right all
along you're just happy to drive it along.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
I was always told that the only light you really
have to worry about is the engine light. If that
one comes on, then you should stop straight away.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Tony, you should say that I had a Ferrari and
that light came on about an hour after I bought it.
I went, this has not been a good purchase.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
And so you thought this is not.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
So I went back to the Ferrari didner. I said,
look at that, because it says not only you must
stop immediately, drive to the dealer as fast as you can.
So I took her back and they went, oh, that
nothing to worry about. I thought, are you lying to
me or not? Anyway, they may.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
The like golding to be that the dealer wasn't a
Ferrari guy either. The annoying one is when we've got
the dog in the back seat and he wanders across.
He's got his own seat belt, which is just sort
of really it's kind of like a dog leash that's
made out of seat belt stuff that clips into the
seat belt, so you can't go flying through the car
(07:45):
should come from an emergency stop, but it does give
him the opportunity to sort of wander backwards and forwards
on the back seat, which he does change position from
time to time. And he's just around that fifteen kilo
mark and apparently that's the sort of right on the
edge of when their seat belt warning is going to
go off or night and so sometimes the carols start
(08:06):
beeping telling you that not everybody's got their seat belt time,
which is annoying. And then of course I had the
revelation that I could just plug those seatbelts and without
anybody sitting there, and then that light wouldn't come on.
So thanks for listening to my story. So rerap, so
wonder this podcast is so successful and is so what's
(08:28):
the word old?
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Everyone has a podcast? I mean, I mean literally everyone's
got a podcast, just because you've got your different platforms,
right and on the Apple platform, which was just the
one I was reading about yesterday, there's over one hundred
million podcast episodes. Ae hundred million podcast episodes, but there
are only two point seven three million podcasts, so that's
(08:50):
the episodes of the podcast. So two point seven three
million podcasts. There are seven hundred and ten new podcasts,
not episodes, new podcasts just added yesterday. Just yesterday, there
were seven hundred and ten new podcasts boom out of nowhere.
There were eighteen one thousand, eight hundred and ninety four
(09:11):
podcasts added in just the last month. Now I'm assuming
like all platforms, Apple chun them and boot them off.
There were sixty three thousand, seven hundred and seventy episodes
removed manually or manually or automatically over the last thirty days.
So they are dropping like flies. So the point being
that they were making in this very fascinating article I
(09:32):
was reading, anyone could do a podcast, and clearly they are.
Guess how long? Most podcasts last one episode, a single
episode if you can get past one.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
So I feel quite good now because I'm up to today.
It'll be episode three, one hundred and sixty three.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Yeah, And although I joke about your pod three ramp
and I've never heard it you're you're a veteran of
the industry. Correct, You're a survivor and a king maker.
You're a change maker, Glenn in the podcast world.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
And are still for the life of me, I can't
figure out why this one, the Rerap, is so much
more successful than news Dogs they had been, which is
the other podcast I do, which is exactly like this podcast,
except it's just got a bit less my high skang
but more of everybody else. But anyway, maybe it's because
I record it so early in the morning. I can't
see how that would make any difference to our podcast,
(10:27):
but oh boy, it makes a difference to me the Rerap. Right,
we're going to finish up here with some or dervs
at testing. I love a slider, don't you now?
Speaker 3 (10:37):
One hundred thousand dollars on catering. You say, didn't we
hear this the other day? Oh, yes we did, but
that was a separate one. So there's one hundred thousand
dollars more on catering from Health New Zealand ninety five
hundred and eighty four dollars to be precise. And this
was for some financial wonks for a three day conference.
So Retti once again has issued the warning to them
(10:58):
if you're going to do the sausage rolls in the
cannapace last one, the canopays were thirty two dollars a pop.
I don't think I've ever been. I don't even know
what you get.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
There's not just one.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
It's a cannapae. It's thirty two dollars or do you
think it was a hit thirty two dollars a person.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
I'm sure you're not getting thirty two dollars moss, are you?
Speaker 3 (11:17):
And I mean, what are you getting for thirty two dollars? Anyway?
Asha Viril, who was of course in charge at the time,
she was quote unquote distancing herself from it.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
No kidding, Yeah, I mean we just don't have enough
details to her. We're talking, like I say, we're talking
mini burgers, Are we talking sushi? Are we talking prawns
on a stick? And if we are, have they still
got the tails on? That's a high maintenance CANape right there,
isn't it. My rule is if I can't put it
all in my mouth in one go, I won't accept it,
(11:47):
usually unless I'm starving, and certainly if there's a dipping
sauce that's that's fraught is Yeah, you just can't. You
can't have it. You don't want a two handed canterfe
and you don't want to be left with things in
your hands afterwards. You don't want to be left with
sticks and plates and things like that. It's no evidence
(12:12):
that's that's what you want. There you go Glenn's top
or do a paid tvo. Yeah, can I pay tips
for Thursday? No one of this podcast does so well,
I'll see you back here again, and don't forget tomorrow,
and don't forget to go back and listen to some
(12:32):
news talks they had beans along the way.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
For more from news Talks 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 news Talk said B.
Follow this and our wide range of podcasts now on
iHeartRadio The Rewrap.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Okay there, welcome to the Rewrap for Thursday, all the
best bits from the Mike Hosking Breakfast on Newstalk SIDB
and a Sillier package. I am Glen Hart and today,
why are we talking about our COVID response? I thought
we'd put all this behind us? What does that warning
light mean? Is Wayne Brown the happiest mirror on earth?
And what do you get for thirty dollars when you're
(00:51):
talking cannibase? But before any of that, the Election Study?
Why are we talking about the election? Didn't they happen
like a year ago?
Speaker 3 (00:57):
A good bit of reading, by the way to be
had as a thing called the Election Study. Now it
seems to have been published in various outlets this week,
and it's been produced by a bunch of political scientists.
It is designed, I assume are to give us some
insight into what we did this time last year in
the election. So it talked to voters about issues and
intent and in that it's fascinating but also a complete
(01:19):
waste of time. Now, the intent was about change. It's
a change election. The economy was shot, the price of
everything was a thing, so we wanted change. So far,
so accurate. That's what the report tells us now places
weight and I'm not sure why on what we say
around voting intent, For example, health, we want more money
for health, we said, do we really? I mean really?
(01:39):
Don't we always want more for health? Haven't we said
we want more for health literally forever? And given we have,
why don't we vote for the party that promises more
for health, which more often than not would be a
left leaning party, wouldn't it. The reason we don't is
because what we say and what we do are not
always the same thing, of course, and also along with
the desire for more of everything, we are, of course
(02:00):
cognizant in our quiet moments of the cost. Hence the
economy was shot, hence our vote for change. Now, the report,
and this is where it's sort of becomes pointless, looks
at the current government's mandate, what we wanted when we voted,
and what we've ended up with now. The mistake they
make in putting a microscope on all of this is
we each only have one vote. It's a very small,
(02:22):
very blunt instrument. If we had one hundred votes, we
could analyze ourselves to we were blue in the face,
sort of like a shopping list. The more dollars you have,
the more things you can buy. Our vote, in fact,
buys virtually nothing other than the knowledge we supported or
didn't the winning team. By the time our singular vote
is put to well in the big barrel, we call
an election, and as it turns out, three parties won
(02:43):
that election last time, and then they do a deal
to be able to work together and not scrap for
three years because we voted for MMP. Of course, what
we wanted, what we expected versus what we actually got
may or may not have a passing resemblance to each other.
A vote, if you want a simple and yet I
would argue more accurate assessment is simply a reaction to
(03:04):
a right and wrong direction of travel at any given
time in a country. Anything more specific you dream.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
It did make me laugh that keep going on and
on and on about how we have a singular vote,
a single vote. We've got a vote. We have two votes.
Do you not notice that you get two these days? Anyway,
So we wrap as to the question of whether you'd
vote to lock yourself down again or not should another
(03:31):
pandemic happen, because you know the COVID ones definitely over right.
What would you say to that.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
To tell you what, if this government wants a money
saving idea, then they can cancel the two COVID inquiries
we've got under at the moment and simply adopt Australia's.
Australias released yesterday's damning as indeed will ours be, and
ours will be pretty much the same as Australia's because
within a margin, we did pretty much the same thing.
The irony, if there is one, is that they had
versions of theirs, and here's a major lesson. Even with
(03:58):
the versions, it's broadly accepted none of them turned out
to be much chop. If we were a state of Australia,
we would have come in at the tighter or more
restrictive end of the Australian version. Places Victoria were very
much like us because they were run by two very
similar sort of people, Dan Andrews and Jacinda Adun. They
were hard left control freaks. Western Australia was an outlier
(04:19):
in the sense they had a lot of rules, but
not many of them applied inside the state. In other words,
they locked themselves off from the rest of the world,
but because they were self reliant, they got on with life.
New South Wales, run by conservatives, had the most lenient response.
But and I would have thought, this is the biggest outtake.
No matter what the response, faith and trust has been lost.
The rallying cry post COVID has been to learn the lessons,
(04:42):
so we're ready for next time? Are we ready for
next time?
Speaker 1 (04:46):
No?
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Will we ever be?
Speaker 2 (04:47):
No?
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Will it be worse? Yes? Why? Because, as the report suggests,
the big lesson we have learned is that the people
who run us aren't up to much, and they did
a lot of things we would never go along with again,
which does, of course present a very real issue. I
would have thought, because it's entirely possible there will be
a next time. These reports are also predicated on the
idea that those who ran it all learn their lessons.
(05:08):
Will they, of course not. The public service is full
of Ashley's and Cinders and Dans and Gladyses. And if
it's them or their milk running things next time, we'll
look exactly like this time. Except and this is where
the carnage will ensue. We won't be along for the ride.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
I think there were a few people we employ it
really along for the ride last time, to be perfectly honest.
But yes, I suppose it's made some good points there.
And these are all things that I hoped I would
never have to think about ever again. And I'm going
to stop thinking about them right now. The rewrap now.
And there's no bigger car expert I know than Mike Hosking.
(05:43):
And yeah, it turns out he doesn't actually know everything.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Quick question, If the coolant light starts flashing on your
car just out of nowhere, you're just driving along, the
coolant light starts flashing on your car, and at that
point you go, I tell you what, how hard can
it be to have a look at the coolant? So
you look at the manual and you open up the
menu and work out where the coolant is, and you
pop the bonnet and you look and go, my word,
(06:08):
that coolant looks it's full, it's beautiful, it's not leaking,
it's in tip top condition. Would that then lead you
to believe that it's the light So it's an electrical problem,
not a coolant problem. Now, if it's an electrical problem,
not a coolant problem. Do you back yourself on that
decision and simply carry on driving with the risk that
(06:30):
maybe it wasn't an electrical problem and it was a
coolant problem and at some point a tremendous amount of
heat's going to be coming out of the engine and
you basically buggered the thing. Or were you right all
along you're just happy to drive it along.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
I was always told that the only light you really
have to worry about is the engine light. If that
one comes on, then you should stop straight away.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Tony, you should say that I had a Ferrari and
that light came on about an hour after I bought it.
I went, this has not been a good purchase.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
And so you thought this is not.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
So I went back to the Ferrari didner. I said,
look at that, because it says not only you must
stop immediately, drive to the dealer as fast as you can.
So I took her back and they went, oh, that
nothing to worry about. I thought, are you lying to
me or not? Anyway, they may.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
The like golding to be that the dealer wasn't a
Ferrari guy either. The annoying one is when we've got
the dog in the back seat and he wanders across.
He's got his own seat belt, which is just sort
of really it's kind of like a dog leash that's
made out of seat belt stuff that clips into the
seat belt, so you can't go flying through the car
(07:45):
should come from an emergency stop, but it does give
him the opportunity to sort of wander backwards and forwards
on the back seat, which he does change position from
time to time. And he's just around that fifteen kilo
mark and apparently that's the sort of right on the
edge of when their seat belt warning is going to
go off or night and so sometimes the carols start
(08:06):
beeping telling you that not everybody's got their seat belt time,
which is annoying. And then of course I had the
revelation that I could just plug those seatbelts and without
anybody sitting there, and then that light wouldn't come on.
So thanks for listening to my story. So rerap, so
wonder this podcast is so successful and is so what's
(08:28):
the word old?
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Everyone has a podcast? I mean, I mean literally everyone's
got a podcast, just because you've got your different platforms,
right and on the Apple platform, which was just the
one I was reading about yesterday, there's over one hundred
million podcast episodes. Ae hundred million podcast episodes, but there
are only two point seven three million podcasts, so that's
(08:50):
the episodes of the podcast. So two point seven three
million podcasts. There are seven hundred and ten new podcasts,
not episodes, new podcasts just added yesterday. Just yesterday, there
were seven hundred and ten new podcasts boom out of nowhere.
There were eighteen one thousand, eight hundred and ninety four
(09:11):
podcasts added in just the last month. Now I'm assuming
like all platforms, Apple chun them and boot them off.
There were sixty three thousand, seven hundred and seventy episodes
removed manually or manually or automatically over the last thirty days.
So they are dropping like flies. So the point being
that they were making in this very fascinating article I
(09:32):
was reading, anyone could do a podcast, and clearly they are.
Guess how long? Most podcasts last one episode, a single
episode if you can get past one.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
So I feel quite good now because I'm up to today.
It'll be episode three, one hundred and sixty three.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Yeah, And although I joke about your pod three ramp
and I've never heard it you're you're a veteran of
the industry. Correct, You're a survivor and a king maker.
You're a change maker, Glenn in the podcast world.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
And are still for the life of me, I can't
figure out why this one, the Rerap, is so much
more successful than news Dogs they had been, which is
the other podcast I do, which is exactly like this podcast,
except it's just got a bit less my high skang
but more of everybody else. But anyway, maybe it's because
I record it so early in the morning. I can't
see how that would make any difference to our podcast,
(10:27):
but oh boy, it makes a difference to me the Rerap. Right,
we're going to finish up here with some or dervs
at testing. I love a slider, don't you now?
Speaker 3 (10:37):
One hundred thousand dollars on catering. You say, didn't we
hear this the other day? Oh, yes we did, but
that was a separate one. So there's one hundred thousand
dollars more on catering from Health New Zealand ninety five
hundred and eighty four dollars to be precise. And this
was for some financial wonks for a three day conference.
So Retti once again has issued the warning to them
(10:58):
if you're going to do the sausage rolls in the
cannapace last one, the canopays were thirty two dollars a pop.
I don't think I've ever been. I don't even know
what you get.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
There's not just one.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
It's a cannapae. It's thirty two dollars or do you
think it was a hit thirty two dollars a person.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
I'm sure you're not getting thirty two dollars moss, are you?
Speaker 3 (11:17):
And I mean, what are you getting for thirty two dollars? Anyway?
Asha Viril, who was of course in charge at the time,
she was quote unquote distancing herself from it.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
No kidding, Yeah, I mean we just don't have enough
details to her. We're talking, like I say, we're talking
mini burgers, Are we talking sushi? Are we talking prawns
on a stick? And if we are, have they still
got the tails on? That's a high maintenance CANape right there,
isn't it. My rule is if I can't put it
all in my mouth in one go, I won't accept it,
(11:47):
usually unless I'm starving, and certainly if there's a dipping
sauce that's that's fraught is Yeah, you just can't. You
can't have it. You don't want a two handed canterfe
and you don't want to be left with things in
your hands afterwards. You don't want to be left with
sticks and plates and things like that. It's no evidence
(12:12):
that's that's what you want. There you go Glenn's top
or do a paid tvo. Yeah, can I pay tips
for Thursday? No one of this podcast does so well,
I'll see you back here again, and don't forget tomorrow,
and don't forget to go back and listen to some
(12:32):
news talks they had beans along the way.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
For more from news Talks 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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I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!