November 4, 2024 • 14 mins
THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Tuesday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) Even T-Swiz Won't Save Her/Stop Saying the "N" Word/Let's Get This Tuesday Over With
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
Okay there, and welcome to the Rewrap for Tuesday. All
the best buts from the Mike Costing Breakfast on News
doalgs zed B and a Sillier package on anglean Heart,
and today we're.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Talking nuclear power again.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Yes, might's going to keep saying that inward just to
wrap things up that particularly in word, not just any
in word or any the inward racing, not motor racingless time,
stupid horse racing that we care less and less about.
But before any of that, the US election, which we
seem to care more and more about these days. No
(01:01):
matter how many stars Harris rolls out, it might be.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
To no effect.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
One of the many things I failed to truly understand
about this election is just what it is they think
Jennifer Anderston or Harrison Fall is going to do for
your vote. The celebrity endorsement has been the mainstay of
the Democrats campaign, mainly because there are very few so
called famous people in places like Hollywood that aren't liberals.
She has not been short of choice. At some point,
I decided it started to look a bit desperate. Lebron
(01:29):
John bond jov over the weekend with the song Bruce
Springsteen's an old favorite Lady Garga. And of course, if
they managed to roll out Tea Squiz, it's reached peak
endorsement or peak panic. One or the other Tea Squiz
has already endorsed, of course, but it seems it's better
if you actually show up and sing a song. Jennifer
Lopez showed up over the weekend, but she didn't sing,
but she did manage to look sensationally earnest. My suggestion
(01:50):
is this celebs are robust. They are not what they
used to be. I mean, I love Lebron, I love
what he's about, I love how good he is, and
he can vote anyway he wants. I still love him,
but he's never going to tell me how to vote,
no matter which way I vote. Could he sway an
impressionable eighteen year old sports freak. Maybe maybe that's why
out there, but a lot of them aren't of Lebron's weightiness.
(02:12):
A lot of them are as shallow as a puddle.
And that is modern celebrity for you. This isn't carry Grant,
Luciell Ball or Sean Connery. The days of mystery and intrigue,
These are the days of TikTok, where these people are
so omnipresent they could be our mailman. Hence, the star
powers dimmed, the influence has faded. The idea that we
can't think for ourselves is preposterous. If celebrities worked, this
(02:32):
would be a landslide. And yet it isn't. It's Trump
and Hulk Hogan versus Harrison, virtually the entire film and
music industry. Somehow the Dems have missed the memo. And
if they lose, what's that say about the entire film
and music industry?
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Well, I guess the problem with the film and music
industry is that it's all performative.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Isn't it.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
It's a bunch of people who are used to putting
on a show, doing things which may or may not
be real, pretending to be things that they're not.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
And I don't think that normal people.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
I don't know anything about being normal, obviously, but this
is what I understand. That normal people don't really relate
to abnormal people like that.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Do they rewrap?
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Disturbingly, the latest polls might show that they're relating to
Trump just that little bit more.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
We've had Henry Olsen the polster, he says it's Trump,
Nate Silvera says it's Trump that's as gut as opposed
to anything, and then we've now got the polsters at Rasmussen.
The head polster is a guy called Mark Mitchell. He
says Trump is poised to secure a significant electoral victory,
potentially sweeping battleground states. He's favoring Trump in the national
poll as well, which is interesting because Henry Olsen doesn't
(03:44):
say he will win the popular vote, but he doesn't
rule it out and he wouldn't be surprised if he does.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
So.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
He wins the electoral college plus the popular vote, So
that is legitimacy all day long. Because there's been this
boring debate. You know, you go back to Clinton as
an example, three million for ewer votes, et cetera, et cetera.
It doesn't matter because the electoral college is all that counts.
But if you win the electoral college plus the popular vote,
then there's just no question. This guy Mitchell is suggesting
(04:11):
Trump's going to secure a strongly nationally dominate in the
battleground states. And you probably need to look to Reagan
in nineteen eighty over Carter, And whether you want to
use in a motive word like landslide doesn't really matter.
Is it going to be a decisive victory? He says
it will be. It appears stronger, the Trump cycle appears
(04:32):
stronger in the Swing States than in past cycles. He
dismisses the polling around Harris and the late breakers and
the women and all of that. He says, those poles
misleadingly skew towards Harris, who would know on the day
will find out. But that's three really major players in
the world of polling. Are they all wrong or are
(04:53):
they all seeing the same thing? And in other words,
they're right.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Really weird about the expert analysis of the poles is
that they spend a lot of time talking about how
misleading the poles have been in the past, and they
like to use that as some kind of a guide.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
It's like.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
When they say that pregnancies last forty weeks, except then
the first pregnancy, you know, for Peeble's first kids, it's
usually late. So really what they should say is that
a first pregnancy that'll be forty one, forty two weeks
that's pregnancies are to that that are about forty.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
It's the same sort of thing with the polling.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
It's like, well, I know, this is the numbers that
we said are the numbers and the poles, but they're
not right, and this is how much they're usually.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Not right by. It's very odd re wrap.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Anyway, and none of that might matter because of oh yeah,
that's right, racism and sexism, and.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Of course it's all guesswork at this particular point in time.
And you can look at the poles, and you can
look to the trends, and you can look at the surges.
I read a very interesting piece on the ABC, ABC
being the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and you can get them
by a woman called Leave Sales. Leave Sales Doyen of
Australian Broadcasting, host of the seven PM television program until
she's sort of semi retired or wandered off to write
(06:10):
pieces that she wrote the other day that I read
sheer reckons history is instructive, and she's a liberal. She
reckons history is instructive. They've never elected a woman and
they're not about to. I mean they could, but they're
probably not about to far less a woman of color.
She says, history counts, and she's probably right. Then she
breaks down these statistics, which I find fascinating. What percentage
of people in America are white? Sixty nine percent? You
(06:32):
hear so much coverage of the Latino vote, of the
Hispanic vote, of the Black vote. Behind the sixty nine
percent of Americans who are white, comes the black vote.
How big are the Black population of America? It's eleven percent.
How big is the Hispanic population of America, it's eleven percent.
Add those two together at equals twenty two, doesn't come
(06:55):
to sixty nine. Which doesn't mean, of course, that every
white person in America doesn't want to vote for a
woman and doesn't want to vote for a black woman
or a woman of color. But history tells us something.
And I will never forget standing in the Jebbid Center
in twenty sixteen, and Hillary Clinton wasn't just an odds
on chance to win. She was going to win. There
was no question she was going to win, and she
(07:17):
was going to win by a lot, and it was
just a matter of a couple of hours, and we
just needed to count up the votes and we'd have
our first woman president ever, and they were so convinced
that as it unfolded in the way it did, they
didn't see it. They couldn't believe that what was happening
was happening. And so you look to history, and I
think Leeves Sales is probably right.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Yes, So like I say, I mean, I don't know
why he didn't come out and say it specifically and explicitly,
but yeah, Mike's meaning there is that there are just
too many racists and sexists in America for a black
woman to win.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
So that's good to know, isn't that? That's cool?
Speaker 1 (07:57):
It's the rewrap all.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Right back here in New Zealand.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
It's time to remind everybody that we're going to run
out of power again next year. We just want to
keep doing that for you, little Forsa. And perhaps a
way to avoid that is nuclear.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
I know we're not supposed to say it, but.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
Bar's the Prime Minister this time last week about nuclear power, right.
He dismissed it. He dismissed it because we have become obsessed,
of course, with our anti nuclear stance over the decades,
which is fine if we don't want to be a
data center host. But that's the weird thing about it
we do, he argued, not persuasively, that we can be
a data center hub with the power we have I
E renewable. He is, of course wrong. Over the weekend,
(08:40):
yet more reportage and by the way, if you're interested,
there's an avalanche of the stuff to be read at
the moment about where the world is going on data.
It ties in with AI, and that ties in with
whether we buy into just how big AI can be
and what sort of expansion path it's on and therefore
how much power it's going to need to run it.
Dominion Energy serves the largest data center market in the
world out of Virginia. They have just signed a memorandum
(09:02):
of understanding with Amazon and they're now looking to do
business with other tech companies on what are called small
modular react as. This is the future of the world.
We now have the capacity to build small, agile facilities
that serve businesses with increasing power needs. Oracle, Google, all
the big tech companies raither doing it, are doing deals
with providers, or they're doing it themselves. This is happening now.
(09:22):
It's not in the future. It is happening right now.
For a country that runs a commentary of wanting to
participate in the world, to tap into our tech industry
to be a data hub. It seems increasingly obvious we
need to change our attitude to nuclear or indeed miss out.
What New Clear is, in very simple terms, is reliable
and good for the environment. Rain and wind and sun
is good for the environment. But it's not reliable, and
(09:44):
it's certainly not capable of scaling up to the sort
of level needed to be a data center provider. It's
entirely possible we can run a small country and its
needs the way we want to. But you can see
this unfold as clear as day. In a decade, we
will have missed the boat. The world doesn't care about
us and owes us nothing. We can see the path
the world is on when we stand there in twenty
to thirty five saying look at us, still nuclear free.
(10:08):
No wa one will care because they don't care now.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Unless unless there are a couple of other nuclear accidents
like Fukushima and Chernobyl and three Mile Island between now
and then.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
I'm not sure how many it'll take.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
I reckon like two or three, and then people might go, ah,
you see on it's stall a Nubar three.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Let's go the re wrap.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Not that I'm suggesting that I want that to happen.
I'm just saying that might be through that benefit. We're
going to finish up here with all, it's the first
Tuesday in November and that means.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Melbourne Cup Day.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Hooray race horses given its Melbourne Cup Day. I read
a fascinating fact yesterday one on every two hundred and
fifty four Australians owe at least a share of a
race horse or a thirty five thousand racehorses registered in Australia.
So one every two hundred and fifty four Australians owner
slice of it. And why would they do that Well
because of the prize money's gone through the roof. I
also agree with an article I read Peter fitz Simon's
(11:05):
the other day. He said, let's be clear, the Melbourne
Cup does not stop a nation, and hasn't for years.
And I think he's probably one hundred percent right, and
it certainly doesn't stop in Australia. If it doesn't stop
in Australia, doesn't stop in New Zealand. Is the broad
interest yes, will there be sweet stakes, yes, But the
days when everything stops. Simply isn't true anymore. It's not
true of anything. We don't gather around the water cooler,
(11:26):
we don't all watch the same television program. We aren't
all interested in the same thing. No one connects the
way they're used to anyway. The Melbourne Cup's got a
prize pull today of eight million. That's why people are
buying into horses. First place is four point four million cash.
This is how it's broken up. Because I don't know
much about racing, this was interesting to me, and this
is why people are buying slices of horses the prize money.
(11:46):
So if your horse wins the Melbourne Cup today you
get four point four million. How's that sliced up? Well,
eighty five percent goes to the owners. That's a lot
of money. Ten percent to the trainer doesn't strike me
as a lot of money for all the work you
do as a trainer. As an owner, you just go
is she lock an anti good? And then the trainer
has done all the work, will go oh yeah, reasonably.
Five percent goes to the jockey. Five percent of four
point four million ye'd have that, wouldn't you. But eighty five,
(12:08):
depending of course on how many owners. I mean, if
there's two owners, you quid zin. If there's eight hundred owners,
there are ninety five races that pay a million dollars
or more in prize money. So work that one through.
That's the equivalent of a million dollar race every three
point eight days. There are nearly twenty thousand races run
on Australia every year. The prize money is increased by
(12:28):
forty five percent. They're paying out eight hundred and eighty
five million dollars and that's in twenty twenty two, and
it's risen since then, so they'll be cracking a billion.
And that's why people want to buy us Last of Horse.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
It's a very curious experience.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
A couple of weeks back when that Everest race meeting
was happening, you know, I think you could win ten
million dollars if you got the winners of all ten
races ride or something something like that.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
I didn't. I can't be bothered finding.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Out enough about it because it's horse racing and I
really really hate horse racing so much. But it was
on and I happened to be in a pub, sitting
at a table by where the the screens with the
various horse races that were going on in Australia. They
were showing those, and it.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Was it was just so so odd.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
There was a machine there that you could take money
out of, and then there was another machine that you
could put money into to place your beds.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
I think that was what was happening.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Again, it's just something that I can't.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Believe is happening.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
So I didn't pay that much attention until there was
there seemed to be a big race, the actual Everest race,
I think is what it was. I don't again, I'm
not sure of the details, but but I couldn't ignore
the fact that, you know, a reasonable crowd of people
was suddenly standing around my table as I was trying
to eat hellabino poppers and yelling at the TV for
(13:53):
about two minutes, and then they all went away again.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
And you can't tell.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Me that's behavior that that's like, that's not weird. You
can't tell me that's not weird. That's weird behavior. Right,
I'm not talking about me eating the hailipino pops. I'm
talking about the people coming and yelling at the TVs
for two minutes and then.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Going away again. I'm glad they went away. That was
very noisy.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
I am Glenn Hart. That was the rewrap. Probably be
just as random again tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
See you then.
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
Okay there, and welcome to the Rewrap for Tuesday. All
the best buts from the Mike Costing Breakfast on News
doalgs zed B and a Sillier package on anglean Heart,
and today we're.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Talking nuclear power again.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Yes, might's going to keep saying that inward just to
wrap things up that particularly in word, not just any
in word or any the inward racing, not motor racingless time,
stupid horse racing that we care less and less about.
But before any of that, the US election, which we
seem to care more and more about these days. No
(01:01):
matter how many stars Harris rolls out, it might be.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
To no effect.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
One of the many things I failed to truly understand
about this election is just what it is they think
Jennifer Anderston or Harrison Fall is going to do for
your vote. The celebrity endorsement has been the mainstay of
the Democrats campaign, mainly because there are very few so
called famous people in places like Hollywood that aren't liberals.
She has not been short of choice. At some point,
I decided it started to look a bit desperate. Lebron
(01:29):
John bond jov over the weekend with the song Bruce
Springsteen's an old favorite Lady Garga. And of course, if
they managed to roll out Tea Squiz, it's reached peak
endorsement or peak panic. One or the other Tea Squiz
has already endorsed, of course, but it seems it's better
if you actually show up and sing a song. Jennifer
Lopez showed up over the weekend, but she didn't sing,
but she did manage to look sensationally earnest. My suggestion
(01:50):
is this celebs are robust. They are not what they
used to be. I mean, I love Lebron, I love
what he's about, I love how good he is, and
he can vote anyway he wants. I still love him,
but he's never going to tell me how to vote,
no matter which way I vote. Could he sway an
impressionable eighteen year old sports freak. Maybe maybe that's why
out there, but a lot of them aren't of Lebron's weightiness.
(02:12):
A lot of them are as shallow as a puddle.
And that is modern celebrity for you. This isn't carry Grant,
Luciell Ball or Sean Connery. The days of mystery and intrigue,
These are the days of TikTok, where these people are
so omnipresent they could be our mailman. Hence, the star
powers dimmed, the influence has faded. The idea that we
can't think for ourselves is preposterous. If celebrities worked, this
(02:32):
would be a landslide. And yet it isn't. It's Trump
and Hulk Hogan versus Harrison, virtually the entire film and
music industry. Somehow the Dems have missed the memo. And
if they lose, what's that say about the entire film
and music industry?
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Well, I guess the problem with the film and music
industry is that it's all performative.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Isn't it.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
It's a bunch of people who are used to putting
on a show, doing things which may or may not
be real, pretending to be things that they're not.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
And I don't think that normal people.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
I don't know anything about being normal, obviously, but this
is what I understand. That normal people don't really relate
to abnormal people like that.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Do they rewrap?
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Disturbingly, the latest polls might show that they're relating to
Trump just that little bit more.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
We've had Henry Olsen the polster, he says it's Trump,
Nate Silvera says it's Trump that's as gut as opposed
to anything, and then we've now got the polsters at Rasmussen.
The head polster is a guy called Mark Mitchell. He
says Trump is poised to secure a significant electoral victory,
potentially sweeping battleground states. He's favoring Trump in the national
poll as well, which is interesting because Henry Olsen doesn't
(03:44):
say he will win the popular vote, but he doesn't
rule it out and he wouldn't be surprised if he does.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
So.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
He wins the electoral college plus the popular vote, So
that is legitimacy all day long. Because there's been this
boring debate. You know, you go back to Clinton as
an example, three million for ewer votes, et cetera, et cetera.
It doesn't matter because the electoral college is all that counts.
But if you win the electoral college plus the popular vote,
then there's just no question. This guy Mitchell is suggesting
(04:11):
Trump's going to secure a strongly nationally dominate in the
battleground states. And you probably need to look to Reagan
in nineteen eighty over Carter, And whether you want to
use in a motive word like landslide doesn't really matter.
Is it going to be a decisive victory? He says
it will be. It appears stronger, the Trump cycle appears
(04:32):
stronger in the Swing States than in past cycles. He
dismisses the polling around Harris and the late breakers and
the women and all of that. He says, those poles
misleadingly skew towards Harris, who would know on the day
will find out. But that's three really major players in
the world of polling. Are they all wrong or are
(04:53):
they all seeing the same thing? And in other words,
they're right.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Really weird about the expert analysis of the poles is
that they spend a lot of time talking about how
misleading the poles have been in the past, and they
like to use that as some kind of a guide.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
It's like.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
When they say that pregnancies last forty weeks, except then
the first pregnancy, you know, for Peeble's first kids, it's
usually late. So really what they should say is that
a first pregnancy that'll be forty one, forty two weeks
that's pregnancies are to that that are about forty.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
It's the same sort of thing with the polling.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
It's like, well, I know, this is the numbers that
we said are the numbers and the poles, but they're
not right, and this is how much they're usually.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Not right by. It's very odd re wrap.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Anyway, and none of that might matter because of oh yeah,
that's right, racism and sexism, and.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Of course it's all guesswork at this particular point in time.
And you can look at the poles, and you can
look to the trends, and you can look at the surges.
I read a very interesting piece on the ABC, ABC
being the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and you can get them
by a woman called Leave Sales. Leave Sales Doyen of
Australian Broadcasting, host of the seven PM television program until
she's sort of semi retired or wandered off to write
(06:10):
pieces that she wrote the other day that I read
sheer reckons history is instructive, and she's a liberal. She
reckons history is instructive. They've never elected a woman and
they're not about to. I mean they could, but they're
probably not about to far less a woman of color.
She says, history counts, and she's probably right. Then she
breaks down these statistics, which I find fascinating. What percentage
of people in America are white? Sixty nine percent? You
(06:32):
hear so much coverage of the Latino vote, of the
Hispanic vote, of the Black vote. Behind the sixty nine
percent of Americans who are white, comes the black vote.
How big are the Black population of America? It's eleven percent.
How big is the Hispanic population of America, it's eleven percent.
Add those two together at equals twenty two, doesn't come
(06:55):
to sixty nine. Which doesn't mean, of course, that every
white person in America doesn't want to vote for a
woman and doesn't want to vote for a black woman
or a woman of color. But history tells us something.
And I will never forget standing in the Jebbid Center
in twenty sixteen, and Hillary Clinton wasn't just an odds
on chance to win. She was going to win. There
was no question she was going to win, and she
(07:17):
was going to win by a lot, and it was
just a matter of a couple of hours, and we
just needed to count up the votes and we'd have
our first woman president ever, and they were so convinced
that as it unfolded in the way it did, they
didn't see it. They couldn't believe that what was happening
was happening. And so you look to history, and I
think Leeves Sales is probably right.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Yes, So like I say, I mean, I don't know
why he didn't come out and say it specifically and explicitly,
but yeah, Mike's meaning there is that there are just
too many racists and sexists in America for a black
woman to win.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
So that's good to know, isn't that? That's cool?
Speaker 1 (07:57):
It's the rewrap all.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Right back here in New Zealand.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
It's time to remind everybody that we're going to run
out of power again next year. We just want to
keep doing that for you, little Forsa. And perhaps a
way to avoid that is nuclear.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
I know we're not supposed to say it, but.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
Bar's the Prime Minister this time last week about nuclear power, right.
He dismissed it. He dismissed it because we have become obsessed,
of course, with our anti nuclear stance over the decades,
which is fine if we don't want to be a
data center host. But that's the weird thing about it
we do, he argued, not persuasively, that we can be
a data center hub with the power we have I
E renewable. He is, of course wrong. Over the weekend,
(08:40):
yet more reportage and by the way, if you're interested,
there's an avalanche of the stuff to be read at
the moment about where the world is going on data.
It ties in with AI, and that ties in with
whether we buy into just how big AI can be
and what sort of expansion path it's on and therefore
how much power it's going to need to run it.
Dominion Energy serves the largest data center market in the
world out of Virginia. They have just signed a memorandum
(09:02):
of understanding with Amazon and they're now looking to do
business with other tech companies on what are called small
modular react as. This is the future of the world.
We now have the capacity to build small, agile facilities
that serve businesses with increasing power needs. Oracle, Google, all
the big tech companies raither doing it, are doing deals
with providers, or they're doing it themselves. This is happening now.
(09:22):
It's not in the future. It is happening right now.
For a country that runs a commentary of wanting to
participate in the world, to tap into our tech industry
to be a data hub. It seems increasingly obvious we
need to change our attitude to nuclear or indeed miss out.
What New Clear is, in very simple terms, is reliable
and good for the environment. Rain and wind and sun
is good for the environment. But it's not reliable, and
(09:44):
it's certainly not capable of scaling up to the sort
of level needed to be a data center provider. It's
entirely possible we can run a small country and its
needs the way we want to. But you can see
this unfold as clear as day. In a decade, we
will have missed the boat. The world doesn't care about
us and owes us nothing. We can see the path
the world is on when we stand there in twenty
to thirty five saying look at us, still nuclear free.
(10:08):
No wa one will care because they don't care now.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Unless unless there are a couple of other nuclear accidents
like Fukushima and Chernobyl and three Mile Island between now
and then.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
I'm not sure how many it'll take.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
I reckon like two or three, and then people might go, ah,
you see on it's stall a Nubar three.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Let's go the re wrap.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Not that I'm suggesting that I want that to happen.
I'm just saying that might be through that benefit. We're
going to finish up here with all, it's the first
Tuesday in November and that means.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Melbourne Cup Day.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Hooray race horses given its Melbourne Cup Day. I read
a fascinating fact yesterday one on every two hundred and
fifty four Australians owe at least a share of a
race horse or a thirty five thousand racehorses registered in Australia.
So one every two hundred and fifty four Australians owner
slice of it. And why would they do that Well
because of the prize money's gone through the roof. I
also agree with an article I read Peter fitz Simon's
(11:05):
the other day. He said, let's be clear, the Melbourne
Cup does not stop a nation, and hasn't for years.
And I think he's probably one hundred percent right, and
it certainly doesn't stop in Australia. If it doesn't stop
in Australia, doesn't stop in New Zealand. Is the broad
interest yes, will there be sweet stakes, yes, But the
days when everything stops. Simply isn't true anymore. It's not
true of anything. We don't gather around the water cooler,
(11:26):
we don't all watch the same television program. We aren't
all interested in the same thing. No one connects the
way they're used to anyway. The Melbourne Cup's got a
prize pull today of eight million. That's why people are
buying into horses. First place is four point four million cash.
This is how it's broken up. Because I don't know
much about racing, this was interesting to me, and this
is why people are buying slices of horses the prize money.
(11:46):
So if your horse wins the Melbourne Cup today you
get four point four million. How's that sliced up? Well,
eighty five percent goes to the owners. That's a lot
of money. Ten percent to the trainer doesn't strike me
as a lot of money for all the work you
do as a trainer. As an owner, you just go
is she lock an anti good? And then the trainer
has done all the work, will go oh yeah, reasonably.
Five percent goes to the jockey. Five percent of four
point four million ye'd have that, wouldn't you. But eighty five,
(12:08):
depending of course on how many owners. I mean, if
there's two owners, you quid zin. If there's eight hundred owners,
there are ninety five races that pay a million dollars
or more in prize money. So work that one through.
That's the equivalent of a million dollar race every three
point eight days. There are nearly twenty thousand races run
on Australia every year. The prize money is increased by
(12:28):
forty five percent. They're paying out eight hundred and eighty
five million dollars and that's in twenty twenty two, and
it's risen since then, so they'll be cracking a billion.
And that's why people want to buy us Last of Horse.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
It's a very curious experience.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
A couple of weeks back when that Everest race meeting
was happening, you know, I think you could win ten
million dollars if you got the winners of all ten
races ride or something something like that.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
I didn't. I can't be bothered finding.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Out enough about it because it's horse racing and I
really really hate horse racing so much. But it was
on and I happened to be in a pub, sitting
at a table by where the the screens with the
various horse races that were going on in Australia. They
were showing those, and it.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Was it was just so so odd.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
There was a machine there that you could take money
out of, and then there was another machine that you
could put money into to place your beds.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
I think that was what was happening.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Again, it's just something that I can't.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Believe is happening.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
So I didn't pay that much attention until there was
there seemed to be a big race, the actual Everest race,
I think is what it was. I don't again, I'm
not sure of the details, but but I couldn't ignore
the fact that, you know, a reasonable crowd of people
was suddenly standing around my table as I was trying
to eat hellabino poppers and yelling at the TV for
(13:53):
about two minutes, and then they all went away again.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
And you can't tell.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Me that's behavior that that's like, that's not weird. You
can't tell me that's not weird. That's weird behavior. Right,
I'm not talking about me eating the hailipino pops. I'm
talking about the people coming and yelling at the TVs
for two minutes and then.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Going away again. I'm glad they went away. That was
very noisy.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
I am Glenn Hart. That was the rewrap. Probably be
just as random again tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
See you then.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
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