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November 19, 2024 • 11 mins

THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Wednesday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) Is This Thing Just Justifying Its Own Existence?/What Spare Rooms Are For/Cup of Concrete/Paying for Tyres

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
Okay there and welcome to the Rewrap per Wednesday, all
the best bets from the mic asking Breakfast on news Dook,
said B in a sillier package, I am glean Hart
and today we've got too many spare rooms.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
Apparently this is terrible. We've got to do something about it.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
We need to make our roads out of concrete. And
Mike wants to buy Jim's mowing franchise. Before any of that,
the Commerce Commission, what have they done for us lately?

Speaker 4 (00:50):
ComCom Comm's Commission at times, I think has an easy
job in the sense it starts out life in appearance anyway,
as being on our side, our being, you know, the
people's side. We need a hero, a protected to keep
the big bad boys away from our lives and our wallets.
And lately though they look like they might have a
large legal budget that someone's told them to spend or
else they're going to lose it, so out they come
with the lawyers the other day for one, you know,

(01:12):
the Telco one over their starlink claims about texting anywhere
in the country. Now, this case to me looks literal.
You can't say you can text from anywhere if literally
I can find a place where you can't see. The
room for adult interpretation appears to be devoid of presence
in this particular case. Then we get food Stuffs yesterday,
who are to appeal a ruling by the ComCom on
its merger. Now, the interesting bit about food stuffs is

(01:34):
that they are, unfortunately a supermarket, and supermarkets are hated
because they sell stuff at prices we've decided are too high.
They are in the same category as banks and telcos
and petrol stations and airlines all out there to ripus off,
bleeders try and generally make life miserable. Food stuff have
got two bits, the north and the south. They want
to join the two bits together. From a business perspective,
makes perfect sense. You're playing with scale. Scales generally good,

(01:58):
but scale also reduces numbers in the market. It may
well reduce competition where we appear a bits stuck in
this country. Is that very fine and quite probably indefinable
line between letting people get on with the business and
indeed creating an environment in which business prospers and more
businesses want to open and killing business by over regulating it,
driven in part by the fear over lack of competition

(02:19):
and therefore the punter being ripped off. What will be
interesting is whether the food stuffs can argue their case
on fact or on what clearly is an overarching zeitgeist.
The banks, for example, appeared in front of the Government
Committee into Banking the other day. They made it, by thought,
very plausible, very reasonable case around their profits. It will
make no difference though, because the government doesn't want to
hear it. Maybe food stuffs are the same. What is

(02:40):
a decent price a decent margin? What is the choice
for a punter who sees a can of beans at
a higher price one place, so goes elsewhere? Is a
court even required if the zeitgeist around business and its
success is predetermined, whether sensibly logically or not.

Speaker 5 (02:56):
Don't think i'd like to work for an organization like that.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
We seem to be spending most of your time justifying
your own existence, Like well, we've got to be doing
something because otherwise.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
What's the point of us.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
So rewrap and then eventually, hopefully you've got everything sorted
out and you'll be able to say, oh, actually, we
don't need to exist anymore because we won See that's
it's not a what all that's going to work?

Speaker 3 (03:18):
Is that all right?

Speaker 5 (03:18):
And now we've got too many spare rooms?

Speaker 4 (03:22):
What turns out we got too many spare bedrooms in
our house, not my house, but everyone's house on average.
We've got too many spare bedrooms in this country headline
headline do couples really need a four bedroom house? Interesting question?

Speaker 2 (03:36):
Need?

Speaker 4 (03:37):
What do we need? And who decide? Census data show
sixty two percent of four beddies in the Thames Corrimandal
are home to a couple. Presumably the couple only uses
one bedroom, so we've got three spare bedrooms there? Do
we need those three? The inferences? Why aren't we all
living in a one bedroom? In kai Kura it's fifty
six percent, Christ You're just thirty six. The more urban

(03:57):
you get, the lower the number goes. In Auckland's twenty
seven percent. It's sort of interesting, I suppose in a
censusy sort of way. I mean, what they do with it?
I don't know why do we live in the houses
we do? Here's my guest one, because when we buy
at the house we have kids. The kids will eventually leave,
hence spare rooms. Two. If we bought houses for bedrooms,
we would have weird houses. See we like space, don't we.

(04:18):
How do we know this? Because last time I checked,
we had the third biggest houses on average in the world,
behind the US and Australia. And a big lounge and
a media room and a scullery are generally found in
houses with more bedrooms. Is this bad? Should we feel
guilty about it? I wouldn't have thought so, but then
I didn't write the headline doo, couples really need a
for all bedroom house. It didn't used to be this way.

(04:39):
More fun stats from the Senses for you. In the nineties,
the percentage of houses with two or more spare bedrooms
was thirty percent. It is now forty percent. The real
issue is the word need. There are lots of things
in life we don't need. We don't need to go
to the Gold Coast or the Mealfi Coast or any coast.
We don't need art on the walls more than a
couple of shirts I guess in the wardrobe, or a

(05:00):
second helping of cake. But that's not how life works,
and how life works is. We like to indulge ourselves.
We like to expand and enjoy. We like to dabble
in luxury. We like to do stuff that isn't necessary,
but it's it's it's fun. We like fun. We like
our houses. We like what they say about us. We
like to have a place for a visitor. If everything
was a decision on need, how dull, uninspiring and repressed

(05:23):
would we be.

Speaker 2 (05:24):
I mean, spare rooms they're not just bedrooms, are they.
I mean, obviously they are for when you've got visitors.
And also when you've been told to go and sleep
in the spare room because this snorings give me awake
for three nights in a.

Speaker 3 (05:37):
Row, so I've heard. But I mean also, you.

Speaker 2 (05:42):
Know you've put the ironing board in there. Sometimes it's
an office, sometimes it's a playroom. My spare room's got
a TV in it at the moment that I'm not using.
Why have you got too many TVs? Oh, that's a
whole other problem. You can definitely have too many TVs.

(06:05):
I can't put it out of the house, can I?

Speaker 5 (06:07):
It's too damp.

Speaker 3 (06:10):
Anyway?

Speaker 5 (06:12):
Is that a first ward problem or is that a
even more.

Speaker 3 (06:15):
Than a first world problem in that one, I think so.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
Rewrap right now, so we were discussing first world problems.
Another one is that our roads are too expensive and
too noisy or not noisy enough for this is a
complicated business, Mike.

Speaker 4 (06:32):
Concrete is much smoother, and as anyone who has cycled
on a smooth surface will tell you, it takes a
lot less energy to cycle on a smooth surface than
it does to ride on and rough ashfelt service. Therefore,
you'd imagine less petrol and diesel will be used driving
on concrete, Mike. Some of the problems with concrete roads
in New Zealand soft and unstable soils and sub bass.
That's true, but the report does point out it's not.

(06:52):
It's not for every roads, not through the Marlborough Sounds.
It's on state highway stuff like that. Electric cars, Mike,
heavier leading to more wear on tar seal roads. I
saw a review of a car. It was a Porschemaccarn.
The new Porschemaccarn's two point four tons. It's it's a
smallst issue. It's two point four tons. You can still
buy a petrol mccarwn right, it's four hundred kgs lighter.

(07:17):
So I'm asking the question, if you've got an EV,
what's that doing to your tires? An EV must burn
through tires like there is no tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (07:26):
And we had very next views and feedback come in
on that issue as well.

Speaker 5 (07:33):
I guess it depends where you're driving.

Speaker 2 (07:36):
You drive, I mean, if you don't go around corners
or wherever use your brakes, your tires will last a
bit longer.

Speaker 5 (07:44):
I suppose the rewrappit, but I always say, you know,
I mean the mis managers.

Speaker 2 (07:50):
You know.

Speaker 5 (07:50):
He says, Oh, look at that Audi that looks nice.

Speaker 2 (07:52):
It'd be nice to have one of those, And I go, yeah, yeah,
what about the tires.

Speaker 3 (07:55):
That's what I always say.

Speaker 4 (07:56):
Here we go, Mike, EV on average twenty to thirty
k mile John a set of tires, premium brands, bollocks,
I call BES standard tires or twenty thousand k's for
asset of tires is and that's a regular cow. So
I don't believe your EV is doing it.

Speaker 3 (08:12):
Mike.

Speaker 4 (08:12):
I'm rolling over three hundred thousand k's with my twenty
eighteen Ionic still on my third set of tires, So
you're telling me you're doing one hundred thousand k's on
a set of tires. I call bs Tesler Model three
owner here, Mike, tire, where is the biggest and only
issue for us? No negative camber adjustment? So where's on

(08:32):
the inside? Quickly so living in the corramand a lot
of winding driving wheel alignments every four to six months.
Learned that from not aligning A new set only lasted
six thousand k's. Mike, I've got a tie can new
tires at fifteen k's six two hundred for four tires
not very economical. Year tires themselves are another debate. Fifteen

(08:53):
thousand k's. I got the worst I've ever done. I've
never owned an EV obviously, but the worst I ever had.
I had a big Audi once, a big Q seven
and I bowled through a new set of tires and
seventeen and I went ballistic. I thought, that's a scam.

Speaker 5 (09:05):
Seven's lucky.

Speaker 3 (09:06):
Those tires are so cheap to replace.

Speaker 4 (09:08):
Though they were by card, this was years ago. They
were fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen hundred dollars each wasn't as bad.
Shall I tell you a Ferrari story? Or are you're
sick of those? I burnt through a couple of tires
on the Ferrari not burnt through, they got flat, and
they got a puncture that you couldn't repair. Do you
know what a Ferrari tire's with?

Speaker 2 (09:24):
It was then revealed shortly after over four thousand dollars
a tire which apparently he didn't tell missus Hoskin Hawksby about,
and so the first time she heard about that was
on the radio.

Speaker 5 (09:38):
That he'd spent that amount of money on tires for
a Ferrari.

Speaker 2 (09:41):
The rewrap and then we got to thinking about other
things that you could buy for that amount of money.

Speaker 4 (09:47):
Jim's franchise fifteen and a half k. There's your news
this morning, fifteen and a half k. Bad news on
that one for sale and fung array at the moment.
Family circumstances have led to a change of heart and
they're on the market POA on that particular one. But
you don't get the car. There's no trailer, there's no
motor mode, there's no line trimmer. So you're paying fifteen
and a half to call yourself Jim. Then you're got

(10:08):
to go buy the stuff at the funk rate.

Speaker 3 (10:09):
You get a stick of your stills in the back
of your Ferrari.

Speaker 4 (10:12):
So what I'm saying that the key takeaway here is
becoming a gym's motomar man is cheaper than having four
new ties on a Ferrari. And if that's not news,
you can use I don't know what.

Speaker 2 (10:23):
At which point Kerrie Woodham came in and claimed that
she's constantly being wrung up by people who run gym's
mowing franchises, and they say how they love their job
and it's the best job ever, and they'd never go back,
and how great it is. This is one of those

(10:47):
things that I just don't get. I hate mowing the lawns.
I wish somebody else would come and do it for me,
but I don't want to pay somebody else to come
and do it for me. I wonder if I can
get Mike Hoskin could come and do it. He loves
it so much. I'd just like to see him pull
up with it and you know, get it Maha out

(11:09):
of this ferrari, which again.

Speaker 3 (11:11):
I'm not quite sure whether the boots at the front
or the back.

Speaker 5 (11:16):
I am a glen heart.

Speaker 2 (11:18):
It was a pretty random rewrap today, which is just
the way I like it.

Speaker 3 (11:23):
Let's hope we can do that again tomorrow. I see
you then.

Speaker 1 (11:32):
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