November 20, 2024 • 11 mins
THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Thursday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) Next Problem Please/How Did the Lines Get More Expensive?/Smoking Is Just So Cool/Which Paul Is Which?/When's the Chase On?
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
You're listening to a podcast from newstalk, saidb follow this
and our wide range of podcasts now on iHeartRadio, Rewrap.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
There and welcome to the Rewrap for Thursday.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
All the best buts from the Mic Husking breakfast on
News Dog said be in a sillier package, I am
Glen Hart, and today power prices are going to be
going up, like I've thin get somewhere before. A Chinese
smoking habits also seemed to be going up. Netflix's sports
streaming in the wake of the Paul Tyson whatever that was,
(00:51):
We're on that and goodbye to the local news on the
Gold Coast. But before any of that, gang patches are
now illegal.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
I thought that had happened ages ago.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
But anyway, apparently it happened as of midnight last night,
and by about three minutes past they nipped someone.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
Apparently, welcome a whole new world. Gang patches are gone,
also says the law. The law also says you can't
text in the car, so let's see how it unfolds.
Like all these sort of things, there's been a lot
of weird debate around the edges. What constitutes a patch?
What about gathering in public? If there's an odd example
to be profit or a long long long bow to
be drawn. You can count on a small group of
(01:28):
New Zealanders to do it. The main point of what
this government is and has done around gangs and crime
in general mayhem is get tougher. And when governments do
things they say, they don't get nearly as much credit
as governments who don't do what they say get approbrium.
As the Police Minister told us this week, he doesn't
get asked anymore if he's going to resign because the
person who does the asking knows full well they don't
have a leak to stand on. Mark Mitchell has set
(01:49):
out and continues to deliver what he said he would,
and gang patches and gang crackdown laws were part of that.
As those who argue against such measures fail to see,
it's not the specifics that count. It's not the nitty gritty,
it's the big picture. It's the big message. It's the
top down attitude. The reason gangs like ram raids, like
walking out of supermarkets with a beer in a side
of lamb became a thing is because the low lifeers
(02:11):
have one skill in common, the ability to become emboldened
at rapid pace. If they think they can get away
with it, they will, and they did. But equally they
have the wherewithal to see when the game is up.
Essentially they're lazy. If they can, they will. If it's
a bit tricky, they can't be bothered. The tide has
been turned, and it hasn't been turned. It's most definitely turning.
And it's only in this new light, new reprieve and
(02:32):
sense of relief do a lot of us realize just
how shockingly and unforgivingly bad it had become emboldened by
a government that sided with criminals before they sided with us.
New day, new law. The adults thankfully are back and
it's working.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
You had the new police commissioner on this morning. You
said that policing was God's work, although it was a
weird choice of words. I'm just coming back through the
Bible here that I always to carry around with me
all the time. I'm just going to find out what
it says about policing and doing God's work in the
(03:07):
name of the law.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
There'll be in here somewhere. It's a long books.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
The rewrap right, so you may be surprised to hear
that they think power prices are going to go up?
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Is this groundhog day ironic that we mentioned the ComCom yesterday?
Commas commissioned yesterday, and here we are indulging in a
little bit more of its madness. Lines charges, the cost
of getting power to your house is going to get
more expensive. Your bill will rise for the next handful
of years by up to eighty five dollars a month,
which is over a thousand dollars a year. Is your
power better?
Speaker 2 (03:39):
No?
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Do you get more power? No, you just pay more.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Why?
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Well, because the Commission decided they're going to let Transpower
and the local lines company charge more so they can
invest in new infrastructure. They will be allowed to raise
just shy of six billion dollars. Now here is irony
number one. We also say the Commission understand the importance
of incentivizing business to invest and improve and meet consumer demands.
What you don't think that they would charge this and
(04:05):
more if they could? And what incentive? Trans are a monopoly,
They've got no incentive to improve anything. Irony number two.
The six billion is way more than it should be.
What should it be, Mike, under three billion?
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Why?
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Because fifty five percent work out? Fifty five percent of
six billion, fifty five percent is because of higher inflation
and interest rates. Now how do we get those Mike, Ah, well,
that's right, it's Adrian. If you want yet another tangible
example of how the labor government and Adrian, or the
years of incompetence roll on, than here you are three
(04:41):
billion dollars worth, and that is for nothing other than
admin and fees, stuff that should not have happened if
the approach in COVID hadn't been as grandiose, wasteful and
plain idiotic. More inflation than we ever needed, leading of
course to interest rates. We shouldn't have had to have
to try and bring it all back down to earth
entirely as a result of the COVID approach that crippled
the country. Plenty of intangibles and COVID of course, yes,
(05:03):
morals and behavior and mental health and school attendance, but
simple math as well. Fifty five percent of six billion
dollars so we can pay transpower to do what they
should have done anyway. Awesome economics in an awesome economic.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
I understand it.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
It's the lines charges that are going to be going up.
How did the lines get more expensive? Aren't they the
same lines like shouldn't they just be the same price?
I don't know what's happening a rewrap. Now, if you
can afford power, you might even be able to afford
some Internet, and then you might even be able to
afford Netflix and you get to watch awesome sports spectacles
(05:42):
like whatever that so called boxing match was the other day.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
By the way, the Netflix thing, more updates on the fight,
the big fight of the weekend. This is Tyson and
Jake Paul. He's got some Is it just general investment
problems or is it crypto? I think it's based around crypto.
The suggestion is he's been misleading people on his social
media channels about crypto. I note, also, by the way,
(06:07):
that trump.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
That's logan Paul, not Jake Paul. I know it's hard
to keep the.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Are they separate as logos?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
I just assume that the same thing the because I.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Can't remember which is the one I met in Los
Angeles anyway.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
I can't even remember which one was fighting Mike Tyson.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
That's true. They probably can't either.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Having said that, Trumpson certainly can't.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Truth media truth. Social is looking to buy a crypto
company at the moment as we speak, that's sent yet
another fizz through the crypto market that Trump. Trump's in
favor of crypto, loves crypto. Assume somebody told them what
crypto is and so he's going to buy some.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
They've got that phone working that he was trying to
pay for the drinks that crypto bar could be with
so that they couldn't get it going anyway.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
One hundred and eight million global viewers on Netflix and
they need to get this right. So this was kind
of a test. They both got ten figure paydays out
of that. So who's the sucker here? Really? Honestly they
ten figure paydays for what for pontsing around a ring
(07:13):
for half an hour and you get ten million bucks
pass anyway, but that is it, mate. They got the
biggest sporting events stream ever in the history of streaming
sporting events. What's important about that is Netflix have gone
and won the bid to run Christmas Day National Football
as an American football Christmas Day. They've not done that before.
They were apparently on the boxing fight there were glitches
(07:35):
in various parts of the world and it looked a
bit ugly. So they need to tidy that up before
Christmas Day because you boxing's one thing, or faux boxing
is one thing, but football's a whole different That's a religion,
and you don't mess with Americans religion.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
I literally have no idea which one is Jaco and
which one is Logan. Even now I'm not even sure
I've got their names right. That's how little I care
about this whole world. Seriously, people join me in ignoreing
stupid stuff that's going on places.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
It's a wonderful feeling.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
It's a rewrap.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
If you're one of wonderful feeling in China, maybe the
best way to do it is inhaling tobacco and nicotine.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
About the drugs thing we were doing earlier on this morning,
and the amount of drug use in this country and tobacco.
Of course, vapings replaced tobacco. You know where tobacco is
bigger at China. They've got a single company in that
particular part of the world, China Tobacco. They bring in
two hundred and ten billion dollars a year. Two hundred
and ten billion dollars a year. It's up four point
three percent. It is six times the net revenue of
(08:38):
Philip Morris Philip Morris International, of the second biggest tobacco
company in the world six times bigger. They're sort of
the invidia of tobacco. And each year in China, if
everyone's sort of in the Western world, you know, winning
the war slowly but surely, in terms of smoking, it's
going backwards. In China. It grows every year. The number
of people in China grows every year that's smoked. Two
(08:59):
point four to four trillion cigarettes are sold two point
four four trillion, and that will grow to two point
four eight trillion by twenty twenty eight. There are three
hundred million Joinings who smoke, so there's one point what
is at one point two one point three billion people,
so close to a quarter of the population in China smoke?
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Is it one of those things out? Is this just
an urban myth?
Speaker 3 (09:19):
I heard once that when Japan was having a population problem,
which they don't seem to be anymore because they never
nobody ever leased their apartment anymore, and the population nothing
is in decline.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
But when they were I.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
May be making this up, but I heard that they
never really policed speeding that much because they considered, you know,
faithless car crashes to be a sort of a form
of population control, and they went overly exercised about it
is that what's going on with the smoking in China?
And if it is, is that just an urban myth
(10:00):
as well that I've just made up just now and
started rerap We're going to stay overseas for this last
but not that far overseas, only as far as the
Gold Coast.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Just while we're on the subject of the media. Just
to give you once again comparison to Australia, I note
yesterday they announced that the local news bulletin on the
Gold Coast from seven News is going to be ending.
As of tonight, there will be the last bulletin. They've
got a five thirty local Gold Coast News and that'll
be the end of that. So you'll be able to nowadays,
if you live on the Gold Coast, you'll be able
to watch in our long seven afternoon news. Remember when
(10:32):
we had afternoon news on television in this country from
four pm. The Chase will be on at five. That's
must watch viewing, isn't it and seven News live at
six o'clock? But no local Gold Coast bulletin. So what
happens here happens there. You know how it rolls?
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Good to hear that it's not just here where every
time you turn on the TV the chase is on.
It happens in Australia as well. It's just do they
have that is that instead of a test pattern these days?
But if you turn your TV off, does the chase
just come on? I mean, more power to the chase,
I guess, but I still even now, I don't know
(11:15):
if I've ever watched a whole episode all.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
The way through. I am a Glenn Hart.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Thank you for listening to a whole episode of this
all the way through, and I challenge you to do
the same tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
I'll see you then.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
For more from News Talk st 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 newstalk, saidb follow this
and our wide range of podcasts now on iHeartRadio, Rewrap.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
There and welcome to the Rewrap for Thursday.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
All the best buts from the Mic Husking breakfast on
News Dog said be in a sillier package, I am
Glen Hart, and today power prices are going to be
going up, like I've thin get somewhere before. A Chinese
smoking habits also seemed to be going up. Netflix's sports
streaming in the wake of the Paul Tyson whatever that was,
(00:51):
We're on that and goodbye to the local news on the
Gold Coast. But before any of that, gang patches are
now illegal.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
I thought that had happened ages ago.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
But anyway, apparently it happened as of midnight last night,
and by about three minutes past they nipped someone.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
Apparently, welcome a whole new world. Gang patches are gone,
also says the law. The law also says you can't
text in the car, so let's see how it unfolds.
Like all these sort of things, there's been a lot
of weird debate around the edges. What constitutes a patch?
What about gathering in public? If there's an odd example
to be profit or a long long long bow to
be drawn. You can count on a small group of
(01:28):
New Zealanders to do it. The main point of what
this government is and has done around gangs and crime
in general mayhem is get tougher. And when governments do
things they say, they don't get nearly as much credit
as governments who don't do what they say get approbrium.
As the Police Minister told us this week, he doesn't
get asked anymore if he's going to resign because the
person who does the asking knows full well they don't
have a leak to stand on. Mark Mitchell has set
(01:49):
out and continues to deliver what he said he would,
and gang patches and gang crackdown laws were part of that.
As those who argue against such measures fail to see,
it's not the specifics that count. It's not the nitty gritty,
it's the big picture. It's the big message. It's the
top down attitude. The reason gangs like ram raids, like
walking out of supermarkets with a beer in a side
of lamb became a thing is because the low lifeers
(02:11):
have one skill in common, the ability to become emboldened
at rapid pace. If they think they can get away
with it, they will, and they did. But equally they
have the wherewithal to see when the game is up.
Essentially they're lazy. If they can, they will. If it's
a bit tricky, they can't be bothered. The tide has
been turned, and it hasn't been turned. It's most definitely turning.
And it's only in this new light, new reprieve and
(02:32):
sense of relief do a lot of us realize just
how shockingly and unforgivingly bad it had become emboldened by
a government that sided with criminals before they sided with us.
New day, new law. The adults thankfully are back and
it's working.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
You had the new police commissioner on this morning. You
said that policing was God's work, although it was a
weird choice of words. I'm just coming back through the
Bible here that I always to carry around with me
all the time. I'm just going to find out what
it says about policing and doing God's work in the
(03:07):
name of the law.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
There'll be in here somewhere. It's a long books.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
The rewrap right, so you may be surprised to hear
that they think power prices are going to go up?
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Is this groundhog day ironic that we mentioned the ComCom yesterday?
Commas commissioned yesterday, and here we are indulging in a
little bit more of its madness. Lines charges, the cost
of getting power to your house is going to get
more expensive. Your bill will rise for the next handful
of years by up to eighty five dollars a month,
which is over a thousand dollars a year. Is your
power better?
Speaker 2 (03:39):
No?
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Do you get more power? No, you just pay more.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Why?
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Well, because the Commission decided they're going to let Transpower
and the local lines company charge more so they can
invest in new infrastructure. They will be allowed to raise
just shy of six billion dollars. Now here is irony
number one. We also say the Commission understand the importance
of incentivizing business to invest and improve and meet consumer demands.
What you don't think that they would charge this and
(04:05):
more if they could? And what incentive? Trans are a monopoly,
They've got no incentive to improve anything. Irony number two.
The six billion is way more than it should be.
What should it be, Mike, under three billion?
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Why?
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Because fifty five percent work out? Fifty five percent of
six billion, fifty five percent is because of higher inflation
and interest rates. Now how do we get those Mike, Ah, well,
that's right, it's Adrian. If you want yet another tangible
example of how the labor government and Adrian, or the
years of incompetence roll on, than here you are three
(04:41):
billion dollars worth, and that is for nothing other than
admin and fees, stuff that should not have happened if
the approach in COVID hadn't been as grandiose, wasteful and
plain idiotic. More inflation than we ever needed, leading of
course to interest rates. We shouldn't have had to have
to try and bring it all back down to earth
entirely as a result of the COVID approach that crippled
the country. Plenty of intangibles and COVID of course, yes,
(05:03):
morals and behavior and mental health and school attendance, but
simple math as well. Fifty five percent of six billion
dollars so we can pay transpower to do what they
should have done anyway. Awesome economics in an awesome economic.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
I understand it.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
It's the lines charges that are going to be going up.
How did the lines get more expensive? Aren't they the
same lines like shouldn't they just be the same price?
I don't know what's happening a rewrap. Now, if you
can afford power, you might even be able to afford
some Internet, and then you might even be able to
afford Netflix and you get to watch awesome sports spectacles
(05:42):
like whatever that so called boxing match was the other day.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
By the way, the Netflix thing, more updates on the fight,
the big fight of the weekend. This is Tyson and
Jake Paul. He's got some Is it just general investment
problems or is it crypto? I think it's based around crypto.
The suggestion is he's been misleading people on his social
media channels about crypto. I note, also, by the way,
(06:07):
that trump.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
That's logan Paul, not Jake Paul. I know it's hard
to keep the.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Are they separate as logos?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
I just assume that the same thing the because I.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Can't remember which is the one I met in Los
Angeles anyway.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
I can't even remember which one was fighting Mike Tyson.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
That's true. They probably can't either.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Having said that, Trumpson certainly can't.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Truth media truth. Social is looking to buy a crypto
company at the moment as we speak, that's sent yet
another fizz through the crypto market that Trump. Trump's in
favor of crypto, loves crypto. Assume somebody told them what
crypto is and so he's going to buy some.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
They've got that phone working that he was trying to
pay for the drinks that crypto bar could be with
so that they couldn't get it going anyway.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
One hundred and eight million global viewers on Netflix and
they need to get this right. So this was kind
of a test. They both got ten figure paydays out
of that. So who's the sucker here? Really? Honestly they
ten figure paydays for what for pontsing around a ring
(07:13):
for half an hour and you get ten million bucks
pass anyway, but that is it, mate. They got the
biggest sporting events stream ever in the history of streaming
sporting events. What's important about that is Netflix have gone
and won the bid to run Christmas Day National Football
as an American football Christmas Day. They've not done that before.
They were apparently on the boxing fight there were glitches
(07:35):
in various parts of the world and it looked a
bit ugly. So they need to tidy that up before
Christmas Day because you boxing's one thing, or faux boxing
is one thing, but football's a whole different That's a religion,
and you don't mess with Americans religion.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
I literally have no idea which one is Jaco and
which one is Logan. Even now I'm not even sure
I've got their names right. That's how little I care
about this whole world. Seriously, people join me in ignoreing
stupid stuff that's going on places.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
It's a wonderful feeling.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
It's a rewrap.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
If you're one of wonderful feeling in China, maybe the
best way to do it is inhaling tobacco and nicotine.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
About the drugs thing we were doing earlier on this morning,
and the amount of drug use in this country and tobacco.
Of course, vapings replaced tobacco. You know where tobacco is
bigger at China. They've got a single company in that
particular part of the world, China Tobacco. They bring in
two hundred and ten billion dollars a year. Two hundred
and ten billion dollars a year. It's up four point
three percent. It is six times the net revenue of
(08:38):
Philip Morris Philip Morris International, of the second biggest tobacco
company in the world six times bigger. They're sort of
the invidia of tobacco. And each year in China, if
everyone's sort of in the Western world, you know, winning
the war slowly but surely, in terms of smoking, it's
going backwards. In China. It grows every year. The number
of people in China grows every year that's smoked. Two
(08:59):
point four to four trillion cigarettes are sold two point
four four trillion, and that will grow to two point
four eight trillion by twenty twenty eight. There are three
hundred million Joinings who smoke, so there's one point what
is at one point two one point three billion people,
so close to a quarter of the population in China smoke?
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Is it one of those things out? Is this just
an urban myth?
Speaker 3 (09:19):
I heard once that when Japan was having a population problem,
which they don't seem to be anymore because they never
nobody ever leased their apartment anymore, and the population nothing
is in decline.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
But when they were I.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
May be making this up, but I heard that they
never really policed speeding that much because they considered, you know,
faithless car crashes to be a sort of a form
of population control, and they went overly exercised about it
is that what's going on with the smoking in China?
And if it is, is that just an urban myth
(10:00):
as well that I've just made up just now and
started rerap We're going to stay overseas for this last
but not that far overseas, only as far as the
Gold Coast.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Just while we're on the subject of the media. Just
to give you once again comparison to Australia, I note
yesterday they announced that the local news bulletin on the
Gold Coast from seven News is going to be ending.
As of tonight, there will be the last bulletin. They've
got a five thirty local Gold Coast News and that'll
be the end of that. So you'll be able to nowadays,
if you live on the Gold Coast, you'll be able
to watch in our long seven afternoon news. Remember when
(10:32):
we had afternoon news on television in this country from
four pm. The Chase will be on at five. That's
must watch viewing, isn't it and seven News live at
six o'clock? But no local Gold Coast bulletin. So what
happens here happens there. You know how it rolls?
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Good to hear that it's not just here where every
time you turn on the TV the chase is on.
It happens in Australia as well. It's just do they
have that is that instead of a test pattern these days?
But if you turn your TV off, does the chase
just come on? I mean, more power to the chase,
I guess, but I still even now, I don't know
(11:15):
if I've ever watched a whole episode all.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
The way through. I am a Glenn Hart.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Thank you for listening to a whole episode of this
all the way through, and I challenge you to do
the same tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
I'll see you then.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
For more from News Talk st 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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