January 22, 2025 • 15 mins
THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Thursday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) But I Thought.../Trump Hasn't Quite Achieved World Peace Just Yet/Hot Aquas/All This and a Premium Beverage/First Big Tech Launch of the Year
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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 and welcome to the rewrap, All the best
bets from the Mike Hosking Breakfast on Newstalk, said B.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
And a Sillier package starring Ryan Bridge.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
I am Glen Hard and today what is How is
Donald Trump going toffex.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Everything in the world, especially the wars stolen cars? We'll
find out the which is which?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Which model has achieved a three peat in the most
stolen cars statistics? Are you going on the electric hydrofoil?
And are you going to buy the new Samsung Galaxy
S twenty five? But before any of that, inflation, well,
the depending on what's happening with inflation, might affect those
(01:10):
other two things I was just talking about.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
So we have a number inflation that is, which is
better than not knowing. But it didn't do exactly what
we wanted to do, which was to come down two
point two percent for the year to December, no change
from the quarter before it. And crucially, non tradable inflation
that's the stuff that we should have more control over domestically,
was down slightly, but still four and a half percent.
(01:33):
Two problems here, one for us, one for the government.
If the key we dollar keeps falling, the stuff that
we buy from the rest of the world, think fuel
and food will get more expensive. If that stuff gets
more expensive, yep, that means you guessed it inflation. Add
that to your sticky domestic number and you may start
to have a problem. Suddenly the Reserve Bank gets the
jitters and tie hose on rate cuts. Then we all
(01:56):
get the jitters and pull back on spending, and then
we're riding this seemingly never ending roller coaster. That is
the cost of living crisis. The gift from labor, it
just keeps on giving. The other problem in the numbers
is for the government. At the election, they promised, remember this,
that rents would come down once they delivered the landlord
interest deductibility relief. Now I agree with them doing that.
(02:20):
It was mad that labor took it away, but they
were wrong to claim that it would bring rents down
when rents are by and large dictated by supply and demand.
How much the market is willing to pay for a
three bitty in Mountvik is what the market is willing.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
To pay right.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
So now eighty percent deductibility has kicked in, and guess what,
rents are up four point two percent in yesterday's numbers,
So not exactly what was promised by the government now.
To be fair, they will be hoping that once the
full landlord deduction kicks in and it's given more time,
it may help. And it might, but at the margins
(02:56):
it is not and won't be the main driver of
slashing rents, and yesterday's numbers only proved that.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Ah, I'm confused.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
I thought once we got all this stuff under control,
it was just going to be happy times and honey
and roses and all the rest of it from here
on in. Now I choose to continue to believe that
a rerap certainly seems to be what Donald Trump's being promising.
And I mean he hasn't actually sold all war on
(03:24):
day one. I think he was saying you were going
to do that at one stage. But yeah, he's.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Been throwing his weight around a bit.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
I like Donald Trump, not in a I want him
running our country kind of a way, but more of
a He's pretty hilarious. What's he going to say next?
Highly entertaining real life reality TV show kind of way.
No matter what you think of him and Sleepy Joe
for that matter, you have surely got to agree that
their constitution over in America is ridiculous. Trump's pardon roughly
(03:54):
fifteen hundred January six writers okay, fine, but more than
a hundred of them assaulted police officers, some violently assaulted cops.
I'm sorry, but if you bash a cop who's just
doing their job trying to protect a state building, you
cannot get away with that. What message does that send
(04:15):
to the next potential mob And who'd want to be
a cop in a situation like that? It's nuts. Once
you start playing in that sampit you're on a slippery
slope to lawlessness. Biden's just as bad pardoning his own
family ahead of time for crimes he says they didn't commit,
but needed protection from anyway. Totally illogical, and they can
only do it because of this rule in their constitution.
(04:37):
The US is a democracy with separation of powers, like
us Ie, the courts are separate from politics. So why
have some bizarre override red button that gives one guy
absolute power to undermine the basis of the entire system.
It makes no sense. It's old. It dates back to England.
George Washington was the first to use this power the
seventeen hundreds, pardoning the Whiskey Rebels. But if it's being
(05:01):
used to let cop bashes off the hook, you've surely
got to ask yourself if it is still such a
great idea. Sure, if you're just protesting and you think
an election's being stolen, protest, but do it peacefully. Challenge
through the courts. That's what they're there for. Order and
respect for law. Nobody being above the law or exempt
(05:23):
from the law. These are things that should separate democracies
from dictatorships, or civil societies from civil unrest. And in
the United States, with every pardon and partisan prosecution, they
edge closer and closer towards the latter.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Yeah, I mean to ask yourself, are you planning a
holiday really to the United States anytime?
Speaker 3 (05:44):
So it just seems like there's some other more attractive
places to go right now? Or is that just me?
And is that just right right back here?
Speaker 2 (05:53):
And and z they the insurance company has put out
in this list of the most stolen cars every so often,
and it's a bit of a fun one this year
because for.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
The third time it's the same car, the exact same ca.
It's not the same car that's getting stolen. Maybe it is,
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
The Toyota Aqua's gone and done it. For the third
year in a row. It's claimed the title of New
Zealand's most stolen car. Oh the prestige. Of the twelve
thousand vehicles to be nick to, the Aqua made up
eight percent of all claims. This is from Ami. Actually
what I was reading about. They're all tiny, hideous cars,
the ones that have been stolen. So here's the list,
toota Aqua, then the Corolla, then the Teeter, then the Demio,
(06:34):
then the Atensa. They all sound like hideous little cars.
I'm assuming they look.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Like thieves just going for a real good fuel economy.
Is that what's happening here? Because the Equa is.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
A hybrid, I'm thinking it's for ram raids, because they
just need little ones to get into the dairies. That's
often when.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
You're one that fits between the ballards.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Is like a little shopping cart. Interesting though, and actually
the name Aqua makes it sound like it belongs at
the bottom of a lake, doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Well, you know that it is actually at the Equa
is actually a Prius, is it.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (07:06):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Yeah, so the Prius C is what it's otherwise known by,
but the Aqua is the important model of that.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Right, So like the hatchback version of a Prius.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Basically, yeah, it looks more. It looks more like a
normal car than most Preus.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
It looks like a chopping cart. I mean it's tiny,
isn't it. And there's somebody who works there, somebody who's
sitting next to you right now actually whose partner owns
one of these and says it's just sort of embarrassed,
embarrassing to drive, especially if you're a taller person getting
into a tiny.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Little car like that or that wouldn't see you either.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
No, I've looked like like I'm driving a knotty car.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
That's the main reason I don't drive a Lamborghini. I
said in a Lamborghini once and I couldn't get out
of it because I was so witged in there.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
It's not for a larger person. I guess it's like
me and Porscha's just suffocating.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
I know, it's terrible. Now, I know what you're thinking.
You're thinking, how did Glenn know so much.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
About the Equa and how it's actually a pres c
because I've been I had talked quite a lot towards
the end of last year about my search for a
new car and finding the right one, and couldn't quite
figure out why the Toyota hybrids were so expensive, you know,
pretty keen on a Yaris Cross at one stage, but
(08:14):
just so expensive for what you were getting. And then
I drove the Ford Puma. Humor, depending on how you
feel about dip thongs and is that a dip fun
when you do that? I think it is anyway, whatever,
let's move on. Yeah, And it was just so much
so fun to drive. Not quite as economical as a
(08:36):
yarras Cross, but it looks a bit nicer, just quietly
as Well's the rewrap.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
This is not an ad Ford though.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
It's an ad for the new hydrofoil, the electroc hydrofoil.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
Apparently it was on the news last night, the new
boat in Auckland that goes up on the foils. It's amazing.
It goes fifty ks an hour, twenty five knots. It
can fit eight people. It's at the moment a tourist experience,
so you pay one hundred and ninety five dollars. I
know it's a lot of money. It's a forty min
trip and you go around the White Temata. It's called
(09:11):
the Kerma Deck is the name of the boat. You
get up on your hydrofoils. Eight passengers in there, glide
above the water. You get a premium beverage and a
snack while you're on board.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Premium beverage. More details on the.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
That's the only thing you care about.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
The thing is that.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
I wasn't really that interested until you at least I
guess with the beverage. It wouldn't spell with it unlike
a conventional boat because you're up high. You know, you're
above the waves, so presumably there'd be less turbulence.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Not so good for the people who suffer from vertigo though.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
No, that's true. Anyway. I had to look at the
terms and conditions because I thought it actually sort of
interests me. I'm interested in the technology and it would
be a cool thing to do. Aside from one hundred
and ninety five dollars. There's a weight limit because you
can only get so many people up on foils, so
the weight limit is eighty five killers Now I weighed
myself yesterday and I came in at one hundred and
(10:06):
one kilograms.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Does that mean you have to buy two tickets?
Speaker 4 (10:11):
It would because there's an average weight.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
So what you do?
Speaker 4 (10:14):
You you either have lots of skinny people and me, and
then it's fine. You you hire the whole thing because
you can charter it. You hire the whole thing. But
imagine the cost of that or you paid for two Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Really cool thing about that. And unfortunately the listeners can't
see it. But every time you say the word hydrofoil,
you do this armed gesture, do I? Yeah, And it's
the most elegant looking arm gesture. At your hydrofoil arm gesture,
you sort of stick your hand up in the air
and then it sort of comes down like a swan
(10:54):
the hand.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
Nothing really, Yeah, I didn't notice.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Yeah, and I was right there. I was right there
on the boat.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
So I don't even need to pay one hundred and
ninety five, which is just as well because I'm also
over the limit. And yeah, I can just imagine it
now because of your your your hand impersonation hydropall.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Do you know what wouldn't look elegant is me getting
on the hydrofail boat. In fact, both of us Glenn
getting on the hydrofail boat at the same time.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Is it all right to fat shame people if those
people are yourself and your work colleague who's also fat
shaming himself.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Probably isn't sorry if we cause defense three rap right.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Let's finish up with well, it's one of the things
I get excited about every year, the first Samsung Unpacked
event of the year.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Here are the details.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Trending now with GIMS Warehouse stop paying too.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
Much Well, the prize for first major tech launch of
the year goes to Samsung with its Galaxy S twenty
five series out this morning at the Unpacked event. This
is in San Jose in the United States. As usual,
we're getting three hand sets, the S twenty five, the
S twenty five Plus and the big boy, big daddy
S twenty five Ultra. Now what is the old to do? Well,
(12:08):
it looks a bit different this year. Still a massive
six point nine inch display, still has the s pen
styluss tucked away inside it, but now instead of sharp corners,
they've rounded them off. This is quite trendy in home
decor at the moment, but apparently also on phones. But
what about the AI part of it? I hear you asking.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
We are setting the standard for mobile AA innovation once again,
and with the Samsung Galaxy as twenty five, we are
making it a reality right here, right now one U
A seven our most personalized interface. We defined more by
(12:51):
interaction because we intero epid AI agents dip at the
system level.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
I'm confused, was that AI?
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Was that a real was?
Speaker 2 (13:03):
That's tm Row, He's the president of Mobile Experience.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
I was sudden to.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
Think they got AI to do the presentation.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
He's actually got a lot better. I hope you know,
yes me all right?
Speaker 4 (13:16):
So AI agents is what they're mentioning that. This is
Samsung trying to make AI less artificial. Apparently. For example,
if you're watching a video of a chef cooking something right,
you can pause it. Then you can ask your phone
if there's a restaurant nearby that serves the same dish.
Galaxy AI can use Google Maps to provide a list
of restaurants, and even create and send dinner invitations to
(13:38):
people in your contacts list. The launch really was more
about AI than the phones themselves, which is basically a
sign of the times. The base model Galaxy is twenty
five is available for pre order. Guess how much it
costs fifteen hundred and ninety nine New Zealand dollars right
up to the one terror byte S twenty five Ultra.
That's your big daddy with a terrabyte tw eight hundred
and ninety nine dollars. I won't be spending that money.
(14:02):
Maybe you can ask Ai, how can I get eight
hundred dollars for a phone? Please?
Speaker 2 (14:07):
To be fair, it's about the same price I think,
not that different to last year, so that's not too
bad at all. The thing that interests me with the
launch event is that they also seem to hint that
there's going to be some kind.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Of a.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Virtual reality augmented reality device coming later in the year.
And that's interesting because, of course, as I understand it,
Apple have stopped production on the Apple Vision Pro and yeah,
it hasn't come here. We've never seen them in the
(14:52):
here in New Zealand. So bold move from Sam Suyng
if that's what they're doing anyway, stay tuned.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
It's just the technod and me geeking out for a
bit there.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Thank you for indulging me, and thank you for indulging
me with all the other stuff actually that I put
on the podcast, and please indulge me again, this time
to my I'll see you then.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
The rerad or red.
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
Okay there and welcome to the rewrap, All the best
bets from the Mike Hosking Breakfast on Newstalk, said B.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
And a Sillier package starring Ryan Bridge.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
I am Glen Hard and today what is How is
Donald Trump going toffex.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Everything in the world, especially the wars stolen cars? We'll
find out the which is which?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Which model has achieved a three peat in the most
stolen cars statistics? Are you going on the electric hydrofoil?
And are you going to buy the new Samsung Galaxy
S twenty five? But before any of that, inflation, well,
the depending on what's happening with inflation, might affect those
(01:10):
other two things I was just talking about.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
So we have a number inflation that is, which is
better than not knowing. But it didn't do exactly what
we wanted to do, which was to come down two
point two percent for the year to December, no change
from the quarter before it. And crucially, non tradable inflation
that's the stuff that we should have more control over domestically,
was down slightly, but still four and a half percent.
(01:33):
Two problems here, one for us, one for the government.
If the key we dollar keeps falling, the stuff that
we buy from the rest of the world, think fuel
and food will get more expensive. If that stuff gets
more expensive, yep, that means you guessed it inflation. Add
that to your sticky domestic number and you may start
to have a problem. Suddenly the Reserve Bank gets the
jitters and tie hose on rate cuts. Then we all
(01:56):
get the jitters and pull back on spending, and then
we're riding this seemingly never ending roller coaster. That is
the cost of living crisis. The gift from labor, it
just keeps on giving. The other problem in the numbers
is for the government. At the election, they promised, remember this,
that rents would come down once they delivered the landlord
interest deductibility relief. Now I agree with them doing that.
(02:20):
It was mad that labor took it away, but they
were wrong to claim that it would bring rents down
when rents are by and large dictated by supply and demand.
How much the market is willing to pay for a
three bitty in Mountvik is what the market is willing.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
To pay right.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
So now eighty percent deductibility has kicked in, and guess what,
rents are up four point two percent in yesterday's numbers,
So not exactly what was promised by the government now.
To be fair, they will be hoping that once the
full landlord deduction kicks in and it's given more time,
it may help. And it might, but at the margins
(02:56):
it is not and won't be the main driver of
slashing rents, and yesterday's numbers only proved that.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Ah, I'm confused.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
I thought once we got all this stuff under control,
it was just going to be happy times and honey
and roses and all the rest of it from here
on in. Now I choose to continue to believe that
a rerap certainly seems to be what Donald Trump's being promising.
And I mean he hasn't actually sold all war on
(03:24):
day one. I think he was saying you were going
to do that at one stage. But yeah, he's.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Been throwing his weight around a bit.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
I like Donald Trump, not in a I want him
running our country kind of a way, but more of
a He's pretty hilarious. What's he going to say next?
Highly entertaining real life reality TV show kind of way.
No matter what you think of him and Sleepy Joe
for that matter, you have surely got to agree that
their constitution over in America is ridiculous. Trump's pardon roughly
(03:54):
fifteen hundred January six writers okay, fine, but more than
a hundred of them assaulted police officers, some violently assaulted cops.
I'm sorry, but if you bash a cop who's just
doing their job trying to protect a state building, you
cannot get away with that. What message does that send
(04:15):
to the next potential mob And who'd want to be
a cop in a situation like that? It's nuts. Once
you start playing in that sampit you're on a slippery
slope to lawlessness. Biden's just as bad pardoning his own
family ahead of time for crimes he says they didn't commit,
but needed protection from anyway. Totally illogical, and they can
only do it because of this rule in their constitution.
(04:37):
The US is a democracy with separation of powers, like
us Ie, the courts are separate from politics. So why
have some bizarre override red button that gives one guy
absolute power to undermine the basis of the entire system.
It makes no sense. It's old. It dates back to England.
George Washington was the first to use this power the
seventeen hundreds, pardoning the Whiskey Rebels. But if it's being
(05:01):
used to let cop bashes off the hook, you've surely
got to ask yourself if it is still such a
great idea. Sure, if you're just protesting and you think
an election's being stolen, protest, but do it peacefully. Challenge
through the courts. That's what they're there for. Order and
respect for law. Nobody being above the law or exempt
(05:23):
from the law. These are things that should separate democracies
from dictatorships, or civil societies from civil unrest. And in
the United States, with every pardon and partisan prosecution, they
edge closer and closer towards the latter.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Yeah, I mean to ask yourself, are you planning a
holiday really to the United States anytime?
Speaker 3 (05:44):
So it just seems like there's some other more attractive
places to go right now? Or is that just me?
And is that just right right back here?
Speaker 2 (05:53):
And and z they the insurance company has put out
in this list of the most stolen cars every so often,
and it's a bit of a fun one this year
because for.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
The third time it's the same car, the exact same ca.
It's not the same car that's getting stolen. Maybe it is,
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
The Toyota Aqua's gone and done it. For the third
year in a row. It's claimed the title of New
Zealand's most stolen car. Oh the prestige. Of the twelve
thousand vehicles to be nick to, the Aqua made up
eight percent of all claims. This is from Ami. Actually
what I was reading about. They're all tiny, hideous cars,
the ones that have been stolen. So here's the list,
toota Aqua, then the Corolla, then the Teeter, then the Demio,
(06:34):
then the Atensa. They all sound like hideous little cars.
I'm assuming they look.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Like thieves just going for a real good fuel economy.
Is that what's happening here? Because the Equa is.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
A hybrid, I'm thinking it's for ram raids, because they
just need little ones to get into the dairies. That's
often when.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
You're one that fits between the ballards.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Is like a little shopping cart. Interesting though, and actually
the name Aqua makes it sound like it belongs at
the bottom of a lake, doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Well, you know that it is actually at the Equa
is actually a Prius, is it.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (07:06):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Yeah, so the Prius C is what it's otherwise known by,
but the Aqua is the important model of that.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Right, So like the hatchback version of a Prius.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Basically, yeah, it looks more. It looks more like a
normal car than most Preus.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
It looks like a chopping cart. I mean it's tiny,
isn't it. And there's somebody who works there, somebody who's
sitting next to you right now actually whose partner owns
one of these and says it's just sort of embarrassed,
embarrassing to drive, especially if you're a taller person getting
into a tiny.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Little car like that or that wouldn't see you either.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
No, I've looked like like I'm driving a knotty car.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
That's the main reason I don't drive a Lamborghini. I
said in a Lamborghini once and I couldn't get out
of it because I was so witged in there.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
It's not for a larger person. I guess it's like
me and Porscha's just suffocating.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
I know, it's terrible. Now, I know what you're thinking.
You're thinking, how did Glenn know so much.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
About the Equa and how it's actually a pres c
because I've been I had talked quite a lot towards
the end of last year about my search for a
new car and finding the right one, and couldn't quite
figure out why the Toyota hybrids were so expensive, you know,
pretty keen on a Yaris Cross at one stage, but
(08:14):
just so expensive for what you were getting. And then
I drove the Ford Puma. Humor, depending on how you
feel about dip thongs and is that a dip fun
when you do that? I think it is anyway, whatever,
let's move on. Yeah, And it was just so much
so fun to drive. Not quite as economical as a
(08:36):
yarras Cross, but it looks a bit nicer, just quietly
as Well's the rewrap.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
This is not an ad Ford though.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
It's an ad for the new hydrofoil, the electroc hydrofoil.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
Apparently it was on the news last night, the new
boat in Auckland that goes up on the foils. It's amazing.
It goes fifty ks an hour, twenty five knots. It
can fit eight people. It's at the moment a tourist experience,
so you pay one hundred and ninety five dollars. I
know it's a lot of money. It's a forty min
trip and you go around the White Temata. It's called
(09:11):
the Kerma Deck is the name of the boat. You
get up on your hydrofoils. Eight passengers in there, glide
above the water. You get a premium beverage and a
snack while you're on board.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Premium beverage. More details on the.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
That's the only thing you care about.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
The thing is that.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
I wasn't really that interested until you at least I
guess with the beverage. It wouldn't spell with it unlike
a conventional boat because you're up high. You know, you're
above the waves, so presumably there'd be less turbulence.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Not so good for the people who suffer from vertigo though.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
No, that's true. Anyway. I had to look at the
terms and conditions because I thought it actually sort of
interests me. I'm interested in the technology and it would
be a cool thing to do. Aside from one hundred
and ninety five dollars. There's a weight limit because you
can only get so many people up on foils, so
the weight limit is eighty five killers Now I weighed
myself yesterday and I came in at one hundred and
(10:06):
one kilograms.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Does that mean you have to buy two tickets?
Speaker 4 (10:11):
It would because there's an average weight.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
So what you do?
Speaker 4 (10:14):
You you either have lots of skinny people and me, and
then it's fine. You you hire the whole thing because
you can charter it. You hire the whole thing. But
imagine the cost of that or you paid for two Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Really cool thing about that. And unfortunately the listeners can't
see it. But every time you say the word hydrofoil,
you do this armed gesture, do I? Yeah, And it's
the most elegant looking arm gesture. At your hydrofoil arm gesture,
you sort of stick your hand up in the air
and then it sort of comes down like a swan
(10:54):
the hand.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
Nothing really, Yeah, I didn't notice.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Yeah, and I was right there. I was right there
on the boat.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
So I don't even need to pay one hundred and
ninety five, which is just as well because I'm also
over the limit. And yeah, I can just imagine it
now because of your your your hand impersonation hydropall.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Do you know what wouldn't look elegant is me getting
on the hydrofail boat. In fact, both of us Glenn
getting on the hydrofail boat at the same time.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Is it all right to fat shame people if those
people are yourself and your work colleague who's also fat
shaming himself.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Probably isn't sorry if we cause defense three rap right.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Let's finish up with well, it's one of the things
I get excited about every year, the first Samsung Unpacked
event of the year.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Here are the details.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Trending now with GIMS Warehouse stop paying too.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
Much Well, the prize for first major tech launch of
the year goes to Samsung with its Galaxy S twenty
five series out this morning at the Unpacked event. This
is in San Jose in the United States. As usual,
we're getting three hand sets, the S twenty five, the
S twenty five Plus and the big boy, big daddy
S twenty five Ultra. Now what is the old to do? Well,
(12:08):
it looks a bit different this year. Still a massive
six point nine inch display, still has the s pen
styluss tucked away inside it, but now instead of sharp corners,
they've rounded them off. This is quite trendy in home
decor at the moment, but apparently also on phones. But
what about the AI part of it? I hear you asking.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
We are setting the standard for mobile AA innovation once again,
and with the Samsung Galaxy as twenty five, we are
making it a reality right here, right now one U
A seven our most personalized interface. We defined more by
(12:51):
interaction because we intero epid AI agents dip at the
system level.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
I'm confused, was that AI?
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Was that a real was?
Speaker 2 (13:03):
That's tm Row, He's the president of Mobile Experience.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
I was sudden to.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
Think they got AI to do the presentation.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
He's actually got a lot better. I hope you know,
yes me all right?
Speaker 4 (13:16):
So AI agents is what they're mentioning that. This is
Samsung trying to make AI less artificial. Apparently. For example,
if you're watching a video of a chef cooking something right,
you can pause it. Then you can ask your phone
if there's a restaurant nearby that serves the same dish.
Galaxy AI can use Google Maps to provide a list
of restaurants, and even create and send dinner invitations to
(13:38):
people in your contacts list. The launch really was more
about AI than the phones themselves, which is basically a
sign of the times. The base model Galaxy is twenty
five is available for pre order. Guess how much it
costs fifteen hundred and ninety nine New Zealand dollars right
up to the one terror byte S twenty five Ultra.
That's your big daddy with a terrabyte tw eight hundred
and ninety nine dollars. I won't be spending that money.
(14:02):
Maybe you can ask Ai, how can I get eight
hundred dollars for a phone? Please?
Speaker 2 (14:07):
To be fair, it's about the same price I think,
not that different to last year, so that's not too
bad at all. The thing that interests me with the
launch event is that they also seem to hint that
there's going to be some kind.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Of a.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Virtual reality augmented reality device coming later in the year.
And that's interesting because, of course, as I understand it,
Apple have stopped production on the Apple Vision Pro and yeah,
it hasn't come here. We've never seen them in the
(14:52):
here in New Zealand. So bold move from Sam Suyng
if that's what they're doing anyway, stay tuned.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
It's just the technod and me geeking out for a
bit there.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Thank you for indulging me, and thank you for indulging
me with all the other stuff actually that I put
on the podcast, and please indulge me again, this time
to my I'll see you then.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
The rerad or red.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
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