March 12, 2025 • 13 mins
THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Thursday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) Bringing Back What We Used To Be/More Dumb Poll Stuff/Sky TV Is a Con/Just Asking Questions/Stupid Little Bins
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
You're listening to a podcast from News Talk sed B.
Follow this and our wide range of podcasts now on iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Rewrap there and welcome to the Rewrap for Thursday, all
the best bits from the Mic Asking Breakfast and Asilia
package Iron Glen Heart. Today, shall we talk about school
lunches for a change? Sky TV wins more fans I
put against prices up. We've got a bit of a
stout between a Sky News reporter and a Trump ecolyte,
(00:46):
and we'll finish up by wondering where to put our
food waste.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
But before any of that, Happy Investment Summit.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Day, Welcome to the International Investment Day. I found it
somewhat bewildering. I must say, if not said that, Ginny
Anderson on the show yesterday said foreign investment wasn't the
answer to our problems, because actually it is. What we
don't have as a country is size and scale. If
we want to participate in the world, we need the
world involved in what we do. We're not like America,
where you can at least partially pretend you can produce
everything you need locally, and whatever it is you do
(01:14):
produce is sold to a local market. In fact, Jinny's
lack of basic economic understanding may well give some insight
and to why we're having the event we are over
the next couple of days. Labour's view of the economy
is so small, so insular. It is why the borders
were closed for so long, why tourisms not bounce back
while the world has moved on without us, and how
this new government has had to travel so many miles
(01:34):
to knock on so many doors and say don't forget
about us. It could also be a clue if you've
noticed as to why they're currently exercised in the Parliament
over the idea of the public health system using the
private health system to turn through some elective procedures forgetting
of course, that even they did the same thing, and
that it has in fact been common practice forever. And indeed,
if you have a bed and a team sitting there
(01:54):
with capacity, do you really care whether the place you
get the need done is public or private. Anyway, the
Prime Minister, who will be relishing this next week, given
he is pitching not just here but in India as well,
we'll be able to get back to doing what by
all reports he does best, hustle and sell the poles
might be problematic for a variety of reasons, but you
can't possibly mark this lot down for not getting out
(02:17):
into the world and re engaging both trade and foreign policy. Wise,
between the Prime Minister Peters and Maclay many circuits of
the globe it will have been completed. Is also right
that the world is a wash with cash looking for
a place to land. We once were that place to land.
We once were that rock star economy. We once well,
we once had our act together. Today and tomorrow hopefully
(02:38):
is about restoring our rightful place as progressive go getters.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
And I describe myself as a go getter. I mean
I have gone and got things before, but it's usually
because somebody else has told me to set me out
with a list.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
I don't think that's quite what might mean a rewrap. Now,
so it's Thursday to day.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Is this going to be the day we don't talk
about school lunches this week?
Speaker 3 (03:04):
I know?
Speaker 4 (03:04):
So the largest pole? Oh yes, another pole, This one's
on school lunches. Did you see that? It's no more credible,
by the way than the political poll that came out
the other day, but it does play into the narrative
and the narrative is like it or not, the school
lunch program is a dog. Now regulars will know my
views on this. I am frustrated beyond words at the
mad pile on that has ensued around this. A government
(03:26):
with a basket case economy handed to them by economic
vandals has worked desperately to write the ship. One project
seeking savings was school lunches, which we shouldn't even be
providing in the first place. It's turned into a middle
class bitch fest led by unions, agitators and a lazy, biased,
compliant media but not helping. Word delivery issues not good
enough but now seemingly fixed, and exploding lunch and a
(03:49):
burnt kid not good enough and a company now in liquidation.
Although important to note, as we mentioned yesterday, it has
no effect on the actual lunch production and rollout, so
the rest of it was just nonsense sniveling teachers who
claimed kids didn't like the taste. It is truly pathetic,
and made worse by the fact the world has got
some real issues to be focused on at the moment,
but we're too myopic to notice. But Torbert Mills poll
(04:12):
about as useful as the Curier pole. The other day
random thoughts. Of people who say yes, having an opinion
but not based on any knowledge, sixty five percent say
the lunch program isn't working. How would they know? Media
coverage is the answer? Media is biased. Sixty percent want
the old system back. Who's paying for that? See pole
answers easy answer, Pole real easy, Who's actually paying for it?
(04:32):
Fifty three percent of people are not convinced our National
Party supporters. Now here's the issue. See it doesn't matter
what's right or wrong, accurate or factorial, or silly or
overhyped or engineered as a campaign politically. From the union's
teachers and media's point of view, this is worked. It's
been successful. People believe it's a mess, and perception is
reality and a politics, perception is votes. If people believe
(04:55):
you are hopeless or dishonest or don't deliver, it is
what it is. Logic, fact and truth come a very
distant second of vibe and mood. Can it be fixed? Yes?
Can the mood be turned? Of course it can. This
will be a non event in no time, like most
small scraps that absorbers, but as an exercise and conception, execution,
delivery and sales numbers, no matter how lucipol may be
(05:16):
don't lie.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Because he mentioned the vibe there.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
I don't know that the vibe is easily changed once
it starts wabbling off in the wrong direction.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
It's it's sort of an amorphous thing, the vibe. It's
had to handle.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
It's both slippery and uh what's the.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
And Wraith like.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
You, you're handy to slip off that so you can't
get over your phone on it, or though they go
right through it, don't mishandle the vibe right from the
outset that it'd be my advice. So you've probably seen
that Sky's put its prices up again.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Thanks Sky Mike.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Could you ask guy why won't they allow sports only package?
I just want sport. I think they do have a
sports ony package. They don't have a sports any.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
You have to have the start pack.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
What about that? Sport go sky sport Go. What's sky
sport goes by itself? You buy sky sport Go, that's it.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Well, don't get sky gowo different things.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Okay, My point is are we confused as punters and customers?
Yes we are. Do we know what the answers to
these questions are? No, we do not. Are there too
many players in the market offering too many different things,
too many different price points, and eventually we just go, oh,
you know what, I can't be bothered. I think Neon
put their prices up as well, didn't they? And I
got Neon? And if it wasn't for White Lotus, it
wouldn't have aning On.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
I find it's so funny. For a couple of things
I find funny. I find it funny that he calls
it White Lotus when it's actually called the White Lotus.
And he calls Facebook the Facebook even though it's just Facebook,
but that's.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Neither here nor there.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
I do find it funny that he keeps paying for
for Neon when he doesn't have to, because he pays
for Sky and he can watch everything just on Sky
undern arm. But like most people, they don't seem to
understand that it's all the same place.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
It's so rewrapped because.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Con going in New Zealand a reckon that one. Now.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
I wouldn't normally pay play a trending now, I mean
I do sometimes, but not normally in this podcast, but
this morning, this one was important because it happened at
about six thirty six instead of at about sex twenty
six when it's normally supposed.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
To any old thing. So I'm chatting to you just
before the news, and as I'm doing that, I'm thinking
to myself, juice, I got a lot more time on
my hands than I thought I did, and non normally
pretty good with time, anyone will tell you that, pretty
good with time, being able to sort these things out.
And I'm thinking, why have I got more time on
my hands? Anyway, I'm sort of and they were looking
at you know, I forgot this.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Trending now with chemist Wells keeping Kiwi's healthy all year round.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Now I could tell you how a very tough night,
which I did. I had a very difficult night with
the dog. Is it me too? Yeah? So is it
the moon?
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Not with your dog?
Speaker 4 (07:58):
With no? Is it the blood moon? Well, anyway, tough
night with the dog, very very tired this morning. No
excuse as a bloke at the ZB offices in christ
which once told me when I turned up there, he goes,
no one wants to know you personal problems. I thought, yep,
fair enough, good advice, that's right.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
So we are not going to tell anybody about what
was happening with our dogs.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
No, exactly, So very difficult night with the dog, so
that probably that that probably partially explains it. Anyway, the
pointer is I forgot to do.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Trending now the home of big brand vitamins.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
And this was a goodie too. It's the US correspondent
for Sky Mark Stone with the trade advisor Peter Varro.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
President seems to be changing his mind by the hour
at the moment, yea move out of the way.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
What are your what are your views on the on
the fact that if you don't understand what the negotiation
looks like, the president is negotiating strategically, so stop with
a rhetoric. Okay, just stop dad crap.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
But but he does seem to be changing his mind
all the time. That is that part of it.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Where are you from from Sky News the UK?
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Instead of what? But why is that?
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Why is that?
Speaker 1 (09:03):
It's a fact that he's changing his mind every single day.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Aciation my friends.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Right, So he doesn't mean it. So it's all part
of negotiationiation and it's causing havoc to the stock markets.
It's not causing heavy what it is they are they
are tumbling questions?
Speaker 3 (09:20):
But you do you do you have back up?
Speaker 1 (09:24):
It's my start. I'm allowed to ask questions. I asked,
so you don't believe that it's causing havoc to the
stock market.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
Here's what we're gonna do. I can either stay here
and answer questions and you can be civil about it,
or you can hector me like this. So stand back,
get that thing out of my face. You've had your
chance to ask questions. At that point, you then pulled
a gun out and shot him.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
I'm just actually watching Peter Navarro on Fox News right
now trying to explain what the long term goal of
the tariffs to a very confused looking Fox News host,
and there's a lot of hand gestures, big double double
hand hand yesterus going. So whatever he's saying, he definitely
(10:08):
means it, and it's wanting to emphasize at the point
the ree wrap, we're gonna first up handing out some
plaudits to a council.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
This doesn't happen very often, So stand by.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
Wanganui Council, which yesterday I told you about. I think
it's a good idea. So Wanganui yesterday I told you about,
is you apply, you go in a pool of local voters.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
A pool so to speak.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Yeah, that was a get I was leading up to that, Glenn,
you killed them my punchline.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Sorry, just forget I said anything.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
So you go and a pull, they pull your name
out and they then pay you five hundred dollars to
go to a series of meetings about five lasting three
hours each, so fifteen hours worth of meetings on this
particular subject. It's swimming, outdoor swimming and Wanganui. So I
thought that's not an unreasonable idea if it gets more
and more people involved in local body politics. The Smrning's
(10:54):
news also from Wanganui. How many times have you heard
Wanganui mentioned twice on this program? Never? Well since they
changed their name, Well, exactly why Wanganui. They're dropping the
curb side food scrap collection. So the stupid little plastic
containers that some cities around the country have where you
put your orange peel in and then you put it
out on the footpath and watch the wind blow them
(11:16):
all away, complete and utter waste of time. Reason councils
did it as the previous government that shall not be
mentioned made it compulsory. Course they did so. Anyway, now
the new government that will be mentioned said, don't worry
about it if you don't want to so wog and
we think, ah, shall we worry about it? Then they
had a vote. The vote was unanimous to drop it downside.
(11:39):
They do have nineteen thousand of these plastic buckets that
they're not one hundred percent sure what to do with,
but they're not going to distribute them around the place.
Therefore they're not going to get blown all over Wanganui
in the wind and or be ignored by most people, who,
of course can't be bothered. So Wanganui tick tick two
times in a week and it's only Thursday.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
I'd be interested to know what's happened to the sales
of waste disposals. I once actually installed a little waste disposal,
replaced one that had stopped working. It was very satisfying
because it actually worked first time and didn't leak at all.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
I was expecting it to be a complete disaster.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
It's probably the sort of thing that you should leave
for an expert to do, but I was sent out
to go get one with a list. That's a callback, right,
there's something I'm experimenting with.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Did it work?
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Would it have worked better if I hadn't pointed it out?
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Maybe? But yeah, I wonder, you know, if you're a
waste disposal manufacturer, are you going through particularly hard times
now that everybody's putting their food scraps and those little
bins except when hung a NEWI obviously I am Glenn Hart.
My little Green ben store. Is the tape on it
(13:01):
that it came with holding the lid closed. It's just
out at the back of my house, sitting there looking lonely,
getting cob webs on it.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Because I've got a waste susposal.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
I say, I'll see you back here again tomorrow, maybe
with more callbacks. Who could say?
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
Rewrap there and welcome to the Rewrap for Thursday, all
the best bits from the Mic Asking Breakfast and Asilia
package Iron Glen Heart. Today, shall we talk about school
lunches for a change? Sky TV wins more fans I
put against prices up. We've got a bit of a
stout between a Sky News reporter and a Trump ecolyte,
(00:46):
and we'll finish up by wondering where to put our
food waste.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
But before any of that, Happy Investment Summit.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Day, Welcome to the International Investment Day. I found it
somewhat bewildering. I must say, if not said that, Ginny
Anderson on the show yesterday said foreign investment wasn't the
answer to our problems, because actually it is. What we
don't have as a country is size and scale. If
we want to participate in the world, we need the
world involved in what we do. We're not like America,
where you can at least partially pretend you can produce
everything you need locally, and whatever it is you do
(01:14):
produce is sold to a local market. In fact, Jinny's
lack of basic economic understanding may well give some insight
and to why we're having the event we are over
the next couple of days. Labour's view of the economy
is so small, so insular. It is why the borders
were closed for so long, why tourisms not bounce back
while the world has moved on without us, and how
this new government has had to travel so many miles
(01:34):
to knock on so many doors and say don't forget
about us. It could also be a clue if you've
noticed as to why they're currently exercised in the Parliament
over the idea of the public health system using the
private health system to turn through some elective procedures forgetting
of course, that even they did the same thing, and
that it has in fact been common practice forever. And indeed,
if you have a bed and a team sitting there
(01:54):
with capacity, do you really care whether the place you
get the need done is public or private. Anyway, the
Prime Minister, who will be relishing this next week, given
he is pitching not just here but in India as well,
we'll be able to get back to doing what by
all reports he does best, hustle and sell the poles
might be problematic for a variety of reasons, but you
can't possibly mark this lot down for not getting out
(02:17):
into the world and re engaging both trade and foreign policy. Wise,
between the Prime Minister Peters and Maclay many circuits of
the globe it will have been completed. Is also right
that the world is a wash with cash looking for
a place to land. We once were that place to land.
We once were that rock star economy. We once well,
we once had our act together. Today and tomorrow hopefully
(02:38):
is about restoring our rightful place as progressive go getters.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
And I describe myself as a go getter. I mean
I have gone and got things before, but it's usually
because somebody else has told me to set me out
with a list.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
I don't think that's quite what might mean a rewrap. Now,
so it's Thursday to day.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Is this going to be the day we don't talk
about school lunches this week?
Speaker 3 (03:04):
I know?
Speaker 4 (03:04):
So the largest pole? Oh yes, another pole, This one's
on school lunches. Did you see that? It's no more credible,
by the way than the political poll that came out
the other day, but it does play into the narrative
and the narrative is like it or not, the school
lunch program is a dog. Now regulars will know my
views on this. I am frustrated beyond words at the
mad pile on that has ensued around this. A government
(03:26):
with a basket case economy handed to them by economic
vandals has worked desperately to write the ship. One project
seeking savings was school lunches, which we shouldn't even be
providing in the first place. It's turned into a middle
class bitch fest led by unions, agitators and a lazy, biased,
compliant media but not helping. Word delivery issues not good
enough but now seemingly fixed, and exploding lunch and a
(03:49):
burnt kid not good enough and a company now in liquidation.
Although important to note, as we mentioned yesterday, it has
no effect on the actual lunch production and rollout, so
the rest of it was just nonsense sniveling teachers who
claimed kids didn't like the taste. It is truly pathetic,
and made worse by the fact the world has got
some real issues to be focused on at the moment,
but we're too myopic to notice. But Torbert Mills poll
(04:12):
about as useful as the Curier pole. The other day
random thoughts. Of people who say yes, having an opinion
but not based on any knowledge, sixty five percent say
the lunch program isn't working. How would they know? Media
coverage is the answer? Media is biased. Sixty percent want
the old system back. Who's paying for that? See pole
answers easy answer, Pole real easy, Who's actually paying for it?
(04:32):
Fifty three percent of people are not convinced our National
Party supporters. Now here's the issue. See it doesn't matter
what's right or wrong, accurate or factorial, or silly or
overhyped or engineered as a campaign politically. From the union's
teachers and media's point of view, this is worked. It's
been successful. People believe it's a mess, and perception is
reality and a politics, perception is votes. If people believe
(04:55):
you are hopeless or dishonest or don't deliver, it is
what it is. Logic, fact and truth come a very
distant second of vibe and mood. Can it be fixed? Yes?
Can the mood be turned? Of course it can. This
will be a non event in no time, like most
small scraps that absorbers, but as an exercise and conception, execution,
delivery and sales numbers, no matter how lucipol may be
(05:16):
don't lie.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Because he mentioned the vibe there.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
I don't know that the vibe is easily changed once
it starts wabbling off in the wrong direction.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
It's it's sort of an amorphous thing, the vibe. It's
had to handle.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
It's both slippery and uh what's the.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
And Wraith like.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
You, you're handy to slip off that so you can't
get over your phone on it, or though they go
right through it, don't mishandle the vibe right from the
outset that it'd be my advice. So you've probably seen
that Sky's put its prices up again.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Thanks Sky Mike.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Could you ask guy why won't they allow sports only package?
I just want sport. I think they do have a
sports ony package. They don't have a sports any.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
You have to have the start pack.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
What about that? Sport go sky sport Go. What's sky
sport goes by itself? You buy sky sport Go, that's it.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Well, don't get sky gowo different things.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Okay, My point is are we confused as punters and customers?
Yes we are. Do we know what the answers to
these questions are? No, we do not. Are there too
many players in the market offering too many different things,
too many different price points, and eventually we just go, oh,
you know what, I can't be bothered. I think Neon
put their prices up as well, didn't they? And I
got Neon? And if it wasn't for White Lotus, it
wouldn't have aning On.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
I find it's so funny. For a couple of things
I find funny. I find it funny that he calls
it White Lotus when it's actually called the White Lotus.
And he calls Facebook the Facebook even though it's just Facebook,
but that's.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Neither here nor there.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
I do find it funny that he keeps paying for
for Neon when he doesn't have to, because he pays
for Sky and he can watch everything just on Sky
undern arm. But like most people, they don't seem to
understand that it's all the same place.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
It's so rewrapped because.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Con going in New Zealand a reckon that one. Now.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
I wouldn't normally pay play a trending now, I mean
I do sometimes, but not normally in this podcast, but
this morning, this one was important because it happened at
about six thirty six instead of at about sex twenty
six when it's normally supposed.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
To any old thing. So I'm chatting to you just
before the news, and as I'm doing that, I'm thinking
to myself, juice, I got a lot more time on
my hands than I thought I did, and non normally
pretty good with time, anyone will tell you that, pretty
good with time, being able to sort these things out.
And I'm thinking, why have I got more time on
my hands? Anyway, I'm sort of and they were looking
at you know, I forgot this.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Trending now with chemist Wells keeping Kiwi's healthy all year round.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Now I could tell you how a very tough night,
which I did. I had a very difficult night with
the dog. Is it me too? Yeah? So is it
the moon?
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Not with your dog?
Speaker 4 (07:58):
With no? Is it the blood moon? Well, anyway, tough
night with the dog, very very tired this morning. No
excuse as a bloke at the ZB offices in christ
which once told me when I turned up there, he goes,
no one wants to know you personal problems. I thought, yep,
fair enough, good advice, that's right.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
So we are not going to tell anybody about what
was happening with our dogs.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
No, exactly, So very difficult night with the dog, so
that probably that that probably partially explains it. Anyway, the
pointer is I forgot to do.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Trending now the home of big brand vitamins.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
And this was a goodie too. It's the US correspondent
for Sky Mark Stone with the trade advisor Peter Varro.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
President seems to be changing his mind by the hour
at the moment, yea move out of the way.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
What are your what are your views on the on
the fact that if you don't understand what the negotiation
looks like, the president is negotiating strategically, so stop with
a rhetoric. Okay, just stop dad crap.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
But but he does seem to be changing his mind
all the time. That is that part of it.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Where are you from from Sky News the UK?
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Instead of what? But why is that?
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Why is that?
Speaker 1 (09:03):
It's a fact that he's changing his mind every single day.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Aciation my friends.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Right, So he doesn't mean it. So it's all part
of negotiationiation and it's causing havoc to the stock markets.
It's not causing heavy what it is they are they
are tumbling questions?
Speaker 3 (09:20):
But you do you do you have back up?
Speaker 1 (09:24):
It's my start. I'm allowed to ask questions. I asked,
so you don't believe that it's causing havoc to the
stock market.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
Here's what we're gonna do. I can either stay here
and answer questions and you can be civil about it,
or you can hector me like this. So stand back,
get that thing out of my face. You've had your
chance to ask questions. At that point, you then pulled
a gun out and shot him.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
I'm just actually watching Peter Navarro on Fox News right
now trying to explain what the long term goal of
the tariffs to a very confused looking Fox News host,
and there's a lot of hand gestures, big double double
hand hand yesterus going. So whatever he's saying, he definitely
(10:08):
means it, and it's wanting to emphasize at the point
the ree wrap, we're gonna first up handing out some
plaudits to a council.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
This doesn't happen very often, So stand by.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
Wanganui Council, which yesterday I told you about. I think
it's a good idea. So Wanganui yesterday I told you about,
is you apply, you go in a pool of local voters.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
A pool so to speak.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Yeah, that was a get I was leading up to that, Glenn,
you killed them my punchline.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Sorry, just forget I said anything.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
So you go and a pull, they pull your name
out and they then pay you five hundred dollars to
go to a series of meetings about five lasting three
hours each, so fifteen hours worth of meetings on this
particular subject. It's swimming, outdoor swimming and Wanganui. So I
thought that's not an unreasonable idea if it gets more
and more people involved in local body politics. The Smrning's
(10:54):
news also from Wanganui. How many times have you heard
Wanganui mentioned twice on this program? Never? Well since they
changed their name, Well, exactly why Wanganui. They're dropping the
curb side food scrap collection. So the stupid little plastic
containers that some cities around the country have where you
put your orange peel in and then you put it
out on the footpath and watch the wind blow them
(11:16):
all away, complete and utter waste of time. Reason councils
did it as the previous government that shall not be
mentioned made it compulsory. Course they did so. Anyway, now
the new government that will be mentioned said, don't worry
about it if you don't want to so wog and
we think, ah, shall we worry about it? Then they
had a vote. The vote was unanimous to drop it downside.
(11:39):
They do have nineteen thousand of these plastic buckets that
they're not one hundred percent sure what to do with,
but they're not going to distribute them around the place.
Therefore they're not going to get blown all over Wanganui
in the wind and or be ignored by most people, who,
of course can't be bothered. So Wanganui tick tick two
times in a week and it's only Thursday.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
I'd be interested to know what's happened to the sales
of waste disposals. I once actually installed a little waste disposal,
replaced one that had stopped working. It was very satisfying
because it actually worked first time and didn't leak at all.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
I was expecting it to be a complete disaster.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
It's probably the sort of thing that you should leave
for an expert to do, but I was sent out
to go get one with a list. That's a callback, right,
there's something I'm experimenting with.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Did it work?
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Would it have worked better if I hadn't pointed it out?
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Maybe? But yeah, I wonder, you know, if you're a
waste disposal manufacturer, are you going through particularly hard times
now that everybody's putting their food scraps and those little
bins except when hung a NEWI obviously I am Glenn Hart.
My little Green ben store. Is the tape on it
(13:01):
that it came with holding the lid closed. It's just
out at the back of my house, sitting there looking lonely,
getting cob webs on it.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Because I've got a waste susposal.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
I say, I'll see you back here again tomorrow, maybe
with more callbacks. Who could say?
Speaker 1 (13:26):
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