THE RE-WRAP: Unprecedented Warriors Performance

THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Monday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) You've Never Heard a Take Like This/Bloody Maorification/We Need To Stop Getting Old/More Power to Us/Everyone Has Their Price

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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The Rewrap.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Okay there, welcome to the Rewrap for Monday. All the best.
That's from the Mike Husking breakfast on News Talks. They'd
be in a sillier package. It's quite a sporty one today.
But in between we're going to talk about maraification again
and this ird report. This is basically there's too many
old people and not enough other people to pay for them.

(00:46):
We'll also talk about Formula E and how much Ronaldo
is getting paid to play football that nobody watches. But
before any of that, this is an historic day. Mike
started the show with a comment about the Warriors. Even
though they lost.

Speaker 3 (01:02):
Let me shume my concern with you. We have now
lost to in a row that in and of itself
isn't the end of the world. Center that was worse
than the week before's loss because this last loss we
didn't fire, We looked out played, we look spooked by
a side we'd previously beat. And don't forget that. Now
here's the trouble. According to Foxtell, who produced the league
in Australia. There are six sides that can win the premiership.
We are one of them. There's growing excitement around the Panthers,

(01:25):
a given. No club in league history apparently has been
a reigning champ gone on to be as useless as
they are, only to recover to go on to win
if they pull that trek off. It's a story for
the ages. Other sides they say can win, the Broncos,
who they call ropie, but when they get it together
are great. I think we might have seen that on
Saturday Melbourne. The Bulldogs and the Raiders make up the six,
so you can see the problem. Who have we lost

(01:46):
to pick any of the fire bar the Bulldogs, and
those are the teams that beat us. We play the
Bulldogs in August. By the way, by then we need
to have found the formula to take on sides with
a view to not capitulating. There's nothing wrong with a
loss to a top side, but when all your losses
are to top sides, it means by the time we
reach the playoffs, the wins that they come will be
more stars aligned than they will be predictable. We are

(02:08):
a top team. We're almost certainly a top fourteen All
of that is good, and all of that's what's made
this season so full of expectations so far. But when
you see the pattern of losses and to who, and
now you add some worrying injuries, it gives you pause
for thought. Don't you think injuries are largely luck? Of course,
we survived the start of the season with plenty of those,
and we got through it all. But there is something
missing on the big occasion, Brisbane outplatus. A slow start's

(02:31):
only an issue, by the way, if you don't do
something about it. Problem was we didn't do anything about it.
Not helping was my sister in law's photo yesterday morning
from the balcony of her hotel looking down on the
Warriors sunning themselves by the pool. Recovery is one thing,
sun bathing is another. Don't worry, it's not over. Just
some thoughts this fingers crossed. There still a.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
Y So I don't know what's happening. That was actually
reasonably balanced and objective that commentary on the Warriors game
and the weekend. Like I say, this is an unpresent performance.

Speaker 3 (03:09):
So rewrap right.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
So after expressing concerns last week about the ongoing sort
of ethnicity based policies that seem to still be in
place even though the government said they wouldn't be. It
seems like it's sort of dribbled over into this week.

Speaker 3 (03:28):
So here's what we found out about. For so Tama
po takers on the program Friday says that fun of
Aura is for everybody. So we go looking over the
weekend as funer Aura for everybody. Turns out, no, it's
for Maria Pacific Island. It's a race based organization. This
goes to the more unapacific thing, goes to the political
advertising thing, all of which we'll raise with the Prime Minister.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
I've been working on my grant request.

Speaker 3 (03:48):
Forget it violent. And then we come to the business
of Ikea. You know Ikea. We banged on about them endlessly,
flatpac furniture and meat balls. Under cultural monitoring. This is
what you have to do. If you're Ikea and you
get your permission, you must undertake cultural monitoring. You must
undertake Kurakia and other such cultural ceremonies. This is part
of the license gave these people to build a shop.

(04:10):
And you must do this prestart meeting. You must do
it at commencement of earthworks and you must do it
immediately prior to completion of bulk earthworks, so you've got
to do it over and over again. You need to
afford the opportunity to provide cultural monitoring. Manofenawa need afforded
access to the site at their discretion. Maray can simply
wander onto the site whenever they want. How is this possible?

(04:34):
You must provide a minimum of ten working days notice
to representatives of MANOFENAA of the anticipated dates of the
above milestones. As part of Condition five E following aspects
of the design. They must be consulted on erosion and
sediment control, stormwater treatment and planting, riparian planting, any opportunities
for ecological enhancement, and culvert edge walkway design. Very important

(04:54):
to talk about the walkway design. The consent holder I
e IQ must provide evidence of this consultation. Is this
race base or this race base? And is this a
government that said they were getting rid of this race
based nonsense? Yes it is.

Speaker 2 (05:07):
I bet when you're multi national conglomerate like I Care,
you've run into some pretty wacky stuff wherever you try
to set our shop. No yet, I'm sure they've come
across a lot worse than us. I'm relatively sure anyway,
a ReRAM fear bit of banks at the moment about

(05:29):
the retirement age. Who's paying for super? Why so many
of us are old and so few of us are young.

Speaker 3 (05:34):
In a world of pressing problems, one of the bigger
longer term ones is due a good looking at because
if we don't, when we get there, we'll want to
shoot ourselves. So ird have been looking at the cost
of stuff and where that money comes from. Now the trouble,
and this is not new, is we have more older
people needing more money and fewer younger people to work
to raise that money to pay those bills. This is

(05:57):
more than super. I'm talking about. It's health, it's pretty
much everything. Currently sixteen percent of the population is over
sixty five. By twenty sixty that's going to be a quarter.
So it's going from sixteen percent to twenty five percent. Now,
the ion conclusion people will likely have to pay more
tax really is that it? Well? No, Actually, somewhere in
the advice they mutters something like, we could always cut costs.

(06:19):
Will bingo there, bingo, bingo, bingo give the people a prize?
Yes we could, And why that idea is not top
of the pile of ideas. I don't know, because here's
what I do know. Most of the money to pay
for all of this comes from you and me. Personal
tax is over fifty percent of government income in fact
is fifty two percent. Companies pay seventeen percent. GST is
twenty five percent. A lot of gsts from us as well.

(06:40):
So in fact, look at our top tax rate thirty
nine cents. Add GST on top of that, you're at
fifty four percent. Fifty four cents in every dollar. Add
the bits and pieces on top you know, acc road
user charges. All that top income earners will be parting
with fifty six or fifty seven percent of everything they earn.
And the IRDG advice is we're going to need more

(07:00):
of that, please, So how much more? And at what
point does it become ruinous? At what point do the
young bright things move off? Sure? I mean those are
the ones that haven't already gone, of course, So let's
take stock here for a moment and see where we're at.
We're highly taxed. Remember at the other end, we don't
have any tax free component in our income tax system.
We are a low wage economy. We have a massive

(07:21):
savings issue with kiwisaver at an average of thirty ish
one thousand dollars in savings that's all we've got, and
a fiscal cliff in a bunch of years where the
main idea is will bleed you for even more tax
spot the red flag. So what to do I mean,
and how urgently ideas please?

Speaker 2 (07:38):
So basically I think the answer everyone is to stop
getting old yeap, just stop living an appropriate time until
we can get everything back into ballots. All right, do
it for the country, so rewrap. Make sure you hang

(08:00):
around though for the possibility of Formula E coming to
New Zealand.

Speaker 3 (08:06):
Oh yes, and I don't think Nick Cassidy was saying
and events sale GP. He reckons nic Cassidy, who drives
for Jaguar, of course, along with Mitchamans. Obviously he reckons
the Formulae should come here. They've got sixteen rounds, ten countries.
He gets some support, but the support isn't great in
terms of volume. I think it would be really important
to get a race in Australasia at some point, so

(08:28):
it's probably not a bad idea.

Speaker 2 (08:29):
You couldn't do it during winter daugh because we would
have enough power probably.

Speaker 3 (08:34):
Sounded a cold morning. We'll put the start at three
o'clock once the sun comes out.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
But did you put that segment in the podcast just
because you thought that there was a funny joke about
the power. I don't know what you're talking about doing
something like that the rewrap. No. If I was going
to be self indulgent and just use this podcast to
replay things that I thought, I said, we're funny, i'd

(09:00):
put audio like this.

Speaker 3 (09:01):
Then it was a thing that Christiana Ronaldo has got
a new contract and he's in the Middle East, and
I'll give you the numbers in just a couple of moments,
and I think about him recently. Do you not want
to if you're Christian Christiana Ronaldo play for somebody important?
In other words, you don't want to plan a league
no one cares about. No one cares about the league
that he's in the Saudi Pro League, Golden Boot, whatever

(09:23):
you call it league. Here's what he's getting paid. He's
getting paid one hundred and seventy eight million pounds a year,
so that's three seventy three seventy three eighty million. He's
got fifteen percent ownership of the team, it's valued at
sixty million. He got a fifty million dollars signing bonus
that increased to about seventy seventy five million dollars if
he activates the second year of the contract. He gets

(09:46):
paid one hundred and sixty hundred and seventy thousand dollars
per goal. That increases twenty percent in the second year.
He gets about eighty thousand dollars per assist. So what
are you going to do? Is pass the ball? He goes, Hey,
there it it you aighty Graham. He gets sixteen million
dollars if his team wins the Saudi Pro League. I mean,

(10:09):
who else name me four teams in the Saudi Pro League?
You can't. He gets eight million if he wins the
Golden Boot. He gets twelve million if they qualify for
the Asian Champions League and win it. Currently, he's got
sixteen people working full time for him, including three drivers
for housekeepers, two ships, three gardeners, and four security people.

(10:32):
He gets eight million dollars worth a private jet time
covered by the team, and he gets one hundred and
twenty million dollars worth of sponsorship deals as well. But
so yes, he's got a lot of coin a lot
of housekeepers, but is he happy?

Speaker 2 (10:44):
Tell you, what, if they want me to do like
a Saudi radio show over there that nobody listens to,
I would do it. I'd do it. I'd do it
for one hundred million, but I wouldn't need five gardeners.

Speaker 3 (10:58):
No worry.

Speaker 2 (10:59):
Yeah. See, that's the kind of thing that I do.
If I was just using this podcast to play back,
that's of me that I found it entertaining. But you
ain't catch me doing that on this very popular, widely
listen to the Frickian radio show. It doesn't pay quite
as well as Ronaldo's made up pop fall League. Oh well,

(11:21):
I am Glen Hart. That was the rewrap, and we'll
do it again tomorrow, no matter how many people are listening.

Speaker 1 (11:35):
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