THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Tuesday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) Was This Ever a Story at All?/Mitch Gets a Pass/Taxi Talk/If You're Not Grunting, You're Doing it Wrong
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Hello, my beautiful beanies, and welcome to the bean for Wednesday. First with yesterday's news, I am Glen Hart, and we are looking back at Tuesday the crime stats, or we had some crime stats, and I think we're getting there slowly, so Matt Mitchell doesn't have to quit. Lucky for him, I suppose taxis are under fire. This is still fall out from last week's Coldplay concerts where once again we proved that he just can't do events in Auckland because of the breed loses their minds, including the tachee drivers. And then we've got some Jim etiquette concerns with Ryan at the end of the pub. But first up, yes, of course, Heckoi culminated yesterday the climax. I'm trying to find the right word. I don't really know what it is.
I know for a fact that mary see to t t or white tonguey is the one that was understood and signed by the indigenous people of this country one hundred and eighty years ago. And I think we need to have that conversation first before we go anywhere there pulling out you know, right, this is the one. The other side of that too. You know, you've got the English language not being an official national language here, just a de facto and Mary being a first language here. Now official national language, wasn't it, And.
I think I think they recently made English and official language. But if they did, if we if they decided on which particular treaty was the one they wanted to go with, would you then be happy with that being locked in place as it is and not being interpreted further from there?
Definitely? Definitely. But then you're also going to have the other side of it, which you noticed all the old older folks following the he Foker Puttunga plague, the Declaration of Independence signed by all and King George back in eighteen thirty five. So yeah, they an't going to be having those ones going hey, hang on, there's no treatyism mean nothing, this was signed before and this is a declaration of independence. So I think either way you go, you're always going to have those who go hey, but wait, I just want to say, for the last one hundred eighty years, we've led the world and showing how we can live together.
Is Ben seem to know what he was talking about, didn't he Which is unusual to have people having opinions about the stuff with actual facts in history to back on up. And I like the point at the end that yeah, although people get upset and I want to have their say about various things, at least we let them do that. But then it's a complicated business news talk.
Has it been.
As a black and white Here's what.
Heather think HIKOI did not feature by the looks of things in the lives of the people at Bunnings, and I suspect most of the five million people in the country will feel much to and just got on with their day. Not in Wellington unaffected. Kind Of hard to shake the feeling that the Hikoy ended up being absolutely a success, but kind of a bit of a fizzer as well. It's weird, but I think it's because thirty five thousand people, while a decent crowd, is pretty much the same size as the crowd that turned up to protest the Dunedin hospital changes. Remember that. Remember that was thirty five thousand people that were pulled just from Otago This is thirty five thousand feet people from across the country, right, this is the whole more too, getting together. Otago does thirty five thousand. The country does thirty five thousand. And by the way, that's thirty five thousand people in Otago without days and days and days of top of the news media coverage. So one is clearly more impressive than the other, don't you think. And part of the reason it feels like a fizzle also is because the main event already happened on Thursday, didn't it. It was the hacker. We're still talking about the hacker. They talked about it in parliament again today. It's hard to eclipse the hacker, and the hecoy didn't eclipse the hacker, I would say. So, while it is undoubtedly a success, and I'm very pleased it was as peaceful as expected, it is now over and we can go to back to doing whatever it was that we were doing before in our lives.
So the Banning's reference to the heather went to Bannings and got a Christmas tree. See your first choice for a Christmas tree. Some things they do seem to have it, They really do seem to have grown. The Christmas stuff department. In the last few years. I've noticed a lot of lights, that's for sure. And she's only just it's interesting that she's only just buying one. Now do you upgrade? How often do you upgrade your Christmas tree? Buying a real one? You understand that it was a ten one, which is the only time to get it for scar realizable. But he sneezes all their way through those THISTI season is stupid A pretty strong fields about that. I think I've got distracted by Christmas trees and I've sort of forgotten what she was talking about, which I think was the point.
Of what she was talking about.
Talk right.
One thing Matt Mitchell loves to talk about is cracking down on Prime. It sounds like he has because and he's got the stance to back him up.
Is that because a line has been drawn in the sand? Is that because the focus of the police has shifted slightly. I would certainly say the foot patrols would have helped. Is it an indication from police and indeed from the community. It was voters who said, up with this, we will not put We could have gone one way, we went this way. When it came to the polling booths. We don't want to see any more softly softly. We would like to see a line in the sand. When it comes to crime, There's a lot more to do. There's a lot more work to do around addictions. There's a lot more work to do around mental health, because a lot of those are precursors to crime. The crime is not actually the problem, it's the addictions that are. But so far, if you were to mark Mark Mitchell, what would you give him a B plus as a very good start.
I'm just trying to think how much crime has happened to me personally since he's been in charge. I've got my number plates nicked off my car. Sure if I can blame him directly for that, And I'm not sure if you dig down into those crime stats where number plate theft features in there, whether that's up or down, I'll to do a bit more research. Right. For some reason, we're still talking about taxis after the three Coldplay concerts in Auckland last week.
What sort of you know, ositt forgetting that taxis are still a famous and yet it's you know, one person gets ripped off and it's medical news for days, if not weeks there.
I can't understand why Taxis was so incredibly slow.
To adopt.
The modern technology that they were the people that drove people around, and Uber came and completely completely decimated their industry, which must have been heartbreaking for the taxi people, but entirely predictable, and as a result, I would say that the taxi model is absolutely broken. So if you're getting a taxi or playing for the infrastructure, the people that aren'tswer the phones sometimes the people that dispatch texis sometimes it's a much much, much more expensive model, and it's a model that's dying on the vine. So yeah, look, the last time I've got a taxi was because we got one in Vicago. We'd come, we've been away. We had to get a text from the airport to where we packed our car. It was an exhorbitant amount of money for a reshort trip. It was a It was a not a frightening amount of money, not a heart stopping amount of money, but certainly a lot of money for a reshort trip. Unfortunately, in ver Cable there is no Uber. But we should have walked, would have been more fun, probably would have been quicker.
It's not always practical to walk. That was it. There's going by yesterday's revelation that Marcus wears gum boots when he goes and collects power off the rock. I'm just wondering if he was wearing gun boots when you got off the plane.
News talk has it been?
Let's finish up here with Ryan has started just complaining about stuff, not necessarily like national issues or regional issues, even just literally just personal issues.
Do you know what really grinds my gears when I go to the gym, and I go to the gym because summer is coming and I don't want to look fat when I go to the beach like the rest of you, and I've been eating all winter, and these things need to be done. What I've noticed is, you know when you watch tennis and you hear the eh ah ah when they're playing, that is happening at the gym. I don't know if it's just my gym. I don't know if this is happening at your gym. But can we please stop the grunting? Is there a legitimate physiological reason for you to do that? I don't think there is. I've never felt the urge to grunt, or are you alive, Are you dying? Why are you doing this? It's off putting, it's inappropriate, and it's inconsiderate. Have a thought for those people who are trying to work out around you, and shut your mouth. I mean, obviously breathe, that's quite important, but other than that, just shut up. Very off putting, very annoying. It sounds like that bar bell is getting more than a dead lift. Sometimes sometimes I listen to it and I think, Oh, my goodness, is there going to be a climax at some point? Oh good lord. Right, anyway, there's my rant for today, not a bad one. I used to go to the gym once upon a time, back in the day. I'm just trying to think if I was a grund.
There's a certain amount of pressure, I think to make it look like that you almost need to grunt, but you're not really doing it hard enough. If you're not like involuntarily grunting and groaning and squeezing, you know, what you're doing isn't enough to make you do that, then you're not working hard enough.
And I do.
I got to admit that sometimes I probably made it look like I was on the verge of trunking and groaning and straining when it wasn't really that hard. It's the stupid thing about jims, isn't it. People shouldn't be allowed to look at each other and compare each other. Or is that what gym is all about? Maybe that's why I don't go anymore. I very rarely feel judged when I'm out walking the dog, which is my main form of exercise these days, most people are looking at the dogs. What got way off track there? I can't Once again, I can't remember what we were talking about. Doesn't matter, they're not I'll be back with more stuff. It doesn't matter. Tomorrows is in.
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