The Re-WrapTHE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Friday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) Your Flight Has Not Been Delayed or Cancelled/More Questionable Data/Mark the Week/Stop Making Cents
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Okay there, welcome to the Rerap for Friday, all the.
Best bets from the Mic Hosking breakfast on newstalk EDB in a sillier package. I am Glen Harten. Today we've got some long term election data.
To dig into.
We'll mark the week because it's Friday, it's what we do and what's happening with our ten cent coins.
But before any of that, so we've got some hard data.
Allegedly about how many flights get delayed and canceled and.
Well the results were surprising.
Shall we play a little game of let's write the listener up just just a taste to start for this morning. So I've got the stats on on time departure arrivals for airlines regionally and the jets. And this is the thing that's got you going over the last couple of months. You remember we went to the Ministry of Transport. They mucked us around for days on end. They said, look, we're putting all these numbers together. It will arrive. Well they've arrived. It's not what I in the Mic Hosking scale of having your act together and getting on with life. No, it's not fantastic, but it's not as bad as you think. You tell me it's a disaster. Every time you hop on a little propeller plane from Auckland to Blenham or Wellington to Omoru, you're going never takes off, it's always canceled. It's a disaster. You're wrong. You are wrong, You are factually incorrect. Overall domestic regional on time performance trends for all airlines eighty one percent. Now, as I say in my world, eighty percent is not good enough, but it's better than you make it out to be. Air Chathams sixty seven, well they're a bit useless. In New Zealand eighty percent. Eight out of ten planes arrive and take off on time. Barrier Air sixty three not good, Golden Air eighty one, Origineer ninety two, go origin ere. They won't have many plans many flights, of course, and that'll help them out. Sounds the same story. Ninety five percent of plans take off and land times sunny and ninety eight percent so are the other one to go with if you can find them. But Auckland to Blenham eighty five percent of the time. Takes off and lands on time eighty five percent of the time. Auckland Gisbond seventy six, Auckland Hawks Base seventy seven. Auckland and but Cargol ninety five percent. You're going to do win Viicargo for the weekend. You'll get there. Kai Tire not so good sixty five percent, Kirie Carey, see the north seems to be the problem sixty eight The Tasman's crap, absolute crap on the Tasman and that's everybody that's emirates in New Zealand jetsty But regionally, which is what you were interested in, Regionally, it doesn't appear to be the end of the world.
Yeah, but there are stats and stats so at eighty percent there aren't. Yeah.
No, so that means one out of every five times, right, So work with me here. Most of the time you're doing a return trip, right.
Oh you're gonna are you gonna do that?
That means that means every three trips you take.
No, because the stats are separated out and the numbers are basically the same, so that the odds remain, So don't come at me with your mathematician game.
Hey, I took statistics at school.
When I say took statistics, I leaned back on my chair, tried to go to sleep most of the time, and in the rest of the time I threw things at the back of Richard mcgaw's head. But other than that, I was paying close attention to everything, mister stiff and had to say so, rewrap, I wasn't the only one who wasn't buying.
It, though, Mike, laughing out loud at your factory in New Zealand. As I sit at n APR Airport after my flight was canceled, the SAM twenty minutes for departure. See, that's where this has come from. And I'm glad you raised that point in your world. It's like inflation isn't when you see it from the inflation number and you go, well, hold on, my inflation is not like that. If you're sitting at the airport and your plan's just been canceled, there is no amount of data I can give you to convince you otherwise. And that's the theory versus reality. Do the flight stats include cancelations? Good question, Yes they do, and by and large the cancelation as opposed to take off and landing. The cancelation numbers are really low, they're about percent, So that might infuriate you some more.
So it's not just you don't have infinite added into you.
You see how easily you can twist the statistics if you want to.
Because the plays that canceled, they've been delayed, you know, forever, haven't they rewrap? Actually, while we're doing data, let's do some other stupid data as well. They've talked to people. Well, i'll get Mark explain.
Tell you what. I cannot recommend a piece of reading in the listener and it's been reproduced elsewhere on a longitudinal study that now spans thirty five years and twelve elections. I cannot recommend this enough. It is gripping. Couple of thousand people each election are given dozens and dozens of questions. Now it's weakness is some of those questions are a bit vague, and they throw up the sort of responses around things like healthcare and public services that you would expect. Turns out, we like them, we want more of them, But I mean, how much more? What if the money is wasted? We don't get to know that sort of stuff. But a history for you. The long ear government of nineteen eighty four blew at big time. According to us, went way too far, upset too many people. I remember it well. We love strong leaders. We are more socially conservative than you might think. The electoral system doesn't represent what we actually want or like. Turns out the majority of US, and this has been applicable for years. We like the death penalty, yet we've never had it. A couple of highlights for me Labour's moves around Mari and introducing Treaty of White Hangy Principles into some legislation. The majority of US decades ago didn't want it. Now we don't have the twenty twenty three results as yet, but I bet you nothing's changed, which I would have thought would lead you to ask, well, why hasn't it changed? Why hasn't it been fixed? A bad idea allowed to fester and cause on going angst and upset for decades. Why? Secondly, there are signs of increasing They tell us dissatisfaction, concern, and unhappiness. The authors say, not like the nineties. Now, I remember the nineties as well. It was Richardson and Shipley, it was welfare reform, the mother of all budgets. It was burning of effigies on the Parliament grounds. You can see the edginess these days was similar discourse and protest. But but it is suggested political polarization has declined over the past decade. Really do you believe that? I don't. I don't think we've ever been more divided, never been more stark in our views of the country in the world, social media distrust, fake news, polarizing views and stands. I've got no idea how they've concluded that. But it's a survey and it's New Zealand is speaking. Read it and see if you disagree. But on most stuff, and here's the really interesting thing, on most stuff, we haven't changed. For decades. We haven't changed. The times have changed, the circumstances have changed, but broadly we don't. And I'm not sure if that's good or bad.
The thing is the one I got stuck on. I don't know anybody who supports the death building, like none of the people I know, well, they certainly haven't said that they do to me.
Maybe they know that that'll be end for a tongue lashing from me. So I don't know, are people just.
Filling out these forms like it's over several?
Have any elections? Did you say twelve elections or something?
Are people filling out these questions when they go to vote, because if so, they will write down.
Anything just to get in and out of there. Surely rewrap. Now let me just have a look here. It's Friday. It must be time to match the week.
Time now to make the week little piece of news and current events. That's more impactful than an air New Zealand triple seven smacking into the side of a k neebridge Fontier Are nine. It is literally raining money. Record farm gate record profits starting at ten bucks for next year. Go buy ute Port of Auckland two. I mean everything that's there with New Zealand putting prices up because you can wyuku three, wag everything that's wrong with New Zealand. Four hundred k for a raised crossing. It's fascical. I'll come back to that red meat eight April months along with the diary numbers, keep this little country ticking. Auckland FC seven falling when they did took the shine off, but up until then there was a lot of shine to enjoy. So that's the upside of that equation. Liam seven points at last, plenty of season to go. Of course, you get the sense things are happening for him. Spain this weekend new consenting rule seven. See this is seven. This is what we need. More of, less counsel, more private sector, faster decisions. Let's get on with it. Trump for don't ever say what you said. That's a nasty question. Who looks roping you by the day, the meme dinner, the court blockade of tariffs, the ceasefires that haven't happened. It looks rambling, ill disciplined, and and saying, oh that's before I get to Harvard Tourism six, Well, at least the great walks. I mean a couple sold out in half an hour this week. That's demand, doesn't it. And a reminder that chunks of this country truly are world class coffee for me ten bucks a cup and El Brown's selling filter. I mean it's not right. Marilyn Wearing four. I mean I call it the Clarkification of New Zealand. Do your thing fine, but when you retire, retire Russell eight. The National Geographic Board couldn't decide, so the Minister did. The place is called Russell. It's a win for common sense. Clarkson's farm Mate is that right between the production values, the humor of the hardship, the story arc. It is what great TV should be and sometimes still as if you haven't caught up with it, watch it this Weekend Radio New Zealand. For all that money, for all those listeners to wander off to places like the my Casking Breakfast. What's worse value a public radio that you don't want all the way? Who crossing you can't afford? That's the week copies on the website, and thirty two of these, by the way, have been specially cut out and shaped and turned into address for Nicola next budget day.
See, I'm quite happy with that. Mark the week today.
This is where I do my usual analyze my own performance and mark the week, even though you probably don't care exactly how it works technically, but.
Basically, I've got this big it's called the wall. It's a computer screen.
It's just full of buttons that you can push with your mouse and I can drag different sound effects and things onto that and for mark the week, I have them all on sequential order, except for the buzzes and things, which are at the beginning, because obviously those are the things that I use the most. And sometimes ironically I'm like playing a buzzer or a den because I've got to go all the way from halfway across the page back to the beginning to find me danga my buzz And that's why sometimes I get those wrong. Yeah, No, that wasn't as interesting as I thought it was going to be. You're quite right.
Three wrap.
How about this whole We finally get the go ahead to put the king on our coins. We're starting with the ten sensors and they have to be made in Canada. I just asked him how many he's got personally points no, ten sensors and how many has he got?
None? Because do you know why? He throws them out?
See, I keep telling you he's paid too much money. He's got his own apartment. He's in his twenties, he's got his own apartment.
Doesn't flash dog, he's got a flash dog.
He throws money out.
He literally throws money away.
He throws money away.
Yeah, I don't know why I was so shocked by that. Doesn't mean why wouldn't you.
You know, as Mike pointed out this morning that you just had them floating around in the ash tray in your car.
Don't you have ten senses?
And eventually you know you're trying to leak up enough that you've actually got it the lad up to it an even dollar, because who can be bothered counting out exact change for something? And you might, you know, put a few of those dollars together to buy a secret pie or something. But not Sam. He just goes, I can't bother with this and biff them. I just I mean, I know it's, you know, the closest thing to no money that you can have ten cents, but.
I just can't imagine just throwing it away. In some ways, that's so cool. Sam's got a lot cooler to me today. Actually that was before we got into the whole story about how he's.
Need him to clean up his new dogs who it's going away of the place at the moment because it's a new dog. Anyway, I am Glen hat it was my ten cents worth.
We'll see back here again for because it's the weekend edition.
When you get twenty cents worth, Oh no, that's News Talks Aving, it's a whole other podcast. I mean Monday, it will just be I won't be here at all. Yeah, so it would be thirty cents worth of News Talks, the end being on Monday. Tune in for that, and then I'll just be here with a normal sort of Tuesday one that it will feel like a Monday.
This has gone on very longest thing at the end. Why do they always go on so long? These things at the end, you're asking.
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