THE RE-WRAP: Nothing Left to Sell

Published Jan 28, 2025, 8:29 PM

THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Wednesday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) Can I Interest You In a Used Train Set?/What About MY Road?/Just Say Non to AI/Leave It to Karoline/The Hamilton Effect

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Okay there, welcome to the rewrap for Wednesday, all the best bits from the Mic Husking breakfast on News Talk said, be in a silly a package. I am van Hart today. Mike wants to know how come his speed limit hasn't been raised. The French want to know why there LLM isn't working properly. Caroline Levick's debuts as the White House Press Secretary and can Lewis Hamilton turned things around for Ferrari, but before any of that. Privatization A sal, Baby sal seems to be the call at the moment, but we might actually have that much to sell.

I'm noting. I'm noting some reaction to last week's State of the Nation by David Seymour. We have worry about privatization. Unions and advocates want the PM to rule privatization out. Privatization of what is a more important point? Not that anyone seemed interested in that yesterday, and more importantly, nor did they seem interested in the fact there is no plan under national for any privatization and if there is. It's an election away and we've got bigger fish to fry right now. Given the noise, you might have the impression we're against privatization full stop. Now, you can't be against privatization of everything unless you might. Opic unions argue privatization of health, for example, would low or hurt lower paid or poorer people. They're probably right, and in that sense it is why the privatization debate in general hasn't been a thing for years long. Gone are the crazy old days of Preble and Douglas and privatizing everything. I work for TV and Z when they were being shaped up for sale, But then Helen Clark won the election and that was that. Back then they thought they could get several hundred million dollars for it. These days, it isn't worth anything more than scrap. So you could argue it serves a wider community purpose than it ever would if you found somebody to offer a better cash for part. But ask yourself this as key. We rail really a good government run company right here right now. And in that sort of example seemoa of courses right. I mean, governments don't actually make good owners. There's very little in government hands. You would realistically argue is better run than the private sector, that is more efficient than the private sector, I redy being of course for all those freaked out by health, a lot of the private sector is used. Of course four public health procedures. No one seems to mind that. Where Seymour won the day though, and this is important and where he needs to be listened to, is when he talks about this country being at a tipping point. The teens of thousands who have left have largely been the bright, the go getters, the future prospects. Ed has left behind a worryingly large number of people who love the malaise, who love the work from home, who don't care about the debt, who are camped out on acc and generally aren't net contributors to the country. The immigration surge has led to huge numbers of weight as Nuba drivers, while the scientists park themselves in Sydney or London. The balance is tipped the wrong way, he highlights, I would have thought the reddest of red flax.

Yeah, does anybody want to train set? We've got Kiwi rail and we still got that. We sold some of we sold the freight part of it, didn't We didn't we buy it for what happened with toll I don't know anyway, we'll play with that bagging.

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Another fast tracking kick ass policy was raising the speed limits on certain roads, but not on one certain road, which Mike was really hoping for.

Unfortunately, By the way, can I tell you how ropable I am?

This morning?

Yesterday on this program the Prime Minister I was lamenting the lack of action from this government on a variety of things, not least of which is the road I used to go north to the country each weekend. And this is not just about me. There's hundreds of thousands of people who do the same thing, and many of them come in the opposite direction as well. It's called State Highway one. It's a beautiful piece of new road. And they said some in Brown, Minister of Transport and now Minister of Health of course, Simian Brunted, or we'll make that one hundred and twenty. No worries at all. Why wouldn't we There's multiple lanes as medium strips in the middle. No one's that begin to crash. No one's ever going to get hurt, is it? One hundred and twenty no, it is not one hundred and twenty. So anyway, I lambassad the Prime Minister for that yesterday and blow me down, Blow me down if there isn't an announcement coming this morning on the increase of speed limits around a whole lot of roads all over this country. State Highway one, Carmo Bypass, State Highway one, fung Array, State Highway twenty two at Pirrata one Sea, Hamilton, State Highway three, Hamilton, State Highway twenty six, Hamilton. So a lot of announcements coming today on increasing the speed limit. Hallelujah, is my road included? No, now, it is not one of the busiest, most beautifully built, safest roads in the country. Indeed that you will ever see remains at one hundred k's with cops sitting on it pulling you over for one hundred and four gaining revenue while the government sits and does God knows what.

To be fair, you did say to the Prime Minister yesterday, don't do things just because I tell you to do things.

That's true, and that's why he stiffed me this morning on these raids. Has gone through every road. He is going to increase the speed of every road this morning's at mine. But anyway, for those of you who will be affected positively by this announcement coming later on this morning, it's a good day.

I really hope that. I don't know if they've got any say over this. I'm not sure we were at with the Auckland Transport and when and the speed limits that they decrease with the government has any say over that, the national government because Victoria Street just out from you know where, it's only thirty k's and when you're driving at thirty k's, Mike, I mean, I am a Nana driver of the highest order, and yet my card struggles to even work at that speed. I'm a slow walker and I reckon I walk at about that speed. That's to me, that's excessively slow. Right. A lot of talk about AI this week, of course, with deep seek shaking everything up a little bit, and nobody seems to be talking about what the French have been doing, but except Mike Costing.

Of which we've got a French language AI chatbot, which was of course backed by the French government, signed off by Macron no less, a Linigora group part of a consortium developing a model called Lucy It remains an academic research project in its early stages. Released prematurely unfortunately, because what happened yesterday. It was all embarrassing asking the chatbot to tell them about cows eggs, and it said cow's eggs, also known as chicken eggs, are edible eggs by cows. Cows eggs are a source of protein and nutrients, and are considered to be a healthy and nutritious food. Then they asked her to multiply five by three plus two. The answer, of course, is twenty five. She said it was seventeen. Also said that the square root of a goat is one, So Macron just piled the fifty four billion euros into that.

How are you saying that the square root of a goat is not one?

It's going well, isn't it.

But when you think about it, one goat times one goat is one goat, isn't it. Yeah, if you look at it, look at it the other way around, you've quite got the hang of square roots. Like I technically understand what they are, But what I don't understand is how you can type into your calculator or your computer a number and it will tell you what the square root is how does it know you sort of have to start they you have just mess I'm against.

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I get the impression that Caroline Leave it was a lot better at school than I was. She certainly buught a big ring binder with her into the White House press briefing this morning.

This, according to Glenn, is the highlight of what has just concluded. Fifty minutes military into California to turn the water on.

The Army Corps of Engineers has been on the ground in California to respond to the devastation from these wildfires. And I would point out that just days after President Trump visited the devastation from these fires, the water was turned on. That is because of the pressure campaign he put on state and local officials there who clearly lack all common sense. Our President Trump showed up on the scene, Karen Bass was telling private property owners that they would have to wait eighteen months to access their private property. So this administration, the President and his team that's on the ground in California, Rickernell, who has designated to oversee this great crisis, will continue to put pressure on Karen Bass and state and local officials to allow residents to access their properties. This is a huge part of it. They should be able to do that. It's the United States of America. What happened to our freedom? Clearly it's gone in California, but not anymore under President Trump.

She's not bad. I watched Trump in the Palisades on I can't remember, said there someday whatever it was best looked pathetic. And her reference there to permits. You need a number of permits, both federal, state, and local to get access to your burnt property. And Trump was just sitting there very like John Key in that common sense kind of way. And it is true to suggest that some people were going to have to wait eighteen months to just get back to there. As Trump put it, burned out lot where there was nothing anyway, and Bass at one point went, but it's kind about her safety is the safety says, there's nothing there, it's all burnt. Let them go and clear their lots. I've already done, he said, I've already got the federal permits, so I've arrived today. So the federal government's done their job, which is very unusual for the federal government to be faster than the state government. By this stage, Bass was looking sick and he just laid around on the floor, and so this is why it's seemingly working so well for him at the moment. So that is her opening. Fifty minutes started, I think on time, which is always a bit late, literally how late.

About seven minutes later, I'd say.

We'll give her that. That's not bad for day number one.

Yeah, she's only twenty seven, so she's the youngest ever White House Press spokesperson. I was initially unimpressed. She seemed like it was all being sort of read off a scrapt and I thought, oh, they're going to eat her alive. But she's very passionately behind her boss, that's for sure, and definitely shades of Kamie mc Andennie, who used to also bring a big ring binder and like to hold up pieces of paper to prove that she'd done her homework. So anyway, if you like that sort of thing, watch out for Caroline the rerat. Now we're going to finish up with an F one update of sorts. I can't quite figure out whether this is an F one update or a Fashion Police update.

My Ferrari shares are going nowhere at present. Have you got a view? Well, I do. Indeed, over the last six months, I know Ferrari shares are up about eight percent, but on the year they're flat. Will Lewis Hamilton drive them back to the front of the grid and help sales? Fair question. No, So I don't link Hamilton with shares in any way, shape or form. What they do on the track has got nothing to do with what the shares do. What the shares do is based on whether or not there's a lot of people with a lot of money you want to buy flash cars and Lewis Hamilton. I was watching him last week. He was at Marinello doing some testing, very limited testing because there are weird rules that basically mean you can't do a lot of ten. He's got to be in an old car, he can't use specific tire, so he went round around. Huge crowd, turned out, massive crowd turned out. The photo Look it up if you never saw it. He was wearing Ferragamo and he had a sort of a Godfather photo shoot in front of an F forty in front of Enzo's old house, and that is the most light loved shared Instagram photo of F one in the history of F one. And he made a black suit double breasted with an overcoat. Looked quite cool anyway, So I wish him well for the season. It'll be, it'll be, and I think everyone agrees the most exciting if one season in decades.

Has anything ever been the most exciting thing ever when everybody said it was going to be? Has that ever happened? Or has it always always failed to deliver? And also I don't understand anything Mike said about what Lewis Hamilton was wearing either, not even short what languages he was using with outms of clothing, you know, was it a hat, was it a coat? Was it boots? Different worlds? I am Glen hat. Thank you for sharing my world for a few minutes, and we'll be back for another journey to it Tomorrow's even.

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