THE RE-WRAP: Some Springfield Problems Are Real

Published Sep 12, 2024, 9:14 PM

THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Friday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) Some Less So/What to Build a City On/Renewables Myths Busted/Mark the Week/We're Not All for the High Jump

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Rerap There, Welcome to the Rewrap for Friday. All the best bits from the Mike Hosking breakfast on News Talks sad Be in a sillier package. I'm being hardened today. What is the best thing to build a city on? Philosophically speaking? Is it renewables? Maybe we'll mark the week. There are some obvious houses, so those previous questions, that's why'm moving on so quickly. We'll mark the week because Friday is what we do and we won't move on quickly from that. And then we'll discuss the high jump because I think Mike Hoskin thinks he was better at it than he actually was. But before any event, Springfield are Springfield. It really became the sort of the what do you call it? The hot zone sort of during post the debate right.

Just back to Springfield, Ohio. Here's what's wrong with one the nutters, but two also the mainstream media. So obviously there are no cats and dogs being eaten by Haitians, right, But where that started was twofold. The main one was there was a woman who was found with a cat. Now the mainstream media covered that yesterday, but they stopped the story when they said she wasn't Haitian, she still had a cat. So that's where a story comes from. Second part, Springfield has a population of fifty six and this is where the base of the story starts. So you start with a true story and then it explodes out to the weird world of the nutjobs. Springfield has a population, who knew, of fifty six to fifty seven thousand people. It's a tiny place. There are fifteen thousand new arrivals from Haiti, so the population suddenly exponentially has exploded with Haitians. Now everyone's seems to agree that that's not good for the community. It puts stress on resources. There's nowhere for them to go. And a small town of fifty six to fifty seven thousand people with suddenly fifteen thousand arriving. It's not Los Angeles, it's not New York. It's Springfield. Fifty six to fifty seven thousand people suddenly got fifteen thousand Natians arriving. What else is going to happen? But angst and upset from the answer, so that's a genuine problem and a genuine story, and that's part of the immigration story in America, and that's why it is the number one issue during the election campaign. So that's real. Then enter the nutters, who then talk about the dogs and the cats, and there was some video of some weirdos saying there were ducks being pulled out of the pond and the park and all, and then it goes nuts. But at its essence, as is so often the case, is actually a real problem that once the nutters get hold of it is never really addressed, and then that is the show.

I actually think the real problem is that there are sixty seven springfields in the United States, sixty seven, and there are only fifty states in the United States. And what's more, there are only thirty five states that have springfields in them. So you're doing if you're adding all the time, Yes, it is quick in a list of states that don't have springfields than the ones that do, and some of them have two. So sixty seven divided by thirty five that's almost two springfields. Very e free state. We've got one, I reckon at our one in Canterbury. They should serve hot dogs and some kind of cat sandwich, I reckon that would go great.

It's not rewrap.

It's not a city though, Springfield want to make that quite clear. But if you are building a city, what's the best way to do it?

Question for you? Is it possible? One of the great mistakes of the modern era has been made around our cities. These and I think are increasing times or areas of life in which the theory, the promise, the dream is not only not coming to pass, but it's possible it never will. See the EB industry globally as in a major state of flux at the moment. Any number of large producers have not only promised to stop selling engines by twenty thirty ish, they now rely well, they've now realized, of course that's not real, so they've had to backtrack. But they've also realized that all the money they didn't spend on the next generation of engines has been lost and they now have to fill the gap. Renewables will talk about this this morning. They're in a similar place. Larry Allison this week told investors AI is so crazy when it comes to power consumption. They're at Oracle now building a data center that will be run by three small nuclear reactors. Now the world largely doesn't have such reactors right now, and it certainly doesn't have the renewable capability to run such data centers. And then to downtown New Zealand. Reform of city centers was predicated on several theories essentially, essentially, we wanted to save the planet while living like Europe. What we've ended up with is downtown Auckland, Downtown Toweronga, Downtown Wellington, all, if not destroyed, certainly in a state no one's proud of. As the bike lane's, bus lanes, lack of parking has taken its told. The businesses have closed, the people have gone home, never to come back. The mulls are popped up in suburbia, and the CBD is shot to pieces. We weren't like Europe. We aren't Europe never will be. Do We live in an age where the concept of the illusion of what could be is driven by the bandwagon of the day. Something the idea logs leap on board with no real insight as to what might actually be required for it to come to pass, driven of course by good intention, but appalling planning urged on by NGOs and the like. You need a buzz phrase or an agenda to keep them well, keep pushing to maintain relevance of indeed not funding people who want to be on the perceived right side of the hot new trend. And it all comes at a huge cost these downtown areas of tomorrow. Just when is tomorrow? When is Wellington going to be the pedestrian magnet, the cobbled hub? When does Auckland wear itself out with all the new outlets opening in Queen Street? When does Taronga cut its umpteenth ribbon on the mecha that is the revitalized CBD drawing fans from near and far. Or was it simply a good picture on a white board that will never In fact.

Rock and roll? Your bill cities on rock and roll. That's what your bill city is on. Everybody knows that it's been that way for decades. Obvious. Okay, so some other things that seem to work better in theory than they do in reality. Powering your entire country on renewables doesn't seem to be working because we just seem to want a lot more power than renewables can supply. Now that seems logical and obvious, and yet it might seems to feel obliged to keep pointing it out.

Right, these renewables and this report out yesterday, what a disgrace it comes to us from NB and there surely has to be and we're working on something and I'll present it to you next week. The Labor Party former Labor government argument is this gas problem is not a problem because there is no gas. The fact that we're not looking for it doesn't really matter because even if we were looking for it, we wouldn't find any. Also, they say, is that true. I'm increasingly of the belief it isn't. And if it isn't, they need to be held to account anyway. So whenbgive us these numbers, we are relying more than ever on coal and gas. And why is that? Because we have no gas, so more coal comes into the country. So the renewables number sits at eighty one point three percent of total generation that is renewables. It's still high. We're one of the highest renewable operators in the world, but it is a six an eight point six percent decline from the same period last year, the most startling figure released for the first time since June of twenty one, Despite a fifty percent increase in wind capacity. Coal generated more electricity than wind. How insane is that. Everyone agrees we need renewables. Everyone agrees renewables are fantastic. It's just we haven't got there yet, and in the meantime, we can't keep the lights on and people are losing their jobs. Coal base electricity generation increased to eight hundred and eighty three giga hours. Is that good compared to one hundred and forty four giga hours, So that's an exponential increase. Natural gas increased forty four percent in the same quarter. Net production at the same time of gas is down nineteen percent. Geothermal was the highest on record for a quarterly basis made up nineteen percent of total generation. We are says the energy resources are toiroa people's Basically, the system is lurching from one crisis to another, and it all stems from the fact that doesn't rain can't be controlled. Not our fault. We're not getting enough gas can be controlled. Is entirely our fault, and we need to do something about it. So we'll continue with this discussion next week.

What I've enjoyed about this whole debate, especially the gas insploration debate over over the last few weeks. Has it only been weeks? It seems like months. Is every time we get somebody on who says gas is hard to find your laugh every time because of course it is odorless and visible. So yes, I know that you smell the guess, but they put the smell in. That's my belief, is that an Irvin myth. I'm going to look that up now, a rewrap. Let's mark the week. I'm just checking. I'm just looking that up. Yep, No, it's Friday, And even though it's Friday, at the thirteenth, I still feel lucky.

Time to mark a week, little piece of news and current events. It's as popular as a baby revealed party at Dave Grohl's house. Migration three, we're still leaving in record numbers young New Zealanders deciding this ain't the place for them. It is a startling and ongoing indictment. One hundred and twenty K's eight. I'm not sure why they need to consultant on the stuff. I mean, we've consulted forever, but roads of national significance should not just be significant, but fast the yield curve. Sex yeah, not really dinner party chat, but our short term number is higher than our long term number for the first time in a while. That's a good thing. Oil sex now that's a good thing too, because the price and the dollar it is trending in the right direction and significantly so fill your boots. Are the NFL season.

I can dondo the tree. I cannot do.

It continues to get bigger globally every year. I'm obsessed with it. It is a leakness at its best. Are the IRD three? Taking our stuff and flicking it off to big tech without asking us is dumb and root and needs stopping Big Tech two Wow. From the Corpse of Europe to the Senate inquiry in Australia this week, they continue to remind us they are a modern day hazard in too many ways. Australian rules three not the sport. Government's pretending they can solve problems that haven't been solved anywhere else in the world. That's wasteful. If Australia successfully bans kids from social media, I will eat Rawerri White to te hat. David Seymour raight.

Shit, Well, who do you think I am?

Jesus Stoic Operator of the Week called out the grocery Commissioner took on a growing queue of handwringers who hate democracy over his treaty bill. You can't mark them down for keeping on fighting his fight. He's seven now. If you want to study a bloke who brings genius to his job, he is your man. Michael Barnier seven The media. Seven. The media covered the one hundred thousand people on the streets of France last weekend protesting. The polls told you most French think he's absolutely fine. And that's the difference between clickbait and the real world. Acc three. Oh, we've got a one billion dollar Bundt gap. It could be that we're a bit slack, but it doesn't matter. We'll pass the bill on anyway, try harder. Twenty two Monaco Drive eight. A house for sale on a racetrack with a big garage in central Otago with a car in your lounge and a lift that lifts it there for you. Come on, Donald Trump too.

They're eating the pets of the people that live there.

He's his own worst enemy. And that that is the week copies on the website and a third of this was constructed using new Chrono working hour, so a chunk of it was produced pretty dawn, and I think you know which.

Yeah, if you haven't caught up with that chrono working or chrono working working to suit your body, your natural body clock, I don't think that's a recipe for productivity In my case, I just feel like I would just be endeared all the time and never working. And I'm not sure how I'm going to get that past you any prospective employer.

Unfortunately, it's a rewrap.

We're going to finish discussing the high jump. We had Hamish ker And today, a gold medalist high jumper, very tall bloke, and yeah, Mike was I think Mike thinks about the high jump more than the average person and then assumes that everybody else thinks about it as much as he does.

Aren't we all fascinated with things that we can't do. See, the shot put is a power thing, it's a weight thing. You've got to be a big person. If you're not a big person, you're never going to excel at the shotput. We can aspire, potentially surely to the high jump. We're good at long jump. Anyone can run along really fast, hit the bar jump. Don't have to be an Olympic champion but we've got the potential to jump. We've got the potential to run four hundred meters round the track. This is all school sports, right, But the high jump was that illusory thing whereby for a while, Yes you can, when it's low enough, we all jump over, and then it gets a little bit higher and your mate start dropping out, and then you fancy yourself and the scissors are working, and then you do the role. I'm disappointed to hear the roles not as big as it was when he ran down my age.

Obviously I was not disappointed. I was. I found it very amusing that he said that you were. I think I'm parapet uphrasing, but like an old coat basically to have done that technique at all, like.

He had obviously read about it in a book, yes before an apt exactly like when they did it in Egypt. Apparently that's what you used to do. But so did you?

Did you not flop?

No?

One Fosbury flopped.

I flopped.

All bollocks did not.

I did?

You did not?

I flopped and I could do it and then I I got it wrong a couple of times and landed on the bar.

Yeah that hurts, that's got that short.

That really hurts, and then it increases and it gets in your head.

And you're done for. And that's what the sports. That's the problem with the sports or psychological. When you look at the bar, how high did you go? Roughly do you go as was the bar below your head or a bar?

It would have been slightly higher than the mat, getting as high as the mat.

So you Frosby flopped over two and a half feet, that's not that's just falling back.

Maybe even been lower, that's not real, and still managed to knock for bar off.

For goodness sake. Great high jumper who I saw at the Commonwealth Games in Auckland a few years ago was that Roger And was Roger to Poony? Roger to Pooney, you're talking about Roger to Purney.

Mike.

First time I ever did the Western role was at Mount Rothwell Grammar in nineteen seventy and a sawdust pit. I broke my arm and had to do my school certificate examination righting left handed.

And to think they don't do that technique anymore, I don't know what happened then. See I often give Mike a hard time for being a generation older than I am, but he's actually not. He's only a few years older. But it always makes me feel better when I find out something like he never did the Frosby flop. That's cool and that makes me feel much much younger because we did. We were into it. It's all a psychological thing. You just go to go do it and then yeah, like I say, once you've landed on the pole a few times, then you can never do it again. But like when you figure out how to do a really good serve and tennis, it's all just like you'd all just you know, put everything into it, and then you give yourself a side strain or a groin strain and it's all over. Nothing worse than a growing strain. I am Glen Heart. That was the rewrap. We'll be back with more random comments like that for you on Monday. How could you resist? You can't help yourself for.

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