THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Thursday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) Up to a Point/The Anti-Book Club/Not the Worst Impression/Push Button to Resign/Dude, Where's My Plane?
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All the best bits from the mic Husking breakfast on News Talk, said B. In a sillier package, I am a glen Heart today.
Jasinda R. Durn's book.
Is Mike Hosking going to rush out and buy it? The staus in Parliament yesterday between Winston Peter and Shane Jones, men India's March and whoever else, the Trump's offer for government workers to resign the US Trump just keeps on trumping and has he got his Air Force one planes that he wanted back when he was president first time round? But before any of that, this whole business of ethical banking and not paying for not handing out loans for service stations and stuff like that, what's the deal here?
As little in life, as far as I'm concerned, more nauseating than a sick effect people who do not what they believe is right, but been to the whim flavor or mood of the day. The corporate world, of course, is full of at the tech giants have seen have been badly exposed. As they decide fact checking is for losers now that Big Don's running the place. The battle is being fought locally as well. There is word New Zealand First are looking at a member's bill to make banks do business properly. How is this possible currently? This is also major debate in Australia. Banks have taken the stance that there are some businesses that they don't like, those dabbling as it turns out in fossil fuels as one of them. They've made getting money apparently hard work. They have not done this because there isn't profit or because these business is default. They have done this because fossil fuels are out and climate change is in the coalition in Australia, who are at the stage odds on to become the government midyear, are going hard because fossil fuels are of greater importance to them than they are here. But the role of the banks once again has been called into question in this country. The government is gunning for them over margins and competition. Of course, the last thing they need is another fight. I would have thought over their right or predilection for doing business with some people and not others. Banks, as former chair of our biggest bank, John Key quite rightly pointed out on this program a number of times have a very large social license. They're a backbone of an economy. It is not their job to play politics or play trend set into the groovy mood of the day. Fossil fuels remain vital for keeping the lights on. Now. You might not like that, but it's true. If it changes brilliant right now, it isn't or hasn't enough. Morals are personal choices, not business ones, and certainly not in businesses with the influenced banks. Have the thought that a government and we'll talk to Shane Jones about this after seven thirty, the thought that a government might have to legislate to make a business behave itself shows you how badly these places are reading the mood.
Yeah, that's tricky on that.
I sort of tend to think that you should only have to do business with people you want to do business work. That you've got to draw the line somewhere, don't you.
Or do you? I don't know what were we talking about?
We wrap now?
Are you excited about just cinder? Our dun remember to cinder a dun you spend chart of the country Hager in chief anyway?
Are you excited about her book? As Mike Hosking is most piece worth reading?
As I did over the holidays out of the Australian media under the broad headline what is eating the Left? Excited the demise of Biden, Trudeau, Schultz who's about to get booted out in Germany, Macron and is never ending issues in France, And of course Queen of the Lovees just sinda a dune, All came, all went, all made a mess. What they ask is eating the Left? The answer, of course, is obvious. I would have thought they got found out. They're thinking their way of running things doesn't work. So I was a little bit triggered when I saw last week publicity for the publicity that we are yet to see over the forthcoming of Doom book. She used the old trick and the media fell for a hook line and sinker. I've written about things I've never written about, which is odd given she hasn't written about anything as far as I know, unless there's a slew of books, I've missed. The most galling thing about a durn as she ran rampant, worked out it was a bust, so rather than facing the music, she asked Chris to collect the hospital pass while she buggered off to America to wander around campuses, collecting prizes for being the best form of woke she could be. She also enriched herself by giving speeches about how she led New Zealand. How she led New Zealand was also to be found last week in the news from HSBC that of all the countries in the developed world, no one was hit harder than us. Three recessions later, and with meaga prospects this year, the Adirn Hipkin's recipe still taints most of our lives. She doesn't care, of course, She's Emboston, lapping up life and having banked her advance from the publishers, will now try her best to retell and resell what she delivered by way of leadership the good news, and I have good news. She will not be on the show, but watch the likes of the Herald and Radio New Zealand fire off a few soft balls to her to wreck a country, run from that country, then return to that country and expect the people whose lives you've tipped upside down to fork out money. So she can get wealthier while telling you a version of her story that doesn't ring true to most of us. Is the height of hypocrisy and a very vibrant example. I would have thought of narcissism.
But also, what is she going to say that we don't already know.
When Bloody had to look at her every day listen to her. Yeah, I don't think I'm rushing out to buy that one either, or watch the documentary. So if that's too Baltleigh for you, as they say that just in there our doom book.
What about the argie bargie Emparliament yesterday?
A little bit of it, but I think Chris Bishop is right. I mean it's argie bargie in the Parliament, the business of Jones and Peter's and Mendi's march. There's a twofold problem here.
One.
I don't endorse what Peters particularly was doing because I like Peter's because he's a stickler for what you would call the good old days. And if you watch Parliament, and I watch a lot of Parliament, he loves the rules, he wants respect, He would like to think that things are better than they are, and in that I wholeheartedly agree with them, But then he doesn't help by behaving the way he did, and so he's contrarian, which is probably not the first time we've made that observation about Winston Peters, is it? But then making the thing slightly complicated is Meninda's March is a pain in the ass. He's an annoying little man who whines and everybody hates a whiner. And he stands up with his rule book and he asks, mister speaker, I would like clarification on it, and he just shit. Sit down.
Now, if you're a regular listener, you know I'm not usually a massive fan of Mike's impersonations of people, and I offer an accuse him of just talking in a Pakistani accent, But I actually.
Think that that one might have been relatively close.
And if I could be bothered, I'd go and listen to more Meninda's March and see, but I can't regither. It rewrap the politics here to politics and the US, and that means Trump, and that means the wacky stuff just keeps coming like an endless tsunami.
You can't stop Trump.
Yesterday, among many other things, offered every single federal worker the opportunity to quit they wrote to every and there are millions of them. Did you know? And I didn't. Basically, Washington's a ghost town. Just six percent of federal employees in America work full time in the office. Six percent ninety four percent sit at home. Anyway, he wrote to them, and all you have to do is reply to the email with the word resign. That's it will get paid. Now, think about this for yourself. Would you if you were written to today by the government, and I suppose it's applied to many people in Wellington last year, for example, But if the government wrote to you and you will be paid until the end of September, all your benefits, all your bonuses, everything all yeah, and you just go bye bye. It was designed basically if you don't like Trump, you don't think what he's going to do is going to be good for America. Therefore you don't want any part of it. You have the opportunity every single federal worker in America.
What do you reckon that's going to you wouldn't want to get their email? You know after a hard day at the office, would you?
That's true? Five? Five and kening, I take that back, what's resigned?
Now?
I don't want to know.
No, yeah, pushing the button.
That changes your life. I think we've all is there. We've all had days where we thought, man, if I could just push a baton and be out of here. I mean, I guess technically that is what I do. I'd push batons and then I leave.
I think of it the re wrap.
And unfortunately we will have to stay with Trump just a little bit further because I don't think he's got his planes yet.
I had a dejavou moment yesterday. Remember air Force one. Trump and his first term commissioned a couple of new Air Force ones and he went unfortunately to Boeing. Now Boeing, as it turns out, aren't particularly good at making planes, despite being that's basically all they do, and he never got the Air Force ones. And he's now charged Elon musk Worth working with Boeing to try and get these done. So he's now on his second term, eight years later, and there is still no real confidence that by the end of his second term, in other words, a span of twelve years, that he will ever see one, if not two. And this is where he's trapped, because it's all very well being America first, but when it comes to making planes, America first is Boeing? Do you really want America to be first if the only choice is bowing?
But then when your second choice is the car manufacturer that makes the exploding cars, the cars that are crashed into pedestrians, the cars that won't stop when you ask them to, the cars that are constantly recalled, is that a good choice as well to be making your your air force.
One between a rock and another rock. That's what you caught. I am a glen Hat. It was a very.
Political podcast today, the rewrap. Who knows what will be in it tomorrow. You're gonna have to come back here and find out.
I'll see you then
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