THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Friday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) Someone Must Have Voted for Them/Mark the Week/Growing Your Own/Alleged Starjumps
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Good there, and welcome to the Rewrap for Friday, all the desperts from the mic hosting breakfast on News Talks. It'd be in a sillier package. I am being hard and today we will mark the week because it is Friday, and that is what we do. Could be in for another hiking coffee prices as the price of coffee goes up, you know what I mean, I'll make it fairer than you get to ant worry and how many start ups can we do? But before any of that, yes, So the COVID report, this is all I've found all this very triggering. I don't know about you. I just have tried so hard to pretend that none of that stuff actually ever happens. And now I'm having to relive it every day this week.
And I'm glad the COVID report has been released. I mean, why wouldn't it be It's ours? But for a while there it looked like it might not be. We lived and we are living through it says a lot of stuff you thought it would say compulsory mandates were one of the most controversial measures. No kidding, the country was not prepared for border closures or MiQ. Really they run the line that we had fewer infections and therefore fewer deaths than other countries. I know Chris Hipkins yesterday was still rejecting the idea that vaccine mandates were a mistaken in that is the real problem. Of course, in competent government leads to incompetent response. Arrogance leads to an inability to do things differently, which I think, in part anyway, is the point of the report. Give us a blueprint for next time. The blueprint says mandates were a mistake. Hepkins, who could be PM as soon as twenty twenty six, seems to think he's more right than the inquiry. So are we any further ahead at all? You need to also factor Phase one, despite what Tony Blakely told us on the program yesterday, is not the full picture. It's a comprehensive picture within the guidelines he was given. Now the guidelines he wasn't given. Why we're having phase two. I still argue it would have been better if we had taken the British route. The adversarial approach put Adern and Hopkins and Bloomfield on the stand, asked some penetrating questions. Doesn't have to be a court to illicit material? This report hasn't found. The really important part for me, though, is not what we did then, but what the outworking of what we did then produced, what we have now, what we're still living through and why Because what we have now so badly damaged, we must learn not to do what we did last time. Are the kids not at school, the behavior of so many that's been out of control, the moral fatigue, the social decline, the malays that is not measured totally in stats, but the overarching feeling this country is a shadow of what it once was. That's the real story of COVID. But I still maintain, right, all the reports you want, inquire until you blue in the face. A pandemic is luck. If the government that is in on the day the pandemic arrives as good, you'll be okay. If it's labor twenty seventeen through twenty twenty three, well you don't need the report. Just look at us.
Yeah, still maintain I'm not doing too badly myself personally, and if you are doing badly, you don't want to hear me say that. But I can't be the only one, can I go rewrap? Although given some of the correspondents we got, maybe I am.
Should a durned Mike and Shippy be arrested for abuse of power? Mark No, I don't think they should. But in that in part lies the problem, because people have fairly cemented views on what happened to this country, and that's no report's going to change that view. And might I remind you yet again that during the COVID period we had an election and my word, you couldn't get enough of a dun You couldn't line up. You said that a durn fifty percent. Remember, we want some more where that came from. So don't give me that name. You love it at the time till you didn't love it.
Actually, that would be quite a useful bit of software to have. Surely AI could do this where it can just filter out all the texts and compare points of view on things to see if people have had the opposite point of view over time, and if they've gone back on what they've said. That'd be quite I'm just picturing in my head make going yeah. But back in in twenty twenty two you said this, well, I think it would be fun anyway, Would you look at that? It's Friday. It must be time to mark the week.
I'm now to mark the week. Little piece of using current events that draws a bigger crowd than I show speed are the war six a cease far as a reason for hope and not a lot of that has been floating about the place recently. The UK election petition four small clue they already had one of those. It's called an election can to sign three hiding hiding behind an Australian excuse shows a lack of gonutes the COVID inquiry for because the coverage of what I would argue is as big a deal as anything this year was scant, to say the least capital gains tax six. The debate and the vote this weekend tell you what if Labour want to enhance their chances off two, if not three terms in opposition, Yes is the way to vote. The coalition first year seven some good progress, some good cooperation, not a lot of fallout, but lacking the real bite that has needed to turn the shambles around, must try harder. TJ. Perrinarra four. Waa, we didn't talk about the game or the tour, and that's why it was a problem. Cadillacs seven, N, eleven and F one growing every year. It's a sporting model to follow. Sport New Zealand's review those seven. Clearly the government smells wastage. Not a model to follow. Are the ocr six because it was the least they could do given how they've wrecked the joint Black Friday three. Look, I'll give you forty bucks forty bucks off your next purchase if you never mention it again. Adele four. Hello, when you get exhausted working Fridays and Saturdays only, you might want to have a look at your work ethic Dei six. Another employer this week Walmart, because employer in the world actually says that that particular bad nightmare is over. Isn't it funny how these things are so critical all out? Kamela one.
Don't you ever let anybody take your power from you.
I mean, honestly, I don't normally side with social media, but the tile on a spot on she looks crazy and that is the week copies on the website and if you listened carefully. Two lines from last week's edition of this have made it into the fortieth anniversary edition, to feed the World.
I wonder how long he's going to keep calling it feed the world? The song? Of course, do they know it's Christmas brackets feed the world. But he's the only person I know who calls it feed the world. Mind you, He's also the only person I know who pronounces it Thailand. They're not Thailand. So I mean Steve Price the other day said hyperbolb instead of hyperbole, what are you going to do?
A rewrap?
So coffee isn't getting any cheaper the beans I'm talking about, but you know what that means.
To tell your coffee prices on the futures market currently there are two lots of futures markets. One is in London and they deal with the I always I can't. I don't know why I always struggle to say the word Arabica. Why do I always struggle to say that? Anyway? Arabica beans They deal with that. They're at up four point seven percent three twenty three a pound. They do it. And in London they do deal with the robuster beans. They're up seven point seven percent at fifty five hundred dollars a ton, So, in other words, they've never seen prices like this before. Obviously, the climate and the EU rules around deforestation mean that your coffee is getting more and more expensive.
Have you considered growing your own on your estate? Getting into coffee now that?
Yeah, it's you probably thought that was a silly question, but it's not actually because I don't think I can. Because I've just got my current avocado tree that we've got planted three lost two, so that's now going well. And so the next thing is how much further down the tree I experiment? Do I do coffee? Do I do cherries? These are things I am thinking about.
At them, I'd be more keen on coffee than.
I would be too personally.
But a coffee seeds a lot more useful than a cherry stone.
That's very too.
Once we were our here, I asked him how he pronounces Arabica if he doesn't pronounce it Arabica, And it wasn't that he ever pronounces it wrong. It's just that he thinks he's going to and so stumbles a little bit. But every time he's going to say it, mind you, He also says Thailand and not Thailand. Have I mentioned that already? The re wrap could ever running? Gag, isn't it? Simeon Brown wasn't running this morning, but he was jumping. This is this is the infrastructure minister we're talking about.
I've got you. This is out of left field. Just beer with me. I've got you in your early thirty So all right, correct? Okay? Could you do fifty to sixty star jumps?
Probably not? I could try. Would you like me to try for you right now?
Yeah? I would. What I'm going to do if you can, we'll go to a break and you do as many as you can, and when I come back from the break, we'll see what you got to Okay, okay, okay, okay, put your phone down and go to it. Simmy and Brown Transport minister. This is why we are number one right now? Where are we at with Simy? And how'd you go?
I managed to get there? Mike?
You sound a bit out of breath, Yeah, a little bit.
I'm probably as said as I've ever been all year. Actually, thanks to you.
Oh fantastic. So you got to sixty in a hand on heart and you did proper star jump. So you got to sixty.
Yes, and your producer was listening the entire time.
Took to Jesus said, you need a glance of water.
There. I think I'll get a coffee if that's okay, You.
Go for a have a Thanks for being a good sport and you have a good weekend. Appreciate it very much, thanks, Mike, take care. There we go, Simmy and Brown. I mean, how good's that? I mean that the default position of cabinet minister to go would you like me to do that right now? Cannot be underestimated.
Talk about ass and fast tracking.
You can't argue with that, can you? I mean I probably could. Would you like to do it now? Not really?
Nah?
He was into it. Good on him. He's gold star for the morning and we've barely begun.
Yeah, this is met Heath backstage at Coldplay all over again. Isn't it like he wasn't allowed to take photos? So we just have to take his word for it. I mean, I can make us sound like I've just done fifty star jumps as well, and in my case, you know, I probably feel like that all the time anyway, even when I haven't, so it's pretty valid. I'm not saying that he hadn't done them, but you know, Joe, it's the video I Am gleen Heart that was rewrapped. I'll see you back again with more Star Jumps on Monday.
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