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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:26):
And welcome to the Rewrap for Friday, all the best
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and a Sillier Beckage Iron Lean Heart Today.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
What's with all the non stories floating around at the moment?
We will mark the week because it is Friday, and
that is what we do.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
And how to know whether you're younger than you actually are?
Speaker 3 (00:46):
You're older before any of that.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
So are we any closer to getting more competition between banks?
Speaker 3 (00:53):
And do we actually need it?
Speaker 4 (00:54):
So, if you're looking for cogent arguments, then there was
no shortage of them from the banks this week in
front of the Parliamentary Committee looking into banking. Now they're
doing this because the government's decided banks need some kind
of reform. There is not enough competition. Apparently what they
plan to do about it we don't know, but it's
the same argument around Telco's petrol Supermarket's airlines. Of particular
concern to the government is the way the farmers are
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being treated now there is dispute within the banking community Kiwibank,
Heartland SBSTBS. Also, it's not fair, the regulations troublesome. The
playing field is not flat. The bigger players say things
are fine. Of course they would say that, wouldn't they.
But between them, and if you want to add the
non bank lenders, there seem to me to be no
shortage of options for the farmer to deal with banks.
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The defense is that farm lending is tough work, and
as tough work because lending money to farmers carries risk.
Returns from rural lending isn't as high as city lending.
Their complaint about farmers having higher rates is because a
lot of farms operate on flexible rates, not fixed rates.
All the banks talked of their market share, No one
bank dominates. A number of banks have grown their books.
None of this is to defend the banks at the
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expense of the farmer. It is just to say there
doesn't appear to be one side overtly more right than
the other. The A and Z boss this week more
broadly defended her bank's profits. She was on a hiding
to nothing. Of course, she too has cogent arguments, made sense,
put up a good explanation as to how banks work
and what sort of return they need. It will make
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no difference, which is the problem. It's the big problem
where you are in this case the government have with
big business. There must be a lack of competition. Profits,
the argument goes, are too high, without of course, anyone
to finding what exactly is an acceptable profit. So we
will need rules and threats and the Commerce Commission. But
I'll tell you this for nothing, none of it's going
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to change because my very broad conclusion from all of
these industries is we have an imperfect market based partially
but in no small part, on the fact we're a tiny,
isolated country at the bottom of the world with five
million people. We think we should do or get better
than we do. And by being hoodwind into that sort
of thinking, someone must be a robber baron. They aren't,
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but it makes us feel better.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
You do sort of think, though, because we are so tiny,
let's be so huge.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
That's just that little thing that sticks and mic cop anyway, rewrap,
what does that mean sticking your core?
Speaker 2 (03:17):
I even got that expression right. Anyway, Maybe it's just
a non story. There seem to be so many non
stories floating around.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Yeah, the MSM thing about I don't know what you're
talking about the MSM and whether I think it's more
or less iportant.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
I wouldn't have a clue what you're talking about.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
The Bailey story I got thoroughly and I said so
on the program yesterday.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
By Friday, I was officially.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Sick and tired of it, although I noted the Labor
Party tried to prosecute it even further in question time
yesterday and got basically nowhere. I think, and I was
talking to somebody about it, and I think their their
dissertation might have been right. Essentially, and this goes back
to Luxom. Essentially, Luckson's forget the politics. Essentially he's a
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nice guy. Andrew Bailey is essentially a nice guy. Tories
traditionally aren't scrappers. They don't quite get this RGI bargie
backstabbing business of politics, and so they don't explain themselves well.
And so what you had was, I think, at the
end of the day, an unfortunate set of circumstances and
Bailey should never have done what he did, but it
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got blown hopelessly out of proportion by the lack of
political management because Luxeon's useless at this stuff, and if
he had just put it out, put the fire out
from the start, he would have solved himselves a day's
worth of coverage. Then you get to the business of
Peter's that was a joke.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
So yes, Chippy.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Misled us a distant relative versus a close relative. The
woman concerned is the sister in law that I think
irrefutably is a close relative, not a distant relative. There
was a conflict of interest that should have been declared.
The Ministry didn't declare the conflict of interest both stories, though,
Can I just try and explain one more time? Both stories,
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to my eye fall into the Beltwagh category, and that
is Yeah, they're probably worth covering if you insist. But honestly,
given all that we're facing in this country at the moment,
like the gargantuan mess that we're currently in, we spent
far too much time on the frippery and not enough
time on the serious.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
I was just thinking about this yesterday. Actually, how.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
There just seems to be less news And I'm guessing
that's because there's less people working in the news than
there used to be. But it all just seems to
be all based mostly about politics and about finance and
all that boring shit. And you know there's not actually
where's the human interest. There's just people doing stuff and
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achieving things, or you know, doing wacky things. I want
a bit more of that. Start my own news network
right now. As far as I'm aware, I think it
is Friday, so it's mark the week.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
Time now to mark the week, the little piece of
news and current events. It's more enticing than a small
wine tasting after telling somebody to wear off Andrew Bailey two,
I had a small wine tasting inexplicable behavior. We still
don't really know the details of it, also hopelessly explained,
thus dragging it out. The PM three wat you got
himself mind in a moderate bit a mess that he
then made worse by making a meal of it, thus
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dragging it out.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
Darlen Tanna one.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
A person who should never have found her way to
a House of representatives anywhere. The Greens three almost as
though they took lessons from Luxan on how to handle
a bit of mess, thus dragging it out. The America's
Cup seven.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Why wouldn't you believe.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Ainsley A the greatest team ever?
Speaker 5 (06:44):
Liam Lawson nine?
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Of just the devu in one of the world's most
significant and influential sports, but a daboot that had everyone mesmerized.
Next stop Mexi co are the White Ferns eight World
Champs case closed, Katsu Chicken eight Victory of the week
in many respects, a problem addressed, solved, money saved and
the critics essentially silenced. Wellington Sex are because, in a
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small way, the boil on the incompetence that was at
least partially lanced with the commissioner being appointed. Are the
Common Games three It's got staggering on its last legs, vibes,
doesn't really ten events, last minute city and a well
where sport is booming. This isn't Uber six coming to
a whole bunch of newtowns and regional New Zealand. Look,
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anyone expanding their business at the moment is to be
embraced and encouraged. As far as I'm concerned. Are the
King Aka for a bloc and cancer treatment. That was
a good looking tour and some very big crowds, and
I think it shut the Republicans up. Missus Sinhwar one.
If you didn't see it, Yaya's wife was photographed in
a tunnel in Gaza with a burken bag. And if
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that doesn't tell you all you need to know about
her mask, nothing does long weekends seven help yourself. I mean,
it's what all those who negotiated a four day week
feel like every week. And that's the week copies on
the website. Turns out, by the way, if you take
two and a half of these and you dissolve them
in hot water and add them to the Westmere Butcheri's
pork and leag sausage, it tastes even better.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
It's nice that the weather seems to be coming right
for long weekends and things like that. Barbecue some Hamburger
petties last night, and there is no question that as
good as my ear fryer is, they taste better when
they're on the done in the barbie. I presume it's
because it picks up the flavors of all the other
things that I've cooked on the barbie before it. And
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of course you know, things like rust, grease, the odd
squash croproach.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
All of that stuff adds to man, is your mouth
not watering like mine is? Right now?
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Rewrap And Mike's never ending, seemingly never ending quest to
keep himself young.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
The vitamin popping plunge.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Poler has found another some more evidence that he is
in fact younger than his age.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
If you know what I mean, you probably already picked
it up. But I'm feeling pretty good today, better than normal,
and i feel pretty good. But because I did the
big test to check basically how old you are. And
this is not numerically, this is just in general health terms.
And so what happens if you're over fifty, you stand
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on one leg for a period of time and on
the dominant and the non dominant leg. You I'll to
do it both sides, and if you can't do it
for a sustained period of time, you've got problems. They
don't necessarily tell you what the problems are individually, but
it's not a good sign.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
How long is the sustained period exactly.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
I just just brace yourself and be patient. Glyn, We're
coming to that one. Don't rush the story. What I
do in the morning is I do forty seconds on
one leg. But my understanding is you've got to stick
your leg out in front of you. So what I
do in the morning, and this came from who's the
guy who tragically died in Greece on the holidays. Michael,
give me the guy, the health guy mostly. So his
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thing was, you just lift one leg up for forty
seconds and you stand there, and if you can do that,
then you're good and you run a lower risk of
getting Alzheimer's and dementia and stuff like that, and then
you do the other leg. So I do that every morning,
brushing my teeth, and so that's no particular problem for me.
This new test, and this is new research. It covers
your overall health system balance, reflects how the body systems
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are working together. So they did forty participants, all in
similarly good health with no neuromuscular disorders. The amount of
time one could hold one leg standing are declined at
the rate of two point two seconds per decade in
the non dominant side and one point seven seconds per
decade in the dominant side. And this was for both
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men and women. So a good rule of thumb, and
this comes to the part you're asking about a moment ago, Glenn,
how long a good rule of thumb is to be
able to hold the stance for about thirty seconds or longer.
For those sixty nine and younger, about twenty seconds for
those seventy to seventy nine and ten seconds for those
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older than eighty. So if you can do it for
more than thirty seconds, leg out in front dominant and
non dominant, which, as it turns out, hence my original
statement that I'm feeling pretty good this morning. You're in
good health.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Some dispute from some members of the production team about
the league in front.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
Thing, Well, you don't think it's a leaguan in front.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
He thinks it's sort of like a knee in front
and a foot behind.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
Oh okay, you want to do it. They won't.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
We'll do it to stand there and keep you know,
the flamingo side. So you're hooking your you're hooking your
foot behind your knee like a flamingo, and that would
indicate to me that that assists your balance.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
So you're doing league in front.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
I just stuck my leg out in front while you're
brushing your teeth.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
No, well that's separates.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
The more interesting the story gets.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
No teeth brushing, I just lift my leg up.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
But I'm gonna say, because of the league in front,
you're a long way from the scene, and then you've
got down your front from very.
Speaker 5 (12:06):
Old, so leag in front for non.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
That happens to me even when I'm not standing on
one leg.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
And I will either way in both positions. I haven't
done the flamingo though, Sam, and that's a very interesting stance.
But I'm confident, having stuck my leg out in front
for over thirty seconds, I could flamingo it and do
thirty seconds as well, so I think. And what I
did not is, Sam, is you stood up for about
three and a half seconds in set back down again?
Speaker 5 (12:27):
I don't think.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
I think Sam, for a very young man, has some
health issues.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
We're gonna have to have a standoff exactly.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
He doesn't want to tell us about.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
I'm cue everybody in the world, texting us, emailing us,
calling us, even I'm telling us know either how good
or how terrible they were standing on one leave now.
Of course, my major question out of this is that
the standing on one leg show.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
How young you are or does doing it more often
make you younger?
Speaker 2 (13:00):
You see what I mean? Is it a training technique
or is it just symptomatic? Am I just waffling on
like some random old guy?
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Maybe?
Speaker 2 (13:12):
And I'll be doing it again on Tuesday because of
my memory serves, Monday's a day off.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
I'll see you then.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
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