Full Show Podcast: 22 April 2025

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Life Your Way News, togstend people, willy and welcome today.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
The passing of the Pope were in Rome. The Prime
Minister has been to see the King and we'll meet
the British Prime Minister and travel to Gallipoli this week.
Christoph Luxon is with us some concern over our sport
being ripe for corruption and organized crime on sport. The
lads in the Long Weekend Commentary box after right, of course,
Catherine Field and France and Rod Little has the UK
covered for us as well, asking welcome to you short

(00:32):
in week seven perst six, hard to know We're to
start really on the good news train that is the
Warriors campaign of twenty five. We carried on from Melbourne,
which class half full ended better than it started. I mean, yes,
we lost ultimately, but we lost in the first half
but won the second half. Brisbane had that same bogey
man aura about them, didn't they They were hot favorites.
Conditions were dreadful. Question again over Luke Metcalf He clearly

(00:53):
can't keeck her. If he can, he doesn't show it
in games. The question is what to do. He leaves
points on the table every game. We wouldn't have even
gone to our extra time, of course if he had
kicked more than the twenty percent he did on Saturday.
But another question, does the half way kick to win
the game forgive the others he missed? Also another Metcalf question.
In the runaway try where he shadowed cape Well who

(01:13):
ran sixty meters, is that the sort of awareness and
skill that can forgive him his inability to kick? And
that's before we get to all the players who were
actually there because of injury. So a depleted side were
a kicker who can't kick in shocking conditions against the
hottest pop favorites and we win. How good? What we
did have was enthusiasm and determination. We didn't repeat the

(01:33):
Melbourne start, and when the second half came along, we
didn't capitulate the way we used to in seasons past.
You might want to look at the table. If you haven't,
we are on the Hosking way of looking at it anyway, second, well, third,
officially anyway. The point is we're top four, we play well,
we're playoff bound, aren't we Even in ar duous conditions,
we were capable of beating the best if we can
get rid of the problem we had twice, you know,

(01:55):
Vegas and Melbourne, where we come out of the locker
room asleep or shell shocked or bewildered or way whatever
it is we suffer from. If we can get that
out of our game, we're in. We're a serious side,
with depth and skill and clearly the ability to beat anyone.
Much to march on within. This might well be how
you news of the world. In ninety sevens you've heard

(02:18):
the Pope has died.

Speaker 3 (02:20):
Dear brothers and sisters, with deep sorrow, I must announce
the death of our holy Father Francis. At seven thirty
five this morning, the Bishop of Rome. Francis returned to
the House of the Father. He taught us to live
the values of the Gospel with fidelity, courage, and universal love,
especially towards the poorest and most marginalized.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
Perhaps the surprise has been, of course, he was out
and about overb Easter weekend on the popemobile, greeting crowds
and blessing babies. And just before that you met JD. Vance.

Speaker 4 (02:48):
I know you've not been.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
Feeling greed, but it's good to see you in better.

Speaker 5 (02:52):
After your children.

Speaker 6 (02:58):
Thank you, uh, thank you, beautiful Vatican tie.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
The King has played his respects.

Speaker 6 (03:06):
The Queen and I remember with particular affection our meeting
with His Holiness over the years, and we were greatly
moved to being able to visit him earlier in the month.
We send our most heart felt condolences and profound sympathy
to the church he served with such resolve, and to
the countless people around the world who inspired by his
life will be mourning the devastating loss of this faithful

(03:27):
follower of Jesus.

Speaker 4 (03:29):
Class.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
Here's the US President.

Speaker 7 (03:31):
I just signed an executive order putting the flags of
our country, all of them, all federal flags and state flags,
at half master, in honor of Pope Francis.

Speaker 8 (03:42):
So he was.

Speaker 7 (03:43):
A good man, worked hard, he loved the world, and
it's an honor to do that.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
On related mentas by the way, from Trumpville, Higgsseth of
defenses embroiled and yet another signal scandal he liked last time,
has decided that attack is this form of defense.

Speaker 4 (04:00):
This is what the media does.

Speaker 9 (04:01):
They take anonymous sources from disgruntled former employees, and then
they chose slash and burn people and ruin their reputations.
Not going to work with me because we're changing the
Defense Department, pretty the Pentagon back in the hands of
war fighters, and anonymous smears from distruntled former employees on
all news doesn't matter.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
Yeah, I'm not sure about that. I'll come to an update.
Short They finally man in Japan saved up for a
stream Ferrari, only for it to burn to bits in
an hour on the motorway. You spent ten years saving, scrimping,
saving squirreling. It was a four to fifty eighth spider
last the naturally Aspirated's absolutely beautiful car September twenty ten.
Though here's the clue. Ferrari recalled more than twelve hundred
of them due to adhesive and Layman's terms glue used

(04:44):
in the wheel arch assemblies that could overheat and ultimately
lead to a fire. So join the dots. That's news
of the world. In ninety w Word Central Bank Central
Our Bank of Korea held it's all over the Easter period.
The European Central Bank cut answer a twenty five basis
point cut, which is exactly what they delivered. Turkey as
usual did weird stuff. They raised their Key interest rate

(05:08):
from forty two point five to forty six percent. They've
got an inflation problem if you don't follow Turkey. Their
inflation in March was thirty eight point one percent, and
the one year rate in China three point one and
the five year rate in China three point six. That
was in line with expectations, So no shortage of activity.
Twelve past six.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
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Speaker 2 (05:34):
Evy Justin from the Vatican. The official cause of death
with the Pope to stroke and subsequent irreversible heart failure.
So stroke and subsequent irreversible heart failure. Fifteen past second.

Speaker 10 (05:47):
Her name is money.

Speaker 2 (05:49):
Now west Pak to chief economist Kelly E. Colders with
us is Tuesday morning, Kelly morning to You're good to
catch up.

Speaker 11 (05:54):
Good morning.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
Now the topic of dajuur at the moment, I mean,
I know that the markets are tanking, will come to
all the at the moment as Trump goes out to
jer and Pal yet again. But this business of the US,
the US dollar, our trust and love of the US,
where are we at with all of that.

Speaker 11 (06:11):
Trust seems to be at a very very low EBB
right now, Mike. Over the weekend, Donald Trump had a
bit more to say about the performance of his FED chair,
and particularly he attacked him quite a bit, suggested that
he was usually too slow to action, and this particular case,

(06:34):
he's been talking about the need to interest rate cuts.
Trump's view, for example, is that there'll be non flesh
coming from his tariffs and that the economy should be
seeing lower interest rates as a result. So that, combined
with the fact that he was saying that he would
like to look at getting rid of Powell early and

(06:55):
potentially installing a new candidate. There's an ex FED governor,
Kevin Walsh, who has been proposed as the shadow chair.
All of this has really destabilized confidence in US markets
over the weekend. So hence we've got a week a
US dollar across the board, We've got higher US interest rates.

(07:17):
A lot of markets are obviously closed for the Easter holidays,
so most of the action we see is either in
the Asian or in the North American markets. A couple
of notable levels. Japanese yen went down to one hundred
and forty against the US dollars. That was up up
one percent against the US dollar. It's back to its

(07:39):
July twenty twenty three levels. The Chinese Nimby has depreciated
quite a bit on a trade weighted basis. It's down
around three percent now since the start of April, and
more like five percent and Trumps since Trump's inaugurations, So
that helps them out at least a bit at the margin.
With these tariffs and all of this makes it quite

(08:02):
a bit tougher on you with its consumers as these
tariffs it There's another story out overnight saying that the
chief executives of Target Home Depot walmart All in the
President's office today to talk about whether they can get
some sort of dispensation against the tariffs.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (08:25):
The other thing I'd say is that all the volatility
has been great for gold. We've got a new all
time high for gold to over four thousand dollars an ounce.
And if you're a fake acid officionado, then bitcoins obviously
had a pretty good run as well. It's somewhere with
four percent.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
Now the dollar. Of course, I mean, good for travelers,
bad for exporters. So where do we sit in the house, this,
you know, affecting us.

Speaker 12 (08:53):
Well, this is.

Speaker 11 (08:54):
Very messy actually for the New Zealand dollar. You know,
anyone who's been reading our research for a while has
been pointing people to the risk that the key we
should be going lower if you've got one of these
sort of global trade shops that's going on. At least
that's what the textbook would tell you. But unfortunately, foreign
exchange the relative thing. And right now, whilst the New

(09:18):
Zealand dollar may not necessarily be in a great place,
it's in a much better place than many and particularly
the countries that have higher tariffs, and the US dollar
is obviously the real weakling there at the moment, so
we are going up. It's a real challenge to our
forecasts right now. I mean I basically expected the kew

(09:38):
we would be closer to fifty seven cents as opposed
to this year, instead of the sixty cent level that
we've breached overnight. It's just sticking around sixty cent right now.
The reality is the Kiwi dollar is not the focal
point for foreign exchange traders right now. Their focus really

(09:58):
is on the major currencies right now, as opposed to
our humble QIPAESO. But you know, there's some case that
the New Zealand dollar may not necessarily do very badly.
In the final analysis. Our tariff levels are at the
low end of the scale. It's also interesting to think

(10:19):
that our commodity price is given that we tend to
export food as opposed to manufacture goods, we may actually
do all right in general over the next year. So
given that people are still going to eat eat, and
we could benefit from some of the changing benefit patterns
of global trade. I doubt that means that we're a
winner out of this, but we certainly may not lose

(10:41):
as much as most and that possibly what could be
one of the reason the key is a bit stronger
at the margin. This is making a bit tougher for
our v exporters and tour operators, and usually in these
circumstances they get a bit of relief out of the
exchange Rate's going the wrong way right now, but it
does help out the Reserve Bank. The interim governor may

(11:02):
have been looking to come up with stories to explain
why it's the inflation's back to three percent so quickly
after slashing the OCR two hundred basis points in the
last six months. But you know, obviously good news for
those of you out there need to refix your mortgage,
because we've got these sub five percent morgitrates and probably
here to stay for a while.

Speaker 2 (11:23):
Yeah, exactly right. What are the numbers?

Speaker 11 (11:25):
Mate, Dow Jones down three point one seven percent, thirty
seven nine hundred, the S and P five hundred down
three and a quarter percent, five one one one, Nasdak
down three and a half percent. Fifteen thousand, seven hundred
and seventeen. That's all terrible Foots is closed. NICKI was

(11:48):
down one point three percent thirty four two seven nine.
Chinese exchange sins in composites actually up point four five
percent three two nine one. I think I was open,
so you know, not much going on there. Ozzie was closed. Here,
he was closed. Here were US exchange rate sixty cents

(12:08):
on the nose up one percent. Here we ossie ninety
four cents up up half of the percent. Perhaps a
good time for a holiday. And Sydney kii euro fifty
two cents down point two percent. Kivy sterling is actually
up point four five percent at forty five pence q

(12:29):
a yen eighty four yen eighty four point three seven
yen down zero point one three.

Speaker 13 (12:34):
Gold four three four three two.

Speaker 11 (12:38):
Now US dollars per ounce up three point one percent
and Brent crude oil prices down two and a half
percent sixty six dollars twenty five cents.

Speaker 2 (12:49):
Well, a wacky old world it is at the moment,
Kelly appreciated Kelly E. Cold Westpac chief economist with US
last game. Netflix over the weekend revenue grew thirteen percent
in the first quarter. Everyone wants to noble how many
numbers who's buying Netflix. They don't do that anymore. They've
changed their mind. It'll be the first time they're not
disguising quarterly subscribe to data. It's the money they're interested in,
and they're getting more money, so they'll take it. Six

(13:09):
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Speaker 14 (13:11):
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Speaker 1 (13:14):
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Speaker 2 (13:19):
At b I do have some good news economically over
the weekend for you. The IMF has been looking at
everything that's going on. Tariff's included and they say, yes,
there's going to be a drop off in global growth,
but no recession. So we'll take that. Six twenty five.

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Speaker 2 (13:39):
New trailer from the Final Reckoning. This is the Mission
Impossible that's coming to theaters May twenty third. Tom's hanging
from a plane.

Speaker 13 (13:50):
You can't imagine how physically punishing it.

Speaker 1 (13:53):
Was for calm to me on the wing.

Speaker 9 (13:57):
The whim destroys your vision.

Speaker 15 (14:01):
It's a hosting past for the quid.

Speaker 2 (14:17):
He's twenty four hundred meters in the air. He's going
at two hundred and twenty five kilometers an hour. That's
surely enough for an emergency alert from the met Service.
I would have thought, no CGI, because he does all
his own stunts. So that's coming to when do I
say twenty third into theaters? Latest Mission Impossible Sport. By
the way, we've got the commentary box given the shortened week,

(14:37):
but also this concern. It's an international report comes from
the United Nations. Whether we believe anything that comes out
of the United Nations, I'm not one hundred percent sure.
But the claim is that organized crime is looking to
places like New Zealand into our sport, even at grassroots level.
What's that mean? How would it manifests itself. Are we
even awake to any of us? We'll have a look
at this directly after the news. Catherine Field out of France,

(14:57):
of course, more on the passing of Poe Francis and
the Prime Minister who is in the UK. Of course
he'll be joining us live after seven point thirty here
on the Mike Hosking Breakfast with the News is next.

Speaker 1 (15:08):
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Speaker 2 (15:17):
Be alluded to it earlier on. It looks like heck
Seth is not going to be able to survive this one.
You do it once, it's bad enough. You do it twice,
you're an idiot, and you'll get sacked. NPR reporting this,
National Public Radio reporting this morning that they've begun the
Trump White House have begun the process of looking for
somebody new as Secretary of Defense. So last couple of
weeks he's had four senior advisors leave abruptly. Some have

(15:39):
been accused of leaking, so it's a troubled office. He
looks incompetent. I personally don't like the stars and strikes
handkerchiefy Wesner's pocket each day and he's got a bad
choice of socks. But apart from that, he's probably looking
for a new job. Twenty three minutes away seven to France,
Catherine Field with the reaction from that particular part of
the world on the Pope of course. Shortly meantime back here,

(15:59):
acclaim International Organized Crime Syndicate to targeting New Zealand sport
are there's concern that even grassroots level sport is vulnerable
to corruption and doping, if you can believe it. The
Sport Integrity Commission has engaged into POL among others for
support these. Sport Integrity Commission CEO Rebecca Rolls is with
us on this. Rebecca, good morning, Good morning, mind. Now
this is a United Nations report. Is this one of

(16:20):
these very broad based you better watch out. Here's a
red flag if you're a bit worried and it doesn't
actually affect us, or is it something more than that?

Speaker 8 (16:27):
Do you think?

Speaker 12 (16:29):
Well, I mean I think anything.

Speaker 13 (16:30):
I think it's took at UNODC reports and into pollwork
that is happening overseas, and yeah, the threats and I
guess maturity of competoustion manipulation is more over there. But
what we do know is that that gives us a
little bit of a crystal ball and that we are
vulnerable because of a few unique factors that on the
New Zealand has at the moment, and you know these
organized crime groups and unregulated gambling mat markets with trillions

(16:55):
of dollars and sits in for Southeast Asia. So because
of that, New Gillan play sport at a time and
the rest of the world to sleep, and those people
who do want to bet on something, we want to
be able to obviously do that live and all of
New Zealand in the East Coast of Australia playing sport
at that time, and so anything that's online or streamed

(17:15):
or live in any way creates a market.

Speaker 2 (17:18):
If we would dodge you right now, do you reckon?
You could spot it.

Speaker 13 (17:22):
There's lots of way you can, I mean to be honest.
If you go to some sporting events, you can come
across people in the crowd who they might have, you know,
multiple phones and be talking kind of interesting parts of
the players that's unfolding, So you can spot sort of
some enablers like that, And I think at the other end,
you know, something really really blatant in the sport. You

(17:44):
could spot that as well, but a lot of it
goes unnoticed because it's very small things. And any sport
that has kind of games within a game or smaller
components to it as vulnerable.

Speaker 2 (17:55):
Does your organization reach into grassroots level sport? I mean,
if I'm standing on the sideline on Saturday, I mean,
would I have any idea that you were monitoring, looking at,
understanding anything about, you know, anything other than elite sport.

Speaker 13 (18:09):
Yeah, I think so. We certainly have a lot of
resources and a winner's racing stuff online and lots of
I gues, policies and educational stuff so people can dive
into that. But in terms of awareness at grassroots level,
I think that's pretty low. And that's kind of nice
because New Zealand's, you know, not a typically corrupt country.

(18:31):
But when we think about sort of for example, in
football in the National League last year there was over
two hundred million bet on the National League in New Zealand,
and that's sort of five hundred thousand to one point
formerion a game, about ninety six books book makers, all
sort of off site of sure, so yes, that's not grassroots.
But that's where our kids come through, you know, grassroots

(18:53):
and then little small things like offering you a pair
of boats or a scholarsh or some sort of other
opportunity that can look really really inviting to kids and
young adults. So those are the kinds of it as
a continuum in New Zealander anywhere, and those are the
sorts of risks that we do try and educate people.

Speaker 2 (19:12):
On good stuff. Nice to talk to you, Rebecca, go well,
Rebecca Roles, who's the Sport Integrity Commissioned CEO. Let's go
to France and Catherine shortly twenty one and make it
nineteen two.

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Speaker 16 (21:16):
International Correspondence with ends in Eye Insurance, Peace of Mind
for New Zealand Business and France.

Speaker 2 (21:22):
Captain feel very good morning to you. Good morning mate.
Seems amazing, doesn't it. I mean, I'm sure you were
watching as I was yesterday, and he's in the popemobile,
he's blessing babies.

Speaker 5 (21:30):
J D.

Speaker 2 (21:30):
Barnce was in his plate and suddenly he's.

Speaker 17 (21:32):
Gone incredible, wasn't it. Yes, Europe woke up Easter Monday
to discover that Pope Francis, who of course has you know,
has got to make sort of following here in Europe.
But I think the one thing that has come across today,
and when we look at the reaction from people like
a sort of vonderlion headed the European Commission talking about

(21:54):
his humility, his compassion, German Chancellor and waiting Matt's talking
about the pope's commitment to justice and reconciliation, and I
think you just sort of keep seeing that, Mike, this
idea that this was a pope who was pope at
a time when moral values were really being questioned, someone
who cared about the vulnerable. And when you look at

(22:17):
the you know, the aspects that he brought to the
four when he was talking not just the Europeans, but
also his whole legacy.

Speaker 2 (22:25):
Will we very much the environment?

Speaker 17 (22:27):
Remember back in what twenty fourteen he came to Strasburg
in France and made that big announcement about the need
for something to be done about the environment, the need
for people to start taking climate change more carefully, to
actually recognize that it has been getting worse. So I
think that's what we've really been seeing throughout the day.

(22:48):
I mean here in Paris, of coursed Notre Dame, through
its doors open, people have been there all day that
had special masses it will stay open till midnight for
the faithful to go and just have say a prayer
to be part of in the morning. For this Pope
and the mirror of Parents has ordered that the Eiffel
Tower lights be turned off all tonight to commemorate his death.

Speaker 2 (23:11):
One of the interesting things you mentioned Strasbourg. Of course,
what he didn't do is he never went to Paris
and Notre Dame. He never went there for the reopening either,
which I mean, is that widely know and if it is,
what do we make of it?

Speaker 17 (23:24):
Indeed, he did not come for the reopening in December
of Notre Dame. And what just a week later he
went to Corsica, which was that he went there for
a gathering of Catholic people involved with the migrant crisis.
I might, I'll be honest with you, if they could
have done anything to get him to go to the

(23:44):
reopening of Notre Dame last December, they would have done it.

Speaker 2 (23:47):
We heard all.

Speaker 17 (23:48):
Sorts of things that President Macron asked him personally. The
Archbishop of Paris asked him. They said they would build
a ramp for his wheelchair. They said they would whitened doors.
But he said and he made it very to an
Italian journalist, he said, I will never go to Paris.
I'm not going to Paris. I'm not going to the
opening of Notre Dame. Several things on that one is

(24:09):
it was widely known that he just really had no
interest in rich Western countries. He preferred the periphery, He
preferred the poor, He preferred the to deal with people
who were on the margins of society.

Speaker 5 (24:23):
Don't forget.

Speaker 17 (24:23):
Also, there was a very big here the clerical sexual abuse.
Not so very long ago, they came out this Commission
on Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church said there was
systematic abuse of children by clergymen in France two hundred
and sixteen thousand cases since nineteen fifty. So that, of
course was another big thing that the Pope was very

(24:46):
ashamed of, said he actually used the word shame. Also, secularism,
Europe is far more secular than it has been in
the past. The Church doesn't have that role in society
that well, pipe France has wanted it to.

Speaker 2 (25:00):
Very good ins, Catherine, appreciate your time as always, Catherine Field,
who is in France for us this morning. By the way,
there is no clear candidate to replace them. But I'll
work you through a couple of possible names. After a
seven o'clock will go to Rome. Just out of Europe
in general, a couple of things that happened over the
weekend that are moderately positive. I think Ukraine signed this well,
what they call the basis of a minerals deal. This
is this member go back to Zelenski in the White House.

(25:23):
It all turned pair shape anyway, it was that deal.
They've finally got round to signing memorandum of intent basis
for a larger agreement. So we'll be interested to see
where that goes. I know Prime Minister Luxeon, by the ways,
with us after seven thirty said overnight that we're extending
our cooperation to train the troops in Britain for Ukraine
until December of next year. So in other words, we see,

(25:43):
I assume the war carrying on this year and next,
which then leads you to go what happened to the
peace deal? Meantime, speaking of peace, the United States in
Iran witcoff this is they're forever traveling around the world.
I note that to Jeddi Barnces in India this morning,
he's traveling and well, but anyway, Whitcoff, they talked Iran
and the States. They're going to talk again this week.

(26:05):
They're moving from Rome to Oman, but things in that
particular area look positive as well. Ten Away from seven.

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Speaker 2 (26:16):
Just on Trump quickly. I'm sure you're up to speed.
The Supreme Court over the easter period said you can't
keep deporting people the way you have been. So he's
been using or arguing the seventeen ninety eight Alien Enemies
Act and of the two hundred and sixty one Venezuelans
Deporter to l Selvador. So far one p. Thirty seven
removed under that Act, and the Supreme Court don't like it.
Where that goes, I don't know. His approval ratings are

(26:37):
as the Americans would term it underwater, even with blue
collar workers, who remain the most positive group in America
towards his view of the economy. As disapproval numbers are
up fourteen percent in the last couple of weeks. Forty
nine percent of Americans now think the year ahead is
going to be worse than it was. He's not overly
bothered overtly by that at the moment, because of course
he is deeply immersed in the wonders of Easter where.

Speaker 7 (26:58):
Honoring Jesus Christ. And we're going to honor Jesus Christ
very powerfully throughout our lives, all throughout our lives, not
just now, all throughout our lives. We're bringing religion back
in America. We're bringing a lot of things back, but
religion is coming back to America. That's why you see
the kind of numbers that you see the spirit and

(27:18):
the kind of numbers that you.

Speaker 2 (27:20):
See want numbers. I don't know what numbers he's referring
to anyway. Who was standing on the balcony looking down
and he saw the gardens and you had to think
the gardens.

Speaker 7 (27:27):
It was a beautiful day yesterday, and it's a beautiful
day today. We don't have to worry about sunburn. But
we looks like it's not going to be raining. It's
going to be really something special. I also want to
thank the National Park Service the job they do and
making everything so beautiful and spiffy. And I'm very difficult
when it comes to that. I will tell you, very

(27:48):
very difficult.

Speaker 1 (27:50):
All the inns and the outs it's the bizz with
business fiber take your business productivity to the mixed level.

Speaker 2 (27:58):
Question two questions. In fact, the sitting US president, who's
ever used the word spiffy? And second question, if he isn't,
who has? I can't name one off the top of
my head. Got some phone intel for you. Two Degrees
Business have released some data this morning run notifications of
work phone activity. So the impact on mental health didn't
look good. Half of us over the age of eighteen

(28:18):
now feel overrun by notifications. Now for jin z, who
are the first generation to grow up entirely online, the
problem is even worse. Thirty eight percent regularly feel overwhelmed
or panicked or anxious by their endless stream of notifications.
I'm no tech genius, but I'm just wondering if you
might want to turn a few of those notifications off.
And so I'm turning a few of the notifications if

(28:39):
you won't get too many notifications, and therefore you won't
be as overwhelmed, panicedlor anxious. Now two Degrees Chief executive
Mark Callender is calling on us to quote unquote take
control of our notifications. I just did that. I beat
them to it. I just said take control of your notifications.
Turn your notifications off anyway, He's already thought of that.
Take control of your notifications before they take control of you.

(29:01):
This is common sense. Media. In the United States, they
show that people receive an average of two hundred and
thirty seven notifications a day. This particular survey done here
was done on behalf of two degrees by Pure Profile.
They interviewed five hundred and six of us. Apparently fifty
percent of US half too many notifications, thirty seven percent
fuel overwhelmed, panic ranches, thirty percent struggle to concentrate during

(29:23):
notifications or due to two notifications. Forty six percent of
the gen ztters so they receive far too many, and
forty percent find it difficult to concentrate. So it's a
world of woe and misery. Biggest culprit social media sixty
five will as you first, then get rid of the
social media work email. Do you know something happened to
my phone? And this is the beautiful thing about being
technically inept. I used to get on my phone a

(29:46):
ding whenever an email came in. It would be a
whoop er a ding. And I can change that on
my phone. I can go to a place on the
phone and change the noise. But suddenly my email ding's whoops.
Whatever they were disappeared one day and they've never come back.
I don't know why or where they we and I
don't even know how to bring them back if I
wanted to, which I don't. So I get emails and
I've got no idea that they've arrived. And because I've

(30:07):
got no idea, I never look at them. Because I
never look at them, I never replied to them. In
my life. Is so much simpler news for you.

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Speaker 4 (30:26):
Todstad be only.

Speaker 2 (30:27):
Seven past seven. As you've heard the Pope Francis diet
last night our time. He was eighty eight. Is recent
health battles well documented, but he was out and about
over the Easter weekend. He met with, among others, the
US Vice President, of course, in the last couple of days.
But it can Correspondent Edward Penton is whether said very
good morning to you, good morning. Can we describe this
as a surprise, given we have seen him out and active.

Speaker 15 (30:50):
Well, it was a surprise because obviously we just saw
him yesterday. As you say, he met jd Vance, the
Vice President and the US and delivered what he isn't
delivered the will bee at Albi, but he did greet
the pilgrim, So yes, we thought he was he was
sort of okay. But in the end, at the same time,
it wasn't a surprise because we know that he's been

(31:11):
failing quite considerably since well since his operation back in
twenty twenty one, but certainly in the past a couple
of months, since he was hospitalized for several weeks.

Speaker 2 (31:21):
How was the new shared and received in your part
of the world in rhyme, Well, a.

Speaker 15 (31:26):
Lot of sadness.

Speaker 8 (31:27):
Of course.

Speaker 15 (31:28):
The church now undergoes a few days of mourning, official mourning,
and the death of a pope is always a sad
moment for the faithful. But there will soon be the funeral.
The funeral is expected to be probably on Saturday, and
then the General Congregations, which is when the cardinals get

(31:49):
together to discuss the priorities for the church, that begins
probably on Monday, and then we'll have probably the beginning
of the conclave the following week.

Speaker 2 (31:57):
His reputation and legacy.

Speaker 15 (32:00):
What are they saying, Well, I think it's very much
a mixed one. I think the general consensus is that
he tried very hard to open the church's doors to
the people who probably wouldn't otherwise look at the church,
and try to make the church attractive to those who
simply would never give the church a second glance. I

(32:22):
think that was his great mission, as it were, He
was a great He really wanted to evangelize and bring
the Church's message.

Speaker 8 (32:30):
To those people.

Speaker 15 (32:32):
On the other hand, he was seen very much also
within the church as a divisive pope. I think he
caused a lot of concerns because he didn't actually bring
along many of the faithful along with him as part
of this mission, and in fact he alienated many of
those who on the traditional orthodox side of the church
and didn't really manage to bring them along with him.

(32:54):
So there was a great sort of division there between
between those who were pushing for the reforms that he
was he was wanting to do, and those who were
trying to keep him more grounded in doctrine and the
traditions of the faith.

Speaker 2 (33:09):
From what I can gather, there is no standout candidate
going forward. Is that a fear assessment or not?

Speaker 4 (33:16):
Sorry?

Speaker 5 (33:17):
No, what again?

Speaker 2 (33:18):
No standout candidate? In other words, when they go to vote,
there's no obvious.

Speaker 5 (33:23):
No, that's true.

Speaker 15 (33:23):
And I think this is going to be one of
the most interesting conclaves in recent history because there is
no single candidate that the Pope has chosen many. He
chose many candidates from the developing world, from the global
South who aren't known at all very well.

Speaker 11 (33:39):
And.

Speaker 15 (33:41):
Usually from from sees that aren't usually episcopates, so cardinal
lacial sees rather so he's he's chosen a wide variety
of cardinals who I think will be which make it
very difficult to predict who could be elected the next pope.
On the other hand, there are certain candid that's who
are leading the way. I've been part of a project

(34:05):
called the College of cardinalsreport dot com, which you can
see where you can see all the cardinals and all
their profiles, and you can see which ones are leading
and which ones are considered to be probably more bigger
contenders than the others.

Speaker 2 (34:19):
All right, we'll go there, and I appreciate your insight
very much. Edward Penton, who's Vetican correspondent National Catholic now
registered at eleven past seven, Pascal. I'll come back to
a couple of names. One is Peter Verdo, who is
the Hungarian Cardinal Archbishop of Buddapest. A guy called Louis Targal.
He would be the Asian Francis, or what they're referring
to as the Asian Francis. But we'll come back to
that shortly. Domestically, once again, we're angsting apparently this morning

(34:40):
about the government's target of five hundred new cops by November.
We've got briefing papers out of February that show a
lower pass rate for trainees. We've got the physical aspect
of the test an issue. Apparently the Associate Police Minister
Casey Castello is with us on that's very good morning
to you.

Speaker 14 (34:55):
Good morning, Mike.

Speaker 2 (34:55):
Given this was February, I just can't work out, given
the target is November and it's still only April, are
we I mean, are we panicking here? Is there a
red flag here? Or should we just wait until April
to see where we get to?

Speaker 14 (35:09):
Yeah, and I think that's the big issue here. We
have a twenty week recruitment course, the last wing that
we'd go in will be July and still graduated the
twenty seventh of November, so we still have a few
months to get through. And we still have the Auckland
Training Base to open, which we hope to put an
additional wing through there in June, so we have all

(35:31):
of the forecasting is not particularly helpful month by month
analysis because things such ate and change, And just to
call on that readiness quote that's in the article, I
think that's a bit misconstrued. What we're talking about is
because we've sped out the amount of time it gets
from a recruit applying to getting to college, that's a

(35:51):
much shorter time. So what we're talking about is readiness
to get to the college, and that's usually the fitness standard.
I know when I went down God nearly forty years ago,
you had a short space of time to get from
oh you're going, and to be ready to get into
the college, you've got to put pass the fitness test.
And that's what we're talking about, that readiness. They're not

(36:14):
not the pass rate out of college that's still very high.

Speaker 2 (36:16):
Got chat. Last time I heard there was generally speaking
good interest in applying. Is that still applicable? Or not.

Speaker 14 (36:22):
Yeah, still very good interest and the police have done
an extraordinary job in terms of the promotion, the recruitment.
The standard we're maintaining is incredible. I'm actually heading out
to the college this morning for another wing coming into college.
The standard of recruits is really impressive and the engagement
and the process has been really good. So we're still

(36:44):
very confident. Attrition rate fluctuates up and down all the time,
and we know we've got overseas. You know, we've got
previous cops who are trying to rejoin. So there's really
good interest in the place.

Speaker 2 (36:56):
Is the media getting to I mean, I suppose it
to your fault, you did say five hundred, but the
media getting overly fixated on this. Whether it's four eight, seven,
five oh five. If you've got the message out there,
people feel safe for people are getting arrested, they're being
dealt to the police forces back doesn't really matter.

Speaker 14 (37:12):
Yeah, and that's the key point. A. We're getting great
interest in joining the police.

Speaker 12 (37:17):
There's more.

Speaker 14 (37:18):
You know, the police themselves are happier with the job
they're doing. They're feeling like they're back doing what they
were joined the police to do. There's really good Morales
just up at Kaikoe Kitty Kitty last week saying there's
really good stuff happening on the ground and police are
feeling really good about the job they do, and that's reflective.
And that's what this target is about, is making sure

(37:39):
that we get really good interest in joining the police
from really good people because it is an amazing career.

Speaker 2 (37:45):
Good stuff. Casey appreciate it very much. Casey Costello, Associate
Police Minister, fourteen past seven. Please ask luck So why
he doesn't change the law resupermarkets and restaurants not allowed
to being open on Easter Sunday. We're still having that debate.
I mean, I was sort of pleased over the weekend
there wasn't a There was a little bit of coverage,
but it's one of those conscience spoke type things, and
there's so much angst around it, and every time somebody

(38:05):
goes there was a unionist. I watched was It last night?
The night before a unionist said what we really want
to be doing is closing everything down. He said, we
need to be closing everything down so we can all
have a rest. And I thought, so it's probably better
not to have the debate. It's fifteen past.

Speaker 1 (38:23):
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Speaker 2 (38:28):
At b Crystal bal Laksen with us Live out of
the UK after seven thirties, met the King, We'll be
meeting Sakiah Starmas and we'll get the update on all
of that. Seventeen past seven Now very and cruise passengers
might be facing a new levy. So the government's weighing
up how to fund a permanent rescue take for the
Cook Straight. Temporary options arrived will be in service until
due next year. Apparently long term solution needed obviously. The

(38:49):
Maritime Union spokesperson Victor Billow's with us victim Morning, Good morning.
Is there anything unique or different about the Cook Straight
as regards having us service per se.

Speaker 12 (39:00):
Well, obviously the cookstrait's a very rough piece of water
with a lot of you know, inter island ferries going
between it, and there's been a number of issues there
over the last few years, so it is a special
piece of water. But nonetheless, this new plan I think
is for these rescue tags to be used throughout New Zealand.

Speaker 2 (39:20):
What have we done previously and who's paid for them?

Speaker 12 (39:23):
Well, previously it's kind of been a little bit of
a mess, to be honest, because we've had in the past,
for example, we've had vessels get into trouble and then
sometimes you know, the money is able to be obtained
from the company that operate to them. But the problem
is a lot of the vessels on the New Zealand
Coast overseas vessels, and it becomes a bit more complicated

(39:46):
once you get into the funding model for these things.

Speaker 2 (39:48):
Okay, this thing that's filling until June of next year,
could that carry on or is this a stopgap measure
that needs to be fixed properly.

Speaker 12 (39:56):
Well, it definitely needs to be fixed properly with a
long term plan. But we're heavy to see at the
MMA vision, which is the vessel that's been temporary put
onto the into Wellington to be a rescue vessel. We're
pleased to see that, but I mean, that does need
to be a long term plan, and we're not entirely
sure that the user pays model is either the right

(40:18):
one or an easy one to enforce.

Speaker 2 (40:21):
Isn't it you just tag it on? I mean, I
would imagine with the hundreds of thousands of people crossing
the straight on any given year to be next to nothing.
You barely notice it, would you.

Speaker 12 (40:29):
I think they're pretty expensive to maintain a vessel, but
you need to have it. And the reality is is
that the inter Island line in blue Bridge, the private operator,
you know, it would be a major hit for them,
and we have to come and start saying, well, maybe
this is something that's actually a national, national infrastructure. I mean,

(40:50):
we don't treat roads in a similar way. We have
a much more a different way of getting with them.
So we're just wondering how that's going to work out.
And of course there's also the quest and a lot
of these vessels at this rescue take my service may
may be overseas vessels, and that becomes a head you
get the money off theme, it becomes another question.

Speaker 2 (41:10):
All right, good point, Well, Billa, who's the Maritime Union spokesperson,
as I say, Christopher Luxen after seven to thirty, but
we will be talking to him, among other things about
the RB and their big budget cup. More on that
in the moment seven twenty.

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twenty four, writes some questions for you around the Reserve
Bank and their funding. Firstly, the Finance Minister to be

(42:37):
congratulated on her handling of the fiscal matters and reducing
the expenditure by twenty five percent. I mean this is
a Doge like achievement. In fact, have you been following Doge?
What they said they would do versus what they have
done is like a lot of the Trump output so
far mainly hot air, So in fact Willis leaves them
somewhat in it a dust. Then came the revelation from
cabinet papers that a lot of the extra money the
Reserve Bank got hadn't actually been spent. This is possibly

(43:00):
referred to as waste and was a good insight into
how Adriene and Grant ran the place. But despite the
fact it hadn't been spent, all of a sudden, just
before Nicholer came along, it did get spent budget in
areas like people in tech and info and data are
spending like drunks. So clearly Willis has seen their scam,
called their bluff and got her way. Good on her.
But the bigger question is this, with all that money,

(43:22):
tens of millions of dollars a year? Were they any good?
Did that money buy good results? Were good people doing
good work?

Speaker 4 (43:29):
Well?

Speaker 2 (43:30):
History shows, as obviously the answers know. Our COVID response
is now widely seen as an apt our three recessions,
the artworking of a complete and utter cock up when
it came to handling a financial crisis. We have smaller
issues still play, of course, like the reserves for the
commercial banks and outworking of the Adrian or paranoia. And
for all that money, we seem to employed a central
bank that did worse than most to this day Treasury

(43:52):
and this might be on Treasury, not the RB, but
Treasury cannot work out the value of all that money
flooding into the economy. What did it do? Was it
good value? If they can't work it out, did the
RB know going in or were they panicked? And were
they flying blind? Why did they give that free money
to the banks with no restrictions on what happened to
it next? These remain the unanswered questions, of course, years

(44:14):
on the artworkings of which we economically are still paying for.
So the twenty five percent cut is one story. The
other is what we got for our investment how would
you describe a return that bad and given it went
to the inept is twenty five percent? Even enough basking
more on that with the Prime Minister shortly Peter Urdo.

(44:34):
He's the Hungarian cardinals, they alluded to. The Archbishop of
Bukarest Budapest rather leading contender for the conservative wing of
the church, Louis Targal otherwise known as the Asian Francis
from the Philippines, would be the first Asian Pope, and
Pietro Parolin, current Secretary of State for the Vatican, the

(44:54):
competent diplomat, they call them, but tarnished by a property
scandal that I won't bother you with it the my bit.
But nevertheless, if they're question marks around them, that is it.
Close to half the cardinals these days come from the
global South, in other words, the Southern Hemisphere are part
of the world. Every cardinal, despite what they will tell you,
wants to know how the next pope will be viewed
in their country, So that's important. They've got to reach

(45:15):
the two thirds majority. It's all happening in the Sistine Chapel.
Stand by for the eight hundred and twelve articles to
be written. The Pope has passed. What happens next and
then you can read that ad nauseum. It's so opate.
Basically the process forecasting winners the fool's business. But that's
basically where we are at to the UK after the news,
the Prime Minister has met the King at Windsor, will

(45:37):
be meeting Sakiah and we'll be going to Gallipoli as well.
The details of that and more with Krystal ba lux
and after the news, which is next.

Speaker 1 (45:46):
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Speaker 2 (45:55):
When it's away from my being a shortened week and
all of that sort of thing, we're still doing the
Monday morning commentary by so after right Andrew Sabille and
Jason plyin plenty to talk about. Of course. Meantime the
Prime Minister he is to be found this morning in
London as he meets the King as well as the
Prime Minister's the kis Starmer. You'll visit our training of
the troops in Ukraine, of course, and travel to Turkey
for Inzac Day. And Christopher Luxant is with us a very.

Speaker 8 (46:15):
Good morning, Good morning, Mike, how are you today?

Speaker 5 (46:18):
Very well?

Speaker 2 (46:19):
Indeed, I know you can't tell us what you talk about,
but the King is well and healthy and it was
a good meeting.

Speaker 4 (46:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 18 (46:25):
Look, it is actually a long standing convention. We don't
share those details those conversations, but suffice to say he's
he's always very interested in what's going on in New Zealand,
and he's pretty informed.

Speaker 8 (46:34):
About what's going on in the world.

Speaker 18 (46:35):
And we actually just spent a bit of time talking
about Pope Francis because obviously that news had come through
literally an hour or two before we met. So no,
it was good to see him, and I've met him
a couple of times and he's always very engaged, very
interested in lots of issues, but certainly in New Zealand
as well.

Speaker 2 (46:49):
Good When do you meet Youkiir.

Speaker 18 (46:52):
That's tomorrow morning or evening your time, and I'm looking
forward to that. He's given us a huge amount of
time actually, and we'll travel down together and actually meet
both British and America, our New Zealand troops, also Ukrainian troops,
and obviously I'm proud of the work that we've done
there because we've got a one hundred Defense Force personnel
that we're actually extending out until the end of twenty
twenty six, working with the Brits and training. I think

(47:13):
we've trained about fifty four thousand Ukrainian soldiers so far,
and so we want to I want to see our
guys and our troops and talk to them and also
talk to the Ukrainian soldiers that are being trained, and
then we'll come back to Downing Street and do our
formal bilateral at number ten, which will be good and
it's a good relationship Mike, as you well know. So
it's a good chance to say, well, how do we
deepen and strengthen it further.

Speaker 2 (47:33):
Let me come back to that in the moment regards Ukraine.
So the announcement you made overnight, the extension to descender
twenty six, the thinking behind that is what the war
goes on until the twenty six What happened to the
peace deal?

Speaker 18 (47:45):
Yeah, well, look, I'm in. We're obviously following closely any
potential ceasefire negotiations. We certainly welcome, as I've said before,
any efforts around a justin lasting piece for the Ukraine.
But yeah, and we'll keep discussing options about whether we
would get involved in peace keeping support once a conflict concludes.
So there's ongoing conversations. We clearly, as a small country

(48:06):
with limited resources a long way away, aren't going to
be the ones to end that war. Obviously, that's for
you know, Europe, Ukraine, US and Russia.

Speaker 8 (48:13):
To work towards. But regardless, we.

Speaker 18 (48:17):
Stand very strongly with our set of values, which we
think Ukraine embodies and Zelensky and bodies very very strongly.

Speaker 8 (48:23):
It's important we play our part and stand up for
those values.

Speaker 2 (48:26):
Over the weekend, as you'll be well aware, the Ukrainians
signed the so called minerals Deal, or part of the
minerals Deal at least, you know, to extend it out
to something more permanent on the ground, there is there
a peace deal to be had? Is there a war
to end here? Is there? I mean, what's your vibe?

Speaker 18 (48:42):
Yeah, I mean, I think my observation is that, you know,
it's up to you know, Russia really hasn't taken that
the avenues that have been laid out by the Americans
and also the Ukrainians, and you know, the pressures on
Russia really frankly if they want to step up and
actually progress cease fireotiations and conversations, the balls in their court,
and I think that's how certainly, you know, how the

(49:04):
European countries here feel about it. And again we have
a chance to talk about that again tomorrow as well
with Sakia Starmer. But yeah, there is a you know,
this is an illegal, unprovoked invasion from Russia. They can
choose to end it at any point in time. Zleenski,
in my view, as a hero, he's standing up for
values that we believe in as a small country we
identify with Ukraine. I'm proud of the support that we've

(49:25):
been able to offer. But ultimately we know we want
to you know, we're following closely and we welcome any
efforts to sort of get this war ended.

Speaker 2 (49:34):
How much discussion with Sakira is going to be about
free trade, tariffs, the world as we.

Speaker 18 (49:38):
Know it, Yeah, I suspect. I mean it'd be more
focused on our bilateral relationship, and obviously the defense and
security is a big part of that, the Ukrainian peace
we just talked about, but we're also participating with the
UK Carrier Strike Force in twenty twenty five, which will
come down through our part of the world. We have
other things like the five Power defense arrangements which we

(49:59):
have in Southeast Asia with the UK, and obviously with
our step up in defense spending, we want to be
into operable. But also there's areas of collaboration around innovation.
There's New Zealand companies that are actually providing the British
military with UAVs and stuff like that, which is interesting.
But I think the second but Mike, is that actually

(50:19):
trade and investments growing tremendously.

Speaker 8 (50:21):
So our exports to the UK.

Speaker 18 (50:23):
From New Zealand just in the last twelve months is
up twenty one percent. It's now our seventh largest trading
partner's about seven billion dollars. So there's lots of opportunities still,
We've got all the architecture we need. We just need
to keep pushing forward on it and keep pushing food
and beverage and tourism. But obviously there's emerging sectors like
advanced aviation and renewables and tech as well.

Speaker 2 (50:42):
So there is a lot of upside because of all
the free trade deals we've signed of late. Maybe the
UA is good and it's got upside, but the British
one seems to be genuinely gold Standard.

Speaker 8 (50:53):
I think so.

Speaker 18 (50:53):
I think it's a very good quality agreement and I
think there's a lot of opportunity and part of it
is just encouraging. You're now seeing, for example, a lot
of British firms investing in renewables in New Zealand, solar
farms and things like that. And I think there's a
lot of opportunity for in the fact that our exporters
are onto it right. I mean, our exports are up
twenty one percent in a year when it's been pretty

(51:15):
difficult trading around the world, you know, pre tariff's you know,
that's when it's been growing. So you know, there's still
lots of opportunity for us.

Speaker 2 (51:22):
Okay, a couple of domestic issues the Reserve Bank, and
was mentioning this just before the news, the twenty five
percent cut that Nicholas managed to at twenty five percent,
that reeks to me of waste. If you can slice
somebody by twenty five percent and they're still operating, somebody
was rolling around in money. Yeah.

Speaker 18 (51:40):
Look, our view and opposition was there was a lot
of money being piled into the Reserve Bank. We also
felt that they had a very confused mandate. If you
remember at the time, one of the things we did
in the first couple of weeks was to just say
you are one hundred percent focused on lowering inflation.

Speaker 8 (51:53):
That is your job.

Speaker 18 (51:54):
You're not there to do any other stuff beyond that.
That is your primary responsibility. And I think that helped.
I think, you know, moving what was called the dual mandation.
Putting that in place was important. But yeah, equally with
you know, as we expect other government agencies and crownties
to be responsible for with taxpayer money, we think that
they also need to make savings and praying back you

(52:15):
know what they're doing as well.

Speaker 2 (52:16):
How do you handle something And I asked this question
before the news. So you fund an organization and you
look for outcomes. Given there were three recessions, can we
call them in competent or can you not lay that
at their doorstep? In other words, how do you know
you're getting value for money?

Speaker 18 (52:31):
Well, I mean, I think you know what we can
control is what we can control, and that is saying, well,
we do have a decision around that mandate. Your job
as a reserve bank is to get inflation back under
the band. It had been in the band for a
long period of time. It had got completely out of
control with the printing of cash, as we talked about,
an opposition and also a government that frankly was wasting
a lot of money. So the fiscal and monetary settings

(52:53):
were completely out of whack. And then what happened was
the Reserve Bank woke up and decide to take interest
rates up and put the brakes on, while the labor
government kept spending like drunken salors, and we ended up
with a lot of instability. And so you know, that's
the mess that we're clanning up and working our way
through now. But from my point of view, there was
a lot of money being pumped into the Reserve Bank.
They were doing a lot of periphery things that weren't

(53:14):
We're away from their core mandate, which was to get
inflation back under three percent. They've now done that, which
is helpful. We've done that by also getting rid of
wasteful spending and fiscal and monetary policy working together to
get inflation under control so we can lower interest rates,
so we can grow the economy and get people in jobs.
But equally, we don't feel there's a need for them
to with the budget bid that we saw initially and

(53:35):
what we've proposed to deliver. It's quite right we make
that twenty five percent come.

Speaker 2 (53:39):
Just before Easter, we had Summing and brown and twenty
billion dollars long term plan for health infrastructure. All of
that sounds good until I read Health New Zealand's own report,
which states quote they cannot effectively plan for asset renewals,
replacements or optimize maintenance strategies. We do not have a
consistent understanding of asset related rest and its priorities for investment.

(54:01):
If they're that useless, why would you entrust twenty billion
dollars worth of anything with them?

Speaker 18 (54:07):
Well, I think actually I would just say to you,
I think New Zealand in general does a very poor
job of asset management. I think it's been recognized globally
that we're amongst some of the worst in doing it.

Speaker 8 (54:17):
You've seen us.

Speaker 18 (54:18):
With respect to education actually pull out infrastructure and education
as a separate sort of entity within it, and that's
led to some good outcomes. We've actually been able to
improve the standardized buildings from twenty percent. Eighty percent of
the classrooms in New Zealand were bespoken done locally and
as a result, we're about one point two million dollars
in cost. We've managed to actually say, let's lift the

(54:39):
standard rate up to sixty percent of all our buildings
now are standard in classrooms and lo and behold, the
cost has come down to eight hundred thousand dollars. And
it's the same challenge frankly in the health estate as well.
We've got I think it's about twelve hundred and thirteen
hundred buildings I think across eighty six campuses or something,
and the average age is about forty seven years. So
this has been developing over multiple decades, but we've never

(55:00):
ever had, believe it or not, a single long term
plan that lays out.

Speaker 8 (55:04):
A pipeline for health infrastructure.

Speaker 18 (55:06):
And that's partly renewing that capacity, partly investing in new facilities.
But you know, as I've said to Simon and Chris Bishop,
I'm very very open for us actually creating a separate
health infrastructure entity that actually manages infrastructure projects well, because
it's a different skill set. You know, when you're in education,
you're already focused on curriculum and you don't have expertise
and running the assets of classrooms and schools and the

(55:28):
same happens in healthcare with hospitals and other.

Speaker 8 (55:30):
Things, so there's a lot for us to do there.

Speaker 18 (55:33):
But I think the good start is actually what Simon's done,
which is, you know, try and comprehensively set up a
plan and then think about how we phase this stuff and.

Speaker 8 (55:40):
Open it up to private capital too.

Speaker 2 (55:42):
You're looking forward to Gliberly.

Speaker 18 (55:45):
I am really Mica. I mean it's a pretty special place.
It's obviously as a kid growing up in New Zealand,
I've read a lot about it. I always love history
and being a history buff and read a lot of
stories about it. And yeah, I just think it's really
poignantless week to be here in the UK talking defense
and the work that we've been doing with the Brits,
and then thinking one hundred and ten years ago, you know,
we were working with Bretts as well in Gallipoli, and

(56:06):
it's gonna be very special one hundred and tenth commemorate.

Speaker 8 (56:08):
Yeah, yeah, commemoration go well.

Speaker 2 (56:10):
Appreciate you making the time, Chris of a luxam on
the other side of the world for us. The Smalling
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Speaker 19 (56:21):
It'd be.

Speaker 2 (56:23):
Ten minutes away from Mike back to the police Mic
co worker' been you where the physical test for police
recruitment occur. They have plenty of turning up, which is great,
but some don't seem to be prepared for the tasks required,
takes the longer to graduate. That's I wouldn't have thought
is the end of the world, because the thing about
physical fitnesses you can change it. Mike, the five hundred
officers might not happen. As a retired officer, I say
it must always be quality over quantity, otherwise that we

(56:45):
have a bigger problem getting rid of substandard officer. Not well,
that's true, And as I was trying to say to
Casey Costello this fixation, I don't know what I'm assuming
Labour feeds the media with this and all. We might
not be getting to five hundred. If we get to
four eighty two, and generally the surveys tell us we'll
safer in the streets and more people are being rounded up,
more people are being arrested, and there's fewer ram raids,
and generally speaking, they've got the issue together. Doesn't really

(57:07):
matter that you're fourteen short or whatever. The case may be,
or what if you get to five oh three? Is
that a big party? And all look at it? I mean,
you know, we're fixating on the numbers, and I'm not
sure that's the smartest thing to do. I've got some
very good news for you. My campaign to get the
snooker on television might actually be about to bear fruit
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Speaker 2 (57:32):
To the good news five minutes away from eight text
I received first thing this morning morning, Mike, Chris from Sky.
Could you please pass this on to the team. We're
working through the logistics of getting coverage of the Crucible
competition from the quarterfinals onwards. Can't promise anything, but I'll
let you know tonight and we'll have an update. So
that's Chris from Sky. Came out of our conversation last
week with Sophie Maloney who runs Sky and once again

(57:55):
on your behalf maybe my own. I see we the
hell's the snooker And if all the snooker you want
to run, you want to run the World Championships. The
World Championships have just begun in the last day boil
over in the round one, Kira and Wilson, who's the
world champion, lost his first round match. The Curse of
the Crucible. The Crucible is the greatest theater of sport
you can get as a couple of thousand people packing

(58:16):
over a period of a couple of weeks, and it
is an arduous tournament. If you don't follow snooker, suddenly
all of the rules change. So the opening rounds are
the best of nineteen and by the time you get
to the end of the snooker you've played a couple
of weeks worth. Are you playing best of thirty five?
So these are long, long matches and they test the
resilience and the mental strength of any snooker player anyway.

(58:36):
The other important point apart from cra and Wilson losing
is Ronnie is back for his foot really his first
time this year, and he played in the very early
part of the year, played appallingly, stormed out, whactor's que
on the table, stormed out and hasn't been seen since.
He's returning now he may still pull out. He's due
to players first round overnight New Zealand time. He may
still pull out he's playing a guy called Ali Carter.

(59:00):
We hope he doesn't because he's one of the greatest
and he's well worth watching. Anyway. The point of all
of this is the world's premiere snooker tournament is not
available on New Zealand television, and that is a media
crime in my book. I don't care what else. You
don't have to run the snooker all year round, the
same way you don't have to run every sport and
every tournament and every day. You can't do it. But

(59:22):
when it comes to something like snooker, the pre eminent
event should be available to us, especially in a world
of streaming at our leisure, especially from somebody who likes SkySports.
So it looks like they might have heard my please
and they're at least working on it. And from the
quarter finals on we might well be able to see
snooker at the Crucible, which would be quite something. You
don't have to thank me now. Now we got more

(59:44):
sport coming up shortly, Andrew Sabil, Jason Pine. I'm just
trying to work out what's more exciting. The f one
was good because we all had a holiday. We could
all without too much upset watch yesterday in Jedda, and
it was good race as far as Lawson was concerned.
It's probably his best race of the seas and so
far he looked settled. He finished eleventh, was pinned for twelfth,
didn't really matter who wasn't gonna score points anyway, but

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Andrew Sail and Jason Pine, both with US Fellows. Good morning, sir.
Are you still in the Far North and where you
wacked badly? Meteorologically speaking?

Speaker 5 (01:01:28):
I know. I returned to Autand for the storm, just
some time with that lightning and thunder the other night.
But then I'm back up. I'm back up in the
far far far.

Speaker 19 (01:01:38):
North.

Speaker 2 (01:01:38):
Now, did you have to deal with the slip?

Speaker 5 (01:01:42):
No missed that, thankfully, shock horror. It rains a little
bit and there's a slip on the Brindawin.

Speaker 2 (01:01:47):
It's amazing how many weather alerts did you get and
did it give you anxiousness?

Speaker 5 (01:01:54):
On you would have got the same on Saturday, the
weather alert on your phone to tell you that the
severe thunderstorm wrning is going to finish in fifteen minutes,
but it actually started about twelve hours earlier. Is the
person who pushes the button to send out you? Do
they live in Australia or a mirror?

Speaker 2 (01:02:13):
I think they're on annual leave and they had to
bring them back and they'd taken the three days. It's
just it's too funny. Hey, Jason just quickly just confirmed
for my happiness and peace of mind. Auckland will win.
They just need one more week. They were going to
the other side last they didn't lose, therefore they didn't
win officially at the weekend. Is that about it?

Speaker 10 (01:02:32):
Yep, bang on Mike. In fact, they can do it
with one of your favorite things. A drawer just coming
Sunday and they won't draw. They won't draw with Perth.
They'll beat Perth, Perth of being very very poor. So yeah,
Sunday afternoon they'll claim the Premier's Plate, the regular season
silverware first time of asking. Incredible story, Yeah it's and
then beyond that, of course they could go on and

(01:02:53):
win the whole thing.

Speaker 5 (01:02:54):
So yeah, quite.

Speaker 2 (01:02:55):
What's the format? I mean? First two questions, what's the
plate look like? Is it a plate worth how in
one year? Display or stick in the cupboard? Two? What's
the format for the playoffs?

Speaker 10 (01:03:05):
Plate is as it says, a plate is quite big silver,
and yes, you would stick it in the cabinet. The
format for the finals top two go straight through to
the Semis. Three plays six and four plays five for
the right to go to the Semis. The Semis a
home and away and then there's one Grand Final. So
Awkle FC would probably only be two games away from

(01:03:25):
from winning it that have a or three games rather
the home and away semi and then the grand final.

Speaker 5 (01:03:29):
Okay, so Mike, my understanding is they'll sell that Perth
game out this weekend. Yeah. Well, which is which is
probably no great surprise given the crowds have had this year. Jason,
will they would they go? And I think it's the
A League's call. But would they go to Eden Park
for any possible grand final?

Speaker 2 (01:03:47):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (01:03:47):
I don't think they can if they want to have
it on the Saturday because there's already a game scheduled.
Are Blues in the rugby game there on the Saturday.
But look, here's the here's the conundrum. The league itself
takes the tick revenue for the finals. Therefore they want
it at the biggest possible ground. Auckland f C want
it at a fortress like go Media has become for them.

(01:04:09):
Now there's a precedent last year the Central Coast Marin
has held it at their home ground which only holds
twenty thousand. So look, I think it's going to be
at go Media and I think that's the right call.

Speaker 2 (01:04:20):
Interesting, the Warrior is said.

Speaker 5 (01:04:22):
But wouldn't it be? I mean, great atmosphere at Mount Smart,
wouldn't it be? Wouldn't it be a fantastic look.

Speaker 2 (01:04:27):
If they could see that?

Speaker 5 (01:04:31):
That's so od eaton parks.

Speaker 10 (01:04:32):
You look at even part guys, I mean even you're
watching a game of rugby.

Speaker 5 (01:04:35):
The year.

Speaker 10 (01:04:35):
We've talked about this a lot.

Speaker 5 (01:04:36):
You know you're so far back. I know you're right.

Speaker 10 (01:04:39):
If you sold, if you're so reckon in five thousand,
it would be great.

Speaker 5 (01:04:42):
But you're so far away.

Speaker 10 (01:04:43):
That's the beauty of go media Mount Smart for Warriors
and for Auckland FC, how close you are to the game.

Speaker 2 (01:04:49):
You've also got an insult factor. Haven't you like that?
You can play at the duney ground until you're really
good and then we'll pick you at the flash ground.
And there's something wrong with that, isn't it. It's like
when I used to play save. You're a remember this
When I made representative football side. We played at English
Park and the grass there was beautiful.

Speaker 5 (01:05:06):
Hold on a minute, how come whatever sport we talk about,
you've made a representative team. And what representative team was this?

Speaker 2 (01:05:14):
I don't know, I can't remember, but it was some
sort of represent It was like, you know what football is,
It's like the under twelves, the under elevens, the under eights,
whatever it was. Anyway, the point was that we're at
English Park and Christ did you know English Park?

Speaker 5 (01:05:24):
Jason, beautiful, beautiful.

Speaker 4 (01:05:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:05:27):
I couldn't believe the quality of the surface. And I
was running on and the only the abiding memory I have, unfortunately,
is not long into the second half, I was subbed
and I've never been so devastated in my life. I
thought I'd made a better contribution than that. I was
thinking about packing a sad but I walked off, you know, quietly,
and just sat on the bench.

Speaker 10 (01:05:51):
Never to be seen, never to be seen in that
representative team.

Speaker 5 (01:05:54):
Again. It was a cycling track round English Park, wasn't it.

Speaker 2 (01:05:58):
No, No, okay, somewhere else your weird memory line.

Speaker 5 (01:06:04):
The heah, the Warriors, What about the Warriors?

Speaker 2 (01:06:07):
They now answer me this question. You both can answer
the question. Say, I'll ask you first, what do you
do about Luke metcalf right? He can't kick? He clearly
can't kick. He doesn't know how to kick, and therefore
we need a proper kicker. Yeah, but he won the game,
Yes he did, But it was in a straight line
from fifty. I backed myself from forty probably not fifty.

(01:06:28):
But does that then counterbalance.

Speaker 5 (01:06:30):
When you were a representative kicker, Yeah, you would, you
would have nailed that. Look, it's still it's still a
pretty difficult kick from fifty meters to win the game.
The pressures on.

Speaker 10 (01:06:41):
Yeah, but you wouldn't.

Speaker 2 (01:06:42):
Wouldn't be wouldn't is my point? Say, you wouldn't be
there if you'd got the other four.

Speaker 5 (01:06:46):
I wouldn't give up totally. Look, the I think the
goal kicking stand in the league's improved recently. Years ago,
goal league goal kickers compared to the Union go ws
were terrible, weren't they?

Speaker 2 (01:06:56):
They were change?

Speaker 12 (01:07:01):
You know, I know.

Speaker 5 (01:07:01):
I think Dan Carter has been or maybe pre season
was working absolutely well. Maybe not, maybe not all the kickers,
or maybe not for a very long time, but some
sort of work anyway.

Speaker 2 (01:07:13):
Does that explain? That's the question. Then if Dan Carter's
working with the kickers and that he still can't kick,
you're either.

Speaker 5 (01:07:19):
Maybe they need to bring him back in. Here's what
they need to do. Here's what they need to do.

Speaker 2 (01:07:23):
Guys.

Speaker 10 (01:07:24):
Luke Metcalf needs to stay in there. I think he's
doing well, but give the kicking to Adam Pompey when
Shawn Johnson was last year, Adam Pompey took the kicks
and was very good.

Speaker 2 (01:07:33):
He looked, he looked, didn't he He looked un orthodox
in his approach, but they worked.

Speaker 5 (01:07:39):
Yep.

Speaker 10 (01:07:39):
It just has to go between the stakes and yeah,
you're right. Look Metcalfrom the start of that game. Couldn't
kick the door down, could he know?

Speaker 19 (01:07:45):
And and but and.

Speaker 10 (01:07:46):
He missed the drop at the end. But you've got
to give it to the guy. He wanted that that
kick right at the end to win.

Speaker 5 (01:07:51):
It all turned out and he scored the last tried
and he was there's no way he's going to catch
that pass and he caught.

Speaker 2 (01:07:59):
Fantastic as a player. I'm not criticizing him as place
just to kick it. Listen brief break more in a
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Speaker 2 (01:08:23):
Mike, there was a concrete cycling track around the old
English Park when I was a ball boy there for
christ United in the early seventies. But then I've got
one sad that says the ground with the cycling track
is dent and overland Hornby. So you've just sown a
whole lot of confusion in people's minds.

Speaker 5 (01:08:35):
You don't know is the cycling track still there?

Speaker 14 (01:08:38):
Nah?

Speaker 5 (01:08:39):
So I don't think I didn't over have one two
yet it's right, Mitt Catall.

Speaker 2 (01:08:43):
Is kicking at sixty percent, Pompy at seventy seven. I
rest my case. Numbers, numbers don't lie.

Speaker 5 (01:08:49):
It wasn't the wasn't it. I thought the defense was outstanding,
brilliant the other night. How do you explain leaking? What
was it? Forty to fifty?

Speaker 2 (01:08:56):
You can't storm psychological?

Speaker 5 (01:08:58):
Then they tuned that around to beat the Broncos, and
the Storm get beaten by the Dolphins, can't.

Speaker 2 (01:09:03):
I don't know what's going on unless you want to
say it's rigged, Butcher, it isn't. So I don't know
how you explain any of it. But the point is,
and you would agree with this, Jason, is that we're
second on the table, not officially, but if you look
at the points, we may as well be second, which
is top four, which is home samis you know how
it goes? So this is this is our year.

Speaker 10 (01:09:22):
It is early Mike.

Speaker 5 (01:09:23):
Let's let's where are they actually on the table?

Speaker 2 (01:09:26):
Well, technically they're third or fourth. They've got ten points.

Speaker 5 (01:09:28):
There's the I think, but the vibe they're giving off,
they shouldn't be second.

Speaker 2 (01:09:34):
It was no, no, no, because one of the teams
that's above us technically has played The Raiders have played
seven games. We've only played Sex, so you've got apples
and apples, but we've still got ten points each, so
technically we're second. So it's it's the same thing. Can't
argue with that.

Speaker 10 (01:09:48):
Are the Bulldogs going? By the way, I didn't take
that's I think anybody did the Bulldogs?

Speaker 5 (01:09:52):
What do I say? Six from Sex?

Speaker 2 (01:09:53):
Well, everyone thought Penrith was going to be a dynasty
until they're not. So you know, that's how that's how
sport goes. I suppose, isn't it At the end of
the day. By the way, quick question for you, sav
if I get the snooker on sky Sport by the
end of the world Championships. Have you heard the story.

Speaker 5 (01:10:09):
I've been I've been sort of keeping up. We ran
a story last week about the young Welsh guy doing
the double one four seven. Did you see that?

Speaker 2 (01:10:16):
Yes? I did, of course I watched.

Speaker 5 (01:10:18):
How did he did? He did?

Speaker 11 (01:10:19):
He?

Speaker 5 (01:10:19):
Has he done? Anything? Has he done?

Speaker 2 (01:10:21):
Okay, well, they've only just that he hasn't played yet.
They only just they've only just begun in the play. Anyway,
My point is that I put so much pressure on
Sky they are going to look at bringing the let
apart from the quarterfinals on of snooker on to Sky,
onto the Sky platform so we can.

Speaker 8 (01:10:35):
All watch it.

Speaker 2 (01:10:35):
If I'm successful in that campaign, Actually I'll ask you, Jason,
you're the better journalist. If I'm successful in that campaign,
is that, do I win a hell Berger Ward, because
that'll be like.

Speaker 10 (01:10:46):
Well, surely a Nobel Peace Prize of some describer.

Speaker 2 (01:10:52):
Modesty prevented me from making that suggestion, but I mean,
come on, is it is it?

Speaker 19 (01:10:56):
Is it just you?

Speaker 2 (01:10:58):
I believe it?

Speaker 4 (01:10:59):
Well?

Speaker 2 (01:10:59):
I have no it didn't see anyone else has made
an attempt and I haven't. It looks like I'm going
to be successful, sav and I want it covered on TV.
One sport too.

Speaker 5 (01:11:06):
By the way, So do you think if you started
all of a sudden the campaign about showing reruns of
Faulty Tag and TV one and we would we would
succumb to you.

Speaker 2 (01:11:16):
I don't think so, It's not impossible, mate. Quick word
saville about the Super Rugby Crusaders are winnings. They're fantastic.
That was the highlight of the wigand wasn't it.

Speaker 5 (01:11:27):
It was a great game, very dramatic. Blues should have
probably won that. They had heaps of heaps of possession
and territory and but the Crusaders a bit of a
bit of crusaders of ole. You know, they should have
probably lost to the Hurricanes a week before, probably should
have lost to the Blues, but they didn't. They won. Yeah,
building momentum, building confidence, So I know that they're looking

(01:11:47):
pretty good. Look, James O'Connor's certainly added something off the bench,
purch his experience. Yet. Yeah, it is seems I've fitted
in well too. It seems like a lovely cat.

Speaker 2 (01:11:56):
Well, he'll be enjoying Christ Everyone who moves to a
nice chutch enjoys it. And I think that's half the
battle league.

Speaker 5 (01:12:01):
It's the cycling tracks. I think it's the cycling, it's
the multi it's the multi use sporting facilities in Christy.

Speaker 2 (01:12:09):
Exactly exactly what it will be when you were playing.

Speaker 5 (01:12:12):
For the Rep. So when you're playing for the Rep
Socket team, did they actually pick the wrong Hosking? It
was actually supposed to be Mark Hosking.

Speaker 2 (01:12:20):
When you do your thing to the North, they.

Speaker 5 (01:12:23):
Probably sent the physio on a half time to confirm
that you'd been born with two left feet. That's why
they hold jopp.

Speaker 2 (01:12:28):
The When you travel to the far North, do you
run a diesel? What are you running for? Petrol and miles?
On that one, I'm thinking, I'm.

Speaker 5 (01:12:35):
Just petrol petrol.

Speaker 2 (01:12:37):
It's so you're doing you're doing hundreds of k's and
you're running a petrol engine.

Speaker 5 (01:12:42):
I'm not going up and down every week.

Speaker 2 (01:12:44):
It's you know, school holidays and yeah, but it's still
a lot of miles.

Speaker 5 (01:12:48):
Yeah, it's it's a it's a decent amount.

Speaker 6 (01:12:50):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (01:12:50):
You thought about a BEV No, no, fair enough.

Speaker 5 (01:12:56):
You need something sturdy to give given like what you
say on the show, Given it's a goat, Given it's
a goat track, you need something fairly sturdy.

Speaker 2 (01:13:04):
Yeah, that's fair cool. You're not running at BFAU Jason Portray.

Speaker 5 (01:13:08):
I'm just you can can I just give myself a
pat on the back. I haven't cut myself off this morning.

Speaker 2 (01:13:14):
No, actually you did. Technically speaking. I mean some of
the stuff you said was a bit ordinary, but technically
speaking you remained on here the whole time.

Speaker 5 (01:13:21):
Technically speaking, I didn't cut myself off because I was
listening last Thursday and there were there were a lot
of casting of aspersions about my weight and the fact
my weight somehow cuts my phone off.

Speaker 2 (01:13:32):
It's called fat check syndrome. That's what we're.

Speaker 17 (01:13:37):
So.

Speaker 5 (01:13:37):
You know what, I haven't touched a bloody easter egg
the whole weekend because of you.

Speaker 2 (01:13:41):
I don't believe that. Andrew Savil Jason Pine for another week.

Speaker 1 (01:13:43):
It is a twenty three the Mic Hosking Breakfast with
the Range Rover of the LA News Talks.

Speaker 2 (01:13:49):
There'd be and Zac Day coming up, and there's something
pretty special about paying respect to those who served. Of course,
not everyone can make it to a dawn service. Maybe
you find a little bit hard to get around these days.
You've got young children, can't cope with early start whatever.
That's where for Carta Maori comes in continuing their tradition
of sharing Anzac Day with viewers around the country. So
from five forty five they will broadcast live from Auckland
War Memorial Museum, Julian Wilcox leading that dawn service. Throughout

(01:14:13):
the day, you can catch up with some powerful programming
as well. There's Nape Keddy Kapia, which is a new
documentary uncovering personal stories of the Mario Battalion, as well
as premiers of short films Rapido and Tefaka Fitiana. That's
from twelve forty five, they're going to bring you live
coverage from Gallipoli as well. Basically as an option for everyone.
Anyone who wants to be part of the day but

(01:14:33):
can't make it in person, you can watch it on
for Carter Malory or catch it on Maury Plus online.
Good way for all New Zealanders to stay connected to
an important day in our calendar, no matter where you are.
Lest we forget asking the double one four seven guy
Mike Jackson Page didn't qualify for the World Champs. That's good,
thank you for that. I appreciate it. But it does
go to show you what a mind game snooker is.

(01:14:55):
At the end of the day, anyone who can score
one forty seven is a freak. But then having a
freak doesn't mean you win all frames and doesn't mean
you qualify for the tournament. I've still got to tell
you about my power problem. I don't want to bore
you with my power problem. We all had boring power
problems over the last couple of days, but this was
a particularly weird problem that you may have an answer
to because I have a question anyway. That's after Rod.

(01:15:16):
It was next after the news.

Speaker 1 (01:15:18):
News, opinion, and everything in between, the mic hosting break
best with Bailey's real estate, your local experts across residential, commercial,
and rural news togs, Dad been.

Speaker 2 (01:15:29):
You caut up with it over the weekend. But you know,
you've got all the car companies that aren't exporting cars
to the United States anymore. You've got all the companies
who were sort of stuck between China and the United
States and looking for freer markets to do business with DHL,
which we all in some way, shape or form deal
with given careers. DHL have suspended all high value US delivery. So,
in other words, if you're looking to send something to

(01:15:50):
this is how isolating it's becoming. If you're looking to
send something to the US, DHL will not do it
for you anymore. So anything worth more than about twelve
hundred dollars, say a thousand bucks, they're stopping the shipments
until further notice. So business to business will still go ahead,
although they will be delayed. Previously, packages worth up to
two and a half grand could enter the States with

(01:16:11):
minimal paperwork. Trump's changed all that, so they've caused a
surge in formal customs clearances, so they're handling that around
the clock and no one can cope. They're clamping down
on deliveries under eight hundred dollars as well. That's specifically
out of China and Hong Kong. That starts on May
the second. So just getting into or stuff into the
United States. For you know, we talk about companies and

(01:16:34):
businesses that we may or may not deal with, but
a courier not being or not delivering things to the
United States of America gives you an indication as to
just how weird the whole thing's become. Don't you reckon
twenty two to.

Speaker 16 (01:16:47):
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Speaker 19 (01:16:53):
We go Rod Little well us morning mate, goobolity, Happy
east to me, I.

Speaker 2 (01:16:57):
Know, happy easter to see you too. A couple of
things about the local body elections which we haven't talked
much of, and they're coming in early May, and you
had to get registered first of all. How many people
are registered? Are people genuinely interested in these? How many
councils are up for grabs, how much of a swing
will they be? And what role will the Reform party play?

Speaker 19 (01:17:15):
Can I take the first part of things. It's like
being on jeopardy. I think the turnout will be somewhere
around about the thirty to forty percent. That's usually what
it is for local elections. If it's much more than that,
that shows a high interest. If it's not, then then
it's part of the course. If it's below thirty, then

(01:17:38):
no one's interested. How many are up it's about half
of the various authorities, which a bit more than half,
actually about two thirds. So it's quite important. And the
kind of importance to look at is reform has traditionally,
in so far as we can call it a tradition,

(01:17:59):
not done well in council seats. It hasn't put many
cabinet itself, and it doesn't have any kind of supporter
base within council wards, but they are tipped to take
quite a few seats. The interesting thing now is whose
seats they will be taking, whether it will be the
government's Labors or whether it will be the Conservatives. Now hitherto,

(01:18:22):
of course they've always taken from the Conservatives, but it's
increasingly likely that they're going to be taken from Labor.
And the latest opinion poll pole I saw, which the
MPR poll, which was reported in the Sun, suggested that
at the next election, the Reformed UK would be left
the largest party with one hundred and eighty seats and

(01:18:46):
the Tories and Labor would have one hundred and sixty
five each. Now that shows a genuine breakthrough, not a
breakthrough in terms of getting you we've talked about this
might you know, not a break through in that they're
getting more a greater percentage share generally across the country.

(01:19:08):
They still find it hard to get above thirty. But
they're targeting labor seats in the north of the country
where I am now, and that it looks like they're
having some success.

Speaker 2 (01:19:20):
Okay, So once again another two part question. Do they
head the depth if all of a sudden they find
themselves with a whole bunch of counselors. Have they gone
down the list far up and you don't end up
with a bunch of weirdos too? Does that then propel
them at national level to something big in twenty twenty nine?

Speaker 19 (01:19:38):
The first question is there will undoubtedly be within the
next six weeks reports of genuine weirdos who've been elected
because they still haven't quite got a grip on their
selection procedures, and there will be people who were previously
in fairly unpleasant organizations I would expect, I would guess.

(01:19:58):
Does it propel them? It adds to the general sense
that they're growing. I still have to be convinced that
they can get more than thirty percent, which is what
you need in Britain. You need about thirty four thirty
five percent to within in action, and I still have

(01:20:18):
my doubts that they will get there. But they are
doing very very well.

Speaker 12 (01:20:22):
In the polls.

Speaker 2 (01:20:23):
Okay, since we last talked, and that decision from the
highest court in the land over transgender how does that
manifest itself or how has it manifested itself in those
organizations that would need to do something about what they're doing.

Speaker 19 (01:20:38):
I don't think it has unsettled in one bit at
the moment. And this is another thing, and it ties
it to what we've just been talking about, you know,
because if there is one thing all those red Wall
voters don't like, it's all the ludicrous insanity of the
woke stuff.

Speaker 14 (01:20:53):
You know.

Speaker 19 (01:20:53):
I don't mean getting on with each other nicely and
all that kind of stuff. I just mean the insanity
of it. And the question now is what does Labor
do with all these institutions, beginning with the NHS, which
have said we stand with transfer. Well, you can't, mate,
because this is a Supreme Court decision. You're breaking the

(01:21:16):
law if you don't allow women to have their own
separate spaces, and by women we mean biological women. So
I think a lot of people would be looking very
closely at how Labor handles that because it could be
a real big vote looser for them if they allow
the left side of the party to dictate the fact

(01:21:39):
that this Supreme Court decision doesn't mean anything at all effectively, all.

Speaker 2 (01:21:43):
Right, Mike, go, well, we'll catch up Thursday. I appreciate
it Ron little out of Britain this morning seventeen away
from nine, ask have we got business to customer orders
for June? Going to the USDHL now saying we can't
see them as over eight hundred dollars have to refund
the orders and that's quite a big loss. See that's
the sort of thing I'm talking about. Suddenly you can't
do business, you can't get into the States, and how

(01:22:04):
long does that continue? And how long is a piece
of string? Seventeen to two.

Speaker 1 (01:22:08):
The like asking Breakfast Full Show podcast on iHeartRadio, howared
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Speaker 2 (01:22:15):
You might want to watch the New Zealand market today
if you've got time. Don't check you que you savor.
It's all depressing at the moment, but the downs down
nine hundred and seventy or two and a half percent,
and the Nasdaq's down two and a half percent, of
the SMP's down two point three six percent. So we'll
feed off that dollars up a bit of your planning
your holidays, or you are on holidays and you're overseas
and you're suddenly going, oh jeez, I'm getting so much
more for my money. I suppose that's the only upside

(01:22:37):
of the fact that we don't like the US as
much as we used to. So here's my weird power story.
Just answer me this question if you know what the
answer is. I tried it out with a couple of
people around the office who pretend to know what the
answer is, and they don't know what the answer is.
So I don't like pretender people. Either you know the
answer or you don't know the answer. So anyway, we
lose power like everybody else. Ironically, we lost power yesterday

(01:22:57):
not because of anything to do with the weather, but
just because of, as it turned out, network equipment failure,
which is obviously the company hadn't done their job properly
and done the maintenance. Anyway, be that as it may.
We won ourselves through points a free day's power, so
this was tremendously exciting. We were going to go away
on holiday, but we canceled that because we could be

(01:23:17):
at home with our free power. We thought, why would
we go to I don't know, tenerif when we can
be at home with free powers. So we thought, we're
going to stay at home with free powers. So this
is going to be so exciting. Anyway, On the day
that we were owed free power. Of course, the power
went out, so we had no We were power free,
not free powered. So the next day, a chatbot then
inquires with us as to how our day of free

(01:23:39):
power went, and of course, my wife, who's on these
chatbot type networks with these people, says, we didn't have
any power because the power was out. Chatbot had trouble
dealing with that, but nevertheless, we think we might get
another free day of power some other day. Here's my
question in chatting to the chapbot. My understanding is chatbots
are AI driven AI generate. AI invented things that replace humans,

(01:24:03):
which allowed them to, to a degree anyway, communicate with
you and ask answer basic questions. How is it that
we ended up in a queue for a chatbot? So
the chat bot, we were number four at one point,
we're number four, then three, then two, then one, then
we're onto the chatbot. I thought chatbots were there was
no limit to the number of people a chatbot could

(01:24:25):
deal with because it was AI generated, because it's not human,
because it's not real. Why suddenly have we invented a
queue for chatbots? How literally, if you know the answer
to that, does that work? And is that a scam.
Is there really a human behind that pretending to be
a chatbot? Or is a chatbot limited and can only
take x number? Therefore you need more chatbots. So in

(01:24:46):
other words, it's not just a singular chatbot, it's a
room full of chatbots that it replaced the roomful of humans.
So there's multiple chatbots dealing with multiple people, and the
chatbots can only do with three or four people at
a time. Or does all of the sound just completely
and utterly insane, And you wouldn't have the slightest idea,
which is where I come from. It seemed to me,

(01:25:06):
for the first time i'd thought about it, that a
chat but should be able to deal with any number
of people. There's no such thing. I thought cues were
a thing of the past. Clearly I'm wrong. Let me know.

Speaker 1 (01:25:15):
Ten to nine, the Mike casking breakfast with Bailey's Real
Estate news togs.

Speaker 2 (01:25:20):
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so with unmistakable grace. This is the Jaguar Epace Ultimate Edition.
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Jaguar's storied heritage while showcasing automotive excellence as well. You

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You can visit your local Jaguar dealer today asking ah

(01:26:27):
as for the queue, Mike. When too many people are
using the chatbot at once, especially on popular platforms during
peak times, the system can't respond to everyone instantly.

Speaker 5 (01:26:35):
Why not?

Speaker 2 (01:26:36):
That's the whole point of AI, for God's sake, you
can do it all at once. It's efficiency, So it
places users in a queue, which is a digital waiting line.
This helps manage serve a load, and as I suppose
the size of the computer you can only deal with,
you know your engine. Size basically ensures that responses stay
fast and stable once you're in. Some platforms give priority
to paying users, so free users may experience longer waits.

(01:27:00):
Now that sounds like an excellent text from a person
who knows what they're doing. Licensing, Mike is the answer.
There's a limit how many concurrent conversations a bot will
have been set by the vendor, So if you're buying
it or releasing it off somebody, that'll set the number
of bots. So that that does make sense sort of, Mike.
Regarding the market, I truly feel the government should let
people take out their KI we save and put that

(01:27:22):
money into another saving scheme. I lost over forty thousand
dollars in the last couple of months. Aaron, here's your
problem with that? What are you putting it into bitcoin?
And when you lose all of that, what are you
going to do? Complain to the government and goable? I
was saving now and not I mean part of what
ki we sab was originally about was to solve our
retirement problem. And long term consistent saving solves our long

(01:27:43):
term retirement problem. It is a bit ugly at the moment,
but it will be good. It's been good, it'll be
good again. Five minutes away from nine.

Speaker 1 (01:27:50):
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Speaker 2 (01:27:55):
Now, we've had wrestle mainly forty one over the weekend,
which was live on netfl. Netflix are doing a lot
more of this live sport. They've worked out that live
sport is the go to and I gave you the
results earlier on. They're not giving this the numbers these
days as to how many subscribers they've got around the world,
but their revenue was up and that's all they really
care about at the end of the day. Anyway, John
Sena was there and he beat a guy called Cody Roads,

(01:28:18):
who I alluded to the other day. I can't remember
why we mentioned Cody Roads the other day, but Cody
is Dusty's son, the famous Dusty. Anyway, Sena was appearing
on the Pat mcavie Show admitting that he had had
work done to fix his glaring bold spot. I didn't
realize he had a bold spot, but he had one, apparently.
And the reason everyone knew about it they'd seen it.

(01:28:39):
And the fans they give them, they peck on them. Over.

Speaker 4 (01:28:42):
There's another headline for your hair transplant. There it is.
Look at that. Woo, I'm dropping them dog you. Yeah,
there's no shame in that.

Speaker 6 (01:28:49):
Man.

Speaker 4 (01:28:49):
I got a problem. I try to fix it. No,
I just thought to so many bad spots signed that's
when I came to like half a skin head up
here you guys. Oh, by the way, thank you for
being so aware of my needs emotions, because you guys
ripped me to shreds for a genetic problem that I
can't control. Answer. Hey, dude, you don't look good enough
out there, Like that's what I'm saying. This isn't cool.

(01:29:11):
You guys aren't cool to me like, this isn't Why
do you think I did? I'm in the rumble you know,
trying to win and like man, i's a bomb spot, Like, yo,
that's not fair. I can't control that. It's that happens
to seven out of ten dues.

Speaker 2 (01:29:23):
Yeah, he sounds he sounds like he was emotionally affected
by it, doesn't he Anyway, It's not the first time
that wrestling fans have protected people like him. They chant
at Harry Wrestler's shave your back. Apparently, has that got
something to do with the sport and the fans themselves.
They're sort of like, I've never been to any other
sporting events, certainly not an English Park. Back at English

(01:29:47):
Park when I was on the field all those years ago,
no one was yelling shave you'r back. Pretty sure they
went anyway. Seen US forty eight on the twenty third
of April, which is tomorrow, or in two days time
in America.

Speaker 4 (01:30:02):
It's not bad.

Speaker 2 (01:30:04):
We turned up one of the few people to turn up,
of course during this holiday period. Everyone else seems to
be away on holiday. But if you heard it, you
enjoyed it. There'll be another one tomorrow from six am.
As always, Happy days forever.

Speaker 4 (01:30:18):
So here's to get thur. Then let's lead over people.
We could Dance We Could Dance All nine.

Speaker 1 (01:30:26):
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