October 1, 2024 • 13 mins
THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Wednesday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) How Long Will Wellington Put Up With This?/Foodstuffs Merger Was Never Going to Happen/VP Vibes/Unfounded Parking Concerns/Just Another Neanderthal Comet
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
Rewrap.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Okay, there, welcome to the Rewrap for Wednesday. All the
best but from the mic asking breakfast on News Talks
EDB in a sillier package. I am Glen Hart, and
yes it's Heather at Duple c Ellen standing in for
Mike a game today and she'll be talking about the
food Stuff's decision from use today and the fallout from
that to this afternoon's upcoming this afternoon as I record this,
(00:47):
so I don't know when you're listening to it, but anyway,
as I record this, there's going to be a potential
vice president debate. The debates, not potential the vice presidents
of potential candidates.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
There. I haven't really worded that very well at all.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Hopefully i'll do better when we actually get up to
playing that audio back overnight parking.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Is it going to cost you or not? It isn't yet.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
And we've got another one of those comments that you
only there get to see once in a lifetime that
seem to happen every week. But before any of that,
Torri Fano, Yes, crunch time for her.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Perhaps Wellington's Mayor, Tory Fano is in a little bit
of trouble next week. She has been obviously getting the
headlines lately for all of the stuff that's been going
on with, you know, the selling of the car in
order to pay the bills, because she's broke and allegedly
and is she going to be able to stitch this
airport sales deal together? And that's basically what it sounds like.
(01:43):
She's not going to be able to do next year.
Next yeah, sorry, next week. Next week the council goes
back to vote again on the sale of the airport
shares in Wellington, and it is now being reported that
a majority of her counselors are going to vote against
it and stop the sale.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
And it basically comes.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Down to this one young counselor, Niko Wenera, who was
originally opposed to the airport's shares sale because that's the
Green he's a Greenie and that's the Green Party's position.
But then about two weeks ago he changed his mind
and then and then basically put the thing back on
and it was going to happen again, and he changed
his mind, he said because he would lead to the
significant disenfranchisement of our Mana Fennu where representatives do not
(02:19):
ask me because I don't I don't know, I can't
can't explain it. But now he's changed his mind again
and again don't ask me because now I've lost interest
in why he's changing his mind the whole time. But
he has points. Simply is he's back on the side
of voting the thing down. But it's fascinating because behind
the scenes, apparently there's been all of this horse trading
going on in pressure and all of these left wing,
left leaning councilors have been called into a room and
(02:40):
had individual meetings with the mayor and the two Mana
Fena were representatives on the council, and it was suggested
that this dispute over the airport shares sale may threaten
some sort of relationship with partnership that they've got between
Manafena and the council. Don't ask because I don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
I don't know why.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Manafenaw have got a particular interest in the airport. But anyway,
this is the pressure that was brought to bear on
the left leaning counselors and as a result, it hasn't
worked for some weird reason, God only knows why. Now
the guy's flipped again. So as it stands right now,
and this thing is moving quite fast, it would appear
based on his vacillations on it, this thing is moving.
(03:17):
At this stage. She's going to lose this vote. That
is really important for Torrifino because losing the vote means
she has to go back and she has to do
the council's long term plan again. That is basic council business, right,
If you can't do your long term plan, what the
hell are you actually able to do as a council.
So if they can't do the long term plan, which
is basic council business, does it mean it triggers the
(03:38):
government having to send the adults and does it mean
it is Crown monitor time? Keep an eye out on
that Wednesday, because that's potentially D day for Tory when
we have to get the grown ups and with the
long pants, get them in to run the show for
this lot. We're clearly having a difficult time.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I mean, seriously, how far are we off?
Speaker 3 (03:54):
You know, the people in Willington just rounding up a
few torches and pitchforks and turning up at the council
chambers and demanding that they cast her out.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
I mean, is that a thing that could happen that
would be cool?
Speaker 3 (04:09):
So yesterday it was bad news for food stuffs because
food staffs North and food stuff South have got to
stay there.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
They can't just be one big food stuffs.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Look, that decision yesterday to say no to the supermarket
merger was really the only option available. It was the
right call to make. I think, what is the one
thing that we keep on hearing that we need more
of in the supermarket sector. It's competition, right, So the
Commerce Commission can hardly be saying one minute that what
we need is more competition and then in the next
minute reducing competition, and a merger was actually going to
(04:40):
do that, at least on the face of it. I mean,
that's all we've got. This may go to the High Court.
Until it goes to the High Court, all we've got
is to look at the available facts and judge it
by what we see on the face of it. But
as it stands, what it looks like it was going
to do was reduce competition, because that merger was going
to take New Zealand from three big supermarket buyers. Down
(05:00):
to two, and it really doesn't matter that there is
some sort of a geographical split where two buy in
the North Island and two buy in the South Island
and so on. If you've got a supplier who wants
to get the best deal for their product when they
rock up to the supermarket to sell it, it doesn't
matter whether they are in the North of the South Island.
They were going to try the whole country and they
were going to end up with only two buyers, not three.
(05:21):
And while that is strictly not a competition problem as
far as the consumer is concerned, I mean, it may
reduce what you're able to get on the shelves, it's
not strictly a competition problem, though it does pretty well
demonstrate what happens when you merge food stuffs North and
South Island. I think the thing to really note in
that decision released yesterday was the COMMUSCE Commission was saying
that allowing the merger to go ahead would make it
(05:42):
easier for the one new Big food Stuffs to basically
and the existing Woolworth supermarkets to basically coordinate pricing with
each other. I mean, isn't that basically implying that they
were going to collude, or that there was a fear
that they were going to collude. Now, that is a
very very big call from the Commerce Commission, and if
that was to happen, that would be a disaster, and
(06:02):
the risk of that happening yet, of course, to be
tested in court does make you wonder if there really
was any other then simply saying no.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Yesterday, I found that the best way to bring grocery
prices down is to just go more often. Your shop
is much less expensive. Instead of just doing one a week,
you do five. It's annoying, but yeah, each one of
those shops will be way.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Cheaper than that once a week one. Garrett, I think
there's a floor on my plan. I'm just not sure
what it is. Okay, exciting times.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
So we had we had a debate between Biden and Trump,
didn't we Yes?
Speaker 2 (06:38):
And then we and that didn't go very well for Biden.
Then we had a debate.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Between Trump and Harris, and that didn't go very well
for Trump. Now we're going to be having a debate
between Welts and Barnes.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Who's going to come out on top there?
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Listen on the on the president US presidential Vice presidential debate. Normally,
these things don't matter, this is what Richard was just
talking about before. Normally these things don't matter at all, right,
But this time around, it feels like it's a whole
lot more significant. And that's largely for a cup of reasons.
The first, and I think obviously is the fact that
we haven't got that many We've got no more presidential
debates in the US, and we haven't had that many,
(07:15):
so you know, it's another debate that kind of fills
that gap, so it's interesting. But also I think it's
because there are still a lot of people who are
probably unconvinced by either of these candidates. Like there's just
that sliver was like one hundred thousand voters that were
up for play or whatever, and because it is such
a tight election, those one hundred thousand voters may in
fact swing things. I feel like Coach Waltz has got
(07:36):
the advantage just in terms of likability, because the more
you see of jd. Vance, the less you like the guy.
He's obviously a very smart guy, and he's obviously got
a lot going firman and knows what he's doing, but
he is such a tryhard isn't he. I mean to
the extent that he actually even dresses like Donald like
literally exactly the same outfit as Donald Trump. The guy
is if I was Donald Trump, I'd be starting to
(07:58):
get annoyed by that, like the sucking up. It's just
far too transparent. Anyway, that's just my vibe. You can
see why it's a good thing I'm not voting in
the US, because I'd be voting solely on that. I'd
be like, I don't like that you dressed like him,
your mini me not voting for you.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Actually, it's funny that you should say that.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
I'm just literally looking at vision of them standing side
by side in blue suits, white shirts, red ties, next
to each other, like they're part of the same fraternity.
And now I'm looking at Trump and that's saying outfit
with this big make America Great Again truck ahead on
should you be able to wear a truck, a hat
(08:35):
and a suit at the same time. A lot of
fashion crime for being committed, and somebody needs to be
held to account.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Rerap.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Okay, so.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
People love to complain about parking, how magic costs, where
you can and can't.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Are the people actually winning in Auckland for a change.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Do you remember Auckland's overnight parking changes in the debarcle
around that back in May, right, it surprised everybody. Auckland
Transport announced that they would that they would be charging
for parking in the city overnight. They'll be doing it
very shortly, blindsided everyone, blind sie the mayor, and then
everybody was so upset about it, and the mayor had
such a hard word with At they decided they would
delay it, and they delayed it until the first of October,
(09:16):
which was yesterday, and there are no overnight parking charges yesterday.
AT on the very last day, on the very day,
puts out a statement and goes, oh ya, I'm actually
going to delay it till December.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Now.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
Now, I tell you what I like about this. I
personally don't mind the overnight parking. I like to sweat
an asset, right, and that's a city asset, so get
your money out of it. I don't mind it at all. However,
what I like is that the mayor has listened to
what the people want in the city, has instructed at
to do what the people want in the city. And
you don't get enough of that from your council. So
(09:48):
that's a good thing.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Ah, I'm actually surprised how often So if you're not
familiar with Auckland parking, the council parking in particular, I say, yes,
street parking and the council car packs.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Hey, there's an app. There's the at Parking Air.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
And you can open that up up and so rather
than going up to the box that you have to
type in your number plate or whatever and get a
thing to put in your dashboard or you know that
sort of thing that's so old hat that technology, you
can just have the app and then you say where
you are and you put that in and somehow the
parking warden knows that that means you've paid. And the
(10:28):
good thing about that, of course, is that you only
pay for that how much parking you use, because then
when you get back to stop your parking and it
just charges you for what you use.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
That's great.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
But I am always surprised when I use that app
that it tells me that there is no charge at
the moment for the parking there, you know, because it's
after hours or whatever, depending on which area you're in.
And I always get worried that the app's got it wrong,
and that I should be paying, and then I'm going
to come back and there's going to be a ticket
or a wheel clamp, or even worst, toted away.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
I have been. I have been towed away once. It
was a nightmare, the rerap.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
We're going to finish up here with a once in
a lifetime perhaps so once in everybody's lifetime event happening
in our night skies.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Again, I feel like we talk about these things every week.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Hey, this is pretty cool if you're one of those
people who like to look up at the skies and
see cool things going on there. We've got a comet
coming here, and this comet hasn't been visible from Earth
since the Neanderthals were around, if I remember well, if
I remember correctly, makes it sound like I was around
at the time, and many people would say I am
a Neanderthals. So that's probably not that unexpected.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
You've never had the gene testing to find out how
much in the nithol you actually are?
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Have you know?
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Because you can? Do you want to know? I don't
want to know.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Do you know that it is people of European extraction
that are related to the Neanderthals, So be careful what
you wish for Glenn. It may explain a lot anyway,
So comet, it hasn't been here since.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
I don't have very long arms anyway, Sorry, carry on.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
My tippoona the ones I fucking puppa. Back to the Neanderthals,
since they were around about eighty thousand years ago, Comet
see slash twenty twenty three A three. They always name them,
really the jazzy names. It hasn't been around since then.
But it's gonna be closest to Earth in about ten days. Okay.
The best time to see it is actually when it's
halfway between us and the sun, not when it's the
(12:18):
closest to us, but it's a halfway between, which is
next Wednesday, and you can go a couple of days before,
a couple of days after, so basically Monday to Friday.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Go poke.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Just have a look up at the sky, Glenn. Don't
look at the sky when the sun is in the sky.
Don't look at the sun. Okay, nighttime might be visible
to the naked eye, very rare.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
So that this is one of those once in a lifetime, Yeah,
you never see it again events that seem to happen
every sin.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
Once in a species. Right, do we even know if
sapiens has seen it before? We don't know, We don't know,
So it's once in a species opportunity. It's I'm not
gonna lie to you. You're gonna you're gonna go out
there next week. You're gonna look, you're gonna go Is
that because that's often what happens. It's just the thing
in the sky. You go, well, well, and then your
grandchildren in like twenty years and not going to want
(13:02):
to hear about the time that you saw Sea Bar
twenty three whatever going past us boring.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
I really feel like we're at the point now we're
you know, if you missed this comment, it's like a
bass there'll be another one along soon. And you know,
for us, there's no normal people. There's no real way
to tell one from another. You just tell us it's
the same one every time, and we'd believe you so
over extral phenomena. Like you know, it's a bit boring
(13:30):
for me. Another supermoon is it? Okay? So super I
am glen heart jaded about astronomy, But don't worry. I'll
be back here with plenty of women bigger for you
tomorrow than another episode of the rereps.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
E then.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
Rewrap.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Okay, there, welcome to the Rewrap for Wednesday. All the
best but from the mic asking breakfast on News Talks
EDB in a sillier package. I am Glen Hart, and
yes it's Heather at Duple c Ellen standing in for
Mike a game today and she'll be talking about the
food Stuff's decision from use today and the fallout from
that to this afternoon's upcoming this afternoon as I record this,
(00:47):
so I don't know when you're listening to it, but anyway,
as I record this, there's going to be a potential
vice president debate. The debates, not potential the vice presidents
of potential candidates.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
There. I haven't really worded that very well at all.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Hopefully i'll do better when we actually get up to
playing that audio back overnight parking.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Is it going to cost you or not? It isn't yet.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
And we've got another one of those comments that you
only there get to see once in a lifetime that
seem to happen every week. But before any of that,
Torri Fano, Yes, crunch time for her.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Perhaps Wellington's Mayor, Tory Fano is in a little bit
of trouble next week. She has been obviously getting the
headlines lately for all of the stuff that's been going
on with, you know, the selling of the car in
order to pay the bills, because she's broke and allegedly
and is she going to be able to stitch this
airport sales deal together? And that's basically what it sounds like.
(01:43):
She's not going to be able to do next year.
Next yeah, sorry, next week. Next week the council goes
back to vote again on the sale of the airport
shares in Wellington, and it is now being reported that
a majority of her counselors are going to vote against
it and stop the sale.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
And it basically comes.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Down to this one young counselor, Niko Wenera, who was
originally opposed to the airport's shares sale because that's the
Green he's a Greenie and that's the Green Party's position.
But then about two weeks ago he changed his mind
and then and then basically put the thing back on
and it was going to happen again, and he changed
his mind, he said because he would lead to the
significant disenfranchisement of our Mana Fennu where representatives do not
(02:19):
ask me because I don't I don't know, I can't
can't explain it. But now he's changed his mind again
and again don't ask me because now I've lost interest
in why he's changing his mind the whole time. But
he has points. Simply is he's back on the side
of voting the thing down. But it's fascinating because behind
the scenes, apparently there's been all of this horse trading
going on in pressure and all of these left wing,
left leaning councilors have been called into a room and
(02:40):
had individual meetings with the mayor and the two Mana
Fena were representatives on the council, and it was suggested
that this dispute over the airport shares sale may threaten
some sort of relationship with partnership that they've got between
Manafena and the council. Don't ask because I don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
I don't know why.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Manafenaw have got a particular interest in the airport. But anyway,
this is the pressure that was brought to bear on
the left leaning counselors and as a result, it hasn't
worked for some weird reason, God only knows why. Now
the guy's flipped again. So as it stands right now,
and this thing is moving quite fast, it would appear
based on his vacillations on it, this thing is moving.
(03:17):
At this stage. She's going to lose this vote. That
is really important for Torrifino because losing the vote means
she has to go back and she has to do
the council's long term plan again. That is basic council business, right,
If you can't do your long term plan, what the
hell are you actually able to do as a council.
So if they can't do the long term plan, which
is basic council business, does it mean it triggers the
(03:38):
government having to send the adults and does it mean
it is Crown monitor time? Keep an eye out on
that Wednesday, because that's potentially D day for Tory when
we have to get the grown ups and with the
long pants, get them in to run the show for
this lot. We're clearly having a difficult time.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I mean, seriously, how far are we off?
Speaker 3 (03:54):
You know, the people in Willington just rounding up a
few torches and pitchforks and turning up at the council
chambers and demanding that they cast her out.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
I mean, is that a thing that could happen that
would be cool?
Speaker 3 (04:09):
So yesterday it was bad news for food stuffs because
food staffs North and food stuff South have got to
stay there.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
They can't just be one big food stuffs.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Look, that decision yesterday to say no to the supermarket
merger was really the only option available. It was the
right call to make. I think, what is the one
thing that we keep on hearing that we need more
of in the supermarket sector. It's competition, right, So the
Commerce Commission can hardly be saying one minute that what
we need is more competition and then in the next
minute reducing competition, and a merger was actually going to
(04:40):
do that, at least on the face of it. I mean,
that's all we've got. This may go to the High Court.
Until it goes to the High Court, all we've got
is to look at the available facts and judge it
by what we see on the face of it. But
as it stands, what it looks like it was going
to do was reduce competition, because that merger was going
to take New Zealand from three big supermarket buyers. Down
(05:00):
to two, and it really doesn't matter that there is
some sort of a geographical split where two buy in
the North Island and two buy in the South Island
and so on. If you've got a supplier who wants
to get the best deal for their product when they
rock up to the supermarket to sell it, it doesn't
matter whether they are in the North of the South Island.
They were going to try the whole country and they
were going to end up with only two buyers, not three.
(05:21):
And while that is strictly not a competition problem as
far as the consumer is concerned, I mean, it may
reduce what you're able to get on the shelves, it's
not strictly a competition problem, though it does pretty well
demonstrate what happens when you merge food stuffs North and
South Island. I think the thing to really note in
that decision released yesterday was the COMMUSCE Commission was saying
that allowing the merger to go ahead would make it
(05:42):
easier for the one new Big food Stuffs to basically
and the existing Woolworth supermarkets to basically coordinate pricing with
each other. I mean, isn't that basically implying that they
were going to collude, or that there was a fear
that they were going to collude. Now, that is a
very very big call from the Commerce Commission, and if
that was to happen, that would be a disaster, and
(06:02):
the risk of that happening yet, of course, to be
tested in court does make you wonder if there really
was any other then simply saying no.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Yesterday, I found that the best way to bring grocery
prices down is to just go more often. Your shop
is much less expensive. Instead of just doing one a week,
you do five. It's annoying, but yeah, each one of
those shops will be way.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Cheaper than that once a week one. Garrett, I think
there's a floor on my plan. I'm just not sure
what it is. Okay, exciting times.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
So we had we had a debate between Biden and Trump,
didn't we Yes?
Speaker 2 (06:38):
And then we and that didn't go very well for Biden.
Then we had a debate.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Between Trump and Harris, and that didn't go very well
for Trump. Now we're going to be having a debate
between Welts and Barnes.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Who's going to come out on top there?
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Listen on the on the president US presidential Vice presidential debate. Normally,
these things don't matter, this is what Richard was just
talking about before. Normally these things don't matter at all, right,
But this time around, it feels like it's a whole
lot more significant. And that's largely for a cup of reasons.
The first, and I think obviously is the fact that
we haven't got that many We've got no more presidential
debates in the US, and we haven't had that many,
(07:15):
so you know, it's another debate that kind of fills
that gap, so it's interesting. But also I think it's
because there are still a lot of people who are
probably unconvinced by either of these candidates. Like there's just
that sliver was like one hundred thousand voters that were
up for play or whatever, and because it is such
a tight election, those one hundred thousand voters may in
fact swing things. I feel like Coach Waltz has got
(07:36):
the advantage just in terms of likability, because the more
you see of jd. Vance, the less you like the guy.
He's obviously a very smart guy, and he's obviously got
a lot going firman and knows what he's doing, but
he is such a tryhard isn't he. I mean to
the extent that he actually even dresses like Donald like
literally exactly the same outfit as Donald Trump. The guy
is if I was Donald Trump, I'd be starting to
(07:58):
get annoyed by that, like the sucking up. It's just
far too transparent. Anyway, that's just my vibe. You can
see why it's a good thing I'm not voting in
the US, because I'd be voting solely on that. I'd
be like, I don't like that you dressed like him,
your mini me not voting for you.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Actually, it's funny that you should say that.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
I'm just literally looking at vision of them standing side
by side in blue suits, white shirts, red ties, next
to each other, like they're part of the same fraternity.
And now I'm looking at Trump and that's saying outfit
with this big make America Great Again truck ahead on
should you be able to wear a truck, a hat
(08:35):
and a suit at the same time. A lot of
fashion crime for being committed, and somebody needs to be
held to account.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Rerap.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Okay, so.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
People love to complain about parking, how magic costs, where
you can and can't.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Are the people actually winning in Auckland for a change.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Do you remember Auckland's overnight parking changes in the debarcle
around that back in May, right, it surprised everybody. Auckland
Transport announced that they would that they would be charging
for parking in the city overnight. They'll be doing it
very shortly, blindsided everyone, blind sie the mayor, and then
everybody was so upset about it, and the mayor had
such a hard word with At they decided they would
delay it, and they delayed it until the first of October,
(09:16):
which was yesterday, and there are no overnight parking charges yesterday.
AT on the very last day, on the very day,
puts out a statement and goes, oh ya, I'm actually
going to delay it till December.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Now.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
Now, I tell you what I like about this. I
personally don't mind the overnight parking. I like to sweat
an asset, right, and that's a city asset, so get
your money out of it. I don't mind it at all. However,
what I like is that the mayor has listened to
what the people want in the city, has instructed at
to do what the people want in the city. And
you don't get enough of that from your council. So
(09:48):
that's a good thing.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Ah, I'm actually surprised how often So if you're not
familiar with Auckland parking, the council parking in particular, I say, yes,
street parking and the council car packs.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Hey, there's an app. There's the at Parking Air.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
And you can open that up up and so rather
than going up to the box that you have to
type in your number plate or whatever and get a
thing to put in your dashboard or you know that
sort of thing that's so old hat that technology, you
can just have the app and then you say where
you are and you put that in and somehow the
parking warden knows that that means you've paid. And the
(10:28):
good thing about that, of course, is that you only
pay for that how much parking you use, because then
when you get back to stop your parking and it
just charges you for what you use.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
That's great.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
But I am always surprised when I use that app
that it tells me that there is no charge at
the moment for the parking there, you know, because it's
after hours or whatever, depending on which area you're in.
And I always get worried that the app's got it wrong,
and that I should be paying, and then I'm going
to come back and there's going to be a ticket
or a wheel clamp, or even worst, toted away.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
I have been. I have been towed away once. It
was a nightmare, the rerap.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
We're going to finish up here with a once in
a lifetime perhaps so once in everybody's lifetime event happening
in our night skies.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Again, I feel like we talk about these things every week.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Hey, this is pretty cool if you're one of those
people who like to look up at the skies and
see cool things going on there. We've got a comet
coming here, and this comet hasn't been visible from Earth
since the Neanderthals were around, if I remember well, if
I remember correctly, makes it sound like I was around
at the time, and many people would say I am
a Neanderthals. So that's probably not that unexpected.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
You've never had the gene testing to find out how
much in the nithol you actually are?
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Have you know?
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Because you can? Do you want to know? I don't
want to know.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Do you know that it is people of European extraction
that are related to the Neanderthals, So be careful what
you wish for Glenn. It may explain a lot anyway,
So comet, it hasn't been here since.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
I don't have very long arms anyway, Sorry, carry on.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
My tippoona the ones I fucking puppa. Back to the Neanderthals,
since they were around about eighty thousand years ago, Comet
see slash twenty twenty three A three. They always name them,
really the jazzy names. It hasn't been around since then.
But it's gonna be closest to Earth in about ten days. Okay.
The best time to see it is actually when it's
halfway between us and the sun, not when it's the
(12:18):
closest to us, but it's a halfway between, which is
next Wednesday, and you can go a couple of days before,
a couple of days after, so basically Monday to Friday.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Go poke.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Just have a look up at the sky, Glenn. Don't
look at the sky when the sun is in the sky.
Don't look at the sun. Okay, nighttime might be visible
to the naked eye, very rare.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
So that this is one of those once in a lifetime, Yeah,
you never see it again events that seem to happen
every sin.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
Once in a species. Right, do we even know if
sapiens has seen it before? We don't know, We don't know,
So it's once in a species opportunity. It's I'm not
gonna lie to you. You're gonna you're gonna go out
there next week. You're gonna look, you're gonna go Is
that because that's often what happens. It's just the thing
in the sky. You go, well, well, and then your
grandchildren in like twenty years and not going to want
(13:02):
to hear about the time that you saw Sea Bar
twenty three whatever going past us boring.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
I really feel like we're at the point now we're
you know, if you missed this comment, it's like a
bass there'll be another one along soon. And you know,
for us, there's no normal people. There's no real way
to tell one from another. You just tell us it's
the same one every time, and we'd believe you so
over extral phenomena. Like you know, it's a bit boring
(13:30):
for me. Another supermoon is it? Okay? So super I
am glen heart jaded about astronomy, But don't worry. I'll
be back here with plenty of women bigger for you
tomorrow than another episode of the rereps.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
E then.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
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