Full Show Podcast: 08 September 2026

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1:00No fluff, just facts and fierce debate, the mycozking breakfast with a Vida retirement communities. Life your way, news talks at B. Welcome to my government money for a couple of ideas. One new guest and two new tourists. The Michelin effect is real late. Tell us as hospice hiring is up in the Ausricht stated, are the grand tour hosts we got James and Thomas and Francis. They're in to take over from those other blocks. Catherine Fields in Europe, Interbrei D. has plenty going on for us in Britain as well. Husking, welcome to Tuesday, 7 past 6. I tell you what is a free market fan of struggle with the sheen team who thing, they're the epitome of what free market should be about, of course, choice and supply demand, but like so many things, what it starts out here doesn't mean it's the same as what it evolves into. We're once buying things online was going to lead to the collapse of bricks and mortar, the reality turned out not to be even close to the truth. They're also remains a desire, I think, for quality over price, local over cheap, and you can see last week at the launch of sheen onto the Hong Kong Stock Exchange just how dramatically

2:01fortunes can change. Their market cap is now a fraction of what it once was. Their reputation has severely damaged these days around processes, work deals, labor issues. Now, France were imposing, if you're not up on this, as of last week, fees on fast fashion and as free marketer as I am, you know what? I actually applaud them. See, the same way Australia will not stop teenagers going on social media. They will be seen as the country that led the way and the country that tried to make a difference. So too France and fast fashion. Tech two, and their reputation has changed dramatically. Once pioneers and cutting edge thinkers, they're seen more these days as ogres, repressives, dominators and corporate leeches. Yes, we buy the phones, but the reputations are not the same. Somewhere between being market upstarts and disruptors, they became behemoths and scurrilous. Teemu and Sheen were market darlings until the ripoffs were too obvious and the turn over so high it made your head spin. And so the tide and the attitude has changed. Tech may well be too big to fail or legislate, but the fight is on and the fines are being handed out,

3:02especially in the EU. Sheen currently wasn't too big to fail because it's failing. And in front of our eyes and the French God bless them are doing what they can to bury them. Turns out a cheap t-shirt was too good to miss out on until the growing number woke up to the real price and changed their mind. Hence its value of 100 billion became, as of last week, 25 billion and falling. News of the world in 90 seconds. Good day for Greenland speaking of money. EU post Trump has decided to hand out a bit of Dosh. This partnership package focuses mainly on three domains or strategic priorities. We call them the big seas, connectivity, clean energy, critical raw materials. Big seas, Greenland couldn't be happier. It is a showcase of support, not just for the Kingdom of Denmark, but also for the government of Greenland. We're in such a strange shape and family. We're underlined. Speaking of money, Britain doesn't have any, of course, which is a bit of a problem for John Healey, who has a budget next month and today gave his best shot

4:03at talking to the place up. I recognize that the cost of business, that's energy bills, regulation burdens, planning constraints, labor costs have grown since COVID, and I want to draw the line. The only way we deal with these in the long term is growth. Right, still amiss at Dover, as the protester, seemed to have been caught up in an Arbay trouble or not sort of dispute. Well, happened here last night, it was controlled. OK, the many of this country we're here to send a message that something more needs to happen than words. Smash down some police vehicle. No, that was nothing to do with us. That was nothing to do with us. That was probably done by the lefties to try and make us look bad. Reform still beg the sentiment. If you don't understand why people are angry, I don't know what to tell you. Some of the police vehicles had their windows smashed. I'm asking you whether you condemn that kind of behave. The person who is responsible to the degree there is disorder is Andy Burnham. And in the comments, their assisted dying debate is back again been back and forth to the Lords of Ufuller. The story there are calls for more money. The fact that we still have to rely on charity

5:06and of the generosity of our public in order to properly care for people at the end of their lives is not at all right. Finally, Trump is spending Labor Day on the socials. New idea today. The state of New Mexico to become new America. Trouble the states is their not-likes. So you do need more than an executive order. I don't know if anyone's explained that to him anyway. It's the US Constitution. I don't know if anyone's explained that to him either. Use the world in light of that. That a new thing on Greenland Denmark, by the way, is a couple hundred million euros, which they also don't have. But the big story out of Werner can't wait to get to Interlater on the big story out of Healey's speech was not what he was trying to say about the economy. It's the fact he refused to rule out tax hikes. Now, the government said there are no tax hikes. Now, today he's not ruling the mountain. So he's got a budget in October. So more later, come up to our past six. This is Ashley Akinati from the Almost Amos podcast. You ever notice you and your spouse keep saying, we need to get away, but you never actually plan anything. That was us until we did something fun and spontaneous.

6:09We went to resort past.com. There are hundreds of hotel resorts, pools and spots and private beaches that you can enjoy. You can spend the day at a luxury resort, pool, spa, massage without booking an overnight stay. And listen, I may have only been like 15 minutes from home, but it felt like it was a whole different world. And I'm thinking, this is exactly what I needed. So just go to resort past.com, choose your resort, choose your day, luxury resort day passes start at just $25. Once you post your daycation, people are going to ask where you are. Go to resort past.com slash almost famous and use the promo code almost famous to get $20 off when you spend $100. That's code almost famous at resort past.com slash almost famous. Imagine your friend tells you she's taking an innocent family trip to Greenville, South Carolina. We'll call her Emma. The trip sounds great to you. Hiking at Jones Gap, dinner at Topsoil,

7:09a room at the best hotel in town. Harmless, right? Here's the thing. Emma and her family never return from Greenville. They disappear. You search for answers, but nothing adds up. Emma had a great life back home. You guys were best friends. What happened? Well, the truth is, once Emma realized she could have access to Michelin recognized restaurants, nature, local shops and performing arts, all in one place, everywhere else started to seem a little. Meh. Emma's vacation is a cautionary tale. If you're coming this way, don't forget to tell your friends and neighbors goodbye. Visit Greenville, South Carolina, but you may never want to leave. Learn more at visitgreenvillesc.com. The Mike Hosking Breakfast Full Show podcast on I Heart Radio, powered by Newstalk Zephy. Just in and you're excited and rightly so,

8:09Lawson's just been confirmed for Spain. I'm not surprised I assumed that was going to be the case and I wouldn't rule them out. There's a gap after Madrid and I wouldn't rule them out for Azerbaijan either. By the way, our Labor Day in America, as I mentioned, never in the history of America on Labor Day has the average price of unleted gasoline been anywhere above $4 this morning. It is $4 and 15. The team passed six. So at some point maybe the midterms he's going to need to explain that to the American voter of course from. Sure, partner's Andrew Caller had good morning. Very good morning, Mike. Now the Reserve Bank. So it's down to 30% for the next meeting, is it? Yeah, I just want to have a very quick update here. Assistant Governor of the Reserve Bank, Karen Sultz. She gave an interview on Friday. This is one of their meeting commitments after the, you know, the MPS and all the high-preb and other. Was that the C-R-B-C interview or somewhere else? I think it was Bloomberg. I think it was Bloomberg interview. But basically she very clearly indicated that the strong likelihood, the market was probably picking this anyway,

9:10is that next 25 basis point move is in December. So the market now pretty much got 100% probability of that, of market pricing for the next move in the OCR. So what it basically says is nothing happening or probably in all likelihood, nothing having just before the election. So you've taken that sort of late October potential sort of volatility out of the market, but you just get a nice little pre-Christmas present instead. Yeah, cool. So that's, yeah, confirmation there. QV, I was thinking about the QV numbers. And do you remember that bet where I said 7% growth? I mean, how are the two people? I mean, I don't think you've ever actually paid up on that. No, I haven't. To tell the honest truth. No, no, no. So anyway, good things come to those who wait. Anyway, I've got all sorts of things to talk about. A residential problem. So QV released the latest house price index information yesterday, comes after the Cotality data revealed recently revealed a 1% fall in the median value of residential property across New Zealand.

10:11And I suppose the number we all keep looking at is the fall from the peak. The Cotality was 18.2% fall from the peak. Well, QV released their data. It states same direction, slightly, very slightly different movements. So the data's all sort of coming into line. Residential property values reduced 1.9% and actually over the last three months. That does appear to be this little recent slump because over the last year, their data is only down 1.3%. So the Cotally Decline highest quarterly move in the last two years. Buyers still very much in controlling position. They can afford to set their time. And as we pointed out, great time for first time buyers. QV characterizes this as a slow deterioration rather than a sudden correction. I'm still asking myself the question, how does the market market, to whether or not we're seeing a little bit of capitulation from home owners? Is this evidence of a little bit of sellers' fatigue? So they're getting a bit worn down. They're meeting the market probably quite good because it allows you to clear some of that inventory. Big cities are still showcasing the weakness.

11:11Auckland 2.7% fall in the quarter. Wellington 3.5% fall in the quarter. Even the resilient Christchurch market fell 0.5%. But I've got a couple of comments to make. Firstly, this is a massive topic across the Tasmania. Sometimes what happens in Australia, we see it happen here as well. Now, AFA, I've got this big property summit on, it started yesterday, big two day, who we incidentally. Today, the focus is on residential property. Yesterday was ostensibly about commercial property, but it seems like they couldn't escape references all day to the housing market downturn in Australia. So today, on residential, we're fascinating. We'll report any juicy headlines some more. But more importantly, Friday, building work put and play started came out. Now, volume of building work rose 4.8% in the second quarter. It was much stronger than expectations. So not only does that give you a little bit of risk to your second quarter GDP numbers, but are we seeing action in the residential property sector

12:11and the residential construction sector? Is this the pickup that we've been waiting for from that lift and building consent? Because if that's correct, I think that's a very interesting and dare I say exciting development. Very good insight. Chinese throwing more money at their problems, where do I start worrying about this? Well, the thing is, they've sort of got this two economy thing going on. So the exports are still very strong, but the domestic economy, they've just got to work through again this sort of property issue, which is putting pressure on everyone. But anyway, I try and keep a bit of focus on it because our biggest trading partner, important part of our economic health, recent data has suggested or lifted expectations of the government giving the domestic economy a hand a bit of a boost. So we have news of stimulus. It's appeared. Three state lenders, that's three banks and five insurers are going to get to 54 billion US, I think it is. So that's just under 100 billion Kiwi from the state. So first time stimulus has been aimed at insurers,

13:14the market probably wasn't anticipating this. It's effectively a recapitalization of these institutions and hopefully the insurance will invest some of that money into the share market. That's what they're hoping. The government's trying to lift the domestic on and lift domestic demand. So let's see if it works. OK, what are the numbers? So the US market is half percent down on the Dow Jones. Now, I've actually, to tell the honest with Mike, I haven't checked where the market is actually trading for Labor Day sometimes. Oh, I wouldn't have thought it would. I don't think that. So let's just go straight to the Focci 100. Down 9.10,822, the NICA was up 2.12% 1378 points, 66,399. Shanghai composite up three. So small move 3932. The 868xx205901, small moves. At the end of the 50 dropped 31 points, 0.22% 13,942. One Kiwi dollar on the wholesale markets will get your 0.5878 against the US. But 8142 gives the Aussie Cecil,

14:16pretty not looking pretty soggy there. 0.5056 euro, 0.43400 pounds, 90.73 Japanese yen, gold is trading at $4,407 in Brent crude. No respite there, either 97 bucks. It's a mess. No trading just to confirm that. We have a good one, mate. We'll see you tomorrow. Sure, and partners, Andrew Keller, huh? As we keep mentioning, it is Labor Day in America. So what they're calling it now is forcation. The whole movement around tourism got more on this later on, funnily enough. The whole movement around tourism is changing to this part of the year in the Northern Hemisphere September October now hot, because it was too hot in the traditional summer period. So bookings are up 59% on last year's sales of search 69%. And it's all prices are going up as well. That boat tells are onto it. But your hot destinations are Euro-Milfi, coast Paris, the French Riviera, Tascan-E-New York London, Tacomo, Italy, Maui, Hawaii, and Rome. 621 and a half. We're at news talks, actually.

15:24The Mike Hosking breakfast, full show podcast on I Heart Radio, powered by news talks at B. It is hard to either state, if not impossible, to either state how much reeling is going on in the EU at the moment of the AfD result yesterday in Germany. They're very close to taking power. We alluded yesterday that they probably wouldn't get a majority of the AfD. They haven't. At 43.8, they're three short, three-seats short of an outright majority. So the problem is they're talking to the others, the problem with the others. And we've seen this in places like Holland before. The others don't want to play ball. Mertz, who is the chancellor, is quote unquote, deeply shocked as well. He might be. The funny thing about being shocked is this wasn't a surprise. I thought the polls had clearly indicated that the AfD were going to do quite well. So I don't know why they're shocked about it. Anyway, his party, which is the CDU, of course, who are conservatives, they got thrashed. Absolutely came down to 17%. Now the problem is the AfD want to run it. And they say, well, you can't avoid democracy, although, you know what, they just might. So Catherine Shortley, 625.

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18:31On what has been a multi-year cluster you followed at fast track took five months. The old system was seven years and counting. Simon Kettle was the port see your phone. Where the Simon morning. Good morning, Mike. So when we had the CEO on the other day, there were a couple of minor points. You got a preliminary finding, couple of minor points. I take it. They didn't prove to be too big a hurdle. No, correct. OK. So what have you learned out of this? A process of seven years and they seem no into it versus five months and fast track. What have you learned? Well, what we've learned is, you know, the consenting framework in New Zealand is just a challenge. And the fast track legislation, which the coalition government put through is actually able to unblock it. So we're very grateful for this. Have you. As a CFO, what's the bill been for seven years and counting? The biggest bill will have been heavy inflationary uplift. I mean, we estimate the cost of the constructions probably gone up 40 million over that time, Mike. And then in terms of, you know, the legal costs,

19:34or the experts we've had to engage, the time taken, it's probably just being $16 million and tougher than. Can you pull yourself back and answer sort of, ay politically, is fast track worth it, or is it a bulldozer? Look, I think it's worth it. I mean, this is a critical infrastructure for New Zealand. You know, we're New Zealand's largest port and we're at capacity. And that's not just a part of totaling a problem. That's a country problem. The fact that it has to take the fast track to get us through, you know, that was the solution. We can't spend seven years trying to get through critical infrastructure in New Zealand. No. And despite what you said, read the cost, it's clearly still worth it to you. I definitely, definitely. I mean, it's not just worth it to us, it's worth it to New Zealand. What this best extension will allow us to do

20:36itself a point out terminal is to attract more shops into the terminal that provides competition. That means our import is an export is can get a lot cheaper freight rates. Exactly. So the cost and time frame where are we at on that wind, it's open so to speak. Right. Six months is what we estimate will be the prep. So that's lining up the contractor and also fulfilling pre-conditions. And then it's a two year build. So two and a half years. Fantastic. Well done. Appreciate it very much Simon Kebel, who's the port of terminal in the chief financial officer. Seven years and who knows how much longer versus five months. You cannot say that isn't a win. A lot of this this morning, Mike, Hipkins money about the deal done will have first shame Jones later. Hipkins money about the deal done with Todd energy, even though they signed up or five years, four or five years when it was obvious labor about to lose the election. John's not a bad point. But more importantly, I don't know why he's moaned. Well, I know why he's my news and election campaign. That's what he does.

21:36But the point being the money is not new. The policy is not new. The fact they've announced it now is neither here nor there because you knew it was coming. The money is allocated and so it's alone, by the way, for all the other people going why we're giving money to Todd Eden, gee, it's a loan, but the details will crunchy through shortly. 22. This is Ashley Akinetti from the almost famous podcast. You ever notice you and your spouse keep saying, we need to get away, but you never actually plan anything. That was us until we did something fun and spontaneous. We went to resort pass.com. There are hundreds of hotel resorts, pools and spas and private beaches that you can enjoy. You can spend the day at a luxury resort, pool spa massage without booking an overnight stay. And listen, I may have only been like 15 minutes from home, but it felt like it was a whole different world. And I'm thinking this is exactly what I needed. So just go to resortpass.com, choose your resort, choose your day, luxury resort day passes,

22:37start at just $1,000. Once you post your daycation, people are gonna ask where you are. Go to resortpass.com slash almost famous and use the promo code almost famous to get $20 off when you spend $100. That's code almost famous at resortpass.com slash almost famous. Imagine your friend tells you she's taking an innocent family trip to Greenville, South Carolina. We'll call her Emma. The trip sounds great to you. Hiking at Jones Gap, dinner at Topsoil, a room at the best hotel in town. Harmless, right? Here's the thing. Emma and her family never return from Greenville. They disappear. You search for answers, but nothing adds up. Emma had a great life back home. You guys were best friends. What happened? Well, the truth is, once Emma realized she could have access to Michelin recognized restaurants, nature, local shops, and performing arts, all in one place, everywhere else started to seem a little. Meh. Emma's vacation is a cautionary tale.

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25:40International correspondents with enzyme-I insurance, peace of mind for New Zealand business. Right. Captain Fiel, very good morning to you. Good morning, mate. Now just give us some context on the AFD, because my understanding was they were always expected to do reasonably well in Saxony, and they did. Did they do better than everyone saw coming? They did indeed do much better than people saw coming. I mean, even though everyone's saying, look, this is just one of 16 regions in Germany, and it's as small as in the poorest, I mean, we're talking about a region that has only about 2.1 million people living there. Is it still a political earthquake? Mostly because, yes, they got more votes than they expected. But because the whole of sort of Germany-post-Second World War was that there was always the center right or center left that created the foundation of political consensus. So now that has been swept out of the way, and that is the earthquake, which everyone is still,

26:41I have to tell you about, still wondering on a little days thinking, how did this happen? Why did this happen? Now tell me they're three short. They're going to talk to the others. The others, as I understand it, don't want to deal with them. So can they govern short of a majority? It will be difficult. What they're hoping for is this other sort of far extremist party, the BDW, which has got five sets, that they might like the idea of coming into power. So they might sort of say, yes, we'll come in with you, or we'll sort of support you. The other thing that the AFD in Sex Nihon Hutter saying is that there will be a few of these center right politicians from the CDU, from Councillor Matz's party, who will want to jump ship? Because they will see that they're the time in government and local government is over, they will want to jump ship and be part of what they said least is a new movement. Now, how, because we can't answer the question, how widespread nationally could this be for Moorter's party?

27:41So the CDU comes in a smidge over 17%, they got annihilated. Would that, does that then become an individual issue for that party, for the rest of Germany? It really does, mostly because you remember, I think that it came to power, he's been in power now for 16 months. He promised a change. He said that he knew how to run the economy, he knew about business, he's a millionaire, came out and said very clearly, look, we're going to get it right, we're now going to get the economy back on its feet. Well, it's not back on its feet, far from it. And in fact, when you talk to voters in the sexy Ann Hout, you're the whole theme, everyone's been saying, has been about migration, the number of foreigners. Well, actually, number one and number two was the economy and security. So the economy is still not moved. Germany is a country that we still believe, you know, that it's producing, it's exporting. It isn't, they really have not changed their economy, if you like, from what used to be an export-oriented economy

28:43to the new world economy that we have, what they used to export is now being made by China. And there are no breaks on how much China is selling to the rest of the world that the Germans used to provide. Yeah, the VW news was shocking the other day. So the AFD has some powers regionally and they can implement their agenda, if in fact they get to run the place. How can Mertzs run Germany? And how diametrically opposed is that from what the AFD might do in Saxony? Well, Mertz is in trouble. Mertz really is in trouble. Let's not say anybody's about that. He's in big trouble because nothing is going well for him. And as we all know, when politicians, even though what federal elections aren't due until 2029, he looks weak, he looks in effect, he's got a disapproval rating of 78%. It's difficult for him. Okay, within that region of Saxony and how the AFD can move on things like education,

29:46which means they may well do what they say they'll do, which is reintroduce Russian as the language that kids are taught at school. They may do what they say they'll do, which is to weaken the amount of emphasis that's put on Nazi crimes during the Second World War. They can also have a lot to do with local culture. They can decide whether a band of merry musicians can come from Russia or wherever. And they can also have their own, say, on domestic security. Now that really worries Mertz because they will be partied to all the information that the federal authorities have on what Russia is up to. Now we all know that the AFD is very pro-Russian, very anti-Ukraine. So will there be leaks on very sensitive intelligence back to the Russians? And just quickly, from a broader perspective, when you look at reform in Farage in Britain, when you look at Hanson in one nation in Australia, below the surface is a weakness. In other words, they're not well established,

30:46they're not particularly sophisticated. They got people who are very good in front of the media beyond that. There's not much there. What about the AFD? How's LeCade? They're pretty sweet, but you're quite right to point that out. These are all parties that are centred around one person, a very strong single candidate. Got the same here in Germany, Mahin LePen. It all works when that single candidate is on a rise, is on the up. But there are always fights within the parties. It wouldn't take much, if you started scratching the surface, to look at the AFD, to see that they've already got arguments within the party themselves as to which where it will go. It's a pretty tough order to keep so many woodbeard parliamentarians in line. What a fascinating time. Nice to talk to Catherine Prishett. She's in France, of course, where they're picking the grapes, as we speak, and I have news on that for you in a moment. Nine minutes away from set. The Mike Horsking Breakfast, with Bayley's real estate, News Talk, Zedby. I'll come to the Pola Poles later, the Heralds Pola Poles.

31:48It's getting tricky, because of the roguesness of what we're seeing around the numbers. The variation in numbers is so great that when you take the averages of averages and spin them through the Heralds averages of averages, you come up with some really weird averages. So by my count, they're now talking about House Effects. House Effects is a phenomenon which sees some Poles more accurately, pull some parties and others. So in other words, you don't know which Pol to believe, which is what I've been saying for years. Anyway, can I just congratulate, particularly Thomas Cogland, he has done to his credit, and to the Heralds credit, and broadly to the media's credit, the Should They Roll Hipkins story, which they should have done, because yesterday's poll, and Thomas points this out very clearly, if you believe yesterday's poll, which I don't, but if you do, Labour are in just Andrew Little Territory, if not worse. And so it's fair to write a story, should they roll them? But of course you then get, I'll ask the obvious question, which is who for?

32:48So they'll let him lose, and he'll have to quit on the night. And that was my question, think about this the other day. If when Hipkins lose, which he will, does he quit on the night? Is he the sort of bloke who quits on the night, or hangs on, goes home and makes some furniture, and then comes back a couple of weeks later to get stabbed in the back? What do you even realise that he hadn't won? Very good question. Doesn't seem to be that in touch with five minutes away. That could be one of his problems, five minutes away from seven. Well, the end and the outs, it's the best. On the Mike Husking breakfast, with two degrees, connectivity, your business can count on. But I welcome back to the Polo Poles, because my reading of the Polo Poles seems to indicate from the Polo Poles' variations and numerations and ramifications and ruminations that there is no government, there can be no government, according to the Polo Poles. That's what I voted for. Yeah. Anyway, our grapes. French wine makers now forecasting the harvest is going to be a 30-year low. This is the heat wave, of course. Initial estimates say they'll produce 34 million hectare litres, which is down 6% on last year, 17% on the average,

33:49below the average of 21 through 25. Worst hit region is Shampan, which started the earliest picking ever. We told you about that a couple of weeks ago. Usually mid-August expected to be about half of what it was, which is sad. The Jura region, second worst hit at 37, burgundy and burjolay, in fact to be honest, if the world didn't have any burjolay, I wouldn't miss it. I mean, if all the burjolay fell off the vine to Gowerwell, burgundy is a different story, though, but they're down 33%. A little bit of reprieve in Bordeaux, which is my favourite. The harvest is actually up on last year, but they're down on last year. Small note, which you'll go, God, this guy's a threat. Anyway, 2003 was one of the great ventages for Bordeaux, and it was one of the great ventages because it was a very hot vintage. And as a result of the hot vintage, not a lot of wine was produced, but what wine was produced was exceedingly high quality. Now, my prediction for 2006 is that you'll have a low yield, but a very high quality. So in other words, if you're an investor into the world of wine,

34:52it might be one to watch. That sounds like bad news for Mrs. Husking Hawksby. It could be. It could be, but we don't tell her of these things, Glenn, otherwise we get ourselves in trouble. Just between us, then. Us, between us. Shane Jones, he's lending some money to the guest people. So they're out to find more guests. We'll see where this goes and whether he's just done it to rack up labor. He's with us directly after the news, which is next here at NewsTalks. It's been. This is Ashley Akinetti from the almost famous podcast. You ever notice you and your spouse keep saying, we need to get away, but you never actually plan anything. That was us until we did something fun and spontaneous. We went to resort pass.com. There are hundreds of hotel resorts, pools and spas and private beaches that you can enjoy. You can spend the day at a luxury resort, pool, spa, massage, without booking an overnight stay. And listen, I may have only been like 15 minutes from home, but it felt like it was a whole different world. And I'm thinking this is exactly what I needed.

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36:52and performing arts all in one place, everywhere else started to seem a little... Meh. Emma's vacation is a cautionary tale. If you're coming this way, don't forget to tell your friends and neighbors goodbye. Visit Greenville, South Carolina, but you may never want to leave. Learn more at visitgreenvillesc.com The Mike Horsking Breakfast full show podcast on iHot Radio, powered by News Talks at B. Here yourself, think. It's the Mike Horsking Breakfast with Bailey's real estate, covering all your real estate needs. News Talks at B. Morning, seven past seven, so the money from the $200 million dollar gas security fund is about to flow. Todd Energy is going to get $23.5 million for a couple of projects in Taranaki. They put in ten of their own. In theory, they unlock almost 20 petagules of extra gas over the next five to nine years, Shane Jones is in charge of all this, and he's back with us this morning. Hi, Monica. How's the ratio worked out of you, given 23, and they put in ten?

37:54How's that work? Well, the real pressure is, can we entice anyone to come back into the sector, given what they read the news, they watch the media, and in the event there's a change of government. There's going to be a cancellation of the whole sector, so there needs to be incentives and encouragement for them to come back in. I'm happy that Todd are spending some of their own money, and I'm happy that our cabinets mandated me to use the taxpayer purse to ensure we don't run out of gas. So those comments you made yesterday, you want to use all 200 by election time, is that real? Well, what is authentic is the fact that the Supreme Court, copying the Supreme Court of the UK lust of embedd December made a decision and made it incredibly difficult in New Zealand for us to use our indigenous gas resources, unless we go through an ideological junkledgem. Our officials have guided us through that, and obviously we're not going to do anything reckless, we'll take the advice of the officials as a chap called Andy Knighties, the most knowledgeable guy in New Zealand on oil and gas,

38:55he's guiding us, and other cabinet ministers will sign it off along with myself. The 20-patterd jewels is that real or a hope? I remember a famous Prime Minister using the term aspirational. Look, I can only go on what we told geologically, and there's both the potential and the productive, and we've been given by our geological advisers, that is an upper limit, but things are sadly dire, we are still attracting interest from overseas and domestically to expand our own gas sector. But let's be straight with each other on this programme. There is an element in New Zealand's political ideological culture who feels that New Zealand should not have a natural gas industry. I don't belong to that tribe of Luddites. No, indeed not. But the next thing last week, the decision round that loosens up a little bit of gas around the place of this male may not work in with throwing money at it, is there a risk profile for you that you're backing something that, you know,

39:58as much as you may want it, it doesn't work because there is no gas there? Well, no, we're advised that there is gas there, but we're also advised that people have been unwilling and will remain unwilling on their own to continue to invest and take a risk if there's some prospect that the entire sector will be closed down again. Which the next does, does well, the next provides a short term fill-up. We've got to look at some storage work with the current holders of those rights. And sadly, until such time, we get a quality of, I don't know, direction and clarity after the election and we'll know where we are in relation to these Luddites who are ideologically trying to pollute our capacity to make money and grow in the country. And good to talk to you, Prasier, it's Shane Jones, who's the Minister of Resources. And that goes back to that conversation that we've had a lot, but more recently that you need some sort of pipeline, no pun intended, on major projects. And despite the fact we all agree that we want some sort of pipeline on major projects we in that particular area do not have one.

40:59Ten minutes past seven, Heartsgate, where we are making some progress. Another five million we got to go to this regional tourism idea. Five million for six new campaigns, targets visitors from Australia, China, North America, gets them into the regions outside the peak season. Now this thing's been led by Auckland, apparently, gets just under a million to lead a national campaign targeting the US and Canada, any done-destors with Auckland unlimited, and she's back with us as well. Any morning. Morning, Mike. Is there enough data out there to suggest that you can take money and regionally manipulate a market, one, two, a region and two, off peak? Oh, great question. I think one of our biggest challenges is that traditionally, international visitors come and they do, they could have kind of golden route. And this money provides us an incredible opportunity to really start to show what is happening out and about in regional New Zealand. So the six campaigns are obviously targeting the foreign wide across south and north, and using food to some degree.

41:59You know, a great deal of this is around getting people to really start to experience that sort of wonderful behind the scenes, kind of food scene that's happening across New Zealand these days. Indeed, related matters we've got somebody on on the moment. This Michelin, the claim this morning is the Michelin Star thing's real. It's an effect, you're hiring more people, the hours are longer, etc. Is that true in your view? I mean, are we seeing that? We're definitely seeing it in Auckland, one of the restaurants, a perro that was given a nod, has booked up beyond belief, Tala, obviously Henry got a star, we've seen incredible bookings, can't even get in. So it is definitely having an impact on those restaurants that have been selected. Do you have enough money, so one million, and the marketers Canada and America? I mean, where do you even begin to spend it in the country of that size? Very tricky. We have a very targeted approach, state by state. There are almost countries in themselves. California is kind of a territory that drives a lot of arrivals into New Zealand. And so that's kind of a defined target market for us. Okay, Auckland Airport gave their result the other day.

42:59One of the bits of commentary they said is you get a lot of people coming to the country because it's a kind of gateway, but you're not grabbing them. Is that an issue for you? And what are you doing about it? So one of our biggest challenges in Auckland, we've got to make them stack. We've got to get them to stay here longer. And that's about how the products that we share and show, or the tourism products and experiences we share and show with the international travel trade. It's endless. But you know, things like that, why we're getting the consent last week. New product, new product development is really important for regions to kind of diversify and show what they have to offer. Good, good, good. Good. Nice to talk to you and go well with any Dundas Director of Destination at Auckland Unlimited. So, um, $6 million. On top of the stuff that we've already told you about previously, 30 minutes past seven. So quickly to the pole of poles, it's just like, oh, get ahead of it reading this stuff. Anyway, point being this. So the chances of the government being reelected now according to the pole of poles is 47%. So in other words, less than half, you know, it's against them. And you go, oh, well, that means the other side must be winning.

44:01Well, no, because the opposition, the chances of them winning government is 1.3%. So you've got 47% of the government chances of the government winning. The opposition have a 1.3% chance of winning unless you add opportunity, which the pole of pole still has a 95% chance of getting across the 5% threshold. If you add opportunity to the opposition, they then have a 41.9% chance of winning. So still not about 50%. No one's about 50% and I can tell you this for nothing. And you don't, this is the Mike Hoskin pole of poles. Someone's going to win the election. One way or the other, someone's going to win the election, which makes the pole of poles wrong for teen past. Hey, another carbon auction day. I don't know if you're ready for this one, but we talked about it with the Prime Minister yesterday. He was super excited, not. And my suggestion is they get rid of them because no one buys credits. And my suggestion is today no one will buy a credit. Let me just tell you what the price is today. I think from memory it's $71. If you want to buy a credit, you can buy it for $50. So my question to you is this, if you can buy something for $50 or $71. And they're exactly the same thing. What would you buy?

45:01And I think that answers it. And you might have had to see more on that shortly. Meantime at 17 past this, hospice seen the four-mechan, Michelin star, affect the claimers that restaurants are reporting more staff. They're running extra days. There are record bookings. Is this true? Lissalee because the Natty co-owner in Christchurch and is with us Lisa Morning. Morning, Mike. How are you? I'm very well indeed. Thank you. Is it working? It is certainly working. We've definitely seen the Vanden Christ, both from local and international tourists. For us weekends and Tuesdays are filling up much further in advance. So we're always recording booking as early as possible. And so how full are you in general? Are you full-ish most nights? Correct. Yes, absolutely. And that you can directly say that's Michelin. Absolutely. Wow. Absolutely. Since the Michelin announcement, we've just seen bookings far advance that we've never would have seen before. I mean, tourists obviously generally plan around their holidays, seeing a lot more domestic tourism, as well as international tourism.

46:03And so is it the recognition factor? In other words, have I come to Christchurch? I don't know Christchurch that well, I might ask somebody what's a recommendation, whereas with Michelin, I know that somebody who I recognise has recognised you and that's how that works. Yes, absolutely. I think cuisine also play a really big role in that, so people looking at padded restaurants, but Michelin itself has had a direct impact on our bookings. Indeed. Is the pressure on you now to deliver? Do you feel that? I think the pressure is always on. I guess now that we're on an international stage, a world platform that recognition is incredible, but we want to ensure that we consistently deliver before Michelin and now after Michelin. And given I haven't done an interview with anyone who got one since it happened, do you think about next year, because of course the thing about Michelin is you don't hold it forever, it's an annualised thing? That's correct, yes. You always think about the next year. Obviously we're still riding the wave and the high,

47:06the Michelin glow from the share of it, but I believe judging will start fairly soon again looking at Michelin and looking at it. It's fantastic story. I'm so pleased to hear Lisa Weldon, Lisa Leaver, who's the co-owner of Anati in Christchurch, which is a very good place to go, obviously, because it's been recognised by Michelin and long way that continue. My car's in FNA last week. God, we got a global audience, haven't we? I was in FNA last week. Are the grapes of all been picked and pressed in August unheard of, which is true, of course, it started very early. Low yield, either a disaster, which is what I was mentioning in a moment ago, in a hot climate, you either got something brilliant or you're right the whole thing off. Either a disaster or a challenge, we toured Andre, Collet's operation and boozy, and they saw it as a challenge to make one of the great vintage's time will tell. I'm late this morning, but I thought I was going deaf. Still, I've not heard about Arja Media Screams calling for hippies, chippies, demise. Well, as I mentioned before, Thomas Cogland, and he wasn't the only one yesterday, it's a genuine story.

48:06It seems to be a talking point, and he can't write off a second poll. And that was the other thing I think that gave it credibility yesterday. Last week he had a poll. It was a bad one. He wrote it off as rogue, and I actually agree with him. I thought it was a rogue poll. This one, two in a row. Can you have two rogues in a row? Or not? 720. The Mike Hosking Breakfast Full Show Podcast on I Heart Radio, powered by Newstalks.edu. Right, if you're a sales leader, you're under pressure to win that profitable new business. Of course, winning those tenders, those RFPs, that's the key to your success. But not just any tendee. You don't want to deal with that. You want the profitable ones. You want the good customers, which means being able to carefully select your target prospects, invest more creative time with your response, and increase your odds of winning without that pain of responding. Now, you can make your luck by focusing on the quality of that response, not with last minute rehashed content, but with a consistent and cohesive response. Now, how are you going to do that? Well, you need one net. Because they can help you win these new profitable customers, because they've got Grizzly AI. Grizzly's gone and built that safe and secure software

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50:07We need more roads. It's fairly obvious. You make every dollar go as far as it can. Now, I suspect broadly, most people feel the same way. So it's an easy headline and a political point to make in a campaign. But public art can be amazing. Trouble is a lot of ours isn't. So on the highway out across just right, you're heading towards Chiapoi. There's some very good work there on the side of the road. Now, contrast that to say spaghetti junction in Auckland. There is what loosely looks like red light stalks. They're awful. On our way home on the weekend, you highway north of Auckland. There's a bunch of Maori soldiers or chiefs who are sort of metal cutouts that are kind of rusted. It's a look. I don't like it, which is the other bit about art, isn't it? It's fraught. There's also an obvious overt Maori fixation in this country around art. Not a lot of sedales or Sydney's about the place. More conceptual race-based interpretations that you might argue may not get a lot of commissions if it wasn't for the NZTA. So you've got the battle between the two do it or not to do it. And also if you do do it, is it any good?

51:09But to the ideology, act are about efficiency, of course, and that's good given our parlors state fiscally. And the defence came from the transport wonks I noticed. You said, oh, look, it's only 1.4% of the overall budget. And that's the problem, isn't it? The inference being down. Don't worry about it. It's nothing. And yet you do the math. And I did. Every 72 roads, you get another free road. If you don't spend 1.4% on art, would you rather have another road or a bunch of eclectic sculptures? I think the inescapable conclusion is art is for better days, isn't it? More affluent times in countries that have productivity levels way, way, way better than ours. And that have handled their finances way better than ours. Art, I think, is a reward not a must have. Why does the money for Todd's come through cabinet? Or is it part of the NZ First Chain Jone Slush fund? No, it's a well stated, well documented, well talked about government policy. Has been for the bulk of their time, as far as I can work out. A mention appears to be as good as a star mic Bianca, newly anointed Bib Gourmall in Ellersley, Auckland,

52:09tripled in size. Appears to be fully booked every night since the Michelin Dingdollenship. It doesn't look good. Mike, did I miss something or did one news not cover the TPU poll last night? To be fair, one news never covers any polls outside of their own. They'll argue credibility stakes or whatever I don't know. It's their decision to make. I think personally it's a mistake we're all talking about polls. It's an election campaign, but they don't. And that is a well stated and long standing view of bears, to which they are entitled. Are the aforementioned David Seymour in just a couple of moments on the fraught business of carbon auctions of which there is one to die? Tough on power, sharp on insight, the micosking breakfast. With a Vida retirement communities, life your way, news talks at B. We ran to his back, differences they got three new hosts because Hammond made, etc. and Platon moved on. So we'll meet James Engelsman, Thomas Holland and Francis Bourgeois after eight o'clock. Meantime back here.

53:09Two today's government carbon auction, which as we talk about yesterday with the Prime Minister can almost certainly be forecast to be yet another flop. I raised it because the government did look at dropping the auctions, but decided not to. They still argue, or Luxembourg's yesterday on this programme, they will work eventually. Today's minimum price is $71. Trouble with that is you can buy credits for $50 back sales. Where? So David Seymour is the act party leader in his withers morning. Good morning. Did the government look at dropping the auctions or did just the national party look at dropping the auctions? I can't remember what I read. Well, this has been discussed at a government level. Without giving away confidence, you can probably guess what the act party's position was on those discussions and you can probably guess what the national party's position was. Well, why can I guess what the national party's position is? Because I don't understand it. Because if I can buy something for $50, why am I going to his place for $71? It makes literally no sense. And I would have thought they could understand that bit. Well, unless there's been a tear in the space time continuum that's affected the laws of economics this morning, you're right.

54:09But that's why you need an act party. You know, I sat a couple of seats along from James Shaw on the crossbenchers when he introduced this policy. And I can forgive a green MP for not understanding the simple things and the simple economics of auctions. The national party, I find it harder to forgive. But one of the reasons that we're in different parties is so we can have these debates. Yeah, but one of the difficulties that I have as a sort of a person who observes this is that I would, no matter what you say ideologically about the national party or indeed act, common sense should play a role. And at $50 versus $71, the common sense doesn't play a role. It makes literally no sense. Well, at the end of the day, the point of climate policy should be to reduce emissions rather than export keyway jobs. The net effect of the government leaving this money on the table, unless just talk about how much that is, they'll put up 3.9 million units.

55:09They won't sell for less than 71 bucks. If they sold them at say $50, a bit below the current market price, that would be $195 million that would come into the Crown coffers that we're not getting right now. The act party would say, let's start giving that back to households as a carbon dividend because, frankly, people could use the cash in at the moment. The only beneficiaries of this policy are the forestry industry because absent the government selling any credits into the market, you end up with the forestry industry basically planting trees over more farms. The national party seems to prefer that outcome, and there seems to be a misunderstanding about how cap and trade actually work. The point of a cap and trade is that we want the price of carbon to come down over time. We want innovation to make it cheaper to reduce emissions, so we can solve our environmental problems and get on with being a prosperous economy. However, if the Prime Minister is saying that the price will eventually rise

56:13unfortunately, that's the opposite of what we want. We don't want to pay more for carbon. We don't want our jobs going overseas. We don't want higher prices when we buy food that's transported with fuel or electricity that's generated with coal and gas or petrol at the pump. We want lower prices, and the idea that eventually the markets will work because the carbon prices are going to get higher. That's the opposite of what we want. Let's make the auction work again. Let's get the cash for the government and let's redistribute it to households who could sorely need the cost of living relief right now. Could be about 400 bucks a year per household if we did it that way. It's nuts. The MAPIS thing that I also raised with him yesterday and the YTANGE Tribunal report, which has been on POTAK as desk forever, is there something going on there because we ring their offices and they don't want to talk. What's happening? Why are they stalling? Are they stalling and why are they stalling? Look, I can't really speak from that docey. He's the Associate Minister of Health.

57:14It was an act party coalition policy to do this MAPIS report. We say that racial discrimination is wrong. It can be justified according to some people's theories. If it is a temporary and effective measure, we ask to see the proof that having racially selective entry to medical school is actually a temporary and effective measure. So far as I can tell, the report doesn't show that and it's not being released. But we will campaign on the simple idea that you want a doctor who is the best person and the idea that a doctor of your own race is superior even if they got in on lower grades. It's the complete opposite of what an enlightened society should stand for. That is correct. But having said that, if you had an agreement with the National Party to investigate this and it's sitting on a bloke's desk and the bloke is not releasing it before the election for political purposes, doesn't that infuriate you and rage you, upset you, worry you, consume you? Any of those words?

58:15No, you know, I've been in government three years and I've learned a lot. Sometimes we win, sometimes we lose, but we're pushing the government in the right direction. I mean, had it been left to some of our friends in the coalition, there'd be at least three new taxes, a bed tax, a bank tax, a stamp duty on homes, we stopped all of those. So for every frustration, we cherish some of the progress we've made and I gather the National Party today is likely to announce some sort of local tourism dividend where we share the GST collected from tourists with the council sort of having to put on the events and so on. So you'll claim win for them? Well, I mean, you know, we did put out that exact idea about a month ago and it's a good example of keeping the government together, taking the ones where we can, making New Zealand a better place by being consistent and effective and so no, I don't have any of those words you shared. Just knowing that if you stand for the right thing, then in time you can make the country a better place.

59:19Very Buddhist world, I'm... They would see more the leader of the Act party. It's no wonder I'm not in politics, I'll be shooting people by now. Mike, read the Greens Communist take over the Supermarkets. Now the only reason I raised this this morning is Katie told me off yesterday. She didn't tell me off. She said, now you need to explain this stuff to people. And I thought, do I? Read the Greens Communist take over the Supermarkets. My bestie's own a new world. Chloe's never produced her own anything. I guarantee she's got no idea of the hard work that the sacrifice of the dedication and the courage it takes to own a Supermarket and short, she and her party and their supporters are a bunch of envious, clueless morons. She goes, you need to explain this to people why it's a bad idea. And I was saying to her, and I'd appreciate your feedback. I was saying we didn't want to spend much time on the program yesterday because people can work this out. I mean, this is such a stupid idea. This stupidity is obvious in its nature. It doesn't require me to sit on the program, eating up valuable time to explain the obvious. That was my argument to her, she disagrees. 16, too. The Mike Hossking Breakfast full show podcast.

1:00:19On I Have Radio, powered by News Talks at B. Katie's right, Mike. I mean, that's just a general statement that you want to live by. No Mike, normal average every day. People can work it out more on it's never will. So one of these. By the way, very good news this morning. Why isn't the skinny more widely reported nudies? As in the ratings agency, the economic recovery is underway. Their words not mine. Economic recovery is underway. New report this morning. Strong institutions, robust regulatory frameworks, well capitalized banking system. All helping out. We do have, and this goes to the fragility of the argument. We do have the elevated inflation. And the renewed monetary tightening. And that will constrain household spending and business investment in the near term. I think that's not an unreasonable observation to make. They're picking 1.6% growth for this year. And the, now here's the really interesting thing. And this is what we bang on about on the program so often. The potential for more. If business confidence and investment intentions translated to stronger spending in the second half of this year.

1:01:20As in right here right now. So that's what we're arguing here. That there's enough here to see. To get on with it. If you're sitting on the sidelines and you're going, I don't know, I really want to go on. I don't know if I'm that happy. There's enough there for you to really, you know, attack this thing with a laquerity if you want to. So their number is 1.6 with more to come on the upside. Growth would broaden, they say, next year to 2.3%. Which is an interesting number in, in and of itself. Because once again, I can't remember. Was it Westpac we had, and they had a 2.6 or something. And I'll, Bradley, an infometrics had a 3. So you get between 2.3 and 3 is a lot. When you're talking about something the size of a whole economy. Their argument, Moody's, tourism's going to continue to expand. Growing investment data centers offers an additional source of economic activity beyond New Zealand's traditional export base. Now there's an argument. So we anti, if we got there yet, we anti data center in this country. There's certainly anti data center in Australia. There's certainly anti data center in America.

1:02:21I don't know that we're necessarily in Southland. Everyone's against the big one. But apart from that, I'm personally not against data centers at all. I can kill us as long as they produce their own power and do all that sort of stuff. I can build to you blue in the face. But there's your growth opportunity. So overall, for all of the doubt as the moaners, the winters and the winers, have a look at what Moody's saying. And you can't argue with him. Ten away from it. The Mike Hawking Breakfast with Avita, Retirement Communities, New Talks, Deadbeat. Seven away from it. Sheridan Burmester is about to head off to play pool. And Vietnam, Bali and India. This will include Commonwealth and a World Championship. Now he's looking to grow this sport. Here, Rickenspool could learn a thing or two from Darts because Darts, of course, is huge. And Sheridan Burmester is with us. Sheridan Morning. Morning Mike. How long you been into pool? Pretty much all my life. Like when I was two years old, my grandfather let me call on a pool table and I've always been around the game. So yeah, for quite a while now. Do you reckon it's natural or if you start crawling on a table, too, anyone can play well?

1:03:22I mean, I think it's a bit of natural talent, but you know, everybody's played tour in their life. So I think anyone can pick up the queue and play the game. So this to be fair to everybody, the snooker, which is what I play, which is on a bigger table with different balls. You play basically what you'd see at a pub table, right? And so I play what you would call a American pool. So it's a slightly bigger table than what you'd see at the pub. So it's nine feet. So it's about in between a pub table and a snooker table. Right. What size are those holes? The pockets. What size are they? They're big or are the balls big? Yeah. Correct. Okay. So you see it a lot. Now how big? See, I see some of this on ESPN stuff like that. There seems to be a fairly well organized pro type league in America. Is that true? Yes. So that would be the World Mindful tour, which is produced by Matt Drew. And is that the way you play?

1:04:22Yeah. So I'm playing like the World Pool Association event. So that's the official ranking for the world of pool. But it's the same score. Yeah. Correct. Okay. So can we do here, or indeed wherever you travel, what the Americans are doing? I mean, is it a big deal in America? And if it is, can we replicate that here? Yeah. I mean, to be honest, the Americans have the game, but the players actually coming out of Europe and China. That's the most dominant players in the game right now. House of Fisticated is it here in terms of? Clubs, tables, accessibility to the tables, you know, kids playing, etc. Yeah. I mean, so I work for the Master Club. So we have six clubs across the North Island. We have junior programs. So there's coaching in all our clubs every week for the kids. Our club's said in juniors overseas, every year, to America to compete. So yeah, I mean, the coaching is entirely free.

1:05:24You just have to find up to our club. Is there any money in it? Yeah, I mean, so I play the World Temple in Vietnam in the first place for that. It would be $80,000 US dollars. Jeez. You're going to make some money when you're going offshore now to play in Vietnam, Barley and India. Do you think you'll do okay? Yeah, like I'm definitely somewhere right now where I can be making money in the game. Fantastic. What do we need to do in this country to give it a turbo charge? I mean, I think we just need the support and the recognition. Like a lot of people I speak to, they don't know anything about pool being global or that you can actually even compete in the game. Well, hopefully we changed that a bit. Sheridan, good luck with the travels and the tournaments. Good to talk to you Sheridan, Bernmister. I mean, my hunt, I'm conflicted. Because it's not as good as Snooker. Mike, the fact that greens were 11% on the poles is an indication that there are enough numbs in New Zealand who need an explanation as to why they're communist.

1:06:25The 11% I don't actually think is a big deal. If you go back far enough and you don't have to go back that far, maybe 2017, possibly back to 14, the greens have been polling up above 11% before. They generally, as a rule, poll better than they do on the night. Now, I remember talking to Russell Norman on the night that he didn't get the 13% he thought he was going to get and he got about 8 or 9 and that tends to be the green story by and large. So we're this sitting at the moment is historically speaking not particularly unusual. Right, the Grand Tour, whole new series of hosts, can they replace the big boys, the new hosts of the Grand Tour, with us after the news, which is next. Opinionated, informed, under apologetic, the Mike Husking breakfast, with Range Rover, British luxury, classic elegance, modern reinvention, newstongued V. It is seven past eight. I'm proving there's always mileage in a cash show. BBC announced the other day that they're rebooting top gear. Of course, we don't know who the hosts are.

1:07:26I'll meddle those Jimmy Cower's room to be one of the hosts. An Amazon are giving more life to the Grand Tour post-clacks and may, and Hammond, James Engelsman, Thomas Holland and Francis Bourgeois take up the mantle, all three are with us. Gentlemen, good morning. Good morning. Good morning. You've got so much time. Thomas, you're in the tent. I won't give too much away. Jeremy says, have fun with it. Do you think you have? Oh, yeah, definitely. For sure. This has been, well, the only way we know how to do it is to have fun. We're just going and doing things that we want to do. Getting an old car, getting a new car, going to a crazy place, and driving it really quickly. It's the best job in the world. So, of course, we had fun, yeah. size James from what you go because I've watched throttle house for years from what you guys do to what you're now doing On Amazon how bigger gear shift is that? It's big. It's a factor of multiple of ten we've gone from a team of six to a team of 60

1:08:26But it's kind of amazing because One it shows how many hats our guys wear But spread out into the best of the best. It's the best sound recorders in the industry It's the best videographers the best director of photography the best editors. So it has been quite an honor Do you see it as an upgrade on what you were doing and I ask that question because YouTube is the future social media is the future Apparently and yet suddenly with a bit of streaming television there's your budget and there's your glamour There's a scale that you can't reach with a small YouTube team or you can But you are either not doing it permitted. You're not doing it with safety You're not doing it insured. You're not doing it with preparation. Yeah, so it's a lot more loose on YouTube And we you know, but that has resulted in us Getting robbed twice on our last Like they truck got broken into and we had a terrible time. Yeah as with the grand tour That doesn't happen because it's far more organized. Yeah, there's value to that

1:09:30Francis people will eventually get this but there was an opening scene once in a knelfer of mayo That's the car you really want your I thought what's this guy doing in a jazz and it's it's that's your car isn't it? That's right. Yes, I bought that pink Honda jazz as it's my girlfriend's dream car But obviously driving it there's not really much excitement going on so I've made some quite spicy modifications to it So my girlfriend can still enjoy the ride in had dream car and I can have a better fun on the back roads He's not enjoying it anymore just so you know, it's just like yeah because because it's it's straight paved and it spits flames and it's Definite it sounds it sounds Amazing you Francis are interesting you I love you by the way I and no no insult to you. I've never heard of you. I didn't know what you did And I don't know where they got you from other than what I read about your background But but your your fantastic and and there could be quite something magical there in putting you with them Did you know the magic was there

1:10:31Well our first conversations as with most car enthusiasts were around along the lines of what do you drive? Oh, that's quite good. Do you drive? And those foundations of okay these guys know cars these guys know cars We're starting to build that like the building blocks of friendship and we're having laughs We're going through into these chemistry tests We're having drinks together in the bar afterwards. It feels like our friendship was actually kind of ready to go and like well It was rocketing away by the time we were filming the first episode Well, that's encouraging listen I do need to ask you all of course about Clarkson him and a man I'll do that just after the break coming up 11 past eight The Mike Husking breakfast full show podcast on I heard radio powered by news talks It be News talks every coming up 14 past eight Thomas Holland James Engelsman and Francis Bush were new hosts of grand tour The grand tour is dropped by the way dropped over the weekend on Amazon all six episodes Are now available now just just by way background of people didn't know Thomas you started throttle house throttle houses on social media

1:11:37Of course, so so you got a lot of experience in this but and Stepping into those three pairs of legendary shoes. How trepidations were you? Well there I was very careful with it because I know how much it means to so many people including myself so I I and we as a team with the whole team focused on I guess making the show that we would want to watch were we not on it If that makes any sense if somebody else was chosen I would be sitting there going and like all right. This isn't a pretty important task Let's see what you do and so I made sure that that was in my mind the whole time going like is this good enough For me if I was watching it because I'm such a huge fan of the show and when they rang you James and said how about this What did you think I mean? What what I mean? Obviously you think yes cool fantastic and but but at a certain point you must think more deeply about it And think I'm buying into something pretty big here It was it was a real gradual thing it wasn't here's what we've got do you want it?

1:12:39It was would you be up for coming to the office to discuss a being a host in a streaming show Where we sort of didn't know what it was and then we had a meeting about it and there was you know that they were so The great thing about the team and the executive producers is that they knew any new iteration of the show would have to be born from The hosts that presented so there was a framework idea when we entered the this world But it all depend on how the three of us wanted to shape it So it was only as intimidating as the structure we built beyond obviously This the filling the shoes part so from that sense It was I don't know it kind of it happened organically and linearly I think they were careful also of saying You're the new host the grand tour at any point because they it would be Right It just happened slowly. Yeah, Francis. We've talked to Andy Wilman a number of times Your view of what I mean I regard him as a genius

1:13:41I mean that the production values of the show and what he does not just on the show that other shows he's a genius. What do you make of him? Well the first time I met him well the first time we sat down together with him It was amazing to see him at work because we have this this problem in a narrative How do we solve this and he kind of just looks up and? All you can almost see the swirling mass of thoughts above his head and then all of a sudden He's got it right. I've got it. Yeah, and it's just to see such A monumental like creative wave Come over with like each thought he has It's it's inspiring. Yeah, we would work on it. Sorry go ahead, friends To have him with us Putting this show together It's been Amazing and an honor to work with him. You think the same clearly Thomas Yeah, working with him is obviously a bit of a dream come true and I found him fascinating

1:14:43because He would see something from an angle that nobody else would see it and so you We would be working on an idea. We're like here's what we think here's we want to do What does this look like we're all pretty confident with it? And then he would take it and go you forgot about this one thing and you go oh Right, right and then he was a wrecking boy in that sense. Yeah He would just knock it down a very helpful one. Yes. Yeah, I've only seen one episode You've got the whole thing in the can James Where do you think this goes in your heart of hearts? Is this you guys for years to come? Is this going to be bigger than being her? Is this the changing of your life or is it canned after season one? I really hope it continues We've got a lot of ideas we went through so many for what would be in this series that were either not possible because of Seasonality or timing that now we can tackle if there is a season two and more I also love working with these two

1:15:43I think there's I think there's more hope than there's ever been for a Successful reinvention of the show while honoring the formula and then the musical note that it hits with the audience Well, all we can do is wish you the very best lovely to catch up and meet with you guys and good luck with season one good luck with season two three four five and Six and hopefully we talk again. Thank you so much. There we go. Thomas Holland James Engelsman Frances Bushwa you seem to know Frances more than I do Frances Mike is massive on socials He's a massive train spot of that's where they got him from very passionate guy Frances is incredible. You must see we bought a train series on YouTube I will eventually get around to looking at it up There's I don't know if you've noticed but there's quite a lot on YouTube Doesn't matter when you go into YouTube. This seems to be just more and more of it I've seen episode one it's quite good my my critical I would say it's quite good there no Hammond May and co But that doesn't mean they can't be all won't be and the potential is there and as I said earlier on the program

1:16:44I think Frances is potentially the break out star In the opening episode they got Jensen button as a guest. He's nice. He's lovely with it They race a henna see afford and a Corvette round a track It's for me like it's the same old thing if you like grand tour if you like top gear you like cars doing interesting things And they go interesting places You know you won't not like it you can't not like it But it'll be interesting to see how they develop by the way I noticed just before I believe the whatever world of cars I noticed because I'm a I watch a lot of videos of car reviews and I hadn't thought about this until yesterday So the Ferrari luce which is the Ferrari electric car has arrived in this particular part of the world There is one it's left-hand drive but people who buy for raris are being invited long and you go long You have a look at that and you go oh that could be a bit of me anyway They hadn't put a price on it to this particular point in time and of course in these in these sort of cars What generally happens is you add a few extras You never just buy the car for the car you just add a few extras But it starts at a million so just the one million dollars and I thought

1:17:48Now it's not unusual for a Ferrari to start at a million dollars. It's not unheard of But that tended to come with a bit of lineage and a bit of heritage and an engine that sort of did amazing things for you To ask a million dollars for an electric car Is next level it's either probably the stupidest thing any car companies have ever done in their life Or it's a stroke of genius. I still haven't worked out which the only other car I can think of that's electric that they could even come close to asking a million dollars for Is a rolls were a specter now which brings me to the other thing That I saw the other day which is the new rain driver Vogue you know the top full fat rain drivers They call it that's just launched over the weekend an EV form And as was pointed out in several people are by several people reviewing it If there's ever a car crying out for a battery It's a rain driver because of course what do you want a rain driver to be you wanted to be silent wafty luxury is quiet And elegant and regal What better thing than a battery to drive that and that's why rolls Royce works rolls Royce has spent their entire life saying look how quiet We can be well. He can nothing quieter than a battery

1:18:50So the specter might work in the rolls Royce might work I don't think a Ferrari necessarily will but this is the point about the Ferrari I'm not actually seen anyone drive one They've not made one available for anyone to review They've made them available for you to stand next to And I've seen lots of those reviews and you stand next to it and go well It looks like this and there's a shape there and that's what it looks like inside And this is the controversial button do you like it? Comments below No one's actually driven one Isn't that what you do with those sorts of cars though you just put in your garage stand next to it take yourself Well clearly but I wonder if there's something in Ferrari that goes whatever you do Don't let anyone behind the wheel of one Seems like a waste of money when you can get a yang Wang for 650 odd Is it a yang Wang or a Wang Yang? I don't know It's you know what I mean It's a super car it's a it's a it's a 22 The Mike Hosking Breakfast with Range Rover News Talks ZB The Mike Hosking Breakfast full show podcast on iHeartRadio powered by news talk zB

1:19:55As you were my mate Rob Who sold Ferrari's But then went on to sell Range Rovers and is now about to sell Rolls Royces So clearly a success story in the car industry anyway. It's just text to me to tell me It's not as bad as I suggested my apologies Um the specter starts here at 785,000 dollars so Well that's actually only a little bit more than the yang Wang Yeah But the interesting thing about that is it does remind you at a million dollars Just how expensive cars are in Australia with their um the I don't know what tax they call it But if you buy a flash car and it doesn't have to be that flash It's called a luxury car tax or something like that you pay extra Just because you're buying a flash car. That's how that's how communist they are morning Mike I stopped watching top gear once Clarkson and co left they were the show I tend to agree Craig you don't want to render underestimate the magic And they had the magic the nearest they got in top gear was flint off Harrison McGinnis and I'm assuming That with the word that Jimmy Carmay will be the new host of top gear that that flint off certainly won't be coming back

1:20:56But Harris could have he's he's brilliant and McGinni don't know but Clearly they're gonna set up a whole new lineup of Talent that may or may not work you can't create the magic. It's it's like now speaking of the magic Very good news this morning are Wade Egan Kurt Capewell and Lecker Hallissima Look like they're back for the weekend Warriors of course Jackson Ford Looks like he's back for the weekend. There's so many people coming back. I don't know I think they're gonna have more players than they actually need Because all those people they pulled out of the cupboard to fill in the word is even Zalizniak is back Now Zalizniak broke a collarbone now my experience with collarbones is a daughter who bounced off the bed and broke hers And It's at that point in my life that I discovered you didn't need to actually do anything to a broken collarbone You just let it heal or at least that's what I told it's hard to put in the cast It's very hard to put in the cast so she came back after three weeks I think Zalizniak should too. Well, she tackling people though No, just bouncing off the bed

1:21:58But could you know had the ability to go on to other things anyway point being so we are back to is that pretty much full strength What about Luke? We're talking about local not really talking about Luke. Okay. I can't even talk about look So anyway, it looks like we look good look at easy easy for the young easy for the drug who the hell are we playing Your trusted home for news Sport entertainment opinion and Mike the Mike Husking breakfast with Bailey's real estate covering all your real estate needs news talk said be Mike peptides in the shoulder I don't know, but my point is so we're having this big argument off here the other text Mike How about a decent goal kicker for the warrior so you are Reflecting what we've just been arguing about during the news bulletin outside So Sammy says Zalizniak shouldn't be back because he might injure his shoulder and miss the second game I say go for broke you never die wondering so Sammy's glass half empty. I'm glass half full Then we're talking about the kicker and I don't understand now here's my problem. We got Webster on Friday

1:23:01And I don't want to sort of put him in a bad mood or give him in more worries than he needs But I have raised the kicking situation over and over again on this program and you can do it with stats Don't take my view of it. Just do it with stats every top side of the NRL has an 85% plus kicker statement effect We don't statement effect you've known this all season why haven't we done something about it Why do we not have a kicker and if we lose something by two or four points There is going to be no joy and somebody like me going well I told you so we needed a kicker and we should have fixed that particular problem last time Webster was on the program I said now what about these kickers who can't very good is that a problem? Do you worry about it his answer? Yes, I do And yet I watched two a picky over the weekend honestly I haven't kicked for a while but I wouldn't be far off putting the ball in front of the goalposts Going nowhere near the actual place this supposed to be So Tony Tuesday and already I'm nervous And I said we're going to play I didn't get it out. I thought we're who is the dolphins and the dolphins are your bogie side

1:24:05aren't they they're the side that that we may beat who we may not not because they're geniuses or brilliant It's just that there's something about the dolphins That we seem to psychologically struggle with so you should never underestimate a dolphin they can turn nasty on you Well, that's true. We've seen it in the results eight times four wins four losses four times. They turn nasty honest Well, Seagland 21 to 9 International correspondents with ins and I insurance peace of mind for New Zealand business And Abrahi how you going Really good Mike thanks for having me good morning not at all. So healy has a speech He's talking up Britain which is an interesting thing given he's got no money And he's got a budget so that'll be an issue and you're lending costs to through the roof And then we find out he's not ruling out tax rises despite the fact correct me if I'm wrong that star I said there will be no tax rises. So where's that leabus Well, it's the same script basically It might as well have been read out by Rachel Reeves because nothing has changed there is no money There's no fiscal headroom

1:25:07There's no prospect of money coming in and we're seven weeks away from his budget And he's talking about you know putting confidence back into Britain. We need to start talking Britain up And bus the economic backdrop to this it's been a difficult day because Jaguar Land Rover Have announced plans for as many as four thousand redundancies in the UK They need to save somewhere in the region of 3.4 billion ends at dollars and they're a major employer in the Midlands in England Yeah, the move music is not good. No, it is not if he says look There's nothing I can do here are some more taxes. What's the political capital boon on that or do they get away with it and people get it It will be a massive burning of politically capital and I think Andy Burnham's honeymoon period would come to a very quick end Look, taxes are going up make no mistake about it But just not unwarking people and I think it's very interesting that we're learning tonight here Did a guy called Chris Rokos one of the richest men in Britain and the third biggest taxpayer last year

1:26:13660 million dollars he paid in tax alone These guys worked about five billion dollars. He's relocating degrees So you know you can you can you some clearly in the financial world people know something yeah exactly Tell us so the the argument was the protesters at diver were a problem It's a migrant issue the police didn't get they have fast enough and that once again It seems empty It is it is and this is getting worse and there's been another incident I think a more significant incident overnight in Portsmouth hundreds of masked men turned up all Basically generated by online platforms and one guy in particular who's close to Tammy Robinson Calling for people to go down and protest what sparked Portsmouth overnight and a handful of police officers suffered walking wounded type injuries a Super dinghy Uh was spotted coming across from France heading towards Hampshire a lifeboat brought it to shore and

1:27:13120 mostly young men Migrants and want to be asylum seekers were taken off that dinghy now This is very significant because the point of departure for this dinghy in France was about 200 kilometers away From Calais it's a bigger Style dinghy More men crammed into it and they've clearly realized that the French are putting more resources into the beaches along Calais So they've decided to leave from the bay de Sen It's the mouth of the river saying it's 200 kilometers southwest of Calais And they're just pointing these things there's England off you go You get picked up by the lifeboats because they want like you sink in England and this is what's happening Yeah, so that becomes workable because the reporter read over the weekend the claim was my that the French are getting better at this In other words, they were clamping down and it was working was that fear hence their move Well, they couldn't get any worse. Let's face it. I mean this is a situation my reading of the situation having worked on The Dolver side of things and been in Calais in the jungle and walked those beaches

1:28:15If you had a handful of cups on quad bikes with five dollar pen knives Popping dinghies everywhere they see them on the on the beach There is no migrant crisis for whatever reason and you can draw your own conclusions here The French didn't want to do that. No interesting. I what about old Harry and Megan I mean what the king I mean yet there's no mistaking what the king's saying in the letter is there No, um the door is closed. He's basically just telling because they're going to be busy We're heading into autumn. There will be a lot of appearances by Harry and Megan They're going to be everywhere and I think what we're seeing is the king doing his duty as the monarch never mind as a dad But just letting it be known to all the military officials and defense and all the Lord left tenants who have to welcome royalty when they visit their county Just letting them be known that you know whatever gigs and appearances these two are doing They're not doing this on my behalf have they been seen since literally they lobbed into the country of week or so back as anyone actually spotted them

1:29:15Not one photograph I've seen and I've been talking to people in London today nobody seen hide in their hair I think they've kept their heads down and it's probably a smart move. Yeah good stuff might catch up in a couple of days Appreciate it and to brody out of Britain by the way on the protest thing I don't know what's going on here. I don't understand Spain and I know that Sanchez is a you know, raving socialist But the protests are back on and have been over the weekend and sirter Was at the foreign minister I told you about who apologized and said this is shocking. I'm so sorry Shouldn't you apologize to Morocco basically, but they're back protesting there in Sanchez seemingly has done nothing about it Now he's in political trouble for it the aforementioned king Uh the jamaican government again to go to him with a petition Uh three questions they want answered and they want him to refer their questions to the judicial committee of the privy council Over the legality of enslavement of Africans in Jamaica Could pave the way for um some sort of settlement It's the old reparations argument the questions are whether the enslavement of Africans in Jamaica was legal under English law Whether it broke international law and whether Britain now has illegal duty to provide redress now

1:30:19He king Charles no personal discretion has to whether or not he makes the referral he's got to do it once we get the answers The jamaican say uh and get a response to those questions. We will determine next steps 845 The mycarsking breakfast full show podcast on i-heart radio powered by news talks at b Other couple of things from Britain gas price they've eluded everyone the gas price is going to go up over winter Europe's got some major problems as other the war once again And so stand by for paying more for winter British armies also have been told to stop non-essential training to save money They don't have any money. That's how power does the state of things is So if you're not preparing for war Basically Then we just you know, I don't need you to be doing much they promise to in a half percent of the national income gdp For defense of course undergrowing pressure to get to three percent they may or may not do it Here's an interesting story goes back to kind of What we were talking to David Seymour about the business of the review of the white hanging tribunal There's something there's something here either

1:31:20I was interested in David Seymour's response So there's two reports is the mappest one which is the Maori Pacific Island thing for mit schools And there is the review of the white hanging tribunal and what it should be doing or not doing going forward Both reports have been done both reports are sitting on ministers discs do see and potaka had been for weeks If not months they're clearly doing nothing between now an election campaign. They don't want to rock the boat It was part of the coalition deal and I asked Seymour if you missed it earlier on you know whether he's you know You know, ropable about he's none of those things apparently it was just like oh well, no mind did report that in So my argument is this one of the things this government did Very explicitly is promised to get rid of the marification of this country a very good example as a guy called Jeff Hunt So he was appointed chair of water care. This is back in June of 24. So we're going back over two years two and a half years now And his appointment was voted through by all but one person that one person on the leadership team objected to the appointment because of clause 573 573 says when identifying the skills knowledge and experience required of a council controlled organization the local authority must consider knowledge of T Kangamari

1:32:26Maybe relevant to the governance of the council controlled organization Gif didn't know any married didn't speak it So off to court it goes first of all based of money during the time it goes to court Gif goes and takes a couple of classes learns to speak marry. He's reappointed in October of 24 Ma we care for this particular event in October of 24 Counselor goes to Lux and goes do you realize this 573 Lux and goes what I'm going to get rid of it Because it shouldn't take for much to appoint someone because of clauses like 573 and here we are and September of 26 and what's happened to clause 573 nothing Nothing So if you're not going to do anything fine no worries But say you're not going to do anything but don't say you're going to do stuff and then not do it because that's called accountability and that's what elections are for 9 away from 9 The micoskin breakfast with Bailey's real estate news talks there be now this is what Lisa had so Lisa's Hearing aids right She reckons it benefits everyone not just her

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1:34:26Oh, just I just got through the coffee Price of coffee had gone through the roof. I think chocolate's been a problem. CoCo's a problem Not sure where the cocoa's still a problem now it's sugar which will add to the cocoa problem of course But raw sugar at the moment Highest price and in well over a decade. Yes, it's El Nino weaker production in Europe Brazil India The Brazilian mills are diverting some of the sugar to ethanol because of the power the fuel problem So that's an issue anyway prices up of sugar prices up of sugar 21 and a half percent in August alone Lower yields in the European Union. So they're running out of gas. They're running out of sugar Um, so the whole thing's just uh cluster Will deficit a 1.3 million metric tons of sugar. So suddenly you're going to be paid less for your coffee So that's good, but you're going to pay more for your sugar So maybe you have to give up sugar five minutes away from nine Trending now

1:35:30The NRL in channel nine uh, the people run the the NRL finals footy finals footy This is listen to a bit of the see what you think this is voiced by Ray Warren The most anticipated final series 18s all with one goal to be crowned the NRL champions every year An invitation goes out Not to everyone only to those who've earned the right to receive And for those who do the real test starts now The fans are running for us 8 contenders there is a real boss one prize This is final foot Now the reason we played you that look it up online got it goes on for a while

1:36:31It's like oh, what are you rigging his four minutes five minutes some like that. It's well shot It's cleverly shots guys getting dressed up black tuxedos Hopping in the back of a BMW being taken to the stadium sets the mood The guys are members of the NRL teams we should point out they are guys that members of the NRL It's the actual players clearly seems to be the biggest star Anyway, then they get to the ground and then suddenly they go from the tuxedos into the jerseys Anyway, the angst online because there's always angst online is there's not not really a much Notice of the warriors in that top Selection of teams anyway go have a look and see what you think and we'll um chat tomorrow about it happy days For more from the my car sking breakfast listen live to news talks at b from six a.m. week days or follow the podcast on ihard radio