Peace Talks Lebanon Israel

So they've sort of limited their market, which is kind of weird as well. MHSA, Mike Hosking's standard authority, would be a better use of the time. I think that's probably true. Last time, and that's the other thing about the BSA, I mean, because they're not used, what's the point? As I said, I think the other day on the programme, the industry these days is professional, broadly speaking, it's professional, it's well regulated, there are good people operating and it's a rare, rare, rare day. in which a decision is made by the BSA where something egregious has been done. In other words, most days there's nothing happening in the New Zealand media that is outrageous. There's a lot of whiners who tap away little letters to the, and they're the same people over and over again, next to none of them get held up. The last time I got held up by the BSA or upheld by the BSA. Was the weirdest thing during COVID, which I made a reference to Italy, look it up. It's almost worth looking up. It probably isn't, but it's almost worth looking up. I made a reference to Italy and Italy's approach to COVID and because, and I lost, somebody whined and I lost and because I didn't reference all of Italy's response, I was just referencing a regional response, because I didn't reference all of Italy's response. I somehow breached some broadcasting standard, and even when I read the whole thing, I still couldn't understand what it was about. That's how stupid it became. Mike, last time you spoke to Mark Mitchell, he was on holiday in Bali. Did he race back here because of the cyclone if he did excellent judgment? Yeah, no, Mark's at everything. He permanently carries a raincoat nowadays. Everywhere he goes, he's got a raincoat. And so I'm assuming I can ask him after eight if you want, but I'm not sure whether he came back because he was due to come back or whether he had to dash back. But I do know, and this I suppose is exposing the fact he has a lot of holidays, I do know a number of his holidays have been interrupted. by the weather. I also know I was really nervous during his wedding or for his wedding, which was a couple of weeks ago, because not only was it in the latter part of the cyclone season, he doesn't refer to summer or winter, he just talks about cyclone seasons. So it was in the cyclone season and it was in Coromandel. And I'm thinking, how much trouble you want, Mark? He goes, don't worry, I've got my raincoat. So anyway, so he got away with it. It was a very nice weekend. Be that as it may, I will ask him afterwards. But I, on the weather front, I don't know whether to take him on because... What Craig Little said was right and the state of emergency thing is woke and there's no question about it being woke and what happened when I was watching the supercars on Saturday when they called the state of emergency in the middle of the North Island at a time when even the forecasters who were wrong anyway were forecasting something very coastal I thought hold on here they're calling this because somebody else called it and clearly that's what happens everybody every mayor rings up every mayor. mayor and they go hey look we're about to call the state of emergency do you think you'd like a state of emergency well yeah i suppose seeing you're calling the state of emergency we should have a state of emergency i wouldn't want to be seen without a state of emergency if you've got a state of emergency that's how it works isn't it whether you need one or not it's all preemptive and as craig little said yesterday quite rightly i looked at it and i thought this is a faff it's too much energy it's too much work and it's not needed and god bless him for that not every time but you've got to back yourself and believe in what you believe in leaving anyway the point being Mitchell wandering around the country with his raincoat on is very much into the state of emergency and what I did like about what the Prime Minister said the other day at a stand-up in hitting back at Little was that they've got better at the response and in that part of it I agree because if you respond and if you practice and you oil the machinery you will actually get good because one of the great problems we had every time something happened in this country country all the dumpty do's from civil defence and emergency management didn't have a clue what they were doing they couldn't find their acts their helmet was in another cupboard and they weren't prepared for anything so at least now they know what they're doing and the response appears to be half decent so in that i can i can i can go along with you but it's just the build-up that we need to deal with and get the media under control i guarantee you 47 percent Of that survey this morning on the media and the lack of trust comes from what we saw last week on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, when it's all hyperbole and BS and alarmism and not real fact. Mike, I was quoted a round trip to New York. It was $13,000 a few months ago. Now it's $24,000 family of four. Well, that's the market. Can I just tell you a semi-interesting story? I did the same thing because we're going to London. next month and I was just looking and I priced Air New Zealand to New York because the simplest thing for our particular trip is to go from here to New York because we actually need to go to New York we're going to London because I didn't want to go to New York directly I wanted to go other places so we're basically going around the world to get to New York but of course if I'd gone directly to New York like Auckland to New York so anyway I looked up the other day Air New Zealand three seats to be fair they are at the front of the plane but what else would you expect from a From a prat like me, three business class seats, two New York and return. What do you reckon? $60,000.