1
00:00:00,560 --> 00:00:04,480
Speaker 1: International Correspondence with Ends and Eye Insurance, Peace of Mind

2
00:00:04,519 --> 00:00:08,959
Speaker 1: for New Zealand Business and UIs correspondent Dan Mitchenson is

3
00:00:09,119 --> 00:00:11,319
Speaker 1: with us this Ofteno and Hi Dan toalk us through

4
00:00:11,360 --> 00:00:14,040
Speaker 1: Donald Trump's speke at the Republican National Convention.

5
00:00:14,840 --> 00:00:18,720
Speaker 2: You know, Jack, I think it felt more like a

6
00:00:18,720 --> 00:00:22,880
Speaker 2: three ring circus than it did a convention between as

7
00:00:22,920 --> 00:00:26,400
Speaker 2: you mentioned Kid Rock, Hulk Hogan ripping off his shirt

8
00:00:26,520 --> 00:00:30,600
Speaker 2: just like he used to do for the WWE. You know,

9
00:00:30,640 --> 00:00:32,680
Speaker 2: Trump saying he was going to bring the nation together,

10
00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:37,000
Speaker 2: but then he started ripping Nancy Pelosi and as you

11
00:00:37,080 --> 00:00:42,800
Speaker 2: heard their former recurrent president Biden right now, he claimed that,

12
00:00:43,520 --> 00:00:45,960
Speaker 2: you know, North Korean leader Kim Jong un might miss

13
00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:48,600
Speaker 2: some Democrats cheated the election. And it just kind of

14
00:00:48,640 --> 00:00:51,239
Speaker 2: went on and on and on. In fact, it was

15
00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:54,280
Speaker 2: the longest speech ever given. It ran ninety minutes.

16
00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:58,360
Speaker 1: Huh yeah, that's something I mean from my bespect I

17
00:00:58,360 --> 00:01:00,880
Speaker 1: was watching it down. Some of it was really him

18
00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:04,760
Speaker 1: talking about surviving that assassination attempt was amazing. They just

19
00:01:04,800 --> 00:01:08,280
Speaker 1: he just really steadily talked through his experience and it

20
00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:12,160
Speaker 1: was something to behold. There were some other like classic trumpisms.

21
00:01:12,160 --> 00:01:15,160
Speaker 1: There was one at one point where he went off

22
00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:18,560
Speaker 1: script quite clearly. He was talking about illegal immigration, and

23
00:01:18,600 --> 00:01:21,280
Speaker 1: he asked the audience if they've seen the Silence of

24
00:01:21,319 --> 00:01:24,480
Speaker 1: the Lambs, and then he said, well, you know the

25
00:01:24,560 --> 00:01:27,759
Speaker 1: late great Hannibal Lector, you know, that's who they're ending.

26
00:01:28,240 --> 00:01:31,120
Speaker 1: Was like, oh, okay, that's that's pretty out there. So

27
00:01:31,160 --> 00:01:33,880
Speaker 1: how do you think his speech is going to be received?

28
00:01:34,360 --> 00:01:38,760
Speaker 2: I you know, his his handlers if you can see

29
00:01:38,800 --> 00:01:41,520
Speaker 2: that anybody handles. Donald Trump had said he wasn't going

30
00:01:41,560 --> 00:01:44,520
Speaker 2: to go off script, but as you mentioned, he did

31
00:01:44,560 --> 00:01:48,240
Speaker 2: a number of times. There were moments there. I mean there,

32
00:01:48,280 --> 00:01:50,080
Speaker 2: you know, we had the fire jacket and the helmet

33
00:01:50,080 --> 00:01:52,240
Speaker 2: of the man that was killed during the assassination attempt

34
00:01:52,240 --> 00:01:54,480
Speaker 2: on stage when he walked out, you know, to accept

35
00:01:54,480 --> 00:01:57,200
Speaker 2: the nomination, and you know, he kissed the helmet there

36
00:01:57,200 --> 00:01:59,520
Speaker 2: and then he announced it more than six million dollars

37
00:01:59,520 --> 00:02:02,160
Speaker 2: they had been read for the victims of the of

38
00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:05,880
Speaker 2: of that, which was nice. His wife, Milania Trump, who

39
00:02:05,880 --> 00:02:07,960
Speaker 2: has only been seen or made I think two public

40
00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:10,600
Speaker 2: appearances on his behalf, made a little bit of a

41
00:02:10,680 --> 00:02:14,000
Speaker 2: dramatic entrance before she spoke. The rest of the family

42
00:02:14,040 --> 00:02:15,640
Speaker 2: came in, and then there was this well, is she

43
00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:17,080
Speaker 2: going to be there or is she not going to

44
00:02:17,080 --> 00:02:20,120
Speaker 2: be there? Will she won't she? And she did show up,

45
00:02:20,160 --> 00:02:23,840
Speaker 2: and you know, you're right. I think I think a

46
00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:25,400
Speaker 2: lot of people are going to remember it. But then

47
00:02:25,440 --> 00:02:27,240
Speaker 2: he said this was going to be the only time

48
00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:30,320
Speaker 2: that he he talks about this attempt at assassination because

49
00:02:30,360 --> 00:02:32,200
Speaker 2: he said it's too painful. But at the same time,

50
00:02:32,240 --> 00:02:34,880
Speaker 2: while he was doing that, you see all these pictures

51
00:02:34,919 --> 00:02:38,200
Speaker 2: behind him, and I don't know, it was just an

52
00:02:38,200 --> 00:02:41,800
Speaker 2: oxymoron at times. You know, it just was very confusing.

53
00:02:41,880 --> 00:02:44,240
Speaker 2: But he's a showman, and that's what it was. It

54
00:02:44,280 --> 00:02:45,080
Speaker 2: was a big show.

55
00:02:45,360 --> 00:02:48,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's exactly right. And Trump is the

56
00:02:48,200 --> 00:02:51,560
Speaker 1: ultimate oxymoron at times. Right in to the other side

57
00:02:51,560 --> 00:02:54,600
Speaker 1: of the house, Nancy Pelosi is going around telling people

58
00:02:54,639 --> 00:02:58,520
Speaker 1: she thinks Joe Biden can be persuaded and fairly soon

59
00:02:58,960 --> 00:03:01,760
Speaker 1: to step aside as Democrats nominee.

60
00:03:02,040 --> 00:03:04,359
Speaker 2: I if I was a betting man, and I would

61
00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:06,360
Speaker 2: not have said this maybe a week ago, but I

62
00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:09,560
Speaker 2: think this weekend we may end up hearing something. You're right,

63
00:03:09,720 --> 00:03:13,680
Speaker 2: Nancy Pelosi is doing this. Multiple sources have said that

64
00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:17,840
Speaker 2: that Barack Obama has been bombarded by some of the

65
00:03:17,880 --> 00:03:20,680
Speaker 2: top Democrats right now and is trying to find a

66
00:03:20,720 --> 00:03:25,440
Speaker 2: way to call on Biden to drop out the campaign.

67
00:03:25,480 --> 00:03:28,000
Speaker 2: Aids are just doing what they're doing right now. But

68
00:03:28,080 --> 00:03:29,840
Speaker 2: I think a lot of people in Washington, d C.

69
00:03:29,919 --> 00:03:31,919
Speaker 2: And a lot of Democrats right now publicly are just

70
00:03:31,960 --> 00:03:35,600
Speaker 2: seeing the walls closing in and it's time for him

71
00:03:35,640 --> 00:03:37,560
Speaker 2: to call it a day. And the polls show that

72
00:03:37,640 --> 00:03:41,120
Speaker 2: he's not going to beat Trump. The attack on you know,

73
00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:43,640
Speaker 2: former President Trump that we had last weekend has only

74
00:03:43,720 --> 00:03:47,000
Speaker 2: rallied his base. And then Biden gets COVID right now.

75
00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:49,800
Speaker 2: I mean, this is just it doesn't seem like anything

76
00:03:50,120 --> 00:03:53,720
Speaker 2: Biden does is going to advance him down the road.

77
00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:57,360
Speaker 2: So that leaves you with, Okay, who's next, Kamala Harris,

78
00:03:57,360 --> 00:03:58,480
Speaker 2: I guess is going to step up?

79
00:03:58,960 --> 00:04:01,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I guess we'll see. I don't know. I'm

80
00:04:01,440 --> 00:04:03,640
Speaker 1: with you. I reckon this is the weekend. I reckon

81
00:04:03,680 --> 00:04:05,960
Speaker 1: by Tuesday, New Zealand time. I have nothing to base

82
00:04:06,040 --> 00:04:09,080
Speaker 1: that except that he's having a bit of time to reflect,

83
00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:11,280
Speaker 1: which might be a good thing in Joe Biden's case.

84
00:04:11,600 --> 00:04:15,080
Speaker 1: And finally, Dan bud Light was once America's favorite beer,

85
00:04:15,120 --> 00:04:18,120
Speaker 1: but it is now firmly falling out of favor.

86
00:04:18,760 --> 00:04:22,640
Speaker 2: It is Modello out of Mexico is at the top.

87
00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:24,800
Speaker 2: And just you know, a year ago, a little more

88
00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:27,320
Speaker 2: than a year ago, I mean, Bud had ten percent

89
00:04:27,400 --> 00:04:29,880
Speaker 2: maybe a little bit more of beer sales here in

90
00:04:29,880 --> 00:04:31,920
Speaker 2: the US, I mean, it was huge. And then the

91
00:04:32,480 --> 00:04:36,120
Speaker 2: one of the marketing department decided to hire this transgender

92
00:04:36,160 --> 00:04:39,279
Speaker 2: social media influencer who has you know, a gazillion followers

93
00:04:39,279 --> 00:04:42,159
Speaker 2: across TikTok and Instagram as part of a brand for

94
00:04:42,279 --> 00:04:47,640
Speaker 2: March Madness. Well, that didn't go over with the conservatives

95
00:04:47,680 --> 00:04:50,560
Speaker 2: in this country, and they launched a nationwide boycott of

96
00:04:50,600 --> 00:04:53,440
Speaker 2: the brand, and that resulted in sales of Bud light

97
00:04:53,680 --> 00:04:56,880
Speaker 2: tanking and people thought, well, okay, everybody's got a short

98
00:04:56,920 --> 00:04:59,400
Speaker 2: memory span. This brand's been around for generations. Right now

99
00:04:59,480 --> 00:05:02,000
Speaker 2: it's going to come back. It has not, So it

100
00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:04,400
Speaker 2: slipped to number two, and then in the last three

101
00:05:04,400 --> 00:05:06,800
Speaker 2: months it's now slipped down to number three right now,

102
00:05:06,839 --> 00:05:09,320
Speaker 2: and this is costing them tens, if not hundreds of

103
00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:11,599
Speaker 2: millions of dollars just because somebody came up with this

104
00:05:11,680 --> 00:05:14,279
Speaker 2: idea of let's go with somebody that's on TikTok that

105
00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:16,839
Speaker 2: has nothing to do with our brand or the people

106
00:05:16,839 --> 00:05:18,000
Speaker 2: that consume our brand.

107
00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:21,000
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, it's a healthy and warning game. Thank

108
00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:22,839
Speaker 1: you so much. Dan appreciate it as EVA. That is

109
00:05:22,920 --> 00:05:26,479
Speaker 1: US correspondent Dan Mitchison. Thank you for your feedback. For

110
00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:29,880
Speaker 1: more from Hither Duplessy, Allen Drive, listen live to news

111
00:05:29,920 --> 00:05:32,800
Speaker 1: talks it'd be from four pm weekdays, or follow the

112
00:05:32,839 --> 00:05:34,520
Speaker 1: podcast on iHeartRadio.