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September 17, 2025 • 13 mins

THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Thursday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) That's an Invite I'd Turn Down Without Reading/Another Day, Another GDP Figure/Super Dodgey Stats/How Nicole Cuts It/When Dogs Play Favourites

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:26):
Gooday there, and welcome to the Rewrap for Thursday, all
the best bits from the Mic Hosking breakfast on Newstalk said,
be in a sillier package. I am Glen Hart and
today a happy GDP day again. Sen, You come around
so often, don't they? Holidays do too, School holidays. We've
got some holiday travel stats which I don't believe coming

(00:47):
up shortly. They'll be talking about that and other things
at the hairdresses. Oh yes they will. And we've got
a sort of a shaggy job story for you to
finish up with. Who doesn't love that? But before anything else,
something I couldn't care less about. A guy called Donald
Trump had dinner with a guy called Chuck.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
But Trump have to say about the King.

Speaker 4 (01:07):
We'll tell you that I just stood in line and
shook about one hundred and fifty hands, and the King
knew every single person and every single company, and some
of them had bad names like x y z Q three,
and he knew every one of them, or at least
I think he did, because nobody was complaining. I was

(01:27):
very impressed with.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
That because he invosts assigned people of dinner roll with time,
but nice compliment. Does he like William?

Speaker 4 (01:35):
I just want to say that his Majesty has also
raised a remarkable son in his Royal Highness, Prince of Wales.
Really amazing. We've gotten to know you, and I think
you're going to have an unbelievable success in future. Milani
and I are delighted to visit again with Prince William

(01:56):
and to see her Royal Highness Princess Catherine, so radiant
and so healthy, so beautiful. It's really great honor. Thank you?

Speaker 3 (02:04):
Is he creeping?

Speaker 2 (02:06):
When do you go up to super creeps?

Speaker 3 (02:07):
When you got off the hell? He was met by
William and Kate and he apparently went up to her
and said, you're beautiful, You're really beautiful. I assume he
meant it in just a nice way. But I don't
know how you handle that. And I've got to say
to be honest that you know how big a fan
I am of Princess Kate. But she was completely and
utterly out dressed today by Milania. I don't know who

(02:29):
does Mlania's styling, but whoever it is, is the best
in the world, literally the best in the world, because
Kate normally is on point. But today she turned up
in a burgundy type color, which is very, very in
so there's no criticism there. But she had what looked
like a small cake on her head for a hat,
whereas Milania turns up on those things look like sold

(02:50):
of dishes. They're incredible. She looks incredible everything she does.
When she turned up on that trench yesterday and she
walked off the plane. If you look closely, she's wearing
a spectacular pair of boots. And when you're dealing with
those two, money's no object, styling's no object, access to
fashion is no object. But Kate got completely and utterly

(03:12):
out dressed by Milania today. No one is more spectacular
sartorially in the world as far as I can work
out on the public stage than Millennia Trump.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
Well, I mean, whoever's dressing he has all that practice
on all the doubles, of course.

Speaker 3 (03:26):
Well that's true. I mean, do we know that that's
the real one or just one of the couple.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
It's hard to see your face underneath the hand. As
I was watching all this complete bullshit going on today.
I mean, it absolutely makes me sick to my stomach
watching how much money and resource is put into these
stupid events and this guy who's supposed to be a
king just running around after Trump like a little lap

(03:52):
dog behind him. Yes, it was pathetic. Anyway, As I
was having to watch all this as part of my job,
I was thinking to myself, what would I have done if, Like,
if I had been in the position I never will be,
but if I'd been the position to be invited to
the stupid dinner Like you know, these various different tech

(04:14):
CEOs of stuff, you just go, no, no, I've got
to go what for the latest episode of Alien Earth?
A far more important things to do?

Speaker 4 (04:23):
So rewrap.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
So by the time you're hearing this, the GDP number
might well be out. I'm sure it's terrible news or
great but or probably just not that interesting even.

Speaker 3 (04:37):
Important to remember, of course, that today's GDP number is
about things that have come and gone. Months back, when
we were discussing how tight it all felt, how quiet
it was, it will be proven today we were right,
the ongoing irony being of course that as we discussed that,
as we saw it felt it the Reserve Bank was
asleep or blind or had their spreadsheets outside down because
in May they were holding rates as though nothing was

(04:59):
going on, or they were telling us they'd done enough.
They were telling us rates had come down, the flow
through effect was on and things had settled wrong, wrong, wrong,
and wrong. So the Reserve Bank forecast is for zero
point three to the negative. Other banks have anywhere between
that and about zero point five backwards. Either way, going
backwards is not good. It's generally accepted that post that
period ie July, August and September, the period we're currently

(05:22):
wrapping up, that things have improved, but by how much?
And if you look at some of the live GDP
reads in the latter part of this current quarter, once
again things seem to have slowed. They have possibly gone backwards.
Given that, it beggars belief that the Reserve Bank won't
be rapping the year with their final two decisions as
both being cuts, and you can only hope that someone
there here's the call for the bigger cuts of fifty points.

(05:42):
But rubbing up against the cold hard data are the
politics of this. The government will be fast to tell
you that Q two today's numbers go on better days
are ahead. Whether they are or not, they'll worry about
Q three another day, but this week's poll on the
economy has got to start to be a worry. A
decent chunk of the country blames this government for the
current economic malays. They shouldn't, of course, but apparently they do.

(06:05):
The here and now the butt is too much. Yes,
who do I hate for this luxon? That's how myopic
thinking goes. But the myopic thinker has the same number
of votes as the educated one. You might argue, I don't.
But you might argue that the labor plan of asking
the government every question time about the economy, whether it
be the people who have left the country, jobs that
have been lost, or the prices that have gone up,
asking them as though it's their fault, has been, in

(06:27):
fact a stroke of political genius. Say it until it sticks. Basically,
if logic drove votes, this government will be fine. But
logic doesn't. A bad Q two they can live with
a bad Q three. It's a whole new story.

Speaker 2 (06:41):
It's a it's a funny our business these statistics, isn't it? These?
When these numbers and things, you know the FED in
the US today they can't but everybody knew they were
going to so the market sort of went, oh cool,
on no, actually that's what we expected, and nothing really changed.
It's a man, it's a weird business. This whole society

(07:01):
we've created rap. But if there's one thing for sure,
you don't want to take numbers too seriously, especially if
they come from publicity departments.

Speaker 3 (07:11):
Hi, Mike, If a million people are going through Auckland Airport,
that means twenty percent of us are traveling. Not a
bad economy. I couldn't agree more this whole thing. Now,
this will be the two step. I get it. Not
everyone's got money, not everyone's traveling. I understand that. But
you cannot have a million people forking out for airfes
half the time. When you're not complaining about the butter,
what are you complaining about New Zealand? I hate you

(07:32):
in New Zealand cost you nine million dollars to fly
half an hour.

Speaker 2 (07:36):
You haven't got a million people. You've got to go
there and back, so it's hard.

Speaker 3 (07:39):
Okay, half a million people, you've still got half a
million people, five hundred thousand people or somebody actually negatively said, well,
how many you're on one way tickets? Stop being negative
when the numbers are in front of you. The numbers
are in front of you. You can't argue with that
many people with enough money to fly internationally and around
the countryside for what is nothing more than a holiday
for fundzis.

Speaker 2 (07:59):
Yeah, so we've already slashed that in half. And then
of course you've got the people who fly domestically to
Auckland to then catch in international flight. So whatever the
percentages of them, you're going to take them off. I mean,
I actually had to add an argument with the producer
of the show Sam about this. You say, no, no, no,
they're talking about a million travelers. I think, yes, yes,

(08:21):
But but if you know, however many travelers go through
the airport today, they'll then add those on to the
number of travelers that go through the airport tomorrow. That
they're not asking those ones. H did we already count
you yesterday when you're on your way out now you're
on your way back in early of course not. And
then and then there's all the people who would just
be flying anyway for business or you know, for not

(08:45):
holidays but to go to funerals or you know, and
you know, are they counting the air crew and there
I'm just saying, they're counting a lot of people, and
many of them. Many times I wonder if any of
the people at Kate's heirdresser were as sharp as I
was picking up that little floor in those statistics.

Speaker 3 (09:06):
Mike just finished walking the life one hundred and fifteen
k's of the Camino now in Portugal. Thank you for listening,
Then off to Ireland. Love traveling, but love to get home.
So Cadie's at the hairdresser the other day. Her hairdresser
is one of those hair dresses that has clients that
just permanently travel internationally and then come back here to
get their hair done. They all said the same thing. Interesting,

(09:28):
they travels hard and travels harder. Travels indisputably more expensive.
Travel has more issues with it these days, a tremendousness.
And this is anecdotal, obviously, but most of them, virtually
all of them, came home and got ill, and they're
all said the same thing. Traveling is great, still love it,
but it's great to be home, which I found to

(09:49):
be encouraged.

Speaker 2 (09:50):
So can you not get your hair done overseas?

Speaker 3 (09:52):
Not in the way that they get it done with
with Nicole Nichole's like one out of the box.

Speaker 2 (09:56):
So yeah, I'm going to have to have That's how
Nicole cuts it and sticking that up now obviously, you know,
and the more you think about it, the more ridiculous
it is. Imagine if twenty percent of the population went
away at the same time, the country of pride to
a wholt. It's stupid. It's almost stupid, as when Trump
said the other day is justification for blowing up boats
that may or may not be carrying drugs to America area,

(10:22):
killing the people on board. To justify that, he said, well,
you know, three hundred million people died of drugs overdoses
last years, which of course is impossible. Anyway, the rewrap.
If you didn't think that this podcast had already gone
to the dogs, here we go a funny animal story

(10:43):
to finish off it.

Speaker 3 (10:44):
Speaking of flying Virgin Australia, I like this, but I
own a Maltese. My Maldese cost us three hundred dollars
yesterday because the Moldese the day before was chasing Katie. Maltese,
in case you don't know, form a bond with a
person within the house, and that particular person is Katie.

(11:04):
Despite the fact that the dog was the daughter's. So
the dog looked at the daughter, looked at Katie and went, na,
I hang with Katie. So anyways, so the dog hangs
with Katie. Problem is part of our house has wooden floors,
and the dog sort of sits there and suddenly realizes
Katie isn't in the immediate vicinity, in panics and starts
running around the house. What happened two days ago was
the dog came sliding around the corner, you know how
dog lose the rear end. Came slowly around the corner

(11:27):
and here just so it went around the corner like that,
and so something happened to the dog, probably an injury.
So then Maltese of you know Maltese as they just
then pack a stand sad and start shaking and they're pathetic.
And so then we thought, is it going to come right?
Is it not going to come right? So it sort

(11:47):
of came right. Then the thought, oh, well, we'll cancel
the bit. So we had an ava. So we canceled
a bit.

Speaker 2 (11:51):
Then you cat up a bet. You went on the
way out in the back to get the shotgun. Mo.

Speaker 3 (11:56):
So then we the next day dog was shaking again,
we go down to the bed. By the time we
get to the dog's fine. Three hundred dollars later, after
a big examination, dog's fine, happy ass. That's Malteseus for you, Lessen,
and that is never buy a Maltese. We love the
Maltese anyway. I've told you about Maltesa. Unfortunately, what I
was going to tell you about is Virgin Australia and
flying with animals. And I think, because I own a Malteseer,
that's the sort of dog you can fly with. But

(12:18):
Virgin Australia is starting the ability for you to take
your dog or your cat on the plane.

Speaker 2 (12:23):
I got so distracted with that story because he kept
saying Maltesers, Malteser, Maltesers, and I just then started picturing
packets of Maltesers and being very regretful that I'm on
a diet right now and would love to scoff a
packet of Maltese. And what are we talking about again?
That's right, shooting dogs. You shouldn't say that on the radio, Glen.

(12:47):
There'll be ticks and emails and calls and complaints, so
I'll probably have to do an apology tomorrow. So I'll
be back with that to amorrocans Yea.

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