July 31, 2025 • 11 mins
THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Friday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) Do the Math/Growing Up to Be Hosk/Mark the Week/Betting on Barca/Some Things Age Better Than Others
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
The Rewrap.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Okay there, welcome to the Rewrap for Friday. All the
best bits from the Mic Husking breakfast on News Talks.
They'd be in a sillier package. I am Glen Hanne.
Today we're training students for life or are we just
training them for school? Will mark the week because it's
Friday and that is what we do. Barcelona has got
a new sponsor the football team I'm talking about, not
(00:48):
the place, and which is the best airline uniform in
the world. But before any of that, a little bit
of it's always fun to best psych aways. Let's do
it again this morning.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Let me ask you this question. If a council gives
a media outlet some numbers and the media outlet simply
reposts those numbers, is that reportage or as propaganda. So
the headline was more cyclists get on their bikes, which
is true, But at no point in my reading of
the cycle ways of the nation's major cities was any
definitive analysis done as to whether the cost of the
(01:21):
infrastructure to get people on their bikes was worth it.
In christ Church, some popular routes clocked two thousand trips
a day. Now is that a lot? Well, remember to
harve that number because trips reach twice, so it's one
thousand going to and from something. And this is in
a city of four one hundred thousand people. Wellington four
key corridors racked up eighty seven thousand in a month.
(01:42):
So you harve the eighty seven, you get about forty three.
Divide it by four for the corridors four corridors are
you have ten. Divide it by thirty for the days
of the month. You've got three hundred and thirty three
a day. Three hundred and thirty three a day. Not
a lot of people for cycle ways. That would have
cost many, many millions of dollars. In christ Church, they
were claiming a forty percent increase in usage, except that
was from twenty seventeen so over eight years, so about
(02:06):
five percent a year, not really a booming number. Uku
Town and Wellington is one of their most popular routes.
Apparently they do. They claim between eight to twelve thousand
trips a month, so let's average that it's ten thousand
are divided by two, so we're down to five. Divided
by thirty, we end up with one hundred and sixty
six a day for one of the most popular routes.
So a cycling booming or has the council pr department
(02:28):
cobbled together their best numbers, passed it off in press
release form to a gullible newsroom and the hope no
one has a calculator. They't get me wrong, nothing wrong
with cycling. Cycling's fun and good for you. But when
you add the cost of the specialists, infrastructure and do
the math, it's got a very ev type vibe about it,
doesn't it. A lot of hype that is never quite
matched by the reality. Numbers and percentages are easily messed with,
(02:48):
of course, to paint the sort of picture you want.
The favorite is the huge percentage increase, But you're not
supposed to ask from what to what? I mean, one
to two is one hundred percent, but still only two.
But where the bandwagon and the machine normally tax or
ratepayer funded of course, that pushes this stuff, and sadly
the media who peddles it no pun intended.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Yeah, it doesn't really add up, doesn't it. I mean,
don't get me wrong, I love a cycle away. I
love cycling along a cycle away, but I do it
about I don't know if i'd do it once a
year these days, So yeah, I don't love it that much.
It's not rewrap, right, I think. With the endless, seemingly
(03:30):
endless tweaking of the education system continues, with concerns that
students aren't work ready when they leave school. A bit
of feedback on that.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Mike, my senior electrician six plus years tradesman, earned ninety
three six hundred parandum with over but I'm generally something
around one hundred and twenty three thousand, and they work hard.
I'm sick to death of hearing about the bloody nurses
and the school teacher as well. I mean, it's not
the nurses and school teacher, it's mainly the unions. But
you're right, the trades are the answer for many, many people.
And the number of people who sit at university. And
I discovered this again over the last handful of years
(04:02):
with the kids who've gone through university, youngest one still
at university. The number of people sitting at university is
doing a bcon no particular reason is ridiculous, And it's
just this, this this thing, this vibe that when you
go to school, you must go to university because if
you go to university, good things will happen to you.
If you're going to be a doctor or a lawyer
or something very specific, of course it will. But if
(04:23):
you're just in that kind of well, I'm not sure
what I'm going to do. I might as well park
myself for three or four years and run up some debt.
Where does it lead nowhere? Particularly good? The number of
kids I can show you these days who popped out
with their BA and have got nowhere. You know, this
is just our personal experience. It's not necessarily the answer
is the guy's name I've forgotten, but who's the head
of the universities. And he's held the universities. He's on
(04:45):
the program fairly regularly. He says, if you're on a pathway,
if you've got a plan, universities for you, if you're
just wandering aimlessly through life, then it probably isn't. Then
therefore trades can be a fantastic option. You were so
he was so blown away by that. Glenn was just going.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
I'm just worrying about that up. I was just thinking
about the guests we had on before. I was talking
about all the kids who want to be like Mike
Hosking and do his job. Nothing wrong with Mike, and
I'm just not quite sure what training's involved and.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
The zero train and it's different these that.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Yeah, I mean you'd have to you'd have to wonder
about a kid, he says, I want to grow up
to be my Hosking one day. I mean, do kids
go I want to grow up to be an accountants?
I think some kids do, don't They no offense accountants?
But you know it's not the same as fireman or
(05:36):
airline pilot? Is it?
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Rewrap?
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Actually, we'll have a bit more airline news at the
end of the podcast. Before we get there, let's mark
the week, because oh my goodness, it's Friday already.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Time out to make the weak little piece of news
and current events. It's as popular as your brand new
terroft is imposed by Donald Trumpezov today. Enjoy every one
of them. Yes, speaking of which, August six, is it
just me? Or is this you're moving at pace? I mean,
where did seven months ago are the recovery?
Speaker 1 (06:01):
For?
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Yes, by August the recovery was supposed to be here.
The Green shoots were supposed to flourished stuff was supposed
to be better. A wave charge ban six not perfect,
but a practical move that should help building supplies six
not perfect, but a house should be cheaper. Kre We
Bank six half a billion might help. But don't hold
your breath if those of us who say the competition
between banks already exists, all it might end up doing
(06:24):
is showing the willis theory as a nickeler is a theory.
Bank lending and switching though seven a lot of new
lending and record amount of switching going on in June.
Isn't that called done? What's that called? That's that's competition?
Zelenski two? Much around with the corruption Officer's got himself
as first public protest last weekend for his troubles and
enraged Europe and doing so. Who are now withholding?
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Eight?
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Is that as big as cock up in the war
or what government board fees? Four? I mean a classic
example of no matter how logical it was, it was
always going to have image issues, wasn't it? Road cone
funding seven more stick than carrot and that's exactly what
councils need. Publishing of council stats yesterday on spending six
more pressure from central government. Exactly what councils need. Are
(07:08):
the warriors? Seven? See a loss to the Titans and
we lose Fisher Harris as well. If you're a doubter,
there's a bit of material there for you to angst over.
But I am still a believer and this says sold
out tonight for the Dolphins. Rob Penny seven. Glad he's back.
And why not one bad year one great year? You'd
want another dose of the great, wouldn't you? For goodness sake?
(07:28):
Egg law four? I mean kids collecting eggs. Allegedly it's
an issue and needs reform, which is just as well
given there's like nothing else going on as there are
the geothermal draft plan.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Eight.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Now this is progress, this is risk taking, this is visionary.
It's tapping into what we're good at and running with
it more please. Shane Jones, speaking of which, eight.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
A lot of what I'm doing at the moment as
an active penance.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Move of the week, had a couple of glasses of
red turned his phone off. Mister the alerts. Now, that's
a plan and that's the weak. Copies on the website,
and by the way, copies of this will be widely
available in the new air New Zealand Koru lounges black
and white for the ordinary air points holder in full
color in the business session.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
So yeah, as I say, more airline news to come shortly.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
It's a rewrap.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
But now football news or is this tourism news or
is it Africa news? You'd be the judge.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
So whose fault is this? As of next season, Barcelona
as on the faming football side, new camp and all
that sort of stuff are going to have on the
back of the training kit. Their new sponsors are the
new eighty million dollar sponsorship deal which is with quote
unquote Congo, Heart of Africa says that random. It's a
bit random. Is Congo really one of those countries that
(08:43):
has eighty million dollars to sponsor a European football team?
Not really, It's one of the poorest countries in Africa.
Seventy six percent of the people live below a dollar
ninety a day. So is that Barcelona's fault for accepting
the money or once again Africa's fault for behaving like Africa?
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Okay, I get on the surface, that seems like a
tremendous amount of money for a country that doesn't have
any money. You'd be shelling out to get their name
on some soccer shares. But what if it pays off?
DRC becomes the go to jurist destination as a result,
then they'll be rewarded. They'll get their investment back in spades.
(09:18):
I mean it's a long shot, but that's where you
get the big games, right from the longest shots.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
It's a rerap. Right.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
It's finished up with the airline news. I've been promising
you it's not really airline news. It's airline clothing news.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Very good news. And some of you will go, how's
that possible? From the twenty five Flyers Choice Awards from
Airline Ratings dot com Best cabin Crew Uniform, who won
will obviously Singapore, because Singapore wins everything. Singapore's the best airline,
Singapore's got the best airport, and Singapore has the best uniform.
It was designed years ago by p bel Mann, back
(09:50):
in nineteen seventy four, and if you think about it
hasn't changed. And if you think about that, that's classic fashion,
that's timeless fashion. That's what great design is. If you
design something that stands the test of time, you see
it that you see it in furniture, and so Bellmann
got it right, and it's still the same uniform today.
Emirates second, which I find weird because it's a sort
(10:10):
of a mustardy brownie tanny and no one looks good
in tan and in New Zealand.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Came third for the new one or the existing may.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
The existing one, the existing one, the purple one with
the swirls now. I struggle with this because Tralice Cooper
is one of the nicest people in the world, and
she designed it, of course, but she designed it quite
a long time away, in what I would argue is
a fashion forward kind of way, in a could be
hot now, not so hot later.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Or do we need to give it another fifty years
like Singapore's one could come wrong? Of course. The very
interesting part of that is that those would have been
the days when for the jingle whin Singapore, girl You're
a Great way to fly, which I think is not
so in vogue these days. So part of that stayed
super in fashion, and part of it dated almost immediately.
(11:02):
You just never can tell, can you. I think I
dated almost immediately, and by that I mean the moment
I was I am Glen hat I'm going to age
disgracefully over the weekend. I'll see you, beck you again
with more re wrapping on.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
My map for more from News Talk set B, listen
live on air or online, and keep our shows with
you wherever you go with our podcasts on iHeartRadio.
You're listening to a podcast from News talks'd be follow
this and our wide range of podcasts now on iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
The Rewrap.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Okay there, welcome to the Rewrap for Friday. All the
best bits from the Mic Husking breakfast on News Talks.
They'd be in a sillier package. I am Glen Hanne.
Today we're training students for life or are we just
training them for school? Will mark the week because it's
Friday and that is what we do. Barcelona has got
a new sponsor the football team I'm talking about, not
(00:48):
the place, and which is the best airline uniform in
the world. But before any of that, a little bit
of it's always fun to best psych aways. Let's do
it again this morning.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Let me ask you this question. If a council gives
a media outlet some numbers and the media outlet simply
reposts those numbers, is that reportage or as propaganda. So
the headline was more cyclists get on their bikes, which
is true, But at no point in my reading of
the cycle ways of the nation's major cities was any
definitive analysis done as to whether the cost of the
(01:21):
infrastructure to get people on their bikes was worth it.
In christ Church, some popular routes clocked two thousand trips
a day. Now is that a lot? Well, remember to
harve that number because trips reach twice, so it's one
thousand going to and from something. And this is in
a city of four one hundred thousand people. Wellington four
key corridors racked up eighty seven thousand in a month.
(01:42):
So you harve the eighty seven, you get about forty three.
Divide it by four for the corridors four corridors are
you have ten. Divide it by thirty for the days
of the month. You've got three hundred and thirty three
a day. Three hundred and thirty three a day. Not
a lot of people for cycle ways. That would have
cost many, many millions of dollars. In christ Church, they
were claiming a forty percent increase in usage, except that
was from twenty seventeen so over eight years, so about
(02:06):
five percent a year, not really a booming number. Uku
Town and Wellington is one of their most popular routes.
Apparently they do. They claim between eight to twelve thousand
trips a month, so let's average that it's ten thousand
are divided by two, so we're down to five. Divided
by thirty, we end up with one hundred and sixty
six a day for one of the most popular routes.
So a cycling booming or has the council pr department
(02:28):
cobbled together their best numbers, passed it off in press
release form to a gullible newsroom and the hope no
one has a calculator. They't get me wrong, nothing wrong
with cycling. Cycling's fun and good for you. But when
you add the cost of the specialists, infrastructure and do
the math, it's got a very ev type vibe about it,
doesn't it. A lot of hype that is never quite
matched by the reality. Numbers and percentages are easily messed with,
(02:48):
of course, to paint the sort of picture you want.
The favorite is the huge percentage increase, But you're not
supposed to ask from what to what? I mean, one
to two is one hundred percent, but still only two.
But where the bandwagon and the machine normally tax or
ratepayer funded of course, that pushes this stuff, and sadly
the media who peddles it no pun intended.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Yeah, it doesn't really add up, doesn't it. I mean,
don't get me wrong, I love a cycle away. I
love cycling along a cycle away, but I do it
about I don't know if i'd do it once a
year these days, So yeah, I don't love it that much.
It's not rewrap, right, I think. With the endless, seemingly
(03:30):
endless tweaking of the education system continues, with concerns that
students aren't work ready when they leave school. A bit
of feedback on that.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Mike, my senior electrician six plus years tradesman, earned ninety
three six hundred parandum with over but I'm generally something
around one hundred and twenty three thousand, and they work hard.
I'm sick to death of hearing about the bloody nurses
and the school teacher as well. I mean, it's not
the nurses and school teacher, it's mainly the unions. But
you're right, the trades are the answer for many, many people.
And the number of people who sit at university. And
I discovered this again over the last handful of years
(04:02):
with the kids who've gone through university, youngest one still
at university. The number of people sitting at university is
doing a bcon no particular reason is ridiculous, And it's
just this, this this thing, this vibe that when you
go to school, you must go to university because if
you go to university, good things will happen to you.
If you're going to be a doctor or a lawyer
or something very specific, of course it will. But if
(04:23):
you're just in that kind of well, I'm not sure
what I'm going to do. I might as well park
myself for three or four years and run up some debt.
Where does it lead nowhere? Particularly good? The number of
kids I can show you these days who popped out
with their BA and have got nowhere. You know, this
is just our personal experience. It's not necessarily the answer
is the guy's name I've forgotten, but who's the head
of the universities. And he's held the universities. He's on
(04:45):
the program fairly regularly. He says, if you're on a pathway,
if you've got a plan, universities for you, if you're
just wandering aimlessly through life, then it probably isn't. Then
therefore trades can be a fantastic option. You were so
he was so blown away by that. Glenn was just going.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
I'm just worrying about that up. I was just thinking
about the guests we had on before. I was talking
about all the kids who want to be like Mike
Hosking and do his job. Nothing wrong with Mike, and
I'm just not quite sure what training's involved and.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
The zero train and it's different these that.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Yeah, I mean you'd have to you'd have to wonder
about a kid, he says, I want to grow up
to be my Hosking one day. I mean, do kids
go I want to grow up to be an accountants?
I think some kids do, don't They no offense accountants?
But you know it's not the same as fireman or
(05:36):
airline pilot? Is it?
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Rewrap?
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Actually, we'll have a bit more airline news at the
end of the podcast. Before we get there, let's mark
the week, because oh my goodness, it's Friday already.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Time out to make the weak little piece of news
and current events. It's as popular as your brand new
terroft is imposed by Donald Trumpezov today. Enjoy every one
of them. Yes, speaking of which, August six, is it
just me? Or is this you're moving at pace? I mean,
where did seven months ago are the recovery?
Speaker 1 (06:01):
For?
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Yes, by August the recovery was supposed to be here.
The Green shoots were supposed to flourished stuff was supposed
to be better. A wave charge ban six not perfect,
but a practical move that should help building supplies six
not perfect, but a house should be cheaper. Kre We
Bank six half a billion might help. But don't hold
your breath if those of us who say the competition
between banks already exists, all it might end up doing
(06:24):
is showing the willis theory as a nickeler is a theory.
Bank lending and switching though seven a lot of new
lending and record amount of switching going on in June.
Isn't that called done? What's that called? That's that's competition?
Zelenski two? Much around with the corruption Officer's got himself
as first public protest last weekend for his troubles and
enraged Europe and doing so. Who are now withholding?
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Eight?
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Is that as big as cock up in the war
or what government board fees? Four? I mean a classic
example of no matter how logical it was, it was
always going to have image issues, wasn't it? Road cone
funding seven more stick than carrot and that's exactly what
councils need. Publishing of council stats yesterday on spending six
more pressure from central government. Exactly what councils need. Are
(07:08):
the warriors? Seven? See a loss to the Titans and
we lose Fisher Harris as well. If you're a doubter,
there's a bit of material there for you to angst over.
But I am still a believer and this says sold
out tonight for the Dolphins. Rob Penny seven. Glad he's back.
And why not one bad year one great year? You'd
want another dose of the great, wouldn't you? For goodness sake?
(07:28):
Egg law four? I mean kids collecting eggs. Allegedly it's
an issue and needs reform, which is just as well
given there's like nothing else going on as there are
the geothermal draft plan.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Eight.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Now this is progress, this is risk taking, this is visionary.
It's tapping into what we're good at and running with
it more please. Shane Jones, speaking of which, eight.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
A lot of what I'm doing at the moment as
an active penance.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Move of the week, had a couple of glasses of
red turned his phone off. Mister the alerts. Now, that's
a plan and that's the weak. Copies on the website,
and by the way, copies of this will be widely
available in the new air New Zealand Koru lounges black
and white for the ordinary air points holder in full
color in the business session.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
So yeah, as I say, more airline news to come shortly.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
It's a rewrap.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
But now football news or is this tourism news or
is it Africa news? You'd be the judge.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
So whose fault is this? As of next season, Barcelona
as on the faming football side, new camp and all
that sort of stuff are going to have on the
back of the training kit. Their new sponsors are the
new eighty million dollar sponsorship deal which is with quote
unquote Congo, Heart of Africa says that random. It's a
bit random. Is Congo really one of those countries that
(08:43):
has eighty million dollars to sponsor a European football team?
Not really, It's one of the poorest countries in Africa.
Seventy six percent of the people live below a dollar
ninety a day. So is that Barcelona's fault for accepting
the money or once again Africa's fault for behaving like Africa?
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Okay, I get on the surface, that seems like a
tremendous amount of money for a country that doesn't have
any money. You'd be shelling out to get their name
on some soccer shares. But what if it pays off?
DRC becomes the go to jurist destination as a result,
then they'll be rewarded. They'll get their investment back in spades.
(09:18):
I mean it's a long shot, but that's where you
get the big games, right from the longest shots.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
It's a rerap. Right.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
It's finished up with the airline news. I've been promising
you it's not really airline news. It's airline clothing news.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Very good news. And some of you will go, how's
that possible? From the twenty five Flyers Choice Awards from
Airline Ratings dot com Best cabin Crew Uniform, who won
will obviously Singapore, because Singapore wins everything. Singapore's the best airline,
Singapore's got the best airport, and Singapore has the best uniform.
It was designed years ago by p bel Mann, back
(09:50):
in nineteen seventy four, and if you think about it
hasn't changed. And if you think about that, that's classic fashion,
that's timeless fashion. That's what great design is. If you
design something that stands the test of time, you see
it that you see it in furniture, and so Bellmann
got it right, and it's still the same uniform today.
Emirates second, which I find weird because it's a sort
(10:10):
of a mustardy brownie tanny and no one looks good
in tan and in New Zealand.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Came third for the new one or the existing may.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
The existing one, the existing one, the purple one with
the swirls now. I struggle with this because Tralice Cooper
is one of the nicest people in the world, and
she designed it, of course, but she designed it quite
a long time away, in what I would argue is
a fashion forward kind of way, in a could be
hot now, not so hot later.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Or do we need to give it another fifty years
like Singapore's one could come wrong? Of course. The very
interesting part of that is that those would have been
the days when for the jingle whin Singapore, girl You're
a Great way to fly, which I think is not
so in vogue these days. So part of that stayed
super in fashion, and part of it dated almost immediately.
(11:02):
You just never can tell, can you. I think I
dated almost immediately, and by that I mean the moment
I was I am Glen hat I'm going to age
disgracefully over the weekend. I'll see you, beck you again
with more re wrapping on.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
My map for more from News Talk set B, listen
live on air or online, and keep our shows with
you wherever you go with our podcasts on iHeartRadio.
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