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July 1, 2026 13 mins

THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Thursday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) But Then, Isn't Everything?/What's Wrong with Chris Hipkins?/Netball Can't Get Out of its Own Way/The Great Canadian Rift/Trump In the Badlands

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
The Rewrap.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
Okay there and welcome to the Rewrap for Thursday. All
the best that's from the Miclassing Breakfast on news Dog
ZDB and a Sillier package. I'm Glen Harten today. What's
wrong with Chris Hopkins? What's wrong with netball? A Canadian
politics and a riff? A great Canadian rift. It sounds
geological rather than political, doesn't it. And then we'll go

(00:45):
a little bit further south, only a little bit, and
go and visit Trump in North Dakota see if we
can figure out why it's called the bad lands. But
before any of that, we've looked at the economic outlook
and the weather is fine.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
Nicola Waldron has started, I assume as she means to
go on where they shot across the bout at the government.
She is the new restaurant association head. Her appeal is
the one you thought it might be. She wants the
government to listen. She relitigates COVID, the lockdowns, slow border openings,
the rates, the insurance, domestic consumer sentiment. She wants whoever

(01:19):
wins the election to listen now, I've got sympathy for
a good news though. One the lockdown ear is over.
Move on. Two the insurance cost plus rating era that
sadly though, isn't that Things like rate caps may well
help in three. As for consumer sentiment, a couple of things.

Speaker 4 (01:34):
They are.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
Firstly, sentiments fine, not right now, but pre Iran we
were after the races. We will be off to the
races again. Iran was not our fault, not the government's fault.
It was Trump's and all we could do is suck
it up. But those Q one GDP numbers, along with
the associated previous quarterly revisions, showed this country was growing nicely.
West Pack updated their data last week. They've increased growth
for the rest of the year. And you've just heard

(01:55):
what the IMF is saying for this year and next.
They are bullish. So that should take care of that.
But can I, as a restaurant go and make an
appeal to the association and indeed the industry. This is
a two way street. There is too much of the
industry that, to put it bluntly, are useless. We are
over hospitt Every immigrant in their mum opens a takeaway
or a cafe or a restaurant. They may or may

(02:16):
not know what they're doing. Too many employee imbeciles who
are not into service. Too many have nonsense ours. Too
many offer inferior product at first class prices. We have
an industry of two parts, basically well established successful operators
who get it, deliberate and prosper as a result, Mechlin
star anybody, and we have fly by nights in a
boom bus cycle going nowhere. The reason liquidations are so

(02:38):
high in hospital because most of them never stood a chance,
because they didn't deserve to ask for all the government
to help. You want but help yourself. First. Single out
your rock stars, Tell the others to replicate, or at
least have a good crack at replication. Want for more,
aim higher, work harder, be more determined. We have enough
stars to know it's possible. The precedent is already there.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
Ed Mice probably right. As an attitude thing, everything in
life is an attitude thing. It's the hardest lesson to
teach your kids, Isn't it just have a decent attitude
about stuff. It's actually a hard lesson to teach a
lot of people. The re wrap people like Chris Hapkins,
for example.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
Mike Great Show, I listen every day. Thank you, Ray,
A client of mine says Ray is involved with the
Tussock Hill restaurant in christ Church. Deserve the Michelin Star
rest as a nati, which is insane. Since news broke
at five pm last night, they received one hundred and
fifty three new bookings. And there was stupid Chris Hopkins
saying that spending six million getting Michelin too news in
was a waste of money. What an idiot he is.

Speaker 5 (03:39):
How does sending six point three million dollars of taxpayers
money to a French tire company helped the cafes and
takeaway shops that are going under in record numbers under
his government's leadership.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
Really he doesn't read the room well at the best
of times. But really, have I seen a politician go
back to the days what six eight months ago, when
Luxen was getting beaten up for being a bit cloth
ed in, a out of touch with the real world.
Rarely have I seen a misstep the way I saw
that misstep this week in parliament. That was question time
in Parliament on the eve of the Michelin Stars. And

(04:14):
that's a guy who all he's interested in is loser
bills and problems and issues, enclosures and liquidations and downtrodden.
You go nowhere on the very same day that we
were celebrating, were about to celebrate some extraordinary success. And
unless and I tried to pass this on through Jinny yesterday,
unless he can get his head out of that particular
problem and see the world for what it is. No,

(04:34):
not everything's perfect, obviously, but there's a lot more going
on in this country that is good, is prosperous, is
going places. And if he can't see that sprout that
can talk about that, I mean he's done for anyway,
But at least he can give himself a half decent chance.

Speaker 4 (04:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (04:48):
I think there's a reason why that song doesn't go
accentuate the negatives and forget about the positive. That's that's
not the song rerap right Nipple can't seem to talk
about the labor party not being able to get out
of its own way and preceptince the netball seems to
be suffering from the same malady, doesn't it.

Speaker 5 (05:06):
At the moment?

Speaker 2 (05:06):
Now there's a very long and growing and might they add,
impressive lineup of nitball folk who have, whether deliberately and
or desperately, decided that speaking out about their sport is
all they have left to do to try and say.
But quite a moving article actually featuring a guy called
Rob Wright. If you want to look it up. They
all sing from the same song sheet. Netball is in trouble.
No one seems to know what to do. It appears

(05:27):
to be in crisis, and that crisis is potentially terminal
at the elite level. Like all such stories, there are layers.
The sport hadn't been helped by the previous management and board,
of course, who appeared to let what you would loosely
call wokeness get dangerously out of control. But even if
the newbies on the board and at management level can
contain or control that, that still doesn't address the bigger issue, which,
as always is money. My fear is nit more might

(05:51):
just be one of those sports that isn't good enough
to be at the top level in a country like
New Zealand already suffers, of course, from the problem of
being a minor global sport. Part of its issue, I think,
is based on the idea that it's popular, which it
is at school level, but not so much at top level,
I mean the ratings till a very harsh story. Even
free to air, which is helped, isn't an answer given
the free to wear provider IETV and Z has no

(06:12):
money in Australia, which is also free to wear as
of late. At least they have a competitive TV landscape,
so the price goes up. Us not playing in the
trans Tasman competition. I think that was dangerous, if not fatal.
Are the corporates, I guess could help, but for what all?
Truism I mean, sponsorship needs money and numbers and knit
ball doesn't have them. It may need a benefactor, somebody

(06:34):
like Gina Reinhart, she gave big money in Australia to
swimming and synchronized swimming and volleyball. Or it might just
be there's too much sport. I mean, there's no doubt
globally a lot of sport is actually on fire at
the moment there are Sadly, it seems no easy answers,
perhaps not even complex ones. If those speaking out and
pleading bleeding passion at the moment drive income, we have

(06:55):
a start, I guess because the calls in Christ seem
to grow louder every day at the moment, maybe Gold
in Glasgow could be a savior or at least a
start a.

Speaker 3 (07:03):
Bit of a concern if you're relying on a gold
medal from an event that we pretty much decided now
nobody really wants to host and has less and less
relevance in the world anymore because it only have you know,
a very limited number of countries can participate in it.
With a sport that's kind of like the same sort

(07:25):
of thing. I don't know. I don't want to be
down on netball. I've played netball in the past. I
didn't love it. It was one of those games where
the as soon as I got the ball, the whistle
would go and I'd have to give it back and
I never wouldn't really know why the rewrap right, let's

(07:48):
go to North America. We're actually going to miss the
US just quickly and go straight up to Canada.

Speaker 2 (07:54):
It's July one, and Canada they're celebrating, of course, so
July four next week, which is all this week, which
is super exciting end of this week, which is big
for America. But at Canada today is celebrating one hundred
and fifty nine years and what's particularly interesting about Canada
at the moment is in Alberta, they've got what they
call a rest of separatist movement which is gaining momentum,
and they are going to have a vote for provincial

(08:16):
sovereignty and that'll be interesting to watch. And that's before
you get to Quebec. Of course, Party Quebec Qua currently
leads in the polls for the upcoming provincial election. So
they're not a particularly united country at the moment in Canada.

Speaker 3 (08:29):
Yeah, funny old thing is that the whole it's definitely
two different countries, isn't it. Canada the French but and
they're not French. But mentor met a couple from Canada
when I was traveling in Europe and they were super French.

(08:50):
The bloke couldn't understand a word we were saying. We
certainly didn't really have any idea what he was saying.
We thought they were standoffish and stuck up until we
realized that they were French. And then once we realized that,
we had a bit more fun with them. But you know, yeah,

(09:13):
and then you've got your more easy to understand Canadians.
Funny old place. The rewrap not as funny as America.
Where do we find the president today? Well, the bad
lands apparently.

Speaker 2 (09:29):
Now we find mister Trump this morning, and the bad
lands of North Dakota he's dedicating I haven't got to
the bottom of this, but he's dedicating the Theodore Roosevelt Library.
Was Theodore Roosevelt from North Dakota?

Speaker 3 (09:41):
No, he wasn't.

Speaker 2 (09:42):
He's from New York, so how he up? He must
have liked North Dakota at some point. But anyway, he's
got his library. So Trump's rolled into town and well
basically ad libbed himself through it.

Speaker 3 (09:53):
This was.

Speaker 4 (09:56):
Innaugural flight of a certain airplane called air Force one
after thirty seven years. And there's a great plane, and
we have we had a lot of fun with Doug
and everybody coming over. I have two telepropters that aren't working.
And here I stand, I said, Doug, let's fly in.

(10:21):
We'll do ten fifteen minutes. I know I'm going to
love it. And then I get out. Oh, absolutely, sir.
So then time comes he got me making speeches. I
was over there two hours. I know more about that
museum then the people that built it. And by the way,
on July fourth, it's going to be approximately one hundred

(10:43):
and seven degrees out and I'm going to go and
I'm going to make a really long speech just to
show that I can do anything. It's going to be
one hundred and seven.

Speaker 2 (10:56):
His reference to Doug is Doug Bergham, who is from
I believe North Dakota. So and the reference to the
plane is if you're not up on that, the Qatari
plane has been transformed into air Force one. So that
was his first trip. Today. His kids are with them.
I noted at one point there were some people corralled
into an area that were enthusiasts, and they waved at him,

(11:18):
and he then started shaking hands, and at that point
security started to panic because they weren't surrounding him. And
so it seems to have been a relatively successful day.
We still don't know why the Theodore Roosevelt Library is
in North Dakota, and we're still not one hundred percent
your way. North Dakota is referred to as the bad Lands,
but it has been referred to as the bad Lands
since the eighteen hundreds. If I can be bothered getting

(11:41):
any more, I will, But as I sit here right now,
I'm pretty much done on that subject.

Speaker 3 (11:46):
It is always weird when people like Donald Trump and
Mike Hoskings say things like I don't know why it's
called the bad Lands when it's literally just a Google
search away. And also the things like that, you could
make a fairly educated guess they were difficult lands to
cross when pioneers were crossing them because it was pretty

(12:07):
barren and a lot of desert and that sort of thing.
So that's why it was the badlands. It was bad
land probably what And you know next you'll be asking
he was there were a bunch of rough riders behind Trump.
That's not a strip a male strip show. That's I

(12:31):
don't know, that's the sort of cowboys. I guess there
was a sort of a posse of them. Of them
turned up at this event that Trump was at on horseback.
And again I think we can I haven't actually looked
this one up, but I think maybe they're the rough
riders because they would ride across the Badlands, which would
be a rough ride. What do you reckon? Anyway? That's

(12:55):
that's words with Donald and Mike for another day will
be that was some more words tomorrow. See then.

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