March 3, 2025 • 12 mins
THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Tuesday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) Some Things Can't Be Credited/How Are We Still Bitching About School Lunches???/Trumpdate/How TradeMe Works/Would You Like to Upston Combo?
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
Rewrap.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Okay, there were Welcome to the Rewrap for Tuesday, all
the best bits from the Mike Husking breakfast on news
Talk said, be a sillier package. I am Glenn Hart
and speaking of packages, Yes, pack lunches, we're still talking
about it. How are we still talking about this? We'll
find out what Donald Trump's talking about today. Trade me
(00:50):
seems to be is it on the app or the down?
We'll try and figure that out and we'll upton your combo.
See what I did? There s upsides we're up that'll
make sense later on, maybe before any of that education
and the whole reading, writing, arithmetic thing. Is that catching
(01:11):
on or not so much?
Speaker 2 (01:12):
But a pushback coming from some sectors of the education business.
I note towards the reading, writing, and maths tests. Now,
these are the tests we're failing. Those failing most come
from poor backgrounds. I'm not sure equating monetary status and
academic success should be a thing, but a bunch of
principles from quote unquote the poorest communities have got together
to lobby the government to stop these tests because it
(01:33):
will lead to more kids leading school with no qualifications. Now,
after two rounds of these tests, more than half failed
reading and writing, seventy five percent failed numeracy. You can't
get university the entrance if you don't get these great Now,
there is no doubt that failure affects attitude, and there
is equally no doubt that for some the sort of
the gived up scenario must be tempting if the hurdle
(01:54):
is too high. But then it's also no doubt that
allowing kids to leave school having failed is a failure
in and of itself, and that any country that has
any level of success globally is not a country that
goes soft on education. The principles answer is the answer
that has failed us for years. The Chris Hipkins COVID
answer give them something for nothing. Alternative to an exam
(02:15):
is an extra twenty credits scenario that's due to expire
at the end of twenty twenty seven. They want that
made permanent, and instead of twenty credits, they want it
made into sixty credits. Like Hipkins and COVID, you remember
that extra credits for not actually doing anything, just just
extra credits for life being a bit crap. Now, no
one gains when we do this. It's excuse making. It's
(02:36):
an acceptance that we fail and are failing, and failure
is part of what we do. You can either read
or write or you can't. You can either add up
or you can't. And if you can't, having people pretend
you can doesn't actually fix anything. Part of why this
country is where it is is because we're apologists scenarios
like this, and instead of being determined to fix it,
(02:57):
we set about looking for ways to excuse it.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Yeah. Yeah, you can't credit your way through life because sous. Later,
if you've told somebody that you can read and write
and then you can't, they'll probably find out. I don't know,
it depends how our ais come byed in. I suppose
it's rewrap. So yeah, while we're at school, let's just
(03:19):
quickly chick in, have the lunches arrived and out any
good but no.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Chris Hipkins wandered off to Papa Toto Primary on Friday
for a good bitch session with the principle over the
school lunches. I have, as I have said, tried to
stay away from the school lunch win on. But it's
hard when so many people have made such an industry
of it, from the schools to the unions, to the
political parties to the media. It is beyond a shadow
of it out now a pylon. It is political. It
(03:44):
is not about meals or kids or welfare. It's about
politics and points scoring and pettiness. Where I sided early
on with them was delivery. I mean, school has regimented
lunchtime is lunchtime, so you got to deliver on time.
And last week, though David Seymour tells us they got
it right at least on one of the days, one
hundred percent of the time, so presumably the problem solved.
What we are left with is the campaign to shame
and embarrassed. This is where the media comes in. Surely
(04:07):
they can see what's going on here? Is it really news?
When yet another principle, yet another unionist, tells us about
the wastage, how the kids don't like the food. I mean, honestly,
is kids not liking food really all we have left
to talk about. How about if they don't like it,
they don't take it. How could you one day argue
kids with empty stomachs don't learn, And yet when given
(04:28):
the answer moans some more about taste is the same
meal eleven out of seventeen days when hunger is the alternative?
Really worth the complaint? More meals are being offered for
less money, surely a win, and yet oh no, let's
expand and expend even more energy, complaining the counter other
reports apparently of kids loving these meals, So who would know.
But over the past weeks, we have cellophane difficulty, we
(04:50):
have a lack of sense of community. These are actual complaint.
Are tens of thousands of dollars bill to employ people
to distribute the meals at schools. They have gone out
of their way to try and convince you free food
that we are paying for is an insult, a cultural crime,
a road to ruin. If they can't grow up, the
media can't show some level of responsibility, balls in the
(05:11):
government's court, surely cancel the program, call their bluff.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Trump would Yeah, so is that what we're doing? Now
we're saying what would Trump do? And then we're doing
that thing. Wow, Wow, Wow. I'm just going to keep
saying wow because I don't know what else to say. Rewrap,
it seems like as good a time as any to
a little check in with Trump world. See how that's going.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Musk wants out of NATO in the UN. It's an
interesting thing, Musk. On one hand, the media spends a
lot of time going he's not elected, he's not in cabinet,
and so therefore indicating that he's of no real relevance
or importance, and then they report everything he says. So
I'm just not sure where they're at. By the way,
Trump announced a crypto deal, a crypto reserve with a
(06:01):
bunch of currencies that he wants involved. He set up
a while ago, through one of his little quiggly pen
things on the paper in the office, a presidential working
group to move forward on a crypto strategic reserve. Unclear
with the creating a new national strategic stockpile would require
an Act of Congress, so he hasn't quite thought that
(06:21):
one through. But there's five bitcoins and their ethereum XRP, Solana, Caadano.
They're all in there, so we'll see where it goes.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
The thing that always impresses me when he does those
executive orders with the big pen on the big piece
of paper is he has seems to have the ability
to be able to stop halfway through the signature to
make a comment and then carry on.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
I think I don't want to go there. I don't
want to go there because what you just alerted me
to is you're right. You're correct. I thought, maybe he's
wearing himself out and it's a big signature and he's
just tired. Have a look at his leg. So the
big thing on the internet this morning is his leg.
He's got something wrong with his leg. He's possibly wearing
a brace on his leg, and he's dragging his leg.
(07:04):
And when you see the video it's true. And then
you go. The inference now is he's not well because
he's dragging his leg. So if you've got time today,
I know you don't, but if you do, go have
a look.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
I mean to be fair, and I can't believe I
am I defending Trump here. I think I might be.
If you had a video of me getting up off
the couch at the end of the day, you'd say
that there was a number of things wrong with me
as well you, And again you might be right. Just
(07:41):
as our show was ending this morning, of course, Trump
did a press conference talking about how the Taiwanese chip
manufacturer TSMC has signed one hundred billion dollar deal to
sit ups some factories in the US, thereby avoiding the
(08:03):
whole terriff situation, and the map with the market reacted
quite badly to that, and then of course Trump went
on to back questions and basically doubled down on everything
that happened in the oval obvious. The other day Tuesday,
ukrain of but not being thankful enough, and the market
went down even more. So. I think everything's fine. I
(08:24):
think you think it is. The rewrap back here. We've
got some stats and from trade me. Now often we
sort of kick out and see what, you know, what
people are paying for the rent, what people are paying
for houses and cars and things like that. But this
is actually more specifically about what people are doing on
trade me.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Great insight this morning from trade me circular economy. It's
grown by half a billion dollars in the past year.
We're selling old tat. I love selling old tat. I
love throwing old tat out. More than four thousand people
took part in the survey. Average key, we are about
thirteen hundred and fifty dollars worth of unwanted tat run
around we go it's fifty dollars more than last year.
Eighty nine percent of US eighty nine percent of US
did something pre loved, bought or sold in the last
(09:03):
six month. Seventy nine percent have sold at least one
pre loved item in the last six month months closed shoes, accessories,
book CDs, DBDs, and we do it why, creating space
and earning extra money. So it's one of those things
that unites a sport war and selling old tat on
trade me. We're all into it.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Off air Michael saying, can't be bothered with trade me,
and our boss was also of the same opinion. They'd
rather just give stuff away. So it's nice that they've
got things that they can just that that's the financial
position that they are in, isn't it that they can
just give it away? They said, that's not worth the hassle,
(09:43):
and I'd get it. There is every and now and
again you get somebody like I had a guy the
other day who brought something off me on trade me
and then started being very pippy about when he wanted
to come and pick it up and would I be
there at such and such a time, And I said, well, no,
I won't be because I've got to think I've got
plans like this is literally the morning after the option
(10:04):
was over, and he bought it, and yeah, well what
about this time? Yeah, I end up just leaving it
at a letter box. I hope he's come and picked that up,
because now I've told everybody that I left it in
a letter box, and you're going past my place, you
can probably help you tell the re rap and who
would have guessed this would come back to bite us
making fun of all the MPs about their expense accounts.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Last week, by the way, Louise Upston. So the receipt
came back for the Philly Cheese steak double Big AGA's
combo with coke zero and some extra onion rings. So
we mentioned this on Friday. No big deal. I'm not
judging it, no judging, no judging here.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
In fact, probably the least amount of judgment that we
passed was on that particular. Everybody needs a bit of
a greasy big every now and again.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
I've never had one, but sounds good. Anyway. Our office
rings up. They want an apology. They want an apology
because it wasn't here. It was a staff member. I
could tell you who the staff member was, but I'm
not going to they're just ping the staff member. I mean,
what's worse ordering the Philly cheese steak with some extra
onion rings or pinging a staff member. I mean, come on, anyway,
(11:17):
so they want an apology, what sort of apology would
you like, Louise? I am so so so sorry, Louise.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Say hang on, she just flicked her card to somebody
else and they use Glenn.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
You're making a meal of this. You're drawing attention to this,
almost as though the office ringing up wasn't going to
draw attention to this. Seems a strange media approach to tape.
But nevertheless, this is the approach they want. They want
the apology, and Louise, you may have the apology. The
staff member had the Phillies cheese steaks.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
I want to know. Is that kosher that you can
just give staff members your ministery or credit cards, presumably
telling them what the pin number is, and they can
go out and pretend to be you and pay the
staff at you not even eating yourself. By the sounds
of things, I I probably are a fountcy. I'll probably
(12:08):
make it stand way worse than it is. And I
thought it was just a burger I and I would,
and I would be the last person to burger shame anyone.
I am glean Hart. That was the rewrap. Let's say
nothing more of it, and we'll speak about something else tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
For more from News Talks ad 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 Talk, said, be
follow this and our wide range of podcasts now on iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Rewrap.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Okay, there were Welcome to the Rewrap for Tuesday, all
the best bits from the Mike Husking breakfast on news
Talk said, be a sillier package. I am Glenn Hart
and speaking of packages, Yes, pack lunches, we're still talking
about it. How are we still talking about this? We'll
find out what Donald Trump's talking about today. Trade me
(00:50):
seems to be is it on the app or the down?
We'll try and figure that out and we'll upton your combo.
See what I did? There s upsides we're up that'll
make sense later on, maybe before any of that education
and the whole reading, writing, arithmetic thing. Is that catching
(01:11):
on or not so much?
Speaker 2 (01:12):
But a pushback coming from some sectors of the education business.
I note towards the reading, writing, and maths tests. Now,
these are the tests we're failing. Those failing most come
from poor backgrounds. I'm not sure equating monetary status and
academic success should be a thing, but a bunch of
principles from quote unquote the poorest communities have got together
to lobby the government to stop these tests because it
(01:33):
will lead to more kids leading school with no qualifications. Now,
after two rounds of these tests, more than half failed
reading and writing, seventy five percent failed numeracy. You can't
get university the entrance if you don't get these great Now,
there is no doubt that failure affects attitude, and there
is equally no doubt that for some the sort of
the gived up scenario must be tempting if the hurdle
(01:54):
is too high. But then it's also no doubt that
allowing kids to leave school having failed is a failure
in and of itself, and that any country that has
any level of success globally is not a country that
goes soft on education. The principles answer is the answer
that has failed us for years. The Chris Hipkins COVID
answer give them something for nothing. Alternative to an exam
(02:15):
is an extra twenty credits scenario that's due to expire
at the end of twenty twenty seven. They want that
made permanent, and instead of twenty credits, they want it
made into sixty credits. Like Hipkins and COVID, you remember
that extra credits for not actually doing anything, just just
extra credits for life being a bit crap. Now, no
one gains when we do this. It's excuse making. It's
(02:36):
an acceptance that we fail and are failing, and failure
is part of what we do. You can either read
or write or you can't. You can either add up
or you can't. And if you can't, having people pretend
you can doesn't actually fix anything. Part of why this
country is where it is is because we're apologists scenarios
like this, and instead of being determined to fix it,
(02:57):
we set about looking for ways to excuse it.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Yeah. Yeah, you can't credit your way through life because sous. Later,
if you've told somebody that you can read and write
and then you can't, they'll probably find out. I don't know,
it depends how our ais come byed in. I suppose
it's rewrap. So yeah, while we're at school, let's just
(03:19):
quickly chick in, have the lunches arrived and out any
good but no.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Chris Hipkins wandered off to Papa Toto Primary on Friday
for a good bitch session with the principle over the
school lunches. I have, as I have said, tried to
stay away from the school lunch win on. But it's
hard when so many people have made such an industry
of it, from the schools to the unions, to the
political parties to the media. It is beyond a shadow
of it out now a pylon. It is political. It
(03:44):
is not about meals or kids or welfare. It's about
politics and points scoring and pettiness. Where I sided early
on with them was delivery. I mean, school has regimented
lunchtime is lunchtime, so you got to deliver on time.
And last week, though David Seymour tells us they got
it right at least on one of the days, one
hundred percent of the time, so presumably the problem solved.
What we are left with is the campaign to shame
and embarrassed. This is where the media comes in. Surely
(04:07):
they can see what's going on here? Is it really news?
When yet another principle, yet another unionist, tells us about
the wastage, how the kids don't like the food. I mean, honestly,
is kids not liking food really all we have left
to talk about. How about if they don't like it,
they don't take it. How could you one day argue
kids with empty stomachs don't learn, And yet when given
(04:28):
the answer moans some more about taste is the same
meal eleven out of seventeen days when hunger is the alternative?
Really worth the complaint? More meals are being offered for
less money, surely a win, and yet oh no, let's
expand and expend even more energy, complaining the counter other
reports apparently of kids loving these meals, So who would know.
But over the past weeks, we have cellophane difficulty, we
(04:50):
have a lack of sense of community. These are actual complaint.
Are tens of thousands of dollars bill to employ people
to distribute the meals at schools. They have gone out
of their way to try and convince you free food
that we are paying for is an insult, a cultural crime,
a road to ruin. If they can't grow up, the
media can't show some level of responsibility, balls in the
(05:11):
government's court, surely cancel the program, call their bluff.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Trump would Yeah, so is that what we're doing? Now
we're saying what would Trump do? And then we're doing
that thing. Wow, Wow, Wow. I'm just going to keep
saying wow because I don't know what else to say. Rewrap,
it seems like as good a time as any to
a little check in with Trump world. See how that's going.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Musk wants out of NATO in the UN. It's an
interesting thing, Musk. On one hand, the media spends a
lot of time going he's not elected, he's not in cabinet,
and so therefore indicating that he's of no real relevance
or importance, and then they report everything he says. So
I'm just not sure where they're at. By the way,
Trump announced a crypto deal, a crypto reserve with a
(06:01):
bunch of currencies that he wants involved. He set up
a while ago, through one of his little quiggly pen
things on the paper in the office, a presidential working
group to move forward on a crypto strategic reserve. Unclear
with the creating a new national strategic stockpile would require
an Act of Congress, so he hasn't quite thought that
(06:21):
one through. But there's five bitcoins and their ethereum XRP, Solana, Caadano.
They're all in there, so we'll see where it goes.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
The thing that always impresses me when he does those
executive orders with the big pen on the big piece
of paper is he has seems to have the ability
to be able to stop halfway through the signature to
make a comment and then carry on.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
I think I don't want to go there. I don't
want to go there because what you just alerted me
to is you're right. You're correct. I thought, maybe he's
wearing himself out and it's a big signature and he's
just tired. Have a look at his leg. So the
big thing on the internet this morning is his leg.
He's got something wrong with his leg. He's possibly wearing
a brace on his leg, and he's dragging his leg.
(07:04):
And when you see the video it's true. And then
you go. The inference now is he's not well because
he's dragging his leg. So if you've got time today,
I know you don't, but if you do, go have
a look.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
I mean to be fair, and I can't believe I
am I defending Trump here. I think I might be.
If you had a video of me getting up off
the couch at the end of the day, you'd say
that there was a number of things wrong with me
as well you, And again you might be right. Just
(07:41):
as our show was ending this morning, of course, Trump
did a press conference talking about how the Taiwanese chip
manufacturer TSMC has signed one hundred billion dollar deal to
sit ups some factories in the US, thereby avoiding the
(08:03):
whole terriff situation, and the map with the market reacted
quite badly to that, and then of course Trump went
on to back questions and basically doubled down on everything
that happened in the oval obvious. The other day Tuesday,
ukrain of but not being thankful enough, and the market
went down even more. So. I think everything's fine. I
(08:24):
think you think it is. The rewrap back here. We've
got some stats and from trade me. Now often we
sort of kick out and see what, you know, what
people are paying for the rent, what people are paying
for houses and cars and things like that. But this
is actually more specifically about what people are doing on
trade me.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Great insight this morning from trade me circular economy. It's
grown by half a billion dollars in the past year.
We're selling old tat. I love selling old tat. I
love throwing old tat out. More than four thousand people
took part in the survey. Average key, we are about
thirteen hundred and fifty dollars worth of unwanted tat run
around we go it's fifty dollars more than last year.
Eighty nine percent of US eighty nine percent of US
did something pre loved, bought or sold in the last
(09:03):
six month. Seventy nine percent have sold at least one
pre loved item in the last six month months closed shoes, accessories,
book CDs, DBDs, and we do it why, creating space
and earning extra money. So it's one of those things
that unites a sport war and selling old tat on
trade me. We're all into it.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Off air Michael saying, can't be bothered with trade me,
and our boss was also of the same opinion. They'd
rather just give stuff away. So it's nice that they've
got things that they can just that that's the financial
position that they are in, isn't it that they can
just give it away? They said, that's not worth the hassle,
(09:43):
and I'd get it. There is every and now and
again you get somebody like I had a guy the
other day who brought something off me on trade me
and then started being very pippy about when he wanted
to come and pick it up and would I be
there at such and such a time, And I said, well, no,
I won't be because I've got to think I've got
plans like this is literally the morning after the option
(10:04):
was over, and he bought it, and yeah, well what
about this time? Yeah, I end up just leaving it
at a letter box. I hope he's come and picked that up,
because now I've told everybody that I left it in
a letter box, and you're going past my place, you
can probably help you tell the re rap and who
would have guessed this would come back to bite us
making fun of all the MPs about their expense accounts.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Last week, by the way, Louise Upston. So the receipt
came back for the Philly Cheese steak double Big AGA's
combo with coke zero and some extra onion rings. So
we mentioned this on Friday. No big deal. I'm not
judging it, no judging, no judging here.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
In fact, probably the least amount of judgment that we
passed was on that particular. Everybody needs a bit of
a greasy big every now and again.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
I've never had one, but sounds good. Anyway. Our office
rings up. They want an apology. They want an apology
because it wasn't here. It was a staff member. I
could tell you who the staff member was, but I'm
not going to they're just ping the staff member. I mean,
what's worse ordering the Philly cheese steak with some extra
onion rings or pinging a staff member. I mean, come on, anyway,
(11:17):
so they want an apology, what sort of apology would
you like, Louise? I am so so so sorry, Louise.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Say hang on, she just flicked her card to somebody
else and they use Glenn.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
You're making a meal of this. You're drawing attention to this,
almost as though the office ringing up wasn't going to
draw attention to this. Seems a strange media approach to tape.
But nevertheless, this is the approach they want. They want
the apology, and Louise, you may have the apology. The
staff member had the Phillies cheese steaks.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
I want to know. Is that kosher that you can
just give staff members your ministery or credit cards, presumably
telling them what the pin number is, and they can
go out and pretend to be you and pay the
staff at you not even eating yourself. By the sounds
of things, I I probably are a fountcy. I'll probably
(12:08):
make it stand way worse than it is. And I
thought it was just a burger I and I would,
and I would be the last person to burger shame anyone.
I am glean Hart. That was the rewrap. Let's say
nothing more of it, and we'll speak about something else tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
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air or online, and keep our shows with you wherever
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