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July 2, 2026 13 mins

THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Friday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) I'd Be Invoicing Them/Your Michelin Questions Answered/Mark the Week/Who's Paying for This?/Not Actually as Corrupt as I Thought

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
Welcome to the Rewrap for Friday. All the best butts
from the mic asking breakfast on news Talks. There'd be
in a sillier package. I am Glenn Hart. We're going
to talk about missiless stars, perhaps for the last time ever,
probably not. I will mark the week because as you
look at that, it is Friday, and that is what
we do. Court cases that waste everybody's time and money,

(00:44):
including ours. And the profit Trump has made from being
president is actually not as much as I thought. It
was still terrible, though. But before any of that, more
free advice to the Labor Party, so I'm sure they're listening.

Speaker 3 (00:59):
I note that Labor I started the show this morning
on this Mike Smith nonsense and the climate law. Labor
immediately announce they're going to repeal that more. Labor cannot
win the election. Just let me put it simply, Labor
cannot win the election by backing homeless people and dead
beats like Mike Smith. They seem to all they seem
to be able to do is find poor tragic individual

(01:19):
souls who need help, and that's their election campaign. So
what they're saying is, Mike Smith, spend your life in court,
soue Fonterra, sue z energy, hold everything up in court,
and we love that, and that's no pathway to electoral success. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
I don't know if he can write them off until
he's actually tellied up how many dead beats there are
out there, because you know, dead beats probably do vote
for other dead beats, aren't they. I don't know the
rewrap right. Certainly there's no dead beats at any Michelin
star restaurants. I don't think a bit of a a

(01:55):
budget issue there. But what about this whole Michelin thing,
the wash up of it, How has it all gone
down generally?

Speaker 3 (02:03):
Now? Question for you. I've got some answers on the
Michelin thing this week. So we went to Upston's office
because here was my problem with the michelon the thing,
the people who got them, brilliant, fantastic, life changing Michelin itself,
the idea of the concept, brilliant, fantastic international reputation. You
can't argue we aren't going to be immeasurably enhanced reputationally speaking.

(02:27):
Because of all of that, so overall massive when possibly
too many people recognized, bit of a surprise in the
number of stars at fifteen, still well short of the three.
All of that stuff, but the event itself, the event
itself was bollocks. And my concern was there will be

(02:48):
a lot of people globally watching this and they'll get
a poor impression of what New Zealand does when it
comes to events. So we've got the answers as to
who's behind it. Upon knowing who's behind it, I now
feel bad because one of the people behind it I,
in an indirect kind of way know, and I'm thinking, ah, bugger,

(03:10):
I would if I saw that person go mate, honestly,
did you think that was cool? But I don't know.
I want to do it publicly in front of half
a million people.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
Do you really think people tuned in from all over
the world to watch that?

Speaker 3 (03:24):
Or no question? So absolutely question.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
Like and much the same way that you go on
the exercise bike and you're the only person in New
Zealand who watches Sky News Australia on your exercise bike.
Some sad seck somewhere on the other side of the
world log again to stream that that bit event.

Speaker 3 (03:44):
We know there were three thousand people watching. So of
those three thousand, I reckon fifteen hundred were international, is
my GISs?

Speaker 2 (03:52):
I mean, surely people just go, oh, has there some
micheline restaurants in New Zealand? They don't even watch the
event where they hand out the stars.

Speaker 3 (04:01):
Anyway, my point is I don't know what to do. Now,
what do I do?

Speaker 2 (04:04):
Seriously? Who would care about that? And also it's like
people thinking that anybody is at all interested in who
wins a radio award apart from people who work in
the radio industry, and even then half of them don't.
And even if they do, they certainly are not going
to sit there and watch the awards. People don't even

(04:28):
watch the Oscars anymore. They're a loadin anyway, There's one
thing that's come out of all this michel and stuff
is that I can now nine times out of ten
spell Michelin correctly. Let's get that last e and I
round the wrong way for some reason a rerap. All right,
let's mark the week.

Speaker 3 (04:46):
Time out to mark the week, the little piece of
news and current events. It's more profitable than a pair
of Trump sneakers, snow eight, we are skiing as of
this weekend. They can't say the same. In OS four.
New Zealand is coming home. The tigers term the housing
markets tanking, the mortgage rates are rising. It doesn't appear
as shiny as it once might have been. Nitbule the

(05:07):
afore mentioned seven because the polas I've heard this week
from the players and the coaches and the fans to
save the thing have all had passion, and passion is
no bad thing. Michelin nine did exactly what we paid for,
got buzz, got vibes, got tables booked, and reps confirmed.
Quite possibly a tourism come marketing master stroke, Sereda and
Mark four. As in Williams and Mitchell the common thread

(05:33):
age and injury. You gotta know and to fold them
Scotus and Trump.

Speaker 2 (05:37):
Four they're dark, no what they're doing.

Speaker 3 (05:39):
Do you understand that lost most of them this week
election finance and sacking workers. He won, but the big
stuff like the boothright, he took a bath on the
All Blacks eight New era, New season. Easy speaking for
the opener, given it's well won. The French away and
two not even a good French away a New Zealand
and our economy seven business confidence in a multitude of

(05:59):
adjusted forecast this week growth is year and more to come,
and the mood is increasingly bullish. Hashtag Queensland sucks er,
Scott Dixon Power Move of the Week, living the dream
and still more doors open? How good is that? Lebron eight?
Same same thing, dot Com two.

Speaker 1 (06:19):
I'm a fun loving guy.

Speaker 3 (06:22):
Good riddings, Chris Hopkins four.

Speaker 2 (06:24):
How is sending six point three million dollars of taxpayers
money to a French tire company helped the cafes and
take away shops?

Speaker 3 (06:32):
The michel and miss read was next level? Clothy, keep
that up in the campaigns over mate the Bank of
International Settlement six they use the word mania this week.
I thought that was excellent. AI Chips Data Memory Space,
the gled it Yeah, Carnien Well, Carnien Rolph.

Speaker 2 (06:46):
But AI seven Ford led.

Speaker 3 (06:50):
The charge three, hiring all those they'd laid off after
AI failed to do what they thought it would, So
go the humans. And that's weak. Copies on the website.
And if you take three of these shift and ard
them carefully before adding an exotic duxel, it makes an
extraordinary moose bush.

Speaker 2 (07:05):
Is it a moose bush or a moose bousch? And also,
even if it is a moose boosh, did he mispronunciate
it on purpose? He will do that sometimes just it
is never known. And lastly, do I try too hard
with back the week? Should I just stacked to things
and buzzes? Would anybody really care the rewrap?

Speaker 3 (07:29):
Right?

Speaker 2 (07:29):
People who take the government to court? What's that about?

Speaker 3 (07:33):
A couple of questions around Mike Smith for you. Mike
is back in the news because of his court case
against big polluters. His case got up ended, of course,
by the recent government moved to block what they call
tort based litigation over climate change. The first part of
that got passed in the Parliament last night. Roughly speaking,
the government didn't like the uncertainty of these sort of
cases create the business and also the decision in such

(07:54):
matters lies of course with the government, not the Mike
Smith's of this world, and adventurous judges who like the
idea of a bit of legal exploration and dabble. That
should have been that, except it isn't. Smith is back
in court looking to argue the argument are the question, well,
who pays for Mike Smith to spend his life in court.
What do we do about the judicial process that allows
seemingly endless claim and counterclaim to the claim and counterclaim

(08:18):
I mean dot COM's another good example this week. What
happened to the idea that the government is the ultimate court?
And we might want to bow to that idea just
a bit more often. For every Mike Smith, who presumably
has a legal mind or two on tap to dabble,
there'll be genuine cases of importance that are not heard.
The judicial wheels are already hopelessly slow, and exploratory musings
can't be helping America should be all the warning side.

(08:41):
We need to avoid at virtually all costs, the idea
that you can simply have a stab in an idea
in the hope you can find some sympathetic judge to
rubber stamp. Lord knows how many years and how many
millions of dollars of mind bending ideology that ties up businesses, lives,
and people in a process that may well end up nowhere. Clearly,
there are people like Smith who are born agitators, probably
slightly bored, perhaps a bit agro, but nevertheless dedicated to

(09:04):
the idea of upset and stirring. And equally there will
be those who have ask the bar who find the
intellectual idea of bouncing a few controversial concepts about the
place stimulating, if not fun, if not profitable. But most
of the rest of us have a life to get
on with, and that includes z Energy and Fontira and
the government of the day. If Mike Smith wants to
make law, let him run for the Parliament, our ultimate court.

(09:27):
But short of that, surely some rules that prevent the
professional legal menace from wasting our time.

Speaker 2 (09:32):
He should yeah, only be allowed to do do it once.
Everybody can do it once, and then if you want
to do it again, you have to pay. Kind of
light sitting your driver's license. You know, you can fail,
but you've you've got to come back and pay the
next time you. I mean, I'm not saying you don't
pay the fit. It's not quite like bad bad similarly

(09:52):
metaphor whatever it was. Let's move on the rerap. We're
going to finish up here. I'm telling up all the
things that Trump has made money out of from being
well Trump.

Speaker 3 (10:05):
Much has been made this week of Trump's you know
and what he's made out of crypto and tokens and
all that sort of stuff. And there was a very
interesting piece already yesterday on the BBC that obviously we
already knew that no, but no president's made any amount
of money like the way he has, and you can
morally talk about it till you blew in the face.
But a couple of things I didn't realize he was

(10:26):
a member of the sag Aftra, which is the Actors Union,
because he appeared in Home Alone too, and of course
he was in The Apprentice, and he did a cameo
on Freshmence of bel air and he got eighty six
thousand dollars. So you join a super fund, which he
did at the time he got expelled. I can't remember
whether he quit or got expelled. If he didn't quit,

(10:46):
he was going to get expelled anyway, point being, he left,
but it doesn't affect your super So he pulled in
eighty six and a half thousand dollars last year from
the sag Aftra from his acting days, which is somewhat ironic.
Interestingly enough, the stuff I am surprised about. Milania made
no money from her book, so she made a reasonable
amount of money from her documentary, which I still recommend

(11:07):
as a documentary nobody else does, but from a photographic
or photogenic point of view, it's beautifully made, mainly because
it costs forty million dollars and it's hard to make
a really bad documentary at forty million dollars. Anyway, from
her book, she only made five hundred and twenty thousand dollars,
which surprised me. And Trump's stuff doesn't sell is the

(11:27):
other thing that fascinated me. Is it embarrassing to suggest
I wasn't overly serious? But I am. I do have
a fixation or fascination with the guitars, and ask anybody
who's ever come into the studio to play a guitar.
The first question I was asking him, I go, what's that?
And generally it's a Martin and I'm fixated with Martin's
and guitars. Anyway, I happened to be looking at Trump's
website one day and he was selling the American Eagle guitar,

(11:49):
and I did momentarily think, I wonder if I shouldn't
buy an American Eagle guitar. I didn't, and as it
turns out, very few other people that he only made
thirty six thousand dollars out of those the Bibles. Remember
the bibles. He stood in front of them wherever and
held one upside down. Remember that he only made two
hundred and eight thousand dollars and is perfect. I don't
think it's perfume. I think, to be frank, it's an

(12:11):
odor toilet, which you shouldn't buy anyway, if you if
you can't afford an ode of perfume, nothing wrong with that,
But don't waste your money on an odor toilet because
toilet literally is toilet water, I know.

Speaker 2 (12:22):
And then so that's the smell of Trump's toilet water.

Speaker 3 (12:24):
Trump's toilet water, and he only made sixty seven thousand
dollars out of it.

Speaker 2 (12:28):
I mean, does that or does it just smell like
a big stack of documents? Was that a bit niche?
That last dead joke? Because you know, whenever I think
about Trump's toilet, and I try not to, but when
I do, I always think about that raid on Mary
Lago and all the documents stacked up in the in
the toilet jokes are heaps funnier when you explain the

(12:50):
mate on so many levels. Oh well, bit of a
do that sort of fizzed out? Really did in the
podcast today. I'm sorry about that, but that's it happens sometimes.
That's what makes it so exciting. When it doesn't, it
goes the other way. It gets better at the end.

Speaker 1 (13:08):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 2 (13:09):
You've got to have sometimes you've got to have ones
like these. Who knows what sort of one it will
be on Monday, we'll find out.

Speaker 1 (13:15):
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