THE RE-WRAP: No More Mr. Nice Canada

THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Wednesday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) Trump Doesn't Always Get What He Wants/ Except Sometimes/How the World Sees Marmite/Stuck On White Island/More Salsa for MPs

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
Rewrap there and welcome to the Rewrap for Wednesday. All
the best butts from the Mic Husking breakfast on News Talk,
said B and a Sillier package. I am Glen Hart,
and today the US has stopped sending the goodies to Ukraine.
Is that going to bring an end to things? And
is it going to bring the right end to things? Yes,

(00:46):
we're going to talk about school lunches again. Mike's going
to talk about White Island again, and we're also going
to revisit the MP expenses list as well. Before any
of that, the trade war is definitely on no more,
mister nice Canada.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
Rubio's doing his defense of what Trump is doing with
the war. It's a brilliant grand strategy. By courting Moscow,
Trump is trying to break the Russian no limits relationship
with China the same way Nixon. If you read history,
Nixon went to Beijing in seventy two to forge US
ties with China to bring it into alignment against Russia.
Trump's doing a reverse Nixon, apparently, Mike, I'm reading the

(01:27):
main reason Trump has slapped tariffs on Canada and Mexico
is because they failed to stop drugs coming across the border.
Is that true only partially? It wasn't till it wasn't.
They exported the Mexicans a whole lot of cartel leaders
the other day over to America. They boosted troops on
the border. Canada did the same, and that was allegedly
to appease the tariffs, and it meant nothing. At the
end of the day, elbows in for a surprise. So

(01:49):
the promise that maybe there are exemptions, that's not going
to happen, the same way it's not going to happen
with the UK. Basically, he makes it up as he
goes along, and it's all on and all bets are
off as far as I can work out.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
Yeah, So Trudeau went to Great Leagues and his press
conference today to explain Canada couldn't have done more to
stop panel coming across their border. In fact, they have
stopped it. So if the Trump terris is supposed to
do that, they're too late.

Speaker 3 (02:24):
The rewrap.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
So, yeah, Trump keeps trumping and if he does stay
out of Ukraine, somebody's going to have to go in
to keep the peace? Will it be Australians.

Speaker 3 (02:36):
The other big thing with Elbow yesterday for some reason,
I asked the Prime Minister, you remember last week I said,
boots on the ground and we entered the peacekeepers. He
clearly hadn't thought about it, which sort of stuns me.
That if you're running a country and you're involved in
a war, which we are, even though it's piecemeal, at
some point someone's going to ask you about You know,
there's a peace deal, there's a resolution. What does New

(02:56):
Zealand militarily do quite well peacekeeping? So surely you join
a couple of dots and go. Jeez, if I was
ever asked about peacekeeping, I should have an answer. So
he didn't really have an answer. We said he would
have a look at it. Elbow was even worse. Elbow said, nah, no,
we won't be doing that, and he said that on Monday.
Then yesterday he goes, actually, I think we might So
he hasn't got a clue either.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
Well, increasingly it looks like it might not have to
be his problem if they were actually calling an election
date just once. I would love to come into work
at the moment and not to see some wild headline
that's basically caused by Trump. Is it twenty twenty eight years?
When is this going to be over? Rewrap right, So
we've been talking about people saying random stuff Laxon Yesterday

(03:41):
during the Mic Husking Breakfast doubled down on his marmite
sandwich and apple remarks. This has led to an I
see a New Zealand hero headline today, let them meet
Marmite not bad. Actually, what's Mike's reflection twenty four hours on.

Speaker 3 (04:03):
What we got yesterday, by the way from the Prime
Minister was I think the sort of approach large numbers
of low, large numbers of us actually want to see
more of. Having spent the previous week being endlessly lampooned
for his performance on the show, refusing to deal with
the word sack and yes, as regards Andrew Bailey, what
came out yesterday was an assertive effort to actually stand
some ground and batterway some nonsense. The maker marmite sandwich

(04:25):
line was picked up and run with all day by
the media. Of course, stuff even got together a pole.
The results when I last look well and truly had
the PM on the right side of the public's thinking.
Guess what there is nothing wrong with the sandwich and
dubtailed in with the sandwich example as the inference we
are sick of the moaning worryingly and this is a
bit of a trait. Up until his appearance yesterday, he

(04:45):
had been answering the Seymour lunch questions with the acceptance
from the question line that there might actually be a
problem with the lunches. He was telling a Seymour was
all over it. He would solve it. You see, you
only solve something if there's something to solve. Now, my
argument has been once we got the delivery time sorted,
which granted needed sorting, the rest of the airtime was
merely an orchestrated pylon by those determined to score cheap

(05:07):
points at the ex bens of hungry kids. As unfashionable
as it may be, lunch in my school life has
never actually been a problem. Lunch was never hot and
really fresh and I doubt overly nutritious. It was grab
and run. We were into sport. Lunch got in the way.
Many times. We didn't eat it because it took too
long or it was yuck. We dumped it so we
wouldn't get into trouble At home, and you know what happened.

(05:28):
If we forgot to dump it, it was tomorrow's serving.
You didn't make that mistake too often. If you didn't
like what mum made, you made it yourself, which of
course you didn't. Once in a blue moon you had
a pie or a Boston bun. These days, that's a
headline from some union lovey worried about calories. Yes, the
world has changed, but not that dramatically. A sandwich in
an apple is still a thing. It's still real, it's

(05:51):
still relevant. The Prime Minister reminded us of that, and
in doing so positioned himself nicely with the vast majority
of us who are sick and tired of the professional
moaning class propped up by a compliant, clickbait driven media.

Speaker 1 (06:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
I mean, I suppose there are some people, some schools
who are asking, is it not too much to expect
to not have our kids eating meals with melted plastic
in them? You know, there's a bit of a difference
between mamie and melted plaster? Is there? Sometimes I wonder

(06:26):
if that's what it's made out of. It's fast enough.
I'm a confirmed bid. You won't go the rewrap and
no one has watched the vacave White Island case more
closely than Mike Husking.

Speaker 3 (06:42):
I don't think now. I am thrilled for the White
Island company that had their conviction cost on appeal Friday.
This didn't get the coverage it deserved. White Island and
its judicial process has worried me from the get go.
If you're a regular, you will know this. Work and
Safety appear to panic in their response to the disaster.
It make me no mistake. I mean, what happened at
the island was a disaster and a tragedy, but it
was a natural disaster and tragedy, and what level of

(07:03):
legal recompense was required was questioned all I thought from
the start, But the approach that Work and Safety took
appeared to be a panic driven scattergun affair, whereby All
and Sundry faced a barrage of charges in the hope
that some of the judicial mud would stick. The brothers
who owned the island faced a couple of charges. One
was dropped but they were found guilty on the other.
They appealed they have had it quite rightly turned over.

(07:25):
The company simply gave licenses to conduct toos. They didn't
per se manage anything, and therefore could not be held
accountable for what others did. I still believe a lot
of the other charges were overreach as well, given the
nature of the volcano. I mean, adventure tourism by its
very nature carries risk. A live volcano, by its nature,
carries risk. At some point the people who buy into that,
as in the visitors, must take some level of responsibility.

(07:48):
No one, from what I could see or read, acted recklessly.
They weren't crazy. There was no Dare Devil behavior involved.
That was an unforeseen disaster. As the judge pointed out,
given the island company simply handed out licenses, what was
there to manage? He also pointed out, quite rightly, as
far as I can see, that they were dealing with
basically bare ground. Not a lot to manage there either.
Many of those charged pled guilty, you might remember early

(08:10):
on I am convinced not because they believe they were guilty,
but because it was easy, whether on legal advice or not,
to simply cave in and pay the money. This quashing
is proof it didn't need to be that way. All
the charges that were dropped, and there were lots of them,
is proof it didn't need to be that way. So
how much damage, stress, money, energy, and failed businesses do

(08:31):
we have from an agency that looks increasingly likely set
about things in a very haphazard, if not dangerous way,
and yet are in no way being held to any
level of account.

Speaker 2 (08:41):
To the fair. I don't know how many businesses take
people to walk around live volcanoes, which is what made
this case particularly unusual. I mean, I guess there are
a few. I don't know the rerap you're going to

(09:01):
finish up here. Going back to the list of MP expenses,
this morning, just out of the blue, Jenny Anderson highlighted
a couple of marks of expense claims, claiming there was
one from the Lula Lounge I want to be quite
specific about this, and one from the Fox Trot Parlor,

(09:25):
which made for an interesting pairing.

Speaker 3 (09:27):
Fox Trot Parlor Cafe and Ponsobi. I should have known that, actually,
not that I spend a lot of time pons I
should have known. That's thank you for that. It wasn't
the Lula Parlor because the lounge is Jenny Lula loud
Genny said it was Lula Lounge is not the Lula
Lounge because Lula Lounge. Is we're in Canada and Toronto,
Well that'll be said, that'll be tarriff up the wazoo
by now. Anyway, you get solsal lessons at the Lula Lounge.

(09:49):
It's actually the Lula Inn, which is just a regular
what pub but no one And this is where it
gets deeply suspicious, known for their bottomless lunches. Hmmm, so
we can't explain the sixty dollars on the Mini bar.
He doesn't know anything about the Lula Inn with the
bottomless lunch. Was it so bottomless you can't remember? These

(10:10):
are the questions.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
And yeah, so then he did he go back to
the Mini Bar and afterwards precise remember it.

Speaker 3 (10:16):
Mike could be going after expenses like burgers. Then get
to the bottom of Debraah packers thirty nine kovs spending
in the quarter. Well, I'm surprised you found that's thirty
nine thousand dollars in the quarter because the Mallory parties
are telling you yesterday or the day before. I'm pretty
good at filing the paperwork. She must have filed some
paperwork there and come up with some numbers. So good
of her to do it. But a lot of that'll
be in the cost of protest banners and air fears.

(10:37):
I would imagine. I'm guessing, but you know how it goes.

Speaker 2 (10:40):
Yeah. I was disappointed that Martin Mitchell probably isn't taking
salsa lessons in Canada because I think that that would
probably help a lot. I think more mp should take
solca lessons, more politicians everywhere. I reckon, we can dance
our way out of this, and not just salza, maybe

(11:03):
the mambo, maybe the Argentinian tango. What do you reckon?
I am full of good ideas and I am glen
hat that was the rewrap. We'll be back with more
good ideas tomorrow, So then keep dancing.

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