March 22, 2026 • 10 mins
THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Monday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) What a Turn-Up for the Books/Unintended Consequences/That About Wraps It Up for Wellington. Again/Warriors on Top/Return of the Killer School Lunch
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
You're listening to a podcast from news Talk, said B.
Follow this and our wide range of podcasts now on
iHeartRadio Rewrap.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Okay there and welcome to the re Rap for Monday.
All the best that's from the MI casting Breakfast on Newstalk,
said B and a Sillier package. I'm Glen huh. And
today the unintended consequences of this war between around and
the US and whoever else. Oh yeah, Israel. They anyway
(00:46):
some things that you might not have caught of. The
Wellington Council still going somehow, the warriors going, great guns
perhaps the best ever guns ever, and school lunches are
rereaar their ugly heads before any of that. The time
of the EV is upon us. And this is coming
(01:09):
from Mike. I would never even day to even consider
driving in an EV.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Mike EV's last year's power issue shortages. Transparent ounts do
not charge evs overnight. You know what, I don't reckon
that's a thing anymore. I've been reading a lot about power,
what they call a base load, the infrastructure between the
geothermal and the wind and the solar and the hydro.
I think we've cracked it. I think the days of
us running short in winter are gone, which is the
(01:35):
good news. I think equally, as much as this epic
fury thing might be a moment for electricity and evs,
it's not going to be a massive moment. You know,
A few people are going to translate, a few people
are on the fence, are going to buy, and so, yes,
there will be more evs in the country, but it's
never going to be this, this tipping point. I don't
(01:55):
believe them. Therefore, that argument that we're not going to
have enough power is never going to be a thing.
What is the thing is data centers, and we got
the announcement the other day for Southland. If a number
of data centers come here, center is automatically the second
biggest power using the country behind t Y. It's not
going to be too many of those before we really
get ourselves into trouble. So data centers are more of
(02:16):
the thing than EV's ever will be. By the way,
I note this morning with interest. I'll come back to
this because I don't know how it works. A m
z's offering a renout loan. You can borrow up to
fifty dollars two and a half percent for renolds now
I'm assuming that's some sort of rule. What do they
come around and check that you've done it? I mean,
you're going, oh, you want to do my bathroom, so
give me a fifty grand for two and a half percent.
What's stopping you going up and buying lollies or coffee
(02:38):
and cheese or something. I mean, you know what, where's
the small print on that is adding?
Speaker 2 (02:43):
I'm just wondering if adding an EV charger to your
wall and then adding an EV to the charger can
count as a reno. Yes, no, anyone.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
It's a rewrap, right.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
So yes, Not only has this war meant that everybody's
trading in their ice cars for evs, it turns out
you can't even get any decent SoRs anymore.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Man.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
No, I'm just reading. It's ceramics industry, for example, is
completely closed down in India, So when they say they
don't need the straight it's simply not true. And when
we say ceramics, it's basins, it's toilets and stuff like that. Helium,
which is a byproduct of gas. Now why do we
need helium? No, not just party balloons, but the semiconductive business.
So the semiconductive business one of their processes very heavily
reliant on helium. If there's no helium, you can't make semiconductors.
(03:30):
Is that going to be a problem. You bet it is.
And that's before you get to fertilizer. And they like
to plant a few crops in America. And if you
can't get fertilizer, these your next problem.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Ah.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
But I mean, the farming industry in the United States
has been pretty resilient for a while now, hasn't it.
It's not like they're being completely propped up by their
own government and subsidized up to the eyeballs re wrap. Okay,
it's always fun to talk about governmental dysfunction, either at
an international, national or a local level, particularly sort of
(04:02):
a centrally local level.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Good old local councils. What have we got? Too many
of them? Obviously not very good at what they do, obviously,
So this week's examples the Chathams, who I do have
some sympathy for, actually, because their circumstances are unique. They're small,
they're isolated, they don't have a lot of people, I EI,
They've got a very small rating base, their bills are high,
they need a lot of bespoke stuff, given where they are,
so they are constantly broken, constantly asking Wellington for more money.
(04:27):
What hasn't helped, of course, of later's they're run Paul
Eagle problem, so Paul rips them off. Paul's a scallywag
with a ponchan for German kitchen ware. The Auditor General's
had a look and wasn't happy, so unhappy. In fact,
the serious office series fraud officers now getting involved. Point
being it was the council who hired them, It was
the council who signed off all the reno's. It was
the council who made bad decisions, and those bad decisions
(04:48):
have yet again seen them back in the Capitol begging
for more money. Example too Wellington itself and the new
digs for the council workers. Yep, with this new office accommodation,
the digs that involve the wonks on the top floor
with the views, but the mayor's office down at the
bottom looking over the car park. Anyway, Andrew little new mayor,
he's quote unquote few me apparently to his credit, he's
(05:11):
not spending more money to fix it's too late. But
there is a little bit of the old penis envy
going on here. Nothing like not getting the corner sweep
to make you fume very much. Every nineteen nineties the
boss has got to have the best spread. Of course.
What's funny is they claim they told Tory, who was
the mayor overseeing all of this, that the mayor had
to be at the bottom of the building for safety reasons,
and because she's not that bright, she fell for it.
(05:34):
The PM you see's on the ninth floor. I don't
know if you realize this. Go look at the beehive.
Where's the PM. He's on the night floor protecting a
lowly mayor because of feigned earthquake risk is of course
taking the mickey, and poor old Andrew gets to look
over a car park because the Wellington voter swallowed farn our,
hook line and sinker before she sold them so much
snake all she had to scarp at a Melbourne So
good old Counsel's a endless problems, endless complaints, always with
(05:57):
the bill sent to you and me through the rates.
Hardly an advert for modern New Zealand business practices.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
I feel like we've just about wrapped it up for
Wellington about five or six times now, and it's still Rarey.
What are you doing?
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Guys? Give it up?
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Rewrap.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Meanwhile, at the opposite end of the scale, we have
got the never ending success of the Warriors' season, well
so far after three rounds.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Tell you what I mean, It never gets old, does it?
How good are the Warriors first time since twenty eighteen
three and Zip second time ever? Only the second time ever.
That's a lot of years where the start has not
been as good as the start of twenty six are
the Knights, although seemingly better this year than last, and
not the Roosters and certainly not the Raiders. So in
that sense, when they scored early in the first half,
(06:42):
you didn't really wonder, I don't think whether this was
the week that things could go wrong. Halftime score wasn't close.
We didn't have to run away with it in the second.
The score at the break gave you a good sense
we are never really going to be tested. I mean,
at one point in the second when the Knights scored again,
the commentator's got a bit over hyped in the crab
went nuts, as though another three converted trials was ever
going to be a thing that was about to happen,
(07:03):
given they were eighteen behind At the time the points perhaps, well,
they didn't flow like our first two games, I guess,
but at thirty eight twelve it wasn't a contest. I mean,
look at any stat completed, sets, yards carried, tackles made.
We killed them. So not just three wins out of three,
but three really good wins. Andrew Webster, I guess, will
be in the weeds looking for little bits and pieces
(07:23):
to work on. But for most of us, the fans,
this is as good as it gets. You simply can't
ask for more. There are no obvious issues, no glaring errors,
no lucky escapes or last minute miracles. We are winning,
and winning easily. We have beaten a good side and
the Roosters, a great side in the Raiders, and an
ordinary side in the Knights. There would seem at this
point to be no side we would fear, no side
(07:46):
we don't believe we can beat. We are a complete team,
a fast fit and agile team, and a team with
some very good players still to retend once again, as
we have these past three weeks, remind you it is
a long season, yes, and a lot can happen, yes,
but you simply control what's put in front of you,
and to this point, we cannot have started any better
than we have. This might well be the best beginning
(08:07):
to a season we have ever had. There is something
special brewing, I think, go on say it with real confidence.
This is our.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Now. This has put me in an awkward position. I
haven't watched any of the Warriors games so far this year,
so I can't really I don't have like a first
hand sort of view on how they are going. I mean,
other than looking at the scores and the results. I
don't ever listen to anything that Mike Hoskins is about
how they're going, because even when they're like eighth on
(08:42):
the table, he always finds a way that there's some
creative mathematics that you can do and have them coming second.
But their top at the top of the table at
the moment, and I don't know, if you're anything like me,
you just expect them eventually to throw the wheels to
fall off and for them to let you down when
you thought that they hit everything home and hose. And
(09:05):
we're probably a long way off from that yet, and
I can I make it quickly. I don't want them
to lose. Other than the fact that it's quite funny
when they eventually do. So, let's hope that this season
is not funny at all vagually what I'm saying there
rerap There's plenty of other stuff to laugh at like this.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Then we come to my friend Linda Knight. Linda works
in the schooling system, and I was watching her on
Friday night on the news saying this.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
How can we look at a lovely portion or a
few portions of lasagna chicken past a bake heading off
to the rubbish spun when we know that there are
some families in our community that could really appreciate it exactly.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
So that was Linda Knight, who is at glen View Primary,
and she wanted the lovely pastor and the lovely lasagna
and the lovely bake to be given to other people
if they're not going to eat them at School's nothing
wrong with that. But was it not the same person
who was telling us a couple of months ago that
it was so disgusting no one was eating it. They're
putting it straight in the bin. So she wanted to
put it in the bin at the start of the
school lunch program. Who hulk, But now it's so delicious
(10:11):
she can't believe that it's not being given away small
irony or irony with a capital I renee.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
I'll tell you what leftover lasagna or past debate for
that matter. You know it tastes better the next day.
That's just science letters. My mouse actually walking as I
think about it. I am a glen Hart. That was
the rewrap. We'll see you back here again tomorrow for
another one. I think it won't be a reheated version
(10:41):
of this one, unless we end up talking about school
lunches and the Iran War all over again, in which
case it will kind of be a rehash, but it will.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Taste for more from News Talks 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 B.
Follow this and our wide range of podcasts now on
iHeartRadio Rewrap.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Okay there and welcome to the re Rap for Monday.
All the best that's from the MI casting Breakfast on Newstalk,
said B and a Sillier package. I'm Glen huh. And
today the unintended consequences of this war between around and
the US and whoever else. Oh yeah, Israel. They anyway
(00:46):
some things that you might not have caught of. The
Wellington Council still going somehow, the warriors going, great guns
perhaps the best ever guns ever, and school lunches are
rereaar their ugly heads before any of that. The time
of the EV is upon us. And this is coming
(01:09):
from Mike. I would never even day to even consider
driving in an EV.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Mike EV's last year's power issue shortages. Transparent ounts do
not charge evs overnight. You know what, I don't reckon
that's a thing anymore. I've been reading a lot about power,
what they call a base load, the infrastructure between the
geothermal and the wind and the solar and the hydro.
I think we've cracked it. I think the days of
us running short in winter are gone, which is the
(01:35):
good news. I think equally, as much as this epic
fury thing might be a moment for electricity and evs,
it's not going to be a massive moment. You know,
A few people are going to translate, a few people
are on the fence, are going to buy, and so, yes,
there will be more evs in the country, but it's
never going to be this, this tipping point. I don't
(01:55):
believe them. Therefore, that argument that we're not going to
have enough power is never going to be a thing.
What is the thing is data centers, and we got
the announcement the other day for Southland. If a number
of data centers come here, center is automatically the second
biggest power using the country behind t Y. It's not
going to be too many of those before we really
get ourselves into trouble. So data centers are more of
(02:16):
the thing than EV's ever will be. By the way,
I note this morning with interest. I'll come back to
this because I don't know how it works. A m
z's offering a renout loan. You can borrow up to
fifty dollars two and a half percent for renolds now
I'm assuming that's some sort of rule. What do they
come around and check that you've done it? I mean,
you're going, oh, you want to do my bathroom, so
give me a fifty grand for two and a half percent.
What's stopping you going up and buying lollies or coffee
(02:38):
and cheese or something. I mean, you know what, where's
the small print on that is adding?
Speaker 2 (02:43):
I'm just wondering if adding an EV charger to your
wall and then adding an EV to the charger can
count as a reno. Yes, no, anyone.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
It's a rewrap, right.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
So yes, Not only has this war meant that everybody's
trading in their ice cars for evs, it turns out
you can't even get any decent SoRs anymore.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Man.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
No, I'm just reading. It's ceramics industry, for example, is
completely closed down in India, So when they say they
don't need the straight it's simply not true. And when
we say ceramics, it's basins, it's toilets and stuff like that. Helium,
which is a byproduct of gas. Now why do we
need helium? No, not just party balloons, but the semiconductive business.
So the semiconductive business one of their processes very heavily
reliant on helium. If there's no helium, you can't make semiconductors.
(03:30):
Is that going to be a problem. You bet it is.
And that's before you get to fertilizer. And they like
to plant a few crops in America. And if you
can't get fertilizer, these your next problem.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Ah.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
But I mean, the farming industry in the United States
has been pretty resilient for a while now, hasn't it.
It's not like they're being completely propped up by their
own government and subsidized up to the eyeballs re wrap. Okay,
it's always fun to talk about governmental dysfunction, either at
an international, national or a local level, particularly sort of
(04:02):
a centrally local level.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Good old local councils. What have we got? Too many
of them? Obviously not very good at what they do, obviously,
So this week's examples the Chathams, who I do have
some sympathy for, actually, because their circumstances are unique. They're small,
they're isolated, they don't have a lot of people, I EI,
They've got a very small rating base, their bills are high,
they need a lot of bespoke stuff, given where they are,
so they are constantly broken, constantly asking Wellington for more money.
(04:27):
What hasn't helped, of course, of later's they're run Paul
Eagle problem, so Paul rips them off. Paul's a scallywag
with a ponchan for German kitchen ware. The Auditor General's
had a look and wasn't happy, so unhappy. In fact,
the serious office series fraud officers now getting involved. Point
being it was the council who hired them, It was
the council who signed off all the reno's. It was
the council who made bad decisions, and those bad decisions
(04:48):
have yet again seen them back in the Capitol begging
for more money. Example too Wellington itself and the new
digs for the council workers. Yep, with this new office accommodation,
the digs that involve the wonks on the top floor
with the views, but the mayor's office down at the
bottom looking over the car park. Anyway, Andrew little new mayor,
he's quote unquote few me apparently to his credit, he's
(05:11):
not spending more money to fix it's too late. But
there is a little bit of the old penis envy
going on here. Nothing like not getting the corner sweep
to make you fume very much. Every nineteen nineties the
boss has got to have the best spread. Of course.
What's funny is they claim they told Tory, who was
the mayor overseeing all of this, that the mayor had
to be at the bottom of the building for safety reasons,
and because she's not that bright, she fell for it.
(05:34):
The PM you see's on the ninth floor. I don't
know if you realize this. Go look at the beehive.
Where's the PM. He's on the night floor protecting a
lowly mayor because of feigned earthquake risk is of course
taking the mickey, and poor old Andrew gets to look
over a car park because the Wellington voter swallowed farn our,
hook line and sinker before she sold them so much
snake all she had to scarp at a Melbourne So
good old Counsel's a endless problems, endless complaints, always with
(05:57):
the bill sent to you and me through the rates.
Hardly an advert for modern New Zealand business practices.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
I feel like we've just about wrapped it up for
Wellington about five or six times now, and it's still Rarey.
What are you doing?
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Guys? Give it up?
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Rewrap.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Meanwhile, at the opposite end of the scale, we have
got the never ending success of the Warriors' season, well
so far after three rounds.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Tell you what I mean, It never gets old, does it?
How good are the Warriors first time since twenty eighteen
three and Zip second time ever? Only the second time ever.
That's a lot of years where the start has not
been as good as the start of twenty six are
the Knights, although seemingly better this year than last, and
not the Roosters and certainly not the Raiders. So in
that sense, when they scored early in the first half,
(06:42):
you didn't really wonder, I don't think whether this was
the week that things could go wrong. Halftime score wasn't close.
We didn't have to run away with it in the second.
The score at the break gave you a good sense
we are never really going to be tested. I mean,
at one point in the second when the Knights scored again,
the commentator's got a bit over hyped in the crab
went nuts, as though another three converted trials was ever
going to be a thing that was about to happen,
(07:03):
given they were eighteen behind At the time the points perhaps, well,
they didn't flow like our first two games, I guess,
but at thirty eight twelve it wasn't a contest. I mean,
look at any stat completed, sets, yards carried, tackles made.
We killed them. So not just three wins out of three,
but three really good wins. Andrew Webster, I guess, will
be in the weeds looking for little bits and pieces
(07:23):
to work on. But for most of us, the fans,
this is as good as it gets. You simply can't
ask for more. There are no obvious issues, no glaring errors,
no lucky escapes or last minute miracles. We are winning,
and winning easily. We have beaten a good side and
the Roosters, a great side in the Raiders, and an
ordinary side in the Knights. There would seem at this
point to be no side we would fear, no side
(07:46):
we don't believe we can beat. We are a complete team,
a fast fit and agile team, and a team with
some very good players still to retend once again, as
we have these past three weeks, remind you it is
a long season, yes, and a lot can happen, yes,
but you simply control what's put in front of you,
and to this point, we cannot have started any better
than we have. This might well be the best beginning
(08:07):
to a season we have ever had. There is something
special brewing, I think, go on say it with real confidence.
This is our.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Now. This has put me in an awkward position. I
haven't watched any of the Warriors games so far this year,
so I can't really I don't have like a first
hand sort of view on how they are going. I mean,
other than looking at the scores and the results. I
don't ever listen to anything that Mike Hoskins is about
how they're going, because even when they're like eighth on
(08:42):
the table, he always finds a way that there's some
creative mathematics that you can do and have them coming second.
But their top at the top of the table at
the moment, and I don't know, if you're anything like me,
you just expect them eventually to throw the wheels to
fall off and for them to let you down when
you thought that they hit everything home and hose. And
(09:05):
we're probably a long way off from that yet, and
I can I make it quickly. I don't want them
to lose. Other than the fact that it's quite funny
when they eventually do. So, let's hope that this season
is not funny at all vagually what I'm saying there
rerap There's plenty of other stuff to laugh at like this.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Then we come to my friend Linda Knight. Linda works
in the schooling system, and I was watching her on
Friday night on the news saying this.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
How can we look at a lovely portion or a
few portions of lasagna chicken past a bake heading off
to the rubbish spun when we know that there are
some families in our community that could really appreciate it exactly.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
So that was Linda Knight, who is at glen View Primary,
and she wanted the lovely pastor and the lovely lasagna
and the lovely bake to be given to other people
if they're not going to eat them at School's nothing
wrong with that. But was it not the same person
who was telling us a couple of months ago that
it was so disgusting no one was eating it. They're
putting it straight in the bin. So she wanted to
put it in the bin at the start of the
school lunch program. Who hulk, But now it's so delicious
(10:11):
she can't believe that it's not being given away small
irony or irony with a capital I renee.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
I'll tell you what leftover lasagna or past debate for
that matter. You know it tastes better the next day.
That's just science letters. My mouse actually walking as I
think about it. I am a glen Hart. That was
the rewrap. We'll see you back here again tomorrow for
another one. I think it won't be a reheated version
(10:41):
of this one, unless we end up talking about school
lunches and the Iran War all over again, in which
case it will kind of be a rehash, but it will.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Taste for more from News Talks 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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