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March 12, 2026 12 mins

THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Friday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) Or Even, In an Hour/Rubio's Rude Shoes/Mark the Week/A Different Kind of Panic Buying/Embargos Are Made to Be Broken

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
Rewrap ok there and welcome to the rewrap for Friday.
All the best, but it's from the Mic Hosking breakfast
on News Talks. It'd be and a sillier package. I
am Glen Han today Rubio's Rude Shoes will mark the
week because it is Friday, and that's what we do
what Paul Ego spent a whole lot of public money

(00:46):
on in whether or not to break an embargo. But
before any of that, let's wrap Iran a fortnight and.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
So observations on the war Week two. I am as
convinced as ever I was. This thing will be over
in the fouri Ish week window. They said it would be, which,
if true, means we should not have spent the week
guessing when it's going to be over, because we've already
been told.

Speaker 4 (01:08):
If if I worry.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
About anything, it's miscalculation. The trouble with the miscalculation is
that we don't really know if it is or not,
because most of what we hear is from the President
and a Secretary of War, both of whom a cartoonish
in their persona. To say out loud he was surprised
at the size of the Iranian navy is shocking to
say out loud, and both have that they were surprised
Arab states got attacked as even more shocking. But then

(01:29):
this was a bloke yesterday traveling through Middle America telling
the crowds at a rally prices going down. So my
faint hope is, even though he is completely detached from reality,
the people in the uniforms art. I've got no doubt
Iran is fairly flattened and their ability to do a
lot going forward that would bother the Western world is
now severely limited. But I also know oil isn't flowing,
and my equal bet as more people are worried about

(01:50):
oil than they are about Iran. That's why this war
poll show has no buy in. Never did, we don't care,
never did, mind you we may have been saved from ourselves.
Of course we would care if the Ranians ever got
really nuclear. So if this thing ends within a month
or so and oil is back to sixty eight bucks,
all and all, it will have been worth it. It also shows,
beyond the shadow of a doubt that renewables are nowhere

(02:13):
near the answer given when her moves got closed, we
didn't all turn on our windmills. But at the end
of week two, what I know is this, the economy
is everything, Economics is everything. And this war will end
not because Iran has been beaten, but because oil is king.
Petrol drives economies, and Americans are voting later this year,
and if they can't afford the bills because the president
got sucked in by Israel, he's toast and as mad

(02:35):
as Trump is, he's no idiot.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
How thinking there's going to there'd be fallout in the
markets if he is toast as well. Though, I feel
like it doesn't need to be a good option out
of this. I'm just put my head down, I hope,
and pretend it's not happening.

Speaker 4 (02:53):
It's so rewrap.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
Of course, Marco Rubio doesn't want to put his head
down because he might be distracted by his own shoes.

Speaker 4 (02:59):
You can be bothered.

Speaker 3 (02:59):
Have a look at the photo that's floating around this
morning on Marco Rubio's shoes. So Trump, it's the funniest photo,
So Trump said to Rubio and a bunch of others
in the cabinet that they had shabby shoes. So Trump
favors and this did surprise me to it agree Trump
favors the Florsham shoe. It's a Florsham balleo, plain toed Derby.
Now it's a comparatively speaking, cheap shoe. I would have

(03:20):
thought he had his own shoes made because he's got
weird feet, but he doesn't. So we went out and
bought everybody these shoes. So they're all wearing the same
shoes now, except the shoes he got Marco are so
big it's ridiculous. He literally looks like he's falling out
of them. But they are suggesting everyone what seems to
need to wear them otherwise they'll get grief from the boss.

Speaker 4 (03:41):
So if you can be bothered to have a look.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
It's like the whole blue suit, white shirt, red tie
uniform as well, that sort of. They're not the men
in black, the other men in blue and red. Very
strange are wrap could be worse. They could be actual
SS uniforms. I suppose it's mark the week now Friday,
you know how it goes.

Speaker 3 (04:03):
Time to mark the week a little piece of using
current events. It's as popular as a non unionized teacher
at an NZD lunch room.

Speaker 4 (04:09):
Worry is a cutter.

Speaker 3 (04:11):
Come on, I mean, come on, let's start with the
good news. Shall we won from one of thrashing against
a good side? Another home game tonight? Yes, yes, yes,
Fontira nine. The consumer sale complete this week, the money
will flow. These are the goldenness of golden days. Don't
you reckon? Kupakini six. She's back. Whether she likes being
back's another thing, but good on her for fighting a
corner and exposing a crappy little party.

Speaker 4 (04:33):
Are the COVID.

Speaker 3 (04:33):
Reports six told us what we already knew and changes nothing.
Listen to Hipkins, you reckon? That guy knows how to
say sorry at all. Shane Retty five another of those
who won't be back. Everyone says he's a nice guy,
but that's not really how politics works, is it, Penny
hennor A five. Same as what I said about Shane
Oil one. I mean, if you ever wanted proof over
how far off we are in renewables, check our reaction

(04:55):
to one hundred and twenty bucks a barrel.

Speaker 4 (04:57):
Trump two.

Speaker 3 (04:58):
We could take him out by this afternoon and back
within an hour. It's over. It's not over. We need
to win more. We've only just started. I could end
it today. I could end it in and out, he
defines mental GDP seven before the war got us fixated.
We actually got a GDP read this week for the
year three percent, they think, and next year three percent.
That's actually really really good lux and four I mean

(05:21):
stupid at Story of the week, mainly because it wasn't
a story. As hard as they look. They couldn't find
a single number. Cruncher couldn't find a bloke considering his position,
took a poll, went nuts the reshuffle. Six Anything that
involves moving Willow Jeene Prime out of harm's way is
no bad thing in New Zealand. Four rock hard place, nightmare, headache,
pick a word acc seven bright spot of the week

(05:44):
for me cutting costs and getting their fiscal actor in
order more please actually hooks Bay Health seven Other bright
spot of the week. Waiting lists are down over seventy percent.
New machines, new rosters, a nice human, new way of
doing business, Wonders will never cease. And that is the
week copies on the website. And if you get hold
of four of these, by the way, when Ensco get
their meatback from the Middle East, marking the week will
come with free steak.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
This is a first one. I don't know why it
doesn't happen more often. We've got a late reck West
for a mark in Mark the week after we'd already
done it. Somebody wanted him to mark the what he's
closures which he was going to give it two he
said if he if he had given it, but he
hadn't because we'd already done it. So you basically got

(06:26):
if you want. I don't think we're not taking requests
on Mark the Week, but if you if you have
a request for Mark the week something that you like, mark,
you've really got to get it into us by the
end of play on Thursday, because you know, these things
take time to produce.

Speaker 1 (06:41):
Rewrap right.

Speaker 2 (06:42):
So Paul Eagle, I think he should have banished himself
to the chattems. Is that what happened and then spent
a whole lot of public money? Is that what happened?

Speaker 3 (06:50):
In partial answer to John's concerns, it's Paul Eagle. Why
is this country in the States and it's people like
Paul Eagle? So Paul Eagle was was he even what
was he? Did he run for mea or what was
he ran for me here and came last or whatever.
But he was a laboring pe Labor picked him up
and said, come on, Paul, you such a cool guy.
Come into Parliament. And then he ended up at the

(07:12):
Chatter Islands as the council Chief Executive. So it's those
sort of people who are gainfully employed in this country, grifters,
who cause nothing but trouble and who aren't that good
in the first place, and so they're the problems. So
the report came out. So anyway, Paul arrives on the
Chathams if you haven't followed this story, as the chief
executive and.

Speaker 4 (07:30):
They say, have a look at your house. Paul. Paul
has a look at his house.

Speaker 3 (07:34):
I mean he was there for look Wrong a Tie
and at King's old seat. He was the MP for
Wrong a Tie between twenty seventeen twenty twenty three. That's
two elections. So if you're listening in the wrong Attire electorate,
what were you thinking?

Speaker 4 (07:49):
Right? What were you thinking?

Speaker 3 (07:51):
The guy turns up in the chatter Islands and he
looks at his house and he goes, oh, it needs
a bit of work. So they budget a couple of
hundred thousand dollars for the work, but he's not happy
with that, so he emails them and suggests a few improvements.
He needs to kitchen upgrades and bathroom fittings, diesel heater,
wants a bit of way done on the deck, converts
the garage, and to visitor accommodation. The artgoing chief executive

(08:13):
requested the increase of a budget to five hundred thousand.

Speaker 4 (08:15):
That was brought back to four hundred thousand.

Speaker 3 (08:18):
Eagles started taking over the management of the project suggested
further changes. One of the changes was they had ten
thousand dollars set aside for a bit of f and
P in the kitchen.

Speaker 4 (08:27):
He didn't like that.

Speaker 3 (08:28):
He wanted Mieler of course, so that's eighteen thousand dollars,
not ten. He directly engaged consultancy service with a supply
he had a quote unquote preexisting contact with. It turns
out to be his wife. So so this guy's cool
all day long, isn't he. So he's upgrading his kitchen
employing his wife. So in total for this consultancy work,

(08:50):
the council paid just the three hundred and fifty. This
is the Chatham Islands. Remember it's not New York. It's
not London, it's the Chatham Islands. So they paid the
consultancy firm about three hundred fifty thousand dollars between feb
twenty four and May of twenty five. Some of that,
of course, came from one hundred and sixty five thousand
came from the Better Off Funding. What's better Off Funding? Ah, well,
that was a local government initiative invented by I guess who.

Speaker 4 (09:12):
You know who.

Speaker 3 (09:14):
Anyway, credit cards spending and reimbursement claims were found to
be an area of lacking an oversight, no kidding. So anyway,
Paul turns out to be a complete pillock and he
served you in wrong Attie for six years before running
for the Wellington Marialty before running off to the Chattham
Islands and spending everybody else's money. Before the report comes
in and his excuses he panicked, That's all he's got

(09:34):
to say.

Speaker 4 (09:35):
At the end of it, he goes, oh whoops, I panicked,
And there you go.

Speaker 3 (09:38):
And that's why, in its own small way, that's why
the countries in the state it's in because of people
like Paul.

Speaker 2 (09:43):
Egal, I mean coulding whereas he could have done a
multi million dollar ad campaign with him riding a horse
and bought a private jet with a bedroom and a
widescreen TV in it. The re wrap, don't worry. You
don't know what I was referring to. Just there. It's
a Christy arm thing. But she's ancient history. Now let's
look to the future and not the past. Better sizzle

(10:06):
around an interview that going to be doing next week,
Only a better says all because apparently we can't actually
tell you who it's with.

Speaker 3 (10:13):
So I had an argument with Sam this morning, and
I'm right, obviously, just to lay the groundwork. So next week,
we got a guest on the program. Right now, the
guest on that not that the guest isn't embargoed. Me
telling you about the guest is not embargoed. The reason
we would or one of the reasons we would do them,
is embargoed. So I wouldn't break the embargo because that

(10:34):
would be breaking the embargo. But if I told you
who the guest was, and I just said, hey, we
got you know, Bob Smith on the program last week,
you wouldn't go, oh, wonder why they've got him on,
And then you would join some.

Speaker 4 (10:46):
Dots and go, oh, that's exciting. You wouldn't do that.

Speaker 3 (10:48):
You just go, oh, he's got old sign so on
the program again, wouldn't you? Wouldn't you see what I'm.

Speaker 2 (10:52):
Saying, Because generally when we have a guest on, it's
because of joining those dots.

Speaker 4 (10:57):
No, it's multiple reasons. Could be multiple reasons.

Speaker 3 (10:59):
One of the multiple reasons could be on is they've
done something that no one you know, it's just like,
it is what it is. But another multiple reason could
be another thing that they're doing that you're not supposed
to say. So what do I do Between a rock
and a hard place?

Speaker 4 (11:09):
Do I tell you? Or do I not tell you?

Speaker 2 (11:12):
Oh? Look, it's Tiugher the News. You'd be amazed at
how much off air production time goes into making the
decision on where or when we're going to do interviews
and when we're going to play them back and how
long they should be. And it's a science. I don't
I try to stay out of it. I just and
do what I'm told. I used to have opinions about

(11:34):
these things, but nobody really listened to me. So it's
just easier and less effort for me to not have
opinions and just well, interview has already been done by
the way, so there's some swearing in it, so that'll
that'll be fun to listen out for two A lot
of times up in the podcast, I can't tell you
who it is either.

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