March 26, 2026 • 11 mins
THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Friday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) If it Lies Like a Duck/More Reasons Not to Move to Australia/Weird Name for a Boat/Mark the Week
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
You're listening to a podcast from news Talk said be
follow this and our wide range of podcasts now on
iHeartRadio The Rewrap.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Okay there, welcome to the Rewrap for Friday. All the
best that's from the mic asking breakfast on news Talks
he'd be and a sillier package. I'm been heartened today
there's a fuel shortage on don't know if you've diard?
Is it something to do with the straight upfor moves?
And we will mark the week because that is what
we do on a Friday, and today is a Friday.
(00:47):
But before any of that, Chris Hopkins and the vaccine
and him not telling everybody that it might have side
effects and all of that, and did he know that
or did he not know that? I'm sure he have
said something about it. And then when you did say
something about it, that you know a lie?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Now, Derrick Ching at the heralds onto a good one
this morning. Did he lie or did he not? So
this is Hipkins and the advice that did, as it
turns out, come to him. Read the twelve to seventeen
year olds, read the second jab, read the myocarditis. So
a couple of things in play here. The inquiry missed
it completely. They said they were that they. I mean,
(01:33):
first of all, you don't remember. Hippkins didn't show it,
didn't show, Robertson didn't show. They hired Denton's I think
it was Denton's and they just fired off a bit
of paperwork to them. They said they didn't No, never
saw it, don't know what we're talking about. That the
inquiry took that at face value, and that's why these
people should have been called and made to turn up,
and the whole thing should have been adversarial, as I
(01:54):
argued all along, like the British system, so you could
have put these clowns under pressure. He said, never saw it.
That's where it lay until we've got this bit of
paperwork that Derek's onto this morning. Hipkins did see it.
It was in front of him. So the question now
is did he see it but not see it therefore
can't remember, or did he see it and has been lying?
(02:17):
And if he's been lying, is that a resignation story
for a Friday.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Yeah. So the Husk asked Simeon Brown this morning if
Chris Hopkins is a liar, and Brown was a bit
reluctant to say that so yeah, I guess it's just
not clear whether if you say something that isn't true,
whether that's a lie. I guess it's the rewrap. But
(02:43):
you know, if it lies like a dark and lies
like a dark, is that an expression?
Speaker 3 (02:49):
I raised it on the program. I'm glad somebody has
finally joined the dots. But I raised it on the
program a couple of weeks. It might be two weeks
ago now because Parliament wasn't sitting last week, but I
raised it on the program. There was an exchange, very
deliberate exchange. Petersn't and was asking questions of Simme and
Brown and it was clear that they had something. But
then the report that came out, and we read the
(03:11):
report and we went through it. The report said the
information wasn't properly passed on from the Ministry of Health.
I e Ashley Bloomfield. Now you remember we had Hipkins
on the program at the time, and I said, this
is on Bloomfield. Whereas he and Hipkins acquiesced, And he wouldn't,
you know, throw him under a bar story. He wouldn't
you say it was on him. But be that as
it may. So you've got two things going on here one,
(03:33):
you've got the weakness of the inquiry. The people who
didn't show up, You Arederns, you're Robinsons and your Hipkins.
They simply, through lawyers, said here are the answers to
my questions, and they simply accepted those answers. So Hipkins
said didn't know, never saw it. They then blame the
ministry for not passing that information on. We now know
that may or may not be true. But what we
(03:54):
do know to be true is Hipkins did get the
advice and when he got them, this is what Brown
and Peters were talking about in the house. So we
got the advice. So him saying I didn't get the advice,
we now know not to be true. So either he's
lying or he did get the advice. But he might
come on and say, well, I still don't know. So
(04:16):
that's the part of the story still to unfault.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Were apparently Asia Ferrel saw it too, and they know
that she saw it because she wrote notes in the
margins of it. But I've written on things that I
haven't read before. Sometimes you just grab something and because
you've got to quickly write something down right right, anyone rewrap? Okay,
(04:40):
So this fuel shortage and people panic buying evs and
all the rest of it. Are we're doing a better
job of this than Australia as.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
We have I think a couple of emerging themes as
we come to the end of week four of epic fury.
If you follow Australia closely like I do, you will,
like me, have been filled, I think, with a sense
of pride and surprise that we are out doing them
in adultness. I mean, yes, Union's here on the media,
repedal the usual bs on, more money for every man
and the dog, and let's work from home, let's panic
(05:07):
about the day's to petrol. But believe me, in Australia
it is way worse. They have lost there, you know what.
They're at each other, not helped by their state system,
that tension between the state and federal and the confusion
over who's doing what and when and whether it's any good.
Stations have run dry, not because they don't have fuel,
but because they don't know how to drive a truck
up the road. Rural has been going at city, punt
(05:28):
has been going at the petrol operators. Are the coalition
in one nation been going at labor. It's been a
free for all bitchethon driven by an underlying panic, another realization.
Despite the fact a few hundred people have bought a BYD,
apparently in this country, it has become stunningly clear just
how far off a renewable future we actually are. I mean,
by all the evs you want and cycle to your
blue in the face. The cold hard truth is that
(05:50):
solar and batteries do not, nor I suspect will they ever,
at least in our lifetime, run a country. Diesel clearly
runs a country. You put oil and tractors and trucks
and factories. We can be grateful that our power grid
is mostly renewable, and that means we are better off
than most of the world, including Australia. But the cold
hard truth is a small bit of water carrying only
twenty percent of the overall supply can cripple a planet
(06:13):
where it will if this thing is nob shortly. We've
been here before.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Of course.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Oil's been an issue in the seventies and the early
two thousands. Did we change because of it? No, did
we say we should or would probably, But did we know?
And you know why? We can't until the combine harvester
runs on wind and the plane takes off using batteries,
and every factory, farmer in person who produces anything we wear,
or eat or live with does it differently. Oil's it.
(06:37):
The whole renewables argument has been blown sky high. The
world has never used nor needed more fossil fuels. Four
weeks of a single scrap in a single country has
laid theory versus reality bare.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Ryan yesterday morning, it might have been, was talking about
how because we live in the information age, we panic
about things that are happening on the other side of
the world, where so much easier to do that because
the world's a smaller place. And when you think about it,
you know, as Mike said, there four weeks, it wasn't
(07:13):
that long ago that we wouldn't have even known that
any of this was happening, because it would take that
long for that information to get to us, if not.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Longer a rewrap.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
I mean imagine trying to explain to somebody in New
Zealand even fifty years ago, where the strait of her
horn moses and why it matters to them.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
This ship I alluded to earlier on the program, it's
Japanese owned. It arrived in Perth yesterday. It's called the
Iron Maiden. It had been stranded in the Persian Gulf.
It unloaded cargo and to buy March two headed towards
the strait of her moose, sat for two days in limbo,
(07:52):
thought I'm going for it. Had broadcast the words China
Owner from its transponder. It was running at twenty two
k's now, which is about as fast as the ship
that size goes broadcast China Owner, switched off its tracking
signal for an hour, turned it back on our on
the other side of the straight, parked itself in the
Perth yesterday. So there's something in that. So they're obviously
(08:14):
letting some through. This morning's news appears to be there
offering something more structured. The Iranians. This is that they
now run the Straight and you're more than welcome to
go through. It will just cost you a last time,
I looked a couple of million dollars per ship to
be able to do so. So I'm not sure how
Trump's going to handle that.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
It's the Iron Maiden, the stupidest name for a boat
since Body mcboat face. I guess it could have been
Iron Man Maiden face. There is quite an expensive toll
isn't it a million backs? Two million backs? It'd be
a nasty surprise if you had your auto top up
(08:55):
set on that particular toll gate.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
The re wrap.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
All right, enough of my stupid comments, that my stupid
sound effects. Instead, but mark the week.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Time out to mark the weak little piece of news
and current of incidence as popular as a second glass
of champagne at the All Than Club as you descend
the stairs and hear the word tea hunger, Donald Trump. Three.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
They're defeated. They can't make a.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Comeback, possibly worse than last week, as airport's a jammed.
He's desperate for a war off ramp. He lost another
seat to the Democrats' mortgages or up recession riskers up.
He can't draw bone oil anymore because no one believes them. Deadlines. Three.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
They are begging to make a deal.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Now, how many times can you say random stuff and
people for for a day? Fifty bucks? Six It's a
decent mark because of its restraint in fiscal realism, and
perhaps at last we finally have a government here that
realizes spraying money we don't have is a path to
ruin warriors.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Nine.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Yes, yes, yes, best start ever and what's actually technically not,
but I'm saying it is. It's our best start ever.
It's never been better than this. Technically eighteen was better,
but it won't be long before it's better than eighteen.
Australia four head to head in a how have we
handled the fuel mess? You tell you what we've won.
(10:06):
They've lost their heads, needlessly panicked, They've talked a lot
of hyped up gibberistion, generally gone at each other. It
really has been a really low rent week and we'll
talk to Marry about that later. EV's eight. I mean,
it's still a way too early, but first start of
this week shows this could be a tipping point. The
market has moved. Is it permanent? Is the question? Regional growth?
Sex war aside, we've got plenty to feel decent about, actually,
(10:29):
led of course by Canterbury, specifically in the South Island.
Generally emeer aken too. I mean, is one million of
our dollars really worth our particular exercise? Ronnie O'Sullivan eight
now sporting highlight of the week one hundred and fifty three,
never been done. He's a genius before it you will
never see his like again. If you've missed it and
(10:49):
you don't even know what I'm talking about. Look it
up and watch it. It's amazing. Had him Montana tweet.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Life.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
See kids of a certain age and parents of kids
of a certain age will have fond memories of this
week as they mark twenty years. Who can believe it's
twenty years Lotto five. I've got no idea where the
more balls is more fun, but I occasionally see a
queue at dairy on jackpot weekend. So a decent chunk
of the country still and do it. I guess Brook
van Velden seven leaves for now on her terms, and
that is a good way to run your life. And
(11:19):
that is the week copies on the website. Now, if
you take fifteen of these color the orange, yellow, or red,
you can pretend you're living under weather warnings.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Yea, More and more people are asking why we don't
get updates when it's green. I'm presuming that green is
what we want it to be, green or blue or
something transparent. What is the weather warning level when it's
not orange or red? If you know that, do let
me know. I am glen Heart. That was the rewrap.
We'll be back again on Monday with more probing questions
(11:48):
like that, Let's see.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Even for more from News Talks at b Listen live
on air or online, and keep our shows with you
wherever you go with our podcasts on Ihart Radio
You're listening to a podcast from news Talk said be
follow this and our wide range of podcasts now on
iHeartRadio The Rewrap.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Okay there, welcome to the Rewrap for Friday. All the
best that's from the mic asking breakfast on news Talks
he'd be and a sillier package. I'm been heartened today
there's a fuel shortage on don't know if you've diard?
Is it something to do with the straight upfor moves?
And we will mark the week because that is what
we do on a Friday, and today is a Friday.
(00:47):
But before any of that, Chris Hopkins and the vaccine
and him not telling everybody that it might have side
effects and all of that, and did he know that
or did he not know that? I'm sure he have
said something about it. And then when you did say
something about it, that you know a lie?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Now, Derrick Ching at the heralds onto a good one
this morning. Did he lie or did he not? So
this is Hipkins and the advice that did, as it
turns out, come to him. Read the twelve to seventeen
year olds, read the second jab, read the myocarditis. So
a couple of things in play here. The inquiry missed
it completely. They said they were that they. I mean,
(01:33):
first of all, you don't remember. Hippkins didn't show it,
didn't show, Robertson didn't show. They hired Denton's I think
it was Denton's and they just fired off a bit
of paperwork to them. They said they didn't No, never
saw it, don't know what we're talking about. That the
inquiry took that at face value, and that's why these
people should have been called and made to turn up,
and the whole thing should have been adversarial, as I
(01:54):
argued all along, like the British system, so you could
have put these clowns under pressure. He said, never saw it.
That's where it lay until we've got this bit of
paperwork that Derek's onto this morning. Hipkins did see it.
It was in front of him. So the question now
is did he see it but not see it therefore
can't remember, or did he see it and has been lying?
(02:17):
And if he's been lying, is that a resignation story
for a Friday.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Yeah. So the Husk asked Simeon Brown this morning if
Chris Hopkins is a liar, and Brown was a bit
reluctant to say that so yeah, I guess it's just
not clear whether if you say something that isn't true,
whether that's a lie. I guess it's the rewrap. But
(02:43):
you know, if it lies like a dark and lies
like a dark, is that an expression?
Speaker 3 (02:49):
I raised it on the program. I'm glad somebody has
finally joined the dots. But I raised it on the
program a couple of weeks. It might be two weeks
ago now because Parliament wasn't sitting last week, but I
raised it on the program. There was an exchange, very
deliberate exchange. Petersn't and was asking questions of Simme and
Brown and it was clear that they had something. But
then the report that came out, and we read the
(03:11):
report and we went through it. The report said the
information wasn't properly passed on from the Ministry of Health.
I e Ashley Bloomfield. Now you remember we had Hipkins
on the program at the time, and I said, this
is on Bloomfield. Whereas he and Hipkins acquiesced, And he wouldn't,
you know, throw him under a bar story. He wouldn't
you say it was on him. But be that as
it may. So you've got two things going on here one,
(03:33):
you've got the weakness of the inquiry. The people who
didn't show up, You Arederns, you're Robinsons and your Hipkins.
They simply, through lawyers, said here are the answers to
my questions, and they simply accepted those answers. So Hipkins
said didn't know, never saw it. They then blame the
ministry for not passing that information on. We now know
that may or may not be true. But what we
(03:54):
do know to be true is Hipkins did get the
advice and when he got them, this is what Brown
and Peters were talking about in the house. So we
got the advice. So him saying I didn't get the advice,
we now know not to be true. So either he's
lying or he did get the advice. But he might
come on and say, well, I still don't know. So
(04:16):
that's the part of the story still to unfault.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Were apparently Asia Ferrel saw it too, and they know
that she saw it because she wrote notes in the
margins of it. But I've written on things that I
haven't read before. Sometimes you just grab something and because
you've got to quickly write something down right right, anyone rewrap? Okay,
(04:40):
So this fuel shortage and people panic buying evs and
all the rest of it. Are we're doing a better
job of this than Australia as.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
We have I think a couple of emerging themes as
we come to the end of week four of epic fury.
If you follow Australia closely like I do, you will,
like me, have been filled, I think, with a sense
of pride and surprise that we are out doing them
in adultness. I mean, yes, Union's here on the media,
repedal the usual bs on, more money for every man
and the dog, and let's work from home, let's panic
(05:07):
about the day's to petrol. But believe me, in Australia
it is way worse. They have lost there, you know what.
They're at each other, not helped by their state system,
that tension between the state and federal and the confusion
over who's doing what and when and whether it's any good.
Stations have run dry, not because they don't have fuel,
but because they don't know how to drive a truck
up the road. Rural has been going at city, punt
(05:28):
has been going at the petrol operators. Are the coalition
in one nation been going at labor. It's been a
free for all bitchethon driven by an underlying panic, another realization.
Despite the fact a few hundred people have bought a BYD,
apparently in this country, it has become stunningly clear just
how far off a renewable future we actually are. I mean,
by all the evs you want and cycle to your
blue in the face. The cold hard truth is that
(05:50):
solar and batteries do not, nor I suspect will they ever,
at least in our lifetime, run a country. Diesel clearly
runs a country. You put oil and tractors and trucks
and factories. We can be grateful that our power grid
is mostly renewable, and that means we are better off
than most of the world, including Australia. But the cold
hard truth is a small bit of water carrying only
twenty percent of the overall supply can cripple a planet
(06:13):
where it will if this thing is nob shortly. We've
been here before.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Of course.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Oil's been an issue in the seventies and the early
two thousands. Did we change because of it? No, did
we say we should or would probably, But did we know?
And you know why? We can't until the combine harvester
runs on wind and the plane takes off using batteries,
and every factory, farmer in person who produces anything we wear,
or eat or live with does it differently. Oil's it.
(06:37):
The whole renewables argument has been blown sky high. The
world has never used nor needed more fossil fuels. Four
weeks of a single scrap in a single country has
laid theory versus reality bare.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Ryan yesterday morning, it might have been, was talking about
how because we live in the information age, we panic
about things that are happening on the other side of
the world, where so much easier to do that because
the world's a smaller place. And when you think about it,
you know, as Mike said, there four weeks, it wasn't
(07:13):
that long ago that we wouldn't have even known that
any of this was happening, because it would take that
long for that information to get to us, if not.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Longer a rewrap.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
I mean imagine trying to explain to somebody in New
Zealand even fifty years ago, where the strait of her
horn moses and why it matters to them.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
This ship I alluded to earlier on the program, it's
Japanese owned. It arrived in Perth yesterday. It's called the
Iron Maiden. It had been stranded in the Persian Gulf.
It unloaded cargo and to buy March two headed towards
the strait of her moose, sat for two days in limbo,
(07:52):
thought I'm going for it. Had broadcast the words China
Owner from its transponder. It was running at twenty two
k's now, which is about as fast as the ship
that size goes broadcast China Owner, switched off its tracking
signal for an hour, turned it back on our on
the other side of the straight, parked itself in the
Perth yesterday. So there's something in that. So they're obviously
(08:14):
letting some through. This morning's news appears to be there
offering something more structured. The Iranians. This is that they
now run the Straight and you're more than welcome to
go through. It will just cost you a last time,
I looked a couple of million dollars per ship to
be able to do so. So I'm not sure how
Trump's going to handle that.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
It's the Iron Maiden, the stupidest name for a boat
since Body mcboat face. I guess it could have been
Iron Man Maiden face. There is quite an expensive toll
isn't it a million backs? Two million backs? It'd be
a nasty surprise if you had your auto top up
(08:55):
set on that particular toll gate.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
The re wrap.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
All right, enough of my stupid comments, that my stupid
sound effects. Instead, but mark the week.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Time out to mark the weak little piece of news
and current of incidence as popular as a second glass
of champagne at the All Than Club as you descend
the stairs and hear the word tea hunger, Donald Trump. Three.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
They're defeated. They can't make a.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Comeback, possibly worse than last week, as airport's a jammed.
He's desperate for a war off ramp. He lost another
seat to the Democrats' mortgages or up recession riskers up.
He can't draw bone oil anymore because no one believes them. Deadlines. Three.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
They are begging to make a deal.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Now, how many times can you say random stuff and
people for for a day? Fifty bucks? Six It's a
decent mark because of its restraint in fiscal realism, and
perhaps at last we finally have a government here that
realizes spraying money we don't have is a path to
ruin warriors.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Nine.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Yes, yes, yes, best start ever and what's actually technically not,
but I'm saying it is. It's our best start ever.
It's never been better than this. Technically eighteen was better,
but it won't be long before it's better than eighteen.
Australia four head to head in a how have we
handled the fuel mess? You tell you what we've won.
(10:06):
They've lost their heads, needlessly panicked, They've talked a lot
of hyped up gibberistion, generally gone at each other. It
really has been a really low rent week and we'll
talk to Marry about that later. EV's eight. I mean,
it's still a way too early, but first start of
this week shows this could be a tipping point. The
market has moved. Is it permanent? Is the question? Regional growth?
Sex war aside, we've got plenty to feel decent about, actually,
(10:29):
led of course by Canterbury, specifically in the South Island.
Generally emeer aken too. I mean, is one million of
our dollars really worth our particular exercise? Ronnie O'Sullivan eight
now sporting highlight of the week one hundred and fifty three,
never been done. He's a genius before it you will
never see his like again. If you've missed it and
(10:49):
you don't even know what I'm talking about. Look it
up and watch it. It's amazing. Had him Montana tweet.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Life.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
See kids of a certain age and parents of kids
of a certain age will have fond memories of this
week as they mark twenty years. Who can believe it's
twenty years Lotto five. I've got no idea where the
more balls is more fun, but I occasionally see a
queue at dairy on jackpot weekend. So a decent chunk
of the country still and do it. I guess Brook
van Velden seven leaves for now on her terms, and
that is a good way to run your life. And
(11:19):
that is the week copies on the website. Now, if
you take fifteen of these color the orange, yellow, or red,
you can pretend you're living under weather warnings.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Yea, More and more people are asking why we don't
get updates when it's green. I'm presuming that green is
what we want it to be, green or blue or
something transparent. What is the weather warning level when it's
not orange or red? If you know that, do let
me know. I am glen Heart. That was the rewrap.
We'll be back again on Monday with more probing questions
(11:48):
like that, Let's see.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Even for more from News Talks at b Listen live
on air or online, and keep our shows with you
wherever you go with our podcasts on Ihart Radio
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