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September 25, 2025 • 13 mins

THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Friday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) What a Shame/By That Logic.../Never Turn Down an Upgrade/Mark the Week/Cancel My Subscription

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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The Rewrap.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Okay there and welcome to the rewrap for Friday. All
the best, but's from the mic asking breakfast on News Talks.
They'd been a sillier package. I am gle and hearten.
Today it looks like voters aren't going to be allowed
to register on the day anymore. So that's the end
of democracy as we know it. I guess should Chloe
Swarbrick fly business class or is that against everything she

(00:48):
believes in or claims to believe in? Will mark the
week because what do you know, It's Friday and that's
what we do. And Mike is canceling Prime Video. But
before any of that, tough week for Trump, poor old thing.

Speaker 3 (01:02):
Donald Trump, I reckon, has had as bad a week
as any he's had. The difference this week for me,
the stuff that made it stand out was he looks
increasingly unhinged. Don't you think it was not the un speech.
Don't worry about that. That was classic Trump, A lot
made of a lot of made up stuff and grandiose pomposity.
It sort of wasn't the visa's either given At its
core its classic Trump. They want Americans hired, not immigrants.

(01:24):
That's on brand, chaotic, but on brand. It wasn't even Kimmel,
I mean celebrating the demise of somebody as a sad trait,
but once again on brand, even though Kimmel's back in
Trump's stands on free speech looks decidedly mad or non existent.
Now the real turn of events was won the war
and two taylanol for a bloke who was sorting Putin
day one, and Todd Zelenski he didn't have any cards.

(01:45):
The about face seems astonishing of not worrying. The pivot
hands the problem of course to NATO and the EU.
But what was he thinking taking it on in the
first place. I mean, Putin basically schooled them, He spanked them.
He's humiliated him. He has that as yet unexplained hold
over him that no one seems to understand. And then autism.
In watching the heavily touted announcement, the one we'd apparently

(02:07):
been waiting for for twenty years, he didn't seem to
have a clue as to what he was talking about.
The Amish were raised for God's sake, the ingredient was
mispronounced and stumbled over, and as a result, pretty much
anyone in health all over the world called it a
pile of nonsensical rubbish. The basis of Trumpism is making
America great again. Too many migrants, too many bad trade deals,
an economy that isn't performing up to scratch. All of

(02:29):
that is understandable, and it's what got the votes. Yes,
there was a chaotic, comedic, braggadocious style to it all,
but at its base, if you were of a certain disposition,
it kind of made sense, and you can't argue against
the electoral success. But as the months have unfolded, it's
got madder and more unhinged and wandered off into areas
of extreme improv culminating this week in complete humiliation over

(02:52):
the war and a pronouncement in an area i e. Health.
He clearly has zero experience and expertise, and clearly has
listened too much to his nutty mate with a mad voice.
Disagreeing with his policy approach is politics, but being seen
as a global clown undermines his reputation and that of
the entire country, and that's where he took it. This week.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
Although if I'm sure, if Mike put it to him,
or had the opportunity to put it to and said
something like this would be one of the worst weeks
of your two presidents presidencies, he'd probably just say something like,
I haven't heard that. Everybody's telling me I'm doing a
great job. I've heard that a lot of sources, and

(03:33):
then move on. I think it's a great way.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
To learn its rewrap right.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
Should you be allowed to turn up and register to
vote on the day you vote? Government says not.

Speaker 3 (03:44):
The Electoral Amendment Bill this is the one where you
have to register for next year's election a little bit earlier,
because apparently we have real trouble in this country with
all the paper and all the highlight of pens and
counting a vote on the night. There was a suggestion
so it was submission's day yesterday. Ministry of Justice did
not support closing enrollment early. It's impact on reducing special
votes is uncertain. Impact on democratic participation could be significant.

(04:06):
You reckon, I mean subscribe to the argument that I mean,
if they will making if they said, look, you've got
one day to enroll and that's it. Sure, But the
idea to be able to enroll on the day is
a terrific idea if we were sophisticated administratively in a
way that we simply are not. And it's a cluster.
So why not have a better system that we can

(04:28):
cope with? Because if you go and include things like
the senses, when it comes to these mass organizational efforts,
we really don't have a clue and it becomes problematic.
So no matter which way you slice it. Now, Goldsmith's argument,
by having people register earlier, they will count the numbers faster. Now,
there was some pushback on that policy. Analyst called Jack
Foster said, this creates the most restrictive enroll in the

(04:52):
environment we've had for a long time. Well that's sort
of true, but does it really matter. I mean, you know,
many years ago it was way more restrictive. So you
would like to hope that in time we get better
and better. I think all that's happened is we have
got better and better, but we've pushed the ENBOE to
the point that we just can't cope anymore. The minister
claimed it was necessary to speed up the final vote count,

(05:14):
which was a quote unquote says Jack problematic reason I'm
not sure why it's problematic, because in democracy, you want
to see democracy working. When voting takes a longer time
than we would anticipate, do we get angsty? Yes we do.
Would we like voting to go quicker, Yes we would.
When the coalition talks go longer than we perceive to
be acceptable, do we get angsty? Yes we do. As

(05:37):
I've argued many a time, what you want to do
is have the German system, which is at two seconds
past closing time seven o'clock and election night you get
a result. Now, could we do that theoretically? Can we?

Speaker 1 (05:48):
Not?

Speaker 3 (05:49):
Really? So, I've actually got no problems with it at all.
I still don't understand where Judith Collins got the idea
as Attorney General that it could breach the Bill of Rights.
Bill of Rights is about participation if you can participate,
which you still can. I'm not sure we're The difficulty
is so a lot of people had a lot to say,
and I don't think anything's going to change. You'll have
to enroll them. The participation rate will be pretty much

(06:10):
what it's always been.

Speaker 2 (06:11):
Mark my Woods, I kind of get the logic of
what Mike's saying there, but going by that same logic
he mentioned coalitions being formed or not formed and how
we don't like that that's too drawn out as well.
So by that same logic people should make clear there
and that it should be obliged to make clear their
intentions of who and who they won't coalesce with post

(06:34):
the vote. I feel like if that's your reason for
doing for not having on the day registration anymore because
you want to speed things up, then you've got to
do that with the coalition talks as well, don't you.
They need to happen before the election.

Speaker 3 (06:51):
Rerap.

Speaker 2 (06:52):
Geez, that was funny, Glen. It's the way you tell them. Ay,
youre a laugh right this morning? Did you laugh when
you saw the picture of Coloe Swawbrook and business class?

Speaker 3 (07:02):
Mike could talk yesterday by the Greens at Clobe when
premium economy to London is not true. I have a
photo of the sitting in the business all got a
photo of a sitting in business class. That's what happens
on social media. There's no question why the Green's told
I don't know who it was, was one of the
shows on the station. They told who Ryan? They told
Ryan that she had gone premium economy. She's in business.
I've seen the photo. She's in business. She's a hypocrite

(07:24):
business The offset is three times economy because of the
size of the seat, the weight of the seat, the
fewer people in the cabin et, cetera, et cetera. So
if you're a green and you're flying business class, you
are the ultimate hypocrite. And that's before you get to
the pack. What she even gone to London for. It's
a talk fest. It's a gab fest. Nothing happens, nothing changes,
and somebody else paid for it. And so you cannot

(07:44):
just stand on the ground and go, you know, offsets,
carbon emissions, miles, all of that sort of stuff. Then
park yourself in business without I would have thought keeping
your head down and being extremely embarrassed for about twenty
one hours.

Speaker 2 (07:56):
I just can't get excited about this one. I mean,
maybe she was upgraded. I mean, if the seat was
going empty anyway, it's not like she's creating more of
a cab and footprint by sitting in it. I wouldn't
have thought. I mean, I don't know that to be true.
The whole thing is weird. I mean, f indeed, she

(08:18):
did play business class and the Greens claimed she didn't.
That's weird. We probably need to get at the boom
of that more funny stuff from me there the rewrap. Okay,
so I haven't really managed to say anything entertaining on
this podcast today, so I'll just make some noises instead.

Speaker 3 (08:36):
I'm now to make a weak little piece of using
current events that's as popular as a lavish promise on
climate at the UN Assembly with Trump too? Is that
a correct statement? By the way, possibly as worst easily
as maddest week yet on Tylan Old, the War Kimmel
combing the visas the escalator, the teleprompt unhinge doesn't do it,
Jimmy Kimmel seven.

Speaker 1 (08:53):
It made me realize how many of my friends are
never watching the show at any.

Speaker 3 (08:57):
Other time won the moral high ground on free speech. Disney, though, too,
lost the moral high ground by being spineless, and then
they went and put their streaming prices up A Palestine four?
Are you as surprised as I am that, after all
these pledges, this week of recognition that the war hasn't stopped,
the food hasn't flowed, and her mass is still open
for business and guitar Sarah Ferguson two.

Speaker 1 (09:20):
Wow, what a miserable.

Speaker 3 (09:22):
Little suck up. She turned out to be Fontierra nine.
The numbers of the success are amazing. The OECD growth
forecast this week six. Anyone that's telling us the world's
going to be better than we thought is worth a listener.
I reckon Huntley six, the col deal. That's a sign
of pragmatism and a reality check. EV's four Porsche fell
off the decks and Honda stopped making one of their cars,

(09:44):
all because theory never met reality and it was never
going to airways as an Airways Corp. Seven. Funnier than
kimenl Ona's Best Night. We're going to talk to the vendor,
they said, Oh the vendors us who knew almost as
funny as Zuckerberg trying to make glasses video calls.

Speaker 2 (10:01):
Four. That's too bad.

Speaker 1 (10:04):
I don't know what.

Speaker 3 (10:04):
Happened Ranfilly shields seven four times? Yeah, four times this
season in the last two sensational games. The government six
talk about hustle roads openings this week. You notice that
operation money, money, money, a lot of money this week.
That's what minus zero point nine does for you. The
all Black seven will be fine. I mean, yes, Australia

(10:26):
are better than they were. And yes we lost the
other weekend, but remember how angsty we got about Eden
parking the South Africans a couple of weeks ago. Let's
save ourselves the energy, shall we? And that is the
week copies on the website and in an internal report
written by a bloke from the ABC, this week finds
marking the week even less biased than one News, which
isn't even a little bit by it.

Speaker 2 (10:44):
A favorite thing I played in there was Makimmel Jimmy
Kimmel bit not from his monologue from the first night,
he was back from the second night. See, a lot
of people don't pay that much attention to detail when
they're putting stupid sound effects into the middle of mark
the week. The re rap that was a bit funnier.
That lasted it. You've got to no, okay, let's try harder.

(11:08):
Because Prime started putting Prime Video started putting ads in
the middle of Mike's programs, in the middle of that
just the beginning of the episodes. Anyway, he's canceling it apparently.

Speaker 3 (11:19):
But Mike doesn't land Man on Amazon Amazing. No, it's
reasonably good, but it certainly wouldn't stop me canceling.

Speaker 2 (11:29):
We have raised the Clarks and this farm issue.

Speaker 3 (11:31):
It wouldn't stop me canceling either. I'll tell you that
right here, right now, Mike Drop.

Speaker 2 (11:36):
It is a bit frustrating that you can't seem to
still to this day. Just can I just pay like
one hundred bucks a month and have access to everything
in the world. Why can't we do that? That seems
to be I guess because they're all sort of competing
against this. That seem a lot of reciprocal stuff, though,

(11:57):
doesn't it? Like I keep getting notifications from my Apple
TV Plus app to tell me about things that are
on on Prime Video, so that and you can access
each of those things from the opposite app. I think,
I think you can do it from Prime Video to Apple.
Do you can definitely get to Prime Video from Apple?

(12:23):
That is complicated. I've got a hand it to Mike.
It is complicated. And we hate ads. We don't ever
want to see ads ever again. And then people started
texting and to complain about the ads on our radio station,
and they're not paying to listen to our radio stations,
so somebody's got to. So it's a slightly different situation.

(12:44):
Sorry about the ads of this podcast. For example. All
I can assure you is that it's not making any
difference to me personally, but somewhere the companies doing better
because you listen to that ad. Somehow, that's how it works.
That's how commercial radio works. I might have that wrong.

(13:04):
It's ever been my strong point. Hi, angler Heart, thanks
for listening to this rubbish. I'll try to be funnier
on Monday. I'm a bit tired. I'll feel funnier

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