September 29, 2025 • 11 mins
THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Tuesday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) Famous Last Quakey Words/I'm Sure Hamas Is On Board/Auckland Uni Under the Mike-roscope/CoP Cheap at Half the Price
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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,
The Rewrap.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Idea and Welcome to the Rewrap for Tuesday, All the
best but's from the Mic Hosking Breakfast on Newstook said B.
And a Sillier package, I Am glen Hart and today
Gaza all sorted so we can move on from that
great Auckland University and the sort of ethnicity based policies
back under Mike's microscope again, whereas I like to call
(00:49):
it the microscope, but before and what's the cost of
cop how much did it cost last time? And how
much is it likely that cost this time? Before any
of that. So the quake prone buildings turns out some
of them might not have been quite as prone as
we thought.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
If common sense gets you votes in the government is
traveling well. One decision, of course, does not swing in
election or your vote, but a whole series of them
may well make a difference, whether it's where you put
your garden shared or the speed of a new road,
or the pace of reform and consent. A lot of
common sense has been applied to a lot of daily
issues for many of US and yesterday added to that list.
The Earthquake Remediation Program proves beyond doubt one rule does
(01:26):
not apply to all. The government went to some lengths
to point out the rules were well intentioned, but I
can't help but think that was needlessly kind. I mean,
the outworkings, no matter how well intentioned, have been ruinous.
For too many people's entire lives have been upended because
they sit in a home that's in a building that
someone decided needed remediating. They don't have the money. The
value in their home instantly crashes. They can't get access
(01:49):
to loans. This applies not just to apartments but to businesses.
As a result, little gets done if you can't afford it,
Nothing gets done if it's not worth it. Even if
you can afford it, nothing gets done. So you've got
hundreds of not thousands, of buildings whose value is plummeted
and they're just as vulnerable as ever. Nothing actually changed.
The fact Northland and Auckland have been completely removed from
(02:10):
the register tells you how hopelessly loose The original thinking
was earthquakes in the north of the country are not
a thing. Why bother people with needless hassle the savings
they tell us, and that are in the order of
eight billion. Auckland alone saves over four billion dollars. Values
will be readjusted, work will get done, People's lives will
be readjusted back to some form of normality, common sense.
(02:30):
This whole thing was made up, what was acceptable, what
wasn't was made up. Thirty four percent of a new
build suddenly became a thing. Why because they decided it was.
That's the power and the danger of authority that doesn't
deal properly in the detail. Might well be well intentioned,
but it never stopped it being wrong.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Yeah, I mean, nobody wants a building to fall on
their head.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
And there is that nag There is just that nagging
thing that there hadn't really been Christ and Earth based
in christ Church before if they were.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
But you know, fingers crossed, so re wrap all right.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
So it was a sort of a fluid. I have
a thing this morning, this twenty one point plans. It's
initially started of trumps, which included putting Tony Blair in
charge of Gaza.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Everybody loves that Tony Blair.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
I don't know if it's gaul or genius. He's drummed
up a seven hundred million dollar plan. He's going to
run Gaza. He gets a war room, he gets some
elite bodyguards, he gets a police force to oversee the Strip.
He's going to be chairman of the Gaza International Transitional Authority,
the Gitter GITA. He would rule initially from nearby Alarish
in Egypt. There would be policy hubs in Amman and Cairo,
(03:48):
scaling up to be fully operational with the STRIP by
three years. He would lead Gaza's international diplomacy on the
world state. He would coordinate security with Israeli, Egypt in
the US serve as the escalation point on sensitive decisions.
The Chairman commands a strategic secretariat of twenty five ades,
anchoring a crisis war room for rapid analysis, coordination, and messaging.
(04:08):
He would have a new Executive Protection Unit, the EPOO.
The EPOO would be politically balanced to reflect neutrality, professionalism,
and legitimacy. He would work in conjunction with a Palestinian
civil police force International Stabilization Force. It's all coordinated through
a joint security Coordination Center. Just Witkoff likes it, apparently,
(04:29):
as does Kushner. So the new head I mean, this's
all in the you know, but if they like it.
It seems to be unfolding at the White House. It
looks like Tony Blair is going to be running the
Gaza Strip, possibly by the end of the week.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
So it's his way of trying to make up for
the fact that he went into Iraq under the pretense
of weapons of mass distraction that weren't there. In fact,
not only weren't they, the report, the intelligence report that
said they were described a weapon that was not even
a real weapon.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
It was something out of a scene in a movie once.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
So how welcome do you reckon Tony Blair is going
to be in that particular part of the world declaring
himself to be in charge of a country that's had
some other people in charge of.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
It that they went particularly keen on a rewrap.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Actually, speaking of one of those people here, he is, Yeah,
he totally, absolutely, positively in favor of this piece deal
today sort of.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
This essentially is how it works. If a Hamas doesn't agree, but.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
If Hamas rejects your plan, mister President, or if they
supposedly accepted and then then basically do everything to counter it,
then Israel will finish the job by itself. This can
be done the easy way or it can be done
(05:57):
the hard way, but it will be done.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
So essentially, what we've got today is a big spruk.
Because it's one thing to get Nick Yahoo in the
room and say we've got a deal and name a
few Arab countries that might go along with it. It's
something completely different to think that Hamas is necessarily going
to go along with us.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Yes, so yeah, all that happened before anybody in Hamas
had actually seen this plan, remembering that they're kind of
like half of the equation.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
I believe that as I speak.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Right now at ten past nine on Tuesday morning, Katar
and Agent we've gone to see Hamas, mister Hamas and said, hey,
is this plan?
Speaker 4 (06:43):
What do you reckon?
Speaker 2 (06:45):
I like, I say, I'm sure they'll definitely agree. And
that's the end of that war.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Rewrapp right back here in New Zealand.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Mike's hasn't talked about this for a little while, but
it is a personal peave of his. When there are
policies in places that favor one ethnicity over another.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Or prioritize one ethnicity over another, when.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
It doesn't seem like they should be the place where
that's all that important. Anyway, what I'm dancing around here
is Auckland University, Michael explained in.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
A move you could have seen coming from the moment
it was first announced, really, or if you couldn't see
it coming, you were hoping it would come. Auckland University
has decided. It's why Papa Tamatirah course will now be
optional instead of compulsory. So for a generation who've been
appallingly let down over the COVID period by the government
and education decisions, the Auckland University desire to force you
(07:46):
into MARI courses seem not just ill advised but cruel.
Kids of the past half dozen years have been soaked
to the point of drowning in MARI issues and doctrine
in their schooling and they are, I can tell you
sick of it. The Labour Government's obsession with race has
had the opposite effect intended. It didn't cajole and encourage,
it rammed, enforced and overwhelmed us with condescending, over lord
(08:07):
type instruction. University is not about being told what to learn.
It was supposed to be the opposite, and from our
personal experience this year it appeared to us that the
course was not even well run. It was ill conceived,
shonckly run by people barely qualified to deliver a curriculum
that seemed largely made up with no real focus or discipline.
Students hated it. They resented it. They were dragged, kicking
and screaming through it. Not just that, but to add
(08:29):
insult to injury, you had to pay for it. They
forced you into it, then sent you a bill. As
in all these areas of race, the trick has always
been that if you seek it, if you want it,
if you desire it, whether broader study or specific language skills,
it's freely available. Fill your boots. But the determination to
square Peggott only ever led to pushback and resemble. The
last thing I would have thought universities wanted to do
(08:52):
was put people off study. Once again, from personal experience,
we know people who not only avoided Auckland University, but
in fact ended up studying offshore. And none of this
is a desirable outcome for the country upside. When asked
by the university, the feedback was as you would have expected,
and to their credit, I gets they've at least read
the room and backed off, but not before another year.
For thousands have been lost in a whirlpool of woke
(09:14):
enforced nonsense that never had to be.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
So do you go upon university under the Mike roscope.
I think it's definitely going to catch on. Yeah, I mean,
but if you can't be woke at university, where can
you be woke?
Speaker 5 (09:28):
Really?
Speaker 4 (09:30):
Isn't that what it's for?
Speaker 1 (09:32):
The re wrap?
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Speaking of woke, I guess some people think trying to
solve climate change galleys into that department a little bit
too often.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
It's an expensive business just talking about it.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Two hundred and twenty six thousand dollars four hundred thousand miles.
COP twenty nine. Now, I know you're excited about COP
thirty coming up in the mouth of the Amazon, but
COP twenty nine, who can forget in Baku as a Bhujan.
The only reason I know where Barku is it's where
the F one was the other weekend. Apart from that,
it certainly didn't know where Cop twenty nine was. Taxpayer
(10:06):
Union's got the money. They're doing the good work for
US Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the Ministry of
Primary Industries, Ministry or the Environments at thirteen staff, because
of course you need thirteen likely thirteen for the travel,
accommodation and meals business class flights. Is that fair enough?
Seventeen thousand, three hundred per person. I did the mass
for you, seventeen thousand, three hundred dollars per person. What
(10:26):
did we get out of it? That's the question is now,
I don't mind spending seventeen thousand and three hundred dollars per person.
If they come back and go, I tell you what
happened here, abcdn E. There's the report, there are the gains,
there are the savings, and there's how the world is
a better place. Can we say any of that? I
don't think we can.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
I'd actually be prepared to pay double if we could
get some results at the end of it. Like if
that's what we get for no results three times, I'd
pay three times seven hundred and fifty grand. I might
even pay it out of my person, or might sell
my house if they can actually guarantee an end to
(11:05):
all the chat and get some action happening. I am
I don't quite. I don't have any control in my
personal finance. As you understand, it's not up to me
to sell a house or not, but it'd be the
domestic manager.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
You'd have to talk to her. But I'm believe a hat.
I'll see you back here again tomorrow
Speaker 1 (11:29):
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 iHeartRadio
You're listening to a podcast from news Talk, said B.
Follow this and our wide range of podcasts now on iHeartRadio,
The Rewrap.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Idea and Welcome to the Rewrap for Tuesday, All the
best but's from the Mic Hosking Breakfast on Newstook said B.
And a Sillier package, I Am glen Hart and today
Gaza all sorted so we can move on from that
great Auckland University and the sort of ethnicity based policies
back under Mike's microscope again, whereas I like to call
(00:49):
it the microscope, but before and what's the cost of
cop how much did it cost last time? And how
much is it likely that cost this time? Before any
of that. So the quake prone buildings turns out some
of them might not have been quite as prone as
we thought.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
If common sense gets you votes in the government is
traveling well. One decision, of course, does not swing in
election or your vote, but a whole series of them
may well make a difference, whether it's where you put
your garden shared or the speed of a new road,
or the pace of reform and consent. A lot of
common sense has been applied to a lot of daily
issues for many of US and yesterday added to that list.
The Earthquake Remediation Program proves beyond doubt one rule does
(01:26):
not apply to all. The government went to some lengths
to point out the rules were well intentioned, but I
can't help but think that was needlessly kind. I mean,
the outworkings, no matter how well intentioned, have been ruinous.
For too many people's entire lives have been upended because
they sit in a home that's in a building that
someone decided needed remediating. They don't have the money. The
value in their home instantly crashes. They can't get access
(01:49):
to loans. This applies not just to apartments but to businesses.
As a result, little gets done if you can't afford it,
Nothing gets done if it's not worth it. Even if
you can afford it, nothing gets done. So you've got
hundreds of not thousands, of buildings whose value is plummeted
and they're just as vulnerable as ever. Nothing actually changed.
The fact Northland and Auckland have been completely removed from
(02:10):
the register tells you how hopelessly loose The original thinking
was earthquakes in the north of the country are not
a thing. Why bother people with needless hassle the savings
they tell us, and that are in the order of
eight billion. Auckland alone saves over four billion dollars. Values
will be readjusted, work will get done, People's lives will
be readjusted back to some form of normality, common sense.
(02:30):
This whole thing was made up, what was acceptable, what
wasn't was made up. Thirty four percent of a new
build suddenly became a thing. Why because they decided it was.
That's the power and the danger of authority that doesn't
deal properly in the detail. Might well be well intentioned,
but it never stopped it being wrong.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Yeah, I mean, nobody wants a building to fall on
their head.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
And there is that nag There is just that nagging
thing that there hadn't really been Christ and Earth based
in christ Church before if they were.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
But you know, fingers crossed, so re wrap all right.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
So it was a sort of a fluid. I have
a thing this morning, this twenty one point plans. It's
initially started of trumps, which included putting Tony Blair in
charge of Gaza.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Everybody loves that Tony Blair.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
I don't know if it's gaul or genius. He's drummed
up a seven hundred million dollar plan. He's going to
run Gaza. He gets a war room, he gets some
elite bodyguards, he gets a police force to oversee the Strip.
He's going to be chairman of the Gaza International Transitional Authority,
the Gitter GITA. He would rule initially from nearby Alarish
in Egypt. There would be policy hubs in Amman and Cairo,
(03:48):
scaling up to be fully operational with the STRIP by
three years. He would lead Gaza's international diplomacy on the
world state. He would coordinate security with Israeli, Egypt in
the US serve as the escalation point on sensitive decisions.
The Chairman commands a strategic secretariat of twenty five ades,
anchoring a crisis war room for rapid analysis, coordination, and messaging.
(04:08):
He would have a new Executive Protection Unit, the EPOO.
The EPOO would be politically balanced to reflect neutrality, professionalism,
and legitimacy. He would work in conjunction with a Palestinian
civil police force International Stabilization Force. It's all coordinated through
a joint security Coordination Center. Just Witkoff likes it, apparently,
(04:29):
as does Kushner. So the new head I mean, this's
all in the you know, but if they like it.
It seems to be unfolding at the White House. It
looks like Tony Blair is going to be running the
Gaza Strip, possibly by the end of the week.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
So it's his way of trying to make up for
the fact that he went into Iraq under the pretense
of weapons of mass distraction that weren't there. In fact,
not only weren't they, the report, the intelligence report that
said they were described a weapon that was not even
a real weapon.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
It was something out of a scene in a movie once.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
So how welcome do you reckon Tony Blair is going
to be in that particular part of the world declaring
himself to be in charge of a country that's had
some other people in charge of.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
It that they went particularly keen on a rewrap.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Actually, speaking of one of those people here, he is, Yeah,
he totally, absolutely, positively in favor of this piece deal
today sort of.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
This essentially is how it works. If a Hamas doesn't agree, but.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
If Hamas rejects your plan, mister President, or if they
supposedly accepted and then then basically do everything to counter it,
then Israel will finish the job by itself. This can
be done the easy way or it can be done
(05:57):
the hard way, but it will be done.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
So essentially, what we've got today is a big spruk.
Because it's one thing to get Nick Yahoo in the
room and say we've got a deal and name a
few Arab countries that might go along with it. It's
something completely different to think that Hamas is necessarily going
to go along with us.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Yes, so yeah, all that happened before anybody in Hamas
had actually seen this plan, remembering that they're kind of
like half of the equation.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
I believe that as I speak.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Right now at ten past nine on Tuesday morning, Katar
and Agent we've gone to see Hamas, mister Hamas and said, hey,
is this plan?
Speaker 4 (06:43):
What do you reckon?
Speaker 2 (06:45):
I like, I say, I'm sure they'll definitely agree. And
that's the end of that war.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Rewrapp right back here in New Zealand.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Mike's hasn't talked about this for a little while, but
it is a personal peave of his. When there are
policies in places that favor one ethnicity over another.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Or prioritize one ethnicity over another, when.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
It doesn't seem like they should be the place where
that's all that important. Anyway, what I'm dancing around here
is Auckland University, Michael explained in.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
A move you could have seen coming from the moment
it was first announced, really, or if you couldn't see
it coming, you were hoping it would come. Auckland University
has decided. It's why Papa Tamatirah course will now be
optional instead of compulsory. So for a generation who've been
appallingly let down over the COVID period by the government
and education decisions, the Auckland University desire to force you
(07:46):
into MARI courses seem not just ill advised but cruel.
Kids of the past half dozen years have been soaked
to the point of drowning in MARI issues and doctrine
in their schooling and they are, I can tell you
sick of it. The Labour Government's obsession with race has
had the opposite effect intended. It didn't cajole and encourage,
it rammed, enforced and overwhelmed us with condescending, over lord
(08:07):
type instruction. University is not about being told what to learn.
It was supposed to be the opposite, and from our
personal experience this year it appeared to us that the
course was not even well run. It was ill conceived,
shonckly run by people barely qualified to deliver a curriculum
that seemed largely made up with no real focus or discipline.
Students hated it. They resented it. They were dragged, kicking
and screaming through it. Not just that, but to add
(08:29):
insult to injury, you had to pay for it. They
forced you into it, then sent you a bill. As
in all these areas of race, the trick has always
been that if you seek it, if you want it,
if you desire it, whether broader study or specific language skills,
it's freely available. Fill your boots. But the determination to
square Peggott only ever led to pushback and resemble. The
last thing I would have thought universities wanted to do
(08:52):
was put people off study. Once again, from personal experience,
we know people who not only avoided Auckland University, but
in fact ended up studying offshore. And none of this
is a desirable outcome for the country upside. When asked
by the university, the feedback was as you would have expected,
and to their credit, I gets they've at least read
the room and backed off, but not before another year.
For thousands have been lost in a whirlpool of woke
(09:14):
enforced nonsense that never had to be.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
So do you go upon university under the Mike roscope.
I think it's definitely going to catch on. Yeah, I mean,
but if you can't be woke at university, where can
you be woke?
Speaker 5 (09:28):
Really?
Speaker 4 (09:30):
Isn't that what it's for?
Speaker 1 (09:32):
The re wrap?
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Speaking of woke, I guess some people think trying to
solve climate change galleys into that department a little bit
too often.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
It's an expensive business just talking about it.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Two hundred and twenty six thousand dollars four hundred thousand miles.
COP twenty nine. Now, I know you're excited about COP
thirty coming up in the mouth of the Amazon, but
COP twenty nine, who can forget in Baku as a Bhujan.
The only reason I know where Barku is it's where
the F one was the other weekend. Apart from that,
it certainly didn't know where Cop twenty nine was. Taxpayer
(10:06):
Union's got the money. They're doing the good work for
US Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the Ministry of
Primary Industries, Ministry or the Environments at thirteen staff, because
of course you need thirteen likely thirteen for the travel,
accommodation and meals business class flights. Is that fair enough?
Seventeen thousand, three hundred per person. I did the mass
for you, seventeen thousand, three hundred dollars per person. What
(10:26):
did we get out of it? That's the question is now,
I don't mind spending seventeen thousand and three hundred dollars per person.
If they come back and go, I tell you what
happened here, abcdn E. There's the report, there are the gains,
there are the savings, and there's how the world is
a better place. Can we say any of that? I
don't think we can.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
I'd actually be prepared to pay double if we could
get some results at the end of it. Like if
that's what we get for no results three times, I'd
pay three times seven hundred and fifty grand. I might
even pay it out of my person, or might sell
my house if they can actually guarantee an end to
(11:05):
all the chat and get some action happening. I am
I don't quite. I don't have any control in my
personal finance. As you understand, it's not up to me
to sell a house or not, but it'd be the
domestic manager.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
You'd have to talk to her. But I'm believe a hat.
I'll see you back here again tomorrow
Speaker 1 (11:29):
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