May 22, 2025 • 12 mins
THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Friday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) Spring Is Just Around the Corner/Maybe the Perfume Was Just Too Expensive/Mark the Week/Dog Chat
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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 O.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
There, welcome to the rewrap for Friday. All the best
but from the mac asking breakfast on news Talks there'd
be and a sillier package. I am Glen Heart and
today we're going to lament the closure of Smith and Coey's.
We will mark the week because it's Friday, and that's
what we do. And then the podcast literally goes to
(00:46):
the dogs, or goes to Taronga to get a dog.
But before any of that, Yes, the budget, the budget,
the budget, the budget.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
It's likely, indeed forecast that this government, if re elected
next year, will end its second term i e. Twenty
twenty nine never having run a surplus. Now that are
the means they spend too much or they inherited a
gargantu and mess. The latter we know to be a fact,
but the form is a bit debatable. In fact, depending
on how you measure things. The four car surplus in
(01:14):
twenty twenty nine is so thin it might be less
than nothing. And that's the optimistic way of measuring things.
The government now favors wonder why that is our The
traditional way still has a three billion dollar hole. By
twenty twenty nine, the pay equity money turns out to
be about two and a half billion a year, which
shows you how hopelessly loose pay equity became. Primary teaching
is not a pay equity issue, the same way nursing isn't.
(01:37):
It's a union pay grab. The opposition will try and
convince you otherwise, but they're wrong. What we do know
is the government found five billion a year from savings
in equity, which is a lot of money, but money
that still allegedly needs spending, hence the ongoing deficits. The
debt to GDP keeps going up. It's too high. But
under my way of doing things, the little there was
handed out or redistributed yesterday wouldn't have been. But I
(01:58):
suspect the politics of that particular approach was too much
to stomach. But and here is the issue. A conservative
government can only run things in the red for so
long before the public quite rightly asks whether they actually
know what they're doing. Can we save a freebies for
the so called wealthy? Good move? Best start freebies for
wealthy families? Good move means testing wealthy families on jobless teenagers.
(02:19):
Common sense. It's done on student allowance, depreciation for business assets.
Good move encourages people to spend and take a punt
more please. In the end, it was pretty much a
simple document because one, the government has limited room to move,
and two governments should not be the home of all
good ideas, bum wiping and problem solving. They should set
the mood and clear the runway. It's a classic center
right budget written in tough times. What they need politically
(02:42):
is people to understand just how tough and to give
them leeway and some patience to ride this out. And
as for those who dug as this hole in the
first place, the less we hear from them the better.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Which is all true and right and all the rest
of that I do. I am starting to tire of
national complaining about the mountain of debt that they were
confronted with when they came into power, because you know,
that was an excuse they used last year. With last
year's budget, they seemed surprised by how much yet there was.
(03:17):
How can they still be surprised this year? Who did
you know? Is it just because they got half out
the man and they didn't think it was very far
to the top. And then they came around the corner.
Oh no, it goes a bit further. Don't quite know
what's happening there. It's the rewrap anyway, that's my feedback.
How about everybody else's.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Mike, forty five times two hundred and sixty dollars eleven
thy seven hundred, even with compounding interest, that's far shorter
than the sixty six thousand laborers alleging the government is
stealing from Kii Saber for individuals. Tony A good point,
But the mistake you make is believing Labor Party when
it comes to economic calculations. Am I right, Mike, and saying,
after all the drama about letting the Mallory Party into
the House to debate it, they didn't even turn up.
(03:55):
Yes you are, Mike. What about the Mallory Party didn't
even show up to the House for the budget? This
was brushed over quickly by most of the media. How
is this acceptable? It's acceptable only if you take them seriously,
which I don't. As logan royso Fame Sleeve said, these
are not serious people. Mike, Hark and Hipkins talk trash
about the budget when we're in the position because him
and just indes indability to run the country. They should
(04:17):
they have money away and bought their votes. She should
be in jail. I wouldn't put them in jail, but
I just wouldn't give them as much time as you
seem to want. It.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Is it possible the Maori Party thought that they had
been suspended already. They have missed the point of that
thing that got postponed the other day, and that's why
they didn't turn up. They thought they weren't allowed to.
Not sure wrap. So the confusing news this week, which
I thought was already happening, that it was confirmed that
(04:46):
a Smith and Coey's is closing. Some people care.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
This is the feedback. Smith and Coey very sad this
week that they're closing down in Auckland, ike one hundred
and forty odd years worth of business. But this is
from a person who I know and deal with, who
does business in the downtown Auckland area, says this. While
much has been said about the external pressures facing Smith
and coey c infrastructure issues, change in real to our
habits and rising costs, the truth is that its rebirth
(05:14):
was equally hindered by internal failings. There was little of
any meaningful shift in sales culture. The opportunity to redefine
what a department store service could look like was missed.
In a retail environment where experiences everything, Smith and Coey
remained stuck in the past. Bard passive staff positioned more
as deterrence than ambassadors. The focus seemed to be on
(05:35):
preventing theft rather than enriching the customer experience. Now, I
trust this person because, as I say, he's an experienced operator,
he's in the area, he does well. I do business
with him. He knows how to run a proper business.
Others have said something similar to me, which is not
to diss Smith and Coe at all, but it is
to try and balance the argument. As much as it's
easy to blame a council and it's easy to blame
(05:57):
road cones and downtown Auckland is a complete and utter dump.
Do not get me wrong. It's not always open and shut,
black and white, right and wrong.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
I'm just trying to think if I ever actually bought
anything there, and I think I may have bought Perfume
as a gift for domestic manager because it seemed to
be the shop that you went to to buy perfume
at but nowadays you can get it at Chemists Warehouse
for a fraction of the price. And I'm not just
(06:30):
saying that because Chimmis Warehouse advertisers at our station. I
mean there's literally that they sell. They thim to sell
all the perfume and it seems to be cheaper. So
is that another reason why Smith and Cuey's isn't there anymore?
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Maybe the re wrap.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Hey it's Friday, that must mean it's signed to make
my leak.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Time now to make the week little piece of news
and current offense. It's as popular as Peter's stand off
on a Wellington railway platform. A New Zealand inc. Seven.
All in all a pretty good week. I mean the
export receipts, the trade balance, the Kipi fruit numbers, there's
still a decent chunk of the joint operating pretty well,
if not brilliantly. The green budget one they shouldn't need
to be allowed near a calculator. When nurses get pay
(07:13):
cuts because of their tax regime, you know you're dealing
with nutters. Are the real budgets? Seven In totality, she
did quite a lot with next to nothing, and the
intent and messaging. I hope, gave hope and boy do
we need hope? Oh and also a surplus are the
privileges debate six? Because at last the committee came to
the party on rule breaking and at least attempted to
(07:34):
write the egregious mess The place has become Chris Bishop
seven out of nowhere on the ensuing debate. Genius are
the Warriors eight?
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Can't?
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (07:44):
They just keep on winning and at home against the Raiders.
What a lip smack of this weekend. When we beat
the Raiders, we're going to be top of the table,
literally top of the table coalition in Australia one. I mean,
you can't overstate how big this is set up in
the twenties for goodness sake, and to watch it all
fall apart the way it did this week in one day,
that was major. It was a big day in Australian
(08:05):
political history. More from Murray later not to mention the
effect the label when clearly produced across the political spectrum.
Now the Golden Dome six.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
We will have the best system ever built.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Is it even real? I mean, can you build the
dome in three years? And if you can, how come
we can't build a road in that time? Are the
US credit down grade? Three? This is the I mean
this two might be historic if the fundamental shift away
from America and the belief in it is real, and
it seems to me run it straight. Five I mean,
I'm nonplus it seems a bit idiotic, but then so
does Love Island. The sum across too, couple of wining locals,
(08:40):
and the Council's suddenly got money in time for a survey.
I mean, get real the FMA one a twenty one
day workers survey questionnaire. Day after day after day after
day after day, Get real, Ardie Savi and nine. Imagine
if he played for the Warriors Smith and Coey's two.
That is what Arrogan's and competence, blind ideology and lack
(09:01):
of vision does for a city Auckland Council Radio ratings
Radio ratings eight. It would appear results released yesterday indicate
this particular program might have got a few numbers that
made people go, can that guy get any bigger and better?
Or words to that effect. That's the week. Copies of
the website, and if you look closely at this week's
pecuniary interestless one MP declared they had been gifted four
(09:24):
hundred of these.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Yes, So, as you heard Mike reference there at the
end the radio survey, the latest radio re survey results
came out and it was a good day for us.
I don't know what to make of those. Been working
in radio for many decades now, and you know, you
see good surveys and bad surveys, and the more that
(09:49):
you see, the more you feel like nothing that you
are actually doing has any real effect on them. It's
just like waiting for your lotto numbers to come in
many ways, Rewrap, I'm sure that's not right. I'm sure
it's all very scientific. We're going to finish up with
a bit of dog chat. What happened was Mike started
bullying Sam on ear because Sam's going to Taronga to
(10:13):
pick up a dog. They've decided to invest in a dog.
It was a little bit confusing exactly what breed of
dog it was.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Mike, my wife bought a miniature poodle for three and
a half thousand dollars. It got rehomed at no cost
to the recipient after she discovered it had high anxiety.
Also wouldn't shut up by it. Beware, Mike, you're a bully,
although I do enjoy your banter. I guess that makes
me want to Yeah. Probably a lab poodle cross are
the best dogs used a lot in visiting the elderly
and mental health patients. Sam must be kind to choose
(10:43):
this dog. There you go, Mike tell Sam a cockapoo
dog breed.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Cockapoo that is a breed cockapoo.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Are completely stupid. Class is one of the craziest dogs,
and trainers recommend you don't buy them.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
It's actually a miniature labradoodle. I was saying labraspoodle because
that's the dog I've got.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Of course, it is just surrounded by it. Look this show,
I mean, what what's the matter with this show? We've
got a what have you got? A cockspoodle, a miniature labraspoodle, labraspoodle?
Got a miniature labraspoodle. You've got a cotton pee.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
No, he's getting a labradoodle.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Cockspoodle, and I've got a mald teaser. I mean what
I mean, what what a bunch you'll los?
Speaker 2 (11:26):
So, just to be really clear, my dog is a
miniature lebraspoodle. So it's part cocker spaniel and part miniature libradoodle,
which is what Sam's getting. That he won't have the
cocker spaniel part that my dog hairs. And by cocker
pits spaniel parts, I mean it ridiculous, is which is
(11:48):
really why we got him for Old Jerry. Don't have
an operation next week. It's got a problematic dew claw. See,
these are the things that I tell you about when
you buy them. Anyway, I've said too much, so I'm
going to stop saying anything and I'll start again on.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Mondaws rerap 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 be
follow this and our wide range of podcasts now on
iHeartRadio the rewrap O.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
There, welcome to the rewrap for Friday. All the best
but from the mac asking breakfast on news Talks there'd
be and a sillier package. I am Glen Heart and
today we're going to lament the closure of Smith and Coey's.
We will mark the week because it's Friday, and that's
what we do. And then the podcast literally goes to
(00:46):
the dogs, or goes to Taronga to get a dog.
But before any of that, Yes, the budget, the budget,
the budget, the budget.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
It's likely, indeed forecast that this government, if re elected
next year, will end its second term i e. Twenty
twenty nine never having run a surplus. Now that are
the means they spend too much or they inherited a
gargantu and mess. The latter we know to be a fact,
but the form is a bit debatable. In fact, depending
on how you measure things. The four car surplus in
(01:14):
twenty twenty nine is so thin it might be less
than nothing. And that's the optimistic way of measuring things.
The government now favors wonder why that is our The
traditional way still has a three billion dollar hole. By
twenty twenty nine, the pay equity money turns out to
be about two and a half billion a year, which
shows you how hopelessly loose pay equity became. Primary teaching
is not a pay equity issue, the same way nursing isn't.
(01:37):
It's a union pay grab. The opposition will try and
convince you otherwise, but they're wrong. What we do know
is the government found five billion a year from savings
in equity, which is a lot of money, but money
that still allegedly needs spending, hence the ongoing deficits. The
debt to GDP keeps going up. It's too high. But
under my way of doing things, the little there was
handed out or redistributed yesterday wouldn't have been. But I
(01:58):
suspect the politics of that particular approach was too much
to stomach. But and here is the issue. A conservative
government can only run things in the red for so
long before the public quite rightly asks whether they actually
know what they're doing. Can we save a freebies for
the so called wealthy? Good move? Best start freebies for
wealthy families? Good move means testing wealthy families on jobless teenagers.
(02:19):
Common sense. It's done on student allowance, depreciation for business assets.
Good move encourages people to spend and take a punt
more please. In the end, it was pretty much a
simple document because one, the government has limited room to move,
and two governments should not be the home of all
good ideas, bum wiping and problem solving. They should set
the mood and clear the runway. It's a classic center
right budget written in tough times. What they need politically
(02:42):
is people to understand just how tough and to give
them leeway and some patience to ride this out. And
as for those who dug as this hole in the
first place, the less we hear from them the better.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Which is all true and right and all the rest
of that I do. I am starting to tire of
national complaining about the mountain of debt that they were
confronted with when they came into power, because you know,
that was an excuse they used last year. With last
year's budget, they seemed surprised by how much yet there was.
(03:17):
How can they still be surprised this year? Who did
you know? Is it just because they got half out
the man and they didn't think it was very far
to the top. And then they came around the corner.
Oh no, it goes a bit further. Don't quite know
what's happening there. It's the rewrap anyway, that's my feedback.
How about everybody else's.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Mike, forty five times two hundred and sixty dollars eleven
thy seven hundred, even with compounding interest, that's far shorter
than the sixty six thousand laborers alleging the government is
stealing from Kii Saber for individuals. Tony A good point,
But the mistake you make is believing Labor Party when
it comes to economic calculations. Am I right, Mike, and saying,
after all the drama about letting the Mallory Party into
the House to debate it, they didn't even turn up.
(03:55):
Yes you are, Mike. What about the Mallory Party didn't
even show up to the House for the budget? This
was brushed over quickly by most of the media. How
is this acceptable? It's acceptable only if you take them seriously,
which I don't. As logan royso Fame Sleeve said, these
are not serious people. Mike, Hark and Hipkins talk trash
about the budget when we're in the position because him
and just indes indability to run the country. They should
(04:17):
they have money away and bought their votes. She should
be in jail. I wouldn't put them in jail, but
I just wouldn't give them as much time as you
seem to want. It.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Is it possible the Maori Party thought that they had
been suspended already. They have missed the point of that
thing that got postponed the other day, and that's why
they didn't turn up. They thought they weren't allowed to.
Not sure wrap. So the confusing news this week, which
I thought was already happening, that it was confirmed that
(04:46):
a Smith and Coey's is closing. Some people care.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
This is the feedback. Smith and Coey very sad this
week that they're closing down in Auckland, ike one hundred
and forty odd years worth of business. But this is
from a person who I know and deal with, who
does business in the downtown Auckland area, says this. While
much has been said about the external pressures facing Smith
and coey c infrastructure issues, change in real to our
habits and rising costs, the truth is that its rebirth
(05:14):
was equally hindered by internal failings. There was little of
any meaningful shift in sales culture. The opportunity to redefine
what a department store service could look like was missed.
In a retail environment where experiences everything, Smith and Coey
remained stuck in the past. Bard passive staff positioned more
as deterrence than ambassadors. The focus seemed to be on
(05:35):
preventing theft rather than enriching the customer experience. Now, I
trust this person because, as I say, he's an experienced operator,
he's in the area, he does well. I do business
with him. He knows how to run a proper business.
Others have said something similar to me, which is not
to diss Smith and Coe at all, but it is
to try and balance the argument. As much as it's
easy to blame a council and it's easy to blame
(05:57):
road cones and downtown Auckland is a complete and utter dump.
Do not get me wrong. It's not always open and shut,
black and white, right and wrong.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
I'm just trying to think if I ever actually bought
anything there, and I think I may have bought Perfume
as a gift for domestic manager because it seemed to
be the shop that you went to to buy perfume
at but nowadays you can get it at Chemists Warehouse
for a fraction of the price. And I'm not just
(06:30):
saying that because Chimmis Warehouse advertisers at our station. I
mean there's literally that they sell. They thim to sell
all the perfume and it seems to be cheaper. So
is that another reason why Smith and Cuey's isn't there anymore?
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Maybe the re wrap.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Hey it's Friday, that must mean it's signed to make
my leak.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Time now to make the week little piece of news
and current offense. It's as popular as Peter's stand off
on a Wellington railway platform. A New Zealand inc. Seven.
All in all a pretty good week. I mean the
export receipts, the trade balance, the Kipi fruit numbers, there's
still a decent chunk of the joint operating pretty well,
if not brilliantly. The green budget one they shouldn't need
to be allowed near a calculator. When nurses get pay
(07:13):
cuts because of their tax regime, you know you're dealing
with nutters. Are the real budgets? Seven In totality, she
did quite a lot with next to nothing, and the
intent and messaging. I hope, gave hope and boy do
we need hope? Oh and also a surplus are the
privileges debate six? Because at last the committee came to
the party on rule breaking and at least attempted to
(07:34):
write the egregious mess The place has become Chris Bishop
seven out of nowhere on the ensuing debate. Genius are
the Warriors eight?
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Can't?
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (07:44):
They just keep on winning and at home against the Raiders.
What a lip smack of this weekend. When we beat
the Raiders, we're going to be top of the table,
literally top of the table coalition in Australia one. I mean,
you can't overstate how big this is set up in
the twenties for goodness sake, and to watch it all
fall apart the way it did this week in one day,
that was major. It was a big day in Australian
(08:05):
political history. More from Murray later not to mention the
effect the label when clearly produced across the political spectrum.
Now the Golden Dome six.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
We will have the best system ever built.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Is it even real? I mean, can you build the
dome in three years? And if you can, how come
we can't build a road in that time? Are the
US credit down grade? Three? This is the I mean
this two might be historic if the fundamental shift away
from America and the belief in it is real, and
it seems to me run it straight. Five I mean,
I'm nonplus it seems a bit idiotic, but then so
does Love Island. The sum across too, couple of wining locals,
(08:40):
and the Council's suddenly got money in time for a survey.
I mean, get real the FMA one a twenty one
day workers survey questionnaire. Day after day after day after
day after day, Get real, Ardie Savi and nine. Imagine
if he played for the Warriors Smith and Coey's two.
That is what Arrogan's and competence, blind ideology and lack
(09:01):
of vision does for a city Auckland Council Radio ratings
Radio ratings eight. It would appear results released yesterday indicate
this particular program might have got a few numbers that
made people go, can that guy get any bigger and better?
Or words to that effect. That's the week. Copies of
the website, and if you look closely at this week's
pecuniary interestless one MP declared they had been gifted four
(09:24):
hundred of these.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Yes, So, as you heard Mike reference there at the
end the radio survey, the latest radio re survey results
came out and it was a good day for us.
I don't know what to make of those. Been working
in radio for many decades now, and you know, you
see good surveys and bad surveys, and the more that
(09:49):
you see, the more you feel like nothing that you
are actually doing has any real effect on them. It's
just like waiting for your lotto numbers to come in
many ways, Rewrap, I'm sure that's not right. I'm sure
it's all very scientific. We're going to finish up with
a bit of dog chat. What happened was Mike started
bullying Sam on ear because Sam's going to Taronga to
(10:13):
pick up a dog. They've decided to invest in a dog.
It was a little bit confusing exactly what breed of
dog it was.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Mike, my wife bought a miniature poodle for three and
a half thousand dollars. It got rehomed at no cost
to the recipient after she discovered it had high anxiety.
Also wouldn't shut up by it. Beware, Mike, you're a bully,
although I do enjoy your banter. I guess that makes
me want to Yeah. Probably a lab poodle cross are
the best dogs used a lot in visiting the elderly
and mental health patients. Sam must be kind to choose
(10:43):
this dog. There you go, Mike tell Sam a cockapoo
dog breed.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Cockapoo that is a breed cockapoo.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Are completely stupid. Class is one of the craziest dogs,
and trainers recommend you don't buy them.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
It's actually a miniature labradoodle. I was saying labraspoodle because
that's the dog I've got.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Of course, it is just surrounded by it. Look this show,
I mean, what what's the matter with this show? We've
got a what have you got? A cockspoodle, a miniature labraspoodle, labraspoodle?
Got a miniature labraspoodle. You've got a cotton pee.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
No, he's getting a labradoodle.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Cockspoodle, and I've got a mald teaser. I mean what
I mean, what what a bunch you'll los?
Speaker 2 (11:26):
So, just to be really clear, my dog is a
miniature lebraspoodle. So it's part cocker spaniel and part miniature libradoodle,
which is what Sam's getting. That he won't have the
cocker spaniel part that my dog hairs. And by cocker
pits spaniel parts, I mean it ridiculous, is which is
(11:48):
really why we got him for Old Jerry. Don't have
an operation next week. It's got a problematic dew claw. See,
these are the things that I tell you about when
you buy them. Anyway, I've said too much, so I'm
going to stop saying anything and I'll start again on.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Mondaws rerap 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
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