March 17, 2026 • 12 mins
THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Wednesday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) The War, His Poll Ratings, You Name It/Never Has So Much Been Said About So Little/A Bit of Robbie Sizzle
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
Rep and welcome to the rewrap for Wednesday. All the
best that's from the mic asking breakfast on news Talk
said be in a sillier package, I am Glen Hart
and today bit of a funny old day to day.
We spend most of the time talking about something which
I've got absolutely no interest in whatsoever. That's not that unusual,
(00:45):
but I mean, I really don't care about this. Robbie Williams,
who I kind of care about. He's coming in tomorrow.
But we played some of the interview today. But first up,
it's all gone wrong for Trump. He's losing it, the war,
his popularity, his marbles.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
I figured there's one of three reasons the Trump sheep
Summits laid quote unquote for a month or two. One,
he didn't think the war would be an issue by
the end of March and it is. Two he didn't
factor in any meetings in their timings that fateful Saturday
morning in Florida a bit over two weeks ago. Three
he forgot None of them are particularly good answers given
the summit is off. Normally, these things are a big
(01:26):
deal and can lead good places. Not helping is the
request from Trump too, she for a ship or two
in the Strait, which has been met, of course, with
stony silence. He's dealing with a lot of stony silence
at the moment. Read the ships in the strait, something
about it not being our war, and or we are
not getting dragged into another forever war, or maybe you
know all that stuff you said about us being useless,
(01:48):
well go get stuffed, or words to that effect. It's
not a bad question to ask, actually, and a lot
of people are asking it at the moment. If you're
winning so well, how come you need so much help?
His playbook is also being badly exposed. Having lived through
the Greenland charad just a few months ago, Europeans know
a stitch up when they see one. The good news,
if you want to use that phrase, the narrative does
(02:09):
not have to be the reality. Sah At a very
good piece yesterday, lengthy but very good, that asked how
he gets out of this, and various experts weighed through
any given number of scenarios and outworkings. When the truth is,
he simply declares victory when he wants to why, because
none of us are going to a ran to see
if any of the stuff he says is true, He'll
be long gone even if they haven't dismantled the nuclear
(02:31):
threat fully. And in the ensuing period he'll claim a
lot of good stuff came out of it, and petrol
will be back to a bucke gallon and will have
all moved on. Hecup could be if he declares it over,
but the Strait still gets attacked. I assume that's what
the special forces on their way are for. But it
seems the revolution is off. The people haven't stampeded their
(02:51):
way to freedom Israel. I'm sure still need to be convinced.
This has a hard end date by the way of
a six weeks total, and I suspect, deep down, as
hard as he spends it, his regrets are starting to
outweigh that balliot's feeling that enveloped him clearly at marri
Lago a couple of weekends ago. Could be Trump isn't
a genius. Could be he is like every other president
who waded into a foreign land only to go bugger
(03:14):
America and wars. Eh they never learned.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Oh well, never mind. I mean, you know, we're all
still here apart from all the people who aren't still
here anymore because of the wars, Like I say, what
can I mean? Seriously, what can you say?
Speaker 3 (03:33):
So we wrap?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
So Yeah, for some reason America voted for that guy.
At one stage, we voted against this guy, and yet
for some reason we still care what he does in
his own time.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
One of the aspects of the Hipkins thing that you've raised,
and I thought it would be, and I did the
research this morning, PM's private passions Welcome to My Home
Woman's Weekly, October seventh, twenty twenty three. So this is
where he might and I'll give you detail in a moment,
he might be in an element to bother. This is
what he started with yesterday.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Time that I've been in politics, I've made a very
conscious effort to keep my private life private and to
keep my family out of the spotlight, particularly my children.
You won't find photos of my kids anywhere on social media.
You won't find me talking about them beyond generic references
to being a parent anywhere in public.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
That's not true, Mike. This debarcle is ugly and sad.
But if you pocket cash from plastering your mug on
a magazine. I think I'm speaking slightly out of turn
because I don't know for a fact, but I can
almost certainly guarantee you he didn't receive money from a
woman's magazine. And the most recent appearance in the women's
magazine was, let me just reference here, January of twenty six,
(04:54):
so a couple of months ago. They no longer pay.
Ever since COVID arrived and Bower packed up and went home,
there is no money in women's magazines anymore. And I
don't think a politician has ever taken any payment from
a women's magazine anyway, that as it may, I have
the evidence of what he has said about his children
in these magazines. For you, Mike, can't leave it alone.
(05:17):
Every five minutes back to Hipkins makes you look grubby.
So the interesting thing about that is what happened yesterday.
Thank you very much for your contribution. The thing about
that yesterday was I wonder if Hipkins hasn't made a
strategic mistake up until yesterday, and him speaking what it
had a vibe to me that it wasn't going to last.
(05:37):
She blew a gasket. He said, I don't talk about
my private life. I think that could have done it yesterday.
He fronts bursts into tears. It's all to play for
so he may be regretting what he did as regards
his claim. Just play the claim one more time for me, Glynn.
The claim at the beginning of yesterday's press conference was
(05:58):
the time that I've.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
Been in politics. I've made a very conscious effort to
keep my private life private and to keep my family
out of the spotlight, particularly my children. He won't find
photos of my kids anywhere on social media. You won't
find me talking about them beyond generic references to being
a parent anywhere in public.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
It's simply not true. I'm afraid to tell you the photos. Yes,
he's correct social media. I'm assuming he's correct. I'm not
on social media. I don't care. My favorite thing to
do I reference Sir PM's private passions. Welcome to My
Home Woman's Weekly of October twenty three. My favorite thing
to do with them is sitting down on the floor
with Lego for a couple of hours. It captures the
imagination and encourages basic math skills, measurement, counting, and all
(06:37):
that kind of stuff. I like to break it up
sometimes when they've gone to bed and then the next
day they have to make something new. Chris was one
of the first men in Parliament to take paternity leave.
There's a lot of dads who aren't in that position,
so paid partners leave will mean that they actually do
have the choice. I think that's the first period of
time when the kids are coming home from hospital. Just
being there is really important, so and it goes on.
(06:58):
There are other references, so I think he's probably misled
us slightly. Chris's labor of love tony and newly reignited
sense of ambition. Woman's Weekly, jan twenty three, twenty twenty five.
I'm very conscious that I've got to create spaces where
my kids have me all to themselves. He talks about
that in that particular article. It's not all about the kids,
(07:20):
it's about other stuff as well. And then January of
this year, Chris Spkin shares his romantic engagement their kids'
plans for the wedding. Therefore, kids clearly have other ideas.
Delighted by the engagement, the children have already begun taking
matters into their own hands. They're making plans for us already,
They're picking out outfits getting a bit ahead of themselves.
But that's all right. It's actually really lovely to see
(07:42):
how excited they are. If I was a lawyer, and
I've been there, If I was a lawyer, that's the
sort of material I would be celibating over. So for
him to claim what he claimed yesterday is unfortunately for him,
(08:03):
not true. It's not as bad as it could be
in terms of pictures and social media. I would still
to a degree side with him in general that I
would accept, in the spirit of goodwill that he's broadly
tried to keep his kids out of it, and that
he's a reasonably private person. But you can't hide from
(08:24):
the women's magazines and the headlines and the photos and
the unmistakable truth that when it comes to promoting certain
aspects of your life for political gain, he has played
the game like so many others.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
I mean, seriously, I just want to anybody he says
anything about this to be I just want to say,
have you not got anything better to be doing right now?
Because I know I'm sure as hell d.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
It's a rewrap.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
So another weird thing happened today. We played part of
an interview that we're going to be playing tomorrow. I mean,
you know, he's one of the biggest pop stars in
the world. I suppose, but do we need to hear
from him twice in two days?
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Good news, but especially good news for Christich. I would
have thought, because the new stadium can look forward to
one of the world's biggest acts. Robbie Williams is bringing
the Brick Pop World Tour to the country in November.
Eden Park Tuesday, twenty four November one, New Zealand Stadium,
christ Yet twenty eighth. Anyway, I gave him a call,
you reckon the world's changed. I've got this theory. People traveled.
(09:28):
They've never traveled like post COVID. This is, they've never
traveled like they had before. They've never gone to more concerts.
Everyone's out there buying tickets. Is there something in that
you reckon the experiential thing?
Speaker 5 (09:40):
Can I swear or not?
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Of course you kim okay.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
I think all artists shut themselves when the experimental experiential
market fell to shit, and I think it did something
to all of our psyches where we realized, on a
conscious or a subconscious level that this could be taken
away at any moment, and we shall never ever take
(10:07):
this for granted again, And I think everybody came out
of the traps going quick, do something, and so it is.
And I don't think that we've caught up with the
fact that we're all right right now we can maybe chill.
I definitely, I definitely haven't. I don't think I've I've
(10:28):
worked as hard in the last four or five years
as I've done since I was in take that, since
I was in the boy band. But I'm really I'm
re enjoying it.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
You sound like you are as well. There was a thing,
I guess it was last summer I saw from you
on social media. You're walking through posted in a through
Hyde Park. You're wearing a pink suit, pink shorts, pink jacket,
and you're going up to people and saying hello, how
are you? And no one recognized you, And I thought,
that's a guy who's comfortable in his own skin and
(11:01):
loving life.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
Yeah. Yeah, it was, well, you know, more comfortable than
I've ever been. Still some way to go, but it
really helps when you have kids and the world isn't
about you anymore and it's about them.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
There we go, there's more? Is there?
Speaker 1 (11:23):
More?
Speaker 3 (11:23):
With it came did I keep talking for a bit longer?
I think I might have kept talking for a bit longer. Anyway,
we'll have the rest of that on the program tomorrow
after eight o'clock. By the way, while I had them
on the phone, I said, you got any tickets and
he goes, yeah, yeah, I've got tickets. So we've got
tickets for you two each time. I've got a double
(11:45):
ticket for each concert. So one for walk come one
for Christy. It's on the old Facebook page or the Instagram,
whichever one you want to go to. Just comment the
Auckland or christ Jurg. You can't do both, and we'll
draw the winners on Monday. But the rest of that
interview and a thoroughly, thoroughly enjoyable interview, it was with
Robbie Williams after eight o'clock tomorrow, So.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Having given Robbie the go head to swear in their
end of view, Mike also then went on to drop
an F bomb himself. Find out whether I decided to
believe it or not tomorrow. Ah, how much Robbie sizzle
can you have on one Wednesday? Yeah, So we'll see you
(12:29):
back here again tomorrow after that's happened or hasn't, and
we'll carry on with this whatever it is.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
For more from News Talks d B, listen live on
air or online, and keep our shows with you wherever
you go with our podcast on iHeartRadio
You're listening to a podcast from News Talk, said be
follow this and our wide range of podcasts now on iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Rep and welcome to the rewrap for Wednesday. All the
best that's from the mic asking breakfast on news Talk
said be in a sillier package, I am Glen Hart
and today bit of a funny old day to day.
We spend most of the time talking about something which
I've got absolutely no interest in whatsoever. That's not that unusual,
(00:45):
but I mean, I really don't care about this. Robbie Williams,
who I kind of care about. He's coming in tomorrow.
But we played some of the interview today. But first up,
it's all gone wrong for Trump. He's losing it, the war,
his popularity, his marbles.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
I figured there's one of three reasons the Trump sheep
Summits laid quote unquote for a month or two. One,
he didn't think the war would be an issue by
the end of March and it is. Two he didn't
factor in any meetings in their timings that fateful Saturday
morning in Florida a bit over two weeks ago. Three
he forgot None of them are particularly good answers given
the summit is off. Normally, these things are a big
(01:26):
deal and can lead good places. Not helping is the
request from Trump too, she for a ship or two
in the Strait, which has been met, of course, with
stony silence. He's dealing with a lot of stony silence
at the moment. Read the ships in the strait, something
about it not being our war, and or we are
not getting dragged into another forever war, or maybe you
know all that stuff you said about us being useless,
(01:48):
well go get stuffed, or words to that effect. It's
not a bad question to ask, actually, and a lot
of people are asking it at the moment. If you're
winning so well, how come you need so much help?
His playbook is also being badly exposed. Having lived through
the Greenland charad just a few months ago, Europeans know
a stitch up when they see one. The good news,
if you want to use that phrase, the narrative does
(02:09):
not have to be the reality. Sah At a very
good piece yesterday, lengthy but very good, that asked how
he gets out of this, and various experts weighed through
any given number of scenarios and outworkings. When the truth is,
he simply declares victory when he wants to why, because
none of us are going to a ran to see
if any of the stuff he says is true, He'll
be long gone even if they haven't dismantled the nuclear
(02:31):
threat fully. And in the ensuing period he'll claim a
lot of good stuff came out of it, and petrol
will be back to a bucke gallon and will have
all moved on. Hecup could be if he declares it over,
but the Strait still gets attacked. I assume that's what
the special forces on their way are for. But it
seems the revolution is off. The people haven't stampeded their
(02:51):
way to freedom Israel. I'm sure still need to be convinced.
This has a hard end date by the way of
a six weeks total, and I suspect, deep down, as
hard as he spends it, his regrets are starting to
outweigh that balliot's feeling that enveloped him clearly at marri
Lago a couple of weekends ago. Could be Trump isn't
a genius. Could be he is like every other president
who waded into a foreign land only to go bugger
(03:14):
America and wars. Eh they never learned.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Oh well, never mind. I mean, you know, we're all
still here apart from all the people who aren't still
here anymore because of the wars, Like I say, what
can I mean? Seriously, what can you say?
Speaker 3 (03:33):
So we wrap?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
So Yeah, for some reason America voted for that guy.
At one stage, we voted against this guy, and yet
for some reason we still care what he does in
his own time.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
One of the aspects of the Hipkins thing that you've raised,
and I thought it would be, and I did the
research this morning, PM's private passions Welcome to My Home
Woman's Weekly, October seventh, twenty twenty three. So this is
where he might and I'll give you detail in a moment,
he might be in an element to bother. This is
what he started with yesterday.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Time that I've been in politics, I've made a very
conscious effort to keep my private life private and to
keep my family out of the spotlight, particularly my children.
You won't find photos of my kids anywhere on social media.
You won't find me talking about them beyond generic references
to being a parent anywhere in public.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
That's not true, Mike. This debarcle is ugly and sad.
But if you pocket cash from plastering your mug on
a magazine. I think I'm speaking slightly out of turn
because I don't know for a fact, but I can
almost certainly guarantee you he didn't receive money from a
woman's magazine. And the most recent appearance in the women's
magazine was, let me just reference here, January of twenty six,
(04:54):
so a couple of months ago. They no longer pay.
Ever since COVID arrived and Bower packed up and went home,
there is no money in women's magazines anymore. And I
don't think a politician has ever taken any payment from
a women's magazine anyway, that as it may, I have
the evidence of what he has said about his children
in these magazines. For you, Mike, can't leave it alone.
(05:17):
Every five minutes back to Hipkins makes you look grubby.
So the interesting thing about that is what happened yesterday.
Thank you very much for your contribution. The thing about
that yesterday was I wonder if Hipkins hasn't made a
strategic mistake up until yesterday, and him speaking what it
had a vibe to me that it wasn't going to last.
(05:37):
She blew a gasket. He said, I don't talk about
my private life. I think that could have done it yesterday.
He fronts bursts into tears. It's all to play for
so he may be regretting what he did as regards
his claim. Just play the claim one more time for me, Glynn.
The claim at the beginning of yesterday's press conference was
(05:58):
the time that I've.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
Been in politics. I've made a very conscious effort to
keep my private life private and to keep my family
out of the spotlight, particularly my children. He won't find
photos of my kids anywhere on social media. You won't
find me talking about them beyond generic references to being
a parent anywhere in public.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
It's simply not true. I'm afraid to tell you the photos. Yes,
he's correct social media. I'm assuming he's correct. I'm not
on social media. I don't care. My favorite thing to
do I reference Sir PM's private passions. Welcome to My
Home Woman's Weekly of October twenty three. My favorite thing
to do with them is sitting down on the floor
with Lego for a couple of hours. It captures the
imagination and encourages basic math skills, measurement, counting, and all
(06:37):
that kind of stuff. I like to break it up
sometimes when they've gone to bed and then the next
day they have to make something new. Chris was one
of the first men in Parliament to take paternity leave.
There's a lot of dads who aren't in that position,
so paid partners leave will mean that they actually do
have the choice. I think that's the first period of
time when the kids are coming home from hospital. Just
being there is really important, so and it goes on.
(06:58):
There are other references, so I think he's probably misled
us slightly. Chris's labor of love tony and newly reignited
sense of ambition. Woman's Weekly, jan twenty three, twenty twenty five.
I'm very conscious that I've got to create spaces where
my kids have me all to themselves. He talks about
that in that particular article. It's not all about the kids,
(07:20):
it's about other stuff as well. And then January of
this year, Chris Spkin shares his romantic engagement their kids'
plans for the wedding. Therefore, kids clearly have other ideas.
Delighted by the engagement, the children have already begun taking
matters into their own hands. They're making plans for us already,
They're picking out outfits getting a bit ahead of themselves.
But that's all right. It's actually really lovely to see
(07:42):
how excited they are. If I was a lawyer, and
I've been there, If I was a lawyer, that's the
sort of material I would be celibating over. So for
him to claim what he claimed yesterday is unfortunately for him,
(08:03):
not true. It's not as bad as it could be
in terms of pictures and social media. I would still
to a degree side with him in general that I
would accept, in the spirit of goodwill that he's broadly
tried to keep his kids out of it, and that
he's a reasonably private person. But you can't hide from
(08:24):
the women's magazines and the headlines and the photos and
the unmistakable truth that when it comes to promoting certain
aspects of your life for political gain, he has played
the game like so many others.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
I mean, seriously, I just want to anybody he says
anything about this to be I just want to say,
have you not got anything better to be doing right now?
Because I know I'm sure as hell d.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
It's a rewrap.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
So another weird thing happened today. We played part of
an interview that we're going to be playing tomorrow. I mean,
you know, he's one of the biggest pop stars in
the world. I suppose, but do we need to hear
from him twice in two days?
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Good news, but especially good news for Christich. I would
have thought, because the new stadium can look forward to
one of the world's biggest acts. Robbie Williams is bringing
the Brick Pop World Tour to the country in November.
Eden Park Tuesday, twenty four November one, New Zealand Stadium,
christ Yet twenty eighth. Anyway, I gave him a call,
you reckon the world's changed. I've got this theory. People traveled.
(09:28):
They've never traveled like post COVID. This is, they've never
traveled like they had before. They've never gone to more concerts.
Everyone's out there buying tickets. Is there something in that
you reckon the experiential thing?
Speaker 5 (09:40):
Can I swear or not?
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Of course you kim okay.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
I think all artists shut themselves when the experimental experiential
market fell to shit, and I think it did something
to all of our psyches where we realized, on a
conscious or a subconscious level that this could be taken
away at any moment, and we shall never ever take
(10:07):
this for granted again, And I think everybody came out
of the traps going quick, do something, and so it is.
And I don't think that we've caught up with the
fact that we're all right right now we can maybe chill.
I definitely, I definitely haven't. I don't think I've I've
(10:28):
worked as hard in the last four or five years
as I've done since I was in take that, since
I was in the boy band. But I'm really I'm
re enjoying it.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
You sound like you are as well. There was a thing,
I guess it was last summer I saw from you
on social media. You're walking through posted in a through
Hyde Park. You're wearing a pink suit, pink shorts, pink jacket,
and you're going up to people and saying hello, how
are you? And no one recognized you, And I thought,
that's a guy who's comfortable in his own skin and
(11:01):
loving life.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
Yeah. Yeah, it was, well, you know, more comfortable than
I've ever been. Still some way to go, but it
really helps when you have kids and the world isn't
about you anymore and it's about them.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
There we go, there's more? Is there?
Speaker 1 (11:23):
More?
Speaker 3 (11:23):
With it came did I keep talking for a bit longer?
I think I might have kept talking for a bit longer. Anyway,
we'll have the rest of that on the program tomorrow
after eight o'clock. By the way, while I had them
on the phone, I said, you got any tickets and
he goes, yeah, yeah, I've got tickets. So we've got
tickets for you two each time. I've got a double
(11:45):
ticket for each concert. So one for walk come one
for Christy. It's on the old Facebook page or the Instagram,
whichever one you want to go to. Just comment the
Auckland or christ Jurg. You can't do both, and we'll
draw the winners on Monday. But the rest of that
interview and a thoroughly, thoroughly enjoyable interview, it was with
Robbie Williams after eight o'clock tomorrow, So.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Having given Robbie the go head to swear in their
end of view, Mike also then went on to drop
an F bomb himself. Find out whether I decided to
believe it or not tomorrow. Ah, how much Robbie sizzle
can you have on one Wednesday? Yeah, So we'll see you
(12:29):
back here again tomorrow after that's happened or hasn't, and
we'll carry on with this whatever it is.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
For more from News Talks d B, listen live on
air or online, and keep our shows with you wherever
you go with our podcast on iHeartRadio
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