THE RE-WRAP: Wars Without End

THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Thursday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) World Without Hosk/Testing Kiwi Kids with Overseas Tests/Scalpel Time/Cheque's In the Mail. With Some Other Stuff/Dog Ate My Kiwi

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:09):
You're listening to a podcast from news Talk zed B.
Follow this and our wide range of podcasts now on iHeartRadio.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Rewrapay there and welcome to the Rewrap for Thursday, all
the best bets from the mic asking breakfast in a
sillier package. I am Glenn Hart and today Yes we're
Ryan bridgestepped in at the last minute. The host Carden
sack very last minute, which is always a complicated business
when you have to get to work in the middle

(00:46):
of the night to make the show work. Anyway, Ryan
did a great job. I'm sure he won't mind me
saying he was all over the school testing that the
government's all over, but perhaps the schools themselves aren't as
all over, given that they wasn't really discussed with them
apparently Nichola Willis and who am forthcoming budget? And the
what kind of sharp implement she's going to need to

(01:09):
cut cat the postboxes that received posts but didn't go anywhere,
and how to get a dog off a kiwi. But
before any of that, ah, the wars will they either end?

Speaker 3 (01:22):
No such thing as a ceasefire this morning. Unfortunately it's
all breaking down in the Middle East. Israel is coming
out with more fighting talk, the rockets are back on.
And as for Ukraine, Trump hasn't exactly cloaked himself in
glory with this so called deal. And I say so
called deal because it hasn't actually held yet. First it

(01:43):
was only partial, no full cease fire like Zelenski had
agreed to. Second, it covered energy and infrastructure, a thirty
day pause for them. But already the Russians have fired
at energy facilities, They've already fired at Rhodes, They've already
taken on two hospitals. Now, if you go and have
a look at the redoubt from the call between Trump

(02:04):
and Putin, it says Putin gave the order immediately, gave
the order to his top brass to stop the firing. Right, so,
either the military is going rogue and firing anyway, or
Pootin's up to his old tricks. Actually, both of those
things could be happening at the same time. How with Russia,
they could both be true, right, But either way, for Trump,

(02:27):
the big game he talks, the art of the deal,
has just hit a Kremlin wall. In Trump's favor reputation wise,
is at least people are talking about peace. Right, We've
just had three years of war. Whenever you get a
world leader meeting, it's talk about more and more and
more more war, a ceasefire and armistice, a peace, steel whatever.

(02:52):
These things require action, the act of putting down your weapons,
a truce if you will, that that act first needs talks,
and at least Trump can argue at least the phones
are ringing.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
You seem to be a bit of a misunderstanding the
reading which my day is that Putin said to Trump
and the call the other day. Yeah, no, no, no,
that's fine. I won't bomb any more energy or infrastructure
stuff in Ukraine. And then of course he had a
little loophole there because he doesn't consider a lot of
what is u Kikraine now the b Ukraine. He still

(03:28):
considered it to be other than Ukraine, and so it
felt like you could bomb the shit out of it.

Speaker 3 (03:33):
No worries rewrap. Right, Let's get into this.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
Weird one, the testing for schools that hasn't been discussed
with schools.

Speaker 3 (03:42):
Now, this is just happening this morning. Aaron Z's reporting
that the government has apparently blindsided primary principles by going
to market for a test. So the government has already
announced on everybody knows this that if you're at primary
or intermediate school there will be two tests, or they
want there to be two tests every year for children

(04:02):
and reading, writing and maths. Now the government's announced that
they have put out to ten for these tests, two
tests per year primary and intermediate years three to ten
put out a tender. And this is upset the Principles Federation.
I mean why you would be surprised by that? I
have no idea, But anyway, Leanne or Tenny is the

(04:23):
Federation president. She says the call for proposals was a
total surprise and contrary to what it had been told.
Quite why they need to be told everything about you
know everything? I don't know, but she said she's worried
that the new test could be developed by a foreign
company with no knowledge of New Zealand schools or culture.

(04:44):
But the tests, remember are for reading, writing and maths,
which I assumed would have been quite universal.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
Yeah, I guess if you are wanting to read or
write about something international, and it doesn't matter if you
wanted to read or write something about New Zealand, maybe
it matters a bit more, just a little secret. I
only ever sort this stuff out nobody will ever be
pleased with the school curriculum, and they'll always keep trying

(05:12):
to change it. Take it from the guy who's been
around for fifty one years and has seen it time
and time again. Right, I'm not sure when budget budget
day is. When does that happen? I suppose I could
have looked it up before I started blabbing about it
on a podcast. Anyway, must be coming up, because Ryan
was talking about it as well.

Speaker 3 (05:32):
Yeah, I reckon that the Health New Zealand won't be
the only place where if you're in a corporate role,
if you're in a role, it's not frontline. The axe
is coming and it's going to fall at budget time.
Nicola Willis has got a look in her own. She's
sort of looked like she's been sharpening something very sharp
and is going to make some pretty serious cuts, I think.
And she has to because, as she said the other day,

(05:54):
if you listen to Nicola Willis, she's laying it out
quite clearly. Ahead of the budget. She has said very clearly,
our borrowing costs are going to go up. You know,
obviously we borrowed a ton of money during COVID. We
have to service that debt, the debt serve thing is
now more than what we spend on primary and secondary
schools and the Ministry of Justice. And that cost is

(06:15):
going to go up because of Trump and because of
Taris and because of uncertainty. Right, So when you're putting
a budget together, you've got expensive debt servicing, plus you've
got the potential for you know, economic turmoil and that
would mean less tax take and you've got increased costs,
and you've got your defense you need to pay for.
So it starts to look very, very difficult. And the

(06:36):
way to get out of a difficult situation is with
a knife, and Nikola Willis is going to be doing
a bit of that.

Speaker 2 (06:42):
Yeah, come on, mean makers, where have you got a
sharpening a you know with the just when you call
that the steel got the steal out sharpening, the big
meat leather? Come on, Ai, lift your game.

Speaker 3 (06:58):
Where are those means rerap?

Speaker 2 (07:00):
Tell you what man Ryan came up with some real
pearlas this morning. I love this story about the mail,
the mail that never arrived because it never went anywhere.

Speaker 3 (07:10):
This business in Hawk's Bay of Nz post so there
were some post boxes. You might have seen this in
the news yesterday postboxes out there in Hawk's Bay. People
were putting letters in them and putting items in them,
thinking that they were going to be collected by the
posters and then taken and delivered. Actually, no, these were decommissioned,

(07:30):
for want of a better term, decommissioned post boxes sitting
on the side of the road. People are putting their
letters and their pen pals and I don't know what
people write putting them in there, and they were just
sitting there. Now. The union came out yesterday very upset
about this, the post Workers Union saying, for good ands sakes,
you know, post is just running the whole thing into

(07:51):
the ground. This is a shambles. One of them hadn't
been emptied for nine months. One woman put her free
bowel screening test in there. That is terrible because you know,
you for a number.

Speaker 2 (08:03):
Of reasons, for a number of reasons.

Speaker 3 (08:07):
But yeah, I didn't think that one quite through. But
that's bad. You know, that's somebody waiting on some important results.
But also equally, if no one notices that a post
box hasn't been emptied for nine months, does that not
prove that it shouldn't be there in the first placed.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
It I can't stop thinking about a pile of mail
and in that male that's been there for nine months,
and in that mail is I don't know how many
stall samples, but several stall samples. What they could have
invented new life in that postbox? Amazing, disgusting, horrendous rerat

(08:47):
I'm going to finish up with some endangered Kiwi news.
Turns out people might be endangering Kiwi's just with their pets.

Speaker 3 (08:56):
Interesting story from DOC yesterday. Actually two quick little bits
of nature related stories. One from Doc saying that dogs
are killing Kiwi. They put up some brutal pictures. You
don't want to look at them. A few of you know,
if you're patriotical you like birds. They're pretty horrendous. Anyway,
Four of the birds died in just three days between
the sixth and the eighth of March. This is up north.

(09:20):
This is in fun at a day bay on the
peninsula January. They reckon dog attacks have killed potentially up
to nine Kiwi, which is not great. Now are they
wild dogs, you know, just rhaming dogs or are they
meant to be on a leash? Not quite sure at

(09:40):
this state worry.

Speaker 2 (09:41):
I didn't even think we had nine kiwi? We do?

Speaker 3 (09:44):
We have about hundreds? Oh yeah, what do you think
they're that endangered? Well, I've never seen one ever. They
come out at night, don't they do?

Speaker 2 (09:53):
You go, Yeah, that's a good point. Actually I don't
go out of nine, too busy ordering milkshakes on.

Speaker 3 (09:57):
Uber Eats exactly. Actually, we've got some funny texts about
the uberitte situation. I'll get to those in a second.
But anyway, if you've got a dog and you take
it for a walk, just put it on a leak
because it'll kill a kiwi. And we haven't got many
lift As Glenn points out.

Speaker 2 (10:09):
I'm pretty confident my dog wouldn't be able to catch
a kiwi. I don't know how fast kiwi go. As
I said there, I've never even seen one. I mean
i've seen them in the zoo, but i've never seen
one in the while. But I've seen my dog try
and catch I don't know rabbits. For example, he's very

(10:31):
confused about where the rabbits go, runs after them and
then they've just disappeared. He cheers around me and going
where's a gone? Falls for that one? Every time he's
tried to catch I don't know ducks here and he
can't catch it with anything pigeons, So yeah, I'm pretty

(10:52):
I'd rate the Kiwis chances against Jerry. I am Glenn Hart.
That has been Ryan standing in for Harsk. Who knows
what'll happen to Murrow? Just isn't it exciting? Working a radio?

Speaker 1 (11:12):
For more from News Talk set B Listen live on
air or online, and keep our shows with you wherever
you go with our podcasts on iHeartRadio