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THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Monday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) Doesn't Sound Like Much of a Trip/Come On, Australia/Loving Life
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
You're listening to a podcast from Newstalk zed B. Follow
this and our wide range of podcasts now on iHeartRadio
The Rewrap.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Okay, then I wants the rewrap for Monday. All the
best bets from the Mike Husking breakfast on News Talk
ZEDB in a Sillier package Irom Glenhart And yes, yes, yes,
Mike is back from his holiday. He's come back to
the alarming trained in the Australian polls. It's also lamented
(00:42):
the passing of David Hockney. But before any of that, oh,
yes he's back.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
We sat in London last Wednesday night.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Right.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
It's a place called Bocconcino. It's in Berkeley Square. We
were celebrating our daughter's birthday. She was twenty five. Her
partner had picked the place, very flash placeless one. It's
in a beautiful building, It's Italian, The food very very good.
The service rubbish. Now, I only mentioned that to remind
ourselves that we do moan a lot in this country
about service or lacko. But we've got every right to
(01:09):
mon on a bad day with service. But we are
not unique. And for all the anecdotal stuff that you
hear about the world being perfect in the via being electric,
in the hospital scene being buzzing. It's not always true.
You can be in one of the better joints in
one of the greatest cities in the world and still
be left wanting and even more wanting when they automatically
charge you sixty quid a service fee, sixty quid service
(01:29):
fee when there wasn't any real service anyway. One of
the lessons of the trip was three of our kids
were involved in this particular trip. One got dropped off
in New York for a job, and two got visited
because they lived their lives on the other side of
the planet. Another I thought to myself, of the great
debates that we've had in this country, why are all
the young people leaving? My conclusion, why on Earth wouldn't
(01:49):
they And not because New Zealand has nothing to offer,
but because the world is massive and opportunity is abound.
And if you can't take them when you're young, when
do you take them. None of our kids are offshore
because they hate New Zealand. They're offshore because they are curious,
and don't we want curious young people. They're not down
on us, They're exploring and chasing dreams. The idea that
you can chase a dream but it must be done
(02:10):
here is absurd. Sure some have left because times have
been tight, but none of ours have, and I suspect
that's true of most young Kiwis. We are not inferior
because of an inquisitory generation, which is what we're dealing with.
When you can weekend in Copenhagen, as our daughter seems
to regularly do, or indeed the Greek Islands when she's
not in Copenhagen, When Hyde Park as your garden, when
you earn pounds, for God's sake, why wouldn't you. As
(02:33):
a parent, all you can do is be filled with
joy for them, Three young people living their dreams, who
could ask for more.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Yeah, So you know I've said this before, that whole
travel broadens the mind thing. I think when you come
from New Zealand, I'm not sure that it necessarily applies.
And I think it sounds like the Husk has had
a few dissatisfied or he's been dissatisfied from some of
his travel experiences this time around, and it's come to
(03:02):
appreciate New Zealand a little bit more.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Rewrap.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
But yeah, yeah, one way or another. He wouldn't shut
up about it today.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Just some quick observations on travel. One, the world is wonderful, hectic,
but wonderful. London, Edinburgh. This is where we went London,
Edinburgh and New York, as well as Singapore. Three of
the globe's great cities. Guess which one we went to,
isn't anyway? Travel reminds you how small we are. Checking
our news sites periodically as we did, have you noticed
(03:32):
we seemed fixated in this country with crime and weather.
I mean, there's a gargantuan amount of stuff going on
out there in the world at the moment, but the
news alert seemed fixated with courts and rainfall. We might
want to broaden our horizons a little bit, I thought
to myself. I can report Britain as a troubled, angsty
place with a by election this Thursday that will lead
to the end of the star of Prime Ministership. Luxon,
(03:52):
even in his worst and wobbly days of public acceptance,
looked like a combination of Guardian Taylor Swift compared to
Starmer to call him a dead man walking as to
make a dead man walking seem lively. There was a
race row after a sek nutter stabbed some poor head.
The cops didn't believe he'd been stabbed, and he died.
They put the cups on them. After that, Belfast exploded,
and just as we left, the defenseman is to quit
(04:12):
blaming a lack of money to defend the country. That's
how bad Britain is at the moment. As introspective as
we might be at times, and we are, Britain is
a mess and we aren't, which makes it good to
be had.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
So this is quite pleasing to me because often he
comes back from these places and, you know, wanting to
know why New Zealand isn't doing what you know other
countries are doing. God, he loves Singapore. It's so funny
that he loves Singapore so much but refuses to accept
that other places in Asia exists apart from perhaps Tokyo,
and I mean just Tokyo, not necessarily all of Japan.
(04:44):
I don't think he's ever been anywhere in Japan other
than just in Tokyo, and by that I mean probably
a hotel in Tokyo and a few shops around his hotel,
and he wasn't done there. I mean, we're all like this,
We all like to bore people to death with our
travel stories after we get back, don't we the difference
being there, he can do it to the largest radio
audience in New Zealand.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
You train number one to Richmond because they want to
go see the ted Lasso thing, which warning is a
complete waste of time. There's no point going to Richmond anyway.
Train doesn't leave the station. Why not. Doors don't close.
So we get so we get off the train and
they say, don't worry, just show your ticket. It'll work
at the electronic gate to let you back through on
(05:24):
another train. It doesn't work, so we're arguing with people
who won't let us through. Trains don't work in Britain.
So for all, so for all the acolytes of the
CRL and Auckland, forget it. If only we could be
like London or New York, where the trains work. They
don't work. Second train, we're going to Edinburgh. The train
takes forever because the train in front of us, well,
the two trains before us got canceled. So all the trains,
(05:45):
for all the people from the two trains that got
canceled got stuck on our train. So they're standing up
with no seat, having paid for first class tickets. Then
we slow halfway through the journey because the train in
front of us has a dying if not dead person
on board, so they need to wait for the ambulance
to arrive, so the tracks they are closed, so the
for our trip that suddenly turns into a lot longer
because of the dying people and all the other people
(06:06):
on the train who've got canceled. In the first way,
the trains don't work. Public transport doesn't work anywhere in
the world. Talk to anyone in London and ask them
a question to the tubes. Tubes were on strike Tuesdays
and Thursdays. It's a regular Tuesdays and Thursdays. The tubes
drivers are on strike, so no one comes to work.
I'm sending in selfridges saying why is no one serving me? Oh,
the tubes are on strike, and when the tubes are
on strike, no one comes to work. Britain doesn't work,
(06:27):
and the trains don't work either, So all your public
transport acolytes, it's all crap.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Funnily enough, I spent a lot of time on change,
more time on change probably than I've ever spent before
in my life. On my recent holiday in Europe Emilily.
That was an Italy, not in the UK, and it
would it all seem to work more or less like clockwork. Admittedly,
there were a lot of messages of warning about various
(06:53):
different strikes that would be happening miraculously, all at around
times or on services that didn't involve us, so we
were perhaps lucky in that regard. But yeah, I'm speeding along,
you know, over two hundred and five decays an hour
between one beautiful Italian city and another. Couldn't really complain
(07:13):
about that.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
The rewrap.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
So yes, he's come back to discover that Australia and
Australia have completely lost their minds in terms of politics.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Hanson, for the first time ever in this morning's polls
now you preferred prime minister. The coalitions crashed in primary voked.
They're down to twenty Labour's on twenty eight, one Nations
on twenty nine. So not only is she preferred prime minister,
her party's leading the others. You were given a choice
for the first time ever in the poll Albanesey Hanson,
Arangus Taylor thirty three for Hanson, twenty nine for Albanz
(07:47):
seems real, doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Yeah, so, I mean obviously I've seen that several times already,
but I will say it again. Come on as fail
here you what are you doing? Come on a couple
of cats, guys, the rerap we'll finish up with. And
I wondered to fight might have something to say about this,
because nobody in my life appreciates, especially British art, like
(08:10):
the host does.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
I must tell you I was very sad to hear
the passing of David Hockney over the weekend. He's one
of my favorite artists. I was thinking of who would
be my favorite British artist of all time, and I
did come to the conclusion that it wouldn't be Hockney.
He'd be third. Probably Turner would be second, and I
think Lowry would still be my If you've never seen T. S.
Larry's work, have a look at it. I find it
unbelievably fascinating and clever. But they're all clever anyway. Point was,
(08:34):
I was watching an interview of Hockney over the weekend
and he said, Juard de Vive is what keeps you alive,
and I thought, what a lovely way of seeing life.
Jouir de vive is what keeps you alive, and a
lack of Jouard de vive is what's going to kill you.
And they should, he said, put signs like that everywhere
in Britain and indeed the world to remind people of that.
(08:55):
And he lived to the right old age of eighty eight,
so he knew what he was talking about. Here's another Hockney.
I'm eighty two, so he said it six years ago.
Obviously I'm going to die. We die because we are born.
The only things that matter in life are food and love,
and in that order, and also a little dog ruby.
I truly believe this, And for me, the basis of
art is love. I love life. You can't argue with that,
(09:15):
can you.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
I feel like that what is it that expression that
means you've used two expressions that mean the same thing
in the same sentence or whatever, because you ave the
joy of living, but you're saying that the joy of
living is the joy of living is I'm quite sure
(09:36):
what the point was there. Interesting, I thought that Hockney
later on in life did created art using an iPad
at one stage as well, So changing times, Eh, yeah,
I don't understand all art that's that's for sure. I
don't think anybody does today. Thanks for beholding this work
(10:00):
of art for another day. I'll be back with my
easel and my what do you call that thing that
you next the paint on the board thing? Paint bored?
Probably isn't anyway, We'll be back with this whole similarly
has gone completely out one window.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
I'm sorry about that.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
We'll try and get things organized and we'll be back
with Mike again tomorrow two and a row. I know
it would be amazing.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Therap for more from News Talks 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 Newstalk zed B. Follow
this and our wide range of podcasts now on iHeartRadio
The Rewrap.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Okay, then I wants the rewrap for Monday. All the
best bets from the Mike Husking breakfast on News Talk
ZEDB in a Sillier package Irom Glenhart And yes, yes, yes,
Mike is back from his holiday. He's come back to
the alarming trained in the Australian polls. It's also lamented
(00:42):
the passing of David Hockney. But before any of that, oh,
yes he's back.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
We sat in London last Wednesday night.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Right.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
It's a place called Bocconcino. It's in Berkeley Square. We
were celebrating our daughter's birthday. She was twenty five. Her
partner had picked the place, very flash placeless one. It's
in a beautiful building, It's Italian, The food very very good.
The service rubbish. Now, I only mentioned that to remind
ourselves that we do moan a lot in this country
about service or lacko. But we've got every right to
(01:09):
mon on a bad day with service. But we are
not unique. And for all the anecdotal stuff that you
hear about the world being perfect in the via being electric,
in the hospital scene being buzzing. It's not always true.
You can be in one of the better joints in
one of the greatest cities in the world and still
be left wanting and even more wanting when they automatically
charge you sixty quid a service fee, sixty quid service
(01:29):
fee when there wasn't any real service anyway. One of
the lessons of the trip was three of our kids
were involved in this particular trip. One got dropped off
in New York for a job, and two got visited
because they lived their lives on the other side of
the planet. Another I thought to myself, of the great
debates that we've had in this country, why are all
the young people leaving? My conclusion, why on Earth wouldn't
(01:49):
they And not because New Zealand has nothing to offer,
but because the world is massive and opportunity is abound.
And if you can't take them when you're young, when
do you take them. None of our kids are offshore
because they hate New Zealand. They're offshore because they are curious,
and don't we want curious young people. They're not down
on us, They're exploring and chasing dreams. The idea that
you can chase a dream but it must be done
(02:10):
here is absurd. Sure some have left because times have
been tight, but none of ours have, and I suspect
that's true of most young Kiwis. We are not inferior
because of an inquisitory generation, which is what we're dealing with.
When you can weekend in Copenhagen, as our daughter seems
to regularly do, or indeed the Greek Islands when she's
not in Copenhagen, When Hyde Park as your garden, when
you earn pounds, for God's sake, why wouldn't you. As
(02:33):
a parent, all you can do is be filled with
joy for them, Three young people living their dreams, who
could ask for more.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Yeah, So you know I've said this before, that whole
travel broadens the mind thing. I think when you come
from New Zealand, I'm not sure that it necessarily applies.
And I think it sounds like the Husk has had
a few dissatisfied or he's been dissatisfied from some of
his travel experiences this time around, and it's come to
(03:02):
appreciate New Zealand a little bit more.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Rewrap.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
But yeah, yeah, one way or another. He wouldn't shut
up about it today.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Just some quick observations on travel. One, the world is wonderful, hectic,
but wonderful. London, Edinburgh. This is where we went London,
Edinburgh and New York, as well as Singapore. Three of
the globe's great cities. Guess which one we went to,
isn't anyway? Travel reminds you how small we are. Checking
our news sites periodically as we did, have you noticed
(03:32):
we seemed fixated in this country with crime and weather.
I mean, there's a gargantuan amount of stuff going on
out there in the world at the moment, but the
news alert seemed fixated with courts and rainfall. We might
want to broaden our horizons a little bit, I thought
to myself. I can report Britain as a troubled, angsty
place with a by election this Thursday that will lead
to the end of the star of Prime Ministership. Luxon,
(03:52):
even in his worst and wobbly days of public acceptance,
looked like a combination of Guardian Taylor Swift compared to
Starmer to call him a dead man walking as to
make a dead man walking seem lively. There was a
race row after a sek nutter stabbed some poor head.
The cops didn't believe he'd been stabbed, and he died.
They put the cups on them. After that, Belfast exploded,
and just as we left, the defenseman is to quit
(04:12):
blaming a lack of money to defend the country. That's
how bad Britain is at the moment. As introspective as
we might be at times, and we are, Britain is
a mess and we aren't, which makes it good to
be had.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
So this is quite pleasing to me because often he
comes back from these places and, you know, wanting to
know why New Zealand isn't doing what you know other
countries are doing. God, he loves Singapore. It's so funny
that he loves Singapore so much but refuses to accept
that other places in Asia exists apart from perhaps Tokyo,
and I mean just Tokyo, not necessarily all of Japan.
(04:44):
I don't think he's ever been anywhere in Japan other
than just in Tokyo, and by that I mean probably
a hotel in Tokyo and a few shops around his hotel,
and he wasn't done there. I mean, we're all like this,
We all like to bore people to death with our
travel stories after we get back, don't we the difference
being there, he can do it to the largest radio
audience in New Zealand.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
You train number one to Richmond because they want to
go see the ted Lasso thing, which warning is a
complete waste of time. There's no point going to Richmond anyway.
Train doesn't leave the station. Why not. Doors don't close.
So we get so we get off the train and
they say, don't worry, just show your ticket. It'll work
at the electronic gate to let you back through on
(05:24):
another train. It doesn't work, so we're arguing with people
who won't let us through. Trains don't work in Britain.
So for all, so for all the acolytes of the
CRL and Auckland, forget it. If only we could be
like London or New York, where the trains work. They
don't work. Second train, we're going to Edinburgh. The train
takes forever because the train in front of us, well,
the two trains before us got canceled. So all the trains,
(05:45):
for all the people from the two trains that got
canceled got stuck on our train. So they're standing up
with no seat, having paid for first class tickets. Then
we slow halfway through the journey because the train in
front of us has a dying if not dead person
on board, so they need to wait for the ambulance
to arrive, so the tracks they are closed, so the
for our trip that suddenly turns into a lot longer
because of the dying people and all the other people
(06:06):
on the train who've got canceled. In the first way,
the trains don't work. Public transport doesn't work anywhere in
the world. Talk to anyone in London and ask them
a question to the tubes. Tubes were on strike Tuesdays
and Thursdays. It's a regular Tuesdays and Thursdays. The tubes
drivers are on strike, so no one comes to work.
I'm sending in selfridges saying why is no one serving me? Oh,
the tubes are on strike, and when the tubes are
on strike, no one comes to work. Britain doesn't work,
(06:27):
and the trains don't work either, So all your public
transport acolytes, it's all crap.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Funnily enough, I spent a lot of time on change,
more time on change probably than I've ever spent before
in my life. On my recent holiday in Europe Emilily.
That was an Italy, not in the UK, and it
would it all seem to work more or less like clockwork. Admittedly,
there were a lot of messages of warning about various
(06:53):
different strikes that would be happening miraculously, all at around
times or on services that didn't involve us, so we
were perhaps lucky in that regard. But yeah, I'm speeding along,
you know, over two hundred and five decays an hour
between one beautiful Italian city and another. Couldn't really complain
(07:13):
about that.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
The rewrap.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
So yes, he's come back to discover that Australia and
Australia have completely lost their minds in terms of politics.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Hanson, for the first time ever in this morning's polls
now you preferred prime minister. The coalitions crashed in primary voked.
They're down to twenty Labour's on twenty eight, one Nations
on twenty nine. So not only is she preferred prime minister,
her party's leading the others. You were given a choice
for the first time ever in the poll Albanesey Hanson,
Arangus Taylor thirty three for Hanson, twenty nine for Albanz
(07:47):
seems real, doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Yeah, so, I mean obviously I've seen that several times already,
but I will say it again. Come on as fail
here you what are you doing? Come on a couple
of cats, guys, the rerap we'll finish up with. And
I wondered to fight might have something to say about this,
because nobody in my life appreciates, especially British art, like
(08:10):
the host does.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
I must tell you I was very sad to hear
the passing of David Hockney over the weekend. He's one
of my favorite artists. I was thinking of who would
be my favorite British artist of all time, and I
did come to the conclusion that it wouldn't be Hockney.
He'd be third. Probably Turner would be second, and I
think Lowry would still be my If you've never seen T. S.
Larry's work, have a look at it. I find it
unbelievably fascinating and clever. But they're all clever anyway. Point was,
(08:34):
I was watching an interview of Hockney over the weekend
and he said, Juard de Vive is what keeps you alive,
and I thought, what a lovely way of seeing life.
Jouir de vive is what keeps you alive, and a
lack of Jouard de vive is what's going to kill you.
And they should, he said, put signs like that everywhere
in Britain and indeed the world to remind people of that.
(08:55):
And he lived to the right old age of eighty eight,
so he knew what he was talking about. Here's another Hockney.
I'm eighty two, so he said it six years ago.
Obviously I'm going to die. We die because we are born.
The only things that matter in life are food and love,
and in that order, and also a little dog ruby.
I truly believe this, And for me, the basis of
art is love. I love life. You can't argue with that,
(09:15):
can you.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
I feel like that what is it that expression that
means you've used two expressions that mean the same thing
in the same sentence or whatever, because you ave the
joy of living, but you're saying that the joy of
living is the joy of living is I'm quite sure
(09:36):
what the point was there. Interesting, I thought that Hockney
later on in life did created art using an iPad
at one stage as well, So changing times, Eh, yeah,
I don't understand all art that's that's for sure. I
don't think anybody does today. Thanks for beholding this work
(10:00):
of art for another day. I'll be back with my
easel and my what do you call that thing that
you next the paint on the board thing? Paint bored?
Probably isn't anyway, We'll be back with this whole similarly
has gone completely out one window.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
I'm sorry about that.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
We'll try and get things organized and we'll be back
with Mike again tomorrow two and a row. I know
it would be amazing.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Therap for more from News Talks 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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