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April 9, 2026 12 mins

THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Friday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) And the Real Winner Is.../Mark the Week/War News Is Good News/Your Country Needs You/Weather or Not?

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
Rerap ok there and welcome to the Rewrap for Friday.
All the best but's from the mic asking breakfast on
news Talk said B and a sillier package. I am
Glen Hart, and today we will mark the week, because.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
That is what we do on Fridays.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
We've got the ratings and from the US cable news networks,
so we'll find out how they're going. And while we're
in the US, you've got to tell them where you
are at all times.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
If you're.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
I'll give you some details about that shortly as well.
And then of course we embrace the cycphone by But
before any of that, it turns out that despite the
numbers in this week's poll, Luxon actually won it.

Speaker 3 (01:13):
Here's Mike with his complicated maths.

Speaker 4 (01:16):
So here's an irony for you this Friday morning. Could
it be that the Prime Minister, the one so disliked
by the media, is actually so good at his job
his numbers are a result of his excellence. See the Polster.
David Farrer has broken down this week's pole. The Courier poll.
He's broken down the New Zealand First poll numbers now
small warning the New Zealand First pole numbers are not
accurate in my humble opinion. Given the New Zealand First

(01:37):
have gone up four percent, that's a thirty ish percent
swing in their favor. Parties, as I said this week,
don't go our poor down at that rate ever, but
it is true to say New Zealand First has been
this year on a bit of a role. Multiple polls
show growth and support. Farah's breakdown showed the majority of
that news support is coming from national Why well, New
Zealand First for some will be what National art, straight

(02:00):
up and down, hard ass, no nonsense. Peters and Jones
tell it like it is. It's a divided world and
there's an appeal to it. Good piece yesterday, by the way,
in the Sidney Morning Herald reporting the same thing. Major
parties are basically cocked it up for decades. Pauline Hansen
comes along. It's her time to shine back here of
what has lucks and got to do with this Well,
support the government or not. He's held together a very

(02:21):
successful co lap three parties, first time ever in an
official arrangement. They work together, they get along together, and
that has brought faith in the idea that you can
have MMP and small parties can not only survive, but
actually prosper. All three parties will go to the election
this year in good standing. You've not been able to
say that in the MMP era before, from the Alliance

(02:42):
to the Maori Party, that the Greens to New Zealand
first themselves. All minor parties have previously suffered, if not
vanished while in government or in government arrangements. The luxe
and ceo approach, opened to so much media derision, has
in fact paid dividends, so much so his own party
might have led support such as the confidence he's been
able to foster in a mature and adult arrangement. Whereas

(03:04):
the election draws closer, it was in every man for himself,
as it has been every other a elect ironically the
downside to the success. But you know, for national But
as I said earlier this week, the days of major
parties well into the thirties is going, if not gone.
You can't have ten to twelve percent smaller parties and
hold thirty five plus. The numbers simply don't work. If
the Left ever got a solid third player, labor would

(03:26):
have the same issue. National won't be enjoying this truth,
of course, But if you're an MMP fan, the maturity
of what we've seen this past two and a bit
years cements the future for potentially stable and adult government.
It's the model as to how it should be done.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
So every time we talk about a pole, I'm reminded
that I'm pretty sure we decided somewhere along the way
that we weren't going to take any notice of any
poles anymore.

Speaker 3 (03:52):
I know exactly when that happened.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
It was around the time of Brexit and the presidential.

Speaker 3 (03:57):
Election that happened around that time as.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
Well, where it was painfully obvious that the poles were
hopefully a curate it shouldn't be.

Speaker 3 (04:14):
Hackney you notice of.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
And now we've got Mike Hosking doing some kind of
chaos mathematics to make it work some Uh, I'm just
gonna let it wash over me that I'm going to
get really Friday about it and just let it all
wash over me. Its rewrap, Actually I had I couldn't
be quite so casual about things.

Speaker 3 (04:37):
This morning.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
We had a new staff member sitting in on the show.
This morning and the control room, and so I really
had to be on my game with things like mark
the week.

Speaker 4 (04:45):
Time now to mark the week, little piece of news
and current events that will will need to be tied
to a trampoline, which is also tied down when Vayannu arrives.
Are the war six it's eimed the way at least
some thought anyway would within six weeks last minute high drama,
now a bit of back and forward bit. Eventually, like
all Middle East conflicts, will all go home Artemis seven.

(05:06):
I failed, you know, personally to get fizz does some
have this week? But the other side seemed cool. The
photos were cool, even if you saw the same photos
fifty years ago, done by a CODEC fuel crisis seven
Early wobbles seven yep seven early wobbles with those jerry cans.
But eventually it's settled, and by the time the ceasefire
came Wednesday, it appeared when we would have been okay anyway.

(05:27):
Irony of ironies, the Pilot Rescue six.

Speaker 1 (05:29):
A pilot reborn all home and accounted for a nichean rejoicing.

Speaker 4 (05:36):
Brilliantly executed, brilliantly sold, especially by Hegseth. But you only
rescue a bloke in a cave if someone shot you
out of the sky. And Old Pick didn't spend a
lot of time talking about that. But JD four ceasefires
are always messy. Now, if you were tossing up between
all barn or Magia this weekend, would some two ice
from America swing you vote? I mean really open AI
and people first? Three? Watat they offer ideas for jobs

(06:00):
while slashing yours and wanting you to pay for their service.
Is that root or is that genius? Pipes? Seven? And
the reality check plastic is everywhere along with oil. In fact,
there's oil and pipes. The renewables crowd got the rudest
of wake up calls these past five weeks. Saint you
reckon commodities nine another week and other record for New

(06:21):
Zealand and pretty much everything we sell going gangbusters. It
turns out Reserve Bank seven a press conference after each announcement.
More detail, more insight, more knowledge, more Please Apple fifty.
I'm not an Apple person, but you can't hide the
brilliance of the story and success. I mean a garage
to multiple trillions. I mean, that's the American dream, isn't it.
Macron seven World Leader of the Week in my book,

(06:43):
when having been insulted by Trump told him to be serious,
stop talking every day. He sounded adult at a time
when Trump sounded deranged, petty and childish. Alban easy four,
easy to forget now we've got the ceasefire. But good
leadership is increasingly rare in commanding primetime television to address
the nation only to tell you people not to panic,
is not it? Speaking of which the government's will response

(07:06):
seven people are not going to be sitting at home
baking sour day. No Australia, the US, we killed them,
We spanked them. We were the adults in the room
who explained it, planned for it, did the job appropriately,
while Albanezy gave us sort of the Don Hipkins vibes
and panicked with free cash. And that's the weak. Copies
on the websites and a wartime commemorative edition of this
will be released. It's point eleven in the ten point plan.

Speaker 2 (07:27):
I was hoping that at least we'd all get a
free loaf of sourdough.

Speaker 3 (07:31):
God, I love bread.

Speaker 2 (07:32):
One of the things I miss. I exchanged bread for
being the right the correct weight. I think that those
two things were mutually exclusive unfortunately. So I just keep
reminding myself every time somebody says, oh, that's a nice shirt,

(07:59):
then that's worth not having another melted cheese sandwich wrap.

Speaker 1 (08:05):
Right.

Speaker 2 (08:06):
So, war it's not good unless you are in the
news business, in which case it's so good.

Speaker 4 (08:15):
The Iranians are claiming that harmony. This is the supreme
leader has decided to say, I personally don't believe it.
I don't think he's alive, and if he is alive,
is in no shape. I mean the fact you've not
seen him speaks volumes. Iran will bring management of the
strait up emos into a new phase, whatever that means.
We will certainly demand conversation reaching every damage inflected, and
that's part of a ten point plan, of course, So

(08:35):
give that as much weight as you want. I think
there's a win for Trump this morning. Rutter has said
that member countries are doing everything Trump has requested to
strengthen the military alliance, even if some were initially a
bit slow to provide support. So they may are culprit
in the end, but I'll tell you what, War's very
good for. Ratings just in from the States. Cable News
Network is Cable news through the roof of Fox, C

(08:57):
and NMS. They've all gained in the last five weeks.
In fact, Fox is still first, MASNBC a second these days,
but Fox Fox's viewership is up twenty four percent in
the last couple of weeks.

Speaker 2 (09:10):
You see, pause, not all bad, right, right, right, guys, right,
it's not rewrapped. Yeah, I mean our our ratings here
it news to its b We're never better than in
the middle of COVID, which would you rather have? Let's
just stay in the States a little bit longer, because

(09:30):
they're doing something weird. If you the kind of person
Pete higsith once in the Army, I also.

Speaker 4 (09:38):
Note that smalling with interest. I wasn't aware of this,
but they're looking to automatically register young men in America.
That's very German, given what we know about the Germans
this past week, automatically register young men for the military draft.
Up until this point, you had to do it voluntarily
once you turned eighteen. It is in fact illegal not
to register. Nothing actually happens, but they think by doing

(10:01):
it automatically somehow they'll streamline the whole system.

Speaker 2 (10:03):
And so presumably you have to be a man, and
you can't have a beard.

Speaker 4 (10:07):
And very difficult to tell you'd need to identify as one.
I'm assuming also.

Speaker 2 (10:12):
Yeah, and I just keep coming back to it. I
would never identify as a soldier, and I just feel
like if everybody refused to do that as well, there
there would just be less wars. But somebody always seems

(10:33):
to be prepared to pick up a gun and point
it at somebody else, don't am I being I'm being
really naive, and I so naive for like a fifty.

Speaker 3 (10:42):
Two year old guy. It's so rewrap And as.

Speaker 2 (10:44):
Such, I don't know who to believe about the forthcoming
weather this weekend. I mean, they've canceled the Auckland Waterfront
Half Marathon, but it doesn't sound like Manke Hoskin's canceled
anything like.

Speaker 4 (10:55):
What's going on with the weather forecast drama. Have a
look at the coast guard of Mitzurfa's apps. Are there
being no resemblance to the messaging. I don't know that
I want to touch on this, but I'm looking at
my forecast for the weekend. The worst is I've got
for Sunday for me, where I am twenty meals of
rain for the day. I've got a suddenly coming in
at thirty third peaks thirty six, thirty seven, k's suddenly.

(11:20):
I don't know what to do with my tramp? What
do I do? Do I feel life threatened? Should I
cancel my holidays? Should I stay off the road? Should
I stop reading the Herald?

Speaker 3 (11:30):
I mean I did that. Actually, I'm never gonna read
the hell.

Speaker 2 (11:34):
I've never innocent newspapers were newspapers and not websites.

Speaker 3 (11:41):
I just couldn't deal with the newsbook prenty fingers. You know,
you just get so filthy.

Speaker 2 (11:49):
Never liked the feel of it, the smell of it,
the look at it, and also the fact that it
was generally yesterday's news as well a newspaper. By the
time it's thretin and creed and published, you know, I've
quite saw the point of it. Quite good for putting
around crockery when you're moving, stop at breaking, although once again,

(12:12):
get better off just getting plain newsprint if you can,
without the yank, because then you've just got.

Speaker 3 (12:17):
To wash everything all over again.

Speaker 2 (12:18):
Don't you should I be so mean about part of
this company. I feel like I shouldn't given that commercially,
as another part of this company, we're seem.

Speaker 3 (12:29):
To be propping everything up these days. But anyway, I man,
what a bitter way to end the week.

Speaker 2 (12:36):
I'm sorry, guys, sorry about that, a couple of afacats.

Speaker 3 (12:41):
I've only been here four days too.

Speaker 2 (12:44):
I don't know how I'm going to manage the whole
five day week next week, but we'll find out though.

Speaker 3 (12:47):
I'll see you then.

Speaker 1 (12:56):
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