Mark the Week: The Chinese parade was spellbinding

At the end of each week, Mike Hosking takes you through the big-ticket items and lets you know what he makes of it all. 

 

The Chinese parade: 8/10 

Forget politics. As a “thing”, as a spectacle, as a “can you believe how in time those goose steppers are?”, it was spellbinding. 

 

Helen Clark and John Key and Dan Andrews and Bob Carr: 4/10 

On balance, given what it was really about, I think it was a mistake. 

 

Trump's death: 2/10 

A sad reminder of just how thick, gullible and worryingly naive some people are. And that’s before you get to the morons who thought Taylor had DM'ed Eden Park as a wedding venue. I am not making it up. 

 

Teachers: 7/10 

Big increases in enrolments. Just wait until the unions get hold of them and kill the buzz. 

 

The Tamaki Makaurau by-election: 2/10 

Is this the most pitiful display of disinterest in modern democracy? If you thought Port Waikato was bad, this thing looks like it will hit it out of the park. That’s if the park is open. 

 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Time now to marke the week little piece of news
and current affairs. It's more fun than a chat about immortality.
The Chinese Parade eight, I thought it was a beautiful ceremony.
I thought it was very, very impressive. I mean, forget
the politics as a thing, as a spectacle, as a
can you believe how in time those goose Steppers are.
It was spellbinding Clark, Key, Andrews and Cardo four. On balance,

(00:21):
given what it was really about, I think it was
a mistake being there. Trump and courts twos, I mean,
worst week yet. I got them zero for five this week,
deporting to Guatemala, sacking people the National Guard, tariffs are
now Harvard Supreme Court. But to come up big time
Trump's death too. No, it's very active over the weekend.
Sad reminder of just how thick, gallible and worryingly naive
some people are. And that's before, by the way, you

(00:43):
get to the morons who thought Taylor had dmd Eden
Park as a wedding venue. I'm not kidding. I watched
this yesterday. There are people who thought Taylor had directly
dm Eden Park as a wedding venue. Bonds and yields
three get on top of this one, dets finally started
to come home to roost. From Britain to Japan, people
are worried, and the people who are worried to the

(01:03):
sort of people who crash markets teach it's seven big
increase in enrollments. Just wait till the unions get hold
of them and kill the buzz. Though Neil quickly six
did the right thing. Eventually, Aws seven on behalf of
too much of the New Zealand media. Can I say
sorry for their obsessive negativity and remind you not all
of us are like them? David Seymour seven conscious that

(01:23):
there are non Auckland listeners on the show, so I
apologize to them. He is right about Paris, and more
people know it then will publicly ever admit it. Wind
Won from parks to bridges to doors. Winders this week's
display of modern day fear driven by obsessives who no
longer can think logically for themselves. Reese Walsh six. Personally,
I didn't find it funny, but it hardly needed the

(01:45):
tut tutting it got. I mean, he's twenty three in
a league player, He's not Michael McIntyre. Are the Warriors
six we've seen it properly, keep our fingers cross and
hopefully enjoy the forum if we beat the Seagles one
hundred and fifty one nell and don't rule that out.
Foreign House is just Foreign House adjustments seven common sense

(02:07):
made more difficult than it ever needed to be. Really,
but we got there in the end, didn't we? The
tammicky by election two. I mean, is this the most
pitiful display of disinterest in modern democracy? If you thought
port Wait Catter was bad, this thing's going to look
to hit it out of the park. That's if the
parks open, and that's the week copies on the website.
And if you cut this out, by the way, the
right shape and color is sort of a pinkish kind
of color, you can, in fact, practice your own organ transplant.

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