Kate Hawkesby and Tim Wilson are back with Mike Hosking to Wrap the Week that was.
New Zealand finally has a radio station that caters to Mike’s taste in music, with iHeartCountry NZ launching this morning.
Plus, Kate and Tim played a game of Mike’s invention for the chance to win a cash prize.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
But we are very excited to have on the program.
Tim Wilson, Kate Hawk's be good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Good morning. Oh hello Kate.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
It really can't be that hard, can it. It cannot
be that hard. Just get her on the phone. Give
it up this technology. Oh, here we go, let's boomer Timeine.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Can I disappear again?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
That's correct, that's correct, you do? Oh, for goodness sake,
I know, for goodness. No, that's okay, no problem, no
problems at all.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Now do you?
Speaker 1 (00:35):
First of all, we need to welcome to have you
tuned in this morning, KD you to one O five
point four FM.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Five point four.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
What's that country station?
Speaker 1 (00:47):
That's a new country Well done to welcome to the party.
That's a new course. No not, of course, you didn't
have a clue what I was talking about. So one,
I know that.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
You've got a new country station. I know that this
new cat. Why are you promoting a station you're.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Going to be doing it. You're going to be doing
midnight to dawns on this.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
I'm doing more than that. I'm the program director for
the station. Because the boss came in last week and
I did have an argument and he hate me raising this.
But but I've got to I've got to bring it,
bring it to the public's attention. So they're starting the
country music station. I've tried to start a country music
in the station in this country for years because everybody
knows how big country music is, how successful it is.
So there's a revenue generation mechanism here all day long.
(01:25):
So we zed me have finally decided to start this
country music radio station. Now, for now it has no
people on it, no AD's just music, country music. And
so I go to him, one, don't I just plugging
my stick and I country stick it? And he goes
because this is better. Now that's a big that's a
big call. That's a big call talking to a person
who knows no one knows more about country music than
(01:47):
I do. And I said, well, well, well, well, well,
well picked that up.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
But you keep going, what.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Do you think you know more more than country about
country music than I do?
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Okay, who right? And saying you don't have to call
me darlin Darlin?
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Good question.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Who was that rebel country and Western singer David allen.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Coe's that's on the hot list, don't you worry, that's
on the hot list. In tribe seventeen seconds and three
minutes eleven seconds long. I know all of this, don't
don't come to me at the country music so anyway. Anyway,
so I said, you don't know more about country than tragic.
It is tragic. I'm going to be the programmer. So
(02:24):
I'm the new programmer for the iHeart country station. Now
for people around the country that aren't in let's pick
a place, Timrou. I don't have a frequency yet for
you and Timuru, so it's on iHeart. So you go
to the app.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Right.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
We'll check it out over the weekend. We will have
to report back.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
It's going to be fantastic. I think it's I think
it's going to be brilliant. I don't think it's going
to be Is.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
It just mainstream country like you can hear on any
mainstream radio station at the moment?
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Or is it a cliktic?
Speaker 1 (02:52):
What a very good question, caller country. It's going to
be the sort of country music that you didn't think
you'd hear, that you want to hear and would go
there will be. It'll be surprise and delight.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Do you think it'll be more popular or less popular
than your Mike Hosking on demand snooker channel that you start.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Which is the other reason I've got into programming country
music because my snooker venture was nothing short of a disaster.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
And so you have Chapel Rohan's country song on there,
or are you going to be a snob about it?
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Beyonce? We had a meeting about that the other day,
the executive and I and we're opening.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
But Chapel Royan, What did the whiteboards say?
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Kaylee Bell yes, Willie Nelson yes, Nancy Griffith yes, Waylon
Jennings yes, Luke Combs yes, yep.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Here's the deal about country and Western though. You don't
have to worry about demographics.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
So you know you got, for example, stations for millennials,
stations for boomers, stations for gen z, et cetera. You
go to Luke Combs concert, you see everyone there. You've
got young people screaming the words out. You've got you see,
you've got doggies.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
But turned down, I as programmer program obviously already knew
all that. But when because I'm on a four day week,
you can be my assistant programmer because you come to
the party with knowledge and I like it.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
You're on a four day week, do you.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Want, Katie, do you want a job on the station?
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Yanks, I'm good.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Do you want to be the station?
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Point?
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Give us a sixty, give us, give us a good
give I heeart country inst I heard country in zet
Auckland one oh five point four. Give me one of those.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
No, but it's going to need a bit of a yeh,
isn't it. It's going to need a bit of country.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
No, it's not because it's sophisticated urban country music. So
give us a my heart country INSI. I heard country
and the poach going aland one five. You've got to
have doggies christ one point seven?
Speaker 3 (04:53):
F M, what is it? Ninety one point seven?
Speaker 2 (05:00):
No, that's not it's.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
The big picture. We're running. Glynn Campbell, Yes, Dolly Parton,
question Mark, Yes, Emily Harris, question mark. Yes, a good morning, Mike.
You should go get the CEO job of the New
Zealand Yard had them humming by lunchtime, I reckon, But
I'm busy at the moment programming country music stations. Now,
do you guys want to play a game?
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Did you come up the game then?
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Or not?
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Really so much fun?
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Is it snooker related?
Speaker 2 (05:32):
No?
Speaker 1 (05:33):
So the report came out this week my friend Mike
Casey who runs Who Grows Cherries and runs Who's Big
on Electric. It was part of a report called It
was a report called the Machine Counting Report, which was
a ridiculous name for a report. But also it's seventy
five pages long. So they've gone interactive after my criticism
of the report. And it counted how many machines there
(05:56):
are in this country that run on pictures?
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Already sounds like a really one fun game.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Okay, so.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Can you come back from that?
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Mic, I'm just coming to well game. No, No, I
can't come back. I just can't come back. I've got
the rugs pulled out from under me. So obviously the
report contained the most petrol and guess run machines in
the country. Tom My, what.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Cars? Correct?
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Well done? Now that wasn't part of the contest. See
how much fun it is? Katie?
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Fun for Tim because he.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Got a point, right, Katie, come on, come on, question question,
But you didn't want to participate. Now, what I'm going
to do is I want to play.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Country station to country station.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Now.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
They're in an ad break at the moment, right, so
I'm going to ask you one question for prize money.
The prize money is seven and a half thousand dollars,
either for yourself or for the charity of your choice. Okay,
I'm going to see you're interested. How much interesting? Eh,
here comes the money and Katie turns up at the party.
I'm going to ask you how many are.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
It's not true you're always promising money and that's never coming.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Right. So for you and Katie, if you can tell
me how many to the nearest thousand jet skis there
are in this country seven and a half thousand dollars
as yours.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Oh, seven and a half thousand. No, wait, there'd be more.
I think we're a big jet ski country. Oh gosh,
this is hard. Twenty five thousand.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Okay, that's your answer, twenty five thousand. Now do you
want to Tim go for the jet ski number or
do you want me to come up with a completely
different product.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Now, I'll go for the jet ski number.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
How many jets sees in this country? Are there? Tim?
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Seventeen and a half one.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Thousand, Yes, seventeen and a half thousand. I'm going to
give you one more question, and I'm going to up
the prizes to ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
I wish it was real prizes.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
They are real.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Prices, real money, they are real prices.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
How many Katie leaf blowers are there in this country?
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Oh? Excluding the ones in your own garage? Um, h,
leaf blowers. That's a try. I don't know that we'd
be a big leaf blowing population, to be honest.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Oh, I reckon we're a huge leaf blowing population.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
I want to go blowers or a separate machine.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Tim, No, No, I'll do leaf blowers. And I'll say
thirty five K.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Thirty five K? Right, Okatie, what's your number?
Speaker 4 (08:42):
I reckon twenty thousand leaf blowers in your voice, Katie,
and so you, Katie, I think we're completely out on
all these numbers because this is so random, and this
is what about.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
And this is what has made this game so interesting,
because one you got involve Kadi and way that I
hadn't heard you excited about for well all twelve years
of our marriage. The answer on the jet skis is, Katie,
you're twenty five was significantly out, and Tim yours was
even further out. There are ninety three thousand jet skis
in this country.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Wow, WHOA. However, we've got a lot of toys how
change my leaf blower answer? No, you cannot reckon there
are fewer leaf blowers.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
I think leaf blowers is I mean in some suburbs
you see a lot of them. I reckon in some
suburbs that you wouldn't go near a leaf flower.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
You are correct, you are correct, not not prize winningly correct,
but correct ish. So Katie at twenty not bad, but
amiss him at thirty five dangerously close to being the
big prize winner today thirty was the answer.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Wow, you were five?
Speaker 1 (09:53):
You were five thousand out. Now to end the segment,
hand on heart? Was that more fun? The new thought?
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Not at all? I would like, Member, I'm going straight
to the country station.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Okay, go to the country station. What what whatquen out
of the country station on cody?
Speaker 3 (10:14):
I don't know? Is that one O something one O
four one five us.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
For more from the Mic Asking Breakfast, listen live to
news talks.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
It'd be from six am weekdays, or follow the podcast
on iHeartRadio.
But we are very excited to have on the program.
Tim Wilson, Kate Hawk's be good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Good morning. Oh hello Kate.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
It really can't be that hard, can it. It cannot
be that hard. Just get her on the phone. Give
it up this technology. Oh, here we go, let's boomer Timeine.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Can I disappear again?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
That's correct, that's correct, you do? Oh, for goodness sake,
I know, for goodness. No, that's okay, no problem, no
problems at all.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Now do you?
Speaker 1 (00:35):
First of all, we need to welcome to have you
tuned in this morning, KD you to one O five
point four FM.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Five point four.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
What's that country station?
Speaker 1 (00:47):
That's a new country Well done to welcome to the party.
That's a new course. No not, of course, you didn't
have a clue what I was talking about. So one,
I know that.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
You've got a new country station. I know that this
new cat. Why are you promoting a station you're.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Going to be doing it. You're going to be doing
midnight to dawns on this.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
I'm doing more than that. I'm the program director for
the station. Because the boss came in last week and
I did have an argument and he hate me raising this.
But but I've got to I've got to bring it,
bring it to the public's attention. So they're starting the
country music station. I've tried to start a country music
in the station in this country for years because everybody
knows how big country music is, how successful it is.
So there's a revenue generation mechanism here all day long.
(01:25):
So we zed me have finally decided to start this
country music radio station. Now, for now it has no
people on it, no AD's just music, country music. And
so I go to him, one, don't I just plugging
my stick and I country stick it? And he goes
because this is better. Now that's a big that's a
big call. That's a big call talking to a person
who knows no one knows more about country music than
(01:47):
I do. And I said, well, well, well, well, well,
well picked that up.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
But you keep going, what.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Do you think you know more more than country about
country music than I do?
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Okay, who right? And saying you don't have to call
me darlin Darlin?
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Good question.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Who was that rebel country and Western singer David allen.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Coe's that's on the hot list, don't you worry, that's
on the hot list. In tribe seventeen seconds and three
minutes eleven seconds long. I know all of this, don't
don't come to me at the country music so anyway. Anyway,
so I said, you don't know more about country than tragic.
It is tragic. I'm going to be the programmer. So
(02:24):
I'm the new programmer for the iHeart country station. Now
for people around the country that aren't in let's pick
a place, Timrou. I don't have a frequency yet for
you and Timuru, so it's on iHeart. So you go
to the app.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Right.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
We'll check it out over the weekend. We will have
to report back.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
It's going to be fantastic. I think it's I think
it's going to be brilliant. I don't think it's going
to be Is.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
It just mainstream country like you can hear on any
mainstream radio station at the moment?
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Or is it a cliktic?
Speaker 1 (02:52):
What a very good question, caller country. It's going to
be the sort of country music that you didn't think
you'd hear, that you want to hear and would go
there will be. It'll be surprise and delight.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Do you think it'll be more popular or less popular
than your Mike Hosking on demand snooker channel that you start.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Which is the other reason I've got into programming country
music because my snooker venture was nothing short of a disaster.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
And so you have Chapel Rohan's country song on there,
or are you going to be a snob about it?
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Beyonce? We had a meeting about that the other day,
the executive and I and we're opening.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
But Chapel Royan, What did the whiteboards say?
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Kaylee Bell yes, Willie Nelson yes, Nancy Griffith yes, Waylon
Jennings yes, Luke Combs yes, yep.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Here's the deal about country and Western though. You don't
have to worry about demographics.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
So you know you got, for example, stations for millennials,
stations for boomers, stations for gen z, et cetera. You
go to Luke Combs concert, you see everyone there. You've
got young people screaming the words out. You've got you see,
you've got doggies.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
But turned down, I as programmer program obviously already knew
all that. But when because I'm on a four day week,
you can be my assistant programmer because you come to
the party with knowledge and I like it.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
You're on a four day week, do you.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Want, Katie, do you want a job on the station?
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Yanks, I'm good.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Do you want to be the station?
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Point?
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Give us a sixty, give us, give us a good
give I heeart country inst I heard country in zet
Auckland one oh five point four. Give me one of those.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
No, but it's going to need a bit of a yeh,
isn't it. It's going to need a bit of country.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
No, it's not because it's sophisticated urban country music. So
give us a my heart country INSI. I heard country
and the poach going aland one five. You've got to
have doggies christ one point seven?
Speaker 3 (04:53):
F M, what is it? Ninety one point seven?
Speaker 2 (05:00):
No, that's not it's.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
The big picture. We're running. Glynn Campbell, Yes, Dolly Parton,
question Mark, Yes, Emily Harris, question mark. Yes, a good morning, Mike.
You should go get the CEO job of the New
Zealand Yard had them humming by lunchtime, I reckon, But
I'm busy at the moment programming country music stations. Now,
do you guys want to play a game?
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Did you come up the game then?
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Or not?
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Really so much fun?
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Is it snooker related?
Speaker 2 (05:32):
No?
Speaker 1 (05:33):
So the report came out this week my friend Mike
Casey who runs Who Grows Cherries and runs Who's Big
on Electric. It was part of a report called It
was a report called the Machine Counting Report, which was
a ridiculous name for a report. But also it's seventy
five pages long. So they've gone interactive after my criticism
of the report. And it counted how many machines there
(05:56):
are in this country that run on pictures?
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Already sounds like a really one fun game.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Okay, so.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Can you come back from that?
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Mic, I'm just coming to well game. No, No, I
can't come back. I just can't come back. I've got
the rugs pulled out from under me. So obviously the
report contained the most petrol and guess run machines in
the country. Tom My, what.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Cars? Correct?
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Well done? Now that wasn't part of the contest. See
how much fun it is? Katie?
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Fun for Tim because he.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Got a point, right, Katie, come on, come on, question question,
But you didn't want to participate. Now, what I'm going
to do is I want to play.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Country station to country station.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Now.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
They're in an ad break at the moment, right, so
I'm going to ask you one question for prize money.
The prize money is seven and a half thousand dollars,
either for yourself or for the charity of your choice. Okay,
I'm going to see you're interested. How much interesting? Eh,
here comes the money and Katie turns up at the party.
I'm going to ask you how many are.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
It's not true you're always promising money and that's never coming.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Right. So for you and Katie, if you can tell
me how many to the nearest thousand jet skis there
are in this country seven and a half thousand dollars
as yours.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Oh, seven and a half thousand. No, wait, there'd be more.
I think we're a big jet ski country. Oh gosh,
this is hard. Twenty five thousand.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Okay, that's your answer, twenty five thousand. Now do you
want to Tim go for the jet ski number or
do you want me to come up with a completely
different product.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Now, I'll go for the jet ski number.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
How many jets sees in this country? Are there? Tim?
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Seventeen and a half one.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Thousand, Yes, seventeen and a half thousand. I'm going to
give you one more question, and I'm going to up
the prizes to ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
I wish it was real prizes.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
They are real.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Prices, real money, they are real prices.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
How many Katie leaf blowers are there in this country?
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Oh? Excluding the ones in your own garage? Um, h,
leaf blowers. That's a try. I don't know that we'd
be a big leaf blowing population, to be honest.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Oh, I reckon we're a huge leaf blowing population.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
I want to go blowers or a separate machine.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Tim, No, No, I'll do leaf blowers. And I'll say
thirty five K.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Thirty five K? Right, Okatie, what's your number?
Speaker 4 (08:42):
I reckon twenty thousand leaf blowers in your voice, Katie,
and so you, Katie, I think we're completely out on
all these numbers because this is so random, and this
is what about.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
And this is what has made this game so interesting,
because one you got involve Kadi and way that I
hadn't heard you excited about for well all twelve years
of our marriage. The answer on the jet skis is, Katie,
you're twenty five was significantly out, and Tim yours was
even further out. There are ninety three thousand jet skis
in this country.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Wow, WHOA. However, we've got a lot of toys how
change my leaf blower answer? No, you cannot reckon there
are fewer leaf blowers.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
I think leaf blowers is I mean in some suburbs
you see a lot of them. I reckon in some
suburbs that you wouldn't go near a leaf flower.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
You are correct, you are correct, not not prize winningly correct,
but correct ish. So Katie at twenty not bad, but
amiss him at thirty five dangerously close to being the
big prize winner today thirty was the answer.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Wow, you were five?
Speaker 1 (09:53):
You were five thousand out. Now to end the segment,
hand on heart? Was that more fun? The new thought?
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Not at all? I would like, Member, I'm going straight
to the country station.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Okay, go to the country station. What what whatquen out
of the country station on cody?
Speaker 3 (10:14):
I don't know? Is that one O something one O
four one five us.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
For more from the Mic Asking Breakfast, listen live to
news talks.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
It'd be from six am weekdays, or follow the podcast
on iHeartRadio.
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