For the final time this year, Kate Hawkesby and Tim Wilson joined Mike Hosking to Wrap the Week that was.
They discussed their plans for the holiday season, the tragic state of public sector Christmas parties, and the best stats from their Spotify Wrapped.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Tim morning, good stuff, Katie. How are you?
Speaker 2 (00:05):
I'm excellent, how are you? You must be excited? No
more alarms.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Boss just asked me that, he said, are you excited?
And we were taking bets off air. I didn't participate
because I'm not allowed to bet because you've told me
I can't. But we were taking bets off air as
to when I would utter the first words G. I
wouldn't mind getting back on the radio.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Yeah, Jason, and I usually take that bet every summer too,
because You're like, I'm so exhausted, I'm so ready for
a break, and then about five minutes into your holiday
you're like, yeah, no, I've got stuff to say. I'm
ready to go back. It's unbelievable. Have some sleep for goodness.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Sake, exactly.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Anyway, how are you going to what's the what's the
situation at your workplace visa the Christmas parties?
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Well, yeh, look, I've actually I'm investigating this because of
obviously the public sector, but I was actually thinking about
our Christmas party, the Wrap the Week Christmas party on Monday,
and I think we've got the lowest price per per
head in terms of it's coffee. It's a DCF. I'll
have a DCF five point fifty. You're not planning on
having a muffin though, are you.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
I'm not actually planning on being there.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
What, don't worry to them.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
I'll drag them.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Alon, drag them Alon. Three coffees in a muffin. So
you're talking, we could probably come scraping under twenty five,
couldn't we twenty five bucks for three people? You're here?
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Are you kidding me? We could do twenty We pay
for that ourselves. The company doesn't self fund it, That's true.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Something we probably need to what the public This is
what the public sector. This is how the public sector
needs to learn to run stuff. You do it yourself.
You don't rely on other people. So three coffees and
a muff and we'll say Merry Christmas, and that'll be
us for another year, and we will be happy and satisfied,
won't we.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Well, we probably have a certain age where we don't
really need to get ourselves completely hammered and you know,
dance on tables.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Do you think that ever happened? Katie? Did you ever
go see when I joined radio in the in the eighties, Yes.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
It did happen. I mean didn't your chief executive do
a show you at one of the Christmas parties.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
You told me a famous story about one of your
radio Christmas parties where someone fell through the ceiling.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
No, that wasn't a Christmas No, that's a good story.
That wasn't a Christmas party. That was just a regular
day at the office. That was towards the end of
the year, and they might have been having a party
for two But that was a fantastic story at Radio Windy.
And the thing about Radio Windy, which is no longer
in existence now, is that it had those ceilings where
you have actually, as I look up, we've got these ceilings,
(02:32):
so you know, the ceilings with individual boards, right, and
you can take the board out and climb into the roof. Anyway,
they fell out of the ceiling in a certain position
into reception, into reception, inter reception. But those were the
(02:52):
glory days of radio. Nothing like that's ever happened since.
And I do believe that when you talk to the
older members of the broadcasting community, they all go down
that track.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
There we go.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
I remember when where you were right like that, And
of course I don't even know what it ever really happened.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
To be honest, No, I did Mega magazines. I used
to go go out to lunch with Bill Rolston on
a Friday.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
We have Friday with Bill Rolston. That's not Christmas. Christmas.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
I'll tell you. I'll tell you what when you when
you have a lunch that lasts for eighteen hours, you
know you've had lunch?
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Eighteen?
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Are you?
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Are you? Eighteen? So far?
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Came twelve o'clock Bill from from noon from noon. We
used to because the rest of the company used to
do used to be Australian Consolidated Press. They'd have informal Friday,
but because we were sort of a bit hoiity toyy,
we'd have formal Friday and we'd go out for lunch.
And yeah, I came. I came to the sensors dancing
to a heavy metal song. I don't know. It might
(03:49):
have been Motorhead at six am in a nightclub on
Queen Stream.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Thought that was a time to gard fantastic.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Do you want?
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Do you want slip knock tickets for Christmas? Coding?
Speaker 2 (04:00):
No? I don't, But guess what. Guess what excitement I
got this morning with my Spotify rat because I heard
you promoing.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
I die, I am dying.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
To hear how minutes I hadn't even looked at it,
so I jumped on Spotify. Do you know I am
in the top six percent of listeners worldwide.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
No, it doesn't surprise me because I was saying earlier,
all of our music and it's may it's throughout the
day and on the weekend, is driven out of your
Spotify account. Therefore, because we have music on all the time,
every day, every hour of every day then and it
comes from exclusively your phone, then I'm not surprised at that.
So what do you what do you want to give us?
(04:37):
The number?
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Forty three, seven hundred and twenty.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Eight minutes forty three thousand? Do you believe Cecon?
Speaker 2 (04:43):
I didn't actually think that was too bad?
Speaker 1 (04:45):
No, but that puts you did you think?
Speaker 3 (04:47):
What do you think it would be? Well?
Speaker 1 (04:49):
I had text this morning from over one hundred thousand
minutes and somebody claimed to it in twenty thousand minutes,
So I think that's b Yes, because I know how
much music we listened to it at forty three thousand,
they cannot be listening to five times more music than
did you get?
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Because your top artist was Luke Holmes wasn't it? And
my top artist was Joshua Raden And then as I
clicked through, I gotta you get this video message from him. Yes, yeah,
that's so cute, the thanking the Spotify fans for like listening.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Well, i'll tell you that's coming out. That's that's an
aiicon and I'll tell you about that in a moment
two hundred and three, Caddy, where were we?
Speaker 3 (05:19):
So?
Speaker 1 (05:19):
What was the think?
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Sorry?
Speaker 1 (05:23):
So it's it's what it is is when my artist
was Luke Holmes and then it suddenly it goes, oh,
it seems that we're not alone and then boom, your
favorite artist comes up with a message. In my case
it's Luke Colmes. Now, the problem with Luke Holmes's message
it was a very generic message and it's two Australians.
He says, I'll tell you what. I'm coming to Australia
next year. I'm looking forward to being in Australia. And
(05:43):
I thought, mate, I'm not in Australia. And so they've
obviously not quite regionalized it out to a point where
it feels like an individual message. What was yours, Cadie?
Who was it from Joshua Radin.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Yeah, and he was just basically thinking he didn't he
didn't do a specific region. He was just, hey, thank
you so much for listening to so much of my
new I just so appreciate you know, fans, and blah
blah blah, and this is what I'm doing and thank
you for sharing it and enjoying it. And I make
it because you love it. Blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
So what we want is the first person who has
their number one artist who didn't have a message on Spotify,
because they can't have gone to every artist in the
world and gone a message, can they. Yeah, so if
your top artist was Beethoven, they would have struggled, surely.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
But I wonder if the really big.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
What but she would have done one? Of course she
would have.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Can I can I tell you guys about my track
of the year? Yeah, okay, so it's not it's not
on Spotify by a by an artist called It's by
an artist called Wolfe Wilson. And I've been talking about
this track quite a bit lately.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Has he done a song?
Speaker 3 (06:47):
He's well, he created something. So a few weeks back,
he was doing his piano practice and he had to
practice when the Saints go marching in. You know when
the Saints go marching to do so he did that
very reluctantly. Yeah, doesn't doesn't doesn't love the piano practice thing.
Then he goes outside and he grabs his trident that
he got for Halloween, and he was playing with his
(07:08):
tridents to your Wolfy, I'm just talking about you on
the radio. Wolf is just he's just coming to say goodbye.
So grabs has tried and seems to perk up a bit,
then walks through the door and swings it between his
legs and starts to strut, going when my diddle becomes
a trident, When my diddle becomes a trident, and you
(07:30):
just think, and you look at your spouse, your bride,
and you say, this is your side of the family.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
This is where this comes from. There's something wrong, dreadfully wrong.
I thought I thought he was going to play as
a fabulous rendition of when the Saints go Marching In?
But no, it wasn't.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
By the way, Mike, to recreate Beethoven of.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Beethoven seemed to message.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Because you know how they did?
Speaker 1 (07:54):
They did Richard the Third Yes, who was it?
Speaker 3 (07:57):
So, yeah, this is the Ai Beto eh.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
That might be that mummy.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Probably. Hey, listen you guys, thank you for the year
and tuning up each and every Friday.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Hey, thanks to you hard yards, but you work.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Hard with you You're right, that's no.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
You put in a lot of effort. I don't think congratulations.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
You work twenty four seven so you deserve a break.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
You very kind, absolutely, and big shout outs to Glenn,
who had the best lines and of course unacknowledged engine
of the show, Sam a fan of luxury chocolate and
bullying victim.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
That's one of the weirdest things of the year. Actually,
I remember Sam's weird drive to South Auckland, I know,
and it's freshly important Japanese this and gtr to buy
unbelievable amounts of chocolate from a strange woman behind a
door under the guise of it being called Dubai chocolate
or something like that. It's that, you know. I don't
even think that we got to the bottom.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
We love them.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Thank you Sam, thank you.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Glenn, and thank you Katie, Thank you Tim, and Merry
Christmas and happy holidays, and we'll see you at the
Christmas party. See at the Christmas party.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
At the Christmas party for more from the Mic Asking Breakfast.
Listen live to news talks it'd be from six am weekdays,
or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio
Tim morning, good stuff, Katie. How are you?
Speaker 2 (00:05):
I'm excellent, how are you? You must be excited? No
more alarms.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Boss just asked me that, he said, are you excited?
And we were taking bets off air. I didn't participate
because I'm not allowed to bet because you've told me
I can't. But we were taking bets off air as
to when I would utter the first words G. I
wouldn't mind getting back on the radio.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Yeah, Jason, and I usually take that bet every summer too,
because You're like, I'm so exhausted, I'm so ready for
a break, and then about five minutes into your holiday
you're like, yeah, no, I've got stuff to say. I'm
ready to go back. It's unbelievable. Have some sleep for goodness.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Sake, exactly.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Anyway, how are you going to what's the what's the
situation at your workplace visa the Christmas parties?
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Well, yeh, look, I've actually I'm investigating this because of
obviously the public sector, but I was actually thinking about
our Christmas party, the Wrap the Week Christmas party on Monday,
and I think we've got the lowest price per per
head in terms of it's coffee. It's a DCF. I'll
have a DCF five point fifty. You're not planning on
having a muffin though, are you.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
I'm not actually planning on being there.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
What, don't worry to them.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
I'll drag them.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Alon, drag them Alon. Three coffees in a muffin. So
you're talking, we could probably come scraping under twenty five,
couldn't we twenty five bucks for three people? You're here?
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Are you kidding me? We could do twenty We pay
for that ourselves. The company doesn't self fund it, That's true.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Something we probably need to what the public This is
what the public sector. This is how the public sector
needs to learn to run stuff. You do it yourself.
You don't rely on other people. So three coffees and
a muff and we'll say Merry Christmas, and that'll be
us for another year, and we will be happy and satisfied,
won't we.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Well, we probably have a certain age where we don't
really need to get ourselves completely hammered and you know,
dance on tables.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Do you think that ever happened? Katie? Did you ever
go see when I joined radio in the in the eighties, Yes.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
It did happen. I mean didn't your chief executive do
a show you at one of the Christmas parties.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
You told me a famous story about one of your
radio Christmas parties where someone fell through the ceiling.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
No, that wasn't a Christmas No, that's a good story.
That wasn't a Christmas party. That was just a regular
day at the office. That was towards the end of
the year, and they might have been having a party
for two But that was a fantastic story at Radio Windy.
And the thing about Radio Windy, which is no longer
in existence now, is that it had those ceilings where
you have actually, as I look up, we've got these ceilings,
(02:32):
so you know, the ceilings with individual boards, right, and
you can take the board out and climb into the roof. Anyway,
they fell out of the ceiling in a certain position
into reception, into reception, inter reception. But those were the
(02:52):
glory days of radio. Nothing like that's ever happened since.
And I do believe that when you talk to the
older members of the broadcasting community, they all go down
that track.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
There we go.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
I remember when where you were right like that, And
of course I don't even know what it ever really happened.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
To be honest, No, I did Mega magazines. I used
to go go out to lunch with Bill Rolston on
a Friday.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
We have Friday with Bill Rolston. That's not Christmas. Christmas.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
I'll tell you. I'll tell you what when you when
you have a lunch that lasts for eighteen hours, you
know you've had lunch?
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Eighteen?
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Are you?
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Are you? Eighteen? So far?
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Came twelve o'clock Bill from from noon from noon. We
used to because the rest of the company used to
do used to be Australian Consolidated Press. They'd have informal Friday,
but because we were sort of a bit hoiity toyy,
we'd have formal Friday and we'd go out for lunch.
And yeah, I came. I came to the sensors dancing
to a heavy metal song. I don't know. It might
(03:49):
have been Motorhead at six am in a nightclub on
Queen Stream.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Thought that was a time to gard fantastic.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Do you want?
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Do you want slip knock tickets for Christmas? Coding?
Speaker 2 (04:00):
No? I don't, But guess what. Guess what excitement I
got this morning with my Spotify rat because I heard
you promoing.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
I die, I am dying.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
To hear how minutes I hadn't even looked at it,
so I jumped on Spotify. Do you know I am
in the top six percent of listeners worldwide.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
No, it doesn't surprise me because I was saying earlier,
all of our music and it's may it's throughout the
day and on the weekend, is driven out of your
Spotify account. Therefore, because we have music on all the time,
every day, every hour of every day then and it
comes from exclusively your phone, then I'm not surprised at that.
So what do you what do you want to give us?
(04:37):
The number?
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Forty three, seven hundred and twenty.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Eight minutes forty three thousand? Do you believe Cecon?
Speaker 2 (04:43):
I didn't actually think that was too bad?
Speaker 1 (04:45):
No, but that puts you did you think?
Speaker 3 (04:47):
What do you think it would be? Well?
Speaker 1 (04:49):
I had text this morning from over one hundred thousand
minutes and somebody claimed to it in twenty thousand minutes,
So I think that's b Yes, because I know how
much music we listened to it at forty three thousand,
they cannot be listening to five times more music than
did you get?
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Because your top artist was Luke Holmes wasn't it? And
my top artist was Joshua Raden And then as I
clicked through, I gotta you get this video message from him. Yes, yeah,
that's so cute, the thanking the Spotify fans for like listening.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Well, i'll tell you that's coming out. That's that's an
aiicon and I'll tell you about that in a moment
two hundred and three, Caddy, where were we?
Speaker 3 (05:19):
So?
Speaker 1 (05:19):
What was the think?
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Sorry?
Speaker 1 (05:23):
So it's it's what it is is when my artist
was Luke Holmes and then it suddenly it goes, oh,
it seems that we're not alone and then boom, your
favorite artist comes up with a message. In my case
it's Luke Colmes. Now, the problem with Luke Holmes's message
it was a very generic message and it's two Australians.
He says, I'll tell you what. I'm coming to Australia
next year. I'm looking forward to being in Australia. And
(05:43):
I thought, mate, I'm not in Australia. And so they've
obviously not quite regionalized it out to a point where
it feels like an individual message. What was yours, Cadie?
Who was it from Joshua Radin.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Yeah, and he was just basically thinking he didn't he
didn't do a specific region. He was just, hey, thank
you so much for listening to so much of my
new I just so appreciate you know, fans, and blah
blah blah, and this is what I'm doing and thank
you for sharing it and enjoying it. And I make
it because you love it. Blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
So what we want is the first person who has
their number one artist who didn't have a message on Spotify,
because they can't have gone to every artist in the
world and gone a message, can they. Yeah, so if
your top artist was Beethoven, they would have struggled, surely.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
But I wonder if the really big.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
What but she would have done one? Of course she
would have.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Can I can I tell you guys about my track
of the year? Yeah, okay, so it's not it's not
on Spotify by a by an artist called It's by
an artist called Wolfe Wilson. And I've been talking about
this track quite a bit lately.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Has he done a song?
Speaker 3 (06:47):
He's well, he created something. So a few weeks back,
he was doing his piano practice and he had to
practice when the Saints go marching in. You know when
the Saints go marching to do so he did that
very reluctantly. Yeah, doesn't doesn't doesn't love the piano practice thing.
Then he goes outside and he grabs his trident that
he got for Halloween, and he was playing with his
(07:08):
tridents to your Wolfy, I'm just talking about you on
the radio. Wolf is just he's just coming to say goodbye.
So grabs has tried and seems to perk up a bit,
then walks through the door and swings it between his
legs and starts to strut, going when my diddle becomes
a trident, When my diddle becomes a trident, and you
(07:30):
just think, and you look at your spouse, your bride,
and you say, this is your side of the family.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
This is where this comes from. There's something wrong, dreadfully wrong.
I thought I thought he was going to play as
a fabulous rendition of when the Saints go Marching In?
But no, it wasn't.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
By the way, Mike, to recreate Beethoven of.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Beethoven seemed to message.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Because you know how they did?
Speaker 1 (07:54):
They did Richard the Third Yes, who was it?
Speaker 3 (07:57):
So, yeah, this is the Ai Beto eh.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
That might be that mummy.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Probably. Hey, listen you guys, thank you for the year
and tuning up each and every Friday.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Hey, thanks to you hard yards, but you work.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Hard with you You're right, that's no.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
You put in a lot of effort. I don't think congratulations.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
You work twenty four seven so you deserve a break.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
You very kind, absolutely, and big shout outs to Glenn,
who had the best lines and of course unacknowledged engine
of the show, Sam a fan of luxury chocolate and
bullying victim.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
That's one of the weirdest things of the year. Actually,
I remember Sam's weird drive to South Auckland, I know,
and it's freshly important Japanese this and gtr to buy
unbelievable amounts of chocolate from a strange woman behind a
door under the guise of it being called Dubai chocolate
or something like that. It's that, you know. I don't
even think that we got to the bottom.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
We love them.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Thank you Sam, thank you.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Glenn, and thank you Katie, Thank you Tim, and Merry
Christmas and happy holidays, and we'll see you at the
Christmas party. See at the Christmas party.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
At the Christmas party for more from the Mic Asking Breakfast.
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or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio
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