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August 28, 2025 10 mins

Tim Wilson is back from his holiday and ready to Wrap the Week alongside Kate Hawkesby and Mike Hosking. 

They try to get Mike to have a more positive outlook as Tim recaps his travels and tries to fill the boots left behind by Sir John Key. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Tim, Hello, welcome back.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Hello Mike. Hello.

Speaker 3 (00:06):
Okay, now listen, I've got a bone to pick with
you coming in now.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
Can you first all, why is your connection so poor?
It's thick?

Speaker 2 (00:13):
It says, I don't know. Can you hear me? Watch
you cheat?

Speaker 3 (00:17):
Check check my bone? Is this it's a fake news alert?
Now my in laws tell me that before, just before
you had there's some guy who replaced me for the
last couple of weeks. I can't remember his name, but
you're like, Tim didn't tell us until the last minute
that he was going Awaun on holiday.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
Not true. I let Sammy know a month in advance.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
Now, that was the ruse. That was the ruse to
suck caddion.

Speaker 4 (00:38):
It was a stitch.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
Okay, yeah, all right, it was from.

Speaker 5 (00:42):
Me because it was such a big secret and surprise.
I was genuinely shocked because I was saying the same
to sam if here, I was saying, that's so out
of character for Tim, because he was saying, I'm trying
to get Tim on the phone. I said, that's so,
that's so I really fell for it.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
Ye talk to me about I take it back.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
You two part question.

Speaker 4 (01:00):
Have you been on a cruise before and if not,
was this the greatest thing of your life?

Speaker 3 (01:05):
Never been on a cruise before, and it was. It
was an incredible holiday of a lifetime. But eight days
on a floating trough, I've never eaten so much food
and all my day.

Speaker 4 (01:17):
You realize you didn't have to eat. You didn't you
didn't have to eat that much for.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
You, Well, it's just there. I mean we all go, oh,
you know.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
I mean I had these visions that, yeah, I'll be
hitting the gym, I'll be doing the bikes, I'll be
hitting the weights. No, I was just lying in the
buffet with kids bringing me ice cream? Can I have
another chip? Who are you eating that chicken McNugget? The
other thing is like you pillage your kids dishes as well?

Speaker 1 (01:42):
So what were the kids?

Speaker 4 (01:44):
I mean, obviously first question is why were the kids there?
But second question would be did the rules around the
kids and eating change because you're on a cruise and
could scoffy faceful?

Speaker 3 (01:55):
They actually, Roman, who's very self directed, decided that he
would not eat until the evening because he had eaten
so much. So they actually, some of them actually, although
it put me to shame, but I have to say
in the evening.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
He ordered to dessert, So that's another that's life.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
Nothing wrong with that, Katie.

Speaker 3 (02:16):
But they got they got braids on the islands too,
which is quite exciting.

Speaker 4 (02:19):
Everyone gets braids on the islands. Who hasn't been to
the islands. He got braids, for goodness? Do you remember
the braids? Then, Katie, you mean to go down memory
lane with that? I mean then the sunburned. So after
you get the braids, then the sunburn comes in with
the gap in your head, doesn't it, And then the
crying all night because the kid didn't realize they're going
to get sunburnt, and then the holiday becomes miserable. Katie,

(02:39):
do you take me back there, get me back to
were about your cruise?

Speaker 1 (02:46):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (02:47):
No, it's not a winner.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
It's not a winner.

Speaker 5 (02:48):
Okay, just just if I are on the beer front.
We got scent from the lovely people at Sawmill.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
Yeah, I felt better.

Speaker 5 (02:55):
Beer bear non alcoholic palel. Do you have you tried that?
I've got it sitting here.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
I don't want it. I taste it, but you don't like?
Pale ale No, no, but I just don't like. I
don't like. I shouldn't have I should never.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
Have said, you've opened up a can of worms.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
Here, can of pale ale is what have opened up?

Speaker 4 (03:16):
So the Georgia lines question, Katie, I was just wondering
this and the attitude of business now you I know,
Jason's just come in here, the boss of the company,
and you've been on the phone to him, and he's
been on the phone to you this morning, he texted me.

Speaker 5 (03:27):
And as usual, Jason and I aren sync in mutual
agreement with each other.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
Conspiratorial nonsense, our.

Speaker 5 (03:34):
Main caregiving role of you. Jason and I like co
parents of you, and we of course are always in
sync in agreement. And I of course gave you a
bollocking yesterday about trying to be more positive and trying
to speak less all of this country because you have
a massive influence and you need to raise the bar
of it. And Jason couldn't agree more so. So I

(03:54):
was really pleased to hear that the two people who
try to fuel the mic husking in are in sync.

Speaker 4 (04:01):
What do I do because I'm between you answer me this,
tim I'm between a rock and a hard place. I
got to call it like it is, and there are
some things to call that up particularly pleasant at the moment,
but equally you want this country to do better. So
I walked this fine line, don't I Because you don't
want to end up a cheerleader for the sake of
being a cheerleader. Equally, you don't want to be a
misery gus for this restart.

Speaker 5 (04:20):
That's not yelling at the government all the time.

Speaker 3 (04:25):
And it wasn't to be fair, to be fair and
wrap the week this morning at round seven twenty, I
was actually like, I was impressed by that because it
was positive, positive, positive positive?

Speaker 4 (04:37):
Can I come clean on that? That was the way
that because it was written right after the bollocking from
the missus, and I say so, it's straight to the study,
And I felt got to tidy myself up.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
And you'd have fense, this is good. It's a sign
of a functional marriage, is it?

Speaker 1 (04:51):
And you would defense.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
I feel like that the bollocking was slightly unjustified because
this happened yesterday on the show.

Speaker 1 (04:58):
I don't know why I did that.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
That's pretty positive. That doesn't sound positive to me.

Speaker 1 (05:08):
It sounds like I'm in pain.

Speaker 4 (05:11):
Are you aware, Kadie of Tim's injury, Not of Tim's injury,
of Sam's injury.

Speaker 1 (05:16):
No, right.

Speaker 4 (05:17):
So Sam's injured himself and I just want to get
your advice because you're good at the etiquette thing. So
Sam unfortunately has done a league injury and it's possible
worst scenario is going to have surgery and that the
more likely, the more likely scenario is going to be
in a leg brace. Problem with the leg brace is
that he can't wear his type pants. You know, the

(05:39):
type pants he wears.

Speaker 5 (05:43):
You're so mean to Sam?

Speaker 2 (05:45):
What's he done?

Speaker 3 (05:45):
And he want but I bet I bet you send
him out for a coffee and you tripped him up
on the way out.

Speaker 2 (05:50):
Just what's happened?

Speaker 4 (05:51):
No, it wasn't after coffee at the moment, but he
injured himself at the gym. Now the type what his
concern is because the leg brace and you can't wear
his type pants, He's going to have to wear his
lul Lemon yoga shorts. And he was in all seriousness
going to talk to management to see whether wearing is
Lulu Lemon yoga shorts was acceptable clothing in the office?

Speaker 1 (06:13):
Is it not? Well, what do you do with the
league brace?

Speaker 5 (06:16):
Seen, I've seen the dress code in that office and
I pretty much in his dressing gown and it would
be fine.

Speaker 2 (06:24):
That's exactly what in sans case, we're going to need
to be sunglasses or something.

Speaker 1 (06:32):
Big, bright white.

Speaker 2 (06:33):
Yeah. I think that's a visual sort of hasard, isn't
it exactly?

Speaker 4 (06:36):
But we wish it. We wish him the best with
the injury. By the way, just quickly on the positivity. Greg,
who's my hairdresser. He's come up with an excellent idea.
He is going to in a salon, he's going to
take photos of the customers, right, and he's got an
electronic display in his window, so a whole lot of
sort of photo boxes in his window.

Speaker 1 (06:58):
Right.

Speaker 4 (06:58):
And so this is the sis, the serious we're trying
to get. We're trying to get the country right to
don't burst out laughing with the bright idea.

Speaker 5 (07:04):
I don't understand. This sounds like a Chinese food restaurant
where they put the laminated pictures of the meal. Why
it doesn't entice anybody.

Speaker 2 (07:14):
Just how Greg cuts it. Here's here's the thing. Can
we go? But can we go? So you know how?

Speaker 3 (07:19):
You know how Taylor says that Travis is an exclamation mark, right,
This is a punctuation.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
Travis is an exclamation mark. Mike, you're a colon in
both senses of the word, in.

Speaker 3 (07:30):
That you you pause, you leave, you know, you let
people say tell, say what they need to say, but
then you process it and sometimes it's a bit smelly.

Speaker 1 (07:39):
Is that what it is?

Speaker 2 (07:40):
Well?

Speaker 4 (07:40):
No, it's photo boxes, right, think of a photo box.
You know what a photo box is?

Speaker 5 (07:44):
But this before and after? Or is it just not?

Speaker 2 (07:47):
Like?

Speaker 4 (07:49):
Are you going to go on the photo on the street?
So what you're doing is you're walking past us sell
on and you're looking in the windows at the photo
boxes and then the photo boxes lit up? Are people
happy and joyous and loving life?

Speaker 1 (08:02):
And therefore you feel good about it?

Speaker 3 (08:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (08:05):
We are you going to be one of those people?

Speaker 4 (08:06):
And well we didn't get to that part because I
charged quite a lot for that sort of thing, so
you need So maybe I'm maybe or not?

Speaker 1 (08:13):
But I thought that's you said? You said.

Speaker 4 (08:15):
What he was saying is that the whole malaise that
we face is about attitude and until you turn the
attitude around, we're going nowhere fast. So I thought, now
that is a good idea?

Speaker 1 (08:25):
Is that a good idea? Is that a good idea?

Speaker 5 (08:27):
And good thinking of it too? Hey, by the way,
speaking to me, you say, did you get any come
back your interview with Erek Stamford about immigration this week
where you talked about businesses and visas and you said,
are they just more bubble tea shops coming in? And
thankfully she said no. But then you went on to say,
because there's too many of them in the bubble te shops.
We all know our front for money laundering.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
And I fell over when you.

Speaker 5 (08:46):
Said it because you just sat at home. But I
couldn't believe he said it loud on it you didn
he come back on that.

Speaker 3 (08:53):
Here's here's here's my problem, mate, John, your mate, John's
already all.

Speaker 2 (08:57):
Over that, isn't he?

Speaker 1 (08:58):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (08:59):
But my problem is sometimes I don't know whether I'm
on air or at home, and so the things are
blurring these days. But but that's I mean, there's a
lot of bubble tea, isn't there? And we all know
that bubble tea is money laundering exercise, don't we?

Speaker 2 (09:12):
No, we don't don't. What's your evidence?

Speaker 4 (09:14):
Well, I didn't want to pick Erica up because Erica, Erica,
who had to be fair, had a shot look.

Speaker 1 (09:19):
On her face.

Speaker 4 (09:21):
She said, there's nothing wrong with bubble Tea, And of
course that's not true, but I didn't have time to
pick her up on that and say, no, bubbles wrong.

Speaker 3 (09:30):
We just can we be? Can we stop being what
we're against and be what we for?

Speaker 2 (09:34):
All right? You're against bubble tea? What are you for?

Speaker 4 (09:36):
I'm for high alcohol beer. I'm not for the zero crap,
I'm for high alcohol beer. I'm not for bubble tea,
and I'm for having a good time and bugger at all.
There you go, by the way, just quickly, Jason went
to a community meeting last night. Jason the Boss went

(09:57):
to a community meeting last night.

Speaker 5 (09:58):
Did he about the under housing?

Speaker 1 (10:00):
About the housing? Nimbi plastic nimber?

Speaker 4 (10:03):
He's he's here this morning denying he's a nimby, but
but he's got the unitary plan and the fifteen story
one is going right next door to his house, and
he's freaking out.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
He should be deeply concerned about. That's what aout. Didn't
you didn't you twist his arm to buy that house?

Speaker 1 (10:16):
I did?

Speaker 4 (10:17):
And he's more to the eyeballs. He's morstured the eyeballs.
And I trolled him this week and I said, mate,
before you know it, there's going to be a bubble
tee shop right next door. In fifteen stories, that's harsh
and he hasn't exactly turning turning reshape around my attitude.

Speaker 1 (10:33):
Nice to see you, guys. You have a good weekend,
Kit and Tim.

Speaker 2 (10:35):
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Speaker 3 (10:39):
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