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July 28, 2024 13 mins

THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Monday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) Take a Deep Breath, Hosk/Coster Maybe Too Decent/Warrirors Mistimed/Olympic Anxiety/Sorry, Guy

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
Rewrap, Okay there and welcome to the Rewrap for Monday,
all the best bits from the Mic Hosking breakfast on Newsbalks.
The'd be in a sillier package. I am Van Heart.
Today we sort of farewell Andrew Costa. I suppose he's
not quite finished. But on the way out. They're not
coming back the Warriors. It's going to be the year

(00:46):
again because somehow they won and the Olympic prospects not
looking great at the moment. It's the cause for alarm,
but before any event, plenty of cause for alarm out
of the Green Party lately. We had Chloe Swaarbrick on
this morning and she just made Mike mad.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
You'll show your choice, Mike, YEA. I tend to think then, actually,
oh I get a little more dictatorial than my view
of them at your show your Choice. I think that'll
be my argument when somebody raises it. Do you really
think it's good to ben Chloe? Mike, I go No,
my show my Choice. The Green Party just needs to
go back to grassroots advocating for the environment. I've said
that for years, but they're not going to Mike. When

(01:23):
you discuss Tana, keep reiterating how much he's cost the Textbak,
Why would I do that? I mean, you and I
understand that, but do you think you think the greens
are remotely bothered by any of that? For goodness sake,
It's just look, I had just the most delightful weekend
and a whole lot of sort of esoteric slash profound
conversations we had at my house about a variety of matters.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
Did you get a case of something good?

Speaker 3 (01:48):
Nope? No, No, never drunk less of life, by the way, Glen,
that could have something to do with it. Actually, anyway,
where was I? Yes, conversations at our house and about
the future of life and times and all that sort
of stuff. And I bounced in here today feeling full
of the joys of life, had a fabulous sleep. I'm
living the dream. Everything going my way. I've never been

(02:10):
happier with my circumstances. I texted my wife as such
this morning as I left the house in my daily
I love you text. Anyway, on comes Chloe, and just
a big cloud of why do I need to deal
with this crap comes across me and I'm thinking, why
do I need to deal with this crap? I mean,
what's the point? Life is surely life as she just wanted.

(02:31):
I mean, God bless her, I've got nothing against her,
but she just comes on and speaks gobbledygook and nonsense
and you're listening to it and going what's this mean?
And I'm listening to it, going what's this mean? And
it's my show, my choice shake it off or I
can shake it off.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
No. I went to Ballei on holiday a few weeks
ago and I got a little couple of little bracelets,
the string bracelets, colored string. I know if you've been
to Indonesia and they do this thing where they tie
colored string bracelets on your rest. And I've still got them.
I'm still wearing them, have actually surprisingly well. And also

(03:09):
they're knotted on and so that you know, the only
way I can get them off to cut them off,
which yeah, I have just haven't got round to, I
guess anyway. But I quite like wearing them because every
time I start thinking that anything that I do is
of any importance whatsoever, I look down on the bracelets
and I think, how relaxed and not weighed down by

(03:31):
the warries of the world. I was when I was
on holiday and Bali it really helps. I think maybe
I should get Mike some string bracelets. When he has
to deal with people like Chloe Swarburnt we wrap, He's
not gonna have to deal with people like Andrew Costa
for much longer. Well, not Andrew Costa specifically, because he's
decided he's not coming around for another go as police commissioner.

Speaker 3 (03:50):
Nicely time day. So how these things work? You seen
out on the message on a Friday, and hope the
wider world doesn't notice. Andrew Costa, probably the most talked
about police commissioner of not of all times, certainly of
recent times, will not serve a second term. Not many
will miss them. He seemed in our dealings, for what
it's worth, is pretty decent sort of bloke. But he
wasn't a bloke for the Times. Their heads up was

(04:12):
the fact he was a Jacinda, a durnpeck, and that
was always trouble. The last government's world view on all
sorts of things have turned out to be catastrophic, of
course for this country in crime is as bad as any.
The cost appointment was a reflection of the adun Kumbaya
approach to life, where bad buggers weren't really bad, just misunderstood,
and if you hug them long enough and sent them
home with a bracelet, they would eventually see the error

(04:33):
of their ways. It all turned a shite, of course,
and Coster seemed to embrace the approach, despite the fact
that these statistics were undeniable. As the country went to
rack and ruin, they kept insisting letting people out of
prison early, or deliberately lowering the prison muster, or allowing
judges to hand out god knows how big a discount
was all good stuff that would eventually prove its worth.
Costa must have had a hell of a job telling

(04:54):
his staff that this was all good news because I
tell you something but nothing His staff were telling us
it was hell and it wasn't working. By the end,
even Labour conceded it was a mess and a new
government with a new approach were going to make major change.
We expected part of that change to start at the top,
of course, but being the sort of a point that
it is, a minister I e. Mark Mitchell couldn't sack him,
so we had to wait on Friday we got to

(05:16):
see how that particular conversation had played out behind closed doors,
and the cost of years are about to come to
an end. As I say, A decent enough bloke. So
I don't want to be mean about it all, but
let's be honest. How long is the queue of those
who think he's been a success?

Speaker 2 (05:30):
Yeah? Was that the problem was he was a decent
enough bloke. He was just can you not be a
decent enough bloke and be in charge of putting Crims
away and getting tapped with Crimson? Maybe there's a to
a mutually exclusive I don't know, right, it's all sports
from here on out. The Warriors, Yep, yep, go goin

(05:52):
to the Warriors. And yet I feel like Mike was
trying to convince himself in this comment peace.

Speaker 3 (05:57):
Yeah, for listen, we shure to be able to start
the week in fact with the Warriors. Dissertation has been
far too long A good win, yes, I mean, yes
it was over the Tigers, but surely we've learned yet
again in this competition, and it's Titan that the worst
of teams, so the Titans can tip us up and
the best of teams, say the Panthers can be beaten,
so the traditional look at the ladder and work it
out from there doesn't apply. The best try was the

(06:19):
last try to Vas to check half the field pretty
much as a Lesney act. The rest of the field
flare and pace that keeps the crowd coming back in.
At twenty five thousand full house. Never ceases to amaze
me how much crowd you can get to a team
that at times, Let's be honest, this year's struggled a
bit anyway, Five games left, ten points. Is that enough
for the eight? Yes? Will we make it? I think so.

(06:40):
Lessons from Friday A one. You need to start well,
and we did fourteen a half time. This is a
world away from watching the other team pile points up
early and we've got to chase. Having said that, we
had a lot of ball, a lot of territory early
and not a lot of points to show for at
four after thirty minutes, Harris to Vita, Harris to vet her,
steady on, Harris to Vita, take it easy, Glenn, only

(07:01):
halfway through, for God's sake, turn yourself down. Harris to Vita.
Kicked a few, but only when they are in front.
Out wide, he was no good. See Pompey cannot be
a team's only kicker at the sharp end of the season.
Aside that leads four plus points unscored can be the difference,
of course between winning and losing. Also two, we learn
when the heavyweights are on fire as a Lesniak two

(07:22):
vasus check Blake, we're a better sight. So all in all,
we did what we needed to do. We kept the
season alive. It's not where we should be, no, I
get that, but there is still hope and points and prospect,
and as long as the mass balances out, we can
enter the next five weekends with genuine belief that this
has Brace yourself, glen, here we go, build up to it.
This is our year.

Speaker 2 (07:42):
You probably wonder what happened there the premature This is
our year? Too possible for scenarios. You decide which is
more plausible. I was just using it for comic effect
if you're in the middle of the comment piece, or
I was literally moving the keyboard to put it in
the right place and I bumped the mouse, which do

(08:02):
you think. Okay, we all know what happened. Let's move on,
and we're trying to move on. For some pretty average
results so far from the New Zealand Olympic team, you know,
no medals for us yet and failing to even make
the finals of some events too, that we thought we

(08:23):
were supposed to be doing a little bit better. But
you know, early days, right, Is it too.

Speaker 3 (08:28):
Early to suggest, let's be controversial, is it too early
to suggest that we look a bit ordinary at these
games that by the end of it we might, as
we used to do twen twenty thirty years ago, have
a conversation about how some of our athletes don't quite
perform at the moment they really need to perform. I mean,
a meddle table may well prove me wrong. But just

(08:49):
in these early days, things aren't looking that that all specious?

Speaker 2 (08:52):
Can we just also garner a little bit? I hope
that there were some quite good finishes and some rowing
heats in the middle of the night last night.

Speaker 3 (08:58):
Ye know, that's good. So later on the week we
might be having something and that's exciting. So it might
it might come right for us. But my initial concern
was that company, whoever they were, that had us at
fourteen medals, that alone was a problem. One of the
meddles was a gold from a team that plays rugby
that turns out not to have been that good, So
that middle's gone. So hints, my hints, my concern.

Speaker 2 (09:19):
Yeah, I said, here's a take to be overly critical
about these things, because you know, I'm certainly no successful sportsman.
I don't even know that I'm a successful technical director
whatever that is, and it's not my place to criticize
these people. What I'm critical of is when people, you know,

(09:45):
say that they're going to do such and such and
then that doesn't materialize, and then they say things like, yeah,
just this just wasn't my day out there today, and
I don't something's gone wrong. If you've trained for four
years or indeed your whole life to get to this
point and then you end up your main thing surely
has got to be to make sure that it is

(10:07):
your day. Hamish Carter in the Sydney Olympics, he just
didn't feel right or whatever it was that always annoyed me.
And the number of times when Beatrice Farmoina just sort
of thought, yeah, no, I just wasn't feeling it today
and then giggled the re wrap right, we're going to

(10:29):
finish up here. There's a sort of Olympics adjacent. We
couldn't get hold of Guy have Volt last week for
the Monday morning commentary box, and we had not been
alerted to the fact that he wasn't going to be
available because he was traveling to Paris. Turned out he
had alerded us, but the alert hadn't made it as
far as the producer.

Speaker 3 (10:50):
Regards Guy, and we do owe him an apology because
it was entirely our fault. It's hard to pinpoint down
there's a little bit i suspective systemic failure involved in
the inability to communicate with Guy. So we accused Guy
of leaving the country last week and not contacting us
or letting us know he wouldn't be available for the
commentary box. It was indeed our fault because the combination

(11:13):
of Sammy, who's just still learning the email system here
at work, and the email system which had installed he
claimed this is his story, had installed or found itself
with some sort of spam facility that took emails and
put them into the wrong folders, so nobody ever heard anything,
and when it was investigated, there was indeed something in
that system and there was a whole lot of backfilled

(11:34):
emails sitting there waiting to be delivered than one of them,
of course, or several of them were to guy who
had emailed and we had emailed.

Speaker 2 (11:41):
Head why I've been having to pretend to be all
the guests for the last time.

Speaker 3 (11:45):
Very very much an exhaust Your impersonations of them have
been good, and I don't think anyone's really picked up
on so far.

Speaker 2 (11:51):
Like I feel like, you know, when I was pretending
to be Chloe this morning, you were really exasperated.

Speaker 3 (11:56):
I was getting really wound up. By the time you
finished being her. I thought, that's good on you for anyway,
upshot was guy was clean and guilt free. We let
him down so that.

Speaker 2 (12:05):
That Sam should have just said, crowds right.

Speaker 3 (12:07):
Now, crowdstripe bound to me. My pool still affected by it,
by the way, my pool still we're still not back
properly one hundred percent because of CrowdStrike.

Speaker 2 (12:15):
So which then promptly the very frustrating conversation off hear
we were trying to get to the bottom and we aren't.
We just kept asking the question of Mike, what about
the pool is affected by crowd strike, and he was saying, well,
you know that the systems that you know get pushed
to the pool. You know, they're still not working because
of the cradle, and we're saying, yes, yes, yes, but

(12:36):
what's actually stopping you going swimming in the pool? Is
it not? Is the water not wet anymore? What's what's
going on there? And finally we got to the bottom
of it. That's it's. Yeah, it's not heating up properly.
The spar pool in particular is not hot. So that's
why you should not have your pool connected to the internets.

(13:00):
Controversial from a tech nerd like myself, but I'm just
putting that out there. I am Gillian. Thank you for
connecting to the internet so you can listen to this now,
quickly disconnect otherwise who knows what might happen, and then
reconnect with me tomorrow.

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