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January 20, 2025 • 14 mins

THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Tuesday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) Not a Good Way, But a Way/Canada Strikes Back/The Easy Way In a Pill/What To Do with Doo-Doo

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
Rerap.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
Okay, then and welcome to the rewrap for Tuesday. All
the best, but it's from the Mic Hosking Breakfast on
News doalg EDB in a silly air package starring at
Ryan Bridge. This week, I'm Glen Hart. That's all the
names out of the way. Let's talk about what's happening
in Canadian politics. I know, why are we talking about
that today? Well you'll find out shortly, o zmpic. I

(00:46):
think maybe Ryan Bridge isn't as much of a fan
of it as Mike Hosking seems to be. And then
nobody's a fan of dog poo. But what do you
do with your doodoo? And what should you do with
the do do? But before any of that, yes, it is, well,
it was inauguration day, inauguration evening as I record this, Trump, Eh,

(01:11):
he's on Trump and.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
So he's back. Trump is back in the White House.
It's official and behind the pomp and ceremony are lessons
for politicians on the left here and around the world.
Labeling your opponent a racist, a Nazi, an extremist, homophobe, sexist,
anti trans, a threat to democracy, a tyrant, remember that one.
A sexist. Well, they won't win you an election. Biden

(01:33):
and then Harris through the kitchen sink of threats about
Trump to the public. None of it stuck. The Obamas,
the Pelosis, the Clintons of the American political world did
their best to paint Trump as a dystopian dictator hell
bent on crucifying immigrants and minorities. And what happened? They lost.
He won a clean sweep of the battlegrounds, the House,

(01:55):
the Senate, the Electoral College, the popular vote half of
Latino voters, the highest ever for a Republican. His election
was a cause run against the backdrop of a tough
economic conditions, inflation hitting punters hard, plus o'biden was well,
literally stumbling to the finish line, struggling to walk and talk.
But the fact remains that voters picked the guy who'd

(02:15):
been labeled all of these awful things because they trusted
him on the economy. And so what's the lesson here?
For Chippy? It doesn't matter how many times you call
Seymour and or Luxeon a racist, It won't get you
back on the Treasury benches. Labour and its allies are
gearing up for a fresh on sort of attacks on
race as the Treaty bill goes to Select Committee. But

(02:35):
here's the thing most Kiwis won't be listening to that.
Just look at the polls they had the ipsos one
out last year number one issue inflation two, health three,
economy four, crime, housing, poverty, race relations fifteenth. Those on
the left would do better and we would all benefit
from if they had stopped the name calling start coming

(02:57):
up with some serious, credible, alternative economic plans to get
this country firing again. Labour was supposed to be the
party for the workers. They've let Provincial New Zealand down
badly with economic mismanagement and energy policies that may have
suited a speech at Unger in New York, but certainly
not the good people of Upehu. And that's the lesson

(03:17):
that Trump is giving the left today. The recipe used
over the past decade of performative politics, even identity politics
and virtue signaling and demonizing your opponents, it no longer
works on the very people who matter most, the voters.

Speaker 3 (03:33):
Yeah, So I mean this is the depressing reality is
it that, you know, be like Trump and you might
have a chance of winning.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
Awesome, it's the rewrap.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
So there was a lot to talk about with the
inauguration today, the fact that it was inside for the
first time since Reagan's times. There's an indoor parade going
on at some point. I don't quite know how that works.
And then there was this Milania. I told you earlier
that I'll tell you what Mlaney was wearing.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
She's wearing. How do you even describe the hat that
she's wearing. It's if you know Carmen san Diego, It's
a in San Diego hat. It's it's dark, it's got
a white band across the top of it, racy, sort
of detective style. Yes, almost like it looks almost like
a country western hat, but more for doery than that, Yeah, a.

Speaker 3 (04:23):
Bit more for very sharp brim. And I was wondering,
I was feared at one stage. I was wondering if
he was actually making another attempt on Donald Trump's life
when he bent to kiss her and he literally hit
his head against the brim of the hat and couldn't
get anywhere near.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
Maybe it is a form of isolation that she, you know,
I think it was that the only reasons she's worn
it so she doesn't get anywhere near her face. Well,
not just him, but Biden, Jill. You know you don't
want any wearing it very low.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
It seems to be too big for her. It comes
down right over and you can't see her eyes. I
don't even know that it's Herbaut Glenn, that's fashion. You
wouldn't understand that.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
Look at you quite a good.

Speaker 3 (05:00):
Quite a good drive by from Ryan there and just
a five I am a shamble. But yeah, if you
wear a hat, and she wore it the whole time,
she's still wearing it now as far as I can
see hours later. That obscures most of your face. It
doesn't help with these rumors that keep propping up from

(05:22):
time to time that she's not actually the real Millennia
and there's a body double and all that stuff, you
know that's been around for a while. And yeah, like
she could have she literally could have been a member
of the Secret Service and we wouldn't have known.

Speaker 1 (05:37):
Right.

Speaker 3 (05:37):
So of course Trump wants to make Canada the fifty
first state. So is their next prime minister going to
have any of that?

Speaker 2 (05:46):
Christia Freeland, she's the one who not knifed Justin today
but certainly gave him the nudge to get the hell
out of Dodge. And she is now wanting to be
the next Prime minister of Canada, and she has taken
today's opportunity while Trump is getting inaugurated in the United States,
to launch her campaign. So she's trying to piggyback off

(06:08):
the back of his you know, media attention, I guess,
and try and get herself elected. She's making the case
saying that this is for the Liberals in Canada and
for Canada more generally, to the voting public, saying Trump
is an existential threat to Canada. She's pleedging dollar for
dollar retaliation against any terrorists that he might impose on Canada.

(06:30):
Good luck. And the thing is she's on hiding to nothing,
not to do with Trump, but she's just on hiding
to nothing more generally because the Poles hate the Liberals
after Justin Trudeau's nine years in power. So good luck
to you, Freeland.

Speaker 3 (06:44):
Do they have states or are they states or terror
tories in Canada? Ottawa is that one of them? Saskatchewan
is that another one? Whatever they are, we need to
count them.

Speaker 2 (07:02):
So it's like, I don't know if there's.

Speaker 3 (07:03):
Three or five or whatever. And then and then she
needs to come out and say, and I planned to
mate the United States the sixth one on it will help.
That whole joke would have worked a lot better, Folk
and I. And the really funny thing is I got
sam My producer to look up how many territories or
states or whatever they are earlier on and I've literally

(07:25):
completely forgotten what he said. I know it wasn't very many.
So they could do us some more, and they should
make America one. That's That's all I was trying to
get across there.

Speaker 2 (07:34):
The Rewrapp.

Speaker 3 (07:35):
Now, Mike Hosking, the regular host of the Breakfast show
here at Newstooks, is the he seem We've been a
big fan of the weight loss drug industry, you know,
the zempic and the I can't actually remember what any
of the other ones are called, but you know these ones,
these wonder pills that help people to shard kilos. It
sounds like Ryan, perhaps not so much.

Speaker 2 (07:57):
Another ozempic story out this morning. Now, that's the fat
to skinny drug that the Real Housewives are taking in
Beverly Hills. And you know, they get the skinny ozempic face. Anyway,
we just love a quick salon to all of our problems.
Don't wear. And there's new research out this morning that's
basically saying they've looked at two million people. It is
the wonder drug that it says it is. It does
what it says on the label. It will help people

(08:20):
shed loads of weight and the net benefit is basically
worth it. Have you ever wondered how we got so fat?
We are massive, and I'm not just talking about New Zealand.
I'm talking about most of the Western world. We are
bulging at the seams. If you've been to the mall
lately you would have seen this. Everywhere. We're buying five
xled jeans and tense sized T shirts. We're a funny

(08:43):
little species, aren't we. We get rid of poverty and
we start gorging ourselves to death. Literally, for the first
time in modern history, life expectancy in the developed world
is going backwards. Now. There are some people with medical conditions,
they've got thyroid issues, taking certain medications who can't help
their weight. But for the vast majority of us who've

(09:03):
ballooned in size over the past forty odd years, what
is the excuse exactly? It's not evil fast food giants.
It's self control. We're through self control in the bin.
We banished it as a concept, We blamed everybody but ourselves.
And now instead of relearning that long forgotten art, we
have a magic injection. While ah, a zempac will solve

(09:26):
all of our problems, and maybe given this starter out today,
it actually will. Everyone wants a quick fix. Everything has
to happen. Now. You've got your uber eats coming in
five minutes. Where is it? The world is a click away?
You've got instant gratification at the skull of a thumb.
Is everything so easy in life? And should it be?
If how will we learn? How will we evolve? How

(09:49):
will we advance as a species? If it is, I
suppose you could argue the fact that we've created such
a revolutionary weight loss druggers proof we are advancing, but
creating a drug to fix an obesity problem that we
also created hardly seems advanced. And in the long run,
the quick, easy solution isn't always the best one. Is that?

Speaker 3 (10:10):
Ah? He's right? You know, I feel like he's talking
directly to me. I haven't taken any weight loss drugs.
But I'm taking drugs to try and get my cholesterol
down and lam my blood pressure, when probably what I
should be doing is exercising and eating better, and I've
considered doing man. The second thing that the rewrap. One

(10:31):
thing I do do is walk the dog because he
needs walking every day.

Speaker 2 (10:38):
In Auckland, the dog owners are facing restrictions. You might
have seen this in the news. And I'm a dog owner.
I've got a beagle, she's four now, and you know,
eats everything, craps everywhere, but we always pick that crap
up off the sidewalk because that's a good thing to do,
right And apparently this is the problem and a people

(10:59):
aren't doing that. People aren't taking their little bags out
with them and scooping up the poop. So the council
is now recommending that in fourteen regional park out of
sixty and sixty four local parks, they will become completely
dog free because they can't the owners can't be trusted
to pick up their dogs doodoos, and they're either letting
them crap everywhere or they're letting them off the lead

(11:21):
and they're going berserk. So this is what they're going
to do. There's a somebody on my street across the
road is leading their dog, and I'm assuming the dog
must be off the lead, because how else wouldn't you
know your dog was doing. And they're giant ones like
it's a Rhodesian ridgeback or Dane or something great Dane, Leonberger,

(11:42):
a Newfoundland something like that. Gleno no, no, no, chow chow.
What is the the big light? The lion main one, Yes,
something like that is going down my street and is
shitting everywhere. And if the owner must, the owner either
has it off the lead, which is irresponsible on a road,

(12:05):
or they know that they're just letting their dog crap
all over the street. And it's every day and people
are walking through. You can see the footprints on the
street and on the footpath, on the footpath, not on
the like on the boom. No, there's no boom, there's
straight from road.

Speaker 3 (12:20):
And maybe they've said, hey, great Dane, Brutus, what are
your nahors? Can't you just hold it until we get
to a street where there's a boom and Brutus is gone.

Speaker 2 (12:33):
Pick it up? You know what I mean, child's you know,
crapping on the street. You pick it up.

Speaker 3 (12:40):
Have you considered that it might be of a personal
vendetta against you. Well, somebody's doing it deliberately to you.

Speaker 2 (12:46):
No, I hadn't thought about that. Thinking about it now
I am, But why would you do it on the
other side of the road. See that makes no sense.
But anyway, people are standing. It's disgusting. People are standing
in it because you can see the footprints.

Speaker 3 (12:57):
There's nothing worse than the shame of being called out.
Like you know, I've been in the situation where you
know the dog is off the lead, you know, on
the beach, but it's behind you, and you haven't just
sort of noticed.

Speaker 2 (13:08):
Oh it's just a little dumb and somebody has has.

Speaker 3 (13:10):
Come up to you said, do you know that your
dog's just and yeah.

Speaker 2 (13:14):
Boy, a little mystery one that you didn't know about
sneaking one behind dad's back. Anyway, just go and pick
up your poop. I mean, it's quite simple. You fush
yours down the toilet, you pick your dogs up off
the footpath, very easy. And because of you, whoever you are,
mystery Charlie gone and ruin it for everyone. Have ruined

(13:34):
it for everybody else. And now we can't take our
dogs off leash to all these parks, so thank you
very much for that.

Speaker 3 (13:39):
Do you feel like somebody in the Auckland Council has
got some kind of personal vendetta against dogs and dog
owners because we had them taking away all the rubbish bins, remember,
so there was no where to put the doodoo when
you did pick it up, and now this.

Speaker 2 (14:00):
Is here.

Speaker 3 (14:00):
Somebody's got a grudge, A sort of a once bitten
twice making a policy about a situation. I am clean
hat dog oder. I wouldn't care, obviously if I didn't
own a dog, but I do, so I care. I'll
see you back here again with the more things that

(14:21):
I either care about or don't at all tomorrow.

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