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March 6, 2025 • 13 mins

THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Thursday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) Who's Left?/It's Hard To Not Say What You Really Want To/Mark the Week/Primary Cause of Deforestation Discovered

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
Rep there and welcome to the rewrap for Friday. All
of this, but it's from the mic asking breakfast on
news doorg ZB in a sillier package, I am Glenn
Zivvy and this morning, Yeah, resigre nation week continues. They're really,
you know, for strive to get everybody to resign as
going well with Greg four and the most recent one

(00:47):
for rank GoF didn't really resigning. It's been sacked. We'll
mark the week because that's what we do on Fridays
if we haven't resigned before we get to it. And
Mike has been trawling the BBC website. But before any
of that, let's talk about Greek foran. Was he any good?
How will we be remembered? Well?

Speaker 3 (01:05):
Well, well, what a week for walking away? I feel
GoF wasn't that voluntary, of course, but what a stupid
thing to say given the times in which we live.
And as a high commissioner, your job is not to
waxle a ricle on history. When you're representing your country,
thinly veiled or not. We can get a vastly better
representative in London. Obviously, Adrian Or had many people breathing
a sigh of relief, although to be honest, the real
damage has been done. But now Greg foran. Greg is

(01:28):
a nice guy who I've always wondered whether he really
settled into the airline and whether more of what the
job was about was moving back from Americas in New Zealand,
and the job just happened to dubtail with a lifestyle move.
If I can be blunt, I don't really believe what
was published yesterday by way of a reason it had.
The job is done, we are set to go. Viabe
about it in New Zealand is far from set to go.

(01:49):
It's a mess. Its reputation is deeply damaged. It's part
of a wider tourism industry that's far from where it
should be. Greg leaving has an all like I'm over
at life is short. I'm sick of no engines, old planes,
cancelations masquerading as engineering issues, and a general budget airline
VIAE being left behind by proper operators like Singapore Guitar
and Emirates. It isn't his or anyone's fault. The engine

(02:10):
issue is a scandal beyond their making in control and
the supply of new planes is an issue everywhere for everyone,
but they're on board. Referve for example, as late to
the party, and to be honest, even when it does
arrive as already behind the big hitters, they seem to
forget to fly to London. I have a choice. A
near New Zealand dollar for a dollar is not a
flash or obvious choice, so they make up for it
with New zealandness, pr airpoints, patriotism, but that only goes

(02:33):
so far. And we all know a decent chunk of
the business is domestic, and that's a smash revenue wise
because the competition is barely perceptible. So no, the airline
is not in great shape. It is at best okay,
And no, this doesn't look like a job completed in
any way, shape or form. And launching their new wine
this week is not going to sell another seat. If
they flew like they did spin, we'd be getting somewhere.

(02:54):
I wish Greg well because I've enjoyed dealing with them,
But boy, talk about a week of job tune. Would
the last one out get the light switch?

Speaker 2 (03:01):
Yeah? Is this like you know they used to have
moving day in some places around the world where everybody
had to move house for something. I can't remember exactly why,
but so we all have to resign and then perhaps
swap jobs. Is that what's going on? We wrap or
in Phil Gof's case, if you say something stupid, Peter

(03:22):
aspires you, whether he's actually allowed to or not.

Speaker 3 (03:25):
In morning, Mike Goff should have known better. If he'd
said something similar about the Chinese or the Russian president,
he'd still need to be So of course, that's what
Peter said yesterday. He said if he'd said something about
Sama the same way, he would have been gone. And
I take it as true and honest that what you
look up Peter's and what he said, he looked genuinely crestfalling.
He looked like this has ruined my Thursday. I shouldn't

(03:47):
needed to have done this. Phil's a decent bloke. I
think everybody likes Phil. I mean I like Phil. Phil
and I have clashed over the years. When I last
saw him in London, we joked about it, but you know,
he's a likable guy. He's just made a career ending mistake.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
Do you we reckon? It? Really did ruin Winston's Thursday
because he's got to make that awesome joke about.

Speaker 3 (04:04):
Last I got to make though that came after he
sort of picked himself up with it. It's ruined my Thursday.
But now, oh actually that's yeah, no fair boy. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
I think if you can, if you can get a
laugh out of it, that was probably worth doing.

Speaker 3 (04:17):
Rewrap.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
I'm not sure how much of a laugh Got's a
little remark about Trump's grasp on history got though.

Speaker 3 (04:22):
Unfortunately, I wanted to make Luxon. They went to Luxeon
yesterday and they made as usual, the media made far
too much of this, and Luxon made a very good point.
I thought, so Peter's act decisively, you could immediately draw
the conclusion hang on, how come he could act so
decisively and Luxon didn't on Bailey. But what Luckson said
was what Luckson was trying so unsuccessfully to say about
a week and a half ago on this program, is

(04:43):
I empower my ministers to do their job. They get
what they can and can't do, they know what they're doing.
I give them the power to do that. And that's
what Peters did. Peters probably didn't need to go I
made him prime minister. But that's Winston second point. I'll
ask you the question. Boss comes in. He's ruined my day.

(05:03):
Basically I was having a good time, but he came
and he goes just the correction. First thing he in
the office, just a correction. He said, he's almost certain,
ninety nine percent sure. I apparently said Chathamhouse rules. Apparently
it's Chathamhouse rule, and that's I said. That's the sort
of pedantic nonsense. I said, go listen to Radio New Zealand.

(05:25):
That's the sort of pedantic rubbish that they come up with.

Speaker 2 (05:27):
Yeah. My problem is every time I try to be pedantic,
not predanic, pedantic about things, I'm quite often wrong. Like
for a big part of my life, I try to
pull people up on saying a myriad of things and
correcting them by saying that things are myriad. You can't

(05:51):
have a myriad of things because it's not a noun.
And then it turned out that people just say that
so often now that apparently all the dictionaries say that
that's okay.

Speaker 1 (06:04):
So I.

Speaker 2 (06:06):
Turns out I'm an idiot and perhaps I should go
went for National Radio Press. That's what I'll do if
I resign the rerap really see me fitting in there
to be perfectly honest. Do they have a mark the
week there? Maybe we could do a mark the week
if I went there.

Speaker 3 (06:18):
Time out to marke the week. Little piece of news
and current events that's as popular as a marmite sandwich
was in the days before school lunch go nuts in
Zied seven. Now I should have paused Mat that was
singing airlines in Zied seven. It's not a flight Michael
in Zied seven. All boarding for in Zied seven. In
z seven right, quite a bit of good news this

(06:39):
week from the government accounts which are better than we thought.
And I outlined those earlier house prices which are up,
red meat exports absolutely booming. All good news. Welcome Ryan
Peak seven redemption story to inspire at the Golf Open
if you missed it, a Key Starmer eight, I do
not accept that the US is an unreliable ally now
before the Zelenski mountdown this time last week, In fact,

(07:00):
it was on Friday morning Keystarmer was displaying in Washington
a masterclass in diplomacy and high wire walking, an act
he has successfully care on with back in Britain all week.
As far as I can tell, School lunch is two
in a rules of seismic movement of global upheaval. Good
old New Zealand still had plenty of time for that crap.
Health seven A very good week of announcements, more doctors,

(07:23):
more nurses, more access to GPS and scripts using tech.
Who would have thought, Hey, Gaza Riviera two point h
four one. The Americans have rejected it until it avoids
the role of her mass, which leaves Trump's plan. And
you want to buy the places the way it is
Trump sex.

Speaker 1 (07:37):
You don't have the cards right now.

Speaker 3 (07:39):
From his point of view, a good week. He had
Ukraine by the Uno wats, He had a couple of
hours of Trump love and the Congress, and he messed
with everybody with tariffs. Tariff's too about as idiotic as
economic policy gets. Buffett calls them an act of war.
Buffett has a track record of knowing what he's actually
talking about. The warriors won. What a waste of a game,

(08:00):
of a pre season, of a launch of a flight
of my time should prebble Eight Hero of the Week
quitting on principle, and the reality is that to run
away train that the government actually needs to do something about.
Adrian or seven yeah, that's a statement because he's put

(08:22):
us out of our misery. Takes quite a skill to
get that disliked by so many people. And that is
the week companies on the website, and we received, by
the way, this week our updated five star health rating
from the Ministry of Primary Industry showing for yet another year,
marking the week is the complete balanced diet.

Speaker 2 (08:35):
So it's just worked that through. Does he mean that
you that you eat it? Because you know, a diet
isn't things that you just hear? Is it?

Speaker 1 (08:48):
It's a rewrap?

Speaker 2 (08:49):
I mean you can eat mark for week because he
does print it out. He prints it out, then he
highlights the spaces where he wants sound effects with pink highlighter,
and then he gives it to me. So if I
wanted to, I could indeed eat it. And it's not
the only thing that he prints out.

Speaker 3 (09:05):
It came to this very link, and this is what
got up Man so much because it was ten or
eleven pages long, five years on the countries that never
locked down for COVID nineteen. I thought, now there is
an interesting article I'm going to get into this ten
pages long and in small writing as well. So they
looked at these various countries that didn't lockdown versus the

(09:26):
countries that did lockdown, and I thought, I wonder if
we've got to any sort of conclusion now. They start
early on with Sweden broadly speaking. Sweden, of course, as
you remember, didn't lockdown at all. Broadly speaking, overall, they
are no worse off than countries that did lockdown, is
the conclusion. So all that debate that we had at
the time about you know, they let people essentially in Sweden,

(09:46):
they let you do your own thing. Yes, they said,
don't go out and go crazy. Yes we'll protect some
of the elderly or the vulnerable people, but broadly speaking,
you can go about your business. So that was fine.
I thought, this is an interesting article. But by about
page six or seven, they come, of course to New Zealand,
and I'm thinking, here we go, so New Zealand and
they're also comparing us to Iceland. They talk to a

(10:09):
person called Lear Kraut, a research data analyst specializing in
public health in Southern California University of Health Sciences, who
goes New Zealand had one of the lowest mortality rates
globally with their approach. Now that's a widely argued point
of view from people who back the way that New
Zealand conducted themselves with COVID. New Zealand had one of

(10:30):
the lowest mortality rates globally with their approach. Iceland also
fared pretty well. Plus, plus the economic impacts on both
countries were limited. So immediately I'm up at page eight, nine, ten,
and I've just thrown that in the bin. And I'm thinking,
so the BBC's blown all credibility. Whoever Lee grouters doesn't

(10:53):
have the slightest understanding of New Zealand. And yet this
ten page report of some weight from an organization of
some reputation will go out to the world and people
will read that and they will believe it, and it
simply isn't true.

Speaker 2 (11:08):
Well technically it is.

Speaker 3 (11:10):
No, it's not.

Speaker 2 (11:11):
The impact was limited to carnage, yeah, but it wasn't infinite.

Speaker 3 (11:17):
And what and what happened to what happened to the
bloke who ran it all?

Speaker 1 (11:20):
Hi?

Speaker 3 (11:21):
A bit more importantly, big said and ran away?

Speaker 2 (11:23):
More importantly, So did you when you were reading this
on the BBC website did the ten page thing? Did
you print all those pages.

Speaker 3 (11:32):
Off print so I could sit here this morning and
not waste my time having read a thing that I
couldn't talk about.

Speaker 2 (11:36):
But when you read it originally, no, I read it
with the paper, so you you pread it, not knowing
that you were going to get to.

Speaker 3 (11:43):
I printed out, not knowing what's going to conclude that.
That's how ironically so it was.

Speaker 2 (11:47):
It was a literal page turner.

Speaker 3 (11:48):
It was very good. It took you while to get there,
but well done.

Speaker 2 (11:52):
So, as I say, a license to tell dare jokes,
we've got two licenses. He yeah, he's a big printer out.
I didn't realize that he was doing it at home
as well. I mean, I know he had a printer
at home that worked paid for. But so and this
probably all stems back to the fact that he can't

(12:14):
see and he keeps pushing the monitor further and further
and further away from him so he can read it
because he just will not go and get his eyes tested,
because I think he knows what will happen if he does,
and so he prints out. So he printed out the
ten page thing, which he then admitted that he only

(12:35):
got up to that the heart and then threw the
rest away or something or didn't bother reading the rest,
he is siglementedly responsible for the majority of the forestation
in the world. I'm sure of it. I'm Glen Heart.
This is not on paper, it's strictly digital. Make that

(12:57):
quite clear. And we're back with another episode on Monday.
I'll see then. That's if I haven't.

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