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Speaker 1 (00:09):
You're listening to a podcast from News Talk said B.
Follow this and our wide range of podcasts now on iHeartRadio, Rewrap.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
The Welcome to the Rerap for Friday, All the best
buts from the Mike Husking Breakfast on news Doorg, sid
B and Acilia Package. I am Glen Harten. Today we
will mark the week because it is Friday. That's what
we do. It was the Radio Awards last night. I'm
sure you're interested. The switch to came out this week
and excitement has reached fever patch and we're going to
(00:47):
have on another moan about the speed limit. But before
any of that, some books you should definitely not read.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
I've struggled with a couple of authors this week, with
Jacinda Radn and Jake Tapper. What I struggle with is
one of them is making money out of the fact
they made an astonishing hash of their job, quit and
bailed out of the country, and are now collecting the
dough for retelling what happened in a way that would
suggest no carnage was left behind. The other is making
money by exposing what he watched unfold in front of
his eyes for four years and really did nothing about.
(01:17):
I'm not sure who the bigger fraud is. The Adern
book is widely traversed and has been marketed very well internationally.
Cadie showed me a snippet from Oprah this week on
social media, Let's be frank, postweight watches and a zempic,
not exactly reputationally untouched herself, whose fascination with Adern appears
to be around kindness. I bet you anything you want.
Oprah doesn't have the slightest idea about how the country
(01:39):
was wrecked under Adern. She sees what Aderne wants you
to see, fragile, huggy people who run things on good vibes. Meantime,
at CNN, I got no idea what Jake Tapper was
watching between twenty twenty and twenty twenty four, because we
all watch the same thing, except CNN wasn't spending a
lot of time saying, hey, have you noticed the old
guy's getting worse by the day. Given that was CNN's job,
(01:59):
is it any wonder they rate the way they do.
But for Tappa to then go out and monetize what
he was already allegedly being paid to do seems a
new low of sorts to me. But back to Aderne.
In one review, David Cunliffe, former Labour Party leader, runs
the classic line, I have a different recollection. This is
in response to Adurne's attack on him, whereby she essentially
calls him a fraud and how she couldn't understand how
(02:22):
he got the top job and not her mate Grant.
You had to, she said, probably in tears, question his authenticity.
Are you serious? Authenticity, Jacinda Markle. The only bit of
marketing that seems to have been missed, along with the
handwringing interviews on Radio New Zealand and TV and Z
this week, is some Adern jam. If she had just
(02:44):
been useless, it might have been all right, hopeless but
didn't break the china. But she wasn't. She was dangerous.
She was the pulpit of truth. She was a control freak.
She was a narcissist dressed up in Kates Sylvester pretending
she wrote back to all the kids. She wrecked the
joint and then collected the dough in Boston. Tappa and
Adern making money for failing to do their job. There
(03:05):
should be a law against it.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
I wonder if we could make this a regular segment. Actually,
because you know how like Oprah has a book club,
you know, and has recommended books, and that's the sort
of thing that various difference of lebs do. Mike could
have a book club, but it could just speach of
books that you shouldn't read, they should be avoided or
maybe even burn.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
It's the rewrap.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
I think I'm going to mark the week. I think,
and by I I mean Mike.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Time now to make the week little piece of news
and current events. That is the equivalent of a knighthood
for general knowledge advancement. David Seymour seven in Britain debating
as we speak, but last weekend ascended to the Deputy
PM's job, gave an excellent speech about what can be
as in our country. What our country can be was
uplifting and uplifting is good. Chris Boship seven was that
(03:49):
the Music Awards and expressed an opinion people of the
left and appear to like opinions not as uplifting. Mitch
Barnett three pros get injured, yes, but a season ender
is a cruel blow, especially given the Warriors seven against
a good site that made a comeback of sorts on
another day in an the season, it might have ended differently,
(04:09):
but it didn't because Gary Stead eight a Herban nice
guy who took the team to better places, and you
haven't always been able to say that about cricket. Stephen
Joyce seven, not the decent bloke who got a good
job this week And what must have been the most
over hyped agm of modern New Zealand business history, Roade
Cones six. You use the hotline yet are the way
(04:34):
who raised crossing two? Wata because it's bollocks, but at
least it's on hold. The why Cato chicane too wat
wat because it's bollocks and was enacted with no consultation
and half a dozen winers. How can winers get given
so much attention polls? One joke of the week Buy
a dartboard and pretend it means something. Six million seven
(04:56):
our population, that's the prediction this week, six million people
by twenty forty. I like more people. More people bring growth.
I've always thought we're way too small. The grocery commissioner
is six, What honestly does he do? I mean, has
taken him two years to do a study and then
put some stuff out for consultation. I mean, as you
cheese cheaper. The Chateau three bowl, it is it nice?
Not really not anymore. You can't trade on memories. If
(05:19):
it was a thing, someone would have bought it, and
they haven't. The Radio Awards eight, Yes, the industry's big
night last night. Once again, news talk z'd be one
neither one Marcus one hither one station of the fifth
year in a row. And you can't argue with that.
Proving hard work, consistency, professionalism and patching over the week
bits leads you to good places. And that's the week
(05:39):
copies on the website. And if you print two of these,
by the way, glue them together and cut out six
small slots at equal distances, you can see the Aurora bit.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Um is a bit let luster Margaret week this week
my being over sensitive. As Mike mentioned there, we were
at the Radio Awards last night and it wasn't really
a late night. Why not for all of us anyway,
rep although it sounds like some people did have a
late night. I wouldn't know because I was at home
tacked up in my nannaies five out nine.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Unfolding Scandal. It's just occurred to me. Unfolding scandal. Will's
just turned up. Will is the ZBI boss. Was with
us last night at the radio awards. Jason, who's the
big boss, not here. Normally Jason is here, So it's
normally Jason and Will come in. They we have a
(06:30):
chat about what.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Well.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
I thought they lived together, but no, I didn't. I didn't.
I didn't have time to ask Will what had happened.
But Jason's not here. Jason comes to us with a
reputation of being really really heavy drinker. He claims he
sort of gave it up once he reached middle to
senior management. But he's not here. Interesting. Do you know
who else is missing? Alders Alderson was there last night,
(06:57):
not here this morning. No Jason joining some dots here.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Yeah, as far as I can tell, So j got
this job. He used to be the boss of news
Doorks he'd been. Now he's the boss of all the
radio stations, basically at Addie and Zen me And it
seems like his job consists mostly of going to meetings
and sometimes hosting meetings during the day, so it's just
(07:27):
back to back meetings, always meetings, and then at night
having to go to events. He was just when he
did eventually make it in this morning because his quote
Uber was late unquote. He then complained that he's got
another thing that he's got to go to tonight. Who
wants that job? Meetings all day and then things that
(07:49):
you've got to go to that you don't really want
to go to at night.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
It's a rewrap.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Are you a Nintendo Switch person? Why don't you sort
of are? Or you aren't? And if you are, it's
been an exciting week.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Well I told you this yesterday. And Nintendo's flagship Switch
two it's gone off special store openings around the world.
There's a shortage already in Japan. I think that's very apple.
That's what they do, isn't they make two of them women?
Then they say we've run out and they've sold out,
and everyone goes, oh, man, I want one of those. Anyway,
they expect to sell fifteen millions. That a lot, pretty good.
They've sold one hundred and fifty two of the original Switch.
Now I did the numbers yesterday because the eight hundred
(08:21):
bucks here they are four p fifty in America and
at yesterday's exchange rate, I came to low sevens. So
where's the extra? Come on, where's the extra that's gouging
that could be a levy, could be the truck, could
be the truck. It'll be the trucks at Auckland Port.
So when it arrives at Auckland Port and they got
to put it on a truck and it's on the
wrong time, then they've got to add the extra So
(08:42):
by the time it gets to Harvey Norman, it's eight
hundred probably wet money is probably so. And of course
the fact that there was no power, I don't know
something like that.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Yes, it was interesting watching the switch thing in my household.
Monster number one got one. I think it was the
light version, which is not very expensive. This is the
previous generation obviously, and then Monster number one, who works
full time months, and number two and he works part
time so it doesn't have much money in Monster number
(09:16):
one bought the full you know, all the bowels and
whistles version, and then of course Monster number two felt
a bit desumped that point, a bit dissatisfied with her switch.
I'm not sure if she's got eight hundred just lying
around to shell out for the switch to you know,
(09:40):
watch the space for rewrap. Right Friday means it's time
for the husk to head on up to the ranch
or the homestead home on the range. Anyway that involves
driving fast legally for a little bit.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Mike as swimming and what happened to the fast track
on the Northern Motorway to fungar Ray seems like lip service,
yet it is a joke. I'm off Simean. I was
on that motorway for the first time last weekend. Under
the new speed limits. Seed limit, which has gone from
one hundred to one ten, is only for about three
hundred meters long. It's literally for about three or four
hundred meters long. It's the biggest joke in the history
of speed limit. So you go one hundred, then you
go one hundred and ten, then you go one hundred,
(10:19):
and then you go eighty. Then when you come out
of the tunnel, you go.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
One hundred.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
One hundred percent. Couldn't couldn't agree more. But you're thinking,
you're thinking, having gone eighty and you're previously going one
hundred and ten, and you go back to one hundred
and ten, but you you go to one hundred, so
you go to one hundred and ten. Some guy is
going to be around the corner, you know, the blue
scote is going to be around the corner and then
they're going to pull you up, and then they're going
to go. You realize it's one hundred, and you go, well, no,
it's not one hundred and ten to me, and sis
couldn't it, couldn't agree more, couldn't agree more. Saw a
(10:45):
guy the other day. So I'm tailing a cop and
I can see he's a cop because you got a
blue scrot. So here's the clue, folks. It's blue scode
of station wagons with a couple of aerials out the roof.
What watch the aeriels that's a cop. So I'm trailing
the cop. I think it's right. I'm not going to
some dick in an M two. He's got a new
M two. BMW comes up the inside lane, three lanes,
comes up the inside. He's doing at least one hundred
(11:07):
and twenty five. And I think you're a more on
spot the blue Skoda two Aerels blue Skoda. How hard
is it? Mate? Just top tips on the Hosking breakfast.
That's why we're reward winners. For goodness sake.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
I'd just like to point out that I don't actually
have anything against scoters these days. I mean, there was
a time. Younger people won't probably understand this, but there
was a time when scoters were up there with ladders
when it came to uncol cars. And now that they're
police cars, does that make them cooler or less cool?
(11:40):
I'm just going to leave that question hanging there for
the weekend, and I'll be back on Monday with more rewrapping.
See then.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
For more from news talks that'd be listen live on
air or online, and keep our shows with you wherever
you go with our podcasts on IAR Radio.
You're listening to a podcast from News Talk said B.
Follow this and our wide range of podcasts now on iHeartRadio, Rewrap.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
The Welcome to the Rerap for Friday, All the best
buts from the Mike Husking Breakfast on news Doorg, sid
B and Acilia Package. I am Glen Harten. Today we
will mark the week because it is Friday. That's what
we do. It was the Radio Awards last night. I'm
sure you're interested. The switch to came out this week
and excitement has reached fever patch and we're going to
(00:47):
have on another moan about the speed limit. But before
any of that, some books you should definitely not read.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
I've struggled with a couple of authors this week, with
Jacinda Radn and Jake Tapper. What I struggle with is
one of them is making money out of the fact
they made an astonishing hash of their job, quit and
bailed out of the country, and are now collecting the
dough for retelling what happened in a way that would
suggest no carnage was left behind. The other is making
money by exposing what he watched unfold in front of
his eyes for four years and really did nothing about.
(01:17):
I'm not sure who the bigger fraud is. The Adern
book is widely traversed and has been marketed very well internationally.
Cadie showed me a snippet from Oprah this week on
social media, Let's be frank, postweight watches and a zempic,
not exactly reputationally untouched herself, whose fascination with Adern appears
to be around kindness. I bet you anything you want.
Oprah doesn't have the slightest idea about how the country
(01:39):
was wrecked under Adern. She sees what Aderne wants you
to see, fragile, huggy people who run things on good vibes. Meantime,
at CNN, I got no idea what Jake Tapper was
watching between twenty twenty and twenty twenty four, because we
all watch the same thing, except CNN wasn't spending a
lot of time saying, hey, have you noticed the old
guy's getting worse by the day. Given that was CNN's job,
(01:59):
is it any wonder they rate the way they do.
But for Tappa to then go out and monetize what
he was already allegedly being paid to do seems a
new low of sorts to me. But back to Aderne.
In one review, David Cunliffe, former Labour Party leader, runs
the classic line, I have a different recollection. This is
in response to Adurne's attack on him, whereby she essentially
calls him a fraud and how she couldn't understand how
(02:22):
he got the top job and not her mate Grant.
You had to, she said, probably in tears, question his authenticity.
Are you serious? Authenticity, Jacinda Markle. The only bit of
marketing that seems to have been missed, along with the
handwringing interviews on Radio New Zealand and TV and Z
this week, is some Adern jam. If she had just
(02:44):
been useless, it might have been all right, hopeless but
didn't break the china. But she wasn't. She was dangerous.
She was the pulpit of truth. She was a control freak.
She was a narcissist dressed up in Kates Sylvester pretending
she wrote back to all the kids. She wrecked the
joint and then collected the dough in Boston. Tappa and
Adern making money for failing to do their job. There
(03:05):
should be a law against it.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
I wonder if we could make this a regular segment. Actually,
because you know how like Oprah has a book club,
you know, and has recommended books, and that's the sort
of thing that various difference of lebs do. Mike could
have a book club, but it could just speach of
books that you shouldn't read, they should be avoided or
maybe even burn.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
It's the rewrap.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
I think I'm going to mark the week. I think,
and by I I mean Mike.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Time now to make the week little piece of news
and current events. That is the equivalent of a knighthood
for general knowledge advancement. David Seymour seven in Britain debating
as we speak, but last weekend ascended to the Deputy
PM's job, gave an excellent speech about what can be
as in our country. What our country can be was
uplifting and uplifting is good. Chris Boship seven was that
(03:49):
the Music Awards and expressed an opinion people of the
left and appear to like opinions not as uplifting. Mitch
Barnett three pros get injured, yes, but a season ender
is a cruel blow, especially given the Warriors seven against
a good site that made a comeback of sorts on
another day in an the season, it might have ended differently,
(04:09):
but it didn't because Gary Stead eight a Herban nice
guy who took the team to better places, and you
haven't always been able to say that about cricket. Stephen
Joyce seven, not the decent bloke who got a good
job this week And what must have been the most
over hyped agm of modern New Zealand business history, Roade
Cones six. You use the hotline yet are the way
(04:34):
who raised crossing two? Wata because it's bollocks, but at
least it's on hold. The why Cato chicane too wat
wat because it's bollocks and was enacted with no consultation
and half a dozen winers. How can winers get given
so much attention polls? One joke of the week Buy
a dartboard and pretend it means something. Six million seven
(04:56):
our population, that's the prediction this week, six million people
by twenty forty. I like more people. More people bring growth.
I've always thought we're way too small. The grocery commissioner
is six, What honestly does he do? I mean, has
taken him two years to do a study and then
put some stuff out for consultation. I mean, as you
cheese cheaper. The Chateau three bowl, it is it nice?
Not really not anymore. You can't trade on memories. If
(05:19):
it was a thing, someone would have bought it, and
they haven't. The Radio Awards eight, Yes, the industry's big
night last night. Once again, news talk z'd be one
neither one Marcus one hither one station of the fifth
year in a row. And you can't argue with that.
Proving hard work, consistency, professionalism and patching over the week
bits leads you to good places. And that's the week
(05:39):
copies on the website. And if you print two of these,
by the way, glue them together and cut out six
small slots at equal distances, you can see the Aurora bit.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Um is a bit let luster Margaret week this week
my being over sensitive. As Mike mentioned there, we were
at the Radio Awards last night and it wasn't really
a late night. Why not for all of us anyway,
rep although it sounds like some people did have a
late night. I wouldn't know because I was at home
tacked up in my nannaies five out nine.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Unfolding Scandal. It's just occurred to me. Unfolding scandal. Will's
just turned up. Will is the ZBI boss. Was with
us last night at the radio awards. Jason, who's the
big boss, not here. Normally Jason is here, So it's
normally Jason and Will come in. They we have a
(06:30):
chat about what.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Well.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
I thought they lived together, but no, I didn't. I didn't.
I didn't have time to ask Will what had happened.
But Jason's not here. Jason comes to us with a
reputation of being really really heavy drinker. He claims he
sort of gave it up once he reached middle to
senior management. But he's not here. Interesting. Do you know
who else is missing? Alders Alderson was there last night,
(06:57):
not here this morning. No Jason joining some dots here.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Yeah, as far as I can tell, So j got
this job. He used to be the boss of news
Doorks he'd been. Now he's the boss of all the
radio stations, basically at Addie and Zen me And it
seems like his job consists mostly of going to meetings
and sometimes hosting meetings during the day, so it's just
(07:27):
back to back meetings, always meetings, and then at night
having to go to events. He was just when he
did eventually make it in this morning because his quote
Uber was late unquote. He then complained that he's got
another thing that he's got to go to tonight. Who
wants that job? Meetings all day and then things that
(07:49):
you've got to go to that you don't really want
to go to at night.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
It's a rewrap.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Are you a Nintendo Switch person? Why don't you sort
of are? Or you aren't? And if you are, it's
been an exciting week.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Well I told you this yesterday. And Nintendo's flagship Switch
two it's gone off special store openings around the world.
There's a shortage already in Japan. I think that's very apple.
That's what they do, isn't they make two of them women?
Then they say we've run out and they've sold out,
and everyone goes, oh, man, I want one of those. Anyway,
they expect to sell fifteen millions. That a lot, pretty good.
They've sold one hundred and fifty two of the original Switch.
Now I did the numbers yesterday because the eight hundred
(08:21):
bucks here they are four p fifty in America and
at yesterday's exchange rate, I came to low sevens. So
where's the extra? Come on, where's the extra that's gouging
that could be a levy, could be the truck, could
be the truck. It'll be the trucks at Auckland Port.
So when it arrives at Auckland Port and they got
to put it on a truck and it's on the
wrong time, then they've got to add the extra So
(08:42):
by the time it gets to Harvey Norman, it's eight
hundred probably wet money is probably so. And of course
the fact that there was no power, I don't know
something like that.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Yes, it was interesting watching the switch thing in my household.
Monster number one got one. I think it was the
light version, which is not very expensive. This is the
previous generation obviously, and then Monster number one, who works
full time months, and number two and he works part
time so it doesn't have much money in Monster number
(09:16):
one bought the full you know, all the bowels and
whistles version, and then of course Monster number two felt
a bit desumped that point, a bit dissatisfied with her switch.
I'm not sure if she's got eight hundred just lying
around to shell out for the switch to you know,
(09:40):
watch the space for rewrap. Right Friday means it's time
for the husk to head on up to the ranch
or the homestead home on the range. Anyway that involves
driving fast legally for a little bit.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Mike as swimming and what happened to the fast track
on the Northern Motorway to fungar Ray seems like lip service,
yet it is a joke. I'm off Simean. I was
on that motorway for the first time last weekend. Under
the new speed limits. Seed limit, which has gone from
one hundred to one ten, is only for about three
hundred meters long. It's literally for about three or four
hundred meters long. It's the biggest joke in the history
of speed limit. So you go one hundred, then you
go one hundred and ten, then you go one hundred,
(10:19):
and then you go eighty. Then when you come out
of the tunnel, you go.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
One hundred.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
One hundred percent. Couldn't couldn't agree more. But you're thinking,
you're thinking, having gone eighty and you're previously going one
hundred and ten, and you go back to one hundred
and ten, but you you go to one hundred, so
you go to one hundred and ten. Some guy is
going to be around the corner, you know, the blue
scote is going to be around the corner and then
they're going to pull you up, and then they're going
to go. You realize it's one hundred, and you go, well, no,
it's not one hundred and ten to me, and sis
couldn't it, couldn't agree more, couldn't agree more. Saw a
(10:45):
guy the other day. So I'm tailing a cop and
I can see he's a cop because you got a
blue scrot. So here's the clue, folks. It's blue scode
of station wagons with a couple of aerials out the roof.
What watch the aeriels that's a cop. So I'm trailing
the cop. I think it's right. I'm not going to
some dick in an M two. He's got a new
M two. BMW comes up the inside lane, three lanes,
comes up the inside. He's doing at least one hundred
(11:07):
and twenty five. And I think you're a more on
spot the blue Skoda two Aerels blue Skoda. How hard
is it? Mate? Just top tips on the Hosking breakfast.
That's why we're reward winners. For goodness sake.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
I'd just like to point out that I don't actually
have anything against scoters these days. I mean, there was
a time. Younger people won't probably understand this, but there
was a time when scoters were up there with ladders
when it came to uncol cars. And now that they're
police cars, does that make them cooler or less cool?
(11:40):
I'm just going to leave that question hanging there for
the weekend, and I'll be back on Monday with more rewrapping.
See then.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
For more from news talks that'd be listen live on
air or online, and keep our shows with you wherever
you go with our podcasts on IAR Radio.
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