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June 26, 2025 • 13 mins

THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Friday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) We're All Entitled, Apparently/Never Too Old to Teach/Mark the Week/We're So Balanced/Life Is Good

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
Rewrap Idea and Welcome to the Rewrap for Friday, All
the best births from the Mic Hosking Breakfast on news
doalg ZEDB in a sillier package, I am Glen Heart
and today our old teacher is any good? We will
mark the week because whs I just said, it's Friday.
It's what we do. Where do we rank on the
work life balance scale? And speaking of that, if life

(00:48):
is good, you should try turning into radio options and
tuning into radio optimism. Well maybe if life isn't good
you should. But before any of that, this fun auder spending,
especially on the Milani Pisika team. This is he's got

(01:08):
very complicated.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
Hasn't it.

Speaker 3 (01:10):
Talma Potaker seems totally out of his depth. Mike, But
then the balance. I don't think you were fair with
Tama Just then, Mike, He's acted quickly fittenwell has he?
The point is asking for a report is a political
response to I would argue something you should have been
on top of in the first place, and this twice
removed thing I give them money, who then give the

(01:32):
money to somebody else is still ultimately your responsible as
the minister on our behalf. And I can't see a
single logical, sensible reason that promoting the mari role is
not electioneering, which they're not allowed to do. And I
can't see a single logical reason why supporting professional rugby
and Moana Pacifica through an agency that has now lost

(01:55):
the contract and a team potentially goes bust because of it,
and money, by the way, is already written off. That
was the other part of the story that wasn't widely
covered yesterday. Money's already been written off. They need to
pay it back and they haven't paid it back, and
that's been written off. So you and I paid for
that experiment. And what has that got to do with
uplifting the community in which they are supposed to support. Anyway,
we'll come up. There will be more on this next week,
mark my wood.

Speaker 4 (02:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
So Tama Portaka claimed this morning that everybody is entitled
to what funner or has to offer. I don't know
how I can get my hands on some of that
sweet sweet fun or a cash, but I'm certainly gonna

(02:35):
look into it. Re wrap, Well, we talk about people
not being never being satisfied. So you have a teacher shortage,
so you ask, you know, some of the older teachers
who are headed for retirement to stay on for a
bit longer, or maybe even come out of retirement, and
then people don't want those teachers. What's going on?

Speaker 3 (02:52):
More ageism I've got for you this morning, this time
in education, unions are quote concerned as more teachers work
past retirement age. This isn't part is the trouble with unions.
Of course, One they aren't that keen on work in
the first place, and two they're bogged down and old
fashioned rules and views of the world. What is retirement?
How do you know you passed it? They refer, of
course to Super and this tired old business of thinking

(03:12):
that when Super kex and you must check out. Obviously
the world has changed, is changing, just not that quickly
in union Land. Clearly at sixty four you're loving teaching. Apparently,
so somehow chronologically at sixty five that desire and love
of pursuit needs to be shelved as you wander off
collecting your retirement income and presumably filling your days with
bowls and walks. Eight thousand a teaching at the age

(03:34):
of sixty five or over eight thousand. Now that's double
what it used to be ten years ago, But then
a lot's different to what it used to be ten
years ago. Beyond the numbers as in sixty five, does
anyone ask any questions like are they doing it because
they have to? As opposed to want to? A bit
of a different sid would have thought most importantly for teaching,
given the unions insist on this mad cap business of
time in the classroom being the measure for income, are

(03:57):
these oldies any good? Could they be better given their
experience and institutional knowledge than say the twenty one year
old just into the classroom and looking for all the
world out of a depth sex edge form six Limwood
High early eighties, we were sixteen or seventeen year olds.
The teacher might might have been twenty. She looked like

(04:19):
she wanted to die as the diagrams of the you
know watts came out the memory as you can tell
see it in my mind forty years later. New isn't
always best, Young doesn't always trumpolder, and passion and skill
above all else is what should drive presence in the
workplace or classroom. Are you good. Do you like what
you do? Are you making a difference of the answers yes,
then at what point would you be remotely interested in age?

(04:41):
Far less be concerned.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
There's a heavy medium with the sex education thing, because
I think you can go too old with that as well.
You run the risk of it being like that scene
from ninety five's Meaning of Life with the practical demonstration
in front.

Speaker 5 (04:54):
Of the class.

Speaker 2 (04:56):
I know that we want there either it's somewhere.

Speaker 4 (04:59):
Are in the middle.

Speaker 2 (05:01):
That made a big impact on Mike Gay That sex
education class interesting. I certainly tried to blank mine and
pretend it never have and are wrapped by that. I
mean my entire sex life, not just that class. And
let's mark the week now it's Friday.

Speaker 5 (05:14):
I believe that is what we do.

Speaker 3 (05:15):
Time to mark the week. Little piece of news and
current events that knows what the effort's doing. Trump seven,
they're dark, no what they're doing. All in all, five
percent of NATO will ceasefire, that holds talks with a
run next week. That's not a bad week, Mark Rutter
one and Daddy has sometimes used strong language. Stick Moment
of the Week Rob Penny eight from last year to

(05:36):
this that's one of sports great stories and I, as Hume,
involves tremendous amounts of well deserved satisfaction. Regional councils and
capping right seven. Central governments at its best Farna Aura
and Tama Eaty and Moana Pacificato Central government yet again
missing the politically triggering stuff they promised to address. Nikolaella's
for basic things. Mike writing letters isn't good governance and

(05:59):
after a while a threat through letter or not is
seen for what it is. Peter Berling seven, we've questioned,
well might come back to bite them? Of course to
David Seymour seven as Acting Prime Minister in the House
and in media, a very solid considered week, I reckon
with a good wit to go with it. Oil eight
What a joke that was, Oh the price of a
disaster until it wasn't danned and seven like Hamilton last week,

(06:23):
International travelers back Melu labar anyone Golden visas eight Now
that is practical thinking, making sensible difference. One hundred and
eighty nine applications, eight hundred million dollars worth of business.
Let's go New Zealand. Shane Jones Sex thanks.

Speaker 2 (06:37):
Pay, I should not be paying for such madness.

Speaker 3 (06:40):
He loves a headline, but the Napooi stuff. I mean,
he's right and he's on the right note there, Jeff Bezos. Six.
If you ever want an example of sneering, losory, jealousy
and pointlessness, look at Venice and the tragics and they're
whining at the moment. Wealth and the pension too. Bum
note of the week targeting those who actually worked hard

(07:00):
to save to help in retirement should never be used
as a punishment. And the retirement commissioner might like to
ask yourself whether she understands her job. Score holiday seven,
Oh good luck at the airport seven hundred and forty
five thousand non in New Zealand alone these next couple
of weeks, and that is the week copies on the website,
and due to the long weekend, this was twenty percent
worse than last week's.

Speaker 2 (07:19):
I'm still reeling from the Donald Trump f bomb thing.
I just can't imagine any other person in any leadership role.
I'm not even talking about in charge of a country.
I'm coming out in charge of a company, in charge
of a sports team, and not having any repercussions from

(07:40):
saying what he said about Iran and Israel. It's just
amazing that we've all just sort of gone oh yeah.
In fact, many of us have gone cool. And what's
really weird is that the more that I think about it,
the more I think maybe he's got a good point.
And that's what's really scary.

Speaker 6 (07:59):
It's a rewrap.

Speaker 2 (08:01):
Meanwhile, back here in little old New Zealand, where have
we ranked in the work Life Balance Kings.

Speaker 1 (08:09):
All the ins and the ouse. It's the fizz with
business favor take your business productivity to the next left.

Speaker 3 (08:16):
Right, good news Friday. Here we go, New Zealand are
The Global Work Life Balance Index looks at sixty different countries,
marks them out of one hundred on a range of
things public happiness, safety, statutory leave. I mean this is
all crap obviously, because I mean how you measure public happiness,
minimum wage, LGBTQ plus inclusivity, average working hours. They don't

(08:38):
take into account economic output or productivity, hence making it
the joke it is. But nevertheless, let's have fun. We
win the big prize. We have the best work life
balance according to the Global Work Life Balance Index in
the world. We've scored eighty six point eight seven, which
is in fact, a six point increase compared with our
win last year. We won it last year and we're
six points better than we were last year. We are happier.

(09:01):
All you miserable sods telling me the country is no
good and you're moving to Australia. What's the matter with you?
Minimum wage? Listen up, Ginny Anders. I don't think they're
feeling it. I don't believe it. Our minimum wage is
the second highest of the sixty countries, behind only Australia
second hies minimum wage of sixty countries. On average, we
work thirty three hours a week. And then there's your problem. Basically,

(09:24):
what can I tell you? The US fifty ninth, Nigeria sixtieth.
Now this might surprise you, Singapore twenty fifth, but it's
ex Spinney, very safe, but very expeny are France sixteenth.
They don't hardly work at all. I would have thought
maybe that's sort of life work balance. Maybe they're so
backward it's still it doesn't count. So ten through one

(09:46):
should we do it? Number ten Finland ha hard beat
the Scandinavians for once. Don't see that often nine Spain eight,
Australia seven, Canada six, Denmark five Norway beat all the Scandinavians,
four Germany three Belgium. They're just bored witless because they
live in Belgium to Ireland, and we are the best
at work life balance in the world.

Speaker 2 (10:08):
Public happiness is you can measure that. You just go
down the street and count the smiles, right, the number
of smiles per head a capita. Surely that's how that's
very scientific.

Speaker 5 (10:20):
Isn't it.

Speaker 2 (10:21):
The rewrap actually speaking of being happy and having good work,
life balance and all of that. Are you optimistic?

Speaker 5 (10:30):
Is life good?

Speaker 2 (10:33):
Life's always good at LG. Of course, that's what they've
made LG stand for these days, and they've come up
with something else in case you know somebody who is
feeling that perhaps life isn't there good at the moment.

Speaker 1 (10:43):
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Speaker 3 (10:49):
Right LG. They've launched Radio Optimism to campaign to combat
the social disconnection in our world. So what you do
is you put some stuff in and it makes a
song for you. So we put in my name the
name of the person we wanted the song about. So
we decided Tom A Potucker. You're allowed one hundred and
sixty letters as to why you're writing the song for Timer,
So we said things like, because he appears asleep at

(11:10):
the wheel, doesn't know where the money is coming from.
Be decisive, make a decision, fewer reviews, more action. The
genre you then picked the genre. I wanted folk, but
they didn't have that, so we've gone with country. Then
we had to pick a vibe for the song, and
I went with energetic. And here's what came up.

Speaker 6 (11:29):
Tama. You gotta spark that never feeds. You stand tall,
never second guess the road you take. Every step you
show the world what you can do. Moving forward, dreams
come true.

Speaker 4 (11:47):
Keep on going, Tama, Chase that up and sky decisions made,
Keep on going, Tamba, letting your story rise.

Speaker 3 (12:01):
Doesn't know where the money is coming Make a decision,
more action, fewer reviews.

Speaker 2 (12:11):
There's the radio optimism.

Speaker 5 (12:16):
I see the progress shining in your smile. Each choice
and action makes it all worthwhile. I'm cheering loud from
every mile. You lead the way you're walking pretty style.

Speaker 3 (12:28):
Cheep on go and Sam and chase that that's some decision.
That's about as bad as I thought it would be.
Floating in several times next week, just for fun.

Speaker 2 (12:39):
I think I think Mike missed the point of the
exercise there. The point of radio optimism is to try
and give some people encouragement. So you put it in
what they're going through and then it's not going to
quote your word for word as hopefully radio Optimism will
come up with a song that will. You know, I
feel a little bit better about your day if you've

(13:01):
just been interviewed by Mike Husking and he's made you
look stupid in front of the entire country. Anyway, I
thought it was fun, So you can check that out.
You just if you just google up LG Radio Optimism,
you'll find it and you can send your own encouraging
song for somebody. I am Glen Heart.

Speaker 5 (13:18):
That is.

Speaker 2 (13:18):
That's the rewrap for another week. We'll see you back
here again on Monday with more optimism, no doubt.

Speaker 1 (13:31):
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