THE RE-WRAP: The Boats Are Coming

THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Thursday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) Early Christmas Ferry Tale/Cone-ageddon Continues/One Lone Voice/The Reviews Are In/What a Great Place to Die

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
Therapy. There Welcome to the rewrap for Thursday. All the
best bits from the mic Hostking Breakfast on News Talks.
He'd be in a sillier package. I am Glen Hart today.
ConA Geddon is back if they ever went away. Yesterday's
Epstein vote and I mean the vote for the one

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folk who voted against it. To the bell to reveal
all the files. We've got some concert reviews coming in
a big night for concerts last night across the country.
And adventure tourism is booming a first hand account secondhand.
But before any of that, the votes are coming. Yes,

(01:08):
it's a Christmas fairy story come early thanks to Uncle
Winston Hording.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
Mike read the rail project coming under budget? Why would
you use era? A sound clip stating the cost of
canceling the contract should be included with Any decent person
with financial nouse knows not to include a sunk cost
in an assessment. The news reporters mischievous. Yeah, there's no
right and wrong. I mean, you're right, but this is
the sort of myopic nonsense we get into in this country. Unfortunately,

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what we got yesterday on the Fairies was a problem solved. Now,
if you want to spend some time going back and
forward about what got spent and what didn't got spent,
and what got canceled and what the break free was, yeah,
I mean, if you want to waste your time doing that,
I suppose you can do it. But others are moving on.
We have two ships. They are bigger ships than the
one we have currently. They will be delivered in twenty

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twenty nine. They will be paid for with a great
deal less money than was going to be paid for
under the IREX project. That's about all we need to know.
Is the problem solved?

Speaker 2 (02:08):
Ye? Yes?

Speaker 3 (02:08):
Do we have ships? Yes? Are they better than what
we've got yes? Did we save money in the process, yes.
I don't know what else you need to spend your
time on.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
It's interesting that we just we're just seemed to be heavy.
To take Winston's word for it, that ed'll come in
under budget and on time. Otherwise you know he'll be
super cross with them or something. I'm sure it'll happen.
I'm sure it'll be fine. It's the rewrap. It's just
like how you know all the stupid road cones have
suddenly disappeared overnight because of that cone hotline, which wasn't

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really a hot line, it was a website.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
Here's my problem with the other road cones story this
morning is the road cone story. If you're missing it.
Brook van Velden did the hot line. They went out,
few people looked at road cones. Only seven point five
percent of SIT's visited had a road cone problem. Here's
here's where I think it's gone wrong. Is it our
perception of road cones. So we look at the road

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cones and go, oh, there's a lot of road cones,
and then we make a big fuss about it. So
Brook opens a hot line when in reality, all along,
even though you and I looked at the road cones
and went that's ridiculous, they always complied with the law.
In other words, it's the law that's the problem. The
rules that drive the road cone layer via the problem,
not our perception of them. And so what they should
have done is change the rules and gone you need

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two cones max and a ute in front of it
and get on with the job. That would be the
Mike Hosking rule for fixing the roads, two cones max
ute in front of it, get on with the job.
Then you wouldn't have had your hotline, and then you
would have had the problem. This morning. You see see
how much better it's going to be when I'm running
the country.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
So why did they come up with a solution if
if they were solving a problem and it wasn't the
actual problem, maybe you like Mike Zai, solved the actual problem.
It happened to me this morning. You wouldn't think you'd
get much traffic driving to work at half past three
in the morning, but it turns out if you reduce

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the lanes on the motorway where there's normally three down
to one, and then you look and where they've coned
everything off and isbsolutely nothing happening there for about half
a k It's amazing how many cars q up actually
at the hour of the morning. Not that I'm bitter,
rewrap right. So yesterday the House of Representatives almost very

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nearly unanimously voted to see every detail of the Epstein
files except for one vote.

Speaker 3 (04:30):
Might one day Clay Higgins of Louisiana turn out to
be an American hero. He was the vote, the one
vote on the Epstein decision who said no. As it
turns out, he said no for very solid reasons. If
you read it, if an acted in its current form,
this type of broad reveal of criminal investigative files released
to a rabid media will absolutely result in innocent people

(04:51):
being hurt. He said he would only look at it
again if it came back from the Senate. A mended
Chuck Schumer said at the time, it won't be the case.
Senate isn't Higgins makes valid points. He's also on the
oversight committee, by the way, that conducted the Epstein probe.
His concerns also include the fact that this all about
Ingden's two hundred and fifty years of criminal justice procedure.
In the papers, he points out there are thousands of

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innocent people, witnesses, people who've provided Alibia's family members, all
of whom will be caught up through no fault of
their own, simply because hysteria ruled and a mass dump
of all information was voted on. As an aside, Kevin
Rudd has engaged a lawyer to write to a publication
that was going to put out a piece by Michael
Wolfe and which he says Rudd was at a cocktail
party with Epstein, Rudd can prove no such thing happen.

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Now that's not a big deal, of course, but it
is an example of how simple it is to create
a wrong, none of which is to defend the Epstein actions,
of course, all Maxwell's or any of the legitimate political
noise that has swirled around all of this. But just
last week, the frenzy around small snippets of detail involving
the word Trump was screaming headlines and not one of
them really, I mean, court of law really nailed Trump

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to Epstein's mast. And that's at the core of all
of this. A lot of people want Trump, and they're
desperate for a connection strong enough to finish them to
a degree. No one has lost their heads. Rules around
procedures out massisteria ensues. But in one vote, even fleetingly
Higgins of Louisiana tried to remind us that amid the
they say one million bits of evidence might lie some

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sort of smoking gun, or it might not, but just
that prospect that sniff is more than enough to trample
over innocence and legal standing. The longer this goes with
no gotcha moment, the smarter Higgins of Louisiana books.

Speaker 2 (06:36):
Sometimes, you know, Mike reminds me of me, which is disturbing,
just the way he likes to play Devil's advocate with
these things. I can't help doing that sometimes as well,
just saying hey, everyone, have you actually looked at the
other point of view? And everybody goes, oh, shut up.
But you know, if we just every own again, you're

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right there on. I don't know he will be the start,
of course.

Speaker 1 (07:03):
It's so rewrapped.

Speaker 2 (07:04):
Very interested in the Metallica concert this morning, though, might
which I found fascinating.

Speaker 3 (07:09):
Went to Doja Cat last night. She was amazing. That's
not me, that's the text of Mike. I went Metallica.
This is I had to google how old these blokes
are Kirk the lead guitarist at a birthday yesterday. They're
as good as they were forty years ago. Show was
nothing short of amazing. Mike, You're going to get heaps
of responses. Metallica was awesome, just over two hours of
back to back bangers. Average AGEB fifty five. I guess

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well worth my four hundred and fifty dollars ticket took
my two sons up from Nelson. Worth every cent. Mike
Metallica was epic on my way to work, But I
am gen x Mike, you'd be wrong in thinking that
went to Metallica last night on a first date with
someone who's not a metal fan at all. We had
a blast, cool fireworks, fun crowd, great music.

Speaker 2 (07:50):
Of course, feel like we need to track down the
other half of that first date to see if she
I'm presuming she was had as much of a blast
as that bloke did on their first date. Very romantic,
isn't it the re rap I've could have topped it

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off with a bit of bungee jumping and maybe he's absorbing.
What a night to remember that would have been.

Speaker 3 (08:18):
In Wonderlust magazine. I don't know if you subscribe to it,
but I do. Wonderlust Magazine twenty two categories, four point
eight million votes. It's UK based magazine. We are moderately desirable.
As it turns out, we're the eighth most desirable country
in the world. This is tourism again, going back to
the cycle trails and stuff like that. Twenty two different
categories in this but we're the eighth most desirable country

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in the world. One a series is the most desirable
city where the third most desirable for adventure to destination.
Got to tell you about my mate Murray. Murray's a
mate of one of our son. Murray's from Scotland and
so Murray's here on holiday at the moment. And there
was some consternation within family circles around Murray's adventure into

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New Zealand. So Murray he rang us the other day,
Old Josh and he said, Murray's come out to New
Zealand and we went, oh, God, is this the right
time of year? What's he doing out here in New Zealand.
And it wasn't explained to us what Murray was here for.
But it turns out Murray, as a tourist from Scotland,
never been to New Zealand before, came through Australia into

(09:21):
New Zealand. He is extending his time. He's having the
greatest time of his life. And what wasn't told to
us was Murray is an adventure tourist and so he's
come to New Zealand and he's jumped off everything, he's
ridden on everything that goes fast. Yesterday I think he
was in Rotoroa, going down the hill in the Zorb

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and he just cannot believe the cool stuff you can
do in New Zealand that involves putting your life at risk,
and he just thinks it's the greatest thing ever. Weather's
been shite, but he's from Scotland, so you know it's
probably an improvement. So he's come at the wrong time
of the year. He's trading in his forty two p

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to get a New Zealand dollar. He cannot believe how
far is money going. He cannot believe how high up
in the air you can go on a plane to
leap out of it. And he is just he is
a poster child for New Zealand.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
There's a lot of stuff you can do here that
we won't even charge him to put his life at resk.

Speaker 3 (10:21):
Yeah, exactly. But he is having the best time. So
we were initially worried, thinking, oh jeez, I don't know about
tourism in New Zealand these days. But he is going
to go back to Scotland and he's going to go, OHI,
you should have seen what I did in New Zealand.
And good on him. So Murray's listening, I'm glad you're
having a good time.

Speaker 1 (10:35):
You know.

Speaker 2 (10:35):
I don't know that Mike does subscribe to Wonderlast magazine,
given that he pronounced it wonder last. And when I
asked him once he was off here there why he
said wonder Last. He said it is because it's felt
wu in And then we looked it up and of

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course it isn't it's wonder Last, because there's no such
word as Wonderlast. So yeah, that happened. And yeah, he
claims he's got twenty twenty eyesight at age sixty. I'm
sure he's right. I am a glean hat, the bespectacled

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glear hat. I'll see you back here again the borrow.
You can hear me if your squim hatrap.

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