December 17, 2025 • 11 mins
THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Thursday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) And You Thought Our Elections Were Free and Fair/Fast-Tracking and Kicking-Arse/That About Wraps it Up for Commissioners/What We Sort-Of Bought This Year/Mar-a-Lago Face
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
You're listening to a podcast from news Talk, SAIDB. Follow
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Rewrap Today.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
There, welcome to the Rewrap for Thursday, all the best
fits from the Mike Hoskin Breakfast guest starring Heather duple
c Ellen on News Talk, said B. In a silly
a package, I am Glen Hart, and today another shocking
poll for the government around the year, so nice for them,
(00:46):
Heather things we should get rid of all the commissioners.
We'll find out what people have been buying on after
pay and a fun new filter for you for the socials.
But before any of that, electoral fraud is alive and
well in New Zealand. You thought we were corrupt, well
think again.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Well, surely to goodness the judge throwing out that election
result in Auckland has started the clock ticking on postal
voting council elections. I mean, this case may not seem
like a big deal, given that it involves just seventy
nine votes in just one subdivision in just one relatively
small local board election in Auckland. But the seventy nine
may be just the tip of the iceberg. I mean
it may actually be that hundreds of ballot papers and
(01:24):
that subdivision was stolen from letterboxes, filled in and then
passed off as legit votes. Now Ken Turner from the
White Tarkety's other side of the city is also considering
legal options because he reckons something funny happened with about
two hundred and twelve votes in his election as well.
None of this surprises me because years ago, when friends
of mine were still flatting, as happens, mail turned up
(01:46):
for previous tenants. Some of that quite a lot of
that male, like we're talking close to about ten to
twelve pieces of that male were voting papers from previous tenants.
So my friends did what flatties do. They filled the
papers and sent them all back in as legitimate votes.
No one ever got in trouble for it. We all
know that the male voting system is ripe for being gamed,
but perhaps in our naivety, we hadn't imagined it would
(02:07):
go from a bunch of silly flatties to what seems
like it may have been an orchestrated rigging of an election.
At worst, postal voting should absolutely one hundred percent go
the way of the horse in the cart. It is
not the only reason so many of us can't be
bothered with council elections, but it is a significant part
of it. Be honest about it. You get the mail,
you pop it on the counter, you forget about it,
(02:28):
you find it after election day as well passed, or
you see it then and then you find it too
hard to remember where to find a postbox. Not only
does it make it harder to vote, but it also
makes it we now find out harder to trust the
election outcome.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Can we please just get the online thing happening? How
hard is it to do online voting? How hard? Come on? Seriously,
it's so rewrap. I mean, I'm pretty sure most of
these poles happen online, don't they.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Yeah, the great news with Labour on thirty eight percent,
Well actually I hadn't mentioned it yet, but it does
bear mentioning. But a bit of a brutal poll for
the government out last night. This is the post freshwater
strategy pole. Labour's on thirty eight, Nationals on thirty so
that's quite a big lead for for Labor. Then you've
got the other parties Act eight, New Zealand First nine,
Green's nine, Marti Party two. Now I would say, Look,
(03:16):
I've been asked today what do I think of these
and are these real? I do think that these poles
are real, but I and I do think the government
should be worried about it. But I don't think it's
going to mean a change of government at the next election.
And I don't think Labour should be should be getting
too excited. What this is is a protest poll, right,
So what's going on at the moment are people is
that people are disappointed in what's going on with the
government and they want better from the government. So they're
(03:38):
kind of flirting with the idea of labor But of
course to come around to the next election, no one's
actually going to well some are, but we're not actually
going to vote labor in. But I think we would
just like to see a little bit more improvement from
the coalition government. That's what's going on.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
When Lax and se you watch for the rolling thunder,
Mike's coming.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Yeah, that rolling thunder is Yeah. Are we still waiting, Yeah,
we're waiting for the rolling So are we waiting for
the We honestly can have a kick out feature.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
We're just hasn't quite a covey.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Yeah, it's due to come. But we've got to keep
taking barnacles off this boat. You got the one where
the car is in the ditch as well.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Yes, it's a grind as we get the car out
of the ditch and turned up the right way and
into first and second gear.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
There we go, just make sure we got we got
the whole lot.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
The bingo card is full. Yeah, the old fast tracking
and kicking ass. We haven't quite seen the fruition full
fruition of that yet, but maybe next year, maybe next
year rewrap right. So the government's been looking at cutting costs,
particularly in the public service. Heather's been brainstorming this idea
(04:42):
and she's I think she's gotten onto an elegant solution.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Heather. Why do these officials like Claire Ahmed have to
spend three quarters of an interview slot stating the obvious?
It's so frustrating, Penny fairpoint. Look, I don't want to
I don't want to talk her down after she's She's
got up early for us and come on the show.
So I really appreciate that, and I also suspect that
it's just part of the job.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Right.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
So if you're gonna if you an obviously, if you're
going to be a police officer, you're going to be
talking tough, and if you're going to be a children's commissioner,
you probably need to ramp up the kind of the
woky stuff, do you know what I mean? You want
to peop a lot to cut her in there, and
you want to acknowledge people all the time, and you
want to use nice soft words. So I mean, spare
some thought for the fact that she does have to
kind of perform for the role. I would like to
(05:28):
just state that I am adding the Children's commissioner role
to the list of things that I think the government
should be cutting. In fact, I would be saying that
any of these commissioner roles where you know they constant
climate commissioner, whatever, all of them, they provide advice to
the government in a form bundle of papers that the
government immediately takes and throws in the bin. It's all
just a performance. If we want to get serious about
(05:49):
saving money a la Argentina, how about we start cutting
a few of these roles, and I think would save
a fair As they say, it would just be pennies,
but as we say, take care of the pennies and
the pounds take care of themselves.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
I'm loving this blue skuy thinking we don't need anybody
to speak out on behalf of the children. We certainly
don't need anybody to do.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
You know.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
The Commerce Commissioner keeps saying all the things that are
wrong and the money and the resources and the time
it goes into, you know, holding whatever businesses to account, banks,
petrol stations, supermarkets, you name it, and nothing ever changes.
I reckon if you're proven to be ineffective for more
(06:33):
than a year, your god, well, hang on, I don't
mean me rewrap right after pay? Isn't it great being
able to put things on the never never and have
them straight away? Do you have to be a pseudon
kind of person to buy things that way? And if
(06:54):
you are that kind of person, what kind of things
are you buying?
Speaker 3 (06:56):
After Pay has put out a list of the things
that we bought this year in quite significant quantities, and
it's quite weird what we bought. The ring lights appear
to be the highest selling eye this year. Now, if
you're wondering what the hell is a ring light, A
ring light is the thing that all the young people
are buying. It's a light literally in the shape of
a ring and they put it behind the camera, so
(07:16):
they make this is why when you're zooming or teaming
with young people, they look amazing and you look hideous
with your camera going up looks looking straight up your
nose and all your shadows and all that stuff. You
want to get yourself a ring light. That's what they've
been doing. That is one hundred percent the most normal
thing on the list. So what they've done is they've
broken it down into generational categories. I'm going to say
(07:38):
that right up front, if you're gen X, you have
reason to be proud of yourself because it seems that
the gen xs are buying the sensible things, and gen
X is a people. I'm going to just take a
rough stab at the age here, but I think it's
like over forty fourish or something like that. Anyway, loving
the smart rings. Those are the rings they put on
the finger and they can do all the like you know,
diagnostic things and all the stuff going on into your body. Millennials,
(08:02):
which is the category that I belong in, largely have
bought you know, like grown up things like a hammock.
H Nothing says leisure like a hammock. And robot vacuums,
because you know, you want to be efficient in the house.
But then we follow it up with buying six thousand labuboos,
which is, you know, far if you're a millennial mate,
you're way too old to be playing with the labubuo.
(08:23):
But then also, and I had to google this because
this is my first introduction to this, something called a
blind box toy, like a Sonny or a Smithsky's what
these are a pair of smiskies are apparently tiny little
figurines that glow in the dark, and they just they
that you buy them in poses that you would normally
find yourself in during the course of the day, like
I don't know, bending over to pick up the ten
(08:44):
thousandth toy car that you are of the day, and
then you're supposed to just God only knows pop them
in weird places in the house, like in your cupboard.
So you open your capital, there's mis miski. Apparently millennials
are spending their money on this. Sixty seven percent of
the sales of these things, which you would think would
be you know, for kids, is bought by millennial women
gen Z. The younger ones, kids under the age of
(09:06):
about twenty nine are buying digital cameras, which the rest
of us got over about twenty years ago, heatless curler sets.
Now I'm on board with that walking pads, which is
basically just a treadmill, but one that you can pack
away easily, and cowboy boots, because cowboy boots are apparently.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Back terrifying the walking pad thing. You can do that
put it under your desk and walk while you work,
can't you. I think that's the idea behind that. I mean,
we've really lost it as a society, haven't we. The
laboo boos, I mean obviously not doing anything with them. Heah,
(09:44):
that was wondering what you do. You're collecting them, you
can try to give them as pristine as possible, and
hopefully the bottom doesn't fall out of the labooboo market.
Nothing worse than the bottom falling out of your botheram
experience three rat to worse, though, you could have a
nasty case of Mary Lago face.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Hey, the Suzie Wilds Vanity Fair article right now, I
told you about this Yesterday's called some drama with what
she said. You need to look at the accompanying function.
He's got photos of the whole time. Susie and Jade
Varnes and Marco Rubio and stuff. What is interesting is
they are extreme close ups. Like extreme close ups, you
can see every imperfection, every pore, every freckle. And when
(10:21):
you look at the Caroline Leavett one, every single jab
from the needle into her lips where she's injected in
the collagen, which I'm not passing judgment on, like you
do what you need to do to get that Mara
Lago face going, but you can see it. It's close
up and it is breaking the internet at the moment.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Well, and why would anybody want to look at that stuff?
I really don't know. It is weird. I have actually
been watching with some interest Carolyn Leavitt's face sort of
getting tighter and tighter. Okay, I guess it's It could
just be the strain of you're having to pretend that
all the stuff that she's saying is real and right.
(10:59):
Maybe I am a Glenn Hart. That was the rewrap,
the penultimate one for the year. We'll see back yere
ultimately tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
The rerad or Rerapradrad For more from News Talk set
B listen live on air or online and keep our
shows with you wherever you go with our podcasts on iHeartRadio.
You're listening to a podcast from news Talk, SAIDB. Follow
this and our wide range of podcasts now on iHeartRadio
Rewrap Today.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
There, welcome to the Rewrap for Thursday, all the best
fits from the Mike Hoskin Breakfast guest starring Heather duple
c Ellen on News Talk, said B. In a silly
a package, I am Glen Hart, and today another shocking
poll for the government around the year, so nice for them,
(00:46):
Heather things we should get rid of all the commissioners.
We'll find out what people have been buying on after
pay and a fun new filter for you for the socials.
But before any of that, electoral fraud is alive and
well in New Zealand. You thought we were corrupt, well
think again.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Well, surely to goodness the judge throwing out that election
result in Auckland has started the clock ticking on postal
voting council elections. I mean, this case may not seem
like a big deal, given that it involves just seventy
nine votes in just one subdivision in just one relatively
small local board election in Auckland. But the seventy nine
may be just the tip of the iceberg. I mean
it may actually be that hundreds of ballot papers and
(01:24):
that subdivision was stolen from letterboxes, filled in and then
passed off as legit votes. Now Ken Turner from the
White Tarkety's other side of the city is also considering
legal options because he reckons something funny happened with about
two hundred and twelve votes in his election as well.
None of this surprises me because years ago, when friends
of mine were still flatting, as happens, mail turned up
(01:46):
for previous tenants. Some of that quite a lot of
that male, like we're talking close to about ten to
twelve pieces of that male were voting papers from previous tenants.
So my friends did what flatties do. They filled the
papers and sent them all back in as legitimate votes.
No one ever got in trouble for it. We all
know that the male voting system is ripe for being gamed,
but perhaps in our naivety, we hadn't imagined it would
(02:07):
go from a bunch of silly flatties to what seems
like it may have been an orchestrated rigging of an election.
At worst, postal voting should absolutely one hundred percent go
the way of the horse in the cart. It is
not the only reason so many of us can't be
bothered with council elections, but it is a significant part
of it. Be honest about it. You get the mail,
you pop it on the counter, you forget about it,
(02:28):
you find it after election day as well passed, or
you see it then and then you find it too
hard to remember where to find a postbox. Not only
does it make it harder to vote, but it also
makes it we now find out harder to trust the
election outcome.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Can we please just get the online thing happening? How
hard is it to do online voting? How hard? Come on? Seriously,
it's so rewrap. I mean, I'm pretty sure most of
these poles happen online, don't they.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Yeah, the great news with Labour on thirty eight percent,
Well actually I hadn't mentioned it yet, but it does
bear mentioning. But a bit of a brutal poll for
the government out last night. This is the post freshwater
strategy pole. Labour's on thirty eight, Nationals on thirty so
that's quite a big lead for for Labor. Then you've
got the other parties Act eight, New Zealand First nine,
Green's nine, Marti Party two. Now I would say, Look,
(03:16):
I've been asked today what do I think of these
and are these real? I do think that these poles
are real, but I and I do think the government
should be worried about it. But I don't think it's
going to mean a change of government at the next election.
And I don't think Labour should be should be getting
too excited. What this is is a protest poll, right,
So what's going on at the moment are people is
that people are disappointed in what's going on with the
government and they want better from the government. So they're
(03:38):
kind of flirting with the idea of labor But of
course to come around to the next election, no one's
actually going to well some are, but we're not actually
going to vote labor in. But I think we would
just like to see a little bit more improvement from
the coalition government. That's what's going on.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
When Lax and se you watch for the rolling thunder,
Mike's coming.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Yeah, that rolling thunder is Yeah. Are we still waiting, Yeah,
we're waiting for the rolling So are we waiting for
the We honestly can have a kick out feature.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
We're just hasn't quite a covey.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Yeah, it's due to come. But we've got to keep
taking barnacles off this boat. You got the one where
the car is in the ditch as well.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Yes, it's a grind as we get the car out
of the ditch and turned up the right way and
into first and second gear.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
There we go, just make sure we got we got
the whole lot.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
The bingo card is full. Yeah, the old fast tracking
and kicking ass. We haven't quite seen the fruition full
fruition of that yet, but maybe next year, maybe next
year rewrap right. So the government's been looking at cutting costs,
particularly in the public service. Heather's been brainstorming this idea
(04:42):
and she's I think she's gotten onto an elegant solution.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Heather. Why do these officials like Claire Ahmed have to
spend three quarters of an interview slot stating the obvious?
It's so frustrating, Penny fairpoint. Look, I don't want to
I don't want to talk her down after she's She's
got up early for us and come on the show.
So I really appreciate that, and I also suspect that
it's just part of the job.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Right.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
So if you're gonna if you an obviously, if you're
going to be a police officer, you're going to be
talking tough, and if you're going to be a children's commissioner,
you probably need to ramp up the kind of the
woky stuff, do you know what I mean? You want
to peop a lot to cut her in there, and
you want to acknowledge people all the time, and you
want to use nice soft words. So I mean, spare
some thought for the fact that she does have to
kind of perform for the role. I would like to
(05:28):
just state that I am adding the Children's commissioner role
to the list of things that I think the government
should be cutting. In fact, I would be saying that
any of these commissioner roles where you know they constant
climate commissioner, whatever, all of them, they provide advice to
the government in a form bundle of papers that the
government immediately takes and throws in the bin. It's all
just a performance. If we want to get serious about
(05:49):
saving money a la Argentina, how about we start cutting
a few of these roles, and I think would save
a fair As they say, it would just be pennies,
but as we say, take care of the pennies and
the pounds take care of themselves.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
I'm loving this blue skuy thinking we don't need anybody
to speak out on behalf of the children. We certainly
don't need anybody to do.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
You know.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
The Commerce Commissioner keeps saying all the things that are
wrong and the money and the resources and the time
it goes into, you know, holding whatever businesses to account, banks,
petrol stations, supermarkets, you name it, and nothing ever changes.
I reckon if you're proven to be ineffective for more
(06:33):
than a year, your god, well, hang on, I don't
mean me rewrap right after pay? Isn't it great being
able to put things on the never never and have
them straight away? Do you have to be a pseudon
kind of person to buy things that way? And if
(06:54):
you are that kind of person, what kind of things
are you buying?
Speaker 3 (06:56):
After Pay has put out a list of the things
that we bought this year in quite significant quantities, and
it's quite weird what we bought. The ring lights appear
to be the highest selling eye this year. Now, if
you're wondering what the hell is a ring light, A
ring light is the thing that all the young people
are buying. It's a light literally in the shape of
a ring and they put it behind the camera, so
(07:16):
they make this is why when you're zooming or teaming
with young people, they look amazing and you look hideous
with your camera going up looks looking straight up your
nose and all your shadows and all that stuff. You
want to get yourself a ring light. That's what they've
been doing. That is one hundred percent the most normal
thing on the list. So what they've done is they've
broken it down into generational categories. I'm going to say
(07:38):
that right up front, if you're gen X, you have
reason to be proud of yourself because it seems that
the gen xs are buying the sensible things, and gen
X is a people. I'm going to just take a
rough stab at the age here, but I think it's
like over forty fourish or something like that. Anyway, loving
the smart rings. Those are the rings they put on
the finger and they can do all the like you know,
diagnostic things and all the stuff going on into your body. Millennials,
(08:02):
which is the category that I belong in, largely have
bought you know, like grown up things like a hammock.
H Nothing says leisure like a hammock. And robot vacuums,
because you know, you want to be efficient in the house.
But then we follow it up with buying six thousand labuboos,
which is, you know, far if you're a millennial mate,
you're way too old to be playing with the labubuo.
(08:23):
But then also, and I had to google this because
this is my first introduction to this, something called a
blind box toy, like a Sonny or a Smithsky's what
these are a pair of smiskies are apparently tiny little
figurines that glow in the dark, and they just they
that you buy them in poses that you would normally
find yourself in during the course of the day, like
I don't know, bending over to pick up the ten
(08:44):
thousandth toy car that you are of the day, and
then you're supposed to just God only knows pop them
in weird places in the house, like in your cupboard.
So you open your capital, there's mis miski. Apparently millennials
are spending their money on this. Sixty seven percent of
the sales of these things, which you would think would
be you know, for kids, is bought by millennial women
gen Z. The younger ones, kids under the age of
(09:06):
about twenty nine are buying digital cameras, which the rest
of us got over about twenty years ago, heatless curler sets.
Now I'm on board with that walking pads, which is
basically just a treadmill, but one that you can pack
away easily, and cowboy boots, because cowboy boots are apparently.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Back terrifying the walking pad thing. You can do that
put it under your desk and walk while you work,
can't you. I think that's the idea behind that. I mean,
we've really lost it as a society, haven't we. The
laboo boos, I mean obviously not doing anything with them. Heah,
(09:44):
that was wondering what you do. You're collecting them, you
can try to give them as pristine as possible, and
hopefully the bottom doesn't fall out of the labooboo market.
Nothing worse than the bottom falling out of your botheram
experience three rat to worse, though, you could have a
nasty case of Mary Lago face.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Hey, the Suzie Wilds Vanity Fair article right now, I
told you about this Yesterday's called some drama with what
she said. You need to look at the accompanying function.
He's got photos of the whole time. Susie and Jade
Varnes and Marco Rubio and stuff. What is interesting is
they are extreme close ups. Like extreme close ups, you
can see every imperfection, every pore, every freckle. And when
(10:21):
you look at the Caroline Leavett one, every single jab
from the needle into her lips where she's injected in
the collagen, which I'm not passing judgment on, like you
do what you need to do to get that Mara
Lago face going, but you can see it. It's close
up and it is breaking the internet at the moment.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Well, and why would anybody want to look at that stuff?
I really don't know. It is weird. I have actually
been watching with some interest Carolyn Leavitt's face sort of
getting tighter and tighter. Okay, I guess it's It could
just be the strain of you're having to pretend that
all the stuff that she's saying is real and right.
(10:59):
Maybe I am a Glenn Hart. That was the rewrap,
the penultimate one for the year. We'll see back yere
ultimately tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
The rerad or Rerapradrad For more from News Talk set
B listen live on air or online and keep our
shows with you wherever you go with our podcasts on iHeartRadio.
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