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The Re-Wrap

by Newstalk ZB

All the best bits of the Mike Hosking Breakfast on Newstalk ZB that you might've missed, put together by GlennZB.

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  1. THE RE-WRAP: The Day Labour Lost the Election

    THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Friday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) Oh, It Was Yesterday, If You Were Wondering/Does Luxon Have Any Idea What He's Doing?/Mark the Week/You Get a Star! And You Get a Star!/More Cars We've Never Heard Of See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  2. THE RE-WRAP: Debate-O-Rama

    THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Thursday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) Shouting Into the Void/Brains Just About All Drained/Young, Dumb and Part of the Administration/Music Is Hard/Passport Conclusion See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  3. THE RE-WRAP: Rules of Engagement

    THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Wednesday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) Just Say Whatever/Who'd Vote for That?/How MMP Works/New Passport. No Waiting/Failing the Prat Test See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  4. THE RE-WRAP: Young People Still Useless

    THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Tuesday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) Only Boomers Vote/How MMP Works/Charter Schools for the Chop/Oooh, Look What He Gets Paid See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  5. THE RE-WRAP: Campaign Wobbles

    THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Monday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) Careful Who You Bring Back from the Dead/Murder Is Not a Hard Luck Story/Are Politicians First Responders Too?/The New Supermarket In Town (well... in some towns) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  6. THE RE-WRAP: It's Only Been Two Weeks?

    THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Friday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) How Long Left?/Another Poll to Ignore Completely/But What Are They Actually Like?/The Weird World of Hosk/And the Prize Goes To... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  7. THE RE-WRAP: A Lot of Idiots Out There

    THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Thursday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) Underestimate Them at Your Peril/How MMP Works/Kiwisaver a Bit Too Optional/Still Surprisingly French See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  8. THE RE-WRAP: So, I Guess That Just Happened

    THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Wednesday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) I Know What I Was Watching/Give Me Loads of Pills/How MMP Works. For the Millionth Time/Interviewing Archer See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  9. THE RE-WRAP: Here's Why Your Plan Won't Work

    THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Tuesday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) Good Try Though/Wait... We Can Vote Twice?/Another Poll to Ignore/Let's Get This Over With/Does Anyone Actually Know What's Going On? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  10. THE RE-WRAP: If You're Just Joining Us...

    THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Monday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) Actually, Don't Bother/We Can't Even Afford the Interest/Men Are the Problem/Trump Is the Problem/Supermarkets Solved See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  11. THE RE-WRAP: Did You Watch the Debate?

    THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Friday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) What Do You Mean, WHICH Debate?/Beef With Audrey/Chatty Old Helen/Mark the Week See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  12. THE RE-WRAP: Your Numbers Suck

    THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Thursday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) Go Buy a Calculator/This Week's Shiny Thing/Another Poll Best Not Mentioned/Preaching To the Enrolled/Pies Seem On Brand See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  13. THE RE-WRAP: Does He Have a Learning Disability?

    THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Wednesday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) Can He Not Actually Read?/More People To Ignore At All Costs/TOP Self-Destructs See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  14. THE RE-WRAP: Pulling $18B from a Hat

    THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Tuesday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) Fingers Crossed, Everyone/Why We Never Do Polls/Still Feeling a Bit Stink/Trump Clutches at Straws/There's Always Someone Worse Off Than You See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  15. THE RE-WRAP: He Watches so We Don't Have To

    THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Monday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) The Truman Hosk/Where's My Bribe?/Kids Can't Vote/The Knife Should've Been a Giveaway See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  16. THE RE-WRAP: And That About Wraps it Up for Fast Track

    THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Friday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) All Mouth, No Trousers/Stop Talking About Polls!!!/Mark the Week/What Would You Do? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  17. THE RE-WRAP: Even When You Win, You Lose

    THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Thursday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) Money, That Is/Has Anybody Actually Read It?/Kicking Off/Keeping Humans at a Distance/From Lions Too See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  18. THE RE-WRAP: You Can Never Have Too Many Reviews

    THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Wednesday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) Especially When It Comes To the End Times/A Very, Very, Very Fine House/Life After Politics/Too Much Tinfoil See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  19. THE RE-WRAP: Idle Hands

    THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Tuesday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) It's Like I Don't Even Know You/Remember the FTA/Tracking Success/Who Doesn't Love a V-Dub?/Bit Edgy? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  20. THE RE-WRAP: Why Don't We Have That Gear?

    THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Monday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) Finals Is Different/How Grocery Prices Work/Tourism Is Back, Baby/How MMP Works See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  21. THE RE-WRAP: Why So Uptight?

    THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Friday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) Outrage-Maxxing/Mark the Week/Where If Not Here?/Who Do You Trust with Your Money?/Stop the Bus See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  22. THE RE-WRAP: Take My Supermarket, Please

    THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Thursday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) Hosk Heats Up/Putting the G Back in GDP/Maybe Rules and Regulations Apply After All/Remember Trump I? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  23. THE RE-WRAP: AI Won't Kill Us

    THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Wednesday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) Probably/The Four Year Long Mistake/Lovely Weather Lately/The Most Ironically Named Social Media Platform Ever/That Number Is Also Hard to Believe See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  24. THE RE-WRAP: Polls Are Banned

    THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Tuesday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) That About Wraps it Up for Polls/Free Money You Didn't Ask For/AI Apocalypse Update/Watching the Emmys So You Don't Have To See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  25. THE RE-WRAP: How To Win When You Lose

    THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Monday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) Plenty of Positives/How Do I Get That Job?/Bonds Explained/Champagne Just Gets Better/So Fun at the Stadium See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  26. THE RE-WRAP: A Week of Hard Labour

    THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Friday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) Catching PREFU Fever/A Monumental Cockup, But Not the End of the World/Mark the Week/Trump vs Reality/How to Turn Wah's Success Into a Bad News Story See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  27. THE RE-WRAP: Shall We Take the Scenic Route?

    THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Thursday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) When to Fast Track and When Not To/Not Good News, But Not Why You Think/Poor Old Chipster/The Most Expensive Phone In History See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  28. THE RE-WRAP: The Dream Is Back

    THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Wednesday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) And You Tell the Kids That These Days.../Kicking Ass, Scraping Barnacles/Gotta Have a Garage/Getting it Right is Boring/This Just In from TikTok... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  29. THE RE-WRAP: Collating All the Data We Ignore

    THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Tuesday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) Two Wrong Polls Don't Make a Right/Hard Out There for a Chip/Who Doesn't Want Cheaper Groceries?/How Fast Fashion Came and Went/The Price of Art See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  30. THE RE-WRAP: Wahs By One

    THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Monday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) Probably Closer Than it Should've Been/Such a Shame Apu Was Cancelled/What's a Labour Party to Do?/Is Chippie Really Your Man?/How to Be a Doctor See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  31. THE RE-WRAP: This Has Got to Be a Joke

    THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Friday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) Unbelievable Air New Zealand Story/Goodbye, Cool World/Mark the Week/Clean Slate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  32. THE RE-WRAP: This Makes No Sense and Here's Why

    THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Thursday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) I Love Not Having to Think/How About the House Yesterday?/Hospo Has Always Been a Basket Case See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  33. THE RE-WRAP: Up the OCR

    THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Wednesday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) Unless it Actually Goes Up/Where's the Money Coming From?/Why Would You Stay?/Is My Hybrid Not a Hybrid?/Aren't You Drinking? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  34. THE RE-WRAP: How to Get Nurses to Nurse

    THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Tuesday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) Turns Out, It's a Really Hard Job/How to Slow Down Fast Track/Chinese Takeover of the Pacific/Chinese Takeover of the Car Industry/Exactly Why We Never Do Polls See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  35. THE RE-WRAP: Big Build-Up

    THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Monday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) Can You Contain Yourself?/Another Day at the Office/Come On, Australia/No Kings. Seriously/Out to Lunch See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  36. THE RE-WRAP: AI Apocalypse Update Update

    THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Friday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) It's Just Robots vs Robots Now/A Bit Too Taxy for My Liking/Even the Netballers Aren't Into It Anymore/Mark the Week/In Trump's Quiet Moments See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  37. THE RE-WRAP: It's Barely a Party Anymore

    THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Thursday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) So Let's Forget About Them/What's Not to Believe?/Ever Boosted?/Much Worse Work Stories/Suck On That, Zuck See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  38. THE RE-WRAP: For Dolly

    THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Wednesday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) Remembering One of the Greats See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  39. THE RE-WRAP: Banning the Unbannable

    THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Tuesday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) We Got There Eventually with Cigs/The Polls We Don't Do/Mince at the TOP/Data Centres Are Suss/Daylight Second See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  40. THE RE-WRAP: Who Made the Economy Stupid?

    THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Monday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) I Hope it Wasn't Me/Weird Way to Make Policy/Up the Wahs Indeed/Humble Hosk/The Person Who Has Everything See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  41. THE RE-WRAP: Here's To You, Taranaki

    THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Friday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) Oh, And Vegas, Obviously/Will We Ever Pay Less for Power/Mark the Week/So Much for Robots/The Public Face of DOC See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  42. THE RE-WRAP: What's So Hard About Buying a House?

    THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Thursday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) Hasn't Everybody Got One?/Hosk Can't Let it Go/Sports Brats Keep Bratting/Can't Complain About the Weather/It's Almost Like Democracy See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  43. THE RE-WRAP: So, About That War...

    THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Wednesday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) Seems to Be Still Happening/Trans-Tasman Friends With Benefits/Looking Up Down South/Create a Competitive Environment/Concerts Aren't Worth It See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  44. THE RE-WRAP: Tax. For and Against

    THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Tuesday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) I Think We're Mostly Against, Aren't We?/Unlike TOP/Chris-ye/Don't Talk Back to the Prez/Giraffes Are So Hot Right Now See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  45. THE RE-WRAP: This Week's Fish'n'Chip Wrapper

    THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Monday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) Move On/But Not to TOP/How Awesome Is Mining?/How Awesome Are the Warriors?/Bad Year for Bubbles See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  46. THE RE-WRAP: AI Apocalypse Update

    THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Friday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) Take Me To Your Leader/Picking and Choosing What to Prop Up/Mark the Week/America's Next Big Mouthpiece See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  47. THE RE-WRAP: It Was Never On

    THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Thursday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) So Weird How Many People Couldn't See That/No Re-Write Required/Rocked to Sleep by Rail See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  48. THE RE-WRAP: A Safe Bet

    THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Wednesday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) Time for a Reality Check See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  49. THE RE-WRAP: And They Say MMP Is Stupid

    THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Tuesday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) They Might Have a Point/Still Don't Remember Enrolling/Why So Solar-Resistant?/Lionsgate? Really/A Night on the Tiles See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  50. THE RE-WRAP: Daylight Second

    THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Monday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) You Guys Interested In This?/Universally Bad Idea/Things Not to Worry About/Now That's How You Do It/More Polls Not to Talk About See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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