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January 21, 2025 • 13 mins

THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Wednesday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) Made You Click/Vaping the Lesser of Two Evils/We Decided it Was Worth Something/Biking to the Show/Sex and Honey

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
The Rewrap.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
Okay there, welcome to the Rewrap for Wednesday, all the
best bits from the mic hosting breakfast on news Talks.
It'd be in a sillier package starring Rhon Bridge, Iron,
Glenn Heart and today vaping versus smoking. We've still got
our nickers and are not over this.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
What is a mean coin?

Speaker 3 (00:44):
And why does Milania Trump have one? What does a
bike valet? And why did the Luke Combs have them?
And why have they been taking honey off people.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
At the French border?

Speaker 3 (00:54):
But before any of that, headlines like these they just clickbait,
aren't they.

Speaker 4 (00:59):
We're our own worst enemies, us media people. We make
mountains out of molehills, and we do all the time
running what you would call non story story. We do
this all the time. The problem is that people now
have loads of choice in where they get their news,
and if they get sick of journos making a fuss
about nothing, they vote with their feet and they go

(01:20):
somewhere else. Another nail in the coffin. And I watched
yesterday Elon Musk do his so called Nazi salute at
Trump's event?

Speaker 2 (01:29):
Did you see that?

Speaker 4 (01:29):
Did you see the Nazi salute that everybody else saw?
What I saw was a guy touch his heart, then
do a sort of throwing gesture, and then say the
words my heart goes out to you. It couldn't have
been more clear in my eyes. Surely any reasonable person
watching that would have thought the same thing. A guy
touches his heart, gestures to the crowd, then says, my

(01:50):
heart goes out to you. No luck, you would blow
a kiss. No, apparently he was doing a Nazi salute.
The headlines yesterday everywhere read billionaire Musk appears to do
Nazi salute to Trump fans at inauguration rally. What watching
the same thing? Are we on the same planet?

Speaker 2 (02:12):
The answer is no.

Speaker 4 (02:14):
Many in the media, especially in the United States, seem
to have bought into this Democrats campaign line about Trump
being a tyrant, that he was echoing Nazi Germany, that
he was holding that fundraiser in New York, remember, in
honor of some Nazi rally back in the day. So
when these same American media outlets see Musk holder's hand
in the air, they see something that we don't, they

(02:34):
see a Nazi salute, and the headline goes around the
world and trust is eroded. The same thing happened here yesterday.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
With the TWI Billboard story. Did you see that one?

Speaker 4 (02:45):
It wasn't a story Twoi's online Billboard about a week
ago said surely she wouldn't shoplift again. Ye're right, obviously
a reference to goleras garment in her tope bag pack
and save kind of funny, pretty harmless. The headline, though,
TOOI slated for mocking goalras. Who's doing the slating? Apparently

(03:05):
this whole story was kicked off by two random, unnamed
people having a winge on social media. On Facebook, the
number of complaints to the ASA zero mountains out of Molehills,
run too much of the stuff, and eventually every day
kiwis find that they can't relate to you, and off
they go to get their news from somewhere else.

Speaker 3 (03:23):
My fear with the twoey Billboard stuff is that it's
starting to feel a little bit like a tired old
idea that isn't always as funny as it used to be.
It'd be my complaint, and as far as Elon Musks,
he shouldn't really be doing a stiff arm anything. That's
where we went wrong. Like, yes, his heart was going

(03:47):
out to Trump, but he was sending it out with
a stiff arm.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
Pointed back at an angle. I don't think it might
have been the issue there.

Speaker 3 (03:54):
So right, So, yeah, smoking, as I think, still at
an all time low. They thing at an all time high.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
But is that better?

Speaker 4 (04:06):
Ryan thinks, So now the issue of vaping and smoking,
and Casey Costello just gets a hammering every time she
opens her mouth. And well, I mean because it's to
do with smoking, I suppose. Anyway, Casey Costello has come
out and said, we're going to give anyone who's trying
to quit smoking, we're going to give them a free
vape device and one month's supply of nicotine pods. And

(04:30):
all the GPS are up in arms about this, and
it doesn't make sense to me, because vaping is better
for you than smoking.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
They know that it might be.

Speaker 4 (04:39):
It's sort of like having a chicken sandwich instead of
a real greasy hamburger. That's how I would differentiate. It's
quite a scientific way to explain it. Anyway, the GPS
are upset, and here's their justification they're looking at this report,
this study, only sixteen percent one sex of participants we're

(04:59):
both smoke free and vape free after the program. Now,
that to me is a good thing. Sixteen percent is
pretty good because remember we're down to the the last hardcore,
stubborn lot of smokers in New Zealand who just won't
give up. So if you can do a fraction of
that by offering them a free vape, surely that would be.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
A good thing.

Speaker 4 (05:20):
Anyway, a third of the participants in the study gave
up smoking for vaping, so you get them off something
that's worse onto something that's better. I can't see the
downside of, at least trying it. We're at the you know,
we're at the last five percent of Kiwis who smoke. Now,
I think you've got to just throw the kitchen sink
at that, don't you.

Speaker 3 (05:40):
Yeah, I mean, surely you're better off vaping than smoking.
Surely it's the people who never smoked who take up
vaping out of the blue depth. Somehow we've got to
stop that from happening. Rewrap, now.

Speaker 2 (05:59):
We've got.

Speaker 3 (06:01):
The world just gets more and more confusing, even for
an alleged tech expert. Like myself, I've got no idea
what a mean call do you does? Ryan?

Speaker 4 (06:10):
Milania Trump has launched her on you might have seen
this yesday, launched her own cryptocurrency. Call it well, it's
called a meme. It's called there's a dollar sign and
then the word millennia. It's called a millennia meme, a
crypto meme currency. Does anyone know exactly what actually what
this is? Because if I'm being completely honest with you,

(06:31):
I have no idea. I read an article this morning
from the Wall Street Journal which explained that the real
crypto people are upset. They thought that when Trump came
in the you know, the price was going to skyrocket
as indeed it has, it's through the roof, and that
the cryptocurrency world was going to be taken seriously. And
apparently what Milania has done is undermined the real crypto

(06:54):
guys with this crypto meme thing. Are they not the
same thing? I honestly don't understand the difference. If anyone
can explain that to me, nine two nine two is
number to text.

Speaker 3 (07:07):
So you say that you've got a yes, a currency,
and then you've got it.

Speaker 4 (07:12):
I think I'm pretty sure that's that's what we're doing here. Yeah,
and there was some estimate that these were worth billions
of dollars that millennia. How can a meme be worth
one point seven billion dollars? And how can that valuation
be given overnight?

Speaker 2 (07:30):
It's beyond me. It's beyond me.

Speaker 4 (07:32):
I mean I have a small brain at the best
of times, but this is really really pushing testing me.

Speaker 3 (07:37):
Yeah. I think it's just falls into the category of
people decide that something's worth something, then it is. I mean,
even money, just normal money. Somewhere along the line, people
decided that that was worth something even though it isn't.

Speaker 2 (07:54):
They just agreed that it was.

Speaker 3 (07:56):
You can get quote philosophical about this sort of stuff,
can't you a rewrap? Now? For some reason, I actually
know why, it's not. For some reason, Ryan went to
the Luke combsconcert last week in Auckland because he got
given tickets. I think that's what that's why he went.
But he didn't go on his bike.

Speaker 4 (08:16):
I went to the Luke Holmes concert on Friday over
the weekend and it was a great concert, had a
good time. But on the way there, all of there
was a big flag up and there was all of
the sort of people standing around with clipboards, and so
I went over and had a look.

Speaker 2 (08:31):
There's a bike valet. Have you ever seen this?

Speaker 4 (08:34):
There's a bike valet that's run it must be at
all events at Eden Park and you can go and
park your bike for free. But it's an all contransport
funded thing. Three people I counted with clipboards, one of
them with a little iPads. Would presumably you could sign
your bike in. They had a bike rack setup, they
had flags, they had posters, they had stickers, an entire setup,

(08:58):
and there was one bike, literally one bike, and it
was an almost sold out show at Eden Park. And
I just thought, how much is that costing? And also
if you.

Speaker 2 (09:11):
Were going to offer free bike parks.

Speaker 4 (09:13):
As a way to you know, presumably they want to
carry cycling when there's nothing wrong with that.

Speaker 2 (09:17):
But if you're going to do it, would you do
it at a country music gig? Would they wouldn't they
come in utes? You know, wouldn't they come and tractors?

Speaker 4 (09:25):
I don't think they're going to be biking to the gig.
Besides that, most of them were doing shoeies out of
their you know, drinking beer out of their shoes.

Speaker 2 (09:33):
Do you then want them to ride home? I wouldn't
sess you.

Speaker 3 (09:37):
You would prefer that they ride home then drive home.
But I was just trying to think if I've ever
heard of anybody biking to a concert before, Because the
one do you reckon that? The one bike also was
one of those three people with the clipboards that belong
to them.

Speaker 2 (09:52):
Probably actually, do you know what? Well?

Speaker 4 (09:54):
The fact that there wasn't three bikes would indicate. It's
an indictment on Atland Transport that even their own clipboard
holders didn't bike to the concert. Shame on them all.

Speaker 3 (10:07):
Possibly, if you're offering a service like that, you might
want to, I don't know, tell people that you are.
They often go on about, you know, you can take
the bus and all that sort of stuff, but they
this is certainly the first I've heard that they're trying
to get people to bike to concerts. The rerap actually

(10:29):
best for a Queen concert. I'm just trying to think
of the songs about bicycles. You've got your bicycle race there,
haven't you the Queen? Other than that, are there any
many other songs about biking? I sort of think of
the Rainbow Connection from the mapp movie because one of

(10:52):
the mapp movies that are all on bikes. Weren't they
but was that from the map up paper the sequel.
This is going way back. You probably don't even know
what a map.

Speaker 4 (11:00):
It is over to France, where customs have had a
great time over the last year picking up tons of
a legally imported honey that has been touted as an
all natural sexual enhancement treatment, so they called it aphrodisiac honey,
and literally toms of the stuff they have confiscated at

(11:24):
the border. It's packets of little honey and gels that
are sold as shots or sticks with names like black
Horse or Biomax. And before you run for your toast
to swap out the marmite lads, it doesn't work, okay,
honey is that it is not a thing to do
with honey. What they're actually doing, and I can see
Glenn's interest peaking now, what they're actually doing is putting pills,

(11:47):
crushing up you know, viagra, putting it into the honey
and then importing it into France from places like Malaysia, so.

Speaker 3 (11:55):
You are still taking it orally. I thought it was
just you were running it on.

Speaker 4 (11:59):
Maybe I didn't never cross my mind, Glenn, but clearly
it's crossed jewels.

Speaker 3 (12:05):
Well, I was just thinking, you know, depending on where
your rubber it and who's doing the rubbing, could work.

Speaker 2 (12:12):
All right.

Speaker 3 (12:13):
I've seen nine and a half weeks. I know how
some of these things go.

Speaker 2 (12:17):
No, and it's not then it's for oral ingestion.

Speaker 3 (12:20):
How old is that nine and a half week's reference?

Speaker 2 (12:22):
By the way, it's quite of maybe two old for
me then.

Speaker 4 (12:26):
Anyway, So the biggest tall apparently came from a signed
November thirteen tons worth of this eight hundred and.

Speaker 2 (12:32):
Sixty thousand sticks.

Speaker 4 (12:33):
Of shipment from Malaysia, and it's basically just crushed up
viagram mixed with some honey and Bob's your uncle.

Speaker 3 (12:40):
Yeah, I'm not quite asure wide. Nine and a half
weeks just tumbled out him in the mouth there. I
should have gone with fifty shades of gray. Obviously, I
mean even that's not that recent. But nine and a
half weeks, it turns out if you don't know what
I'm talking about. It was a movie that came out
in nineteen eighty six starring Mickey Rourke and conbassinger FA

(13:02):
singer Passenger. Anyway, all of those people and it was.
It was a kind of it was a bit saucy
because of the sex scenes, And there was one in
particular where the start getting stuff out of the fridge,
and which is why I made the reference to it.

(13:24):
I don't even know if I've ever seen it all
the way through. I might have only just watched that scene.
But anyway, why would I make that reference, especially to
somebody like Ryan who was not born until nineteen eighty seven,
the year after that movie came out. God, I'm old,
I am Glenn Heart still alive. That was the rewrap,

(13:44):
And you know, maybe I'll survive another day and I'll
be back with another one to morrow.

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