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February 27, 2025 10 mins

Kate Hawkesby and Tim Wilson joined Mike Hosking once more to Wrap the Week that was. 

They went through the list of MPs’ credit card expenses, discussed school lunches, and the latest conflict between Hosking and the ZB Afternoons hosts. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
If you're here on Ere and I'm here on Ere
and Glen got you up, what does Sam.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Do He's getting your coffee?

Speaker 1 (00:11):
Yeah, no, no, no.

Speaker 3 (00:12):
You're arguing. You're arguing to get your own damn coffee.

Speaker 1 (00:16):
Here's the problem. Here's the problem, Thinking said, thank you,
here's the problem. The problem is we're trying a new
outlet this morning because we want to spread ourselves around
the market. So normally we go to Scratch and we
had quality issues with Scratches, you'll remember, and they supplied
a they supplied they supplied a backup which which was
a massive improvement. But there's a new place called melbur

(00:39):
which and this is where and this is me me
coming to Sam's aid. I said, Melburg, he said, Sam said,
He said, what about Melburn, Let's try over there. But Melbourn,
distance wise, is further away from Scratch, And I said, whoops,
you're going to be pushing it. And what we found
out this morning is it's too far because Sam didn't
get back. To be fair, it was a bit of
a late decision. Was a late decision, that's because its

(01:00):
decision made. Yeah, well the decision was made about two
minutes past eight.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
Oh that's crazy that he's done unbelievably.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
Well, yeah, I think he has I think he has to.
I'll taste this. Look, this does feel a bit like
the hypothetical. Low, can we because that does feel like
a hypothetical. You're quite right, and we need to cut
to the chase. That was Ziggy Alberts. Oh sorry, got
to give them value for money because God knows why
they spend money on this. Ziggy Alberts New Love is

(01:29):
the name of the album. Do you know Ziggy Alberts?
Caddie No, I do not, Okay and me neither. What
about you, Tim Never?

Speaker 3 (01:36):
I mean I know Ziggy Marley.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
But Alberts.

Speaker 3 (01:38):
No.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
This is a more random crap that Glenn's found twelve tracks.
He's Australian. He wrote it all around the world, but
he got back to Australia, the East Coast of Australia,
and he's got twelve tracks and thirty and a half minutes.
So not not even yeah no, oh, now what do
you receive?

Speaker 3 (01:55):
This is what happens.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
This is what for Buck it is.

Speaker 3 (01:59):
This is what happened when Glenn he's paying us back
for having to call us up because you dispatched Sam
on this fruitless coffee.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
It's not fruitless because I've got my coffee.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
Yeah, how is the Melbourne Medium black?

Speaker 1 (02:09):
Melbourne Medium Black is a very good It's a highly
competitive product. What do we pay for that? How much
is it ten ninety for me and Jayce I paid
for Jason? I think you'll need to transfer more money
Jason had. Now, this is what's going on. This is
basically we are wigas because Jason was in the control
room earlier and Kerry, who does the nine to noon show,

(02:32):
she was dispatched to get Jason's coffee and she brought
back he has a seven hundred and fifty mil medium
flat cappuccino Sui Latah. Just disgusting, absolutely disgusting. Now where
are we at with the expense accounts, Katie, you're at
your observation of the expense accounts this morning in the
Pegasus Magnum prima Donna.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
Of course they're not buying that for themselves, you know,
of course they're not.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
Well, what's Chris Bishop doing on this laundry? Is he
doing is himself for somebody else's Well.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
They have a certain amount, don't they they're entitled to.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
Spend, do they I don't know, this is the point. No,
I don't know. Jason Caman and he said, well, what's
your computer doing at home? My printer, my special printer
at home? You said, let's get that back straight away
because I didn't pay for that. So suddenly I'm now
in the expenses gun because I raised this embarrassing issue
on air.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
Yeah, but like them, you do a lot of work
from home.

Speaker 3 (03:30):
From home.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
The majority of your day is spent working from home.
So that's what they're doing. They're working out on the road,
they're working over you know, that's what they've got to do.

Speaker 3 (03:40):
And they'd be aware that these expenses would be visible.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
So I think that's what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (03:45):
I have someone.

Speaker 1 (03:45):
I don't think there's a scandal here. It's just I mean,
even though they're published, and I can understand one bloke's
at Burger Fuel and dueis eating a lot of salmon,
and Mark's raiding the mini bar, it still doesn't explain
Chris's genuine laundry bill. I mean, no one else is
doing in the laundry like Chris is doing. So if
they're all out in the road doing the job, how
come Christmas laundering.

Speaker 3 (04:06):
Sympathetic. You're a clean freak. You should be more sympathetic myself. Woman.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
Should I if I get a printer at home from
enzid me? Should I? Suddenly? You know, I've got a
very nice cash mere top on. It will need a
hand It'll need a hand Lawndo, why don't I just
charge that to the company.

Speaker 3 (04:20):
Well, that's not the business.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
You see. I'm going to defend Mark because I think
he's the future leader of the National Power.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
Here Oh no, no, no, no, not after this week,
come on, yes.

Speaker 3 (04:30):
He will be.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
And so what I'm saying is I start my very
early campaign for Mike Mitchell for PM. Is he probably
worked late. He didn't he had to skip dinner and
so he needed to just have some nuts out of
the mini bar.

Speaker 3 (04:41):
It's get a meal, Yeah, okay, I have I have
heard that he has been working quite hard, like up
to midnight every night. So and I think a lot
of politicis you know a lot of these it's long
grinding hours. So so I'm not I'm not sure about
I'm not sure about the campaign for Mark to be

(05:01):
Leader of the National Party. I don't I don't think
I feel like Chrys will move on for it. Chris
Luxon will move on from this.

Speaker 1 (05:07):
Do you feed to be fair? To be fair? Tim
to Katie. She was on the Mark Mitchell campaign early
on before Luxo came along, and so she's been She's
got a thing about Mark has done for years and
do you know why?

Speaker 2 (05:20):
Why explain why? Because he's affable and front facing to
the public. It's very hard to dislike him because he
talks like a normal human. He comes across as a
man of the people. Luxeon is still too corporate. He
appears to me to be uncoachable and that he just
cannot seem to talk. He's got to give you his
you know, rehearsed bullet points, and so he seems removed

(05:42):
from humanity. You've got to be human and that's why
I back Mark.

Speaker 1 (05:46):
Sam just said he doesn't have an opinion on politics Wednesday.
Sam's undermining him here is now on our own show,
which is extraordinaryly he but nevertheless, I mean, I thought
it was a good slot. But Sam's saying he doesn't
even have an opinion. For goodness sake, he's raiding them.
Baron has got no opinions? How can you back him
for the Prime ministership?

Speaker 2 (06:04):
I'm what I'm most concerned about this morning is the
key with for it. Because I've been in the supermarket
top this morning. Here's the thing we don't get. Why
don't we do I don't understand why don't we get
the choice? Yes, you can bring in some Italian keepy
fruit if you want.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
Where's the New Zealand?

Speaker 3 (06:16):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (06:17):
Why do we not.

Speaker 1 (06:17):
Have the You raise a very important point to me.
What's in the kids lunches today?

Speaker 3 (06:23):
In the kids lunch it's it boiled eggs and some
other stuff I got, I got it started, my bride
picked it up. Because we're a team.

Speaker 1 (06:32):
So is it, broadly speaking, the same thing each day?

Speaker 3 (06:37):
No, it's not, because we get pushed back.

Speaker 1 (06:39):
So you've got it.

Speaker 3 (06:40):
You've got alternated. But I did butterfly toast yesterday. Butterfly
toast is toasted bread, but a veggie mite and some
cheese melted.

Speaker 1 (06:49):
And where's the butterfly coming?

Speaker 3 (06:52):
Are? You cut it? And you cut it and cut.

Speaker 1 (06:54):
It nice shapes.

Speaker 3 (06:56):
Rather than day So it's a butterfly Okay?

Speaker 1 (06:59):
The because maybe then the principles have a point if
you do something different every day because you get pushed back.
In my day, we just had the same thing every day.
It was what it was.

Speaker 3 (07:09):
In my day. Like we used to get so we
get the dog sausage at the beginning of the week,
and when the dog sausage ran out, we'd get raisins.

Speaker 1 (07:17):
Our sandwiches, lunch and sausage. Whatever happened to lunch and sausage.
You get two slices of white bread, you get the
lunch and sausage, and you wack a bit of tomato
sauce on it, and there's your sandwich.

Speaker 2 (07:29):
Lunch and sausage. Just give everybody colon cancer for lunch, disgusting.

Speaker 1 (07:34):
Well, I haven't got colon cancer. Look at me. I'm
drinking coffee. I've got the number one radio show in
the country, and I lived on lunch and sausage sandwiches.

Speaker 3 (07:47):
I think.

Speaker 2 (07:49):
I think you get to a certain age where you
can't You can no longer start sentences with in my
day because it's too far away.

Speaker 1 (07:55):
That's true. I do worry about that. Can I also
say I was just thinking about my dry cleaning bill
for cash Mere Top. Have you seen the video of Matt.

Speaker 3 (08:02):
Heath spelling spelling coffee all over the desk?

Speaker 1 (08:07):
Yeah, it's so going to do what's still allowed in
your studio. That's that's my well, that's my ongoing issue
with management shown and I'm not running an authoritarian enough
show is the point, because my argument with management isn't
going down well. But here's the first thing. There's two
points about Matt Heath. One. One of the first things
he did when he spilled his coffee in my studio

(08:27):
was take his top off and wipe it up. Now,
that to me is just the most random response to
a problem.

Speaker 3 (08:35):
But have you seen an He sent it, then he
sent it to Chris Bishop to get laundon.

Speaker 1 (08:40):
That's true. He's probably got to cover it off by Chris,
but he's he's.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
Just used to getting his kid off.

Speaker 3 (08:45):
That's his go to.

Speaker 1 (08:46):
Just well, that's my next point. If you look like him,
if you look like him, why would you take your
top off? Have you seen him? He's in shocking shape.
He's in shape. I cannot say it can't go why not?

Speaker 3 (09:02):
Here's the here's the here's the deal. I just got
to say, you're you're rinsing the PM for not not
showing agency. Where's where's where's the where's the agency shown? Here?
Where's where's the where's the is he in Jason's office?
What's the what's the timeline saying?

Speaker 1 (09:21):
What is the process currently underway? Yeah, no, I can't
answer that to be.

Speaker 3 (09:25):
Fair today, Command Defense and Tyler apparently the grievances go
both ways.

Speaker 1 (09:31):
Just have to listen to this.

Speaker 4 (09:32):
I'm just looking over the rubbishman here, and Hoskin doesn't
empty the rubbishman when he leaves because he's too chopped
up little bits of lemon in here. Yeah, and so,
and I understand he's on some kind of lemon detox
or something.

Speaker 1 (09:42):
Yeah, you can't leave Fraten the band come on, So
we put that one to be apart apart from the
lemon slices in the rubbish b We might bring that
up with management about that, all right, No, Citrus didn't
it the No, They've got a very good point. I
should empty the rubbishan after my show. I empty the
rubbish ban for the whole day every morning, but I
should also empty the rubbishman after my show as well,

(10:05):
which would then mean I'd empty the rubbishman on a
twenty four hour cycle three times, which I think is
about two times too many for you.

Speaker 2 (10:12):
Should be invoicing, insed me for a cleaner's fee as well,
on top of.

Speaker 1 (10:16):
Your Apparently I've been told we pay for cleaners. They've
just never been seen. They're very much like that guy
on the Ashburton Water Committee. They get the money, but
they don't turn up count No Scotland.

Speaker 3 (10:26):
Yeah, they're actually doing it by zoom from Scotland.

Speaker 1 (10:29):
It's all fine. It certainly looks like that. If you
said to me, hey, have you seen the cleaners there
in Scotland, I'd go actually not surprised as it turns out. Anyway,
Nice to see you guys. You have a lovely weekend.
We'll catch up next week to Every Friday morning on
The Mike Hosking Breakfast.

Speaker 3 (10:43):
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