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March 20, 2025 11 mins

Kate Hawkesby and Tim Wilson are back with Mike Hosking to Wrap the Week that was. 

They discussed Mike’s unexpected sick day, Wordle, and the youngest person to break the 4-minute mile, Kiwi runner Sam Ruthe. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Tim Wilson's with us along with Kate Hawk's good morning,
morning morning, good morning.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Good morning, good morning. Quick quick you go, okay, go ahead,
you go, Tim. I just want to know when you
say a blow a vac, is that like a leaf blower?
Is that what you're talking about?

Speaker 1 (00:15):
I know, Tim, Welcome to till time. So what you've
got is the blower. Traditionally, you start your engine and
then you pull the trigger and it blows. Blow, blow, blow,
blow blow. If you get in a bigger version of that,
you can get a blower vac. So there's a little
knob or a handle on the side that you twist
and then it internally does something so it becomes a sucker.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
Oh I like that. Okay, I like that because I
hate blowers. Blowers are just blowers. Just make your problem
other people's problems. It's it's it's like running the bower
without a catcher.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
That's unless you've got a multching. If you got a malting,
you can run. You can run the mile or into
multi mile without the catcher. To be fair, but I
think you your initial point about the blow is true. Therefore,
get yourself a blower back and if you get the back.
Once you're on back, you'll never look back. That's what
they say. That's their strap one. Once you're on back,
you'll never look back.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
Okay, I just wanted to quickly address the text that
you dismissed earlier who asked where you were yesterday and
you said none of your business. That I think is
actually a fair question, because you take your responsibility to
your audience very very seriously, and you hate not being there.
Hence you never ever, ever, ever ever take a sick day,
and so I think you do. Are your audience an explanation?

Speaker 4 (01:31):
And you do. You are able to say.

Speaker 3 (01:33):
That you weren't feeling well yesterday and another And I
was thinking by listening to you this morning, and I
actually asked, Sam, you're like a toddler.

Speaker 4 (01:40):
When you go down, you go down like sack of hammers.
But the bounce back, the bounceman is so intense and
so quick.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
And today I'm listening to you thinking, were you ever
really sick yesterday?

Speaker 4 (01:49):
Because you sound a million bucks.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
I didn't know what to say because it could be
leading to a vastly bigger health problem, and so yes, so,
so yesterday could have been the small seed of what
could lead to an exploratory and ongoing health crisis.

Speaker 4 (02:09):
Oh, I don't think I haven't been in touch with
the doctor. It'll be exploratory.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
My worst here. I think we're all talking in code
and feeling very uncomfortable. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
Now, the funny thing was Jason came and Jason was
the person I rang at three o'clock in the morning.
And so, just to give you an insight, Partner, he's
not your boss anymore. Now, Jason's my friend. I ring
my friends in times of crisis, even though Jason isn't
my boss, although he is still my boss. But the
new boss isn't isn't isn't established enough yet to take
the call.

Speaker 4 (02:40):
He's not yours like Jason.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
There was the ultimate test, like if he took the call,
then he's established.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
Ra But it's how you handle the call, glean. It's
not just game hello, you know. And I think Will,
who's the new boss, appears at this early stage to
be a relatively pleasant individual, but has has not hasn't
got the runs on the as yet.

Speaker 4 (03:01):
Do we know that he sleeps with his phone on?
Like Jason?

Speaker 3 (03:03):
Your question, do we do we know that it will
ever take a day off?

Speaker 1 (03:08):
He doesn't exactly.

Speaker 3 (03:09):
So Jason knows that when you ring at three o'clock
it's serious because you never even.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
Well he said to me, he said, I've never heard
this is what he said this morning. I have never
heard more sincerity in your voice than I heard in
the wee small hours of yesterday morning. And what I
was doing, the sincerity, and he refers to, is my
intense apology, because in my forty four years of radio,
sixteen seventeen years here, I've never rung him in the

(03:34):
early hours of the morning ever, except to abuse him.
And so this you have it. Didn't you ring him
when wasn't working, Yeah, exactly, working over and looked at
your name.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
He would have looked. He would have looked at your
name on the on the phone. Oh no, that on's
broke again. And then he gets sincere hosking exactly that
would have been that would have done it.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
I've rung him many times to abuse him, only this
time to say, I am so sorry for waking you,
but I am unable to go to work. So that
was quite quite an emotional.

Speaker 4 (04:03):
But here's the thing. You you did attempt to go
to work.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
You drove in Yeah I did.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
Oh my goodness, Yeah I did.

Speaker 1 (04:08):
I got, unfortunately, the beauty of being able to drive
to work at two thirty in the morning. There's no
one else on the road because I was using all
the lanes, weaving and weaving away on the motorway. Oh no,
in my state, And I thought, surely I don't need
to be using all these three lanes at what point?
At what point? And this was the problem on the
motorway because I'm on State Highway one, multi lane highway,

(04:30):
and I'm thinking, oh, this is not going well. And
then I thought, at what point do I turn around
to go home? But of course you've got to pick
an off ramp, and the next off RENP was going
to be the Northwestern, which would take me pretty much
to I don't know, Tetangy, and so I thought, I
don't want to be on the Northwestern because you can
see that in the news Hosking found in Tetangi and
disheveled stut and that's that doesn't play well. So I

(04:53):
got to the I got to the off REMP before
the Northwestern off ramp and did the U tune. So
then I went home and then I rang I'm so
that was that sorted, Mike, at your gore bladder, get
it out and it's not so you were drunk. No, Mike,
can you please confirm you're not dying? Yes, OEMG. Did
you have a terminal diagnosis? No, Mike, I'm thinking no.
Good came out of your recent prostate exam. Good luck

(05:14):
with it now. It all came out well.

Speaker 3 (05:16):
I think because you won't go to the doctor, so
so I don't want I had the.

Speaker 1 (05:22):
Doctor about three weeks ago, and you hated the diagnosis
because it was so positive.

Speaker 3 (05:26):
No, only because I vegget and and veg and insisted
you did go to the doctor for a check out
because you hadn't been in ten years and you were
turning sixty. So I'll be insisting you go again next
week after yesterday. Okay, this is my this is my
sole job in life now is just to keep you alive.

Speaker 2 (05:42):
Can we can? We just know that probably when poor
Holmes used to come to work, he would always weave
across three lanes of the motor. Well, that is not
a big deal.

Speaker 1 (05:48):
So they had a scene before that.

Speaker 2 (05:51):
Yeah, exactly, that is true.

Speaker 1 (05:53):
I would before what to Mactual? I ask you because
you're the brightest among us. I think the word the
word let so, not less sue. Less so means what
what's it mean?

Speaker 2 (06:05):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (06:05):
Oh, okay, starting have you heard of this?

Speaker 2 (06:09):
Is it the surname of a Netflix series or something?

Speaker 1 (06:14):
But the word lesso? Have you heard of the word
and too? If you have? What's it mean?

Speaker 4 (06:18):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (06:19):
Is it sort of close to lassitude, which is a
sort of state of torpor?

Speaker 1 (06:23):
Is it close?

Speaker 3 (06:26):
I thought it was like a lass sue, like a
rope like I assume that's how you spell lasso.

Speaker 1 (06:33):
Lau is l but does it spelled lesso?

Speaker 2 (06:36):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (06:37):
So this is the word from yesterday. And my my,
my problem was that we talked about the world and
she got it in two and so okay, well the
lasso was one before but she but I said, oh,
less so strange word. What's it mean? And she goes,
I don't know. I said, well, why why don't you know?
You're doing wordle? What's the point of wordle if you

(06:57):
don't know what the world means? And she goes, is
that the point of word? And I went, isn't that
the point of word? And she goes, no, no, it's not
the point of word. Put the words to get it
in two and I said, even if you don't know
what the word is. So she goes, oh, you just
guess and you get lucky. Sometimes, what a waste of
time wordles? I thought it was supposed to expand your vocabulary.

Speaker 2 (07:14):
Well, why do we call this rap the week? Why
don't we call this just counsel the marriage? Because that's
what this is.

Speaker 1 (07:19):
Just stuff that's come up, that's part of it.

Speaker 4 (07:23):
Is what it is. Actually it's running me down needlessly.

Speaker 2 (07:26):
We were all, I gotta I got it. Well tell
us what less less.

Speaker 1 (07:30):
I don't know what it means. I'm not on wordle.
You know, I'll tell you what I know what each
of the words were, especially if I crushed them into.

Speaker 2 (07:40):
What I feel your pain? Cap I feel your pain?
Can we talk about it? It's a bit like it's
a bit like Simmey and Brown taking on Health New Zealand.
Isn't it about you know, not not secking to court business?
And then suddenly it's all about oh my feelings about
what Sime and Brown's been saying, when in fact you
know that they haven't been secking to court business.

Speaker 1 (07:58):
So mission into McDonald's is not Health New Zealand's job,
and I think he's one hundred percent right.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
Well, here's the deal. The actual submission it was eight
pages and it mentioned planetary health, landscape values, traffic and titidity,
and didn't mention healthy eating once.

Speaker 1 (08:16):
Yeah, cut and gives me. It's a lot of cut
and past stuff. We were working out Sam Ruth, who's
this fifteen year old around the sub for minute.

Speaker 4 (08:23):
Of my Well, he's incredible.

Speaker 1 (08:25):
A correct me if I'm wrong, But he's running at
about fifteen one hundred meters in about fifteen seconds. So
the world class runs at nine to eight something like that.
Right for one hundred he's doing fifteen seconds per hundred
many times over mat it's virtue for most of it's
virtually sprinting, isn't it? For fifteen hundred meters for a mile?

Speaker 2 (08:46):
Now, he's incredible.

Speaker 4 (08:47):
I was so happy for him too, What a cool.

Speaker 2 (08:49):
Kid, And he didn't it was so lovely. And how
did he celebrate to drive through a burger king? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (08:54):
Well, when you're that fit, you can drive through anything,
can't you.

Speaker 2 (09:00):
Healthy user, I'm probably going to see them an eight
page subscription submission.

Speaker 1 (09:04):
They probably are. Do you know how to split our
television screen? Caddy.

Speaker 3 (09:09):
I think I could figure it out better than I
could figure out some of the words on word or
But I'm going to give it a go because I
know it's going to be.

Speaker 4 (09:15):
Important to you. I actually back you to watch the
F one over the Warriors.

Speaker 1 (09:19):
I agree would be right. Yes, you're correct. You know
me Well I should have married you. The thing about
that is that this is the Warriors. You know, there's
something about the F one this year. Half a million
people watched that race last week and that'll make it
the biggest show of the week on television. You can't
argue with that. The nation is gripped by the plight
and journey of Liam Lawson. I think that's a wonderful,

(09:40):
wonderful thing. Hey, how do you just how do you
spell lesson again? Question?

Speaker 2 (09:44):
Glenn?

Speaker 1 (09:46):
Well, less so on me? I thought it was l
A s O.

Speaker 2 (09:51):
What is it?

Speaker 3 (09:52):
No?

Speaker 1 (09:52):
Doesn't start with an L? Yeah, l A S s
O two s's.

Speaker 2 (09:57):
So can we can we find out what it means?

Speaker 1 (09:59):
Then it's lesso, which is spelled the same way, isn't
he is the la si so so lesso less sue?
Maybe it wasn't another word, Katie. Maybe you're just confused.
Maybe it was less sue.

Speaker 3 (10:08):
No, no, yes, I guess the word, but I can't
tell you that it means less.

Speaker 4 (10:12):
I thought I thought lass sue would have another zero.

Speaker 1 (10:15):
I mean, there doesn't have any zeros. Just got a
couple of ass and an L and A and an O.
And so what you did is actually spell lass sue
thinking it's another word. I do agree with you.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
I do agree with you that that the hearthouse rules
and scrabble is if you can't define the word, you're
not allowed to use that.

Speaker 1 (10:34):
Yeah, that's a classic rule.

Speaker 2 (10:35):
I think that's a good point. By the way, can
neither of you drive for the I don't know if
you've been drinking at this hour of the morning, but
it's just a circus.

Speaker 1 (10:41):
Do you know I gave up drinking, Tim, I haven't
told you on that I've given up drinking. What No,
be honest on that bombshell. We'll end the segment.

Speaker 2 (10:51):
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