The Re-WrapTHE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Thursday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) Pastry Is Useful/War Almost Very Nearly Not Quite Over/Tapageddon
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The Rewrap, Okaday there and welcome to the Rewrap for Thursday. All the best, but it's from the Mike host and breakfast on news Talks. It'd be in a sillier package. I am Glenn Hard. So Trump's been in power for over one hundred days now, so I'm assuming that Ukraine war thing is over and sorted. We have got major, major building maintenance issues here. We're going to get into that for most of the podcasts, but we'll just get a few other things out of the way first, like the push to teach kids financial literacy.
Regulars will know. School and I were never really that close. It was a means to an end. The end couldn't come soon enough, and the means was these skills required to get out into the world and get on with life. One of the things that did help with economics. I found it genuinely interesting. I did quite well in it. They taught me compounding interest. Well, it taught me about compounding interests. Now, if you don't know about compounding interest, you don't know about life. Basically, economics is life, and its lack of understanding is why so many people have so many difficulties with money. As of twenty twenty seven, if you're not up on this financial education, it has been announced will be compulsory in school years one through ten. I'd make it one through thirteen personally, But praise the Lord. This education. This is education you can use. I mean geography in Latin and physics. They're about career pathways, right, They're about ideas you may or may not find interesting. As a result, you may or may not ever used them. But finance is about life. It's about success. It's about navigating the world. People who know what money is, currency is, interest is, dividends are investment as returns are do better in the world than those who don't. It raises the question, I suppose as to what education is really all about. Is it about a pathway to university, to skills or to understanding or the power or value of learning or the basics of life? I mean they used to do home still do under different names. I mean, is that a pathway to work with Alan de cars or is it just to make some scones on a rainy Sunday? I figure of nothing else. School should be useful. A lot of people don't use a lot of what we got at school. I mean, nomadic tribes of Africa in geography didn't serve me all that well. But compound interest has economics opened a door for me, A useful, beneficial, financially fruitful door. The idea that all kids will get that going forward is no bad thing.
I feel like you gave home each a bad rap there. It's weird that it was called home economics, wasn't it. When it wasn't economics, it was cooking. I remember making a dish called fish strasi to the Russian fish dish I don't think i've made since. I did also learn how to make pastry from scratch, and I did use that for quite a long time. In fact, many people might suggest that it was how I managed to woo my wife with my maid from scratch homemade vegetable chicken and vegetable pie. I don't know if she'd say that this is all just a smokescreen, of course, because I did not take economics and can't stand it, and it makes my head go around and around. Right, So the Ukraine War seems to be still happening, which is confusing to me because I'm pretty sure Trump promised that that was going to be solved day one.
So I note the German government has weighed in to this end of the war debate, which is not to say the German government doesn't have a stake in this, because as does all of Europe, I guess, but their advice is not to take the current deal. Now, the current deal, as we understand it is crime is gone. That's based on the thinking that it got nicked a number of years ago. Anyway, no one really objected at the time. The rest of the eastern part of Ukraine is under dispute militarily currently, most of it broadly under my control, some of it under the Ukrainian control. The American argument crimera is Russia the stuff Russia currently has as theirs. Ukraine keeps the rest. This is what the Germans are not happy about. Now here's the problem. Does Germany, outside of words actually have any sway? I mean, does anyone outside of America have any sway? Well, if Europe by a NATO could or would step up and fund the war, yes they do, are they though?
No?
So look at all the huffing and puffing that went on when Trump first suggested a deal and that America was out. A lot of the money type promises, a lot of the we stand with us, but really the cult hard truth is America has funded such a large amount of the defense. If it goes, NATO, for all their fighting talk, don't seem up for it. If Putin turns out to be a crook and is stringing trumping along and that all gets up his nose, then I guess all bets are off. But that aside, Trump has been consistent he is not interested in wars, he is not interested in much outside of America, and certainly billions in weaponry is wasteful spending he can redirect elsewhere. So I believe them when they say cut a deal or we are out. The cold truth that Europe and NATO tried to hide with all their Rhetorican patriotic verbiage was Ukraine doesn't have any carts. They are reliant on a continent that is with them, but only so far, and another continent that can't wait to pack up and go home. Russia can hang in there forever Ukraine can't. So Germany chirping from the sidelines achieves it's.
Where that the US is such a powerbroker in all this, aren't they? Given that Trump kicks complaining that America is the country that's been wrapped off more than any other country, and it's just constantly being wrapped off by everybody, and nobody wraps them off more than anybody else. So it's for little America and they seem to have all this power. I don't quite understand how that works. Okay, so very disturbing find this morning when I arrived at work, one of the first things I do is we have a little kitchenette outside of the stick udio, and although there's no coffee machine as such, there is a one of those taps that boiling water comes straight out of the tap, and I use that to make myself an instant coffee. It's one of the first things I do because without that caffeine hat, my body just will not function in any way, and my mind, after having shut down during the show the previous day, certainly won't start up again. So yeah, even though it's only instant, it seems to do the job. However, this morning there was a notice on the islet Mike explain.
Here's my other problem today water. I feel under resourced as a broadcaster. This morning, the tap I have hot water and lemon, which makes me sound slightly problematic to deal with, but nevertheless, I've done it for many, many years, and it cleanses the liver. It makes you feel younger than you are. Anyway. So the tap I access, which is just outside the studio, is broken, of course, because this place refuses to do any sort of maintenance program, and so we wait till everything breaks, and then we call a tech and we put a label as we have on the tap this morning on the tech.
Saying beautifully printed.
It's a very nicely printed. If if we only maintained things as well as we printed labels, we'd actually have some bloody water running. Anyway, So we were tap broke, and we called the tech. But of course, you know what it's like getting anybody. So I'm now having to I'm leaving shortly. By the way, I'm leaving shortly for the next tap. The nearest tap is kilometers away, and I may morning exactly and I may not be back before the end of the news. I've I've had to run, and I had to run with a full cup, and it's hell, I don't know if it's coming across on the show. I feel quite good, but wish me well.
Yes, So when it came to my cup of coffee, not my lemon water, I don't do lemon water, and much the same way that I don't do antipasto platter or tropical fruit. And it's container fully other thinks Mike can bet really consume this every morning? No? But you know, my innocent coffee, I got a dribble of hot water out of it and then it wouldn't work, and that was enough to sort of dissolve the instant coffee, and then I just filled the rest up with milk and then it was basically like an iced coffee at that point. And it actually I didn't mind.
It's a re wrap.
But I don't think Mike's looking for an iced lemon water. I don't think that's how he rolls.
Mike, I have a lime tree absolutely loaded at the moment. So do I actually have a siple lime tree is going to be very good citrus season.
You're not gonna You're going to say it's a lime tree and then.
No, good point. Good point. There's a couple of trees I had that could turn out to be other things, like oranges. I've got a blood orange I thought was a lemon for a while. So the blood orange.
Is yesterday's person, and tree was a one hundred.
Percent exactly, but no, it's I'm confident on limes. I've got limes, lemons, several sorts of lemons, and several sorts of grapefruit, and a blood orange, just the one blood orange. If I wanted to plant more, I do more blood orange. But this person's got a lime tree. What's my ratio to limit a water? I have two slices of lemon and a very small cup of water, so it's quite high. I think, how come Mike gets a cup in the studio? Other studios you can't. What other studios will you? Studio frequent to you? How do you know you're an expert in studios? Are you a good grief? My command of your standing? I thought you would have staff to fetch your water. You think that, wouldn't you? You think that I am?
Is it a hygiene issue that you don't let other people do that?
Pretty much?
Yeah, you can't have people fingering your lemon water?
Boss did say you get me a thermos? And I said, good, go get one, because there I know full well there's not a thermos in the building. Mike boiler jug Ah, good question, what chug? Where's the jug? Go on, tell me where the jug is.
There's no jug here, and if there was, there'd be a notice of it exactly. I'm assuming the person who texted in about the no magazine of the studio was Matt Heath, as he'd be afternoon co host, who famously spilled his coffee all over the desk in the studio where Mike operates from and then took off his in a crazy move, took off his shirt to mop it up with. I think he's been banned from having any kind of liquids in there. I think Mike's record of keeping the lemon water to himself and not all over the desk has meant that he is exempt from such rules the rerat. But yeah, he laid down the challenge on the firmace and guess what, oh.
The boss God bless him, so my water. I'm short that she's gone down to the supermarket. He's left the building in what can only well as what the Herald would describe as meteorologically the end of the world, because I'm sure there's sixteen or eighteen weather alerts at the moment. So he's gone out into the store this morning. He's gone up to the supermarket and he's purchased me a daycre insulated double wall Adventurer stainless steel thermous twenty four hours of cold, twelve hours of hot, one point two liters forty point five fluid ounces of beautiful boiling water. Isn't that good? So I'm good to go. So and it costs for what.
Do you say it cost? I believe forty one dollars ninety nine. I think it's it's is it overstate to get to say that he bought it for you, because it's it's the studio tet that's not working. Isn't it just for the No?
No, he's mine, No, No, the thermis is mine. I'm going to write Mike on it. Mike, I'm gonna say my memory to print a label like the one that it says mics do not touch.
So, which is exactly what happening. Well, A Marie to do the label. I did the label. Apparently, when you're in middle management, and that's the kind of thing and even app management as it turns out that's the kind of thing that you have to do to keep the company running. That's why I can't even be a good manager. I don't think. I'll just keep doing what I do, which is this, and I'll be back to do some more of it tomorrow. I'll see you.
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