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It's a hell of a word, isn't it.
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Bitchers, Oh yeah, bacher happens.
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Speaker 3 (01:49):
Well, good afternoon to you Thursday, six days until Chrissy time.
How good? Seven past one?
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Get a man, Get a Tyler, get a everyone I had.
We're giving away another copy of my book today. Certainly
a lifeless punishing. I had an embarrassing situation where my
publisher is out of copies and because we're giving the
way this week, we couldn't get them. There's some in
an Australian warehouse. There's so I had to go into
wit calls today and buy copies of my own book
(02:16):
to give away today. Yeah, I'll get reimbursed by that.
Don't worry about me. Yeah, your publishers will reimburse me.
But I had to go in and into whit Calls
and Saint Luke's and buy copies of my own book
to give away today.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
It's kind of a bit of sweet though, wasn't it,
because that's a good thing, but also a bit of
admin on your side. And nobody likes Edmund. That's close
to Christmas.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
It's massively humiliating buying your own book. I had to
front foot up. I said, this is yeah, but I
don't think it's like they didn't recognize me, and that
was the problem. So I was like, this is my
book a embarrassing buying it and they were like, what
do you mean it's your book? I said, I wrote it, and.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
You went on to the back and seat, look, it's
my picture in there.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Yeah, and then they went and then they went, oh,
okays a bit of acknowledgment, we'd go a long way. Yeah. Yeah, anyway,
we're giving that away later on in the show after.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Yep, that's right, at the end of the show. Two
copies to give away and we'll tell you how them.
Were also continuing on with Great New Zealanders of Christmas series.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Yeah, we're joined by a good maid of mine, Laura McGoldrick,
to talk about her year. And you know, she's ubiquitous
in sports coverage in this country, isn't she. She's always
she's always so good, so professional, but also very funny
human beings. So looking forward to chatting to her.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Yep, that is after three o'clock. After two o'clock, is
it okay to drop by unannounced? It is a bit
of a change in society rules back in what even
the nineties, So the old poppin was pretty common. That
was before mobile phones, of course, but we used to
love a good poppin.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Yeah. I think it's interesting because my dad was reading
his diary from when he was from the nineteen sixties
to me and he went back and his diary is
all littered with someone popped in to ask if I
want to go to the movies because back then you
couldn't really get hold of people very easily. Yeah, so
he was at university. Someone would drop in and you
want to go and do this? I dropped on this.
(04:03):
I went round to this person's house and that was
the way everything was done back then. Now, if you
just popped in, if tomorrow evening, I just came around
to your house without texting, you'd go weird. If I
knocked on the door, Tyler, and you opened the door
and I was standing there, you'd be like hello, mateo,
and then I just started walking in the door.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Depens on what you had on you, if you had
a mutton ham on some Come on in, mate, come
on in. We'll count that up. The place is a
miss sorry, but come on in.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Yeah, yeah, no, I can understand. I love the idea
of the popping and I think it's a fantastic concept
and I think there would be a better place if
we did it. But I do also think it's pretty
weird if you don't just send a text and say
I'm in the neighborhood, I might come round. This is
going to be a good check, even if I'm at
the end of the drive, you know, just because you
don't know what people are up to now it's a
different time. Yeah, I don't know. We'll have a chat
about that later on.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Yep, because right now we want to have a chat
about batches. It's on the back of a story about
an abandoned ghost batch. It was abandoned nine years ago.
It is for sale on carwo island. So the webatch
has been derelict for nine years and appears to have
been left in a hurry three or there rather still sheets.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
On the beard.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
It's like the owner just walked out, the real estate
agent said, But we want to take it a bit
wider than that about the good old humble Kiwi batch.
Are the days of actually dreaming of the Kiwi Batch
kind of done and dusted? Because let's be honest, for
a lot of people, batches can be a massive hassle.
If you're the one in the friend group or the
(05:30):
family with the batch, everybody wants to come to your batch.
It's your responsibility to do the upkeep, the maintenance. You've
got a fight with family members, it's in a trust
on who gets it over Easter, who gets it over Christmas.
It just seems a lot of the time batches are
a massive, massive hassle.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Yeah, that's right. Are they worth it? And we were
talking about this yesterday but we didn't get round to
the topic. But there's a saying about boat the best
two days of boat ownership of the day you buy
it and the day you sell it. Yeah, and is
that true of the batch? Because the batch is full
of dreams and you imagine these amazing times. But then
it becomes a prison that you have to holiday there
(06:07):
because you spend so much money on it, and you
have to spend certain weekends going up there to mow
the lawns because you haven't been up there for weeks. Yeah,
and you've become tied to it. Yeah, like you know,
your positions own you kind of situation. That's the way
I look at it. But I don't own a batch,
so what do I what do I know? And also
I call them cribs because I'm from the bottom of
the South Island.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Where where does the crab batch line start? Is that
kind of just north of Ashfield?
Speaker 2 (06:31):
You've lived in christ Church for a long time.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Yeah, yeah, we don't they call them cribs?
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Do they call them? They call them their batch and
christ Church?
Speaker 5 (06:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Yeah. As a Timorous if someone from Timaru nine two
nine two or one hundred and eighty teen eighty, do
you call it a crib or a batch? We'll find
the line.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Yeah, maybe even West Coast what surely you don't call
it a.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Crib and Wanaka Yeah, and Monica, you do, un Iss,
you're someone that's come down from the from the North Island. Yeah,
so central target it's a crib. Well it was for
the longest time. Yeah, it might be changing now because
so many people that own properties in Wonnaca and Queens
doown around that area, are actually from Auckland.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
You guys bottom of the South. To make your own rules,
be damned for everybody else come up with their own names.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Best cuisine and best usage of the language. You got
the cheese roll, you got the onion sausage. You've got
the chop seweet paddy and we holiday and cribs.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
It has got times down there.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
This text has come through on from Timoru and I
call it a bat.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
There you go. So it must be just in the
deep South, is it done? Is Wanaka, Southland and Vicago.
But back to the batch. So my family on dad's
side had a batch in Packlewar and Golden Bay, beautiful
wee batch. But when my lovely Nana passed away, it
went into the trust with the siblings, and I've got
to say there were quite a few in house fights
(07:47):
about who got the batch at what time. So Dad
ended up being bought out and he said that was
the best decision for him now that he can go
anywhere around New Zealand and get a batch that he
can have just for the weekend and not have to
rely on maintenance and fights over the holidays. So it
was a lot of freedom for him. But love to
hear it from you on this one. A t eighty
(08:09):
nine nine two is the text number.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
People are saying here and this probably makes sense. It's
the way Tacky River where it changes from south. It's
cribs north, it's batches. Yeah, that that I mean, that
makes sense right, I mean there's no law on it's
no no.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
If you call your batch a crib and Christ shoots that,
the police aren't going to come around and say that
you can't do that. Right, Get on the phones. Oh,
eight hundred and eighty ten eighty the phones have already
lit up. Nine two ninety two is the text number.
It is thirteen past one.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
The big stories, the big issues, the big trends and
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Speaker 3 (08:49):
B News Talks There B. We've asked the question, is
the Kiwi batch just too much hassle?
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Is the Kiwi Batch just a pain in the ass
that's all you have to pay and all the work
you have to put into it. Or is this just
bar humbugging from a couple of dudes that don't know. Yeah,
although you spend a lot of time at your partner's patch,
don't you.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
And that's the other thing that's getting in a bit
tricky at the moment is it's in a trust and
it was built by a maid's granddad and the family's
quite big, so there's quite a few people in the
trust now, but her dad does most of the mowing.
But now we're getting into the situation where the kids
are getting older and some of them are in Australia,
so they can't pop in.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
To do the old lawns.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
And can I say this, Yeah, say it? There was
already a bit of argie barji about who's getting it over?
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Christmas? Really can turn into a time shier, can't it
a Canton timeshare? So and we've answered the question conclusively
that it's a crib south of the White Tucky River,
and it is a batch north of the White Tucky River.
And look, that's not compulsory, but it is compulsory to
hold your breath when you're crossing the White Tacky Bridge
(09:52):
as a kid. Absolutely, Yeah, got to hold your breath.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Yeah, I'll stop you at the border if you don't
do that.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
It's not easy bridge. It's a big bridge and it's
a long breathold. And maybe you don't do it if
you're driving. Yeah, And my sisters used to cheat. They'd
have their mouth shut, but you can tell they're breathing
through their noses. But anyway, they had a whole another issue.
Dirty cheats.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Andrew, how are you mate?
Speaker 6 (10:14):
You know?
Speaker 7 (10:15):
Mate?
Speaker 8 (10:15):
Hey, first of all, get mister battery out to have
a look at your cars. The battery.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Yeah, it will be thank you that sortid.
Speaker 9 (10:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (10:29):
I I sold my holiday home about about or about
eight months ago, but just prior to COVID, I let
somebody rent it temporarily while their house was getting fixed,
and then they became permanent tenants over COVID and I
couldn't get them out thanking Megan Woods. But so during
(10:52):
that time we made the decision to buy a motor home.
And let me tell you, a motor home is far
superior than a batch because with a motor home like
my batch wasn't turing. And we love hearing it but
with a motor home, if we want to go to turing,
here we go to touring, and if we want to
go somewhere else, we go somewhere else. And everything's set
(11:12):
up inside the motor home. We've got a flushing toilet,
lovely hot yeare. It's costs cost less than the costs
less than a batch, and it's there you can wake
up on Saturday morning and go, you know what, let's
just let's just get out of the city for a
night and you can take the dog and you can
just do everything.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
So yeah, because because in a batch and a batch
you are that is where you're going on holiday in
the batch, But with your motor home, you're going on
holiday wherever you want to drive to. That's that's fantastic.
What brand is it?
Speaker 8 (11:43):
It's a care dream time So it's it's so you
can still drive it on a with a car license,
but unfortunately it does require a cos instead of a
warrant of fitness. But it's it's just, you know, it's
they're not without the complications. You know, there are a
boat on wheels you're always pouring money into. But the
(12:10):
reality is it's just wonderful. Like I finished work tomorrow.
Mother in law's coming up for a couple of days,
and then then where when she goes home, we'll get
in the motor home and we'll disappear for a month
and we know where we're going for four days of it.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Love that is that one of the ones where do
you sleep above the cab and in your motor home?
Speaker 8 (12:35):
We do because easy for us because we're short arses.
Speaker 10 (12:43):
So if you if you were six four.
Speaker 8 (12:46):
You'd probably want one with a bed in the back.
But but you know, if you're going to buy a
motor home, my advice is is you have a look
at them all and you figure out the floor plan
that you want and what's going to work for you,
and then you go shopping.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Have you signed up to the association? I know that
once you once you get a motor home, you're pretty
much in the gang that point.
Speaker 8 (13:10):
Oh yeah, you've got to sign up to the association.
It's for no other reason. Insurance is half priced and
you get discounts wherever you go. Motor Yeah, the motor
Home Association is the best money you'll ever spend because
the second you sign up for it, you get about
three times back.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
And are you always going to you know, campgrounds or
you know places are design so you can pull up
and plug in, or do you just sometimes go and
park up in front of you We.
Speaker 8 (13:42):
Avoid them, but like the plague, so we our preferences
to go somewhere where there is.
Speaker 10 (13:51):
No one and just park.
Speaker 8 (13:53):
So there are rules around where you can freedom park,
and actually they're surprisingly liberal, but we don't need to
the only thing we need to plug in for is
air conditioning and the microwave oven. Anything else works off solar.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Well, you got to have you got a TV in there.
Speaker 8 (14:11):
We've got a smart TV mate.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Side dish on the top.
Speaker 8 (14:17):
On the top good and.
Speaker 11 (14:18):
At the auto ranging satell like this.
Speaker 8 (14:22):
So you turn it on and it makes a few
noises for a minute and tracks itself and turns itself
on and yeah, everything it's got. We've got a fridge,
we've got a freezer, we've got a hot show. We've
got a flushing toilet.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
What's what's what's the vibe? What's the vibe like?
Speaker 12 (14:39):
Though?
Speaker 2 (14:39):
When you know you finished dinner and you head over
to the you head over to the flushing toilet, I
mean it's close quarters. You've still got to you've got
to time your You've got to time your movements with
the other person, know you.
Speaker 8 (14:51):
Oh it's in the window, mate.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
It sounds like you're loving the dream and good on you.
Thanks to you call Andrew. Appreciate it. Yep, you have
a great holiday and Merry Christmas.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Merry Christmas, mate, Thank you very much. I wait one
hundred and eighty ten eighty love to hear from you
if you you have recently sold the Batch or you
still love the Batch. This texta here guys, no way.
Camper vans are pokey, cumbersome and hard to get parking
for just the old car and the SDRs are far better.
Still love our Batch as well. Keep those techs coming through.
On nine two ninety two.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Wow, you're not driving the bloody Keia dream time, are
you there? It's that's spacious. It's twenty three parts one.
We'll pick this back up shortly.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Putting the tough questions to the newspeakers. The mike asking breakfast.
Speaker 12 (15:40):
So as always, there have been winners and there have
been losers. In the last round of high performance sport
funding and the lead up to Alay's Olympics, one hundred
and sixty three million dollars is heading to thirty six
different sports high performance sport in New Zealand. Director Steve cheos
with us, tell me why you're not funding hockey.
Speaker 13 (15:54):
We are funding hockey, So to be clear, they're stalling
a decent dunk in the end Government money behind hockey.
Speaker 14 (15:59):
But it's a significant drop a week.
Speaker 6 (16:01):
About that, yeah, about that speaking.
Speaker 13 (16:03):
It's a difficult it's a very difficult decision for hockey.
But over a long period of time we haven't had
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some tough calls because we had requests for about fifty
seven monion, then we had to bus another forty one
million to distribute.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Heither Duplessy Allen on the Mike Hosking Breakfast back tomorrow
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Speaker 3 (16:22):
B twenty six past one.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
We're talking about batches after a ghost batch that's been
abandoned for the last forty years popped up in the
news and look, we're arguing that maybe batches are a
pain in the ass. Neither of us own one, but
so they've just seen a lot of lawn mowing and
a lot of family arguments and a lot of being
tied into a holiday in a particular place. But what
do you think? Oh wait, unt to eighty ten eighty
(16:44):
nine two nine two is the text number. Welcome to
the show. Bruce your thoughts.
Speaker 15 (16:50):
Yeah guy, it's Merry Christmas, very mess you. Yeah, yeah,
a good one.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 16 (16:57):
Hey.
Speaker 15 (16:57):
It's already been involved in both, like originally quite a
number of years ago now, but we were involved in
a in a family batch which we didn't actually own,
but we contributed.
Speaker 17 (17:11):
To it.
Speaker 15 (17:13):
But it was always awkward trying to get when you
wanted to go, and of course the problem being was
that there was an agreement that you know, things like
toilet roll and all that and sugar and everything was
left in there. But unfortunately a lot of cases you
turned up and the sugar was ritually disappeared and there
(17:34):
was probably two pieces of toilet roll. So anyway, in
the finish it was sold because you know, my mother
in law actually sold it. So but in the meantime
we had actually sort of purchased some weeks of time
share up in pie here and to be honest, it's
(17:55):
the best investment we've ever made. We've got four weeks
up there, two weeks guaranteed every February, which is ideal
because it's after the Christmas rush, it's still beautiful weather
two weeks. The other two weeks we actually space bank
(18:17):
and that means you can use them anywhere, and we've
actually used them in Scotland. We've used a number of
times in Australia where you we've got May we're going
down to Mount Annuity for a week. So it gives
you all of the sort of you can you can
(18:38):
virtually go wherever you want to. But it's really good
going to Australia because you know that the price is
pretty right. You know, it's a fixed parson like you
have to pay and it's not very much. But and
the the yearly cost that it costs us is far
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far less than any of the money that you've been on.
Some of our friends and relations have got sort of
batchers and they always seem to be dipping into their part.
And I mean rates are huge now, yeah, if you're
on the Corrimandle they're huge.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Yeah, and then who you know, you say you get
two weeks in February, that's great, and you've got you know,
two weeks, two weeks that you can use elsewhere, who
that owns a batch gets has goes to the bats
for a month a year? Are such a tiny percentage
of people that actually own batches would even get two
weeks a year.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
And the yeah holiday, I mean if you're not going
there to mow the lawn, I mean you spent.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Yeah, you probably get a week of a mowing the
lawns up there. But apart from that, yeah, I mean
it sounds like it sounds like it's working really well
for you, Bruce. It sounds great.
Speaker 15 (19:45):
It is working well for us. I mean, hey, it
doesn't always work for everyone, but you know, for what
we pay and the position that's right on the waterfront
of by here, we look right across to Russell or
the lights of Russell. Every night we see all the
ships and they're going through the bay and we just
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love it.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Yeah, what sounds like working out for you. But the
time she is, Bruce, you know that they have been
somewhat controversial. You know, you go to those present and
then some people struggle to get out of them. That
doesn't worry you at all.
Speaker 15 (20:18):
No, because A and Pi here they so reached me quickly.
We don't expect to make any money and we just
leave it to my son and daughter and on kids anyways,
So and yeah, so that's that's the thing that what
people made the mistake when time she has originally came out,
they paid too much money for them. You used to
(20:40):
have to pay twenty yard thousand and that sort of
thing for them. I paid just a fraction of that.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Well, thank you so much, Thank you so much to
be called Bruce, and I have a fantastic question Christmas
the six interesting on nineteen nine two. Hey, fellas, I've
lived in South Island all my life and never heard
bats called a crib or is a batch?
Speaker 18 (20:59):
She is?
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Luigi? Wow, that's but Luigi, you need the information. Which
side of the Waitaki River do you live on? This
is the South Island.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
We found the boundary, so it depends on what side
of the boundary if.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
You come back to us, Luigi, we want to know
whether what side of the Waitaki River you live on?
North or south? All right, thank you mate, very good.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
I just looked up the word actually yep, the entomology
of the word batch yep. So it was for a
long time thought to be short for bachelor pad. But
new research or an alternative theory for the origin of
the word is that batch is the Welsh word for
small and little, which makes kind of sense, right, And
a crib, Yeah, well the crib. I don't know where
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the crib comes from because we find that out.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Because you know crib and you know there was you
know cribs, there was the EMPTV show. So crib in
the United States is like a flash house, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Yeah, they stole that from the bottom of the south Side.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
It's a manger for feeding animals. Got a crib in
the countryside. Take your new lady there, and it's just
a manger.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Eight ten eighty is the number to cool. Love to
hear from you if you've recently sold a batchelor, you
still love your batch, Give us a BARZ nineteen ninety
two is the text number.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
It is nine two.
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Speaker 3 (23:32):
Thank you very much. Raylean bench is just too much
hass or too much of a pain in the s. Colin,
how are you? Yeah?
Speaker 16 (23:40):
Good?
Speaker 6 (23:41):
Thanks you back your grip and dwains and depends on
where you come from in the country.
Speaker 10 (23:46):
Other norganss twins.
Speaker 6 (23:50):
And you know the break between the uprights and a wall,
you know between the four twos.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
All right, yeah, gotcha. Oh that's interesting. When I was
a kid, like a maybe this is a South Island
expression as well, from Southland, Wales and norgan was a
kid's bottle from a noggin, like a kid's drinking bottle,
milk bottle.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Yeah, that's a new one to me. You make the cross.
Speaker 6 (24:16):
I think the days of the matches unfortunately along with
the sort of getting outdated and now especially old ones,
and we used to use them all the time when
we were kids out at Castle Point the fare. They
had a lot of good contacts and we always had
a beautiful vas here right on the beach, just behind
the graveyard under where the campground is now.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
But lovely week days we don't use a bench, you.
Speaker 6 (24:41):
Know, we were lucky enough. We've had a series of
large motor homes over the years, you know, twelve meter
wrong bobbies and now going downsize to a ten meter
long motor home. But it's got everything and of like
washing machines for ege, microwave, shower, toilet, you've got everything
that you know you paid for it, but ours costs
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fifty five. But you know that's cheap on the scale
of some of what you can pay some pretty flash
runs out there, you know. But yeah, it's a good
way to go with your motor home. I'll be hitting
home actually on some that I'm heading back for two
or three months. So we're just gonna grab the motorhome
and hit the road. We don't know where we're going
to go, and that's the beauty of you can just
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go somewhere, find a nice quiet spot where's not too
many other people, which is getting harder and harder and
on these days.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
So do you just do you just hit the road
with no idea or do you plan before you leave
the road? Are you a real rover? You just pull
out of the driveway and go which way? I said
to you? So you you literally just pull out of
your driveway and go north south and just make it
up and just find a place to stop. Or do
you you have more than a more of a plan
than that?
Speaker 6 (25:53):
That pretty much exactly that you know, get to the
end of the end of the road and say which
way are we going to go?
Speaker 5 (26:00):
Now?
Speaker 6 (26:00):
The white will saying I don't know, and I go.
Speaker 11 (26:02):
Oh, I go the right.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Okay, that's that's that's freedom right there.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Yeah, and you may make friends with other people, like
other motor homers on the road.
Speaker 20 (26:13):
Colin.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
If you you know, when you go out to these
various campgrounds, are there the regulars there that you come tonight?
Speaker 6 (26:20):
No, we stay away from campgrounds. I really don't like
going to the campgrounds. I don't like being herded like
a bloody bunch of sheep saying you know, you'll go here,
you'll go there. But Your Zealand's paranoid about pushing everybody
into these places like over here in Australia, Man, this
is freedom over here for camping. You want to see
the thousands of caravans and campers that are on the
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road and they just basically put up anywhere they like.
New Zealand's got this thing about people, you know, dirtying
up the areas. But the motor homers, they certainly don't.
You know, we're we're all self contained and that sort
of stuff. But yeah, it can be. Yeah, I just
don't like being around a lot of other people. I
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just I like to stick to myself. I'm not a
I'm not an anti social. I just prefer my own company,
and my wife's company and my dog's company to sit
there listen to a whole lot of bulld us spoken
by other people about how wonderful they are and how
flash the campravans are compared to ours, and that sort
of stuff.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
You know, fair enough, Oh well, hey, thank you so
much for you call Colin and you have a great holiday,
and Mary Christmas to you.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Yeah, some great techs coming through. Getay, guys. I had
a batch at Lake Brunner for ten years and we
ended up going to the same place every long weekend
for ten years. Always moaned the lawn and doing maintenance.
Got sick of it, salted in twenty twenty and bought
a motor home. Love it. Joined the Motor Home Caravan Association.
Never know where we will end up. We just head
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where the sun is shining to meet heaps of people.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Love it from Andrew, do you guys, So there's a
lot of pro pro motor home chat coming through here.
Crib is a West Coast Scottish term. A bothy is
an East Coast Scottish term getting to the boro.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
Bothy, so we call them cribs.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
In the South End. Well some of us do because
of the I guess the Scottish Scottish heritage.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
Well there's one here as well. It's called a crib
because it was cribbaged together with bits and bobs of
materials that were sourced cheaply. We were always adding a
new room at the Crib ind Ota Co with stuff
Dad had found.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
I love that.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
Keep there coming through on nine to two, nine two.
I wait, hundred eighty ten eighty is.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Number to call, and I think this texture is right,
Thank you, Carl. I think I have got my bridges
mixed up. It's the Rekaire Bridge you've got to hold
your breath on, not the White tachy Bridge.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
Oh yeah, Rakaia the Rakui that is a long bridge.
I eight hundred eighty ten eighty is the number to call.
We'll pick this back up shortly. It is twenty to two.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Matt Heath Tyler Adams is taking your calls on oh
eight hundred eighty Ethn Tyler Adams afternoons news.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Dogs'd be yeah. I've absolutely humiliated myself. I was talking
about the Require Bridge and not the White Tacky Bridge.
The White Tachy Bridge is a mere two hundred and
ten meters, whereas the Rekaire Bridge in terms of holding
your breath, and it is compiled three for kids on
road trips to hold their breath on every bridge. It's
a it's a very fun game to have you with
your sisters. It's very specific to my family potentially, but yeah,
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they Rekire Bridge. Now that's a long bridge. That's about
one seven and fifty meters, so that's a long way
to hold your breath, especially if this traffic.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Yeah, when it's holiday time and this bumper to bumper traffic.
Good luck kids, Oh one hundred and eighty ten eighty.
If you've got a batch and you still love it
and you're heading there this summer, we'd love to hear
from you me again. How are you hi, guys?
Speaker 2 (29:42):
You God good, thank you. I'm getting sensing that you're
pro bat.
Speaker 21 (29:48):
Yes, I'm on my way to my happy place on
the Coramandel, and I've been coming here for like fifty
five years exactly. My parents bought the place when I
was six weeks old. Wow, and batches are just amazing.
We call it a beach shaft. Now it's more like
a second time ye, just heavenly, it's just a way
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to keep family together.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
How often are you up there, Meghan?
Speaker 4 (30:16):
A lot.
Speaker 21 (30:17):
I'd like to spring a lot more time here. We
turn up to the holidays. I come down today to
take stuff for the holidays. I'll go back on Monday.
Now come back on Christmas night. We'll spend the whole
of January at the beach with the family, and then
through the long weekends and February East every opportunity.
Speaker 7 (30:40):
That we can.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
Have you gone.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Have you got siblings, Meghan?
Speaker 19 (30:45):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (30:47):
And are you fighting each other for time in the batch?
Or you will work together?
Speaker 18 (30:51):
No?
Speaker 21 (30:51):
No, no, we actually so. When mum and dad passed away,
we sold their place and my sister and I both
bought our own places at the same place. No, we
shared with only two of us. I think it keeps
mess together. You can if your parents a good guidance
(31:12):
and they sort of say, come on, you've got to share.
Anyone has to work together. It's absolutely fantastic, but it can.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
In a lot of cases, it can cause problems. Say
your kids and then there's a few of them, and
then they have kids, and then the bats gets divided
and divided and divided, and then some people don't care
about it. Some people do.
Speaker 21 (31:30):
Yeah, I've listened to a couple of friends. So we've
got five boys, and I've listened to a couple of
friends and their parents. There's some smart things, and I'm
still thinking that that's where we'll go. But you do
have to have a plan when there's more than two
in the family to share so that you can. But
(31:52):
we don't have those issues at the moment. We have
all the kids want to come and more than Maria.
And yeah, but I do feel like I'm joking to
my husband, Y said, they're saying, oh my god, we're
the only ones that do the work. Laugh, And when
you're talking about the lawes are going, oh my god,
we get down there and we work our butts.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Amazing.
Speaker 21 (32:15):
Yeah, totally absolutely, And I'm saying our kids are old
enough they can actually do stuff.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Well, I've been I've been talking a little talking down
batches a little bit. But the one part of it
that I feel bad about, and I thought would have
been amazing for my kids growing up if they had
been going there from when they were like three or four,
and they'd had every summer the air and you start
to know the neighbors and it became part of their holiday. Yeah,
then I think that that that would be an amazing
part of it.
Speaker 21 (32:39):
We all it's a huge social event, you know, like
we all got down there, we catch out, we go
boating together, we played golf together with our kids. Have
had the same kids friends, you know, since they were here.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
So it's beautiful.
Speaker 21 (32:53):
It's a prettyful community. That's a special partner. I listened
when you were talking. Oh my god, it's we actually
bought at Tampa Van ourselves over COVID when you couldn't
get to have an experience with a camper van, and
we love that. But the beach house has the connections
with the people and the family and.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
Sit so many Yeah, that's lovely, Megan, thank you very much.
I'm back in team betch I think.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
Yeah, you're in team Batch. I'm I'm in. I'm so
confused by my bridges. I think I was right that
I was talking about the Waite Techy Bridge, because there's
this person said, it's not two hundred meters, it's nine
hundred and six meters. I know this isn't the biggest
ye for anyone. A lot of bridge, but I'm just
trying to think what because my and my family had
drove over these bridges a lot when I was a kid.
And there's one that was the specific one you had
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to hold your breath over, and I think it was
the White Techi. Nine hundred and six meters is a
long time for a five year old to hold their breath.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
Well, I'm just heaving it.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
And I'm sure the Rakai Bridge is one point seven
k and then that's a really long bridge. But there's
two really long bridges between Dunedin and christ Church.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
If you know how long all the bridges are in
New Zealand, particularly the Wide Techy and the RecA.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
What is the longest bridge in New Zealand must.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
Be the Rakai. Surely, surely the Rakaire is the biggest,
longest bridge.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
The longest bridge in New Zealand. This is hugely important
to me. Oh you forget about batches.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
Let's get into bridge.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
That's the require bridge.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
Yeah, how long?
Speaker 2 (34:17):
It's one seven and fifty seven meters long.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
Yeah, that's a big bridge.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
What an a minute? Yeah, And the longest tunnel is
the Waterview Front Tunnel, which is two point four k.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
There you go, Yeah, all right about that sort of Chris,
Now you your dad had a batch for about forty years.
Speaker 6 (34:33):
Yeah, that's right, that's right, and you know, growing up
going to the Batch every second weekend to mow the lawns.
I wasn't really take keen on it, although the benefits
of it. We're learning to sail and to serve up there,
and it was absolutely fantastic, But as a teenager I
wanted to play sports in one of the hang around
(34:53):
in the city, so sort of a gone boss on
the weekend until I had my own children and when
I started having When I had my children, my dad
told the Batch. But the one thing he did send
me before he sold it was I've only ever gone here.
We never got anywhere else. Yeah, I parent you to
go and have some different parts of the country, and
(35:15):
he was so right.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that that's kind of what I think.
You you're obliged to go there. But also when your
kids start playing sport, Jesus hard to get away on
the weekends. Oh my god. Specific especial if your kids
are playing cricket and they're like, I've got games on
Saturday and Sunday.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
You're like, well, great, possible, Chris, Thank you very much, mate.
That's a nice place to leave it. We are one
quick text here. Oh no, let's leave bridges from now.
Maybe we've met bridges back another day. There was a
lot of bridge chat in that hour.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
Look people love bridges. Look nine the text machines that
floated with bridge chat. People love bridges, Tyler. Just get
used to it. They certainly do.
Speaker 21 (35:54):
It is.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
Mad Tylor Adams taking your calls on Adams Afternoons news talk.
Speaker 3 (36:06):
Very good chan after two o'clock we are going to
be talking about unannounced poppins. Are they okay or not?
Eight hundred and eighty ten eighty is the number to call.
Nine two ninety two is the text number. Do you
love the old poppin?
Speaker 2 (36:18):
We used to?
Speaker 3 (36:19):
But things have changed, haven't they. And because it's Christmas,
we're going out with everybody's favorite Christmas song, well mine anyway,
fairy Tale of New York by the Pokes, Newsport and
Weather on its Way.
Speaker 4 (36:31):
It was Crismasy and the Trunching sit on Sea. One
alone song, the.
Speaker 22 (36:53):
Redsn't that turns.
Speaker 4 (37:01):
On Dream, the.
Speaker 5 (37:06):
God alone one showing it'sen So I've gotta fi.
Speaker 4 (37:19):
Years so be chriss I love your faving. I can
see but when I truculture.
Speaker 23 (37:52):
They got coms big as bars, they got rivers of gold,
but the windows right through you. It's not place money old.
When you first my hand on the cold Christmas Eve,
you promised me broadly was waiting for me.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
You you are pretty queen of New York City.
Speaker 4 (38:07):
When I've explain they.
Speaker 23 (38:09):
All love them all to naturally swinging a chop, swinging
waress don corn then dance.
Speaker 24 (38:15):
Through the night, the wise and my wing car swinging
all way back and the bowels.
Speaker 17 (38:23):
A Christmas day, You're you're a pang.
Speaker 4 (38:39):
You're out the chumpl there almost that lure.
Speaker 23 (38:43):
You just come back and berchichi basy tell me Christmas
your eyes and the got It sounds like waiting cars,
no swinging go way by the bowels bringing.
Speaker 17 (38:57):
Up Christmas night.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
H should have been someone well so good anymore.
Speaker 17 (39:16):
You took my dreams from me.
Speaker 24 (39:19):
Well, I bust down you.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
I kept up with me by I put down with
my own.
Speaker 4 (39:29):
Churse.
Speaker 22 (39:29):
My get up alone about my dreams around you, s
my lady to say.
Speaker 4 (39:41):
Way by and the buns are writing out.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
For Christmas time. Maddien and Taylor Adams talking with you
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all afternoon. It's mad Heathen Taylor Adams Afternoons You for
twenty twenty four News talk zaid, be.
Speaker 3 (40:26):
Good afternoon, welcome back into the show Sex past too,
So is it okay to drop an an announce? Before
mobile phones were a thing, visiting someone a neighbor, a
close friend, or a family member without first giving them
a heads up on your arrival was commonplace. But it's
a new era and dropping by someone's house unannounced is
one of those etiquette rules that is worth rejigging in
(40:49):
the modern era. According to this article in the New
Zealand heralds young people not so not so big a
fan as the old Poppin'.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
Yeah, well, the poppin used to be everything back in
the day. As I was saying, Before my dad's he
went through in read all's diaries. He used to write
a diary, wrote through the sixties and seventies, and he
was amazed when he was reading back how much popping
in the word just it was just people popping in.
He'd be riding his diary and say, oh, someone's just
popped in and asked me if I want to go
to the movies, And then he'd be riding the diary.
Then the next step diary. It's like you know, and
(41:16):
a relation would just pop in and he'd he'd right,
I'm just gonna pop in on someone else. Popping in
was everything back in the day.
Speaker 3 (41:23):
That's a beautiful thing.
Speaker 2 (41:24):
Now if you popped in it would be considered a crime.
Everyone would get would get real weird about it.
Speaker 3 (41:29):
As a kid, I'm sure I just popped into my
mate's places because that was before mobile phones in your head.
To unleash you rang on the old analog phone. It
was kind of knock on the door. Hey, is Billy around.
He's down at the park. I'll see him there.
Speaker 2 (41:41):
You used to get around. You used to get on
your bikes, your mates. You'd find one, you'd bike around
to a mate's house. Then you'd get him, and then
you go go there, and we'll go around a Davy's house,
and then then you'd go then you and Davy, you
would go around to Bryce's house. I'm just these are
actual friends of mine, and then we'll go around to
Neil's house. And then you get a crew together and
then you go and throw rocks at trees.
Speaker 3 (42:02):
That would good, good time, good days. Yeah, But how
do you feel about the popping. I mean in today's age. Man,
if I were to just be in the neighborhood of
where you live up here in Auckland, and I've even
given you a notice, we were just in the neighborhood,
you know, me and Mayven Poppin knock on the.
Speaker 2 (42:15):
Door and say you yeah, yeah, yeah, you know. I
wouldn't like it, but most people i'd be fine with it. No, no, no,
I think it's weird to do it, and I wish
I lived in a world where it was still cool
to popping. I love the idea of people just coming
around to each other's houses and knocking on the door
and hello. But I just think we don't live in
that era anymore, so you're not necessarily prepared for it.
(42:38):
I think back in the day people were ready for
the poppin. But I can just imagine a popping at
my house. We'd have something else planned. There would be
people running in every direction, and we wouldn't have the
stuff ready to serve them. I think back in the
day people were ready at any point. They had all
the systems in place. If someone came around, though, were
ready to deal with the poppin. Now we'd be lucky
to find a tea bag.
Speaker 3 (42:59):
Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighties and number to call
the Humbled Old Poppin. Are you a fan or not?
I'm going to say up here in Auckland, there's no
way I'd be happy with the pop one because we've
got the mattress in the lounge because it's too hot upstairs.
But you're right, I just wouldn't have the beverage options
to be able to provide for people. But I've got
to say in christ Church we had the old Poppin.
(43:21):
We loved a bit of a poppin. And christ Church
quite often we have people around, mostly family. I think
family is different. You got family just knock on the door,
turned up unannounced. That's very different than friends. But I
love to hear from you on this one. O eight
one hundred and eighty ten eighty is the number to call.
Nineteen ninety two is the text number to you love
a Poppin' or I hate it? It is ten past two, Wow.
Speaker 1 (43:41):
Your new home of Afternoon Talk and Taylor Adams Afternoon Call.
Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty News Talk SAIV.
Speaker 2 (43:50):
Good afternoon, It's twelve past two and we're talking about
the humbled old popping in New Zealand culture, the etiquettes changed, Yeah,
I think. And this is interesting because someone says that
in the country everyone pops in. That's just a city thing.
Not to pume them. That's so towny. Country people are
all pup poppins. Is that true? Yeah? Is it just
us isolated, depressing, over overly protective townys.
Speaker 3 (44:16):
Yeah, don't don't have a point insula in the city.
Speaker 2 (44:19):
Maybe that's the word I was looking for. Let's shoot
around for it insula townys. Yeah, but by hanging on
a minute, Yeah, because I guess if you pop in
then and I guess like if if you're if you're
on a farm, then you're generally going to be working
on the farm, so you'll be there or thereabouts. Yeah,
you'll be like, oh, he's not here, but he's over
in that paddock.
Speaker 3 (44:35):
You know, see someone see someone who is near your
house and they give you a text up and say
we're in the area. Your your mind if we pop
in for a coffee, that's a poppin'. That's kind of
the same thing. I've given you a heads up, but
the heads up is only say ten minutes.
Speaker 2 (44:49):
Yeah, but what do they want to come around.
Speaker 3 (44:53):
Like I get let your text. Yeah, well, what would
you expect. You'd say, Hey, let's go down to the
pub down Mount Eden Road. I know a great place.
Let's go have a have a week coffee there.
Speaker 2 (45:03):
I'll expect How dare you interrupt me? We were just
about to put a move. We've got to We're in
our undies sitting on the couch.
Speaker 3 (45:15):
That sounds like a good time.
Speaker 2 (45:16):
Yeah. We encourage to pop in from neighborhood kids. We
don't want reliance on mobile mobile devices. I was looking
at the house the other day and a house the
other day, and it was in the end of a
colder sack, and I thought, I wish I'd brought my
kids up on a colder sack, because I feel like,
for some reason that a colder sack would be the
kind of place you live on and everyone pops in
between the houses.
Speaker 3 (45:35):
Yeah, I mean, some colder sacks still have the community
could a sack party, which I kind of love that
everyone gets around. There's a barbecue in the street because
it's a colder sack. They kind of own the street
a little bit, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (45:45):
Let's make every street a colder sack. In the past,
we used to leave door open unlocked if not going
far off and turn up and find neighbors or friends
having a drink. You wouldn't be far I love that. Look,
it's a beautiful idea. It just I just don't think
it's practical for most people in twenty twenty four. And
maybe that's a sad thing. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (46:06):
Oh, eight hundred eighty ten eighty years. Are you still
into the old pop in particularly if you live rually,
if you're in the country, is that still a thing?
Speaker 2 (46:13):
Neville?
Speaker 9 (46:15):
Yeah, Hi guys, Yeah, it can be a real nuisance,
especially if you've just been to the toilet or.
Speaker 3 (46:23):
So.
Speaker 9 (46:24):
My system is simple, always answered the door with the
jacket on, and if you don't want them to come
and say you're just going out, or if you want
them to come and say you've just got home.
Speaker 3 (46:34):
Easy, that is that is brilliant.
Speaker 2 (46:37):
Yes, smart, So you so you've just you've just grabbed
the jacket, you open the door and you're surprised. I
was just going at that. That's actually, that's actually quite brilliant.
I feel like my downstairs bathroom excites career drivers to
arrive as soon as if I'm at home alone, I
visit the bathroom and I've got to spend a bit
of time in there. That's immediately when a courier.
Speaker 9 (46:56):
Arrives, so exactly, or your next or neighbor one to
borrow a cup of sugar or something. Anyway, that's that's
my forth sworst guys.
Speaker 2 (47:06):
Have fun Neville, Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (47:09):
Merry Christmas.
Speaker 2 (47:11):
See is there something wrong in the world where I've
never had a neighbor that's asked me to borrow a
cup of sugar? In fact, I've never in my life
had a neighbor that's ever asked me to borrow anything.
But that's one of the big cliches of life. Does
that still happen?
Speaker 3 (47:23):
It's a bit sad, isn't it. And we know our
front neighbors alertle Bit because it's a little bit more
closer up here in Auckland than it was in christ
juch We didn't really know our neighbors down in christ Juche.
But even I talked about my line trim and I
love my line from it. But we share the kind
of part of the fence where the weeds was popping up,
and for some part of me, I just thought, do
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I just lined from this for the neighbors, and I
didn't and I felt real bad about that. But there
is that lack of loving your neighbor in today's age.
Speaker 2 (47:51):
This Texas says popping in is extremely rude. Do you
have a phone? Yes? I agree, there's this other texture.
I don't like anyone popping in. I like plenty of
notice given, even with family, as I like the house
to be clean, and also after work, we like to
just tell thanks. That's another issue I'd like to raise
as well on this. Why does your house need to
be clean? Why is it like say you're out at
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the pub and you go, oh, can I bring some
of my mates home? And it's like, no, the house
is a mess. So who are we trying to kid?
Are we trying to Are we trying to face that
we always live in a really, really tidy house. Is
that to make them feel bad or to make us
look good? I don't I don't mind inviting people around
into a missy house. I don't care my house is missy.
Speaker 3 (48:32):
So what that surprises me? Because you are very clean
and very tidy.
Speaker 2 (48:37):
Absolutely, I'm so tidy and tidy and clean, but but
you know what I mean, Like, so if you have
people coming around, you tidy your house so it's so
immackulately tidy, right, And is that just to make people
think that you are better people than you are?
Speaker 3 (48:52):
Perhaps?
Speaker 2 (48:52):
Is that why you're tidy?
Speaker 10 (48:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (48:54):
And then and then they go and then they go home,
they go, they arrive at your house and go, God,
we live in a pig stye. But these guys live
really clean. And then you go round to their house
and they clean up. And there's just this big secret
life that we're living. That everyone lives in these hotel
clean houses.
Speaker 3 (49:09):
It is slightly dishonest. When Made's parents came here up
here for a visit, I didn't want them to come
to the flat, as I said, look, no, you can
come up the driveway. But as soon as they came up,
we jumped out of the house. I locked it up
and said, hey, nice to see you guys. He said,
head down to the cafe, and they said, oh, can
we have a look? Oh maybe another time, Maybe another.
Speaker 2 (49:28):
Time because to clean up.
Speaker 3 (49:29):
Yeah, because I thought it was a pig sty The
grass wasn't looking too good, and.
Speaker 2 (49:33):
I thought, going to think, I'm I can understand that
with your parents in law, because you're trying to prove
to them that you were a worthy partner for their daughter, right, Yeah,
So that is front footing. So you want to show
your parents in law that you're that you've set up
a good place for your part their daughter to live,
right yeah, that makes sense right, But just your scummy
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mates that have known you for twenty five years? Who cares?
Speaker 3 (49:58):
And if they came in and said, what a pig sty?
How do you live like this?
Speaker 2 (50:01):
I suppose you know there's honesty and that and thinking.
Speaker 3 (50:06):
Pro How are you?
Speaker 22 (50:07):
Hi?
Speaker 3 (50:08):
Hi, I'm good, Nice to chat with you. So you
want to talk about being neighborly in the old cup
of Sugar days.
Speaker 6 (50:15):
Yes, I do that.
Speaker 25 (50:18):
We live out in Kowei, which is a beautiful neighborhood,
and we have I'm always popping over to my neighbors
and they pop over to me. We have coffees, We
borrow ingredients of each other if we're baking and we
don't have it. Our kids go and hang out at
each other's houses all the time.
Speaker 2 (50:37):
Awesome, What's what's the biggest item you'd go over and borrow?
Would you just go over and would you go over
and say, have you got a couple of bottles of wine.
We're having a drink.
Speaker 25 (50:48):
No, No, I probably wouldn't do that. I would probably
say I'll come and join you.
Speaker 2 (50:55):
Have you got a couple of hundred bucks? I'm a
bit short. Yeah. Do you live? Do you live rurally?
Did you say?
Speaker 18 (51:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 11 (51:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 25 (51:05):
And you guys are in christ and all clme aren't
you rural christ Church?
Speaker 20 (51:10):
Oh?
Speaker 25 (51:10):
Yeah, Outloard Starfield? So we're in Yeah, I'm in care.
Speaker 2 (51:15):
We So you're a while from a from a deary.
Speaker 25 (51:17):
Then yeah, we've got the challenge on the corner which
has a few things. But yeah, it would have to
go to Dartfield if if you need anything bigger, because
I'd if I.
Speaker 2 (51:27):
Went on to my neighbors and see you kind of
a couple of sugar, that would say, wow, there's a
diary about fifty.
Speaker 19 (51:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 25 (51:36):
Yeah, we have a Friday night dinner most Fridays with
the neighbors and it's just a part like everyone kind
of brings what they want and yeah, we all over
catch up and whoever can come come and comes, and
whoever's busy doesn't.
Speaker 2 (51:50):
So your mates with a bunch of neighbors in your area.
Speaker 25 (51:54):
Yeah, yeah, we've all got kids around the same age
and they all go to the local school. And yeah,
so we're often popping in when our houses are a mess,
and we just don't care because we're.
Speaker 8 (52:04):
All the same.
Speaker 25 (52:06):
I'm saying that when my mother in law comes down
from Wellington, I do clean my house a lot.
Speaker 2 (52:12):
So is that is that the main form of cleaning
of your house? I know, when you're a young man
in your first flat flatting, before you go out, you
might clean your room just in case you happen to
meet the girl of your dreams. Yeah, and then the
next most important, the next most important cleaning is once
that has turned into a relationship, when their parents come around,
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then you have to prove that the whole place is tidy.
Speaker 7 (52:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 25 (52:36):
Absolutely, Yeah, I don't know when my mum comes down.
Speaker 7 (52:43):
Very much.
Speaker 3 (52:44):
It is all about love though, isn't it the cleaning
obviously it's you know, when you're trying to find a
romantic kinder or impress the romantic partner's appearents.
Speaker 2 (52:51):
Yeah, yeah, as I say, I just don't understand why
we would need to clean our house to impress my
punishing friends. That are just a bunch of disgusting losers
who cares what they think. I mean, they're disgusting losers
in the same way that I am.
Speaker 3 (53:04):
Yeah, eighty is the number to call the old pop
and why do we bother cleaning before people turn up?
Love to hear from you? Nineteen ninety two is the
text number. It is twenty two past two.
Speaker 1 (53:20):
Matt Heath and Tyler Adams afternoons call oh eight hundred
eighty ten eighty on news Talk ZB.
Speaker 3 (53:27):
You storks VB. We're talking about the popping and why
do we bother cleaning up when friends are supposedly coming
round our Eight hundred eighty ten eighty is the number
to call Krishna. How are you hey, Krishna?
Speaker 4 (53:42):
Hi?
Speaker 20 (53:43):
How's it going?
Speaker 3 (53:44):
Very well?
Speaker 17 (53:44):
So?
Speaker 3 (53:45):
Do you love a good poppin.
Speaker 13 (53:48):
Speaker?
Speaker 20 (53:49):
I just want to give you a I just want
the story of what used to happen in by building
in Barb.
Speaker 2 (53:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 20 (54:00):
A lot of things are three or four stories high
and a very old village and the designs was like
like if you imagine a modular type of buildings, so
effectively it will have each floor will have four houses
and they'll all be saying those Southeast Westers to speak
and sorry. Other than the stairs, they'll just be all
(54:23):
wrapped around the staircase. And so the windows of the
kitchen in each level would basically be one about the other.
And so it was better to sometimes be connected to them,
to the person about, because the transition of goods from
kitchen to kitchen was easy. So my mother would scream
out and the lady of the house would be in
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the kitchen. So my mother stream out saying the name
of the neighbor about and say, my sugar is finished,
but by chance, do you have enough? And we had
a little like a little basket that used to be
hanging from the top, from the top, and she would
just lower the basket with like you know, a little
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cup full of the My mother will take the sugar,
put the cup back in, and she used to get
it and then if she asked, if the upstairs lady asked,
my mother would again the basket will get lowered.
Speaker 9 (55:17):
And but for jobs on me, and it was amazing.
Speaker 20 (55:20):
And they were also swapped sweets like for example, they'll
say I've made this special sweet today, I'm just sending
something down. And it was like even though we were neighbors, yeah,
it was we were more connected to them as family
then probably some of the real family we had. It
was because and she would be screaming through the kitchen
(55:41):
window out to her about stuff. Remember these are the days.
We didn't even have a phone in the house. There
was no cell phones. And like, I was born in
seventy five, so we're talking eight years ago. And I
remember these discussions because my mother would be listening to
the radio and screaming to this lady at the same time,
and they both stopped talking when the beautiful song came
(56:03):
over the radio. So it was just quite a different world. Yes,
the issues of living close by, but there's also serious benefits.
Speaker 2 (56:11):
Yeah. And was that something that you guys set up
specifically or was that quite a typical thing?
Speaker 20 (56:16):
Was that very common large and lots of people used
to have it. Yeah, I mean you remember there's three
other neighbors on your floor, so you you you, but
this was important because you didn't have to move from
your work stations. Uldn't come to you. But yes, there
will be others. We had a Christian neighbor. There was
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only one Christian person in the entire building, and so
when Christmas used to come along, that poor lady had
to cook plum cakes, well, like the whole building, and
everybody would expect something because should only Christian around and
during deviling, the festival of life, that lady will end
up getting sweet from sixteen different different Hindu family fifteen
(56:58):
different Hindu families. And honestly, you let you put on
two kati's overnight.
Speaker 2 (57:03):
That's that's awesome and was. And as a kid growing
up in there, did you have you'd have had lots
of Mike and the boat, and that you could run
around funny.
Speaker 20 (57:11):
All go to the same school, all come back, you know,
and even when we got to college or universities that
there were some days I remember there was like a
there was a communal riot, and my sister and another
friend was from the same building, was stuck somewhere. They
didn't have enough money. They just told the taxi guy, listen,
(57:31):
you know, we're students, we don't have enough money. Get
us home and we will pay you. And and she
even said this lady lives in the same building as
as me, and the taxi driver got us back and
from memory, I think my mother wasn't at home, so
the other lady paid for the taxi payer. And we
kind of must have embers later. I think he grew
(57:53):
up as a building of sixteen families, but probably it
was more like, you know, four families extremely well connected.
Speaker 2 (58:01):
Yeah, that's something because you know, in New Zealand we
always think the dream is to have you know, your
own house and you've got you know, a backyard in
the front front yard, and that's the ultimate dream. But
but what you're describing there as a connection that you
you just wouldn't. You just don't get in that circumstance.
Speaker 20 (58:16):
You know that they can't appreciate people Bombay Bombay, and
like Mumbai now is extremely expensive to live in the
British they used to obviously rule the country. They could
not afford the consulate in Mumbai and they shifted to Bangalore.
So this isn't you're not talking about, you know, people
(58:37):
who have a choice. There is no choice. The fact
that you have a two bedroom house itself. Actually it's
not even two bedroom, it's only one bedroom, two rooms.
So living dining, kitchen was all the living dining was
one room. Kitchen was separate. Usually Indian cooking, you've got
to have it separate otherwise, you know, you you spell
it everywhere. And then the bedroom mom and dad's bedroom
(58:59):
would be different. My sister and I lived stayed in
the in the living room and and we had like
a like the main bed used to have a as
a slider underneath, and I used to sleep on the
bottom because she was scared of spiders and cockroaches and
it was like that she was little.
Speaker 10 (59:16):
Yeah, we just that's how life is.
Speaker 20 (59:19):
It's not The space space thing only came to me
when I came to New Zealand and I was like, wow,
there's so much space here. You can see land around
your house.
Speaker 2 (59:29):
Yeah yeah, and and and is there is there? But
there are parts of that close living that you miss.
Speaker 18 (59:37):
I don't know.
Speaker 9 (59:37):
I've got used to this one.
Speaker 20 (59:39):
All I learned was humans just to any environment. Yeah,
if if you have the right attitude. If we moved
back from here to Thailand for a little bit, and
my kids were born here, right, so they go from
Carava to Thailand.
Speaker 10 (59:54):
It's a big change.
Speaker 20 (59:55):
But six months into it, they were cool. They were
using the gym in the building when they didn't feel
like jimming. There was a twenty eighth story building. They
just walked up the stairs for the exercise. There was
a fool I think we just got to go to
places and look at what is good and accept it
and what is bad. If you're going to word it,
you'll probably have a happy lace.
Speaker 2 (01:00:15):
Yeah, really nice to be said. Thank you so much
for you call, Thanks for sharing. That's that's really really interesting, Krishna, Haha.
You can't just rock up any more. Boys. People get
up to some weird stuff in their houses these days, right, well,
I think well to people get up to more weird
stuff in their houses these days because there's no risk
of just the poppin'.
Speaker 3 (01:00:35):
Yeah, the Poppin's gone, So if you want to do
some weird stuff you go to do so.
Speaker 2 (01:00:39):
Back in the day when poppin's were a really regular thing,
you had to be accept that at any point you'd
get be rumbled at whatever you were doing.
Speaker 3 (01:00:46):
Yeah, the weird stuff had to happen after nine pm
because someone might just pop in.
Speaker 2 (01:00:51):
I don't know. I think there was a lot of
weird stuff happening in the seventies. I think back in
the seventies, you know, I don't know, but the cliche
is that people popped in for some weird stuff in
the seventies.
Speaker 3 (01:01:00):
I had one hundred and eighty ten eighties. The number
to call nine two ninety two is the text number.
Are you still into the unannounced pop and love to
hear from you? It is twenty nine to three.
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Speaker 3 (01:02:39):
Thank you very much, Rayleen. We're talking about the old
humble popping Apparently it's not a big thing anymore. Some
great texts coming through on nine to nine two.
Speaker 2 (01:02:49):
The reason I don't like the pop in is that
I do value the person coming around. I want to
be ready and in a hospitable mindset so they enjoy
themselves more, because that's the thing. You pop in, right,
and maybe one of them wants to see you, but
maybe your partner doesn't, and then that person's a grumpy
and they had something else planned. Yeah, guys, I think
you're missing the point. This is what I was talking about.
(01:03:09):
Why you clean the house before people come around. And
I guess back in the days when people popped in
all the time, you have to keep your house ready
for the pop on you. Yeah, Vicki's in the cupboard.
Have the full set up for tea and coffee and
you probably had to have your house reasonably clean. Guys,
I think you're missing the point. We keep our houses
tidy as a sign of respect for those that are visiting,
(01:03:29):
especially if they're not people that we know well. Most
people don't care if people they know well see their
house in a state that's not too flat. Yeah, but
I think some people clean their house just to make
other people think that they love a better life than
they do.
Speaker 3 (01:03:43):
There's a little bit of dishonesty. And I'm talking about
myself here. If people come around and we do a
quick whip around to make the house tidy, I don't
know part of it is. If it's but you know,
say acquaintances and they are coming around at the short notice. Yes,
there's part of me that wants to make us look
a bit better than.
Speaker 2 (01:03:59):
We probably are. You're fronting, yeah, but also I.
Speaker 3 (01:04:02):
Want them to have a nice place to sit down,
because you know, the lounge is an absolute pig stye.
Speaker 2 (01:04:06):
And I think if you want to make me feel good,
I'll go into your house and it's missy, and then
you make me feel better about myself.
Speaker 3 (01:04:12):
Wait you wait, mate, I think it's polite busy house
when there's a mattress in the lounge and I've got
this Jerry rigged bloody ac unit going up the stairs.
You're walking and think this is a disgrace, Tyler.
Speaker 2 (01:04:24):
Yeah, great show, Matt and Tyler. There is an ad
on TV where there was an ad on TV where
family cleaned the house before a dropping for Visitor's very funny.
And I'll tell you what it's advertising that I remember. Yeah,
I'm trying to was that someone will know? In nine
two nine two or one hundred and eighteen eighty?
Speaker 16 (01:04:42):
Was that?
Speaker 2 (01:04:43):
Was that a spray and wipeout? And did it spray
and wipe add?
Speaker 1 (01:04:46):
I believe?
Speaker 2 (01:04:47):
And didn't have the word the old hyaena in it?
Was it the lords ripes? The one for cleaning up?
But scarm? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:04:56):
Rings about nine two nine two if you know. And
we'll see if we can track that air down. John,
how are you this afternoon?
Speaker 7 (01:05:03):
Yes?
Speaker 13 (01:05:04):
Good?
Speaker 7 (01:05:04):
After them boys? Can you hear me? Okay, I've got.
Speaker 2 (01:05:06):
The speaker on we I can hear you loud and clear. John,
very good.
Speaker 7 (01:05:11):
I would just want to put a different slant on
the popping in tradition, and I call it a tradition
because when I was newly married in the nineteen sixties
and my wife was, she wasn't a total stranger to
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the district because she'd actually grown up in it in
her early days. But when we got married, it was
traditional for all the neighbors to come and welcome the
new bride to the district. That was called a tin kettling.
Speaker 10 (01:05:49):
Right ever heard the phrase no.
Speaker 3 (01:05:54):
Carry on?
Speaker 7 (01:05:56):
Yeah, Well, the neighbors would all gather at the end
of the road and arrive unannounced, usually reasonably late at night,
sort of nine tennis.
Speaker 16 (01:06:08):
You were in bed, and.
Speaker 7 (01:06:12):
They would arrive, creating a lot of.
Speaker 6 (01:06:16):
Noise, carve hoorns, banging.
Speaker 7 (01:06:20):
Tin kettles, all sorts of things to wake you up,
and they would crash into the house and you would
spend the next four or five hours plus drinking. And
they all brought their own booze, and they were probably
half cut before they got there. But that was the
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way the new wife was welcomed to the district, and
it was called a tin kettling. Now I want to
mention another form of tradition, and that was called first footing,
and that happened on you Year's Eve and you had Poppins.
Friends and neighbors would come and call on you on
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the first of January, just after midnight, and that was
a way of saying we have now joined the new year.
And people would come and they would be the first
foot over your door in the new year.
Speaker 3 (01:07:23):
Yeah, so first footing. Wow, these are traditions I've never
I kind of liked them, John, but I've.
Speaker 2 (01:07:29):
Never heard of that. I love the idea of first footing.
So you want to be the first person in your
friend's house of the new year. Oh, we lost them, John,
We lost John. I lost John. We can't get we
can't get the bottom of first footing.
Speaker 3 (01:07:45):
First foot We're gonna have to do some googling.
Speaker 2 (01:07:46):
Quite like the idea of that.
Speaker 3 (01:07:48):
Yeah, and the tin kittling interesting. I mean, whether it
would go down well in twenty twenty four, I don't know.
Oh eight, one hundred and eighty ten eighty is the
number to call?
Speaker 2 (01:07:57):
Someone's texted through a ninet two nine to two. Got
a call from Missus Fryer. She's bringing around a buyer.
The place looked to fright from the Little do.
Speaker 3 (01:08:03):
Last night, done well done?
Speaker 2 (01:08:05):
So is that is that?
Speaker 3 (01:08:07):
That's frame?
Speaker 2 (01:08:08):
Bran Ripe is it?
Speaker 3 (01:08:09):
Yeah, all right, we're going to find and white the one.
Speaker 2 (01:08:12):
I'm pretty sure it is. We're going to find that.
Speaker 3 (01:08:13):
Ad Oh eight one hundred eighty ten eighty is a
number to call. It is nineteen to three.
Speaker 1 (01:08:19):
Your new home of afternoon talk, Mad Heathen Taylor Adams
Afternoon Call, Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty.
Speaker 3 (01:08:26):
News Talks EDB, News Talks, ed B. We're talking about poppins.
They're not what they once used to be in New
Zealand society? Are you still a fan of the poppin'
Oh eight one hundred eighty ten eighty. Some good teachs
coming through.
Speaker 2 (01:08:39):
Mats, Yeah, so many textscoo. I think we've got a
lot of texts coming through the first footing. We've got
a call about first footing before. So first footing is
the best. We used to do it at the campground.
It was the best. I'm pretty sure that first footing
is a Scottish tradition and it still happens. I guys,
first footing is an old Scottish tradition, and about twenty
other people saying that so in first pooting is so
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on Year's Eve you try and be the first foot
through the door of a friend's house.
Speaker 16 (01:09:05):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (01:09:05):
Let's bring that back. That's a great tradition.
Speaker 3 (01:09:08):
So that just after midnight. But yeah, you're the first.
Speaker 2 (01:09:11):
But if everyone's first footing, then there's no one home.
So it's a pop it's a poppin at you know,
one past midnight. Yeah, essentially, that's interesting. So many people
angry that we've put the Spray and White song in
their head. Spray and wipe's the one. I think I'm
(01:09:31):
getting the words one. It's not scum, it's I believe
it was Darcy's. Anyway.
Speaker 3 (01:09:36):
Anyway, I think we're back down that air crack downd.
We we might play a little bit of a little
bit of it very shortly, but let's have a chat
to Pete. Get a Pete. You've gotta pop in story
for us.
Speaker 14 (01:09:48):
Yep, yeah, I'll just shit the scene.
Speaker 11 (01:09:51):
So nineteen seventy six, so I was twelve, youngest of four.
So mom and dad thought my brother was about to
make his way in the world. So my mom and
dad were right, we need to do a South Island
trip as a whole family. So for the caravan, and
my mom had a brother Catholic family, they had nine kids,
so I had nine cousins of one family orders in
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christ Church. So we set off on the twenty third
of December from Auckland, drove all the way through to Wellington.
Turned up in an old mate dead wasn't expecting us,
so we all just sleep in the caravan and just
drive basically, and his mate got on the booze next morning,
early fairy trip. Christmas Eve, drove from Pickton through the
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christ Church. Turned up Mom hadn't seen her brother for
about five years, knocked on the door.
Speaker 10 (01:10:40):
Said we're here for Christmas.
Speaker 9 (01:10:42):
There we were a family of six.
Speaker 11 (01:10:44):
With a family of nine.
Speaker 2 (01:10:48):
And were you well received?
Speaker 4 (01:10:51):
Well?
Speaker 14 (01:10:51):
As a kid, all I remember of suddenly I had
all these cousins who I hadn't even met.
Speaker 8 (01:10:55):
About two of them previously, So yeah, I just remember having.
Speaker 10 (01:10:59):
A great time.
Speaker 14 (01:11:00):
Mum had obviously bought some food to contribute from our side.
But yeah, when I look back at that, I think, yeah,
who would who would do that at this day and age?
Speaker 2 (01:11:09):
Yeah, I'm just thinking about it right now. So if
it was Christmas Day and then there was a knock
on the door and it was my sister, we know
on Christmas Eve, Yeah, christ Christmas Eve, and without without
announcing it, my sister turned up with her two kids
and her husband. I reckon, I'll be stoked. Actually, yeah,
(01:11:31):
I think i'd laugh. I think it'd be funny. It
would be a good surprise. I actually think i'd love that.
Speaker 3 (01:11:36):
Well.
Speaker 14 (01:11:37):
My recollection too is as I said, you know, back
then we didn't sort of travel, you didn't travel as
much the mumy and s brother several years and reciprocally
it was a reciprocal kind of thing. And as I said,
me and my siblings, we don't even met a couple
of those cousins and so yeah, we'd never meet them.
Speaker 9 (01:11:53):
So yeah, it was.
Speaker 11 (01:11:54):
It was the meeting of two families and my recollection
as the twelve year old.
Speaker 10 (01:11:57):
Yeah, we had a great time.
Speaker 3 (01:11:58):
Yeah, great story, love it, Pete. Thank you very much mate.
Some great text comings through on nine two nine two guys.
The spray and wipes the one cleans up all the storm.
Speaker 2 (01:12:11):
That's how spray and wipe start one. It cleans up
all the scum, the kitchen sparkling clean. The buyer is
very keen, so thank you spray and Wipe. And it
was kind of someone's pointing out it was like an
injury kind of rip off of a tune. Yeah, you
know zexon jougs and rock and roll role my brain
and body needs. All Right, we might have found it.
(01:12:32):
Should we play a little bit now? Or should we
hold on to it until after the ad break? Let's
let's hold on to it.
Speaker 3 (01:12:37):
Hold on.
Speaker 2 (01:12:38):
It's going to be worth the way because it's going
to ruin everyone's day once they hear it, because they'll
be walking around singing it because it's incredibly catchy.
Speaker 3 (01:12:44):
It certainly is.
Speaker 2 (01:12:45):
I mean, how great is that ad? Whoever came up
with that idea? Because it's quite innovative to have a
punishing song with a little story in it for your ad.
But it's definitely it's it stood the test of time,
doesn't it. Everyone remembers it. The text machines exploding with
people's memories of it, not all of them positive.
Speaker 3 (01:13:01):
Oh, eight hundred eighty ten eighty is the number to call.
It is twelve minutes to three.
Speaker 1 (01:13:07):
The issue that affect you and a bit of fun
along the way. Matt and Taylor Adams Afternoons You for
twenty twenty four news Talk. Za'd be.
Speaker 2 (01:13:17):
Good afternoon.
Speaker 3 (01:13:18):
There is nine to three now. John mentioned First Footing
a few phone calls ago, and Dino, I reckon, well,
apparently you want to bring that up as well, the
first Footing.
Speaker 10 (01:13:29):
Yeah, great show too, t.
Speaker 2 (01:13:32):
Thanks Dina.
Speaker 10 (01:13:33):
You're listening to you guys, and it makes me day too.
Speaker 7 (01:13:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (01:13:38):
My old mother in law, she's ninety and she's not
here now. But you know, at first to her talk
about that maybe some sort of twenty five years ago,
she said it was that do this tradition, but your
top of piece Cole. And that's probably quite right if
you were in Scotland, but Cole would have been a
Scottish a.
Speaker 2 (01:13:57):
Piece of Cole. I just watched the a Christmas A
realistic you know, like a true to the original Charles
Dickens remake of the Christmas Carol, and just a little
bit of coal was somet and it would give you
a bit of heat for a while.
Speaker 22 (01:14:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (01:14:12):
I would a Scottish whisky and just take a bottle.
Speaker 2 (01:14:16):
Yeah, I mean I prefer that myself.
Speaker 26 (01:14:19):
What about this popping, Uh, the only ones that popping now,
I don't think they popping as much as they would
have done. And that my Mum's and Jehovah's witness. They
popping pretty regularly, don't they. I don't know, you used
to be around, but maybe that's not the kind of popping.
But they did popping for a young.
Speaker 2 (01:14:37):
Yeah, yeah, that doesn't it's still happening as much. I
haven't been popped, and I've been popped on by Mormons
a few times, yeah, and Joseph back in the day,
but there hasn't been what it's been a while.
Speaker 26 (01:14:48):
No, So that's not personally I'm a that's funny when
people just popping, it's sid Yeah, what if I'm not
in the mood, you know.
Speaker 10 (01:14:56):
I might not be wanting to see you, might not
be happy.
Speaker 14 (01:14:58):
I might be doing something with.
Speaker 10 (01:15:00):
Them, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (01:15:02):
Yeah, yeah, exactly, Yeah, you might be.
Speaker 8 (01:15:04):
You're taking a chance.
Speaker 26 (01:15:09):
The bolt on our I put a second bolt on
there go just in case I'm having a nuddy run
in the.
Speaker 5 (01:15:15):
Well.
Speaker 2 (01:15:16):
If you pop a knock on the door and someone
answers the phone with a red face wrapped in a sheet,
then that's when you that's when you pop out again.
Thanks so much, be called Dino. Your first footing is
this is really interesting from Jillian here. First footing is
a Scottish new Year's tradition, that's believed to be good luck.
Who should be the first footer? Traditionally, the first person
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to enter the home on years should be a dark
haired man. This is because in Viking times, a fair
headed stranger at the door was often a sign of trouble.
So if you had a tall, fair haired person, it
was often a Viking that was about to cut your
head off for the.
Speaker 3 (01:15:54):
Next That was the age of the redheads. How times
have changed, Jenny?
Speaker 1 (01:15:58):
How are you?
Speaker 18 (01:16:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 20 (01:16:00):
Hi?
Speaker 27 (01:16:01):
So just heading on to the last caller. She kind
of took some of my thunder there. So Scottish as
a keep male, it's generally the oldest male. So my
dad is all raised Scotland Scottish, yes, and so his
whole family did this tradition. I can't do it because
I'm a seam male and I'm born and raised Kiweks.
(01:16:24):
That didn't help, Peter. So you open a brand new
bottle of whiskey. And there are words that you say
when you're doing this, and it is lang, may your
rum break.
Speaker 11 (01:16:39):
To do it with a Scottish accent, may rate.
Speaker 27 (01:16:44):
Lang, may your lum try and do it with a
Scottish accent.
Speaker 2 (01:16:52):
What I means.
Speaker 27 (01:16:55):
S that happened, you know, all the best of the
new year. I can't remember, but you give a cut
piece of coal and you say the words, may your
fire has always been for the year. The drink is
you open a brand new bottle whiskey and you drink
to the new year. And may you always be quenched
at first or something. And I think you do like
(01:17:17):
a piece of food or a potato or something like that,
so that you always have food on the table. And
it is to wish you all the best for the
coming year, and that you will have all those things.
Speaker 1 (01:17:26):
That's a tradition like mine.
Speaker 3 (01:17:28):
Get behind Genny, That's fantastic.
Speaker 27 (01:17:31):
Yeah, So the Scottish put more weight on New Year
than they do on Christmas, so they have the next
day off and everything because they are in full recovery
with hangovers and everything like that. Yeah, my dad refuses
to work because he is out drinking on New Year's Eve.
And he now lives in England and so his grandson
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doesn't pick up the habit, so he's lost someone to
carry on the habit on his family life. That he
remembers his grandfather, his father all the way through born
and raised in Scotland, huge tradition.
Speaker 3 (01:18:05):
Yeah, love it, Genny, thank you very much. Who's footing
bring that back? And forget the poppins? Right, we've been
talking about the spray and wipe just.
Speaker 2 (01:18:12):
Before we got it sprain whpead. The first visitor of
New Year's should be tall, dark and handsome. So if
you're too dark and handsome, then you're busy on You're
busy night for you.
Speaker 10 (01:18:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:18:23):
Anyway, Yeah, the spray and wipe aad we've been talking about.
Speaker 3 (01:18:26):
So you've got the audio right, here's a little bit
of it here.
Speaker 2 (01:18:28):
Okay, here we go.
Speaker 19 (01:18:29):
Got a call from mister Fryer.
Speaker 17 (01:18:31):
He's bringing round about the kitchen looked a fright.
Speaker 2 (01:18:34):
From the little do last night.
Speaker 1 (01:18:36):
Although I thought quite sickly. I had to clean it
quickly with spray and wipe our.
Speaker 4 (01:18:42):
Surface.
Speaker 19 (01:18:43):
Spray and wipe freeze because it cuts through greef churn.
Speaker 3 (01:18:50):
Ah good is that that's going to be stuck in
your ears for the next couple of hours. But spray
and wipe Australian fantastic.
Speaker 25 (01:18:58):
Right.
Speaker 3 (01:18:58):
That is where we'll leave it. New Sport and weather
on the way. Then we want to have a chat
about out of office messages.
Speaker 2 (01:19:06):
Yes, come on right, Yeah, and.
Speaker 1 (01:19:09):
You're on new home for Instateful and Entertaining Talk. It's
Mattie and Tyler Adams afternoons on news Talk ZEBBI.
Speaker 3 (01:19:18):
Good afternoon, here we go, six past three. I hope
you having a great day. We certainly are it, certainly are.
Speaker 2 (01:19:24):
Hey. You know, I'm always talking on the show about
sleep because I'm decided to become a sleep Champion this
year and sleep is so very important. And I had
an absolutely fantastic sleep last night. I absolutely slipped the
crap out of my bed mashed it. And so I've
got to give a shout out to these people at
Kindface dot Cod and one of the guy that runs
the thing round the other day. And so I got
(01:19:45):
hold of one of their weighted eyemasks to sleep in
and one of their woolen pillows, because sleeping with the
woolen pillow around your head like it's got real beautiful
New Zealand wool inside the pillow good smell toal smelled
amazing And I had the hell of asleep the weighted
sleep masks they're fantastic. So look, I mean, I don't
get any money for this, but I like to mention
(01:20:06):
great products. But yeah, face, if you're looking for if
you're looking for a present for someone, one of these
weighted sleeping masks or just one of their general sleeping
masks or one of their wall pillows. Yeah, boy, you could.
You could do worse than that for a present for
someone so kindface dot Cot and.
Speaker 3 (01:20:21):
Great stuff just on the weighted eye masks because they
were a little bit So how much weight is it?
Speaker 2 (01:20:25):
Not much?
Speaker 3 (01:20:25):
I'd take it, No, I'm not much.
Speaker 2 (01:20:27):
It just sits on your face nicely and you can,
you know, and it smells amazing. But you know, you
can cool it down in summer and you can heat
it up in winter. And the white gave if your face.
Speaker 3 (01:20:35):
Smart people. Smart people hate And there's a text here.
I just speaking about the last hour. We were talking
about front footing, which is a Scottish tradition, and there
was something that they say when they.
Speaker 2 (01:20:46):
Walk through the door, Yeah, lang, may you lumbreak beautiful? Yeah,
And so I feel like a bad Scottish because I've
got a lot of Scottish heritage. I didn't even know
anything about this grip in Dnedin, which prides itself on
it's Scottish heritage heath of course, yeah, Scottish airs. But
you know, I wasn't aware of this, but there seems
to be a lot of traditions. So I think you've
got to go around and you're supposed to be dark haired,
(01:21:10):
so you're not a Viking because the Vikings were generally
then burn your house down.
Speaker 3 (01:21:13):
It's all dark and handsome.
Speaker 2 (01:21:15):
But there's lots of versions of it. And you bring
some some coal round. That's why it's lang may your
lum reek and but it sounds like whiskey as well.
Then some people go around and do lots of doors
and they and they share a drink with everyone at
every door that they doorstep. The first foot was it
first footing.
Speaker 3 (01:21:31):
First footing? And someone has ticked through, So that lang
may ye lumriq means long may your chimney smoke.
Speaker 2 (01:21:38):
Ah, he's the coal. Yeah, lang me um good stuff.
I say that to everyone on New Year's Eve. Rarely
punish some people.
Speaker 3 (01:21:47):
Hey, just a reminder, we're doing our Great New Zealanders
of Christmas series and in about twenty five minutes we're
gonna have a chat to the Great New Zealander Laura McGoldrick.
Speaker 2 (01:21:56):
Yes, part of our Great New Zealanders of Christmas series. Yeah,
we've got some great New Zealanders on the show.
Speaker 3 (01:22:01):
Tomorrow, Huge show tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (01:22:03):
Leave both Lisa Carrington Dame Lisa Carrington and they're recently
retired from from the Black Caps. Tim Soudy on the
show tomorrow for a big Christmas special.
Speaker 3 (01:22:13):
Absolutely great New Zealanders. Right, But over the next twenty
five minutes or so, we do want ever talk about
out of office email messages. It's that time of the
year where some people start to sit there out of
office email messages and the great story in the Herald
about what some of these messages mean, so that, I mean,
there's some fantastic ones here. I'll just read the first one,
(01:22:35):
the Goody two Shoes. So the Goody two Shoes starts
off like this, KURTA, thank you for your email. I'm
out of the office on holiday from December twenty until
January five, and we'll respond to emails upon my return.
For urgent matters, please contact Helen Markle at Helen at
not there dot co dot NZI. Best regards. Yeah, and
(01:22:56):
that is official, isn't it? That's professional?
Speaker 19 (01:22:58):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (01:22:58):
Good two shoes? That's good to shooes because it's what
is the best, best case scenario, best best what if
you call it best.
Speaker 3 (01:23:04):
The most professional.
Speaker 2 (01:23:05):
And I've also given them some options that, yeah, if
there's urgent matters, then you go to this fake just
in case you need something done over the holidays. Is
there one called the person the over user of the
out of office because I know a particular person I
won't name and shame them, but they used to work
at NSID ME and this dude would go out for
a coffee and he put us out of the office
(01:23:25):
on so he'd email and goes, I'm just out of
the office and you'd go, oh he wor for a week,
for a month and then no, it was just you're
just going to cross throw from the coffee.
Speaker 3 (01:23:32):
That's too much. Well yeah, they haven't mentioned that in
this story, but that is a great one. If they're
just popping out for even the weekend warriors and they
just put it out and say, hey, I'm having a weekend.
If you need to get a hold of me, i'll
be beat Monday. No kidding, that's what most people do.
Speaker 2 (01:23:45):
Yeah. Yeah, I've never ever put one on. I've never
had to have you not no, well, I guess if
I'm not Yeah, Like for my other business, I'll just
answer any email anytime, but for broadcasting, if I'm not
here on here, who cas?
Speaker 3 (01:23:57):
I am one of these one of these particular out
of office messages, and I'll get to that shortly. There's
also the gen za yep, so it starts off knock knock,
who's there?
Speaker 21 (01:24:07):
Not me?
Speaker 2 (01:24:09):
Okay? So if I'm running a company and I email
and I'm the boss, that person's fired right then and there,
I'll start proceedings. I'll start managing them out of the company.
That's very, very annoying.
Speaker 3 (01:24:20):
It's a terrible one, isn't it. I mean, trust gin Z.
I know they get a lot of stick, but that
is terrible. There's a few more that we will get
to very shortly, but love to hear from you on
out of office messages.
Speaker 4 (01:24:29):
What do you do?
Speaker 3 (01:24:30):
Do you keep it professional? Do you try to get
a little bit funny or do you just not leave
any at all? Like Matt oh eight hundred eighty eight
and also cool.
Speaker 2 (01:24:37):
I want to share a story I read in the
ODT yesterday about a driver that got absolutely everything wrong.
That's the headline. A driver that got absolutely everything wrong.
What a tease.
Speaker 3 (01:24:48):
It is twelve past three. News talks it, but it's
quarter past three. Will get back to the out of
office messages shortly.
Speaker 2 (01:24:57):
We were talking before about the Scottish lay matte Lemmy
your leak lang, may you lum reek, which some people say,
may you long, may your chimney smokes. Someone says it
is wishing you a long life and prosperity, but someone
else says that on years they go through the door
and say, may your wife grow fat and your beard
grow long. Oh okay, So it's interesting things doorsteps say. Hey,
(01:25:22):
So I was reading this story before and I thought
it was interesting. It was a headline in the Ode
Tree it was driver did everything wrong. So I mean
a Daneed man who flipped his vehicle in Mornington on
Wednesday night did nothing right, police, said Senior Sergeant Anthony
(01:25:43):
Bond of Daneed And said police were called to Glen Road,
Mornington at eleven pm on Wednesday after a man crashed
into two part cars and flipped his vehicle. The thirty
year old man was doing everything wrong. Senior Sergeant Bond
said he was allegedly speeding while driving down the road.
He was not wearing a seatbout and was using his
phone while driving. Their man also had no license and
(01:26:04):
had allegedly been drinking. As result, he crashed into two
part car and he flipped his vehicle. He underwent breath
testing procedures and recorded a breath alcohol level of four
nine one. The legal breath alt caol limit for over
twenty is two to five.
Speaker 5 (01:26:19):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (01:26:19):
The man was charged with driving. So that's impressive, isn't.
Speaker 3 (01:26:22):
It, as the royal flush of cock up.
Speaker 2 (01:26:25):
Flipped his vehicle, He didn't have a license, he was speeding,
he had been drinking, he wasn't wearing a seatbout, and
he was on his phone while he was.
Speaker 3 (01:26:35):
I can't even think of anything to add to that's
the mistakes.
Speaker 2 (01:26:38):
That is to a royal flush of stupid driving.
Speaker 3 (01:26:41):
Yeah no, but the week yeah right, Going back to
the out of office messages, So it's a great story
in the Herald about the type of messages that you
leave when you go on holiday and what it says
about you. Ciarn, how are you this afternoon?
Speaker 16 (01:26:55):
Hi? They guys, how are you doing good?
Speaker 18 (01:26:57):
Now?
Speaker 3 (01:26:57):
What do you put on your out of office message?
Speaker 19 (01:27:01):
Well?
Speaker 28 (01:27:01):
I did a little prank on one of my bosses,
and I had one out of office for just a
company and one out of office for obviously a more
professional outlocks on the company. And I started it with
rereading those things I'm currently taking so much R and R,
and the.
Speaker 16 (01:27:18):
Beautiful Planet of BG was basically sorry, was that.
Speaker 2 (01:27:26):
The professional one or the one for just the boss?
Speaker 16 (01:27:30):
The professional one was very straightforward. It was, hey, I'm
out at the office until such and such.
Speaker 25 (01:27:35):
If you need anything, here are the details.
Speaker 2 (01:27:39):
See, I didn't know you could do that. That's actually
pretty pretty pretty brilliantcy and that you can make them
specific to different people.
Speaker 16 (01:27:47):
Yeah, no, absolutely, Wow. The funny one went on to
kind of go on about, you know, you can always
contact the other talented people that work with, you know,
the great looking ones, and here are the details. You know,
they're in an a condition office, which is much better,
(01:28:09):
And did you get some.
Speaker 3 (01:28:09):
Nice response on that? Did you get some nice response
from those that tried to email? You saw your email,
got a laugh and then responded.
Speaker 28 (01:28:17):
Yeah, no, I think one of the bosses was kind
of a bit like and hopefully that's not going out
to any of our clients.
Speaker 2 (01:28:25):
Yeah, so that's actually that's a really good idea. I've
never done an out office response before, but you pick
one person and it's just a really really abusive one
with like, you know, the worst words you can put
on it, and then and that person just thinks you're
a complete anarchist, and that's going out to everyone.
Speaker 3 (01:28:41):
That's risky, though, if you get that wrong, if you get.
Speaker 2 (01:28:44):
Around the wrong way. Yeah, that's yeah, I can see
how that could that could that could go wrong.
Speaker 4 (01:28:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 28 (01:28:49):
I'm not sure it does one individual, but it definitely
does internal verse external.
Speaker 2 (01:28:53):
Right, yeah, okay, right, yeah, yeah, okay, all right, very
good for your text. Now a couple more by text,
I mean phone call.
Speaker 3 (01:29:01):
Yeah, oh, one hundred and eighty ten eighty love to
hear about your out of office message. A couple more here.
So this one is called the Boss and it says, hello,
I am away and will not be responding to emails
during this time, kindest, not even a name there. Yeah, no,
that's the boss. Yeah, that's good, that's clean, that's powerful.
This one is the pragmatic Punisher. Hello, I am away
(01:29:22):
on leave and will return on Jenuary six. Emails sent
during this time will be automatically deleted. Please send your
message again after generally the sixth thank you?
Speaker 2 (01:29:31):
Can you do that? Can you set it up to
I'm finding a lot of tech stuff out here. I
would love if email I could set certain people up
for their emails to be automatically deleted and then told
that they've been deleted.
Speaker 3 (01:29:42):
That's a lot of Edmond. You don't have to take
care of it.
Speaker 2 (01:29:44):
I'd love to set that up on you, Tyler. So
every time your email it goes Tyler, your email has
been deleted without being read.
Speaker 3 (01:29:51):
Well, just throughout the year, not even a general This
one says. This is from the oversharer, and I love
this one, and we've all seen this one. Hello. I
am out of the office at the moment, taking a
trip of a lifetime with my family to a little
town in France. It's very remote, so I will have
less act, says the emails, but will try my best
to find an internet cafe in the meantime. Please call
(01:30:13):
the office with urgent matters and they will be more
than happy to help as best as possible. But I
am on my trip of a lifetime, happy summer.
Speaker 2 (01:30:21):
That's not just over sharing. That's showing off or humble
bragging or something that's like, I'm pretty feeling pretty toughed
about my holiday and I want everyone to know and
everyone to know that my holiday is better than them. Yeah,
I mean that's you. That's ninety percent of Instagram. That's like,
that is ninety percent of Instagram. Over the break just
represented as an office email. That's an absolute shocker.
Speaker 3 (01:30:42):
Oh one hundred eighty ten eighty what do you have
on your out of office message? Love to hear from you?
Nine two ninety two is the text number and.
Speaker 2 (01:30:49):
The species text he on that that that driver that
had got absolutely everything wrong and has asked the question
that was their car warranted and ridgi oed because surely not.
I'd like to find out.
Speaker 3 (01:30:59):
It didn't say in the story.
Speaker 2 (01:31:00):
It doesn't say any story, but the story says from
the police that they got absolutely everything wrong. Yeah, so
if that's the case, then that that would be brilliant
if the car was also.
Speaker 3 (01:31:09):
Not Warranton Ridgoe Great twist. Eight hundred and eighty ten
eighty is the number to call. It is twenty one
past three. You're listening to Matt and Tyler Good.
Speaker 1 (01:31:17):
Afternoon, Matt Heathen, Tyler Adams Afternoons. Call Oh eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty on News Talk ZB.
Speaker 3 (01:31:27):
Good afternoon, we're talking about the out of office messages
a lot of people put on as they leave for
the holidays. So we've talked about going from the top
of of the gen Za. We've talked about the big boss,
We've talked about the professional. This is the baton passer
or bton. Hello, I am.
Speaker 2 (01:31:47):
Away on leave.
Speaker 3 (01:31:47):
For any queries, please call or email Marshall Jenkins. For
urgent matters, please call reception chairs. I love the baton.
Speaker 2 (01:31:55):
You could set up a situation where people just end
up in an infinite loop. So you send someone to
someone else who sends them back to you. Yeah, so
and you send them back to them so someone can
be inception. It just goes around, around, around around. It's
like the equivalent of a mirror on a mirror.
Speaker 3 (01:32:11):
Should we do that?
Speaker 2 (01:32:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:32:12):
For urgent inquiries, contact Matt and your ones. For urgent inquiries,
contact Tyler. And this goes around around and around of that,
And this one is called the workerholic. Hello, I am
currently on leave from December twenty four to the January one,
and maybe slow to respond to emails during this time.
If you need a response, please call my mobile on
dot dot dot dot dot. That is terrible.
Speaker 2 (01:32:35):
So say that one again. What so, what's what's this
one called? This one's the workaholic? Yeah, hello, I am
currently saying yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:32:41):
So they give the the phone number the mobile when say,
if you really want to have it call call me,
just give me a buzz holiday.
Speaker 2 (01:32:49):
You know who that is. That's someone that's a that's
a sole trader, or that that's a self employed person.
Isn't there that wants the business, that doesn't want any
business to go through to the keeper?
Speaker 3 (01:32:57):
Yeah, exactly, Oh e one hundred and eighty ten eighty
couple of techs coming through. Get a guys. The idea
of an out of office message is just plain stupid.
I never leave them, and I just spies all of
my colleagues that do leave them. There's no point. I'm
not going to check my emails when I'm on holiday,
and everybody knows I'm on holiday, So why do I
need to have something funny or even professional get rid
(01:33:20):
of them?
Speaker 2 (01:33:21):
They just that person despises people that do the Yeah,
that's a that's wrong languages, that's a strong being so
angry with your colleague for a little bit of a
funny aside when they go on holiday a despise, But mate,
it's not. It's for yeah anyway, it doesn't matter. Yeah
that that person's full of hate at the most wonderful
time of the year. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:33:41):
Nine two nine two is the text number. So out
of all of those mats, what would you say you are?
Were you the professional, the goody two shoes, You're definitely
not a gen Za, the pragmatic punisher.
Speaker 2 (01:33:53):
I'd probably be the sales pitch person. But I just
put it on there and I'd be like, I'm out
of the office. I've got a book in the stores
at the moment. It's called a Lifeless Punishing Thirty Ways
to Love the Life You've got available at all good
bookstores or something.
Speaker 3 (01:34:05):
You know.
Speaker 2 (01:34:06):
I would try and I would try and get more
business out of it. Now, I'd promote something I was
up to that's smart. You'd call it the plugger.
Speaker 3 (01:34:13):
Yeah, the plugger.
Speaker 9 (01:34:13):
I like that.
Speaker 10 (01:34:14):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:34:15):
But as I say, why would anyone email me if
I'm not onner than her kids, I'm going to be
and you may.
Speaker 3 (01:34:19):
Yeah, I'll get a mess of plug when I do.
Speaker 4 (01:34:21):
Right.
Speaker 3 (01:34:21):
That has been a good chat. Thank you very much.
Headlines coming up. Then we're going to carry on our
great New Zealanders of Christmas and very surely it is.
Speaker 17 (01:34:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:34:31):
We're joined by my very good buddy Laura McGoldrick and
we'll be asking her about her Christmas and.
Speaker 1 (01:34:38):
A feel good chat.
Speaker 3 (01:34:40):
Looking forward to that. Hey, and just a reminder, speaking
of a lifeless punishing thirteen ways to love the life
you've got. We're going to give two copies away at
the end of the show. It is a great Christmas curf.
Do you chuck it in the stock and give it
to the kids, give it to the adults. So we're
going to give away two copies of that at the
end of the show.
Speaker 2 (01:34:57):
Ye, that's right. Just so I use my arm out
of the office to plug my book and my radio show.
Speaker 3 (01:35:02):
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Speaker 2 (01:36:29):
She's omnipresident in New Zealand Sports broadcasting. Always brilliant, always funny,
always insightful. She's one of my best mates. It's my
great pleasure to welcome to the great New Zealanders of
Christmas series, the Fantastic Laza mcgolders.
Speaker 18 (01:36:41):
Hey.
Speaker 2 (01:36:41):
So, Laura McGoldrick, where do we find you.
Speaker 18 (01:36:45):
Currently? Right now?
Speaker 2 (01:36:46):
Yeah, right now? Where are you?
Speaker 18 (01:36:48):
I am on my way to the airport.
Speaker 3 (01:36:52):
I'm I'm coming home.
Speaker 2 (01:36:55):
So you've had a pre Christmas holiday.
Speaker 18 (01:36:57):
I have had a pre Christmas holiday. So straight after Christmas,
I go straight back to work. So because Sky has
the rights of the ASP Classic this year, so I'm
working on the tennis. So I was like, do you
know what is me and the kids going to escape
down holiday rush? I'd already done on my Christmas shopping
throughout the year. I love those Black Friday sales. So
off we go. We've said four days, just the three
of us.
Speaker 2 (01:37:16):
Oh brilliant. And you've been careful with those those resort beers,
those resort drinks, no poisoning, absolutely, the.
Speaker 18 (01:37:24):
Beers, the cocktails, the why. I have checked them all
and we are.
Speaker 3 (01:37:31):
Goodiis treated your well, it's very good.
Speaker 18 (01:37:34):
Now Laura treated equally well.
Speaker 3 (01:37:37):
Bet yeah, I bet you have. Now game show host
is a new row. You have added to your already
impressive broadcasting quiver Game of two halves? How has that been?
And who was the most unruly?
Speaker 18 (01:37:51):
Look, it's been great fun. I've absolutely loved it. It's been. Yeah,
I miss I missed Matt Hayes for period. Hae, come
and hang out with you or something. I don't know
what happened there, but so you can borrow him from
but I would like him back at some page. But
it's been, it's been, it's been great. In terms of unruliness.
(01:38:11):
I who's been the most unruly? Oh lot? Probably probably
Keezy Keenium and I are the Yeah, probably the two
most Actually Dames Susan Devorit actually, forget what I said.
Dames Susan Davoy out of control.
Speaker 2 (01:38:23):
Yaale Heart was pretty unruly in an episode I saw
Joey Willlia. It's got a little bit of unruliness in this,
but it's a it's a great show and you're doing
a fantastic job as you always do, Laura. A huge
year in sport for you, T twenty World carb Olympics,
you got tennis coming up, Warriors hard question, but what
was the standout moment for you this year? Sporting wise. God,
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that is.
Speaker 18 (01:38:46):
Okay, So there's there's there's been a few. Yeah, you're right.
It has been a massive sporting year. And to do
too T twenty World Cup finals for me as a
broadcast and one year was wicked That South Africa, they said,
Africa India T twenty Men's final was unreal. Just watching
Jasper I'm going to really geek out on a cricket here,
but just watching Jasper Boomer go about his business and
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win back game for India to win the title was
one of the most extraordinary things as a cricket fan
I've ever watched. But the moment to me was obviously
being there when New Zealand one the White Sans Wonder
Woman's Tea twenty Wheel Cup was like nothing I've ever experienced.
I've worked on a lot of sort of finals and
dieparate events and stuff, but never a final that a
Kiwi team has won. So to be there, to have
seen these young women, particularly you know, knowing them well
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and watching them go through the ranks and then go
on and when it was just wicked as a sports fan,
but as a broadcast was like keep it together. The
lowest stuff fine, you know, and so that was really cool.
Speaker 2 (01:39:40):
I absolutely loved it and plus a complete and utter surprise,
absolutely unfancied no one gave them a chance.
Speaker 18 (01:39:48):
Well, when you lose twelve, I mean you're really some
weren't sure we should have made it to this.
Speaker 10 (01:39:53):
Tournament, you know.
Speaker 18 (01:39:54):
So I love that. That's what Tea twenty cricket can do, though,
like you just don't know when the tournament starts, who's
going to win the fame.
Speaker 2 (01:40:01):
We're talking to Laura macgldrick as part of our Great
New Zealanders of Christmas series. Now cricket is your first love,
as we've just seen you talk about, how do you
think things are looking for the black Caps going force forward?
Of course, incredible whitewash in India and then come back
to New Zealand and humbled by England.
Speaker 18 (01:40:17):
It humble is definitely the right word. I think the
Black Cams are going through a really interesting time. I
think they need to We saw obviously Tim Soudy retire
that golden era is well and truly over, and I
think we actually need to do a bit of a
clear out in there now and start afresh because we
have a lot of young, really exciting talent. I mean,
you look at Will O'Rourke, for goodness, it reminds me
of Lance Kent's the way he's built, you know, I light,
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the way he operates. I think he's going to be
such a huge asset to this team. But I think
we need some fresh eyes in there and a fresh
approach because you know, to Whitewash India was absolutely extra. Sorry,
my daughter's just sent a horse.
Speaker 2 (01:40:50):
On the side the road. Horse horse.
Speaker 3 (01:40:55):
That's exciting for a child.
Speaker 18 (01:40:56):
Yeah, I'm talking to Yeah, I'm talking to many on
the phone, just wanting so I think that, Yeah, I
think a fresh approach to that team is probably what
it needs because the results have been slipping for a
while on that black Cap side and and that happens.
We have been through, you know, that golden era, which
was just I mean, we were so lucky and Maddie,
I know you're a great cricket fan as well, and
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Tyler we're learning to know each other at this stage,
but you know, you and I supported the team through
the nineties. That period it didn't seem possible for us,
and so to have that sort of from twenty fourteen
on to you know, basically when we won that World
Test Championship. We've been very, very lucky, and now we've
got to start again, and I think, yeah, I hope,
I hope that. Yeah, there's a fresh approach to it
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because there needs to be.
Speaker 2 (01:41:40):
Well, we can handle it. We've seen the tough time.
Some people have never known anything but the good time.
Speaker 3 (01:41:44):
Yeah, resilience, that's what it's about. I know.
Speaker 18 (01:41:47):
Yeah, you have no idea how lucky you are to
those people. Oh no, I mean that whole white washing
it India thing. Then come home and get it for
your truansplate England. I've seen that before. I wasn't shot.
Speaker 2 (01:41:55):
It's the rollercoaster right, get ready because it's.
Speaker 3 (01:42:01):
Beautifully said Laura. We're loving this, Chaddy, you're right too
old with us. We're just going to take a quick
break and come back with some more Christmasy questions.
Speaker 18 (01:42:08):
Totally. I'll go look at a horse. I'll be right back.
Speaker 3 (01:42:11):
We are, Jennie to Laura McGoldrick. Is part of our
Great New Zealanders of Christmas series. You're listening to news
talk see be back in a moment.
Speaker 1 (01:42:18):
The issues that affect you and a bit of fun
along the way. Matt Heath and Tyler Adams Afternoons you
for twenty twenty four You Talk zid B.
Speaker 2 (01:42:28):
You're back with Matt and Tyler on news Talk zid
BE worth our great New Zealand's of Christmas series. We've
got Laura and McGoldrick on the phone from Peeg punishing
here on her holiday. Hey Laura, Highlight of your life
in twenty twenty four outside of the Sporting world.
Speaker 18 (01:42:44):
Highlight of my life in twenty twenty four outside of
the sporting world. So you know, I can be a
little bit over the top, Maddie, and you know he met.
We could be we could be related. So we love
our cricket. We also love our music. And this year,
I don't know what happened to what came over me
or how it sort of came to pass. A few
things had to fall into place. But I took my
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daughter to see Taylor Swift Do We Win Yes, and
see one of their last concerts, and I spink the
whole time watching my daughter watch her, and it was
the greatest, one of the greatest parenting moments of my life.
Like you know, I remember that feeling of just loving
an artist, so like I loved Michael Jackson that was
my thing, and my parents took me to go and
see him, and I just remember my hot like I
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was like, this is this is amazing. My whole life
is you know, all my dreams of coming through this
is and to watch my daughter go through something similar
with Taylor's sift, I was like, this is this is
freaking awesome. So I think for me that was my
best moment of twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (01:43:40):
Well, that's the great thing about being a parent is
that you get their joy secondhand. You end up steering at.
Speaker 3 (01:43:46):
Yeah, yeah, really better through their mate way. That's gorgeous. Laura,
what is the best piece of advice, if any, that
you've received this year?
Speaker 18 (01:43:59):
Can you say hard no? And then they made me
say hard no and they go, good, now it's a
hard no. Just say no when it seems too much,
And I was like, that is alreays sounded Rice. I'm
a little bit of a panicer. I don't like to
let people down and I don't like to say no
to things, so I sort of give alternative options, which
still put me under immense pressure. But I'm trying to
not let you down. It's about the hard no. Sometimes
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you just got to say that is a hard no
from me.
Speaker 4 (01:44:22):
I like that.
Speaker 7 (01:44:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:44:23):
I mean, right now you're doing an interview on your holiday.
Speaker 3 (01:44:25):
You could hard and may have us a soft note.
Speaker 2 (01:44:27):
But yeah, that's a big one because because a big
problem for me is if it's in the distance in
the future more than about three months, it doesn't exist.
So I'll say yes, and then three months later I'm
like people book and then when it comes up, I'm like,
I should have said no.
Speaker 18 (01:44:44):
Yeah, yeah, I know that, I know that's going.
Speaker 2 (01:44:47):
And what does Christmas look like for you this year?
When you get back to New Zealand.
Speaker 18 (01:44:52):
It's all about spending time with the family. We we
all live quite close together, so on Christmas Day it's
it's a bit of a you know, you check off,
go to everyone's house. It's breakfast at our house with
Sander's presence if the kids have been good enough for
Santa to come, and then it's on to lunch with
Mum and dad and then even just sid his lobs
out on Christmas Night, which is quite nice. He venge
just needs a little breather. I always say I'm not
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going to eat anything for dinner. I invariably do. It's
usually ham my favorite and yeah, it's just all about
family and spending time with each other. And we like
to go through the highs and lows of the year
and talk about it all. And you know, even the
kids are starting and is to get into the like
goal setting to twenty twenty five and what they want
to do and it's cool.
Speaker 3 (01:45:30):
Yeah, yeah, that's lovely and for you, Laura, best Christmas
song and best Christmas Movie?
Speaker 18 (01:45:37):
Okay, so best And I've thought about this like it's
for me, it's love actually, or and or the Holiday.
I sort of put those on rotate on the three
or four days leading up.
Speaker 2 (01:45:46):
They can't have the same movie. They're very similar. They
start with a similar voiceover, don't they very simill voice over?
Speaker 18 (01:45:53):
But Richard Curtis, who did Love Actually, has done a
new movie this year on Netflix and it's a cartoon
movie that Ed Sharon's written some music for. But what's
that what's that song called? What's that movie called?
Speaker 19 (01:46:03):
That?
Speaker 18 (01:46:03):
We like the new Christmas one?
Speaker 2 (01:46:05):
That Christmas that Christmas the animated one?
Speaker 18 (01:46:07):
Oh is that Richard Curtis the animal That's rich cool?
So we'll be watching that one. And my seven year
daughter Harley, she gets punished with Christmas movies with their
mother and so that is actually a really good one
if you were looking for something new to add to
your Christmas repertoire. That's I liked that.
Speaker 2 (01:46:22):
I read that, And a lot of people don't know
this about you, Laura, but you've got a beautiful singing voice.
You're one of the best singers I know. And you're
great on a microphone and you love being on a microphone.
So what's your what's your favorite Christmas song?
Speaker 19 (01:46:35):
Oh?
Speaker 18 (01:46:35):
War is over? It's like right up there for me.
Speaker 2 (01:46:38):
Yea even Yo Cohen outer key bvs don't put you off.
Speaker 18 (01:46:43):
Look, look they don't because she's so just. I think
it adds to it. I think it really brings in
a special kind of something. And you're like, you know what,
she's not. She ruined the Beatles. I'm not gonna let
her ruin that.
Speaker 2 (01:46:55):
I love that song. Yeah, that's a fantastic Christmas song.
Speaker 18 (01:46:57):
That's a good song.
Speaker 16 (01:46:58):
Eh.
Speaker 2 (01:46:58):
And finally, Laura, you got a message for New Zealand
for twenty twenty five. Things are a bit grum out there.
Have you got some positivity to sort of punch us
into twenty twenty five?
Speaker 18 (01:47:10):
Let's be grateful for what we do have because there
is plenty, and be kind to one another and those
good things there is all I could honestly thank God
because it is glimb our fair, Prisoner five, new Year,
new Us. Off we go. We can do it. We've
just got to. We've just got to keep looking after
each other and ourselves.
Speaker 2 (01:47:27):
Yeah, well, bless you, Laura McGoldrick. I love you. You
want to want best mates and you have a fantastic Christmas.
Speaker 3 (01:47:33):
Merry Christmas, you.
Speaker 18 (01:47:35):
Merry, Merry Christmas, boys, Merry Christmas. Everyone. Thank you so much, Mada.
I love you, love this new show. You guys rock,
You're sounding fantastic together. So congratulations, thank you.
Speaker 2 (01:47:43):
Well have you met God?
Speaker 12 (01:47:44):
Bless us everyone, everyone, bless this, bless So this is Christmas.
Speaker 17 (01:47:53):
What he.
Speaker 4 (01:48:02):
And you wanted to be gone and so this is
Christmas a.
Speaker 1 (01:48:12):
Happy there, the mere rand, the dear.
Speaker 4 (01:48:22):
Oh that So this is Christmas for weak and fall, storm.
Speaker 3 (01:48:56):
Rich and the poor speak.
Speaker 4 (01:49:01):
Love is soul.
Speaker 17 (01:49:05):
I'm so happy Christmas.
Speaker 4 (01:49:11):
Thank him.
Speaker 24 (01:49:20):
Let's stopping. So since possible, have me.
Speaker 9 (01:49:55):
For you.
Speaker 4 (01:50:00):
I'll just beg.
Speaker 2 (01:50:05):
So happy.
Speaker 4 (01:50:06):
Pas.
Speaker 3 (01:50:10):
We absolute tune a great song and great new Zealander.
Speaker 2 (01:51:12):
Laura McGoldrick and Great New Zealander John Lennon. Not quite Yeah,
if only he was a key We but Yoko and
I was flat in the background there, but Laura and
Godgriic's right, she is flat. But it kind of works.
Maybe it's because so when everyone's singing along in that
there's there's a spot for everyone, even people that are flat.
Speaker 3 (01:51:31):
Yeah, it's a beautiful thing, beautiful thing right. Very shortly
we're going to give you a chance to win a
copy of a Life Less Punishing Thirteen Ways to Love
the Life You've Got by Matt Eith. It is a
great book and will be a great Christmas present, Tyler,
and just a heads up ahead of tomorrow. It is
our last day of the year and it's going to
be a huge show. We've got plenty of special guests.
Speaker 2 (01:51:53):
It's a spectacular We're joined by Dame Lisa Carrington, the
goat in the boat. Excited to talk to her. We're
also joined by Tim Soudy tomorrow, who's just retired from cricket,
a great servant of the game, the sixy Camel, so
excited talk to him. And tomorrow we also announce the
The New Zealander of.
Speaker 3 (01:52:13):
The week, Yes, exactly, topical tunes as well, and we've
got our weigh in right at the end of the year.
Speaker 2 (01:52:19):
Yeah, that's right. So we've got this big challenge and look,
you can join us on it. We're going to weigh
in right at the end of the show tomorrow and
see if we can actually lose weight over the Christmas period.
It's not just a howth thing, it's just a test
if it's even possible, yeah, to to actually not put
on five kg over the Christmas break.
Speaker 3 (01:52:39):
I've been carbo loading, I've been having cave frive every
night for the last two weeks. I'm ready to go.
I'm excited by this.
Speaker 2 (01:52:44):
It's gonna be good because it's the biggest loss, right yeah. Yeah.
So you think that by like carb loading and dirty
bulking that you're in a better position to lose more.
Does that work?
Speaker 3 (01:52:53):
Is there a logic in that or that's my strategy
and I'm sticking to.
Speaker 2 (01:52:56):
It, or are you just starting from further back? Yeah,
but this is going to be good. What do we
call in it, Summer's Biggest Loser? Yeah? Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah,
the biggest yeah yeah, Chris, the Christmas the biggest loser
of Christmas something like that. We'll work it out by tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (01:53:14):
But that is going to be a big show tomorrow.
But coming up very shortly again, your chance to win
a copy of a Life Less Punishing. It is ten
to four. You're listening to Matt and Tyler very very
good afternoons you.
Speaker 1 (01:53:25):
The big stories, the big issues, the big trends and
everything in between. That Heat and Tyler Adams Afternoons you
for twenty twenty four US talk, said B.
Speaker 3 (01:53:35):
Said B. It is seven to four, So it's your
chance to win a copy of MAT's book and Life
Less Punishing Thirteen Ways to love the life You've got.
And I was thinking a lot about stress over the
last couple of days. Stress is a big part of
people's lives at this time of year.
Speaker 2 (01:53:52):
And it's strange that stress is a big part of Christmas.
Speaker 3 (01:53:54):
It shouldn't be, you're right, but it is.
Speaker 2 (01:53:57):
I've got a thing for stress at Christmas. If you're
running the Christmas dinner, yep, you start the dinner at
one and you take in charge of it. You wren't.
Will you run Christmas dinner like it's North Korea and
you're a dictator? You say I'm going to make all
the foods everyone's invited around. But whatever happens whenever you
turn up, the meal starts at whatever time you want,
twelve thirty one, and you just started that time. So
(01:54:18):
you don't stress out when people are arriving, You don't
stress out about the food they're going to bring. You
just run it. They don't have to stress, they don't
have to make anything. They just turn up. If they're late,
that's fine, it's no big deal. You don't get angry
at them. They just can start eating when they arrive.
Speaker 3 (01:54:31):
Take ownership of it.
Speaker 2 (01:54:32):
I love it. That is genius.
Speaker 3 (01:54:33):
There is genius. But I'm just going to read out
a part of your book, Matt, that I've been using
this technique actually and it works really well. So it's
a twenty and twenty one study at Stanford Medicine COD
led by neuroscientists and podcaster Andrew Huberman. He looked into
a pattern of breathing that might bring rapid reductions and
stress level. They wanted to find a technique that people
could use in day to day life wherever and whenever
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stress appeared. There are many tools out there to combat stress, meditation, nutrition,
good social connections, retreats, and a drink with friends. As
effective as these are, they take time. You have to
step away from the activity that's stressing you out. So
research letter Huberman's team to a type of breathing called
the physiological sigh, which was first discovered in the nineteen thirties.
(01:55:16):
It's a double inhale plus an exhale that works to
reduce high levels of carbon dioxide in the bloodstream. We
sometimes do it automatically when we're sleeping. Your dog probably
does it often to Huberman and friends found that purposely
performing the physiological site lowest stressed rapidly, as he describes
on his show and on his website. So we could
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probably all do it together right now, right, the physiological SiGe.
Speaker 2 (01:55:42):
Yeah, And this is a good thing to do when
someone's stressing you out in your family. You don't want
to you don't want to ruin Christmas by firing up,
or you're just about to arrive and you know that
there's that particular uncle or that particular sibling or that
particular siblings partner that's going to stress you out. Yeah,
you can just do the physiological size.
Speaker 3 (01:55:59):
So it's a big one and then another.
Speaker 2 (01:56:07):
Let it all out. Do three of those and it
doesn't matter how annoying your brother's wife is or your
sister's husband is. Works and you'll be able to get
through Christmas. Just don't do it in people's faces because
of you. Then people know your stress. Just go around
the corner and do it just a little bit of
a breathing. Yeah, yeah, it works a treat. Now, if
you want a copy of Matt's book, you probably know
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what to do by now. But text punishing to nine
to nine two will select two winners today and we
will do it one more time tomorrow and just remind
a big show tomorrow. We've got Lisa Carrington, Tim Sold
and other special guests as well.
Speaker 3 (01:56:42):
We will see you all then.
Speaker 2 (01:56:44):
In the meantime, though, Matts, give a taste that keyway
from us, Bless you merry Christmas.
Speaker 1 (01:57:11):
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