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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Remember we went Haiti to see Leonard Cohen phenomenal? Did
you where was.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
That at the concert hall? You didn't come around to
our place. He doesn't come around anymore, but.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
So hey, he might if you're pouring out a bit
of that six hundred dollars. Hey, very rare for me
to come to your defense on wine expenditure, because you
know it's a contentious part of our relationship. But I
feel the need to defind you this morning. People, you
should never comment on what other people want to spend
their money on. Some people by lotto tickets, some people
buy drugs, some people by constant tickets, will travel a lot.
(00:33):
You don't do any of those things. So if you
want to work hard and put six hundred dollars of
your well and money towards something you will thoroughly enjoy,
why try to justify that to people who will never
understand it, you know.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
But here's the point point, Kate was that was making
this rip sing on what people were spending their money on.
You're wasting your money, You're blying your do on seventeen
fifty crap from TMU blah blah blah. I should have
a six hundred dollars bottle of wine, and he knew
he was lobbying at grenade at the time.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Weren't you No, I wasn't. What I was.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
What clearly happened with my comment was I was I
was introducing a level of sophistication that some people couldn't
quite cope with on a Friday morning.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
And that was just.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
When you get home from your six hundred dollars, Because
there are many instances in life when we would spend
six hundred dollars. And all I did was base it
on fact. And the fact is apparently each and every
one of us, on average, is going to spend today
six hundred dollars. So how much thought goes into it?
And when you've done it? If I turned up with
a bottle of wine and went there's what I bought,
(01:35):
you go, what a moron? Where See the boss came in, Jason,
who's not the most sophisticated tool.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
In the drawer, and he comes in. Now that's a guy.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
That's a guy who goes out and spends six hundred
dollars without even blinking on lotto. I'm not on lotto.
On lego right now, there's nothing well, not spending you
six hundred dollars on lego, but he buys his lego
blocks and he makes his rocket and then he packs
it down and then he puts it in the seat,
never to be seen again.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
So what was saying, does he not? Does he? Do?
Speaker 1 (02:04):
You already called me? He called me a word that
starts with W.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Yeah, I know, I know that, I'm sure. But here's
the thing. I actually found it refreshingly honest, and until
you started apologizing for it and saying it wasn't true,
which I think we all know.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
And also, not only have I had people in the
city that's the other issue. Not only have I had
people demanding to know which particular bottle of wine he's
been talking about, and of course it was just a
hypothetical bottle of wine, and then they said, is that
the name of it hypothetical? I've also had people now
asking me what the type of chiras is that I'm buying, Dear,
(02:44):
it's actually as it's it's a type of wine called
chateau W word that ends in R. And you can obtain.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Here's a very good point top text.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
You're king Charles shoes are a case in point aren't
they so those shoes.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
I mean, some people I understand because I've been one
of those people who view it and go, but that's
so much money to be on something you're just going
to drink like it's just it's gone. Your shoes you
can wear again and again and again. Do you know
what I'm saying?
Speaker 2 (03:12):
And so I understand that you place right, and you
should listen to Matt's You shouldn't listen to that Matt
guy on the afternoon show because I was driving into
the hairdresser's at third Thursday two o'clock and I was
listening to their show and Matt was talking about the
value of experience and so, yes, the wine is gone,
but the experience isn't.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Okay, But it's the experience.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Just the wine is the experience beyond it's the time
walking place and walking out to the avocado tree and
reciting a pole to her as you plant the wine
to her.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
I think to him, I think that's part of the
problem when you're looking, when you're looking at looking for peers,
I think that's bought now here we go bought a
one thousand dollars bottle of wine.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
When coming back.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
To New Zealand from scene got a meal at Michael's
restaurant in High Street, christ Duchy Chateau Lafitte, nineteen seventy two.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
You only live with us, you.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
See, so all of those years later that they remember exactly. Now,
next story, Guess who I had dinner with at Michael's restaurant?
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Hey, who?
Speaker 1 (04:17):
There you go?
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Many years ago Mike I got drag kicking and screaming
to Epinay for a monch and on tour. I was
a non drinker. It was the highlight though, of a
three month European tour. You can't argue with that. Mike
popping in ninety six to mo two tonight, it's going
to be superb pairing with some lambshanks see to Moto's
a very nice wine out of why hecky. In case
you don't know, Mike, I buy a thousand dollar bottle
(04:38):
of wine every quarter and have done so for the
last ten years for doing well for myself. And I
totally get your point.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
VJ.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Four thousand dollar bottles of wine per year for ten years.
He's got fourteen bottles of thousand dollars bottles of wine.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Can we actually you know what you experience as though
they're actually free because you go Simmey and Brown an
experience at twenty seven this morning?
Speaker 1 (05:04):
How old are you, tim? What's that? How old are you?
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Fifty nine?
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Right, so at fifty nine you should be doing thirty
to forty star jumps.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Could you?
Speaker 4 (05:17):
Here's the deal when you did that challenge to Simeon,
do your star jumps, I'll hit the deck and the
press ups?
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Yeah, see those you would agree with me? Would you?
Press ups are way harder than star jumps?
Speaker 4 (05:29):
I would think so, because I could do star jumps
till the cows come home.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
I think I believe that in the case.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
And I don't think you're saying anything by saying you
can do a lot of star jumps. I don't think
star jumps are hard. Ky, Do you do star jumps
every now and again?
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Don't you?
Speaker 3 (05:42):
No?
Speaker 1 (05:43):
What was that thing we were doing the other day?
I did star jumps and then you did star jumble
of wine? No?
Speaker 2 (05:48):
No, I'm sure we did some star jumps together and
you laughed at me, and then you did some and
your uncoordinated stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Do you think it's the coordination thing?
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Well, we're standing on one leg.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
I don't think we I think we were. I think
we were standing on one leg doing jumps. I think
that's the sort of sun each other doing star jups.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Can I just start bring it back to what you
tease before the break, which is cleaned.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
You should see credible.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
You never tell us who did you have dinner with it?
Michael's I'm just kidding this.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Go back, I drackle.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
I'll give you a prize. What would prob Would you
like a six hundred dollars bottle of wine? I'll give
you six hundred dollar bottle of wine if you get
it right first time, Tim.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Go.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Oh golly. You will know the name instantly. So it's
a well known name.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Is it a christ? No?
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Okay, give me a name.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Clark healthy though, as though I would sit you in
twenty twenty four and go, hey, I tell you who
I had dinner with?
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Michael Helen Clark.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
When was this good? No good?
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Clue his thirties forties, nationally years ago, thirty years ago,
maybe the late nineties, early two thousands.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Possibly there are the best feel music. Point out is
no longer there.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
It was a very well established and magnificent restaurant owned
and run by a guy called Michael, and he was
the he was he was the it was the.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Go to place.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
One more clue, Katy so In, the very well known politician,
exceedingly well known politician, globally well known politician, but not
as global as America as an American.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
President, Tony Blair. Good guess, Bob Hawk.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Oh, I knew that.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
I knew that story.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
I can't believe I forgot I knew that. I'm so
bummed I missed out on that six hundred dollar bottle
of wine, particularly given I don't drink, that would have
been amazing.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
And probably don't worry.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Don't worry, I'm gonna I'm going to pop in a
six dollar bottle of mcgwigan's, Katie, I'll pop that in
the curier. You'll be okay.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
There we go, and probably the nicest dinner I've ever had,
not dinner, dinner, but and.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
He no one was more entertaining than him.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
And he told stories that I could probably repeat given
his dead without being libelous. But if he was alive,
they'd be so libeless they'd be unbelievable, even though those
stories are true, and they involve members of the royal family.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Yeah, don't repeat them on air.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
H do you know that story?
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Well, you told me about this dinner, so I remember it.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
But were we standing on one leg on this morning?
We were doing star jumps? Yeah, we're doing startups too.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
I think.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Can I say, can I just say you've raised an
issue though, just bringing it back to Simeon. If you
know how the cops have every two years they have
to do a fitness thing, why don't we have that
for MPs.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
I don't think that's true anymore for MPs. Yeah, I
don't think that's true. I may be wrong, but I
thought they did away with that once it got hard
to you know, they couldn't find a cop for love
nor money.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
I think they did away with everything.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
It used to be have to be five foot nine
or ten or eight or something, and now you can
be four foot three and smoke and you know, never
done anything in your life and still still be a
police officers. But you're right, we should bring it back
for MPs. A warrant of fitness is what you're talking about,
isn't it.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Yes, a waff yeah exactly.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Can I give a brief PSA two people shopping today
for Black Friday? One to the retailers. Fifteen percent off
is not is not a sale.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Correct.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
The problem is we've got so much choice internationally online
now where it's seventy percent off. Everywhere that you go
is like twenty percent off, like do better two. I
was in the Auckland CBD yesterday O MG, and that
was an experience because they are they are gentrifying or CBD,
which I've been harsh about for years. So I'm a
(09:33):
harsh critic because it's just crap. But it's getting better
from the bottom up. But the top half of it.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
See the don't cutter off the dog, I said, the
dog put its poor up and went this is over.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
And Blue Los canceled.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Joe, exactly have you ever heard of my show Speed Tim?
Speaker 4 (10:00):
What's that?
Speaker 2 (10:01):
I show speeds a person okay, and was in the
country this week, dear, So you don't know? Did you
know I show speed Caddy?
Speaker 3 (10:10):
No? I know, I know about him being here, but
I don't I didn't know about him. Hey, sorry, courier, it's.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Of course it's a courier. Un tell I know it's
a courier. That's the mcgwegans.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
It's the mcwegans coming to make sure they check your age,
Caddy say I'm not letting you in with the booze
until you ask how old I am.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Nice to see you guys, have a good weekend.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
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