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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 4 (00:13):
Welcome along to the Hauraki Breakfast, the first day of spring,
the 1st of September, 2026. My name's Jeremy Wells, this
is my nice Stuart.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
Pinch of the punch for the first of the month.
Take that left foot, jam the clutch in, sticker in neutral,
and we are rolling down the hill to the end
of the year. If you've enjoyed the show at all
in the last couple of months, thanks for listening, and
we'll see you guys next year when we stick it
back in first.

Speaker 4 (00:36):
Give us a call now, 0800 HODOKI. If you want
to take the kickoff, we'll have some suggestions of some songs.
I'll have one, I'll have one. You can choose which
song starts the show today.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
Yes, because what we can't have is Smashing Pumpkins.

Speaker 4 (00:52):
Incubus.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
Incubus. So give us a call now, 0800 HODOKI. 0800
428 725. I think they want to know what the
songs are going to be, Gerry.

Speaker 4 (00:59):
Okay, here's my one. This is my suggestion. Gorillas Feel
Good Inc.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
This was on one of the first Now albums that
I ever bought. Now That's What I Call Music, I
believe volume 20. It was an orange CD. Wow.

Speaker 4 (01:19):
Track 20. Your first one that you bought was Now
That's What I Call Music 20.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
I think it was, yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:25):
Wow, because I remember Now That's What I Call Music 1.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
Really?

Speaker 4 (01:29):
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:29):
I believe it was called Now That's What I Call Music.

Speaker 4 (01:32):
And that's it. That was it? That was it. No one.
Good point, Ruder. But who can forget, now that's what
I call music three. Now that was a beauty. I
think that had life as a highway, Tom Cochran.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
Wow. All right, for me, I don't think any radio
station is playing the song, and if ever there was
a station that should play it, it's this one. It's
Forgot About Dre.

Speaker 4 (01:55):
Oh, yes.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
Interesting.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
Who's playing Eminem these days? And I reckon just about
everyone would know the chorus to that.

Speaker 4 (02:05):
A couple of funky little numbers to choose from this morning.
0800 HODAKI, 0800 428 725. Who's going to take the kickoff?
That's the question. Maybe no one. Maybe no one wants
to take the kickoff.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
There was someone on the line just before. They hung up.
They didn't like either of the songs.

Speaker 4 (02:24):
Wow. Wow, okay. This is a Radio HODAKI first.

Speaker 6 (02:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
It's a hostage situation.

Speaker 4 (02:30):
I don't think the phones are working.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
Let's go to line one.

Speaker 4 (02:35):
All right. Let's go to George. Morning, George. Welcome to
the show.

Speaker 7 (02:38):
Morning. Sorry about the hang-up, fellas.

Speaker 6 (02:40):
No.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
Is that you, George?

Speaker 4 (02:41):
That's not a problem, George. George, you're taking the kick-off today.
Where are you calling in from, firstly?

Speaker 8 (02:48):
Just heading out to Rooted.

Speaker 7 (02:50):
Neck of the Woods.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
Beautiful.

Speaker 4 (02:52):
Riverhead.

Speaker 7 (02:53):
Yeah, heading out those ways. But, yeah, a bit early.

Speaker 4 (02:59):
Yeah, well, if you see anyone out there who's working
on a building site eating chicken, particularly an apprentice, make
sure you grab it. Do it, Rudy.

Speaker 7 (03:07):
That's probably going to be.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
Me, yes.

Speaker 4 (03:09):
Good on you, George. Which song would you like? Forgot
about Dre, or would you like Feel Good Inc. by Gorillaz?

Speaker 7 (03:16):
I will have to go with the Gorillaz. Go and
get the song.

Speaker 4 (03:19):
Okay, good on you, George. Thanks for calling in. Thanks
for listening to the Heartache Breakfast.

Speaker 9 (03:25):
Cheers, fellas.

Speaker 4 (03:25):
Have a lovely day, George.

Speaker 10 (03:27):
Straight.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
Jerry and Mania, the Hodaki breakfast.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
How's the weather around the country for the first of spring, Jeremy?

Speaker 4 (03:34):
A little bit showery, actually. Did you see yesterday in Dunedin?
Did you see that snow?

Speaker 11 (03:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (03:39):
Cars slipping all over the place.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
When will they learn? Do you remember a while ago
I showed you your new favourite Instagram page called Jerry's
of Queenstown? And there's just a bunch of mongs around
Queenstown doing dumb stuff. They posted a few videos of
people driving around town yesterday with their chains still on. Yep,
like tearing the CBD up with chains on.

Speaker 4 (04:00):
Oh, good.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
Presumably waiting for their wives to come and take the
chains off. Well, look, let's just be clear, all right?

Speaker 4 (04:09):
It wasn't my idea for Tulsi to be the person
who puts chains on our car if we go up
a mountain.

Speaker 1 (04:15):
It was by necessity.

Speaker 4 (04:17):
How it started was she would go skiing without me
when I was working and she wasn't working. And so
she'd go and so she learned how to do it herself.
So that's how it started when I wasn't there. And
then one day I went to put them on with
her and made an absolute schmuzzle of it.

Speaker 12 (04:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (04:39):
And she said.

Speaker 1 (04:40):
Get out of the way. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (04:41):
And she came in and sorted it out immediately.

Speaker 12 (04:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (04:44):
And from then on, basically took over the duties.

Speaker 1 (04:47):
So she was away without you on a skiing trip
and comes home all of a sudden knowing how to
put chains on.

Speaker 3 (04:54):
Mm-hmm.

Speaker 12 (04:57):
Mm-hmm.

Speaker 4 (04:58):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (04:58):
Who was she skiing with? Some friends.

Speaker 4 (05:00):
I don't know. Yes, she was. She was skiing with
her friends. Sort of taking the kids up to Ruapehu.

Speaker 1 (05:07):
Oh, okay.

Speaker 4 (05:08):
And midweek, you know, back when the kids were very small.

Speaker 1 (05:13):
Too young to remember sort of areas.

Speaker 4 (05:14):
Oh, definitely too young to remember. They hate it.

Speaker 13 (05:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (05:17):
You know, dragging them up there, crying in a snowplow,
going down the hill. Just what you're after.

Speaker 1 (05:22):
Pizza, pizza, fries.

Speaker 4 (05:24):
Paying a lot of money.

Speaker 14 (05:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (05:25):
For them to cry. But yeah, so.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
And all of a sudden she came back, she knows
how to sharpen a knife.

Speaker 4 (05:33):
I'm getting in the way of a woman who wants
to put chains on a car.

Speaker 1 (05:36):
They're very progressive of you.

Speaker 4 (05:37):
Yeah. Do I sit in the car and yell instructions? Yes.
Hurry up. Hurry up. Come on.

Speaker 1 (05:44):
Later on, we're going to talk to Chris Brandolino, who
taught your wife how to put chains on. We're also
going to test, I want to ask him about my
theory about Dunedin and Kaitaia. Where are we this morning?

Speaker 4 (05:55):
We're way out at the moment. Because we've got some
quite extremes.

Speaker 1 (05:59):
I reckon it only works in winter.

Speaker 4 (06:01):
And you've got some stiff South Westerlies. So, Utipuji Dunedin,
currently four. Kaitaia, 13. Kaitaia, currently the warmest place in
New Zealand.

Speaker 1 (06:10):
Yeah, okay, that makes sense. But I do want to
ask him if there's something going on with Kaitaia and Dunes.
Just before we were doing the kick-off, the first song,
because there was a real dirge of songs in there
at the moment. So we replaced it with Feel Good Inc. Gorillaz.
And now I open the text machine of a Tuesday morning.

(06:31):
It says, George, what are you doing? Chris says, morning, fellas.
Any chance of both songs?

Speaker 4 (06:36):
Okay. Was this from Chris? Did Chris text that?

Speaker 1 (06:38):
Chris said, morning, fellas. Any chance of both songs?

Speaker 13 (06:40):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (06:40):
Well, the other thing with Chris is you've got to
be quick on the call, Chris.

Speaker 1 (06:44):
Well, this is the thing.

Speaker 4 (06:45):
I mean, there's plenty of time there. In fact, you
can always call before the show starts and just get
ready to go. You could be waiting on the line ready.

Speaker 1 (06:51):
Jump the queue. Yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 4 (06:53):
If you want to kick things off, if you want
the option of choosing that first song, feel free to
call at 6.

Speaker 1 (06:59):
But I mean, the question stands.

Speaker 7 (07:01):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (07:02):
From Chris. Morning, fellas. Any chance of Budsos?

Speaker 4 (07:05):
Well, if Chris gives us a call now on 0800
HODAKI and maybe asks us to our ear holes, Chris.

Speaker 1 (07:12):
you call Jerry and you ask him yourself, then use
your manners.

Speaker 4 (07:15):
Then maybe, maybe we could do that.

Speaker 5 (07:18):
What if Chris is listening on iHeartRadio and takes him
90 seconds to get through to us?

Speaker 1 (07:23):
Well, what if Chris isn't listening right now, he hops
back in his car, realises what's happened?

Speaker 4 (07:29):
What if Chris is a bot?

Speaker 1 (07:32):
Here we go. Oh, this isn't Chris, it's bloody George again. Morning, George. Yeah, good.

Speaker 3 (07:38):
Hello.

Speaker 7 (07:39):
Yeah, Chris.

Speaker 1 (07:42):
OK, well, will you accept George ringing on Chris's behalf, Gerry?

Speaker 4 (07:48):
Absolutely.

Speaker 11 (07:48):
OK.

Speaker 1 (07:49):
Let's play.

Speaker 4 (07:50):
I'll do that for George.

Speaker 1 (07:52):
Thanks, George. Got a lot.

Speaker 4 (07:53):
Of time for George. Great New Zealander.

Speaker 1 (07:56):
You kind of have to, he's our only listener.

Speaker 2 (08:00):
Jerry and Minaya. The Hauraki Breakfast.

Speaker 4 (08:03):
There it is. Forgot about Dre.

Speaker 1 (08:05):
Dr.

Speaker 4 (08:05):
Dre featuring Eminem at 18 past 6 on the Hauraki Breakfast,
as voted by you.

Speaker 1 (08:10):
It's like an innovation in the NRL kickoff rules. We've
just changed the kickoff rules. We've usually just been the
first song, and we pick one of the two songs
that we've picked. George rowing through and said,¿ Por qué
no es dos? Why don't we play both of them? Spanish, sorry.
And so we have. We've gone dueling kickoffs. There's two
balls on the field this morning. A few texts coming through. Morning, fellas.

Speaker 4 (08:32):
Ed here.

Speaker 1 (08:32):
You're absolutely killing it down with Big Incubus. Morning, boys.
Can we just give a hearty kia ora to George
for speaking up? For all of us lurkers too tired
to pick up the phone and speak on national radio. Morning, lads.
Don't worry. We're out there listening. That's from Tony. Thank
God George rectified his mistake. And this one here. Is
this song too censored for 6.17am?

Speaker 4 (08:52):
I like that. Is this too boring for 6.20, actually
6.19 and 33 seconds? Thank you. Yesterday was day two
in our house of brisket.

Speaker 15 (09:07):
Oh.

Speaker 4 (09:07):
Brisket being cow breast.

Speaker 1 (09:12):
Yep.

Speaker 4 (09:12):
Which I think has actually been poorly named. I think
cow breast would be a lot more popular if you
call it cow breast.

Speaker 1 (09:19):
There's some people who don't like to think of the
animal when they're eating it. That's why they give them
abstract names.

Speaker 4 (09:24):
But I mean, things where you've got chicken leg and
you've got chicken breast and you've got chicken wing. I mean,
it's all very descriptive of what the chicken... Chicken thighs.
Chicken thighs. It's very descriptive of what the chicken has.
But for some reason with cows.

Speaker 1 (09:34):
Well, what if it came from a bull? Jerry.

Speaker 9 (09:38):
Ah.

Speaker 1 (09:38):
Did you think of that?

Speaker 4 (09:39):
Okay. Well, then would it be bull breast?

Speaker 1 (09:41):
Yeah, I suppose it would.

Speaker 10 (09:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (09:43):
Bovine breast.

Speaker 1 (09:44):
Maybe it should just be bovine breast.

Speaker 4 (09:45):
Yeah, bovine breast. Bovine, full stop. Yeah. But that brisket,
$ 24. 99 that brisket. Not an ad, but weird.

Speaker 1 (09:50):
$ 24. 99 at Woolworths.

Speaker 9 (09:53):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (09:54):
1kg per kg.

Speaker 2 (09:54):
1kg.

Speaker 4 (09:54):
1kg of brisket. you slow cook that sucker for 6
hours yep ok it takes a bit of planning but
on a Sunday you slow cook that sucker and you're
going to have a huge meal out.

Speaker 1 (10:07):
Of it is that in the slow cooker or are
you in the oven I'm in the oven the umu
I'm in the umu I'm in the I'm in the
big casserole kind of style pot with the lid on
it the cast.

Speaker 4 (10:17):
Iron enamel enamel enamel we got gifted one actually from
a friend for uh tossy got gifted it for her
40th not from me from someone else.

Speaker 1 (10:28):
From the guy who taught her how to put her
chains on.

Speaker 4 (10:32):
From some family friends and um anyway this this beautiful
cast it's cast iron enamel thing um La Cruciate, I
think it was what it was called. And it was
a really great guff, because once you have one of those,
you have it forever. Anyway, the other day I said
to Chelsea, do you know how expensive these things are now?
And she said, oh, I don't know, maybe 250 bucks,

(10:54):
300 bucks or something.

Speaker 1 (10:55):
35 stickers from New World.

Speaker 4 (10:57):
And then I said, no, I think go online and
have a look at how much that thing is now. $ 850.

Speaker 15 (11:03):
What?

Speaker 1 (11:03):
$ 850.

Speaker 4 (11:03):
For the pot?

Speaker 2 (11:04):
Yes. Yes.

Speaker 12 (11:10):
Jesus.

Speaker 4 (11:11):
I know.

Speaker 1 (11:12):
Did you list it on Trade Me immediately?

Speaker 4 (11:16):
I know. She was like, no, that one's the bigger one.
I said, measure it. No, it wasn't. That was the one.

Speaker 1 (11:24):
Someone gave that to you as a gift?

Speaker 4 (11:26):
Yes, but it was way less. It used to be
like 250 bucks.

Speaker 1 (11:30):
Someone gave that to you as a gift?

Speaker 4 (11:31):
10 years ago.

Speaker 1 (11:32):
This mystery man gave that to your wife as a gift?

Speaker 15 (11:34):
An $ 800 pot?

Speaker 4 (11:34):
As I said. Very good family friends. But, I mean,
you have that. You literally, I mean, my parents have
still got the same one that they got for their
bloody engagement.

Speaker 1 (11:45):
Is that right?

Speaker 4 (11:46):
Yeah. So when you have one of those ceramic pots,
they literally last your entire, I mean, that thing will
still be around in 300 years' time.

Speaker 1 (11:53):
You know who's engaged right now? Could do with an
$ 800 pot. If anyone's looking to get one.

Speaker 4 (11:57):
But back to the brisket. Please. So one kg of brisket,
family of four, two teenage kids, We chopped through about
half of it on Sunday night. Still half left yesterday.

Speaker 9 (12:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (12:10):
A whole nother meal. Whack that sucker in a pie.
And you got yourself a brisket and cheese pie on
day two using that slow cooked brisket from your thing before.
And it was 24 bucks.

Speaker 1 (12:24):
So you're talking 12 bucks.

Speaker 4 (12:27):
It's three bucks each. Per meal for your family. It's
pretty good considering how awesome the brisket is. So nice.
That meat is like next level.

Speaker 1 (12:35):
Three bucks and all you need is an $ 800 pot.

Speaker 4 (12:37):
Well, it doesn't have to be $ 800.

Speaker 5 (12:39):
What are you throwing into the slow cooker with the brisket?

Speaker 4 (12:43):
You're throwing in some stock. You're throwing in curry paste.

Speaker 1 (12:49):
Paste, not a powder.

Speaker 4 (12:51):
A lot of salt and pepper. And some whole peeled tomatoes.
and letting that sucker just simmer on down.

Speaker 1 (13:00):
And so did you eat all is it all gone
now you got through the whole brisket.

Speaker 4 (13:03):
Got through both two days gone now little two day
test match two days gone but holy crap it just
turns into the most beautiful moist fall apart meat you've
ever seen.

Speaker 1 (13:15):
Well I think to answer your original question yeah that
was way too boring for 16.

Speaker 4 (13:22):
Big brisket get in touch reach out I think they
shouldn't rename it cow breast. I didn't realise until today
where the brisket actually came from. You wouldn't know because
you would have chopped up a couple of cow in
your time. Yeah. One of your 555 jobs that you've had?

Speaker 11 (13:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (13:40):
Hot bone. They hot bone beef.

Speaker 4 (13:42):
Oh yeah?

Speaker 9 (13:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (13:43):
God knows what that means.

Speaker 1 (13:44):
I don't know what that means. You ever hot boned
a cattle beast?

Speaker 4 (13:47):
I haven't boned any animal. 6.32 on the Heideki Breakfast.
Time for your latest sport headlines. Thanks to Export Ultra,
the beer for here. Argentine football great Lionel Messi has
retired from internationals. After earning 207 caps, he also scored

(14:12):
125 goals and won the FIFA World Cup. That's a
good effort. 207, 125 goals.

Speaker 1 (14:18):
He's pretty good.

Speaker 4 (14:18):
Good strike, mate.

Speaker 1 (14:19):
You would have to consider him one of the better
soccer players of all time.

Speaker 4 (14:22):
He's one of those... No fuss type of dudes as well.
If you just saw him wandering down the street, you'd
be like, if you said, is this guy one of
the greatest professional footballers of all time? I'd be like,
probably not.

Speaker 1 (14:33):
Probably not.

Speaker 9 (14:34):
No.

Speaker 1 (14:35):
I mean, he might play on the weekends, yeah. Yeah.
But goat? Dunno.

Speaker 4 (14:40):
Probably owns a car wash or something. His last game
came in July, aged 39, in this year's global showpiece
defeat to Spain in New Jersey.

Speaker 1 (14:50):
Not that old.

Speaker 4 (14:51):
And Springboks coach Rassi Erasmus has kept faith with the
same 23, barring one injury switch for the third test
against the All Blacks in Soweto on Sunday morning.

Speaker 1 (15:01):
Are we buying this? Do we believe this at all?
This is what he did last week, was he named
a team that didn't look anything like what started on
the day.

Speaker 4 (15:10):
Is he playing mind games?

Speaker 1 (15:11):
I think so. But I think the mind game this
week is he will start the team that he's picked.
I think it's like, A double negative. A double bluff.

Speaker 4 (15:20):
I think you're right. But I think by doing that
last weekend, he's put some doubt in the All Blacks'
minds this week.

Speaker 1 (15:26):
Yeah, definitely. And the funny thing about last week, and
I think I said this yesterday, so he named Andre Pollard,
and then a week's worth of content went out from
YouTubers and podcasters and half-assed rock radio DJs about whether
he was waving the white flag by putting Andre Pollard
in there. Andre Pollard never played.

Speaker 2 (15:46):
No.

Speaker 1 (15:47):
What I want to know is, did the players know
that they weren't playing? I don't know.

Speaker 2 (15:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (15:52):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (15:53):
So he's named Cheslin Colby at fullback. Yep. Which I
think is trying to bait us into changing our first five.
Because if I look at Cheslin Colby at fullback, I go,
I will sound the air raid sirens. We're kicking down
his throat all game. But I don't think Rennie thinks
like that.

Speaker 4 (16:08):
Well, he's a shorty, but he's good under the high
ball still, isn't he?

Speaker 1 (16:12):
I know, but put one on his head and have
Geordie Barrett running through.

Speaker 9 (16:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (16:16):
Well, also, Kirtley Arancy is coming onto the right wing.
Do you know much about him?

Speaker 1 (16:21):
Yeah, yeah, he's pretty good. He was named to start
last week as well. And, in fact, he did play
for most of the game last week, I believe, when
Willemse was injured. And so that's why they don't have
a fullback. I would, if I was a gambling man,
and much to my family's dismay I am, I reckon
Marnie Libock might be starting at 15.

Speaker 4 (16:40):
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 (16:41):
He's your favourite. I love Marnie Libock. Wherever Marnie Libock
is from, he is the most Marnie Libock-looking dude. I've
also got these cool boots. I've got a theory that
he can't pass to his right. I've never seen him
pass to his right. Watch him if he plays this weekend.

Speaker 4 (16:58):
And women's top seed and two-time defending champion Irina Siblenka
has completed a straight-sets victory at the US Tennis Open
first round. Meanwhile, the longest first-round streak in the history
of Grand Slam tennis is over. Novak Djokovic has been
defeated in the first round, bringing to an end his
historic 20-year-old record of 78 consecutive opening round victories. That's impressive.

(17:21):
He lost to Argentina's world number 49, Mariano Navone, in
a five-set marathon that lasted four hours and 36 minutes.

Speaker 5 (17:32):
Bugger that.

Speaker 4 (17:37):
So for years, the compound where Osama bin Laden spent
his final years was one of the most notorious addresses
in the world. But a travel vlogger who recently visited
the site in Balaltown, Pakistan, found that its grim history
has been replaced by something far more ordinary. It's got

(17:58):
like a makeshift cricket field filled with local children.

Speaker 9 (18:02):
About a year after the raid happened, so 2012 sometime,
they came in here, completely got rid of it because
they didn't want people to turn it into some sort
of weird worship site. And they wanted to prevent tourists
from coming. But of course, here I am. So right
here is the house. Right there is the driveway into
the house. And of course, there was a huge wall
that was around the entire property. You can just hang
out and play with the kids here on Osama's compound.

Speaker 1 (18:24):
Bin Laden.

Speaker 4 (18:25):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (18:26):
Bin Laden's compound. House is up in Laden. The U.S.
Navy SEALs.

Speaker 9 (18:30):
Arrived here at 3 in the morning to take out
the world's most wanted man. Shall we play some cricket
here on the compound?

Speaker 15 (18:36):
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 (18:37):
Let's go. Let's play. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (18:38):
House of the Bin Laden.

Speaker 4 (18:39):
And he's American. He plays terrible cricket. Plays it like
a baseball player.

Speaker 1 (18:43):
Yeah, later on in that video, he's like, oh, I'm
going to convert them to baseball. Because he did a
pitch to them, and then they hit it along the carpet,
eliminate one of the methods of dismissal. It was Bradman-esque.

Speaker 4 (18:56):
Yeah, it was beautiful.

Speaker 1 (18:57):
And he was just like, oh, ground ball.

Speaker 4 (19:00):
No, mate.

Speaker 1 (19:00):
No, brother.

Speaker 4 (19:00):
No, that's the whole point.

Speaker 1 (19:01):
No, brother, that's textbook. Yeah. That is textbook what that
kid did. Yeah, it's quite funny. Obviously, they tore the
house down almost immediately afterwards, but then, yeah, obviously, the
land's still there.

Speaker 9 (19:13):
No.

Speaker 1 (19:14):
And like anything in Pakistan, you leave enough room there,
someone's going to start playing cricket on it.

Speaker 4 (19:19):
Yeah, and I think the good thing is that the
base of the house was concrete, so it's a nice, flat,
even sort of a surface as well.

Speaker 1 (19:26):
It's a hard pitch, looks like a little bit uneven.
But up and down.

Speaker 4 (19:30):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (19:31):
Some of those kids really getting a lot of purchase.
The spinners, there's a bit in it for the spinners.

Speaker 4 (19:35):
Well, you see why Pakistan's produced so many great spinners
over the years. Because, I mean, you do get those
uneven surfaces that dry out massively and they do take
quite a lot of turn.

Speaker 1 (19:44):
You'd have to think that being a man of Afghani descent,
Bin Laden would have played a bit of cricket. He's
about 6'6, so they probably.

Speaker 4 (19:53):
Was he? Yeah.

Speaker 10 (19:53):
Was he?

Speaker 1 (19:54):
Really? That's how they knew that it was him, because
they found this guy who would pace around this compound.
They called him the pacer or the walker or something
like that. They were like, it's got to be him.
He's about 6'6.

Speaker 4 (20:04):
That's right. They worked out from his bloody shadow, didn't they?

Speaker 1 (20:07):
From his shadow. He was enormous. Someone said he was
playing with the wrong Rockets. He should have been in
Houston playing in the NBA. Go and get a rebound.
But you'd have to think he was probably forced into
bowling pace. I don't know that he would have been
bowling a lot of spin on that deck.

Speaker 4 (20:22):
Wasn't he watching Family Guy videos or something? He had
some really unusual VHSs and some odd DVDs.

Speaker 1 (20:29):
He did, yeah.

Speaker 4 (20:29):
There was– I can't remember what the– what was the thing?

Speaker 1 (20:33):
They found a lot on his hard drive. I read
the book of the guys that went in to take
him out, and it is– Hilarious because they trained for
about six months once they found him. They built a
replica of the compound and they attacked it from every
different angle and in every different weather condition. And what
if the wind's coming this way? What if it's a
full moon? What if there's no moon? What if this?

(20:55):
What if that? And then on the day when they
pulled up in their helicopters, there was a backdraft from
the compound that they were in. Just crashed a helicopter
straight into his backyard.

Speaker 4 (21:02):
That was a shocker.

Speaker 1 (21:03):
And then they were like, okay, well, plane's out the window.

Speaker 4 (21:05):
Yeah, so then they had to leave one of the helicopters,
didn't they? They had to go hot, yeah. And then
they went out on the other helicopter.

Speaker 1 (21:10):
Yeah, well, and so the other guys, their plan was
to land on the outside of the compound. The first
guys were going to let them in. Well, they just
crashed into his backyard. They're like, oh, well, we're on now.

Speaker 4 (21:19):
Wouldn't be like America to screw something up like that,
would it?

Speaker 5 (21:21):
So apparently some of the DVDs he had in his
collection were a lot of movies, like the cartoon Ants.

Speaker 9 (21:27):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (21:28):
Cars.

Speaker 4 (21:28):
Cars.

Speaker 5 (21:30):
Ice Age, Dawn of the Dinosaurs. Chicken Little.

Speaker 4 (21:33):
Okay, so clearly that's for his kids, isn't it? That's
what's going on there.

Speaker 1 (21:37):
Hey man, everyone needs to unwind.

Speaker 4 (21:40):
So anyway, if you're looking to go to Pakistan and
play some backyard cricket, you can do it at Bin
Laden's house nowadays.

Speaker 1 (21:49):
Have you guys... Sorry, I'm reading through them at the moment.
So yesterday on the show, we talked to Flight Officer X...
a person who agreed to come on the show under
the condition of anonymity to discuss the flyover in South
Africa over the weekend. I feel like it was one
of the biggest stories out of that game.

Speaker 4 (22:07):
Yeah, two jet planes flying within metres of the top
of the stadium. It was called Airlink, the airline.

Speaker 1 (22:14):
Yeah, and we had a few questions like how close
were they actually? Do you think they were supposed to
be that close? What could have gone wrong? Would that
happen in New Zealand?

Speaker 14 (22:23):
There was also a pyrotechnics display that occurred that felt
like it had gone, the person had pushed the button
a little early, and it exploded as the plane was
going over the top of the stadium.

Speaker 4 (22:34):
I'm pretty sure they had one last week over the
top of Alice Park in Johannesburg, and the planes went over,
and then the pyrotechnics went off afterwards. This one, the
pyrotechnics went off as the plane was literally flying over
the top of the pyrotechnics.

Speaker 1 (22:49):
So we talked about it yesterday. A video of it
went up on social media, and it has hit the
South African rugby fan algorithm again. This has happened before
to us. We got the pitchforks out last year after
South Africa beat us in Wellington, and that hit the algorithm.
Millions of views and thousands of comments. Well, I went
to bed last night, and I messaged into the group

(23:10):
chat and said, we should talk about this tomorrow. There's
like 40 comments on this post. I've woken up this morning,
there's almost 300.

Speaker 4 (23:16):
There we go.

Speaker 1 (23:17):
It is going off in South Africa, and they are
not watching the video at all. Some of the feedback.
Please grow up here. All rules were followed. We can
fly those planes in reverse if we want to. We
are South Africa. Talk about amazing Springboks and our awesome
pilots without the negativity. Nothing happened. Report on that. A

(23:38):
little bit German in there. Come on, guys. I was
there and it was epic. Carefully planned, approved, and expertly
executed by top pilots within the SACAA safety parameters. South
African pilots and its aviation mechanisms are regarded as some
of the best in the world. Sorry. There are 17
replies to that comment alone.

Speaker 7 (23:56):
Oh, really?

Speaker 1 (23:57):
We really are not. They are, you puss. Your mama
is calling to run to her, sonny boy. I mean,
it's just.

Speaker 4 (24:05):
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 (24:06):
It was planned and amazing. Loved every moment. South Africa
love heart. Yes, yes, and yes, it was meant to
be that low. Three senior pilots in each plane. Why
are they so defensive about the aviation rules?

Speaker 4 (24:17):
It's obviously been a story over there as well.

Speaker 13 (24:19):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 (24:20):
And the pilots have come out and defended themselves.

Speaker 1 (24:22):
Aviation standards in South Africa rank higher than in NZ.
Please don't attack our beloved country with BS views. Our
pilots know what they're doing. Someone else just said, since 1995, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
And then this one here from a Kiwi. Captain's a
good kid, albeit a little heavy on the stick. I'll
tell you what, if we need to boost our social engagement,

(24:43):
just slagging off South African rugby fans is the way
to go.

Speaker 4 (24:46):
Satin Indian cricket fans, isn't it? That's our spot. That's
the sweet spot. 292, not out.

Speaker 1 (24:54):
Get in there and have an argument with a South
African rugby fan if you want something to do this morning.

Speaker 3 (24:58):
So there's an election coming up November 7, I think,
something like that.

Speaker 1 (25:10):
Can't come soon enough. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (25:12):
It's interesting at the moment, the polls, it's, she's tight.
I think. She's tight.

Speaker 1 (25:18):
I think. Yeah, because no one can do anything. I
think we're just at the mercy. There's a lot of
stuff that's happening all around the world and every side
of the political spectrum just can't do anything. So they're
coming out with these wacky policies that everyone's like, huh?
I don't want that. And I voted for you guys
last time.

Speaker 4 (25:35):
I think there's a lot of people that are disillusioned.
I think there's a lot of people disillusioned with the
way that these things are at the moment. The economy,
just kind of everything.

Speaker 1 (25:44):
Can we all agree? Bad batch. We've got a bad batch.
Wherever you sit on the political spectrum, left, right, centre,
wherever you are, let's all agree, bad batch. This is
a bad one.

Speaker 4 (25:56):
Shall we just kick this one to touch and go
for another? Well, that's going to upset some people who
want to change a government, but some people will say,
can we just defer it for a year?

Speaker 14 (26:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (26:06):
Labour National Coalition, how about that? I was like, look, bugger.
I don't know. Yeah. But what I love is in
the last couple of weeks, they've all started announcing their slogans. Man,
these crack me up. I don't know why. I don't
know what it is. They're all so corny.

Speaker 4 (26:19):
Do you think that they don't have as much money
as they used to have? Do you think? Because, I mean,
who donates to political parties?

Speaker 1 (26:25):
Oh, I know.

Speaker 4 (26:26):
Who does that?

Speaker 1 (26:27):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (26:27):
Don't you?

Speaker 1 (26:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (26:31):
So obviously they've got to find money to come up
with slogans because they've got to pay advertising agencies to
come up with these. Well, I assume, but looking at
some of the slogans, I'm thinking, I don't think anyone's
been paid to come up with this.

Speaker 1 (26:41):
You'd hope not. And if they have. Why didn't you
come to us?

Speaker 4 (26:44):
If they have, you should get your money back.

Speaker 1 (26:47):
So what have we got this year?

Speaker 4 (26:49):
Well, can I just start with New Zealand first? Let's
take back our country.

Speaker 1 (26:56):
New Zealand first.

Speaker 4 (26:57):
Who's taken it? Who's got it?

Speaker 15 (26:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (27:00):
I would have thought the same boomers that have been
in charge are still in charge. Let's take it back.

Speaker 9 (27:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (27:04):
Let's take back our country. That is so dog whistle. Boy,
oh boy.

Speaker 1 (27:08):
National, fixing the basics, building the future.

Speaker 4 (27:13):
Does that get you excited?

Speaker 15 (27:14):
No.

Speaker 1 (27:14):
I don't even know what that means.

Speaker 4 (27:15):
Fixing the basics. There's nothing more exciting than fixing the basics.
That's inspiring, isn't it?

Speaker 5 (27:20):
But haven't they also been there for three years? Have
they not been fixing the basics for the last.

Speaker 4 (27:24):
I think they've been saying that they've been fixing the basics.

Speaker 15 (27:27):
Oh, OK.

Speaker 1 (27:27):
And it's going to take another few years.

Speaker 4 (27:28):
They're still blaming what happened before them, eh?

Speaker 1 (27:30):
The other one is I don't want to hear from
them at the moment being like, hey, if we're re-elected,
we'll do this, this and this. Do it now. Do
it now. Why are you waiting to get re-elected?

Speaker 4 (27:38):
So what have the Labour Party... Better starts now.

Speaker 1 (27:41):
What does that even mean?

Speaker 4 (27:43):
Better starts... Well, I'll tell you what it means, Vinaya. Better,
because it hasn't been very good.

Speaker 15 (27:47):
Better.

Speaker 4 (27:48):
Hasn't been good. So better starts... Now. Right now.

Speaker 1 (27:54):
Hang on, but they're not in yet.

Speaker 4 (27:56):
But then after three years, we'll say, oh, we haven't
had enough time. And we need another three years to
make better start now.

Speaker 1 (28:02):
What are some of the best ones that we've had?
The Green Party at the moment is for all of us.

Speaker 4 (28:07):
What does that mean?

Speaker 1 (28:08):
I don't know. Act real change. Don't know what that
means either. In 1972, Labour were going with the Bruce
Buffer approach from the veteran voice of the Octagon in
the UFC.

Speaker 4 (28:21):
It's time. Yeah, with big Norm Kirk.

Speaker 1 (28:23):
Yes, big fan.

Speaker 4 (28:25):
Yeah, they stormed home. They stormed to victory there in 72. 75,
now this was a famous one because I got gifted
by a friend of mine the National Party Manifesto from
1975 in booklet form. With Robert Muldoon. He was later
Sir Robert Muldoon. At that point, just Rob Muldoon on

(28:45):
the front. And they're saying then was New Zealand the
way you want it? Because for a bit of context... Yes,
they were sponsored by Burger King.

Speaker 1 (28:55):
Have it your way.

Speaker 4 (28:57):
For a bit of context, the Labour Party in 72
were accused of being communists.

Speaker 13 (29:02):
Oh, right.

Speaker 4 (29:02):
So New Zealand, the way you want it, was like,
so we're not going to turn into Russia. We're not
going to turn. And they ran these campaigns, these ads
that had like dancing Cossacks that were cartoons. And they
were done by Hanna-Barbera. I don't know if you remember
Hanna-Barbera cartoons. But they're quite famous animators from, I believe,

(29:24):
the States. And they wrote the ads.

Speaker 1 (29:27):
Yeah, right.

Speaker 4 (29:28):
And they were very, very effective. But yeah, they had
dancing Cossacks basically saying, you know, if things keep going
the way they have been under Norm Kirk, we're going
to turn into a communist country. That freaked the crap
out of people. And the other thing they did. in
75 was they allowed cats back into the workplace.

Speaker 1 (29:44):
Cats?

Speaker 4 (29:45):
Yeah, it was a big policy. So in the manifesto,
it had a whole three pages dedicated to the fact
that they were going to bring cats back into the
workplace because Labour had got rid of.

Speaker 1 (29:55):
Banned cats.

Speaker 4 (29:56):
Yeah, you were allowed to have a cat in a dairy.

Speaker 1 (29:58):
It was illegal. So if I'm a dairy farmer and
I've got feed lying around, so we've got a bit
of a mouse problem, I'm not allowed to have a
cat in there.

Speaker 4 (30:05):
No cats in the workplace.

Speaker 1 (30:06):
In the workplace.

Speaker 4 (30:07):
No, and cats got banned from dairies because they decided
that was an important thing to shut down.

Speaker 1 (30:12):
And so they ran on bringing back the cats.

Speaker 4 (30:15):
In an ad, Muldoon goes, and we'll bring back the cats.
That's what he says, I want to be asked.

Speaker 1 (30:20):
You'd get a few votes there. So watch it out.
If the Hauraki breakfast was a political party, and, you know, look,
we're considering throwing our hats in the ring, because like
I said before, bad batch. What would our slogan be?

Speaker 4 (30:32):
Okay, we'll get into it next.

Speaker 1 (30:35):
Give us a text, 3483, give us a call, 0800 HAURAKI.
Send us a donation.

Speaker 4 (30:40):
I feel like the word neutral is going to feature somewhere.

Speaker 15 (30:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (30:45):
It's not referring to politically neutral.

Speaker 7 (30:47):
No.

Speaker 2 (30:48):
Jeremy Wells and Minaya Stewart. The Hodaki Breakfast.

Speaker 4 (30:52):
We're talking about campaign slogans.

Speaker 1 (30:54):
Yes, again, bad batch, both in terms of the parties
that we've got to vote for and also the slogans.
They're all a little bit lame. So we want to know, 348-3800, Hodaki,
what should our slogan be? We also took to SoshMed
last night. What should our campaign slogan be? Clintstagram from
the ZM Drive show. Oh, yeah. Not an ad, but

(31:15):
reach out if ZM wants to sponsor this station. Two
in the, one in the. Oh. Yeah. What a crazy
thing to put your own actual name to.

Speaker 4 (31:23):
Well, there's another one here that makes me freaked out
about how much some people listen.

Speaker 1 (31:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (31:32):
Which is, the slogan should be, it's a shade loose
in the, do you mind chucking it in my. Now,
I feel like, I can't believe that I told that story.

Speaker 1 (31:44):
No.

Speaker 4 (31:44):
At some point.

Speaker 1 (31:47):
Don't retell it. No, I'm not going to. But I
don't know that that really speaks to our base voter.

Speaker 9 (31:55):
No.

Speaker 1 (31:55):
It's a shade loose in the... So chuck it in the....

Speaker 4 (32:01):
Oh, my God.

Speaker 1 (32:02):
How about this one from Steve-O? Keeping your HSRFs HS.

Speaker 4 (32:07):
Oh, the highly secured facility. Highly secured. Okay.

Speaker 1 (32:11):
Keeping it highly secured.

Speaker 4 (32:12):
Vote Jerry and Mania. This is a good one. We
own two sharks. So that's quite good. That's just sort of.

Speaker 1 (32:19):
That's a threat.

Speaker 5 (32:19):
That's a threat.

Speaker 1 (32:22):
Just so you know, we've got two sharks. Michael writes, yes,
we can not be buggered.

Speaker 4 (32:29):
There seems to be... That's a vein that's come through
quite heavily, hasn't it?

Speaker 1 (32:34):
Yeah, like lowering the bar so the only way is over.
The bar's already on the ground, so we've brought a spade.
Two guys, one country, zero ideas. Vote Jerry and Minaya
because who else do we have?

Speaker 15 (32:44):
Uh....

Speaker 1 (32:46):
Redefining neutral for all of Aotearoa.

Speaker 4 (32:48):
Now, so far for me, that's the front runner.

Speaker 1 (32:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (32:52):
Redefining neutral for all of, for the whole of Aotearoa,
is that what it was?

Speaker 1 (32:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (32:56):
I like that.

Speaker 1 (32:57):
This one here, vote Jeremy and I or we'll kill you.
And another one from a friend of the show, Ben,
count on us to take the foot off the petrol
and chuck it into neutral.

Speaker 4 (33:06):
Yeah, I like this.

Speaker 1 (33:08):
One that's come through on 3483 that I think would
be a great ad for our campaign going into November
is from Gareth, Let's go, girls.

Speaker 4 (33:19):
Let's go, girls.

Speaker 1 (33:20):
Does that not get you? Picture that at the rally
when we do our inaugural Gerry and Manoia hot doggy
breakfast rally.

Speaker 4 (33:26):
Imagine if one of the political parties stormed to victory
on the back of Let's Go Girls. Fantastic. 2026 campaign
with Let's Go Girls.

Speaker 1 (33:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (33:36):
That ended up mobilising male voters.

Speaker 14 (33:39):
Oh, it would.

Speaker 1 (33:40):
That song, male or female, when that kicks in, when
Shania rips that guitar, geez, that gets you going.

Speaker 4 (33:46):
Yeah, it's going to cost us a pretty penny, though,
isn't it? That's a problem.

Speaker 1 (33:48):
Bit of a nice way. Too expensive for us. What
about Tara? Yes, she does. Three villagers are missing their idiots.
Neutral party, just coast. A lot of things. The hierarchy breakfast,
always gamble the feature. The hierarchy breakfast, why not? Crank
the hog and milk the yoppers.

Speaker 4 (34:08):
I quite like crank the hog and milk the yoppers.

Speaker 1 (34:11):
Old Hauraki coming down the stairs. You drink what I
give you, boy. Supporting South African pilots and workplace cats.
The foot's flat but asleep.

Speaker 4 (34:24):
At the wheel. It's certainly a lot better than fixing
the basics, building the future, or better starts now. That's
not going to work with us, is it?

Speaker 2 (34:39):
Never miss Gerry and Manoa.

Speaker 3 (34:41):
Set the Hauraki Breakfast podcast to auto-download in your podcast settings.

Speaker 4 (34:47):
The Hauraki Breakfast putting it in neutral since September, which
is today.

Speaker 1 (34:53):
A while ago, a long time ago actually, we did
the top five blazing spots of a Friday and we
found the, funnily enough, top five blazing spots around the country.
We put a bookmark in that and said let's put
a pin in it circle back and run it up
the flagpole later on.

Speaker 4 (35:08):
Yeah, because we were thinking about that it's a perfect
stocking stuffer. Perfect coffee table book for Christmas. Great gift
for your parents.

Speaker 1 (35:17):
Yes, that's right. And so we're going to need a
bit of lead time. Since we're chucking it into neutral
and coasting down the hill into Christmas, it's about time
to get a wriggle on on this book. So the
top five blazing spots that we settled on way back
in like February or something, January. Sparking one up at
the top of Maungakawa in Cambridge is A Rite of Passage.
Sugarloaf in Christchurch, great place to gaze out from in

(35:39):
an altered state of consciousness while listening to Tool.

Speaker 4 (35:42):
Specifically Tool.

Speaker 1 (35:43):
Any airport plane watching car park where the planes fly
over you on takeoff or landing. Best place to get
on the whakamana in Wellington is out at Red Rocks
watching the sunset over the South Island. Always a bit
dicey coming back over Devil's Gate when the boys bring
out the super nangs. And five, Signal Hill in Dunners.

Speaker 4 (35:59):
Yeah, because the other thing about this was we were
talking about Blazing Spots and how it could be accompanied
with music. So we were talking about being in cars,
weren't we?

Speaker 15 (36:09):
Yes.

Speaker 4 (36:09):
And then having some kind of playlist that goes with it.

Speaker 5 (36:13):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (36:14):
Just quickly before that, Toby is on the line. Toby,
I believe you may have another one you want to
throw into the mix.

Speaker 4 (36:19):
Boy, legend.

Speaker 10 (36:20):
I've got a few blaze pots for you fellas.

Speaker 1 (36:22):
Go on.

Speaker 7 (36:23):
Start off with.

Speaker 10 (36:24):
Scenic Drive Lookout. Up on Scenic Drive, get a good
view of the West Auckland Dome.

Speaker 1 (36:29):
Oh, yes, you're.

Speaker 4 (36:29):
Talking about the Waitakere's and you look back over.

Speaker 1 (36:32):
At the city?

Speaker 6 (36:33):
Yeah, bro, yeah, that's a beautiful spot there, eh?

Speaker 4 (36:35):
Yeah, it is a good spot, yeah.

Speaker 15 (36:37):
And then Maldi Bay after a surf.

Speaker 7 (36:39):
Oh, legendary.

Speaker 1 (36:42):
Good sunset.

Speaker 7 (36:44):
Oh, you can't beat it.

Speaker 8 (36:45):
And then Top of the Monga, giant cafes.

Speaker 10 (36:49):
Have some squeegees outside.

Speaker 1 (36:51):
Where's that?

Speaker 13 (36:52):
Where's that?

Speaker 15 (36:53):
Oh, up on Tudor.

Speaker 8 (36:54):
Mount Rupetu.

Speaker 1 (36:55):
Oh, wow, yeah.

Speaker 11 (36:57):
The old giant calf mate.

Speaker 1 (36:58):
Absolutely.

Speaker 11 (36:58):
Lovely place to spot.

Speaker 10 (37:00):
Oh, yes.

Speaker 1 (37:01):
Where are you right now, Toby?

Speaker 10 (37:03):
Oh, fuck, I'm at work, bro.

Speaker 1 (37:07):
Good stuff, Toby. We might need to get you involved
in this at some point, but thanks very much for
those ones. Sounds like Toby can do it.

Speaker 15 (37:15):
Legend.

Speaker 7 (37:16):
What's the prize?

Speaker 1 (37:20):
We'll leave you with Zoe just picking that one out.
So I feel like Toby could write the top five
by himself. The issue we've got is, and we've got
a long laundry list, the issue we have is how
the hell do you actually make a book? Like what
is the first step? Does anyone know anyone that could
print a book for us?

Speaker 4 (37:39):
Have you ever written a book?

Speaker 15 (37:42):
No.

Speaker 4 (37:42):
Have you ever read one, mate? Yeah, well, we've done
our ACC book. Of course. Oh, yes.

Speaker 1 (37:47):
Someone texted in and said that they just bought one
of those from the bargain bin for $ 3 a pop.

Speaker 4 (37:51):
Oh, yeah. They'd be right. We signed a lot of those.
Remember how long it took us to sign?

Speaker 6 (37:55):
Yes.

Speaker 4 (37:55):
Signing books. Let's not sign any of these books, by
the way, because that's not much fun doing that.

Speaker 1 (38:01):
Yes. So where do you get a book made?

Speaker 4 (38:03):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (38:04):
How many... Can we get?

Speaker 9 (38:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (38:06):
Because again, we don't have any money for this.

Speaker 4 (38:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (38:09):
Do we just have to get one proof of purchase made?

Speaker 4 (38:12):
Oh, we don't have to come up with the money
for it. We're not self-publishing. We're looking for a publisher
to get in behind this. I mean, I imagine it's
either Penguin. I mean, we'd go to the top of
the list. First of all, you'd go Penguin, you'd go HarperCollins.

Speaker 1 (38:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (38:24):
You'd go.

Speaker 1 (38:25):
King James.

Speaker 4 (38:26):
Hachette. Ellen and Unwin, they did Heath's books. They're probably
not top of the list. But You look at those publishers,
and I'm sure they'd be keen to get in behind
something like this. This is a stocking stuffer par excellence. 100%.

Speaker 1 (38:41):
We've already got a Ghostwriter and Toby there. What publisher
wouldn't want to get involved in that?

Speaker 4 (38:46):
I would have thought so. It's more an issue for
us is getting to these blazing spots. Yes.

Speaker 1 (38:51):
So this is the thing. Wow. The idea is we
want to go to each of these spots. We want
to write a little blurb in the book. We also
want to record a podcast so that when you go there,
you sit down, you listen to the podcast. It's as
if we're there with you. So we physically need to
get to all of these spots. It also needs to
be somewhere that you can get to as the reader
of the book. Yeah. I'm picturing it to be spiral bound,

(39:14):
double covered so that you can rip parts off the
cover if you want to.

Speaker 4 (39:17):
Oh, I see what you're doing.

Speaker 9 (39:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (39:19):
Maybe even like a few pages at the back that
are like Bible paper.

Speaker 4 (39:23):
Rice paper.

Speaker 1 (39:23):
Just for whatever you want to use those for.

Speaker 2 (39:25):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (39:26):
And yeah, and like I said, if you want to
rip bits of cardboard off the front cover, you can
because there'll be a second one. Spiral bounce, you can
lay it flat on the dashboard of your car. There'll
be a QR code. You can scan it, listen to
a podcast. I've got it all thought out.

Speaker 4 (39:38):
Dude, this is good.

Speaker 1 (39:39):
I just need someone who can make a book. So
reach out publishers.

Speaker 4 (39:43):
Yeah, okay. I'm sure, surely someone will want to read.
I mean, what could possibly go wrong?

Speaker 2 (39:48):
Jerry and Manon. The Hauraki Breakfast.

Speaker 4 (39:51):
Time to play It's Academic. Give us a call now.
0800 HAURAKI. 0800 428 725 if you want to play.
We're now taking our questions from the inside of a
packet of sanitary pads from Libra. And we'll give you
the choice, actually. You can have the questions from either
inside the invisible, the extra, the maternity, or the ultra-thin.

(40:13):
Let's welcome Toby to the show. Good morning, Toby. Welcome back.
Nice to have you back.

Speaker 15 (40:18):
Hey, your followers miss me, eh?

Speaker 4 (40:19):
Oh, did we ever.

Speaker 1 (40:21):
Couldn't get enough.

Speaker 15 (40:22):
Hey.

Speaker 4 (40:22):
What school did you go to, Toby?

Speaker 15 (40:25):
Oh, well, I went to Rangitoto College for like two years,
and then they asked me to leave, and then I
went to Albany Senior for a year, and that was legendary.

Speaker 4 (40:34):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (40:35):
Which school will you be representing this morning?

Speaker 10 (40:38):
Albany.

Speaker 2 (40:39):
I didn't like Rangitoto.

Speaker 1 (40:40):
All right.

Speaker 4 (40:41):
All right.

Speaker 9 (40:41):
Albany.

Speaker 4 (40:41):
Albany. Would you like to take the questions from the
invisible pads, the extra pads, the maternity or the ultra-thin pads?

Speaker 8 (40:51):
Oh, hell.

Speaker 15 (40:54):
I'll go with the invisible ones.

Speaker 4 (40:57):
Invisible, yeah. That's the thinnest, most comfortable pad.

Speaker 15 (41:02):
Oh, right.

Speaker 4 (41:02):
It gets the invisible feeling with superior protection.

Speaker 1 (41:05):
Oh, wow. Stunning.

Speaker 4 (41:07):
Yeah. Okay. Okay, Toby.

Speaker 15 (41:10):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (41:11):
Here we go. You've just got to get three of
these questions right. First question for Toby. What is the
chemical symbol for the element gold?

Speaker 11 (41:22):
AU?

Speaker 2 (41:23):
Yes.

Speaker 4 (41:23):
In what year did RMS Titanic sink in the North
Atlantic Ocean?

Speaker 13 (41:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (41:33):
1912. Which actor played the character Jack Dawson in the
1997 blockbuster film Titanic?

Speaker 15 (41:41):
Oh, Leonardo DiCaprio. Yes.

Speaker 4 (41:44):
Got to get one correct out of the next two,
including overseas territories. Which country holds the record for most
time zones in the world?

Speaker 3 (41:54):
Oh, um, past.

Speaker 4 (41:56):
Okay, final questions.

Speaker 7 (41:57):
France.

Speaker 4 (41:58):
Final question. Which country won the inaugural FIFA World Cup
tournament in 1930?

Speaker 12 (42:01):
France.

Speaker 15 (42:03):
Oh, probably like Spain or something.

Speaker 4 (42:06):
I asked the question, so I'll give you the choice
to answer it. Is Spain? No, it was Uruguay. You
came bloody close, Toby.

Speaker 11 (42:14):
Ah!

Speaker 4 (42:16):
You came bloody close.

Speaker 1 (42:18):
Goddammit. Bad luck, Toby.

Speaker 13 (42:20):
Ah, well.

Speaker 1 (42:21):
Can't win them all, eh? Cheers, guys.

Speaker 4 (42:22):
Oh, thank you, Toby. Thanks for calling, and thanks for playing.

Speaker 2 (42:26):
Time to do your lame claims to fame. 3483.

Speaker 4 (42:31):
0800 HODAKI. No claim to fame is too lame. We
love to hear from you.

Speaker 1 (42:37):
Let's go to the phones. We find Shano. Morning, Shano.
What's your lame claim to fame?

Speaker 7 (42:42):
G'day, fellas.

Speaker 9 (42:44):
All right.

Speaker 7 (42:44):
Now, this is a bit of a yarn, so strap
on your hat and pants, okay?

Speaker 1 (42:48):
I got you.

Speaker 7 (42:50):
Right. So this took place in Nelson probably about 20
years ago. We had this famous little drug-addicted midget. Oh, sorry,
dwarf that used to strut around in Nelson. Now, this guy...
He'd actually held up a pharmacy at knife point because
of his heroin addiction. He took on a balaclava, actually.
Everyone knew who he was, though. The pharmacist told him

(43:11):
to piss off. Anywho, I was driving down the street
in my van. It was a Kombi, so I was
quite well, you know, you could tell who I was.
I was jokingly driving behind him, and I thought, I'll
just swerve at this little bastard trying to impress my
mate in the seat next to me. He turns around,
makes eye contact with me, and I'm like, holy crap,
because this dude was badass. Anyway, So that kind of happened.

(43:33):
I thought, all right, sweet as, but freaky. I was
at my workplace. I worked at the movie theater, right?
And I was just, you know, selling tangy fruits and
stuff at the candy bar. The little dude, I felt
something on me. I could feel these eyes on me.
I look over the other side of the foyer. He's
right there staring right at me. I'm like, oh, geez,
he recognizes me from the time I pretended to run

(43:55):
him down.

Speaker 15 (43:55):
Anywho, I was freaking.

Speaker 7 (43:57):
It was a weird moment. He was gone after that
and I'm like, sweet as, still a bit worried. Anyway,
a few days later, doing the same thing, I feel
the eyes on me, he's there staring at me again.
I'm like, oh man, he's coming for me. Anywho, so
he was gone again from the foyer and I thought, okay, Jeepers, freaky,
this is worrying. After this movie finished, I was going

(44:18):
in there, you know, you vacuum around, you pick up
all the old popcorn containers and all that sort of stuff.
So I was in there, vacuuming away, doing my thing,
each row from the front to the back, as I
get to the back row, two little tiny legs sitting
in the dark, hanging over the back of the seat there. Anyway,
I did the grown-up thing, squealed like a little girl,

(44:40):
ran away, hit up on their ice cream rolling room
upstairs and just stayed there, I don't know, half an
hour or so, came out and he was gone. But,
you know, this dude is actually the ninth Earl of
Mount Edgecumbe in England. So he's royalty, drug-addicted dwarf.

Speaker 4 (44:55):
What?

Speaker 1 (45:00):
Did you bin him, Ruda?

Speaker 4 (45:02):
Did you bin him, Ruda? Yeah, I did. Did you
bin Shano?

Speaker 1 (45:04):
All right, there we go. There's Shano. Shano, Ruda bin you.

Speaker 7 (45:09):
What does bin me mean?

Speaker 1 (45:11):
He hung up on you.

Speaker 4 (45:12):
He hung up on you. Shano, so we understand this
is a little bit of a long story here. So
where are we? Because up here on a thing, it
says Simon Barnett child vomit. So I'm fascinated to know
how you're going from a dwarf who's chasing around to

(45:33):
the Simon Barnett child vomit part of the story.

Speaker 7 (45:36):
Mate, I could talk for an hour about all the
moments I've had.

Speaker 1 (45:39):
I believe you.

Speaker 4 (45:40):
Okay, yeah. No, I'll believe him as well.

Speaker 1 (45:43):
Okay, that was a hell of a.

Speaker 4 (45:45):
I don't know what the.

Speaker 1 (45:46):
I think Rudder was maybe right to hang up, actually. Yeah, no,
you might have been. Let's go to Carl. Carl, what's
your lame claim to fame?

Speaker 4 (45:51):
Carl, could you do it in like 30 seconds?

Speaker 10 (45:55):
Absolutely, 25 words or less. Hey, lads, how are you?

Speaker 4 (45:58):
Good, thank you, Carl.

Speaker 10 (46:00):
Yeah, lane claim to fame. It might not sound so lame,
but it gets lamer. I once beat 11-time world surfing
champion Kelly Slater.

Speaker 1 (46:08):
At what?

Speaker 15 (46:09):
Yes.

Speaker 10 (46:10):
Well, that's where it starts to get a bit more lame.
So firstly, once he wasn't actually a world champion at
that particular time, and secondly, it was in pools.

Speaker 4 (46:22):
Well, still, I mean, beat Kelly Slater in anything, I reckon, Carl.
It's not bad. I know the man can play golf.

Speaker 15 (46:30):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 10 (46:30):
Well, not cool. But the lamest part of the story
was this happened many, many years ago on the West Island,
and we were playing for a drink. It was a
dollar drink night. Everything's a dollar. Played for a drink,
beat him quite comprehensively in doubles, and wouldn't pay up.

Speaker 7 (46:47):
Oh!

Speaker 14 (46:48):
Carl!

Speaker 1 (46:48):
So he still owes you a drink?

Speaker 10 (46:51):
Well, we four went to the table and spent the
rest of the night, the rest of the three hours
chasing down our drink, which we did eventually get. So, yeah,
I don't hold it against him anymore, but, yeah, I
got one over him.

Speaker 4 (47:04):
Oh, that's a great story, Carl. Good stuff, Carl. I mean,
not quite as good as Shano's dwarf story, but still.

Speaker 10 (47:10):
Yeah, I wasn't sure where that was going.

Speaker 1 (47:12):
I'm not sure where that went.

Speaker 4 (47:14):
No, I don't think it went anywhere. I don't think
it was going to go anywhere. I think Ruda was right.
I don't even know how that happened.

Speaker 1 (47:23):
The drug-addicted Nelson Dwarf story is the best lame claim
to fame of all time. Boo to Ruda for dumping him.
Get that bastard on the potty.

Speaker 2 (47:29):
Jeremy Wells and Mania Stewart. Find them on Instagram at
Hodaki Breakfast.

Speaker 4 (47:34):
We're in the middle of your lame claims to fame.
0800 HODAKI or 3483 is the number to call.

Speaker 1 (47:40):
Let's go back to the phone lines where we find Mark.
Good morning, Mark. What's your lame claim to fame?

Speaker 4 (47:45):
Yeah, so.

Speaker 11 (47:49):
My daughter decided to take her grandmother's as bridesmaids, and
I thought it was too good a story to let go,
and I actually got hold of Seven Sharp, and I
think Jeremy might remember that story.

Speaker 4 (48:03):
So, say that again, Mark.

Speaker 11 (48:05):
So, I adopted my daughter into Seven Sharp by having
her grandmother's as bridesmaids at her wedding.

Speaker 1 (48:16):
Your.

Speaker 4 (48:17):
Daughter? So just explain this again, mate. I'm confused. Your
daughter's bridesmaid's mother?

Speaker 11 (48:25):
Were her grandmothers.

Speaker 15 (48:26):
Her grandmothers.

Speaker 4 (48:27):
Your daughter's bridesmaids were her grandmothers. Oh, yeah. This was
a Seven Sharp story a while ago.

Speaker 15 (48:33):
Yeah, that's it.

Speaker 4 (48:35):
Ah, yes.

Speaker 11 (48:35):
So that's my lame collection. The star of the show
was my daughter, followed closely by her grandmother.

Speaker 8 (48:41):
Ah, yes.

Speaker 1 (48:43):
Were you involved in the story at all? Did you
get on the TV, Mark?

Speaker 11 (48:47):
No, I managed to skip every facet of any type
of involvement in the story, which was good.

Speaker 4 (48:53):
Well done to you. Well done. Well played, Mark. No,
I remember that story, Mark, now that you mention it.
I do remember that story. It's a lovely story.

Speaker 11 (49:03):
It got really popular, I thought, and they wanted to
know bits about the wedding.

Speaker 4 (49:08):
Yeah, I bet they did. Oh, I bet they did.
How's the marriage going, Mark?

Speaker 11 (49:13):
The marriage is going good, but we put mum to
rest a couple of Fridays.

Speaker 4 (49:16):
Ago Oh, sad to hear. Sorry to hear about that, Mark.

Speaker 11 (49:20):
She was 98. She had a good innings.

Speaker 4 (49:22):
That is a fantastic 98. Goodness gracious, that's a great innings.
You lived a lot of life at 98.

Speaker 1 (49:29):
Thanks very much for the call, Mark.

Speaker 4 (49:30):
Good on you, Mark. Thanks for the call.

Speaker 1 (49:32):
Lame Claims to Fame on 3483. Lame Claim to Fame.
I sat two rows behind one news reporter. It's Aniwa
Ahuri Hanginui on the bus the other day.

Speaker 4 (49:39):
Wow, two rows behind.

Speaker 1 (49:40):
That's lame.

Speaker 4 (49:43):
That's so tenuous.

Speaker 1 (49:45):
My dad's old colleague is Wyatt Crockett's father-in-law, and we
used to get heaps of rugby merch that way that
was way too big for any of us. Dad's old colleague.

Speaker 4 (49:54):
Is that rugby merch in inverted commas?

Speaker 1 (49:56):
A 12-pack of rugby merch.

Speaker 10 (49:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (49:58):
My dad's old colleague is Wyatt Crockett's father-in-law. Yeah, I
think I got that. My ex's granddad used to teach
Neil Young in high school.

Speaker 4 (50:07):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (50:08):
Whoa. My dad and I talked to Sir Peter Jackson
at the North City Plaza in Potirua prior to the
Lord of the Rings. And this one here, I think
you've reached the bottom of the segment today, to be honest.

Speaker 10 (50:17):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (50:19):
A number of ticks coming in around Shano's story as well.

Speaker 1 (50:22):
I think it's still going. He's still on the line.
Ruta just cut him off. He's still there, Shane?

Speaker 4 (50:28):
I just wonder what time of year it was for
Shano when he was seeing this person that kept appearing
all the time. Was it sort of May, June-ish?

Speaker 1 (50:37):
Certain season, yeah.

Speaker 4 (50:39):
Those little blue things seem to have come out. Give
us a call. No claim to fame is too lame.
Here's Kim. Good morning, Kim. Welcome to the show.

Speaker 8 (50:52):
My future husband, we get married next month, was in
What We Do in the Shadows, just randomly. He didn't
know until his friends started messaging him.

Speaker 4 (51:05):
So how did he end up in it randomly, Kim?

Speaker 8 (51:08):
It's the scene when they're on the bus and he
was just sitting on the bus going home and texting
his friend.

Speaker 4 (51:16):
Now that's super interesting. I didn't know that he was...
Did they ask him if he'd be okay with being
in the movie or not?

Speaker 8 (51:23):
Nope, he didn't know nothing. He didn't know until everyone
started messaging him going, hey, you're in the movie.

Speaker 1 (51:30):
Well, they should have to pay him for that, shouldn't they?

Speaker 4 (51:32):
I would have thought he'd get some residuals, Kim.

Speaker 11 (51:34):
Also.

Speaker 1 (51:35):
So hold on. I mean, obviously, you don't know this, Kim,
but they didn't just rent a bus and put actors
on it. They went out and got on an actual
proper Wellington bus.

Speaker 8 (51:44):
Yep, they got on a actual bus. Wow.

Speaker 1 (51:47):
Geez, I'll let anyone in that movie, eh?

Speaker 8 (51:49):
I don't know if it's just my husband's clueless or what,
but it is.

Speaker 10 (51:53):
What it is.

Speaker 4 (51:53):
Brilliant. That's fantastic. I just assumed that everybody that was
ever in a movie, you have to sign a release
form to say that you're okay with being in a movie.

Speaker 1 (52:01):
Yeah, you would have thought so.

Speaker 4 (52:03):
But maybe because it's on public transport, Kim, it might
mean that it's in a public area, so you might
be allowed to film some people. I've got a funny
feeling that might be the case.

Speaker 8 (52:14):
Maybe like that.

Speaker 1 (52:15):
Yeah. Good stuff, Kim. Thanks very much for the call.
Let's go to Dave. Good morning, Dave. What's your lame
claim to fame?

Speaker 15 (52:22):
Morning, gents. I sat on a plane about 20-odd years ago,
in fact, probably 25.

Speaker 1 (52:27):
That is lame.

Speaker 15 (52:28):
With Sigourney Weaver.

Speaker 4 (52:31):
Oh!

Speaker 15 (52:32):
Yeah. Auckland to Wellington. She was coming down for, I assume,
probably Avatar or something at the time.

Speaker 4 (52:42):
Sigourney Weaver? What row were you in?

Speaker 15 (52:46):
Oh, we were up front. I was flying, you know,
with work at the.

Speaker 4 (52:51):
Time, row two. Yeah, row two, Sigourney Weaver. Did you
have a yarn?

Speaker 15 (52:56):
Oh, she was great, yeah, yeah. And I did the.

Speaker 12 (52:58):
Double take, and then I was like, oh, that must
be Sigourney Weaver. And then, you know, just a casual
sort of like, how's it going sort of thing. Not too,
you know, just typical Kiwi kind of, you know, not
playing it up too much, just casual.

Speaker 1 (53:10):
Is that how she'd remember it, Dave?

Speaker 15 (53:13):
Oh, absolutely.

Speaker 12 (53:14):
And, you know, the do you like New Zealand sort
of thing, but, you know, again, not too painfully.

Speaker 4 (53:19):
Dave, question for you. Which seat were you in and
which seat was Sigourney in? Was she an aisle? Was
she a window? Was she a middle?

Speaker 15 (53:27):
She was 2A on the window and I was 2B.

Speaker 4 (53:30):
Oh, you were 2B. So did she give you the armrest?

Speaker 15 (53:33):
Oh, actually, I think I kept to myself on that one.

Speaker 4 (53:37):
Did you? You kept your arms in close.

Speaker 1 (53:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 15 (53:40):
Sucked them in.

Speaker 1 (53:41):
Yeah, good stuff. All right, thanks very much for the call, Dave.
That was a great Lame Clown fame. There's a couple
more on the text machine. John John Florence's brother's girlfriend
liked my Instagram post. John John Florence the surfer.

Speaker 11 (53:51):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (53:52):
His brother's girlfriend liked Dylan's Instagram post.

Speaker 4 (53:59):
Amazing that you would even know that that was John
John's brother's girlfriend's.

Speaker 1 (54:05):
It was even who that was. My dad found Oscar
Kightley's wallet and he came to get it and had tea.
My lame claim to fame is that Richard McCaw's bag
hit me as he walked past me on a flight
out of Christchurch. My dad sat on a flight with
Stevie Wonder. Stevie Wonder said, New Zealand's such a beautiful country.
And my dad said, how the F would you know?

Speaker 4 (54:22):
Oh, you did it. So today's the 1st of September,
which means it is the first day of spring. So
what's coming up in the next wee while? There's certainly
been a lot of talk about a super El Nino.
What the hell does that mean? Joining us is Chris Brandolino,

(54:45):
Principal Scientist for Earth, Wind and Fire New Zealand. G'day, Brando.
You must be so excited about spring, and you must
be getting your Christmas forecasting ready as well.

Speaker 13 (54:57):
Well, Sorry, I'm just giggling over the earth, wind, and fire.
That just never gets old.

Speaker 1 (55:04):
What about Chris Brandel Nino?

Speaker 15 (55:06):
Oh, wow.

Speaker 13 (55:07):
Well played, sir. Yeah, look, spring is here, meteorologically speaking.
It's funny because before I came down to this part
of the world, I didn't use the start of the month,
you know, September 1st, December 1st, et cetera, as the
start of the seasons. Traditionally in the U.S., we would
use the astronomical season. definition of a season change. So

(55:30):
it's still winter in some people's books, not until, I guess,
September 21st. But either way, slice it. El Nino is
influencing our weather. We're already seeing the effects, especially in
the South Island, where they've had a lot of wind
and a lot of rain. And that is a quintessential
reflection or hallmark of El Nino.

Speaker 1 (55:47):
Don't you guys in America usually wait for a groundhog
to come out and tell you if winter's over?

Speaker 13 (55:54):
Yeah, we do, actually, yeah. That's a great movie, by
the way, Groundhog Day. You know, they take the rat
out and they, no, anyway.

Speaker 1 (56:01):
So what is Super El Nino? And is it happening already?

Speaker 13 (56:05):
Yeah, so look, there are various thresholds. So look, El Nino,
just 101, it's a climate driver. It's not like you
can look outside your window, look over the horizon, and
be like, hey, kids, gather around. There's El Nino. It's
not that. You know, this is not something you see, like,
chilling out in the sky. To give you an analogy,
El Nino is basically like macroeconomics. It's kind of a

(56:29):
background thing that makes outcomes more likely. It occurs in
the Pacific Ocean, a long way from where we are
in the tropical Pacific Ocean, and basically east of the
dateline as you get closer to South America. In that area,
the water gets unusually warm. And if the water gets
to about one degree warmer than usual... We say that's

(56:49):
a moderately strong El Nino, a degree and a half
warmer than usual. That's a strong El Nino, and we're
already past that. When it gets to two degrees or
higher warmer than usual in this imaginary area of the
Pacific Ocean, we say that's a very strong or so-called
super El Nino. We're not quite there. We're just on
the edge of that. We're getting very close. And they

(57:12):
happen about every 10 to 15 years, these so-called super
El Ninos. The last one was I think 2015, 2016,
then we had one in 97, 98. So they do
happen every 10, 15 years. But because El Nino is
a big influencer on our weather, again, macroeconomics, it's like
the official cash rate dropping 50 basis points. You know,
it'll affect people differently and how it affects people is

(57:34):
a bit different. And that's microeconomics, right? And weather, think
of weather as microeconomics. So El Nino, big picture, it
makes certain things more likely and knows certain things for us.
a lot of wind, especially for the South Island and
Lower North Island. We get a lot more rain in
places like Fiordland and Southland and the west of the
South Island. And then that rain actually goes in the

(57:56):
other direction. We start to see more dryness. Places like Auckland, Northland,
Bay of Plenty, Hawke's Bay, Gizzy, White Arapa, Canterbury, even Marlborough.
And those areas will have to watch for dryness. And
that's something that may take time. It may take you know,
later into the spring or even summer to start seeing those,
I guess, dry impacts. So we are going to have

(58:18):
to watch how this unfolds because things like wildfires could
become more likely, especially where it's dry and windy, and
we get these surges of really warm temperatures. So El
Nino can cause these roller coaster type weather events where
it gets like really warm, like really warm for the
time of year, and then a sharp cool down and
we kind of do it again.

Speaker 4 (58:36):
Chris Brandolino, Principal Scientist of Forecasting for Earth, Wind &
Fire New Zealand, Someone told me the other day that
already in Australia, they're seeing very, very high temperatures and
a whole lot of high pressure that's building. And that's
going to mean potentially a very drier than normal spring

(58:57):
for the North Island. Is that possible?

Speaker 13 (59:00):
Yeah, look, since you're a friend of the family, I'll
give you a bit of an insight. So we just
had our little nerdy technical discussion yesterday about what's will
hold in terms of themes. Not a weather forecast. Think
of it like a theme outlook. And that'll be released tomorrow.
But yeah, dryness is something that we are mindful of

(59:20):
and thinking about for the top of the country. So
the upper North Island and the eastern parts of both islands.
So when our air comes from the west, we get
the right wind direction coming from Aussie. This is when
we're going to get these what I call spiky temperatures
where it just gets like super warm for the time
of year. So an unusually warm day in September is
obviously different from an unusually warm day in, say, November

(59:42):
or December. So, yeah, keep that in mind. But the
message is that because Aussie is likely to see some
pretty hot and dry weather, especially eastern and southeast Australia,
When we do get the right wind direction, that's going
to tug that air over, and we will find these
really warm periods, especially like Hawke's Bay and Gizzy and

(01:00:03):
Wairarapa and Canterbury on the eastern side of both islands.
That's where we're going to see, I guess, the biggest
temperature spikes when our air does line up and come
from Aussie.

Speaker 4 (01:00:13):
Chris Brandolino, one more question for you before we let
you go.

Speaker 1 (01:00:18):
Uh-oh.

Speaker 4 (01:00:19):
With computer weather modeling, I was thinking about this yesterday.

Speaker 14 (01:00:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:00:23):
With computer weather modelling the way it is, what's stopping
in the future from knowing exactly what every single day
is going to be like for the rest of time?

Speaker 1 (01:00:32):
They put them out of a job.

Speaker 4 (01:00:34):
Will it ever get to that point in, say, 50 years'
time where computer modelling is so good that it will
be able to forecast weather for like five years in
advance really accurately?

Speaker 13 (01:00:45):
Well, it depends on what you define as accurately, I
suppose that would be. But let's just say that we
can give a forecast that's useful That goes out five years.
I don't see that happening in 50 years. It's a
chaos theory. Basically, the atmosphere is chaotic, and I think
that is the main limitation. We'll get better at it,
but I'm not sure to that degree.

Speaker 4 (01:01:05):
Okay, interesting. Chris Brandolino, Principal Scientist of Forecasting for Earth,
Wind & Fire New Zealand. Thank you so much for
your time this morning. We always love chatting to you.

Speaker 13 (01:01:15):
I can't wait to the 21st of September. You can
play the song.

Speaker 4 (01:01:23):
So you would have seen over the weekend those two
jet planes flew within metres of a packed DHL stadium
in Cape Town. The airline was called Airlink. Passenger planes
flying over the stadium as the fireworks exploded underneath them.
Was the timing out? Who knows? Were they meant to
get that low? You wouldn't have thought so. Yesterday we

(01:01:46):
talked to Flight Officer X.

Speaker 1 (01:01:48):
Do you think that they meant to be that low
over the stadium, or do you think they may have
got it wrong? Or was it a rogue operator?

Speaker 6 (01:01:55):
I don't think it was a rogue operator. I think
they would have had a plan. But I think as
Gerry summed it up before, it's South Africa, so I
think anything goes.

Speaker 4 (01:02:01):
LAUGHTER How close was the plane to the top of
the stadium?

Speaker 6 (01:02:05):
They reckon it was about 40 feet.

Speaker 15 (01:02:06):
So to put that in context, as you come over the.

Speaker 6 (01:02:09):
Airport to land, that's sort of what you cross over
the beginning of the runway at. So like pretty bloody low.

Speaker 1 (01:02:14):
Would something like that be allowed in New Zealand or
would our aviation rules prohibit that?

Speaker 6 (01:02:19):
Hell no. They say in flying there's bold pilots and
there's old pilots, but there's no old bold pilots.

Speaker 4 (01:02:25):
Yeah, so we're chatting to a Flight Officer X about that. Very,
very interesting. That ended up going on to our Sosh Med.

Speaker 1 (01:02:35):
Yes, and last night before I went to bed, I said, hey,
we should talk about this. There's like 50 comments or something.
I think it was actually only like 30 or 40
comments when I went to bed last night. Got up
this morning, clicked on the link that I'd put into
the doc. 290 comments. I've just clicked on it again.
We're up to about 340. Here we go. It has
hit the South African algorithm, and they are incensed. 31-year

(01:02:55):
perfect record. Strong at winning the Rugby World Cup and
flying planes. Guys, calm the F down. South Africans loved it.

Speaker 4 (01:03:03):
Can we just wait for a second? 31-year winning record.
Who are you against?

Speaker 1 (01:03:07):
No, 31-year perfect record.

Speaker 4 (01:03:08):
Against who?

Speaker 1 (01:03:09):
No, I think of not crashing planes. Next time they'll
park in reverse so you can stop being shocked. Get
over it. They weren't fireworks. It was stadium streamers shot
from compressed air cannons like a magic FX stadium shot
are primarily made from flame-retardant tissue paper. Wow.

Speaker 4 (01:03:25):
You wouldn't want that going through an engine, though, would you?

Speaker 1 (01:03:28):
Francois Van Heerten has written, they were supposed to turn
around and land inside the stadium. Immortal Joe 3 has written,
the plane was stabilised by our large balls.

Speaker 4 (01:03:41):
No, that's good. No, that is good. That is good.

Speaker 1 (01:03:44):
It's South Africa, so anything goes. When your aviation ranking
is below South Africa, your pilots could never. Chill out,
it's not the first time. Hello, Whitney Watson Winnie. Zoe,
do you speak Afrikaans?

Speaker 4 (01:03:58):
No, she doesn't speak that.

Speaker 1 (01:04:01):
These guys on the microphones doesn't even know how to
fly a plane. Their gift is talking. Well, that's true.
We were expecting flower bombs. Yes, they're meant to be
that low. Yeah, so again, please grow up here. All
rules were followed. There are, closing in on 400 comments
on that thing. So if you want to entertain yourself
this morning, Go and start an argument with a South

(01:04:23):
African rugby fan in our comments.

Speaker 4 (01:04:24):
It's really become a defensive South Africa, hasn't it? Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:04:28):
The whole world fussing about our two aviation slay queens.

Speaker 5 (01:04:31):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (01:04:34):
I'm loving these comments. We've got to interact with South
Africans more often.

Speaker 13 (01:04:37):
I know.

Speaker 1 (01:04:38):
At least you Kiwis have a sense of humour. Your
Aussie neighbours were not impressed. No. No. In Zimbabwe, we
fly lower. Now Zimbabwe's getting involved.

Speaker 5 (01:04:48):
It's an international incident.

Speaker 1 (01:04:50):
As a South African, I'm struggling to understand what the
issue is. This is the type of crazy we see
as normal. Next week, we will go lower. Then you
can have another cry. Relax. There's never been an issue.

Speaker 4 (01:05:03):
Next week, we will go lower. We will go lower
and lower. Watch out.

Speaker 1 (01:05:09):
Calm down, boys. All the pilots were South African Top
Gun pilots. We have Air Force unlike NZ. Don't be
so scared, boys.

Speaker 4 (01:05:16):
Grow up. Grow up here.

Speaker 2 (01:05:19):
Gerian Minaya, The Hauraki Breakfast.

Speaker 4 (01:05:22):
Selection's coming up November 7. That's actually quite a long
way away. Oh, hold on. September, October. That's actually bloody
miles away.

Speaker 1 (01:05:31):
It's a week before the Kiwipong World Series.

Speaker 4 (01:05:34):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (01:05:34):
That's how I remember it.

Speaker 4 (01:05:35):
Miles away.

Speaker 1 (01:05:37):
Two weeks before my missus' birthday. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:05:42):
Miles away, then.

Speaker 1 (01:05:42):
A month after the NRL Grand Final.

Speaker 9 (01:05:45):
Oh.

Speaker 4 (01:05:45):
Yeah, okay. A lot of the parties at the moment are,
announcing their slogans yep that that they've got there's some
pretty uninspiring.

Speaker 1 (01:05:56):
Shit i gotta be honest and i've said this before
i think we can all agree i haven't had any
backlash on this take i don't think it's a flaming
hot take i think it's a lukewarm take bad batch
bad batch this year you know some years you look
at it and you go damn is it our worst
batch ever is it the worst batch ever is it
the worst batch ever feels like it could be the
most limp Bad batch ever.

Speaker 4 (01:06:18):
It's an interesting setup at the moment. You've got 30%-ish
national support. You've got 30%-ish Labour support. Then you've got 30%
with the minor parties. It's the most split that it's
ever been. It's never been like that before.

Speaker 1 (01:06:33):
Because it's a bad batch.

Speaker 15 (01:06:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:06:36):
Obviously disillusioned.

Speaker 1 (01:06:37):
No one wants to vote for anyone. So that's why
we are asking for your vote at the upcoming November
14th election. And we've been looking for a slogan.

Speaker 2 (01:06:44):
Mm-hmm.

Speaker 1 (01:06:45):
And you've come through on 3483. The Hauraki Political Party.
You tell the story, we just turn the pages.

Speaker 4 (01:06:50):
Yeah, I liked this one here from Sam. The country's
going backwards. Surely neutral is better. Famously, we, of course,
put the current in neutral around about now, actually. It
is the 1st of September. This is our neutral zone.

Speaker 10 (01:07:03):
Yes, yes.

Speaker 1 (01:07:04):
As of about 6 a.m. this morning when the show started,
we just jammed this sucker in neutral, and we're coasting
down the hill to Christmas. Andrew. from Napes, has written,
no yoppa too big, no hog too small.

Speaker 4 (01:07:18):
Yeah, I like this one here, the haraki breakfast, no
one likes a tryer. Which, you know, I mean, we've
been accused a lot of not trying. And I would
say that that is one thing that most New Zealanders
have in common. Like, you're an ordinary New Zealander, nobody
likes a tryhard.

Speaker 13 (01:07:35):
No.

Speaker 1 (01:07:36):
No one likes anyone trying.

Speaker 5 (01:07:37):
You could also get it to rhyme as well. Jerry
and Minaya... No one likes a tryout.

Speaker 4 (01:07:41):
Oh, there we go. It's quite good.

Speaker 1 (01:07:42):
Is that trying too hard?

Speaker 4 (01:07:43):
Maybe it is.

Speaker 5 (01:07:44):
Far out.

Speaker 1 (01:07:46):
I'm out. Dean said, we'll waste your tax and then
bleed you for more. Nick said, the Hauraki breakfast, heavy
on the stick.

Speaker 4 (01:07:56):
I quite like that.

Speaker 1 (01:07:57):
This one's my favourite. Gerium and I are hot to
vote on that thing. Radio Hauraki, the only station you
turn the volume up for the DJ chat and turn
it down for the music. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:08:08):
Slogan for you, youse pays the money, youse takes the chances.

Speaker 1 (01:08:14):
Haraki political party, the foot's flat but asleep at the wheel.

Speaker 4 (01:08:18):
Well, that would indicate that we're actually in gear. So
I'm not sure.

Speaker 1 (01:08:25):
And then this one, crank the hog and milk the obbers.

Speaker 4 (01:08:27):
I like that one.

Speaker 2 (01:08:28):
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Speaker 3 (01:08:31):
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Speaker 2 (01:08:36):
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