January 26, 2026 • 19 mins
On the pod today the guys talk about the weather (again), and what a bad summer means to New Zealanders.
Plus the guys go deep into what makes a good beach.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Daily bespoke content that you won't find on the radio
show the hurt Icky Breakfast Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
We're pardon now, let's.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
On your phones and talk some ship.
Speaker 4 (00:17):
Without the songs we play on the radio. Hate good news,
good news the moonlight.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
You know how yesterday I came in with some bad
news from my weather, you.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
Know, the serious moonlight.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Yeah, clost to the non serious worst lyric of all time.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
I don't mind it. I know you hate that lyrics.
I hate it.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
I don't mind it.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
I hate it. Sorry, yes with it and just with
Edmond Chat, I put yesterday on the what like some
kind of deckhead. You put it in the dot. I
put it in the dot and the chat and the
chair a picture of a tropical cyclone descending on Northold
and said, oh no, because that was over White.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Hangy weekend it which is coming up this weekend, but.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Next weekend, so the Friday is the day off, just
so everyone knows, so you can start planning.
Speaker 5 (01:05):
Now, can I just say this, get it off my
chest foot, I want it on wax group chatam. There's
something in group chat group chatam about Chad. Let's put
a pin in that and circle back. I just wanted
that on record. Cham, I just came to me.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Good one.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
So it's actually looking like that weekend is actually not
not bad anymore. It doesn't look like there is a
tropical cyclone. There is one in New Caledonia, but it
seems like it's not going to have ens.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
Oh how about that's for a fun weatherfact. No cyclone
has ever crossed the equator. No, yeah, Now they go
south and north depending on what side they're on. Yeah,
and they spin opposite directions.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
They do, Is that true? I don't know. They spin
clock they spin clockwise. I'm going to tell you actually
what they do because I can.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
I can look up across the equator.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
Yeah, how do they know where the equator is? Why
do they only ever go one way?
Speaker 4 (01:55):
So they do? They spend the other way? They spend
the other way. So ha, they spend it's because of that.
It's because of the it's because of the.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Holes magnetic poles.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Well, I mean, hang on, but if the Earth is flat, yeah,
then there would be no equator. How how does that work?
Why is it hotter in that part of the bit
that's kind of closer to the sun. If the Earth
is flat, why would the closer to the sun, be hotter. Yeah,
the sun's hot, yeah, but it's as flat so it's
(02:32):
the same sun.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
No, I'll gotcha. It's hate.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
Do your own research, man, do we I'm smelling an
excuse to get the Marlin back on the show.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Does anyone else love looking at pictures of tropical cyclones
on windy light with the wind different colors of the
winds and it's beautiful picture, isn't it beautiful? Spinning away?
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Can you get one of those up on your TV?
Because I know that some people put art on like
the TVs. For you, that would be like having pornography
on your television.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
I am where you'd have to turn the pornography off
to put that on news. Indeed, weather, there's like a
so the met service. There's another dude that does it
as well, and they put up videos every single day
that people watch about the weather, like forecasts, and they
(03:23):
get like thirty two forty thousand views. Forty thousand people
are getting up in the morning and watching. You're probably
one of them, You're probably many of them actually, possibly
Juey And then yeah, and then we're watching the weather
on YouTube.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Yeahous, I can't get enough of it. I just cannot
get enough. It's so weird and I don't even know why.
It's like it's going to happen, right, whatever happens. You
can't control the weather. Also, even kim trails you.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
Or cloud seating, do your own research that. But you
also only exclusively work inside, so it's not something that
affects your.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
No, that's not true. Sometimes in seven sharp you do
a story's.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Field story, I'll get out of your think in the
field and look, I am actually quite heavily. My mood
is heavily influenced by the weather. I got to say,
maybe more than other people. And maybe that's.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
A fault because when it's rainy, you're a miserable count,
but when it's sunny, you're a miserable count.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
But I think without the same, without the shade, without
the light and shade. For example, when I went to
Libya and every day we'd wake up as New Zealanders
and we'd go, oh, day is it beautiful? Because it
was like blue sky every single day, and then on
about day six, this lobby and guy goes, what is
it with you? New Zealander is always commented on the
(04:47):
day and because I've never met anyone that's ever talked
about the weather. And we said, really, we talked about
it the whole time, and he goes and nobody's the weather,
And I said, so what happens and when health and
does it rain? He gets us six days a year. Okay,
so it's the same every single day. So why would
you come in on it.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
I imagine the Irish probably don't talk about the weather
it because it just rains three.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Hundred days out of the year.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
Well, it's good when you've got a climate like that
because you can plan so far in advance. And my
dad lives in the desert over in Australia. But what
are you doing six weeks from now. I'll probably go
to the pool because it'll be hot as fucking it'll
be sunny.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
You're definitely good if you're running a fisty Yeah, because
you can just go Yep, it's definitely getting like Coachella
for example, Yep, Yes, in April, it's definitely going to
be good.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Only it's a dust storm, which is your worst case scenario.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
But then that's not that bad. Yeah, or even Austin
city limits. Yeah, I mean, they just they just know
every year that it's going to be beautiful weather, incredible temperature,
just perfect temperature.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Zealand sandstorm.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
Yeah, it's the New Zealand's just a fucking swamp. It is, Man,
at the moment, it is. At the moment, it's just
a swamp all over the place, you know.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
What I mean.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
It's And the worst part, and this is what I
keep trying not to think about, is that winters just
around the corner, and we're going to hit winter and
it will have been a year since we ever saw
like good with it, you know what I mean. I
had one good day where I managed to get down
to Cathedral Cove and to be fair, we had a
good week after that in Auckland.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Our best two months are yet to come. Fubury in March,
best months, best months of the year year always.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
You're going to guarantee that.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
Wow, Jeremy Well's guarantee. Man, it's got to be better
than January. I can't keep going like this. I remember
that year. I said that. They said that that year,
but I said, they can't keep going. We're going to
have some good with it and then it never ever right.
But four years we can't have another one of those
two we can. I think they're getting closer to and closing.
Missus ruder, missus.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Ruder is get your my wife's name out.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Your missus ruder is calling it. She's saying, she's saying,
one more week's rain and they head into the sunny
up and sticks.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Well, that's what she said after the last no after
last summer, because there was just so much winter last summer,
and she feels the cold man. She chells to the bone.
She chells to the bone. She's like, we're going to
get out of here.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
You to the ball. Yeah, and you mentioned Wednesday?
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Did you mentioned?
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Don't mention Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
It's not a good one. You know how.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
We've got the pop up pool. Yeah, the pop up pool.
If you pop that thing down, yeah, pop.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
It down generally around the inder March round Easter, pop
that day, pop that thing down, And I tell you what,
there's already been the chat of this is a waste.
This is your pouring chlorine into the stupid thing. You're
running the pump every day.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Oh yeah, but sure, but you got to have that
thing ready to go. If you was, I measured, if
it was a really hot summer, and she'd be saying,
thank God for that.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Just a spice everyone. I jumped in it last night.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Yeah good.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
I jumped in it and I shoke with gold. Yeah,
I got awful shrinkage. Not that you guys needed to
know that.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
I go and she's getting out of my pool yusterday
and I'm sure it's got something with the algae that's
growing on.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
You mean to swim and algie. Well it's not too bad,
but it's just a little bit. This time is cloudy.
It's clear airs, bro cloudy piers, but there's just a
little bit.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
It's of green, little bit green here.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Yeah, now you get there, you can swim all sorts.
I think I'm on the north shore of Auckland this summer.
There were jellyfish, tiny, tiny little jellyfish everywhere, and man,
my missus Winton tried swimming it like every different beach,
you know, trying to find it. There's some great beaches
on the north shore.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Whould have thought favorite beach that you experienced. Give me Cheltenham,
Give me chel Cheltenham. High Tide's good, chelting Hum high lot,
but sucks compared to I'm gotta be honest at high
Tide the best beach, but it's only the best beach
for about half an hour of each day, and it's
Point Chief Beach. Anything other than high tide, but on
(08:57):
our either side of high tide almost unswimmable, just sludge.
But the north shore beaches compared to that are much
better for low tide swimming. Melford I like the wrong side,
So one end of Melford, the north end of Milford Beach,
there's like a little inlet and you can park your
boats in there and around the corner on the south side.
People don't really go there.
Speaker 5 (09:18):
There's not as much usable beach and it's very rocky underfoot,
but if you're willing to, you know, chuck on your
beach feet or your roof shoes.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Great swimming beach.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
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Speaker 2 (09:40):
I give you, Yes, I give you Wayaki. Do you
know Wayaki? W It's just down from can.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Is it a wrist home? No?
Speaker 2 (09:54):
No?
Speaker 4 (09:55):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Right the beach on Auckland's north shore.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
See Rose, just by Brown's Bay. Yeah, I know you are,
but you can always go around to Red Beach, No
tides in Red Beach around town. A little too many
jit skis in that area for me. Yeah, I'm not
I'm not a fan. No, well they are exclusively for
(10:21):
the trading j ski. Yeah. I think there's something about
you have to be a trade to drive a jet ski.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Yeah, or or you or you send your kids to
sink Kent's.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Look, McAllister, it was on lame claim to fame today. Okay,
that's a bit of a sink Kent's thing, seeing that thing.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
What where do you guys sit on West Coast beaches?
I hate them on the sand. I will not get
in the water. We go over there all the time
because we live out west, so we go over.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
To Moody Wise quite a special place for my partner
and I. And the other day we went to pe
Hart and the amount of ill equipped foreigners you see
walking into those beaches.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Is and what doing do they not know? Tuckapoona. It's insane, yes,
way closer and far nicer. What are they doing?
Speaker 5 (11:06):
It's insane, like unless you're a local who grew up
out there, it is. I don't even go swimming in there,
and I consider myself to be a strong swimmer. But
it's it's like people that didn't grow up around water.
They've got no idea how bad things can get hit
that quickly. You know, they walk out there in jeans
and shoes.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
It only needs to be that the swell, and it
needs to be like zero point eight of a meter
and that thing that's got power. Like you're standing in
the shallows knee deep. You feel knocked over. Yeah, you
can feel it pulling your feet. It's got so much
energy to it. But I got to say the West
Coast on it when a good day, I mean everye
on a good day, but the West Coast is beautiful. Yeah,
(11:45):
Like I fantasize all the time about some kind of
little little batchy thing out there, you know. And then
the and then with a fire wood burner, with the
sea view and you can see Lion Rock And what
was it easy to get out there and back? It's
only fifty fifty minutes.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
Describing a commune, Jerry, and there is one set up
there and I suggest we take a we stage a
hostile takeover the pacifist that peace loving people in communes.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
I reckon we could take it over pretty quickly.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
And there's one up on the cliff by the Mercer
Bay Loop walk track, which I think we could take
over without much resistance.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
It's just so beautiful the I love the foliage out there.
I love the ruggedness of it. It's wind swept, you
can this is the issue, the bloody cell easter.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
I just hate black sand cliff. I love gold beautiful
golden sand.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Or like the white sand that they have over in Australia.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
That's more of a Basically I inform my decisions on
any beach on way He Beach because that is the
beach that I lived at, what we were growing up at.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Yellow sand.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
It's beautiful, golden, off white.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
It's a it's a bit off white. It's the same
as Coramandeal sand.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Yeah, it's very similar to that. Just everything about why
He Beat is perfect, the way, perfect amount of waves.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
I've never been to White Here beach. It quite a
big bitch. Yeah, And it's a beach. It's a coramandal
Is adjacent it is.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
It's just south of it's trying to get to the
Bay of Plenty. It's not quite there. Yes, it's on
its way, No, it's not quite Yeah, it's your.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
Intermediate zone between the Coramandal and the Bay of Fun.
Fact for you guys playing at home, Ben Hurley lives
in white Here Beach. Yes, yeah he does. It's often
confused with Whitepoo yeah, which is a Northland right that's happened.
A beautiful beach, absolutely beautiful, the cove and the beach
great surf, because that's the other part for me about
(13:39):
a beach. I want some surf. I want some I
want some energy. You want a barrel. I need energy.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
You want to chewe brother, no energy, you want to
get pitted, No energy in la. I over the summer
at thirty four years old, I reckon, I've reached my
peak at bodysurfing. I think something really clicked for me
this last summer to where I can catch I reckon.
Just about any wave big or small, obviously has to
be cresting at the right time for me.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
When they call you the human minimal, they call me
more on it and way.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
I just something really clicked for me this summer. For
years growing up down South, I was like I just can't.
I could catch one every now and then, But is.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
That initial is that last padal as you're on the wave.
Do you know what it is what clicked for me? Yes,
it is that, but it's you need to be I
was as a bodysurfing. You need to be inside the wave.
Too many times people are trying to be on top
or in front of the wave. You need mostly your
body inside the wave, and that's how you can catch it.
Your head's actually underwater. And the hard part about that
(14:41):
is face planting into the beach when you get a
bit too close. So I'll often pull out a little
bit early.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
But yeah, and when someone's doing it really well, you
can see them inside the wave like a dolphin. And
that that really clicked for me this summer.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
And gotta be honest, a lot of fun, of fun.
Missus loved. She found it hot. She found it found
it hot, she saw me inside the waves. She's like,
that's pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
I'm marrying that guy.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Yeah, the opposite of me definitely on a pedal board
and also which put me back. Spent about a month
trying to get a leg over after that it wasn't working.
The other one is a huge amount of pressure for
me on to surf from a number of people because
they've got three surfers in her family and then me
missus daughter son all surf and then their old grandpa
(15:31):
the here was bung knee, and also their inability to
pop and all the kids next door. There's four boys
next door to us at Peterletown and they all great
surfers and great kids actually, and they were like, get
out there, Jeremy, come on, Jeremy, you can do it.
And they're so nice, they're encourage, They're like, you'll be good.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
I'm like, boys, I suck and I'm never going.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
To be good at this, and they just keep you
got to everyone sucks at surfac taste ages to get
good and they were really really supported, and they said, well,
what about just lying down on the surfboard? What about
boogie boarding?
Speaker 3 (16:07):
I refuse, you.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Refuse the boogy board. Well, I'm thinking about getting into it.
There's nothing un cooler than a dude turning up at
our age, particularly with a boogie board backpack, and amongst
the surfers, they just have no respect. It's better knocked
on the water.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
So I pop a in the surf lineup. There's a
bunch of dudes that are about to actually surf and
stand up on their board, and I show up with
my body glove boogie board.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
Here's the body glove one. Yeah. Yeah, they will be
like you. You will never be able to talk to
those people.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
What if I've got the what if I've got the
least tight around my wrist because it's designed for kids
and it can't reach my ankle, then will they respect me?
Speaker 4 (16:46):
I hate you what.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
I've only just seen these for the first time a
couple of weeks ago. What are those ones?
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Skinboard?
Speaker 2 (16:54):
It's like a stand up pedal board, but it's got
like handlebars. So it's got a silver come wave runner.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
It's a wave running the two hands and you hold
it in front of you. It's like a It means
that your bodysurfing turns non bodysurfing, but you hold it
in front. It's like a standing Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
The guy I saw on it, I saw him on
a lake up by golf course, Lake Tom a rat
it's called and so it looks like a stand up
pedal board, but it's actually more of a solid thing.
And on it there's a handlebar that comes up to
his waist. Oh and old and what that's when I
(17:32):
wonder I've seen that. I had never seen it and
it looked I know he was old, but this skuy
was a Verginea humiliating versus.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
The flip side of that. I saw I saw a
man in the coramandle over summer. He would have been
I don't know. He was a little bit older and
he had a younger woman on his back and he
was on basically a stand up bodyboard, stand up pedal
board thing.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Was she a mermaid?
Speaker 5 (17:59):
She was more mating on his back. So he's lying
down peddling. She's lying directly on his back, peddled out
to a canmaran boarded and sailed off.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
And to.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
Go on sixy go on six on a boat is
as hot it is hot. What there's something about it?
I have below deck, it's like below it's and below
deck action. You see a lot in boaties, you know,
husband and wife, retiree boaties, and they're hardly ever on deck,
like they're just down gooing, hammering times, just floating around
(18:33):
the Mediterranean. It's just a perfect little environment. There's nothing
else to do, there's no there's no distractions something about it,
no other men.
Speaker 5 (18:41):
And that seems to me as good as time as
you need to turn this podcast off.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
Hands up, who has on a boat?
Speaker 2 (18:47):
On a boat and hands up.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
I don't really spend much time not on the man't
it Okay? I've got the boats, planes, trains and automotive trains.
Most people don't go on boats very often. I've been
a boat, I've been a train. I've been a plane,
bus and a car. Will you accept in a river?
Never in a river? Never on a bus? Yeah, never
(19:11):
on a bus. We should Great Places tomorrow on the
show Great Place to Find.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
We're pardon now, let's.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
On your phones and talk some ship.
Speaker 4 (00:17):
Without the songs we play on the radio. Hate good news,
good news the moonlight.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
You know how yesterday I came in with some bad
news from my weather, you.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
Know, the serious moonlight.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Yeah, clost to the non serious worst lyric of all time.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
I don't mind it. I know you hate that lyrics.
I hate it.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
I don't mind it.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
I hate it. Sorry, yes with it and just with
Edmond Chat, I put yesterday on the what like some
kind of deckhead. You put it in the dot. I
put it in the dot and the chat and the
chair a picture of a tropical cyclone descending on Northold
and said, oh no, because that was over White.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Hangy weekend it which is coming up this weekend, but.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Next weekend, so the Friday is the day off, just
so everyone knows, so you can start planning.
Speaker 5 (01:05):
Now, can I just say this, get it off my
chest foot, I want it on wax group chatam. There's
something in group chat group chatam about Chad. Let's put
a pin in that and circle back. I just wanted
that on record. Cham, I just came to me.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Good one.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
So it's actually looking like that weekend is actually not
not bad anymore. It doesn't look like there is a
tropical cyclone. There is one in New Caledonia, but it
seems like it's not going to have ens.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
Oh how about that's for a fun weatherfact. No cyclone
has ever crossed the equator. No, yeah, Now they go
south and north depending on what side they're on. Yeah,
and they spin opposite directions.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
They do, Is that true? I don't know. They spin
clock they spin clockwise. I'm going to tell you actually
what they do because I can.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
I can look up across the equator.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
Yeah, how do they know where the equator is? Why
do they only ever go one way?
Speaker 4 (01:55):
So they do? They spend the other way? They spend
the other way. So ha, they spend it's because of that.
It's because of the it's because of the.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Holes magnetic poles.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Well, I mean, hang on, but if the Earth is flat, yeah,
then there would be no equator. How how does that work?
Why is it hotter in that part of the bit
that's kind of closer to the sun. If the Earth
is flat, why would the closer to the sun, be hotter. Yeah,
the sun's hot, yeah, but it's as flat so it's
(02:32):
the same sun.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
No, I'll gotcha. It's hate.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
Do your own research, man, do we I'm smelling an
excuse to get the Marlin back on the show.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Does anyone else love looking at pictures of tropical cyclones
on windy light with the wind different colors of the
winds and it's beautiful picture, isn't it beautiful? Spinning away?
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Can you get one of those up on your TV?
Because I know that some people put art on like
the TVs. For you, that would be like having pornography
on your television.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
I am where you'd have to turn the pornography off
to put that on news. Indeed, weather, there's like a
so the met service. There's another dude that does it
as well, and they put up videos every single day
that people watch about the weather, like forecasts, and they
(03:23):
get like thirty two forty thousand views. Forty thousand people
are getting up in the morning and watching. You're probably
one of them, You're probably many of them actually, possibly
Juey And then yeah, and then we're watching the weather
on YouTube.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Yeahous, I can't get enough of it. I just cannot
get enough. It's so weird and I don't even know why.
It's like it's going to happen, right, whatever happens. You
can't control the weather. Also, even kim trails you.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
Or cloud seating, do your own research that. But you
also only exclusively work inside, so it's not something that
affects your.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
No, that's not true. Sometimes in seven sharp you do
a story's.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Field story, I'll get out of your think in the
field and look, I am actually quite heavily. My mood
is heavily influenced by the weather. I got to say,
maybe more than other people. And maybe that's.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
A fault because when it's rainy, you're a miserable count,
but when it's sunny, you're a miserable count.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
But I think without the same, without the shade, without
the light and shade. For example, when I went to
Libya and every day we'd wake up as New Zealanders
and we'd go, oh, day is it beautiful? Because it
was like blue sky every single day, and then on
about day six, this lobby and guy goes, what is
it with you? New Zealander is always commented on the
(04:47):
day and because I've never met anyone that's ever talked
about the weather. And we said, really, we talked about
it the whole time, and he goes and nobody's the weather,
And I said, so what happens and when health and
does it rain? He gets us six days a year. Okay,
so it's the same every single day. So why would
you come in on it.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
I imagine the Irish probably don't talk about the weather
it because it just rains three.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Hundred days out of the year.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
Well, it's good when you've got a climate like that
because you can plan so far in advance. And my
dad lives in the desert over in Australia. But what
are you doing six weeks from now. I'll probably go
to the pool because it'll be hot as fucking it'll
be sunny.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
You're definitely good if you're running a fisty Yeah, because
you can just go Yep, it's definitely getting like Coachella
for example, Yep, Yes, in April, it's definitely going to
be good.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Only it's a dust storm, which is your worst case scenario.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
But then that's not that bad. Yeah, or even Austin
city limits. Yeah, I mean, they just they just know
every year that it's going to be beautiful weather, incredible temperature,
just perfect temperature.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Zealand sandstorm.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
Yeah, it's the New Zealand's just a fucking swamp. It is, Man,
at the moment, it is. At the moment, it's just
a swamp all over the place, you know.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
What I mean.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
It's And the worst part, and this is what I
keep trying not to think about, is that winters just
around the corner, and we're going to hit winter and
it will have been a year since we ever saw
like good with it, you know what I mean. I
had one good day where I managed to get down
to Cathedral Cove and to be fair, we had a
good week after that in Auckland.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Our best two months are yet to come. Fubury in March,
best months, best months of the year year always.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
You're going to guarantee that.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
Wow, Jeremy Well's guarantee. Man, it's got to be better
than January. I can't keep going like this. I remember
that year. I said that. They said that that year,
but I said, they can't keep going. We're going to
have some good with it and then it never ever right.
But four years we can't have another one of those
two we can. I think they're getting closer to and closing.
Missus ruder, missus.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Ruder is get your my wife's name out.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Your missus ruder is calling it. She's saying, she's saying,
one more week's rain and they head into the sunny
up and sticks.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Well, that's what she said after the last no after
last summer, because there was just so much winter last summer,
and she feels the cold man. She chells to the bone.
She chells to the bone. She's like, we're going to
get out of here.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
You to the ball. Yeah, and you mentioned Wednesday?
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Did you mentioned?
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Don't mention Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
It's not a good one. You know how.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
We've got the pop up pool. Yeah, the pop up pool.
If you pop that thing down, yeah, pop.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
It down generally around the inder March round Easter, pop
that day, pop that thing down, And I tell you what,
there's already been the chat of this is a waste.
This is your pouring chlorine into the stupid thing. You're
running the pump every day.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Oh yeah, but sure, but you got to have that
thing ready to go. If you was, I measured, if
it was a really hot summer, and she'd be saying,
thank God for that.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Just a spice everyone. I jumped in it last night.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Yeah good.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
I jumped in it and I shoke with gold. Yeah,
I got awful shrinkage. Not that you guys needed to
know that.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
I go and she's getting out of my pool yusterday
and I'm sure it's got something with the algae that's
growing on.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
You mean to swim and algie. Well it's not too bad,
but it's just a little bit. This time is cloudy.
It's clear airs, bro cloudy piers, but there's just a
little bit.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
It's of green, little bit green here.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Yeah, now you get there, you can swim all sorts.
I think I'm on the north shore of Auckland this summer.
There were jellyfish, tiny, tiny little jellyfish everywhere, and man,
my missus Winton tried swimming it like every different beach,
you know, trying to find it. There's some great beaches
on the north shore.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Whould have thought favorite beach that you experienced. Give me Cheltenham,
Give me chel Cheltenham. High Tide's good, chelting Hum high lot,
but sucks compared to I'm gotta be honest at high
Tide the best beach, but it's only the best beach
for about half an hour of each day, and it's
Point Chief Beach. Anything other than high tide, but on
(08:57):
our either side of high tide almost unswimmable, just sludge.
But the north shore beaches compared to that are much
better for low tide swimming. Melford I like the wrong side,
So one end of Melford, the north end of Milford Beach,
there's like a little inlet and you can park your
boats in there and around the corner on the south side.
People don't really go there.
Speaker 5 (09:18):
There's not as much usable beach and it's very rocky underfoot,
but if you're willing to, you know, chuck on your
beach feet or your roof shoes.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Great swimming beach.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
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Speaker 2 (09:40):
I give you, Yes, I give you Wayaki. Do you
know Wayaki? W It's just down from can.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Is it a wrist home? No?
Speaker 2 (09:54):
No?
Speaker 4 (09:55):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Right the beach on Auckland's north shore.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
See Rose, just by Brown's Bay. Yeah, I know you are,
but you can always go around to Red Beach, No
tides in Red Beach around town. A little too many
jit skis in that area for me. Yeah, I'm not
I'm not a fan. No, well they are exclusively for
(10:21):
the trading j ski. Yeah. I think there's something about
you have to be a trade to drive a jet ski.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Yeah, or or you or you send your kids to
sink Kent's.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Look, McAllister, it was on lame claim to fame today. Okay,
that's a bit of a sink Kent's thing, seeing that thing.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
What where do you guys sit on West Coast beaches?
I hate them on the sand. I will not get
in the water. We go over there all the time
because we live out west, so we go over.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
To Moody Wise quite a special place for my partner
and I. And the other day we went to pe
Hart and the amount of ill equipped foreigners you see
walking into those beaches.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Is and what doing do they not know? Tuckapoona. It's insane, yes,
way closer and far nicer. What are they doing?
Speaker 5 (11:06):
It's insane, like unless you're a local who grew up
out there, it is. I don't even go swimming in there,
and I consider myself to be a strong swimmer. But
it's it's like people that didn't grow up around water.
They've got no idea how bad things can get hit
that quickly. You know, they walk out there in jeans
and shoes.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
It only needs to be that the swell, and it
needs to be like zero point eight of a meter
and that thing that's got power. Like you're standing in
the shallows knee deep. You feel knocked over. Yeah, you
can feel it pulling your feet. It's got so much
energy to it. But I got to say the West
Coast on it when a good day, I mean everye
on a good day, but the West Coast is beautiful. Yeah,
(11:45):
Like I fantasize all the time about some kind of
little little batchy thing out there, you know. And then
the and then with a fire wood burner, with the
sea view and you can see Lion Rock And what
was it easy to get out there and back? It's
only fifty fifty minutes.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
Describing a commune, Jerry, and there is one set up
there and I suggest we take a we stage a
hostile takeover the pacifist that peace loving people in communes.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
I reckon we could take it over pretty quickly.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
And there's one up on the cliff by the Mercer
Bay Loop walk track, which I think we could take
over without much resistance.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
It's just so beautiful the I love the foliage out there.
I love the ruggedness of it. It's wind swept, you
can this is the issue, the bloody cell easter.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
I just hate black sand cliff. I love gold beautiful
golden sand.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Or like the white sand that they have over in Australia.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
That's more of a Basically I inform my decisions on
any beach on way He Beach because that is the
beach that I lived at, what we were growing up at.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Yellow sand.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
It's beautiful, golden, off white.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
It's a it's a bit off white. It's the same
as Coramandeal sand.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Yeah, it's very similar to that. Just everything about why
He Beat is perfect, the way, perfect amount of waves.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
I've never been to White Here beach. It quite a
big bitch. Yeah, And it's a beach. It's a coramandal
Is adjacent it is.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
It's just south of it's trying to get to the
Bay of Plenty. It's not quite there. Yes, it's on
its way, No, it's not quite Yeah, it's your.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
Intermediate zone between the Coramandal and the Bay of Fun.
Fact for you guys playing at home, Ben Hurley lives
in white Here Beach. Yes, yeah he does. It's often
confused with Whitepoo yeah, which is a Northland right that's happened.
A beautiful beach, absolutely beautiful, the cove and the beach
great surf, because that's the other part for me about
(13:39):
a beach. I want some surf. I want some I
want some energy. You want a barrel. I need energy.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
You want to chewe brother, no energy, you want to
get pitted, No energy in la. I over the summer
at thirty four years old, I reckon, I've reached my
peak at bodysurfing. I think something really clicked for me
this last summer to where I can catch I reckon.
Just about any wave big or small, obviously has to
be cresting at the right time for me.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
When they call you the human minimal, they call me
more on it and way.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
I just something really clicked for me this summer. For
years growing up down South, I was like I just can't.
I could catch one every now and then, But is.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
That initial is that last padal as you're on the wave.
Do you know what it is what clicked for me? Yes,
it is that, but it's you need to be I
was as a bodysurfing. You need to be inside the wave.
Too many times people are trying to be on top
or in front of the wave. You need mostly your
body inside the wave, and that's how you can catch it.
Your head's actually underwater. And the hard part about that
(14:41):
is face planting into the beach when you get a
bit too close. So I'll often pull out a little
bit early.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
But yeah, and when someone's doing it really well, you
can see them inside the wave like a dolphin. And
that that really clicked for me this summer.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
And gotta be honest, a lot of fun, of fun.
Missus loved. She found it hot. She found it found
it hot, she saw me inside the waves. She's like,
that's pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
I'm marrying that guy.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Yeah, the opposite of me definitely on a pedal board
and also which put me back. Spent about a month
trying to get a leg over after that it wasn't working.
The other one is a huge amount of pressure for
me on to surf from a number of people because
they've got three surfers in her family and then me
missus daughter son all surf and then their old grandpa
(15:31):
the here was bung knee, and also their inability to
pop and all the kids next door. There's four boys
next door to us at Peterletown and they all great
surfers and great kids actually, and they were like, get
out there, Jeremy, come on, Jeremy, you can do it.
And they're so nice, they're encourage, They're like, you'll be good.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
I'm like, boys, I suck and I'm never going.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
To be good at this, and they just keep you
got to everyone sucks at surfac taste ages to get
good and they were really really supported, and they said, well,
what about just lying down on the surfboard? What about
boogie boarding?
Speaker 3 (16:07):
I refuse, you.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Refuse the boogy board. Well, I'm thinking about getting into it.
There's nothing un cooler than a dude turning up at
our age, particularly with a boogie board backpack, and amongst
the surfers, they just have no respect. It's better knocked
on the water.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
So I pop a in the surf lineup. There's a
bunch of dudes that are about to actually surf and
stand up on their board, and I show up with
my body glove boogie board.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
Here's the body glove one. Yeah. Yeah, they will be
like you. You will never be able to talk to
those people.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
What if I've got the what if I've got the
least tight around my wrist because it's designed for kids
and it can't reach my ankle, then will they respect me?
Speaker 4 (16:46):
I hate you what.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
I've only just seen these for the first time a
couple of weeks ago. What are those ones?
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Skinboard?
Speaker 2 (16:54):
It's like a stand up pedal board, but it's got
like handlebars. So it's got a silver come wave runner.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
It's a wave running the two hands and you hold
it in front of you. It's like a It means
that your bodysurfing turns non bodysurfing, but you hold it
in front. It's like a standing Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
The guy I saw on it, I saw him on
a lake up by golf course, Lake Tom a rat
it's called and so it looks like a stand up
pedal board, but it's actually more of a solid thing.
And on it there's a handlebar that comes up to
his waist. Oh and old and what that's when I
(17:32):
wonder I've seen that. I had never seen it and
it looked I know he was old, but this skuy
was a Verginea humiliating versus.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
The flip side of that. I saw I saw a
man in the coramandle over summer. He would have been
I don't know. He was a little bit older and
he had a younger woman on his back and he
was on basically a stand up bodyboard, stand up pedal
board thing.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Was she a mermaid?
Speaker 5 (17:59):
She was more mating on his back. So he's lying
down peddling. She's lying directly on his back, peddled out
to a canmaran boarded and sailed off.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
And to.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
Go on sixy go on six on a boat is
as hot it is hot. What there's something about it?
I have below deck, it's like below it's and below
deck action. You see a lot in boaties, you know,
husband and wife, retiree boaties, and they're hardly ever on deck,
like they're just down gooing, hammering times, just floating around
(18:33):
the Mediterranean. It's just a perfect little environment. There's nothing
else to do, there's no there's no distractions something about it,
no other men.
Speaker 5 (18:41):
And that seems to me as good as time as
you need to turn this podcast off.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
Hands up, who has on a boat?
Speaker 2 (18:47):
On a boat and hands up.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
I don't really spend much time not on the man't
it Okay? I've got the boats, planes, trains and automotive trains.
Most people don't go on boats very often. I've been
a boat, I've been a train. I've been a plane,
bus and a car. Will you accept in a river?
Never in a river? Never on a bus? Yeah, never
(19:11):
on a bus. We should Great Places tomorrow on the
show Great Place to Find.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
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