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Welcome along to the Hauraki Breakfast, Tuesday the 8th of September, 2026.
My name's Jeremy Wells, this is Manai Stewart.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
Let's get straight into it. Give us a call now,
0800 HAURAKI, 0800 428 725 if you want to decide this.
uh if you want to decide what the first song
is going to be this morning jerry what are you.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
What are you thinking i haven't heard the song on
radio haraki for a while now it loomed large over
the late t uh late 2000s late noughties yeah noughties
were they called the noughties not really.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
But yeah what were the 2000 and teens called like
the tens yeah the 2010s i suppose was it is
it called the 20 i don't know zoe.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
Do you know.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
What it's called? I was like 10.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
The 2010s. The 2010s.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
The 2010s.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
This was the 20, this is the noughties. It's MGMT,
Time to Pretend. This is a great tune. And also,
a great sentiment. It's basically about just not giving a
crap about anything.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
I don't know. For me, I actually wanted a different
Linkin Park song, but it was one that wasn't in
the system, so that tells me that it was probably
a bit of a shitter. But anyway, give me one
step closer. I need waking up on a Tuesday. I've
always said Tuesday, the worst day of the week. I
need something in my veins.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
That's concerning that you went to the Lincoln Park Bank
and it wasn't anywhere to be seen.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
I tried to bring up an idols song, you know,
the English noise rock band. We don't have that in
the system either. Now, if you've forgotten who we are.
We're the station for real music connoisseurs.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
Couldn't find it in the cloud?

Speaker 1 (01:56):
Couldn't find it in the cloud.

Speaker 4 (01:57):
Wasn't in the cloud?

Speaker 1 (01:57):
It's not in the cloud.

Speaker 4 (01:58):
Wasn't in the cloud.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
We've used up our cloud storage.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
I know. It's probably saved you from some real terrible music,
but anywho.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
Here's Seth. Good morning, Seth. Welcome to the show.

Speaker 5 (02:08):
Morning, mate.

Speaker 6 (02:09):
How's it going?

Speaker 7 (02:09):
Good.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
You're taking the kickoff this morning. You've either got Linkin
Park or you've got MGMT. What do you want to have?

Speaker 6 (02:15):
Ooh, got to go MGMT.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
Yeah, fair enough.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
Good one, Seth. Thanks for calling in. Thanks for listening
to the Hideki Breakfast.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
It was going to be one or the other, isn't it?
That was not going to be a coin toss for
whoever called through. Oh, well, they're both very similar songs.
It could go with either. And like yesterday, Gerry, I
feel like I heard this on an ad too.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
Oh, no doubt. Welcome along to the Hauraki Breakfast.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
Lots coming up this morning. Gerry and Manai, the Hauraki Breakfast.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
So yesterday I was reading an article about Gen Z,
who are taking a lot of stick at the moment,
let's be honest.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
It's their turn. It's their turn, man. I'm a millennial.
I went through it. I went through it. It was, oh,
millennials don't want to work. They're lazy. They're dumb. Blah, blah, blah. Well,
now it's Gen Z.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
Gen Zs are getting absolutely brutalized. The latest one is
called the Gen Z stare, which is a silent blank expression.
And it comes from the fact that there's new research
out to suggest that Gen Zs say less words than
every other generation before them. So up to 28% less words.
A study of people have realized that Gen Zs say 28%

(03:26):
less words a day, up to 300 words less a
day than every other generation that's been before them.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
I would say, though, do you want to hear 300
more words from any of the Gen Zers in your life?
I'd say probably not.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
Well, maybe they've worked it out.

Speaker 3 (03:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:42):
Zoe, you're a Gen Z.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
Mm-hmm.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
Shush.

Speaker 6 (03:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
There's something called apparently the Gen Z steer. I've heard
of this. It's when they work at shops. I wonder
if this is an American thing. I don't think. What
is it? Did New Zealanders do it?

Speaker 2 (03:56):
Well, the Gen Z steer.

Speaker 1 (03:57):
Are we doing it now?

Speaker 2 (03:58):
The Gen Z steer is, what they reckon is that
because of devices, essentially you don't need to communicate as much.

Speaker 1 (04:07):
Yeah, so their interpersonal skills are a little bit lacking. Exactly.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
They don't know how to communicate with people. And it's
not that they don't know how to. It's just that
they can do it by texting.

Speaker 1 (04:16):
Without doing it face-to-face.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
Yeah, and they've grown up in that situation.

Speaker 1 (04:20):
So can you remember a time before cell phones, Zoe?

Speaker 4 (04:24):
No.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
No, yeah. So back when I was a kid, if
I wanted to hang out with one of my mates,
I would have to pick up the phone. And ring
689 is the local area code. And then like 4944
would get you through to the Edmonstons. 8259 would get
you through to the Pattersons.

Speaker 2 (04:40):
Oh, hi, Trish.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
Is Gus there? Or does Gus want to come around
and play? And then that was how you guys organised.
So you had to talk to people on the phone.
Like you had to talk to your mate's parents on
the phone if you wanted to see them. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
I mean, I think Zoe's generation, it's like they are
not great phone communicators. They would probably rather text. They'd
probably rather email. They'd probably rather message.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
They'd probably rather DM you.

Speaker 2 (05:03):
They'd probably, yep, they'd rather DM. And what they reckon, though,
is that that interaction that we have between people, that
interpersonal talking, is using particularly parts of your brain that
are activated different parts than if you're communicating by text.

Speaker 1 (05:22):
Oh, well, you can tell so much more about what
someone's saying when you're looking at them face-to-face, you know,
versus like a text can be misconstrued so easily. I
feel like that happens all the time. You end up
in an argument with someone. who was genuinely just trying to,
you know, plan something with it. I think there's a
KMPL sketch about it.

Speaker 3 (05:38):
That's where we have emojis.

Speaker 1 (05:40):
Yeah, but then– but so again, so now– Emojis. But
the emojis mean different things to different groups. We had
this discussion over at the ACC. So apparently the thumbs
up emoji to some people– Passag. Passag, right?

Speaker 6 (05:53):
What?

Speaker 2 (05:53):
Passag.

Speaker 1 (05:54):
Yes.

Speaker 5 (05:54):
Passag.

Speaker 1 (05:54):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we had– so, you know, ACC
head G-Lane– managed a couple of Gen Z people and
they would be like, hey, we're going to do this.
And he'd just reply, thumbs up. And in his mind,
he's going, good stuff. Love it. Go for it. And
they were going, what's his problem? Why is he passing
me the whole time?

Speaker 2 (06:13):
When people have to quantify a joke with like an
emoji with one eye open and a tongue out or
like some kind of like, you know, like a crying emoji.
So it's like, clearly this is a joke. It's like,
what about just leaving it open to interpretation? How about
working out whether maybe it's a joke or maybe it isn't?
What's wrong with that?

Speaker 3 (06:32):
Let me know how that works out for you, Jerry.

Speaker 1 (06:35):
Well, this is the problem, though.

Speaker 2 (06:36):
Nowadays, you're communicating with people who don't necessarily understand the
subtleties of communication. They can't interpret communication the same way,
I think, that particularly Generation X and Millennials.

Speaker 1 (06:49):
Yeah, which is me. I'm a Millennial. You're Gen X.

Speaker 3 (06:52):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (06:52):
Which means I watch Pokemon and you can do a kickflip.

Speaker 5 (06:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
What they do reckon, though, is that The fact that
people are speaking those words will have an effect later
on down the track. And maybe you're not creating the
same neural pathways as the people before you because it's
not dynamic. The dynamic conversation that's happening in the moment
uses certain neural pathways that are really good for you.

(07:17):
And if you stop using those, what they've worked out
with old people is if they stop using those, they
are more likely to go towards dementia. And so what
they think is this next generation, Zoe's generation, are all
going to be demented by about 50.

Speaker 1 (07:30):
Shush though.

Speaker 2 (07:33):
We're talking about intergenerational communication. It turns out that Gen,
what are you guys? Gen Z. Gen Z don't use
as many words as every other generation before them. Up
to 300 less words a day.

Speaker 1 (07:50):
Said.

Speaker 2 (07:51):
Yes, said.

Speaker 1 (07:51):
Because they are texting each other.

Speaker 5 (07:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (07:53):
So if ever you go and you see a person
who's Gen Z who's working in a shop, they'll generally
just give you the Gen Z stare. which is far
less words. And that's because they think, because they grew
up around devices and texting and DMing and social media.
So you have far more of an online presence than
you do in person, like a real presence.

Speaker 5 (08:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (08:15):
Do you, where do you stand on, um, on ringing people?

Speaker 2 (08:19):
I love a, love a good call.

Speaker 1 (08:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (08:21):
I love a good call. I just think you can
kind of sort things out a lot quicker.

Speaker 1 (08:24):
So there's, yeah. So this is the thing about, I mean,
this could be potentially too boring for 618, but, um,
So it's about bit rate of information. How much information
can we exchange? So if I send you a smoke signal,
I can send you one bit of information in about
an hour, and you've got to send one back. If
I send you a text, I can send you, you know,
like 100. If we talk, we can give each other
a million pieces of information through our body language, through pheromones,

(08:48):
all this kind of stuff.

Speaker 2 (08:49):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (08:51):
Our toe jams.

Speaker 3 (08:51):
Yes. And.

Speaker 1 (08:53):
Then they're saying, like, AI, because they don't even have
to express things in words with other machines. They can
just give the information straight to it. The bit rate
for them is through the roof again, which is boring
AI chat. But basically what you're saying is, like, you
can organize so much more on a phone call. Like,
one 30-second phone call could be worth 100 emails back

(09:14):
and forth.

Speaker 2 (09:15):
Yes, but here's the problem that Gen Z have. The
emotion that it takes and what happens if someone gets upset.

Speaker 6 (09:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (09:22):
Or if you tell the truth. And they don't like it.

Speaker 2 (09:24):
And you don't like it. That's the fear that a
lot of Gen Zs have when it comes to face-to-face communication.
So they prefer to go to the text because then
you can put an emoji at the end of it
and you can immediately tell what someone's saying or you
can understand their inference.

Speaker 1 (09:40):
Whereas it's great.

Speaker 2 (09:42):
The world is great.

Speaker 1 (09:43):
So how do you communicate with your friends? We.

Speaker 2 (09:47):
Generally, I use WhatsApp, to be honest. You use WhatsApp.

Speaker 1 (09:50):
But I also phone call. Because it's encrypted, eh? So
then the cops can't find the stuff that you use.

Speaker 2 (09:56):
And then we always delete.

Speaker 1 (09:57):
Yeah, and then delete.

Speaker 2 (09:57):
Always deleting as we go. Um.

Speaker 1 (10:00):
because i've reached an age now where me and my
mates have all started calling each other again we've all
scattered to the four winds so we don't you know
we don't live next to each other anymore um but
just you know on of a friday night someone will
be calling someone because you know they've had a couple
of beers and they're walking home to the pub or
something it's like i'll just give old.

Speaker 2 (10:17):
Man a call you're facetiming you're skyping.

Speaker 1 (10:19):
Well My– RIP Skype. Skype.

Speaker 2 (10:24):
2025 Skype disappeared. What a tragedy.

Speaker 1 (10:26):
It coughed up– You're Teamsing?

Speaker 2 (10:27):
You're Microsoft Teamsing?

Speaker 1 (10:29):
Skype coughed up an unassailable lead in lockdown, eh? Zoom
just came in and just hatchet jobbed it. No, my
dad will cold FaceTime me.

Speaker 3 (10:37):
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 (10:38):
Don't love that. Don't love that. Because for him, he's
just sitting around at home, you know, but I'm out
and about. I'm not going to be out in public like,
hold on, sorry. Hey, Dad. Everyone else is in the
background of it, you know?

Speaker 3 (10:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (10:50):
And what about you, Zoe? Are you calling people or
are you texting people?

Speaker 3 (10:52):
I've been trying to get back into the habit of
cold FaceTiming people or just cold calling people because otherwise
the whole texting back and forth, a lot of it
is fear of rejection as well, I think, like the
texting thing and all that.

Speaker 1 (11:02):
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (11:03):
I think it is fear of rejection.

Speaker 3 (11:05):
Even if you're just asking, like, I don't know, a
friend to go shopping or whatever and a text is
just being.

Speaker 1 (11:10):
What if they don't know?

Speaker 2 (11:11):
Yeah, I know.

Speaker 1 (11:12):
Oh my God.

Speaker 3 (11:12):
So anyways, I've been trying to like, with long distance
friendships especially, you cold FaceTime people.

Speaker 2 (11:17):
What you need as well when you are calling people
is the ability to end the conversation. Now, that's the
bit I think a lot of people struggle with. But
the reality is, here's the way to end a conversation.
I talk to my kids about this. I'm like, this
is the way that you end it. You say, all right, hey,
it's been good to chat. We'll talk about something the
next day. I'll see you later. You just end it.

Speaker 1 (11:37):
I'll give you a bell to ring.

Speaker 2 (11:37):
You don't need to go on forever and ever and ever.
You don't need to have an excuse as to why
you ended it. One of my friends always says to me, oh,
I've got to go because of blah, blah, blah. You
don't need to do that. You don't need to say
why you've got to go. You just go, all right, well,
it's been good to chat, and then.

Speaker 1 (11:51):
Blah, blah, blah. Have you ever been in a situation
where you are with someone else, they have introduced you
to another person, the conversation is going on, and the
person that's introduced you that you're with, let's say, I
don't know, your partner, can't finish a conversation, and you're
now both stuck there in this never-ending conversation that you
can't end because it's not yours anymore.

Speaker 2 (12:09):
Are you talking face-to-face at a party or something?

Speaker 1 (12:11):
Oh, like a wedding. Oh, brutal. It's like, oh, this
is my uncle, blah, blah, blah. Oh, yeah, sweet. And
then we're just like, and I'm like, oh, my God,
wrap this up. Oh, my God, wrap this up.

Speaker 2 (12:19):
You find out a lot about yourself in that situation.

Speaker 1 (12:22):
Oh, my God. How do you wrap up someone else's conversation? Hey,
good to meet you, mate. I'm just going to go
and stand in the corner and face the wall for
10 minutes.

Speaker 2 (12:28):
A lot of people use the toilet as an excuse
in that.

Speaker 4 (12:32):
Jerry and Mania, the Hodaki Breakfast.

Speaker 2 (12:34):
6.30 on the Harakee Breakfast. Time for your latest sport headlines.
Thanks to Export Ultra, the beer for here. The North
Harbour MPC team are trying to kick an unprecedented bout
of flu into touch.

Speaker 1 (12:49):
Man, there's been so much going around. I mean, Ruta's
in isolation in the B studio because he's got super gonorrhea.
And I believe Ethan DeGroote's got some sort of cold
as well. It's funny you forget. athletes are real people
and that they are susceptible to the same things you are.

Speaker 2 (13:06):
It's been a nasty flu season this one, hasn't it?
I think just because they got the flu jab wrong
this year in terms of they guessed the wrong one
that they thought was going to happen because it's the
last year's flu. Then they give you last year's flu
this year.

Speaker 1 (13:18):
Well, it should be a discount then. Knock on wood,
I've been pretty good. I've been okay. There was a
period on this show last winter when we were all
soldiering on with Codrell and I don't I don't want
to jinx it, but.

Speaker 2 (13:32):
Pride comes before a fall.

Speaker 1 (13:33):
It does, doesn't it? God damn it.

Speaker 2 (13:34):
They beat Northland 57-42 on Sunday to move two-second on
the ladder despite being forced into 16 personnel and positional
changes due to illness. Coach Jimmy Ma, who is battling
a dose of flu himself, says the virus has been
hampering their squad in preparations for nearly a bloody month.

Speaker 1 (13:50):
What are you going to do as well? Because you've
got to train. It's not like you can isolate.

Speaker 2 (13:53):
It's rugby. Yeah. And look, the flu is very different
than a cold. Let's be clear, because a cold you
can literally soldier on.

Speaker 1 (14:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (14:01):
But the flu, you actually, you're so weak, you can't
get out of bed. It's a disaster.

Speaker 1 (14:06):
I've told you about my new approach to the cold, eh?
Is womaning a cold? You know, men, they sit down,
when they get a cold, they sit down and they
wallow in it. And they go, oh, it's so bad
for me. But women just go, I've got too much
to do here. I can't actually afford to be sick.
I'm just going to keep going. And because they do
that and don't give it any attention, they can get
through so much better. I think the average woman just

(14:27):
deals with so much more pain on a day-to-day basis
than a man does. The minor inconvenience of a cold,
a man's just like.

Speaker 2 (14:33):
Cowboys and co-captain Ruben Cotter will need the NRL League
Judiciary to acquit him if he's to take the field
for Saturday's elimination final against the Sharks in Sydney. He's
pleaded not guilty to a Grade 2 careless high tackle
charge in their last regular season game A successful challenge.
We'll see Cotter escape a one-game ban, but the suspension
will otherwise double.

Speaker 1 (14:55):
I find that really weird.

Speaker 2 (14:56):
The way you come in and say you're guilty or
not guilty, and then they change it.

Speaker 1 (15:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (15:01):
Either it is or it isn't.

Speaker 1 (15:02):
Yeah, why does it matter whether I said I did
or I said I didn't?

Speaker 2 (15:05):
I find that so odd.

Speaker 1 (15:06):
I do too. I expect he's going to get away
with this.

Speaker 2 (15:09):
Have we got any people that are on report? We do,
don't we?

Speaker 1 (15:13):
Chance was the last one. He's back now.

Speaker 2 (15:15):
Didn't we have someone from the weekend? I feel like someone.

Speaker 1 (15:17):
Oh, on report from the last game?

Speaker 6 (15:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (15:18):
Probably. But again, playoffs, they tend not to suspend people, yeah.

Speaker 2 (15:24):
Good on them. And England will have appointed former batter
Kevin Peterson. to their white ball coaching team with a
view to the 50-over World Cup next year.

Speaker 1 (15:33):
Oh, my God.

Speaker 2 (15:34):
He'll start in the role for the upcoming T20 and
one-day matches against Sri Lanka.

Speaker 1 (15:39):
You know why? It's because of his ability to connect
with Gen Z. Have you seen the video of him
shirtless in a gym saying 6'7? Have you seen this?

Speaker 4 (15:47):
No.

Speaker 1 (15:48):
I'll show it to you in the next song. It
is disgusting.

Speaker 2 (15:51):
He's going to be an interesting guy. I didn't know
that he'd be able to coach. I thought he was
all about himself.

Speaker 8 (15:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (15:57):
Hey, coming up next, I need something. Old Manukas needs
something from all involved here and from you at home
as well. A little bit of advice. I'm about to
do something for the first time ever, and it's something
I know you've done a lot, Gerry. So I would
like your opinion on it. And it involves a woman,
so I'd like your opinion as well.

Speaker 2 (16:16):
You're always happy to give my opinion.

Speaker 1 (16:23):
Jerry and Manon. The Hauraki Breakfast. Old Monikers need something.

Speaker 2 (16:28):
Old Monikers need something?

Speaker 1 (16:29):
Yeah. Do you want to do a manual?

Speaker 2 (16:30):
Old Monikers, you haven't got something. You need something.

Speaker 1 (16:33):
I haven't got something. I'm hoping that one of you
guys has got something for me. Okay.

Speaker 2 (16:37):
Old Monikers need something. Old Monikers need something. What something
does Monikers need?

Speaker 1 (16:44):
I'm about to do something for the first time that
I know, Jerry, you will have done many a time. Rudy,
you will as well. So it'll happen for you one day. Um,
me and my long suffering partner, Jeffrey have, uh, outdoors
with Jeff.

Speaker 2 (17:02):
How many people think Jeff is a guy out there?

Speaker 1 (17:04):
I just know that there's at least one guy in
this car right now. I go, I didn't think he
was bloody. I wouldn't have picked him. That one's really
confused a lot of people. So anyway, old outdoors with Jeff. Um,
her and I, we've never had a specific, like, uh, jeez,
I've already forgotten the word, like an anniversary.

Speaker 3 (17:25):
Right.

Speaker 1 (17:26):
We've never had a date in the calendar that we're like,
this is our anniversary. You know, we started here.

Speaker 2 (17:31):
What about the bloody bus, that first bus ride when
you found love together?

Speaker 1 (17:35):
I told you, that's a hit piece. That never happened.
So we've never had, it's always just been, you know,
and it's not the kind of thing that either of
us really care about. It's not like, So we haven't
manufactured one. I know that some couples out there were like,
we can't really remember when our first date was or whatever,
first kiss, whatever. So we just manufactured one because it

(17:55):
meant a lot to us. Yeah. But I did propose
to her last year, and that was on October 10th,
which is Thursday.

Speaker 3 (18:05):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (18:06):
So coming up this week is our first ever anniversary.

Speaker 2 (18:10):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (18:11):
What do I do for it?

Speaker 2 (18:13):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (18:13):
I don't know what to do.

Speaker 2 (18:14):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (18:15):
Do we go out for dinner? Do I buy her
a present? Do I get her flowers?

Speaker 2 (18:20):
Oh, Manukas needs something.

Speaker 1 (18:22):
Yeah, okay.

Speaker 2 (18:23):
Flowers, you reckon, Zoe?

Speaker 3 (18:24):
I just said yes to all of the.

Speaker 5 (18:25):
Above, I think.

Speaker 2 (18:26):
Oh, okay.

Speaker 1 (18:26):
I reckon dinner's a great shout, Manai. Dinner, okay. Dinner, flowers. Jerry?

Speaker 2 (18:32):
Well, what I would say, Manai, as a slightly older,
more experienced individual, is start as you mean to continue.

Speaker 1 (18:41):
Oh, don't set the bar too high for myself.

Speaker 2 (18:43):
I'm not saying... That, I'm just saying, start as you
mean always in life. You must start as you mean
to continue.

Speaker 1 (18:50):
Sam's on the line. Sam from Te Awamutu in the
dairy industry. Good morning, Sam. You got any anniversary advice?

Speaker 2 (18:57):
Yeah, mate.

Speaker 6 (18:57):
Yeah, I'd like to weigh in. First of all, October
10th is a month away, you lemon.

Speaker 1 (19:05):
Yes I've got a month yeah.

Speaker 6 (19:07):
Yeah you said Thursday but you've got your dates wrong
there mate.

Speaker 2 (19:13):
That is the most Mania thing and thank you for
pointing that out Sam he does struggle with dates he's
got that dysmorphia illness.

Speaker 6 (19:24):
As a romantic myself to buy her a nice nice
bouquet of flowers water her a nice car and take
her out for a lovely evening dinner mate somewhere flash.
Maybe Queen's Rooftop.

Speaker 2 (19:38):
Hold on, Sammy.

Speaker 1 (19:39):
Is this an ad?

Speaker 2 (19:39):
Do you think that Manoa can keep this up, though, forever?
This is the problem. My start is you're meant to
continue theory.

Speaker 6 (19:44):
Yeah, but he's only had one, so why not?

Speaker 2 (19:47):
I know, and that's what I mean, but then he's
got a lifetime of these coming up now.

Speaker 1 (19:51):
Am I setting the standard too high?

Speaker 2 (19:52):
Yeah, he doesn't want something.

Speaker 6 (19:53):
I think he probably needs a high standard, so he
has to keep up.

Speaker 1 (19:58):
No, that's a good point, Sam. That is a good point.
What about you? What are you running for the old anniversary?

Speaker 9 (20:04):
Oh, see, mine's not for another year, so I've got
a long time to think about it. But a lovely
weekend away was mine.

Speaker 6 (20:11):
It had to be a.

Speaker 9 (20:14):
Couple of weeks after the anniversary because I was away,
I think.

Speaker 2 (20:18):
Something that works for the both.

Speaker 1 (20:19):
Of you, Sam?

Speaker 6 (20:21):
Yeah, exactly. So something you both like.

Speaker 7 (20:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (20:23):
A nice dinner, you know. If they write a card,
a card always gets the heartstrings going.

Speaker 1 (20:28):
Well, the only card that I, back as a kid,
do you remember at primary school you used to make
a card where if you cut it in the middle
it would talk like a chicken? Do you remember those ones?

Speaker 4 (20:36):
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 (20:37):
You open and close it?

Speaker 2 (20:38):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (20:38):
Should I do one of those?

Speaker 6 (20:40):
Yeah, I reckon.

Speaker 9 (20:41):
I used to always remember doing one for Father's Day
and just having the right one for my mum because my.

Speaker 1 (20:45):
Dad kept it.

Speaker 2 (20:47):
I always liked the comedy card. You know, any kind
of comedy card, I always appreciate that. Thanks for your.

Speaker 1 (20:52):
Call, Sam.

Speaker 2 (20:53):
Some good advice.

Speaker 1 (20:53):
Yeah, and he's bought me a month.

Speaker 2 (20:57):
That is the most you thing I think I've ever heard.

Speaker 1 (20:59):
I'm glad it's that way around and not it was
last month.

Speaker 2 (21:03):
So as Minaya grows in prominence and more and more
people know who he is, he's going to be asked
to do more and more things out in the community.
What he's going to realise is when he goes out
there that people will be looking for information for him
as they want to introduce them, particularly young kids. And
so we were having a look yesterday.

Speaker 1 (21:23):
No young kids are going to need to introduce me.

Speaker 2 (21:26):
When you go to a school to judge a talent
quest or when you go to present a prize giving,
maybe a speech competition, Manai, which you'll get asked to
do a lot in the coming years, trust me, those
kids are going to need some information on you. Now,
where are they going to get that information from?

Speaker 1 (21:43):
As it stands, the first thing that comes up when
you Google me is the Women's Day hit piece. So
they're going to be like, hey, found love on a bus. Exactly.

Speaker 2 (21:51):
I mean, our next guest found love on a bus.

Speaker 1 (21:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (21:55):
You don't want that. So you've got to have a
Wikipedia page. And you don't currently have a Wikipedia page.

Speaker 1 (22:00):
Which is ridiculous. But it also feeds into my theory
that most Wikipedia pages for people were made by themselves.
Because who the hell makes a Wikipedia for people? Did
you make your own Wikipedia page?

Speaker 3 (22:11):
No.

Speaker 1 (22:12):
Did you?

Speaker 7 (22:13):
No.

Speaker 5 (22:13):
I promise.

Speaker 2 (22:13):
I didn't.

Speaker 1 (22:14):
I didn't.

Speaker 2 (22:15):
I've never written anything in my Wikipedia page. I've seen
it a couple of times.

Speaker 1 (22:20):
Unfortunately for you, your level of boomer IT doesn't allow
you to start a Wikipedia page. You tried yesterday.

Speaker 2 (22:26):
I tried to sign up.

Speaker 1 (22:27):
Shame.

Speaker 2 (22:28):
It was quite complicated.

Speaker 1 (22:29):
So unfortunately, we won't be able to do it.

Speaker 2 (22:31):
No, we are going to do it. And it actually
got me thinking about what Wikipedia is. So no one
actually owns Wikipedia.

Speaker 1 (22:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (22:38):
Well, it's kind of, yeah, it's the infrastructure domain names
and servers are owned by, hosted by Wikipedia Foundation, which
is a not-for-profit, charitable organization based in San Francisco. And
it was set up to, as originally it was set
up to be an encyclopedia online, but they worked out
that it was taking too long and then it kind

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of changed. But now it's like massive. I mean, Wikipedia
is huge. It would be worth billions, Wikipedia. But the
guys who are running it.

Speaker 1 (23:07):
Are like, no, we don't want it to be there. No,
it's not the point. It's pretty amazing. Money doesn't mix
with that stuff. So we asked yesterday on the podcast,
was it? Yeah. for what segments would be in there.
Someone's put a screenshot into the Conclave, which is the
private Facebook page for the Hauraki Breakfast podcast. Contents, early life.

Speaker 2 (23:26):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (23:27):
Warning signs. The First Disaster, Additional Disasters, Public Humiliation, Betrayal,
and Alcoholism.

Speaker 2 (23:35):
I mean, that's the basic arc for most people in
the media.

Speaker 1 (23:39):
James May loved his work on Top Gear. He posted
Early Life, Hodaki Breakfast, Hiatus Years, Later Murders, List of Victims,
2020's Developments, Arrest, Legal Proceedings, Aftermath, Media.

Speaker 2 (23:52):
Patrick Cooley was talking about some of the stories that
he's heard you tell over the years, your llama sharing
in Europe. That time you saw your neighbor's dog commit suicide.

Speaker 1 (24:02):
Oh, I have forgotten about that.

Speaker 8 (24:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (24:04):
Why can't I remember the time?

Speaker 1 (24:06):
A bridged version. The corgi across the road jumped off
the balcony upstairs.

Speaker 5 (24:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (24:12):
Survived and was bandaged up, broke all its legs and everything.
Went back inside. They kept it inside. As soon as
they let it back out the door, it jumped off
the balcony again. I have to assume it did itself in.

Speaker 2 (24:23):
It did. It obviously did the poor thing. Do what
it needs to do. The time that the local hunting
competition was won by someone shooting a tame wallaby.

Speaker 1 (24:33):
Yeah, the pest quest. They shut it out of the park.

Speaker 2 (24:36):
When he worked as a stevedore.

Speaker 5 (24:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (24:38):
I mean, most people, what is a stevedore?

Speaker 1 (24:40):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (24:41):
Sounds like someone that fights bulls.

Speaker 1 (24:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (24:44):
When he was over-served.

Speaker 1 (24:46):
On basil.

Speaker 3 (24:47):
Basil.

Speaker 1 (24:47):
Basil.

Speaker 2 (24:48):
And ended up trying to drive into Buckingham Palace.

Speaker 1 (24:51):
Yeah, drive onto the drawbridge at Buckingham Palace.

Speaker 2 (24:54):
Yeah. Ade Robinson says, submit this ASAP so we can
apply useful edits. Well, this is the thing. People are
definitely going to be editing.

Speaker 1 (25:03):
I like this one from Mark. He said, Mark Murray said,
we can save ourselves a hell of a lot of
time and effort by just uploading a photo of Minaya
to the PAG Society wiki page.

Speaker 2 (25:12):
So Zoe, you have logged yourself into Wikipedia. You're now
a contributor.

Speaker 1 (25:16):
This is the problem with it.

Speaker 2 (25:17):
You can create a page, I understand.

Speaker 3 (25:19):
I think so. It's a little bit tricky because it's
telling me that I'm not allowed to write about yourself,
someone else, or someone that you have a personal or
professional relationship with as it may not be neutral.

Speaker 1 (25:29):
Well, who the hell can you write about?

Speaker 6 (25:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (25:30):
You can't write about yourself or anyone else. Those are
the only two types of people there are.

Speaker 2 (25:34):
Oh. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (25:36):
Ah, well, we're going to have to bin it then, unfortunately. No,
we're not.

Speaker 2 (25:38):
Look, we're ploughing ahead. I think it's important that we
work out. I think this idea around early life.

Speaker 1 (25:45):
William wants one of the subheadings to be ex-Game of
Two Halves member.

Speaker 9 (25:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (25:50):
And then we go into career. And then we go
into personal history. And then we go into... Blood type.
Recent developments.

Speaker 1 (26:00):
Bank account details.

Speaker 4 (26:01):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (26:01):
Allegations. Okay, so 3483-0800-HODUCKY.

Speaker 5 (26:03):
No.

Speaker 2 (26:04):
Why don't you go on Minaya's Wikipedia page? Let's construct
it together. This'll be a fun little project.

Speaker 1 (26:11):
Do I have to be here for this? I could
probably cruise. I might go over to the cafe. Jerry
and Minaya. The Hoducky Breakfast.

Speaker 2 (26:18):
We are attempting to finally write Minaya Stewart a Wikipedia page.
He needs it. You need it.

Speaker 1 (26:25):
Someone has texted in and said, who else from Waimate
does have a page? And I've looked up the town
of Te Waimate, the South Canterbury Plains there. Notable people,
Eric Batchelor, served in World War II. Ken Catran, novelist
and screenwriter. He used to write scripts for Shortland Street.
You'd see him down outside the country kitchen writing his scripts.

Speaker 2 (26:44):
I remember seeing that name on the credits.

Speaker 1 (26:46):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you would have. And he wrote a
few books as well. Margaret Cruikshank. The second woman to
graduate in medicine in New Zealand. There's a statue of
her down there in Waimate. Okay. Norman Kirk.

Speaker 5 (26:59):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (27:01):
Also from Kaipoi.

Speaker 1 (27:02):
Neil Rattray.

Speaker 2 (27:03):
Who's Neil Rattray?

Speaker 1 (27:04):
I don't know. Yeah. Michael Studham, the first European settler
of the region.

Speaker 2 (27:09):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (27:09):
And Kayleigh Bell, New Zealand's singer, songwriter.

Speaker 2 (27:12):
Okay, so you're the second most famous person to come
out of Waimate.

Speaker 1 (27:15):
I don't know. Neil Rattray goes good.

Speaker 2 (27:19):
To come in behind, I think it's Kayleigh, I think
it goes Kayleigh Bell.

Speaker 1 (27:22):
Norm Kirk. Come on.

Speaker 2 (27:24):
Well, Norm Kirk, he's honestly, he's connected with Kaipoi.

Speaker 1 (27:28):
What about Mary Gorman?

Speaker 5 (27:31):
No.

Speaker 1 (27:31):
Died in the sinking of the SS Marquette.

Speaker 4 (27:33):
No.

Speaker 2 (27:34):
Look, we can't have that.

Speaker 1 (27:35):
What about A.M. Hamilton who built the Hamilton Road through Kurdistan?

Speaker 6 (27:38):
No.

Speaker 1 (27:39):
No.

Speaker 2 (27:39):
I mean, look, those people, they're all fantastic things that
they've done. No doubt about that. But I'm talking about currency.
I'm talking about current currency. I'm talking about Okay. Modern
people who are modern heroes. And, you know, I mean,
those people are not modern heroes.

Speaker 1 (27:56):
I don't think anyone would consider me a modern hero.

Speaker 2 (27:59):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (28:01):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (28:01):
I mean, okay, so we've got to start with what
you are. And you're a New Zealand radio broadcaster, sports commentator,
and media personality. I think that's a fair thing to say. Sure.
Best known as co-host of The Hauraki Breakfast with Jeremy Wells.

Speaker 1 (28:17):
Well, a lot of people.

Speaker 2 (28:18):
And then have my thing sort of underlined in blue.

Speaker 1 (28:21):
Oh, so yours in the first.

Speaker 2 (28:22):
Well, it'll just bring people into your page.

Speaker 1 (28:25):
I would also say, as we notice once a week,
when a guest just goes, G'day, Jerry. A lot of
people don't know I'm actually on this show.

Speaker 2 (28:34):
He's also a prominent member of the Alternative Commentary Collective.
I think that's probably important to say. And we can
underline that in blue.

Speaker 1 (28:41):
Does the ACC have one?

Speaker 2 (28:43):
Yep, the ACC's got one. It's got some interesting stuff
in there. And then we get into early life. Then
we get into media career. Then we go into personal life.

Speaker 1 (28:52):
Allegations.

Speaker 2 (28:53):
And then we go, yeah, crises. I always like to
say the word crises in the Wikipedia.

Speaker 1 (29:00):
Controversies. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (29:02):
And then we get into the articles that it was
sourced from, which will be just how I found love
on a bus. Yeah. And then people can go and
look at that source material if they want to.

Speaker 1 (29:12):
No, they can't. Well, that's what people want to do. No,
they don't want to do that.

Speaker 2 (29:15):
When the kids have got you and they're looking at
your media.

Speaker 1 (29:18):
They don't want to do that.

Speaker 2 (29:19):
They need to be able to find the source material.

Speaker 1 (29:21):
They need not to be able to find that.

Speaker 2 (29:22):
It's important. Okay, so we're happy with where everyone's going?

Speaker 1 (29:26):
No, we're not happy with any of it.

Speaker 2 (29:28):
I feel like we're getting somewhere.

Speaker 1 (29:30):
Although, I'm happy with this from Campbell. We would need
to highlight the fact that the kid can spell. Okay.

Speaker 2 (29:37):
Like skills.

Speaker 1 (29:39):
Yep, I'm an.

Speaker 2 (29:40):
Not a CV, though, is it?

Speaker 1 (29:42):
Could be his time as an entrepreneur where he created
a party to pay off his debt to his school
from Kenny and Whangarei. Yeah, a virus party that we
ran when we were at high school to raise money
for the virus that we crippled the school's computer network with.
Actually turned a profit on that. Swan Dry Studios needs
a mention. So that was during lockdown. Me and Matt
Ward were doing a podcast. I recorded it from my wardrobe,

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but there was an echo in there, so I hung
two swan dries on either side of me. Swan Dry Studios.

Speaker 2 (30:06):
Works well.

Speaker 1 (30:07):
Works well. X2, Game of Two Halves member. NZ champion
lint collector and ambassador to the World Lint Council.

Speaker 2 (30:16):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (30:16):
Wasn't even one of those checkout aisle magazines. So, look.
We also need to include, Minaya was, unfortunately- Born in
South Canterbury.

Speaker 2 (30:25):
Okay, so all of these things are going in your
Wikipedia page, and we'll have that up by the end
of the show.

Speaker 1 (30:31):
Well, you've got to submit it for review.

Speaker 5 (30:35):
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 (30:35):
I'm going to veto it.

Speaker 2 (30:38):
I'm told they're quick on the review of Wikipedia. The
Hodaki Breakfast. I was out for a hot girl walk yesterday.

Speaker 1 (30:55):
Hell yeah.

Speaker 2 (30:56):
Walking Yoko, the boxer, around the suburbs as she attacks
small white fluffy dogs. Racist. Asserts her dominance. Asserts her dominance.
It's a terrible time.

Speaker 1 (31:07):
That's a learned behaviour, I want you to know.

Speaker 2 (31:09):
It's so stressful. Anyway, I normally take her around the
back streets, keep her away from the main walking spots
in my neighbourhood.

Speaker 1 (31:16):
Muzzle? Nah, because... Muzzle that bitch?

Speaker 2 (31:20):
I'd love to muzzle that bitch. But here's the annoying thing.
Because she's a pug-faced dog, because she's a boxer.

Speaker 1 (31:28):
Flat muzzle.

Speaker 2 (31:29):
You can't muzzle them. There's not a muzzle that can
go on the bloody thing.

Speaker 1 (31:32):
That's a great point.

Speaker 2 (31:33):
It's so annoying. I'd be muzzling her real quick.

Speaker 1 (31:36):
That'll collect the mask?

Speaker 2 (31:37):
Because that shows when you've got the muzzle and you've
got a dog that's aggressive.

Speaker 1 (31:42):
I know someone who's got a dog that they have
to walk on this giant walkway. orange rope that's got
a big sign on it like it's a low-hanging power
line or something. What do you mean? It says, aggressive
to other dogs, don't walk anywhere near me. And he's
got to walk it at night. I think he rescued
it from the fighting pits.

Speaker 2 (31:59):
I mean, with all due respect to that dog, we
need it.

Speaker 1 (32:02):
Do we need it?

Speaker 2 (32:03):
We don't need it. I mean, Yoko, to her credit,
she's a different, if she's at home, or she's with people,
she's the soppiest, friendliest dog you've ever seen in your
life with people. Sure. And, Other dogs that she knows
and has grown up with, and puppies. She's great with puppies.

Speaker 5 (32:20):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (32:20):
But as soon as you get an older terrier, particularly- Terriers?
Particularly terriers.

Speaker 1 (32:26):
Bichon Frise?

Speaker 2 (32:27):
No, Bichon Frise. She's got no problem with the Bichon Frise.

Speaker 1 (32:29):
Shih Tzu?

Speaker 2 (32:31):
Shih Tzus? They stay well away from her, Shih Tzus.
They're too small. Fair enough. They're scared. But anything like
a West Highland Terrier.

Speaker 6 (32:39):
Right.

Speaker 2 (32:40):
A Border Terrier. Right.

Speaker 1 (32:43):
Actually, sometimes- Fox Terrier?

Speaker 4 (32:44):
A Fox Terrier.

Speaker 2 (32:47):
Jack Russell's.

Speaker 1 (32:48):
Yeah. Those things that are basically bred to- A shake
and piss.

Speaker 2 (32:52):
Yeah, and a take. Well, no, attack. Those terriers are
meant to go down holes and attack things. They're fearless,
those dogs.

Speaker 1 (32:58):
Corgi? Should we go Corgi?

Speaker 2 (32:59):
The Corgis don't like her. Anything like that. She loves
a Labrador.

Speaker 8 (33:03):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (33:04):
Who doesn't?

Speaker 2 (33:05):
Good with a Labrador. Good with a Golden Retriever. Great
with other boxes. But just, she's, look, she's racist. I'm sorry,
but she's racist anyway. I've been slightly waylaid. So any
of those dogs, anyway, that have a crack at her,
she'll have a crack back. She can't help herself. She
wants to assert her dominance. So I'm on the back streets.
I'm wandering around my neighborhood. And there's a couple of
shops around. And as I approached one, I thought to myself,

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this is an interesting shop. I couldn't quite work out
what the shop was. But it had an inspirational quote
in the window, like a giant one on a sign.
And it said, the best way to predict the future
is to create it.

Speaker 1 (33:39):
Oh, that's deep.

Speaker 2 (33:41):
And I thought to myself, what are you selling?

Speaker 1 (33:43):
Yeah, what were they selling?

Speaker 2 (33:45):
They were selling knitwear. And it's like, why would you
have that in the window when you're selling knitwear?

Speaker 1 (33:51):
So that you can knit the future, Gerry.

Speaker 2 (33:53):
But then all of a sudden I thought, hold on
for a second, is this a common thing that I
haven't actually noticed when I've been wandering around? And then
about 200 metres down the road there's another shop and
it said, it was a beauty store, it said if
it makes, no, it was for Fiji, you know, the
moisturiser and stuff, all that sort of crap.

Speaker 1 (34:09):
I sure don't.

Speaker 2 (34:10):
If it makes you feel beautiful, do it.

Speaker 1 (34:13):
You would hate, there's an activewear shop that's around the
corner from your house as well, and it's got signs, like,
the fitness community are ripe for this kind of stuff.
The motivational quote, and it says, like, 1% better every day.
That doesn't make you want to storm in there and
buy everything. It reminds me of, you know, your mate's
mum who has all those signs in the kitchen, like,

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kitchen rules. Here's one in front of me. If you
spill it, mop it up. If you open it, close it.
If you empty it, fill it. If you dirty it,
clean it. If you cook it, please share it. And always,
always kiss the cook. You know exactly what kind of
house you're in when you walk in and you see those.

Speaker 2 (34:48):
I will walk straight out of a house if that's
the story.

Speaker 1 (34:50):
My cooking is awesome. Even the smoke alarm cheers me on.

Speaker 3 (34:54):
This kitchen runs on love and hot cakes.

Speaker 2 (34:58):
I mean, why does it need to say like, or
you go into a kitchen and it says like, eat? Yeah.
And it's like, what? What? I'm in a kitchen. I
don't need to be. Of course you eat. Well, you
don't always eat in a kitchen.

Speaker 1 (35:10):
It's real live, laugh, laugh sort of stuff. You know what, Jerry?
I actually think your house could do with a little
bit of sprucing up with this kind of stuff. I
might order a new sign for you.

Speaker 2 (35:19):
There's no word allowed in my house.

Speaker 1 (35:21):
Jeremy Wells and Mania Stewart.

Speaker 2 (35:24):
The Hodaki Breakfast. Time for lame claims to fame.

Speaker 1 (35:28):
Let's go straight to the phone lines, I reckon. Yo, Adrian,
what's your lame claim to fame?

Speaker 8 (35:34):
I've had a friend for the last 25 years who's
emigrated from England with.

Speaker 2 (35:39):
His family, and his mum used to go out when
she was 17 with Mr David Bowie. Oh, when she
was 17. I should have asked. And he was too.

Speaker 4 (35:49):
Oh, good, good, good.

Speaker 1 (35:50):
You landed that one.

Speaker 2 (35:51):
I think it was David Jones then or something. Oh, yeah,
he was David Jones. That's right. That was his old name,
wasn't it? Wow, that is quite a... Has she got
any stories about what they did together, Adrian?

Speaker 7 (36:03):
No, she's not allowed to tell anybody.

Speaker 9 (36:06):
All right.

Speaker 6 (36:07):
No one knows she's in her 80s.

Speaker 1 (36:09):
Signed the NDA. Oh, good on her.

Speaker 2 (36:11):
What a great claim to fame.

Speaker 9 (36:13):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (36:15):
Good stuff, Adrian. Thanks very much for the call. We've
put the call out on SoshMed, as we always do
as well, and a bunch have come through. Stevo writes,
I'm the person who changed Matt Heath's name to Leslie
Matthew Heath on Wikipedia.

Speaker 2 (36:30):
Oh, that's good. Well, I tell you what, you've actually
given me one of the best gags I've had for
some time, one of the best laughs I've had for
some time. Me? No, Stevo, for doing that, because... Recently,
Matt had to sign some official documents.

Speaker 1 (36:45):
That's right.

Speaker 2 (36:45):
Which were given to him by some people here at NZME.
And on the official documents, it had, at the bottom,
Leslie Matthew... It had his name, Leslie Matthew Heath. And
he got the documents. He goes, what? What's this? And
they're like... He goes, what's this name at the bottom?
And they said, well, that's your name, Leslie Matthew Heath.

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That's on your Wikipedia page. He goes... That's not actually.

Speaker 1 (37:13):
My real name. Lawyers are going on Wikipedia to find
the legal name of someone.

Speaker 2 (37:19):
I just love that effect. He was like, no, that's
actually not mine.

Speaker 1 (37:23):
Craig Redmond has written, Tim Shadbolt fell asleep on my
shoulder while reading a book about Tim Shadbolt.

Speaker 2 (37:30):
Now, is that real or is that a dream? Because
that sounds exactly like something that you'd hear in a dream.

Speaker 1 (37:37):
Tim Sherbolt fell asleep on my shoulder while reading a
book about Tim Sherbolt.

Speaker 2 (37:39):
That's from Craig. I wonder how long ago that was, Craig.
I'd love to hear whether that was 5, 10, 15,
20 years ago.

Speaker 1 (37:48):
Give us a bell, Craig. Timmy writes, I dated a
girl whose cousin was in the Presidents of the United
States of America. The band? The band that put out Peaches. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (38:01):
Great song, Peaches.

Speaker 1 (38:03):
Luke, my parents sold their house to the artist for
the Snack-A-Chang-E chip bags.

Speaker 2 (38:07):
Not Lee Hart.

Speaker 1 (38:08):
Not Lee Hart, but the person who made the artwork
for that stuff. Evidently lucrative if they're buying houses off people.

Speaker 2 (38:14):
I bet.

Speaker 1 (38:15):
My cousin's partner is cousins with Tamari Martin and Tain Tuopiki.

Speaker 2 (38:20):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (38:21):
I didn't know they were cousins.

Speaker 2 (38:23):
Well, are they, or is that on separate sides of
the family, perhaps?

Speaker 1 (38:27):
Oh, perhaps. That's from Studowudo. And NZ Russ has written,
spent 10 years working on the City Rail Link project,
and we open on Sunday. Is that a little bit
of internal propaganda?

Speaker 2 (38:37):
Okay, well, hold on for a second. What, so you
worked somewhere? Is that the lamest one that we've had
so far?

Speaker 1 (38:43):
Potentially. We've been running a theory that we'd never find
the bottom of this well. Are we getting close, do
you think?

Speaker 2 (38:49):
I feel like with that one, spent 10 years working
on the City Rail Link project and we open on Sunday.
I mean, so is that an official council email there?

Speaker 1 (39:00):
It's not, but this could be some sort of backdoor
situation from them. Anyway, give us a text, 3483, or
give us a call, 0800 Hauraki. Your lame claims to fame.

Speaker 2 (39:09):
I mean, a lot of people have worked at places.
That's just like saying, well, I worked at.

Speaker 1 (39:15):
Oh, I work at Farmers. LAUGHTER Not even fame.

Speaker 2 (39:20):
0800 HODUCKY 3483. Have we reached the bottom of the well?
the well? 3483 0800 HODAKI. We're looking for your lame
claims to fame. No claim to fame is too lame.
Everybody's got one. Everybody has a claim to fame. If
you think about your life, if you look back into

(39:41):
your history, everyone's got one. But we've had hundreds of
lame claims to fame over the last, what, year and
a half?

Speaker 3 (39:49):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (39:49):
And we feel like maybe, we're always like, is this
a bottomless well?

Speaker 1 (39:52):
Is it going to run out at some point? Are
we eventually going to hit the mantle of the earth?
Someone texted me just before, we thought we might have
found the end of it. They said, I work on
the city rail link and it opens on Sunday. I
thought that could have been the end of it. What
about this one? I'll do you one better. I'll do
you one lamer, Gerry.

Speaker 8 (40:05):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (40:06):
I didn't work on the city rail link and it
opens on Sunday.

Speaker 2 (40:09):
Yeah, okay. That is particularly lamest. Go to Amy from Christchurch. Morning, Amy.
Welcome to the show.

Speaker 4 (40:16):
Morning.

Speaker 2 (40:16):
What's your lane claim to fame, Amy?

Speaker 4 (40:19):
So I was doing a ski season in Verbier in Switzerland,
and I was working for a guy who was quite wealthy,
and he asked me to just do some chalet work
for him one night, and I went down to the kitchen,
and oh, there's Fergie and her daughter, and they're planning

(40:40):
a birthday party for their father that night, Prince Andrew.
He was turning 60. And my night ended with me
dancing on a tabletop, singing Prince Andrew, happy birthday in
a Sailor Girl outfit.

Speaker 2 (40:53):
Are you serious, Amy?

Speaker 7 (40:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (40:58):
Really? Wow.

Speaker 6 (40:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (40:59):
I've still got the outfit somewhere and a lovely book
of photos of Fergie and his family and Andrew with
a big thank you note.

Speaker 1 (41:07):
I think there's some people who would like to see
those photos, some judges and lawyers.

Speaker 2 (41:13):
Who else was at the party, Amy? I mean, I
don't know if this is the forum to be asking
these questions, but who else was at Prince Andrew's 60th?

Speaker 4 (41:21):
Yeah, Prince Andrew's 60th in Switzerland. It was like a
dinner party. Fergie was there. The door says, I can't
remember who else, but there's a guy called Paddy McNally's house.
And then a few nights later, it was New Year's Eve.
And there was, yeah, the wealthy of the world. It
was quite a... A wild affair.

Speaker 2 (41:41):
That would have been a very strange experience.

Speaker 1 (41:45):
Tell me this, Amy. What year, roughly, was it?

Speaker 2 (41:47):
How old was I?

Speaker 1 (41:50):
Well, yeah, but when... I don't know if I want
to know the answer to that. How long ago was that?

Speaker 4 (41:54):
Oh, I would probably say.

Speaker 6 (41:58):
2020?

Speaker 4 (41:58):
Yeah, I was only 20, so close to 20 years
ago now.

Speaker 1 (42:00):
Um.

Speaker 2 (42:04):
In terms of the dancing on the table, so were
you requested to dance on the table or you just
decided that.

Speaker 7 (42:10):
And sing happy birthday.

Speaker 4 (42:11):
No, and sing happy birthday.

Speaker 2 (42:13):
Just you, Amy?

Speaker 4 (42:13):
They thought it would be fun.

Speaker 2 (42:14):
Were you part of an ensemble?

Speaker 4 (42:17):
No, part of a... with two other chalet girls that
were living there permanently.

Speaker 1 (42:21):
And the costume, was that talent's own? Did you bring
that with you or was that provided for you?

Speaker 4 (42:29):
No, it was provided for me and it was a
baby pink.
All-in-one sailor girl outfit with a little hat and black
fishnet tights.

Speaker 2 (42:39):
I mean, famously, he was in the Navy.

Speaker 1 (42:42):
Sure.

Speaker 2 (42:43):
Wasn't he? Was he Air Force or was he Navy?
I can't remember. No, he was Navy.

Speaker 6 (42:48):
I don't know.

Speaker 7 (42:48):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (42:49):
But the guy whose house it was was the one
that introduced Fergie and Andrew.

Speaker 5 (42:56):
Right.

Speaker 4 (42:56):
A guy called Paddy.

Speaker 8 (42:58):
Right.

Speaker 2 (42:58):
His first name wasn't Jeffrey.

Speaker 1 (42:59):
Yeah, I was going to say that.

Speaker 6 (43:01):
No.

Speaker 1 (43:01):
No.

Speaker 7 (43:02):
No, definitely not Jeffrey.

Speaker 4 (43:05):
But he could have been there.

Speaker 1 (43:07):
He may well have been. Are we one degree of
separation away from... What a story, Amy. I always knew
Jerry would be in those files. I just didn't know
this would be how it ended up that way.

Speaker 2 (43:16):
Incredible story, Amy. I imagine the night ended well, Amy?

Speaker 4 (43:20):
Yeah, I mean, I got paid pretty well, so.

Speaker 1 (43:22):
And you got home all right.

Speaker 4 (43:23):
Yeah, I got home okay.

Speaker 2 (43:26):
Can I ask how much you get paid in that situation?

Speaker 4 (43:30):
Oh, it was a long time ago now, but I
think I was charging like 40 francs an hour.

Speaker 1 (43:35):
What's the exchange rate on that? 80 bucks?

Speaker 4 (43:39):
50, yeah, 50, I don't even know anymore.

Speaker 1 (43:42):
Okay, wow.

Speaker 2 (43:44):
What a story.

Speaker 1 (43:45):
Great story, Amy. Thanks very much for the call. No worries.
Glad to hear you're okay.

Speaker 2 (43:50):
Good on you, Amy. That was good on you for sharing.
Poor old Mel from Pabla Moa.

Speaker 1 (43:54):
She's got to follow that up.

Speaker 2 (43:55):
She's on the line now. Morning, Mel.

Speaker 7 (43:58):
Morning.

Speaker 2 (43:59):
You didn't dance nude for the Queen by any chance,
did you?

Speaker 7 (44:02):
No, but that story's kind of terrifying. I'm kind of
reading between the lines.

Speaker 1 (44:05):
I know.

Speaker 2 (44:06):
Well, knowing what we know now, it is absolutely terrifying,
but it seems that everything was okay in that situation.
What's your lame claim to fame, Mel?

Speaker 7 (44:18):
Yeah, it's actually really lame. When I was in primary
school in the 80s and I was about seven or eight,
one of my classmates' mum went on Sail of the Century.

Speaker 2 (44:30):
Oh, with Steve Parr and Jude Dobson.

Speaker 7 (44:33):
Yeah, or Judith Kirk back then, but it was a
pretty big deal then.

Speaker 2 (44:39):
And so you knew someone who was on Sail of
the Century once?

Speaker 1 (44:43):
Yes. I knew someone whose mum was on Sail of
the Century.

Speaker 7 (44:46):
Yeah, their mum.

Speaker 2 (44:49):
Excellent, Mel. Thank you very much.

Speaker 1 (44:50):
That was actually quite a good palate cleanser, Mel. Thank
you very much for that.

Speaker 7 (44:54):
Happy to help. Happy to help. And FYI, I choose
the NRL grand final.

Speaker 2 (45:00):
Good on you, Mel. We'll whip Mel in the drawer.
Keep those coming in. 3483 0800 HODAKI. What is your
lame claim to fame? Does it involve royalty and table
dancing in a pink sailor suit?

Speaker 1 (45:15):
G-Lane Maxwell. Never miss Jerry and Mania. Set the Hauraki
Breakfast podcast to auto-download in your podcast settings. So we've
been getting a lot of texts coming through about the
last lame claim to fame, which was Amy, who said
she danced at Prince Andrew's 60th birthday party. He asked

(45:38):
her how long ago that was. She said some, like,
20 years ago-ish. She said it was back when she
was in her 20s, 20 years ago. A lot of
people texting and saying, Prince Andrew's only 66. which, got
to be honest, I thought he was way older than that,
which would mean he was in his 40s or something.

Speaker 5 (45:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (45:55):
It does sound it didn't line up.

Speaker 2 (45:57):
Yeah, there's a few people calling BS on Amy's truth.

Speaker 3 (46:02):
Mm-hmm.

Speaker 2 (46:04):
On Amy's truth.

Speaker 1 (46:04):
Well, she's spoken her truth.

Speaker 2 (46:05):
Yeah. But I've had a little look. I've gone back
and done a bit of research. Prince Andrew celebrated his
50th birthday in February 2010. So that would check out
around about, you know, what she said 20 years ago,
but I mean 16 years ago, whatever, with a private
dinner at his ski chalet in Verbier, Switzerland.

Speaker 1 (46:23):
There you go.

Speaker 2 (46:24):
Alongside his ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson, and their daughters, Beatrice and Eugenie.

Speaker 1 (46:28):
So it was his 50th, not his 60th.

Speaker 2 (46:32):
Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 1 (46:33):
Oh, well, there you go. I've got to be honest,
I did not feel like Amy was lying to us.

Speaker 2 (46:37):
No, no, I don't doubt what Amy said. That felt
very true to me.

Speaker 1 (46:41):
And equal parts hilarious and terrifying.

Speaker 2 (46:43):
So there we are. We didn't reach the bottom of
the well. Instead, we came across a gem. So a
huge home summer coming up for the Blackcaps Mania. First up,

(47:06):
against India, they've got five T20s.

Speaker 1 (47:09):
Good. At least it's not an even number.

Speaker 2 (47:11):
Five one-dayers.

Speaker 1 (47:13):
Great.

Speaker 2 (47:14):
And two tests.

Speaker 1 (47:15):
Oh, for God's sake.

Speaker 2 (47:16):
Then three T20s.

Speaker 6 (47:18):
Great.

Speaker 2 (47:19):
Three one-dayers.

Speaker 1 (47:21):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (47:21):
And two tests versus Sri Lanka. Oh, for God's sake.
In the middle of it, they've got a four-test series
in Australia.

Speaker 1 (47:27):
Have we not learned anything from the South African tour?
Odd numbers only.

Speaker 2 (47:31):
Tickets are on sale now. All those games at home.
To talk more about it, Blackcap, Eash, Sody. Eash, when
you have a look at that schedule, does that give
you anxiety?

Speaker 5 (47:44):
Hey, with the even numbers in the test matches, it
kind of does because you just reminded me of that, actually.

Speaker 1 (47:48):
Yeah, there's nothing. But it's very cricket to have a draw,
isn't it?

Speaker 5 (47:52):
It is very cricket to have a draw. Now, it
should be a really exciting start to the summer, and
I think, you know, especially with a team like India
coming over, I think the buzz around cricket's going to
be massive in New Zealand, and hopefully we can even
get off to a winning start as Black Caps side.

Speaker 2 (48:06):
As a spin bowler, do you really look forward to
playing India in New Zealand conditions?

Speaker 5 (48:11):
I'll tell you what, early or sort of mid to
late October's going to be pretty cold and green, so
I'm actually on my way out to Lincoln to try
to see if I can swing the ball in.

Speaker 1 (48:21):
LAUGHTER I'll let.

Speaker 2 (48:23):
You know how that goes.

Speaker 1 (48:25):
Tell me this, Ish, I know that you're constantly working
on different deliveries. Is there any sort of secret delivery
that you're working on behind the scenes? Are we going
to unveil a new one this summer?

Speaker 5 (48:37):
I've been trying a few things out, but like I said,
it's important to try to adapt to the conditions you're
presented with. And like you say, in New Zealand, especially
early in the season, the wickets don't necessarily spin a lot.
So it's more kind of trying to figure out ways
you can deceive better than the air and And, you know,
these days there's a lot of guys trying to swing
the ball in the power plays and things like that.
It's something I've given a crack to over the last
wee while, but maybe be something I could try and

(49:01):
get myself bowling in the power plays a little bit more.

Speaker 1 (49:03):
Interesting.

Speaker 2 (49:04):
I mean, for people who don't know a lot about
the intricacies of cricket, is there a worse place to
bowl spin in the world than New Zealand?

Speaker 5 (49:15):
I would say notoriously New Zealand is right up there
with half the mean motor. It's, um, it's pretty small boundaries.
Wickets are pretty flat, but, but the good thing about
that is that is always trying to come and score runs.
And then, you know, that always means that there's always
chances to get wickets. So as a spinner in New Zealand,
I think even more so than places around the world,
you have to maintain a really aggressive mindset. Um, because

(49:37):
a way to stifle the run rate is by taking wickets,
and that's something that I try to do.

Speaker 1 (49:42):
You're a relatively tall operator, Isha. I can imagine coming
through the grades. Did coaches ever try and, you know,
push you away from bowling spin and into pace, perhaps?

Speaker 6 (49:52):
Yeah, thanks, mate. I'm six foot four with boots on.

Speaker 5 (49:54):
Nah, I'm No, not necessarily, because I've always been quite
a slow twitch fibre type of operator, so not a
very quick runner, but I've got a wrist made of rubber,
so that kind of helps.

Speaker 1 (50:07):
Speaking of twitching, are you still getting involved in your
bird watching every now and then?

Speaker 5 (50:11):
Oh, every now and then, mate. Spring's a good time, actually.
I discovered a kereru nest the other day, you'd be proud.

Speaker 2 (50:18):
Oh, did you?

Speaker 1 (50:18):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (50:19):
Wonderful. Good eating, apparently-ish.

Speaker 5 (50:23):
Oh, hey, not anymore, brother, not anymore.

Speaker 2 (50:26):
Ish, question for you. What's the fastest delivery you've ever bowled?

Speaker 5 (50:33):
Oh, the fastest, like, spin delivery or if I was
genuinely trying.

Speaker 6 (50:36):
To bowl fast?

Speaker 2 (50:36):
No, if you're genuinely trying to bowl pace, like, what
do you reckon would be your top speed?

Speaker 5 (50:41):
I reckon my heaviest nut would be 121 kilometres an hour. 121? Yeah,
it's not going to do much damage to that, though,
is it?

Speaker 2 (50:47):
Well, I mean, a heavy ball, a heavy 121 is
different than sort of an along-the-wicket 121. You've got that
extra bounce, perhaps.

Speaker 5 (50:55):
It was pretty along it. I'd say I've bowled some
heavier leggies in my life than my 121.

Speaker 2 (51:00):
And one more question for you. Are you going to
be bowling with your glasses on this year?

Speaker 5 (51:05):
Even at night?

Speaker 1 (51:06):
Yeah, probably.

Speaker 5 (51:08):
No, I'm pretty excited to get them out. I've got
a fresh new pair, so hopefully I can put them
to good use this year.

Speaker 2 (51:15):
Hey, Sody, thanks so much for your time. Always great
to chat, and good luck with the season.

Speaker 5 (51:20):
Cheers, guys.

Speaker 1 (51:23):
Thank you. I feel like, Gerry, and I'd like you
to answer these allegations. How do you feel about allegations
that the show's gone soft?

Speaker 2 (51:33):
Our show?

Speaker 1 (51:34):
Our show's gone soft.

Speaker 2 (51:35):
There's been allegations swirling around the show for some time
that it's gone soft.

Speaker 1 (51:39):
Some of the stuff that we get sent to the
bin for these days... Wouldn't have even shown up in
a show in the 90s. You know what I mean?
And I just think that we, to protect this show,
we need to make sure that we get those things
out of the game. We don't need to be going
to the TMO, relitigating everything all the time. What we

(51:59):
need on this show is to get some hard bastards
in to the show. So when this guy came across
my Instagram feed, I thought, here we go. Perfect. Inject
a bit of hard bastard in. into the show because
I think we can all agree it's gone soft. Have
a listen to this fan of camels.

Speaker 2 (52:16):
I love that as a casual statement, you got into camels.

Speaker 1 (52:19):
It was a dare, mate.

Speaker 8 (52:20):
I saw the job advertised in Fremantle on Centrelink under miscellaneous.
My mate dared me, so I never looked back after that.
I asked the bloke in the camel farm, I said,
you got a job, mate?

Speaker 1 (52:28):
I do camels. He said, you got a swag? I said, yep.

Speaker 8 (52:31):
Next thing we were out bush for four months catching
wild camels in the deserts.

Speaker 1 (52:34):
And I was green, mate.

Speaker 8 (52:35):
I didn't even know a camel threw a front leg
till I'd a broken nose and two black eyes.

Speaker 1 (52:38):
What I found out the hard.

Speaker 8 (52:39):
Way, it's the front leg on a camel that breaks
your neck.

Speaker 1 (52:42):
It's the back legs that break your pride.

Speaker 8 (52:43):
From there done about 20 000 k's on foot now
trekking them across deserts any major injuries you've had yeah
a couple of fractured necks i've still got three broken
fingers i've got a snapped cheekbone a compressed eye socket
i didn't even know i had a broken neck for
about a week until someone saw me walking strange in
town so the the fingers here that are busted i
was tying a rope around a bull camel's neck and
another bull came out of the bush and bashed him

(53:04):
and all of a sudden i'm attached to two heads
of two camels that were trying to and it just
cracked me fingers off and Of course, you're out bush.
You can't just call time out and come to town.
You just throw a basset block on your toe, balance
out the pain and keep moving.

Speaker 1 (53:17):
Shut it down.

Speaker 2 (53:18):
We've found the most Australian, brilliantly typical Australian person in
the history of Australia.

Speaker 1 (53:24):
Hardest bastard you've ever heard.

Speaker 2 (53:25):
Oh, brilliant.

Speaker 1 (53:26):
I think the show's gotten harder for hearing that.

Speaker 2 (53:32):
It's Tuesday, which means it's Lame Claim to Fame Tuesday.
And as always, the Lame Claims to Fame... Came in
a little bit late. Yeah. There was a beauty that
came in from Amy around Prince Andrew's 50th birthday where
she danced atop a table wearing a pink navy outfit.

Speaker 8 (53:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (53:53):
So go back and listen to that one if you
missed it on the Show Highlights podcast. But there were
a bunch of texts that came through that we didn't
get to. I figure now's as good a time as any.
How's this one? Lame claim to fame. I'm somehow related
to the late, great Burt Sutcliffe. Great player, Burt Sutcliffe.
How about this one from Bridgie? Lame claim. I met
Jerry once. It is lame. I won a Hodaki breakfast promo.

(54:15):
Watch a movie at the Slippery Beaver with Matt and Jerry. Yeah.
Matt didn't turn up.

Speaker 5 (54:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (54:20):
I remember this.

Speaker 1 (54:21):
Jerry arrived late but had double booked with the ACC.

Speaker 5 (54:23):
I had.

Speaker 2 (54:23):
I'd been double bloody booked. So nobody had mentioned that
I had to do a cricket commentary at like, it
started at 11 or something like that. And the movie
started at like 10.30 or 11 or something. So, yeah.

Speaker 1 (54:41):
Had double booked with the ACC, shook my hand, took
a pic for marketing purposes, then jogged off. I proceeded
to watch the movie by myself with a security guard.

Speaker 2 (54:48):
Oh, I felt really bad about that. But, I mean,
I don't know. I couldn't have done anything else.

Speaker 5 (54:52):
No.

Speaker 1 (54:53):
Bridgie, hopefully we can make that up to you one day.

Speaker 2 (54:55):
Sorry about that. I do remember that.

Speaker 1 (54:57):
Another royal adjacent one tripped over a power cord in
front of Prince Will and Kate after a polo match
after a function in a tent in Gloucestershire. Now, I
just want you guys to pat me on the back
there for reading Gloucestershire on the blind.

Speaker 2 (55:09):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (55:09):
They were sitting on hay bales trying to be nondescript.

Speaker 2 (55:12):
Hey, I've got a great loan claim to fame that
I've just realized reading that. I used to do a
radio show with someone who slept in the same bed
as Prince William and Kate when they came to Hokitika
in New Zealand.

Speaker 1 (55:26):
Really? Who?

Speaker 2 (55:27):
Matt Heath.

Speaker 3 (55:28):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (55:28):
He slept in the same suite in the Hokitika Beach Hotel.

Speaker 1 (55:34):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (55:35):
That Prince William and Kate stayed in when they travelled
to New Zealand. In fact, I think he could probably
say he has sat on the same toilet as the
future King of England. Yeah. And the future Queen.

Speaker 1 (55:47):
They really dine out on that. I've heard this down
at that hotel.

Speaker 2 (55:51):
Yes, we did a paper ox to see who got
the bedroom because it was a really fancy suite. He won.

Speaker 1 (55:57):
I hugged a drunk, topless Tom Batchelor, season one, X
Factor New Zealand, at a Dunedin house party. Very sweaty.

Speaker 2 (56:04):
I imagine Tom Batchelor will be sweaty.

Speaker 1 (56:05):
How's this one from Lewis or potentially Louis? I sold
golf balls I found at the Cutty Cutty Golf Course
to Ryan Fox.

Speaker 2 (56:13):
Ah, how good is it? Kids that sell golf balls.
God bless those kids that sell golf balls on the
side of golf courses for like, you know. $ 3 a
ball or whatever they are.

Speaker 1 (56:22):
Yes, I think one of G Lane's kids does that.

Speaker 2 (56:25):
Yeah, he's got some kind of, I think he's got
night vision goggles and something that can see like glow
in the dark. And he just goes through bushes. And
particularly there's a type of grass, like it's like a
really long kind of grass. It's niggly and there's just,
he reckons there's literally thousands of them.

Speaker 1 (56:45):
I've got a mate who I play golf with and
he's bought himself one of those extendable telescopic ball grabber sticks. Oh, yeah.
It's like he comes out with more balls than when
he started every single time.

Speaker 2 (56:56):
Doing a lot of work into the lateral hazards.

Speaker 1 (56:58):
Yeah, in any creek. I mean, that's just money for jam.
Speaking of G-Lane, my new lame claim to fame is
G-Lane just cut me off in the Hodaka Ute in
Narrow Neck Beach. He waved to me to say, sorry, bless.

Speaker 2 (57:09):
He's done a lot of that, G-Lane.

Speaker 1 (57:11):
I was wondering where the Hodaka Ute was.

Speaker 2 (57:12):
He has skills. I'm not sure that's behind the wheel.

Speaker 1 (57:14):
Ute was?

Speaker 2 (57:15):
I installed irrigation at Eric Clapton's house in Chelsea.

Speaker 6 (57:18):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (57:19):
Chatted with....

Speaker 1 (57:22):
Contemplated?

Speaker 2 (57:23):
Contemplated, pinching a guitar pick from a bowl in his hallway,
but my Catholic upbringing stopped me. Also had a cup
of tea with Felicity Kendall in her kitchen. Oh.

Speaker 1 (57:31):
In the good life. You should have stolen that guitar pick.
You know, he wouldn't have noticed, and you would have
had the story. This is like when I was about
to bum a durry off someone at Austin City Limits,
and then I realized it was Olivia Dean, and I
got nervous, and so I decided to leave her alone.
And I hard out regret it, because that's a way
better story. If I bummed a Dario for Olivia Dane.

Speaker 2 (57:49):
She's got massive since then too.

Speaker 1 (57:50):
I know. She was pretty big then.

Speaker 2 (57:54):
I sold a Christmas tree to Damon Hill in 2001. Also,
I painted a swimming pool for Ronnie Wood.

Speaker 1 (58:00):
He's decorated to the stars. My partner and I were
having a meal at a restaurant in Greymouth and Sir
Bob Hoskins was sitting at a table across from us.
Forgive me, Bob Hoskins?

Speaker 2 (58:10):
No idea.

Speaker 1 (58:11):
My partner got his autograph, then we went downstairs and
had a date with him.

Speaker 2 (58:14):
I think it's Mike Hoskins' dad. I get it.

Speaker 1 (58:18):
I worked at the Ponsonby Stove Centre in Grey Lynn
and I sold an oven to Don McGlashan.

Speaker 2 (58:24):
That's good, man.

Speaker 1 (58:26):
And also one to Johnny Marinovich from Shortland Street. One occasion,
Karl Urban jogged by the shop, stopped and tied his shoelace.
All stretched, couldn't tell. Just out the front of our
shop window.

Speaker 2 (58:36):
You've got to love the lame claims to fame. This
is the Hauraki Breakfast.

Speaker 1 (58:39):
The Hauraki Breakfast.

Speaker 8 (58:41):
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