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August 12, 2026 • 12 mins

Today on the Pod, Manaia had an analogy to table for yesterday's rolling that, in the end, didn’t turn out to be a rolling...  

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Daily bespoke content that you won't find on the radio
show The Hurdarki Breakfast Podcast.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Welcome along to the first Bite of the Cherry, the
first podcast to see the sun, the first to see
in a new day, the day of our Lord, the
thirteenth of August twenty twenty six.

Speaker 3 (00:17):
We'll get a new prime minister. Congratulations, congratulations dear right
he has the full backing of all his homies who
just tried to knife him, but he's got the full backing.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
What a dry hump that was. I would describe that
as a dry hump.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
I would describe it as have you ever worked somewhere
where your boss is massively and it and you feel
like you're going to lose your job if something doesn't
change with the leadership, which twelve of them felt like,
if we don't change this guy, we're not getting voted
back and we lose our jobs. Anyway, might as well
song for the fences and you'll sit around and you go, Jesus,

(00:54):
place sucks, I hate our boss. We're going to get
rid of this guy. And then you go, someone's going
to do something about it. Chris Pink goes, oh, do
something about a comp he send in the meeting and
he goes, hey, look, everyone's really pissed off with you.
Everyone feels like there's twelve people in this room. You
feel like they're going to lose their job if you're
still here. So we think that there needs to be
a change in leadership. You like, obviously still be part

(01:15):
of the party, still work here. I'd like to be
the boss. And everyone that was just bitching and voting
about the boss with him, there's their feet and Chris
Pink looks around a gas the fuck we were just
we just had this whole rah rah meeting and then
we come in here and Luxon's here and everyone's looking
at their feet, and then Luckson goes, oh, it looks
like you're by yourself there, Chris, you're sacked. That's have

(01:39):
you ever been in it?

Speaker 2 (01:41):
Well no, But I I think it's so interesting that
we live in a democracy, and we live in a
thing that, you know, where everything is meant to be
so in the open and all the places, and then
that there is so cloak and dagger. You go, we
don't know what happened as voters, nobody has any control
over it. So the whole leadership, the person who's at
the top of your country can be changed by a

(02:03):
process that occurs inside of a room and an anonymous room,
and you've got no control over it. You don't no say,
because you could vote, and theoretically you could vote in
a government right and it could be on day four
of its tenure three year tenure, and caucus could change
the leadership and the whole prime minister could change then

(02:23):
the leader.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
Yeah, yeah, one, I mean they don't even know who
voted for them. Nah, this happens in Australia all the time.
And then the other one is so so say, I'm
thinking about voting for my national candidate and my electriate
at my local MP. If Luckson doesn't like him, he
might just been it. And then the guy that I
voted in in this instance, Chris Pinker, I think, is

(02:45):
what your he's your zone he is, Yeah, I don't
think he's quite my suburb, but yeah, well he was
on the billboards. I reckon, he's ruds guy man Pink
till I die bro Well you're in the Pink camp. Yeap.

Speaker 4 (03:02):
I feel fucking awful for Pink today.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
Well you tell you that. And now he's been stripped
of all of his portfolios, and I think he's actually
been sacked as a.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
Now he's resigned.

Speaker 3 (03:10):
He resigned, so there you go.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
I spoke to his family last night. His four year
old kid said resign. So he resigned.

Speaker 3 (03:16):
Oh great, he's taking the best advice. I think.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
I don't know that he spoke to his four year old,
but he spoke to his family, who made the main decision.
I don't even know if he's got a four year old.

Speaker 3 (03:29):
It's a bad batch in it.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
How old is kid?

Speaker 3 (03:31):
That's a bad batch.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
This it's a bad batch.

Speaker 3 (03:34):
That's a bad batch.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
It's a bad batch of the bad system.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
I don't mean I don't mean national. I just mean
I feel like that round. I feel like that's round
in particular. Don't you think that's political rounds? Particularly?

Speaker 5 (03:45):
Imagine if you worked in a business with let's say
sixty people, and twenty or thirty of them were like, fuck,
our boss is just shit man, and they're like, right,
we're gonna have a we're gonna have a meeting about this,
and we're going to roll this guy. And then suddenly
it's like the boss gets up and he's like, right,
what's got what's going what's going on here?

Speaker 2 (04:04):
Guys?

Speaker 4 (04:05):
And old Pinky stands up in the corner and he's like.

Speaker 3 (04:08):
You repeating my analogy back to there?

Speaker 4 (04:09):
No, I'm just imagining. If I am, I'm.

Speaker 3 (04:13):
Just we could skip. People can ship back to the
start of the podcast.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
Sorry, yeah, as daughter is for And she made the
call and sounds eight.

Speaker 3 (04:25):
Well did he asked the son?

Speaker 2 (04:26):
He asked his family wouldn't make sure his family, son
and daughter pour year old and hate year old? What
are you we gonna do?

Speaker 3 (04:32):
And his wife His wife would have gone, none of
your chick. We still have a mortgage. So I wouldn't
mind if you hit the job. Some would have gone nah.
So they've got to stuff himself.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
Married News Hub journalist Kim Cho Kim Chow.

Speaker 6 (04:45):
Do you know Kim Cho? You probably do, don't you.
Of course you worked as No No Newshab.

Speaker 5 (04:55):
We're part of media works at one point when I
was probably working there, correct, But they were on Flower Street.

Speaker 4 (05:01):
And we were in right, okay, we're in three lamps today.

Speaker 2 (05:06):
If he wasn't part of that.

Speaker 4 (05:07):
No no, no, no.

Speaker 5 (05:07):
Now they talked about it at one point and then
it didn't happen that way.

Speaker 2 (05:12):
Oh, I thought Radio Live and News Hub with the
same thing.

Speaker 4 (05:15):
They were at one point.

Speaker 5 (05:17):
I think they were broadcasting out of Flower Street maybe
a couple of the shows because there were a couple
of crossover hosts. Ryan Bridge, for example, he's now part
of this company. That's right, yeah, Bridgie.

Speaker 2 (05:29):
So yeah, he so four and eight So yeah, they
had some good advice from I think.

Speaker 3 (05:33):
The Ryan Bridge I got something on at this So
they've beenned the show that he was on the TV show,
did they Was he on the AM show? Yeah, he's
on them, So they've been there. He went over to
the Herald they started live streaming show that is now
back on three.

Speaker 2 (05:51):
Yeah, that's a good point. But three's got a new owner.

Speaker 3 (05:53):
Now, man, that would feel good.

Speaker 4 (05:55):
I was Ryan Bridge Media Works as a new owner
now as ob yesterday.

Speaker 2 (05:58):
Oh yes, it's kind of new owner.

Speaker 3 (06:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (06:01):
Is he in.

Speaker 3 (06:03):
Your old boss, mild mid boss.

Speaker 2 (06:05):
Yeah, he'schy. It's a real isn't it. Isn't it an
incestuous little circle duke.

Speaker 3 (06:13):
They call it the mirror go Round. Everyone's just swapping horses,
the media go Round. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (06:20):
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group on Facebook for more cheer any Wells and Manaia
Stuet find them on Instagram at HDARKI Breakfast.

Speaker 2 (06:31):
Yeah, but I got to say that that thing yesterday
was I mean, because I think probably looking back on it,
who was the natural person who was going to see like,
you've got to have a person who's a natural person
who's going to succeed the leader. Yeah, and it turns
out nobody could agree on who that person was. Well,
they don't just grow on trees, Jerry, No, they don't.

Speaker 3 (06:52):
There's an appetite for change, but there's no one to
replace that person, and you know, until they find that person.

Speaker 2 (06:58):
And he steered it down, steered them down three hours.
I mean obviously they were just they walked into that
room and they said, you know what, we're we're all
ready to get on with the job. We're right behind you,
Prime Mini stick good on you. And then they walked back.

Speaker 3 (07:10):
And that's that's famous.

Speaker 2 (07:12):
What you call me after around for three hours?

Speaker 4 (07:14):
I amazing that took three hours.

Speaker 2 (07:17):
It would be bloody interesting to be involved in the conversation.
So I listened to some as Yeah, when people because
actually people were being honest. But that's why there's no
one allowed to take the phone in or anything like that,
because people are actually apparently it's brutal. Apparently it's really brutal.
Obviously Pink was too honest, so he was stripped of.

Speaker 3 (07:40):
His I feel real bad for him. I reckon he
got sold up the River Bay right else there, totally Yeah,
I reckon, I reckon. What happened was reading reading between
the lines. I reckon they went in there and Luxan
would have gone it's a few years. Want to know me,
Just know if you fail off fire, every single one
of you has done this and then, but.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
How funny is it that you just can and every
other profession you've got to go through like a performance thing?

Speaker 3 (08:10):
What happened?

Speaker 2 (08:10):
If Chris Pink's like, I've been really good, I've done
my job really up nap doesn't matter. It's the only
place left in New Zealand where you can just fire
someone for just because they because you.

Speaker 3 (08:22):
Like them, because they didn't like them.

Speaker 2 (08:24):
Well, the only place you can't do that anywhere else.

Speaker 3 (08:26):
Does that kind of thing have to end in a
firing or could it have been a meeting where they
go and and they go. Should we try a new leader?
Do you want to have a crack or should I
have a crack or whatever? Yeah, okay, Because if they
were all for the party, you'd be like, yeah, sweet, no,
that's a good idea. You do it, or I'll stay here.
We're all still mates. It's just you're in the wrong role.
I'm in the wrong role. We'll swap around the out

(08:47):
we go. No one needs to lose their job here,
you don't. We're all still pulling in the same direction.

Speaker 2 (08:52):
After the election. It's going to be a battle, isn't
it if Chris Luckson does managed to just you know,
get enough votes and put a coalition into whatever. And
last night, by the way, after looking at the poll
last night, it's not it's bloody close.

Speaker 3 (09:08):
Was that not good for National?

Speaker 2 (09:10):
No? No, no, But they're at twenty nine percent, they're
on the they are they are not polling well. And
now Opportunities is at eight and ats gone up because
of the poor Henry effect.

Speaker 3 (09:26):
Holdak your breakfast effect.

Speaker 2 (09:27):
Yep, that's right. New Zealand First has gone down and
the Greens are kind of the same at twelve.

Speaker 3 (09:34):
So this this election is sort of more up in
the ear than any that I can remember.

Speaker 2 (09:39):
There are more parties worth around about like eight or
nine percent and around that zone than have ever been
in the history of our politics. The main block, the
national labor block, is lower than it's ever been.

Speaker 3 (09:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (09:54):
Now, that says to me that people are disillusioned with
yeah politics in general, which I know they are.

Speaker 3 (10:02):
And anybody who like whoever you voted for last time,
you're probably not stoked with their offering this time around.
It doesn't matter where you said on the political spectrum.
I don't think anyone's looking at their representative and be like, oh,
I've nailed it, you know.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
Well, generally, the other thing is that people are disillusioned
because people are disillusioned with the situation that they've faced
with will stop with themselves because at the moment, we
are at an unprecedented time where people have never felt
like worse off. Yeah, it's as bad as it's ever been.

Speaker 3 (10:34):
It was one hundred and twenty bucks to fill a
Suzuki Swift yesterday.

Speaker 2 (10:37):
Yeah, it's yeah, you know, it's never been like this before.
And I think that then on the flip side, I
have a PlayStation. I don't think there are easy answers
this is the problem. And I think what people are realizing,
is that we're just wear the caboos on the back
of the whole thing. And if things are going bad
in the world, and they are going bad in the world, then.

Speaker 3 (10:55):
You just blame the people that were in charge before you.

Speaker 2 (10:58):
Well, well you we can't. You can't do much about
the price of gas, like you you unfortunately that if
there's a war going on.

Speaker 3 (11:05):
For a pandemic, then we're just we just we just
suck balls.

Speaker 2 (11:11):
Yeah, you know, and we're sucking balls at the moment.

Speaker 3 (11:13):
And it's who would you like to suck balls on
our behalf?

Speaker 2 (11:16):
Well, the farmers not sucking balls. Farmers are doing it.

Speaker 3 (11:20):
Well, yeah, the payouts are good.

Speaker 2 (11:23):
Yeah, yeah, apparently, and also the beef schedule it's good.
But yeah, so that's good. It's a positive.

Speaker 3 (11:32):
But that's why well you know what I was gonna
say before is a we kingmaker then are when the
yeah you and I, oh, me and you the show
because you know, Paul Henry comes on, he finds all
of a sudden, he's got himself a little bump.

Speaker 2 (11:45):
Oh yeah, they're going to call it the hurdarckym, the
Hurdarcky bump.

Speaker 3 (11:48):
Yeah, there's used to be a different thing, but now
it's a political shot.

Speaker 2 (11:51):
Shag bump.

Speaker 5 (11:52):
Yeah, So we call up lux and today we go,
you're on a hurdarcky bump.

Speaker 4 (11:56):
Brother.

Speaker 3 (11:56):
We gotta like brother, you.

Speaker 2 (11:57):
Want to shoot check bump. Yeah, we'll see you up
a shake Mary.

Speaker 3 (12:00):
It's not going well. If you want to come in
here and issue a death threat against the opposition, it
could be the best thing.

Speaker 2 (12:07):
We'll see you one up. We're not going to tell
you what it does. But you want to roll the dice, brother, I'll.

Speaker 4 (12:12):
Tell you shoot pinky. He'd shoot pink.

Speaker 2 (12:16):
He's already done that.

Speaker 5 (12:17):
And he'd shag his wife because he's Christian only allowed
to shake her and obviously marry. So that'll be a
boring one.

Speaker 3 (12:24):
Well.

Speaker 2 (12:24):
Yeah, but we wouldn't give him those options. Say I'm
not giving him. I'm not giving him missus Amanda Luxon
is an option.

Speaker 3 (12:31):
I would also say, anyone, regardless of religions, aren't allowed
to shake their wife.

Speaker 2 (12:34):
R that's true.

Speaker 4 (12:37):
Yeah, but I don't have enough time to radiation Jerry
and Manias

Speaker 1 (12:43):
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