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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
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Speaker 3 (00:16):
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Speaker 1 (00:24):
Ladies and gentlemen, Jason George, Welcome to the Hurdeche Breakfa's
nice to have you with us this morning. Oh yes,
look at the date, the first of December twenty twenty five.
My nice Stewart.

Speaker 3 (00:33):
Pinch it a punch, Jerry, welcome when you are down
there in Wellington.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
Certainly Am and the Grant Katyama not memorial because he's
still around. He's still doing close afternoons. But Harry in
his studio. I can see him looming large over my shoulder.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
Now does he still have the gold microphone from the
Polly and Grant days?

Speaker 1 (00:53):
I'm checking under here. No, it seems that maybe Polly
got that when the relationship sort of split. I think
Polly may have got the gold, the eighteen carrot gold microphone.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
Did you get the kidney back? Rud's back from the
Disney cruise as well. Good morning, Ruder.

Speaker 4 (01:08):
I'm a broken man. I'm a broken man. And I've
had way too much. I've had so much food in
the last week.

Speaker 5 (01:15):
It's I'm going to do something.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
I'm looking forward to hearing about this Disney cruise.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
Am I? In fact, let's clear out the next half
out of the show place.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
Marims blow by blow Accountant in four days with Mickey
and Donald and Goofy.

Speaker 3 (01:32):
And Bell mcgilla Gorilla Bell was there.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
Welcome along, Jerry and night the hold Ikey breakfast.

Speaker 3 (01:40):
We're back. We're back as a team, and it feels
so right. Ruder's back from his Disney cruise. Ruder, are
you were you left last Tuesday? How long were you gone?

Speaker 4 (01:48):
For five nights out on the briny seas?

Speaker 1 (01:53):
And how long on those briny seas? Was it before
you asked yourself the question why am I out here
on these briny seas?

Speaker 6 (02:00):
I believe it was day two. I was walking.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
That's a capitulation.

Speaker 4 (02:05):
I do that thing where you walk around muttering yourself
things such as, why the f am I on this
the f am I on this cruise?

Speaker 6 (02:13):
This is no fun? Things like that.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
So big was the boat?

Speaker 4 (02:17):
Yeah, I believe I think there was about two thousand
and two and a half thousand passengers.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
Jesus, it's pretty big.

Speaker 4 (02:24):
And at least half of that again in terms of staff.
So you're looking at running maybe about four thousand people
walking around that boat.

Speaker 3 (02:33):
Yeah right, and.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
How many how many people min I in wymatty three thousand?

Speaker 3 (02:37):
Well that's what they reckon. I reckon this field and that.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
Okay, you basically twice? Why yeah, you've put.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
The whole town on basically, Uh, what what is it
that makes it a Disney cruise? What are the Disney
aspects of this cruise?

Speaker 4 (02:50):
There's a massive foghorn that every now and again goes
back instead of just ba, so it plays Disney shuns
of the foghorn. There's a lot of Disney memorabilia. There's
a lot of Disney characters wandering around right asking for
get this a photo package one hundred and seventy US

(03:12):
oh for ten photos.

Speaker 3 (03:15):
That always blows my mind when people are still selling photos.
It's like every single person has now the capability of
taking a photo with something in their pocket. Yeah, so
why why would I ever pay anyone else for a photo?

Speaker 1 (03:25):
Wow?

Speaker 6 (03:26):
Because did you No?

Speaker 4 (03:28):
We got a couple of the weight stuff who were
wonderful Santosa Man he was the absolute man from Indonesia.

Speaker 6 (03:35):
He really served up a great meal. Too many. If
you ask me, what.

Speaker 3 (03:38):
Were the pits and peaks for you over the last
how many days? Is that five?

Speaker 7 (03:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (03:44):
Probably one.

Speaker 4 (03:46):
And this might sound like I'm taking the mickey here,
Oh yeah, I didn't mean that taking the mickey. The
Broadway shows they had the first, the first one I
went to, I was like, this is gonna this is
not this is not up my alley.

Speaker 6 (03:58):
But it was. They were so well done. They were
really well done.

Speaker 4 (04:02):
But yeah, just so many spoiled kids around the place,
most of them mine. The other kids, the kids dragging
their parents around and lecturing the parents drove me to
Ebbs and I kept you know, there's that woman at
the moment that's got that saying let them, let them.
I try and let people do their own thing, but

(04:24):
I can't.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
I can't. So you told off some other people's kids,
maybe whake them over the knee, gave them a little
bit of a smack on the.

Speaker 6 (04:32):
Well only two did.

Speaker 4 (04:34):
Yeah, yeah, well they were getting in the way of
the Broadway show.

Speaker 6 (04:39):
I get them out of there.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
I imagine you would have been doing a lot of
buffets when I look at it. When I look at
a two thousand and three thousand person boat, I think buffets,
and I think cola.

Speaker 4 (04:52):
Well, you're talking about kabana kabana ba there where you
do go around with the buffet. And I did not
get food poisoning. In fact, the opposite of it got
a little bit blocked up, if you know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (05:04):
I'm not going to tug on that thread, but.

Speaker 4 (05:06):
According to the Facebook thread, there is there is. There
is a bug going through all of the passengers from
a classic from the Disney cruise and a lot of people,
so many people on that Facebook thread asking for ways
to get compensation for things like unfortunately there was an
incident where the boat left half a day late and

(05:27):
they're like, well, what sort of compensation are we going
to get?

Speaker 1 (05:29):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (05:29):
Right, but that's because someone, yeah, fell overboard.

Speaker 6 (05:33):
It wasn't it. It wasn't a great place for them.

Speaker 3 (05:36):
What a tough thing, conversation. Tell me this?

Speaker 6 (05:39):
Did you?

Speaker 3 (05:39):
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Speaker 4 (05:45):
The one time we tried to do that, the kids
came storming in, much to the chagrin of everybody, every
other adult in there, just looking at them like these
world kids belong to and.

Speaker 3 (05:57):
Where are your bad We were looking for you for ages,
which was that only about ten minutes? Yeah, and you
were down the silent disco. Yeah, we did see that.
We saw the silent disco and I thought, that's not me.

Speaker 1 (06:07):
Hold on, hold on, I won't have anyone knock a
silent disco. I mean, I thought stupid. And when you
look at the silent disco from the outside, I know
it looks stupid. But recently I was embroiled right in
the middle of a silent disco and I'm going to say,
that is a good time.

Speaker 3 (06:23):
What I can't understand is how is that any better
than an out loud disco.

Speaker 1 (06:28):
Because this is the thing with the silent disco that
people don't understand. You have three options of music. So
at any given time, you're dancing and you're listening to
the blue on your headphones. It's just flashing blue and
you can see the other blues dancing around, and you
know you're all dancing to the same song. And meanwhile
there's someone who's listening, say, has a different test of music,

(06:50):
and they're dancing to Red and they're dancing and they're
finding the other reds, and then you can flick between
because then you go, oh my god, they're playing this
song on the reds. I'm going to have it a red. Actually,
it means that you get to choose the song that
you dance. It's quite good. Yeah, it's actually quite good.

Speaker 3 (07:06):
I call the beautiful people listening to Blue Wima on Red.

Speaker 1 (07:10):
Like pointing at blow and they're like blow, blow, go blow,
and then you go blow and yah. Yes, I love
the songs.

Speaker 3 (07:15):
All right, we might need to fire up a silent disco,
but ruder, would you do it again?

Speaker 4 (07:20):
Um, no comment. I'm not a cruise guy. I found
out sea Legs twice a day.

Speaker 1 (07:27):
By the way, the tablets we didn't even get onto.
The swell.

Speaker 2 (07:32):
Jerry and Mini, the hold Ikey breakfast.

Speaker 1 (07:35):
Time for history of yesterday, Today, tomorrow, Timaru.

Speaker 3 (07:38):
Today is the first of December twenty twenty five. And
on this day, yeah, pitch it a punch for the
first of the month. We made it. If you are
not a neutral right now, today is your chance to
do something about that. I reckon, just jam that thing
right there. Neutral, don't even bother with the clutch. It's
too late. Just rip that thing straight out again. On
this day in nineteen fifty five, Rosa Parks refuses to
give up a bus seat. It was on this day,

(08:00):
first of December, way back in nineteen fifty five, Montgomery, Alabama.
Rosa Park's arrest became a pivotal moment in the US
civil rights movement, and here she was talking about it
ten years later.

Speaker 8 (08:11):
It was about six in the afternoon. I was arrested
for refusing to give my seat to a white mail
or passenger on orders of the bus driver. For the
bus was organized with racial segregation, the white passengers to
the front and their color to the rear, and the
bus driver would order some persons to give up their
seats for white passengers who had to stand. When I
refused to move, he had and arrested.

Speaker 6 (08:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (08:33):
I've just got back from Memphis without the National Civil
Rights Museum over there, and so American They've got a
bus set up with a bronze statue of her in
the seat that she refused to get up from. So
you can go and get a photo sitting in the
bus right next to it.

Speaker 6 (08:47):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (08:47):
Yeah, they know how to incorporate today the modern bit
into their history, don't they America.

Speaker 3 (08:52):
Yeah, it's just it's a really funny way of doing
those kinds of things, Like I don't think that we'd
do that in New Zealand. We're like, no, yeah, come
and sit next to like like refloat the Rainbow Warrior
and you get to sit right in the bunk beard
or something.

Speaker 7 (09:04):
You know.

Speaker 1 (09:05):
Yeah, well, it's the same as that that same Civil
Rights museum where they've got the you know, they've got
the apartment and then they own the they own the
Laurel Motel and they've put it that's with the Civil
Rights it's behind the Laurel Motel.

Speaker 3 (09:16):
Facart, it's in the Lorraine Motel, the Lorraine the Loraine
Motel is still there because yeah, because we're walking around
at me and the missus were like, why is it
it a motel? And why do they keep going to
such great lengths to remind you that they're at the
Lorraine Motel? So how much did Lorraine pay for this?
And then eventually you end up in one of the
rooms like yeah, Martin luther Kin got shot right there.

Speaker 1 (09:34):
Oh my god, the room, yeah, oh my god. And
then they take you and then you go underneath the
road and across the road to the apartment building. Yeah,
which was hired by his assassin. And then you open
up the bathroom when and you're looking straight through to
the Lorraine.

Speaker 3 (09:49):
Quite far quite a far shot. Yeah. And then yeah,
our hotel room. I could have shot the assassin from
my hotel room. So funny I was there. Nineteen ninety
the Channel tunnel breaks through. British and French workers meet
under the English Channel, connecting the two tunnel systems for
the first time.

Speaker 9 (10:05):
At twelve minutes past eleven this morning. We watched fresh
tunnel after leap, because that's pick up your grill on
the other side of the wall of chalk only a
few and stick. His British counterpart, Graham Fag was drilling too.

Speaker 6 (10:19):
That's true, that's through.

Speaker 1 (10:23):
That's a handshake.

Speaker 5 (10:24):
We've all been waiting for Fag and miche cosa.

Speaker 1 (10:29):
Excuse me, Graham Fag?

Speaker 7 (10:31):
Was it?

Speaker 1 (10:31):
Yep?

Speaker 3 (10:32):
Graham Fag got the jackhammer through there and they touched
tips at the bottom of the Channel tunnel.

Speaker 6 (10:36):
There and shook hands and shook hands.

Speaker 1 (10:39):
And chosen someone else? Did they have to choose? Wow,
it wasn't lee Hat.

Speaker 3 (10:46):
It wasn't like Lee Hart, No, it wasn't Lee hat Lee.
Lee was there I think for the start of it.
I don't think he saw it all the way through,
but yeah, he worked on the Channel Tunnel back there.
Must ask him if you have met Grand Fag. Nineteen
sixty three, Australia announces the names dollar and sent for
their new currency to be introduced the following year. Ossie
made the switch for real on Valentine's Day nineteen sixty six,

(11:09):
which was three years after and NZI had followed suit
on July tenth of the same year.

Speaker 1 (11:14):
Classic New Zealand, always doing what Australia does. In Australia
did something, we like, we need to do that, dude.

Speaker 3 (11:19):
Yeah, Well, so they called it Decimal Day where they
were switching from pounds in yen or whatever two dollars
and cents. Yeah, and so they had to. So actually,
on this day in nineteen sixty three in New Zealand,
the government announced it and spent three years explaining the
decimal system to t Kiwi's the reason we were like
three or four months after the Australians did it was

(11:42):
so we could see how it worked for them and
see if there was any teething issues, and then we
could be like, oh, okay, hold.

Speaker 1 (11:47):
On, it was just such a confusing system before, this
is the thing. And then and I've actually watched documentaries
on this in New Zealand at the time people were
people were genuinely confused. Yeah, how I like, this's them
with so much easy, so much simplar.

Speaker 3 (12:01):
That's what I'm saying about. I think we should have
a decimal time system. I keep hammering this and everyone goes,
that's too confusing. No, We've done it before. Born on
this day Pablo Escobar born on December first, nineteen forty
nine and Rio Negro, Colombia. Escobar imported four hippos from
Africa in the nineteen eighties for his private zoo, it
As Hussienda. Following Escobar's death in ninety three, the estate

(12:22):
was abandoned. Most exotic animals relocated, but they left the
hippoes behind. The hippoes adapted to the Magdalena River and
began breeding rapidly from their original four. Estimates today suggest
over one hundred hippos roam freely in the wild. This
makes them the largest invasive species population in South America.

Speaker 1 (12:40):
Very successful that's successful from those hippos. Successful from Pablo Escobar.
One of the best things he ever did. Yeah, and
that is how they attack people together.

Speaker 3 (12:48):
Yeah. And that is the history of yesterday, Today, Tomorrow.
Summary for Monday, the first of December twenty twenty five.

Speaker 2 (12:54):
Jurry in the ninth the hold I keep breakfast top.

Speaker 1 (12:57):
You latest sport headlines thanks to Export Ultra the be
for here. Auckland FC coach Steve Corriicer is demanding an
immediate response after his side's first defeat of the Aligu season.
The Black Knights fell to Newcastle two to one in
Auckland in treacherous conditions due to heavy rain.

Speaker 3 (13:14):
What's treacherous yesterday actually torrential torret almost ready. You said
you saw it coming from out at sea.

Speaker 4 (13:23):
Well, we came in in a beautiful Auckland day, right
down the harbor and then all of a sudden we
landed about halpast eleven, down by the cloud and the
viaduct and you could see it coming from the White
Dakers right across the city and then absolutely smash you.
And I saw videos on social media, people taking to
social media driving through the floodwaters on.

Speaker 6 (13:44):
The north shore of Auckland. I think there was. Yeah,
it was pretty crazy for a couple of hours there.

Speaker 1 (13:50):
I got hit as I was going to the airport
to come down here to Wellington, and I got hit
in the in the ober on the way. And then
you know when it was really really heavy, that was
when we were taking off. That was that was that
moment right there.

Speaker 3 (14:04):
Yeah, but I feel like it's I feel yeah, once
you're up, you're driving in a straight line in the rain.
Rain doesn't worry me too much in a on a
plane as much as it does in a car.

Speaker 1 (14:13):
When will Yeah, well, and then we got that when
we came into Wellington. But I think the other part
is after being hit by lightning on a plane, and
I have been struck by lightning on a plane before
with me and acc hit g lane, It's not it
sucks by lightning, man, It's really freaky. It makes the

(14:33):
loudest noise and the plane actually does this like it
it affects like it really knocks the plane around, and
it just keeps thinking geez okay, especially with what's been
going on with those a three twenties around the world
just nose diving randomly. Well, one that's enough. Though double
delight for the New Zealand men's and women's sevens teams

(14:54):
at the season opening World Series event in Dubai. They
have both won their respective finals over Australia.

Speaker 3 (14:59):
How are you hell yeah, wish you all get the
day off National Dat Celebration national holiday.

Speaker 1 (15:06):
And New Zealand has suffered defeat an a tense sle
GP Championship Grand Final in Abu Dhabi. Great Britain were
the eventual winners of the three team finale in which
Team GB the Black Foils and Australia all held the
lead at different.

Speaker 3 (15:20):
Well, at least beat Australia and that as well, that
would be that will be handy. Oh well, it's only
a short hour and a half drive along the Highway
of Death from Abu Dhabi to Dubai and then they
can get on the past with the sevens.

Speaker 1 (15:32):
Guys. I've heard about that drive, especially when it rains.

Speaker 3 (15:37):
I've done it and it is terrifying. There's a minimum
speed limit. If you go under one hundred you get fined.
Oh yeah, what is that?

Speaker 1 (15:45):
It's crazy?

Speaker 2 (15:46):
Jerry Andman nine the Hotarchy Breakfast.

Speaker 1 (15:50):
I was playing golf in the weekend that flash course
up north of Auckland.

Speaker 3 (15:56):
Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 1 (15:57):
I was a guest of Joel Little and the record
producer John A little Lovely Man. Was sort of got
a got a late call into a into a group yep.
And I was very excited to be playing up there
because it's stupidly beautiful, not a single bit of grass
out of place.

Speaker 3 (16:15):
Yeah, I've had I've had the luxury of playing up
there once after someone pulled out of a round of
golf and Lane said, oh, can you come and make
up numbers? First time I ever was given a caddy,
and at the start of the round, I was like, oh, dude,
I don't know about this man. I'll carry my clubs,
and he goes, please please let me carry the clubs.
By the end of the round, I wanted to start
wepping them.

Speaker 1 (16:36):
Yeah, no, I know, we so I could have done
with caddy actually, because well, I'm pushing my trundle around
and there's one hole that goes up quite a quite
a long hell, it's a long path four and I'm
up the top and we've got onto the onto the ground.
I was quite pleased with my second shot. Anyway, I'm there,

(16:56):
and I'm there in regulation everything's going quite well. I've
I've I've ended up with two parts to get in
the whole past. So and then I've putted my first
one's gone quite close. I've moved my trundler around because
I thought, this is just going to be in the way,
and I'll just this will help me get to the
next hole a little bit quicker. So I've put it
down at the front of the green and I'm walking

(17:17):
towards my ball, and all of a sudden, Joel yells out, oh,
your trundler. And so my trundler has just obviously slowly
been moving, and it starts to go down the hill.
And I watched it as it started to go, and
I went, I can't get to that trundle. That's going

(17:41):
to run away. And then it ran. I thought, we
hopefully it's going to make it into this bunker, which
is about thirty meters down the hill past where the
hole is. It starts going down, it keeps going down.
It's gathering momentum. It's by now going probably twenty five
k's an hour. It's about forty meters fifty men is
sixty meters away. It just scoots around the outside of

(18:03):
the bank. It doesn't go in. It keeps going down
the fairway. Now it's making its way down down. If
it's going like forty k's an hour, My Treumdler just
I just watched this thing just disappearing off into the distance.
It ended up going probably one hundred and fifty meters
away from the green. It's still going, it's still going

(18:24):
down the hill. It then goes off the fairway into
the rough, which is sand at Tierra, and it goes
through the sand at incredible pace. I reckon by the
stage it's it's hit fifty k's an hour, definitely, and
then just fall topples and every single thing in the
bag falls out or over the sand everywhere, my food, drinks,

(18:49):
smashed glass clubs everywhere. And then the people on the
other hole who are coming up from her on the tee,
I could hear them laugh facts from the tea. It's
the most embarrassing thing that's ever happen to me in golf.
I've still got a part for part. This was like
do I bend in my butt for par the situation

(19:12):
hearts are you walking walking?

Speaker 3 (19:14):
And and what whole numbers how far through you around?
Were you like whole four, okay, because by a whole
fifteen and your bugget And to be honest, you're probably
not even going to go back to get those clubs.

Speaker 1 (19:25):
Mate.

Speaker 3 (19:26):
I completely I know exactly how you feel, because remember
that time I come and played with you, and I
was a my sneakers and I slipped over on the
course and all of my everything came out of my pockets,
my phone, everything, all my clubs came out of my bag.
I landed in the wet grass, which is why I
slipped over in the first place. So I was soaked
through to my undies and then I was That's how

(19:46):
I justified going and buying grippy of shoes. So I
think for you, Jerry, what this means is you now
need to get one of those remote control trunklers.

Speaker 1 (19:55):
Oh my god, absolutely, I think that's I think you're right.

Speaker 3 (19:58):
I think I think Center might find one of those.
And you were stocking the O this Christmas.

Speaker 1 (20:03):
I mean the worst part was I missed the part
for par Of course you did. I missed the part
for par Joel. What a gentleman sort of went down
after my clubs to try and to try and grab them,
and then I came running down after them and that
was I was bugging after that. It was like about
a four hundred meter run. But I did say to
Joel at the time, I was like, you're going to

(20:24):
get amazing karma for this. There's something's going to come
back to you. And he did get golf and karma.
He won. Oh right, And I think I think going
and treat me help me retrieve those clubs really help
his next songs about to go.

Speaker 2 (20:35):
To number one Jerry and Mini. The hold Ikey Breakfast.

Speaker 3 (20:39):
Always blows my mind when the first of December rolls
around and then we start hearing these stories saying, oh,
you know, tomorrow, first day of spring summer, and you're like,
I felt like, did summer not start about a month ago?

Speaker 1 (20:52):
It feels like it has How long?

Speaker 3 (20:53):
Is some are meant to be?

Speaker 1 (20:54):
Then summer goes December one through to February twenty eight?

Speaker 6 (21:01):
Right?

Speaker 3 (21:01):
Okay, Oh that makes sense.

Speaker 1 (21:02):
Only first out of March is the first day of autumn.

Speaker 6 (21:05):
Yeah, March is always so. I always find March to
be my favorite month. Weatherways, Oh really it is?

Speaker 1 (21:10):
Yeah. Yeah, it's good.

Speaker 4 (21:12):
It's cool at night, which is good for someone like
me that completely overheats but reasonably warm in the day.

Speaker 3 (21:18):
I like it. Give me a stonging hot January. Give
a give me a thirty degree week where you can't
sleep for the whole week down the beach getting sunburned.
But also somehow it's too hot so you can't stand
the beach for too long.

Speaker 1 (21:31):
I've got a pessimistic view towards summer when you because
so far we've had some beautiful days. I mean, Saturday
up North was beautiful. Last week there's a couple. I
think Auckland had its hottest day. All down the east
coast of the North Islands had amazing weather. I was
in christ Church last week. Beautiful, like twenty eight degrees
and sunny and actually not even windy. It was just stunning.

(21:53):
My fear is if you get in that in November,
it's New Zealand, like it's Zealand. It's not Australia. We
don't have summers that just are hot with no rain.
It doesn't work that way. And I'm looking at I
went for a swim in the sea over the weekend
and it was too warm. This is this is it

(22:14):
was really warm. I was like, and then I had
a look online. I was like, this is warmer than normal?
Sure enough? Yes, like over one and a half degrees
warmer than average. Did you that's a lot for the sea.

Speaker 3 (22:26):
At the beach with your family? No, I did you
subject your entire family to punishing with a reporter? Did
you know it's actually one degree warmer than this time
last year, And that's because of Nina patterns.

Speaker 1 (22:37):
But that is a lot when it comes to the
sea like that. And I don't know why it's hotter.
I don't know whether that's just because current Someone will
be able to tell us on three for it three
or give us a call one hundred hydache. But it
might be the might be the currents. It might be
because of something that's happening north of us or south
of us, or maybe it's because it's been unusually hot.
Someone did say it's been an unusually hot November. But

(22:57):
that says to me that it's gonna cray itself at
some stage. That's my fear, and I don't want I
would give up this early part of summer being nice
for the next part to be dry.

Speaker 3 (23:10):
Get a stunking drought filled January.

Speaker 1 (23:13):
I had.

Speaker 3 (23:13):
It's funny you mentioned the water temperature thing. I had
one friend growing up who had a pool down there
in way Man, you know, and summer would crack the
ice off it and jump in and have a bit
of a swimming. Every day we would check the temperature
and it was eighteen point five degrees. Every single day
it was eighteen point five. And we're like, wow, must
be because we, you know, are pretty strict on making
sure that the cover is always on and it's small

(23:34):
pool dug into the ground, blah blah blah. We kept
checking it, keep checking at eighteen point five every single day.
Started summer, middle of summer, end of summer. This is incredible.
One one day, in the middle of the window, we're like,
let's just don't have a look. And so we went
and opened cracked a little thing, genuinely there was ice
in there, snapped the little thermometer out, pulled it out.
Sure enough, eighteen point five the thing was just broken.

(23:58):
We thought all summer this is like, man, remarkable, Paul
up keep for us to be able to keep this
at the same temperature all summer. People tixing through around
the country summer here and guzzy. As we said before,
someone else text through and said I think we missed summer.
It's wet and ten degrees in West Otago.

Speaker 1 (24:15):
Ah okay okay.

Speaker 3 (24:17):
And a prediction on three four eight three prediction for
twenty twenty six Jerry will have Daniel Corbett's job by
the end of April.

Speaker 1 (24:23):
Yeah, I'd love Daniel Corbett's jaw.

Speaker 6 (24:26):
Jerry.

Speaker 4 (24:26):
You know that it must be summer starting tomorrow though,
because first have Test cricket for the cricket season, so
that's right for me. Is the start of summer man?

Speaker 1 (24:34):
Yeah, the West Indies are playing and I mean the
West Ndieds be they'll be freezing. I mean the hottest,
the hottest New Zealand start to the summer is not
enough for the West Indies. I mean you've seen them
down Underneeden at times it's like twenty four to twenty
five degrees and it's everyone Underneedan's got their shirts off. Meanwhile,
the Westerndies have got Beanies, multiple jackets, you know, Swan Drys,

(24:55):
the full Works, Jerry and.

Speaker 2 (24:58):
Midnight, the Hold I Keep Breakfast.

Speaker 1 (25:03):
Jemmy emyor on Hoacky six and two nine Wood.

Speaker 3 (25:14):
Pushing the burdens and so we wooming man in the phones.

Speaker 1 (25:21):
Various ladies and gentlemen. Jason George coming here for the
second time in this show. Welcome along to the Hidarcky Breakfast.
It's the first of December. My name's Jeremy Wells. This
is my nice Stewart.

Speaker 3 (25:31):
I feel like we need to put Jason George on
a retainer and have them do news things for every
show that is good. The caliber, the quality so good. Yeah, morning, Jerry,
great to be here it is. I tell you what
you're down there in the Wellington studio. Apparently a great
day down there in Wellington. You may notice via the
magic of zoom video link. I am freezing here in
the studio this morning. The Hidarcky Barber, which is the

(25:53):
breeze that comes through that cuts the hair off the
back of your neck, usually comes through it about eight o'clock.
It's come through early this morning. And yeah, I've had
to don the Zoey memorial puffer jacket.

Speaker 6 (26:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (26:06):
The Huddacky barber is a cattabatic one comes down through
through the pipes and it does seem to ride normally.
It actually at a klip seven o'clock. That's very early.

Speaker 3 (26:15):
It's an early barber. Yeah, for some reason, that our
the studio Eirkin is connected to the rest of the floor,
so for another room somewhere else overheats. We all just
get iced out.

Speaker 1 (26:27):
See what's happening, because it'll be the sun'll be coming
up early, That's what's happening, and then it'll be it'll
be flowing into a room somewhere. I'll tell you I'm
in the Grant Kittyama studio here down in Wellington, and
I'm looking around the places. There's a giant pictures of
Grant Kittyama, great man, great broadcaster on coast here in
the afternoons. And then it's got some old historic stuff,

(26:48):
including old shots of Polly and Grant, Nick Tansley, Paul
Holmes is up here on the wall. What a beautiful
studio and it looks out over Wellington and it looks
it looks like a beautiful day the way i'm And
then I went to get a coffee over the other
side of the building before and I looked out and
there's just white caps in the harbor like on the

(27:09):
northern side of the building. It's a completely different experience.

Speaker 3 (27:13):
I've been no water skiing for you this morning, Jerry.
Over the weekend I took part in the World Series
of Kiwi Pong. We actually had two winners who won
their entry through the Big Show. They made it all
the way to the Grand Final. We're going to be
talking to one of them before eight o'clock. I'm excited
to hear history. It was real rags to Richard's fairy
tale stuff.

Speaker 1 (27:30):
Up next, though, let's talk about these yellow leagued hornets
which has been discovered in Auckland. Apparently there's a whole
lot on the shore.

Speaker 2 (27:39):
Jerry in the Night the hold Ikey Breakfast.

Speaker 1 (27:42):
A while back, we were talking about this yellow legged
hornet which they've discovered over on the north shore of
Auckland and people were having to be vigilant against it.
There was concern that they might set up shop here
in New Zealand. While bad news, they seem to have
set up shop here in New Zealand in a whole
lot more. I think now we're up to seven seven

(28:06):
seventeen nets Jesus seventeen nests.

Speaker 3 (28:09):
They've now removed twenty seven queen hornets. Seven workers are
they checking their passports?

Speaker 6 (28:14):
It's not a lot of workers for queens.

Speaker 1 (28:16):
No.

Speaker 3 (28:16):
All detected around Glenfield and Birkdale and Auckland's north shore.
So they're testing them and apparently they found out that
they're closely related, which means it's still a small contained population.
We're not getting multiple different, you know hornets flying over here.

Speaker 1 (28:33):
So these hornets come from Asia. See are the are
the Asian Asian hornet, also known as the yellow leaged hornet.
So they're about three centimeters long.

Speaker 3 (28:42):
Yeah, so I had to do a quick google on
these suckers, because you know, you hear these horror stories
of hornets overseas that can grow up to know the
size of your thumb or whatever. So I was like,
all right, what are we dealing with? What are we
dealing with? With the yellow legged hornet? Apparently two to
three centimeters long, which is not enormous, still too big,
I think we can all agree on that two to
three cinemas but not terrifying. The largest hornet in the

(29:06):
world is the Asian giant hornet, which grows up to
two inches long and the wingspan of three inches, which
is about five and a half centimeters and a seven
and a half centimeter wingspan. That's a big basket. You
don't want that is it?

Speaker 1 (29:20):
Sting? Worse the bigger it gets. That's the thing, because
I mean, there's some pretty small insects out there with
some pretty nasty bites. For example, the cutapuul spider, which
is not a big spider. That's just a little little
little spider, cute little one that hides underwood and stuff.
And actually they are shy, aren't they. I mean this,
Have there been any deaths I don't remember certily in
my lifetime.

Speaker 3 (29:40):
Nah, not that I can not that I can remember,
but this is reminiscent. Remember at the start of the
year we heard about a couple of Australian huntsman spider
being found in New Zealand as well. I thought that we,
out of all countries, had the tightest, strictest, you know,
rules around bringing things in. I thought we would have
caught this kind of stuff.

Speaker 1 (30:00):
Though, how hard is it? You think about all of
the containers that come in on all the ships in
New Zealand. We import a lot of stuff and we've
got a lot of ports. I mean, I always amazed
that more stuff doesn't get him, to be honest, So
I think probably it does, but it probably doesn't establish itself.

Speaker 3 (30:16):
The difference we've asked for your texts on three four
eight three any sightings of hornets? We've had a few
through the local wasp community is being decimated. My Facebook
feed is full of people putting up photos of paper
wasps and saying is this a hornet? Good times from
Mike d with the master plant Another texture on three
four eight three, I lived with a hornet for three years.

(30:38):
Give me back my dog, Sarah.

Speaker 1 (30:42):
No.

Speaker 3 (30:43):
Someone else's texture has said, is Lane to blame for
those hornets?

Speaker 1 (30:47):
Well, he's on the shore, isn't he? And then it
does seem to be and they are there's there are
also there's a lot of South Africans around where he is. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (30:56):
Yeah, Has there any reports of whether these nests have
been localized at the back of a Billtong shop?

Speaker 1 (31:01):
Perhaps?

Speaker 3 (31:02):
Are they hanging around the bry I was.

Speaker 1 (31:04):
Just googling this particular hornet and one of the main
questions that comes up is do wasps come back for revenge?

Speaker 3 (31:14):
Anecdote my experience, Yes, I reckon that's the only insect
that does.

Speaker 1 (31:19):
And you never know quite what they want, like, you know,
if they if you're if you're having some food, it's like,
do you want my food? Or you seem to be
hovering around in a really annoying way, and just if
you want something, come and grab it and then bug
her off, like come and eat Come and eat some
on my phone and then and then go away.

Speaker 3 (31:37):
They're motivated by hate, you can tell. I think they
are retribution too. That's all they want. It's just to
get back at it.

Speaker 1 (31:45):
And google it said here do wasp com back for revenge?
We now know that when injured or killed or wasp
releases pheromones that alert other wasps to a threat. This
is why other wasps seem to swarm around and seek
revenge when you kill a wasp and.

Speaker 3 (31:58):
They don't even make honey, I don't do anything.

Speaker 1 (32:00):
That's a smart insect, to be fair.

Speaker 3 (32:02):
Richard sent through a pretty salient point on three four eight.

Speaker 1 (32:05):
So let's just New Gaukland, right, Okay, Well that seems
like some kind of solution.

Speaker 2 (32:11):
Sure, Jerry and Minnie the hot Ikey breakfast.

Speaker 1 (32:15):
Because we're just talking about hornets, wasps as this Asian
hornet that's over. I'm the shore at the moment that
seems to be getting more and more of them. Seventeen nests,
twenty seven queens only seven workers. That's not a lot
of workers per queen.

Speaker 3 (32:29):
Wow, they'll be out doing the work with don't they.
They're probably too busy to be caught. I'm doing that
thing that I often do at about three in the
morning when something's terrifying me, and that is google all
of the worst parts about it and then start spiraling
out of control about it. He's what I have found
about hornets. Fun fact. Hornets are actually a type of wasp,
So all hornets are wasps, but not all wasps are hornets.

Speaker 1 (32:49):
I would describe that fact. It's not that fun.

Speaker 3 (32:51):
No, here's another not that fun fact. They use this
thing and their jaws. They can sting you and they
can bite you. Here's another one. Hornets love protein, so
you know, stay off the protein shakes if they're around you.
They communicate by smell, so the venom that they sting
you with contains a chemical that attracts more hornets to

(33:11):
sting you more. You know how they say that they
can smell your fear. They can't. They can smell other
hornets having stung.

Speaker 1 (33:17):
Yet that's interesting because when they sting, they can sting forever,
can't they. Yeah, they just keep stinging and singing and stinging.
I've been going down another kind of gurgle angle, which
seems to be mainly around how scared people are. Will
wasps ignore you if you ignore them? How long is
a wasp's lifespan? That's can wasp seafair? What is a

(33:40):
wasp's weakness? Now, that's a good question. What kills wasp instantly?
And do wasps hate vix vapor rub? These are all
related questions, do they And that's a really good question
to keep wasps, to keep wasp and bes away vex
vapor rub, put some on around feedt ups. We've been

(34:01):
doing this for years. The wasps and bees hate it.
Says it. That just seems like some random person that's
just kind of answered that what is a wasp weakness?
Was weakness for sweets may work in your favor. Lure
them to a dish of water and apple juice laced
with dish soap and they will drown.

Speaker 3 (34:19):
We've had a bunch of textures on three four o
three any sightings. Someone said, I can't prove it yet,
but I believe the hornets have been strategically released on
the north shore by g Lane as part of an
ongoing dispute with the South African community.

Speaker 1 (34:31):
He's not popular with the South African community. Lane, that's
for sure, lagging them off on the radio.

Speaker 3 (34:36):
That's why he'll be joining us just before nine o'clock
to answer those allegations. Someone else said, look into the
requirements for companies that import containers. Basically, have a geeze,
take a can of raid with you, and that's it.
I mean, I've heard of stories of guys opening containers,
shining a torch and they're seeing a giant spider and
then just going, she's good.

Speaker 1 (34:58):
I wonder if that's from fear of spiders or just
going there's no chance that the spider is going to keep.
What am we gonna do?

Speaker 3 (35:08):
Someone else said, Gypsy moth the buses, get the hirks
out and just bomb them with DDT.

Speaker 1 (35:12):
God, you remember that there were Gypsy Month. People went
nuts over that. They brought out bloody DC eights and
they were cruising out of the topest dropping all sorts
of crap on us.

Speaker 3 (35:22):
Yeah, but miss Muffetts Orange, they were nuts.

Speaker 1 (35:25):
On that one. They don't seem to be that focused
worried about this regular was no.

Speaker 3 (35:29):
And then another takes here from Thomas and Auckland. Did
you guys just accidentally bring back the fact factor were
just if we reinvented another segment. Yeah, coming out four
Pillars of Hornets.

Speaker 2 (35:42):
Jerry and Leni the hod Ikey Breakfast.

Speaker 1 (35:45):
You were there. You were there at the sweat Shop
in Auckland on Saturday, Minia the Kiwi Pong World Champs.

Speaker 3 (35:52):
Brought to you by so be A Gummies, playing from
major prize of ten thousand and six dollars. That that's bigger,
a bigger prize pool than ever before. It was ten
thousand and five dollars last year. It's about one hundred
and twenty odd teams. I think all in all, there
was man gotta be on probably about twenty tables set
up pool play where you played about five games and

(36:15):
then the top of the pool would all go through
into a single elimination semi finals.

Speaker 1 (36:20):
Is it still a dress up event because I've went
along a few years ago and it was like crazy
dress ups. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (36:27):
No, one hundred percent, definitely still is. There was all
sorts of costumes set up there. There was one guy
dressed up as like a Mexican wrestler, full commitment to
the bit. No, shirt the whole lot. Yes, some real
powerful one of the best costumes. And I've seen these
guys a few times before. It's a T shirt and
they've got on the back of it all of the
tournaments that they've won. So they've won about six tournaments,

(36:49):
and their costume is just their resume. Man Kesey played.
We won three games, lost too. We actually beat the
reigning champions in our opening round them quite handily too, geez,
and so that really filled our sales. We won the
next game, we were undefeated. We had to buy. Then
another game after that we ran into a buzz or.
We ran into one of the teams who's actually good

(37:10):
at beer bong. Everyone else is just sort of having
having a laugh, having a few beers. But there's about
five or six teams who are genuinely good, and they
obliterated us. So we got eliminated. Then it goes down
to single elimination. The ACC commentated that one. Then the
Grand Final went live, and in the Grand Final was
one of our winners. They won the spot through the

(37:31):
Big Show. They joined us on the show this morning
morning here, how did you pull up this morning?

Speaker 1 (37:36):
Oh?

Speaker 10 (37:36):
Boys, can't lie. It's still a little bit dusty, but
we made it.

Speaker 1 (37:42):
We made it.

Speaker 3 (37:43):
So you found out that you were going to be
playing in this competition on like what the Tuesday or Wednesday?

Speaker 1 (37:48):
Is that right?

Speaker 10 (37:50):
Shout out to but when he won it or when
the h boys ring them up?

Speaker 6 (37:57):
I ring them up?

Speaker 11 (37:58):
But yes, that sounds pretty good.

Speaker 10 (38:01):
We'll go go for a bit of preeze before ruthless.

Speaker 6 (38:04):
So but.

Speaker 10 (38:06):
Somehow we just.

Speaker 1 (38:09):
The finals.

Speaker 3 (38:10):
Yeah, just cutting out on us a little bit there, mate.
But so you went into the pool play. I think
we played about five games. You must have played about
the same. How did you guys go? And at what
point did you think, shit, we're going all right?

Speaker 10 (38:22):
Yeah, well we actually lost our very pool game.

Speaker 1 (38:26):
We're like, oh, we kind of.

Speaker 10 (38:28):
Kind of stuffed the bag there, but after that.

Speaker 11 (38:31):
We kind of got our groove going won by like
seven cups and just kept going.

Speaker 10 (38:35):
And then when we reach to like quarters and semis,
we're in that stage where you had enough beers, you know,
and we're like, yeah, we're on a good move here.
And then then the finals came. We drank maybe a
bit too much and just threw.

Speaker 1 (38:48):
It, but that was good.

Speaker 3 (38:50):
So this is the thing just before the Grand final,
which we live streamed online. I went and got a
beer just before because I was knocked out of the competition.
I was just going to commentate your Your teammate was
in the line behind me and he was about to
play in the grand final. I was like, do you
need do you need one more or not? Apparently he didn't.
What was it like playing in the in the final?
How are the nerves?

Speaker 10 (39:12):
Nerves were high, can't lie.

Speaker 11 (39:13):
I've never played in a such high anticipated the beer
pong game before.

Speaker 10 (39:20):
Needed that time out for sure.

Speaker 11 (39:21):
But I think the thing that got us was that
spring loaded backhand. We just we just didn't see that coming,
you know, and it was just like it was just
like not running the shots, but was like we couldn't
do anything about.

Speaker 1 (39:34):
It, you know.

Speaker 3 (39:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (39:35):
So, so what do you mean by the spring loaded backhand.

Speaker 11 (39:39):
Well, one of the other bros, I don't know, I've
never seen it before.

Speaker 10 (39:44):
He would like load up his backhand. He was going
for to slap someone, but he would just deduche the
ball right back into our face.

Speaker 3 (39:51):
So once it bounced off the cup, you're allowed to
swipe it away. And he would stand there like holding
the back of his own hand. Like a coiled spring,
so as soon as it touched the up he had
released the backhand and slapped the ball away. Now, the
interesting part about that is just last week that guy
had cut his finger off of the skill saw on
his non throwing hand, so he had a finger missing

(40:12):
and was using his offhand to hold his good hand
and then swat the ball away. Those guys they've won before,
so they know strangers to be able, and it just
goes to show there is actually a skill to it.
You know, people think that it's a fluke, but yeah,
you can, you can be good at it, and apparently
they were.

Speaker 10 (40:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (40:32):
I actually yearned to him at the start of the game,
oh and the start of the tournament, and I said, shit,
like that wasn't either your good hands?

Speaker 10 (40:42):
He said, no idea that would face them in the final?

Speaker 1 (40:45):
Here do you show what has any place for second?
There's any money for seeing them in ten thousand and
six dollars For first, I.

Speaker 10 (40:52):
Think we've got a bar tame. So we that was
good enough for us. Keep drinking and the en.

Speaker 1 (40:57):
Off we went good on your head, jeep, Well, congratulations
on coming. Second, bad luck they're in the final, but
still you'd say that I considered that you weren't going
to be doing it, and then that's what you get.
You'd probably be happy with that.

Speaker 10 (41:13):
Yeah, No, it was good all round anyway.

Speaker 2 (41:17):
Jerry and Midnight, The Hodarchy Breakfast.

Speaker 1 (41:20):
The Hobarcky Breakfast Mastermind.

Speaker 3 (41:22):
The Friday's Mastermind topic was rivers Dave from a crush
here j financed consultant whose favorite river is the Rakaia
River took away the price, which means we're back to
fifty huck today up for grabs. And since today marks
the first day of summer in twenty twenty five, today's
Mastermind topic is summer.

Speaker 1 (41:39):
And Paul the fun at a cabinet maker joins us
on the line. Now, morning, Paul, how are you not
too bad?

Speaker 7 (41:45):
Leads?

Speaker 1 (41:46):
How's the finger.

Speaker 5 (41:48):
Getting better?

Speaker 1 (41:50):
I heard you dislocated it while you're playing cricket?

Speaker 2 (41:53):
I did, I did it?

Speaker 1 (41:55):
Was?

Speaker 10 (41:55):
It looked good though, when you know I was in
fine form when it happened.

Speaker 3 (41:59):
Will you in the field.

Speaker 5 (42:02):
In the warm up?

Speaker 3 (42:03):
Oh good? And what did you do? Did you jam
it into the ground or something?

Speaker 7 (42:08):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (42:08):
Yeah, just a bit of a die throwing the ball
at the stump in the warm up and then caught
the ground and went sideways.

Speaker 1 (42:15):
Did you put it back in yourself? Forward? Did someone
do it for you?

Speaker 2 (42:19):
No?

Speaker 6 (42:19):
One of the lads did it for me.

Speaker 3 (42:21):
Yeah, they'd look away, bite down on a rubber hose,
good stuff. You know how this works?

Speaker 5 (42:28):
Paul?

Speaker 1 (42:29):
I do? I do? Yep.

Speaker 3 (42:30):
Let's rip straight into it then, shall we?

Speaker 1 (42:32):
All right? Five questions? You're going to get three correct
to win the prize. Paul. First question for Paul the
cabinet Maker and Flang at eight Blake Chrissy on Three's
Company and Carol on Step by Step. No. Nicole Egot
played the character Summer Quinn on which nineteen nineties TV

(42:55):
series they watch?

Speaker 6 (42:57):
Correct?

Speaker 1 (42:58):
What can famously grow about sex inches taller in the
summer due to thermal expansion.

Speaker 10 (43:06):
The ground?

Speaker 1 (43:07):
No? Who had the nineteen eighty four hit single The
Boys of Summer, Don Henley, it's a great song. Yes?
What ninety seven thrillers are Jennifer Love Hewitt and Sarah
Michelle Galla.

Speaker 10 (43:20):
I know what you Yeah, he's got it there, he's gone.

Speaker 1 (43:24):
Up, well done, and you just got in there too.
Poor Congratulations, Thanks Boyd.

Speaker 3 (43:33):
No Worries who played Cressy on Three's Company that was
Suzanne Summers and what can famously grow about six inches
taller in the summer. That is the iffeel they were.
If you think, if you think well, if you think
you can do better than Paul, make sure you give
us a call tomorrow, or even just as good as Paul.

Speaker 1 (43:50):
Yeah, I mean Paul did well. Paul did very well,
particularly with a dislocated finger. It's not easy to answer
those questions thinking about a dislocated finger.

Speaker 12 (44:01):
Jerry in the Night, the hod Iarkey Breakfast, Jerry and Midnight,
the hold Ikey Breakfast.

Speaker 1 (44:08):
It's the first day of December, and that means that
trees will be going up all around New Ymn, because
apparently that's the day that you do it, the first
of December.

Speaker 3 (44:17):
Yeah, and then isn't there an you're supposed to have
it's like twelve days afterwards that you're supposed to take
it down something like that.

Speaker 1 (44:24):
You well, well, you're away twenty isn't it the twenty sixth?

Speaker 3 (44:27):
No, I think you get a bit of a grace
period there. I mean, look, if you're the flat full
of blokes living next door to me, it's October the
next year that you take it down, just in time.
To put it back up again.

Speaker 1 (44:38):
Or you never do. But you see that dead tree
in the corner.

Speaker 3 (44:41):
Yesterday, I was watching the news and all the coverage
of the Center parade and absolutely hose down. And I
looked at that and I thought, is that the most
punishing part of Christmas? Let's bring this up on the
Monday Master debate. What is the most punishing part of Christmas?
I think for me, because I don't have kids, I
tend to steer clear of the Santa Parade.

Speaker 1 (45:02):
But yeah, I mean the Santa Prade I managed somehow.
I've got two kids they are now thirteen and fifteen,
but I managed to avoid ever having to take them
to a Santa parade. They didn't know that Santa parades existed.
We just went with a complete blackout policy tolse and
so you know, as a six or seven year old,

(45:22):
because they're not on social media, they're not listening to
the RADI, they don't know that it exists. So if
they don't know it exists, they don't know what they're
missing out on.

Speaker 3 (45:31):
It's a great it's a great parenting strategy there.

Speaker 1 (45:35):
It generally rains. Sure enough, what happened there on the
on the Sunday was on Sunday, wasn't it rained?

Speaker 10 (45:42):
Well?

Speaker 1 (45:42):
I think it didn't just rain at hose Down.

Speaker 3 (45:44):
I think I talked to you last week on the
podcast perhaps if you don't know, we do podcasts as
well as a radio show, and I said that the
only memory I have of a Santa parade from my
childhood was them throwing out macintoshes and getting hid in
the head by an egg Flavid Macintosh pecking that up,
eating it and thinking what is the point of this? Yes,
is horrible. I think for me, the most punishing part

(46:07):
about Christmas is the Christmas carols. It's just that. And
I've heard them. They've been running for about a couple
of weeks now. Everywhere you go. I've been into shops, malls,
you know, people have been running them. I've never worked
in the retail industry. I'd love to hear from anyone
who has. How how do you cope with that for

(46:29):
six weeks of the year listening to those things? Because
the rotation must be pretty short.

Speaker 1 (46:33):
Well, that's the thing. I mean, there's no new carols
being written, is there. I mean the carols are the
same carols that they mean playing for the longest time.
I mean there's some new recordings. I mean Boo blaz
really cornered. The markets beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

Speaker 3 (46:48):
Yeah, he sure did. He'll be fully defrosted by this stage,
just be back out there doing the damn thing. But yeah,
it's just the and look on the day. Sure does
it add a bit of vibe. It does, but for
an entire month leading up to it? Am I just
a bit grinchy? Or the Christmas carols the worst part
of Christmas?

Speaker 1 (47:07):
Well if they don't. But if you walk into a
shop and they're not playing Christmas carols, and how do
you know that you should be buying heaps of stuff?
How would you know?

Speaker 3 (47:15):
Well, that's the only reason I'm in there is because
I've got to go and blow bloody Christmas presents.

Speaker 1 (47:20):
I don't think that's nearly as bad as having to
untangle lights. You kick the can down the road from
last year. I think that the untangling of Christmas lights
to put on your Christmas tree is one of the
worst because you look at it and you think, how
long is this going to take? Yeah? And it has
once it took me. I'm going to say half an hour,

(47:42):
maybe twenty minutes to untangle what was a massive amount
of lights. And then the worst part of it, I
got to the end, I plugged them in and they
don't didn't work. That there is intense. Yeah, it was
just the biggest waste in half an hour in my life.

Speaker 3 (47:57):
That's why you end up just kicking the can down
the road, like Mashie, who's left them in there after
packing them down desperately hung over at the end of
Christmas last year, and now this year he's having a
stir down the barrel and finally deal with it. Jeez.
Even this jingle in the background is killing me.

Speaker 1 (48:13):
I mean the surprise Christmas shopping traffic, which you'll so
you'll be cruising along and you think, you know, I
can get from there to the air and normally it
takes me like ten minutes or whatever, and then all
of a sudden it's it's two in the afternoon and
there's traffic jams and.

Speaker 3 (48:28):
You're like, were there?

Speaker 1 (48:28):
How old are these tragedy? Is like, that's because people
are at Christmas shopping.

Speaker 3 (48:31):
Yeah, the Christmas shopping is probably one of the most
punishing parts of Christmas as well. Give it a text
three four eight three. We'll give us a call. Oh
eight hundred, haiducky, they have the masterbait. What is the
most punishing part of Christmas? Liam's text three reconds. Just
play fairy Tale of New York on repeat all day.

Speaker 1 (48:48):
Yeah, that one gets me going. There's one album that
seems to be played everywhere. There's one particular album Snooper's
Christmas Wham, fairy Tale of New.

Speaker 2 (48:56):
York, Jerry and Mini oh Ikey Breakfast.

Speaker 3 (49:01):
We're talking the most punishing part about Christmas? And I
said it was the carols. And to that end, I
asked if anyone is listening that works in retail and
how they managed to get through that. And there's a lot.
I used to work in retail, and when people would
leave their shopping until Christmas Eve, then rage when their
item wasn't in stock. Yeah, I could see that.

Speaker 1 (49:21):
I reckon, you only leave the Christmas shopping till Christmas
Eve once in your life, Yeah, and then you realize
that you must never do that again. Oddly enough, there
are thousands and thousands of New Zealanders that make that
mistake every year. Yep.

Speaker 3 (49:34):
Having worked in retail for a few years, the constant
Christmas music totally did my head in, especially Mariah Carey
and one that I hadn't thought about from Liam. Try
working in a UK nightclub Mariah Carrey three times a
night for six weeks with English girls going mental over
the damn song.

Speaker 1 (49:50):
Really in a nightclubs you dance into this.

Speaker 3 (49:57):
Think you are goodness gracious feedback around you, Jerry as
a person.

Speaker 5 (50:03):
You're.

Speaker 6 (50:05):
That's very good.

Speaker 3 (50:06):
My lack of jewey, you're an ability to manage fairy lights. Yeah,
someone said roll them up on a cardboard tube, easy
as Yeah.

Speaker 1 (50:15):
Okay, well I now know that. But the problem was
it's the day that you take them down. Yeah, and
sometimes as well, someone else takes them down. Now, if
you've got kurts, they are not going. There's no way
a twelve year old boy will ever take the time
and at the foresight to wrap something around a piece
of cardboard. There's no way. Try I mean even Meshy.

Speaker 3 (50:37):
Yeah, well try a twenty six year old boy. Yeah,
try a thirty four year old. I don't think i'd
remember to do it. No, I'm willing to pick Jerry.
You're going to forget to do it too?

Speaker 1 (50:46):
Well, not anymore, because I've made this mistake, and there
is nothing worse than untangling and then realizing that they
don't work because they were absolute rubbish Christmas lights in
the first place. Hey look, someone suggested Christmas Mon's pies.
That Christmas Mon's pies are one of the most one
of the best things, are they now?

Speaker 3 (51:03):
The stick says, Christmas Min's pies. What's up with them?
That's not a mince Get rid of them dogs. I'm
with you, I'm with you. Nothing pissed me off more
than the Buddy Christmas mince pie. Really, yeah, it does.
It really feels like a rip off. I go, I
go to bite into that sucker. It's sweet and I
like sweet things.

Speaker 6 (51:20):
Don't you put tomato sauce on it as well? Then
I want to do yuck.

Speaker 1 (51:24):
That wouldn't be good. Really, I'm surprised this for me,
that's one of the best. That's one of the best things.
Telsey's mom makes the best Christmas mince pies I could eat.
I could basically live on Christmas Min's pies. I would
be quite happy. Stalin's my new thing though. That's the
German Christmas cake that you can get with the Marsa
pan in the middle of it. Yeah, that's yummy.

Speaker 3 (51:43):
Texta on three four h three. How do you guys
feel about this? Christmas in summer is the most punishing part.
It makes no sense. I'd sort of flip that and
I would say, I think the fact that we use
all Northern Hemisphere traditions, like it's all about snow and
Sander's gonna wear that massive suit and the whole lot,
you know what I mean, Like.

Speaker 1 (52:01):
Yeah, some things are not best done in summer. For example,
really really wasted Christmas present wrapping, yeah, which Tozzy and
I seem to do most Christmas Eves at about four
in the morning, and that there is a you don't
want to be doing that in the humidity oftentimes of
twenty five degrees and a humid Auckland night. You'll get

(52:21):
a sweat up when you're doing your wrapping.

Speaker 3 (52:23):
Go the bags are really yeah, yeah, you can get
just in there or even the sock, the stocking.

Speaker 1 (52:34):
Yeah, what we do we do We do a pillowcase. Yeah,
we do a pillowcase. But then we wrap the presents
that go into the plow and then we're going to
line them up to make sure there's an even amount
with both kids. There's a lot of working out. Look,
does this work? With this work? They go and lie, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (52:50):
I pride myself on my gift wrapping, so I don't
mind it. I kind of look forward to it. But
I can see how people would drive them say, all right,
so we've had the Monday master bad shall we should
we announced the one of the most punishing part about Christmas.
A couple of honorable mentions Christmas mince pies, center parades,
untangling lights, anything snow or winter related, working in retail,

(53:11):
and Christmas present wrapping. But the most punishing part about
Christmas is the Carol, Jerry.

Speaker 1 (53:17):
And Miniah, the hold Ikey breakfast, so BI security in
New Zealand stepping up action against the invasive yellow leg hornet,
and Auckland apparently that now removed twenty seven queen hornets,
seven workers, seventeen nests, all detected on the north shore,
and the bug man rude climb pass joins us, Now

(53:37):
get a rude How the hell did these assholes get here?

Speaker 6 (53:41):
Ah?

Speaker 7 (53:45):
Can you hear me?

Speaker 1 (53:46):
Oh? There you are? They're rude?

Speaker 7 (53:47):
Yes, yeah, I am here. But it suddenly went all blanket.
Was as if those wasps or hornets had sort of
did something wrong with your system there after.

Speaker 3 (53:58):
That music, I can imagine that was the key they
got into the How did they get here?

Speaker 6 (54:02):
Rude?

Speaker 7 (54:03):
I reckon? They came through well, I reckon. One of
the typical ways these things get in is through cargo ships.
You know, these little nests they hit your ride and
they're not always very visible, mind you. You know, you've
got to keep your eyes open if you're a biosecurity person.
But it's those ships are rather large. You know. We've
had wasps that we have in New Zealand all came

(54:28):
basically in that sort of way. They all came of
container loads.

Speaker 3 (54:32):
Is that right? So wasps aren't native to New Zealand?

Speaker 7 (54:36):
No, No, you know, the German wasp, the common wasp.
There's all sorts of different species. They all by accident
be introduced. Irony is that, for instance, one of the
German wasps came in literally after the war with aircraft
parts from Europe. Unbelievable?

Speaker 3 (54:54):
And so did I read that these hornets that we're
showing up or actually first hornets are a type of wasp?

Speaker 1 (55:01):
Was that right?

Speaker 7 (55:02):
Yeah, that's that's a good description. They're not the same
as wasps. They're larger usually and they are slightly different,
but they are related to the wasp group.

Speaker 3 (55:10):
Yeah, and what threat do they?

Speaker 1 (55:12):
Like?

Speaker 3 (55:12):
Do they are? They enemies of the wasps that we
already have here? What what kind of impact did these
things have?

Speaker 7 (55:18):
They're mostly enemies of the bees that we imported to
do some pollination with.

Speaker 3 (55:23):
Ha ha.

Speaker 7 (55:24):
That's where everybody gets really proved off with, because that's
how that's how it goes. They have no luve of
humid those hornets.

Speaker 1 (55:33):
No, they are nasty buggers and and a lot of
people wonder, like, do they do they know who you are?
I read somewhere that a wasp can recognize faces.

Speaker 7 (55:45):
I wouldn't be surprised. Actually, I've seen that. I've seen
that with wetter as well. They can smell who you are,
They know who you are. For luck, for six months
they recognize you six months later, going ah, this is
the guy that got me out of my little lovely
hole in the forest, and now he's having met in
this in this crappy garage in Canterbury.

Speaker 3 (56:05):
Oh my god.

Speaker 7 (56:06):
And you know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (56:09):
Some of you come across these things, you get you've
been a steer clear for the next six months because
they'll remember it.

Speaker 7 (56:15):
Yeah they Well, I reckon there would be more than
we actually don't know, but I wouldn't be surprised, honestly,
I wouldn't. But you know, these things, I remember, I
remember seeing these guys in Japan and places like that
and Malaysia, and boy, they are large and they are
whizzing and they go and they make a lot and
it feels like a little little lawnmower starting up sometimes,

(56:38):
you know the way they come past.

Speaker 1 (56:40):
Ye, rude, I know that you're a friend of and
six generally, but with these ones would you would you?
Is it like had to kill them?

Speaker 7 (56:50):
Yeah? I think so we need to do that. We
actually need to do that in a in a larger way,
to be quite honest, Jeremy, because we can't have these things.
They are a pain in the are you you know where?

Speaker 1 (57:01):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, well that's where they'll probably have a
go at. Yeah. And the fact that they so how
many times can they sting? If they are going to sting,
you can they just go and go and go and
go or do they run out of juice eventually?

Speaker 7 (57:13):
Well, they do run run out of juice, but they
can tapt it up again as soon as they take
a bit more nectar. I think they can. They can
sting frequently, yes, they can, unlike a bee, which loses
its stinger and its and its material in the bex
and that's how they die after one sting. But these
wasps a p where they are equipped. Boy, they're equipped.

(57:35):
They can do it ding ding ding ding, And that's
when you get out of there soon, quick fast.

Speaker 1 (57:41):
Well. I think that's the thing with the bees, is
the reason that we like the bees fiercely because of
the honeypuff's head, but also because we know that we've
signed a pack with the bee. The bee, the bees
will take its life to sting. It's got to be
something quite serious for the bee, whereas these hornets can
just sting for the for the fun of it.

Speaker 7 (58:01):
Well it's not the fun. They're also protective of their place,
that's for sure. But they haven't got it linked to
the internal so they don't lose part of their bum
when they sting you, which is what the bees do. Really,
that's a way of describing it. You know. I saw
these things, as I said, in Japan and everywhere, and
then I realized that they got into France, they got

(58:24):
into Italy and Belgium, and then in twenty seventeen they
got into the Netherlands. Now the Netherlands also have no
sense of humor when that happens, so they had a
real go with it, but they couldn't do anything with it.
It's unbelievable.

Speaker 1 (58:39):
Yeah, that's a not a good sign for us, is
it rude?

Speaker 7 (58:42):
No, it's not. It feels awful like that.

Speaker 1 (58:44):
Yeah, okay, real climb pass. Thank you so much for
your time this morning. So people need to be vigilant.
That's what you're saying.

Speaker 7 (58:52):
That's what I'm saying. As soon as you see something
that looks like it, get helped by the Ministry of
Primary Industries. It's in the phone book, it's everywhere.

Speaker 1 (59:02):
Yeah, rout climbers, thank you so much for your time.
Always good to.

Speaker 12 (59:05):
Chat Jerry and the Night The Hodarkey Breakfast.

Speaker 5 (59:12):
Sports Chat with acc Head g Lane brought you by
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Speaker 1 (59:21):
Welcome to the studio acc Here, g Lane, G Lane,
you'll be interested to know I'm in the G Lane
Memorial Studio down here in Wellington. This is the studio
you made famous back in the late nineties early two thousands.

Speaker 5 (59:32):
Yep, that's right.

Speaker 13 (59:33):
I was piecing around that way and to RENDI, you
really made an impact down there.

Speaker 5 (59:37):
Hence they named the studio after me down there.

Speaker 3 (59:39):
The Grotline Memorial Studio.

Speaker 1 (59:42):
It sets beside the Nick Tansley Memorial Studio.

Speaker 13 (59:45):
Interestingly, Well yeah, I mean, look, I had to do
something to appeasma past demons around that once we honored
the great Nick Tansley.

Speaker 3 (59:53):
Hey, I'm speaking of bringing the game into disrepute? Did
you see even it's a eye gouging someone on the weekend?

Speaker 5 (01:00:00):
I did see that. He said he's an angry man,
isn't he?

Speaker 13 (01:00:03):
On the field, he's the bit from South Africa. But
it was only the last two minutes of the game
he got redcarded and that was an absolute. They absolutely
what was the headline? They're putting the Welsh lamb on
the bry seventy three and now Jesus Christ.

Speaker 5 (01:00:15):
That was a hammering. But yeah, he really got the
thumb stuck into that left eye, didn't he He was yeah, so.

Speaker 3 (01:00:21):
Hell, how long how long do you reckon?

Speaker 5 (01:00:22):
He'll be out for that, That'll be I reckon.

Speaker 13 (01:00:24):
That's you remember the great Richard Lowe eye gouge and
then there was the ear biting situation with I think
I could have bitten his ear right off. He got
six months for that biting years. I don't know he's
gonna he's going to take escape for a while. I mentioned,
I believe because I was looking it up last night.

Speaker 3 (01:00:42):
The band for eye gouge and can go from anywhere
from like four games right up to about three years.

Speaker 1 (01:00:48):
I'd go, I'd go a decent amount of time for
an eye gouge. I reckon, you can't have that, Like
they're so focused on head knocks and stuff like that.
Now accidental head knocks. If you're telling me that you,
as a rugby player you can turn up and gouge
someone eyes on purpose, it was not get more than
a year. You got to go a year.

Speaker 13 (01:01:05):
It was more like it wasn't a traditional eye gouge
because for me, Richard Lowe sets the standard for eye gouge.
It was the finger into the the finger double digit
into Greg Cooper's eyes. This one was more an aggressive
thumb press yes into.

Speaker 3 (01:01:20):
The socket, like the Mountain from Game of Thrones when
he double thumb that guy's eyes. It was one of those.
The thing to me was yeah, the game was over.
Last minute's seventy three point blower and he did it
right in front of the ref. It's not like it
was off to the side there to check fifteen replays.
You saw straight away.

Speaker 13 (01:01:37):
Oh he gougees eye and you could see he's working
the tricep as well. When he's putting that thumb in.
He's got some guns on him, bears, and you can
see him tense up and eyeball.

Speaker 1 (01:01:48):
Okay, so what would you if you were in charge, Gulame?
What how long would you give him?

Speaker 13 (01:01:52):
I would ban him for life, I mean ten years
for being South African, five years for the for the act.

Speaker 1 (01:02:00):
Gee.

Speaker 3 (01:02:00):
Then we need to address something here that I don't know.
If you've seen the reports this morning about the hornets
over on the North Shore, if you've seen this, yeah,
there's been a couple of texts coming on three four
eight three saying that there's allegations that you released these
hornets retribution against the South African sports a pearents with
whom you have a long running feud.

Speaker 5 (01:02:19):
Listen, I would never do something like that.

Speaker 3 (01:02:21):
I'm saying you released them out the back of a
biltong shot.

Speaker 13 (01:02:26):
Look, if I knew for a fact that they could
target those some of those selectives African parents. Then yes,
sure I'll probably be party to releasing the hornet, but
I don't think it does. I think that is malicious
rumors and I wish to quash them right now.

Speaker 1 (01:02:40):
Well, also releasing them, I'm sure would be sitting in
your own nest. This is the problem is it's be
too close to home for you.

Speaker 5 (01:02:46):
Very yeah, I'll be absolutely crappy my own hornets nearest
if I did that. I would never do that. And look,
I am working on mendy my rift with the community,
the South African community. Some of my best friends are
South African.

Speaker 1 (01:02:57):
Okay, in the comments this morning, I don't know, that's
not going to help.

Speaker 5 (01:03:03):
What there was the Formula one this morning?

Speaker 1 (01:03:07):
That's all on.

Speaker 13 (01:03:08):
So it goes to the last race in Abu Dhabi
because the strap On took it out this morning and
Norris could only scratch together of the fourth.

Speaker 3 (01:03:16):
So either have them good winner?

Speaker 6 (01:03:18):
Is that right?

Speaker 13 (01:03:18):
Pstree for Strapon or Norris could all win next weekend
in a w I don't think they've had a kind
of an end of season where more than two drivers
can have a crack at it for quite some time.

Speaker 3 (01:03:28):
Right, and that's because the Netflix directors of Engineer absolutely yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:03:32):
Yeah, Liberty Media are very clever.

Speaker 13 (01:03:34):
I mean they disqualified both McLaren's last week, but in
the points that Liam Lawson came ninth, so he's in
the points he beat Sonoda, which is a big deal
because I think they make their decision on who will
be in the Racing bulls seat next year. It's either
had a Hymn or Sonoda. I think it's been confirmed
that Hag is going to go up to Red Bull,
so right, that gets made in the next twenty four hours,
I believe. So that's some news. And the SEVENS teams,

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both the men and women SEVENS teams took out the
Dubai Dubai Sevens, which is a great by the way,
I know it doesn't sound like it should be, but
it is. It's an absolute den of horrific behavior by
all the Westerners who live in Dubai.

Speaker 5 (01:04:08):
Over to a two day period.

Speaker 3 (01:04:09):
It's stumble out under the street and get dragged as
the desert by camel. Yeah. That that Abu Dhabi we're
talking about it before Lane, the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
Do they just do that out on the street because
you can drive it three hundred ks if you want.

Speaker 13 (01:04:22):
Yeah, there is no speed limit when you're driving on
the streets of Abu Dhabi and Dubai. I think they're
within the actual cities there are, But if you're traveling
between the cities, which is about one hundred and sixty
hundred and seven yilometers, you can do that as fast
as you want.

Speaker 3 (01:04:35):
Yes, I was saying before. There's actually a minimum speed
limit if you're caught doing I thought it was one
hundred eighty. If you're caught doing under eighty ks an hour,
you get fined.

Speaker 5 (01:04:43):
Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 13 (01:04:44):
And the Abudhbe police Force they have a Formula one
car in their fleet. They have a Lamborghini, they have
a Ferrari, they have a supercar. They have an Orange
County Chopper, you know, the Orange County Shoppers.

Speaker 5 (01:04:56):
They've got one of them. They've got that in their
armory of patrol cars.

Speaker 3 (01:05:00):
Well, what if one of the Formula one cars breaks
loose and then it takes off, how are they going
to track them down? They're going to need a Formula
one car of their own.

Speaker 13 (01:05:07):
Yeah, that's it shows how much trouble they have over there,
which is very little. They spend their money on Formula
one cars branded up as the WW Police.

Speaker 3 (01:05:14):
Force getting pulled over by F one car but also
a wws all go there because the sale Grand pre
finished in the weekend.

Speaker 5 (01:05:22):
Unfortunately the Black Falls couldn't do it. I think they
came off the falls literally if that one.

Speaker 13 (01:05:28):
For the Grand Final race, the top three raced off
for two million dollars us win. It takes all and
unfortunately the British took it all.

Speaker 1 (01:05:37):
Thanks very much for your time this morning. Acc head
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