May 5, 2026 • 18 mins
Today on the pod the guys run an expose on radio prize pigs, and Manaia runs us through the mainstream sports media.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Daily bespoke content that you won't find on the radio
show the Hadaki Breakfast podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Jury's just adding the old orifice. This morning. He came
in this morning and he forgot his glasses, didn't he?
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Classic Jury, Classic Jerry.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
And then he goes, no, that's all good. I've got
glasses over at TV and Z and so he's gone
over that and now he's making himself a coffee.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Is that what he's doing now? I think, sir, from
what I can see, Okay, do you find that he
looks a lot younger with no glasses on?
Speaker 2 (00:31):
I think most people do, don't they.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
I feel like for some people that would offset maybe
because you think of aging rock stars and they wear
those tinted glasses and it's an attempt to make themselves
look younger, or full sunglasses.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
And side glasses.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Yeah, that's a thing.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Or there's a there's a style of bloke who will
wear a performative pair of glasses to make themselves look
less intimidating. I don't know. If they hung around the
jiu jitsu community, a lot of them will have a
pair of glasses on afterwards, just to make themselves look
a little less intimidating. I was listening to the mainstream
sports media, or what's left of it, on my way
(01:07):
into work this morning. You know, like I don't it
doesn't really exist anymore in the way that radio sport.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
No, no, no, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
It's weird. The mainstream media is now mainstream sports media
has now become alternative sports media. And I mean that
in two ways and not describe.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Them for you, dust Lea, I know what one is.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Jeremy, well, good morning, good morning.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
We've just told everyone about your glasses mate, welcome man.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
And I was just saying I was listening to the
mainstream sports media, or what used to be the mainstream
sports media, you know radio sport in them. Now that's
all gone on to podcasts and that, and we don't
really have mainstream sports media now here in New Zealand.
And those dudes it was such a throwback, and they
(01:55):
were you know when they get on like when you
look at players like Hermopo and any they wonder why
mainstream sports media is din It's like it was that
ship man. It was never that you guys researched facts
and actually knew the stats and figures. That was never
the issue. The issue was you can't say any other players.
(02:18):
You can't say someone's name. When I worked in the
mainstream sports media, I.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Died a little inside.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Every single day.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
You were the mainstream sports media.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
I was kind of still kind.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Of kind of kind of I We would get callers on,
not many, there was about six of them, and they
would listen every single day, the same ones. There was
a guy who had won Lotto and retired, so he
and so he would just rung up.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Every single day. He was living the dream. There were
a few when they do the Loto ad and they say,
you know, imagine what you could do. Yeah, yeah, would
it be to listen to radio.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Sport every day?
Speaker 4 (03:05):
That should put him on? I won Loto and now
I just listened to Yeah, I thought to radio.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Of course, Steffy.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Loving the dream, isn't they That's what I'd love to
I mean.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
I just asked him one day after this, like after
he'd been on EIR, was like, if you don't mind
me asking, Like, not a lot of people have the
times we're in a radio station in the middle of
the afternoon every day. But then the other one we
had was and he said, I won Lotto Division one. Yeah,
he said I won lotto, oh like fifteen years ago.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
I wonder how much he wont did he say?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
He didn't say, but he said basically it was enough
that he traveled the world for a bit, got a
couple of flash cars whatever, and now it's just packed
up in Northland, just listening to radio. Listen to the radio. Yeah,
I'd like to assume mates mates.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Yeah maybe no mate.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Well let's be honest. If you've got lots of mates,
you just sit listen to sports radio and.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Right, yeah, giving him the benefit of the dubt is
on a boat or something on it. But I don't know.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
That his mate's probably only one for the money.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Anyway. I'm not judging people who call radio stations.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
No, people are radio. Without you, we would never job
there was another one where So there's a phenomenon radio
for those of you listening at home, known as the
prize pig. Someone's listening right now and there hears will
have just procked. This will be them. It's the person
who just rings in radio stations over and over again
(04:36):
to try and win prizes, you know what I mean.
They and they'll change phone numbers and listen that to
try and win, just random ship. A lot of them
sell it then again on trade me. I don't think
those people realize the whole point of giving a prize
away on the radio is one to reward listeners for
listening to us, and two to try and grow our audience.
If you're just if we just give the same five
(04:57):
people all of the prizes, like who it's.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Sim with a different number and a different name, and
then it is a different listener, isn't it wow?
Speaker 2 (05:04):
The well yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
The other thing is because good on you. That's how
that's right. We can see six lines, for instance, in
front of us, and you might see people call through
for a prize, and you might see, for instance, the
name Kezy on one of them because keys called before.
And then you might see a blank one and you're like, oh,
let's go to the blank one because we've had Kezy before.
It'll be like, get a who's talking?
Speaker 2 (05:29):
What Kezy?
Speaker 3 (05:30):
You're like, fuck, he's got two phones.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Yeah, he's running a yeah price peg. We genuinely had
a prize Pig so Bad a few years ago that
he had won like seventeen things off our station, and
then I went and asked all the other stations they'd
done the same for them. Then we went and founder's
trade me account and he was winning like you know,
random ballet tickets and ship and just selling it all
(05:53):
on trade me. So I told.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Him ted living on a boat listening to sports.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Right the next time we were I told him was
like the third we can't just keep giving you the
prizes all the time.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
And he gets, oh, you want to play that game?
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Really? And then he found the CEOs.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
I want to play that game.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
I was like, what, there's no play that game? Boy.
I was like, what, what do you How do you
think this works? Like we just you've tricked that. You've
found a loophole that's depriving any other listener of winning
a prize. Some kid wanted to go to the ballet.
But you've won the fucking tickets and selling them. One thing.
Are you proud of yourself? So he found the CEO's
(06:32):
phone number, bogs in the man bastard and wrung them,
slagging me off in the middle of the night. Really yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Because you wouldn't give him more prizes?
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Yes, because I wouldn'tive him more genuinely pretected to prizes.
He was so then I went on to his Facebook
page and he had Oh it would have been like
three posts an hour over a twenty four hour period
of resharing. You know, share this and you'll win blah
blah blah from them facebook pages all across the internet.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
You know.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Okay, so he's like praise addicted to promos. Yeah, serial
price perg. So then he I found about six phone
numbers linked to his name and our system because of
course every rung throw on a fake number eventually, and
even gave a fake name. Eventually he would have to
give his actual identity so he could get the price
to him. So I managed to link about six phone
(07:24):
numbers in our systems. Did him had the same blah
blah blah. We even this went a cross code. We
went across the road. We involved other and put a
dossier together.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Can I can I ask a question and.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
I I'm involved in putting a dot not involved.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
I put the doer together. You were, you were the lead. Yeah,
because all of a sudden Boggley. The first is here
of hearing of Manaiah from our second The first was
when I was drawing the CMPs on this, but then
the second was why is this guy ringing in the
middle of the night, slag and you off them? How
did it? First of all, how how did he find
my phone number?
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Well, he's he's resourceful, this guy. I mean, he's going
around radio stations getting prizes, selling them, making a living
out of it.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
That's I don't know's.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
I mean, You've got to hand it to the guy.
He's resourceful.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Are your family proud of you? Do they know what
you do?
Speaker 3 (08:12):
They probably are.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
They're like, he's like, because some people are really proud
to be grifters. Well they are right, they're proud. They're like,
they reckon that. They've I have read the code. I've
ripped someone else off. Yeah, I've created the Card've deprived
someone else of an opportunity and my own benefit.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
And I'm I can assume.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
That everybody's trying to rip everybody else off.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Can I ask a question? And I that we are
going to have to beat on the podcast.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
If I use his name, if I use the word yes, yeah,
you can dub over that with Kezy.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
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Speaker 3 (08:56):
So you've come across the sky as well, yeah, multiple times.
And I'll tell you I.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Got a little storable youd.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
When for former talk station today, I fim first open
media works through the fucking kitchen sink behind that thing.
And we had a competition every day called the five
thousand Dollar Question, had five thousand dollars a day to
give away the dad one yeah, yeah, the wife. Within
a week, the wife won, the next week the daughter won.
(09:28):
So three of them within ten days had won five.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Thousand grand Yeah, one family.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
To one family.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
But what was happening was was he behind the scenes
answering the questions or something.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
I'm not definitely the daughter one he was. I remember
hearing him in the background.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Oh okay, so the family are and yeah proud, yeah, wow.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Yeah they love it. And again it was one of
those things where we must have had six or seven
lines coming through to us, yeah, blank numbers, and you'd
be like, no, I don't pick up sucking an old mate,
And then you pick up old mate and there he
is again.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
You're like and he can't quite remember his name straight
off the rip because he's making it up.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
I kind of want to do a TV story on
this guy. I want to see his face, I want
to see his family.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Yeah, we should do it. Tell you what, Dave Pharrye
to do a good job with that. I'm finding the
weird and wonderful. Yeah, that would be a real interesting one.
We tried to go to trade Me to see if
we could find his account and check the history of
his account and all the stuff that he had sold
from both radio companies in New Zealand, the big ones. Yeah,
but that was a violation of privacy, so they couldn't
(10:29):
do that, but we could at least see the stuff
that was currently listed and it was.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Probably yeah, okay, Beeper's name at ten forty five, yeah,
kezy oh yeah, and.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Actually Facebook, oh yeah, okay.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Is he still doing it? He will still be doing it.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Is he out there doing it?
Speaker 2 (10:54):
He will still be out there doing it, surely.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Him and I.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Yeah, a little store of dude.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Yes, sorry, Yeah. There was another radio station that worked
next to the radio station that I worked at, follow
that one.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
He's still doing it, by the way, he's out there
doing it still. I'm just think ten hours ago, three
thousand fucking posts. What not three thousand, but like fourteen
hours ago, fourteen hours ago, sixteen sixteen, sixteen seventeen.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Wow, oh my, yeah. So the radio station next door
to the radio station that we worked at, we got
into their prize system and it.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Basically listed all of because we.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Were trying to track down this particular prize peg and
see how much he was winning. But the radio station
next door to us, there was one particular prize peg
there who had won the most prizes at that place,
and that person's last name.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Have to beat this kezy oh.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
And she was reselling on trade me, oh twenty eight
thousand prizes in their price system. It was unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
This might have been more of an off off podcast chat.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Yeah, there's quite a bit more to that story.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
But yeah, make sure you beat all the steep because
after this has gone up a little bit earlier these days,
let's just let's just make it gear good. Let's just
have a good couple of scrubs through that you can
cast the weather A twelve and a half.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
So I've got three good beeps need to go on
at the moment.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Or at least, don't don't just do three A knock
it on the head, just want to make sure that
you get.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Through that can't identify people that all no.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
So then so this is the thing. So the prize
pick exists. But when I was working in the mainstream
sports media, there was one that was coming through that
we thought was a price pick. It was a reverse
prize pick. It was the same phone number, and it
was a They were giving a different name every time,
and we were like, well, how have you because what
(12:59):
are you trying to? What's the game? Here are you?
Because again it's the reverse of the prize boak, it's
one number seven different names. Yeah, turns out what was
happening there was that was one communal cell phone at
a retirement home, and so every day they would call
through and it would be a different person turn and
(13:21):
I was like, we've had We've got your name saved
to something different in the system. What's going on there now,
don't I don't know? All of them don't don't know.
So one one, the last guy was still with it
was like, well it's the same phone. We were all
using the same phone. It's like, who's all using the
same phone and shady Extra retirement village. Well, yeah, that's
pretty impressive.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
I mean, so it's like a retirement village where the
thing that they have in common is that they want
to steal prizes.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
No, they weren't stealing prizes. They called it. They would
just call it for a yarn. But we were like,
what's going on? How come seven different how come every
time this person calls they give a different name. Oh wow,
But it wasn't It was seven different people from a
retirement village. Then there was another one that was I
don't know. This one made me feel sad and angry.
But his thing was he would call through every day
(14:09):
and try and get on here and and tell the
hosts that his wife had died. And yeah, but the
thing is so the first time obviously shocking horble. Oh
my god, I'm so sorry to hear that. He rings
back the next day and does it again.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Yeah, we talked to you yesterday.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
And then one of the other hosts goes, hey, just
had this really sad caller on today. His wife died,
blah blah blah. I was like, he's called us like
five times this week as well, And then ste was
calling all the different shows. Turns outually had died years ago.
I think he was just sort of you know, starting
to slide for him a little bit, and so he
(14:46):
just kicked and one day he called through and and
he died. No, hen, he just goes. I said to him, Hey,
you've you've caught us a few times before, haven't. Yeah,
it's sweet. Listen, today we're talking about the all blacks.
Can you just make sure that when you get on,
you know, we just stick to all blacks. And he goes, yeah,
(15:08):
all blacks. I was like, what what was it that
you wanted to talk about the all blacks? He's like, no,
just the all blacks anything in particularly goes Who's who's
going to be? Who's going to be our first five?
Is like, okay, all right, I put yeah, don't yeah,
you send her the matrix. Fucking hell, we're staring down
the barrel of another ten minutes. We don't have an
(15:30):
air break up our sleep before the news. Fuck right,
we'll put him in. So I put him in. I
was like, I looked at my says the producer, and like,
what do you reckon? She's like maybe maybe, but he
gets on here and what to think about the allo?
(15:51):
My wife died? Man, It's like, oh shit, I don't
know are these two. Grim, I've got one more telling.
This is too grim. We had this thing we would do.
It was like wine o'clock Wednesday, and it was.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
Oh, that's what we've got going on here, dude. We
seem to be following you around these days where we drink.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Ok, no new ideas, but it was basically the idea
was last break of the show, afternoon evening show. It's
around seven o'clock at night. We just just have a
fat wench.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
The idea was it was about sports wine.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Wine, Yeah, gotcha wine, orange, you know, Oh god, all
these players going overseas whatever, something like that. How's this
going to the team? How's that going to get in
the team. This guy text us from four four pm goes,
I've got a great wine Wednesday, and tease throughout the
whole thing is that I'm going to put a suit on.
If you guys can check a suit on, this one's
going to be so good. Three hours of teasing. The
(16:53):
fucking fans have been whipped into a frenzy.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Would get man.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
We get into the retirement homes and whipped to her friends.
We get to about seven pm and he gets on
and he goes, oh, my daughter died this year, and
I got a parking ticket from the hospital when it happened,
and we're like, oh, oh.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Where do you go?
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Oh? I know, what did they do? And that's well,
it's even worse than that because of song, because songs
talk back. And also the host. Yeah, and then the
host also was relatively an experience and he was on
by himself. The other host, who was a bit more
experienced than that and female, so she would have been
(17:43):
able to handle it a bit better, wasn't there for
whatever reason, and so the host of him, and so
it was just had to go, ah, really sorry to
hear that, damn. And so he's like he's like looking
at me. I'm looking at him. I don't fucking know what.
They don't teach you that at radio Skills.
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
Jury's just adding the old orifice. This morning. He came
in this morning and he forgot his glasses, didn't he?
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Classic Jury, Classic Jerry.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
And then he goes, no, that's all good. I've got
glasses over at TV and Z and so he's gone
over that and now he's making himself a coffee.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Is that what he's doing now? I think, sir, from
what I can see, Okay, do you find that he
looks a lot younger with no glasses on?
Speaker 2 (00:31):
I think most people do, don't they.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
I feel like for some people that would offset maybe
because you think of aging rock stars and they wear
those tinted glasses and it's an attempt to make themselves
look younger, or full sunglasses.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
And side glasses.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Yeah, that's a thing.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Or there's a there's a style of bloke who will
wear a performative pair of glasses to make themselves look
less intimidating. I don't know. If they hung around the
jiu jitsu community, a lot of them will have a
pair of glasses on afterwards, just to make themselves look
a little less intimidating. I was listening to the mainstream
sports media, or what's left of it, on my way
(01:07):
into work this morning. You know, like I don't it
doesn't really exist anymore in the way that radio sport.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
No, no, no, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
It's weird. The mainstream media is now mainstream sports media
has now become alternative sports media. And I mean that
in two ways and not describe.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Them for you, dust Lea, I know what one is.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Jeremy, well, good morning, good morning.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
We've just told everyone about your glasses mate, welcome man.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
And I was just saying I was listening to the
mainstream sports media, or what used to be the mainstream
sports media, you know radio sport in them. Now that's
all gone on to podcasts and that, and we don't
really have mainstream sports media now here in New Zealand.
And those dudes it was such a throwback, and they
(01:55):
were you know when they get on like when you
look at players like Hermopo and any they wonder why
mainstream sports media is din It's like it was that
ship man. It was never that you guys researched facts
and actually knew the stats and figures. That was never
the issue. The issue was you can't say any other players.
(02:18):
You can't say someone's name. When I worked in the
mainstream sports media, I.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Died a little inside.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Every single day.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
You were the mainstream sports media.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
I was kind of still kind.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Of kind of kind of I We would get callers on,
not many, there was about six of them, and they
would listen every single day, the same ones. There was
a guy who had won Lotto and retired, so he
and so he would just rung up.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Every single day. He was living the dream. There were
a few when they do the Loto ad and they say,
you know, imagine what you could do. Yeah, yeah, would
it be to listen to radio.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Sport every day?
Speaker 4 (03:05):
That should put him on? I won Loto and now
I just listened to Yeah, I thought to radio.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Of course, Steffy.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Loving the dream, isn't they That's what I'd love to
I mean.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
I just asked him one day after this, like after
he'd been on EIR, was like, if you don't mind
me asking, Like, not a lot of people have the
times we're in a radio station in the middle of
the afternoon every day. But then the other one we
had was and he said, I won Lotto Division one. Yeah,
he said I won lotto, oh like fifteen years ago.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
I wonder how much he wont did he say?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
He didn't say, but he said basically it was enough
that he traveled the world for a bit, got a
couple of flash cars whatever, and now it's just packed
up in Northland, just listening to radio. Listen to the radio. Yeah,
I'd like to assume mates mates.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Yeah maybe no mate.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Well let's be honest. If you've got lots of mates,
you just sit listen to sports radio and.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Right, yeah, giving him the benefit of the dubt is
on a boat or something on it. But I don't know.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
That his mate's probably only one for the money.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Anyway. I'm not judging people who call radio stations.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
No, people are radio. Without you, we would never job
there was another one where So there's a phenomenon radio
for those of you listening at home, known as the
prize pig. Someone's listening right now and there hears will
have just procked. This will be them. It's the person
who just rings in radio stations over and over again
(04:36):
to try and win prizes, you know what I mean.
They and they'll change phone numbers and listen that to
try and win, just random ship. A lot of them
sell it then again on trade me. I don't think
those people realize the whole point of giving a prize
away on the radio is one to reward listeners for
listening to us, and two to try and grow our audience.
If you're just if we just give the same five
(04:57):
people all of the prizes, like who it's.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Sim with a different number and a different name, and
then it is a different listener, isn't it wow?
Speaker 2 (05:04):
The well yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
The other thing is because good on you. That's how
that's right. We can see six lines, for instance, in
front of us, and you might see people call through
for a prize, and you might see, for instance, the
name Kezy on one of them because keys called before.
And then you might see a blank one and you're like, oh,
let's go to the blank one because we've had Kezy before.
It'll be like, get a who's talking?
Speaker 2 (05:29):
What Kezy?
Speaker 3 (05:30):
You're like, fuck, he's got two phones.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Yeah, he's running a yeah price peg. We genuinely had
a prize Pig so Bad a few years ago that
he had won like seventeen things off our station, and
then I went and asked all the other stations they'd
done the same for them. Then we went and founder's
trade me account and he was winning like you know,
random ballet tickets and ship and just selling it all
(05:53):
on trade me. So I told.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Him ted living on a boat listening to sports.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Right the next time we were I told him was
like the third we can't just keep giving you the
prizes all the time.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
And he gets, oh, you want to play that game?
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Really? And then he found the CEOs.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
I want to play that game.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
I was like, what, there's no play that game? Boy.
I was like, what, what do you How do you
think this works? Like we just you've tricked that. You've
found a loophole that's depriving any other listener of winning
a prize. Some kid wanted to go to the ballet.
But you've won the fucking tickets and selling them. One thing.
Are you proud of yourself? So he found the CEO's
(06:32):
phone number, bogs in the man bastard and wrung them,
slagging me off in the middle of the night. Really yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Because you wouldn't give him more prizes?
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Yes, because I wouldn'tive him more genuinely pretected to prizes.
He was so then I went on to his Facebook
page and he had Oh it would have been like
three posts an hour over a twenty four hour period
of resharing. You know, share this and you'll win blah
blah blah from them facebook pages all across the internet.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
You know.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Okay, so he's like praise addicted to promos. Yeah, serial
price perg. So then he I found about six phone
numbers linked to his name and our system because of
course every rung throw on a fake number eventually, and
even gave a fake name. Eventually he would have to
give his actual identity so he could get the price
to him. So I managed to link about six phone
(07:24):
numbers in our systems. Did him had the same blah
blah blah. We even this went a cross code. We
went across the road. We involved other and put a
dossier together.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Can I can I ask a question and.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
I I'm involved in putting a dot not involved.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
I put the doer together. You were, you were the lead. Yeah,
because all of a sudden Boggley. The first is here
of hearing of Manaiah from our second The first was
when I was drawing the CMPs on this, but then
the second was why is this guy ringing in the
middle of the night, slag and you off them? How
did it? First of all, how how did he find
my phone number?
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Well, he's he's resourceful, this guy. I mean, he's going
around radio stations getting prizes, selling them, making a living
out of it.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
That's I don't know's.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
I mean, You've got to hand it to the guy.
He's resourceful.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Are your family proud of you? Do they know what
you do?
Speaker 3 (08:12):
They probably are.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
They're like, he's like, because some people are really proud
to be grifters. Well they are right, they're proud. They're like,
they reckon that. They've I have read the code. I've
ripped someone else off. Yeah, I've created the Card've deprived
someone else of an opportunity and my own benefit.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
And I'm I can assume.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
That everybody's trying to rip everybody else off.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Can I ask a question? And I that we are
going to have to beat on the podcast.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
If I use his name, if I use the word yes, yeah,
you can dub over that with Kezy.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
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Speaker 3 (08:56):
So you've come across the sky as well, yeah, multiple times.
And I'll tell you I.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Got a little storable youd.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
When for former talk station today, I fim first open
media works through the fucking kitchen sink behind that thing.
And we had a competition every day called the five
thousand Dollar Question, had five thousand dollars a day to
give away the dad one yeah, yeah, the wife. Within
a week, the wife won, the next week the daughter won.
(09:28):
So three of them within ten days had won five.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Thousand grand Yeah, one family.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
To one family.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
But what was happening was was he behind the scenes
answering the questions or something.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
I'm not definitely the daughter one he was. I remember
hearing him in the background.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Oh okay, so the family are and yeah proud, yeah, wow.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Yeah they love it. And again it was one of
those things where we must have had six or seven
lines coming through to us, yeah, blank numbers, and you'd
be like, no, I don't pick up sucking an old mate,
And then you pick up old mate and there he
is again.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
You're like and he can't quite remember his name straight
off the rip because he's making it up.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
I kind of want to do a TV story on
this guy. I want to see his face, I want
to see his family.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Yeah, we should do it. Tell you what, Dave Pharrye
to do a good job with that. I'm finding the
weird and wonderful. Yeah, that would be a real interesting one.
We tried to go to trade Me to see if
we could find his account and check the history of
his account and all the stuff that he had sold
from both radio companies in New Zealand, the big ones. Yeah,
but that was a violation of privacy, so they couldn't
(10:29):
do that, but we could at least see the stuff
that was currently listed and it was.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Probably yeah, okay, Beeper's name at ten forty five, yeah,
kezy oh yeah, and.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Actually Facebook, oh yeah, okay.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Is he still doing it? He will still be doing it.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Is he out there doing it?
Speaker 2 (10:54):
He will still be out there doing it, surely.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Him and I.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Yeah, a little store of dude.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Yes, sorry, Yeah. There was another radio station that worked
next to the radio station that I worked at, follow
that one.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
He's still doing it, by the way, he's out there
doing it still. I'm just think ten hours ago, three
thousand fucking posts. What not three thousand, but like fourteen
hours ago, fourteen hours ago, sixteen sixteen, sixteen seventeen.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Wow, oh my, yeah. So the radio station next door
to the radio station that we worked at, we got
into their prize system and it.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Basically listed all of because we.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Were trying to track down this particular prize peg and
see how much he was winning. But the radio station
next door to us, there was one particular prize peg
there who had won the most prizes at that place,
and that person's last name.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Have to beat this kezy oh.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
And she was reselling on trade me, oh twenty eight
thousand prizes in their price system. It was unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
This might have been more of an off off podcast chat.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Yeah, there's quite a bit more to that story.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
But yeah, make sure you beat all the steep because
after this has gone up a little bit earlier these days,
let's just let's just make it gear good. Let's just
have a good couple of scrubs through that you can
cast the weather A twelve and a half.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
So I've got three good beeps need to go on
at the moment.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Or at least, don't don't just do three A knock
it on the head, just want to make sure that
you get.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Through that can't identify people that all no.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
So then so this is the thing. So the prize
pick exists. But when I was working in the mainstream
sports media, there was one that was coming through that
we thought was a price pick. It was a reverse
prize pick. It was the same phone number, and it
was a They were giving a different name every time,
and we were like, well, how have you because what
(12:59):
are you trying to? What's the game? Here are you?
Because again it's the reverse of the prize boak, it's
one number seven different names. Yeah, turns out what was
happening there was that was one communal cell phone at
a retirement home, and so every day they would call
through and it would be a different person turn and
(13:21):
I was like, we've had We've got your name saved
to something different in the system. What's going on there now,
don't I don't know? All of them don't don't know.
So one one, the last guy was still with it
was like, well it's the same phone. We were all
using the same phone. It's like, who's all using the
same phone and shady Extra retirement village. Well, yeah, that's
pretty impressive.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
I mean, so it's like a retirement village where the
thing that they have in common is that they want
to steal prizes.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
No, they weren't stealing prizes. They called it. They would
just call it for a yarn. But we were like,
what's going on? How come seven different how come every
time this person calls they give a different name. Oh wow,
But it wasn't It was seven different people from a
retirement village. Then there was another one that was I
don't know. This one made me feel sad and angry.
But his thing was he would call through every day
(14:09):
and try and get on here and and tell the
hosts that his wife had died. And yeah, but the
thing is so the first time obviously shocking horble. Oh
my god, I'm so sorry to hear that. He rings
back the next day and does it again.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Yeah, we talked to you yesterday.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
And then one of the other hosts goes, hey, just
had this really sad caller on today. His wife died,
blah blah blah. I was like, he's called us like
five times this week as well, And then ste was
calling all the different shows. Turns outually had died years ago.
I think he was just sort of you know, starting
to slide for him a little bit, and so he
(14:46):
just kicked and one day he called through and and
he died. No, hen, he just goes. I said to him, Hey,
you've you've caught us a few times before, haven't. Yeah,
it's sweet. Listen, today we're talking about the all blacks.
Can you just make sure that when you get on,
you know, we just stick to all blacks. And he goes, yeah,
(15:08):
all blacks. I was like, what what was it that
you wanted to talk about the all blacks? He's like, no,
just the all blacks anything in particularly goes Who's who's
going to be? Who's going to be our first five?
Is like, okay, all right, I put yeah, don't yeah,
you send her the matrix. Fucking hell, we're staring down
the barrel of another ten minutes. We don't have an
(15:30):
air break up our sleep before the news. Fuck right,
we'll put him in. So I put him in. I
was like, I looked at my says the producer, and like,
what do you reckon? She's like maybe maybe, but he
gets on here and what to think about the allo?
(15:51):
My wife died? Man, It's like, oh shit, I don't
know are these two. Grim, I've got one more telling.
This is too grim. We had this thing we would do.
It was like wine o'clock Wednesday, and it was.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
Oh, that's what we've got going on here, dude. We
seem to be following you around these days where we drink.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Ok, no new ideas, but it was basically the idea
was last break of the show, afternoon evening show. It's
around seven o'clock at night. We just just have a
fat wench.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
The idea was it was about sports wine.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Wine, Yeah, gotcha wine, orange, you know, Oh god, all
these players going overseas whatever, something like that. How's this
going to the team? How's that going to get in
the team. This guy text us from four four pm goes,
I've got a great wine Wednesday, and tease throughout the
whole thing is that I'm going to put a suit on.
If you guys can check a suit on, this one's
going to be so good. Three hours of teasing. The
(16:53):
fucking fans have been whipped into a frenzy.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Would get man.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
We get into the retirement homes and whipped to her friends.
We get to about seven pm and he gets on
and he goes, oh, my daughter died this year, and
I got a parking ticket from the hospital when it happened,
and we're like, oh, oh.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Where do you go?
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Oh? I know, what did they do? And that's well,
it's even worse than that because of song, because songs
talk back. And also the host. Yeah, and then the
host also was relatively an experience and he was on
by himself. The other host, who was a bit more
experienced than that and female, so she would have been
(17:43):
able to handle it a bit better, wasn't there for
whatever reason, and so the host of him, and so
it was just had to go, ah, really sorry to
hear that, damn. And so he's like he's like looking
at me. I'm looking at him. I don't fucking know what.
They don't teach you that at radio Skills.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
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Speaker 2 (18:14):
As to the radio show showing, Jerry
Speaker 1 (18:16):
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