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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
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Speaker 1 (00:15):
Oh no, not again.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
Jerry and Manai.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
Please. The Hauraki Breakfast.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Welcome along to your Friday. It's Friday the 11th of September, 2026.
My name's Jeremy Wells. This is Manai Stewart.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
740,000. For Finn Allen to go and play for the
Melbourne Stars, that is incredible.

Speaker 4 (00:31):
Earned.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
Earned, not given. But that is, what's that, a million dollars,
New Zealand?

Speaker 5 (00:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
Now, you should never look in your neighbour's bowl except
to make sure that he's got enough, but it seems
to me that Finn Allen has enough.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
I'm sure he's got enough as well. A good amount
of work too. I mean, obviously you've got to face
some fast bowling. You do. A lot of pressure.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
Yeah, for like six weeks.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
Yeah, for six weeks.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
And then the IPL.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
And then the IPL.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
Look, it's growling, and so I'm glad he's... I'm disappointed.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
He's not taking a New Zealand Cricket Central contract.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
Well, yeah, for 100 grand.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
Where's the honour?

Speaker 1 (01:04):
Where's the loyalty? Does the jersey mean anything? Does the
black cap mean anything anymore?

Speaker 2 (01:08):
He's a professional athlete. He's got to feed his family.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
Yeah, those kids need nappies. Should we get into the kickoff?

Speaker 2 (01:14):
Yes, give us a call now. 0800 Hauraki. We need
a caller to decide which song is going to kick
off the show.

Speaker 6 (01:20):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
Give me this morning, I need something to jazz me
up of a Friday morning. Give me Superstyle and Groove Armada, please.

Speaker 3 (01:31):
Please do.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
Oh, yeah. I see what you've done here on a Friday.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
Do we want to go three callers to decide it?

Speaker 2 (01:40):
Sure.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
Hold the line, callers. Hold the line, callers.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
I want Groove Armada, Super Stylin'..

Speaker 2 (01:45):
I will see your early 90s dance music with, sorry,
early 2000s dance music with some early 2000s rock music.
I will go Franz Ferdinand, Take Me Out for the
first song of the day. Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
Three callers decided this morning. The phone lines are working
in no small part because Ruta's back and probably knows
how to turn them on. We haven't been able to
for the last couple of days. It's... Where do you
want to go?

Speaker 2 (02:10):
Let's start with line one with Rob from Hastings. Morning, Rob.
Welcome to the show.

Speaker 4 (02:14):
How are you guys?

Speaker 7 (02:14):
How are you doing?

Speaker 1 (02:15):
Good.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
Are you excited about the weekend, Rob?

Speaker 6 (02:16):
Oh, stoked, mate. Yeah, can't wait.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
You get the weekend off?

Speaker 6 (02:22):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
Any plans?

Speaker 2 (02:23):
I do have the weekend off.

Speaker 6 (02:25):
The Waz, and that's about it.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
Where are you going to watch the Waz?

Speaker 6 (02:30):
Just at home from the comfort of my couch.

Speaker 5 (02:32):
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
I know that feeling, Rob. Sounds like you're at a
similar stage to life to me.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
When you look forward to one sports game in a
week and the rest of the time relaxing. I know
how that feels. Rob, which song would you like to
start the show with? Friends, Ferdinand or Groovy Marta?

Speaker 6 (02:49):
I like a bit of Groovy Marta.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (02:51):
Good on you, Rob. Thank you, Rob. All right.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
Let's go to Brad, shall we?

Speaker 2 (02:56):
Yes, Brad. Driving Ubers this morning, Brad?

Speaker 8 (02:59):
Yeah, it's just started, so it's keen to kick off
the shift in a good way.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
Yeah, busy? Busy this morning?

Speaker 6 (03:08):
It looks like it's going to be steady, I think, yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
That continues my 100% streak of asking every Uber driver
I've ever met if they've been busy.

Speaker 6 (03:17):
Pretty common question.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
Will the prices be surging this morning, Brad?

Speaker 6 (03:23):
No, it's all pretty, it's all standard, standard fares, yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
All right. All right, Brad, I might need you to
give me a lift out to Mount Smart tomorrow afternoon,
but we'll get in touch. What do you want to
hear this morning, Brad?

Speaker 6 (03:36):
Oh, look, I think I'll go with you, Minara. Oh.

Speaker 8 (03:39):
Yeah, a bit of styling.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (03:42):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
Groover Marta, it is. Two calls takes it out. Bomb,
we don't even need to go to Geordie.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
Nah, we'll say good morning to Geordie. Morning, Geordie. How
are you going?

Speaker 6 (03:51):
Morning, guys.

Speaker 3 (03:52):
Long time no.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
That pinky finger growing back?

Speaker 7 (03:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (03:56):
Oh, it's halfway there. Is it?

Speaker 2 (03:59):
It's good to hear.

Speaker 4 (04:00):
It's actually bigger on a warm day.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
I like that. Geordie, which song would have you gone
for just out of curiosity?

Speaker 4 (04:10):
I tell you what I'd have gone.

Speaker 6 (04:11):
Super Styling being a Friday.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
Oh, there we go.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
It would have been a clean sweep. Clean sweep.

Speaker 6 (04:16):
Brilliant.

Speaker 1 (04:16):
Great way to start your Friday as well.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
Certainly is. This takes me back. Groove them harder. Welcome
along to the Hauraki Breakfast. It's nice to have you
with us on a Friday morning.

Speaker 7 (04:26):
Jerrion Mania, The Hodaki Breakfast.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
There it is, Groover Mart. A great journey to get
things going on the Friday mornings. Nine minutes past six.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
It's absolutely woken me up, that. How do you feel
about the fact that I picked a song that was
already in our playlist?

Speaker 2 (04:41):
Well, so did I.

Speaker 1 (04:43):
That's a good point.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
I don't mind that. I just think it's just choosing
that song, giving people a choice of how we're going
to start things off. Because, as we know, the reason
that we're doing it is because Incubus was starting the
show for, what, three days in a row?

Speaker 1 (04:54):
Too much, yeah, for too long.

Speaker 7 (04:55):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (04:56):
Um, welcome back into the studio, Ruta. Hi guys.

Speaker 5 (05:00):
Welcome back to me.

Speaker 1 (05:01):
He has beaten, he has beaten off a severe bout
of super gonorrhea and, and recovered.

Speaker 5 (05:06):
I've been beating it off for a good week and
a bit.

Speaker 1 (05:09):
Haven't you, Joe?

Speaker 5 (05:10):
Thank you.

Speaker 8 (05:11):
Thank you, T.

Speaker 2 (05:11):
Give us a health update.

Speaker 5 (05:12):
Uh, health update.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
Unusual for you not to be at work, I've got
to say, Ruta.

Speaker 5 (05:17):
Well, probably the most unusual thing was the fact I
came into work on Monday and Tuesday. Was that you?

Speaker 2 (05:22):
Was that you?

Speaker 5 (05:24):
It was a shell of me.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
Right, okay.

Speaker 5 (05:26):
And in retrospect, maybe not.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
The best idea.

Speaker 2 (05:28):
Okay, yeah. You came too early.

Speaker 5 (05:31):
Yeah, yeah, I did come too early. And I also
came without soldiering on.

Speaker 2 (05:35):
Yeah, okay.

Speaker 5 (05:36):
Which was a real fatal mistake.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
Right.

Speaker 5 (05:39):
That's so funny.

Speaker 2 (05:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (05:41):
No.

Speaker 2 (05:42):
You want to go with the particular– It's Codrell that
you want to go with, hey, that's the thing.

Speaker 1 (05:48):
You want the David Seymour's, the pseudo-effort drink.

Speaker 2 (05:50):
You need the ones with the pseudo-effort drink. Unfortunately, when
you do ask for them at the pharmacy... You're treated
like a bloody drug smuggler. A meth addict, yeah.

Speaker 1 (05:58):
A meth addict, yeah.

Speaker 2 (05:59):
You're like, you're going to go home and you're going
to bake up a batch.

Speaker 1 (06:01):
I know, it's to the point where if you get
two consecutive colds like a month after the last, you're like... jeez,
I don't know if I can go and ask for another,
or am I going to get put on some sort
of registry?

Speaker 2 (06:10):
Yeah, well, nowadays you've got to go for three-factor identification
whenever you're going in for those things. They're asking for
your address, your parents' names, whether or not they went
to the war, all sorts of stuff.

Speaker 1 (06:21):
So my biggest concern for you, Ruta, is has this
impacted the peptonics peptides at all?

Speaker 5 (06:28):
Well, no, the good news is that one of my
better days in the last week and a bit has
been the Sunday, and of course every Sunday night is
when I have to have a shower, make sure my
hair is nice, dry, clean, and then I go with
the peptide infusions in the forehead, mainly in the forehead,
and the crown at the back.

Speaker 1 (06:44):
How fast through that are you?

Speaker 5 (06:46):
I believe I'm seven or maybe eight weeks. I think
I've got to have another break at some point.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
Can we go back a bit? Because I've just realised
that there's potentially a correlation between your peptides and this illness.
I mean, have you Googled it?

Speaker 1 (07:01):
No.

Speaker 2 (07:01):
Any side effects?

Speaker 8 (07:03):
No, no.

Speaker 5 (07:03):
No side effects from the peptonics regime.

Speaker 3 (07:06):
No, they're safe.

Speaker 1 (07:06):
They've been tested.

Speaker 2 (07:07):
Zero side effects from medication? That would seem very unusual. Nah,
they're fine. I mean, even with your chondral soldiering on,
there are some side effects to that medication, obviously.

Speaker 5 (07:17):
Well, I guess the main side effect of the peptonics
regime is just getting a massive rug of hair on you.

Speaker 6 (07:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (07:22):
On your head as well.

Speaker 6 (07:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (07:23):
That is a good point.

Speaker 5 (07:24):
It's going to be awesome.

Speaker 1 (07:26):
And the pressure it's going to put on your relationship
after all the additional attention you're going to get.

Speaker 2 (07:30):
Oh, imagine all the attention.

Speaker 1 (07:31):
When that hairline comes in.

Speaker 5 (07:33):
I am imagining it.

Speaker 2 (07:34):
Does it talk about that on the packet?

Speaker 1 (07:36):
No, it doesn't.

Speaker 5 (07:37):
But it does on the AI ads where they make
the cartoon versions of the sad songs.

Speaker 2 (07:42):
Just people looking.

Speaker 1 (07:43):
Which is how you know they're safe. Because they say
that on the AI ads.

Speaker 2 (07:47):
Did we get to the bottom of what was wrong
with you?

Speaker 6 (07:50):
Nah.

Speaker 2 (07:50):
That's alright.

Speaker 1 (07:53):
I suppose it doesn't matter now that he's sweet.

Speaker 2 (07:55):
You seem fine. You seem good.

Speaker 5 (07:57):
I feel normal. Well, as normal as can be.

Speaker 2 (08:01):
Well, welcome back. It's nice to have you back. If
you'll be interested in this Manai, guess who I ran
into yesterday?

Speaker 6 (08:11):
Nope.

Speaker 1 (08:12):
No idea.

Speaker 2 (08:12):
Captain Obvious.

Speaker 1 (08:14):
That used to work here.

Speaker 2 (08:15):
Remember Captain Obvious?

Speaker 1 (08:17):
Is this too boring for 617? Two dudes reminisce over
a workmate that you guys don't know?

Speaker 2 (08:21):
Captain Obvious, it was named Captain Obvious because he would
turn up to situations, like you'd be at a work
party or something, and he'd turn up and he'd go,
beer o'clock, is it?

Speaker 1 (08:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (08:31):
You'd be drinking a beer, or he'd go, you'd be
on a dance floor, and he'd be like, dancing, are you?
Whatever his opening line was always exactly... Sincere, earnest.

Speaker 1 (08:42):
What you were doing. But delivered with such enthusiasm as well.
You're just walking in like, standing on the floor this morning, fellas.

Speaker 2 (08:50):
Breathing, are we?

Speaker 1 (08:52):
Respiratory system operating, is it?

Speaker 7 (08:54):
Boys?

Speaker 2 (08:55):
Existing.

Speaker 5 (08:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (08:57):
What's that? Blinking, is it, fellas?

Speaker 2 (09:00):
Captain Obvious.

Speaker 1 (09:01):
Captain Obvious. He used to kill me. We used to
play a game where.
If he walked in, how many things could he say
before he said something that wasn't obvious? And every phrase
that he said would be a run. He'd be like, oh,
how many? I think he only ever got like three.

Speaker 2 (09:18):
I never heard Captain Obvious ever say anything that wasn't obvious.
I never had a conversation with Captain Obvious other than
just that first line.

Speaker 1 (09:26):
I never heard an opinion from Captain Obvious.

Speaker 2 (09:29):
He doesn't have an opinion on anything.

Speaker 1 (09:31):
He's a radio host too.

Speaker 2 (09:33):
Captain Obvious?

Speaker 1 (09:33):
Yeah, Captain Obvious is a radio host.

Speaker 2 (09:35):
Was he actually a host, Captain Obvious?

Speaker 1 (09:38):
He is now. I don't want to say where, and
I know that I've inflamed the conspiracy theory proportion of
our audience, but yeah, he would just come in and
just be like, white t-shirt is it today, Jerry?

Speaker 2 (09:53):
I reckon everybody knows a Captain Obvious, but it's not
until someone names them Captain Obvious that you really realise
what their main trait is.

Speaker 1 (10:02):
I think for this guy though it was the frequency
with which it was like 100% hit rate every single
thing he ever said to you was just Captain Obvious
yep which I don't know maybe we're doing as well
but just doing that but Yeah, I reckon. Glasses on
your face. Use those to read, dear Jerry.

Speaker 2 (10:26):
Oh, your eyesight's failing now, is it?

Speaker 1 (10:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (10:29):
So, yep, okay, Captain Obvious.

Speaker 1 (10:31):
And you use those to hear what you're saying on
the radio? Is that what the.

Speaker 2 (10:35):
I can't imagine what Captain Obvious's voice... Although, you know,
was talking about Captain Obvious too boring for 6.20? Was
it too obvious?

Speaker 4 (10:43):
Jerry and Mania, the Hodaki Breakfast.

Speaker 2 (10:51):
Ah, look at the time, 6.30. Time for your latest
sport headlines. Thanks to Export Ultra, the beer for here.
Black Caps T20 opener Finn Allen has been signed by
the Melbourne Stars in the biggest deal in Big Bash
League cricket history. The 27-year-old signed a three-year contract and
it's worth a reported $ 740, 000 for at least the first season.

Speaker 1 (11:12):
I'm hearing rumours that's actually in New Zealand dollars, not Australian, so...
Thoughts and prayers with Finn Allen. He's been shortchanged.

Speaker 2 (11:21):
Allen spent two campaigns with the Perth Scorchers, where he
won the title, and the Golden Bat as the competition's
top run scorer this year, which is why he's getting $ 740, 000.

Speaker 1 (11:29):
Man, I should have stuck with that cricket thing. I
could have had $ 740, 000.

Speaker 2 (11:35):
Potentially could make $ 2. 1 million in three years.

Speaker 1 (11:39):
That's assuming that it doesn't go up. Like, it may
go up.

Speaker 2 (11:43):
Well, I wonder whether it can't go up. Do you
know what I mean? It's 740 maximum. Might go down.

Speaker 1 (11:49):
Might go up.

Speaker 2 (11:51):
Could go up.

Speaker 1 (11:52):
Might stay the same.

Speaker 2 (11:53):
Could go down.

Speaker 1 (11:53):
Is this too boring for 631?

Speaker 2 (11:55):
Change is coming to the All Blacks for the final
match against the Springboks, the Bolton and Baltimore. But how
much is too much is a question Coach Dave Rennie
will have pondered this week. Certainly will have. That'll be
a number of questions Dave Rennie will be pondering, I imagine.
The team is named at 8am this morning.

Speaker 1 (12:13):
Oh, that's exciting.

Speaker 2 (12:14):
We can tell you what it is in an hour
and a half.

Speaker 1 (12:16):
Would you change anything? Because this is the decider. Whoever
wins this one wins the whole tournament, as we've already discussed.
So would you change the team? I.

Speaker 2 (12:28):
I've got to a point now, I'm a nice steward,
where I don't understand selections and I don't pretend that
I know more about who should be in the team
and who shouldn't be in the team than the coaches
who spend hours looking at data.

Speaker 1 (12:39):
No, that's the most fun part. To treat your opinion
as good as the facts that they've been studying.

Speaker 2 (12:45):
I look at the game, I analyse it, I go
back and over it and over and over it and
I look at the performance but then I'm not sure
if that person could have then had a good game
or a bad game or maybe could play better the
next week. I'm not sure. I'm not a coach. I
don't understand their potential. No.

Speaker 1 (12:59):
There will be a couple of changes, though.

Speaker 6 (13:00):
Injuries.

Speaker 1 (13:01):
Big injuries. Made one to Adi Sarvia, which is gutting.

Speaker 2 (13:05):
Looking back at that game, my second watch, I realised
what an important moment in the match that was when
Adi Sarvia went off. We were ahead on the scoreboard.

Speaker 1 (13:13):
Head scored two tries.

Speaker 2 (13:14):
Yeah, we were looking really good at that point. So, yeah,
that's a tragedy. Meanwhile, a final minute penalty kick 15
metres in from touches snatched Manawatu a 27-25 win over
Taranaki in Palmerston North.

Speaker 1 (13:29):
Here's a fun fact for you. That is the first
victory by Manawatu over Taranaki in 13 years.

Speaker 2 (13:35):
Is that right?

Speaker 1 (13:36):
Yes, that is right.

Speaker 2 (13:38):
I'm surprised at that.

Speaker 1 (13:39):
Or I made it up.

Speaker 5 (13:40):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (13:40):
The victory is the Turbos third in a row, Manai.

Speaker 1 (13:42):
That's a fact for me. Okay. Who won fact factor there?

Speaker 2 (13:46):
Just out-factored you. And the One New Zealand Stadium, also
known as Te Kaha, continues to attract big events to
Christchurch with the Wellington Phoenix men and women confirmed to
play a doubleheader next Waitangi Day.

Speaker 1 (13:59):
Soccer game to celebrate Waitangi Day.

Speaker 5 (14:02):
Beauty.

Speaker 1 (14:02):
Coming up next, I've come up with a new test
for how you feel about someone, and I thought Let's
test our relationships with one another and run that test
on each other up next. So a test has come
across my desk here and I thought we could all
do it together as a little bit of a team
bonding experiment.

Speaker 2 (14:23):
Love a test on a Friday.

Speaker 1 (14:25):
Pop quiz. So the test is called the two bears
and a puppy test. It's a helpful test for determining
how you feel about someone. It is. In order to
find out how you actually feel about someone, ask yourself this.
Would I have two beers with this person? And would
I allow this person to look after my puppy over
the weekend? Some people are a no and no. I

(14:46):
would not have two beers with that person. I would
not let them look after my puppy. These people are
to be avoided at all costs. Some people are yes
and no. So I would have a beer with this person,
but I would not let them look after my puppy.
These people are to be cautiously trusted. Some people are
no and yes. I wouldn't have a beer, but they
can look after my puppy. These people are no fun,
but they make a world of better place for puppy's

(15:08):
Especially some people are yes and yes. These people are wonderful.
And your life and work are better for having them
in your life. Seek them out. Collaborate with them. Enjoy
their company.

Speaker 2 (15:15):
Okay. Well, a couple of things to talk about here. Firstly,
what about the idea of looking after a puppy?

Speaker 1 (15:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (15:22):
So what? You'd punish someone with a puppy? Puppies are
bloody punishing things. They are.

Speaker 1 (15:27):
But what if you're going away for the weekend and
you can't take the puppy with you? You've got to
leave it somewhere. Yeah.

Speaker 7 (15:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (15:34):
There's some people that you'd punish the puppy with, and
there's some people that you wouldn't punish the puppy with.

Speaker 1 (15:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (15:38):
You're thinking, it's not about the fact of whether or
not they're responsible. It's whether or not.

Speaker 1 (15:43):
You're prepared to- Want to inflict this punishment on them.

Speaker 4 (15:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (15:46):
Because it's pretty punishing. I mean, that thing's going to
ruin your carpet.

Speaker 7 (15:49):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (15:49):
It's going to potentially destroy your furniture.

Speaker 1 (15:53):
If your house isn't set up to have a dog
in it, and then all of a sudden you've got
a puppy, you think it's going to be cute, and
you're just going to be cuddling on the couch. Now
there's a turd in your pantry. Now it's chewed your
new couch to bits.

Speaker 2 (16:04):
As a kid, we had a dog, and I remember
when she was a puppy. And see, I look back
on that as a kid, and I just loved that moment.
She was so fun. She was constantly playing. Because as
a kid, you've got the energy for it.

Speaker 7 (16:17):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (16:17):
Because you're also a puppy.

Speaker 8 (16:19):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (16:19):
So puppies and puppies go real well together.

Speaker 7 (16:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (16:22):
When we got our puppy, Yoko- I was like, oh, God.
You realize as an adult, puppies are no fun.

Speaker 1 (16:31):
That's why you kicked it heaps, eh?

Speaker 2 (16:32):
Yeah. Puppies are annoying. They'll eat your furniture. They'll chew
things that you like. The other day, I discovered these really,
really expensive noise-canceling headphones that I bought and hardly used.
But I found them again because Michigan needed to use
them for exams. And I pulled them out. And I'm like, oh,
here we go.

Speaker 1 (16:49):
We've got these.

Speaker 2 (16:50):
These will be good for you. And I forgot the
dog had chewed the crap out of them, and now
they don't work anymore. I'm like, oh, that's right. That
was in that chewing stage that the dog went through.

Speaker 1 (17:00):
They can be brutal in everything. Yeah, they can be
brutal because as an adult, you're like, look, I've done
everything right today. I was good at work. I was productive.
I worked out. I looked after myself, filled my cup
up so I can help my family. And you get
home and you're like, something's gone wrong and I had
nothing to do with that. That pisses me off. So yes,
I can understand that. But let's go around and do
this test now then, Jerry. Would you have two beers

(17:21):
with me?

Speaker 2 (17:22):
Yes, of course.

Speaker 1 (17:24):
Would you inflict a puppy on me?

Speaker 2 (17:25):
Well, I wouldn't want to have to inflict a puppy,
but I would trust.

Speaker 1 (17:30):
Would you trust me or would you trust my partner?

Speaker 2 (17:34):
I would trust you supported by your partner.

Speaker 3 (17:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (17:37):
You know what I mean? Like I know that Jeff's
there or thereabouts. And so she's in and around the idea. Oh,
she's only a phone call away for you.

Speaker 1 (17:44):
She is but a phone call away.

Speaker 2 (17:46):
She's but a terse phone call away. Okay.

Speaker 1 (17:48):
So that's a yes and yes. Yep. Okay. Would I
have two beers with you?

Speaker 5 (17:52):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (17:53):
Would I let you look after my puppy? Well, it
depends what kind of puppy I've got because famously your
dog Yoko likes to rip dogs to bits. So I
don't know how.

Speaker 2 (18:05):
So that's a no?

Speaker 1 (18:06):
I don't know how I would go.

Speaker 2 (18:08):
I wouldn't trust my dog with a puppy.

Speaker 1 (18:10):
No, I wouldn't trust my puppy with your dog. So
that's a yes and no, I think. But it's not
because of you. Well, although you also kicked that dog.
So it's a yes and no.

Speaker 2 (18:19):
Well, what about in my situation? What about a teenager?
Would I allow... Would you allow me to look after
your teenager?

Speaker 6 (18:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (18:27):
Would I inflict my.

Speaker 1 (18:28):
Would they want to have two beers with me?

Speaker 2 (18:31):
They actually would.

Speaker 1 (18:36):
They'd be.

Speaker 4 (18:39):
Certainly keen.

Speaker 2 (18:41):
It's a huge weekend coming up for the Warriors fans
around the country. Like me, for example. Wearing my merch
on the outside.

Speaker 1 (18:48):
And on the inside.

Speaker 2 (18:49):
For the first time ever.

Speaker 1 (18:50):
Well, it's funny you say that because Bex, I met her,
made a text in just before. She said, Jez, I
saw you on Instagram in a Warriors shirt, and I agree,
it looks weird on you. Effing weird on you.

Speaker 2 (18:58):
Thank you very much, Bex.

Speaker 1 (18:59):
Not sure it's your age, though. I think it's just
a subset of one. I love your work team. You
wear the merch. Simples. Beauty.

Speaker 2 (19:07):
So, yeah, huge weekend coming up. But imagine if you
were someone who puts $ 10 on them each year at
the start of the season to win the grand final.
Because obviously the odds at the beginning of the season
to win the grand final, much longer than now, when
they've narrowed down quite a bit. And imagine if you

(19:27):
were a person who had done that for the last
26 years.

Speaker 1 (19:30):
I can't, Gerry. I'd need to talk to someone.

Speaker 2 (19:33):
Well, luckily, Manai, our next guest has done just that.
We can talk to him. His name is Mark Thomas.
Good morning, Mark. Welcome to the show.

Speaker 4 (19:40):
G'day, how are you? And you're talking like this is
something strange. I don't get it.

Speaker 1 (19:45):
Yeah, does everyone not put $ 10 on the Warriors to
win every year?

Speaker 4 (19:48):
Yeah, well, it's been something that's been a tradition for
me for, I don't know, at least 20 years, so
one day it's going to happen.

Speaker 1 (19:55):
And I guess that the closest you've been is 2002
and 2011. What are your memories of those years?

Speaker 4 (20:03):
Oh, 2002, it was the same sort of vibe as
it is now. Everyone was talking about it. There were
lots of fans wearing the merch. But back then, I
had a record shop, Real Groovy, in Wellington, and I
was encouraging all the staff to get behind the team.
And we were actually faxing, in those days, the team
over in Sydney, just with messages of support. And that

(20:26):
was a great game, man. We had a party at
our house, and it was a good night, apart from
the result.

Speaker 2 (20:31):
Didn't matter, though. Mark, obviously 26 years, $ 10 a year,
you're down $ 260 at this stage. What were the odds
at the beginning of the season this year?

Speaker 4 (20:43):
I actually checked that last night because I hadn't even
looked at that, but I think I stand to win
$ 230 if they do it, so that means pretty much
all my money back.

Speaker 1 (20:53):
You're just going to end up square if they win
this whole thing.

Speaker 4 (20:56):
Yeah, yeah, that's no problem. No problem for me.

Speaker 1 (20:59):
Well, yeah, not only are you square, but you're also right,
and I think that's a big part of betting. Mark,
what's the biggest odds that you remember going into a season?

Speaker 4 (21:07):
Oh, I honestly can't remember, but as we all know,
there's been some seasons where it hasn't ended well, and,
you know, the odds are pretty good at the start
of the next year honestly this has just been a
tradition I'll do it at the start of the year
without fail and it doesn't matter what the odds are
and I never bet against the Warriors so it doesn't
matter whether I'm in a tipping comp or whatever so

(21:29):
obviously occasionally I don't end up at the top of the.

Speaker 2 (21:33):
Tipping table We're talking to Mark Thomas he's put $ 10
on the Warriors to win the grand final every year
for 26 years are you confident this year Mark how
are you feeling?

Speaker 4 (21:46):
Look, I'm confident every year, but yes, there's something about
this team, the way that the coaching staff talk about
and the way the team are talking in their interviews.
When the team was named on Tuesday, I think everyone
was anticipating who that was going to be and who
was going to make the side. As soon as I
saw that, I was like, wow, you don't get much

(22:08):
stronger than that. I mean, there's a lot of talk
about how good the Dolphins are. We've got to get
through them, but... I am confident, although slightly nervous too.

Speaker 1 (22:18):
We're in our Warriors finery, our Warriors regalia this morning.
We're wearing it for the Waz. Mark, I've got a
couple of jerseys on. Jerry's got his scarf that he's
been looking for for a while. But I understand you've
got quite a wide range of Warriors memorabilia. Outside of jerseys,
what kind of stuff do you have?

Speaker 4 (22:34):
Oh, man, you know, I've been picking up little things
over the years, as most fans will be, but, you know,
everything from, I guess, I've got some signed jerseys of
Jandals drink wear. I've even got a Warriors fridge I
won in a Woodstock promo a while ago. But I
think my prize position, I found a commemorative mini-framed jersey

(22:55):
that came out at the start of the 95 season,
and it's framed and it's signed by all the original
players and staff, and it I've never seen another one,
and I found it in one of my favorite shops,
the David White Gallery in Wellington.

Speaker 2 (23:09):
I'm just having a look here, Mark, and it says
that you own Warrior Sheets.

Speaker 4 (23:14):
Yeah, well, they came out, I think they were about,
I don't know, 2010 or something. They issued some sheets,
so they're out in the garage somewhere.

Speaker 2 (23:25):
You won't be bringing them out of the garage and
soiling those for a.

Speaker 4 (23:30):
I don't think so. But hey, if we have the
grand final party here at home, everything's going to be
on display.

Speaker 2 (23:37):
Mark Thomas has put $ 10 on the Warriors to win
every year. Thank you so much for your time this morning.
Best of luck with everything, Mark.

Speaker 4 (23:44):
Cheers, man. Thanks a lot.

Speaker 2 (23:48):
I see here that someone's spent $ 5, 000 at the beginning
of the season. Oh no, when the odds were $ 11,
that's the biggest bet that the TAB's got.

Speaker 6 (23:55):
$ 55, 000. Yep.

Speaker 4 (23:57):
Jerry and Mania, the Hauraki breakfast.

Speaker 1 (24:00):
Just quickly, a couple of texts to rip through here.
Happy Waz Day, boys. Got my shirt on for support.
That comes through on 3483. Someone who wears their merch
on the outside, Jerry, just like you, as of this morning.
Another one here, we're talking about the, actually, just quickly,
should the Warriors do a cardigan for Jerry? Would you

(24:21):
wear a cardigan?

Speaker 2 (24:21):
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.

Speaker 1 (24:24):
Well, you're saying it's because you're too old that you
can't wear the Warriors.

Speaker 2 (24:26):
Yeah, but I'm not old. I'm not cardigan age yet.

Speaker 1 (24:29):
Well, what's in between a jersey, a playing jersey and
a cardigan?

Speaker 2 (24:33):
What do you... Maybe a pair of slippers? I don't know.

Speaker 1 (24:38):
And then earlier on in the show, we were talking about, like,
if you can't tell what's real on the news or,
you know, on your social media feed anymore, do you
just end up churning out? Richard Sextor said, I showed
my kids 9-11 footage and they asked if it was fake.

Speaker 6 (24:52):
Well.

Speaker 2 (24:52):
Yeah, I can see how they think that it was.

Speaker 1 (24:54):
Yeah. Just a crazy thing to show your kids. So
yesterday I got an email that sent my blood pressure
through the roof. I received it at 5.54 a.m. yesterday
on the show, and you guys didn't even notice.

Speaker 2 (25:10):
Well, that's why I don't look at my email.

Speaker 1 (25:13):
Yeah, because it can set you in a foul mood
for the rest of the day.

Speaker 2 (25:15):
I've never opened my NZME emails. I never will. I
don't know the password. I don't know the interface. I've
got no idea.

Speaker 1 (25:21):
You now can't even log into your computer.

Speaker 2 (25:23):
No.

Speaker 6 (25:24):
No.

Speaker 1 (25:24):
You can't, actually. And in fact, when we switched... Oh, look, anyway.
You now have to log into the doors to get
into the studio as well. It's a whole thing. And
it's driving us insane. I think we'll look back on
this era of two-factor. Ruda had a three-factor authentication the
other day.

Speaker 7 (25:40):
A what?

Speaker 1 (25:41):
A three-factor authentication.

Speaker 2 (25:42):
Three factors, Ruda.

Speaker 5 (25:44):
Yeah. I had to start by putting in my password,
which you'd accept. And then it said, we're going to
send you an email and you're going to get a code.
So then enter that. And I was like, okay, well,
surely I'm in. And then it said, we're going to
send you a text message to your phone and then
you're going to enter that. And do you know what
that was for? Buying dog biscuits online. I was buying
dog biscuits online and they wanted three factors.

Speaker 1 (26:06):
Oh my God.

Speaker 2 (26:07):
Were they worried that you were going to eat the
dog biscuits?

Speaker 9 (26:09):
No.

Speaker 2 (26:09):
What were they worried about?

Speaker 5 (26:10):
I don't know. They were worried I wasn't me and
I had my own credit card details.

Speaker 2 (26:14):
How far do we go? Does it ever get to
five factors?

Speaker 1 (26:16):
Well, this is the thing. It happened to me the
other day. I tried to log into my work emails
and then it was like, now open your phone. Now
we've sent you a thing to your phone. Now we've
sent you an email back to your thing. Now open
up the phone again and then enter the code. And
I entered the code and then I went to scratch
my nose and then it brought the face scanner thing up,
but my hands in front of my face. And it's like, no,
start the whole process again. I was like, oh my God.
So after five minutes, I can't even scratch my nose anymore.

(26:39):
or I'm getting logged out. So yesterday when I received
this email at 5.54 a.m., it could have derailed the show.
It didn't because I'm made of sternest stuff. The email
came from Google, and it said critical security alert. Some
of your passwords were found online, and they've been involved
in a data breach from a site or app that

(26:59):
you use. Your Google account is not affected, but you
should change basically every password you've got.

Speaker 2 (27:06):
Oh, my God. I know that this is just, I'd
give up at that point.

Speaker 3 (27:11):
I have.

Speaker 6 (27:11):
I have.

Speaker 1 (27:12):
I'm like, so I don't want a password on anything.

Speaker 6 (27:14):
No.

Speaker 1 (27:14):
Okay, so let's start there. I don't want a password
on my emails. Hack them. My bank account, I've got
no money anyway. So I don't want a password on anything.
You're making me put a password on it because you
want me to have it. And now you're telling me
the passwords have been leaked? Then take my password off
every day. I don't ever want to have to log
into anything ever again.

Speaker 2 (27:30):
So this is you, Minaya. This is the interesting thing, okay?
That's you. You're a 35-year-old dude who is pretty good
with technology.

Speaker 1 (27:37):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (27:39):
What happens if you're like 80?

Speaker 1 (27:41):
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 2 (27:44):
You can't live your life anymore without being involved in
all of this stuff.

Speaker 1 (27:48):
What are you doing?

Speaker 2 (27:49):
You must just be like, I've got no connection to
this world at all.

Speaker 1 (27:52):
No, my missus said last night, like they asked her,
she had to update another password. She goes, I've got
no more passwords in me. I've got, I'm out of passwords.
She's gone through every childhood pet, you know, the calf
she won calf club with. Dude.

Speaker 2 (28:03):
Shouldn't have said that into a microphone. You know what's
happening here though? This was predicted in revelations in the Bible.

Speaker 3 (28:10):
Of course.

Speaker 2 (28:12):
We're getting microchips.

Speaker 1 (28:14):
Give it to me.

Speaker 2 (28:14):
And we're getting microchips.

Speaker 1 (28:15):
I'm happy to.

Speaker 2 (28:16):
It's all going to be microchip based and you're going
to put it up against the screen and this is
the way it all got in. It was bloody passwords
which did it.

Speaker 1 (28:22):
If it means I never have to put a password
into anything ever again, I'd be happy to. So for
only the second time in NRL history, the Warriors have
finished in the top two after the regular season.

Speaker 2 (28:42):
They haven't done it since topping the table back in 2002.
Did they top the table back in 2002 because of
the salary cap issue?

Speaker 1 (28:50):
Yeah, that was the Bulldogs one where they went over
the salary cap.

Speaker 2 (28:52):
That's right. They're also in the playoffs for the third
time in four seasons. And it all starts tomorrow against
the Dollies, the Dolphins. TAB have got the Dolphins at $ 2.

Speaker 1 (29:02):
45.

Speaker 2 (29:02):
The Warriors at $ 1. 55. And one man who I'm sure
has tickets to the game at 6.05 at Comedia Stadium,
Mount Smart, tomorrow night, Dai Henwood. Dai, are you nervous
or excited about this?

Speaker 8 (29:17):
Well, to be honest, I'm a little chilly at the moment.
I'm just in a wheelie bin at the bottom of
the south stand out in Mount Smart, just getting my
early prep on. You know, just waiting for Lily World
to open tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (29:32):
How's the surface?

Speaker 8 (29:34):
The surface is looking good. It's quite dewy at the
moment with a bit of rain overnight. but oh here
he's one of those rich bad bastards all good all
good how.

Speaker 1 (29:46):
Do you feel about this game i feel like the
dolphins are the team we didn't want to play but
you know we're gonna have to go through everyone at
some point how do you feel about the team.

Speaker 8 (29:55):
Completely i was like when i initially heard we're playing
the dolphins What worries me is their strength is our weakness. Their, like,
centres and wing combination, especially on their left edge, which
is our right edge where Ali and Chance will be,
that's where they just fire and tear teams apart. So

(30:16):
we've struggled over the last couple of weeks that way,
but also I feel we've had an eye on the finals.
We haven't been playing our full game. team. At the moment,
I'm not too stressed. I'm just thinking what an awesome
year it's been. The fact that we have a really
young team, so it's not like this is the end
of our premiership window. But we have such a tight

(30:38):
rivalry with these guys. No one's ever smashed anyone. The
stats are flying around. Every game's been decided by four
points or less over the last six. We're four apiece.
We're both coming in on huge winning streaks. We've won
six games in a row. They've won seven. What does

(30:59):
worry me is Mount Smart's not actually as big a
fortress as we think. We tend to struggle a bit
more at Mount Smart in terms of we have closer wins,
whereas we tend to win with bigger margins when we
play in Aussie. But it's just going to be fizzing
out there. I think everyone should just soak it in.

(31:21):
This is a second-chance game, so if we lose, we
start going sudden death. But if we win, we skip
a week, and then we're just playing a straight prelim.

Speaker 1 (31:30):
How do you feel about the quote from Volandes this week,
who's the boss of the NRL, saying that he reckons
he's 90% sure we're going to play that next game
at Eden Park?

Speaker 8 (31:43):
Yeah, I mean, I've been seeing all the conspiracy theories.
That's why they went round with it. eight-ticket allocations, so
Mount Smart sold out ridiculously quickly. I think it's a
bit of an interesting one for me because we historically
performed badly at Eden Park. The last time we played

(32:06):
there was, what, 2016, so none of this current squad
has actually played at Eden Park, so it'll be like
going to a different ground. They won't have the prep,
they won't know the changing rooms, the run-out. I do
think it's awesome for fans that it means that more
people from around Aotearoa can actually get to the game.

(32:27):
And 50,000 people is awesome. And, I mean, I live
in West Auckland, so I can walk to the train station,
discover the trains aren't working, then get a cab to
Eden Park.

Speaker 1 (32:40):
As opposed to having to do that to Mount Smart.

Speaker 2 (32:42):
What a lovely balanced view that was, Di Henwood.

Speaker 6 (32:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (32:46):
I was going to say, Dye, the phrase our year
gets bandied about a lot. I think a lot of
people think that that means we're going to win the
whole thing, and I do think we are this year.
But even if we don't, it's still our year, isn't it?
Like the groundswell behind the Warriors, the way they've been playing,
the record that they've had, I consider that to be
our year.

Speaker 8 (33:05):
Look, I've been sort of trawling through lists and all
the carry-on, and the reason why it is our year,
regardless of what happens– No team has been on their fourth, fifth,
and sixth string hards and made it to the top two, right? Like, historically,

(33:26):
you need to have a gun halfback, which is why
a lot of the Aussie media pundits are saying only
the Roosters and Penrith can do the grand final, because
they've got, like, DCE and Nathan Cleary. But this... This
is just becoming our year every year because Andrew Webster
has set up such an amazing vibe in the team.

(33:48):
The owner has set up such an amazing club from
the top down. Cameron George, the CEO, is epic. We're
just in such a lovely window at the moment that
everyone should enjoy the Warriors. They're exactly how a sporting
franchise should be run.

Speaker 2 (34:04):
Dianne, I know that you go deep into some pretty
weird stats and analysis during the week. Can you just
share with us, this is a question without warning, but
I'm quite keen to know, what's the weirdest, deepest, darkest
hole that you've gone into in terms of research this week?

Speaker 8 (34:24):
Strangely, my research has been around why all teams in
our club tend to have the same defensive deficiency of
having our wingers jag in. Like, for instance, against the Knights,
they had a player extra, yet still felt like they

(34:46):
had an overlap. And so this got me down into
subscriptions for Schoolboy League. And, you know, your partner comes
in and you're here playing somebody under 14 for the TV.
and you keep pausing and rewinding. It's quite disturbing for

(35:06):
those who don't know what you're doing. But I've been
watching a lot of the younger teams, the Jersey flag
and that, and I find it very interesting, and I
haven't quite found the answer, why our defensive structures are
like that. And it seems to be people are running
out and trying to do spot tackles and fix the

(35:28):
issue by themselves. I think we beat the Dolphins. is
our back line just sticks in its defensive structure. Webby
didn't seem too stressed about this at the press conference,
and we hold them back. My pick is, though, that
we're going to do what we did to Penrith a
few weeks ago at home, where we just come out

(35:49):
and we play so hard in the first 20 minutes
and blow them off the park.

Speaker 2 (35:53):
Amen. Di Hemwood, thank you so much for your time
this morning.

Speaker 8 (35:57):
Have a beautiful weekend. Up the wards. Enjoy your rugby league.

Speaker 2 (36:01):
$ 100.

Speaker 1 (36:23):
Voucher up for grabs this morning. Let's go to Tim
from Hamilton. Good morning, Tim. How are you going?

Speaker 5 (36:31):
Yeah, good, mate.

Speaker 6 (36:31):
Good stuff.

Speaker 1 (36:32):
Story getting there. I see you have an arthritic knee
just like Gerry.

Speaker 6 (36:36):
Nah, nothing on my knee, mate.

Speaker 2 (36:38):
Oh, OK, great.

Speaker 1 (36:40):
It's just Gerry's knee.

Speaker 2 (36:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (36:43):
Are you a photographer?

Speaker 6 (36:45):
I do dabble in a bit of photography.

Speaker 1 (36:47):
Are you from Hamilton?

Speaker 5 (36:49):
I am.

Speaker 1 (36:50):
Will you be representing St John's College in Hamilton this morning?

Speaker 6 (36:54):
That is correct.

Speaker 1 (36:54):
Okay, I'm having a look down. I can't see. Yes,
they're on there already once.

Speaker 2 (36:59):
There they are, St John's. I remember debating against St
John's once. Tim, do you want to take... I can't remember.

Speaker 1 (37:06):
What was the moot?

Speaker 2 (37:07):
I can't remember.

Speaker 1 (37:09):
You don't remember the moot?

Speaker 2 (37:09):
I just remember debating St John's, but I've put that
out of my mind. Would you like to take... We've
got some Libra sanitary pads in front of us here, Tim.
And we've got the trivia, we've got the questions inside
of the pads. Just a question for you, do you
want the invisible questions, the extra questions, the maternity questions,
or the questions from the ultra-thin?

Speaker 6 (37:31):
Any recommendations?

Speaker 2 (37:34):
I would go, well, we've had the maternity, we've had
the invisible this week. Why don't you go with the extra?
You seem like an extra sort of a guy, Tim.

Speaker 7 (37:41):
I'm an extra, OK.

Speaker 5 (37:41):
All right.

Speaker 6 (37:43):
Tim?

Speaker 1 (37:43):
Tim?

Speaker 2 (37:44):
Answering the extra questions from the Libra sanitary pads. $ 100
Bunnings voucher up for grads. Let's get into it. Question
one for Tim. Who wrote the novel 1984? George Orwell.

Speaker 6 (37:59):
Correct.

Speaker 2 (38:00):
What is the largest internal organ in the human body?

Speaker 6 (38:05):
Is it the liver?

Speaker 2 (38:06):
Yes, it is. What is the largest island in the world?

Speaker 8 (38:10):
Um....

Speaker 2 (38:15):
No, it's Greenland. Which famous character lived at 221B Baker Street?

Speaker 6 (38:23):
Oh, he's done it.

Speaker 1 (38:24):
He's done it. Debate that, Gerry.

Speaker 2 (38:27):
Too easy.

Speaker 1 (38:27):
He's done it. $ 100.

Speaker 2 (38:28):
They teach them well at St John's, that's for sure.

Speaker 6 (38:32):
Yeah, I was part of that debating team back in
the day, mate. You had no chance.

Speaker 2 (38:36):
Tower jump.

Speaker 1 (38:37):
Do you want to hear the last question, Tim, see
how you would have gone?

Speaker 4 (38:41):
I'll go on.

Speaker 1 (38:41):
This actually would have been your specialist category, I think.
And what year did the 9-11 terror attacks take place? 2001?

Speaker 7 (38:47):
Yeah, see, he does a lot.

Speaker 1 (38:50):
Of research into that, does Tim. Congratulations, mate. $ 100 Bunnings
voucher coming your way.

Speaker 6 (38:56):
Well done, kid, guys.

Speaker 2 (39:01):
On Fridays, as tradition here on the Hauraki Breakfast, we
do the Friday Countdown, where we count down the top
five things in a particular category in the past, We
found some interesting things. Beaches, rivers, dogs, sharks, eons, fonts.
That was good.

Speaker 7 (39:19):
Eons.

Speaker 2 (39:20):
Eons. The top five eons.

Speaker 1 (39:22):
Yes. I believe we even have a funky sting for it.
It goes something like this.

Speaker 2 (39:28):
Last week we did numbers.

Speaker 1 (39:31):
I think, was it a million was the number one number?

Speaker 2 (39:33):
That's a good one.

Speaker 1 (39:34):
I think the number one was actually No One Knows
by Queens of the Stone Age. This week there's been
a debate I hear raging out in the office around nuts.
Is this right, Zoe? Yeah.

Speaker 6 (39:44):
Yeah, we were just talking out in the office, and
there was a bag of mixed nuts, and I just
wanted to see which one everyone reached for.

Speaker 5 (39:49):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (39:50):
And what was the consensus out in the office?

Speaker 5 (39:52):
Cashew, quite popular.

Speaker 7 (39:53):
Yes.

Speaker 4 (39:54):
I actually preferred the hazel.

Speaker 2 (39:55):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (39:56):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (39:56):
That's interesting. That is. How, yeah, I mean, depends on
what you've got in your mixed nuts, because some nuts
don't go with other nuts. No.

Speaker 1 (40:04):
Whenever I get hold of the mixed nuts, you just
eat the chocolate out of that, don't you? And then
leave the nuts in there?

Speaker 2 (40:09):
What are you talking about? That's a trail mix, isn't it?

Speaker 1 (40:11):
Oh, am I talking Scroggins?

Speaker 2 (40:11):
I think you're going Scroggins.

Speaker 7 (40:13):
Um.

Speaker 1 (40:13):
Controversially, I don't like nuts. Don't like nuts.

Speaker 2 (40:18):
Wait on.

Speaker 3 (40:19):
I don't like nuts.

Speaker 2 (40:20):
There's something wrong with you. You don't like cake.

Speaker 1 (40:22):
I don't like cake.

Speaker 2 (40:23):
And you don't like nuts.

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

Speaker 2 (40:25):
Two of the greatest things on God's green earth.

Speaker 1 (40:28):
Nuts, to me, just taste like wood. I feel like
I'm eating tree bark when I'm eating a handful of nuts.
They're so dry.

Speaker 2 (40:37):
Wait for a second. Okay, hold on.

Speaker 1 (40:40):
High in calories. Don't bloody plug that into your fitness pal, mate.

Speaker 5 (40:43):
With good fats.

Speaker 8 (40:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (40:45):
Almonds. Are you saying you don't like almonds?

Speaker 1 (40:47):
I'm saying I don't like almonds. I certainly don't like
almond derivatives like almond milk.

Speaker 2 (40:53):
How do you milk an almond? Walnuts?

Speaker 1 (40:56):
Don't like walnuts.

Speaker 2 (40:58):
Cashews?

Speaker 1 (40:59):
I don't like cashews.

Speaker 2 (41:00):
Where do you sit on pecans?

Speaker 1 (41:01):
I will not sit on a pecan. In a pie
or otherwise.

Speaker 2 (41:06):
Are you telling me you don't like a pistachio if
it's been de-shelled?

Speaker 1 (41:09):
I'm telling you, shelled or otherwise, I don't like a pistachio.
And I'm going to save you some time here, Jerry.
There's not a nut you can name that I will
like because I don't like nuts.

Speaker 2 (41:19):
Macadamia nuts with chocolate around the outside.

Speaker 1 (41:21):
Now, I like chocolate, so you'll be able to trick me, yeah,
for sure. And I've got to be honest, a scorched almond.
What's that got inside it?

Speaker 2 (41:29):
How good?

Speaker 1 (41:30):
Is that an almond?

Speaker 2 (41:30):
Yeah, that's an almond.

Speaker 1 (41:31):
The clue's in the name, I suppose, isn't it?

Speaker 2 (41:33):
Nutella? Maybe. Scorched almonds. I could live on scorched almonds.
If someone said to me, there is no more food
in the world, you're just going to eat scorched almonds
for your whole life, I'd be like, sign me up.

Speaker 1 (41:49):
Oh, dude, that's my favorite part of Christmas. Over Christmas,
I documented every box of scorched almonds I ate. What?
Which was nine.

Speaker 2 (41:57):
I could eat a box of those no problems in
one sitting.

Speaker 1 (41:59):
Yes, no, 100% here. But it's the chocolate. It's not
the almond, really. Let's be honest with ourselves.

Speaker 2 (42:04):
The combo, though, devastating on the guts.

Speaker 7 (42:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (42:08):
That's a dangerous combination, that one.

Speaker 1 (42:10):
Okay, 500 people have texted in the exact same thing
off the back of my not liking nuts. Do you
want to guess what it is?

Speaker 2 (42:17):
What's wrong with you? No. You're not a human? No.
You're a loser.

Speaker 1 (42:22):
Zoe, do you want to guess?

Speaker 7 (42:23):
No.

Speaker 1 (42:24):
She knows what it is. How about these nuts, Mania?
What about these nuts? What about these nuts? What about
a nut sack? So those are the texts that have
come through on 348.

Speaker 2 (42:34):
Yeah, all those things will be considered, of course.

Speaker 1 (42:36):
What about Dez nuts?

Speaker 2 (42:38):
Dez nuts.

Speaker 1 (42:39):
I don't know what Dez has got to do with it.
Can you give Matty McGuire a happy 26th birthday? Thanks, guys,
from Claude. Macadamia and cashew, hazel, walnuts, chocolate, almond. Walnuts.
Hazelnuts are the worst, but then I hate Nutella.

Speaker 2 (42:53):
Okay, well, look. Brazil nuts.

Speaker 1 (42:55):
I mean, what?

Speaker 2 (42:56):
You don't like a Brazil nut?

Speaker 1 (42:58):
Here's two nuts that I can abide by.

Speaker 2 (43:01):
Three, actually.

Speaker 1 (43:01):
I'll give you three. How about that? Ginger nuts. Big
fan of a ginger nut.

Speaker 2 (43:06):
Love a ginger nut.

Speaker 1 (43:07):
I don't mind a wing nut.

Speaker 2 (43:08):
A wing nut? A person with giant ears?

Speaker 1 (43:11):
I don't like those. All right? But the actual... Bit
of hardware there.

Speaker 2 (43:17):
Oh, very easy to turn.

Speaker 1 (43:18):
Yeah, get it finger tight.

Speaker 5 (43:19):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (43:20):
And then those novelty nuts that hard cast dudes hang
off the back of their ute. You know, when you
pull up in traffic and there's just a set of
nuts hanging off the back of their ute.

Speaker 2 (43:29):
Ever had a mountain oyster?

Speaker 1 (43:31):
No, I haven't had a mountain oyster. Maybe I could
be swayed. What about you? What's your favourite nut?

Speaker 2 (43:36):
My favourite nut, I'll go macadamia, particularly chocolate coated. I
love a cashew. I mean, there isn't a nut I
don't like, actually. The humble peanuts? Love a peanut. Yeah,
there is not. I just, I'm a nut guy. I've
always been a nut guy.

Speaker 1 (43:50):
That's what they say about you. Text her on 3483.
My sister-in-law's a nuts. And Luke said, busting a nut.
How dare you, Luke. Give us a text, 3483. Or
give us a call, 0800 Hauraki, top five nuts. Never
miss Jerry and Mania. Set the Hauraki Breakfast podcast to
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Speaker 2 (44:14):
Friday, top five. Today we're talking about the top five nuts, 3483.
0800 HODAKI. You can vote on what you reckon. Here's
Andrew from NAPES who's on the line. Morning, Andrew. How
are you?

Speaker 8 (44:29):
Good morning, mate.

Speaker 2 (44:30):
I'm well.

Speaker 6 (44:30):
How are you?

Speaker 5 (44:31):
Good.

Speaker 2 (44:31):
You're a fan of nuts, Andrew.

Speaker 8 (44:34):
Yeah, a little bit.

Speaker 4 (44:35):
I just wonder if we could delineate between nuts and legumes.
Peanut grows on a vine, therefore it's more like a
broad bean.

Speaker 1 (44:47):
Is that right? So a peanut, not technically a nut? No,
it grows on a vine. Okay, tell me this then, Andrew,
the nut expert from Napes.

Speaker 6 (44:56):
Coconut.

Speaker 1 (44:57):
Is a coconut a nut? No.

Speaker 8 (44:58):
Oh, okay.

Speaker 1 (44:58):
Okay. It's a fruit, isn't it?

Speaker 8 (45:06):
Yeah, I think it might be.

Speaker 4 (45:07):
No, it doesn't have seeds in it.

Speaker 1 (45:10):
I'll tell you what, if you ask someone for a
handful of nuts and they brought you coconut, you'd be pissed.
So now we're going to... What is your favourite nut then, Andrew?

Speaker 8 (45:19):
I'm with you, mate.

Speaker 4 (45:20):
I think it's like eating wood, but I do like
a cashew. That's just about it, wholly and solely.

Speaker 2 (45:26):
Really, Andrew? You don't like wood? I mean, I.

Speaker 4 (45:31):
Well, I mean.

Speaker 2 (45:33):
Don't tell me you don't like cake. Do you like cake, Andrew?

Speaker 4 (45:37):
I was a baker for 13 years, so I'm sick
of bread, but I love a cake.

Speaker 2 (45:41):
Good to know. Thank God for that, because if you
tick both of those boxes, then I start to worry
about you like the knife.

Speaker 4 (45:49):
Yeah, walnuts can hop off too.

Speaker 2 (45:52):
I don't like walnuts. They're rubbish. They're rubbish.

Speaker 8 (45:54):
You need to play Walnut Tag under only Mary's Walnut
Tree with rotten walnuts.

Speaker 1 (45:58):
Yeah, yes.

Speaker 2 (45:58):
Bloody walnuts. The one thing I would say about nuts
that I don't love, they get stuck in your teeth.
I find that annoying, but that's the same with chips
for me. I don't like they're getting... You eat them
and then you spend the next five minutes flapping around
with your tongue and your teeth.

Speaker 6 (46:15):
Gross.

Speaker 2 (46:16):
Getting rid of bits and pieces.

Speaker 1 (46:17):
All right, thanks very much for the call, Andrew from Napes.
There's a bit of audio we've dug up this morning
from Mash around. Oh, do you remember this?

Speaker 2 (46:28):
So Mash, of course, former button pusher here on the
Hauraki Breakfast, he wasn't allowed to talk. We gave him,
I believe, he was allowed 7% airtime. We're just trying
to keep him down. He's sort of got ideas above
his station for a while there. He started interjecting on
a whole lot of breaks, so we shut it down.
But then we allowed him to break out of his

(46:50):
cage and ask a question of Chris Hipkins. And so
this was the first ever political question that MASH was
allowed to ask.

Speaker 1 (46:59):
I was wondering if there'll be any GST removed from nuts.

Speaker 6 (47:02):
Nuts are processed food.

Speaker 4 (47:05):
They're dried processed food. So no, the nuts aren't covered.

Speaker 2 (47:08):
What about these nuts, Prime Minister? I don't know what
they are.

Speaker 4 (47:13):
I don't know what you're referring to there, mate.

Speaker 2 (47:15):
That was an old man's nappy par excellence.

Speaker 1 (47:18):
Absolutely disgusting.

Speaker 2 (47:19):
That's right. Chris Hopkins was the Prime Minister at that stage.
How dare Mash ask the Prime Minister of New Zealand
a question like that? Low as the tone of the office.

Speaker 1 (47:29):
Killed him in the end. All right, should we get
into the top five? Let's rattle through them. Number five,
Brazil nuts. I ate 20 Brazil nuts in one sitting
and subsequently got selenium poisoning.

Speaker 2 (47:40):
Everyone's always talking about that. We don't have selenium in
the soil, Manai.

Speaker 1 (47:45):
Don't we?

Speaker 2 (47:45):
We do not have enough selenium in New Zealand soil.
God knows what's wrong with us. But for some reason,
we don't. And people often say, you know what? You'll
solve that issue with a Brazil nut.

Speaker 1 (47:55):
Okay. Number four, the wing nut. The humble wingnut, just
being able to tighten something finger tight without the use
of tools is a useful breakthrough in humanity.

Speaker 2 (48:05):
He invented it in 1907 in the States. Is that right? No,
it's not.

Speaker 1 (48:10):
Number three, dusty anxiety ridden shameful Sunday morning remind me
I'm alive nut.

Speaker 2 (48:14):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (48:15):
Number two, scorched almond.

Speaker 2 (48:18):
It's hard to go past a scorched almond, isn't it?

Speaker 1 (48:20):
And I think anyone who's been listening along for the
last 10 minutes will know, again, all we do here
is we collate the votes. We don't pick them.

Speaker 2 (48:27):
Scorched Almond, if you're listening, maybe it's time to redo
the packet.

Speaker 6 (48:32):
You reckon?

Speaker 2 (48:32):
It's an annoying packet. Why?

Speaker 1 (48:33):
It's hard to get into.

Speaker 2 (48:34):
You've got to put your hands all the way. For me,
my hands don't fit into the Scorched Almond packet.

Speaker 1 (48:38):
Pringles can.

Speaker 2 (48:38):
So you've got to tip them, and then they end
up going all over the floor.

Speaker 1 (48:41):
And then you go, oh no, now I've got to.
I remember you dumping an entire packet. Oh no, that
was Maltesers, wasn't it? All over a hotel room in Amsterdam.

Speaker 2 (48:49):
It was there.

Speaker 1 (48:51):
Anyway, so Scorched Almonds is number two, which means there
could only have been one number one, and your number
one in the top five nuts is D's.

Speaker 2 (48:59):
Of course it is.

Speaker 1 (49:01):
Jerry and Manon. The Hodaki Breakfast.

Speaker 9 (49:04):
8.38 on the Hodaki Breakfast.

Speaker 2 (49:16):
It's a Bunnings trade. So the Cambridge Classic Barbecue Festival
is now into its second year this weekend. Around 125
cooks are going to be facing off. So there's some individuals,
there's some teams as well. The meat that's cooked is
judged on appearance, creativity, texture, taste, overall impression, I think,

(49:39):
and Joining us now on the Hideki Breakfast, a passionate
competition barbecuer, the brains behind this year's competition, Kyron Murphy.
Welcome to the show, Kyron.

Speaker 6 (49:51):
Hey, thanks for having me.

Speaker 8 (49:52):
How's it going?

Speaker 2 (49:52):
Good. I hear that you own quite a few barbecues yourself, Kyron.
Could you tell me how many barbecues you own?

Speaker 6 (50:02):
Yeah, it's grown into a bit of a problem. We're
probably at about 27 or 28 now.

Speaker 8 (50:05):
Jesus Christ.

Speaker 6 (50:09):
Yeah, a few of those have got spread down. I've
got some gear in the South Island and a few
over in Australia actually as well.

Speaker 2 (50:19):
Oh, okay.

Speaker 6 (50:20):
But most of them, yeah.

Speaker 1 (50:22):
You don't walk out onto your deck and there's 27
barbecues there?

Speaker 6 (50:27):
Most of them are cluttered in the garage, which makes
the garage relatively unusable, but we've probably got about... maybe
18 sitting at home at the.

Speaker 1 (50:35):
Moment, yeah. It's a hell of a fire hazard. I
think I know the answer to this next question, but
gas or charcoal?

Speaker 6 (50:45):
One gas, everything else is charcoal, yeah.

Speaker 2 (50:48):
Right, okay. So you need a gas for something quick,
is that what you're saying? If you need to do
some quick barbecuing, you go gas, otherwise you're preparing the charcoals.

Speaker 6 (50:58):
I think these days we're doing everything on charcoal. It's
just I sort of never got rid of a barbecue.
When I first bought a barbecue a long time ago,
it was a gas grill. But from then on, it's
always been charcoal. We've got a couple of pellet grills
there as well.

Speaker 2 (51:15):
When did you realize you had a problem, Kyron?

Speaker 8 (51:20):
I think.

Speaker 6 (51:22):
when you start getting enthusiastic and you watch a few
videos online and come across this whole world of competition barbecue,
we went along to see a couple of the competitions,
but I think the moment we actually went and did one,
that's when we really started getting hooked on the competitive

(51:44):
nature of it as well and just that drive to,
I suppose, create the best barbecue you can.

Speaker 1 (51:50):
How many beers is the perfect amount for barbecuing?

Speaker 6 (51:56):
I sort of had to learn the hard way that
in competition barbecue, probably zero until you finish cooking. Some
people can get away with more, but as you know,
with some of these larger cuts of meat, it can
be a long day, so... pace yourself. I think the
short answer at home may be 24 if you take

(52:18):
it easy, but at competition you've got to certainly reduce
that amount.

Speaker 2 (52:20):
In terms of the competition, Kyron, are there some teams
competition as well? How do you work in a barbecue team?
How does that work?

Speaker 6 (52:30):
Teams range. Some people, there's a few that still do
it solo. I think the optimum number is somewhere between
two and four depending on the team. Some teams have
just defined roles. In our team, someone sort of tends
to manage the fire and another team is sort of
tending to the meat and the presentation. Given that most

(52:53):
of the competitions have the four hand in categories, chicken,
pork ribs, pork and brisket on the hour, on consecutive hours,
some teams find it best to sort of just divvy
up those meats and each of their competitors might focus
on a particular protein category.

Speaker 1 (53:11):
How much cleaning is involved after a tournament, Kyron? Do
you spend the next two weeks cleaning those things down?

Speaker 6 (53:18):
Yeah, barbecue's a messy hobby sport, and yeah, the clean-up's
the bit you dread. I'm probably pretty bad at delaying
that as long as I can, but yeah, there can
be a good week of, a good few days of
clean-up there.

Speaker 1 (53:35):
And when you get around to it, how do you
clean that bitch?

Speaker 6 (53:40):
If you get away with it, the water blaster's not
too bad. What?

Speaker 1 (53:44):
Dude, I did this last summer.

Speaker 2 (53:46):
Yes, it works a treat. A water blaster?

Speaker 6 (53:49):
It does. We've got some pretty silly, some of our
more rugged pits, barbecues, but it does a great job
of getting things off the grates and the grills and
that in particular.

Speaker 1 (54:01):
I'm telling you, start of summer, you get the water blaster,
do the deck, do the barbecue, you're good to go.

Speaker 6 (54:09):
Yep, just nuke everything in the backyard and your set.

Speaker 2 (54:13):
Kyron, are you a hot plate or are you a
grill guy? I mean, if I'm talking just a steak,
if you've just got a, let's just say, a scotch fillet,
are you going grill with the lines or are you
going hot plate with that thing?

Speaker 6 (54:29):
At home, I like to do a little... I do
like the hot plate effect. We have competition steak, which
we're doing on Sunday... We use specific grill grates to
try and get cross hatches, and that's sort of more
for an appearance effect. But I think, personally, I like
the sort of more consistent sear and crust that you

(54:51):
get from a cast iron hot plate.

Speaker 2 (54:54):
Kyra Murphy, barbecue, competitive barbecue enthusiast. Best of luck. Are
you going to be competing in the Cambridge Classic Barbecue
Festival this weekend? I will.

Speaker 6 (55:05):
I'll be doing that, and also... cooking a whole hog
and a whole pig, and it's going to be certainly
a busy week in juggling all of that, but it's
going to be a lot of fun. And, yes, we'll
be setting up today, and we'll be down there tomorrow
and Sunday and open to the public, and it's going
to be a fun family event with some beer and
music and barbecue.

Speaker 2 (55:26):
Gee, that sounds like a great time. Karin, thanks so
much for your time this morning.

Speaker 6 (55:31):
Thanks for having me.

Speaker 4 (55:32):
Cheers.

Speaker 7 (55:38):
Welcome to the studio, ACC head G-Lane.

Speaker 2 (55:51):
You'll be excited about the ABs game on Sunday because
it's at 9am.

Speaker 10 (55:55):
Oh, that's at 9am, not at 3am. Don't come in
like a zombie. Don't spend Sunday just walking around in
a daze, just kind of not knowing what's going on.

Speaker 3 (56:04):
I'll tell you what.

Speaker 10 (56:06):
Sleep deprivation is a cheap way to get drunk because
you just feel wasted all day.

Speaker 3 (56:12):
You wouldn't drive. You certainly wouldn't drive.

Speaker 1 (56:14):
No, it's when you watch those All Blacks games in
the middle of the night and you stay up, you
realize that 90% of a hangover is just you didn't sleep.

Speaker 6 (56:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (56:20):
That's actually got nothing to do with how many beers
you had.

Speaker 2 (56:22):
Yeah, it's true.

Speaker 1 (56:23):
It's just that you didn't sleep at all. It's insane.

Speaker 3 (56:25):
Yeah, totally true.

Speaker 5 (56:26):
So 9am.

Speaker 2 (56:27):
So the teams have just been, well, All Blacks teams
have just been announced at 8. Interesting. Richie Mawanga at 10.
No Ruben Love even in the 23.

Speaker 3 (56:34):
Yeah, that's interesting. I didn't pick that.

Speaker 2 (56:37):
I did.

Speaker 10 (56:37):
I mean, I'm not surprised that Richie Mawanga is getting
a start. This game does not count.

Speaker 2 (56:41):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (56:41):
Do you think they think that?

Speaker 10 (56:42):
Yeah, I think they do. It's the bolt on in Baltimore.
They'll know in their heart of hearts. that the series
has been lost in South Africa. They've lost that series
in South Africa. And Cody Taylor, who's been named captain, congratulations,
Cody Taylor. But the most honourable thing he can do
when the All Blacks win on Sunday and it's 2-2
and they get that wounding trophy and they split it

(57:03):
in half, he gives it back to the South African captain.
They put it back together, stands back and goes, you've
actually won the series.

Speaker 2 (57:09):
That would be an honourable thing to do. You're right.
That would be a very New Zealand magnanimous thing to do.
Because it's true.

Speaker 3 (57:16):
Come on, man.

Speaker 10 (57:16):
I had to admit it to a South African friend
the other day. I said, yeah, you've won the series.
I mean, I can't put my hand on my heart
and say that it's going to be two-all if we
win the bolt-on in Baltimore.

Speaker 2 (57:25):
You've got your finger on the pulse, ACC here, G-Lane,
when it comes to sports admin. Can you tell me
why there weren't five games? Can you tell me why
there weren't five games? Just one more?

Speaker 1 (57:35):
I actually would have preferred three than four.

Speaker 10 (57:37):
Well, the thing is, they should have just said it's
a three-match series in South Africa and there's a festival
one in Baltimore.

Speaker 5 (57:43):
Just do that.

Speaker 10 (57:43):
I mean, that's all it needed to be said. It
was like, There's a three-match series in South Africa. It's
a full tour, blah, blah, blah. And by the way,
we're all going to fly on the same plane to Washington.
And we're going to hang around Washington, lime scoot around,
looking at the memorials, whatever. And then we're going to
go to Baltimore, get on the piss, play a game.

Speaker 2 (57:59):
All right.

Speaker 1 (58:00):
Thanks for coming.

Speaker 2 (58:00):
But the question I've got for you is, was there
more money to be, because they said that there was
a moneymaker, right? We all know that. We all know
that they were making money out of this. More money
than a test in South Africa?

Speaker 1 (58:10):
Wouldn't have thought so. There were 100,000 people in that one. Why?

Speaker 10 (58:13):
Well, I mean, the South African economy is not exactly booming,
but you go to America and people are willing to
pay 500 US to come and watch a rugby game.

Speaker 2 (58:20):
Are they All Blacks fans? Are they New Zealanders? Are
they South Africans? Or are they just randos?

Speaker 6 (58:24):
Oh, expats.

Speaker 3 (58:25):
Loads of expats, I imagine.

Speaker 10 (58:27):
I probably dragged along a few, but I mean, they're
expecting a pretty, significant crowd there.

Speaker 3 (58:30):
They've made way more money.

Speaker 2 (58:32):
92, more than 92,000 in Soweto?

Speaker 8 (58:35):
Yeah, I reckon.

Speaker 3 (58:37):
I reckon they will. I mean, America's where it's at.
I mean, that's why I look at that FIFA World Cup.

Speaker 10 (58:41):
That was the most profitable tournament in history going to America.

Speaker 1 (58:46):
They pay big dollar.

Speaker 7 (58:47):
Oh, right.

Speaker 6 (58:48):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (58:48):
So the ticket prices are higher.

Speaker 1 (58:50):
Oh, absolutely.

Speaker 2 (58:51):
Oh, okay.

Speaker 10 (58:52):
Yeah, not as high as, I mean, have you heard
about the prices in this NFL game over in Melbourne?
In Melbourne today, 10 o'clock this morning, that kicks off,
49ers versus the Rams. Cheapest ticket, 500 Australian in the nosebleeds.

Speaker 1 (59:07):
Jesus Christ. What? How many people fit in the MCG?

Speaker 7 (59:09):
Nine.

Speaker 2 (59:10):
Yep.

Speaker 10 (59:10):
And the standard ticket, kind of a little bit better tickets,
are all 1,000 plus.

Speaker 3 (59:15):
And it's sold out.

Speaker 2 (59:16):
It's sold out.

Speaker 5 (59:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (59:18):
Almost immediately. Yeah. Have you seen any of the press
conferences with the American coaches? One of them cannot wrap
his head around time difference. He's like, I just rang
my kids. It's yesterday. How does that work? How can
it be a different day?

Speaker 10 (59:31):
Very interesting, this one as well, with these two teams
and their approaches on how they've come into this game. Basically,
the 49ers have been there for a week, so they're
trying to acclimatise. The Rams have gone completely the opposite direction.
They are not leaving the time zone of America. They
arrived 24 hours before kick-off. They are staying in US
time zone. They've chartered a plane with 72 life-lat beds.

(59:54):
so they all come over and basically they are not
getting out of step with America and they'll just fly
home immediately after the game.

Speaker 1 (01:00:01):
And we're sharing a charter to Baltimore with the Springboks
it's crazy stuff but it could be interesting to see
who performs and who doesn't with those different tactics because
they're going we don't want to disrupt our circadian rhythms
and all that stuff so they're just going to go
in and out boom I mean.

Speaker 2 (01:00:17):
This is though a Los Angeles Rams this is a
team that are not used to changing time zones a
lot Yeah. You know what I mean? Like, okay, there's
a little bit of a time zone shift across. But
New Zealand teams, for example, when you travel to say,
I would have asked what the All Blacks do. Because
when you're used to traveling huge distances like New Zealand
teams are, you surely have a better understanding around the
science of that than Americans are used to that crap. Oh, no.

Speaker 3 (01:00:39):
You know what?

Speaker 10 (01:00:39):
The LA Rams, they sent an entire squad of 20
support staff six months ago on this exact same trip.

Speaker 1 (01:00:45):
To do a recce.

Speaker 10 (01:00:46):
To do a recce, but more a physical recce. So
they were all monitored and everything. Why do they care
about the game so much? There's so much money involved
in NFL. It's the richest sports competition in the world.
IPL is just behind it, but it's got so much
money involved.

Speaker 2 (01:01:01):
Is it four competition points?

Speaker 10 (01:01:02):
Yes, this is the opening game for these two teams.

Speaker 3 (01:01:05):
It started yesterday.

Speaker 2 (01:01:05):
There's not many games, I suppose, so every game counts.

Speaker 5 (01:01:08):
Absolutely.

Speaker 1 (01:01:09):
That's a big part of it. How about Warriors? Fever
has reached fever pitch, hasn't it, at the moment?

Speaker 3 (01:01:13):
Oh, my God.

Speaker 1 (01:01:14):
Look at us.

Speaker 3 (01:01:14):
It's out of control.

Speaker 1 (01:01:16):
Jerry's wearing merch.

Speaker 2 (01:01:17):
I'm wearing merch.

Speaker 3 (01:01:17):
I'm concerned.

Speaker 1 (01:01:19):
Have you ever seen Jerry in sports merch before?

Speaker 3 (01:01:20):
No, I'm concerned. I'm massively concerned.

Speaker 10 (01:01:22):
Not only, I mean, people have blamed me for a
lot of losses, but I'm blaming half of New Zealand.
I mean, this bandwagon is, the axle of this bandwagon
is under severe strain.

Speaker 1 (01:01:33):
What happens with these bandwagon fans if we lose this
weekend and they've just jumped on?

Speaker 8 (01:01:37):
We riot.

Speaker 1 (01:01:37):
We riot.

Speaker 3 (01:01:38):
We riot. That's what I'm going to say.

Speaker 1 (01:01:40):
All black levels of outrage.

Speaker 3 (01:01:42):
Yep. Good news though, I'm not going. I'll be at
Sports and Rec watching that.

Speaker 10 (01:01:47):
And in Auckland, if you want to join me, come along.

Speaker 3 (01:01:51):
Great news.

Speaker 2 (01:01:52):
There was just a collective sigh across New Zealand.

Speaker 3 (01:01:54):
Yeah, great news, New Zealand. I'm not going. Unless the
dolphins get in touch.

Speaker 10 (01:01:58):
And I'm more than happy to sit in the coach's
box with the dolphins, get them behind Cobbo and the hammer. So, no,
I mean, look, It has reached fever pitch, hasn't it?

Speaker 3 (01:02:09):
It's hard to describe.

Speaker 6 (01:02:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:02:12):
It's good times at the moment. I'm loving the passion.

Speaker 3 (01:02:14):
What do you think New Zealand rugby are doing right now,
looking at all this?

Speaker 1 (01:02:18):
Probably booking a super round no one cares about.

Speaker 3 (01:02:21):
Oh, my God. Don't make any state on the super round.

Speaker 1 (01:02:23):
Okay, we won't.

Speaker 2 (01:02:24):
It's a good time. Shit draw. ACC here, Tulane. Thanks
for your time this morning. You can get hold of
us any time you like on 0800 Hauraki, that's our
phone number, or you can text us on 3483.

Speaker 1 (01:02:42):
Yeah, just like Grant did earlier this morning, FYI fellas,
it's not raining in Greymouth this morning, although it may
clear up and rain soon. Kyle replied, thanks Grant, to
which Grant has now replied, thank you Kyle. It's nice
to know at least one person listens to the issues.

Speaker 2 (01:02:58):
Okay, so we've got a Kyle Grant kind of a
thing that we.

Speaker 1 (01:03:02):
Are facilitating here.

Speaker 2 (01:03:05):
Do you think Kyle and Grant want to get together?

Speaker 1 (01:03:08):
I think they like having one degree of separation from
each other.

Speaker 2 (01:03:11):
Maybe they'd like it if they were not one degree separated.

Speaker 1 (01:03:14):
Look, I'll leave that up to Kyle and Grant. Get
in touch if you'd like each other's phone numbers. We
can tee that up. Up to you guys. And if
anyone else would like to have a conversation with someone
via the magic of our text machine, then go for it.
It's good to not have them directed at me for once.

Speaker 2 (01:03:27):
Speaking of teeing things up, how are you feeling about
your weekend's football game, your first ever football game coming
up this weekend?

Speaker 1 (01:03:35):
Yeah, so there's been a couple of.

Speaker 2 (01:03:39):
Developments.

Speaker 1 (01:03:40):
So one is I have roped in a mate to
play on the other team.

Speaker 2 (01:03:45):
Mm-hmm.

Speaker 1 (01:03:46):
Um, he's actually really good at soccer. He, I think
he played for a club very recently and was even
player of the year for that club. Um, but I
know that he, I've, we've made a point of being
on opposite teams so we can mark each other.

Speaker 2 (01:04:02):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:04:03):
And I think that there's going to be a lot
of just sort of dicking around in the backfield going on.

Speaker 2 (01:04:08):
Are you going to go with a bit of argy bargy?

Speaker 1 (01:04:09):
A bit of argy bargy. Uh, I think we've come
to a gentleman's agreement. Um, But if he tries anything,
because he is a good football player, if he tries
to show me up or something, I'll be coming in
studs up. I just watched the Vinnie Jones documentary, so
I've got a couple of tips.

Speaker 2 (01:04:25):
Good thinking. I was concerned about your footwear. Have you
sorted that out? Because famously, we were going to wear
Beavers World Cup winning 2011 goal-kicking boots, which you own,
which are an amazing piece of memorabilia, by the way.

Speaker 1 (01:04:37):
I know, and probably should be in a glass case.
It's a papa. But I need them this weekend, unfortunately. Now,
is that going to erode the mana of those boots?
possibly the most famous birds in the country.

Speaker 2 (01:04:48):
Sure.

Speaker 1 (01:04:48):
But I need every advantage I can get and I
can't be slipping over out there.

Speaker 2 (01:04:52):
So Graham Henry's the coach of your team. It's going
to be interesting. You've got to go up to him
and ask him. I want to know, have you seen
these birds before? Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:04:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:04:58):
Because I reckon that's, you can't get those birds.

Speaker 1 (01:05:01):
What happens if something happens to them? These birds ring
a bell? Well, what happens if it comes down to
one last kick and I'm taking the penalty? What would
you rather I had? My golf shoes on or Beavers
World Cup winning birds?

Speaker 2 (01:05:14):
I'd rather you wouldn't be in my team. If it
came down to you kicking one last kick, I would
rather not be in your team.

Speaker 6 (01:05:19):
I agree.

Speaker 1 (01:05:21):
But if I get that opportunity, I'm going to serve
myself up a bicycle kick. But anyway, the other thing
is I have developed an ankle issue.

Speaker 2 (01:05:30):
Oh, no.

Speaker 6 (01:05:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:05:31):
I've just got a little niggle that I'm carrying with me. Look,
this end of the season, everyone's carrying something, so I'm
not going to use it as an excuse.

Speaker 2 (01:05:37):
Season of what?

Speaker 1 (01:05:39):
My first ever game of soccer. Okay. The other concern
that I have is I'm going to the Warriors on
Saturday night.

Speaker 2 (01:05:45):
Oh, no.

Speaker 1 (01:05:46):
Notorious Pants Man Joel Harrison's in town.

Speaker 2 (01:05:48):
Oh, rubbish.

Speaker 1 (01:05:49):
He wants to go for a beer at Lily World
after the game win or lose. We're on the booze.

Speaker 2 (01:05:52):
It'll be more than just beers if it's Notorious Pants
Man Joel Harrison.

Speaker 1 (01:05:56):
Game's on Sunday afternoon. Oh, dude.

Speaker 2 (01:05:58):
You're in trouble, man.

Speaker 1 (01:06:00):
If you want to see a man tear his hamstring
off the bone, come and watch that.

Speaker 6 (01:06:05):
It's Ed Birkenhead United Association.

Speaker 2 (01:06:07):
Thank you, Zoe. Thank you very much.

Speaker 1 (01:06:10):
Jeremy Wells and Mania Stewart. Find them on Instagram at
Hodaki Breakfast.

Speaker 2 (01:06:14):
We are going to the Black Clash in January, January 22.
Hagley Oval. Tim Southey's been named for captain of Team Cricket.
Who else we got? We've got Israel Dagg's going to
be there.

Speaker 1 (01:06:28):
Yep, Lou Vincent.

Speaker 2 (01:06:29):
Kieran Reid's going to be there. He'll be captain of
Team Rugby.

Speaker 1 (01:06:31):
There's a bunch more people. So Team Rugby this year
is called Team Rugby and Friends, which is very intriguing
to me. So I wonder who they're going to rope in.
Every year they've got a pretty A famous wild card
in each team. In the past, they've had Mike Hussey.
They've had Chris Gale, Brian Lara, Andy Lee. One half
of Hamish and Andy. You figure out which one.

Speaker 2 (01:06:52):
Took a great catch.

Speaker 1 (01:06:52):
Took a game-winning catch on the boundary. It was miraculous.

Speaker 2 (01:06:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:06:56):
The honey badger.

Speaker 2 (01:06:57):
Oh, the honey badger. That's right. Was useful.

Speaker 1 (01:06:59):
How to dad. Not useful.

Speaker 2 (01:07:02):
No.

Speaker 5 (01:07:03):
Useless.

Speaker 2 (01:07:03):
A bit unk. I would say there should have been
team rugby and enemies would have been quite good. Like,
you know, a whole lot of people who did not
get along. Yeah. You know, we want to get it
on because we don't get along.

Speaker 1 (01:07:16):
Yeah, I don't mind that. Next Wednesday, actually, people should
know Jerry is away next week. It's going to be
me and Lane and next Wednesday we're going down to Christchurch.
We're going to be doing this show live from Riverside Market.
We're going to have a bunch of people down there.
I think there'll be a few more announcements about teams
and things like that. Also, Tickets go on sale. And also,

(01:07:37):
a huge revelation. Another pointless world first for Radio Hodaki.
Something I know that you've been passionate about for quite
some time.

Speaker 7 (01:07:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:07:45):
We are unveiling the first ever Radio Hodaki mascot.

Speaker 2 (01:07:48):
It is about bloody time. Yeah. I've been pushing for this,
I reckon, for 10 years.

Speaker 1 (01:07:52):
Your theory is that if we're to be taken seriously,
we need a mascot.

Speaker 2 (01:07:55):
Of course you do. Every proper organization, every loved organization,
has got a mascot.

Speaker 1 (01:08:01):
TVNZ's got a mascot.

Speaker 2 (01:08:03):
TVNZ's got Plussy. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:08:05):
What is that?

Speaker 2 (01:08:06):
Not loved. It's a plus sign.

Speaker 7 (01:08:09):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:08:09):
Of course.

Speaker 1 (01:08:10):
Yeah. It's not even big.

Speaker 2 (01:08:12):
Like it should have been plus sized.

Speaker 3 (01:08:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:08:14):
You know, like if you're going to do it, TVNZ,
come on, put a decent, get a plus sized plus sign.

Speaker 1 (01:08:20):
Plus sized plusy. I will say the Warriors one's a
little bit weird as well. It's just like a guy
in a suit with the Warriors logo as his head.

Speaker 2 (01:08:28):
The Warrior Man. What's he called? Warrior Man.

Speaker 1 (01:08:30):
I don't even know.

Speaker 2 (01:08:31):
Does he have a name?

Speaker 1 (01:08:31):
No, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:08:32):
You've got to have a name.

Speaker 1 (01:08:33):
You've got to have a name. You've got to have
a bit about you, like Steely Dan down in the
Counties Monaco, the Steelers mascot. Back in the day, he
was just a guy in their kit who spray painted
his face silver and called himself Steely Dan. His name, oh,
Tiki is the Warriors.

Speaker 2 (01:08:51):
Oh, Tiki is the Warriors mascot.

Speaker 1 (01:08:53):
Steely Dan once chased kids around after a pretty heated
contract dispute in the late 90s.

Speaker 7 (01:09:00):
90s.

Speaker 1 (01:09:00):
Steely Dan chased children around with a raw chicken once.
I think was relieved of his duties after that.

Speaker 2 (01:09:05):
Well, let's not forget the Rabideau's rabbit.

Speaker 1 (01:09:09):
Punched a kid in the head last year.

Speaker 2 (01:09:10):
Punched a kid in the head. He's been caught a
lot punching darts out the back of the venue.

Speaker 6 (01:09:14):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (01:09:16):
Let's not forget G. Lane was famously Rambo the Ram
for the Canterbury Rams basketball team and almost died when
he hung himself on 70s night when the gold medallion
he was wearing got caught in the hoop in a
dunk contest.

Speaker 2 (01:09:27):
And I was a mascot as well, Table Talk Chicken,
back in the early 90s when I was getting changed
in the changing room there and saw Julie Coney's breasts.

Speaker 1 (01:09:36):
I was also, to a lesser extent, the LJ Hooker
Bear at the Strawberry Fear in Waimete for a number
of years. I think the record was I was kicked
34 times in the balls in one afternoon.

Speaker 2 (01:09:47):
What is it with getting kicked in the balls, mascots?
That's a real– you've got to wear a box.

Speaker 1 (01:09:51):
Kids cannot help themselves. They see a mascot and they're like, ooh,
do you look lovely? And they're like, how about I
kick you in the balls?

Speaker 2 (01:09:57):
Yeah, you've got to wear a box.

Speaker 1 (01:09:59):
Chuck that in your top five. It doesn't count that
I wore a sign that said, honk if you're a backbone.

Speaker 2 (01:10:03):
Is that a bit mascoty? No, because you're not in
a suit. Could you see your face? Yep.

Speaker 1 (01:10:09):
But everything else was a sign, a huge sign.

Speaker 2 (01:10:12):
I think if you can see the face, it's not
a suit. That's my feeling.

Speaker 1 (01:10:16):
So Wednesday in Christchurch for the Black Clash. I'm sure
they are loving that we've absolutely hijacked this. It is
a Radio Hauraki in conjunction with the Alternative Commentary Collective mascot.
I believe you've had some input. I believe Ghislaine has
had some input.

Speaker 2 (01:10:30):
Big reveal next week.

Speaker 1 (01:10:31):
So I am... I can't wait to find out what
this thing looks like.

Speaker 2 (01:10:35):
Have a lovely weekend. Go the Warriors. And I won't
see you on Monday, but Manoa will. This is the
Hauraki Breakfast.

Speaker 1 (01:10:42):
The Hauraki Breakfast.

Speaker 7 (01:10:43):
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