Full Show Podcast: 19 December 2024

Published Dec 19, 2024, 4:01 AM

On the Matt Heath and Tyler Adams Afternoons Full Show Podcast for the 19th of December, we discuss baches and cribs - still a great idea or do they become a burden?

Then the Afternoons duo talk about dropping by unannounced - is it ok to just pop in on friends? 

And what your email out of office messages say about you. 

Plus in our Great New Zealanders of Christmas series - Laura McGoldrick.  

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Hell are you great? You sialadors, and welcome to Mountain Tyler Afternoons, the podcast for the nineteenth of December in the Year of Our Lord, twenty twenty four, The Penultimate, the Promultimate, the penultimate show for the year.

It's a hell of a word, isn't it.

A lot of people think penultimate means the best, yeah, and not the second best. But it is the penultimate show, so tomorrow will be our last show, so enjoy it while you can. But of a piecemeal show, we're all over the place. Today went well, I can't remember what we're talking about.

Bitchers, Oh yeah, bacher happens.

That was a good chat. Yeah. Front footing, Yeah, front footing, No, first footing, first footing, first footing.

Tin rattling, Tin, there was some fascinating calls, Tin rattling.

We're joined by my friend Laura mcgldreck on the show. She's bloody great. And also there's something else happened.

We gave a couple of copies of your book away and we'll do that again tomorrow. It's your last chance. If you're listening to this podcast right now, tune in tomorrow and do.

We do do we tease what's on the podcast? Tomorrow's Dame Lisa Carrington and Tom Southy joined us for their final show of the year.

Looking forward to that.

Yeah all right, so subscribe, set to download and blessed, bless, bless and give him a taste to Kiwi. Here's the show. Thanks for tuning in.

Your new home for insightful and entertaining talk. It's Mattie and Tyler Adams afternoons on news Talk sebbe.

Well, good afternoon to you Thursday, six days until Chrissy time. How good? Seven past one?

Get a man, Get a Tyler, get a everyone I had. We're giving away another copy of my book today. Certainly a lifeless punishing. I had an embarrassing situation where my publisher is out of copies and because we're giving the way this week, we couldn't get them. There's some in an Australian warehouse. There's so I had to go into wit calls today and buy copies of my own book to give away today. Yeah, I'll get reimbursed by that. Don't worry about me. Yeah, your publishers will reimburse me. But I had to go in and into whit Calls and Saint Luke's and buy copies of my own book to give away today.

It's kind of a bit of sweet though, wasn't it, because that's a good thing, but also a bit of admin on your side. And nobody likes Edmund. That's close to Christmas.

It's massively humiliating buying your own book. I had to front foot up. I said, this is yeah, but I don't think it's like they didn't recognize me, and that was the problem. So I was like, this is my book a embarrassing buying it and they were like, what do you mean it's your book? I said, I wrote it, and.

You went on to the back and seat, look, it's my picture in there.

Yeah, and then they went and then they went, oh, okays a bit of acknowledgment, we'd go a long way. Yeah. Yeah, anyway, we're giving that away later on in the show after.

Yep, that's right, at the end of the show. Two copies to give away and we'll tell you how them. Were also continuing on with Great New Zealanders of Christmas series.

Yeah, we're joined by a good maid of mine, Laura McGoldrick, to talk about her year. And you know, she's ubiquitous in sports coverage in this country, isn't she. She's always she's always so good, so professional, but also very funny human beings. So looking forward to chatting to her.

Yep, that is after three o'clock. After two o'clock, is it okay to drop by unannounced? It is a bit of a change in society rules back in what even the nineties, So the old poppin was pretty common. That was before mobile phones, of course, but we used to love a good poppin.

Yeah. I think it's interesting because my dad was reading his diary from when he was from the nineteen sixties to me and he went back and his diary is all littered with someone popped in to ask if I want to go to the movies because back then you couldn't really get hold of people very easily. Yeah, so he was at university. Someone would drop in and you want to go and do this? I dropped on this. I went round to this person's house and that was the way everything was done back then. Now, if you just popped in, if tomorrow evening, I just came around to your house without texting, you'd go weird. If I knocked on the door, Tyler, and you opened the door and I was standing there, you'd be like hello, mateo, and then I just started walking in the door.

Depens on what you had on you, if you had a mutton ham on some Come on in, mate, come on in. We'll count that up. The place is a miss sorry, but come on in.

Yeah, yeah, no, I can understand. I love the idea of the popping and I think it's a fantastic concept and I think there would be a better place if we did it. But I do also think it's pretty weird if you don't just send a text and say I'm in the neighborhood, I might come round. This is going to be a good check, even if I'm at the end of the drive, you know, just because you don't know what people are up to now it's a different time. Yeah, I don't know. We'll have a chat about that later on.

Yep, because right now we want to have a chat about batches. It's on the back of a story about an abandoned ghost batch. It was abandoned nine years ago. It is for sale on carwo island. So the webatch has been derelict for nine years and appears to have been left in a hurry three or there rather still sheets.

On the beard.

It's like the owner just walked out, the real estate agent said, But we want to take it a bit wider than that about the good old humble Kiwi batch. Are the days of actually dreaming of the Kiwi Batch kind of done and dusted? Because let's be honest, for a lot of people, batches can be a massive hassle. If you're the one in the friend group or the family with the batch, everybody wants to come to your batch. It's your responsibility to do the upkeep, the maintenance. You've got a fight with family members, it's in a trust on who gets it over Easter, who gets it over Christmas. It just seems a lot of the time batches are a massive, massive hassle.

Yeah, that's right. Are they worth it? And we were talking about this yesterday but we didn't get round to the topic. But there's a saying about boat the best two days of boat ownership of the day you buy it and the day you sell it. Yeah, and is that true of the batch? Because the batch is full of dreams and you imagine these amazing times. But then it becomes a prison that you have to holiday there because you spend so much money on it, and you have to spend certain weekends going up there to mow the lawns because you haven't been up there for weeks. Yeah, and you've become tied to it. Yeah, like you know, your positions own you kind of situation. That's the way I look at it. But I don't own a batch, so what do I what do I know? And also I call them cribs because I'm from the bottom of the South Island.

Where where does the crab batch line start? Is that kind of just north of Ashfield?

You've lived in christ Church for a long time.

Yeah, yeah, we don't they call them cribs?

Do they call them? They call them their batch and christ Church?

Yeah.

Yeah. As a Timorous if someone from Timaru nine two nine two or one hundred and eighty teen eighty, do you call it a crib or a batch? We'll find the line.

Yeah, maybe even West Coast what surely you don't call it a.

Crib and Wanaka Yeah, and Monica, you do, un Iss, you're someone that's come down from the from the North Island. Yeah, so central target it's a crib. Well it was for the longest time. Yeah, it might be changing now because so many people that own properties in Wonnaca and Queens doown around that area, are actually from Auckland.

You guys bottom of the South. To make your own rules, be damned for everybody else come up with their own names.

Best cuisine and best usage of the language. You got the cheese roll, you got the onion sausage. You've got the chop seweet paddy and we holiday and cribs.

It has got times down there.

This text has come through on from Timoru and I call it a bat.

There you go. So it must be just in the deep South, is it done? Is Wanaka, Southland and Vicago. But back to the batch. So my family on dad's side had a batch in Packlewar and Golden Bay, beautiful wee batch. But when my lovely Nana passed away, it went into the trust with the siblings, and I've got to say there were quite a few in house fights about who got the batch at what time. So Dad ended up being bought out and he said that was the best decision for him now that he can go anywhere around New Zealand and get a batch that he can have just for the weekend and not have to rely on maintenance and fights over the holidays. So it was a lot of freedom for him. But love to hear it from you on this one. A t eighty nine nine two is the text number.

People are saying here and this probably makes sense. It's the way Tacky River where it changes from south. It's cribs north, it's batches. Yeah, that that I mean, that makes sense right, I mean there's no law on it's no no.

If you call your batch a crib and Christ shoots that, the police aren't going to come around and say that you can't do that. Right, Get on the phones. Oh, eight hundred and eighty ten eighty the phones have already lit up. Nine two ninety two is the text number. It is thirteen past one.

The big stories, the big issues, the big trends and everything in between. That Heath and Tyler Adams Afternoons you for twenty twenty four US Talks.

B News Talks There B. We've asked the question, is the Kiwi batch just too much hassle?

Is the Kiwi Batch just a pain in the ass that's all you have to pay and all the work you have to put into it. Or is this just bar humbugging from a couple of dudes that don't know. Yeah, although you spend a lot of time at your partner's patch, don't you.

Yeah.

And that's the other thing that's getting in a bit tricky at the moment is it's in a trust and it was built by a maid's granddad and the family's quite big, so there's quite a few people in the trust now, but her dad does most of the mowing. But now we're getting into the situation where the kids are getting older and some of them are in Australia, so they can't pop in.

To do the old lawns.

And can I say this, Yeah, say it? There was already a bit of argie barji about who's getting it over?

Christmas? Really can turn into a time shier, can't it a Canton timeshare? So and we've answered the question conclusively that it's a crib south of the White Tucky River, and it is a batch north of the White Tucky River. And look, that's not compulsory, but it is compulsory to hold your breath when you're crossing the White Tacky Bridge as a kid. Absolutely, Yeah, got to hold your breath.

Yeah, I'll stop you at the border if you don't do that.

It's not easy bridge. It's a big bridge and it's a long breathold. And maybe you don't do it if you're driving. Yeah, And my sisters used to cheat. They'd have their mouth shut, but you can tell they're breathing through their noses. But anyway, they had a whole another issue. Dirty cheats.

Andrew, how are you mate?

You know?

Mate?

Hey, first of all, get mister battery out to have a look at your cars. The battery.

Yeah, it will be thank you that sortid.

Yeah.

I I sold my holiday home about about or about eight months ago, but just prior to COVID, I let somebody rent it temporarily while their house was getting fixed, and then they became permanent tenants over COVID and I couldn't get them out thanking Megan Woods. But so during that time we made the decision to buy a motor home. And let me tell you, a motor home is far superior than a batch because with a motor home like my batch wasn't turing. And we love hearing it but with a motor home, if we want to go to turing, here we go to touring, and if we want to go somewhere else, we go somewhere else. And everything's set up inside the motor home. We've got a flushing toilet, lovely hot yeare. It's costs cost less than the costs less than a batch, and it's there you can wake up on Saturday morning and go, you know what, let's just let's just get out of the city for a night and you can take the dog and you can just do everything.

So yeah, because because in a batch and a batch you are that is where you're going on holiday in the batch, But with your motor home, you're going on holiday wherever you want to drive to. That's that's fantastic. What brand is it?

It's a care dream time So it's it's so you can still drive it on a with a car license, but unfortunately it does require a cos instead of a warrant of fitness. But it's it's just, you know, it's they're not without the complications. You know, there are a boat on wheels you're always pouring money into. But the reality is it's just wonderful. Like I finished work tomorrow. Mother in law's coming up for a couple of days, and then then where when she goes home, we'll get in the motor home and we'll disappear for a month and we know where we're going for four days of it.

Love that is that one of the ones where do you sleep above the cab and in your motor home?

We do because easy for us because we're short arses.

So if you if you were six four.

You'd probably want one with a bed in the back. But but you know, if you're going to buy a motor home, my advice is is you have a look at them all and you figure out the floor plan that you want and what's going to work for you, and then you go shopping.

Have you signed up to the association? I know that once you once you get a motor home, you're pretty much in the gang that point.

Oh yeah, you've got to sign up to the association. It's for no other reason. Insurance is half priced and you get discounts wherever you go. Motor Yeah, the motor Home Association is the best money you'll ever spend because the second you sign up for it, you get about three times back.

And are you always going to you know, campgrounds or you know places are design so you can pull up and plug in, or do you just sometimes go and park up in front of you We.

Avoid them, but like the plague, so we our preferences to go somewhere where there is.

No one and just park.

So there are rules around where you can freedom park, and actually they're surprisingly liberal, but we don't need to the only thing we need to plug in for is air conditioning and the microwave oven. Anything else works off solar.

Well, you got to have you got a TV in there.

We've got a smart TV mate.

Side dish on the top.

On the top good and.

At the auto ranging satell like this.

So you turn it on and it makes a few noises for a minute and tracks itself and turns itself on and yeah, everything it's got. We've got a fridge, we've got a freezer, we've got a hot show. We've got a flushing toilet.

What's what's what's the vibe? What's the vibe like?

Though?

When you know you finished dinner and you head over to the you head over to the flushing toilet, I mean it's close quarters. You've still got to you've got to time your You've got to time your movements with the other person, know you.

Oh it's in the window, mate.

It sounds like you're loving the dream and good on you. Thanks to you call Andrew. Appreciate it. Yep, you have a great holiday and Merry Christmas.

Merry Christmas, mate, Thank you very much. I wait one hundred and eighty ten eighty love to hear from you if you you have recently sold the Batch or you still love the Batch. This texta here guys, no way. Camper vans are pokey, cumbersome and hard to get parking for just the old car and the SDRs are far better. Still love our Batch as well. Keep those techs coming through. On nine two ninety two.

Wow, you're not driving the bloody Keia dream time, are you there? It's that's spacious. It's twenty three parts one. We'll pick this back up shortly.

Putting the tough questions to the newspeakers. The mike asking breakfast.

So as always, there have been winners and there have been losers. In the last round of high performance sport funding and the lead up to Alay's Olympics, one hundred and sixty three million dollars is heading to thirty six different sports high performance sport in New Zealand. Director Steve cheos with us, tell me why you're not funding hockey.

We are funding hockey, So to be clear, they're stalling a decent dunk in the end Government money behind hockey.

But it's a significant drop a week.

About that, yeah, about that speaking.

It's a difficult it's a very difficult decision for hockey. But over a long period of time we haven't had a success a basement of speaking, I'll have to make some tough calls because we had requests for about fifty seven monion, then we had to bus another forty one million to distribute.

Heither Duplessy Allen on the Mike Hosking Breakfast back tomorrow at six am with Bailey's Real Estate on News Talks de'd.

B twenty six past one.

We're talking about batches after a ghost batch that's been abandoned for the last forty years popped up in the news and look, we're arguing that maybe batches are a pain in the ass. Neither of us own one, but so they've just seen a lot of lawn mowing and a lot of family arguments and a lot of being tied into a holiday in a particular place. But what do you think? Oh wait, unt to eighty ten eighty nine two nine two is the text number. Welcome to the show. Bruce your thoughts.

Yeah guy, it's Merry Christmas, very mess you. Yeah, yeah, a good one.

Yeah.

Hey.

It's already been involved in both, like originally quite a number of years ago now, but we were involved in a in a family batch which we didn't actually own, but we contributed.

To it.

But it was always awkward trying to get when you wanted to go, and of course the problem being was that there was an agreement that you know, things like toilet roll and all that and sugar and everything was left in there. But unfortunately a lot of cases you turned up and the sugar was ritually disappeared and there was probably two pieces of toilet roll. So anyway, in the finish it was sold because you know, my mother in law actually sold it. So but in the meantime we had actually sort of purchased some weeks of time share up in pie here and to be honest, it's the best investment we've ever made. We've got four weeks up there, two weeks guaranteed every February, which is ideal because it's after the Christmas rush, it's still beautiful weather two weeks. The other two weeks we actually space bank and that means you can use them anywhere, and we've actually used them in Scotland. We've used a number of times in Australia where you we've got May we're going down to Mount Annuity for a week. So it gives you all of the sort of you can you can virtually go wherever you want to. But it's really good going to Australia because you know that the price is pretty right. You know, it's a fixed parson like you have to pay and it's not very much. But and the the yearly cost that it costs us is far far less than any of the money that you've been on. Some of our friends and relations have got sort of batchers and they always seem to be dipping into their part. And I mean rates are huge now, yeah, if you're on the Corrimandle they're huge.

Yeah, and then who you know, you say you get two weeks in February, that's great, and you've got you know, two weeks, two weeks that you can use elsewhere, who that owns a batch gets has goes to the bats for a month a year? Are such a tiny percentage of people that actually own batches would even get two weeks a year.

And the yeah holiday, I mean if you're not going there to mow the lawn, I mean you spent.

Yeah, you probably get a week of a mowing the lawns up there. But apart from that, yeah, I mean it sounds like it sounds like it's working really well for you, Bruce. It sounds great.

It is working well for us. I mean, hey, it doesn't always work for everyone, but you know, for what we pay and the position that's right on the waterfront of by here, we look right across to Russell or the lights of Russell. Every night we see all the ships and they're going through the bay and we just love it.

Yeah, what sounds like working out for you. But the time she is, Bruce, you know that they have been somewhat controversial. You know, you go to those present and then some people struggle to get out of them. That doesn't worry you at all.

No, because A and Pi here they so reached me quickly. We don't expect to make any money and we just leave it to my son and daughter and on kids anyways, So and yeah, so that's that's the thing that what people made the mistake when time she has originally came out, they paid too much money for them. You used to have to pay twenty yard thousand and that sort of thing for them. I paid just a fraction of that.

Well, thank you so much, Thank you so much to be called Bruce, and I have a fantastic question Christmas the six interesting on nineteen nine two. Hey, fellas, I've lived in South Island all my life and never heard bats called a crib or is a batch?

She is?

Luigi? Wow, that's but Luigi, you need the information. Which side of the Waitaki River do you live on? This is the South Island.

We found the boundary, so it depends on what side of the boundary if.

You come back to us, Luigi, we want to know whether what side of the Waitaki River you live on? North or south? All right, thank you mate, very good.

I just looked up the word actually yep, the entomology of the word batch yep. So it was for a long time thought to be short for bachelor pad. But new research or an alternative theory for the origin of the word is that batch is the Welsh word for small and little, which makes kind of sense, right, And a crib, Yeah, well the crib. I don't know where the crib comes from because we find that out.

Because you know crib and you know there was you know cribs, there was the EMPTV show. So crib in the United States is like a flash house, isn't it.

Yeah, they stole that from the bottom of the south Side.

It's a manger for feeding animals. Got a crib in the countryside. Take your new lady there, and it's just a manger.

Eight ten eighty is the number to cool. Love to hear from you if you've recently sold a batchelor, you still love your batch, Give us a BARZ nineteen ninety two is the text number.

It is nine two.

US talks at the headlines.

With blue bubble tanks these it's no trouble with a blue bubble Statznez figures out today show we're in recession, with GDP falling one percent in the three months to September. That's on top of one point one percent in the previous quarter. Nationals Chris Bishop says we must grow our way out of it, but Labour's Jenny Anderson says the government approach is wrong with a downward spiral of job cuts and rising unemployment. The government is putting twenty million dollars into the bird flu response in Otago for testing, surveillance and compensation costs. Police are investigating a threatening message as sent to an Upper Hut Sports college campus. It went into lockdown. Polica understood to be searching with dogs in the area. The police watch dogs found a Kai tire officer's use of force was unjustified in April after they fell accidentally on a flight of stairs with a man who was injured. In New Zealand has enabled Apple location sharing to make it easier to find lost baggage, allowing luggage tags to show a live location link. Radio New Zealand to move into tvnz it's headquarters next year. You can read this and more from Media Insider at in Zen here or premium. Back to Matt Eath and Tyler Adams.

Thank you very much. Raylean bench is just too much hass or too much of a pain in the s. Colin, how are you? Yeah?

Good?

Thanks you back your grip and dwains and depends on where you come from in the country.

Other norganss twins.

And you know the break between the uprights and a wall, you know between the four twos.

All right, yeah, gotcha. Oh that's interesting. When I was a kid, like a maybe this is a South Island expression as well, from Southland, Wales and norgan was a kid's bottle from a noggin, like a kid's drinking bottle, milk bottle.

Yeah, that's a new one to me. You make the cross.

I think the days of the matches unfortunately along with the sort of getting outdated and now especially old ones, and we used to use them all the time when we were kids out at Castle Point the fare. They had a lot of good contacts and we always had a beautiful vas here right on the beach, just behind the graveyard under where the campground is now.

But lovely week days we don't use a bench, you.

Know, we were lucky enough. We've had a series of large motor homes over the years, you know, twelve meter wrong bobbies and now going downsize to a ten meter long motor home. But it's got everything and of like washing machines for ege, microwave, shower, toilet, you've got everything that you know you paid for it, but ours costs fifty five. But you know that's cheap on the scale of some of what you can pay some pretty flash runs out there, you know. But yeah, it's a good way to go with your motor home. I'll be hitting home actually on some that I'm heading back for two or three months. So we're just gonna grab the motorhome and hit the road. We don't know where we're going to go, and that's the beauty of you can just go somewhere, find a nice quiet spot where's not too many other people, which is getting harder and harder and on these days.

So do you just do you just hit the road with no idea or do you plan before you leave the road? Are you a real rover? You just pull out of the driveway and go which way? I said to you? So you you literally just pull out of your driveway and go north south and just make it up and just find a place to stop. Or do you you have more than a more of a plan than that?

That pretty much exactly that you know, get to the end of the end of the road and say which way are we going to go?

Now?

The white will saying I don't know, and I go.

Oh, I go the right.

Okay, that's that's that's freedom right there.

Yeah, and you may make friends with other people, like other motor homers on the road.

Colin.

If you you know, when you go out to these various campgrounds, are there the regulars there that you come tonight?

No, we stay away from campgrounds. I really don't like going to the campgrounds. I don't like being herded like a bloody bunch of sheep saying you know, you'll go here, you'll go there. But Your Zealand's paranoid about pushing everybody into these places like over here in Australia, Man, this is freedom over here for camping. You want to see the thousands of caravans and campers that are on the road and they just basically put up anywhere they like. New Zealand's got this thing about people, you know, dirtying up the areas. But the motor homers, they certainly don't. You know, we're we're all self contained and that sort of stuff. But yeah, it can be. Yeah, I just don't like being around a lot of other people. I just I like to stick to myself. I'm not a I'm not an anti social. I just prefer my own company, and my wife's company and my dog's company to sit there listen to a whole lot of bulld us spoken by other people about how wonderful they are and how flash the campravans are compared to ours, and that sort of stuff.

You know, fair enough, Oh well, hey, thank you so much for you call Colin and you have a great holiday, and Mary Christmas to you.

Yeah, some great techs coming through. Getay, guys. I had a batch at Lake Brunner for ten years and we ended up going to the same place every long weekend for ten years. Always moaned the lawn and doing maintenance. Got sick of it, salted in twenty twenty and bought a motor home. Love it. Joined the Motor Home Caravan Association. Never know where we will end up. We just head where the sun is shining to meet heaps of people.

Love it from Andrew, do you guys, So there's a lot of pro pro motor home chat coming through here. Crib is a West Coast Scottish term. A bothy is an East Coast Scottish term getting to the boro.

Bothy, so we call them cribs.

In the South End. Well some of us do because of the I guess the Scottish Scottish heritage.

Well there's one here as well. It's called a crib because it was cribbaged together with bits and bobs of materials that were sourced cheaply. We were always adding a new room at the Crib ind Ota Co with stuff Dad had found.

I love that.

Keep there coming through on nine to two, nine two. I wait, hundred eighty ten eighty is.

Number to call, and I think this texture is right, Thank you, Carl. I think I have got my bridges mixed up. It's the Rekaire Bridge you've got to hold your breath on, not the White tachy Bridge.

Oh yeah, Rakaia the Rakui that is a long bridge. I eight hundred eighty ten eighty is the number to call. We'll pick this back up shortly. It is twenty to two.

Matt Heath Tyler Adams is taking your calls on oh eight hundred eighty Ethn Tyler Adams afternoons news.

Dogs'd be yeah. I've absolutely humiliated myself. I was talking about the Require Bridge and not the White Tacky Bridge. The White Tachy Bridge is a mere two hundred and ten meters, whereas the Rekaire Bridge in terms of holding your breath, and it is compiled three for kids on road trips to hold their breath on every bridge. It's a it's a very fun game to have you with your sisters. It's very specific to my family potentially, but yeah, they Rekire Bridge. Now that's a long bridge. That's about one seven and fifty meters, so that's a long way to hold your breath, especially if this traffic.

Yeah, when it's holiday time and this bumper to bumper traffic. Good luck kids, Oh one hundred and eighty ten eighty. If you've got a batch and you still love it and you're heading there this summer, we'd love to hear from you me again. How are you hi, guys?

You God good, thank you. I'm getting sensing that you're pro bat.

Yes, I'm on my way to my happy place on the Coramandel, and I've been coming here for like fifty five years exactly. My parents bought the place when I was six weeks old. Wow, and batches are just amazing. We call it a beach shaft. Now it's more like a second time ye, just heavenly, it's just a way to keep family together.

How often are you up there, Meghan?

A lot.

I'd like to spring a lot more time here. We turn up to the holidays. I come down today to take stuff for the holidays. I'll go back on Monday. Now come back on Christmas night. We'll spend the whole of January at the beach with the family, and then through the long weekends and February East every opportunity.

That we can.

Have you gone.

Have you got siblings, Meghan?

Yes?

And are you fighting each other for time in the batch? Or you will work together?

No?

No, no, we actually so. When mum and dad passed away, we sold their place and my sister and I both bought our own places at the same place. No, we shared with only two of us. I think it keeps mess together. You can if your parents a good guidance and they sort of say, come on, you've got to share. Anyone has to work together. It's absolutely fantastic, but it can.

In a lot of cases, it can cause problems. Say your kids and then there's a few of them, and then they have kids, and then the bats gets divided and divided and divided, and then some people don't care about it. Some people do.

Yeah, I've listened to a couple of friends. So we've got five boys, and I've listened to a couple of friends and their parents. There's some smart things, and I'm still thinking that that's where we'll go. But you do have to have a plan when there's more than two in the family to share so that you can. But we don't have those issues at the moment. We have all the kids want to come and more than Maria. And yeah, but I do feel like I'm joking to my husband, Y said, they're saying, oh my god, we're the only ones that do the work. Laugh, And when you're talking about the lawes are going, oh my god, we get down there and we work our butts.

Amazing.

Yeah, totally absolutely, And I'm saying our kids are old enough they can actually do stuff.

Well, I've been I've been talking a little talking down batches a little bit. But the one part of it that I feel bad about, and I thought would have been amazing for my kids growing up if they had been going there from when they were like three or four, and they'd had every summer the air and you start to know the neighbors and it became part of their holiday. Yeah, then I think that that that would be an amazing part of it.

We all it's a huge social event, you know, like we all got down there, we catch out, we go boating together, we played golf together with our kids. Have had the same kids friends, you know, since they were here.

So it's beautiful.

It's a prettyful community. That's a special partner. I listened when you were talking. Oh my god, it's we actually bought at Tampa Van ourselves over COVID when you couldn't get to have an experience with a camper van, and we love that. But the beach house has the connections with the people and the family and.

Sit so many Yeah, that's lovely, Megan, thank you very much. I'm back in team betch I think.

Yeah, you're in team Batch. I'm I'm in. I'm so confused by my bridges. I think I was right that I was talking about the Waite Techy Bridge, because there's this person said, it's not two hundred meters, it's nine hundred and six meters. I know this isn't the biggest ye for anyone. A lot of bridge, but I'm just trying to think what because my and my family had drove over these bridges a lot when I was a kid. And there's one that was the specific one you had to hold your breath over, and I think it was the White Techi. Nine hundred and six meters is a long time for a five year old to hold their breath.

Well, I'm just heaving it.

And I'm sure the Rakai Bridge is one point seven k and then that's a really long bridge. But there's two really long bridges between Dunedin and christ Church.

If you know how long all the bridges are in New Zealand, particularly the Wide Techy and the RecA.

What is the longest bridge in New Zealand must.

Be the Rakai. Surely, surely the Rakaire is the biggest, longest bridge.

The longest bridge in New Zealand. This is hugely important to me. Oh you forget about batches.

Let's get into bridge.

That's the require bridge.

Yeah, how long?

It's one seven and fifty seven meters long.

Yeah, that's a big bridge.

What an a minute? Yeah, And the longest tunnel is the Waterview Front Tunnel, which is two point four k.

There you go, Yeah, all right about that sort of Chris, Now you your dad had a batch for about forty years.

Yeah, that's right, that's right, and you know, growing up going to the Batch every second weekend to mow the lawns. I wasn't really take keen on it, although the benefits of it. We're learning to sail and to serve up there, and it was absolutely fantastic, But as a teenager I wanted to play sports in one of the hang around in the city, so sort of a gone boss on the weekend until I had my own children and when I started having When I had my children, my dad told the Batch. But the one thing he did send me before he sold it was I've only ever gone here. We never got anywhere else. Yeah, I parent you to go and have some different parts of the country, and he was so right.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that that's kind of what I think. You you're obliged to go there. But also when your kids start playing sport, Jesus hard to get away on the weekends. Oh my god. Specific especial if your kids are playing cricket and they're like, I've got games on Saturday and Sunday.

You're like, well, great, possible, Chris, Thank you very much, mate. That's a nice place to leave it. We are one quick text here. Oh no, let's leave bridges from now. Maybe we've met bridges back another day. There was a lot of bridge chat in that hour.

Look people love bridges. Look nine the text machines that floated with bridge chat. People love bridges, Tyler. Just get used to it. They certainly do.

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Very good chan after two o'clock we are going to be talking about unannounced poppins. Are they okay or not? Eight hundred and eighty ten eighty is the number to call. Nine two ninety two is the text number. Do you love the old poppin?

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Good afternoon, welcome back into the show Sex past too, So is it okay to drop an an announce? Before mobile phones were a thing, visiting someone a neighbor, a close friend, or a family member without first giving them a heads up on your arrival was commonplace. But it's a new era and dropping by someone's house unannounced is one of those etiquette rules that is worth rejigging in the modern era. According to this article in the New Zealand heralds young people not so not so big a fan as the old Poppin'.

Yeah, well, the poppin used to be everything back in the day. As I was saying, Before my dad's he went through in read all's diaries. He used to write a diary, wrote through the sixties and seventies, and he was amazed when he was reading back how much popping in the word just it was just people popping in. He'd be riding his diary and say, oh, someone's just popped in and asked me if I want to go to the movies, And then he'd be riding the diary. Then the next step diary. It's like you know, and a relation would just pop in and he'd he'd right, I'm just gonna pop in on someone else. Popping in was everything back in the day.

That's a beautiful thing.

Now if you popped in it would be considered a crime. Everyone would get would get real weird about it.

As a kid, I'm sure I just popped into my mate's places because that was before mobile phones in your head. To unleash you rang on the old analog phone. It was kind of knock on the door. Hey, is Billy around. He's down at the park. I'll see him there.

You used to get around. You used to get on your bikes, your mates. You'd find one, you'd bike around to a mate's house. Then you'd get him, and then you go go there, and we'll go around a Davy's house, and then then you'd go then you and Davy, you would go around to Bryce's house. I'm just these are actual friends of mine, and then we'll go around to Neil's house. And then you get a crew together and then you go and throw rocks at trees.

That would good, good time, good days. Yeah, But how do you feel about the popping. I mean in today's age. Man, if I were to just be in the neighborhood of where you live up here in Auckland, and I've even given you a notice, we were just in the neighborhood, you know, me and Mayven Poppin knock on the.

Door and say you yeah, yeah, yeah, you know. I wouldn't like it, but most people i'd be fine with it. No, no, no, I think it's weird to do it, and I wish I lived in a world where it was still cool to popping. I love the idea of people just coming around to each other's houses and knocking on the door and hello. But I just think we don't live in that era anymore, so you're not necessarily prepared for it. I think back in the day people were ready for the poppin. But I can just imagine a popping at my house. We'd have something else planned. There would be people running in every direction, and we wouldn't have the stuff ready to serve them. I think back in the day people were ready at any point. They had all the systems in place. If someone came around, though, were ready to deal with the poppin. Now we'd be lucky to find a tea bag.

Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighties and number to call the Humbled Old Poppin. Are you a fan or not? I'm going to say up here in Auckland, there's no way I'd be happy with the pop one because we've got the mattress in the lounge because it's too hot upstairs. But you're right, I just wouldn't have the beverage options to be able to provide for people. But I've got to say in christ Church we had the old Poppin. We loved a bit of a poppin. And christ Church quite often we have people around, mostly family. I think family is different. You got family just knock on the door, turned up unannounced. That's very different than friends. But I love to hear from you on this one. O eight one hundred and eighty ten eighty is the number to call. Nineteen ninety two is the text number to you love a Poppin' or I hate it? It is ten past two, Wow.

Your new home of Afternoon Talk and Taylor Adams Afternoon Call. Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty News Talk SAIV.

Good afternoon, It's twelve past two and we're talking about the humbled old popping in New Zealand culture, the etiquettes changed, Yeah, I think. And this is interesting because someone says that in the country everyone pops in. That's just a city thing. Not to pume them. That's so towny. Country people are all pup poppins. Is that true? Yeah? Is it just us isolated, depressing, over overly protective townys.

Yeah, don't don't have a point insula in the city.

Maybe that's the word I was looking for. Let's shoot around for it insula townys. Yeah, but by hanging on a minute, Yeah, because I guess if you pop in then and I guess like if if you're if you're on a farm, then you're generally going to be working on the farm, so you'll be there or thereabouts. Yeah, you'll be like, oh, he's not here, but he's over in that paddock.

You know, see someone see someone who is near your house and they give you a text up and say we're in the area. Your your mind if we pop in for a coffee, that's a poppin'. That's kind of the same thing. I've given you a heads up, but the heads up is only say ten minutes.

Yeah, but what do they want to come around.

Like I get let your text. Yeah, well, what would you expect. You'd say, Hey, let's go down to the pub down Mount Eden Road. I know a great place. Let's go have a have a week coffee there.

I'll expect How dare you interrupt me? We were just about to put a move. We've got to We're in our undies sitting on the couch.

That sounds like a good time.

Yeah. We encourage to pop in from neighborhood kids. We don't want reliance on mobile mobile devices. I was looking at the house the other day and a house the other day, and it was in the end of a colder sack, and I thought, I wish I'd brought my kids up on a colder sack, because I feel like, for some reason that a colder sack would be the kind of place you live on and everyone pops in between the houses.

Yeah, I mean, some colder sacks still have the community could a sack party, which I kind of love that everyone gets around. There's a barbecue in the street because it's a colder sack. They kind of own the street a little bit, you know what I mean.

Let's make every street a colder sack. In the past, we used to leave door open unlocked if not going far off and turn up and find neighbors or friends having a drink. You wouldn't be far I love that. Look, it's a beautiful idea. It just I just don't think it's practical for most people in twenty twenty four. And maybe that's a sad thing. Yeah.

Oh, eight hundred eighty ten eighty years. Are you still into the old pop in particularly if you live rually, if you're in the country, is that still a thing?

Neville?

Yeah, Hi guys, Yeah, it can be a real nuisance, especially if you've just been to the toilet or.

So.

My system is simple, always answered the door with the jacket on, and if you don't want them to come and say you're just going out, or if you want them to come and say you've just got home.

Easy, that is that is brilliant.

Yes, smart, So you so you've just you've just grabbed the jacket, you open the door and you're surprised. I was just going at that. That's actually, that's actually quite brilliant. I feel like my downstairs bathroom excites career drivers to arrive as soon as if I'm at home alone, I visit the bathroom and I've got to spend a bit of time in there. That's immediately when a courier.

Arrives, so exactly, or your next or neighbor one to borrow a cup of sugar or something. Anyway, that's that's my forth sworst guys.

Have fun Neville, Thank you so much.

Merry Christmas.

See is there something wrong in the world where I've never had a neighbor that's asked me to borrow a cup of sugar? In fact, I've never in my life had a neighbor that's ever asked me to borrow anything. But that's one of the big cliches of life. Does that still happen?

It's a bit sad, isn't it. And we know our front neighbors alertle Bit because it's a little bit more closer up here in Auckland than it was in christ juch We didn't really know our neighbors down in christ Juche. But even I talked about my line trim and I love my line from it. But we share the kind of part of the fence where the weeds was popping up, and for some part of me, I just thought, do I just lined from this for the neighbors, and I didn't and I felt real bad about that. But there is that lack of loving your neighbor in today's age.

This Texas says popping in is extremely rude. Do you have a phone? Yes? I agree, there's this other texture. I don't like anyone popping in. I like plenty of notice given, even with family, as I like the house to be clean, and also after work, we like to just tell thanks. That's another issue I'd like to raise as well on this. Why does your house need to be clean? Why is it like say you're out at the pub and you go, oh, can I bring some of my mates home? And it's like, no, the house is a mess. So who are we trying to kid? Are we trying to Are we trying to face that we always live in a really, really tidy house. Is that to make them feel bad or to make us look good? I don't I don't mind inviting people around into a missy house. I don't care my house is missy.

So what that surprises me? Because you are very clean and very tidy.

Absolutely, I'm so tidy and tidy and clean, but but you know what I mean, Like, so if you have people coming around, you tidy your house so it's so immackulately tidy, right, And is that just to make people think that you are better people than you are?

Perhaps?

Is that why you're tidy?

Yeah?

And then and then they go and then they go home, they go, they arrive at your house and go, God, we live in a pig stye. But these guys live really clean. And then you go round to their house and they clean up. And there's just this big secret life that we're living. That everyone lives in these hotel clean houses.

It is slightly dishonest. When Made's parents came here up here for a visit, I didn't want them to come to the flat, as I said, look, no, you can come up the driveway. But as soon as they came up, we jumped out of the house. I locked it up and said, hey, nice to see you guys. He said, head down to the cafe, and they said, oh, can we have a look? Oh maybe another time, Maybe another.

Time because to clean up.

Yeah, because I thought it was a pig sty The grass wasn't looking too good, and.

I thought, going to think, I'm I can understand that with your parents in law, because you're trying to prove to them that you were a worthy partner for their daughter, right, Yeah, So that is front footing. So you want to show your parents in law that you're that you've set up a good place for your part their daughter to live, right yeah, that makes sense right, But just your scummy mates that have known you for twenty five years? Who cares?

And if they came in and said, what a pig sty? How do you live like this?

I suppose you know there's honesty and that and thinking.

Pro How are you?

Hi?

Hi, I'm good, Nice to chat with you. So you want to talk about being neighborly in the old cup of Sugar days.

Yes, I do that.

We live out in Kowei, which is a beautiful neighborhood, and we have I'm always popping over to my neighbors and they pop over to me. We have coffees, We borrow ingredients of each other if we're baking and we don't have it. Our kids go and hang out at each other's houses all the time.

Awesome, What's what's the biggest item you'd go over and borrow? Would you just go over and would you go over and say, have you got a couple of bottles of wine. We're having a drink.

No, No, I probably wouldn't do that. I would probably say I'll come and join you.

Have you got a couple of hundred bucks? I'm a bit short. Yeah. Do you live? Do you live rurally? Did you say?

Yeah?

Yeah?

And you guys are in christ and all clme aren't you rural christ Church?

Oh?

Yeah, Outloard Starfield? So we're in Yeah, I'm in care.

We So you're a while from a from a deary.

Then yeah, we've got the challenge on the corner which has a few things. But yeah, it would have to go to Dartfield if if you need anything bigger, because I'd if I.

Went on to my neighbors and see you kind of a couple of sugar, that would say, wow, there's a diary about fifty.

Yeah.

Yeah, we have a Friday night dinner most Fridays with the neighbors and it's just a part like everyone kind of brings what they want and yeah, we all over catch up and whoever can come come and comes, and whoever's busy doesn't.

So your mates with a bunch of neighbors in your area.

Yeah, yeah, we've all got kids around the same age and they all go to the local school. And yeah, so we're often popping in when our houses are a mess, and we just don't care because we're.

All the same.

I'm saying that when my mother in law comes down from Wellington, I do clean my house a lot.

So is that is that the main form of cleaning of your house? I know, when you're a young man in your first flat flatting, before you go out, you might clean your room just in case you happen to meet the girl of your dreams. Yeah, and then the next most important, the next most important cleaning is once that has turned into a relationship, when their parents come around, then you have to prove that the whole place is tidy.

Yeah.

Absolutely, Yeah, I don't know when my mum comes down.

Very much.

It is all about love though, isn't it the cleaning obviously it's you know, when you're trying to find a romantic kinder or impress the romantic partner's appearents.

Yeah, yeah, as I say, I just don't understand why we would need to clean our house to impress my punishing friends. That are just a bunch of disgusting losers who cares what they think. I mean, they're disgusting losers in the same way that I am.

Yeah, eighty is the number to call the old pop and why do we bother cleaning before people turn up? Love to hear from you? Nineteen ninety two is the text number. It is twenty two past two.

Matt Heath and Tyler Adams afternoons call oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty on news Talk ZB.

You storks VB. We're talking about the popping and why do we bother cleaning up when friends are supposedly coming round our Eight hundred eighty ten eighty is the number to call Krishna. How are you hey, Krishna?

Hi?

How's it going?

Very well?

So?

Do you love a good poppin.

Speaker?

I just want to give you a I just want the story of what used to happen in by building in Barb.

Yeah.

A lot of things are three or four stories high and a very old village and the designs was like like if you imagine a modular type of buildings, so effectively it will have each floor will have four houses and they'll all be saying those Southeast Westers to speak and sorry. Other than the stairs, they'll just be all wrapped around the staircase. And so the windows of the kitchen in each level would basically be one about the other. And so it was better to sometimes be connected to them, to the person about, because the transition of goods from kitchen to kitchen was easy. So my mother would scream out and the lady of the house would be in the kitchen. So my mother stream out saying the name of the neighbor about and say, my sugar is finished, but by chance, do you have enough? And we had a little like a little basket that used to be hanging from the top, from the top, and she would just lower the basket with like you know, a little cup full of the My mother will take the sugar, put the cup back in, and she used to get it and then if she asked, if the upstairs lady asked, my mother would again the basket will get lowered.

And but for jobs on me, and it was amazing.

And they were also swapped sweets like for example, they'll say I've made this special sweet today, I'm just sending something down. And it was like even though we were neighbors, yeah, it was we were more connected to them as family then probably some of the real family we had. It was because and she would be screaming through the kitchen window out to her about stuff. Remember these are the days. We didn't even have a phone in the house. There was no cell phones. And like, I was born in seventy five, so we're talking eight years ago. And I remember these discussions because my mother would be listening to the radio and screaming to this lady at the same time, and they both stopped talking when the beautiful song came over the radio. So it was just quite a different world. Yes, the issues of living close by, but there's also serious benefits.

Yeah. And was that something that you guys set up specifically or was that quite a typical thing?

Was that very common large and lots of people used to have it. Yeah, I mean you remember there's three other neighbors on your floor, so you you you, but this was important because you didn't have to move from your work stations. Uldn't come to you. But yes, there will be others. We had a Christian neighbor. There was only one Christian person in the entire building, and so when Christmas used to come along, that poor lady had to cook plum cakes, well, like the whole building, and everybody would expect something because should only Christian around and during deviling, the festival of life, that lady will end up getting sweet from sixteen different different Hindu family fifteen different Hindu families. And honestly, you let you put on two kati's overnight.

That's that's awesome and was. And as a kid growing up in there, did you have you'd have had lots of Mike and the boat, and that you could run around funny.

All go to the same school, all come back, you know, and even when we got to college or universities that there were some days I remember there was like a there was a communal riot, and my sister and another friend was from the same building, was stuck somewhere. They didn't have enough money. They just told the taxi guy, listen, you know, we're students, we don't have enough money. Get us home and we will pay you. And and she even said this lady lives in the same building as as me, and the taxi driver got us back and from memory, I think my mother wasn't at home, so the other lady paid for the taxi payer. And we kind of must have embers later. I think he grew up as a building of sixteen families, but probably it was more like, you know, four families extremely well connected.

Yeah, that's something because you know, in New Zealand we always think the dream is to have you know, your own house and you've got you know, a backyard in the front front yard, and that's the ultimate dream. But but what you're describing there as a connection that you you just wouldn't. You just don't get in that circumstance.

You know that they can't appreciate people Bombay Bombay, and like Mumbai now is extremely expensive to live in the British they used to obviously rule the country. They could not afford the consulate in Mumbai and they shifted to Bangalore. So this isn't you're not talking about, you know, people who have a choice. There is no choice. The fact that you have a two bedroom house itself. Actually it's not even two bedroom, it's only one bedroom, two rooms. So living dining, kitchen was all the living dining was one room. Kitchen was separate. Usually Indian cooking, you've got to have it separate otherwise, you know, you you spell it everywhere. And then the bedroom mom and dad's bedroom would be different. My sister and I lived stayed in the in the living room and and we had like a like the main bed used to have a as a slider underneath, and I used to sleep on the bottom because she was scared of spiders and cockroaches and it was like that she was little.

Yeah, we just that's how life is.

It's not The space space thing only came to me when I came to New Zealand and I was like, wow, there's so much space here. You can see land around your house.

Yeah yeah, and and and is there is there? But there are parts of that close living that you miss.

I don't know.

I've got used to this one.

All I learned was humans just to any environment. Yeah, if if you have the right attitude. If we moved back from here to Thailand for a little bit, and my kids were born here, right, so they go from Carava to Thailand.

It's a big change.

But six months into it, they were cool. They were using the gym in the building when they didn't feel like jimming. There was a twenty eighth story building. They just walked up the stairs for the exercise. There was a fool I think we just got to go to places and look at what is good and accept it and what is bad. If you're going to word it, you'll probably have a happy lace.

Yeah, really nice to be said. Thank you so much for you call, Thanks for sharing. That's that's really really interesting, Krishna, Haha. You can't just rock up any more. Boys. People get up to some weird stuff in their houses these days, right, well, I think well to people get up to more weird stuff in their houses these days because there's no risk of just the poppin'.

Yeah, the Poppin's gone, So if you want to do some weird stuff you go to do so.

Back in the day when poppin's were a really regular thing, you had to be accept that at any point you'd get be rumbled at whatever you were doing.

Yeah, the weird stuff had to happen after nine pm because someone might just pop in.

I don't know. I think there was a lot of weird stuff happening in the seventies. I think back in the seventies, you know, I don't know, but the cliche is that people popped in for some weird stuff in the seventies.

I had one hundred and eighty ten eighties. The number to call nine two ninety two is the text number. Are you still into the unannounced pop and love to hear from you? It is twenty nine to three.

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Thank you very much, Rayleen. We're talking about the old humble popping Apparently it's not a big thing anymore. Some great texts coming through on nine to nine two.

The reason I don't like the pop in is that I do value the person coming around. I want to be ready and in a hospitable mindset so they enjoy themselves more, because that's the thing. You pop in, right, and maybe one of them wants to see you, but maybe your partner doesn't, and then that person's a grumpy and they had something else planned. Yeah, guys, I think you're missing the point. This is what I was talking about. Why you clean the house before people come around. And I guess back in the days when people popped in all the time, you have to keep your house ready for the pop on you. Yeah, Vicki's in the cupboard. Have the full set up for tea and coffee and you probably had to have your house reasonably clean. Guys, I think you're missing the point. We keep our houses tidy as a sign of respect for those that are visiting, especially if they're not people that we know well. Most people don't care if people they know well see their house in a state that's not too flat. Yeah, but I think some people clean their house just to make other people think that they love a better life than they do.

There's a little bit of dishonesty. And I'm talking about myself here. If people come around and we do a quick whip around to make the house tidy, I don't know part of it is. If it's but you know, say acquaintances and they are coming around at the short notice. Yes, there's part of me that wants to make us look a bit better than.

We probably are. You're fronting, yeah, but also I.

Want them to have a nice place to sit down, because you know, the lounge is an absolute pig stye.

And I think if you want to make me feel good, I'll go into your house and it's missy, and then you make me feel better about myself.

Wait you wait, mate, I think it's polite busy house when there's a mattress in the lounge and I've got this Jerry rigged bloody ac unit going up the stairs. You're walking and think this is a disgrace, Tyler.

Yeah, great show, Matt and Tyler. There is an ad on TV where there was an ad on TV where family cleaned the house before a dropping for Visitor's very funny. And I'll tell you what it's advertising that I remember. Yeah, I'm trying to was that someone will know? In nine two nine two or one hundred and eighteen eighty?

Was that?

Was that a spray and wipeout? And did it spray and wipe add?

I believe?

And didn't have the word the old hyaena in it? Was it the lords ripes? The one for cleaning up? But scarm? Yeah?

Rings about nine two nine two if you know. And we'll see if we can track that air down. John, how are you this afternoon?

Yes?

Good?

After them boys? Can you hear me? Okay, I've got.

The speaker on we I can hear you loud and clear. John, very good.

I would just want to put a different slant on the popping in tradition, and I call it a tradition because when I was newly married in the nineteen sixties and my wife was, she wasn't a total stranger to the district because she'd actually grown up in it in her early days. But when we got married, it was traditional for all the neighbors to come and welcome the new bride to the district. That was called a tin kettling.

Right ever heard the phrase no.

Carry on?

Yeah, Well, the neighbors would all gather at the end of the road and arrive unannounced, usually reasonably late at night, sort of nine tennis.

You were in bed, and.

They would arrive, creating a lot of.

Noise, carve hoorns, banging.

Tin kettles, all sorts of things to wake you up, and they would crash into the house and you would spend the next four or five hours plus drinking. And they all brought their own booze, and they were probably half cut before they got there. But that was the way the new wife was welcomed to the district, and it was called a tin kettling. Now I want to mention another form of tradition, and that was called first footing, and that happened on you Year's Eve and you had Poppins. Friends and neighbors would come and call on you on the first of January, just after midnight, and that was a way of saying we have now joined the new year. And people would come and they would be the first foot over your door in the new year.

Yeah, so first footing. Wow, these are traditions I've never I kind of liked them, John, but I've.

Never heard of that. I love the idea of first footing. So you want to be the first person in your friend's house of the new year. Oh, we lost them, John, We lost John. I lost John. We can't get we can't get the bottom of first footing.

First foot We're gonna have to do some googling.

Quite like the idea of that.

Yeah, and the tin kittling interesting. I mean, whether it would go down well in twenty twenty four, I don't know. Oh eight, one hundred and eighty ten eighty is the number to call?

Someone's texted through a ninet two nine to two. Got a call from Missus Fryer. She's bringing around a buyer. The place looked to fright from the Little do.

Last night, done well done?

So is that is that?

That's frame?

Bran Ripe is it?

Yeah, all right, we're going to find and white the one.

I'm pretty sure it is. We're going to find that.

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News Talks EDB, News Talks, ed B. We're talking about poppins. They're not what they once used to be in New Zealand society? Are you still a fan of the poppin' Oh eight one hundred eighty ten eighty. Some good teachs coming through.

Mats, Yeah, so many textscoo. I think we've got a lot of texts coming through the first footing. We've got a call about first footing before. So first footing is the best. We used to do it at the campground. It was the best. I'm pretty sure that first footing is a Scottish tradition and it still happens. I guys, first footing is an old Scottish tradition, and about twenty other people saying that so in first pooting is so on Year's Eve you try and be the first foot through the door of a friend's house.

I love it.

Let's bring that back. That's a great tradition.

So that just after midnight. But yeah, you're the first.

But if everyone's first footing, then there's no one home. So it's a pop it's a poppin at you know, one past midnight. Yeah, essentially, that's interesting. So many people angry that we've put the Spray and White song in their head. Spray and wipe's the one. I think I'm getting the words one. It's not scum, it's I believe it was Darcy's. Anyway.

Anyway, I think we're back down that air crack downd. We we might play a little bit of a little bit of it very shortly, but let's have a chat to Pete. Get a Pete. You've gotta pop in story for us.

Yep, yeah, I'll just shit the scene.

So nineteen seventy six, so I was twelve, youngest of four. So mom and dad thought my brother was about to make his way in the world. So my mom and dad were right, we need to do a South Island trip as a whole family. So for the caravan, and my mom had a brother Catholic family, they had nine kids, so I had nine cousins of one family orders in christ Church. So we set off on the twenty third of December from Auckland, drove all the way through to Wellington. Turned up in an old mate dead wasn't expecting us, so we all just sleep in the caravan and just drive basically, and his mate got on the booze next morning, early fairy trip. Christmas Eve, drove from Pickton through the christ Church. Turned up Mom hadn't seen her brother for about five years, knocked on the door.

Said we're here for Christmas.

There we were a family of six.

With a family of nine.

And were you well received?

Well?

As a kid, all I remember of suddenly I had all these cousins who I hadn't even met.

About two of them previously, So yeah, I just remember having.

A great time.

Mum had obviously bought some food to contribute from our side. But yeah, when I look back at that, I think, yeah, who would who would do that at this day and age?

Yeah, I'm just thinking about it right now. So if it was Christmas Day and then there was a knock on the door and it was my sister, we know on Christmas Eve, Yeah, christ Christmas Eve, and without without announcing it, my sister turned up with her two kids and her husband. I reckon, I'll be stoked. Actually, yeah, I think i'd laugh. I think it'd be funny. It would be a good surprise. I actually think i'd love that.

Well.

My recollection too is as I said, you know, back then we didn't sort of travel, you didn't travel as much the mumy and s brother several years and reciprocally it was a reciprocal kind of thing. And as I said, me and my siblings, we don't even met a couple of those cousins and so yeah, we'd never meet them.

So yeah, it was.

It was the meeting of two families and my recollection as the twelve year old.

Yeah, we had a great time.

Yeah, great story, love it, Pete. Thank you very much mate. Some great text comings through on nine two nine two guys. The spray and wipes the one cleans up all the storm.

That's how spray and wipe start one. It cleans up all the scum, the kitchen sparkling clean. The buyer is very keen, so thank you spray and Wipe. And it was kind of someone's pointing out it was like an injury kind of rip off of a tune. Yeah, you know zexon jougs and rock and roll role my brain and body needs. All Right, we might have found it. Should we play a little bit now? Or should we hold on to it until after the ad break? Let's let's hold on to it.

Hold on.

It's going to be worth the way because it's going to ruin everyone's day once they hear it, because they'll be walking around singing it because it's incredibly catchy.

It certainly is.

I mean, how great is that ad? Whoever came up with that idea? Because it's quite innovative to have a punishing song with a little story in it for your ad. But it's definitely it's it stood the test of time, doesn't it. Everyone remembers it. The text machines exploding with people's memories of it, not all of them positive.

Oh, eight hundred eighty ten eighty is the number to call. It is twelve minutes to three.

The issue that affect you and a bit of fun along the way. Matt and Taylor Adams Afternoons You for twenty twenty four news Talk. Za'd be.

Good afternoon.

There is nine to three now. John mentioned First Footing a few phone calls ago, and Dino, I reckon, well, apparently you want to bring that up as well, the first Footing.

Yeah, great show too, t.

Thanks Dina.

You're listening to you guys, and it makes me day too.

Yeah.

My old mother in law, she's ninety and she's not here now. But you know, at first to her talk about that maybe some sort of twenty five years ago, she said it was that do this tradition, but your top of piece Cole. And that's probably quite right if you were in Scotland, but Cole would have been a Scottish a.

Piece of Cole. I just watched the a Christmas A realistic you know, like a true to the original Charles Dickens remake of the Christmas Carol, and just a little bit of coal was somet and it would give you a bit of heat for a while.

Yeah.

I would a Scottish whisky and just take a bottle.

Yeah, I mean I prefer that myself.

What about this popping, Uh, the only ones that popping now, I don't think they popping as much as they would have done. And that my Mum's and Jehovah's witness. They popping pretty regularly, don't they. I don't know, you used to be around, but maybe that's not the kind of popping. But they did popping for a young.

Yeah, yeah, that doesn't it's still happening as much. I haven't been popped, and I've been popped on by Mormons a few times, yeah, and Joseph back in the day, but there hasn't been what it's been a while.

No, So that's not personally I'm a that's funny when people just popping, it's sid Yeah, what if I'm not in the mood, you know.

I might not be wanting to see you, might not be happy.

I might be doing something with.

Them, you know what I mean?

Yeah, yeah, exactly, Yeah, you might be.

You're taking a chance.

The bolt on our I put a second bolt on there go just in case I'm having a nuddy run in the.

Well.

If you pop a knock on the door and someone answers the phone with a red face wrapped in a sheet, then that's when you that's when you pop out again. Thanks so much, be called Dino. Your first footing is this is really interesting from Jillian here. First footing is a Scottish new Year's tradition, that's believed to be good luck. Who should be the first footer? Traditionally, the first person to enter the home on years should be a dark haired man. This is because in Viking times, a fair headed stranger at the door was often a sign of trouble. So if you had a tall, fair haired person, it was often a Viking that was about to cut your head off for the.

Next That was the age of the redheads. How times have changed, Jenny?

How are you?

Yeah?

Hi?

So just heading on to the last caller. She kind of took some of my thunder there. So Scottish as a keep male, it's generally the oldest male. So my dad is all raised Scotland Scottish, yes, and so his whole family did this tradition. I can't do it because I'm a seam male and I'm born and raised Kiweks. That didn't help, Peter. So you open a brand new bottle of whiskey. And there are words that you say when you're doing this, and it is lang, may your rum break.

To do it with a Scottish accent, may rate.

Lang, may your lum try and do it with a Scottish accent.

What I means.

S that happened, you know, all the best of the new year. I can't remember, but you give a cut piece of coal and you say the words, may your fire has always been for the year. The drink is you open a brand new bottle whiskey and you drink to the new year. And may you always be quenched at first or something. And I think you do like a piece of food or a potato or something like that, so that you always have food on the table. And it is to wish you all the best for the coming year, and that you will have all those things.

That's a tradition like mine.

Get behind Genny, That's fantastic.

Yeah, So the Scottish put more weight on New Year than they do on Christmas, so they have the next day off and everything because they are in full recovery with hangovers and everything like that. Yeah, my dad refuses to work because he is out drinking on New Year's Eve. And he now lives in England and so his grandson doesn't pick up the habit, so he's lost someone to carry on the habit on his family life. That he remembers his grandfather, his father all the way through born and raised in Scotland, huge tradition.

Yeah, love it, Genny, thank you very much. Who's footing bring that back? And forget the poppins? Right, we've been talking about the spray and wipe just.

Before we got it sprain whpead. The first visitor of New Year's should be tall, dark and handsome. So if you're too dark and handsome, then you're busy on You're busy night for you.

Yeah.

Anyway, Yeah, the spray and wipe aad we've been talking about.

So you've got the audio right, here's a little bit of it here.

Okay, here we go.

Got a call from mister Fryer.

He's bringing round about the kitchen looked a fright.

From the little do last night.

Although I thought quite sickly. I had to clean it quickly with spray and wipe our.

Surface.

Spray and wipe freeze because it cuts through greef churn.

Ah good is that that's going to be stuck in your ears for the next couple of hours. But spray and wipe Australian fantastic.

Right.

That is where we'll leave it. New Sport and weather on the way. Then we want to have a chat about out of office messages.

Yes, come on right, Yeah, and.

You're on new home for Instateful and Entertaining Talk. It's Mattie and Tyler Adams afternoons on news Talk ZEBBI.

Good afternoon, here we go, six past three. I hope you having a great day. We certainly are it, certainly are.

Hey. You know, I'm always talking on the show about sleep because I'm decided to become a sleep Champion this year and sleep is so very important. And I had an absolutely fantastic sleep last night. I absolutely slipped the crap out of my bed mashed it. And so I've got to give a shout out to these people at Kindface dot Cod and one of the guy that runs the thing round the other day. And so I got hold of one of their weighted eyemasks to sleep in and one of their woolen pillows, because sleeping with the woolen pillow around your head like it's got real beautiful New Zealand wool inside the pillow good smell toal smelled amazing And I had the hell of asleep the weighted sleep masks they're fantastic. So look, I mean, I don't get any money for this, but I like to mention great products. But yeah, face, if you're looking for if you're looking for a present for someone, one of these weighted sleeping masks or just one of their general sleeping masks or one of their wall pillows. Yeah, boy, you could. You could do worse than that for a present for someone so kindface dot Cot and.

Great stuff just on the weighted eye masks because they were a little bit So how much weight is it?

Not much?

I'd take it, No, I'm not much.

It just sits on your face nicely and you can, you know, and it smells amazing. But you know, you can cool it down in summer and you can heat it up in winter. And the white gave if your face.

Smart people. Smart people hate And there's a text here. I just speaking about the last hour. We were talking about front footing, which is a Scottish tradition, and there was something that they say when they.

Walk through the door, Yeah, lang, may you lumbreak beautiful? Yeah, And so I feel like a bad Scottish because I've got a lot of Scottish heritage. I didn't even know anything about this grip in Dnedin, which prides itself on it's Scottish heritage heath of course, yeah, Scottish airs. But you know, I wasn't aware of this, but there seems to be a lot of traditions. So I think you've got to go around and you're supposed to be dark haired, so you're not a Viking because the Vikings were generally then burn your house down.

It's all dark and handsome.

But there's lots of versions of it. And you bring some some coal round. That's why it's lang may your lum reek and but it sounds like whiskey as well. Then some people go around and do lots of doors and they and they share a drink with everyone at every door that they doorstep. The first foot was it first footing.

First footing? And someone has ticked through, So that lang may ye lumriq means long may your chimney smoke.

Ah, he's the coal. Yeah, lang me um good stuff. I say that to everyone on New Year's Eve. Rarely punish some people.

Hey, just a reminder, we're doing our Great New Zealanders of Christmas series and in about twenty five minutes we're gonna have a chat to the Great New Zealander Laura McGoldrick.

Yes, part of our Great New Zealanders of Christmas series. Yeah, we've got some great New Zealanders on the show.

Tomorrow, Huge show tomorrow.

Leave both Lisa Carrington Dame Lisa Carrington and they're recently retired from from the Black Caps. Tim Soudy on the show tomorrow for a big Christmas special.

Absolutely great New Zealanders. Right, But over the next twenty five minutes or so, we do want ever talk about out of office email messages. It's that time of the year where some people start to sit there out of office email messages and the great story in the Herald about what some of these messages mean, so that, I mean, there's some fantastic ones here. I'll just read the first one, the Goody two Shoes. So the Goody two Shoes starts off like this, KURTA, thank you for your email. I'm out of the office on holiday from December twenty until January five, and we'll respond to emails upon my return. For urgent matters, please contact Helen Markle at Helen at not there dot co dot NZI. Best regards. Yeah, and that is official, isn't it? That's professional?

Is it?

Good two shoes? That's good to shooes because it's what is the best, best case scenario, best best what if you call it best.

The most professional.

And I've also given them some options that, yeah, if there's urgent matters, then you go to this fake just in case you need something done over the holidays. Is there one called the person the over user of the out of office because I know a particular person I won't name and shame them, but they used to work at NSID ME and this dude would go out for a coffee and he put us out of the office on so he'd email and goes, I'm just out of the office and you'd go, oh he wor for a week, for a month and then no, it was just you're just going to cross throw from the coffee.

That's too much. Well yeah, they haven't mentioned that in this story, but that is a great one. If they're just popping out for even the weekend warriors and they just put it out and say, hey, I'm having a weekend. If you need to get a hold of me, i'll be beat Monday. No kidding, that's what most people do.

Yeah. Yeah, I've never ever put one on. I've never had to have you not no, well, I guess if I'm not Yeah, Like for my other business, I'll just answer any email anytime, but for broadcasting, if I'm not here on here, who cas?

I am one of these one of these particular out of office messages, and I'll get to that shortly. There's also the gen za yep, so it starts off knock knock, who's there?

Not me?

Okay? So if I'm running a company and I email and I'm the boss, that person's fired right then and there, I'll start proceedings. I'll start managing them out of the company. That's very, very annoying.

It's a terrible one, isn't it. I mean, trust gin Z. I know they get a lot of stick, but that is terrible. There's a few more that we will get to very shortly, but love to hear from you on out of office messages.

What do you do?

Do you keep it professional? Do you try to get a little bit funny or do you just not leave any at all? Like Matt oh eight hundred eighty eight and also cool.

I want to share a story I read in the ODT yesterday about a driver that got absolutely everything wrong. That's the headline. A driver that got absolutely everything wrong. What a tease.

It is twelve past three. News talks it, but it's quarter past three. Will get back to the out of office messages shortly.

We were talking before about the Scottish lay matte Lemmy your leak lang, may you lum reek, which some people say, may you long, may your chimney smokes. Someone says it is wishing you a long life and prosperity, but someone else says that on years they go through the door and say, may your wife grow fat and your beard grow long. Oh okay, So it's interesting things doorsteps say. Hey, So I was reading this story before and I thought it was interesting. It was a headline in the Ode Tree it was driver did everything wrong. So I mean a Daneed man who flipped his vehicle in Mornington on Wednesday night did nothing right, police, said Senior Sergeant Anthony Bond of Daneed And said police were called to Glen Road, Mornington at eleven pm on Wednesday after a man crashed into two part cars and flipped his vehicle. The thirty year old man was doing everything wrong. Senior Sergeant Bond said he was allegedly speeding while driving down the road. He was not wearing a seatbout and was using his phone while driving. Their man also had no license and had allegedly been drinking. As result, he crashed into two part car and he flipped his vehicle. He underwent breath testing procedures and recorded a breath alcohol level of four nine one. The legal breath alt caol limit for over twenty is two to five.

Oh.

The man was charged with driving. So that's impressive, isn't.

It, as the royal flush of cock up.

Flipped his vehicle, He didn't have a license, he was speeding, he had been drinking, he wasn't wearing a seatbout, and he was on his phone while he was.

I can't even think of anything to add to that's the mistakes.

That is to a royal flush of stupid driving.

Yeah no, but the week yeah right, Going back to the out of office messages, So it's a great story in the Herald about the type of messages that you leave when you go on holiday and what it says about you. Ciarn, how are you this afternoon?

Hi? They guys, how are you doing good?

Now?

What do you put on your out of office message?

Well?

I did a little prank on one of my bosses, and I had one out of office for just a company and one out of office for obviously a more professional outlocks on the company. And I started it with rereading those things I'm currently taking so much R and R, and the.

Beautiful Planet of BG was basically sorry, was that.

The professional one or the one for just the boss?

The professional one was very straightforward. It was, hey, I'm out at the office until such and such.

If you need anything, here are the details.

See, I didn't know you could do that. That's actually pretty pretty pretty brilliantcy and that you can make them specific to different people.

Yeah, no, absolutely, Wow. The funny one went on to kind of go on about, you know, you can always contact the other talented people that work with, you know, the great looking ones, and here are the details. You know, they're in an a condition office, which is much better, And did you get some.

Nice response on that? Did you get some nice response from those that tried to email? You saw your email, got a laugh and then responded.

Yeah, no, I think one of the bosses was kind of a bit like and hopefully that's not going out to any of our clients.

Yeah, so that's actually that's a really good idea. I've never done an out office response before, but you pick one person and it's just a really really abusive one with like, you know, the worst words you can put on it, and then and that person just thinks you're a complete anarchist, and that's going out to everyone.

That's risky, though, if you get that wrong, if you get.

Around the wrong way. Yeah, that's yeah, I can see how that could that could that could go wrong.

Yeah.

I'm not sure it does one individual, but it definitely does internal verse external.

Right, yeah, okay, right, yeah, yeah, okay, all right, very good for your text. Now a couple more by text, I mean phone call.

Yeah, oh, one hundred and eighty ten eighty love to hear about your out of office message. A couple more here. So this one is called the Boss and it says, hello, I am away and will not be responding to emails during this time, kindest, not even a name there. Yeah, no, that's the boss. Yeah, that's good, that's clean, that's powerful. This one is the pragmatic Punisher. Hello, I am away on leave and will return on Jenuary six. Emails sent during this time will be automatically deleted. Please send your message again after generally the sixth thank you?

Can you do that? Can you set it up to I'm finding a lot of tech stuff out here. I would love if email I could set certain people up for their emails to be automatically deleted and then told that they've been deleted.

That's a lot of Edmond. You don't have to take care of it.

I'd love to set that up on you, Tyler. So every time your email it goes Tyler, your email has been deleted without being read.

Well, just throughout the year, not even a general This one says. This is from the oversharer, and I love this one, and we've all seen this one. Hello. I am out of the office at the moment, taking a trip of a lifetime with my family to a little town in France. It's very remote, so I will have less act, says the emails, but will try my best to find an internet cafe in the meantime. Please call the office with urgent matters and they will be more than happy to help as best as possible. But I am on my trip of a lifetime, happy summer.

That's not just over sharing. That's showing off or humble bragging or something that's like, I'm pretty feeling pretty toughed about my holiday and I want everyone to know and everyone to know that my holiday is better than them. Yeah, I mean that's you. That's ninety percent of Instagram. That's like, that is ninety percent of Instagram. Over the break just represented as an office email. That's an absolute shocker.

Oh one hundred eighty ten eighty what do you have on your out of office message? Love to hear from you? Nine two ninety two is the text number and.

The species text he on that that that driver that had got absolutely everything wrong and has asked the question that was their car warranted and ridgi oed because surely not. I'd like to find out.

It didn't say in the story.

It doesn't say any story, but the story says from the police that they got absolutely everything wrong. Yeah, so if that's the case, then that that would be brilliant if the car was also.

Not Warranton Ridgoe Great twist. Eight hundred and eighty ten eighty is the number to call. It is twenty one past three. You're listening to Matt and Tyler Good.

Afternoon, Matt Heathen, Tyler Adams Afternoons. Call Oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty on News Talk ZB.

Good afternoon, we're talking about the out of office messages a lot of people put on as they leave for the holidays. So we've talked about going from the top of of the gen Za. We've talked about the big boss, We've talked about the professional. This is the baton passer or bton. Hello, I am.

Away on leave.

For any queries, please call or email Marshall Jenkins. For urgent matters, please call reception chairs. I love the baton.

You could set up a situation where people just end up in an infinite loop. So you send someone to someone else who sends them back to you. Yeah, so and you send them back to them so someone can be inception. It just goes around, around, around around. It's like the equivalent of a mirror on a mirror.

Should we do that?

Yeah.

For urgent inquiries, contact Matt and your ones. For urgent inquiries, contact Tyler. And this goes around around and around of that, And this one is called the workerholic. Hello, I am currently on leave from December twenty four to the January one, and maybe slow to respond to emails during this time. If you need a response, please call my mobile on dot dot dot dot dot. That is terrible.

So say that one again. What so, what's what's this one called? This one's the workaholic? Yeah, hello, I am currently saying yeah.

So they give the the phone number the mobile when say, if you really want to have it call call me, just give me a buzz holiday.

You know who that is. That's someone that's a that's a sole trader, or that that's a self employed person. Isn't there that wants the business, that doesn't want any business to go through to the keeper?

Yeah, exactly, Oh e one hundred and eighty ten eighty couple of techs coming through. Get a guys. The idea of an out of office message is just plain stupid. I never leave them, and I just spies all of my colleagues that do leave them. There's no point. I'm not going to check my emails when I'm on holiday, and everybody knows I'm on holiday, So why do I need to have something funny or even professional get rid of them?

They just that person despises people that do the Yeah, that's a that's wrong languages, that's a strong being so angry with your colleague for a little bit of a funny aside when they go on holiday a despise, But mate, it's not. It's for yeah anyway, it doesn't matter. Yeah that that person's full of hate at the most wonderful time of the year. Yeah.

Nine two nine two is the text number. So out of all of those mats, what would you say you are? Were you the professional, the goody two shoes, You're definitely not a gen Za, the pragmatic punisher.

I'd probably be the sales pitch person. But I just put it on there and I'd be like, I'm out of the office. I've got a book in the stores at the moment. It's called a Lifeless Punishing Thirty Ways to Love the Life You've got available at all good bookstores or something.

You know.

I would try and I would try and get more business out of it. Now, I'd promote something I was up to that's smart. You'd call it the plugger.

Yeah, the plugger.

I like that.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But as I say, why would anyone email me if I'm not onner than her kids, I'm going to be and you may.

Yeah, I'll get a mess of plug when I do.

Right.

That has been a good chat. Thank you very much. Headlines coming up. Then we're going to carry on our great New Zealanders of Christmas and very surely it is.

Yeah.

We're joined by my very good buddy Laura McGoldrick and we'll be asking her about her Christmas and.

A feel good chat.

Looking forward to that. Hey, and just a reminder, speaking of a lifeless punishing thirteen ways to love the life you've got. We're going to give two copies away at the end of the show. It is a great Christmas curf. Do you chuck it in the stock and give it to the kids, give it to the adults. So we're going to give away two copies of that at the end of the show.

Ye, that's right. Just so I use my arm out of the office to plug my book and my radio show.

It's twenty seven to three Headlines with ray Len coming up very shortly.

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Hey.

So, Laura McGoldrick, where do we find you.

Currently? Right now?

Yeah, right now? Where are you?

I am on my way to the airport.

I'm I'm coming home.

So you've had a pre Christmas holiday.

I have had a pre Christmas holiday. So straight after Christmas, I go straight back to work. So because Sky has the rights of the ASP Classic this year, so I'm working on the tennis. So I was like, do you know what is me and the kids going to escape down holiday rush? I'd already done on my Christmas shopping throughout the year. I love those Black Friday sales. So off we go. We've said four days, just the three of us.

Oh brilliant. And you've been careful with those those resort beers, those resort drinks, no poisoning, absolutely, the.

Beers, the cocktails, the why. I have checked them all and we are.

Goodiis treated your well, it's very good.

Now Laura treated equally well.

Bet yeah, I bet you have. Now game show host is a new row. You have added to your already impressive broadcasting quiver Game of two halves? How has that been? And who was the most unruly?

Look, it's been great fun. I've absolutely loved it. It's been. Yeah, I miss I missed Matt Hayes for period. Hae, come and hang out with you or something. I don't know what happened there, but so you can borrow him from but I would like him back at some page. But it's been, it's been, it's been great. In terms of unruliness. I who's been the most unruly? Oh lot? Probably probably Keezy Keenium and I are the Yeah, probably the two most Actually Dames Susan Devorit actually, forget what I said. Dames Susan Davoy out of control.

Yaale Heart was pretty unruly in an episode I saw Joey Willlia. It's got a little bit of unruliness in this, but it's a it's a great show and you're doing a fantastic job as you always do, Laura. A huge year in sport for you, T twenty World carb Olympics, you got tennis coming up, Warriors hard question, but what was the standout moment for you this year? Sporting wise. God, that is.

Okay, So there's there's there's been a few. Yeah, you're right. It has been a massive sporting year. And to do too T twenty World Cup finals for me as a broadcast and one year was wicked That South Africa, they said, Africa India T twenty Men's final was unreal. Just watching Jasper I'm going to really geek out on a cricket here, but just watching Jasper Boomer go about his business and win back game for India to win the title was one of the most extraordinary things as a cricket fan I've ever watched. But the moment to me was obviously being there when New Zealand one the White Sans Wonder Woman's Tea twenty Wheel Cup was like nothing I've ever experienced. I've worked on a lot of sort of finals and dieparate events and stuff, but never a final that a Kiwi team has won. So to be there, to have seen these young women, particularly you know, knowing them well and watching them go through the ranks and then go on and when it was just wicked as a sports fan, but as a broadcast was like keep it together. The lowest stuff fine, you know, and so that was really cool.

I absolutely loved it and plus a complete and utter surprise, absolutely unfancied no one gave them a chance.

Well, when you lose twelve, I mean you're really some weren't sure we should have made it to this.

Tournament, you know.

So I love that. That's what Tea twenty cricket can do, though, like you just don't know when the tournament starts, who's going to win the fame.

We're talking to Laura macgldrick as part of our Great New Zealanders of Christmas series. Now cricket is your first love, as we've just seen you talk about, how do you think things are looking for the black Caps going force forward? Of course, incredible whitewash in India and then come back to New Zealand and humbled by England.

It humble is definitely the right word. I think the Black Cams are going through a really interesting time. I think they need to We saw obviously Tim Soudy retire that golden era is well and truly over, and I think we actually need to do a bit of a clear out in there now and start afresh because we have a lot of young, really exciting talent. I mean, you look at Will O'Rourke, for goodness, it reminds me of Lance Kent's the way he's built, you know, I light, the way he operates. I think he's going to be such a huge asset to this team. But I think we need some fresh eyes in there and a fresh approach because you know, to Whitewash India was absolutely extra. Sorry, my daughter's just sent a horse.

On the side the road. Horse horse.

That's exciting for a child.

Yeah, I'm talking to Yeah, I'm talking to many on the phone, just wanting so I think that, Yeah, I think a fresh approach to that team is probably what it needs because the results have been slipping for a while on that black Cap side and and that happens. We have been through, you know, that golden era, which was just I mean, we were so lucky and Maddie, I know you're a great cricket fan as well, and Tyler we're learning to know each other at this stage, but you know, you and I supported the team through the nineties. That period it didn't seem possible for us, and so to have that sort of from twenty fourteen on to you know, basically when we won that World Test Championship. We've been very, very lucky, and now we've got to start again, and I think, yeah, I hope, I hope that. Yeah, there's a fresh approach to it because there needs to be.

Well, we can handle it. We've seen the tough time. Some people have never known anything but the good time.

Yeah, resilience, that's what it's about. I know.

Yeah, you have no idea how lucky you are to those people. Oh no, I mean that whole white washing it India thing. Then come home and get it for your truansplate England. I've seen that before. I wasn't shot.

It's the rollercoaster right, get ready because it's.

Beautifully said Laura. We're loving this, Chaddy, you're right too old with us. We're just going to take a quick break and come back with some more Christmasy questions.

Totally. I'll go look at a horse. I'll be right back.

We are, Jennie to Laura McGoldrick. Is part of our Great New Zealanders of Christmas series. You're listening to news talk see be back in a moment.

The issues that affect you and a bit of fun along the way. Matt Heath and Tyler Adams Afternoons you for twenty twenty four You Talk zid B.

You're back with Matt and Tyler on news Talk zid BE worth our great New Zealand's of Christmas series. We've got Laura and McGoldrick on the phone from Peeg punishing here on her holiday. Hey Laura, Highlight of your life in twenty twenty four outside of the Sporting world.

Highlight of my life in twenty twenty four outside of the sporting world. So you know, I can be a little bit over the top, Maddie, and you know he met. We could be we could be related. So we love our cricket. We also love our music. And this year, I don't know what happened to what came over me or how it sort of came to pass. A few things had to fall into place. But I took my daughter to see Taylor Swift Do We Win Yes, and see one of their last concerts, and I spink the whole time watching my daughter watch her, and it was the greatest, one of the greatest parenting moments of my life. Like you know, I remember that feeling of just loving an artist, so like I loved Michael Jackson that was my thing, and my parents took me to go and see him, and I just remember my hot like I was like, this is this is amazing. My whole life is you know, all my dreams of coming through this is and to watch my daughter go through something similar with Taylor's sift, I was like, this is this is freaking awesome. So I think for me that was my best moment of twenty twenty four.

Well, that's the great thing about being a parent is that you get their joy secondhand. You end up steering at.

Yeah, yeah, really better through their mate way. That's gorgeous. Laura, what is the best piece of advice, if any, that you've received this year?

Can you say hard no? And then they made me say hard no and they go, good, now it's a hard no. Just say no when it seems too much, And I was like, that is alreays sounded Rice. I'm a little bit of a panicer. I don't like to let people down and I don't like to say no to things, so I sort of give alternative options, which still put me under immense pressure. But I'm trying to not let you down. It's about the hard no. Sometimes you just got to say that is a hard no from me.

I like that.

Yeah.

I mean, right now you're doing an interview on your holiday.

You could hard and may have us a soft note.

But yeah, that's a big one because because a big problem for me is if it's in the distance in the future more than about three months, it doesn't exist. So I'll say yes, and then three months later I'm like people book and then when it comes up, I'm like, I should have said no.

Yeah, yeah, I know that, I know that's going.

And what does Christmas look like for you this year? When you get back to New Zealand.

It's all about spending time with the family. We we all live quite close together, so on Christmas Day it's it's a bit of a you know, you check off, go to everyone's house. It's breakfast at our house with Sander's presence if the kids have been good enough for Santa to come, and then it's on to lunch with Mum and dad and then even just sid his lobs out on Christmas Night, which is quite nice. He venge just needs a little breather. I always say I'm not going to eat anything for dinner. I invariably do. It's usually ham my favorite and yeah, it's just all about family and spending time with each other. And we like to go through the highs and lows of the year and talk about it all. And you know, even the kids are starting and is to get into the like goal setting to twenty twenty five and what they want to do and it's cool.

Yeah, yeah, that's lovely and for you, Laura, best Christmas song and best Christmas Movie?

Okay, so best And I've thought about this like it's for me, it's love actually, or and or the Holiday. I sort of put those on rotate on the three or four days leading up.

They can't have the same movie. They're very similar. They start with a similar voiceover, don't they very simill voice over?

But Richard Curtis, who did Love Actually, has done a new movie this year on Netflix and it's a cartoon movie that Ed Sharon's written some music for. But what's that what's that song called? What's that movie called?

That?

We like the new Christmas one?

That Christmas that Christmas the animated one?

Oh is that Richard Curtis the animal That's rich cool? So we'll be watching that one. And my seven year daughter Harley, she gets punished with Christmas movies with their mother and so that is actually a really good one if you were looking for something new to add to your Christmas repertoire. That's I liked that.

I read that, And a lot of people don't know this about you, Laura, but you've got a beautiful singing voice. You're one of the best singers I know. And you're great on a microphone and you love being on a microphone. So what's your what's your favorite Christmas song?

Oh?

War is over? It's like right up there for me.

Yea even Yo Cohen outer key bvs don't put you off.

Look, look they don't because she's so just. I think it adds to it. I think it really brings in a special kind of something. And you're like, you know what, she's not. She ruined the Beatles. I'm not gonna let her ruin that.

I love that song. Yeah, that's a fantastic Christmas song.

That's a good song.

Eh.

And finally, Laura, you got a message for New Zealand for twenty twenty five. Things are a bit grum out there. Have you got some positivity to sort of punch us into twenty twenty five?

Let's be grateful for what we do have because there is plenty, and be kind to one another and those good things there is all I could honestly thank God because it is glimb our fair, Prisoner five, new Year, new Us. Off we go. We can do it. We've just got to. We've just got to keep looking after each other and ourselves.

Yeah, well, bless you, Laura McGoldrick. I love you. You want to want best mates and you have a fantastic Christmas.

Merry Christmas, you.

Merry, Merry Christmas, boys, Merry Christmas. Everyone. Thank you so much, Mada. I love you, love this new show. You guys rock, You're sounding fantastic together. So congratulations, thank you.

Well have you met God?

Bless us everyone, everyone, bless this, bless So this is Christmas.

What he.

And you wanted to be gone and so this is Christmas a.

Happy there, the mere rand, the dear.

Oh that So this is Christmas for weak and fall, storm.

Rich and the poor speak.

Love is soul.

I'm so happy Christmas.

Thank him.

Let's stopping. So since possible, have me.

For you.

I'll just beg.

So happy.

Pas.

We absolute tune a great song and great new Zealander.

Laura McGoldrick and Great New Zealander John Lennon. Not quite Yeah, if only he was a key We but Yoko and I was flat in the background there, but Laura and Godgriic's right, she is flat. But it kind of works. Maybe it's because so when everyone's singing along in that there's there's a spot for everyone, even people that are flat.

Yeah, it's a beautiful thing, beautiful thing right. Very shortly we're going to give you a chance to win a copy of a Life Less Punishing Thirteen Ways to Love the Life You've Got by Matt Eith. It is a great book and will be a great Christmas present, Tyler, and just a heads up ahead of tomorrow. It is our last day of the year and it's going to be a huge show. We've got plenty of special guests.

It's a spectacular We're joined by Dame Lisa Carrington, the goat in the boat. Excited to talk to her. We're also joined by Tim Soudy tomorrow, who's just retired from cricket, a great servant of the game, the sixy Camel, so excited talk to him. And tomorrow we also announce the The New Zealander of.

The week, Yes, exactly, topical tunes as well, and we've got our weigh in right at the end of the year.

Yeah, that's right. So we've got this big challenge and look, you can join us on it. We're going to weigh in right at the end of the show tomorrow and see if we can actually lose weight over the Christmas period. It's not just a howth thing, it's just a test if it's even possible, yeah, to to actually not put on five kg over the Christmas break.

I've been carbo loading, I've been having cave frive every night for the last two weeks. I'm ready to go. I'm excited by this.

It's gonna be good because it's the biggest loss, right yeah. Yeah. So you think that by like carb loading and dirty bulking that you're in a better position to lose more. Does that work?

Is there a logic in that or that's my strategy and I'm sticking to.

It, or are you just starting from further back? Yeah, but this is going to be good. What do we call in it, Summer's Biggest Loser? Yeah? Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, the biggest yeah yeah, Chris, the Christmas the biggest loser of Christmas something like that. We'll work it out by tomorrow.

But that is going to be a big show tomorrow. But coming up very shortly again, your chance to win a copy of a Life Less Punishing. It is ten to four. You're listening to Matt and Tyler very very good afternoons you.

The big stories, the big issues, the big trends and everything in between. That Heat and Tyler Adams Afternoons you for twenty twenty four US talk, said B.

Said B. It is seven to four, So it's your chance to win a copy of MAT's book and Life Less Punishing Thirteen Ways to love the life You've got. And I was thinking a lot about stress over the last couple of days. Stress is a big part of people's lives at this time of year.

And it's strange that stress is a big part of Christmas.

It shouldn't be, you're right, but it is.

I've got a thing for stress at Christmas. If you're running the Christmas dinner, yep, you start the dinner at one and you take in charge of it. You wren't. Will you run Christmas dinner like it's North Korea and you're a dictator? You say I'm going to make all the foods everyone's invited around. But whatever happens whenever you turn up, the meal starts at whatever time you want, twelve thirty one, and you just started that time. So you don't stress out when people are arriving, You don't stress out about the food they're going to bring. You just run it. They don't have to stress, they don't have to make anything. They just turn up. If they're late, that's fine, it's no big deal. You don't get angry at them. They just can start eating when they arrive.

Take ownership of it.

I love it. That is genius.

There is genius. But I'm just going to read out a part of your book, Matt, that I've been using this technique actually and it works really well. So it's a twenty and twenty one study at Stanford Medicine COD led by neuroscientists and podcaster Andrew Huberman. He looked into a pattern of breathing that might bring rapid reductions and stress level. They wanted to find a technique that people could use in day to day life wherever and whenever stress appeared. There are many tools out there to combat stress, meditation, nutrition, good social connections, retreats, and a drink with friends. As effective as these are, they take time. You have to step away from the activity that's stressing you out. So research letter Huberman's team to a type of breathing called the physiological sigh, which was first discovered in the nineteen thirties. It's a double inhale plus an exhale that works to reduce high levels of carbon dioxide in the bloodstream. We sometimes do it automatically when we're sleeping. Your dog probably does it often to Huberman and friends found that purposely performing the physiological site lowest stressed rapidly, as he describes on his show and on his website. So we could probably all do it together right now, right, the physiological SiGe.

Yeah, And this is a good thing to do when someone's stressing you out in your family. You don't want to you don't want to ruin Christmas by firing up, or you're just about to arrive and you know that there's that particular uncle or that particular sibling or that particular siblings partner that's going to stress you out. Yeah, you can just do the physiological size.

So it's a big one and then another.

Let it all out. Do three of those and it doesn't matter how annoying your brother's wife is or your sister's husband is. Works and you'll be able to get through Christmas. Just don't do it in people's faces because of you. Then people know your stress. Just go around the corner and do it just a little bit of a breathing. Yeah, yeah, it works a treat. Now, if you want a copy of Matt's book, you probably know what to do by now. But text punishing to nine to nine two will select two winners today and we will do it one more time tomorrow and just remind a big show tomorrow. We've got Lisa Carrington, Tim Sold and other special guests as well.

We will see you all then.

In the meantime, though, Matts, give a taste that keyway from us, Bless you merry Christmas.

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