🎙Having Kids - The Podcast
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Why do the hosts open the episode by debating August and daffodils?
daily bespoke content that you won't find on the radio show the horaki breakfast podcast welcome to the first bite of the cherry the first podcast to see the sun the first to see in the new day the day of our lord the 3rd of august 2026 um controversial opinion shittest month of the year august yes just nothing what happens in august i don't think there is a there's not a public holiday it is the depths of winter uh i can't think of anyone i like who has a birthday in that month
Let me offer you up an idea here. Daffodils. Yeah. Daffodils come out in August. Do they? Yeah. Do they? Yeah, yeah, just before spring. I mean, it's something. All of a sudden you think, oh, here we go. The days are getting longer. I'm not saying daffodils are bad. I just don't.
I don't think I've seen one in August. Is that a North Island thing? Maybe it's. Maybe it's a North Island thing. I have to mention that it's my daughter's birthday on the 31st. Yeah, and I don't like it. I don't like it. I don't like the party. She had a fucking party this weekend. Jesus Christ.
Hold on. It's the 31st of August?
Yeah, but she's got a lot of friends that have birthdays around that time of year. And they all suck. No, no, no. So she's pulling it forward. It's in August. She's pulling it forward. Yeah, she pulled it four weeks forward. Four weeks.
Are you allowed to pull it forward?
Well, you've moved your entire birthday. We moved the clock back for the winter, Gerry. Why can we not put it forward? The birthdays.
I don't know. That's interesting.
Anyway, so that was cool.
I saw you had that in the weekend.
Well, I was a silent participant. My wife really was the hostess with the mostest.
So your daughter is 11?
Yeah, well, 12 on the 31st of August.
12, okay. So what's a 12-year-old birthday go? How does that go nowadays? What happens?
Spend around 400 bucks on shit like food and lollies and pizza and shit.
What do they do?
Stay up all night. Kid bender. They make it their mission to stay up all night. That's cool, man. How good is that?
It was cold, though. You remember what that was like at that age. It was. It was a real novelty.
I think, as my wife said, you probably didn't have sleepovers like that growing up, right? And I was like, nah, not at my house. That didn't happen at my house. So three minutes into this podcast, Rita's traumatic childhood. It might be a new PB. It's actually 2020. we got straight I had a good upbringing man it was good it was quicker than I think so they stayed up yeah and watched movies or something they stayed up watched movies and didn't listen when they were told to go to sleep and shit and I went to sleep about two in the morning good stuff oh okay well they were right next to you Nah, but, you know, the wife gets up and tries to make sure they're all right. You guys all right? Go to sleep. Go to sleep, guys.
Of course. And then they don't.
Good effort, like, staying up that late.
Oh, man.
They were at four o'clock.
Four o'clock? Yeah, some of them were still going at four.
These kids have got potential. Yeah. They get a bag or something like that.
No. Are you sure? I got a number of bags of lollies, Manaya. Yeah, right. A number, because I forgot to pay for them.
What birthday party stories and sleepover chaos do the hosts share?
That's a good sign, man. I mean, if they can stay up till four, I reckon that's a good, they'll look back at that and they'll go, remember that time we stayed up at That's good.
Remember that time Dad said we'd throw us a birthday party and just pass Agnes about how much it cost and how late we stayed up the entire time? Got up and made them pancakes in the morning. Shut up!
I'm sending someone home. If you don't go to sleep now, people are going home.
My wife went to tell them, okay, time to calm down now. And my daughter went, come on, Mum. Stop being such a buzzkill. And I didn't even get it. It was great. I was just lying in bed.
Are you sure they didn't get a bag?
No. Well, I'm not sure. No. Okay. I mean, they're, what, 11 going on 12. If they got a bag.
Things are happening early nowadays.
11 going on 12, though, in Reuben, Auckland. Reuben fridge.
Mate, times are changing.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
Why do the hosts open the episode by debating August and daffodils?
0:00–3:16
2
What birthday party stories and sleepover chaos do the hosts share?
3:16–11:14
3
How does the Milo-on-the-bed incident spark debate about disciplining kids?
11:14–16:48
4
What is Winston Peters' $5,000-per-child proposal and how do the hosts react?
16:48–17:33
5
How do the hosts explain why people aren’t having children today?
17:33–18:01