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Chapter 1: What are the highlights of Jerry's return to the show?
The Hauraki Breakfast gets set for winter with Bunnings Trade.
Jeremy Wells and Mania Stewart. The Hauraki Breakfast.
Welcome along to the Hauraki Breakfast, Tuesday the 2nd of June, 2026. That means it's the second day of winter. My name's Jeremy Wells, this is Mania Stewart. And if you've screwed up the first half of the year, you get another half to screw up here. Welcome back, Gerry. Somebody put in the logs, which no one at home can hear or is even aware of. Welcome back, Gerry.
So what a nice little Easter egg, wasn't it? It's lovely. Did they get me an Easter egg? No, that didn't give you any history. That was the history.
Chapter 2: How does Jerry feel about the first half of the year?
Yeah, you missed a lot last week, man. Missed a lot. What happened? I have turned my dryer down, so now my clothes aren't shrinking as much in the dryer, so you'll be happy to know. You can turn a dryer down? Yeah, just the heat. Just the heat down so that then, yeah, the clothes aren't shrinking, not as staticky. Was that a piece of advice that was passed on from some listeners?
Or you just decided to do that off your own volition? No, my own volition, just noticed that. Got to police it pretty heavily because the default is to put it on the hottest setting, and I saw her reaching for the button. I was like, do that bloody dryer down. Yeah, I guess you just want to nuke it and do it fast, whatever you're drying.
You do, but then it bloody shrinks all your clothes, and she goes, no, you're just getting fat. And then, the final straw was when I got an electric shock off that door the other day.
Chapter 3: What tips does Jerry share about laundry and dryers?
Remember that? Yes. Lit the studio up. Yep. Well, that was all the static from the dryer being too hot. So here's a hot tip for you. Turn your dryers down a little bit. You're not running an induction dryer? No. Ooh, I don't know. Yeah, they don't work. Don't get one of those. How would you know? Well, yeah, we've got one. And I think it took like six hours to semi-dry some clotheslines. Yeah.
It actually took longer than leaving it on the line. Yeah, totally. Came out moister and damper the minute it went in. Oddly enough. Ridiculous. Welcome along. It's nice to have you with us this morning. Jerry and Mania. The Hodaki Breakfast. What's going on? You didn't get a shout-out from the King this weekend, did you, Gerry? I see they've got the, what do they call it, the roll of honour?
It's academic roll of honour from the King. No, we all have a little glance there just thinking maybe someone's put me forward for some kind of honour at some stage.
Chapter 4: What amusing stories do Jerry and Manaia share about their past?
Service is to... Service is to what? I don't know. What have you served? I don't even know. I don't even know. No, well, I'm looking at it now. It's on the front page of the, I've got an analogue newspaper here. Wow. And I've got to be honest, I don't recognise a lot of them. Dai was in the last one, wasn't he? Yep. He was in the Order of, he received the Order of New Zealand Merit. Yes.
I believe. And I'm looking at them now. I recognise two of them. One of them, Barry Soper. Oh, yeah. We know Barry Soper. We know Barry Soper. Yep. So people in the media can get them. And then the other one is Queen Bee. And that's it for you? You need two other people. I need two of them, yeah. Susie Bates in there. You need Susie Bates? Oh, sorry. I'm just looking at the front cover here.
Chapter 5: What is the significance of the academic roll of honour mentioned?
I can't read, so I just have to go off the pictures. Okay. Yeah, that's about it. You didn't know Dr. Paul Baker? I didn't know Dr. Paul Baker. What did he do? Services to health. Yeah, right. Pediatric airway management. Oh, yeah, that's right. You didn't know him? I didn't know him. You didn't know Peter Boisier? Sounds important. He's the ombudsman.
No, and I think the issue is because I won't do anything unless I can tell everyone about it, and these people are good, hard-working Kiwis who actually do stuff that matter and don't tell anyone about it. What about David Ellis, services to the thoroughbred racing industry and philanthropy? No, I don't know him, although I did see a news story on him last night in his bidding tactics.
Did you see this? So there was a story on the news last night about David Ellis and it was showing footage from like the 90s of him buying horses at a sale. And when he bids at an auction, he doesn't put his hand up, he winks at the auctioneer. Oh, he's that guy. He's that guy, yeah. Oh, he's that guy. You've seen that guy? I've seen that guy. I know about that guy. So they asked.
He got it for winking at people. He got it for services to winking.
Chapter 6: How did the hosts react to the latest sports headlines?
For services to doing weird things at auctions. Yeah, that's right. He felt hard done by for the blinking community. No, so his thing was if you put your hand up, they knew who was bidding. But if you just winked, only the auctioneer could see who bid. And so it would spook the rest of the people because they didn't know who they were bidding against.
It could be someone who's got a billion dollars or it could be Joe Bloggs who's just running a farm. Brilliant. Brilliant, brilliant tactician. Yeah, I'm having a look at the underrepresented or absent industries, because I always give my friend who works in advertising crap, because there's never been a dame or knight companion of the Order of New Zealand who's from advertising.
They obviously realise it's for services to self, so they don't bother about that. So this is aligning your own pockets. He highlighted someone who got some kind of honor for advertising, but it wasn't a dame or sir. Right. But what underrepresented, I went to AI and I said underrepresented at Epson Industries. Information technology and software engineering. Yeah. Services to IT. No one.
Heavy manufacturing and heavy industry. No one. Yeah. Banking, commercial finance and fintech? No one. Property development. I mean, when are we going to get some nights of the property development? What does Max Key have to do to finally... Hospo and tourism. There's no one from hospo and tourism. That's a good point. Who's highly represented?
Chapter 7: What are the details of the upcoming Super Rugby playoffs?
Primary industries and agribusiness. Well, has anyone been knighted for services to being a dairy farmer? I'd say probably not. What about a shearer? Can we get a shearer on there? Well, you'd think someone had won the Golden Shears or maybe won something internationally. I want like a toiler, you know? He's never won a competition before. He's actually probably not that good.
Third stand sort of areas. Great at getting heavily on the piss and then turning up the next day at 5.45 and sharing 3,000 sheep. I've got a question. Like the third one down there, Gerry, the Professor Emeritus James Chapman. Yep. So he's obviously got a couple of names before his name. Does he put Sir before Professor Emeritus James Chapman? Yes. Man, there's so many things.
There's too many things. I'd probably drop the Professor Emeritus. People don't really know what that is. Sounds like a Hogwarts character. I think you'd rather go with Professor, wouldn't you, than Sir? I'll go, sir. Get a sword. That's controversial. The women, when they are damed, they don't get the sword. Did you know that? So only the men get the tap, tap, tap. Yeah, controversial as well.
Chapter 8: What lame claims to fame are shared by listeners?
The women's partners don't get a title. Is that right? No. But the male's partners, the females, get a title. Yeah, right. What happens if you're a gay couple, other than this has never happened, a gay couple and one of you gets knighted, what happens? Does the other become lady? Great point. What happens to that person? That is a great point. That's never happened.
Why are you asking me as if I'm going to know what's going on there? Well, I'm just thinking maybe we could solve the problem this morning. Reach out. What should happen? Reach out, King. Jerry and Mania. The Hauraki breakfast. Yeah, no, so far on 3483. No one who's been a, whose partner is a dame who became, what happens if you're a male?
Because if you're knighted and you become sir, then your wife becomes lady whatever. You are. Yeah. But if you're damed, there's nothing that doesn't go the other way. No. And what happens if you were a sir? Yes. And then you change to being a non... A dame. A dame. Does your damehood transition with you? Does it transfer over to a damehood? These are good questions.
These are good questions for someone else, though. I don't know that it's us that are going to be able to figure it out, but get in touch on 3483 if you've ever been damed and then transitioned. Um... We'd love to hear from you. Oh, 800. Has it happened yet? Yeah, you can DM us on Instagram. Has it happened yet? It will happen. It will happen one day. It will? It will. It will definitely happen.
Has it already? I don't know. I am in what a lot of my friends have told me was going to be wedding planning hell at the moment. Are you? How deep? All the hits. All the hits. It's starting to pick up steam. Okay. It's starting to pick up steam. I would have thought it was pretty simple stuff. I mean, you just get a venue, you just get yourself a band together, work out what you're going to do.
The guest list is the hardest part. The guest list is the hardest part. And then everything else looks after itself. You would think so because people know, I don't think you need to do too much at a wedding. People know how to get on the piss. You know what I mean? People have piss-ups every weekend.
Sometimes you'll have a piss up with, you know, 50 people that you didn't know was going to happen that day. So how much planning could possibly go into a wedding? Well, even for someone who doesn't, for a couple who don't want anything, you know what I mean? We'd be happy enough with a barbecue. These things can blow out. Really?
But I have not, because as I said a few months ago, we were looking for a venue, somewhere to have it. And our first port of call was, surely some farmer down south will let us rent a paddock and then we can put a marquee up. Well, they've already thought of that because the marquees are about 10 grand to rent. Then you've got to find the local bloody rugby team to put it up for you. Yeah.
That was a bit of a dead end. So that's not happening? No. So then we're like, let's get a proper venue. They've got everything sorted for you. And a lot of these places, you email them and they've got like a default email that they'll send back and they'll send back a, hey, here's the list of the caterers that we work with. Here's this and blah, blah, blah.
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