Farewell 2025. 19th December 2025.

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Let's mother who can do this. Last show for the year. That's right. You heard the man. The final show team. Congratulations. You've made it with us. And we're going out with a bang. Feeding the backs. Thousands upon thousands. to give away from us to you as a small token of our appreciation. Now, we're going to rip into every Call of Wins with Chemist Warehouse, the $400 prize packs that we're going to be giving away.

We will be giving them away all afternoon. We've got plenty, so lots of people are going to be getting early Christmas presents. Also as well, I don't know what it is, but we're going to be ripping into Smoko Chat next. Note we've heard from both Teagues, Showboss Teagues, and we see Lee out there as producer stats for 2025. So... We'll see what that means next. Vibes are high. Friday funny scattered throughout the show. You're welcome. Let's go. What a way to start the show.

Listen to our other podcast, Not For Radio, wherever you're listening to this one. Just search Not For Radio. Do you even exhale? What do you mean? What the hell? Smoko Chat. Bit of Smoko chat. Producer stats for 2025. Westy Lee and Showboss Teague's in here. What have we got? What sort of stats are we talking about? Mate, so the stats around the show are breathtaking. If you look at the year that we've had in comparison to the year that we had last year, I mean...

And it stacks up pretty good. We took out one of the big awards at Radio Awards. We've done very well every time they do this thing called survey where they gauge how many radio listeners that we have. But from an internal show point of view... so much goes on behind the scenes the best version of this show hands down is Jay and Dunk behind the microphones me and Teague's out there doing what we do I think that we have an incredibly unique advantage against any other and it's not

a massive competition, but in terms of radio teams, we have an incredibly unique advantage in the sense that no matter what version you get of this show, it still has a rock drive flavour. There is none better. So from out there in the producer booth, I've tallied up all of the audio clips that I've grabbed this year. So every time you out there listening hear us play a clip, that clip will be grabbed by either myself or Tegan if I'm away. Like that one there.

So, if this was a jackpot win, I would be happy with this. There has been a total of 1,638 clips loaded in this year. Of that 1,638... 361 of those were during the month of The Rock 2000. Whoa! That's a good indication of how busy you are during The Rock 2000. That's crazy, eh? Yeah. It's mental. It's fun. I love it. Let's fill it up again. Well, we will be. I would assume next September. It's normally around there. Yeah. Sure.

I had 45 butt dials this year on the phones. I think that is just shy of last year. I think last year was 56. I love how you count them. I do. They're so good. Because they're a little bit frustrating. So I'm like, you know what? I'll reward myself with an extra tick on my list. Do you know what I used to do when I was sitting in your seat producing Jono and Ben is I'd be like, hello, hello.

the rock and then they wouldn't answer and then i just put them on hold and then the butt doll would run for as long as until what they noticed and i noticed as soon as

they hung up, then they wouldn't be sitting there any longer. That's true. I think my record was an hour and 35 minutes. Oh, okay. New goal for next year. That was back in the day when you had to buy your minutes. That would have chewed through their data and their battery. No, we pay for that. So we had a rock phone. True. You guys have done... 65 interviews this year. Wow. Across Rock Drive and the Not For Radio podcast. Nice. 65. We have got the number one most...

digital briefs for videos and content in the whole company, 281. Wow. That's how many videos we asked digital producers to make for us. How many did they make? Well, those are all cards, so some of them might have multiple videos on there. So we would have had at least 281 videos. And then my last stat is that for our Sniper's Nightmare Facebook group, which is for listeners of...

of the show and also the Not Freddy O podcast. We had 3,815 posts approved throughout the year and 3,722 of those from yesterday afternoon were just done by me. Well done. There you go. No one works harder, Tiggs. Wow. I'd say Jay works pretty hard, eh, Jay? No, we can't. I'm not even going to lie. Working hard or hardly working. I just had a drink and I'm still carrying on from last night. I'm here for a good time, not a long time today. But from this side of the glass to you on the other side.

of the glass we absolutely adore you both and we're so so lucky to have you as a part of this team It just would not happen without you. And we're so lucky to have your skills and your time and your talent every single afternoon. You mean the world to us, and I hope you know that. And there's a little gift here for you. Show us tees. Thank you. Thanks. Thanks, Chips. And Dunk's got a slightly larger gift for Big Wesley Lee now that he's not on the press. What is it? Hang on. Five, two, three.

That's a decent-sized brisket. That's a big old beef brisket. And one more. That's this year's award-winning bacon. Oh, mate. Hey, we are kids. We're eating on Christmas. A combination of both the things that you love, motorsport and bourbon. Wow, that's a nice bottle of McLaren Jack Daniels 2024 edition. Thank you. I don't even think I can open that.

You're going to have to. I'll have to try it on. They made it to be drunk. Pretty parched, just saying. Thank you very much. Great year, team. All right, let's go and do some work. Go on. Give us a rating wherever you're listening to this podcast. Rock drive. Ha ha. Friday funny. I said.

Something a little bit different for a Friday funny. Now, you would have heard of... Remember back in the day you had a dollar store? Yes. And then everyone felt ripped off when they're like... What? A dollar and more? And now they just put whatever on there. It would be like one, two, three, four and more. Now it's just called sunnies.

Yeah, that is a great shop. So there is another one that you may or may not have heard about, the 50 cents open, called the 50 Cent Store. Hey kids, it's back to school time. And wouldn't you get the best for the lowest price? The 50 Cent store where everything costs 50 Cent. Not 99 Cent, not 75 Cent. 50 Cent. Go back to school in style with thousands of items like gently used notebooks. 50 Cent. Pencil numbers. 50 Cent.

A thermos with no top, 50 cent. An eight-pack of crayons with three missing, 50 cent. Recently expired Lunchables, 50 cent. And whatever the this is, 50 cent. Do we have Star Wars lunchboxes? No. But we have Judge Mathis lunchboxes. Kids love Judge Mathis. So come on by the 50 Cent Store or you might get shot. Jeez, he's good, Val.

That must have been a Saturday Night Live skit, surely. Yeah, but someone's pitched that to him. There's a gangster that's been shot nine times. You're like, hey, mate, you want to dress up like a nerd and chuck some little wee glasses on and do this skit? And he's gone, yeah, that's funny. That's Saturday Night Live, crew, for the longest of times. Part of that book that I'm reading at the moment about the restaurateur, the book's called I Regret Everything.

And they basically, the beginning, like Belushi and that, when that was Saturday Night Live, would always eat at the Odeon, which is a famous Manhattan restaurant. And that's when most of their skits would come up. And he said that he'd be serving them and they'd just be riffing these ideas. And he'd drop off.

you an entree and by the time they got to the main it was like yeah and then we can have this person doing this and this and this and this and then we can get they can all get run over by a bus and we can all go classic and like it was like he'd see them make up the drunker they got and the more meals they went through or like further through the meal service they went the crazier the ideas would get. We should implement that for 2026. Planning day. Every day.

Planning day with three standard drinks. Crank it up, legends. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Turn it up to 11 on your stereo, eh? Rock drive.

We've got good friends that do one of the biggest podcasts in Australia. Their name is Buster and Gibbo. They do Two Flogs podcast. And they came on our Not For Radio podcast earlier in the year when they were over here. And we got them to tell the yarn about the Great Beer High. which is just the most outrageous bear high story that happened in their neck of the woods. It happened 25 years ago, and someone's dragged out the news clip from 25 years ago, and it is awesome.

It might have been Easter, but in April 2001, Mwollomba locals thought all their Christmases had come at once. Forget the Easter eggs. Mwollomba residents were on the hunt for free alcohol today. And they found it at the bottom of the Tweed River. Best Easter gift you could imagine? Oh, yeah, better than eggs. And this is what they were chasing. 2,000 cartons of tuis, plus imported beers and spirits.

Lost when a semi-trailer crashed into the water, the salvage company lifted the truck out immediately but decided to wait until after Easter to recover its load. Big mistake. Resourceful locals soon cottoned on and have been heading to the river in droves, going to great lengths to cash in. I'm pretty stuffed now. I've been here for four odd hours, so I've got to go home and get something to eat.

A few sore heads, you might think. It's like he deserved a drink, isn't it? More than one, locals kept coming back for days, and the event was even captured in a film called Merbar Swamp Beer, which won a gong at the Tropfest Awards. It's ironic, isn't it? You can't buy beer on Good Friday and here it is in copious quantities. There's people from Queensland to Victoria.

Coming through New South Wales going, what the hell is going on? You couldn't get parking space around it. Police turned a blind eye. Get in there and steal it while you can. As far as they were concerned, they weren't stealing it. But from a technical point, as far as the law goes, it is stealing by find.

That's all over the fence. To get the most beer from the mud, you needed a plan. You'd go under your bodyboard, and the next thing you know, people would just be grabbing off the top of your bodyboard and putting in their own crate. So you had to have someone kind of on the bank, someone with the car, holding all the beer and two divers with one person in the water with them. So you kind of had to work as a team when you were getting it.

This team was used to working together, the Mwollomba Mustangs under-19s. In the next few weeks they were all drinking beers before training, after training. Before football, after football. After Easter, the salvage team came back for the beer. By the time they sent the divers down to get the rest of it, there was none left. After the crash, we didn't have any wins, I think.

there and then they lost all their games. Lost every single game. That's magic. That's about as strayer as it gets. Yeah, it doesn't get much better than that. Do you know what I thought we could do at ten past six, Jay? It's almost six.

We have a whole bunch of different things we do on the show. For example, we do Kids are DX. Weird Kids. We do... Adults versus kids is another one. We do nickname ninjas, what's been inside you. We've got heaps that we have. Psycho siblings explaining to adults things that shouldn't be explaining, embarrassing kids, parenting hacks. Yeah, so I thought we could just rip through some of it.

the leftovers. I say the leftovers, we just haven't had a chance to get to them. They're still like ripper ones. Thanks for listening, Big Herb. We might call this one Best of the Benchmarks. We've had many different features on the show in 2025 that we've gone back to, and we haven't been able to get to all the correspondence. It's just like a hands-off to Showboss Teagues who goes...

Throw out all the comments on the Facebook messages and on the videos and stuff. Maya does as well, our digital chick who's now dressed as a gnome at a garden party. Looking amazing too, might we add. This one here that I'm going to read out, so we're just going to have a bit of a sprinkle. over a few of the different ones. Misreading social cues. I love this segment in 2021. It's so funny.

This is from Sez Scarlet. I went on a diet a few years ago and part of it was making noodles out of zucchini instead of eating pasta. Went to the shop and couldn't find anywhere where they were and asked the extremely hot grocery guy if they had any zucchini. He took me over to... them and asked me how many I needed. I said six. He laughed and said, shit, what are you going to do with six zucchini? I replied, zoodles, to which he obviously heard doodles.

and then all the blood drained out of his face, and he splattered, oh, right, I guess he's their own then, while I walk back slowly. Doodles. I'm doing them to doodles. This one here from Veronica under laughable injuries. I was tiptoeing through a cabin room with only a nightlight on. I knew there was a step down coming, but just not so soon. I put my pointed barefoot down expecting floor only to keep going. My balance has gone.

out the window but this was the first significant accident from it. My toes hit the floor with all 200 plus pounds behind it. I folded my foot in half like a piece of paper. Dislocated all my metatarsals which are the bones your toes connect to. and gave myself a small fracture. I was sitting home with crutches, only to lose my balance again and fall on the same foot again.

We were heading out to celebrate my birthday, wound up in the ER where I had full-on broken all the other bones in my feet, wound up with eight screws in my foot, what is normally an equestrian injury. Don't recommend folding your foot in half, then falling on it again. Oh, my gosh. This one's under great chat. There's just better ways of saying things. This is from Kevin Mraz. That bloke's got one eye looking at you and the other one looking for you.

Great chat. This one's from You Must Get That All The Time. And this came off the back of being like saying to a tall person like, how's the weather up there? Gee, I bet you play basketball. This is Greg Murray. Going down a slightly more medical route, I'm a type 1 diabetic, and when people see me eating chocolate, for some reason they always tell me that I can't eat that. Why? Is it poisonous?

This is from Carib Kate. My son is 6'5 and has asked, do you play basketball all the time everywhere he goes? Exactly what I was just saying. Lambert Only Lamb says, I walk my sheep to the pub every weekend. Everyone says, well, you don't see that every day. I look at them dead in the eye and say, what, you've never seen a sheepdog before? That's from the Psycho Sibling segment, Wendy Wilson.

My brother made a spear at school and I told him it wasn't up to the task. A few words were exchanged. I ran. He threw it. I went down to the ground with a spear sticking out of my leg. To top it off, I got a telling off from my mum for picking on my brother whilst...

Matt oozed out of my leg at the doctor's. Just got on with it, eh? Oh, yeah. Just got on with it, eh? One final one from me. I'm going to go with a must-get-that-all-the-time as well because instantly this one makes you smile. G'day, guys. My name's Matt Short. I'm six foot four. Hilarity.

Last couple from me under weird kids. We had a kid at school who got a pack of chips from the tuck shop, licked all the flavoring off them, and then handed out the bland chips to everyone. He was called Chip Lick. And last one had a kid who would take his shoes off in between classes, peel the skin off the bottom of his foot and eat it. He was 16. 16! Weird kids.

How's the prison going, mate? No, that's me. Is that a bit of a smile there, mate? Rock drive. Friday funny. I said ha ha. A little bit of a giggle for your Friday evening. One of New Zealand's finest comedians and Melanie Bracewell. You don't know what mansplaining is, I guess. Ask a guy.

But it's when, you know, guys explain things that you might already know, right? I was having lunch and I was telling him about how I went to that stationery shop typo. You know, that shop that's like warehouse stationery for basic bitches. You know when you hear those notepads that say stuff like, eat, sleep, repeat. And you're like, that sounds like depression.

You need more than a notepad, you know. So I was telling him, I was like, oh yeah, I went to typo and he went, excuse me, I think you mean topo. flabbergasted, you know. I sat there in stunned silence. I, like, respected it. I respected the confidence. I was like, I want to bottle that confidence salad. It's like a chemist's warehouse fragrance, you know. Anyway, I didn't find anything at typo. I had to go to Fit Cools.

She is awesome. And Matt, like, she is respected here in New Zealand, but internationally she is adored. Yeah. Speaking of international acts, Jane's addiction broke up today. Do you hear that? No. Yeah, man. So I don't know if you remember, there was an incident a little bit earlier in the year where Perry Farrell had a punch up with Dave Navarro on stage. Wow. And just punched him out.

And then they tried to reconcile. Supposedly they did, but now they've gone the separate ways, so no more Jane's Addiction. Which, I mean, let's be honest, there hasn't been Jane's Addiction for a while. Yeah, wait till the money runs out. I'll be back. Well, they'll be getting played on other stations all the time, I'm sure.

Also as well, the Halberg Awards, there's a couple of Athletics World Champions have been announced in Geordie Beamish and Hamish Kerr. They've been nominated for Sportsman of the Year and will be in contention for the overall Halberg Award. in the ceremony in Auckland in February. Also, 14 nominations for Sportsman of the Year, including free-ski big-year world champ Luca Harrington. Footballer Chris Wood. Yes, Woodsy. He's going to be a shoo-in, surely. He's been mega.

And I've been on an absolute tear this year. Ryan Fox is up for it as well. And then amongst the mix for that, 59 nominations, recognising outstanding achievements from December 1st last year to November 30th this year. And always Kiwis, doing us proud on the world stage.

If you're representing New Zealand, we bloody love you. Ooh, spicy as, mate. Rock dry. Try to try to get to some of the stuff we haven't had a chance to get to. Many messages came through this afternoon. If you did send one, we appreciate you. Obviously, we appreciate every single person that listens to us. We wouldn't have a job if you didn't listen to us. One from Shane Averson, who I actually think is quite high up at Tip Top, if I remember correctly.

To the Rock Drive team, thank you very much for a truly memorable year filled with laughter and great music. We sincerely appreciate the good times you've provided. Your dedication to entertaining us has been outstanding. We wish you all a wonderful holiday season. Enjoy your well-deserved break. Thanks, mate. Also one from Sean here, who...

You can't win them all, Sean Starr. I think your phone lines are down. Maybe I've called over 170 times this afternoon and broke it. He's trying to get through for the Chemist Warehouse prize packs. We blew our award last hour, didn't we? They're all gone. What an awesome, awesome thing to do, though.

Yeah, well, that's what, you know, sometimes you'll be going, oh, man, I can't get through. It's because there's a metric ton of people listening. Yeah. And sometimes it is hard to get through because there's only so many phone lines. When the pack is that massive as well, every single time, thousands given away today. Yeah, between $4,000 and $5,000 worth of chemist's warehouse kit. It's amazing. And also yesterday, late, late mail, someone was messaging about elevator sit-ups.

This one came through from Geordie. Elevator Classic Stitch-Up on holiday with two kids under 10, father and sister in the elevator. Kids were tired and cranky, so I asked if they wanted to play a game called What's That Smell? And with that, I dropped my guts. Kids thought it was hilarious. And they worked out.

What the smell was by smelling father laughed as well. Sister just about threw up. That's outstanding. And speaking of outstanding, a couple of days ago, it was Stone Cold's birthday, and Stone Cold Steve Austin decided to chuck a video. This is the former WWE.

and F Wrestler chuck a video up saying thanks, and only a way that Stone Cold can say thanks, and it's awesome. Hey, what's up? It's Steve coming to the Broke School Ranch. I'm over here in my home gym. I'm just going to finish getting my swell on, fix it, go celebrate. Little pose for a poncho, world's best f***ing cat. Hey, this is my home gym. Got everything you f***ing need. I did three rounds of about eight exercises.

First two rounds are really intense warmups. And then the third set is to failure on everything. So I got it done. It don't matter if it's my f***ing birthday or not. Still got my workout. And I'll just go drink some f***ing beer. sending out a message everybody said happy birthday i appreciate it very much i'm 61 years old today i guess that means i've got 59 more years to go appreciate it much love I'm out. And that's the bottom line, because I f***ing said so. Cheers, motherf***ers.

That's such a mic drop. Still such a boss at 61. There's no way we'll be that cool at 61. No way. Jay and Dunk sitting in a tree. K-I-S-S-O. Okay, that's weird. Rock drive. You want to know...

Why people are lucky to be alive today. Why? There's a British bloke who is on holiday in the Philippines and he's recorded himself holding onto a baby octopus. He's like, look at this. It's a baby octopus. How cute is that? Aren't they amazing creatures? Look at this beautiful blue rings on it. Isn't that amazing? He was holding on to a blue ringed octopus, an octopus that has a toxin a thousand times more nasty than cyanide. Oh, look at all that blue there.

And he lived. The octopus's venom is estimated to be a thousand times more poisonous than cyanide. Yeah. And he held it out of the water on his hand. He goes, how cool is this? And then put it back under and it swam off him. That is lotto ticket material. What a mug. That's incredible. One last piece of advice from me this year, and then we'll get into saying some thank yous.

There's a reason why there's a saying that is cash is king. If you can't be arsed buying Christmas presents this year, just give them cash. Even two bucks. Don't worry about it. It's the thought that counts. Sometimes it's better to just give cash and they can put it towards something they actually want instead of you buying something half-assed and they go, huh, thank you so much. I really wanted that cookbook. What you can do is you can rehash an old favourite.

There was a famous TV commercial of a little girl wrapping up scorched almonds. Yes. Wrap up $2 coins and remember to put for mummy and daddy. That won't mean anything if you're younger, but that was one of the great ones. How good are scorched almonds? In fact, give them cash and scorched almonds. They're so good. Don't want a dark chocolate one. That dud. Go the Phil Milkies, eh? Or the white chocolate ones.

You wee devil. Hey, in all honesty, this has been probably my favourite year ever working at Rock. It's been the best. I think in September ticked over 18 years here at The Rock, and this will be my most enjoyable year, albeit very chaotic. There's a lot of things going on. Knot for Radio blew up into the stratosphere, which takes more and more time, but we still love doing the radio show. We love working here at The Rock. That's why we signed on.

for another three years. We love our team. We see, Lee, you're a superstar. Showboss Teagues, you're 100% the glue that holds this thing together. This absolute, this would be such a shambles without you.

Wesley Lee, always spinning plates like you've got to do at the day show and then help set up the drive show as well. We know it's not easy and obviously working with two shambolic humans and myself and Jay. And led by a fearless skip in Duncan Hyde, the greatest to ever sit behind a microphone.

mate, tip of the cat to you, and I hope you enjoy a little bit of downtime with the kids. I know it's very relaxing around your household, so make the most of that. I actually had a chat with Dixie last night, and she was like, oh, should we be catching up with these people or these people? I was like... I honestly reckon we just put it through the filter.

is there wide open spaces? And if the answer's yes, we do it. It'll just be easier. The simplest way of doing it is just dropping a pin where you are at the beach and say, I'm here if you want to come see me. Yeah, it's not a bad shout. I'll do that on Facebook or maybe put it on my Instagram. great mate get a few more people there thanks Jay it's been another great year mate it's been epic it's been ridiculous honour and a privilege

Have yourself an amazing break. Hopefully the next few days aren't too chaotic and yet you get to park up and reflect on your year, whether or not it'd be a bad or a good one. If it's a bad one, you get to move on. If it's been a good one, yeah.

celebrate your successes and hopefully you get to do some relaxing over the break and we will catch you back on January 19th. And you go, why are they on holiday for so long? It's because they don't let us take a holiday for the rest of the year. Take like one holiday in the middle of the year. That's why. And we will do the same. We will relax and we'll be ready to rip at a new arsehole from January 19. Have a great night and a great New Year's, New Zealand. Paul Maria!

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