Is Huntly the Worst Town in NZ? - New Zealand Today S3

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  • Опубліковано 25 лип 2022
  • Huntly has been voted the "sh****st" town in New Zealand.
    Guy Williams and the New Zealand Today crew set out to prove that it's not.
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  • @3four4door59
    @3four4door59 Рік тому +1057

    Huntley is the metaverse of NZ. People decide their own reality

  • @_seanwillis
    @_seanwillis Рік тому +370

    Looks like Huntly Tourism just got their latest marketing campaign.
    “Huntly - nothing wrong with it!”

  • @lachysims6327
    @lachysims6327 Рік тому +767

    Laurie is truly an icon at this point

    • @redbettait5161
      @redbettait5161 Рік тому +35

      Laurie finna get citizen of the year for his service toward betterment of Huntly

    • @suNn.K.O
      @suNn.K.O Рік тому +10

      Laurie gonna get McGinty's fines for serving intoxicated patrons. lmao.

    • @ezrafranklin4126
      @ezrafranklin4126 Рік тому +2

      L Aston Villa

    • @Neverest.
      @Neverest. Рік тому

      Also a potential serial killer. Top bloke.

    • @angelamcbirney9147
      @angelamcbirney9147 Рік тому +3

      Laurie for Mayor!

  • @liamfairbrother
    @liamfairbrother Рік тому +535

    New Zealand Today is some of New Zealand's best content right now

    • @nedread6700
      @nedread6700 Рік тому +4

      You mean Today

    • @dragomilosevic4823
      @dragomilosevic4823 Рік тому +22

      The bar isn't very high

    • @joshua7734
      @joshua7734 Рік тому +2

      @@dragomilosevic4823 police ten seven is high art

    • @TheTruthKiwi
      @TheTruthKiwi Рік тому +3

      No love for Viva La Dirt League?!

    • @dragomilosevic4823
      @dragomilosevic4823 Рік тому +4

      @@joshua7734 i guess until it went woke and was 'racist' to portray criminals as they really were

  • @wagonmoundno.2396
    @wagonmoundno.2396 Рік тому +673

    Love the way the Shit Towns guy is holding back his laughter at "who the fuck are you"

  • @ry.w6336
    @ry.w6336 Рік тому +109

    “They all died”
    “Of what?”
    Lourie: “I don’t know”
    Hahahahhahaha far that guys crack up

    • @dodgydrivers
      @dodgydrivers Рік тому +1

      He knows 😂😂😂

    • @Riffman08
      @Riffman08 9 місяців тому

      Am I over reacting an or was anyone else a little fucked off with guy asking how his wives died??

  • @michaelheliotis5279
    @michaelheliotis5279 Рік тому +130

    MFW I went to that "maximum security primary school". 🤣🤣🤣
    Also, I basically got thrown out because I was "too well-behaved." My teacher and the principal called my mother in one day and told her that, if at all possible, it was probaby best that I be sent to the other primary school across the river, because my exceptional behaviour was not matched by the other students, whose constant need for discipline was interrupting and harming my learning. They even arranged for me to catch a ride on the Huntly College bus when it went over to the other side of the river for pick ups or on its way back after drop offs, because there was no school bus for the primary schools (it was basically segregated and everyone just went to the primary on their side of the river).
    And no, the people are not that great. Nobody feeds their kids cos smokes and booze are more important (the girl next door would bring _tomato sauce sandwhiches_ to school, and that was only if there was even any bread in the house), and my friends used to steal my shoes off their own doorsteps and then try to deny it when they were wearing identical shoes the next day. And the neighbours would steal all the fruit from our feijoa tree, as if we were even capable of eating it all ourselves and weren't just going to give them most of it anyway. The only thing about Huntly that wasn't shit was that the library had free dial-up internet (this was the 90s) on the one computer they had. And basically nobody ever booked it, so I could spend pretty much the whole day on Saturday reading about all the stuff I wasn't learning at school because the teacher spent more time disciplining the starving class than actually teaching us. So yeah, 11/10 Huntly is a shit hole.

    • @marilynschmidt6400
      @marilynschmidt6400 Рік тому +6

      All that good education and I bet you're just the perfect husband too

    • @michaelheliotis5279
      @michaelheliotis5279 Рік тому

      ​@@marilynschmidt6400 Why would you feel the need to say that? Are you a butt-hurt Huntly local who can't handle that anyone would criticise Huntly for being shit and not suffer the weak excuse that it's okay cos the people are great? Just because someone identifies institutional problems with a town, and is hostile to that town because of what it did to their childhood, it doesn't mean that they're somehow claiming they're perfect or without fault of their own. So your comment is clearly just a knee-jerk reaction that attempts to attack me personally and contributes nothing to the discussion.
      How about you contrast what I said with some stories about how the people in Huntly actually are great or endearing? Presumably not _everyone_ starves their kids (although the government's statistics disagree with regard to the West side), and maybe you've had some nice people bring in packages for you rather than steal them? And who knows, I was only there in the 90's, so things may have changed since I grew up their. But you can't just personally attack someone when they bring up their real and traumatic childhood experiences of a shit town and expect anyone to change their mind when all you're doing is demonstrating more of why the town is so shit. So yeah, 12/10 Huntly is a shit hole.

    • @TainuiaKid1973
      @TainuiaKid1973 Рік тому +3

      I stopped in Huntly on the way back to Hamilton, forget why, but I never forget the argument that was happening on both sides of the main road. A woman was yelling all sorts of colourful language at the bloke on the other side of the road. Welcome to Huntly!
      To be fair the eastern side with Lake Hakanoa is much nicer than the western side with the power station.

    • @abbielakhan8501
      @abbielakhan8501 Рік тому

      I need to know more about the maximum security primary school because I don't understand what that even means???? like are these developmental behavioral issues or like criminal behavioral issues? So do they put all those kids together in one school and have really strict rules for all of the students? it's like a juvenile detention center? If it's just segregated by what side of the river you live on, why would youths on one side have such an increased rate of deemed "behavioral issues"?
      Is this like when in Canada we say someone is from the "wrong side of the tracks" because they are poorer and have less access and support due to where they live? That's the closest thing I can think of that I've heard of it. Where the side with more money and access just choose to have their own school system and district because they believe or act differently, rather than putting kids geographically close in schools together and dealing with the issues that arise from having such a divide in the parent's income?
      In Canada, we have the Catholic school system that is better funded and supported than our public schools. The public schools and students are stereotyped as being more wild and having worse behavioral issues just because they were in a school that LOOKED and was less funded than the Catholic schools

    • @michaelheliotis5279
      @michaelheliotis5279 Рік тому +4

      @@abbielakhan8501 Yeah, it's just a geographical issue. The Waikato river goes right through the middle of Huntly, with the western houses worth less and almost entirely inhabited by minorities, while the eastern houses are generally nicer and more expensive, and typically inhabited by white people of varying incomes (it's not like they're all rich). Each side of the river has its own public primary school, but there is no school bus because you're supposed to go the local school on your side of the river. The only bus is for the high school students, as they all go to the same school on the western side, so a bus goes around to pick up all the eastern students.
      I don't believe the primary schools are zoned, but most parents aren't going to drive their kids all the way across to the other side of town every day just so they can go to a nicer school, so all the poor minority kids end up at the same school. Most of them have behavioural issues and/or learning difficulties because they come from turbulent homes with parents who typically aren't invested in their learning, and the rampant poverty in the area doesn't help at all.
      On the other hand, the school is incredibly well funded. New Zealand doesn't use the idiotic US system where schools are allocated funding based on student performance, which privileges schools in well off neighbourhoods full of white people. Instead, it has a decile system that ranks schools based on the average income of houses in the area. The lowest-ranked schools, Decile 1, are allocated the highest funding, while the highest-ranked schools, Decile 10, receive the least funding as they are more than capable of generating revenue from the parents through school fees and charges for extra-curricular activities.
      I honestly don't know what about the school is "maximum security", though, as there wasn't anything like that when I was there. I suspect they've merely added a huge fence around the school to prevent truancy, because it was common for kids to just leave at lunch time to try and find food that they could steal. There's certainly nothing from outside that needs to be kept out, as school shootings don't exist in NZ. However, feel like the term was used in the video perhaps as a joke about the calibre of the school and it's students, in which case it's very apt-and a little dark given that realistically most of the students are on their way to a penitentiary.

  • @traceywahine637
    @traceywahine637 Рік тому +259

    Such a shame. I grew up there. Had a brilliant, idyllic childhood. Went to the movies every Friday night. Played netball every Saturday in winter and swam in the river and, jumped off the main bridge during the summers. Everybody knew each other - difficult to get into trouble because you knew half the town was related to you and would tell your parents/grandparents if you were up to no good :). I'm going to assume it's still a good place as I still have lots of family there and they are wonderful people - some of the best in the world!!!!

    • @raviram-beyondscienceandmo3103
      @raviram-beyondscienceandmo3103 Рік тому +16

      And you left Huntly because....

    • @kiwitalkspodcast
      @kiwitalkspodcast Рік тому +2

      Never knew they had a cinemas there lmao... I use to go up there every weekend because of my parent's work it was ok parts of it were gang affiliated but besides that it was descent at best

    • @shaneanderson4406
      @shaneanderson4406 Рік тому +26

      I grew up I huntly and was racially abused and physically abused by Maori for being white, horrible place to grow up, terrible memories

    • @J.J.J.J.J.J.J
      @J.J.J.J.J.J.J Рік тому +1

      Well said! Some if the vest towns don't live up to societies ideals. However, when studies are done, people are on average happier than in the big cities that are rated highly.

    • @KanyeKetchup
      @KanyeKetchup Рік тому

      Narp u outta ur mind

  • @djcie1018
    @djcie1018 Рік тому +150

    "I'm always drunk", pure gold...

  • @sanketgurung917
    @sanketgurung917 Рік тому +87

    "We got Aquatic centre, Its like a lake but put in a room and a roof over the head, So your hair dont get wet" 😂😂😂😂 What a tour guide :V

  • @olsenia3731
    @olsenia3731 Рік тому +67

    Buy a scooter to avoid drink driving charges 😄 🤣..nice one Laurie 👍

  • @toanniesplace
    @toanniesplace Рік тому +39

    I'm living in a housebus and wintering over in the local camp ground at Huntly.
    Its magic. The people really do make this place... Almost everything you need is here.
    Lake Hakanoa changes constantly. Sometimes you can hardly tell which way is up because the lake is smooth as a mirror. I've got some 'amazing' photographs
    You may not be able to swim in Lake Hakanoa... no motorboats allowed but you can sail on it... and there is a brilliant walkway around the lake as well that is well cared for.
    I'll come back here next year to winter over... Happily.

  • @Mountain_walker21
    @Mountain_walker21 Рік тому +27

    Huntly needs a big town sign with "Nothing wrong with it" on it

  • @DexRei
    @DexRei Рік тому +14

    Got a few mates that live in Huntly, and before the Waikato expressway, used to drive through it a ton. Last time I drove through, some dude at the Auckland end threw a rock through my window (he was chucking rocks at multiple cars as they drove past). That was a fun experience

  • @ErgonBill
    @ErgonBill Рік тому +13

    Cracked me up. Used to live in Shitsville, Queensland where the old drunks were onto the mobility scooter lark until the cops got wise and booked them anyway.

  • @strangemachines_
    @strangemachines_ Рік тому +212

    This makes me want to drive through Huntly and make a rest stop and buy Laurie a beer before I promptly leave. I would so do that.

    • @TheTruthKiwi
      @TheTruthKiwi Рік тому +9

      Nah, get hammered there bro. Who knows where you might wake up. :)

    • @strangemachines_
      @strangemachines_ Рік тому +10

      @@TheTruthKiwi That’s a scary prospect - you could wake up in far too much of Huntly

    • @TheTruthKiwi
      @TheTruthKiwi Рік тому +1

      @@strangemachines_ 😂😂😂

    • @thebreadcircus
      @thebreadcircus Рік тому +2

      @@TheTruthKiwi If any of you are serious, hit me up and I'll organize it for you

    • @andee33
      @andee33 Рік тому +2

      @@TheTruthKiwi probably in that lake

  • @maddaxy
    @maddaxy Рік тому +46

    Old drunk is a legend

  • @user-kk2uf5du7j
    @user-kk2uf5du7j Рік тому +20

    Guy: How’s it going Laury?
    Laury: Good
    Guy: Anything you’d like to say to us?
    Laury: Who the fk are you?🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @PS-Straya_M8
    @PS-Straya_M8 Рік тому +19

    LoL DEKA closed 21 years ago in Huntly but still the sign is up 😁

    • @peanutmack
      @peanutmack Рік тому +5

      It’s a shrine

    • @mymai5859
      @mymai5859 Рік тому +6

      Some corporate clowns wanted to pull it down years ago...but the community went out & protested. It made National News. Deka sign & Huntly are synonymous 🙂

    • @PS-Straya_M8
      @PS-Straya_M8 Рік тому +1

      @@mymai5859 Thank you very interesting :)

  • @stevemaran1439
    @stevemaran1439 Рік тому +78

    let's leave huntly alone. hamilton is next

    • @thomasneal9291
      @thomasneal9291 Рік тому +9

      Hamilton is the only city in NZ where I feel the need to hurry through it. creepy vibe man, just... creepy.

    • @Aaron7508
      @Aaron7508 Рік тому +3

      I would say Invercargill

    • @BloodlessJG
      @BloodlessJG Рік тому

      @@thomasneal9291
      Don't you like meth 🤷

    • @TheTruthKiwi
      @TheTruthKiwi Рік тому +1

      Ruatotoria

    • @loganperry8637
      @loganperry8637 Рік тому

      The only shit cities in NZ are Auckland and Wellington

  • @popculturekings8420
    @popculturekings8420 Рік тому +75

    So happy that you guys are making new episodes I'm watching from Melbourne Australia and Italian and aboriginal

    • @choddyroll6058
      @choddyroll6058 Рік тому +25

      I've never been to Italian or aboriginal. How is it there?

    • @smolgok384
      @smolgok384 Рік тому +9

      @@choddyroll6058 There's nothing wrong with Italian & Aboriginal 😎

    • @JK-rz9xj
      @JK-rz9xj Рік тому +1

      @@choddyroll6058 🤣🤣

    • @camwells9726
      @camwells9726 Рік тому +12

      interesting mix , bush tucker on the pizza ?

    • @zephheine9681
      @zephheine9681 Рік тому +2

      @@camwells9726 🤣

  • @Getsum-ii
    @Getsum-ii Рік тому +9

    Those old guys using granny karts to avoid loosing their licenses 😂😂😂

  • @jadynwilliams-hazleman2104
    @jadynwilliams-hazleman2104 6 місяців тому +1

    That sunset over the power station was truly a beautiful sight!

  • @scotty1404
    @scotty1404 Рік тому +11

    When I was a kid we lived in Mangere, mum would send us to my aunty Charlottes house in Paki Street Huntly. I would stay for a few weeks in the summer school holidays and spend time with my cousins. My Grandmother lived in Semple Street. There was a shop there where I could walk through across the train tracks. Huntly is etched in my mind as being a choice place.

    • @portskingi1355
      @portskingi1355 10 місяців тому

      the old semple street shop wow damn that's some time ago cool that's real talk right there iykyk

  • @njohn6981
    @njohn6981 Рік тому +13

    I'm not wise, I'm just a drunk 🤣🤣🤣💪 love this Golden oldie 👍👍

  • @holdencommodorehsv
    @holdencommodorehsv Рік тому +82

    About time Huntly was exposed.

  • @keepitsekiiiii9148
    @keepitsekiiiii9148 Рік тому +30

    I love McGinty’s Huntly Tab

  • @lachlank.8270
    @lachlank.8270 Рік тому +20

    Frank gets the joke and is a good sport bless that man

  • @Kay2be2mr
    @Kay2be2mr Рік тому +42

    Looks like a perfectly nice town 💁🏻‍♀️but then again every town in NZ looks nice to me.

    • @TheTruthKiwi
      @TheTruthKiwi Рік тому

      What a suck up ow

    • @rogerwilco4736
      @rogerwilco4736 Рік тому +2

      Invest in a pair of spectacles

    • @Kay2be2mr
      @Kay2be2mr Рік тому

      @@rogerwilco4736 Remember that others who are not from NZ see beauty where the locals do not.

  • @DanZaiOfficial
    @DanZaiOfficial Рік тому +35

    Liking before it happens and because I know there's gonna be a DEKA sign joke.

  • @aussiecue
    @aussiecue Рік тому +79

    Glad NZ can still do comedy like this. It's all over for us here for funny shit in AU

    • @TheTruthKiwi
      @TheTruthKiwi Рік тому +3

      No more Russell Coit?

    • @baabaabaa2293
      @baabaabaa2293 Рік тому +3

      Na bro..maybe a rerun now n then.
      Our tellys fukt!
      MacAuliffes a funny bastard, but he's leaving.
      Mate ld put up with reruns of Wellington Paranormal.

    • @ignaciolorello
      @ignaciolorello Рік тому +4

      Feel the same from comedy in Argentina (spanish speaker), NZT is very very good, very clever.

    • @jessebarlow1277
      @jessebarlow1277 Рік тому +3

      @@baabaabaa2293 literally watching reruns of wellington paranormal right now

    • @baabaabaa2293
      @baabaabaa2293 Рік тому +3

      @@jessebarlow1277 Hahaha! Clever buggas eh..l luv the show!

  • @RubyDoobieScoo
    @RubyDoobieScoo Рік тому +15

    "you need to be sober for this brainstorming session"
    "what brain?"

  • @gordonwells1626
    @gordonwells1626 Рік тому +11

    We spent Easter weekend in Huntley in 2018….we really enjoyed it, meet some very friendly and hospitable local people and couldn’t work out why a number of Kiwi’s from outside of Huntley had questioned the wisdom of visiting this town….

  • @jaomello
    @jaomello Рік тому +20

    So glad these are back. You guys fucking rule.

  • @apb3251
    @apb3251 Рік тому +18

    The swimming pool has a roof over it so you don’t get your hair wet 😂

  • @davesmurf6693
    @davesmurf6693 Рік тому +15

    Huntly used to have a Sick Wild kill Butchery, also the best thing about Huntly is stopping at the Bakehouse.

  • @S4MU3L-
    @S4MU3L- Рік тому +14

    See im alright see, I'm at McGintys 7 days a week. Words of a legend

  • @makdd2520
    @makdd2520 Рік тому +14

    “This is Huntly’s Aquatic Centre, basically like a lake.. but with a roof over it so you don’t get your hair wet”
    🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 FML 3:38

  • @fucktheworlddeathtothecrow2082
    @fucktheworlddeathtothecrow2082 Рік тому +10

    Dose anyone else want to go see Laurie and buy that man a beer?

  • @melhotpink9394
    @melhotpink9394 Рік тому +10

    When I was younger they took away the H and changed it to a C so we were right all along
    .. the gentle smear was funny

  • @haremhentaihunter402
    @haremhentaihunter402 Рік тому +9

    That plot twist had me in a fit 🤣🤣 like the movie Avatar where the marine is hired to kill the locals, ends up saving the locals 🤣🤣 the start to every action movie lmao

  • @robhaunui3343
    @robhaunui3343 Рік тому +12

    "NOW FUCK OFF !" Laurie is THE MAN,and that should be the motto for all of NZ,not just Huntly

  • @YUM39
    @YUM39 Рік тому +3

    I saw a dude beating his missus in the countdown parking lot

  • @killuaonhorse
    @killuaonhorse Рік тому +31

    Top 5 NZ series of all time, thanks Guy.

    • @DV7Dave
      @DV7Dave Рік тому +6

      Wait, there are FOUR others?

    • @casadecruisin6251
      @casadecruisin6251 Рік тому +2

      What's the other 4?

    • @bmwmacdonald
      @bmwmacdonald Рік тому

      Need to know the other 4 plz.

    • @thomasneal9291
      @thomasneal9291 Рік тому +1

      -what we do in the night
      -wellington paranormal
      -Outrageous fortune

    • @DV7Dave
      @DV7Dave Рік тому

      @@thomasneal9291 that's only three!

  • @itsDavoBro
    @itsDavoBro Рік тому +20

    You know your towns popping when there’s still people going to the RSA

    • @rogerwilco4736
      @rogerwilco4736 Рік тому

      The RSA. Now there's a lively venue, about as much fun their as in an old folks home.😂🤣😂

  • @Check_For_Response
    @Check_For_Response Рік тому +8

    May 1st, 1997… my mates and I are in two vehicles heading up to the North Shore Events Center for the Korn concert. We’ve been smoking joint after joint all the way from Hamilton. We also dropped a double dipped Alien trip just before we left.
    Guess what kicked in driving through Huntly? Yep… and the power station chimneys started falling towards the car I was in. We all saw it.
    Only memory I have of the place and it is forever ingrained in my psyche because of that awesome road trip.

  • @rachelcookie321
    @rachelcookie321 Рік тому +142

    Whoever called Huntly the worst town has obviously never been to Greymouth

    • @032254855
      @032254855 Рік тому +7

      you have obviously never been to Ohai

    • @seijisawamura5415
      @seijisawamura5415 Рік тому

      Whoever called Greymouth the worst town has obviously never been to Gore. That town is a shit hole

    • @shinglehillclimber88
      @shinglehillclimber88 Рік тому +2

      @@032254855 you’ve got that right haha @guywilliams go there next

    • @uapnz0698
      @uapnz0698 Рік тому +2

      Lol the layer coal smoke almost choked me in Ohai last winter flying through it.

    • @uapnz0698
      @uapnz0698 Рік тому +1

      Brohai 😊🍄

  • @bing3253
    @bing3253 Рік тому +17

    Wow - this is the first time that I have ever seen anything (and I mean anything at all) about Huntley. According to my parents (and I reckon that they would know), I was conceived there, but thankfully they made it back to Australia in time for my birth - crikey, I could have been a Kiwi! Having said that, from the look of what I have seen, I can understand why they went there in the first place as it looks beautiful and doesn't deserve the title that they have won, mind you, we are talking about over 60 years since they were there so it may have a looked a little different then.

  • @NoodleBlackandFat
    @NoodleBlackandFat Рік тому +13

    This is hilarious. Huntley is famous in England now

  • @OkinInc
    @OkinInc Рік тому +15

    Huntly will always have my respect. Met some locals years ago who were really easy going people.I reckon Huntly people know how good they've got it.

    • @rogerwilco4736
      @rogerwilco4736 Рік тому +1

      You're jesting ofcourse???

    • @TheTruthKiwi
      @TheTruthKiwi Рік тому +1

      At least they're not Jaffas

    • @OkinInc
      @OkinInc Рік тому +1

      @@rogerwilco4736 Not at all Sir.

    • @rogerwilco4736
      @rogerwilco4736 Рік тому +1

      @@OkinInc all i can say is some people are very easily pleased

    • @Iamthebestever
      @Iamthebestever Рік тому

      @@rogerwilco4736 - My sister visits there and loves it. I visit there and am the complete opposite. I'm on edge! It's just different for different people 😂

  • @Innuya
    @Innuya Рік тому +2

    That HQuarters dance crew was legit awesome haha

  • @420downunder7
    @420downunder7 Рік тому +76

    "It's like a lake,
    But it has a roof on it
    Don't get your hair wet "
    This had me cracking up

  • @UniOniOni
    @UniOniOni Рік тому +4

    @7.53 those boys were going to do flips but they can barely stand on the fence. I guess they didnt make it. They just cut right before. Savage production team LOL

  • @TheFireproofWitch
    @TheFireproofWitch Рік тому +10

    Their new town slogan should be "Huntly: There's Nothing Wrong With Us" 🤣🤣🤣 Or "Huntly: Home Of The Gentlest Smears" 😂😂😂

  • @Kid0f89_official_01
    @Kid0f89_official_01 Рік тому +12

    Way to go Guy, makes me actually wanna spend a day in Huntley !

    • @nnaheim.
      @nnaheim. Рік тому +3

      Visit Paint can lake

  • @holsen8269
    @holsen8269 Рік тому +1

    Lovely little Japanese garden over near the walkway round the lake. A must visit.

  • @joshuabeech-maher5924
    @joshuabeech-maher5924 Рік тому +4

    I remember installing some fibre in the ground and some guy walked out covered in blood from a knife fight I think.

  • @sonnybill8271
    @sonnybill8271 Рік тому +7

    1:51 Bahahaha 🤣
    Shes adorable, and her friends reaction lol absolute Gold

  • @Dannyvirk
    @Dannyvirk Рік тому +3

    I was there 25 years ago, looks like nothing has changed.

  • @LeeJordan-wi8hj
    @LeeJordan-wi8hj 7 місяців тому

    Love Huntly. I use to live down McVie Road back in the 80s. Met some AWESOME families from here. Back then they were like a PEOPLE UNITED and probably still are. Much love for this BEAUTIFUL TOWN and it's PEOPLE.

  • @ailsaeccles111
    @ailsaeccles111 Рік тому +12

    Guy you are growing as a person and as a journalist, this was a gorgeous piece sweetboy 🖤🖤🖤

  • @chloeew4627
    @chloeew4627 Рік тому +7

    Dr Gates is getting the job done, cheers Doc.

  • @bj4505
    @bj4505 Рік тому

    I like how at times the DEKA sign showed up on the sweeping drone shots😀

  • @mtaukiri
    @mtaukiri Рік тому +8

    Thank you so much for making me miss NZ even more.

    • @Royeblack-nv9et
      @Royeblack-nv9et Рік тому

      NZ is so beautiful 🥰 Melissa 😊 I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days, and I hope God bless you to have a great day today, So where are you originally from? I'm from Overbrook

    • @mtaukiri
      @mtaukiri Рік тому

      @@Royeblack-nv9et I'm Kiwi born and raised but don't live there now, life takes you in different directions sometimes. Take care.😀

    • @Royeblack-nv9et
      @Royeblack-nv9et Рік тому

      @@mtaukiri Yeah true life 🧬 takes is in different directions sometimes. Have always want to visit NZ Melissa 😊 if I may ask where are you now and hope you're having a blessed and wonderful day over there my friend 😊 ?

  • @48sonic69
    @48sonic69 Рік тому +10

    first place i’ve ever seen pork and watercress pies 🥧 and they were SOLD OUT! definitely going back to Huntly to get one of these in the near future! 😃

    • @kidloony257
      @kidloony257 Рік тому +1

      Go to waiheke instead bro the butcher there sells them 👌🏽

    • @nedread6700
      @nedread6700 Рік тому +2

      They don’t sell them, they just put the sign out so clowns like you keep coming back..

    • @dragomilosevic4823
      @dragomilosevic4823 Рік тому

      Go for a dive in the creek, plenty of watercress and duckweed. Dice that up into a mrs macs and your set

    • @TheTruthKiwi
      @TheTruthKiwi Рік тому +1

      That isn't pork bro. :/

    • @annarumble838
      @annarumble838 Рік тому

      If it’s not pork what is it urrrghhh

  • @richardv9648
    @richardv9648 Рік тому +16

    I actually love huntly. Everytime i stop at their McDonanlds for quick meal. I feel women there are like take me with you.

    • @aperaruapeeta4309
      @aperaruapeeta4309 Рік тому +2

      😂😂😂 Soo true

    • @sclark9011
      @sclark9011 Рік тому

      those are the aunties..they stole the toy from my happy meal and wanted my whoppa

  • @5jacksonsjourney179
    @5jacksonsjourney179 Рік тому +1

    Just added McGintys in Huntly to the list of places I will visit when in NZ.

  • @tjeerdvangennep2597
    @tjeerdvangennep2597 Рік тому +1

    Drive up Kimihia Road, my favorite in Huntly! Used to go there a couple a times per week. just get of HW 1 and you'll see a town that's worth it! Used to park up and grab lunch at lake Hakanoa, brilliant! Living in Europe now truly mis it from time to time.

  • @Matto_Harvo
    @Matto_Harvo Рік тому +14

    Dang, this shit is the second funniest shit on the inter webs

    • @peachi7826
      @peachi7826 Рік тому

      What’s the first

    • @Matto_Harvo
      @Matto_Harvo Рік тому +5

      @@peachi7826 Your PM. Ouch!

    • @thomasneal9291
      @thomasneal9291 Рік тому +1

      @@Matto_Harvo yeah, that's why she gets invited to all the cool places around the world. oops. living in denial burns like fire eh?

  • @aaronunderwood2100
    @aaronunderwood2100 Рік тому +3

    Never expect much, but this show is brilliant.

  • @CarolinaBassHunter
    @CarolinaBassHunter Рік тому +2

    Hell yeah that dude had a PANTERA shirt on! 🤘CFH🤘

    • @Royeblack-nv9et
      @Royeblack-nv9et Рік тому +1

      Carolina 😊 🌺 I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days, and I hope God bless you to have a great day today, So where are you originally from? I'm from Overbrook

  • @JesseStLouis
    @JesseStLouis Рік тому +5

    I miss you NZ!!! 💖🤙 Huntly is great!

  • @carltwidle9046
    @carltwidle9046 Рік тому +3

    My parents had friends, living on a farm there. We would visit from Auckland back in the 1960s. We felt sorry for their children. Such a boring place.

    • @carltwidle9046
      @carltwidle9046 Рік тому

      @Regdu Geht Yes it was. I haven't been to Huntly since the 1960s, so I imagine it's grown alot.

  • @bujuminodstrom2076
    @bujuminodstrom2076 Рік тому +6

    everything i know about new zealand culture and mentality comes from new zealand today. great show

  • @sharonneil2118
    @sharonneil2118 Рік тому +3

    Next time I’m driving south I’m calling into Mcgintys and having a beer with Laurie

    • @Royeblack-nv9et
      @Royeblack-nv9et Рік тому

      Sharon 😊 I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days, and I hope God bless you to have a great day today, So where are you originally from? I'm from Overbrook

  • @whatthebrosthink828
    @whatthebrosthink828 Рік тому +2

    I'm glad the highway is built.

  • @snkrhd8958
    @snkrhd8958 Рік тому +4

    Lmao most gentle smears in the world dr john gates 1:52

  • @reneeprice4279
    @reneeprice4279 Рік тому +4

    Geez you had me going, I couldn't stop laughing. Well done.

  • @lorenzomedland
    @lorenzomedland Рік тому +2

    You should come Guy Williams in Palmerston North

  • @vivekadhikari130
    @vivekadhikari130 Рік тому +6

    Should visit South Auckland next

    • @Royeblack-nv9et
      @Royeblack-nv9et Рік тому

      Vivek I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days, and I hope God bless you to have a great day today, So where are you originally from? I'm from Overbrook

  • @youngrose4754
    @youngrose4754 Рік тому +4

    You guys obviously haven’t been to Wairoa before

    • @last_samurai6690
      @last_samurai6690 Рік тому

      Is it worse? I've seen Murupara. Way worse than Huntly

  • @fuzzyargy
    @fuzzyargy Рік тому +7

    omg why isnt there more views for this awesome channel GO HUNTLY

  • @willowbrooke1215
    @willowbrooke1215 Рік тому +1

    At the beginning reporter walking up the street says, "I feel bad for Huntly", and me thinking at the same time , "What beautiful tiles they use for a main street, how cool and neat this town is". From a kiwi who has been in Australia too long (and originally from Taumarunui)

  • @andrewwilson8781
    @andrewwilson8781 Рік тому +2

    Yeah it's the people. Awesome 👌
    Old school nz

  • @armchairemperor4777
    @armchairemperor4777 Рік тому +4

    That chick in the red dress was legitimately a bit of talent 😊

  • @logsherriff9519
    @logsherriff9519 Рік тому +3

    That "ok now fuck off" got me ngl 😂😂😂😂😂

  • @jamieodonnell9521
    @jamieodonnell9521 Рік тому +2

    I'm going to nz in September im going through huntly in a RV and definitely stopping of at McGintys

  • @rajnaidu5210
    @rajnaidu5210 День тому

    Watch the drink levels when he's talking to laurie.
    Guys drink goes down. Laurie's goes down then up. Ol' mate smashed a second beer I reckon! Legend.

  • @stefanzzz6778
    @stefanzzz6778 Рік тому +8

    So, I never thought Huntly was the shittiest town, always thought it was the typical small industrial regional NZ town with all its blue collar quirks… until I watched this. It really is shit.

    • @stevel9627
      @stevel9627 Рік тому +2

      This vid shows the best parts of the town.

    • @-kryon1c-
      @-kryon1c- Рік тому

      @@stevel9627 🤣

  • @Benjamin-om3ih
    @Benjamin-om3ih Рік тому +22

    Mate there's good people everywhere, doesn't mean it's not shit. Prisons and power stations doesn't exactly give people confidence they gonna have a mean time there 😂😂😂

    • @ronitsethi831
      @ronitsethi831 Рік тому +6

      Bro took this video a bit too seriously

  • @nztheno
    @nztheno Рік тому +1

    Omg its chris thornley 1:32 and 1:48 hes the bro i lived with in huntly he had two houses he burnt one down. Good to see your still alive bro much love from me and famz down in Christchurch well come see you one day

  • @omnapp9
    @omnapp9 Рік тому +1

    Cor....there s some characters in that Mc. Gintys

  • @againstthelight9486
    @againstthelight9486 Рік тому +5

    it might be the worst town in NZ for some but still it was not even 1 percent compared to the worst places/town of other country. the town it self has no problem .it was the people that chooces to make it look worst that give it a nasty reputation.still they have to be thankfull that they have a worst place to live in rather than live under the bridge like in other country.

  • @fathogrestaurant3513
    @fathogrestaurant3513 Рік тому +3

    more guy williams ! you rock Bro !

  • @grahamduthie4637
    @grahamduthie4637 Рік тому +1

    I recall driving past the Fruit World many times, on the way to somewhere good.

  • @henryklazer89
    @henryklazer89 Рік тому +2

    This is a funny video haha. I’m a foreign and I’ve been there a few times. I actually enjoyed a lot 😅

  • @wafflesdog6643
    @wafflesdog6643 Рік тому +3

    I totally love living in Huntly. Been here six years, and it's great!

    • @yaboijack67
      @yaboijack67 Рік тому

      How often do you see Laurie rolling around town

    • @wafflesdog6643
      @wafflesdog6643 Рік тому +1

      @@yaboijack67 Hey, I don't go to the pub, so never. 🙂

    • @last_samurai6690
      @last_samurai6690 Рік тому +1

      I bought a house at a walking distance from that pub. But I don't go to pubs. Funny enough the house has appreciated like 50% over the last 4 years. Lived there for a bit but I am an introvert and boring geek, working from home. So it didn't bother me. Used to joke that the only tome I would see humans was when I walk to countdown. I like small cities but Huntly is a little too small, though Hamilton is a few minutes away.

    • @dr.dankytp8683
      @dr.dankytp8683 Рік тому

      @@yaboijack67 I live in Huntly, i’ve seen him about twice. He lives near McGinty’s so he doesn’t spend much time out and about.

  • @keepitsekiiiii9148
    @keepitsekiiiii9148 Рік тому +8

    I’m not wise I’m just a drunk hhahahah

  • @rcr76
    @rcr76 Рік тому +1

    Had a great pie in Huntley nz in 2001 . Come on strathbogie!

  • @rexharrison6827
    @rexharrison6827 Рік тому +1

    Only place I've ever been to that has singing toilets! In the main street. They were playing Dean Martin when I dropped by, which I thought was kind of perfect.
    But the town in general suffers from economic malaise. Crime, poverty, few jobs, limited futures. Physically, it's changed for the worse, not so much in the main centre which has been cleaned up, especially along the riverside, but south along the Great South Road, what used to be semi-rural countryside is now a wilderness of light industry and the quarries and open-cast mines have turned bushclad and farmed hillsides to total shit.
    The town lacks charm. Maybe it never had it, being forged by the lure of coal profiteering from the 1870s and even into the present, despite coal's current dirty fuel reputation. Huntly is the Waikato's answer to Westport. It's tired and worn down and bypassed and stuck and maybe even the Mahutas can't revive its mana, though Waahi is their marae.
    Huntly West has always been more downtrodden than Huntly East, a sign of historical cultural inequality stemming from the land confiscations.
    The locals might moan about Aucklanders (who doesn't?), but the down-country shift from the city might be the town's salvation, bringing new energy, extra money and ideas.
    Then there's the River. Also underutilised except via political machinations that see its waters being sucked out for use elsewhere. There must, surely, be safe, ecologically viable recreational uses to which it can be put - some that local Iwi could oversee, perhaps.
    Yeah, Huntly is a shit town. I rag on it from time to time, too. But it's no worse than some other small towns and in some cases, it's better (I'm looking at you, Papakura!). It's still viable, still has a beating heart; it just has to somehow drag its arse out of the 1970s and into whatever constitutes the positive bits of the 21st Century.
    Wait a minute! Am I actually going to bat for my old home town, the place I couldn't wait to leave over 50 years ago? I suppose with all the bad memories, there are some worthwhile ones, too.
    John Cale and Lou Reed put the dilemma succinctly:
    "There is only one good thing about small town
    There is only one good use for a small town
    There is only one good thing about small town
    You know that you want to get out
    "When you're growing up in a small town
    You know you'll grow down in a small town
    There is only one good use for a small town
    You hate it and you'll know you have to leave"

    • @CalTheKiwi1
      @CalTheKiwi1 Рік тому +1

      Rex Harrison…he’s a funny(ish) Presenter but I’d have liked it better if he’d had the nerve to go interview one of the local Mob blokes, or BPower. (Yeah, I get it that they never turn up with just one of them.) I’ve seen tv chats with some of them talking about where they live, and sometimes they are actually really funny. But he’s probably intimidated by them. A shame. Missed opportunity.
      The town drunk on the mobility scooter was hilarious, a classic who has just thought, ‘fuck it, I’m drinking myself to death.’
      People here have been saying Greymouth has even better credentials for NZ’s Most Shit Town. I’ve been there several times and, yeah, it’s a bit sleepy, a bit boring, but the locals seemed, to me anyway, generous and open personalities. If your car broke down outside town, they’d stop with an offer of help, I think. But that’s The Coast for ya. Could do worse than that.