Full Show Podcast: 20 March 2025

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Hello you, great New Zealanders, and welcome to Matt and
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for March twenty twenty five. Fantastic show. Today we finally
get to talk to the Roliston couple who had a
car fly through the front of their house. And that's
a great story well told by.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
Llewellyn and Suwann Vinter.

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Yeah, great, great, great people, and then probably some fantastic
near death experiences came through. We've got h people hooking
up at work as well, and they were got pretty saucy, scandalous.
We got pretty sixy and pretty saucy as well, and
then we tried to share some happiness into the world
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Thank you, go well mate. Right, or to today's show
after three o'clock. We've been talking about this couple for
a few days now and we've tracked them down and
really looking forward to chatting to them. Leuan and Sue
Llewellyn rather and Sue and Vinter a couple in Rolliston.
Yeah that's right, who had a car go flying through

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the bedroom wall where they were asleep, asleep and land
on the bed, which is not what you expect no
of a night, you know, lewell got up to go
to the bathroom and then he came back and he
got back into bed and then next you know, huge.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
Sound, and there's a car on top of his wife. Yeah,
and he manages to lift the car. Offer. So phenomenal story,
and we've finally tracked them down with the interview, So
looking forward to that after three yep.

Speaker 3 (03:07):
Absolutely, After two o'clock, is it ever a good idea
to get into a relationship with a work colleague? And
intriguing story in the Herald? It's an ass the expert
column and it's time to win. Is it too late
to reveal that you're deep into an office romance? Effectively,
this couple are about to get married and they haven't
told anybody at work.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
I say go for it. Where else are you supposed
to meet people apart from work? If you don't want
to be on the dirty dating apps. We work such
long hours, then surely you should be allowed to find
romance in the workplace. I can't see any problems with it.
I cannot envision any problems with it.

Speaker 3 (03:39):
That is going to be a good chat after two o'clock.
But right now, let's have a chat about GDP. We
are officially out of recession and to break it all down.
We are chatting to New Zealand Heral Business editor at large,
Liam Dan, who is in studio. Get a Liam, Hey, guys,
isn't it good to have some good news?

Speaker 2 (03:55):
We're out in a recession. Come in here and be outbeat,
so happy. We're forging on towards a better future, as
Nikola will have said for this fine country of ours.

Speaker 6 (04:06):
Yeah, look, it was better than expect did I mean,
you know, in economics things can go sort of three ways.
They can be better than expected, worse than expected, or
bang on expectations, which is never much fun for journalists.

Speaker 5 (04:17):
The bang on.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
Expectations that keeps happening with the ocr.

Speaker 6 (04:22):
Has done lately. But yeah, so better than expected is good.
We're great, We're really happy. So look, I would say,
you know, I've sort of, you know, been talking to
people around. You know, if you're in Auckland, especially in Wellington,
you might not be feeling it quite as intensely. It's
easy to So this is underpinned by some good growth, well,
you know, growth back in tourism numbers. Primary industries have

(04:46):
done well, but if you look at and in actually
retail hasn't done too bad in that this is the
fourth quarter decem of twenty twenty four, obviously, but in
some of those central Auckland things like construction still three
percent down for the quarter.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
That's that's terrible.

Speaker 6 (05:01):
Really shows you that we're really in the doldrums there,
and that's a big part of Auckland's economy. And some
of the proftional services including information media and communic telecommunications,
that kind of thing still going backwards. So if your
world is you know, construction sector, if your worlds lots
of media people you know who knows ye like using

(05:28):
on and public administration, you know, so so the bureaucrats
and Wellington, Uh, that part of it is still doing
it really tough. But I guess it's a it's a
sort of a bottom up recovery because that's the part
of the New Zealand economy that needs to get going.

Speaker 2 (05:43):
So I was thinking, when you have things like you know,
more money coming into the country, does that then down
the tracks start to manifest in more construction and in
more activity in the retail sector.

Speaker 6 (05:58):
Yeah, should, And a lot of it's a confidence game,
So I mean, we can talk about how arbitrary you know,
in and out of recession? Is these numbers mean that much?
But but sort of does mean something to feel like,
you know that we're not in recession. So hopefully that
might help some of the final pieces fall into place
for this recovery.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
Well, you've talked about this in your book. How much
is that sentiment? How much do we manifest? To use
the word twice for the first time in my life,
but how much does positivity manifest more positivity? If people
look at the economy and they go, look, we're out
of reception recession, and they start being a bit more positive,

(06:37):
they stop winging so much, they start spending more just
because they feel better, and that does that can that
manifest into a snowball effect where all the economy gets better?
Virtual circle?

Speaker 6 (06:48):
So yeah, yeah, it absolutely does. I mean, I think
in this you know, what's happened in this current quarter
we're in this you know, start of twenty twenty five,
there's been a bit of uncertainty and there's been some
sort of not so great looking consumer confidence surveys. I
think some of the global stuff going on and the
fact that we were unsure about where the economy was,

(07:10):
you know, and interest rates obviously have been coming off
for several months now, but we haven't seen the house
prices bounce back as intensely as people might have thought,
So I think, you know, it's possible, even after the
bounce late last year, that things were sort of feeling
a bit more unstable again this year. I hope that
this will sort of arrest that and give people some

(07:32):
confidence that that that the basics are falling into place
and therefore the sort of the top frothy end of
the economy, the consumer stuff can get a roll on.

Speaker 2 (07:39):
What kind of GDP rise would be healthy? I mean,
zero point seven percent doesn't seem, you know, like it's
great because it's up, but where do we want it at? Well, actually,
that's that's pretty good.

Speaker 6 (07:54):
You know, we can't unfortunately, the economy can't sustain much
higher rates of growth than that without me having to
go back talking about inflation. So if we could sustain that,
that would you know, like, what's that even times for
two point eight So around two point five two point
eight percent growth would be pretty good if we could

(08:15):
sort of have that in the economy for a couple
of three years. The days of growth above three percent
are difficult at the moment because our economy would struggle
and inflation would come back.

Speaker 2 (08:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (08:25):
Can that cynicism bed in when we've had quite a
few setbacks when it's come to the economy and you know,
people talk about that light at the end of the
tunnel and it kind of feels like it's never come
until maybe now. Is that quite hard to bring a
population out of when you're looking at confidence and positivity
and good news about the economy.

Speaker 6 (08:44):
Yeah, I think absolutely. I mean I think what we've
been through since COVID absolutely through the ring. You know,
so the shock of a COVID recession, Okay, we got
on top of it, we stimulated everything. Then we had
masses of inflation. Then we had to hammer the economy again.
You know, people depress and that's you know, and it's
it's hard for anyone to keep up. You know, I'm

(09:04):
paid to follow this stuff, and it's been it's been
all over the shop, and so that the average punter
in the streets going what the hell's happening?

Speaker 2 (09:10):
Well, speak of the average punter in the street has
a text that you could probably answer nine two nine two.
It came through and why is points seven percent good?
And getting us out of recession. If someone said to me,
I'm increasing your pay by point seven percent, it would
make absolutely no difference to me. But I guess you
don't get paid as many billion dollars as.

Speaker 6 (09:28):
The quarter, so that would that would annualize out at
two point eight which you know, okay, it might not
be the greatest pay rise in the world, but if
you sustained that over the next ten years, then then
you're in. You know, that would be pretty solid, right.
So what we want is a sustainable rate of growth,
you know, because if you have these big booms, you know,

(09:48):
I hope as individuals, having a good sustainable rate of
growth will give you some leeway to go out and
get a much better pay rise great or switch jobs
and get a get more money. But you know, for
the economy, we need stability and we need this so
to suddenly go to like if the government started printing
money again, or reserve banks started printing money again, and

(10:09):
the government started spending, they could stimulate growth up to
you know, four percent a year or something like that,
but it would just mean our prices would go through
the roof and we would be the cost of living
would get us and we would be going backwards in
real terms now.

Speaker 2 (10:25):
And finally, Liam Dan, what do you say to this
text when it comes to economics and GDP numbers? Are lies? Dan,
damn lies and statistics?

Speaker 6 (10:35):
As the quote goes, well, yeah, I mean they're kind
of all we've got, though, haven't they, Because you've got otherwise,
you've got anecdotal, you've got your own experience. Yeah, and
we've got all got you know, five point three million
experiences going on in New Zealand. Yeah, So look, I
would say, do not treat them as gospel in your life,
but it's a good guide for where the rest of

(10:57):
the world might be going around you and help you
frame where you you know, how you might act over
the next coming months.

Speaker 2 (11:04):
So reasons to be optimistic.

Speaker 6 (11:08):
Yeah, Well, dairy booms rolling on, tourism's coming back, interest
rates are going to go down a bit further, so
those those fundamentals of the New Zealand economy, those old
classics look like they're falling back into place. After that,
it's sort of on us to get out.

Speaker 2 (11:24):
Yeah, do it, get out.

Speaker 3 (11:25):
I'm feeling better already.

Speaker 2 (11:26):
Yeah. Yeah, just keep swimming in the same direction, like
finding Nemo swam up against the nets all right.

Speaker 3 (11:31):
Yeah, good advice them. Thank you very much mate. That
is a New Zealand heial Business editor at Large, Liam Dan.
But we want to hear from you. Are you feeling
more positive after this rise in GDP has pulled us
out of recession. It does genuinely feel like light at
the end of the tunnel. And I know that's a
cliche that's been banned around for the past five years,
but I feel positive this is a turnaround.

Speaker 2 (11:52):
Oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty is it time
to start shaming the nasayers? If a positive attitude can
manifest a better economy, negative people are manifesting a poor
economy and they need to be ostracized and potentially tase.

Speaker 3 (12:07):
It yeppeak to the tasering. Oh eight hundred eighteen ten
eighty is the number to call. Nine two niney two
is the text number. It is seventeen past one.

Speaker 4 (12:19):

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Speaker 3 (12:32):
Good afternoon. Welcome into the show. Great to have your
company as always and we're talking about the state of
our positivity in New Zealand on the back of the
GDP rising zero point seven percent, it's brought us out
of a recession. Are you feeling positive? And should we
be encouraging a bit more happiness in the country as
we talked about with Liam dan And to use that

(12:53):
word again, that manifests stronger economy if we all feel
good about it, if we all feel a bit more confident,
then that can do good things for the economy.

Speaker 2 (13:04):
Well, we know that, you know, the story on the
stock market is everything. You know, it's a very emotional place,
the stock market. You know in America they talk about
you know, Wall Street and Main Street. But can you
manifest the economy on Main Street with the positive attitude
this text that disagrees. Shut up you, Pollyannas the country
is rooted and you know it. No amount of happy

(13:25):
clapping is going to change that. Okay, all right, yeah.

Speaker 3 (13:30):
Pollyanna, I can't take that one.

Speaker 2 (13:32):
Well, you're not manifesting anything. People aren't going to want
to hear this kind of positive thinking, says this text. Finally,
we can all stop being so negative and pessimistic, including
the media. Life is still going to be tough for many,
but that is how it is. Just crack on and
stop the bloody winging says this.

Speaker 3 (13:50):
Test here to that person, thank you very much, Peter.
How are you this afternoon?

Speaker 8 (13:57):
Yeah? Good. You know it's a pretty hard, hard.

Speaker 3 (14:01):
Comment, oh, the happy clapper.

Speaker 8 (14:06):
Thinking, well, I can't remember as Actually, if you based
you your happiness on the economy from GDP growth as
the set, I think that it's there. I would I
would rather sort of say, I almost hoping you'll keep
William damn, but maybe you'd ask him next time, you know, Well,

(14:32):
if you have any I understand that this GDP writers
to the JUDI dairy and tourism is the correct.

Speaker 2 (14:40):
Yeah, tourism as a big part of it. Yeah, that's right.
Activity and tourism related industries such as accommodation, restaurants and bars,
transport and vehicle hiring have definitely helped YEP.

Speaker 8 (14:53):
And the other thing I would say, I mean, I
would actually add to their comment is if you're based
on the economy based on I don't know quite know
how to week do GDP figures out, but increasing house
prices and increasing population, I don't think it's very What
do you call it a very sustainable economy in.

Speaker 9 (15:16):
The long one.

Speaker 8 (15:18):
Yeah, and forget about where that increasing population comes.

Speaker 10 (15:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (15:24):
Well, I mean you're absolutely right there, Peter, because a
lot of what makes people feel confident, and we saw
this coming out of COVID when the house prices went
absolutely crazy. Everyone was just spending money because they felt
like they had it. And then you know in Auckland,
you know some some house process top twenty five percent
and you feel negative about it. But yeah, tying how

(15:47):
wealthy your country to the prices of the houses and
just you know, circling each other in house process isn't
a healthy economy.

Speaker 8 (15:55):
And the other thing I've just add to that is
that you know, real real growth is you know, productivity,
and I don't quite I don't quite know how well
we are in that recharge. I understand gerry farming is
probably pretty strong as far as productivity goes.

Speaker 2 (16:13):
Yep. From frontier Frontira is looking good today today.

Speaker 8 (16:19):
And because Ireland are actually we're number one in productivity
in the world. Just sound quite surprising, but they're probably
not that surprising when they've got all those got a
lot of corporations with heavy bases here, so they've got
a lot of money coming into that place, probably sort

(16:39):
that that you're I don't know, your actual productivity growth
of Well.

Speaker 3 (16:47):
They have certainly done very well in the international front
by reducing that corporate tax rates. That is certainly a
strategy that's paid off for Ireland.

Speaker 2 (16:55):
And it's a little unfair when we compare ourselves to
the Island, because they are right in the middle of
it there, right in the thick of it, and we're
out here in the Pacific. Although Trump was recently saying
that Ireland has been stealing companies from from a yeah,
and moving the headquarters over there, so maybe they might
see some head ones there. I mean, our productivity is
really really bad in this country, Like you know, our

(17:19):
rural sector, our farmers high productivity, but the rest of
us working long hours and and and being reasonably unproductive
for whatever reason.

Speaker 3 (17:28):
Better yep, I must here, yeah, yeah, yeah, to finish mate,
to finish mate, you are you are no, No, we
don't cut people off, mate, just to finish up. I've
got a we note here that you're always positive, so
you think this is truly light at the end of
the tunnel. This is a turnaround and and the doldrums

(17:49):
that we've been in for the last four years.

Speaker 8 (17:52):
We haven't eaten the dolgens in the last four years,
so can only on Tuesdays. So I really, uh, you
got to be cheerful about how much of this?

Speaker 3 (18:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (18:05):
Yeah, exactly wise, Yeah, yeah, thank you such so much, Peter.
And it is funny what you said at the start.
If you tell your happiness to the GDP, do mystic
product numbers the grosser mistic product numbers, then you're gonna
have an interesting life.

Speaker 3 (18:19):
Yeah, yeah, very true.

Speaker 2 (18:21):
So going back to that text that Peter reference, shut
up you, Pollyanna. As the country is rooted, no amount
of happy clapping is going to change that. I was
just got me thinking, why do people call someone a Pollyanna?
So I looked it up. Pollyanna refers to a person
who was successfully or blindly optimistic. We know that, always
finding the good side and everything. The term originated from

(18:43):
the nineteen thirty novel by Allan or Porter which we're
the main character. Pollyanna Whitler is known for her unwaiving optimism.
So there you go. We're dirty pollyannas. Apparently we all
need to be Pollyannas for feeling positive, a little bit positive,
feeling there might be some light at the end of
the tunnel.

Speaker 3 (19:01):
Yeah, we need a bit of happy clappy though, don't
we O E one hundred and eighty T eighty is
the number to call. The text number is nine to
two and we'll get to a few more of those
very shortly. It is twenty six pass one.

Speaker 1 (19:15):
Putting the tough questions to the newspeakers the mic asking breakfast.

Speaker 2 (19:19):
The National Public Health Services, they are being accused of
overreach and trying to suppress the expertise of officials.

Speaker 11 (19:26):
The Health Minister, Simeon Brown, is with me now.

Speaker 12 (19:28):
I'd love them to start focusing on our immunization targets
which are woefully behind, and stop trying to be the
health police telling stallholders announced and they've got to put
up signs saying bring your own cup or stop it.
Trying to campaign against McDonald's stores in wan Oco. That's
not what the National Public Health Service should be focused on.
Another thing I read it from a submission they made
to Nolton City Council was Nolton and City Council should

(19:49):
fan community groups from selling raffle tickets because that might
encourage gambling. I mean, this is just absolutely ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (19:56):
Back tomorrow at six am the Mike Hosking Breakfast with
Mayley's Real Estate News Talk ZB.

Speaker 3 (20:01):
Good afternoon to you. It is twenty nine past one.
A lot of great techs coming through on nine to
nine to two.

Speaker 2 (20:08):
Yeah, we're talking about trying to manifest a positive economy
in this country by celebrating things like the gross domestic
project arising by zero point seven percent in the December
twenty twenty four quarter following a one point one decrease.
It's the September twenty twenty four quarter, so you've got
to say, come on, it's a big turnaround from a
one point one decrease to a zero point seven increase.

(20:30):
So is it time to just stop the winging and
start celebrating.

Speaker 3 (20:34):
Yeah, this Texas here is Feller's life is good, generally
up and down, but still good. Some people will always
moan even in the boom. It's just the human mindset
sometimes from Andy.

Speaker 2 (20:49):
Yeah, I think it's true, and it manifest in the markets.
You know, if people aren't spending because they're feeling bad,
then that has a flowing effect to all of it.

Speaker 3 (20:58):
Yeah, what was that famous quote from Roosevelt, we have
nothing to fear but fear itself. I mean that have
we not learned anything from then? That that was the
whole point is that if you're afraid and you're pull
your money out of the banks and you're freaking out,
then things are going to get worse. But if we're
all a bit more positive and got more confidence, then
it's going to turn around the economy a bit faster.
And ghosts, yeah, they're pretty scary. They are very scary.

Speaker 2 (21:20):
Exactly if folk a negative ask you they voted for
lefties only see the negative when the right are in.
It's tough for all. But let's work together, peace and
hard work. Love it it says DC.

Speaker 3 (21:33):
Guys. I mean this one, this one's fair enough, easy
to stop. Win Gene, if you haven't lost your business
due to the tank economy on the back of appalling
mismanagement of our economy from Grant.

Speaker 2 (21:42):
Yeah, well, you know, there's there's a stoic principle, and
you know, I'm always punishing people with my ancient philosophy
because I'm a big fan of it. But there's always
someone worse off than you, and there's always someone better
off than you. You can always find someone and look,
you know, no matter how bad you're feeling, you can
look at the person that's you know that as there's
definitely people worse off than you on the streets. There's

(22:04):
people that are you know, having to push themselves around
a wheelchair with one finger.

Speaker 7 (22:09):
Very true.

Speaker 2 (22:10):
No, yeah, so there is always reasons to be positive
about your life.

Speaker 3 (22:14):
Absolutely. Oh, eight hundred and eighty ten eighty is the
number to call if you want to send a text.
Nine two ninety two. We are a bit late, so
we'll take a few more calls after the headlines with railing,
which is coming up. It's twenty eight to two.

Speaker 1 (22:29):
Duce talks heavy headlines with blue bubble taxis.

Speaker 13 (22:33):
It's no trouble with a blue bubble. New Zealand's officially
out of technical recession, with GDP figures showing the economy
group point seven percent between October and December half. Your
interim results are good news for Fonterra farmers, with dividends
lifted to twenty two cents a share. Profits rose eight
percent to seven hundred and twenty nine million dollars. Rains

(22:57):
pounding parts of hawks By and Gisbon with an orange
heavy rain warning for Wado, a district in southern Gisbon
until midnight. A fifty three year old Auckland funeral director
has it's been granted name suppression. He's pleaded not guilty
to charges of obtaining money by deception and interfering with
human remains. A US juries ruled Greenpeace should pay a

(23:19):
Dakota energy company more than a billion dollars for protest
action nearly a decade ago. Greenpeace is appealing the decision,
saying the lawsuit aims to silence peaceful protest in New
Zealand and India. Are investigating options for direct flights between
our countries, aiming for twenty twenty eight. A church with

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just four regular worshipers has held its last service. So
now what read more at enzid Herald Premium. Back now
to Matt Eathan Tyler Adams.

Speaker 3 (23:49):
Thank you very much, Rayleen, and we're talking about the
GDP rising zero point seven percent. It's pulled us out
of a technical recession. But we've asked the question, do
we all need to try and be a little bit
more positive, Pollyanna if you will, because time and time
again has been proven that confidence and positivity does help
turn a me around. If we're all feeling a bit better,

(24:10):
we open up our wallets a little bit more, we
start to spend a little bit more money.

Speaker 2 (24:14):
People have been winging for so long, Yeah, a non
stop winging across the board. I think that since we
came out of COVID, it's been the longest most sustained
period of winging. Definitely in my life. It's exhausting, doesn't
I mean, there's been tough times. There's tough times in
the nineties, but I don't think I think we have
been running the winging Olympics in this country. Julian, your

(24:35):
thoughts on this.

Speaker 14 (24:37):
Yeah, I've gone with you guys. I prayer to be
a Pollyanna and most for I always have been what
I'm more interested in. What are the opposition is going
to come out with?

Speaker 10 (24:50):
Now?

Speaker 14 (24:50):
Are they? How can they possibly put a bit on this?
Surely so, I know, I hope that, you know, maybe
before they start staying too much they think about it.
I think as well, Look, we all seem to how
positive we are depends on where we are in the

(25:12):
world financially, and I think also that is a real shame.
I mean, we should all be thankful that we're alive
that we've got, you know, and I know not everybody
is going to agree with them. You know, we've got
people that we love, We've got people that love us.
You know, maybe it just it doesn't all come down
to finances.

Speaker 2 (25:33):
Yeah, and it is interesting even when you do take
it down to finances. In the world, we don't have
it as bad as some people would make out. We
were talking about this yesterday and a study that was
saying that New Zealand is a relatively wealthy country per capita,
about seventh in the world, and despite growing inequality, was
still fourth for median wealth. So you know, you can

(25:54):
be really really upset in New Zealand and think things
that terrible, but it was still in a pretty good
position globally. If you're going to spend some time comparing
to other people, would you agree, Julian.

Speaker 14 (26:08):
Look, I mean I'm a pensioner. I get a very
you know, a great pension from the government. A lot
of countries in the world don't get that. And yes,
I am mortgage free and I do work part time
with my trade. But if I don't know, look at
it's I know, it's it's very easy to be like

(26:29):
that when you're in that position, and I'm sure there's
a lot of people out here will say, well, you know,
golly good on you, Julian, you're doing all right. But
there's a lot of people that are doing it all right.
You know, we don't have to have we don't have
to have a lot of money to be happy.

Speaker 5 (26:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (26:45):
You wouldn't think that though, would you. You wouldn't think
that that that, you know, the majority of us are
okay in this country.

Speaker 14 (26:53):
There was there was a sad case this morning in
the paper with a you know, a young mother, you know,
with a young child as having to live in a tent. Well,
that hopefully is the extreme, and but she's still most
probably thankful that she's got a chea.

Speaker 2 (27:09):
Yeah, well, there is that way of looking at because
you know, if you can walk into the tent and
zip up the tent, then you're actually doing better than
some people. And I know this is a controversial thing
to say, but we tend to compare. And I think
this is part of the Instagram culture, if it will,
where you're always flashed people that are doing fantastically, and

(27:29):
most of those people are faking how fantastic their lives are.
You know, the more positive posts someone puts up, the
more I think they're probably miserable in the inside. But
we're being trained to look at the people that are
doing incredibly well to feel bad about ourselves. And you know,
comparison is the thief of joy. But if you just
take a moment to compare to someone that's doing worse

(27:50):
than you and have some compassion and empthy for them,
you might actually be doing okay, and you might actually
be able to be happy with where you are totally.

Speaker 14 (27:59):
Hey, look, here's an idea for a show for you're
on Friday into it. We've made that sort of week
don't you have a show where you'll only take calls
from people that are they view a positive side doesn't
have to be about them, but you know, only phone
if you're if you're a positive person, and I'm sure
the weekend will start gratefully.

Speaker 2 (28:20):
Yeah, it might only be you. Julian might be Julian
the Polyanna on eight hundred and eighteen eighty.

Speaker 3 (28:27):
Yeah, and just to Julian's point, you know, we've been
so grumpy and angry for so long, and I just
think we get stuck in that cycle sometimes that it's
hard to pull out of that negative thinking. And there's
a study that has just come out. This is according
to a bunch of neuroscientists, and it's quite right that
they found Fiji is quite a happy country overall. And
they found and this is the same with other happy countries,

(28:49):
that if you are around happy people, naturally your happiness
goes up. And the reverse is true. If you are
around grumpy, angry, frustrated people, then you're going to feel
a bit grumpy, angry and frustrated.

Speaker 2 (29:00):
So you basically owe it to other people around you
to not be a grumpy person because a negative person,
because then they will be negative and you'll be negative,
and I'll go back and forth and you go down.
I mean, that's what I'm having to do with you, Tyler.
Whatever's the opposite of a Pollyanna that I'm working with?
Trying to be a poly animate I'm trying real Hey,

(29:20):
the six er nine two nine two says, guys, I'm
a dirty, stinking, proud Pollyanna. As someone who's starting a
new business and looking to hire the first employee, let's
celebrate the doers and not the talkers. Well, as a
professional talker, yeah, take umbrage to that.

Speaker 3 (29:35):
I'll get your point, But well done that person starting
a business that is exactly what we need. And this
one says, come on boys. More companies will go to
the wall this year than last, More people will lose
their job this year than last. It's going to get
worse before it gets better. I don't believe that. I
do not believe that.

Speaker 2 (29:52):
What do you cry about it?

Speaker 3 (29:53):
Yeah, one hundred and eighty ten eighty is the number
to call if you want to send a teacher more
than welcome. Nine to nine two. It is eighteen to two.

Speaker 4 (30:04):
everything between Matt and Taylor afternoons with the Volvo.

Speaker 1 (30:11):
XC ninety, attention to detail and a commitment to comfort
news talks.

Speaker 3 (30:15):
They'd be good afternoon. Welcome into the show. Quarter to two,
and we are talking about being positive on the back
of the GDP numbers rising zero point seven percent.

Speaker 2 (30:26):
Yeah, it's on the idea that an economy is a story.
To a certain extent. We all know that the stock
market is you know, if it's a it's a bull
market is a lot just because people manifits that feeling. Yeah,
you know, and you know that's that's on as to
use the American expression, I believe that's the same one
on main Street as well. So if we see good
GDP numbers that we have, then let's try and celebrate

(30:48):
them and be positive and you know, look, look for
the good in our economy.

Speaker 3 (30:53):
We've winged for too long. Oh one hundred and eighty
ten eighties the number to call?

Speaker 2 (30:57):
Do you agree, Brett or do you think we're a
bunch of pollyannas?

Speaker 10 (31:01):
HI mean, ty, Look, I'm genuinely excited. I'd go so
far as to say, if you're not excited, you should
check your pulse to see if you've got one. Man,
I'd like to make it. I'd love to make a
couple of acknowledgments if I could, because I always knew
this was coming, but I'm pleasantly surprised that it's come
a lot sooner than I thought that Liam Dam's talk
with you after and it was amazing, And one of

(31:23):
the great points that Lea made was that at the
level of growth that we're at is a comfortable level
to be at. We don't want to be too much
ahead of that because we get that inflation worth kicking
in and we all know the pain that that's caused.
But look, really my main point today is yes, I
want to celebrate this with the rest of the country.
It's fantastic my accolade's acknowledgement. Go to this National Leag

(31:43):
coalition who have worked tirelessly, tirelessly since the day they
were elected to get us to this position, way ahead
of when I thought it would be humanly possible to
do this. I've bashed on about this on Talk About
radio a few times over recent months, and I just
want to reiterate where I came from. We will live
in the land of milk and honey again if we

(32:05):
hold the line and w saying hold the If we
can give this goalisten government three terms nine years, we
will be back in the land of milkne honey, because
they've got the intellectual powerhouse to get us there, and
they've proven that today.

Speaker 2 (32:22):
You wouldn't think that, though, would you. That's not the
feeling we get. You know, if you're just walking around
the streets talking to people or you know, listening to
the media, you're not really getting the feeling that things
are going well for the coalition.

Speaker 10 (32:37):
No, and we'll see it and thinks that comicsuse. I
get that a lot too. The reason for that is
because I don't think enough people are able to acknowledge
just how bad the damage was that they picked up
when they got into power. And you know, Nikola and
Chris and Winston and all of the team. You know,
they're all giving us the messages, but they're trying to

(32:59):
be polite on what they're telling us. It is really bad,
like beyond belief bad. And they are working pilously and
had done the get us well our I understand that,
and I accept just how bad it was. And if
New Zealand congrasp that give them some credit, hold the line,
walk with them, Thoy'll take us to where we want
to believe.

Speaker 3 (33:19):
Yeah, fairpoint, Brent. Do you think part of it is,
though that New Zealanders just love a bit of a
winge even in the good times. We give the Palms
a bit of stick for it, But if we're being honest,
we enjoy a bit of a winge as well. Yeah.

Speaker 10 (33:34):
I think there is something weirdly generic in New Zealand
psyche about that. I don't understand that. I mean, haven't
we been through enough pain? Can't we be positive? See positivity?
For what it is and grasp But there are still
a lot of people hurting out there. I know, no pain,
no game. Nikola has said that, and what she's doing
is the pain, but she knows that the gain is

(33:55):
at the end of the road if we just hold
the line. My heart goes out for people who are
hurting more than I am, and there are a lot.
But we can't change that. But what we can do
is be foot before thinking, be positive, and let's grow
to go forward. But this grow with a solid base,
not just printing money and driving inflation up. But the
last UNTI clou nderstood for six before six years you

(34:17):
gave Brett.

Speaker 2 (34:17):
You're getting a hell of a lot of support on
the text machine.

Speaker 3 (34:20):
Yeah absolutely.

Speaker 2 (34:21):
I mean there is a thing though that bad news
sells and positive doesn't, so it bleeds it leads. Right now,
we're trying to do a positive topic on on you know,
one hundred and eighty ten to eighty, and it's it's
like starting a messport moa, a fifty year old messport
mow with no spark plus yeah, come on. Whereas if

(34:45):
you do it an incredibly negative topics, that's just the
way people are, you know, they will fire up on
something negative, but they won't fire up on something positive.
So as a result, you hear a lot more negative
out there because people just don't go, hey, doesn't it's
not it's not the emotion that that gets people to

(35:07):
click on things and ring things, you know.

Speaker 3 (35:10):
Yeah, but we should. I love Sunshine and Rainbows? Yeah,
oh Hunt, Yeah, who doesn't do you sing that again?

Speaker 2 (35:17):
What is that song?

Speaker 3 (35:18):
So China Rainbore?

Speaker 15 (35:20):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (35:20):
I think you just made that up, sun and Rainbows.

Speaker 2 (35:24):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (35:24):
We're going to get it in to the studio after
this and just get that on record.

Speaker 2 (35:27):
Tell you what, Brent's getting a lot of support than Brett.
Was it in brtent? Brent? Brent?

Speaker 7 (35:32):
Brent?

Speaker 2 (35:33):
Yeah, there's lots of support for Brett and Brent, but
I think they mean the same person for what he
was saying.

Speaker 3 (35:37):
Oh, eight hundred eighty ten eighty is the number? Call
nine two nine to two is the text number?

Speaker 5 (35:44):
Wow?

Speaker 2 (35:45):
But then the negatives coming in now.

Speaker 3 (35:48):
Yeah, there it is there.

Speaker 2 (35:49):
It is right.

Speaker 3 (35:50):
We're going to take a few more phone calls very shortly.
It is tender to.

Speaker 1 (35:57):
Matteath Tyler Adams taking your calls on Oh eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty Matt and Taylor Afternoons with the
Volvo XC ninety tick every box, a seamless experience awaits news.

Speaker 3 (36:08):
Too good afternoon that there's seven to two.

Speaker 2 (36:12):
Rather welcome to the show.

Speaker 16 (36:14):
Yeah, yeah, I definitely echo with bread but obviously by
my name or India crazy air kind of thing. But
I have noticed that probably more so in the last
ten years, that just the kiwis I work with it
just ah so negative for where I work, and you know,
we've at a twenty five percent pay increase in the last.

Speaker 5 (36:36):
Four years and still not good enough for them.

Speaker 16 (36:39):
They want twenty five percent every year, and I'm like,
you're doing less work than when I started, And I
just I just can't put the good the keywis that
are very I will say, I'm very motivated. They go
like most of my friends that are very well successful
when you know, earning crazing money and they're loving at
the lifestyle that kind of re seats you know, most

(37:00):
of them, a lot of them haven't made it work
in New Zealand. And I just threw a little bit
of bit of hard work, like you know, when there's
overtime at work by smashed out. I want to know
over time, won't take a holiday and I'm probably averaged
ten to twelve weeks off a year, you know, And
I'm it's just like I said, it's the attitude that
the mindset has changed so much, probably in the last

(37:24):
ten years with kiwis that, you know, because when you
come over here from overseas, we're not afforded the doal,
the benefits the doctor, the chief doctor, for the chief prescriptions.
We have to pay full price.

Speaker 10 (37:36):
Krew will get a shock how much at costs to go.

Speaker 16 (37:39):
To the doctor when you're not a resident and you
have to pay full price for bizarre descriptions. It's you know,
but I tend to and you know, I probably hang
out with one or two people from work outside of
work because I just don't want them on my life.
I didn't really want people to have that outlook going.
Actually it's not so bad here, you know, And I

(37:59):
love love this country. I went back into you twice
in the last five years, and I'm like, yeah, give
me New Zealand any day.

Speaker 2 (38:07):
You're a great u zal good on your aja. Yeah,
this Texas sy is Troy reading a book Ten Reasons
why we are wrong about the world. Mainly, the world
we live in is a wonderful place and generally is
on the gradual improve Folks are better off and in
New Zealand we live in paradise generally. The book finishes,
don't judge the world by what the press reports. That
mayhem and sad at times is what folk want to read. Perversely,

(38:31):
happiness is wonderful, even if it's not your own. Cheers
from Ray.

Speaker 3 (38:34):
Yeah, great text. Yeah, and just to Raja's point, you know,
we've talked about the brain drain and a lot of
young people leaving New Zealand and look, I understand why
a lot of those young people decided to do that,
and not so young people decided to do that.

Speaker 2 (38:47):
But WIMPs.

Speaker 3 (38:48):
Yeah, but if you if you firmly love this country
and believe in it, and yes, we've been in the
doldrooms of some years, but things undoubtedly will get better
and undoubtedly I'm sure they want to return. So stay here,
dig in and help us get back on our footing,
because you know, all this whining about oh you know
there's better wages overseas, we can be just as good

(39:10):
as those countries.

Speaker 2 (39:10):
Ever, says good, your loins be positive and let's make
New Zealand greater gain.

Speaker 17 (39:20):
Beautifully said shame Well.

Speaker 5 (39:33):
Oh the blue.

Speaker 2 (39:38):
Bird flies.

Speaker 5 (39:44):
Dreams, Let you dreamer, gm do.

Speaker 13 (39:49):
Go to.

Speaker 2 (39:55):
Someday wish shippon stuff with the birth thousand behind.

Speaker 5 (40:06):
Will troubles like.

Speaker 2 (40:09):
Time of the Gemman, Chapter twelve.

Speaker 5 (40:14):
You're far Tyler Davis talking with you all afternoon.

Speaker 1 (40:21):
It's Matt Heathan Taylor Adams Afternoons with the Volvo XC
nineteen Youth Talks.

Speaker 3 (40:26):
They'd be good afternoon. We're certainly feeling positive going into
the rest of the show, so good chat last now,
thank you very much. But this is going to be
a interesting discussion. It is a question that was raised
in The Herald as part of an ask an Expert series,
So I'll read out the headline. When is it too

(40:48):
late to reveal that you're deep into an office romance?
So here's the question for the expert. I've been dating
a man who works at the same company as I
do since twenty twenty one. Our relationship has since developed
and it has been almost four years now. We love
and trust each other and we have decided to get
married next year. For the past three years, I have
kept that fact that I have a boyfriend a secret
from my coworkers, even my close ones. There are several

(41:10):
reasons for this, but the biggest one is that I
didn't want to be the subject of office gossip, and
I wanted to avoid the potential awkwardness in case we
broke up. During this time, some coworkers have suggested that
I meet their single friends. Sometimes I feel guilty as
I realized that I may have deceived people who truly
care about me. Now, as the time has come to

(41:31):
openly acknowledge my workplace relationship, I'm feeling anxious and unsure.
Do you have any advice?

Speaker 2 (41:37):
I don't know, just stay So are you asking me
for advice?

Speaker 18 (41:41):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (41:41):
Yeah, yeah, all right.

Speaker 2 (41:42):
No, I don't even advice to you. You do what
you want. But I think this whole thing around office
relationships is a weird one, isn't it, Because where are
you supposed to meet people if you don't meet them
at work unless you're going to get on as I
was saying before, the filthy, dirty soul crushing apps that
everyone complains about and doesn't seem to be able to
rustle up anyone decent on. So you know, if you're

(42:03):
working the amount of hours we work forty fifty sixty
hours a week, you know, isn't that the perfect place
for us spark to fire up.

Speaker 3 (42:12):
Well, there's certainly a lot of people listening right now
that would have had office relationships that may have turned
into marriages or long term relationships, and we'd love to
hear from you. But I think it is still a
bit of a mindfield. Do you tell your boss if
that is a situation that you were getting into it?
And I just raised this line for you. I wanted
to avoid the potential awkwardness in case we broke up.

Speaker 2 (42:34):
What are the rules that our particular workplace en z
ME or news talk ZB to be precise, Do we
have to tell Boggsy the CEO when we're dating someone?

Speaker 3 (42:44):
Is it in your contract?

Speaker 2 (42:45):
Yeah? Because I guess the idea is that it can
cause problems in the work perceived whatever the word for
nepotism of accounts. If it's just between a relationship favoring someone,
you know, because you're in a relationship with them, that
kind of thing perceived, you know, like problems if they
break up and someddenly they can't work together. So I

(43:08):
guess that's why you need to tell your boss, or well,
I guess why it might be seen that you need
to tell your boss that you're having a relationship.

Speaker 3 (43:15):
That would be the biggest worry, right that if it
doesn't go well and then it becomes toxic for whatever reason,
because we know, you know, with these relationship breakups quite
often it's not pleasant. Then you've infected the whole workplace
with this weird, kind of awkward, toxic relationship that he
broke up with me and he's awful she broke up
with me and didn't call me back.

Speaker 2 (43:36):
I would say, considering you know the amount of ours
as are saying before people work that a huge percentage
of relationships would start at work. Surely is it fifty percent?
Is it forty percent? I should get the stats on this.
I saw them recently, but they were out of the
United States, and it used to be much higher. It
used to be like fifty percent of all relationships started

(43:56):
as work relationships because that's where you meet people and
that's where you spend a lot of time with people.
So it kind of makes sense. It'd be ridiculous to
shut that down. And you, Tyler, were saying before to
me that people have to be on the exact same
status level. Yeah, so only people that are, you know,

(44:16):
exactly your level. So you would be only dating people
on a really low level at work, whereas I'd be
only allowed to date people on a really high level.
It ends in me. I don't think that's I don't
think that makes sense, does it?

Speaker 3 (44:29):
But then if you are managing someone and then you
date someone you're managing, that opens up a world of issue.
Surely it opens up a world of getting promoted. Maybe
maybe oh eight, one hundred. The tex machine has exploded
nine two, nine to two. If you want to send
a text but love to hear from you on this one? Yeah,

(44:49):
is it a bad idea to start a relationship with
someone at work? I wait, one hundred and eighty ten eighty,
if you've done it and it's worked out, and I'm
sure there's a heck of a lot of people listening
where it's absolutely worked out and they got married or
they've still in a long term relationship. Love to hear
from you, Feather and Barrin, who's that either?

Speaker 2 (45:08):
And barn either? Oh yeah, yeah, no, I was trying
to say it. Hey, guys, I married my workmate. What
I do outside work hours is my business, are not theirs?
That's from Jane. Yeah, so I went under to eighty
ten eighty. Have you started a relationship that's been successful
with a workmate? Have you started a relationship with a

(45:28):
workmate that's been unsuccessful? What are the what are the downsides?
And what are the upsides?

Speaker 10 (45:35):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (45:35):
I wait, undred eighty ten eighty is the number to
call just quickly before we go to messages. I had
a boss of me a hard time. This was this
was years ago, because he thought I was in a
relationship with my coworker. We weren't. We were just really
good friends. But he pulled me aside and said, mate,
what's what's what's going on over there?

Speaker 11 (45:52):
What do you mean?

Speaker 3 (45:53):
So I see you guys together all the time work? Yeah,
you you w in a relationship? So no, no, no,
we're just friendsis so good And then I said what
do you mean good? Said, can't be having there? So
I got you know, I felt a bit of annoyance
and say, well, mind your bloody business. But it was
kind of that awkward nature that he thought, if it
goes wrong, then the whole team and bloats.

Speaker 2 (46:14):
Yeah, right, I see what you're saying. So that's a
workwife you're talking about there, aren't you. Yeah, effectively, I
mean a workwife is fine until you start having work
kids with them.

Speaker 3 (46:24):
Oh one hundred and eighty ten eighties and number to cool.
It is thirteen past.

Speaker 1 (46:28):
Two, your new home of afternoon Talk Matt and Taylor
Afternoon with the Volvo XC ninety Turn every journey into
something special.

Speaker 11 (46:38):
Call.

Speaker 5 (46:39):
Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty News Talk.

Speaker 3 (46:41):
Said, be God, afternoon. We're talking about office relationships? Are
they ever? A good idea on the back of an
interesting story about a woman who's been in an office
relationship for about five years and they're about to get
married and she hasn't told anybody, and she's worried it's
all going to get a bit awkward at the workplace.

Speaker 2 (47:00):
Office relationships, I said, go for it. What a great
place to meet people. There's no better place to meet people.
You spend a lot of time with them, You get
to know them, and precious situations you you know, you
get to know them and the good and the bad.
You know, often there's company drinks yep, that get paid
for by someone else.

Speaker 3 (47:21):
Yeah, they were the good old days.

Speaker 2 (47:23):
I just can't see any problems with it at or Steve,
Welcome to the show. You married your boss?

Speaker 19 (47:29):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (47:31):
Not, well, we were working together, you know, it was
like a day or two afterwards.

Speaker 2 (47:38):
You married a day to day or two afterwards? Or
did you start up the relationship a day or two
after not working?

Speaker 7 (47:46):
Oh well, you know, I can't really tell you too
much now, can I? Yeah?

Speaker 20 (47:53):
Pretty much?

Speaker 7 (47:54):
Yeah, pretty much being on. But we keeped it outside
of work, you know. Yeah, but yeah, nowadays, if you
looked at that, it would be a bad time.

Speaker 2 (48:03):
And I sort of what was the level of the work,
just so she's your boss? How much further up the
corporate letter was she from you?

Speaker 10 (48:12):
Well? I think I was.

Speaker 7 (48:13):
She was like right up there. I was just a supervisor,
you know. So yeah, but she was more interested in
what I used to do before I took that job,
and that was search and rescue. You know, I worked
with Norwegians, we go down the ice in October and
then we worked with the Orion from the Air Force.
So she was she was more into that than what

(48:35):
we were doing. And we were working with King Simon,
you know. So because she got me in originally, so
I could teach the guys how to process Marlon and
sooner properly, because you can't process the whole Marlon. You
can't eat the whole Marlon. You're only taking the lines
of it, and the rest goes to waste because gon't

(48:57):
eat it.

Speaker 2 (48:58):
And and and is the Is the marriage still going, Steve?

Speaker 7 (49:02):
Uh No, we're separate.

Speaker 13 (49:04):
Ble.

Speaker 7 (49:04):
We actually get on better now. And that was nine
years ago we got married. So and we get on
better now than what we were moving together.

Speaker 2 (49:13):
So you bonded over processing Marlin and your previous work
with the Norwegians. And how did that? How did the
flame grow? How did the flame grow over time at
the at their workplace?

Speaker 7 (49:25):
It was good because we both held off, but we
knew it was there. We knew there was a connection
somehow because every time I pushed smile, you know, I
could see her On days beeuse she was a bit down.
So I'd go and tell her, look, when you're on
the phone, just go move somewhere and sit in the sun.
Don't sit in the same place with you.

Speaker 3 (49:45):
Very interesting. Were you ever worried if if it blew
up while you were still working together, that it was
going to get pretty.

Speaker 7 (49:51):
Awkward because the way I look if I lost my
parents and I grew up in shitty you know, well
for your care and all that. So I had a
pretty hard life. But I learned from that that before
you can truly love someone, you have to learn to
love the things you hate about the first and if
you can do that, then you will truly love that person.

Speaker 2 (50:13):
Yes, good on you, Steve.

Speaker 7 (50:15):
People use words too cheaply nowadays, like they go, I
love you and all that. They really don't because they
don't know that much about each other. So wouldn't they
get married? Most marriages only last two years now, you
know that's silly.

Speaker 3 (50:29):
Yeah, very true, and that a lot of young people,
you know. Well, Steve, thank you very much for giving
us a buzz and I'm glad that. Well, it did
kind of work out for Steve. He's not together with
the wife anymore, but they get on better than they
did when they were married.

Speaker 2 (50:46):
Say love it the fish factory? Exactly? What did he say?

Speaker 3 (50:49):
That's the key we dream?

Speaker 10 (50:50):
Did he go?

Speaker 2 (50:50):
He started it up to her and he says, he says,
he says. Steve says, you know, when you're on the phone,
if you're having a bad day to take it outside
and sit in the sun smooth.

Speaker 3 (50:59):
You know, Steve, Yeah, well done, well played. Eight one
hundred and eighty ten eighty is the number to call
if you met your partner or husband or life at work.
Love to hear from you or do you think you
just got to stay away from it? In twenty twenty five?

Speaker 2 (51:13):
Yeah, I mean it's something that people talk about, and
the natural thing for people to say the knee jeck
thing is no, you can't do that anymore. It's been
a bad, bad, bad bad But and yet look I'm
looking at the text machine on nine two ninety two
and the calls coming through, and so far all positive stories. Yeah,
from hooking up with a workmate. Obviously there are some
legal issues, and there's some you know, work protocol issues
and some hr issues that you probably have to be

(51:35):
aware of. But it's all positive so far. Do we
have any negatives coming through?

Speaker 3 (51:41):
We want to hear the scandalous ones if you are up.

Speaker 2 (51:43):
And they spent a whole hour just saying we only
want to hear positive story.

Speaker 3 (51:46):
Yeah, scandalous is not quite the right word. No, yes
it is. I want to hear scandalous. Clasp oh eight
one hundred and eighty ten eighty is the number to
call if you are a boss as well, and the
relationship work office relationship has made things incredibly awkward. Love
to hear from you as well. Nine two nine two
text number twenty one past two.

Speaker 1 (52:08):
Than Tyler Adams afternoons call Oh eight hundred eighty ten
eighty on news talks.

Speaker 3 (52:13):
Be good afternoon twenty three past two, and we're talking
about office for relationships? Are they ever a good ideas?
Have they worked out for you? Oh, eight hundred eighty
ten eighty is a number to call.

Speaker 2 (52:24):
I dated a woman from work for a week. Didn't last.
People started calling me unkind names about my physique ollie
yea to cheekiss and.

Speaker 3 (52:33):
Tel see that is I mean, that's not quite what
I was talking about. But that is a danger. Clearly
that's a danger. Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighties and
numbered call get a lane? How are you?

Speaker 21 (52:46):
I was one of the ones that met my husband
and my office. It was a officer. There was five
couples peered up. How about that for a record, right?

Speaker 2 (52:58):
So they were so ten workers in total or and
all all all.

Speaker 3 (53:03):
Partnered up and all found out.

Speaker 21 (53:06):
No, it was a big company.

Speaker 2 (53:07):
Okay yet but.

Speaker 21 (53:09):
In that stopfoom, five of us managed to peer up, Wow,
get and get married.

Speaker 2 (53:15):
Wow. And when when about was this Slane?

Speaker 22 (53:18):
Do you really want to know?

Speaker 21 (53:21):
We've had our card from the from the king?

Speaker 11 (53:24):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (53:24):
Wow?

Speaker 21 (53:26):
Whatty six years?

Speaker 2 (53:28):
Fifty six years?

Speaker 5 (53:31):
Wow?

Speaker 2 (53:32):
So when do you get a card from the king?

Speaker 23 (53:36):
Fifty five fifty five years?

Speaker 2 (53:38):
You get a card from the king?

Speaker 24 (53:39):
Wow?

Speaker 3 (53:39):
Congratulations.

Speaker 2 (53:40):
Wow.

Speaker 21 (53:41):
So one of the couples finished was the one she
started with and went off with another one in the same.

Speaker 2 (53:48):
Company, right, Well the other guy was still there.

Speaker 21 (53:52):
Yeah, yeah, he was still there and he went off
with somebody else but in the company. But it was
sort of sort of made a fun of you know,
all those as well as an office place that was
they wrote a book every month or something worrivery I'm
forgetting off and it was and they said as well
as it was an off us work was a place
to love.

Speaker 2 (54:09):
Lord, what kind of business was this hotbed of romance?

Speaker 21 (54:14):
A stockpom?

Speaker 18 (54:16):
Right?

Speaker 2 (54:16):
Yeah, and so this would have been I'm just doing
my mask with this being the late sixties, sixty eight,
we got married and was that was that? Because you know,
nowadays people are sort of throwing around warnings about dating
people in workplaces. Was that a consideration back then or

(54:37):
was it just expected that if you met someone at
work that was fine, asked them out on a date.

Speaker 21 (54:41):
We never sort of think anything about it, you know,
one or two sort of oh, she's gone out with him,
and you know it never made any difference to our work.

Speaker 3 (54:50):
Yeah, what about a boss boss junior relationship? Did that
raise eyebrows? Or that was all good too?

Speaker 21 (54:54):
Well, we had a big general manager and an accountant.
I was on the accounts and my husband and husband
was in the grain seat department.

Speaker 3 (55:04):
Right, okay, different department.

Speaker 21 (55:06):
While we were going out, he got trendsferred word to
a spurton, and he traveled back every Friday night and
went back to work on Monday morning.

Speaker 2 (55:15):
Who made the first Who made the first move? Elaine?

Speaker 21 (55:19):
Who made the first move? I think he would have.

Speaker 2 (55:21):
He came up with some grain and poured it on
your desk and said, do you like this?

Speaker 21 (55:25):
No, we had a we had a ball every year,
you know, a company put on a ball.

Speaker 2 (55:32):
And I went to this partner, well, congratulations, and there
you go, buddy, works out.

Speaker 21 (55:39):
Yet it didn't make any difference and when we had
the wedding, it consisted of quite a few of the
firm as you could imagine because he are son and
I are some Yeah.

Speaker 2 (55:50):
And there was and no one ever said this isn't on.
No one ever raised a raised a.

Speaker 21 (55:56):
Just never thought anything of it.

Speaker 3 (55:58):
What would you have done if the boss came up
to you and said, Elaine, I know that you're seeing
that young gentleman from the seed departments and it's not on.

Speaker 21 (56:07):
Tell him to get.

Speaker 7 (56:10):
Well.

Speaker 2 (56:10):
Congratulations and incredulations on the fifty six years. Fantastic, What
a positive story from Elane. There you go, I'm one
hundred ccent right, your one hundred pcent wrong.

Speaker 3 (56:19):
It's so far.

Speaker 2 (56:20):
It's the perfect set. Workplaces are the perfect place to
meet people.

Speaker 3 (56:24):
Wasn't she gorgeous?

Speaker 11 (56:25):
Though?

Speaker 13 (56:25):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (56:26):
One hundred and ac ten eighty is the number to
call if you want to send a text through nine
to nine two.

Speaker 2 (56:32):
This Texas says fifty five years of marriage. A card
wouldn't cut it odd want a knighthood for that exactly?

Speaker 3 (56:38):
It is twenty seven of us too. Headlines with Raylene coming.

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Up, you talk said the headlines.

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Speaker 3 (58:07):
Thank you very much, Rayla Lean And we're talking about
office relationships. Do they ever work? Are they a bit
of a minefield? I think I am in the minority
here when I say they are a bad idea. Most
people are coming through and saying.

Speaker 2 (58:21):
That's just because no one's interested in your tyre. Yeah,
well if you're me, and people are lining up.

Speaker 3 (58:29):
Taking that to management.

Speaker 2 (58:32):
Jan welcome to the show. You met your husband at.

Speaker 21 (58:34):
Work, Yeah, I did.

Speaker 25 (58:36):
We were kind of the same level and we just
became friends and yeah, we got married fantastic.

Speaker 3 (58:42):
And so tell us a story. What was I mean,
don't say the actual place of work, but you could
say that industry.

Speaker 25 (58:48):
We were in food manufacturing and yeah, he was in
supply chain and I was in marketing and yeah, and
no one really knew about it until the Christmas party,
and that's when we decided to kind of make it
semi public.

Speaker 2 (59:03):
And as I said to alayin us to the same question,
who made the first move?

Speaker 25 (59:07):
Jin Oh, I think he did. We used to have
lunch together every day, so it was just the organic thing.

Speaker 10 (59:15):
Yeah, I.

Speaker 2 (59:17):
Oh, sorry, So I actually.

Speaker 25 (59:20):
Marry couples and probably about thirty percent of the couples
I marry meet at work quite a lot still through Tinder,
And it was interesting reflecting back, like the police and
medical teams. I seem to marry a lot of people
that seem to meet at work from those industries.

Speaker 2 (59:38):
Oh okay, a police and medical teams. I wonderful. Like
you're buddied up in an ambulance. Sorry, I'll get complaints
of my pronunciation my south south some pronunciation ambu lance ambulance.

Speaker 10 (59:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (59:48):
That it's interesting when you say thirty percent of couples,
because I read a study out of America and it
was saying about that number was still the amount of
people meeting at work. So thirty percent, it's a that's
a large amount.

Speaker 25 (01:00:02):
And I wondered if it's those kind of industries because
either of the night shift style or quite high stress,
and maybe they don't have opportunities to meet or can't
relate as easily to others, or feel protective against their jobs.
I'm not quite sure.

Speaker 2 (01:00:20):
What do you think is more healthy from your perspective.
ASM a wedding celebrant and you know, talk to the
couples before they get married and such. Do you think
it's more healthy to meet at work or on the
dating apps.

Speaker 25 (01:00:32):
I don't think it really matters. I think as long
as you know, you've got good communication and you're committed
to each other, and it doesn't really matter how you meet.

Speaker 2 (01:00:41):
As a celebrant, do you check in down the track?
Do you keep an eye on how the relationships are going,
whether they're still going.

Speaker 19 (01:00:48):
Yeah, some couples.

Speaker 25 (01:00:49):
I probably have just had one couple just recently fast
for separation, which was a little bit sad because I
really loved them and they'd been together a long time.
But most of my couples are still together and I've
been doing about five years. So thinker's crossed.

Speaker 3 (01:01:03):
It's great. And so you mentioned so thirty percent roughly
that meet at work what hasercentage would meet on the
dating app.

Speaker 25 (01:01:11):
Are Yeah, over fifty right, Yeah, it's really it's still
really high. And interestingly, the stigma of telling people you
met on Tinder has changed as well. People are a
lot more open to others knowing they met on Tinder,
where it's probably a couple of years ago they didn't
want people to know they met by tender.

Speaker 2 (01:01:32):
Oh thanks so much for your insights there.

Speaker 3 (01:01:34):
Gen thirty percent. That is way higher than I would
have thought.

Speaker 2 (01:01:37):
I would say, and Gen can't tell it, tell me
that's she said that the same. But I would say, like,
if you've met someone at work and you start going
out for lunch with them, you spending with a time,
you see them under precious situations, you know, over a
long period of time, the love grows. Yes, then that's
more likely to last than a couple of dates on
Tinder where you're just a superficial back and forth and

(01:01:58):
then euroys trying to impress each other because if you
if you, you know, like in friend groups and stuff,
aren't an't the best relationships the ones where people meet
in friend groups and then slide aids into something else
one drunken evening, you'll tell them the story. I don't know,
you know what, you know what I mean? It seems
to me it would be a more organic way to meet.

(01:02:20):
So look, I'm going all in on I think one
hundred percent. Well, you're anti them on prom.

Speaker 3 (01:02:25):
Well, like Jen Saige, you know they were having lunch
together and clearly we're friends before they took it the
next steps. So yeah, maybe, but then there's text like
this one guys, love the show. On the large farm
we were on, the boss had the rule don't screw
the crew. If you were caught then you had to
move into one of the rooms together, as the space
was tight. As far as I know, there have been

(01:02:46):
at least eight couples to marry after meeting on the farm.
My wife and I was one of them. It was
our own little shortening Street. I thought that was back
in me, but clearly it wasn't. Clearly it worked on
the farm as well.

Speaker 2 (01:02:56):
The six says I own a small consultancy firm of
eight staff, which now includes two married couples. See, you're
up against it. This is where everyone's work.

Speaker 3 (01:03:04):
I mean, I'm digging in.

Speaker 2 (01:03:05):
Where else are you going to meet people?

Speaker 26 (01:03:07):
You know?

Speaker 2 (01:03:07):
What about friends?

Speaker 3 (01:03:08):
Friends, a bar, a bar, farmers market.

Speaker 2 (01:03:12):
I've talked to people. I've talked to mate who owns
a bar, and he said, because of the dating apps,
people don't meet each other at bars anymore. They don't
go up and talk. Everyone's just isolated in their little groups. Yeah,
there's no one sidling up anymore and go drink.

Speaker 3 (01:03:27):
Well, they should be drink, particularly if they say it
like that.

Speaker 2 (01:03:30):
Yeah, I mean, you've got me it's been years since
someone sidled up to me.

Speaker 3 (01:03:35):
Oh one hundred eighty ten eighty is the number to
call if you want to send a text. You more
than welcome nine to nine to It is twenty three
to three.

Speaker 1 (01:03:43):
Mattie Taylor Adams taking your calls on Oh, eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty matt and Taylor Afternoons with the
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Speaker 3 (01:03:54):
They'd be good afternoon. It is twenty to three and
we're talking about office romances. Are they a good idea?

Speaker 2 (01:04:00):
The six says such bs Matt I met my partner
of five years on the apps and we had our
initial meat up at a bar, and still to this
day we go to bars. No, that's not what I
was saying text. I was saying that just the casual,
not already organized date from an app. But they're just
going out for a night out and then just getting
to know someone when you're out is less common. According

(01:04:21):
to my friend owns a bar, the cold approach, yeah,
and the tender dates are just you know, bars are
absolutely infested with awkward tender dates.

Speaker 3 (01:04:29):
Yeah, but I would say the cold approach in a
bar that would be maybe not considered creepy, but that
is the element of play, if you know, as a guy,
I think of you, and I'm not single at the moment,
but what I mean at the moment that's that's not
very happily in a relationship and she is the love
of my life.

Speaker 2 (01:04:47):
But it sounds very close to my current girlfriend. I
should worry about that. I'm not single at the.

Speaker 3 (01:04:53):
Moment, but going back to my single days and there
was still and I think it's even harder now that
there's just in the back of guys, primarily guy's brain
where I'm going to be a creep if I go
up and just say hi, can I buy your drink?
Is that pushed behavior element to it now?

Speaker 5 (01:05:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:05:10):
Whereas it used to be a gentlemanly way that you
could do it right, Yeah, there's probably still as a
gentlemanly way you can do it, you know, you know,
if you swave enough and you're just friendly and not
I mean, there's definitely waited Hi, boys, enjoying your show.
I went to work for my partner after he offered
me a job. When I wandered into his place of work,
one day I did not know him. It was opportune.

(01:05:32):
Forty years later, forty years and two children later, we're
still happy together.

Speaker 3 (01:05:36):
That is a good story. But also, you know, smooth move. Yeah,
offer a job and see where it goes. Yeah, I mean,
as long as you don't offer the job on the proviso,
if you know what I'm saying. Yeah, no strings attached.

Speaker 2 (01:05:48):
Yeah, good agents. Here's a shout out to those of
us who were enjoying married life, but our husbands or
wives trade us up for someone they met at work.
Oh yeah, Oh okay, I mean that that is a problem. Yeah, Mike,
welcome to the show.

Speaker 11 (01:06:01):
Yeah, hi, guys, you're fifteen years ago. I got a
job at a quite a large property management company dealing
in residential rentals, and my role was assistant property manager,
or basically, I was a PA for ten female property managers.
They all had about one hundred and twenty hundred and

(01:06:23):
thirty properties each, and my job basically was to keep
all ten of them happy. And so I would all day,
every day, I'd jump between all ten of them and
they'd go go here, go to this property, do this,
fill out this application, go to this court hearing, and
all the rest of it. And when you're trying to

(01:06:43):
be professional and you're trying to keep ten women happy,
quite often sometimes after a few months, you do detect
a few signals, but in the name of professionalism, you
just have to ignore it when you're in that sort
of situation. But yeah, I really did love the job,

(01:07:04):
and it was all about service and being yeah, servitude
to these women and.

Speaker 2 (01:07:17):
Yeah, yeah, Well the thing is, things, Michael, would have
been a disaster. So you date one didn't work out,
then another, and by the time you have dated three
of those ten people in your workplace, you had been
in a very very difficult position, I imagine.

Speaker 10 (01:07:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (01:07:33):
No, I affectionately friendly, loved them all, and I enjoyed
it so much. And at one stage I thought, mate,
if I was in my coffin at my funeral, I
still crawl crawled back out to get back to the
office to serve those two women. Yeah, it was a
great experience.

Speaker 3 (01:07:49):
Why why did you finish up the job, Mike?

Speaker 10 (01:07:52):
I can't remember.

Speaker 11 (01:07:53):
Things changed, they sold the company, Yeah yeah, yeah, but yeah,
and I wanted to move on. I mean, yeah, yeah,
assistant property manager, you know you want to you want
to move up and become a full one.

Speaker 2 (01:08:05):
And yeah, whether you go, Mike would have I would
crawl out of his coffin to live in servitude to
those teen women.

Speaker 3 (01:08:12):
Yeah. Well, a great story. It's very interesting turn of phrases, but.

Speaker 2 (01:08:15):
Very proficionally and plutonically romantic in a way.

Speaker 3 (01:08:19):
Yeah, very good, Mike.

Speaker 2 (01:08:20):
Kind of a horrific image as well.

Speaker 3 (01:08:22):
You're the beast of us. David, how are you.

Speaker 26 (01:08:27):
Good?

Speaker 18 (01:08:27):
Thanks Matt, first time caller for the third time.

Speaker 3 (01:08:29):
Mister likewise David, David, and.

Speaker 18 (01:08:34):
May I just say, Matt, I read your book and
I was so impressed. I loved it. I'm going to
read it again. There's so many insights that I didn't
think you were capable of.

Speaker 3 (01:08:44):
It is a surprise.

Speaker 2 (01:08:46):
Thank you. Thank you for saying it.

Speaker 5 (01:08:47):
David, amazed.

Speaker 18 (01:08:50):
And what I'd like to talk about is I kissed
a lot of want to be princesses in my time,
and then I gave up said no, I'm not doing
this anymore. And as soon as I did that, I
saw my now wife at work, and because I was
a manager and she was a team leader to be
very careful about my advances, so it wasn't seen like

(01:09:12):
you know, a bit creepy, So I said, would you
like to come around to my apartment and help me
choose some some cushions, And remarkably she felt for that
some cushion.

Speaker 2 (01:09:24):
Some cushion cushions. Smooth, David Smooth.

Speaker 18 (01:09:27):
I thought women were really good at interior design and
turns out to ambassad But anyway, she said yes, And
as it as the relationship developed, I was very careful
to go to my boss, who's the CEO, and say, look,
I've got a potential conflict of interest because I'm developing
a relationship with this person who's now my wife. Now,

(01:09:48):
the complicating part was that hair boss was my work wife,
So in work I had two wives. I had my
work wife and my actual wife, and my work wife
was the boss of my actual wife, and that added
a father layer of complexity to how we all interacted
in work. Since then, my work wife and I have

(01:10:11):
actually both retired to my actual wife still works in
the organization. But I thought we handled it very very
well because we were up front. The only part I
didn't like is in work, you would think I was
her biggest enemy because shouldn't even look at me or
talk to me.

Speaker 2 (01:10:28):
Yeah, that's like when you're umpiring your kids cricket game,
they will in their bowling they will never get an LBW.

Speaker 27 (01:10:33):
It's the same player of the day, go too far,
enjoy your show, guys, and.

Speaker 18 (01:10:44):
Don't get a chance offen to ring him.

Speaker 2 (01:10:46):
But thanks for tech Nicole, Yeah me, David, and thank
you for your kind words about my book. Are lifeless,
punishing Thirteen ways to love the life. You've got interrible ones.

Speaker 3 (01:10:59):
Some great Diggs cabin through on nine two nine two.

Speaker 2 (01:11:02):
Hey, guys, I worked at in New Zealand for twenty
years as an international flight detainate. Well famously famously promiscuous situation.
If you go back to the early jet set days,
I met and dated another flight attendant. We then got
married and have been together for thirty years. In New
Zealand had a program called Spouse Alert where couples married
or dating could be rostered all their trips together.

Speaker 10 (01:11:22):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:11:23):
See that's the opposite of what people are doing now.
Company is trying to shut down this romance. They're trying
to kill it. But back then in New Zealand was
rostering people together. It was truly awesome time of our
lives as we traveled the world on the company's sickness
rate with pretty much non existent. For those similar colleagues
on a sickness rate that was pretty much non existent,
so they basically never was sick because they wanted to
hang out with each other each other regards Andy.

Speaker 3 (01:11:45):
That's a lesson, isn't it for companies?

Speaker 2 (01:11:47):
Well? Those two, Yeah, it is, isn't it? So you
know me, let the love flow? Is that a sing?

Speaker 10 (01:11:53):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:11:54):
Sounds a bit weird, but like, you know, like there
is a different kind of situation there. When I first
heard that flight attendant because there's I know a friend.
I've got a friend who's a flight attendant, and she
was telling me that there's saying when when a flight
attendant sleeps with one.

Speaker 5 (01:12:11):
Of the pilots.

Speaker 3 (01:12:12):
Oh yeah, what's what's the phrase?

Speaker 2 (01:12:13):
It's called getting your stripes. That's what she told me.
That's what you told me.

Speaker 3 (01:12:18):
I could see that. You know that fits.

Speaker 2 (01:12:19):
That's not flight attendant flight in it. That's flight attendant
pilot getting your stripe, your.

Speaker 3 (01:12:23):
Stripes the works. One hundred and eighty ten eighty is
the number to call. There's a couple of ticks coming
through from flight attendants. Actually, this one from anonymous Hi guys.
I used to fly long haul for in New Zealand,
and what goes on overseas stays overseas. I simply got
my stripes.

Speaker 2 (01:12:38):
You great, great fun? Well done? Yeah, okay, right, good stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:12:43):
Is the ticks number?

Speaker 2 (01:12:44):
It is twelve to three, the issues.

Speaker 5 (01:12:47):
That affect you and a bit of fun along the way.

Speaker 1 (01:12:50):
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Speaker 3 (01:12:56):
News Talk said, afternoon, it is nine to three and
we're talking about office romances. Are they a good idea?
I think we can put that one to bed now.
It appears that they are a very good idea, according
to news Talk b audience. And the text is coming
through on nine two ninety two, This one from no
name please met my now partner at work, best friends there.

(01:13:16):
Didn't want to risk that, but did after my marriage finished,
had to leave the job in the end. Just got
a little hard three years, but still going strong.

Speaker 10 (01:13:25):
There you go.

Speaker 2 (01:13:25):
Thanks for that text, Mark, Oh, I said, no name please?

Speaker 3 (01:13:31):
That's all right, No, No it's not Mark.

Speaker 2 (01:13:33):
It's not a same all right, right, all right, okay,
we're getting a lot through here. Hey, yes, I dated
now married a coworker, but yes, it did cause issues
at work. However, we both left the job and have
been married for twenty years.

Speaker 7 (01:13:45):
Thanks.

Speaker 2 (01:13:45):
I was thinking about that thing now that people are
you know, obsessed with, and you know, I don't necessarily
agree with it, but it's you know, status levels. You know,
if someone's high up in the company and someone's lower down.
They talk about power relationships, but you know, I mean power.
There's a lot of different types of power in the world. Now,
I'm not going to get into it. I wonder if
there's ever been a CEO that's busted them sound down
to the mailroom to be with the woman. He laughs.

Speaker 3 (01:14:06):
I'm sure there has. There must have been, so it's
a love story.

Speaker 2 (01:14:09):
You see, I meet someone in middle management, bust yourself
down to I know there aren't mail rooms anymore, but
you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (01:14:16):
This one from Catherine Guys. Back in the nineties at
the christ Church casino, you had to declare any staff
relationship to your manager. It was incredibly embarrassing. Thank you.
So clearly she had an office romance, I.

Speaker 2 (01:14:29):
Mean and casinos. I wonder if there's something around you,
I know, the the whole heist thing. I don't know. Yeah,
I mean, as an employer, would you hire a couple
who perfectly fit the bill? Yeah, I mean that's a
good thing. So before before you know, the office relationship
isn't starting there, But you just hire in a bunch

(01:14:51):
of couples and then you know it's just locked in solid.
I mean, because you know all couples are solid. Obviously.

Speaker 3 (01:14:56):
Yeah, there's been a lot of ticks sort of alluding
to this, but media can be a bit of a
hot bed for office relationships, certainly in did me have
had a few?

Speaker 15 (01:15:05):
Have they?

Speaker 3 (01:15:06):
Apparently? Yeah, we got a name. Note why everybod body
knows everybody knows not news talks be You wouldn't think so,
but apparently apparently better romances. There's people dating pretty much
pretty much every other timeslot except for this one.

Speaker 2 (01:15:21):
Really yeah, oh my goodness, I know how crazy well
I did not know.

Speaker 3 (01:15:27):
This textas says, this is why organizations have conflict of
interest policies and registers to record your personal and professional interests.
Disclose the interest and it can be managed. Public servants
are required to disclose these material relationships. That's written by
a lawyer.

Speaker 2 (01:15:43):
Yeah, yeah, right, you know speaking of public service people
I know and work relationships, how could we forget Merelyn
Brown Bevin Schwang in the nasty photo a room at
the Oakland City Council.

Speaker 3 (01:15:56):
Yeah, scandalous.

Speaker 2 (01:15:57):
You know, that's that's not the kind of thing we're
talking about here. We're not talking about We're not talking
about that kind of thing. Nothing about loves adults. Are
we suggesting that aults must be treated like children of pain?
That really is an adults problem.

Speaker 3 (01:16:11):
Okay, yep, and this one, hey, guys, great topic. Met
my girlfriend at work HOSPO being together for two years now, God,
about four to five more couples all happened at work
as well. It's good as we spend most of the
time together at work, but most of the time together
at work. But it's all good. We just need to

(01:16:32):
be a little bit more careful and open minded. But
HOSPO clearly is a massive hotbed for office romances.

Speaker 2 (01:16:39):
You know why that is? It's because you work late
into the night and then everyone stays afterwards for drinkies,
you know. And that's the big trap of HOSPO when
you start working hospital work your hours and then you
end up staying in that same bar for hours and
hours after you.

Speaker 3 (01:16:53):
Finished work hard and play hard. A couple more coming
through about alleged relationships at news talks.

Speaker 2 (01:17:02):
He'd be going to be the only ones that aren't
hooking up with people at news talks. He'd be Tyler apparently.

Speaker 3 (01:17:06):
Yeah, I know, buddy, keep up with news talks.

Speaker 2 (01:17:09):
He'd be so bunny sexy places.

Speaker 3 (01:17:12):
Yes, right, thank you very much for that. That was
a great chat, and thank you everybody that takes through
and rang to talk about office relationships. Coming up after
three o'clock.

Speaker 2 (01:17:22):
Yeah, very excited about this. You would have heard the
story about the Roliston coupill that had couple that had
a car fly through their bedroom. Well, we've got them
on the show for an interview and they'll tell their
full story. It is incredible.

Speaker 3 (01:17:33):
Absolutely, that is Llewellen Venter and Suanne Ventor. So looking
forward devn in a chat with them, and then we're
going to ask the question, Yeah, have you been involved
in one of these near calls? Yep, And you've got
a few stories to tell me.

Speaker 2 (01:17:46):
Yeah, I've experienced if you, Yeah, but I haven't woken
up with a car on top of me in my
bed exactly.

Speaker 3 (01:17:51):
That is coming up very shortly, but love to hear
from you about your narrow escapes on Oh, eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty is the number to call. Nine
two ninety two is the text number. It is four
to three. Great to have your company as always you
listened to matt and Tyler good afternoon, Thank co O.

(01:18:13):
We're gotta be act cat.

Speaker 15 (01:18:17):
We cannot talk to fair.

Speaker 19 (01:18:20):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (01:18:27):
I want to be and talk with Joe and the
babe place the babe cap.

Speaker 15 (01:18:33):
Fa and we've got a hold like we're gonna talk
it all talking.

Speaker 24 (01:18:44):
When let it down and you know, I don't know
that it was wrong.

Speaker 7 (01:18:51):
Wrong.

Speaker 1 (01:18:53):
Your new home for insightful and entertaining talk. It's Mattie
and Tyner Adams Afternoons with the FOLFO x ninety on
News Talk.

Speaker 3 (01:19:02):
Sibby, good afternoon to you. Hope you're having a great Thursday,
seven past three. So on to this topic, and very
shortly we're going to be chatting to the husband and
wife involved in what was a miraculous escape.

Speaker 2 (01:19:17):
Yeah, some people will be saying finally, because we've been
talking about this all week, but we'll finally teed up
the interview. You'll get the details, but you know what
happened a car careering through the bedroom window of a
Roliston house and landed on the bed of a couple.

Speaker 3 (01:19:35):
Yea and yeah, dramatic, hell of a story. So we're
going to have a chat to Llewellyn and sueen Ventor
very shortly, but we also want to hear from you
over the next forty five minutes or so your own
narrow escapes in life.

Speaker 2 (01:19:50):
Yeah, whend it nearly all end for you?

Speaker 3 (01:19:54):
Yeah, and you've got a couple of situations you've found
yourself in in your life.

Speaker 5 (01:19:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:19:59):
Oh, I've been in some very close scrapes in my
life and very very grateful to be here.

Speaker 5 (01:20:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:20:04):
And you don't have too many scars, do ye at
this stage?

Speaker 7 (01:20:07):
Look at that?

Speaker 3 (01:20:08):
Ok Yeah, that's a doozy. Is a doozy? Oh he's
got his pants down there is?

Speaker 13 (01:20:15):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:20:15):
Okay, No, you've got a few scars. Yeah, you've lived
a life.

Speaker 2 (01:20:19):
I'm full of middlewaddle.

Speaker 25 (01:20:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:20:21):
Oh eight one hundred eighty ten eighty is the number
to call. Nine two nine two. We want to hear
your stories about narrow escapes, near missus moments where which
could of cost your life, but somehow you manage to
get out of it. It is eight past three. Will
play some messages and then have a chat to Lunn
and Sueanne Ventor coming up. So, as you may have

(01:20:45):
seen in the Herald of Roliston, couple feel lucky to
be alive after a traumatic accidents or a car catapult
through their Canterbury home in the early hours of the morning.
Luanne Ventor Frieda's wife Suanne Ventor from underneath the vehicle,
crediting a curtain for protecting them from the shrapnel. Lleu
Allen and Sue and join us on the phone now afternoon, guys,

(01:21:07):
how are you hi?

Speaker 9 (01:21:09):
Not to bed?

Speaker 10 (01:21:11):
Well?

Speaker 2 (01:21:12):
What an incredible story and quite different experiences for both
of you, So let's get both angles. Llewellen, can you
tell us the story from from the start from your perspective.
You've gotten up to go to the bathroom, understand.

Speaker 9 (01:21:24):
Yeah, So got up, went to the bathroom. I saw
it was about office three on the clock. And when
I was done there, I got back into bed and
I just just got, you know, comfortable, and then I
heard this wire screeching and then just this roll of thunder.
It was immense sound and it just grew louder and

(01:21:46):
louder than a massive bang. And yeah, then just everything
was on top of us. It was bricks and windows
and everything. And so then I started screaming and just
digging myself out. So then when I got up finally out,

(01:22:10):
it's just last everywhere and it's dark, and I started
screaming for my wife and she doesn't answer the first
two times that I call her, and I just see
her leg sticking out under this car that's in our bedroom,
and I don't know what happened there. It all just loked,
really fuzzy, and but somehow managed to push the call,

(01:22:33):
lift the car out of the way. Well, just and
grabbed my wife and just pull it out, you know.
After she answered me the third time, and I could
actually pinpoint where she was. And it was the scariest
thing I've ever experienced in my life.

Speaker 2 (01:22:48):
I be now, So Anne, let's hear it from your perspective.
You were asleep and then you woke up. I mean,
what was going through your mind? It would have been
hard to work out what had happened.

Speaker 19 (01:22:59):
I didn't even yeah anything. I just heard you screaming.
The way he was screaming, I've never heard him scream
up back before and pulling everything on top of you,
and there was curtain on me, and I didn't know
what was going on because you couldn't see anything. And
I just kept on telling him it's pushing on my stomach,

(01:23:21):
it's pushing, and he just said, can you get out?
And I said no, I can't, and just suddenly I
just feel the weights coming off my stomach and him
pulling me aside and we just ran. I didn't even
feel any pain yet or it was crazy. I really

(01:23:45):
thought I was going to dry.

Speaker 2 (01:23:46):
Oh that's that is, I mean, understandable. And at what
point did you actually realize it was a car because
it sounds like it was just pandemonium at this stage.

Speaker 19 (01:23:57):
I ran outside and then I really can't even remember,
but I think I came back in and I went
down the passage and then I saw it was a car,
and then I went out to go see if the
driver was okay. They've got him out. So it was
just very confusing. I can't really remember everything.

Speaker 2 (01:24:18):
I'm trying to well, we appreciate it. We're talking to
lou Allen and Sue Anne, who had a calf fly
through their bedroom wall in Roliston. So you have got
out and an amazing act of heroism from you, Louis Allen. Allen,
you found some kind of superhuman strength to lift the car.

Speaker 19 (01:24:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (01:24:41):
To be honest, I don't know how I did it.
I don't know what happened. All I know is I
had the coin my one hand and my wife on
the other hand, and within a matter of seconds we
were out of the room.

Speaker 2 (01:24:52):
Unreal.

Speaker 9 (01:24:53):
I don't know how. It just felt easy at that point,
but looking back at it, when I look at the
pictures and even when I went back into the room
later on, I almost fainted just from thinking of how
the hell did I just how did I do it?
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:25:12):
And you mentioned that the curtain may have slowed the
car down even a little bit. Is that right? You
think the curtain lucky? It was there to try and
deflect it someone.

Speaker 9 (01:25:23):
I think maybe the curtain was more of blocking the
shrapnel of all the black bricks and the glass that
flew through the room. At Some of the bricks were
actually lodged into the opposite wall in our bedroom. So
the curtain saved us from all the small things. You know,

(01:25:44):
it was and I think we would have got much
much more damage. If it wasn't for the curtain, it
would have cut us up definitely.

Speaker 2 (01:25:53):
So now you're in a situation where you know the
smoke's settling a little bit, and you have someone in
a car in your bedroom, so you run up to
talk to this person.

Speaker 9 (01:26:06):
Yeah, so when we got the kids, because after my wife,
the first thing we did is grab the kids. And luckily,
there there was no there wasn't even a scratch in
their rooms. They was perfectly safe.

Speaker 10 (01:26:20):
So we grabbed them.

Speaker 9 (01:26:21):
We get them outside, and we first things we think
of is calling the police. But as we open the
front door, the whole of our street is out there
in their pajamas, some people with no clothes well, no
t shirts, no socks, no shoes. Everyone is just there
and they are already trying to you know, to help

(01:26:43):
us and get us on our you know, just to
see if we're all okay. And then when I see again,
when I got around the corner to the outside where
when I look again, they got the driver out of
the car, and I just walk up to me and
luck or you okay, is there anyone else in the car.

(01:27:04):
That's all I wanted to know, because you never know
if there were a child in the car or you know,
his wife or so. We were just so scared that
there was someone else in the car with him. And
the worst thing is that the first thing he told
me is he's so sorry, He's so sorry, and you know,

(01:27:25):
it was it was a tough morning, but you know,
we're all human, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:27:31):
Yes, So do you know how he managed to lose
control and go flying through your bidroom?

Speaker 7 (01:27:36):
More?

Speaker 9 (01:27:37):
We're not We're not too sure, but he was speeding.

Speaker 19 (01:27:43):
I think I already mentioned something about a cat to
the police.

Speaker 22 (01:27:47):
I don't know it was.

Speaker 9 (01:27:50):
I don't know ye for a cat, but we know
from what the police have told us. He's the first
courts appearance. They charging him with drinking and driving, so
that might have been an influence on it. But you know,
we we don't really know the full story on he
and we haven't had a chance to speak to him.

Speaker 3 (01:28:11):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:28:12):
So as you look back on it, I mean, how
are you feeling about it now? Because we're talking millimeters
away from a tragedy pretty much, aren't we.

Speaker 18 (01:28:24):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (01:28:24):
I was, I was angry. I'm not going to lie.
When I first got to terms and was taken to
hospital for her check and I was busy sorting the
kids out. I was really angry. I felt deep anger
inside me. But the next day I woke up, you
know when I realized, look, everyone's safe, and everyone is

(01:28:49):
you know, I've still got my family. You know, I
kind of gave him.

Speaker 7 (01:28:54):
Yeah for what happened.

Speaker 2 (01:28:56):
Well, mate, you would have to be an absolute saint
to not have experienced some anger after you you know,
you found a car on top of your wife because
someone's gone frying through the window. But also incredible that
that quickly, you know, just overnight, you as a person
can move on and you know, find forgiveness that quickly.

Speaker 9 (01:29:19):
Yeah, No, it's Look, it was a life changing experience.
You know, I don't think holding a grudge would have
changed anything. Definitely.

Speaker 2 (01:29:30):
Well, I'll tell you one thing that's good that you
now can tick off the things that can potentially happen
to you off the list, because no one's in a
situation where two cars fly through the window of their bedroom.
So you know you're say from that one now that
the odds are too small for that to ever happened again.

Speaker 9 (01:29:47):
Yeah, the statistically off for ever.

Speaker 3 (01:29:49):
No, yes, yeah, yeah, And you mentioned the community of
Roliston and your neighbors. And that's a beautiful thing about Roliston.
You've managed to move into a new place, is that right?

Speaker 9 (01:29:59):
Yes, with the help of the whole community and Bailey's
Canterbury property and A one properties, they collaborated and we
found outside standing open and clear and ready to move
in and it's and then we had a couple of
friends and and a lot of random people just pitching

(01:30:23):
in and helping us move and it went so smooth
and so quick. Also, it's amazing. It's really we have
never experienced this type of family situation.

Speaker 15 (01:30:34):
Family it is.

Speaker 9 (01:30:35):
It's definitely like family, it's not just a community.

Speaker 2 (01:30:38):
That's that's fantastic. And the kids all right, obviously they
didn't get injured, but how are they dealing with the
whole car through the front of the house situation.

Speaker 19 (01:30:47):
Oh, they're doing they're doing okay. On Saturday they were
but upset and they actually saw how bad it actually was.
They were not having a good day, but going to
school and seeing their friends and the school also been

(01:31:09):
helping a lot.

Speaker 2 (01:31:12):
Can and all of them, well, yeah, that's that's so
great to hear. And Locke so pleased that neither of
you guys experienced a major injuries, and good on you
guys for how you're dealing with the situation that it's
quite quite hard to get my head around now what
you've experienced. But thank you so much for talking to us.

Speaker 3 (01:31:34):
Thank you, thank you very much, all the best, guys.
That is Lou Allen and suean Ventor. Incredible story. You're
listening to News Talks EDB.

Speaker 1 (01:31:47):
Matt Heathen, Tyler Adams afternoons call oh, eight hundred eighty
eighty on News Talks EDB.

Speaker 3 (01:31:53):
God afternoon and what a hell of a story from
Llewellyn and Sue and Venter and clearly very lucky to
be alive both of them.

Speaker 2 (01:32:03):
Yeah, absolutely, I mean, how often do you wake up
with a car on top of you in bed? Can't
say we ever have at the stage, hasn't even to me.
But we're talking about near death experiences. Have you had one?
Eight hundred and eighty ten eighty Scotty, Welcome to the show.

Speaker 27 (01:32:19):
Hey, gentlemen, how are we very good?

Speaker 28 (01:32:22):
Yeah, it can't say I've had a car come through
my fence either. That that was pretty horrific.

Speaker 9 (01:32:26):
Poor poor people.

Speaker 29 (01:32:27):
Glather Okay, yeah, exactly, mate, Yeah, I had something pales
in comparison, really, but we went on a school camp,
so we would have been sixteen sort.

Speaker 30 (01:32:38):
Of seventeen years old as in christ Church. We went
down the down the river out the back of Spencer
Park all the way down.

Speaker 18 (01:32:45):
To the Wymack Mouth.

Speaker 28 (01:32:49):
We were white baiting.

Speaker 30 (01:32:50):
One of the guys brought a motorbike, took off on
the motorbike, went down the beach, hit some soft sand,
front wheel dug and flipped it over.

Speaker 28 (01:32:59):
The fox fedal went through my legs and took a
massive gash out which I didn't realize.

Speaker 30 (01:33:05):
At the time, but when I flipped over, the clutch
care on the motorbike snapped and the cable went across
my throat. Oh man, if I had been and it
scrapped my throat. But if I had been, let's say
twenty meals more, it would have actually, well ten meals
more even it probably would have taken a massive gash
through my through mycros and it would have been good night, nurse.

(01:33:25):
So yeah, I got up, I looked at the bike,
I tried to kick it over, and as I tried
to kick it over again, my my foots and my
leg collapsed and locked in my pants and then rapped
open my pants and saw this massive gash out of
my leg and the.

Speaker 28 (01:33:40):
Rest was kind of history. They rushed me off to hospital,
and yeah, that was pretty pretty horrific.

Speaker 3 (01:33:45):
Yeah, so we you so your mate was on the bike,
he got lodged in the sand, flipped it over, and
then it got lodged in your leg, And so that's
why you were picking it up when the clutch cable snapped,
Is that right?

Speaker 30 (01:33:55):
I was riding it, so I was the only one
I'd taken off from the group. They were all they
were all sort of down the camp site. I took
off the front wheel, dug down in the soft sand,
and as it flipped over, the bike sort of flipped
and the fire pedal as it's come down on me,
the foot pedals sliced through by inside.

Speaker 28 (01:34:14):
Of my knee and cut cut a massive punk, a
massive gash out.

Speaker 30 (01:34:21):
And then and then and then the clutch cable had snapped,
and as I've sort of rolled through the sand, the
bikes come back over the top of me again and
the clutch table has gone straight across my throat, and yeah,
and then, of course it's not until it's not until
many hours and days and months, and you know, but
to rehab afterwards, you start thinking about how close you
were to maybe you know, not being around.

Speaker 2 (01:34:43):
So yeah, yeah, and how long until you know help came?
How long to an ambulance?

Speaker 10 (01:34:51):
The guys, I.

Speaker 30 (01:34:52):
Yelled out, and they heard me. They came rushing down
on a four wheeler. And just at that point in time,
the teacher turned up.

Speaker 28 (01:34:59):
He turned up with a wheel drive and he and
luckily the tide was out, and he drove.

Speaker 30 (01:35:05):
He drove me back into christ to the hospital and
and I finally through. My mate was beside me, were
standing there sort of like, I guess for moral sympathy.

Speaker 28 (01:35:14):
And next minute he faints. When when the nerves starts,
you've got a hospital bed.

Speaker 2 (01:35:22):
How are you feeling in that circumstance You've got to
make fainting? But how are you dealing with the pain
and the shock at that point? And when you're being
taken hospital?

Speaker 28 (01:35:32):
I was fine. I couldn't I couldn't really feel much.
They numbed me out. It was fifty fifty stitches. And
I just tell the kids, it's a shark bite now,
and I just tell everyone I got my shark.

Speaker 18 (01:35:42):
So we're all good and but yeah.

Speaker 28 (01:35:44):
It's scary when things happened to you.

Speaker 18 (01:35:46):
But I think it's so the people you just interviewed,
it's it's almost.

Speaker 30 (01:35:49):
Like now they're coming to the realization of how close
things were, and in the heat of the moment, it's
just adrenaline.

Speaker 11 (01:35:55):
But yeah, it's later.

Speaker 28 (01:35:56):
Later you think how lucky you are.

Speaker 2 (01:35:58):
Yeah, it's a funny thing because I was in this
terrible bike accident and my arm broke off. That's why
I've got my bone came out my arm there and
I bit through my tongue and I was in a
terrible state, and I was in the ambulance, and the
ambulance you know that the emergency person says said to me, boy,
you are so lucky. And I was lucky. What I

(01:36:20):
was trying to say was, I don't feel very lucky. Lucky.
I would have made it to my destination.

Speaker 3 (01:36:25):
My arm wouldn't be bangled and my door hanging off.

Speaker 2 (01:36:28):
So I'm lucky that I'm alive, But I would be
more lucky if I had just got home. That would
have been the perfect amount of luck.

Speaker 3 (01:36:35):
Yeah, it's all about perspective, isn't it. Scotty Thank you
very much mate, and glad you survived that one. We're
talking about near death experiences. Oh e one hundred and
eighty ten eight years and number to call nine two
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Speaker 2 (01:38:09):
Now back to matt Ethan Tyler.

Speaker 3 (01:38:10):
Adam, thank you very much, Rayleen. We're talking about near
death experiences on the back of the quite terrifying story
of Llewellyn and Sue and Vnor who had a car
catapult through their bedroom wall and he was pinned to
a door frame. His wife was under the car and
managed to get out.

Speaker 2 (01:38:29):
Of life, and Llewellyn had some superhuman strength. You often
hear those stories. We just managed you to know how
he did it. He managed to pick the car up
of his wife.

Speaker 3 (01:38:36):
Yeah, unreally a text.

Speaker 2 (01:38:38):
To he has had a near death experience. Listening to
your Grammar Tyler.

Speaker 3 (01:38:43):
Oh yes, it's could have not could of Well, I'm
glad you survived that one.

Speaker 2 (01:38:47):
James Harry, your experience that you would like to share.

Speaker 26 (01:38:55):
Mate, I had a house and the first car they
went through it was two up, I mean up and
to across Uncle Jimmy, as I put it, let's handbrake off,
came through the banana plant fence, lost himself in the
bottom bedroom against some mate, and woke up with a
bumper right on the bed.

Speaker 10 (01:39:16):
Kind of got over that one.

Speaker 26 (01:39:17):
He was okay, you know, he was a little bit
tauma tri for all day was over, you know, a
good roast dinner and you're okay.

Speaker 5 (01:39:23):
And he was all right.

Speaker 26 (01:39:24):
And then about a month later you wouldn't credit this,
some nimrod who probably shouldn't be even thinking he'd be
a danger society, decided to jump start his man down
my driveway, which you can't see from the road. So
as he jump started it, he stop the first gear.
It hopped more than a bucking donko, went through my

(01:39:47):
fence again, through the bottom bedroom again, and again landed
on my flatmate's bed. So he was okay again with that,
you know, I sort I said, you.

Speaker 11 (01:39:57):
Know, you are right, and he goes, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 26 (01:39:59):
So he kind of got over that one, and he
kind of was a little bit like, you know, how
do they find us? And I said, we don't worry,
We've gone through it. So the third one that this
is unbelievable. So I had three hours down the bottom
and again the guy who was driving the car he
should even own a packet of corn flax row flying

(01:40:19):
past the three cars fun out on the corner, went
through the fence again. He hit the old fashioned tight clothesline,
lifted it out of the frigging ground. That went through
the toilet window, hit my flapmate on the back of
the head, who was perched having a great day on
the toilet has hit them, went through the door, and

(01:40:44):
it's unbelievable. But you know, I rushed up and I
said a okay, and he said no too, had taken
the hospital. Twelve should back the head and a few
on the front, and then I hit the ring the
insurance coming.

Speaker 5 (01:40:55):
The guy did not believe me.

Speaker 26 (01:40:58):
He came out and he said, this is the third
car into your house and you're not even near the road.

Speaker 10 (01:41:03):
And I said, true.

Speaker 23 (01:41:04):
He goes the witness is upstairs.

Speaker 26 (01:41:06):
He's on a month and had the pyramid of shit
and twelve stitches in the back of the d I
think five in the front. And the insurance guy said Look,
I've got to say this for the last time we're
paying house cars going into here.

Speaker 2 (01:41:23):
This is bad news, isn't it? Because I said to
lou Allen that you know, at least they can be
happy and safe now because it will never happen again.
I said, you've had your one car through the odds
are in your favorite that's what you said to them.
But apparently yeah, but it was like he wasn't killed. Yeah,

(01:41:47):
Can I get my head around? So you've got quite
a steep driveway?

Speaker 18 (01:41:50):
Is that?

Speaker 2 (01:41:50):
Is that the situation?

Speaker 26 (01:41:51):
I had a yeah, the steep driveway, and it was
this is really the checker. He was a two hundred
and fifty meters stretch and then it went down. So
the guy who jump started it, he must have almost
discovered doctor Livingstone up there at the wall. So far
it has a left ninety I write ninety at ninety

(01:42:14):
and then down the bottom of left ninety across three houses.
So the guy that tried to kick starters then when
he got out, you know, he said, and he said,
look mate, he so I'm really sorry, he said, But
what I can do if you want to pay the
post off off fix events and I can pay.

Speaker 10 (01:42:29):
You off at least eight bucks a week.

Speaker 20 (01:42:31):
I haven't worked in ten years, I said, God.

Speaker 26 (01:42:34):
So anyway, I sent him on his way and came
a can of gatorade and hope he exploded. But apart
from that and the third house, the.

Speaker 14 (01:42:42):
Third one went through the saying I just I just
can't believe it.

Speaker 26 (01:42:46):
My flatmate who was who was sending a message to
the queen at the time, as he'd went through the
damn door, he said he didn't know what hit him.
You're like, he wasn't he didn't have a pooed in
the back of the head. So the the insurance agents
just came out and he just sat down with me,
he says, Harry, it's believable. He said, I actually took

(01:43:07):
this case because I do not believe it.

Speaker 3 (01:43:09):
I do with the unreal Harry that takes the cake.
I mean, when you start a story with the first
time a car slept into my house, you know it's
going to be a doozy.

Speaker 2 (01:43:18):
I don't think you know, you know, the worst case scenario,
obviously is if you, for whatever reason, have flown through
the front of someone's house in a car. Yeah, you know.
The worst case scenario is if you'd hurt someone. But
if you don't, and then you're just sitting in your
car in someone's house. I mean, that's humiliating, very h
sitting there and you go sorry, so sorry, so very sorry,

(01:43:43):
how rude of me. I'm so sorry I have just
popped round through the front of your house in my car.

Speaker 3 (01:43:48):
Harry, great story mate, Thank you very much. Love to
hear your near death experiences. On oh, eight hundred and
eighty ten eighty. If you want to tix it through
more than welcome nine to nine two. It is twenty
one to four.

Speaker 1 (01:43:59):
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Speaker 5 (01:44:08):
Call eighty news.

Speaker 3 (01:44:10):
Talk said, be good afternoon. We're talking about near death
experiences and love to hear your stories. On eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty.

Speaker 2 (01:44:17):
Dale says, hey, guys, I've had five near death experiences.
Two near drownings, one blow hook of falls, one above
a hydro in the lake, one four car collision, one
fall asleep at the wheel at one hundred and twenty
kilimes now and I was a spark. He had a
full hand to hand electric shock that almost stopped my
heart on a shift in a sawmill at two am
in the morning. I'm now a minister of the church

(01:44:38):
regards Dale.

Speaker 3 (01:44:40):
I'm clad things weeked out for your DN jeepers talking
about unlucky dangerous Dale.

Speaker 2 (01:44:46):
Jill, welcome to the show. Your husband had a very
lucky escape.

Speaker 24 (01:44:49):
Oh, yes he did, but it sounds quite time after
all those dramas. But it's a few years back. He
was walking along Lampton Tea and Wellington and there was
no veranda above him at that stage, but building operations
going on above him, a three of four floors above him,
and all of a sudden that of the one of
those who just settled in guess thinks, fell down and

(01:45:14):
crest him for the foot path beside him, and it
actually brushed his side as that came. So, I mean
I think he had to sit on the.

Speaker 2 (01:45:25):
Did he get a sorry from above? Sorry?

Speaker 24 (01:45:28):
Oh I can't remember, I honestly can't. But that was
so he was taken up for a few days. I
can tell you.

Speaker 2 (01:45:38):
Thanks for sharing that, Jill. Yeah, I mean, you know,
great for your husband that he survived. You can imagine
that feeling if you're the person that's dropped it.

Speaker 3 (01:45:46):
And then you go to the dropping thinking and go, well,
run at.

Speaker 2 (01:45:51):
Least at miss Jill's husband, at least at miss Great story, John,
you've had a couple of miraculous escapes.

Speaker 20 (01:46:00):
Actually got mine line?

Speaker 3 (01:46:04):
Okay, all right, good start, yep.

Speaker 20 (01:46:08):
Probably the most interesting one was a bull. He was
three feet away from me, but I went out to
get him back in there and the pen. So I
put a chain back on him, and he put his
head down and charged.

Speaker 10 (01:46:23):
Well.

Speaker 20 (01:46:23):
The pipe I had in my hand was a two
and a half inch drain pipe, and I picked it
up over my head and came down and I dropped
it on his head and he dropped my feet.

Speaker 3 (01:46:36):
You're a brave man, so just just to row back
a little bit, John, You had to get the chain
back on the ball, and all that you were armed
with was a pipe, yep.

Speaker 20 (01:46:45):
Because I used to keep him of a chain through
the round his horns and on through his nose, and
you could control him. It was safe. But he was
a very well read bull and I didn't really want
to get rid of him. But one more chance after
that and he went down the road, so you just
don't make around.

Speaker 2 (01:47:05):
Right, So he was okay, So John. He was k
after the pipe between on the forehead, but didn't calm
down as a bull.

Speaker 20 (01:47:16):
He is down the road with them. I think about
six months went to the works. They had two track
to rollovers.

Speaker 3 (01:47:26):
Yep too, and the one of them.

Speaker 20 (01:47:31):
Was They were both involuntary. But I was going around
a paddock that I knew it I cut every year,
but this time there was a little bank. The bulls
rubbed in a bank can and it flipped and I
got shot out of the seat, landed on the ground
track that came nearly on top of me. But the

(01:47:51):
cutterbell and the marr stopped the rolling over on top.
And the other one was feeding out on a slippery hill,
had no business being there because they had bear tires.
And I felt the thing sliding sideways down the hill
track and I got up on the seat and jumped
and jumped downhill. You always jumped downhill and then watched

(01:48:11):
to roll into the creek.

Speaker 3 (01:48:13):
John. You're a bit of a loose unit, don't you, yep.

Speaker 20 (01:48:19):
You another MIDI chased me in the bush once and
I got gym between the tree and the bank, and
there's only or two feet yep. But some here she
got past and I got squashed.

Speaker 2 (01:48:35):
Well, so good to have you here, John, So good.

Speaker 3 (01:48:38):
You've survived all that, a lot of ball situations in solf.
But when you see it voluntary rolling of the track
that no one rolls a tractor on purpose. John, you're great.

Speaker 2 (01:48:48):
Yeah, Mary, you're next un at the tip.

Speaker 22 (01:48:51):
Yeah, this was back in the UK, and when you
went to the tip you were there were bays and
you were allocated. The bay that you went to, we
were emptying our trailer and the next compartment they all
had sleeper walls between you. And in the next compartment

(01:49:12):
the big factor with a huge bucket on the front
came tearing in to that bay and just hit the
pile of rubbish and there was huge pieces of four
two and I had my back to it. And if
my husband shouted duck, and if I had questioned him,
I wouldn't be here today because the four B two

(01:49:35):
splintered and shot straight over and I've got the scars
under my chin.

Speaker 5 (01:49:39):
Wow.

Speaker 22 (01:49:40):
Wow, they took my head off.

Speaker 2 (01:49:42):
So basically, if he'd said duck and you said why
then Mary? Yeah, yeah, well yeah, has he been right
about most other things? Or is this one off?

Speaker 22 (01:49:53):
One off? I'm afraid.

Speaker 3 (01:49:58):
Quick takes to you guys. I was traveling home from
christ Each to the West coast, coming down the Old
Tear to Gorge and I jeeped the brakes decided not
to work in steering too heiry, scary few minutes, but
we managed to drift to a stop near the bottom,
happily alive in our lovely Henry was on Oh, midwife,
Henry was on board with me. There we go this

(01:50:19):
from Mavee.

Speaker 2 (01:50:20):
Well, there you go, mave isn't that your partner?

Speaker 3 (01:50:22):
Yeah, but that's I don't know if we've got a jeep.
Maybe it is.

Speaker 2 (01:50:24):
Maybe there's all right, very good. I thought she didn't
listen to this year. She loves it, loves it. I
mean I've had a few. I had a really hairy
one going into Alexandra. You know, Central Tago. You come
around the corner heading down towards the bridge, and then
you suddenly realize you're own black ice. That's that's that
is steep, That is steep. That is terrifying, terrifying situation.

Speaker 3 (01:50:44):
Diane. Now you had two car accidents in a very
short space of time.

Speaker 23 (01:50:49):
Yes, that's great. I was on a motorbike with a
friend of mine who wasn't a very experienced rider, and
we smashed into a fience. So he broke his collar
bone and my injuries were mainly turfercent. But because he
had broken the collar bone, the doctor said we had

(01:51:12):
to go to the hospital.

Speaker 13 (01:51:14):
Ye.

Speaker 23 (01:51:14):
So a friend of ours was taking us to hospital
in the car and we rolled the car on the
way to hospital. We both got thrown out of the
car and I actually recall yelling out as I was
rolling along the road. Not again, not again. And he,

(01:51:37):
unfortunately was very ill. He was in the commerce for
seven weeks. I wasn't quite so bad, but yeah, dodged
a bullet there.

Speaker 3 (01:51:47):
He certainly did well.

Speaker 2 (01:51:48):
Great to have you still with us.

Speaker 3 (01:51:50):
Yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 2 (01:51:51):
I was in a coma for two months. I had
a car crash in Australia. I had a fight with
the kangaroo. I had to learn how to walk and
talk again, that's from Tom.

Speaker 3 (01:51:59):
The same day.

Speaker 2 (01:51:59):
So I was gonna cover for a car crash, and
I think surely the fight with the kangaroo as heading
the kangaroo. I need more details in the story.

Speaker 3 (01:52:08):
More did you did you.

Speaker 2 (01:52:09):
Get a car, had a kangaroo and then get out
of car and have a fight with it, or.

Speaker 3 (01:52:12):
The kangaroo was waiting on the side of the road
saying you can't do that, and then challenged you.

Speaker 2 (01:52:16):
Yeah, fisty cufs of the kangaroo. You know, we've all
seen the videos online.

Speaker 3 (01:52:20):
Are pretty buff, some of those gangaroos.

Speaker 2 (01:52:21):
Yeah, very buff. Yeah, here we go. H this is fun.
That's from Kiev, Flying Cars, Town of the Future, Roliston
sounds like the Jetsons.

Speaker 3 (01:52:34):
Very good KIV, great text. Right O one hundred and
eighty ten eighty is the number to call, and we'll
wrap this up very shortly. It is ten to four.

Speaker 4 (01:52:44):

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Speaker 3 (01:52:58):
It is seven to four and we're talking about near
death experiences. Some great tics come through on nine to
ninety two. But we'll go to Steffanie. How are you Stefan? Sorry?

Speaker 15 (01:53:11):
Oh sweet, no, I thought there was That's fine. Yeah,
So I was a pedestrian that got hit by a
car on more House av in christ Church, probably just
over a decade ago and had a seventy eight kilometers
going by the place report and yeah, so that was
a near death experience. Put me in a coma for

(01:53:32):
a bit. But the kicker was thinking my pants down? Right?

Speaker 2 (01:53:38):
Okay, why why were your pants down?

Speaker 23 (01:53:42):
Yeah?

Speaker 15 (01:53:42):
Good question. I actually only know the story as it's
been retold to me from friends because I was nineteen
at the time, and I'm sure, like a lot of
other nineteen year olds did or still do a drink
to excess and sometimes lost my memory and I don't
even remember leaving the pre drinks that night, So I
obviously got pretty hammered early and then was went down

(01:54:04):
with my friends and we obviously all walked our home
from town as we lived in Waltham, and I think
it was about three a m. And we were just
coming across more House ev going up Gason Street. People
know where that is, and there was no cars on
the road pretty much, this is what I'm told, and
one of my other friends and I when we were

(01:54:25):
crossing the road, we just pulled our pants down and
mooned the oncoming traffic, which was which there wasn't really
any of. And yeah, I think one guy sort of
spit up to dry and give me a fright, And
I probably stayed on the road too long, too drunk,
and then realized at the last minute and tried to

(01:54:46):
jump out of the way and he went just with
the same way to miss me in.

Speaker 2 (01:54:51):
So did you get did you get hit from the
moon side?

Speaker 15 (01:54:55):
I think I think my eyes might have saved my life.

Speaker 2 (01:54:58):
Yeah, yeah, But then you sort of wake up on
the road unconscious.

Speaker 26 (01:55:02):
Do you?

Speaker 7 (01:55:02):
And I didn't wake up.

Speaker 15 (01:55:03):
I didn't wake up for weeks. I was in a
coma for for a while.

Speaker 2 (01:55:07):
So they picked you off about up off the road
with no pents on?

Speaker 15 (01:55:10):
Well, actually this yeah. One of my first visitors was
after a couple of weeks, three weeks in hospital, was
the same friend that was doing the moon west me
on the road, and he said it was quite funny.
Don't worry that, don't don't worry. I was the first
one to you and I pulled you and up.

Speaker 3 (01:55:25):
That's a friend. Yeah, that's good.

Speaker 2 (01:55:28):
So see Fanny still out there mooning cars? Or have
you put that behind you?

Speaker 15 (01:55:35):
Oh yeah, no, I definitely put that one behind me.
But I'd still get to go on the right right circumstances.

Speaker 2 (01:55:43):
Speak, give up, yeah, give a taste of kew step.

Speaker 3 (01:55:49):
Thank you very much, great great story, and thank you
that was a great topic. We could have done that
for another four hours and a lot of phone lines
have been crazy, but that is us for today.

Speaker 2 (01:55:58):
Yeah, see tomorrow afternoon for another edition of Matt and
Tyler Afternoons. Until then, GDP is up, So be happy,
be positive. It's manifest a booming economy. I mean, things
aren't so bad. You might wake up tonight with a
car on your bed.

Speaker 3 (01:56:11):
Very good advice. Be happy.

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