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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Sunday Session podcast with Francesca Rudkin
from News Talk s ed B.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
And joining me today on the Sunday Session panel. We
have been boys. Good morning. Oh look you're a professional.
You can turn on your gosh, you're good. Uh HiT's
breakfast host of course. And I believe you're now gone
viral with fifty million plus views. And we'll come to
that in just a moment, okay. Also joined by zed
(00:34):
b's Roman Trouvers.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Hello, can someone turn my Michael?
Speaker 4 (00:38):
I can do it for you.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
We're gonna join it. First of all, Happy Father's Dave
to both of you.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Yeah, and congratulations. I believe that you're a grandfather.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
I know, yeah, I can't believe you.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Do not look I know.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Look, look it's all the viagra and other drugs I
take it keeps me, you know, going.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Yeah, Okay, Ben. Have you ever parked in a disabled park?
Speaker 4 (01:00):
No, I haven't. I'm a very nervous parker. A parallel
parking outside a cafe, just I couldn't do it, you know,
so to park inside, to park in a apparently you know,
one of those parks, I couldn't do that either. So
I think, you know, seve hundred and fifty dollars, is
that what it the fine?
Speaker 2 (01:14):
It could be, yes, So what they're going to do
is they're going to increase it by four hundred percent.
So the governments they want to get tough on the
selfish behavior of people who misused car packed reserved for
disabled people, and it's going to go from one hundred
and fifty to seven hundred and fifty dollars.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
You know what, Romance tough, find them, absolutely, But they
better not do that with the toilets because I'm a
big fan of using the disabled toilets. Yeah, they're so clean.
And I've got this plan if someone catches me and
they're sitting in a wheelchair at the door when I
come out, I'll just run saying it's a miracle and
just keep going.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Yeah, we're going to come back to this in just
a moment, because it's interesting. I did think about that
as well when we were talking about the parks. I
don't pack in the parks. I think I don't think
most of us do. There's just a few decades and
quite frankly, I think that they should be fined seven
hundred and fifty dollars. But if the government's going to
go to to the extent of changing these laws and
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these fines, then why aren't we increasing the fine for
what it is to be on your phone? Why is
it one hundred and fifty bucks to be on a phone?
Why isn't that five hundred dollars.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
I'd like a fine also too. When you let someone
in traffic and they don't acknowledge you, oh geez, I'd
like a fine for that, just a little your fingerwayver
a hazard? Like is that too much to ask?
Speaker 2 (02:28):
My daughter is sitting at home right now, going, oh
my gosh, my mother is not the only old person
that gets really annoyed when people don't acknowledge how kind
you've been so true, I think that's us.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
You're a fine. I'm with it. Just get fine for that. Okay,
we're going to find that.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
But the toilets, there's only two toilets, and the unisex
and one is busy. Are you allowed to use the
disabled one if there is nobody around?
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Believe I did this on an overnight show and someone
said to me, you've got it all wrong. You are
allowed to use them, which made me feel so much better.
I've always felt really guilty, but this is too much.
I'm over sharing here. I cannot use urinals. I cannot
stand next to someone and do that. That's weird. Well
women don't do it, h drop your skirt and just
we next to each other. So I do like the
privacy of a private cue.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
I'm with you.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
I'm with you if you've got the option, but not
with you in the cubicle. But I would go to
the cubicle. Sorry, yeah, you're right. I think they called
it a trough coward is what I am. You know,
you don't want to stand next to someone at the urinal, so.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Yeah, that's fine.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Wow, there's a term for there's a bromance beginning in.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
At the moment.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
So we're all we're all pretty happy. Then seven hundred
and fifty bucks and that you find that's.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
The excuses for doing it, So you know, put the
fine as much as you want.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Okay, tell you and perhaps make the offender disabled, have
their legs removed so that they can continue to use
their parent Okay.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Right, Moving on. Something which I think is appalling is
it was discovered this week a jealist was having a
look at how much babysitters are and they discovered that
a family was offering fifty dollars an hour for babysitters
to look after two school edged children in queens Down,
forty five dollars an hour for babysitting in Auckland, forty
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dollars in christ Yet thirty five an hour to look
after one child in total, longer for a man to
take his wife out. And Kerrie and I are basically
going to sit up a side business now we're available
for fifty dollars an hour. I mean, this is unbelievable.
My children no longer need babysitters being I don't know.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Yeah, I've just got to fourteen now so she can
look after the youngest one.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
What would have been the most you would have paid
for a babysitter in the evening?
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Well, yeah, because my daughter fourteen, she now is on
the babysitting circuit and she's not getting I mean she's
not getting I'd do it for fifty dollars. I'd sacrifice
my night out to do it for fifty dollars an hour.
That's a huge amount of money. I think she's getting
maybe fifteen twenty dollars an hour, depending on the friends
or family, and it's a great it's great amount, and
what's it?
Speaker 2 (04:52):
What are her responsibilities what she expected to do?
Speaker 4 (04:54):
At first she was like, I just get paid to
watch Netflix. I'm like, no, you die. Firstly, you're gonna
look after the child or children, and secondly do something.
And she has done a really good job of like
unstacking the dish washer or like look, use your initiative
because then you get asked to come back. So she's
actually doing a really good job with that. But don't
tell her about the fifty dollars an hour thing. Woh,
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it's a huge amount, and don't tell you know, have
you done that? You're your dad as well when you
say I'm going to babysit and your wife's like, it's parenting.
That's a good lesson you learn earlier on too, it's parenting,
not babysitting.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
We made Alana Devine, a young woman in Cartertan very wealthy.
We thought fifteen dollars an hour was extortion and you
go out for like four or five hours and then
you work out how much you owed her. It was terrible.
The house was always a calamity. There was a stuff everywhere,
but the girls loved her, and I hope she's listening
because she's a wonderful young But to pay fifty bucks
an hour you pop out for half an hour for
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a flat white, you wouldn't be going out for six hours,
would you.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Well that's the thing. Who can afford to pay this?
Because if you head out and you have a dinner,
and you have a one or two, and then you're
uber home by the time you've ubered paid. I mean,
this is what my partners sitting at home going. That's
why we have been out for eighteen years. But it
is so expensive. I don't know who. I don't know
who can pay this. I just say, go and knock
on the doors of your neighbors up and down you
street and find a fourteen or a sixteen year old.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Well being clean?
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Yeah so Sofia and Holly in their late twenty mid
to late twenties. Now your kids are younger. Most children
or young adults would be happy with twenty bucks. Yeah
per our thing. Why are we doing that?
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Yeah? No, yeah, I mean sign me up, sign out.
Let's started after this they sign up, make our own
little babies at the babies at the club. I think
there's a name in that we can do that and
we can start it up make some money.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
If you're paying fifty bucks, I expect to come home
and the house is clean. Yeah, you know, the house
has been clean painted, The kids are sound asleep.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
The rooms are ty. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Yeah, someone's cleaning the barbecue. That's on my list of
things to do. Now it's the first September, that would
be great. Ben, Oh, hang on, I need to touch
on this is today winter or spring?
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Boys? Ben's I understand that causes a lot of debate
on the station.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
This is a real risk throwing this.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
I know, and I understand. There's there's four different options.
I was looking online and some people say it's the
first September. Some people say twenty third this year equinox
or something. Oh look, I feel like if you want
to say it's spring now, let's say spring. It feels
a lot better saying it's spring today than winter. Right,
So if that gives you a little glimmer of hope,
then let's say it. But I understand there will be
people listening right now going it's the twenty third because
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of the equinox. It sounds like something that you're using
to look amazing romance.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Look, if Jim Hickey was here, he'd be probably analyzing
the heck out of this as well. But like you,
it feels warmer. It's nice to just have It's the
first of September. Spring, yay. But you know what Christmas
in widered upper years ago? We had a barbecue at
Christmas time. It was snowing, so anything can happen, So
what do we do call that winter? No, it's just spring.
Let's move on. There are bigger things to talk about
(07:49):
in the world. And if you're going to get absolutely
apoplectic about a date not being correct, then there's something
wrong in your head.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
I just like data, so I don't mind following the
meteorological seasons because they're divided into these seasons so you
can measure year upon year. So that's nice. That's a nice,
neat and tidy packets package.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Right, So you're happy with every day.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
And also because I just love summer and I'm desperate
for it to come as fast as possible, so I'll
take spring as soon as it arrived.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
There we go.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Hey, Ben, you've launched a new podcast with your daughter Center.
It's called When I Grow Up. You've gone viral using
gen z slang to mortify and embarrass your daughters. Did
they know that was coming?
Speaker 4 (08:29):
No, I've done. I had done a few things with
them where I tried to use slang that I have
no idea what it means. I had to google some
stuff and they got quite embarrassed around home, and then
I was like, hey, I'm going to whip through the
drive through and I sort of memorized a few things.
They had a couple of little notes of all these words,
and they were stuck in the back and they were
just cringing inside. And this thing just blew up. Like
I think it's like sixty six million views on Instagram
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right now. It's just like unbelievable. People like Paris Hilton
and Usain Bolt like, and they don't they still don't
follow me. But I don't know how that got in
front of them. It's just this wild thing that's just
got a life of its own. So what does mean charisma?
I've learned? So yeah, So if you got riz, you've
got charisma that these are things I've googled. When I
say it, my kids are like, oh my god, you
can't say that. But I enjoy the fact you get
(09:12):
to a point, and you're probably the same. You know,
where you get enjoyment out of embarrassing your kids.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
What's the point of having them if you can't get
some fun out of it, you know exactly. Hey, I'm
hoping that none of these that are going to be inappropriate.
What's skippity? I don't even know if I'm.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
Saying that skibberity is. Yeah, again, I'm not the expert
on gen z slay sayings, but it came from a
mean skibbitty toilet. I think it's Again, it's kind of
like a made up word, but you can use it
for kind of like back in the day, Smurf's use
the same word for everything. It was smurf the smurf that. Well,
it's the same thing, skimmy skibbity that. You know, it's versatile.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
As far as I know, I got stuck on the
sick years ago when people start saying, oh, man, that's sick.
What's wrong with it? No, it's really good, So why
is it sick? So that's that's as far as my
vocab going.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
You fall out of touch pretty quickly.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Yeah, I don't even understand the sort of the point
of up the wires so don't even get me. I
still don't underst and what we say that. But that's
another thing. Hey, where can people find the podcast?
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Wherever you get your podcasts? iHeartRadio because I'm a company man,
But yeah, it's Ciena myself talking to inspirational females about
their life, getting advice for young people and their parents.
So amazing, people like Lucy law Less, the actor, Lisa Carrington, Eliza,
Eliza McCartney, Karen Walker. Amazing, these people have given their
time for nothing, just to inspire the next generation.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
How different is what you want to know compared to
what your daughter wants to ask them?
Speaker 4 (10:34):
Well, I'm actually getting a lot out of it, like
so much out of it, you know, I think at
any age, no matter if you want to go. I mean,
I don't think I'm going to become a fashion designer
like Karen Walker, but I'm still getting some great insight
to how she ran her business and how she approaches things.
So it's been really really enlightening. I think for everyone
can stand the project to do.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Can I just say I've spoken to being about his
daughter before. She has immense talent. She is very warm
and charismatic. She engages really well with the camera.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Oh my gosh, she's got Ris, she's got We have
been enough now now this.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
As a collector exactly.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Yeah, it's been lovely to have you on the show.
I'd love you to keep going. You just stay a
little bit longer, but h I need to move on.
Curious Sorry about that? Uh, Roman Trevors and Ben Boys.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
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