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July 23, 2024 • 41 mins
  • Matty reveals to PJ if her pick for 'Best Song Ever' is still in the running
  • Should you follow up with a friend if you had plans but haven't heard from them on the day?
  • Group Therapy: "Telling my son his grandad is not his biological grandad"
  • Sir Graham Henry & Tawera Nikau talk Match Fit S4!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Hits Drive with Meddi and PJ.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Thanks to Chimis were House the Real House of Fragrances.
Hi everyone, and welcome to the podcast. I hope you
are doing well as we gracefully fill.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
Mike's alive.

Speaker 3 (00:21):
I'm good, I'm good to go. I just I'm on
the show today. Remember I asked you if you thought
my friend was going to turn up.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
I haven't heard from Oh yes, are they going to
turn up?

Speaker 4 (00:29):
Just heard he's going to make it?

Speaker 1 (00:33):
What are you? Are you going to drink or dinner?

Speaker 4 (00:35):
No, this is actually this is actually for out my
other little Oh.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
You little your huss your little bit on the little.

Speaker 4 (00:45):
You're you're my wife. But yeah, I have a mistress.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
That's okay, that's okay, you guys.

Speaker 4 (00:51):
At she's a good root. She's a good root.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
Got mady.

Speaker 4 (00:58):
Sorry?

Speaker 1 (01:00):
Do you have.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
Do you any weird things that you have to do?
Like do you get superstitious of it or do you
ever have to do any like little ritually things or
like you have to wear special undies to have good luck?

Speaker 1 (01:15):
Nothing?

Speaker 4 (01:16):
Nothing? Do you?

Speaker 5 (01:18):
I mean.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
I don't want to wear stuff. I mean you could,
I could talk a day, but.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
I was do you have Do you have like do
you have socks or ones that you have to wear
or something?

Speaker 1 (01:29):
No? No, no, no, no, no no.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
But I just thought you might be one of those
kind of guys. No, I always thought you were a little.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
Bit more spiritual.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
Like I remember seeing you talk to Hannah Cruerra, who's
an astrologist, an astrologer, she was on the Breakfast Show
with you and I often talk to her. We're friends,
and I was like, oh my god, I didn't realize that.
That was the first time I was like, Wow, Maddie
is definitely not into.

Speaker 4 (01:56):
The world of war, not in the slightest.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
Was I love so shocked? Was I rude to her
though I didn't know. No, interesting, I just don't believe it.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
No, that's fine, and that's fine. Everyone should not everyone
should believe what they totally want to believe.

Speaker 3 (02:16):
And that's the thing that that's what I've always come
back to with like religion and stuff, is I'm like,
if you believe, like.

Speaker 4 (02:21):
Good for you. I would love.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
I would love to believe in something and greater.

Speaker 4 (02:29):
I just don't. And it makes me a little bit
sad that I don't.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
No, No, I think you do what what you just
got really deep really quick. But like your life experiences
lead to your beliefs, right, yeah, And so how.

Speaker 3 (02:45):
Did you so wo because you've got like, you've got
two brothers who are very like much not there.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
Well, actually one of them is quiet and spiritual. Yeah,
so I think my grandmother.

Speaker 4 (02:58):
The older one of them, one uh, the young one
yeah right.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
Okays, he's probably more so and then the other one
probably not so much, but there might be a little
bit there. But my grandmother always told us like ghost
stories and UFO stories. She had the most amazing yarns,
and like she'd always like say, well, when I was
in the UK, this happened and we saw this ghost

(03:23):
and blah blah blah, and then she tell me about
the UFO stories. So that kind of always opened my
mind up. And then I think, what was it? Either
it was some maybe when my grandmother got to Minia
or my dad got really un well. I then started
like looking, you know, I think I got to that
point where I was like, what else is out there?
And then I started dabbling and then I was like,
oh my god, this just feels right poor me, and

(03:46):
you know, it just gave me comfort.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
I guess at a time and then I just kind
of it back to that.

Speaker 4 (03:51):
I do hear the odd story that does.

Speaker 3 (03:54):
Make me go wow, like maybe there is something. Ryan
has a couple and Ryan is not this my hund.

Speaker 4 (04:01):
He's not. He's he's not at all spiritual.

Speaker 3 (04:04):
Quite black and white, very black and very black and white.
But he has a couple of stories from after his
mom passed that are just really like they coming from
herm especially, it's like, well, if you're saying it.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
Also, after my grandmother died, because she was very close
with me, we just had like these really crazy interactions
with ladybirds and like it was like she was sitting
us messages through ladybirds. And I know so many people
who have lost people that they.

Speaker 4 (04:34):
Do Rob Ryan's dragon flies.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
Yeah, So we enjoying my grandmother when she was in
her final hours at Crastian Ship or there was a
ladybird that sat on her head and it was like
like floors up and this concrete jungle was so random
that it just sat there right And then when she
passed afterwards, we just kept saying the lady but everywhere.
So my cousins were all together in London and she
was like really close with all of us, and they

(04:59):
looked onto the window sill soon after they found the
news there were two little ladybirds together. Wow, and my
cousin's wedding ladybird was sitting on my brother's shoulder. It's
just been a constant thing, so I think just a little things.

Speaker 3 (05:11):
Things like that, and it does make it gives me
pause for thoughts, you know. But I'm not I'm not like,
I'm not getting getting I'm not getting a Crystal's scared.

Speaker 2 (05:24):
I'm gonna give you a Crystal dildos. Sorry, that was apriate.
Have you ever heard about them?

Speaker 6 (05:32):
No?

Speaker 2 (05:34):
Oh yeah, anyway coming up in the coming up in
the podcast. No, I'm not giving them anyway, coming up
in the podcast, really great group therapy, sort of a
juicy one.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
This way, Can you not sorry?

Speaker 4 (05:50):
You go?

Speaker 1 (05:52):
Can you not escape your profession? We took your calls
on that.

Speaker 3 (05:56):
Plus, I'm just obsessed with the story about the Australia
Australia Australian Olympian. Australian Australian Australian Olympian.

Speaker 4 (06:04):
Wasn't there wild?

Speaker 1 (06:06):
That was amazing.

Speaker 3 (06:08):
Thing that the Australian hockey player has done to ensure
that he makes it to Paris.

Speaker 4 (06:13):
It's just crazy.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
Yeah, it's a great tale.

Speaker 2 (06:16):
So you can hear that, plus our chat with Sir Graham,
Henry and Tarbet and Nico to talk the new season
of Match Fit and so much more coming up of
the podcast.

Speaker 1 (06:26):
Enjoy the podcast.

Speaker 3 (06:32):
When we started this whole thing, we all got us
here at the station. Which song would we like to
get behind? Which one of we backing as the best
song ever? I went with Wannabe Spice Girls, such a
great song.

Speaker 1 (06:46):
Yeah, you got through.

Speaker 3 (06:48):
The next week, you chose one very there and Deadly
Heart Peach.

Speaker 1 (06:52):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (06:53):
I walked down the aisle to this song. It was
on Crawl Intentions soundtrack. It's just one of those songs
from the nineties. Is that when you hear the strings play,
you get taken back, You get taken back to a
different time. So that's why I chose the Verve but
a sweet symphony. Now I'm so really downing, I'm doubting

(07:18):
myself and I know so.

Speaker 1 (07:20):
I have kept the radio down all day.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
I've kept off social media because I didn't want to
know who won. I went head to hit with wagon
Wheel this morning.

Speaker 3 (07:37):
Poorly man, that's a tough match up, but we've seen
crazier things. You and I have been so sure that
certain songs are gonna like breeze through, and they've they've
been beaten by other songs.

Speaker 2 (07:49):
But we did a round of Battle of the Hurts
the other day and it was country songs and we
had Wagon Wheel up against another one and Wagon will
absolutely just just haste it like no one wanted anything asked,
but Wagon.

Speaker 4 (08:00):
Wagon were was en up against the verbs but a
sweet symphony.

Speaker 2 (08:03):
Just take me out of my misery. Who won this
morning at nine o'clock?

Speaker 3 (08:08):
At nine o'clock this morning? It was close. Oh it
was so really close. Sixty percent to forty percent, the
winner of the best song ever at nine o'clock this morning.

Speaker 1 (08:30):
Oh my god, don't do the Dom Bowden pause.

Speaker 4 (08:33):
It was Wagon.

Speaker 2 (08:33):
We yeah, fine, it's fine.

Speaker 4 (08:39):
I'm so sorry, it's fine.

Speaker 1 (08:42):
Fine, don't I don't choose my songs to people, please.

Speaker 4 (08:46):
We know we were pretty sure Wagon were always going
to win. I thought it was going to win by more.

Speaker 2 (08:51):
I must say, sixty forty is better than what to
expect that, so I'll take that.

Speaker 1 (08:55):
That has It's okay?

Speaker 4 (08:57):
Are you okay?

Speaker 1 (08:58):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (08:58):
No, I'm okay, thone's looking at it.

Speaker 3 (09:01):
Thank god you brought yourself that cookie from there.

Speaker 1 (09:06):
For the show.

Speaker 7 (09:09):
Mary and Mary and the podcast.

Speaker 2 (09:15):
So we've got a physio coming around for dinner one
night this week, which sounds kind of like so it's
actually the rugby team physio. So my husband, he's a
rugby player and he got injured and because he's quite
busy on the farm and stuff, I think one of
the only times he could get to come around was

(09:36):
for dinner. Does sound kind of strange in hindsight now
that I'm saying that out loud, So anyway.

Speaker 3 (09:43):
So it is a business call, but there's like a
social element to it as well.

Speaker 1 (09:47):
She's lovely.

Speaker 2 (09:48):
I've I've gone and had a message with her before actually,
so she's just coming round.

Speaker 1 (09:53):
I mean, she loves down the road. It's it's a
bit different in the country.

Speaker 2 (09:56):
We do things a bit different, you know, everyone comes
around for a cup of tea or lunch. It's quite
friendly like that. So she's coming round to really check
out his ankle and give it a good go some
night this week and she's coming for tea. My question
is if she's coming round to look out for his ankle.

Speaker 1 (10:18):
Do we think that.

Speaker 2 (10:19):
It's appropriate to get a little add on back and
shoulders on my.

Speaker 4 (10:26):
Behalf like a message, just.

Speaker 1 (10:30):
Like a cheeky ten to fifteen minutes.

Speaker 4 (10:33):
While you're eating dinner at the table.

Speaker 2 (10:36):
Once she's seen Bej, once she's I mean, she's already
coming over to look after Beage. So once she sort
of done her physical thing there, do you think it
would be rude to ask if she could just give
me a little message?

Speaker 3 (10:48):
Well, you've asked. What have you asked around for? Did
you ask you around for dinner or did you ask
you around to look after Bej?

Speaker 2 (10:55):
To be fair, I haven't been involved in the organization
of this. I will be quite a rogue stray at
the dinner dinner table. But I just thought, look, here's
an opportunity. I'm always at work. I'm always either looking
after my todd law at work. This is a chance
to get a check you a little message. But then the
poor girl, she's she must get this all the time.

(11:16):
Because I had a friend who was a phisio and
whenever we went out on the weekend, people will be like.

Speaker 4 (11:21):
Oh, can you just check my leg?

Speaker 2 (11:23):
I think I'd like pulled a muscle here or can
you just just give me a little lower back message?
And she was like, honestly, I can't escape being a Phisio.

Speaker 3 (11:32):
This poor woman is already giving up her night to
come and look after BJ's ankle.

Speaker 1 (11:37):
Yeah, but she's getting a meal.

Speaker 3 (11:41):
That's Do you think your cooking is good enough to
get a check up on the ankle and get a message.

Speaker 2 (11:51):
I'm being a little bit cheeky, but oh my god,
I just I'm such a sucker for a.

Speaker 1 (11:56):
Message, and I'm like, it would be so nice.

Speaker 2 (11:58):
But at the same time, I feel so sorry for
her because I beat you. She's one of those occupations.
She can't escape this. Wherever she goes, people will be like, okay,
just check out my still be.

Speaker 4 (12:09):
I think if she gets dinner and dessert maybe.

Speaker 2 (12:13):
And like a little maybe term service or like an
Africa make it fancy the alban lemonchello.

Speaker 4 (12:21):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (12:22):
I don't know why I'm offering all of these Italian
delicacies at my dinner.

Speaker 1 (12:26):
It's probably just gonna be a roast. But oh wait,
a hundred hats.

Speaker 2 (12:29):
Do you have one of these professions or occupations that
you can't escape, Like wherever you go, people hat you
up for advice with something to do with your profession.
Your mom she was, she is.

Speaker 4 (12:44):
She's a nurse.

Speaker 3 (12:44):
And if I go back through our text message conversation,
the amount of text A sent her, Hey mum, what
does this?

Speaker 4 (12:50):
What does this mean? Hey mum? Shall I get this
cheaped up? Hey mum? What's this thing on my leg?
Like so many messages like that?

Speaker 1 (12:57):
Are you in this possession? Oh waite?

Speaker 2 (12:59):
Hundred the hats? What occupation do you do and why
can't you escape it? What do people ask cheeky little
advice for get in touch. We've got some helpigs and
bouchets to give away on eight hundred of.

Speaker 7 (13:09):
Hat Many in the podcast.

Speaker 2 (13:14):
We're talking about occupations that you can't escape. I was
being a little bit cheeky, like I don't intend on
properly following through. But we've got a Fizzio coming for
dinner one night this week to see my husband's injured
inkle and him as well, and I just thought maybe
I could make the most of the time and ask
for a cheeky little animal shoulder up, shoulder up, and

(13:37):
to give me thinking. So I've got a friend who's
a Fizzio who used to get this all the time.
Where ever should go, people would ask, oh, can you
just give me a little little Achilles rub I think I've.

Speaker 3 (13:47):
Done my muscle Ryan, my husband gets it all the time.
And real estate, of course, asking for advice on is
it the best time to sell? How much is my
house worth? All the rest of it.

Speaker 2 (13:58):
Yeah, and you end up doing so much free work
out of the goodness of your heart. Alice's got alistair
on a one hundred the hair Alistair.

Speaker 3 (14:05):
What do you do for a livangkat Guys, I'm a
dog trainer.

Speaker 8 (14:09):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 (14:12):
Okay, And so what happens?

Speaker 8 (14:14):
Oh, so what happens? Really? Basically, you know, plenty of
people know what I do for a living when they
see me at bart and they're always saying, hey, how
I've got this dog and it's it's ears a painted honor.
It's got no ears or chees or its digs or
it pulls on the lead. And I was thinking, oh geez,
here we go. And some of these these questions aren't
just a twenty second answer. You know, you could sit

(14:36):
and talk all evening about it.

Speaker 1 (14:39):
Do you even feel alistair?

Speaker 2 (14:40):
If it does take up a substantial amount of time
that you could start charging after, you know, fifteen minutes
or so.

Speaker 8 (14:48):
Well, what's when I try and do? When I go
and I'm meeting you person, I say, oh, what do
you do? And I said, I'm a people trainer, and
they go people trainer and I said, well, I kind
of train people to train their dogs. And then by time, yeah,
they kind of. No, I would never know. I just
I'm happy to I'll try and give him a quick
answer for them. Otherwise I'll say, just take book an
appointment and uh and get'll get out of it that way.

Speaker 4 (15:09):
Nice.

Speaker 3 (15:09):
Well, Ali, if you wouldn't mind staying on the line,
I've got a couple of questions about my dog.

Speaker 4 (15:14):
I'll ask you in the air brak.

Speaker 1 (15:15):
No worries, buddy, we've got those text here.

Speaker 2 (15:18):
I work at an adult still the amount of people,
but tell me about the intimate lives and ask advice
or about all the things they're into. I sell the
stuff I don't want to know about it. And now
just tell overdrivers that I work at a closed store,
and I say the name of up here and company
this one as well.

Speaker 4 (15:33):
I'm a cop.

Speaker 3 (15:33):
Everywhere I bloody go in or out of uniform, people
ask advice or for my better work stores.

Speaker 1 (15:40):
Oh my god, that we paid the podcast.

Speaker 3 (15:45):
I was just looking at Ben Voye's Instagram page being
from the Johonno Wan Being Breakfast show here on the hits.
He's stranded in America at the moment.

Speaker 1 (15:54):
Is he still stranders?

Speaker 3 (15:55):
Yeah, Well, it looks like they're about to get on
a flight home finally. But they were meant to be home.
They were meant to be home over the weekend.

Speaker 2 (16:02):
So this was because of the bigger outage on Friday,
correct that affected like banks and airports and stuff.

Speaker 3 (16:09):
Wow, so it looks like he's about to get on
a flight, But I was just watching his Instagram story
and he was. They were very very they were very
concerned that their luggage wasn't going to be waiting for
the mid Auckland airport when they touched down. Oh because
just because of all of the all of the issues
that have gone on, Like they just thought the likelihood
of our bags actually making it home alone point And

(16:30):
there's nothing worse than that fear of not having luggage.
Have you ever lost a bag like eline even not
turned up with your bag.

Speaker 2 (16:39):
I don't think so, but I've had quite a few
moments where it's taken ages and I've looked quite dodgy,
probably because I've started pacing and biting my nails and
like walking up and down beside that like little travelator
thing or whatever it is going around. I'm like, oh
my god, where is it? And then you start thinking

(17:00):
has it been taken? Have I got something in there?

Speaker 1 (17:02):
What have I done? I legal, but no, I've never
actually lost about it.

Speaker 4 (17:05):
There's nothing worse than it.

Speaker 3 (17:06):
Like, what an annoying thing to happen, But most of
us just kind of get on with get on with it.
Maybe we'd write a complaint to the airline. But one
man got so annoyed that his girlfriend's luggage went missing
that he has created an entire website dedicated to tracking
the different airlines around the world and how bad they

(17:27):
are at losing their luggage. It's called luggage Looses dot
com and it scours social media like these computer robots
basically scourur social media to break down the difference in
the airlines and how bad they are at losing your luggage.
Shall they tell you some of the worst airlines.

Speaker 1 (17:46):
To any to any New Zealand airlines make it.

Speaker 3 (17:51):
They make it to the list, but not to the worst.
This is goes through the best and the worst. A
number one at the moment, and it can change depending
on how you know how things go. I bury it
the Spanish airline. Apparently there's a one in ten probability
that they will lose your luggage. Yeah, India comes in

(18:11):
at number two. West Jet from Canada comes in at
number three, and then you go all the way down
to the bottom. Number seventy seven out of ninety four
is little Oldie in New Zealand with a one one
hundred and five percent chance that they will lose your luggage.

Speaker 1 (18:27):
That's our girl, that's our girl rapping us. Well.

Speaker 2 (18:30):
I just love the pettiness of this guy. He's obviously
had a bad experience. He's like, right, you want to
do me over? I agree, Guy.

Speaker 7 (18:41):
Maddy and PJ Maddy in PJ the Podcast that.

Speaker 3 (18:46):
I have a question for you. I'm I'm catching up
with a friend tonight. Well, I'm meant to be catching
up with a friend tonight and we have these plans.
But I have messaged him today because he does have
he does have a track record of not necessarily remembering,
and I've messaged him today to say, are we still
on for this thing? And he has not replied.

Speaker 1 (19:10):
Has he been online?

Speaker 4 (19:12):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (19:14):
I'm not sure what is all could when they're blatantly
online and they haven't gone into your message and you
know that it's popped up on their.

Speaker 3 (19:20):
Phone, I don't think No, I don't think he's seen
it because the blue techs haven't appeared on What's so?
My question is do I do I just carry on
as per usual and expect him to turn up, or
do I take it as a sign that he's not coming?

Speaker 1 (19:34):
And if I haven't heard from it, what are we
talking about? How high is the dropout?

Speaker 8 (19:37):
Right?

Speaker 1 (19:38):
Previously not high high?

Speaker 4 (19:40):
But he it has happened before.

Speaker 2 (19:43):
I would expect like go into it. It's only fear
to expect the best out of her, benefit of the doubt,
give him benefit to art. What time is it meant
to happen?

Speaker 1 (19:55):
How many ares.

Speaker 3 (19:56):
It's meant to happen? Just after we finished the show? Literally,
like I'll finish the show and then.

Speaker 4 (20:00):
Go meet them.

Speaker 2 (20:02):
I mean, what the worst case scenario? You're at the
bar having a drink by yourself.

Speaker 4 (20:06):
This is true, you know, to the bar, get ready
to drink alone.

Speaker 1 (20:12):
Yeah, hope for the best, expect the worst.

Speaker 4 (20:15):
Take a book.

Speaker 9 (20:18):
Many in PJ the podcast's Many and PJS group therapy.

Speaker 2 (20:27):
Put your feet up. It's time to take a collective
breath together. This is where you get to tell us
your problems, if there's anything going on in your life
right now.

Speaker 1 (20:36):
Judgment aside.

Speaker 2 (20:37):
This is a judgment free zone, so you can tell
us what's going on at the hits, dot co dot zs.

Speaker 3 (20:43):
They can they can be big and they can also
just be really trivial.

Speaker 4 (20:47):
Just something We're like, Man, I just would love a
second opinion.

Speaker 1 (20:50):
On this, Like maybe not just like should we do
roast lamwater? Maybe a bit more than that.

Speaker 2 (20:55):
But yeah, we're open to serious to less serious issues.
This week, I will say, is on the heavier end
of things. Hey, Many, MPJ, I hope your work is
going well. My question is a bit heavy for you guys,
but go with me. I never told my son that
my dad is not my biological dad. Reason for this

(21:17):
being that my dad is quite a difficult person. But
now as the years go by, I worry that my
son won't forgive me or ever trust me again if
he finds out he is twenty four. Do you think
I should tell him, or how will he react if
he finds out another way? Thoughts, comments, queries.

Speaker 3 (21:37):
So this twenty four year old thinks that his grandfather
is this biological grandfather, Yes, he's not.

Speaker 1 (21:45):
He's not, So maybe there's an adoption or something like that.
We don't know the specifics.

Speaker 3 (21:50):
Okay, that's a really hard one because if the if
there's a difficult relationship already, you're almost wondering what's going.

Speaker 4 (21:57):
To be gained from that knowledge. What's going to be.

Speaker 3 (22:00):
Gained from this twenty four year old knowing that his
grandfather is not his biological grandfather.

Speaker 2 (22:06):
That's true, But on the other end of the spectrum,
if he does find out that is going to make
things really tricky between him and his mum.

Speaker 1 (22:14):
Why did you not tell me?

Speaker 4 (22:15):
My first instinct is always we'll just tell the truth,
just be honest.

Speaker 1 (22:21):
Be honest.

Speaker 3 (22:24):
But then I do wonder, you know, sometimes I just
think sleeping dog's life, there's not if there's not a
real if there's not a major reason to come clean
at this point in time, other than you do worry
that he might find out another way. I think, is
there anything to be really gained from coming forward with
that information.

Speaker 2 (22:44):
Yeah, it's not like he's estranged, it's like he's still
got a relationship, yeah, with this person.

Speaker 1 (22:49):
But is he entitled to know the truth? I get
like I guess he is.

Speaker 3 (22:54):
But also biological or not this this man is still
his grandfather. You know, biology doesn't mean everything.

Speaker 2 (23:02):
Oh, eight hundred of the hits. We would love to
know your thoughts on this. Should the mother tell her
son that her father, who is her son's grandfather, is
not her biological dad? Or do you think just keep
things going and you know, it's kind of irrelevant in
the grand scheme of things. Love to know your thoughts. Oh,
eight hundred hats. We'll open up our phone lines so

(23:22):
you can text four for eight seven. We've got some
helpizza batches to give away. I'm just always of honesty
is the best policy as well. I think don't get
it do it because if he finds out some other
way then it could just get really messy. That's my
initial reaction to it, So let us know what yours is.
On this week's group therapy.

Speaker 9 (23:41):
Maddie and PJ the podcast The Heads Many and Pj's
Group Therapy.

Speaker 2 (23:47):
Okay, this week's one is interesting Hey, Maddie and PJ.
My questions about heavier for you guys, but go with me.
I never told my son that my dad is not
my biological dad, for those being that my dad's quite
a difficult person. But now as the years go by,
I worry that my son won't forgive me or even
trust me again if he finds out he's twenty four.

(24:10):
Should I tell him or how will he react if
he finds out another way?

Speaker 3 (24:16):
I'm so torn because on the one hand, I just think,
tell the truth, be honest, I know, But also if
nothing is to be really gained, you know, is there
any real benefit to telling him now?

Speaker 4 (24:30):
After all this time?

Speaker 2 (24:32):
There's some really good texts coming through On four four
eighty seven. I have a stepdad, and honestly I call
him my dad. He raised me and is better than
my biological dad. But I think, just be honest. If
there's no relationship with the biological dad, then he's no
real point. If you see your non biological dad as
a father figure, that's all you need, which is an
interesting point. At Lea's go to the phones, Bethany is
joining us on oh eight hundred has hi, Bethany, Hi,

(24:55):
How's it going good, very.

Speaker 1 (24:57):
Well, good.

Speaker 4 (25:00):
What do you reckon? Be for me?

Speaker 10 (25:03):
So I think to ear it out tell the truth.

Speaker 11 (25:07):
Obviously it's something that she's holding on to, like she
always feels like she.

Speaker 6 (25:11):
Needs to get off their chairs, which is why she
put it up.

Speaker 10 (25:15):
But I also think solidify the faith that you know,
even though there's no blood relation there, you.

Speaker 1 (25:21):
Know they're still family totally.

Speaker 11 (25:23):
Of any least family, and you know they're part of
their life and that nothing changes because of it.

Speaker 1 (25:28):
It's yeah, yeah, yeah, that's good point.

Speaker 4 (25:31):
There's a really good point.

Speaker 2 (25:33):
I also like this message. I guess the only reason
he would need to know he be for medical history.
But also he's twenty four now, so technically an adult
and will probably understand his mum's reasons for not telling him.
Maybe wake the sleeping dog gently instead of letting it lie,
so to speak.

Speaker 3 (25:47):
Someone else said, if you feel like you need to
tell him, then it just emphasized the point that Popper
or grandad or whatever is a title that has earned
rather than expected.

Speaker 1 (25:58):
You know, Telly, I know how to the hats. What
do you reckon?

Speaker 5 (26:02):
Hi?

Speaker 11 (26:02):
Guys? How are you?

Speaker 4 (26:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (26:04):
Very well, yeah, I just I'm.

Speaker 11 (26:07):
Not of the opinion of most people. I think I
think the best thing to do is tell the truth.
Dispitterity hearings directly from the horses now sort of speak
rather than hear it and some family squabble somewhere that's
going to hurt more. And I do agree. Also, he's
a young adult and he's going to be able to
take that on, you know, take that and and to
be honest, it doesn't matter who reasones you biological or not.

(26:30):
It's what you've become later on in life that mattered totally.

Speaker 2 (26:34):
That's so true from you telling us. Thank you very
much for that. Also, great message coming through here. He
needs to know he might make a nice girl and
find out she's a cousin New Zealand. Thank you so
much for all your feedback.

Speaker 1 (26:50):
That's some one I think, to be honest, probably the over.

Speaker 7 (26:57):
Maddy j and the podcast and.

Speaker 1 (27:02):
The award winning format.

Speaker 2 (27:04):
Match Fat is going to be returning to three Down
and three tomorrow night at seven pm and a mighty
clash of the codes for Union Verse League. This is
going to be Match Fit season four and to talk
more about it, we have legendary coach Sir Graham Henry
and Kill We great, Tawatanico, Thank you so much for
popping into the studio.

Speaker 6 (27:22):
Awesome to be here. Thanks.

Speaker 4 (27:24):
I told her she had to be so excited next week,
I told her, I.

Speaker 3 (27:30):
Told her she had to curtsy for you because she's
never been in the presence of a serve before.

Speaker 12 (27:34):
Cool thing.

Speaker 1 (27:36):
So can you do? Do you want me to do
a curtsy?

Speaker 12 (27:39):
Embarrassing?

Speaker 2 (27:41):
Now, you guys, we're not here to do our best curtsy.
We're actually here to talk to you about the latest
season of Match Fat Union vers League. How fun was
it filming this season?

Speaker 6 (27:53):
Oh, it was a lot of fun. It was great
to see the boys, something that hadn't seen for many,
many years, and some of them were out of shape,
but really great to see them and more importantly, the
message and the story that they gave over during the series.

Speaker 4 (28:05):
Who have you got lined up this year?

Speaker 12 (28:07):
Well, from a rugby point of view, Peter out of
Tiny Perry Whippoo, Frank Bunt sees in his sixties, he's
older than me. Comrades Carlos Spencer, Paul Miller and if
he said to.

Speaker 6 (28:22):
The leagues with Ali Lao, Titi, Leslie, Vy Nicolo, Clinton, Torpi,
Louis Anderson Paul Fatua. So, yes, some really good players,
players that have played NRL level tests for level shaping
up to be a fantastic series.

Speaker 1 (28:36):
So this is really amazing.

Speaker 2 (28:38):
So you put these guys back through their paces, not
just physically but mentally, would you say the mental side
of things is what breaks them the most.

Speaker 12 (28:47):
I think, you know, they needed to start off slow,
otherwise they could have blown themselves apart and wouldn't be
part of the series at all. So that mental control
was importantly. I was amazed. Actually, they were really superb.
They got better and better. The connection between the two
groups was outstanding. A lot of empathy, a lot of

(29:08):
respect for each other. They were competitive, Yeah, hugely competitive.

Speaker 4 (29:12):
That's what I was going to ask. Still got it?
You know do they do?

Speaker 1 (29:15):
You see them still go like HARKing.

Speaker 3 (29:18):
Back to that that athlete, that professional athlete that they
once were.

Speaker 6 (29:22):
Yeah, definitely, Mattie. I think you know, one of the
things when you've played at the highest level, when you've
been an All Black, when you've played for the Kiwi's
played in the NRL, you never lose that competitive spirit.

Speaker 2 (29:31):
Yeah, there must be some frustration not having that physical
capacity that they did when they were at the top
of their game. I'm sure that comes through a lot
on the show, does it, you know, just not being
able to quite hit the mark.

Speaker 1 (29:42):
But they used to.

Speaker 12 (29:44):
Actually, they their heads are pretty good, they know what
they want to do. The school level is not bad.
It's just that the Karen twenty kiros they didn't have
twenty years ago, you know, so you know that was
that was that was a struggle for them.

Speaker 6 (29:58):
And some of the frustration that their head with themselves,
you know, not being able to do what they did,
that comes out in the show. So it can be
quite challenging or volatile too. For the boys.

Speaker 3 (30:08):
Sometimes some of them are carrying a few weeks of kicks.
But I've seen Carlos beIN so he still looks exactly.

Speaker 12 (30:14):
And there's one or two who are okay. And I
think the big message here, if you're going to do
these things, and you need to do these things otherwise
you'll die, you need to do these things with others
and with your mates so you don't feel you're going
to let your mates down. So that not letting your
mates down is a huge incentive.

Speaker 2 (30:34):
I often do think about the aftermath of the fame
and that, you know, real high intensity life that they
do have at the top of their game in these teams,
and then what it's like, you know, years after when
you've just got to go back to normal life. Like
did they dive into that quite a bit? And I
suppose they would have shared the same feeling.

Speaker 12 (30:52):
Well, we haven't seen the program. We haven't seen the program.
The they talked about their men to their mental fitness
as well as their physical fitness and the transition from
being a professional athlete to being a normal person, if
that makes sense, And I think that's really difficult.

Speaker 6 (31:12):
Well you, you and Maddie must know about that. You
guys are famous, and how do you guys find the transition?

Speaker 5 (31:17):
And mad.

Speaker 1 (31:20):
Quite the same?

Speaker 2 (31:24):
Hey, look, it's so nice to have you guys on
this afternoon. We can't wait to watch Match Fat Unionverse League.
It's on TV three tomorrow night at seven pm. Really
appreciate you guys coming in.

Speaker 6 (31:35):
Well, thanks for having us, PJ, Maddy and don't forget
TV three and it's streaming on three now, so don't
forget to watch your guys six weeks. Enjoy yourself. Very
good and great to be here. Thanks for having me.

Speaker 4 (31:46):
Thank you for having.

Speaker 7 (31:49):
Maddy and PJ Madi and PJ the podcast.

Speaker 3 (31:54):
My poor friends, they're going to get sick of me
soon because every time something happens, like someone does something
or says something at the moment.

Speaker 4 (32:03):
I'm always like, oh, that'll make good, that will make.

Speaker 1 (32:07):
You become that friend.

Speaker 2 (32:08):
And then they'll start being really wary of telling you
all of their humiliating stuff.

Speaker 4 (32:11):
I know Ryan's and you have to like.

Speaker 1 (32:13):
Pretend that they can trust you again.

Speaker 3 (32:15):
Yeah, until you've screwed them over. Ryan says, this is
not for radio now. Yeah, that's good.

Speaker 2 (32:26):
It's important to ascertain the bound totally.

Speaker 3 (32:30):
But this one I think is free safe, Yeah, free
for all. We were out for dinner and we went
to this b Yo restaurant really nice, like Tirish.

Speaker 4 (32:42):
I got the drunken noodles. You and I were talking
about what to get.

Speaker 1 (32:45):
Yes, I don't.

Speaker 2 (32:46):
Forget the pad key Marle or the pad cu And
apparently that's also a drunken noodles.

Speaker 1 (32:51):
So that's the other name for it.

Speaker 3 (32:52):
It was so good and we were all sitting around
the table just chatting and one of my friends was
trying to get maybe a sweet sauce out of like
a bottle onto his food and he was like shaking
it and nothing was coming out. She was like, oh
my god, it must be empty. So he went to
the person like the way there and said, can I

(33:12):
just get some more sweet sauce? When it came over
and went like this, it just flicked the cap off
and was like, it's not empty.

Speaker 4 (33:21):
You just had the lid on the wold time?

Speaker 1 (33:25):
Did he just go and leave? The establishment die?

Speaker 8 (33:27):
In my mind?

Speaker 3 (33:28):
And I just all correct up laughing, and I was like,
this is going to make great radio.

Speaker 1 (33:35):
Do you know what that reminds me of the moment?

Speaker 2 (33:39):
And I think we were nearly eight weeks into the
show earlier in the year, and it was still like
quite warm. It was still quite warm, and so the
Yukon I like to try and put it on every day. However,
I was having some quiet serious issues really, and.

Speaker 4 (33:56):
You were getting quite frustrated with it as well.

Speaker 2 (33:59):
I would say, David Pja and she doesn't head.

Speaker 3 (34:03):
It doesn't happen off them, but yeah, boy, she came
out that day.

Speaker 2 (34:06):
It was about two thirty and we were getting ready
to start the show, and I started making calls to
our bosses, not just one but two, and I said,
who was in charge of the air conditioning around here?

Speaker 1 (34:18):
Who do I need to get in touch? And because
I just cldn't.

Speaker 4 (34:22):
One, they see someone.

Speaker 2 (34:24):
They even got in touch because I am something based
in the one another and they even seen a lot
of cool air conditioning expert to come in and check
out what was wrong because I just couldn't get it
cool and it felt like I was in a hot Boxauner.
Turns out all I needed to do was push mode
the mode the mode button.

Speaker 1 (34:42):
That was it. That was it.

Speaker 2 (34:44):
And he came in and he goes, so what you
want to do is just push this button here? Do
you want me to write like a sticker underneath it,
just so you don't.

Speaker 4 (34:53):
That's the key.

Speaker 3 (34:54):
That is as bad as just to like not knowing
where they're on and off switches on your computer.

Speaker 2 (34:59):
Hey guys, we' there, We're all human. Shall we ask
the question this evening? When did you humiliate yourself with
a simple mistake?

Speaker 1 (35:09):
Yes, super simple, super simple, no shame.

Speaker 2 (35:13):
On the show Oh eight hundred the hats you can
text for for eight seven the podcast, we're asking the question,
what did you embarrass yourself with a simple mistake?

Speaker 3 (35:26):
My friend at the Bao dinner was went to the
waiter to ask for a new bottle of swap because
he was realized there was nothing in it. He was
shaking it and nothing was coming out, and then the
waiter very politely had to tell him that the lid.

Speaker 5 (35:38):
Was just on.

Speaker 1 (35:40):
Sheryl on eight hundred. The hats what happened to you?

Speaker 10 (35:45):
Hey, guys, I had the switch for my guests don't
stop working, so for a couple of months, I was
using my barbecue later and how my husband was growling
at me why I hadn't called the Sparkyan to get
it fixed. And you know, we looked everywhere, pulled out
the strege, looked at the switchbox, finally got the Starky
there and he literally slipped a switch on the wall

(36:06):
beside the store.

Speaker 2 (36:08):
No, no, I know the exact one you're talking about, Sheryl.

Speaker 10 (36:14):
I swear we checked it, but I don't know. He
came at work.

Speaker 1 (36:19):
Oh that was amazing. You can text four for eight seven,
someone said, I used to. We can. I tell you.

Speaker 2 (36:24):
The most common question we got was the camera on
the laptop coming up black on their video. Turns out
they just needed to slight the camera cover to activate
the camera.

Speaker 1 (36:33):
I actually hit this problem in the year to make
really human.

Speaker 3 (36:39):
We are on gas at our house and today I
changed the gas bottle and there's like a hose that
you I needed to attach.

Speaker 4 (36:47):
And I just could not attach it.

Speaker 3 (36:49):
So a video called Ryan, my husband, but I can't
it's not going and he was like, you're turning it
the wrong one.

Speaker 4 (36:57):
On many.

Speaker 2 (37:00):
Go to Calvin hundred the heads. Calvin, what happened with you?

Speaker 1 (37:04):
Matte?

Speaker 10 (37:05):
So?

Speaker 5 (37:06):
How are you guys?

Speaker 8 (37:07):
Anyway?

Speaker 1 (37:07):
Good?

Speaker 4 (37:08):
Thank you, very rastic you.

Speaker 5 (37:10):
Yeah, my wife me panicking. She was out the warehouse
in town and I couldn't get a cart, didn't know
what was going, Sorry to right to get to her,
and she was using your freaking house key to try
a starting tower.

Speaker 1 (37:28):
Are you Cada?

Speaker 4 (37:29):
How far did you have to drive? Calvin?

Speaker 2 (37:33):
No, it's nearly divorced material open. What about this one?
On the tips machine? I asked if I could use
the toilet at a service station. The man behind the
counterpassed me a large bottle. I went red and seid
something along the lines I don't worry, I'll.

Speaker 1 (37:47):
Just hold her.

Speaker 2 (37:48):
He looked at me weirdly and then left in his
hand showing the key attach.

Speaker 7 (37:53):
That is so good the podcast.

Speaker 4 (38:00):
Peage Thoughts, Feelings, Opinions.

Speaker 2 (38:03):
I think gorgeous creatures would be absolutely terrified if I
came with in a type space within a short space.
But I do believe that the ocean is the is
and we need to respect that.

Speaker 4 (38:14):
Sure, here's a fun fact about me. I've been swimming
with sharks.

Speaker 2 (38:17):
Before, like like, not just inside a cage.

Speaker 4 (38:21):
Loosely, yeah, loosely. Yeah, I went diving.

Speaker 3 (38:24):
I got my diver's license and I went diving with
sharks in Fiji.

Speaker 1 (38:29):
You're actually quite brave.

Speaker 2 (38:31):
Actually, the things that you have done you wouldn't think
on the exterior always, but inside you're a tough little cookie.

Speaker 3 (38:38):
You think I'm a soft boy, don't you.

Speaker 2 (38:40):
No, no, I didn't say that. But like you won
Celebrity Trees Aure Island. No, no, just initially when meeting
you you might freak out and be like oh, but
then you go and win Celebrity Treesure Island, which obviously
takes a lot of grit.

Speaker 1 (38:56):
So you continue to surprise me day and day out.

Speaker 4 (38:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (38:58):
I mean, look, I'm not an idiot. I'm very aware
of the fact that sharks can be terrifying, but I'm not.
They don't bother me too much. My husband Ryan won't
go in the.

Speaker 4 (39:08):
Ocean because of sharks. Wow, I hate them, hates them,
hates them. But it's really interesting.

Speaker 3 (39:14):
Story about sharks off the coast of Brazil because of
course South America, and I don't want a stereotype here,
but is off it is often where a lot of
like drug cartels are found. Ah see, so when drugs
get like shipped off the coast right, sometimes they end

(39:34):
up dumping them in the in the in the ocean.

Speaker 1 (39:37):
And the sharks getting high.

Speaker 3 (39:39):
Yeah, So people have long thought that maybe like marine
life might be affected. They've done a test on thirteen sharks,
thirteen Brazilian sharp nose sharks that were brought in from
small fishing vessels, and they found that all thirty sharks

(40:01):
were positive for cocaine.

Speaker 1 (40:03):
Oh, oh my god.

Speaker 3 (40:05):
That's actually really it is said. I mean, it's not
why they know, they have no choice, that's not necessarily
why they died. But yeah, they did have traces of it,
where a concentration as much as one hundred times higher
than previously reported.

Speaker 4 (40:19):
For other aquatic creatures.

Speaker 3 (40:22):
It's the first study to find the presidents of presence
of cocaine and free range sharks and found the substance
was more prevalent in muscle tissue than in the sharks
live it.

Speaker 2 (40:33):
And it was this like an ongoing study, is this
like quite regulars?

Speaker 4 (40:36):
This is one.

Speaker 3 (40:37):
Weary new but the like recent field of research is
very limited, so they don't even know what kind of
an impact it would have. But you've got to think,
I mean, sharks do from.

Speaker 2 (40:47):
Wonders about I do often wonder even about like rivers
in the city with fish going through and there might
be like a high you know, drug intake around the area.

Speaker 3 (40:57):
You do wonder you think about how for erocious sharks
already are.

Speaker 4 (41:04):
A little bit of cocaine in them. God, get out
of out of the water.

Speaker 2 (41:10):
Yeah, you would not get out, that's for sure, especially
with those big noses.

Speaker 1 (41:15):
Sorry, that was inappropriate.

Speaker 7 (41:16):
Many and PJ the podcast. That's
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