October 18, 2024 • 35 mins
- Matty MC’d a corporate event and he pulled a PJ
- Rekindling with a high school bully?
- When did you catch a baddy in the act?
- Should PJ buy a second-hand mattress
- We chat with with AIi Williams from Auckland FC!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Hits Drive with May and Paja thanks to chimis
Wee House the Real House of Fragrances.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Many and.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Hi, Welcome to the podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
How are you feeling after a very failled social calendar
this week?
Speaker 4 (00:19):
I'm feeling good, but I think I might crash out tonight.
But then I've got to I'm going out to bloody
Northland this weekend. I say, bloody, going to Northland this weekend,
which is going to be very fun.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
And it's going to be very fun, and you bring
on some friends.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Last monner so I got I got offered a lovely
little spice smart must be nice, gifted experience up to
Northland and they said take any when you want. Well,
my god, it was impossible to find someone to go
with me. I have so many people, so mini friends.
(00:50):
I think it's just that time of year, so many
people were busy. I'm also at the age where lots
of my friends have kids, and it's not like I can't
just like leave the kids out.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Hey, guys, what are you doing this weekend?
Speaker 4 (00:59):
Yeah, but I managed to find a couple of people,
so they're going to come with me. Two of my
friends are going to come with me.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
But there, your husband's really good friends.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
Well one of them, one of them is my husband's
really good friend, and then it's his partner.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
So it's like.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
I feel like your he's going to get a little
jealous abstink.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
He might end up driving on he's going.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
To be furious with me. But he's got a Halloween
party to go to tomorrow night, so he's sorted. He's fine.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Yeah, but he's got this massive swim tomorrow that you're
making a fuss over. I think you should make a
fuss over it and make a big size.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
So he's doing the harbor crossing. He's doing that.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
It's amazing how many cases at.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Three point three from the north Shore over to the
city center in Auckland. And what does he weird?
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Does he?
Speaker 4 (01:45):
We're a week Yeah, we suit, yeah, we suit, cap
and goggles. Oh man gets me going.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
You don't mind it, really, I'm wonder. It's kind of
hot to bend, so it's on, but it wein. He
can be pretty sicky.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
It's actually it's a real theme for him tomorrow because
he's wearing the wet suit in the morning to do
the swim, and then Saturday evening is the Halloween party
and he is going as the French pole vaulter from
the twenty twenty four Olympics. That God has.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Bigger write yourself Ryan on the pole. So is he
going to stuff his pads?
Speaker 4 (02:24):
I think he might.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
He just was, he got his own.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
I haven't actually gone into the nitty nitty decade with him.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Then you have to wear like a Spandex.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Yeah, he's wearing span dis Yeah, brave, it is so brave.
I think he's taking track.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
There's going to be so many gigs. Oh no, go oh,
you've put a song down there and.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
X.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Yeah. I think he's taking a trick like tracksuit pants,
so that he can, you know, yeah, cover up, cover
up from time to time.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Do you reckon anyone else will do that? That's just
choked on my spec you know.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
So uncle, it's a good it's a good costume though, right,
so it might be quite popular, right yeah?
Speaker 5 (03:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Or the Stanley Cup is you talked about.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Earlier this year?
Speaker 4 (03:18):
What was it that sixy oh zimpic pin? I didn't
I didn't get the sixy pin, you know, but you
know you, I know what it's like, almost like an
ipie pinky made a costume that's like a sixy version of.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
You mean, like you know you like pharmaceutical beats. I
thought it was like it's like, okay, we're on a
real for the string here' how.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
You know how they just do anything sixy these days?
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's going to be fun.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
What are you doing this weekend?
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Well, it's the Whole Cup on tomorrow, is it?
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:07):
And Bej's like, you've got to take Charlie. He's gonna win.
I think there's like kids events and stuff. I don't know,
there's a whole series of things. I've been so bad
at getting in touch. BJ earlier in the week was like,
pol I need to know are you going to the
Whole Cup? And I was like what, Because there's the
Bloodyhole Cup, There's the Melbourne Cup at the Hole coming up.
Then there's like another whole event. There's so much on
the calendar at this time of year. Then we've got
(04:28):
the Ladies Lunch early December for the community. Let's just
choker block with events coming up and I can't keep.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Up fun though. I mean, this is what sparked our
hallball earlier was all the talking about the events.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Be horizontal, but it'll be fun. It will be fun.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
But coming up on the show today, we talked about
high school reunions. What was the juice from your reunion?
No funny, no money made a return? And Maddie, what
was the final thing that you want to teach?
Speaker 4 (04:57):
We wanted to know. I saw some great secure camera
footage of someone chasing after some burglars with a bat
and I wanted to know, have you ever called a
baddy in the act?
Speaker 3 (05:07):
I love calling them with Betty?
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Have you caught a battye? All that and more coming
up on the podcast Enjoy.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
By Mandy and PJ.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
The podcast, Oh that was a brilliant conversation to witness.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
I wish I was filming that.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
So we've got producer Dylan filagam for producer Siah at
the moment, A serious the way sir and we were
just listening to the news there and the cricket obviously
the cricket news came up and then he Dylan, who
many go oh? And then Dylan was like, how good
was that last night? And I was like, Dylan, you
(05:43):
know that there is literally zero sport.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
So two things were happening simultaneously. Dylan was listening to
the sports newson getting very excited about the cricket and
I excited.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
To have a mate to bandwell.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Police and all I was thinking about because I never
listened to the sports news bleiss. I was thinking about
the fact that I'd put a can of drink and
the fridge yesterday, knowing full well i'd want it today.
So I got excited about the can of drink and
the fridge.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
The heads medi and PJ the podcast.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
You've had a big day doing.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Yes, I was seeing a conference for corporate, like a
corporate event and don't want too much talking already, which
does not well considering we have a four hour radio show. No,
I'm fine, I'm fine, I'm fine, I've had a coffee.
I'm good. But yes, I had to get up early
(06:38):
this morning and drive out to this headquarters to tom
this conference, and so I thought, I'll dress up nicely.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
You've been dressing up nicely every day.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Yeah, today and you Metty has emerged from the holidays.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
I know.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
I came away from the holidays thinking I'm going to
put a little bit more. You fit into my walldrobe
and you have thank you today, I've gone extra special.
I wouldn't normally wear a suit to the radio show,
but I wore this.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
You need to go out to dinner after that.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
True, Yeah, like a cocktail event or something. Yeah, but
I thought i'd put a suit on for the sim
sing gig that I'm doing. And I drove myself out
to the event this morning, quite nice and early. But
I got myself on the way a coffee and like
a bacon and egg roll.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Oh like, okay, what have we got on there? Like
a little tomato relish, like a barbecue.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Sauce, barb sauce.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Nice, okay, egg but a spinach bacon?
Speaker 4 (07:34):
No spinach? No a little bit of cheese?
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Oh yeah nice?
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Yeah toasted? You need the right amount totally. So I
drove out to the event and picked it up on
the way, and then I got to the event with
a little bit of time to kill, so I thought
I'll eat it in my car. But I stupidly decided
to wear a white T shirt underneath my underneath my
(07:58):
suit today. Cute little white tea shirt.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Still you're still wearing the white T shirt.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Well, I'm wearing a white T shirt, but I have
to tell you this is not the white T shirt
that I was wearing when I first got to the
events this morning, because what did I do? I pulled
a p J polyharding.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Don't you dare trade mark my name with this act?
That's unfair?
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Is it unfair? Is it unfair?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
It's probably quite it.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Here, how's how's how's the coffee stay that you got
in your white top? Has that come out here?
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Still in the wash? It's gonna be fixed, ace, thank
you very much.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
So I bit into the bacon and egg roll and
it was a runny egg and next thing's so risky.
Next thing, I know, I've got a big dribble of
egg right down my white T shirt. And I was like,
oh my god, what am I going to do? What
(08:59):
am I going to do? And then I remembered that
in the back of my car was that plastic bag
full of clothes that everyone has that you've been meaning
to take to the Sallies or the Red Cross for
like months. I had it in the back of my
car with a white T shirt that does have a
(09:21):
hole in it.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
But the hole gonna say it was inevitably holy, dirty,
or too small?
Speaker 4 (09:28):
Which of the above? Was it holy but clean? But
the hole is coverable with the jacket brilliant. So I
managed to fish out a brand new white T shirt
and they were none the wiser. I walked and strolled
into that mc gerg like I was the most professional
man on the earth. Were they none the wiser?
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Or did it have that wafty musty smell clothes and
when they've been sitting in one place.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
For too long?
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Yeah? Look, I did walk in with quite a lot
of deodorant and cologne sprayed all over me. They would
have been waft.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
D maybe in PJ the podcast that.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
It has been a week page of you and I
feeling relatively Do I say it old or older?
Speaker 6 (10:12):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (10:12):
You mean the moment when I put my back out,
it's just simply literally moving one cent to me.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
To the least is how is your back?
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Better?
Speaker 3 (10:20):
I saw an acupuncturess. It's coming through through.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
So there's that. There's PJ doing her back out with
a very simple maneuver. And then there was me catching
up with a friend who reminded me that because he
said to me, I'm off to my twenty year high
school reunion this weekend, and we are the same age,
went to different schools, but at the same age, which
made me realize, Oh my god, that means it has
(10:45):
been twenty years since I was at high school.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
So does that mean you also have a twenty year
reunion coming up?
Speaker 4 (10:52):
No one has organized a twenty year reunion for our school,
but maybe I need to.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Maybe I need to do to that didn't have a
reunion back sometime.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
We had a ten year high school reunion.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Okay, ten years is a little more friendly and not
so like foreign from school. You're still kind of do
you know what I mean, You're still you're still kind
of young.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Youth because I don't I don't know that anyone would
have even really had Maybe a couple of people had
kids at that point, but very few families at the point.
So ten years is still a little bit fun. But
I had this incredible experience at my ten year end
of the reunion. So I ran into because we were
(11:41):
a small school, we wouldn't have a huge class in Queenstown.
In Queenstun, I ran into my high school bully.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
I almost feel sorry for the bullies because.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
It's a rogue. That's an interesting to take to choose.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
But of them bullies have been bullied themselves or they
have really low self esteem and when they're going through
school that really they just they project.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Down onto everyone else.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
I'm not defending his actions on what he did to you,
but you know, I do have empathy for the bully sometimes.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Spirit thought for the bullies out there. This is PJ Harding.
There's a bloody headline for you. PJ Harding sympathizes with
high school bullies.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
So he's a reunion.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
So I ran into this guy, and I won't go
into detail, but he was pretty terrible to me at
high school. If I'm right, if I'm being blunt.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
I'm genuinely so actually I don't empathize that part.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
No, it's fine, it's just to be clear, it's fine.
But it's funny, right because you think, man, we've like
put so much distance between us in ten years is
a long time, and I don't care about what happened
at high school anymore. And then you see these people
and you're right back there, You're right back in high school.
And I saw him and I was like, oh god,
pennies anxiety of seeing this. So the night goes on
(13:02):
and we start having we had dinner and with a
few drinks, and then after a little bit of social lubrication.
This guy approaches me and he says to me, Hey,
I just need to tell you, I'm so sorry that
I was so awful to you at high school. And
I know that I was terrible to you at high school.
And he apologized my high school bully. It's like it
(13:25):
was like a movie moment, you know that.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Like reconciliation, doesn't it truly?
Speaker 4 (13:32):
And then as the night went on even further, at
one point, after a little bit more social lubrication, he
pulled me up onto the dance floor and I ended
up slow dancing with my high school bully. Sorry, he's
slow dancing on the dance floor together. He really felt
bad about it, but it was truly this crazy moment,
(13:55):
and I thought, this is this is what movies are
made of. At a high school reunion.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
It would be interesting to know what all the bullies
do think.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
He is down the track, If they have the remorset,
you know, you'll bully actually head towards you. Do they
feel like, oh my gosh, because you get the hindsight
as you grow.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Up, if you realize and you do grow up, right,
most of.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Us, yeah, most of us.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Let's go to your high school reunion. Did you have
a high school reunion? Maybe it was five ten, twenty
thirty years later, and what happened.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
On the night.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Maybe the bully came out and apologized, or maybe something
else really salacious and scandalous.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Having the heads median PJ the podcast.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
We're talking about high school reunions. Did you go to
a high school reunion? And what was the tea? What
was the goss? What was the salacious headline from your
high school reunion?
Speaker 4 (14:43):
I re reconciled with my high school bully at our
ten year high school reunion.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
I mean, what cathartic experience.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
I mean, we don't, like, we don't catch up for
coffees when I'm home or anything. But the fact.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
That he unprovoked came up to you and said I'm
sorry for being so horrible to you for all.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Those years, very very healing.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
It would be very healing. I do sometimes heavy empathy.
He saw the lights.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
Yeah, someone dix and they didn't go to the high
school reunion, but their friend had said to them, do
you want to come with me to our twenty year
high school reunion? And this person said, I do not
do not want to go. So she said to her
friend just tell them I'm dead. So the friend actually
told the school that she was dead. And the next thing,
(15:34):
she's been included in an obituary slide show at the
high school reunion, and people started getting up and doing
no yes.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
And memoriam and they start playing the sad music exactly
and started doing speeches about her at this high school reunion,
about how amazing she was, and she was just sitting
at home.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
She just couldn't be bothered going to the high school.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
You do friend record the speeches?
Speaker 1 (15:55):
I wonder, because you know how like you have to
the part about her funerals, you always missed the good
people say.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
It would be the one good thing that I guess.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Is we want to know what happened at the high
school reunion, Laura, what happened with you?
Speaker 6 (16:11):
So I didn't actually go to a reunion. But I'm
not married, but I've got three kids and have been
with my partner for eighteen years. And he was my
brother's bully in high school.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Oh my god, how did this happen? Did he come
to you and say I'm sorry for what I did
to your brother?
Speaker 4 (16:29):
Like, how did things or did you go? My brother
is a little.
Speaker 7 (16:33):
Still he still just thinks he's such.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
A nerd.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
And you, yeah, fair enough. My little brother is a nerd.
So yeah, so it.
Speaker 6 (16:44):
Was it was after school. I didn't know my partner
at school and we just happened to mate, like literally
at a party when he was twenty one, and it
wasn't sure a few days later that we realized that
we knew who each others like were. So yeah, they
don't have anything in common, but they get on. Okay,
I don't think have been any apologies.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
I was gonna say, I watched family Christmas light, did
I sit next to each other have a bruskie or.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
Is it still?
Speaker 6 (17:10):
They were different back van and they're different now, you're not.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
They tolerate each other, Laura.
Speaker 6 (17:17):
Yeah, they've just got nothing in common. I have nothing
to talk about.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Probably you're the only thing in common I know.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
I know. And the podcast The Heads, they say fight
or flight.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Yes, fight or flight mode, that's what we go into.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
My god, nine times out of teen I'm fleeing. So
I'm such a skinny cat.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
It's a interesting when you look at people who do
really brave x and you're like, well, I wish I
could do that, But then you think of yourself in
the moment, and yeah, you're out of there. I would
like to think that a courageous part of me would
take over.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
I would love to think that about myself as well.
I'm just if I'm completely honest with myself, it ain't happen.
I'm hiding. I'm cowering in a corner.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Come on, Maddie, find it in a strength and courage.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Well.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
I was actually inspired yesterday because a friend of mine,
her husband owns a store in Auckland, and he often
stays above that. There's like a little flat above the
store and sometimes, you know, looks long hours and stuff.
He'll sometimes stay in the flat above the store, and
(18:32):
I think early hours of the morning, maybe four point
thirty five o'clock he heard the dreaded sound of smashed glass,
was awoken from his slumber, and there were some little
shites trying to rob him, rob his store. So rather
than calling the cops or staying in bed or cowering
(18:56):
in a wardrobe black I would have he leaped out
of bed in his boxes, ran downstairs and chased them
over broken glass out of the store with a bad
with a.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Bad He just freaked them out and they ran away.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
They ran away, dropped everything as they fled, got in
the car and drove off. And they didn't actually end
up getting away with anything got on.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Them because I mean, look and all honesty, that could
have turned really bad, really like he's you know, he
could have been ganged up.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
He is very lucking. And I'm not saying that was
like the smartest thing to do, but that was his
that was how he operated in the moment. I would
love to think I would be that brave, but I
just don't know that I would. But I saw the
footage and it was amazing to watch, and you know,
me little bit of glass, Oh yeah, I'm like a
kid in a candy store. I just like it.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
What boxes was he wearing?
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Sorry, that's not an important part of the story, but
like you wouldn't want to be rocking your silky homo.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
Silky homosimps and boxes still a thing.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
I would say they primarily belong to the nineties, but
please prove us wrong.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Takes full for eight if you're still rout.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
These were like fleendly almost like pajama short space. But
that's all. It was rocking, And I thought to myself
that that would be my that's where I would come
and stuck. First of all, you always know.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
I reckon. That's why you don't. So you've got the
excuse of not having to defend yourself.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
Exactly, I would have jumped. I would have lived to action,
But no.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Podcast.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
We want to know on eight hundred hats, when did
you catch a Betty in action? Although producer Dylan his
Villion has just filled us and that there's actually an
alterabi meaning to Betty, which the gene Ziers use quite frequently,
that probably we should have had a rethink.
Speaker 8 (20:49):
I don't want to be the one to explain the
terminology on it. I just can't help but laughing every time,
like a Betty in the actor is like, yeah, I've
been out on the strip, but there was so purpasing crimes.
I'm like, oh that, but yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
What kind of works have you got? Context?
Speaker 1 (21:05):
We can still say, we can still say context is necessary?
Speaker 3 (21:10):
Have you caught a criminal? And the act is what
we want to know?
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Waite hundred the hat so you can take through fulvo
ex Even Ruhan is joining us.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Good afternoon, how.
Speaker 9 (21:19):
Are you guys doing very well? You I was working
in the CBD in auction at the time, I was
browsing in the count Down on my way just to
grab something for smoker. I just picked down the aisle
and I see.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
A god just starting to put pie into his jacket.
I'm like, hey, mate, don't do that. And then he
started putting wine bottles down his jacket, and as I
walked closer just to confront him, he took a pie
out and he chucked it at me.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Was it a hot pie or a col pie? Ruhan,
it was a hot pie?
Speaker 9 (21:57):
He missed, he missed. I walked said. He pulled out
his phone, starting shouting, oh, I saw the salt, And
as I grabbed his phone out of his hand, I
accidentally punched him in the face and he ran out
of the store with all the stuff still in his jacket.
(22:20):
The security did absolutely nothing, and as I walked out,
he came running towards me. It's like, give me my phone,
give me my phone.
Speaker 10 (22:28):
And I'm starting to get embarrassed because I've got the
guy's phone, and I just keep telling him take the
stuff back to the Countdown and I'll give you your
phone back. And that's about two years ago. I still
have the phone.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
You still got the phone.
Speaker 9 (22:46):
Into a bus. He just randomly jumped into a bus
and he left it. I still have the phone.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Thank god you didn't get the part of the face.
Should have made some serious.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Birds always blowing the pie, you know what they said,
always on the pipe.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Malcolm was joining us all like hundreds of hats. Malcolm,
when did you catch your bady in the.
Speaker 7 (23:05):
Eggs like a mincing cheese piety. I know. We were
just sitting out under one night and I heard bottles topose,
I must do the cat the bathroom window open, id
smack around and just peered through the gap between the
wall and the door, and it was the sky like
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he needed to like hanging through the window trying to
climb it, like rushing through.
Speaker 9 (23:32):
Our like the bottles and had a.
Speaker 7 (23:34):
Link can He managed to still that, but I just
ran at him and all back the window off down
our driveway and because we have a dark day, he
ran full tilt into.
Speaker 9 (23:46):
Her gate like.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
And sincana, and I mean it was like.
Speaker 7 (23:53):
A massive flood. He would have saw it after that.
But yeah, then he took off down the street. At
the time I could out the front door and catch him.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
And Malcolm, did you say he took a lynx Can
out of anything.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
Yeah, so that's all. That's all he got away with
was one linx.
Speaker 7 (24:09):
Can because he was like halfway through the window, like
coming through, he had to like push himself back. I
like the nearest thing possible.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
Brilliant.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
They just ran straight into the dark. The heads Median
PJ the podcast very exciting.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Mattie.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
You know I have been deep, deep into the world
of Facebook Marketplace lately.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
Yes, we've been looking for a bunk beds. I have been.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
I've been trying to find the perfect bunk bed.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
I knew exactly what I was after pinpointed at last weekend.
Actually I cheated on Facebook Marketplace and I ended up
being crazy and chucking a bid on a trade me auction.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
Oh and when I chucked it on, I was like,
I'll be the first bird this.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
This probably won't eventuate, but at least I just put
my f I ended up being the only one who
bid it on it.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
Did you get it? And I want, yes, congratulations because
I know how hard you've been searching for that.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
I don't know. It's ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
When you get something in your head that you want,
it just becomes a real journey in a mission, and like,
yeah it was. It was very exciting once I got
that win. But this weekend it is time to go
and collect it. And it's from the carpety area, so
it's I.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
Don't know, I got a decent drive, a decent.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Drive for us this weekend.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
However, the bid doesn't actually come with it the mattress.
And now I'm at that sort of crossroad where I go, Okay,
do I go and continue to look for a secondhand
mattress on Facebook, marketplace or trade me.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Or as a mattress.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Where you draw the line and it's something you need
to purchase first hand because I remember back in the day,
in my flating days, when I got a queen and
I just go get one from a basement marketplace, and
I remember so many people giving me grap after that
and they're like, dude, that's feral.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Have you seen the marks? Not cro But also when
it was like an ancient nail polish.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
And when you're a twenty year old, please, you'll sleep
on anything, You'll sleep any anywhere, and you need to
save a buck anyway which way you can. But now
but now.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
I'm grown up and I have graduated to my yearly thirties,
and I'm wondering where do you draw the line. How
clean do we think a secondhand mattresses or what are
the rules a second hand mattress.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
I think you need to know how old the mattress is,
because here's the thing. People ain't often getting rid of
a mattress after one or two years. Sometimes they are,
though not often. Usually mattresses are getting they're getting rid
of them after like ten years.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
I have noticed on some of the listings people will
be like, this mattress has thoroughly been covered in a
mattress protector. So I'm thinking, is that like a pre
rot because it Do I need a mattress protected? Do
I need a tarp down like something.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Or not?
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Just something has just protected what's gone on on the matress?
Or am I just overthinking it and like it's my
child Like kids mattresses, you can probably be a bit
more lenient, But also I don't know, I don't want
to overthink it too much, just.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
For do you know what this is like? Getting second
the end underwear? Just fork out, just fork out for
the new ones.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Suck it up, babe, it's time to get a new mattress.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
The podcast that.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Miss and producer Dylan back in for a round two
this week, fully ever producer Sera who is a way sick.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Hopefully you'll return next week. In the meantime, Mate, you're.
Speaker 8 (27:53):
Up back in the hot seat. Alright, I've got three
of the one of them. It is a little bit
of millennial lingo, so hopefully.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
It's right, we speake millennials.
Speaker 8 (28:03):
We're all right, let's get straight into it, shall all right?
First off, it's sitting in the front seat of an
uber or a taxi when it's just you mess mess.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Not always in the back seat. But is it a
horrible thing? Like should we be more friendly? I just
feel awkward?
Speaker 4 (28:25):
No, I think you've got the opportunity to I don't think.
I don't know that necessarily just because you're an uber
or a taxi driver you want to interact with people anyway, true,
but sometimes you might want to Yeah, but then you've
still got the option to do that from the back seat.
Speaker 8 (28:40):
Yeah, notorious seat for me.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Yes, sah right, I'm right hand sometimes. But I suppose
the uber driver, like I wonder if they ever like
really feeling like they're craving company and they're.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
Like, hey, do you want to come in the front.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
Sometimes. Sometimes I've gone with people would like, say, there's
four of us and we're getting into an uber, and
so one of us does have to take this front seat.
I've got them occasionally and the uber driver hasn't been
expecting it, and they've had like the tupperware container with
their dinner sitting on the front seat, and then they've
got to move things, and then I feel like I'm
I'm a burt, like I'm an inconvenience.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Just shut up and get home.
Speaker 8 (29:21):
This next one, I'm hoping it's controversial, but it's probably
really really not.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
I've just gone with just sparkling water mess.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
My husband doesn't like it, and when we go out
for dinner, they'll be like, would you like still or sparkling?
My husband's still, and I kind of just feel like
I need to get on his wavelength, but I'd love
to have a winky sparkling.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
There is nothing worse than taking a glass sip of
a glass of water, thinking it still and getting that
carbonated bubbles hit the back of your throat. I think
it's the reason I.
Speaker 8 (29:53):
Have trust issues scenario truly.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
And what it is for me is if I feel
like sparkling water doesn't feel as refresher.
Speaker 8 (30:06):
It does not quench at all. Absolutely right, I.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Just need a cold glass of lemon in there though.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
Just just hit me straight. Just hit me straight with
a cold glass still water.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Hit me straight with a tap of sparkling water in
my house.
Speaker 8 (30:25):
And last, not least, please sing out if I have
to describe exactly what it is, but irish goodbye in
social events, mess mess.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Mess, it's the back door boogie, the old ghosting.
Speaker 8 (30:41):
Specifically, not saying goodbye to the host, I think is
the proper term.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
I feel to rose.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
I feel I will let the very least say goodbye
to a host. I might not do a full room
circle and say goodbye. And I think a lot of
that depends on am I getting out early? And do
I think I'm about to be rubber armed and disdain
into something I don't want to see.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Yeah, I will try and say goodbye to the host.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Yeah, but going around to much as too much?
Speaker 4 (31:07):
Well, because sometimes you got to leave and then you're
still there an hour and a half later. Saying goodbye
to everyone commitment just to see you later, get out,
go home, get to be the heads medi and PJ
the podcast, How do you think you go as a driver?
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Okay, if you want my husband's opinion, he's been trying
to get me a defensive driving course for my.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
Birthday the last three years, so that would be his answer.
But then sometimes I'll surprise him and he'd be like, oh,
you're driving really well. So I think. I think.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
I think it's I'm quite like an erratic person and
I can maybe be more easily distracted then I should
be there. It's my biggest downfall. But I think my capability,
I think how I can steer a car. I think
my reactions are usually pretty good.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
Are you buying it?
Speaker 6 (31:59):
Not?
Speaker 4 (31:59):
Really? But then I don't want to say too much
because yeah, we care for what you say here those
in glasshouses, right.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
You were a lot more of a stressed driver than
like you're very quick, you're very you don't mess around.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
You're very.
Speaker 4 (32:20):
I think I approach driving the way I approach most things,
which is there I am always just I hate wait,
I'm in a rush always as.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
Long as you stick to the speed to.
Speaker 4 (32:31):
The speed limit. But sometimes like I probably like I
probably go at intersections where maybe I should have waited
a little bit, like I just education strength, no, and
I take maybe more risks than I should, and I
know that's not good, but this is this is what
we're dealing with, righty, We've been honest.
Speaker 7 (32:54):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (32:54):
I don't. I don't have excellence though. I don't crash
my car. I don't ding my car touch word which would.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
Ryan Oi says that he's like, I don't. I don't
want you driving my car. I'm like, we have been
together eight years. When have I ever had an accident?
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Be j always says, I get so stressed every time
you leave this house and get in that car, and
I'm like, I have not crushed it.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
I've got a pretty clean slate.
Speaker 4 (33:16):
Since we've been together. That's what it's caviet.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
Don't ask about before.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
I don't ask about the past. But since we have
been together, I have not crashed. All that matters anyway.
I saw an article talking about the most intimidating places
to drive around the world. This is for mostly for tourists,
so people that are visiting a country and driving on
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their roads. How intimidating of a place is it to drive?
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Does Bali feature? Because I remember getting to Bali and
it was so stressful. I was like, I could not
drive a car here. Did that make a feature on
the list?
Speaker 4 (33:53):
I have the top ten? Bali does not feature in
the top ten. Okay, I'll go through the top I'll
whip through the top five. Coming in at number five?
Is Thailand so kind of similar?
Speaker 3 (34:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (34:09):
Yeah, Morocco comes in at number four. Zimbabwe is the
number third country. Venezuela. I don't know why Venezuela is
so crazy, but that comes in at number two and
the number one most intimidating place for tourists to drive?
Do you want ever guess.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
New Zealand?
Speaker 4 (34:31):
No as thail Thailand's.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (34:38):
India famous for ex congested roads, mix of vehicles, including
his cards, motorcycles, even live Stock is ked ranked as
the most nerve wracking country to drive in.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
I thought New Zealand made a feature on the line.
Speaker 4 (34:53):
New Zealand does make a feature, It's not as high
as I initially thought from the headline I got a sack,
got sucked by. It is rated number twenty five with
a moderate scarce score of five point seven seven.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
I would think comparatively like, particularly with our population, would
be a lot least intimidating. But then I suppose there's
a factor of us being on the other side of
the road that maybe is an intimidating factor the other
side of the road.
Speaker 4 (35:19):
And maybe some like smaller high you know, narrower highways
lots of people come from, whether it no used to
massive like six eight lane highways and we've just got
one state highway road.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
You know, some pretty rugged roads and rugged roads as well,
The Hits Drive with May and Paja thanks to chimis
Wee House the Real House of Fragrances.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Many and.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Hi, Welcome to the podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
How are you feeling after a very failled social calendar
this week?
Speaker 4 (00:19):
I'm feeling good, but I think I might crash out tonight.
But then I've got to I'm going out to bloody
Northland this weekend. I say, bloody, going to Northland this weekend,
which is going to be very fun.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
And it's going to be very fun, and you bring
on some friends.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Last monner so I got I got offered a lovely
little spice smart must be nice, gifted experience up to
Northland and they said take any when you want. Well,
my god, it was impossible to find someone to go
with me. I have so many people, so mini friends.
(00:50):
I think it's just that time of year, so many
people were busy. I'm also at the age where lots
of my friends have kids, and it's not like I can't
just like leave the kids out.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Hey, guys, what are you doing this weekend?
Speaker 4 (00:59):
Yeah, but I managed to find a couple of people,
so they're going to come with me. Two of my
friends are going to come with me.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
But there, your husband's really good friends.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
Well one of them, one of them is my husband's
really good friend, and then it's his partner.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
So it's like.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
I feel like your he's going to get a little
jealous abstink.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
He might end up driving on he's going.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
To be furious with me. But he's got a Halloween
party to go to tomorrow night, so he's sorted. He's fine.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Yeah, but he's got this massive swim tomorrow that you're
making a fuss over. I think you should make a
fuss over it and make a big size.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
So he's doing the harbor crossing. He's doing that.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
It's amazing how many cases at.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Three point three from the north Shore over to the
city center in Auckland. And what does he weird?
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Does he?
Speaker 4 (01:45):
We're a week Yeah, we suit, yeah, we suit, cap
and goggles. Oh man gets me going.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
You don't mind it, really, I'm wonder. It's kind of
hot to bend, so it's on, but it wein. He
can be pretty sicky.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
It's actually it's a real theme for him tomorrow because
he's wearing the wet suit in the morning to do
the swim, and then Saturday evening is the Halloween party
and he is going as the French pole vaulter from
the twenty twenty four Olympics. That God has.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Bigger write yourself Ryan on the pole. So is he
going to stuff his pads?
Speaker 4 (02:24):
I think he might.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
He just was, he got his own.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
I haven't actually gone into the nitty nitty decade with him.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Then you have to wear like a Spandex.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Yeah, he's wearing span dis Yeah, brave, it is so brave.
I think he's taking track.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
There's going to be so many gigs. Oh no, go oh,
you've put a song down there and.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
X.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Yeah. I think he's taking a trick like tracksuit pants,
so that he can, you know, yeah, cover up, cover
up from time to time.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Do you reckon anyone else will do that? That's just
choked on my spec you know.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
So uncle, it's a good it's a good costume though, right,
so it might be quite popular, right yeah?
Speaker 5 (03:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Or the Stanley Cup is you talked about.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Earlier this year?
Speaker 4 (03:18):
What was it that sixy oh zimpic pin? I didn't
I didn't get the sixy pin, you know, but you
know you, I know what it's like, almost like an
ipie pinky made a costume that's like a sixy version of.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
You mean, like you know you like pharmaceutical beats. I
thought it was like it's like, okay, we're on a
real for the string here' how.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
You know how they just do anything sixy these days?
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's going to be fun.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
What are you doing this weekend?
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Well, it's the Whole Cup on tomorrow, is it?
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:07):
And Bej's like, you've got to take Charlie. He's gonna win.
I think there's like kids events and stuff. I don't know,
there's a whole series of things. I've been so bad
at getting in touch. BJ earlier in the week was like,
pol I need to know are you going to the
Whole Cup? And I was like what, Because there's the
Bloodyhole Cup, There's the Melbourne Cup at the Hole coming up.
Then there's like another whole event. There's so much on
the calendar at this time of year. Then we've got
(04:28):
the Ladies Lunch early December for the community. Let's just
choker block with events coming up and I can't keep.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Up fun though. I mean, this is what sparked our
hallball earlier was all the talking about the events.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Be horizontal, but it'll be fun. It will be fun.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
But coming up on the show today, we talked about
high school reunions. What was the juice from your reunion?
No funny, no money made a return? And Maddie, what
was the final thing that you want to teach?
Speaker 4 (04:57):
We wanted to know. I saw some great secure camera
footage of someone chasing after some burglars with a bat
and I wanted to know, have you ever called a
baddy in the act?
Speaker 3 (05:07):
I love calling them with Betty?
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Have you caught a battye? All that and more coming
up on the podcast Enjoy.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
By Mandy and PJ.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
The podcast, Oh that was a brilliant conversation to witness.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
I wish I was filming that.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
So we've got producer Dylan filagam for producer Siah at
the moment, A serious the way sir and we were
just listening to the news there and the cricket obviously
the cricket news came up and then he Dylan, who
many go oh? And then Dylan was like, how good
was that last night? And I was like, Dylan, you
(05:43):
know that there is literally zero sport.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
So two things were happening simultaneously. Dylan was listening to
the sports newson getting very excited about the cricket and
I excited.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
To have a mate to bandwell.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Police and all I was thinking about because I never
listened to the sports news bleiss. I was thinking about
the fact that I'd put a can of drink and
the fridge yesterday, knowing full well i'd want it today.
So I got excited about the can of drink and
the fridge.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
The heads medi and PJ the podcast.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
You've had a big day doing.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Yes, I was seeing a conference for corporate, like a
corporate event and don't want too much talking already, which
does not well considering we have a four hour radio show. No,
I'm fine, I'm fine, I'm fine, I've had a coffee.
I'm good. But yes, I had to get up early
(06:38):
this morning and drive out to this headquarters to tom
this conference, and so I thought, I'll dress up nicely.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
You've been dressing up nicely every day.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Yeah, today and you Metty has emerged from the holidays.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
I know.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
I came away from the holidays thinking I'm going to
put a little bit more. You fit into my walldrobe
and you have thank you today, I've gone extra special.
I wouldn't normally wear a suit to the radio show,
but I wore this.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
You need to go out to dinner after that.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
True, Yeah, like a cocktail event or something. Yeah, but
I thought i'd put a suit on for the sim
sing gig that I'm doing. And I drove myself out
to the event this morning, quite nice and early. But
I got myself on the way a coffee and like
a bacon and egg roll.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Oh like, okay, what have we got on there? Like
a little tomato relish, like a barbecue.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Sauce, barb sauce.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Nice, okay, egg but a spinach bacon?
Speaker 4 (07:34):
No spinach? No a little bit of cheese?
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Oh yeah nice?
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Yeah toasted? You need the right amount totally. So I
drove out to the event and picked it up on
the way, and then I got to the event with
a little bit of time to kill, so I thought
I'll eat it in my car. But I stupidly decided
to wear a white T shirt underneath my underneath my
(07:58):
suit today. Cute little white tea shirt.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Still you're still wearing the white T shirt.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Well, I'm wearing a white T shirt, but I have
to tell you this is not the white T shirt
that I was wearing when I first got to the
events this morning, because what did I do? I pulled
a p J polyharding.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Don't you dare trade mark my name with this act?
That's unfair?
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Is it unfair? Is it unfair?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
It's probably quite it.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Here, how's how's how's the coffee stay that you got
in your white top? Has that come out here?
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Still in the wash? It's gonna be fixed, ace, thank
you very much.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
So I bit into the bacon and egg roll and
it was a runny egg and next thing's so risky.
Next thing, I know, I've got a big dribble of
egg right down my white T shirt. And I was like,
oh my god, what am I going to do? What
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am I going to do? And then I remembered that
in the back of my car was that plastic bag
full of clothes that everyone has that you've been meaning
to take to the Sallies or the Red Cross for
like months. I had it in the back of my
car with a white T shirt that does have a
(09:21):
hole in it.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
But the hole gonna say it was inevitably holy, dirty,
or too small?
Speaker 4 (09:28):
Which of the above? Was it holy but clean? But
the hole is coverable with the jacket brilliant. So I
managed to fish out a brand new white T shirt
and they were none the wiser. I walked and strolled
into that mc gerg like I was the most professional
man on the earth. Were they none the wiser?
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Or did it have that wafty musty smell clothes and
when they've been sitting in one place.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
For too long?
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Yeah? Look, I did walk in with quite a lot
of deodorant and cologne sprayed all over me. They would
have been waft.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
D maybe in PJ the podcast that.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
It has been a week page of you and I
feeling relatively Do I say it old or older?
Speaker 6 (10:12):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (10:12):
You mean the moment when I put my back out,
it's just simply literally moving one cent to me.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
To the least is how is your back?
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Better?
Speaker 3 (10:20):
I saw an acupuncturess. It's coming through through.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
So there's that. There's PJ doing her back out with
a very simple maneuver. And then there was me catching
up with a friend who reminded me that because he
said to me, I'm off to my twenty year high
school reunion this weekend, and we are the same age,
went to different schools, but at the same age, which
made me realize, Oh my god, that means it has
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been twenty years since I was at high school.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
So does that mean you also have a twenty year
reunion coming up?
Speaker 4 (10:52):
No one has organized a twenty year reunion for our school,
but maybe I need to.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Maybe I need to do to that didn't have a
reunion back sometime.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
We had a ten year high school reunion.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Okay, ten years is a little more friendly and not
so like foreign from school. You're still kind of do
you know what I mean, You're still you're still kind
of young.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Youth because I don't I don't know that anyone would
have even really had Maybe a couple of people had
kids at that point, but very few families at the point.
So ten years is still a little bit fun. But
I had this incredible experience at my ten year end
of the reunion. So I ran into because we were
(11:41):
a small school, we wouldn't have a huge class in Queenstown.
In Queenstun, I ran into my high school bully.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
I almost feel sorry for the bullies because.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
It's a rogue. That's an interesting to take to choose.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
But of them bullies have been bullied themselves or they
have really low self esteem and when they're going through
school that really they just they project.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Down onto everyone else.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
I'm not defending his actions on what he did to you,
but you know, I do have empathy for the bully sometimes.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Spirit thought for the bullies out there. This is PJ Harding.
There's a bloody headline for you. PJ Harding sympathizes with
high school bullies.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
So he's a reunion.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
So I ran into this guy, and I won't go
into detail, but he was pretty terrible to me at
high school. If I'm right, if I'm being blunt.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
I'm genuinely so actually I don't empathize that part.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
No, it's fine, it's just to be clear, it's fine.
But it's funny, right because you think, man, we've like
put so much distance between us in ten years is
a long time, and I don't care about what happened
at high school anymore. And then you see these people
and you're right back there, You're right back in high school.
And I saw him and I was like, oh god,
pennies anxiety of seeing this. So the night goes on
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and we start having we had dinner and with a
few drinks, and then after a little bit of social lubrication.
This guy approaches me and he says to me, Hey,
I just need to tell you, I'm so sorry that
I was so awful to you at high school. And
I know that I was terrible to you at high school.
And he apologized my high school bully. It's like it
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was like a movie moment, you know that.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Like reconciliation, doesn't it truly?
Speaker 4 (13:32):
And then as the night went on even further, at
one point, after a little bit more social lubrication, he
pulled me up onto the dance floor and I ended
up slow dancing with my high school bully. Sorry, he's
slow dancing on the dance floor together. He really felt
bad about it, but it was truly this crazy moment,
(13:55):
and I thought, this is this is what movies are
made of. At a high school reunion.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
It would be interesting to know what all the bullies
do think.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
He is down the track, If they have the remorset,
you know, you'll bully actually head towards you. Do they
feel like, oh my gosh, because you get the hindsight
as you grow.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Up, if you realize and you do grow up, right,
most of.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Us, yeah, most of us.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Let's go to your high school reunion. Did you have
a high school reunion? Maybe it was five ten, twenty
thirty years later, and what happened.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
On the night.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Maybe the bully came out and apologized, or maybe something
else really salacious and scandalous.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Having the heads median PJ the podcast.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
We're talking about high school reunions. Did you go to
a high school reunion? And what was the tea? What
was the goss? What was the salacious headline from your
high school reunion?
Speaker 4 (14:43):
I re reconciled with my high school bully at our
ten year high school reunion.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
I mean, what cathartic experience.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
I mean, we don't, like, we don't catch up for
coffees when I'm home or anything. But the fact.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
That he unprovoked came up to you and said I'm
sorry for being so horrible to you for all.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Those years, very very healing.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
It would be very healing. I do sometimes heavy empathy.
He saw the lights.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
Yeah, someone dix and they didn't go to the high
school reunion, but their friend had said to them, do
you want to come with me to our twenty year
high school reunion? And this person said, I do not
do not want to go. So she said to her
friend just tell them I'm dead. So the friend actually
told the school that she was dead. And the next thing,
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she's been included in an obituary slide show at the
high school reunion, and people started getting up and doing
no yes.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
And memoriam and they start playing the sad music exactly
and started doing speeches about her at this high school reunion,
about how amazing she was, and she was just sitting
at home.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
She just couldn't be bothered going to the high school.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
You do friend record the speeches?
Speaker 1 (15:55):
I wonder, because you know how like you have to
the part about her funerals, you always missed the good
people say.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
It would be the one good thing that I guess.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Is we want to know what happened at the high
school reunion, Laura, what happened with you?
Speaker 6 (16:11):
So I didn't actually go to a reunion. But I'm
not married, but I've got three kids and have been
with my partner for eighteen years. And he was my
brother's bully in high school.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Oh my god, how did this happen? Did he come
to you and say I'm sorry for what I did
to your brother?
Speaker 4 (16:29):
Like, how did things or did you go? My brother
is a little.
Speaker 7 (16:33):
Still he still just thinks he's such.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
A nerd.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
And you, yeah, fair enough. My little brother is a nerd.
So yeah, so it.
Speaker 6 (16:44):
Was it was after school. I didn't know my partner
at school and we just happened to mate, like literally
at a party when he was twenty one, and it
wasn't sure a few days later that we realized that
we knew who each others like were. So yeah, they
don't have anything in common, but they get on. Okay,
I don't think have been any apologies.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
I was gonna say, I watched family Christmas light, did
I sit next to each other have a bruskie or.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
Is it still?
Speaker 6 (17:10):
They were different back van and they're different now, you're not.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
They tolerate each other, Laura.
Speaker 6 (17:17):
Yeah, they've just got nothing in common. I have nothing
to talk about.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Probably you're the only thing in common I know.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
I know. And the podcast The Heads, they say fight
or flight.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Yes, fight or flight mode, that's what we go into.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
My god, nine times out of teen I'm fleeing. So
I'm such a skinny cat.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
It's a interesting when you look at people who do
really brave x and you're like, well, I wish I
could do that, But then you think of yourself in
the moment, and yeah, you're out of there. I would
like to think that a courageous part of me would
take over.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
I would love to think that about myself as well.
I'm just if I'm completely honest with myself, it ain't happen.
I'm hiding. I'm cowering in a corner.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Come on, Maddie, find it in a strength and courage.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Well.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
I was actually inspired yesterday because a friend of mine,
her husband owns a store in Auckland, and he often
stays above that. There's like a little flat above the
store and sometimes, you know, looks long hours and stuff.
He'll sometimes stay in the flat above the store, and
(18:32):
I think early hours of the morning, maybe four point
thirty five o'clock he heard the dreaded sound of smashed glass,
was awoken from his slumber, and there were some little
shites trying to rob him, rob his store. So rather
than calling the cops or staying in bed or cowering
(18:56):
in a wardrobe black I would have he leaped out
of bed in his boxes, ran downstairs and chased them
over broken glass out of the store with a bad
with a.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Bad He just freaked them out and they ran away.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
They ran away, dropped everything as they fled, got in
the car and drove off. And they didn't actually end
up getting away with anything got on.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Them because I mean, look and all honesty, that could
have turned really bad, really like he's you know, he
could have been ganged up.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
He is very lucking. And I'm not saying that was
like the smartest thing to do, but that was his
that was how he operated in the moment. I would
love to think I would be that brave, but I
just don't know that I would. But I saw the
footage and it was amazing to watch, and you know,
me little bit of glass, Oh yeah, I'm like a
kid in a candy store. I just like it.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
What boxes was he wearing?
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Sorry, that's not an important part of the story, but
like you wouldn't want to be rocking your silky homo.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
Silky homosimps and boxes still a thing.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
I would say they primarily belong to the nineties, but
please prove us wrong.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Takes full for eight if you're still rout.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
These were like fleendly almost like pajama short space. But
that's all. It was rocking, And I thought to myself
that that would be my that's where I would come
and stuck. First of all, you always know.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
I reckon. That's why you don't. So you've got the
excuse of not having to defend yourself.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
Exactly, I would have jumped. I would have lived to action,
But no.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Podcast.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
We want to know on eight hundred hats, when did
you catch a Betty in action? Although producer Dylan his
Villion has just filled us and that there's actually an
alterabi meaning to Betty, which the gene Ziers use quite frequently,
that probably we should have had a rethink.
Speaker 8 (20:49):
I don't want to be the one to explain the
terminology on it. I just can't help but laughing every time,
like a Betty in the actor is like, yeah, I've
been out on the strip, but there was so purpasing crimes.
I'm like, oh that, but yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
What kind of works have you got? Context?
Speaker 1 (21:05):
We can still say, we can still say context is necessary?
Speaker 3 (21:10):
Have you caught a criminal? And the act is what
we want to know?
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Waite hundred the hat so you can take through fulvo
ex Even Ruhan is joining us.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Good afternoon, how.
Speaker 9 (21:19):
Are you guys doing very well? You I was working
in the CBD in auction at the time, I was
browsing in the count Down on my way just to
grab something for smoker. I just picked down the aisle
and I see.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
A god just starting to put pie into his jacket.
I'm like, hey, mate, don't do that. And then he
started putting wine bottles down his jacket, and as I
walked closer just to confront him, he took a pie
out and he chucked it at me.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Was it a hot pie or a col pie? Ruhan,
it was a hot pie?
Speaker 9 (21:57):
He missed, he missed. I walked said. He pulled out
his phone, starting shouting, oh, I saw the salt, And
as I grabbed his phone out of his hand, I
accidentally punched him in the face and he ran out
of the store with all the stuff still in his jacket.
(22:20):
The security did absolutely nothing, and as I walked out,
he came running towards me. It's like, give me my phone,
give me my phone.
Speaker 10 (22:28):
And I'm starting to get embarrassed because I've got the
guy's phone, and I just keep telling him take the
stuff back to the Countdown and I'll give you your
phone back. And that's about two years ago. I still
have the phone.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
You still got the phone.
Speaker 9 (22:46):
Into a bus. He just randomly jumped into a bus
and he left it. I still have the phone.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Thank god you didn't get the part of the face.
Should have made some serious.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Birds always blowing the pie, you know what they said,
always on the pipe.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Malcolm was joining us all like hundreds of hats. Malcolm,
when did you catch your bady in the.
Speaker 7 (23:05):
Eggs like a mincing cheese piety. I know. We were
just sitting out under one night and I heard bottles topose,
I must do the cat the bathroom window open, id
smack around and just peered through the gap between the
wall and the door, and it was the sky like
(23:28):
he needed to like hanging through the window trying to
climb it, like rushing through.
Speaker 9 (23:32):
Our like the bottles and had a.
Speaker 7 (23:34):
Link can He managed to still that, but I just
ran at him and all back the window off down
our driveway and because we have a dark day, he
ran full tilt into.
Speaker 9 (23:46):
Her gate like.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
And sincana, and I mean it was like.
Speaker 7 (23:53):
A massive flood. He would have saw it after that.
But yeah, then he took off down the street. At
the time I could out the front door and catch him.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
And Malcolm, did you say he took a lynx Can
out of anything.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
Yeah, so that's all. That's all he got away with
was one linx.
Speaker 7 (24:09):
Can because he was like halfway through the window, like
coming through, he had to like push himself back. I
like the nearest thing possible.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
Brilliant.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
They just ran straight into the dark. The heads Median
PJ the podcast very exciting.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Mattie.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
You know I have been deep, deep into the world
of Facebook Marketplace lately.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
Yes, we've been looking for a bunk beds. I have been.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
I've been trying to find the perfect bunk bed.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
I knew exactly what I was after pinpointed at last weekend.
Actually I cheated on Facebook Marketplace and I ended up
being crazy and chucking a bid on a trade me auction.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
Oh and when I chucked it on, I was like,
I'll be the first bird this.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
This probably won't eventuate, but at least I just put
my f I ended up being the only one who
bid it on it.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
Did you get it? And I want, yes, congratulations because
I know how hard you've been searching for that.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
I don't know. It's ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
When you get something in your head that you want,
it just becomes a real journey in a mission, and like,
yeah it was. It was very exciting once I got
that win. But this weekend it is time to go
and collect it. And it's from the carpety area, so
it's I.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
Don't know, I got a decent drive, a decent.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Drive for us this weekend.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
However, the bid doesn't actually come with it the mattress.
And now I'm at that sort of crossroad where I go, Okay,
do I go and continue to look for a secondhand
mattress on Facebook, marketplace or trade me.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Or as a mattress.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Where you draw the line and it's something you need
to purchase first hand because I remember back in the day,
in my flating days, when I got a queen and
I just go get one from a basement marketplace, and
I remember so many people giving me grap after that
and they're like, dude, that's feral.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Have you seen the marks? Not cro But also when
it was like an ancient nail polish.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
And when you're a twenty year old, please, you'll sleep
on anything, You'll sleep any anywhere, and you need to
save a buck anyway which way you can. But now
but now.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
I'm grown up and I have graduated to my yearly thirties,
and I'm wondering where do you draw the line. How
clean do we think a secondhand mattresses or what are
the rules a second hand mattress.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
I think you need to know how old the mattress is,
because here's the thing. People ain't often getting rid of
a mattress after one or two years. Sometimes they are,
though not often. Usually mattresses are getting they're getting rid
of them after like ten years.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
I have noticed on some of the listings people will
be like, this mattress has thoroughly been covered in a
mattress protector. So I'm thinking, is that like a pre
rot because it Do I need a mattress protected? Do
I need a tarp down like something.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Or not?
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Just something has just protected what's gone on on the matress?
Or am I just overthinking it and like it's my
child Like kids mattresses, you can probably be a bit
more lenient, But also I don't know, I don't want
to overthink it too much, just.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
For do you know what this is like? Getting second
the end underwear? Just fork out, just fork out for
the new ones.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Suck it up, babe, it's time to get a new mattress.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
The podcast that.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Miss and producer Dylan back in for a round two
this week, fully ever producer Sera who is a way sick.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Hopefully you'll return next week. In the meantime, Mate, you're.
Speaker 8 (27:53):
Up back in the hot seat. Alright, I've got three
of the one of them. It is a little bit
of millennial lingo, so hopefully.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
It's right, we speake millennials.
Speaker 8 (28:03):
We're all right, let's get straight into it, shall all right?
First off, it's sitting in the front seat of an
uber or a taxi when it's just you mess mess.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Not always in the back seat. But is it a
horrible thing? Like should we be more friendly? I just
feel awkward?
Speaker 4 (28:25):
No, I think you've got the opportunity to I don't think.
I don't know that necessarily just because you're an uber
or a taxi driver you want to interact with people anyway, true,
but sometimes you might want to Yeah, but then you've
still got the option to do that from the back seat.
Speaker 8 (28:40):
Yeah, notorious seat for me.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Yes, sah right, I'm right hand sometimes. But I suppose
the uber driver, like I wonder if they ever like
really feeling like they're craving company and they're.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
Like, hey, do you want to come in the front.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
Sometimes. Sometimes I've gone with people would like, say, there's
four of us and we're getting into an uber, and
so one of us does have to take this front seat.
I've got them occasionally and the uber driver hasn't been
expecting it, and they've had like the tupperware container with
their dinner sitting on the front seat, and then they've
got to move things, and then I feel like I'm
I'm a burt, like I'm an inconvenience.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Just shut up and get home.
Speaker 8 (29:21):
This next one, I'm hoping it's controversial, but it's probably
really really not.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
I've just gone with just sparkling water mess.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
My husband doesn't like it, and when we go out
for dinner, they'll be like, would you like still or sparkling?
My husband's still, and I kind of just feel like
I need to get on his wavelength, but I'd love
to have a winky sparkling.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
There is nothing worse than taking a glass sip of
a glass of water, thinking it still and getting that
carbonated bubbles hit the back of your throat. I think
it's the reason I.
Speaker 8 (29:53):
Have trust issues scenario truly.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
And what it is for me is if I feel
like sparkling water doesn't feel as refresher.
Speaker 8 (30:06):
It does not quench at all. Absolutely right, I.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Just need a cold glass of lemon in there though.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
Just just hit me straight. Just hit me straight with
a cold glass still water.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Hit me straight with a tap of sparkling water in
my house.
Speaker 8 (30:25):
And last, not least, please sing out if I have
to describe exactly what it is, but irish goodbye in
social events, mess mess.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Mess, it's the back door boogie, the old ghosting.
Speaker 8 (30:41):
Specifically, not saying goodbye to the host, I think is
the proper term.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
I feel to rose.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
I feel I will let the very least say goodbye
to a host. I might not do a full room
circle and say goodbye. And I think a lot of
that depends on am I getting out early? And do
I think I'm about to be rubber armed and disdain
into something I don't want to see.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Yeah, I will try and say goodbye to the host.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Yeah, but going around to much as too much?
Speaker 4 (31:07):
Well, because sometimes you got to leave and then you're
still there an hour and a half later. Saying goodbye
to everyone commitment just to see you later, get out,
go home, get to be the heads medi and PJ
the podcast, How do you think you go as a driver?
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Okay, if you want my husband's opinion, he's been trying
to get me a defensive driving course for my.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
Birthday the last three years, so that would be his answer.
But then sometimes I'll surprise him and he'd be like, oh,
you're driving really well. So I think. I think.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
I think it's I'm quite like an erratic person and
I can maybe be more easily distracted then I should
be there. It's my biggest downfall. But I think my capability,
I think how I can steer a car. I think
my reactions are usually pretty good.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
Are you buying it?
Speaker 6 (31:59):
Not?
Speaker 4 (31:59):
Really? But then I don't want to say too much
because yeah, we care for what you say here those
in glasshouses, right.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
You were a lot more of a stressed driver than
like you're very quick, you're very you don't mess around.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
You're very.
Speaker 4 (32:20):
I think I approach driving the way I approach most things,
which is there I am always just I hate wait,
I'm in a rush always as.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
Long as you stick to the speed to.
Speaker 4 (32:31):
The speed limit. But sometimes like I probably like I
probably go at intersections where maybe I should have waited
a little bit, like I just education strength, no, and
I take maybe more risks than I should, and I
know that's not good, but this is this is what
we're dealing with, righty, We've been honest.
Speaker 7 (32:54):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (32:54):
I don't. I don't have excellence though. I don't crash
my car. I don't ding my car touch word which would.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
Ryan Oi says that he's like, I don't. I don't
want you driving my car. I'm like, we have been
together eight years. When have I ever had an accident?
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Be j always says, I get so stressed every time
you leave this house and get in that car, and
I'm like, I have not crushed it.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
I've got a pretty clean slate.
Speaker 4 (33:16):
Since we've been together. That's what it's caviet.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
Don't ask about before.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
I don't ask about the past. But since we have
been together, I have not crashed. All that matters anyway.
I saw an article talking about the most intimidating places
to drive around the world. This is for mostly for tourists,
so people that are visiting a country and driving on
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their roads. How intimidating of a place is it to drive?
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Does Bali feature? Because I remember getting to Bali and
it was so stressful. I was like, I could not
drive a car here. Did that make a feature on
the list?
Speaker 4 (33:53):
I have the top ten? Bali does not feature in
the top ten. Okay, I'll go through the top I'll
whip through the top five. Coming in at number five?
Is Thailand so kind of similar?
Speaker 3 (34:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (34:09):
Yeah, Morocco comes in at number four. Zimbabwe is the
number third country. Venezuela. I don't know why Venezuela is
so crazy, but that comes in at number two and
the number one most intimidating place for tourists to drive?
Do you want ever guess.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
New Zealand?
Speaker 4 (34:31):
No as thail Thailand's.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (34:38):
India famous for ex congested roads, mix of vehicles, including
his cards, motorcycles, even live Stock is ked ranked as
the most nerve wracking country to drive in.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
I thought New Zealand made a feature on the line.
Speaker 4 (34:53):
New Zealand does make a feature, It's not as high
as I initially thought from the headline I got a sack,
got sucked by. It is rated number twenty five with
a moderate scarce score of five point seven seven.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
I would think comparatively like, particularly with our population, would
be a lot least intimidating. But then I suppose there's
a factor of us being on the other side of
the road that maybe is an intimidating factor the other
side of the road.
Speaker 4 (35:19):
And maybe some like smaller high you know, narrower highways
lots of people come from, whether it no used to
massive like six eight lane highways and we've just got
one state highway road.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
You know, some pretty rugged roads and rugged roads as well,
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