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February 11, 2026 14 mins

$1,000,000 is on the line. It's the biggest prize in Aotearoa radio history. There are 100 envelopes. 99 envelopes have $10,000, and ONE envelope hides a life changing $1,000,000. Our Finalist Tamara had her shot at scoring big, and this is how it all went down.

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Win your shot and one million dollars with Zem's million
dollars summer.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
This is it, everybody.

Speaker 3 (00:09):
It is time to see if we can make tomorrow
an instant millionaire.

Speaker 4 (00:14):
How are you feeling tomorrow?

Speaker 5 (00:15):
I'm feeling good. Yeah, yep, exciteds yeah good.

Speaker 6 (00:19):
I'm I'm so nervous.

Speaker 4 (00:22):
I've got goosies on my butt cheeks, like I've got
goosies just everywhere. Like it's a good sign.

Speaker 5 (00:28):
I reckon, yeah, girds.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Hopefully, maybe you're more nervous than tomorrow.

Speaker 4 (00:33):
I just want I know how much this would change
your life. I'm gonna get emotional already.

Speaker 3 (00:38):
There's about one hundred people outside the Zidium studios right now.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
Hi, everybody, can you make some noise?

Speaker 4 (00:43):
Oh yeah, you don't want to miss this.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
Oh my god, your boys are here with you, yes,
Eshare and Exley here? Hi boys?

Speaker 1 (00:51):
Hi?

Speaker 2 (00:52):
How old are your boys? Tomorrow?

Speaker 5 (00:54):
Three and six?

Speaker 2 (00:55):
Three and six?

Speaker 6 (00:56):
Lovely boys? What would this mean to you and your family?
What would the boys want if you win the million?
What would the boys get?

Speaker 5 (01:05):
They?

Speaker 2 (01:08):
Do you want to motivike?

Speaker 1 (01:10):
Hell?

Speaker 5 (01:10):
Yeah, that's what has been requested as a motifike each.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
Oh, a motibike each got hard to say no to
a motiblike each When you're a millionaire, a million time.

Speaker 4 (01:21):
Pee week fifty for each of them? Why not?

Speaker 2 (01:23):
This does set your family up though, right? This is
this is It.

Speaker 5 (01:26):
Would just change everything for us, gives you.

Speaker 6 (01:31):
That stability you cannot worry about, you know, money at all.

Speaker 5 (01:36):
Yeah, it just sets us up completely. And that's also
why I'm studying. You know, you want the best future
for your kids, and it would do that.

Speaker 4 (01:45):
And it takes that pressure off you tomorrow, which you
deserve that.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
Okay, this is how it's going to work.

Speaker 3 (01:51):
We're going to play a song, We're going to come back,
and we're going to find out what that number is
that you have been sitting on since the moment we
told you that you were a million dollar summer winter.

Speaker 4 (01:59):
Have you told anyone?

Speaker 5 (02:01):
Yes? I have told some people what number I'm choosing?

Speaker 2 (02:04):
Who can we ask? Who knows?

Speaker 5 (02:07):
I actually can't remember.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
Did you tell a few people after a few wines?

Speaker 5 (02:13):
No? No, no, no drinking involved, but yeah it was. I
know that. I've definitely told a couple of peop Oh.
I've told my one of my good friends, Stacy.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
I've told her Stacy nose.

Speaker 5 (02:23):
Yep, Stacy nose.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
Does she agree that the number's got good juju?

Speaker 5 (02:26):
It's got one of her favorite numbers in it?

Speaker 3 (02:28):
Okay, Yeah, Well we're gonna play one song. We're gonna
come back. You're gonna go and get that envelope off
the board. Okay, we will find out what the number
is that Tomorrow has pecked forms million dollar Summer.

Speaker 7 (02:38):
Plays Brian England.

Speaker 3 (02:41):
If you've just joined us at his time for Zim's
million dollar Summer win.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
Your shot had one million dollars. With Zim's million dollars summer,
Tomorrow's won the shot.

Speaker 3 (02:54):
She's here and she's just about to pick her number
between one and one hundred. If you had just joining us,
there is a million dollars behind a door in the
Zidium studio.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
There's one hundred different doors.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
They each have one hundred numbers on envelopes on them,
they have a number that corresponds to that, and one
of them has a million dollars in it.

Speaker 4 (03:12):
Yea to one of those has the golden ticket Tomorrow.

Speaker 6 (03:16):
The million bucks is sitting right there in front of
you in one of those envelopes.

Speaker 4 (03:21):
All you have to do is walk over.

Speaker 3 (03:24):
And be great and picket tomorrow has ten thousand dollars
just for being here. That's done, that can't be taken
away from you. That is yours, that belongs to your family.
But can we make it a million? Hopefully none of
us know the number. Nobody here at ZIDM knows which
number has the million dollars in it.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
We can't know, we're not allowed to know. So it's
all up to you.

Speaker 4 (03:45):
Okay, are you ready? I feel like she's ready. She's
let's bloody do this, they think.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
So.

Speaker 3 (03:53):
Tomorrow, what number do you think has the one million
dollars behind it?

Speaker 6 (04:03):
Go with your gut tomorrow, because you've been going back
and forth this afternoon.

Speaker 4 (04:07):
Go with your gut. What is your gut saying to you?

Speaker 5 (04:10):
Seventy three?

Speaker 4 (04:12):
It's out there?

Speaker 2 (04:13):
Why seventy three?

Speaker 5 (04:14):
I have no idea. So when you guys rang me
and told me that I won, and you said it
was between one and one hundred, it was seventy three
that came to mind straightaway.

Speaker 4 (04:27):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (04:27):
You said to us that when you walked into the
studio before and you looked at seventy three, there was
a number, just three numbers.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
To the side of it. That gave you bit of energy?
Is that true?

Speaker 5 (04:38):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (04:38):
What number was that?

Speaker 5 (04:39):
Seventy six?

Speaker 2 (04:43):
It's not too late to change your mind.

Speaker 4 (04:46):
No, don't because you haven't touched the envelope yet.

Speaker 5 (04:48):
No, we're going seventy three.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
Once you have the envelope in your hand.

Speaker 4 (04:52):
You see the crowd outside.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
We can't change it.

Speaker 6 (04:55):
When you said seventy three, everyone out there got really excited.

Speaker 4 (05:00):
Do we reckon seventy three?

Speaker 5 (05:03):
Seventy three seventy three tomorrow?

Speaker 3 (05:07):
Please head over to the board and grab envelope seventy three.

Speaker 6 (05:14):
Okay, Tamara is walking over now.

Speaker 4 (05:19):
She's looking. Make sure it's the right one, Tomorra, And
on the envelope it.

Speaker 5 (05:23):
Should say a number seventy three.

Speaker 4 (05:25):
It says number seventy three. You've got it now.

Speaker 3 (05:28):
Can you unroll that envelope? Don't open it, just pop
the robber band off it and unroll it. Show that
envelope to the camera so we can see that it
says seventy three on it.

Speaker 4 (05:40):
There it is envelope seventy three. It's locked in.

Speaker 6 (05:44):
Tamara has made her choice. Does it contain one million dollars?

Speaker 2 (05:50):
What's your heart rate doing right now?

Speaker 6 (05:51):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (05:52):
My god, I'm panicking.

Speaker 2 (05:53):
It's in your hand. Whatever it is, it's in your hand.

Speaker 4 (05:56):
It makes it more real.

Speaker 5 (05:57):
Now, yeah, this is crazy.

Speaker 3 (05:59):
We will open tomorrow's envelope after this song.

Speaker 2 (06:03):
That song.

Speaker 4 (06:04):
Yeah, we're gonna let you wake.

Speaker 2 (06:05):
Come on, don't go anywhere the ZM podcast network.

Speaker 3 (06:09):
We are about to find out if tomorrow there's an
instant millionaire with Zidim's million dollar summer.

Speaker 4 (06:15):
I should have went to the toilet. I should have went.

Speaker 2 (06:18):
I would have wet myself if you missed it. Tomorrow
peck number seventy three three. Yes, the positive vibes vibe.

Speaker 6 (06:27):
Everyone in the crowd here is loving the seventy three choice.

Speaker 3 (06:31):
You guys on the text machine are not loving the suspense.
Someone has said, guys, I can't go and do my
grocery shopping until I've heard of Tomorrow's won the money.
Someone else said, guys, I'm literally late to pick my
kids up. This is costing me a dollar a minute
in daycare fees. Please put Tomara and me out of
my misery.

Speaker 4 (06:49):
Okay, well, now's that moment.

Speaker 3 (06:51):
Your boys are standing by in studio. Yeah, they're not
really phased here.

Speaker 4 (06:56):
They're kind of like Mum's just about to see if
she won a million bucks?

Speaker 2 (06:59):
Is no big tomorrow? Yeah, you have the envelope.

Speaker 4 (07:07):
Yeah, look at me.

Speaker 5 (07:11):
I'm okay.

Speaker 4 (07:12):
You've got it, And regardless of anything else, you're a winner.

Speaker 5 (07:16):
I've still win and I'm still great.

Speaker 4 (07:17):
You're still a winner.

Speaker 3 (07:19):
But wouldn't it be nice tomorrow goes home with ten
thousand dollars regardless of what's on that on you've.

Speaker 4 (07:25):
Got that, that's yours.

Speaker 6 (07:27):
Okay, but it's time to find out now if you've
won a million dollars?

Speaker 5 (07:33):
Should I open it?

Speaker 2 (07:34):
Open the envelope?

Speaker 4 (07:35):
Okay, come on, tomorrow, you got it.

Speaker 5 (07:42):
I don't want to look.

Speaker 3 (07:44):
There's a black piece of paper inside the envelope. Tomorrow
has it face down?

Speaker 4 (07:48):
Okay? Oh god, I thought I thought you just saw it.
It's the ten thousand dollars. It's okay, it's okay.

Speaker 5 (08:03):
It's okay, And I'm still so thankful. That is still amazing.

Speaker 4 (08:07):
You're still a winner.

Speaker 5 (08:08):
I'm still a winner, and you're.

Speaker 4 (08:10):
An amazing person.

Speaker 5 (08:11):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (08:12):
I dared to believe that it was the million.

Speaker 6 (08:14):
I believed it because I wanted it to happen for
you so bad.

Speaker 5 (08:18):
It better not bease the other number.

Speaker 6 (08:21):
Okay, before obviously we want to find out where the
million dollars.

Speaker 2 (08:26):
Was and we will, we will, but before we do that.

Speaker 6 (08:30):
Tomorrow, your story has really touched us all here at ZM.

Speaker 4 (08:34):
How get emotional talking about it.

Speaker 6 (08:37):
But this is something that wasn't meant to happen, but
we've pulled together last minute for you and your boys
because you deserve it, and we've managed to find another
five thousand dollars for your family.

Speaker 4 (09:01):
So you did, bloody when something.

Speaker 3 (09:03):
Yeah, there are a lot of people in these kinds
of positions at the moment, and your story really resonated
with so many people the universe collaborated with us to
find the right person, and we just we we want
to make you feel good. We want to set your

(09:24):
family up, so you bloody deserves.

Speaker 6 (09:26):
This tomorrow because you're a good person and everything happens
for a reason, and we're so glad that we can
be a part of this and we can make it
happen for you and your family.

Speaker 4 (09:36):
So congratulations, thank you so much, you're so well.

Speaker 2 (09:39):
I don't know if it's two motorbikes, but I.

Speaker 4 (09:41):
Mean it's not two motorbikes.

Speaker 6 (09:44):
They could share a little electric one yeah, yeah, yeah, okay,
fifteen thousand dollars.

Speaker 3 (09:49):
Do you think your nerves can handle finding out where
the million was?

Speaker 5 (09:53):
We've got to know, we've got to know, right, Yeah,
I'll kick myself.

Speaker 3 (09:58):
Okay, there is a master envelope out there somewhere that
has the number, and.

Speaker 4 (10:03):
It's under lock and key.

Speaker 2 (10:05):
What do we doing? Do we take it? Do we
go to play a song? We come back, We're gonna
where it is.

Speaker 4 (10:09):
We play a song tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
Imagine if it was seventy six.

Speaker 4 (10:13):
Stop it, don't do that to it.

Speaker 2 (10:15):
I wouldn't be seventy.

Speaker 4 (10:17):
It's going to be number two.

Speaker 2 (10:19):
There's so many people said thirty seven.

Speaker 3 (10:22):
Boy, all right, but we'll open the million dollar envelope
just for ships and gigs, mister see is it?

Speaker 7 (10:29):
M's Brinklin podcast tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (10:32):
Just opened envelope seventy three, which unfortunately was not the
million dollar envelope. That's okay, that's okay. It was ten
thousand dollars. We've managed to bump it up to fifteen
thousand dollars.

Speaker 5 (10:44):
It's pretty good, which is amazing, pretty damn good.

Speaker 2 (10:48):
We need to know, we need to know where the
million dollars was.

Speaker 4 (10:51):
Yes, we have to find out or else you'll always.

Speaker 5 (10:53):
Want to want it. Yeah, I'm always gonna think about it.

Speaker 4 (10:57):
Exactly.

Speaker 3 (10:58):
At the last minute, you had the opportune ready to
change to seventy six, which he said was giving you
positive vibes, three numbers away from seventy two. Bri You've
been saying the whole time that you had a feeling
about forty seven forty seven. Don't know why, And I
put the number out of THINNYA eighty three. Tomorrow's boys,
Esher and Exceller here in the studio you can hear them, boys, Hey, boys,

(11:19):
what number do you think the million dollars was behind?

Speaker 4 (11:22):
What number do you reckon? Have a look at that?
Have a look there? What number?

Speaker 6 (11:30):
Sixty thousand?

Speaker 2 (11:32):
Sixty thousand?

Speaker 1 (11:33):
Really good?

Speaker 2 (11:34):
Yess? I like that one.

Speaker 4 (11:35):
What about you? What do you reckon?

Speaker 2 (11:36):
Esha aking eighteen teen.

Speaker 6 (11:39):
Asher says he's changed his number about fifteen times, but
I reckon, you've landed on the right one there, Esher,
I think it is eighteen.

Speaker 3 (11:46):
I'm allowed to open the master envelope. We're allowed to
find out where the where the number actually was. This
feels kind of cruel doing this, but everybody around the
country would have had an idea, right, they would have
had someone.

Speaker 5 (11:59):
Would have guessed it, so probably, of course, and the
person who dead will be going, bloody knew it, bloody
knew it.

Speaker 2 (12:07):
Can you do that? You've got you're the expirit opening
these envelopes Tomorrow.

Speaker 4 (12:10):
Okay, okay, let's just pretend. Let's just pretend this is
the one.

Speaker 6 (12:14):
Okay, Okay, this is yeah, this is the one.

Speaker 4 (12:19):
Let's redo it.

Speaker 6 (12:20):
Okay, Tomorrow is about to open the envelope.

Speaker 4 (12:27):
All right, hold on, Asher wants to give it a go.

Speaker 2 (12:34):
Oh he's got it. He's taken off of the envelope.

Speaker 4 (12:36):
Maybe we'll never find out.

Speaker 2 (12:37):
He's actually doing a pretty good job getting it work.

Speaker 4 (12:39):
Asher.

Speaker 6 (12:42):
Oh God, they've put it into like six different envelopes.
It's really locked down.

Speaker 3 (12:45):
I opened an envelope which I handed tomorrow, who opened
an envelope, and now it's in said another envelope.

Speaker 4 (12:50):
It's like a Babushka set of envelopes. Here we go,
Where was it? Here we go?

Speaker 2 (13:00):
No, No, it's okay.

Speaker 5 (13:02):
The winning envelope is envelope thirty sets.

Speaker 4 (13:07):
Hey, you got to.

Speaker 5 (13:09):
Be happy with that because it wasn't seventy, It wasn't seventy.

Speaker 3 (13:12):
Set, go and grab it, go and grab the thirty six, Brion.
Let's just confirm. I mean obviously it is, but I
want to see what the million dollar one look like.

Speaker 4 (13:19):
Yeah, here we go. You can help me open it.
Are you ready, Esha? And you've ripped that one?

Speaker 1 (13:25):
There?

Speaker 5 (13:30):
Wrap the bottom. They want to be involved, they've got
to be involved, just taking over.

Speaker 2 (13:44):
We've got the better paper. Come on, let's have a
look at it. What does it say?

Speaker 4 (13:49):
Yeah, it's there.

Speaker 3 (13:51):
It's the million dollar one there.

Speaker 2 (13:54):
Congratulations, you would have one a million dollars tomorrow. We're
so stoked for you regardless.

Speaker 5 (14:03):
Yeah, thank you so much. I'm so thankful.

Speaker 4 (14:05):
You're not walking away with a million.

Speaker 6 (14:07):
You're walking away with fifteen thousand dollars though, which we
hope makes a big difference to you and your family's lit.

Speaker 5 (14:13):
Thank you so so much.

Speaker 3 (14:14):
Thanks for giving us your time, Thanks for spending the
day with us. Thank you, and good luck with everything.
Thanks boys, nice to meet you.

Speaker 4 (14:20):
Thanks guys. Should we give it a go again next year?

Speaker 3 (14:26):
Thanks to everybody who entered to wins its million dollar Summer.

Speaker 2 (14:29):
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Speaker 7 (14:33):
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