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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The z M podcast Network, The Fleshphonne and Haley Big Pod.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Great things are brewing at mcafe, the perfect start to
every day play Fletch, Porn and Haley.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Thank you Brian, good morning, Welcome to the show. Fltchfawn
and Haley. And we're down in Haley this morning.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Yeah, she kep inches in the snow too much for.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
That little family at turned thirty five and her amused,
no more, not today. Yes, she was sick on the
plane yesterday, wasn't she. I was right next to her.
I was snoring because she was asleep. Ft Wait I
had headphones, ah right, so I couldn't tell she was
snoring on her but she had her sunglasses on, hoodie
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pulled over her head.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Yep. Yeah, she was away with the fairies. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
So yeah, hopefully she'll be back with us tomorrow. I'll
get the top six on the way.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Yeah. A medical center that was struggling was apparently given
the advice to put a cafe in. It made financial sense.
It's of course, when I'm surrounded by sick people who
are there to be treated because they're sick, I always think, man,
I could do with the muffin in this open air
I'm sharing with people with communicable diseases.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
I'm always in the doctor's waiting room surrounded by posters
of you know, like meningitis and yeah, cancer and melanoma.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
And all those. And I think I would actually love
a marcatina, right, yes, with aquiche. Yeah, with a marketina
and an open topped TIChE and a custard square. You know,
they do call the custard square.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
The peetri dish of the bakery. But yeah, I mean
g GPS is struggling at the moment, because you think
about it, they're running a business there. Yeah, you go
to that old house that used to be someone's house
in the fifties, it's now a GP center.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Yeah, they're struggling.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
They've got to pay the rates, the mortgage, the powers.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Everything tough times because out of control, and so people
can't even get a doctor. So I have got a
suggestion for the top six types of shops and side shops,
stores and store.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Yeah, okay, because dairies I don't want to ruin your list,
but dairies do this with the vapes.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
They have a mini in Yeah they do, because they've
got their ordinary dairy sign and then they've got that
dairy's name in pink above it and vapes and different writing,
don't they And that's how they got around some sort
of legislation that was born, and I mean famously cafes
and side garden centers and hardware STOs. Oh yeah, it's
at least got some more stools inside stores.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Okay, some great ideas coming up soon in the top six.
Next on the show, though, Mount Everest, you're familiar. I'm
familiar with the world's tallest mountain, Edmund Hillary, New Zealand,
the first one to conquer.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Knock the barket off. Yeah, well, someone resurrects Red Oh god?
He next to get back up there. I don't know
if that's going to be possible. Well, we'll see where
do they What did they do it through? Did they
bury him or cremate them? Surely some of the ashes
made their way up Everest, like give it a sprinkle,
sure sprinkle. Oh well, I'm not sure either. I'll look
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into that also, but I've got some news on Everest.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Next play z Ins Fleashborne and Hailey.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Mount Everest is the world's tallest mountain. Yes, from sea level?
What's that? Remember? There's another one I know that's right,
that it's that volcano if you take it from the
base of the ocean, of the sea floor of the sea,
because isn't there that one that comes up, and it's
just one continuous and massive. So it would be taller
than Everest if it was all above sea level, right,
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but it's not so mountains from sea level, well, Everest
is growing and continues to grow, so right, like how much?
Like wow, incrementally in the last eighty nine thousand years. Okay,
they got me in on this. They got me in
on this. You've clickbaited erosion pushing Mount Everest's peak higher.
(03:44):
Research shows, and so I was immediately I was taught
in geography.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
The erosion is what stops mountains from growing. The tectonic
plates push together and go holes and falls down.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Yeah, and the top is the weakest part. It's like
if you know, not an ice cream that's not quite right.
This is the tip of the ice cream is the
weakest part of the ice cream is not quite If
you were making a cake and then you were just
trying to make it higher and higher, here, cake's not
gonna be able and the tops the weakest part. It
would topple down so mount That's how I thought it
would work. But apparently it's pushing it up because of
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the some erosion by neighboring rivers. Right, it's kind of
pushing things together.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
So not in the last year, but in the last
one hundred thousands.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Half a milli year as a result of the erosion
of nearby rivers. Okay, according to some Chinese university research,
So sincere d how much has it gone on? Fifty
so seventy years and then seven thirty five mil okay
thround a half centimeutes, so out of everybody, he's actually, yeah,
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climb that they've had right on the top. Yeah, they've
actually than haven't they? Yeah they have. I mean as
soon as he went up and came back down and
the next person went up, you know, if we're if
we're it was a year.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
But then he was also quite tall, that is true.
He was very tall.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
He was what was surid rocket and I'd put Suid
at six four I'm just gurgling the one ninety eight. Yeah,
he was a boy. It was a big unit boy,
six foot five. Although very tall, he was stronger than
his fellow climbers.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Right, so most climbers he would be taller than anyway. Well,
I mean, I don't know the tallest person to climb Everest.
That might don't have an extensive the entire Nepalese population
where Siddy the giant, he'd be a giant in Nepal.
So even with that millimeter a year, Yeah, he's still
going to be taller, yes, on the top of the
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world than most.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
People that have climbed Everest. I've just found a TikTok
for meeting Nepole's tallest man, Rajah Howari, tallest man.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
He's very very tall, right, because I just kind of
said everyone in Nepal was short and we did well.
I said that That's why I said I wasn't familiar
with the entire population of Paul's heights. Is there like
an extensive directory of everyone that's climbed Everest?
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Or is it just too too many people? Now?
Speaker 4 (06:17):
Like?
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Is there there must be? There must be documents of
every good and that climbing season there is literally like
a bloody oh it's I wouldn't enjoy that. The line
up to Everest, well, no, you're literally lining up in
a zone called the deaths zone where your body starts
to shut down due to you know, the elements around,
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the lack of oxygen, the temperature, the exposure.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Yeah, and the guy in front of you is moving slowly.
It's like, no way, that just sounds like absolute hell
on earth.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Yeah, no way, that's not Let me. I'm getting a height.
I've found his name. I'm getting it. He's eight foot
four inches the tallest man in Nepal.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Okay Tensing Norgay, who was the sherpard that climbed with
Syrid with one point seven to three meters.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
That is okay, So that's pretty that's pretty good. He
must have been pretty tall. But compared to Syrit, of course, Yeah,
he looked short and he was carrying all the gear.
Got a little feller seven foot three is how tall?
The tallest Nepalese man as the tallest person Okay. I
just wanted to creet myself there and no further insult
the people of Nepal.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Fledgeborn and Haley.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
I haven't applied for a job and a very long time.
You would be the same. Well, we've been working together
for twenty years.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Yeah, I mean I'm applying for jobs all the time.
Get me out of here. You're a monster. But I
don't seem to be successful.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
You just so you're stuck here with me and Hayle
till I work out like what you're doing with Live
or when you win lotto.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Yeah, that's kind of everybody's escape plan, isn't it. Don't
feel I mean this part of our industry, a job
application would be weird. Yeah, like like sitting in a resume.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Every time I've applied for a radio job, it's been
like our do you have? Like initially it was like,
do you are like a highlights reel? Yeah, you're doing
a radio show?
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
And then it might be an informal phone call or interview. Yeah,
and you ask me now, I'd say, piss, I'll find
the podcast. That's what I'd say.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
And I'd be like, man, I love this guy's attitude.
Hire him now.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
But increasingly more people are using AI to help them
get a job. A study out of America showed that
seventy three percent of Americans have used AI on their
job application that they were applying for and that they
got the job. I would one hundred percent use one
hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Because if they've got some tips, because the systems that
they're using.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Now, a lot of the companies in America, and it
must be the same here in New Zealand. I think
there was a set in Fortune five hundred companies, so
those are the big the five hundred biggest companies in America.
Ninety nine percent of those companies are using ATIS software,
which is like applicant tracking software they call it.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
So they're it's all computerized what into company? So they
could say they applied for a job here, and you.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Know the companies. Each of these companies are using the
software right and apparently it's very rar now that a
human will actually read your CV in the early stages,
so AI scans it there what they're looking for, so
they tell AI what they're looking for and then this
scans through. So people are using AI and suggesting key
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keywords that help them get through. Those like to be
packed up by the computer software.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
That's glimmer. It's clever a it's saving time, isn't it
just filtering out the good stuff? Yeah? So yeah, there
are the taps.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Basically, you know, say that you want to prompt that
you want a cover letter, you paste your CV, you
pace the relevant job description, and then review and edit
the cover letter yourself. Those are the taps that you
should do. Okay, but yeah, apparently. Yeah, using AI is
just the way to go.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
I'm on it now. I see. Can you help me
create a job application? It said, absolutely. I can have
you with that to get started. To provide some details
about the job you're applying for, your qualification, any specific
experience you might like highlight? Okay toiraft patter Okay, the
job is to pat yep giraffes three times a day. Three.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
How often do giraffes need pants? I don't think they
need pets at all. That sounds like you should. That
sounds like a unique and fun job. It doesn't it,
That's what That's what I said. Here's a draft of
your application. Okay, dear hiring manager, I'm excited to apply
for the position of GIRAFT padding specialist. With a deep
appreciation for wildlife and a passion for animal care, I
(10:32):
believe it'd be an excellent for this unique role.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Yeah. I've always had a fascination with girafts and their
gentle nature. My previous experience working with animals at insert
zoo here has equipped me with the skills necessary to
engage safely and respectfully with these majestic creatures. I understand
the importance of it and trust and ensuring the well
being of the animals and my care. In addition to
the hands on experience, I've got a strong background in
insert any relevant educational training here. I am committed to
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providing the best possible experience for both the animals and
the visitors, making it each interaction meaningful and enjoyable. That is,
while that took you like what two seconds to type
that in and I literally said giraffe pattern three times
a day and it worked out that that I you know,
my also completely embellished that you have this passion and
experience with pat and you're going to bring my enthusiasm
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and dedication to insert company here and contribute to creating
memorable experiences for guests while ensuring the comfort and happiness
of the drafts. This is just all.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
It just means that work is going to be hiring
people that know how to use AI and that are lazy.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Can you help my daughter write a short paragraph to
be given to the neighbors offering her services keeping their
cats company while they are at work, which is a
(11:53):
great service, right, yeah, right? Trying to get my neighbors,
my name is and sort daughter's name here, and I
love cats. Oh my name is Fletch and I love cats.
I would like to offer my services to keep your
theory friends company while you're at work. I can play
with them, give them some treats, and make sure they
feel loved and happy. If you're interested, please let me know.
I'd be excited to help holiday job for your daughter.
(12:16):
Just put around and shed bloody love.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
It good ai A. I mean it's scary, but god
it's good.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Yeah. And it's now going to write the Top six
because I've got one and five more to.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Guys play s Fleitchforn and Hailey blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah. This is the Top six.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Hello, good morning, I'm welcome to the Top six. A
struggling GP practices house, New Zealand committee told them to
start a cafe to bring in cash inside the clinic.
It's not like, hey, you've got that spare space out
the front. It's a separate title and whatever. It's a
little bit of way start a cafe, which might work
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if you're in the waiting room in that I come
back to fifteen and you popped out and you got
a coffee, and you can. Everyone's here a coffee. Everybody's like, yeah,
but that's why it has to be a separate building.
But you're right, it's right next to the doctor, the
whole thing. I mean.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Yeah, doctors are struggling like people, like they're shutting down.
People can't get appointments for weeks, and some people can't
even enroll to get a local GP.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Others are hosting sausage sizzles and asking patients to pay
one forward to help patients who can't afford the rising fees.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
It's nuts crazy, right, yeah, shovers, Well, I've got the
Off the back of that, I've got the top six
other stores to put inside stores. Yeah, okay, number six
on the list a pet store inside a bank. Okay,
because then you'll be like oh and you'll walk over
and the person from the bank is like, I'm just
checking your account. You can't afford that? Oh okay, and
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hand get that cat. Yeah you can afford.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Actually, no, don't go for that nice, expensive one that's
going to have high medical bills because if it's inbreding.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Go for that one there that'll live forever on the
smell of an oily ray because I can see your accounts. Yeah,
I can see the accounts that it's not looking good. And
also banks have been downsizing so much, like a lot
of the branches have been shutting because no one goes
into the bank anymore. Yes, you're like old, yeah, because
you're stilled.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
On you the exact sort of person that then is
going to get scammed on the phone because they're going
to call you and you're like, finally someone from the bank. Yeah,
and then it's not it's a scammer now. Five on
the list of the top six stores and side stores.
Clothing store inside a gym. As someone who was this
year totally smelled at the gym, it would have been
a great sales switch to get immediately.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Yeah, I know a lot of them sound like, you know,
you've got the protein shakes.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Yeah, might have a little protein campaign. I'm talking about
a clothing store.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Yeah, right, you get some gym clothes or gym clothes
are on the way out.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
You might just be like, actually, I'll just nip in
there and get some fresh.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
How many times you're like, oh, I forgot my gym
pants or gym tops, I'd better go home. You can't
go home. You can buy a new top by them there,
But it's like at an airport. They'll just hike the
prices because they've got you. Yeah, by the short end
of the curlies. Number four on the to the top
sex stores and side stores. Lolly shop inside a hardware
store because I.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Always buy a said, I'll always buy a three pack
of peanut slabs coconut. Yeah, the arm and gold. It
does surprise me because trade's love.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
That little meta afternoon sugar hat and Lolly's lovely.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
You'd think minded him would do more lolly.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
More lollies, more lollies. There's quite a few lollies up
in the trade part, is there? Yek, there's more lolly
lolly store.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Yeah, with a guy in a red and white striped
shirt and a little apron on the front.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Yes, like a Willy Wonka. Yeah, started that movie and
you're like, whereabouts to the jet planes. He's like Aisle
sas he always knows exactly. I'm not saying I need
to take over the entire store. I was, Oh, okay,
you was calling.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
For a lolly.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
I'm going that's a lolly, see exactly. It's insane.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Number three on the list of the top sex stores
and side stores. Sleeping booths. Yeah, like a short term
higher by the hour. Okay, like a hotel pod, smaller pods,
you know those ones you see in Japan. You're climbing
to the hecks are going and it looks like a beehive.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Absolutely not no way, sleeping both at a mechanics workshop.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Oh you ever know how long they're going to be? Yes,
or at VTNS it. Yeah, climb up there and have
a little snows in the car park. Put your can
in the thing, and then climb up and have yourself
an hour's snow. Love that because otherwise you just sit
in your car.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Yeah, not a comfortable snot where you sit in the
waiting room, sitting in the waiting room at number two
on the last of the top six stores inside stores.
If you're a barber shop or a hairdresser and you're straggling,
how about a broom or vacuum store inside your store. Oh,
and then you can show them how good it is.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
And ye, here because a lot of them.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Already have like like a barista in stareter and there
where you can buy a coffee or.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Get a free one.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
A lot of barbers and here I've seen I've seen
somebody who said it, Yeah, lots too.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Oh, I've never had that. I've been offered a drink before.
Oh yeah, at a barber's that was a nice touch.
But I've just seen a vacuum store or a coffee
Did they make it in there?
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Yeah, there's one just down the road and number one
of the.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Lists of the top six stores inside stores a butchery yep,
inside a flower shop. Flower shop inside, right, so you
can pick up your meat balls for dinner and buy
your wife some flowers. Then yeah, totally. Yeah, it would
be a reminder to pick up some flowers every now
and okay here, I mean that's just a supermarket, isn't
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it what you describing there? It's getting there have bread.
It doesn't have bread or milk. That is to day's
self sex.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Play.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Halloween is how many days are we well, tomorrow's man
this year?
Speaker 3 (17:49):
One, two, three, This year is flying good mass on
the fly from Tomorrow's a tenth, three weeks from the tenth.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Yeah, it's twenty one days later.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
It's a Thursday, and that means a lot of people
will have Halloween parties. I guess the weekend before or
the weekend after. I would go after because it's the
closest after.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Is you're not going to be here as that wide
at got moved. Wow, there's a whole lot of reasons, right, Yeah,
that's just what Never wants.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
That's the first weekend of November. You got your second
and your third of November. First of no end is
your Friday. I mean I'm spelling this out.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
The day after you should need anyway costumes, easy costumes
pop culture references two twenty twenty four references for costumes.
What's going to be easy? What are people going to
be dressing? As? There was a an article about it,
and I found a Reddit thread where people are speculating
on what's going to be massive this year? Okay, Jojo
Sewa with the whole member how she did the black,
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black and white face plant and kind of looked a
bit like casp claimed that she was doing something no
one had ever done before and that was a bit
of fun. Fallout that's easy because that's just a pair
of overalls. You can make your own on the TV show.
You could make your own fall out bunker costume. That
would be very easy. Love that show. Have they been
filming more? Because I know, have you seen the last
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of us New Trainer. I know I haven't.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
That's got to be good as well. That's the start
of next year. That's only a few months away.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Yeah, so that's ZIM and video games. There's lots of
video games and TV shows that have been made from
video games.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
It could go as I feel like a lot of
people did squid games. But they are new seasons coming up.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
That could be a Halloween. They're right, Yeah, you.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Can buy those costumes. Yeah, they saw that, didn't they.
They knew they saw that coming.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Someone on this thread said, I'm going to go as
a boweing Jit and just crash parties. Funny, that's good
from them inside out to somebody said they'll speculate that
and Travis and Taylor costumes like couples will go as Okay,
just Maddie and Ryan did last year. I did they? Yeah,
(19:56):
so they were ahead of they were hit of the
curve on that was Taylor Swift. Ryan as Travis Kelcey
is okay, Um yeah, Rome, would you go as Chapel Roone?
I love Chapel Ryan, And I think once you've got
any like a red colored wig, you could just wear
the wackiest ship you could find and just say it
was I remember Chapelon did a concert dresses. This just
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goes chaperone. She's always Oh my god. Someone on the said,
is it time to return to the Austin Power's back? No,
surely not the Hocktour girl. I don't know how you dresses,
so you'd probably have to look like her.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Yeah, or just spend the whole night and this won't
be annoying at all, just doing doing that the hock
tur Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Somebody said brat. Yeah, so like furs and sunglasses inside
and Charlie just very easy one. Yeah, lots of different Wicked, Yeah,
because that movie is coming out if you want to
put yourself green. But that's also like they just look
like Shrek as well, and people get confused, and somebody
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on this said, I'm I'm currently bored from chemo looking
to well before my hair grows back, make the most
of you being able to do a board costume. Well,
so then ask for suggestions. What were people saying.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Uncle Fessta from the Adams Family, Yep, yep, a blue
man from the Blue Man Group. Oh no, no, that's
you're going to get blue all over your pillow.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
You Blue yourself, Jean Captain, Jean Picard or any any
you could go as professor X. Yeah. People are also
saying the joker because of the secret. Yeah. People aren't
liking it. And I'm one of those people. When I
found out it was a musical, I haven't seen it
when I found it as a music, and I said,
what you're going back through all the press like the
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next one's going to be a musical. The next one's
going to be a musical. They've been telling us a lot.
All right, wait, thing is a music. It's a musical.
Oh no way.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Yeah, Reagan the Australian breakdown, So that's got to be
pretty easy. A lot of people saying that you just
get a green track, so yeah, and gold tracksuit.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Bridget in Dune so that movie came out earlier this year.
You just get a little bit of pipe and they
wear the things up a little bit of put a
bit of pipe and you put a straw straw put
that on your schnoozies and then they wear all black
and they were a yep, scarf sort of situation.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
There.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
You got some great ideas. Yeah, no, no New Zealand
politicians on the list. Oha held you. If you're a
small ball band, then you could totally got a suit on. Yeah,
and goes the Prime Minister. You could totally do that.
Great it ms Fletch, Vaughn and Haley silly little pool.
(22:43):
It is so silly, silly, silly, that silly little pool.
I think we just discussed this yesterday because it was
Hailey's birthday. Yeah, and the producer a girl. He said
are you going to cry? And Hailey said, what do
(23:03):
you mean? And they said, don't you just like every
birthday have like a little cry? Which, what are you
talking about? This is a thing.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
Yeah, it's definitely a bo but why are you crying?
Speaker 1 (23:13):
It's your birthday, It's a happy day.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
It just like, is this trope that girlies always say
that cry. It's whether it's at a party or the
morning off or someone lets you down. Every birthday the
girlies just have a little cry.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Jeez, you need some better friends.
Speaker 5 (23:28):
You've got to reflect on the last year.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
It makes you cry.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
It doesn't necessarily mean a bad cry.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
I cry, okay, just another year on this planet exactly.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
And like chatting with your partner like oh yeah, Ira.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Is well, I mean you know what you're not alone
because I thought this was ridiculous, and then these results
came in, and do.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Birthdays give you a mini crisis slash make you cry?
Forty four percent of ever said yes, fifty six percent
said no, just over half. Well that's so.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
I mean, I guess there are a lot of expectations
on people or they put them on themselves, like at
a certain age, I'm going to be married, I'm going
to have.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Kids, YadA, YadA. That's why I ever set goals. Yeah,
you fail and it feels bad. Whereas if you have
no expectations and things go, well, yeah, that feels good,
then you can just enjoy your birthday. Yeah, well some people.
Sam says, I can't explain it. I hate getting presents.
Everyone looks at you when you're opening the minutes weird
and you just feel weird. I couldn't care less about
(24:27):
getting older, though, it's just what everyone's looking for. This
is I feel a lot of pressure. All right, okay, okay, easy,
just don't get presents and don't have people. Melanie said
that I'm getting older, but I have friends who don't
get to have birthdays anymore. So each birthday is a
gift and way way better than the alternative. Oh wow,
look privileged, privileged experience the old birthday expectations are never
(24:50):
met on how special I am, how special I believe
I am to be treated it, says Meredith, who sells
like a notemare.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
So she set expectations high again. Manage expected life. It's
all about managing expectations exactly. Some people call it negatives.
Some people call it avoiding disappointment by managing your expectations.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Preacher says, yes, I cry. I don't know why. It's
not always sad. I just feel like it's a big
day and then I just have a cry. Wow, just
in the presence of the day. I'm a robot. Yeah,
cry on my birthday. I don't think the anniversary or
something bad happening. Then you might be late. Yeah, but
not a birthday. Yes, but this year I went abroad
(25:33):
and it was a birthday I've ever had in a
long long time, says Mal. Maybe that's the trick. Yeah,
get out of the country on your birthday.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Do you remember that time I missed my entire birthday
flying home. Yes, And if you don't like birthdays, that
could be a tip for you. Fly back from the
I don't know, somewhere at northern hemisphere. Yeah, and miss
Ada or Europe yeah, missed no, because if they come
back from Europa the other way, it's got to be that.
I'm going to go Europe America home.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Leave the night before your birthday, and then you will
land the day after and there you go, no one
looking at you, no tears, perfect, no cake, well they
might be cake on the plane, no candles. You could
take a little cake for yourself. You eat it before, though,
and don't bring it through customs. It's a privilege to age,
said Rachel. Embrace it as you are lucky. Yeah, Carolyn
(26:20):
says yes, but only because no one does anything special
or exciting for me. So it's just another boring day,
except now I'm sad for my sake. If you know, Carolyn, Yeah,
make her birthday's.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Special, will you.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
She's been brought to tears, Linda. No, Christmas is when
I do my cry. Oh what does all the families together?
It's emotional? Maybe family not there? Good or bad cry.
I'm not exactly sure.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
And Meghan said, last birthday, my darling husband forgot my birthday.
The year before that, I had terrible gastro and these
things coming three, so I'm a bit worried about this year. Yeah, well,
he won't forget again. No, no, he won't forget again.
And if he does, maybe he's going to lose the
title of husband. I think that is a little.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Pom plays z ms fleshed one in Hailey.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Well, it has been announced that Cinnabon is coming to
New Zealand. Now I know Carwen's excited because you've had
this overseas. It's always at airport, say.
Speaker 5 (27:13):
Yeah, or like those big shopping centers.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
Yes, it's they're always in mauls in America. They've been
going like forty years or something, but they're finally coming here.
Because you know, I love a cinnebun. It's a better
coal soul.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Yes, when he goes into witness, when he goes into
the sort of like black market witness protection because it's
not official, not official gunment issued witness protection. Because I
still have to finish bitter Calls song. Oh my god,
ages to finish it. I know, age is to finish it,
but you gotta You've got to watch it on a
roll too. So much happens, everybody raves about it. It's yeah,
(27:47):
it's on par with breaking bed. Really. He moves to
Omaha and manages a cinebon and they did look yum.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
Oh yeah, they're um. Like they don't hold back on
the icing and that you know. I love a cinnamon
bun with lots of icing.
Speaker 5 (28:00):
Yeah, and like like they always have them warm, the warm,
fresh melty O.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
When do they ice them? You can't ice a warm bun?
Speaker 6 (28:09):
No, but I think they like where they're stored and
the store is like constantly a little bit warm.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
I think it's on like one of those heating kind
of buffet tray that would work, yeah, because it's heating
from below, but at the bottom it was a room heat.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
The icing wouldn't set the glaze stuff. It's good stuff.
It is more of a glaze and ice just brilliant.
I don't know, I don't think i've had one.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
I think I squealed when I saw the female come through,
like it's exciting.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
It's exciting. Yeah, I mean, how are we going on
the obesity rings the country? Do you want to be
number one or not? That's what I'm saying, just like
pulling out all the stuff one. I'm happy to one
with cinnamon buns. Good stuff. It's good news New Zealand.
Next on the show, we're going to play Vaughden Smiths
(28:57):
were rank and we number three or four or something
and not according to this sir, Where are we? Where
are we? Where are we? We've got to be up
here somewhere. Why are we on this list?
Speaker 4 (29:11):
What list?
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Do you look? American number one? Yeap number two? Who
did this list? It's by data at the World Obesity
Global Obesity Observatory website. Like an observatory on top of
the hill that looks at the stars, except that looks
for obesity. Right, okay, what are you in? New Zealand?
(29:32):
Thirty one, Well, that's fantastic. Thirty one we're just we're
behind Iraq. We're just done between Iraq and Bahraine. Oh fantastic.
Well that's good. Australia thirty six we were beating Australia. Yeah,
we jest, we jest, we yes, it is very serious.
It's not great as a Ethiopia one of the population
(29:53):
is obese. Huh. They've got a range of other things
to do, so they're probably but just then obesity like
a like a like a like a fat canon to
be honest, play play Fall Siren black Furst, it's back
(30:17):
by popular to Mark. Nope, no, it's it's back because
it's Wednesday and we're tired and Hailey's away. Well, if
you wanted the truth to be honest, it is a
carryover there as well. We did have to carry this
over and solve this riddle of what siren is this?
(30:38):
So you're looking for the country and the emergency service? Okay,
did I say on air last time something about this
country is that the lights are on a sizzle left
type thing on the top of the roof of the
car on some of the places I think you did
at the end above taller vehicles.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Oh that's genius, that's genius. That's really clever. Okay, well,
by now what country is it?
Speaker 4 (31:01):
Waite?
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Hundred dollars and we needed to give us a call now, Bicky,
good morning, first up, this morning, good morning, good morning. Okay,
what do you think, Bicky?
Speaker 5 (31:11):
Well, there's this is a list that gave me the clue.
I think it is a police car from Japan.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Has she done it?
Speaker 3 (31:18):
She's she's done it, straight out straight out the gates.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Hey, I don't know what you win, Vaughn. I remember
what do you want? What we promised last time. I
think it's Kurdos, lots of curd or double Kurdos. Actually,
jackpotted kurd is great.
Speaker 5 (31:33):
I mean it's the best segment that you have in
the entire week.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Tuesday. No, I don't know if it is, Bicky, I
don't know. Don't encourage Vaughn. We just ran a quick
survey of ellis there's a one hundred percent of the
belief the world Tuesday. I think you've got to ask
more people. I think we do to get a bit
of sample. We just want to publicize the sample size. Okay,
I want to take this. I think you know what, Bicky,
that's a KPI tick. You think so?
Speaker 5 (31:56):
Yeah, yeah, you guys help you with your KPI.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
You helped us with Mike our KPIs. And I don't
know if you've got any KPIs on the go, but
give yourself two texts for any KPIs you've got, because
that's fantastic, brilliant.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
Congratulations Becky winning Sirens of the Week. I don't know
if this would be back Sirens of the World.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
I don't know if there's to be soo many countries
to good and the best, but is it's only ever
firepolice or ambulance. Yeah. And we've got one hundred and
two hundred odd countries in this world. I don't know
how many they are up to now. The wars and
stuff happened all the time. They're split in half some night.
So what you're saying is this could just continue for
a long time to come. You bet, it's great. It's
(32:33):
sort of a sort of endless. And that's great news
for Becky who. I don't know if you guys caught
the news about the survey. I just ran. It's a
favorite thing in the.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
World play z ms, Fletchfahn and Haley.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
The world now has a new richest female musician, overtaking Rihanna.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
I mean this is going to be hard. Wait are
we including Rihanna's everything? Yes, so this is Forbes.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
I have said that Taylor Swift, who what a year
ago became a billionaire herself, is now more of the
billionaire than Rihanna. She has the top title worth one
point six billion dollars, citing her sold out eras tour
and she's the first female musician to do this mostly.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Off just touring. I was going to say, because Rihanna's
all comes from the panties please don't say please Lingerie,
the fragrance and pantis in the Brazil, and then in
the makeup and the Maker and the makeup the fragrance
side of music. While she's had some of the biggest songs,
you know, biggest streaming songs ever Oldriana. Yeah, but it's
(33:39):
all come from her outside extra correctly Correctlia Curricula Taylor
Swift worth one point six billion dollars. She holds one
hundred and twenty five million in real estate holdings. Ah, what,
she's a slum lord. She's well switch as a slum lord,
ringing the landlord. Hey, the lights have start working and
then there's a lee and the electricity is like the arkaheera.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
I mean, I think they're all her places. I don't
think she's like I don't think she has a rental
and toad oner or. I don't know Wellington the market,
so I don't know.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
I don't need to know what her real estate holdings are. Well,
I'm guessing just where she lives. What one hundred and
twenty five million dollars. I mean, you think she's land banking.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
Now you're telling me she's landbank She's got that insane
apartment in New York, Right, that's worth like that'd be
like half of that surely, or like at least a
third of that. It's probably only like three or four places,
but that does probably mean.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
Okay okay, okay, wow, okay, okay, Taylor swifts real estate
portfolio is truly golden. I've got a Tribeca penthouse. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
Watch her estate on Rhode Island, a Beverly Hills mansion. Yeah,
that must she's got both posts covered Greek revival estate.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
I don't know this. This realtor has got a more
succinct and she's got a Nashville house. Yeah, she's got
a Christmas tree farm. Get out of that. Is she
maintaining the pines? That's a full time job.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
Talis for fans, Swifties, please explain she owns a Christmas
tree farm?
Speaker 6 (35:06):
Well, I assume that that maybe she's bought it from
her parents, like she grew up on a Christmas tree farm.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
Oh that stripe, I remember that. Okay, So I.
Speaker 5 (35:14):
Guess maybe she bought it now under her name, buying
your parents, like farm organizing her life.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
Yeah, she's got a waterfront home in Hendersonville, Tennessee. A
Nashville condo. She's air being being these when she's away.
She said, do you think so she's got a Greek
revival mansion? What is a Greek revival mansion? What's a
reviving Greek colons and vases? A mid century modern mansion
(35:47):
that's in Los Angeles. Then she had a quick flip.
She's flipping. Really, she's flipping. Really. Do you think she's
paying capital gains tax? Well? Definitely and definitely in LA surely.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:58):
Well, other female musicians on the list, Beyonce is several
spots below Taylor Swift worth only seven hundred and sixty
million dollars, although jay Z, although jay Z is worth
two point six billion, So I mean she overtook him
at one stage?
Speaker 1 (36:15):
No, well, I mean is he making his money on? Well?
Was he was record company? Right?
Speaker 3 (36:21):
And wasn't he like Merchan selling stuff as well? But yeah,
insane amounts of money and she you know, she's meant
to have a couple more albums coming up. Who Taylor
Swift so greedy? Can she get to two billion?
Speaker 1 (36:36):
Maybe? Like year landlords? Man, that's just it's hard to
see them getting richer and richer, but they just they
keep doing it. You know, imagine if Taylor Swift came
around and you were like, oh, there's something wrong, and
she just came around and painted over, slapped some paint
on it. Yeah, take it to tendency and you're like, oh,
can we get an extract a fan in the bathroom.
She's like, I pen that one day, Like that's.
Speaker 4 (36:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
It was a bathroom with no like one tiny window
and no draft. And I didn't extract a fan the safe.
I need it for a healthy homes ringer. Don't you
tell the government you out? You don't even find reading
that's cheap again play. I have a story and a
published article, but I also have my own story regarding this.
(37:20):
I saw an Instagram reel, or as a lot of
people call it, curated TikTok the cream of TikTok. Yeah, okay,
it's risen to the top, and I put it on
Instagram reels, refined it as such. And it was a woman.
She was a millennial. Yeah, I say, she's young, younger
than man think. She was like late thirties. Yeah, and
she's like, I did not want to be a manager. Millennials,
(37:42):
we don't want to be managers. And she's like and
this is why. And it was a series of her
answer in the phone when her employees called as to
why they couldn't or would not be coming into work
that day okay, And it was wild stuff. What were
their expens I just saw this car on One of
them was like, this guy been, I just saw this
car on marketplace and I'm just going to drive down
and check it out today. She's like, it's Thursday. Wait
(38:04):
for the weekend. He's like it might be gone by then,
so yeah, I'm not coming in today. She's like, you
don't have any leave. He's like, ah, come on. It
was just the wildest. And another girl was like a
guy rang and he's like hello, and she didn't recognize
the number. She's like hello and he's like, I'm calling
on behalf of Abby. She's not going to be in today?
(38:26):
Oh why is she? Okay? Oh, she's just not feeling well.
Can I talk to her? He's like, oh, she's here,
but she doesn't really want to talk because she feels
like you're going to try to make it come to work.
She's what is going on? She's like, I hate this.
I don't want to be dealing with this. And then
there was a story an article published online where a
(38:47):
guy who owns a plumbing company was talking about how
he has received calls from the parents of his employees, yeah,
saying can you please employ my children, rather than the
person calling themselves I would like to work because they
don't want to use the fine No. No, And then
when they call on sick, they get their parents to
call in and be like, hey, they can't make it.
They're sick today. So he said, thank god, they get
(39:09):
their parents to get them a job, and then they
get their parents to ring in and say to me, sick, sick,
He's not going to be able to make it. It's
the same. Well, whereas I'm sure Tammy could have just
easily sent a message yeah, called the boss himself. Yeah,
just man, because you've got to call If you're going
to tr vincent sicky, you've got to call it me.
Speaker 3 (39:25):
You're not hiring someone if their parents asking you to
employ their son or they want to get it here people.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
Being like, oh, hi, my son's you know, and his
last year of UNI. You know, is there any work going.
It's like business last you're ren to get him to
inquire about It's my way. I would have said, get
your bloody sound. My mom was just like, are you crazy? Yeah.
She would have explained to me how bad that looks.
(39:53):
Yeah exactly, and I'd be like, oh, okay, that makes sense. Yeah,
and then you would have done it. Yeah, but we
want to know today, maybe you're on the other end
of the thing. You you are a millennial who's been
forced into management. Yeah, we're not made for it, not
want the responsibility. We want to roll in. We want
to do it and we want to go home.
Speaker 3 (40:10):
Yeah, and just get the paycheck and forget about it,
get it out, get home, get get out.
Speaker 1 (40:15):
Of it, leave it there. But when you're a management manager,
I just don't think you can. No, you can't. So
maybe you've dealt with us as well. Yeah, who called
in on your one of your employees behalfs or have
you got one of your parents to call in for
you for something? For calling in sick? Maybe there was
a company that the bank or something needed to be
talked to and you just got mum or dad to
(40:36):
do it. Oh book it like your parents still book
your doctor's appointments? No they don't. Who you do it
all online? Yourself? I bet you get on the phone
only on the fact of people still well maybe even
they even live close to their parents. But if I
still lived in Marinsville, I'd still have the family doctor
or always had shout out your boy Smith, wonderful doctor
been our family doctor forever. I hope it never never retires.
(40:58):
But you, but you would call and but but I'm
saying I'd still have the same family doctor. So some
people probably just are like, Mum, can you call the
doctor and before me?
Speaker 3 (41:09):
Okay, we want to take your calls now. Oh eight
hundred darns at em. You can take through nine six nine.
Speaker 1 (41:14):
Sex, When did you get your parents or who did
you get your parents to call on your behalf or
flip flip on the flip side, have you had to
deal with parents calling on behalf of the children?
Speaker 4 (41:25):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (41:26):
Um, okay, this is acceptable. Okay, I'll say this is acceptable.
My mum called my old job when I got my
wisdom teeth pulled because my face swelled up so much
I couldn't talk. That's okay. They didn't believe her at all.
You would have pre warned the mate. You wouldn't have
been like, I'm gonna get my wisdoms. I'll be in
the next day because they not like, you get it
done on a Friday and you've got to have the
whole weekend.
Speaker 3 (41:46):
They might have thought that they would have just been
able to go straight to work, not knowing that you
need at least a couple of days or fore warn
jelly yummy, jelly, yummy, jelly yummy jelly and your mouth.
Speaker 1 (41:56):
Does I still get my mum to send parcels for me?
I don't know why, but it freaks me out.
Speaker 3 (42:01):
Another chicks literally could not be easier, Emily. You have
called on behalf of somebody in sect.
Speaker 1 (42:09):
Yes, yes, I called for my flat mate. Have you
ever tried to call in sick when working at a supermarket? No? No, no,
it's neat too impossible. Okay, And so did they have
Thank goodness, they're not handling our food or anything. When they.
Speaker 7 (42:26):
Like she worked on the check out, She was like, oh, I'm.
Speaker 1 (42:29):
Really really I can't come in and they were like no, like,
can you come in and just do like a do
like a you know, one to.
Speaker 5 (42:37):
One till sex or something.
Speaker 1 (42:38):
You don't even have to do bullshits. So she had
all around them back she is home seeseon yeah, right,
And I said that she just had a sezure on
the porch, mon't be coming inside, said you dropped the seizure. Wow, okay?
And were they like yeah, but what about it? She
just did two till four. They weren't you see will
(43:03):
we could put the checkout on the floor with her,
she could do it. Yeah, we wore checkout. Actually, maybe
we could just strap some mops to her and we
could just drag around clean out. I got on you
for doing that in l terrible. Then you have run
a job interview and the parent was in with the applicant.
Speaker 2 (43:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (43:27):
Correct.
Speaker 7 (43:27):
So the only time I spoke to the applicant was
when they handed their CV and with their mother, and
then I organized interview for the next day. And yeah,
the mother proceeded to ask answer all the questions. So
I didn't speak to the applicant again until I ran
the next day and told him, Unfortunately, you didn't get.
Speaker 1 (43:44):
The job, did you kind of like when the mum
was answering the questions, were trying to like get them
for a minute, maybe mum was the best person for
the job. Did you hire a mummy? Maybe she was?
Speaker 7 (43:57):
Yeah, yeah, I definitely thought it. But I'm trying to
be professional. I just sit there and kind of just
keep picking along with the interview and just thought, the
sooner I get this done, the sooner I can move
on with someone I'm probably going to hide.
Speaker 1 (44:09):
What kind of industry do you work in? Ben retails? Okay,
what do you.
Speaker 4 (44:14):
Want to know?
Speaker 1 (44:15):
You want to know in retail that someone's going to
be able to deal with people as mom's going to
be standing in the all time. How much is it? Well,
that's always the thing, isn't it.
Speaker 7 (44:22):
Like if you can't talk to me, how are you
going to talk to the random person across the counter?
Speaker 4 (44:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (44:26):
Totally.
Speaker 3 (44:26):
You ask for a large because you've tried the medium
and it's a bit tired, and he's like hanging see He's.
Speaker 1 (44:31):
Like, mum, Mom, can you tell them? Can you tell
them this? I find it large? They're not going to
be very independent, are they? No?
Speaker 7 (44:39):
No, not at all. I wouldn't think.
Speaker 3 (44:41):
Although feel sorry for the mom. She obviously knows his
son's bloody useless.
Speaker 1 (44:45):
Yeah, and she's trying to get am useless and she's
only enabling him being more useless being thank you use
and messages. And someone said I'm a millennial. I've never
called him sick once we text them, right, we text
you text you text and even like when you text
your boss or the first time about being sick and
it pops up a green message, you're like, ugh, yeah,
now I feel double sick. My stepsister's twenty five and
(45:07):
her mum still box her dentist appointments.
Speaker 4 (45:09):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (45:10):
I am a nurse at a general practitioner. Yeah, and
we absolutely have mums calling into book appointments and request
prescriptions for their adult children all the time. Okay, but
that's this is a pearance fault, isn't it. Yeah. My
ex husband had me or his mum do all his
calls the appointments. He doesn't even transfer money before his
account between his accounts. He calls and money does it
(45:32):
for him. Okay, this is great. Why it had X
right at the stay.
Speaker 3 (45:37):
Yeah, keep your texts coming in nine six, nine six
or eight hundred dials it in.
Speaker 4 (45:41):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (45:43):
Oh my god. Now I feel like my mommy didn't
do enough for me.
Speaker 3 (45:46):
Right.
Speaker 1 (45:47):
I think my mommy made me do things for myself,
and I feel like I've been ripped off. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (45:52):
I think she put you on your own two feet
and did a great job. Ah, just some of the
messages we're getting here.
Speaker 1 (45:58):
Yeah, I think I'm pretty useless, But now I'm reading
some of these, I actually feel way better about myself.
I used to work in retail and when we were hiring,
we had an applicant who had terrible references from previous jobs.
We didn't give it a job. The mum called and
begged us to give it the job. Unbelievably, management folded
and she got the job and the references were correct.
Oh wow, Okay, Back when I was my first or
(46:21):
second building job when I was seventeen, I lost it
because I was useless and I was like fair enough.
My mum rung up to try to get my job back.
To be clear, I didn't want her to, yeah, but
she was so unsuccessful. But man, did I get like
when they got to get teased ripped? Yeah, I used to.
I have to deal with parents ringing me to tell
me their child stick all the time. It won't be in.
(46:43):
But I'm an early childhood teacher, so it's acceptabook. We'd
be pretty they are like three or four wrung and
said I can't make it in today. I've got a
screaming diarrhea. I've got a poopy bum. I'm the manager
of a team of mostly gen Z employees. I've got
so many stories along these lines. One was where an
employee asked to go home. I asked if they were
seck and they said no, I just don't want to
(47:04):
be at work anymore. I mean, fair enough, you don't.
You don't get what you don't ask for. Yeah, I've
just realized on one of these parents, what an eye
opening morning.
Speaker 4 (47:13):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (47:14):
Okay, stepdaughter wanted to test drive a car, but wouldn't
knock on the owner's front door, so I did so.
She wanted to buy the car, Okay, she wouldn't knock
on the door. So I mean you'd just take a friend,
wouldn't you.
Speaker 3 (47:26):
I mean, I guess if it's a private sale, you
probably shouldn't be just knocking on someone's door, right.
Speaker 1 (47:30):
Yeah. Um, My husband's twenty seven and makes me book
his appointments as if I'm his mother or his personal assistant,
trying to think of it as a sexy secretary, yeah,
rather than as yeah, that's not as sexy. Yeah a dad.
My dad owns a business. He had a person calling
sick because his mom didn't give him bus money. He
was twenty eight years old, and like, obviously he has
(47:52):
his own account, right, Yeah, he gets paid. Yeah, get
some money and get on the bus. Absolutely every Saturday
or Sunday parents phone in and say little Johnny can't
attend it. The one shift he does a week yep,
as we're going away as a family. He's eighteen, and
I'm sorry our contracts with him, not with you. I
wanted to speak to him and be like, dude, like,
(48:12):
you've got one shift a week and you're eighteen. Um,
so many days. Millennial Hair started a new role three
weeks ago. I'm the senior in this role and now
have all the staff asking me what they should do,
despite them working there multiple years and knowing what to do.
And I haven't changed anything. The only thing that's changed
is I'm in this role now. I want you to
do exactly what you've been doing. And also, don't talk
(48:34):
to me. Just keep doing what you're doing. Um. Oh,
it's stressful, isn't it. I worked at the council and
we had a parent ring to ask if the child
could continue working from home as they had thrived during lockdown. Yeah,
now you might think working from home mostly okay, Yeah,
this person was a child swimming instructor. The tour had
(48:58):
a local swim school.
Speaker 3 (49:00):
How do you do work from home swim lessons like zoom?
Do you put a floatable laptop on the poll?
Speaker 1 (49:05):
Yeah? I don't know, Okay, left, but there if the
kids go under No, I work for police recruitment and
we have parents contracting us all the time. No. If
the kids want to apply or been declined, uh, you
know they're trying to apply on behalf of the gym.
To be honest, though, when I was unemployed for a
stunt and I was a bit useless, my mum was,
if you don't find a job, so I'm going to
(49:27):
call police college. But they wouldn't have let me in
play play. He traveled back from Queenstown yesterday. Queenstadt. Lovely
your port, beautiful visas, lovely lovely vistas. I tell you what,
when you get off the plane in Queenstown and they
(49:47):
remind you that your phone's not to be used on
the tarmac, and then the first thing you see the
remarkables and you don't let to use your phone on
the tarmact I just use my phone. Yeah, I just
do a sneaky right. I took a photo as I
came down the ramp, so typically have not yet touched
the tarmac. I think that's tarmac. Well this era, it's
in the vicinity, but it's Timak adjacent. But it's not
(50:08):
time Ak, right, And I believe it so that you
just don't have a line of people photos same because
everybody does everybody a photo on the move. It interferes
with communications or something. Something does that. It's one hundred percent.
And so there aren't photo shoots on the tarmac because
if you get like a low angle shooting up, you
wouldn't even know you're at the airport. Now, it's beautiful.
(50:30):
It looks like you got a beautiful shot of the
remarks there, but it was at that air But we
were departing and I was not too far behind you,
and then I hear a baby crying, and I hear
you're to blame. Well am I?
Speaker 3 (50:49):
Well, we were standing there and this couple in front
of us had a baby, and my how old are
we talking?
Speaker 1 (50:54):
The baby? Freshish freshish fresish under one.
Speaker 5 (50:58):
Under one, but not your holding it like it can't
like you weren't holding it like that hold. But it
wasn't like a toddler.
Speaker 1 (51:06):
Right, so we're talking about crawling, crawling on the ground
under one one under one one, or you're talking to
three people who Yeah, I don't know, but it was
like a baby, okay, and my and my friend said
that's a cute baby was kind of and then you
guys started laughing because you know that I hate babies. Baby,
(51:30):
I don't hate babies. They just make a lot of noise. Yeah,
and then you don't have one and you've got no
interest in them. Yeah, that's what I mean when I
said I hate babies. That's like saying I hate Nazis,
but I don't really hate them. I just don't have
really interesting no I do hate them. Yeah. So again,
you hate Nazis, but babies aren't mad Okay. I just
(51:50):
liked in the nineteen thirties there were some babies that
were Nazis, but they didn't have a choice. They didn't
have a choice. Baby Christians, they didn't have a choice.
That don't know what's going on, do the gaga?
Speaker 3 (51:58):
Yeah, So I said, give me a cute lamb any day,
because we've just been over at Walter Peak's station the
day before and held the baby lambs.
Speaker 1 (52:06):
I eat a baby lamb. I wouldn't need a baby. No,
you wouldn't. I wouldn't need a baby Nazi, so I said,
and the meat would be spoiled by hatred. I said,
give me a cute lamb any day. And then I
went mad mad, And then this baby.
Speaker 4 (52:20):
Was like.
Speaker 5 (52:23):
Like looking directly at you.
Speaker 1 (52:25):
Yeah, like I was Satan.
Speaker 4 (52:26):
Pretending to suckle your own hand.
Speaker 5 (52:29):
You were telling us that was suckling.
Speaker 1 (52:31):
Yeah, because Vaughn started that.
Speaker 3 (52:33):
He was giving the putting the finger through the Yeah,
this is what you do is you put your fingers
out and then the lamb heat or like a feeding
the pool, and they latch on.
Speaker 1 (52:42):
And then when they're sucking your fingers, you scratch them.
And when we had skill carves, that was how you like, yeah,
got them, but really triggered. This baby did not like
my lamb impression.
Speaker 4 (52:51):
No, and so much so the parents knew it was
you because they turned around. We were laughing, and then
they were concerned about what did you do?
Speaker 3 (52:58):
This was a good baby because I don't know what
it's timers sit at, but it was like literally three
cries and it was done.
Speaker 4 (53:04):
Maybe once it was realized you weren't a lamb. Yeah,
it was like is there a sheep around?
Speaker 1 (53:09):
And then I'm terrified of sheet worked out. I wasn't
a three cried three times and then stopped crying. Yeah,
that must be the new ioise update. It's a feature.
It's a feature that people've been asking for babies for years.
Speaker 3 (53:21):
It was looking at me just in the most bizarre way,
and I was like waving at it, and it was
just like, what is this thing?
Speaker 1 (53:28):
Yeah, it's like a human, but it bars like a lamb.
Speaker 4 (53:31):
Yeah, and we still had a long time to board,
like this back of the boarding line.
Speaker 3 (53:36):
Yeah, we're far back, but it's yeah, only three cries
and it was done. I was like, that's a good baby, Yeah,
because some of them cry non stop.
Speaker 1 (53:42):
Update your babies, yeah, to night when they plugged into
the power updated babies to get that new iOS update
where the babies don't cry for more than three cries
to go. It's perfect.
Speaker 2 (53:54):
Plays zims flesh form.
Speaker 1 (53:56):
I like escape rooms and I'm not afraid to say it. Yeah,
we went we went to work. Do we do a
work Christmas one years ago? Yeah? I used to work here. Yes,
he was a I was on his name. He was
a fiend. Him, and I like, I think that was
the strongest we have a bonder whereas I just I'm
not a fan of them. I don't like being told
to have fun in order. I don't like fun like
(54:21):
ordered fun like I don lose like having to work
with other people work out this password and then go
to the next thing. It's like I just know things.
There were too many people in that escape room, maybe
four Max, right, four or five Max? Or as this
relationship expert Mikaela di'artois, Oh yeah, what a name, what
(54:41):
a name.
Speaker 3 (54:42):
I'm going to listen to her thoughts and relationships because
her name is. She said, it's a great thing for couples. Okay,
now this is apparently this is the big headline out
of this. Escape rooms are good for couples.
Speaker 1 (54:54):
Okay, not in a way of like, oh no, we're
in the dark and we don't want to solve the
clue out of because they can see they got the
camera in there the whole time.
Speaker 3 (55:02):
Wait, they't a camera. They got a camera in the
escape rote. When you find out they've got a camera.
Speaker 1 (55:05):
Yeah, I hate when you find out they've got a
camera in any scenario, but especially that's right, I said,
especially especially especially when you're at an escape broo.
Speaker 2 (55:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (55:18):
No, they've got the camera in there. They don't go
hanky panky in there.
Speaker 3 (55:21):
I would have thought escaperers would have caused more fights
than they do.
Speaker 1 (55:26):
That's the that's the catch. Okay, that's the catch. If
you can remain calm, yep and solve a problem together,
it's good for your relationship, right and can just get
the get the ball rolling on problems solving. When couples
solve problems together, says Mikayla. When a couple solve problems together,
(55:48):
it gives them the skills to overcome trials that they
will face in their relationship, and that, of course, leads
to a healthier sex life because if you aren't connected,
you feel more as one and could.
Speaker 3 (55:58):
There be something to do early on in a relationship
like test finding yourself, you know, stuck and lost without
your passports and Bangkok with your new partner.
Speaker 1 (56:07):
Who's a real dumb dumb apparently.
Speaker 3 (56:10):
You know, if you find this out in an escape
room within the first two weeks of meeting this guy,
you know you're more likely to not end up with
him in Bangkok.
Speaker 1 (56:16):
I've been out of this, do you know what. No, actually,
I'm not going to say because I'll tell you later,
and i'll tell you on Friday. Remind me, what are
you telling me on Friday? Remind me? Here you go,
here's a pen. This is what we call a healthy relationship,
Ladies and gentlemen, because I'm putting my partner to the test.
My wife, my wife, oh are you long time? Okay? Right?
(56:37):
Like to remember something? She could be listening, she could
be listeners. I'm okay, it's a test. How would you
and your wife go on? We've done escape rooms? Okay
for a start. Our youngest is got claustrophobia. August freaks out.
She can't hide, she she can't play hide and seek
in a cupboard. Doesn't like that.
Speaker 3 (56:57):
She wouldn't like an MRI, because I had an MRI
the other day. People can recount like an MRI at all,
but like an escape room.
Speaker 1 (57:03):
As soon as that door closes, she feels she's like,
she panics, she's like, I'm shutting here. It's too small
and small.
Speaker 3 (57:09):
Out say something that like our parents would say, like
don't be so smooty stupid.
Speaker 1 (57:12):
And then that's when I found out they had a camera.
A second we just lead it because she just went
and sat out and what she said was fine, she's
by herself in there. Yeah, but she'd rather be by
herself in that room than an escape an escape room. Well,
that rules out the future of living in a submarine.
I know, and you know, I was massive on a submarine.
On a submarine, secondhand nuclear power submarine from the Cold War. Interesting.
(57:38):
But we've done it as a family. Yeah, and it's
INDI's really into it, my older daughter and shut A
is okay. We have done one just as a couple.
And I tell you what, it's pretty sweet being like
I reckon, this is it and she's like no, and
then you're right, Yes, that's pretty sweet. But also yeah,
I definitely just like rab it in it face rather
than just be like you're working together as a team.
(57:59):
I'll be like it was right there. Dundum play play
Fact of the day, day day day, day do do
do do do do do do do do It's ban
(58:22):
week here at fact of the day. Things around this
globe of ours that are banned. Yeah, today we got
to Nigeria. Oh, scams not banned, not encourage still happening. No,
what's been in Nigeria? Foreign wheelbarrows, a foreign wheelbarrows.
Speaker 3 (58:42):
You're an issue with foreign wheelbarrows coming in and kind
of taking over.
Speaker 1 (58:47):
No, it is foreign wheelbarrow is a band because Nigeria
has a thriving wheelbarrow industry and they didn't they banned
foreign wheelbarrows. Yeah, so that the wheelbarrow industry Nigeria, yeah,
would continue to thrive. Right, Okay, So this is how
good are Nigerian wheelbarrows to be totally honest, I googled
(59:11):
all things that aband in Nigeria and found this massive
list of other stuff you can't take into Nigeria, even
if you're a tourist and you're going into Nigeria. Oh,
it's just because.
Speaker 3 (59:20):
They don't want Yeah, they want things made locally. They
want to they say, we make.
Speaker 1 (59:24):
Them locally here hana. And I am just going to
dot ng verify that I am a human and show
me some wheelbarrows. I actually didn't. The other day I
got a wheelbarrows. I got to verify you're a human,
and it was like click all the boxes worth bicycles
and you know, I didn't click one and there was
(59:45):
bicycles in it, but at a distance, and I still
got away with it. Got them, got them, got them.
But isn't it it? Yes, it's that one where you've
just got to tick the box as if you take
it too quick, you're a robot. You're a robot. Yeah, so, uh, wheelbarrows,
band other things you can't take into Nigeria Okay, blank invoices.
Speaker 3 (01:00:07):
Okay, what you couldn't just print out a blank invoice
in Nigeria when you got.
Speaker 1 (01:00:12):
There, don't know?
Speaker 3 (01:00:14):
Well, no, man, that's the thing they want you to buy,
the Nigerian paper invoice booklets. Okay, all right, okay.
Speaker 1 (01:00:20):
Secondhand clothing, nuclear industrial waste or other toxic waste. You
know what. I think they've got a point. They might
be onto something there. Other things are but little Indian incense.
I don't know. They make their own, They must make
their own. Any form of cement again, making their They
(01:00:41):
make their own cement rice because rice is something that
they've got an industry for as well. Right, Steel, lots
of different sorts of steel, wheelbarrows, sheets of roofing, iron wire, mesh,
wooden doors.
Speaker 3 (01:00:54):
Okay, big no, no toothbacks, don't you dare? Because they've
got plenty of their own packs, neat tableware.
Speaker 1 (01:01:00):
So we're talking cutlery, we're talking, we're talking crockery, soaps
and cosmetics, maize and sugar. So they've got all of
these bands on you bringing stuff in even as a tourists,
even in small amounts. Yeah, because they want to protect
their own local industry that produces the same sort of thing, huh.
Including and I felt very like unusually the most unusual
(01:01:23):
item on the list would be wheelbarrows. Yeah, that is
odd because you're not even allowed as a tourist to
drive into Nigeria with it's just for personal use. Get out,
get rid of it and leave it, leave it out
of here. So today's our fact of the day is unfortunately,
if you're a tourist that wants to take a wheelbarrow
into a Nigeria, it's an absolute no, no fact of
(01:01:44):
the day, day day day day.
Speaker 4 (01:01:49):
Do do do do?
Speaker 1 (01:01:58):
Plays its Fletch and Haley Stage Challenge, I only ever
did stage need I didn't do stage Challenge? Did you
guys do Stage Challenge? It was for the it was
for the dancing artie kids.
Speaker 6 (01:02:11):
I didn't because not enough people at my school would
sign up for us. Oh I know, we already started
making a dance to TikTok by Kesha.
Speaker 4 (01:02:19):
It was great. I remember doing one. It wasn't officially
stage challenge, but that vibe, and we did it about
multiple personality disorder and we were not qualified to have
any hot Yeah, your game was multiple personality disorder and
it was purely because me and my friend looked alike.
Speaker 1 (01:02:37):
This is great because wow, so you okay, you came
up with a theme based on the fact that the
two of you could, like, I'm the same person.
Speaker 4 (01:02:45):
It's not like, upon reflection, I was like sixteen, I
thought I knew a lot.
Speaker 1 (01:02:48):
More than I did.
Speaker 3 (01:02:49):
Yeah, this is great because this is what we want
to ask this morning. We want you to describe your
stage challenge. Yeah, because all your heard. Yeah, like, you
have this idea and then you try to interpret it
on stage as a seventeen year old.
Speaker 1 (01:03:05):
In this case, I thing people study for years and
still haven't got to the bottom of multiple personality to
sort of But of course East Auckland, seventeen year olds
are going to be able to sort it out through
the magic of song and dance on stage. Were in
your multiple personality sort of stage challenge?
Speaker 4 (01:03:21):
Remember Halo by Beyonce and we hung up sheets off
bag like a frames.
Speaker 5 (01:03:28):
We had a torch behind us that it was all
silhouetted at points.
Speaker 1 (01:03:30):
Oh my god, I love this. I love this. I
love this. It's so good.
Speaker 3 (01:03:34):
Okay, oh my god. We want to take your calls now.
I'll wait one hundred dollars at M. You can text
at nine six nine sex.
Speaker 1 (01:03:41):
Describe your stage challenge. Yes, theme, Yes, I want some
songs that were used.
Speaker 3 (01:03:47):
I want if there was any disaster involved, or if
anything went wrong.
Speaker 1 (01:03:51):
Well, that was a good thing about a stage challenge.
They were so unhinged that often something could go wrong
and watch and just assumed it was part of the
stage challenge.
Speaker 4 (01:03:58):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (01:03:58):
It's just a New Zealand institute, isn't it. Apparently it
stopped in twenty eighteen. No, but it became something else.
You came as something we didn't. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Show
quest so yes, that show quest.
Speaker 3 (01:04:11):
So whether whether it was show quest for you or
stage challenge, we want we want to know.
Speaker 1 (01:04:15):
Oh, eight hundred dars at him. You can text through
nine six nine six. Describe your stage challenge.
Speaker 3 (01:04:22):
This is really part two, isn't it? Of the phone
and topic? Tell us your rock quest band name. Yeah,
this is describe your stage challenge, which now is show Quest,
which Z proudly supports, is New Zealand's biggest performing arts competition.
Speaker 1 (01:04:37):
It is along with rock Quest. It's just a key
we institution. Yeah, but you know you had probably a
sixty percent of people partaking. Did it to get out
of class time? One hundred percent? That's a resident score
orchestras and all sorts of things. Yeah, but oh there
are some incredible interpretations of things coming through. Where do
sma so dug? I don't remember much, but it was
(01:05:01):
is that's on the phone as it came on. Oh yeah,
Christ's on the phone. Let's go to CHRISTA good morning, Hi,
how are you good? Now? This was stage challenge? Yes, okay, now,
okay described okay, So I don't remember a lot because
it was sort of over twenty years ago, but we
(01:05:21):
all girls school. We did the story of Mini Dean
baby killer. Yeah, yeah, South? Were you from down South?
Speaker 2 (01:05:31):
Yep?
Speaker 5 (01:05:31):
Down South?
Speaker 6 (01:05:32):
Southern girls?
Speaker 3 (01:05:33):
Okay, girls, they challenge about historical baby killer Miny Dean.
Speaker 1 (01:05:38):
Yeah, yeah, someone playing Mini Dean. Yeah, I'm pretty sure,
and I remember we were like I'm pretty sure that
we hit some like ghost babies, and yeah, strangle any baby.
Oh my god, that is dark.
Speaker 7 (01:05:51):
But yeah, it was pretty dark.
Speaker 1 (01:05:53):
Was your idea? They were just like you were expressing
this you know story. I mean, it's a true story.
Was that many deans or so wild? Yeah it was.
It was.
Speaker 5 (01:06:05):
Yeah, it was pretty insane.
Speaker 6 (01:06:06):
So that's the Yeah, the story that we decided to tell.
And we went up to delete in for it and
yeah it was.
Speaker 1 (01:06:14):
Yeah. I can't remember a lot. Did you want to
go down?
Speaker 5 (01:06:17):
Well, I don't think we won, Okay, yeah, yeah it
was yeah.
Speaker 7 (01:06:24):
Pretty Now when I think about it, I'm like, oh,
yeah that was pretty dark.
Speaker 1 (01:06:28):
It was dark. There were so many messages coming through
like that, like you look back and you're like, what
we do? Yeah, thanks Krista some other messages. And our
stage challenge was eating disorders. From what I remember, we
had people dancing around in big food costumes and the
skinniest girl at our school in a bikini walking around
being like, no to the food. Wow. So I said,
(01:06:52):
I can't remember all fatom what the theme of our
of our stage challenge was, but I know Hitler was there.
Oh and he Perish seen to stage at one part.
This was the year two thousand oh my god, I'm
here because when like the kids come up with it, right,
because whenever I was never involved in stage, but you
wouldn't say to the kids, no, don't express yourself like that.
(01:07:14):
You'd want them to just either weren't the sporty kids
or the necessarily the academic kids, and they were like,
this is our time to shine, and you'd be alone.
You'd be like, what here? And I really look at
the drama teacher, and the drama teachers just like.
Speaker 3 (01:07:32):
Give your ticks coming in nine six nine sex eight
hundred dollars. It in some what a man, some wild injuries.
Our stage challenge was the Boxing Day Tsunami. OHI fours
Boxing Day Tsunami. If you don't know, earthquake off the
coast of like Thailand, sort of area, Indian Ocean, devastating
my role within the stage challenge in Boxing Day Tsunami theme,
(01:07:55):
I was one of the water droplets that made up
the wave. Before going on stage, we had to do
a worksheet on the purpose of our part, which for
anyone in the wave it was pretty grim. But they
won that year, did they?
Speaker 1 (01:08:05):
They won that year? Okay? I was at my in
law's house rescent and I was looking through my husband's
old school magazines. His school did a stage challenge on
the history of slavery. The two girls on the front
cover of the magazine were in blackface nineties eighties. It
started the late nineties late If you're in rural New
zeal And, maybe last year it's called him mar look
(01:08:30):
at it different times or Matamata. Our college in Purport
did stage challenge based on the Auckland Power blackouts. Oh yeah,
it was over twenty years ago. Was actually really well
done and we did win ours that year. Hear from
people who took home the trophies. Okay, took home the
big ones ow ours was human trafficking right and it
(01:08:51):
was very serious topic for teenagers to tackle. And instead
of a happy ending at the end, she got sold
in scene we won. We won, though it had to
be a happy ending at stage. What happened to the
she got sold? She just got some sold to wow someone.
Our stage challenge was about two young guys who were
(01:09:11):
in a secret relationship. One was scared to come out
while the other one was already out. They got bullied
by their school friends and then we dealt with the
subject of suicide. Oh wow, it was dark. Other themes
for the other years were Stolen Children of Rwanda yep.
And mental Letters told through the story of Alice in Wonderland.
(01:09:32):
Why were we getting so weirdly deep as ten enjoying?
Are you yeah? Wow? Okay? Our stage challenge theme was
milk yep. This sounds like got from human trafficking suicide
yep to milk yep. Our stage challenge was milk. We
had themed dancers, so there was milkshake brings of the
boys to the yard yep. And then there was a
(01:09:53):
pink Floyd song that somehow was related to milk that
was contemporary with ribbons. Yep. We had bones come out
and do a great gats steale nineteen twenty is Charlatan
type dance. Then milk was covered by a song and
a dance regarding the stock market theme and the crashing
of the stock market. Okay. We ended, Oh no, we
had our faces are painted white so we looked like
(01:10:14):
milk droplets. Okay. And the finale was a big cow
that got wheeled out onto the stage and a milk
sign that changed from the word milk into New Zealand.
Some schools laughed and pointed at us so we laughed
and pointed at them when we're one stage.
Speaker 3 (01:10:33):
Okay, amazing. We did the Taranaki land Wars Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:10:38):
And during the battle scene, which was a choreograph dance ye,
we played the theme from Once Warriors. Okay. Our stage
challenge them was phobias. There was Georgia can't Believe It
and She's from christ Church.
Speaker 4 (01:10:52):
Wild.
Speaker 1 (01:10:53):
Our stage challenge them was phobias. There was a scene
about spiders and claustrophobia where we dressed up in sheets
and kept tangling up the main character. Then Social Anxiety.
That was my scene. The music was Numb by Lincoln Park.
I still get flashbacks when I hear the opening bars
of Numbing Ding Ding Ding Ding. Which one was number
(01:11:14):
you got numb, I've got numb. I find numb, I'll
find it, you find numb, I'll continue. I still. The
scene was set to De Rude's Sandstorm, and we all
came on stage for a big rave while the main
girl fought back against all the phobias at a very
cringe Pakranger, White Girls Dance Battle. She danced battle and Phobias.
That stage challenge, um, there's a lot taken on here.
(01:11:40):
You gotta be a numb yeah. Ding ding yeah, ding
ding ding ding ding ding, Social anxiety and then dance Battle. Yeah.
And I'm a Lincoln Park purist, but I prefer their
encore remits. I know you do, I know you do?
(01:12:02):
You know? Stage Challenge We were in our final year
of school and Safe Sex was our fame. Safe to
say it was a crowd pleaser, but apparently wasn't PC
enough for the judges to give us a eye. Okay, yeah, god,
the crowds loving it. Someone said, can we talk about
rejected stage challenge proposals one day? Because we wanted to
(01:12:22):
do a Cony twenty twelve stage challenge and we were
told we were to. They still haven't got him. We
haven't got him. Years later, Thank you very much for
all your amazing stories about your stage challenges. George's long live, Yeah,
long live these insane things that kids do at school.
Another one in the.
Speaker 5 (01:12:43):
Bag, and it's a Basanci bag as well.
Speaker 3 (01:12:45):
If you enjoyed that, give us a writing and review
and be sure to tell your mates you don't sound
sincere there, but I'm just reading what's Britain here?
Speaker 2 (01:12:54):
Play Zidims, Fletchborne and Hayley