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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Today on the wild world we've been you're coming to
the party.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Oh yeah, Why is twenty and sixteen the year twenty
sixteen in a country in the world right now?
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Welcome to the unchanged realm of the world's wide web,
a swirling vortex of weirdness, bullying, and self obsessed social
media posts in this digital jungle. Jhonleman being a your
fearless guys leading you through the wildest parts of the
wild wild Web. This is the wild wild Web.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Yeah, welcome along to another edition of the wild wild Web.
Will we say something at the starts that that sounds wild?
And today I've never seen anything wilder.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
So there's a country right now. We'll get straight into it.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Rid of the plaster, because yesterday I came. I'm coming
hot off the heels of Meghan's ill. Facts from Eli
Musk yesterday.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Which they were astonishing if you'd like to recap.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
So no one really knows where eels come from. They
don't have any reproductive order organs. Scientists find them hard
to study because they all travel to one spot to
reproduce a lot of them travel to the Bermuda Triangle
and then the ones down here travel to all one spot.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Out in the ocean and stuff to breed it, and
they can live for like one hundred years. At the
end of their life, they pretty much breed. So they
go home and they're probably exhausted for that long swim.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
But yeah, where they come In fact, it feels like
a big end of life task that you're like, oh Jesus,
I've gone one hundred years and now need to give.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Birth birth and it is my last thing.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
But does that also mean they're only doing it once
in their life?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Is a bit Well, who knows? No signs still haven't
that they don't know, do they? So you, yeah, have
you ever seen two eels make love? No? No, no no.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
And then you had a theory that there was an enormous,
enormous meteor that landed in the exact location of the
Bermuda triangle thousands of years ago.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Well that was Elon's theory. And so like they were
wondering they did they come from there? Are they aliens?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Because that's meant to be like a place in the
ocean a where planes of crash and boats of sunk
and stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Is it like a magnetic Actually.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Say, like I was on a boat that went through it,
but I didn't know to the next day someone was like, oh,
you know, last night we went through the Bermuda Triangle.
I was like, no, oh, you're fine, fine, yeah, but yeah,
I would probably be more nervous knowing about going through it.
That was not one of those ones where you're like, oh,
did you know, and I'm like, no, I didn't, but
we did.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
But there's not like, sorry, we're getting caught on this again.
But there's not like a consistent like only a few
things have happened. I think it's not like every ship
that goes through sinks and disappears, right.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
No, but there's been like multiple occasions of like ships
and planes and stuff going down in that area.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
A few little things that happened from time to time,
And you're like, yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
How many ships and planes have disappears?
Speaker 3 (02:45):
But right now it seems that sustains heavy daily traffic
both by sea.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
And by years. Amount of times that people go through,
Like myself, fine, fine, oh fifty ships, twenty airplanes.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
I mean that's a lot.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Yeah, but you're right in the grand scheme of how
many passed through. Yeah, so I said at the start,
and this is something that blew my mind. Now I'm
trying to get my head around it. But there is
and this is this is not like a clickbait thing
you will click on your goal. That was lies. There's
a country in the world right now that is seven
years and eight months behind most of the world. Ethiopia.
(03:16):
Now this is well, so in September the first this year,
Ethiopia will be going from twenty sixteen to twenty seventeen
the year. So they're behind. Now, how did we heet
what they're like? Yeah, the seven months eight months behind
the rest of the world.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Did we see them a calendar invite?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Well, so what happened is the birth of Jesus Christ
recognized as seven or eight years later and the Gregorian
or Western calendar, so it was introduced by the Pope
and fifteen eighty two he was like, this is where
the birth was. We're going to we're going to realign
all our dates to this and that's going to be
where it bring up the calendar. Everyone's going to see it.
And Ethiopia We're like, well, no, we don't believe that
(03:55):
this was quite the case. We'll continue on with our calendar,
and they have and since then they have and so
instead of jumping forward like everyone else, like seven eight years.
They just stuck with their calendar. So yeah, so the
rest of the world, I guess, had kind of moved
on or a lot of the other world kind of
moved on to another date, and they've decided to stick
with the ancient dates.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
You know, we're going to go back to We're twenty seventeen,
are we going to go Is that the year?
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Yeah, we will be twenty seventeen in September, so that's
They also have thirteen months of the year. They don't
have twelve months.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
What's the extra month called, I.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Don't know, and the final months consists of just five
days or six days in Alypia, so really short. Last
month why happened number dialed? Although all the twelve months
last thirty days except the final one just five days
and all six days in Alypia.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
So yeah, right, so you've gone back in time technically
if you travel to Ethiopia.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
There's an article I was reading about it and they
were like, to be honest with the guy's living there
and he's like, we all kind of switched between the two.
If you haven't dealings with other place, it's like we
all kind of it's not like, oh wow, it's a
real it's probably like you just understand, like if you
talk to someone in Australia there's two hours difference. You
kind of yeah, we're not idiots, No, we can Yeah,
it's not like we're living like it's twenty sixteen.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Did you say that the last month only has five days?
Speaker 2 (05:16):
That's what they said, Yeah, in this article.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Do you know what it's called? Pregume p a g
u me pegume, pergume.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
December pregume and it's five You're like, what was you sure.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
About five days or six?
Speaker 2 (05:30):
And I'm going to go to the gym every day
this month. I'm going to quit booms for a month.
That's a great pregume. I do you know that would
be the month to get around here with their gay
You'd be like, you know, every day this month, I've
read a book. You're like, wow, that's awesome. You know,
so what are you trying to reach?
Speaker 3 (05:47):
It took me that long to generation.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
We'll do that this year five days Monday to Friday
and then parched on Sunday and then on Thursday Sunday. Yeah,
right then you get a drink Friday Saturday. Yeah, yeah,
it sounds fine.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
I'm trying to call Ethiopia to see if we can
talk to you, but I'm having an absolute shocking to
be honest, So if you can.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Continue on with you with your band to Oh yeah,
I just thought that was.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Really It comes from the Greek word I can't pronounce it,
which means days forgotten when a year is calculated. So
that's why it's just like the extra edded days. John,
I'm trying.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Sorry, you know you're doing for Yeah, I know you're
doing really good. I'm going to take a quick break
from this. We'll be back shortly. Welcome back. What happens
if you sign a contract with someone from Ethiopia whose
year do you recognize, like an international say you're a
peach supplier.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Right, and then you yeah, that would be confusing. Yeah,
I guess. Yeah, there's this article sees they flip between
the two. It doesn't become much of an issue when
you're there, but you're right, it'd probably be one of
those things.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
I'm sure there are a couple of Anyway, I've tried
to call ethiopiaccount sorry.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
And you want to verify it. I mean, this is
quite a reputable news site that says it sounds yeah.
I thought it was. Well. You know, you feel like
you know lots about the world, and then all of
a sudden, you're like, okay, if you're going to pinpoint
a year.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
One year that was like, jeez, that was a good year.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
What are you going? I really shit?
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Yeah. He's always have ups and downs, an't they? And
I never know, I always struggle to know exactly what
year things were too. Yeah, you know, like I'm never like, oh, yeah,
that year was two thousand and one, that was a
great I'm going to go.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Okay, So I was about eighteen or nineteen, so it
was the turn of the New Millennium, right, you know,
you're kind of fresh out of school, You've got all
your new found freedom, and I reme we went to
New Year's Eve at Mount Wong, and I had no accommodation.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
You just sleep on the beach, didn't ended up those
sleept in a car on New Years even Mountain.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Sleeping bag in the car and a pillow. And you're like,
you're sweet, it's fine.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Yeah, you sleep in the boot like a kidnap victim.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
And you're right.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
And that's that's why I'm like, well, I wouldn't do
that now. I wouldn't go to mount with no plans
for accommodation.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
But the more freeing sort of, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
I kind of think that's a good thing. We're messing
those days.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Okay, yeah, well maybe not messing them, but at the
time you're like, this is great, joling it, this is exciting.
And I remember the following year and my friend Johnny Humphrey,
we drove from Auckland, far far north and we ended
up saying on someone's.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Someone's my life.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
We had no plans for They're like, yeah, come stay here.
And then one of the guys uncles, he made bootleg
vodka that kind of makes you go tip really blind.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
That was unsafe, but yeah, I remember. But growing up
Marston and when I had my license, it was like
my friend was just like she drove to Wellington. You're like, yeah, okay,
same thing. Just didn't know what we're going to do.
It ended up sleeping in the car, like parked up somewhere.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
I do miss no responsibility.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
You're like, fun. Now, You're like, wow, that was so
for that period.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Go two thousand and two thousand and one and you're
kind of just getting into the workforce and you're like,
oh my god, mom, I'm on twenty two thousand, and you.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Make it work.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Just I remember getting paid three hundred dollars a week
and I my rent was two hundred and fifty. I
had fifty bucks to play with and Auckland and you
did it. It was like fuel and food. You what your.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Budget is, supermarket go around, you know, with a calculator,
what things and I couldn't do that, put this back
or whatever. You know, and you're here today.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
You know, but you live on a lot of radio food.
Some changes to be radio like food and radio.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
And party pills.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
There's a little party part survived on those. Keep you
going for a couple days out eating. I think.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
You could also sell CDs.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
I used to sell so many.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
I went down the Real Groovy at one point the
guys like, mate, we do not need any more.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Three doors down they're like, can.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
You please just take your radio station sticker off them
before you give up, because.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
You can go down there. You can get store credit
or what's more, or you could get you know, money,
you don't know, you.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Like forty like you'll give you twenty two bucks, give.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
You like fifty dollar store credit. You're are you something?
Speaker 3 (10:17):
You know, like, oh god, that's so sad. That's what
life was like a radio.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
It was fun, it was fun. It was a fun time.
Yeah yeah, hey.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Mate, I just waved to someone outside of the studio
if you want who in? Hey mates?
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Yeah, So yeah for that, there, I'll go.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
That's sort of two thousand to two thousand and five wonderful, wonderful.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
I was gonna go like when I got married or
when like my children are born. But you're gonna go
with that.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Okay, it's nice. You can go that, well, would you okay,
give us good things about that?
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Then well the birth was horrific wing.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Okay, So just clarifying, you know.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Obviously didn't work out sick and winning was better, although
there were the kids there too, so you know, yeah, right,
you're never gonna you're never gonna have it perfect.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
But you go every I guess if you look at
every chapter in your life, there's great highlights. Like when
you do meet to your start a family, you're like
exhausted and tire, but you're like you get through it
and you do it and you appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Yeah, you know, that just gets better and better.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
They can be high highs and low lows and one
year you.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Wait till you know best, and I are sort of
living forteen. You've got a whole different relationship with your kids.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Then yeah, it's what good or bad?
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Great? Great? Well, we're very lucky, I know, I see
In as a lovely young girl, as is Indy Ben's daughters.
I'm very blessed to with two good kids.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
But you know, you just yeah, yeah, I mean you
hope that we look at everyone's childhoods as well. You know,
growing up there's obviously things that are good and things
are bad that you know, Yeah, the way you navigate
through those those teenage years.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Yeah, I mean we've probably still got the wilds make
your way through.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
But do you find like, having your kids older than mine,
I feel like every every moment in their life, people
have been like, you wait, it's going to be it's horrendous,
like when they're born, horrendous when they are too terrible toes,
horrendous like the three ages. And I'm like, I don't
think it's been that bad. I think that maybe people
(12:19):
just talking hard.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
But then maybe something a kids different and stuff too,
you know, But.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Like, do we have a tendency just to focus on
all the niggy stuff. Maybe when you become a when
you get pregnant, everyone's like, oh the burden, all these
terrible stories, and then bit a bank your sleep, You're
never going to sleep again, and it's just like, oh
my god.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Let's focus on the positive stuff. And then when they
when the negative stuff comes up, you're like, well, I
did no one tell me about.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Rainbows a parking ticket?
Speaker 1 (12:53):
No, no, this is good, A good letter from usually
when a leader comes from. So renew your bloody just
a run of the mill tickets done well without tickets
for the last month or so. I did go down
bloody bust lane the other day, not intentionally. I turned
like I got in there just a teared too early
(13:15):
to turn left.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Yeah, gotcha.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Can you not argue your way out of that one?
Because some of those ones, they.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
It's like a certain.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
And then it turns into a turning lane. It's like, well,
I need to go down there.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
You've got a fifteen. You can't do it until it's
good to know. Yeah, you can't just go see your
like you can you know down there about four K
what you do?
Speaker 1 (13:44):
So, yeah, I'll be expecting that one to come out. Hey,
but you're not getnything else stand for the.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Old that's good Ethiopia. Hey, so shout up, they'll be
getting this one in eight years time, this podcast that
we're coming out. Oh wow, but there history books.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Sorry to go back around the history books to be like, okay,
Donald Trump was a lead to president, so that's happening in.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Yeah, how does that work years?
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Do they acknowledge that years behind the rest of the world.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Maybe they have like a signal for like everywhere else,
you know.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
A word like everyone else is having it in the.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Yeah, when was he twenty nineteen?
Speaker 1 (14:21):
What if they call us all the idiots, the other idiots,
we're having it in twenty.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Yeah, Ethiopia time twenty eleven.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
That's probably what they put after, you know how you
do the GMT in the year you're right.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
I think also in this article too, which is kind
of call that kind of like because they weren't formed.
The article was saying colonized and all this, you know,
like she switched over to the calendar the Western they
kind of take it as like, oh, this is our thing,
this is you know, we're you know.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
It's like Adelaide. But it's half an hour.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Yeah, you're right, which is Yeah, it's like we haven't
been taken over by the thing, and why should we
change now like them.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Yeah, it's definitely not annoying at all for anyone else.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
You know, did you have even come up in your
life like until now.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
At all?
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Day to day you keep being you. Yeah, I
Today on the wild world we've been you're coming to
the party.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Oh yeah, Why is twenty and sixteen the year twenty
sixteen in a country in the world right now?
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Welcome to the unchanged realm of the world's wide web,
a swirling vortex of weirdness, bullying, and self obsessed social
media posts in this digital jungle. Jhonleman being a your
fearless guys leading you through the wildest parts of the
wild wild Web. This is the wild wild Web.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Yeah, welcome along to another edition of the wild wild Web.
Will we say something at the starts that that sounds wild?
And today I've never seen anything wilder.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
So there's a country right now. We'll get straight into it.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Rid of the plaster, because yesterday I came. I'm coming
hot off the heels of Meghan's ill. Facts from Eli
Musk yesterday.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Which they were astonishing if you'd like to recap.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
So no one really knows where eels come from. They
don't have any reproductive order organs. Scientists find them hard
to study because they all travel to one spot to
reproduce a lot of them travel to the Bermuda Triangle
and then the ones down here travel to all one spot.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Out in the ocean and stuff to breed it, and
they can live for like one hundred years. At the
end of their life, they pretty much breed. So they
go home and they're probably exhausted for that long swim.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
But yeah, where they come In fact, it feels like
a big end of life task that you're like, oh Jesus,
I've gone one hundred years and now need to give.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Birth birth and it is my last thing.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
But does that also mean they're only doing it once
in their life?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Is a bit Well, who knows? No signs still haven't
that they don't know, do they? So you, yeah, have
you ever seen two eels make love? No? No, no no.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
And then you had a theory that there was an enormous,
enormous meteor that landed in the exact location of the
Bermuda triangle thousands of years ago.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Well that was Elon's theory. And so like they were
wondering they did they come from there? Are they aliens?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Because that's meant to be like a place in the
ocean a where planes of crash and boats of sunk
and stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Is it like a magnetic Actually.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Say, like I was on a boat that went through it,
but I didn't know to the next day someone was like, oh,
you know, last night we went through the Bermuda Triangle.
I was like, no, oh, you're fine, fine, yeah, but yeah,
I would probably be more nervous knowing about going through it.
That was not one of those ones where you're like, oh,
did you know, and I'm like, no, I didn't, but
we did.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
But there's not like, sorry, we're getting caught on this again.
But there's not like a consistent like only a few
things have happened. I think it's not like every ship
that goes through sinks and disappears, right.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
No, but there's been like multiple occasions of like ships
and planes and stuff going down in that area.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
A few little things that happened from time to time,
And you're like, yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
How many ships and planes have disappears?
Speaker 3 (02:45):
But right now it seems that sustains heavy daily traffic
both by sea.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
And by years. Amount of times that people go through,
Like myself, fine, fine, oh fifty ships, twenty airplanes.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
I mean that's a lot.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Yeah, but you're right in the grand scheme of how
many passed through. Yeah, so I said at the start,
and this is something that blew my mind. Now I'm
trying to get my head around it. But there is
and this is this is not like a clickbait thing
you will click on your goal. That was lies. There's
a country in the world right now that is seven
years and eight months behind most of the world. Ethiopia.
(03:16):
Now this is well, so in September the first this year,
Ethiopia will be going from twenty sixteen to twenty seventeen
the year. So they're behind. Now, how did we heet
what they're like? Yeah, the seven months eight months behind
the rest of the world.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Did we see them a calendar invite?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Well, so what happened is the birth of Jesus Christ
recognized as seven or eight years later and the Gregorian
or Western calendar, so it was introduced by the Pope
and fifteen eighty two he was like, this is where
the birth was. We're going to we're going to realign
all our dates to this and that's going to be
where it bring up the calendar. Everyone's going to see it.
And Ethiopia We're like, well, no, we don't believe that
(03:55):
this was quite the case. We'll continue on with our calendar,
and they have and since then they have and so
instead of jumping forward like everyone else, like seven eight years.
They just stuck with their calendar. So yeah, so the
rest of the world, I guess, had kind of moved
on or a lot of the other world kind of
moved on to another date, and they've decided to stick
with the ancient dates.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
You know, we're going to go back to We're twenty seventeen,
are we going to go Is that the year?
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Yeah, we will be twenty seventeen in September, so that's
They also have thirteen months of the year. They don't
have twelve months.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
What's the extra month called, I.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Don't know, and the final months consists of just five
days or six days in Alypia, so really short. Last
month why happened number dialed? Although all the twelve months
last thirty days except the final one just five days
and all six days in Alypia.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
So yeah, right, so you've gone back in time technically
if you travel to Ethiopia.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
There's an article I was reading about it and they
were like, to be honest with the guy's living there
and he's like, we all kind of switched between the two.
If you haven't dealings with other place, it's like we
all kind of it's not like, oh wow, it's a
real it's probably like you just understand, like if you
talk to someone in Australia there's two hours difference. You
kind of yeah, we're not idiots, No, we can Yeah,
it's not like we're living like it's twenty sixteen.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Did you say that the last month only has five days?
Speaker 2 (05:16):
That's what they said, Yeah, in this article.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Do you know what it's called? Pregume p a g
u me pegume, pergume.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
December pregume and it's five You're like, what was you sure.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
About five days or six?
Speaker 2 (05:30):
And I'm going to go to the gym every day
this month. I'm going to quit booms for a month.
That's a great pregume. I do you know that would
be the month to get around here with their gay
You'd be like, you know, every day this month, I've
read a book. You're like, wow, that's awesome. You know,
so what are you trying to reach?
Speaker 3 (05:47):
It took me that long to generation.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
We'll do that this year five days Monday to Friday
and then parched on Sunday and then on Thursday Sunday. Yeah,
right then you get a drink Friday Saturday. Yeah, yeah,
it sounds fine.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
I'm trying to call Ethiopia to see if we can
talk to you, but I'm having an absolute shocking to
be honest, So if you can.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Continue on with you with your band to Oh yeah,
I just thought that was.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Really It comes from the Greek word I can't pronounce it,
which means days forgotten when a year is calculated. So
that's why it's just like the extra edded days. John,
I'm trying.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Sorry, you know you're doing for Yeah, I know you're
doing really good. I'm going to take a quick break
from this. We'll be back shortly. Welcome back. What happens
if you sign a contract with someone from Ethiopia whose
year do you recognize, like an international say you're a
peach supplier.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Right, and then you yeah, that would be confusing. Yeah,
I guess. Yeah, there's this article sees they flip between
the two. It doesn't become much of an issue when
you're there, but you're right, it'd probably be one of
those things.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
I'm sure there are a couple of Anyway, I've tried
to call ethiopiaccount sorry.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
And you want to verify it. I mean, this is
quite a reputable news site that says it sounds yeah.
I thought it was. Well. You know, you feel like
you know lots about the world, and then all of
a sudden, you're like, okay, if you're going to pinpoint
a year.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
One year that was like, jeez, that was a good year.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
What are you going? I really shit?
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Yeah. He's always have ups and downs, an't they? And
I never know, I always struggle to know exactly what
year things were too. Yeah, you know, like I'm never like, oh, yeah,
that year was two thousand and one, that was a
great I'm going to go.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Okay, So I was about eighteen or nineteen, so it
was the turn of the New Millennium, right, you know,
you're kind of fresh out of school, You've got all
your new found freedom, and I reme we went to
New Year's Eve at Mount Wong, and I had no accommodation.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
You just sleep on the beach, didn't ended up those
sleept in a car on New Years even Mountain.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Sleeping bag in the car and a pillow. And you're like,
you're sweet, it's fine.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Yeah, you sleep in the boot like a kidnap victim.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
And you're right.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
And that's that's why I'm like, well, I wouldn't do
that now. I wouldn't go to mount with no plans
for accommodation.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
But the more freeing sort of, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
I kind of think that's a good thing. We're messing
those days.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Okay, yeah, well maybe not messing them, but at the
time you're like, this is great, joling it, this is exciting.
And I remember the following year and my friend Johnny Humphrey,
we drove from Auckland, far far north and we ended
up saying on someone's.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Someone's my life.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
We had no plans for They're like, yeah, come stay here.
And then one of the guys uncles, he made bootleg
vodka that kind of makes you go tip really blind.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
That was unsafe, but yeah, I remember. But growing up
Marston and when I had my license, it was like
my friend was just like she drove to Wellington. You're like, yeah, okay,
same thing. Just didn't know what we're going to do.
It ended up sleeping in the car, like parked up somewhere.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
I do miss no responsibility.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
You're like, fun. Now, You're like, wow, that was so
for that period.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Go two thousand and two thousand and one and you're
kind of just getting into the workforce and you're like,
oh my god, mom, I'm on twenty two thousand, and you.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Make it work.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Just I remember getting paid three hundred dollars a week
and I my rent was two hundred and fifty. I
had fifty bucks to play with and Auckland and you
did it. It was like fuel and food. You what your.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Budget is, supermarket go around, you know, with a calculator,
what things and I couldn't do that, put this back
or whatever. You know, and you're here today.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
You know, but you live on a lot of radio food.
Some changes to be radio like food and radio.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
And party pills.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
There's a little party part survived on those. Keep you
going for a couple days out eating. I think.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
You could also sell CDs.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
I used to sell so many.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
I went down the Real Groovy at one point the
guys like, mate, we do not need any more.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Three doors down they're like, can.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
You please just take your radio station sticker off them
before you give up, because.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
You can go down there. You can get store credit
or what's more, or you could get you know, money,
you don't know, you.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Like forty like you'll give you twenty two bucks, give.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
You like fifty dollar store credit. You're are you something?
Speaker 3 (10:17):
You know, like, oh god, that's so sad. That's what
life was like a radio.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
It was fun, it was fun. It was a fun time.
Yeah yeah, hey.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Mate, I just waved to someone outside of the studio
if you want who in? Hey mates?
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Yeah, So yeah for that, there, I'll go.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
That's sort of two thousand to two thousand and five wonderful, wonderful.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
I was gonna go like when I got married or
when like my children are born. But you're gonna go
with that.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Okay, it's nice. You can go that, well, would you okay,
give us good things about that?
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Then well the birth was horrific wing.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Okay, So just clarifying, you know.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Obviously didn't work out sick and winning was better, although
there were the kids there too, so you know, yeah, right,
you're never gonna you're never gonna have it perfect.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
But you go every I guess if you look at
every chapter in your life, there's great highlights. Like when
you do meet to your start a family, you're like
exhausted and tire, but you're like you get through it
and you do it and you appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Yeah, you know, that just gets better and better.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
They can be high highs and low lows and one
year you.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Wait till you know best, and I are sort of
living forteen. You've got a whole different relationship with your kids.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Then yeah, it's what good or bad?
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Great? Great? Well, we're very lucky, I know, I see
In as a lovely young girl, as is Indy Ben's daughters.
I'm very blessed to with two good kids.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
But you know, you just yeah, yeah, I mean you
hope that we look at everyone's childhoods as well. You know,
growing up there's obviously things that are good and things
are bad that you know, Yeah, the way you navigate
through those those teenage years.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Yeah, I mean we've probably still got the wilds make
your way through.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
But do you find like, having your kids older than mine,
I feel like every every moment in their life, people
have been like, you wait, it's going to be it's horrendous,
like when they're born, horrendous when they are too terrible toes,
horrendous like the three ages. And I'm like, I don't
think it's been that bad. I think that maybe people
(12:19):
just talking hard.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
But then maybe something a kids different and stuff too,
you know, But.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Like, do we have a tendency just to focus on
all the niggy stuff. Maybe when you become a when
you get pregnant, everyone's like, oh the burden, all these
terrible stories, and then bit a bank your sleep, You're
never going to sleep again, and it's just like, oh
my god.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Let's focus on the positive stuff. And then when they
when the negative stuff comes up, you're like, well, I
did no one tell me about.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Rainbows a parking ticket?
Speaker 1 (12:53):
No, no, this is good, A good letter from usually
when a leader comes from. So renew your bloody just
a run of the mill tickets done well without tickets
for the last month or so. I did go down
bloody bust lane the other day, not intentionally. I turned
like I got in there just a teared too early
(13:15):
to turn left.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Yeah, gotcha.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Can you not argue your way out of that one?
Because some of those ones, they.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
It's like a certain.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
And then it turns into a turning lane. It's like, well,
I need to go down there.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
You've got a fifteen. You can't do it until it's
good to know. Yeah, you can't just go see your
like you can you know down there about four K
what you do?
Speaker 1 (13:44):
So, yeah, I'll be expecting that one to come out. Hey,
but you're not getnything else stand for the.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Old that's good Ethiopia. Hey, so shout up, they'll be
getting this one in eight years time, this podcast that
we're coming out. Oh wow, but there history books.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Sorry to go back around the history books to be like, okay,
Donald Trump was a lead to president, so that's happening in.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Yeah, how does that work years?
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Do they acknowledge that years behind the rest of the world.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Maybe they have like a signal for like everywhere else,
you know.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
A word like everyone else is having it in the.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Yeah, when was he twenty nineteen?
Speaker 1 (14:21):
What if they call us all the idiots, the other idiots,
we're having it in twenty.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Yeah, Ethiopia time twenty eleven.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
That's probably what they put after, you know how you
do the GMT in the year you're right.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
I think also in this article too, which is kind
of call that kind of like because they weren't formed.
The article was saying colonized and all this, you know,
like she switched over to the calendar the Western they
kind of take it as like, oh, this is our thing,
this is you know, we're you know.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
It's like Adelaide. But it's half an hour.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Yeah, you're right, which is Yeah, it's like we haven't
been taken over by the thing, and why should we
change now like them.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Yeah, it's definitely not annoying at all for anyone else.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
You know, did you have even come up in your
life like until now.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
At all?
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Day to day you keep being you. Yeah, I
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