OFF THE RECORD: Charlie's son had dropped a bombshell

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In today's episode, Charlie's oldest son Rob had thrown a spanner in the works. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
The Flavor Podcast Network. You're listening to Stacis Zura and
Charlie's Off the Records your record.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Welcome to Off the Record with Stace's Zura and Charlie.
Will we bring things here that're didn't go on the show?

Speaker 3 (00:17):
All right? So my son has told me that he's
made his mind up college year nine. He doesn't want
to go to school here in New Zealand. He wants
to go to Tonge.

Speaker 4 (00:26):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (00:27):
I was like, what's going on here? Right? Are you serious?
Right now? So you know, we feel that education here
in New Zealand is probably the best. But for him,
his thought processes somewhere else. He just wants to go
learn the language, understand the culture. And I'm like, bro,
I'm for that.

Speaker 4 (00:45):
Yeah, that's beautiful. Has he seen someone else do this?

Speaker 3 (00:48):
So his older cousin General Fire was over in tongue.
He be in school.

Speaker 4 (00:52):
Therefore, you know, maybe another thing we can get mad
at him about it.

Speaker 3 (00:55):
Oh, mate, So he's been there and you know, he's
picked up the language, he's understanding the culture more. Why
you can learn how to cook survival skills are on fleek?

Speaker 2 (01:06):
Wait, so that's what he would be learning if he
went to school and oh, well.

Speaker 4 (01:11):
Apart from schooling, but yeah, part.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
Of survival skills and cooking.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
Yeah, because they you got to cook your own food,
you know what I mean. So dorm you know, I
mean you're assigned or your food's there, you got to
go get your food. So the school has their own plantation,
so you literally have to go to the plantation get
that will fee the yeah manioc the cassava and all this.
Obviously the meat and all that's supplied, but you've got
to go get your own, like cassava and all that stuff,

(01:38):
which is good.

Speaker 4 (01:39):
So as a mother, I can empathize with how Saini
is feeling. I totally see where he's coming from on
a cultural and probably spiritual level in terms of being
connected to his tongue being Tonguan. But how is Saini right?

Speaker 3 (01:57):
Surprisingly she is. She's all for too, baby, you know,
her first seed. And when we had this conversation yesterday
at the gym, I was like, bro, has Rob spoke
to you about this? And she was like, Bro, I'm
all for it. One because saying his dad was an
ex student of the school and he was a ducks
of the school.

Speaker 4 (02:17):
So oh no, preciure.

Speaker 3 (02:18):
I know, no pressure. So he's gotta he's gotta live
up to a big name.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
Okay, when did any grow up?

Speaker 4 (02:25):
Sorry, did any grow up in Tonga?

Speaker 1 (02:27):
No? But she was.

Speaker 3 (02:27):
Similar to me, like winter tommer every year, so she
knows the school and talking about the schools. You know,
people are very how do I say this, like overprotective
of the school, Like whether you're an ex student a
current student. Bro, They they go hard on the schools.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
Yeah, you know, So what it would it be for
the rist of his schooling or would it just be
for a year, Like what's the time frame.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
He wants to do, like maybe his first year but
like nine, year nine? But stays to say, you know, yeah, nine,
whether you're going to school here in New Zealand or overseas,
it's always going to be the hardest.

Speaker 4 (03:04):
Yeah, for boys, especially a friend of mine who's father
of four boys. He said year nine is always the
hardest for the boys. They've got to figure out a
lot of things about being at high school, figuring out
how they fit in. So I think the fact that
Rob wants to do this is amazing and trying to
tell your you know, New Zealand born New Zealand raised

(03:26):
boy not to do this, but will probably feel really hard.

Speaker 3 (03:30):
I know, I know they see the thing is over there.
I know for a fact that this is where my
concern lies is that I know when New Zealand born
tonguans go over them, they get not picked on, but
this hard here we go here, here's the the plastic tongue.
They get all the hard tongue in chores. You know,

(03:51):
you got to go to the plantation. So yeah, you
know this is us in tongue. Let's see what the
key boy can do, you know, climb the coconutue. I
feel that there's going to be a lot of that going on, but.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
You've told him this right, like, it's going to be
a lot harder than you nine here.

Speaker 3 (04:05):
Yeah, and you know, don't don't ever, you know, take
our bathroom in our total grunted going to go there, boy,
there is no such thing as showering in your own time,
but there's no such thing as privacy over there.

Speaker 4 (04:17):
But you're going to be a whole new world, new
world put on him for like going you know what,
I want to do this thing.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
It's going to be hard. It's it's I'm going to
learn a lot of things, and he's going to come
back like whoa like a man.

Speaker 3 (04:30):
I said to him, Bro, look, I'm supportive of this,
but we'll we'll come back to this in a month's
time and see whether.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
This is all double chicken.

Speaker 4 (04:38):
So it would be next year, next year, in two
years time.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
That's okay, a lot of time, long time to think. Okay, interesting,
we'll get updates, I'm sure.

Speaker 1 (04:48):
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