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Episode Date: June 25, 2023

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The Hits, with the Jono and Ben podcast. Thanks to Challenge, putting the service back into service stations. It's just another Motivational Monday. Yeah, this is our Motivational segment. Critically acclaimed Motivational Monday. And nothing screams motivation like two half-awake radio hosts playing you a clip from Instagram. Now Ben, I quite like this guy. He's some sort of guru. Now, you've stumbled across this guy a couple of times, right? He's a guru.

And because I've clicked on one of his videos, I keep getting fed. You're in his algorithm now, aren't you? Deep in his algorithm. But this is what they do. They do that on Instagram, Facebook, and stuff. They put these videos out there to inspire you. So every week we take one of them and we put them on the airwaves to hopefully inspire you through the radio airwaves.

So this is the difference between geniuses and idiots, according to my mate. Have a listen. Idiots do things that they don't like to do, suffer their whole life because they think it's needed or they think it's their duty. Intelligent people do what they love to do. They enjoy their life to some extent. But a genius learns to do what is needed joyfully. That's when your genius flowers.

You get that, mate? Or are you a bit more confused than when we started? Well, yeah. Because he just said words that none of them make sense. Well, the piano music really helps to make it inspiring, doesn't it? But yeah, I guess a genius is doing what needs to be done. A genius is doing what needs to be done to make them joyful, is his message. Yeah, gotcha.

But what makes most people joyful is money. And so then to have the money, you have to be the idiot. I don't know what category I'm falling in. I'm probably going to go the idiot category. What do you reckon you fall under? Oh, well, no, I'm definitely not going to put myself in the genius category. That's for sure. You'd be rather arrogant.

But no, you see I look at him in his robes and his free-flowing beard and he's like, hey man, I'm joyful, I'm happy. Doesn't have a moment of stress in his life, this guy. But is he really happy, Ben? Well, he would be if he's not stressed.

It all depends what makes you happy, though, isn't it? Yeah. What makes you happy? If you weren't doing this job, what would make you happy? What would bring joy to Ben Boyce? Well, I mean, you're doing what we, you know, like I've kind of got into an industry that i wanted to do so i guess that would be that was kind of what i wanted to do this is

what you're put on this earth well i don't know if i'll put on this earth to do it i mean you could probably hear a lot better people than me that's for sure annoy people on the radio yeah that's what we were born i definitely don't think i was put on this earth for that but it's just you know something that found it but there'd be probably other things if you tried other things you'd be oh my god i really I really love this. Yeah. Yeah. The problem is if I take this segment out of my life, I'm just going to become a chubby alcoholic. Like if I'm trying to be joyful, I'm just going to be sitting around because, you know,

mowing the lawns and drinking beer. That brings you joy. Bring you joy. But doing it every day. And it would stop bringing you joy, wouldn't it? It would. Yeah. Okay.

Are we motivated in any way? Or are we just sort of... I don't know. It would. Yeah. Okay. Are we motivated in any way or are we just sort of... Oh, no. Do what you want. Okay. That's our message. Maybe that's the message this week. There's been a study done into the decade and in particular the age where you are the most miserable.

And a doctor who's part of that study joins us right now. Dr. Dougal, what a great name. How are you? I'm really good, thanks. How are you guys? Were you a big fan of Doogie Howser, M.D.? Doogie Howser, M.D. Back in the day, it was a TV show of an underage child who was a doctor in a hospital. That's right. Neil Patrick Harris. Yeah, we used to promote child labour back in the day It was alright for teenagers to work mind boggling hours It was just fine Mind you if you had bloody open heart surgery

and you see little Doogie Howser looking over you It would put you off a bit wouldn't it Now Dr Dougal Sutherland you're here to talk about the most miserable decade of many people's lives the 40s, in their 40s It's quite sad really isn't it given that I've just left my 40s. But yeah, it's based on this idea that there was some research that shows that happiness

throughout our adult life kind of goes in a U-shape. You have a peak when you're in your sort of late teens and early 20s, and then it slowly dips, and then the bottom of that dip. One study even showed it was like 47 years old, I think they said it was, and then it slowly dips, and then the bottom of that dip, one study even showed it was like 47 years old, I think they said it was, and then it's supposed to get better after that as you kind of get older and retire. So, yeah, it's not great news if you're in your 40s, is it? It's like, oh, man, what have I got to look forward to? We're in the bloody trenches at the moment, Dougal, I tell you.

Yeah, not quite at 47, but it'll roll around quickly. Why is that? Is it a mix of things, you know, having responsibility, work, all that sort of stuff, and then, as you say, you're not quite at retirement age yet, so you're kind of right in the middle of it all. Yeah, I reckon, eh? I think it is a whole host of things. You know, often 40s are the time when you're perhaps,

if you've had kids, and many of us have, you know, they're getting a bit older and you can almost stop and look around. You get your eyes up out of the nappies and the bullets and kind of go, oh, geez, is this my life? Is this what it's going to be? And perhaps it's a time when, you know, your relationships might be a little bit more stale. You've been focusing on other things. It's a bit of a time of reconciliation with where your life's going in a way.

Okay. As a doctor, can you prescribe me some pills that'll make this whole experience a bit more enjoyable? If only that was possible. I'll tell you what, though. Tourism Fiji has jumped on this and said that their cure for this is going to Fiji for a couple of weeks, which when you think about it,

it's probably not a bad idea. I wouldn't dissuade you from doing that if you can afford it. I think the idea, though, is can you take some time out to stop and look at your life and kind of recalibrate where things are going. Look, if you want to do that on a Pacific Island with a pina colada in your hand, all the better. Sounds lovely, doesn't it?

It does, it does sound good. But just that idea of thinking, of actually taking hold of it and saying, I'm not going to let this sort of grind me down. I'm going to take some active steps to get my life to where I want it rather than just being sort of being a victim of my age. So the myth of the midlife crisis actually probably has clout to it that people obviously feel like they're needing a change in gear and sometimes that change of gear happens in a convertible Mazda MX-5. Yeah no look I think that's probably where some of that midlife crisis idea comes from, eh? It's that recognition that, you know, things are a bit tougher and people try and sort of do these quick fixes, you know, buy a sports car, get a younger girlfriend or boyfriend. Those seem

like sugar highs to me. I think it's better to do something that's much more sort of planned and figuring out where you want to be in the world, like have some values, have some goals about where you want to head in your life. Don't just sort of jump on the nearest thing, but have some time out, rest, recuperate, and figure out where you want to be in life and where you're heading. You're just saying you've just gone through your 40s. Was it bleak? Oh, look, that's not for me to comment on, really. Oh, you'd have to ask my wife.

But I suspect she might say yes. There's the tendency to sit in your chair after dinner at night and just sort of gently fall asleep and wake up and then go to bed. And it's like, actually I don't want to be like that. I don't want my life to be like that. I want to stop and figure out where I want to be. And I think there's a time of reckoning that comes in your 40s. You might realize, actually, I'm not going to be a multimillionaire, and that might come with some disappointments. But you can still choose where you want your life to go. You don't just have to succumb to the fact that you're getting older. So take some time out, do some stuff, get off the hamster wheel for a while and figure out

where your life is going what you want to do that's good i mean you've just described uh monday through sunday me having dinner sitting on a couch and slowly falling asleep yeah yeah yeah yeah so i i reckon rally against that a rally against that get get out sit back and take some control of things rather than just the day after day after day after day after day, which, you know, you can just sort of get sucked into that grind really. That's true. You're probably less likely, the older you get, to try new things. You kind of go, you know. Stuck in your ways.

You know, making new friends can be harder, you know, if you get older. So it's probably, you're right, to go against the grain and actually try and do those things for the better. Absolutely. And look, for for men too like men we know for guys as they get older they tend to get narrower and narrower and and they're and the people that they associate with and who they get support from they tend to start focusing on one or two people often that's their partner so trying to broaden that out broaden out what you're doing in, broaden out who you're seeing and what you're doing, I think can be really life-giving, to be honest. Thank you so much for your time.

Really, really fascinating and some great words of advice, including now booking a trip to Fiji as well. Yeah, I think I'll be off to the travel agent tomorrow, actually. But I'm just back into you guys. Thanks, Dr. Dougal. Now, I went out of the house. We want to chat this over. Okay, 47, the most miserable year

of your life, officially. Yeah. What is the best? We just spoke to Dr. Dougal Sutherland, who's figured out the most miserable age of your life, age 47, and the hardest decade is your 40s, when you're in your trenches. Yeah. Treading away

on water, the treadmill of life. And it's probably fair enough when you actually look at everything that's compounding for the people in that period of their lives. Mortgages, work, many people, children. Older, your parents probably getting a bit older as well, so you're looking after them. All that sort of stuff sort of comes in as well. Yeah.

You're still trying to figure out how to grow up though, aren't you? In your 40s. But you're just doing it with a giant mortgage hanging over your head. Yeah. It's interesting when you go, we want to know 100 of the hits, what do you reckon is the perfect age? What's been the perfect age for you? For me?

Yeah. I'd say, it's all in perspective, isn't it? Because when you're doing it at the time, you don't realise that this is going to be your perfect age. No, true. You're just, I'd probably say 35 I'm only saying that based off

the fact that I think I semi had all of my affairs lined up All your affairs? That was all very tidy No one knew about your affairs We kept it quiet for a long time There was a dozen on the go and everything was all tidy and above all

no but I mean the kids are probably at that stage you're out of there you know the nappies and you're sleeping through the night stage and all that sort of stuff

it was probably for me when you first felt like you had a decent grip on life and I've made all the muntin mistakes in my 20s that hopefully I'm

going to make them in my life and you're kind of you're on track to where you're heading I'd agree with that or I'd say what what I say to the kids often around about 10, 11 years old,

that's a sweet spot as well. Your biggest problem is getting more screen time at the moment. If that's your biggest problem, you're like, oh, but I want five more. I mean, that's a sweet, you know? But you don't appreciate that at the time. Not at all. You're right, they are living the best life.

We're going to get Marilyn on. Welcome, Mazza. How are you? I'm good, thank you. It's Mazza from Powanui. Oh, Mazza. Our old mate Mazza. How's things?

Good, thank you. Good to see you, sir. You're running the supermarket there in Powanui, aren't you? Yes, and I keep telling you guys to come and try my burgers, but I haven't seen you both yet. I'm going to come down and try your burgers there, Marilyn, where the footpaths are red and power. That's one thing that sticks in my mind. Now, what was the perfect age for you, Marilyn?

I think when my children were about five, you know, when they were still at primary school. But they were such cute and, you know, no trouble. Like, you know, when they get to teenagers and stuff. It was just a really lovely family life. Yeah, before they start running cars through shop windows. Yeah, Matt. I know what you're saying, Marilyn. Thank you very much. I'm looking at a graph here I've just Googled.

Now, it's got varying things that you peak at in your life. For example, age 7, perfect age to learn new languages. Alright. But then if we're just, you know, salary, highest paid woman is going to be age 39, highest paid men 48. At age is 48.

Ability to focus, 43 years old. If you look at life satisfaction though, 69. Is that the peak of your ability to focus? Yeah, age 43. Okay. Yeah, but see, 69 is life satisfaction. Stay out Age 43. Okay. Yeah. But 69 is life satisfaction. Okay.

Stay out of it, Ben. Stay out of it with your lowbrow comedy. Okay. That's when you're age 18, mate. Hey, next. Oh, I've got one more. One more. Keith, should we take Keith quickly?

Yeah, all right. Best age for you, Keith. What was it? Oh, it's got to be the early 20s, mate, like 21, 22. You know, you could go out, party, not have a care in the world. I was studying at the time, and you're just sort of like you're building your life, you're striving for something, and yeah, it's just great just hanging with mates, drinking, going to different parties.

Every weekend you back it up and you do it again too. But then you get to Monday and you're like, never again. And then Thursday, Friday rolls around. Let's do it again. Producer Joel's life, he's not in the way right now. Mondays aren't fun. Mondays are not fun. Joel is permanently sick Monday through Thursday,

but miraculous recovery By Friday Who would have thought Every week Thank you Keith You go and have a great life Mate Yeah you too mate I'm never going to talk to him again

I hope he calls back It's the Jono and Ben podcast Taylor Producer Taylor Has come in here Our wonderful producer Our fiery Italian producer From Sydney

Now big news She's been saying We've got a big guest We don't know who it is The only clue we've had is With this whip sound effect Could mean anything It could, it literally could So we're speaking to someone this week

Who are we looking at mate? Okay so take this as my initiation into the team Someone to impress you both, right? With a guest you've never spoken to before. Okay. Right. Does this ring a bell? Oh, Indiana Jones. Is that Harrison Ford? Yes. Harrison Ford.

That's bloody great. That's cool. Okay. You're welcome. Wow. Okay, wow. Harrison Ford. We should probably thank the movie company more for making the movie. I'm guessing you, Indiana Jones, have seen the billboards around the new movie, Indiana Jones? Yep.

Yeah, okay. Harrison Ford, he is probably one of the biggest legends we've ever spoken to. Han Solo as well, Star Trek, you know, many, many movies. He feels like a guy who would frighten me, you know? He feels like he wouldn't take any nonsense. Well, he is a legend. He's,? He feels like he wouldn't take any nonsense. Well, he is a legend. He's, you know,

like he's been a legend. Yeah, you're probably right. You're two going, oh yeah, yeah, now you say that. I'm like, the people that you like, oh, they'll pick up on our vibe.

They'll be like, great. He definitely won't pick up on our vibe. Whatever our vibe is. I don't know what our vibe is and we're not, oh yeah, true. Hopefully he likes us.

I'd love him to like us because he's a legend. Please do not ruin this for me and my reputation because I worked hard to get this. This is your first one. First cab off the rank. Oh, yeah.

Okay. We need to, I don't reckon he'll smile once through the entire five-minute night. Surely he will. He's been doing the game for too long. Yeah. What is it, the fifth movie, Indiana Jones? Fifth movie, yeah. He's probably like, I don't want Yeah You know What is it? Fifth movie? Indiana Jones?

Fifth movie, yeah He's probably like I don't want to be talking to these idiots In New Zealand over Zoom I could think of 110 other things I'd rather be doing right now Oh yeah Than answering inane questions

Like we'll probably have some game like Do you want to go Harrison Ford Or Harrison Backwood or something You know Okay, we'll rule that out That was the one I just thought of Yeah Okay, here's a pitch out. That was the one I just thought of. Yeah.

Okay, here's a pitch. Okay. We try and make him smile. That's it. That'd be nice. We have one goal, to make Harrison Ford smile. Yeah. Do you reckon that's possible? I don't think it's possible.

Yeah, I'm okay with that idea. Anything more than smiling. Laughter, unachievable. Well, for us it is. That's for sure. Set the bar low. Can we make Harrison Ford smile? So when will he be on the show?

Thursday. Thursday. Okay. So Harrison Ford on the show this week. That's blooming exciting. Thank you. No worries. Yeah, Harrison Ford.

Are you going to tell him a joke? Are you going to have to tell him a joke? Oh, okay. All right. That'll make it. The jokes make people smile. They do. They do.

Okay. All right. Well, okay. Do you think he's a joke guy? I'm not sure, but I reckon we could give it a go. Let's give it a go. Why not? Let's try and make him smile. I'm with you. You do some research on this. In fact, if you know a good joke that would make Harrison Ford smile.

Maybe it relates to Harrison Ford, or maybe it's just a joke that you're like, oh, Harrison and Leo love this. If I know Harrison. Barrel of laughs. 4487. Just text the joke in. We can shortlist them And then we'll take one joke To Harrison Ford

Indiana Jones The movie out I'm guessing this week as well Harrison Ford Joining us the Thursday The hits The Jono and Ben podcast Ben

Friday Went to Pack and Save Right Love going to Pack and Save But what And this is a public service announcement And this is a very specific Audience member I'm talking to here

When you walk into Pack and Save They've got, you push your trolley through And they've got those arms You know, they go Yeah, right You know the arms? Yeah And so you can't go back out

Some metallic, yeah The trolley goes through, you're right And you can't go back the other way with the trolley Yeah, which I guess for Foot traffic flow They're not wanting people going in and out the other way with the trolley. Yeah, which I guess for foot traffic flow, they're not wanting people going in and out the wrong way, makes complete sense. The problem is when I go in there without a trolley,

the height of the arms of where my body is, it's really hitting me in a specific area of my upper thigh region. Right, okay. So to the point now where I'm having to, I've done many over the last couple of months, I've actually managed different techniques. I've gone through different techniques of how I can make it through there without getting bang, bang, bang, bang, bang.

Right. Like six in a row. Just like mini little baseball bats hacking away at you. And so at first I was like kind of Leaning, not a 45 degree angle But probably like a sort of a 65 degree angle Just trying to push it out and up You know, my mid region

Yeah, right But now I've just taken to tippy-toeing through And it just provides me just enough height To get through there where they're not It's not head on You can back it in you could like you could back it like oh what's he doing here and he walks through backwards like you're a truck reversing sort of thing you know just like little spanks on the on your bottom

yeah i would have thought that would be the most complicated part you know normally it's designed as you say for people to go the other way to stop. But now it's affecting you going in. Well, when you go through a trolley, no, the trolley's taking the brunt of all those hits. When it's just you, man. Raw. Yeah, all getting. So tippy toe. Like I said, I'm talking to people who are of a specific height, probably around six foot. They'll feel the pain in a certain area of their body.

More ways than one, just tippy toe. You could come out like you're one of those superstars of wrestlers, WWF, and everyone's like a high-five on the way through, like you're running out to the ring. Bang, bang, bang. They're like, bang, bang, bang. That would be a cool way to do it. That was a great interest.

Like imagine a theme music comes through, you're like, bang, bang, here I am. Thank you so much. Yeah, that's great. Just got to high-five your way through. That's always a good thing. Get ready, Parkinson I'm ready to go

We've got some news music there, Producer Joel Beautiful stuff Three news stories One of them is fake And if you believe Donald Trump, all of them are fake Producer Taylor, welcome back Thank you Lovely to have you here

Now, congratulations to Marcelo, your husband Big win for the Warriors on Friday. Yeah, that was good. Good game to watch. When do they fly back? Are they straight on a plane? Their flight actually got cancelled on Saturday so they didn't get home until midnight on Saturday night. Oh, that's annoying. Do you text

them during the game? No. I text after, like, oh, good job. What do you say if he has a bad game? Good job. Good job. I do you say if he has a bad game? Good job. Good job. I don't know what I'm watching. All right, Taylor, what's the first news story? All right.

Scientists create spinach that can send emails in a world first. Okay. Spinach. Spinach. Okay, next one. Nurse reveals she weaves McDonald's napkins in between her toes to sleep better. Okay. Weaves.

So like knitting. Yeah. I guess like over the toe, under the toe. Oh, right. Yeah. California University, the first to replace teacher with AI tech. Now we're going to bring Joy on from Morrinsville. Welcome, Joy.

Good morning. It's a joy to have you on the show Now you've heard the three headlines Spinach that can send emails A lady weaving McDonald's napkins through her toes to sleep better And a university has replaced teachers with an AI robot Which one do you think is the news? Or which one do you think is not? Yeah, one of them is fake.

I think the first one, the spinach one is fake. It does sound the most fake to me, to be fair. But then maybe you've done this. But why would, like all the stuff that we need to get done or can invent, who's taking, that's probably a

five year project, getting spinach longer. How does spinach send an email? Why does it? It doesn't even need to. There's no requirement for it. Is that true? Is that the fake one? No, that's actually true, that one.

What? Yeah, that is a true story. It's to fight climate change, apparently. How? I don't know. I didn't read the rest of the story. Okay. Apparently, it's to help climate change. We'll take your word for it know. I didn't read the rest of the story. Okay, all right. But yeah, apparently.

It's climate change. We'll take your word for it. Yeah. So what was the fake one? California University to replace teacher with AI tech. That hasn't happened. See, and I was like, that's probably the most plausible. Yeah. Out of them all.

Yeah, that's what I thought. Yeah, I'm with you. We're with you on that one, Joy. Both weeks, you've thrown us on this game, too. I told you. Hey, Joy, well, listen, you know how this show works. Even if you're a loser, you walk away a winner. So we're going to give you some hell pizza, all right?

Okay, then. Hey, you have a great day in Morrinsville. Okay, then. Okay, so scientists here, what have they said? They've basically got a signal that can be picked up on an infrared camera from spinach sent back to the lab via email. Okay. So it's not like typing hey guys pretty bleak out here yeah the panic so it's kind of yeah all right yeah definitely been

click baited that's for sure but hey that is a legit news story the hits the jonah and ben podcast taylor wonderful taylor is our uh new, new to the show. You're from Sydney and your name before marriage, before Montoya was Lombardi. So from my understanding from what you've told us over the last couple of weeks the Lombardis have been icons of the Sydney International

Airport for generations. Yeah, we've all done our stint at the airport in Sydney so we've made a name for ourselves. So your dad worked for Qantas for like 900 years or something, did he? Yeah, and mum. And your mum did work for Qantas as well. I did a six-month stint at Virgin. How'd that go?

Yeah, I didn't like working for the competitor. No, it wasn't for me, clearly. Was the futuristic McDonald's there at the time? Yes. It's got like a McDonald's on a conveyor belt that goes up into the ceiling and goes around and your burgers all come out. So the kitchen's on the second floor and the orders are down.

So you can watch your order be made because it's see-through and then go through these pipes. They set it down on the end of these pipes. Down a tube. Yeah, it's pretty incredible. Yeah. I'll take a photo for you next time.

Ronald's high concept. That's not what we're going to talk about. I mean, that's a great work story. It is a great work story. But something your mum did. Yeah, it. Do. Ronald's high concepts. That's not what we're going to talk about. I mean, that's a great work story. Yeah, that's a great work story. But something your mum did. Yeah, it's really sad. I feel bad for her. But this was, I'll preface this by saying this was like 25 years ago.

I know she's a dinosaur. Ages ago. So she's still not checking in people. So don't have to be worried if you are flying out of Sydney. But pretty much back in the day, her colleague had just escorted a first time flyer off a flight and she had to quickly escort her to the checking counter where my mom was. And she was in such a hurry. She didn't really give my mom much of the brief. And she goes, here's a passenger.

Can you finish checking her in? Because I've got to run and get some more passengers off. And my mom was like, of course, of course. So she didn't speak any english this south korean passenger and beknowns to my mum she had just gotten off a flight from south korea and she was meant to get on another flight a connecting flight domestic transfer to melbourne to meet her long lost family okay so she come to australia all this way it'll be a long flight right i think it's like nine hours to sydney it's a long haul um so my mum, happy as Larry to check her in, didn't ask questions because she couldn't speak any English.

And the woman just handed my mum the passport out of reflex. So my mum assumed, oh, she's obviously going back on an international flight. My mum had no idea where she had come from. So my mum just put her back on a flight going to South Korea. So she literally flew 19 hours from Seoul, landed in Sydney, only to be checked back in and flown directly back. And it gets there.

You'd be like, what? Which is like... So my mum thought, okay, she can't speak any English. I'll do the goodwill and escort her to the gate. So my mum's escorting her all through customs, security, everything, back to the gate, talking to the flight attendants going, hey, first time flyer, doesn't speak English. Look after her, make sure she has a great flight.

So they put her on the flight and the poor thing, you know when you get on a flight, you can see the... Through the window. And you can see where the flight's going on the flight path. Imagine what she would have felt when she saw that plane go by. Anyway, so my mum found out because they rang her two days later saying, so you've got the lady on the wrong flight. She was meant to be in Melbourne by now.

Her family were looking for her. Her family was so distressed. So my mum took a bit of time off. Well, at least she got to see the best part of Australia, the McDonald's that puts your burgers through the pipes. It's all you need to see. That's amazing. So this is why we want to open up this morning on New Zealand's breakfast.

Talking shop, things that have happened at work. You can text 4487 as well. Just had producer Taylor in telling a story about her mum who worked at the Sydney International Airport for a number of years and a lady arrived from South Korea only to be checked back on a flight to South Korea by Taylor's mum. It was a wee mix-up. It was a language barrier.

And she did a big day in the air, didn't she? She's playing 22-hour recovery points, I guess. So we're talking shop This morning 0800 the hits 4487 if you'd like To text us Ben I Only one thing

That sticks in my mind When I first started In radio And it was a period In radio where you know Health and safety Wasn't at the forefront We weren't afraid

To have bikini babes And hot pants Handing out radio stations Stickers and things like that so i was sent i was 18 19 i can't even remember but it was two or three weeks into the job now i was sent uh by fat gary also we weren't we weren't afraid to nickname people by their body type as well in that day but fat gary was the marketing manager of the rock and he's a lovely guy and he took me under his wing he's like i need you to go to tauranga and pick up a giant a-frame trailer now they're those ones with you can have oh yes

billboards either side of the trailer and it was enormous and i got to tauranga but the grass had grown pretty much halfway up the the trailer just been sitting in the same location for god knows how long so i hooked it up and i was driving along the hodaki plains and uh the wind across that straight stretch of road was blowing the thing left and right over both lanes. I was barely holding on for dear life, to the point where both wheels burst. And then it was just going on the actual tyre. So I had to go into the farmer's house, and I was like, mate, listen, can I help you? Can I borrow a landline?

It was also a time where I didn't have cell phones. Oh, jeez. Can I borrow a landline? It was also a time where I didn't have cell phones. Oh, jeez. Can I borrow a landline? This was a long time ago. And phone working, they're like, okay, mate, we'll be there shortly.

Nine hours later, because I've just started. I didn't want to make a, I called them back. I was like, are you still coming to get me? And they're like,

mate, we forgot. We'll come now. I didn't get home until two in the morning. Just waiting to get to the random farmer's house. Yeah, the trailer, it was a nightmare anyway.

Oh, 800, the hit's telephone number. Jamie. Hey, how are you? We're good, mate. We're good. We're talking shop this morning. And what do you do? I'm a beauty therapist. Oh, you'd see it all.

I do. Literally. I see it all. Yep. Okay, so what's one story that springs to mind from your years being a beauty therapist? Right. So, I mean, obviously, we do everything from brows, all the waxing, everything like that. Top to bottom.

Top to bottom. Specifically the bottom, you know? So, yeah, people come in for Brazilians and stuff. I had someone come in super nervous the first time. No problem. We do it most days. I can see why they would be nervous. I mean.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. When I had my first one, it was fear running through my system. Yeah. Yeah. So it's not, you know, you've got to have the balls to go and get it done in the first play. She was here and, yeah, did the front, not the pole.

I was like, wait, you know, do you want the back done? And just if you're listening, always get the back done because us beauty therapists call it a mullet wax if you don't. Okay, okay. Mullets are quite trendy at the moment, though. We won't tell you that. We won't tell you that, but that's the nickname for it. Very trendy, the mullet right now.

I don't know in that particular region, but I know. No. Yeah. Yeah, not in that region. Okay. So, yeah, I was like, perfect, I'm back done. So she popped on over, rolled on the side, and then I noticed that she had a plug there that isn't usually there.

Oh, okay. In your average person. Yeah, I had a chat and I was like Oh, you know I'm not sure if you're aware Oh, did you bring it up? Yeah, well, you had to Because it covered

The area to wax So did you say I'm not sure If you're aware Well, I was thinking she bloody drove here So like, you'd think you'd be aware on the drive yeah and so what did she oh i forgot it was there or yes she said oh my god i've completely forgot like i was running around with the vacuum cleaner and stuff and just trying stuff hey life gets in the way later in the night yeah not a prop oh yeah she's like like Alright just give me a second And there you go

Yeah the worst thing was You know I would run into her At the local Supermarket Every now and then So there was a few side eyes Yeah

We both We both remembered Thank you very much For your call Jamie Really appreciate it Nah no problem You have a great day You too