The Edge Arvos Podcast - FULL POD #183: And that’s why we can’t have nice things!! 😆

Episode Date: November 17, 2025

Monday! Steph can’t have nice things 🤦‍♀️ Lotto chat  5 Star Fact 🎉🎉 Pilates class for a date? Steph’s sister surprised her Wholesome surprise stories 🥹❤️ Love ya! Sean, Steph & Harrison x Follow our new insta @edgearvos

This is a podcast from Rover. You're avos head harder with Sean, Steph and Harrison. You know those people that you see in life and you're like, God, they've got things figured out? They look put together. They look perfect. You don't see a stain on them. Those people? Yeah.

Yeah. I know people who are like, who wear an iron t-shirt and you're like, you've got it together. Who's ironing? Who's got the time? I don't even know. My philosophy is my t-shirt will naturally iron on my body. Yeah. When I sweat through it across the course of the day.

Yeah. And if it needs more than that, then I'm just not wearing it today. And that will go back into the wardrobe. Yeah. In a few months time, when I think about wearing it again, I'll bring it out. And I'm like, not today either. And it will pop it back in. So I'm that person that's never put together.

I always look a mess unless I'm, like, going out somewhere, and I'll try a little bit harder. You don't always look a mess, but you're known to have a stain here and there. Yeah, it's just, you know, life. I'm just very clumsy and I can't own nice things and sometimes I try and I'll dabble and I'll be like oh yeah go on Steph

buy the bead necklace which is what I did over in Sydney I had some birthday money for my grandma to spend so we went to Paddington Markets in Sydney have you been there? No it's like real beautiful

bits and bobs at people like craft market not like a secondhand thing I love those I always stand at someone's store and go oh this is so amazing did you make this and then leave without buying anything.

Yeah, that one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I bought something. Whoa, good for you. I had some birthday money. So I was like, I'm going to be the babe this summer that has a really cute big necklace. Love that.

Okay, so I bought one. And I was like, I am obsessed with that, and I love it, and I wore it. So that was fine. And then what was the other goal of mine, Sean? To go to Uniclo. Correct, which is a shop that doesn't exist in New Zealand, but it is everywhere else in the world, and it does the best basics.

Really great t-shirts. It's like glass and stuff. meets Helen's Lines, meets H&M, but it's better than all of them. It's the same price. It's Japanese originally, but it's amazing. So, went there, bought two T-shirts, and that was it. I wish I could have spent more money, but I just don't have it. So anyway, so leaves and they come home, and I'm like, is this a new, Steph?

Is this like a phase of life where I can have nice things? I look at my new bead necklace, like my new T-shirt. So it's the first day that we're back home after our little trip away. my 18 month old is playing on the mat and I'm down there with and playing with toys and stuff and then he decides to have a piggyback ride and he hops on my back and he uses my brand new necklace as a bit of a rain

as if I'm a horse and he aches it a little bit too hard and then beads go everywhere Oh man The bead necklace is completely destroyed That sucks Bye bye beads That sucks.

So I'm frantically trying to clean them up because I'm like, oh my God, there's a choking hazard now so I'm like trying to find every single piece. So I'm going to deal with that, try and go to some jeweler and get that fixed, whatever. And then

he has to have his nappy change. This is the same hour. And I'm like, okay, far out. All right, Jake, my partner's cooking dinner. I'm like, I'll suss the nappy. So I'm sussing the nappy. I'm like, bada bada buma. All right, here's a massively huge stamina poo.

But that's sorted or clean, done. and then I have a little smell in the air after the nappies change and I'm like well it's normal to kind of have a smell linger I'm like oh not this normal like not this lingerie and then that's when I noticed I don't know how it got there but on the shoulder of my brand new white white it was white all that's ruined

Uniclo t-shirt is little yeah no I get yeah I'm aware of speckles I don't know how it got up on my shoulder for crying out loud but this is why I can't have nice things That is insane You're gonna try and wash the shirt

You still wear the shirt yeah Yeah shit's saveable Beed necklaces Yeah, probably not Yeah I'll try But then what's the point I can't have nice things The next horsey ride

It's ruined again Your Avos head harder With Sean, Steph and Harrison The Edge Lotto was one over the weekend How good is that sound When you hear it And you're like oh my god I've won

And then you're like two bonus lines Great Yeah bonus sticker oh cool Love that So three people but it, which is great, because 55 million absolutely ruins your life. One was in Auckland. One's in Christchurch.

One is in Kawaro, which is like a tiny town by Rotorua. You've got to be, I mean, Auckland, Christchurch, they're going to be lost amongst the sea of people. Kaworo, that's going to change the town. Yeah, we're going to call Kawarro in just a second to try and figure out who's won it. Does you know that if you win Lotto, there's a 1 in 38 million chance of winning? Yeah, I know it's something crazy like that, because it's more than the population because it doesn't get one every week.

Quick game. thinks more likely, winning an Oscar or winning the lotto? Oscar. I think it's still so much more likely just get hit by lightning, right? One in 11,000 for winning an Oscar. Hit by lightning twice to win the lotto. What about having identical quadruplets? What's more likely?

Oh, I'm not going to say lotto. That seems like a fashion. No, one in 15 million with identical quadruplets. So you've got more chance of having that than winning loto. Getting killed by a shark? Oh, yeah, way more likely. Way more likely. Dying in a tornado.

Oh, lotto? Way more likely dying in a tornado. One in five million. Really? Being injured by a toilet. The toilet? I think I've been injured by a toilet. Okay, yeah, one in 10,000.

Being born as a conjoined twin. That one? Yeah, one in 200,000. I'm picking a theme here. Perfectly guessing a stranger's pin on your first try. Oh, no, that's got to be higher. One in 10,000. Whoa, really?

What about a bird pooing on you on the same day, stepping in? dog poo. What's more likely? That will winning the lotto. That, definitely. One in 350,000 for the poo. Wow. Well, this is a talking about of buying a lotto ticket. Until we call Kauaro, and then it will talk me instantly back into it. Let's call them. It's called the New World, because they're the ones who sold it. Good afternoon. Office Sam speaking. Hello, Sam. It's Stefan Sean here calling from the Edge Radio Station. How are you? Hi, good, thank you. How are you?

We're just calling Kawaro just for a bit of a vibe check, Sam. Because, I mean, for someone there, I'm going to probably be buying like a Mercedes or something, Flash. 18 million, Sam. Yeah, it's a good vibe here. Sam, can I just ask, has anyone mysteriously not turned up for work today? No, unfortunately, none of our team haven't turned up.

I think you wouldn't the first day. No, you've got to show up. Yeah, I reckon Sam, you would. Sam, it's more tomorrow and your Wednesdays, I think. Whoever it is, it's going to be like, no, screw this. Once reality sets in You know who's sounding awfully perky for a Monday Sam? Sam is.

Sam you're sounding very full of beans, mate. Well, always for me on a Monday but I'm definitely not the winner. That's what you'd say if you were the winner. I'm going to read out the winning numbers and I'm going to see if Sam has any kind of reaction. 38, 28, 28, 28, 2, 14, 19, bonus ball, 29, power ball 6. Unfortunately means nothing to me.

Time. Sam, we can rule one out. Well, New World. We think you guys are incredibly lucky and thank you so much for selling someone's winning ticket and keep doing the hard mahi. Is that what were you saying?

Yeah, cool. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah. You guys are all MVP. Yeah, hell yeah. Actually, I think if you sell a lot of ticket, do you get something? You like get like something, don't you? Get a sign to put up.

Bragging right. That's about it. Get to be on the radio. All right, Sam, well, hey, thank you so much for your time and have a great rest of your afternoon. Thank you so much. You too. She definitely won lotto. I think it was Sam.

She's in such a good mood. Your Ivo's Head Harder with Sean, Steph and Harrison. The Edge. The Edge 5 star fact is the part of the show where it's on the name. I give a fact to the team. Our three judges, producer nurse Sam, Steph and you on 0800 the Edge, still waiting for someone to come through on that one. Can judge it out of five stars.

And that is how it works. 0800 if you'd like to judge it. I'm very excited about today's facts. Steph, I think that it's quite targeted towards you as a lover of dogs. Love dogs. And astrology. Love astrology. I was telling Sean today that my dogs are Sagittarius and he laughed at me.

I said my favourite people in my life are Sagittarius is, my partner, some of my best friends, my dog. Yeah. Yeah, I just, I've never heard of someone refer to their dog star sign before. So it was a first for me. Okay. Granted, I'm not really in that space, but I do appreciate it. What's your star sign? Cancer.

I hate that. Such a cancer thing to say. Can we rename it? All those cancers out there do not want to be named after a, like, life-threatening sickness. Yes, it's so true. Okay. Why do we rename it? It's a pucks at my house.

I don't know. Why is it cool, yeah, I agree. I agree. It's not like an, oh, what's your star sign? AIDS. No, I'm saying they shouldn't be that. Like, no, that's what I'm saying. You can't, you'd change it, wouldn't you?

You'd change it. Yeah. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. Like, write that one down for your comedy, but. No, it's not comedy. This is just serious chat. Okay.

Okay, today's five-star fact is Dogs Poop and alignment with the Earth's magnetic field So you notice when you're going to dogs About to defecate and it spins around and turns around And like finds its angle and then goes to the bathroom A study was done with over 8,000 dogs That proves that dogs have like a

alignment with the magnetization of the earth and they find the perfect north-south whenever they go to the bathroom. It's insane. So are they, they're always forward-facing, like north-facing? Or south-facing, but they find that axis. What?

Yeah, yeah, it's a true fact. That's so not a true fact. No, it is, and the only time it doesn't happen because sometimes it doesn't happen is when there's, like, the Earth's magnetic field isn't like, I've ruined it down here. It's unsettled, which is something happens sometimes when there's, like, things happening in space,

space weather and stuff, the Earth's magnetic field isn't settled, and compasses go a little if that's happening, the dog will just poop anywhere. But if there's a strong magnetic force in the earth, dogs will poop north-south. So hold on. So I'm just visualising my dog. I've got a four-year-old golden retriever.

We've got a garden that's kind of like the shape of a square. So you're saying that whenever Larry goes out and uses the toilet, he's only ever facing that way or that way, never any other way. Unless the magnetic force of the earth is a bit blurry, in which case he'll go wherever he wants. But yeah. He picks away.

Really? No, he'll sit anywhere in the garden, but it's the way he faces, the direction he's pointing. Yeah. Yeah. Huh. And they studied 8,000 dogs. Some poor person at some university somewhere had to watch 8,000 dogs poo.

You know when you're waiting for your dog to use the bathroom? And you're like, hurry up, hurry up. Hurry out here to do that a lot. 8,000 times just to see what. Okay, wow. Interesting fact. I don't know if I believe it. But hey, if it's on the internet, it must be true.

Producer Nurse Sam, fact check. Can we get a quick fact check? A quick fact, okay, yes. there should be fact-checking anyway, but no, it's true. I believe it's on the internet, and it wasn't a chat GPT one either. This was a real internet fact. Okay, and Sophia, Larry, the Sagittarius has absolutely sent me

as a Texas club there is a bit. It's true. It's a fact. That is a fact. He is a Sagittarius. All right, Sam is a fact-checks. We've got to our other judge, Claudia, here in Christchurch. Claudia, what do you think of this fact?

Yeah, I think it is a fact. You think it is a fact? It's a fact? Okay, Bruce and who's Sam. Yeah, I do. Yes, it is. It is a fact. Wow, guys, it's a true fact. Fact check by producer, Nurse Sam.

Given that, Claudia, what are you rating it out of five? That's pretty impressive, right? Yeah, I've rated a five. Of course you do. Thank you, Claudia. Thank you so much. Same. Oh, my God.

I never knew this. It's super relatable because my dog defecates way more than he should. So it happens all the time. Sam, producer, Sam, what is your score? Is this the first time he's going to score? The trifecta of five stars. I'm not, wait, hold up, I'm not ready for this moment. Oh my God. What moment?

Oh, oh. I, does it know, it is true. Okay, so I did fact check, and yeah, dogs poop along the north-south axis, aligning with the Earth's magnetic field when it's stable. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. It's insane. And you're rating the fact. I'm rating it.

Are you ready, Sean? Five. Oh my God! Yes! Yes! Yes! Oh my God! It's science, it's real life.

It's everything, mate. Oh, this is a massive moment for me. I think this is the true first five-star fact I've received. Every other time I'm about to pull Tammy from Briscoe's in here or get us some other celebrity in here. This is a true five-star fact. This is incredible. I'd like to thank my mom.

I'd like to thank Jesus. Get her on the phone. She's going to be so proud of me. Oh, guys. Bravo's Head Harder with Sean, Steph and Harrison. Over the weekend, I tried something for the first time, Steph. I tried Reforma Pilates. Oh.

Sorry, I tried. Well, I didn't know where that was going. I was like, oh, can we talk about this in a ready? No, although there was a lot of sliding around. Reformer Pilates. If you've never done it, Pilates, Reforma Pilates, the one with those big machines, crazy big machines. It looks like the kind of thing that in medieval times you might have stretched someone to death on.

you know what I'm talking about I've actually thought about that as well you know those things that like old torture device they used to stretch people yeah I reckon oh that reminds me of a goosebumps episode oh really yeah that was freaky weird for kids to be reading all that

I know and I reckon those like stretching torture devices would have felt incredible for like a split second oh that's a spot I'm dead anyway Losing my train of floor Pilates right I got a reform of Pilates my girlfriend my fiance now sorry

She goes, hey, I've signed us up to this reformer Pilates. Why is she signing you up to a bunch of weird stuff? It was some PR event she got invited to. I said we'd go. And I was like, oh, that actually sounds kind of fun because I do like doing a workout class together. And often the way to get her to go is that she invites me to her like quite female skewed ones. Not to say men can't do it, but I do go to a lot of yoga and Pilates and stuff with her.

This is the first time I've gone to a reform of Pilates. And can I say, ridiculous if you've gone to these classes. What do you mean? Like women will do anything but lift a weight up. Like, you're on these machines that cost $10,000. You're like pulling a cable that's like slides you across this thing. Yeah. You're doing what's essentially squats, but they're like rolling along this thing with little cables that you hold on to.

No, but it's just easier for your joints. That's why. Yeah, maybe. It just seems like a lot of fluff to do it. Like a normal workout with just all these steps. No, but it's helping with the toning. Yeah. And it's like easier on the joints and stuff.

If you're a bit old like me and you make, ooh, that noise when you get up, then it's like a really good workout. Yeah. I mean, it's true, it was a good workout, and I did enjoy it. It just felt a bit ridiculous. I was like, this is crazy. And I was the only man in the class. And when I went there, they're like, do you have your grippy socks? I'm like, what do you mean to have my grippy socks?

You got to wear little grippy socks. And so they gave me some, but they were all too small because they didn't expect a guy my size to be there. Anyway, and they were serving machete's off. I just felt so horrifically out of place. But it was nice to do it as a kind of date activity. Not the first time I've done, like, as I said, me and Gene, I've done a few workout classes. I've actually, back in the day, I've gone on a few, like, dates before I met my partner. two exercise classes. I'd recommend it.

It's quite a fun date. We'll go ready to get to know someone. But how do you chat on a date at a workout class? But it's like how do you chat at the movies, right? Like you don't really, you chat afterwards or before. So you kind of go there, you get your endorphins up together and you kind of hang out and bond over sweating together. It's been vulnerable with someone

sweating with them. Hold on. So you would turn up to a gym separately or together when you'd go on dates. Maybe together, pick them up. Oh, you'd pick them up. So you'd chat in the car and then you'd pull up, you'd find a park and then you'd go to the exercise class and you'd get real

sweety. Yes. Next to each other. We're couchy. Yeah, I have a laugh in between. Oh, you're struggling with that. Ha-ha. And then after the class, like, debrief. How was that? Drop her home. Yeah, go get a coffee or something. Yeah, exactly. Wholesome. Wow. I've never thought about it as a date.

I think if someone suggested, hey, Sefshaw, do you want to go to, like, Les Mills pump for our food's date? I'd be like, you're not for me. I'd be like, mm, this isn't going to work. It sounds a bit toxic to suggest it. It just sounds really, I don't know what my beef with it is. It just sounds like it shouldn't.

It's like a date should be food. The only exercise is happening on a date is walking along a beach or around a lake. Sure. That would be beautiful. A park. But what's the difference in that and going, hey, let's go and do, I found a sunrise yoga. Day, let's go do it. Let's go do it.

quite intense. It just seems like too much too soon. Even you and Jenny, how long have you guys been together? Five years. Yeah, five and a half. I even think even a five year relationship you shouldn't be doing exercise classes to do that. Really? I think it's strange. I think go and do you, have you time. Jeannie, go and do her time and then come

together and do other things. But you don't need to work out together. What are you saying? I just think go for a walk if you want to like exit. You don't need to be doing workout classes on a date. Okay. I think it's a good date. I think it's a terrible. date idea. If you're out there and you don't know what to do, you want to sing physical on a date. It's a good way to get you to know someone. You get the endorphins going.

You can't be like, Jeannie, how was your day at work? You can't gossip. You can't gossip. You can't talk. The People's Court is open. 0800 the edge. Is it okay to go on a date to an exercise class? Absolutely not. It just makes me feel weird. Your avos hit harder with Sean, Steph and Harrison. The Edge.

The People's Court is open. The case. I went to a workout class with my fiancé as a date and I fessed up to have doing this multiple times in my life, including people that I was just dating with, wasn't actually in a relationship. Steph thinks it's kind of crazy. The court of law is, is it okay to go to an exercise class, yoga, Pilates, etc., as a date? Let's go to the phone's three calls to side at all. It's the people's court.

Rosie, what do you think? Jury number one? I think that it's like it does kind of depend on the situation. but I think overall, like, if you've been seeing someone for a period of time and you really like them and you want to be, like, taken further, I think exercise classes is, like, such a fun way to kind of know how to handle difficult things for starters. And it is also just lots of fun to do it together,

and it's kind of like a bonding moment or, like, I feel like you're always bringing people to classes, then it's a bit different. But I feel like if you're doing it, like, with someone special that you're... Yeah, you're cutting out there, Rosie. I get what she's saying. It's like you said if you brought a movie up, but it's about the chat afterwards.

It's like after the exercise class, you go, oh, how hard was that bit? Oh, I saw you couldn't do that, but, oh, how annoying was the instructor? There's chat in it. There's something to talk about. It's a bonding experience. But not during it, because the music's too loud. You'll be like, how are you having fun?

I'll be like, what? I can't hear you. Yeah. Like, oh, I see, it sounds like a nightmare. Kate joins the show. Kate, during number two. What are your thoughts? well if you're both into it go for it but if you're not no way

what are you into kate uh i'd go for a walk or a hike somewhere yeah but if the person's not into pilates don't do that for a day i'm with you and it could turn a bit a key like if if sean we're going on a day and i'm like oh my god come to pilates yeah and then there's sean's struggle street can't touch just toes kind of thing. Slime off the thing. Making noises like, ugh, you know, just to bend down. Then I'll be like, ooh, ick.

Yeah, but it's good to get that out early, isn't it? Because you're going to figure that out anyway. Yeah. You're just bringing these things forward. Well, that's one vote each way. Ellie, you decided all for the people's court this afternoon. Exercise classes for a date. Is it all good or nah? Well, personally, my idea of hell, if my partner told me

was taking me to an exercise class, I'd be like, go find a new partner. But I think it's great You've got to look We're all so busy We're all broke at the moment We've got to romanticised Day to day life Why not go to a Pilates class of the day

It's cheaper than It's going after dinner But Ellie you just said you wouldn't do it No Oh I could do her a former Pilates class maybe But like it's taking me to a hit class We'll be going to We won't be going for coffee after

We'll be going to the hospital Because I'll be I'll love you Well I think it feels it I think it's okay Yeah, it's okay, good job Oh, thanks Ellie Oh great Feel better about myself

I think there are boundaries though I think if anyone's listening And they're like oh okay I'm going to suggest this Just do it once You can't be the person That keeps bringing people back to their hit class Yeah that's true

If you're on the dating scene Don't make it your go to Don't make it your go to And also don't be like Watch what I can do And you're cross fit And lifting tyres and stuff Like don't make it braggy

Make it chill and cool And cute Yeah that's it Your Avos Head Harder With Sean Steph and Harrison The Edge Now normally we do

wacky things and we're like when did you fart on the bus but no I want to take this moment in the show to kind of just be quite wholesome and to talk about something really beautiful and not that funny

What you didn't run this past me well You know my filter As the boss on the show Yeah that's true You can't tell me what to do Now you absolutely can Do you don't want to do this

You can do it we can pivot Well, no, you've known my filter. It's like, I don't do anything unless it's silly or funny. We can talk about... Yeah, it's quite serious. No, take it to the breeze. It's not for us. No, I do.

Well, nothing heartfelt on this show. Can I picture it? And then I'll see if you are viving with it. Yeah, sure. Okay, so, so what I'd love to do is celebrate people surprising other people right now. You know those TikTok videos of like, especially after COVID, like when people were stuck in their countries and then they would surprise their family on the other side of the world, they'd fly over and then they'd be like surprise and they'd be like, ah!

Yeah, that's cute. That happened to me last week. Now, my sister lives in London. I saw this on your social media. It was so cute. It was one of the coolest things ever. I don't really get surprised. No, I had one surprise party one year

and it was like the greatest thing. Oh my God, please everybody do that for your friends. It was the greatest night ever. It was the most amazing, like sensation, being surprised and having people, realizing that people have actually made an effort and have been thinking about you is like the greatest gift you can give to someone. So do the surprise party for your mates. Do it.

I think it can go two ways though. What if someone's not really into it and then they just wanted a night and all of a sudden? Just make it a quiet, intimate dinner then. Just make it low key. Don't make it a party. Make it like low key. Make it their vibes. But do it.

So anyway, so my sister lives in London and haven't seen her since the baby. He's 18 months, well, 19 months old now since he was like six months. So it's been a while, so much progression. Like he's talking now, he's running around. And she wasn't going to see him until end of next year when he's like two and a half. So that's kind of what I thought. But anyway, so it was my birthday on Monday last week. My partner Jake is like, let's go down to the beach and get some coffees.

We do that every day. So it's not out of the realm of weird. So I'm like, yeah, cool, sounds good. Wander down, heading towards the cafe. And then I see this girl ahead of me on her phone. sitting down at one of the cafe benches. And then she looks up, and maybe we're like 30 metres back from her. I don't kind of, can't see her face properly,

but she's got red hair, glasses, and she looks up at me, and she starts waving. And I'm like, do you know, my first thought was, oh my God, a fan. I can't go anywhere without these bloody air jarvos listeners following me everywhere. They've found out where I live, Jake. We're going to have to move. move again. She starts waving and I'm like,

who is this weird? I'm waving at me. So I walk closer and that's when I see her. That it's my sister. She'd just been messaging me saying that she was, because she lives in London, saying that she was going to Paris for the weekend. She's not going to be contactable because of,

she just wants like a digital detox over the weekend. She doubled down on it. Yeah, and like she knew that I, she wouldn't be able to be contactable on the flight. So that's why she came up with this whole big story. I was like, you're supposed to be in Paris. And she's like, surprise. And it was the greatest thing.

For me, it was her birthday too, we have the same birthday So for her to see her nephew on her birthday as well At an age that I think is like the greatest age right now It's so cute That it was just the most wholesome beautiful thing That someone can do And I encourage everyone if you can Surprise the people that mean a lot to you

Because it's nothing better No, you've talked me into it now I like that It gave me warm feelings on the inside Now if it's okay This is my big pitch, that's my story Can we please get people to call through and 0,800 the edge, and talk about when they've surprised family or friends.

Or maybe you were the one that had no idea, and you were the one that was surprised. It's going to get wholesome. Tears, I'd love someone to cry on the show. That'd be great. Happy tears. Happy tears. Not sad tears. Yeah.

Someone came back and I hate them and they showed up in my house. No, we don't want that. No one. Oh, my brother showed up and I was just had a baby. Oh, cute. Yeah. Your Avos Head Harder with Sean, Steph and Harrison The Edge

Doing something a little bit wholesome right now I don't often do this But Steph you were surprised pleasantly By your sister who came back from London Pleasantly Yeah, I was Well it's important to put that out there For some people's sisters coming back

Might be quite traumatic for them I'm here and I'm here to stay for a week Like I've got a kid, I don't need it But it was nice for you It was beautiful because I wasn't expecting to see her anytime soon And it just meant like It's just nice when people care and they care enough

to make such an effort to keep it under wraps and tell people and organise it behind you back. I love a surprise. I think more people should try and surprise friends and family. Even if it's just like a small little gesture. I think it's a beautiful thing. Boo! Not like that. Not like that. Not surprising like a good

gesture. Don't have a hiccups. Not like that. Like a beautiful turning up out of the blue or surprise dinner or whatever. So let's get wholesome and let's celebrate surprising people. Alicia from Auckland, what's your story?

Hiya. Hello. So I was similar to your story. I was living overseas in London and my sister had just had a baby. So I jumped on a flight to come to New Zealand as a surprise. Came for two weeks and yeah, no one knew. I got a big box and wrapped it in that baby wrapping paper.

and then at her front door just popped out of the box and yeah so we're all super surprised You wrapped yourself up like a present Yeah It was impressive In like a big Yeah in a big box

My friends helped me like set it all up And yeah none of my family knew Oh stunning And I bet your family and especially your sister was thrilled That sounds beautiful And something they'll remember forever So much effort right That's a lot of effort especially to like girls

It feels like a two-man job. Yeah. Just put a bow on it? Do you poke air holes? Thank you, Alicia. Ruby is here. Your dad surprised you, Ruby. What's your story?

So when I was in kindergarten, my teachers took me in the back room to help, like, pick a book. And I came back out, and my dad had come home a day early from Afghanistan to surprise me. Oh, my God, Ruby. That is the cutest thing I've ever heard. Was he doing, like, in the army over there? I don't think he was in the army

I think he was just like helping over there for some reason but he had been deployed over there for a little It's like the TikTok videos you see Even the Air Force Just like the TikTok video And Ruby, you're the real kid Amazing

See? Oh my God And Ruby will remember that forever She was in kindergarten It's like a core memory That's so cute It's so cute Okay Jenny

Oh my God You got surprised by your whole family What happened? Mine's a very old story and it was a spur of the moment surprise It was Christmas And you know how when you're young I was 20 with one baby

My husband and I was spending Our Christmas with his family Because you share And I'd rung in the morning To tell my family in Auckland Because we were living in Fangare And I said I miss you and I could hardly speak

Choked up and crying And my brother got off the phone And said well I don't know about the rest of you I've got two brothers, two sisters the mum and dad. They packed up their Christmas dinner and I was sitting in the lounge at my husband's family's home

and I thought, gosh, that looked like Dad's car just goes past the window. Another car, that's my brother's car. The whole lot of them, five carloads turned up from Auckland to share Christmas with me. 50 years ago now. Oh, Ginny!

That is beautiful, Jeannie. That is pretty cool, man. What an incredible family you have. What a wonderful family. story. Oh, you've got me all choked up too, Jenny. You guys are going to make me cry for the first time on the show. I'm going to show emotional. The little darling Ruby,

that's a lifetime one. Please just make sure that she is acknowledged. That was lovely. Yeah, absolutely. Jenny, thank you so much for your story. This is so wholesome. I feel better. I mean, I feel sad but in a good way. Yeah, yeah, this is the thing. Oh, God, is this emotions?

Sean, this is happy emotion, tears, joy. I don't like it. No, we love it. Okay. We need to teach Sean Harder, for your things, guys. Okay, this is great. All right. Well, thanks so much for sharing very vulnerable stories as well.

It was very, very nice. Your Arvo's Head Harder with Sean, Steph and Harrison. The Edge. Rover. Music, radio, podcasts.