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Speaker 2: Hellore you, great New Zealanders, and welcome to Matt and

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Speaker 2: Tyler Afternoons, Full Pod number eighty nine for Tuesday, the

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Speaker 2: eighteenth of March twenty twenty five. I keep remembering in

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Speaker 2: these intros to tell people the things that we don't

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Speaker 2: get to. Because once again we didn't get to the

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Speaker 2: Rolliston couple who had a car smashed through the front

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Speaker 2: of their house and land on the wife's bed, pinning

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Speaker 2: her down. Husband got superhuman powers and lifted the car up.

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Speaker 2: We haven't got to that for two days in a row.

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Speaker 3: No hell of a story, and we'll preview it as

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Speaker 3: you're here next but we don't quite get to it today,

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Speaker 3: but we're going to track down the couple.

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Speaker 2: What happened is we got embroiled in some fantastic and

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Speaker 2: shocking hitchhiking stories and also some advice around how to

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Speaker 2: run a hospow business and such, so it was a

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Speaker 2: great chat anyway. Maybe we'll get to that topic tomorrow,

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Speaker 2: but thank you for tuning into The mantyla Afternoon's Full

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Speaker 2: Loveyars eight years, mostly love yours, mostly love yours. See

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Speaker 2: you tomorrow, Give a taste Kiwi.

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Speaker 1: The big stories, the big issues, the big trends, and

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Speaker 1: everything in between. Matt and Taylor Afternoons with the Volvo

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Speaker 4: They'd be.

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Speaker 3: Good afternoon to you. Welcome into Tuesday. Hope you're having

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Speaker 3: a great afternoon. Fantastic. Do you have your company as always?

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Speaker 2: Get a Tyler? Good everyone?

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Speaker 3: So big show today after three o'clock. An interesting situation

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Speaker 3: you found yourself?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I wonder if I did the right thing here?

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Speaker 2: And what you think about it? So quick rundown of

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Speaker 2: a situation. It's raining outside. I'm in my car waiting

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Speaker 2: for my son who's in an appointment. Someone basically knocks

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Speaker 2: on the window and says, my phone's flat. Yep, can

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Speaker 2: you order me an uber? I go no, because you

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Speaker 2: know I can't send you off on an uber. What

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Speaker 2: if you soil the thing? We talk for a bit,

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Speaker 2: it's raining down. I say, God, jump in, I'll give

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Speaker 2: you a lift and drive this person off Acrosstown and

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Speaker 2: drop them off and then come back and pick up

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Speaker 2: my son from the appointment. Is that the right thing

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Speaker 2: to do? Is that just being naively generous? Or is

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Speaker 2: it just what we should do navally thing to do

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Speaker 2: in this day and age? You know the opposite? Well,

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Speaker 2: you know what I could have done if I hadn't

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Speaker 2: done that. The other option was just leave someone in

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this is going to be a great chat. I've

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Speaker 3: got a lot of questions for you though, because context

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Speaker 3: is important. But I mean, you had a lot of

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Speaker 3: support initially. Yeah, but there's also a few that came

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Speaker 3: through saying, Matt, you're silly. Don't give strangers rights.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you're not supposed to give strangers rights. Yea, it

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Speaker 2: depends really, because this person was giveing the ride was

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the size of the person is important.

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Speaker 2: I would have then given them a really poor review though.

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Speaker 3: That is half to three o'clock. After two o'clock. Narrow

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Speaker 3: Escapes is after a couple feel very lucky to be

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Speaker 3: alive after a traumatic accident saw a car catapult through

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Speaker 3: their Roliston home in Canterbury in the early hours of

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Speaker 3: Saturday morning. It was an absolute miracle escaped. The husband

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Speaker 2: We want to talk about this yesterday, but our topics

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Speaker 2: But we want to talk about this today. Those near

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Speaker 2: misses in your life and moments of heroicism.

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Speaker 3: Yep, that is after two o'clock you have witnessed absolutely.

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Speaker 3: But right now a new Wellington cafe is hoping its

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Speaker 3: subscription coffee offer will be the key finding its feet

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Speaker 3: in a tough hospitality environment. Two months and this is

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Speaker 3: Jared Strong of Eva's Garage sees things are going pretty

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Speaker 3: well and Jared joins us on the line now, Jared,

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Speaker 3: good afternoon cider guys.

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Speaker 2: How are we very good? How does it work? Jared?

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Speaker 2: Is it a card a name or do you know

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Speaker 7: Well, hopefully there's going to be too many to know

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Speaker 7: at learning and getting to know everyone. No, it's a

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Speaker 7: it's a digital token that we're issuing to the people

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Speaker 7: that sign on, and so yeah, they just come and

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Speaker 7: show their token and get their copy.

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Speaker 2: How many people have signed on so far?

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Speaker 7: We only launched on on Friday, so it was what

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Speaker 7: was only on our social media. Then we got a

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Speaker 2: Hopefully we can help with that a little bit more.

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Speaker 7: So, Yeah, yeah, yeah, no anything help.

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Speaker 2: So it's seventy dollars a month for unlimited coffees. But

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Speaker 2: it can't be completely unlimited, right, What if a workplace

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Speaker 2: must have some restrictions on it.

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Speaker 7: No, So it's for an individual. So it's unlimited coffees

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Speaker 7: for that person. They can come and they can get

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Speaker 7: come back and forths as many times as they like

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Speaker 7: throughout the day. But you know it's for that one

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Speaker 2: They have to come in and out the door so

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Speaker 7: The idea is that they leave and reenter. We've we've

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Speaker 7: off our regulars. We've had an amazing amount of support.

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Speaker 7: We've had customers that have come on our very first

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Speaker 7: So yes, it's sort of built around those people in

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Speaker 3: Yeah. And so at this stage, it sounds like you've

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Speaker 7: Yeah, that's that's sort of the idea we we when

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Speaker 7: I always end up with cards for Africa, and none

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Speaker 7: so we didn't want to do something like that. We

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Speaker 7: a couple of different tiers, so there's a fifteen dollar

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Speaker 7: Does two dollar coffee, so there's a bit of a

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Speaker 7: get people that are on the subscription to you know,

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Speaker 7: bring friends with them who are who are going to

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Speaker 7: you know, just be there the once because they live

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Speaker 7: and a barber shop and Eva's garage too, so all

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Speaker 7: of our subscribers get they get ten percent off everything

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Speaker 7: else store wide. So it's just about building that whole

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Speaker 7: of all of it, not not in the coffees itself

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Speaker 2: Really love it. We're talking to Jared Strong of Eva's

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Speaker 2: in a way, it's kind of a lost leave, lost leader,

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Speaker 2: because it seems to me you've underpriced it. It seems

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Speaker 2: to me a coffee a day for a month would

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Speaker 7: With yeah, yeah, and that's yeah, Like I say, we've

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Speaker 7: we want to make sure that it's it's you know,

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Speaker 7: it right? So there there isn't as much margin left

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Speaker 7: and that's why the caveats are there of you know,

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Speaker 7: But yeah, as I say, there's also the other things

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Speaker 7: and how it all works together. And people love coffee,

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Speaker 7: so that's a good place to start.

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Speaker 2: Well, you shame people that take the purse within the rules.

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Speaker 10: just a little bit of a ray, be a little

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Jared, what's.

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Speaker 2: The market like out there at the moment? You know,

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Speaker 7: Lane Way. We have been running a hotel next door

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Speaker 7: a lot easier. We get some good foot traffic. But

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Speaker 7: you know, thinking out the box and trying to do

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Speaker 7: things a little bit differently certainly helps. I mean, you

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Speaker 7: coffee if you're just doing what everyone else is doing, right,

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Speaker 7: And that's the that's the thing. It is tough out there.

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Speaker 7: Prices are going up for you know, everything.

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Speaker 7: But at the end of the day, it's all about

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Speaker 7: people and people are you know, the center of our business.

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Speaker 7: So if we can help, then they help us. And

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Speaker 3: To great stuff. Jared, Hey, thanks for having a chat

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Speaker 3: That is Jared Strong from Eva's Garage and by all accounts,

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Speaker 2: I always look for opportunities to say innovative.

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Speaker 3: Good afternoon, and we're talking about hospitality in New Zealand.

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Speaker 3: What does hospitality a need to do to get your

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Speaker 2: It's a clever plan that they're running here, because of

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Speaker 2: You know, you might go and buy ski on, you know,

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Speaker 2: But what else are you doing if you're running a

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Speaker 3: It absolutely if you're smart. If you're smart, opportunity smart.

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Speaker 2: Make up some kind of program that you're doing and ring.

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Speaker 2: And I think one of the things that cafe bars

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Speaker 2: absolute lutally got to have a fireplace in your bar.

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Speaker 3: I'd agree with you. If it's pouring down with rain

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Speaker 2: Down you yeah, oh, yeah, absolutely, yeah, you know cook

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Speaker 2: If they're listening, I'd highly encourage them to focus on

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but that's why I like the idea of the

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Speaker 2: Maybe you're a beautiful soul that wants to help out

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Speaker 3: Some hard times here right, thank you. It's passionate twenty

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Speaker 12: You would be an expert in this area from a

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Speaker 12: Why can't I go from Auckland to Delhi, Orkland to Mumbai,

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Speaker 12: Directly back tomorrow at six am the Mic Hosking Breakfast

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Speaker 3: So you've been thinking about a new Volvo suv and a.

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Speaker 3: And by that we mean Google Maps, Google Assistant and

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Speaker 2: That's right, tyles. The XC ninety has got a panoramic roof,

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Speaker 2: Right now, Madam Taylor.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, it's interesting because these innovations that people are suggesting.

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Speaker 2: You can have an incredibly clever idea to get people

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Speaker 2: in the door, but then you have to get the

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Speaker 2: basics right so people have a pleasant experience every time

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Speaker 2: they come in.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean when it comes to your local cafe,

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Speaker 3: do you like that they know your name, that they

443
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Speaker 3: know your order? When you walk through the door, they say, getomett,

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Speaker 3: how's your day going Americano? Is that important?

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Speaker 2: They do not know my name? It we got we

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Speaker 2: go and get a coffee today every day together, Tyler,

447
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Speaker 2: don't we Before the show?

448
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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, they always they always say what's your name?

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Speaker 2: What's what's your name?

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Speaker 3: Tyler? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: I see, and Tyler goes, don't you know who I am?

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Speaker 2: Tyler Adams from Matt and Tyler. Afternoons, you normally throw

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Speaker 2: a big strapped people not recognized it'sizing a.

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Speaker 3: Very good coffee. Oh eight one hundred and eighty ten

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Speaker 3: eighty is the number to go. Nine two nine two

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Speaker 3: is the text number. Headlines with Raylene coming up.

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Speaker 1: Youth talks, they'd be headlines with blue bubble taxis.

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Speaker 14: It's no trouble with a blue bubble. The customs agencies

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Speaker 14: of New Zealand and India have signed a mutual recognition

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Speaker 14: arrangement to give certain exporters border priority, letting them clear

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Speaker 14: goods faster. The government watchdog Takeover's Panel is investigating whether

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Speaker 14: en Signy shareholders are acting above board regarding two birds

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Speaker 14: for new directors, one effectively replacing the current team. Police

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Speaker 14: have three fourteen to sixteen year olds and a twelve

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Speaker 14: year old in custody after an aggravated robbery yesterday and

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Speaker 14: West Auckland's Rannui, a Daneedin doctor who had sex with

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Speaker 14: a drug dependent patient, is back working in medicine with

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Speaker 14: conditions sarlel Elias can now only see female patients with

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Speaker 14: a council approved chaperone. The Minister for Auckland says one

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Speaker 14: point three million dollars from the proceeds of Crime fund

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Speaker 14: is going into bolstering crime prevention. In the CBD, Catherine,

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Speaker 14: Princess of Wales has joined the Irish Guards in Saint

473
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Speaker 14: Patrick's Day celebrations, sipping half a pint of guinness and

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Speaker 14: putting money behind the bar. Spark faces pressure as shares

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Speaker 14: at fourteen year low. Find out more at enzid Herald Premium.

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Speaker 14: Now back to matt Ethan Tyler Adams.

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Speaker 3: Thank you very much. Ray Lanov asked the question what

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Speaker 3: do hospitality businesses need to do to get people back

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Speaker 3: through the doors On the back of a Wellington cafe

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Speaker 3: offering a subscription coffee offer seventy bucks a month and

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Speaker 3: that gets you almost all you can drink when it

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Speaker 3: comes to coffee.

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Speaker 2: Andrew, you work in the hospital space, what's your thoughts

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Speaker 2: on this?

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Speaker 15: Yeah, how's it going?

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Speaker 8: Yeah?

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Speaker 15: Yeah, not a bar owner, but coming I guess from

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Speaker 15: a bar owner's perspective because we do work in that space.

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Speaker 15: It's really about utilizing the TV screens we see far

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Speaker 15: too often. And this is possibly from a bar up

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Speaker 15: point of view rather than a cafe. Typically you can

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Speaker 15: see screens and cafes, but utilizing those TV screens. We

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Speaker 15: work in the space and you're wandering and there's seven

494
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Speaker 15: TVs cranking Spice for seven replay of the basketball from

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Speaker 15: two days ago. So yeah, we see that far too often.

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Speaker 15: And it's one of those scenarios where you know that

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Speaker 15: they could they could better be used in that space,

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Speaker 15: and you know, why not leverage a delicious steak out

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Speaker 15: the back and get that shift smiling. So it's really

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Speaker 15: from an advertising point of view, getting the right things

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Speaker 15: on your screens and so your patrons actually see the

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Speaker 15: right things.

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Speaker 9: And one of one of the interesting.

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Speaker 15: Things as that females, I think there's some stat only

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Speaker 15: about forty or thirty percent of them actually enjoy watching

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Speaker 15: any sort of sport on a screen. So if you

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Speaker 15: look at that and you say, well, that's half my market,

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Speaker 15: possibly not even you know, put in their eyes once

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Speaker 15: on the TV screen, and then that's not a good

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Speaker 15: business model. So yeah, that's the way we look at it.

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Speaker 2: It's interesting when a bar opens, there has to be

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Speaker 2: that decision has to be made. I had a friend

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Speaker 2: that was opening a bar in Ponsonby and they had

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Speaker 2: a big chat about whether they were going to have

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Speaker 2: screens in there, and you know, be opened to be

516
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Speaker 2: a sports bar, and they decided they didn't want to

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Speaker 2: be that bar they wanted to be a cocktail bar,

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Speaker 2: so they've got absolutely no screens in there and they've

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Speaker 2: done really well. What is the message that you seen

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Speaker 2: if you do have screens, irrespective of what's on them.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, exactly right.

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Speaker 15: So some bars definitely go well without screens and that's

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Speaker 15: just the way they operate. But if they do have screens, yes,

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Speaker 15: of course, sport is a huge part of it, and

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Speaker 15: people will go to the bar for sport, but sports

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Speaker 15: only on for a certain amount of time, so in

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Speaker 15: between halftime, before after, assuming it's not an important you know,

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Speaker 15: post match speech or anything like that, and then start

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Speaker 15: leveraging your own advertising and really trying to get those

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Speaker 15: get those cocktails through, get those steaks out the line,

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Speaker 15: those upcoming events.

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Speaker 9: All that sort of thing.

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Speaker 15: Because people usually especially especially females just because I mentioned them,

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Speaker 15: because they typically don't like sport as much.

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Speaker 2: So put some wave it. So Andrew like if for

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Speaker 2: certain people, if the sport's on, even if they're not

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Speaker 2: watching it, they just find the fact that it's on

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Speaker 2: even low as their enjoyment of their drinks.

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Speaker 15: Basically, yes, exactly, yeah, And if the sport's going bad,

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Speaker 15: then no good they're not going to drink as much.

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Speaker 6: Maybe they will.

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Speaker 3: Sorry, I was just going to say, it's a great

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Speaker 3: point that you've kind of got to pick what your

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Speaker 3: theme of the bar is going to be.

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Speaker 9: Right.

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Speaker 3: If you're going to be a sports bar, you have

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Speaker 3: to go when one hundred percent to be a sports bar.

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Speaker 3: If you're going to be a family bar slash restaurant

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Speaker 3: that serves food, then you should probably focus on that

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Speaker 3: because me as as a punter, if I want to

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Speaker 3: go watch the Warriors or go to a sports bar,

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Speaker 3: but if I want to have a nice sit down

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Speaker 3: with family, then I won't go to a sports bar.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, if you get this this smile. Like my favorite

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Speaker 2: bar in Auckland that I go to a lot that's

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Speaker 2: very near my house.

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Speaker 11: They have a.

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Speaker 2: Huge screen that rolls down when it's when sports on right,

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Speaker 2: and that rolls back up so and that screen is

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Speaker 2: like movie screen size, and so they're kind of running

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Speaker 2: a convertible situation there, but generally running a restaurant slash

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Speaker 2: bar the rest of the time.

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Speaker 15: The best setups are where there's seven screens or eight

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Speaker 15: screens or even more, and they've got if there is

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Speaker 15: a big game on, they've got seventy percent of them

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Speaker 15: running running sport, and then the other twenty percent of

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Speaker 15: screens are actually used to advertise and push your product

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Speaker 15: because there's so many bar owners just struggling, and the

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Speaker 15: chef's out back are saying, why don't we sell and

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Speaker 15: blah blah blah. They're relying on their bar staff to

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Speaker 15: try get these big their big staple dishes over line,

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Speaker 15: why don't you lose your expensive TV screens?

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Speaker 16: Someone?

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Speaker 2: If someone flashes up a picture of a steak, I'm

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Speaker 2: going to order it almost immediately, need your coaction.

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Speaker 15: Oh a big steaming medium red bag and can you

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Speaker 15: get the graphics of the steam puffing around it?

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Speaker 9: Idea but a gravey other type or man exactly?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah. There used to be a thing actually,

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Speaker 2: and it seems to have gone. And I wonder why this is.

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Speaker 2: But I was seeing it in bars overseas. Actually I'm

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Speaker 2: not sure if it really happened back here, but where

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Speaker 2: they were playing movies with the subtitles on, so you

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Speaker 2: could steer it and watch a movie and have the subtitles.

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Speaker 2: And I thought that was a really for me, it

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Speaker 2: was like a really I don't want to go to

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Speaker 2: a movie to to a bar to watch a movie

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Speaker 2: with the subtitles.

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Speaker 15: Yeah, that's odd, especially when you're gonna yeah exactly.

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Speaker 3: Well, I was just going to say, because I thought

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Speaker 3: you're going to say, that's a great idea, because you

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Speaker 3: love movies. But that would be so distracted. If I'm

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Speaker 3: sitting there having a steak dinner and pulp fiction is

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Speaker 3: up on the on the screens, I'll be sitting there

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Speaker 3: watching and not talking to anybody who's around.

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Speaker 2: The Well, you're generally looking at your mates or your partner,

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00:27:58,973 --> 00:28:02,213
Speaker 2: and they're on their phone anyway, might as well look

598
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Speaker 2: over their shoulder at a movie Gone with the Wind

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Speaker 2: with subtitles. Hey, thank you so much. If you call Andrew,

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Speaker 2: thanks for your in sight.

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Speaker 3: A couple of texts, guys, Soushell's Cafe and oats here

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00:28:15,333 --> 00:28:18,973
Speaker 3: Potty do it is the best. Soushelle remembers everyone's name

603
00:28:19,453 --> 00:28:23,173
Speaker 3: and their order. Fantastic experience, Go Sushill.

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Speaker 2: So is that a big get people back kind of thing?

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00:28:25,973 --> 00:28:31,573
Speaker 2: You know? Everyone wants to go where everybody inn. Once again,

606
00:28:31,613 --> 00:28:33,013
Speaker 2: you come in. I'm trying to sing and you come

607
00:28:33,013 --> 00:28:33,893
Speaker 2: on with the wrong harmony.

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00:28:33,933 --> 00:28:36,253
Speaker 3: There I have to run out otherwise you'll keep singing.

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00:28:36,733 --> 00:28:39,173
Speaker 3: Oh eight, one hundred eighty ten eighty is the number

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Speaker 3: to cool if you were a cafe owner or a

611
00:28:41,613 --> 00:28:43,933
Speaker 3: hosbow owner, a hospital worker. Love to hear from you.

612
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Speaker 3: How are you doing now with things starting to turn around?

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00:28:46,533 --> 00:28:50,093
Speaker 3: And what? There's a good text there, Tyler. You'm up

614
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Speaker 3: a who puts gravy on their steak. Yeah, I realize

615
00:28:52,693 --> 00:28:56,493
Speaker 3: as soon as I said that it's controversial. Controversial gravy

616
00:28:56,493 --> 00:28:56,893
Speaker 3: on the steak.

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00:28:56,973 --> 00:28:59,253
Speaker 2: Oh, you see it a bit to put in the gravy.

618
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Speaker 2: I don't mind a bit of gravy on mistake. Yeah,

619
00:29:00,973 --> 00:29:03,213
Speaker 2: looks good on screen, you know, with some options. Yeah,

620
00:29:03,253 --> 00:29:04,133
Speaker 2: I've seen that before.

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Speaker 3: Just it looks I'm more.

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00:29:05,893 --> 00:29:07,973
Speaker 2: Likely to go for the mushroom saucer at Red Wines.

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Speaker 2: You Yeah, probably, I'll go for a Redwine's.

624
00:29:10,013 --> 00:29:12,413
Speaker 3: You nice peppercorn, Yeah.

625
00:29:11,853 --> 00:29:15,693
Speaker 2: Peppercorn garlic butter, but garlic butter all day. It's hard

626
00:29:15,693 --> 00:29:17,813
Speaker 2: to go past the gallic butter. Karen says is a

627
00:29:17,853 --> 00:29:20,973
Speaker 2: long time bar owner. The most important agreement is great entertainment,

628
00:29:21,413 --> 00:29:23,653
Speaker 2: just like the New Zealand Kiss Experience, who are playing

629
00:29:23,693 --> 00:29:26,893
Speaker 2: at Paisley Stage in Napier next Saturday, twenty ninth of

630
00:29:26,933 --> 00:29:29,453
Speaker 2: March tickets on sale now. I don't own the bar,

631
00:29:29,773 --> 00:29:33,573
Speaker 2: just trying to plug my band. Very good, well played

632
00:29:33,653 --> 00:29:35,813
Speaker 2: Paisley stage, Yeah, Paisley Stage.

633
00:29:35,853 --> 00:29:37,853
Speaker 3: The New Zealand Kiss Experience Saturday the.

634
00:29:37,773 --> 00:29:41,253
Speaker 2: Time, I see like New Zealand Kiss Experience like a

635
00:29:41,373 --> 00:29:42,453
Speaker 2: Kiss tribute band.

636
00:29:42,533 --> 00:29:43,173
Speaker 3: Yeah.

637
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Speaker 2: I thought it was like some kind of passion thing

638
00:29:45,613 --> 00:29:47,773
Speaker 2: by the New Zealand Kiss Experience entertainment.

639
00:29:47,853 --> 00:29:48,893
Speaker 3: I see that as well.

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00:29:48,933 --> 00:29:51,933
Speaker 2: You go down for a pash? Yeah, yeah, no I

641
00:29:52,013 --> 00:29:52,493
Speaker 2: read that wrong.

642
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Speaker 3: Yeah, very good. If you want to get a plug

643
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Speaker 3: in for your cafe or bar, you're more than welcome

644
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Speaker 3: to nine two nine two is the text number. It

645
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Speaker 3: is eighteen to two.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: What a cafes and bars have to do to get

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Speaker 2: you in the door. One hundred and eighty ten.

649
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Speaker 11: Eighty Flatty Taylor Adams from.

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Speaker 1: Taking your calls on eight hundred and eighty ten eighty

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Speaker 1: Matt and Tyler Afternoon with the Volvo XC ninety tick

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Speaker 1: in every box, A seamless experience awaits news talks.

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Speaker 3: They'd be news talks, it'd be good afternoon. And we've

654
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Speaker 3: asked the question, if you're in hospital, what are you

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Speaker 3: doing to try and get people back through the doors.

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00:30:27,653 --> 00:30:29,253
Speaker 3: We all know they've struggled with it over the last

657
00:30:29,253 --> 00:30:32,173
Speaker 3: couple of years. Terry, how are you this afternoon?

658
00:30:33,453 --> 00:30:36,253
Speaker 17: Well, just finish my customer square? Yeah, I'm good to

659
00:30:36,333 --> 00:30:36,613
Speaker 17: love it?

660
00:30:36,693 --> 00:30:36,893
Speaker 5: Right?

661
00:30:37,373 --> 00:30:40,853
Speaker 3: Where did you get the customers? Where from?

662
00:30:40,893 --> 00:30:41,293
Speaker 18: Denny Bit?

663
00:30:41,413 --> 00:30:41,693
Speaker 6: Nexture?

664
00:30:41,733 --> 00:30:43,293
Speaker 17: I'm just driving up to Hawk's Bay and I thought

665
00:30:43,293 --> 00:30:45,253
Speaker 17: I'd calling a bakery and grave with a custom square.

666
00:30:45,333 --> 00:30:46,733
Speaker 17: I just needed that boost, you know.

667
00:30:46,893 --> 00:30:49,773
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I love a custom square. So you're you're

668
00:30:49,773 --> 00:30:51,333
Speaker 3: in hospital, are you, Terry?

669
00:30:52,133 --> 00:30:55,093
Speaker 17: Yeah, I'm I'm gonna involved with a charter club and

670
00:30:55,213 --> 00:30:57,173
Speaker 17: why can I why can I hear? Why can I charge?

671
00:30:57,253 --> 00:30:57,533
Speaker 5: Club?

672
00:30:57,813 --> 00:31:00,253
Speaker 17: Then a cafity coast there and we've actually got a

673
00:31:00,253 --> 00:31:02,733
Speaker 17: social events committee, so we were talking last week about

674
00:31:02,733 --> 00:31:05,293
Speaker 17: things that we could do because Nowaday's one of the

675
00:31:05,293 --> 00:31:07,493
Speaker 17: big I mean, I'm the hospital background. That's how I

676
00:31:07,533 --> 00:31:09,813
Speaker 17: got involved with anyway, a chef and cafes and stuff.

677
00:31:09,813 --> 00:31:12,013
Speaker 17: But with the charter club, it's a bit different. It's

678
00:31:12,013 --> 00:31:14,133
Speaker 17: about added value, is what what I'm trying to push

679
00:31:14,173 --> 00:31:17,373
Speaker 17: at the moment. So working on a rugby game these days,

680
00:31:17,413 --> 00:31:19,293
Speaker 17: you know everyone's doing it, so what can you do?

681
00:31:19,613 --> 00:31:19,813
Speaker 5: You know?

682
00:31:19,893 --> 00:31:22,653
Speaker 17: So what we're looking at is with our Hurricanes games,

683
00:31:22,893 --> 00:31:25,813
Speaker 17: doing things like when we play Canterbury, we'll do lamb rolls,

684
00:31:26,013 --> 00:31:28,093
Speaker 17: you know, and give them free you know, so this

685
00:31:28,333 --> 00:31:30,253
Speaker 17: is a small role with a nice but lamb and

686
00:31:30,293 --> 00:31:33,093
Speaker 17: maybe for Myna Pacific and we'll do a pork or

687
00:31:33,173 --> 00:31:34,093
Speaker 17: watercress roll.

688
00:31:35,653 --> 00:31:36,093
Speaker 8: Maybe five.

689
00:31:36,973 --> 00:31:39,613
Speaker 2: Would you do a cheese roll for the Highlanders?

690
00:31:40,693 --> 00:31:42,493
Speaker 17: Yeah, that's what I'm thinking of, something of that, you know,

691
00:31:43,093 --> 00:31:45,213
Speaker 17: and we'll do it. We'll do beef, you know, a

692
00:31:45,213 --> 00:31:47,813
Speaker 17: bit of brisket maybe when they're playing White And we're

693
00:31:47,813 --> 00:31:50,813
Speaker 17: looking at that is how we can keep a get

694
00:31:50,813 --> 00:31:53,333
Speaker 17: people there, but also get the word out and that

695
00:31:53,653 --> 00:31:55,333
Speaker 17: hey you come down need you can watch rugby and

696
00:31:55,453 --> 00:31:56,773
Speaker 17: he gets some up in need as well. It's good

697
00:31:56,813 --> 00:31:58,053
Speaker 17: hoists responsibility.

698
00:31:58,013 --> 00:31:58,253
Speaker 3: Yeah.

699
00:31:58,773 --> 00:32:01,893
Speaker 17: But the other thing we're doing is looking at utilizing downtime.

700
00:32:02,053 --> 00:32:03,893
Speaker 17: So you know, obviously being a club, you're open sort

701
00:32:03,893 --> 00:32:06,333
Speaker 17: of eleven to eleven, So what can we do during

702
00:32:06,333 --> 00:32:09,453
Speaker 17: the day to entice people and the indoor bowls or

703
00:32:09,893 --> 00:32:11,653
Speaker 17: we've got things like.

704
00:32:13,853 --> 00:32:17,253
Speaker 2: What do you mean, like you've got indoor bowling wrink

705
00:32:17,333 --> 00:32:20,293
Speaker 2: or you're doing in indoor lawn bowls.

706
00:32:21,573 --> 00:32:23,933
Speaker 17: Yeah, or indoor bowls so you've got a big felt

707
00:32:23,933 --> 00:32:26,053
Speaker 17: cloth and people can come along and have a role

708
00:32:26,093 --> 00:32:29,653
Speaker 17: in the outdoor one because you got to remember it.

709
00:32:30,373 --> 00:32:32,533
Speaker 17: But you got The big thing is with charter clubs.

710
00:32:32,533 --> 00:32:34,933
Speaker 17: A lot of people that we're struggling a bit, and

711
00:32:35,213 --> 00:32:39,013
Speaker 17: I know all charter clubs are because it's pretty much

712
00:32:39,053 --> 00:32:41,173
Speaker 17: predominantly people said it's an old people's sort of thing.

713
00:32:41,253 --> 00:32:42,693
Speaker 18: So it's attracting young people.

714
00:32:42,693 --> 00:32:45,133
Speaker 17: What have we got that's going to attract them? Might

715
00:32:45,173 --> 00:32:47,173
Speaker 17: be games tables now for the kids to play on,

716
00:32:47,293 --> 00:32:48,253
Speaker 17: you know, things like that.

717
00:32:48,493 --> 00:32:51,013
Speaker 2: How do you get the word out these things you're doing, Terry,

718
00:32:51,053 --> 00:32:52,333
Speaker 2: how do you how do you get the word out

719
00:32:52,533 --> 00:32:56,173
Speaker 2: two people? Is it in bar advertising or are you

720
00:32:56,173 --> 00:32:58,653
Speaker 2: you know, going out and about You're doing social media?

721
00:33:00,093 --> 00:33:02,373
Speaker 17: Yeah, so's it's a mix across the border. You say,

722
00:33:02,453 --> 00:33:05,133
Speaker 17: doing your social media, you're doing in house, you're doing

723
00:33:05,173 --> 00:33:08,613
Speaker 17: on the local community pages a lot of it. You

724
00:33:08,613 --> 00:33:10,293
Speaker 17: can do word of mouth, getting people to talk.

725
00:33:10,333 --> 00:33:10,533
Speaker 7: You know.

726
00:33:10,533 --> 00:33:12,013
Speaker 17: The big thing is getting and making a.

727
00:33:11,933 --> 00:33:12,493
Speaker 14: Bit of noise.

728
00:33:12,893 --> 00:33:15,853
Speaker 17: It's been the people talking about you and irrespective whatever,

729
00:33:16,773 --> 00:33:18,693
Speaker 17: getting talking about in the club so that people know

730
00:33:18,693 --> 00:33:21,773
Speaker 17: where they are and things like, you know, start up

731
00:33:21,773 --> 00:33:23,973
Speaker 17: a youth academy for our pool. We do aightful or

732
00:33:24,013 --> 00:33:26,133
Speaker 17: pool down there and getting a youth academy and then

733
00:33:26,133 --> 00:33:28,653
Speaker 17: we run a tournament with their parents and stuffing around

734
00:33:28,653 --> 00:33:30,293
Speaker 17: so that you're getting a good people.

735
00:33:30,533 --> 00:33:31,653
Speaker 2: It sounds like you come up with a lot of

736
00:33:31,813 --> 00:33:34,853
Speaker 2: good ideas. Does a quiz night still work Terry?

737
00:33:35,613 --> 00:33:38,613
Speaker 17: Yeah, we still do a quiz but again it's there's

738
00:33:38,613 --> 00:33:39,053
Speaker 17: a lot of.

739
00:33:39,533 --> 00:33:40,133
Speaker 8: What what else?

740
00:33:40,453 --> 00:33:43,373
Speaker 17: There's a lot of other people doing quiz? What makes

741
00:33:43,373 --> 00:33:45,213
Speaker 17: you a quiz night? Why should I go to your one?

742
00:33:45,293 --> 00:33:46,533
Speaker 17: And that's the key that you've got to learn.

743
00:33:46,573 --> 00:33:47,773
Speaker 18: You know, you got to do those sort of things.

744
00:33:47,813 --> 00:33:50,413
Speaker 17: Well, you know why what can we do to make

745
00:33:50,453 --> 00:33:53,013
Speaker 17: people better? You know, obviously been a charter club. We've

746
00:33:53,013 --> 00:33:55,853
Speaker 17: got cheaper drinks. Can we put on a mini van

747
00:33:55,973 --> 00:33:57,293
Speaker 17: for the people so we can pick them up and

748
00:33:57,333 --> 00:33:59,733
Speaker 17: drop them off? Those sort of things, all those little

749
00:33:59,733 --> 00:34:00,413
Speaker 17: added values.

750
00:34:00,533 --> 00:34:04,213
Speaker 3: What about a meat raffle?

751
00:34:05,413 --> 00:34:08,133
Speaker 17: Tuesday, Friday and Saturdays we do meat meat raffles and

752
00:34:08,172 --> 00:34:11,573
Speaker 17: care so let's run by the edge junks within the club.

753
00:34:11,893 --> 00:34:14,893
Speaker 17: So when we don't air junk, you've got Snoogat, Paul Goldies,

754
00:34:15,013 --> 00:34:17,213
Speaker 17: all the little groups, so you support those groups as

755
00:34:17,213 --> 00:34:18,653
Speaker 17: well putting people.

756
00:34:18,373 --> 00:34:22,533
Speaker 2: In it's an amazing idea of yours, Titler, the meat raffle.

757
00:34:22,533 --> 00:34:23,373
Speaker 2: How did you come up with that?

758
00:34:23,453 --> 00:34:27,212
Speaker 3: It's hard to find a good meat raffle these days

759
00:34:26,573 --> 00:34:27,853
Speaker 3: of ideas.

760
00:34:28,053 --> 00:34:29,573
Speaker 2: The problem with the meat raffle. I've won a few

761
00:34:29,613 --> 00:34:31,333
Speaker 2: of my time, and if you win them early in

762
00:34:31,373 --> 00:34:33,973
Speaker 2: the evening, then you're just walking around with a meat

763
00:34:33,973 --> 00:34:36,292
Speaker 2: pack down the back of your pants all night. Wake

764
00:34:36,373 --> 00:34:38,333
Speaker 2: up in the morning you're like, can I still throw

765
00:34:38,373 --> 00:34:39,173
Speaker 2: this up? Answer?

766
00:34:39,213 --> 00:34:39,373
Speaker 11: Is you?

767
00:34:40,093 --> 00:34:40,213
Speaker 6: Oh?

768
00:34:40,293 --> 00:34:44,733
Speaker 3: One hundred eighty ten eighty is the number to call Peter?

769
00:34:44,853 --> 00:34:45,533
Speaker 3: How are you mate?

770
00:34:46,373 --> 00:34:48,813
Speaker 19: Can I I'll go, I'll go now, yeah, yeah, just

771
00:34:49,333 --> 00:34:52,333
Speaker 19: calling from junlan, Ah, my hometown.

772
00:34:52,533 --> 00:34:54,373
Speaker 9: Love it, yeah yeah yeah.

773
00:34:54,493 --> 00:34:56,613
Speaker 19: So it's just, you know, one of my frustrations as

774
00:34:56,653 --> 00:34:59,373
Speaker 19: you go into a bar and a cold bloody to

775
00:34:59,493 --> 00:35:02,813
Speaker 19: need a knife and ask for something like a mulled

776
00:35:02,893 --> 00:35:06,093
Speaker 19: wine and all the conservas just a beer or a wine.

777
00:35:06,213 --> 00:35:09,333
Speaker 19: So I thought, you know, some like a nice hot

778
00:35:09,373 --> 00:35:12,733
Speaker 19: mould wine would be almost a compulsory in the city.

779
00:35:13,453 --> 00:35:17,013
Speaker 2: I agree one hundred percent. I find it very hard

780
00:35:17,293 --> 00:35:19,773
Speaker 2: to go past a mulled wine when you know, in

781
00:35:19,853 --> 00:35:22,573
Speaker 2: a cold, cold winter's night down in the South Island,

782
00:35:22,613 --> 00:35:25,853
Speaker 2: if there's a mold wine going I'm in there, fantastic.

783
00:35:25,973 --> 00:35:28,413
Speaker 19: Yeah, yeah, and it doesn't have to be the bads

784
00:35:28,453 --> 00:35:32,933
Speaker 19: cafes as well, why not? Why not providing them? You

785
00:35:32,973 --> 00:35:36,053
Speaker 19: know they considered the alcohol, but half the time mulled wines,

786
00:35:36,093 --> 00:35:37,772
Speaker 19: you know, they boil them so much that they don't

787
00:35:37,773 --> 00:35:38,493
Speaker 19: have much alcohol.

788
00:35:39,573 --> 00:35:41,773
Speaker 3: Even a hot toddy, you know, if we're advertising a

789
00:35:41,813 --> 00:35:44,493
Speaker 3: hot toddy, i'd go, yeah, that sounds like a bit

790
00:35:44,533 --> 00:35:44,693
Speaker 3: of me.

791
00:35:45,733 --> 00:35:47,933
Speaker 19: Oh, it's absolutely, absolutely, you.

792
00:35:47,893 --> 00:35:50,333
Speaker 2: Know, this is part of my ignorance. What's a hot toddy?

793
00:35:50,693 --> 00:35:53,293
Speaker 3: I well, I'm pretty sure it's got whiskey in it, Peter.

794
00:35:53,413 --> 00:35:55,053
Speaker 3: You know what a hot toddy is when you it's

795
00:35:55,133 --> 00:35:56,653
Speaker 3: it's like it's warm whiskey.

796
00:35:58,373 --> 00:36:01,373
Speaker 19: Yeah, whiskey was quite often with lemon juice in it

797
00:36:01,533 --> 00:36:02,333
Speaker 19: and a bit of ginger.

798
00:36:02,773 --> 00:36:04,093
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh yeah.

799
00:36:04,293 --> 00:36:07,133
Speaker 19: You can't non alcoholic ones as well, just you know,

800
00:36:07,293 --> 00:36:09,053
Speaker 19: just lemon and honey.

801
00:36:09,053 --> 00:36:09,652
Speaker 18: That's sort of thing.

802
00:36:09,853 --> 00:36:13,212
Speaker 2: Yeah, Produce of Island. It's got some what this one's saying,

803
00:36:13,213 --> 00:36:14,293
Speaker 2: you put some cough syrup in it.

804
00:36:14,293 --> 00:36:15,693
Speaker 3: In the middle of the winter if you feel in

805
00:36:15,693 --> 00:36:16,773
Speaker 3: a bit spicy.

806
00:36:16,933 --> 00:36:21,853
Speaker 2: You can turn it into medicine. Peter. All right, thank you,

807
00:36:23,453 --> 00:36:28,133
Speaker 2: thank you, very much and quadrial days basically turn it

808
00:36:28,173 --> 00:36:29,973
Speaker 2: into an upper.

809
00:36:29,893 --> 00:36:33,093
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's quite a few shout outs for good hospo

810
00:36:33,213 --> 00:36:36,293
Speaker 3: places coming through. Guys. It be a tap room and

811
00:36:36,453 --> 00:36:39,773
Speaker 3: on a hunger, no screens, just amazing atmosphere and decour

812
00:36:40,453 --> 00:36:41,732
Speaker 3: great craft beer as well.

813
00:36:42,133 --> 00:36:45,413
Speaker 2: Yeah, there we go. This This is a scientific analysis

814
00:36:45,453 --> 00:36:47,693
Speaker 2: here from Simon of what he needs from a cafe.

815
00:36:47,973 --> 00:36:53,173
Speaker 2: All right, okay, requirements forty good coffee, right, And I

816
00:36:53,213 --> 00:36:54,813
Speaker 2: think this is a huge one because there's a lot

817
00:36:54,853 --> 00:36:57,413
Speaker 2: of cafes and being New Zealanders, we never tell anyone

818
00:36:57,613 --> 00:36:59,293
Speaker 2: if we're not happy with the product. We just don't

819
00:36:59,333 --> 00:37:01,373
Speaker 2: go back. And so you go into a cafe, you

820
00:37:01,413 --> 00:37:04,333
Speaker 2: get terrible coffee, it's burnt or whatever, then no matter

821
00:37:04,413 --> 00:37:06,333
Speaker 2: what they do, people will stop coming. I don't care

822
00:37:06,373 --> 00:37:08,253
Speaker 2: if it's whatever it is, You're not gonna get someone

823
00:37:08,253 --> 00:37:10,293
Speaker 2: of the sign for a subscription for bad coffee. So

824
00:37:10,533 --> 00:37:15,453
Speaker 2: getting a good barrista and getting it right, that's really important, Simon.

825
00:37:15,533 --> 00:37:19,653
Speaker 2: Twenty five percent service, ten percent vibe of the venue,

826
00:37:20,493 --> 00:37:24,053
Speaker 2: and twenty five percent ease of access parking. Yeah, that's big,

827
00:37:24,213 --> 00:37:26,453
Speaker 2: that's a huge one. I think a lot of businesses

828
00:37:26,733 --> 00:37:29,613
Speaker 2: are stymied by the fact that they can't them in.

829
00:37:29,613 --> 00:37:32,933
Speaker 2: The parking so expensive. You know, you've got an establishment

830
00:37:32,973 --> 00:37:36,213
Speaker 2: in a high traffic area, then it's very expensive to

831
00:37:36,253 --> 00:37:38,333
Speaker 2: also have the parking for people to pull in. And

832
00:37:38,373 --> 00:37:41,573
Speaker 2: now every single park is becoming a legal across our

833
00:37:41,573 --> 00:37:45,893
Speaker 2: country and being replaced by bus lanes and bike lanes.

834
00:37:46,253 --> 00:37:48,933
Speaker 2: So it's very very hard to park in front of cafes.

835
00:37:48,973 --> 00:37:51,493
Speaker 3: Now it's a spontaneous poppet, isn't it for a cafe?

836
00:37:51,773 --> 00:37:55,373
Speaker 3: I see a park outside of a nice cafe. Looks good,

837
00:37:55,373 --> 00:37:57,813
Speaker 3: it's got a good outdoor, outdoor bar area and there's

838
00:37:57,813 --> 00:37:59,573
Speaker 3: a park there. Yeah, that sounds on me.

839
00:37:59,653 --> 00:38:01,453
Speaker 2: How often are you trying to drop someone off at

840
00:38:01,493 --> 00:38:04,373
Speaker 2: a at a cafe or a bar and you just

841
00:38:04,373 --> 00:38:07,933
Speaker 2: cannot park. You cannot stop anywhere near the establishment. There's

842
00:38:07,973 --> 00:38:09,733
Speaker 2: just a I mean, especially in Auckland at the moment this,

843
00:38:10,213 --> 00:38:13,212
Speaker 2: you just can't get anywhere near most establishments to park

844
00:38:13,253 --> 00:38:16,853
Speaker 2: the car from. If it's not roadworks, the city, rail lankets,

845
00:38:17,813 --> 00:38:20,453
Speaker 2: bicycle lanes and how they're changing everything, it's really very

846
00:38:20,533 --> 00:38:22,213
Speaker 2: very hard to stop someone off, drop someone.

847
00:38:22,053 --> 00:38:23,853
Speaker 3: Off off and off canceled if it's too much of

848
00:38:23,853 --> 00:38:25,652
Speaker 3: a hansle to find a car park and we're meant

849
00:38:25,653 --> 00:38:27,373
Speaker 3: to be going to a cafe for some food. You

850
00:38:27,453 --> 00:38:29,373
Speaker 3: just throw a strop and a star fucker this. Maybe

851
00:38:29,413 --> 00:38:30,693
Speaker 3: we're going home. I can't be bothered.

852
00:38:31,373 --> 00:38:34,732
Speaker 2: Bars need live music entertainments. Is this texture on nine

853
00:38:34,813 --> 00:38:37,933
Speaker 2: to nine two? Yeah, if it's good. But sometimes if

854
00:38:37,933 --> 00:38:40,133
Speaker 2: you're sitting down to have a steak and you're getting

855
00:38:40,133 --> 00:38:43,693
Speaker 2: your ear drums blowing out the back by I don't know.

856
00:38:43,733 --> 00:38:45,373
Speaker 2: I'm a fan of metal, but at the wrong time

857
00:38:45,373 --> 00:38:47,973
Speaker 2: of the day, you don't want your metallica covers band

858
00:38:48,333 --> 00:38:49,253
Speaker 2: smashing your ear drums.

859
00:38:49,293 --> 00:38:51,253
Speaker 3: Yeah, you got to pick the vibe carefully right. Oh

860
00:38:51,293 --> 00:38:53,373
Speaker 3: eight hundred and eighty ten eighty is the number to call.

861
00:38:53,413 --> 00:38:55,573
Speaker 3: Will wrap this up very shortly. It is seven to.

862
00:38:55,453 --> 00:39:00,692
Speaker 1: Two Mattie Taylor Adams taking your calls on Oh, eight

863
00:39:00,773 --> 00:39:03,693
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty ten eighty Matten Taylor Afternoons with the

864
00:39:03,813 --> 00:39:07,733
Speaker 1: Volvo xc N eighty. Tick every box a seamless experience

865
00:39:07,773 --> 00:39:09,133
Speaker 1: of weeds used dogs in me.

866
00:39:10,493 --> 00:39:13,013
Speaker 3: Four to two. We'll wrap this one up and some

867
00:39:13,013 --> 00:39:14,973
Speaker 3: great ticks have come through On nine two niney two.

868
00:39:16,733 --> 00:39:20,373
Speaker 2: Get free starters of book, main and dessert. All right here, guys.

869
00:39:20,413 --> 00:39:22,173
Speaker 2: One there's a pub on the West coast that projects

870
00:39:22,173 --> 00:39:24,172
Speaker 2: a fire onto a screen, very attractive as you walk

871
00:39:24,253 --> 00:39:26,453
Speaker 2: past on a rainy, cold day, and the heat pumps

872
00:39:26,493 --> 00:39:28,893
Speaker 2: keep the space proper warm. Yeah, that's the thing. You

873
00:39:28,893 --> 00:39:30,893
Speaker 2: don't actually need a fire. They've done studies. We get

874
00:39:30,893 --> 00:39:33,213
Speaker 2: the same buzz from looking at a screen playing a

875
00:39:33,253 --> 00:39:35,413
Speaker 2: fake fire as we do from an actual fire.

876
00:39:35,653 --> 00:39:36,093
Speaker 3: The same.

877
00:39:36,293 --> 00:39:39,172
Speaker 2: Yeah, pretty much the same, pretty much the same. We're

878
00:39:39,173 --> 00:39:41,733
Speaker 2: evolved to steer into the flickering lights. That's half of

879
00:39:41,733 --> 00:39:45,333
Speaker 2: what television is is just our caveman mind steering into

880
00:39:45,333 --> 00:39:48,813
Speaker 2: flickering lights and being feeling safe from the saber tooths.

881
00:39:49,453 --> 00:39:52,213
Speaker 3: Very good, Really enjoyed that chet, Thank you very much,

882
00:39:52,813 --> 00:39:55,173
Speaker 3: and we might get through to another few of the

883
00:39:55,213 --> 00:39:58,093
Speaker 3: shout outs a good hospoat as well as the afternoon progresses.

884
00:39:58,173 --> 00:40:01,573
Speaker 3: But after two o'clock there's a situation you found yourself in.

885
00:40:01,693 --> 00:40:04,013
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've got a scenario where I grabbed a stranger

886
00:40:04,013 --> 00:40:06,693
Speaker 2: and well, I allowed a stranger into my car yesterday,

887
00:40:06,693 --> 00:40:08,093
Speaker 2: Should I or shouldn't I?

888
00:40:08,093 --> 00:40:08,293
Speaker 18: Add?

889
00:40:08,533 --> 00:40:09,973
Speaker 3: Yep, this is going to be good. I wait one

890
00:40:10,013 --> 00:40:12,053
Speaker 3: hundred and eighty ten eighty if you want to get

891
00:40:12,093 --> 00:40:15,813
Speaker 3: in early. But Matt will tell you more after the news,

892
00:40:15,893 --> 00:40:18,333
Speaker 3: sport and weather, which is coming up. Great to have

893
00:40:18,373 --> 00:40:21,053
Speaker 3: your company as always. You're listening to Matt and Tyler.

894
00:40:24,493 --> 00:40:26,253
Speaker 11: Talking with you all afternoon.

895
00:40:26,493 --> 00:40:29,813
Speaker 1: It's Matt Heath and Taylor Adams Afternoons with the Volvo

896
00:40:30,093 --> 00:40:31,293
Speaker 1: XC ninety news Talk.

897
00:40:31,373 --> 00:40:34,813
Speaker 3: They'd be well, good afternoon. Do you welcome back into

898
00:40:34,853 --> 00:40:37,773
Speaker 3: the show? Seven past too. Great to have your company

899
00:40:37,773 --> 00:40:41,453
Speaker 3: as always. Now a situation you've found yourself and Matt.

900
00:40:41,253 --> 00:40:42,812
Speaker 2: Heath, Yeah, that's right. I w one hundred and eighteen

901
00:40:42,893 --> 00:40:45,733
Speaker 2: eighty nine two nine two. When should you let a

902
00:40:45,813 --> 00:40:48,653
Speaker 2: stranger into your car? This was the question I was

903
00:40:48,693 --> 00:40:51,933
Speaker 2: asked myself yesterday. So I'll tell you.

904
00:40:51,893 --> 00:40:53,213
Speaker 3: The story mate the picture.

905
00:40:53,333 --> 00:40:56,373
Speaker 2: It's raining, I'm dropping my son off at an hour

906
00:40:56,453 --> 00:41:00,692
Speaker 2: long appointment. I'm sitting in the car, get my laptop out,

907
00:41:00,733 --> 00:41:02,493
Speaker 2: and I think, you know, I can't can't do anything else.

908
00:41:02,533 --> 00:41:04,293
Speaker 2: I'll sit here and do some work and next thing,

909
00:41:04,573 --> 00:41:06,172
Speaker 2: next thing you know, my son's knocking on the door

910
00:41:06,173 --> 00:41:08,813
Speaker 2: and it's been accosted on the street by someone who's

911
00:41:08,893 --> 00:41:12,772
Speaker 2: asked him, the fifteen year old, to order them an

912
00:41:12,853 --> 00:41:17,013
Speaker 2: uber right, because they're lost and their phone's flat and

913
00:41:17,013 --> 00:41:19,293
Speaker 2: they don't know how to get across town. And so

914
00:41:19,373 --> 00:41:21,853
Speaker 2: the door opens, and so now I've got my son going,

915
00:41:21,893 --> 00:41:23,973
Speaker 2: oh God, what's going on here? I'm being hassled in

916
00:41:24,013 --> 00:41:27,773
Speaker 2: the rain? Dad, Dad. This person wants me to order

917
00:41:27,813 --> 00:41:29,652
Speaker 2: them an Uber, and I'm like, get out of your son,

918
00:41:29,693 --> 00:41:34,973
Speaker 2: You're not ordering ordering strangers ubers of the authors, And

919
00:41:35,053 --> 00:41:38,053
Speaker 2: so that the person goes, can can I get anod uber?

920
00:41:38,493 --> 00:41:40,013
Speaker 2: Can you order me an uber? I need to get

921
00:41:40,053 --> 00:41:43,093
Speaker 2: to the university. I need to get to the Grafton

922
00:41:43,173 --> 00:41:47,253
Speaker 2: campus of the university in Auckland, which is about probably

923
00:41:47,493 --> 00:41:51,773
Speaker 2: four k from where I am. And I say, and

924
00:41:51,853 --> 00:41:53,333
Speaker 2: they say, I don't know where I am. I don't

925
00:41:53,333 --> 00:41:55,133
Speaker 2: know what I can do. I don't know where to go.

926
00:41:55,653 --> 00:42:00,653
Speaker 2: I'm lost and new to this country, right, so lost

927
00:42:01,053 --> 00:42:04,013
Speaker 2: and alone and phone's gone dead, which is sort of

928
00:42:04,333 --> 00:42:07,053
Speaker 2: Dovedale's into that conversation we had yesterday. Wasn't it about?

929
00:42:07,053 --> 00:42:09,173
Speaker 2: You know, if you go everything digital digital car, I

930
00:42:09,213 --> 00:42:12,692
Speaker 2: was suggesting, then you're completely lost when your phone goes down.

931
00:42:12,853 --> 00:42:13,773
Speaker 3: Yep, allegedly.

932
00:42:14,133 --> 00:42:16,893
Speaker 2: Anyway, so I go, I'm not going to order you

933
00:42:16,933 --> 00:42:20,573
Speaker 2: an uber heartless. Well, they might soil the uber, you know,

934
00:42:20,693 --> 00:42:22,093
Speaker 2: and then what I do? I'm not just tracking it

935
00:42:22,133 --> 00:42:24,013
Speaker 2: and then something there's a turn and a fifty dollar fine.

936
00:42:24,053 --> 00:42:25,772
Speaker 2: Didn't look like the type person would soil an uber,

937
00:42:25,813 --> 00:42:26,893
Speaker 2: but you know what I mean, like that can't just

938
00:42:26,893 --> 00:42:28,533
Speaker 2: seeing them across it.

939
00:42:28,613 --> 00:42:29,293
Speaker 3: Was a possiblity.

940
00:42:29,373 --> 00:42:32,212
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and you know, and they're like, I'll pay

941
00:42:32,253 --> 00:42:33,973
Speaker 2: you back somehow. I don't know how they thought that.

942
00:42:34,373 --> 00:42:36,853
Speaker 2: And so they're standing there, it's raining everywhere. I can

943
00:42:36,853 --> 00:42:38,613
Speaker 2: see my son wanting to go into his appointment. He's

944
00:42:38,613 --> 00:42:40,613
Speaker 2: a little bit worried about strange danger. So I just say,

945
00:42:40,653 --> 00:42:45,013
Speaker 2: get in, I'll drive you. So the person jumps in

946
00:42:45,053 --> 00:42:47,893
Speaker 2: the car, tells me a few stories that I don't

947
00:42:47,893 --> 00:42:51,053
Speaker 2: really understand if we're driving across town, and then I

948
00:42:51,133 --> 00:42:53,773
Speaker 2: dropped them off the place. Interestingly, I drive across town

949
00:42:53,773 --> 00:42:55,133
Speaker 2: and they say thank you. But then I get quite

950
00:42:55,133 --> 00:42:56,533
Speaker 2: close to the place and they said, can do you

951
00:42:56,573 --> 00:42:59,333
Speaker 2: do it? Can you actually take me in? And asked

952
00:42:59,333 --> 00:43:02,173
Speaker 2: if I could actually take them right into the front

953
00:43:02,213 --> 00:43:02,692
Speaker 2: door of it.

954
00:43:02,733 --> 00:43:05,773
Speaker 3: Good on them, My head off to them. They've got

955
00:43:05,773 --> 00:43:07,693
Speaker 3: a free ride. And then they're really saying, can you

956
00:43:07,773 --> 00:43:09,293
Speaker 3: just drive me ride up to Well.

957
00:43:09,293 --> 00:43:11,693
Speaker 2: It was one of those classic Awkland situations and christ

958
00:43:11,693 --> 00:43:14,213
Speaker 2: Guchen everywhere now where you can't park Wellington, you can't

959
00:43:14,333 --> 00:43:16,453
Speaker 2: ever there's no way to stop and let anyone out, yep,

960
00:43:16,733 --> 00:43:21,413
Speaker 2: so it's impossible. So anyway, I let them out and

961
00:43:21,853 --> 00:43:22,613
Speaker 2: they go on their way.

962
00:43:22,853 --> 00:43:24,813
Speaker 3: So I've got a couple of questions for you. Yeah,

963
00:43:24,933 --> 00:43:26,933
Speaker 3: and oh one hundred and eighty ten eighty do you

964
00:43:27,013 --> 00:43:29,652
Speaker 3: think Matt did the right thing by actually giving the

965
00:43:29,693 --> 00:43:33,613
Speaker 3: stranger a ride to the university? So number one question?

966
00:43:33,773 --> 00:43:35,893
Speaker 3: Was she in the back while you're at the front,

967
00:43:35,893 --> 00:43:38,133
Speaker 3: were you like a chauffeurs situation going on? Or did

968
00:43:38,173 --> 00:43:39,293
Speaker 3: she come in the passenger seat?

969
00:43:39,413 --> 00:43:39,652
Speaker 11: Wow?

970
00:43:39,773 --> 00:43:44,573
Speaker 2: Yeah, And inside that question you've said she, which could

971
00:43:44,653 --> 00:43:45,292
Speaker 2: make quite a bit.

972
00:43:45,173 --> 00:43:47,373
Speaker 3: Of difference, really, right, Okay, so it does a female

973
00:43:47,453 --> 00:43:48,533
Speaker 3: yeah right, okay.

974
00:43:48,373 --> 00:43:50,333
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, I didn't say get in the back, I

975
00:43:50,333 --> 00:43:52,053
Speaker 2: see get in the front. Yeah, it was in a

976
00:43:52,053 --> 00:43:53,533
Speaker 2: full chauffeur situation.

977
00:43:53,653 --> 00:43:53,893
Speaker 4: Okay.

978
00:43:53,973 --> 00:43:57,213
Speaker 3: Yeah, And how old roughly are we talking here?

979
00:43:57,573 --> 00:44:02,893
Speaker 2: Student? Student age students? So you know, in the rain, bedraggled,

980
00:44:03,053 --> 00:44:06,133
Speaker 2: take them there reasonably happy, didn't charge them any money.

981
00:44:06,373 --> 00:44:10,213
Speaker 3: Clearly she was not terrified, but worried about a situation.

982
00:44:10,373 --> 00:44:12,333
Speaker 3: She I mean four k that's a big hike, And

983
00:44:12,373 --> 00:44:14,293
Speaker 3: there was no guarantee that she was going to go

984
00:44:14,293 --> 00:44:16,013
Speaker 3: in the right direction anyway. By the sound of it.

985
00:44:16,253 --> 00:44:18,893
Speaker 2: No, she didn't know where she was. She was in a

986
00:44:18,893 --> 00:44:21,213
Speaker 2: totally ridiculous place to be trying to get to the graft,

987
00:44:21,213 --> 00:44:24,652
Speaker 2: and she was lost. But the reason why I asked

988
00:44:24,653 --> 00:44:26,173
Speaker 2: this question on our wee one hundred and eighty ten

989
00:44:26,213 --> 00:44:28,573
Speaker 2: eighty ninety two ninety two is because my son says

990
00:44:28,573 --> 00:44:32,253
Speaker 2: to me, because he's been he's been taught a certain

991
00:44:32,253 --> 00:44:36,133
Speaker 2: way over and over again, don't let a stranger, you know,

992
00:44:36,213 --> 00:44:39,493
Speaker 2: stranger danger. So he just said when he ended up

993
00:44:39,533 --> 00:44:42,373
Speaker 2: ringing his brother and panic going, dad's got a stranger

994
00:44:42,413 --> 00:44:45,533
Speaker 2: in the car. I don't want to do. He's concerned

995
00:44:46,253 --> 00:44:48,613
Speaker 2: because and when I come back and pick him up

996
00:44:48,653 --> 00:44:51,293
Speaker 2: and goes, you don't let a stranger in your car, Dad,

997
00:44:51,333 --> 00:44:53,053
Speaker 2: what are you doing? He couldn't believe I did it.

998
00:44:54,493 --> 00:45:00,053
Speaker 2: And yet and I say as this Texas says, love

999
00:45:00,093 --> 00:45:03,293
Speaker 2: your show, guys, strangers and cars. Remember in the eighties

1000
00:45:03,333 --> 00:45:05,812
Speaker 2: when we saw hitchhikers all over the country. We don't

1001
00:45:06,053 --> 00:45:07,933
Speaker 2: see them anymore, do we. Yeah, yeah, I mean it

1002
00:45:08,013 --> 00:45:09,493
Speaker 2: used to be thing. It used to be a very

1003
00:45:09,493 --> 00:45:12,013
Speaker 2: common thing that you'd pick up a stranger and take

1004
00:45:12,053 --> 00:45:13,413
Speaker 2: them in your car and take them somewhere else.

1005
00:45:13,573 --> 00:45:15,252
Speaker 3: I think you did the right thing. And I get

1006
00:45:15,253 --> 00:45:18,333
Speaker 3: what your son would say, that stranger danger and you

1007
00:45:18,453 --> 00:45:20,853
Speaker 3: just don't. You don't let strangers into your car anymore.

1008
00:45:20,853 --> 00:45:22,573
Speaker 3: But I think you did the right thing there. But

1009
00:45:22,853 --> 00:45:26,413
Speaker 3: talking about hitchhikers, I don't think I've ever picked up

1010
00:45:26,413 --> 00:45:29,333
Speaker 3: a hitchhiker. You would be someone that would have picked

1011
00:45:29,373 --> 00:45:30,293
Speaker 3: up hitchhikers in your time.

1012
00:45:30,373 --> 00:45:33,053
Speaker 2: Yeah, you I've done. I've done. You know, I've hitch

1013
00:45:33,413 --> 00:45:35,533
Speaker 2: hitchhiked a lot is to hitchhike to christitch a lot

1014
00:45:35,533 --> 00:45:38,573
Speaker 2: from Dunedin, and I've picked up hitchhikers. Yeah, yeah, I

1015
00:45:38,573 --> 00:45:41,093
Speaker 2: mean you sort of profile them before that they get

1016
00:45:41,173 --> 00:45:44,613
Speaker 2: in if they're bigger than you, Yeah, and you feel

1017
00:45:44,613 --> 00:45:45,493
Speaker 2: like they could like.

1018
00:45:45,813 --> 00:45:48,252
Speaker 3: Kill you and there's no better people don't Yeah.

1019
00:45:48,333 --> 00:45:48,613
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1020
00:45:48,693 --> 00:45:51,293
Speaker 3: Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty. Did Matt do the

1021
00:45:51,413 --> 00:45:55,853
Speaker 3: right thing by giving the stranger a ride? And when

1022
00:45:55,853 --> 00:45:58,453
Speaker 3: it comes to hitchhikers or people needing a ride, is

1023
00:45:58,493 --> 00:46:00,573
Speaker 3: that something we still do in this country? Love to

1024
00:46:00,613 --> 00:46:02,493
Speaker 3: hear from you. Oh, eight hundred and eighty ten eighty

1025
00:46:02,733 --> 00:46:05,013
Speaker 3: is the number to call? Nine two nine two is

1026
00:46:05,053 --> 00:46:07,973
Speaker 3: the text number. Plenty of great texts coming through A

1027
00:46:08,053 --> 00:46:13,253
Speaker 3: nine to nine two. It is twelve past two oh.

1028
00:46:13,253 --> 00:46:15,333
Speaker 3: One hundred and eighty ten eighty is the number.

1029
00:46:15,413 --> 00:46:20,093
Speaker 1: Car Wow your new home of afternoon Talk Matt and

1030
00:46:20,213 --> 00:46:24,173
Speaker 1: Taylor Afternoon with the Volvo XC ninety turn every journey

1031
00:46:24,213 --> 00:46:25,413
Speaker 1: into something special.

1032
00:46:25,493 --> 00:46:28,493
Speaker 11: Call eight hundred eighty news Talk said, be.

1033
00:46:30,533 --> 00:46:33,772
Speaker 3: Good afternoon. It is a quarter part two two. There's

1034
00:46:33,773 --> 00:46:35,213
Speaker 3: some great texts coming through.

1035
00:46:36,693 --> 00:46:39,172
Speaker 2: Here you go. You're a good man, Maddie. Thank you.

1036
00:46:39,293 --> 00:46:41,093
Speaker 2: We're the same age. And it's exactly what I would

1037
00:46:41,133 --> 00:46:42,733
Speaker 2: do as well. It's a shame we have become so

1038
00:46:42,733 --> 00:46:47,533
Speaker 2: suspicious of strangers and lending a hand in someone's time

1039
00:46:47,533 --> 00:46:49,773
Speaker 2: of need. Keep up the good work that's from being

1040
00:46:49,773 --> 00:46:50,493
Speaker 2: good on you, Ben.

1041
00:46:50,653 --> 00:46:50,893
Speaker 20: Yeah.

1042
00:46:51,013 --> 00:46:53,893
Speaker 3: Nice, And just to set the scene again, good Samaritan. Yeah,

1043
00:46:53,893 --> 00:46:55,413
Speaker 3: I think you did the right thing. But you found

1044
00:46:55,413 --> 00:46:58,693
Speaker 3: yourself in a situation where there was a student, female

1045
00:46:58,733 --> 00:47:02,453
Speaker 3: student in need of getting to the university. She was lost,

1046
00:47:02,493 --> 00:47:04,893
Speaker 3: that was pouring down with rain, and out of the

1047
00:47:04,893 --> 00:47:07,373
Speaker 3: goodness of your heart, eventually you gave her a ride.

1048
00:47:07,653 --> 00:47:09,293
Speaker 3: Was that the right thing to do to and should

1049
00:47:09,333 --> 00:47:12,693
Speaker 3: we ever give a ride to strangers? But there was

1050
00:47:12,733 --> 00:47:16,493
Speaker 3: a survey out today and it talked about the friendliest

1051
00:47:16,493 --> 00:47:19,493
Speaker 3: countries for expats to move to and the worst ones

1052
00:47:19,493 --> 00:47:19,933
Speaker 3: to live.

1053
00:47:19,813 --> 00:47:22,053
Speaker 2: In expats or expats expats?

1054
00:47:22,093 --> 00:47:23,333
Speaker 3: Oh, thank you? What did I say?

1055
00:47:23,453 --> 00:47:24,133
Speaker 2: Ex bats?

1056
00:47:24,693 --> 00:47:24,893
Speaker 9: Well?

1057
00:47:24,973 --> 00:47:25,653
Speaker 3: Yeah, expats?

1058
00:47:25,693 --> 00:47:28,453
Speaker 2: Well, I guess expats are often vampires. That's right, They're

1059
00:47:28,453 --> 00:47:29,693
Speaker 2: a bat and then they're a vampire. Anyway.

1060
00:47:29,693 --> 00:47:29,893
Speaker 18: Sorry.

1061
00:47:30,253 --> 00:47:33,373
Speaker 3: The reason the reason I raised thank you, Thank you, Maddie. Now,

1062
00:47:33,413 --> 00:47:36,053
Speaker 3: the reason I raise this is New Zealand is often tilted.

1063
00:47:36,253 --> 00:47:38,173
Speaker 3: I think we say this about us. Out's right. We

1064
00:47:38,173 --> 00:47:40,773
Speaker 3: think we're pretty friendly as a nation. We're pretty friendly

1065
00:47:40,813 --> 00:47:45,732
Speaker 3: to tourists and expats and expats. But turns out we're

1066
00:47:45,733 --> 00:47:48,133
Speaker 3: not quite as friendly as we think we are, according

1067
00:47:48,173 --> 00:47:51,693
Speaker 3: to the survey. So we have gone up sixteen spots.

1068
00:47:51,733 --> 00:47:54,373
Speaker 3: That's a good thing. But we are the twenty first

1069
00:47:54,453 --> 00:47:58,613
Speaker 3: friendliest country to visit and to make a home according

1070
00:47:58,653 --> 00:47:59,333
Speaker 3: to the survey.

1071
00:47:59,413 --> 00:48:01,893
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you look at this here, so two out

1072
00:48:01,933 --> 00:48:06,813
Speaker 2: of five said that New Zealanders were friendly, which compares

1073
00:48:06,893 --> 00:48:11,653
Speaker 2: to Costa Rica where at nine and ten. So ninety

1074
00:48:11,693 --> 00:48:15,613
Speaker 2: percent of people surveys thought that, you know, expats and

1075
00:48:15,613 --> 00:48:20,213
Speaker 2: Costa Rica thought that the locals were friendly, and only

1076
00:48:19,853 --> 00:48:22,773
Speaker 2: any forty percent of New Zealand.

1077
00:48:22,893 --> 00:48:24,652
Speaker 3: That's not a good look for us if we think

1078
00:48:24,693 --> 00:48:27,093
Speaker 3: we are friendly. And going back to you picking up

1079
00:48:27,293 --> 00:48:29,933
Speaker 3: this particular stranger and doing a good deed, that is

1080
00:48:29,973 --> 00:48:32,573
Speaker 3: something that I would hazard a guess we don't do

1081
00:48:32,813 --> 00:48:33,733
Speaker 3: as much anymore.

1082
00:48:34,133 --> 00:48:39,253
Speaker 2: Yeah, Tina, your thoughts on pick picking up strangers and

1083
00:48:39,293 --> 00:48:40,613
Speaker 2: how friendly New Zealanders are.

1084
00:48:42,053 --> 00:48:45,172
Speaker 20: I just like I relate to your story because it's

1085
00:48:45,173 --> 00:48:47,212
Speaker 20: said idea of being put on the spot as well,

1086
00:48:48,253 --> 00:48:51,493
Speaker 20: like having a choice. And I was driving along a

1087
00:48:51,613 --> 00:48:55,373
Speaker 20: very busy road here in Todeng and I saw a

1088
00:48:55,413 --> 00:48:58,213
Speaker 20: couple walking on the side of the road with a baby,

1089
00:48:58,813 --> 00:49:01,133
Speaker 20: and I drive straight past them because they just did

1090
00:49:01,173 --> 00:49:04,172
Speaker 20: a lot like good character kind of people. And but

1091
00:49:04,253 --> 00:49:05,813
Speaker 20: my concience got the bit of me, and I spun

1092
00:49:05,853 --> 00:49:07,813
Speaker 20: around and I thought, look, I'll go try and pick

1093
00:49:07,853 --> 00:49:09,893
Speaker 20: them up and take them. But I didn't have a

1094
00:49:09,933 --> 00:49:13,453
Speaker 20: baby seat, you know, the baby was in a prim

1095
00:49:13,613 --> 00:49:16,453
Speaker 20: and anyway, I pulled up and I decided, look, where

1096
00:49:16,453 --> 00:49:18,133
Speaker 20: are you guys going? Do you need a hand to

1097
00:49:18,173 --> 00:49:20,773
Speaker 20: get somewhere? And after talking to him, I thought, oh

1098
00:49:20,773 --> 00:49:22,373
Speaker 20: my gosh, I feel like I'm going to be in

1099
00:49:22,413 --> 00:49:25,733
Speaker 20: trouble with this couple just something about them just you know,

1100
00:49:25,893 --> 00:49:30,053
Speaker 20: kind of bad egg and regretted pulling over. And then

1101
00:49:30,133 --> 00:49:32,773
Speaker 20: as I was, you know, trying to help and assist

1102
00:49:32,773 --> 00:49:34,253
Speaker 20: in thinking how do I get out of this or

1103
00:49:34,293 --> 00:49:38,413
Speaker 20: do I try, a policeman pulled over. So it looks

1104
00:49:38,453 --> 00:49:40,453
Speaker 20: like I wasn't the only one who was worried about

1105
00:49:40,453 --> 00:49:42,973
Speaker 20: this couple. And so between me and the policeman, we

1106
00:49:43,093 --> 00:49:45,813
Speaker 20: managed to get this couple to this other destination. But

1107
00:49:46,333 --> 00:49:49,732
Speaker 20: as we were driving, she keep changing the destination right,

1108
00:49:49,853 --> 00:49:53,093
Speaker 20: and then she started asking me about my personal life

1109
00:49:53,133 --> 00:49:55,333
Speaker 20: and where I live, and I was like, oh my gosh.

1110
00:49:55,373 --> 00:49:57,493
Speaker 20: I really felt like I was so happy that the

1111
00:49:57,533 --> 00:50:00,013
Speaker 20: police was behind me. Put it that way, because if

1112
00:50:00,013 --> 00:50:01,893
Speaker 20: I'd put this couple in my car, I just feel

1113
00:50:01,893 --> 00:50:04,693
Speaker 20: like there was they were up for something, But I

1114
00:50:04,733 --> 00:50:09,173
Speaker 20: don't think I'll ever do it out of my tree.

1115
00:50:09,293 --> 00:50:11,013
Speaker 2: It's interesting you should say that, Tina, because we've got

1116
00:50:11,053 --> 00:50:13,212
Speaker 2: a text come through here from Tammy and says, hey, guys,

1117
00:50:13,253 --> 00:50:15,253
Speaker 2: my husband picked up a man whose car ran out

1118
00:50:15,253 --> 00:50:18,973
Speaker 2: of petrol. He took him to our work, shared feed him,

1119
00:50:18,973 --> 00:50:21,453
Speaker 2: and brought him petrol. One month later, the same man

1120
00:50:21,573 --> 00:50:24,853
Speaker 2: returned and stole two e bikes with twelve thousand dollars

1121
00:50:25,013 --> 00:50:27,652
Speaker 2: photos from the airport security. If you pick someone up,

1122
00:50:27,693 --> 00:50:29,693
Speaker 2: don't take them to your home or work, Tammy. So

1123
00:50:29,693 --> 00:50:32,173
Speaker 2: I think, Tina, you do the right thing. Not saying

1124
00:50:32,293 --> 00:50:35,973
Speaker 2: where you live. That's sharing too much. You're doing a

1125
00:50:36,173 --> 00:50:38,253
Speaker 2: you know, you're doing a nice favor. But you have

1126
00:50:38,333 --> 00:50:40,973
Speaker 2: to keep some sort of you know, going to keep

1127
00:50:41,013 --> 00:50:43,333
Speaker 2: something secret. Got to protect yourself a little bit.

1128
00:50:43,373 --> 00:50:45,933
Speaker 20: I was just really I was really happy that this

1129
00:50:46,293 --> 00:50:48,293
Speaker 20: because other people must have teached to say this was

1130
00:50:48,413 --> 00:50:51,333
Speaker 20: family walking along the highway. And the policeman pulled up

1131
00:50:51,613 --> 00:50:53,253
Speaker 20: and I decided I was just trying to help. And

1132
00:50:53,293 --> 00:50:54,973
Speaker 20: he says, oh yeah, so between the two of us.

1133
00:50:54,973 --> 00:50:56,772
Speaker 20: But I was so bloody greatfull he was there.

1134
00:50:57,053 --> 00:51:00,013
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean walking along the highway travel. Yeah,

1135
00:51:00,013 --> 00:51:02,453
Speaker 2: walking at a highway like that as well. It's a

1136
00:51:02,493 --> 00:51:06,533
Speaker 2: red flag. Thank you so much for you call, Tina.

1137
00:51:06,613 --> 00:51:09,573
Speaker 3: Yeah, great story. Oh one hundred and eight ten eighty.

1138
00:51:09,693 --> 00:51:12,293
Speaker 3: Do you pick up strangers or hitchhike? Because it is

1139
00:51:12,333 --> 00:51:14,013
Speaker 3: something that a lot of us used to do in

1140
00:51:14,053 --> 00:51:17,093
Speaker 3: New Zealand not that long ago. But I think we've

1141
00:51:17,493 --> 00:51:19,853
Speaker 3: changed our way a little bit. And when it came

1142
00:51:19,893 --> 00:51:22,453
Speaker 3: to Matt's situation. Was he in the right to give

1143
00:51:22,573 --> 00:51:25,212
Speaker 3: that student to ride to university? Nine to two niney

1144
00:51:25,213 --> 00:51:26,173
Speaker 3: two is the text number.

1145
00:51:26,373 --> 00:51:28,333
Speaker 2: Matt, How would you feel if you hadn't picked up

1146
00:51:28,333 --> 00:51:30,253
Speaker 2: the girl and it was in the news that something

1147
00:51:30,293 --> 00:51:32,933
Speaker 2: had happened to her. Yeah, that's kind of what I

1148
00:51:33,013 --> 00:51:35,733
Speaker 2: was thinking. I was kind of thinking, if this person's

1149
00:51:35,773 --> 00:51:38,493
Speaker 2: lost in this in Auckland, they don't know where they are,

1150
00:51:38,533 --> 00:51:41,373
Speaker 2: their phones down, and they're the kind of person that's

1151
00:51:41,373 --> 00:51:43,853
Speaker 2: willing to just knock on the door of a car

1152
00:51:43,933 --> 00:51:46,133
Speaker 2: and get in with a stranger. I mean, from her perspective,

1153
00:51:46,653 --> 00:51:50,493
Speaker 2: that's pretty bold and risky. Right, Yeah, so you know,

1154
00:51:50,853 --> 00:51:52,693
Speaker 2: or but maybe did I teach her the wrong lesson?

1155
00:51:52,933 --> 00:51:55,053
Speaker 2: Maybe did I teach you that in New Zealand that

1156
00:51:55,133 --> 00:51:57,413
Speaker 2: you can just jump into cars with people? Because I'm nice,

1157
00:51:57,453 --> 00:51:58,213
Speaker 2: but not everyone is.

1158
00:51:58,293 --> 00:52:00,813
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. Oh eight one hundred and eighty ten eighty

1159
00:52:00,933 --> 00:52:03,813
Speaker 3: is the number to call twenty past two.

1160
00:52:08,453 --> 00:52:10,733
Speaker 11: Matt Heathen Tyler Adams afternoons.

1161
00:52:10,773 --> 00:52:13,133
Speaker 1: Call oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty on Youth

1162
00:52:13,213 --> 00:52:14,053
Speaker 1: Talk ZB.

1163
00:52:14,213 --> 00:52:17,172
Speaker 3: Good afternoon, twenty two past two, and we're asking the question,

1164
00:52:17,213 --> 00:52:20,172
Speaker 3: should you ever give a ride to strangers? Matt found

1165
00:52:20,253 --> 00:52:24,333
Speaker 3: himself in a situation where he did, and according to

1166
00:52:24,653 --> 00:52:28,172
Speaker 3: the text machine, I think ninety percent say you did

1167
00:52:28,213 --> 00:52:28,692
Speaker 3: the right thing.

1168
00:52:28,893 --> 00:52:30,413
Speaker 2: She might have grabbed something from my car, though, and

1169
00:52:30,453 --> 00:52:32,212
Speaker 2: there might be some kind of a dentity fraud thing

1170
00:52:32,253 --> 00:52:34,133
Speaker 2: coming down the road. You never know, you know, does

1171
00:52:34,173 --> 00:52:36,013
Speaker 2: she look like you? Did she look like me?

1172
00:52:36,133 --> 00:52:38,573
Speaker 3: Yeah? No, she gott to steal your identity as a

1173
00:52:38,573 --> 00:52:39,172
Speaker 3: bold move.

1174
00:52:40,093 --> 00:52:41,853
Speaker 2: Of course you did the right thing. Unfortunately, if the

1175
00:52:41,933 --> 00:52:44,053
Speaker 2: roles were reversed and it was a scruffy, middle aged

1176
00:52:44,133 --> 00:52:46,973
Speaker 2: male degenerate like yourself, Matt, looking for ride from a

1177
00:52:47,013 --> 00:52:50,173
Speaker 2: young female university student, it probably wouldn't be a good idea.

1178
00:52:50,293 --> 00:52:52,533
Speaker 2: We should always help where we can, though. It all

1179
00:52:52,533 --> 00:52:55,373
Speaker 2: comes back to you. Yeah, I mean the fact that

1180
00:52:55,413 --> 00:52:58,493
Speaker 2: the person was smaller than me and I backed myself

1181
00:52:58,493 --> 00:53:00,453
Speaker 2: if any stabbing started to be able to grab the

1182
00:53:00,533 --> 00:53:02,853
Speaker 2: hand and stop it. Yeah, it was probably a big

1183
00:53:02,893 --> 00:53:04,893
Speaker 2: part of why I did take this person. And also

1184
00:53:04,933 --> 00:53:07,453
Speaker 2: it was raining, so the pressure was on. Yeah, you know,

1185
00:53:07,613 --> 00:53:10,293
Speaker 2: you can't leave draggled person in the rain that is

1186
00:53:10,293 --> 00:53:13,652
Speaker 2: struggling with the language. Is a flat phone, you know, Yeah,

1187
00:53:14,053 --> 00:53:15,413
Speaker 2: it would have been. It would have been pretty cruel.

1188
00:53:15,893 --> 00:53:19,013
Speaker 2: My mum who's who's in as seventies picks up randoms

1189
00:53:19,053 --> 00:53:22,013
Speaker 2: quite often travelers from Germany, Canada, et cetera. They end

1190
00:53:22,053 --> 00:53:23,692
Speaker 2: up staying at her place for a good few nights

1191
00:53:23,693 --> 00:53:25,813
Speaker 2: since she ends up being a tour guide. I was

1192
00:53:25,853 --> 00:53:27,693
Speaker 2: brought up in the eighties with random German. It's like

1193
00:53:27,853 --> 00:53:30,853
Speaker 2: is staying over. She's way too trusting.

1194
00:53:31,693 --> 00:53:34,413
Speaker 3: That is terrifying if your grandma's in his seventies are

1195
00:53:34,413 --> 00:53:35,573
Speaker 3: still picking up those hit higers.

1196
00:53:35,573 --> 00:53:37,172
Speaker 2: But good on her, Pete, what do you think about

1197
00:53:37,173 --> 00:53:37,733
Speaker 2: this situation?

1198
00:53:39,013 --> 00:53:42,333
Speaker 21: Yeah, you got on there, Yeah you met for doing

1199
00:53:42,373 --> 00:53:45,893
Speaker 21: what you did. I think you're having too many people there,

1200
00:53:45,893 --> 00:53:49,652
Speaker 21: but it alreadys bad. But you talk by gunnons, think

1201
00:53:49,773 --> 00:53:52,133
Speaker 21: young lady by herself. She's obviously going to right places,

1202
00:53:52,133 --> 00:53:56,013
Speaker 21: going to universe, and she's probably here playing away and whatever.

1203
00:53:56,053 --> 00:54:01,373
Speaker 21: It's quite hard for University Street. And hundred percent appreciate

1204
00:54:01,373 --> 00:54:02,853
Speaker 21: what you did for that girl. You know it's a

1205
00:54:02,933 --> 00:54:05,493
Speaker 21: rainy day and should be more people like you out there.

1206
00:54:05,533 --> 00:54:07,653
Speaker 21: I pitch up, I pick up the one hitchhiker now too,

1207
00:54:08,013 --> 00:54:10,172
Speaker 21: so you shouldn't. You've got to use your gut ins.

1208
00:54:10,253 --> 00:54:12,813
Speaker 21: You can just look at them and think that I was.

1209
00:54:13,213 --> 00:54:14,493
Speaker 21: You know, it's a bit of a said, well, you're

1210
00:54:14,493 --> 00:54:16,133
Speaker 21: going to treat everybody as a bad person.

1211
00:54:16,533 --> 00:54:18,772
Speaker 3: Yeah, So how often would you pick up a hitchhiker? Pete?

1212
00:54:18,773 --> 00:54:20,893
Speaker 3: Pretty much every time you see them, if you're going

1213
00:54:21,093 --> 00:54:24,453
Speaker 3: between let's say cities, would you nine times out of teen.

1214
00:54:24,333 --> 00:54:24,813
Speaker 2: Pick them up?

1215
00:54:26,253 --> 00:54:26,373
Speaker 7: Oh?

1216
00:54:26,413 --> 00:54:29,213
Speaker 21: I still look at them first. I've done a lot

1217
00:54:29,213 --> 00:54:31,493
Speaker 21: of traveling overseas in younger days, and then I an't

1218
00:54:31,613 --> 00:54:35,453
Speaker 21: a travel around Northern Ireland. That and when I was there,

1219
00:54:35,573 --> 00:54:39,172
Speaker 21: and that until you maybe mad hitting around Northern Island.

1220
00:54:39,173 --> 00:54:41,692
Speaker 21: That when I was still quite military control, and I, well,

1221
00:54:41,973 --> 00:54:45,973
Speaker 21: I am going to do the terrorists, the terrorist campaign

1222
00:54:45,973 --> 00:54:48,533
Speaker 21: if they're shooting the terrorists coming going to the North Island.

1223
00:54:49,173 --> 00:54:53,053
Speaker 21: More I had more and more I had more rides

1224
00:54:53,093 --> 00:54:56,333
Speaker 21: going to northwile the rest of the rest of Ireland.

1225
00:54:56,373 --> 00:54:56,573
Speaker 6: You know.

1226
00:54:56,813 --> 00:55:00,933
Speaker 2: So there used to be quite a big thing hitshiking

1227
00:55:00,973 --> 00:55:02,853
Speaker 2: around Europe. That used to be a thing people did.

1228
00:55:03,173 --> 00:55:05,933
Speaker 2: I don't know, like if my kids said to me,

1229
00:55:06,413 --> 00:55:08,013
Speaker 2: you know, in a few years, hey dad, I'm off

1230
00:55:08,013 --> 00:55:11,333
Speaker 2: to hike around Europe, I'd probably be like geez. But

1231
00:55:11,453 --> 00:55:14,893
Speaker 2: it was quite normal in the nineties. It was a

1232
00:55:14,933 --> 00:55:17,173
Speaker 2: thing that a lot of people, did it seems safe.

1233
00:55:17,893 --> 00:55:19,652
Speaker 2: I was just going to say, I was just going

1234
00:55:19,693 --> 00:55:22,093
Speaker 2: to say, like, like, for example, in the movie American

1235
00:55:22,093 --> 00:55:24,013
Speaker 2: Werewolf in London, but of course that didn't turn out

1236
00:55:24,213 --> 00:55:26,493
Speaker 2: very well because they got attacked by a were wolf.

1237
00:55:26,493 --> 00:55:27,933
Speaker 3: But that's that's a good movie.

1238
00:55:28,013 --> 00:55:31,493
Speaker 2: That's an outlier experience, that right, And did you have

1239
00:55:31,533 --> 00:55:34,453
Speaker 2: any here, if you had any hearing incidents at all,

1240
00:55:34,613 --> 00:55:37,293
Speaker 2: Pete with your picking up hitchhikers or when you were hitchhiking.

1241
00:55:38,413 --> 00:55:41,333
Speaker 21: No, you're just saying thing like, if you're picking up

1242
00:55:41,373 --> 00:55:44,893
Speaker 21: your hitchhikers yourself, you've got to suss amount. Basically, I

1243
00:55:44,933 --> 00:55:47,813
Speaker 21: look at them. I think they're risks. Sorry, I'll just

1244
00:55:47,853 --> 00:55:50,933
Speaker 21: carry on driving, But they look like genuine people when

1245
00:55:50,933 --> 00:55:54,133
Speaker 21: they've got to backpack and all that. And so you've

1246
00:55:54,173 --> 00:55:56,133
Speaker 21: got to use your gut instinct and you just give

1247
00:55:56,173 --> 00:55:59,053
Speaker 21: it a shot, you know. Yeah, you got to use

1248
00:55:59,093 --> 00:56:01,933
Speaker 21: your your judgmental character. And I hope you're doing the

1249
00:56:01,973 --> 00:56:04,212
Speaker 21: right thing. And I don't have had any problem so far,

1250
00:56:04,253 --> 00:56:05,373
Speaker 21: and hope it continues that away.

1251
00:56:05,493 --> 00:56:06,333
Speaker 2: Oh cool, good on you.

1252
00:56:06,413 --> 00:56:06,693
Speaker 6: Pete.

1253
00:56:06,813 --> 00:56:09,732
Speaker 2: Appreciate that young girls should not be accepting rides from

1254
00:56:09,773 --> 00:56:11,933
Speaker 2: grim Dodgy characters like Matt's. Is this text?

1255
00:56:12,133 --> 00:56:17,973
Speaker 3: Yep, good text? Come on, come on, guys, think about this.

1256
00:56:19,333 --> 00:56:22,413
Speaker 3: What if it was your wife, girlfriend, or daughter, would

1257
00:56:22,413 --> 00:56:27,973
Speaker 3: you want someone to help them? That's a very good point. Yeah, absolutely, absolutely, yeah, yeah,

1258
00:56:28,053 --> 00:56:30,413
Speaker 3: if they got into trouble and someone out of the

1259
00:56:30,533 --> 00:56:33,453
Speaker 3: kindness of their heart helped them out in that situation.

1260
00:56:33,533 --> 00:56:36,133
Speaker 3: But well, again, you said I phone was dead, so

1261
00:56:36,213 --> 00:56:38,093
Speaker 3: I was going to say I'd expect them to call me,

1262
00:56:38,173 --> 00:56:39,693
Speaker 3: but they couldn't in that scenario.

1263
00:56:39,853 --> 00:56:43,573
Speaker 2: But you know, maybe the question is what's wrong with

1264
00:56:43,613 --> 00:56:46,652
Speaker 2: me that I even considered not helping because you're just

1265
00:56:46,693 --> 00:56:48,573
Speaker 2: so full of the ideas. Is this person going to

1266
00:56:48,573 --> 00:56:50,533
Speaker 2: be running a scam on me? Are they going to

1267
00:56:50,573 --> 00:56:55,213
Speaker 2: try and steal something? Are they? You know there's something

1268
00:56:55,253 --> 00:56:58,692
Speaker 2: else to this. We're so so geared towards things like that.

1269
00:56:58,733 --> 00:57:01,732
Speaker 2: But what are the chances The chant very unlikely that

1270
00:57:03,213 --> 00:57:05,293
Speaker 2: someone would come up to you in the rain like

1271
00:57:05,373 --> 00:57:07,533
Speaker 2: that and asked to be taken to the university. You

1272
00:57:07,573 --> 00:57:09,053
Speaker 2: know what I mean that the chances have been scams

1273
00:57:09,253 --> 00:57:10,533
Speaker 2: quite small now I think about it, But.

1274
00:57:10,653 --> 00:57:13,253
Speaker 3: You're spot off. We're so bombarded now with be careful

1275
00:57:13,253 --> 00:57:15,772
Speaker 3: about scams and if it feels too good to be true,

1276
00:57:15,893 --> 00:57:18,733
Speaker 3: or something's not quite right, then don't do it, which

1277
00:57:18,813 --> 00:57:21,733
Speaker 3: means that in that scenario you would drive off and

1278
00:57:21,813 --> 00:57:24,573
Speaker 3: leave that poor girl there, which is not the country

1279
00:57:24,613 --> 00:57:26,693
Speaker 3: we want to be. I think one hundred and eighty

1280
00:57:26,693 --> 00:57:27,773
Speaker 3: ten eighties number to call.

1281
00:57:28,293 --> 00:57:31,613
Speaker 2: So your view on picking up strangers and taking them

1282
00:57:31,653 --> 00:57:34,173
Speaker 2: places and being a good Samaritan and the risks around it.

1283
00:57:36,573 --> 00:57:40,133
Speaker 22: So I was brought up in a little town close

1284
00:57:40,213 --> 00:57:43,213
Speaker 22: to the whitetomea cave, so I've always picked up pit strikers.

1285
00:57:44,173 --> 00:57:47,213
Speaker 22: However I'm more discerning now, so I pick up couples

1286
00:57:47,293 --> 00:57:50,053
Speaker 22: that look as though together and like somebody was saying

1287
00:57:50,053 --> 00:57:53,813
Speaker 22: about having the backpacks and things. But the work I

1288
00:57:53,933 --> 00:57:58,613
Speaker 22: do as well in the social services sector and around

1289
00:57:58,733 --> 00:58:04,573
Speaker 22: mental health, I think you need to protect yourself.

1290
00:58:04,253 --> 00:58:04,733
Speaker 23: A little bit.

1291
00:58:04,813 --> 00:58:06,693
Speaker 22: So it might have been better to take her after

1292
00:58:07,333 --> 00:58:10,053
Speaker 22: your son's appointment with your son in the car as well,

1293
00:58:11,493 --> 00:58:13,493
Speaker 22: just you don't want to be accused of sexual abuse

1294
00:58:13,613 --> 00:58:14,053
Speaker 22: or anything.

1295
00:58:14,733 --> 00:58:16,693
Speaker 2: I didn't think of that happened.

1296
00:58:17,133 --> 00:58:20,653
Speaker 22: It happened quite a lot. So even in our service,

1297
00:58:20,773 --> 00:58:24,413
Speaker 22: any of the males transporting children and youth, we have

1298
00:58:24,653 --> 00:58:26,493
Speaker 22: two staff members in the car.

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Speaker 20: We don't seen just one.

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Speaker 2: And is that primarily because of potential false allegations?

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00:58:35,013 --> 00:58:39,333
Speaker 22: Is that absolutely one of our counselors used to drive

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Speaker 22: with his one arm out the window and he always

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00:58:42,133 --> 00:58:44,933
Speaker 22: did so that if anybody had seen him driving, they'd say.

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Speaker 5: Oh, yes, he was the man.

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00:58:46,213 --> 00:58:49,773
Speaker 22: You know. No, he can't have done anything. But one

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00:58:49,813 --> 00:58:52,373
Speaker 22: of our staff members has had a family member who's

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00:58:52,413 --> 00:58:54,573
Speaker 22: been accused and went to court and all sorts and

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00:58:54,693 --> 00:58:57,813
Speaker 22: was chucked out in the end. But it's absolutely traumatic

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Speaker 22: twelve months for that gentleman.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a be a bit more careful. Yeah, well,

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00:59:06,133 --> 00:59:07,853
Speaker 3: I mean it's good advice, Sue, But it is a

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00:59:07,893 --> 00:59:10,373
Speaker 3: sad state of fears, isn't it that you know in

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00:59:10,453 --> 00:59:14,093
Speaker 3: med scenario that probably if you were smarter, you might

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00:59:14,093 --> 00:59:15,653
Speaker 3: have thought about that and think, oh man, this could

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00:59:15,693 --> 00:59:18,053
Speaker 3: put me in an uncomfortable position. But you did the

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00:59:18,133 --> 00:59:18,653
Speaker 3: right thing.

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Speaker 2: But what would this person have gained from that, from

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Speaker 2: accusing me of that blackmail or something because.

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Speaker 22: You know se sexual abuse.

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Speaker 2: Playing Oh god, gee, son, I didn't think about that. God, Okay,

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00:59:33,973 --> 00:59:38,253
Speaker 2: leave it out in the rain next. But you do

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00:59:38,293 --> 00:59:40,773
Speaker 2: get a vibe off people for your son's.

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00:59:40,533 --> 00:59:43,413
Speaker 22: Out, and so there's two of you in the Yeah.

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Speaker 3: But overall, so I mean that you know that that

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00:59:45,773 --> 00:59:48,653
Speaker 3: is very wise advice. But overall, do you think Matt

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00:59:48,693 --> 00:59:49,653
Speaker 3: did the right thing clearly?

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00:59:51,293 --> 00:59:55,093
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, yeah, Well I'm glad I didn't leave in

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Speaker 2: the rain.

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Speaker 22: And then what I do pick people up during the day,

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Speaker 22: but as I say, usually couples.

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Speaker 2: Now, yeah, I mean one thing that I might have

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01:00:04,533 --> 01:00:09,013
Speaker 2: done wrong was indicate to her that safe to get

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Speaker 2: into cars in New Zealand with strange men, you know,

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Speaker 2: because she's she's come to New Zealand, her plane's flat.

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Speaker 2: The first time she's done it, I've drive driven her

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Speaker 2: across town and dropped her off and she's like, oh,

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01:00:19,773 --> 01:00:22,333
Speaker 2: that's you can do that here. But you can't, you know,

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Speaker 2: from her safety perspective, littlone mine. You know, maybe I've

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01:00:26,773 --> 01:00:29,293
Speaker 2: taught her a bad lesson, you know, who knows, but

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Speaker 2: I think she'd probably take it rather than standing over

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01:00:31,813 --> 01:00:34,493
Speaker 2: it's in the rain with a flat lost with a

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Speaker 2: flat phone, you know, not long before it got dik. Yeah, okay, Sue,

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Speaker 2: thank you so much for your call.

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Speaker 5: She is for that.

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Speaker 3: Oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty is the number

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Speaker 3: to call a truckload of texts are coming through on

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Speaker 3: nine two ninety two. If you want to send us

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Speaker 3: a text message, more than welcome, and we'll get to

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Speaker 3: a few of those very shortly. Headlines with Raylene coming.

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Speaker 14: Up, you talk said the headlines with Blue Bubble Taxis

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Speaker 14: it's no trouble with a Blue Bubble Corrections is investigating

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01:01:03,213 --> 01:01:07,093
Speaker 14: high profile prisoner Dean Wickliffe being injured at spring Hill Prison,

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Speaker 14: with a lawyer claim he was beaten and he's now

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Speaker 14: on a hunger strike. The makers of hit soap Shortland

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Speaker 14: Street South Pacific Pictures are consulting change proposals with permanent

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Speaker 14: production staff. The shows drop from five episodes a week

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Speaker 14: to three. The Maritime Union says a former Port of

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Speaker 14: Auckland CEO's conviction on health and safety grounds over a

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Speaker 14: Steve A. Dwell's death should hold. The government's putting one

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Speaker 14: point three million dollars from the Proceeds of Crime Fund

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Speaker 14: into anti crime measures in Auckland City Center. It'll go

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Speaker 14: into things like lighting CCTV and increasing patrols. Thousands of

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Speaker 14: pages of files related to John F. Kennedy's assassination are

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Speaker 14: being made public tomorrow, more than sixty years after his death.

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Speaker 14: Companies linked to canceled music festivals together, oh creditors more

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Speaker 14: than two million dollars. Read more at Ensiit Herald Premium.

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Speaker 14: Back now to Matt Heath and Tyler Adams.

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Speaker 3: Talks here be thank you very much, Ray Lean, and

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Speaker 3: we're talking about picking up strangers after a incident, a

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Speaker 3: situation that you found yourself in, Matt.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, where I gave a young lady a lift across

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Speaker 2: town because her phone was flat and she didn't really

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01:02:22,693 --> 01:02:24,733
Speaker 2: speak the language, and she was a student that just

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01:02:24,973 --> 01:02:28,733
Speaker 2: landed apparently, and she didn't ask me if I could

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01:02:28,733 --> 01:02:30,893
Speaker 2: give her a lift, and I did crosstown. But was

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Speaker 2: that the right thing to do? A lot of people

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01:02:32,933 --> 01:02:37,373
Speaker 2: are saying yes. And this sort of dovetails nicely into

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01:02:37,413 --> 01:02:39,573
Speaker 2: the study that's come out that basically says New Zealand

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01:02:39,693 --> 01:02:42,933
Speaker 2: isn't as friendly as we might like to think. Yeah,

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01:02:42,973 --> 01:02:45,093
Speaker 2: in the survey it found out, well, I was ninety

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01:02:45,173 --> 01:02:50,573
Speaker 2: percent of expats and costa ricus think the locals are friendly.

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01:02:50,973 --> 01:02:53,733
Speaker 2: Only forty percent think that the key weis are not

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01:02:53,773 --> 01:02:57,293
Speaker 2: a good look for us. Hopefully, this international student thinks

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01:02:58,093 --> 01:03:00,773
Speaker 2: if she ever gets asked, you go yeah, yeah, you

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01:03:00,813 --> 01:03:03,293
Speaker 2: can just knock on the window of cars and dudes

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01:03:03,293 --> 01:03:04,413
Speaker 2: will just drive you around town.

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Speaker 3: How you Sharon, Hi, You've picked up a couple of

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01:03:10,333 --> 01:03:12,653
Speaker 3: American tourists recently where they hit shiking.

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Speaker 24: Kind of. They were staying in any AIRBMB close to

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Speaker 24: our place. I live in a rural, little rural town

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Speaker 24: and just outside of christ Church, and I was driving

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01:03:22,933 --> 01:03:28,613
Speaker 24: into Hornby and to meet my sister and they were

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01:03:28,653 --> 01:03:30,053
Speaker 24: sort of had their thumbs out on the side of

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Speaker 24: the road, and I said, what are you two girls doing?

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Speaker 24: Pulled over and just sort of asked them, and they said, oh,

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Speaker 24: we're trying to get an uber them, so we won't

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Speaker 24: knuber out here. So they said oh. I said where

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Speaker 24: are you going? And they said, oh, we're going to

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Speaker 24: pick up our rental. It's in the city. And I said, well,

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Speaker 24: what's the company? They told me, and I said, oh,

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01:03:46,053 --> 01:03:48,453
Speaker 24: that's at the airport. Instead of going part way, I

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01:03:48,493 --> 01:03:51,213
Speaker 24: can give you a ride to Hornby and I'm pretty

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01:03:51,253 --> 01:03:53,253
Speaker 24: sure my sister when she turns around and goes back

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Speaker 24: to her place, she can drop you off. So that's

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Speaker 24: what we did. They were very friendly, really nice, and

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Speaker 24: they were from Salt Lake City. They were very chatty

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01:04:03,293 --> 01:04:06,933
Speaker 24: and I gave them my business card and I said, look,

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01:04:06,973 --> 01:04:09,133
Speaker 24: if you get stuck, have any troubled, give me a ring.

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Speaker 24: You would have driven past our gate to get here.

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Speaker 24: And that was great. And I got a couple of

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Speaker 24: texts to say that they were leaving the country and

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Speaker 24: thanks very much and bye bye. And about a month

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Speaker 24: later I got a call from one of their daughters

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Speaker 24: who was here with her fiance looking for a place

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Speaker 24: to stay, and we're happy to do some work for

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01:04:28,213 --> 01:04:30,613
Speaker 24: their boards. So I let them come and stay for

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Speaker 24: ten days.

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Speaker 2: Great a wholesome story. Were they? Were they when you say,

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Speaker 2: when you say Salt Lake City? Were they members of

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Speaker 2: the Church of the Latter day Saints? Do you know

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01:04:43,093 --> 01:04:43,893
Speaker 2: they were.

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Speaker 24: From the Mormon faith? That they I think back in

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01:04:47,253 --> 01:04:50,733
Speaker 24: their family that they weren't actually active practicing Mormons. But

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01:04:50,933 --> 01:04:52,493
Speaker 24: they were very nice people.

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01:04:53,493 --> 01:04:55,333
Speaker 2: Mormon's are always very nice people.

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Speaker 24: They are, yeah, And they were just lovely and lots.

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Speaker 24: This young couple stayed with us. They had walked from

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Speaker 24: they'd walked that track right down the center of New

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01:05:03,733 --> 01:05:08,533
Speaker 24: Zealand on the smell of an oily rag, literally, and

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Speaker 24: they came sort of in the autumn. We live on

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01:05:10,253 --> 01:05:11,933
Speaker 24: a small farm and there wasn't really a lot for

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01:05:11,973 --> 01:05:13,653
Speaker 24: them to do, so we just enjoyed the company. They

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01:05:13,653 --> 01:05:14,413
Speaker 24: were just really neat.

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Speaker 2: You go, yeah, but you so you I mean, you're

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Speaker 2: obviously seeing this couple and you're like, you're getting a

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Speaker 2: pretty good vibe from them.

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Speaker 20: Oh yeah, they were.

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Speaker 24: They just you know, I mean, especially where we live,

1439
01:05:25,293 --> 01:05:26,733
Speaker 24: you know a lot of people out here, and they

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01:05:26,813 --> 01:05:30,253
Speaker 24: just looked out of place. They looked at the lost.

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01:05:30,853 --> 01:05:33,933
Speaker 24: And yeah, so no, they were quite happy to jump

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01:05:33,933 --> 01:05:36,773
Speaker 24: in and have a ride. And and so they got

1443
01:05:36,773 --> 01:05:39,933
Speaker 24: in my sister's car and went with her. And yeah,

1444
01:05:39,933 --> 01:05:42,973
Speaker 24: everything turned out really good. And when the young couple

1445
01:05:43,013 --> 01:05:45,093
Speaker 24: were heading back down to wan a crafter they've stayed

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01:05:45,133 --> 01:05:48,493
Speaker 24: with us to meet with his parents, I said, well,

1447
01:05:48,613 --> 01:05:49,973
Speaker 24: do you want me to take you to the to

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01:05:50,013 --> 01:05:52,093
Speaker 24: the bus? They booked a bus. I know, they hadn't

1449
01:05:52,093 --> 01:05:54,213
Speaker 24: booked a bus. They decided they were going to hitchhike,

1450
01:05:54,293 --> 01:05:57,013
Speaker 24: that's right, And I said, well, probably the best place

1451
01:05:57,053 --> 01:05:58,973
Speaker 24: would be I can take you down to Eshburton. But

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01:05:59,013 --> 01:06:01,013
Speaker 24: then we got to Recura and it was really really busy,

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01:06:01,093 --> 01:06:03,413
Speaker 24: so I said, well how about here. It might be

1454
01:06:03,413 --> 01:06:05,293
Speaker 24: a good place because there's lots of traffic, and some

1455
01:06:05,333 --> 01:06:07,133
Speaker 24: of that goes up to Timpson's track and some of

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01:06:07,213 --> 01:06:09,373
Speaker 24: it goes down to esh Burton. They sorry, you know,

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01:06:09,413 --> 01:06:12,693
Speaker 24: that'd be good with Then within about one minute of

1458
01:06:12,693 --> 01:06:14,773
Speaker 24: them taking the bags out of my car, they had

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01:06:14,813 --> 01:06:15,893
Speaker 24: been picked up by someone.

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Speaker 3: Yeah that's good vibes good farmer, Yeah good good rule

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01:06:19,293 --> 01:06:21,253
Speaker 3: folks down there, they would pick you up pretty fast.

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01:06:21,373 --> 01:06:21,533
Speaker 5: Yeah.

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01:06:21,613 --> 01:06:24,453
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that the track has to look lost. Yeah,

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01:06:24,573 --> 01:06:28,133
Speaker 2: because that's why I gave this young student a lift.

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01:06:28,253 --> 01:06:28,453
Speaker 20: Yep.

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01:06:29,453 --> 01:06:32,213
Speaker 2: I mean to be fear I didn't. I wouldn't have

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01:06:32,213 --> 01:06:34,413
Speaker 2: backed her to be able to pull off murdering me.

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01:06:34,733 --> 01:06:37,693
Speaker 2: It's probably a part of it as well. But also,

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01:06:38,093 --> 01:06:40,813
Speaker 2: you know, someone lost as very hard as a human

1470
01:06:40,853 --> 01:06:43,733
Speaker 2: being to see someone lost and alone and confused and

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01:06:43,773 --> 01:06:46,533
Speaker 2: in the place that they shouldn't be and not help them.

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01:06:46,613 --> 01:06:49,173
Speaker 2: But you know, I'm sure there's been plenty of scammers

1473
01:06:49,573 --> 01:06:52,413
Speaker 2: and plenty of bad people that have perfected the art

1474
01:06:52,413 --> 01:06:53,293
Speaker 2: of looking lost.

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01:06:53,533 --> 01:06:55,733
Speaker 3: It's a great tip for hitchhikers though, that instead of

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01:06:55,733 --> 01:06:57,653
Speaker 3: a sign that says esh Burton, you just have a

1477
01:06:57,733 --> 01:07:00,613
Speaker 3: sign says I'm lost, Please help. You'll get a ride

1478
01:07:00,693 --> 01:07:03,413
Speaker 3: like that. Oh eight one hundred and eighty ten eighty

1479
01:07:03,573 --> 01:07:07,213
Speaker 3: is the number to call. Andrew. How are you good?

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01:07:07,573 --> 01:07:10,333
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm going pretty good. We've just been poured on

1481
01:07:10,413 --> 01:07:15,333
Speaker 5: ourselves here, but by hittyke all over the country still.

1482
01:07:16,453 --> 01:07:20,733
Speaker 5: I steel and old land rovers and stuff. So you know,

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01:07:21,053 --> 01:07:24,613
Speaker 5: I will hittike where there's no bus option or other

1484
01:07:24,813 --> 01:07:27,373
Speaker 5: other transport options to go and pick something up. And

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01:07:27,413 --> 01:07:30,773
Speaker 5: I'll also pick up just about any hit tiker i'll

1486
01:07:30,813 --> 01:07:33,613
Speaker 5: see out on the roads of the country when I'm driving.

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01:07:34,933 --> 01:07:39,133
Speaker 5: And you know, there's one percent of all populations of psychopaths.

1488
01:07:40,693 --> 01:07:45,893
Speaker 5: But every every hattiker hit tiging experience I've had on

1489
01:07:45,933 --> 01:07:49,093
Speaker 5: either side has been pretty good, and you meet some

1490
01:07:49,133 --> 01:07:52,333
Speaker 5: of the most interesting people as well. I've had all

1491
01:07:52,373 --> 01:07:58,333
Speaker 5: these same sort of situations with backpackers ending upcoming and staying.

1492
01:07:58,733 --> 01:08:02,173
Speaker 5: I met two gorgeous German girls on the corner of

1493
01:08:02,253 --> 01:08:05,893
Speaker 5: Darga Ball once and ended up being very good friends

1494
01:08:05,933 --> 01:08:06,293
Speaker 5: with them.

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01:08:07,413 --> 01:08:10,373
Speaker 2: That's the dream scenario there, Andre, Hey, Andrew, when you're

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01:08:10,413 --> 01:08:12,413
Speaker 2: hitchhiking now, so you say you've been doing it for

1497
01:08:12,773 --> 01:08:16,813
Speaker 2: a long time, is it is it getting harder to

1498
01:08:16,813 --> 01:08:18,372
Speaker 2: get rides? Are the rides drying up?

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01:08:18,653 --> 01:08:24,093
Speaker 5: There was definitely a calling off during COVID. You know,

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01:08:24,372 --> 01:08:29,372
Speaker 5: Lockdown's people became a lot more inteller and cautious about

1501
01:08:29,372 --> 01:08:32,652
Speaker 5: that sort of thing. And we're just getting a little

1502
01:08:32,652 --> 01:08:36,013
Speaker 5: bit of that back now. But what is more noticeable

1503
01:08:36,173 --> 01:08:41,772
Speaker 5: is going into the cities Auckland, especially the prevalence of

1504
01:08:41,772 --> 01:08:45,013
Speaker 5: the public transport. People don't have tolerance or perhaps the

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01:08:45,173 --> 01:08:47,893
Speaker 5: mindset to pick up hitchhikers.

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01:08:48,893 --> 01:08:51,092
Speaker 2: How long would you expect to have your thumb out, Andrew,

1507
01:08:51,133 --> 01:08:53,053
Speaker 2: when you when you're on the road, I'm going to.

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01:08:53,053 --> 01:08:57,532
Speaker 5: Get going out into backcountry New Zealand, any any rural road,

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01:08:58,253 --> 01:09:00,652
Speaker 5: you know, usually it's it's a matter of a couple

1510
01:09:00,692 --> 01:09:01,132
Speaker 5: of minutes.

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01:09:01,333 --> 01:09:01,612
Speaker 2: Wow.

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01:09:01,853 --> 01:09:04,612
Speaker 5: You know, I've had times going down the State Highway

1513
01:09:04,692 --> 01:09:08,213
Speaker 5: six down towards Heart where I was waiting for a

1514
01:09:08,412 --> 01:09:11,173
Speaker 5: house an hour with the mate because there was just

1515
01:09:11,333 --> 01:09:12,852
Speaker 5: no other chance forge at the time.

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01:09:12,933 --> 01:09:14,892
Speaker 23: But you know, you've got to be prepared for these.

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01:09:15,053 --> 01:09:16,852
Speaker 2: Must be there must be a good vibe about you, Andrew,

1518
01:09:16,853 --> 01:09:18,452
Speaker 2: because I remember when I used to hitch a bit

1519
01:09:18,492 --> 01:09:21,572
Speaker 2: when I was you know, at Uni and stuff. I'd

1520
01:09:21,612 --> 01:09:24,412
Speaker 2: hitch a lot from Dunedin to christ Church and boy

1521
01:09:24,492 --> 01:09:26,293
Speaker 2: or boy, I could spend some time out on the

1522
01:09:26,333 --> 01:09:29,213
Speaker 2: road to tell you. I could actually actually wrote a

1523
01:09:29,293 --> 01:09:31,372
Speaker 2: song about it called Today Tomorrow Timrou. It was all

1524
01:09:31,412 --> 01:09:33,892
Speaker 2: about standing on the side of the road. Actually wrote

1525
01:09:33,893 --> 01:09:36,572
Speaker 2: that song standing on the side of the road. But yeah,

1526
01:09:36,853 --> 01:09:39,333
Speaker 2: imagined if you're getting picked in two minutes, they must

1527
01:09:39,372 --> 01:09:40,572
Speaker 2: be you must have a good aura.

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01:09:40,732 --> 01:09:42,012
Speaker 3: Yeah you funny.

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01:09:42,053 --> 01:09:43,652
Speaker 5: And if I got picked up on the side of

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01:09:43,652 --> 01:09:46,093
Speaker 5: the road and tim a Rou once on my way

1531
01:09:46,173 --> 01:09:49,572
Speaker 5: to duneaed and at about quarter past nine at night,

1532
01:09:49,853 --> 01:09:56,412
Speaker 5: by guys, it's what the hell's you that this thirty? Yeah,

1533
01:09:56,452 --> 01:09:58,613
Speaker 5: there's always that one late night experience.

1534
01:09:58,692 --> 01:10:01,173
Speaker 2: Well, longtown's like Timaru are a problem when you're hitching

1535
01:10:01,213 --> 01:10:03,093
Speaker 2: as well, because if you if you get dropped, you know,

1536
01:10:03,213 --> 01:10:05,012
Speaker 2: you get a ride and you get dropped on the

1537
01:10:05,053 --> 01:10:06,892
Speaker 2: wrong side of Timaru, no one's going to pick you

1538
01:10:06,973 --> 01:10:10,572
Speaker 2: up and and drive you through, so you have to walk.

1539
01:10:10,973 --> 01:10:14,213
Speaker 5: Anyone but the South Island certainly doesn't know late night

1540
01:10:14,293 --> 01:10:17,333
Speaker 5: shopping when you're stuck on the side of the road

1541
01:10:17,333 --> 01:10:18,293
Speaker 5: in the middle of nowhere.

1542
01:10:18,692 --> 01:10:20,732
Speaker 3: And I'll take it. Your chat must be pretty good, Andrew.

1543
01:10:20,732 --> 01:10:23,772
Speaker 3: That's a prerequisite, right if you're hitchhiking, you need to

1544
01:10:23,812 --> 01:10:25,812
Speaker 3: have good chat in your small tool games.

1545
01:10:26,652 --> 01:10:27,333
Speaker 21: And I tell you what.

1546
01:10:27,452 --> 01:10:31,412
Speaker 5: Occasionally you get these ones who have come over. Some

1547
01:10:31,492 --> 01:10:34,612
Speaker 5: of the backpackers don't actually have any social skills. They

1548
01:10:34,973 --> 01:10:37,412
Speaker 5: sit on their phone texting when you've given.

1549
01:10:37,213 --> 01:10:38,532
Speaker 2: Them that's rue.

1550
01:10:39,452 --> 01:10:41,652
Speaker 5: They're the ones that you say, I'm just stopping a

1551
01:10:41,692 --> 01:10:45,372
Speaker 5: little bit, Yeah, very good.

1552
01:10:45,452 --> 01:10:48,093
Speaker 2: Do you have the situation, Andrews. So we always look

1553
01:10:48,093 --> 01:10:50,093
Speaker 2: at it from this perspective of the driver going, shall

1554
01:10:50,133 --> 01:10:52,652
Speaker 2: I pick up that hitchhiker? Have you ever had your

1555
01:10:52,652 --> 01:10:54,572
Speaker 2: thumb out and then you see the car pulling up

1556
01:10:54,652 --> 01:10:57,213
Speaker 2: and you've put your thumb away because you're concerned about

1557
01:10:57,253 --> 01:10:58,572
Speaker 2: the person picking you up?

1558
01:10:59,372 --> 01:11:02,293
Speaker 5: To be honest, I really haven't. You know, there's been

1559
01:11:02,333 --> 01:11:07,772
Speaker 5: there's been some I had take twinos in Scotland going around.

1560
01:11:09,013 --> 01:11:13,933
Speaker 5: It was twelve years ago now and and some some

1561
01:11:14,893 --> 01:11:20,452
Speaker 5: definitely drunk sauced cadies picks me up and they were

1562
01:11:20,812 --> 01:11:22,612
Speaker 5: they were raff and it was a it was a

1563
01:11:22,692 --> 01:11:26,093
Speaker 5: rough road. I wasn't going too far though, So when

1564
01:11:26,133 --> 01:11:26,972
Speaker 5: you're young you take.

1565
01:11:26,853 --> 01:11:27,692
Speaker 6: Some of these risks.

1566
01:11:27,893 --> 01:11:30,412
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, thank you so much for calling Andrew.

1567
01:11:30,452 --> 01:11:32,253
Speaker 2: Appreciate that I pick up Andrew.

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01:11:32,293 --> 01:11:34,532
Speaker 3: He seems like a goodson, haven't it.

1569
01:11:34,612 --> 01:11:36,732
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've got a nice vibe I think he's got

1570
01:11:36,732 --> 01:11:37,812
Speaker 2: a pick up a ball of vibe.

1571
01:11:37,853 --> 01:11:38,053
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1572
01:11:38,412 --> 01:11:41,213
Speaker 2: The six is geez, guys, I live in Topor and

1573
01:11:41,253 --> 01:11:42,612
Speaker 2: I pick up hitchhikers all the time.

1574
01:11:42,652 --> 01:11:45,173
Speaker 3: Well, good on you, yeah goo on top great place.

1575
01:11:45,492 --> 01:11:45,692
Speaker 2: Yeah.

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01:11:46,013 --> 01:11:47,932
Speaker 3: Oh, one hundred and eighty ten eighty is the number

1577
01:11:47,893 --> 01:11:49,293
Speaker 3: to call. Nine two nine too if you want to

1578
01:11:49,293 --> 01:11:52,812
Speaker 3: send a text message. We're going to play some messages,

1579
01:11:52,853 --> 01:11:55,133
Speaker 3: but back very shortly. Here on news Talks b.

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01:11:57,253 --> 01:12:01,293
Speaker 1: Your new home of afternoon Talk Matt and Taylor afternoons

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01:12:01,333 --> 01:12:05,293
Speaker 1: with the Volvo XC ninety turn every journey into something special.

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01:12:05,372 --> 01:12:06,732
Speaker 11: Call eight hundred eighty.

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01:12:07,412 --> 01:12:10,412
Speaker 3: News Talk said, good afternoon. We've been talking about picking

1584
01:12:10,492 --> 01:12:13,133
Speaker 3: up strangers or hatchhikers from great texts coming through on

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01:12:13,213 --> 01:12:14,333
Speaker 3: nine two nine two.

1586
01:12:14,492 --> 01:12:17,213
Speaker 2: Hey, Matt and Tyler. I tried backpacking out of Great

1587
01:12:17,253 --> 01:12:19,213
Speaker 2: Bear Island. I got picked up with a bunch of

1588
01:12:19,293 --> 01:12:22,732
Speaker 2: mates by an ice truck. We were closed into the fridge,

1589
01:12:22,732 --> 01:12:27,172
Speaker 2: sitting on bags of ice. Wow, this sounds serials serial killery.

1590
01:12:27,973 --> 01:12:29,652
Speaker 2: The guy had a few boxes of beer in the

1591
01:12:29,652 --> 01:12:32,492
Speaker 2: back and said we could help ourselves. Halfway through the ride,

1592
01:12:32,572 --> 01:12:34,972
Speaker 2: when we realized there was no door on the inside,

1593
01:12:35,372 --> 01:12:36,213
Speaker 2: we questioned our.

1594
01:12:36,093 --> 01:12:42,093
Speaker 3: Decision obviously it had ended all right for that text.

1595
01:12:42,333 --> 01:12:44,293
Speaker 3: He's still texting, he's still alive, might be still in

1596
01:12:44,293 --> 01:12:44,692
Speaker 3: the ice track.

1597
01:12:44,893 --> 01:12:47,172
Speaker 2: It wasn't sort of a Dexter type situation.

1598
01:12:49,013 --> 01:12:50,572
Speaker 3: One hundred and eighty ten eighties and number to call

1599
01:12:50,612 --> 01:12:52,852
Speaker 3: get a ridge? Is it here?

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Speaker 18: I goes mate.

1601
01:12:55,492 --> 01:12:55,692
Speaker 20: Yeah.

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01:12:55,772 --> 01:13:00,532
Speaker 18: Look, probably twelve or fifteen years ago, my cousin and

1603
01:13:00,572 --> 01:13:06,052
Speaker 18: I were driving into Taupo to pick up some supplies

1604
01:13:06,053 --> 01:13:08,852
Speaker 18: because we were having a reunion at a place called

1605
01:13:08,853 --> 01:13:11,732
Speaker 18: Reperoiir just out of Tapo. And on the way into Taupo,

1606
01:13:11,853 --> 01:13:14,492
Speaker 18: we noticed a young Asian girl on the side of

1607
01:13:14,492 --> 01:13:18,093
Speaker 18: the right hitching to go north. So we did our

1608
01:13:18,093 --> 01:13:20,932
Speaker 18: stuff in Tapau and then on our way back out,

1609
01:13:20,933 --> 01:13:23,492
Speaker 18: which is about two hours later, she was still there

1610
01:13:23,732 --> 01:13:26,972
Speaker 18: trying to hitch a ride. So we stopped and picked

1611
01:13:26,973 --> 01:13:32,052
Speaker 18: her up, and she came with us back to our Maria.

1612
01:13:32,532 --> 01:13:35,013
Speaker 18: We fed her. She was trying to make it back

1613
01:13:35,053 --> 01:13:38,572
Speaker 18: to Auckland because she'd been kind of left stranded by

1614
01:13:38,612 --> 01:13:41,532
Speaker 18: her friends, and all her luggage and everything was at

1615
01:13:41,532 --> 01:13:44,572
Speaker 18: a hostel in Auckland and she was and she was

1616
01:13:44,612 --> 01:13:51,532
Speaker 18: flying out the next day, so we so I left

1617
01:13:51,572 --> 01:13:55,333
Speaker 18: my cousin in rapaeroir. I lived in Cambridge with my

1618
01:13:55,412 --> 01:13:59,452
Speaker 18: two sons, so we drove to Cambridge. She stayed the

1619
01:13:59,572 --> 01:14:03,532
Speaker 18: night with my family in Cambridge, and the next morning

1620
01:14:03,893 --> 01:14:07,213
Speaker 18: I drove her into Auckland, picked up her gears from

1621
01:14:07,213 --> 01:14:09,732
Speaker 18: the hostel that she was staying, and then drove it

1622
01:14:09,812 --> 01:14:15,052
Speaker 18: to the airport. And we became friends on Facebook. And

1623
01:14:15,093 --> 01:14:18,852
Speaker 18: so my wife and I now I've remarried. My wife

1624
01:14:18,893 --> 01:14:22,532
Speaker 18: and I were in heading to Japan and September and

1625
01:14:23,253 --> 01:14:26,052
Speaker 18: been in contact with Comoti and she said that she'd

1626
01:14:26,093 --> 01:14:27,933
Speaker 18: love to meet us, and I get a chance to

1627
01:14:27,933 --> 01:14:31,692
Speaker 18: meet her. She's now married, has a family, and so

1628
01:14:32,133 --> 01:14:36,013
Speaker 18: I've ordered things that could have gone wrong. You know,

1629
01:14:36,532 --> 01:14:38,572
Speaker 18: it was an amazing result.

1630
01:14:38,853 --> 01:14:42,492
Speaker 2: What a good person you are. So you went so

1631
01:14:42,732 --> 01:14:46,612
Speaker 2: far out of your way, like amazing. I mean, I'm

1632
01:14:46,652 --> 01:14:50,133
Speaker 2: tetting myself on the back driving someone from about four

1633
01:14:50,213 --> 01:14:52,333
Speaker 2: k across town when they were lost in the rain.

1634
01:14:52,772 --> 01:14:56,133
Speaker 2: You've taken someone all the way to Auckland, to their hostel,

1635
01:14:56,652 --> 01:14:59,812
Speaker 2: to the airport. You're You're a sensational human being.

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01:14:59,853 --> 01:15:03,253
Speaker 18: Rech Well, she was only like seventeen, eighteen years old,

1637
01:15:03,293 --> 01:15:05,692
Speaker 18: and I thought that I have children that age, and

1638
01:15:05,732 --> 01:15:09,372
Speaker 18: I thought to myself if it was my daughter, I

1639
01:15:09,412 --> 01:15:12,412
Speaker 18: would want somebody to do the same sort of thing

1640
01:15:12,452 --> 01:15:14,452
Speaker 18: and care for her and make sure that she would

1641
01:15:14,492 --> 01:15:17,772
Speaker 18: say so many things could have gone wrong.

1642
01:15:18,893 --> 01:15:21,692
Speaker 3: But how's she doing now that you mentioned you've stayed

1643
01:15:21,692 --> 01:15:23,173
Speaker 3: in contact with it?

1644
01:15:23,412 --> 01:15:27,053
Speaker 18: Yes, yes, we've been friends on Facebook for for all

1645
01:15:27,053 --> 01:15:31,572
Speaker 18: that time. And like I said, she's now an adult

1646
01:15:31,933 --> 01:15:36,772
Speaker 18: and married with a family, and we're hoping to meet

1647
01:15:36,812 --> 01:15:40,173
Speaker 18: them in September when we are in Japan as we're

1648
01:15:40,173 --> 01:15:42,492
Speaker 18: going away for a bit of a holiday around Southeast Asia.

1649
01:15:42,612 --> 01:15:44,973
Speaker 2: Did you ever find out about of crap friends that

1650
01:15:45,053 --> 01:15:48,852
Speaker 2: abandon her? What kind of crap friends abandoned someone in

1651
01:15:49,253 --> 01:15:55,013
Speaker 2: a different country that far away from their luggage and

1652
01:15:56,452 --> 01:15:59,333
Speaker 2: where they need to be? That's they sound like terrible people.

1653
01:15:59,612 --> 01:16:05,093
Speaker 2: There might be more to the story there, as you

1654
01:16:05,772 --> 01:16:07,133
Speaker 2: ask her when you get over there.

1655
01:16:07,853 --> 01:16:10,772
Speaker 18: Yeah, yeah, so that's my story, and I thought, you know,

1656
01:16:10,812 --> 01:16:13,333
Speaker 18: it's a good one considering the subject that's talking about.

1657
01:16:13,492 --> 01:16:15,572
Speaker 2: Yeah, and Rich, thank you so much, and good on

1658
01:16:15,612 --> 01:16:17,852
Speaker 2: you for doing that. And lucky she came across you

1659
01:16:17,973 --> 01:16:22,253
Speaker 2: and not someone else's. She really really won the lottery

1660
01:16:22,933 --> 01:16:24,133
Speaker 2: coming across you, So good on you.

1661
01:16:25,013 --> 01:16:27,132
Speaker 18: You and my son kind of gave me a sideways

1662
01:16:27,133 --> 01:16:29,092
Speaker 18: look when I walked in with a young Asian girl

1663
01:16:29,532 --> 01:16:32,093
Speaker 18: in the middle of the night and they said, what's

1664
01:16:32,173 --> 01:16:32,692
Speaker 18: going on here?

1665
01:16:32,732 --> 01:16:32,972
Speaker 17: Dad?

1666
01:16:33,532 --> 01:16:35,892
Speaker 18: So yeah, thank.

1667
01:16:35,772 --> 01:16:39,892
Speaker 3: You, no, thank you, mate? What a story, great story. Quick,

1668
01:16:39,853 --> 01:16:41,972
Speaker 3: a couple of texts and we're going to play some messages, guys.

1669
01:16:42,853 --> 01:16:45,572
Speaker 3: Or the fact, Matt, that she asked a favor from

1670
01:16:45,612 --> 01:16:47,932
Speaker 3: your son first would tell me that she was totally

1671
01:16:48,173 --> 01:16:49,772
Speaker 3: genuine good call mate.

1672
01:16:50,213 --> 01:16:51,333
Speaker 2: Yeah, was that?

1673
01:16:52,133 --> 01:16:57,852
Speaker 3: Well, so she's gone to your son who's fifteen, yep, instead,

1674
01:16:58,133 --> 01:17:01,412
Speaker 3: and see can you help me? So that obviously your

1675
01:17:01,452 --> 01:17:05,333
Speaker 3: son at fifteen might be a little bit more unthreatening.

1676
01:17:04,933 --> 01:17:08,852
Speaker 2: Than an adult or so also this zero chance of

1677
01:17:08,853 --> 01:17:10,772
Speaker 2: scamming a fifteen year old because I've got no money

1678
01:17:10,772 --> 01:17:10,973
Speaker 2: at all.

1679
01:17:11,053 --> 01:17:13,452
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. And then at that point Barry did the

1680
01:17:13,492 --> 01:17:15,892
Speaker 3: right thing and brought you involved. Yeah, good, good point

1681
01:17:16,492 --> 01:17:18,213
Speaker 3: Oh e one hundred and eighty ten eighty is the

1682
01:17:18,333 --> 01:17:20,293
Speaker 3: number to call. It is seven to.

1683
01:17:20,173 --> 01:17:24,213
Speaker 1: Three the issues that affect you and a bit of

1684
01:17:24,253 --> 01:17:27,333
Speaker 1: fun along the way. Matt and Taylor Afternoons with the

1685
01:17:27,452 --> 01:17:31,293
Speaker 1: Volvo XC eighty Innovation, Style and Design, have it all

1686
01:17:31,452 --> 01:17:32,572
Speaker 1: news talk said.

1687
01:17:32,333 --> 01:17:32,412
Speaker 7: Be.

1688
01:17:34,333 --> 01:17:36,972
Speaker 3: Good afternoon. It is five to three We're gonna pick

1689
01:17:37,013 --> 01:17:39,133
Speaker 3: this back up after three o'clock because so many people

1690
01:17:39,133 --> 01:17:40,772
Speaker 3: want to have a chat about it. But we have

1691
01:17:40,893 --> 01:17:42,772
Speaker 3: asked the question, is it okay to pick up a

1692
01:17:42,812 --> 01:17:46,253
Speaker 3: stranger a hitchhiker? In twenty twenty five? After you did

1693
01:17:46,492 --> 01:17:48,972
Speaker 3: something similar? She wasn't quite a hitchhiker, but pretty much.

1694
01:17:49,093 --> 01:17:51,572
Speaker 2: I picked up a lost soul on the side of

1695
01:17:51,572 --> 01:17:54,612
Speaker 2: the street with a flat phone and took them across town.

1696
01:17:55,093 --> 01:17:57,572
Speaker 2: And it terrified my son because he's been taught his

1697
01:17:57,652 --> 01:17:58,973
Speaker 2: whole life that you don't do that kind of thing.

1698
01:17:58,973 --> 01:18:01,892
Speaker 2: But hitchhiking used to be a big part of New

1699
01:18:01,973 --> 01:18:03,933
Speaker 2: zealand transport culture, didn't it.

1700
01:18:04,053 --> 01:18:04,253
Speaker 5: Yeah.

1701
01:18:04,253 --> 01:18:06,852
Speaker 2: Also, the friendliest country for expats to move to. New

1702
01:18:06,973 --> 01:18:09,452
Speaker 2: Zealand's way down the list. Yeah, and yet we think

1703
01:18:09,492 --> 01:18:11,932
Speaker 2: we're a friendly country. Yeah, things like picking up hitchikers

1704
01:18:11,933 --> 01:18:12,932
Speaker 2: suggest that you're friendly.

1705
01:18:13,013 --> 01:18:16,013
Speaker 3: Absolutely. Oh eight one hundred eighty ten eighty is the

1706
01:18:16,133 --> 01:18:18,932
Speaker 3: number to call. And just do we text poll going

1707
01:18:19,013 --> 01:18:23,412
Speaker 3: into the news, do you pick up hitchhikers? Text nine

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01:18:23,492 --> 01:18:26,772
Speaker 3: two ninety two. We're just looking for a yay or nay?

1709
01:18:27,173 --> 01:18:29,213
Speaker 3: Are you someone that would pick up a hitchhiker? And

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01:18:29,253 --> 01:18:31,253
Speaker 3: we'll do a bit of a tally after the three

1711
01:18:31,253 --> 01:18:35,053
Speaker 3: o'clock news, which is coming up, I would say I'm

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01:18:35,053 --> 01:18:37,492
Speaker 3: going to hazard a guess yes. Sixty percent will say no,

1713
01:18:37,572 --> 01:18:38,973
Speaker 3: forty percent say yay.

1714
01:18:39,412 --> 01:18:40,893
Speaker 2: Well I think most people will be angry. You just

1715
01:18:40,933 --> 01:18:42,612
Speaker 2: talk all the way across all the way through my

1716
01:18:42,652 --> 01:18:44,372
Speaker 2: guitar solo. But we don't go into that.

1717
01:18:44,333 --> 01:18:47,772
Speaker 3: All right, crank it, Andrews a bit happy.

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01:18:47,933 --> 01:19:20,253
Speaker 1: Here your new home for insightful and entertaining talk.

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01:19:20,412 --> 01:19:23,213
Speaker 11: It's Maddie and Taylor Adams.

1720
01:19:22,652 --> 01:19:26,412
Speaker 1: Afternoons with the Volvo XC nighty on News Talk SEV.

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01:19:27,293 --> 01:19:29,972
Speaker 3: Good afternoon to you, but welcome back to the show.

1722
01:19:30,053 --> 01:19:32,333
Speaker 3: Seven past three, and we have been talking about picking

1723
01:19:32,372 --> 01:19:37,052
Speaker 3: up strangers slash hitchhikers. Now before the news, we asked

1724
01:19:37,093 --> 01:19:39,013
Speaker 3: you to text to either yes or no would you

1725
01:19:39,053 --> 01:19:41,532
Speaker 3: pick up a hitch shiker on nine two nine two,

1726
01:19:41,933 --> 01:19:46,813
Speaker 3: And a quick tally up about sixty five percent said yep, absolutely,

1727
01:19:46,812 --> 01:19:48,293
Speaker 3: we'll pick up a hitchhiker.

1728
01:19:48,572 --> 01:19:50,093
Speaker 2: I guess it depends on the hitchhiker.

1729
01:19:50,692 --> 01:19:52,293
Speaker 3: That's what a lot of the texts went on to

1730
01:19:52,293 --> 01:19:52,612
Speaker 3: go and.

1731
01:19:52,572 --> 01:19:57,213
Speaker 2: Say, hitchhiker. You know, if it's a you know, seven

1732
01:19:57,372 --> 01:20:00,852
Speaker 2: foot tall person with no pants on and a bandage

1733
01:20:00,853 --> 01:20:01,412
Speaker 2: around their head.

1734
01:20:01,452 --> 01:20:05,092
Speaker 3: Yep, we x next to them. Yeah, I think.

1735
01:20:04,973 --> 01:20:09,133
Speaker 2: Twice riving a chainsaw yeah maybe not, Yeah, but that

1736
01:20:09,253 --> 01:20:09,852
Speaker 2: is a good sign.

1737
01:20:09,893 --> 01:20:11,972
Speaker 3: Sixty five percent. That is higher than what I thought

1738
01:20:12,013 --> 01:20:14,053
Speaker 3: it would be. And we are going to take a

1739
01:20:14,053 --> 01:20:16,812
Speaker 3: few more calls on picking up hitchhikers. But we do

1740
01:20:16,893 --> 01:20:18,892
Speaker 3: want to talk about how friendly we are as a

1741
01:20:18,933 --> 01:20:21,053
Speaker 3: country as well. On the back of a survey that

1742
01:20:21,173 --> 01:20:22,133
Speaker 3: was released today.

1743
01:20:22,133 --> 01:20:24,692
Speaker 2: Yeah, New Zealand's a big climber in this survey. We've

1744
01:20:24,692 --> 01:20:28,612
Speaker 2: moved up sixteen spots to twenty one, and this is

1745
01:20:28,732 --> 01:20:32,012
Speaker 2: on the friendest countries for ex pats. But that's still

1746
01:20:32,053 --> 01:20:35,052
Speaker 2: not great because we consider ourselves to be incredibly friendly.

1747
01:20:35,532 --> 01:20:40,292
Speaker 2: And a shocking stat so nine out of ten experts

1748
01:20:40,372 --> 01:20:44,053
Speaker 2: say that Costa Ricans are friendly, but only two out

1749
01:20:44,053 --> 01:20:46,213
Speaker 2: of five say that New Zealanders are friendly. So only

1750
01:20:46,253 --> 01:20:49,973
Speaker 2: forty percent of expats in New Zealand think that New

1751
01:20:50,093 --> 01:20:52,412
Speaker 2: Zealanders are friendly. And in a stat that I like,

1752
01:20:52,532 --> 01:20:55,852
Speaker 2: because Finland, Sweden, and Denmark are always at the top

1753
01:20:55,893 --> 01:20:59,572
Speaker 2: of these punishing poles, aren't they unhappiness mug Yeah, and

1754
01:21:01,133 --> 01:21:03,253
Speaker 2: in Finland and Denmark, which we were more like the

1755
01:21:03,372 --> 01:21:05,213
Speaker 2: me me me, me, me, me, me mea. Well, they're

1756
01:21:05,253 --> 01:21:09,772
Speaker 2: right down the bottom Denmark forty fifth, Sweden forty eighth,

1757
01:21:09,893 --> 01:21:15,052
Speaker 2: and Finland fiftieth. Yeah, Expats in these Nordic countries especially

1758
01:21:15,093 --> 01:21:18,333
Speaker 2: struggle with the unfriendliness of the population. They find it

1759
01:21:18,372 --> 01:21:22,452
Speaker 2: harder to make local friends and do not feel welcome.

1760
01:21:22,532 --> 01:21:26,612
Speaker 2: So stick that up in Norway. Actually, I've reached out

1761
01:21:26,652 --> 01:21:30,173
Speaker 2: and no always been unfairly maligned there. It was Sweden, Denmark, and.

1762
01:21:30,173 --> 01:21:33,652
Speaker 3: Finland, right, okay, Yeah, but those Nordic countries, yeah, take that.

1763
01:21:33,772 --> 01:21:36,892
Speaker 3: I mean very happy, but apparently very unfriendly as well.

1764
01:21:36,973 --> 01:21:39,053
Speaker 2: So this young lady that I picked up yesterday and

1765
01:21:39,133 --> 01:21:41,412
Speaker 2: drove across town because your phone was flat and it

1766
01:21:41,452 --> 01:21:43,452
Speaker 2: was raining and such, she would probably if she was

1767
01:21:43,492 --> 01:21:46,452
Speaker 2: asked a New Zealand it was the first day here.

1768
01:21:46,492 --> 01:21:48,692
Speaker 2: But our New Zealand is friendly, she'd probably see you.

1769
01:21:48,933 --> 01:21:52,333
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, one hundred percent. Yeah, very friendly country. I

1770
01:21:52,333 --> 01:21:53,972
Speaker 3: could jump into the back car or of a random

1771
01:21:54,013 --> 01:21:57,293
Speaker 3: stranger and he taught me to Yearnie. So love to

1772
01:21:57,293 --> 01:21:59,973
Speaker 3: hear from you about do we think we are friendlier

1773
01:21:59,973 --> 01:22:00,652
Speaker 3: than we are?

1774
01:22:00,893 --> 01:22:03,652
Speaker 2: Yeah? And if you've moved to New Zealand, are we friendly?

1775
01:22:04,213 --> 01:22:06,572
Speaker 2: If you've moved here. You've become you're an expat living

1776
01:22:06,572 --> 01:22:10,333
Speaker 2: in New Zealand where friendly. Is it easy to make

1777
01:22:10,372 --> 01:22:13,213
Speaker 2: friends here? Yeah, because that can be the hardest thing

1778
01:22:13,293 --> 01:22:16,532
Speaker 2: you can. Maybe people will be like, hey, how are

1779
01:22:16,612 --> 01:22:18,532
Speaker 2: you or yeah, it's the rain. I might give you

1780
01:22:18,572 --> 01:22:22,053
Speaker 2: a lift somewhere. Yeah, but as that's one thing, but

1781
01:22:22,253 --> 01:22:25,092
Speaker 2: actually become friends and be invited into other people's lives

1782
01:22:25,133 --> 01:22:26,612
Speaker 2: that can be quite difficult.

1783
01:22:26,612 --> 01:22:29,013
Speaker 3: Comet, Yeah, oh, eight hundred and eighth, sorry you go,

1784
01:22:29,053 --> 01:22:31,093
Speaker 3: Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty is the number to call.

1785
01:22:31,173 --> 01:22:34,372
Speaker 3: Nine two ninety two is the text number. And we've

1786
01:22:34,372 --> 01:22:36,612
Speaker 3: got a few on hitchhiking as well.

1787
01:22:36,933 --> 01:22:39,412
Speaker 2: Dave here pulled over early one morning for a young

1788
01:22:39,452 --> 01:22:42,372
Speaker 2: guy Nick minute. There are four men and a dog

1789
01:22:42,412 --> 01:22:44,452
Speaker 2: in my car. Luckily my dog was behind them and

1790
01:22:44,492 --> 01:22:46,572
Speaker 2: my fuel gauge was on the blank. Got the feeling

1791
01:22:46,812 --> 01:22:50,253
Speaker 2: that they wanted to take me for a ride. I

1792
01:22:50,253 --> 01:22:52,612
Speaker 2: mean that's the old trick. You have the most friendly

1793
01:22:52,612 --> 01:22:55,253
Speaker 2: looking person out the front, the most palatable. When the

1794
01:22:55,293 --> 01:22:58,052
Speaker 2: car pulls over, twenty five dudes run out from behind

1795
01:22:58,053 --> 01:22:59,732
Speaker 2: the Niberry bus from jumping your car.

1796
01:22:59,933 --> 01:23:02,572
Speaker 3: Yeah, good strategy, George, how are you?

1797
01:23:03,572 --> 01:23:05,612
Speaker 25: Yep? That was one of my stories I look at

1798
01:23:05,732 --> 01:23:09,253
Speaker 25: I want to tell you a recommendation after ye go

1799
01:23:09,732 --> 01:23:12,812
Speaker 25: for safety for safety, But I had a kid years

1800
01:23:12,853 --> 01:23:14,772
Speaker 25: ago on the side of the road. He would have

1801
01:23:14,772 --> 01:23:18,213
Speaker 25: been about twelve ten to twelve, I suppose between Rotor

1802
01:23:18,372 --> 01:23:21,652
Speaker 25: and Tapau, probably about fifteen minutes before Tapo with the

1803
01:23:21,692 --> 01:23:26,052
Speaker 25: thumbs up. Yeah, we stopped on our Volvo our Vauxhel,

1804
01:23:26,572 --> 01:23:28,812
Speaker 25: big old gunnery machine, and about five of them piled

1805
01:23:28,812 --> 01:23:33,973
Speaker 25: out of the bushes to join them. Belt they just

1806
01:23:34,013 --> 01:23:37,692
Speaker 25: saturday over each other. Fine, but recomend. My recommendation is

1807
01:23:38,612 --> 01:23:41,372
Speaker 25: if you are going to stop with somebody and you go,

1808
01:23:41,853 --> 01:23:45,293
Speaker 25: could this create a situation that I can't control, Like

1809
01:23:45,893 --> 01:23:47,732
Speaker 25: some girl gets in the car and then at the

1810
01:23:47,772 --> 01:23:51,093
Speaker 25: end of the right accusaity of sexual attack and all

1811
01:23:51,093 --> 01:23:53,572
Speaker 25: this to carry on before they get in the car,

1812
01:23:53,652 --> 01:23:57,133
Speaker 25: turn your dash cam around into the car so that

1813
01:23:57,293 --> 01:23:58,973
Speaker 25: it's facing in the car, and as they get in

1814
01:23:58,973 --> 01:24:01,253
Speaker 25: the car, tell them, by the way, all rides are

1815
01:24:01,253 --> 01:24:04,852
Speaker 25: being videoed. Right, They'll either like it or they won't.

1816
01:24:05,053 --> 01:24:06,812
Speaker 25: They're going to play up. They're not going to play up.

1817
01:24:06,812 --> 01:24:08,013
Speaker 25: They're not going to even get in the car.

1818
01:24:08,612 --> 01:24:11,973
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, I mean we've talked about this on the

1819
01:24:11,973 --> 01:24:14,372
Speaker 2: show before the advantages of having a dash cam.

1820
01:24:14,492 --> 01:24:16,452
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I don't have one, No me, neither.

1821
01:24:16,572 --> 01:24:19,213
Speaker 3: You got one, Tyler, No, no, Yeah, but that is

1822
01:24:19,213 --> 01:24:20,732
Speaker 3: a good tip, you know, going forward. I don't know

1823
01:24:20,732 --> 01:24:22,932
Speaker 3: how much would cost to have a camera inside your

1824
01:24:23,013 --> 01:24:25,213
Speaker 3: car recording for dollars.

1825
01:24:25,652 --> 01:24:26,932
Speaker 25: One of the chepy two dollars shops.

1826
01:24:26,973 --> 01:24:30,892
Speaker 3: So you've listened to it, okay, okay, forty five dollars

1827
01:24:30,933 --> 01:24:34,173
Speaker 3: sold a bargain, George, thank you very much.

1828
01:24:34,853 --> 01:24:36,772
Speaker 2: Hi, guys, I used to hatchig all over the country.

1829
01:24:36,812 --> 01:24:40,972
Speaker 2: My long blonde hair, singlet and sexy black jeans helped

1830
01:24:40,973 --> 01:24:43,492
Speaker 2: a lot, as I got a lot of rides from

1831
01:24:43,532 --> 01:24:46,732
Speaker 2: the ladies. Now my hair is still long, but gray,

1832
01:24:47,532 --> 01:24:50,892
Speaker 2: and I've got a massive beer gut and no abs

1833
01:24:50,933 --> 01:24:54,213
Speaker 2: sticking out the bottom my singlet. Definitely don't get the

1834
01:24:54,253 --> 01:24:55,213
Speaker 2: same results now.

1835
01:24:56,093 --> 01:24:58,013
Speaker 3: At leasta, being honest to him, at least you were

1836
01:24:58,053 --> 01:25:01,293
Speaker 3: hot at one point, Tim, Yeah, yeah, you know, remember

1837
01:25:01,333 --> 01:25:01,732
Speaker 3: the good time.

1838
01:25:01,973 --> 01:25:03,732
Speaker 2: And also there are people that like a bit of

1839
01:25:03,812 --> 01:25:06,492
Speaker 2: gray here, and a bit of a bit of bally stick,

1840
01:25:06,692 --> 01:25:08,692
Speaker 2: a bit of belly sticking out from underneath the thing,

1841
01:25:08,853 --> 01:25:11,213
Speaker 2: you know, a bit of a dead body. Yeah, yeah, right, Oh,

1842
01:25:11,812 --> 01:25:12,452
Speaker 2: I'll be surprised.

1843
01:25:14,093 --> 01:25:16,133
Speaker 3: Is the number to cool? Nine two nine two is

1844
01:25:16,173 --> 01:25:20,132
Speaker 3: the text number. It is twelve past three. Back very shortly.

1845
01:25:20,133 --> 01:25:23,732
Speaker 3: You're listening to Matt and Tyler. Good afternoon. It's a

1846
01:25:23,812 --> 01:25:26,093
Speaker 3: quarter past three, and we're talking about picking up hitchhikers

1847
01:25:26,133 --> 01:25:28,772
Speaker 3: and some great stories coming through on nine two nine

1848
01:25:28,893 --> 01:25:30,172
Speaker 3: two our text number.

1849
01:25:30,853 --> 01:25:32,572
Speaker 2: I used to pick up hatchhikers all the time. Into

1850
01:25:32,692 --> 01:25:35,013
Speaker 2: one very very scary character hopped in my car at

1851
01:25:35,053 --> 01:25:37,652
Speaker 2: gas station out west one night. He was very large

1852
01:25:37,812 --> 01:25:39,932
Speaker 2: and had bad energy, so I played it cool all

1853
01:25:39,973 --> 01:25:41,452
Speaker 2: the way to the city. When I managed to get

1854
01:25:41,492 --> 01:25:43,932
Speaker 2: him out at the gas station and he said as

1855
01:25:43,933 --> 01:25:45,333
Speaker 2: he got out, quote.

1856
01:25:45,572 --> 01:25:48,372
Speaker 3: Looky, you're a good gush sheep, because that is terrifying.

1857
01:25:48,452 --> 01:25:51,652
Speaker 2: Wow. Yeah. So we're kind of putting two topics together here,

1858
01:25:51,692 --> 01:25:55,652
Speaker 2: which is New Zealand as friendly people. And this comes

1859
01:25:55,853 --> 01:25:58,013
Speaker 2: on the back of a study on ex pats. It

1860
01:25:58,053 --> 01:25:59,893
Speaker 2: puts us kind of down the pack in terms of

1861
01:25:59,893 --> 01:26:02,852
Speaker 2: friendliness in the world, and that sort of plays into

1862
01:26:02,933 --> 01:26:04,333
Speaker 2: whether you pick up a hitchhiker.

1863
01:26:04,412 --> 01:26:04,612
Speaker 5: Yeah.

1864
01:26:04,612 --> 01:26:07,012
Speaker 3: Well, I think that's a good metric for how friendly

1865
01:26:07,093 --> 01:26:09,372
Speaker 3: a country is. Met How were you the staff to know?

1866
01:26:10,732 --> 01:26:13,452
Speaker 8: Yeah, right there Matt and Tyler. Nice to talk to you.

1867
01:26:14,293 --> 01:26:14,652
Speaker 3: Thank you.

1868
01:26:15,732 --> 01:26:17,452
Speaker 8: Yeah, I've got a kind of a bit of an

1869
01:26:17,452 --> 01:26:20,452
Speaker 8: alternative hitch hiking story that happened to me in the eighties.

1870
01:26:22,333 --> 01:26:23,652
Speaker 8: This a bit of a bit of a poopoo for

1871
01:26:23,692 --> 01:26:25,293
Speaker 8: a lot of a lot of your callers that have

1872
01:26:25,333 --> 01:26:25,652
Speaker 8: come in.

1873
01:26:25,652 --> 01:26:28,412
Speaker 23: But anyway, I worked for a company.

1874
01:26:28,412 --> 01:26:30,812
Speaker 8: I was I was sort of doing an attempting work,

1875
01:26:30,933 --> 01:26:34,293
Speaker 8: just driving white van delivery white vans around London. And

1876
01:26:34,812 --> 01:26:36,372
Speaker 8: it was one time I was up in a place

1877
01:26:36,412 --> 01:26:40,492
Speaker 8: called Selsdon, that sort of south London. But I had

1878
01:26:40,492 --> 01:26:43,093
Speaker 8: a drop off at a shop and I stopped the van,

1879
01:26:43,853 --> 01:26:45,612
Speaker 8: went into the shop and came out and there was

1880
01:26:45,612 --> 01:26:48,012
Speaker 8: a there was a girl standing by the van. She

1881
01:26:48,213 --> 01:26:51,093
Speaker 8: was quite like a not a big she was a

1882
01:26:51,093 --> 01:26:52,932
Speaker 8: big girl, like a like a rugby player. So I

1883
01:26:52,933 --> 01:26:55,013
Speaker 8: was a big girl with a big knee bandage on

1884
01:26:55,213 --> 01:26:58,293
Speaker 8: and limping around and she said, Oh, I'm trying to

1885
01:26:58,293 --> 01:27:00,053
Speaker 8: get to the bus station in Croydon. Can you give

1886
01:27:00,093 --> 01:27:03,092
Speaker 8: me a list? And I said, well, the company policy

1887
01:27:03,213 --> 01:27:05,093
Speaker 8: was no lists, you know, no one in, no one

1888
01:27:05,093 --> 01:27:08,213
Speaker 8: in the vehicles. And I said, I really sorry, I can't.

1889
01:27:08,372 --> 01:27:11,013
Speaker 8: It was starting to spit rain a bit and she

1890
01:27:11,173 --> 01:27:13,652
Speaker 8: was sort of I felt a bit sorry for I said,

1891
01:27:13,933 --> 01:27:15,652
Speaker 8: come on, and it's only four or five k down

1892
01:27:15,652 --> 01:27:19,093
Speaker 8: the road jumping. So she jumped in, took her down

1893
01:27:19,412 --> 01:27:21,012
Speaker 8: in a chat and she was going to her brother's

1894
01:27:21,053 --> 01:27:24,253
Speaker 8: twenty first birthday party apparently. So I dropped off at

1895
01:27:24,293 --> 01:27:27,333
Speaker 8: Crowdon bus station and as I pulled away, I was

1896
01:27:27,452 --> 01:27:29,532
Speaker 8: sort of a few hundred meters down the road and

1897
01:27:30,253 --> 01:27:33,452
Speaker 8: in those days we have the old CB radios and

1898
01:27:33,492 --> 01:27:37,372
Speaker 8: it was the you know, the head office ringing meat off,

1899
01:27:37,452 --> 01:27:41,132
Speaker 8: calling me and the boss said, Matt, are you alone?

1900
01:27:41,692 --> 01:27:45,412
Speaker 8: And I thought is hidden camera? Yeah, no cameras in

1901
01:27:45,452 --> 01:27:48,652
Speaker 8: the day. And I said, well, what's up and he

1902
01:27:48,692 --> 01:27:50,732
Speaker 8: said well are you alone? And I said yeah, and

1903
01:27:50,732 --> 01:27:53,852
Speaker 8: he said okay, where did you drop her? I was like,

1904
01:27:54,053 --> 01:27:57,532
Speaker 8: what the hell? So I said, well, Crowdon Croydon Central

1905
01:27:57,572 --> 01:27:59,852
Speaker 8: bus Station and he said okay, stay on, stay on

1906
01:27:59,933 --> 01:28:01,892
Speaker 8: channel and I could hear him talking on the phone

1907
01:28:01,893 --> 01:28:04,412
Speaker 8: to someone else and then he came back and he said, right,

1908
01:28:04,492 --> 01:28:06,893
Speaker 8: just return to base. So I thought, oh god, I'm

1909
01:28:06,973 --> 01:28:09,652
Speaker 8: in trouble now. So I drove back to base. Whi's

1910
01:28:09,652 --> 01:28:11,732
Speaker 8: just probably an hour. It's a place called Crawley, and

1911
01:28:12,652 --> 01:28:14,253
Speaker 8: got back to base, and they're a big group of

1912
01:28:14,253 --> 01:28:16,973
Speaker 8: people who worked for the company cheered when I drove up,

1913
01:28:16,973 --> 01:28:19,892
Speaker 8: and I thought what I went into went into his

1914
01:28:19,933 --> 01:28:23,053
Speaker 8: office and he said, mate, He said, the reason the

1915
01:28:23,093 --> 01:28:25,412
Speaker 8: reason I was calling and I was really concerned, is

1916
01:28:25,452 --> 01:28:28,572
Speaker 8: because as the girl was getting in your van, two

1917
01:28:28,732 --> 01:28:32,852
Speaker 8: nurses from the local asylum for want of a better words,

1918
01:28:33,412 --> 01:28:36,932
Speaker 8: were running down the road trying to catch her because

1919
01:28:36,973 --> 01:28:43,172
Speaker 8: she's a dangerous person, basically some real dangerous inmate who'd escaped.

1920
01:28:43,772 --> 01:28:46,892
Speaker 8: And I'd basically taken this to the central bus station

1921
01:28:47,053 --> 01:28:48,652
Speaker 8: to escape even further.

1922
01:28:48,772 --> 01:28:49,052
Speaker 11: Wow.

1923
01:28:49,053 --> 01:28:51,372
Speaker 8: But yeah, so they they rang the police, and then

1924
01:28:51,412 --> 01:28:54,013
Speaker 8: they contacted the company, and the company got me on

1925
01:28:54,013 --> 01:28:57,652
Speaker 8: the radio and said, you know, are you alone? And

1926
01:28:57,772 --> 01:29:00,253
Speaker 8: so the kind of a I wouldn't I would never

1927
01:29:00,333 --> 01:29:02,333
Speaker 8: have known, guys, I never have known.

1928
01:29:03,532 --> 01:29:06,293
Speaker 2: She was She wasn't behaving.

1929
01:29:07,612 --> 01:29:10,052
Speaker 8: She was lovely, and she invited me to her brothers

1930
01:29:10,053 --> 01:29:11,692
Speaker 8: but twenty first, and I said, ah.

1931
01:29:11,812 --> 01:29:12,133
Speaker 23: I didn't.

1932
01:29:12,133 --> 01:29:14,532
Speaker 8: I didn't want to go, obviously, and I said, nah, no,

1933
01:29:14,572 --> 01:29:16,133
Speaker 8: I'm more. But Hope's there was so much to the

1934
01:29:16,173 --> 01:29:18,333
Speaker 8: invite and looking back, you know, I've looked back on

1935
01:29:18,372 --> 01:29:20,053
Speaker 8: it a few times. It kind of reminded me of

1936
01:29:20,093 --> 01:29:22,012
Speaker 8: your show today. Reminded me of it, to be honest,

1937
01:29:22,812 --> 01:29:25,013
Speaker 8: and I and I thought, you know, if i'd have

1938
01:29:25,013 --> 01:29:27,412
Speaker 8: said the wrong things, you know, if I said, well,

1939
01:29:27,452 --> 01:29:29,053
Speaker 8: I don't want to come to your bloody brothers, don't

1940
01:29:29,093 --> 01:29:32,333
Speaker 8: you something? If I have said something untoward, you never

1941
01:29:32,412 --> 01:29:33,692
Speaker 8: know what could have happened.

1942
01:29:33,893 --> 01:29:37,173
Speaker 2: Well, you said she was she was a rugby player's build.

1943
01:29:38,173 --> 01:29:38,452
Speaker 5: She was.

1944
01:29:39,572 --> 01:29:43,892
Speaker 8: I wouldn't have I wouldn't have stood a chance. But

1945
01:29:44,213 --> 01:29:48,133
Speaker 8: I mean physically, especially if someone's someone's sort of a

1946
01:29:48,133 --> 01:29:52,532
Speaker 8: bit psychopathic, your knack really, so basically from what everyone

1947
01:29:52,532 --> 01:29:55,452
Speaker 8: else is saying, I've given people lifts since then, of

1948
01:29:55,452 --> 01:29:57,973
Speaker 8: course I have, but I tend to and as you

1949
01:29:58,013 --> 01:30:00,093
Speaker 8: get older, you get a little bit more of a

1950
01:30:00,213 --> 01:30:03,532
Speaker 8: gut feeling about things. You know, if I see someone

1951
01:30:04,053 --> 01:30:06,412
Speaker 8: pass a park car and there's someone up the road

1952
01:30:06,532 --> 01:30:07,892
Speaker 8: the Jerry can in their hand.

1953
01:30:07,732 --> 01:30:09,173
Speaker 3: Of course, I yeah, yeah, But.

1954
01:30:11,053 --> 01:30:15,012
Speaker 8: You did the right thing, Matt, definitely, But I thought

1955
01:30:15,053 --> 01:30:16,812
Speaker 8: I was doing the right thing and it went okay.

1956
01:30:17,812 --> 01:30:19,253
Speaker 8: I don't know if they have a quarter or not.

1957
01:30:20,492 --> 01:30:21,892
Speaker 2: There could have been a trigger, There could have been

1958
01:30:21,893 --> 01:30:24,372
Speaker 2: a trigger word that that could have set things off.

1959
01:30:24,372 --> 01:30:26,692
Speaker 2: If you got on the wrong the wrong subject.

1960
01:30:27,213 --> 01:30:29,652
Speaker 3: Clearly your colleagues loved it, though, Matte, that's a great story.

1961
01:30:29,692 --> 01:30:32,253
Speaker 3: You never would have loved that one down I got.

1962
01:30:32,532 --> 01:30:34,213
Speaker 8: I had a big thing on the on the blackboard,

1963
01:30:34,253 --> 01:30:37,052
Speaker 8: in the in the in the coms room. Always always,

1964
01:30:37,133 --> 01:30:41,293
Speaker 8: always prepare for a Matt finish.

1965
01:30:41,612 --> 01:30:43,452
Speaker 2: Thank you so much for you call. Matt very good

1966
01:30:43,532 --> 01:30:45,492
Speaker 2: slightly annoyed about that story because he picked her up

1967
01:30:45,532 --> 01:30:49,492
Speaker 2: in Croydon. Ye, but the head office was in Crawley. Yeah,

1968
01:30:49,612 --> 01:30:50,812
Speaker 2: And if it had been the other way around, I

1969
01:30:50,853 --> 01:30:52,772
Speaker 2: would have been able to say she was a creepy

1970
01:30:52,772 --> 01:30:57,412
Speaker 2: from Crawley. But because it wasn't, the joke doesn't work.

1971
01:30:57,612 --> 01:30:57,812
Speaker 11: You know.

1972
01:30:58,013 --> 01:31:01,253
Speaker 3: I could say the gears turning around while he was like, mate,

1973
01:31:01,253 --> 01:31:01,972
Speaker 3: it's got something here.

1974
01:31:02,093 --> 01:31:02,293
Speaker 5: Yeah.

1975
01:31:02,333 --> 01:31:05,053
Speaker 2: So unfortunately I won't mention that because it doesn't work.

1976
01:31:05,093 --> 01:31:05,293
Speaker 2: You know.

1977
01:31:05,412 --> 01:31:07,253
Speaker 3: Yeah, next time you call up with that story, Matt

1978
01:31:07,372 --> 01:31:08,572
Speaker 3: just hid up what.

1979
01:31:08,572 --> 01:31:11,293
Speaker 2: Pick her up and preck her up in Crawley and

1980
01:31:11,412 --> 01:31:13,452
Speaker 2: turn your offices into Croydon. That would be good.

1981
01:31:13,532 --> 01:31:13,732
Speaker 20: Yeah.

1982
01:31:13,812 --> 01:31:16,572
Speaker 3: Oh, eight hundred eighty ten eighty is the number to call,

1983
01:31:16,973 --> 01:31:18,213
Speaker 3: and we'll get to some of the texts that have

1984
01:31:18,293 --> 01:31:21,333
Speaker 3: been sent through On nine two ninety two shortly as well.

1985
01:31:21,492 --> 01:31:23,732
Speaker 2: Yeah, so we're running two things now. They think they

1986
01:31:23,853 --> 01:31:24,652
Speaker 2: kind of work together.

1987
01:31:25,013 --> 01:31:25,293
Speaker 6: You know.

1988
01:31:25,652 --> 01:31:28,572
Speaker 2: Is it still okay to pick up hitchhikers in the

1989
01:31:28,652 --> 01:31:31,692
Speaker 2: current world in twenty twenty five and New Zealand is

1990
01:31:31,692 --> 01:31:33,772
Speaker 2: friendly if you're an expat that's come to our country,

1991
01:31:33,812 --> 01:31:35,732
Speaker 2: you know, are they the kind of people that would

1992
01:31:35,732 --> 01:31:36,412
Speaker 2: pick people up?

1993
01:31:36,572 --> 01:31:36,732
Speaker 11: Yep?

1994
01:31:36,812 --> 01:31:39,093
Speaker 3: Oh, eight hundred eighty ten eighty is the number to

1995
01:31:39,093 --> 01:31:41,052
Speaker 3: give us a buzz. It's twenty one past three.

1996
01:31:40,933 --> 01:31:43,452
Speaker 2: And by day I mean we because I'm in New Zealander.

1997
01:31:43,452 --> 01:31:51,452
Speaker 11: All right, Matt Heathen Tyler Adams afternoons call oh, eight

1998
01:31:51,572 --> 01:31:53,812
Speaker 11: hundred eighty ten eighty on News Talk ZB.

1999
01:31:54,412 --> 01:31:57,132
Speaker 3: Good afternoon. We're talking about hit shiking in New Zealand.

2000
01:31:57,133 --> 01:32:00,133
Speaker 3: Do you pick up hitchhikers or let strangers into your vehicle? Well,

2001
01:32:00,133 --> 01:32:03,133
Speaker 3: eight hundred and eighteen eighty is number. Call get a poll.

2002
01:32:04,293 --> 01:32:05,972
Speaker 6: Hi, how are you going?

2003
01:32:06,372 --> 01:32:08,972
Speaker 3: Very good? So you want to talk about hit shiking.

2004
01:32:10,013 --> 01:32:12,652
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm a pretty much a hit shike on myself.

2005
01:32:12,692 --> 01:32:15,052
Speaker 16: I'm a bit of a lone soldier everywhere around the world,

2006
01:32:15,133 --> 01:32:17,093
Speaker 16: you know, Buska nice.

2007
01:32:18,772 --> 01:32:19,492
Speaker 6: I've hit shiked.

2008
01:32:19,532 --> 01:32:21,812
Speaker 16: I lived in Australia for seventeen years, I've hit shoked

2009
01:32:21,853 --> 01:32:23,173
Speaker 16: like sours ands, millions of.

2010
01:32:23,213 --> 01:32:26,572
Speaker 6: Kys in the midnight. Heard a lot of stories of

2011
01:32:26,612 --> 01:32:32,092
Speaker 6: how people go missing. But it's like how you treat people.

2012
01:32:32,173 --> 01:32:34,333
Speaker 16: You know, you've got to love people to get a

2013
01:32:34,372 --> 01:32:38,572
Speaker 16: response or a reaction if you be straight to the

2014
01:32:38,612 --> 01:32:40,372
Speaker 16: point and tell them where you're going, and if they

2015
01:32:40,412 --> 01:32:45,012
Speaker 16: try and intimidate you, you don't fall for that. And being

2016
01:32:45,412 --> 01:32:48,612
Speaker 16: like the country of New Zealand, and it's very hard

2017
01:32:48,893 --> 01:32:52,532
Speaker 16: our people because I'm moldy myself and lived in Australia

2018
01:32:52,532 --> 01:32:53,093
Speaker 16: for a long time.

2019
01:32:53,253 --> 01:32:55,333
Speaker 6: Very nice in Australia, very easy life.

2020
01:32:56,173 --> 01:32:58,692
Speaker 16: New Zealand's a bit harder because the money as well,

2021
01:32:58,732 --> 01:33:00,572
Speaker 16: and people don't have the money to spend.

2022
01:33:00,612 --> 01:33:01,932
Speaker 6: They worry about their money.

2023
01:33:01,732 --> 01:33:03,732
Speaker 16: Or their fuels, so they don't really like picking up

2024
01:33:03,772 --> 01:33:06,732
Speaker 16: hitchhikers too because they don't trust as well with the

2025
01:33:06,772 --> 01:33:07,612
Speaker 16: country's been through.

2026
01:33:08,412 --> 01:33:11,452
Speaker 2: Hey, when you're as a busker, you playing a guitar,

2027
01:33:12,013 --> 01:33:12,732
Speaker 2: Is that how you do it?

2028
01:33:12,812 --> 01:33:13,012
Speaker 11: Yeah?

2029
01:33:13,013 --> 01:33:14,492
Speaker 6: I play guitar and I sing.

2030
01:33:16,053 --> 01:33:18,213
Speaker 16: Every day twenty four to seven, seven days a week,

2031
01:33:18,253 --> 01:33:19,772
Speaker 16: or a couple of hours sleep and come home and

2032
01:33:19,772 --> 01:33:21,372
Speaker 16: then go back out and earn my living.

2033
01:33:21,612 --> 01:33:23,692
Speaker 2: Wow do you. How do you find This is a

2034
01:33:23,732 --> 01:33:27,012
Speaker 2: question slightly off topic, but how do you find busking? Nowadays?

2035
01:33:27,053 --> 01:33:29,133
Speaker 2: When people don't have the coins in their pocket to

2036
01:33:29,652 --> 01:33:29,973
Speaker 2: throw in.

2037
01:33:30,013 --> 01:33:33,333
Speaker 6: You out, it's more to do.

2038
01:33:33,412 --> 01:33:36,092
Speaker 16: I don't really chase the money than the money comes

2039
01:33:36,133 --> 01:33:38,612
Speaker 16: to me more than anything. If I give out a

2040
01:33:38,652 --> 01:33:42,052
Speaker 16: good energy, a good vibe, it'll react back the same,

2041
01:33:42,213 --> 01:33:44,532
Speaker 16: like busking or anything you do in.

2042
01:33:44,452 --> 01:33:47,732
Speaker 6: Life, even hit choking you like I do my prayers.

2043
01:33:48,133 --> 01:33:49,412
Speaker 6: So I go, Lord, thank you.

2044
01:33:49,333 --> 01:33:49,892
Speaker 4: For this day.

2045
01:33:49,933 --> 01:33:51,812
Speaker 16: I hope someone picks me up, and I'm getting angry,

2046
01:33:51,893 --> 01:33:54,133
Speaker 16: I'm getting frustrated, and then someone picks me up.

2047
01:33:55,333 --> 01:33:56,892
Speaker 2: And do you find you more likely to get picked

2048
01:33:56,933 --> 01:33:59,293
Speaker 2: up if you're carrying your guitar, Because I feel like

2049
01:33:59,333 --> 01:34:01,293
Speaker 2: I'd be more likely to pick up someone that's got

2050
01:34:01,293 --> 01:34:04,173
Speaker 2: a guitar just just feels like they've got might have

2051
01:34:04,253 --> 01:34:04,852
Speaker 2: something to offer.

2052
01:34:05,933 --> 01:34:07,333
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, it actually works.

2053
01:34:08,452 --> 01:34:08,532
Speaker 26: Ye.

2054
01:34:09,133 --> 01:34:11,652
Speaker 6: I've I've been around being picked up, even in my oon.

2055
01:34:11,812 --> 01:34:13,452
Speaker 16: I live in road UA at the moment, I live

2056
01:34:13,492 --> 01:34:16,412
Speaker 16: in the block, and I've had games just picked me

2057
01:34:16,492 --> 01:34:17,532
Speaker 16: up and I'm going, bro.

2058
01:34:17,893 --> 01:34:20,133
Speaker 6: Do I owe you anything? And they go, no, You're

2059
01:34:20,133 --> 01:34:20,652
Speaker 6: all right.

2060
01:34:22,293 --> 01:34:25,053
Speaker 3: It's nice now and out of the countries that you've

2061
01:34:25,053 --> 01:34:28,532
Speaker 3: been in, Paul, what was the easiest place to hit chicken?

2062
01:34:31,133 --> 01:34:34,652
Speaker 16: Probably because I lived in towns All and that's a

2063
01:34:34,692 --> 01:34:36,932
Speaker 16: thousand k's in land to Mount Isa and I used

2064
01:34:36,933 --> 01:34:37,852
Speaker 16: to hitch road.

2065
01:34:37,692 --> 01:34:38,492
Speaker 6: Trains all the time.

2066
01:34:38,732 --> 01:34:40,333
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, and.

2067
01:34:40,173 --> 01:34:42,333
Speaker 6: That's like a twelve hour drives.

2068
01:34:43,933 --> 01:34:46,532
Speaker 2: Are you expected to stay awake and keep the driver

2069
01:34:46,652 --> 01:34:47,892
Speaker 2: company in that kind of situation?

2070
01:34:48,973 --> 01:34:50,772
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'll talk his years off all night long.

2071
01:34:52,812 --> 01:34:54,492
Speaker 3: Thanks you cool, Paul, Yeah, very good.

2072
01:34:55,013 --> 01:34:58,452
Speaker 2: Those roads, those distances in Australia insane. Yeah, when you

2073
01:34:58,492 --> 01:35:00,772
Speaker 2: just see a road sign it says, you know, twelve

2074
01:35:00,853 --> 01:35:01,372
Speaker 2: hundred k.

2075
01:35:01,492 --> 01:35:04,972
Speaker 3: Yeah, unreal. So what's a road train? That's like a truck?

2076
01:35:05,093 --> 01:35:08,013
Speaker 3: A messive truck right, and I've got how many trailers.

2077
01:35:07,732 --> 01:35:10,133
Speaker 2: On the trailers on the back? Yeah, yeah, because because

2078
01:35:10,492 --> 01:35:12,812
Speaker 2: the straight line roads in Australia. Yeah yeah, miles.

2079
01:35:12,893 --> 01:35:15,892
Speaker 3: Yeah, some great teams coming through on nine two ninety two.

2080
01:35:16,013 --> 01:35:19,293
Speaker 3: This one is about us being friendly as.

2081
01:35:19,253 --> 01:35:22,013
Speaker 2: Ki was a superficially friendly good to Taurus because we

2082
01:35:22,213 --> 01:35:24,293
Speaker 2: like our rep But for a foreigner to break into

2083
01:35:24,333 --> 01:35:26,372
Speaker 2: a friend group is incredibly hard.

2084
01:35:27,013 --> 01:35:29,772
Speaker 3: I've heard that clique. Yeah, I think we are a

2085
01:35:29,812 --> 01:35:32,253
Speaker 3: clique bunch. We are I think very friendly, just a

2086
01:35:32,253 --> 01:35:32,772
Speaker 3: bit guarded.

2087
01:35:33,213 --> 01:35:35,173
Speaker 2: Moved to New Zealand seventeen years ago and forty three.

2088
01:35:35,253 --> 01:35:37,293
Speaker 2: On my first week, went to a supermarket and tried

2089
01:35:37,333 --> 01:35:39,732
Speaker 2: to buy a wine for a get together with friends.

2090
01:35:39,973 --> 01:35:41,852
Speaker 2: Didn't have ID with me, so they wouldn't sell it

2091
01:35:41,853 --> 01:35:43,412
Speaker 2: to me. But the guy behind me and the Q

2092
01:35:43,612 --> 01:35:45,732
Speaker 2: was listening, so he bought the wine for me to

2093
01:35:46,093 --> 01:35:47,932
Speaker 2: try to pay him back, but he declined and said,

2094
01:35:48,053 --> 01:35:51,093
Speaker 2: welcome to New Zealand. Legend. Always thankful to that guy,

2095
01:35:51,213 --> 01:35:52,092
Speaker 2: cheers Pableau.

2096
01:35:52,173 --> 01:35:54,852
Speaker 3: Yeah, that that is a great New Zealander. Whoever that

2097
01:35:54,933 --> 01:35:56,973
Speaker 3: person is on the back, good on you. That's the

2098
01:35:57,013 --> 01:35:58,412
Speaker 3: sort of friendliness we're talking about.

2099
01:35:58,492 --> 01:36:00,133
Speaker 2: Have you ever done that for someone when they haven't

2100
01:36:00,293 --> 01:36:02,253
Speaker 2: been able to pay in front of you in a

2101
01:36:02,293 --> 01:36:04,372
Speaker 2: supermarket queue or something and paid for them.

2102
01:36:04,572 --> 01:36:06,532
Speaker 3: I've never been in that situation. I'd like to think

2103
01:36:06,532 --> 01:36:08,053
Speaker 3: I would have you. I take it you've been in

2104
01:36:08,053 --> 01:36:11,132
Speaker 3: that situation I have. Was it a bottle of wine?

2105
01:36:11,293 --> 01:36:11,492
Speaker 11: No?

2106
01:36:11,933 --> 01:36:12,293
Speaker 9: What was it?

2107
01:36:12,652 --> 01:36:14,932
Speaker 2: Full groceries? Is it for someone once?

2108
01:36:15,133 --> 01:36:16,052
Speaker 3: And what was their reaction?

2109
01:36:16,412 --> 01:36:17,333
Speaker 2: They were very grateful?

2110
01:36:17,372 --> 01:36:18,093
Speaker 3: I bet they were.

2111
01:36:18,173 --> 01:36:21,333
Speaker 2: Yeah, Hey, guys, sitch choking to Auckland from top or

2112
01:36:21,452 --> 01:36:23,333
Speaker 2: got a lift from a guy. He stopped at Drury

2113
01:36:23,372 --> 01:36:25,333
Speaker 2: and got out, gave me the thumbs up and started

2114
01:36:25,372 --> 01:36:28,412
Speaker 2: to walk off. I said, what about your car? He said,

2115
01:36:28,452 --> 01:36:31,093
Speaker 2: it's not mine own, nicked it. I walked off in

2116
01:36:31,093 --> 01:36:31,732
Speaker 2: the other direction.

2117
01:36:33,412 --> 01:36:34,853
Speaker 3: That's true, that's amazing.

2118
01:36:36,253 --> 01:36:38,372
Speaker 2: Hi guys, I'm South African, been here eighteen years and

2119
01:36:38,452 --> 01:36:41,612
Speaker 2: Kiwis are very friendly, but very difficult to make good

2120
01:36:41,652 --> 01:36:45,173
Speaker 2: friends with. Yeah, that's sort of the superficial friendliness. And

2121
01:36:45,213 --> 01:36:49,532
Speaker 2: that's what they say about Denmark, Sweden and Finland that

2122
01:36:50,093 --> 01:36:56,333
Speaker 2: very very hard to get into the groups there. I mean, well,

2123
01:36:56,412 --> 01:36:58,452
Speaker 2: is it just true of everything?

2124
01:36:59,612 --> 01:37:01,732
Speaker 3: Well, we are guarded, aren't we. I think we are

2125
01:37:01,772 --> 01:37:04,293
Speaker 3: friendly and if someone comes in or wants to try

2126
01:37:04,293 --> 01:37:06,253
Speaker 3: and get into the friend group, yep, we're a bit

2127
01:37:06,412 --> 01:37:09,092
Speaker 3: guarded and a bit you know, protect for that group.

2128
01:37:09,093 --> 01:37:10,492
Speaker 3: But once they're rant, they are.

2129
01:37:10,853 --> 01:37:13,532
Speaker 2: But that that you're clique and guarded or is it

2130
01:37:13,652 --> 01:37:17,012
Speaker 2: just that you know, you have shared experiences with people

2131
01:37:17,213 --> 01:37:19,652
Speaker 2: and that's why they're friends. I mean, my best mates

2132
01:37:19,652 --> 01:37:22,732
Speaker 2: are all from you know, a lot of them are

2133
01:37:22,772 --> 01:37:25,532
Speaker 2: from my final year of high school a long time ago.

2134
01:37:25,933 --> 01:37:28,213
Speaker 2: So it's hard for someone no matter where they're from,

2135
01:37:28,612 --> 01:37:31,333
Speaker 2: to suddenly jump the queue on some of those mates.

2136
01:37:31,492 --> 01:37:33,652
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's a good point. You're right. I mean

2137
01:37:33,772 --> 01:37:35,532
Speaker 3: those lifelong friendships, although I have.

2138
01:37:35,532 --> 01:37:38,492
Speaker 2: Made friends with with with some people that have moved

2139
01:37:38,492 --> 01:37:40,452
Speaker 2: to New Zealand in the last few years become very

2140
01:37:40,452 --> 01:37:45,012
Speaker 2: good friends with a lovely American couple. Yeah, Liz and Chris,

2141
01:37:45,013 --> 01:37:46,532
Speaker 2: if you're listening, Liz.

2142
01:37:46,412 --> 01:37:49,732
Speaker 3: And Chris, just quickly the top three and we'll go

2143
01:37:49,772 --> 01:37:52,692
Speaker 3: through the top ten friendliest countries in the world according

2144
01:37:52,692 --> 01:37:54,692
Speaker 3: to the survey. Say, as you mentioned, number one was

2145
01:37:54,692 --> 01:38:00,612
Speaker 3: Costa Rica, number two Mexico, and number three the Philippines. Yeah,

2146
01:38:00,652 --> 01:38:02,812
Speaker 3: so maybe they aren't so clique and the likes of

2147
01:38:02,812 --> 01:38:04,533
Speaker 3: Costa Rica, Mexico and Philippines.

2148
01:38:04,812 --> 01:38:06,772
Speaker 2: Yeah, well we're way back on the list.

2149
01:38:06,973 --> 01:38:09,532
Speaker 3: Way back. A dirty old twin come on New Zealand

2150
01:38:09,572 --> 01:38:10,293
Speaker 3: and yeah, but we're.

2151
01:38:10,133 --> 01:38:12,412
Speaker 2: Not as hateful as the as the Finns.

2152
01:38:12,692 --> 01:38:15,333
Speaker 3: Jeez, about time they came last in something. Oh eight

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Speaker 3: hundred eighty ten eighty is the number call headlines with

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Speaker 3: Raylene coming.

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Speaker 14: Up us talks, there'd be headlines with blue bubble taxis.

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01:38:25,572 --> 01:38:28,452
Speaker 14: It's no trouble with a blue bubble. The Department of

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01:38:28,532 --> 01:38:33,213
Speaker 14: Internal Affairs is proposing more job cuts, disestablishing one hundred

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Speaker 14: and eighty rolls and creating one hundred and sixteen. It's

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Speaker 14: expected to be the last restructure of this scale, and

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Speaker 14: staff can feed back before final decisions. In June, Israeli

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01:38:44,253 --> 01:38:48,492
Speaker 14: warplanes have unleashed extensive air strikes on Gaza, killing at

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Speaker 14: least twenty people during the holy month of Ramadan. Seven

2163
01:38:52,652 --> 01:38:55,692
Speaker 14: people with links to Destiny Church have appeared in court today.

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01:38:56,013 --> 01:39:00,612
Speaker 14: All charges are with assault and one with indecent assault

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Speaker 14: relating to disrupting Auckland Pride events. Police have confirmed an

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01:39:05,612 --> 01:39:08,213
Speaker 14: adult man was killed when hit by train yes to

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01:39:08,452 --> 01:39:14,213
Speaker 14: day at Invercargill's Alice Road level crossing. Formal id processes continue.

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Speaker 14: Auckland's local boards are off the hook for now on

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01:39:18,612 --> 01:39:22,052
Speaker 14: bearing the brund of a multimillion dollar deficit after telling

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Speaker 14: the mayor they reject cost cutting proposals. Thousands of pages

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Speaker 14: of files related to John F. Kennedy's assassination are being

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01:39:30,452 --> 01:39:34,052
Speaker 14: made public tomorrow, more than sixty years after his death.

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01:39:34,933 --> 01:39:38,173
Speaker 14: Developer taking one hundred million dollar cutting a Jape road

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Speaker 14: building plans to environment court. You can find out more

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Speaker 14: at Ends and Herald Premium backmail to Matt Eathan Tyler Adams.

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Speaker 3: Thank you very much, Rayleen. And we're talking about hitchhiking

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01:39:47,973 --> 01:39:51,372
Speaker 3: in New Zealand. Do you pack up hitchhikers? This is

2178
01:39:51,412 --> 01:39:54,293
Speaker 3: on the back of Matt getting into a situation where

2179
01:39:54,333 --> 01:39:56,812
Speaker 3: she wasn't a hitchhiker but she needed a ride in. Matt,

2180
01:39:56,853 --> 01:39:59,533
Speaker 3: I think did the right thing and drove Furder University.

2181
01:39:59,532 --> 01:40:00,932
Speaker 3: But is it right a bick up strangers?

2182
01:40:00,973 --> 01:40:01,572
Speaker 2: What a good guy?

2183
01:40:01,612 --> 01:40:01,892
Speaker 5: I am?

2184
01:40:02,013 --> 01:40:02,533
Speaker 3: Yeah?

2185
01:40:02,572 --> 01:40:05,973
Speaker 2: Gooday guys. Recently had a young American guy approached me

2186
01:40:06,053 --> 01:40:08,572
Speaker 2: in christ asking for directions for his backpackers. It was

2187
01:40:08,572 --> 01:40:10,772
Speaker 2: about thirty minutes walk away, and I said I was

2188
01:40:10,812 --> 01:40:12,972
Speaker 2: going that way and if he was sweet to wait

2189
01:40:12,973 --> 01:40:15,213
Speaker 2: five minutes, I would drive him straight there. He looked

2190
01:40:15,253 --> 01:40:17,572
Speaker 2: at me horrified and said no thanks, I'm okay to

2191
01:40:17,612 --> 01:40:20,532
Speaker 2: walk and sped off. I was taken aback and talk

2192
01:40:20,572 --> 01:40:22,612
Speaker 2: to friends about it. They sugges said, maybe being American,

2193
01:40:22,692 --> 01:40:25,173
Speaker 2: he wasn't ready for an enthusiastic offer of a lift

2194
01:40:25,213 --> 01:40:28,692
Speaker 2: in a private vehicle and got heavy serial killer vibes

2195
01:40:28,732 --> 01:40:31,253
Speaker 2: from me. Cheers Aaron, Yeah, I mean, if you were

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01:40:31,293 --> 01:40:34,612
Speaker 2: in America, there's been so well, there has been you know,

2197
01:40:35,013 --> 01:40:38,293
Speaker 2: seems like the lion's share of serial killers were from America,

2198
01:40:38,333 --> 01:40:41,372
Speaker 2: but that's probably because the media is so rabbit on

2199
01:40:41,412 --> 01:40:42,612
Speaker 2: them over there and you hear about it.

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01:40:42,692 --> 01:40:42,852
Speaker 3: Yeap.

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01:40:42,893 --> 01:40:46,852
Speaker 2: There's probably trillions in China and India and Central America,

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01:40:47,293 --> 01:40:49,612
Speaker 2: but that we just don't really hear about. But you

2203
01:40:50,133 --> 01:40:54,013
Speaker 2: would have seen movies, yep, and growing up with the

2204
01:40:54,053 --> 01:40:55,812
Speaker 2: feeling that there was a lot of serial killers out

2205
01:40:55,853 --> 01:40:58,852
Speaker 2: there when there wasn't. There isn't really no, although this

2206
01:40:58,973 --> 01:41:03,492
Speaker 2: Texas is reminder guys, Ivan Mallet. Millet picked up hitchhikers

2207
01:41:03,492 --> 01:41:06,892
Speaker 2: in Australia and that had a terrible outcome. I'm an

2208
01:41:06,893 --> 01:41:09,012
Speaker 2: ex butcher myself, so I'm not sure the safe part

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01:41:09,093 --> 01:41:10,172
Speaker 2: lands cheers Susie.

2210
01:41:10,333 --> 01:41:13,333
Speaker 3: Yeah, and as we we're talking about during the air break,

2211
01:41:13,412 --> 01:41:15,692
Speaker 3: that was what they based Wolf Creak on, which is

2212
01:41:15,772 --> 01:41:16,892
Speaker 3: a terrifying movie.

2213
01:41:17,253 --> 01:41:22,013
Speaker 2: Yeah. So he's commonly known as the backpacker murderer. Harrific

2214
01:41:22,732 --> 01:41:24,372
Speaker 2: horrific situation.

2215
01:41:24,652 --> 01:41:30,892
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, eighty is the number to call. Don you

2216
01:41:30,933 --> 01:41:33,213
Speaker 3: reckon you picked up a pretty dodgy character.

2217
01:41:34,893 --> 01:41:34,933
Speaker 5: No.

2218
01:41:35,333 --> 01:41:38,092
Speaker 23: I was an empora student in Auckland in the early

2219
01:41:38,133 --> 01:41:42,093
Speaker 23: sixties and used to hitchhike home to near Dargavall fur

2220
01:41:42,893 --> 01:41:45,132
Speaker 23: for a decent meal, quite a bit in the weekend,

2221
01:41:45,853 --> 01:41:48,093
Speaker 23: and I'd get the bus over the Harbor Bridge, get

2222
01:41:48,133 --> 01:41:51,932
Speaker 23: off and Takapuna that's where the motorway ended, and I'd

2223
01:41:51,933 --> 01:41:54,412
Speaker 23: start hitching. And this guy picked me up and a

2224
01:41:54,492 --> 01:41:58,452
Speaker 23: Crysler Valiant. You hardly ever got picked up by flash cars,

2225
01:41:58,452 --> 01:41:59,652
Speaker 23: and this was a new Valiant.

2226
01:41:59,772 --> 01:41:59,972
Speaker 3: Yeah.

2227
01:42:00,173 --> 01:42:03,212
Speaker 23: And the driver was telling me he was the captain

2228
01:42:03,253 --> 01:42:05,892
Speaker 23: of a ship up at Marston Point. This was his

2229
01:42:05,973 --> 01:42:08,692
Speaker 23: brand new car and he was driving up to to

2230
01:42:08,772 --> 01:42:12,213
Speaker 23: his ship. And anyway, I had a good look at

2231
01:42:12,213 --> 01:42:14,852
Speaker 23: the car and I saw from the stickers on the

2232
01:42:14,853 --> 01:42:18,692
Speaker 23: window it was a rental car. Right, this is a

2233
01:42:18,692 --> 01:42:19,293
Speaker 23: bit dodgy.

2234
01:42:20,933 --> 01:42:22,852
Speaker 2: Is this before you've got into the car or.

2235
01:42:23,452 --> 01:42:24,612
Speaker 11: No after after?

2236
01:42:24,732 --> 01:42:28,572
Speaker 23: Yep, you see by the warrant of fitness stickers it's

2237
01:42:28,612 --> 01:42:32,572
Speaker 23: a different stick of a rental car. Then, okay, anyway,

2238
01:42:33,133 --> 01:42:36,812
Speaker 23: we got as far as Albert and he started stopping

2239
01:42:36,853 --> 01:42:39,612
Speaker 23: at the Albany Pub for a drink. Would you like

2240
01:42:39,652 --> 01:42:41,852
Speaker 23: to come in with me? Well, I was eighteen, you

2241
01:42:41,893 --> 01:42:43,652
Speaker 23: had to be twenty one for a drink. Anyway, I

2242
01:42:43,732 --> 01:42:46,692
Speaker 23: just wanted to get home, and so I said, now

2243
01:42:46,732 --> 01:42:49,612
Speaker 23: I'll get out and startedhitching the game. But if you

2244
01:42:49,692 --> 01:42:52,892
Speaker 23: see me, perhaps give me a lift, hoping that he wouldn't.

2245
01:42:53,812 --> 01:42:55,492
Speaker 23: Unfortunately I got a lift straight away and I was

2246
01:42:55,492 --> 01:42:57,812
Speaker 23: on the way. But it was a bit suspicious.

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01:42:58,333 --> 01:43:01,452
Speaker 2: Yeah, well maybe I mean that. The I guess the

2248
01:43:01,532 --> 01:43:06,173
Speaker 2: charitable you know analysis of that is that he wanted

2249
01:43:06,173 --> 01:43:08,732
Speaker 2: to pretend that was his car, you know what I think. Yeah,

2250
01:43:09,133 --> 01:43:12,253
Speaker 2: he wanted to impress you, I guess.

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01:43:12,293 --> 01:43:15,452
Speaker 3: So, Yeah, what what was his chat like when you're

2252
01:43:15,492 --> 01:43:17,612
Speaker 3: in the car? What was the discussion like? Did he

2253
01:43:17,772 --> 01:43:20,492
Speaker 3: come across then as maybe a slightly weird?

2254
01:43:22,053 --> 01:43:22,173
Speaker 5: Uh?

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01:43:22,452 --> 01:43:27,852
Speaker 23: He is actually well spoken, well dressed, and uh asked me,

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01:43:28,173 --> 01:43:30,612
Speaker 23: I think it was English, and he asked me if

2257
01:43:30,652 --> 01:43:34,692
Speaker 23: I was English for my accent, but I wasn't.

2258
01:43:35,532 --> 01:43:37,052
Speaker 2: Did he ever did he have a misstart?

2259
01:43:38,812 --> 01:43:39,652
Speaker 23: I can't remember.

2260
01:43:40,532 --> 01:43:42,412
Speaker 2: I was wondering if it was Peter plummy Walker. Anyway,

2261
01:43:43,093 --> 01:43:45,213
Speaker 2: thank you so much for for your call there. Uh,

2262
01:43:45,253 --> 01:43:47,093
Speaker 2: this Texas is I pick up hatchukers all the time,

2263
01:43:47,133 --> 01:43:49,452
Speaker 2: and I'm not worried about them being serial killers because

2264
01:43:49,492 --> 01:43:51,173
Speaker 2: what is the chance of two serial killers in the

2265
01:43:51,253 --> 01:43:53,293
Speaker 2: same car at the same time. Yeah, you see, that's

2266
01:43:53,293 --> 01:43:58,173
Speaker 2: a lightning strike. Lightning doesn't strike twice in the same

2267
01:43:58,213 --> 01:43:59,252
Speaker 2: place kind of situation.

2268
01:43:59,333 --> 01:44:00,652
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, very wise.

2269
01:44:00,732 --> 01:44:03,692
Speaker 2: Well it does silly as that text is, but funny.

2270
01:44:03,973 --> 01:44:04,093
Speaker 26: Uh.

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01:44:05,133 --> 01:44:08,092
Speaker 2: You know what's more likely to be the dodgy person

2272
01:44:08,412 --> 01:44:10,532
Speaker 2: person hitchhiking that you get into your car or the

2273
01:44:10,812 --> 01:44:14,333
Speaker 2: or the driver picking up the hatchhiker? Who's that more risk?

2274
01:44:14,372 --> 01:44:18,173
Speaker 2: There is more driver, isn't it? You reckon? There's drivers

2275
01:44:18,692 --> 01:44:21,692
Speaker 2: driving around looking to do bad things to hitchhikers.

2276
01:44:21,853 --> 01:44:24,532
Speaker 3: Definitely. I think the bar of.

2277
01:44:24,452 --> 01:44:27,732
Speaker 2: Just putting your finger out to hitch yeah, it's pretty easy,

2278
01:44:28,093 --> 01:44:31,333
Speaker 2: you know. Anyone anyone can that's you know, been up

2279
01:44:31,372 --> 01:44:33,452
Speaker 2: for five days on methn feed imine can have their

2280
01:44:33,492 --> 01:44:33,932
Speaker 2: thumb out.

2281
01:44:34,053 --> 01:44:36,572
Speaker 3: Yeah. Good point. Well, if you're picking up a hitchhiker,

2282
01:44:36,572 --> 01:44:39,852
Speaker 3: what do you look for instantly? Is your eye them up?

2283
01:44:40,253 --> 01:44:43,133
Speaker 3: What are the telltale signs that this person might be

2284
01:44:43,133 --> 01:44:44,692
Speaker 3: all right to pick up for you?

2285
01:44:46,853 --> 01:44:50,012
Speaker 2: Well? Can I beat him in a fight?

2286
01:44:50,772 --> 01:44:50,972
Speaker 8: Yeah?

2287
01:44:50,973 --> 01:44:53,892
Speaker 3: That's number one? How big is he if he's five two?

2288
01:44:54,372 --> 01:44:54,973
Speaker 3: Jump on in?

2289
01:44:55,213 --> 01:44:56,253
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know.

2290
01:44:56,452 --> 01:44:58,372
Speaker 3: Backpack definitely, if they've got to say don't have a

2291
01:44:58,412 --> 01:45:01,612
Speaker 3: backpack and the hitchhiking, I'm kind of thinking, what's going

2292
01:45:01,612 --> 01:45:03,692
Speaker 3: on here? You know, where are you going to with

2293
01:45:03,772 --> 01:45:04,532
Speaker 3: no luggage?

2294
01:45:04,652 --> 01:45:04,812
Speaker 5: Yeah?

2295
01:45:04,812 --> 01:45:06,772
Speaker 2: If there's stumbling down the road with no luggage and

2296
01:45:06,772 --> 01:45:09,452
Speaker 2: they're in the middle of nowhere, that probably raised a

2297
01:45:09,452 --> 01:45:10,532
Speaker 2: few red flags.

2298
01:45:10,652 --> 01:45:13,852
Speaker 3: Yeah. Oh, eight hundred a ten eighty is a number

2299
01:45:13,893 --> 01:45:15,492
Speaker 3: to call. There some great texts coming through. We'll get

2300
01:45:15,532 --> 01:45:18,253
Speaker 3: to a few of those very shortly. It is twenty

2301
01:45:18,293 --> 01:45:19,092
Speaker 3: one to four.

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01:45:20,333 --> 01:45:22,772
Speaker 1: The Issues that affect you and a bit of fun

2303
01:45:22,812 --> 01:45:26,092
Speaker 1: along the way, Matt and Taylor Afternoons with the Volvo

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01:45:26,412 --> 01:45:28,852
Speaker 1: X eighty innovation, style and design.

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01:45:29,013 --> 01:45:30,253
Speaker 11: Have it all new talk?

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01:45:30,372 --> 01:45:33,772
Speaker 3: They'd be good afternoon. We're talking about hit shiking. Do

2307
01:45:33,812 --> 01:45:36,852
Speaker 3: you pack up hit shikers or your own hit shiking stories? Oh,

2308
01:45:36,853 --> 01:45:39,333
Speaker 3: eight hundred and eighty ten eighty is the number to call.

2309
01:45:39,732 --> 01:45:43,452
Speaker 3: Quack teics here, guys, no backpack is suspicious unless you

2310
01:45:43,532 --> 01:45:48,812
Speaker 3: a check creature. Yep, and this one, guys. Times have changed.

2311
01:45:48,853 --> 01:45:51,333
Speaker 3: I would never want a hitchhike now. Just catch the

2312
01:45:51,333 --> 01:45:53,452
Speaker 3: bus to Risky otherwise.

2313
01:45:53,853 --> 01:45:54,053
Speaker 8: Yeah.

2314
01:45:54,173 --> 01:45:56,852
Speaker 2: Is it risk here? Things more dangerous now? Or are

2315
01:45:56,893 --> 01:46:00,012
Speaker 2: we just more aware of bad things happening and we've

2316
01:46:00,013 --> 01:46:02,932
Speaker 2: had more a longer period of time of hearing bad

2317
01:46:02,973 --> 01:46:06,012
Speaker 2: stories and watching serial killer movies?

2318
01:46:06,213 --> 01:46:06,452
Speaker 3: Yeah?

2319
01:46:06,492 --> 01:46:10,253
Speaker 2: You know, you know before but you know, Silence of

2320
01:46:10,293 --> 01:46:12,972
Speaker 2: the Lambs and seven and all that kind of stuff.

2321
01:46:13,013 --> 01:46:16,452
Speaker 2: Did we really think about that much? You know, obviously

2322
01:46:16,532 --> 01:46:19,173
Speaker 2: bad things happen, yeah, but did it actually happen that often?

2323
01:46:19,213 --> 01:46:20,652
Speaker 3: I don't think we've changed that more so.

2324
01:46:20,732 --> 01:46:22,852
Speaker 2: I mean, we've got a larger population now, so as

2325
01:46:23,093 --> 01:46:25,732
Speaker 2: just statistically more bad things are going to happen then

2326
01:46:26,173 --> 01:46:28,892
Speaker 2: in the seventies when there's only three million people here,

2327
01:46:28,973 --> 01:46:29,133
Speaker 2: you know.

2328
01:46:29,532 --> 01:46:31,213
Speaker 3: I think you're right. I think it's we get told

2329
01:46:31,452 --> 01:46:35,053
Speaker 3: far too many scary stories about what happens to shikers

2330
01:46:35,732 --> 01:46:37,213
Speaker 3: that we don't want to do it anymore, and it's

2331
01:46:37,253 --> 01:46:39,732
Speaker 3: just not the truth. Mike. How are you?

2332
01:46:41,133 --> 01:46:44,132
Speaker 9: Yeah? Hi guys, Yeah, good, thank you. Yeah.

2333
01:46:44,173 --> 01:46:46,253
Speaker 27: Over the years, I've picked up a few hitchhikers, and

2334
01:46:46,293 --> 01:46:50,053
Speaker 27: I've hitchiked quite a bit myself, and you definitely have

2335
01:46:50,093 --> 01:46:52,852
Speaker 27: to be discerning whether you're the driver or the hitchhiker

2336
01:46:53,732 --> 01:46:55,812
Speaker 27: in terms of what you're getting involved with. I think,

2337
01:46:55,893 --> 01:46:59,293
Speaker 27: and quite often, you know, you can determine that just

2338
01:46:59,293 --> 01:47:04,213
Speaker 27: for a glance. But I've hit chi like twice from

2339
01:47:04,293 --> 01:47:09,492
Speaker 27: Auckland to Queenstown, once in the summer and once in winter,

2340
01:47:09,692 --> 01:47:12,692
Speaker 27: and I've been I've got off the Fury in winter

2341
01:47:13,173 --> 01:47:16,692
Speaker 27: from Wellington to picton midnight and I've been in the

2342
01:47:16,732 --> 01:47:21,333
Speaker 27: snow waiting for a lift, and you're very thankful when

2343
01:47:21,772 --> 01:47:26,293
Speaker 27: in that situation someone picks you up. It's definitely easier

2344
01:47:26,532 --> 01:47:30,492
Speaker 27: if I had a female partner with me, and I

2345
01:47:30,492 --> 01:47:32,572
Speaker 27: think that makes someone that wants to pick you up

2346
01:47:32,572 --> 01:47:35,692
Speaker 27: feel a bit safer if there's a girl there or

2347
01:47:35,692 --> 01:47:38,732
Speaker 27: a female and being a driver picking up a hit choker.

2348
01:47:39,652 --> 01:47:41,892
Speaker 27: If they've got it, like you said before, tailft, they've

2349
01:47:41,893 --> 01:47:45,052
Speaker 27: got a backpack, and especially if they look like they're

2350
01:47:45,053 --> 01:47:47,933
Speaker 27: onto it and prepared. They have a handwritten sign. So

2351
01:47:47,973 --> 01:47:50,173
Speaker 27: if you're in Auckland and they'll say have a sign

2352
01:47:50,253 --> 01:47:55,612
Speaker 27: saying Calpo, obviously you know they're they're prepared.

2353
01:47:56,173 --> 01:48:03,133
Speaker 9: But but going back a few years, I was in

2354
01:48:03,173 --> 01:48:06,852
Speaker 9: the Hawks Bay twenty five years ago and I was

2355
01:48:07,013 --> 01:48:10,293
Speaker 9: a skinny little guy from Aukland down there and I

2356
01:48:10,333 --> 01:48:13,213
Speaker 9: was said hiking somewhere down there. It was a twenty

2357
01:48:13,213 --> 01:48:16,253
Speaker 9: minute trip and this car pulled up. I don't know

2358
01:48:16,333 --> 01:48:20,092
Speaker 9: it was a Valiant, either a Valiant or a Ford

2359
01:48:20,133 --> 01:48:22,293
Speaker 9: Falcon or a Charge or something. And I thought last

2360
01:48:22,293 --> 01:48:24,133
Speaker 9: week to throw my thumb out and I jumped in

2361
01:48:24,133 --> 01:48:28,412
Speaker 9: the back seat and the two guys in the front

2362
01:48:28,812 --> 01:48:32,692
Speaker 9: had leather vests and covered an arm and facial tattoos.

2363
01:48:32,692 --> 01:48:34,973
Speaker 9: I was like, oh, yeah, hey, guys, by guys, and

2364
01:48:35,013 --> 01:48:37,013
Speaker 9: I kid you not. This thing took off like the

2365
01:48:37,093 --> 01:48:41,932
Speaker 9: Junior League from the Chicken Hazard. And for twenty minutes.

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Speaker 9: Can you imagine this little skinny guy from Auckland hanging

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01:48:45,093 --> 01:48:48,852
Speaker 9: on for dear life from the handles on either side

2368
01:48:48,893 --> 01:48:50,852
Speaker 9: of the roof in the back seat, sitting in the middle,

2369
01:48:51,572 --> 01:48:54,093
Speaker 9: just getting chucked from side to side around all of

2370
01:48:54,133 --> 01:48:57,612
Speaker 9: these corners at speeds, and I just remember the only

2371
01:48:58,053 --> 01:49:01,213
Speaker 9: thing I remember thinking is I can't believe a car

2372
01:49:01,333 --> 01:49:04,053
Speaker 9: the size can go around corners this far.

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01:49:05,093 --> 01:49:08,572
Speaker 2: Was there any chat coming on the front up? Don't

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01:49:09,053 --> 01:49:10,772
Speaker 2: Was there any chat coming from the front seat? Or

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01:49:10,772 --> 01:49:11,732
Speaker 2: is this complete silence?

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01:49:11,732 --> 01:49:11,772
Speaker 20: No?

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01:49:11,973 --> 01:49:14,013
Speaker 9: No, I think they were just grims coming from the

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01:49:14,053 --> 01:49:19,253
Speaker 9: front seat. But yeah, I was too proud and too

2379
01:49:19,293 --> 01:49:22,812
Speaker 9: brave to say stop. Lit me out and out And

2380
01:49:23,213 --> 01:49:26,133
Speaker 9: I kid you not, you've heard of that term. Your

2381
01:49:26,173 --> 01:49:30,372
Speaker 9: knees are knocking. They were when I got out.

2382
01:49:30,652 --> 01:49:32,572
Speaker 2: So basically what they did and they said, we'll pick

2383
01:49:32,612 --> 01:49:34,253
Speaker 2: this guy up and we're going to scare the living,

2384
01:49:34,293 --> 01:49:36,532
Speaker 2: but Jesus out of him is really what they did.

2385
01:49:36,812 --> 01:49:38,532
Speaker 9: That's what I thought afterwards, that it was bright at

2386
01:49:38,572 --> 01:49:43,093
Speaker 9: the laugh and I thought, you retrospects these days, you

2387
01:49:43,213 --> 01:49:46,213
Speaker 9: probably pay for a ride like that exactly.

2388
01:49:46,532 --> 01:49:50,812
Speaker 2: The Valiant has come up in a few dodgy hitchhiking story. Yeah,

2389
01:49:51,013 --> 01:49:53,252
Speaker 2: Chrysler Valiants, dodgy cars.

2390
01:49:53,732 --> 01:49:57,053
Speaker 3: Beautiful vehicles though, absolutely, Mike, thank you very much for

2391
01:49:57,093 --> 01:50:03,093
Speaker 3: giving us a buzz uh Khan, How are you mates? Yeah,

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01:50:03,173 --> 01:50:06,572
Speaker 3: good guys, goods and what's your story?

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01:50:08,893 --> 01:50:10,852
Speaker 4: So I think I've picked up So there's a lot

2394
01:50:10,893 --> 01:50:14,852
Speaker 4: of what people saying that's true. If I if I

2395
01:50:14,893 --> 01:50:16,812
Speaker 4: come across somebody sitting on their bag on the edge

2396
01:50:17,013 --> 01:50:20,772
Speaker 4: on the edge of town and not walking, not picking

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01:50:20,812 --> 01:50:25,893
Speaker 4: them up. If they're walking, absolutely pick them up. It

2398
01:50:26,013 --> 01:50:28,812
Speaker 4: depends with the quie like like there's a couple of

2399
01:50:28,933 --> 01:50:34,852
Speaker 4: years on, I was hitching to Telpo and I got

2400
01:50:34,973 --> 01:50:41,132
Speaker 4: just out of token roller. Four young fallows in an

2401
01:50:41,572 --> 01:50:46,612
Speaker 4: old ship box car. Pick me up by getting the

2402
01:50:46,692 --> 01:50:52,812
Speaker 4: bag drinking and homebrew whiskey, and it's smoking the stuff

2403
01:50:52,853 --> 01:50:56,612
Speaker 4: as well. I have a certainly carry on. We can

2404
01:50:56,652 --> 01:51:00,412
Speaker 4: cat the cops to five minutes later, the drivers doesn't

2405
01:51:00,492 --> 01:51:03,452
Speaker 4: have the he's got to ruin a license, the cotton

2406
01:51:03,492 --> 01:51:07,852
Speaker 4: nose and the nose. All four of them asked, who's

2407
01:51:07,933 --> 01:51:11,053
Speaker 4: who's the someone with a full licens my car? So

2408
01:51:11,093 --> 01:51:13,452
Speaker 4: I put my hand up, So we all switching our seats.

2409
01:51:13,452 --> 01:51:15,692
Speaker 4: So I getting the driver's seat and dark down the

2410
01:51:15,732 --> 01:51:21,492
Speaker 4: road for ten minutes, Pet we saw sek rout.

2411
01:51:22,013 --> 01:51:25,173
Speaker 3: So when you saw these fellas they're all together, was

2412
01:51:25,213 --> 01:51:27,053
Speaker 3: that you just saw these four guys on the side

2413
01:51:27,053 --> 01:51:29,652
Speaker 3: of the road drinking home homebrew and you thought, oh, yep,

2414
01:51:29,732 --> 01:51:30,812
Speaker 3: these guys will be all right.

2415
01:51:31,973 --> 01:51:33,053
Speaker 4: No, they picked me up.

2416
01:51:33,372 --> 01:51:36,532
Speaker 3: Oh right, I got you. Sorry, Yeah, yeah, I.

2417
01:51:36,532 --> 01:51:39,412
Speaker 4: Was chosing so I had to drive in the concepts.

2418
01:51:41,372 --> 01:51:41,892
Speaker 3: So good.

2419
01:51:42,053 --> 01:51:44,293
Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you for your cal I used to hitchhike

2420
01:51:44,412 --> 01:51:46,652
Speaker 2: as a young woman in the late nineteen seventies early

2421
01:51:46,732 --> 01:51:49,173
Speaker 2: nineteen eighties, usually with a boyfriend. But I did hitch

2422
01:51:49,213 --> 01:51:53,052
Speaker 2: a loan from Rotrua airport to home and Totranger after

2423
01:51:53,133 --> 01:51:55,932
Speaker 2: UNI finished. If my daughter did that today, I would

2424
01:51:55,933 --> 01:52:00,492
Speaker 2: be free, doubt sus Mary Ann. Yeah, I don't know.

2425
01:52:00,572 --> 01:52:02,732
Speaker 2: I imagine your parents probably probably freaked out back then.

2426
01:52:03,013 --> 01:52:05,452
Speaker 3: Yeah, going back to your point, I mean, has much

2427
01:52:05,612 --> 01:52:10,133
Speaker 3: changed in that twenty thirty years realistically, you know, I

2428
01:52:10,133 --> 01:52:11,892
Speaker 3: mean a lot of people say if you're a young woman,

2429
01:52:11,973 --> 01:52:14,372
Speaker 3: never hit hike alone, and that seems like sound advice,

2430
01:52:14,452 --> 01:52:15,812
Speaker 3: but I don't know if much change.

2431
01:52:16,652 --> 01:52:18,452
Speaker 2: Hi, guys, I was hitchhiking the South Island at the

2432
01:52:18,572 --> 01:52:21,612
Speaker 2: end of high school, eighteen years old with another girl.

2433
01:52:21,612 --> 01:52:24,692
Speaker 2: This was nineteen ninety eight, at the exact time as

2434
01:52:24,692 --> 01:52:27,892
Speaker 2: Ben Smart and Olivia Hope went missing. We also got

2435
01:52:27,893 --> 01:52:29,772
Speaker 2: in the back of a van that trip with four

2436
01:52:29,812 --> 01:52:33,253
Speaker 2: guys or holding rifles, but they turned out to be

2437
01:52:33,293 --> 01:52:36,293
Speaker 2: pig hunters, so it was fine. Cheers, Cindy. That's a

2438
01:52:36,333 --> 01:52:38,492
Speaker 2: good If you get in the back of a van

2439
01:52:38,572 --> 01:52:40,293
Speaker 2: and there's four guys with rifles.

2440
01:52:41,013 --> 01:52:42,973
Speaker 3: Yeah, and a dead pig, then you're going to be right.

2441
01:52:43,053 --> 01:52:46,333
Speaker 2: Yeah, just four rifles, I don't know, dead pig strapped

2442
01:52:46,333 --> 01:52:49,012
Speaker 2: to the you know, the front of the car. Sweet

2443
01:52:49,013 --> 01:52:50,532
Speaker 2: air A Okay, you're good to go.

2444
01:52:50,772 --> 01:52:53,173
Speaker 3: Oh eight hundred and eighty. Ten eighty is the number

2445
01:52:53,173 --> 01:52:55,532
Speaker 3: to call. Will wrap it up very shortly. It is

2446
01:52:55,692 --> 01:52:56,253
Speaker 3: ten to four.

2447
01:52:57,732 --> 01:53:01,213
Speaker 1: The big stories, the big issues, the big trends, and

2448
01:53:01,452 --> 01:53:02,533
Speaker 1: everything in between.

2449
01:53:02,732 --> 01:53:05,412
Speaker 11: Matt and Taylor Afternoons with the Volvo.

2450
01:53:05,372 --> 01:53:08,293
Speaker 1: XC ninety attention to detail and a commitment to come

2451
01:53:08,412 --> 01:53:11,333
Speaker 1: that news Dogs edb news.

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01:53:11,093 --> 01:53:15,093
Speaker 3: Dogs V it is seven to four John, how are

2453
01:53:15,093 --> 01:53:15,852
Speaker 3: you this afternoon?

2454
01:53:16,732 --> 01:53:16,892
Speaker 6: Yeah?

2455
01:53:16,973 --> 01:53:19,372
Speaker 26: Good made a story about picking up a bloke. When

2456
01:53:19,372 --> 01:53:22,372
Speaker 26: I was on my motorbike coming back from Dairy Flat

2457
01:53:22,452 --> 01:53:27,772
Speaker 26: to Albany Winter's night Kennox Clock black Hairs and I

2458
01:53:27,812 --> 01:53:29,852
Speaker 26: went going along the road and I passed the motorbike

2459
01:53:29,853 --> 01:53:30,372
Speaker 26: packed on the.

2460
01:53:30,293 --> 01:53:30,892
Speaker 5: Side of the road.

2461
01:53:31,253 --> 01:53:32,692
Speaker 26: So I thought, oh, there's a bit of a code

2462
01:53:32,772 --> 01:53:34,772
Speaker 26: makes motorcyclist. You see someone on the side the road,

2463
01:53:34,772 --> 01:53:37,932
Speaker 26: you get back seat. You can help a big mingramob

2464
01:53:37,973 --> 01:53:40,852
Speaker 26: follow the big mary chip pitch and all. And I

2465
01:53:40,893 --> 01:53:43,732
Speaker 26: said which Robin Brown, he said, running out of petrol,

2466
01:53:44,093 --> 01:53:45,692
Speaker 26: said you want to listen? He said, well, my mates

2467
01:53:45,732 --> 01:53:48,293
Speaker 26: started walking. I said, oh, well, I'll go and see

2468
01:53:48,293 --> 01:53:50,013
Speaker 26: if I find them. So I went along the road

2469
01:53:50,053 --> 01:53:53,293
Speaker 26: a bit and in the dark there's another big fellow.

2470
01:53:53,772 --> 01:53:55,372
Speaker 26: So I stopped and I said, oh, and we're going

2471
01:53:55,372 --> 01:53:57,412
Speaker 26: and get some guests. So we went to the petrol

2472
01:53:57,452 --> 01:54:00,093
Speaker 26: station at the coach will turn off, and he got

2473
01:54:00,093 --> 01:54:02,412
Speaker 26: five leaders in a can, ran them back to their

2474
01:54:02,412 --> 01:54:05,572
Speaker 26: bikes and stayed there while left order up. We shore

2475
01:54:05,652 --> 01:54:08,133
Speaker 26: canes and I went on my way, so you never know.

2476
01:54:08,372 --> 01:54:09,892
Speaker 26: Good night everybody is bad.

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01:54:10,293 --> 01:54:11,892
Speaker 2: Yeah, good, good on you.

2478
01:54:11,973 --> 01:54:13,772
Speaker 3: Well, it's bloody lucky you came along, John, in the

2479
01:54:13,812 --> 01:54:16,052
Speaker 3: middle of the night. Gang member or no gang member,

2480
01:54:16,173 --> 01:54:18,293
Speaker 3: they would have been stuffed. If you hadn't come along.

2481
01:54:18,933 --> 01:54:20,852
Speaker 26: They would have And it was getting their closing time

2482
01:54:20,893 --> 01:54:23,452
Speaker 26: for the fuel and it was so black and they

2483
01:54:23,452 --> 01:54:26,612
Speaker 26: were in leathers they could easy I mean run over.

2484
01:54:26,732 --> 01:54:29,452
Speaker 26: I mean there's that straight below the dairy flat all there,

2485
01:54:29,492 --> 01:54:32,293
Speaker 26: the kids stores coast and people go along there like

2486
01:54:32,333 --> 01:54:34,053
Speaker 26: a bat out of hell. It would have been this

2487
01:54:34,173 --> 01:54:35,093
Speaker 26: was thirty years ago.

2488
01:54:35,333 --> 01:54:38,613
Speaker 2: It would have been unbelievably rubbish if after all that

2489
01:54:39,013 --> 01:54:41,573
Speaker 2: they had robbed you or something. Yeah, thank you so

2490
01:54:41,653 --> 01:54:43,253
Speaker 2: much for you call John, appreciate it.

2491
01:54:43,533 --> 01:54:47,972
Speaker 3: A few texts to wrap it all up, Guys, I'm

2492
01:54:47,973 --> 01:54:53,933
Speaker 3: an expert when it comes to hitchhiking. I think in

2493
01:54:54,053 --> 01:54:56,892
Speaker 3: terms of being friendly in New Zealand. It's different in

2494
01:54:56,933 --> 01:55:02,213
Speaker 3: terms of driving. Nope, if you tend to pick them up,

2495
01:55:02,213 --> 01:55:04,253
Speaker 3: you're a good New Zealander. That is what we love

2496
01:55:04,293 --> 01:55:07,213
Speaker 3: about this country. We should focus on being friendly to

2497
01:55:07,373 --> 01:55:08,253
Speaker 3: our guests.

2498
01:55:08,373 --> 01:55:11,812
Speaker 2: Yeah, there you go, Hi, guys. I hitchhiked around Ireland,

2499
01:55:11,973 --> 01:55:13,733
Speaker 2: and this farmer picked me up and dropped me out

2500
01:55:13,772 --> 01:55:16,693
Speaker 2: a pub in the middle of nowhere. It grew a

2501
01:55:16,772 --> 01:55:20,093
Speaker 2: holly tree inside from memory, and he raced home, put

2502
01:55:20,133 --> 01:55:22,573
Speaker 2: on his Sunday best, slipped his hair back, and came

2503
01:55:22,613 --> 01:55:27,613
Speaker 2: back and proposed marriage. And I said yes, well only joking,

2504
01:55:27,613 --> 01:55:29,932
Speaker 2: though it was really awkward. I had to send him

2505
01:55:29,933 --> 01:55:33,413
Speaker 2: on his way. He picked her up, went home, put

2506
01:55:33,453 --> 01:55:35,093
Speaker 2: on a nice jacket, slick to see back, and came

2507
01:55:35,133 --> 01:55:36,413
Speaker 2: back and promos.

2508
01:55:36,493 --> 01:55:38,253
Speaker 3: Boy, that was a lot of smooth dude.

2509
01:55:38,333 --> 01:55:39,733
Speaker 2: That was love at first sight for him.

2510
01:55:39,812 --> 01:55:41,892
Speaker 3: Here, Yeah, well done. That man didn't quite work out

2511
01:55:41,933 --> 01:55:44,812
Speaker 3: for him. Guys. I think we possibly are a lot

2512
01:55:44,853 --> 01:55:48,413
Speaker 3: safer nowadays. I think the fact that we can excess

2513
01:55:48,413 --> 01:55:50,533
Speaker 3: news readily and seal the things online all the time

2514
01:55:50,613 --> 01:55:53,333
Speaker 3: means that we think it is more dangerous. Reality is

2515
01:55:53,373 --> 01:55:55,733
Speaker 3: we all have smartphones and we can record things. We

2516
01:55:55,853 --> 01:55:58,613
Speaker 3: can let people know exactly where we are every minute

2517
01:55:58,613 --> 01:56:01,253
Speaker 3: of every day. Just pick up the hitchhiker, all goods.

2518
01:56:01,613 --> 01:56:05,973
Speaker 2: Oh, there you go. It's been an absolutely cracker.

2519
01:56:05,853 --> 01:56:09,533
Speaker 3: Yep, it has absolutely Now just minder on the show

2520
01:56:09,653 --> 01:56:13,373
Speaker 3: tomorrow Mark Vetti will be taking your calls and questions.

2521
01:56:13,413 --> 01:56:16,972
Speaker 3: He's an animal behavior expert and it was super popular

2522
01:56:17,013 --> 01:56:18,892
Speaker 3: the last time we had him on, so we're having

2523
01:56:18,973 --> 01:56:21,653
Speaker 3: him on for a whole hour tomorrow after three o'clock.

2524
01:56:21,772 --> 01:56:24,333
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, thanks for listening to you. Tomorrow AVU for

2525
01:56:24,373 --> 01:56:27,973
Speaker 2: another edition of Matt and Tyler Afternoons on zb.

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