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Fleshwater and Haley's Little Bit of Pod.

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Welcome to A Little Bit of Pod.

I've received some correspondence from my mother-in-law in the last week and I always

say to her, don't hesitate and I won't judge you because I'm trying to keep my older people

safe from scams.

Yeah, nice.

There's an underlying theme reason though, isn't there?

Why?

She wants inheritance.

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

Because if some scammer comes in and gets it all, what's in it for me?

Yeah, you don't get any of it.

No, I get.

Yeah.

Well, she messaged last week saying, do you think this is legit?

And I was like, that is so weird.

Let me find the exact.

Because some of them are really like close.

Please call the Ministry of Justice about reparation that may be owed to you and then

a phone number.

And here's the case quote, this case number.

And I was like, don't click on it because I didn't know it came through iMessage.

Yeah.

And you know how you can just click on the number and it will dial it for you?

Yeah.

I was like, don't click that actually dial it by hand because I said that is the

Ministry of Justice's number.

But what would you be owed reparations for?

So I was like, don't give them any details, bank details.

And she's like, well, I'm going to call the number and quote the thing.

So it turned out she was robbed.

A house that she owned was robbed like six years ago.

Oh yeah.

And she was owed 200 bucks.

Because.

Is she going to get it?

Yeah.

A dollar a week?

No, I think it was not.

God.

I don't know.

It was like the insurance excess right at the time.

Yeah, right.

It was what she was being.

Also, it wasn't a scam.

No, it wasn't a scam.

Oh my God, it straight up feels like a scam.

It 100% felt like a scam.

But I googled the number and it all checked out.

Maybe I'll give this guy from Namibia a real go then because I was a scam.

But if it's not.

Google is number good McCall.

Yeah.

Yesterday I got one saying.

This is your mother-in-law.

This is my mother-in-law.

I'm in Christchurch and I'm ages away from my hotel.

I've just downloaded the Lyme scooter app.

Do I just find a scooter, scan it, and then write it, and then just jump off it

when I'm outside the hotel?

No.

And we're going to scan off it.

Yeah, I see.

Scan the QR code to start it.

And then when you get off in the app, you can click and write in the app.

Does she use Uber?

Because you just use the Uber app now.

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's in the same app, yeah.

She said, you don't have to wear the helmet, hey.

I said, you don't have to, but please do.

Please do, because it's your first time.

Only how parents go full circle, wear your helmet.

Yeah, wear your helmet.

And then I...

I'm not wearing a helmet.

Told Shade and her granddaughter, and Robin's granddaughter is what she was doing.

And they were all like, no, no, no, no, no.

This is the woman that falls off everything.

She should not be on the line, she shouldn't be on the line, scooter.

I said, I believe in you, but your daughter and granddaughter's are screaming

tell her not to, she can't do it.

She's like, I'm not walking miles back to my car.

Then she called me.

Uh-oh.

And she's like, what's going on?

It's beeped and it sung me a little song and it says that it's unlocked.

And I can see the time are going up, but nothing's happening.

I was like, you gotta push, you gotta push off.

Yeah, push down.

And she's like, well, I can't be on the phone and do that.

I'll call you back.

Yeah.

And then no call back.

She's dead.

And I was like, I should have said, like,

because no call back, as you say, could be it's all going well.

I'm on the road or I've gone right out in front of a truck.

Yeah.

And then anyway, she messaged me saying, I got it.

I did it.

Hooray, I did it.

Now, how do I stop this?

Oh, my God.

And I said, and it's checking up money.

Yeah, and bride.

And yeah, she said it was a wonderful success.

Oh, first, like public school, because that we call them Lime Scooters,

but they're around the world.

They're just like public, different brands, a different type of public transport.

Yeah.

But she survived.

That's pretty good.

So you reckon you'll encourage this or discourage?

See, Christchurch is the perfect city for Lime Scooters.

That's what I said to her.

I said, you're not going to get a better city than Christchurch.

And all the new footpaths, the new cycleways.

Yeah, I put my mum on when an Auckland, she was like, feels dangerous.

I was like, oh, it is.

Oh, yes.

It is.

You've got to have a lot of confidence.

It certainly is.

See, my dad could do one, but Christine wouldn't want to.

I can imagine beer on a Lime Scooter.

Christine would probably happily get on a Lime bike, though.

Oh, yeah.

She's just a bike.

She should be able to do that.

Yeah.

And then at the end, of course, she would stop the ride there,

throw it in the ocean.

Yeah.

She was a punk like that.

She was punk.

She was an old punk.

Would Bev do a scoot?

Couldn't imagine Bev doing a scoot.

I could imagine Bev doing a bit of a scoot.

Maybe.

I feel like Bev would only now do a scoot,

because you've just doubted that she could do a scoot.

Yeah, she's just like, I'm going to get on the scooter.

She would prove you wrong.

Yeah, she would.

But just be bloody careful out there in a kind reminder to never, like,

judge or be sarcastic when an older person asks about something.

Teeth.

Because A, that's going to be you one day, and B,

they won't come to you next time when they click the link for the Nigerian prince.

It's too late when all the inheritance has been sent over to some bloody scammer.

When they think they're in a relationship with Dermot Sweeney or whatever that guy's name was.

At least the prince, the Nigerian prince, is a relative.

Because mine's my uncle.

Yeah, yours is actually your uncle, isn't it?

So crazy that I'm so white.

Yeah.

Didn't come from you.

He married into me.

He married in, yeah.

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