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Welcome to

Please, we must start the podcast today with a three-way tongue lashing.

Three, two, one.

Can you imagine that? Can you imagine it down there? Can you imagine it down there?

Welcome to A Little Bit of Pod. Can I say, Haley has been spending all morning watching videos of

Green Party member Chloe Swarbrick. You've got the hardest crush on her.

Oh, I've got a hard something for her. Sorry, that is so inappropriate.

Now, if I'd said it, it would have been worse.

I know, sorry, Chloe.

But yours is just questionable.

Yeah, I've got hard respect for her.

Yeah, that's what you meant.

Okay, that's what you meant.

Yeah, right, okay.

I thought you had respect for her with short hair, but it turns out the longer hair is making

you. The longer hair, the more the respect.

The harder the respect.

Now, yesterday we also did a little follow-up, didn't we?

That's right. We read some, yesterday's A Little Bit of Pod, so again, today's

Little Bit of Pod is sort of a carry-on from The Big Pod, where we did a phone and

type of an impossible phone, which turned out to be highly, highly probable.

Highly possible, yeah.

Highly possible. Have you been helicoptered out?

And some amazing stories that we just simply did not have time for on the radio.

We just didn't. We ran out of time.

We had to be out by nine o'clock.

So we thought we'd do them now as a bit of an extra for today's Little Bit of Pod.

Because it's so interesting.

I'm just going to go through them as they sit in the text machine.

We got helicoptered out of Anapuri Base Camp when my 17-year-old daughter decided not to

use sunglasses because they didn't look cool in photos. She went snow-blind.

What's snow-blind?

She got helicoptered out because she couldn't see to walk over the avalanche traverses.

Yeah, that's just too white.

Just too white all day bright, and your eyes are just like too much.

Burned your eyes out.

Shut down.

Oh my goodness.

Shut down.

Oh my god.

Sunglasses do look cool in photos.

Yeah, like sunglasses hide half of your minga face.

Oh yeah.

The bigger the sunglasses.

I thought I was like, Anapurta, I'm saying that Maori, but Anapurta is the base camp, isn't it?

Yeah, base camp of Everest.

Everest. Yeah, it's in Nepal.

It's the 10th highest mountain in the world, Anapurta.

That's a bloody amazing spot anyway.

I want to go one day. It's so beautiful.

Yeah, I'm not going up the mountain though.

I'm getting tired.

I'm getting tired.

You get Sherpas.

Okay, no interest in going up the mountain.

Zero interest in going up Everest.

People just die all the time.

I don't want to go to the top, but I'd go to base camp.

I'll go to base camp.

Yeah, I'll go for a look at base camp.

And my mother-in-law's been in Nepal.

Actually, speaks very highly of it.

A friend of mine, he went and broke his ankle, had to get helicoptered out.

He left it out.

Yeah.

Geez Louise.

Speaking of.

High team razor here was working in forestry when the wire rope on our cable hauler broke.

No.

Hit me across the chest.

Dude, it is lucky I didn't slice you in half.

Oh my God.

Those high tensile cables.

That's the equivalent of one of those cheese cutters.

You know, with the little wire to scale.

And so you are a block of cheese.

Oh my God.

You're a block of very soft cheese.

This is some Final Fantasy.

Not Final Fantasy.

Final Destiny.

It is.

It's Final Fantasy 7, where one of the finishing moves is also getting cut in half with a cable hauler.

So hit me across the chest, broke a collarbone, six ribs,

muscle damage, whiplash, and blew me back so hard.

Wow.

Swelling in the neck.

They thought I was literally going to die.

They helicoptered me out, took two months to recover.

Oh my God.

The longest.

Carried me 500 meters up the hill to where a helicopter could land.

Carp I enjoy the day, razor.

You're lucky to be alive and lucky to have like work mates.

Crazy razor.

I couldn't carry fletch 500 meters.

Could I be fucked?

I wouldn't.

I could, but I wouldn't.

I could now, not six months ago.

You'd be whinging.

Oh my ribs.

No, I would carry you, but I would be fucking whinging the whole way.

Jesus God, man.

Lay off the scones.

I was over in Afghanistan.

Afghanistan.

Afghanistan.

Afghanistan.

When I was 20 in the New Zealand Army, had to be helicoptered out and rescued after our

highlights rolled down a cliff.

Jeez Louise.

They love the highlights.

They love the highlights over there.

And the stars.

All the stars love the highlights.

My mum went to Fjordland for a social club on the second day and flash floods.

Meaning they couldn't get out.

They're ready to supplies.

They had to be chopped out.

Yikes.

That's one thing I hadn't considered.

Lots of stories coming in about being somewhere.

Flash flooding or like a river just starts rising like crazy.

And the only option is helicoptering you out.

My partner broke your leg on a family hike with our five kids aged two to 12 and

they need to get air left out.

Jeez.

Like walking out.

Kids would be whinging the whole time.

Oh, so I see people like taking their kids hiking.

Like fuck, they just whinge the whole time.

Oh my God.

Leave them at home.

Look in the car.

Crank a window.

Had a home birth.

I was told baby and I need to go to hospital.

We were in an ambulance for all of two minutes to be told no.

We're taking the helicopter.

I was so high from just having my baby.

I just went with whatever.

The midwife took some photos for me,

which then uploaded a week later to show my friends that I went in the helicopter.

They were all worried about how hot the medical staff were standing outside the helicopter.

Yeah.

Helicopters, they add a certain hotness.

Don't they?

They do.

They do.

There's definitely a bit of sexiness.

I was at the Duke of Ed camp.

Tramp with my naughty kids.

With my, was it the naughty kids?

Oh no, that was the leadership kids.

No, what was not the Duke of Edinburgh?

The other one.

We've talked about this before.

No.

You're thinking of periodic detention.

No, the outdoor one that they'd send kids and they've got to sleep alone in the forest.

Oh yeah, what was that called?

That's where you want to leave the kids for lighting fires, eh?

Alone in the bush.

That wasn't for naughty kids.

It wasn't ours, was it?

Yeah, then it became leadership.

I fell over, hit my head on a rock, got knocked out,

so they caught a helicopter to come and get me as we're in the middle of nowhere.

I posted a photo on my Bebo.

That gives you the time.

Jesus.

On my swollen and bruised face a couple of days later,

not sure what possessed me to do that,

and a boy I liked commented on it and gave me his Bebo love for the day.

15 years later, we're married with a baby.

Oh, beautiful.

Oh, the pussy.

Oh, copter, bitch.

Beautiful.

That's good.

That's stunning.

Yeah.

That's a sexy story.

My partner was once lifted out due to bursting a ball of horse.

Yeah.

Yeah.

He was seriously life threatening and he was in surgery within the hour.

He has a nickname lefty and the horse is now known as nutcrushing.

Oh my god, bursting, like her dick.

I don't like, I've only ridden a horse once, I don't like it.

It's fun, but I don't have balls.

They're too powerful.

Oh yeah, you'd slip a lip.

Yeah.

I was on a family holiday off an island, off Tauranga.

The island was having a bee problem.

I was chugging the rest of my drink.

I didn't realize there was a bee in the bottom of it.

The bee stung me deep in my throat.

And I had to be helicoptered to the mainland as I could not breathe.

Turns out I met the helicopter driver, I think you mean pilot, four years later.

And we're now friends.

Oh, cute.

My partner was chopping out of the Wi-MAC.

The Wi-MAC, that'll be up.

That'll be up.

Yeah.

A river bed after putting a stick through his neck while motor biking.

He hit a tree.

Yeah.

Oh my god, yuck.

Some people just get so close to dying.

It is so weird.

I've never been that close to dying.

Oh, there's a stick in my neck.

Oh, yeah, I know a stick.

And if you look down and you're like, oh, fuck, no, no.

Don't pull it.

Do not pull it.

My dad got helicoptered off Carwell Island

when he fell and hurt himself playing beach cricket.

I mean, you've got to come up with a big story.

That's embarrassing.

Yeah.

Dad didn't want to be out, so he did a dive and he hurt himself.

My dad rolled his tractor nine times down a hill

and had to be helicoptered to the hospital,

but kept being like, no, no.

God, you're going to.

Yeah.

And we will now watch this.

Watch this.

We will now pause momentarily for a commercial break.

We'll be right back.

I was just going to say, let's wrap it up there.

Oh, no, I got more.

Great stories.

Oh, OK.

All right, we'll be back then.

People will be back.

Yeah.

I feel like now you've said you were going to wrap it up.

People are going to feel like they're not going to be worth

listening to the other half of this.

It's good stuff.

I'm indifferent, I'll be honest.

It's good stuff.

I'll give you a little tease.

Oh, OK.

Yeah, this is good.

After the break, a boulder fell on somebody.

Well, that sort of tells you literally to see what happens.

Who did it fall on?

Grandma?

And welcome back.

And welcome back.

Is Grandma all right?

Grandma?

No, it wasn't Grandma that the boulder fell on.

My dad came on school camp, went for a walk,

he was showing off, climbed on a boulder,

he slipped off and then the boulder fell on him.

That's something you'd do?

Yeah, 100%.

I've got a big boulder falling on me at energy.

Energy, you do.

I got lifted out of a gorge while kayaking with two friends.

We're on the river, there was a flash flood that had been raining

and the river rose 10 meters in the gorge,

causing all kinds of mayhem.

I can only imagine.

Fuck, no way.

I was the only one that fell out.

I ended up on a cliff face as my friends ended up getting out

at the end and running along the top of the gorge trying to find me.

Found me halfway trying to climb a cliff.

I slipped and fell back into the water

and held onto something and waited for the Westpac chopper to arrive.

Type in Kayak Trio on the 28th of December, 2010,

and you'll find the article of me being rescued.

My mum had to be airlifted out when mountain biking.

She fell off and broke some ribs.

She was in the forest, so the helicopter had to cut the trees down

with its blades before.

That's not true.

That's not true.

You can't cut the trees down with it.

The helicopter cannot cut trees down with the blades.

If you've seen this, you are being lied to.

There is no way a helicopter could cut down.

It was a forestry helicopter and blades hung off the bottom.

What year did this happen?

2010, 28th of December, 2010.

Turns out there's been a lot of trios rescued from a gorge.

That's a terrible number of people to go into a gorge with then apparently.

2010.

No, I've got no articles here.

I've been lied to.

No, they might be lying.

What do they need to Google?

Type in Stuff, I say Stuff, Kayak Trio, December, 2010.

A simpletime.

Yeah, really well.

Oh my god, a simpletime.

Oh, here we go.

I found that.

I found that.

Three kayakers are lucky to be alive.

What gorge was it?

After court and surging water at the Otari River Gorge.

Constable Mike Stevens of Geraldine said the three 17 year olds, James Stephen,

Stevens, Nick Love and Leon Owens were all reasonably experienced but were lucky to get out.

I don't know.

And then there's one of them dangling off the chopper.

How could a 17 year old be reasonably experienced?

Yeah, I mean, maybe they did a lot of kayaking.

Kayaking, yes.

Yeah, yeah.

My friend was rescued after we went to Arthur's Pass of the Group.

Got completely drunk, played a follow the rope trail game in the bush outside our heart.

All got drunk and you've already established that.

And we were blindfolded and ran on me.

One person who organized the game was not blindfolded.

He got hit in the head and knocked out by a random falling tree.

Westpac Helicopter was called.

The funniest part was does anybody see what happened and out of 20 witnesses,

literally within three meters of her.

Not one of us could say what was happened because we were pissed and blindfolded.

Jesus.

There's another dislocated hip skiing.

I mean, I think a lot of stories are coming to us from the mountains.

Yeah, you gotta be careful.

Yeah, just stay at home on the couch.

Watch moving down the sling.

You will not need to be a helicopter rescued.

You might need to be forklifted out of your house eventually.

Don't just cut a hole in the wall and get a forklift in there.

Very versatile these days.

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