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- 0:00Speaker 1: Today on the wild world we've been you're coming to
- 0:02Speaker 1: the party.
- 0:03Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Why is twenty and sixteen the year twenty
- 0:07Speaker 2: sixteen in a country in the world right now?
- 0:10Speaker 1: Welcome to the unchanged realm of the world's wide web,
- 0:14Speaker 1: a swirling vortex of weirdness, bullying, and self obsessed social
- 0:19Speaker 1: media posts in this digital jungle. Jhonleman being a your
- 0:24Speaker 1: fearless guys leading you through the wildest parts of the
- 0:28Speaker 1: wild wild Web. This is the wild wild Web.
- 0:33Speaker 2: Yeah, welcome along to another edition of the wild wild Web.
- 0:36Speaker 2: Will we say something at the starts that that sounds wild?
- 0:39Speaker 2: And today I've never seen anything wilder.
- 0:41Speaker 1: So there's a country right now. We'll get straight into it.
- 0:43Speaker 2: Rid of the plaster, because yesterday I came. I'm coming
- 0:46Speaker 2: hot off the heels of Meghan's ill. Facts from Eli
- 0:49Speaker 2: Musk yesterday.
- 0:49Speaker 1: Which they were astonishing if you'd like to recap.
- 0:53Speaker 3: So no one really knows where eels come from. They
- 0:55Speaker 3: don't have any reproductive order organs. Scientists find them hard
- 0:58Speaker 3: to study because they all travel to one spot to
- 1:03Speaker 3: reproduce a lot of them travel to the Bermuda Triangle
- 1:06Speaker 3: and then the ones down here travel to all one spot.
- 1:09Speaker 2: Out in the ocean and stuff to breed it, and
- 1:12Speaker 2: they can live for like one hundred years. At the
- 1:14Speaker 2: end of their life, they pretty much breed. So they
- 1:16Speaker 2: go home and they're probably exhausted for that long swim.
- 1:18Speaker 1: But yeah, where they come In fact, it feels like
- 1:22Speaker 1: a big end of life task that you're like, oh Jesus,
- 1:26Speaker 1: I've gone one hundred years and now need to give.
- 1:28Speaker 2: Birth birth and it is my last thing.
- 1:30Speaker 3: But does that also mean they're only doing it once
- 1:32Speaker 3: in their life?
- 1:33Speaker 2: Is a bit Well, who knows? No signs still haven't
- 1:35Speaker 2: that they don't know, do they? So you, yeah, have
- 1:38Speaker 2: you ever seen two eels make love? No? No, no no.
- 1:43Speaker 1: And then you had a theory that there was an enormous,
- 1:46Speaker 1: enormous meteor that landed in the exact location of the
- 1:49Speaker 1: Bermuda triangle thousands of years ago.
- 1:52Speaker 3: Well that was Elon's theory. And so like they were
- 1:54Speaker 3: wondering they did they come from there? Are they aliens?
- 1:58Speaker 2: Because that's meant to be like a place in the
- 2:01Speaker 2: ocean a where planes of crash and boats of sunk
- 2:04Speaker 2: and stuff like that.
- 2:05Speaker 3: Is it like a magnetic Actually.
- 2:07Speaker 2: Say, like I was on a boat that went through it,
- 2:09Speaker 2: but I didn't know to the next day someone was like, oh,
- 2:11Speaker 2: you know, last night we went through the Bermuda Triangle.
- 2:14Speaker 2: I was like, no, oh, you're fine, fine, yeah, but yeah,
- 2:17Speaker 2: I would probably be more nervous knowing about going through it.
- 2:20Speaker 2: That was not one of those ones where you're like, oh,
- 2:22Speaker 2: did you know, and I'm like, no, I didn't, but
- 2:23Speaker 2: we did.
- 2:23Speaker 1: But there's not like, sorry, we're getting caught on this again.
- 2:26Speaker 1: But there's not like a consistent like only a few
- 2:29Speaker 1: things have happened. I think it's not like every ship
- 2:31Speaker 1: that goes through sinks and disappears, right.
- 2:34Speaker 3: No, but there's been like multiple occasions of like ships
- 2:37Speaker 3: and planes and stuff going down in that area.
- 2:40Speaker 2: A few little things that happened from time to time,
- 2:42Speaker 2: And you're like, yeah.
- 2:43Speaker 1: How many ships and planes have disappears?
- 2:45Speaker 3: But right now it seems that sustains heavy daily traffic
- 2:48Speaker 3: both by sea.
- 2:48Speaker 2: And by years. Amount of times that people go through,
- 2:51Speaker 2: Like myself, fine, fine, oh fifty ships, twenty airplanes.
- 2:55Speaker 1: I mean that's a lot.
- 2:55Speaker 2: Yeah, but you're right in the grand scheme of how
- 2:58Speaker 2: many passed through. Yeah, so I said at the start,
- 3:00Speaker 2: and this is something that blew my mind. Now I'm
- 3:02Speaker 2: trying to get my head around it. But there is
- 3:05Speaker 2: and this is this is not like a clickbait thing
- 3:07Speaker 2: you will click on your goal. That was lies. There's
- 3:09Speaker 2: a country in the world right now that is seven
- 3:12Speaker 2: years and eight months behind most of the world. Ethiopia.
- 3:16Speaker 2: Now this is well, so in September the first this year,
- 3:20Speaker 2: Ethiopia will be going from twenty sixteen to twenty seventeen
- 3:25Speaker 2: the year. So they're behind. Now, how did we heet
- 3:30Speaker 2: what they're like? Yeah, the seven months eight months behind
- 3:32Speaker 2: the rest of the world.
- 3:33Speaker 1: Did we see them a calendar invite?
- 3:34Speaker 2: Well, so what happened is the birth of Jesus Christ
- 3:38Speaker 2: recognized as seven or eight years later and the Gregorian
- 3:42Speaker 2: or Western calendar, so it was introduced by the Pope
- 3:44Speaker 2: and fifteen eighty two he was like, this is where
- 3:46Speaker 2: the birth was. We're going to we're going to realign
- 3:49Speaker 2: all our dates to this and that's going to be
- 3:51Speaker 2: where it bring up the calendar. Everyone's going to see it.
- 3:53Speaker 2: And Ethiopia We're like, well, no, we don't believe that
- 3:55Speaker 2: this was quite the case. We'll continue on with our calendar,
- 4:00Speaker 2: and they have and since then they have and so
- 4:02Speaker 2: instead of jumping forward like everyone else, like seven eight years.
- 4:07Speaker 2: They just stuck with their calendar. So yeah, so the
- 4:10Speaker 2: rest of the world, I guess, had kind of moved
- 4:12Speaker 2: on or a lot of the other world kind of
- 4:13Speaker 2: moved on to another date, and they've decided to stick
- 4:15Speaker 2: with the ancient dates.
- 4:16Speaker 1: You know, we're going to go back to We're twenty seventeen,
- 4:18Speaker 1: are we going to go Is that the year?
- 4:20Speaker 2: Yeah, we will be twenty seventeen in September, so that's
- 4:24Speaker 2: They also have thirteen months of the year. They don't
- 4:29Speaker 2: have twelve months.
- 4:30Speaker 3: What's the extra month called, I.
- 4:31Speaker 2: Don't know, and the final months consists of just five
- 4:34Speaker 2: days or six days in Alypia, so really short. Last
- 4:37Speaker 2: month why happened number dialed? Although all the twelve months
- 4:43Speaker 2: last thirty days except the final one just five days
- 4:46Speaker 2: and all six days in Alypia.
- 4:48Speaker 3: So yeah, right, so you've gone back in time technically
- 4:52Speaker 3: if you travel to Ethiopia.
- 4:54Speaker 2: There's an article I was reading about it and they
- 4:55Speaker 2: were like, to be honest with the guy's living there
- 4:57Speaker 2: and he's like, we all kind of switched between the two.
- 4:59Speaker 2: If you haven't dealings with other place, it's like we
- 5:01Speaker 2: all kind of it's not like, oh wow, it's a
- 5:03Speaker 2: real it's probably like you just understand, like if you
- 5:05Speaker 2: talk to someone in Australia there's two hours difference. You
- 5:07Speaker 2: kind of yeah, we're not idiots, No, we can Yeah,
- 5:11Speaker 2: it's not like we're living like it's twenty sixteen.
- 5:14Speaker 3: Did you say that the last month only has five days?
- 5:16Speaker 2: That's what they said, Yeah, in this article.
- 5:18Speaker 3: Do you know what it's called? Pregume p a g
- 5:22Speaker 3: u me pegume, pergume.
- 5:25Speaker 2: December pregume and it's five You're like, what was you sure.
- 5:29Speaker 3: About five days or six?
- 5:30Speaker 2: And I'm going to go to the gym every day
- 5:32Speaker 2: this month. I'm going to quit booms for a month.
- 5:34Speaker 2: That's a great pregume. I do you know that would
- 5:39Speaker 2: be the month to get around here with their gay
- 5:40Speaker 2: You'd be like, you know, every day this month, I've
- 5:42Speaker 2: read a book. You're like, wow, that's awesome. You know,
- 5:45Speaker 2: so what are you trying to reach?
- 5:47Speaker 3: It took me that long to generation.
- 5:49Speaker 2: We'll do that this year five days Monday to Friday
- 5:53Speaker 2: and then parched on Sunday and then on Thursday Sunday. Yeah,
- 6:00Speaker 2: right then you get a drink Friday Saturday. Yeah, yeah,
- 6:02Speaker 2: it sounds fine.
- 6:03Speaker 1: I'm trying to call Ethiopia to see if we can
- 6:06Speaker 1: talk to you, but I'm having an absolute shocking to
- 6:08Speaker 1: be honest, So if you can.
- 6:09Speaker 2: Continue on with you with your band to Oh yeah,
- 6:12Speaker 2: I just thought that was.
- 6:13Speaker 3: Really It comes from the Greek word I can't pronounce it,
- 6:16Speaker 3: which means days forgotten when a year is calculated. So
- 6:19Speaker 3: that's why it's just like the extra edded days. John,
- 6:22Speaker 3: I'm trying.
- 6:23Speaker 1: Sorry, you know you're doing for Yeah, I know you're
- 6:26Speaker 1: doing really good. I'm going to take a quick break
- 6:27Speaker 1: from this. We'll be back shortly. Welcome back. What happens
- 6:32Speaker 1: if you sign a contract with someone from Ethiopia whose
- 6:36Speaker 1: year do you recognize, like an international say you're a
- 6:39Speaker 1: peach supplier.
- 6:41Speaker 2: Right, and then you yeah, that would be confusing. Yeah,
- 6:44Speaker 2: I guess. Yeah, there's this article sees they flip between
- 6:47Speaker 2: the two. It doesn't become much of an issue when
- 6:48Speaker 2: you're there, but you're right, it'd probably be one of
- 6:50Speaker 2: those things.
- 6:51Speaker 1: I'm sure there are a couple of Anyway, I've tried
- 6:53Speaker 1: to call ethiopiaccount sorry.
- 6:54Speaker 2: And you want to verify it. I mean, this is
- 6:56Speaker 2: quite a reputable news site that says it sounds yeah.
- 6:59Speaker 2: I thought it was. Well. You know, you feel like
- 7:01Speaker 2: you know lots about the world, and then all of
- 7:03Speaker 2: a sudden, you're like, okay, if you're going to pinpoint
- 7:06Speaker 2: a year.
- 7:07Speaker 1: One year that was like, jeez, that was a good year.
- 7:10Speaker 3: What are you going? I really shit?
- 7:16Speaker 2: Yeah. He's always have ups and downs, an't they? And
- 7:19Speaker 2: I never know, I always struggle to know exactly what
- 7:22Speaker 2: year things were too. Yeah, you know, like I'm never like, oh, yeah,
- 7:26Speaker 2: that year was two thousand and one, that was a
- 7:28Speaker 2: great I'm going to go.
- 7:29Speaker 1: Okay, So I was about eighteen or nineteen, so it
- 7:32Speaker 1: was the turn of the New Millennium, right, you know,
- 7:35Speaker 1: you're kind of fresh out of school, You've got all
- 7:37Speaker 1: your new found freedom, and I reme we went to
- 7:41Speaker 1: New Year's Eve at Mount Wong, and I had no accommodation.
- 7:46Speaker 3: You just sleep on the beach, didn't ended up those
- 7:50Speaker 3: sleept in a car on New Years even Mountain.
- 7:54Speaker 2: Sleeping bag in the car and a pillow. And you're like,
- 7:56Speaker 2: you're sweet, it's fine.
- 7:57Speaker 1: Yeah, you sleep in the boot like a kidnap victim.
- 8:00Speaker 2: And you're right.
- 8:01Speaker 1: And that's that's why I'm like, well, I wouldn't do
- 8:04Speaker 1: that now. I wouldn't go to mount with no plans
- 8:07Speaker 1: for accommodation.
- 8:08Speaker 2: But the more freeing sort of, isn't it.
- 8:10Speaker 3: I kind of think that's a good thing. We're messing
- 8:12Speaker 3: those days.
- 8:14Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, well maybe not messing them, but at the
- 8:17Speaker 1: time you're like, this is great, joling it, this is exciting.
- 8:20Speaker 1: And I remember the following year and my friend Johnny Humphrey,
- 8:23Speaker 1: we drove from Auckland, far far north and we ended
- 8:29Speaker 1: up saying on someone's.
- 8:31Speaker 2: Someone's my life.
- 8:32Speaker 1: We had no plans for They're like, yeah, come stay here.
- 8:35Speaker 1: And then one of the guys uncles, he made bootleg
- 8:37Speaker 1: vodka that kind of makes you go tip really blind.
- 8:42Speaker 2: That was unsafe, but yeah, I remember. But growing up
- 8:47Speaker 2: Marston and when I had my license, it was like
- 8:49Speaker 2: my friend was just like she drove to Wellington. You're like, yeah, okay,
- 8:52Speaker 2: same thing. Just didn't know what we're going to do.
- 8:53Speaker 2: It ended up sleeping in the car, like parked up somewhere.
- 8:58Speaker 3: I do miss no responsibility.
- 8:59Speaker 2: You're like, fun. Now, You're like, wow, that was so
- 9:02Speaker 2: for that period.
- 9:03Speaker 1: Go two thousand and two thousand and one and you're
- 9:05Speaker 1: kind of just getting into the workforce and you're like,
- 9:07Speaker 1: oh my god, mom, I'm on twenty two thousand, and you.
- 9:11Speaker 2: Make it work.
- 9:12Speaker 3: Just I remember getting paid three hundred dollars a week
- 9:15Speaker 3: and I my rent was two hundred and fifty. I
- 9:17Speaker 3: had fifty bucks to play with and Auckland and you
- 9:20Speaker 3: did it. It was like fuel and food. You what your.
- 9:23Speaker 2: Budget is, supermarket go around, you know, with a calculator,
- 9:27Speaker 2: what things and I couldn't do that, put this back
- 9:29Speaker 2: or whatever. You know, and you're here today.
- 9:31Speaker 3: You know, but you live on a lot of radio food.
- 9:34Speaker 3: Some changes to be radio like food and radio.
- 9:38Speaker 1: And party pills.
- 9:39Speaker 2: There's a little party part survived on those. Keep you
- 9:44Speaker 2: going for a couple days out eating. I think.
- 9:48Speaker 1: You could also sell CDs.
- 9:49Speaker 2: I used to sell so many.
- 9:52Speaker 1: I went down the Real Groovy at one point the
- 9:53Speaker 1: guys like, mate, we do not need any more.
- 9:56Speaker 2: Three doors down they're like, can.
- 9:59Speaker 3: You please just take your radio station sticker off them
- 10:02Speaker 3: before you give up, because.
- 10:03Speaker 2: You can go down there. You can get store credit
- 10:05Speaker 2: or what's more, or you could get you know, money,
- 10:08Speaker 2: you don't know, you.
- 10:10Speaker 1: Like forty like you'll give you twenty two bucks, give.
- 10:14Speaker 2: You like fifty dollar store credit. You're are you something?
- 10:17Speaker 3: You know, like, oh god, that's so sad. That's what
- 10:20Speaker 3: life was like a radio.
- 10:21Speaker 2: It was fun, it was fun. It was a fun time.
- 10:24Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, hey.
- 10:25Speaker 3: Mate, I just waved to someone outside of the studio
- 10:32Speaker 3: if you want who in? Hey mates?
- 10:34Speaker 2: Yeah, So yeah for that, there, I'll go.
- 10:37Speaker 1: That's sort of two thousand to two thousand and five wonderful, wonderful.
- 10:41Speaker 3: I was gonna go like when I got married or
- 10:43Speaker 3: when like my children are born. But you're gonna go
- 10:45Speaker 3: with that.
- 10:46Speaker 2: Okay, it's nice. You can go that, well, would you okay,
- 10:49Speaker 2: give us good things about that?
- 10:50Speaker 3: Then well the birth was horrific wing.
- 10:56Speaker 2: Okay, So just clarifying, you know.
- 10:58Speaker 3: Obviously didn't work out sick and winning was better, although
- 11:01Speaker 3: there were the kids there too, so you know, yeah, right,
- 11:04Speaker 3: you're never gonna you're never gonna have it perfect.
- 11:06Speaker 1: But you go every I guess if you look at
- 11:08Speaker 1: every chapter in your life, there's great highlights. Like when
- 11:12Speaker 1: you do meet to your start a family, you're like
- 11:14Speaker 1: exhausted and tire, but you're like you get through it
- 11:16Speaker 1: and you do it and you appreciate it.
- 11:18Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 11:19Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, that just gets better and better.
- 11:22Speaker 3: They can be high highs and low lows and one
- 11:25Speaker 3: year you.
- 11:25Speaker 1: Wait till you know best, and I are sort of
- 11:28Speaker 1: living forteen. You've got a whole different relationship with your kids.
- 11:31Speaker 3: Then yeah, it's what good or bad?
- 11:33Speaker 1: Great? Great? Well, we're very lucky, I know, I see
- 11:35Speaker 1: In as a lovely young girl, as is Indy Ben's daughters.
- 11:38Speaker 1: I'm very blessed to with two good kids.
- 11:40Speaker 2: But you know, you just yeah, yeah, I mean you
- 11:44Speaker 2: hope that we look at everyone's childhoods as well. You know,
- 11:47Speaker 2: growing up there's obviously things that are good and things
- 11:49Speaker 2: are bad that you know, Yeah, the way you navigate
- 11:52Speaker 2: through those those teenage years.
- 11:54Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean we've probably still got the wilds make
- 11:58Speaker 1: your way through.
- 11:58Speaker 3: But do you find like, having your kids older than mine,
- 12:02Speaker 3: I feel like every every moment in their life, people
- 12:05Speaker 3: have been like, you wait, it's going to be it's horrendous,
- 12:08Speaker 3: like when they're born, horrendous when they are too terrible toes,
- 12:12Speaker 3: horrendous like the three ages. And I'm like, I don't
- 12:16Speaker 3: think it's been that bad. I think that maybe people
- 12:19Speaker 3: just talking hard.
- 12:22Speaker 2: But then maybe something a kids different and stuff too,
- 12:25Speaker 2: you know, But.
- 12:26Speaker 3: Like, do we have a tendency just to focus on
- 12:28Speaker 3: all the niggy stuff. Maybe when you become a when
- 12:31Speaker 3: you get pregnant, everyone's like, oh the burden, all these
- 12:34Speaker 3: terrible stories, and then bit a bank your sleep, You're
- 12:38Speaker 3: never going to sleep again, and it's just like, oh
- 12:40Speaker 3: my god.
- 12:40Speaker 1: Let's focus on the positive stuff. And then when they
- 12:42Speaker 1: when the negative stuff comes up, you're like, well, I
- 12:44Speaker 1: did no one tell me about.
- 12:49Speaker 2: Rainbows a parking ticket?
- 12:53Speaker 1: No, no, this is good, A good letter from usually
- 12:57Speaker 1: when a leader comes from. So renew your bloody just
- 13:03Speaker 1: a run of the mill tickets done well without tickets
- 13:06Speaker 1: for the last month or so. I did go down
- 13:09Speaker 1: bloody bust lane the other day, not intentionally. I turned
- 13:12Speaker 1: like I got in there just a teared too early
- 13:15Speaker 1: to turn left.
- 13:15Speaker 2: Yeah, gotcha.
- 13:17Speaker 3: Can you not argue your way out of that one?
- 13:19Speaker 3: Because some of those ones, they.
- 13:22Speaker 2: It's like a certain.
- 13:24Speaker 3: And then it turns into a turning lane. It's like, well,
- 13:26Speaker 3: I need to go down there.
- 13:27Speaker 2: You've got a fifteen. You can't do it until it's
- 13:30Speaker 2: good to know. Yeah, you can't just go see your
- 13:36Speaker 2: like you can you know down there about four K
- 13:43Speaker 2: what you do?
- 13:44Speaker 1: So, yeah, I'll be expecting that one to come out. Hey,
- 13:47Speaker 1: but you're not getnything else stand for the.
- 13:48Speaker 2: Old that's good Ethiopia. Hey, so shout up, they'll be
- 13:52Speaker 2: getting this one in eight years time, this podcast that
- 13:55Speaker 2: we're coming out. Oh wow, but there history books.
- 13:58Speaker 1: Sorry to go back around the history books to be like, okay,
- 14:02Speaker 1: Donald Trump was a lead to president, so that's happening in.
- 14:05Speaker 2: Yeah, how does that work years?
- 14:06Speaker 1: Do they acknowledge that years behind the rest of the world.
- 14:09Speaker 3: Maybe they have like a signal for like everywhere else,
- 14:13Speaker 3: you know.
- 14:14Speaker 2: A word like everyone else is having it in the.
- 14:18Speaker 3: Yeah, when was he twenty nineteen?
- 14:21Speaker 1: What if they call us all the idiots, the other idiots,
- 14:23Speaker 1: we're having it in twenty.
- 14:25Speaker 3: Yeah, Ethiopia time twenty eleven.
- 14:29Speaker 1: That's probably what they put after, you know how you
- 14:31Speaker 1: do the GMT in the year you're right.
- 14:33Speaker 2: I think also in this article too, which is kind
- 14:34Speaker 2: of call that kind of like because they weren't formed.
- 14:37Speaker 2: The article was saying colonized and all this, you know,
- 14:39Speaker 2: like she switched over to the calendar the Western they
- 14:41Speaker 2: kind of take it as like, oh, this is our thing,
- 14:43Speaker 2: this is you know, we're you know.
- 14:45Speaker 3: It's like Adelaide. But it's half an hour.
- 14:47Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right, which is Yeah, it's like we haven't
- 14:49Speaker 2: been taken over by the thing, and why should we
- 14:52Speaker 2: change now like them.
- 14:54Speaker 3: Yeah, it's definitely not annoying at all for anyone else.
- 14:57Speaker 2: You know, did you have even come up in your
- 15:00Speaker 2: life like until now.
- 15:04Speaker 3: At all?
- 15:05Speaker 2: Day to day you keep being you. Yeah, I