00:00:01
Speaker 1: One somebody else who's entertaining on the box again is Petty Gower?
00:00:05
Speaker 2: Morning, good morning, good morning, and so good to be on. How good? How's life down there?
00:00:11
Speaker 1: The year wonderful? Pretty cold? We're in the country. You did you get any snow?
00:00:16
Speaker 2: Well, no, I'm in Auckland. But I'll tell you what. It's not pretty tropical up here. And they're all winging and they're all windy, different how cold it is.
00:00:27
Speaker 1: It's actually that cold if it's on the Central rail Link. It's the weather. What is it about snow? Actually, because you're from a journalist background, what is it about snow that drives the journos absolutely mad? It's like catting it to the may Yeah.
00:00:40
Speaker 2: They go bonkers. And I used to hate it when I was a political journalist because there'd be all these hot stories on in Parliament, or so I thought, and then of course the snow would come along and no one would care about you for five days. Yeah, yeah, all of the news would be full of all the snow in the South Island, and you know, I'd look at it and think I had the best story in the world. And then someone's pushing a sled along some in town or kind of thing like that, and you're like, hang on, you know what's going on here? But I think you know, for New Zealander's weather is massive because so many of us live by the weather, so extreme weather is always of interest.
00:01:18
Speaker 1: It's not even that extreme anymore though, calling it a heavy dump in to need and it was light dusting. All good to know.
00:01:25
Speaker 2: That we love our weather and we love the pictures of people. And I think actually the shots of people's skiing and then't even were absolutely.
00:01:31
Speaker 1: That was cool to see last night, to be fair, Yeah, your mother nature of the great leveler. Well, following that, you're still tackling far more pressing issues and neat to see that you are back on the box. Season three have got issues. I have a love hate relationship with the show, I must admit. Just as I sit here and I start thinking about what a wonderful, we isolated piece of paradise we live in, all of a sudden you burst in and scare me with things like vaping and phone addiction and online gambling and now peptides. What are peptides?
00:02:02
Speaker 2: Yeah, peptides are. Peptides are a drug, and they're actually an legal drag in this country. At the moment. Their use for things though, like not for getting high, but for things like weight loss, tanning, glow ups, you know, to make your skin look good, and crucially injury recovery, recovery from injury, and people people inject them and import them from China. They're the latest craze and I can tell you right now they are absolutely massive in this country.
00:02:34
Speaker 1: Well, you can understand people being tickled by the idea, but when they've got names like Wolverine stack, surely that can't be good.
00:02:42
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, the Wolverine stack, which is actually more popular than a lot of people realize. It's called a stack because you put more than one pep tide together, you stack the peptides. So the Wolverine stack is named that way because of the Wolverine character, you know in the movies. It has these regenerating powers. And what happens with Wolverine is that it helps you regenerate. It tricks your body into thinking you need to do tissue rip per so it helps with injuries. So a lot of people when you deal and think the Weekend Warrior mate of viewers that's been limping around with a bad knee and that kind of thing they are turn into. These people who are best reated have tried everything else. Now for your way to jump on social media. Here's this new thing. It looks like a week's miracles, and other people bang, I'll order it in from China as.
00:03:33
Speaker 1: It sounds too good to be true. Often it is. You can hear the likes of Jamie's story that you followed last night with this episode that's now on demand through three Now and then the season to come. How many more episodes have you got and what other issues are you tackling?
00:03:48
Speaker 2: Yeah, so we're tackling. We've got eight episodes and we tackle two issues in the episodes. So last night was peptides and then issues around health insurance. But welling up with something next week on homelessness and homelessness in our regions. I'm not sure if you're seeing that down in South and maybe an Indicago or there's a bit cold. I have been up north in staring Array where it's a bit warmer, and a lot of homeless people have headed up there out of Auckland and whatnot. So I'll be taking Tackling Homelessness next Tuesday night. But all the episodes are available on three Now and they'll be coming out on socials and on stuff and all of that kind of thing as well. And I do recommend people watch the peptide issue because as you sit there, Jamie, she had lost a lot of weight. It's a cheaper alternative to the pharmaceutical weight loss drags like we Go Vi, which everyone has heard of. It's called RETA. I know they've got big fancy names, but these are unapproved medicines that are coming in from China. And do watch your story if you're worried about anybody you know who might be using these.
00:04:57
Speaker 1: Most of the time people just want a listening air. Have you turned into a bit of a pseudo counselor because of all this, Like, for instance, you got the supermarket and people just come up to you and go, hey, Petty, you want to do something. I'm a gammy elbow here.
00:05:11
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, No, I do definitely. When I'm out and about, the punters have always got good ideas for me of of of what things I should be covering.
00:05:19
Speaker 1: Any outlandises and what's that again, any outlandish ones.
00:05:23
Speaker 2: Oh, there's always something quite There's always something quite crazy out there. You've got to some of them. You you do know the people you need to get away from quickly.
00:05:35
Speaker 1: I've got to go. The wife's in the car's right on the side of your phone where you can make it stuck Wroing.
00:05:41
Speaker 2: I've got to I've got to go into a meeting. You're you're in the supermarket. Yeah, I know, I'm going for a meeting in Nile three.
00:05:51
Speaker 1: Well, I mean talking at dramatic tales. It is election yere, after all. Are we going to see you hosting any debates coming up? You've got any work out of this?
00:06:00
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not sure. I mean, I've hosted some debates before, but the media situation has changed a lot since the last of which, and obviously the company that I was working for, News Have, isn't around anymore. So whether I'll be involved in any debates, I'm not one hundred percent sure this time around. It'll be sad if I'm not, but I'll find another way to use my skills to help keyw What.
00:06:27
Speaker 1: About if you can't moderate them, join them? It is the year of the celebrity candidates Paul Henry's with Act, Michael Laws and Tane Randall with New Zealand First Wins. Your announcement coming.
00:06:36
Speaker 2: Never really that definitive, mate.
00:06:41
Speaker 1: Yeah, Petty for PM, Petty for PM.
00:06:44
Speaker 2: The roles of the time, good luck to good luck to them, make good luck to them. I would, I would. I can't say on radio what I'd rather do.
00:06:54
Speaker 1: You'd rather tackle issues, and that's what you're doing with the show.
00:06:57
Speaker 2: I would rather tackle tech issues every week Tuesday, Every Tuesday on three now
Speaker 1: One somebody else who's entertaining on the box again is Petty Gower?
00:00:05
Speaker 2: Morning, good morning, good morning, and so good to be on. How good? How's life down there?
00:00:11
Speaker 1: The year wonderful? Pretty cold? We're in the country. You did you get any snow?
00:00:16
Speaker 2: Well, no, I'm in Auckland. But I'll tell you what. It's not pretty tropical up here. And they're all winging and they're all windy, different how cold it is.
00:00:27
Speaker 1: It's actually that cold if it's on the Central rail Link. It's the weather. What is it about snow? Actually, because you're from a journalist background, what is it about snow that drives the journos absolutely mad? It's like catting it to the may Yeah.
00:00:40
Speaker 2: They go bonkers. And I used to hate it when I was a political journalist because there'd be all these hot stories on in Parliament, or so I thought, and then of course the snow would come along and no one would care about you for five days. Yeah, yeah, all of the news would be full of all the snow in the South Island, and you know, I'd look at it and think I had the best story in the world. And then someone's pushing a sled along some in town or kind of thing like that, and you're like, hang on, you know what's going on here? But I think you know, for New Zealander's weather is massive because so many of us live by the weather, so extreme weather is always of interest.
00:01:18
Speaker 1: It's not even that extreme anymore though, calling it a heavy dump in to need and it was light dusting. All good to know.
00:01:25
Speaker 2: That we love our weather and we love the pictures of people. And I think actually the shots of people's skiing and then't even were absolutely.
00:01:31
Speaker 1: That was cool to see last night, to be fair, Yeah, your mother nature of the great leveler. Well, following that, you're still tackling far more pressing issues and neat to see that you are back on the box. Season three have got issues. I have a love hate relationship with the show, I must admit. Just as I sit here and I start thinking about what a wonderful, we isolated piece of paradise we live in, all of a sudden you burst in and scare me with things like vaping and phone addiction and online gambling and now peptides. What are peptides?
00:02:02
Speaker 2: Yeah, peptides are. Peptides are a drug, and they're actually an legal drag in this country. At the moment. Their use for things though, like not for getting high, but for things like weight loss, tanning, glow ups, you know, to make your skin look good, and crucially injury recovery, recovery from injury, and people people inject them and import them from China. They're the latest craze and I can tell you right now they are absolutely massive in this country.
00:02:34
Speaker 1: Well, you can understand people being tickled by the idea, but when they've got names like Wolverine stack, surely that can't be good.
00:02:42
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, the Wolverine stack, which is actually more popular than a lot of people realize. It's called a stack because you put more than one pep tide together, you stack the peptides. So the Wolverine stack is named that way because of the Wolverine character, you know in the movies. It has these regenerating powers. And what happens with Wolverine is that it helps you regenerate. It tricks your body into thinking you need to do tissue rip per so it helps with injuries. So a lot of people when you deal and think the Weekend Warrior mate of viewers that's been limping around with a bad knee and that kind of thing they are turn into. These people who are best reated have tried everything else. Now for your way to jump on social media. Here's this new thing. It looks like a week's miracles, and other people bang, I'll order it in from China as.
00:03:33
Speaker 1: It sounds too good to be true. Often it is. You can hear the likes of Jamie's story that you followed last night with this episode that's now on demand through three Now and then the season to come. How many more episodes have you got and what other issues are you tackling?
00:03:48
Speaker 2: Yeah, so we're tackling. We've got eight episodes and we tackle two issues in the episodes. So last night was peptides and then issues around health insurance. But welling up with something next week on homelessness and homelessness in our regions. I'm not sure if you're seeing that down in South and maybe an Indicago or there's a bit cold. I have been up north in staring Array where it's a bit warmer, and a lot of homeless people have headed up there out of Auckland and whatnot. So I'll be taking Tackling Homelessness next Tuesday night. But all the episodes are available on three Now and they'll be coming out on socials and on stuff and all of that kind of thing as well. And I do recommend people watch the peptide issue because as you sit there, Jamie, she had lost a lot of weight. It's a cheaper alternative to the pharmaceutical weight loss drags like we Go Vi, which everyone has heard of. It's called RETA. I know they've got big fancy names, but these are unapproved medicines that are coming in from China. And do watch your story if you're worried about anybody you know who might be using these.
00:04:57
Speaker 1: Most of the time people just want a listening air. Have you turned into a bit of a pseudo counselor because of all this, Like, for instance, you got the supermarket and people just come up to you and go, hey, Petty, you want to do something. I'm a gammy elbow here.
00:05:11
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, No, I do definitely. When I'm out and about, the punters have always got good ideas for me of of of what things I should be covering.
00:05:19
Speaker 1: Any outlandises and what's that again, any outlandish ones.
00:05:23
Speaker 2: Oh, there's always something quite There's always something quite crazy out there. You've got to some of them. You you do know the people you need to get away from quickly.
00:05:35
Speaker 1: I've got to go. The wife's in the car's right on the side of your phone where you can make it stuck Wroing.
00:05:41
Speaker 2: I've got to I've got to go into a meeting. You're you're in the supermarket. Yeah, I know, I'm going for a meeting in Nile three.
00:05:51
Speaker 1: Well, I mean talking at dramatic tales. It is election yere, after all. Are we going to see you hosting any debates coming up? You've got any work out of this?
00:06:00
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not sure. I mean, I've hosted some debates before, but the media situation has changed a lot since the last of which, and obviously the company that I was working for, News Have, isn't around anymore. So whether I'll be involved in any debates, I'm not one hundred percent sure this time around. It'll be sad if I'm not, but I'll find another way to use my skills to help keyw What.
00:06:27
Speaker 1: About if you can't moderate them, join them? It is the year of the celebrity candidates Paul Henry's with Act, Michael Laws and Tane Randall with New Zealand First Wins. Your announcement coming.
00:06:36
Speaker 2: Never really that definitive, mate.
00:06:41
Speaker 1: Yeah, Petty for PM, Petty for PM.
00:06:44
Speaker 2: The roles of the time, good luck to good luck to them, make good luck to them. I would, I would. I can't say on radio what I'd rather do.
00:06:54
Speaker 1: You'd rather tackle issues, and that's what you're doing with the show.
00:06:57
Speaker 2: I would rather tackle tech issues every week Tuesday, Every Tuesday on three now
