 Hmm, hello, hello, hello. Random unplanned live for you today. I just had a meeting that for my training hub that I just don't think I scheduled it at a time where people were available. So I just decided I'm gonna come on here because I haven't done much with the YouTubes. And so I was like, okay, I'm just gonna go live because I'm like all ready to chat with people. So I'm here for you. If you want to join me, if you want to ask questions, if you want to talk about a topic, like let's do that. I also wanted to run some ideas past you. So yeah, let me see. Also, this isn't scheduled. So we'll see how good this works. Let's see. Sorry, I just wanna make sure everybody can hear me. I'm not in my office. Do you guys have like computer issues because I gotta get a new one? This one's driving me nuts. Like I was literally in a meeting yesterday, like Zoom meeting and it just went black, turned off, went black, couldn't get back on. Gosh, so okay, great. Thanks for letting me know you can hear me. So happy for you guys to put anything in the chat that you wanna talk about or questions that you have or content that you would like to see. Like I just thought I'd come on here for a few minutes and see if anybody was around. I know it's the middle of the day. So, well, depending on where you are. So if you are joining me, if you could let me know where you're from, I would love to know that. So I know like who's around when. So yeah, so it's just been crazy with technology for me. So good morning to somebody, to Sun Han. It's so, I don't know where you are, but yeah, I guess it's, well, it's 11. It's just after 11 here. It's beautiful sunny day in Wellington. So yeah, this isn't the best lighting. This is my husband's office because I don't know, nothing's working in my office. I don't know if you guys follow me on Facebook but that got hacked this week and hello, lower hut, nice. And so like literally got hacked. And I have like nine businesses under there and I have clients that I do like their social media for them. And so one of those got hacked and it wasn't good. It's not good. So I've literally spent hours. You literally cannot talk to Facebook. And I ended up behind the scenes getting into talking to somebody at my clients because hers is the business. And so they'll talk to people that are spending money, right? I do spend money. So I don't know what the issue. I can't even get in, I can't do anything. So if you follow me on Facebook, maybe moved Instagram. I talked to somebody yesterday, a formal report has been filed. And so I really think that I will get my back. And it's like, you know, because it's like your personal Facebook I've had for like 20 years. So like the history, the pictures, you know, it was very upsetting. So, oh, snowy freezing, Michigan. You live in Thorne and cool, cool. I'm glad that you guys can hear me. I know like this lighting isn't the best. I keep seeing weird shadows on my face. But so yeah, so just put in the chat if you want to talk about anything. Otherwise I just keep talking because I don't have a problem with that. So I actually wanted to run a couple things past you actually some pretty exciting things coming up that I'm not ready to talk about. But I will soon. Yes, 26 degrees Celsius in lower hut. So that's in the seventies, Fahrenheit. So very nice, very, very nice. It doesn't really get much warmer than that in Wellington. I was up in Mount Manganui this weekend and it was hot. It was like 27, so it was not much hotter than this. But, you know, I was outside all day not working. So I have a lot to do. My kids are still home. It's like, hey, hey, they're not a problem really. This is our older, but it's just, you know, like being in a house when like somebody is on holiday and you're not, it's not fun. Like I need to just like not be in the house. I have a couple meetings this afternoon, not here. So that should be good. Anyway, let me run some ideas past you. I put this out in my, yeah, Mount Manganui is amazing. Like literally guys, tears, tears when I was leaving because I love it. I'm such a beach person and this is like an amazing beach town similar to like where I would have traveled as a kid, but at a smaller scale of course, but just really great. The food was really good. Like everything was convenient. Everything was, I don't know, it was great. I had a great Airbnb. It was literally they just transformed like a garage. So like, like not the nicest building, but inside was really nice. The beds were great. I mean, that's really what you're renting, right? In an Airbnb, you're renting a bed. And so like, I don't understand how these people just buy these cheap beds. Like this is what I'm actually renting. Anyway, that's a different thing. Okay. So can you follow my train of thoughts? Here's some ideas I wanna run past you. So I'm thinking about some new content and thinking about doing, like maybe I'll go live, I don't know, weekly. I haven't really, sorry, I'm just reading a comment. Someone just got back from the States where leave they don't have corn syrup in all the food. I know it's so noticeable the corn. High fruit dose corn syrup is in like everything in the US and it's not good for you. It makes everything really sweet. So you'll notice in the States when you travel, everything's really sweet, really salty because yeah, probably because the quality isn't there. The produce, man, I was so frustrated in the summer. So it was summer. So it was like all the vegetables that I love and the fruits that I love were in season in the US and they did not taste good. I don't know what they're doing, but I was like, what is this? Like an avocado there compared to an avocado here? I made guac. I'm like, what is this? It has no taste. You have to like add like triple salt in order to get it to taste good. So frustrating. So speaking of that, my thought is I actually don't have ADHD, just so you know. As I feel like I'm all over the place, I just have a lot of tangents, but I'm on track mentally with what I'm trying to say. So basically thinking about like once a week, I don't know, maybe go live. I don't know, I haven't like worked on the details on YouTube where I would do like, so are you guys feeling like I should have brought it up here? Like I wasn't planning on doing it. The Edmunds Cookbook is like the cookbook for New Zealand. Like it's the famous book, right? So obviously the only thing you can use to cook here, but it's the famous one. And so I'm thinking about doing like working my way through the Edmunds Cookbook and just like recording me making New Zealand food. And I'm not going to edit it. It'll just be like, I'll probably do live because I don't want to edit it. Like the video editing I don't like. So and just be making the foods. There's so many, I go through the Edmunds, and I'm like, I haven't made any of this. So why don't I take you with me and make some of this? Probably we'll start with baking just because I love baking. But I guess I don't know how that's gonna work cause like you gotta have like the bake time and like if you're live. So anyway, I haven't thought it all through, but like, what do you think? Do you like that idea? Is that anything you'd be interested in? Yeah, like this would be in addition to my weekly videos, but like I was just thinking, need to do something different. You know, I travel videos. Like I'm just not a photographer, videographer. Like I don't care like if the video is perfect. So I'm not the best for that. Like I'm happy to do it. And it's just authentically the way that it is. I'm just who I am. So let me know what you think about that. Also thinking about doing now really be honest with me. I want you guys to be honest with me. Don't be nice. Okay, don't pretend that you want something that you don't. Okay, some people like the idea. The weather in Wellington is amazing. It's like beautiful and sunny. I should be outside doing this. Okay, so people like the idea. Here's another idea, idea number two. Okay, keep up, keep up. Idea number two. Of course, when I have vacation, I come up with all these ideas. So I'm thinking there has like been some scavenger hunts running around Wellington that there's literally thousands of people going to. And I was thinking I've had so many Americans come here. I've met with so many like probably 20 in the last month. And it doesn't have to be just for Americans but I was thinking a scavenger hunt, a Kiwi Americans scavenger hunt around Wellington, all my favorite places, fun little stories of things that happened in different places. Some of the cool spots that I think are great and maybe not well known. What do you think of that? It just could be like a thing on your phone. So like if you're visiting Wellington, it would be something that you could do, wouldn't be expensive. I've talked to some scavenger hunt app companies. I'm not trying to build my own app. So they do charge me for this. So it would be a bit of investment up front for me to do this. So that's why I just kind of want to know what you think of that like, I don't know. I kind of want to do it just because it would be fun and try it, you know, the big thing with the Pokemons and everybody's into that sort of thing. And there's two right now in Wellington that you can take like these little treasure hunts and like boring. So I was like, okay. So I just thought, ooh, that's fun. So like as people just like when they like somebody online, it's just like makes it a little bit more fun. And so then, you know, it's competition. Anyway, we don't need to keep talking about it, but yeah, and just show the best places in Wellington, you know, but it would be probably like, it would be like from my perspective, you know, and yeah, you know, like I would provide insight in there that I think that would be helpful if people were like visiting or moving, you know, travel tips, maybe. I don't know, like there's just like, my mind is like, because I was looking at those, everybody's doing them. And I was like, why isn't somebody that like people, you know, know, as opposed to these random, you know, here's a treasure hunt around Wellington anyway. Oh, okay. The Kiwi classic of the cottage pie, good idea. I have made cottage pie, but I don't know that. I don't actually, I have just made it my way. See, this is the thing. Like I think it would be helpful to do a show on cooking through the Edmunds cookbook and just getting a feel for how they eat here because here's the thing is, oh yeah, Pavlova, I make that all the time. How do they get the pumpkin so big in the US? How do they get everything so big? I came here and like apples are like this, you know, like this and like chickens are so small. And I was like, I have to get two chickens to feed my family because they're probably, you know, they're normal size and not fed and injected and whatever they are. So yeah. So anyway, I'm thinking about doing a live show going through the Edmunds cookbook and the scavenger hunt, let me know your thoughts. Happy for you to email me if you don't want to put on the live chat. I don't like this. That's fine. Or any other ideas you have. I'm just like, oh, the thing is, is like I have a bunch of marketing clients that I've been working with and that's good. But at the end of the day, like I just love doing my own stuff but it doesn't make me enough money so I can't. So I'm just like, oh, so I'm just trying to think of other ways to do that. Anyway, those are fun. Yeah. And any recipes that you want me to make first, like all you guys, like they have, what do you call it here? Oh, I can't think of it. Like instead of bars, like we would call them bars. I call them like, US versus New Zealand recipes for the same thing. Oh, that's interesting. Good idea. Like the US take on it, make lolly cake. Oh, slices, thank you. Slices, those are what I think of a slice. I think of a slice of pizza or a slice of pie and so that always throws me, but a slice. And then like, yeah, an American equivalent, that's interesting. Or, or I take the recipe and change it a bit. I don't know, is that bad? Should I not do that? I really like to kind of try it like the way that you like to eat it, I guess. But I don't know what would make the most interesting video. So yeah, I should just be like filming my YouTube video since it's Thursday already and I haven't done that. You should do a family cook-off. Oh, that's a good one. I was thinking of doing one with Christie. We should definitely do a live with me and Christie cooking something because she's hysterical in the kitchen. Like, you know, there still has to be a level of entertainment value. She's hysterical. So I gotta do that. I gotta pick a recipe that's easy because she is not a cook, not a baker and she's so funny. Oh my gosh, cause we could, cause you can do a Zoom and go live on YouTube with the Zoom, that's what we're doing. I'm gonna call her after this. That's gonna be so funny. But like her ingredients are gonna be different. It's gonna be funny. So I just don't understand how I'm gonna do the cook time. I don't know. So yes, Christie making kiwi food. I know it's so funny. Yeah, so, okay. So those are my ideas. Good feedback. Let me know what you think of the scavenger hunt. I heard a little bit. Sorry, I'm not keeping up. So yeah, so Christie would be funny with that. That might be fun content with Christie. Maybe I do the cooking with Christie. Hmm, she's funny. I have lots of funny friends, but she was the most, how do I say, physical humor. So I think that that's funny. So yeah, I'd have to send her an Edmunds cookbook. Another idea is the third idea. Could be ideas. So I'm pretty good friends with the USTU guy up here in Wellington who sells American food. And yeah, we've been talking a bit and thinking about, would you be interested in like a package of like all my favorite American foods from there? Like, I'm telling you what he buys. I've been telling him what to buy because he's a kiwi, doesn't know. And then like all like the best thing. I don't know. I think that would be kind of a fun idea. Like a boxed item of all my favorite treats from the US because I buy the same thing every time I cook. And it's not something that sells a lot because like you guys have different tastes. So maybe you wouldn't like it. I don't know. Maybe that's not good, but yeah. So that should be fun. I don't know if I could do all that cooking weekly. Oh my gosh. What was the last Edmunds dish that I cooked up? Ooh, good question. I do have a cookbook. I have like three of them, cold fish cookies. I have three of them. Like two, I got out the app shop. And then one, I just had to buy like, hello, hello. I had to buy like the most recent one. And so I have it. I gotta find it. Like you can tell I use it a lot because I go through it and I'm like, I don't know what that is. I don't know what that is. I guess that's interesting. Cause I'll be like, I don't know what this is, but we're gonna make it. You know, like I can look at pictures. So, and that's what, and that I do, but I just have no idea what it's gonna taste like. So the last thing that I made in there, like most things don't look good to me. The tastes are so different, even though I love New Zealand food. Just so you know, like on my trip, ate lots of pies on the way and on the way back. Like pies, sausage rolls. I don't eat too many of them because for obvious reasons, but they are. I love all the New Zealand brunch. Like I never really had like, when did they have the, oh my gosh, sorry, my brain. How's the weather here? Amazing. Beautiful, beautiful day, but I'm in here talking with you. So not sure what I'm doing, but thank you. Thank you for that. Eggs Benedict. I never really had that till I came here. That's, I gotta read the whole thing. I like it when they have it on the kids menu because then they just have like one egg but kinda need two eggs. Anyway, I don't normally eat breakfast so that's probably why. Hi, hi. So yeah. All right, so other questions that you have, I could just be talking about anything. I don't know if it's, hey, hold on. I don't know if you can tell what my hair's pink. Can you see some of the streaks? Pink streaks, pink streaks. Now, so I had a moment where you're at the hairdresser and I'm like, maybe I want some color. I'm sick of yellow, you know? And she's like, well, the only color I have is pink. And I was like, pink it is. And then I'm like, she has it in my hair. She's about to wash it out of my hair. And I'm like having that panic attack. I forgot that my job is creating videos. And then people are always looking at my hair. I'm like, well, what if I hate it? Oh my gosh, what am I doing? And so I had like a mini panic attack like laying there like this. So yeah, but it's fine. It's mild. Thanks, Benny and Mojo on Queen's Wharf. Oh, really? I have not had that. I'm writing that down. I'm writing that down. Mojo, Benny. Okay, I'm like so hungry, I can go right now. What do you mean I'm being a teenager again? Oh yes, with the red, the pink. Yeah, see, I never colored my hair as a teenager. So I'm just, I'm reliving the years. I'm reliving it. Your hair looks fine. Thank you, thank you. It is like white, you know, like my hair's normally like a yellow, so it is different. So it was a little bit of an adjustment, but I didn't really do it today. So sorry. I've been going to the gym. I have been every morning, so been good. It matches my youthful energy. Then I have, I do have energy. So yeah, I've been going to the gym, going to Les Mills, fasting in the mornings, so about two or so. It's been good. I feel really good. Mentally clear energy. But now I really want to extend it. But I got a meeting this afternoon. I don't have a car right now because my son is on his driving test right now, so. Okay, I have a question. Do you know what's the demand for manufacturing engineer in Australia, New Zealand? Manufacturing engineer, that's a good question. So you can look at the list on the immigration site where it has like the jobs and demand, and those are gonna be the easiest way to get here if your job is in demand. Okay, sorry, distracted. And so maybe, and somebody here that might know more about that would be helpful. So I'm hoping to create a community soon where everybody can be as questions and talk, and I'll tell you more about that when I get it all figured out. It's always everything. When you do everything yourself, it's like, oh my gosh. So demand for manufacturing, okay. Okay, any suggestions for a single guy moving to New Zealand? There's so much info on families, which is definitely great, but emotionally different. Totally true. So I have a lot of couch surfers or people that stay with me that are single and traveling through, and they're generally here just for a year. They're like on that working holiday visa, but some of them end up staying longer and they make friends. And so, yeah. So it's definitely common. I think that you would, if you, especially if you're staying at the hostels, you'll meet lots of people that you could travel with if you wanted to, but like I was just on a tour in Lake Terawira. And all those people were single travelers, but they joined a group. Oh, I wish I could remember. Oh, it was like Kiwi something. It was Kiwi something. And so they're all single, they're all for like mostly from Australia, Europe, US, South America. And they all kind of came and then they joined up the tour to do certain things for a couple of days and then you meet people but then you're still traveling on your own. So that's kind of cool. And so that's really, that was really cool. I liked all of them, but they're separate. But like, so you're still kind of doing the tour yourself but you can chat with people and meet people. But just honestly, my group was the finest group. Okay. How do you connect with family in the States? Do you have a regular time to check in with them? I have many friends. I wanted to stay connected. Okay, great. Okay, so how has nobody asked me this question? I literally don't think anybody who's ever asked me this question, maybe in the beginning. Okay, so Marco Polo. That's how I connect with people in the States. If you've never used that app, yeah, Marco Polo because the time difference, it doesn't work. And so like, when you want to talk to your friends they're asleep and vice versa, right? And so what's nice about Marco Polo, it's just video. So like, I'm in my car, I'm traveling someone I'm talking to somebody. I'm talking, I mean, me and Chrissy talk every day. Marco Polo. Obviously, you know, WhatsApp groups, we have like family, WhatsApp groups, family, like Facebook Messenger, whatever you want. We actually don't connect on Zoom very much because it's just, it is what it is. It works I think with one-on-one, but you know, like at Christmas, we're all on there, but like who's even talking and it's weird, but like, so yeah, I have really used Marco Polo like a lot. So I can, I leave a message for my mom. And so what's nice is that it's like email, right? Where you can watch it when you're ready to watch it and respond when you're ready to respond. I mean, you miss the back and forth. And so then for calling people, I think it's only like $4 a month that I get 300 minutes. I have two degrees. And, you know, so then I call people like I call my parents or whatever. So, okay, cool. Somebody said they connect with Skype because the clarity is better than Messenger and Zoom. So that's really good to know. That's interesting. I didn't realize people didn't use Skype anymore. So, okay, yeah. And so yeah, the timing in and out. So we use FaceTime. If we're gonna do it, we'll use FaceTime. But yeah, you know, it gets, you know that you do it a lot more when you first come and then it just kind of trickles off into nothing. My frustration and let me know that I've spent other people's experience because I'm curious about this is my family won't call me. To them, it's like overwhelming. The time difference, even though you can just say, hey Siri, what time is it in Wisconsin? And she'll tell you. And then you know if you should call me or not call me. But like, I always have to do the calling. I don't know if it comes with a little bit of like, I'm the one that left and so it's my job. Like, I don't know. Has anybody else experienced that? Because I'm like, like literally, if I don't call, there's no calling. Like if I don't make the effort. Sometimes I'll have friends reach out randomly but it's not consistent at all. So would be curious to know your experience without, sounds familiar to me. So I was like, okay. So I think it just kind of comes with that. And so you will probably have to make the effort to keep the conversation rolling because the relationships are important. They need to be maintained. And technology is amazing for doing that. It's just using it in a way that works for you, I guess. But yeah. So you just have like, and there's so many ways to keep track of what time it is in another country. But like people are like overwhelmed. Oh, is this a bad time? Yeah. And it's just like, okay. You just like check, you know, like, we have this constantly, like we could just ask you questions and it tells you. Oh gosh, true ball. Anyway, it's probably just my family. But even Christie, like just trying to get her, can you just call me? Well, I don't know what time that is. You're, yeah. Okay. So someone said their parents moved pre-internet. And yeah, that's much harder. So yeah. Like even when I left, I gave a little piece of paper to my family that says, you know, my phone number, but also directions on how to call it. You know how you got to enter the country code and how things are a little bit different. And I did the time, the best time to call, like I did it by season, winter, spring, summer and fall because of, you know, daylight savings, it changes. And so, yeah, I'm just like, okay. I wanna make a strong CV, yeah. So good, good question. I do have services on my website to help you with your CV. I also have templates that are really good. So check that out. I'm happy to help. If you have like questions, it's definitely a little bit different, the way that you do it, but generally if you're American, the way that you're doing your CV is already really good. See here. So really I created my service for people that are here because I literally had the worst time trying to hire people because I cannot hire someone who writes something like this. So bad. So I have a couple of templates that I think are the best and the way that you should do your cover letter. So check that out. Have I picked up any Kiwi slang words? You find yourself saying naturally. Okay, so I say cheers. Never said that before. Lovely, I have a lovely day. Never said that before. I've just started noticing it. I don't say I reckon, okay? I still don't do that. But like things are becoming a lot more comfortable. The sweet as, all of the as is after everything. Blally, like saying that word was like hard, but I'm saying it, like why am I saying it? Oh my gosh. You know, Togs, the name for things, the names that New Zealanders use for things I switched, right? New Zealand, okay, I'll check that. Yeah, just let me know, I'm happy to help. Okay, cheers is more UK. Yeah, so this is very British. So like if you want American, it's Australia. Tomato, tomato, like you guys say words wrong, like oregano is not oregano, is that what you say? Or adidas is not adidas, like what? It is actually the way you say it is actually correct. I don't look at that because I would kept making me so mad. Yeah, tomato, tomato, sauce, ketchup. So do you guys pick up any American slang from me? I don't know, I have the Midwest accent. So I was born in New York, so there's a little bit of the New York in there when I say certain words. But yeah, so, yeah, try to think of other words. If I saw a list, like then I would know off the top of my head, but yeah. So it's very British here, like I'm going to the UK for the first time in June. So I've never been there, I've barely traveled to Europe, I'm literally dying. Your Kiwi and Tog still sounds weird, yeah, it does. But yeah, so I'm going to the UK, I think it's interesting because UK has like the size of New Zealand but with like 60 million meters or something like that, like what is that gonna be like? What questions do Kiwis ask you as an American? Oh my gosh, so many questions. They just have a lot of questions about American culture because people see it on TV and they don't understand it. That's funny, sorry, what was I saying? Okay, so yeah, so I'm curious to see, I just feel like, I feel like I'm gonna feel right at home in the UK from living here, that's what I'm saying. When I went to Canada, so I moved here for two years, I moved back to the States and we had traveled to Canada for something and I could not believe how Kiwi that felt to me. It was so noticeable. I was like, oh my goodness, the words, the things on the menus, yeah, their process. I don't know how to explain it, but I was like, what? So I went to visit Spain, Greece, Italy. Oh, the, you know. Yeah, oh my gosh, I had, oh my gosh, I had this professor once that would say, and so you know, and so you know. I used to keep track of how many times she says it because it was so much, I couldn't hear anything she said, I learned nothing in that class. It's called, I'm a public speaking professor, so that's called a vocalized pause. So when you're uncomfortable with the pause, you fill it in with words and so many people just don't know how to do that. And so like to take them out or to be aware of it. And so I debated for a while or I would tell my professor and I didn't go over well. So there we go. You'd be a great U.S. tour guide for Kiwis or give newcomers New Zealand tours, I'm not sure what you're saying. You'd be great U.S. tour guide for Kiwis wanting to experience American culture. Yes, and I do do that. I have a lot of people reach out to me, hey, I'm Kiwi, I go to the U.S. because most of my audience are New Zealand Australians in charge money. I know, I need to charge money. My thing is, this is like, I'm trying to go to Europe this summer and I don't make enough. I mean, I have clients, I just have all these businesses growing. There's a patient side of it. There's whatever. I'm setting myself up in Palmerston North. Any thoughts or recommendations for them? So I'm not that familiar with Palmerston North. I mean, I like the city. I mean, it's like the college town or university town. And it's, it has everything, like it's kind of nice. I know people that really like Palmerston North. So yeah, but I haven't spent any time other than just visiting there. I spoke at the university a couple of times, but what's your favorite music artist band? Are you a good singer, playing the instruments? Oh, that's a good question. So if you go into my living room, we have a whole corner set up of instruments. We probably have four guitars, drums, keyboards, microphones, and then various random instruments. And so you guys can see the chat, right? So some other people are helping other people with questions. Hopefully you can see that. So my husband comes from a very musical family, like Ben and Vance, him and his brothers, and his dad, and not me. I took, what did I, I did like 12 years of keyboards. So I can read music and I can play it, but I don't like it. I hated it, like I hated it the whole time. So my kids are quite musical. And so we just have the instruments out so that they could just be playing and pick up an instrument. When you're bored, just do that. And they do, they've taken on new instruments. You can just YouTube how to play something or the chords or the notes for the songs that you like. And they do that, and that's fun, it's good learning. So yeah, they're way more musical than me. No, I'm not a singer, I'm a dancer. So yeah, and I always get myself in trouble when I say that, so I need to stop saying that. Cause people are like, you know, cause we have karaoke, it's a big thing in our family. And so if people are like, are you a singer? I'm like, no, I'm a dancer. And then they always make me dance and they're like, why did I just say that? So yeah, I've always been a dancer. Obviously not as much as I've got with art, but used to do it quite regularly. I need to get back into it. I love the salsa dances. I've never taken that. They have like classes in Wellington. How have I not done that? I don't know. But what's my go-to dance style? Hip hop is my favorite. If I was to sign up for a class, you know, I grew up taking ballet, tap jazz, modern, everything. But yeah, it was in kind of every type of dance that you could imagine. Zumba was, you know, like the exercise of choice when I had my kids. So yeah, it's fun. Okay, what are some small things that you found thrilling when you moved that you didn't expect? I feel like grocery shopping will be fun. Yeah, that was good comment about Palmerston North. So, okay, sorry, going back. Yeah, there was a lot of things that were thrilling. Okay, good question. Get off the plane. What is this place? Like you're looking around like it literally doesn't look real. It's so beautiful. It's like beautiful like you can't expect. Like my kids are completely ruined because we go back to Wisconsin and people are like, oh, the sun rise, the sunset. You're like, it's okay, it's so beautiful. One thing that's really noticeable when you first come is the clean air. I didn't come from like Los Angeles, like Polo Small or anything, but like the clean air is really noticeable. How clean everything is, is really noticeable. There's a calmness, a contentment. You definitely don't see that in America. I'm very noticeable when I go back every year. Yeah, people are unhappy, discontent. It would be the word that I would use. That's the word that I used. But here they are, they're kind of free, like not stressed, really nice. They have time for you. They ask questions, they sincerely wanna know, at least I think so. Yeah, thanks Joe. So yeah, so I'm just like, that's what's so noticeable. It's really noticeable, there's no chains. Okay, no chain restaurants, no chain stores. That's all there is in the state. So like you go into a new town, you have no idea where to go. There will be chains like, all the American chains, McDonald's, Burger King, Subway, Pizza Hut, Domino's. And then there's the chains of like, MITRE 10 for like, and Bunnings for like, building products, the warehouse, there's like that. But like if you just wanna go to a restaurant, you just like, everything is mom and pop, smaller. That's really noticeable when you first come here. Really noticeable that everything closes all the time. So I just met, how did I not take a picture of this? So I was up in Mount Manganui and one of my clients had just came here. So he had only been here for eight weeks and he doesn't know anybody, whatever. So I picked him up, went to Chantel's house for dinner, actually, if you know her from my channel and just kind of connecting them. And how did I not take a picture with him? Okay. So yeah, so he's totally new. And so it was interesting to hear his perspective, you know, obviously driving on the left side takes an adjustment. Here's a funny thing. I think he was asking, he thought that so many people were homeless because the casual dress was so casual. Like I'm like, no, I don't actually think they're homeless. I think that people actually walk around with bare feet and walk into places with bare feet, that that's casual, it's summer, you know, it was funny. I don't know, like maybe I was missing something in that conversation, but I was like, no, there's not a lot of homeless here. It's like, I don't know what you're saying. The library in Palmy is nice. Yes, I have been looking at buying a house. Prices keep coming down, so it's not my time yet. Been in the US 30 plus times and out of New Zealand. Yeah, and you're surprised how beautiful it is. It really is. So that was interesting. When I was on that tour, so we were talking with all of the tourists, right? And one lady was from Turkey, I think it was. She was very friendly and we talked a lot. And she just was like, she was very, she was actually frustrated when she talked to locals because she was like, they just talk about this place like this is normal. These lakes, these mountains, these rivers, like this is normal. It's not normal. This is the most beautiful place. Garden of Eden kind of feel amazing. And she was like, I don't, these people just take it for granted. Like, we don't realize what they have. And I'm like, welcome to my channel. I didn't say that because I don't, yeah. Yeah, so I was like, this is exactly what I'm trying to say, like, you guys don't even know what you have. So, yeah, so, yeah. Yeah, so anyway, I guess I have been on here for a while. I should probably get going. I have to prepare for my next meeting. Yes, it is like Taranga was amazing. I just have never been there. So, like, why do I not live there? Well, cause my kids are all, you know, set in their schools here. Okay, how do you determine if your home's like adjusting or if New Zealand just isn't right for you? I'm worried that I have rose color glasses. Okay, that's a great question. I'm just gonna address this last question. Your glasses are not rose colored. The things that I talk about, the things that you read about, the things that other people say about New Zealand are absolutely true. This place is amazing. I don't think you'll be disappointed. I don't think you'll be disappointed no matter where you live here. It's beautiful. Like I just did a video on, I went to the Mount Manganui is so stunning, so beautiful. And then I come home and it's so beautiful here. That wasn't my experience going on holiday. I would come home to like dark freezing, snow, brown, you know, and so, yeah. So yeah, so you're not, you're not gonna regret it. I had no homesickness for six years. This is probably the first year that I'm really feeling like, oh my gosh, it's starting to feel lame that I don't have family holidays. I miss family more than I have before. And everybody in my family feels that we struggle to not be able to go home for Christmas this year. I haven't felt that until this point. It's, I really tried. I tried to be like really aware. Like I thought that I was gonna go through that normal cycle of not liking, or, you know, the adjustment and missing home. I didn't have any of that. And it might be different. Like I had my family. So like I always had people and it was new for everybody, but yeah, it was great. People are saying it's so beautiful. They don't really, you don't really understand. When is a good time to visit New Zealand? If you haven't. So right now we're in summer. So like December, I would say up until even May is probably nice. The winters are just rainier and dark. You know, you don't have as much sunlight that gets dark at five. So like that's not great for like traveling and seeing things. It limits your daylight, right? So I would say that those are the best times, you know, comment if you disagree. And then even coming like October, November, that's nice too. And that would be off peak and cheaper. Good to see you live. Have a fun day at work. It's a bit cloudy today, but have your kids bomb dive outside day, Papa. I believe two, maybe two of mine have. Maybe just one. Yeah, visit after school holidays. That's a really good tip actually to visit school holidays or like every like 10 weeks or so. And that's when everything's more expensive and a lot more people traveling, but really not. Like New Zealand, like it's not actually packed. Even if it's packed, it's not actually packed. It's not packed at like American level packed. So the north of the north is subtropical and the south of the South Island is like Scotland. That's true. Yeah, if you come in winter, but if you like winter stuff, if you wanna go snowboarding and skiing and go to Queen's Town, it's Monica, you're not gonna be disappointed. Oh my gosh. Yeah, Central Otago as well. Yeah, just amazing, amazing. So yeah. Anyway, I gotta get off, I gotta go. I gotta go do work. Anyway, hope you guys are doing well. Reach out to me with any questions that you have. Hit me up if you need help with TV or you wanna join the training hub or any marketing needs. I can help you with that as well. So.