BHAVNEET: Welcome back to Drive with Us. I’m Bhavneet.
TARANJIT: And I’m Taranjit.
BHAVNEET: And I can’t stop hiccupping.
TARANJIT: Yup. So we’re probably not going to have conversations because every two seconds she’s gonna hiccup.
BHAVNEET: Yeah, so sound effects. You can’t just talk right? You need to have sound effects.
TARANJIT: Yeah, so annoying.
BHAVNEET: Did you hear that one? How do you get rid of hiccups?
TARANJIT: Scare yourself, drink water while you’re looking up at the ceiling, and what I like…
BHAVNEET: Put a piece of garlic…Ginger in your mouth? Not garlic. Ginger.
TARANJIT: Same difference.
BHAVNEET: Is it though?
TARANJIT: Maybe.
BHAVNEET: Are you? Are you trying to eat your mic?
TARANJIT: I’m trying to be closer so you can hear everything.
BHAVNEET: Hello?
TARANJIT: Okay. Super close.
BHAVNEET: Looks like you’re gonna sleep on it.
TARANJIT: Omn nom nom.
BHAVNEET: Pop filter works.
TARANJIT: I’m gonna face you. Hello.
BHAVNEET: I’m already facing you. Hi.
TARANJIT: I have to talk this way, and then look this way.
BHAVNEET: Yes, you are talking to the wall of your desk.
TARANJIT: And then when I’m done, I had to turn left.
BHAVNEET: You need to do it like they teach you. You had like an expert witness. You have to always talk to the jury. Okay.
TARANJIT: I don’t think the jury would take your word if you kept hiccupping.
BHAVNEET: Okay, so what if…if you were testifying and you got the hiccups?
TARANJIT: Drink water.
B:That is a very legit question. Because Oh my god, cuz my hiccups don’t go away very fast. So what if you randomly got the hiccups while you’re testifying on a piece of evidence…
TARANJIT: The judge would be like, uh, let’s take a break.
BHAVNEET: I don’t think so.
TARANJIT: What’s it What’s the word?
BHAVNEET: Recess?
TARANJIT: No, no. What’s the word for…The counselor! The Counselor needs to get himself together.
BHAVNEET: Counselor? That’s what expert witnesses are called?
TARANJIT: Oh, I was talking about the lawyer.
BHAVNEET: No, no, I’m talking about the expert witness.
TARANJIT: Oh.
BHAVNEET: Like you’re up there testifying about a piece of evidence. You’re all like, yeah, I’m professional.
TARANJIT: Then the lawyer might be like, are you like, probably make a joke out of it or try to use that to his advantage.
BHAVNEET: But hiccups…
TARANJIT: They can use anything.
BHAVNEET: I know.
TARANJIT: They can turn anything and twist it around. And then it’s like, wait, what just happened?
BHAVNEET: Yeah, that’s the scariest part. It’s like no, but that’s not what I meant.
TARANJIT: So you know, court? Do you think that guy’s gonna go to court that we saw today?
BHAVNEET: Oh, my gosh, I don’t even know what was happening. He looked like he was frozen.
TARANJIT: Do you want to back it up and start over? They have no idea what we’re talking about.
BHAVNEET: Put it in reverse. That’s my gear shift. I got on to 695 because I’m driving this big van. Like this. And right when we get off the ramp, you just see everyone is moving so slow.
TARANJIT: And when you see slow traffic, you’re like, Is there an accident? Like what are people looking at?
BHAVNEET: Is there a sofa on the side of the road on the other side of the highway? Is there a sofa?
TARANJIT: here was debris in the road. A truck through broom at us.
BHAVNEET: Yeah, he’s like, clean the road.
TARANJIT: Literally, a broom came flying…
BHAVNEET: As we were taking the exit to 695 I just see this thing like flying into the road. And I’m like, Wait, is that like a cloud of smoke like from the truck, but it kept going. And then it was like very big. And I’m like, What is that? And it’s like, luckily 795 was pretty empty. So I could like move easily into the next lane and go around it. But then when I got closer, I’m like, What is that? Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s a broom. Oh.
TARANJIT: First I thought like cardboard or something flew off. Because you know, like…
BHAVNEET: Yeah.
TARANJIT: Paper and light stuff fly off…
BHAVNEET: That did not look like cardboard.
TARANJIT: No, I thought like something like light flew out. But then yeah, like that’s a broom.
BHAVNEET: That was really weird. Where was that attached on the truck?
TARANJIT: Probably just hanging there. Like not even like securely just kind of, like not attached.
BHAVNEET: Yeah. Did he forget about it? Like where I couldn’t even tell. It was like the trailer that it was towing was like a metal cage.
TARANJIT: So like the ones that probably like transfer hay, or stuff like that.
BHAVNEET: Oh, that makes sense why there would be a broom in there then. Like, sweep all the hay out.
TARANJIT: So then we get on 625. And all of a sudden, we’re like, why is there so many cars and we’re like, so slow?
BHAVNEET: Yeah. So like, I finally make it over off the ramp into like, the second left most lane. And we’re like kind of moving. And I like we look over and we see this cop and you’re like, Oh, that’s probably why. Like, at first, I was like, oh, an accident like you know, I see a cop. They pulled someone over. But then we look over and we see this guy and he’s like frozen in the weirdest position. Kind of like where you still, like still frame it like a movie. This is like still frame. Because he’s like legs, one leg in front of the other. So it’s like kind of sideways. And he’s like, bent forward at the waist. And he looks like he’s trying so hard to move. But like he’s frozen.
TARANJIT: Yeah.
BHAVNEET: His face look like he was like, Oh, I’m gonna do it. And his legs are like, No, you’re not. And the…was it a state trooper?
TARANJIT: Mhmm.
BHAVNEET: He was like, moving his hands like, okay, you want like kind of pointing like walk on this line? Or like he was like do this. And then he just like…
TARANJIT: Yeah. With his hands, he was showing, you know, one foot in front of the other.
BHAVNEET: Yeah. And then the guy was just like frozen. Like, I can do it. No, my body’s not listening. And then right when we pass, everyone started moving. And I’m like, how if you can’t even move your legs. How are you driving?
TARANJIT: No, but I…You know what I was thinking? What if he was trying so hard to walk straight? That’s why he’s like, concentrating so hard cuz he’s not moving yet. Cuz he’s like, I’m gonna go off balance.
BHAVNEET: Well that like, totally gives it away.
TARANJIT: I know. But that’s what I’m saying. So he’s probably like, wait, and slowly take a step.
BHAVNEET: He didn’t even look like he was trying to take a step. It looked like he was just like, I’m frozen. I can’t move. Somebody is stopping me.
TARANJIT: He probably thought if he moved, he would fall over.
BHAVNEET: Yeah. He looked like he was trying really hard to just stay there in that position. And it wasn’t even one foot in front of the other. It was like one foot. Other foot two feet apart and he was just like in an awkward stance that like um, dude you totally already failed. Don’t even need don’t even need to move. Like what are you? High? Drunk? What are you on?
TARANJIT: He’s in his pajamas.
BHAVNEET: Yeah. I know.
TARANJIT: So he must of just got up or something or like just left from somewhere? Because he was still in his sleeping clothes.
BHAVNEET: Yeah, exactly. I was like, You totally look like you’re high or drunk or something.
TARANJIT: And also the way his car was pulled…You know how when you when a police officer pulls you over, you move like parallel to the shoulder and move over? His was…
BHAVNEET: I didn’t even see his car.
TARANJIT: His car was facing towards traffic at an angle. Like that’s how he pulled over.
BHAVNEET: So he pulled out like the cops always pull out? Because they’re like they pull out so like, if you kind of I guess start driving away, they can just get out or like go after you. But he pulled out like that too.
TARANJIT: Yeah.
BHAVNEET: What the heck. I didn’t even see his car. I was like, so focused on him and the road so I didn’t cause an accident. But that was pretty interesting. I never thought I would see somebody actually doing like a sobriety test…
TARANJIT: I know.
BHAVNEET: …on the side of the road.
TARANJIT: I thought I’d never see that. But there’s a first for everything.
BHAVNEET: I mean, there was at one time we were coming back from was it Virginia, and we saw like on the side of the road, like a ramp. There was a guy and he was being handcuffed and there’s like five or six police cars behind that one car. Remember that?
TARANJIT: It wasn’t Virginia. It was 70 coming back from Virginia.
BHAVNEET: Yeah, from I said back from Virginia.
TARANJIT: But it was in Maryland.
BHAVNEET: Yeah. So on our way back, and then there’s like five or six cars behind one car. And that guy was being like handcuffed. Like, dude, you must be a seriously wanted guy. Like criminal.
TARANJIT: They’re searching his car too. So…
BHAVNEET: Yeah, something serious happened there. There’s a first for everything. Uh huh. My leg is sore.
TARANJIT: At least your hiccups are gone, I think.
BHAVNEET: Yeah, I think so. Somebody spotted me some water. I’m not giving it back, though.
TARANJIT: It’s yours. Pour it down there if they come back.
BHAVNEET: No. I mean, like, I’m not giving back the ones that I already drank.
TARANJIT: What?
BHAVNEET: The waters, the water molecules that I already drank are not gonna come back.
TARANJIT: Uh. You can keep those and you can keep the water bottle.
BHAVNEET: And the water in it?
TARANJIT: Yeah.
BHAVNEET: Okay. Thanks.
TARANJIT: It’s all yours.
BHAVNEET: Great.
TARANJIT: Just pour it in there if it comes back.
BHAVNEET: I mean, yeah.
TARANJIT: I mean, yeah.
BHAVNEET: That’s how they went away. I took one gulp. And then you stared at me all weird, and you’re like, take another and I was like, why? And you’re like, no, take another. And I’m like, okay.
TARANJIT: Well, your hiccup. Like you had another hiccup after the first one. The second one look now.
BHAVNEET: Yeah, thanks. Magic water. You got there.
TARANJIT: Yeah, it’s the one you picked up the other day
BHAVNEET: By accident. I seriously thought it was the other brand. But come home. I didn’t even realize when I was taking it out. First off. I had it parked into the garage. And I’m like, how am I going to get the water out of my trunk once I’m already in the garage. So then I put it in my backseat and I pulled reverse into the driveway and I’m like, how am I going to get out of the backseat once I’m in the garage? Because I can’t really open the door that far. So like okay, let me pause outside of the garage take the water out and like put in front of our door and then back in and take the water in. Simple right. Well I happened to park in just the right spot where next to that pole in our driveway antenna. What is that? I don’t know.
TARANJIT: Antenna, it think. Antenna.
BHAVNEET: Yeah. So my door like hit into the antenna. So then I’m like, Well, all right. One foot. get the water out of that.
TARANJIT: You struggled.
BHAVNEET: Yeah. And I’m not very strong. So I was trying to turn it at weird angles. I’m like I finally like yanked it out. Like huh. That’s a great story, right?
TARANJIT: Yeah, you planned so far ahead that it didn’t work.
BHAVNEET: Actually, no, I was like thinking. I’m like, how should I do this? How should I do this? I don’t know. That seems like a good idea. No, that was a bad idea. I mean, it was a good idea, but I didn’t execute it well. Ba ba ba ba ba ba. That reminds me…
TARANJIT: Oh gosh.
BHAVNEET: …of Sonic Adventure Battle 2. That game again. What were those? Cios. Little cias. If they didn’t know how to…
TARANJIT: Was it chaos or chaos?
BHAVNEET: What? I thought they were ciaos.
TARANJIT: How’s it spelled?
B:. C. H. O. A. S. Oh. You always said that. Okay, I am deleting that. That is not going in. You always said ciao, so I said cia.
TARANJIT: I was little. I didn’t know what chaos was.
BHAVNEET: Oh man, I feel stupid. Cuz we still never actually said chaos. Why are they called chaos?
TARANJIT: Because they cause chaos.
BHAVNEET: Oh my god, I that just means a whole different meaning. Like when we were little it’s like, oh ciaos. They are so cute and adorable. They’re chaos. Okay, well, fine chaos. Whenever one of those little things I don’t even know what they are anymore. You threw them in the water and they didn’t know how to swim. It would be like a bub bub bububa. And then you had to go save them. As they like drift around. They’re like a bub bub bub bububbbaa
TARANJIT: Also the ones when you enter in competitions that develop the swimming skill. They were just like swimming around. The other ones are drowning.
BHAVNEET: They’re like I want to swim, too. And you would take them and put them out on the edge and be like no, and then you turn around to go get some fruit for them. And then you hear a bub bub bub bububbbaa Yeah, so you’re yawning of a baba baba reminded me of that. So not ciaos. Which sounds so much better. But chaos.
TARANJIT: Yeah.
BHAVNEET: So each of those things were a chaos. How would you plural that chaos-I?
TARANJIT: Chaos-I.
BHAVNEET: Chaos-es? That doesn’t sound right. Or would it just be like moose. Moose. There’s a chaos. There’s five chaos.
TARANJIT: That doesn’t sound right.
BHAVNEET: Nothing sounds right.
TARANJIT: Multiple chaos?
BHAVNEET: Multiple chaos?
TARANJIT: Or a lot of chaos. So is it singular and plural?
BHAVNEET: That’s like if you’re using it as like a you know, verb adjective not a noun.
TARANJIT: You know what else we saw for the first time today?
BHAVNEET: No, cuz I wasn’t there.
TARANJIT: Yes you were.
BHAVNEET: You said, do you know what else we saw? Let me tell you.
TARANJIT: I was talking to them.
BHAVNEET: Oh. You’re looking at me so I was like…
TARANJIT: Well where else am I going to look? I am talking with you.
BHAVNEET: At the wall desk that you were looking at earlier. Hello.
TARANJIT: What we saw earlier was a new kind of flavor for Lays chips.
BHAVNEET: Oh, yeah. That’s very interesting. Like I want to know what this flavor is like, what is it comprised of? Would you like to do the honors?
TARANJIT: Oh wow. I have honors?
BHAVNEET: Fine. Would you like to do?
TARANJIT: Would I like to do? Like do what?
BHAVNEET: The saying.
TARANJIT: Would I like to say the flavor?
BHAVNEET: Yes.
TARANJIT: What was it called? Indian…
BHAVNEET: Oh my gosh, okay. Let me say it.
TARANJIT: Magic masala.
BHAVNEET: Yes, India’s magic masala. That was a Lay’s chip flavor, which Indian version of Lay’s chips have really weird flavor titles.
TARANJIT: Remember those one chips that said American…
BHAVNEET: American style cream and onion.
TARANJIT: American sour and cream.
BHAVNEET: It didn’t even say sour. It said American style cream and onion which is sour cream and onion, which is really weird. I guess they don’t say sour because their concept of sour is way different than an American concept so it’s not really sour cream it’s just cream.
TARANJIT: American style cream.
BHAVNEET: Yes America sour cream that we saw when we went to India for the first time but here we saw India’s magic masala which I want to know what is in that magic masala
TARANJIT: Well that’s what those two people standing next to us wanting to know. So the girl convinced the guy to get it.
BHAVNEET: I was like Uh huh. India’s magic masala. And they walked right by us and she saw it too because I guess she overheard us because then she went around a straight to it and she’s like ha she picked it up Oh, we should get this. And the guy’s like why? And she’s like cuz its India’s magic masala and they walked away. Yeah, that’s why we should get it. What is India’s magic masala? Because it didn’t taste very magicy.
TARANJIT: It didn’t taste good.
BHAVNEET: No, it did not.
TARANJIT: If I’m gonna ruin my diet and eat a chip it should be a good one.
BHAVNEET: Yeah, your magic was not so great. A sucky magic
TARANJIT: When I pulled it out though. It looked like kind of like a barbecue type chip, but like not quite there.
BHAVNEET: Like when I first took a bite. I thought it was trying to be like those peanuts that are usually like covered in masala, like flavor. I thought it was trying to do that kind of thing. But then it had a weird aftertaste. And it wasn’t very magic at all.
TARANJIT: It wasn’t magic.
BHAVNEET: Definitely not.
TARANJIT: What is the opposite of magic? It was that.
BHAVNEET: Un-magic.
TARANJIT: Not magic.
BHAVNEET: It was a mogul. Harry Potter.
TARANJIT: Speaking of chips…
BHAVNEET: I thought you were going to say speaking of Harry Potter, and I’m like, Oh, I must listen to this.
TARANJIT: Oh. So you’re not going to listen to me otherwise?
BHAVNEET: Well, because you would never speak about Harry Potter. So
TARANJIT: How can I speak about Harry Potter?
BHAVNEET: You’re like. How can I speak about Harry? Oh wait, what’s his last name? Potter.
TARANJIT: How can I speak about…I was going to say Harry’s Potter. I was going to say…
BHAVNEET: What’s his potter? The guy who makes his pots? Hey, look its Harry’s Potter. And that’s Angelica’s Potter. And that’s Arnold’s Potter. And that’s Benji’s Potter.
TARANJIT: Yeah, I don’t know what I was gonna say. But speaking of chips, that’s where I was going.
BHAVNEET: Well, you were saying how can I speak of Harry Potter?
TARANJIT: Right. How can I talk about Harry Potter when I really haven’t read or seen any of those movies?
BHAVNEET: You did read one of them. But I don’t know how you passed any test on that.
TARANJIT: I got 100% on that test somehow.
BHAVNEET: I never got 100 on any of those. Reading. Things.
TARANJIT: I was so shocked because I was clicking all the answers, and I was like, uhh, this one?
BHAVNEET: It’s always when you feel less confident that you get the right answer when you’re like super confident. Like, yeah, it’s got to be this one. It’s like no, it’s not what’s wrong with you.
TARANJIT: But that I read that book because they will give me like a really good amount of points…
BHAVNEET: Because it was what 700 pages. It was the longest book. The fifth book in the Harry Potter series is like the longest.
TARANJIT: And I got those points because I got 100% on that test.
BHAVNEET: Yeah, so it was worth it.
TARANJIT: Do I remember anything? No.
BHAVNEET: Did you enjoy it?
TARANJIT: I don’t remember it at all.
BHAVNEET: Because you started from the middle of the series like what are you going to understand?
TARANJIT: Nothing.
BHAVNEET: Exactly. It’s very complex. Like you missed half the creation of the world. Of Hogwarts and everything in the whole world.
TARANJIT: I don’t usually read books like that. So…
BHAVNEET: Yeah, mogul.
TARANJIT: What?
BHAVNEET: You don’t even know what that means.
TARANJIT: No.
BHAVNEET: Exactly. Alright, continue.
TARANJIT: Sounds bad, though.
BHAVNEET: Speaking of chips.
TARANJIT: Yes. Speaking of chips. Did you hear?
BHAVNEET: Probably not. Yeah, no.
TARANJIT: Did you hear about the tourists family who were behaving so badly in New Zealand, that they’re enforcing new laws and the what’s the word they deported them
BHAVNEET: Wow. They caused the formation of laws? Wow, were they there to stargaze because isn’t that like two of the islands in New Zealand are the best places to go to stargaze in the world? So are they astronomers aspiring?
TARANJIT: No. So apparently it was 12 people in the family like including adults and children mixture.
BHAVNEET: Dang. Twelve people?
TARANJIT: They are from England.
BHAVNEET: Oh you Englanders. Look what you did.
TARANJIT: And they were tourists in New Zealand sort of like on a trip or whatever. And it said that there were complaints of them dumping chips on people’s blankets on the beaches.
BHAVNEET: Wait. What? Why? You get some chips. India’s magic masala. India’s magic masala.
TARANJIT: They wouldn’t pick up their trash. They would just leave it there.
BHAVNEET: Is that what you do in England?
TARANJIT: And they stole a Christmas tree from a gas station?
BHAVNEET: What? I was waiting to hear where from. A gas station? Was it like a baby Christmas tree? Why are you stealing Christmas trees? Like are you gonna take that back with you on the plane to England? Like what were you planning on doing with that?
TARANJIT: So then they were issued deportation.
BHAVNEET: Why are you stealing a Christmas tree? Not even like…
TARANJIT: I think it said it was one of the younger people who stole a Christmas tree like in the…
BHAVNEET: I could see that. But like why would the older person steal a Christmas tree? Well, I guess he’s apparently allow…
TARANJIT: Well apparently, New Zealanders, the locals…
BHAVNEET: New Zealand ears.
TARANJIT: Yeah. They like recorded all this then they’re posting on social media that the national news picked this up. So they were all over the news.
BHAVNEET: Oh. Now you’re all over the news. You’re not gonna be allowed in any country. They’re gonna be like, I don’t want these trash creating people
TARANJIT: I want to know what made them behave like this. Is this what they normally do back home?
BHAVNEET: I don’t think that would be okay.
TARANJIT: They’re on this trip.
BHAVNEET: Like that’s not okay. There’s no way that they do that in England, right? They wouldn’t be like deported from England. Even though that’s where…
TARANJIT: Go back to where you came from? Oh, wait, that’s Europe. Go to another country.
BHAVNEET: There’s no way that they did that in England, right? Like just go dumping chips on people.
TARANJIT: But is England like super clean? Or is it like…
BHAVNEET: I don’t know. Now…
TARANJIT: I know. It’s like, rainy all the time, or that’s what everyone says.
BHAVNEET: That’s what everyone says. But then I was reading that that is a misconception. It’s not always rainy.
TARANJIT: But what I was reading for planning trips, they are like, it’s gonna rain. You’re gonna have…
BHAVNEET: Yeah. I feel like I guess it’s like during the time that people always go that it’s rainy. Kind of like when we go to Canada during July, it’s always raining. Whereas when we used to go during August, it was awesome and sunny and perfect weather.
So…
TARANJIT: The seasons are also shifting. So…
BHAVNEET: Yeah, now they’re shifting.
TARANJIT: We’re getting more and more rain.
BHAVNEET: Yeah. At least it is not snow and ice. Rain is ok.
TARANJIT: So this article also mentioned just overall their tourists, like how much tourists they get. So apparently…
BHAVNEET: Do a lot of people go there?
TARANJIT: Yeah, apparently, they’ve been experiencing a huge like tourist boom.
BHAVNEET: Kind of like Iceland. Get out of here. We don’t want you.
TARANJIT: So it said that 3.8 million people visited the country for 2018.
BHAVNEET: Oh, wow. And that’s such a tiny country. I feel great about New Zealand. I want to go now.
TARANJIT: A lot of people talk about New Zealand.
BHAVNEET: Yeah.
TARANJIT: It’s a place people want to go,
BHAVNEET: Well, then I want to go. Okay, so if we can go to Australia, we can definitely go New Zealand, right?
TARANJIT: Maybe.
BHAVNEET: We’ll make the track again, just to go to New Zealand.
TARANJIT: So that was 1.2 million more than combined for the past five years. So last year, like how much tourists visited.
BHAVNEET: Wow.
TARANJIT: And they expect 5 million visitors by 2024. That’s more than the population of New Zealand, which is 4.8.
BHAVNEET: Wow. So they’re going to have more tourists that residents?
TARANJIT: Yeah.
BHAVNEET: How would it feel if you’re like, you’re walking around and all you see is tourists? And like one other native.
TARANJIT: One local?
BHAVNEET: Yeah. It’s like who are all these people? Where am I? I don’t recognize this place. When the tourists outnumber you.
TARANJIT: And that’s soon. They’re predicting it for 2024.
BHAVNEET: Yeah. Wow. Okay, so what’s in New Zealand that everyone wants to go there?
TARANJIT: Great. Barrier Reef’s there, right?
BHAVNEET: That’s in Australia.
TARANJIT: That’s in Australia?
BHAVNEET: Yeah. The Great Barrier Reef. When I was asking about it…
TARANJIT: Isn’t there mountains in New Zealand? Nah. I don’t know what I’m talking about.
BHAVNEET: Maybe. I mean, that would make sense. Right? Island. Okay, those are mountains. Something like that, right?
TARANJIT: Yep, I guess so. I feel stupid. I’m just going to stop trying to guess.
BHAVNEET: Is that near Fiji? Fiji water.
TARANJIT: Fiji Is lower than New Zealand, and New Zealand is higher?
BHAVNEET: But it’s down there right near Australia?
TARANJIT: Yeah.
BHAVNEET: Where all that. So maybe they have all the nice water to like Fiji like, oh, Fiji water. The purest water.
TARANJIT: Maybe.
BHAVNEET: So New Zealand’s like we may not be the purest. But we’re pure, too. Look at our nice waters. Whoo.
TARANJIT: I thought they were just like dumping a whole bunch of junk into it.
BHAVNEET: I don’t know. I’m just guessing. But obviously, people still want to go there. Maybe that’s why they were dumping because they’re like, oh, everyone dumps here. Have some chips. Have some chips. Why are they dumping on other people’s blankets though?
TARANJIT: Yeah, that makes no sense.
BHAVNEET: That I don’t understand. Was it supposed to be like a prank?
TARANJIT: And was it everyone? All the adults and children? Or was it the children?
BHAVNEET: Exactly. Because that would be a little more like, that would make more sense. Still not okay. But…
TARANJIT: Yeah. If the children were doing it, shouldn’t the adults stop them and tell them that’s not what you should do? And make them clean it up?
BHAVNEET: Unless they were letting the kids run rampant.
TARANJIT: I mean, I could see that.
BHAVNEET: Yeah, just cause mayhem on New Zealand.
TARANJIT: But apparently because of all this influx of tourists the infrastructure there can’t handle this. They said that locals said that they can’t handle having this many people come.
BHAVNEET: Yeah, if they outnumber you, then there’s something wrong. So are they going to like limit the number of people that can come into the country?
TARANJIT: I don’t know if they’re going to limit how many tourists come in. But in order to cover for like all the damage that happens, and tourists come. They’re going to start a new fee to come visit New Zealand.
BHAVNEET: They’re gonna charge people to come visit New Zealand?
TARANJIT: Yeah, it’s like…
BHAVNEET: Is it a crazy amount?
TARANJIT: You have to pay like 35 New Zealand dollars or like 23 American dollars, which would be split between conservation and infrastructure.
BHAVNEET: Well, dang. They must of caused some serious damage. Wow.
TARANJIT: Yeah. So the mayor of one of the towns like one of the small towns, I think. Queenstown, which is popular for skiing,
BHAVNEET: So they do have mountains.
TARANJIT: They said that visitors outnumber them to the point where there’s 30 for tourists, for every one local.
BHAVNEET: Oh my gosh. That’s kind of scary. I don’t think that would happen ever. In the US. We just have so many people and a lot of land. So I mean, I think we could handle it.
TARANJIT: Well, we are bigger than New Zealand. So…
BHAVNEET: I feel like we would never really have that problem like they do.
T; So do you think that the tax that they’re going to charge or this fee that they’re going to charge will reduce how many people come and visit there?
BHAVNEET: I mean, it’s only 35 New Zealand dollars, which is only like 23 American dollars. That’s like someone paying for like lunch or something here $20.
TARANJIT: What if they weren’t coming from the U.S.? What if they were coming from somewhere else?
BHAVNEET: I mean, 35 to 23. Wow, the New Zealand dollar is not worth as much then. So I mean, I guess for other countries, it wouldn’t make that much of a difference either. I guess I don’t think. If you really wanted to go to New Zealand, you’re like, wow, I’m already paying like this crazy amount for a plane ticket what’s $30?
TARANJIT: Do you think they will increase it?
BHAVNEET: Maybe if they see that a lot more people keep coming and it keeps like destroying stuff? Probably.
TARANJIT: Because that mayor of Queenstown said that fee that they’re charging, even if they gave it solely to their town, it wouldn’t be enough to cover damages.
BHAVNEET: Well, yeah, cause that’s like, what’s $35 gonna do?
TARANJIT: No, even if like all the money for all the tourists that came. All the fees were given to Queenstown.
BHAVNEET: Wow, how much damage are they causing? Like, what are they doing? What are all these tourists doing? There should be a tourist’s etiquette class. People need to learn how to behave.
TARANJIT: So do you think that if they increase the amount, the fee like they increase it to a larger amount would less tourists come? Or what would the amount have to be to reduce how many people actually come there?
B; I don’t know. I guess it depends individually. Like if you’re like more comfortable in terms of money, or financially, you’d be like, oh what’s $30? I want to go to New Zealand. Experience. For other people who are like less financially stable, it probably would deter them. It’s like, Okay, well, I could barely pay for a plane ticket. Now you want me to pay all these crazy fees? No thank you. I’ll go somewhere else.
TARANJIT: So I guess it would help them a little bit?
BHAVNEET: Maybe? I don’t really know, like would anyone stop going just because of a fee?
TARANJIT: I mean, it would depend on how high they would go. Like if they kept increasing…
BHAVNEET: If they went crazy amount nobody would go and then they would lose money because there has to be some point where they get some money from people coming.
TARANJIT: That’s what my next question was. I was thinking was, do they want to completely get rid of them? Or do we want to reduce them to a certain number.
BHAVNEET: Because apparently, Iceland does. Get out. I don’t want any more people. Free tickets to Finland. But I don’t think they want to completely get rid of because every country like get some benefit when tourists come because then they go their hotels and like, you know, they go to all these places like the skiing place and stuff. So some tourists are good, just not to the point where they outnumber the number of residents.
TARANJIT: So apparently, this whole situation of this family being deported started when one local was filming them not picking up their trash. They were telling them to pick up the trash, and they weren’t picking it up.
BHAVNEET: So they just dropped it on the ground?
T; I guess they were like sitting there and they just kind of left it there and got up.
BHAVNEET: Do you do that in England? Like seriously, what is wrong with people?
T:But apparently one of the family members when they were interviewed said that they were being tortured by locals.
BHAVNEET: Tortured? By telling them to pick up their trash.
TARANJIT: So my question is, were they being tortured…quotation marks around the word…after or before what they were doing?
BHAVNEET: Yeah. Because if you’re vandalizing their country, yeah, people are going to get mad. And what is this torture that you endured? Like? Why didn’t you say anything about it? Why didn’t you tell the police? You would have done something if it was serious.
TARANJIT: Yeah. But I did learn something interesting. When you are given a deportation notice, at least in New Zealand, they can’t officially kick you out if you’re appealing it until the appeal is over. Then they…
BHAVNEET: So you can just stay there?
TARANJIT: Yeah.
BHAVNEET: Well, I mean, I guess it that makes sense. Because you’re like, Well, I have no right to be deported. And so then you, you know, justice.
TARANJIT: Yeah.
B; So that makes sense. So you get to keep staying. Like Haha, I’m not leaving.
TARANJIT: This article. also mentioned previous tourists, interactions and what locals have done to stop tourists.
BHAVNEET: Just everywhere?
TARANJIT: Just in New Zealand. What locals have done because they don’t want more people to come.
B; Wow. So New Zealand is really fed up with tourists.
TARANJIT: In 2015. Many tourists have reported that their car keys, like if they rented a car, the car keys were forcefully taken from them, because they were driving poorly. So locals took the keys from them.
BHAVNEET: Wait. Because they were driving poorly. I’m pretty sure some of the locals drive poorly. How do you know who’s a tourist and who’s a local?
TARANJIT: I don’t know. But…
BHAVNEET: They took…like shouldn’t they be charged by stealing their keys? Like that’s not okay. A fact. Like what?
TARANJIT: Yeah, but like, how would they take their keys? Would they be stopped? Would they be standing out? And they’re like,
got it guys.
BHAVNEET: Walk up and be like, give me that.
TARANJIT: And run in the other direction?
BHAVNEET: Like, what? Why? That’s a little extreme. And what do they mean by driving poorly? In New Zealand do you drive on the left or the right hand side of the road? Because I know all of the like Britain and like the British colonies are originally like…
TARANJIT: I think it is the same as Australia
BHAVNEET: …drive on the left, but majority of the world drives on the right. Yeah. So we are correct. You are wrong. We are right, you are…
TARANJIT: Left.
BHAVNEET: Un-right.
TARANJIT: You are left.
BHAVNEET: You are un-right.
TARANJIT: You’re left behind.
BHAVNEET: Yeah. So if people from England were to drive, because didn’t they build like a bridge underwater that connects England like the island to the mainland of Europe. I feel like they did. So like if they were to drive, and all the sudden go oh whoops, get on the right hand side of the road. Are they allowed to do that?
TARANJIT: I don’t know.
BHAVNEET: That’d be really weird. Because then all of a sudden, you see people who are sitting, the drivers are sitting on the right hand side of the vehicle. But everyone else is sitting correctly on the left hand side of the vehicle. And then you had to drive like the mail trucks here. The USPS, United States Postal Service vehicles, which look really funny, but their drivers say on the right hand side of vehicle so that they can reach the mailboxes and like throw people’s mail in their mailboxes. But those people drive crazy. So would people who come from like England or Scotland, or like, you know, Great Britain drive over and then they just had to be like, oops, switch over. And then how would the bridge work? Like you go, you’re driving and then all of a sudden they’re like, well, this lane goes over top of the other lane and you switch sides.
TARANJIT: But doesn’t other parts of Europe also…
BHAVNEET: So they though?
TARANJIT: I think there’s other parts.
BHAVNEET: So then that would be very confusing. You did so many, like, accidents if people drove like from one country to the next. Like oh, right hand side of the road. And then he drove from that country to the next. Oh, the left hand side the road.
TARANJIT: Or just don’t drive.
BHAVNEET: I mean, somebody has to like cross borders where you switch, like sides of the road. Somebody has to have done it.
TARANJIT: They got a button where they’re like, oh, switch. Move the driver over here.
BHAVNEET: How does it work? Because like if you get to like the border, and you’re going to go cross, how do they switch the lanes where you’re all of a sudden on the other side is there like a bridge that takes this half of the road and you go over the other onto the other side of the road so that like you’re like now on the left or the right depending on what side you drive on?
TARANJIT: You’re thinking too hard into this
BHAVNEET: But now I want to know. Has anyone ever done that? I need to know.
TARANJIT: You need to know a lot of things. You’re very needy.
BHAVNEET: I want to know. I’m very wanty.
TARANJIT: Speaking of driving. Another thing that happened in New Zealand was that residents at I don’t know how to say this island’s name. Was he ki?
BHAVNEET: Waikiki? I don’t know but that sounds very familiar.
TARANJIT: Island. So it’s a short ferry ride from Auckland.
BHAVNEET: Auckland sounds familiar. Is that the capital? Auckland, New…new. I was about to say New Jersey. New Jersey. Nn America now?
TARANJIT: I mean, there might be an Auckland somewhere here. But…
BHAVNEET: Like in California or something?
TARANJIT: Apparently, there was a double decker sightseeing bus.
BHAVNEET: They have those there?
TARANJIT: That was like with tourists.
BHAVNEET: Okay.
TARANJIT: That was trying to go down a road that was a little narrow. So the residents are like, we don’t want this bus here. So they blocked the road.
BHAVNEET: Oh my god. These locals are really aggressive. Anybody live in New Zealand? Are you a part of this? Oh my gosh, they really don’t want people to come. Wow. So if you go there, you’re likely going to face harsh…
TARANJIT: Harsh residents?
BHAVNEET: Yes. From the residents, rather than friendly people like Oh, hello. How can they tell you’re a tourist?
TARANJIT: I’m sure they can easily tell.
BHAVNEET: You don’t got a New Zealandian accent. Foreigner. Go away.
TARANJIT: I’m sure Americans can easily be picked out.
BHAVNEET: Yeah, Americans. But like, what if you came from Australia or something?
TARANJIT: Australia? Probably not. But I feel like any other place.
BHAVNEET: Do you speak English in New Zealand? Or do they have another like…
TARANJIT: Language?
BHAVNEET: Yeah.
TARANJIT: Like.
BHAVNEET: What’s the word? National language.
TARANJIT: I don’t know.
BHAVNEET: How like Canada’s English and French. Do they have another one?
TARANJIT: Now? I’m curious.
BHAVNEET: I was already curious. And now you’re looking that up and not what I was curious about. Are you planning to go to New Zealand?
TARANJIT: Maybe. One day. English.
BHAVNEET: That’s it?
TARANJIT: Yep. Official language. English. And oh, what’s Māori?
BHAVNEET: Huh?
TARANJIT: Māori?
BHAVNEET: Some sort of locals?
TARANJIT: Almost the entire population speak it. It’s most similar to Australian English in pronunciation. The Māori language of the indigenous Māori people was made the first official language in 1987.
BHAVNEET: So that’s how they pick out whose foreigner. They start speaking in this language and if you don’t respond, they’re like foreigner. Go away. Get them out of here. Block the road. Take their keys.
TARANJIT: New Zealand’s the only country where Māori is spoken.
BHAVNEET: Well, I mean, they said the indigenous people so they’re probably from New Zealand. New Zealandian thing.
TARANJIT: But they do have a New Zealand sign language which is also an official language.
BHAVNEET: Interesting. So how do cars switch from one country that drives on the left hand side to another country that on the right hand side when you cross the border? How do you get on to the other side of the road?
TARANJIT: I can’t help you there.
BHAVNEET: That was a very cun-fuzzling question. Yeah, it fuzzles my brain. Cun-fuzzle. Was fuzz in there so then I can’t think clearly so cun-fuzzled. Can’t think of it.
TARANJIT: We were planning on maybe driving in Australia. It’s probably going to be difficult.
BHAVNEET: Yeah. Good thing we are not. So…
TARANJIT: Yeah, good thing we decided not to.
BHAVNEET: And if they drove on the right hand side, it would have been much more easier transition. Because then you only had to like figure out what are their road rules? Like, can you turn on a red light like right on a red light or that kind of thing? But driving on the left hand side? What if I forget and accidentally to go into the right hand side? Because I’m trained to drive properly. Not like that person who was taking a sobriety tests on the side of the road? Like I know how to drive correctly. But. What? What? But maybe not.
TARANJIT: So, I have a question.
BHAVNEET: You always have a question.
TARANJIT: Yes. I have a lot of questions. And you have a lot of answers.
BHAVNEET: I have a lot of wants.
T; If you had to drive on the left hand side of one of the countries that drive on the left, which one would you want to drive in?
BHAVNEET: Why’d you say it like that? Which one?
TARANJIT: Which one? Duhn Duhn Daa.
BHAVNEET: I don’t know all the countries that drive…
TARANJIT: I’ll list them.
BHAVNEET: Okay, England, India. Never.
TARANJIT: India, Australia, Southern Africa
BHAVNEET: Wait, like just the whole region of Southern Africa?
TARANJIT: It just says Southern Africa.
BHAVNEET: Is that because they were all like under…but weren’t they like under France’s rule? I don’t know. The Dutch. They ruled countries down there.
TARANJIT: Okay, so your options. India…
BHAVNEET: No.
TARANJIT: Australia, Southern Africa, Caribbean, United Kingdom, Ireland. Malta, and Cyprus.
BHAVNEET: Seriously? No other European countries drive on the left, so you won’t have that problem. Okay. So, predicaments solved. They all drive correctly on the right hand side of the road.
T; Oh, wait, there’s more. It’s just, I just didn’t list them all.
BHAVNEET: Oh. Well. Okay.
TARANJIT: Fiji also drives on the left.
BHAVNEET: Well, okay, so if Australia does, New Zealand does, too?
TARANJIT: Mm hmm.
BHAVNEET: So then that would make sense that Fiji does also because they’re all like part of… what is that Oceania?
TARANJIT: There’s a lot of countries on here.
BHAVNEET: So okay, so definitely not India, because of the crazy traffic, nobody actually drives on the left hand side of the road, they just drive in the middle wherever they want. So that’s just that is chaos. Not ciaos. That is chaos. So definitely not due to the sheer population craziness. England will be if I’m driving out, like, you know, those northern bits where it’s not as populated, where it’s like a more like county type thing. Because if you’re in England, you’re not gonna move anywhere. Anyways. So what’s the point of driving?
TARANJIT: Yeah, but you would probably be in constant break, go break go.
BHAVNEET: Yeah. So what’s the point of driving? So then I want to know, because at one time I saw, what was that movie, was it Chevy Chase, were like, Chase. They’re like going around the big circle that’s in London. And he’s on the inside. But there’s like multiple lanes in this circle, which I don’t understand how that works. But he wants to make an exit, which was like four lanes out, and he couldn’t get out. So he’s like, oh next time I will just go around one more time. He just kept doing that for like an hour. He just kept driving in a circle in the inner lane because he couldn’t get out. Oh, next time. I’ll just go around one more time. Oh, I can’t make it over. I keep going in a circle.
TARANJIT: Oh my God.
BHAVNEET: That was really funny. I can’t remember what movie that was. But it was really good. Really funny.
TARANJIT: National Lampoon?
BHAVNEET: That is…I think, maybe that’s what it was.
TARANJIT: I feel like that’s the only movies of his you watched. The lampoon movies.
BHAVNEET: Maybe. But that was funny. That that’s what I thought of.
TARANJIT: So England?
BHAVNEET: No. I said, I wouldn’t only if it’s like up there. I don’t know what other countries? Are there any…
TARANJIT: I listed them.
BHAVNEET: Are there any other European countries?
TARANJIT: No, most of them are African. And there was like Thailand…
BHAVNEET: Thailand.
TARANJIT: Thailand.
BHAVNEET: Thigh? There’s my thing. It’s the land of the thighs?
TARANJIT: Thailand.
BHAVNEET: Thailand.
TARANJIT: Singapore, I think it was on the list.
BHAVNEET: Ohh. Singapore might be nice. But, I don’t know. What if they have a crazy population. I would want to go somewhere that is not like densely populated. So there’s a country like that then, sure. Not Africa, because I’m kind of scared.
TARANJIT: Would you ever visit Africa?
BHAVNEET: No. That’s the end of that story. That’s one continent. I will not visit. They have a lot of problems.
BHAVNEET: Not even Egypt?
BHAVNEET: Nope. They have a lot of problems.
TARANJIT: Yeah, I know.
BHAVNEET: They have a lot of problems. Like, don’t they have like a quote unquote, dictator situation going on?
TARANJIT: Something like that.
BHAVNEET: Yeah, they have a lot of political unrest. Okay, let’s just put it that way. So that is a continent that I will avoid. That’s okay if I don’t visit it. Same with South America. I’m kind of scared of 99.99999% of it.
TARANJIT: Agreed. Two continents that you probably won’t go to.
BHAVNEET: There is a point 00001% that I might not be scared of. But I don’t know where that is right now. So…
TARANJIT: Yeah, I’m good.
BHAVNEET: So those are two continents that I’m okay with not visiting. Visited Asia. Which some people argue that where we went was not part of Asia, but yes, it is.
TARANJIT: How do they argue it’s not?
BHAVNEET: Because they considered it a sub-continent? Because technically, India jammed itself into Asia. That’s why the Himalayas are there. So like, it’s smashed into what is Asia. So they consider its own sub-continent.
TARANJIT: That’s why when people say Asians, they don’t refer to us.
BHAVNEET: Yeah, they refer to like the eastern part of Asia. So like, China, Thailand, that kind of area.
TARANJIT: But technically we are.
BHAVNEET: We are. When they ask us on like the census or like on different things. Where are you from? No, we’re Asian.
TARANJIT: Then we can be Asian.
BHAVNEET: Yeah. On there, it doesn’t say I’m subcontinent Indian.
TARANJIT: Subcontinent.
BHAVNEET: Yeah, then we are Asian. What was the question?
TARANJIT: I don’t remember.
BHAVNEET: Something about driving, I think,
TARANJIT: Oh, yeah. Which country would you want to drive in?
BHAVNEET: Oh, yeah. Because I would want to visit every other continent. So I get to check Australia off.
TARANJIT: Check.
BHAVNEET: Check Asia off. Now we gotta check Eng…I said, England. England’s its own continent now. We got I gotta check Europe off. I’ve been to two thirds of North America.
TARANJIT: So you’ve been to two thirds.
BHAVNEET: Yeah. I don’t want to go to the third country.
TARANJIT: Oh, you mean in terms of countries? I’m like how did you visit two thirds of the continent?
BHAVNEET: In my dreams.
TARANJIT: Well, I mean, okay.
BHAVNEET: Yeah.
TARANJIT: That makes sense.
BHAVNEET: Okay.
TARANJIT: Okay.
BHAVNEET: Well, there’s some parts that I don’t want to visit of the U.S. either. So I mean, I’m okay bypassing them. Like, what was it? St. Louis was like, the worst city?
TARANJIT: Yeah, whatever year that was.
BHAVNEET: Yeah, no thanks. It was worse than Baltimore. Why? No, thank you.
TARANJIT: I don’t even want to go to Baltimore. We live so close.
BHAVNEET: We do go there.
TARANJIT: I know. But it’s scary.
BHAVNEET: It is scary. I do that every day. Mini heart attacks every day. It’s not good for my health. So you need to get me out before this does some serious damage.
TARANJIT: Good thing you walk by hospital.
BHAVNEET: Yeah. Where things don’t happen in front of the hospital because why would they? That doesn’t make any sense. Because then you would just go into the hospital right there.
TARANJIT: Well, then they don’t have to go that far. It saved you the ambulance fee.
BHAVNEET: So then why would…yes, that makes perfect, logical sense. Now, I totally understand. But like there’s always cops walking around there. They’re always ambulances. And like, you know, paramedics and stuff. So why?
TARANJIT: This person who committed that crime really couldn’t get a thrill of doing it in a hidden spot. So he wanted to do it in the open where everyone that could possibly help was there and get away with it.
BHAVNEET: Yeah. How did he get away….they caught him though?
TARANJIT: I don’t know. Did they?
BHAVNEET: I don’t know. I have no idea. I walked over police tape. That was very poorly taped because I don’t know what that extra piece was for. Like they had it tied off. It was great. Like you know, there’s a pole they tied it all both ends and then randomly they decided no, I’m going to tie it off some more. I have a little bit extra tape. What do I do with it? I don’t feel like cutting it just…
TARANJIT: Yeah, they’re probably like, what am I gonna do with this little piece? Just leave it. Speaking of that. It’s kind of like toilet paper where it just goes to waste after. So how much money is spent?
BHAVNEET: A lot. Because you can’t really do much with it afterwards, because it was part of the crime scene. You can’t just put it on another crime scene. Contamination.
TARANJIT: Exactly.
BHAVNEET: Yeah, that’s a waste. Wow.
TARANJIT: But it’s a need.
BHAVNEET: Yeah.
TARANJIT: They can’t do without it.
BHAVNEET: You don’t want people like us walking over it.
T; They should make it easily, like…never mind that is not going to work.
BHAVNEET: Easily like never mind.
TARANJIT: I was thinking that it should be like, what’s the word? Just degradable. But then what if it degrades before they’re done?
BHAVNEET: Yeah, because sometimes crime scenes are like, the tape is there for a while. If it was biodegradable, then it’s like you come back the next day. And your like, wasn’t my crime scene right here? I think it was this tree. No, no, that tree where the tape go? Yeah, that that would not be good. I mean, yeah, good thought. But especially for the long like longer term scenes. I don’t think that would be very helpful.
TARANJIT: Yeah, that’s why I said never mind.
BHAVNEET: I don’t ever mind except for right now. I do mind.
TARANJIT: Aww.
BHAVNEET: I have a mind. And I minded. My mind is there so I minded. There’s my mind. Oh, yeah, there it is. I checked it. Minded.
TARANJIT: You did? Yours did?
BHAVNEET: Yup. Minded.
TARANJIT: Sounded like you said mine did.
BHAVNEET: Yea. Mine did. Check it. Minded. Mine did understand what you said. Did yours? Did yours minded?
T; No.
BHAVNEET: No? Because that would be yours did.
TARANJIT: Yeah, exactly.
BHAVNEET: So mine did, but yours didn’t. Yours did?
TARANJIT: No.
BHAVNEET: Why are you so hesitant?
TARANJIT: Because I’m confused.
BHAVNEET: Minded. My mind is too.
TARANJIT: Yours is confused, too?
BHAVNEET: Yes. So let me go untangle this confusion. For the next week. It will take me a week till the next podcast and that is what I will do. So now you’ve made it to your destination? Hopefully, maybe? Not. Sure. Maybe. Okay. Goodnight.
TARANJIT: What if they’ve turned this off already? Because they’ve made it to the destination a long time ago?
BHAVNEET: Oh, well, then. Welcome to your return commute. And while you are partially to your destination. So now you’re just gonna have to wait. So like we’ll get you there part of the way because you have reached the end. And that’s how long it took you unless your commute was really short.
TARANJIT: Then you’re lucky.
BHAVNEET: Yeah. However long of your commute this made it…I don’t know where I was going with this. But minded. You can check us out on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest at Drive with us podcast. And we will see you on your next commute. Or this commute if you’re listening if you’re binge listening. So see you in a little bit.
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