Somewhere Right Now: 07:00 in Suva 🇫🇯 — FM96

0:10 Sprecher 1 Newsby from Fiji Village. There were 18 people charged with 41 counts of sexual offences last month, including four juveniles. According to the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, there was one incident where a 17-year-old boy and a 16-year-old boy were charged with the attempted rape of a 15-year-old boy from their village. In another incident, a 16-year-old boy was charged with three counts of rape of a child from his village. The ODPP says the offences occurred in 2024 when the accused was 14 years old and the victim was seven a man in his late 20s from wunika in lambasa has lost his life following an unfortunate accident along the vo tram line police say the circumstances surrounding the incident are still under investigation a post-mortem examination will be conducted to ascertain the cause of death a 19 year old auckland-based fijian golfer rajad rai who has earned a scholarship to study and and compete for American International College in Springfield, Massachusetts. We'll be on Fiji Village Straight Talk with Vijay Narayan at 7 p.m. tomorrow. You can check out the interview on our Facebook page, YouTube channel, TikTok, and X-Account Fiji Village at 7 p.m. tomorrow. You can also catch the podcast Fiji Village Straight Talk with Vijay Narayan on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. And in sports, the Arkeas on the 17th side will be working on improving their discipline as they continue preparations for their Vodafone Fiji Secondary School's Rugby Union Superdeans final against Suwa Grammar School this Saturday.

1:38 RKS will pick Grammar in the under-17 grade. Navatu Secondary School will face Lilleen Memorial School in the under-19 grade. And Grammar will take on Lilleen in the under-18 grade. Meanwhile, in the Whitpicks Rolove final, St. Vincent College will meet Nasinu Secondary School in the under-16 category. While Lomeri Secondary School will take on MGM High School in the under-18 grade. And that was your FM96 Newsbee from Fiji Village. I'm Tamale Sibono.

4:33 Sprecher 3 Your day's heating up. Are you ready to fuel it? Start strong at Met Cafe. Whether it's a bold long black or a creamy flat white, our baristas are ready for you. Then, keep that momentum going with the 100% Beef Big Mac and those old and salty fries you can't resist. Get us around the corner in Nandi, Suva, Lo Dala Bay, Lotoka, and Nakasi. Your favorites, your flavor, your McDonald's feature.

5:18 interest that helps your money grow faster start now and save more for a better tomorrow visit your nearest fpf office or call 5857 for more

5:34 Borrowed my clothes, broke my things, blamed me for everything. And I'll do it all again. Because a sister like mine only comes once.

5:59 Sprecher 4 F96 Crackfest with Banana T Fentai

6:04 Sprecher 5 Hey goody others, it's 5 past 7 and it's Let's Go Tuesday Let's go

6:08 Sprecher 2 Okay, I want to name a couple of sports Yeah And you have to guess whether it's a real sport or not Okay Cheese rolling Wife carrying Toe wrestling And last but not least Extreme ironing What? You have to guess which of these sports is fake

6:29 Sprecher 4 Um

6:30 Sprecher 5 Okay, can you give the list again?

6:33 Sprecher 2 Extreme ironing, toe wrestling, chess boxing, wife carrying, and cheese rolling. Which of these is a fake sport?

6:45 Sprecher 5 I don't think any of them is fake.

6:48 Sprecher 4 It's got to be wife carrying.

6:49 Sprecher 2 Wife carrying? No, that's a sport.

6:51 Sprecher 5 What? Really? It is, eh?

6:54 Sprecher 2 You have to tell me yes or no. You have to pick which one.

6:57 Sprecher 5 I know wife carrying is a sport. Cheese rolling is a sport

7:01 Sprecher 4 Toe wrestling seems pretty on brand to be a sport Yeah

7:05 Sprecher 2 There's also chess boxing

7:06 Sprecher 5 What's a chess boxing?

7:08 Sprecher 2 Well, it's on this list Whether we can tell if it's a fake sport or not

7:12 Sprecher 5 Okay, I'll go with chess boxing

7:13 Sprecher 4 Well, none of it is fake

7:16 Sprecher 2 It's all real What?

7:17 Sprecher 4 See, I know it No, you can't do this

7:19 Sprecher 2 I'm not even kidding, dude

7:20 Sprecher 5 I did say they were all sports What?

7:22 Sprecher 4 Okay, wait So what do you do in chess boxing?

7:24 Sprecher 2 Okay, in chess boxing This sport originated in the Netherlands, okay? Okay It's where competitors, they alternate between rounds of playing chess and boxing. So you can win by either checkmate or knockout.

7:37 Sprecher 5 Oh, my word. See?

7:39 Sprecher 2 Wife carrying, like she said, it's actually real. It's a sport from Finland. And it's just where competitors, they race through obstacle courses while carrying their wives or their partners. Oh, that's kind of sweet. And the one that I was really baffled is that toe wrestling is a thing.

7:55 Sprecher 4 Yeah, that makes sense.

8:25 Sprecher 5 the carry your wife spot to fiji baba carry carry that's not working what's wrong with that i'm just saying like if your wife is from it's about teamwork yeah wife caring became an official spot in fiji like how far like can you carry do you honestly think you could carry your partner now before you tap out let us know this morning

11:27 Sprecher 4 F96 Breakfast with Benenity Fintai.

11:30 Sprecher 2 Goody Andres, 11 past 7.

11:33 Sprecher 5 Hey, goody Andres, it's, yeah, beautiful, beautiful day.

11:36 Sprecher 2 Beautiful day indeed.

11:37 Sprecher 5 Okay, right now, you know, I generally don't know who I'm giving the Dean's Final to. Yeah.

11:44 Sprecher 2 A pretty solid matchup from the semifinals.

11:47 Sprecher 5 Yeah, because we've got Super Grandma versus Lillian happening this weekend. And, you know, with Grandma, whoa.

11:54 Sprecher 4 They've been on a roll.

11:56 Sprecher 2 51-0 from the semifinals.

11:57 Sprecher 5 just putting 51 points on Rahai without even like scoring that's huge so I'm just wondering where the finals is going to be at they haven't confirmed

12:08 Sprecher 2 anything quite yet and on the way down a lot of people were hoping to have it back in Lothoka why?

12:16 Sprecher 4 I don't know why

12:17 Sprecher 2 even though these are like predominantly super schools it's just that Lothoka has such a great vibe around rugby respectfully no diss to HFC stadium

13:21 Sprecher 4 That's a good question

13:22 Sprecher 5 I think we should have it Probably in Lotoka this year

13:24 Sprecher 2 Or even in Why not? For our stadium

13:27 Sprecher 5 Or for our stadium in Bar You know I feel like the whole country Should get a chance to host it Yes

13:32 Sprecher 2 Let us know on the

13:34 Sprecher 4 F96 Facebook page And Messenger Just let us know you know

17:06 96 Crap Firsts with Benenity Fentai

17:08 Sprecher 2 16 past 7, let's go Tuesday

17:10 Sprecher 5 Okay, this one is interesting because while everybody's been worrying about AI coming for our jobs there's a court in China that has been that's basically said, you know what? That's not gonna happen So they've made it illegal for AI to replace jobs in China Now we're talking So what had happened is there was a tech worker

18:01 justification to terminate somebody's employment thank you and I actually like the thinking behind this okay so use AI to make people better the jobs not

18:12 Sprecher 2 automatically make people unemployed yes that's the reason why we have AI in the first place you know these big organizations are trying to cheap out and just use it all together yeah so apparently in China they're saying

18:26 Sprecher 5 technology advancing doesn't mean that workers will get through to lose the the rights to their job. So I'm liking this.

18:34 Sprecher 4 Yeah, you know, it's letting the human element come back, you know, letting people get back their jobs.

18:40 Sprecher 5 I kind of feel embarrassed, man, that, you know, you've got the Chinese government really taking care of its people. Ah!

18:47 Sprecher 2 Hey, hey, hey, hey, listen, listen, guys.

18:50 Sprecher 4 I mean, it's China, you know, they're not that bad.

18:53 Sprecher 2 China, China, China.

23:04 Sprecher 5 It's 96 Breakfast with Banana Tifa and Ty, Pepe joins us this morning, 22 past 7, let's go Tuesday.

23:10 Sprecher 4 So I saw this Facebook post online that was talking about Fiji, right? Specifically school students and is the uniform needed? What? Like is it still, should it still be a requirement, especially in Fiji?

23:23 Sprecher 5 Oh my word.

23:24 Sprecher 2 But you know what? At first when I was in high school, I thought like, you know, I want to be like those American schools where the kids go to school in outings and what not. not but as a full-blown adult do you know how absolutely tiring it is to find an outfit every day yep like that oh that's true it i never i've never appreciated uniforms more than i did now okay uniforms are the best thing in the whole wide world and i wish every organization had it because what do you mean i have to find a cute outfit every day i think i think we all need this

23:55 Sprecher 5 school uniforms a uniform still yeah really okay because it's it's your identification because imagine you know because in speaking from experience

24:07 having to walk around in town oh that's true yeah and stepping school that's the one

24:14 Sprecher 4 okay but the post specifically it argued it was talking about how like you know without the uniforms you you can save money and stuff like that what and you can like use it for like school books and other stuff like i don't know has the uniforms become more expensive they have

24:29 Sprecher 2 been a bit pricey i will say unreasonably pricey yeah because like school jackets are what fifty dollars yeah yeah what school are we what school is this like you know some schools that have their own jackets yeah like marist has their own jacket hey we're not naming names now i'm just saying you're pretty much one of the most prominent schools that does have your own jackets and they they are quite pricey. Okay. And sometimes, and I know that there are some schools where you're not allowed to wear any other jacket in school other than your school jacket.

24:57 Sprecher 5 Oh, yeah. Yeah.

24:58 Sprecher 2 I know for a fact that's a thing. So, I guess when it comes to like your own school image, your school has a responsibility to have it a little bit less. Yeah. Like a little less expensive. Inexpensive, I would say.

25:10 Sprecher 5 We have to have the uniform.

25:11 Sprecher 2 Yeah, but I'm standing by uniforms. Yeah. All right. Hardcore.

25:14 Sprecher 4 Well, if you should, should school students have a uniform or should they not? Let us know.

29:00 F96 Crackfest with Benenity Fentai

29:03 Sprecher 2 28 past 7, let's go Tuesday

29:05 Sprecher 5 I'm sure you would have seen this Rock Paper Scissors food challenge everywhere You know, it's all over online Always makes me hungry And there's one thing that irritates me every single time Is why are you, and it's mostly the women Why are you eating like, so proper?

29:23 Sprecher 2 This is no time for prim and proper

29:25 Sprecher 4 Exactly, exactly

29:28 Sprecher 5 Because whenever the men have to run to the marker

29:59 half a bite oh my word that is so irritating

30:02 Sprecher 2 when they try to mukbang and narrate yeah like this is no time

30:06 Sprecher 3 don't talk to me focus on what you gotta do

30:09 Sprecher 4 the mission is right in front of you come on

30:11 Sprecher 5 this is a competition you need to swallow it swallow it fast

33:00 Sprecher 4 F-96 Crackfest with Banana T-Fantai

33:03 Sprecher 5 It's 28 to 8, let's go Tuesday

33:06 Sprecher 2 You know Gen Z has just been reported to be fully broke

33:10 Sprecher 4 Yo, real

33:12 Sprecher 2 It has been reported that Gen Z's are broke Sometimes, most of the time, not their fault You know, the economy is just not our friend right now We don't have enough good paying jobs to cater for the rising cost of living But we are broke just because we have a problem ourselves

33:28 Sprecher 5 Okay, what is it?

33:29 Sprecher 2 It's that we're afraid to ask our friends To pay us back It is in actual fact true There are times Where say you foot the bill For something and they say I'll pay you back I'll pay you back when I get the money Just know that we are hoping you remember We're probably never going to remind you And then we're going to suffer in silence And it is I thought this was just like a me thing But it's a global epidemic dude

33:57 Sprecher 4 Yeah like It is going on

34:00 Sprecher 2 Everywhere And not only that It's purely because We're just It's just too stressful Of a situation to ask Going through the whole So you remember that 20 bucks 20 dollars you borrowed

34:14 Sprecher 4 No that makes me feel Really bad

34:16 Sprecher 2 You asked me to buy the four bags And you said you're gonna pay me back

34:18 Sprecher 5 But why is it so hard For you to just Ask for your money

34:22 Sprecher 2 But why is it so hard For you to forget To pay us back You know

34:24 Sprecher 4 In the Gen Z's defense

35:23 Sprecher 2 culture thing yeah you know is that it okay yeah yeah but it's a global epidemic now it's a problem

35:29 Sprecher 5 everywhere I don't think it's a gen Z it's a generational problem yeah hard bro yeah I think we just need to find out why why is it so as hard for us to ask for our money back if you think you

35:39 Sprecher 2 know the reason if you're joining us this morning you know the reason why please give us the answer because we are struggling here still waiting for that 20 dollars to come back

38:34 f96 breakfast with buneditifa and thai goody andres pepe joins us this morning

38:39 Sprecher 4 and it's 22 to 8 let's go tuesday okay so we had to quickly google uh why is it so

38:45 Sprecher 5 you know hard for for us to ask for our money back um okay so we got a couple of reasons one is that you don't want to look desperate yeah that's so true especially with that 20 dollars that you've been wanting thai you know you don't want them thinking that you know you need it or because it's because it's only 20 bucks i think that's where ego comes in it really does

39:10 Sprecher 2 oh my word because then you're okay with giving it away you're okay with helping people because you don't look at it that way yeah but you'll feel like the charity case once you ask for it back yep

39:18 Sprecher 4 oh my gosh don't worry i still owe you forty dollars oh my gosh no it's okay you don't want

39:25 Sprecher 5 to avoid uh you want to avoid conflict especially with friends or family because when it comes to to like having to talk about money it can become very awkward very quickly but that's off again

39:36 Sprecher 4 you know they should take accountability yeah but I'm not saying that to their face

39:40 Sprecher 5 and you feel guilty because you know they're struggling as well oh my god so you kind of keep extending the deadline okay that's another reason and then the fourth one is that you expect them to remember

39:53 Sprecher 2 you expect them to remember

39:56 Sprecher 4 but we do though yeah we do though but at the back of our heads

39:59 Sprecher 5 so piled by guilt it's like oh and then finally you don't want to damage the relationship

40:07 Sprecher 2 by asking for your money back that's true money can ruin certain relationships

40:10 Sprecher 5 yeah because the i think the longer you stay quiet the the more it just like you know it creates that yes resentment builds up towards the person yeah so it says yeah the biggest mindset change is this you need to be asking for repayment because asking for repayment isn't asking for favor you're asking

40:29 Sprecher 2 asking someone to honor the agreement right okay if you appreciate this relationship you will honor

40:36 Sprecher 5 that agreement that we made because they had mentioned they were going to pay you back they need to honor that agreement and it also says here instead of apologizing yeah you have to keep it specific you can message the person saying hey just following up on the hundred dollars that I lent you can you send it through by Friday please I need to sort a few things okay yeah don't say sorry to bother you because you did nothing wrong I hope my friends who are listening

41:03 Sprecher 4 pick up a thing or two from this

41:24 Sprecher 3 try the best fruit cocktail lemon squash and raspberry too get one right now for you Sprint is what it's all about Sprint a Motivy group product

45:42 Sprecher 2 f96 breakfast with buddha nithifa and tiger yandras pepe joins us this morning and it's

45:48 Sprecher 5 called wait let's go tuesday i watched this movie on netflix yesterday so if you're looking for something to watch because you know when it goes when you when it comes to like going on netflix

45:55 Sprecher 2 it's so hard to choose a movie it is and these days it's not much of a great selection yeah

46:00 Sprecher 5 so there's a movie that i watch and you know how i love my action pack movies okay so one i will suggest is the jake gyllenhaal oh covenant movie yeah covenant

46:10 Sprecher 2 I haven't watched it, but I've read it, and it's Jake Gyllenhaal.

46:14 Sprecher 4 Yeah, he's the GOAT. He's awesome.

46:15 Sprecher 3 He's the Southpaw.

46:17 Sprecher 5 So it's just a movie about him playing the sergeant serving in Afghan, and he's Afghan interpreter who works with him under the understanding that his service will make eligible for a U.S. visa. Oh, that's kind of messed up. Yeah, then everything goes sideways, and then he gets shot, shot and then um and then he saves his life so when he managed to recover he goes back to the states yeah and then only to find out that they didn't stick to the agreement oh unlucky and because he's he's all about honor yeah he had to go back he went back to Afghanistan yeah to try and get the guy who saved him and because they were already on the top wanted list for by the

47:32 which is what the movie is drained from and most of them have been killed as soon as they are you know because they're traitors

47:42 Sprecher 4 okay so what would you rate

47:43 Sprecher 5 this movie out of 10? I would rate it like 9 out of 10. No way that's high praise

47:47 Sprecher 4 you can't even finish the movie

47:50 Sprecher 5 hey as long as it's

47:54 don't reach out to me no if only if it's like action packed I will finish the movie. That's fair that's fair but it's definitely a movie to check out it's from 2023. oh and guy

48:06 Sprecher 4 richie redirected it who is that oh big action director big action director okay

50:44 Sprecher 2 f96 correct first with buddha tifa and tiger yeah it's a let's go now i got a question how you is physical media it's all love them books especially it's just really nice to have yeah to have a hundred percent like when you get overwhelmed so yeah i love books coming from australia right now

50:59 Sprecher 4 ai companies what they're doing is they're taking old books and they're scanning them and then saving them onto their ai databases and then what they do is they destroy the books huh Yeah, like it's called, what is it? Destructive scanning. So the spine is literally cut off and each individual page can go like quickly through the scanners. And then after that, there's a small chance for them to be recycled, but most of them just get destroyed. And this is happening with an AI company by the name of Anthropic and specifically in Australia right now. Now, this all started because booksellers in Australia,

52:02 Sprecher 2 that's sick and that's like very um like it doesn't feel real exactly like so what they're

52:10 Sprecher 5 doing is they're preserving all the information from the books yeah but they're not preserving

52:14 Sprecher 4 the the book the original copies and they're not releasing it in the public they're keeping it on their databases for like reference for their like ai models that's insane so they would rather get

52:55 like other like the old old ones too like imagine that being in Fiji you know because I because

53:00 Sprecher 5 everything now has been digitized yes yes yes okay that's fine you digitize it but if the physical book can you why can you why can't you preserve it why can't you just keep it somewhere for safe

53:09 Sprecher 2 keeping like is it is it that necessary to destroy you need to destroy exactly they're just doing all

53:16 Sprecher 4 All this, you know, and then they're just going to go on their day. Like, these Australians.

53:22 Sprecher 2 Jokes.

55:38 Sprecher 4 Black is the code F96 Crackfest with Vananity Fentai

55:42 Sprecher 2 Good yandras, it's 5 to 8 Let's go Tuesday

55:45 Sprecher 5 This couple has been like, I think every Everyone wants to be like them In terms of relationship Who are we talking about? Tom Holland and Zendaya

55:54 Sprecher 2 Oh hard, easily

55:55 Sprecher 5 So he had mentioned in a recent interview How he receives hundreds of Memes from Zendaya on a daily basis Memes from Instagram He's so cute And he even mentioned that I can't keep up She sends me too much I can't keep up I delete my Instagram for some days And then I come to check my messages And I see hundreds and hundreds of things And memes from her I love it

56:20 Sprecher 2 As it should be I'm so jealous

56:22 Sprecher 4 So one doomsgirls for the other Because you know we all have that one person Who just like constantly sends us

56:28 Sprecher 5 I feel like this is like her love language It is And I love it I mean if your partner is not sending you memes

57:04 Sprecher 2 I don't like you Pepe no I mean

57:07 Sprecher 5 this is not for friends like if you're if you're in a relationship oh yeah

57:11 Sprecher 4 do you do that yes of course I do

57:14 Sprecher 2 chronically bro

57:15 Sprecher 5 this is what makes a perfect couple when you're mimified and you're sending memes to each other

57:21 Sprecher 2 I gotta start

57:22 Sprecher 4 sending memes now I'm starting to feel really bad

57:24 Sprecher 5 you need to find somebody to send memes to

57:59 Sprecher 6 That sound? Someone just made Fiji a little dirtier.

58:03 Sprecher 1 Littering harms our beaches, our rivers, our communities. And it says something about us as a people. The Ministry of Environment and Climate Change is calling on every Fijian. Own your surroundings, dispose of waste properly, pick it up when you see it, lead by example.

58:21 Sprecher 6 Fiji is ours to protect. Do the right thing. Ministry of Environment and Climate Change. For a cleaner Fiji.

59:24 Sprecher 1 Good morning, I'm Temela Sivono with your FM96 Newsbee from Fiji Village. There were 18 people charged with 41 counts of sexual offences last month, including four juveniles. According to the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, there was one incident where a 17-year-old boy and a 16-year-old boy were charged with the attempted rape of a 15-year-old boy from their village. The Fiji Corrections Service has clarified that there are 206 active cases of HIV recorded within Fiji's correctional facilities.