ONE NEWS CAPTIONS BY CONOR WHITTEN AND GLENNA CASALME. CAPTIONS WERE MADE POSSIBLE WITH FUNDING FROM NZ ON AIR. COPYRIGHT TVNZ ACCESS SERVICES 2013 DUE TO THE LIVE NATURE OF SEVEN SHARP, WE APOLOGISE FOR THE LACK OF CAPTIONS FOR SOME ITEMS. HI. TONIGHT WE'RE JOINED BY JASON FA'AFOI FOR THE SHOW. And welcome back to Ali. We're talking about sneezing and coughing and spitting everywhere. HOPE YOU'VE HAD DINNER, BECAUSE THIS IS HOW WE MAKE EACH OTHER SICK. Worse than the eyeball I ate last night WE WERE PROMISED FLYING CARS AND HOVER BOARDS. BUT WHAT ABOUT COMMERICAL SPACE TRAVEL? GUESS WHICH COUNTRY WANTS IT MOST. WE'RE ONE OF THE TOP COUNTRIES PER HEAD OF CAPITA FOR SPACE FLIGHTS. IF THERE'S ONE THING KIWIS ARE VERY INTO, IT'S INNOVATION AND BEING THE FIRST AND THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX. IN THE LATEST OF OUR NZ MUSIC MONTH SERIES, DEAN TAKES US BACK TO 1980S DUNEDIN AND THIS FORMER BASS PLAYER. ALSO, WHAT'S GOING ON HERE? WE'LL TELL YOU ABOUT THAT IN A LITTLE BIT. IT'S WEDNESDAY NIGHT. THIS IS SEVEN SHARP. IF YOU'RE LIKE ME, YOU HAVEN'T HAD A FLU JAB. I'M DEAD LUCKY. I HAVEN'T HAD THE FLU IN YEARS. I have never had a flu jab. Greg thinks he is Bruce Willis in their movie Unbreakable. I love needles. I don't get the flu jab. About 20% of us get the flu. 400 people in NZ die every year from the flu. IS THIS A NOSE? OR A DOUBLE-BARRELLED MACHINE GUN? HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT THAT ANALOGY? WELL, RESPIRATORY VIRUSES ARE PASSED FROM PERSON TO PERSON WHEN WE TALK AND OBVIOUSLY WHEN WE SNEEZE AND COUGH. SO THAT'S PART OF THE STORY. IS SNEEZING THE MOST IMPORTANT WAY THAT WE PASS ON COLDS AND FLUS? IT'S ONE OF THE WAYS. BELIEVE IT OR NOT, THE FULL EXPERIMENTS OF HOW THESE VIRUSES ARE PASSED FROM PERSON TO PERSON HAVEN'T BEEN DONE. BUT HERE'S A LITTLE ANTARCTIC HUT EXPERIMENT LANCE PREPARED EARLIER. VOLUNTEERS INFECTED WITH A VIRUS PLAYED POKER WITH HEALTHY GUYS, SOME OF WHOM HAD A BARRIER IN PLACE TO STOP THEIR DIRTY CARD HANDS GETTING ANYWHERE NEAR THEIR FACE. IN THE END, OVER HALF OF THOSE HEALTHY GUYS WEARING THE BARRIER STILL CAUGHT THE BUG FROM THE INFECTED PLAYERS, MEANING THE VIRUS WAS DEFINITELY TRANSMITED VIA THE SNEEZE AND COUGH DROPLETS IN THE AIR AND NOT BY DIRECT CONTACT. GENIUS, BUT STILL... I'M NOT A BIRD IN ASIA OR A PIG IN MEXICO. DO I HAVE TO REALLY WORRY ABOUT FLU? STOIC: YES. WE HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT INFLUENZA. HMM, FLU IS CLEARLY NOTHING TO JOKE ABOUT. AND NEITHER IS DOING INTERVIEWS OUTSIDE IN CHRISTCHURCH. WE'RE ALL GUILTY ON THE SPORTS FIELD OR WHATEVER OF COUGHING AND SNEEZING AND SPITTING OUT OUR MUCOUS ON TO THE SPORTS FIELD. I AM GUILTY OF THAT. OR SOMEONE ELSE COMES ALONG AND PUTS THEIR FACE IN IT. OR USING A COTTON HANKERCHIEF AND PUTTING IT BACK INTO OUR POCKET. OF COURSE, THEY GET PRETTY MESSY. CLEARLY, I'VE GOT A BIT TO LEARN ABOUT SNEEZING. I MIGHT HAVE TO GO TO SNEEZE SCHOOL. I THINK IT WOULD BE A GREAST IDEA. I SHOULDN'T HAVE LAUGHED, BECAUSE SNEEZE SCHOOL IS A REAL AND RATHER LOW-HANGING CAMPAIGN. MZ B AND GUEST STAR PETE THE PARROT TOOK US THROUGH THE LESSON THAT HAS BEEN DRASTICALLY IMPROVING KIWI KIDS' HYGIENE LEVELS SINCE 2005. ACHOO! WHAT HAPPENED, TIANA? PETE SNEEZED ON ME. OH NO! PETE WAS SOON ON AN EDUCATIONAL RAMPAGE. ACHOO! OH, PETE, NO! ACHOO! ACHOO! ACHOO! CHOO! THEN THERE WERE SCARY GERM BUBBLES. LET'S SEE WHO MIGHT GET BUBBLES ON THEM. WATCH OUT. DON'T MOVE. AND JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT YOU WERE SAFE, GERM GLITTER THREATENED TO KILL US ALL. OH NO! BUT THIS INNOVATIVE SNEEZE SAFE CAMPAIGN IS MORE THAN JUST A PRETTY HAND. THE HIGHLY EFFECTIVE HOMEGROWN HYGIENE CONCEPT HAS BEEN PICKED UP BY THE US, THE UK AND POLAND. BUT JUST BECAUSE OUR KIDS HAVE MASTERED THE MESSAGE,... DON'T... CHILDREN: ...EAT IT. THAT DOESN'T MEAN ALL KIWIS ARE SNEEZE SAFE AGENTS. BECAUSE NEW RESEARCH SUGGESTS THAT OUT THE REST OF US ARE PRETTY MUCH DISGUST` ACHOO! OH, THAT'S GONNA BUFF OUT. THAT` THAT'S FINE. Don't eat boogers you if you take nothing else from our show, we have done our job. The flu jab is 80% effective. My stance is not manly. It is just lazy. I don't feel like I need to. I don't read the news. Don't believe everything you see on the news. I got the flu jab here in TVNZ. Here At TVNZ, they hot desk. So someone has been working at your desk before you,... Keyboards are dirtier than toilet seats. Who told you this? It's true! I want to apologise that I useD the same spoon as Heather last night when I ate that eyeball. Google map. showing what the flu was doing around the world. There is not much flu in the world because we're in between seasons. But then if we go to this graph here, this will be 2009 which was the worst year. That dark blue line is where we're tracking at the moment. When the flu breaks out, we will see that map going orange and red. What I didn't find today is that we only did it in winter. Does it work better in winter? Why is it called flu season? Good question. THE BIG NEWS STORY TODAY IS THE INVESTIGATION INTO POLICE CONDUCT AROUND THE UREWERA FOUR. GOOD NEWS, JESSE'S BEEN FOLLOWING THIS ONE CLOSELY. YEAH, THE UREWERA FOUR ` THEY SEEMED PRETTY SCARY FOR A WHILE, BUT NOWADAYS WE THINK OF THEM AS LESS BALI NINE AND MORE JACKSON FIVE. WHAT THEY'RE UP TO IN THAT BUSH STILL ISN'T REALLY CLEAR, BUT IF THIS SURVEILLANCE FOOTAGE IS ANYTHING TO GO BY, THEY WERE PRACTICING HOW TO SHOOT A CAR DEALER AT CLOSE RANGE. HOW CASUAL IS THE GUY ON THE LEFT? IT WAS A FAMOUS CASE, BUT ALL MOST OF US REMEMBER NOW IS TAMA ITI GOING TO COURT DRESSED AS A MAORI PHILEUS FOGG. IT'S ALWAYS EMBARASSING WHEN YOU SHOOT FOR GANGSTER CHIC AND END UP LOOKING LIKE A BOLIVIAN PEASANT. BUT TODAY'S ABOUT THE POLICE AND THEIR BALLS-UP. DON'T LOSE YOUR COURT CASE COS YOU STUFFED UP EVIDENCE ` THAT'S THE RULE THE REST OF US LEARNT WATCHING TV IN THE '80S. SO, BACK TO WORK, BATMAN. THE PENGUIN LIVES TO FIGHT ANOTHER DAY. He did look dapper he toned it down he went from a bow tie to a normal tie. AFTER THE BREAK ` AND WE ASK, 'WHERE ARE THEY NOW?' ABOUT A GROUNDBREAKING ALL GIRL BAND. ALSO,... I KNOW PEOPLE WHO'RE MORTGAGING THEIR HOUSE TO PAY FOR THIS EXPERIENCE. IT'S THE MOST EXPENSIVE THING IN THE WORLD TO DO, BUT PLENTY OF KIWIS ARE SIGNING UP. Are you excited about going into space? I'm always excited about it. FEELS LIKE WE'VE BEEN HEARING A LOT ABOUT SPACE. IT'S ALWAYS BEEN YEARS AWAY. BUT IT'S HAPPENING AT THE END OF THIS YEAR. IT'S NOT JUST RUSSIAN BILLIONAIRES AND HOLLYWOOD MOVIE STARS. EPIC, INTREPID MUSIC MAN: SPACE TRAVEL ` THE FINAL FRONTIER. IT'S STILL HARD TO BELIEVE KIWIS COULD BE FLOATING AROUND UP HERE IN LESS THAN A YEAR. EVEN HARDER TO BELIEVE,... THIS IS WHERE YOU CAN GET A TICKET ` A SOUTH-EAST AUCKLAND INTERSECTION. LITTLE BOTANY JUNCTION, I KNOW. EVER THINK YOU'D SEE THE DAY YOU WERE SPACE AGENT? NO, NO, NOT AT ALL, AND I'VE BEEN IN TRAVEL FOR OVER 30 YEARS. IN THE NEXT YEAR WE'RE GOING TO BE HAVING COMMERCIAL SPACE PASSENGERS, AND KIWIS. SO OVER ON THE LEFT COULD BE A BOOKING TO THE GOLD COAST. ON THE RIGHT... SUB-ORBITAL SPACE. 400,000FT OF PURE ADRENALIN. UPLIFTING MUSIC BUT ALL THAT ADRENALIN PACKED INTO... TWO HOURS, FOR A COSMIC 230,000 BUCKS. EVERYONE FOCUSES ON PRICE, BUT PRICE HAS NEVER BEEN A FACTOR? NO, YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE RICH. I KNOW PEOPLE WHO'RE MORTGAGING THEIR HOUSE TO PAY FOR THIS EXPERIENCE. SOME PEOPLE SPEND MONEY ON THEIR OWN PASSIONS ` LIKE, CLIMB TO THE TOP OF EVEREST. THAT WILL COST YOU $60,000 TO $100,000. SOME PEOPLE WANT TO BUY FAST CARS. ALTHOUGH, LAST TIME I LOOKED, BEING RICH WAS USEFUL FOR ANY OF THESE. BUT INTERESTING FACT ` EXPERTS THINK SPACE TRAVEL WILL BE SAFER THAN ATTEMPTING EVEREST. I MUST ADMIT, I'M NOT TOO WORRIED ABOUT IT, BECAUSE SIR RICHARD BRANSON'S GOING UP FIRST WITH HIS FAMILY. PROVIDING HE GOES UP AND COMES BACK, I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM ANY MORE. SO YOU'RE TRUSTING A MAN IN DRAG? > YEAH. (CHUCKLES) THAT'S A GOOD POINT. UPBEAT UKULELE MUSIC IAN WILL BE PASSENGER 637 TO DEFY GRAVITY ` SO FAR ONE OF EIGHT KIWIS. IT WAS NEARLY NINE. OVER A COUPLE OF WINES, MY MOTHER DID AGREE TO GO UP TO SPACE WITH ME, WITH ME, BUT NEXT MORNING SHE DECLINED. BUT NOT TO WORRY. WE'RE ONE OF THE TOP COUNTRIES PER HEAD OF CAPITA FOR SPACE FLIGHTS. IF THERE'S ONE THING, KIWIS ARE VERY INTO INNOVATION AND BEING FIRST AND THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX. AND THIS WILL BE A LONG WAY OUTSIDE THE BOX ` AND SOON. HAVE THEY GOT THEIR SOUVENIRS READY? THEY'VE GOT EVERYTHING READY. AH, EXCEPT THE SO-CALLED TOURISTONAUTS THEMSELVES, LIKE WHAT GEAR THEY'LL WEAR. SO AT AUCKLAND'S STARDOME, WE THOUGHT WE'D HELP. (CHUCKLES) (CHUCKLES) FAKE ONE. WHAT DID HE EXPECT? ANYWAY IF THIS IS THE REAL THING, IT'S NOT THAT FAR OFF. IT LOSES A BIT IN THE TRANSLATION. THE REASON WE THINK THIS'LL BE LIKE THE REAL ONE IS COS THIS GUY IS ONE OF THE TEST PILOTS. WITHIN 10 SECONDS, OR 11 SECONDS, YOU'RE SUPERSONIC, YOU GET 3GS ON YOUR BACK INSTANTLY WHEN IT LIGHTS. BOY, THAT FIRST 10 SECONDS ` ABOUT THE MOST DYNAMIC FLYING I'VE EVER DONE. (CHUCKLES) THERE'S A WAVE OF ENERGY CLOSE TO THE VEHICLE, AND IT'S... IT'S EYE WATERING. AND THEN YOU GET TO FLOAT, JUST LIKE AN M&M. THERE'S A TWO OR THREE DAY TRAINING COURSE WHERE YOU'VE GOT TO GO THROUGH CENTRIFUGES TO KNOW THAT YOU CAN HANDLE THE G FORCES AND SO ON. I'M QUITE LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT. IT'LL BE VERY COOL FUN. (CHUCKLES) LET'S HOPE EVERYONE HAS A SICK BAG, JUST IN CASE. > AND GIVEN THERE ARE ONLY SIX PEOPLE ON EACH FLIGHT, LET'S HOPE YOU SIT NEXT TO SOMEONE NICE. THE LIST OF THE FIRST 100 IS FASCINATING ` FOUR ESTATE AGENTS, THREE KIWIS, ONE BEING AN ESTATE AGENT, AND NUMEROUS CELEBRITIES; TOM HANKS ` HE COULD PROBABLY WEAR THAT SUIT AGAIN; AND KATY PERRY ` SHE MIGHT NEED TO CHANGE HERS. # BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, # EVEN BRIGHTER THAN THE MOON, MOON, MOON. # AND WHO WOULD YOU LIKE TO SIT NEXT TO? (CHUCKLES) HAVEN'T GOT ANY IDEA. REFLECTIVE MUSIC HE'S JUST GOING TO TAKE IN THE VIEW. I REMEMBER THE MAN LANDING ON MOON, LISTENING ON RADIO, REMEMBER THE ROCKETS TAKING OFF. THE CONCEPT OF BEING OUTSIDE WORLD JUST BLOWS ME AWAY. AND IN THE WORDS OF SOMEONE WHO'S BEEN THERE, DONE THAT... # PLANET EARTH IS BLUE, AND THERE'S NOTHING LEFT TO DO. # You guys were talking about expensive kids birthday parties. That could be a good idea. $230,000 per head. That sub orbital. So you go into the atmosphere. So that's nearly space. It's not actual space. And only up there for two hours? This is a company called space X. When you pierce through... whatever it is you will have an inflatable hotel to stay in. This crushes down into a seven foot tube. NASA has a plane that they train astronauts on called the vomit comet. Jason is doing show and tell. If I was going to go up, I was asked what I would take up. I would be wearing these shoes. These are my Star Wars shoes. If there's time for Monopoly, I would break that out. He spent your money on your sneakers. You would have enough money to go to space. I was doing some watching on YouTube. I love it. I saw this guy who was the sixth man to walk on the moon. He said it was a profound experience. He used such big words to describe the experience. If you have minor problems on earth, like an annoying co-host, by the time you got up to the Moon, you would forget all that. If it's a passion, fantastic. The 230 grand, it is expensive. I would not be popping off to Instant Finance for it. They have raised 84,000 so far for the Mars thing to happen. They need $6 million. AFTER THE BREAK ` ONCE PART OF THE DUNEDIN SOUND, NOW A JOURNALIST. CAN YOU WORK OUT WHO THIS IS? I asked why we get flu more over winter. Our body is more vulnerable and we sit inside together more often. Sneezing all over each other. DEAN BUTLER IS FERRETTING MORE TALENT FROM YESTERYEAR IN HIS ONGOING SERIES FOR NZ MUSIC MONTH 'WHERE ARE THEY NOW?' TONIGHT ` A STALWART OF THE DUNEDIN SOUND. THE VERLAINE'S 'DEATH AND THE MAIDEN' THE DUNEDIN SOUND WAS HUGE IN THE '80S ` BANDS LIKE THE VERLAINES; # VERLAINE, VERLAINE, VERLAINE, VERLAINE, # VERLAINE. # THE CHILLS; THE CHILLS' 'PINK FROST' # JUST THE THOUGHT FILLS MY HEART WITH PINK FROST. # AND RIGHT AMONGST IT WAS 'LOOK BLUE, GO PURPLE'. GUITARIST KATH WEBSTER WAS RIGHT THERE. SHE SPENT PLENTY OF TIME ON THE ROAD. NOW SHE SPENDS PLENTY OF TIME TALKING ABOUT THE ROAD AS THE EDITOR OF 'AA DIRECTIONS' MAGAZINE. FIRST THINGS FIRST, HOW DID THEY COME UP WITH THE NAME? WE JUST TOSSED AROUND SO MANY DIFFERENT NAMES. FOR SOME REASON, THAT ONE STUCK. THERE'S NO LOGIC TO IT. WE'RE A VERY DEMOCRATIC BAND. OH, REALLY? > YEAH. SO SOMETIMES IT WAS QUITE HARD TO COME TO A DECISION. THIS IS 'CACTUS CAT' OFF OUR NEW EP FROM FLYING NUN. LBGPEP2. 'CACTUS CAT' WHILE OTHER DUNEDIN BANDS EXPLORED THE DARKER SIDE, LOOK BLUE, GO PURPLE COMBINED SUCCULENTS AND FELINES. # YEAH, SHE IS MY CACTUS CAT. # SHE IS MY BEST FRIEND. WAS THAT ABOUT A NASTY CAT? WHAT WAS THAT ABOUT? I THINK THE CAT WAS FROM LITERATURE ` I THINK A SOUTH AMERICAN CAT FROM LITERATURE, YEAH. (LAUGHS) > 'CACTUS CAT' CONTINUES BEING AN ALL-GIRL BAND, DID YOU GET MORE BOYS COMING TO YOUR GIGS? (LAUGHS) NO, I DON'T THINK SO. NO. IT WASN'T REALLY LIKE THAT. # I DON'T WANT YOU ANYWAY. # KATH THEN TRIED TO GIVE HER MAGAZINE AN UNSUBTLE PLUG, BUT I WASN'T FALLING FOR THAT OLD TRICK. WHEN THE BAND FINISHED, WHAT DID YOU DO AFTER THAT? YEAH, ONE OF US HAD A BABY; ONE OF US LEFT TOWN. IT JUST SORT OF` YOU KNOW, IT HAD DONE ITS COURSE. KATH IS STILL GOOD FRIENDS WITH ALL HER OLD BANDMATES, BUT HOW DID SHE END UP HERE? WHEN I WAS IN THE BAND, AFTER UNIVERSITY, I WAS WORKING IN THE ART GALLERY IN DUNEDIN BUT THEN SHIFTED INTO JOURNALISM. I THINK THERE'S QUITE A NICE CONNECTION WITH WRITING MUSIC AND WITH CREATING A MAGAZINE. IT'S ABOUT EXPRESSING YOURSELF, AND IT'S ABOUT SHARING IDEAS AND BEING CREATIVE. IT'S HOPING PEOPLE ENJOY IT AND BE ENTERTAINED BY IT. KATH, WE SURE WERE, ESPECIALLY BY VIDEOS THAT INCLUDED PUTTING A BLANKET ON A CLOTHESLINE. THEY DON'T MAKE 'EM LIKE THAT ANY MORE. Why are there not more NZ women bands? No one will answer that. She was the guitarist. Not the bass player. She's still plays music at home when her mates come round. Her parents were into classical music and did not see her play. They listened to her records which they kind of liked. It's good to see them being on a show. I liked the music. TO CLOSE, SOMETHING TO MAKE YOU SMILE. IN ITS EIGHTH YEAR, THE MASSEY VET SCIENCE STUDENTS CALENDAR HAS BEEN RELEASED ` 70 STUDENTS POSING IN THE NUDE. HERE'S THE CALENDAR. We thought it would be more interesting to have a look at the outtakes. Prize the best use of for paling fence. Waxing is not just the ladies. There is always one. Look carefully at the red arrow. If you look at it long enough, you'll work out what's going on. Details on our website about we get the calendar. Proceeds are going to working dog health charity. THAT'S ALL FOR TONIGHT. SEE YOU TOMORROW. CAPTIONS BY DESNEY SHAW AND LAUREN STRAIN. CAPTIONS WERE MADE POSSIBLE WITH FUNDING FROM NZ ON AIR.