ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Week!) - Antarctica!

Episode Date: May 9, 2024

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The ZM Podcast Network. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. On today's Fact of the Day of the Week, Vaughn bundles up warm and downloads Tinder for a week of Antarctic facts. It's time for... Fact of the Day, Day, Day, Day, Day. It's Antarctica week Yes Here at Fact of the Day

Brrr Brrr Loser I guess so Oh, chilly Cold as a Well, today's Fact of the day about Antarctica is, did you know that 62.2% of all meteorites ever found by humans

were found in Antarctica? What? Phenomenal, isn't it? Is it because they're easier to find? Bingo. I was just like, yeah. There simply must be a reason. They almost get past And then Antarctica's like

Southern The magnetic poles Yeah And it is just because It's like a desert Except it's ice So the meteors hit And they'll make a mark

And the mark is Findable Because it doesn't rain Although be it very very cold It is a desert Because it doesn't rain So the mark will stay the same It might get a bit snow blown But, but these guys know what they're

looking for and then they'll just dig around at the bottom. Guys or girls, hey, hey, hey, hey. Yeah, girls can dig for meteorites. Girls can go to Antarctica. Ever since the 2014 Antarctic Convention where they said, okay, suppose so.

Got all those lovely soft bits to keep them warm. Yeah, yeah I suppose so guys we're not going to just be able to come down here and kiss all the time anymore if you went to Antarctica you'd have sex eh

I would I'd be like just anyone well I've had sex in Antarctica what's the strangest place you've had sex Antarctica

I thought you meant you'd be so bored yeah that as well you get in and the last plane leaves and they're like three months

and you're immediately like I I can't take it. Someone shag me. Someone get over here. No, just to be like, I've had sex in Antarctica. And then if you have a baby as a result of it, you've got to give it an Antarctic themed name. Oh, yeah. Isn't Ed Sheeran's daughter's middle name Antarctica?

It's a silly name. Can we have a fact check, please? It's a silly name. Can we have a fact check, please? It's a silly name. It's a silly name. It's a bit silly. Hello, producers, wake up! McFly! I need a fact check on Ed Sharon's daughter's name being Antarctica.

I mean, we've got... Middle name. We've got laptops all in front of us. It's crazy. I've got graphs open. I've got pie graphs open. I can't dare open a new tab and lose these amazing pie graphs. Okay.

So, yep, and it doesn't rain, so the landscape doesn't change. It's hard, so when it hits, it doesn't go straight through. Wait, can we go back to this? It doesn't rain in Antarctica? No. Is it because it's at the bottom and rain falls down? It's a desert. So how would it go?

Yes. Yeah, it just falls straight past Antarctica. It can't get out of the ground through the ice. It can't permeate up. It falls straight down past Antarctica, but then gravity grabs the rain and pulls it back around and rains on South America. Right.

Right, right, right. That's why it's so rainy in Fiordland. That's why. For example. It's getting all the rain off South America. Yeah, these are not facts. That's definitely a fact. So now that when they're just walking around, they can find meteors that fell like thousands of years ago. Yeah, these are not facts. That's definitely a fact. So, now that when they're just walking around

they can find meteors that fell like thousands of years ago. Oh, wow. Because they kind of just hit the ice and they stay there and there's no like massive shift and everything. Whereas if they hit in other huge deserts, don't know if you guys have caught the latest breaking news on deserts, primarily sand.

Yeah, that's my image. And then the sand changes because of all the winds and they, you know,. And they go in and then the sand changes because of all the winds and they, you know, probably in the Sahara and all the big deserts there's thousands of meteors,

meteorites buried but we'll never find them because they're underneath all the sand. Why are they not in the big cities? Because the big cities take up such a small percentage

of land. Like occasionally one will go through someone's roof, won't it? Yeah. And there'll be a massive story about it. You mean like cities are condensed in area. Yeah.

Like you think you're in a massive city and then you see it zoomed out and it is just a very small portion of earth. We keep talking about a population crisis. It seems like we've got plenty of space. Or good old stream. Good old stream but not extremely habitable because like you said, Antarctica, brr. Brr. Very cold.

Desert. Woof. Far apart. Rainforest. Muggy. Muggy. Take a T-shirt off, clingy. Full of creatures that absolutely want to eat you.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So today's fact of the day, I'm the first for Antarctica wet. Ocean, wet. Oh, God, so wet. Have you tried breathing that stuff? I have. It sucks. It's thick.

It's like our lungs weren't made for it. Today's fact of the day for Antarctica week is that 62.2% of all meteorites ever found were found in Antarctica. It's Antarctica week here at Fact of the Day. New Zealand's got a very close connection to Antarctica, doesn't it? Yes. We've always got scientists down there. It feels part of us, doesn't it?

If you have been in Antarctica... Good morning to our Antarctic listeners. Good morning to our Antarctic listeners. And you've got like a mind-blowing little known fact. Feel free to hit us up. Hit me up. Stop trying to make your job easier. I'm just trying to make my job easier.

You're lazy. You want other people to outsource. You're outsourcing your facts. There's so many facts about Antarctica and heaps of kids obviously get Antarctica as a subject. They have to do a school. I did. It's all real basic stuff.

Yeah. Like Antarctica holds, in frozen form, the world's biggest reserve of fresh water. I mean, that's fascinating. But it's not tickling my fancy. It's like tickling my fanny. It's not doing that either. Yeah, right. I mean, it's a lot of fresh water. You want some

quirky, kooky facts that we may have never heard before. Such as the ghost range of Antarctica. Ooh. Also known as the Kambertsiev Mountain Range, named for Soviet geophysicist Grigory Akambertsiev. Okay. Perfect pronunciation there.

Thank you very much. It's buried. It is the size of the Alps in Europe. Holy! It is a monstrous mountain range. How high are the Alps? How high is this range? And it's just buried under snow. It's buried underous mountain range. How high are the Alps? How high is this range? And it's just buried under snow.

It's buried under snow and ice. It's 1,200 kilometres long, and at its highest point can be up to four kilometres high. Far out. How is it buried? Just because the base of it is when, back in the day, this was another little fact from kids' projects, but Antarctica used to get up to 17 degrees.

It went all that change. Oh yeah, we'll be back there soon. Fingers crossed. Fingers crossed. We'll get all that delicious fresh water and it'll be filling our homes up. Yes. To the brim. And our beachfront properties. I've always wanted a pool. Well, you're about to have one. Just have one in the house.

Absolutely about to have one. So have one in the house. Absolutely about to have one. So they discover this mountain range under there. No humans ever stepped foot on it. Obviously, it's before our time. But it confused scientists. They said as they stroked their bed because there's nowhere around there that is two tectonic plates pushing up

that forms all the massive mountain ranges. So they think it's an old plate that has since fused. The mountain ranges were formed, the plates fused, and then when the climate changed and it became very icy and snowy, it just got completely buried in ice. So the mountain range is under there, but the walk to it is so gradual with packed ice

that you don't even see the mountain range. It's buried. That's why it's called the Ghost Ranges. They were discovered in 1958. Wow. Incredible. It's down there. And the thing that blows my mind is you look at the Alps on a European map. But it's 4,000 metres high.

Yeah, because they've done that. Right. Down to the ice and they get their bounce back from the rock. Far out. That's insane. How big's Antarctica? Huge. Do you know when I think of Antarctica,

I just always think about it as being like a little island. Nah. I think about it being the size of like Samoa, even though I know on the map that it's not. But okay, so the elevation of Scott Bay is 10 metres above sea level. So then you were saying that this is so gradual

you don't notice a 4km high slope. Antarctica is huge. Australia is 10 million square kilometres. Antarctica is 14. So it's one and a half Australias. Wow.

I don't know why, because I feel like when you see photos of Antarctica and it's surrounded by the bases, I always just imagine them being sort of like

this tiny little community. Hey! Waving to each other. Yeah. It's massive. And because it's always on a globe, you think,

I'm holding a ball here for a visual aid in studio. But if you've ever seen a ball, you too at home can imagine a ball. Antarctica's on the bottom and we only ever see the globe from the side. Tip it upside down. Do yourself a favour and go to Google Maps. Do a 9E. Put in Antarctica. It's got a C. It's got a couple of Cs, actually. That always tricks me. And then flip it upside

down. It's huge. It's one and a half Australias in square kilometres. Antarctica is the highest continent on Earth. The average elevation is two and a half thousand metres, so that's as high as Mount Taranaki. But again, it's on the bottom. I don't understand how it's so high. You know, it's just bizarre to me. Yeah. Well, it's massive, so...

Facts. Good facts. There's a hidden mountain range down there. So today's fact of the day is that there is a ghost mountain range known as the Cambodseph Mountain Range in Antarctica that's buried under ice. It's Antarctica week here at Fact of the Day.

Boy, that place blows my mind. Do we have more reading about Antarctica? Or as they say in America, Antarctica? Yeah, that's yuck. You missed a whole letter. Antarctica. Do you know Antarctica had a name before it was even a place? Oh. Oh.

I knew you before I met you. Exactly. This is today's fact. No, no, no. This is just a little bonus. Wow, bonus fact. I love little scattered facts. It was when they knew of the Arctic Circle,

the Greeks, et cetera, knew of the Arctic Circle, they hypothesized they must have an opposite and called it Antarctica before anybody had discovered Antarctica. Anti-Arctic. Yes. Yeah. The opposite, the anti-Arctic. The following things were invented before Antarctica was discovered. Okay. The opposite, the anti-Arctic. The following things were invented before Antarctica was discovered.

Okay. The battery. Hmm. Uranus. The triple A. Uranus was discovered before Antarctica. Because they're a long board. It's hard to miss it.

It was hard to miss. Peter Duran invented the tin can. Oh. Before Antarctica was discovered. We should have called it a tin Dan or Tin Duran rather than a Tin Can. Because he had naming rights. Named it after himself. Yeah, or a Tinned Peter.

A Peter Can. Peter Can. That would have worked. You got a Peter Can of tomatoes? Yeah, I got a Peter Can of crushed tomatoes. Oh, a Peter Can of chickpeas? No, yuck. Get out of here.

What are you making? Homemade hummus? Just buy it. Already made. The steam locomotive. yuck. Get out of here. What are you making? Homemade hummus? Just buy it. Already made. The steam locomotive, the photograph, the steph-scope. Named after Stephanie Scope. Yes. Oh, Miss Scope.

She had a pair of eyes on her. No, wait a minute. It's not for saying. She had a pair of ears on her. A lot of things. Braille was invented. A lot. Because when was it? Mor Braille was invented. A lot. Because when was it?

Morse code was invented. When was it discovered and set foot on? 1820. Wow. Was when it was discovered and it wasn't set foot on for another 10 years.

I had no idea. That's so late. I know, so late in the game. What do they think was down there? They just never went looking. Too cold. So apparently,

they're on the boat and they're just like don't go any further there. In 1773, James Cook that guy and his crew crossed the Antarctic Circle for the first time. He discovered some islands down there but never set his eyes on the continent itself.

Okay. They believed he was within 150 miles. Oh, he was so close. So close. God, just keep going, you know. Someone was... Hope he had a bloody Mac Puffer. A Mac Puffer.

Oh, yeah. You know. Stuff with some warm... Gotta have a Mac Puffer. No, those weren't invented until 1850, so... Oh, God, it would have been so cold. He was just, yeah. Until they found all the penguins.

Yeah. And they were like, what are they wearing? We'll try to replicate that. Or wear one of those. Stuff some of them in an insider coat. That was the first ever puffer. Side fact of the day. They plucked a penguin and stuffed it in there.

Yeah, like sacks of penguins. They're just whole penguins. Yeah. Because they're usually those giant penguins. I reckon they just hollowed one of them out. Yeah. Shoved it on. The ones that were even bigger than emperors, eh?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, imagine seeing one of those. Imagine one of those standing right there. Admiral penguins. And you're just like, hey. Hey. Oh, my God, you're so big. That would be freaky.

And it's like... Like in that weird penguin noise. Shh, shh, shh, shh, shh. We're having quiet time. The largest penguin ever documented goes to the species Kumuano Fordici. Italian, of course. And it would have been over six foot tall.

Imagine, like, me, but I'm a penguin. Can I have a fish? No! Six foot eight! So it's Aaron! Aaron is a penguin. That's insane. Aaron could have hollowed out a penguin and got in and put his arms in and it would have been.

You'd need to make arm holes because your arms would be too long. Aaron's got very long arms. The flippers. Maybe his hands could have come out the end and had two smaller penguins as gloves. Yeah, it would be more of a shawl. Yeah, that would look cool though. And then two baby penguins on his gloves.

The tough guys in mythological stuff always wore a bear head and pelt as for warmth or a wolf. Yeah. It'd be pretty badass to have a giant penguin. Yeah.

It would be. And I reckon warm too and waterproof. Yeah. That's actually something to consider when you're thinking about hollowing out an animal.

What's more waterproof it'd be like. Wouldn't be able to fit those in Kelly Tarleton's. Oh no, he wouldn't be getting through the door. You would if you

laid them down but they'd always have to be bent over once they're in there it'd be pretty. Yeah, they'll be hunched. Come and see our penguins. Oh, no, he wouldn't be getting through the door. You would if you laid them down, but they'd always have to be bent over once they're in there. It'd be pretty... Yeah, they'll be hunched. Can I see our penguins? They're always laying down. Yeah, they're a bit hunched. Just can't stand up.

We are also taking Koha because we want to make the roof a bit higher for them. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's on you, visitor. Yeah. So today's fact of the day is the idea of Antarctica existed long before Antarctica was discovered and it wasn't even cited until 1820.

Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. Sorry. I am being roasted in the group chat right now. He is being roasted in the gaggle chat. That is outrageous. They'll be hearing from my lawyer. Yeah. Please, Vaughn, please.

A semblance of order. It's Antarctica this week. Far out. And yesterday I said Antarctica wasn't discovered until 1820. Remember that? Yes, you did say that. That felt so late. It's mind-blowing.

Well, somebody said, you want to look into the name of Antarctica. And that's all they said. And you know me. I'm a bloodhound. We did this anti-Arctic. No. And that's all they said. And you know me with it. I'm a bloodhound. We did this. Anti-Arctic. No. It used to be called Australia. What? Antarctica.

Get out. Was called Australia. But Australia's called Australia. Well, it used to be called New Holland. Australia. Australia was called New Holland. Oh, that's that medical show. New Holland. The tractor brand. When they went in and colonised it. I'm a John Deere man myself. I would have called it John Deere.

Beautiful. Stunning. Just get a free little plug there in for the sponsorship I've got going with John Deere. Lovely tractor. But so it was called New Holland. And then in 1824, Australia, New Holland, a colony of criminals.

Criminals. Criminals. Stole the name. the name Australia from Antarctica. To use for their stolen country. To use for their stolen country. They stole the name from. Antarctica was called Terra Australis, the continent. That makes sense.

I was like, where does Australia come from? The terrain. Oh, sorry. Look, that's just a courier there. Hang on. Sorry. You can take that. Yeah, doors open. Thank you. Oh my God, just a bit of admin on here. Yeah, carry on. Not even turn my phone off. Sorry about that, Tim. So, it was changed

from New Holland to Australia, leaving Antarctica without a name. Right. No name. They just went in and nicked it. 1890, they finally settled on the a name. Right. No name. Well, so they just went in and nicked it. 1890, they finally settled on the new name. So there were some names floating around. Antarctica could have been called, well, everyone just called it the Antarctic continent.

Right. Suggestions. Ultima. Isn't that a car brand? Isn't this an Ultima? This is an Ultima. And Antipodea. And Antipodea And Antipodea. And Antipodea.

Antipodea. Antipodea. It's like the sparkling water. Yes. Antipodea. Until someone was like, if it's the Antarctic content, why don't we just call it Antarctica? Meanwhile, Australia just stolen the name.

No regrets. They were like, not our problem. Not our problem. Your problem. Finders, keepers, losers, weepers. Like they steal everything. Wow. Wow.

The good stuff. Russell Crowe. No, we're happy. Technically. Have him. Just have him. That was a bit of a trade agreement. Right.

We've got to keep Sam Neill. Fair. So today's fact of the day is Antarctica wasn't even called Antarctica originally It was called Australia Fact of the day Day, day, day, day We did have some feedback last night at our client event about the Fact of the Day jingle. Oh my gosh, someone came up to us and they said, I would never thought I would have listened to you.

But you hooked me. Other than that. I was like, sorry. It's a device. Kids love it. But then we heard from somebody bang, bang. I was like, sorry. It's a device. Kids love it. But then we heard from somebody else that their child still sings along every morning. And she wanted to clarify

she likes Fact of the Day, just not the jingle. Just not the jingle. Yeah. Well, this one goes out to that person. Okay. Oh, great. I actually can't remember her name.

She was lovely. I don't think she did. I don't think we asked. Well, it's giving me Julie vibes. Julie. Yeah, it's Antarktis. Give me Julie vibes. Julie. Yeah, she was classy. Yeah, classy. Classy girl.

Classy Julie. Well, we've had a few people submit facts for Antarctic week. It's been a fun week for Antarctic facts. Chilly. I'm lying. Great today because it's cold. And that's what it's like being in Antarctica most of the time. I did really like the blood waterfall in Antarctica.

What? There's a blood waterfall in Antarctica? With the blood of seals from the killer whales. No, quick, just quick. It's an old, it's a water source that's been pushed up from underground and as it goes through iron deposits and it grabs it and then when it hits the oxygen it rusts because it's such fine particles and so it looks like blood but it's just rusty water.

I'm going to have a little googly. Rusty water. You look up the blood waterfalls of Antarctica. But I want to talk today about Antarctica and Tinder. Oh, okay. Oh, my God. It was a lonely December night in Antarctica's McMurdo Station, the American base down there in Antarctica. The blood waterfalls are insane.

They're nuts. Oh, my God. Google that. Yeah, good. Google that. They're nuts, eh? Oh my God, Google that. Yeah, good. Google that, unless you're driving. Do that later. Do that later. Oh my God. Bookmark that for later.

That could be a really good desktop for this. Maybe send it over. Actually, that would be nice for Mac OS update. Simona, I think we're up to now for Mac. I'm over Yosemite and all that. Yeah, yeah, beautiful. Everybody's counting. It was a lonely December night at McMurdo Station.

An American scientist, before he got stationed in Antarctica, had used Tinder. Oh, yeah. Now, this was when internet was available but limited. Yep. Not in the old days. I was reading a Reddit article to see if this is actually true, this story.

I couldn't find anybody really debunking it, but there was a Reddit article saying somebody was based there back in the day when internet was like super limited, and they basically had enough internet allowance per week to get two emails, just text. Just text, no pictures.

Wow, okay. When they were down there. Mum, Dad, I'm doing fine. A live X-X. They could satellite phone and radio communication. Right. A little, not as easy, again,

not as easy as today, but they could do it. But they said, obviously, this was after that. 2014, a lonely night. He had had Tinder

when he was in America. In Antarctica, he was like bored and he's like, I wonder if this will even work here. Yeah. Opens it up.

Who would he find? New Zealand? Maybe he gets someone from Southland. You might get a Southland Sheila. Yeah. And they're the best Who would he find? New Zealand? Well, maybe he gets someone from Southland. You might get a Southland Sheila. Yeah. And they're the best

Sheilas on the planet. Depending where in Antarctica, you might get a bottom in South America. Oh, yeah. Oh, that's for better. The bottom of Chile,

Argentina. Might get a little bit. Yeah. Unless somebody's down in the Auckland Islands. Anyway, he opens it up, finds a match, finds somebody in the area.

Wow. It's like, match, because you are the only one. Yep. Next time he opens up his phone, he's got a notification. Finds somebody in the area. Wow. It's like, match, because you are the only one. Yep. Next time he opens up his phone, he's got a notification. I've had an official match. Wow. She was camping at the time, and she was in the tent in the Dry Valleys.

Okay. And she was using satellite internet as well. Okay. It popped on Tinder as well. Well, she didn't even know she had her Tinder open, apparently. Right. It had been in the background. Yep.

And just, she got the ding notification someone's tried to match with you and she's like, oh my god, opens it and it's like, oh funny, matches. They catch up for a cute date. She was so... No word of shagging took place. If you're in Antarctica, you be shagging. She was leaving the next day

though. How long do you need? He's like, if she'd been staying, we could have been having some more dates. We could have caught up a few more times, but we did like catch up really quickly in passing and have a good laugh about the fact that we'd matched on Tinder. Yeah. And we may indeed be Antarctica's first Tinder

match. Wow. Here's why we haven't heard any more. Okay. After it. Oh, she got eaten by a killer whale. She killed him. She killed him. No, no. Murder an ant to Antarctica. The National Science Foundation in America wanted no more of these sorts of stories to come out as they were wondering that...

They were thinking that they would lose their funding for serious scientific missions if it was trivialised by polar passion. No, it humanises them. We always love love. Yeah. Let's say in person without Tinder, there's been some Antarctic hookups.

Oh, 100%. You would have to when those storms hit and they're stuck inside. Yeah. Canoodling. For days and days, you're going to have to have a little canoodle. Imagine if you're in your Antarctic intake and you all land and then you're like, great. Yeah.

I reckon your standards. Looking around. Day by day. You need to drop the standards a little bit, you know. Day by day they drop. Desperation and time equals standards lower. So today's fact of the day is there has been one reported successful Tinder match in Antarctica and it's been pretty quiet ever since. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Yeah, that was my tum-tums. That was my tum-tum-tums. Hey guys, I reckon that was the most fun I've ever had on a show.

Ah, not for me. Vaughan? Um, nowhere even close. No, nowhere even close. Nowhere even close. You haven't been here long, have you? No, I haven't. No.

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