ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - NSFW: ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Megan International Podcast Special - Part Two
Episode Date: April 23, 2018WARNING: CONTAINS EXPLICIT LANGUAGE. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan present the International Podcast Special.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
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ZDM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan.
The podcast. He has to live with me, so he puts up with a lot, but he's a top guy for a variety of reasons. One, for my birthday this year, he bought me off Trade Me
two absolutely pristine blocks of ever so mysterious caramel chocolate,
my absolute favorite chocolate.
He refuses to tell me how much he paid for them,
and I almost cried when I was opening them.
I was too scared to eat them because once they're gone, it's gone.
Caramel's been back since then.
Is it still back, though?
It had an over-summer revival, didn't it?
Nah, it's gone again.
It's gone again now.
He listens to the podcast more or less every day.
We're both in on the show.
Secret drink to Princess Diana.
Princess Diana.
To the People's Princess.
To Mother Teresa's BFF.
I mentioned she had a controversy with Mother Teresa.
That wasn't it.
It was.
Their personal fave podcast moment was recently
when Caitlin told you all you were running late
to go to a movie premiere in Newmarket
and everyone lost their minds.
Oh, yeah.
One time...
Oh, my God, where are you telling us?
Oh, my God.
One time...
It's not how we sound, Caitlin.
...even rang in front of your phone in segments
and got on air something about a guy he knows
who has the V can symbol tattooed on him
and now gets hooked up with free V.
I remember the call.
Yeah.
It's his birthday on the 17th of November and the only way I know how to repay him for
the caramel is to surprise him with a podcast shout out.
Well, his birthday happens again this year in November 2018.
Surprise.
Surprise.
We're early or we're late.
You choose.
I mean, like a nice brand new car would have been nice too, but I'm too poor.
I made a hole in my bedroom wall and he filled it and painted it for me and now it looks new so I won't
get in trouble.
Why don't they go out, these two?
Is he...
It sounds like he's been friend-zoned.
But is he...
Or is he the love
of her life and he's right in front
of her and she doesn't know it?
Oh my god, this is a cute rom-com.
This could be a rom-com.
Neither of us are international right now.
We're both in Auckland.
I can assure you that I would much rather be shit-faced on a yacht in Italy lapping up the sun than going to work on a gloomy Wednesday
where I'm writing this message.
What is both their names?
Jo.
Yeah.
And her flatmate, Jamie.
Jo and Jamie.
Jo and Jamie, yeah.
I mean, it works really well.
Joe and Jamie.
If this helps, I was just at Friday Jams this weekend, just gone,
and seated across from the Vodafone lounge you guys were on,
and I thoroughly enjoyed watching all the shapes you were cutting.
If I was a judge on Dancing with the Stars, you'd get a 10 out of 10.
Happy birthday, Jamie.
Thanks for being a fabulous friend and flatmate and for getting me caramel chocolate.
I only hope that this very loose loophole
results in a happy birthday message from our faves.
We got there.
I don't want to make it awkward between them,
but it's definitely something public.
They should definitely kiss.
They should just make some sort of formal agreement
that you'll just try to kiss,
and if that's good, do what you're going to do.
And it won't be awkward.
If it's not, then forget it happened.
Yep.
Agree to disagree.
Matt Rose.
Hey, guys.
What's it like in the year 2020 when I assume this will be getting read out?
Sass.
Cheeky bass.
Sass.
This is from my friend Luke, who's currently living in Brisbane, Australia.
I've known Luke for seven years, and I'm hoping an episode will make him listen to you guys
and something so bloody stubborn.
So with any luck, as of right now, you have a new listener.
He just got a job
as a data scientist
for a gas company.
So I'm very proud of him
after all these years.
He finally meets the real world.
Producer one,
aka Bae Caitlin.
Caitlin, she's just coming back
with her drink.
Pack up the mic, Caitlin.
I know I'm only 22,
so too young for you.
But you're my fave.
You're the only one
I've talked to on the phone, and it made me so happy.
Legit felt like I was talking to royalty.
Do I have a weird voice or something?
A royalty voice.
How you can treat me like the princess you are?
He's just like 10 years too young.
10 years too young?
You're not 30, Caitlin.
No, I need someone over the age of 27.
Matt even goes on to say James' voice is a lovely deep voice.
You should be on air more often with that lovely voice.
If I get a word in, you know.
He doesn't say much, but when he talks, he makes it count.
Quality words.
Quality words.
I've got no socials to plug,
which is just as well as Safety Dad is surely not happy.
Please never leave.
And one day you might get an all-expense trip to Africa.
We can bless the rains.
XO, XO.
Gossip Girl.
Gossip Girl.
Edward Garland is next.
Not 100% sure where to send this,
so send it through here.
Dear Mrs. Papadopoulos,
Deputy Prime Minister Smith,
the cat captor,
hot mess,
pack rat,
and retired fuck boy.
Would you class James as a retired fuck boy?
I've never considered James a fuck boy.
What's a pack rat?
A pack rat is someone that buys things
and then just steals them away.
Like the...
Oh God, you are a pack rat.
A pack rat a pack rat
you're not talking
into that
that worked
tune your broadcaster
that worked
this is my first
international podcast
shout out from
Bedford in UK
home of the
Bedfordshire Clanger
okay
what's the Bedfordshire
Clanger
sounds like a really
bad
oh yeah I was going
to say a bad criminal Megan would you be able to google the Bedfordshire Clanger for us sounds like a really bad... Oh, yeah, I was going to say a bad criminal.
Megan, would you be able to Google the Bedfordshire Clanger for us, please?
We'll come back to you momentarily.
My awesome girlfriend Katie has been listening to the show for five years before I was on the scene.
You guys would help her get to sleep when she was scared or alone.
Oh.
She introduced me to you guys one night during our dating phase.
I was woken up by some dulcet- dudes and girls talking in the bedroom and I've been
listening ever since. Unfortunately she doesn't get much time
to listen as her commute's only three minutes
long. However I get to listen to the podcast
every day which makes her jealous. After years
of saving and being tight ass we're finally making the move
to immigrate to Middle Earth, land of the long white cloud
and we've both got jobs in Christchurch
Katie is flood risk and drainage
engineer and I'm a building surveyor
We land in Auckland on February 6th
We're staying a few nights
Then we'll be touring down the North Island
In a motorhome
These people came into the studio
Yeah they came into the studio
I was going to say
This all found
The drainage we talked about
We talked about drainage
We talked about flood risk
I love a good chat about flood risks
And the floodplains
And the levels
What's the beverage you're playing at? Oh my god What do you think it is? A rapist I love a good chat about flood risks. In the flood plains. In the levels.
What's the Bedfordshire clanger?
Oh my God.
What do you think it is?
A rapist.
No.
Is it poos?
No.
It's definitely something off Urban Dictionary or something, isn't it? No.
No, wait, wait, wait.
James, what do you think?
I heard cling.
Something clinging to you.
Clanger.
Oh, like a clanger.
A clanger or a clinger. A clanger's a vagina.anger. Clanger. Oh, like a clanger. Clanger or a clinger.
A clanger's a vagina.
Bedfordshire.
No, it's not a vagina.
The Bedfordshire vagina.
I've never heard a vagina called a clanger.
A clanger.
Is that what you get?
A clanger.
No, you're all way off.
Clunge is the only word.
Oh, don't say that word.
I know it's a horrible word, but Caitlin couldn't hear me.
I was off mic.
Clanger. My wife's appalled. Check out the clanger. You say that's an old cl it's a horrible word, but Caitlin couldn't hear me. I was off mic. Clanger.
My wife's appalled.
Check out the clanger.
You say like that's an old clanger.
It must be some old thing.
No, you're all wrong.
What is it?
Well, the one that I pulled up, it's like a type of baked good.
And so one end is sweet and one end is savoury.
Ah!
Never heard of it.
So, yeah, one end is pork and cider and the other end is roasted apple.
So it's like a whole meal It's like a two course pie
It's like a sausage roll
That sounds wonderful
Why don't we have those?
I don't know
You know what I'd really like?
I'd like the border
The demilitarised zone where the pork seeped into the air
You know that little bit of switch I changed it
That would be a real delight
There's a beef and ale and a rhubarb, a vegetable curry and a mango.
We need to get those here.
I'm into the beef and I'm into the pork.
Okay.
Well, I'll go on.
Oh, that sounds good though.
I'm excited about that.
So yeah, Edward and Katie came into the studio.
I remember this.
Very nice people.
They took me on the motorhome.
Yep.
They're motorhoming the Coromandel,
Ha'he, Hobbiton, Waitomo.
That's right, because we talked about all these places.
Rotorua, Taupo, Tongariro, Wellington.
And is there anything to really see
between Tongariro and Wellington?
Look, you're settled in.
We don't need to answer that question.
If you guys want any treats,
again, this is too late.
That would have been great, though.
We'll look for some white chocolate Maltesers,
but those aren't made anymore, so you'll never find them.
What do you do with the motorhome when you get to Wellington?
You've driven the edges, pushed it into the ocean.
Yeah, you sit on fire and then tell Maui,
I don't even know what happened.
Right, but you're a demigod of the man and woman.
You can sort this out.
Benjamin Campbell is next.
I'm bringing you an episode from China.
China.
China.
When my sister and I are on a 10-day tour as a celebration.
She finished her post-grad course in sonography.
Okay.
Raiders.
Scanning the babies.
Scanning the babies and testes.
Okay.
Scanning the testes.
I just finished my Masters of Earth Sciences,
which studied tectonic fault in Northern Hamilton.
He'd know about your bloody salt lambs.
Probably, to be honest.
He'd be well versed in salt lambs.
And Anya's bullshit wizardry of salt lambs and auras.
It's all about the vibes.
Thesis writing was shit house,
but the constant stream of podcasts was a ray of light.
There was also a highlight
when I worked at ag research
in the Tron sampling cow urination events
in soil with Emma Bagley.
A genuine thanks to the crew
for lifting the mood
when dealing with cow piss.
China is insane.
Definitely one for the bucket lists.
If you want to see pickies,
my answer, Megan,
are you ready for this one?
Yeah.
Ben Campbell NZ.
Ben?
Ben Campbell NZ. We. Ben Campbell NZ.
We're in a tour.
Highly recommend.
Couldn't imagine trying to freeball this country.
It's insane.
Unfortunately, the tour is dominated by dithery old Australian racists.
My sister booked from Australia where she lived.
So far, highlights include the Great Wall.
Far more developed than I thought.
Oh, wow.
There's a picture of him with the Great Wall.
Him with the Great Wall. Him with the great wall.
What do you think he means
like the village around, like it's built up,
cities come close to it more than the totally rural.
Yeah, I reckon. Lotus Lane
in Beijing. Watching
my six foot tall white
sister be accosted by four foot tall
Chinese ladies for photos. The renewed
appreciation of how stunning
New Zealand is. Lowlights have included the Chinese government having a say in the appreciation of how stunning New Zealand is.
Lowlights have included the Chinese government having a say in the organisation of the tour,
so the transparent attempts to exhort money from us
at boring, overpriced pearl and jade factories,
especially when Chinese jade sucks
compared to New Zealand greenstone.
Having to deal with bottled water for everything
and my sister breaking her only set of headphones,
my spare pair I kind of gifted to her,
so having to share a pair on the five-hour train
from Beijing to Suzhou was terrible.
A tip for anybody traveling in China,
WeChat means you can access Western internet from Wi-Fi,
but I reckon getting a global roaming plan
from your home country is the way to go.
Unintended internet access.
Courier.
We got a courier.
Oh my God. I love getting couriers. What is've got a courier Oh my god
I love getting couriers
What is it?
This courier is going to be like
What the fuck is going on here?
Do you know courier
Oh this is so fun
There's like six people in there
And they've got bomb making equipment
Couriers are like Christmas
What is it?
What is it?
What do you reckon it is?
Who's it for?
What's for me?
What's for you?
Is it poo or cheese?
No
Is it Uggs?
Why I don't
If it's Uggs It's tiny Uggs, it's tiny Uggs.
That's from a PR outlet.
What is it?
Some sort of bag.
Oh, it's some...
I think it's some shaving product.
Oh.
Sorry, it's a bit boring.
But that's in your little toiletries bag.
Oh, lovely.
Oh, it's a shave cream.
I've heard wonderful things about this shave cream.
Red can.
When you shave your whole head, you need a good shave cream.
Low irritation.
Back to the show.
My episode goes to Helen Talbot, Hamilton North's favourite posy
who has killer calf muscles until they introduce those little
electronic vehicles.
R.I.P. posties hot legs.
Yeah, well they don't have to do
anything now, do they?
You look like such a dick in those too.
You have to wear a helmet.
Oh yeah, you do. Safety's no joke, Megan.
Also to Vaughan
for clarifying the rowing camp situation
at the Outback a few years ago.
Attached us a photo that night which shortly
after I got X'd from Da Club.
It was bullshit. Apparently
I was too drunk. But what do you expect
when you're selling 1.5 litres of beer at a time?
I've still got those glasses in the cupboard. That was from that
beer fest we did in Hamilton. Also,
I think Katie Tunstall's
song, Black Horse and the Cherry Tree
rocks. And that would have
been a great Friday flashback.
Megan might see you at Lana in Brisbane
I saw you got tickets
tell us that story
Megan
no because I
miss
yeah
so I was supposed to
go on Thursday
and my friend was
getting married on
Saturday
so I had to sell
the tickets
it was heartbreak
heartbreak for me
I didn't
yeah
plus like flying over there
it was going to cost me
like $1500
bugger that
Commonwealth Games
and then no one
turned up to the
Commonwealth Games
yeah
oh fuck we put our
prices up too much
yeah
oh Jesus
I just got salt and
vinegar chip in my
cutlet
I told you how good
are these
these are absolutely
delicious
what are these
fantastic delights
yeah
flavour of the
Richter
I'll tell you what
will make them better
accompanying them
with a Poo Hoy Cheese
today's show
brought to you by
Poo Hoy Cheese just paying for a Poo-Hoy cheese today. Show brought to you by Poo-Hoy cheese.
Just paying for our Poo-Hoy cheese.
Have they paid more than Spark?
Thanks.
Actual sponsors of the podcast?
Good question.
No, they haven't.
But can you put a price on good cheese?
Amy Christensen is next.
My name is Amy.
I'd like to request an episode.
I've got flavour in my lungs.
That'll happen on an over-flavoured cracker, I find.
You've got crackers all down your front.
I'm a personal trainer.
This is Amy Christensen.
Learned this on the podcast for 10 years.
I work as a personal trainer at City Fitness,
so I don't often listen to the show live.
Fuck!
That's who I scammed for that free five-day pass, remember?
City Fitness. Right there. We didnammed for that free five day pass remember?
City Fitness.
Right there.
We didn't know that until you just said it.
Oh fuck.
Don't just tell her
to delete my name
out of the system
in Sydney.
Oh my god.
A bit of gossip
in the background.
What?
RIP Beth Ditto.
Oh.
Did she die?
Did she die?
She didn't die.
I just mean
they're not really
a thing anymore.
Can you Google to see what happened to her?
Yeah.
That's a very good question.
This was a great album.
As I recall, even the non-singles were enjoyable.
Anya, do you remember this band?
Who?
Gossip.
Oh, these headphones don't work.
Can you sing along?
We don't know it until it gets to the... From that rendition?
No.
Megan's got a photo.
Oh, Gossip.
Yeah, yeah, they had that one song.
It's playing.
It's the one that's playing.
It's a, I need you.
That's how it goes.
And I'm already a god.
Can you hear that?
Or are you just freelancing?
Have I got anything on my ears? Is this a recent photo of Beth?
Yeah, this year.
She's gone redhead.
Did she die?
No.
Her hair.
Was she not a redhead originally?
No, she had black hair.
She's still around.
Rest in peace, Beth.
Amy Christensen goes on to say she's not
dead, just to clarify. Beth did it alive and
well. She looks very healthy.
I'll be travelling to Singapore at the start of December to represent
New Zealand in the Oceania Powerlifting Championships.
Now, to me, this
feels like this Amy Christensen
could have gone to the Commonwealth Games, but she didn't want to mention
it because it's out of Google.
Okay, I'm going to give you her.
Megan, have you got the gram open?
You're our grammar today.
Amy, A-I-M-E-E.
Yeah.
Kimberly, K-I-M-B.
Oh, was it two E's for Amy?
Yeah.
Kimberly, K-I-M-B-E-R-L-Y.
Yeah.
Okay, you just look her up. I'm hoping to do some PB's
Which stands for peanut butters
And do our country proud
I've only been to Australia
So I'm really looking forward to exploring Singapore
Shameless plug for the gram
You just heard me say that
Amy Kimberley
I do lots of lifting things
I've got a little black pug called Doug
Oh my god
First of all,
pugs are so fucking cute.
I hate them.
You can call Doug
as my dad's name.
What?
I love your dad.
I need your actual
Insta handle.
It is Amy Kimberley.
She might have changed it.
Has she changed since then?
Google Amy.
Is it Amy dot Kimberley?
No, it's just Amy Kimberley
but Kimberley doesn't have
an E before the Y.
No, I haven't got that.
Okay. And I I haven't got that. Okay.
And I'd also like to say hello to my dear friend, Romy Lee.
Now, Romy, I know for a fact, has been listening for many, many years,
who's also a powerlifter.
We worked together at Les Mills Auckland,
and even though I moved to Christchurch,
we still kept in touch by tagging each other in memes about the gym
and our love of delicious food.
Thanks for the podcast.
P.S. I very much enjoy your Arrested Development references.
Now.
Is that the bees?
Season five is built.
Bees?
There's going to be an Arrested Development reference
in the Avengers movie too.
Wow.
I tagged you on that thing the other day.
I loved it.
Bex Arger is next.
International podcast shout out time.
Hello.
Thanks for the podcast shout out.
I want to make this to my amazing boyfriend, Rahul depending on how big your back catalog is in fiji slash singapore with me right
now living our best lives on vacation uh role was a long time a listener a massive fan i mean massive
uh sadly in the past roller has tried to get an international podcast shout out but was heartbroken
and dutted that he missed out hearing it. This was in Jamie's time, though,
so I know Caitlin will get this on air because she's a GB.
No, I don't know who's...
James's time.
These people don't deal with it.
That would have been my fault.
Or we definitely...
Because the name rings a bell.
Rahul's name rings a bell.
It happened.
He just didn't hear it.
So here I am shouting out to my main man, Rahul,
the best
boyfriend legendary soccer player that's a rubbish truck and number one travel buddy and making his
dreams come true so ni hao bulla and hello thank you for being the uh the best little show that's
a nice way of being described uh and getting us through the morning uh ps our instagrams for your
stalking purposes uh if you have if you made it in time for our holiday,
Bex Agar and Superstar Shah.
Superstar Shah.
Rona Phillips is next for an international podcast shout-out.
She starts by saying, is this where I send it?
Yes.
Thanks.
Thanks.
Great.
So you just said, is this where I send it?
Thanks.
Quick shout-out.
I'm sure I heard you say something about bullet points.
So here goes.
Just got back from Camp America round two
and living on the farm in the middle of Scotland.
I listen to the podcast for a daily dose of Kiwi.
Constantly finding myself giggling along,
generally while I've got my headphones on,
leaving me like a total creeper working around town.
So thanks for that.
Shout out to Stephen, North Carolina,
and Phoebe and Wellington,
dedicated podcast family
right there. Megan, I just want to say I hope
your wedding is absolutely magical. Have the best day.
Oh, thank you. Keep up the great
work. P.S. Caitlin,
I used to work with your brother at Camp
Chippenaw and ended up travelling
with him and a bunch of others in Mexico last
year. Another quality human.
Oh my God. Taylor. Yes,
Taylor Fletch. Oh oh that's awesome beekeeper and
heir to the fortune that is the the merit honey and big old day hey fletch you said you wouldn't
do that anymore carl he's had a couple of gins the rules are out we don't we all know his brother's
got a big dick we don't know that No one has seen that
Caitlin
If you were a dude
You would have a big dick
I would
Look at my fucking feet
I'd have the biggest dick in the room
You probably would
If you were a dude
So I reckon James got a massive pair of balls
But I don't know about the dick
He's got the deep voice And to me that's a testosterone thing
And that's all balls
That's all balls
That's why I've got a high voice
Small balls, little dick
And no apologies about it
No apologies about it
My wife's laughing
That hurts my face
If one person in this room
Was to leap to my defence
I'd be like
No honey
Hey
Your dick's fine.
I would have expected it to be her, but oh well, I'm on my own.
And plus we do know because that girl told us.
Okay.
It's actually a sworn affidavit.
Okay.
That's really lovely that you...
I take it as a compliment.
Because if you were a dude, you'd have a big dick.
That's a genetic.
That's genetic.
Can we just move on because it's awkward? What want to know is what no i don't know i don't want to know
what doug's packing he's got enough to worry about surely doug's packing i must unless it comes from
your mom's side of the family i don't know how dicks come down the lineage because there's
different things isn't it like baldness apparently baldness comes from your mum's side. I don't know if I believe that.
Google that.
Where do you get big dick?
Genetically, where does the big dick come from?
Family lineage or something.
Is it the double X?
Is it the XY?
What gene?
What chromosome?
Big dick chromosome.
Remember my dad's speech at my wedding about his big dick?
Yeah, because I loved how he dropped that, didn't he?
Came a little bit.
I let him in because I said he's a man that you don't want to stand next to with the urinal.
He'll make you feel insecure, ladies and gentlemen, the father of the bride.
And then he gets up and starts talking about his dick.
And your mum's like, not the time.
Not the time.
But then.
Where do you get your penis size from?
Mom or dad?
Dad.
Or is it your grandpa Earl?
Well, I don't have a grandpa Earl.
No, mine's so small.
Does it say?
We're all waiting with anticipation.
Do you want a bit of time to read up and we'll come back to you?
You do the research.
This was from 2016, but I think it's still a repeatable course.
Lots changed in dicks in two years.
Oh, really?
Huge amount of advancement in genetic dick research.
Like fashion, eh, dicks?
Always changing.
Yeah, but genes are like dicks.
They'll always be in fashion.
Oh, our vaginas look different because of different reasons.
It's not just genetic.
Oh, really?
Why?
I'll read it.
Okay, you do some Jenny's research.
Claire Hammond is next.
International blogger.
Shout out.
Hello, all.
Riding from the Brussels airport on the way back to Scotland
after a girly weekend in Berlin.
Trying to convince my boyfriend, EO, with a thing over it, I-N, that's
apparently pronounced Owen,
to pick me up from the airport in exchange
for A, being a general disappointment,
move to Scotland and meet a brawny Scotsman and
end up with a skinny Englishman instead, and
B, not having to go to church when I
take him back to meet the parents in Kaikoura
this Christmas. I listen to you guys every
morning to keep up my fuck accent, and
Owen, by Osmosis
can now sing the fact
of the day jingle.
His favourite used to be Vaughan
until he found out
you didn't poop regularly
on holiday
and as if
I can't
and as if three times a day
poop or rain, hail or shine
he was not impressed
at your nervous
bowel constitution.
How much is he eating
to shit
and or do it all at once?
I only stop once a day.
Once, yeah.
Sometimes twice, depending on what I eat.
No, I do two.
Really?
Sometimes, mostly two, I'd say.
I've broken myself one abhorrent shit before bedtime.
Yeah, right.
Do you shit before bed?
I try to do it on morning.
No, because I...
That's awful.
We're not awful.
In the en suite.
Yes.
Not in the en suite.
No, I use the downstairs bar.
Oh, right.
Either way.
I trained myself when we started working mornings.
I was like, A, I'm not shitting at work, and B, I don't have time to shit before work,
and C, I don't want to shit when I get home.
That's a long time to wait.
So I trained myself to shit before bed.
That means you're shitting after dinner.
Yeah.
Yeah, my mum used to say, those who go before a meal go because of need.
Those who go after a meal go because of greed.
Oh, that's a
good one. What does that mean?
I want to eat over a shit because I want to fit more in.
No, because you've eaten too much for dinner.
Oh!
No, it used to be a morning.
It used to be a morning, but then we started working mornings and then
he goes
on to say, as
requested, here are my top tips for travel.
Baku and Azerbaijan.baijan atlas mountains
in morocco york in the uk slovenia which is the best country hands down uh krakow is the best city
but guys listen carefully don't ever kiss the fucking blarney stone you lay back on the floor
and lower yourself out of a hole at the top of a giant castle holding on to a tiny set of handlebars
that are too low for anybody who is at six foot four with core strength of a stripper who can That doesn't appeal to me, doing that.
The Kissing the Blondie song, is it wiped?
No.
Between kisses?
No.
It sounds like a meningitis hotspot.
A hub for meningitis.
Take my advice, run away screaming, drink a lot to calm yourself down. It sounds like a meningitis hot spot. A hub for meningitis.
Take my advice, run away screaming, drink a lot to calm yourself down.
I also include a bonus top list.
Most surprising locations that have great wine.
Slovenia.
I've heard Slovenia's got great wine.
In fact, Slovenia might have the largest single cellar of wine.
I think I heard that on the podcast, No Such Thing as a Fish.
They deal with that.
And it's huge.
It's absolutely huge. It's one single wine cellar
Croatia
Germany
Austria
and South Africa
all great wines
now I wanted to end
my episode with a question
we're looking for tips
for an English lad
about how to meet
his very Kiwi in-laws
for the first time
do's and don'ts
well it's a bit late
isn't it
but we can give them
because he's already
met them in Kaikoura
I think so it sounds like he came back for Christmas so he already met them in Kaikoura. I think so.
It sounds like he came back for Christmas, so he already met them.
He's having to retire his Pope jokes for the month.
P.S.
Speaking of the Pope, have you ever heard Tim Minchin's songs,
the Pope song, and thank you, God, I have.
Very good for atheists.
Don't go into it thinking you're going to hear a lovely song,
which is actually thanking God.
Owen's favorite is if I didn't have you, Keyline,
if I didn't have you, I'd probably just have somebody else instead.
So, yeah, I mean, this meeting's gone down.
We'd love to know how it went.
Yeah, yeah.
But I'm sure he did fine.
Patty Ryan, I hope this is the right place for a podcast.
Shout out.
Thought I'd exploit a loophole as I'm currently in Australia,
but actually live in Christchurch.
Hashtag sneaky.
I just finished my fine arts degree with honors,
so naturally I'm about to start working for my dad as a train layer.
This is the thing about a fine arts degree.
Yeah.
My shout out is actually for you guys,
as long as I can remember I've listened to the show.
I've been through some tough times, great times,
and boring travel times,
as I'm sure all the podcast family can agree to.
Caitlin, you may remember me from sliding into your Insta DMs
asking how to spell Nungas.
Oh, yeah. Remember this young fella
This sprungly young fella
I don't think it was like in a creepy way
He was just like talking to someone
And was like you use the word Nungas
How do you spell Nungas
N-U-G-G-A-H
No that would be Nuggas
N-U-N
N-U-N.
Nuggers.
N-U-N-G-A-H.
But that's the generally agreed spelling of Nuggers.
N-U-N-G-A-H.
Oh, you rubbish guys here.
Waste management.
Did you put your rubbish out?
Is that a bit out?
Yeah.
A bit out.
He's lined it up.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah, this motherfucker doesn't get out of the truck. Does he have robot arm yeah you watch his robot arm go up is it a high-vis turbine
that is so inappropriate carl fletcher but you're right it is a high-vis turbine you're also yelling
and the door's open no he can't hear oh, I didn't mean it in a bad way.
I just meant like that.
I've never seen a high-vis one.
No, you're right.
I've never seen a high-vis turban either.
But they're normally white, aren't they?
That's right, though.
That's insane.
Because if you're wearing a beanie and winter working,
you've got to make it a high-vis.
You can get different colours.
Are you kidding me?
It's like a health and safety law to have a high-vis turban.
What, if you're going to wear it?
I don't know.
But I know if you're going to wear a beanie
and a situation where that is required.
Turbans are all different colours.
Yeah, he just probably wanted
to match his jacket
Serious question
That's true
Marry up your colours
Is it just like me
wearing a hat
I can choose any colour I want
or do they mean something
Serious question
I don't know
but there are different colours
For different things
Lots of different colours
Okay
Kayla maybe you could
research that
And also can you
Health and safety laws
with turbans
I'm just going to finish
patties and then we're
going to get back
to the genitals
and where you inherit your penis size and your vagina shape from I wish to leave you with turbans. I'm just going to finish patties and then we're going to get back to the genitals and where you inherit your penis
size and your vagina
shape from.
I wish to leave you
with a story that I
always wanted to submit
for last calls.
I started talking to
a girl and she asked
if I ski and wanted
to cover the mountain
and of course I lied
and said yeah how
hard could skiing be.
Flash forward to
finding out she skied
for Australia and her
whole family ski race.
I'm not sure at which
stage they realised I
had lied about my
skills but I'm pretty
sure it might have been when I got stuck on the T-bar lift and dragged up the mountain
screaming out with flailing limbs.
I love when people lie about knowing how to do something and then have to do it.
It must have been somewhat impressive though, as we've been dating ever since, and now giving
the long distance thing a go.
Thanks, heaps of much love from Paddy.
All right, thank you Paddy.
We go down to producer Caitlin who has compiled a thorough report on genital size and where
you inherit it from.
Just quickly before that, we'll talk about the turbans.
So each colour is just like a different colour.
So there's no like cultural significance to colours?
Some colours like orange, blue and white are traditionally worn during religious celebrations or occasions.
Red is traditionally worn during sick weddings.
Sick weddings.
So that was Hiver's orange.
That wasn't a celebration time.
So maybe it is.
He does have to wear a...
Yeah.
But you're wearing a jacket.
That's enough, right?
No, I've heard if you are going to wear a hat in certain industrial circumstance,
if you are going to, it can't be a dark colour.
It's got to be bright because someone could misjudge where your head is.
Right.
If someone was to come through the factory.
So maybe he does.
Maybe it is a legitimate requirement.
Penises.
Go on.
So it's kind of like if your dad's tall, then you're going to be tall.
You know how they always say like, oh, their parents are pretty tall,
then they're probably going to be tall.
If your dad's got a big dick,
you've probably got a big dick.
Oh God, I love that.
But I read that one brother might have a big dick
and then the other brother might not.
You can inherit different...
I know someone that slept with twins.
Who?
I know someone that slept with twins
and they had identical penises, but that's different though.
That's twins though. They're genetically
almost like a card and copy.
Also, it actually has nothing to do with race
or anything like that.
It's always about your height and
overall proportion.
That's not right though, is it? As a six
foot two man with a small penis
I'm waving my
America's Cup protest flag.
And it can be on hormones as well.
Like earlier when you're developing.
Yeah, I was on a lot of estrogen.
But do you ever get it from your mum's side then?
Or is it just from your dad's side?
It says here you can get it from your mum's side.
Truck driver there is bald.
He's not wearing any high-vis top, but he's wearing a high-vis jacket.
Yeah, that's true. Maybe
it was the turban and the helmet.
No, I don't know. Why is there a digger on our
road? But also, apparently,
if you don't
use your dick that much, then it gets really
small.
Like a muscle. Can you pass
that to Anya? Anya, it's your turn to do
a home report on dick size. No, you have
to use it. You have to, like, touch it and stuff home report on dick size. No, you have to use it. You have to like touch it and stuff.
It's like it's a muscle.
You have to touch it and stuff.
Take it to the doctor.
Give that to Anya.
She's going to do a report.
I need my computer.
Can you do it on your phone?
Anya, can you please do a Google?
No, I'm with this.
I believe it.
And vaginas come in all different shapes and sizes.
Is there a correlation between vaginas?
Like if your mum's got a mint fanny, are you going to get one?
A mint fanny?
I don't know.
I'm just reading this.
This is an opinion piece.
Oh, yeah.
So, okay.
I don't even know.
What a fact piece.
Anya, produce a fact piece for us, please.
You read the news.
Oh, you already got an answer.
Yeah, this article says,
I never doubted my brother and I had the same father
until I saw the size of his genitals.
So I don't know if this is true.
So the brother saw the other brother's dad?
No, but it says, the one I read, it said it was just like eye colour.
So you could get chromosomes from your mum or your dad.
So you and your brother could have one could have big
one could have small
I don't want to get my mum's dick
No but if you have your mum
and if you have your mum's
your grandad
your grandad on your mum's side
What do you have to say to mum?
Mum what was grandad's dick like?
Because I don't know
where I got my dick from
Like blue eyes
you're like
oh okay
grandad had blue eyes
I got grandad's blue eyes
Did I get grandad's dick?
Which grandad?
Okay somebody consider.
Very important.
Do you want to know the different vaginal shapes?
Conical, parallel sides, heart, slug, and pumpkin seed.
Slug.
I don't have a slug vagina.
That's the duddest vagina shape.
A pumpkin seed, that's quite cute.
That's my vagina. A pepita. A pepita. That's what they call. A pumpkin seed, that's quite cute. That's my vagina.
A pipita.
A pipita.
That's what they call them.
Oh, mami, da pipita.
That's what they call them in South America.
Yeah, yeah.
Mexico.
Anya, if you just spend 10 minutes here to get a good answer for us.
You know, you should go to Quora, K-U-O-R-A.
No, Q-U, isn't it?
Q-U, K.
Oh, yeah, Q.
No, but then they ask you to sign up after you've looked it up.
No, no, no, no.
You just Google.
You just search within that website for someone will definitely answer that question.
But you know what you need to do?
Put your hands up if you've got a slug.
Fuck.
That was so weird.
No one's putting their hand up to having a slug.
We've all got little papitas.
Papitas. Big old slug. We've all got little papitas. Papitas.
Big old slug over here.
No one's blaming that old bloody tree stump, Tammies.
You may have a little peanut, but you've got a bush in your hand.
What if PJ said something?
What if a vagina looked like a cactus?
We didn't hear about what PJ said about me.
No, PJ was the pizza slicer.
No, PJ was the pizza slicer.
What were you?
Duck bill. Nothing. Did you say duck bill? No. What was the pizza slicer No PJ was the pizza slicer What were you? Duck Bill
Nothing
Didn't she say Duck Bill?
No
What was yours?
This is Caitlin by the way
Mine is a perfect vagina
I've just got a heavy flow
Okay
Good God
Alright moving on
From one Caitlin to another
Caitlin Penty
Now I've got an edit
I've got edit notes for this one
Because I'm going to read this as it came
And then what happened in the meantime.
Caitlin said,
Hi, I'd like to request an international podcast shout out
if I may. I was intended to send this
while I was in Melbourne over the weekend,
but it was a short trip and I was busy so I
exploited a loophole instead. Now this is the Caitlin
that told us that Jonathan Groff was coming
to New Zealand. Oh, she went
to Jonathan Groff's teachings
in Christchurch.
Great chat with him. I'll keep this short.
Dedicating this episode
to my boyfriend,
Liam, who's from Perth,
living in Sydney,
currently in Melbourne,
working as a stage manager
for the Pop-Up Globe.
We met in August last year
when he was in New Zealand
for a show and have been
together since.
He's probably the
okayest person I know.
I introduced him
to the podcast
during a mini-roady
of the South Island
a year later.
He loves you as much as I do and he can finally tell Fletch and Fawn apart.
You may remember us from your Shortland Street debut.
I came wearing a cape, and he gave you an outstanding review and recommended you try your hand at treading the boards.
I remember.
I wasn't going to give any compliments because F the rules and also stay humble, I have to say Megan you're going to be a beautiful bride and I
look forward to seeing
some wedding steps.
I'm pulling a
fletch and flying back
to Melbourne on
Christmas Day because
shit guys flights are
so expensive over the
holidays.
I had to spend two
weeks with Liam before
heading back to work
for 2018.
It'll be the first
time we've spent more
than a couple of
days together since
September and I'm
very excited.
It's a great tip for
getting cheap EFS.
On Christmas Day.
People want to be with their families
or some shit apparently. Yeah.
You're all about saving some dollars.
There are a million more things I could say but this is
already getting quite long so I'll leave it at that.
Thanks to the entertainment. Thanks to the podcast
during work days and workouts.
Here comes the edit.
Caitlin messaged me soon after
saying that her and Liam were no more.
They'd broken up
she said I'm no longer with
Liam you can still do the shout out
but
I'm not with him anymore
I know they're over
that's sad
when they were apart things seemed to be good
didn't they but then when they got back together
maybe they realised that
it was
Anya.
Why are you laughing?
This is a tender moment.
What's happened?
What's happened on that side of the room?
There's some,
some overall sniggers coming from the North end of the room.
Whereas the South end of the room,
professional consummate broadcasting professionals and Caitlin are maintaining a non giggly.
I had my finger in the olives.
I was,
I was the olive. I was there.
Is the olive another shape
of vagina?
Oh, could be.
Could be, couldn't it?
If you open the olive,
it's got that little bit
in the middle.
That's weird.
Do you have a pet
in your vagina?
No, no, no.
I'm talking about
Don't worry, Anya.
I'm not going to explain
what the vagina looks like.
Are you going to explain
what your giggles were about?
No, no, no.
No giggles.
Let's keep going.
Next, Bri Stewart.
Hi, fam.
My name's Bri.
You may remember me from such shout-outs as my Christmas Bali adventure with my family
and boyfriend.
I'm riding this on a plane, typical, on the way home from one month in Japan with my two
best friends, one of which I dedicated my previous shout-out to.
I'll keep this brief, and I'll use bullet points to try to stay on track.
I dedicate this podcast shout out to Amy,
who I'm traveling with,
even though you can't read a map to save yourself,
all passive aggressive.
We would be nowhere near as organized without you.
Our other friend that we're traveling with doesn't listen to the podcast in
spite of my constant nagging that she should.
Thank you to the podcast to help me cope with my hospital job.
It helped me save enough for this trip.
Even though I enjoy being a barista,
talking to people all day is not my forte.
Funnily enough, Vaughn came into my work
on my last shift before this trip
and I didn't say anything.
And his kids were even more cute in real life.
That's good because I tell them off a lot
when they're being rowdy,
when they're getting up to ruckus.
I don't know where that would have been.
To anyone thinking of going to Japan,
you simply must
going in the autumn.
This is what somebody else said about going to Japan.
Japan seems, so our spring
is their autumn because they're a northern
country. That seems to be the time to hit Japan.
Because of the autumnal colours. Well, the autumnal
colours are wonderful. Some of my must-dos are
Dotonbori and Osaka, Hiroshima's
Peace Park, Mount Fuji,
the Torii Gates in Kyoto,
and just all of Tokyo.
Word of caution, though.
If you are a vegetarian,
you will seriously struggle to eat traditional foods
or finding food in general.
The people of Japan are amazing and kind.
Even if you look mildly confused at a map,
someone will try to come up and help you.
Oh, that's nice.
Interesting that they're vegetarian.
I've never heard that vegetarians might struggle in Japan.
Here's hoping the second shout-out brings me up to friend of the show status.
Guaranteed.
After your second shout-out.
And by the time you guys read this out, I've sorted out my life
and hopefully no longer working in hospo.
Thanks, Heap.
Sorry the bullet points didn't keep me on track and keep this short,
but I tried.
T-Heap.
You did.
Thanks again from Briar.
Thank you, Briar. I need to go wheezing.
Anya, have you got an update on the...
Have you done some research on the peanuts?
Um...
I was doing it, and then
I started thinking about magnums.
So I stopped.
So before the shoutouts
today, we went to the supermarket. Vaughan wasn't
here at the supermarket, but we were
loading up the trolley,
and Anya brings in boxes of Magnums,
plain-flavoured Magnums.
Legend.
Clementine Flatley is next for the podcast.
Shoutouts.
I'm just going to continue in Vaughan's absence
so we can get through these.
Sorry to do this to you,
but can I please request an IPSO?
I've already had an IPSO this year,
so I'll keep it short and sweet.
Soz for being greedy.
Looking forward to hearing the 2018 special,
perhaps Vaughan's turn.
Smoked mates and banter from Indian August.
Well, they're not here, are they?
They're at the grandparents this weekend.
Feeling vulnies after my second night out in Madrid.
Bad life choices made by me and my Bessie mate.
Consumption of an Aussie hottie.
Whoops.
What do you think that means?
Consumption.
Consumption of an Aussie hottie.
Did you?
I need Carl to tell me I'm not a sluzzer.
You're not a sluzzer.
What does consumption mean to you?
I just think she slept with an Aussie.
That's all that happened there.
Shout out to my mate Liz for encouraging tattoos and excessive tequila.
Hopefully when we play this to her, she'll finally agree to listen to the potty.
Thanks to the FEM team for the lulz
and keeping me sane during a very stressful year.
Clementine Flatley,
who engaged with an Australian earlier.
What's happening outside the window?
Is there a digger?
A couple of houses down.
Our neighbour's neighbour is taking his quarter acre section
and subdividing it.
And it's been the talk of the street. I bet it. And it's been the talk of the street.
I bet it has.
It's been the talk of the street as to how he's going to do it,
what he's going to do,
what kind of house he's going to build on the front half of the section
after the current house has moved to the back.
Goodness me.
Okay.
All right.
You sit back down.
I've done Clementine.
Marie's up next.
Marie Stenning.
Here you go.
Always good to hear from Marie.
Where's Megan?
Oh, she's having a spew.
She's on the phone. Has she? She's on the phone. Oh, she's having a spew. She's on the phone.
She's on the phone.
Oh, she's on the phone.
I thought she'd nipped her for a nap.
Marie Stenning, who is a friend of the show,
friend of the show.
We've heard from Marie before.
I'm going to take a stab in the dark and say,
Merry Christmas or Happy Anzac Day.
Earlier in the year, I had my first episode
where you thought it was hilarious that I was in Canberra.
I'll give you that one.
Doing my international trampoline judging course.
Well, joke's on you because my trampoline judging has also taken me to Switzerland this year.
And I'm currently sitting in Singapore's Changi Airport, which is a huge airport.
It's a wonder of engineering, isn't it, Changi Airport?
In Singapore.
It certainly is, Morgan. It's huge.
It's in a big U-shape, three different terminals.
You can catch a train between the terminals.
We got a free tourist $20 voucher to use.
$40, I believe.
And you can spend it on whatever you want.
You just have to line up to cash it in.
It's a pretty sweet gig as most trips are majority funded
as well as making lifelong friends from around the world.
Great to see different places too.
As Sofia Bogara, this is Sofia in Bulgaria,
not Sofia Bogara, the woman off Modern Family,
was never on the bucket list but looking forward to doing some day trips to Serbia and Macedonia on my days off.
Upon my return to New Zealand, we're packing up the family and moving to Melbourne
to start up the delicious Fritz's Wieners across the ditch.
So soon Aussies can be introduced to decent sausage as opposed to the old cheese sizzlers
they seem to think are the best things ever.
However, the whole snake situation where we're living is making me quite fearful e.g
tiger snakes and brown snakes in the area fuck that trying to keep awake for my 12 a.m departure
5 a.m new zealand time so i'm riding the travelators up and down as i need to stretch my
legs but i'm actually too tired to walk hindsight has told me that high heel boots weren't a smart
choice for traveling as they didn't fit
in my suitcase.
That's when I went
through Changi Airport
I was wearing
a size too small chucks
so I pulled the laces out
and that was just
an awful, awful idea.
Everything was terrible.
Never fly in chucks.
Definitely don't fly in heels
because your feet swell up.
I have to wear flight socks
because my legs swell up.
That's when I got
a deep vein thrombosis
when I was wearing chucks.
Really?
Yeah, that's why I'm like,
I reckon they did it.
They're out the window,
you get a healthy shoe.
Also, I'm listening to the podcast,
so I'm looking like a bit of an idiot,
having a bit of a grin on my face
walking around this airport.
Thanks for the podcast.
Happy holidays.
Love from Marie.
Thanks, Marie.
Sarah Burkett is next.
I was just doing that
just so you could eat your chips warm.
This is stalling for a second of time there.
Canan, would you be able to slice me one slice of each of the cheeses?
From Poohoi.
Poohoi cheeses.
What's that?
A cheese.
I think that's a rindwashed brie.
Don't touch that.
Don't poke it.
I think that's a rindwashed, I don't know what kind of cheese.
That's the brie and then there's two blues.
The kaiwaka blue.
Two do I for. Okay. I wrote't know what kind of cheese. That's the Brie. And then there's two blues. The Kaiwaka Blue. Two die for.
Okay.
Gelder.
I wrote this in September and totally forgot to send it.
Pretty please.
Greetings, everybody.
I wrote this en route to Bali during the height of the great jet fuel crisis of 2017.
Remember that?
Yeah.
The line got punched in by a digger.
That's right.
Wasn't that April?
No.
October.
Much later in the year.
October, yeah.
Suffering from anxiety and not having left New Zealand in nine years,
you'll understand my annoyance that some douchebag has put his digger
through the only fuel pipe to the Auckland airport.
And they've never, do you know they closed the case on that?
They were like, we don't know who did that.
Really?
Yeah, they were just like, uh.
They gave up.
Yeah.
A 50-minute stop at Brisbane Airport to refuel, and now we're on our way.
Anyway, thank you for being my morning, sometimes
afternoon. Listen,
the humour tickles my fancy and at present
my husband is laughing
at me laughing at you. I frequently
poke myself in the eye while applying mascara
or get caught crying with laughter
at the traffic lights.
Some very lovely compliments
thus here follow.
Mention of the show Secret to Lady Diana, to Princess Di,
the People's Princess, the Minesweeper of Cambodia.
And yes, you're right.
Love you guys.
She's got some cheese for you.
Do you want them on crackers or do you just want one at a time?
I want them on those oat crackers.
Please.
Do you want the...
What have we got there?
Is that like a quince?
It's so good.
The quince paste.
Yeah, I'm down for some quince.
I need more quince in my life.
Hi, FEMZ.
My name is Zoe Brook.
I'd like to caress that international pocket.
Shout out for Lauren Jewhurst.
Lauren, I have no idea if you remember me,
but we went to Blamace UN Intermediate together.
I think we might have been in Mrs. Patterson's class together.
I saw you pop up on the fan facey page when you were in hospital
And hope you are 300% feeling better and doing awesome
I've been living in New Zealand's most western city, Perth
For the last four years studying dentistry
I graduate on December 12 and I'm returning to live in the motherland
On December 13 I am at Beyond Jazz
My boyfriend and I are planning to walk the South Island section of the Te Araroa track
1300km from Bluff
to Ship's Cove. We've been doing long distance
so every night and day
tramping and tent sleeping together might be a challenge.
Thanks to the potty.
You've been the light on many a dark homesick day.
P.S. Vaughan
and everyone else, if you're ever
in Dunedin and need a dental checkup
come in. It's like ripping off a bandaid. Just get it done. and everyone else, if you're ever in Dunedin and need a dental checkup,
come in.
It's like ripping off a band-aid.
Just get it done.
You actually do need to get your crown actually replaced, don't you?
Well, you just got yours done
and it was $1,500.
Well, yeah.
They've got the temporary one in.
I'm getting the real one next week.
Christ.
Should have gone to Thailand for that.
Should have.
Got to get a little holiday.
Eddie Van Oosten is next with probably the shortest
ever international podcast shoutout in the world.
Shoutout to Shubbs
Zegel Zaria for keeping me
company in the UK. Love, Ed Van Oosten.
He's short, formal and to the
point. I like it, Eddie. I like it. His name
made up a very large, his name and his
mate's name made up the majority of that podcast shoutout.
Eddie Van Oosten. Thanks, Eddie.
Annalise Bond is next. International podcast Asten. Thanks, Eddie. Annalise Bond is next.
International podcast incoming.
My name's Bond.
Annalise Bond.
Shout out to myself.
I'm currently sitting in Fiji in some very intense heat.
It's 10.20 a.m., 29 degrees, 98% humidity.
I'm here for 14 days.
Anyway, a group from a glorified farm of a university, Lincoln,
has headed over here on a somewhat cultural slash mission trip.
We've been billeted out to locals to get the full Fijian experience,
which is the case.
The buses don't have windows.
It's insane, and they play the same beat over every song in the buses.
It's so crazy.
The Fijian versus Kiwi league game is on this saturday which our hosts
are throwing a party for and i'm very torn as to who to support my lifelong goal has been to run
an episode uh but it was my worst fear that you guys would stop doing them or finish radio before
i went overseas so goal achieved for now i'll keep it short uh hopefully you're a little bit tipsy
so you give away more secrets presuming this will be the end of the year shout out special
uh anyway i hey i know you have a million of these to read out.
I'd love to be anointed friend of the show,
and it would make my life.
Yes, Annalise, come forward.
Anointed.
You are now anointed.
P.S., James, nice voice, wink face.
Thank you.
I should have made a few words.
Very much.
Caitlin, Megan, I also have blonde moments.
Fletch, stop being grumpy.
Oh, I'm being cute as fuck at the moment.
Hashtag Chad.
Hashtag Flamingos.
Hashtag peace out.
Hashtag already know the show's secret.
Hashtag proud to be a Kiwi.
To Princess Di.
It's okay, not to be a, to Princess Di.
And the show's secret.
Steph Russell, FEMZN fam, Merry Christmas to you.
My name's Steph.
I'm a long-time listener.
First time episode hailing from Nelson
and sitting in Christchurch.
But for the last four months,
I've been living in Copenhagen
while I finished my law degree,
which basically means I'm traveling around Europe
every weekend and occasionally going to lectures.
I'll keep this snappy.
Before coming to Copenhagen,
I did what any 20-something Kiwi does in their OE,
a Kentucky.
Mine went around Eastern Europe.
Highlights include partying on a river cruise
in Butterpiece, getting lost in Venice.
I also paid my respects at Auschwitz,
which is incredibly sad and bizarrely beautiful.
Even though I'm overhead to finish studying,
I've really made the most of cheap European flights.
My favorite city so far is St. Petersburg,
which is Russian, isn't it?
Yeah, it is, yeah.
And favorite activity was the Blue Lagoon
in Iceland.
Oh, I want to go to that.
That looks amazing.
I've got to start
wrapping this up.
I've got to start
wrapping up the trips now
as exams are literally
around the corner
and I have to pass them
to get my flash grad job
in Auckland next year.
I've got less than a month
left of my exchange
and I'm really sad
about it being finished
but I'm also excited.
My family's making
the long distance journey
from little old New Zealand
to spend hopefully
a white Christmas with me in Stockholm. sister and I then take a few weeks
to travel around Spain and Portugal uh we're heading to London to see the Lion King and go
to the Harry Potter tour I can't do an episode without making a shout out to Meg she made working
over the summer bearable as we continually got too drunk at work parties and we're too busy
messaging each other about this podcast I never do any work. Finally, thanks for the podcast.
It's always helpful when I'm felt homesick.
Megan, I can't wait to see your wedding photos.
XO, XO, Steph, got to take this opportunity
to confirm the show's secret.
Yes to Princess Diana.
To Princess Diana.
Now, what's Megan on the phone?
Megan doesn't talk on the phone,
but she's been on the phone for like 15 minutes.
Yeah.
She's got to explain this.
She was giggling before.
It might be Andrew. No, they wouldn't talk for that Yeah. She's got to explain this. She was giggling before. It might be Andrew.
No, they wouldn't talk for that long.
She's playing with her hair,
but she does that all the time.
Okay.
It might be business related.
Maybe, maybe.
You should try the Poo Hoi Gin as well.
Someone just commented.
Vanessa Crockett said you should try the Poo Hoi Gin.
And then Ra said, most welcome for the cheese.
Anytime.
We don't do alcohol.
It must be a local gin that supplies the cafe with gin.
Well, somebody needs to own that Poo-Hoy trademark, don't they?
Poo-Hoy organic distillery.
Poo-Hoy organic distillery, but in no way associated to the cheese.
Simply geographically very close.
Sarah America is next, associated to the cheese. Simply geographically very close. Sarah
America is next, friend of the show.
Dear fam, Sarah America here for the annual
Ipso.
Guys, this year has been a year.
I turned 30, gained a new
niece, and by the time this is read out, I'll probably
have finished The Wire. What a
year! Great show. Still a great show.
At a celebratory, I decided to take a month-long
holiday and spend some quiet time on a goat dairy farm in southern Portugal.
Since I leave for Portugal on December 18,
I'm pulling Carl Fletcher and skipping Christmas with the fam.
I feel a little selfish,
but I'm also really excited not to break out in hives
whenever family members insist on discussing
how great Donald Trump has been for America.
Oh, God.
Shout out to my girl, Ben Brook, as always.
She got engaged this year,
and babes, I can't wait for your hashtag wedding of the year.
I also can't wait to see you in Lisbon this month for a couple day catch up.
We will undoubtedly spend copious amounts of time, maybe even getting tattoos again.
Last but certainly not least, thanks for the podcast and fostering such a lovely community.
It must feel weird to hear this from complete strangers,
but the community is a great little potty family.
Thank you for being kind and welcoming.
In closing, I hope each and every one of you
have a lovely holiday.
And we did.
Thank you.
Well, we will in a couple of weeks.
Much love and waffling from 2018.
Yeah, we've got another holiday coming up.
Yeah, it's important to stay on top of those holidays.
Megan, Megan's back.
Who are you talking to?
Someone.
Mysterious.
No, I've got a job to do.
But I'm not allowed to tell you what it is.
I've got a job with a company.
Yeah, good.
Stop the music.
No, no, no.
Tell me.
No, I can't tell you because it's a company and they're doing this thing.
Can you tell me later?
No, but me and Andrew
are doing it together
so we're like
working together.
Oh my gosh.
You are going to be
Sonny and Cher,
the new Sonny and Cher.
Yes.
Yes, we are.
What was that
Sonny and Cher song?
I got you, babe.
I got you.
I got you.
I got you.
I got you.
I got you.
I got you.
I got you.
I got you.
I got you.
I got you.
I got you.
I got you.
I got you.
I got you.
I got you.
I got you.
I got you.
I got you.
I like how we all picked a different line to sing. I got flowers in my hair in the spring I like how we all
picked a different line
to sing
I got you
you in my ring
and when I'm dead
you're around
no you're a clown
and if I get scared
you're always around
no Caitlin
clown was the last one it's around this time it was five times no it doesn't it's raining You're fucking scared. You're always a clown. No, Caitlin.
Clown was the last one. It's around this time.
No, it doesn't.
It's raining.
Shut the ranch, slider.
If you're scared, a clown is only going to add to the fear.
I always go home with a headache.
Do you know that?
I wonder why.
Probably because of Caitlin's misuse of Sonny and Sheila.
I would imagine.
Hey, look what I did for you, Vaughan.
I've made all of the cheeses.
Oh, my God. Pass them on. Which ones do you want first? Maybe there's a would imagine. Hey, look what I did for you, Vaughan. I've made all of the cheeses. Oh my god, pass them on.
Which ones do you want first? There's a little post-it.
Oh, that's so cute.
James, we should
tee up Sonny and Cher. I got you.
Oh, I thought you meant for an interview. I was like,
is Cher dead? Sonny's dead.
Sonny crashed into a tree, didn't he?
Cher is a fucking queen. I love that bitch.
Is that how he died? She's an icon.
He was skiing and he hit a tree and he died. Here's one, Blue. Much like Liam Neeson's wife. Oh, no. Yeah love that bitch. Is that how he died? She's an icon. Crash, he was skiing and he hit a tree and he died.
Here's one blue.
Much like Liam Neeson's wife.
Oh, no.
Yeah, that's right.
That was horrible.
And Michael Schumacher.
Michael Schumacher.
And the GoPro.
It was the GoPro on his helmet that did him bad.
It got pushed right into his face.
He's still alive.
Do you reckon they got that footage?
I wouldn't want to watch that.
Wait, he's still
alive, eh?
Yeah, but he's
in a vegetative state.
Is he?
Onion.
Did he not wake up?
You don't know that.
No, he's woken up.
He's just not the same.
No, he's not.
No, there were
rumours making it.
He's not woken up.
He's a vegetable.
They said he was
getting better.
It's lies.
Really?
I was wondering
what happened with him.
Good song, this.
Wasn't he in a coma for months?
Do you know she was at Sydney Gay Pride?
We missed out
Absolutely missed out
That blue cheese
Teens up with that
Wonderfully
And again to mention
Our cheese sponsor for the day
Pumoi Cheeses
And baby I got you
In no way related to Pumoi
Pumoi Gin
Weren't these the TV2 ad for a while? I got you. In no way related to Booboo. That's quite good for me, isn't it? For a reason. We'll use the TV2 ad for a while.
I got you, babe.
Yeah.
I got you, babe.
Shots with the bobble.
I got you, babe.
Shots is just for us.
You're double parked.
Oh.
Oh, my God.
Hey, can I just say.
Because we've been saving this for a special occasion, so you should be on.
This is some fucking...
This is verve.
Verve.
Oh, shit.
I feel unworthy.
We need to change the batteries.
We're having a quick break.
I got you, babe.
I got you, babe.
I got flowers in the spring