ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Megan Podcast - July 25 2018

Episode Date: July 24, 2018

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This is the Fletch, Vaughan and Megan podcast, thanks to Spark. You can stay connected with free Wi-Fi a gig a day on the $19 Spark prepaid rollover pack. Enjoy. Thanks, Anya. Good morning. Welcome to the show, Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. And happy birthday to you. Thanks. I like that we weren't

going to carry on. I felt like that one line took a real long time. I was like, we could do the whole thing and that two sopranos. It'll take forever. Two thirds of solo

neo vibe that we had going on. But Megan. Would have taken a long time. 21 again. Yeah, thank you. That's how old I am. I'm basically saying you're 42. No, I'm not 42.

Okay. God, no. No, my dad got a cup for his 40th, and it said not 40, 21 with 19 years experience. And he thought it was a hoot. So, Megan, today is your birthday, and we've been promising you for the last couple of days a birthday present. Yeah. Look at old greasy intern Anya. She's brought in flowers.

Both of those bunches of flowers. No, one's from Caitlin, my girls. And she's brought you a breakfast Coke. Yeah. A Coke Zero vanilla. A 1.5 litre. That's something special. I would have thought that she would have had that chilled, though.

It is chilled. Oh. It looks warm. It's got no beating. It looks chilled. It's got no perspiration on the outside. Well, we've got a present for you, too. The greatest gift.

You can see next door that there are two women in the studio. They've been in there since you've been in here this morning. So what I can see is... Am I getting my vagina plastered? Am I getting a mould made? No. What is that? No.

My God. Those two women are Keira and Louise, and they are from a company that do things to people. Oh, Christ. To people. Because I would say makeup, but it's not. There's, like, other things. Well, it is.

It is. It is a form of makeup. We're giving you probably the greatest gift that you could ever have today. To put you on equal footing with us. Yeah. No! You are going bald for the day, baby.

We are getting you an SFX bald head so we can all be bald for the day. The three baldies! I almost did it for you first. You are

going to see how hard it is to look this good. I'm not Natalie Portman. Every day. It's not going to. I am. It'll make you take your hair for granted maybe. Shit.

So it's going to be quite the undertaking. That's what that thing is. It's like a skin that goes on my head. Oh my God. That's why we have to start now. Because this takes a couple of hours. So throughout the entire show, you'll be next door in our B studio.

We can patch through to you for updates during the morning. It's quite an intensive process. We want you maybe even fully ready for our guest this morning, David Fowrie, a friend of the show and now an international Netflix star, to talk about his show Dark Tourist. It's important that you

get in there now. Because he's so hot on the press circuit right now, when we put the video online, we're going to send it to TMZ. Shit. No videos today. This should definitely go on the Herald. Oh, 100%. Let's get this around the place. I'm going to put some lipstick on because

maybe that'll help. What, like all over your hair? No, you might look like Bruce Willis with lipstick or something. Oh, shit. Yeah, what bald brother do you think you'll look like the most? What's a hot one? Jason Statham. It's a hard one to pull off, Statham.

I'm bad, Statham. Didn't Demi Moore shave her head once? Yeah, for G.O. Jane. She did. Terrible move there. It looked great. Well, we'll get some videos up throughout the morning as well on our Instagram and Facebook, FVMZM.

So if you want to check those out. I think my face is too round for this. I'm just going to look like one of those Cabbage Patch dolls. This is the best birthday present ever. Are we your best friends? I knew it was going to be something shit like this. All right, you lot, listen up. It's story time.

Now, just next door, Megan is getting the birthday present of the century from us. Yes. Vaughn, a bald head. A makeup special effects bald head. Yep. So she's just getting ready now, so she won't be joining us. Yes. Vaughn, a bald head. A makeup special effects bald head. Yep. So she's just getting ready now so she won't be joining us. I would describe her

looking like she's squeezed her head over a condom and it's broken and she needs some assistance to get out of it. Yeah. At this stage, do you think she's happy?

She's smiling. Okay. I think she's ecstatic. It's hard to know sometimes, is it? Because she said, I said it, you're right. She said, I'm fine. What does that mean?

Oh, is that how she said it? That speed? That pacing? A little slow. I'm fine. I'm fine. I'm more like, I'm fine. She's fine.

Now. Oh, but you don't know though, do you? Oh, no, you can. All right. After you've lived with them for a little while. Well, so I guess your pick for story time then. Any story. Three headlines pick for story time then. Any story. Three headlines is how story time works and you pick one, Vaughan,

while Megan's getting ready. Headline one, fish unable to smell if toast is burning. Headline two, there's a time and a place to be funny. And headline three, woman whizzes from London to Warsaw. I know one and three.

Okay. Three is the passenger shaming actually put this video up and Instagram deleted it. A woman was on a flight from London to Warsaw and she squatted and did a wee because they wouldn't let her use the toilet. Yeah. So she just

wee'd on the floor. Yeah. Right. And by the emergency exit. And I also know the first one. So it looks like I'm going for it. It's the time and place to be funny. And what about the fish? Is the ocean temperatures going up? And scientists have found that increasing ocean temperatures mean fish have lost their sense of smell.

Yeah. And it's becoming acidic. Yeah. So all the fish are... I know. They can't smell. Because they developed over millions of years in an ocean with the pH level the way it is. Yeah.

And that's how they can smell it. Apparently it depends a lot on that. Well, aren't you? Don't you have your finger on the news pulse today? I've got my finger everywhere. Okay. Except up number two. Up number two.

So we'll go to headline two for story time. There's a time and a place to be funny. And a lot of people actually outraged in Memphis, Tennessee at an eviction notice that was put on a Memphis apartment for the tenants. Okay. The notice reads, guess who's moving? And it's an emoji with the hand coming out and underneath, you! Exclamation mark, mark, mark, mark, mark, mark. Oh dear. So guess who's moving? You! and it's an emoji with the hand coming out and underneath you!

Exclamation mark, mark, mark, mark, mark, mark. Oh dear. So guess who's moving? You! Is that their eviction? Yeah, that's their eviction notice. Well, that doesn't seem nearly official enough. No. And that's why people are saying,

well, there's a time and a place to be funny and it's not when you're evicting a family. It's a shameful situation. Why are they evicting them? Were they evicting them because they were doing something with the building Or were they evicting them because they were bad tenants? Well, it doesn't really go into say We don't really know too much about their story

Because if it was evicting them because they were bad tenants And it had been an ongoing behind the scenes And they'd finally got the all clear to give them the boot That's okay But if it's a surprise come from nowhere, you have to leave, it's a surprise for everybody, that's highly inappropriate.

Yeah, it was a surprise to everybody. Right, okay. So that's why people are saying, oh, come on, you can't evict people with an emoji. Yeah. Smiling. Come on. And if you were going to evict them with an emoji,

there's better emojis. That's almost like a sort of a clip art. Yeah, it is. Which were emojis before emojis, weren't they? Clip art. They were. They were the OG emojis. If you were putting together an early 2000s presentation for somebody

and you wanted to get a little bit of a flirt in, there would have been a piece of clip art that you could have inserted into your Microsoft Word that would have done the trick beautifully. Megan, next door in our second studio, preparation's underway for her bald head. It's our birthday present to her. All three of us will be bald at the end of the show.

Two of us were bald at the start of the show as well. One will be joining our ranks throughout a very special birthday. So what they've done, just to bring you up to date, is they've pulled the hair back. Like intensely back. Intensely back. And now she's fitting into the Connie that you were talking about before.

Yeah, and they're gluing the Connie to her face. And then I guess they cut around the Connie. Yeah. This is the head condom. It's not an actual Connie. It's a latex. Yeah, yeah. They're cutting around it now and they glue it down.

And then the rest is makeup and everything to kind of blend it in with her. And that's how, because I always see in movies, I'm like, how did that, how did they do that? Because they didn't shave the hair off. They hide it all under. It's amazing. Very well done. We'll get some Instagram posts happening soon, FVMZM. The Warehouse are having a big toy sale month.

And so they've cranked out some PR, probably sent out a PDF to media outlets. happening soon, FEMZM. The Warehouse are having a big toy sale month, and so they've cranked out some PR, probably sent out a PDF to media outlets, and we've just lapped it up. Well, because it's nearly 20 past six and we need a break. Yeah, bingo. And they've hit us in the nostalgic feels. Yeah.

Because they have compared the top toys of 1998 to the top toys of 2018. So the 20 years difference there. Oh, okay. And looking at this, this is a fair indication of what toys were like in my house. Yep. As a child and my house now as a parent. Wow, that's crazy. Of these top toys of 2018, I would say we've had eight? Nine in my house? And what about the list of top toys in

2008? 1998? Sorry, 1998. I would say we would have had all of them. Oh yeah, all of them at some stage. Or like the budget version of. You know what I mean? So in 1998 the top toys were the brick game. This was nine and one. You bought it. It looked like a

Tetris handheld thing. But it had heaps of different games in it. Yes. Because it was super cheap, hey? There would have been Tetris. There would have been Snake. There would have been like a Pac-Man rip-off. Yeah. It would have been like a card game, Solitaire, or Hearts or something. I remember that. So yeah, that was

a top toy. Haven't we come a long way on handheld devices? I know. Shadow Rings in 1998. They were up there. Yeah, I had Chatterings. Pro-Yo 2, which was just a yo-yo of the time. Oh, it's pretty rubbish. Because every time yo-yos got popular again,

they needed to rebrand them. Yeah. Otherwise, your mum would be like, you've already got one of those from five years ago. I'll find it. So the Pro-Yo 2. Tamagotchi. We had a budget version of a Tamagotchi.

I had a, yeah, no, I got over it. It's so needy. Yeah. Just reset the button and put it in the drawer. Hot Wheels. The basic Hot Wheels cars. Okay. Which are a timeless classic.

The Barbie picnic van, where Barbie went on a picnic with her pals. Yeah. But didn't eat much to maintain that figure. No. No time if she was eating too many carbohydrates. Some just had some berries. The Super Soaker. Oh, I had a, I loved. Someone just had some berries. The Super Soaker. Oh, I loved a Super Soaker. I loved a

Super Soaker too. I had a backpack mounted one. Did it like a flamethrower? Yeah, yeah. And you went, jeez. Yeah, and smoked the dudes with the little handheld ones. So much more carrying around. Polly Pocket, Operation, the classic game Operation, and Magna Doodle.

So those were the top toys in 1998. In New Zealand. Wow, okay. And now looking back on it, I thought I was particularly hard done by as a child, but given that I had probably at our house, we would have had 10 or close to 10 of the top 10 toys. I'm beginning to think we had it pretty good. But in 2018, the top toys, a lot of these are Zuru toys.

Now, Zuru's a New Zealand company. I don't know what they got into first, if it was the swimmy fish that go in the bath. Or the water balloons? Or the water balloons that are super easy to fill up. But one of those was their kickstart, and this is a New Zealand family. They are killing it.

Bought the Kim.com mansion. I was going to say they bought Kim.com's house. So that went, Crisco Christmas hamper people, they built that mansion, I believe, with the Crisco Christmas hamper moneyought the Kim.com mansion. I was going to say they bought Kim.com's house. So that went Crisco Christmas hamper people. They built that mansion, I believe. Yeah. With the Crisco Christmas hamper money. Yeah.

Then Kim.com and now the toy people. So it's always... What do you think the toy people did with Kim.com's panic room? I would hide toy prototypes in there. Would you? Right. I'd have them under lock and key. You wouldn't keep it as a panic room?

No, I've got no reason to. People were coming at you for your money. True. Might not get raided by the police, but I could get home invaded. Sure. Okay, I'll keep it in the panic room. Okay. So they've got the Zuru five surprise ball,

which, to be honest, in the Zuru range is their weakest link. Oh, right. We got a five surprise. The girls wanted a five surprise. Pretty budget. Pretty much like five Kinder Surprise toys. Right. Is it ripping off LOL?

Or do they do LOL? They're not knowing what's in there. No, they don't do LOL dolls, but LOL Surprise Confetti Pop dolls, like I think that's series four of the LOL dolls. They're on the list as well, as well as Pomsies, which are like these things you wrap around your wrist

and they're just like a pet head. Oh, yeah. On a wrap around wrist thing. Hot Wheels are still in there. The Lego Millennium Falcon, that's in there. We've got one of those. That might have been me. Play-Doh, still very popular. Lost Kitties blind box, which is you just like little kitten figurines.

Smushy Mushy Mystery Pack, which my kids love love as well but they're literally just smooshy things. Just like a hamburger but you can smoosh it. A game of Monopoly and Zuru Snooks Monopoly is in the top. It's like an electronic one and it's more up to date and it's bigger numbers and not your traditional streets and stuff. And the Schnooks

which come really small and you brush them and they go like 8 times their size. That's another Zuru toy. And in 20 years, someone on the radio will be reading out that list of the top toys in 2018. My kids, maybe, will have a show and they'll be reading it out being like, oh, we had all of these. And what'll be the top toy in 20 years?

Sex dolls. Robot sex dolls. At the warehouse. Yeah, they've got to keep up. Right. Next door, Megan today celebrating her birthday Getting a bald head And what a gift we are giving her Our present to her

And I believe Megan Hello Can hear us now Would we say celebrating? Yes Celebrating your birthday Yeah Try not to move your head so much.

Sorry. Even when I smile, like, everything pulls. So, just bring us up to date. What's happened so far? So, they've slicked my hair back with, like, gel, like, intense gel. Yeah. That they had to dry with hair dryers. So, it's, like, super slicked back.

And then they put, like, yeah, it is like a condom on my head. Yeah. What is it actually made of? It's latex. Okay. Right? Is it latex? Yeah.

Vinyl. Oh, my God. Oh, right. Oh, my God. We're going to put a needle on you later and you can be like a hipster. And then they don't cut the edges. They dissolve it. So they stick it to your head and then dissolve the edges, which is kind of what they're doing now. Oh, so you can be like a hipster. And then they don't cut the edges, they dissolve it. So they stick it to your head and then dissolve the edges, which

is kind of what they're doing now. Oh, so you can't see. Like feathering it into nothing. Even at this stage now, it looks like you're someone who shaved their head to support their friend who's going through chemo or something. Yeah, because they're going to colour it, but at the moment it looks

like my head hasn't seen sun. Yeah, that's exactly what it looks like, colour it. But at the moment, it looks like my head hasn't seen sun. Yeah, that's exactly what it looks like. When someone with really dark hair who's had hair for ages shaves their head. Yeah. And you can see the dark stubble, but it looks really white. You were right. You do have a very round head.

Yeah, I know. Actually, you know what? I don't think it actually looks that bad, though. Producers, like you've said, it actually, like... Yeah. I think she could rock it. If push came to shove. I like this.

I like this. All right, well, we'll keep you up to date throughout the morning. I believe Anya is just working on a video to go up on our Instagram, FBMZM.

So we'll keep you up to date with the process throughout the morning. FBM. There is a scam that I think we should all be aware of. Okay.

It involves Uber and some dodgy Uber drivers. I've not had a bad Uber experience. No, neither. Of all the Ubers I've caught, everybody's been pretty good. But most of the time I'm catching a fare to West Auckland and they love them big fares. When I was in South America, everyone sits in the front passenger seat.

Everyone. But would that be the same in the taxis and the Ubers? I don't know front passenger's seat. Everyone. Would that be the same in the taxis? I don't know if it's a safety thing that I want to get knifed or something, but if you sit in the back, if you're by yourself, nobody does it. Really? I hated it because I'm always a backseater.

James, even in New Zealand, you're a frontseater, Producer James. We've talked about this before. In New Zealand? Yeah. Oh, no, I love that I'm the backseat. I'm big for the backseat. Who loves the front seat?

I don't know. Is it Anya or Caitlin? Must be. I'm always in the backseat, too. But I'd rather go in the front seat than have three people in the backseat. If there's three people getting in, I'll go in the front. I'll go in the front if there's three people. But if you're by yourself, you don't sit in the front seat. That's weird.

Yeah, no, that's weird. I also get a little bit sick feeling if I spend too much time in the back seat. If it's a longer journey, I don't mind riding up front. You say that for shotgun purposes. 100%. You're full of it. You don't get sick in a car. Not on any sort of urban journey, but if you're driving

a few hours, no, I can't do back seat anymore. Well, this scam happening quite a bit overseas. Haven't heard of it happening here. It's the Uber Vomit Sc hours. Oh, no, I can't do backseat anymore. Well, this scam happening quite a bit overseas. Haven't heard of it happening here. It's the Uber vomit scam. Now, what happens is you will get out of the Uber and they will,

the driver will soil their car with a vomit-like substance, the backseat. A substance that's easy to clean and maybe isn't that stanky. Well, like one of those, oh, so an actual liquid because I was thinking about,

you know those little fake vomits you used to get from the trick shops? Up there with the fake poo. No, they actually do because they have to take a photo. So what they do is they make it look like you've vomited in their car.

They take a photo and then you get charged. Oh, so they can prove, they've got visual proof of the soiling. So, and then you can get charged anywhere from $80 to $150. And then they just give it a quick wipe. Who bombed in an Uber here and got a $30?

Was it one of your friends? Yeah, that was my mate. That was on the outside of the car. So that was the $30 to wash the car. But I have heard more of an upholstery sort of clean is going to be, yeah, it's going to be pretty hefty. But he actually did that, so that's fair enough. Yeah, that was fair call. Because it takes the car out of service, doesn't it?

That's why they... Vomit on the outside. Yeah. No, you just pull into the local service station and use that thing most people use to wash their windscreens with. You chuck a bit of water on, then you brush off the vomit, chuck it on, and away you go. Easiest $30 you'll ever make. Okay.

Yeah, we have one of those self-serving cleaners down the road from our house, so he would have just gone down there and quickly given it a clean for like $2, and away you go. Easiest $30 you'll ever make. Okay. Yeah, we have one of those self-serving cleaners down the road from our house. He would have just gone down there and quickly given it a clean for like $2. Oh, yeah. It was like $30, but you can't complain. No, when you're vomiting on somebody's property. Pretty grim.

So now this has been happening a bit in Miami. People are taking photos when they get out of their Uber of the back seat or the front seat, just to say, I didn't vomit. Oh, so they get out and they take the photo and then he can take a photo and they're like, well, no, look, when I got out, it looked like this. Yeah, basically.

But then you could just take a photo of a back seat of a Toyota Prius or one of those hybrid Hondas. 98% of the time, those are what Ubers are. Yeah, true. So you could, if you vomited in there, even just have one on your phone of a clean seat to deny it. One Uber customer said he was hit twice in the same night by the scam. But I don't know how a driver can submit two or three or four times a night that four people have vomited in his Uber.

He's going to catch himself out. Oh, no, you'd have to probably pick one or two a night at opposite ends of your day, right? But then it's not unlikely that your Uber would be vomited in once a weekend if you were an Uber driver, would it? No, not unlikely. Do you know what I reckon how they decide who they're going to do it to? Who? You jump in and if within the first 30 seconds you say,

been busy? They would. Been busy? Busy night? What time did you start? Are you starting or are you finishing? What time are you working till? Busy tonight?

No, you just have to choose really drunk people. Yeah. That wouldn't remember. Right. Or someone who is only going a really short distance, so you can be like, well, I'll make my money off these. No, don't do that. That'll teach you for taking a $4 Uber.

The Top Six with Vaughan Smith. Is it you or is it me? Wait a minute, it's bloody Sunday. What's this show doing on TV? Shawna Street going to six nights a week. Yeah, I mean, I guess people love it, don't they? So why not? Yeah.

To me, it makes more sense than it would be on a Sunday night and not a Friday night. Yeah. Do you know what I mean? Because people go out on a Friday. Sunday, you're chilling. Yeah. Because you've come to the dark realisation that you've got to wake up for work. Yeah.

So you're at home but Friday you might go out after work and carry on the drinks or after uni or school or whatever and get out and enjoy the weekend.

Yeah. Head away. Makes sense. Maybe this is the slow move. Nah, that was how it goes. Anyway, it's going to be on

six nights a week. So I, whack. Whack. Six nights a whack, Dad. So, if it's on Sunday it needs some specific Sunday storylines. Good idea.

And here's my top six suggestions. Relatable. Number six on the list of the top six Sunday Shortland Street storylines. Last night's sober driver spends the day trying to figure out where they left their car in town before deciding to drink and catch an Uber home. Yeah, because the pressure gets too much. Yeah, you're like, where was I? It's probably been towed too.

Yeah, that'll be the thing. It will definitely have been towed. Number five on the list of the top six Sunday short on the street storylines. A character who wakes up early because they lost their phone the night before ends up watching What Now? because it's better than the hymn singing and Bible bashing on Channel 1 or the political arguing that 3's the nation.

On a Sunday morning. That's so true. How many times do you get caught watching What Now? I remember when Sunday morning was the best, the mecca of children's television. 3 had an option. Three had an option. Two had an option.

One was always Praise Bee, but Praise Bee and the Himmies and everything. But you could generally find something. And now it's like, what now is the last bastion of children's television on a Sunday? Number four on the list of the top six Sunday night Shortland Street storylines.

Someone will have a 25-minute long Skype call with their parents. Because that's when you call your parents on a Sunday. Sunday nights are great for time to catch up with mum and dad. Yep. And see what's been happening and talk about the weather. They can be busy because they've just got out of the garden. Yeah.

Trying to get dinner on. I'm just getting dinner on. Hold on, I'll get your father. Ian! Ian! And then mum starts yelling because the cats have jumped up on the bench., I'll get you further. Ian! Ian! And then mum starts yelling because the cats have jumped up on the bench. Yeah, that's all go.

Because she's been talking to you on bloody Skype. The cats have got the chicken. Number three on the list of the top six Sunday night Shortland Street storylines. Somebody spends $150 in all day trying to nail a roast dinner for their friends. Only to rightly bugger it up and have to end up getting pizza and wasting all their money. It happens. How do you bugger up a roast dinner for their friends. Yeah. Only to rightly bugger it up and have to end up getting pizza

and wasting all their money. It happens. How do you bugger up a roast? I don't know. Easy. Undercook it. Yeah, true. Overcook it.

Overcook it. The vegetables are the hardest part of the roast. Yeah. Getting a roast veg, perfect. You want them to be crispy, but don't burn it. Precisely. And don't dry them out.

No. Kermit-a, I'm looking at you. You're either sloppy or overdone. Number two on the list of Sunday night Shortland Street storylines. A character will take about two hours to get ready to go to the gym, then drive to the gym,

but can't find a park, so turn around and go home via McDonald's drive-thru. Because they're slightly hung. You made the attempt. Yeah. It's not my fault there was no parts.

Sunday. And then you're on the way home and you're reading and you're like, actually, this was the day that the Lord rested after creating Earth.

Yeah. Maybe it's best I just take the day off. Yeah. The gym. After all, I went, how many days this week?

Last month. Number one on the list of the top six Sunday night Shortland Street storylines. Their one on the list of the top six Sunday night Shortland Street storylines. The characters spend the whole day trying to motivate themselves to get out of bed because they're quite hungover. They ultimately end up getting up and having a shower mid-afternoon

but then just go back to bed wet and still wrapped in their towels. How good is getting back into bed nude or with a towel around you still a little bit damp from a shower when you're hungover? That is good stuff. And that's today's top six. A man's in jail for 22 months. This is what he did. He took a Christmas cake to work.

Yep. He didn't tell anybody he made it. He snuck it into work, left it in the staff room. Nine people he worked with ate it, and it had an unknown quantity of marijuana products in it. What, this was like a prank? His idea of a joke? It seems like it because he snuck it in and he didn't say,

hey, guys, cake in the staff room, just left it in there. It was sort of a Christmassy cake situation, so, you know, lots of fruit. I'm bad. If there's a cake in the fridge, and the fridge, but on the bench here at work, or any goodies. You'll have a slice.

I'll have a nibs. But do you think that's what he was doing? Like, were people eating his goodies? So he's like, I'll teach you. Bring it in. Not say anything. People ate it. Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah.

Maybe. But that's quite vindictive, isn't it? Maybe. It's not his first brush with the law. Right, okay. And it's not his 39th. He's got 40 previous convictions. 40? Like what? Like, I don't know. All that petty stuff, or we don't know? Well, three were

violent, so we don't know what's going on there. If this was a coffee card, he would have had like four free convictions by now. I don't know what's going on there. Okay. If this was a coffee card, he would have had like four free convictions by now. I don't know if that's how convictions work. I don't know. Yeah, I don't either. But that's how I imagine things tallying up in groups of five.

This is why, do you know, there's a saying in radio that's been around for as long as I've been in radio. You never trust listener food. Yeah, because someone might be like, oh my God, I love the show. I want to bring you in some baking. But they hate the show and you said something that offended them deeply

and they're trying to kill you. Mike Hosking, for us, it's not too bad. Yeah, no. I like to think we don't offend anybody or try to. We've had cakes brought in and I'll eat them because they look delicious, like my birthday cake. I always say to the person that brings it in,

I'm like, you eat it first. No, I don't. You eat it first and then we're going to wait 8 to 12 hours to see if you develop any symptoms.

But if you were Hosking, you couldn't afford to be eating cake Oh no, Hosking has a person on staff that tests all of his food before eating it.

And he's up to his 8th because they all died. Because what was the last one was anthrax. Yeah, they died very quickly. Not as quickly as the cyanide cupcakes. So that was like the third time work's been cordoned off, hazmat, everything. Yeah. Yeah.

I still ate the icing off the cake because I don't think the anthrax is in the icing. It wasn't. It was in the sponge. Exactly. So if you don't eat the anthrax part, you're actually pretty sweet. You're fine. You're fine. But I've never made, and I'm not talking about on purpose,

but I've never made food that has ended up to people being sick. Do you remember that 21st? Marty, our friend Marty, we went to his 21st and his dad was cooking chicken kebabs in the dark. No, but I ate them and I was fine. Chicken kebabs are ready. And we're like, yum, yum, yum, yum. That's cold.

And then turn on our phone lights and they were pink. Pink. They were pink. You're not always going to get, like, Campbell back to salmonella from raw chicken. The chicken has to have it. Exactly. Not raw.

And everybody was okay, but there was, like, a good period of just waiting for the diuretic. But do you think anyone... I mean, maybe we could take some calls on this. Like has anyone ever had like a dinner party or taken something to work and your foods made everyone sick? Because I guess if you were making like, if you did a dinner for people and yeah, there was bad chicken or a bad ingredient. I always feel sorry for, well, I don't feel sorry for them.

But like people who do fishing or diving, people are always asking, oh, if you've got any, you know, if any scallops are gone, or they might go to work and take in some seafood. Like, you're rolling the dice on that. You are, yeah. You don't know if there's been an early season toxic algae bloom. And everyone's got the squirts and work

just grinds to a halt because you, you know, en masse poisoned everybody with seafood. Maybe that's the thing. You put out some seafood like some oysters or something at a party and everyone gets sick.

Let's take some calls. Has that ever happened to you? Or maybe you've been on the receiving end like somebody brought in some bad food to work and it made you sick. 0800 DALS at M9696.

When did your food make people sick? I want to take some calls. Megan, how's the bald head? It's great. Oh, yes. Look at it. I've had colour flicked on my head, so it looks so great.

Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. We're talking about when you've maybe provided food to a group and it's made them sick. A guy took a, I mean, he laced it with marijuana, let's be fair. It was purposeful. Yeah, and people thought they were having heart attacks and having difficulty breathing,

and they were just really heavily body stoned. And if you've ever been to Amsterdam, then imagine not expecting what happened. Exactly. And being at work. He's in prison. Yes. Where they don't have kitchens.

So we want to know from you when a group made a group food you provided or you ate it made people sick. Some text messages in. I just got back from diving in the tropics and we couldn't eat any fish bigger than our forearm because it gives foreigners

that aren't used to cigarteria, that aren't used to it, it gives them a thing called cigateria, which can paralyze you. Apparently you develop an immunity to it growing up there and eating them. Right. It's not uncommon for people to get it from the resort food

if locals sell big fish, like chopped up in salads and everything. And it'll only make some people sick, whereas other people have grown used to it. Oh, that's it. I'm not eating big fish ever again. I didn't even know that was a thing. I'll stick to whitebait.

Because it's tiny, eh? Give me all the whitebaits. Yeah. At my best friend's wedding, 50 people got severe food poisoning from the mains. Even the groom got it. What did they serve? Chicken?

Well, it turns out to be the sort of food poisoning that you get from food being contaminated by poo. Oh, no. So there must have been someone who didn't wash their hands or something. Well, that's the thing, because I've just had Camp Labacter. It's horrible.

But you don't know where you got it from. Right, but they like to trace it, don't they? They do, because I got a text from the people. They're like, oh, we want to talk to you about where you've gone and eaten. Interview you about your poos. So how fast did it come out? No, no, they want to go through your history

of where did you go out and eat everywhere. It's a notifiable disease. Yeah, I know, but if it isn't, I can't be bothered. I don't know where I ate. Heaps of places. They're going to try and stop other people from getting it. Yeah, I know. It was way easier than your parents say

when they only ate out like once a month. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. They'll be able to trace it. Famously, this generation eats out more than it eats at home. Yeah, it was way easier in your parents' day when they only ate out like once a month. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. They'd be able to trace it, but famously this generation eats out more than it eats at home. Yeah, exactly. Rachel, what happened? Morning. Morning.

So I was out doing some shopping and I went and got a sausage sizzle from a famous hardware store. That does sausage sizzle. Well, they're both the big ones, don't they? Yeah, there's a few options. When I got home, I started feeling quite ill and I got severe food poisoning

and as a result my whole family got it as well. See, you're pointing fingers at the sausage sizzle, guys, but it would have to be so toxic for you to feel sick by eating that and by the time you got home. Because doesn't food poison take 12 hours at least to sort of kick in? No, I don't believe that. It's like five hours.

It was probably like five hours or something later that I felt like it was that night. I started to feel sick. And I was out of it for like a week. What was in the saucy? Oh, I don't know. But when I bit into it, I was like, oh, this could do with a little bit more crispiness. Because most of them are pre-cooked, though.

Yeah, they're all steamed. Maybe they weren't pre-cooked sausages. They've been sitting out of a refrigerator for too long. True. All right, thanks. You call Rachel? Some other text messages in. My friend's an ambulance driver in Auckland,

and he attended a scene. An elderly hippie man rung them and said, I've killed my group of friends. He'd held a party and all the old people had told him that they wanted to try these hash cookies

that he'd been raving about. Yeah. So he made them a batch. But all these old people had never had marijuana in their life. When the ambulance arrived, people were heavily stoned,

freaking out. So the ambulance tucked them into bed and then the ones that didn't have beds there, they drove them home ambulance tucked them into bed and then the ones that didn't have beds there, they drove them home and tucked them into bed when they got there. That is so cute. You've got to be careful when drugging your old people.

You don't know what the reaction will be. I know, you start with a very low dose. They probably don't need a lot. Especially if it's an age-old hippie who's been smoking weed since the 60s. FVM, the podcast. Just quickly an update. Megan, it's an age-old hippie who's been smoking weed since the 60s. FVM, the podcast. Just quickly an update. Megan, it's her birthday today and she is next door.

And the special effects team, wow. Absolute magicians because we've given you for your birthday a bald cap. A bald head. A bald head. It's so, to be honest, it's so much more realistic than I thought it was going to be. It's quite confronting. But we're pretty much done. We're just going to powder.

It looks now like your hair's just fallen out. I know, right? Yeah. Yeah. They're just going to make my eyebrows a bit darker in there. I think I'm going to put some lipstick on because, I don't know. I feel like my face is missing. Well, this is exciting.

David Farrier joins us in think you should fill in your eyebrows So they look more Like masculine I think what we do When David Farrier comes in To talk about his new Netflix show We just pretend nothing's See if he says anything

Because what are you supposed to say? Nothing I wouldn't say anything Hey Nice to see you Can't wait Okay alright now it's time There's no turning back once I press this button though Are we happy to do this? I didn't say anything. Hey. Nice to see you. Can't wait. Okay, all right, now it's time.

There's no turning back once I press this button, though. Are we happy to do this? We're actually starting this later this year than we did last year. Oh, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Oh, God. Can you believe it? So today is the 25th of July. Correct.

So that would mean six months until Christmas. Exactly. Six months till Christmas. Days, countdown wise, 152 days until Christmas. 16 hours and 30 minutes. I know. I'm not mad about it. You know I'm never mad about it. You're never mad about this.

I love the Christmas music. And we have had our first sighting of Christmas. And it's Hamilton based. Hamilton already advertising for the 22nd of December, Christmas at the Lake. Have you been to Christmas at the Lake before? Something tells me we took a bottle of Christoph to a Christmas at the Lake before? Something tells me we took a bottle of Christoph to a Christmas at the Lake one year. Now, whilst frowned upon...

You're not thinking Christmas at the park? No, this is kind of Hamilton's Christmas at the park. In the park. Because Coca-Cola turned their back on Hamilton. So it's sponsored by Christoph. Yeah, this one was sponsored... I was personally sponsored by Christoph. Although I had to pay,

and they probably in no way wanted to be associated with it. But it's a non-alcoholic event. It's free. It's the festival season event with music, dance, arts, Santa, food stalls, rides, and more. Christmas at the Lake in Hamilton has an official Facebook event Oh, nice. the lake in hamilton has an official facebook event oh nice that's 686 people have already said they're going to on saturday december 22nd at 5 p.m wow well it's happened our first report of christmas it's right up there so with all that taking that into account it's happened

right now christmas penetration is at... 2%. Ooh, it is beginning to look a lot like Christmas. FBM, send him us our Instagram if you'd like to see the process of Megan and her bald head. It's our birthday present to you, Megan. Happy birthday. I was like, did I say thank you to them? Should I say thank you? Yeah.

It looks great. I mean, it happened. Hey, you're not bald. It's a solar panel for the sex machine. Oh. You've never said that to another person, have you? Oh, no, no, I haven't. But I remember people used to say that to my dad,

and they used to think it was him. I think he thought that was probably a positive. Yeah, it's a real dad joke. It's on coffee cups and stuff. And T-shirts. The most Instagrammed show in the world has been revealed. Okay. Now, I'm surprised because I thought it was.

I can't take you seriously with this bald head. It's actually, it's fine for me because I can't see it. Okay. It's not what I would have thought. First of all, it's not like a heel. And it's kind of, I guess, not really like a pretty shoe. I would have thought it would have been a woman's shoe. A woman's shoe.

Okay. It's not. But I wouldn't have thought it would have been a woman's shoe because of the huge variety of woman's shoes. Okay, yeah. Do you know what I mean? Yeah. Like there's not just three different types of high heels

that are popular. There's hundreds. If I have to guess. Do you want to guess maybe a brand? I would say it will be Nike or Adidas because of the shoe fanatics out there. The sneaker heads. Do you know when I walk to work, at least once a month, there are people sleeping on chairs outside Foot Locker

or on High Street waiting for shoe shops to open. No, those are Foot Locker employees. They're so darned excited they're getting to work. They get there nice and early. It is one of those two. And do you know what? Someone in the room is actually wearing them right now. Oh, it's not me.

I was like, well, it might be me, but I'm not wearing any of those brands. Yeah, I instantly discounted Vaughn. The most Instagrammed shoe in the world is the Adidas NMDs. M-N-N. Mum, Nana, Doctor. Nana, Mum, Doctor. Nana, Mum, Doctor.

These ones. What does that stand for? N-M-D. I don't know. I heard it's for them because I thought they looked cool. I don't know. Now, are they unisex? I'd say maybe.

Yeah, probably. Shit. How much did you pay for those? Whoa, what? Have you just learned how much shoes are worn? There are unisex ones. There are women's specific ones. There are male specific ones.

And then there's unisex ones. Oh, thank God. Because, you know, sometimes when I go into... But then, like, if you're a male and you want to wear a pink shoe, I don't know why that has to be only for females. No, but some of them are, like,

different styles. Oh, yeah. They're, like, cuts and stuff. So, yeah, it's just, like, a casual Adidas sneaker. They're cool. They are cool. The most Instagram shoe.

Ah, how do I do numbers? 2,432,395 tags. Hashtags. Oh, right. So the most tags. On Instagram. Okay, that's how they work that out. Yeah. Okay. Did you put up a gram of yours in hashtags? I haven't. No, I haven't hashtagged. Has anybody commented on yours? Some people have commented. What did they say? Just like, oh, I'm going to have to think more highly of you now. I was like, okay, cool. Because of his shoe. Shoegammer's shoe. And then people ask me about what shoes I have. I'm like, I don't know.

I just got them because I thought they looked nice. Don't play it down. You've got some pretty cool shoes. You do. You do. Put a bit of time and thought into your shoes. Well, they're good shoes. They're the last ages, so it's worth it.

Whereas Vaughn just buys two pairs and you don't like spending money. I got these boots for free. And that's why they're my favourite. Ten minutes to wait. We're going to meet Annabelle, our soundkeeper, in about ten minutes' time and get the very first listen to the new secret sound, $20,000 as upgrades. Thanks to Save My Bacon. But he joins us in studio, David Farrier.

The dark tourist himself. Hello. David Farrier, good morning. It's nice to be here. Thanks for having me, you guys. You know what? Eight years ago today, we had you on our show. What's that, eight years?

Eight years ago today, we had you on our show talking about if you listen to a certain sound loud enough, it would make the kids go trippy. How's that? I remember that it just popped up on room it just popped up on that little Facebook memory

yeah I remember that there's lots of weird stuff out there in the world isn't there? yeah full of it you are so nice because you've come in

and you've been in studio for about a minute and you haven't said anything to Megan I've said hello I've said hello he said hello hello what do you want me to say? I got like hello. I've said hello. He said hello. Hello.

What do you want me to say? I feel like a tentative cat. Is it not weird that she doesn't have hair? I'm just rolling with it. It's like, this year, I've seen everything.

I was going to say, this guy's sat through a two-hour exorcism. Yeah, like, you not having hair is not an issue. Do you know what I mean?

It's her birthday today. Right. Some sort of stunt, is not an issue. Do you know what I mean? It's her birthday today. Right, some sort of stunt, is it? Yeah. I mean, it's been done very well. Hasn't it? Yeah, you remind me of that show Coneheads, that movie. Do you remember that? Yeah.

Big old forehead. Yeah. What was your initial thought when you saw me? I just thought she hasn't got any hair. Okay. It's like, have I missed something? You know, and that's fine. But honestly, it's like after the last

year of my life with this series, nothing is particularly surprising. The show is on Netflix. Now you can binge all eight episodes at once. David Farrier, the dark tourist in studio. Good morning. It's lovely to be here. It feels very safe in the studio, actually. So give

us the synopsis of the show, for those that don't know. Dark Tourist. It's eight episodes, and it's a documentary series about dark tourism, which is this kind of phenomenon where people are sick of going to beaches and resorts. They just want to go somewhere atrocious just to see what it's like. That's dark tourism. Does it kind of give you an appreciation for the life you've got when you're not there? Yeah, I think that's part of it.

And, you know, I think that's a good thing in a way where you come away from something kind of feeling better about yourself. But then also, you know, ethically, it all gets a bit murky because you should you go somewhere where something awful has happened just to make yourself feel better about things. Because I'm halfway through episode two, which is in Japan. And I believe in the second half half you're going to go to the suicide forest. Yes, we go to suicide forest. Now, did you go there before or after the Logan Paul

controversy? Yeah, we went there before Logan Paul barged in, and we'd edited most of that episode before. And it was interesting when Logan Paul, because obviously that happened, and we'd had huge discussions about whether we should go in there or not. Yeah. But I'm really proud of the way

we shot that episode and I think our approaches were just, I would say they were very different. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I would, without even seeing yours yet, I can imagine it's dealt with more respectfully. Yes, Logan Paul is the most respectful human being on the planet.

Is there any moments looking back because just when you go into Fukushima it's like, okay, there's radiation but you get quite far in there and your Geiger meter

is going off the Richter. Is there a moment where you're like, why am I doing this stuff? Yeah, a little bit because obviously, you know, you're doing it

because you're making a, you've got to to film it so you can make the show that you've been commissioned to make. See, on that level you're like, this is know you're doing it because you're making a you've got to to film it so you can make the show that you've been commissioned to make see on that level you're like this is why i'm doing it but at the same time you're like you know should this be a priority doing this yeah but i think the story was important to tell and i mean the fact is the japanese government is telling people it's safe to return there uh and it's not and so you know you know we're doing the show about dark tourism and people that go in there for a sort of a weird thrill. But the neat thing, I think, about the series

is that it kind of has this undertone of just showing places for what they are. And, you know, the Japanese government is being a little bit unreasonable in wanting people to move back. The crazy thing about that is having watched Handmaid's Tale, they, you know, punish people by sending them to take the toxic topsoil off after a nuclear fallout, and then you literally go somewhere where people had to take the topsoil off. Yeah, nuclear topsoil.

I watched Handmaid's Tale, the second series, on one of the plane trips here, and I was just thinking, oh, it feels familiar. Yeah, yeah. No, I mean, a little bit different. But, you know, we ended up in some pretty strange situations. I mean, there was a place in America you can go and you pay in dog food and you'll be to be tortured basically until you break.

In dog food? Yeah, so instead of going to a haunted house, it's like, okay, I've done that. What's the next thing I can do? And for some people, that's a torture house. So, yeah, what I'm trying to say is it was a really weird year. Yes, I'm still quite jazzed by the thought of going to Fiji and going to a resort for a few days. I don't know if I'm quite up to Dobford Torture Chamber yet.

Yeah, I've got to say, after the last year, Fiji does seem more appealing than it was beforehand. There is something to be said for just lying on a beach. Yeah, 100%. What was the, of the entire series, what was the scariest moment? Probably the scariest moment for me was in Northern Cyprus when we were all arrested and interrogated. That was very scary because when you're in a country like,

you know, when you're in Cyprus and suddenly you're alone in a room and you have no passport and you can hear someone being slapped around down the corridor, which weirdly, everyone on my crew thought it was me screaming. Wasn't. Nice assumption. Nice assumption to make. You did though in episode one,

you did in the fake border crossing, you did dole bin the leader. Yeah, you did dob in the leader. Yeah, I did. And he was shot. Yeah, no. So you did turn over pretty easily. I know. I mean, one thing I have found over the last year is,

I mean, it's something I already knew, and that is that I am a huge coward. And, you know, but it's nice to know that about myself. But you stood face to face with Pablo Escobar's hitman, like not that much of a coward. Well, maybe stupid as well. I don't know. No, I mean, Pablo, I mean, Popeye, he was, you know,

he was Pablo's right-hand man. And yeah, it's strange meeting someone like that because you're telling yourself he's killed over 200 people but he is the most charismatic person I've met in a long time. And like you wanted to hang out with him. And you have to go, okay, no, this is a guy that actually shot his pregnant girlfriend because Pablo. Oh, was she pregnant? Oh, yeah.

Good lord. No, he was expecting. Yeah, and then someone tells him, you know, she's a snitch, so you should kill her. And this is the guy that did. And now, you know, fast forward, he's a YouTube celebrity in Colombia. Crazy. And so, you know, narco tourism and the fact that, you know, there's a show Narcos and that got big and suddenly a whole industry builds up around that, visiting the real places. And, you know, ethically, it's all.

And again, that's what the series is about. Is this right? Is this wrong? Should this be a tourist destination? Have your mum and dad watched the show? Oh God, I'm trying to distract them in a way. I don't want them to get to Africa because I was

brought up in a super Christian house and then suddenly in Africa I'm converting to voodoo so I'd rather the parents watch that one. So I'm just like this is great, Other show on Netflix you'll really enjoy? It's like,

you should check this out. Yeah, The Crown. Oh, it's about the Queen. Oh, it's great. The head of the Church of England. You'll love a bit of that. Great budget. Give that a go.

Give that a go. Huge budget. Yeah, I'm excited to watch the rest of the series and it's out. You can binge it all on Netflix now. Dark Tourist, David Farrier. Thank you so much.

No, thanks for having me. FEM. So a story of what in the gaming community is quite a high profile gamer. He plays Call of Duty. That's his game of choice. Right, he's famous for that. Yeah, and he gets paid. He makes a

living from playing Call of Duty. He had a girlfriend and she's stunning. Now look, he's no ugly dude. No, he's cute. He's cute. If we had to give them a number. I don't want to do that. You do it, Bourne.

He'd be an eight. If she was a ten, he'd be an eight. Seven. Drew can seven. 7.5. He's a bit of a cutie. Seven and a half. Okay, he's a cutie.

Seven and a half. She's stunning. She's a ten. So stunning. She got offered a job to move to Mexico to be a weather girl. Now, you know the Latin American countries don't muck around with their weather girls. No, they don't. Yeah.

In fact, I don't even think they have any men weather presenters, do they? Because I think all the men that run the TV stations are like, put hot women on. They haven't caught up with the rest of it. To be honest, it's like Mexico. Just get a hottie there. It's hot out there. What do they do in Mexico? Always just point at the sun symbol. Well, that's why they need a hottie because there hottie there. It's hot out there. What do they do in Mexico? Always just point at the sun symbol.

Well, that's why they need a hottie because there's nothing happening. It's going to be sunny again. Just look at me. No, because you wouldn't need to watch the weather. But you keep tuning for the hot. So this breakup is news because people are saying she was so hot he's an idiot. It's like, dude, you could call a duty for Mexico, the internet, right? Yeah.

And he's like, oh, no, it's just I didn't want to. And that's cool. We've separated and she's going to go down there and do that. And I'm just going to stay up here and play games. And everyone's like, you. Right. What? She's a 10.

Come on. Don't let a 10 go. No, don't let a 10 go. And apparently he was the one that kind of called it off. Right. Because he wanted more time for gaming. But just because she's hot, that doesn't mean

she could be good to me in a relationship. She could be annoying as all hell. That's what I like to tell myself. But didn't say that. Didn't say that they were partying

for any other reason. Didn't say, oh, phew, didn't know how to call this off. Right. Or, and you know, you know those people that are in relationships

and you're like, I think you'll break up with them. And they're like, oh, I tried. And you're like, I tried you'll break up with them. And they're like, oh, I tried. And you're like, I tried, but then I looked at flats and it's real expensive. Or they're like, oh, I know, I think we should see each other, other people.

And they're like, oh, I don't. So we're not. We're not, yeah. Oh, okay. I'm pretty sure that's not how this works. But I was wondering, and it might be a long shot because it would be asking New Zealanders to say that they're hot. Or hot her.

I would like to know if anybody out there got broken up with by a lower number. And it blew their minds. Like, so when were you an 8, 9, 10 and you were dumped by a 5, 6, 7? Is that what you mean? That would be like me or Vaughn breaking up with our significant others. Everyone would be like, what? What did you do that for? You're an idiot.

Rest assured, I'm not going to be making that call. I'll leave that up to her. I know how the primal flow of things works. Yeah.

Yeah. The best hunting lioness. You know, the lion at home doesn't leave. The lion at home sits there and he's like, whatever you want, mate.

Whatever. Right. You take what you need. Why do you think we go to Kmart so much? She wasn't a 10, we wouldn't be going to Kmart. If I was on equal footing, I'd put my foot down a bit more often. So you were saying if you were both what, for example, I don't want to say a number, but you say a number.

Oh, like if she came down to my level? Yeah. So if she came down to be a solid eight and a half. Okay. You're a solid eight and a half. Yeah. Well, so if she came down to be a solid eight and a half. Okay. No, you're a solid eight and a half. Okay. So if you were both eight and a half, she wouldn't get away with going to Kmart so much. No, she wouldn't get away with anything.

I'm not saying I would like lock her up. Right. Or anything, but I would certainly say no louder. Okay. Right. No. Rather than at the moment, it's like, no. Okay. Oh, gosh. She won't get away with it. Say no louder. Okay. Right. No. Rather than at the moment it's like, no. Okay.

Oh, gosh. She won't listen. That's what she wants. What? Nothing. See you, bye. So, yeah, I'd just like to know if anybody's. There will definitely be people that were broken up with and they're like, what?

What? You're breaking up with me? You're breaking up with me. No, no, no. I was already doing charity work here. Yeah. In this relationship. I thought, me. No, no, no. I was already doing charity work here. Yeah. In this relationship. I thought, hmm. No, you're right.

Maybe I don't think Kiwis will admit that. Because you don't want to rate yourself. But that's a good thing about us that we don't rate ourselves. Well, what about if we heard from the lower number who broke up with the hotter number, hotter person? And they were like, I couldn't believe it. That's an easier thing to remember. Yeah, but then no one wants to admit to being a lower number.

New Zealanders are far more likely to admit to being a lower number. No, no, but you might be a seven. Yeah. But they were a ten. Well, when were you dumped by a lower number? 0800-DARCETM-9696. We'll see if people will admit to this. Or maybe they've been through this kind of breakup.

Give us a call. All right, talking now about a couple that have broken up. You probably wouldn't know of them. He's a celebrity gamer, and she is now a Mexican weather presenter, and she is what people would call a 10 out of 10. She's a babe. Absolute babe. He's not ugly by any stretch of the imagination.

He's like a cutie. He'd be even like a 7 1⁄2, 8. Yeah. I do feel a bit bad for him He's a gamer ten As far as gamers go He's a ten I'm a gamer

I'm allowed to say this But that's As a fellow gamer ten There's some shocking gamer Twos to threes out there But even if you've got a ten Sometimes you can't Prize yourself away

From Fortnite you know But how sad is it The reason it's made news Is because he dumped her And everyone's like Um What So we want to know If anyone listening Would admit The saddest is that the reason it's made news is because he dumped her and everyone's like, um... What?

So we want to know if anyone listening would admit to being in the situation where they were maybe an 8, 9 or a 10 and someone who was a lower number than them dumped them. And we realise how ridiculous that is. It can happen. Might have beautiful looks and a rubbish personality. Chantel, good morning. Hi. Now, what number would you give yourself? I'm definitely a 10.

Good on you. Okay, good work, good work. All right. So, what was the situation? So, the situation was I was hitting a guy about a year. I was also five years younger than he was. He was definitely a lot more active. He was a bit of four, but he was a personal trainer.

So I don't know. It kind of, that's what sort of got me into him, I guess. Right. And he must have had a bit of personality to get him up there. Well, his body was, he had an okay body-ish, but his face just wasn't that great. And then, okay, so you're a 10 and you're saying he's a 4 and he dumped you. He dumped me. Over 10.

What was your reaction? What did you say? I was just shocked. Absolutely shocked. No, no, Sarah. That's not how this goes. How dare a 4 dump a 10? He's a 10 of that guy and he gets a real puzzled look on his face and then question marks pop around and he goes, who?

That's exactly how I would reply. Yeah, exactly. And did you say that to him? Were you like, this is not how this works? Pretty much, yeah. It's still weird to hear a New Zealander saying this. I didn't think anyone would. I didn't think anyone would.

Shonto, thanks for your call. Anonymous joins us now in Anonymous 10, I believe. Sorry? Are you in Anonymous 10? Sure, we'll go with that. You're up there. I know I put a 9.5. You've had feedback that indicates you're doing all right.

Yeah. Okay. And so what happened? Well, there's actually two situations, But They were both in high school And so it was my first Proper relationship And so I was obviously I thought I was in love with this person

And he All my friends were telling me that No what are you doing He was like you know the nerdy type That Had a lot of friends. Oh. But I liked him.

But then as it went on, I found out that he actually wasn't very nice either. But I was like, oh, no, I love him. Because you're at school. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. And you've written it on your pencil case and you can't get that off. Yeah.

Yeah. It's for life. Exactly. Okay. And he, yeah, so his personality brought his number down a bit more, but it already was down anyway. I mean, beauty's on the inside, but okay, carry on. I mean, he wrote that with me.

I can't remember why, but I was pretty upset about that. Right, well, you loved him. It was on the pencil case. Yeah. And then the second situation, also my friends told me not to go there. But once again, I went there anyway. Right. And he broke up with me for another girl who was in my class.

And I already didn't like her anyway. Oh, no. And so I was like, well, you're both not so nice, so you can fine, be together. Yeah. But he was alone. Your two fives added together are only just 10. All right, anonymous caller, thank you. Somebody said, I dated a guy and he pulled weird faces,

did kickboxing moves, like shadow kickboxed a lot, argued with me about Yoda from Star Wars. What's there to argue about? Was this you? I don't know what there would be to argue about when it comes to Yoda. Was she dating you in the 2000s? No, no, no, no. And did the splits on our first date.

Wow. And then after a couple of dates, he dumped me because he wasn't feeling it. I was like, how dare you do that before I did? I had the chance. I put up with all this shenanigans. Did she say a number? But she's obviously like up there and she said he was down there. Yeah, yeah.

Right, okay. I was going out with a ten and I had to cut her loose. Life was pretty tough and she was just spending all of our time out together telling guys that she wasn't interested. Oh, okay. Yeah, they decided to just let it loose. Yeah. It's like having an orca though, you know,

like you've got to get them back out there. Yeah. Or something. Somebody said, take it from a lower number who's done the dumping. It's the most empowering thing in the world. It's like, who's the 10 now? Me. That's right. I've got the power. It's like, who's the 10 now? Me. That's right.

I've got the power. Your beautiful body has no hold over me. Also, nothing makes you feel more like a 10 than seeing a 10 all like, but I'm a 10. That's true. That would be so true. As many people have pointed out, and as

we totally agree, you can go from a 10 to a 5. Your personality can drag you right back down. Oh, totally. And that's often the cases we're hearing from people that have broken up with higher numbers. Their looks were higher numbers, but their personality sure dragged them right back down. Yeah, right, to make them an average.

Ha, ha, take that. You hottie. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. me this fact. He, I don't know why, but when we stopped playing Fortnite yesterday, he decided to delve into some David Attenborough Blue Planet. Was he stopped? I don't think so. Oh, okay. No, he just started

sending me interesting facts. Okay. I think it was a South Pacific based one because we were getting a lot of facts. Like, you know, the Pacific Ocean.

You could take every continent on Earth and put it in the Pacific Ocean and still have room for another Africa. Wow, I did not know that. That actually probably should have been today's fact of the day. Okay.

Is it better than the fact? I don't think so. Okay. It's not as like, because that was very visual. You imagine picking up the pieces of all the continents and pushing them in and be like, gosh, there's still enough room for another Africa. Yeah.

I don't know. You were not Africa in its whole. You'd probably have to like mush Africa into the space. Well, they did all used To be joined together Didn't they Gwondaland Yeah

Yeah But then God God wanted to do A jigsaw or something And just chucked it All apart or something He control alt deleted Yeah

Held it down And that's what happened And then the universe Went bing bing bing That window startup sound And then And then yeah He moved it all around

Yeah He rearranged his desktop, if you will. Sure. But today's Fact of the Day is about a bird that lives in that very ocean, the Pacific Ocean. The sooty tern. The sooty tern. The sooty tern looks so, because it looks like it's covered in soot. Okay.

It's like a white tern, but it's got black streaks and stuff on its back. The sooty tern, it's got some other names. Oh, it's cute. It is pretty cute. Egg bird, whale bird, common tern, and the wide awake tern. It's called the wide awake tern because they can gather in colonies of up to a million. And the noise is so loud that if you're a Department of Conservation worker

in New Zealand, if they were here, or, you know, those sorts of conservation workers, you're only allowed to work in there for about 15 minutes before the noise can do serious damage to your ears. That's also not today's fact of the day. Okay. Sooty turns, or the wide awake turn, because it's believed they're so loud

that you could never sleep. That's how loud they are. They take one to two second naps while flying. Because they don't float, so they can't land in the sea and sleep in a big group. They become waterlogged. And they can't get back out of the water. Are they like sponges or something? Yeah.

Like a sinky sponge. A sinky sponge. So they have one to two second naps. Do they have to fly across to another hemisphere in a different season? They do a massive amount of flying. They kind of spend their whole life flying. They breed, lay eggs, the eggs hatch, they're like, see you later, and they start

flying and they just fly constantly. How much go time does a two second nap give you? Like if you're an electric car. I don't know because I think you'd have to use a bit more energy to get up high so you could be like and just like vomit towards the ocean

And then be like And those Would wake you up Like the pull up Like you see on Air Crash Investigation That's what wakes sleeping pilots up Or drunk ones Yeah just drunk

They just love a little bit of that So today's fact of the day is that the sooty tern, a bird that flies constantly, can't land in the ocean, so it takes one to two second naps while flying. Fact of the day! Day, day, day, day! Yesterday, I was walking up to get the girls from school in Kindy

and I heard a noise that I don't, it's a haunting noise. So I managed to get my phone out and sort of record a little bit of the video of what it sounded like. Now, I only got a little bit. I've actually found a better one. Somebody actually sent this to me because Robert, who listens to the show in the UK,

where he works is right next to where they're having an air show at the moment. Okay. You know air shows. They're always the ones where the video is of the Jets just like... They're doing a loop-de-loop, but then it doesn't loop back up.

They do the loop-dip. 100%. Everyone that has their phone out at an air show is in their mind know, they do the loop dip. 100% everyone that has their phone out at an air show is in their mind thinking, I want the YouTube hits. I want to film the crash.

Well, I just got this out because the noise, yesterday, I think it was because it was a clear day and usually out west, Auckland, the military ones

are the big prop driven planes. Now, they don't make this noise as much. It's a jet engine whine. I've got an example of kind of what I mean. This is, Robert sent this one, so this is... Every time I hear that noise, I think there's going to be a plane crash. It's the wine, isn't it? Do you know what I think it reminds us of now is 9-11.

So I put that on my Instagram and I said, is it just me? Yep. Or does this noise like freak people out? And I wasn't trying to be funny because it does. Every time I hear it, I kind of like, I get shivers and I kind of brace myself a little bit and I always check the time. And I'm not alone in that either because if the plane's going to crash, I would say my strongest reoccurring dreams are being in an elevator

that I can't control and witnessing a plane crash. Really? I have a witnessing a plane crash dream once a month. Wow. And I always wake up freaking out about it. What does that mean? What does that mean, plane crashing and mean? Plane crashing in dreams. I don't know.

Just watching your hopes go up. Does it mean like turn up to work at the same time as us? Do you reckon that's like a subconscious? No, I reckon it's like don't go to work too early. Right, okay. Like don't rush. It may be a metaphor for some aspect of your life that is in danger of ending quickly and unexpectedly.

You're so worried about Sade leaving you. Maybe. Maybe she's the... Am I the plane or is she the plane? I don't know. I don't know. Anyway, so it's a dream I have. Your relationship's the plane.

The people that replied, because I talked to a few of them and I was like, what do you reckon it is? For a start, there is a lot of people living on flight paths with this fear. And you imagine living in a flight path

of a commercial airport where planes are coming in. All the time. Some of them 24-7. Because I'm a huge plane spotter. I love planes. Yeah. Love them.

But it's just that whine. When I'm on the plane, not a problem. Yeah. Because I don't hear it. Yeah. But when you're outside of a plane and they're flying low and there's that weird, teamed up with that whine. Yeah.

There's something about it. So people said the September 11 wine. Yeah. There's something about it. So people said the September 11 footage. Yeah. That, from down on the street level, you could hear the, could hear the wine. Yeah,

if you've watched enough videos, you can hear the wine. It's pretty terrifying. Yeah, it's a terrifying, like, lead up to it. Also,

the TV show Lost. Yes. Oh, yeah. With the, with the marina's plane crash. And they said, anytime a plane crashes

or is in danger in the movies, it makes that noise. Yeah, it does. And so we've just kind of become conditioned that when we hear that noise, we expect something bad to happen. Yeah. Even though it's perfectly fine. As yet, I hope forever, I've never witnessed it.

Yeah. But it's just that sound. And now they're getting those, they're not going to land those new military jets. By your house. My house and Megan's house. Yeah. Which is good.

We're thinking, what, they're going to go to O'Harkia. Because the props go, And that's fine. It's that teamed up with the, Well, you had the sound right there. Yeah, I'll just play this one again. That. Oh, yeah, it's the whine, isn't it? this one again. That. Oh, yeah, it's the whine, isn't it?

It's the whine. And it gets closer and closer. I love it. There it is. There it is. Man, that high pitch. Yeah. It sounds like the engines are just like,

no, no, no, no, no. Like, if your car made that noise, you'd be straight down to the mechanics. ZDM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. For more, check out ZDM online. We've been doing that for the weekend. Damn.