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ZM. Head music lives here. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast.
Good morning, welcome to the show, Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. That was a professional
newsreader, aren't you? Because I was really trying to put you off.
These two are punishers this morning. Megan is in a grumpy.
No, I think you'll find when Caitlin, Anna and I got here, we were all in great moods.
Now, it's just sick of your shit.
I know what you need.
You need a tickle.
Go, Daddy.
I absolutely do not need a tickle.
She needs a tickle.
It's 2019.
You can't just tickle your female co-workers.
You can't come to work dressed as Elmo and not expect a tickle.
Oh, my God.
Okay, so I'm wearing a maroon fur coat.
I knew that was going to happen.
That was a long play.
Don't clap for yourself.
He looked like a creep.
And then everyone's like, why is he being a creep?
First of all.
And then, shazam.
Don't clap for yourself.
What about, what about?
Second of all, this is maroon.
Absolutely not the colour of Elmo.
No, I think.
Telly monster.
You remember Telly?
I always thought he was a wildly underrated monster.
Tally Monster.
Would a GoDaddy cheer you up?
A long weekend GoDaddy?
Yeah, it would actually.
Oh dear God.
It is actually exactly the colour of Tally Monster.
He's laughing.
We've got it.
We've got it.
No.
No.
No laughing. James, can we get a go daddy
Megan needs a go daddy
We can't have this kind of
We're two hours away from the lot
That's why I'm jazzed
That's why I'm excited
That's why I'm pinging
Good morning James
Good morning James
Hey guys
Oh there it is
First he wants to tickle me That's why Morning James Hey guys How's it going? Oh there it is Oh Gosh
First he wants to tickle me
Now you want to bloody
Tickle James
I wanted to tickle James
Leave him alone
A long time
Go
Write that down in your book James
We need a
I think we need a go
Ooh
We need a go daddy
This morning James
A big one
The best one you've ever done
A big one A big one. The best one you've ever done. A big one.
A big one.
Yeah.
Sorry.
Wait, I'm laughing.
Go Daddy.
Yeah.
That was a little bit scary, that one.
No, it did.
And I rolled and gurgled.
Fantastic.
That was good.
So, the Long Weekend Group Toot this morning from 8 o'clock.
If you're new to the show and you've never heard it,
we bring the nation together with a series
of toots. If you're out in your car after
8 o'clock, make sure you're listening. And if you hear
the long weekend group toot,
finish it off.
Alright, you lot, listen up.
It's story time.
Story time.
I've got...
Chup, chup, chup, chup, chup.
Excuse me, Vaughan.
Chup, chup, chup.
What is wrong with you this morning?
Yeah, he's excited like a little kid for long weekend group two.
And just a long weekend.
Yeah.
Three news headlines as usual.
Our quirky, odd, unusual, funny news stories that are found online.
Vaughan and Megan are only allowed to pick one headline.
The other two are just deleted forever.
Headline one, wheels fall off justice.
Headline two, Uber driver shoots off.
And headline three, Russia adds some inches.
Russia adds some inches?
To what?
It'll be mountains?
Hills. Hills.
Close.
Huh?
It's up to you.
No one can hear you.
You're on the radio.
You've got to choose.
You've got to choose.
It is just the shittest charades ever.
You went twinkle, twinkle, twinkle, twinkle.
No, I'm like, that's just me doing my fingers like, come on and pick.
Right.
Okay.
I've forgotten story one.
Wheels fall off justice.
Police car.
No.
Don't think you know everything.
Yeah, okay.
Wheels fall off justice.
Yeah, I like that one.
Batmobile.
All right, we go now to Michigan where a person got a,
they call it a tyre rotation.
Do we call it that here or do we just say go in for a wheel alignment?
No, tyre rotation's different.
I've got to get this done.
Yeah, so you.
It's where you take your front right hand tyre and you put it on the back left.
And you take your front left hand tyre and you put it on the back right and vice versa.
Because they wear out in different areas?
Yeah, sure.
And there's enough tread, but you want your best tread on your steering wheels.
On the wheels that do the steering.
Right.
And often the driving in a front wheel drive car.
Well, in 2013, Samuel and Doris took their car home from a dealership in Michigan
after having some basic repairs, including a tyre rotation.
Okay.
Exactly like you just described, Warren, so they could just change around the tyres.
They were about two blocks from the dealership when the left front wheel came off,
causing the car to skid into a curb.
And it turns out that the mechanic did not tighten the nuts.
The wheel nuts.
Exactly.
After the tyre rotation.
An essential part of a tyre.
So there was a lower back and leg injuries in the crash,
and they sued the dealership and the mechanic for negligence.
Because it's America, you sue everyone.
Oh yeah, baby.
For everything.
But a court has just this week ruled against the couple
and they have defied common sense.
And this has ramifications for Michigan car owners
who will find it now hard to sue mechanics for doing dumb things.
They have said that it doesn't matter that they didn't put the nuts on properly.
What, that they're supposed to check or something?
Yeah.
Nah.
So the court has determined that a tyre rotation does not, in fact,
include tightening the lug nuts.
That is the court ruling that everyone is just like...
So they're just going to...
What?
Balance it on and it's your responsibility to tighten the nuts.
Yeah.
What are you paying them for?
You've got to finish the job.
And the point, like, you've got to take it home and do it with the thing in the boot.
The tyre iron.
But at the shop, they've got the...
Yeah, and I'm not a professional.
I don't know how tight's too tight and I can't tighten it.
I always just go as tight as I can.
That's boosh.
I would go in there throwing elbows.
When you change a tyre, you're supposed to put the tyre on and put the nuts on.
Yeah.
Like tight-ish.
But not fully on, eh? And then you
put it back down on the ground and that's when you give it the
old heave-ho. Because when I had a car, it was called
AA. I was like, help!
Help me! Help!
Um...
Trust myself, really.
It goes into the whole legal whys
and the big
courtroom drama, but basically at the end
of the day, yeah.
That's nuts.
You can't see.
Well nuts.
That's actually madness.
Yeah.
Just another reason it's great not to live in America.
Yeah.
Also, Trump just yesterday said,
or earlier New Zealand time this morning,
said he's building a border wall in Colorado,
which isn't on the border.
So it's not even a border state?
No.
Again, another reason it's great not to live in America.
We've got the top six coming up on the show.
It's miles away.
Yeah, I know.
It's got a whole state between.
I know, I know.
What is this?
New Mexico is literally a large state.
The top of Colorado is halfway up the states.
I know, I know.
Oh, wow.
Fleshforn and Megan, the podcast, ZM.
Wish I was going to Christchurch because there's something new coming to Christchurch
and cat lovers have had these for ages, cat cafes.
Yes.
There is now a dog cafe coming.
It's going to be called The Barkery.
Like a bakery.
Yeah.
But a barkery.
The Barkery.
Yes.
The difference with this is
not only can you go there
and like have a coffee
and hang out with dogs,
but these dogs
will actually be up
for adoption.
So each day
the dogs are going to be
brought from shelters
and if there's one
that you really love,
you can adopt the doggy.
This is a great idea,
but are they going to
like make sure they're not like bitey dogs? Because what if you're the one that finds out This is a great idea, but are they going to make sure they're not bitey dogs?
Because what if you're the one that finds out it's a bitey dog?
Are they puppies or are they going to have a whole range?
A whole range, I think.
Oh, yeah, you're right.
Good idea.
And you can take your own dogs,
but you obviously have to have them segregated from the rescue dogs
just in case there's a little bit of buffo.
Or someone falls.
I thought it would be like your dog would show off and be like
I've got a home and a family.
Oh, poor other dogs.
Where's your family?
Oh, they abandoned you?
Oh my god, you're an asshole dog.
That's a shame.
I'm actually half poodle.
What's my other half? Could be anything.
I've got oodle on the end. What about you?
Oh, you don't know.
Just a mixed breed.
Oh, okay.
You're such a...
I love that area of a dog at the window being like,
when was the last time you were lovingly brushed?
And the dogs are sort of like, what?
I'm feeling so bad for these poor dogs now.
I want to adopt them.
I put my paw up on my owner and watch the pets.
The pets to follow.
Yeah.
Hey, watch this.
I'll walk up to a kid
and they don't recoil
in fear of being
bitten by the likes
of you.
Oh.
I'm from Maryvale
by the way.
My name is
Diamante.
Posh dog.
You're a posh dog.
My name is Diamante.
You see the sparkly
collar?
Where's your collar? Yeah, you definitely sound like a something oodle. Yeah, yeahomante. My name is Diomante. You see the sparkly collar? Where's your collar?
Yeah, you definitely sound like a something oodle.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
With that kind of carry on.
A bitch oodle.
Yeah.
So when is this opening?
I think it might be opening this weekend.
In time for Labor Weekend.
Okay.
Yeah.
But just remember when you go there and if you love a dog,
you've got to be able to take care of it for good.
Don't go there and adopt the dog because you have fun having a coffee with it
and then you're going to take it back the next day.
If that's your vibe, just go for pets and pay and make a donation
so that they can continue to do it.
But don't take it home only to take it back later.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And let's hope that one opens in Auckland.
And keep your – oh, no.
Why?
You think the Christchurch snobby dog's bad. Oh, no. Why?
The Christchurch snobby dog's bad.
Yeah, wait till you meet a remu era snobby dog. You ain't seen nothing yet.
Yeah.
It's unfortunate, but it's true.
Do you have gang connections?
Because you look like the sort of dog that would have gang connections.
The dog's like, I don't have gang connections.
Oh, if you do, can you get me and my friends some drugs?
Like, we want good ones, though.
That would be such a re-marry dog thing to say.
Do you have gang connections?
No.
Damn, we're just after some drugs for the dance party this weekend.
Do you know any other dogs that can get us pingas?
From the ZM Think Tank, this is the Top Six.
Hello there.
The Tower of Terror
at the Gold Coast theme park
of Dream World
is being shut down.
Now, from what I can understand,
they're still going to have
the giant drop.
It's for some reason,
I mean,
the Dream World
obviously takes every
precaution now after the horrific incident
that happened there. There must have been something
that
led them to believe that the Tower of Terror
is a bit aged.
Yeah.
Is over, but it's going to be shutting it down.
Okay. And I think it's
happening really, really soon.
So I don't know if they're giving you a last chance to get in and ride it if you loved it.
Yeah, next month, the very start of November, it's going to be shut down.
Operations will cease November 3rd.
That's a great ride.
Yeah.
So good.
But then it doesn't say anything about the other ride that's attached to it, the giant drop.
Okay. The drop of terror, whatever that's called. Again, that's attached to it, the giant drop. Okay.
The drop of terror, whatever that's called.
Again, that's, wow.
So it doesn't sound like they're pulling down the tower.
Okay.
So they're leaving the tower up.
The top six things to do with the Tower of Terror, tower.
Okay.
Number six, plant some lovely climbing roses at the bottom.
How high do you reckon those would get?
Well, I mean, wouldn't that be interesting?
Sure.
You'd have to be putting a lot of kangaroo poo on the bottom.
Fertiliser, yeah.
As a fertiliser to sustain a rose once it got to a certain height.
But then also if the giant drops on the other side,
you wouldn't want people coming down the giant drop into some rose bushes.
Shredding.
Getting shredded in the bottom 30 metres by roses.
Oh no, you'd trim them away.
Don't be silly.
Okay.
Don't be silly.
They need trimming. Okay. Don't be silly then.
They need trimming.
Yeah.
You know how like,
your mum's got heaps of roses.
Yes, she does. My mum's got heaps of roses.
Bev loves a rose.
Nah, mum hates roses.
Ray's not really a rose gal.
Too much effort.
And prickles, eh?
That's the thing,
they're always out there
cutting like the flowers
to look alright.
Mum's like,
I've got to go de-head those roses.
And she just goes out,
chop, chop, chop, chop.
It's like,
that still looked okay to me.
It looked like they had a few weeks left in them.
But they get out there, they brutally hack them to bits.
They hack them right back, don't they?
They love hacking them right back.
They love hacking them.
Give them a hiding.
Number five on the list of the top six things to do
with the Tower of Terror tower.
Make it into a giant cigarette to promote smoking.
I don't think we've gone the other way, Vaughn.
Numbers are dropping.
Less people are smoking
than ever before.
That's a great thing.
It's time
the smokes companies
got together.
Right.
Unified.
Or turned it into
a giant vape.
Promote smoking.
Yeah, the legalities
are there for the cigarettes
but not as much for vaping.
Vaping's still that weird
grey area legally, isn't it?
Yeah.
God, it'd be just
Dreamworld's luck
that they get the giant vape tribute done
and then they'd make vaping restricted
and not been allowed to advertise.
Yeah.
Poor old Dreamworld.
Number four on the list of the top six things
to do with the Tower of Terror.
Make shorter ones each side
so it looks like someone's pulling the fingers.
So like the big tall one.
Very mature.
Is the Tower of Terror
and then you've got
Two smaller ones
Either side
And it looks like
Someone's pulling
Pulling the fingers
Just to welcome people
To the Goldie
When they're flying
Into Kool and Gatter
Number three on the list
Of the top six things
To do with the Tower of Terror
Tower
Make it into a
Burj Khalifa tribute building
Okay
But a little one
It looks like the Burj
Yeah
But it's smaller
Yeah right
Like maybe that's what They could do with Tremor.
Just build smaller versions of buildings from all around the world.
All the famous buildings have a little Eiffel Tower.
Do you ride it?
Do you do anything?
Or just for show?
Just look.
You just ride.
Number two on the list of the top six things to do with the Tower of Terror.
A Gold Coast-based space program.
Because you know how beside like, beside the rockets,
they always have those things that hold the rockets?
Yeah.
They could just make that thing into the thing that holds the rockets.
Okay.
Could you imagine, like, Australian astronauts from the Gold Coast?
Yeah.
They're like, three, two, one, blast off.
Yeah, we're kicking it right in the guts.
Give it a shit, mate.
Give it a asshouse.
The Holden spacecraft?
Yeah.
It'd be quite something.
Yeah.
And number one on the list of the top six things to do with the Tower of Terror at Tower,
slap some of those climbing handles on it.
You know those little things you like in kids' playgrounds?
Yeah.
All the way to the top and let those crazy ass rock climbers have at.
Yeah.
Those guys are pretty crazy.
They want to climb all sorts of things.
Just have a foam pit at the bottom.
Or alligators.
Yeah.
They won't fall off then.
I think you'd hold on so much tighter
if it was alligators, not a foam pit.
One sounded so much fun
and the other sounded deadly.
Or a foam pit with alligators.
If you try to get out of a foam pit,
it's very hard.
Very hard.
I reckon the alligators
would have trouble too.
Yeah.
Yeah, they'd fall through
and go to the bottom
because they're too heavy.
They wouldn't be able to get it together.
But once they did,
we'd be in big trouble
in that fine pit.
That is today's top secret.
Nashi Peer,
as he's known to his friends,
but otherwise known
as Police Minister Stuart Nash.
Nashi, okay.
Nashi, Nashi Peer.
He's the Minister of Police,
the Police Minister.
Yeah.
He has been driving around
without a registration
on his car.
Oh my God. He's got an expired, he's been driving around without a registration on his car. Oh, my God.
He's been driving around with an expired rego.
Now, if he hadn't had a vanity plate, Nash PM.
No, Nash MP.
He's not PM.
Oh, God.
He should have just gone Nashie, Pierre.
That would have been a better.
Well, you can't fit that many letters.
Or N8.
No, you're right.
I would have just gone Nashie.
Nashie.
Okay.
Nashie. No, Dion Nash has got that one have just gone Nashi. Nashi. Okay. Nashi.
No, Dion Nash has got that one already.
Oh, has he?
Yeah.
Bloody hell.
Seen it.
Dion Nash.
Nashi, yeah.
Underneath maybe have Nashi here.
And then here written on the number plates around.
Everyone in West Auckland has personalized plates.
I saw it driving there the other week.
Everyone's got them.
They love it.
The great Christmas presents, are they?
Oh, I just think people like their cars out there.
Oh, right.
So maybe that was a big thing to...
So I don't think driving anywhere in the country out of all the places,
that just stuck out to me as a lot of plates.
A lot of personalised plates for West Aucklanders.
Yeah.
No, that's fair call.
Because we saw that one with my brother's nickname. Noodles.ers. Yeah. No, that's fair call. Because we saw that one with my brother's nickname.
Noodles.
Noodles.
Yeah.
So I snapped him and Desi just kept saying them.
I saw one yesterday at a West Auckland car park.
It was poos.
You can't have poos.
P-O-O-S.
P-O-O-Z-E.
Oh, I think I've seen that one before too.
Posse.
Posse.
Poos.
Poos.
How did they let that get through?
Posse. Posse. Pose. How did they let that get through? Posse.
No, it's definitely not poose.
They're saying with like a wink, wink, nudge, nudge.
Oh, really?
What is that?
It's poose.
What's poose?
It's just a nickname.
Get a poose.
So poose is driving around, but probably paid their warrant in Ridge. But Stuart Nash has been driving around with an expired registration.
Someone snapped that this week and it expired at the very start of September.
Come on.
Did he know?
No, when contacted, he said,
Oh, yeah, a family member actually pointed that out to me earlier today,
and I've renewed it online.
I'm just waiting on my ticket.
Right.
That's what we all say.
That's what everyone says.
Like when you get a ticket and you get a warning, you're just like, oh, actually I was just at the post office that day.
Yeah.
I also see Nashie Pears obviously driving a diesel because underneath it's got his road user charges there.
Oh, okay.
Right.
On the window.
You've got to do that as well.
He's paid from 20,000 Ks to 40,000 Ks, a relatively new vehicle, low kilometres.
I wonder if he's paid his road user.
And are people still doing what farmers were doing
in the 80s and 90s?
They just disconnected their speedo.
You'd pay for your road user and then you'd disconnect your speedo.
No, you can't.
He's obviously not doing that.
No, no, no, no, no.
I said, are people still doing?
No, because it's illegal.
It's illegal.
Oh, yeah, people don't do that.
Famously, people don't do anything illegal.
That's why we need a police minister.
But if you were the police minister,
wouldn't that be your one thing that you were on top of?
Like those kind of things?
I'd be making sure I wasn't robbing dairies as well.
That would be pretty ironic.
That's true.
The police minister's moonlighting is a cat burglar or a dairy robber.
That would be
Pretty ironic
So does his number plate
Say like police
No Nash MP
Oh right
Minister of Parliament
Not
He doesn't have a personal
Number plate that says
Police minister
Because I was like
That would suck
Because then you can't
Ever speed
You have to give it
To the next police minister
Oh well
It was good while it lasted
You out there with your
Screwdriver
Screws I just popped this In the past To the next police minister But he's paid it now Oh, well. It was good while it lasted. You're out there with your screwdriver.
Screws, I just popped this in the past to the next police minister.
Yeah.
But he's paid it now.
Oh, he has.
So it's all good.
And that's a good thing to note.
Like this weekend, if you're driving,
zero tolerance for anyone going four kilometres
over the speed limit or more.
Yep.
They're going to be pinging you.
And they're going extra hard,
extra police on the road this weekend.
A good reminder to wear your seatbelt,
drive, not drive fast.
And I'm actually, I'm out of company
data, so I've got no reason to be on my phone
while driving.
ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast.
So a list has been done
of the super emitters.
This is celebrities who
have massive carbon footprints.
And a lot of them are flying private jets, aren't they?
Yeah, I think that's the biggest thing, the private jets that they take.
So I've seen a lot of articles in the last few months about plane shaming, holiday shaming.
Plane shaming.
Plane shaming.
What do you mean plane shaming?
I hope one day to experience plane shaming.
Like you're a lovely plane, but someone has a go at you.
No, I guess it's just taking a look at people that holiday too much
and take planes when maybe they could be taking the train,
which is fine in Europe.
Right, yeah.
And places like that where you can get on a fast train
and go to another country.
We're kind of stuck here.
Sour grapes when someone's having a go at someone who's really rich
who's flying hot models to meet them in the Bahamas.
You're like,
plain shame
and the models are like,
you're just jealous
and you're like,
well, you've got a good point.
Good point.
But even people saying
that air programs
like air points
or, you know,
frequent fly a mile programs
are also encouraging people
to fly more
and that maybe
they should be banned.
This is what people are saying.
I'm just...
Well, flying is a massive one, but it's also like, what are we supposed to do?
We can't all take two weeks to get to...
On a P&O cruise.
Yeah, no, just to get on a ship to get somewhere.
Yeah.
Big ships at sea, phenomenally big polluters.
Yeah.
Like, I think the five largest freight ships in the world
account for almost all of the private car usage in the world.
It's nuts how bad massive ships are.
Okay, so we're just not meant to go on holiday, is that it?
Correct.
Go to a top 10 holiday park in New Zealand and just bloody love it.
And your Nissan Leaf that you charged using hydropower.
No, we're supposed to offset our carbon emissions
is what we're supposed to do.
Okay, so tick that box.
Yeah.
Greta Thunberg, who we all know as the Swedish activist,
she said, the bigger your carbon footprint,
the bigger your moral duty.
Now, as I start with number 10 of the biggest carbon emitting celebrities.
I think we can all probably
forgive Emma Watson because
she offsets all her
carbon emissions. She also
only ever goes on
normal planes.
She doesn't ever get private jets.
Right. Scheduled travel. Scheduled travel.
She only ever does that. Commercial airlines.
And if we go by what Greta said, the biggie on moral duty,
she literally lives by, this is her work.
Yeah, she's very...
She is the 10th biggest carbon emitter,
but I mean, she's doing all she can to make it worthwhile
and she offsets her carbon emissions.
And also I'm a big Watson fan.
I'll not have you say anything bad about it.
I'm surprised you didn't start the list at nine.
Well, number nine and eight, I actually don't know who they are.
Andre Scherl?
Scherl?
Okay.
I don't know who that is.
Felix von der Laden?
Felix von der Laden.
Von der Laden.
I don't know who that is either.
Felix von der Laden is a gamer.
He's a famous gamer.
So this is done in tons.
29.6 tons of CO2.
Oh, wow.
Then we go to Karl Lagerfeld, who's not even alive anymore.
Is he a gamer?
It looks like he's a Formula One.
Oh, really?
Well, there's this one, Felix von der Leyen.
Yeah.
It says here...
Her gaming channel.
That's a girl that she...
That's who she co-hosts with.
Oh, right.
I've got him driving speedy cars.
Right.
In the German Red Bull Ring GT4 racing.
I just hope they're planting trees.
Yeah.
So, remember, he was 29 tonnes.
We go up to Karl Lagerfeld.
He's 105.8 tons of CO2.
Famous, like, taking private jets anywhere, but not anymore.
If you said Karl, if you could just offset your carbon,
he'd be like, don't be a bitch, Karl Lagerfeld does what he wants.
And then Meg Whitman, jumping right up to 379 tons of CO2.
Who's that?
She is an American business executive, political activist, and philanthropist.
Right.
Top five, we all know.
Mark Zuckerberg, 485 tons of CO2.
Oprah Winfrey, 615 tons.
Jennifer Lopez is number three, 1,051 tons of CO2
because of her love for private jets.
Paris Hilton, 1,261 tonnes of CO2 because of her love for private jets. Paris Hilton, 1,261 tonnes of CO2.
She's the second heaviest.
And number one, the famous person with the most CO2 emissions is Bill Gates.
1,629 tonnes of CO2.
Wow.
But when you're one of the world's richest men or people,
you're not going to take a...
He's doing a lot of charity too.
He's offsetting that with malaria vaccines.
Yeah.
Yeah, and saving like a lot of people in the world.
So I'm guessing we can forgive him.
I think we can forgive him, yeah.
But not for Windows.
Not Paris Hilton.
I don't know what she's doing for the world.
I think she's holidaying a lot maybe.
Yeah.
And DJing.
Yeah, that's right.
All right.
What about Fletch?
Where's he on that list?
Or what?
Like, you don't drive a car,
but I think carbon emissions,
you'd be the...
I bike everywhere.
You'd be the biggest.
And I lime scooter.
Did you bike to Europe
twice this year, did you?
But he doesn't fly private jet
and he offsets his plane rides
with just biking everywhere.
Yeah, and I buy a lot of plants, houseplants.
You kill them all.
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It has been called the worst job in the country.
Diving
into the ponds of the Queenstown
Lake District Council's sewage
treatment plant next to the Wanaka Airport.
Oh.
Why?
They're obviously not letting you do it in anything less
than the best diving
equipment. I'd say
so, yeah. So it was a council spokesman,
this is the article that came out,
said that the diver was one of a team
of four external contractors
brought into town specifically for the job.
They needed to go in a cage
to carry out urgent repairs
on a pipe or a grid or whatever
under the poos. Grim. Now or whatever under the poo, the poos.
Grim.
Now, after completing the repairs,
the diver went under again in the second pond
just to check that it was in good shape.
And there's a photo of him in,
whoever this is,
in a diving, fully enclosed diving.
It's like a shark cage.
It's like a 1930s old school diving bell in a shark cage.
Thank you for your service.
I don't want to do that.
We all flush the toilet and that's the last we have to do with it.
But, you know, wow.
Someone has to do that as a job.
It's good that this is being reported on because we can all think about it, you know?
And we can appreciate
and thank them.
What that person's doing for us.
Just be thankful
we're not doing that.
You hear about people
that work on fishing boats
and they get back
after a few weeks at sea
and they smell like
gurnard or whatever.
Gurnard would be
one of the nicer fish to smell.
I just couldn't think
of a fish.
Hokie.
They smell like Hokie fillets.
Does that smell? I don't know. Hokie's They smell like Hokie fillets. Does that smell?
I don't know.
Hokie's a really smelly fish.
Doesn't it all smell?
Well, I've had a kehi that's gone a bit skeweth.
They get a bit funky, don't they?
And transport.
But, you know, like, you'd have to have at least an hour shower after this.
You'd have to really concentrate on what you're doing and not what's floating by.
Just concentrate on the thing you're working on.
God, it's grim though.
But I was wondering,
could we take some calls this morning
on like what is the single worst part of your job?
Oh, you too.
Like it doesn't,
no, he wasn't asking you.
No, he was looking at me as he said it.
I was asking other people.
You too.
Rude. Are you hearing this? So rude. Otherwise, it. I was asking other people. You too. Rude.
Are you hearing this?
So rude.
Otherwise, it's just a really sweet gig.
But is there one part of your job that you just absolutely hate?
And, I mean, obviously it doesn't have to be as disgusting as going in a diving...
Pool of poos.
Yeah, poos pond.
Just describing that is quite horrible. But, you know, is there one part that you absolutely hate um pool of poos yeah poos pond just even
just describing that
is like quite horrible
but you know
is there one part
that you absolutely hate
and why do you hate it
yeah maybe it's not gross
maybe it's just
repetitive
or
boring
we've all got
stop looking at us
I was gonna say
we've all got parts
we don't like
she looked at you
and she said repetitive
and then she looked at me when she said boring.
I felt we were both personally attached.
Very, very rude.
What about Ross Boss?
Do you have a part of your job?
He's sitting in the corner on his phone.
The three of you.
Oh, come on.
I'm a peach.
We're way less punishing than Brie and Clint.
The five of you.
Someone's first text message to get the ball rolling. I'm a junior primary school teacher. The five of you. Someone said,
a first text message to get the ball rolling.
I'm a junior primary school teacher.
I love my job,
apart from dealing with code browns.
Or vom.
I reckon I could deal with code brown,
just not the vom.
No, I reckon the vom would be better than a code brown.
And then like...
I don't think either of them would be better.
Well, I mean, yeah.
Pleasant to deal with.
Okay, well, you give us a call, 0800-DARLS-AT-M,
and text in 9696.
What is the one part of your job that you absolutely hate?
We're talking about the worst aspect of your job.
You might love your job,
but there might be one part of it that you don't look forward to.
A guy, his job in Wanaka was to deep dive,
do a deep dive, literally, into the poop pond
to make sure a pipe had been...
Fixed. Fixed. Had to do that deep dive, literally, into the poop pond to make sure a pipe had been fixed.
Fixed.
Had to do that a couple of times,
but in full breathing apparatus and protective clothing.
Because that's the thing,
you wouldn't just be able to wear a wetsuit.
You'd have to wear a wetsuit and protective clothing
because you can't be in that kind of matter.
It's a health risk.
It's not just gross.
It's bad for your health. It's not just gross. It's bad for your health.
He's not just chucking on the dish gloves
and a scuba mask in the garage
and holding his breath.
I just imagine he's duct taping some pink dish gloves.
This isn't Chernobyl, mate.
He's prepared for what he's got to face.
Yeah.
So I want to take your text messages
and your calls now.
On one part of your job you hate,
somebody said,
I work in a touring
children's theatre.
Oh, okay.
We go around.
They come to the school.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay.
They come into school.
I don't like it
when we do a Friday show
and then we're in the town
that night
and we go out
and we get pretty loose
and we run into teachers
from the school
and then we have to have
the awkward conversation
about why I'm dropping it low now
but previously I was teaching
the children about important things. Like don't do drugs or something? Somebody conversation about why I'm dropping it low now, but previously I was teaching the children about important things.
Like don't do drugs or something.
Somebody else said, I'm a teacher and I hate being on playground duty.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
What's wrong with playground duty?
Well, you've got to stop fights.
It's lunch.
Oh, yeah, true.
It's your lunch break.
It's your time out, but you're on the duty.
Yeah.
Liz, what's the worst part about your job?
What do you do?
I'm a vet, and the worst part of my job is picking maggots out of animals.
Oh!
I thought you were going to say telling people you have to put tittles down.
No, because although that's quite sad,
it's the last kind thing you can do for an animal,
so that part of my job I feel privileged to do.
But it's when you have the poor animals that get fly strike,
and then the maggots hatch out, and they eat them,
and then you slide out.
Pretty gross.
I didn't even know that could happen, Liz.
I didn't even know that was a thing.
Yeah, unfortunately, poor pet bunnies that are left out in the sunshine get fly eggs
on them if they get soiled, can get poo stuck around their bum.
And that attacks the flies.
Oh my God, I thought you were talking about like sheep and big farm animals.
I didn't know this could happen to rabbits.
Yeah, and dogs and cats sometimes too.
Someone needs to tell Cam from the night show.
He's got a rabbit.
He does.
He's got a rabbit.
Every day it can get pretty gross.
Yeah, I wanted to be a vet.
He'd bathe that rabbit.
He'd love that rabbit.
I'd imagine he would bathe that rabbit.
That rabbit would not be neglected.
It's pure white.
Liz, thanks for your call.
Josh, what was the worst part about your job?
I was looking at a summer camp in the United States
and one of the boys had managed to run about 200 metres across camp
passing multiple bathrooms,
only to end up passing number twos in the middle of the bathroom floor.
Oh, and that was your job to clean that up.
So we had to clean it up between the wooden slats as well.
Oh, it's really long slats.
What the hell did he run it in?
Not give him a mop and tell him to do it.
Or just hose everything down
and just leave it maybe.
I'd just sit on fire
and walk away.
Thanks you, cool Josh.
Most of our stories,
a lot of our stories
involve poo.
Okay.
The worst part of your job.
Somebody said,
Jesus, throw me in a poo cage
any time.
I work in client service
and I hate everything
that happens between
eight and four.
Might be time.
That just sounds like that job isn't for you.
Make 2020 the year where you get the job that you don't hate the entirety of.
But also I feel like if you had to go in the poo cage into the Wanaka Poo Ponds,
maybe that would be what you need to...
Realise that life's not that bad.
Yeah, maybe.
Somebody said, I can't believe that vet called and thought that was the worst.
I wonder if they ever squeezed an infected anal gland on a dog.
I've been in the same room when that happens.
God, I've got.
Hard to describe that smell.
I can smell it suddenly.
That's ungodly, that smell.
Yeah.
So you know how Play-Doh, the smell of Play-Doh reminds you of being a kid?
Yep.
That smells, I don't know, it's what hell must smell like.
I don't know, it reminds you of being a kid? Yep. That smells, I don't know, it's what hell must smell like.
Somebody said snot, thick green snot is the worst part of my job.
I love being a teacher, but not the snot.
You have to say, wipe your face, and then they do,
and they just smear the green snot on their face,
and then you have to wipe it off their face,
and then you always get a little bit of green snot on you.
Teachers of young kids, not only are they trying to teach them,
but they're looking after their bodily fluids.
Yeah.
That's intense.
Tip of the hat to the early childhood educators this morning.
We hear it from a lot of you.
Somebody said, just had a chat to some other ECEs.
Vomit is definitely worse than runny brown poos.
Thank you. I mean, when we ask this question
What did we think was going to happen?
Yeah, that's true
I'm an engineer
And I have had to weld up morgue tables
The one where they operate on the deceased
The smell is indescribable
I thought those places would have been clean
I thought that smell would have smelt of bleach
And Jeff
Jeff Cleans without harsh scratching It would have been clean. I thought that smell would have smelt of bleach and Jeff.
Jeff.
Cleans without harsh scratching.
Or if you're like me and you buy your Jeff from Cracker Jack,
the parallel import store, Jeff.
Jeff.
Jeff.
Jeff.
It's just like Jeff. Cleans without harsh scratching.
It's just Jeff.
It's spelled with a C.
Oh, Jeff.
Jeff.
But it's still
Jef
Jef
Nah because I looked it up
And it's Spanish
Oh okay
And they were like
Jef
Mucho clino
Si
Si
But I watched an infomer
Of the Spanish commercial
Oh yeah
Jef
And do they have
What's Spanish for
Clans without harsh scratching
I don't know
It was a bit beyond me.
Right, okay.
I just see.
Okay, right.
And triangulo, that's triangle, that's from Dora.
That wasn't from the GIF commercial.
Right, okay, that's your...
Someone said, I'm a teacher, easily the worst part of my job is the parent-teacher conferences.
Yeah.
It's very frustrating to see the parents that don't care enough or just don't turn up,
but it's also frustrating to sit down with a parent
who thinks their child is a prodigy,
but I need to be the one that initiates it.
Hey, so your child is actually quite dumb.
No, my child is a genius.
You have to unlock the secrets.
Unlock the secrets.
I can't.
Like, look at you.
You two.
It came from you two.
Unlock the secrets.
Flesh, Vaughan and't. Like, look at you. You two. It came from you two. Unlock the secrets! Fleshfauna Megan.
The podcast.
ZM.
Shout out to the...
I just wanted to give it that in the...
Yep.
Shout out right now to the...
We briefly touched on it before,
to the people in emergency services.
If you're outside of Auckland,
you might be hearing a little bit less about it
because the photos aren't as sexy now
that there's not like
orange flames
licking in plumes
of black smoke
so the
your news media
is like
oh it's not as sexy now
and they're looking for
other photos of like
the flooded car park
but there's still
so many
emergency services
crews working
yeah
still roads closed
around
around the convention centre
and dampening hot spots overnight
as Anya mentioned in the news before.
But Anya's car was
underground at Sky City and not
underneath, so there's two parts to it.
There's the Sky City Convention Centre
which was a new build and that was going to be joined by an
air bridge that went across a fairly busy
road in Auckland to
the casino and that's where
the casino, the hotel, the restaurants
and everything are over there.
But both sides, on either side of the road, there are car parks underneath.
Underground, underground car parks.
Now, the ones you've seen full of water are under the building that was on fire, but intern
Anya's car was under the other building.
And we didn't know what was going on down there.
Well, because you, from the moment the fire started, you didn't know what was going on down there. Well, because you, from
the moment the fire started, you were told,
everyone was told here at work that
parks there, you can't get in there to get your car.
So that was kind of the case from
maybe Tuesday afternoon
until basically yesterday morning,
kind of like 9.30. Right.
So, yeah, look,
she was a stressful
situation. Okay.
Also went to go get a waffle Monday and failed miserably.
Right.
So you were hoping your car was going to be flooded
and written off for insurance purposes.
You know, every cloud has a silver lining, I was thinking.
Yeah.
But, yeah, so I went to go and get it.
I had to be escorted yesterday morning by the lovely Sky City staff.
We went one by one.
We got given masks.
And the guy that escorted me, his car is in the other building.
So do you think it was mostly staff?
Yeah, so I read about it later.
Oh, that's terrible.
It's only one floor.
I think it's the fourth floor down seems to be the only one that's affected.
And it's all staff parks.
About 100 cars.
Oh, man.
But Sky City have said that they're going to sort them all out.
Well, they're always giving cars away.
Every month, they're like, hey, we're giving away an Audi.
So just give them to your employees.
Yeah, yeah.
Sorry, this Audi this week is for Steve.
I'm pretty sure a flooded 1992 Corolla is exchangeable for an Audi.
Yeah, 100%.
Seems fair.
It does seem fair.
So what was it like going into the building?
Because they're connected, aren't they?
Yeah, it was pretty weird.
So normally there's like heaps of lights on and it's really bright and yeah, there's lots
of people around.
So seeing it kind of dark, there was kind of maybe a tenth of the lights that are normally
on.
Right.
Exciting.
Yeah, it was really like... Was it kind of like post-apocalyptic normally on. Right, exciting. Yeah, it was really like...
Was it kind of like post-apocalyptic?
Yeah.
Yeah, right.
Yeah, and it was really dusty and smoky
and there were these big puddles everywhere
of kind of, not water, but kind of like,
like, greeny kind of...
Ooh, greeny puddles.
Yeah, greeny puddles.
Like when you finish, like, a Chinese smorgasbord takeaway
and there's that weird green grease
in the bottom of the container.
It's like, what?
This can't be good for me.
What is that?
Did you kind of just have dust on it?
Yeah, it was just really dusty.
And did it smell inside?
No, but they were really strict against
when you were driving up,
I had to keep my mask on
until I was out of Federal Street.
Right.
And then you're out of their jurisdiction.
Yeah, and then it was just
like a free-for-all.
But I had to get let out
by a cop,
because I came up
to the edge of the cordon.
I was like,
oh, where do I go?
And he lifted up this tape
and I was like, whoa.
Hey, whoa, that's like a movie.
You're the detective
that's just arrived
at the murder.
I know.
It was so cool.
And I was like, thanks.
Do you flash your badge?
Or your EFTPOS card or something?
Yeah, you should have flashed something
So yeah, she's out now
She's out in the wild world
And have you got a WAF?
Yeah, working on it
You should have just driven it into the level 4 flood pit
Go across
You can't go in there, you're like, I'm a detective, dammit
And you drive across, straight into the drink
And be like, oh well, oopsie
ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan The podcast and you drive across straight into the drink and be like, oh, well, oopsie.
Weather's looking okay for the long weekend.
Sunday, apparently a good day to fire up the barbie and get into some outdoor activities.
That's what our news headline said.
Okay, great.
Good news.
Although a little bit colder, though, this weekend because of all the...
Oh, yeah.
Because of all the...
Snow. The cold stuff. Obviously, that white weekend because of all the oh yeah because of all the snow
the cold stuff
obviously
because of all the weather
white frozen water
yeah
that stuff
puts a dampener
on the weekend temperature
it'll be a bit
cooler
put a jersey on
so if you're gonna be inside
we thought we'd just
share what we've been watching
what we've been liking
what we've heard
is pretty good
bit of a tradition
ahead of the long weekend
and also I just love to hear some recommendations recommendations watching what we've been liking, what we've heard is pretty good. Bit of a tradition ahead of the long weekend.
And also, I just love to hear some recommendations.
Some new shows.
Always looking.
Who wants to go first? What are you watching at the moment?
I'll go first.
I'm loving Explained.
They're season two of Explained out now.
This is where they pretty much pick people from Vox.
This is on Netflix.
They pick a subject
and then do like 20 minute documentaries on it.
Like real informative.
I've seen the first season.
Super informative.
The one on billionaires is phenomenal.
Do they do Kylie Jenner?
They touch on like the modern entrepreneurial billionaire.
They talk about how billionaires have changed
from back in the day.
Like there was just not many back in the day.
Right.
And they all left like long legacies behind them.
Like university,
they paid for entire universities to be built and stuff.
And it was all about being a billionaire
and giving back to society,
but chucking your name on it
was about as extravagant as it got.
Right.
And how it's changed now.
Right.
This doesn't sound like a Netflix and chill.
Nah, you'd probably be sitting there and you'd be like,
should we get frisky?
And you'd be like, no, because I'm angry at the 1% of the 1%.
And then you'd be voting Bernie Sanders before you know it.
Yeah.
Also on Netflix, apparently Paul Rudd's new show,
Living With Yourself.
Oh, that looks really good.
Yeah, somebody said that was really good.
On Amazon Prime, which is another streaming service that I've...
I'd never heard of.
You got me onto Amazon Prime.
I'd heard about it, but there's so much stuff on there and it's so cheap.
I think the first few months are like five bucks or something.
Yeah.
Right.
Okay.
And then they probably...
Actually, well, when I opened this on Netflix,
it told me that my Netflix price is going up $3.50 a month.
Because it's the first time I've opened Netflix
for a little while on my iPad.
Just use Megan's mum's. She's got a couple more
logins, eh? That's great. Although this week
they did say they're cracking down on that
in the future.
So, I mean, Fleabag's
worth another mention on Amazon Prime.
People ask me about it because I posted
some Fleabag stuff on the gram this
week and yeah, it's on Amazon Prime.
Worth just signing up.
Won a ton of Emmys and all sorts of good.
The Boys is another one.
I don't think I've recommended that.
The Boys.
It's about, it's got like Karl Urban and Anthony Starr in it.
Both Kiwi actors.
One's a superhero who's kind of evil, but super.
And the other one's Karl Urban who just wants to destroy them all.
Right, okay.
Puts on a really bad English accent.
But once you get over the bad English accent, you're all on board for it.
You're really selling it to me.
It's a great show.
Caitlin got me onto The Capture, which is on TVNZ On Demand.
Is it a British crime drama?
Yes.
That's not like you two.
Do you guys like British crime dramas?
We love them. We love them. But this is like a British crime drama? Yes. That's not like you two. Do you guys like British crime dramas? We love them.
We love them.
But this is like a British crime drama meets Black Mirror.
Yeah.
There's lots of twists and turns.
It's really good.
It's so addictive.
It's set in the future.
No, it's set in modern time, but just with technology.
But yeah, that's really good.
I recommend that.
If you're into your line of duties and you're like Caitlin and I.
Bodyguards.
Love a British. A bodyguard was good. Is it like. If you're into your line of duties and you're like Caitlin and I love our British
Oh Bodyguard was good. Is it like Bodyguard?
Yeah. They're claiming it's the
new Bodyguard. Oh okay.
I've got it here.
There's no hot Bodyguard
in it. No.
Yeah actually yeah.
For a New Zealand made show, Wellington
Paranormals. Oh yeah.
That's a really good watch.
Give that a binge.
What about you, Megan?
What are you watching?
Big Mouth.
If you haven't watched Big Mouth, we're up to season three, I believe.
Just came out a week or two ago.
Yeah.
100% on Rotten Tomatoes.
It's Nick Kroll, John Mulaney.
Maya Rudolph plays the female hormone monster, but it's animated and it's about kids growing up
and learning about their bodies and their lives.
But man, it's funny.
So worth a watch.
And also Righteous Gemstones on Neon.
Oh, that's so good.
About a televangelist family.
That's John Goodman made by Danny McBride and Adam Devine.
That pokes fun at those big mega churches in America.
And you're just like, wow.
Yeah. It's well done.
You think you're having a laugh and then there's murder and it's all go.
I think there's a penis in every episode too.
Yeah, I think that was something they aimed to do, yeah.
The America's Cup is now New Zealand's Cup.
On his team, the Adams.
Oh, beautiful connection.
Long black celebrating already.
Sports Talk.
When we talk about sports,
and joining us to talk about a particular sport is Nisbo.
Good morning, Nisbo.
Morning, team.
How are we doing?
Great, mate.
Thank you.
Now, this weekend, it is a semi-final.
We win this one,
and then we're through to the final of the Rugby World Cup.
Touch a little bit of wood there.
And we're going up against
England.
Yeah, look, I think this might be the final, actually.
I think whoever wins this weekend
might just kick on and win the final.
The other side of the draw has
South Africa, Wales. Well, I think the
Springboks will come through there.
But I think I'd rather play the Springboks at the moment than England. England look pretty formidable to me. Don't
want to make you feel nervous.
But we do, though, because this is going to be a great game. The Irish game was a great
game, but this is going to be edge of your seat kind of stuff, isn't it?
Yeah, it is. We don't play these guys very often. We played them last year and beat them
by one point. I think we played them once in the last six years or something like that. So we don't get much
of a gauge against them. We play the Springboks every year, as we know. We play Australia
every year. But when you don't play someone very often, you sort of feel a bit nervous
about it.
So what is it about the English team at the moment that you think is so strong?
I think they've got plenty of depth. It's something that we have as well. But they've
got more rugby players than anybody else, you know, and they've got plenty of depth. It's something that we have as well but they've got more rugby players than anybody
else, you know, and they've got
a lot of players they can call on. They're well
coached. We know old Eddie Jones,
the Aussie, he's a good coach
and they look just a pretty complete team to
me. The only edge I think we have is that
we have players on the field
who can break the game open. I'm not sure
England have got as many as we have.
I'm just looking at some stats.
Stats.
Some stats.
We're on a bit of a hot streak with beating them, though.
We've beat them in the last six games we've played.
They beat us for the last time in Twickenham in 2012.
Oh, God.
Yeah, look, I was there,
and I've been there three times when the All Blacks have lost at Twickenham.
The worst place in the world to be when you lose.
They all sing, don't they?
They all sing that song.
Oh, Swing Low, yeah.
Yeah, they like a chariot.
They're going to sing that during the Haka, aren't they?
Yes, they will do, yeah.
No respect at all for the Colonials.
So, okay, pick a score, Nisbo.
Righto, we win by 6 points
We win by 24 points
What's that minus 6?
18
Okay
And just finally, what do you reckon
You said about Eddie Jones as the coach of England
What do you think about the fact that he said
They'd been spied on
Oh, look, he's just trying to create a diversion.
He knows full well that doesn't happen these days,
but, you know, it's a good talking point,
and he certainly made his point.
All right, well, let's hope we can talk to you again
before the final next week, Nisbo.
Look forward to it, guys.
All right, thanks, Nisbo.
Thank you.
Fletch, Vaughan and Megan's long weekend group two.
I'm waiting for it, that group toot.
I want it.
Oh, it's finally here.
The last long weekend group toot of the decade.
Because we're in a new decade next year.
I mean, we're not stopping the long weekend group toot.
I feel like this is the chat in the change room before we go on the field.
This is Steve Hansen chatting to the All Black Group.
Right, you lot.
Bloody hell.
We're going to get out there.
We're going to do the country parade.
I'd imagine he'd be quite mumbly.
So the Long Weekend Group Tute, if you don't know,
it's where you call us if you're in traffic and you start the Long Weekend Group toot. If you don't know, it's where you call us if you're in traffic
and you start the long weekend group toot.
And then someone else listening to the show finishes off with the last two beeps.
And you, if you're listening, if you're hearing it on the radio,
just toot back to the person you're hearing toot on the radio
because they might be just down the road with their window down.
You might not be able to hear them.
But you just, or everybody, I just want everybody in chorus to toot back
to the person tooting on the radio.
Toot wherever you are.
Beep, beep.
That's all you need to do to toot back.
Now, the people who lead the toot, very important.
You've got to be rhythmically.
Vava Bowden, Barrett Ritchie, Moanga Combo in the centre.
That's a good rugby analogy, Vaughan.
So this is the first part of the long weekend group toot.
And then you wait with your phone out the window
and somebody else hopefully completes.
All right, so you need to call us right now.
0800 DALES.M
If you're in traffic,
if you would like to take part in the long weekend group tour,
our world record is 10.
10 completed toots.
I'd love 12.
All right.
I'd love 12.
Test it out now.
That's right.
If you get it and someone toots back,
you go on the long weekend honours board,
which is almost chocker.
We might have to get a new one for the 2020s.
Specially engraved.
All right.
Well, no pressure, Megan,
but your Friday flashback is kicking off the long weekend group tour.
I'll wait.
Hunter, dial ZM right now.
Give us a call. Friday flashback. kicking off the Long Weekend Group 2. 0800-DARLS-AT-M right now. Give us a call.
Friday flashback.
Okay, so I came across this song during the week
and I was like, have we done that?
Turns out, no.
We've overlooked what I think is a great sing-along.
From 1999, she is an American pop
singer. Now, she would
more, she'd be known now
more for her acting. Okay.
But she has released some new music,
but I don't think anything's on the label
that this song is.
So, it was released in
1999, I can tell you it
didn't do great
in New Zealand, but maybe it's like a
slow burner.
A slow burner, yeah. Number 10 in New Zealand,
number 2 in Australia.
But sing along. Enjoy.
A bit of Mandy Moore this morning.
This is Candy.
It's your Friday flashback. ZM.
Oh yeah, okay.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
The Long Weekend toot next.
Zip him.
Yeah, yeah.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'm so addicted to the loving that you're feeding to me Can't do without it
This feeling's got me weak in the neck
Body's in withdrawal
Every time you take it away
Can't you hear me calling
Begging you to come out
and play
Oh yeah
So baby come to me
And show me who you are
Yeah
Sugar to my heart
I'm craving for you
I'm missing you like candy
Sweet, sweet lovin'
God be goin' to the extreme
You better know
Won't go without it
This vibe has got a hold on me
I'll be back
Satisfying baby
Let me show you what I'm made of
Beat up
No doubt about it
Boy got me feeling crazy, can't get enough
Baby, baby, baby, what you got to me?
Baby, show me who you are, yeah
Like a sweat today, like sugar to my heart
Baby, I'm craving for you, I'm missing you like hell
Hey, yeah, I'm feeling you like hell
So baby, come to me, show me who you are
You make a way to me, like sugar to my heart
I'm craving for you, I'm missing you like hell
Hey, yeah I'm craving, I'm missing you like candy You know who you are
Your love's the sweetest candy
I'll be forever yours
Love always, many
Only I'm craving, I'm missing you like candy
So baby come to me
Come, come, come, baby
Come to me
Show me to my heart
That I, I, I, I
I'm missing you like any
Oh yeah
So baby, come to me Mandy Moore, Candy, it's Megan's Friday Flashback.
I don't know if it's because it's Megan's Friday Flashback,
but it's average feedback, isn't it?
It's half and half, actually.
Yeah, it's pretty light.
There is a lot of good feedback.
Okay.
People just love to rip into me.
Oh, don't worry about them.
Don't you worry about that.
Don't you let them ruin your day, Megan.
That's what I'm here for.
Let me ruin your day.
Fletch, Vaughan and Megan's long weekend group toot.
I'm waiting for it,
that group tute,
I want it.
Probably should have got
Lorde to sing that.
I don't know if you know,
but she's kind of busy.
Doing what?
She doesn't need to do that.
She could pop in with him like,
hey, we're taking the mic.
Do you want to get on board?
Alright, it's the last
Long Weekend Group T tour of the decade.
So if you've just joined us, if you're new to the long weekend group tour,
we've been doing this for years.
Every time there's a long weekend.
We talked about when we started it and it may have been 2010.
Really?
It may have been.
I know it was a label weekend.
Do you think it's a 10 year anniversary?
It might be, unbeknownst.
It could be the 10 year anniversary. Well, if you're in traffic, we need be, unbeknownst. It could be the 10-year anniversary of the...
Well, if you're in traffic, we need you to call us.
Next year, it'll be the 10-year.
Okay.
If you're in traffic, we need you.
If you're in traffic, we need you to call us on 0800-DARLS-AT-M
and give us the start of the long weekend group, too.
And we need the rest of you listening to Toot Back.
All you do is Toot Back, even if we're talking to,
who are we going to first?
Well, let's go first to Kushla and Faith.
Good morning in Auckland.
Good morning.
You guys should start a 1990s R&B band.
Kushla and Faith would have been.
That would have moved some units.
Good morning.
Good morning.
Whereabouts in Auckland are you?
No pressure because this is the first long weekend group tour.
Wow, we've looped around into more traffic just for this.
Yes, yes.
That's commitment.
Around near the motorway, Wellandley Street.
Okay, okay.
Okay, that's good.
That's busy.
Although we haven't had a lot of central Auckland success in the past few group tours.
But let's change that.
Let's have some faith.
Now, we will need the window down
and your long weekend group toot.
When you're ready.
Yeah, ready.
Okay, do it.
Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.
Ding, ding, ding, ding.
We had talked to everyone in the traffic and they were going to do it.
Come on.
We thought your phone had fallen down a cardboard tube.
I think it did.
My phone fell out the door.
Very windy there and no group two.
That's a zero.
That's a zero.
Thank you, Chris, for your faith.
Natalie and Mum, good morning.
Okay.
Whereabouts are you in Auckland?
Albany Highway.
Albany Highway.
Albany Highway.
All right, okay.
Is Mum in charge of the tooting or are you driving, Natalie?
My mum.
No, okay.
This is responsible driving heading into the long weekend.
Your man in the phone, Mum's man in the horn.
Okay, well, get Mum to give us the long weekend group toot.
I think going forward we're getting a bit too much
because people are just jamming the phone straight out the window.
You think it's too windy?
You've got to shield it some.
That's what you did tell them to do,
shove the phone out the window. Yeah, I thought if you were
standing still, yes.
Natalie, thank you.
Is that a zero from two?
That's a zero from two.
It's a bad start.
This is Auckland.
We need to get out of Auckland.
Raylene in Hamilton,
good morning.
Good morning.
Alright, it's always a good one
in Raylene.
I beg your pardon.
I'm so sorry.
I can't speak.
I apologise, Raylene.
It's always been a good time
in Raylene.
Always a good time in Hamilton. Always a good time in Hamilton. With Raylene. speak. I apologise, Raylene. It's always been a good time in Raylene. Always a good time in Hamilton.
Always a good time in Hamilton.
With Raylene.
Whereabouts in Hamilton, Raylene?
Okay, I'm at Rotor Turner North.
Just did a big roundabout, so I better go talk to you or I might lose everyone.
Do it, do it, Raylene!
Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep.
Oh, no!
Oh, my God.
That's not good.
It's been a long time since we've had this much disappointment. It's that winter break. Oh, no! Oh, my God. Have we ever? That's not good.
It's been a long time since we've had this much disappointment.
It's that winter break.
So early.
Nigel and Josh, good morning.
Good morning.
Whereabouts in the country are you?
We're in Wellington.
Okay, whereabouts in the capital?
We're just about to go around the Basin Reserve.
Okay.
Okay, this is good.
New Zealand's largest roundabout.
Okay, when you're ready, give us the long weekend group two.
Okay, here we go.
Here we go.
Yes!
Yes!
Yes!
We're on the board.
We've had it.
We've had it.
We've hit it.
We're on the board.
They're applauding themselves and as they should be. That's great. They have broken the board. We've had it. We've had it. We've hit it. We're on the board. They're applauding themselves and as they should be.
That's great.
They have broken the drought.
Nigel and Josh and Wellington, that's one from four.
On the honours board.
Now, I believe we've had Brittany on the long weekend group tour before.
Brittany, good morning.
Brittany, bitch.
Good morning, guys.
Brittany, this is your third long weekend group tour in a row.
It absolutely is.
We're going for a record.
Still representing Palmerston North?
I am representing Palmerston North still.
All right.
It's Brittany, bitch.
All right.
When you're ready, Brittany, give us a long weekend group tour.
Give me a minute.
I'm just going back up to the light.
So I'm on Rohini and Main Street, if you guys are listening, outside there.
She's putting in a plug for herself. We're still at the Palmy. I hope guys are listening outside there. I like this. She's putting in a plug
for herself.
Let's do it for Parmi.
I hope everybody's
listening to this.
This is Brittany's
personal record too.
This will be her third
successful long weekend
group tour in a row
if she gets a reply.
Alright, let's do it.
Let's do it, Parmi.
Let's do it, Parmi.
Let's do it, guys.
Yeah!
Two replies to this, Brittany, bitch! Yeah! To the point!
That's Brittany, bitch!
Meow, meow, meow, meow.
Yes!
Yeah!
You're so good at that.
Brittany, the third time on our long weekend group tour
to Honours Board.
Congratulations.
You are the VIP, Brittany.
You really are.
And, Palm, you have a fantastic long weekend.
We're sitting at two from five.
That's two in a row.
Let's make it three.
Now, we go now to Robert Invercargill.
Good morning, Robert.
Hey, guys.
How's it going?
Good.
I don't think we've ever had a long weekend group two successfully from Invercargill.
No, it's not on the honours board.
Robert's going to be the first.
Yes, I'll be the first.
I've got it.
I've got it on my bones.
Okay.
All right.
Okay, Robert.
Give us your group two. When you All right. Okay, Robert. Give us your group two.
When you're ready.
Okay, here we go.
You're not in your driveway, are you, Robert?
It literally sounded like they were parked right next to you.
It's just outside H&J's.
Woo!
There was definitely a different horn.
Robert, do you know that person?
Did you set it up?
Okay.
I didn't set it up.
Well, there we go.
Robert, on the road.
See, we're cynical, Robert, because it was too perfect.
I mean, their timing could have been a bit quicker.
You're from Invercargill and it's like zero fees.
You're like, what's the catch?
They're like, you've got to move to Invercargill.
And you're like, no thanks. Okay. I'm happy to take it. I'm happy we're takingill and it's like zero fees. You're like, what's the catch? They're like, you've got to move to Invercargill. And you're like, no thanks.
I'm happy to take it.
I'm happy we're taking it, Robert.
Congratulations.
We're running at a 50% success rate, Robert.
Thank you very much for participating.
Josh in Auckland.
Good morning, Josh.
Good morning.
How are you?
Good.
All right.
Auckland has not given us a successful toot.
Give it to us.
Whereabouts are you?
At the corner.
Just about to turn into Marketplace in the city. Okay. All right to us. Whereabouts are you? At the corner. Just about to turn
into Marketplace in the city.
Okay, all right.
Okay, Central City.
Lots of traffic,
but reluctant tooters.
Yeah.
Okay, when you're ready, Josh.
Give it.
All right, here we go.
Yeah!
Yeah!
That one!
Yahoo!
Easy.
Josh, just like that,
on the long weekend
group toot on his board.
Damn, that's four from seven.
These are good odds.
We are rolling.
Wilson, the Mount Vic Tunnel.
It's a great location for a tour.
When you're ready, give it to us.
Go for it.
Yes!
Yes!
Yes!
So much sweeter because it's in the Mount Vic tunnel Wilson.
I know you could hear the echo.
The acoustics were great.
Fantastic.
Thank you.
Look how calm you are.
Thank you Wilson.
So calm and collective.
Apologies to those cycling and walking through the tunnel.
Ah, F them.
Do you want to go for one more?
Yeah, go for it.
Go for it. Wilson, go for it.
Double it.
Okay.
Yes!
We can't add that to another point, but it felt good.
It did.
It felt good to do it.
Okay, so what's our rate here?
Five from eight.
Was he driving the car?
Was he old enough to drive it?
Wilson, are you driving?
Oh, he's gone.
No, Wilson's out.
He's a spring on a trampoline.
We've got five in a row.
This may be our hottest streak in long weekend group tour history.
Damn you, Megan.
Don't do that to me.
I'm getting amongst you.
So how many do we need for the world record?
Five more.
No, we need six more.
Six more.
We're going to come back next and see if we can get six long weekend group toots to beat our world record.
It's a long weekend.
Fletch, Vaughan and Megan's long weekend group toot.
I'm waiting for it, that group toot.
I want it.
All right, last long weekend group toot of the decade.
We're currently at five toots from 10 out of 10.
We want to set a new record here.
10's our record.
We want to go to 11.
I feel like a 12.
I feel like a 12's in the bag and it's going to happen.
Second half's about to kick off.
Got some stats leading into the second half.
Yep.
Somebody who listens to the Long Weekend Group Tweet regularly says,
when we take a break and go to the music,
our second half's never as strong.
We're the warriors.
We're rubbish in the second half.
We're lacking the cardio.
We're South Africa at the World Cup.
Ant and Jay Parr, good morning.
Good morning.
Whereabouts are you guys right now?
Harbour Bridge.
Harbour Bridge.
Is it chocker?
Pardon?
Is it chocker?
It's chocker block.
What speed are you doing?
What kind of kilometres an hour are you getting on the Harbour Bridge at this time of day?
What's our KZ?
What's our KZ? What's our KZ?
60.
We're on 60.
Oh, that's too fast.
Do you think it's too fast?
It's too fast.
Okay, well, look, give us a long...
I reckon we're waiting.
I reckon we almost wait till they...
Which way are you going?
Are you northbound or are you southbound?
We're northbound.
All right, look, let's just do it.
Let's just do it.
They're on the bridge.
They might not be on the bridge later.
I feel like we're on a hot streak.
I feel like we're on a hot streak. Okay, well, and, Jay Park, give us... Let's do it. Let's just do it. They're on the bridge. They might not be on the bridge later. I feel like we're on a hot streak.
Okay, well, and Jay Park, give us the long weekend group toot.
We got this.
Yes, I got a beep.
I got a beep.
No, no, no.
Okay, wait.
Let me go one more.
Wait.
Stop.
Wait a second.
Stop.
Stop off.
You wait.
Come over here.
I'm going to give you a pep talk.
Come here.
Come here.
Shush. Listen. I'm on my way. I'm here. I'm going to give you a pep talk. Come here. Come here. Shush.
Listen.
I'm on my way.
I'm coming.
I'm talking.
Shush.
Shush now.
This is how this works.
One, two.
One, two, three.
One, two, three, four.
Not that other larrikinism that you're getting up to on your horse.
Okay, okay.
You taught me well.
I still love you.
I still love you.
I'm not angry.
Let's do this.
I love you, Ish.
I love you. Never reply to I love you with I love you-ish.
Okay.
Okay, let's do this.
Yes, I got one.
No, no, no, you didn't.
You didn't catch.
Who's doing the tooting?
Who's pushing the horn?
I am on the passenger side. I might bump, though. Yeah, but who's Jay Paroting? Who's pushing the horn? J-PAR or Ed? I am on the passenger side.
I might bump, though.
Yeah, but who's J-PAR?
Which one's pushing the horn?
J-PAR.
Okay, J-PAR, you've got to toot the horn.
You can't leave.
Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
This is no time for a newbie.
This is no time for a newbie.
He can do it.
He can do it.
We're not subbing on someone who hasn't played for the All Blacks
at halftime against England.
Believe in me.
Just believe in me, guys.
I believe in you. You've burned the bridge in me. Just believe in me, guys.
I believe in you.
You've burned the bridge of trust.
You've got one more chance.
Okay, one more chance.
Listen to me.
Listen to me.
One, two.
One, two, three.
One, two, three, four.
That's one, two.
One, two, three.
One, two, three, four.
Yes.
One, two.
One, two, three.
One, two, three, four. So good. Okay. One, two, three, four.
So good.
Oh.
These other drivers didn't believe me, guys.
Sub him off.
Sub him off.
He's off.
He's off.
I'm not proud of him.
We tried, didn't we?
This is World Cup year.
Tony, good morning.
We're about to you.
Hey.
We were in Glen Eden, but I've purposely come through to Kelston.
Oh, good. Trying to get some more people. I love a tootin', Kelston.
Good.
All right, give us a long-legging group two, Tony.
All righty, just got a green.
Yeah!
Told you!
Pass it to Tony!
Skip Jay Park!
He's off!
He's out of the team.
He'll never play again.
You're on the honours board
Tony
Congratulations
Six from ten
Tony's got us back
On our hot streak
Kirstie and Hamilton
Are you ready to be
Our seventh successful
Long weekend group two?
No pressure
No pressure
All the pressure
Whereabouts in the Tron Kirstie?
I'm just getting
Towards the university
And I know there's
Exams on this week
So I'm hoping
That's going to work
In our favour.
Okay.
Okay.
All right.
When you're ready.
Okay.
Ready?
Yep.
I might be driving too fast.
I also can't hear your horns.
Very quiet, Kirstie.
We'll pop you on hold and come back to you later, maybe.
Nikki and Olivia, good morning, we're about to you
Good morning
We're on Key Street in Auckland
Okay, well we had Key Street last time
I tell you what, we had a couple of big fails on Key Street
Queen Street?
Well, they're currently putting it to two lanes from four
So there's a lot of traffic
That's my girl
Alright, when you're ready, give it to us Nikki
I've got to count, I'm a bit nervous.
You're right.
You're right.
Yeah!
Yes, you did it!
You did it!
Oh, my God, this has been like a dream of mine.
Yeah, Nikki, it's a dream of mine.
Oh, wow.
You are a little ripper.
We are now sitting on a hot stat of seven from 12.
We go now to the Thorpes family who are in the car on Papanui Road in Christchurch.
Good morning, Thorpes family.
Good morning.
How are you?
Good, thank you.
All right, how's the traffic where you are on Papanui Road?
It is at a standstill.
Good, good.
Okay, here we go.
Thorpes family, I don't want to put any pressure on you.
You are our 13th tutor this morning.
Unlucky for some, unless you're Taylor Swift and she's worth millions of dollars.
Let's make you worth millions of dollars.
Okay, ready?
Ready?
Oh, no.
Someone almost tooted back halfway through the long weekend.
Should we give the Thorpes a second chance?
Okay.
I'm just going to wait until it's just rolling.
Can I wait until it stands?
Just smash into someone.
Just go.
Just go.
Just roll it.
Yeah, okay.
No.
It's unbelievable.
It's unlucky 13.
Let's break the curse.
The Thorpes family, thank you so much for trying.
Let's break the curse with our 14th caller.
David, good morning.
Hello. How are you? All right, good, good morning. Hello, how are you?
All right, good, mate.
Whereabouts in Auckland are you?
Just up on K Road in Auckland.
Okay, all right.
When you're ready, give us a long weekend group toot.
Oh, you don't know how disappointing that is.
David, you're a real slammer.
You really gave me the bash.
And then you almost went as, like, space quiet, like vacuum quiet.
Like, I went bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang.
And then you just went, oh.
Want to try again?
Sure.
David, David, have you got the window open?
Yeah, all open, yeah.
Okay, give us another one.
Give us another one, David.
Oh, this is not cool. Quiet, David, quiet. No, we're sitting on seven. We're sitting Oh, this is not cool.
Quiet, David.
Quiet.
No, we're sitting on seven.
We're sitting on seven.
This might not be a...
I just love that David's horn smashing.
Amanda in Palmerston North, good morning.
Good morning.
How are you?
Good, thank you.
Give us a long weekend group tote.
Okay, I'm just actually pulling into school, so I'm hoping this driving teacher's got a
tote bag.
Okay, all right.
Okay. All right, hang on a minute. I'm just coming down teacher's got a tote bag. Okay, alright.
Hang on a minute, I'm just coming down the window.
Alright, ready? Yep.
Beep beep! Beep beep!
It doesn't count when you do it, Amanda.
Amanda, you're not a car.
I was doing a fan signal at someone and all the school kids
are looking at me now. This is embarrassing.
Alright, Amanda. That's embarrassing. All right, Amanda.
That's embarrassing.
We've absolutely lost our hot spot.
How many more do we need?
How many more do we need for the world record?
Seven.
We need four more.
Okay, the next four.
The next four in a row have got to be.
Okay, well, let's do it.
We've got to have success next.
Four more.
If we don't get success from these, we're going to have to leave it at that.
Laura in Hamilton, good morning.
Good morning. Okay, give us a to have to leave it at that. Laura in Hamilton, good morning. Good morning.
Okay, give us a long weekend group toot.
Okay.
You're not calling from the 1930s, are you?
What are you driving?
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
Okay.
Oh, that was disappointing.
Kirstie also in Hamilton, good morning. Give us a long weekend group toot. Hi, that was disappointing. Kirsty also in Hamilton, good morning.
Give us a long weekend.
Hi, guys.
Hi.
Okay, I'm going to try my best again.
She's back.
I'm back, I'm back, I'm back.
Just give me two seconds.
I'm about to pull up to some traffic.
Okay.
I'm hoping that someone from Hamilton toot.
Okay.
How much time do you want?
Okay. All right. Are we ready? Right, are we ready?
Yeah, we're ready.
Okay.
No, come on Hamilton!
Kirsty.
I feel like Willowton's letting you guys down today.
Kirsty, don't call us, we'll call you.
Kirsty, thank you so much.
You've got me on...
You've got me on...
Oh, can I try again?
There's another line.
No, no, I don't know, Kirsty.
It's over.
Kirsty, thank you for trying.
It's not me, it's you.
Vic, we're about to see you right now.
She's getting up, too.
Oh, God, guys.
Oh, my God, it's falling apart.
Ivan, good morning.
Good morning, guys. How are you? Ivan, good morning. Good morning, guys.
How are you?
Good, good.
All the better, Ivan.
I'm liking your enthusiasm because it's gone a bit down in the studio.
Whereabouts are you, Ivan?
So I am actually driving in the motorway, just about to take the Greenland exit.
Okay.
Okay.
So it's a lot of people, a lot of traffic, driving at around 30 kilometres per hour.
Good, good speed.
Okay, give us a long weekend group tour.
There you go.
Come on, Ivan.
Nothing, was there?
If he gave it a big, we gave it a big gap there, Ivan.
Come on, guys.
Come on, don't disappoint me.
He's still waiting, Ivan.
I think the moment's gone.
Jesse, in Christchurch, can you end the long weekend group two with a success?
I hope so.
Because I don't want to leave the long weekend group.
I know we're not going to get the world record, but I don't want to leave on a downer.
Jessie, give us the long weekend group.
We're crawling and there's lots of traffic on the other side, so I'll give it a try.
Okay, whereabouts?
Whereabouts?
Cranford Street in Christchurch. Cranford Street. Okay. And Christchurch.
Cranford Street and Christchurch.
I gave, Jessie. Do it.
Ready? Yep.
No!
Was that a toot just as you started talking to us?
Or not? No. I imagine everyone
started to hear phantom toots. Absolutely
imagined it.
We can't finish there.
Can we go one more?
Couple more.
One more.
Vaughan, one more.
We've actually got
a special guest
on the hotline
who's wanted to take part
in the long weekend group toot.
Indy, good morning.
How?
This is my daughter.
She said,
Dad, can I do
the long weekend group toot?
And I said,
you've got to get in traffic
so they've taken
the long way to school.
Okay.
Is mum ready, Indy?
What? Is August ready? What? All right. long way to school. Okay. Is mum ready, Indy? Yeah. Is August
ready? Yeah.
Alright. They're both ready.
Are you in traffic? Is there cars around you?
What? Is there cars
around you? There's a bit of
traffic, but we're moving. Okay.
We're moving, but there's a bit of traffic. Alright. Get ready
to get the phone kind of out the window so we can
hear, but don't drop mum's phone because I don't want to have to buy
her a new one. Okay. Here we go. You tell mum to go.
Go. Wait a minute. No, it's always disappointing when it's your own. Indy. Indy. Indy. She
just passed it to me. Oh, she just passed it to you. Hang on. We're just pulling up
to read like down. Oh, okay. Here we go.. Hang on. We're just pulling up to red light dial. Oh, okay.
Here we go.
Here we go.
Okay.
Ready?
Yep.
We're ready.
Yes!
Yes, Freddie!
Yes!
Yes!
Great work.
Number eight.
Lucky number eight.
And the 20th caller for the long weekend group tour.
You did it, Indy.
Wow.
Yay.
All right.
I got some more of those biscuits I'll bring home.
All right, mate.
Catch you later, eh?
You probably need to work on their whole radio enthusiasm thing.
Yeah, I know.
They're their father's children.
They nailed the two.
That's all that matters.
Well, we didn't break a record, but we finished on a victory with eight out of 20.
A lot of toots.
A lot of toots.
I think we shouldn't have given up on that big stretch, eh?
Do you think that was it?
That's next time we're not going to a song.
Next time when this comes back, we'll just keep going.
All right, well, we've got...
Just keep pushing
for a long weekend group too.
Fact of the day, day, day, day, day.
I've just had deja vu.
Have we ever done a fact
about jellyfish
in a Filipino coup? No. That doesn just had deja vu. Have we ever done a fact about jellyfish in a Filipino
coup?
No. That doesn't ring a bell to me.
A Filipino military coup? No. Jellyfish?
I don't believe so. I just had a bit of
deja vu and I wanted...
Are you doing that because you just
repeated yourself?
Well, this came about
because the other day we were going to
be filming Have You Been Paying Attention?
But TVNZ got shut down and evacuated.
But before that, who was supposed to be on this week?
It was Guy Montgomery, a comedian.
Probably most of our 19 New Zealanders, him and Tim Batt,
watched Sex and the City 2 every day for a week.
That's right.
Every week ended a podcast after it.
Worst idea of all time.
And they did it with other movies, Grown Ups and stuff as well.
He stood on a blue bottle jellyfish.
Oh, goodness.
Because you know how you hear
about how bad they are,
but I don't know personally
anyone that stood on one.
No.
Well, at West Auckland beaches,
you do quite often see them.
Yeah.
They just get washed up.
They kind of get,
they're dead,
but they're still very toxic.
Right.
And he said they were a bit like
being careful walking along the beach
and then his attention was elsewhere,
and he stood on one and immediately was like,
I've done something very bad.
Yeah, right.
And he said immediately the pain was intense.
Yeah.
Left it a day because he's a New Zealand male.
And then went to the doctor and they said,
oh, you know, there's pretty much nothing we can do
apart from you wait it out.
It hasn't spread.
Yeah.
The worry is if it spreads up into the blood and everything.
Did they say to wait on it?
That's what you're going to do like immediately.
Oh, okay.
He missed his opportunity.
I think that's your standard jellyfish.
Yeah, right.
I don't think that's your, like, or a bit of vinegar,
something acidic, right?
It neutralises it.
But I don't know if blue bottle,
that might be the next step up.
Right.
But anyway, we were talking a lot about jellyfish
and someone brought up how bad, like, a lot be the next step up. Right. But anyway, we were talking a lot about jellyfish and someone brought up
how bad like
a lot of jellyfish can be.
Yeah.
And they mentioned something
so I did some further Googling
and I can tell you
on the night of December 10th,
1999,
three weeks exactly
till the end of the millennium
and also if you're around then
you may remember
the Y2K freakout
that everything was just
going to stop working
when it ticked over
and like planes
were going to fall out of the sky
and robots were going to take over.
And on the Filipino island
of Luzon,
which is home to 40 million people,
there was a lot of military
presence
and there was this weird
underground feeling
that there was going to be
a military coup.
Okay. So on December 10, 1999,
the power went out. Just all of a sudden
everybody, like a movie.
Everyone's like, well, it's not Y2K because that's
three weeks away. It must
be the military coup.
People are out doing Christmas shopping and malls just go
dark. So
stuff gets pretty chaotic. If it's a military coup, I'm just going to smash this window and malls just go dark. Yeah. So stuff gets pretty chaotic.
Because people are like, if it's a military coup,
I'm just going to smash this window and take a TV.
That makes sense.
As you do.
Sure.
The military can't be everywhere, can they?
Yeah.
Well, what it turned out to be when it all kind of settled down
and people heard the news, a giant flock of jellyfish.
Yeah.
Is that what you call a bunch of pod? I don't know the collective noun of jellyfish. Are you going to do a little? of jellyfish. Yeah. Is that what you call a bunch of pod?
I don't know the collective noun of jellyfish.
Are you going to do a little...
A jiggle.
Is it?
No, I don't know.
I just want it to be.
A wiggle or a jiggle of jellyfish
would be pretty good for a collective noun.
A group of jellyfish is sometimes called a bloom or a swarm.
Oh, yeah.
Bloom is usually used for a large group of jellyfish.
Okay, so this was a bloom. This a large group of jellyfish. Okay, so this was a bloom.
This was a bloom of jellyfish.
Right.
They got sucked into the power plant's cooling vent.
The power plant drew water from the sea, pumped it around,
cooled down the power plant, and then pumped it back out.
So the water was never polluted, but it cooled.
Right.
When they emptied it, 50 dump trucks worth of jellyfish
had been sucked into the cooling.
Wow.
And so once they'd emptied that,
they could start it back up
and I think after that,
they just put like a bit of netting on there.
Makes sense.
Yeah.
To stop it all getting sucked in
and turning off the power to an entire island.
Yeah, right.
So today's fact of the day is,
thanks to 50 dump trucks worth of jellyfish,
people in the Philippines thought there was a military coup.
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I mean, I was there for four years, but my name
wasn't in the show.
But then you left for a bit.
Then I came back for a few more years, and then
my name still wasn't in the show.
You were a flight risk.
Only because my name wasn't
in the show. I mean, I'm not bitter about it or anything.
Well, it's in there now, and I mean, you could say
it's not going as well.
Then you're hooked up with a man ten as well. Well, and then you're
hooked up with a man
10 years younger than you
and then you're flight risk.
Yeah, we were like,
oh, she'll be living
in South Africa
this time next year.
Flight risk.
We can't put her name
in the show.
Well, it was,
it just popped up
in my Facebook memories
when I was sitting
at a computer.
We must have had
photos taken for work
and this was when,
so six years ago.
So what's Indy's going to be eight in February.
Right.
So she was just under two.
Yeah.
Like one and a half-ish, but more.
And she came in and started pointing at the people on the screen.
And back in the day when Instagram videos could only be 15 seconds long.
Oh, R.I.P.
R.I.P.
Yeah.
And was like, man, I wish that video was longer.
And then I'm like, oh, the room where that was only anything is long.
And that was when the show almost got renamed Daddy and Butch.
Who's that?
It's Daddy.
And who's this?
It's us.
Butch.
Butch.
Who's that?
Daddy.
Who's that?
Daddy and Butch.
That's Butch.
Butch.
Butch.
She's not wrong, but she's wrong. Oh,'s Butch. Butch. Butch. She's not wrong.
Butch and Vaughn.
Oh, she couldn't be more wrong.
Mask and Vaughn.
Butch, Mask and Vaughn.
She might have been calling you Bitch.
That would be more accurate.
Probably.
Butch and Vaughn.
Butch and Vaughn and Megan.
Butch, Vaughn and Megan.
Butch, Vaughn and Megan.
Yeah.
Wow, that was six years ago.
God, I love Facebook memories.
Sometimes.
Yes.
Sometimes.
Like, up until six years ago,
like, when the kids stuff's real cute,
but, like, when you get something that's nine years ago,
you're like,
probably delete that.
Yeah, exactly.
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