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Good morning.
Welcome to the show, Fletch, Vaughan and Megan.
I feel for the royals sometimes having to go to all of these things.
I bet so.
My wife said, can you imagine being dragged around to all these things?
I was like,
it would be pretty
like tiresome.
You'd have to pretend
to be into all of them.
You'd be tired of it.
Did you see them
yesterday when it was
raining in Babel Tasman
under the umbrella?
And someone's
talking to them.
I was like thinking
you'd just want to
be inside sitting
on the couch.
You'd be into it.
But you know,
and we were wondering
what she was going
to wear on her feet.
She wore just like some white looking tennis shoe situation. That's not good when it's raining. be inside sitting on the couch. You'd be into it. But, you know, and we were wondering what she was going to wear on her feet. Yep.
She wore just like some white looking
tennis shoe situation.
That's not good when it's raining.
Standing one mini puddle up over wet socks.
Right.
You were saying that she wore Karen Walker.
She wore a Karen Walker trench coat.
And that's like,
has it sold out or what?
The pre-orders are through the roof for that.
But that's with everything she's worn on this tour.
Everyone's like, oh my gosh, I've never seen that before.
Because there was one that was from ASOS.
Yeah, her maternity dress.
Did she just get stuff on ASOS like everyone else?
Well, I guess you can't afford to have like all fancy pieces.
They're on the road for ages.
But you didn't even really see it.
It was the dress that was underneath the trench coat.
So you didn't really see it.
Oh, right, okay. They're on the road for ages. When she gets home that was underneath the trench coat, so you didn't really see it. Oh, right, okay.
They're on the road for ages.
When she gets home, she's got a big pile of mail waiting.
I'm imagining she's just got the app on her phone, right?
She's just ordering and ordering.
She's like, can't wait to get home.
All her iconic packages.
You know, that stuff's there overnight.
I wouldn't order that yet.
God, it's flying, don't they?
Top six is coming up. Yes, the top
six other things that'll happen if you don't drive your car
for ages. The AA have
noted a spike in car battery
call-outs
because people aren't driving their car due to high
petrol prices and then when they do go to drive it
it hasn't been turned on for a while
and the batteries run flat.
Because I have to do that to my car because it's got such a tiny wee battery. Yeah. Like run flat. Because I have to do that to my car
because it's got such a tiny wee battery.
Yeah.
Like if I go away,
I have to ask people to come over
and start my car.
But then you could just jump start it
when you get back, right?
Yeah, I know.
But that's a hassle.
Can you...
What? No more of a hassle
than asking someone to go out of their way
to go around your house
and turn on your car.
Well, it's like, you know how people
have to go around and feed a cat.
It's like, can you go around
and start the car?
Make sure it's... Can you just go around, turn on the car, water the houseplants?
Yeah.
All right, you lot, listen up.
It's story time.
Right, I've found three news headlines for three news stories.
Vaughan and Megan, you picked one of the following headlines.
Headline one, granddaddy long legs banned. So you've got spiders are one and three there.
Yes.
What was twos?
380th time unlucky for man.
Oh, not for spider.
So then you've got three spider headlines.
No.
Do you know what that third story was about, Megan?
That Australia's aquatic what?
Spiders.
What kind of spider?
If one had to be slightly more specific.
Trilancholas.
No.
Still not any closer.
Good try.
To saying that word.
So they swim in the water, right?
Yeah.
So you'd be swimming and then it So they swim in the water, right? Yeah.
So you could be swimming and then it's like... Most spiders can, right?
Little air bubbles on the end of their feet.
Effectively, they're just on like...
They've got scuba tanks built in.
Yeah.
They can float on their feet and then they can go under and breathe.
They can web themselves little air sacs too.
That's pretty rad, I reckon.
Yeah.
Spiders can be creepy, but also, what a hell of a creature.
Yeah.
Yeah, I don't want them to die.
I just don't want them anywhere near me.
I feel like we've touched on that one.
So basically, you are apartheid.
I don't necessarily want you to not exist,
but I don't want you to exist anywhere near me.
Yeah.
If you can be underwater and not seen by me, that would be lovely.
Spider apartheid.
Arachnid apartheid.
I've forgotten story number one.
That was granddaddy long legs.
Oh, was it?
I'm kind of swaying towards granddaddy long legs.
Okay.
I want to know what the deal is there.
Because I'm worried.
Okay, yeah, no, I'm for one.
Yeah, okay.
Okay, we go now to the UK where...
Is it about a spider?
It's not about a spider, is it?
56-year-old grandfather, Robert,
Elaine Robert is his name,
known as French Spider-Man.
Oh, is that guy 56?
The guy that always climbs outside of the buildings?
Yes.
That's an amazing feat that he managed to get to that age
because he should be dead.
Yeah, well, well he in Britain
on Thursday,
just gone, scaled
one of London's tallest towers
without ropes. I saw this.
It took him an hour, didn't it?
It took him an hour and
he was appearing in
court on Friday at the magistrate.
He pleaded guilty to causing
a public nuisance. He received a 20-week
suspended sentence, a $7,000
US fine,
so nearly, what, $10,000, $11,000
New Zealand dollars. And he's
been banned from climbing
all buildings in Britain
until further notice.
He is insane.
I didn't, when I saw the story, I didn't realise
he was that old.
Not that it's like old, but it's old to be climbing a building like that.
Yeah.
He's even got sponsored t-shirts.
You know how like, you know, on like the Tour de France and rally car drivers and stuff
all have like logos.
Oh, like multiple sponsors.
Yeah.
Who's his sponsor?
Like, look at him.
That's a photo of him.
Like, how many, God knows how many stories up.
And he's doing it without ropes.
He's being silly.
And he's a granddad.
Yeah, try telling your granddad.
Oh, my granddad was never a climber.
In fact, he was.
Or your dad, who's now a granddad.
He's a granddad now.
But it's hard to tell the kids not to climb trees
or go too high in the tree as you're climbing London Towers.
So he climbed Heron Tower on Thursday,
just gone.
46 floors,
755 foot tall.
What?
Crazy, eh?
Even just hanging on
for an hour would be hard.
Yes.
Because he got to the top
and you just see him go,
woof.
Yeah.
Well, what's amazing
is he immediately handed
waiting police officers
his passport
and the number for his lawyer.
Hello.
Yes.
So he was doing this...
I'm well aware of how this works.
...as well with his passport in his back pocket.
Good Lord.
Amazing.
But yeah, he's been banned.
So he's done dozens of skyscrapers over the years.
This is what I was thinking in one of tonight's
at the end of the story.
He's done the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Has he?
But he was apprehended before reaching the top.
He's also done the Willis Tower in Chicago, which is huge.
I'm surprised they didn't just cut his hands off in Malaysia.
Wait, the Petronas Towers is the one that's connected in the middle with the bridge.
He's done the Burj Khalifa in Dubai.
The Burj Khalifa.
He could have done all of that.
No, he must have done it to a certain point.
And that's not the sort of place you climb without permission.
No.
That must have been like a publicity gig.
Because Dubai's safety and laws are pretty loose goose.
But they're very strict.
If you disrespected something built by the big dog,
you wouldn't be leaving Dubai in a hurry, would you?
So that must have been orchestrated.
My God.
But he's just slowly just going down to smaller office buildings as he reaches retirement age of 65.
Good God.
Just some light building climbing for him.
FEM.
ZM.
We have a world champion, a Kiwi world champion.
Yes.
So Nigel Richards, he is a Cantabrian.
He has won the World Scrabble Championship.
He's won this title for the fourth time.
I was going to say, I recognise that name.
Is this the guy that learnt another language just to play Scrabble in another language?
Maybe because I know that he has won the French Champs as well.
Yes, he learnt French.
Didn't he teach himself French in like two months?
Because you'd been Playing Scrabble.
You wouldn't know every word.
He knew enough though.
So the word he won on
was, I don't
even know that this is a word.
Groutier?
G-R-O-U-T-I-E-R.
I'm sure it's a word. What does that mean?
So it means to be cross, sulky
or sullen. He got 68 points with that word.
Oh, I thought it was putting grout between tiles.
It needs to be a bit groutier.
It showed a picture,
a picture's been put up of the board
once they finished playing.
Most of the words I don't know.
Could you give us a couple?
Aluene, lun, lun.
Like a Sally Lun.
Yeah, that's a word.
Lipemia.
Vibia.
Ooh.
Let's not talk about
the lipemia vibia.
That's what the French
call a vibrator.
A levol.
Levol.
Oh, no.
That's where you put
your lipemia lividia.
Up your levol.
God, no wonder
he's smashing it
out of the park
He knows a lot of French pornography.
Yeah, all this gag in there.
Oh, my gosh.
Ovarian.
Okay.
Again, from the region.
Penates.
Penates?
Penates, yep.
God, I thought they'd all be like words like hedgehog.
Wood tone.
I'd be stoked to get any word that had like seven letters.
Yeah, yeah.
Oh, there is one, fan.
Is anyone even playing Scrabble like at the family holiday home
or if the power goes out and there's no reception maybe?
Some people are quite religious about it.
They really like Scrabble.
I haven't played it for years.
Have you guys played Bananagrams?
I've got it, but I've never played it.
That's like there's a sack that's in the shape of a banana
and it's got a whole lot of letters in it.
And it's like Scrabble except there's no like
I think you just get points
not for hitting the certain squares and stuff.
And you can just branch off and go anywhere.
It's not restricted to the board. Right.
I've just looked at the
news article here of
the Scrabble Champions and where it
was held. It looks like it was held in Westfields
and they're in one of those like
It was a Westfield London.
Like a smokers booth
at the airport.
Oh yes.
See what you see?
Yeah but
It's like a
little
Soundproof
Conservatory.
Soundproof Conservatory.
But it looks like
one of those smokers things
you see at airports overseas
where you can smoke
in a terminal.
And then even smokers
walk past and they're like
oh my god that's a bit yuck.
Anyway I'll pop in for a durry.
Yeah, yeah.
Does Nigel still have his big beard?
Because in 2015, I just Googled him.
He does have a trimmed beard.
He learnt the language of Moulinier, as the French like to call it.
And he just learnt enough to win and then he won the French Scrabble.
That's madness.
That's him there in 2015.
Yeah, no, he's trimmed.
He's had a trim.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah?
Okay, yeah, he looks well different.
Does he, uh, is he good at, like, crosswords and all, like, word games, do you reckon?
I'd say so.
I'd say he would be.
Okay.
Do you remember Upwords?
Yeah, no, what was that one you used to play on your phone?
Words of Friends.
Yeah, Words of Friends.
That was...
It'd smash you at that.
Was that like Scrabble? Yeah, it was just Scrabble. It was just Scrabble, eh, but you could play on it. Do Words of friends. Yeah, words of friends. That was... It'd smash you at that. Was that like Scrabble?
Yeah, it was just Scrabble.
It was just Scrabble,
but you could play on it.
Do you remember Upwords?
No.
And so it was like
you'd spell a word
and then not just
branch off it.
You could also like
put letters over top
of letters.
Oh, yeah.
Do you remember that?
You put it on top.
So you could spell fart
and then someone else
can come in with an H and an E
and put the H and the U one and then the E over the next one.
It would be heart.
Oh, that sounds a riveting game.
It certainly does sound so much fun.
Well, it took Scrabble to 3D, you know.
I remember preferring it to Scrabble.
Right.
The Top Six with Vaughan Smith.
Hello there.
AA, not Alcoholics Anonymous, the Automobile Association,
have noted a spike in flat battery call-outs
as Kiwis are driving their cars less due to high fuel costs.
Apparently, you're supposed to drive your car
and the alternator charges the battery as it uses it.
And this isn't happening because people aren't starting their cars enough. So then when they go to start it, it. And this isn't happening
because people aren't
starting their cars enough.
So then when they go to start it,
it's flat, they call the AA
and they say sometimes
the batteries can't be recharged
and have to get a new battery.
Now that's an expensive practice.
If it's an old battery
because it wants to deal
with your battery.
My battery is really tiny
so it needs to constantly
be turned on
so it can recharge itself.
How many days?
Like if you go away for a holiday for a weekend.
Two weeks would be too long.
Really?
Like it needs to be started every week, I guess.
So they're saying a way around this is to invest in a charger to keep your car battery topped up.
It just literally like plugs into the wall and then you jump a cable onto your car's nips and then it's recharged.
Can't you get one of the, like,
Repco or Super Cheap,
and you just have it in the boot?
It's like a battery with leads?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's got like a...
Right.
Like a jump start.
Yeah, an emergency jump start.
Yeah.
And then I think you've got to charge that every...
Oh, look, I don't know.
And how much is that?
I don't know.
I don't know.
Life's hard, eh?
I know.
Every which way you turn,
someone wants some money.
Someone wants money off you.
Oh, my God.
So the top six things that'll happen are the other things that'll happen if you don't drive your car for ages.
Okay.
It's not just flat batteries, ladies and gentlemen.
Number six, a killer will start living in your back seat, and you won't see them until you're driving, and they pop up, and they're like,
You're not going to work today.
This is why I don't have a back seat.
Great way to avoid it.
Yeah.
Oh, why would you say that?
They could live in your boot though.
No, they couldn't.
And then just as you're, you know,
leaving for work, it's like.
A hand comes out.
Okay.
You've been watching too much Haunted Hill.
Yeah, Haunted Hill House.
Number five on the list of the top six things
that will happen if you don't drive your car for ages
are that Coke cup from the takeaway joint that had a little bit in the bottom.
Well, when you pick that up next time, the bottom's going to fall out of it
and you're going to see that ants are swimming in the Coke pool in the cup holder.
How long does it take for a Macca's, the little bit of ice and Coke to go through a Macca's cup?
A day tops.
Yeah.
Like we, yeah, left one in the car, gone back the next day,
picked it up
and the arse ends
falling out of it.
It's okay if your cup holder
is a completely sealed unit.
You can kind of soak it up
and get it out
without too much spillage.
But if you've just got like a
wire rack.
I just wait till it goes
dry and flaky
and I just peel the
old coke off.
Lots of waiting there.
And you've got to drive
slowly around corners
so it doesn't slosh out.
This is why I don't have a car anymore.
Yuck.
Number four on the list of the top six things that will also happen if you don't drive your car for ages
are your kids will jump in it and turn every knob up.
That's the volume on the radio, the windscreen wipers, the indicators, the heater.
And then when you get on and turn on the key, you'll die of a heart attack.
Has that happened before?
Yes.
Just recently.
I don't know why they've taken to playing, like, houses and stuff.
But now it's evolved into like, well, I've got to go drop you off at school.
Because I'm guessing they're just replicating what they say.
Oh, yeah.
So then they go and get in the car and they come back in and they pretend they're at school. But when they're in there, they're flicking everything.
Then you jump in and it's like...
Everything's going.
Number three on the list of the top six things that will also happen
if you don't drive your car for ages.
Your car air freshener will basically just ferment
and next time you get into that car,
you'll be hot boxed with lavender or citrus or new car smell.
Yeah.
We had one once and it was supposed to, it said, just tear the corner.
Yeah.
Hang it, and you just tear the little corner, and it'll slowly release it.
But I didn't read it.
I just took it all out of the bag.
Holy hell.
Like, if you parked your car anywhere, you had to leave the windows down.
Right.
Because when you got back in, your eyes would stick.
That's how you could find it in the car park.
It was, yeah, by scent.
Yeah.
You bet.
Oh, yep. It's over this way. Yeah. You bet. Oh, yeah.
It's over this way.
I can smell potpourri.
Follow the orange.
Number two on the list of the top six things that will also happen if you don't drive your
car for ages.
Your secret chocolate glove box snacks will melt and then reset and then melt again and
then set and then melt and then set and then melt and then go white.
When you eventually find it, you'll eat it,
but you'll be disappointed in yourself.
Yeah.
A, for letting that happen to your chocolate
and also for eating it regardless.
And the number one thing that will happen
if you don't drive your car for ages,
along with the fact that the battery will go flat,
the spider that made the web on the side mirror,
it'll move in and breed.
And next time you get in your car,
it'll be a full-blown spider cave.
But you won't see them
until you're going 100 kilometres an hour
down a busy
road. That is today's
top six.
Lime scooters
inescapable in the news.
I hear talkback talking about them now
and how people are getting injured on them
and ACC stats and stuff.
But to be honest, in the same time period, how many people have been hurt on push bikes or skateboards or cars?
I feel like it's just cool to have a go at them.
Yeah, exactly.
Exactly.
It's not in the news every day, people falling off their bike, smashing their teeth.
Like dentists have been like, oh, be careful.
But this would have happened when bikes were first introduced.
People would have been like, what are these things?
People are just going to hurt themselves.
Those two-wheeled devices are causing nothing but pain out there.
They'll be better in no time.
Although I got a lime scooter to work today and my brakes were a bit faulty.
Okay, so that'll happen.
But you reported it.
It was that.
You and I will be dealt with.
I didn't want to get a new one because it's a dollar every time you unlock them.
You unlock them.
So I was like, oh, well, I just got to go to work with no breaks.
So they're in the news.
So someone got concussion because they fell off when they should have been wearing the helmet.
Because it does say you should be wearing a helmet.
No one does, but it says you should be.
How many people got concussed playing sport at the weekend?
Are we going to ban that?
Exactly.
Come on.
It's, as I say, PC madness.
It's PC.
And they dumped another 500 in Auckland yesterday. Did they? Exactly. Come on. It's, as I say, PC Mandates. It's PC. And they dumped another
500 in Auckland yesterday. Did they?
Yes!
That is like,
nah. If they do
ban them though, are they all going to be for sale?
Because I would totally buy one. I know.
I would 100 buy one.
I don't think they will ban them.
It's a three month
trial in Auckland. Christchurch
has them. They've got to come
To Wellington
Hamilton
You've got to have them
Like every town and city
In New Zealand
Should have something like them
So here's the
Latest news story about them
I don't think this is
Going anywhere
To get them banned
But someone in
Rimuera
Went to
Use the Lime scooter
Yeah
And they said
On the nearest ones
Just down the road
It looks like
There's a heap of them there.
Okay.
There's a heap of them.
It looks like one, two,
20 of them.
Okay.
This is a hive.
This must be a naturally
occurring hive in the wild.
I'll go down.
Upon walking, she said,
oh, these must be at Baradine,
which is a Catholic school.
A girls' Catholic school
in Auckland.
Under his eye.
Yes, yes.
Blessed be the fruit.
And she got there and she was like,
oh, they're inside school grounds.
Now, being that I'm not a member of the school,
nor do I have any business on the school,
I just can't wander onto school grounds to get something, can I?
I'll ring them and ask.
So I arrived, she said she rings them.
At this stage, they're on the app.
They're available to hire.
Yes.
They're not being used.
No, no, no.
They're not being used.
You can't see them on the app when they're being used.
Yeah, true.
When they're scanned and instead of being used,
they disappear off the availability map.
Yeah.
So rings the school and says, can I come and get one?
And they said, no, it's the final day.
The students are having a prank day.
They love riding them to and from school.
You're not allowed to go in and get one.
I would have just walked out and got one.
Yeah, me too.
I pay taxes.
Is it a private school?
Yeah, I think so.
Oh, okay.
You're allowed on public schools, eh?
No, not really.
I don't know.
Hey, try it today and see what happens.
Hey, give me back my scooter.
Yeah.
This is public land.
That's what I've always said about schools.
They're the best place to sunbathe.
So just go in.
All the open fields.
It's public land.
You're that beautiful, unhindered open field that gets sun all day.
It's wasted on those kids.
They're in class so much.
So yeah, now they're saying, and I've seen this happen.
Occasionally you'll see one available, so you go and have a look,
and it's behind like a locked gate of somebody's apartment building.
You can't do that.
No.
It's got to be left in public.
You can actually report that.
Yeah, because what is the deal if you've taken public property
and put it on your private land?
I was way out West Auckland, like West, West Auckland,
and I thought, this isn't a serviced area,
but I open up the app to see,
lo and behold,
one's in the heart of Henderson.
And I'm like,
what are you doing out here, fella?
You're a long way from home.
And you wanted a ride.
And I thought,
I'll grab it,
put it in the car boot,
take it to my house,
and then go and pick the kids up
from school on it.
Kidnap an e-scooter.
I was going to kidnap an e-scooter.
But I'm like,
he's already miles away from home.
This is good. No harm, no foul. He's actually going to kidnap an e-scooter. But I'm like, he's already miles away from home. This is good.
No harm, no foul.
He's actually going to be
far closer to a service area
at my house afterwards.
So I went
and I was looking around
and I couldn't see it.
And there's a little button
you can press
that says ring scooter
so you can help locate it.
And it goes
beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep.
So I push it.
I can't hear the ring
but this woman comes
darting out of this house.
And I'll repeat again, I'm in Henderson.
For people who know Auckland.
That's West.
She's the dark West.
Dark West.
So Cheryl West comes bounding out of her house.
She's looking.
Like, who's ringing the scooter that's inside my house
that may or may not be being stripped down for parts.
So she'd kidnapped an e-scooter.
It was in the house.
And then I had to make it look like I was just going for a casual stroll in Henderson.
And no one goes for a casual stroll in Henderson.
Why didn't you just say, hey, have you got that scooter in there?
Oh, no, no.
I'm going in Henderson.
Henderson.
Right.
So you wanted to take the scooter so you could kidnap it, but she'd kidnapped it.
She'd already kidnapped it. So you had a problem with her kidnapping the scooter. Yes. Right. Because I wanted to take the scooter so you could kidnap it, but she'd kidnapped it. She'd already kidnapped it.
So you had a problem with her kidnapping the scooter.
Yes.
Right.
Because I wanted to kidnap it.
Yeah, right.
But he wanted to kidnap it to use it.
She's just hoarding it.
And I wanted to kidnap it so it could be closer to home.
Right.
So you're a conscientious kidnapper.
Yeah, right.
Okay.
F.M.
I'm not sure how I feel about this story
because it's legit.
It's a legit career path, but it's kind of weird that there's now training available.
Is it a legit career path?
Well, I mean, you can do this job and you can earn money, so yeah.
Yeah, but would you say to a kid at school who's going to Careers Day or to a careers advisor,
all right, Timmy, don't worry about any of your study.
You can become Instagram famous and make money.
Can we take a moment to reflect on the job you do?
Yeah.
This is exactly what we were told throughout everywhere, right?
And what my dad begged me not to do.
Yeah, yeah.
And my parents were like, well, man, if it's this or drugs,
I mean, I suppose I prefer this.
How much money do drug people make?
It's funny you should say that because one in three British children
aged between six and 17
has ambitions of becoming a professional YouTuber
or Instagrammer.
100%.
That is three times the number
wanting to be a doctor or a nurse.
Wow.
But it's what they see.
It's like when you're growing up,
what you see and what you watch
and what you idolise
is what you're like, I want to be.
And you don't always end up doing it.
But when you're a kid.
Yeah, true.
Then it says by the time they reach 15, 40% of the kids are uploading videos to YouTube
and to the internet.
Yeah.
So they're probably going to do it even if it's not their career path.
Yeah.
So there is now an Instagram Academy.
Instagram is running free half term workshops.
Wait, actually run by Instagram?
Yeah.
So this includes
makeup tutorials
to like doing comedy videos.
They are training people
on how to be successful,
how to be relatable
in their content.
Are you glad
that there was no YouTube
when you were like
12, 13, 14, 15?
Wildly.
Could you imagine
how much you would have had
to have deleted?
I found something I wrote down at my parents' house and I burnt it.
I was just like, goodbye and burnt it.
What was it?
What was it?
It was like a letter to somebody that I never gave to them.
And I was like, good God, you were such a twat.
Goodbye.
And I burnt it.
I didn't even keep it being like, Kurt, I'll read that and reflect back on what an idiot I was.
I was straight up like,
no, you're being cute.
No one will see this.
But we haven't had a generation yet, right?
Where they're like uploading all this content so young
when they get older,
we're going to have all this.
We are starting to,
because a guy who became famous,
he had a viral video.
I was reading this over the weekend. He had a viral video. I was reading this over the weekend.
He had a viral video.
What was he?
It was like a pet duck or something.
Okay.
And like anybody, you look back into this person's social media past,
and when he was 12, he got Twitter, and he was posting racist stuff.
Oh, no.
And he said, that's not who I am now.
I grew up around people that influenced me to think that way.
Now that I'm old enough to think for myself,
that's not how I think.
It was too late.
It's done and dusted.
Wow.
So I reckon that there is that.
It's just starting to come through now.
The people who have documented those weird teenage years online.
Well, you find it yourself.
But then there'll be like people like your kid's age who will grow up.
Imagine when they're like 20,
they can look back and see everything from their birth on Facebook or Instagram.
A bit like the photo album that you can scroll through.
It's more intense than a photo album, isn't it?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
The comments from other people and everything on the stuff.
Videos and stuff.
Yeah, it's pretty crazy.
So is Instagram charging for this academy?
It doesn't actually say, but I imagine they would be.
But they give them tasks.
So they give them props and they give them a theme
and then they're tasked with making an improvised clip
that they then have to put up
and then I guess they get rated on relatability.
That will sure take the fun out of it. It sounds like school. Yeah.
I don't want to do it anymore. No fun.
FVM, the podcast.
I saw an ad onto that and I thought
that's quite a good ad. I thought you were
going to get in trouble though because someone owns the
copyright to Mad Max. That was
my immediate thought on that ad. I was like
can you use something that's so blatantly
Mad Max. As long as it that's so blatantly Mad Max?
Well, as long as it's not saying it's Mad Max.
Yeah.
This ad is the ad for VTNZ where the character goes in to get his Mad Max vehicle, a Warren Fitness.
Yes.
Yeah.
Mr. Road Commander.
And the person says, well, the tread's great.
The flamethrower's a bit of a no-no.
And the harpoon gun isn't a compliant either.
This isn't compliant.
Yeah, right.
So he gets up and takes it off.
And then she says, we did put on some new blades, and he gets excited, but then it's
wiper blades.
Which I need some new ones off too.
Gosh, you notice, I tell you what.
Put some new ones on one car, and the other car now is just a smeary mess.
You really notice.
And you're always like, I'll do this next time.
Yeah, I'll just do this next time I'm going past one of those
car stalls. Never do.
So somebody complained about
it. Said that they were
very concerned, two
complaints, very concerned that this vehicle had been
given a pass, given
that there were many other non-compliant
issues to this vehicle.
Giving the customers a misleading impression
about what exactly could pass a warrant of fitness inspection.
The rear wheels have no guards,
and the front scoop is dangerous.
You would fail a warrant on these two counts alone.
And saying that it was good to go.
Oh, my God.
When it's not good to go because of the problems.
Someone that took in their crappy Toyota Corolla and got failed, saw the ad on that night and
was like, well, I'll show you.
So they said this is also sending a message to young drivers that this type of vehicle
is compliant and worthy of being on the road.
Oh Christ, we all took it as a joke, didn't we?
It's also too big, isn't it?
It's just too big all round.
It would be an oversized vehicle. It's ridiculous. Yeah. It's obviously? It's just too big all around. It would be an oversized vehicle.
It's ridiculous.
Yeah.
It's obviously.
It's actually pretty sweet.
I wouldn't mind it.
The other thing I saw
when I saw it,
I was like,
that is pretty cool.
It looks like one of those
old like 50s hot rods.
It's actually a good ad
from them.
I thought it was great.
It's a good creative ad.
Because was it VTNZ
last time they did the singing?
Yeah.
And everyone was like,
that was terrible.
Don't go back to that.
It didn't want to be awful
because that was the actual staff, right?
I know, yeah.
And then they put up signs
if you went to a VTNZ
and some of their staff
had featured in the ad.
They're like,
our superstar works here.
See, that was just to know
that you didn't walk into the VTNZ
and say too loudly,
Christ, you're lucky I came back here
after that terrible singing.
And Sue's at the back being like,
I was just trying my best.
I'm like, oh, God.
Sorry, Sue.
If work says, hey, guys, we're doing an ad, don't put your hand up for it.
Why would you?
Horrible.
Who was it that got their staff to be in the ad,
but they didn't give them, like, fresh uniforms?
And, like, one of the dudes had, like, it was mustard or something,
sweet chilli sauce.
No, it was just, like, faded. sauce. No, it was just like faded.
Oh, okay.
Looked like he'd been there for a while.
Because who was it?
Was it Jesse that used to work at Bunnings?
And they got, he was on the Bunnings ad.
Because they use actual stuff.
Do they?
No, no, no.
But he, I'm pretty sure he's.
Did you seriously think they got actors?
Like nothing against Bunnings staff.
They do a great job and I love talking to them, but they're not actors.
That was the brilliance of it.
They were like, you're an actor, but pretend you're not.
Okay, if they were actors, they were nailing the role of Bunnings staff.
Exactly.
They were killing it.
But I'm pretty sure he said he didn't get paid anything.
No, you don't.
I knew somebody else that was in one of them for another company
and it was just the hey-ho, you're representing the company.
Be on telly.
Well, I know people that have been extras in TV ads and they get paid.
So, again, if work says do you want to be in an ad, say, show me the money.
And then they'll be like, okay, we'll get back to you.
And they'll just go to the person standing right beside you and say,
would you do it for free to be on the telly?
As long as I get a fresh new uniform.
No, you'll be in the faded one.
No more uniforms.
It's more authentic.
Yeah, far more authentic.
So yesterday, I'll preface what I'm about to say with I finished Making a Murderer Part 2.
Oh, we were going to start that last night,
but then I had an early night instead.
Great story, Vaughn.
Thank you very much, everybody.
But you're raving about the second season.
Better than the first?
I can't remember.
You couldn't really have the second without the first, though, could you?
So gripped.
The second is more evidence, shall we say.
Okay.
I don't want to give away too much, but poor I was gripped.
I'm going to start that next.
And the trouble is I watched the final episode,
which is a little bit longer than the others.
I watched it pretty close to bedtime.
Okay.
Now, I went to bed last night, and
for dinner I had cheese. So all these
components... Straight up cheese.
Just a block of Colby. No, no, cheese was involved in my
dinner. That's a splash out
for you. I know, I was about to say I haven't had cheese for a while,
so maybe that's why. Cheese is
so... I can't say no to
cheese. Like, last night, cheese
wasn't involved in dinner,
just to give you an insight.
So I was making dinner.
I decided I'm just going to grate a plate of cheese
and just nibble on it.
Oh, why is grated cheese so much better?
I don't know.
Way better, right?
Have you seen the grated...
We are dancing all around.
We are going to get to your dream in a second.
Have you seen how you should use a square grater though?
Yeah, lie it down.
Lie it down so it still stays in there.
It's changed the grating game. Yeah, lie it down. Lie it down so it still stays in there. It's changed the grating game.
It has changed it all.
I just use a plate
because then I keep it on the plate.
No,
because then it's hard
and you're wobbling around
and the plate's skidding about.
No,
I've got an anti-skid
at the bottom of my grater,
a rubber anti-skid.
Rubber stopper.
No,
then the plate skids on the bench.
No,
it's fine.
You get an anti-skid.
Yes,
my grater's triangle
so it doesn't really work.
Yeah,
same.
I had to go out and buy a square one just to make sure it worked.
Okay, so all those factors involved.
I had a dream last night and in it featured Vaughn and producer James.
No one else on the show.
I hope I got to play one of the Duggans.
Is that their name?
What?
The guys on the Making a Murderer.
Oh, is that their name?
No.
Duggans. Their last name. No, Dassy. D their name? No. Dugan's. Their last name.
No, Dassy. Dassy.
Who's Dugan? I don't know. You're making up names.
So James is in it, you're in it
Vaughan. Instantly I'm like, is this a sexy
dream? Probably. You've got sex too?
Very sexy men. Absolutely
not. Sorry James.
Absolutely not. It's alright.
It's alright. Listen to that poor little fella's voice.
And you know how there's other people but no one else who's recognisable to me. Okay. So it's right. It's not. Listen to that poor little fella's voice. And you know how there's other people,
but no one else is recognisable to me.
Okay.
So it's just the three of us.
And James, Vaughn and I were involved in burying a body.
Oh.
Whose?
I don't know.
Was it Fletcher's?
Mate, it could have been.
The body had no identification.
I'm glad I'm not someone you'd trust to bury a body.
You must think we're the most trustworthy guys you know or something.
Not Vaughn.
Because we're the ones.
Oh, well, okay.
Vaughn and James are the ones.
I dig a very good hole.
Okay, maybe that's it.
Megan's seen you dig a hole once.
Yeah.
And you're probably the only one out of all of us that owns a spade.
With a spade.
I've got three spades.
That's enough for one each.
I can see why I was called.
So I don't know who the body was, but I know, like, I think I might have started it.
I enlisted the help of Vaughn and James.
I don't know.
To be fair, you're a very good friend, but not good enough to help bury a body.
Okay.
Would you help me bury a body?
I'll try to find out more about it before I...
Like if they deserved it.
Yeah.
Why would you help him bury a body and not me?
But okay, if they really deserved it.
Yeah, okay.
Well, we don't know that this person didn't deserve it.
Anyway, you've said yes.
Say they deserved it because I'm on board.
In my dream, you've said yes anyway.
Okay, well, so they really deserved it.
So it was imperative that we buried this body and no one would find it.
So we thought we would put a giant Kinder Surprise
in the burial site.
It was a big egg.
It was a big Kinder Surprise, like the size of your head.
In with the body.
So our method was that if the sniffer dogs came along,
they'd smell the egg.
They'd dig down and they'd be like, dig, dig, dig, find the egg
and be like, oh, it was just an egg.
We'll leave it.
That is solid, solid thought.
That's a great thought.
So that was the solid thinking.
But then it was found by the police.
I was sitting at my work desk.
I had like a computer and stuff.
Like where you are now?
No, like a desk job.
I had someone sitting beside me.
The police called and said, you need to come in for questioning.
I was like, oh, God, don't panic.
Like, oh, you're all right, mate. Okay. And so I. I was like, oh God, don't panic. Play it cool. You're alright, mate.
And so I went there and
Vaughn and James were already there.
I was like, oh God, what have
they said? The police
were our two big bosses here.
Bogsy and Dean.
What were they? Moonlighting his place?
Yeah. So they started
interrogating us and they were like,
we know what you did.
We know that you buried the body.
We know that there was a big kinder surprise on top of it.
Damn.
The evidence is piling up, Megan.
There's a big kinder surprise on top of it.
I'd be like, what?
Well, we'll get to that.
Because they were like, you're going to lose your jobs.
And they started like playing hard cop.
And this, James is sitting there quietly.
I was sitting there quietly freaking out.
And that's when Vaughn pipes up and was like, no, no, I'm not into this.
All I knew was that we were burying a kinder surprise.
I knew nothing about the body.
I knew nothing about anybody.
I want no part of this.
It was all Megan and James.
That, to be fair, could totally have been the case.
Classic Vaughn.
Classic Vaughn move.
Yeah.
Classic Vaughn.
He threw us under the bus.
So yeah,
we lost our jobs, James.
Wait.
You lost your jobs?
No.
I know.
We didn't go to jail.
We just lost our jobs.
Okay.
That's what it's about.
I was just like,
what job am I going to do now?
They must have really
deserved it then.
The police are like,
look,
you killed someone and buried them.
I know, my biggest worry was I had no other skills.
Back on the job hunt.
See, I don't think Vaughn, if Vaughn was proposed the idea of you confessed to a murder and you can keep your job, I feel like Vaughn would be like, so what's the other one?
Like, do I lose my job and do I just look for something else?
Yeah, I'd be like, okay, I did it.
How long do I get off?
Yeah, yeah.
Huh.
Yeah.
So that's how it ended.
You lost your job.
Okay, so least cheese before bed.
Yeah.
Caitlin and I at all.
I think it's, you know,
you look for a deeper meaning.
I think this is just really reflective of...
I trust James if I ever need to bury a body.
No, I think it's of you're worried.
About what?
You're worried about, like,
what happens after this.
Oh, God.
Yeah.
That's a bit literal.
What does burying a body mean when you dream about it?
Oh, you're burying your career, really, aren't you?
Oh, God.
So it's probably time you did a part-time uni course, guys.
Like, I don't know, do something.
A night-time sewing class.
Like a legal secretary or something.
Yeah.
Caitlin and I are not upset at all
that we weren't involved in this dream.
Yeah, no. Or are you all that we weren't involved in the stream. Yeah, no.
Or are you hurt
that you weren't asked?
Well, I mean,
if you wanted to,
I'm really good.
I listen to lots of these
true crime, you know,
murder in the stream.
Yeah, she'd probably know
how to get rid of her body.
I know what to do.
What would you do then?
She'd squawk.
Well, no,
you give it to the pigs.
Pigs eat it.
It's the bones.
Or acid.
It's a very 1800s way of disposing of a body.
Where would you get acid from, Caitlin?
Or pigs.
I don't know where to source the stuff.
I just do it.
I get someone else to source it and then I...
Pigs, you can't buy pigs all the time.
Yeah, I know, but they're not your pigs.
You just can't go into a pig farm and hoink a body in there and then...
Yeah, but then the farmer comes back in the morning,
he's like, what are all these clothes in here?
No, you chop the pieces up.
You chop the body pieces up.
I don't do that either.
I just come up with the plan.
Right, you plan it out.
Yeah.
And then the bones,
the pigs eat the bones.
Good Lord.
Okay.
Okay.
I didn't actually get a breakdown.
I can just imagine
Caitlin now just chucking in
like someone's dead body
and the pigs aren't hungry.
If you've got a farmer
finds it in the morning.
If you've got a pig farm, make the fence a couple of feet taller.
Caitlin will never get it in.
A Kiwi company has launched meat-free mints.
Mints.
Mints.
Mike Fry mints.
Does it look like mints?
It looks like mints.
There's a picture of it.
It looks heaps like mints.
It looks like that fancy mints. Like the one that looks like little spaghettis of mints. Does it look like mints? It looks like mints. There's a picture of it that looks heaps like mints. It looks like that fancy mints,
like the one that looks like little spaghettis of mints.
Oh, yeah.
It's like real wheat.
Goes through the mince machine.
Not red and white.
Like mini-wheat sausages.
Yeah.
But really small mints.
Yeah, I know what you mean.
Plant-based.
That's the fancy mints, hey?
Yeah, because the other one's like...
And like got heaps of fat in it.
Yeah.
Oh, this is...
It looks red, but I don't know.
Hold on, I'll see.
I'll tell you what's in it.
It's probably, like, beetroot or something.
So, yeah, I was going to say,
what's it made out of if it looks like mints?
100% plant-based mints made from mushrooms.
Yum.
Which is...
I can't understand vegetarians you meet
who don't eat mushrooms.
I know.
Just because you're vegetarian doesn't mean you like the flavour of mushrooms.
You should.
Well, you're instantly discounting something delicious.
So much good stuff.
You're not eating the meat.
Mushrooms are kind of like a meat.
But some people don't like it because I believe Hare Krishna's don't eat it.
They don't trust it.
Because it's a plant that grows without sunlight.
Yeah.
It's a fungus. Oh, yeah.. They don't trust it. They don't, because it's a plant that grows without sunlight. Yeah. So it's a fungus.
Oh, yeah.
So they don't touch it.
So there's mushrooms,
tomatoes,
almonds,
coconut oil,
and soy protein.
Oh, this is going to be expensive months.
It sounds like it.
But then months is expensive, isn't it?
So what out of that makes it pink, though?
Just some colouring, I guess.
Tomato?
But then there's also beetroot.
It doesn't say beetroot there, but there, but definitely that's a picture of beetroot.
So that might be the reddy.
But then it's a fine mix of beetroot to make it look red because it'll go purple or pink.
So I'm all for this if the planet gets the plan to eating less meat.
Right.
Because I know you love meat.
I do love meat.
You wouldn't touch this, probably. Because I know you love meat. I do love meat. You wouldn't touch this probably.
No, I'd try it.
I wouldn't be like so quick to be like,
well, no more mince for me, only this stuff
because I do love my mince.
So versatile.
Because I've already had those chicken nuggies
as like chicken and commas.
Like, what do you call those?
Chicken.
Fake chicken.
Fake chicken.
Yeah.
And like they have fake chicken tenders.
See, I haven't tried fake chicken, but I tried fake bacon.
Bacon they called it, and it was a straight no for me.
It wasn't bacon-y at all.
What were the nuggies, the fake chicken like?
It tastes good.
It's a little bit pasty.
But once you get over the texture, it's all good.
Okay.
Okay, so the texture's not like chicken, but it tastes like chicken.
No, yeah.
Okay, so this will resemble mince.
It will look like mince, which is great news for Caitlin
because she likes meat, but she just doesn't like eating animals.
Yeah.
So this would be good for you because you're still getting the mince fix.
I love, because I eat like meat, vegetarian sausages.
I eat the chicken stuff as well.
That's what I think.
Burger patties.
The vegetarian sausages
I have of memory was
Do you remember our friend
Hilary would bring them
Yeah pastels
And be like
Can you cook this
On a separate part of the barbecue
And immediately I was like
You're not in the position
To be demanding real estate
On the barbecue
Why are you such a jerk
No because it was like
A busy
Like busy
And she's like
Can you keep it all
Really
I want two inches between them
There's too many people here
For you to just demand
That much real estate. So she did.
She wanted a part-eyed, didn't she?
And I understand you don't want the meat
but this was a packed barbecue and she started
shoving and I was like, no, now you've put everything else too close
together. Go inside and cook them on a pan.
And so she cooked them on the pan. But then I was like,
she's like, you should taste one and I tasted it
and it was no good. But I mean, that's going back a bit.
Vegetarian has already come a long way.
Yeah, there's like beetroot and quinoa patties now.
They're like really good.
Honestly, like I can't
tell the difference really.
There's this chicken
that I get
and I feel like
it's got cheese in it
and it's vegan.
It's amazing.
So it can't be chicken
either then?
No, but it is chicken
but it's like
chickeny cheesy chicken.
It's fake chicken then?
It's fake chicken.
Fake chicken, fake cheese?
Yeah.
Wow.
It's all vegan.
It's so, I love it.
This is what we need
when we go to live on Mars because I don't think chickens will live on Mars. No. It's all vegan. It's so, I love it. This is what we need when we go to live on Mars
because I don't think
chickens will live on Mars.
No.
Unless they have little helmets.
And you know chickens,
they just wander.
You go outside
and your chicken's like,
because you go free range
if you're going to Mars,
so you can't fence them in.
They'll be on the other side of Mars.
Yeah.
Walk too far away from food.
They'll be scratching
in the dirt over there.
There's no worms on Mars.
They can't be scratching in the dirt.
Why not? They're wearing their little helmets. They can use their in the dirt over there. There's no worms on Mars. They can't scratch in the dirt. Why not?
Because they're wearing
their little helmets.
They can use their feet.
Oh, yeah, true.
Oh, but how are they going to eat?
You're right.
It's scratching a peck,
isn't it?
Yeah.
You have to bring them
inside the space module
to eat.
Right.
So they can take
their little helmets off.
It's like,
all right, chicken mate,
you can go outside
because you're free, right?
You can't get...
Let alone the cows.
I'm just imagining chickens on Mars now.
Yeah.
I don't know if a Mars farm and they're all wearing helmets.
Be great.
Megan's.
The cow wouldn't move as much because shit, that would be loud if it was just going straight
back into your face.
I was talking to a friend of mine yesterday whose usual boss is away.
They hadn't replied back and I was like, what's going on?
Why the silence?
Because normally you're slack at work and you reply immediately.
Oh, this person's prolific at their immediate replies.
Okay.
Now, there was no immediate reply and I was like, maybe the battery's gone flat.
But then I thought, this person always charges their phone overnight like any sane person
does.
And then they finally got back to him and they were like, oh, God, story to tell.
The boss is away and he's left this guy and he said to him just casually, oh, God, story to tell. The boss is away and he's left this guy
and he said to him just casually,
oh, you can just watch over it.
It's a pretty self-sufficient workplace.
It doesn't need any hand-holding or micromanaging.
You can watch over.
A bit like when if Ross Boss or anyone here goes away.
Yeah.
Life goes on.
Life goes on.
Don't say that too loud.
Don't just get rid of him.
Oh, okay.
Oh, man, when he goes away. Oh, the that too loud. They'll just get rid of him. Oh, okay. Oh, man.
When he goes away.
Oh, the place falls to bits.
Keystone of the bridge.
So this place kind of just gets on with it.
Yeah.
But he said this guy that's kind of just been put in charge
and been put in charge to the fact of responsibility for signing for deliveries.
Yep.
Responsibility to contact the boss should something really bad happen.
Yep.
Give him a call.
He's like, this guy's come in
and he thinks he owns the place now
and he's banned like phones,
phones out during work.
Oh God.
And then they were all like,
you can't tell us not to bet our phones,
we're adults.
And the boss is always sweet with this
and they're like, no,
this is my chance to prove that I can run this place sweet with this and they're like, no, this is my chance to prove that
I can run this place more efficiently.
You can't usurp the
boss. He owns the place.
And the boss isn't going to want to
come back to someone being like, I've worked out how to run
your business better than you were
by taking away...
Gone to his head. I know. And this was
just before lunchtime on day one.
Just an absolute
power trip.
This was an absolute
power trip.
And I said,
oh, I wouldn't
handle that well.
Yeah.
Because I don't like
being told what to do.
Not being told
not the power trip.
Because I can imagine
Vaughn would kind of
maybe be one of these people.
Vaughn, you're in charge.
Okay.
No, but I wouldn't
take people's phones away
because you've got
to lead by example.
No, to go the other way.
The workplace would get looser and more riotous.
Yeah.
Because there'd be no discipline.
Oh, I know.
Yeah, because as soon as you realise
there's responsibility involved,
you're like,
or if there's an expense account,
I'd be like,
I don't know about you guys,
but today feels like a cake day.
And then after cake,
it's like,
I don't know guys,
a cake made me a bit sleepy.
Should we have a nap
and then go for lunch?
And then after work, drinks.
Yeah, exactly.
It'll fall off the rails.
You'd run the place into the ground.
Yeah, 100%.
But I was wondering if anybody listening has ever experienced
somebody on an absolute power trip in the workplace.
Like they were just given a sniff of power
and they just took it by the reins and tried to run the place.
So maybe you work for someone,
they were given a little bit of power
and it went straight to the head.
It was like, oh, can you just watch the place?
I've just got to pop out for the afternoon.
And from then on, it's like 1939 Germany.
I absolutely know someone here that's like that,
but I'm not willing to say.
Here?
Yeah, this workplace.
Who?
I can't say.
Is it Anya when Caitlin goes away?
They already don't like us.
I'm pointing.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
She is like that.
You missed my point.
Oh, I don't.
Doesn't even blink on my power radar.
0800 DARS at M9696.
When did someone get a little taste of power and go crazy with it?
All right.
When did power go to somebody's head? A little bit of power. Not even a lot. a little taste of power and go crazy with it? All right. When did power go to somebody's head?
A little bit of power.
Not even a lot.
A little taste.
A little taste.
Wow.
Wow.
Some text messages.
And I said before someone messaged in about the term 2IC,
which stands for second in charge.
Yeah.
In case you didn't know.
Somebody said, you think that's bad?
My boss jokingly dubbed someone 3IC as a complete joke.
She took it very seriously.
The minute the boss and the 2IC left the room, not even left work, just left the room,
she would start slamming her hand on the desk demanding better outputs from everybody
because that was the responsibility of 3IC to guarantee continued production.
Oh, my God.
That's madness, eh?
Wow.
I'm a teacher.
When our principal goes away for the odd principal's trip,
there's another teacher who gets really jumped up about it.
The bell would ring and she'd come charging into the staff room
reminding us all that the bell had rung
and we'd better get to bloody class.
She'd try to run the staff meetings as well.
Was she even to IC?
I don't know.
They said teacher
and the teacher,
there's no mention
there of deputy
and or assistant principal.
Can't you just be like,
calm down, Janet.
Like, calm your farm.
You're not my boss.
I'd run and I'd be like,
Janet!
There's a fire
out on the field!
She's gone.
I'd be like,
all right, everybody,
just casual.
Just got us another five minutes.
Time, yeah.
Put the kettle on, Steve. We'll have another bloody cup of Time, yeah. Put the kettle on, Steve.
We'll have another bloody cup of tea, man.
Anonymous caller, what happened?
Hi.
I was working in an office.
This was my previous job.
Okay.
Our receptionist had gone on unexpected leave,
so the consultants in the office had been asked to cover,
so we had kind of a rotating schedule,
just answering the office phone.
Yeah.
One of my colleagues took it upon herself.
She kind of took the responsibilities and ran
with it. So I came back from
lunch and I knew she was going to do it. So I was
three minutes late back. She
asked me to bring out my wallet.
I thought, okay, this is a bit bizarre.
So she gave me this big rant
about how it effectively stolen from the
company and she demanded that I pay
it back in gold coins.
She wasn't very impressed with it.
I gave her back 10 cents and I said,
that's basically what it equates to.
I just kind of walked away.
But she was furious.
She followed me for days asking if I had any coins to give her.
Oh my God.
I just tell her.
She doesn't own the company.
No.
It was shocking.
Yeah, so that was, I kind of tapped out at that point.
I was like, oh, yeah, no, I'm out.
Oh, my God.
Anonymous, thanks for your call.
Some of the text messages.
There's a bored middle-aged lady at my work who we've all nicknamed Sam,
which stands for self-appointed manager.
The boss doesn't even need to be away and she's on her high horse.
Do this.
Why isn't that done?
We take no crap. Put her in her place and she sul on her high horse. Do this. Why isn't that done? We'd take no crap.
Put her in her place
and she sulks
for the rest of the day.
Somebody,
this is quite a cute story.
Somebody said
there was an accident.
I'm an ambulance officer
and the police
had to go and deal
with something.
And so they said
just a random security guard
had stopped
as part of the thing.
And they said,
would you just be able
to stand and make sure
nobody came here? Just because they were there. Not because they were a security guard. And they said, would you just be able to stand and make sure nobody came here?
Just because they were there,
not because they were a security guard.
Okay.
And they said,
sure, yeah,
do you want to leave me with a taser or something?
You're taking it very seriously.
Do you want to leave me?
There's an accident.
Should I be armed?
Can I wear your hat?
Should I,
do you want to chuck me a gun?
I mean,
pepper spray or,
can I take your car home for the night or...
I don't know what the story is.
So much.
Well, it's a work trip after the show.
I already don't want to go.
You two are so disgusting.
Honestly.
Honestly.
Here's the issue.
There's an Airbnb.
Caitlin's booked it. How many rooms, Caitlin? Caitlin's booked it How many rooms Caitlin?
Let me get
How many rooms?
Five right?
There's five rooms
Okay
And four double beds
And two single beds
In one room
So there's
Two people need to share
Two people need to be sharing
Excuse me
First of all
I was told that there was
All double beds in this
No no no no no
Yes yes yes yes
Wait are they doubles or queens?
They're singles.
Are they queens or doubles?
I don't know.
They'll be queens.
No one buys a double bed anymore, do they?
Same thing.
I don't know.
Well, anyway.
Double's smaller than a queen.
Please.
Anyway, Megan doesn't want to share again because last,
and her nanny snores.
She's a snorer.
No, and she was also sick, but that's not her fault.
Yeah.
But she kept us all up.
And so Megan doesn't want to be sharing with her again.
Someone's going to have to.
So Producer Kate,
then you have decided
as a final say
that you will draw the names
out of a hat
who shares the single beds.
See, Vaughn should just
have to do it
because last time
he had the big
gangster room.
No, no, no.
I did have the gangster room.
Is there one room
in this Airbnb
that's way better
than the others?
Yeah, it's called
a master bedroom.
But that's the one
that we've got to
draw for that.
We can't just draw
for who's going
to the singles.
No, and he's out
because he had it
last time.
No, it's a reset.
It's a solid reset.
It's been two weeks.
You need a solid reset.
Why can't you
share with Caitlin
because you guys,
you know,
you're like sisters.
Why can't you
share with Vaughn?
You're like brothers.
Yeah, you're his best man.
I'll tell you why they can't share.
Because they want alone time tonight.
Because why, Vaughan?
Tell everyone why.
Because you're flying away from home.
You've got to play with yourself.
No joke.
That's what he just said before.
Both of them.
Honestly.
I'm going to just go over and stand outside your door
and talk so you hear me.
I'll talk back.
That'll be more disturbing for one of us than the other.
I can't believe you'd do that while we're in the house.
And then Megan's like, oh, Mr. Toyboy doesn't play with himself.
We're like, are you kidding?
No, I did not say that.
You were paraphrasing.
You said he'd have to wake up at 6 o'clock in the morning and we're like, um, and?
I'm not mad at gross.
Okay, I'm ready to do this.
This drawer can't just be for who's in the singles.
We've got to draw the whole hierarchy.
So this is the drawer for who's in the singles.
I need to see the names.
I feel like this is rigged because I haven't watched this happen.
No, I don't have time for that.
Wait, should we do the drawer for the master bedroom first?
Yes.
Okay, we're just getting those.
No, you bring that in here.
Not in here because, no, I don't trust you. Bring it in here. No, you bring that in here. I'm going to get it in here because I don't trust you.
See, this is a bad way.
I bet it's only got our names in there.
Yes, yes, yes.
Oh, come on.
Get it off it.
Get it off it.
Bring it in here.
Because if we draw out two names and both of them are Vaughan,
you realise there's a flaw in your plan, right?
Those are just the most terrible riggers.
This is the draw for the riggers. This is the
drawer for the
master bedroom.
This is the
drawer for the
master bedroom.
Yeah.
And all names
are in here.
Every single
but all six
of our names.
Don't be stupid.
I will be
checking.
No, because
you're going to
pick out your
name.
No, no,
I'm going to
pick out a name
but then I'm
going to check
as to what
the other
names were.
Okay, so
who will be
in the master
bedroom?
One! That's my name! It says Caitlin! Caitlin, Megan, Okay, so who will be in the master bedroom? What?
That's my name.
It says Caitlin.
Caitlin.
Megan.
Megan.
Megan.
Caitlin.
No, no.
This is a prank.
In fact, you've just disqualified yourself.
You've disqualified yourself.
You get the single beds.
That had nothing to do with me.
No.
Oh, Christ. I'm calling Ross, boss. What are you doing. That had nothing to do with me. Oh, Christ.
I'm calling Ross, boss.
What are you doing?
I never want to do this.
This is why we stay in hotels.
This is for the single bed drawer.
I'm going to check it again.
No, just do it.
I would even stay in a motel if I had a separate room from you.
Single bed one, Vaughan.
Single bed two, also Vaughan.
See, I told you.
If you're going to rig a drawer, you've got, I told you, if you're gonna rig a drawer,
you've gotta do a bit better than that.
Single bed, oh, Fletch and Vaughan.
There we go, Megan will get the master bedroom.
Okay.
No, we can take one Megan, one Fletch.
Do this, one Vaughan.
Why did you?
One Caitlin, now writer James wears a pen.
But.
Do it properly.
No, because you guys
need to have the single beds.
If you're not willing
to let luck be on your side
when it comes to selecting,
you've automatically
assigned yourself
to the single beds.
You're wasting time, Caitlin.
Oh, you've been told off.
In fact, you know what?
You two,
because you've wasted
everybody's time listening,
you two are getting
the single beds.
Who's you two?
You and you.
I had nothing to do with that. James on that one. We all know that Anna and I are going to be staying in the single beds. Who's you two? You and you. I had nothing to do with that.
James on that one.
We all know that Anna and I are going to be staying in the single beds.
This is always how it works.
This is a big argument we're about to have.
No, I'm fully ready to go on this one.
Because I am not having moaning on this trip.
We had so much moaning.
What type of moaning are you talking about?
Oh, sorry.
I mean whinging.
See, I wouldn't be against,
because we're sharing this,
if you were to bring a young man back to the...
Absolutely not.
That could happen tonight.
Is this James and this?
That's Anna.
Okay, this is for the master bedroom.
This is for the master bedroom.
Okay, here we go.
Not looking.
James.
Oh, yeah, he deserves that.
He does deserve that.
He shouldn't get that.
He shouldn't get that.
He shouldn't get that.
Okay, so James is getting the master bedroom.
James has got the master bedroom.
I'm okay with that.
That's me too.
This is the draw for the two single beds.
Single bed.
Single bed one.
James is probably the most liked
out of everyone on the show.
Single bed one.
Fletch.
No.
I don't go single beds.
I think the single bed's is good.
Single bed two.
I don't go single beds. Wait, are the single beds in the room together? Yeah, they are. They're't do single beds. I think the single beds are good. Single bed too. I don't do single beds.
Wait.
Are the single beds in the room together?
Yeah, they are.
They're in the room together.
Are they in the same room?
God, no.
Yeah, they're in the same room.
God, no.
Caitlin.
No!
We already have rumours about us being together.
Absolutely not.
Just push the beds together.
No, absolutely not.
I'm not doing this.
I'm not coming.
You have to do the quiz by yourself.
I'm absolutely not coming.
No.
Are you a heavy sleeper?
Yeah.
Oh, no.
That's why you never leave it up to a drawer.
I'm so sorry, but I don't want to do it.
Hell of a day for weather yesterday around the country
everybody had some
those photos of the Hamilton twister
yeah
insane
way bigger than I thought
when I looked at the pictures
you could see it from the CBD
yeah that one that was taken
like high up
looking out over the ibis
that photo was incredible
that was huge eh
it was a huge tornado yesterday
yeah
apparently one tried to touch down in Tauranga.
I don't know how a tornado tries to touch down.
It's like, no.
Oh, no.
Well, no, because they come from the cloud and they're like.
And it's like, oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Back up into the cloud.
Yuck, earth.
That'll be the end of me.
Yeah.
It is.
It is.
But it was raining.
Yeah.
At our house.
And a friend of mine put an Instagram story on.
And it was raining.
And they were like, I'm going to have to wait this out.
And I replied saying, because I worked out whereabouts.
I said, there's more of that headed your way.
Okay.
And they said, how do you know?
Okay.
And I said, well, I just know.
There's more headed your way.
Right. And they said, no, look, know there's more headed your way.
And they said, no, look, Claire.
And then sent another video being like, you were right.
How did you know that?
And I said, well, it's coming from the West.
And they were like, what do you mean it's coming from the West?
And I said, the weather, it's moving westwards.
It's moving from the West.
How did you know that? So then I say, do you not ever think about which way the weather's coming from?
And they said, no.
And I said to Shana, do you ever think about which way, like when it starts raining, the prevailing way way the weather's coming from? And they said no. And I said to Sade, do you ever think about which way,
like when it starts raining,
the prevailing way that that rain's coming from?
She's like, no.
Why would you think about that?
You know why I don't.
It's coming from the west.
And she said, how did you know?
I said, it's hitting the ranch lot.
Because if it's coming from the east,
it hits the other side.
And if it's coming from the north,
it hits the front windows.
I just thought, I don't know.
And then I said,
does no one think like this?
No. And both the friend and Sade were like, windows. I just thought, I don't know. And then I said, does no one think like this? No.
And both the friend and Sade were like, no.
No.
Friend was like, I couldn't even tell you which way was west.
I said, well, next time you're home, walk out your front door and look left.
That's west.
And they said, everybody's front door.
I said, no, no, just yours.
They're like, how do you know?
I was like, well, when I get somewhere, I went to their house.
When I get somewhere, I get out of the car and I'm like, which way is north?
And Sade's like, no one does that either, Vaughn.
I'm like, everybody does that.
It's the internal compass.
Why do you do that?
I don't know.
It's not like I get out and I'm like, hmm,
and try to feel a magnetic north.
I just kind of like, okay, which way is north?
Are you a migrating bird?
Maybe I was in a previous life.
Maybe I've got a little magnet in the beak.
Imagine if I had a little inbuilt magnet in my nose.
Because I always think about what direction everything's happening.
Maybe my dad does.
Is it a farming?
I wonder if it's a farming thing because I think I got it from mum and dad.
Like mum says stuff like, oh, it's coming from the west,
but if it looks like it's coming, I won't get the washer going
because it won't be much.
Like, how does she know that?
Oh, yeah, they say those things,
but that's when you just like look at them and pretend to listen.
I've taken it all on.
So you just think it's a lost art that I've just got from a rural upbringing.
Yeah, I don't think city folk do that, Vaughan.
So I said to my friend, there's more coming.
And then they messaged me and they were like, it's like your magic.
How did you know?
How did you know?
I was like, because it's coming from the west.
And Sade's like, I thought Sade did it too, my wife.
And she's like, no, I've never ever thought about which way the rain's coming from.
I was like, it's like we've been living a lie.
Because I just look at it, I'm like, it's raining again.
Yeah.
Oh, it's heavy.
Oh, it's lighter.
Oh, it's stopped.
But you never think, which way is that rain coming from?
No.
Unless I look up the rain radar, if I'm like wanting to do something and see if something's coming.
I've done that before.
Yeah.
I'm getting text messages and people do this.
When they get out of the car, they immediately like to identify
which way is north.
Are they cool people?
Why though?
Are you trying to escape and run north?
I don't get it.
Why do you need to know?
Oh, I don't know.
No, it's just, I don't know.
It's a reset, isn't it?
And I was talking to Sade about it and she's like,
you are weirdly good at just being like,
we're going somewhere and being able to find your way there.
Maybe that's because you've got the internal compass.
Maybe you used to be a pigeon.
Was I a World War II homing pigeon?
Maybe.
No, you were just a manky Queen Street pigeon.
Still knew the way
To Queen
To
The wharf
See I don't even know
What it's called
But I just know it's north
Head north
Get to the wharf
That's where people
Are getting off
No see I'm not lying
Thank you for everybody
Who's messaging
And support
But see even city slickers
Are doing it
Someone said
I've never lived in the farm
I've only ever lived in the city
But every time I get out of the car
I'm like which way is north
Oh that's weird. Why would you do
that? That's bizarre.
But even when you're on... So wait,
if you were going out to get some takeaways,
and you drive to a place... That I've not
been to before. Yeah. Because if I go
somewhere, I immediately lock in
bearings. Okay, so you order,
I don't know, chicken pad thai. Yeah.
You get there, you get
out of the car, you're like, well, that way's north.
Yeah. Then you go in and get the pad thai and then go home.
Come out. Why would you even bother doing that?
No, but it's just a real quick
which way's north situation. I'll tell you
what's really confusing, and someone messaged in this,
in the northern hemisphere.
Oh, yeah. Because, of course, it's back
to front. Yeah, right.
Because, you know what I'm saying? Yeah.
Yeah, I do, but I just don't really care.
I guess you kind of use the sun.
I'm like, oh, the sun
goes that way. Cool.
I'm just glad people are messaging
and I'm not alone. Fact of the day,
day, day, day,
day.
Today's fact of the day is about dogs.
Okay.
Good dogs.
Good boy.
Good boy.
He's a good boy.
So, because it's the year of the dog.
Okay.
Let's not forget that. I'm a dog on the Chinese zodiac.
Okay.
I reckon probably the best.
Can't remember what I am. Yeah, neither. I'm a goat. Or Chinese Zodiac. I reckon probably the best. Can't remember what I am. I think I'm a goat.
Or a
platypus. Is that one?
No, a platypus isn't. I want to be a
dragon. Yeah, my doer Indy's a dragon.
And that was like because she's got
a Chinese grandfather
and he was really stoked.
He's got two grandkids. How do you find out? Do you just Google?
You just type in. It's pretty much year to year
except from the Chinese New Year. A couple of months into the year. So you just Google? You just type in It's pretty much year to year Except from the Chinese New Year
A couple of months into the year
So you'll be
You'll just be able to search
Your birth year
Because you're in the middle
Oh I'm a wavy cat
That's pretty good
Because I like those
The cat's not even in it
In the Chinese Zodiac
No cat
Oh no
Rat
No
Are you a rat?
Yeah because you and Sade
Are born at the same time
I'm a sheep
Slash goat
Oh the goat's not too'm a sheep slash goat.
Oh, the goat's not too bad.
You are a goat, hey?
Fletcher's an animal.
Oh, my God, you would be.
Can you go, eh, eh, eh?
Like real bunty and stuff.
And on a chain, but always like pulling at it.
Grumpy.
Spit at you.
Do they spit?
No, and then they get those slit eyes and they look real freaky.
Okay, well, it says here it's among the animals that people like most. You like to climb mountains. Do they spit? No. And then they get those slit eyes and they look real freaky. Okay.
Well, it says here it's among the animals that people like most.
You like to climb mountains.
You'd be like a little mountain goat.
Okay.
All right.
Good story.
The rat's like a good one to have because the rat gets a ride on one of the other animals till the end of the race.
Oh, because I'm smart.
Yeah, it is.
The rat's the smart one.
That's what they say.
Well, it's the Chinese year of the dog. And in a dog fact, at both San Diego Zoo and the San Diego Safari Park,
domestic dogs play a very important role.
You might not know this about cheetahs, but cheetahs are super shy.
And if they don't have like a cheetah mum role model to teach them how to hunt and stuff,
they'll just like hide most of the time.
So they give every cheetah a dog.
To eat?
No, no, no.
Oh.
They get a rescue dog from like the pound
or whatever
and they give it
to the cheetah.
They assign this
to the cheetah
at like a really young age
and that dog
teaches a cheetah
to be like playful
and boisterous
and it's like a guide dog
for behaviour.
And then do they get it out of there
before it gets big enough to eat it?
No, because cheetahs don't.
They don't eat them.
Cheetahs don't.
They're domesticated.
They can't go back into the wild
once they've been domesticated, I think.
Right.
If you were going to get a big cat pet,
cheetahs would probably be the guy.
I mean, I'm not for it
because I think they should just be,
you know, running wild or whatever
or being looked after by professionals
in a bad environment.
No, but if you had a cat flat,
it would be okay.
You'd need a big cat flat. Yeah, and then people, burglars could just use that in a bad environment. No, but if you had a cat flap, you'd be okay. You'd need a big cat flap.
Yeah, and then people, burglars could just use that.
Just come in.
Yeah, but would you burgle a house if a cheetah was in there?
Good luck.
Because you're probably not so smart.
You probably don't know about the fact that they're super friendly.
I'd put one of those signs on the gate,
like people with, you know, Chihuahua guard dog lives here.
Like cheetah guard dog.
You wouldn't just, they'd be out running.
No.
And it'd bound over the fence.
Good luck.
But they're not the only ones.
They actually have them in
with the wolves as well.
Okay.
Two of the wolves
were in there
were rescue wolves.
They never had a mother
so they put a dog in there
to kind of teach them
how to be dogs.
Huh.
Because other wolves
would have seen them
as a threat
and probably killed them.
Yeah.
So that's just dogs
doing more great stuff.
Isn't it?
Being better than cats. Cats. On a whole. He doing more great stuff. Isn't it? Being better than cats.
Cats.
On a whole.
He didn't hear that.
And when you miss the cat.
Oh, yeah.
So today's fact of the day
is cheetahs
loving pals with dogs.
Fact of the day,
day, day, day, day.
I doodly-doo-doo,
doodly-doo-doo,
doodly-doo-doo,
doodly-doo-doo,
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This has been rumoured for a little while.
The Junk Food Aisle, which is an Instagram account,
released a photo that they put together of what they believe it will look like,
starting the rumours, and it has been officially replied to
by the account of this junk food.
Okay.
I'm talking about what is being dubbed the most stuff Oreo.
The Oreo cookie account at Oreo on Twitter officially replied to it,
say, I guess you're reading all,
I guess you all really like stuff, huh?
Reading our mentions.
Now stuff's got one F, S-T-U-F.
Huh.
The most stuff Oreo.
Is that what they call the stuff in the middle?
The cream.
Yeah.
Maybe.
I've always just called it,
I would call it the cream of the Oreo.
See, I'm not,
and I don't know,
I think it's just too much dry biscuit for me,
Oreos.
The cream,
and same with Cameo creams,
the issue I have
is there's not enough icing.
That's good icing.
I was waiting for the perfect way to reveal it.
There's actually more icing than biscuit now.
Yeah, see that.
There's more thickness of icing than both biscuits combined.
What is that called?
Because they've got double, they have double stuffed ones.
I actually did some research on the double Oreos.
They've been around for a little while,
but people got really angry because they proved that double stuffedstuffed Oreos weren't actually double-stuffed.
It's just like a little bit extra.
It's just a little bit extra.
So just under a half again.
So you can't call them double-stuffed Oreo if you're not actually double-stuffing it.
And so what?
They're bringing them out.
The most stuffed Oreo because they had a very short run of triple-double Oreo.
But that was where it went biscuit, cream, biscuit, cream, biscuit.
So it was like the Big Mac.
It had a biscuit in the middle, but a cream either side of that,
and then a biscuit again.
So this one, they've just cut out that middle biscuit,
and they're just loading it up with the most stuffing.
Like slices with a 50% icing to biscuit ratio,
cupcakes with giant icing,
cakes with an inch of icing.
I love it.
It's so sweet too.
I know, I love it.
Yeah, and Oreo said one thing they won't be going
is to the lengths of a Twitter user called Kevin Pang
who got two packets of Oreos
and just scraped all the cream out of them
and put them between two Oreo pieces.
That is straight up diabetes.
It is. It's type 2 diabetes in a row. So that's another reason why. This is wow. Fact. This is straight up diabetes. It's type two diabetes in a row.
So that's another reason why.
This is why.
Fact.
This is why.
Fact.
This is why.
This is why.
This is why.
Fact.
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