September 9, 2026 • 26 mins
Today on the Pod, Jerry and Manaia chat to Taskmaster NZ Contestant Rhys Mathewson and we ask him to rate our facts for Get Fact Thursday!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jeremy Wells and Minaya Stewart. Find them on Instagram at
Horaki Breakfast.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
I'll tell you who would love that tune, and that's
Rhys Mathewson, comedian, who's on the podcast today.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
G'day, Rhys. How are you?
Speaker 4 (00:22):
I'm good, guys. How you doing?
Speaker 3 (00:24):
So, so good. So good.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
That diddy threw a hell of a party, didn't he?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
I know. Did you ever go to any of his
freak outs? Freak off, Gerry. Freak offs? Don't you bloody
dead name him.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Yeah, I was there. I was a towel boy. A
lot of oil seepage, a lot of squeegeeing, floor squeegees
into centre drains.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
But you never got to freak off yourself?
Speaker 4 (00:49):
No, no, no, no. And, you know, that's one of
the huge regrets of my life.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
A feast for the senses, I would imagine, being the
towel boy for the freak off.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
Yeah, people never talk about smell enough when they're talking
about those sort of sensual situations. And it really is
the overwhelming sense.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
I would have thought that everybody at the Freak Off
would be smelling pretty good, actually. I thought there'd be
some pretty expensive, you know, unique scents going on there.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
And I think you are correct, but I think crucially
they smell really good initially.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
And it deteriorates pretty quickly with the carrying on.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Yeah, the carrying on. Boy, there was some carrying on, man.
There was some carrying on going on there. I mean,
we're making light of something.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
He's in jail? He is in jail. I believe so.
Have you talked to him recently? He's secure?
Speaker 4 (01:43):
No, he is secure. I haven't spoken to him. I
never dealt directly with him.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Right, his people.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Yeah, a lovely woman he worked with called Jelaine. She
was the one sorting it all out. She did most
of the admin.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Man, she was good on the admin, actually. Looking back
on it, she was quite an administrator, wasn't she? You
could learn a lot from her, Manon.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
I could learn a lot from her. There's a lot
that she does that I don't understand at all. Quite frankly,
I think it's disgusting, but she could convince me. We
actually had someone on the radio show this week who, yes,
you'll like this.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
You'll love this story, Rhys.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
She called in, her name was Amy. Well, that's the
name that she gave. And her lame claim to fame
was that she danced in a pink sailor's outfit on
a table at Prince Andrew's 50th birthday.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Yeah. In Switzerland. We are all but two degrees away
from Ghislaine Maxwell, aren't we?
Speaker 4 (02:35):
That's incredible.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Yeah. She was paid.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Talk about a near miss.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
I know.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Because I said, oh, do you remember any of the
other people that were there? And she's like, oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Well, the guy who I worked for. So she- She
did some work for a particular wealthy Swiss dude. So
it was up in Verbier, which is like one of
the ski resorts in Switzerland. And Prince Andrew and Fergie
had a chalet there. Interesting place, Verbier.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
I've been.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
And it's a super interesting place.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
You've been? I've been to Verbier, yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
You can't– I have friends who lived there for like
five years. Oh, is that Geoffrey and– It's not Geoffrey. Oh,
it's not Geoffrey. Geoffrey doesn't– No, it's not Geoffrey. He
was on the island.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
I bet Geoffrey would have been there before.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
But it's full of particularly wealthy Europeans. But the interesting
thing with the chalet system is you're only allowed because
the Swiss are so rule focused. They're like Germans without
any sense of humor.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
I thought Germans were Germans without any sense of humor.
Germans have a sense of humor.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Germans can be funny. They're very blunt.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
They're very blunt.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
The Swiss have just.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Swiss can't be funny.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Immense rules and banks full of Nazi gold.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Yeah, they're right.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
So with their chalet system, you have to have buildings
that look like Swiss chalets. So they have that particular
style and you can't build them over a certain size.
So you're not allowed some giant skyscraper monstrosity.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
It has to.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
So it's really cute because it all just looks exactly
the same. However, what they do allow is for you
to do things underneath the chalet. So a lot of
them are four stories deep. Of just the craziest, insane,
so you do whatever you want under the ground. But
in fact, when I was over there, I was going
(04:24):
up a gondola and Ed Lee, who I was staying with,
he was the guy that was living over there, former
Ski Sunday host, Ed Lee, he was like, see that, that's,
he pointed, and I didn't say this the other day,
he pointed out Prince Andrew's place when we were going up.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
He's like, that's Prince Andrew's place. He would know.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
It was quite modest. But underneath, Down below, you just
don't know what's going on. Richard Branson famously, I saw
Richard Branson when I was there.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
He used to ride a bike around.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
And his place was like seven stories down.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Oh, I bet.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
I bet.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Like the nefariousness that must happen underground.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
And what goes on down there.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
We always thought the elites were lizard people, but they're
more akin to mole people.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
They're burrowers.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
So it's a super crazy place.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
What were you doing over there, if you don't mind
me asking? Well, I was staying with Ed and Sian. Oh, Ed. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Staying with Ed and Sian, who were, as I said,
living over there. Ed was working over there. And they said,
you've got to come and stay at some stage. So
I took the family over. This is probably.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Eight years ago.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Eight years ago now.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
And that place is beautiful and cool and amazing. And
if you're not staying with your friends at their house, like,
ass rapingly expensive it's just horrific you know it is
it's crazy.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Expensive and that's coming from you too so that's it's
crazily i can't imagine what is how much things are
now because for me a motel in timaru would do me.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
They wouldn't i don't know if they'd let you in
they'd be like look at this guy.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Unless i brought a bunch of towels and a mop
or something and i was like i'm here for the
yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
So she was along anyway amy was along at this
party um and she danced on the table uh in
her pink sailors outfit i think partly because andrew was
in the navy.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Yes he was he served in the falklands that's right
that's where he had his uh experience where he can't.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
Sweat anymore oh right he can't allegedly one of the
craziest defenses ever mounted the i can't sweat it's It
is second only to the guy who worked at the
mall kiosk that did phone repairs, who was caught Bluetoothing
a woman's nudes to his own phone.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
And when she accosted him and started filming him, he
pretended to faint and then tried to wait them out.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Phenomenal defense.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Incredible.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Phenomenal. That's like what prey do in the wild. They
just play dead.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
I mean, he played possum. He literally played possum. I
love that.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
And just.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
For how long? How long was he willing to wait
there before that situation was resolved?
Speaker 4 (07:08):
It's not a bad way to pass a shift.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
It doesn't, yeah, it doesn't work on radio when you
feel like you're being accused and you just... No. No,
you can't do it.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Rhys Mathewson, you are on Taskmaster season....
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Seven.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Seven.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
I can't remember what number it's up to now.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Seven.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Seven, yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
You are one of the cast.
Are you aware of how big a following Taskmaster has internationally?
Because we weren't on this show until Jerry started receiving
a bunch of feedback from overseas. Oh, yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Taskmaster fans are rabid.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
I'm a Taskmaster fan. I fell in love with the
UK version. And from there, they just go, they just
want more.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
It's their addiction where they want as much as they
can get. And if they have to watch the New Zealand,
they will.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Yeah. And so....
Speaker 3 (08:02):
They'll settle for it. And so when Jerry started, there
was a right and wrong way to be the Taskmaster
that you weren't really aware of. Nah.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
I mean, I'd watched a bit of Taskmaster UK because
I needed to do it. But also after watching about
four episodes, I realized that this was going to be
problematic for me if I kept watching it. Because I
was going to be attempting to be basically Greg Davies.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
Doing an impression rather than doing what makes you you.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
And I realized I was not going to be able
to do a very good impression of that because he's amazing.
I mean, the whole show was designed by Alex Horne
for Greg Davies and himself. So Alex Horne is the
Taskmaster's assistant. He owns the production company that owned the show.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Oh, does he? He owns the format.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
He comes up with all of the tasks on the
UK one and most of the tasks around the rest
of the world, eh, Rhys?
Speaker 4 (08:57):
No, I think each version has their own team working
on it, but he will often steal a task. If
it does well on a local version, he'll go, thanks,
we'll have that.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Yeah, but he also made Greg Davies the taskmaster because
he's like, Greg's going to be great at just coming
and passing some judgment, being an asshole, and then going home.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
I read a great comment yesterday Not like last week
about the distinction between Taskmaster and it said Greg Davies
is a despotic tyrant and Jeremy Wells is a bored pervert.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
This is why I don't read the comments.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
That is why I don't go online.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Yeah, I think I read a lot of comments, but
I would never make one. And the idea of being
a person who comments on the internet, you have to
take that into account of whose opinion you're actually reading
and how much time they have on their hands.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Yes. Could have done with you last week, but yes.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
I think that's fine in my experience, and this is
an interesting thing for you as well, Rhys, but I
think that's fine and you can apply that logic most
of the time if you're well rested, if you're feeling
okay about yourself, if you've had a good day. But
as soon as you're tired, you're maybe not feeling 100%
(10:08):
confident in yourself or whatever, and you read something, all
of a sudden they cut right into your soul. And
you start forgetting about all that other stuff.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
Yeah, the ones that stick with you are the ones
that you agree with.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
There's a small part of it you go, yeah, I
can see that. It's not the ones where they just go,
this person's shit, and they just dunk on you. You go, well,
we have a difference of opinion. That's not going to matter.
When someone goes, I thought it was okay, and I
thought he was a bit boring, you go, oh, God.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Yeah, because you were going, was I a bit boring? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh,
my God. And that happens. I can imagine it must
happen in, like, stand-up if you– Say you have a
Barney with the Mrs. or you have some sort of thing,
then you go on stage, you're a little bit off,
and then everyone's like, geez, he was shit. And you're like,
right on your worst day, that's when they go, you sucked.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
Totally.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Open up Instagram, this guy sucks at getting. Oh, yeah.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
I think you go there looking for some reinforcement, and
it generally doesn't deliver for you. That's my experience of it.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
I will say bored pervert hit the nail on the head, though,
to be fair.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Yeah, that feels about accurate.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
This is the thing. It does. It feels spot on.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Rhys Mathewson, you have worked on Taskmaster before.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Yes, I wrote the studio scripts for the last season
of New Zealand and one of the seasons of Australia
that hasn't come out yet.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
So being a contestant, how much different was that? Because
you knew what the whole show entailed and then now
you're a contestant on the show. How much different was that?
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Uh, very different. I think there might've been some concern
behind the scenes that because I'd worked a little bit
on making the sausage that I would kind of see
through the tricks, you know, those, those tasks that are
there to deliberately upset the contestants and without spoiling anything,
that was not a factor.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Because it's still bamboozled you.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
Well, I'm just terrible under pressure. You give me a
20 minute time limit and I absolutely crumble. So there's,
you don't have the time to think. okay, if I
was writing the task, what would I do and how
would I mess them up? You just go, oh, God,
I have to do this thing and get supreme tunnel vision. So, yeah,
it was a really different experience. It's like when you're
(12:23):
watching like a quiz show on telly and you're nailing
it and then everyone goes, it's much harder in the studio.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
It's so much harder once you're actually in it and
Paul's there and he's just following you around with his
little quips.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
God.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Judging you.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Not giving you bugger all.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
That's the thing with Paul or sending you in the
wrong direction. Was there ever a moment, Rhys, when you
wished or maybe regretted the decision to go on Taskmaster?
Because I, as being the Taskmaster, I get to watch
everybody else watch their own tasks back for the first time.
So obviously the studio part, none of the contestants have
(13:03):
seen any of the tasks. They're not seeing themselves in
the task. They don't know how anyone else did. They
don't know how it's going to be edited together.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
They've got no idea.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
So they're sitting in front of a live audience watching
themselves oftentimes be quite embarrassed and humiliated.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
From doing a task. When they took half an hour
to do the task and then the other person does
it in like two seconds, you've got to watch that
person come to the realization they humiliated themselves. It's so
good for the audience. The best.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
So I get to watch you guys watch yourselves, and
I know what's coming up because I've watched the tasks.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
I sometimes watch hope fade out of– like I've seen
it actually drain out of faces before. And that thing
that we were talking about before about feelings about yourself,
I've watched that just mana erode within seconds.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Mana erosion is a great description of some Taskmaster tasks. Yeah,
I didn't mind that. There was one that I was–
I don't mind watching myself fail. I've failed enough in
life that that's good content. That's comedians. We mind that stuff.
We've got fairly thick skin. There was one task that
(14:17):
was genuinely embarrassing where I made the decision to rap.
And I had been listening to a lot of Fat
Joe and Big Pun. At the time. I had like
a little playlist on the drive to the house because
you do like 10 tasks a day. And I had
a little playlist of things that would kind of get
(14:38):
me energized for early in the morning and set me
in the right mood. Would always end on bat out
of hell by meatloaf.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Great song.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
But I was listening to a lot of rap at
the time and for some reason thought that I, as
a novice, would have that same level of technical ability.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
It's a bold decision.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
That was tough. That was a really tough watch. It's
just I've never looked like more of a honky.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Watching yourself in front of a whole lot of people
as well, I think that's challenging. I think that's challenging.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
I think... Yeah, I think, maybe I'm speaking out of
turn here. I don't know. I think for Rose and
Hawani and I, it's normal. But because we are ourselves
on stage, that's just who we're being. I think for
Dave and Morgana, they're generally being a character. And they're
(15:34):
incredible at it. There is a bit of safety in that.
So when they take that away and it's, no, it's
just you, I think I could feel them a little
bit more vulnerable, I suppose.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
But you're like, this is nothing I have not seen before.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Yeah, yeah. It doesn't even make the top 10 worst
things I've ever done.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
This week.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Commercial radio is a bit like that too. I think
there's a great part, you humiliate yourself. But interestingly, what
you find is the more you humiliate yourself, the more
the audience appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
They love it.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Yeah. People want to see the real you. They don't
want the gimmick and the shtick.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
They want to get to know a person. The bored pervert.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
I think also people's failures are far more interesting than
their successes.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
I mean, let's be honest.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Successes are boring. Successes make boring stories. Hey, I was
really good at blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
That's not a story. That's a brag. I set out
to do this thing. And I did it. And I
did it. I did it successfully. That's not a movie
anyone wants to watch.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
No.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
There's got to be an orientation, a complication, a resolution.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
And that's why we do such a terrible, terrible radio
show every day because it's open, it's honest, it's raw,
it's what people want.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
And it's who we are.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
Yeah, this being bad is actually better than if it
was good. Yes. Yeah, right.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
But we are genuinely at the moment on our show
searching for the most boring piece of content ever aired.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
We went pretty close this morning with me trying to
reconnect with my cat.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
It's called Is This Too Boring for 620.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
And that's the question that you always say at the end.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
I tell you what, cleaning the lint filter in my
dryer went very close to being the most boring thing.
To being too boring for 620. I'm just going to look. Rhys,
you'll be interested in this actually because I'll just.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Bring it up here because I've got the list of Yeah,
maybe you can tell us if these things are too boring.
All of the boring things.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Minaya got an electric toothbrush. I mean, that. Yep.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
I mean, there's some small amount of interest. Immediately, I
want to know the price.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
I want to know how long it's taken. Like, there's
some statistical details that have some level of intrigue.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Yeah, and we fleshed them out.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Don't worry about that. We fleshed them out. Great.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Minaya was having problems with the static blanket.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Yeah, there was a lot of static in the blanket
we put over us on the couch. We were getting
electric shocks off it.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
Hairy legs?
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Well, I blamed it on my shoes. I noticed that
if I wore a particular pair of shoes, I would
get static shocks.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
You're not grounding.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
I'm not grounding, yeah. And I was wondering if I was– see,
this is not boring because– Who would have thought?
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Fluff collecting, so lint collecting in a dryer.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Very boring.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Swing down the rabbit hole of what is lint as well.
Now that's not boring. Wow. I found that bloody fascinating.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
Hair, skin and fibres, right?
Speaker 3 (18:37):
I feel like everyone, Jerry discovered, he had to Google it.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
I thought it was more fibres. I didn't know how
much skin it was.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Yeah. Turns out it's like 15% skin.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
I feel like everyone else thought it was that. I
don't think of shedding skin.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
To me, I'm not shedding anything when I'm rubbing my
hands like that, but I am, clearly. That's Dustin.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
You really sounded like a serial killer just there. I
didn't realize how much it was skin.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
But then we actually went somewhere interesting, I thought, because
we were talking about using lint and pretending that you
care about the environment by actually making clothes out of it.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
Can you?
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Well, I think it's too much skin. What's wrong with that?
Speaker 4 (19:18):
That's leather.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Great point.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
That's just lint.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Great point. Do we send our lint to a tannery?
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Imagine all that lint that's just going to waste, though.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
And birds.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
And then someone suggested that we should put it outside,
leave it out for birds, and they can make nests
with it.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
Oh, that's really nice.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Isn't that cute?
Speaker 4 (19:35):
Little bit of human pink bats for the birdies.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Isn't that cute?
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Cast iron pans.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Yep. Manaya bought a cast iron pan.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Ruda's hair, that's more about Ruda's hairline.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
He's got the peptides. He's only peptides.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
The peptides?
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Yeah, he's got peptides that he injects into his forehead.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Rhys has got such a strong hairline that he would,
he's never even thought that you'd ever even worry about that.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
That's never occurred to me, that.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
No, and so he's worried that it's creeping a little bit,
and so he's got these bright blue vials, and they've
got like a microneedle thing, and he injects it. It's
quite a lot of liquid to go into his skull,
and then after 12 weeks... his hairline is supposed to
have regenerated.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
I imagine for some of your listeners that would be
interesting because they're probably, they're weighing up peptides v.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Turkey. Well, yeah, exactly. And the funny part about that
is we actually didn't do that chat in this too
boring segment. It's just Jerry's recollection of it is that
it was so boring that he put it retrospectively into
that segment.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
I just, like, it's $ 177. I mean, hairline v., you know,
peptides v. turkey.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
It's turkey, you're right. But turkey is really expensive. The
peptides are $ 177, so they do give you a money
back guarantee. Slow brisket cooking. I think that was me
talking about brisket. Slow cooking a brisket, which has changed
my life. Slow cooking a brisket.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
Oh, I feel like.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
You're a vegetarian, so you're not interested in brisket.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
No, I eat chicken and fish.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
I think fish are vegetables. Some of them are.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
Mussels are borderline.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
That's a vegetable.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
That's a plant. Mussels are a plant. They're not.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Yeah, it's a plant in a shell.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
Looking you in the eyes.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Shell-based plant.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
A fish is just.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
I suppose it's a plant with a tail and no soil. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
It's an independent operator. And you've always said that. Poaching chicken.
Zoe brought poaching chicken.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
We had a toothbrush tech update because there's new AI
toothbrushes that can scan your mouth and they have little...
They'll inject mouthwash in certain situations and they can then
go onto your... onto a screen and you can work
out where you've been brushing too much and where you
haven't been brushing enough.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
That's the most boring to me so far.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Blueberry loaf, that was Zoe made a blueberry loaf.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
And we ate it and provided feedback.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Yeah, had no love in it. And then, as we said,
reconnecting with Manai's cat.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
I actually tasted hate in it, if I'm honest. It's
a hate loaf. So those are the pieces of boring content.
So in the podcast, we've been trying to pick it
up a little bit. Today is going to be the
first day that we bring back The fact factor? Get
Fact Thursday. Get Fact Thursday is what we're calling it.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Where we bring a fact each, and then someone has
to judge which is the best fact.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
And Rhys, if you don't mind, today, would you do
us the honour of judging our facts?
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Okay. Who would like to go first? Zoe.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
No, no.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Oh, me? I'll go first? Okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Mine is Rhys Mathewson related.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Oh, see, this is pandering.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Wow!
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Rhys, I need you to be objective in this.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
Uh, that's hard. I do like me. Hmm.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
So that could have gone one of two ways. Cause
he might've hated himself and that could have, but you know,
Reese or this. I just think this is, it's Reese
Matthewson related. Uh, and it involves here. Okay.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
So my, this is, this is a fact about here.
Your hair, a strand of your hair contains tiny traces
of 14 different elements, including gold.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Oh, Is it actually? It's got gold in it. Traces
of gold. Tiny traces, but traces.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
What does that mean?
Speaker 3 (23:18):
It's got traces of gold. How much hair would you
need to smelt before you could get an ingot? Shit loads. Okay.
But that's my thing. Okay.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
A strand of hair contains traces of gold.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
Okay. Now, allow me. What would you like to go, Zoe?
Speaker 1 (23:37):
That got crazy, girl.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Okay. In Turkey- the country, Turkey, the meat, is called India.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Really?
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Truly. Oh, that's good. I like to call it Turkey.
In Turkey, Turkey, the meat is called India. Would you
like to know why?
Speaker 4 (23:59):
Why?
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Because when Christopher Columbus went to America famously, he thought
he was in India. And when he brought turkeys back
from America to Europe, they named them after the country
they thought he'd brought them from, which was India. And
so that's why they're called, it's actually called Hindi in
the Turkish language, but in Turkey, turkeys are called India. Okay.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
So why are turkeys called?
Speaker 3 (24:26):
Turkey.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
And it's got nothing to do with, it's got nothing
to do with Takiyah because Takiyah. That I don't know.
Is not named after turkeys. I can neither confirm nor
deny that.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
No, I think the bird would be named after the country, surely.
There's something about a turkey.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Isn't Turkey named after Ataturk?
Speaker 3 (24:50):
The general.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
It was named after him. I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
I mean, I might be wrong.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
I just always assumed that. Anyway, in Turkey, the animal
is called India. That's my fact. No, good fact.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
That's a great fact.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
I'm going historical. Great.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Did you know that Cleopatra- lived closer to the moon
landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
I actually did know that.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
I did too, actually. I wasn't going to say anything.
I wasn't going to say anything.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
You guys have got too much time on your hands.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
She actually lived closer to the invention of the iPhone
than she did to the... Okay, you want to.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
Yeah, that's... Sorry, that's... That's splitting like 50 years.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
We're dealing with millennia. Okay, Rhys Mathewson, who has got.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Who is the winner of Get Fact Thursday for Thursday
the 10th of September 2016?
Speaker 4 (25:41):
Hands down, Minaya. That rules.
Speaker 5 (25:43):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Inaugural victory. Thank you very much. I've noticed Zoe hasn't
hit the clapping sound effect. I can see that being
an issue going forward. But anyway, I'm grateful.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
Can I throw my favorite fact?
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Please.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
Stevie Wonder. Do you know what Stevie's short for?
Speaker 3 (25:59):
You would have to assume Steven.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
Stevland.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
That's good. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Oh, there's the bloody.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
What?
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Give it to the guest, why don't you, Zoe? For
God's sake. Rhys Mathewson, thank you so much for coming in.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
Thanks for having me.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
Look forward to watching.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
You on Taskmaster Season 7, which is coming up this
week on TVNZ Plus and TVNZ 2.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
I can't wait for people to see it. It's so good.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
I can't wait. I can't imagine what happened. What?
Speaker 4 (26:32):
You were there. What do you mean, imagine what happened?
Speaker 3 (26:34):
No, he's wiped it.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
I've forgotten it.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Bored pervers. Want Gerry and Manoa waiting for you every morning?
Switch on auto-download for the Hauraki Breakfast podcast.
Jeremy Wells and Minaya Stewart. Find them on Instagram at
Horaki Breakfast.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
I'll tell you who would love that tune, and that's
Rhys Mathewson, comedian, who's on the podcast today.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
G'day, Rhys. How are you?
Speaker 4 (00:22):
I'm good, guys. How you doing?
Speaker 3 (00:24):
So, so good. So good.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
That diddy threw a hell of a party, didn't he?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
I know. Did you ever go to any of his
freak outs? Freak off, Gerry. Freak offs? Don't you bloody
dead name him.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Yeah, I was there. I was a towel boy. A
lot of oil seepage, a lot of squeegeeing, floor squeegees
into centre drains.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
But you never got to freak off yourself?
Speaker 4 (00:49):
No, no, no, no. And, you know, that's one of
the huge regrets of my life.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
A feast for the senses, I would imagine, being the
towel boy for the freak off.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
Yeah, people never talk about smell enough when they're talking
about those sort of sensual situations. And it really is
the overwhelming sense.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
I would have thought that everybody at the Freak Off
would be smelling pretty good, actually. I thought there'd be
some pretty expensive, you know, unique scents going on there.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
And I think you are correct, but I think crucially
they smell really good initially.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
And it deteriorates pretty quickly with the carrying on.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Yeah, the carrying on. Boy, there was some carrying on, man.
There was some carrying on going on there. I mean,
we're making light of something.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
He's in jail? He is in jail. I believe so.
Have you talked to him recently? He's secure?
Speaker 4 (01:43):
No, he is secure. I haven't spoken to him. I
never dealt directly with him.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Right, his people.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Yeah, a lovely woman he worked with called Jelaine. She
was the one sorting it all out. She did most
of the admin.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Man, she was good on the admin, actually. Looking back
on it, she was quite an administrator, wasn't she? You
could learn a lot from her, Manon.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
I could learn a lot from her. There's a lot
that she does that I don't understand at all. Quite frankly,
I think it's disgusting, but she could convince me. We
actually had someone on the radio show this week who, yes,
you'll like this.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
You'll love this story, Rhys.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
She called in, her name was Amy. Well, that's the
name that she gave. And her lame claim to fame
was that she danced in a pink sailor's outfit on
a table at Prince Andrew's 50th birthday.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Yeah. In Switzerland. We are all but two degrees away
from Ghislaine Maxwell, aren't we?
Speaker 4 (02:35):
That's incredible.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Yeah. She was paid.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Talk about a near miss.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
I know.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Because I said, oh, do you remember any of the
other people that were there? And she's like, oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Well, the guy who I worked for. So she- She
did some work for a particular wealthy Swiss dude. So
it was up in Verbier, which is like one of
the ski resorts in Switzerland. And Prince Andrew and Fergie
had a chalet there. Interesting place, Verbier.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
I've been.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
And it's a super interesting place.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
You've been? I've been to Verbier, yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
You can't– I have friends who lived there for like
five years. Oh, is that Geoffrey and– It's not Geoffrey. Oh,
it's not Geoffrey. Geoffrey doesn't– No, it's not Geoffrey. He
was on the island.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
I bet Geoffrey would have been there before.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
But it's full of particularly wealthy Europeans. But the interesting
thing with the chalet system is you're only allowed because
the Swiss are so rule focused. They're like Germans without
any sense of humor.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
I thought Germans were Germans without any sense of humor.
Germans have a sense of humor.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Germans can be funny. They're very blunt.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
They're very blunt.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
The Swiss have just.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Swiss can't be funny.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Immense rules and banks full of Nazi gold.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Yeah, they're right.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
So with their chalet system, you have to have buildings
that look like Swiss chalets. So they have that particular
style and you can't build them over a certain size.
So you're not allowed some giant skyscraper monstrosity.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
It has to.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
So it's really cute because it all just looks exactly
the same. However, what they do allow is for you
to do things underneath the chalet. So a lot of
them are four stories deep. Of just the craziest, insane,
so you do whatever you want under the ground. But
in fact, when I was over there, I was going
(04:24):
up a gondola and Ed Lee, who I was staying with,
he was the guy that was living over there, former
Ski Sunday host, Ed Lee, he was like, see that, that's,
he pointed, and I didn't say this the other day,
he pointed out Prince Andrew's place when we were going up.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
He's like, that's Prince Andrew's place. He would know.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
It was quite modest. But underneath, Down below, you just
don't know what's going on. Richard Branson famously, I saw
Richard Branson when I was there.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
He used to ride a bike around.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
And his place was like seven stories down.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Oh, I bet.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
I bet.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Like the nefariousness that must happen underground.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
And what goes on down there.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
We always thought the elites were lizard people, but they're
more akin to mole people.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
They're burrowers.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
So it's a super crazy place.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
What were you doing over there, if you don't mind
me asking? Well, I was staying with Ed and Sian. Oh, Ed. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Staying with Ed and Sian, who were, as I said,
living over there. Ed was working over there. And they said,
you've got to come and stay at some stage. So
I took the family over. This is probably.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Eight years ago.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Eight years ago now.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
And that place is beautiful and cool and amazing. And
if you're not staying with your friends at their house, like,
ass rapingly expensive it's just horrific you know it is
it's crazy.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Expensive and that's coming from you too so that's it's
crazily i can't imagine what is how much things are
now because for me a motel in timaru would do me.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
They wouldn't i don't know if they'd let you in
they'd be like look at this guy.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Unless i brought a bunch of towels and a mop
or something and i was like i'm here for the
yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
So she was along anyway amy was along at this
party um and she danced on the table uh in
her pink sailors outfit i think partly because andrew was
in the navy.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Yes he was he served in the falklands that's right
that's where he had his uh experience where he can't.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
Sweat anymore oh right he can't allegedly one of the
craziest defenses ever mounted the i can't sweat it's It
is second only to the guy who worked at the
mall kiosk that did phone repairs, who was caught Bluetoothing
a woman's nudes to his own phone.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
And when she accosted him and started filming him, he
pretended to faint and then tried to wait them out.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Phenomenal defense.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Incredible.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Phenomenal. That's like what prey do in the wild. They
just play dead.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
I mean, he played possum. He literally played possum. I
love that.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
And just.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
For how long? How long was he willing to wait
there before that situation was resolved?
Speaker 4 (07:08):
It's not a bad way to pass a shift.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
It doesn't, yeah, it doesn't work on radio when you
feel like you're being accused and you just... No. No,
you can't do it.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Rhys Mathewson, you are on Taskmaster season....
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Seven.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Seven.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
I can't remember what number it's up to now.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Seven.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Seven, yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
You are one of the cast.
Are you aware of how big a following Taskmaster has internationally?
Because we weren't on this show until Jerry started receiving
a bunch of feedback from overseas. Oh, yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Taskmaster fans are rabid.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
I'm a Taskmaster fan. I fell in love with the
UK version. And from there, they just go, they just
want more.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
It's their addiction where they want as much as they
can get. And if they have to watch the New Zealand,
they will.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Yeah. And so....
Speaker 3 (08:02):
They'll settle for it. And so when Jerry started, there
was a right and wrong way to be the Taskmaster
that you weren't really aware of. Nah.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
I mean, I'd watched a bit of Taskmaster UK because
I needed to do it. But also after watching about
four episodes, I realized that this was going to be
problematic for me if I kept watching it. Because I
was going to be attempting to be basically Greg Davies.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
Doing an impression rather than doing what makes you you.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
And I realized I was not going to be able
to do a very good impression of that because he's amazing.
I mean, the whole show was designed by Alex Horne
for Greg Davies and himself. So Alex Horne is the
Taskmaster's assistant. He owns the production company that owned the show.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Oh, does he? He owns the format.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
He comes up with all of the tasks on the
UK one and most of the tasks around the rest
of the world, eh, Rhys?
Speaker 4 (08:57):
No, I think each version has their own team working
on it, but he will often steal a task. If
it does well on a local version, he'll go, thanks,
we'll have that.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Yeah, but he also made Greg Davies the taskmaster because
he's like, Greg's going to be great at just coming
and passing some judgment, being an asshole, and then going home.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
I read a great comment yesterday Not like last week
about the distinction between Taskmaster and it said Greg Davies
is a despotic tyrant and Jeremy Wells is a bored pervert.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
This is why I don't read the comments.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
That is why I don't go online.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Yeah, I think I read a lot of comments, but
I would never make one. And the idea of being
a person who comments on the internet, you have to
take that into account of whose opinion you're actually reading
and how much time they have on their hands.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Yes. Could have done with you last week, but yes.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
I think that's fine in my experience, and this is
an interesting thing for you as well, Rhys, but I
think that's fine and you can apply that logic most
of the time if you're well rested, if you're feeling
okay about yourself, if you've had a good day. But
as soon as you're tired, you're maybe not feeling 100%
(10:08):
confident in yourself or whatever, and you read something, all
of a sudden they cut right into your soul. And
you start forgetting about all that other stuff.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
Yeah, the ones that stick with you are the ones
that you agree with.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
There's a small part of it you go, yeah, I
can see that. It's not the ones where they just go,
this person's shit, and they just dunk on you. You go, well,
we have a difference of opinion. That's not going to matter.
When someone goes, I thought it was okay, and I
thought he was a bit boring, you go, oh, God.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Yeah, because you were going, was I a bit boring? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh,
my God. And that happens. I can imagine it must
happen in, like, stand-up if you– Say you have a
Barney with the Mrs. or you have some sort of thing,
then you go on stage, you're a little bit off,
and then everyone's like, geez, he was shit. And you're like,
right on your worst day, that's when they go, you sucked.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
Totally.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Open up Instagram, this guy sucks at getting. Oh, yeah.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
I think you go there looking for some reinforcement, and
it generally doesn't deliver for you. That's my experience of it.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
I will say bored pervert hit the nail on the head, though,
to be fair.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Yeah, that feels about accurate.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
This is the thing. It does. It feels spot on.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Rhys Mathewson, you have worked on Taskmaster before.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Yes, I wrote the studio scripts for the last season
of New Zealand and one of the seasons of Australia
that hasn't come out yet.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
So being a contestant, how much different was that? Because
you knew what the whole show entailed and then now
you're a contestant on the show. How much different was that?
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Uh, very different. I think there might've been some concern
behind the scenes that because I'd worked a little bit
on making the sausage that I would kind of see
through the tricks, you know, those, those tasks that are
there to deliberately upset the contestants and without spoiling anything,
that was not a factor.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Because it's still bamboozled you.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
Well, I'm just terrible under pressure. You give me a
20 minute time limit and I absolutely crumble. So there's,
you don't have the time to think. okay, if I
was writing the task, what would I do and how
would I mess them up? You just go, oh, God,
I have to do this thing and get supreme tunnel vision. So, yeah,
it was a really different experience. It's like when you're
(12:23):
watching like a quiz show on telly and you're nailing
it and then everyone goes, it's much harder in the studio.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
It's so much harder once you're actually in it and
Paul's there and he's just following you around with his
little quips.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
God.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Judging you.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Not giving you bugger all.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
That's the thing with Paul or sending you in the
wrong direction. Was there ever a moment, Rhys, when you
wished or maybe regretted the decision to go on Taskmaster?
Because I, as being the Taskmaster, I get to watch
everybody else watch their own tasks back for the first time.
So obviously the studio part, none of the contestants have
(13:03):
seen any of the tasks. They're not seeing themselves in
the task. They don't know how anyone else did. They
don't know how it's going to be edited together.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
They've got no idea.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
So they're sitting in front of a live audience watching
themselves oftentimes be quite embarrassed and humiliated.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
From doing a task. When they took half an hour
to do the task and then the other person does
it in like two seconds, you've got to watch that
person come to the realization they humiliated themselves. It's so
good for the audience. The best.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
So I get to watch you guys watch yourselves, and
I know what's coming up because I've watched the tasks.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
I sometimes watch hope fade out of– like I've seen
it actually drain out of faces before. And that thing
that we were talking about before about feelings about yourself,
I've watched that just mana erode within seconds.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Mana erosion is a great description of some Taskmaster tasks. Yeah,
I didn't mind that. There was one that I was–
I don't mind watching myself fail. I've failed enough in
life that that's good content. That's comedians. We mind that stuff.
We've got fairly thick skin. There was one task that
(14:17):
was genuinely embarrassing where I made the decision to rap.
And I had been listening to a lot of Fat
Joe and Big Pun. At the time. I had like
a little playlist on the drive to the house because
you do like 10 tasks a day. And I had
a little playlist of things that would kind of get
(14:38):
me energized for early in the morning and set me
in the right mood. Would always end on bat out
of hell by meatloaf.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Great song.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
But I was listening to a lot of rap at
the time and for some reason thought that I, as
a novice, would have that same level of technical ability.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
It's a bold decision.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
That was tough. That was a really tough watch. It's
just I've never looked like more of a honky.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Watching yourself in front of a whole lot of people
as well, I think that's challenging. I think that's challenging.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
I think... Yeah, I think, maybe I'm speaking out of
turn here. I don't know. I think for Rose and
Hawani and I, it's normal. But because we are ourselves
on stage, that's just who we're being. I think for
Dave and Morgana, they're generally being a character. And they're
(15:34):
incredible at it. There is a bit of safety in that.
So when they take that away and it's, no, it's
just you, I think I could feel them a little
bit more vulnerable, I suppose.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
But you're like, this is nothing I have not seen before.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Yeah, yeah. It doesn't even make the top 10 worst
things I've ever done.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
This week.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Commercial radio is a bit like that too. I think
there's a great part, you humiliate yourself. But interestingly, what
you find is the more you humiliate yourself, the more
the audience appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
They love it.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Yeah. People want to see the real you. They don't
want the gimmick and the shtick.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
They want to get to know a person. The bored pervert.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
I think also people's failures are far more interesting than
their successes.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
I mean, let's be honest.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Successes are boring. Successes make boring stories. Hey, I was
really good at blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
That's not a story. That's a brag. I set out
to do this thing. And I did it. And I
did it. I did it successfully. That's not a movie
anyone wants to watch.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
No.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
There's got to be an orientation, a complication, a resolution.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
And that's why we do such a terrible, terrible radio
show every day because it's open, it's honest, it's raw,
it's what people want.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
And it's who we are.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
Yeah, this being bad is actually better than if it
was good. Yes. Yeah, right.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
But we are genuinely at the moment on our show
searching for the most boring piece of content ever aired.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
We went pretty close this morning with me trying to
reconnect with my cat.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
It's called Is This Too Boring for 620.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
And that's the question that you always say at the end.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
I tell you what, cleaning the lint filter in my
dryer went very close to being the most boring thing.
To being too boring for 620. I'm just going to look. Rhys,
you'll be interested in this actually because I'll just.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Bring it up here because I've got the list of Yeah,
maybe you can tell us if these things are too boring.
All of the boring things.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Minaya got an electric toothbrush. I mean, that. Yep.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
I mean, there's some small amount of interest. Immediately, I
want to know the price.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
I want to know how long it's taken. Like, there's
some statistical details that have some level of intrigue.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Yeah, and we fleshed them out.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Don't worry about that. We fleshed them out. Great.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Minaya was having problems with the static blanket.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Yeah, there was a lot of static in the blanket
we put over us on the couch. We were getting
electric shocks off it.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
Hairy legs?
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Well, I blamed it on my shoes. I noticed that
if I wore a particular pair of shoes, I would
get static shocks.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
You're not grounding.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
I'm not grounding, yeah. And I was wondering if I was– see,
this is not boring because– Who would have thought?
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Fluff collecting, so lint collecting in a dryer.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Very boring.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Swing down the rabbit hole of what is lint as well.
Now that's not boring. Wow. I found that bloody fascinating.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
Hair, skin and fibres, right?
Speaker 3 (18:37):
I feel like everyone, Jerry discovered, he had to Google it.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
I thought it was more fibres. I didn't know how
much skin it was.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Yeah. Turns out it's like 15% skin.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
I feel like everyone else thought it was that. I
don't think of shedding skin.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
To me, I'm not shedding anything when I'm rubbing my
hands like that, but I am, clearly. That's Dustin.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
You really sounded like a serial killer just there. I
didn't realize how much it was skin.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
But then we actually went somewhere interesting, I thought, because
we were talking about using lint and pretending that you
care about the environment by actually making clothes out of it.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
Can you?
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Well, I think it's too much skin. What's wrong with that?
Speaker 4 (19:18):
That's leather.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Great point.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
That's just lint.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Great point. Do we send our lint to a tannery?
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Imagine all that lint that's just going to waste, though.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
And birds.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
And then someone suggested that we should put it outside,
leave it out for birds, and they can make nests
with it.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
Oh, that's really nice.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Isn't that cute?
Speaker 4 (19:35):
Little bit of human pink bats for the birdies.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Isn't that cute?
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Cast iron pans.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Yep. Manaya bought a cast iron pan.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Ruda's hair, that's more about Ruda's hairline.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
He's got the peptides. He's only peptides.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
The peptides?
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Yeah, he's got peptides that he injects into his forehead.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Rhys has got such a strong hairline that he would,
he's never even thought that you'd ever even worry about that.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
That's never occurred to me, that.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
No, and so he's worried that it's creeping a little bit,
and so he's got these bright blue vials, and they've
got like a microneedle thing, and he injects it. It's
quite a lot of liquid to go into his skull,
and then after 12 weeks... his hairline is supposed to
have regenerated.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
I imagine for some of your listeners that would be
interesting because they're probably, they're weighing up peptides v.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Turkey. Well, yeah, exactly. And the funny part about that
is we actually didn't do that chat in this too
boring segment. It's just Jerry's recollection of it is that
it was so boring that he put it retrospectively into
that segment.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
I just, like, it's $ 177. I mean, hairline v., you know,
peptides v. turkey.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
It's turkey, you're right. But turkey is really expensive. The
peptides are $ 177, so they do give you a money
back guarantee. Slow brisket cooking. I think that was me
talking about brisket. Slow cooking a brisket, which has changed
my life. Slow cooking a brisket.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
Oh, I feel like.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
You're a vegetarian, so you're not interested in brisket.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
No, I eat chicken and fish.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
I think fish are vegetables. Some of them are.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
Mussels are borderline.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
That's a vegetable.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
That's a plant. Mussels are a plant. They're not.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Yeah, it's a plant in a shell.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
Looking you in the eyes.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Shell-based plant.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
A fish is just.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
I suppose it's a plant with a tail and no soil. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
It's an independent operator. And you've always said that. Poaching chicken.
Zoe brought poaching chicken.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
We had a toothbrush tech update because there's new AI
toothbrushes that can scan your mouth and they have little...
They'll inject mouthwash in certain situations and they can then
go onto your... onto a screen and you can work
out where you've been brushing too much and where you
haven't been brushing enough.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
That's the most boring to me so far.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Blueberry loaf, that was Zoe made a blueberry loaf.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
And we ate it and provided feedback.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Yeah, had no love in it. And then, as we said,
reconnecting with Manai's cat.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
I actually tasted hate in it, if I'm honest. It's
a hate loaf. So those are the pieces of boring content.
So in the podcast, we've been trying to pick it
up a little bit. Today is going to be the
first day that we bring back The fact factor? Get
Fact Thursday. Get Fact Thursday is what we're calling it.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Where we bring a fact each, and then someone has
to judge which is the best fact.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
And Rhys, if you don't mind, today, would you do
us the honour of judging our facts?
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Okay. Who would like to go first? Zoe.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
No, no.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Oh, me? I'll go first? Okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Mine is Rhys Mathewson related.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Oh, see, this is pandering.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Wow!
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Rhys, I need you to be objective in this.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
Uh, that's hard. I do like me. Hmm.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
So that could have gone one of two ways. Cause
he might've hated himself and that could have, but you know,
Reese or this. I just think this is, it's Reese
Matthewson related. Uh, and it involves here. Okay.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
So my, this is, this is a fact about here.
Your hair, a strand of your hair contains tiny traces
of 14 different elements, including gold.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Oh, Is it actually? It's got gold in it. Traces
of gold. Tiny traces, but traces.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
What does that mean?
Speaker 3 (23:18):
It's got traces of gold. How much hair would you
need to smelt before you could get an ingot? Shit loads. Okay.
But that's my thing. Okay.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
A strand of hair contains traces of gold.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
Okay. Now, allow me. What would you like to go, Zoe?
Speaker 1 (23:37):
That got crazy, girl.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Okay. In Turkey- the country, Turkey, the meat, is called India.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Really?
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Truly. Oh, that's good. I like to call it Turkey.
In Turkey, Turkey, the meat is called India. Would you
like to know why?
Speaker 4 (23:59):
Why?
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Because when Christopher Columbus went to America famously, he thought
he was in India. And when he brought turkeys back
from America to Europe, they named them after the country
they thought he'd brought them from, which was India. And
so that's why they're called, it's actually called Hindi in
the Turkish language, but in Turkey, turkeys are called India. Okay.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
So why are turkeys called?
Speaker 3 (24:26):
Turkey.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
And it's got nothing to do with, it's got nothing
to do with Takiyah because Takiyah. That I don't know.
Is not named after turkeys. I can neither confirm nor
deny that.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
No, I think the bird would be named after the country, surely.
There's something about a turkey.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Isn't Turkey named after Ataturk?
Speaker 3 (24:50):
The general.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
It was named after him. I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
I mean, I might be wrong.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
I just always assumed that. Anyway, in Turkey, the animal
is called India. That's my fact. No, good fact.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
That's a great fact.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
I'm going historical. Great.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Did you know that Cleopatra- lived closer to the moon
landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
I actually did know that.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
I did too, actually. I wasn't going to say anything.
I wasn't going to say anything.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
You guys have got too much time on your hands.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
She actually lived closer to the invention of the iPhone
than she did to the... Okay, you want to.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
Yeah, that's... Sorry, that's... That's splitting like 50 years.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
We're dealing with millennia. Okay, Rhys Mathewson, who has got.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Who is the winner of Get Fact Thursday for Thursday
the 10th of September 2016?
Speaker 4 (25:41):
Hands down, Minaya. That rules.
Speaker 5 (25:43):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Inaugural victory. Thank you very much. I've noticed Zoe hasn't
hit the clapping sound effect. I can see that being
an issue going forward. But anyway, I'm grateful.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
Can I throw my favorite fact?
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Please.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
Stevie Wonder. Do you know what Stevie's short for?
Speaker 3 (25:59):
You would have to assume Steven.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
Stevland.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
That's good. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Oh, there's the bloody.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
What?
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Give it to the guest, why don't you, Zoe? For
God's sake. Rhys Mathewson, thank you so much for coming in.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
Thanks for having me.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
Look forward to watching.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
You on Taskmaster Season 7, which is coming up this
week on TVNZ Plus and TVNZ 2.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
I can't wait for people to see it. It's so good.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
I can't wait. I can't imagine what happened. What?
Speaker 4 (26:32):
You were there. What do you mean, imagine what happened?
Speaker 3 (26:34):
No, he's wiped it.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
I've forgotten it.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
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