Hi Hayden speaking.

Hi Hayden, it's David here. How are you?

I saw that I was getting a call from California.

So when I call you on Facebook and you know who's calling, you never pick up.

I have to call multiple times.

When I call on this mystery number like I've done just now,

you picked up immediately. Yeah, but I don't have to go through the history with you on that.

We're doing an episode that's set in Australia today. It's about a mystery that's been going on for many, many, many years. It's a very strange story. Probably too strange to talk to you about,

but I'm just wondering sort of as a side dish to that,

what is your take on New Zealand's neighbour Australia? Well, I don't want to be parochial and say,

it's my patriotic duty to hate them or anything like that. But they are bad, aren't they? I mean,

that's the thing. They are like a worse New Zealand,

slightly more criminal,

just slightly worse in every single way,

and they're not kind of plucky battling underdogs like us.

They're a bit arrogant.

I think that maybe this is okay

for me to stereotype a whole country

because I don't know, but if you could find a reason why it's

okay, that would be really helpful for me. I will say that I had some really great sandwiches

in Melbourne, and there's some really cool things to see in Australia and Perth I like, because

it's far away from everything. I'm David Farrier, and New Zealand are accidentally marooned in America, and I want to

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