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The ZM Podcast Network. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley. Hello, welcome to the Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley podcast. It's thanks to McCaffey, barista made coffee on the go. And you may remember in yesterday's podcast where you spoke to Carwen at the social media desk. She was rudely awoken from her nap mid-afternoon just after lunchtime

by a man playing the saxophone in the house next door, the neighbour. I thought it was pretty good. I mean, she said it was a good he was good at sax and you know, the saxophone's a nice sound, but Carween didn't like it. And rudely woken again yesterday, but this time by another instrument. I know, he's pulled out another instrument, he had a clarinet.

That's so embarrassing. I don't know anything about clarinets except for that Squidward on Spongebob uses one, and that's all I know. And that everyone at intermediate or primary plays them, right? Yeah, my understanding of, as a classical musician myself, I'll chime in here. Oh, yeah, okay. My understanding of it is, in order to learn the saxophone, you first learn the clarinet, because the fingering on the, it's the same. The fingering is always the same.

Yeah, right, okay. Yeah, yeah, so you learn on that because it's easier, the fingering is always the same yeah right okay yeah yeah so you learn on that because it's easier and then you upgrade to a sax producer Jared can I just point out producer Jared

grow the fuck up that was disgusting he was being Jeremy you're laughing because I said fingering yeah well that is the correct musical term

for how to play a clarinet and a sax you finger it you finger it why don't you tell people what you said in the group chat yesterday about the clarinet I said the clarinet and a sax. You finger it. You finger it. Why don't you tell people what you said in the group chat yesterday about the clarinet? I said the clarinet is

the saxophone for little bitches. So, Carl, when you sent a photo of this man and I think his wife's exiling him to the veranda. Like, his wife doesn't want him in the fucking house. He looked so sweet though,

didn't he? He did look so sweet and old. So embarrassing. He was playing along to a track as well. He had a track playing that he was harmonizing with, I guess. I thought what you could do to counter this is get a whistle, like a really good referee's whistle, and just stand there and just like annoyingly blow it constantly until he realizes that,

oh yeah, that's an annoying noise coming from the neighbor's house. I thought maybe I could get like a buzzer and do a whole like X factor audition moment. Oh yes. Yes. And if he plays it really well, you could get some gold confetti and just throw it at him.

He's like, where is that coming from? It's such a silly sound. At least the saxophone's like... It's got a bit of yeah to it. The clarinet is literally like... I mean, he was playing well, I think. Yeah, right.

It didn't sound awful. You could always get water bombs. Oh, no. That's so mean. Water bombs. It's been so long since I've done a water bomb. Hey, come over. Should we have a water fight?

Yeah. Great. Let's have a water fight when I'm back in the studio. Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. Thank you, Rachel. Good morning. Welcome to the show. Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley.

It's two minutes past six. Vaughn currently in LA at Disneyland, Star Wars Celebrations. I believe he's at some press junket. Yeah, I saw that. I think today is the big Star Wars Celebration day. Yeah. And so he started off in, I feel like what is a Vaughan Smith nightmare.

It's like a convention centre packed to the brim with people. I reckon he'll be double masking at this point. But he'll be putting up with it because it's Star Wars. Because it's Star Wars. He'll do everything for Star Wars. He's been having an absolute blast. He's going to join us on the show after this convention finishes

around 7.30 this morning. Technology working, fingers crossed. He'll be with us then. But also today, Ewan McGregor. Obi-Wan Kenobi is back. It's today on Disney+. This is like the talk

of the town. Everyone is so excited about it. I think Aaron's like blocked out the afternoon. Well, Obi-Wan Kenobi, it's premiering tonight only on Disney+. You can experience the six-part streaming event. Double episode tonight. So he's on with us after 8.30 this morning.

The Ewan McGregor. The one and only. And no Merlin Rouge questions. I think I might have to... I've got to work on my Scottish accent as well. Don't do that. I'm going to do an accent. I'm going to...

I did that the other day in a store. I started mimicking the accent that the lady had. And I was like, what are you doing? I was like, ah! Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop. Coming up on the show, also after seven today, joined by the judges of MasterChef New Zealand. Oh, I'm so jazzed about this.

I love MasterChef so much. I love the Kiwi one. I love the Australian one. It's so fancy. Such fancy cooking. All right, we'll talk to them about the new series After Seven this morning. Next on the show, though.

Speaking of food, scientists have discovered what makes a burger, which is already good, even better. It's never too early to be talking about burgers. It's so funny. I feel like a burger at any time of the day. I'm reading an article about burgers right now, and I'm like, if someone walked in and gave me a burger, I'd be a happy lady.

You'd do it. Any time of the day. I'd do it. I'd agree. I might want an egg in my burger before 10 a.m., say. Yeah, yeah, mate. Give it a breakfast kiss. Yeah. Well, apparently, I mean,

apparently the Oxford University, a very illustrious and highly regarded university, has nothing better to do than to research burgers at the moment. And more importantly, what is the key to the best burger? It's got to be the sauce, right? It's got to be the sauce. It's not the sauce. The thing that makes a burger even better than just a burger

is something that 51% of people remove from their burger. It is, of course, the humble gherkin, the pickle, if you will. I always use, because I'm a big, my faves, my go-tos, are the quarter pounder and the cheeseburger. And they've both got pickles. Both got, what's the gherkin pickle, same thing? Same thing. Same thing?

I mean, the pickle was maybe the little pickled onion bit and the gherkin is the actual sliced gherkin. Right, okay. Well, same thing. Yeah. I would always remove them. Always. And then I don't know if it was a certain age I was like, you know what? I'm keeping the gherkin. It's quite nice.

I was the same. I used to order cheeseburgers as a teenager and say no gherkins. And I remember once I said no gherkins and I must have said it with an attitude which is, you know, unlike me. And I got like seven gherkins in my cheeseburger. They put down attitude. Attitude just asked for no gherkins.

Attitude burger. Well, apparently, according to these very, very busy scientists at Oxford University, the reason that the gherkin makes the burger so much better is the pickle, the vinegar, and the sourness of the gherkin makes the burger so much better is the pickle the vinegar yeah and the sourness of the gherkin yeah has to cut through that like thick umami flavor of the meat and the richness of the cheese without it a burger's a bit full on it's still yum though oh i mean still bloody yum i'm not complaining if there's no gherkin in my burger but it it makes it less heavy because

you're adding that acidity to it and you're adding a bit of crunch. So it's a bit of sweet and sour. Sweet, rich, savoury, sour. All of the, it's like you're waking up all of the different flavour types on your palate all at once. You've got to have the gherkin. Right. So did they just go out and get a big panel and give them all burgers

and test this out or something? No, it wasn't quite that sort of silly. It is Oxford University after all. They actually looked at the balance of flavours. So like what brings salt, what brings sweet, what brings umami, what brings sour, and that they found that having an equal kind of representation of all of those flavours is the key to making the burger good. And without the sourness and the bitterness of the gherkin,

you're missing a whole part of it. So at 2am, when you're taking the gherkin off your burger, don't flick it at your friend or on the wall. Don't do that. Eat it because it's delicious. But don't eat it if you it at your friend or on the wall. Don't do that. Eat it because it's delicious. But don't eat it if you have already flicked it on the floor because that's yuck.

Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. A study out of America has shown that two out of three adults have stared clear and pulled out of social events because they're embarrassed about their financial situation or they just don't have the money.

And probably those social events where maybe there's like a set menu, you know, like we're not going to just pay for what we had. Oh, that I hate when you split. Yeah. When there's a BYO and you just have something small or a dinner and you just have something small because maybe you're not that hungry and then everyone's like, let's just split it. Yeah, when there's a BYO and you just have something small or a dinner and you just have something small because maybe you're not that hungry and then everyone's like, let's just split it. Let's just split it.

It'll be easier. We all kind of have the same. And you're like, I did not. Yeah, that's like $20 more for me. Yeah. Yeah. And the reasons people pull out, people stay clear of birthday parties mostly, 33%. I'm guessing they would be dinners.

Yeah, definitely. I'm thinking your adult birthday parties more than your sort of, you know, fairy or Spiderman parties. Maybe there's like a kind of some pressure to take a present as well. So that adds up. Weddings, 32%, only just behind birthday parties. Happy hours and network, maybe happy hours after work. Oh, it's hard to say no, though. Because the drinks are two for one.

I know. Yeah. Networking events followed after that. Yeah, so those are the main reasons people pull out of those events. Not because they don't want to go. Just that financially they're like, well, if I go, this is going to be a debt now because it's going on the credit card or it's spending money that would be for rent or bills. Yeah, and it's everywhere at the moment, right?

Like everyone's like, you've got to tighten the belt a little bit. Everything's too expensive. If you've got a mortgage, you know, that's about to increase, da-da-da-da. So you've got to trim the fat of your spending. And socialising, I guess, would be one of the first things that can go. You can't not have gas in your car and food in your fridge. Yeah. And nappies on your kid.

How do you say, like, no to something like a wedding? Like, you could say no to a birthday party, right? But a wedding where you're, like, going where you might have to go to another city, so you've got to get flights accommodation, you've got to pay for a present, you've maybe got to pay for what you're going to wear, that could end up being like $500. At least.

And I remember when I first left drama school and I was working in theatre and making almost negative money. You were paying them because you were eating the snacks. Exactly. I first left drama school and I was like working in theater and making almost negative money I was like you were paying them to because you were eating the snacks exactly um I did I didn't go to a wedding a friend's wedding because I just couldn't afford it and I was like I cannot afford flights to where you are yeah I mean not even the outfit thing because I guess you can at a pinch borrow something or wear something you've already worn before but the flights the accommodation even the whole

weekend of it I was like I just can't do it and it really sucked because you missed out on this occasion but yeah did they understand though absolutely oh yeah right I am trying to think now I mean this was like 10 years ago I'm trying to think now whether or not I was honest about the fact that I couldn't afford it or if I made an

excuse like I was busy. Who knows? Because I remember I had friends that got shitty at someone because they had a Rarotongan wedding and someone couldn't make it. And it's like... Yeah, but this is why they do it. Yeah. This is why you do it because you're kind of hoping people can't come.

So you go, we'll just go miles away and then people won't be able to come. Yeah. And then our wedding will be cheaper overall. Well, bear that in mind with things so crazy expensive at the moment. If your friends are pulling out, there's probably a reason why. A little bit of space. Yeah. Let's talk about knees.

Knees. On the legs. The bendy bits. On the legs. Yeah. The bendy bits. So I've had a bit of knee issues recently and I

refuse to let it be a thing. You know, like let it be, I've got bad knees now because I'm getting older. What's wrong with your knees? I didn't know about this. They're sore. They're sore feet. Why are they? From exercising.

I don't know. Just in the last month, they've been kind of sore, particularly my left one, and I'm wondering if it's connected to my leg tingle, which is all but gone. Oh, yeah. And now my knee hurts. Right.

Well, you need to go back to Dr. Wynne. I know, but I'm too busy. I can't see Dr. Wynne. I need him. You need Dr. Wynne. I need Dr. Wynne. But anyway him. You need Dr. Nguyen. I need Dr. Nguyen. But anyway, so someone said to me the other day, I was like sort of playing with my knee and going, oh, oh, oh.

And I said, oh, yeah, I noticed that your knees looked a bit puffy. And I was like, puffy knees? Puffy? Puffy? What? And I looked down at them and I was like, huh, yeah, maybe they do look a little bit puffy. And then I went home and then I put my legs up.

You know when you put your legs up against the wall? On the couch, you just put, yep, yep. I'll try to get my, some puffiness out. And it hasn't, and now I just have a theory that that's just my knees. They've always, have they always looked like that? Have they always, have I always had puffy knees and no one's ever told me about these puffy, puffy knees. Have they always looked like that? Have I always had puffy knees and no one's ever told me about these puffy

puffy knees? And now I can't stop looking at my knees and I don't know what a knee is supposed to look like. Because then I was googling knees and they're horrendous. What hideous things. I know because I sometimes look at my knees and I'm like

they're all like squishy and weird, aren't they, knees? I just Googled sexy knees. What's a hot knee look like? Who's got a sexy set of knees on? I'm just seeing what Google Images got. Oh, my goodness, I'm going to be flagged by IT. See, that's not a sexy knee. What makes a sexy knee?

Do we like knobbly or are we more team Sproul puffy knees? Well, yeah, because some of these look quite bony, some of these knees. And the knee's always like darker. You know, it's like the weenus. Weird, aren't they? The weenus on the back of the arm. They're very weird. Have you thought about getting some ice packs on them?

It's too cold. Yeah, I suppose I could put ice packs on them. Unpuff them. I don't know. I think it's because they sit on my legs all the time. I'm always cross-legged or like tucking them under my bum. But now I'm looking at knees. I mean, look at these bodybuilders' knees.

Like where's the knee bit? Do knees have muscles? Their ones do. Do you reckon by the time we need knee transplants, you know, because you can get new knees, it'll be easier? Yeah, but I don't know if that makes the skin and what's there sexier.

Am I going to have to get knee lipo? Maybe, I don't know. God, add it to the list of things. Quite rude of someone, though, to say to you that you have puffy knees. That's like saying you've got a, you wouldn't say to someone you've got a puffy face. Your face is quite puffy. Someone has said to me that my face is quite puffy.

Wow. You need better friends. I need more. Or maybe your friends are just keeping it real. Maybe they're keeping it real. Maybe I'm holding a lot of fluid. Am I puffy? I don't want to, I don't think puffy is ever a good thing to say about any bit of the body.

No, especially not the knees. Gosh, you've got a puffy nose. Look at your puffy arms. Look at your puffy knees. Yeah, it's not. Well, good luck with that. On today's podcast, a legend from a galaxy far, far away. Obi-Wan Kenobi.

Hello there. Well, the guy that plays him in the new Disney Plus series at least. In an NZ exclusive, Ewan McGregor is on the podcast. Obi-Wan Kenobi. Play Zed Ames, Flash, Vaughn and Hayley. Well, research from a data insights company has discovered that on average, when we're looking for something to watch, they've used Netflix as the example,

but this could apply to your neons. Anything. Any of your streaming services. Your TNZ on demand. Yeah, sure. Just being a company woman. Just, yeah, you could watch, what's that show you do, you and Vaughan?

Have you been paying attention? That's on there, isn't it? Yeah. Watch all of those. Huge fan, thanks for the support, pal. On average, we spend 18 minutes going through archives

before finally settling on what we're going to watch. 18 minutes. I reckon that's true. Unless you've sort of got something on the burner, like you're chewing through a series and you know exactly what you're heading to. Oh, that's the best when you know what. You're going to sit down,

I've got more episodes of this show I'm binging. Yeah, love that. It's nice and easy. But I would say 18 minutes is probably right on the money for us because you go, like usually I'll be cooking dinner and I'll say to Aaron with about 15 minutes to go, can you find us something to watch?

And by the time dinner's ready and I bring it into the lounge, if we're watching with dinner on the laps, we still haven't found anything. So is he yelling out to you in the kitchen, do you feel like true crime? Do you feel like comedy? Yeah. And then I'll be like, I don't know.

I just don't want to choose. And then he'll make offers and I'll be like, I don't know. I just don't want to choose. And then he'll make offers and I'll be like, not that. So then you're limiting it. Yeah. Well, that's hard because there's two people choosing.

There. So you've got to please both of your moods at that very moment. I go, instead of going, what am I in the mood for, like genre wise

or like trying to think of a film that I'm in the mood to watch, if it's one I've seen before, I to think of a film that I'm in the mood to watch, if it's one I've seen before, I often think of an actor that I feel like being with for a bit. Okay. You know what I mean? Right, yeah. So you're like, tonight I'm in a George Clooney mood.

Like, often for me, it's a Hugh Grant mood. Okay. Unfortunately, Hugh Grant's, like, film catalogue, you know, hasn't ended, really. There was a time there where he was languishing a bit in the career and he didn't really make anything. I know, but now I can be like, I'm really in a Hugh Grant mood and then we're like, what is it?

Is it Two Weeks Notice or are we going right back to Notting Hill? And I'm like, I don't know. What was that one he did recently with... Nicole Kidman. Yeah, that was good. Did you like that? That's not The Others, is it? The Something, yeah.

That was good, wasn't it? I loved it. I loved seeing him in quite a dramatic role like that. Right. So there you go. If you are looking for something, I don't actually know what that's on. Sometimes I'll just Google

the best TV shows of the year so far as well. Yeah, I do that too. And there's always lists and you're like, okay, that looks like me. You give it a binge and you're like, great decision. 18 minutes. You add up 18 minutes every time you sit down to watch Netflix or a streamer. Yeah.

We're wasting our lives. We're not even watching anything, we're choosing. Play. ZM's Fletchvorn and Hayley. It's the final rankings Well, it's a Friday tradition. Vaughan in Disneyland. So we're going to have to have this argument without Vaughan today. But I'm happy to... Yeah, he often makes wild claims, honestly.

Today we're ranking. In the past, we have done biscuits. We did the sampler box. We ranked our favourites in the sampler box, but today we're doing chocolate biscuits. Yes, and we did mention a spin-off article that

ranked all 142 biscuits, so chocolate or otherwise, ginger nuts in there, squiggles, hundreds and thousands. And I do want to point out the biscuit that came in 142nd for them was the milk arrowroot. Oh, yeah, that's very plain. Very plain.

Would super wines be? So I have a friend who only likes those kind of biscuits, doesn't like chocolate biscuits. Only likes super wines. Like crispy. Yeah. They're a bit weird, eh? Yeah, really weird. They need to go to therapy. No, vanilla wines were number 10

on their list. I do, I mean, I love the spin-off. I feel the person who wrote this is absolutely also needs some therapy. And their number one was chocolate butternut snap. What are those? They're like kind of crunchy, buttery, shortbread-y. Right. Anyway, we're doing our own rankings, chocolate biscuits only.

Question, am I allowed to select the hundreds and thousands? Because that's, is that a chocolate, that's a. No, get a grip. No, no, no. We're talking about real chocolate-y. Like covered, chocolate covered biscuits. Yeah, Tim Tams. But then you want to do, you want to put forward the chocolate thin, and I would say there is as much chocolate on a chocolate thin

as there is a hundreds and thousands biscuit. Oh, God, we needed to clarify the rules because I was going to put, I reckon my number two would be a Jaffa Thin. That's weird. But I would think of that as a Choccy Bicky. Can we go to the producer's booth? Can we see if a Jaffa Thin fits into the chocolate biscuit category? Anything with chocolate on it, is that what we're taking?

Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Well, in that case, I'm going to go just straight out the bat, Hokey Pokey Squiggle, my number one. Number two, Hundreds and Thousands. Number three, the White Tim Tam. I rest my case.

You and your white chocolate. You are so embarrassing. It's not chocolate. Yeah, people say that. Come at me with that. It doesn't matter. It doesn't have cocoa in it. So I agree with you with Squiggles.

Squiggles, just like classic hokey pokey squiggles, is the number one biscuit in the world. And before you eat them, you put them in the freezer or the fridge. Snap. Yeah, delicious. I just feel like I love hundreds and thousands of biscuits, but I feel like that's psychotic to put it as number two. And I just don't think it's chocolate biscuit.

Okay, mate, will you let me substitute for a mint slice then? It's a minty biscuit. Oh, okay, okay, okay, okay. What about, yeah, you're going mint biscuits. You're squiggle mint biscuit white Tim Tams. Yeah. I'm not a Tim Tam gal. Too much.

Too much biscuit. Oh, okay. I'm going squiggles on top, Jaffa Thins in second, because they just snap and they crumble and they're delicious. And then I'm going to go a Chopped Dipped Digestive. Oh, the whole thing is dipped or the top? No, no, no, just the top. I love a Digestive.

And they also, because they say digestive, you think that they're good for you. You've got two big 90s, early 2000s biscuits there as your two and three. That's when I did my most biscuit eating. After school. Is that right? Right. On the platter. Producers, any thoughts here on your top tier biscuits? Anything you'd like to add to the

list? I may like to propose a mellow puff ooh trash wow you think you know your freedoms eh marshmallow no you crack it on your forehead and then you go

crack it on your forehead yeah and then you suck out the marshmallow and then you're left with the why don't you push it with and then you suck out the marshmallow and then you're left with the biscuity space. Why don't you push it with your finger? You've got to do the forehead crack. Do you remember those massive, those single-wrapped Mellow Puffs?

Yeah, the huge ones. Remember those in the 90s, the huge ones? Yeah. You do that to your forehead and you get a bloody concussion for the rest of the day. I think we've figured out why Anna comes to work with a chocolate mark on her forehead. I think we do. I was wondering what that was. a chocolate mark on her forehead. I think we did.

I was wondering what that was. We didn't want to ask. So, Mellow Puff, Mint Slice, then the Blue Tim Tams, which I believe are like double chocolate. Oh, okay. Yeah, good. I like that list. I like that list. Thank you.

Jared? No South African biscuits. Do they have biscuits in South Africa? Yeah. Okay. Carrie? The Crunchy Squiggles. That's Carry on. The crunchy squiggles. That's number one.

Crunchy squiggles? You know, the yellow squiggles? Yeah, hokey pokey. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hokey pokey squiggles. Oh, you mean like crunchy bar. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay.

And then I'm kind of at an impasse between white Tim Tams and double dip Tim Tams. Yep. See, I love this list. This is why I like Jared. Good biscuits. I haven't seen my last one yet. Oh, okay. Wheatons. is why I like Jared. Good biscuits. I haven't seen my last one yet. Oh, okay. Wheatons.

Oh, Jared. Jared. I see I like a Wheaton, but it's not in my top three. Now, do you crack any of those biscuits on your forehead? No, I'm 28, so. Wow. Carwen at the social media desk. Final rankings.

Chocolate biscuits. Okay. Mint slice. Always at the top. Yeah, good. Hokey pokey squiggle. Okay. Mint slice, always at the top. Yeah, good. Hokey pokey squiggle. Yep. And then caramel Tim Tam.

Caramel Tim Tam? Okay. You know what? Your basic fees and your Tim Tams, I can't stand the lot of you. But I think we definitely agree. Squiggle would be number one. Mint slice is up there, but squiggle's number one. Yeah.

Would we go squiggle number one, mint slice number two, and then it's an open for third place? Yeah, we can't pick between digestives, Wheatons, and you bloody Tim Tammers. Yum, squiggles. They're one of the most popular biscuits in the country. I know, but there's too much. There's too much to them.

They need to calm down a little bit. Bring it down to like a toffee pop. You know what I mean? Oh yeah, we didn't have the like a toffee pop. You know what I mean? Toffee pop level. We didn't have the caramelised toffee pop. Delicious. Are you changing your answer, Fletch?

But not the usual. The plain Tim Tams. They're yuck. All right. No, the plain. You mean the plain toffee pops. Sorry, the plain toffee pops. Yeah.

So squiggles. Squiggles superior biscuit. Yep. 100%. And now I need one for my seven o'clock coffee. Oh, yeah. So Squiggles, Squiggles Superior Biscuit. Yep, 100%. And now I need one for my seven o'clock coffee. Oh, yum, yay. And there are none in the building.

Oh. Who is it? Is it Griffin's? It's one of them. Help us. Well, there's a dairy, but that opens at eight. Look, we'll get a biscuit after work.

Okay. It's not that important. All right, Vaughan should be joining us after 7.30 this morning. He's currently at Disneyland in the midst of Star Wars celebrations. Joining us next, though, on the show, and you're very excited about this, from MasterChef, the judges. I know.

And the new judges, it's going to be an awesome season. We're going to chat to them about all things MasterChef. Play ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley. Play ZM. Well, as excited as Vaughan and Hayley. Play ZM. Well, as excited as Vaughan is to be in Disneyland, I'm excited to be joined by the new judges of MasterChef NZ, which is starting again on Sunday. We're joined in studio, Nadia, Vaughan and Michael.

Welcome to the show. Hello. Hey, what's up? Thanks for having us. Yeah, good to be here. So exciting, because MasterChef NZ's had a little bit of a hiatus, hasn't it? Yeah, seven years it hasn't been on telly. So it's about time it made a comeback.

We are here. You're here. And of course, you guys are a new team. Have you three worked together before, or is this you're thrown into the mix together? First time working together, but we've known each other for a while. Yeah. I was so stoked when I found out Yvonne and Michael were going to be on it too.

I was like, yes! Couldn't have dreamed of a better team. Yeah. And this year I see that you've had the, MasterChef New Zealand's had a record-breaking number of applicants. Yeah. I didn't know that, but I'm not surprised.

Most people ever have applied for MasterChef. Wow. It's been a long hiatus, so everyone's come up to the plate for once. Everyone's been working for seven years. And also lockdowns, I reckon, had an effect on it. Because everyone was cooking and baking and, you know, really getting into it over the lockdowns. And that's probably what's kind of sparked it.

Yeah. And then there's only 27 people that make it to the episodes, to the competition. What does it take to make it into MasterChef? Like what are you guys looking for in a chef? Vaughan, what are you looking for? For me, it's always all about flavour and what they do, but there's personality and someone that is excited about it and has drive

and really wants to get to the end line. I mean, that's what I like. We did see a lot of passion, a lot of tears. There's people that really, really wanted it, and some people just didn't know how to achieve it. And I think with our guidance and mentoring, we helped them along the way. But, yeah, there was a lot of hungry, competitive talented young people.

Super talented. I mean I'm going to be completely honest. Some of them I was like sheesh, I'm so glad you were not on my series because I definitely would not have won if you were. They were that good. Some of them were that good.

Of course Nadia, you have that advantage. You've been on the show and now you are judging the show. Does that give you a bit more of an insight of their experience and what they're going through? Yeah, and I also knew when they could kind of play it. If they were trying to play it too safe and just play that game to kind of just skim across the surface to get from challenge to challenge to challenge.

And having been on the show, I knew that you could kind of do that as a strategy, but that made me want to push them more. I was like, don't play it too safe. This is your one chance. You've got to think outside the box, do something different. Yeah, challenge yourself.

Do you three ever disagree when you're doing a tasting? Because I know that you all sort of have your own maybe like passions of food. Like Michael, I know you love Italian food. I mean I love all food I mean I have an Italian restaurant the French inspired restaurant but no I think generally like 95% of most times we all agreed on most things yeah totally yeah I mean it all it all 100% like came down to the dish. And we took it real seriously. Like we had our scoring, we had like a scoring system, you know, kind of presentation, taste, innovation, creativity.

Yeah, we got all like Carl Sagan on it. I mean, seriously, we had spreadsheets, star alignments. Like we didn't mess around. Yeah. And in terms of like, I just want to, because I'm, I don't know if you can tell, I'm a massive fan of MasterChef.

And I mean, I've, you know, you read so many things like the food's cold or, you know, it takes hours

and, you know, like, you know, you're filming into the night and all this. Like, do you guys ever get to eat

anything more than a mouthful of cold food? Oh yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, my goodness. We'd be so full at the end of the day. Like, it's weird. It actually changes your whole kind of diet because you're just constantly eating.

Especially at the start of the show. Yeah, we didn't have breakfast. Some of those days we were eating so much food. Yeah, we wouldn't have breakfast because we knew there was so much food coming up. And then you wouldn't have lunch because you knew all this food was coming up. And then you didn't want dinner because you'd just eaten all this food. We, we wouldn't have breakfast because we knew there was so much food coming up and then you wouldn't have lunch because you knew all this food was coming up and then you didn't want dinner because you'd just eaten

all this food. We are professional food consumers. I'm definitely a professional eater. That's a job that I really, really want as a professional food consumer. Well guys, I'm so, so excited to see you all

on the screen and to just see all the food, the fancy food. These home cooks are just amazing, aren't they? They are. And they're all really awesome people too. Not just good cooks, but really cool people as well. It's because we're New Zealand. Well, of course, MasterChef premieres 8.30 this Sunday.

It is on Sundays, Mondays, and Tuesdays. Thank you so much for joining us, you three. Thank you for having us. So there's a bit of a debate on air. There was a guy and his wife who had booked a flight. It was a 10 hour flight. So not a small

one. Not a hop, skip and a jump. And they had booked their flights well in advance and paid for extra leg room so that they could have a bit more space because apparently him and his wife are both quite tall. Now, me and Aaron do this all the time and depending on your airline,

it's not cheap and it's not refundable. No, it might be like, what? To go to like Australia, it might be like 50 bucks or something? Yeah, for 50 bucks for a long-haul flight, it's usually around like 100, 150. And then when you're doing multiple long-hauls, say you're going all the way to Europe or something.

It adds up. It all really adds up. But when your fiancé is nine foot tall. Close, six. Six. Nearly there. But I mean, for Aaron, it's like he won't fit in the normal seat. So he can't move.

I don't know that this was the case for these two, but they say they're quite tall. Okay. Anyway, so when they boarded, they noticed they'd both kind of booked the edge seats. They noticed that there was a woman holding a baby in the middle seat. She was struggling with the baby.

And then she said, God, I'm really sorry, but can I be cheeky with you and ask you to switch seats with my husband? And then she pointed toward her husband who was sitting in another row that was not an extra leg room space. Oh, no, no. And then she said, you know, like,

is it possible that my husband can sit there and you can sit there? I've got this baby and it would be really helpful to me. Yeah. You know, it's my first flight. This baby would be really helpful to have my husband near. Yeah. Now, obviously, this is an awkward situation. Mother with newborn baby, what do we do?

And she had paid for the extra leg room, but the husband hadn't. Oh, that's on them. That's on them. And she had paid for the extra leg room, but the husband hadn't. So that's a bit cheap. Oh, that's on them. That's on them. I'm assuming there were no other seats left though, right? Did she get the last one? Yeah, definitely. Right, okay.

So it was like our husband and wife pair, a split, and then the mum with the baby in the middle. And the husband in a cheap seat. Right, the husband and wife who booked the extra leg room, they're trying that trick that we talked about to get the whole row to yourself. That's that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

The flight hack where if you book the aisle and the window seat, you hope that nobody sits in the middle, and then you get the whole row. We're talking about this because Fletch and I have literally just done this for our trip to Melbourne coming up. Yeah, we have.

And I reckon we will rue that decision, and there'll be someone wedged between us. Yep. Dribbling. Anyway, so the guy just said, like, no, I'm sorry. Like, I'm tall. I've paid for this extra leg room. Tough. I'm not going to do it.

Yep. Although I might have been tempted to move because of the baby. But that's what she's wanting you to do. I know. I mean, it kind of worked out for them in the end because the flight attendant came and said, look, there's two seats together further down the plane, not extra leg room, but you and your husband can sit there together.

Right. So the woman with the baby ended up leaving. So now our hero couple have not only extra leg room, but they do have the seat in between them. So it does work. It does work. Anyway, so he kind of shared his experience online on Reddit and was like, you know, I can't help but feel bad about this.

Is this something that I should feel terrible about? And everyone on the internet was like, no, dude. Like you paid for this extra leg room because you're tall. And on a 10-hour flight, maybe like $100. So you're not moving. He's in the right, I think. I think he is too. But this, like even just reading this,

because it's been so long since I've done a long-haul flight, it just reminds me of this stuff. Like those seating issues you have. I'm sorry you're in my seat. Someone's's you know reclining in front of you on a trip to australia oh you don't recline no you don't recline on a short flight under three hours under three hours do not recline i think that's new zealand wide we recognize this we do somehow every time i go to Melbourne, there it is on my lap.

But we wanted to ask. We wanted to open up the lines and ask, when did you have a seating issue? And not just a plain seating issue, but any seating issue. A movie seating issue. Yeah. Someone in your seat, you know,

when they do allocated seating. Oh my God, yes. And no one, like, remember when they first brought an allocated seating to cinemas and everyone was like, no. And then you just sit wherever you want. Yes, yeah. People were like, no, this isn't a thing.

But I think people respect it now. But then still there might be an issue with the person next to you eating loudly a massive bucket of popcorn. Yes. Or I remember one flight we'd booked extra leg room for Aaron and we were right by the door,

like the actual like big door that opens, not the little side emergency exits. And it had this big bulbous bit. So even though he got extra legroom, it was taken up by the door. And we were like, what? Yeah. Yeah, technically no legroom. Yeah, less legroom. We want to take your calls.

0800 DARS at M9696. Whenever you had a seating issue, an argument with someone next to you, an argument over a seat, and I also want to hear from shotguns. You know, the shotgun on the roadies. Yeah. The front seat.

When we come back, I've got a really hideous seating story to share with you. All right. Oh, God. We're talking about your, when you had a seating issue. You know, travelling

is opening back up. We're talking buses, planes, trains. A guy has been sort of validated on the internet after not giving up his seat to a new mother with her baby because he paid

for the extra leg room. Yeah. And she should have done the same, basically. So we asked you when did you have a horrendous seating issue. Jalen, what was your seating issue? So me and a group of

friends went to go watch Toy Story and then the ticket guy gave us like separate seats. We weren't together. So when we sat, it went me, this random random another one of my friends and in a random and there was like five of us and then there was a family of five they asked us to like just move down but then my friend stood up and said um excuse me i've been seated here as

you can see on my ticket this is my seat so we all just like stuck with her idea and then we're texting each other during the movie like, this is so awkward, we should have just stayed together. Yeah, but then why do they let randoms book one seat in the middle of a row or like one apart? That's weird. I blame the ticket guy.

He didn't like us. It's always the ticket guy. Do you know what though, if I worked in like the movies or if I was checking in people for flights, if they were rude or had an attitude, I would 100% like in my mind and make a list of other people that had annoyed me and sit them together. Yeah,

that'll be good. I think we were one of them. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So maybe lose your attitude next time, Jalen. Yeah. Jalen thinks you're cool. Shane, what was your ticketing issue? Me and my wife booked a round-the-world honeymoon, and while we were in New York,

we went to the Lion King Saturday night show, and we'd booked the very back seat by the accessible ones. This couple in front of us had booked three seats, and then there was an empty seat, or two of them, an empty seat, and then another two. So the two on the side kept trying to sit in the other seat, and the guy was like, sorry, I've paid for that. Can you guys just jump out of it?

They had a few arguments. Intermission comes, and it was a surprise for the mother that had flown her friend in from LA to join them for the show, but her flight was late. So she didn't get there until intermission. So when they went back, all three of them were there, then the other two couple, one of the other two started kicking and nudging the new lady that had come to sit down,

not knowing it was a surprise or everything. So about 10 minutes in, they had to get security come to escort out the couple because they were causing a hassle during the show. Oh, my God. It's the theatre, guys. It's the theatre. Behave yourselves.

You're there. You're seeing it. Behave yourselves. You're there. You're seeing it. Just calm down. Exactly. Wow. Shane, thank you. Some messages in. Seating dramas.

Well, this message is, they say, not a seating issue, but rather the way that I avoid issues. When I fly, I wear a knee brace outside my pants. And when I check in, they always give me an exit row or two seats to myself. What? A little hack there. And then if it doesn't work just take the knee brace off. Take the knee brace off and just, you know, yeah. Live with it.

A message says, arguing with my boyfriend to change seats with me at the midnight screening of the Avengers as I was sitting next to the biggest nerd of my life. Aww. Or someone, yeah, a lot the biggest nerd of my life. Oh. Or someone, yeah, a lot of people calling in, a lot of people messaging, I'm six foot two, I'm six foot three.

Anytime the person in front of them reclines. Yeah, you can get those, remember those devices that clip onto the tray table and stop people reclining? I know, but you also can't do that, can you? I mean, give it a go. I mean, if I had the device, I'd 100% give it a go. Yeah.

Was on a plane, seats upright for mealtime, always. Yeah. The person in front, when they finished their meal, just recline their seat, no warning or consideration. Then all of my dinner fell into my lap. Oh, my God. I would have just picked it up and just put it over onto them. Yeah.

When I was on a flight to Europe, I was trying to get to sleep and the girl behind me put her feet through the gap. Between seats. And she had bare feet. And keep kicking my arm with her bare feet. I was so repulsed that I just had to turn around and say something which was torture for me, someone who hates confrontation. The story that I had to share before that I teased

was my mum and I were on a flight, a big long haul flight, and the person in front had dreadlocks and like long, like down to the bum dreadlocks. And when we were eating our meal, one of their dreadlocks came through the little gap in the chair and landed in our meal. That is disgusting.

We went hungry. Another message, a weekend boozy trip from Dunedin to Christchurch back in the uni days. I drove three passengers all in the back, drunk as hell. The deal was that they would share the drive home the next day. The next day, two hungover, they all refused. So I made them all sit in the back, drunk as hell. The deal was that they would share the drive home the next day. The next day, two hungover, they all refused. So I made them all sit in the back, squashed up while I cranked classical music and the heaters on full

for the next four hours. Still grinds me 12 years later, you know who you are. Torture. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley. I just tried to hook him in to this bit, but he won't have a bar of it, Aaron. He said I'm a bit shy. Go put some pants on.

I'm closing the door. I'm broadcasting from home if you're just joining us as I'm filming The Great Kiwi Bake Off nearby. But last night, it's a shame Aaron won't join this room because all I've put this segment aside for is to pump him up. Last night, so I've been working hard, I've been shooting during the days and the nights

on The Great Kiwi Bake Off Season 4 coming soon. And getting home really late and very tired. And last night Aaron said, oh, I'm going to be out with some of our friends so I won't be able to cook you dinner.

And I was like, that's absolutely fine, I'll just have scrambled eggs on some of our friends, so I won't be able to cook you dinner. And I was like, that's absolutely fine. I'll just have scrambled eggs on toast. Are you not eating cakes all day from the bake-off filming? No, I learnt my lesson season one. That's not sustainable. You can't do it. You've just got to pick a little bit.

But no, you can't eat cakes all day or you will die. You'll look like a cake. I will be a cake. Anyway, so I got home last night and he was a little message from Aaron saying I'm going to be late. You know, I've set some things up for you. I got home last night and starving.

Got into the kitchen and there was the toaster was out and a small systema where he'd even selected the toast bread for me. Yeah. Taking it out of the freezer, thawed it somewhat. small Sistema where he'd even selected the toast bread for me. Taking it out of the freezer, thawed it somewhat. For your breakfast?

No, for my dinner. I was having breakfast for dinner. Okay. A little toast. Yeah. A knife, a fork, and a knife specifically for buttering the toast. I was like, great, there's the toast. And then I thought, now I'll make my scrambled eggs.

I opened up the fridge, and I always put lots of vegetables in my scramble and there was a plate, and I'll just show you, a plate of pre-cut and chopped vegetables. Oh, wow. Even a small slice of lime to add to my eggs. Grated cheese. Everything's all cut. So all I had to do was chuck it in the pan and add some eggs in.

There was a bottle of red wine and a glass ready to pour. And there was also a message to say, but if you prefer, there is a man of war, Pina Gris, in the fridge. You need to marry this man. Happen to want one.

I'm trying to. We won't do it. And I also, then I came into the room to set up. I always get my outfit ready because I don't have a lot of time in the morning. Yeah. He'd done that. Undies included, undies folded.

And I tell you what, they're my most comfortable undies and I'm grateful for them this morning. And then I hopped into bed and there was my little self-help book. Maybe that was a little, maybe you want to read this chapter, Hayley. Right.

On the bed, ready to go, bed made, heater settings, ready to go. The fireplace had been all set up. All I had to do was light a piece of paper and it went, lit the fire. Then I went to fill up my water bottle before I went to bed. That's full. He's done everything for you. There's no punchline

to this. This was just awesome. And then I did think if he came home right now, I would have got in the car and tried to find a courthouse and marry him right on the spot. But instead, I'll just keep waiting. Well, you're engaged. You're the one waiting for him, aren't you?

Who knows? Who knows? I've got ring number one. Right. It's a small step. It's a dangerous precedent, though, because next time you come home and it's not like that, you're going to be grumpy at him and he would have done nothing

wrong. He's moved the bar and now the bar for me never can come back down. Yeah. So what's going to happen when I come home tonight? I fillet steak? Yeah. Potato gratin perhaps? Who knows? Anyway, what a man.

That's all I wanted to say. What a man. What a man. And Vaughn, in Disneyland at the moment for Star Wars celebrations, joins us from his hotel room. Yes, hello. It's me, Vaughn. And haven't we had a little show and tell, Hayley, in the last 10 minutes? Oh, we certainly have. Now, I thought you were just making the one lightsaber,

but it turns out I was very wrong, Vaughn. I bought what are called heritage-held lightsabers, the Ahsoka Tano Clone Wars ones. That probably sounded like a different language to you guys. It did, yeah. Star Wars fans, you'll know. Ahsoka's my girl. Rosario Dawson's going to play her in the upcoming live series. You will have seen her on The Mandalorian.

Yes. Yeah. Yeah. I've got her on The Mandalorian. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. I've got her lightsabers here because she dual wields lightsabers, which is a little bit different to the standard. She's got one. One's a little bit shorter than the other, so that's cool.

So Star Wars celebrations at Disneyland. But you're telling me everybody there is like you. Worse. Like, I'll start sending through photos. The cosplay, it's not even the cosplay day. It's not even the day to go dressed as a character that you love from the Star Wars universe or one that you've created, but everybody's already in cosplay. Except you.

Has anyone been brave enough? I know I feel terrible. Has anyone been brave enough? I always ask, I'm just so fascinated by this costume. Anyone been brave enough to do the Leia bikini? Yep. Jesus! That's nothing.

There's like a girl that was getting photos taken before and someone said, what do you like class your cosplay as? And she said, Jedi stripper. Yeah, hot. Wow. It's hot stuff. This is the lightsaber I made yesterday. Oh, wow.

Okay, that looks pretty cool. It is cool. So you made that. You know you can just buy them like from the warehouse. Can you, not of this quality. And I showed you, but no one on this, this is my droid that I built yesterday. He's a

C-unit droid. This is the latest type of droid you can get at Star Wars. Can he say hello? Did you hear that? Yeah. Do you have any room in your suitcase to bring all this stuff home? I'm going to worry about that later. Right, okay. Because the lightsabers are very long.

That is a problem. I don't know how I'm going to get those home. You might have to get a snowboard bag, maybe. Yeah, that's a great idea. Yeah. That's a great idea. I have genuinely, in the years that I've known you, Vaughan, I don't think I've ever seen you like this.

I know. I don't get excited. You never get excited. Nothing really rattles me, but, man, I've been so excited today. Let me run through what I've seen today alone. We went to the opening of Star Wars Celebration today, like the official sit down in your seats and listen, and it started with a 100-person choir.

It went completely dark. A 100-person choir sung Jewel of Fates, which is like this legendary John Williams song that he composed for The Phantom Menace in like 1999. Beautiful song. And then it went into a panel where Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen were there, Darth Vader and Obi-Wan, and they invited us.

Tonight we're going to go to like a premiere. Everyone's going to go into this massive theatre and watch the first two episodes. Are you celebrating? I'm talking so much I need to stop and go and breathe in so that's happening and then straight after that Diego Luna

came out he's Andor he was in Rogue One Fletch for you he was in Narcos oh yeah I like him and gave us a release date for Andor which is going to be August 31st's your own house. And gave us a release date for Andor, which is going to be August 31st, 12 episodes of that. And also we heard then Mando season three is underway.

That's going to be out next year. And then got a little sneak peek, and there's plenty of Grogu or Baby Yoda back in that. Yes. I get to go to a tour later on. They brought out all the props and everything from The Mandalorian, which is in like a basement down here, and we get to go on a cool tour later on. They brought all the props and everything from The Mandalorian, which is in like a basement down here

and we get to go on a cool tour of that. There's a new Star Wars show that's about four kids trying to get home after getting lost in the Star Wars universe. And then John Williams

showed up. Who's that? John Williams himself, the 90-year-old composer that wrote like all of the Star Wars music, Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park,

like all of like the big movie themes. They're like, oh, it was his birthday this year. And then he toddles out on the stage, this little 90-year-old man, and then the curtain goes up and they've got this like 100-piece orchestra and they play us the brand new Obi-Wan Kenobi theme, which is the first time it's ever been played live outside of a recording studio. That's pretty cool.

Yeah, and then he's like, oh, and I'm here, so I might as well do you another song. And he's like, you might know this one. Starts playing the Indiana Jones theme. And then at the end of that, Harrison Ford comes out and is like, happy birthday to John Williams. And everyone is just like, what? And he's like, oh, by the way,

Indiana Jones is almost finished. That's going to be out next year. And then John Williams is like, oh, well, we might as well play you out, play out the opening ceremony and play the Imperial Death March from Star Wars, the Darth Vader theme song. It's been a morning. You could die a happy man today, couldn't you?

I would say even as a non-Star Wars gal, that would, I mean, the music itself would be absolutely incredible to listen to. Oh, it was phenomenal. And just, yeah, I must say the choir, though, because there was no instruments, obviously. If you're not familiar with that song, Jewel of Fates, give it a listen because you'll know it. But, yeah, just the human voice.

Oh! With all these celebs there, massive celebs, are they hanging around or are they just sort of popping in for this thing and then... You're not pestering them, are you? No, they wouldn't dare. I wouldn't say they'd dare go into the crowd. I'm at the very low end of fanatical Star Wars fan

when it comes to Star Wars fans at this thing. They'll just be mobbed. But they've got panels and stuff throughout the weekend, and Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen are hosting the screening tonight of Obi-Wan, which is quite cool. Right. Well, yeah, again, I hope they don't move in the crowd. There's some real freaks.

Play ZM's Fletch Vaughn and Hayley. Play ZM. Friday Flashback. Well, it's Friday Flashback time. He joins us from Disneyland. Vaughn, you'll pick this week for Friday Flashback time. He joins us from Disneyland. Vaughan, you'll pick this week for Friday Flashback. Yep.

But you didn't tell me what one we decided on. So you just said Hayley said a Disney song. And then I was like, that sounds fantastic to me. Well, I'll help lead you. No, Hayley, stop talking. Fletch was mouthing it to me. And then you started talking so that Fletch, stop talking. Fletch was mouthing it to me and then you started talking so that Fletch, go back to Fletch.

Okay, now Fletch, mouth it again. Hakuna Matata. You're good. You're good at reading my mouth. You're good at reading my mouth. I know exactly what your mouth's doing. Hayley thought if you didn't join us today because you're at Disneyland,

we have to do a Disney song of course and we did think even though we've already had Elton John on the show too much I reckon for a top 40 radio show so we didn't want to do

Can You Feel The Love Tonight something a bit more upbeat do you like my pick for you Vaughan? I love it he wrote this didn't he but it was sung by Nathan Lane and the other guy that did Pumbaa. It wasn't Seth Rogen, first time around.

Oh, there you go. I don't know. Are you just trying to Google? You look like you're furiously Googling, Hayley. I'm Googling some little facts about Hakuna Matata. All right. Are you worried, though, that this won't go down well? I'm not worried.

This is Warnsville now. This is going to go down fantastically. It's everybody's childhood everyone's going to love this it was when I was a young boy it was written by Elton John and Tim Rice

alright Hakuna Matata it's your Friday flashback on ZM it means no worries for the rest of your days it's our problem free philosophy Hakuna Matata rest of your days. It's our problem-free philosophy.

Hakuna Matata. Hakuna Matata? It's our motto. What's the motto? Nothing. What's the motto with you? You know, these two words will solve all your problems. That's right. Take Pumba, for example. Why, when he was a young warthog...

When I was a young warthog! Very nice. Thanks. He found his aroma lacked a certain appeal. He could clear the savannah after every meal. I'm a sensitive soul, though I seem thick-skinned. And it hurt that my friends never stood downwind And oh, the shame

He was a shame What a change in my name Oh, what's in a name And I got down-honoured How did you feel? Every time that I... Hey, Pumper, not in front of the kids. Oh, sorry.

Hakuna Matata What a wonderful phrase Hakuna Matata What a wonderful phrase Hakuna Matata Ain't no passing phrase It means no worries for the rest of your days. Yeah, say it, kid.

It's our problem-free philosophy Hakuna Matata Hey, it's your Friday flashback. Hakuna Matata It's your Friday flashback, Hakuna Matata, which I think has gone down a treat. Vaughn as he stuffs his face with a pastry. Good.

No, it's sausage and egg McMuffin from the Starbucks in the foyer. Oh, wow. That's the worst American thing I've ever said. Yeah. We've had a lot of messages in of support of Hakuna Matata. You guys have made my day. Best song ever.

Jamming out on the way to work. Lol. Singing along. Great song choice. One message says make it end. Please make it end. But we'll just ignore that one. That's from Fletcher, I think.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Last message in. That was the best flashback ever. Ever. Well, you're at Disneyland, Vaughan. We thought we must do Disney. We must go Disney today. Joining us on the show very soon after 8.30, Ewan McGregor,

which is the reason you're in. He's handsome, dude. He's handsome. In real life, he's so handsome. He just spoke to the auditorium and he just spoke so softly and he was like, hello there. And everyone was just like puddles on the floor. Yeah, please don't pester him when we have him on the zone. Please don't pester him.

I'm going to see what he's doing later. They don't want to hang out with people like you. Let's have a brawdy pool in the hotel. Please do not invite him round to your Hilton. You've had a sausage egg muffin and chips for breakfast. I don't think you're in any shape to be heading down to the pool, Vaughan. And a coffee that's literally larger than my face. Welcome to America.

All right, well, we've decided it's time now for an impossible phone-in topic. And Hayley, you found this news article, this story about a wedding crasher. Yeah. So there's a guy from Carlton near Melbourne that has been arrested and charged after he has stolen $16,000 worth of presents, gift cards and jewellery over the course of wedding crashing three weddings. Jeez. I know. He masqueraded as a guest at eight different weddings between April 2nd and May 22nd. So this is very recently.

The weddings were in Brunswick, Hawthorne, Fitzroy, all around Melbourne. Wow. And then from three of those weddings, he's stolen $16,000 worth of goods, including money from their wishing well. You know, people put money in an envelope. Yeah. Jewelry from guests.

Everything. If you think about it, unless it's your wedding, when you're at a wedding, there's always people at the wedding you don't know because they're friends of the parents or what. There's like, you know? Maybe less and less

now, but definitely in traditional weddings, right, you'd be like, yes, your parents get to invite a few guests and then you may go, oh, that person must be a cousin of Aaron's. And Aaron's going, oh, that must be one of Hayley's friends, partners. Yeah. And then they're gone into the night with all the...

He's twisting his moustache and he's got a little hat on and he's like, yes, I'm a bride's guest. He's like, that is a fine diamond necklace you've got there, ma'am. Would you like to dance, madame, while I slip this diamond necklace off your neck? It's straight out of the movies. So this guy is just a professional wedding crasher, except he wasn't trying to, in the film that I'm going to say

didn't age well, sleep with women. He was trying to steal from weddings. So our impossible phoner is, did someone crash your wedding? Like not necessarily just to steal something But just maybe they were Because you know a lot of places It could be the reception at a hotel

You could be in some hotel conference room And they just join the buffet line Yeah they just join in They wander in Everyone's boozed and they're like, I'll have a couple of drinks. It could easily happen. Absolutely. But maybe

not in New Zealand. I feel like I've been at a wedding where somebody had to get told to leave because they weren't invited. And it was one of those situations. It was at a wedding venue that had multiple wedding venues. Oh, okay.

Oh, yeah. And I think they'd had an argument with somebody at one wedding venue so just came to the next wedding venue. If they were dressed for a wedding, they might as well enjoy one. Yeah, okay. You're the only person out of the three of us, actually out of the whole lot of us, who has had a wedding. Do you feel like you knew every person there,

that you would be able to identify every person? Yes. Not prior to the wedding, but there were like, Saturday's dad invited friends that I hadn't met before. Like only a couple of couples, but I was introduced to them on the day by him. So yeah, by the time the reception came,

I knew everybody there. Right, but if that moment didn't happen, you would have been like, who the hell are those people? I don't know if this wedding crasher in Melbourne was like a middle-aged, business-looking gentleman. No, he was a 24-year-old scallywag. All right.

Well, this is the impossible phone-in topic. We think it's a topic so impossible we're not going to get any calls. So has this happened to you at a wedding you've been at? Someone's crashed the wedding? Or maybe you've crashed a wedding because you saw the opportunity for free booze. All right, it's the impossible phone-in topic. A topic we think is so impossible, we won't get any calls.

Because who would do this? I know. Now I think we're very, very wrong on this one. We're talking about, we asked, did you crash a wedding? A guy in Australia has crashed a wedding, stolen $16,000 worth of goods and been arrested. He was masquerading as a member of a family. I think as Kiwi as it gets,

it'll be somebody crashed our wedding or I crashed a wedding. I don't know if anyone's pulling off the big heist. I don't know if we've got any heists. Somebody messaged in saying, are we opening the door to tangi and funerals? Because there's always people turning up to those that you don't know. It must be all the free food. Always at a tangi, there's like hundreds of people that you're like,

I guess cousins? Yeah. All right, well, let's go to Kylie. Kylie, you crashed a wedding. Yes, it was quite a few years ago now. Right, accidentally or on purpose? It sort of came about. We're from Crash Edge, went up to Terrace Downs as a group of us for the weekend.

Went to the restaurant to have dinner, and in the part of the hotel or whatever you call it up there next door, there was a wedding. And, of course, after a few wines, we were all like, oh, let's just go and try and see if we can get into this wedding. And we just waltzed in and pretended to be part of the group and had a dance and a wine. And did nobody pull you up at all the whole night?

I think after a little bit of time, we were sitting and pretending to know the wedding party. And one of our guests, one of my friends, knew somebody in the group. And they were like, oh, how do you know that Brian and Groman? They're like, uh. Gradually, everybody sort of one by one got kicked out,

and I think I was the last one standing, but had to leave at the end. Good on you. Good on you. That's a lot of free booze. Kylie thinks you're cool. Hayley, you crashed a wedding? No, I had my wedding crashed.

Javi and I eloped in Rarotonga, just the two of us. Yeah. And once we finished our final vows and rings and kiss, there was a massive big beach of random people who were clapping and waving and wanted to join in on the festivities. So you kind of had a rented crowd. Pretty much.

Did they come to join the festivities? Did they actually invite you guys in the wedding? Oh, my gosh. They did. So many people got in the photos and, like, wanted to join us for a glass of wine. Do you think it was, would it have been cheeky to ask them

to donate to the honeymoon fund? Yeah. Maybe. We got a few drinks out of it, so. Win-win. Yeah, but you don't go to Rarotonga to escape everybody to, I'm assuming that you didn't want to have a big wedding

and then all these strangers invite themselves to the ceremony. And now it's a big wedding again, yeah. It's like a free family. Yeah, exactly. Hayley, thanks. You really sound like you don't like yours. Hayley, thanks. You call Hannah.

You went and crashed a wedding. Yeah, inadvertently. Oh, okay. How did that accidentally happen? My cousin was getting married in Sydney. My husband and I missed the connecting flight between Melbourne and Sydney. Okay, yeah. And we were just set to meet by the docks for the reception at Sydney there.

So we met at the docks, we walked around, we found a wedding reception, assumed it was ours. Went in, put the gift on the table, had some hors d'oeuvres. Then the wedding party arrived and we realised they weren't our wedding party. Did you go back and get the present and then leave to try and find your wedding? Yeah, we did. Yeah. It was really embarrassing.

Oh my God, that's so embarrassing. Wow, well at least you were visiting from New Zealand. Like, you didn't know anyone. Well, we even read the guest list because it was taped on the window and we were like, oh, I must just be her family. It'll be fine. Yeah. Wow, Hannah, thank you. Our message is in.

Miss you, Vaughnie? Are you still with us? Yeah, um, yeah. What are you doing? I was just messaging Jared because the callers were coming through so loud I couldn't understand them. It sounded like just a... And I was trying to work out how to remedy that.

So, you know, my turn. There were some wedding crashes. An older lady, when you arrived at the wedding reception, uninvited. We had purposely not invited her. And she ended up staying all night. We found out the following day she'd abused about four people throughout the night. Which is why she wasn't invited in the first place. God, everyone's got one of those in the family, don't they?

Yeah. She sounds like she might get on the sauce and become problematic. Went to a friend's wedding and two teenagers tried to gate crash the wedding and the groom approached him and said oh who are you here with and they said oh we're related to the groom and he said look I'm the groom if you're going to lie about these things in the future

at least you've got to do your research you've got to come in and if the groom comes up you don't say it's the groom it must have been a casual wedding if you couldn't differentiate the groom from the guests. Totally. Yeah. Totally. I was an uninvited guest at my cousin's wedding. I also gave a

speech for all those who weren't invited or couldn't make the wedding. We're actually a very close family, so it was taken the right way. It was a great night. It all does come up at other family weddings that I just turned up to one of the cousins absolutely uninvited though. And made a speech. Yeah. We crashed a wedding while travelling in

Morocco. Met one of the guests on a plane and they invited us and got us all decked out in traditional Moroccan garb and everything. That would be amazing. That would be fun. Yeah. That would be so much fun. That would be so fun. My cousin bought her three kids to a wedding. There were no seats or plates or anything

for them at dinner as it had been specifically said this was not to be a child-friendly wedding. People, some people. Oh, that's the pats. That is the worst. Send them all home. Yeah, goodbye. If you can't come without your kids, you're not going to be able to come. Yeah.

All right, Ewan McGregor. Ewan McGregor joins us soon to talk Obi-Wan. On today's podcast, a legend from a galaxy far, far away, Obi-Wan Kenobi. Hello there. Well, the guy that plays him in the new Disney Plus series at least. In an NZ exclusive, Ewan McGregor is on the podcast.

Obi-Wan Kenobi. Play Zed Ames, Flesh, Vaughn and Hayley. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Well, fact of the day, we've lost Vaughn from The Connection, from Star Wars Land, but he's restarting his... He's done it by a stormtrooper. A stormtrooper? Is that what he's called? Yeah, those are the budget versions of stormtroopers. Stormstroopers.

He's restarting his computer and his router. We've got Ewan McGregor on the show in minutes, but I'm going to do fact of the day. I'm going to take us on the fact of the day journey today and my fact of the day today is about the Teletubbies and the place where the Teletubbies was filmed. Now the Teletubbies was filmed from 1997 and ended in 2001. God, it was 1997.

I feel like I was too old to be watching that then. But you were. Oh, God. But I did. Yeah, I remember it. Well, it was filmed on a private farm in Warwickshire, Wimpstone, on a farm. Now, that farm belonged to a lady called Rosemary.

Now, Rosemary, I'm assuming, was getting money from, was it the BBC that made? I'm pretty sure it was BBC. Yeah, so Rosemary was probably getting quite a lot of cash for the Tally Tabbies to film on her farm. And you may remember the Tally Tabbies house was in kind of like a bowl, like an amphitheatre, a natural kind of rolling hill.

Yes, I remember. I remember well. Yeah, much like Hobbiton. I was just I remember well. Yeah, much like Hobbiton. I was just going to say, it really does look like Hobbiton. Everything's kind of in the banks. Yeah, although you can see that this is like fake grass on the Teletubbies' house.

Yeah, well, they didn't have CGI, as Hobbiton did. No. It was a bit more budget, even though it's BBC. But they filmed here for years, and then when the show ended, people would start jumping the fences

and wanting to visit the Tally Tubby's house. Because word got out that there was this farm and you could go and see the Tally Tubby's house. But you couldn't go officially. And Rosemary started to get pissed at this. Because, as she said, this was our house. This was our farm. You know, this was our home.

Absolutely. And, you know, this was our home. Absolutely. And, you know, you'd have drunk students at all hours of the day jumping the fence or just people coming during the day and wandering around wanting to get a glimpse of where the Teletubbies was filmed. So she decided enough is enough, and she flooded the gully where the Teletubbies house was, and now it's a lake because she doesn't want people coming over to visit.

So she just flooded it. That's such a dramatic response. Yes. It's been underwater now for years. It's bustling with wildlife. And she said, I'm glad to see the back of it. This is a rural area where people enjoy the quiet life, and it was never that way when the set was around.

If you look, I'm just googling Teletubbies just to sort of like really connect my young soul to it again. What a psychopathic show. How did we let this happen? How did we let our children watch this abomination? Weird, right? The weirdest thing, like, Teletubbies

Tummy time for Tummy Bye-Bye's. Time for Tummy Bye-Bye. Time for Tommy Bye-Bye. There was a baby. Yeah. Oh, my God, this popped up. Why is there so much Tally Tubby news at the moment? Is there a remake in the works?

I don't think so. Rumour mill, rumour mill. But the baby whose face was the sun. Yes. There was an article on her. She has a baby now. Oh, yeah, she'd been in her, what, 30s or 20s. So everyone's just going like, oh, we're so baby now. Oh yeah, she'd been in her what? 30s or 20s. So everyone's just going like,

oh, we're so old now. The Teletubby baby son has a baby. Yeah. Which one had a handbag? Tinky Winky had a handbag? I think so, yeah. Why? I know.

And what was in the handbag? Yeah. Well, yeah. There you go. So today's fact of the day is that the woman that owns the farm where the Teletubbies house was flooded it because she was sick of tourists trying to come around

to see the Teletubbies house. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Yeah. For Ewan McGregor. How's it going? Really good. How about you? Do you guys have a smoke machine? No. The last interview I did, they had a smoke machine. I just was asking. That was all. Oh, damn. We're going to get thrown off on a bad foot.

Ewan McGregor's comparing us to his past interview. We could set something on fire. Yeah, I could put the smoke alarms on or something. I'll produce a vape. He could come in and blow a... Jared, get in here and blow us a vapes. Smoke for Ewan McGregor. Quick.

Get some atmosphere in that room, Bates. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Okay, here we go. Yay! Is that grape? I think that's grape.

That's grape. You're not getting the full sensory experience, Ewan McGregor, but that's grape. That's grape vape. That was great. Oh, my goodness. That was great. Okay. Smells like bubble goodness. That was great. Okay. Smells like bubblegum.

It really does. Ewan McGregor, this is a, I've been very nervous. I don't get nervous about anything. This is a dream come true. Vaughn's gone all scattery about meeting you. Yeah, I'm going to the Disney celebration, the Star Wars celebration, and I'm just like a kid at Christmas. I'm just so excited.

And I'm super excited about it. Are you going to be there? Yes, are you going to be there? Well, I might be there. Yeah, I might be there. I'm staying at the Hilton. I would like to have a drink at the bar and a swim at the pool with you, please.

And I don't want to come across too desperate, but this would be nice. Vaughn, your voice is going a little high. I'm getting pitchy. I'm getting pitchy. I'm getting excited. All of this can be arranged. It's only a phone call away. We can make all those things happen.

Okay. He's beside himself. Is there any fan base? Do you believe there's any fan base in the world more fanatical than the Star Wars fan base? I don't think so. I don't know. I mean, I don't really know, you know,

what the Marvel fan base might be like or something because I don't know i mean i don't really know um you know what the like the marvel fan base might be like or something because i i don't know but i i do know that the star wars fan base is incredible and passionate and um yeah i it's unlike anything i've ever been involved in really yeah and and the gap between our revenge of the sith and now returning as obi-wan kenobi many years and i'm imagining like i think it was a few years ago, the internet just decided you were doing it. And then here you are. Yeah, it really was a bit of, it was just every interview I did

ended with the same two questions. They were always, would you do the sequel to Trainspotting? And then would you play Obi-Wan Kenobi again? Like every single interview I did for years. And I just, I ended up doing the sequel to train spotting so they stopped asking about that and then i i kept answering the other question because i sort of felt that the affection for the prequels at last i didn't we didn't feel it when we made them you know when we when they came out it was pretty um negative the reaction to it

because it was just the critics we could hear. But as I started meeting the generation of people we made them for, you know, the kids who we made those films for, grew up and started, I started meeting people where I realized the prequels were really much loved. And then Disney called me, because really like on social media and everything,

it was just all, every time I was asked and I said, yeah, I'd play Obi-Wan again, it went bonkers. And then they called me and got me in and they said, listen, we've just read that you said you'd play Obi-Wan Kenobi again. Do you mean it?

Are you telling the truth? And I said, yeah, I think there must be a great story between episode three and episode four. And we started talking and slowly it all came together. People just have to ask you to do one of your classic films again and you'll do it. May I request a Moulin Rouge sequel, please?

Yeah. Great. Done. He signed on. So very agreeable. Well, we've been told we're out of time, which is heartbreaking, but as you said, I'll flick my number to your people. I'll have a pool party. I'll get a smoke machine.

Don't listen to him. Okay. The Hilton. Don't let him pester you. Feel free to bring Hayden Christensen. Anybody. I'll take anybody at all. This will be a dream come true.

Don't. Don't. Vaughan, you're playing so cool. There's two choices here. You play it cool and you don't get what you want or you're asking you. Hopefully you get what you want because he's a very agreeable man. Ewan McGregor, thank you so much for your time.

Can't wait to see Obi-Wan Kenobi, the series on Disney+. Absolutely throughing for it. Nice one. Take care, guys. Play. ZDM's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley. Well, today's silly little poll.

Do you know how to change a tyre? Now, this is, of course, regardless of gender. Yeah. Fletch, do you know how to change a tyre? I've done it once, and I did it wrong, and then someone told me you do the opposite. You tighten the bolts opposite, eh? When you're finally tightening them. Is that right? Yeah, yeah. You don't just go round and? When you're finally tightening them. Is that right?

Yeah, yeah. You don't just go round and round and round and tighten them all. You go that one and then the opposite one, diagonal, and then... Is that a thing? Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. You don't just go boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. You go just like a little star crossing across. So I've done it once and it didn't fall off.

Well, that's good. So good on me. So I'd be confident enough to do it. I mean, I wouldn't want to do it. If I had AA, if I had a car and I'd have AA, I'd just call them. Well, of course, if you were listening a couple of months ago, I know how to change a tyre and I went to change my tyre, no spare tyre. So that's something I learned about my car.

No, I haven't. Have you since purchased a new space saver? I have to tell you, my to-do list has been absolutely too done. But the only thing on there is says space saver for the Mazda. Oh my God. For Maz. I know. For Maz. Yeah.

But no, my father taught me how to change a tyre. I think I could do it. But it was quite split though, wasn't it? The silly't it? It was quite split. The silly little pole. It sort of bumped overnight. 61% of people feel confident that they could change a tyre. Okay.

39% absolutely couldn't. Yeah. I mean, it's one thing to change it, but then how confident are you to drive on that after you've changed it? The only place I'd be driving if I changed my tyre is to the tyre shop to get people to do it properly. I just want to get off the side of the road.

Some messages in. Alice says, my dad made my sister and I do it 10 times each before we were allowed to drive a car. That's a good idea, actually. Yeah, he had a fricking tally going on a whiteboard and would time us, traumatised. Time trials. Oh my God, people. Evie says, I learnt when I was seven my uncle would help me tighten it and everything, but I know how to do it.

Wow. Because I wouldn't imagine a seven-year-old's got a lot of grip. Like, it'd be pretty loose. To crank the blubber thing. Amy says, I brought my first car. Oh yeah, I brought my first car without telling my parents while I had my learner's license. And by the time I got home from school the next day,

it was on blocks. And Dad told me, until I knew how to put all four tires back on, I wasn't driving it. Oh, yeah, like you'd taken them off. All four? Wow. There's dads and their daughters, hey?

Kylie, all the ladies coming in, why learn when my hubby does it for a living? I mean, that's helpful, Kylie. Yeah, but they're also not helpful if you're in the middle of nowhere alone and your hubby's, you know, 100 k's away. Exactly. Last time I had a flat tyre,

I just drove a couple of kilometres on the flat to his work for him to change it. He did tell me off because it can bend the wheel. Yes, it can bend the wheel. Sarah says, duh, I have an AA membership for that. Yeah, that's what I'd do. I'd just have one of those. Oh, this is funny.

Another lady, woman chiming in, Dad would not let me drive my car alone until I'd learnt how to change the tyre. Are there any, do dads do this with guys as well, with their boys? I guess so. I feel like only women have messaged in.

Yeah. Rose says, if a cute man will do it for me, why would I bother learning? Maybe. Is that a way if you're single, just pop your tire, wait on the side of a road

and then just wait for someone hot to pull over. If they're not, just say, oh no, someone's coming. And then just, you know, just maybe get a date that way. Is that a good idea? On the side of the road, it's like, oh no, sorry. Oh no, no, someone's coming. And then just, you know, just maybe get a date that way.

Is that a good idea? On the side of the road, it's like, oh, no, sorry. Oh, no, sorry, someone's coming. Yeah, you're also weaponising your incompetence there too. Yeah. And our final message, Bronte says, I don't even know how to drive. Why would I know how to change a tyre? She's 27.

Wow, that's a life of Uber for Bronte. Eh, why not? Your personal chauffeur, you mean. All right, Friday Jams next. ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley.