ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Megan Podcast - 10th September 2021

Episode Date: September 9, 2021

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The ZM Podcast Network. Clay. ZM's Fleece, Vaughan & Megan. Hello, welcome to the Fleece, Vaughan & Megan podcast. It's thanks to McCafe, barista-made coffee available from drive-thru and McDelivery at level 3 and also dine-in at level 2. After ideas, I'm going to go after the show today, post-vaccine, to look for more bamboo steamers. You know, the little bamboo. You go to Yumcha and there's just like this.

Oh, I love those. So what you can do is you can just make a massive pile of them and steam multiple things at once. A steaming tower. A steaming tower, if you will. So what's at the bottom? It's the bottom boiling water. Yeah, that's all it is, boiling water.

You're supposed to grease them or put like paper in there. But if you don't have the paper with the holes in it, oftentimes it can stop. So rather than doing that, you can either get that cooking spray and give it a spray so the buns don't stick or dumplings or whatever you're steaming. Cut them into squares and just put them on the bottom of the bun. Oh, that's what they do at Yum Cha.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Grease it up. Or yesterday I just used like some coconut oil on one of them. Oh, yeah, right. Put the coconut oil on one of them. Oh yeah right. The coconut oil and it stopped the buns sticking in the steamer but tonight we're having beef cheek, pulled beef cheek in bao. Oh yeah. And

we're going to eat tons of them. Yeah. Because we're little piggies. Yeah. And. You're going to need a lot. That's what I'm, I need to find the stacks of the bamboo steamers because I'm not standing at the steamer doing like, because I don't know, these will take like, say, eight to ten minutes to steam from frozen. Yeah.

I'm not standing there doing three or two or three at a time when I could get a stack and do them all at once, baby. I think your Asian supermarkets, some of them are open during level four in Auckland, so that's probably where you go. Because my bamboo steamer I got from Kmart. Kmart's not open. No. New World, I looked on their online supermarket.

Nothing. And only some New Worlds have them. Oh, okay. But you've got a good call. Yeah. I might have to look for a specific Asian supermarket to find it because nothing beats it. You can't beat a bamboo steamer when it comes to steaming dumplings

or bao or like steam buns. You can't do them in a metal steamer. It gets too hot and they get chewy. And wet. Yeah. They get wet because the condensation forms on the top and drops back down and then whether it's the bamboo or either let it out or absorb it. It's these little things like getting excited for dinner in level four

that really get you through, eh? Oh, I know. Yeah. We've tried. Food-wise, we've tried a lot. Yeah, it's good though. Over lockdown, like Sade's like, I might try this recipe. And it's just, I'm like, wow.

And now it's added to like the recipes she can do. You mentioned in today's show that what, two, that people haven't tried, most people haven't tried anything new in months. Try a new recipe. Yeah. Give it a go. Give it a go. Eat something you don't normally eat.

Do it. Thanks, Rachel. Good morning. Welcome to the show. Fleach Morn and Megan. Two minutes past six on the least feeling Friday I've felt in a long time. But that's nice. It's a surprise. Yeah. Surprise day. Well, do you guys feel like it's a Friday? It felt like a Friday yesterday. So today feels like... We're working a Saturday. I do not like it. I don't know if it's because we're in level four in the rest of the country. What is time, man?

Yeah. It's a bit like that, eh? Well, apparently this morning, or about to touch down, 250,000 vaccines, Pfizer vaccines from Spain. Yeah. Espanol. Bit of the old switcheroo, eh? We're doing from Spain. Yeah. Espanol. Bit of the old switcheroo, eh? We're doing some trading.

Yeah. Some purchasing. Yeah. What did we switch them for? Probably some cheese or something. Yeah, cheese. Kiwi fruit. It's like a good old barter system.

Yeah. But an international barter. No, she said yesterday that she bought them. They bought them. Right. So I don't know if we then have to sell some of ours later, but it didn't sound like it. Maybe, though, because that was the idea, right? Like there was just this massive influx of people getting vaccinated

and they want to keep that rate of vaccination going. So we've... I wonder if I'll get a... I'm getting vaccinated today. You might get a Spanish. Am I going to get a Spanish one? Well, we're dealing with that in the top six. The top six ways you'll know if you're getting a Spanish batch

of the Pfizer vaccine. Oh, man. All right, it's coming up. Also, next on the show. Bad news for people who eat plant-based diets. This won't affect you, too. Why on me? I love a salad and my greens and veggies.

Yeah, you're not fully plant-based, though. Especially Vaughan, I'd say you'd be pretty safe. Yeah, your things aren't eat plants. You're like 90% meat. So it's technically a veggie. It's a veggie that's just been through a slightly different process than yours. All right, it's next. ZDM's Fletch Vaughan and Megan.

I'm just reading the weirdest study. This is looking into plant-based diets and there's always been that little song like beans, beans, good for your heart. The more you eat, the more you fart. Beans are musical fruit, the more you eat. Beans, beans are musical fruit, the more you eat, the more you toot. Beans, beans, good for your heart.

Yeah, the more you eat, the more you fart. Which is true, but apparently a plant-based diet and the effects it has on your insides hasn't really been looked into in great detail. Everyone knows that it's kind of like fiber and stuff. But now they've looked into it and done a study with people and looked directly at how much it makes you fart and how it affects your gut health. So the more plant-based you are, the more farts you do. Yeah, right. So they did a study, and this is specifically on men,

18 healthy men aged between 18 to 38. They were assigned a diet, and then they assessed pretty much what came out the other end. Now, they put a balloon catheter into – Oh, my gosh. I was wondering how they were going to measure how much fart came out. Because not only the men on the plant-based diet farted on average seven times more per day than those on a Western diet.

But each fart contained almost twice as much gas. And they did measure that by using a balloon catheter, which they fitted up there. I was going to say, a sample size of 18 is low, but then even just finding 18 people to have something inserted with a balloon on the end of it to measure gas would be a big ask. How much are they paying? Exactly. I've got a weekend free.

And it was done over eight weeks. What kind of gas? Was it bad gas or are they just talking party gas? No, it's just – More. It's not bad at all. It's – in your gut it creates a plant paradise for good gut bacteria. Okay.

So, like, they didn't, I'm trying to do this without sounding gross, but they didn't poop more. Right. But the quality of their poops was better. Right. Interesting. I think we all know that. Like, if we just have a diet of takeaways and forget to eat some veggies,

you notice, don't you? It's smellier. If you're hefty on the protein, get a little bit blocked up, you need the fibre action. Yeah. Right. But it's nice to know someone's undertaking this kind of study. Yeah.

I mean, I think we knew that, right? When you eat real super healthy, lots of fruit and veg. Yeah. It's gassier. Yeah. But when you... Broccoli. Shortcut.

Broccoli's a bad one. Yeah. Yeah. But being gassier. Yeah. But when you... Broccoli. Shortcut. Broccoli's a bad one. Yeah. Yeah. But being gassier is not a bad thing either. Might mean there's a good gut bacteria going on. Pushing it through.

Yeah, right. Getting it through. Play ZM's Flesh, Fawn and Megan. The highest earning people on TikTok. Now, you probably think

of your Addison Rae's. She's one of the most famous ones on TikTok. She's just done a Netflix movie. So you'd be like, yeah, she's clearly up there. The person that earns the most on TikTok is one you would have seen but not spared much of a thought for. His name is Burak Ozdemir. He is a chef.

Oh, yeah, he's the smiling chef. Yeah. So he creates massive, he's done like a massive kebab, he's done a massive pizza, a massive burger. So he runs a restaurant called Burek, I think. Okay, in Dubai, right?

Yeah. And so he just creates these monstrous creations and puts them on TikTok. And I've seen them and he kind of like does it and he just smiles and stares at the camera kind of kooky videos. What's his username? C-Z-N B-U-R-A-K, which is the

name of the restaurant. Yeah. So he's only the 14th biggest user by followers. 47 million followers on TikTok. So the biggest, Charlie D'Amelio, 124. So that's like three times. Yeah.

He has a net worth of approximately $11 million. Wow. And I... How? Like, TikTok is... He doesn't do like... Paid partnerships.

Right. I only see his stuff on Instagram. Oh, do you? Because he's on Instagram. I see him on TikTok. Yeah. I'm not on TikTok. I'm a 39-year-old male.

I've got no... Absolutely. It was nice. It was nice getting to that roadblock. Yeah. And then be like, no, you can't have this one. And I'm like, oh, no, no, that's fine.

Cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool. I'll turn around. I'll just go back to Instagram reels. I guess it would be more for him to promote, as opposed to, say, Charlie D'Amelio, who's just, like, he'd have all the cooking, all the huge food companies that would want to partnership with him. Easier to do a paid partnership.

Yeah, totally. Yeah. So he's number one on the TikTok rich list. And yeah, you probably saw him and didn't really spare much of a thought. Oh, that's a cool massive burger that he cut with like a samurai sword. Yep. But yeah, he's massive. And Addison Rae is third on five million.

Okay, well, she's also the third biggest TikTok user. It's weird. Will Smith is the sixth biggest TikTok user in the world with followers. He does some pretty crazy things, though. Do you remember that one? Was it a TikTok where he was up on top of that archway thing? Yeah, what was that? The drone shot.

He does some pretty inventive videos. Yeah, right. Okay. Yeah. Huh. And then he does quotes and people share the quotes, right? Yeah. Yeah.

Maybe you should get on TikTok. Nah. There's money to be made. All right, the top six is next. Getting 250,000 Pfizer doses from Spain today. The top six signs you got the Spanish Pfizer. From the bustling ZM think tank, this is the top six. Hello there.

Touching down today, 250,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine that we got from Spain. Spain. Yes. Has popped those in the post. Sounds like the Prime Minister used her friendship with the Prime Minister there. Yeah. Who was the Prime Minister of Spain? I forget his name.

Pedro Sanchez. Yes, that's it. Pedro Sanchez. I was going's it. Pedro Sanchez. I was going to say a Spanish name, but I didn't want to be offensive. Yeah, quite like the stereotypical Spanish handsome gent. Watch out, Clark. Oh, yeah, very handsome. Those fizes aren't free.

Like a rub fife? Sort of like a Spanish Justin Trudeau vibe, but a slightly older gentleman. Anyway, we could sit here fawning over the Spanish El Presidente all day, but we're not going to. Top six signs you got the Spanish Pfizer. Because you're getting yours today. Yeah. Your vax.

Yeah. Okay, be on the lookout. Yeah. Well, number six on the list of the top six signs you've got the Spanish Pfizer. You love paella now. And you can say it right. Paella. You know what calling it?

Oh, can I please have the prune palela? Paella. Is it a paella? Palela? How am I saying that? And you can say it right. Because you've got the vax. While you're there, why not have some gazpacho?

Some pisto. Coquillo. Empanadas. Megas. And of course, why not a potato tortilla? Yummy, yummy. Number five on the list of the top six signs you got the Spanish Pfizer. You really have to hold yourself back when you see someone you know from kissing them. Hello. Oh, one on the left. Oh, one on the list of the top six signs you got the Spanish Pfizer. You really have to hold yourself back when you see someone you know from kissing them hello.

Oh, one on the left. Oh, one on the right. Hola. Number four on the list of the top six signs you got the Spanish Pfizer. It gets to midday and you're ready for your siesta. Your boss is like, where are you going? Here, boss, come on. It's time for siesta.

Number three on the list of the top six signs you got the Spanish Pfizer. You've got an overwhelming urge every time you see a red tablecloth to pull it off the table and use it to lure a bull and stab the bull as it runs past. Do they stab them as they go past? That's bullfighting. Oh, my God. That's why people have got a problem with it.

They literally drive a spear into them as they run past. Oh, my God. We need to stop that. Yeah, that's why everybody for like 20 years has been saying, hey. I just didn't like it because they were being mean and making them chase a stupid tablecloth. Oh, no, they literally die afterwards. Oh, my God.

The idea is that that man is dominating his... Did you not know that either? Oh. Why did you think everyone had a problem with it? Because they were teasing them. Come and get this material.

All you can't have it. Humans making animals do stuff they don't really want to do again. Rock them up. Yeah, then they die afterwards. Oh, my God. Number two on the list

of the top six signs you got the Spanish Pfizer is going to get to about five o'clock and you're going to feel like a tequila or a

margarita. And what are you going to eat with it? Tapas. Yes. Little pieces of food. Tapas. Oh, how good is Spain?

Remember Spain? I've never been. I've never been either. But it is one how good is Spain? Yeah. Remember Spain? I've never been. I've never been either. But it is one of the places. Spain and Italy. That's me. That's me after all this blows over. I'm going to go to Italia.

I'm going to say. That's my favourite. Whereabouts is the Spumante Bernatine? You could buy one of those $1 houses, one euro houses. I know. In an Italian village. And just never go.

Yeah. And then be on one of those shows where they're like, how's it going? How's the renovation going? And you're like, well, I've absolutely blown more budget. Who knew? And number one on the list of the top six signs, you got the Spanish Pfizer.

You're all of a sudden very passionate about the All Whites. Because they're the only football team. The Phoenix. I mean, you're not that. Yeah. You haven't quite gone that far down the rabbit hole. That is today's top six. ZDM's Fletchborn and Megan.

Dame Linley Dodd is the author of some classic New Zealand books that fall under the Harry McCleary umbrella. It could be Harry McCleary from Donaldson's Dairy Club, Oh, that's the classic. Scarface Law, The Toughest Tom in Town. When did those all come out?

I feel like those have been around forever. 80s? I don't know. The one thing I didn't look up is actually the details on Harry McCleary. First published in 1983. Okay. His adventures are usually in the company of other animal friends who include the Darche Hones, Snitchel von Krum,

with a very low tongue. I loved it. When the girls were young, they loved these books. Anyway, there's something so authentically Kiwi about it. Five million copies sold worldwide. Five million. That's great, isn't it? Well, it was the spinoff that wrote an article,

and what a wonderful article it is. Catherine Wolfe, their books editor, shout out because she's done the mahi here for some absolute investigative journalism into the fact that Scottish people think Harry McCleary is Scottish. What? Because it's McCleary.

Yeah, and it's not even a Scottish terrier. Harry McCleary's just like, have they ever established Harry McCleary's breed? Because I always just thought it was like a shaggy mutt. Like a long-haired. Some sort of Terrier. Some long-haired black Terrier, but it's certainly not Scottish. Doesn't look like a Scottish Terrier. But they've claimed it.

And do you know why they've been led astray? Here, can you crank my audio for a second? Listen to this. Out of the gate and off for a walk went Harry McCleary from Donaldson's Dairy. Recognise that voice? Yes, it's Peter Tennant. David Tennant.

David Tennant, Doctor Who. David Tennant, the go-to guy for Scotland. He's a Scrooge McDuck in the DuckTales reboot. Yeah. He's the Scottish voice when you want a Scottish accent. So is it a TV series over there? No, they had like audio books. And he read their audio books.

And Scottish people believe that Harry McCleary is indeed a Scottish. They thought Dame Lynley Dodd sounded Scottish. Yeah. This is unacceptable. I know. I know. Someone, some searching was done online for when Harry McClary was used in the same,

you know, tweet as Scott or Scotland or Scottish. Someone said, looking forward to getting home to Old Reekie, which is Edinburgh. Yeah. Apparently to Old Reekie, which is Edinburgh. Yeah. Apparently named Old Reekie because it's basically the Scottish translation of Old Smokey and it used to have so much smokestacks and stuff that it was always

like the smokiest part to go to. To some haggis, some hairy mccleary and the revamped National Museum of Scotland. So there, someone has named it in their top three things that make Scotland, Scotland. This is an absolute kick in the face. Somebody, a Scottish person said,

we might not have invented Henry MacLeary, but we say it better than New Zealand. Which they do because they're like, Harry MacLeary. Like, it's got the R. It's got that hot, rolly Scottish R. Yeah. Harry Mac McLary.

Somebody else said, this finally makes sense to me. I always wondered why they said Harry McLary from Donaldson's Dairy, yet you never saw any milking cows. Because they don't call them a dairy. Yeah, right. They call them like a, what are they, convenience store or off-license or. Yeah, someone said, I worked in a Scottish library in a way.

As a New Zealander, I worked in Scotland in a library and it always blew my mind that Harry McCleary was in the Scottish section. Get it out of there. In 2016, The Guardian, there was a story about how in Finland, every new mother gets a mother's pack of things that are essentially Finnish.

Oh, yeah. And they said if we were to do that in Scotland, what would we include? And Harry McCleary was in there as a representation of literature. But it's not for Scots. Wow. Well, I mean, if they're buying the book. That's it. I mean, Dan Lindley-Dodd probably can just

archive the news. So she's making some money. Play ZM's Flesh, Fawn and Megan. Well, today's the day I get to experience science. Straight in my arm and jack me with the science. Your first vaccine. First vaccine. Old Smithy wasn't in a rush to book, was he?

Well, it wasn't my time. I was waiting. That's true. I am a young, book, was he? Well, it wasn't my time. I was waiting. That's true. I am a young, fit, healthy, sexy, sexy man. And I went and it said, how sexy are you? I said twice. Megan had to book your appointment. And they said you may now book.

And you were booking for Mr. Toyboy at the same time. You had booked for your mom. And dad. Your mom and dad, you'd booked them in. Told Jared there was an earlier appointment, so he's in there today with you guys. Yeah. So you're all going to the same vaccination centre.

I'm the only non-South African. Maybe in the whole place. Because it's in Albany. Okay. Albany. Albany. Stop saying Albany. It's Albany.

Either way. Either way. Either way. Either way. But yeah, I might be the only non-South African there. Right. So you're getting it today. Yes. I'm really excited.

10.30. So the first one, people don't feel much effect from. Nah. Generally. It's different for everybody. One of the two will make you a little snuzzier than the other. Yeah. You don't feel the needle.

Nah. But you get a dead arm. Yeah. You don't feel the needle. No. But you get a dead arm. Yeah, I've already bagged a nap today. I need a nap. I'm getting a vaccine. I need a nap today. You need to keep them children quiet. But yeah, I'm waiting for the group chat to blow up

because you love to be a little bit dramatic. Someone's got to be. Someone's got to spice this stuff up. Why did you tell me it didn't hurt? I feel like I'm dying. Oh, no, it won't be like that. No, it's... You get the flu vaccine every year. It's the same thing. It's the same as it. I was talking to Sade about

vaccines. Because we got vaccinated when we went to Cambodia. We got everything, didn't we? We got the yellow fever, red fever, green fever. Bit of purple fever. Rabies. Yeah? We got the yellow fever, red fever, green fever. Yeah. Bit of purple fever. Yeah.

Rabies. Yeah, we got the rabies ones. But I remember, do you remember getting lined up at the school and you'd walk into the school and they'd say, what's your name? And you'd say, Ron Smith. What's your date of birth? 20th of February, 1982.

Yep, that checks out. And they'd be like, plop, in the arm. And then on the way out, some dude would be like, punch. What? Did you not get that? Yeah, did you not have that? You went to a boys' high school. That's surely.

Guys would come up and because you never knew which arm because you're always like they ask you which arm. So they do a double bang on your shoulders. They either do it to your face and walk up and it's quick as light and they're like bang. Or behind you, you've just been walking along and then hammers. And you get a bang in both your possible vaccine sites. No. I wonder if it, you know, super activated the vaccine

or somehow made it not as good. But, yeah, there was always a punch in the arm the day of vaccines. Right. And a lot of talk this week about the passport, the vaccine passport. Yeah, it's going to be a digital passport, isn't it? Yeah, Qantas just in the last couple of days have said you will need both vaccines to travel internationally. That's me, baby. I'm ready.

And you just would have a good point before about anti-vaxxers now. So like what? They're all saying they don't want a vaccine, right? I'm going to be really annoyed and promoting that they don't want a vaccine. I'm going to be really annoyed if it comes to like, I don't know, Coachella time or when they realise they can't travel. Their honeymoon. Just on the sly be like, oh yeah, just give it to me. Yeah, because they've done so much to spread misinformation.

Exactly. And then suddenly when it suits them because they want to go overseas or to a gig, they're going to be like, oh yeah. Oh yeah, I'll just get it. Okay, yeah, I'll just get it done. I'm down. Yeah, that's pretty shit. Yeah.

Yeah. And they'll go to their doctor for it and the doctor will say, why'd you wait so long? I was a vehement anti-vaxxer. Yeah. But you know, now that I'm inconvenienced because I want to see. Exactly. Yeah. But it's not even.

Insert band name here. It's not even the travel thing in America. It's the fact that there are so many people that could have had the vaccine that are now so sick in hospital, they're clogging it up. And people are like, well, if you chose not to get it,

why should you get priority? 97% of those in hospital in America now are non-vaccinated. Yeah. And something like 99.4% of the people that have died of COVID have had no vaccination. Like, it's undeniable. Yeah, yeah.

Undeniable numbers. Well. It's crazy. So get out there. There's this. I hear lots of people on, like, community pages are like, yep, I've just been down. There's no one there.

They've got some. So even if you haven't got it. Yeah, spread the news. Yeah, yeah. If you see some walk-ups available, you can go. There's a website. We've talked about this earlier in the week. Vax with two X's. V-A-X-X dot N-Z.

You can put in your town or your city or your suburb. And it will tell you how many vaccines are available that day appointment-wise. So even if you're already booked but it's not for weeks. Yeah, jump on. You might be able to get one today. And then that will mean you can get but it's not for weeks, Yeah, jump on. You might be able to get one today. And then that'll mean you can get your next shot in six weeks, like a few weeks earlier. What is the recommended wait between now?

Six weeks, right? That's kind of what they're recommending you wait between the two vaccines. So if you use that, don't forget to book, to cancel appointments you've already made, because otherwise those will stay in the system. But otherwise, bookmyvaccine.co.nz

is the link there if you want to get vaxxed. ZDM's Fletch, Ron and Megan. We've had a lot of chat about air fryers behind the scenes. I was just thinking, I don't think there's been a kitchen appliance. No. Since the microwave. That we've talked about as much. And I reckon COVID's helped the rise of this.

Because lots of people at home are trying to like, you know, make more food. Yeah, you want the takeaways, but the takeaways aren't open so you make it convenient. Well, one of my friends has got one. God bless you if you can work out how to make oven chips as good as chips. Oh yeah.

That was deep frying them. My friend's going on to their flat, just got one. And I'm like, oh, I see. I wouldn't get one in a flat because who's going to clean it? Is it a nightmare to clean? I don't have one. I don't have one either. I ordered one.

The Smiths have invested. Oh, you've done it. Make sure they send me the link to it. Because I'm so close, but I've gone Russell Hobbs. You've gone for Russell Hobbs? Okay.

But I'm a stubborn basic bee now because everyone's got them and swearing by them. I'm like, no. No. But also, what would you cookaring by them. I'm like, no. No. But also, what would you

cook in them? Because I'm like, I'm an oven girl. But you're like, you bake in the oven but how often do you do like a batch of oven fries? You're not an oven fries.

You're not a chicken nuggies. I'm imagining it's going to be the kids stuff that gets cooked in it 90% of the time. Yeah. Yeah. And I love like cooking,

you know, going in there and making like something. You're a purist. Yeah. Yeah. And I love like cooking, you know, going in there and making like something. You're a purist. Yeah. You're a real purist. It was last year, the oven fryer chef, there was some social media account where they were like cooking extravagant food and like cakes and all sorts of things in the air fryer.

Right. See, the problem I have is that I'll, it'll be like the sandwich, the toasted sandwich maker. I'll get it. I'll use it two or three times and then it'll just take up space and there'll be a lot of regret. I mean, they're not massive, but they're not small. So we have run a poll to see where people stand on air fryers. If there is regret after buying the air fryer, because that's my biggest problem.

Yeah. Do you regret buying an air fryer because that's my biggest problem. Yeah. Do you regret buying an air fryer? 75% said no. They love theirs. Yeah, see, okay. But that's 25% that do though. It's a quarter of people.

See, I don't have a lot of, like, if I have fried stuff, it's takeaways. And I'm not going to make that at home. Yeah, see, we do oven fries

quite often and nuggies and stuff. Yeah, right. And it gets hot quicker, right? So the oven's good but you've got to turn the oven on and then it gives it we've got a nice oven but it still takes a while to preheat yeah this guy is bang boom shuddering should have been should have been bang would it be good for salmon yes we're pretty crisp that's what i imagine i have a lot of salmon i love something see that's the thing i reckon you'd look into... I have a lot of salmon. I love salmon. You have a lot of salmon. See, that's the thing. I reckon you'd look into it

and be like, look at all the things I can make in it and then you'd just use it for chippies. Preheat the air fryer to 400 degrees Fahrenheit. Yeah.

Rub each fillet of salmon with olive oil and season to your liking. Place salmon in air fryer and air fry for 7 to 9 minutes depending on thickness of salmon. Does the skin look crispy?

That would be perfect. Apparently it crisps up the skin. Well, there you go. Okay. But also, like, it's cooking without oil. But do you still have to grease the thing, the basket that the salmon is sitting in? And don't you put it on baking paper or something?

Right, baking paper. I don't know. I've just seen a lot of TikToks. Okay, well, we wanted to ask this morning, and not just air fry fries, but if there is a kitchen appliance that you regret, a kitchen gadget that you regret buying.

Bigger the better. Yes. What if they don't regret buying it? What if everyone told them that they were going to regret buying it, but they're like, no, this is as good as I expected. You should all have one. Sure. Absolutely. Remember when spiralizers were a massive thing and I was like, I'm going to spiral every veggie into a spaghetti.

I've got a spiralizer, just a handheld one. It is amazing. Do you have an automatic one? No, I've just got a big contraption and you have to wind it. Yeah, I remember that. Is that the same as peeling an apple with a different attachment? Yeah. I never use that.

Cool, cool, cool, cool. All right, well, 0800DARLSATM9696, what kitchen gadget did you buy and then regret just because you don't use it anymore? Or yeah, or the opposite. Maybe you thought you would. Yeah. People told you you were wasting your money and you use it every day, baby.

We're talking about kitchen gadgets. They are always clogging up cupboard space. Everybody's got one they're not really using enough to warrant how much real estate it's taking up in the kitchen. I'm living in an apartment. I have to be so, that's why I'm umming and ahhing about the air fryer, even though I know I'd love it. Because, you know, when I did that.

Is there a sexy air fryer that would look all right left on the bench? Because I know you've got that mixer. What was that mixer? The KitchenAid. That looks real sexy on the bench. KitchenAid, but it's sexy. It's almost like decorative. Yeah, it is.

Yeah. Yeah, can you buy like a sexy one? I don't know. If you don't use it, that's a lot of, you've made a big commitment. There is cupboard space, but you know those corner cupboards that you have to open and the door always is hanging by a thread? Yeah. And then you can get right to the back.

Absolutely. The worst, the worst use of space ever. Why hasn't a good kitchen designer figured out something to do with that? I don't know. But then I could put it there with the crock pot, the slow cooker. Yeah. But then every time you need it, you've got to go under there. And literally crawl in there. And then move everything out, yeah.

But I find over time, whatever works its way to the back of that cupboard isn't getting used as much. Yeah, so that's where my toasted sandwich maker is. Right, it's worked its way to the back. So we want to know if there was regret buying a kitchen gadget. We did ask about air fryers. 75% said no regret at all. But a quarter of people did.

Yeah, that's true. Taya, what kitchen gadget do you regret? A milk frother. Oh, are you 60? No. This is a real mum cappuccino. That was my mum's Christmas present last year. Mum's got one of those as well, Taya.

Is it powered or is that one you put into the jug and then you frantically pump up and down? No, it's like a cylinder, so it's not like a handheld one. And how many times did you use it when you first got it? Oh, I used it a few times. I got it after lockdown because I wanted to be able to make a decent coffee at home. Yeah.

Frost milk's the key to a decent coffee at home, is it? Yeah. I actually bought another one from Kmart, which was cheaper, but I like the look of it better. Okay, and so do you use it still or nah? No, I just drink long blacks now. Great.

Good stuff. But at least it's not a huge gadget. At least it's just a tiny one, right, taking up space? Yeah, yeah, not huge. Okay, Taya, thanks for your call. Katie, what kitchen gadget do you regret buying? I bought a waffle maker. Okay.

And I bought it because I was doing keto, and on keto there's these things called chuffles that you can make in the waffle maker, and they're, like, made from eggs and stuff, and they're pretty healthy and everything. But the waffle makers aren't opened. You still haven't opened

the waffle maker? Like it's still in the box brand new. Yeah. Oh wow. I could never be bothered making the truffles. I was going to say get that thing on Facebook Marketplace but that's such a horrible place. Is this still available? Is this still available?

Will you take $1? Will you take $1? I'm outside your house. Are you still doing keto, Katie? No. Oh, okay. Well. We'll just make normal waffles.

Yeah, just make normal waffles. Yum. Maple syrup. They're delicious. But then I bought the waffle maker to try and be healthy, and then I'm making waffles. You know what else you can put in it? Cheese.

Ooh, that would work. Just a whole block of cheese. You can put, like, you've got to, like, grease it and stuff, but you can put, like, a special sort of cheese in there. Oh, yeah. And it crisps up, and then you can just eat it. Make a cheese taco. Ooh, that would be good, actually.

Yeah, now we're talking. I'm pretty sure that's keto. Because it's cheese. Katie, thanks for your call. Sophie, what gadget do you regret buying? A bread maker. Was this a purchase in the first lockdown?

Yes, we bought it the day before lockdown was supposed to start last year because we knew the supermarket had no bread left, so we thought we would be really smart and buy a bread maker, but we actually bought the last one from our local Noleaminging. Oh, wow. Okay, and then did you get the yeast?

Because do you remember the first lockdown, the yeast was all gone? There was no flour and no yeast. So how many loaves of bread has it made? One. That's an expensive loaf of bread. Yeah, it is, isn't it? It's a very expensive loaf of bread.

Because the yeast did come back in the flour. You weren't like, oh, let's keep going with this because it does make good bread though, right? We've just sort of sat there now gathering dust

now that the supermarket is stocking bread. Yeah, it's easier. It's just there. You wait until there's a bread shortage again and you won't be able to make bread either

because there'll be a yeast and a flour shortage. Sophie, thanks. You call some other messages in those kitchen gadgets you regret buying. Somebody said, can you please find a story

where someone is saying that their Thermomix was a waste of money so that my wife stops nagging me for one? Oh my God. I have friends that go on and on about their Thermomixes. What is it? Is Thermomix like a blender?

It's everything. It literally does everything. Right, okay. And they have Thermomix parties too, like where you go along and... Is it like a pyramid scheme? Is it a pyramid scheme? No. Is it like a Tupperware?

Do you get like a Thermomix representative in your area? Yeah, maybe. No, I don't think so. They're just really passionate. Oh, they're passionate people. Okay. Okay, so there's the Thermomix TM6 is the latest one. Aesthetically semi-pleasing for a large appliance.

Yeah. But sir, if you came looking for anti-thermomix, here they are. Thermomix, $2,500. What? Supposed to do everything, but we only ever use it as a blender. So there you go. You can get a cheaper blender. Yeah.

Magic bullet. Get a magic bullet. Very loud magic bullet. Very, very, very loud. Somebody else said, thermomix, very, very loud. Somebody else said Thermomix. Big ass useless bitch. That's what somebody else said. That's a very eloquent description.

Thermomix is too big to fit in any of our cupboards, so it must sit on the bench. And it's a constant slap in the face of how much money we spend on something we very rarely use. So these are obviously not the passionate people going to the Thermomix parties. Bought a steam oven. Oh, okay.

Was convinced this was going to be the healthiest way to eat. Okay. $5,000. No. Used it once. Did you get an air fryer for a couple of hundred? Steam oven. Yeah.

Someone said, if you're going to buy an air fryer, buy a high quality one. I bought a very cheap and it almost burnt my house down. Oh, okay. Yeah, right. There you go. I bought my mum a bread maker because she used to make really nice bread when we were kids. She's never touched it.

And we'll often say, that thing's taking up a lot of space. That's Passag. That's real Pass Ag for Mum. I worked as long haul crew and I found a really great priced kitchen aid with all the attachments. Yeah, nice. So you got your pasta maker, your spiralizer, your sausage stuffer. You got everything. And it sat on the bench and it looked great. It never got used.

We even got a transformer to make it work on New Zealand power. Never did. The most use it got to make it work on New Zealand power. Never did. The most use it got was when we stored lemons in the bowl. They do look great on the bench, though, don't they? Yeah. We've downsized from our big old kitchen. We've got a smaller kitchen now, and the KitchenAid has pride of place in the shed wrapped in an old towel.

Never used. You could sell that. You'd get good resale for those. Those are expensive. I'll have it. Yeah. I'll buy it. I was meaning buy it. Those are expensive. I'll have it. Yeah. I'll buy it. I was meaning buy it. Yeah, yeah. I'll buy it off them. Okay. I'll buy it off them. I'll put a bit on. Send a message asking

if it's still available. I'll be like, how much do you want? How much do you want? Photo? Will you take a dollar? Photo? Photo? Dollar? Dollar? Huh? I'm the human equivalent of Facebook marketplace. Play ZM's Flesh, Vaughan and Megan. There's a trial that's been happening in Iceland or in the UK, but it's with the supermarket chain Iceland Foods.

Okay. So they're changing, and this is, I love hearing about the psychology behind the layout of supermarkets. Is it a book? Was it a Malcolm Gladwell book that looked into that? There's a name for it. It's that maze thing. What do they call it?

It's when they put you in a maze, like Ikea, if you've ever been to an Ikea. Yeah, that's why Ikea started selling meatballs. That's why they put food in there. Because people were dying trying to get out. Actually, I'm not going to get all this done before I get really hungry. So they were like, oh, we'll feed you.

And they're like, I'll stay forever. I'll never leave give me everything give me everything I'll take everything is there clocks in there I suppose you've got your own clock

I was like you can lose no there's no clocks it's like a casino yeah pretty much so they're doing a study and they've trialled

this at a few store locations so they had changed the layout and I think New Zealand stores are a bit more like this. So when you walk in the door, the first thing that you see is fruit and vegetables.

Yep. They changed it so that that was, and it was a large fruit and veggie area. That would be the most of them, although you go into a, what a pack and save is a fruit and veg is normally pretty early on, but you have to walk through that big kind of wall of specials. And it's always like chips and crackers and yummies. I'm thinking most of the supermarkets around us, you walk straight into the fruit and veg.

And then at the checkouts, they have taken away the chocolate bars and all the sugary treats and replaced it with water and toothpaste and painkillers, lip balm. So kind of like essentials, deodorant and stuff is now at the checkout. So really going away from the children saying, I want that, I want that, targeting neurotic Gen Zers who constantly have a headache. Pretty much. You were going to need this because you've got a headache and you're going to need some

water to take it with. And don't worry, this bottle is completely compostable, so you don't need to worry about the impact you're having on the environment. And you also need to put on some deodorant because you've been sweating because you've been so anxious and nervous. Yeah. So all the little kids that used to piss their mum for a kind of surprise have grown up into these nervous wrecks and still be targeted at them. Yeah.

Pretty much. But they said the change of the store layout could lead to 10,000 extra portions of fruit and veggies and approximately 1,500 fewer portions of candy, lollies. See, I don't buy that because my supermarket has fruit and veg for first thing you walk in and I'll just go straight to the chocolate because I know where it is. I know what aisle. Yeah.

It's not making me any healthier. Yeah. what aisle yeah it's not making me any healthier yeah so when i was when i saw a nutritionist before i got married um she always said avoid the middle aisles because like you think all around the outside is your meat your fruit and veg yeah and then your dairy products the milk's right at the back yeah yeah if you avoid the middle ones where the chocolates are and the chips and all that, generally, and the more processed stuff, as long as you can avoid those as much, then it's a lot healthier. But then they put the treats at the end of the aisle and it's like a villain. Oh, yeah.

They're on to your nutritionist, mate. Yeah. It's like you can't. You're outsmarted a nutritionist. You don't need to go in the aisle. Here I am at the end and I'm all special. Eat me. ZM's Flesh, Worn and Megan.

Play ZM. There's like three different couriers that frequent my house. Wait, wait, wait. Hold on. How? Well, there's like different companies. Oh, right. Yeah.

Who's your favourite? Pick a favourite. The PBT guy is pretty nice. See, where you got? You got PBT? You had Aramax yet? Yeah, yeah. By the way, is that the weirdest name for a courier company ever?

Yeah. Why? I don't know. It feels more medical. Yeah, it feels like a medical supplier. Aramax. Yeah, or something you take for an upset tummy. Are you experiencing upset stomach after eating spicy food?

You need an Aerobax. Or have you reached a time in your life where perhaps lovemaking has become a challenge? Get it up with Aeromex. Get it up with Aerobax. Don't you think it sounds more like some kind of pill name? Well, now that you've said it, it does, yeah. Really? Because you've got to...

Is Speedy... Is Speedy Courier still around? No. You've got to have a name that indicates quickness. Yeah. Haste. Post-haste. Yeah.

That was a good... You've got the urgent ones that... Urgent, yeah, and it's got the guy running on the logo. Yeah, yeah. But Aramax, yeah, doesn't sound like super quick. Yeah. I won't disclose the one I'm about to talk about. PBT, Aramax, NZ Post.

Yep. Yeah, NZ Courier's. Sub-60s. You wouldn't have a sub-60. Nah, I won't disclose the one I'm about to talk about. PBT, Aramax, NZ Post, NZ Couriers, sub-60s. You wouldn't have a sub-60. They don't leave the city limits. Nah. But there is one courier, and bless his heart. Because I want to just say this, couriers at the moment are doing an incredible job. And New Zealand Post had to take out a full page

in the Herald today just to remind you that they're people and stop being mean to them. Don't be mean. You're biting the hand that feeds. There's a backlog of parcels, you know, and they're just absolutely under the pump at the moment. So you're doing a fantastic job.

Yeah. Thank you for your service. Thank you for your service. But yeah, there is one that, and this is like been a thing for a while. It's not just specific to lockdown. But I didn't know quite what was happening when this started. So he would pull up and toot. And I was like, oh, cool.

He's giving me a heads up because I obviously have to sign something. Because he probably doesn't want to see your nungs. Yeah, that's what I'm happy to hear. Hey, put some clothes on. I'm here. This is our all points bulletin for all couriers. Give it a toot outside the Pippinobolis residence. I've seen pappuses, pappasses.

Papps. I've seen her papps. None of my couriers have seen my papps. Okay. So, but then he didn't need me to sign things and he would leave it at the door. Right. I don't know why he toots. I don't know. But yeah, and now like he'll come down the road and it's a bit i'm like here comes the courier awesome

it's almost like the ice cream truck with the siren you're like here it comes but it's shoes not a soft serve with yeah um uh he used to park in the driveway doesn doesn't now. He just kind of stops by the berm, pulls up after he's done the toot toot toot and stands on the berm and says, hey, I'm here, I'm here, I'm here. It's a contactless delivery too. This is even prior to COVID. Oh, okay, right.

And would run up and drop the thing at the door and then run away. Right. And I was like, I don't know what, like what have I done that he's so like weirded out by me? run away. Right. And I was like, I don't know what, like, what have I done that he's so, like, weirded out by me? I'm very confused. And it's come to my attention that just recently he doesn't like my dog. So I have-

Your tiny, stupid little dog. I have a little, he's a Bichon Cross Griffin. So it's little. He looks like a gremlin. He looks like one of the Mogwai. Like a baby Yoda. Yeah, baby Yoda with Mogwai and then the gremlin that comes out of

Mogwai's back. The big googly eyes. But he's not going to bite you or take you down. And he doesn't, even when the door's open, he knows he's not allowed out. So the door will be open, but he'll just stand there and wait and watch. But he, the courier will run he knows he's not allowed out. So the door will be open, but he'll just stand there and wait and watch. Right. But the courier will run up and he's like, grab the dog, grab the dog,

points at the dog. And then when you're holding the dog, then he will run up and drop it. The door's not open. You have to hold the dog and he'll drop the parcel off. And then he runs back. He might have had a bit. Couriers would be constantly being told, it's all right, the dog's fine, the dog doesn't and then the dog would be like.

And even little dogs. And even little dogs. They're the worst. They're the absolute worst. Little dogs. I was bitten by a pug. That's why I got no time for pugs. As a child on the back of the ankle, the Achilles.

Right. And was that your Achilles? That was my Achilles. My Achilles was my Achilles as it turns out. Is that what you mean to pugs? It's trauma. It's more pug owners because they're making they're

creating a demand for a dog that doesn't want to be alive. You ever looked in a pug's eyes? They all have that look like and it's funny. It does sound like. And the eye's always watering.

Yeah. And people are like, oh, his eye's just water. He's crying. He's crying an eternal tear. Why did you do this to me? It does sound like you've got some teenage trauma there to sort out. Right. So what, okay, what are you going to do now?

Well, no, I mean, he's still, he's delivering my parcels. So whatever he needs, I'll hold the dog. Right. So what, okay, what are you going to do now? Well, no, I mean, he's still, he's delivering my parcels, so whatever he needs, I'll hold the dog. What do you mean you need, mate? ZDM's Fletch, Ron and Megan. We are some questions, and we call it Poli Moli. It's Poli Moli, Moli, Moli, Moli, Poli Moli, Moli, Moli. Come on! Yes, it's our Colmar Brunton, isn't it?

Yes. It's our, what do they call it, read research. Read research. We asked about hookups this time around, a few questions about hooking up with people. And question number one was, have you had more hookups or dates from dating app matches? Now, this would obviously be pre-lockdown

and level three and four rules. And also, you know, something to look forward to. Yeah. At the other end of this tunnel. So have you had more hookups or dates from dating matches? Meaning, you know, do you go out for a meal and then say, let's do this again? And then, I don't know, what's...

So wouldn't three dates and hands touch other bits? It wouldn't count if you went out for a meal and then had a hookup. It would just be purely... Well, you're right there. And if you worked for Colmar Brunton, they would say that needs some defining. But we asked and you said 45% of you had more hookups. 55% had more dates. So just in the majority there of dates versus hookups.

Okay. But I mean, if you make it clear what you want from the outset. Yeah, true. There'll be no disappointment. Do you unmatch with someone on dating apps if they stop replying? Or do you just leave them there? Because that's a big thing is people will match you and then not talk. Right.

What's the point of that? Well, yeah, exactly. They were just casting a wide net. Right. Yeah. And now they've wheeled it in, but you were the smallest fish. Or maybe they just quickly swiped on you, and then they see your profile and actually give it some luck,

and they're like, oh, whoops. Or maybe you're a kahawai, and they've got a snapper. Now, they just prefer snapper. Yeah. Kahawai, you're a lot of work. You've got to be bled almost immediately, otherwise the blood left in your body will sour the. Definitely a kahawai.

Sour the flesh. Smoke you? Put you in a pie? It's a weird fish analogy. There's a fish for everybody. Yeah, okay. Number, the third question we asked is, where do you prefer to meet up with your partner or date?

Okay. Now, there's only two options here. Your place or their place. Oh, yeah. Do you like to play away games or home games? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, you always have the homegrown advantage, don't you, if you play at home? Because then it's easier to leave, right?

Yeah, that's true. You're like, I'm leaving, as opposed to being like, you need to leave now. Do you play away from home? Serious question. I've been known to play away games. Maybe I always thought you were a home team. I'm probably more of a home body. But then how do you say leave?

You know the pitch conditions, you know. Yeah. Just because you know the pitch conditions. You know. Yeah, you know you're the crowd favourite. Yeah. You've got the home crowd behind you. It really gets you going. Seriously though, how do you get them to leave? Just tells them to.

I don't know. People just leave. On your bike. You're not backwards about coming forwards. Get out. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, it's quite late, isn't it? Yeah.

That's it. I don't know. Yeah. And where do, it's quite late, isn't it? Yeah. That's it. I don't know. Yeah. And where do you prefer to sleep? I mean, this is kind of like afterwards, I guess. Yeah. Do you stay over or do you go back to your house? I didn't answer that last question with a percentage, did I?

Oh, no. Would you prefer to meet up with your partner, their place or your place? Your place, 41%. Their place, 59%. Yeah, because you can leave. Because you can leave. Because you can leave. Because you can leave. And where do you prefer to sleep?

Again, the numbers kind of add up. 68% of people said, I just prefer to go home and sleep at my place. 32% said, I'll sleep at theirs. But that depends how much you like them. Yeah. Like, if you like them, you'd stay, right? Yeah, and also,

is there an urban surge at the current time? Yeah. You know? Yeah, yeah, yeah. How much would the urbanbersurge have to be for you to stay over? You're a creature of habit. Yeah, I just love my own beard. Everyone

does, right? You just want that good night's sleep. Yeah, these people who answer that they're happy to stay, probably got a bad beard. They probably got a bad beard. Maybe they're not fully insulated. They don't have blackout curtains. Sure. So there you go.

The Polly Moly on hookups. All right. A couple of minutes away from 8 Vaughan. Your pick for Friday Flashback today. Yes. And any clues as to what the song is? What genre? Song?

It's terrible rock, isn't it? Song or songs? There's your clue. What? You're not playing two songs. We'll see. We'll see. Play ZM's Flesh, Vaughan and Megan.

Friday Flashback. We'll delve into that soon, but right now it's Vaughan's pick for Friday Flashback. And as promised, we partied to this at Cowboys in Queenstown. Yes, we did. There's been two delays in this being my Friday flashback. But this song in 1991 was the third biggest song in Australia for the whole year. 1991?

It went platinum in Australia. It got to number two in Denmark. It got to number three in the Netherlands. It got to number one in Spain and New Zealand. Seven was the highest that this single charted. It was released in 1990, but the parts of it come from 1978. I've always wondered what the deal with the song was, because I can remember it at a Moritz Oledemedi at school disco.

Okay. I was like, what is going on here okay well this was put together because the movie that these songs are from the movie was getting released on vhs as a special release okay so they were like we need to promote the vhs but the artists that sung the songs and the songs in the movie are so famous we can't just release new songs. Okay. So why don't we take the three biggest songs from the movie

and release them as a mega mix. A Grease mega mix. You're the one that I want. Grease Lightning and Summer Nights. And I can tell you I witnessed with my own eyeballs one Carl Peter Fletcher singing. You know how rare that is. We were all singing. We were very drunk.

I'm getting my phone out just in case it happens. He won't be able to stop himself. It's not happening sober. Get this man a margarita. And he'll sing for us. So today's Friday flashback from 1990 to celebrate the release of Grease on VHS is the Grease Megamix. This car is automatic. We are not playing this.

It's happening, baby. All right, see them. It's Grease Lightning. Grease, Grease, Grease Lightning., sit in. It's greased lightning. Greased, greased, greased lightning. Greased lightning. I got chills. They're multiplying. And I'm losing control.

For the power you're supplying. It's a lecture by. It's a lecture by. It's a lecture by. You better shape up Cause I need a man To my heart I must be true Nothing left, nothing left for me to do

You're the one that I want Who, who, who, who I need I need I need I need I need I need Come on. I just pleased lightning. We'll be right back. You are supreme You took the cream For Chris Lightning Some lovin' way to some of the nights Tell me more, tell me more

Did you get very far? Tell me more, tell me more Like the sea of a car She swam by me She got a cramp He ran by me Got my sedan I saved her life, she nearly drowned

He showed off, splashing around Summer sun, something's begun But oh, oh the summer nights Oh well, oh well, oh well, oh well Tell me more, tell me more I wasn't loving for sight Tell me more, tell me more Did she put up a fight?

It turned cold That's where it ends So I told her We'd still be friends Then we made Our true love Now Wonder what We made our true love now

Wonder what she's doing now Summer dreams Ripped at the seams But Oh But The summer Now It's the Grease Megamax. It's your Friday flashback on ZM.

Hearing from a lot of tradies after that. I tell you what, that's got the work sites going, isn't it? Oh, yeah. Watch out. Someone said it wasn't long enough. You got a good point there. How long was it? Three minutes 52.

That's almost double most modern songs now. Yeah, well, it's a different time. I never sung so loud for Friday Flashback. Someone said I was having a hard morning with feral children and this song has made everything okay. Cranked it up and drowned them out. Good. It's my birthday today. You've made my day in a great mood now.

Happy birthday to you. What is this? I kind of like it. What the F is this? I kind of love it. How has no one ever heard that song? Even in popular culture? Like it's always around, right? The Megamix.

Yeah. Or just bits of it, right? I think a lot of people would know those three songs from Grease but don't know

at one stage they were all put into one. It was a great way of taking care of a lot of 40-year-old ladies requests in the 90s. Just swoop in and get them all out of the way.

Yeah, pretty much. Get them all out of the way. So there we go. Great feedback, though. In fact, you know, I think my father-in-law could do a pretty good version of that song. And he could do both parts, both John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. We spoke, was it yesterday or Wednesday, about his, he records songs. Yeah. Popular songs. And that's the only music he listens to.

His own versions of songs. And he's been required, his band back in Thailand need him to sing the Tina Turner song, Simply the Best. They need him to record. I know what I want for Christmas. I want Mariah Carey. Mariah Carey, all I want for Christmas. I think you do an absolute knock-up job.

Is he like in one of those bands, you know, when you go to Bali and you sit on the beach and they just do covers and they're always amazing. And then the more drunk you get, you're like, these guys are so good. We should like sign them. I know someone who makes a Sony. And there's one of those bands like every 100 metres

along the beach at every restaurant and bar. That's what they do. They play Bangkok Sony. And there's one of those bands like every 100 metres along the beach at every restaurant and bar. That's what they do. They play Bangkok bars. They play Bangkok like whiskey bars. Wow. And they did nothing but covers. And we thought it was like we're having a laugh,

but then we'd get videos of their gig and there'd be hundreds of people there like crammed into these bars having a great old time watching these dudes in their 60s just cranking it. Having a great time. But he only listens to songs he records. Correct. Okay, right. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

He doesn't, why would he listen to, for example, Elvis sing an Elvis song where he could listen to himself sing an Elvis song? I mean, that makes absolutely perfect sense. He listens, he critiques, he knows what will be good for a re-record. Okay, yeah. Yeah, but he has, he's keen. He said to me yesterday, I hear you've been promoting my album. Is it on Spotify?

And no, and I said, I'm keen. Your daughter is the roadblock here. So he's keen for us to play his records, his recordings, but your wife has said no. She said no. I thought you were asking Sade, Megan. She doesn't want people. She said, it's all right that we think it's funny.

We have a laugh, but she doesn't really want people laughing at her dad. She doesn't want people She said it's alright We think it's funny We have a laugh But she doesn't really want People laughing at her dad She doesn't want her dad To come I honestly said I said our listeners Are good people

I honestly don't think They would laugh I think it would be Support coming from The right place Is she worried That he'll become The next wing

He's not bad We'd all be like Enjoying it Yeah yeah Yeah but we'd be Enjoying it because It's funny Wouldn't we? What?

I'm being honest here. Yeah. But not for like take the piss reasons. No. Yeah. It would be supportive. I still think it's better to ask for forgiveness for him and that we should just play a track. Yeah, I don't know.

She's embarrassed. I don't think she's embarrassed. She just doesn't want people making fun of her dad. Which I totally get. Yeah, totally. You don't want people She's embarrassed. I think she's embarrassed. She just doesn't want people making fun of her dad. Which I totally get. You don't want people making fun of you. It's like when you say something really mean about your sibling, and that's fine, but then when someone else says something mean, you're like, hold on, I will kill you.

My job, not yours. That defensive family thing. But I was wondering this morning if we could open up the phone lines and just hear about what parents have got into Hobbies wise Maybe in their retirement What it is that you've found embarrassing Yeah well maybe not even that you've found embarrassing

Just that you know Just like Oh yeah Interesting And maybe they just spend all of their free time doing so I don't know My mum's into her roses Oh yeah

Hundreds of roses Yeah I don't know What about your Your dad was roses. Oh yeah, hundreds of roses. Yeah, I don't know, what about your parents? Your dad was into his cycling, but he's not now, is he? My dad seemed to be more hobby orientated when he was a little bit younger. He used to do cake decorating. And calligraphy. I love that he used to decorate cakes, that's so wholesome. Have you seen his calligraphy?

No. I might get him to send through, he was very, very good at calligraphy. So you had your own lettering book growing up, basically. So you had wonderful cards and then a calligraphy cake. Yeah. Wow. Okay. Yeah, there was a rumour going around that Dad might be leaving Mum for another man.

I mean, it was the 1990s and his hobbies weren't exactly what heterosexual farmers were doing with their spare time. But that's why I love it. I know, and he didn't care. Yeah. Coach Netball shaved his legs. Yeah. For cycling. And decorated cakes and had beautiful handwriting.

Oh, Ian. He's a beautiful man. In a different time, maybe. Yeah. What about your parents? Well, they like to hang out naked. Yeah, that's their hobby, isn't it? Yeah.

It's not really embarrassing anymore. Okay, well, we want to open up the phone lines. 0800DARLS.M9696. What are your parents' hobbies? What are they getting into now that they've got a bit of time on their hands? Yeah, bonus points as well if you do find them embarrassing. Yeah. It's more funny to laugh at that, really.

Talking about your parents' hobbies. Yeah, if they've got a bit more spare time on their hands, they might have, you know, taken something that they were kind of interested in and focused a bit more on it. Also, I guess when they get to, like, near retirement age or they retire, they're bored, so they need something to pass the time. I think it's sweet when they get into, like,

cute little hobbies. They don't want to encourage it. Yeah, well, it keeps it, you know, especially if it's a hobby that involves, you know, keeping them active, maybe physically or mentally. What would your retirement hobby be? Tinkering. A lot of tinkering.

I'd be pretty keen. I'm actually even pretty keen to kind of semi get a lawnmower business started now. I don't feel like I'm getting enough time on my mower. I think I'd love a little trailer. One of those trailers with like attachments to hold your weed eater and stuff. You'd be one of those people that comes around to mow the lawns, you'd never leave because you'd be like, I've got to do everything perfect. Oh yeah.

And they'd be like, how much are the lawns this week? I'd be like $800. I was here for 5,000 hours. Carla, what's your parents' hobby? She has a worm farm inside her bedroom. A worm? Her bedroom.

Her bedroom. Her worm farm is inside? Yes, which I think is really weird. Is it for the express purpose of making the worm juice for the garden or are they to look at the worms? Yes. No, no, for the worm juice. Doesn't it smell?

No, not at all. You'd be surprised. It looks like it's in this huge goblin pot thing, and it's just incredible, but it's so strange that it's inside. Yeah. I love the worm weed. Great for the garden. Yeah, because don't you have worms in your compost?

I've got a worm farm. I've got the green bin, and the juice comes out the bottom. How much juice do you get a week? Depends. In winter, you get a bit more. Summer, you know, it's a bit hotter, a bit drier, but you've got to keep it in a shady spot. But I can see how it could get addictive, trying to milk your worms.

It's like, you know, a farmer milks their cows, they're going for record production and a worm farmer, you know, juices them worms. Why's she cranking out? Do you know how many litres she's getting a week, Carla? I don you know, juices them worms. Why's she cranking out? Do you know how many liters she's getting a week, Carla? I don't know, but her theory behind it is she doesn't want them to get cold outside. Oh, please, they're her babies.

Can we get this woman some grandchildren, please? She does. She does? She does? Oh, my God. It sounds like she loves the worms more, maybe, or on an even par. I don't know.

She's always outside when she's not faster, so. Oh, brilliant, Carla. Thanks, you call. Ali, your partner's dad, what's his hobby? So he collects stamps as his hobby. Oh, okay. And I thought it was really cute until I found out, like, his whole collection is worth about $100,000.

Yeah. Wow. One of those things that seem nerdy, but some of them are worth insane amounts of money. You see ads for, like, people buying stamp collections in mall toilets. Yeah, they're always in the urinals. Why are stamp ads always at the urinals and toilets? I don't know, the toilets.

Have you never seen an ad for stamps? No. We will travel for, they'll travel the country. Is it because old people who might have stamps go to the toilet heaps? Maybe. At malls? I don't know.

And it's got to be one of the cheaper forms of advertising, right? Yeah. Ali, thanks for your call. Sarah, what is your parents' hobby? My mum has actually taken up garage sailing. Oh, she loves a bargain. She loves a bargain now.

She sends me all kinds of things. Yeah. So every, what, Saturday morning, she's up at the crack of dawn? Yeah, she is. She's even, she's coming to visit us next weekend and she's already booked in one of her friends to go garage sailing.

Wow. Yeah, what does she get? Does she just buy heaps of useless stuff? I wouldn't call it useful. She buys lots of trinkets for my children. The strangest thing that she's ever sent us was a used CPR dummy. What? Oh, no.

Mum's going to be on hoarders in a few years. I know. And you'll be on there being like We all know the point where mum turned the corner Brilliant And then she started pooping in cups And keeping them in the house Jesus Sarah thanks for your calls and messages in

My mum's hobby She's super into dolls houses Spends hours making little plants and furniture From different eras. They're not for the kids. The kids aren't allowed to touch them. Far too nice. Oh, wow.

She's making miniature furniture. It's like little crafts. Yeah. Like those old mates and their train sets and they build whole towns. I could get into that. Rod Stewart. Rod Stewart, yeah. That can get expensive, though.

That can start sneaking up. My grandfather played saxophone in his younger life. Now he's in his 70s. He's back into it He'd practice in Cuba Mall Playing sunny side of the street So there you go If you see a granddad playing sax

He's just doing that because he loves it That's cool Chuck him some coins My dad's hobby is gaming We'll play online multiplayer games all night Every night Great way for us to bond now that we've all moved out We'll play online games with them.

Yeah, that's cool. Oh, that's pretty cute. Dad's into motorbikes, dresses in leather, has a handlebar moustache. Captain of the Bikers Club back in the UK. I love him to bits, but he looks like a Muppet. I love it when they get so into stuff, though. Yeah.

He's got the whole gears. My mum got her private pilot's licence and has been the New Zealand acrobatics champion. What? So she's not just taken the Cessna up. She's got one of them Red Bull. She made you do it. She's about to fly.

Did you see the Red Bull plane go through the tunnels? She should fly through the Milton Tunnel. Like check the council. Yeah, I think you've got to check. Just check. They've got to take some of the power poles down and stuff. And yeah. Oh, come on.

When my dad retired, he started making bespoke custom hunting knives. He calls himself the Perongian Knife Man, which makes him sound suspiciously like the local serial killer. My dad took up line dancing and now cranks it out. The minute there's music on the dance floor, family weddings and events events He's out there Oh wow I love it

Michael what was that Michael Flatley The river dance That was Irish dancing More than line dancing Yeah My dad's taken up Conspiracy theories

So much fun Visiting him That's sad Yeah see that's Something that you'll spend Tons of hours invested in No physical payoff And mentally it's actually that you'll spend Tons of hours invested in No physical payoff And mentally it's actually

Making you dumber Yeah Yeah Yeah That's not a great one Yeah Someone else messaged Conspiracy theories as well

I'm so sorry to hear that Yeah If my parents slipped into that I'd be distraught Because I know once Once they're in there It's so hard to get out Fact of the day

Day Day Day Day of the day, day, day, day, day. Today's fact of the day is about Russia and it's about nuclear bombs. Oh, okay. And it is that today's fact of the day is Russia used nuclear bombs to make man-made lakes

because they thought some areas just needed a nice lake. They used nuclear bombs for earth moving. What you and I might hire a digger for. They were like, we'll get this done much quicker. Yeah, but that could take years to dig a lake. It could take a long time. But like, what about like a, what's a normal bomb? Like not a nuclear bomb.

Like a... TNT. Well, I guess that's what they... Yeah, you use explosives, right, in quarrying and stuff. If there's hard rock and you need it gone, you drill holes in it, fill it with explosives, and boom. But those don't have nuclear fallout. And lasting effects. Yeah, super lasting effects.

So one of the most famous examples of this is Lake Chagann, which you might know from David Farrier's TV show Dark Tourist. He went and saw a lake and remember they said this is like super radioactive and he goes for a swim and then didn't he eat a fish that had been fished out of it?

Because the locals are like, it's fine. My grandmother, if she was still here, she died when she was 20. She'd tell you this is absolutely fine. She had four legs, it's fine. My grandmother, if she was still here, she died. She was 20. She'd tell you this is absolutely fine. She had four legs, but you know. So the thing that Russia liked about it is often when the nuclear blast was set off, it would create a huge basin. It would eventually fill with water.

But it would also turn the sand into glass due to the heat. Oh, yeah. And it would like melt the rock. Meaning that unlike if we hired a digger from High Equip and set about digging ourselves a lake and then filled it with water, the water might go through. Yeah.

Because it would absorb back through the bottom. But when you set it off at such great temperatures and it turns it all like to glass, the water can't get through. It seals it. It's like cauterizing a wound with a nuclear bomb. A 140 kiloton device was placed in a 178 meter deep hole in the dry bed of the Chagran River. There's water down there somewhere.

Okay. And they set off the bomb. It created a crater 400 meters across and 100 metres deep. Wow. And then that filled with water and they're like, told you. Lake. That's a lake now. Yep.

Wow. Still radioactive. And it's just one of many. That one's the most famous one, but there's lots of like. And that's the one that David Farrier went to on Dark Tourist. That's the one that he went to in Kazakhstan. Yeah, which is like an ex-Soviet state where they did a lot of nuclear testing.

So today's fact of the day is Russia, rather than waste their time with some earth-moving equipment, would just set off nuclear bombs to make lakes. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. everybody to Friday Face Yoga. Namaste to you all. Namaste. Good morning class.

Namaste. It's been a couple of Fridays, isn't it? It has. Sorry about that. How are your crystals? Well, they're not projecting against COVID. That's why I haven't been here for two Fridays. I thought I was, you know, I thought I was going to outsmart a pandemic.

I couldn't. I had COVID. I'm back now and I'm vaccinated on one step. You know, got my first jab. Pretty funny how quickly your stupid non-scientific principles go out the window when you've had the infection. So I thought we could do some Friday face yoga today to just warm up our faces if we're on our way to work in level two. Okay.

Or if we're needing a moment of relaxation in level four, let's start by opening our mouths and shutting our mouths and pretending that in between the opening and the shutting, we popped a little Maggie D's in there. Now for our level two, our level twos joining us, you could probably do that this weekend, but our level fours, you're just going to have to imagine it for a little while longer.

So open. What are you putting in your mouth? What do you have? It's a quarter pounder. It's a quarter pounder. Shut your mouth. Chew us. Chew us that quarter pounder. It tastes good, doesn't it? It's so good. Open your mouth. Megan, what are you popping in your mouth? Oh, nuggies. Nuggies.

Shut your mouth. And you can, at home, you can put anything in your mouth you want. Within reason. It doesn't have to be a quarter pounder. It doesn't have to be a nuggy. You imagine anything. Maybe it's just like a fistful of chips.

Okay, so I want everyone to do that, actually. Open your mouth. Just grab a fistful of chips and squeeze it. Shut your mouth and have a little. It's salty and delicious. Namaste. Next up, if everybody just go back to your standard facial position. Now, pretend to drink out of a cup.

That's straight whiskey, but we don't flinch anymore because we've become reliant on our straight spirits. Remember the day where the swallow would often be followed with a... What were we thinking? Take a sip from the cup of life. Straight face. Straight face. That was Bacardi 151.

I just took a sip. Oh, watch this one. Straight absinthe. Nothing. Next, I want you to open your eyes wide. Wide. Roll them slightly. Slam them shut for a very purposeful, hard, long blink

as you hear the news about a couple having sex in a shared room at a hospital where they'd been a COVID positive patient. What? After the eyes go open and roll them and slam, take a moment and maybe even at this time, rub your hand on your face in frustration at how very few people can ruin it for everybody. Now I want for our next exercise, I want you to blink fast.

I want you to blink fast and pull that upper lip up a little bit. You're trying to stop tears now. You're trying to stop tears, but fight them, fight them, fight them. Now embrace them. Let the tears flow. Let the tears flow because Steve from Blue's Clues is back. And he's telling us he hasn't forgotten us. And he's so proud of what we've accomplished.

He said we look good too. He said we look good. We don't look good. We're like pieces of shit. How long is this going to go on for? And finally, finishing on a high note, it's Conservation Week. So I want you to be imagining you're looking at a loved one and all of a sudden you hear,

you look skywards. Everybody look skywards with your face. Look skywards. It's a kettidoo. A kettidoo. It's a kettidoo. The bumblebee of birds. How does it fly?

You're a fatty. How do it fly? You're a fatty. How do you fly? Oh, you landed in a tree. And now you're eating fermented berries. The ketidu too has turned to the booze. And eyes back to eye level. And namaste. We'll see you next Friday for Friday Facial Yoga.

Namaste. Namaste. ZDM's Fletch, Ron and Megan. Maybe this is something we can think about going into the weekend because apparently the average person hasn't tried anything new in two months. I've tried something new. What? Dungeons and Dragons.

Oh, yeah. With Jared. We're going to play more this weekend. Yeah, thumbs up. Your wife's excited about that. Dungeon master. Yeah. So I guess this has a lot to do with the pandemic.

Six in 10 felt the urge to try something out of their comfort zone, but obviously not doing it because the average person, yeah, not in two months. And then 12%, it's been over a year since they've tried anything new. I guess it has been. For a lot of people, it would be financial. For a lot of people, it would be time and even being able to. Yeah.

But, like, it could be anything. It doesn't have to be expensive, right? It could be, like, I don't know, reading a book or, like, learning to sew. But reading a book's not new, though, is it? And then learning to sew. How are you getting a sewing machine in a pandemic? Yeah, okay. What is something you can try that's new that would be inexpensive?

A new recipe. What about a new recipe? Yeah, like a new food. You could try meditating. Yes. If you haven't done that before, that might be really good for people. Producer Jared's midi is actually learning crocheting. Is it crocheting?

Yeah, crocheting. She's making squares. Yeah. And then you put all the squares together and you make a quilt. Oh, what's that one? Oh, embroidery. That's a weird one. And cross-stitch.

I used to do cross-stitch. Where you'd put your company's logo on a T-shirt. That's what it is, yeah. Isn't that embroidery? That's cross stitch. No, cross stitch is the one where you get the wafer cloth with all the holes in it

and you follow a pattern and it literally crosses. Embroidery is where you embroider a logo on your shirt. Isn't it a hobby as well? Yeah, it can be a hobby. Embroidery. Is that the one where you'd be like

life short, eat cake first? No, that'd be embroidery. That's cross stitch. That's cross stitch. And then there's long stitch, which is cross stitch with wool. Embroidery is like cross stitch. It's a craft of decorating fabric or other materials

using a needle to apply thread or yarn. Yeah, but it's not a cross stitch. Cross stitch is little tiny crosses. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Long stitch is like colouring in with a felt. Embroidery, do they all fall under the embroidery umbrella? Yeah, they do. Because, I mean, technically you're putting on, like, a logo,

but it could be a pretty flower on a tablecloth or something. Yeah. Well, the people who had tried something new, 60% of them said it made them feel happier. Oh, there you go. Do you know what? I'm going to try. I'm going to take my father-in-law.

I'd love anybody listening with a good recommendation of like, because you know how I did the knife making and stuff and I love that, like making things and weekend courses and stuff. I want to try glass blowing.

Is that because of the Netflix show? I reckon that's so hard. That's why he wants to try and I'm just like, I'm always down to try something like that. Because you've got to keep twisting it. You'll end up just dropping

the thing off the end. Look at these supple wrists. They've twisted a few things in their time. I'll be there all day. They'll be like, are you not tired? I'll be like, no, mate, I'll go wrists of steel. I mean, one of them's a wrist of steel.

The other one can play guide. The other one can play guide. I'm glad you know that about me. The other one can play guide. Yeah. Good luck with that. ZM's Fleshworn and Megan.