ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Megan Podcast - 11th November 2020

Episode Date: November 10, 2020

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Hello, welcome to the Fleeche Vaughan and Megan podcast. It's Thanks to McCafe by 5 McCafe Coffees. Get one free on the Maccas app. Megan has just been telling Vaughan his guitar is out of tune. It is. It's not tuned. And I argue that A, Vaughan can't play the guitar properly. That's a fact.

And B, you don't know what a tuned guitar sounds like. I played guitar. Thank you very much. Also, that sounds... Take your fingers off the frets and strum it. Yeah, that's not in tune. But how do you know? Because it doesn't sound pleasant.

I've never been able to hear. I've never been able to hear. It's supposed to be a nice progression of sound, like a bling. No, it's absolutely painful. You know that thing where you go to the fifth fret and then it's that one and the one below it should sound the same? Yeah. Does that sound the same to you?

I could never do that. I could never tell whether or not it sounded the same. I don't know what strings out, but when you strum that, it's nasty. Homos heaven. What? Yes, Virginia. Did you say homos heaven? No, homos heaven. It sounded like you said homos heaven. What? East Virginia. Did you say homos heaven? No, almost heaven.

It sounded like you said homos heaven. I said homos heaven. Every, did you think he said homos heaven? Noda River. Almost heaven. Cancel. Really? Life is old there.

Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Older than the trees. Can you stop? I'm writing. This is home time. stop? This is home time It is home time I mean you're not a great guitar player But that's not in tune

No Hey producers When we leave That guitar needs to go elsewhere Actually smash it No this is actually a really expensive guitar. I think it's a Ross's. This needs to go elsewhere.

Yeah, just take it away because I can't help fiddling with things. Like, when you were a kid, if you saw a garden hose, were you, like, wet 10 seconds later? No. I mean, I don't think that never turned me on. Jesus, I said I was a kid. You're cancelled. I might have said, what did I say?

Almost homo. Homo's heaven. Homo's heaven, which I did not say. So you two have both cancelled, but I'm not. It's just because you're... Wow, only if we're counting what's happened in the last minute. Secret. Wow, only if we're counting what's happened in the last minute. Good morning, welcome to the show, Fletch, Vaughan and Megan.

It's two minutes past six. Morning. Good morning. Your smellies have been noted by everybody in the room this morning, Vaughan. Yes. Yep, you've got on a Nick Jonas. Well, I recently had a bathroom vanity clean-out. Okay.

A thorough clean-out. And I found at the back a whole bunch of parfum. Okay. But it had bits in the bottom. What do you mean? Like dregs? No, not dregs. More than that.

Like floaties? You're going to get excited and you see it's getting to the bottom and you get another one. Or you get gifted one and you haven't finished the last one. You're excited and then move on to the new one and you forget the last one. Yeah. I think it was a Nick. I think it was a Nick Jonas. Okay.

Has Joe Jonas done a... I couldn't imagine Joe Jonas doing a fragrance. No, I think... It'd be Nick. I think Nick's got one. Is that what he posed half naked for? Isn't it? You're the Nick. Yeah, but I've moved on to Harry. You think Nick's got one. Is that what he posed half naked for? Is Nick, you're the Nick?

Yeah, but I've moved on to Harry. You're on to Harry Styles. Nick's taken a back burner. A back seat. It was the, I've found it. It was the John Varvatos, Nick Jonas. Oh, collab. Collab.

Okay, wow. We love a John Varvatos. I know, it's because we used to get sent John Varvatos and everyone was like, what is it? I'd be like, it's John, it's a John Varvatos. People would be like, we used to get sent John Varvatos and everyone was like, what is that? I'd be like, it's a John Varvatos. People would be like, God, you love that? I'd be like, yeah. Didn't want to make it sound like I was only wearing it.

They're different little carry cases. Yeah, they did. Because it was free. Yeah. That was the... Right. But people saying you smell very manly this morning. Yeah, it smells like man in here was one review.

I can't remember what the other review was. I don't think I can smell you from over here. Parco Rabanne, that's what producer Jared said, but I think he just thinks every perfume's Parco Rabanne at the moment. And it's a fair call because I do douse myself on that every now and then. Oh, well, that's good. You're smelling great for the show, which is great.

It does smell nice, doesn't it? It is. The top six is coming up. There has been a new drug announcement for COVID-19. And it's got a really neat little name. It sounds like it's made up.

It is... Sounds like it's been given the name by a six-year-old. Yes. It is called Bamlanamavam. Bamlanamavam. Bamlanamavam.

Whoa, Black Betty, Bamlanamavam. So I've got the top six other COVID drug names if kids got to make them up. Right, so this isn't a vaccine name. This is different than yesterday's Pfizer news about the vaccine being 90%. It's an antibody therapy. Right, okay.

So that's what you would take in the really early stages if you had it but you didn't yet have any of the ill effects of it, I believe. Right, okay. You'd hit it early with a bit of this. All right, so the top six coming up. Yeah, the top six names for COVID drugs if kids got to name them. All right, next on the show. Everyone's talking about the elections in the States.

Well, we need to talk about the mayor of Rabbit Hash, Kentucky. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. ZM. In Kentucky, there has been a new mayor elected. It's in Rabbit Hash. That's the name of the place. What are the origins of Rabbit Hash?

What is the etymology of that place's name? I can tell you they've got 470 people is their population, so it's smaller. Okay. But their new mare is Wilbur Beast. Wilbur Beast?

Yeah. Of Rabbit Hash. Is his name, and he is a French bulldog. He's also the cutest little French Bulldog you can see. And that mare is about to cost that county a fortune in vet bills. I know that's a problem with French Bulldogs. They are the cutest dogs, but God, they have so many problems. We're to blame for that.

Well, not us three specifically. We're not to blame for the breeding of French Bulldogs, but humanity on a whole're to blame for that. Well, not us three specifically. We're not to do with the breeding of French Bulldogs, but humanity on a whole is to blame for that. So apparently this isn't the first time. The mayor has been a dog since 1998. I like this. Do you think it was because a town of only 400 and odd people, everyone's going to know everyone,

and it'd be hard to hate the mayor because everyone hates all the elected officials, don't they? Yeah. They have to grind an axe against them, don't they? Yeah, and they'd probably be your cousin or your neighbour. So it'd be hard to hate the mayor.

So just make it a dog. And it has a dog mayor every election. Right. This year, so what was his name? What did I say his name was? Wilbur Beast. Wilbur Beast beat out a therapy beagle named Jackrabbit

and a golden retriever named Poppy. Oh, I would have thought a golden retriever would have won. That's a universally loved breed of dog. Also, I just read that it's not exclusively a dog. So in the running was also a donkey named Higgins and a rooster. I would trust the donkey. I wouldn't trust a rooster for me. No.

It'd be crowing. Oh, yeah. Town meeting at bloody 4.30am. Also, it just says rooster. It doesn't have a name. It needs a name. It's called rabbit hash. Because apparently the local rabbit population was

there was so many that they started making food they would eat it. It was like a regular thing that the people in this area would eat.

Yeah. And then apparently the townsfolk were discussing what each of the families would be having for Christmas dinner and one man said he'd

be having rabbit hash which is like hash like potato. Like yeah like hash browns. Yeah okay. Yeah, okay. Yeah, but with rabbit in it. And all the other villagers named him Rabbit Hash.

That was his nickname. And then it became known for the village itself because the people would stop and be like, oh, let's go to Rabbit Hash. Yeah. Meaning the guy. But they actually thought they meant the village and so it caught on.

So it's named after a hashy dish. And it's got a French bulldog for a mare. Yeah. Sounds like a great time. Sounds like fun. Now, would this have been over a month ago? Yeah. There was a news story about how someone came to be in a surgery.

This is an operating theatre. Yep. With no earthly business being there. And I remember we were very like, what's going on? Bizarre story. It was Wellington, wasn't it? And it was pretty light on the details. Yeah.

And I was like, what is the person in surgery, you know, getting the surgery thing about that coming out of it? They were kept out. But afterwards, hearing this news. How would you feel? That someone. I wouldn't have a surgery thing about that coming out of it. They were kept out. But afterwards, hearing this news. How would you feel? I wouldn't care. I wouldn't have even told them. I would have been like, oh, no, it was another one.

Sure. My ethics are very questionable when it comes to working in a hospital. I'd be like, oh, no, you've got nothing to worry about. Make sure they don't find out how bad anything is. Keep the bad news from them. Humans aren't good with bad news. Well, the details are out of how this came to be. The person in the operating theatre that shouldn't have been there

was a builder's apprentice. Oh, explain. Bloody apprentices, am I right? Yeah, bloody eyes just nipped out to bloody get some nails in ears and come back for four hours. Where have you been? Anyway. It doesn't make any more sense, though.

Must have had the day off. Must have had the day off. What was the... Hold on. It's told me the date. It's August 25th. So was that a weekend this year? August.

Nope. Tuesday. Tuesday. Must have had the day off or the morning off. Something, anyway. So it turns out that that builder's apprentice was a flatmate of a medical student. Okay.

And the medical student was in their final years. They were doing placement at the hospital and they were meant to be watching this happen. Right. This surgery happened. And she said to her supervising doctor of the surgery, were meant to be watching this happen. Right. This surgery happen. She said to her supervising doctor of the surgery, would it be all right if my flatmate watched?

Now, that's a weird question. Sure. Even if, as the doctor assumed, the flatmate was also a medical student. So they just assumed that, right. This was a flatmate with an interest in the field of medicine or studying also the field of medicine and the doctor thought sure, weird question

to ask but why would you ask if this person wasn't in the field? Yes. So the person wasn't in the field, the person was the builder's apprentice. And the doctor had said yes, so it's okay. Yes. Assuming that there's a whole lot of communication breakdown here. Right. So the builder's

apprentice has been given scrubs and a swipe card to get into the area required and observed the entirety of what is described as a three hour plus cardiac bypass surgery. And at the end of the surgery, the man who was stood at the head of the operating table, that's right in there. Right in there. Because I imagine you know those medical shows

where they have the gallery? Grey's Anatomy. Grey's Anatomy, and they look down at the surgery. Yes. And they learn, and they can watch it on screens and stuff. But he was, like, in the room right there. At the head of the table. Like, if this was a game of operation, he was next.

Okay. And when asked about his studies the doctor asked assuming the doctor's about to be told what area of medicine they want to specialise in and where they're at. He says yeah I'm a builder's apprentice. Wow. So was the medical student in there with

him? Yes. Oh so she wasn't even like take notes or something for me? Nope. Yeah, because I assumed she had a CBF going to watch this interview. She couldn't make it or something. Nope. Wow, okay. And then so is she in trouble?

Or it's just a misunderstanding? I think everybody's kind of just been like, oh, this will make a good story. Wipe their hands of it. And let's learn from this. I mean, there'll be things put in place to make sure this sort of

thing doesn't happen before. But I mean, if you were going to, like, for example, the medical student that was actually a medical student, not a builder's apprentice,

they're in their final year of a six-year degree. What a waste. And they've done six years. To strike their possibility of going forth and being a health worker. We need health workers.

Yeah. And to be fair, she asked. Yes. Yeah, she did ask. That's the thing. No one believes that she was out to mislead. There was just not enough clarity from all parties involved. Who would want to watch that, though?

Like, I can't even watch on a movie or a TV show when they inject people or like do a scalpel cut. I'm like, yeah. Was he just hearing her stories about studying at home and being like, can you ask if I can watch that? That'd be so interesting. Yeah, I'll ask my boss if you can come and see like what this townhouse buildings look like

if you want to. Like you might even be able to have a go on the nail gun. She's like, no. She's like, oh, no, but you can come, I suppose. Urban art surgery, don't they cut you down the middle and, like, crack open your ribcage? I believe so, yeah. Yeah.

Wow. No thanks, eh? I'd pass out on the floor. And the doctor would be like, she's not going to make it in the field of medicine. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast, ZM. Well, the TV networks in New Zealand have announced their big shows, their lineups for 2021.

The Apprentice. Yeah. That's one of them. A lot of reality shows. TV3 announcing that they're bringing The Masked Singer to New Zealand, which is, are we too small for that show? Well, you could argue that we're too... Does first scene have that many masks?

Look sharp. Those masks are... It's not just masks, though. Like those costumes. Yeah, phenomenally made. Did they ever show the American or the Aussie series here? Or was it just online that we saw that? So, honestly,

I don't watch a lot of... Yeah, I don't know. Yeah. Right, because the premise is that singers wear full costumes, like mascot costumes. You don't have to be a singer,

just celebrities. Just a celebrity. Well-known people wear a full costume and attempt to sing. Some of them are good, some of them are not so good. And you've got to figure out

through a series of clues who they are. But you could argue that New Zealand's too small for any of those shows. But do you mean the anonymity of it? Yeah, like the guessing who it is. Like, you know, if you think even now of celebrities that came from, you know, reality shows or can sing, you probably know that they can, right? Yeah. And then, like, if they are a well-known singer in New Zealand, you probably know that they can, right? Yeah.

And then like if they are a well-known singer in New Zealand, you're probably going to know the voice. Yeah, totally. Is that Machu? All right, he's too busy. He's definitely not going to do that. I mean, it's safe to say if they're like already super busy, they probably don't need to do Masked Singer, right?

No. But other shows coming back, Popstars, which was a show in 1999, which some people will remember. It was actually what started Idol and all the music reality shows that we had. It started here in New Zealand with

True Bliss. And it went worldwide. Like, so many countries did Popstars. And so they're bringing it back so their auditions are now open that's going to be hosted by I believe

Kimbra is going to be involved or she's going to be one of the mentors yes the mentors yeah and applications open for that now

so if you're a singer that's for you and The Apprentice New Zealand as well yes so The Apprentice if you want to we don't know who the apprentice

is, right? Like the Donald Trump or the boss. Yeah. But if you want to be the apprentice, you've got to be 18. You've got to be a New Zealand or Australian citizen or permanent resident. Oh, that's interesting. Oh, because of travel. You've got to be available. That's the only criteria.

Really? Okay. You don't have to be super brainy. You don't have to have any business acumen. No. Come in fresh with passion. I saw a list of who could host that. Go on. You know, who could be the Donald Trump for The Apprentice.

And one of the names that was, you know, raised was, remember Rob Fyfe from Air New Zealand? I was going to say Rob Fyfe. Silver Fox. It was a bit of you. Remember, you had a big crush on him, didn't you? What is he doing? He needs to get back on TV. He was never on TV.

Well, before COVID, him and Sarah Tetreault, who was on New Zealand's Next Top Model, because they're together, they were just gallivanting all around the world. Right. They'd be endlessly travelling to the most exotic locations. He probably got unlimited free in New Zealand. Yeah.

He'd be gutted now he'd only be able to go to Queenstown like the rest of us. Good. I mean, that'll be... Still be all right, though, wouldn't it? Just be like, I'll go to Queenstown for the week. Yeah, okay, that would still be great. That'd still be fine. Damn it.

ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. From the ZM Clickbait Room, this is the top six. Hello there. A, a, what is described as an antibody therapy has had COVID-19 emergency FDA clearance. So this is not the vaccine?

No. This is different. It has been a treatment that early data shows that's kept some patients out of hospital. Listen to the effects. You still have the virus. You're still contagious. You could still pass it on but it can lessen the effects. Right. I don't know if this is what Donald Trump

had. May have been under the umbrella of what he had. Well because you said the name of it it doesn't sound like, because Donald Trump had something else. Van Lennon of the Mab. And people have noticed that it sounds like, whoa, Black Betty, bam-lan-na-na-ma-b.

I don't know. That's got to be the different things involved in there. What did you just Google? Remdesivir is what, Donald Trump? Remdesivir. Yeah, he had a cocktail of drugs. Dexamethasone and Regenerin and Remdesivir. Right.

Those are the ones that he had. In fact, he had eight all up. So he may have had Woback, Bledi, Blam-Blam. Blam-Blam-Blam. Blam-Blam-Blam or whatever it's called. Yeah. Well, it's been authorised for treatment and recently diagnosed mild to moderate COVID-19 in high-risk patients.

And the idea is to keep them out of hospital. Yeah. And thus relieving some... Yeah. So they don't clog up ICUs. Yeah. I'm just trying to see, like, I can't see where it gets its name from. Is that...

Holy shit. You know how Americans have to print the side effects? Yeah. Whoa. I've just gone to that part of the article. Have you ever heard ads in America for, like, drugs? Yeah. Literally the last 10 seconds of the ad is the side effects may include...

Diarrhea, bleeding from the eyes. Your ears might fall off. Prolapsed anus. And you're like... What? Wait, wait, wait. Rewind. Did he Prolapsed anus. Yeah. And you're like, what? Wait, wait, wait, wait. Rewind. Did he say prolapsed anus?

Because bleeding eyes I'm okay with. I would like to avoid prolapsing. Should it be an option? So, whoa, black Betty. I've got the top six other names for COVID drugs if kids got to name them after songs that make no sense. Yeah. Number six would be the COVID-19 treatment

known as OOEURR Ting Tang Walla Walla Bing Bang. Just going to administer the Ting Ting Walla Walla Bang Bang. Yeah. Oh, just before you do administer the Ting Ting Walla Walla Bing Bang, we've got to go back and administer the OOEURR. And then, of course, feel free to add to the IV drip the Ting Ting Walla Walla, Bing Bang, we've got to go back and administer the ooh-ee, ooh-ah-ah. And then, of course, feel free to add to the IV drip the Ting-Tang, Walla Walla, Bing Bang. Number five on the list of the top six names for COVID-19 treatments

if kids got to know them after song noises is the mm-bop, bop-a-dop-a-dop, mm-bop. Do-a-da-ba-doo-bop. And if it's really bad, they'll need the do-ba-he-he-he. But that's only for the really bad cases. Number four on the list, if you can avoid the do-ba-ba-ba-da-ba-da-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba, you might have to get the knick-knack paddywhack.

Yeah. Do you have to give a dog a bone? No. Okay. No, no, no, no. That's too many side effects. We'll just stick to the knick-knack paddywhack. More of a? No. Okay. No, no, no, no. That's too many side effects. We'll just stick to the knick-knack paddywhack.

More of a therapeutic administration of the drugs. Good. Number three on the list of the top six names for COVID drugs if kids got to name them after silly song noises.

For the pills that are blue, you will need to take one of these in the morning and one of these at night with food. That is the blue babadibadabadoobabadibabadoobamadibadaba. Again, one in the morning and one at night. Always with food. Okay.

Number two on the list of the top six names for COVID-19 drugs if kids got to know them after song noises is the la la ooh la la roma roma ma. That is liquid form. Okay, good. 10 mils per 60 kgs of body weight. Okay. No bad infection. It'll avoid it if you do it right.

Stick that till you finish the bottle. And number one on the list of the top six names for COVID drugs and treatments if kids got to know them after song noises is, this is the most effective treatment known to date. It's the... Ring, ring. Good. I'm a crazy frog treatment. Yeah.

All of these available as soon as they get FDA clearance. Brilliant. That's today's top six. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. ZM. A big study's been done on Kiwis travelling post-COVID. We're doing massive amounts of travelling domestically, exceeding pre-COVID domestic sales.

Yeah. That's where we can go right now. That's the only thing we can do. But on the other side of this, when we can travel, it's also looked into where we want to go and what kind of holiday we want. So Does it say, like, obviously

we don't know, but great news with the COVID vaccine yesterday. But I mean, it's still going to be a couple of years away, isn't it? Like next year do you imagine we'll be? Will it though? Because everyone's going to, like, attempt to get vaccinated next year. So maybe the end of next year?

Or do you just have to prove that you've got a vaccine to travel? Well yeah, like you know a lot of countries, like if you've been in South America Central America, going into Australia you need the yellow fever certificate. A few countries have that actually. So I guess it'll be like that. Because they don't want you to get there and then be a

huge strain on their health system if you get it right. Basically yeah, so I mean I guess maybe yeah, you have a Because they don't want you to get there and then be a huge drain on their health system if you get it right. Basically, yeah. So, I mean, I guess maybe you have a stamp in your passport or your vaccination booklet. Yeah. You show it at immigration and they let you in. Maybe. Fingers crossed.

Well, 43% of people would like a beach holiday. I thought it'd be higher than that. We've got them. Oh, yeah, I guess. Some of the best in the world. And we're coming into summer. 30% would just like to visit friends and family. Just overseas.

My mum's about that. My brother turns 40 soon. A week today. Mum said to me the other day she'd never imagined she wouldn't be with her children for their 40th. I was like, yeah, but that's counting your eggs before the hatch, Christine. You might bloody take a turn. In the next week. Born?

We're a very realistic family. Good Lord. She's like, well, I want to at least see yours. I was like, well, you just look after yourself and lay off that margarine. Boom is love marjoram. Well, it's healthier than butter. Is it? Is than butter Is it? Is it?

Is it? So the countries on the list No surprises that Australia is top of the list Because it's close, we feel comfortable And that could happen soon Yeah, and we know exactly their situation Because we've been following it quite closely Yeah

Fiji and the Cook Islands Apparently people are very keen. So I would say that's going to be chock-a-block soon, right? What did they say at the weekend? Some officials are travelling to the Cook Islands. Do they just need to check it's still there or something?

I know. And do they put their hands up? Oh, I'll do that. I just imagine the whole office is like, we probably should go to the Cook Islands just in case. Are they doing the bond inspection to see what's broken? Because then when we go and we come back, we're like, that was always broken. They'll be like, actually, no, we did the pre-bond inspection.

Thailand and Vietnam, I mean, always high on Kiwi's list. Yeah. But they have managed the pandemic pretty well. Anyway, I was going to say both of those countries have done really well. And apparently that's what people are looking into

when they're looking at where they're going to go. Yeah. Singapore. Again, they've had hardly any cases. And very clean. They got it early, right?

They got it early, but then... And the other one that surprised me a little bit is Dubai. Where Kiwis most want to travel. Yeah. Okay. One of the first countries to trial quarantine-free travel. So they have been accepting tourists from all countries since July.

Do you have to have a test, though, when you go in? I don't know. Or they just, like, roll the dice. I mean, they've been accepting tourists, but, like, what's... They have been, Megan, but they're peaking recently. Yeah, I know. That's what I was going to say. They were getting 15.

So at the end of October, they were getting 1,500 new cases a day. At the moment, it's 1,100 new cases a day. So that's, you'd say, not working for them? I wouldn't. It doesn't sound like it. Narrow. Okay. Narrow.

Let me put that one on hold for a little bit. Right. But yeah, we're itching to travel, eh? Yeah, we are. But hey, we've got a beautiful country. We sure do. If you're itching to travel, have a scratch your back door, no? You want to give that to New Zealand tourism?

That's good. That's good. And then the billboard could be like someone scratching their ass, but it's in like Queenstown. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. So it's been in the news. There's been a kind of a recall. HelloFresh have said if you got their food box this week

and one of the meals you opted for was the delicious sounding fish dish, which had trevally in it, coconut fish and macrot lime sauce with jasmine rice and crispy shallots. Well, that depends if you can cook the crispy shallots. They come cooked. They come crispy. I was going to say because you could bugger that up and it could be sloppy shallots. But that won't sound as good, will it? Well, the white fish, the trevvely involved had elevated levels of histamine. Now, that can cause an allergic reaction or food poisoning sort of situation in the fish. So they're saying don't eat it, don't eat it.

Product recall, refunds, et cetera, et cetera. Probably too late, though, for some people. Well, three people have been admitted to hospital with food poison type symptoms. You can have tingling and burning around the mouth, facial flushing, diarrhea, skin rash, nausea, abdominal cramps. Noisier. Noisier. Noisier.

Noisier. Noisier. Noisier. Cramps, vomiting, dizziness, palpitations, headaches, possibly respiratory distress. Wow. And none of those sound fun. No. But yeah, apparently no long-term effects.

Right. To the general population. So what was wrong? Was the fish like old or something? Was it? So the people that caught the fish did the test and not all of the fish involved in this would have had it. Right, okay.

But one batch that may have been involved, so just be on the safe side. They've said get rid of the, like, don't eat, no one should eat it. Okay. No one should eat it. But yeah, you can get that from not processing, not proper refrigeration, et cetera, et cetera,

before eating it. But three people, that's your worst nightmare if you're running a food cetera, before eating it. But three people, that's your worst nightmare if you're running a food box, isn't it? But it's a, I wanted to talk more today about like when you've seen something that's been, when have you rolled the dice with getting a cropped tummy? Like. I roll the dice all the time. Same, with like meat in the fridge You're like give it the old

When did I cook that? Five days ago Five days ago? I wouldn't do that with chicken or fish But like Mince is fine Shade always tells me off when I get something out of the fridge And I open it and I'm like

How long has this been in there? She's like too long to eat Don't just leave it there. It's staying in there so it gets put in the bin closer to bin day so it doesn't start to sink. She's the opposite.

She's super safe. Oh yeah. She won't even eat. Like I know if there's leftovers it's my lunch tomorrow because she's not into eating anything the next day.

Maybe like beef stuff would be the only thing but that would only be the next day and then but yeah like like leftover like pork or whatever she's real sus about it. Maybe like beef stuff would be the only thing, but that would only be the next day and then. But yeah, like leftover, like pork or whatever. She's real sus about it. And like milk.

Yeah. Because if you get the trim ones, they last days after the. Yeah, that's fine. Yeah, that's. Milk's a mess. Until it's got the skin on top of it, it goes a bit lumpy. That's absolutely fine. Give it a sniff.

You'll be fine. Yeah. Like if you're worried about it, give it a shake and pour a little bit in the sink because the sink's like a flat, generally stainless steel surface. You can look and you can be like, I can't see any problems here. Can't see any lumps. A quick scientific evaluation of the milk when you give it a splash on a flat surface. That's a great way to judge whether or not that's going to get you sick. But I was also thinking like remember that um

bakery by where we used to work and one day no one was on the till so i stuck my head around the corner i was like hello and someone was like shredding chicken with their bare hands but they had like they were sweating a little bit that put me off that bakery that's why you don't peek behind the curtain. Shredding chicken. Yeah. So laboriously that they started to sweat. And there was a,

we went out for a meal once and it was one of those places where you could see the chef and it was one of those restaurants where you shouldn't have. Yeah. Because he was very sweaty and he kept like wiping his,

but like, not like wiping on the, because I've seen chefs when they get sweaty and they do it wiping his but like not like wiping on the because I've seen chefs when they get sweaty and they do it it looks so hot in the kitchen

what was the what was the cafe's protocol on a sweaty chef I didn't none of us were profusely sweating okay so this guy was profusely sweating

and I can accept like a like putting your forehead up where your shoulder is like if you're wearing a t-shirt just hitting that but this guy would run it all the way down his arm and stop just short Like, putting your forehead up where your shoulder is. Like, if you're wearing a T-shirt, just hitting that.

But this guy would run it all the way down his arm and stop just short of his hand. And I was like, we're getting into dangerous territory here. Because the sweat's going to drip down. Yeah, if he's got the sweat on his arm, it could drip even further. Maybe they need a towel, like, around their neck or something. Or, like, you have a bandana thingy and you can wipe your face or something. Yeah, true. Yeah, maybe even on the arm, like, a proper big sweatband situation to do it.

But I was wondering when you decided to roll the dice, like what did you see in the food preparation arena that you were like, still going to do it? Yeah, and maybe you thought I could get sick from this. Maybe this was at home. This was you caught a reflection of yourself in the fridge and you're like, no, I'm still going to do it. Or you saw it somewhere.

Yeah. And you were like, you know what? That's yuck, but I'm here now. Or you were halfway through your meal and you found it was raw and you were just like, well, keep going. Tastes okay. Yeah, I hadn't even noticed until I got right to the middle. We're talking about, well, if you, HelloFresh,

have recalled just the fish aspect of the meal. That's quite like the important part of what we're saying. Don't eat that. Yeah. Yeah, it's not all your boxes. Well, that's Wednesday. What day do you get your box? It depends.

Like Sunday or Monday. Sunday, Sunday, Monday. Right. You probably would have eaten it already. Three people went to hospital. Yeah. Elevated levels of histamine. Histamine.

And is that why you take antihistamine? Yeah. Right, okay. Histamine's the allergic reaction, right? Yeah. But then is that what causes the food poisoning? Because people are saying it's, yeah, what you'll get is likened to food poisoning.

But we're talking about those times when you've rolled the dice on some dodgy food. Yeah. This is an interesting topic. We've had some very interesting text messages in. When I lived in the UK, the chef at our local Chinese would smoke while cooking. Authentic. But it was really good.

So that was a roll of the dice every time that you weren't going to just get a little bit of ash. It was that ashy flavour. Derek, when did you roll the dice on some dodgy food? Back in New York City. So I went to this Chinese restaurant. It was completely chocked. So I was waiting in line. Decided to go to the restroom there.

And then as I'm waiting, the chef comes out of the stall and the smell was not pleasant. Goes straight in, wipes his hand just on his apron. Doesn't even wash his hands. It's the kitchen. Oh!

So he used the toilet and didn't wash his hands and you still ate the meal? No, I went next door where the chef was smoking outside. At least it was nice and smoky. Like E. coli or ash in my meal.

Brilliant. Derek, thanks for your call. Ask for more text messages. Someone said, we ate the fish from HelloFresh because we didn't get the text until later that night. Next morning the husband was like, should I eat the leftovers? I was like, well, that's up to you. And he did.

And he's okay. He's okay. Hayley, when did you roll the dice on some dodgy food? I dropped a pie out of the cabinet at a Caltex onto the ground and then just picked it up and ate it anyway. Three, five second rule? Three second rule? This one fell out

when I opened the door. I'm not paying for that. Yeah, because like consumer wise, if you pack a pie out with the tongs and it drops,

is that your fault? Or was that Miss Tong? Was that Tong? It was the tongs problem. I assumed it was my fault and I didn't want anybody else to notice.

It was a quick pickup. I was embarrassed. I just sort of left it on the table and got a new one. Did the inside rupture on the floor? Because for some reason, I think if pastry touches the floor, it's okay, but if the wet part touches the floor, it's not? A bit of both. Structural integrity was compromised.

Yeah, yeah. Did you still eat the pastry or just the insides? Oh, I ate the whole thing. And you were all right? You're fine. Yeah, I'm still alive. It probably made you tougher, actually. It probably built a resistance to some kind of floor germs as well.

Well, I read that the kids that suck their thumbs or chew their fingernails actually have higher levels of antibodies when they become an adult because they've kind of like been eating bacteria the whole time. Okay. Same goes with floor pies. Hayley, thanks for your call. Somebody said, I walked in with a girl who ate two entire raw chicken breasts.

Her boyfriend had it marinating in the fridge and because of the colour, she figured it was cooked. But you'd be eating it and you'd figure it wasn't cooked. No, the texture. He might have been marinating it in something that like lemon juice or something broke it down a little bit so it didn't feel like ordinary, like some sort of acidic situation. She ate them both before realising he told her it was raw. We didn't know what to do, but she was absolutely fine.

Yeah, because you don't get sick eating raw chicken. You only get sick eating raw chicken if it's got, you know, the campylobacter or salmonella or whatever. Which raw chicken has often. Often. Or sometimes. But not all the time. Someone said we were out for dinner and I saw a chef drop something and then put it back in the pan. My mum said not to make a

fuss as we didn't know that the floor wasn't as clean as the bench. The floors aren't as clean as the bench. It was a weird take on it mum but we didn't get sick, so I guess we're okay. Don't make, that's such a Kiwi thing, don't make a fuss about it.

Don't make a fuss about it. Don't make a fuss about it. Oh, God. Oh, yeah, people were really rolling the dice on something. Somebody else said I was eating some chicken

in Peru and I said to somebody, does this look bad to you? And they were like, no, that's just how the Peruvians eat their chicken. Well, 24 hours later, I got to prove them wrong when I vomited and shat myself on the 24-hour bus. Oh, great. Wow. All right.

ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. During 1983, the Royal Tour of Australia and New Zealand, it was Diana, Charles and little baby William came to New Zealand. And that was when we got that iconic picture of Charles and Di on the grass with a rug. At Government House. At Government House. Yeah.

On very lush green grass. Yeah. And William's playing with the buzzy bee. That was great for the buz a rug. At Government House. At Government House. On very lush green grass. And William's playing with the Buzzy Bee. That was great for the Buzzy Bee. The iconic Kiwi toy. Didn't the Buzzy Bee people send one of those new little kids one? One of those new little kids?

You know, what were their kids called? Charlotte George. Yeah, didn't they send George one, a buzzy bee? Yeah, then they got in early with George. I think the Prime Minister sent a buzzy bee. Yeah. So that's an iconic photo we remember. And it was the first time that,

I think it was the first time Wills was seen, you know, like out in public. Right. Now in the new season of The Crown, season four, which comes out in a few days. So it's November 15th. So it's four plus Wednesday. Four plus Wednesday is not even a mathematical equation.

Isn't it like three sleeps or something? What day did you say? It's the 15th. It comes out, so Sunday. Okay. But someone else's Sunday? No, our Sunday. Will it be our Monday?

Is it our 15th that it comes out on? I mean, by Monday we'll have it. Okay, thank you. Okay, there we go. Okay. So that is a mathematical equation. Wednesday plus four. Right.

We got there. Season four of The Crown is where we see Diana and we see, we're supposed to see, a lot of the tour of the Royal Tour of Australia and New Zealand. Apparently, we get a little bit shafted. Really? I read yesterday that we got the shaft. Yeah.

So that photo, which happened at Government House, is not set up the same in the show. No, the iconic image. The iconic image that we know they are showing is in Australia. What? Another thing Australia has stolen from us. They've rewritten it. In Tasmania?

In Tasmania. They used to be just closer to us and they towed it over. That's so rude. So they visit a new South Wales farm. It's dry and brown, whereas the scene we remember is lush and green. Oh my God, lush lawns. Yeah, and that's where William plays with the buzzy bee.

Buzzy bee isn't even their thing. No, that's our thing. Yeah, what if they said, if it was real in Australia, he would have had a little clip-on koala. Or a boomerang Yeah But then if they've rewritten that Then maybe What else have they taken liberties to?

Because I love this show But I take it as gospel Do they even come to New Zealand? In this? Yeah, no they do They do There's snippets of him Did he

Did Charles Vomit in a toilet When he was Apparently he got quite sick when he was there. Yeah, the Huntley, you know that one in Huntley. The Huntley public toilets. Yeah. So did they actually film in New Zealand pre-COVID or?

No, I don't think so. They'll just use some stock footage or they'll pretend it's New Zealand. No, they don't use stock footage. Everything's recreated. Right. But they'll just pretend it's New Zealand. Oh, see, I don't like that because we're going to know it's not New Zealand. Yeah.

Yeah. I love the show too, but yeah, this is going to hurt me deep. It's out in four days. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. ZM. Voter fraud. It's a very serious issue. We want to address it now because it is happening in the bird of the year.

Again. We talked about the bird of the year yesterday and said, oh, remember a couple of years ago Russia was meddling with the voting? Who did they get behind last time? I can't remember. Wasn't it just a seagull or something? Was it the seagull? Yeah, was it a penguin involved in it?

Well, this time it's actually one that I would like to see win bird of the year. It's the little spotted kiwi. So overnight, they reckon, this was overnight Monday into Tuesday, wasn't it? Yes. There was a bizarre amount of automated bot votes. Correct.

1,500 fraudulent votes for the kiwi pukupuku, the little spotted kiwi. And they know that it's fraud because I asked on Twitter when I saw this, I said, hold your horses. How do you know it's fraud? Yeah. And they said, well, they all happened within an hour. There were fake email addresses used and they all came from the same IP address.

Right. Okay. I said, but what if all the little Kiwi got together and like they all use the laptop and it makes sense that happened overnight because they're nocturnal creatures. Yeah. But that's weird that like someone would do that. They have ruled out foreign interference though, right? So it's.

Have they? How do they know? Where was the IP address? Local. Because the Russians could make it look local. Oh, that's true. Using a VPN. But that's something someone in New Zealand would vote for, right?

It is. Also, they've got Forrest and Bird. The fake email addresses that were used and the votes that were cast were found by Forrest and Bird Birds volunteer election scrutineer. We do take this quite seriously. I love it. Every year there's always controversy. All of our birds deserve a fighting chance,

especially our smallest kiwi, which is so threatened by predators that it is extinct on mainland New Zealand outside of predator-free sanctuaries. Wow. Oh, I should have voted for it now. It's cute. It's a little list one. So, yeah, I can't remember who, I can't

remember last time, but last time it came from overseas. Yeah, right. The white-faced heron. Yep, that's what it is. Just about to just found it. The white-faced heron was found to have a spike at midnight. And they were coming in from overseas that time. That's so weird.

Do you think Russia's just like, well, there's a vote going on. We've got a medal with it. And they're like, but it's just for a bird. They're like, yeah, but we can try our new techniques. Like maybe it's just a trial. Right. A trial.

When an actual election comes, they've had some practice. Well, voting is still open. And I think you're allowed one vote a day. Her email address. No, five. Five. You've got to rank them in your top five. Oh, right.

Okay. All right. Coming up on the show, Vaughan. Yeah, well, how many weeks pregnant are you now, Megan? 27. Yeah, good Lord, when that happened. Holy moly. Someone asked me at the weekend and I said 23.

I was a month out. Mind you, what would you have said? Don't know. A couple of months. A couple of months. Ready to pop. Eight weeks? Oh, yeah, that's eight weeks.

I don't know. That's the thing. I just know that next year you won't be here and it's going to be extra workload. And I'm just really anxious about that. Probably as anxious as you are for a baby. And that's how Fletch views babies. Oh, they'll be cute and stuff, sure.

It might not be. It might not be cute. Yeah, don't put a lot of pressure on the baby until later. It might blossom. Might not. Might be really smart. I won't tell you. I know I've said I'd always say if you had an uggo baby. Like, are your parents still waiting for you to turn into something?

Excuse me. No, I was a real cute bad wit the other way. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was blonde. You were like a cute toddler. Yeah, I was like a blonde toddler. And then it all just went downhill quite rapidly. The wheels came off.

Quite rapidly. So you never know, but you might have a late bloo. Anyway. Well, I've got a series of questions, and we're calling the Baby Chaser to see if you two can answer questions. Who are you? Who am I? Well, you've just shown that you could do some education in the area.

We're the two in the room that don't have children. Okay, alright. So limited knowledge. Okay, alright. I mean, I'm hoping I can beat you. Imagine if you don't. This will be great. Okay. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. ZM.

How's that? Wow, you've really gone all out there, Bourne. That's pretty good, eh? Okay. It tells you that it's the chase because you know the theme song. Yeah. It's got babies at the start, so it's the baby chase. Okay.

That's good stuff. So with Megan just months away from squeezing out a human. Okay, yeah. Yeah. We are putting her to the test. And we're putting you to the test too. Just to see. You're like the litmus. Okay.

Of what a person with no children would know, I guess. Okay. Or be interested in knowing. Yeah. Be worried if I win. Yeah. I mean, yeah, I don't know a lot just yet. Have you done a mum course yet?

Antenatal? Yes, that thing. I've done one. Have you done a mum course yet? Antenatal. Yes, that thing. I've done one. Have you? My second one's tonight. How many weeks are you doing it over? Six, maybe? Right, and Wednesday nights.

Yeah. What did you learn last week? So, it turns out Andrew and I are the ones in the class that put our hands up and answer all the questions. Oh, my God, adult students. We had to label all the anatomy of a female and he did great. It was too late for that. He's already done it,

hasn't he? Already put it there. Yeah, and we learnt the stages of labour. Right. Which was horrific, but apparently they don't show a birth video, so I was like, hallelujah. Right. Because everyone's so different. Is that why they don't show the birth video? Yeah, and it just

scares people unnecessarily. Have you learned about birthing positions? No. What? Well, no, they'll encourage you to go hands and knees. Okay. Interesting. Do they put a pillow under there? No, they'll catch it.

Oh, they'll catch it. It opens the pelvis more than like, like, because you see a pillow underneath? Does it just... No, they'll catch it. Oh, they'll catch it. Because I've seen the giraffes. It opens the pelvis more than like... Because you see you're always lying on your back with your legs through, but that can close off the pelvis. Oh, I don't want to close off the pelvis. You get on your hands and knees,

you open up the pelvis. Yeah, like giraffes. When you see giraffes on those zoo documentaries. Yeah, but they fall a lot further. Yeah, the baby giraffes. That's true. Alright, so I've got some questions here. The first question is regarding a pr further. Yeah, the baby drafts. That's true. Alright, so I've got some questions here. The first question is

regarding a pram. Got a pram yet? Now wait, what's happening here? Do we buzz in or do we just have to get it right? You try.

That's my buzzer. What's yours? That sounded like mine. No, I can see who's making the noise. I'm here. Okay. How much does a City Mini GT2 double retail for?

That's a pram. That's a pram. Fletch. $400. It's a double, so I'm going to go $600. Both of you wildly incorrect, $1,500. Jesus Christ! Why are you doing this, Megan? I'm going to go $600. Both of you wildly incorrect. $1,500. Whoa! Jesus Christ!

Why are you doing this, Megan? That's so weird. Twins. No, no, no. Twins. That's twins. Twins. Even still, how much is a one cab?

The one. $700 for a baby joey. Jesus, you know you could go pre-COVID. You could have gone to Fiji for that without kids. Do you know what you're doing? This is just what this segment is going to be. Oh, my God. This is giving me a conniption.

Right. Question two. So no one's got any points. Question two. What sound does croup make? No croup is something the baby has. Fletch. What was that? Croup. Cr baby has. Fletch.

What was that? Croup, croutons. Eating a biscuit. No, croutons, croup. Oh, what's croup? Do you know what croup is? Oh, no. I'm not having a baby.

Should you know what it is? Is it a cough? Okay, play it. Megan's closest to having a horrible cough. It's horrible. It's really horrible That's horrible Sounds like we're going to have to go to White Cross You're definitely going to have to go to White Cross

The next question is What is meconium? I know what that is Where is it? Where is it? Coffee No Mhephmeh meconia

No Are you sure? No This is one of the questions we got right at our first antenatal. It's the baby's first poop. Yeah. And sometimes they can do it

when they're not born yet. Yeah. Which is a problem. It's a problem if it happens inside. Yeah. They've got to get that baby out.

It's real. It's like tar. It's real. Okay. Nasty. Nasty. The next question, what is a diaper genie?

Wham! Fletch. Can I just say, I don't really like Okay. Nasty. Nasty. The next question, what is a diaper genie? Wah! Fletch. Can I just say, I really like how you're getting in there. Thank you. It's when you pick up the baby and you rub the nappy and a genie comes out and grants you three wishes. And one of them is, I wish I hadn't had this cat. Oh my God. Surprisingly, no.

Is it something you put the nappies in? Yeah. After they've pooped? Well, it's a nappy bin. After they've soiled them? But it locks in the smell. You put that in and then you twist this handle and it locks it off. What's wrong with the bin?

Can you get those for a washing basket? Because sometimes I'll leave my washing in for the whole week. Your gym clothes. Yeah, and sometimes I'll leave my washing in for the whole week. Your gym clothes. Yeah, and sometimes I'll pop open the laundry basket a little bit and just feed the stuff in and it can quickly shut it. Yep, yep, that can work. Yep, okay. And final question, how many bones are babies born with?

Oh, no idea. Let's just have a guess. Wah! Fletch. 400. Wah! Are there more? Like lots?

I'm not telling you. A thousand. Fletch gets the points. Closer. Babies are born with 300 bones. See? And then they fuse and stuff over time. Yeah.

That's why I thought there'd be lots. A thousand though. Your baby comes out like a thousand piece jigsaw puzzle. And it's just like Like you just pick it up And it's like It's like a jellyfish Keep it still So the bone's confused

So you've got to support the head Because it's just like You did well That was a draw No it wasn't Shame That wasn't a draw Great new sweatshirt

You can have a baby now too ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan The podcast Okay so there's a couple Damn. That wasn't a draw. Right, you can have a baby now too. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Okay, so there's a couple. Caroline, she's an English socialite.

She has found a new boyfriend after breaking up with her husband of 17 years. Okay. He's, you say Real Madrid, eh? Not real.

Real Madrid. Real Madrid. Real Madrid. The football thing Madrid, eh? Not real. Real Madrid. Yeah, Real Madrid. Real Madrid. The football thingy, eh? Yeah. Yeah. His name is Sergio Carrele. He's a professional soccer player.

Okay. So, Sergio's 26. She is 44. Um, and they are madly in love. Looking at that photo, he looks a bit older than that, and she doesn't look that old. No. You want to look at them and know that there was an age difference. Not that that matters, but it doesn't look weird.

And so they are very much in love. Yeah. And what are you smoking at? Are you going to make a dig? I didn't say anything. No? Okay, good. So when they first got together, his dad offered him a good,

what is only described as a good amount of money to give Caroline up. A good, now so he would, if he's a professional football player, he'd be rich. What's a good amount of money to a professional football player? And if, you know, if the family's rich,

like are we talking like quarter of a million dollars? Are we talking $50,000? Are we talking $10,000? I don't know, but he didn't do it. It must be a lot. He didn't do it. And what, they're still together? They're still together.

Apparently, his mum has warmed to her now and they love her. Right. Yeah, still together. But the dad's still- But she'd be closer to their age. Well, she's 44, yeah. If that... She's 18 years older than him.

If they'd had him young, definitely, yeah. Yeah. He said his mum cried initially when she found out about the relationship and they thought that... Oh, but some mums do that regardless of age. Some mums are just like, my little boy.

So there's, yeah, there's 18 years difference between them. But I mean, all the photos look happy as. They obviously love each other a lot. And good on them for like turning down what sounds like it would have been a lot of money. Well, okay, let's put this in. Let's do an example. You've just met Mr. Toyboy. Yeah.

And your dad comes out and says, I don't like this, young man. Here's $10,000 to dump him. Nah. Also, I don't like doing what people tell me to do.

Yeah. So if dad was like, do this, I'd be like, no. Do you reckon people do this sometimes to plant the seed of doubt? And so like if, just to keep using this example, you'd go on to Mr. Toyboy in the early stages and be like, Dad's offered me money to stop seeing you. And then he'd be like, well, did you consider it? And then there's like just to-

You'd never tell them, would you? I don't know, would you? No, you'd never tell them. Or I'd say, okay, here's the plan. We're going to pretend to break up and we're going to get $100,000 out of it. And is there a provisor? Do you have to sign a thing to say you don't get back together?

Because technically you broke up. I'd just say, Dad just gave me $100,000. Thanks. I mean, that's a lot of money. That's like rich people's money. But that can also backfire because you're like, well, stuff you. This is going to work. I'm going to make this work now. And if you were so in love with them, you're not going to want to do it, are you?

No. Even if it is a lot of money. True love is priceless. Eh? Yeah. It's pretty expensive, actually. It's cost me a bloody fortune. But we want to know this morning, has anybody ever tried to bribe you

or given an incentive to break up with someone? Like the family or friends have said, look, if you break up with this person, here's some cash, or hey, I'll pay for your OE, break up with this loser. Imagine if your parents were like, we'll pay for your OE.

Yeah, that's good, because then you're getting them out of the... You're getting them away from the person, they're out of the country and they're not having a pain. And life experience. Yeah, exactly. And then they meet some other douchebag

when they're over in America or something. Yeah, but then they're probably a hot Italian douchebag or, you know, a British douchebag. Rolling the dice. Sure. But I think this would happen a lot more than you think it would in New Zealand. Maybe not to giant sums of money.

I'll give you my old BMW. I'm just trying to think about it. Yeah, break up with this person so I can give you a lifetime of having to pay a fortune to keep an old European car on the road. That sounds like a great deal. So 0800 DALS at M. You can give us a call now or you can text in 9696. Maybe you've heard

of this happening in New Zealand. When has somebody bribed you to break up with someone? Oh, juicy. Or maybe you were on the receiving end. You were going out with someone and their family or friends put the pressure on them, gave them a little incentive to break up

with you. No judge if you took it. I want to hear if anyone took it. Yeah, no judge. I just want to know if it even happens here in New Zealand as much as, you know, because maybe not. Maybe like you, people are like stubborn. They're like, nope, not doing it. Yeah.

I'm staying. But then if you weren't feeling it, take the cash. We're talking about when someone's bribed you to break up with your partner. Sergio and Caroline, he's a professional football player. She is a socialite, but she's 44 and he's 26 and his dad offered him money to break

up with her. And we don't know how much money. He said a good amount of money and he's a professional football player. Yeah, and dad sounds real rich. So it would have been a lot of zeros. A lot of digits in that sum. So it would have been a lot of zeros. Yeah. A lot of digits in that sum. He didn't take it.

So has it ever happened here in New Zealand? How common is it? And what did I say? I think it'd be pretty common. Yeah. Wow, we're hearing from so many people. Let's start with Georgia. Georgia, did somebody bribe you to end a relationship?

Yeah, my dad bought me a car to break up with my boyfriend and like, sorry, my baby daddy to stay away from him. And did it work? Not really, no. I'm sort of sitting right next to him as we speak. But then you're sitting like a child together, so it's like that's a different situation altogether, isn't it? Yeah, sort of a different situation, yeah.

Are you sitting next to him in the car that Dad got you? No, I'm actually on my way to go pick up the spare keys for the car that my Dad got. Yes, you've got the car! This is brilliant. And has Dad come around or not really? No, not really. No.

I feel like this is something... He doesn't actually know. Oh, okay. Well, he thinks that you're not together. Yeah, well, it's kind of like a fresh start, if you get what I mean. Right, okay. But hey, you've got a car out of it.

This is fantastic. Yeah, absolutely. It's a very fun car. Okay. And, I mean, have you got the ownership papers? Like, it's going to be very hard for him to get this car back if he finds out. Yeah, yeah, like, it's in my name and everything.

Of course I made sure that was in place. He's got no leg to stand on. See you in court, Dad. Thanks for your call, Georgia. Anonymous. Hi. Somebody bribed you

to end a relationship. Yeah, it was a bit of a slow one, actually. So I was 20 and had been my partner for about two years. And mum suggested I go do a mini OE, do Camp America. And I had a really low-paying job.

So she was like, don't worry about it. I'll pay for your flight. And I can flick you spending money while you're over there and, like, shout your month travelling afterwards. Oh, my God. That is living the dream. How can you say no to that? Well, exactly. So I was like, oh, my God, that is living the dream. How can you say no to that? Well, exactly.

I was like, oh my God, sounds great. But yeah, it worked. I was over this for three weeks and I dumped him. Because Americans are quite hot, eh? Oh, it was a mixed camp. So I had my choice of the world, really. Like an international smorgasbord. That's the one.

Did mum ever admit that that was the reasoning? I kind of picked up on it eventually. I was like, I see what you did there. Fair enough. That's a hot play from mum. Anonymous. Brilliant. Thanks for your call. Some text messages.

My parents sat me down with a list of reasons why I shouldn't marry my fiancé at the time. Then they paid for me to extend my OE while my fiancé stayed back home in the hopes that I'd change my mind. Safe to say it didn't work. We've been married nine years today with one child. Wow. Do you think mum and dad ever came around there? I guess they've got a choice if they want to see their grandkid or not.

Yeah, true. My dad offered me $5,000 to break up with my partner when I was 21, as my partner was 19 years older than me. Right. What dad didn't realise was that I was a sugar baby and I was getting my monthly allowance, so the 5K didn't really stack up that much.

It wasn't that impressive. How did dad find out about the sugar daddy? No, dad didn't realise. Dad didn't. Dad didn't realise. He didn't. Dad didn't realise. He didn't know. I got this, Dad. Don't worry.

But he still thought they were in a relationship. Yeah. Oh, okay. But I guess it was like, it sounds like it might have maybe was. Okay. But with the financial aspect as well. Thanks for the extra cash, Dad. I moved to Tauranga for a couple of years so my ex could keep working for the family business.

At the end of those two years he was supposed to move back with me to my hometown but his parents promised to buy him a Mercedes if he didn't leave so I had to move back by myself

because he didn't want to leave. After two years of you being there and they put a car above your relationship. Yeah, that's kind of a long time, right? Yeah.

My ex's family offered him $10,000 and a plane ticket to the UK if he left me when I got pregnant with his first child. Whoa! Okay, that's a bit rough. I wish he had taken it. Yeah, right. That's what they say now.

Times have changed, though. Me and some friends offered our mate's douchebag boyfriend a grand to go away and never contact her again. We thought he was going to take it. Unfortunately, he didn't go for it. He was a terrible person. They don't see each other anymore now. He probably wishes he'd done it. Yeah, probably.

Lots of horrible stories about people being offered money to not see their partner due to the partner's race. Are you kidding me? Really? Heaps. And that's from all sides. That's from all sides as well that's not just

white people saying they don't want their kids seeing people of different ethnicities it's all different ethnicities we've had so many

messages from people saying oh my parents tried to bribe me to break up with my white partner because that wasn't what they wanted in the family

so yeah that horrible racist shit goes everywhere what we need is a great big melting pot yes take the world and what put it all in the pot So yeah, that horrible racist shit goes everywhere. Yeah, what we need is a great big melting pot. Yes. Take the world and what?

Put it all in the pot. Yeah. Put the lid on. I don't think we can say the rest of those lyrics. No. That song's been cancelled. Put the lid on, put it on low. Yeah. And that's a crock pot recipe, but that would work too.

It's similar. Yeah, right. Because there's some tough old meat in the world that could do with a longer, lower, slower cook. Sure. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Today's fact of the day is that body armour, the bulletproof vests, were invented by a pizza delivery guy. Okay.

Yep. His name was Richard, Richard Davis. He actually was in the armed forces. He was an American soldier. Okay. But after he got out of the armed forces, he purchased himself a little pizzeria. Okay. And the story unfolds that he was robbed one night at the pizzeria.

The people that robbed him ordered two Hawaiians and a ham. Okay. So then a couple of weeks later he, and they didn't catch the guys. Okay. A couple of weeks later he got another order for two Hawaiians and a ham. And it was like, hmm, might be the same guys. So when he went to deliver the pizza, he took a gun with him. Okay. And it turns out it was the same guys and they tried to rob him again, but he got the best of them because he had the gun. But it was at that stage that he was like,

I need to invent something that can protect me. Yeah. Because I'm delivering pizza. He was delivering pizza in Detroit, and he said it was starting to get really, really dangerous. And so it was around about that time that DuPont came across Kevlar. What time or what year are we talking here? 1969.

Okay. It was the same night in 1969 that the Apollo 11 took off. Yeah. That he got shot. I would have thought the world would have been quite jubilant. Well, they were obviously having a pizza party. But they didn't want to pay for the pizza. They wanted to rob the pizza guy.

Anyway, that night he got shot in the leg and a bullet scraped his underwear, his glasses arm. Really? Yeah. When he went back to the place, he got shot? When he went and dropped off those pizzas and they said he took the gun. Yeah.

Yeah, they came out and it, because he had the gun, it all went crazy. Oh, right. But he got hit and he was like, well, I need to protect myself. And about the same time, DuPont had developed ballistic nylon like Kevlar. So he sat down with some scissors, some Kevlar, and he started making sewing bulletproof vests. And he said he took it into the Detroit police during the day, still ran the pizza place.

When that was shut, he'd go and do presentations to the police on how this, and how he presented it to them was, he filmed himself. The first time he did it, he shot himself in the chest when he was wearing one of his bulletproof vests and it stopped. He said it hurt, knocked the wind out of him, but obviously stopped the bullet.

And then he'd actually show police in person and he said they always freaked out. But yeah, he shot himself. He reckons in the development of it, from the first time to the last time he did it, he probably shot himself about 190 times to prove that they worked. So he had $70 when he started

and he borrowed the sewing machine and he bought that nylon. Yeah. And in the year... Wait, how did the needle get through if a bullet won't get through? Is it because the needle's thinner thinner and kevlar's like woven right so you can probably go through the bit and when the bullet hits it it's wider so

yeah right disperses it and there's probably sorry they had to flag that because that's interesting yeah yeah if you were you'd be nope wouldn't be working uh so he. So keeping in mind he started with $70, it was turning over $24 million a year in the late 90s, early 2000s. And in 2005, it was sold to another outlet called Armour Holdings Incorporated for $45 million US dollars. Wow. So I would have been shot at after one pizza run

and just quit that job and not done it anymore. Yeah. But he really made something out of that. Well, he had the pizza. He owned the pizza place. So I guess he was just like, what else am I going to do? Yeah, right. Get out of the pizza house game.

And so retired quite early. Is he still alive? Will he be dead now? I can't. I've tried to find when, because he was like old. He was 65 in the year 2001, so he'd be well into his 80s by now. Yeah, right.

So yeah, I can't find if he actually has passed since. But yeah, today's fact of the day is the bulletproof vest that's now worn worldwide by police and people in the army and criminals and people playing Grand Theft Auto was invented by a guy who did a pizza delivery.

Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Fletch Warner Megan, the podcast. ZM. Now, you heard an ad on the radio for this, what I'm about to talk about. I did. You had the audio closed. I had the written down. I saw the ads for it, and I was like, what's going on here? And I have since found out that an 18-year-old called Venice,

her mum has hired out the entire Civic Theatre in Auckland, which is a big theatre. As far as theatres go. What's the capacity of that bad boy? It's got to be the biggest theatre capacity-wise in Auckland. Yeah. Central, right? Surely.

It's like 2,378 seats. That's a lot of seats. It's the Civic, yeah. That's a lot of seats. Well, you heard the ad. How did the ad go? Because I still haven't heard the ad. Oh, I'd heard it yesterday and said,

Emma, it was just like, hi, I'm going to be doing a concert and come along. And I'm just like, I've never heard this. Because, you know, normally- Never heard of this artist? Yeah, and I wondered if it was maybe like a New Zealand on Air showcase or like an emerging artist that I hadn't heard of. And I was like, oh, that's cool.

Interesting. And that was kind of it. And then this morning when you brought up this news story, I was like, wow. Like, what a mum, because my mum wouldn't do this. Bev would have been like, pay for your own bloody civic theatre. My mum would have actively encouraged me not to make a fool of myself in front of that. Yeah, my mum would have said, actually, you've got no talent to do this. I don't know, is it a good idea? Why don't you just put on a little one for the family

and we'll see what we think. Yeah. So this mum has rented out the Civic and put on and taken out advertising for her daughter's show. Correct. How cool is that? That's pretty cool. It's a lot of pressure.

That's how I take it. I'd be like, ugh. Yeah, if my mum did that, that show would have to be bloody perfect. It'd have to be breaking even, otherwise she'd be breaking eggs. Well, so apparently it costs over $20,000 to hire the Civic. And that's not including the advertising campaign

around this one night event. And then what about like lighting and stuff? You'd need to hire all of that and production crew. Unless it's going to be a pretty simple set up maybe. And it's one 18 year old the show goes for over two hours including a 20 minute interval. That's so much!

Wow. That's amazing. It's all musical. Apparently Venice's one big love is music. Big fan. And very talented by all accounts. November 27 is when the show is going to be on. And doing that sound engineering is Ratu Gordon

who did the sound engineering for Pink and Lady Gaga shows in Las Vegas. Oh, wow. Okay. Mum is sparing no expense. I know. I just imagine what my mum would be like, no, you're dreaming.

I'm trying to think of like, yeah, something that my mum coughed up for. Rona, they would have sent you to rowing camp a lot and then you betrayed them. No, we had to fundraise. By kissing that boy against the Sabaru Forester. No, different events, two different events. That was in turn annoying.

It went far further at rowing camp. Okay. Than a gentle bout of heavy petting on the bonnet of a Subaru Forester. Where did fundraise? That was Tahuna Beach that she did. That outside the KFC. Yeah. Get your back straight.

They were paying for your sporting achievements and your sporting dreams, not for you to pash boys. It would be the equivalent of them paying for the Civic Theatre and they turn up and you're getting with boys. Backstage? Yeah. They're like, when's the concert start? As long as it doesn't affect the show.

Do whatever you want backstage. Now, Executive Intern Anya, you're monitoring the television news. Mandy McLean, we're crossing to him in Napier any moment now. Yes. He's currently doing a bit on TV about the floods. Yes, so he was just interviewing someone. Now, I'm watching the television on mute, so I'm not quite sure who he was interviewing.

The interview has just finished, so I'm assuming he's saying, Thank you so much for the chat. All the best. And then he's going to text me back and be like, yeah, dog, let's go. Oh, I can just ring him now. Is he on the TV right now? He's just finished. Okay. This phone's ringing.

He can be like, sorry, I've just got to take this. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's probably the out he wants. And he's probably got gumboots. Has he got gumboots on on the news? Well, he's the floodwaters. Okay. Oh, he better be in gumboots.

He better be in gumboots. He better be in a boat shoe. He better be taking this lightly. Okay. Oh, he better be in gumboots. He better be in gumboots. He better not be in a boat shoe. He better not be taking this lightly. Okay, so Executive N29 is just now... Kind of boots with Manny McLean. Where do you think? Trying to put the call through. Very suave boots.

Yeah, I think he... Suave. It's gone to voicemail. How do you make it to voicemail? Unbelievable. Just try again. Keep trying. This is why he's not up for TV Personality of the voicemail. Unbelievable. Just try again. Keep trying.

This is why he's not up for TV Personality of the Year this year. Exactly. And he's not going to win Radio Personality of the Year if he doesn't take this call. Do you want to help fill in the silence, Warner, or are you just going to sit there in silence? No, I thought we could embrace it. Sometimes I feel like on the radio no one embraces silence enough. That's because we get that blue light.

But sometimes a haunting silence really speaks volumes. Do you know what I mean? Yeah, right. Can you go again and put it through when it's ringing to me and then we'll leave him a very terse voicemail. Terse? Yeah, I'm happy with terse. Should be ringing.

Yes. Here we go. Oh, it's ringing. Well, yeah, but it keeps going through to voicemail, doesn't it? Oh, right, it rings. I thought it was diverting as soon as the call started to voicemail. I'd imagine he's at the moment signing autographs and having photos taken with middle-aged women who love him.

They do love him very much. Okay. Hey, this is Maddie McLean from TVNZ's breakfast show. Sorry I couldn't take your call. Please leave. I'll get back to you as soon as I can. Thanks very much. This is Maddie McLean. I'm a TV personality. At the tone, record your message.

Hi, Maddie McLean from TVNZ's breakfast show. It's Fletch von Ameggen from ZM's breakfast show. What a coin-kidink. Why aren't you answering our calls? Remember you said you were going to talk to us? Ashley Bloomfield would have. And he took himself out of the race for TV personality of the year.

Humble. So humble. Unlike you who put yourself forward and won. And campaigned. He put himself forward. Oh, he just messaged saying, sorry, we're leaving this abusive voicemail. Can we delete that?

How do we delete a voicemail? I can't push the buttons. We're going to regret this because now we want to talk to him. Eight. I pressed eight. One. Two. Just hang up. Do you know one of these will delete? Is it five? I don't think any of them. Try hash. Message sent.

Ah! No! Oh, shit shit that was send Who knew that was send It must have been star It must have been asterisk Not hash We're really going to have to patch things up with Maddie Wow okay that was Who knew I could press those buttons

Either did you know that No idea Oh my gosh Oh, okay, that was, who knew I could press those buttons either? Did you know that? Hello. Hi. Oh, my gosh. Maddie, what a pleasure. I'm so busy. I'm so busy. We can appreciate that. We certainly wouldn't hold that against you.

Now, Maddie, are you the type of person that actually checks your voicemail? No. No, I wouldn't either. You don't have any. Don't have any. You don't have any. Don't do that. You don't have any. Just do that thing where you open it

and just press three a whole lot of times until they're all deleted. I don't think we need to listen to any. Now, let's get sorrows for a minute. You're in Napier at the moment

and are you in gumboots? I'm in gumboots. I've got my red bands on. Ian Smith would be so proud of me right now. He would be. Now, seeing those aerial photos yesterday of Napier, just absolutely, like, crazy to see. Insane.

Yeah, I mean, if you get two months worth of rainfall in two days, that's what happens, right? That's what Napier's at. Wow. Yeah, it's just a crazy worth of rainfall in two days, that's what happens, right? That's what Napier's had. Wow. Yeah, it's just a crazy amount of rainfall in a really short amount of time. The good news is those water levels have subsided in most places this morning. So the aerial shots you saw yesterday, really dramatic. But this morning, things have cleared quite a bit.

The only issue with that, though, is that there is still a weather watch today in Napier. Look at me getting all serious. A weather watch in Napier today, and they are expecting maybe 50 mils worth of rain again today. And just to put that into perspective, the Hawke's Bay usually gets about 60 mils of rain for the month of November. Wow. Holy moly. And the ground's waterlogged, so the water's just going to sit on top. Exactly, yeah. One interesting thing, though, is actually farmers, because they're usually up a bit higher in Hawke's Bay, they've actually

said it's pretty good for them because they've been so dry that the water's actually done great things for them. But it's the businesses in Napier, it's the residents that have been badly affected. We went up to one guy's house, Freeman White, he's an artist, and his entire back hill slammed into the back of his house, took out his bathroom. He can't get back inside his slammed into the back of his house, took out his bathroom.

He can't get back inside his house at the moment. And it's just one of those things when you go and see it, when you see the mud and you see the debris slammed up against someone's backyard at the back of the house, you think, where do you even start with something like that? So it's a big clean-up job coming for them. You said yesterday those dramatic shots. Was that just the water couldn't soak in, or were there a lot of blocked drains? Because I'm imagining when water falls that quick,

everything just gets pushed towards the drain, and drains get blocked, and then God knows how to get out. It'd be both, so that, but also when things are so dry as they have been recently, the East Coast has been so hot and so dry, temperatures in the mid to late 20s in the last few weeks. And so when you've got that really dry land, the water's just got nowhere to go. It can't soak into it because it's so dry. So it just stays on top and sits on top. And that's when you get those big flooding surfaces.

Wow. But as you say, the farmers have been in that area. They've been in drought for like years. I know. Every summer it's massive. It gets worse and worse. I know. The one thing with farmers is the issue is those that are dealing with crops

because they're quite often low down. So crops that supply to McCain's and stuff have lost a whole heap of their crops. So if you're someone that likes your spuds, you have McCain chips. Oh, McCain, they won't be doing it again. Well, not this summer. No. Wow. Crazy stuff. Manny McLe they won't be doing it again. Well, not this Sunday. No. Wow. Crazy stuff.

Mandy McLean on the ground in Napier. Thank you so much for taking the time out this morning. And I saw that ad. Are you doing a weekend away? You can win a weekend away with Mandy McLean. A beauty. Do you wear underwear under your robe? It's optional.

The winner gets to decide. That's the best aspect of the prize. We get to weigh in with Matty and Queenstown and you get to decide if he wears undies. Don't mind if I do. ZDM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. If you enjoyed this podcast,

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