ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Megan Podcast - 12th October 2020

Episode Date: October 11, 2020

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Hello, welcome to the Fleet's Morning Megan podcast. Thanks to McCafe, you can buy five McCafe coffees and get one free on the Maccas app. We've just been sent, just opened, this is in no way a hashtag spawn or a hashtag ad, but an interesting talk point. Yes. That has really caused some divisions in studio, so we thought we might share that with you. Yes. Give me the other one. Now, we've been sent the Cadbury favourites, the Kiwi edition, which I think is already off to a better start than your standard box of favorites. Yeah, so for those maybe that are international listeners

and have never been to New Zealand, these are your Cadbury chocolate bars. They're like mini bars of favorites, the people's favorites, the ones that sell well. Yeah, in one box. Is this a bigger box than usual? This is two sizes. All right, this is a big one So first up Chocolate fish

That's exactly I like That's just a glorified marshmallow Marshmallow in the shape of a fish coated in chocolate No, it's not a chocolate bar Caramel Yeah, that's a good one Dairy chocolate

Yes That's good, that's your plan You've got to have that in there I always save those till last in a box of favorites. Buzzbar. Yeah. No time for them. Are they the chewy ones?

They're like a honey-ish flavored situation, aren't they? No. No time. I like them. No time. Morrow Gold. Yeah, I like Morrow Gold. No.

You like Morrow Gold. You don't like Morrow Gold. Don't like Morrow's. Full stop. You don't like Morrow's. What about all the caramel and stuff? Yeah, like at a stretch, like if I was on a desert island and a box of moro golds came up on the shore, I'd be like, okay then.

There's moro gold and there's moro. Yeah, none of them. Dairy milk caramello? No. Yum. Love caramello. I love a caramello. Perky nana.

Not a fan. Not a fan of perky nanas. Perky nanas. People always rave about perky nanas. I'm not a fan of I can't do anything Artificial banana flavour Right

That's a medicine Yeah I don't like those artificial I don't like the banana lollies Nah neither But I don't mind a perkinana Isn't that what that is? A banana

It's a banana lolly Nah it's like kind of chewy It is chewy Yeah And a peppy chew No Don't like those either Peppy chew

You've just dropped the box It's a slippery box You can't tell me that peppy chews Is one of New Zealand's favourites. No, but you've got to have a peppermint flavoured option in there. You've got to have a bit of variety. That box is slippery. It is like a...

It's like a really slippery cardboard. It's so that when you pick it up in the supermarket to look, it just slips in your trolley. It just falls in your trolley. And you're like, well, I'd better get it. I can't get that out. I can't possibly reach over and get that out. For me, though, if I had to buy a box of favorites, I'd just go with the standard.

That's not enough to woo me. Isn't it? Nah. This would woo me over. You'd go that over the normal. I'd go this over a normal. No, I'm with the French. What's in a normal box of?

Okay, would you go a box of roses over a box of favorites? No. No. No favorites. No one's going roses. No, but the roses have got like, you've either got the strawberry, the mint. No favourites. No one's going roses. No, but the roses have got like, you've got the strawberry, the mint. No. You were just poo-pooing on a banana flavoured perky nana and you're going to tell me a strawberry

chocolate is worth it in a box of roses. They're just better. No way. No, the original has a picnic, a crunchy, a bubbly mint, a cherry rite, a flake. No, I'm absolutely getting the original. Getting the original, nah. ZM. Hit music. Lives here. F, I'm absolutely getting the original. Getting the original, nah. Good morning, welcome to the show, Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. Starting the show this morning with a studio that works.

Yep. That hasn't caught on fire, that's a... Can't smell anything burning. Yeah, good. Yeah, but I mean, that was someone else's studio and we burnt it and they left. I might actually flip them a message saying, like, it's not working. Say, sorry about that. Hey, it's us.

Hey. I mean, it wasn't our fault. No, apparently it wasn't. They found it afterwards it wasn't. It could have happened to anybody at any time. Fuel. That was the one thing we said when they were showing us what it was. So it wasn't our fault? Yeah. We didn't do that?

I said, what if it happened in the middle of the night when no one was here? And they went, mm. And shrugged their shoulders. I was like, wow. Okay, good. Good to know. Good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good. Coming up on the show the top six and this is big news. Some contraceptive pills, not all of them,

but some contraceptive pills, there's going to be a shortage. Is this because of COVID? I think so. Yeah, I think so. Because then there was a lot of people thinking, if I can't go out, yeah, I'm going to need six months worth. Right. But then the country's never really equipped,

and maybe the country of origin where we get them from, not really equipped to be dishing out that much at once. So the top six contraceptive alternatives. From past to born. And I will say it. Oh, God. I'll say it now. Okay.

Don't take this list seriously. I'll say it again at the time, and I'll say it every time we tease it coming up. Very much tongue in cheek. Okay? Right, okay. I don't feel you need to say it every time we tease it coming up. Very much tongue in cheek. Okay? Right, okay. I don't feel you need to say it, but okay. No, I do need to say that and I will say it every time. Okay. Also coming up, how to

recognize a shopping addiction. It's very confronting. Is this confronting for you? Yeah. But I mean, you can accept that you have one and then it's, do I want to change? I don't know. We're kind of okay with it. I like the bright lights of the pokey machines.

That's also what gambling addicts say, Megan. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. ZM. This might make you feel better if you had a very high calorie weekend.

Yes. Because your brain is working against you. It's not your fault. A study has been done and it's quite a funny study. So this is in the Netherlands. They got a bunch of people together and they put them in a food maze. In a what? In a food maze? In a food memory maze. Like that, what's that puzzle world?

Puzzling world. In Wanaka. But with chippies on every corner. Hot dogs. There wasn't actual food because otherwise people would probably just nom them up. See, I'd probably actually enjoy that maze thing if it had food in it. Because where we went once, I didn't like it. What's not to like? Oh my God, it's frustrating.

Couldn't get out. You're one of those people that just climbs up and looks for food. Yeah, bloody, I hate it. Because I'm frustrated. You need to get out and get're one of those people that just climbs up and looks for them. Bloody, I hate it. I'm frustrated. You need to get out and get on to the next task. Like in an escape room, he's just like, well, I know you can just open the door. Just open the door.

That's why I didn't like that time we went for work. To the escape room. The process. You're going to solve the... Stupid, they're going to let you out anyway. They can't hold you prisoner. It's against the law. Okay. Not quite getting the's against the law. Okay.

Not quite getting the grasping of it. No. So yeah, not actual food, but there was pads that had scents on them of anything from like fruit and veggies to junk food. Okay. So people had to go through the food memory maze and you had to sniff the pads

and remember what they were and remember where they were. So people were much more efficient at identifying the high calorie foods. 28% more accurate than they were with like

low calorie ones. But those high calorie foods have smells. What does a carrot smell like? I know when you grate a carrot you can smell a carrot but if you just pick up a carrot you'd still be able to smell an apple. You'd be able to recall an apple or a pumpkin. Not like asparagus. Not compared to like a donut or a pie or a deep fried chicken.

But also not only identifying the high calorie options, they could pinpoint exactly where they were. So they were like, well, how'd you get out of the maze? They were like, well, I took a left at the hot chicken stand. And then when I got to the sausage roll, I stopped. I had a sniff. I turned left. But you know exactly where everything is in your supermarket,

bad food wise, right? Yeah. In the middle of it. Yeah. Yeah. Everyone knows What the chippies And the chocolate is

But apparently That's because our brains Are wired against us So this is to do with Like caveman days We are focused on High calorie foods For survival

You know Because Right It used to be Harder to come by Yeah Hunter and gatherer Ancestors

Yeah Like in order to survive Had to remember Where high caloriecalorie foods were available. Like French fries. That's why we need to remember where they are in the supermarket. Because I woke up at the weekend in my cave after a nap and I needed food, so I hunted out a burger. I knew exactly where to go.

It's down the road, 100 metres. On the prairie. That's where the wild burger tribe lived. It was an absolute massacre prairie. Yeah. That's where the wild burger tribe lived. Yeah. It was an absolute massacre. Yeah. Yeah. And you didn't have to like chase it down and kill it to eat it.

Well, I don't feel bad then. No, so it's our brain's fault. Yeah. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. So our spending habits are getting worse over lockdown. And we're getting more shopping addicts. This is apparently because, and I know this, you get like a dopamine hit when you buy yourself a present. You get one when you order it and then another one when it arrives, right? Yeah, it's like three.

But this isn't just, this is in-person shopping, this is online shopping, it's any kind of shopping. So you get the dopamine hit and because, I mean, we've been in varying states of lockdown, you can't go out as much. So you're not seeing

your friends as much. You're not seeing your family as much. Yeah. People are using this to be their fun time. Okay. So,

yeah, we've got a lot more shopping addicts and it's not good for you because some people are spending more than they can actually afford, which is problematic. So, yeah, we've got a lot more shopping addicts and it's not good for you because some people are spending more than they can actually afford, which is problematic. But there is a counselling director

of shopping addicts who has said that... Is that the job title? Yeah, counselling director of shopping addicts. There are signs that you can look out for in other people. Okay. So I'll read these out

and you see if I'm this bad. Okay. How many signs? Six. Okay. The six signs of shopping addiction. Anxiety heightened in the person. They may also become more withdrawn.

Right. That's kind of like just an addiction full stop, isn't it? Yeah. Being secretive and clearing the internet history regularly, often. Changing passwords and not talking so much. I don't change my passwords. Sometimes she does go quiet, eh, during the show and you'll look over and she'll be shopping.

Having a little look. That's because I'm concentrating on the shopping. But do you ever, you have, you'll do all your shopping at work or when Mr. Toyboy's not around? What's the change in the passwords vibe? So your partner can't get in and see what you've ordered? Like, right. Have you ever cleared the internet browser?

Nah. Nah, you just put an incognito from the outgo, don't you? Yeah. No, but we don't snoop on it. He's got his own laptop and I've got my own phone. But if you shared the- Probably. Yeah, but we don't snoop on it. He's got his own laptop and I've got my own phone. But if you shared the... Probably. Yeah, you would.

Okay, right, okay. Making excuses to go out more often. So people, this is apparently quite common. People will arrange to have their shopping delivered somewhere else, like an Amazon collection point

or a friend's house or something. Right. So they go pick it up from there. Yeah. New Zealand Post will be doing those, the pod boxes or whatever, that you collect your stuff from. I never even thought about using one of those for, like, a shopping addiction.

Because then you can say, I'm going round to Anya's house, and then she can hide the packaging. But most people get around that by just getting it sent to work. Yeah, that's another option. Getting angry or defensive if you're challenged or changing the conversation to the other person's issues that's just a classic yeah that's many runs doing that right yeah yeah um offering to put the rubbish out and not letting anyone else see so you can hide the packaging like you've hidden packaging and then you've got

to pile something on top that nobody else wants to have to dig through, like food scraps. That is exactly what I've done. You put the rubbish out, but you put it on top of like your courier bag, and then you just get thanks for putting the rubbish out, and you're like, no problem. Piece of cake. Yeah. Don't worry about it.

He should be more onto it. He should know. Anytime. And lastly, it's hiding the posts, saying the statements haven't arrived, taking control of the online banking and getting more controlling of money. This is like we're having a bit of a ha-ha, but that's pretty dangerous stuff.

If you're getting to the point where you're hiding the bank statements, if you've got like a joined account and you're not letting your partner know the situation of the finances, you're dragging them into it as well. I feel like back in the day before internet banking, that would have been the way to hide things.

Yeah. But now, you can both log on to the internet banking. Yeah. That's my downfall, to be honest. Or save you, depending on what way you look at it. Yeah. Downfall. Yeah.

At this stage, on Monday. Yeah. Fleshforn and Megan, the podcast. Downfall. Yeah. At this stage. On Monday. Yeah. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. ZM. It's the election on Saturday. This Saturday. Yep.

I'm holding out till Saturday. Election day, babe. Have you voted early? No, we're going to do an early vote though. This week? Yeah. Right. And Fletch, you voted last week.

You're going to be in the minority here. I know. I know. He loves it. He loves this pomp and ceremony of it. Yeah. Right. And Fletch, you voted last week. You're going to be in the minority here. I know. Nobody loves it. He loves this pomp and ceremony of it. Yeah, there is something good about it.

Get a little bricky. Trudging down. Although, do you know what I didn't get? I don't know, oh, you haven't voted yet, but I don't know

if your place will have them. The I voted sticker? Nah. A lot of people say they don't have those. Maybe they've been laid out from the printer. Maybe I'll get one.

Maybe they're only an election day thing. Somebody said they got the pen, say they don't have those. Maybe they've been laid out from the printer. Maybe I'll get one. Maybe they're only an election day thing. Somebody said they got the pen, but I don't think you're supposed to take that. No, you're not. There's a box for you to put them back in. Oh, yeah. And as taxpayers, we shouldn't be encouraging other taxpayers to steal pens.

Or no, it'll get to Saturday, there'll be no bloody pens left. So apparently estimates, more than 1 million people have already cast their vote. Wow. Which is more than what people cast in votes last time in 2017. What, total? No.

Oh, early votes. Yeah, special votes. But it actually looks like, because last year, because this has been delayed, I looked up in 2017, the election date was the 23rd of September. Okay. And then, yeah, it says 1.2 million in the equivalent in 2017, and it's been estimated that we'll hit that this week. Wow.

Let's see how many people are eligible to vote in New Zealand. That's what I want to- I was just trying to Google, but I couldn't- It's probably four and a half. It'll be three million, wouldn't it? At least. Yeah. Three million people will be eligible to vote.

So that's pretty amazing. But then also I wonder what voter turnout's going to be because there's been, that's always the shocking thing. You're watching election night results and they're like, oh yeah, but just remember voter turnout was only 60 something percent this time. You're like, 60 percent? So four in ten people are like, oh, man. Yeah, that's bad, right?

Yeah, really bad. So you can early vote, vote.nz, if you want to find a polling place around you. Yep. Super handy. And this week on the show. That's the other thing. I'm waiting until Saturday because then I've got more choice. What, of voting places? Of voting votes because I think a couple more pop up in the last few That's the other thing. I'm waiting until Saturday because then I've got more choice. What? Of voting places?

Of voting votes because I think a couple more pop up in the last few days. Right, okay. And then I get to pick where I want to go for an Aussie. This week on the show, we have the Prime Minister and Judith Collins both in the show in person. Not at the same time. They don't need another debate. No. I think there's another TVNZ debate this week or Thursday.

Right. So they'll be, you know, saving themselves for that. Saving themselves for carbo-loading like they're about to take place in a major sporting event. Yeah, so they're on the show. Right. This week, so. Oh, good.

You're going to have crushes eyebrows right there in front of you, right next to you. Goodness me. And you won't be able to be as cheeky with Jacinda because she'll be me. And you won't be able to be as cheeky with Jacinda because you'll be in studio. I won't be able to be as cheeky. I plan on doubling down on cheeky. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan.

The podcast. One in seven people would end a relationship if they don't like the same food. Like exactly the same food as them. If they have different food tastes. So I guess down to like whether someone's a vego or vegan

is probably the extreme. But like, yeah. Coriander would be the extreme. That's a bit divisive way of her, isn't it? Yeah, it is. But then you can easily not put that in cooking, right? Like in your meal. You can add it later.

Add it at the end. Add it as it's on the table. So yeah, 22% of adults will only consider a relationship with someone who shares their taste in food. 11% would decide against a second date

if they hated what the other person ordered. Really? Yeah. So they're more likely to judge a date by their food choices than their shoes,

their car or their income level. Wow. I mean, you've got to think about a lifetime of organising dinner with someone,

don't you? That's exactly it. Which, as you know, is like very stressful. Yeah. What are we having for dinner tonight? And people assess

their compatibility on like, are we going to be able to eat together? Yeah, and a big CBF if And people assess their compatibility on like, are we going to be able to eat together? And a big CBF if they're like real picky or like ask for something, but they don't want that, they'll have that instead, and then this and that. Not even if they're picky,

it's said if they don't like what they ordered. So like if, you know how you always hassle my, like I order like a yum salad, you'd be like, yuck. When you're going for a meal and somebody else is paying, you never get the salad. And also, like, then you wouldn't want a second date with you because you always get salads and stuff. You'd be like, oh.

Yeah, but you're not eating the salad. No, but we want the leftovers because you always don't finish. Yeah. And then, oh, do you guys want some lettuce? No. We want, like, a whole half a steak that you haven't eaten. Right. Or have some fries.

That's why we always choose like dinners or lunches or something like that to go on a date because then we can assess like what is such an important part of our life. Are we going to be able to eat together? But then on the same hand, it's like if somebody I met didn't like the same like chocolates or snack food as me. That's good. I'd be stoked with that because then they won't eat my favourite chocolates and lollies. Yeah. But there's that.

But then you get a relationship where you can, you know, work in unison. Yeah. But then if you wanted to like share meals, like we were just saying, like have a bit of that, have a bit of that. And they're always ordering like the bloody salad. That's not much to share with, is it? No. Yeah.

And then you're going to argue over. I'd be horrified to have to get back into the dating thing. That's another reason why. Well, you'd go on a date with someone and you'd order, like, five steaks, pudding. Yeah. Six rounds and they'd be like, I can't keep up with this man. We've come to an agreement where we eat, baby. We eat.

Take them to Yum Cha. They'd be like, oh, no, I'll just have one steamed pork bun. I'd be like, oh. We've come to an agreement where we eat, baby. We eat. Take them to Yum Cha. They'll be like, oh, no, I'll just have one steamed pork bun. I'll be like, oh, you're going to leave. We're about to eat in here. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast, ZM. From the smoggy ZM think tank, this is the top six. Hello there. There are the contraceptive pills, four of them.

If you're on, what were the names again, Fletch? Brevena. Brevena 1-28. Noramin and Nikon. There may be supply issues. Yeah, until Feb 21. They're not expecting those to be restored. February 21 next year.

So family planning are advising you to change to a different oral contraceptive. Your doctor, your family planning will be able to. And just not having talked to friends before, you can't just go on to another pill, can you? Oh, because some people take years to find the right one because they all react differently. So like if you've been

if you finally found the right one and it's one of those ones, you can't just switch. Have you tried being a man? Yeah, I mean. Not possible. It would be wonderful. I hope Sade's not on any of these because I've been getting hate lately about the vasectomy.

Really? Uh-huh. I said I'll get it done before my 40th. So that gives me a year and a half. Didn't I say this to you last week? I was like, this is the best thing about being pregnant is you don't have to take the pill,

don't have to worry about your period. Yeah. It's just ace. I reckon you'd be one of week. I was like, this is the best thing about being pregnant is you don't have to take the pill, don't have to worry about your period. Yeah. It's just ace. I reckon you'd be one of those. I'm free. You'd be one of those

couples in your 40s that didn't work and then you've got to have another kid. Why'd you say that? I keep telling her that my next wife might want more children.

That's pretty funny. Thank you, Roll the Dice. Live dangerously, baby. How much is a vassie? So to get it, not much apparently. Nah, because everybody's done that.

Mate, we don't need that. It's just like 500 bucks or something like that. It's not that bad. Way cheaper than having another kid. Absolutely, yeah. But yeah, if she's on one of those, it'll get fast-tracked. My mate got it done, and he watched them do it. Oh, no, no, no, no, yeah. But yeah, if she's on one of those, it'll get fast-tracked. My mate got it done, and he watched them do it. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no.

I can't look down and see someone putting a little schnick in the shack. It's just making me think about it. I mean, I already have one, and it's still making me go. I mean, I'll be minorly inconvenienced for, I don't know, a weekend? Horrible for you. Does stuff still come out? Yep. Just not the baby-making stuff.

Oh, right. Okay. That was my question. Carry on. So the top six contraceptive pill alternatives. Again, this list should not be taken seriously. Absolutely not. Number six on the list of the top six contraceptive pill alternatives.

Dry humping. Why can't we take that one seriously? six on the list of the top six contraceptive pill alternatives. Dry humping. Why can't we take that one seriously? It's hard to stop with a dry hump. I am wildly underrated. Wildly underrated. As Vaughan Smith has previously mentioned, wildly underrated.

Wildly underrated. Put a sheet between you, that's what Jesus would want, and then dry hump away. It's so underrated. I'm sorry if you're in the car with the children. Just remember, everyone's going back to school. This is adults only. That one was adults only.

The rest are fine. Number five on the list of the top six contraceptive pill alternatives, Bible studies. But put a shirt on Jesus because, man, that dude is ripped up there on that cross. It's hard not to get aroused. Got me and all the girls really worked up at diocesan for girls. Why were you at Dio, at Auckland Dio? Just were.

Ah, yeah, but he's up there. He's got abs and stuff. Yeah. Do you think he even had those side abs at the Morrinsville Catholic Church? Yeah, right. Do you think they should make him fat? Just put a T-shirt on him or some sort of tiger or something.

Yeah. Just to cover up the net. What about a mesh singlet? A mesh singlet? Yeah. Mm-mm. Okay. Oh, God.

Just the thought of it alone makes me want to go back to number six. Okay, right. For a little sheep toy and dry harm. Number four on the list of the top six contraceptive pill alternatives. Crystals. There must be a crystal that does something right.

But no sex three days before the next full moon because they will have lost their charge. Yeah, true. But then charge them up and you're good to go. Again, this list is not to be taken seriously, especially after that one. Number three on the list of the top six contraceptive pill alternatives. I'm telling a story about veganism why Trump has some good points or how you could have been an all black

That's a pretty good way to guarantee you're not going to have any sex Yeah Number two on the list of the top six contraceptive pill alternatives You can't get pregnant or get someone pregnant if you're playing with Lego Also you won't have money to take anyone on any romantic dates because of how expensive Lego is, or room

for a double bed because your room will be full of sweet Lego displays. So, Lego. Yeah. Maybe invest in the really big Millennium Falcon. Okay. You and your partner could spend some time doing that together rather than doing sex. And number one on the list of the top six

alternatives to the contraceptive pill, why not try homosexuality? Yes, sure. They're never accidentally getting pregnant, are they? No. I think you've just solved a problem there. Checkmate, heterosexuals. Checkmate.

That's today's top six. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. A guy has, well, actually he confided in his cousin and his cousin shared this with the internet. He moved out of home and he texts his cousin when he had an issue. So it's into his own apartment. He's 20 years old and the texts went like this.

Hey man, I'd ask my mom, but I don't want to talk for an hour. How often do you clean your oven? And the reply was, pretty much never. Seriously? I'm cleaning it every time. It's not worth it. Wait, you're cleaning your oven every time you use it?

And he replies, yeah, the bottom gets gross and full of blood or grease. The cousin asked for clarification. You're talking about the baking sheet or the actual oven? And the response was, baking sheet. So he's jamming whatever he's cooking, mate, straight on the wire racks that hold your baking dishes or whatever you usually put. What did he think the baking dishes were for?

I don't know if he had any. Or he hadn't opened the cupboard to find them. So every time. Oh, God. But like, what if you, like, not just meat, like everything you cook in the oven, just dribbling ice on the bottom. I hope he wasn't just throwing cake mix in it.

That was like put into a tin. Like imagine biscuit, like if you were doing cookies, they'd melt through the, like you wouldn't be able to, oh no. So he's literally cleaning the oven every single time and that's a good thing because it's a dribbly mess at the bottom. But yeah, the cousins shared this online and lots of people were baffled, but lots of people saying, yeah, I had similar experience.

I didn't know what I was doing when I moved out. You grow up in a home, assuming you grow up in a home with an oven where your parents or whoever's looking after you cooks in the oven, you see it happening. Yeah, even if you're not doing it. Yeah, you see the process. You see that the stuff's on a tray.

Some parents need to take responsibility for how wildly ill- ill prepared their children are Like that's on you When you're at home When you've got kids at home You've got to teach them stuff like How to wash the dishes How to stack a dishwasher

How to wash your clothes Yeah How to use an oven apparently But to be fair It sounds like he doesn't listen Because he's like I don't want to ask my mum because she'll talk for an hour. So maybe she's tried and he's just like ah la la.

She may have also been one of those mums that just did everything for him. Yeah that's true and then it gets to him moving out. Yeah and he was like I've got to move out it's too much she's too much but then moves out and is like she did everything didn't she. So this is what we want to ask you this morning,

because we've all flattered with people like this. Whether it's the oven or, you know, my absolute pet hate, and we've talked about this before, the washing machine. People that put the- Powder where the fabric softener goes. Yeah. And then all it does is get wet in the last five minutes of the cycle and just- Yeah, big cakey mess.

Yeah. And your clothes aren't clean at all. And no one wants to be the person in the flat that's always telling people, hey, you're doing it wrong, like doing like this, leaving notes and stuff. But some people are just special. So we want to know, 0800DilesZM and you can text in this morning,

9696, what didn't you know when you moved out of home? Or what did a flatmate do and you had to be like, hey, Steve, you've got to cook steak on an oven tray. You can't just chuck it on the rack and hope for the best. Well, that would be good because you'd get like air circulating all around it. Yeah, was it?

Okay, yeah. You're probably right. But then you could definitely have a tray sitting on the thing below it or get one of those, get like a tray. Yeah. And then get one of those elevated racks. Wire racks. Yeah, get a wire rack that sits above it so it circulates all around it.

We want to know what you didn't know when you moved out of home because one silly sausage, he's gone viral after he was cooking his food straight on the oven wire rack and was confused as to why he needed to clean the oven every single use. So every time he'd have a steak, he's cleaning the oven wire rack and was confused as to why he needed to clean the oven every single use. So every time he'd have a steak, he's cleaning the oven. Yeah. Alright, so. Somebody messaged in saying that's how you cook on a barbecue.

I know that's sort of, when we were talking about that, I was like, it technically is a barbecue. That's how you don't put anything down under the barbecue. But it goes onto the stones and the plate, doesn't it? Yeah, yeah. And then you can, imagine that if you you got a whole lot of that barbecue stone mix and put it in the bottom of the... For the abalba.

Right. Kat, what didn't you know when you moved out of home? Morning, guys. Morning. I didn't even know how to mash potatoes. Oh, Kat. Wait, you didn't try to mash them before you cooked them, did you? Oh, God, thank God. No, no, no. I love Sw before you cooked them, did you? Oh, God, thank God.

No, no, no. I love swiffles. My parents did everything. I'm one of those children. And then I lived abroad in school for the last three years of my school life. Prime learning to cook time. Yep. And then when I went to uni, I slated with five other girls,

and I needed to cook dinner. And I was like, oh, mashed potatoes. Do I eat milk? Do I? Well, I had no idea. I just had no idea how to do it. And did you think about Googling or...

I did and then I was like, well, how do I get them moved? Do I use a masher or a fork? How much milk do I put in? You'd overdo the milk the first couple of times on a mashed potato. No, it was like a dash of milk and I's like, well, how much is a dash? Is it like a...

You're right. You do need a specific amount, don't you? A dash. You need like a quarter of a cup or a teaspoon or like what the hell is that? How are you now with the cooking, Kat? Have you kind of learned? Oh, yeah. I live with my partner and, of course, he's a busy man.

He doesn't do anything. So I cook dinner every night and I've learned how to mash potatoes. Yes, good. Good stuff. Anything else or is it just mashed potatoes every night? Oh, every night. Every night. Somebody has messaged in, Kat,

saying if you boil them long enough, they mash themselves. That's true. Hard to strain. Thanks for your call, Kat. Kayla, what didn't you know when you moved out of home? Morning, guys. So mine was actually my flatmate that we ran out of dishwasher detergent

and they thought you could just put dishwashing liquid in the dishwasher and it turned into a big, foamy, wet mess all throughout the kitchen. Foam party! Lots of people do that. Yeah. Or they might be out of dishwashing powder, so they're like, just use a bit of dishwashing liquid. Surely it's the same thing.

Yeah, the sad thing is they didn't learn their lesson either. Oh, they keep doing it. I think another one, well, it was another one, did it a couple weeks later, and yeah. It's like, who are these people? I'm learning. Kayla, thanks, you're cool. Tom, what did you learn when you moved out of home?

Yeah, g'day. I didn't realise that your washing machine didn't actually empty its cycle into your house drain. It empties it into the tub beside the washing machine. Yes. Yeah, when you do that, you need to make sure that your tub's empty, otherwise it floods your flat. Yeah, buddy.

Oopsie. Oopsie days. That's a good lesson to learn. But that's on the people that plumb the house. They should be plumbing that straight into a pipe, its own pipe. Well, no, it's on to you to have a look and be like, where does that drain to? Oh, into the sink. Sweet. Make sure that's not blocked. I lived in a flat that it drained into the sink and it was a couple of times something would be left in the sink and you wouldn't realise and you'd be like, where does that drain to? Oh, into the sink. Sweet. Make sure that's not blocked. I lived in a flat that it drained into the sink

and it was a couple of times something would be left in the sink and you wouldn't realise and you'd be like, oh, I've flooded the bathroom again. Oh, dear. I didn't realise that until I rang my mum and I was like,

hey, look, my house has flooded. What's going on? She goes, is your tub empty? And I was like, what do you mean? And she's like, go check. And yeah, there was a towel in there. I love that your mum knew what the issue was. She's like, oh my God. All right, Tom. I know what the problem is. Brilliant. Tom, thanks was a towel in there. I love that your mum knew what the issue was. She's like, oh, my God.

All right, Tom, I know what the problem is. Brilliant. Tom, thanks for your call, mate. Rachel, what did you learn when you moved out of home? Well, my first flat had a front loader washing machine. Okay. And I had to phone my mum to ask which of the three slots the washing powder went in.

Yeah, because I... Which one does it? I've never had a front loader. I got a front loader for the first time in the place I'm in now and there are three slots and it's the left.

The left is the main wash. That's right, yeah. And the middle is the conditioner. The fabric softener. The fabric softener. And then the third one is for if you want a bit of pre-soak

or a bit of pre-wash. I'll put a little half a cap in that one. Well, you just give it a little extra. I'll put a little half cap in that one. And then I'll put a cap in the other one. And then I'll be like, just a bit more. That's just going to make me buy a fabric softener, though. Nah.

Nah. Waste of money. So you don't fill the middle one? Nah. Oh, okay. Damn it, it's going to be there though. You're going to use it. Yeah, I know.

All right, Rachel, thanks for your call. Some messages in. Somebody said, I couldn't cook. I was like, how complicated can it be to make a packet of macaroni cheese? The directions are on the packet, surely. Yep, messed it up. Don't know what went wrong. Still couldn't tell you.

For the first few times, it was macaroni cheese soup. Too much water? Yeah. Wow. I said to my flatmate, how did you make such a mess of the oven? And he's like, I don't know what you're talking about. That's just what ovens are like. And then I spied on him next time he was cooking,

and he was, at the age of 41 41 putting chicken drumsticks straight on the rack like the guy what like the guy and it would all just as it would cook and lose its juice it would hit the bottom

of the oven and it would smoke and everything but he just thought that's just how ovens worked oh wow I had a flatmate who had no idea

how to cook so I showed him how to cook mints I mean you can't go wrong with mints for the next year all he ever cooked was mince. Mince on toast, spaghetti bolognese, lasagna.

Every night he ate a mince-based dish. I mean, it's versatile. It's a versatile meat. Very versatile. Yeah. My flatmate used to butter the bread and then stick it in the toaster so all the butter would drip down through the toaster. Now, if you're going to do that,

you've also got to light the toaster down, right? But it's got to be a toaster that can be laid down because only the toaster can be laid down. Because some of them, it'll trip and they'll cut off if they're on their side. You don't put butter in the toaster. Didn't we have a toaster fire here last week at work? Yeah. And they assume that might have been what happened. Someone's buttering their toast before they're putting it in.

Two fires at work and fire prevention week. Yeah. That's good stuff. Yeah. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Now, producer Jared's good friend is getting married. Is it this weekend he's getting married? This Friday.

This Friday. Friday wedding. Four, you'll have to get your work done quick to get away then? Yeah. Pull in the overtime. Good. So you had the stag do it the weekend? Yep. And you nearly overtime. Good. So you had the stag do it the weekend? Yep.

And you nearly died. Yep. Wow. It's not as amazing as it sounds. Because in my mind, it's like something's gone really awry. Like stag do's are always nefarious. Like the strippers venue caught on fire. Yep.

Because someone was shooting fireworks. Yeah. They told us not to let off the cascades, but we couldn't help ourselves. You did it. Let off a buzzy bee. Because a bit of backstory, you messaged Vaughn and I asking for ideas.

Yeah. Of things to do at a... At a cheeky stag. Yeah. I'm terrible at like stag do's that involve putting somebody in a tutu and tying them to a post and bashing the shit out of your mate

and like trying to ruin his life. I'm not really a fan of those. Like, I'd just rather have like almost like a Christian youth camp day where you go team pin bowling. Yeah, a bit of paintball, some archery. A nice hike.

A barbecue. Yeah, exactly. And then get blind drunk. Yes. That's a great stag do for me. You guys wouldn't have enjoyed the stag do then. How did your one go? Well, he was in a tutu.

Right. We downgraded the costume because we originally had him in this fluorescent orange and yellow unitard. Right. Oh, the unitard was lovely. Yeah, it's in my car at the moment if anyone wants to have a hoon on that. Wow. It was just too cold on the night,

so we were like, nah, we'll let him keep his clothes on, chuck his sash. We got him dressed up in all this hens do stuff. Right, okay. But before we even hit the stag, we'd spent the arvo at the driving range, and then we went to our favourite South African steak place. Okay, now is this where you nearly died?

This is where I nearly died. A South African steak place? Yeah. Can I just ask, what's a South African steak place? How is it different than a... Just imagine a normal steak place but with the South African flair. Okay. So there's like a picture of the Serengeti on the walls and you can get

monkey gland sauce on your steak. What? Monkey gland sauce. What get monkey gland sauce on your steak. Oh, yum. Monkey what? Monkey gland sauce. What's monkey gland sauce? Is that the pink sauce? Ours wasn't pink. It's kind of like a... Wait, they squeeze a monkey to make sauce? No. They find the monkey's glands and then they milk it. It's unbelievable. It's like a fruit chutney

kind of sweet and spicy. Oh, that does sound nice on a meat. It's divine. But so there's no monkey in it at all? No, because I don't want to eat a monkey. In the making of monkey gland. Right. Red wine, port wine, sauce, sauce. Sauce, sauce.

Sauce, sauce. Chicken broth. It's like a relish. Yeah. I could be on board with that. I'm 100% on board with this. So I got pretty excited about my steak and didn't chew properly. Right.

And ended up with a hefty chunk stuck in the back of my throat. So when you nearly died at a stag do, you nearly choked to death? Is that what you're saying? Yep, I choked on my meal. So what did you do? Were you just like, help? Nah, see, I frequently choke on food. Well, you're not chewing properly.

Apparently not. So this is the seventh time. What do you mean you frequently? The seventh time I've choked. In your life? In the past like five years. You need to cut smaller portions. You need to count

your chews. Two of the choking times have been pretty scary. I've had to have people help me out but luckily this Friday. Has someone given you the Heimlich? I've had the Heimlich twice. Wow. These are details we should have known before we hired you.

Yeah, I didn't have a chance. Prone to choking. Prone to choking, yeah. I need to learn the Heimlich. But five of the seven occasions I've managed to sort myself out. Did you sort yourself out at the weekend? I sorted myself out this weekend, yeah. But so what did you do when you were choking?

So, you know how you... Like, if you swallow something a bit too big, you feel it getting forced down? And I was like, oh, yeah, this is happening. And then it got stuck, and I was like, oh, okay, this is happening again. Yeah. So I kind of panicked a little bit, and I... Do you know the universal T sign for toilet? I was like... Some people are like, I, do you know the universal T sign for toilet? I was like, hmm.

Some people are like, oh, he's about to shit himself. The lads, my boys are quite used to me choking on stuff. So they're like, mate, are you choking again? And I was like, I am. I am indeed. So I booked it for the bathroom. Couldn't find it. Turned around.

You don't run away when you're choking. No, no, no. There is number one rule. You're not supposed to isolate yourself. They were well aware that I was choking for the bathroom. Couldn't find it. Turned around. You don't run away when you're choking. That is number one rule. You're not supposed to isolate yourself. They were well aware that I was choking. People knew. They could tell. So I'm like speed walking to the bathroom. Can't find it.

Turn around. And I'm like. And my mate drags me to the bathroom. I managed to eject the piece of food. Right. How big was it? It was pretty big. It was pretty big. It was pretty big.

Oh, my God. Cut smaller pieces, Jerry. What? Sure. Oh, my God. This is how we're going to lose you. Yeah. So then me and my mate are laughing about it,

like 30 seconds after it happens, and then three massive waiters and the manager, like, burst in, all serious. They see me standing there fine. My mate's in the cubicle taking a slash and they're about to bash the door down to save him because they think he's the one choking. Oh, right.

Because they thought you were going to die on their premises. Yeah. And we get back to the table. Everything's fine. And my mate, my other mate is sitting there. He didn't leave. He didn't come to the bathroom. And he's been getting it from all the tables around us

being like, go help your friend. He's dying. And he's like, no, he's fine eating his steak. He does this all the time. Yeah.

We're used to it. He literally said that, yeah. Oh my God. That is, you need to chew more. Yeah, I need to work on that. Don't run to the bathroom. That's the number one rule.

You need to get one of those little Medialert bracelets and say like, you know, I'm allergic to penicillin or whatever and be, like, prone to choking. I'm also allergic to penicillin. Are you? Oh, good Lord.

Yeah. It was such a good stag do, though, guys. Well, after you survived to see it. Like, I'm alive. Well, you had a vibrant new take on life after your near-death experience. Yep. The colours seemed brighter. The strippers even strippier.

Ah, what a time to be alive. Kia ora, this is Toby Manhai. I'm the host of Gone By Lunchtime, a podcast for the spin-off podcast network all about politics and politicians with me, Annabel Lee-Mather, and Ben Thomas, careering wildly from the very serious

to the very ridiculous. It's not for everyone. I don't think it would be Ellen's cup of tea, but you, I reckon, will love it. Gone by lunchtime. Grab one now wherever you get your podcasts. Fletchvorna Megan, the podcast. ZM.

Stepping up to the podium for the 10th year of Nauru. Your gold medalist. Where's my medal? I love this segment. We take your small accomplishments and we celebrate them. Yeah, we give out a gold, a silver and a bronze medal. Just like the Olympics. R.I.P.

That never happened this year. So R.I.P. if they're going to just be delayed? D.I-P? Yeah. Delayed in peace? Sure. All right. We've got three people on the phone who want to tell us about their amazing accomplishments.

Medal winning efforts. Nick, good morning. Good morning. Why do you deserve a medal, Nick? Because I accomplished, after four weeks, finally disposing of my dead smellingsmelling pumpkin from the fridge. Wow. Wow. Okay, so the pumpkin had been in there for a little while.

A little while. That's the thing about a pumpkin is it's quite a lot, isn't it? It's quite heavy. So when you're going to get rid of it, it's got to go somewhere. Yes. Wouldn't it take up the bin? There's varying stages, though, like you get a little bit of yucky on the outside and you're like

I'll do it later. I can cut that off. And then it gets to the point where it just self implodes. What stage was this pumpkin at? It was at the stage where the kids were noticing that it was smelling pretty dead. Oh, right. Okay.

Was it a whole pumpkin or just like a half that had been wrapped up? No, it was just a half that had been wrapped up and just forgot about. Yeah, okay. With the best of intentions.

Exactly. Yeah, you never buy a full pumpkin. You're never going to get that thing done. All right, thanks, Nick. Lauren, good morning. Good morning. Welcome to Where's My Metal. Why do you deserve a medal?

I had a tub of Ben & Jerry's Caramel Core ice cream with little chunks of salted caramel blondie, and I shared it with my partner. Oh, wow. Yes. How easily could you have not shared it? Well, I had hidden it under the peas in the freezer, but he found it and I thought I've got a decision to make.

I can be a dick or I can share it. Oh, wait, so he found it was the only reason you shared it. Well. If he hadn't found it and the opportunity presented itself to eat it all by yourself, would you have? Yeah, probably. But that's why I deserve a medal. Yeah, because you shared it.

Yeah, I shared it. That caramel core. Even though you were forced to because he found it. Yeah. You could have held your ground. I could have. You could have delayed the eating and then eaten it when he wasn't around. And then he would have said,

what happened to that ice cream I found under the peas? And you'd be like, oh, it went bad like that pumpkin I had to chuck out. All right, okay. Lauren, hold the line. Michelle, welcome to Where's My Metal? Good morning.

Good morning. Why do you deserve a medal, Michelle? Because I emptied the kitchen trash twice this week instead of piling more rubbish on top of it and pushing it down until the night before rubbish day.

Is that really gross? No, it's what everybody does. I've only got a little bin, so I have to take mine out a couple of times to the rubbish room downstairs. Oh, do you? So I don't have the luxury. You can't keep pushing those down because you break them. Yeah, exactly.

But if I had a big inside bin, totally I'd do that. Stomp it. You take the lid off and stomp on it in a bare foot to push it all down rather than taking it out. So you emptied it twice this week? Yes. Wow, that's a big one. Yeah, that's a good one.

Did you take the rubbish bin out on actual rubbish day or was that somebody else's job? No, I took it out that night. Wow. I hope you made a song of doubts about it. I had to get out of bed to take it out. Did you come in and tell everyone about it? Sorry?

Did you come in and tell everyone about it, what you'd done? No, everyone went to bed, so my little accomplishment. I would have made a grand announcement. That's the word. Yeah, exactly. All right, Michelle, hold the line. We're going to award our medals now. I'm just going to deliberate here with a medal awards ceremony.

That one. And that one and that one. Are we happy with that? Yeah. Very happy. All right. Well, receiving the bronze medal this week. For taking her rubbish out

and emptying the bin twice and then emptying the bin on actual rubbish day. Congratulations, Michelle. Thank you. You are to be commended. I'm not just keeping piling rubbish on top of a rubbish bin. Even though it becomes an art after a while, doesn't it?

It does. How high can you get it? Silver this week for Where's My Medal must go to Nick, who finally got rid of the rotting pumpkin. Congratulations, Nick. Was it in the veggie drawer? Yes, it was. Yeah, so there would have been a bit of residual juice,

pumpkin soupy juice on the base of that. We'll probably need to clean, but save that for another week. Fantastic. And that means thank you and congratulations on your medal. And that means gold goes to... A hero. A modern day... Mother Teresa.

Who famously shared her ice cream with the street children of Mumbai. Yes. Ladies and gentlemen, gold medal for sharing what did sound like a really delicious ice cream, by the way. The way she described it showed true passion for it, making sharing it even harder. Lauren, congratulations.

A gold medal for you. Yes, thank you. It makes sharing it so worth it. Find a better medal for you. Yes, thank you. Make sharing it so worth it. Find a better hiding place now. Your next mission is to find a better place to hide your ice cream. How do you hide a giant ice cream in the freezer? You need something bigger than a... No, those Ben & Jerry's are like...

Oh, yeah. Yeah, Ben & Jerry's is premium stuff. Little tub. Put it in an empty pee bag. Yeah. Inside the pee. Yeah. All right, congratulations, Lauren.

ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Imagine my surprise on the way back from Tauranga on Friday that Executive Intern Anya tells me she's off to the club that night. Which I thought as likely as, well, maybe a little bit more likely than me to go to the club. Where did you go? Liquid? I went to the liquid lowdown.

Cool. What happens? But you are known for being a nanny millennial. Yeah, I am there for a good time, not a long time, and I tend to go to bed pretty early on. But level whatever it was, four, COVID's really made me appreciate the club. I had a real craving for the club, lockdown. Yeah, it was weird.

And I was like, the second this opens, let's go. But did you feel a lot of people were out on the weekend because of that? Oh yeah, especially Saturday. Like a level one celebration. I've noticed, living in the city, I've noticed the activity, the level of sirens has increased.

Oh, good. From literally as soon as it went to level one, lots more sirens. The paddy wagon was a circle. Was it? Great stuff from the paddy wagon. And so you went out Friday night and then you went out Saturday as well. Mind-blowing. That's two nights, you must be exhausted.

You were wanting to feed up up cup of tea lie down sleep this afternoon yeah you pooped I'm not feeling great however you weren't you weren't going hungry

were you because this was on Saturday night's venture to the club you smuggled yeah so I saw my friend

do this on Friday night and I thought wow hashtag life hack that is genius and this is where you pulled a boomer move is it boomer I saw my friend do this on Friday night and I thought, wow, hashtag life hack. That is genius. And this is where you pulled a boomer move. Is it boomer or is it crafty money saving millennial?

Tell me. So my friend took a pizza to the club on Friday night. It went to BYO's both nights beforehand. Wait, so a whole pizza or is this leftovers? This is half a pizza. Leftovers. In a box? In a box.

And I was like, we got into the Uber to go to Da Club. I was like, where on earth are you going to put that, my friend? Yeah. And he was like, oh, I'll find a place. And then we went into Da Club. He disappeared. How did he get the pizza into Da Club? That's a great question.

Did they not check? Well, I don't know. If he opened it, they were probably like, oh yeah, there's no naughty things in there. But surely he'd be like... But he'd like hide it up his shirt and they just thought he had a square torso. Maybe he had a jacket on. Maybe he'd wrapped it over the jacket. Yeah, maybe. So he disappeared. Pizza was

MIA. And then later that night, right before we were about to go back to their flat, he was like, hang on, I've got to go grab my pizza. I was like, where did you put it? And he tucked it behind a curtain. And he just rolls the dice on the chance that someone may come across their pizza. Yeah.

Well, I'm not going behind a curtain at the club and finding a pizza and putting it in my mouth. And then eating it. What if you want a dirty groin with the honeys and you want a bit of privacy? You go behind the curtain. Imagine that, going behind a curtain, a dirty groin with the honeys,

and you find a snack while you're back there. Hello, 10 out of 10 moment. I'll write about this. So he takes it back to the flat. Rejoice. He's a hero because he's got a feed for everyone. It's a little sweaty. It's a little moist, but it's there nonetheless.

So then on Saturday night, I took half a Thai stir fry. I thought you took a pizza as well. What? Where did you hide the pad Thai? It was a chicken cashew nut. Yum, yum. Oh, yeah. Okay.

That's a great dish. And yeah, there was this guy sitting. It was like he was controlling the lights, I think, and he had this little box. And I was like, I'm just going to pop my jacket here. And I put the rice in one container, so it was contained. Oh, my God. There were two containers?

Oh, my God. You're a little stack. You're a little steamer stack. And then I put it under my leather jacket, and then the leather jacket was slotted next to Mr. AV Man. You put it by the lighting guy. Just like after my cashew chicken. I'm just going to put my jacket here.

He's like. You smell like it smells a little cashew-y. Yeah, and then five hours later, it was fine. And then when did you eat it? When you got home? 4am. Oh my God. It's a gift that keeps on giving, baby.

It was great. Right, so you're stashing in the club to take home later. Was there any point at the club where you went up to the AV guy and you were like, hey, look over there. I just had a cashew. A little cashew and a little finger sticking right. You did check. I went to check if it was fine.

Are you okay? Okay, good. Mummy be back soon, sweetie. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. ZM. We were at the airport and they were doing the

bing bong, you're late for your flight and then they made the hollow promise to start the unloading process. The unloading process has started. So, okay, you're going to open the plane back up

and find my suitcase in the hundreds. I'll be there soon. Yeah, I want to know how they do begin it. Because surely when they open it to get the baggage out, you're done. You're done. But the beginning of it, I imagine someone's just sitting there going,

well, I'm not waiting too much longer. That's the beginning of the process. That's why if you don't have checked bags on a flight, you can be off beginning of the process. That's why if you don't have checked bags on a flight, you can be offloaded pretty quickly. That's why if you don't have a checked bag, you need to be there ASAP, on time. Otherwise they'll boot you out. But if you've got a bag,

because I don't think they can fly with your bag if you're not on the plane. No, they can't. Because of, you know, terror. September 11th. Yeah, that kind of thing. So we were listening to the list of names, but not really kind of like passively listening.

And it was... It was a long list. It was a long... I don't know where that all gone. It sounded like that all... Gone out for a vape or something. And then it was like, and... And the last name was Ryan Reynolds.

And everyone went... Like, I think we all just broke our necks turning our heads around to like look at that. Oh my God, what? Can I get on that plane? Why? Is he in New Zealand? Is he in the Lord of the Rings thing?

I didn't even pay attention to where that plane was going because I would have gone there if it was Ryan Reynolds. It wasn't our flight, no. It wasn't the Ryan Reynolds. Well, no. To the best of our knowledge, it wasn't the Ryan Reynolds. We couldn't see the Ryan Reynolds. Yeah.

Could have been. Could have been. Or that guy gets that all Ryan Reynolds. Yeah. Could have been. Could have been. Or that guy gets that all the time. Yeah. And he was called Ryan Reynolds, and I imagine he's like middle-aged or whatever, and this guy comes along and he's like, God, I hope this guy doesn't make much of a go of Hollywood.

He's got the same name as me. This will be annoying. What was it, two girls, a guy, and a pizza place? This won't. Yeah. He's not going to go far with this. It was a great TV show. Was it Van Wilder? Yeah. And now He's not going to go far with this. It was a great TV show. Yeah. Was it Van Wilder?

Yeah. And now he's the biggest movie star in the world. From there it was just a gin company and Deadpool. Yeah. And Blake Lively and two kids and millions and millions of dollars. Yeah. Great stuff. But we wanted to know this morning if this happens to you,

if when your name gets read out people turn to look because you share a name with a famous person. Or maybe you've got a friend that shares a name or you know someone that does. Because I don't imagine we're going to be inundated with calls. Was it Skinny? Yeah. He did a TV ad.

Yep. Famous people. You share the famous name with somebody. You'd get sick of it, eh? But also, like, are people like, oh, Ryan Reynolds. Oh, it's you. Oh. That's disappointing. I don't? But also, like, are people like, oh, Ryan Reynolds. Oh, it's you. Oh.

That's disappointing. I don't want to be, like, disappointing people all the time when you turn up. Yeah, Naomi Campbell turns up and everyone's like,

that was a weird reference, wasn't it? No, but that's a good one. If you had the same name as a ridiculously hot person, celebrity, wouldn't you change it because everyone

would do that? Elle Macpherson. But see, yeah, I went with Naomi Campbell. I want to explain why I went with a weird old model because the name Naomi's popular and also Campbell's a very popular last name. I couldn't have gone with Gigi Hadid because no one's called that. Yeah. But wasn't there a real estate agent called Chuck Norris in Northland?

I feel like years ago that kind of came up in the news. Yeah. Or we talked about that or am I making, dreaming that up? No, you're not making that up. It was a thing, eh?

It was a real estate agent somewhere in New Zealand called Chuck Norris. Didn't we have someone famous, well, a famous name working in our company? Was it Michael Bolton or something?

What? Michael Bolton? And every time you're like, ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Michael Bolton. Michael Bolton. Ha! time you're like, ha. Ha. Ha. Ha. Michael Bolton.

Michael Bolton. Ha. So we're at the airport. Ryan Reynolds gets paged, but not the Ryan Reynolds. And everybody's head goes, huh? I mean, we were hoping for the actual Ryan Reynolds. That would be pretty amazing. So we want to know this morning,

if you share your name with a famous person or someone that you know shares their name with a famous person. Man, that's some good. There's some great messages and calls. We had a customer called Peter Parker. On his file, it said underneath in brackets, not Spider-Man. He did not find it funny when I read that aloud

because he gets annoyed when it gets mentioned because he's been living with it his whole life. Yeah. That's the thing. You've got to do these searches when you're naming kids. If you've got a last name. Yeah. Well, like you said before off air, Megan,

you can understand the ones where they were named before the celebrity came along. Like similar age. Yeah. But ones where the celebrity's been around for a long time. That's mean. That's, yeah. Catherine, now, is someone you know has a famous name?

Yeah, my sister's name is Jessica Simpson. Oh, okay. Yeah. She's had a stunning weight loss just recently, hasn't she? I saw that headline. She's looking great. Yeah. So everyone under 20 doesn't know who Jessica Simpson is.

Okay, so that's a bonus. So there's a whole generation coming that won't be taunting your sister. Yeah. But one time she got lost at the mall and my mum went up to the information desk and said, I need to find my daughter. Her name's Jessica Simpson. And they just laughed at her. He's like, no, seriously, my daughter's lost.

Yeah, and they wouldn't help her. Please, help me find my child. Thanks, you're cool, Catherine. Kate, good morning, Kate. Hi, good morning. How are we? Good. Now, you share your name with a famous Kate.

I do, Kate Shepard. Oh, wow. Tim Villeneuve, suffragette movement, Kate Shepard. Yeah, I spell it differently. She spells it wrong. But, yeah. She's the wrong one. In May for an awesome wedding speech, I married into the name.

Right. Oh, okay. That's cruel. Oh, yeah, right. My father-in-law made a really good speech about how I'd lost this blue little piece of paper. Yeah. And they have all over them. So if you happen to have some and they might be hanging out in your wallet, you should like them back.

Oh, yes. Good work, father-in-law. Yeah, that's really... Hey, thank you, Kate Sheppard. Josh, good morning. Good morning. Do your friend shares a famous name? Yeah, his name is Will Smith. Will Smith?

Yeah. a famous name? Yeah, his name is Will Smith. Will Smith? Yeah, and he couldn't be any less like the Will Smith that we're thinking. You think William Smith is such a white name?

Like, there would be hundreds of Will Smiths around and people are like, oh, Will Smith. And they're like,

no. No, his average height is very white and he's a little bit overweight. So, no. Yeah, no. His average height is very wide, and he's a little bit overweight. So, no. Oh, buddy. He doesn't need to hear this on the radio. He's like, no.

Look, lockdown was heavy for all of us. Does he get sick of it? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Wow. I lived with him for a bit, and it was a bit like, who do you live with? Oh, Will Smith. Yeah.

Probably just go with Will. Not in a ballet mansion. Thanks, Josh. Tammy, you know someone that shares their name with a famous person? Yeah, my brother-in-law is Clint Eastwood. Clint Eastwood. He's on the ad. Because, yeah, they actually use actual people in the ads,

and they're not actors saying they were famous. Yeah, right. Okay. And does he get sick of it? No, I think he quite likes it. When he met my sister in the UK about 20-something years ago,

she didn't believe his name was Clint Eastwood and she actually made him pull out his Kiwi passport to prove it. Just before he pulled it out, he was like, you've got to ask yourself

a question. Do you feel lucky? Brilliant. He enjoys it. Especially now that he's on the ad, probably got to get recognised. Hey, that's Clint Eastwood. Thanks, Tammy.

Some text messages in. I work with a guy called Eddie Murphy. I work with an Ashley Bloomfield, who until this year enjoyed a rather unique name But now And now he'll be giving his I know

Yeah He'll go give his name Over the phone And people will be like Stop whining me I'll be stupid Just a daily update Ashley

Oh yeah I wonder how many times He got asked about cases Wow I went to a school With a girl Whose dad's name Was Peter Parker

And his job Was a bug exterminator So he was killing whose dad's name was Peter Parker and his job was a bug exterminator, so he was killing spiders. Well, he was called Peter Parker. Wow. We have a customer called Bridget Jones. Oh, that would be the worst. Ironically, she's a little bit of a train wreck herself. I mean, Bridget doesn't hear about that, does she?

A regular patient where I work is called David Bain. I love calling out his name in the waiting room because people are always like... They just start looking around to see if it's the David Bain. I mean, that's one of New Zealand's most recognisable names, right? My brother's names are Mike King and Stephen King. So you've got two... Oh, wow, yeah.

Two of the kings coming in. What's their king? She doesn't say what she is. I don't know any female... What's their king? She doesn't say what she is. Kong. Kong King? Kong King, yeah. Kong King. Yeah.

Why did they call you Kong when they called your brother Mark and your other brother Stephen? Anyway, Kong, what can we help you with today? I used to work with someone called Meg Griffin She made it very well known That she was older than the Family Guy character But any time of the day You could just be like

Shut up Meg And it would go down a real treat There you go Bloody hell Good luck to you all Fletch, Vaughan and Megan The Podcast ZM

Fact of the day Day, day, day, day, day. Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do. What happened there? Wheels fell off. I was like, did we do another day? Or have we said enough days? We've done all the days? Day, day, day, day, We've done another day, day, day, day, day.

Today's fact of the day is about small, medium and large sized clothing. Okay. And it's all thanks to Abraham Lincoln that we have small, medium and large. So if I get a medium t-shirt, which I normally am and it's a bit snug, it's his fault. Bloody Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln! It's certainly not the junk food. No.

Okay. So the idea was in the American Civil War, it was a very spread out war. They were kind of fighting it on a wide front. Now, previously that wars had been pretty isolated. Not isolated, but like, you know, smaller battlefields. This battle would happen, and then you would advance from that battle, and another battle would happen. But this was simultaneous battles, all spread out. It was quite spread out. Technology had given the muskets and gunpowder, but it hadn't

given them an easy way to communicate on a wide like they didn't have the phones. They didn't have the telegraph poles and stuff. Whereas in this year's 2020 US Civil War. Oh, God, that'll be so organized. It'll be so, yeah. Yeah, it'll all be lies. It'll all be insane online propaganda.

But, Milo, they'll be able to communicate. But anyway, it was a bit all over the show. And they had to get uniforms to people. Because that was part of the rules of war. You might not know that, but you have to have a uniform and the rules of war so you can identify yourself versus your enemy. That's one of the basic rules of war. And you're not allowed to dress up

and you're in it. If you take your uniform off and they're like, then you can't shoot me? Because you don't know if I'm on your side or not. It could be problematic as to you could get shot by no one or you could get shot by both teams. Oh, okay. So he's like, well, we need to work out,

we need a cheap way to get everybody clothed because prior to that, most clothing was, if you were rich, you would go to a tailor, you would get measured and it would be custom made to you. Or if you weren't as rich, you would get it made at home out of whatever you had lying around. Like someone in your family's job was to make the family clothes. Question.

Say we're going for an away game against the enemy and we are about to land on the beaches, but we've both got similar greens. Can we wear our white uniform? White's the colour of surrender, so you wouldn't be able to wear white. You'd have to wear the fluoro pink away thing. You'd be very easily to be seen

in every single natural environment that a theatre of war could possibly take part in. Yeah, otherwise you'd turn up and you're like, bitch, don't my look. Unless you were going to war in a field of flamingos, maybe pink would be the go. Yeah, right, okay. So he needed to work out

how to outfit these people as cheaply, right. Okay. So he needed to work out how to outfit these people as cheaply as possible. Okay. So he made every person in the army measure certain things. Well, not him, but someone. This was under his guide. They made you measure your chest, measure your arm length, measure your bicep, measure

your neck, measure. And then you had to send those in. They averaged them out. Wow, okay. So they'd work out the average. What's the average arm length? This. What's the average chest size?

This. What's the average? And they made like average uniforms, but then they were obviously like, well, they worked out the average and they were like, well, this is right in the middle. So this is going to fit nobody.

Right. So they decided to make three averages, a large average, a medium average, and a small average. And that became the first time there was small, medium, and large clothing produced on a big scale.

Huh. Now do you reckon they work out the averages? They're like, oh, we've put on a bit. Well, there wasn't an XL. Yeah, I bet there wasn't. There was never any XLs. So you think about even people who were insane, like really, really tall but thin, wear XLs, or they might wear large with the plus insane, like really, really tall but thin wear XLs or they might wear large with the plus two if it's for length.

Or just wear a medium or a small and make it a crop top. Yes. Very sexy on the battlefield. Hard to shoot someone in a crop top because you're like, good on them. I wouldn't, I couldn't do that. I couldn't pull that look off. I wouldn't, hey, hey, hey!

Good on you! Pew! Ah! Oh! Well, you shouldn't yell out compliments. It alerts the enemy to your exact location. But he's right. Good on you!

You look good. Don't listen to the haters. Ah! When will we learn? Stop yelling Shh, everybody back off Nobody show their midriff So today's fact of the day is the sizing of small, medium and large

Produced en masse can be traced back to the American Civil War Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. We talked last week about what you'd left in your car. It was when we heard from Briony's friend that she'd left fishing bait in the back of her car. It was smelly and maggoty when they need to go to a potluck dinner and she rang in to defend herself, but didn't actually defend herself, just kind of doubled down on the fact that that did happen.

But wanted us to write it off because she was in a fishing phase. Yeah. And when we talked to you, Briony, you said you were looking to reignite your love for fishing, but off the land, not off a boat because you wanted to be sustainable and be able to provide for yourself and you couldn't provide a boat, so that seemed unfair.

But just before we, we've actually made you a little intro for when we talk to you about your fishing. The people are vested in you, Bryony. The people are vested. Outdoors with Bryony M. Brilliant, yeah.

Outdoors with Bryony M. That's how we know you. Why are you Bryony M? Have you got another Bryony in your friend group? No, I actually just made that up once because obviously there's not many Bryonys, so it's pretty clear that I'm the only Bryony. Oh my God, I love you. Right.

Because apparently if you add your middle initial it makes you sound more intelligent if you say your full name to people. Like Vaughn S. Smith. It's Vaughn A. Smith.

Stephen Smith. Vaughn Stephen Smith. Oh, I'm not a Stephen. Okay. Briney E. Miller. Yeah, see? Oh, that does sound like an author.

Like an author. That's what you could be like. Explore New Zealand with Briney E. Miller. Yeah, see? Oh, that does sound like an author. Like an author. That's what you could be like. Explorer New Zealand with Briony E. Miller. Now I just realised I've given out my full name and everyone's going to know that I'm the maggot girl. The M is for maggot. Me, Briony M. The M's for maggot. Well, Briony, we

thought we'd follow your adventures because you did want to get back into fishing. Yes. Okay, and you'd never caught anything off the land? No, just little ones and thrown them back. But you want to catch a big fish? Yeah, preferably a kingfish. I want to feed the family.

You want to catch a kingfish? Can you catch them off the land? Do you need a big one? I think we feed the family. You want to catch a kingfish? Can you even catch them off the land? Do you need a big, like... I don't know. I see people do it. Okay. What did we catch that time off the rocks? That was, no, that was a kawaii.

What do you have to bleed straight away? Is that a kingfish? I don't know. I don't know. You were all like, ah, I'm not touching it. Ah, kill it. Now, did you go out at the weekend? Because we said to you, Bryony, you've got to get back into this passion.

You've got to get back into your phase. Yeah, I did. But I wasn't on home turf, so I just had to make up where might be a good place to go. Okay. And I just, yeah, I didn't really check the tides or anything. The tides sort of went out,

and it was just a bit of a waste of time. Wait, so you were away from home and you had your fishing rod? We were at my batch, so all the fishing rods there, but not mine. Not my tool. Okay, right. That's pretty high.

It's like a bill to borrow when somebody has a hammy and you're not going to go swim the same. I wonder if we need to get one of those things you see on the infomercial It's like a bill to borrow when somebody has his hammy and he's not going to go swim the same. I wonder if we need to get one of those things you see on the infomercial that's like a little mini submarine that shoots your line up. I want one of those so badly. I know.

Even though I don't go fishing. But I'd still play with one. Oh my God, I want one of those so bad. Okay. Well, do you reckon we have another shot when, this week or this weekend, Bryony M? Yeah, I reckon we give it another go. We'll give you a call on Friday and talk

to you about what you've researched, where you're going to go. Okay, yeah. I'll do some planning this week. Maybe check the time. Yeah. The New Zealand wants you to catch a fish, Bryony M. This is the most exciting New Zealand's been about fishing since take a kid fishing.

Is that still a thing? I don't know, is it? No, because I asked my dad if he'd take, and he doesn't like fishing, so we didn't go. My dad's like, you won't like it. We're like, take us, take us. He's like, you don't have the patience for it. Take us, take us. He took us, and we dropped it, and we're like, bored.

Yeah, same. I told you, I told you. Alright, well, Bryony M, you do some research and we'll catch up with you Friday and then hopefully this weekend can be the big weekend Okay, cool That we catch a fish And maybe even if anybody's listening, because you're in Wellington, right?

Yeah, I'm in Wellington If anyone's got any hot tips we won't broadcast the hot tips, but we'll just pass them straight on to Bryony So if you message our Facebook or our Instagram with some hot Wellington land fishing. What about, oh, I was going to,

you don't want to be on a boat, do you? Because I was going to say, what if the back of the inter-Islander? It'd be too trendy. No, because the fish will see the bait and they'll be like, oh, that's a fast fish. And then gobble it up. Yeah, yeah.

That's the last thing we need. But then you probably bring it in and get wound in the propellers. Tangle in the boat. Get a snag and have tobble it up. But then you probably bring it in and get wound in the propellers. Get a snag and have to cut it off. All right, well, we'll catch up with Bryony M on Friday. I feel like we need the outro as well for this. Outdoors with Bryony M. Fleshforn and Megan, the podcast.

ZM. Fleshforn and Megan's verbal boxing match. We have one Sapphire double pass to give away to the big fight, Joseph Parker versus Junior Farr. It's at Sparks Arena, the 11th of December. All you have to do is do a verbal boxing match. It's so good to see, like, yesterday, just seeing the rugby. Just like, you know, that was the first international rugby game in forever. Like, biggest rugby game in the world.

No one told me it was happening. I know. I got the news alert. I was like, what? There's a rugby game today? I was like, I'm going to sit down and work out what we're going to do on the show. And I was like, is there rugby today? You guys are like, yeah, but I was like, out of it.

Why didn't no one tell me? So looking forward to a packed Spark Arena. And we've done this before with our verbal tennis. When we've given away tennis match passes. Tickets to the tennis. There you go. Where you virtually play tennis. Well, today it's virtual boxing, verbal boxing, and we welcome Tracy.

Good morning. Good morning. How's it going, guys? Good. It's really good. You're in the red corner. Yes. Awesome.

All right. Bring it on, Dominic. Are you now? Yeah, trash talk. Okay, yeah, I like the trash talk. You can trash talk Lexi because Lexi joins us. Good morning, Lexi. Oh, bring it on.

Lexi's come to potty. All right, Lexi, you're in the other corner. I mean, I don't know. Blue? We can have a blue one. We can have a green one. Yellow one. So I've got some punching sound effects.

You guys have to do the associated noises. And I don't know if we'll last a couple of rounds. Like, what if Tracy drops it in the first round? Hey, no, no, no. You can't do that. There's a TKO. Do we get to punch or do we just the reactive noises? What?

So just the reactive noises. I've got the punch. I've got, I mean, if you want to punch as well, yeah. These are the punch sound effects. So I'll be giving those to you. So are we ready? Yeah. Ready to roll. Are we? you. So are we ready? Yeah. Are we?

Okay. All right. Here we go. Fight. Fight. Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow!

Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow!

Hey, separate you two. Separate you two. All right, I need a round one. Ring the bell. All right, Trudy. Someone's saying ow a lot. Someone's saying doof doof and someone's saying ow okay let's mix it up we've got one one round no clear winner yet

fight i am watching you guys thinking you're crazy. I don't even know what's happening. Let's just call it there. Megan's our adjudicator. Who was it? Come on, Megan. Lexi, come on. Who was it that Come on, Megan. Lexi, come on. Who was it that was laughing?

Me. I tried not to laugh. Oh, my gosh. I think the winner is Lexi. Lexi, yes. Double Sapphire Pass. Congratulations. Thank you so much.

Well done, Lexi. Cheers. Thank you. Good sports Well done, Lexi. Oh, good sports. Cheers, thank you. Good sports person, eh? Good sports. Yeah, exactly. Hey, congratulations and all the details are at ZM Online. If you want to head along, Spark Arena, the 11th of December, Joseph Parker versus Junior Pharr.

Stonewood Homes, Parker versus Pharr fight. I was just looking up because I thought I might get us all a corporate table. Oh, that's sold out, though, so I'm not going to be able to. So that's going to be hot property. Alright, so tickets available though? Yeah, yeah. All the other tickets, $69 at Ticketmaster.co.nz. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast.

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