ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Megan Podcast - 14th April 2021

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Hello, welcome to the Fleeche Morn and Megan with Hayley Sproul podcast. It's thanks to McCafe. Buy five McCafe coffees and get one free on the Maccas app. Great news if you're looking for a new job, you want to earn some good money. This is probably the biggest industry to be in at the moment. In the last 12 months, it's made $200 billion. Flight centre. Vaccine.

No. Really? No. Become a house. Ah, alright Because houses in New Zealand have made $200 billion in capital gains in the last 12 months How much? $200 billion That's too many billions

Too many billions So that's how much all of the houses increased in value in 12 months Yeah, not just how much they're worth. Yeah. Right. That's how much they increased. The gains. Oh, something needs to happen, doesn't it?

That's outrageous. Here's an idea. Yeah. What's your idea? Give them all to me. Okay. And I will let people live in them. Yeah.

At a, you know, for a nominal fee. Okay. So you'd become like some kind of slum landlord like a house pimp for the whole country oh yeah right i've got big houses small houses leaky houses right not many dry houses terribly insulated houses minimally insulated houses right i've got houses with heat pumps i've got houses with old smoky fires that get blocked up over summer that cause house fires when you light them without cleaning them i've got all baby and vaughn's house of houses wait could you imagine the admin alone in running everybody's house yeah i've got lots of people working for me do you and they

work for me in exchange for houses houses you got it you've worked out my economy but no one's knowing them i don't know from me if you are going to fix a housing crisis But I don't want to pay for them I think you're part of it I want people to give them Yeah, right, okay, just give them to you Yeah, sure Seems like a logical step forward for this country of ours

Fix the housing problem Fix it with another white man, thank God Hey, born to a saviour White saviour Yeah ZM Head music lives here Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast It's Miss Saviour. It's White Saviour. Yeah. ZM. Hit music. Lives here. Fletch, Fawn and Megan.

The podcast. Hello. Good morning. Welcome to the show. Fletch, Fawn and Megan with Hayley Sproul. Happy Wednesday. Happy Wednesday, everyone. There we go.

I just had to put in the sweet spot in the little headphone holes. I prefer to call it a headphone hole. Headphone hole. The headphone hole. Give a little jiggle of the headphone stick that's just been put into the headphone hole. What's up? Hey, thank you. Coming up on the show.

Hey, this is a different font, Carwin. You've changed. This is a different font. And you spelt received wrong. That is strike two, and we are at four minutes past six. I before E except after C. And that is right after C, Carwin. All right, it's Carwin's first week. At the social media desk

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Well, she Carwin can pass on the yell Just head down I'm making wolves here I'm making wolves Not chihuahuas, alright? We're a wolf pack. Coming up on the show, the top six.

Alpha dog. No, I haven't forgotten. I know. Somebody in Greymouth won a million dollars on the lotto. Okay. It's best you always call it the lotto. Yeah. Because it makes you sound like you're 84 years old.

Someone in Greymouth won a million dollars on the lotto, and they Googled what to do with it. Like, what do you do? With just a million dollars? Yeah. I mean, I say that. Just a million. I don't have a million dollars.

Because that would get you half an Auckland house. Just these days, yeah. I imagine it would get you a bloody nice place in Greymouth. That would be my luck. I finally win the lotto, and like eight other people won it, and I get like $400,000 or something. Yes. I'd give my luck. I finally win the lotto and like eight other people won it and I get like 400,000 or something. Yes. I'd give it back. How insulting.

What a horrendous amount. How embarrassing. You know, you spend the whole night, like you can't sleep. You're like, this is it. I've won the whole 28 mil. Yeah. Well, know that you should practice a little bit, you know, to be reserved. Yeah. Until you know, later on in the night, they're like,

hey, welcome back to the Lotto Draw update. Tonight's Lotto numbers are blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. 18 Division 1 winners. Oh, yeah. Because they do that later on in the night. They know how many people won. And sometimes where they're from, right? Yeah.

What's the thing? What is it tonight? 12. Oh, yeah, I'll buy one. We're edging towards the ticket. 12, you know, 12, you start to get to an acceptable amount. Getting to that level

where I'll actually buy one or two tickets and then never buy them again. Yeah. Okay, here's a house in Greymouth. At 47 Palmerston Street, Greymouth. A tastefully renovated villa. Okay. It's got one of them sunrooms on the front.

Look at this. Oh yeah, that's really nice. This is a nice spot. It's on a big section. I would say at the very least a quarter acre. Yeah, so it's a full quarter acre. Okay. Three bedrooms, 140 square meters.

How much? 1920s. How much do you guys reckon? Where is it? Great mouth. 780. Accepting offers over 400 What?

That would be like 2 million Whereabouts in Auckland is it? And if it was in Grey Lynn it would be like 2 or 3 If it was in Grey Lynn it would be 5 million a piece of cake just given the size of the property alone Alright well the top 6 dealing with the lotto win. The top 6 things to

Google if you win lotto tonight. Yeah. Okay. It's coming up next on the show, though. A woman has received, speaking of money, $1.7 million by mistake. It's not me. I wish this woman was me. I can tell you a really fun story about having this much money, but it's not.

Here's a bit of a what would you do moment. A woman in the United States received 1.2 million US dollars, so about 1.7 million New Zealand dollars into her account by mistake.

It was a clerical error. It was a classic monopoly bank error in your favour. Exactly. But 1.2. But really not in her favour. She's been deeply arrested and charged with a murder. Deeply arrested. Wowza.

Oh, yeah. Because as soon as it popped up into her account, she transferred it to another account and started spending it, including buying a brand new 2021 car and a house. Oh, wow. Okay. She should never have been in charge of the flat account in her time in a communal living situation.

No, she shouldn't. So 1.7 million in when it was supposed to be about 116 New Zealand dollars. So they staffed up there, of course, but by law, it's not her money to spend. So they staffed up there, of course, but by law, it's not her money to spend. So they found her. She was refusing to give it back. She's like, I've spent it.

That's how it works. Nope, sorry, I've spent it. Okay, well, you spent it. Oh, well, that's on us. They say now they've got about 75% of it back, but 75% of $1.7 million is still a lot outstanding. She bought a house. I just Googled the, do you remember the Runaway Millionaires?

The Westpac Runaway. That was a Sunday night theatre. That was $10 million. Yeah, I know. And so they transferred $6 million to accounts in China. And how much did they get back in the end? Because there's still, they did prison time, right? But there's still missing money, right? Or unaccounted for money.

Is that right? Yes. Yeah, I think so. They did go to jail four years. The Westpac. Oh, no, then they, yeah, they didn't do all of their. Didn't do all their time. All their time.

But this person's currently on, you know, what's the word? So, in, I've just, when I Googled the news story, 3.3 million is outstanding the court heard. This was at the trial. What do you mean outstanding? Where is it? That's just what they spent. I don't know.

Gone, I guess. Because wouldn't you just try to get all the money out, hide it, and then just do a couple of years in prison? Would you do a couple of years in prison for 10 million? Yeah, but when you come out, what are you going to do? Because they'll be on you. Spend the money. No, they'll take it back.

No, but it's yours now because you did the time. No, that's not how it works. Is that not how it works? You do the time because you did the time. It's not an exchange time for $10 million. Right. They still want the money back. Oh, do they?

Yeah. Okay. I would maybe, if I got by accident like $1.7 million in my account, I'd maybe shave off like 50 grand and I'd be like, I'm so sorry. That's my booking fee because the bank does that shit all the time. Yeah. And you're like, can you justify that $50 fee for my AP not working? This is my admin fee, bitch.

Yeah, absolutely. It's under the bank. That'd take that well, I think. I think that would, yeah. Oh, this poor woman. I don't know what I'm... Yeah, absolutely. That's what I was saying to the bank. That'd take that well, I think. I think that would, yeah. Yeah. Oh, this poor woman. I don't know why I'm feeling sorry for her. No, you can't feel sorry for her.

It's not your money. You don't spend it. But she, you know, they were saying that she's not a woman of extreme means. And so suddenly you've got $1.7 million in your bank account. Withdraw 1.7. There is a part of you straight to the Cassie. And then red or black. And then if you lose,

be like, I know exactly where the money is. You'll need to talk to Sky City Casino. Right, and if you win, you can get the money back and keep what you made.

And you've got a 1.7. Oh my God, what a great plan. Is it? Have I just conducted the perfect crime? I don't think you'll find a casino in the world

that would let you drop 1.7 million on red or black. They will when I put on my $200 Hallenstein suit. With shirt and tie combo. This guy needs to come into the VIP area. Yeah, and I walk in and they're like, sir, you're still wearing new balances. I'll be like, ignore the shoes.

I like to be comfortable when I'm being a high roller. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. When you go to Google, I put in most effective and the first is COVID vaccine. Okay. The most effective COVID vaccine. The next is most effective fly spray.

And I think both big problems. Big problems. Buzzy flies and a worldwide pandemic. You think it's not a big problem. We actually literally ran out of fly spray two days ago

and it's been hell on earth in that house. They had little, horrible little flies in this tummy. Little ones. Little buzzy little shit bags.

I leave, I don't have many flies like the odd one. I leave them because the cat goes crazy and hunts them all day. Yeah, he goes Oh, like chirps.

Yeah. They get crazy. And it's funny. And then he just spends the whole day hunting them. So I'm like, this is great. I don't need to buy him cat toys. But then also you've got a really high ceiling and it's white. What if the fly shit on the ceiling thing drives me crazy?

I just don't have that many flies. If I had a white ceiling, I would just be walking and I would just see this tiny little brown dot. I'd be like, get me my stepladder. And then a antibacterial wipe. I don't think I have that problem. Oh, God damn. Maybe it's the altitude.

The fly's not working at altitude. When we bought our house, it was so covered in fly poop that I thought the walls were a different color. It was like top to bottom because when we painted our ceiling they said to us and it bleeds through

that's what they said they said you've got two choices you can spend days and days and days cleaning it all off or we can paint it with this

most toxic paint you will ever smell in your life that will render your house unlivable for a few days go the toxic paint we did the toxic paint yeah because

seal it in all that fly shit, baby. Because if you paint it and then you paint over it, it just like goes... It sneaks through. Yeah, you've got to really do a full-blown seal situation. Anyway, we're not here to talk about fly shit. It's gross as... Sorry, I've absolutely hijacked the conversation.

No, no. No, no, no, no, no, no. That's important. The reason I was Googling most effective coronavirus vaccine was I believe Pfizer still holds the record in the 90s. And the real-time data coming out of the UK and Israel is so good. It's really interesting. And that's the one we're getting.

So we should all be very happy about that. We're getting the fancy one. We're getting the good one. So there's Pfizer. There's Moderna. Johnson & Johnson. Johnson & Johnson. They've got one.

Do they? Good to see them breaking away from air bug. And lotion. Yep. And hand cream. And talc powder. And talcum powder, yeah, because that didn't go to so well. No, they haven't had a good few years, Johnson & Johnson.

But we're getting Pfizer in New Zealand, which is good to know. From what we're hearing, it's the most effective one. Sputnik. I don't know how Sputnik's going. That's the Russian one. Yeah, the Chinese and the Russian ones. I don't really give a lot of data out about those today. No, not a huge amount.

But in America, they're not just doing Pfizer. They're doing Moderna and Johnson & Johnson. And there's a little bit of a ranking emerging. If you get the Pfizer, because apparently it's completely random, unless you're in a high-risk group. If you get the Pfizer vaccine, you're now a higher class of citizen. And it's taken it even to TikTok. Only hot people get the Pfizer vaccine.

If you got Moderna, then I don't know what to tell you, queen. This message is brought to you by Pfizer gang. Pfizer gang. Wow. And so even on dating profiles, apparently people have like, I've got the Pfizer or I've got that. Oh my God. Or I'm only dating Pfizer people.

A Pfizer looking for a Pfizer. Yeah. Pfizer, Pfizer, we're on Pfizer. Maybe people like to live dangerously though. They could be more like, I like, you know, I'm looking to live dangerously. How about a hookup with a Moderna? Yeah.

I'm a Moderna bad boy. I'm a Moderna looking for a Johnson & Johnson. Yeah. No Pfizer's allowed. Let's mix our vaccines. Yeah. Let's mix our vaccines. Yeah. Let's mix our vaccines. So we're getting the sexy one.

We're getting the sexy one. Of the two. That seems right. So we're all sexy. Yeah, that seems right. Apparently, I'm just clicking. This is another great, fascinating, not great. I mean, it's horrible.

It's a pandemic. Fascinating data. Yeah. You can find data on anything. I just clicked on the map of vaccinations. And two days ago, New Zealand had vaccinated, well, total doses given of the vaccine, 90,000. And 19,000 people had been fully vaccinated.

That is 0.4% of our entire population. Right. And that's obviously going to ramp up in the next few months. Yeah. And yesterday, I think India overtook Brazil to be the second worst. Behind America. Wait, they overtook Brazil to be the second worst. Behind America. Wait, they overtook Brazil in total deaths and everything? In cases.

In cases. Yeah. A hundred and something thousand cases yesterday. A hundred and ninety odd thousand in one day? One day. Remember, it was 93,000 last week. I know. And they've got 13.5 million people fully vaccinated,

which is an absolute drop in the ocean. It's like just under 1% of the total population. Play me the riff again. I need, I need, I need. Always makes me think about that famous scene. Oh, in the car? Yep. On Whitechips.

On Whitechips, yeah. And we actually talked to Terry Crews. Oh, in the car? Yep. On Whitechicks. On Whitechicks, yeah. And we actually talked to Terry Crews. Oh, really? Like a few years ago. Sung this with him. Yeah. Oh my gosh.

That was for Brooklyn Nine-Nine, right? Yeah. It's unbelievable the impact of this song, isn't it? I don't know how or why. I can't name another

Vanessa Carlton song that was big. I think she had a follow- Carlton song that was big. I think she had a follow-up maybe. It was all right. There was one where she was playing at a piano inside. But you'd call it... Outside? You'd say One Hit Wonder, right?

I would call her that. Though I did watch a video recently of her doing a home tour. Big Yellow Taxi, that feels... Oh, yeah, she did the cover of that. Did she do that with Hooting the Blowfish? I don't know. Counting Crows. Something like that, yeah. I mean, I've googled Vanessa Carlton's songs and

dozens and dozens of songs have popped up. Yeah, she has released a lot of music, but this would be her biggest song. She's worth $10 million, so don't worry about how she's doing. I watched a video and it was a home tour of hers and her house was amazing. I was like, wow, that song is, it is good, isn't it? That one song is, yeah, set you up.

She's been chatting recently about who the song is about. And apparently it is a famous actor. She hasn't settled on quite revealing the name, but she said the song is about a crush I had on a Juilliard student. Juilliard is a performing arts school in New York. It's very renowned. She went there. I think she did ballet and then she did music there.

Okay. She said it was very one-sided. I would never talk to this person. I was very shy. I was like, there's just no way on God's creation that this would ever happen. She said, there's no way this guy knows that I even had a crush on him, this huge celebrity. Doesn't even know that... This song is about them.

Oh, wow. This wolf in the song is about them. So people are now going, okay, who is it? Who went to Juilliard? Who's a big celebrity and went there? The number one hit is Adam Driver. Oh, my God. From Girls.

Kylo Ren. From Star Wars. It totally is about Kylo Ren. That guy is a big hunk. And he's the kind of guy you'd write a song about. Yeah. A mystery. He's like, he's unexplainable.

Yeah. He's attractive, but how? But are they sure it's about him? No. She won't say. No, no, there's a huge list. I don't know everyone on it, I will say. The list includes Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac.

Oscar Isaac. Yeah. He's the actor that was in, oh God, so many things. Yeah. Anthony Mack's Star Wars. Yeah, he was in Star Wars. He was Poe Dameron. So she's just got like the Star Wars dudes.

Yeah. This is so hot. Anthony Mackie. So he's in Falcon and the Winter Soldier. He's Falcon. Yeah. Wes Bentley. That's that guy that looks like someone.

Wes Bentley. You know who Wes Bentley is? As an actor and a celebrity, that's who you want to be referred to. He's that guy that looks like someone. You know who Wes Bentley is? As an actor and a celebrity, that's who you want to be referred to. He's that guy that looks like someone. He's the guy that always was like, in movies and you were like, oh, that's so-and-so. And then you're like, oh, no, it's not. He's just a generic white-looking

guy. American-looking actor. But yeah, she's yet to confirm, and now people are working out. There was an interview, and Vanessa's mother was like, she's yet to confirm, and now people are working out. Who is it? There was an interview, and Vanessa's mother was like, she wrote the diddly diddly doo when she was 17, and then later went to Juilliard,

and they're trying to work out who was at Juilliard at the same time as her. So it's a real conspiracy theory. I've got to say, I like her line-up of dudes. Yeah, same. She's got good taste. There's some hot men in here. Yeah, Star Wars dudes, Marvel Universe, Hunger Games guy.

Good word. If you were Van Carl, if it was I had to pick one, Oscar Isaac. Yeah, would you? I thought you would have gone Adam Driver. Adam Driver's hot, but I feel like I'd have a lot of competition from really creative artsy types. Yeah, right. I'd put my effort into Oscar Isaac. Okay, yeah, right.

That's fair enough. You know who Oscar Isaac is now, though, wait. Yeah, I do. Have you seen him with the big beard? He's Guatemalan-American. I don't think you could hook up with him. Your beards would get tangled. No, beds are like Velcro. What?

Says who? You write the rules? Look at this goddamn beard and that head of hair. Oh, he's exquisite. He is an exquisite human. Yeah. All right. And he's going to be Moon Knight in upcoming Marvel series.

It's hot. All right. Hot man. From the nerd desk to the latest next. Justin Bieber and Hailey Bieber are opening up about how their first year of marriage went. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. From the hard to find ZM think tank, this is the top six. Hello there.

Lotto tonight, 12 million we settled on, right? Yeah, something like that. Pretty good one. Well, someone in Greymouth won Lotto. They won a million dollars last week. So I'm guessing they won the first Divvy, but not Powerball. Yeah. Not Powerball.

Well, they realised, and this is kind of a dream, but also not a dream. They used the self-checker at the Lotto counter at the supermarket and scanned it. And it was like, ding, ding, ding, ding. You know, it sings a little song if you win something. And I don't know what flashes up apparently it said major prize winner so it doesn't say

the amount oh right because otherwise someone could see it see it and be like that guy just won a million dollars and then all of a sudden

everybody's on you yeah like you've just sprayed yourself in links in those old links ads and there's just a wave of people

it's like in Willy Wonka when Charlie's got the last golden ticket and everyone surrounds him I was like they're gonna steal it yeah Charlie low profile dude

yeah run Charlie run straight home and don't look back and gets home and grandpa's like yeah I'll come get out of bed

and then finally gets out of bed yeah you lazy shit I know exactly you could have been pulling your weight cleaning up around this house this whole time yeah

sorry again I've hijacked the conversation no it needed to be addressed lazy shit. I know, exactly. You could have been pulling your leg, cleaning up around this house this whole time. Yeah. Sorry, again I've hijacked the conversation. No. It needed to be addressed. Grandpa Joe had it too good for too long. He did. No one was calling him out on it. So he apparently remembered at the time seeing or somewhere

saw a comment on from Lotto saying, write your name on the back of the ticket immediately. Yeah. So that's what I did. And then he googled. Amazing. Then he went and sat in his car in the car park and called his brother

and he said can you just check the Lotto tickets for me? Can you google Lotto numbers for me just to make sure I've got the right one? I don't feel like. He was freaking out.

He didn't believe it. They double checked. He had the right draw. He had the right tickets and then he googled what do I do with $1 million that I've won in Lotto? Wow. He wants to remain anonymous. Yeah, right.

Fair enough, too. I think that's smart. I think that's really smart. But small towns, trust me, I'm from a small town, and once we had a big Lotto winner, and the rumor mill kicks into overdrive. Yes. Absolute overdrive. So I've got the top six things to Google

if you win Lotto tonight. You might have some questions, not general investment advice. Number six. How do I make sure my siblings get absolutely not a dollar of this? It's a hard one depending on your siblings though, isn't it?

If you won heaps, would you not give Phillip or Michelle any? Look one may have thought about the fact that he would build a Ninja Warrior course and make them compete for a daily prize, but they're also like, my brother is so stubborn

he would refuse to take money as I would from him Even if it was like millions of dollars. Even if it was like 23 million. Yeah, and you wanted to give him a million. Yeah. He'd be so reluctant to take it because he'd feel like he owed me one.

Yeah, then you've got it over him, eh? Yeah, yeah. Wow. Number five on the list of the top six things to Google when you win or if you win Lotto. How much does a fully trained peregrine falcon cost? Is that like what they've got at the vineyards that time we went to Blenheim? Those were hawks.

Those were New Zealand falcons. I'm talking like the full-blown Saudi Arabian. Yeah, the helmets with the blinkers on them. I'm talking the leather glove. I'd be like, away! And I'd be like, ah! It. And I'd be like, ah! It'd sound a little bit more like a crow. How much is it going to cost, though?

Is it going to fit within your million dollar budget? Well, that's why I'm Googling, Hayley. Obviously, if it's affordable, I'm going to do it. But I'm not being silly. Number four on the list of the top six things to Google when you win a lotto is, I don't pay tax on this, do I? You don't, do you? In New Zealand, you don't.

No, but in America. But in America, you do. And you get it in installments. Yeah, in America, when they give away like the $800 million lotto, a lot of the time people choose a lump sum payment of half that and have to pay tax on it. And don't get me wrong, it's still like $300 million, but it's not the $800 million that people think they're getting.

Number three on the list of the top six things to Google if you win Lotto. Would it really hurt to red or black all of this money? Because technically I didn't have it yesterday. It's free money. It would hurt so much. It's free money. No, that's irresponsible. Don't do that.

If you win Lotto tonight, please don't do that. Don't do that. No. Put a mil. You've already had your luck. Yeah. Yeah. Have a bit of fun.

Number two on the list of the top six things to Google when you win Lotto is how to be Batman on a slightly smaller budget. With a million. Yeah. Yeah. Because his only superpower was his extreme wealth. Yeah. And then everything else came from it.

He wasn't born with a spider bite or anything. No, he was a bit like a spider or from another planet. He was just a billionaire. You might have to just go a versatile garage rather than a bat cave. That's a nice idea. Or an old shipping container. Yeah, lovely. Dug half into the ground with a car in it.

To the shipping container doesn't have the same ring. To the skyline. To the bat garage. Yeah, it doesn't have the same ring. To the skyline. Yeah. To the bat garage. Yeah, it doesn't have the same ring, does it? Not quite. And number one on the list of the top six things

to Google if you win Lotto tonight is can I buy the trademark and ingredients and machines required to make tangy fruits? Yeah. Imagine being the person that won Lotto

and put that money into bringing tangy fruits back. Yeah, I don't know. I think you're looking at tangy fruits through roast into glasses. No, they weren't the most perfect. They were disgusting. And a box of snifters on the side. Yeah, see snifters, you lost me.

You've just thrown away your lotto winnings. That is today's top six. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast ZM. Well, bad news out of Australia. Now this doesn't include the travel bubble that we've got with Australia. My parents are doing it. Yeah, well, 14th today starts on the 19th.

Yeah, so Sunday. Your laptop's just chatting with you. My laptop started talking. So, yeah, so Sunday we'll be able to go to Australia. Well, we can go now, right? Yeah, but you can't come back. Well, you can't come back. You've got to MIQ it.

Yeah, but from Monday you won't have to MIQ. Imagine if you needed to be there tomorrow, but then you need, oh no, it still wouldn't work. I was like, imagine if you had to come back. People were coming back over the next couple of days. There won't be anyone, right? They'll just wait. You'd think people would have waited by now, yeah.

But there is bad news from Australia. The Deloitte Access Economics latest quarterly business outlook. Oh, my God, not Deloitte. I know, I know. What are they, accountants? This isn't going to be very Deloitte-ful, is it? No. Their quarterly business outlook is predicting international travel

won't return fully until... December 2021. 2023. 2024. Okay. I'm okay with it. I know. I know.

I'm not going to make it. What do you mean you're not going to make it? I won't survive. I am keen to get to that island of cooks. That's me. I want to hit some Pacific islands. I just want a different culture. I just want a different smell, some different food.

You want to be shocked by culture. Be like, different. Yeah, different. I just want different. I don't even care where it is. Australia, I don't think, is really going to issue that today. No. No.

No offence, Australia. No offence, Australia. No offence, yeah. They shouldn't take offence at that. You're just saying that we have

our similarities. We have our, yeah, we're too similar. I want, you know when you get off the plane and bang cock

and you come out and it hits you in the face. And you get hit by that city humidity and that wall of smell and then you're walking down the street

and you're like, hello dog, who's your owner? And he's like, no one. And it's foaming at the mouth and you're like, hello dog, who's your owner? And he's like, no one. And it's foaming at the mouth and you're like, I probably shouldn't pet that dog.

Try to stop following you around the whole holiday. Get rabies. And then you see a frog and you're like, frog, what are you doing in the city? You got no business here.

Where am I? Yeah, I get you. I want to get ripped off. I want to get pickpocketed. I want all of that. Yeah, I want to walk up to a small trolley

where a woman seems to be, seems to have rigged up her own gas bottle to some really higgledy-piggledy cooking device and you're just like, yes, cook it, cook it! And then I'll eat it. And then you eat it and then you don't get sick of that place. It's when you go to the sandwich place in the mall. That's when you get sick. Because they're washing their lettuce in a coli, apparently.

So 2024. Yeah, that's when you can look forward to that, apparently. Wild. Because they're washing their lettuce in a coli, apparently. So 2024. Yeah, that's when you can look forward to that, apparently. Wild. Isn't that nuts? Hang on. Yeah.

Hang on, what? I'm 31. That's too long away. Did you need to add 31 plus three? It just took me a bit. Look at it this way. So at 34 years old,

you're going to hit 34. Well, that's my decision on having children. I wasn't sure or not, but if I have to wait to travel, I'm not travelling with kids, so then that's going to delay it more. So then it's just not going to happen. Yeah, okay. Thanks, COVID.

Thanks, COVID. And then I'll be 50 or 60 years old with no one to love me. Well, because you didn't have children. I'll be sitting there alone. Right, well, where's Aaron gone? Your husband. Or your fiancé now. Who? Oh, yeah, right. I'll be sitting there alone. Right, well, where's Aaron gone? Your husband. Or your fiancé now. Who?

Oh, yeah, right. Yeah, right. We're not going to survive. If we don't get out of our one-bedroom place and get travelling around the world, we won't survive. Someone's going to die. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Oh, now for a muesli bar.

Very dry. That muesli bar that you get from the vending machine. It's so dry. It's so dry. Okay, I like it because it's got yogurt covered on it. And as a kid, I was not allowed yogurt covered treats. And I'm still wearing that thing on my back. Absolutely, we're not allowed yogurt covered raisins.

And the other thing I like about it, it's so hard, it takes me ages to eat. Because otherwise I'll just inhale it and not appreciate it. This thing is an absolute workout. It's so hard, it takes me ages to eat. Because otherwise I'll just inhale it and not appreciate it. Yeah, right. This thing is an absolute workout. It's a brick. Look at how bold. You can't really see it because I've got a beard. But if I was to shave this off, you would see such definition.

Yeah, like a Henry Cavill jawline. Thank you. With a bum chin as well. You've got a Ben Affleck bum chin. I've got such a bum chin. That's why he has a beard. Do you? That's why he has a beard. Huge you? That's why he has a beard.

Huge bum chin. Like how deep is it? Could you put a coin in there? Yes. Like Spartacus Kirk Douglas. Like if I was to lie on the ground and put it up, you could put a rugby ball in it and use it as a... You'd be able to fill up like half a cup of water.

Well, you could store it. I could, I could. I could lie out with my chin up in a sort of a moist winter's morning and it would fill up with the condensation and you could all drink. You can actually put an apricot stone in it. Oh, wow. Well, thank God you can grow a hefty beard. That's my surgical

option. They want to insert an apricot stone to fill in. You should fill it up with ramen noodles and resin and then sandpaper over it. Sandpaper it down. Like one of those Facebook videos. Yeah. Fixing it with ramen noodles in resin and then sandpaper over it. Sandpaper it down. Like one of those Facebook videos. Fixing it with ramen noodle and resin.

The resin is doing all the heavy lifting in those, by the way. Yeah. Everyone's amazed by the ramen. It's the resin that's doing all the heavy lifting. You can literally put ants in there

and do the same thing and it will fill up. That's actually a cool idea. I was going to buy you ramen noodles in resin for Christmas, but do you know how expensive resin is? I was like, it's not up. That's actually a cool idea. I was going to buy you ramen noodles in resin for Christmas but do you know how expensive resin is?

I was like, it's not happening. It's not happening. Yeah. Those resin people on YouTube are tearing through a lot of, tearing through thousands of dollars of resin a day.

They really are. All right. We weren't going to talk about my bum chin and hard muesli bars right now but we've been slightly, hijacked number three of this morning.

Slightly gone off track. We want to talk about Macaulay Culkin and a congratulations to Macaulay Culkin and his partner, Robin, sorry, Brenda. Look, both old ladies names. Brenda Song, who have had a baby. Now the baby's name is what I want to talk about because the baby's name is Dakota. And that was one of my top choices for our second daughter, August. I really wanted her to be Dakota, but we already had Indiana. And then if you had Dakota, you got two US states.

And then people think you're a fan of the US. Yeah, I really love the Midwest. I'm a huge fan of those states that do racist things. So I didn't want... Yeah, fair call. so we put that aside. It's a nice name though. That's really cool. Like Dakota Johnson. Dakota Fanning.

And that song, there was a song back in the day Dakota. And I'm out. Yeah, that's me too. Yeah, it's cool. So that's right. It's used, it's known, but it's not overly used. But if you were going to use it, this is my line, my train of thought on this, would you still use it now that a home profile person has your baby's name?

And I want to know if this morning, on 0800DALS.M, you can text 9696, when a celebrity used your baby name and it made you contemplate whether or not you wanted to still have it because it might seem like you were copying them, even though it was your baby name all along. So this is when a celebrity has a baby just before you. Yeah, or in the ballpark. You maybe have thought about baby names. You've got something in the future if we have a baby. These are the names I like.

Do you have any baby names reserved? Like, I know you might not even have kids, but do you have names you've always thought, that would be great? Yeah, but do you have names you've always thought, that would be great? Yeah, I do, but my friend Corey has named his daughter, and she's older now

so I don't think I can do it. Right. Yeah. Yeah, it's a... So, yeah, it's hard. And that was just a friend doing it. Yeah. Yeah, I don't have any celebrity, I mean, I'm not interested in Suri or Apple.

What did Grimes and Elon Musk call their kid again? X-A- Ash is how it's pronounced. Ash. But it looks like

a mathematical equation. I don't think they stole anyone's baby name. That was top of my list. Yeah. Girl or boy. So 0800-DARLES-AT-N give us a call

9696. When has a celebrity taken the name of a baby that you wanted and you were like, God damn it, now I can't. Because it just looks like I'm copying a celeb. You're being trendy. Yeah, you, you. Yeah, exactly.

You led the charge. They swooped in. Yeah. Probably changed last minute and stole your thunder. Thank God celebs are now calling their kids things like. Stupid things. Yeah, like Microsoft. Fleshforn and Megan.

The podcast. ZM. Just check the two of the news with us. That's how hard it was. I started eating it as soon as the song was playing and I'm still going. I'm telling you, that muesli bar, I don't even know what brand it is. Solid investment in time. Yeah, well you knew that we were talking is all I'm telling you, that muesli bar, I don't even know what brand it is. Solid investment in time.

Yeah, okay, well you knew that we were talking is all I'm saying. So we want to know when a celebrity has stolen the name that you wanted and picked out for a baby. Now it's not the case, but Macaulay Culkin has had a baby and named it Dakota which was one of my, one of your

favorites. One of them still is, I love it. It's such a great name. So if you were to you to maybe say you were having a third oh shit you know you haven't had a vasectomy yet

I haven't so it's possible that has been by the way that has been pushed that agenda has really been pushed what do you mean it's

your age like get it done get it done why don't you get it done do it I'm a little bit scared don't be scared I'm a little bit scared.

Don't be scared. I'm a little bit scared of my balls getting sizzled off. Everyone does it. I know, but I'm a little bit scared. Sounds like a fun thing to do on the radio. It's been done a hundred times. I know, it has. It's been done a hundred times. It really has.

I'll do it. Let's take some calls. Kendall. If you want to see my balls, you only have to ask. We've been friends long enough now. I'll give you a little peek at the treasure bag. Not allowed to see the penis, though. Kendall.

That's at my marriage. That was actually in my vows at my wedding. Kendall, we're really sorry to bring you into this horrendous chair. I've got a real theme of hijacking conversations this morning. What celebrity took the baby name that you wanted? We had our Archie about six days before Meghan Markle and

Harry. Rain on your parade. The royals are shockers though, eh? Because those babies are so high profile. A lot of celebrities can have babies and it's pretty low profile. It goes under the radar. But you wouldn't have an Archie post the royal baby, would you?

Because it would get... It was... I don't know what we would have done. We're both school teachers and Archie was the only name we had. Yeah. So if they'd had him first, I don't know what we would have done.

Oh, I think Archie's a great name. Yeah, that's a big thing for school teachers, isn't it? Because so many names are ruined by shitbag little kids. Oh, I think Archie's a great name. Yeah, that's a big thing for school teachers, isn't it? Because so many names are ruined by shitbag little kids. Okay, what name... You said it, not me. What name is ruined for you? Like, what name could you just not touch?

I've got to be careful now. Who cares? They don't know who you are. Well, we have said your name. More boys' names than girls' names. Yeah, go on, hit us with the worst boys' name. Oh, um... I probably won't be having a Harrison anytime soon. Oh! Okay.

I went to school with a Harrison. He was a little shy. We've got a Harrison that works here. I'll say it. He's a shitbag. He's always up to no good, isn't he? He's actually not. He's actually not.

He's very quiet. Okay, Harrison. All right, Kendall. Kendall, you may actually not. He's actually not. He's very quiet. Okay, Harrison. All right, Kendall. So, Kendall, you may have saved someone making a naming mistake. Yeah. You have.

There you go. Absolutely. Kendall, thanks for your call. Vicky, what celebrity stole your baby's name? My story is pretty similar to Kendall, really.

We only had one name. We're both schoolteachers. We loved the name Charlotte. Oh, my gosh. And then, of course, Princess Charlotte was born. And do you find Harrisons are shitbags as well? Generally. I've had some nice Harrisons, but, yeah, generally that won't be a name

that I'd end up choosing for one of my children either. We should just do a phone in one day where it's like, teachers, what names are ruined for you? And then we basically assemble a list of the naughtiest children. Yeah, do you have a name that's top of your list for naughty kids names? It would have to be Jordan for me. I'm a high school teacher. Oh, okay.

Jordan. Jordan. Yeah, right. Born and like. Female or male. Oh. I know some sassy female Jordans. The D-Y-N's or the D-A-N's. Yes. I know some sassy female Jordans. The D-Y-Ns or the D-A-Ns. Yeah. Jordans across the board.

Any spelling. Doesn't matter. Amazing. Vicky, thank you. All awesome text messages. Great. Let's definitely do that as a phone-in one day. Absolutely.

I don't know if this is a joke or not, but somebody said, does it count if the villain in Despicable Me 2 was my child's name? Vector. Oh. What about Vector and the Lion's Company? The former naming rights of Vector Arena.

Yeah. Oh my God, I saw the trailer for the new Despicable, is it the new Minions movie? Minions, yeah. Are you a Minions? I love Minions. I don't share Minions memes like your auntie But I love the Minions

He's a huge Minions guy Now we're just hearing from teachers who are texting in the naughty names of children Oh I will, we'll do this another day Alright, 7.22 Next on the show A female Jordan just messaged in and said I can confirm we're all arseholes but for some reason People still love us

ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. If there was ever a year of active wear, it's 2020, wasn't it? It's slouching around the house. Active wear is both flattering, it kind of picks you up, it's different to pyjamas, but it's still very comfortable, stretchy. Well, you can go for brunch in active wear, can't you? Oh, yeah, that's a theory. You can go to the supermarket at the mall in active wear.

And last year was the year I learned about active wear and there's those tights and I want a pair so badly that lift, it's like a Wonderbra for the arse. Oh, my gosh, they're incredible. I had no idea they existed. They're like the McDonald's arches on top of your bum and you turn around and you're like, where did you get that?

I don't know if they do's your bum? I don't know if they do them for guys. I don't care. I'll wear a woman's hair. Yeah, you've got the legs for them. It's got very skinny legs. Stop flirting with me in front of everyone. Oh my god, guys, I'm right here. I know. God damn it. I've told you no

so many times. Stop it. Well, psychologists have been chiming in about the impacts, the greater impacts of wearing active wear, saying that it actually can lead to better habits and weight loss. And this is due to something that they're calling

enclosed cognition. Right. So it's saying, you know, what we wear impacts our mood, our attitude, how we feel about ourselves. You just looked at my outfit when I said that. What do you think that my outfit is saying today? No, it's good.

It's new, isn't it? It's got the, what are the things on the shoulders? I like the shoulder pads a lot. Yeah, shoulder pads. You've got shoulder pads and a kind of a... Pleats. It looks like you're... It's casual Friday on the Death Star.

Yeah, thank you. Like you're still a member of the empire. Yeah, and you've got the shoulder still a member of the empire. Sort of skirt. Yeah, and you've got the shoulder guards in, but it's Casual Friday. So if you're wearing active wear, you feel fit. Is that the idea? Yeah, exactly.

And you feel better about yourself. Right. So in a survey that asked people, you know, about the effects of how they feel with what they're wearing, 30% reported that they're more inclined to eat healthier foods when wearing active wear, which I think would lead to feeling better and potentially weight loss. Have you ever caught yourself getting bad takeaways

and you looked down in your gym gear still? Absolutely. I thought you were saying have you ever caught yourself getting bad takeaways and you looked down and you see your little belly? Yeah. Oh, no. In your active wear or you look down and you see your little belly. Yeah. Oh, no. And your active wear or your gym wear and you're like, yeah, what are you doing here?

So they say that there's, you know, active wear has become such a thing over the last few years, hasn't it? Like designer active wear, not just chucking on some trackies and a singlet and hitting the gym. And that's changed the way that exercising can often be thought of like negatively, like a punishment. Right. Like, oh, I've got to go thrash myself at the gym.

And then the influence of active wear is changing that because we feel good and we want to be in these great clothes looking after ourselves. So they're saying it's a good thing to chuck your active wear on when you're feeling a bit low because even if you don't end up going to the gym, your mind will think, I'm being good to myself. I'm being a better, healthier me.

As you sit in the drive-thru in your comfortable active wear. Or like me, come home from the gym and have a glass of wine. Well, last Friday night, we were having the lads Friday night Fortnite, which, you know, trying to get back into that because it's a bit of camaraderie,

a bit of chats with some friends that I don't get to hang out with very often. And producer Jared pops in. He's very good, so he's good to have on the team because the rest of us aren't. So he starts talking and then there's a bit of silence During the game This is on On your headset While you're playing Fortnite On headsets

I'm at home Everyone's in their own homes Because for a moment there I thought you had gone out To a social event Where you'd all Bought a PlayStation Around and networked up

And Oh you're talking about A LAN party Yeah No baby It's not the 90s no more We don't do LAN parties But we were playing online.

Jared drops in and then a bit of silence during the game and we can hear through the headset. I'm like, what is that noise? And Jared's like, oh, sorry, guys. That's my neighbours. His neighbours' music was so loud that when he stopped talking, the microphone on his headset was like, I need some sound. And there I can hear some

sound and we could hear this well, I don't know, what is it? Drum and bass? Yeah, a bit of doof doof. A bit of intense doof doof. Well, explain the living situation. It's under a house? Yeah, so we're in the granny flat under a house

which has, I think it's six dudes living up there. Oh, dear. Got a sausage fest up there. The landlord prefaced our moving in by saying, oh, no, they're very quiet. Never had any issues. Or can you get out of this lease if the landlord basically outright lied to you?

I'd assume so. Yeah, you can. There's ways around it. Surely. Most landlords are pretty good if you're like, our living situation sucks. So you're under the, I'm guessing it goes floor, and then what, did they just put a

roof on your, or some lining underneath, some jib board and that's it? Yeah, pretty much. Under their kitchen or living room I think. And so you can hear them clear as day walking around? Yep. There's two of them that have very heavy footfalls.

I think it's every young person's duty to live in a situation like this. I've done it. You guys have done it. You have to live that horror. Yeah. It's a rite of passage. Last week, every day, pretty much, they were playing their doof-doofs. And then Friday, it really turned up a notch because I think they were

Practicing for their party because I think they've got DJ decks I should say they had DJ decks. Here we go. Oh, okay. Okay your boy the narc JP Called noise control. Okay Noise control turned up for then left and then came back with some police. Oh, okay. Yeah, because they had another noise control complaint that didn't come from us. Right, okay. And so did the police confiscate their...

Oh, yeah. Yes. Wow. What do they do with that? Do they give it back to you? I think you have to wait a few days. Oh, okay, good. Like a week or something.

Right. So it's been very quiet this week, which is cool. Okay, good. But the thing that really annoyed me was like... I witnessed this happening live, guys. This was wild. Yeah. So my flatmate ordered a za, a pizza.

A za. A za, dude. And it got delivered. And Cameron received a text saying, your pizza's delivered. And he's like, no, it's not. Okay. Upstairs, bloody stole his pizza. No!

The audacity. Yep. So did you go up? I'm not sure if Cam did. I think he just called Domino's and was like, yo. Yeah. And then they came back and talked to upstairs. Yeah.

And said, yo, we're obligated to call the police. So the police came again. Oh, my God, double police. Double police. And so do they get charged for stealing like a meat lovers or something? I'm not sure. Is that the official crime? I think it is under the Act of 1962.

Well, they'll certainly learn to. And that, of course, was the result of the Pizzagate 61. 61 Pizzagate. It was, yeah. Huge news. Doate 61. 61 Pizzagate. It was, yeah. Huge news. Do your research. Learn your New Zealand history. Yeah.

Pizzagate 61. Just Google it. You'll find out the rest. Yeah. Wow. So that was a wild Friday night. And so since then, it's been very quiet

with the neighbours. Very quiet. We've passed them a few times leaving and they've been very sheepish. Of course. Yeah. Good.

As long as they don't, the thing I always get scared about, because I'm a lasher out when it comes to neighbourhood interactions. Well, someone famously has urinated in the vents of your car. I'm now in fear. And the effects are still there a little bit. I'm always afraid of retaliation. If you really rack someone up,

they might come and tag your clothes or something, you know? Yeah, my flatmates... Like what, spray paint your knickers on the line? Tag your clothes. Westside on your jeans. My flatmates had to defuse me a few times because I was like, I'm going to go fill their work boots up with water

when I leave for work on Monday morning. Work boots up with water? Oh, that's so cute. You should try urinating in their car vent. I tell you what, the effects last for months. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. There has been a study done and it says that 45% of people that use Facebook have seriously considered deleting it.

Yeah. I think we all would have at some stage, right? Well, I'm actually in the active phases of considering deleting it. It just doesn't, it used to be the first thing that I would open, I'd scroll through

and see what things are up to. But people just don't really post updates anymore. But your friends don't, eh? No, like it's not actually a way that I use to connect with people anymore. That's Instagram stories job.

Yeah. In my life. Totally. Instagram is my favourite. I love. But you, you Vaughan would be one of the only, one of my Yeah. In my life. Totally. Instagram is my favourite. I love. But you, you Vaughan would be one of the only, one of my friends that posts a lot.

But is it because you post stuff about the kids? On Facebook? Yeah. Kids in the house. Yeah, I probably post, yeah, more about, but then that's a lot just, I love looking at that memories tab every day.

Yeah. And you see what your kids are doing. So you're kind of. Six years ago though, little tiny babies. Like a scrapbook. Babies. Babies. To look back at my little tiny babies. Like a scrapbook. Babies. Babies.

To look back at my babies. To look back at your babies. Babies. Well, that's not the only platform that people are considering leaving. So there's some stats here that show the sort of percentages of the... So it lists all the social media or platforms like that. And the rate at which people consider leaving it. So Facebook, 45%.

The next one down is Tumblr, which surprised me. That's because they took away all the nerdy rooties. Yeah. Sure. 40% there. Snapchat, 34%. That's long gone off my phone. Yeah.

I forgot about Snapchat and then I was like doing a bit of a clear out of the phone and I found Snapchat. I opened it up for the first time in like months and months. You would have had so many messages. There was like, but none of a clear out of the phone and I found Snapchat. I opened it up for the first time in like months and months and months. You would have had so many messages. There was like, but none of them were for me. No.

They were all just, was what's the story? You post it to your story, but it just goes to everybody. Yeah, well, because it's Instagram stories now. It's not as fast. Yeah.

Yeah. Still pretty good with the filters, old Snappy. 2016, that was me. I was Snapchat heavy. Fletch, though. This guy's a Snapchat fiend. He loves it. He's a dark horse.

The next one down from it is Twitter at 32%. I don't use Twitter either. Oh, I got rid of Twitter years ago. It's a cesspit of... Boring. TikTok is after that. Instagram quite low on 22%. That's my fave. Right. So we want to know from you if you've given up social media.

Deleted it from your life. How do you feel? Because I've got a few friends that have. They still use Messenger and you're considering it. Dana, you've caught up. Dana, what did you get rid of? Every year at my birthday, I get rid of Facebook because too many people message me and it's overwhelming.

Popularity sucks, doesn't it? Deactivate it for a couple of days and then get back on it after that. I literally delete it for a good couple of months so that people just think I've deleted it and gone rogue and they won't be offended. Because you hate attention on your birthday. Just ignore the messages. I love attention, but then it's just like too much.

You've got to reply to everybody. It's disingenuous as well. Why not take your, you can take your birthday off being publicly displayed so it doesn't pop up that it's your birthday. Yeah, but I'm that popular. Everyone just knows. Everyone just knows. Girl, I feel you. This sounds like

a real conundrum for you. Yeah, you love the attention, but then also hate it. Thanks, you're cool, Dana. Harry, you got rid of social media? Yeah, I then also hate it. Things you call Dana. Harry, you got rid of social media? Yeah, I got rid of Instagram and my Facebook account. Why'd you do that?

Instagram was for a cleanse, but Facebook was so people weren't invited to baby showers and stuff. Yeah, get rid. You didn't want to be invited to the things that you miss out on. Honestly, because then like five or four months later, the kids born, and then you've got to get her a birthday present, and it's like, oh, it just adds up.

Yeah. It does. Not wrong. And you get to that kind of age. Like, I'm at that age in my early 30s where it's, my feed is just babies. That's why I hide all babies. It's moving out of party pics, eh?

You're moving out of party pics into babies. Brilliant. Harry, thanks for your call. Steve, why did you delete social media? I deleted my Facebook about two years ago because girls used to like my pictures and my wife used to get pretty jealous. By the look on Hayley's face from your accent alone,

she would have got you in big trouble on Facebook. I'm crumbling. Yeah, cut it out, cut it out. She might be listening. Yeah. I guess it was more just... Are you on Instagram? It was more just to stop the trouble, Steve.

Yeah, yeah, she does. Oh, who's that? Why does she like your pictures? And it's, yeah, it's just a safe argument. Just delete the whole thing. And most of the time on Facebook, you don't even know who it is. You're like, I don't know, someone went to primary school with. Could you just have deleted the hot girls on your Facebook?

What's the point of having Facebook then? Oh, that's right, yeah. What's the look at? Yep, it's vehicle, Steve. It's like if I can't be preyed upon by this woman, I'm not even going to bother going. All right, Steve, thanks for your call. Ask some text messages in.

Patrick messaged in saying I've deleted Instagram, Facebook, going. All right, Steve, thanks for your call. Ask some text messages in. Patrick messaged in saying, I've deleted Instagram, Facebook, Messenger. Feels pretty bloody good. I think if we didn't do this job, I'd 100% be happy not being on Facebook. I couldn't go without Messenger, though, because people can find you to connect with you that way and it goes into your requests.

Whereas if they don't have your phone number, they can't contact you. Yeah. Somebody else deleted Facebook three years ago. Don't miss it at all. Somebody said, I recently got rid of Snapchat. That was good because it was just a bunch of notifications that really didn't apply to me anymore.

Yeah. So that's the thing, is that we asked, ironically, we asked on social media if you had thought about getting rid of social media, which you obviously hadn't. Somebody said my six year old told me I spend too much time on Facebook

and that was the push I needed to get off that. I deleted my Facebook so that my mother-in-law couldn't post cringy comments on photos of my children.

I got sick of stalking my boyfriend and his cheating so I've got rid of Facebook. I hope you got rid of him. He seems to be the root of the problem here. Yeah, I'd probably get rid of the boyfriend first.

Not Mark Zuckerberg's fault. I typed a huge rant about someone as a status. And before I posted it, I was like, what am I doing? Yeah. And that was it. I was like, I don't actually need this and deleted Facebook.

Yeah, people don't really do the status thing anymore. I'd choose Instagram over Facebook too. Same. Yeah. I'm a visual person I don't want to read About your problems Show me your beach shots Show me your omelette

For breakfast Show me your Scottish steves Do you need a moment Serious I do need a moment The Scottish accent The Irish accent Good

Lord I mean I'm You know I'm happy to marry A Kiwi man But He's an actor He can put on the accent Can he do a Scottish accent For the rest of his life It's a Celtic accent. Lord, I mean, I'm happy to marry a Kiwi man, but... He's an actor.

He can put on an accent. Can he do a Scottish accent? For the rest of his life. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. ZM. Just, just... I would like to address a text message that read,

was that a wee, casually Asian racist comment from Vaughan Gross? Now, that message came, and I would like to address this. Because it's not... Because I said about we were talking about could a panda eat a bambillo? Is there enough bamboo in a bambillo for a panda to sufficiently nourish itself?

Yeah, we think no. We assume no. And I pretended I didn't actually. Now my acting was so convincing some people may have thought I did begin to compose an email to the president of china yeah requesting that a panda is fed a bambillo to test this theory yes yeah i have a hypothesis that they can't eat them i would like the method to be them feeding one again that was a joke yep and i said um perhaps ling ling yep now i'm

imagining that's the part that this person thought was racist. Well, stick this in your racist pipe and smoke it. Ling Ling was a male Chinese-born giant panda who resided in the Yuno Zoo, the largest zoo in Tokyo. I know this. I was a massive fan of Ling Ling, and I was very upset in 2008 when Ling Ling passed. I remember when Ling Ling passed. Me too.

It was a big deal. I remember when they brought pandas to New Zealand. I was a small kid. Yes. And I remember it was all the rage and people would go to the zoo. Because I didn't know this either, but the Chinese government owns every panda in the world. That is a fact. That's why I was emailing the president of China, the head of the Chinese government,

to ask him to look into the Bambillo Panda Nourishment Scheme. Brilliant. Okay. I shan't stand accused of gross, easy racism and take it. And take your accusations. There we go. It wasn't. Thank you for clearing that up, Paul.

It was factually correct. Excellent. Okay. And I remember fondly, if I could just one more thing on pandas. Yes. Catching the train from Morrinsville to Hamilton and then Hamilton to Auckland. From Morrinsville to... Yeah.

Yeah, there's an active train line. Oh, we trained up. We had lunch. We saw the two pandas that were on the Australasian tour. Zhao Zhao and Fei Fei. It was a wonderful day. I had a panda mask. I recall it very... How did they go in our cooler climate?

They live in the mountains of China, the giant pandas. I'd make a talk about pandas all day if you'd like. No, we're done with pandas. We're done with pandas. Thank you for clearing that up. I saw pandas in Hong Kong and it's very hot there. Yeah.

God, they're cute. They're very cute. We're looking... I was reading an article where people have taken to Whisper, you know, the account where you can anonymously share your deepest, darkest secrets. It's an app, right? So you put your secrets out there. You go in, you put them out to see who else is sort of relating with you. And people were sharing the reasons, married people,

were sharing the reasons why they secretly remove their wedding rings. And there's a huge range of things, you know, from affairs. So not like I'm a plumber and I take it off because I don't want to lose my wedding ring in the joint. Yeah, I'm a gym lifter. I don't want to get my finger ripped off. My dad, when he left school and he was working in being a joiner, he said he watched a guy's finger get torn off in the factory by a machine. Yeah, pretty bad, yeah.

Because he was wearing his wedding ring. And he's like, I've never worn mine since. Yeah. Because he's a farmer now. My best friend's husband is an electrician, and he wears a temporary sort of silicon one. What, like a silicon muffin tray? Same material.

I don't know. It's sort of like it's just like flat. Or a silicon toy. Like a Jurex. Same material. I don't know. It's sort of like... Or a silicon toy. Like a Jurex... Wink, wink. Ring. With the topic removed. Just to show when he goes around to someone's house,

like the Home Alone... So the honeys don't pounce on him. He's a good looking man. Yeah, right. But he can't wear his metal wedding ring, obviously, when he's dealing with electricity. A silicone. Okay, interesting.

People are sharing their reasons why. He probably made it himself out of some cement. He might have. He's a very handy man. Some of the reasons. When I go to a bar, I take off my wedding ring so guys will buy me drinks. Absolutely. Why not?

I was holidaying in Australia without my husband, and I decided to take off my wedding ring just for the day. I just wanted to see if I'd still be able to pick up a young Aussie guy. Wow. Dangerous game to play. I love this. Whenever I get pulled over, I take off my wedding ring and try to flirt my way out of the ticket.

Wow. Okay. That is outrageous. I take off my wedding ring when I poop because I'm deathly afraid of it falling off into the toilet when I wipe. Right. How loose is that? You've got the ring that is, the wedding ring that is, that it could fall off.

Yeah. But why? So we wanted to ask the same question this morning. Is there a reason you've taken off your wedding or engagement ring? Because, you know, to get free drinks. Beyond doing the dishes. To flirt out of a ticket. To get something. It's the tick dishes. To flirt out of a ticket. Everyone wants to.

To get something. It's the tickle of a flirt that people are into. Like, they're not even really cheating. They're just flirting. They're just wanting to feel wanted. That's why I don't wear mine. You've seen me flirt. I am great.

Someone. Hello. Hello. You're a woman I see. Someone shared, sometimes I take off my wedding ring and let guys hit on me when my husband's not around to boost my ego. I'll never, ever cheat. So 0800 dials at M, you can call us now or you can text in 9696.

What is the reason you've taken your wedding ring or your engagement ring off? Like, can you admit to something like this? Maybe you just want to feel the love one day, so get some flirting in. Can I read a sad one? I don't wear my wedding ring because I made the wrong choice and it's too late to go back. Oh, that's... Wow. That's really sad.

We've been discussing the secret reasons why people remove their wedding rings when they're not around their spouse. So we want to know from you why you've done this. It could be engagement rings as well. Yeah, it could be. I only take mine off for sort of practical, boring reasons. Maybe I will go out and whip it off for a night.

I think I got my knuckle fatted up. You got fat. And I couldn't get it over. No, don't blame your knuckle. Hey, we've all had a year of COVID. It was before that. And if your knuckles have got fat. Before that.

If anything, my knuckle's smaller now than it was last year. Right. Is it an arthritic knuckle? It's got a bit of chunk to it. It's a chunky knuckle. How do they make the ring bigger? So do they squeeze it open or something? Yeah, I think they add a little bit more.

I think they add like a drop of metal. They heat it up and stretch it. Heat it all up and stretch it out. Anonymous has called up. Anonymous, why have you removed your wedding ring? Anonymous. Oh, is it me? Good morning. That's the thing about being anonymous. Yeah, you never know when we're coming to you.

Hi. So why did you take it off? I was going for a job interview in a male-dominated industry and I thought it might give me a better shot. Wow. So you're playing to the patriarchy a little bit. A little bit, yeah.

And did that work in the job interview? Oh, absolutely. I got the job. Oh, there you go. Did you keep sort of waving your bare hand in their face? I did, yes, absolutely, you know, touch my face and all that. Because I never thought about that, because that could also say, oh, well, I'm newly married,

I could be having kids soon, and that could put some, oh, well, I'm newly married, I could be having kids soon. And that could put some people off, because you're not allowed to ask that. I don't look like I'd be having kids soon. Right. A bit older than that. How long into the job did you stick the ring back on and be like, oh, yeah, my husband? Oh, yeah, first day.

First day. First day. Nice. Yeah, got the job done. Anonymous, thanks for your call. Bree, why do you take your ring off? Why have you taken it off? In the past, it's to get tips while bartending.

Really? Okay. I'm going to add this is with approval of my fiancé. I'm just going to add that. He wants them tips. Yeah, he wants them too. He wants us to cut the tips. And do you feel like people give you tips maybe in a flirtatious way?

Sometimes it's really quite hilarious. Kind of like they think they're flirting. It's just kind of like a, oh, they're constantly flirting, then I go next to my partner and I'm like, check this guy out kind of thing. Yeah, like he's ordered a, he's ordered a,

he's ordered a Caruba and Coke and he He's my lunch money, like, shot. He's ordered a Karuba and Coke and he's given you $2. Ooh. See you after your show. Little ad up, little ad up. You old dog. Wow. But you'd notice if you had, like,

your engagement ring on, people would just stop. Yeah, totally. They completely treat you differently. Like, absolutely. Like, there have been times where I've even just worn rings that haven't been engagement rings.

Yeah. And just the whole front of the person is so different it's just crazy. Wow. This happened to me in a gay taqueria in West Hollywood. Of course it did of course it's all great stories start

One time I was in a taqueria taqueria is that what it's called? Tangaria Baby Troy was his name topless waiter as I recall not a ring Tarkoria. Tarkoria, is that what it's called? Tankoria. Tankoria. Yeah. Baby Troy was his name. Topless waiter, as I recall. Not a ring to be seen.

Boy, did I tip that guy. And yeah, my wife was there. She was in. She was in for it. She was there. We were having a great old time. And then he left. He told us it was the end of his shift and I thought it was

an indication that he wanted to come with. But he didn't. He just wanted his tip. Heartbreaking. Well, you know, that's some messages in. You fail every time you don't try. Somebody messaged in saying, I was a flight attendant and when I was away overseas,

I was told by some people not to wear my wedding ring as not only could it be stolen, but also if someone was going to grab you, if you had a partner back home, they'd consider you worth more money to hold your ransom

because you had a partner back home. I also know of females that go travelling in some countries where maybe the men are a bit full on and they'll wear a wedding ring to get them away. Yeah, I did it once. I went travelling around Europe on my own for a few weeks and I just got a cheap, you know, $10 cubic zirconia or whatever

and put it on. I don't know why because you couldn't... You're very rashy. Did you have a skin reaction to it? Yeah, I've got horrendous eczema. It turned green in one day and I had to get the thing on. But you kind of want the image of like, my husband's just around the corner.

Yeah, and see, that could backfire because then all these men are like, your husband looks cheap. That ring looks $10. You need a better husband. Come with me, honey. I've got money, yeah. Someone said I can't take my wedding band off.

I put weight on and my finger just kind of grew around it. We're no longer together and I still can't take the ring off. And yes, I've tried every online hack to get the ring off. I put weight on and my finger just kind of grew around it. We're no longer together and I still can't take the ring off and yes, I've tried every online hack to get the ring off. You go to the local fire station and get a hot fireman to get the jewels of life on you. Yeah, Aaron just had to cut a special ring off his thumb

the other day. Just stuck it on. Couldn't get it off. He put it on when he saw Johnny Depp, did he, in Pirates of the Caribbean. He's like, now that's a fashion I could get on. You't get it off. He put it on when he saw Johnny Depp, did he, in Pirates of the Caribbean? He's like, now that's a fashion I could get in on. Hayley's bloody impromptu parody of that song is on our Facebook page

because she got a parking ticket, didn't she? She got her very first parking ticket. Olivia Arrigo. I've had plenty. It's got a long shopping list length. A lot of people didn't know that was live. They thought you'd pre-recorded that. Some people, I did read a few of the comments on the video, as I am wont to do, that were like,

oh, I didn't know it was live, cool. And then other people have been like, lip sync. Absolute lip sync. Not a lip sync. It was incredible to witness. So check out that video if you haven't seen it. At moments, I'm singing it into your eyes. My favorite comment was, do you work for Air New Zealand?

I laughed out loud. Because it does look like your dress does look like the uniform. It does. It's a lovely dress. No, thank you. Shout out to them. It's the Trillis Cooper Air New Zealand. Yeah, it really is.

Trans-Tasman uniform. You can check out that video on our Instagram or Facebook page, FVMZM. Right now it's time for Fact of the Day. Day, day, day, day. Maybe, Executive Intern Arne, you could wear a Jetstar jacket tomorrow and you could wear your Air New Zealand dress. Outfit, yeah. And we could get someone in an Aquantis uniform as well.

I've still got my Anne set. Didn't you have the Jetstar orange? Oh, it was Megan. That's right. Why did she only wear that once? You're not going to wear it again, are you? No, please do. I absolutely will.

It's a great outfit. I love it. I love it. I don't want you to be put off just because we said that. You didn't say it. You were reiterating what someone else had said online. So, today's fact of the day is about the white bellbird of the Amazon. Okay.

The forest, not the shopping conglomerate. Yep. The white bellbird lives in the mountainous region of the northeast in Amazon. You might be thinking, Vaughn,

so what? So what about the specter today? You might be thinking, who gives a rat a noose about this so far? Who gives a flying fart?

Yes. Well, I can tell you the reason I'm telling you about the white bellbird is it is the world's loudest bird. Oh, do you have an audio? I did not come unprepared. This isn't my first day on the job. It's very likely to come unprepared. To come wildly unprepared. That's true. Before I tell you about it, I will tell you that it is three times louder

than the next bird in the pecking order, which is called the screaming peah. Oh, that sounds exciting. The white bellbird. Weird looking bird. It looks like it's half eaten a worm and it's decided to start like, oh, what was that?

Like, you know, it's got a spaghetti hanging out of its mouth, but that's actually like this gawbly daubly thing. Oh, like a chicken's thingy. Yeah, except it's kind of onbly thing. Oh, like a chicken's thingy. Yeah, except it's kind of on the side. Ugh, like a growth. Um, yeah. Like if you ran into it walking past the mall,

you'd try not to look. Yeah, you'd definitely not be, you'd try to be keeping eye contact with the white balboa, but it's got this like black wormy. Right, growth. Because it looks like it's half eating a worm. I thought for a while this thing had started talking with its mouth full. Okay.

Like it was eating an Amazonian baby snake. Yeah. And it did it. Okay, here we go, here we go, here we go. Oh! That sounds like a fire alarm in an apartment building. That is the other thing about this bird. It's only the loudest.

Or it sounds like the beginning of a race. Yeah, like... In the pool and go. It's a meta medley. Yeah! Exactly. No, isn't it the noise? They go...

Go, and it's like... And then if it's a false start, the white bell bird pipes up. Wow, what are you mixing? Dun, dun, dun. Dun. Dun, dun, dun. Yeah, wow, that's cool. And that's the loudest bird in the world.

The loudest bird in the world. 125 decibels. So to compare that with other things, that's like a shotgun going off right beside you. That's 120. It's louder than a sandblaster. Significantly louder than a power saw. So if one landed on your shoulder and went...

You'd be like Yeah, wow. It would deafen you significantly for a long period of time. So today's fact of the day is the loudest bird in the world is not only insanely loud

but also sounds a little bit like a fire siren. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. When you think of comfort food, you think of your carbohydrates mostly. Yeah. When I was on keto, comfort food didn't exist. No one gets comforted by a stick of chorizo and a packet of steamed broccoli. I would 100% be comforted by a stick of chorizo.

Oh, yeah. The whole stick of chorizo. But not if that's your only access to comfort food. But I feel like when we say comfort food, it's like when we're stressed or we're run down and we're tired. Lollies, chocolate, fast food. Yeah, they always say stress and emotions typically get the blame when someone starts binge eating. However, a new study is contending that,

saying that stress isn't what causes people to reach out for comfort food. You are just simply a binge eater. I don't like your attitude. And I was thinking about this because I have said to you guys, oh gosh, you know, since I've started working here, I've put on about 4kgs which is absolutely fine. I don't have a problem with it. And again, that's not born and I's fault.

Yeah, but I was putting on the added stress of the hours and the job. But I think... And also we do the 10 past 9 Farquaad where we tie Hayley up and put a tube in her mouth and pump it full of margarine. Like we're trying to fatten up a goose for a Farquaad. Yeah. So binge eating is obviously a hallmark symptom of multiple eating,

they say disorders, but it doesn't have to go as extreme as a disorder. Yeah. Binge eating is obviously a hallmark symptom of multiple eating, they say disorders, but it doesn't have to go as extreme as a disorder. Yeah. Then they often say that it's a stress thing, but they actually worked out, they studied the brain of someone who was a compulsive binge eater and the stress receptors, the area that gets lit up by stress, just was totally not even working at that time. It wasn't getting sparked.

So there was no correlation between eating a bag of Maltesers and satisfying your stress. Exactly. It's just something in you. I just like Maltesers and binge eating. I don't really. I feel I'm more the opposite and I think a lot of people are this when they're stressed

food kind of goes out the window because you're so busy on the go and you don't eat as much. Yeah, you don't feel like eating. Yeah, mine's when I'm more like, I'm rested. Mine's more like, I can't put this bag of chips back half eaten. I don't know where the tag thing is that keeps them fresh. Yeah, and what if they go soft?

I'm against food waste. So you're a financial binge eater. You don't want to do any waste. Uh-huh. I think that too. I cooked up two tarakihi fillets last night. It was far too much fish for tacos. Yeah.

And I was shoving the fish in my mouth like, this was expensive. Have you seen Seaspiracy yet on Netflix? Don't Seaspiracy me. I know I watched the start and it was too sad, so I'm still allowed to eat that. Okay. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast, ZM. Usher, Usher.

Usher, Usher. Man, Usher, he's cool. What is it? Summing something up. A-Town Down. Peace up, A-Town Down. Peace up, A-Town Down. Bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum.Town down. Peace up, A-Town down. Peace up, A-Town down. Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do.

Yeah! Okay, that's Little John, but he was there for that song. A fantastic artist. He was at Friday Jams Live at the last Friday Jams Live. He was amazing. Or the one before, was he? One before. Yeah, one before.

One before. Gotta Let It Burn, that was always my favourite. Yeah. Well, he's under a bit of fire at the moment. You've heard of Bitcoin, and now get used to the term ushbucks. As it's been... Ushbucks.

As it's being called online at the moment. Could you imagine on the news when they're like, the Dow Jones, the US dollars at 72 cents, and ushbucks are down two cents to 42 cents. Yeah, shocking news for the ushbucks today. Yeah.

So he's had them sort of printed before on his social media. Like there's a picture of him with a suitcase absolutely stacked to the brim with Ushbucks. It's Usher. It's his own face. Does it look like a US bill? It does. Or does it look quite different?

Like it's like... Oh, yeah, they look exactly like US notes. Oh, right. Exactly like if you US notes. Yeah, they do. Exactly. Like if you were working at a bar and it was a $5 note, you'd hardly even notice. Yeah, you'd just take it and be like, cool, thanks. And then you'd look and be like, I got blooming ash box.

Yeah. But so he's under fire because they were at a strip club in Las Vegas called Sapphire Las Vegas. Have you been? No. To Las Vegas, yes. But not to Sapphire. Sapphire Las Vegas. Have you been? No. To Las Vegas, yes. But not to Sapphire. To Sapphire, no.

The extent of the trip that Vaughan and I went to Vegas was mostly around buffets and winning wheels at the casino. Dun, dun, dun, dun. Yeah, yeah. That's what we said. Yeah. So apparently they took some money to the casino and they exchanged it for the stripper bucks

that you get there. But for some of it, they didn't use real money. They used ush bucks. So he was tipping strippers with ush bucks. Which have no value.

Any sort of redeemable quality? So apparently this was an idea behind a promo for his, he's got a Vegas residency, which I didn't know. Okay, right. Yeah, so to promote his Vegas residency, they were like, oh, there'll be ush bucks everywhere. Wow, no, that's illegal. And then the dancers are like, sure, please have a promo,

but also where are my tips? Yeah. I can't buy my groceries and pay my rent on Ushbucks. Unless you can buy Usher tickets with Ushbucks. Ushbucks could run like a flybys type system. You collect your Ushbucks and you buy air fryers. He does have a Las Vegas residency at Caesars Palace. Oh, wow.

It's set to begin in July this year. It was announced in September last year. And one of his most recent posts on Instagram, he's wearing a bucket hat made out of $1 bills. And now everyone's like, well, why couldn't you give those to the dancers instead of your useless ushbucks? I will take this time to remind everybody

we're in the middle of a global pandemic. Yeah. And the ushbox is problematic, but also strippers and stripping and rubbing bits and pieces on other sweaty people also to me, raises a couple of flags. But they're celebrities so the rules don't apply.

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