ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Megan Podcast - 15th September 2020

Episode Date: September 14, 2020

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Hello, welcome to the Fletch Warner Megan podcast. It's thanks to McCafe Coffee for great tasting barista made coffee on the go. Brought to you by two mediators and one architect. So you're here on the podcast today. We do a love, what was it? A love language test. A love language test and also the popular 16 person, is that the Briggs, is it a Briggs Stratton? Briggs Meyer. Meyer. Briggs Stratton is the lawnmower.

Yeah, we charge up the old 50cc Briggs chair. This is very confronting reading about my personality. It's so bang on. You didn't even want to do these this morning. I know, but I thought it was a stupid internet thing. And then what do you know? You've tried it and you're into it. Maybe you should take that lesson and adapt it to other areas in your life. Like bar soap.

Oh, God. I feel like we should email everybody. We should email around our personalities so we can read up about each other. Not that I need to know about you. You're not going to read up about anyone. You just want everyone to read up about you. Classic architect. Classic architect. Classic architect.

What did it say? What else have you learned since? What did it say about your career path? The one about breaking up. Read that. I'm on the romantic relationships, romantic and relationships section about the architect. Read what you just read to me about breaking up. Where was that bit?

Oh, here we go. Yeah, here it is. Sometimes emotions need to be expressed for their own sake and putting every outburst under the microscope. As architects are prone to do, it isn't always helpful if outbursts become a habit needing constant attention or architects think they may need these personalities. Or no, they may.

These personalities can simply end the relationship because they'll see it as more rational than dragging it out to their exhausting conclusion. Wow. That makes so much. This isn't going anywhere. Let's just end it. Let's end it.

Yeah. Done. Or sort of Uber's here. Get out of my house. That sort of modern take on it. That's more rational than dragging things out to their exhausting conclusion when someone's like, I should probably leave now. Who does that? Yeah.

Very interesting. Very interesting. Really interesting. Different sorts of personality types. So you fall into the analyst camp. Yes. You're with the commander. I'm an architect. The debater, the architect, and the, oh, how do you say logic?

Logician? A logician. A logician. Megan, we're in the diplomats we're with the advocates are you guys introverted or extroverted what's your percentage there introverted 58 percent i'm 57 introverted oh really yeah yeah extroverted versions of you and all these fucking assholes around here wonder why we don't want to go to things. What percentage introvert are you, Vaughn? What percentage introvert?

Not you. I didn't mean you. I didn't mean you, Anya. I was 72% introverted. Wow. Wow, you're way more introverted. Yeah, because you're more introverted at things than me. Oh, way more so. People don't know.

People don't expect it. But then when I'm there, I'm just like quiet and just kind of watching. The main thing that people say is, what's quiet? Is he all right? Well, they're like, yeah, what was wrong with vaughn yeah he's an arsehole i'm not nice well i'm 64 feeling what about intuitive what are you guys on the intuitive slash observant 67 intuitive well i'm 53 intuitive i'm 51 what about i'm the most intuitive okay what about on the judging how judging very intuitive though like thank you yeah. Okay, what about on the judging? How judging? You are very intuitive, though.

Thank you. Yeah, I think so. What about feeling? 64%. 78%. Wow. What are you? Where's feeling?

Do it. What are you? I'm 67% thinking and 33% feeling. 33%. We're pretty much the opposite there. Yeah, we are. I'll do the feeling for us. But that's why we're yin and yang aren't we

Yeah yeah That could be our cop show If we had a movie Yin and yang Good cop bad cop Yeah Jodie what about judging versus prospecting I'm 71% judging

Holy shit That's gotta be confronting right 51% Judging Prospecting Oh yeah I'm 57% But you're a judgy bitch That should be way higher.

It's half and half. I'm very balanced. And what is turbulent versus assertive? Turbulent. Turbulent is more self-conscious and a little bit. Assertive is more dominant. So I'm 76% assertive. I'm 28% assertive.

I just let Fletch do it. I'm 28% assertive. Yeah, I'm 36% assertive. I just let Fletch do it. I'm working with two submissive bitches. Wow. That's so insightful. Really interesting. And apparently a mate of mine was like, he did this,

found it quite confronting because he was a debater. Oh yeah. Which is in your camp of fuckwits. Oh, okay, yep. Excuse me. This will be why I get on with him so we'll have a good conversation, won't we?

But he was feeling confronted like you are, and he found a subreddit of ENTP, the debater, and he said it's great because he'll be thinking maybe I'm out of line here, and he'll go in and he'll just have his echo chamber of, you know, I think the same thing. So you're telling me on the internet you can find an echo chamber with people that agree with you. Yeah. And it might be helpful in certain aspects, but I tell you what, it can be pretty dangerous in other ones.

ZM. Head music lives here. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Welcome to the show, Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. Two minutes past six. Producer, executive producer, Intern Anya, has just learnt that David Attenborough could die soon. And she's very upset.

I mean, we're all upset. He's a treasure, but it's not... He's old. Well, he said that he's not going to live to see humans fix the planet. Yeah, are we any of us? He's 94. Yeah. 94-year-olds die. Why are you so upset us? He's 94. Yeah. 94 year olds die.

Why are you so upset? I honestly thought he was 70. I know, I thought he was maybe early 80s. Yeah, because he was 90 and he was bloody traipsing off to some sub-Antarctic island to have a gawk at some penguins. He's unstoppable. He's a beast.

Crouching down, crawling into little nooks and crannies. He's really... Crouch down, crawling into little nooks and crannies. He's really... Crouching down and crawling into nooks and crannies. Like rabbit holes and like little warrens and stuff. Rabbit holes? He's not in a rabbit hole. He's not in a warren.

What are you talking about, mate? It's a remote camera. It's a big hole. They think he's there every time an animal does something. He's like, I'm just meters away from a grizzly bear. They send the camera people out to do it. Oh, and it's just as... And do you know what's going to really upset you a lot of the time?

If it's in a rabbit warren, it's a specially built one at a BBC studio. It's not even in the wild. Yeah, because it came under a bit of fire, didn't it, for faking. They did a bit of stuff at zoos with the polar bears that time, remember? Yeah, but it wasn't him. That's probably for the best rather than encroaching on the territory of... Oh, they'll straight up eat your face. Oh, yeah.

They don't care how old you are. They'll have a chew on your face. In fact, they probably prefer an older face because it's a bit more of a chew. You bite a 20-something face and your big polar bear teeth just glide straight through it. Oh, that's a lovely tender. Yeah, a 94-year-old would be like jerky. Yes. A dried jerky stick.

If you're going to cook it, you'd want to cook it 12 hours plus. Low and slow. Low and slow, baby. Smoke that brisket. Now we've talked about how we would eat David Annenberg if we were polar bears. Let's move on. Coming up on the show, the top six.

Yeah, the top six fictitious homes that would make good Airbnbs. The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, that mansion, which the problem is these are all sets, aren't they? The actual sitcom's done on a set, but they use the outside.

Yeah. And I've seen the outside of that house. It doesn't look the same as it does in the credits at the start. Oh, really? It's on a sloping... It's got a sloping lawn out the front. You did a Hollywood tour. It was rad, man.

I've got no regrets. Saw the Playboy Mansion. Yeah. They showed us... But the best part of it is how often they'll just pull up to a driveway and they'll be like, Tom Hanks lives at the end of this driveway. Can we see? No, this is as close as we can get. Do you ever see him?

Saw him once. Wow. It could literally be any driveway, couldn't it? Yeah, 100%. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. ZM. And great news if you're looking for cheap flights, because yesterday it was announced that there'll be no social distancing on public transport.

Buses, planes, trains, ferries, those beer bicycles. That's all I've got. The beer bicycles. Oh, yeah. But you could be on that anyway because they'd be in your bubble or they'd be in your group of 10. Oh, yeah, unless it was a beer bicycle on the way to work. Yeah, if you're taking a beer bike to work,

just wear a mask. Sure. So that means Air New Zealand yesterday announcing a heap of cheap flights because now of course they don't need to use the middle seat or they don't need to hold the middle seat for social distancing. So they yesterday unveiled

180,000 cheap fares to mark the end of the requirement for social distancing and also Jetstar are coming back. Although I don't know exactly, did you hear a date for that? I did not hear a date, no. For what date? Because they were saying they were waiting until level one or at least until physical distancing was... Cut down. Removed.

So... Right. But it's still a requirement to wear a mask, though, right? 16th of... So jets are just routing here due to travel restrictions. Domestic flights in New Zealand suspended until midnight on the 16th of September. So they'll be flying from the 17th.

So in a couple of days, on Thursday, they'll be flying. So great news. And a lot of the airfares, I think Air New Zealand is saying about 9,000 are available for school holidays. Which end of next week? That's good. For two weeks. So if you're wanting to get away, help out some of the regions.

I know Queenstown, really crying out for some tourists, especially Aucklanders. Yeah, maybe a chance to get down there for cheap. And also in New Zealand announcing that until the end of March, they're getting rid of the change fee. To change your flight. So this would be if you booked a flight somewhere and then something changed? Yeah, and so if you wanted to change the date, normally you'd have to pay $50 and then

the fare difference, if there was any. Do you have to have a good reason? No, I think you can either do that or get credit for any flight until then. How good is that? That's good. That's if anything changes. It's not like an official level change or anything. That's just for you

on a personal level. Yep. That's good. Yeah. That's good. Yeah. That's good to know. When they try and bring that back in though, we're all going to be like, no. No. I don't want to pay that anymore. You did alright with that? No. You're good luck trying to bring back in any fee after you get rid of it.

Yeah. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. A high school dropout in Perth has made more than $12,000 a month with her business. Right. So she started this when she was 17. She, I actually, I think she left school when she was 16. She said she had lots of challenges and stuff.

So she was going to leave school and focus because people passed away in her family. And she was like, okay, well, I'm going to focus on what I want to do with my life and start it now. And she did. She had no business knowledge, but she started a fake tan, a vegan fake tan called Sahara Soul because she had a fake tanning tent in her house and she was using other tanning products

and she was like, I can make my own. So she did. She got money from someone in her family who fronted up some cash to develop her own product. But I'd say she's well and truly paid them back now and has her own tanning product. But it's vegan. Can I tell you how hard it is?

Because there's lots of vegan tanning products. But I was like, what makes a tanning product not vegan? Like, what animal product is used? Is it? I don't know.

Well, honey technically isn't vegan because the bees are. Honey wouldn't be in every tanning product. Oh, I don't know.

I'm just saying things. Avocados. What animal product is in? I cannot find, so I get, there's cruelty-free ones which would be vegan, of course. It's not tested on animals.

But I can't find ones that don't use. I can't find what the ingredient is because they say vegan and cruelty-free. So I've just Googled. It's a chemical. The main ingredient is a chemical called DHA. Does it come from a? Triacetone. But does that come from an animal?

Or it doesn't say. Tell me what it is called. Um, DHA. DHA chemical. It's actually quite gross because it says that it attaches to your dead skin cells, right? Yeah. And bronzes them until they fall off. It's an omega-3 fatty acid.

It can be synthesized or obtained directly from maternal milk, fish oil, or algae oil. So maybe it's fish oil. Right. Okay. So they're juicing up fish. So, yeah, there are ones. And they're squirting them on you.

Ooh, does that make it feel... No, because I use a vegan one too. My one doesn't test on animals or anything like that. But I... Ooh, yuck, I didn't realise that Yuck, like dead bits of fish Oh come on, it's little tiny bits of fish I mean I'll eat a hokey fillet

Don't get me wrong Or I'll eat a No, but it's not to rub the hokey on my body I do That's how I eat my fish and chips Rub it all over my chest first When you break it down Like something in the fish Sticks to your dead skin cells

And makes them brown Until they fall off Oil No the oil would just be The adhesive part It would be the oil right And it would just like You think about

Oh it's so gross After you put oil on your skin It's smoother And I'm not talking like Car oil Or canola oil Different types of oil Yeah

It's all G It's all G homie Don't panic But it can be synthesised car oil or canola oil, different types of oil. Yeah. It's all G. It's all G, homie. Pan it. But it can be synthesized and it can be made from algae oil, so I'm imagining it. Well, let's just synthesize it. It must be the fish one if it's not. Yeah, right.

No, she's making a vegan one. You're right, though. It's hard to Google, isn't it, to find out exactly what's in it. You said DHA, I told you. No, in the vegan one. Just a little. or probably algae oil. Right. But isn't that still an animal? It can also be obtained directly from

maternal milk. So it's like blue top. Straight from the cow. Straight from the teat. Whoever's teat. Any mammal. Could it be a human's teat? Could it be a human's teat? Well, they say it's good for the skin, isn't it? Rest milk?

Well, maybe we should milk ourselves instead of milking the animals if we want to use that. I'm not offering. Yeah, man. I know a farmer. I can straight me into the machines if you're into it. No way. 622 next on the show, the top six. Yeah, the top six fictional TV houses that would be good Airbnbs because the Fresh Prince of Balear. That house is the big mansion. Yeah, the top six fictional TV houses that would be good at Airbnbs because they're the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.

That house is the big mansion. Yeah, yeah. Well, the outside shots, the one that was used for the outside shots is going to be on Airbnb. Fleshforn and Megan, the podcast. ZM. From the ZM think tank, this is the top six.

Hello there. Yesterday, while they were dealing with the news that everyone was shitty that Airbnb weren't offering any refunds, and there were certainly better options, they were like, hey, guys, look over here. We're renting out the Fresh Prince of Balea Mansion for five nights. Is it minimum five nights? No, no, no.

It's all up. It's five nights. Right, so it's one of those stunty. It's one of those stunty ones. They even got Will Smith to do it. So it will have cost them a fortune. I mean, they could have offered people refunds. Yeah.

And Will Smith's the more money. Instead of paying Will Smith like a million dollars or whatever he costs. Yeah. I wonder how much he would have cost. Because I saw that they'd done a reunion-like photo, right? Was that in the mansion for this? Did you see that at the weekend? Like the cast were together?

That was during lockdown. Right. I think that was during lockdown. This is to celebrate, apparently, the 30th anniversary of the show. Right, okay. They've put up some photos. Is it actually in Bel-Air? Yep.

Okay. You remember when it's done the Hollywood Hills Home Tour? Went past. Yeah. Hold on. You may be right Went past. Yeah. Hold on. You may be right, actually. Yeah, 30. They're doing a family reunion on HBO Max.

That's what the photo is for. Right. Okay. But, of course, Uncle Phil, he's gone. And Will Smith fell out with, was it the mum? But they've apparently patched that back together. Yeah. So the family photo of everybody is the second Aunt Viv,

Mokka Aunt Viv, because, of course, he fell out with original Aunt Viv, but she's apparently there as well. They kind of have both Aunt Vibs there. It's confusing for the children, isn't it? Having both versions of their mother there. But, yeah, apparently it's going to be for five nights. But it's not the same as the set. No, it would look nothing like it inside.

I mean, if you've got money though. You can say I stayed at the Fresh Prince Mansion. Cool bro, film the titles and stuff on your way there. I've got the top six fictitious houses that would do good at Airbnbs. Do good at Airbnbs. That would be good at Airbnbs.

Number six, Winnie the Pooh's house. It's inside that tree trunk. Remember Winnie the Pooh? Yeah. He goes in there. It would be very spacious. Or deceptively spacious, like the TARDIS. Once you get in, it's quite roomy.

Number five on the list of the top six fictitious houses that would make good Airbnbs, Seinfeld's apartment. Oh, yep. Well, you'd hope that's had a bit of a renovation, though. A bit of a zhuzh inside. Nah, you'd wear white shoes with blue jeans while you were in there, too, I reckon, just for the full Seinfeld experience.

Number four on the list of the top six fictitious houses that would make good Airbnbs. SpongeBob's pineapple. Just a giant Pineapple house Yeah Unless you were Deathly allergic to pineapple Not for you

Not for you Not for you Number three On the list of the Top six fictitious houses That'll be good to eat Is the Simpsons house But like a real version

Of the Simpsons house Did somebody build that? I think so I think somebody did build A Simpsons house Yeah It's always one of those ones you watch, it's confusing and then you see a floor plan of it

that somebody's put together from watching all the episodes and you'll be like, huh, didn't have it laid out like that in my mind. Yeah. Number two on the list of the top six fictitious houses that would be good at Airbnbs, the Weasley's house from Harry Potter. Because it was all like it certainly wouldn't have had any

sort of council papers. Oh my gosh. You can't just go higgledy-piggledy like that. No. And number one on the list of the top six fictitious houses

that would be good at Airbnb is the Friends Apartments. But you get both. Yeah. Oh, good. So you can go between. You can go between. Through the mall, yeah.

I've been to the actual apartment building they use for the outside shots in New York. It's nuts. There were so many people there. Getting photos. Like, yeah, people go out of their way to go and find that building. Oh's nuts. There were so many people there. Getting photos. Like, yeah, people go out of their way

to go and find that building. Oh, 100% for us here, I would. Yeah. Does it look anything? Because you go and see them sometimes and they don't look anything like it. Yeah, it did. It's just in like a little quiet neighbourhood.

God, they must get sick of that. They must hate it. No, they do because, yeah, but you have to take like a train or two. Yeah. And yeah, apparently the residents hate it because there's no toilet anywhere near. And so people just end up urinating on the streets. And people are just standing in the middle of the road.

Like to get the best shot, you have to stand in the middle of this T intersection. Yeah. And like cars are just like, oh God, here we go. You can just see the locals just like. But you got to. You got to. Yeah, you got to. You got to. Yeah, you got to. You absolutely must if you're in New York.

That is today's top six. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. We're getting so close to Harry Styles' time because starting in Australia and then coming over to New Zealand, he was supposed to be here. Yeah, November, December. And obviously lots of Harry fans wanting clarification, being like, is he coming? What's the deal?

Because the shows in Australia and New Zealand haven't been cancelled. And other shows around that time have. The Green Day Weezer, Fall Out Boy, that got cancelled months ago. Yeah. A lot of other shows, even shows in like January, Feb have been rescheduled. So it's other shows, even shows in like January, Feb, have been rescheduled.

So it's not happening, surely. Well, yeah. But are they waiting till the last minute to see what the deal is? Well, I think it got traction yesterday. Everyone's like, what's the deal to Ticketek Australia? Right. And bear in mind as well, he's doing two sold out shows in Melbourne in October in like four weeks-ish? Yeah, that's definitely not happening.

Four or five weeks? That's not happening, is it? Nah. Melbourne's very naughty. Yeah. They've only just been allowed outside for two hours to exercise, so I don't think that's happening. I think it's one, isn't it?

Or has it gone up to two? I think it's gone up to two. I know, because how sad. I saw my friend. He was like, where to go for my hour? I was like, wow. So TicketTik Australia said yes today.

The Harry Styles Australia and New Zealand tour is proceeding as planned and we are excited to welcome everyone to the events in November and December. And the event of cancellation exchanges refunds will be processed according to AUNZ consumer law. Right. Everyone's like, uh,

what? It's still going? Still going. Right. Everyone's like, what? Still going? Still going. Okay. But everyone was tweeting them saying, can't wait to go and watch a cardboard cutout of Harry on stage for 90 minutes. As much as I want this to be true, I just don't see it happening. It breaks my heart. So, yeah, they got inundated.

And it was not long after that that they kind of reneged. They said, we are, Ticketek takes instructions on any news on the Harry Styles tour from the promoter Live Nation Australia. We are urgently seeking

clarification from the promoter and we'll be back to fans as soon as we have further information from them. Right. So read the room. Yeah. They're like,

oh, I'm... They probably shouldn't have said that. Yeah. I just cannot imagine it will happen. Well, because he would have to quarantine everywhere he goes. He doesn't have two weeks in between tour dates and stuff. No.

No. And do they even let you go from Melbourne to Sydney? No, not without quarantine. They wouldn't even let you into Brisbane. I'm pretty sure you have to quarantine that as well. Yeah. And then another two weeks to just come to New Zealand for one show. You don't want to be the country that gives it to Harry.

No. So, yeah, I mean, I guess post-pandemic, fingers crossed, it's not a cancellation and we still get to see him at some stage. Hopefully next year. Yeah. Or 2023. Or just in my dreams. He's going to get better with age too.

Even if it's like five years, he's probably going to get better. That sounds creepier than anything I've ever said. No, you're still winning the creep on that. You're definitely winning the creep on that. You're like moaning stuff. I was just stating a fact. He's only getting better with age. He's like a fine French cheese.

Yeah. He is. He's a delicious cheese. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. ZM. Ho, ho, ho. Ooh, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

Ho, ho, ho, ho. I'm hungry. Just an unrelated note. 100 days till Christmas. Today. Today. Today. Let's set up today. Just on an unrelated note 100 days till Christmas Today Today Let's set up today 100 days till Christmas

So tomorrow we'll be in double digits We'll be in the double digits It's been a weird year I'll give you that Why? What's happened? Oh You have to ask So Christmas Penetration

Has been different this year compared to other years We've been running this for years and keeping a solid tally for a few years Yeah, I think all the lockdowns have kind of slowed a lot of the Christmas displays Yeah And publicity Because Christmas displays aren't free Yeah So businesses have to spend money on it and it's probably not been a priority spend.

Yeah, and also like advertising for like things like Christmas functions. Are people even going to do those? I feel like there would have been way more Christmas advertising by now. Yeah, there would have been. But however, there's something happened last week. Something happened because we have been inundated with Christmas penetration. Let's pop along to the Topo sell by swap page. Suze, or Suze, I don't know.

It looks like Suze to me, is selling reindeer food for $5. It's handmade or a magical key to leave out for Santa. She's in touch with Santa obviously. Wow. She is his official correspondent to sell a beautiful vintage looking key so he can get in. If you don't have a chimney because a lot of houses don't have

chimneys. So she's already getting that little business off the ground. Okay, good. She started to advertise this. So that's one mark of Christmas penetration. I tell you what, Bunnings have really lived up to just everywhere. It's like Christmas has

exploded in their lights department. There was murmurs last time we did it that they had, and there was a couple of stores that had had reports, but I tell you, we're hearing from the top to the bottom in Bunnings stores that Rachel, for example, Bunnings Monaco, has a full Christmas lights display.

Christmas penetration in Christchurch at Bunnings. Rebecca also reports a Christmas penetration at Countdown in Northlands. They've got the special Toblerone, Christmas Toblerone out. Oh, is it the white one? It is. I love the white one. It is. It's in special Christmas packaging.

And Chocolate Santa's, the hollow Chocolate Santa's wrapped in decorative tin foil. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. They're a classic. Also out and about. I would also like to see the machines that wrap the Santa. They must be delicate. Yeah.

So the Santa's coming down the production line, just the chocolate. And then it goes. I'm sure if you YouTube that, like, there'd be one. I will. Straight after this. Also, I feel that it's such a waste of space in a hollow Santa light. I think they should fill it with chocolate mousse. How cool would that be? I could imagine eating that much. Yeah.

I could imagine eating that much chocolate mousse, Megan. Is that a stupid question? He totally could. I could totally. You're telling me they couldn't make a mousse, Megan. Is that a stupid question? He totally could. I could totally. You're telling me they couldn't make a mousse that doesn't go off. They do make a mousse-y, a praline filling. You need a praline, a sugary praline. Not a dairy mousse.

Hannah has made a report of Christmas at Countdown in Stratford. Oh, okay. I've got a whole bunch beside the checkouts. Stratty. Emily said, well, this has turned up in my bloody inbox, so it must be looking a bit more like Christmas

from Cotton On. They've got all their Christmas ornaments now that you hang on the tree on their online store. There's one of Jesus like pulling the double piece on.

That's pretty cool. That's a good one because you get it. That's courting some controversy. And your nan would be like, oh, good, you've got the Jesus up.

What's he doing? What up, nan? And another report. This is an international report from the Isle of Skye in Scotland. Christmas has arrived. Kinder Santas, along with packets of mince tarts and Christmas mince puddings, have started to line the shelves. Mince tarts.

Yes. Yeah, I love a mince tart. I'll buy those whenever they're there. Actually, I'm just thinking you could get a drill and drill a hole in the bottom of a hollow Santa and pump in your own mousse. Imagine that.

Imagine how you could get a pumping tube. Oh, yum. Like a piping bag. Yeah, piping bag. Pump in your own mousse. Pump in your own mousse. Just before you ate it. Just before you ate it.

Put it in the fridge for a little bit so it goes a bit hard. Oh, yum. Why stop there? Jelly. A moussey Santa. You could pump a chocolate Santa full of jelly and it would be like a Santa jelly tip. What if an eye came in there? Yes.

Oh, my God. Did we just revolutionise the HoloSanta market? I think we might have. I think we did. I'm going to do some HoloSanta hacks. We could sell kids. Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

That would go well. BuzzFeed will share that. And then you've made it. Okay, well, 100 days away from Christmas, and with all this in mind... Elves, get busy. Right now, Christmas penetration is at... 21%. Woo!

Oh, it is beginning to look a lot like Christmas. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. We are joined on the phone by a founder of what started as a side hustle. Good morning, Donielle Brooke from Design A Wardrobe. Hey, how are you? You are one of the most recognisable people that started a side hustle to me because Design A Wardrobe is very successful and I feel like women even all over the country know about Design A Wardrobe.

But it did start for you as a side hustle. Yeah, it did. I was hairdressing at the time, so I'd been at the same company for nine years, and I just loved kind of doing something on the side of hairdressing, so this was my third side hustle. So how did you get the idea initially

for designer wardrobe? Well, I always had the idea in the back of my mind, but I just kind of was waiting for someone to do it. I was just like, when is this going to come out? Because I just love looking for secondhand pieces online and going op shopping. And I just couldn't really find a place that was fun to do that. Like, it just kind of, it felt like you really had to kind of sort through a lot of listings and things like that. Yeah.

And so then I actually got diagnosed with thyroid cancer when I was 25. Whoa. Yeah, I was, like, sitting at home by myself thinking, how long am I going to be off work? How will I pay the bills like I loved shopping so I always had um you know like lots of credit cards and things like that what am I going to do um and so I was like I'm just going to start that idea but do it on Facebook

and just start slowly and kind of figure out is this what other people want as well? And while I was doing that, I could style my wardrobe and kind of get on top of things. So yeah, that's how it all started. Is that what you would suggest for people who want to start like a side hustle to start it on Facebook and start it, you know, slow and gauge interest? Yeah, Facebook or Instagram. I think these days you can kind of come up with an idea and test it and not really think too much into it. You know, like I think when you have these ideas, it's easy to just kind of get caught up and think it's not going to work or you need, you know, like a big investment to do it or this and that but sometimes if you've just got like a cool brand behind it um a community that you can grow on Instagram or Facebook it's actually like a really good step of figuring out is this actually gonna be successful and most of the time it is so definitely would recommend that I'm so jealous of the side hustle because you can just go into like what is essentially a

massive wardrobe and be like I'm wearing this. And then you have reason to buy new stuff. I know. It's so fun. My own wardrobe turns a bit boring now because I just rely on turning up to the stores and borrowing a dress to wear and just looking at my own wardrobe. You don't need your own wardrobe now. You've got a massive one. I know, but sometimes I forget and I'm like, oh, ready to go out.

And then I look and I'm like, oh, I don't even own one dress anymore. That's crazy. I was just thinking of expanding your business because this is the sort of mind I am. What's next? What about like track pants? Hiring a nice pair of track pants. Because, you know, you don't want to buy the track pants until you've tried them. So you could run some sort of trial basis.

I feel like track pants is the thing that you should invest in and buy, not read. No, I know that, but you want to try them. I only want to lounge around them in a weekend before you buy a certain brand to make sure it's for you. Yeah, that's true. This is why Vaughan's not a successful business person. Hands off my idea.

Everybody, I want that idea back. You could try it, I want that idea back. Well, you can try it. Test it out on Instagram. Yeah, we'll see who comes crawling for some track pants. 48 hour track pants.

That could be your business name. Yeah. Yeah. I love that you're humoring him. I like it. Donnie L, thank you so much for talking to us today

from Designer Wardrobe. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. ZM. They're self-made business amateurs worth nothing. Carl Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. ZM. They're self-made business amateurs worth nothing. Carl Fletcher, a shrewd speculator who's never committed to anything and made absolutely no fortune. Megan Pappas, she dominated the fashion world with her shoe hack and she's showing us

she's a one-trick pony. Vaughn Smith, the son of a successful farmer. He rode on the coattails of his daddy's swan drive for too long and has achieved nothing. Dive into Fleshpot and Megan's Fishy Tank. Yes, that's right. Quite personal, really. Three nobodies. Three business nobodies.

In fact, Megan, at least you've got a cafe, a very popular cafe. Yeah, and I've told you I have little to do with the success of that. That's down to Andrew. That's the Toy Boys' success there. All right, well, side hustles. And with COVID and, you know, the crazy world that we live in at the moment, a lot of people turning to side hustles. And we have a cash prize up for grabs, $500 for the side hustle that you vote the best.

Now, we're going to hear pitches from people all this week. We're going to, on Friday, pick three of our favourites. So first up, they have to impress us. They have to. Well, yeah, they've got to get their pitch to us. The business nobody is. The business nobody is. And if you have a side hustle that you'd like to,

a little thing you've got going on, register at ZM Online and we could pick you out. Now, are you guys ready? I'm ready to hear some pitches. First to enter the fishy tank is Amber Lee. Good morning. Morning. All right, so you have a side hustle going on.

Mm-hmm, yes. Okay, tell us about your side hustle. Okay, cool. So my side hustle is called Ruckus and Tucker. I don't know if you can tell by the name, but I do some doggy kind of accessories. Okay. Oh, my God, cute.

So I hand make dog collars mainly so i have um all different types of fabrics and patterns and i um add some like metal hardware and rose gold or black or silver okay and so they're a bit blingy but um everyone seems to enjoy them um and then i also do bandanas as well which can match the collars and they can flip over the collars as well, which can match the collars, and they can flip over the collars as well. Okay, that's pretty cute. Oh, my God. First of all, I'd like to say, I love the name. I think the name Ruckus and Tucker, are those your dogs? No, they're not, but my partner actually helped me come up with the name.

It's a good name. It's really good. It really stands out. It really grabs a couple of hard K sounds in there. That's what makes the F word so much fun to say. It's the hard K. Ruckus and Tucker. That's what a good sign hustle, much fun to say. It's the heart of K. Right. That's what a good sign hustle, that's what a good business needs.

A good solid name. Oh, it needs to stand out. I'm looking here. You've got a great looking website. Thank you. I've made it all myself. Wow. Good on you. Amberley, this does sound very cute, but would you consider branching out to cats? Because I'm just imagining now my cat with a bandana. Yeah, I have had a lot of requests for cat accessories. They're a bit harder to cats because I'm just imagining now my cat with a bandana. Yeah, I have had a lot

of requests for cat accessories. They're a bit harder to make because obviously they're a bit smaller but I am looking at trying to branch out into cats. The way Fletch is chunking up his cat, it won't be too long until it's wearing a Labrador-sized collar. Yeah, I like to chunk up my cats so that they can

fit cheaper dog accessories. But no, but that's if you you know, if you are picked out and we're going to invest in your side hustle, I'd probably like to see some expansion in the future. Yeah, definitely. Yeah, that would be helpful for expansion. I was going to say, corner the dog market before you move into... Oh, no, let's corner every market.

No, no, no, no, you're going to be trying to be too much too quick. You can't be a jack of all, master of none. No, exactly. Got to focus're going to be trying to be too much too quick. You can't be a jack of all, master of none. No, exactly. Got to focus. God, all right then. God, sorry, I'm obviously the ambitious one out of all of us. Oh, no, we're ambitious. You're a flighty.

That's how I describe you. Yeah, yeah, I'm a crash and burn kind of, yeah, burn through all the cash kind of guy. All right, well, Emily, any other questions from the panel? Not at this. I really like that. You've even got afterpay. Look at you go.

Yeah, yep. What do you do for your regular job? So I'm a vet nurse down in Palmerston North, so I do that on a rotating roster and then in my days

off I make collars. Put it on the dogs and tell them that add it to their price. Yes. You could. Yeah, well, I've had a few dogs come in

with our four frackers and tucker on, which is awesome to see. Oh, that's add it to their price. You could. Yeah, well I've had a few dogs come in with our four frackers and tucker on, which is awesome to see. Oh, that's cool. Amberley, question. When a pet comes into the vet, because this happened like when I took my cat in. This isn't vet questions, this is fishy tank. No, but just while I've got you on the phone,

they were like, oh my god, your cat's so cute. And I was like, oh I know, thanks. And then when I was going out to pay, this like real manky looking dog came in and they were like, oh my god, your dog's so cute. And I was like, oh, I know, thanks. And then when I was going out to pay, this, like, real manky-looking dog came in, and they were like, oh, my God, your dog's so cute. I was like, it's not. Do you lie to every people, to all the people that come in, even if they don't have a cute animal? All animals are cute, so I don't know what you're talking about.

Could you imagine if it were animal lovers who just find animals? Yeah, exactly. We love all animals. But can you imagine if Fletch had a kid, and somebody else's kid wins an award at prize giving and he stands up and he's like, that kid's shit! I would, I would. My kid's better!

Amberley, thank you. We'll take that on board the panel. Diving into the fishy tank is... Beth joins us now with her pitch for Fishy Tank. Your side hustle, Beth. What is it? So my side hustle is Axolotl Rescue Christchurch. So I rescue and rehabilitate axolotls.

Axolotls? Oh, my God! What? This is so cool. Okay, this is left field. Wait, so, okay, where do you rescue axolotls from? People that, like, get them for their kids, and their kids are like, nah, I don't like them anymore,

or they get sick and they don't know how to look after them. Beth, my only memory of an axolotl is Mrs. Meredith had one in my primary school class, and it was really smelly. What was she doing wrong? Probably most things. Yeah, Lynn. Lynn Meredith, if you're listening. Because I'm a stinky axolotl. These live in the fish tank, right? Yes, Yeah, Lynn. Lynn, there it is, if you're listening. Because I'm a stinky oxolotl.

These live in the fish tank, right? Yes, yeah, they live in the fish tank, so it works well with the fishy tank. Yeah. Yeah, right, okay. But I can't get over the fact that oxolotls look a little bit like a transparent penis. They do look a little bit penis-y, don't they?

With legs and fins. Yeah. How many ox... Your penis could go out as Halloween, don't they? With legs and fins. With, yeah. How many ox... In fact, your penis could go out as Halloween as it is. Stop! Bourne, this is Beth's side hustle and you're making jokes about penises.

I'm very sorry. Now, Beth, how many oxalottles need rescuing in Canterbury? More than I thought there would. I've currently got 27 of them in my house, which I never thought would happen. Who in the bloody hell? Yeah, who's getting a Mexican walking fish

and not knowing what's required? Yeah, more people than I thought. I thought I'd just end up with one or two and I'd move on, but no, suddenly I've got a side hustle from it. Humans never fail to disappoint me. You, however, are a good human. Yeah.

Looking after the axolotl. I'm just thinking about all business supply and demand. You've obviously got a lot of supply here and demand. Demand, demand, maybe not. But what if people suddenly wise on to the fact that these axolotls aren't good pets? You're out of business.

Yeah, pretty much. Beth, I'm not quite sure what their business is. I just need to find homes for them. That's my business. Right, right, right. You're rehabilitating them. And you're finding forever homes.

You're more of a charity site. This is costing you money across the board. Well, absolutely. What do they eat? Not a profit business. What do they eat? They eat garden worms. So, like, if you've got a garden, you're set to go.

Yeah. Right. Okay. And you just drop the worms in the tank and then... So, will you be selling the oxalotls that you rescue or do you just want to find homes? I sell them for $15. So, that way I don't get random people that just want a free pet.

Okay. Yeah, right. And then you have to rescue it again because they were too tight-arsed to... Yes, exactly. Exactly. We don't want them coming back again. Okay, Beth. Interesting side hustle.

Good on you, Beth. That's good to see you caring about the animals. Do you have a Facebook page if anybody listening is like, God, I'd love a Mexican walking fish right now? I do have a Facebook page. It's Axolotl Rescue Christchurch. There we go. Because you've got like 24 of them.

It might be nice for you to... How the hell do you spell Axolotl? I always thought it was oxolotl. No, it's A-X-O-L-O-T-L. Dropping a line in the fishy tank is... Angela, our last pitch today for her side hustle. Angela, good morning. Good morning.

Thanks, guys, for having me on board. No worries. What is your side hustle? What's your business that you're pitching to the panel today? My side hustle is wing woman. I'm a dating coach extraordinaire. Angela, we all thought you said something else. Did you say wink woman?

Wink, wink, wink. Oh, my God. She definitely said wink. Wink. I heard about four times. Wink, wink, wink. Oh, my God. She definitely said wink. Wink, wink. I heard about four times. Wink, woman. Wink, woman. I thought you said, like, wink, but with an A, woman.

Yeah. And I was like, I don't know if we can talk about that. Women do that too, so that's okay. Yeah, it's an age-old profession, isn't it? It probably doesn't need a fish tank. Yeah. We might end up talking sexology rather than sex approach. Have you seen an oxalotl or two in your time?

I hope not. You're doing your own form of oxalotl rescue. What looks better, oxalotl or? God knows. Angela, this is quite an interesting side hustle. You go out and you help people find, like, a partner or a date. Correct. We do the mix and mingle for singles.

We do dating advice, polishing profiles, personal shipping, all sorts. Polishing profiles. That's an interesting one. So you would look after somebody's, like, Tinder bio or? Yeah, if you pulled up Tinder right now, you would see an abominable state of lovely matches. So it's about even understanding how to hold the phone if you want to take a selfie.

You know, it's not below with your double chin and looking up your nose. Yep. Okay. And what about, you said personal shopping, so you would take people to like shush up their wardrobe and stuff as well. Yes. So I find a lot, yeah, a lot before they've got a date that they actually want to impress. So they've been dating for a while.

They're constantly in their active. I had one guy, he's a lawyer, and he's in his 40s. His waist is about a 26. Absolutely tiny. So trying to find clothes is bloody difficult. But we took him out shopping and we managed to find about three outfits under a hundred bucks that looked amazing. Wow. So do you deal normally with just men or women as well? Both. Okay.

Any gender, any age, any sexual preference. Right. I've had 20 to 82-year-olds contact me. Wow. And you're just their wing woman, there to help them out with all those kind of aspects. Yeah. It's an interesting world of dating. I was with my husband for 15 years, and I've been in this world for five,

and holy moly, it's quite an eye-opener. So I've learned from it, and now with my background in psychology, it's useful to teach others and help others through that lovely process. I love this side hustle. What a great idea. And when did you start this side hustle?

Just vote me in already. When did you start? I started during lockdown. Wow. I've been doing this work forever, but I turned it into a business model during lockdown. I had three weeks where my main safety consultancy went silent. So I went, jeez, what am I going to do with my time?

So I thought, right, time to pay it forward. So there's a lot of talented people out there. You should see the logo. If you have a look on my Facebook page, Wing Woman NZ, the logo has been done by an amazing local provider. And my comms have been done by an amazing local provider. Heck, my social media has been done by a local provider. Oh, that's so good.

Yeah, I've been investing in their business during such challenging times as COVID. Okay, well, that's what I love about this, Fishy Tank, helping people out and getting some side hustles off the ground. Angela, thank you so much for your pitch. In the running, we're going to choose three of our favourite pitches on Friday, and we've already had three stellar ideas. I'm already stuck.

Oxalotles, though, eh? Who knew? Who had any idea? There were just so many oxalotles in Christchurch. Axolotles. Axolotles. No, I'm an oxalotle. I'm on the oxalotl side of the field. It is an A, though.

ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Anna Faris has quit mom just out of the blue. I've never seen that show. Is it about a mom? Oh, you would love it. It's about a young mom. She's the younger mom. And then Alison Janning's the older mom.

You like a bit of Alison Janning. Oh, yeah, I like her. She's great. She's so amazing because I went to the set of this and I interviewed the both of them. That's right. They were both lovely

but Alison Janney was just such a cool, you felt like you were just literally talking to your auntie or something. Yeah. But she has quit and they didn't know. So it is days before they're about to start shooting season eight

and she's like, I actually don't want to do this anymore. Just out of the blue. Didn't somebody else in Hollywood quit like on the day, the morning they were going to start shooting or that's when they decided to be like, well, actually no, I want to be paid more on the morning. Was it Charlie Sheen once on Two and a Half Men? Maybe, yeah. Two and a Half Men? Maybe, yeah.

One season of Two and a Half Men, I feel like. Or Johnny Depp, did he do something like that? Classic Depp. Absolute textbook Depp right there. So yeah, they said none of us knew it was happening.

It was sudden and it's not a good thing at all because she's one of the leads of the show, but she said it's been fulfilling and rewarding. I'm thankful to everyone. I'm paraphrasing.

I just CBF. Liar, liar, pants on fire. Yeah everyone. I'm paraphrasing. I just CBF. Liar, liar, pants on fire. Yeah. I was to paraphrase it, just say CBF. Yeah. Doing this anymore. And she's happy to, for them to, happy that she's allowed to do,

pursue other opportunities now. But yeah, it doesn't explain it. I don't love a good tantee and a quit on the spot. Maybe when you're just going to start shooting and you're just like, nah, actually, I can't be bothered doing this again. I don't think I've seen a quit on the spot? Maybe when you're just going to start shooting and you're just like, nah, actually, I can't be bothered doing this again. I don't think I've seen

a quit on the spot. No, neither have I. I don't think I've ever seen a quit on the spot. No. I'd love to do it, but then I'd be like, well, can I just not actually?

I don't need that job. I know, I'd be walking away, I'd be like, oh, shit, what about the rent? I really should think about this before I just quit jobs. I'd love the drama of it though.

Yeah, I'd love to see it. Walk out. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. So, I mean, we don't know the reason for this and it sounds quite dramatic. Have you ever just witnessed someone pack it up and ditch their job?

Are you allowed to quit on the spot? Like, could they be like, well, actually, no, you're contracted to be here. Yeah, I mean. No, actually. I mean you're contracted to be here. Yeah, I mean... No, actually, what you... I mean, maybe there'd be... You might be worried

about not getting paid for that shift or that day. Right. You'd want your final pay, wouldn't you? Yeah. Yeah.

Like, you have to give weeks notice and then if you don't turn up for your shifts, you don't get paid. If you don't give, like, a couple of weeks notice for your job,

they can't not pay you for what you have worked. That would be illegal. In some contracts, you can use that money if they have screwed you out of, so you have to hire a temp. Right. If they've taken money off you

in order to hire a temp and fill that position. God, look who runs a cafe. Our bloody ACT voter over here. No, don't put that on me. Two ticks Seymour. She loves a bit of Seymour. No, don't put that on me. Two ticks Seymour. She loves a bit of Seymour. No, don't put that on me. I'm just saying, in some cases, they could take your pay.

Well, you know, her auntie was the ship. Jenny Shipley. Former National Leader Jenny Shipley, yeah. It's in the blood, isn't it? It's in the blood. Just explaining. God, yes. In some cases. A few years ago, you would have just walked out of a cafe job. Yes. No, no, no.

A few years ago, you would have just walked out of a cafe job. You wouldn't have given a shit. Now you're all like, ooh. Totally. Like, if it's going to cost you the business owner because someone's just like, yeah. And you're like, whoa, hold on. There was an agreement. Okay, so I'd love to take some calls on this. Have you ever just quit a job on the spot and walked away?

Or seen one. Or seen it happen? Oh, yeah. Because, you know, there's always like those issues with like the spot and walked away. Or seen one. Or seen it happen. Oh, yeah. Because, you know, there's always like those issues with like the boss and they might not get on with the boss and there's tension or there's staff tension and then they're just like, I'm done, I'm leaving. And they just walk out.

And maybe someone threw a computer monitor. Oh, yeah. The more dramatic the better. The more dramatic the better. So maybe someone was like, I'm taking this, and they started wheeling out the big Canon printer. That's not yours to take, Stephanie. I don't know how I'm getting it home.

It will not fit in my Honda. Now I'm imagining Stephanie trying to get it. Towing it. She's towing it. She uses the power cord. The little plastic wheels. And she's like, oh, put it on the tow bar. And then she's like, that's right, I have a tow bar.

This is not her printer to take. It's the company's printer. So she slams the power cord in the boot and it's just towing behind like a... We know where you live, Stephanie. We'll just follow the toner. So we want to know if you've ever just quit on the spot and just walked out or you've seen it happen at work. Somebody messaged in,

my husband quit his job at a shop in the UK. The manager was absolutely awful. So he took a pair of scissors to his uniform, cut off the sleeves, made an eye patch and became Steve the Pirate and like quit. There was a bit of a meltdown and then spent the next two days drinking at the pub dressed as Steve the Pirate. And like quit. There was a bit of a meltdown and then spent the next two days

drinking at the pub dressed as Steve the Pirate. Okay, that sounds like a serious life meltdown. It sounds like a meltdown more than a quit, doesn't it? Steve, you going to come home now? No.

Steve can't return home yet. He's not yet completed his quest. Ella, you quit on the spot? I did, yeah. I've had enough. I was sick of being checked up on. I'm a healthcare professional. I was a work professional and I was working for a private company

and I would just go to visit clients. Oh, yeah, the boss rang to make sure you'd been here on time and how long you were here. And so, yeah, I went back to the office and stormed in. She was in a meeting and just said, if I say I've been somewhere and done something, you can bet your bottom dollar I've done it, lady. Here's your shit.

And I emptied my briefcase on the floor and said, you can stick your job up your arse. And I walked out and it felt amazing. Yes. Wow. I love the passion in the retelling too. And we've all had those micromanagers. It's just annoying, isn't it?

Yeah, for sure. Ellie, thanks for sharing. Some more text messages. I was 16. I was working as a checkout operator. And there was just one person came through and I was like, oh, I just can't, I can't do this anymore. So I

dinged the bell for the supervisor and I said, my ankle's sore. They were like, oh, okay. And they were like, I'm going to go now. And then they were like, okay. And they walked out and they walked to the physio and said, can you write me a note to say I can't work because of my sore ankle? And the physio was like, okay. And they took the note back me a note to say I can't work because of my sore ankle and the

physio's like okay and they took the note back and they're like I can't work for two weeks and then went home and then rung and said actually I'm not going to be

back after that two weeks. I quit. Just this weird calm realisation. Step by step. Alright. Have you ever quit

on the spot? Some great texts and calls coming through. We'll get to more of those next. And we want to know if you've. Have you ever quit on the spot? Some great texts and calls coming through. We'll get to more of those next. And we want to know if you've ever just quit a job on the spot or seen someone quit. Some amazing stories coming in.

It's madness. Emma, you quit on the spot. I did. So what made you? You just had enough of work. I had a lot going on, I guess, and that was just the day I woke up done and then turned up to work and had a co-worker on the warpath and pretty much had a bit of an argument

and told her I was, yeah, stick your job nicely. No, not nicely to people. So what time did you arrive at work and when did you quit by? It was about 8.25 and I was out the door at 8.30. Yeah. Did you throw anything? I slammed every single door I went through on the way out. Yes. Bang.

Bang. I love a good candy. Get to the front door, it's one of those automatic opening ones and you're just like, yeah. We all get together to slam it. Ah, good stuff. Brilliant. And did it feel good afterwards, or was there a little bit of regret,

like how am I going to pay the bills? Well, yeah, I mean, I got home and then totally panicked and actually rung the manager and said, hey, I just did this. And then got given the day off and went back to work the next day. That is not the turn of the day. That the next day. That is not the truth. That's so good. That's not what I expected. That's so good.

Brilliant. Hey, Emma, thanks for your call. Claudia, did you quit or did you see someone quit? I witnessed someone quit. Okay, on the spot. So what happened? On the spot. So I worked at a supermarket rurally,

and I was walking up to the back door, and I saw the big boss, who no one really liked, and one of the other supervisors of the supermarket having an argument. Yep. And the supervisor quit on the spot and threw the keys to the building into the paddock next door. So good. Don't find those.

I love this. I think you just need to, like, go! Yeah, brilliant. Hey, thanks. You're cool, Claudia. Some text messages. So good Go and find those I love this You just need You need to like No Brilliant Hey thanks you Cool Claudia Some text messages I had a guy On site Smash

Accidentally A $15,000 Marble bench top I was like What are we gonna do About this And I saw him Packing up his tools

And then he put the keys To the work van down And said I'm just gonna get a mate To pick me up I don't know I quit It going to get a mate to pick me up. I don't know. I quit.

It's like, well done, mate. Hold on. In just a minute. I remember ages ago there was a builder and he had an apprentice and he just like had a go at him too much and the guy just left. He's just had enough. I quit during a meeting with all staff present.

Got into an argument with the work bully during the meeting. Started picking up biscuits from the plate on the table and started firing them one by one across the table at this woman, telling her that she was one of the worst people I'd ever met. Ran out of biscuits. So I walked out. Ran out of biscuits. If there'd been a sampler, Tim, they would have been at this woman all day.

That's what they should do for the Griffin's 2020 Biccy poll. Best biscuit to fire at a meeting. God. Best Shrewsbury, eh? Because the Shrewsbury's got this weight to it. Mini ninja stuff. And it's got a jagged edge. And the stickiness, because imagine getting hit in the face

and it's like, stick. You'd be like, great shot. Great shot. Lots of people quitting as they, That's a common theme, actually. People quitting as they confront the work bully because management and the work, or people at their work, weren't doing anything about the work bully.

Right. So it was a horrible place. So they dealt with the bully and then quit because they felt like the bully was just going to end up staying there anyway. Somebody said... I worked at KFC and got into an argument. It soon resulted in fried chicken being thrown.

Well, don't waste the chicken. Throw the three bean salad. That's the shit. I'd be rolling on the floor in mid-argument trying to catch it. You're like, no. Diving around. Please, no. Stop the fighting.

I'm in front of the chicken. ZM's Fletch, Va! Diving around. Please, no! Stop defining! Not in front of the chicken! ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. So this morning, we decided, I don't know why, but we thought it would be great for Fletch specifically to learn his love language. Because there's different love languages. You know how I feel about these stupid online quizzes?

You just don't like anything where you have to maybe show the soft belly. You have to roll over and expose your soft belly. And we know there is one. You also said, oh, it's just going to tell me I'm a robot. But it won't because you have to be like one of the five love languages. Now, where does this, who made this? I don't know. Who made this?

I think it's fivelovelanguages.com to take part and find out which you are. Psychologists. And there's quite a few questions to get through. So there's 5 love languages. It took like 5, 10 minutes. Receiving gifts, words of affirmation, physical touch, quality time, and acts of service. Because you answer a lot of questions,

and heaps of them were just like, would you rather have a gift or like a cuddle? And he kept asking if you wanted gifts. Yeah. And he kept saying to me, what if your loved one, would you prefer if your loved one brought home a little gift? It's to prioritise because it gives you a percentage for each at the end. But I feel like you, what is your love language?

Because I feel you'll be all about gifts. Interesting you'd say that. No, I don't think so. Oh, would you be? That was last. Really? I was 7% receiving gifts. Okay, so the different type of love languages are physical touch, quality time, acts of service, words of affirmation or receiving gifts.

I think you'd be physical touch. Yes. But I'd always known that about myself because I've done this years ago. You love a physical touch. Yes. Ugh. But I'd always known that about myself because I've done this years ago. You love a physical touch. When you go, like, through relationship counselling, it's important to know, like, what.

Because you need to know what your partner's love language is so that you make sure you're feeding that and they need to know what yours is. But then it's also hard. They might not want to touch you if you're over the marriage, you know? Like, so...

Well, I think it's kind of over. Yeah. Right. My love language Do you want to say your least? I reckon your least is physical. No, physical, oh, I don't know. All of them? Quality time is my number one love language.

Spending qual time. What does that mean? Soft belly. No, it just means I love staying at home and watching TV. Spending qual time. Is that, what does that mean? Soft belly. Soft belly. No, it just means I love like staying at home and watching TV. You like activities and stuff. Yeah. Yeah.

You love love. That's what you're saying. Receiving gifts is actually my second, so yes please. He loves gifts. And then acts of service. That's not helping people, is it? Yeah. It's helping your partner. Your partner and your partner helping you.

Oh, my God. You help each other out. Guess what? Got out of moving house at the weekend helping my friend move. Did you? Because they did so much on Saturday. They were like, we really don't have a lot to do on Sunday. So I was like, well, I won't come then.

You'll just get in the way. Yeah, I'll just get in the way. And they just did it themselves. It was like super good for everybody concerned. So words of affirmation is your least? Physical touch and words of affirmation are my least. That doesn't surprise me at all.

Because you never say anything. Well, it keeps saying in the quiz. You've got to back off prioritising physical touch then. It keeps saying in this love language quiz, would you rather be told you're great or have a present? I'm like, of course I want a present. No, you don't need to tell me I'm great.

I know that. You don't need to hear that. You know that. I'm not hanging out for you to tell me something great. So you know that you'd rather have a cake. If you want to make it work with someone, it's about quality time. Yeah. Cool.

Something that you don't have a lot to spare of because you're always in a hurry to the next thing. What about you? I reckon Vaughn's is quality time. I reckon that's your number one. What is your love language? Is it? Aww, you big softy. I know. I thought it would have been

quality time or acts of service because I answered a lot of questions like, would you rather your partner help you out with something? I was like, yes. When I'm doing something at home, I love when Sharday's like, oh, can I give you a hand? Like at the weekend, I was unloading a trailer load of mulch. And she said, can I give you a hand?

I was like, absolutely. And I really enjoyed that. So I thought it was going to be acts of service or quality time, but no, it's physical touch. Cute. The old smoothie still likes a cuddle. Yuck. I'm going to print this out, take this home.

See, you've got two now. It says you have to touch me. But not only the love language, we also did a personality test. This is the 16 personalities, and the personalities are made up of four letters, right? It's very confronting when you do this personality test and it tells you you are in one of the top 2%

of people in the world. Don't say top 2%. You're only make up 2% of the world. Your personality type. Women only make up 0.8% of this personality type as well. So can you give us a breakdown? Well, I don't know. I'm just always right about things, basically. What letters

are you? I'm an architect personality. An I-N-T-G-A or T. Oh right, the A or the T's that's what everybody gets at the end right? Yeah, so that either means I'm an assertive architect or a turbulent architect. Let's go

with turbulent. Right. What did you find confronting? I might go back and redo this and lie. What did you find confronting about what you were told about yourself? Lots of it, because it goes into paragraphs. It's like, blah, blah, blah.

Strengths and weaknesses, et cetera. No, read some of them out. You're not getting out of this, because it's just hit you right on the head. You did say, this is quite a confronting read. Well, it was very pretty on. It was like on the money. Was that sort of an awakening?

Don't you think most people are idiots? It wasn't. Yeah, yeah. I've got no time. If people, it said if you don't, if you find that people, you might find it quite easy to assume someone's useless and not up to the task. I was like, most people are. Pretty useless and not up to the task.

Most people are. Yep. Wow. What did you get on the personality test? I got mediator. Me too! Did you? Yeah, we have to be the deal with this asshole.

Couple of mediators dealing with an architect. Well, nothing would get built Otherwise would it Oh my god Well not the way you Scream at people We have to be like It's okay Don't worry about him

It's here because They're useless about things You try your best At building this house Yeah Oh my god I'm 71% judging That's confronting

That doesn't surprise me I have an unshaken belief That people are inherently good So deep down inside there's someone good. Yeah, right. Fleshforn and Megan, the podcast. ZM. Yesterday, I thought about this because I went to get,

should I say where it was? I think it's probably fair that I say where it was. I was going to email the head office anyway. I don't think you should say where it was. You are such a Karen. No, it's not. Everybody, I thought we all agreed. And there was this like grace period where if you worked in a shop

and you wanted to have the shop open and members of the public were then coming in, it's very easy to get the official COVID-19 tracing QR code. And so people can scan it and let you know where it is. But I don't think you should throw them under the bus to the nation before you've contacted their head office. Good call. That's very unlike 2020.

Very unlike cancellation. So yesterday, here I am in a little bit of post-laser pain. Oh, did you get your laser yesterday? Back and bum lasered. And they've had to jazz it up because it's the stubborn ones that are left. Yep. Okay. So I was like.

It's a new lady that's seen our bums again. How many is that now? Three. We're up to like four or five, aren't we? Yeah. That's all right. Wow. They're great.

They're very professional. Very professional. Hold this. And they say they pass you your butt cheek. That's quite. Hold this. And then you're not sure how far you're supposed to pull it. Am I just meant to hold it where you had it

or do I need to like really expose it so you can get in there with the, get in there love. I prefer to pull the cheek apart though than the like crouching one. I've heard about crouching tiger hitting dragon. Hitting laser. Yeah. So getting that.

Right. And then afterwards I was peckish so I went to an establishment that deals primarily in Peters. Okay.

Wink, wink. Just around the corner. And when I went to go in no QR code. There was a QR code. I was like, that looks like one of those ones

people were making themselves. The government's like, hey, thanks for trying, but we've got this all sorted in. Everyone will be on the same page. And I went to scan it in the COVID-19 app, and it didn't work. It wasn't hidden away? No, it wasn't hidden away. Because they're not allowed to be hidden away. They have to be at the door, at the point of entry.

And I said, oh, you're supposed to have the COVID-19? They're like, yeah, that's it. I was like, no, you've done that yourself. Right. They were very confused. I said, oh, you've got to have the COVID-19? They're like, yeah, that's it. I was like, no, you've done that yourself. Right. They were very confused. I said, oh, you've got to get a proper one. Well, it's given you an idea. I showed them, and when I was showing them,

I went into the list of places that I've checked in using the COVID-19. Yeah, you can get your whole diary. Yeah, you go view my diary, and it shows you everywhere you've been, and that's when I thought of This is COVID app bingo! COVID app bingo! COVID app bingo! Did we have to put that little noise in there?

Yeah, it's triggering, isn't it? It's triggering. It's like in like 20 years we'll be like Russian sleeper agents and someone will play that and we'll just wake up. So it's confronting when you look in there and primarily all you've done is eat and drink. It actually is.

I'm like, oh yeah, Wendy. Supporting local. Oh yeah, Wendy. Yes, exactly. Grace joins us for COVID app bingo. Good morning, Grace. Hi, guys. All right, your buzzer is going to be ding.

So we're going to read out some locations. Are we going to do first to three? First to buzz in with three locations. Yes. Correctly. Yeah. So you've got your diary there, Grace. Yeah.

Is there a lot of food and drink as well? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. That's there, isn't it? You're going to be playing against Bridget. Good morning, Bridget.

Hello. Good morning, Bridget. Your buzzer will be dong. Okay. Okay, so if we call out a location that you've been in your COVID Tracer app, please buzz in first to three. Okay. Vaughn Smith, over to you.

Should we hit the randomiser? Or should I just read them? Absolutely. Oh! What? Oh! Ah! Ah!

Oh! All right, first one. Fast food. Ding. Dong. Ding and dong. Ding and dong. Yes. Whereabouts was your last fastie, Bridget?

I was at the mall. Oh, okay, okay. So if you go into a mall, do you have to scan into the shops inside the mall as well? Some do. Yeah, otherwise you just, yeah. Okay, that's interesting. That sounds like it was a butter chicken combo, Bridget.

Oh, no, it was just sushi. Okay, fair enough. Grace, where was yours? Yeah, mine was sushi as well. Oh, okay. Okay, fair enough. Grace, where was yours? Yeah, mine was sushi as well. Okay. Oh, okay. Sushi. Oh, very popular.

All right, let's hit the randomizer. One all. Oh. Oh. Oh, no, no, no. That one. No, no, no. Oh.

Okay. A place with booze. Ding dong. Ding dong. Grace, whereabouts? The supermarket, New World Eastridge. Oh, yep. Okay, very specific there to show you where.

Yep. Bridget, whereabouts? Just in Westfield Newmarket. Oh, okay. Right, okay. All right, so it'll be the first one to buzz in with the next one. Here we go. A plant store. Thing. Oh! There she is.

Grace, what was the plant store? I went to Palmer's Albany. Oh, yeah? What'd you get? What'd you get? I got this rubber plant called Ficus Taniki. It's, like, kind of quite popular. Babes, I bought a Ficus from Palmer's Albany. Oh, my God, we might have been there at the same time.

Oh, my God, if one of you's got COVID, the other one might have it too. Brilliant. Hey, congratulations. $100 cash for playing COVID app bingo. Bridget, you weren't first, but had you been to anywhere with a plant? Sales plants? Well, I mean, Newmarket Mall has quite a few plants around, so. Oh, yeah, that's cheating.

Yeah, but I don't think they sell actual plants unless the supermarket there does. Well, you can take them, actually. I think you're allowed to take them out of the mall.

You're not allowed to take them out and take them with you? Absolutely not. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Fact of the day,

day, day, day, day, day. And it is our 50K fact of the day. All thanks to Save My Bacon helping you borrow money online and growing your credit score at the same time. There'll be a question about this fact at midday and again at four o'clock. Each time, $500 cash up for grabs. That was a sneeze, but it was into her elbow. Did you see that?

Into my elbow. And I turned away from you. Because you've got hay fever, but because you're pregnant, you can't have an antihistamine. Exactly. Who made that rule? Doctors. Okay. Maternity doctors.

Yeah. Wives. Obstetricnity doctors. Yeah. Wives. Obstetricians. Health professionals. Sometimes I wonder if they just make some of this up because I saw a pregnant woman the other day with a vodka cruiser. I mean, it's personal. I don't know if you should trust science.

Anyway, carry on. Okay. Step away from the internet. Where you go down a hole that you can't come back from. I am obviously joking. Of course you are. Today's fact of the day is about feral chickens.

You know, in New Zealand, you'll occasionally just see, like, chickens, especially roosters, get dumped at rest areas. Mm-hmm. And you may have seen, like, a weird, in the middle of nowhere, flock of chickens,

and you're like, yes, what the hell's going on there? But I always wonder if they're just going for a walk from their farm. Yeah, that's what I think. Like free range chickens? Nah.

Or sometimes there might be a farm and they might be on the side of the road outside the farm. But you think of your rest areas. I can think there's one on the way to Raglan from Hamilton. Over the Divvy, there's a rest area and there's always like quite beautiful chickens. But I wouldn't tango with them. I've always wondered how their numbers stay down. Because, you know, like chickens lay eggs all the time. Yeah.

And if they were being fertilized by the rooster who's there. And then I thought, well, you always see them run over. Yeah. And then we've got rats and we've got possums. Yeah. So that ate them as well. But what would happen if there were no natural predators? Well, that is what the island of Jersey

is facing. Jersey is one of the Channel Islands. My friend lives on Guernsey. How's that for confusing? There's islands beside each other. One's called Guernsey,

one's called Jersey. Yeah, too similar. Yeah, very similar sounding. Where are these islands? They're between England and France. Okay. Now, on Jersey,

there's no natural predators. Okay. In fact, even the ownership of cats is pretty low. Not a lot of people own cats. So chickens have taken over the island as feral chickens. And their numbers have grown exponentially due to low speed limits. Yeah. No natural predators.

And there's no foxes. For example, in the UK, there's foxes that eat chickens that aren't even wild. So there's flocks of over 100 chickens in each flock that roam and they have like turf war. Like if one group of chickens comes in touch with another group of chickens, they scrap it out. Why don't they turn them into honey soy chicken nibbles? Well, that's a very real option. Yum.

Like how yum are those? The environmental minister has ordered modest culls of the chickens because it's become a problem for people who like to go for a walk. Oh, okay. Because they'll be walking

along a track and then a chicken will be on the track and they'll stop and then they turn around and the chicken's behind them as well. Are they quite aggressive? Yeah.

And territorial. And the roosters, you know, like there's cock fighting. And that's like, they will literally fight to the death. So they are aggressive, the roosters. And because they're not contained or aren't having their eggs taken away from them, they're not used to human contact. Okay.

So there is a problem with feral chickens on the island of Jersey. Huh. Goodness me. This got sent to me because the other day we were talking about, like, where did chickens come from? We were talking about, like, where did cows come from? Yep. Like, where were they native to? Oh, where did they start out?

Yeah. And we were talking about where are chickens native to? India, by the way, in case you're wondering. Huh. Yeah, two different types of wild, like, hen. Oh, yep. Like, swamp hen. Okay.

It'd be like a poo kicker hooking up with a chicken and having a pooh-chicken. Pooh-chicken. Or a chick-eco. A chick-eco. Oh, I like that. That sounds Spanish. It does, yeah. So today's fact of the day is the island of Jersey currently has a problem with feral chickens.

Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. seconds. So a lot of people might be in need to reconnect and get back in touch with their partner. After lockdown, lots of people struggling in their relationship. I have five ways to reconnect with your loved one. Some of these seem straightforward. If this is all just too hard, just end it. You laugh like you're joking, but he's not joking. The first one, and yeah, these do seem easy, but it's not until someone spells it out that you realise,

oh, okay, yeah, that could be quite important. Yeah, but if it's been hard, how long do you, like, in all seriousness, this is not something I'm going through, so I don't think it's like me trying for a help out, but how long do you keep trying? No, it's different to it being hard, but still caring about them and still loving them. But if it's hard and you're like, I don't care about them anymore. Also depends how long

you've got left on the flat lease. That's very true. You should never put both of your names on it. No, you should always put their name. Are you just embracing your arsehole now you've done that personality test? Now that I know what I'm really about. You're like, yep, that's me.

I'm an architect. By the way, I've just been personality test. Now that I know what I'm really about. You're like, yeah, that's me. I'm an architect. I'm an architect, yeah. By the way, I've just been reading more of my personality trait. Villains, TV villains are often modelled on this personality trait. Fantastic. Is that confronting? No. Do you sometimes watch shows and you're like, oh, my God, I relate, Darth.

Oh, my God. Darth Vader's misunderstood. You try having a planet destroyer at your fingertips and not destroying planets. You know, like, duh. Yeah. So scheduling date night. And when they say this, they also mean it can be cooking dinner together,

having some time where you are not doing any work and you're concentrating on each other. So schedule some time to do that. Uninterrupted time. Getting outside. So going for a walk, getting some vitamin D. It also means that you're stuck together for that period of time and you

can communicate because you're going to talk because you're walking together. Right. Unless you're Fletch and you're like, let's just get there, get our own done. Oh my god, you do not. No, no, no. Okay. Reconnect physically.

Now, this doesn't mean necessarily sexy time. It can mean just touching in any way. So, massage, just holding hands, any kind of physical touch can be really important just to be like, oh my gosh, okay. When was the last time you held hands with Sade? Do you guys hold hands much? Yeah. You do? Sometimes I just put my hand out like this.

Just put my hand out with spread fingers. And that's just put your fingers in there and then you shut it. Yeah, I like holding hands on the couch and stuff. And I like walking holding hands as much because I find it hard to walk. Now you've got to sink the legs. Yeah, you've got hands on the couch and stuff. And I don't like walking holding hands as much. Because I find it hard to walk. No, you've got to sink the legs.

Yeah, you've got to sink it all up. Yeah. It's an art. And I take a bigger stride. Yeah. Spicing things up. So this is in the bedroom. If you're finding everything's just a bit mundane,

they say to buy potentially those vouchers. Or like there's dice and you roll the dice and it has different, even if you're just having a laugh at what you roll up together. Let me tell you about my personality. I can't do that. I've got to be planned. A dice is too last minute and impulsive. It's impulsive.

I can't do a dice. The last one is learn your partner's love language, which is very important So you might be missing out on a valuable tool That you need in your love life and vice versa When we talked about this We did the fivelovelanguages.com test And you find out if you're more into receiving gifts

So if your partner's all about receiving gifts You need to adapt, is that what you're saying? You need to make sure that you're giving little gifts and stuff. Or they could be into words of affirmation. What's your one again? Oh, it's quality time. Right. I just like the couch and Netflix and spoons.

I'm big spoon. You are not. You are little spoon. Such an amazing insight into you today. Yeah, it's real. You've opened the door. Yeah, haven't we? Yeah.

You've opened the door and you've invited everybody in. It's an open home to Fletch's feelings. Sign it at the door and take your shoes off, please. I'll have to get a QR code. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan,

the podcast. People named Kim and Paul. If you know a Kim, do you know a Kim? Any Kims? Pauls? I don't know a couple, Kim and Paul.

Like an actual couple together? Yeah, together. Well, they are the names that have been named most likely to complain online about something. Ej. Only online or a person as well? This was on TripAdvisor. This was a complaint on TripAdvisor. A company called U-Switch.

I don't know what else they do, but it sounds interesting. They used a program to go through all of the negative reviews on TripAdvisor and see who it was from, who was the most common names for people who made complaints. Just as a side note, the most complained about famous landmark on TripAdvisor, 17,000 negative reviews. What do you think that is? Coliseum. No?

No. Why the Coliseum? Because it's always under... Because it's half broken and it's got rubbish everywhere around it. And I thought it was way out, but it's just in the city. So my parents said about European landmarks, they said the Eiffel Tower is so much rubbish. Just covered in rubbish. That is the most complained about landmark.

The Eiffel Tower. Yes. 17,000 negative reviews. Why? It's the equivalent of 402 hours worth of time typing up angry responses. What do they say what the common complaint is? Free croissants. Rome's Coliseum was second.

London's Big Ben. Egypt's Pyramids I'm guessing because they're a lot smaller Yeah I was going to say the pyramids Than people think And New York's Statue of Liberty I wasn't disappointed by the Eiffel Tower I don't know why

Is it the weight? Maybe the weight time But if you go to the Eiffel Tower You go early I thought you meant weight As in like how much it weighs No there's I was disappointed

I could lift it very easily. She's a hefty bouncer. There's huge lines, but if you go early, you beat the line. Yeah. But that's not the Ivory Tower's fault that it's beautiful and everyone wants to see it. The top 10 female complaining names. Rachel, this is from 10 down to 1. Rachel,

Anna. You would bloody love a wine online, wouldn't you? I've been getting it all morning. If you're doing that thing I've asked, when do you enjoy it? Eight, Claudia, Emily, Julie, Sarah, Sue, Susan. Oh, okay. Someone's Susan.

Karen in at two and just pepped as Kim. Kim's making a complaint. So a slight reprieve for Karen's. And the guys? Ten is Daniel, and Daniel, Jeff, and Peter are all equal. These are the names of people most likely to complain about something online. Seventh most likely to complain, Michael, then Steve, Andrew, Mark, John, David, and Paul. Is the most likely to complain.

Do these all sound like the same vintage? Yeah, like 40s, 50s. Yeah, 60s. So when you get to that age, you just don't put up with anything anymore. You're like, no, I'm going to bloody complain. I'm going to have a whinge. It was 10 complaints about the Grand Canyon. What's about what?

What's you complain about? That's beautiful. Yeah. It's massive. It was 10 complaints about the Grand Canyon. What's he about what? What's he complain about? That's beautiful. Yeah. It's massive. It's not grand enough. It's a long time to get there. Oh, because I remember the first time I went, it's a long time to get there,

and then you just kind of look out, and you're like, oh. Oh. What? Why? It's grand. It's hard to take in the scale of it when you're standing there.

It's better to do it from the air. But isn't that in itself? If it's harder to take in the scale of it, that in itself is overwhelming. Makes it grand. Yeah. It's good whinging and bitching. ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Megan, the podcast.

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