ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Megan Podcast - 17th May 2021

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Hello, welcome to the Fleeche Vaughan and Megan podcast. It's thanks to McCafe. Download the Maccas app to get McCafe rewards. Today, Vaughan has an oldie time compass. Yeah, the same. I went down and saw my mum and dad and when I got there, the ute and the trailer were out the front. And I said, what's dad up to? And mum's like, well, you're going too. You're going to go and clean out your grandfather's shed. And for me, that would sound like a horrendous task, but I imagine you were like... I was like a pig in slop. Because you're a bloody, you're a hoarder.

Yeah. Absolutely. What did you get out of there apart from the compass? The compass is my favorite thing. Yeah, that looks like. It's my granddad's. Dad said he can remember his dad having this. He used to take it hunting.

It's his old hunting compass. Did it go to the war? Nah, he didn't go to the war. I don't know who he got it from. Maybe he got it from someone who went to the war. I don't know. Maybe's his old hunting compass. Did it go to the war? Nah, he didn't go to the war. I don't know who he got it from. Maybe he got it from someone who went to the war. I don't know. Maybe it's a Nazi compass. Do you know how old it is?

It looks very vintage. Does it have a date on it? No, no date, no nothing. Oh my God. Yeah, because I'm guessing this was just a compass somebody bought once. Smithy. With no thought that 80 years later it would be in my hands. That could go on.

Antics brochure. Yes. Yeah, cool, huh? And they're like, congratulations, it's worth 85 pounds. And you're like, this wasn't worth my time. That could go on antics roadshow. Yeah, cool, huh? And they're like, congratulations, it's worth 85 pounds. And you're like, this wasn't worth my time. 85 pounds is alright.

What's that? A couple hundred bucks? Yeah. $170. I'm not selling it, but it'd be nice to know that it's worth that much. Did you find any other treasures?

I got a new motorbike. Why do you need a fucking motorbike? A four wheel, a four wheel bike. A four wheel? Oh yeah, not like a two wheel,

not a road bike. I'm scared of those. I'll fall off. I don't get hoes. I've had a four-wheel bike roll on me. It's unpleasant. Yeah, it's amateur, though. You're an amateur pilot.

I'm a seasoned professional. We'll see. Yeah, just lots of tools and bits and pieces. Okay. Yeah, my granddad's farm's being sold. He died quite a while ago. We haven't just been sitting on a shed for no purpose. They're selling the farm that it was on.

So, yeah, it was a little bit of a Smith family clean out. And then right at the end, I was looking in one corner. Oh, okay. Loving this chat. Yeah, I thought this had finished too. No, no, you're like this part. This is the one thing stopping us from going home. You're like this part.

This story. And I was looking in one corner and I was moving some stuff. And then I was on nothing there. And I walked away. And then there was a noise. And Dad said, did something fall over? Did you mistake something? And I was like, no. and I was like moving some stuff and then I was like on nothing there and I walked away and then there was a noise and Dad said, did something fall over? Did you mistake something? And I was like, no.

And then we heard it again and it was a possum. So then we played the fun game of trying to get the possum out of the shed by throwing rocks at it. Wow, okay. When I was halfway through, I looked and I was like, Dad, the possum will get straight back in and under that hole. And he's like, oh yeah, okay. So we've just been throwing, we found some golf balls,

we threw them at the possum. Great bonding experience for you and dad. And then, well, my kids were there too, and my wife, and I was holding a sledgehammer and they were like, what are you holding the sledgehammer for? I said, well, I've got to protect my family

if the possum comes for it. And in my mind, it jumped and I held the hammer and I was just like, crack, crack, that would have been pretty heroic. But no, we just left the possum be. Yeah. Yeah.

Gonna go back. Dad said he'll go back later and put it out of its misery. Yeah. It wasn't in any misery. I said you're making its misery to put it out of its misery. He was like, yeah, that's pretty much the – but they are a pest. They are a pest. An invasive pest.

Yeah, they are. An invasive yuck pest. They just look cute though. Is there any problem? No, they don't to me. They scream TB and scratches. ZM. Head music. Lives here. Flesh, scream TB and scratches. ZM. The music lives here.

Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. Good morning. Welcome to the show. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. Happy Monday. Happy Monday. Good morning.

Happy Monday, Monday. Or just ordinary Monday or just congratulations on being awake Monday. You made it. You're awake. Dragged your ass out of bed. You did good. Well done. Yeah.

Does it sound like we're still asleep? Lazy. Lazy. Lazy. You're already doing better. You would be if you could be. 100%. Even if you offered it to me right now,

I would happily go and sleep in that chair in the corner. Easy peasy. But, you know, here we are. Yeah. All right. Add to Cart returns again this week so 8 o'clock we'll give you the first item

in our virtual shopping cart you've just got to collect all of them across the day be the first caller through this afternoon with Brian Clint at 5

and win everything in that cart the top 6 is on the way um what are these things called hair clamps that's not right but you know what I'm talking about.

Claw clips. Claw clips. If you were around in the 90s, you'll remember claw clips. You'd put your hair up and the spring loaded like a peg on the washing line, except longer with like teeth would hold it there. Yeah, I know the ones. It was a real 90s. When I had hair in the 90s, I could do it, put it all up.

Would you do that? Clip it there. Maybe if I had one on my hand, I could do it, put it all up. Would you do that? Clip it there. Yeah, right. Maybe if I had one on my hand. But not until I'd open it right up and purse my lips and push them out and then clip my lips shut for some reason. That was always a lot of fun. Because they weren't strong enough, you could do that. Nah.

Yeah, and it wouldn't hurt like a clothes peg. It would just be fun to do. They're back, baby. After Kendall Jenner is apparently leading this trend. To get the old Claw Claw clip Clamp Cloppity clip

Clop back So I've got the top Six other 90s Accessories That need a reboot Okay yummy yummy Coming up as well Where we take a look

At new food Items And trends And there's a new Chocolate Just what we needed That's on the horizon Well we don't have enough

Further temptation We don't have enough. Further temptation. We don't have enough, exactly. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast, ZM. The boss of a company has offered her employees an extra 30-minute break. After COVID lockdown, she found they came back and they were a little bit agitated. And so she decided on this new initiative. She works for an adult entertainment company. She works.

Right. Because when I initially, I'm going to say it, I initially thought that this was a male boss. You are sexist. Oh, presumptuous. Yes, very presumptuous. Very sexist. Because the half an hour break has been titled a masturbation break.

Oh, okay okay Right. Because she yeah found that After lockdown a lot Of her staff were Agitated at work It's not a sexy place to Do it. Is it work? That's not Something you'd want to. Would you do it? I'd rather. Gun to your head

Where are you going right now? Where in this building are you going? I don't know. Where just go to the toilet. No, not going to the toilet. There's people in there. That's where people go. The whole thing's grim. I'd rather have a 30 minute break

to go get a muffin or a brioche or a slice or a coffee. I'd just like to go get a coffee. You can't have a maz at the cafe. Wait, are you giving a coffee,

a muffin and a maz? No, that's just what I'm doing instead of. Oh. Yeah. Wink wink. Is that what? Are we wink wink? No, there's just what I'm doing instead of. Oh. Yeah. Wink wink. Is that what? Are we wink wink?

No, there's no wink wink. I'd just rather have like a delicious coffee and a slice. Oh, right. An extra 30 minutes. Well, she obviously thought this was an issue

as well because she's created a private masturbation station. Oh, wow. Okay, right. Which is worse because that's where everyone's going.

Yeah, no, yuck. You know that other people from work have been in there. Yeah. And you only have to look at the kitchen at this workplace and know that people don't take care of that. Grim. It's grim. It's so grim.

So what is this station going to look like? The microwave, they never wipe down their splatters on the microwave. People don't use the brush in the toilet as well. I opened the dishwasher the other day. I would not trust that thing to clean anything. Why? Yeah, but that's because

you don't trust dish drawers. Have you seen it? How did it get so caked and like calcified? I do not know. Have they run one of those upside down gliggers through it? Everybody's past the Tupperware

and Sistemas. Are we running on hard water here in Auckland Central? I don't know. Because it's got a real stain. They've absolutely ruined the stainless steel insides. We're grown-ass adults, but that's like a flat kitchen. Oh, yeah.

It's nasty. It's nasty. Well, no one's exactly sure on who should take responsibility. Yeah. Yeah, right. We do have a wellness room here, though. I like how we've turned, this is a sign that maybe we're getting a bit older and a bit more mature.

Yeah. We could have just been making heaps of masturbation jokes, but I've actually turned it to what a disgusting mess the kitchen is. We've turned it to our parents. Oh, my God. Have we grown up? How did you let the kitchen get into the state? Everyone's been taking the half an hour to pop down to the Mazzy room

and not been cleaning up after themselves. Maybe that is what the wellness room's used for. No, I've been in the wellness room. It's pretty sterile, isn't it? It's got a window. It's got a, it does have a frosting to the window. Right. But you could definitely work out something.

That seat movement. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I can't open the door from the inside. I think that's where I can go to like breast pump. But then if like someone's in the corner. Yeah, yeah. Somebody want to use your breast pump. How powerful is the suction?

And we're back. Yeah, baby. Still a mature referral. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. A YouGov survey, I incorrectly before said the UK, this is the US, has asked men and women if they believe they could beat a series of animals in a fight and the – which of the following animals, if any, do you think you could beat in a fight if you were unarmed?

Why? What is the point of this survey? I have absolutely no idea. Just classically, we always – and it even became a Discovery Channel show. At high school, we used to, like, pit two animals against each other and say like, who would win? Yeah, like, oh, great white shark versus grizzly bear. Yeah, but the problem is, how would those two ever fight? They just wouldn't, would they?

In which habitat? Yeah. No, yeah, but would he need to be, would the grizzly bear need to be in like knee deep water or? Well, obviously in a ring. Well, I mean, a grizzly bear is powerful in water because it stands in the streams sometimes to catch the salmon. Right. And absolutely yums up the salmon.

But see, that would be a hard one. Yeah. But a silverback gorilla versus a polar bear, that's the ultimate fight. So these are the animals. And if they thought they could beat them. Okay. Rat. 76% of men thought They could beat them Okay Rat

76% of men Believe they could beat a rat Now Where's the other 24% at? Like your life is on the line right? You've got to beat this rat Stop it Yeah

It's a rat They're so gross They're gross And they're skittery And they're big And they're yuck But like They're scared of you

Far more than you're scared of them Yeah And 68% of women Believe they could beat a rat. Okay. Yeah, I'd just run away though. Like I'd just be like, I don't want to deal with this. You'd run away from the spider. Yeah.

Spiders aren't on the list. Or a butterfly. You'd be out the door. Spiders with wings. Butterfly also not on the list. Housecat was the next one. 74% of men believe they could beat a housecat. So that's 26% of people that don't back themselves to beat a house cat in a fight.

Yeah. Next was a goose. Now, this is a big gap in geese. They are bitches. Oh, they're horrible. But if it's life or death, you've got to fight the goose. Oh, yeah. 71% of men believe they could fight a goose.

They don't have teeth, eh? No. No, just a little, like, Long neck, easy to grab the neck. I don't want to go into too much detail of how I would do this. They look a little great though, don't they? I feel like they could give you a little grace. Oh yeah, give you a little grace. Only 51 percent of women believe they could beat a goose. So that's a 20 percent point difference there. Yeah, I don't reckon I could. And that's not me being sexist. Yeah, that's a survey. This is a survey to answer. A medium sized dog, 60 percent. Yeah, that's a survey. This is surveyed answers.

A medium-sized dog, 60% of men, 39% of women. So another pretty big gap there. An eagle. This is where it drops right away. Only 38% of men believe they could beat an eagle. Yeah, right. They've got a serious weapon and beak. Huge talons and beak.

Two weapons and an easy getaway. They're very fast. They go for the eyes. Yeah. But less than half a person... And you're not allowed a weapon. No, unarmed. But that's not fair because they've got weapons. They're built-in weapons, though.

We've got weapons, too. Punchy fists and a tactical brain. Yeah. Only 23% of women believe they could beat an eagle. Okay. A large dog, 31% of men, 15% of women. A king cobra, so a snake. 23% of men believe they could beat a king cobra.

And you've got no weapons. No weapons. Oh, see, that's impossible. And they are so fast. Yeah, they'd bite you and kill you before you could get it. Yeah. 15% of women. Oh, no, 8% of women oh no

8% of women believe they could be the king cobra. So that's more along the lines of 8%. A brave 8%. A chimpanzee. Now this to me

should be further up the list because these guys are crazy. A chimpanzee 22% of men believe they could be the chimpanzee. These are people

who aren't aware that chimpanzees are like 10 times as strong as the average man. Oh they could literally grab your arms and rip them off you. Yeah they could

remove you of the burden that are your limbs. 12% of women believe they could beat a chimpanzee. A kangaroo. Less people think they could beat a kangaroo. See, I'd rather have a go at a kangaroo before I had a go at a chimpanzee. Or a snake. 17% of men, 11% of women believe they could beat a kangaroo.

Because you know what? Tickles. Have you seen those jacked big reds though? Yeah. Are you going to tickle that guy? Is that what he's imagining? Tickles. You're tickling the kangaroo.

You drop them in a second. But do you know that kangaroos are ticklish? I'd give it a go. Would that be your first? It's not working. It's like literally booting you and you're like slowly dying, but you're like, tic-tac-toes. A wolf is pretty similar to a kangaroo. 16% of men, 9% of women.

Crocodile. Ticklish. Crocodile. 10% of men, 8% of women. So you're not talking about just getting away from it. You're talking like beating in a fight. Which of the animals, if any, do you think you could beat in a fight if you were unarmed?

Well, Steve Irwin used to jump on them didn't he you gotta hold their mouth shut even then they just do a death roll and then you're out oh yeah if they get you and drag you in the water

and death roll big trouble now this is where the differences between the gender are only one point gorilla 9 and 8%

like what are these people thinking you would never beat a gorilla everything we can do it can do better. Yeah. It can do everything better than you.

I'm sorry, what 8% of women are saying they'll beat a gorilla? Yeah. 8% and 9% again are for elephant. What are you just going to sit there punching it? Like, what are you doing to beat an elephant in a fight? You're unarmed. Yeah. Impossible.

Size alone. A lion, 8% of men, 7% of women. They are imagining they've got a weapon, right? It says if you are unarmed. Oh, idiot. What sort of like... Idiot. But this is America, right?

This is America. 10% of people believe they're invulnerable to the ordinary restraints of humanity. Yeah. And grizzly bears, 7% are men, 6% are women. Wow. Tigers are not on the list. Tigers are right up there. Tigers are stronger than lions. These people are sadly mistaken.

If you're in America and a wild animal is charging in a crowd, just run because there's always going to be some moron in that crowd that believes they can find the animal and beat it unarmed. Flesh, fawn and beat it unarmed. All right, there is a new food item. It is at this stage, and I'd love if anybody listening has seen this in supermarkets already,

because a new Canberra chocolate has hit the shelves in Australia. And, you know, they love their caramilk as much as we do, although they don't have it full time like we do. Don't they? I don't think so. Suckers. Remember, we used to get it every couple of times a year. Yeah. And now it's just full time because we nommy that stuff down.

Full time. All the time. Well, a top deck caramilk has been seen on shelves in Australia. So the top bit is the caramilk and the bottom is dairy milk. Oh, shit. So how would that, that would actually be quite nice, wouldn't it? Okay, so it's replaced the usual white chocolate situation up top. I mean, caramilk is kind of a caramelised white anyway.

Yeah, top deck always had a caramilk vibe to it anyway. Why? Oh, because it mixed the white with the... Yeah, it mixed the traditional white with the chocolate. But I always would bite off the top bit and eat them separately anyway. Oh, would you? Yeah. So you're snapping off one cube at a time and then nibbling off the top and then...

Yeah. Okay then. Interesting. That sounds bloody delish though. Yeah, so it's been seen in Australian supermarkets. Much like a few of the recent flavours we've had and then it trickles here.

What about online shopping? Oh, I haven't looked. Okay, I'll get on to a bit of that. I've missed about supermarket. Did you mean? It's not my day. Did you mean supermarket? I went a little overboard. Caramilk. Top deck?

Yes. NZ. Not online. Not online at Countdown. Okay. No. Well, yeah, I'd imagine it'd be imminent. Right.

Because it's all made in Australia now, isn't it? And shipped here, so. And it's chocolate. We love chocolate. Yeah. It'll be happening. Caramilk. I'm on New World now. Okay. Top chocolate. We love chocolate. Yeah. It'll be happening. Caramel, I'm on New World now. Okay.

Top deck. Put one in your Google. You did Google. It would have come up. Nothing. Yes. What? No, just.

No, there's top deck and then there's caramel, but they're beside each other. Oh, right. Okay. How is this going to go down with your health kick? Because caramel's your. Yeah. No, I just won't until. You won't want. I'm not on the health kick. What's your end game for the health kick because caramel is your Yeah, no, I just won't

until I'm not on the health kick. What's your end game for the health kick? I don't know. It's becoming quite boring. Why is it becoming boring? Well, on Friday when we went away with work,

I demolished the entire minibar in that room. He sat and watched me eat two bags of chips, two peanut slabs, all the booze. Like some weird erotic thing. He said, keep watching me.

We were just chatting and I was just like, I've eaten the entire minibar. No, I just wasn't hungry. And I think at one stage the peanut slab got stuck sideways in your mouth. Yeah. Well, that's how I like to eat a peanut slab. I like to put it in sideways and then work on it as a whole. They did say to us, by the way, the minibar, you don't have to worry about that.

You can charge back the minibar. Have you ever been told that before? Madness. Who's not going to eat everything? Yeah, that's why you ate everything. Yeah. All the little alcohols too. They were gone.

Everything, all the chips. You don't tell me anything's free. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. New Zealanders with credit cards. Yes. Currently have $6.2 billion on those credit cards. So that's naughty. That's really naughty.

How many zeros in a billion if I do the calculator thing? A thousand millions. So if I go, how many billion? One, two, three. Okay, I've got 6.2 billion divided by how many New Zealanders are there now? Five? Five million? But then also kids don't have credit cards, but let's go by

five million. Nah, I've messed that up. I forgot to put million. I just put five. So I have to go times by five. Now it by five. So now it has to go times by five. Now divided by five. Zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero. Equals $1,240 each. So $1,240 per New Zealander on credit card debt.

But that's per, so you could take away all the kids. Yeah, and people that don't have credit card debt. Because a lot of people don't have credit card debt. That is so much. Yeah. So even if half of New Zealanders had a credit card that you could double that and say, what, $24,000 each? No, $2,400 each. Oh, $2,400. If you've got $24,000 on your credit card, you're in big trouble because that's the other thing as well.

The credit card interest changes depending on what credit card you've got. Oh, some of it's ridiculous. Yeah. Considering that like interest rates for like saving is so low at the moment and borrowing for houses. Yeah. Credit cards are still like 18% or 12 or 16.

I didn't know that there are some credit card rates that get up to 25% in New Zealand. I don't even know what mine is. What? But to be fair, I don't have a lot owing on it at the moment because I've been real good. You've been real good. But also, you pay yours off regularly, right? Yeah.

Also, I feel like this would not include all of the get your goods now, pay later schemes. No, this is just credit cards. This is just credit cards because a lot of people have gone away from credit cards and just pay now with all the different scams and stores. And you do it in four bits. Yeah, or whatever. So in the United States,

I don't know, 7% is considered a very high interest rate on credit cards. What? Crazy, eh? Is that lower than here? Well, we're at 25% on some of them and the United States said 7% is considered very high for credit card interest. I think the lowest you could get here would be, what, 12%, 16% on a credit card?

Oh, my God. Yeah. I just don't want to know. Well, no, it's best you do. But they always send me those letters like, we want to give you more money on your credit card. And I know to say no to that. I know you, cheeky bugger. No.

So my limit is very, very low. Because otherwise I would max it out. Now, apparently during lockdown it went down. Like last year during COVID, people were pretty keen to get rid of their credit card debt and did pretty well at it, but have since just piled it all back on. And then some.

Yeah, I'm just looking here. So there's Kiwi Bank has a 9.95 purchase rate on one of their visas. ASB Light has a 13.5. BNZ 12.9, same with Westpac. Those are their low master cards. I know you can get low ones if you get like a mortgage. Yeah. Our credit card is at the same rate as our mortgage

rate. Well that's pretty good. Which is low for a credit card but again we just use it for everything but then just pay it off. Yeah right. Pure laziness of actually like getting money and putting it onto an FBOS card or taking it out of one account and putting it into another. Credit card and then

pay it off but yeah they can get crazy. Okay, Dad. $6.2 billion, guys. Pull your socks up. You've been told off. Yeah, I'm sitting here quietly like, I'm here, I'm here.

Fleshforn and Megan, the podcast, ZM. From the first class ZM think tank, this is the top six. Top six today. The top six are the 90s accessories that are going to make comebacks. The hair claw clip has been selling like hotcakes. Apparently Kendall Jenner is the ambassador for this, but

not that she knows it, but she just had one in and people are like, but apparently a light Google this morning has shown she's been using it for like the last year. Real lockdown stuff. Okay. Yeah, right.

I've got one, but I forgot how hard they are to actually like put your hair up in. So what do you do? I always just push it up and then clip it. Pull it back, twirl it around and clip it. Right. And it will hold it there. Yep. Not very well.

But yeah, it'll fall out, right? It's like just casual. It's not if you're doing any sort of ferocious activity. Well, you wouldn't use it if you're going for a yog. Nah. Would you? No. Oh, no.

I wouldn't go for a yog. That's scrunchy material. Full stop, yeah. So I've got the top six of the Niners accessories that need to make a comeback. Number six. Ladies and gentlemen, before the days of the Pandora bracelet,

there were charm bracelets. And you could just whack any old huckery thing on that charm bracelet. I had an America's Cup charm on my charm bracelet, I remember. The one where we lost it, defending it, or when we won it. No, I think it would have been winning it. Oh, right. Yeah, right.

Where did you get that from? I think someone gave it to me, and at the time I didn't know what it was. It was a cute wee little charm thing. Was it a boat or something? No, it was the America's Cup. The actual cup. Oh, right. You can get all sorts of things with charm bracelets. Yeah, right. Surely

charm bracelets are still a thing, right? Yeah. It's Pandora on a budget. Totally. You can put anything on there. If you just found something, like little and metal, you can get your dad to drill a hole in it and then steal one of those little clampy clasps off a key, off the key ring, and then put it on and you hit a charm bracelet. Attachment.

Easy peasy. Number three on the list of the top six other nine accessories that didn't make a comeback. Toe rings. I'm triggered. Oh, because you can't put a toe ring on. Because I had weird toes and everyone would wear toe rings and I was like, oh God.

But you can't wear a toe ring. Nah. Unless you pushed it on and everyone would wear toe rings. And I was like, oh God. But you can't wear a toe ring. Nah. Unless you pushed it off. Unless I made one big enough for my big toe. For both of them. Or I was thinking of a clamp for two toes so the webbed toes could hold them together even more. Then it goes from a ring to a clamp. Yeah.

Some kind of... It would look like, you know, when you hurt one finger and you tape it to the finger next to it to keep it straight. Yeah. Yeah, it would look like that. Some sort of splint situation for the toe. Out of metal. Number four on the list of the top six of the 90s accessories that need to make a comeback

are yin and yang necklaces. Oh, yeah. The yin and yang design, but here in New Zealand there was also a surf brand called Town and Country that used the yin and yang which was a circle and then like, it kind of looked a little bit like the Pisces thing, like two intersecting.

And you could give your best friend. They could be the yin to your yang. But I feel like those were replaced with the heart necklaces. Yeah, the best friends forever. I saw someone with one of those the other day. Like someone in their 30s. I was like, interesting move. Well, maybe they've still got a best friend.

I think it was like a new one. Oh, okay. I think they just got it. Wow. Don't you have one of those? No, I've got best friend jackets. Oh, that's right. Jackets.

Number three on the list of the top six Niners accessories that never make a comeback, brightly coloured Baby G watches. Oh, yeah. Baby G shock watches. Yeah. Smaller or more petite watch, but always in a bright color. And they even had those ones, and this was a big trend in the 90s, when things were colored but also transparent.

Yeah. You could see through them. I loved a bit of that. Jelly. Yeah, jelly. I would love to see the inner workings of my watch. Would you? Number two on the list of the top six other 90s accessories

that need to make a comeback. Small sunglasses with yellow lenses. Oh, I don't know about that. We don't need those. We don't need those back? They were always just like comically small. They were no bigger than your eye. They didn't do any other coverage. And they were small.

I'm thinking Olsen twins. Olsen twins, I'm looking at you. You loved one of those. Didn't Brad Pitt have some? Everybody had some. J-Lo, I can remember J-Lo wearing some. And looking at you. Didn't Brad Pitt have some? Everybody had some. J-Lo, I can remember J-Lo wearing some. And didn't you wear them slightly down a little bit? Maybe a little bit down the nose.

Just so you could, I don't know, get a yellow perspective on things. Sure. And number one on the list of the top six other 90s accessories that need to make a comeback after Kendall Jenner's hair claw, mood rings. Mood rings. I looked up how mood rings work. Because I was like, I'm sitting here, and I got to number one,

and I was like, mood rings. And then I was like, how did they work? The heat of your hand? So there are things called thermotropic liquid crystals, and they change colour depending on the warmth. So it was all just, and then the modern mood ring was like a ring and then a flat layer of those thermotropic liquid crystals that sat against your skin. And then it was just a glass or some sort of transparent covering for it.

So the only part that changed colour was this very flat layer at the bottom and it was flat against your skin. So it was all depending on just how warm your skin was. So if you were warm, your mood would be angry. Would be better, I think. Right, okay. I think better. But if it was on this list of what it meant,

black meant you're either very, very cold, dead, or the ring itself was damaged. Oh, right. So get a new mood or get a new mood ring. That is today's top six. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan,

the podcast. We have two cats at our house. Anakin, he's top six. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. We have two cats at our house. Anakin, he's very old. How old is Anis? We've got Anakin at the start of 2005, so 16 years old. I remember when you got that cat. Yeah, I know. And it's about to die.

And that means we've known each other for as long as your cats had a full lifespan. Yeah. That's crazy. We've known each other for one cat. But he's still alive, so maybe not. Maybe we're, yeah. We've known each other for 0.85 of a cat so far. Yeah.

He can keep going. You hear about old cats. But from now on, whenever people ask how long we've been knowing each other and working together, one point whatever cat. One whole cat. It's a great unit of measurement. He's old. He wheezes inside, so he doesn't come inside too much anymore.

He's vanished to the outside. He's too old to be living outside. No, he loves it. Anyway, our other cat, Bear, is a younger cat. He's my daughter's cat, technically. Is it ginger? Is it a thing with ginger cats that they're prone to obesity? Like Garfield.

We had a ginger cat when we were a kid called Joey, and he didn't get fed any more than the other cats, but he was always like just a stocky unit. Right. My mother-in-law has a ginger cat called Benny, and he is fat. I'll say it. There's no other nice way of putting it. That's a fat cat.

And he doesn't get fed any more than any other cat they've ever had. No, I think just all cats get quite fat. It does say here that ginger cats are prone to obesity. Ha! Ha!

They thought I just had me. We talked about it. Shut up. We were talking about it. It was just like every ginger cat we've known has ended up being fat. Yeah, and of course Garfield.

But that was the lasagna, wasn't it? Cats should not eat lasagna. And that cat had a coffee every morning. Yeah. He should not have been having a coffee, regardless if it was Monday or not. How did it live so long?

I know. They can put on weight very easily and very much enjoy their food. They do. Well, my cat, British Shorthairs, when you go to the vet, it's got this poster of different stages of cats. It's got Slim Cat, Little little bit fat cat and obese cat. And they use my cat as the model. The British Shorthair is the model.

For the cats. Because they get really fat. They can be fat. Bear is so fat. This is how he wants to be let in when he thinks it's like four o'clock in the afternoon and he's ready to be fed. He'll walk right up to the ranch slide. His face is touching.

And then he'll flop back on his fat ass and sit on the back of his legs and put his front feet up and just be like scratch, scratch, scratch, scratch, scratch, scratch, scratch on the glass. He's like meow, meow. And he just looks like a pear. He just goes out at the bottom. He's a big bottom cat. And I'm always saying this cat's getting too fat.

We have to watch what's happening with his eating. And Shardy's like, I'm not feeding him any more than bottomed cat. And I'm always saying, this cat's getting too fat. We have to watch what's happening with his eating. And Shadu's like, I'm not feeding him any more than the other cat. Blah, blah, blah. He's like, yeah, but obviously his metabolism's no good. The other day he was inside and him and the dog, Ralph, were kind of having a bit of a play fight. And Bear tried to go under the TV cabinet to hide too fat. And he got stuck.

His head and his front legs got under. And then it got to his fat ass. And he got stuck. His head and his front legs got under and then it got to his fat ass and he was just like, and he couldn't get his legs out far enough to kind of like squeeze under how cats nip under things. I wonder if cats feel regret. He was stuck in there

and we were like, oh, fatty. And then he couldn't back out. I had to grab him and drag him out backwards. So I would like to start the phone up. My cat is so fat, it got stuck under the TV cabinet. You could also add your cat was so fat that when you went away on holiday and I was in charge of feeding it, it wouldn't fit through the cat door anymore. It couldn't get up.

Not only did it not fit through the cat door, this is Anakin. This is probably why he pisses inside. He's so angry about his rapid yo-yoing and weight. He couldn't get through the cat door. He also couldn't get up to the cat door because, you know, cat doors are a little bit up. Off the ground, he's...

It was just so cute. I was like, you need more. And he kept meowing and wanted food. You're a feeder. Yeah. That was only... You were only was like, you need more. And he came meowing and wanted food. You're a feeder. Yeah. You were only away for two weeks. Yeah.

That cat really bloomed. Oh, my God. Oh, dear. All right. Well, 0800-DARZATM, 9696 to text through. My cat was so fat that dot, dot, dot, dot. Finish it off. Did it get stuck somewhere? Is it unable to jump up places now?

Oh, the jump up's real sad when? Is it unable to jump up places now? Oh, the jump up's real sad when a fat cat tries to jump up somewhere. It's like, more than I thought I had to take up there. So how fat is your cat? What can't it do? Complete the sentence. My cat is so fat that. We're talking about obese cats.

It's a real problem. The vet will tell you off. The vet will tell you off. Vets love telling you you've got a fat cat. It's like the flossing at the dentist. You know the lecture's coming. And if your dentist is also lecturing you about your fat cat, then it's problematic. It's getting around the profession.

It's really getting around the profession. So we want you to complete the sentence, my cat is so fat that, because my cat tried to escape the dog and run under the TV cabinet, but got caught. Yeah. Got stuck.

Muz, for the last few months, actually, I think he's lost a little bit of weight. That's good. Because that British shorthair's taken two years to fully grow, and he's just turned one. Okay. But I have a little container under the bench

that I feed him from, like a little clickety-clacks of steamer. But I grabbed the bag and behind it says when they're one year, how much they have to be eating and the weight. And I measured how much I feed him and it was like 20 grams more than you should. That's a lot of grams.

20 grams. You're just two meals a day? Yeah, I feed him twice a day and I was feeding him 10 grams each time too much. Right, okay. So you've knocked him back a bit. I've knocked that back and I tell you what, he's looking a little bit trimmer. Yeah, all the lads in your house are trimming down.

Yeah. The lads in your house are on the health care. But cats can't understand that. Cats are like, excuse me, where's the rescue? Two-legged, non-hairy, tailless son of a gun. Like it gets to four o'clock and he's hungry, he'll just jump up and grab my arm if I'm working at the computer and just be like, meow, meow.

Scares me human. Yeah, just like, come on, get up and feed me. It's unbelievable. At Daylight Savings, they don't understand. There was change for an hour. They're just like, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow. So we want you to complete the sentence, my cat is so fat that... Hayley, good morning.

My cat is so fat that... That I told my cousin that the cat ate the dog when the dog had disappeared, but the dog had actually just passed away of natural causes. And that was believable. So fat that it was believable. She believed us. She honestly believed us.

And it was a ginger cat too. Oh, yeah. As we just learned, more prone to obesityvable. She believed us. She honestly believed us. And it was a ginger cat too. Oh, yeah. As we just learned, more prone to obesity apparently. And dog eating. Thank you, Hayley. Belinda, my cat was so fat that? He would make our legs go numb when he sat on them for too long. Your legs go to sleep.

Also ginger. Also ginger. Also ginger. Yeah, right. This is an undeniable trend. The ginger cat. Yeah. also ginger also ginger also ginger yeah right this is an undeniable trend the ginger cat yeah

what are you supposed to do take them for walks though just feed them less I think yeah but they're cuddly aren't they

and cute so yeah so what would you do just kind of shoo them off every now and again oh you'd like

because we were a little bit younger you didn't have to get dad to like help you like get them off because he's dig his paws into you like to not move. Oh my God. And you're sitting there with mum left, like you need him off your left. That is a big cat.

Belinda, thank you. Hannah, my cat is so fat that? Oh, she was so fat that we had to take her to the vet to get a, with Lillian shaved because she couldn't quite reach down there. Oh, yeah. And if cats can't look around the area, they get, like, dags and stuff and, like, they can't clean up. Yeah.

Yeah, not fun for our adulthood. How do you shave a cat around that area? Oh, we did not do it. This was totally the vet's job. Oh, the vet. Yeah, because I was going to say, I haven't heard of cat groomers. They're adult groomers. Yeah.

Well, my mother-in-law has to shave her own. She bought a little clipper set because Benny the cat gets so fat. Oh, the cat. So, was your cat Ginger as well? No, she was a tabby. Oh, okay. Fat tabby. Fat tabby.

Tubby tabby. Tubby tabby. All right, Hannah, thanks. You call some text messages. Tubby tabby. My cat's so fat, we've had to remove the bottom window panel of the back door because he couldn't fit through the cat door anymore, so we just took the whole window out. So, like, risking burglary there.

Yeah. Just so your cat can get in. Your fat cat can squeeze through. My cat Humphrey is so fat he's no longer stealth. You know how cats can walk and you can't hear them? Yeah. Humphrey plods down the... Does Humphrey know that he's chunky

or does he think he's being stealth? Probably thinks he's being stealth. Oh, no. Yeah. The birds will hear him coming. Softly. Some other text messages in. My cat is so fat she didn't get injured when she got hit by a car

because of her extra padding. Like a cow. How was the car? Probably dented. It was a write-off. It was probably a write-off. And she just rolled happily down the road. Oh, my God.

My cat is so fat it fell down a drain and got stuck. Okay. Got wedged in the pipe. Somebody else said that their cat is so fat that their belly flap has about two centimetres clearance from the ground. Yeah, but that's a pretty... My cat, Major Murray Fluffington, has got a belly flap. It's protective for fights, isn't it? Yeah, so if someone tries to bite their organs, they're more likely to get a mouthful of flap.

Yeah. Now, you don't want a mouthful of flap. No, no. Hairy. Yeah, so it hangs down and protects the organs. Yeah.

And someone said, please don't encourage fat cats. I don't think we are encouraging fat cats. No, certainly not. If anything, I think we've shamed fat cats today. We've done nothing

but spend the last 20 minutes body shaming fat cats. So, yeah. Watch how much you're feeding them. My cat was so fat it was running from a dog and it flew into the cat door so hard it shattered the glass around the cat door because it got stuck as it went into the cat door. The dog just walked away and was like. My job is done. Somebody else messaged in saying,

Fletch, I am a cat groomer. Really? They come to my home and I groom the cats. So if you're... I've used the word, Posseva needs a clean up. Yep, yep. Well, mine's fine because he can reach at the moment. You can reach.

But I'm imagining... It's always important to have a tidy up. Yeah, sure, sure. I don't need that get out of hand. Absolutely. You don't want dags down there. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast, ZM. Feel targeted this morning?

There's not just millennials now. There's a new, they're calling it a microgen, which is like a microgeneration within a millennials. Okay. So this is for people who are between 1980 and 1985. Okay. Dut meh. So that includes. Dut meh. Dut meh. So that includes me and Bourne.

Although I'm pretty much only just in there on the really young side of this. But the name for that we microgen is Geriatric Millennials. Oh, happy with that. This sounds like my cup of tea. You do love the repair shop, Country Calendar. Oh, I do, yes This sounds like my cup of tea. You do love the repair shop, Country Calendar, and tinkering around the home. Tinkering, mowing lawns. They say that

you are comfortable with technology, but you're not quite as digitally savvy as some of the younger counterparts. Rude. Excuse me. I don't know how to do a TikTok video, though. That's probably for the best, I think. Yeah, I don't know how to do a TikTok video though. That's probably for the best, I think. Yeah, I don't know how to do the part where you record one part

and then it goes to another part. You just press, you take your finger off record, do you? I mean, I'm sure you'd easily figure it out. Oh yeah, but that's the thing I don't want to. Yeah, I think that's more that you don't want to. On the other side of things, so there's a little section in there where you're a millennial and then on the other end of things, there's a zillennial.

So that is a Gen Z-er. Yeah. On the cusp of Gen Z and millennial. So we're talking 92 to 98. Okay. So these people, you will either go one way or the other, they reckon. You'll either be the people that shun the skinny jeans and side parts or you will be more millennial

and you'll like straightening your hair, which they say is real choogy. She says with perfectly straightened hair that was probably done this morning. What's wrong with straightening your hair and middle parts? This is BS. Pandora jewellery and going to Disneyland.

Everyone likes going to Disneyland. This is rude. Maybe it is time for you to ditch the Pandora jewellery. You're offending a lot of people. Me included. I've got a loaded Pandora charm. I know you do. So do I have to have a side part or a middle part?

And am I not allowed to straighten my hair anymore Which one's I mean I couldn't give half a shit But which one's chuggy The middle part or the side part The middle part And that is the personification of chuggy Also like I feel like millennials are being targeted a lot.

By the way, Gen X seems to have escaped a lot of this. Boomers, when everyone was on the boomers, and then the Gen Zers have gone for the millennials. Who's coming for the Gen Xers? The Gen Xers are just walking around. They didn't have anybody nipping at their heels. They were in charge. They're still in charge. They're't have anybody nipping at their heels. They were in charge. They're still in charge.

They're staying quiet. It's a great technique. You know, if everybody's being targeted, just stay quiet and, you know, reap the rewards of the housing market and the fact that you're in unchallenged management positions. Yeah. And they're just staying on the straight and narrow. Yeah, they're keeping their heads down.

Yeah. They're skirting the blame onto the boomers, but they're half the problem. They are, exactly. Sometimes I think the boomers are wearing it where we should be placing the blame at the feet of the Gen Xers. Yeah, right. Well, as long as you're blaming someone, right?

Yeah. Like, that just seems to be... Well, that's maybe your generation as well. No. That's the most important thing. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. PayWave is the latest. On PayWave, yeah.

And then swipe, and then insert. It went swipe, insert chip, PayWave. Yeah, and then sometimes it's like, insert,

and then you insert and it's like, no, swipe. And then you're like, insert it, and then you swipe. Yeah, and then it works. And then it's like,

give PayWave another go. Yeah. And then just chuck it in me again, and then rip it through me again, and then it works. And then it's like give a pay wave another go. Yeah. And then just chuck it in me again and then rip it through me again and you're like, Jesus, make up your mind. And the person at the shop is always just like, sorry, this machine's a bit temperamental. It's like, get a new goddamn machine then.

Yeah. And then you insert it one last time but you really ram it in there. Yeah. And that must have been what the problem was. But also with the insert, this is what I said to somebody that I had a retail store because I said I really had to push it in. Is there any way of cleaning up in the end? Because you know on your phone when it sits in your pocket

and dust accumulates and you just keep pushing the charger in and it kind of packs it in? Yeah. I was wondering if that happens with inserting cards just every time a little bit more, a little bit more, a little bit more, just dusty or hair or anything gets pushed in there and it means that it can't. Yeah.

That's my theory. Why did you care that much? I'm not sure. Because it's a pain in the ass. They're always like, oh, the machine's a bit screwy sometimes. Yeah, getting these machines. How often does this happen? This is driving me nuts if I had to work here.

So there's a new way. Our beauty salon has developed this in Dubai, actually. Right. British people working there, contacting home and saying, this is pretty good. It's a microchip glued on. When you get your manicure done, you get a microchip on your fingernail and then you can pay by pulling the fingers at the machine.

Ribbing the fingers and it'll be like insert and you're like, not happening. See, this is great in a country where, unlike here, pay wave charges are astronomical. I know the government might be fixing that. But there's a lot of places here don't do pay wave because it's so expensive. So you'd have to put your finger in the machine.

Yeah. And you wouldn't fit. They wouldn't fit in there. But also, could it be open to, you know... Fraud, cut someone's finger off. Well, no, no. I was thinking just walking through a crowd of people when this is commonplace with like 80 bucks on the EFTPOS machine

and you just wave it around people's hands. Oh, yes. And it's like, and then you put another one, and you keep going. Yeah, right. Go to the limit of what it needs to be without a PIN number being put in also. Get one of those travel wallets with the tinfoil in it.

Yeah, you'd need an RFID. So you just wear gloves with... An RFID or just not have it on your nail. That could also be a totally good thing. But also, it's like a square gold thing. Like, what if that's not going with my mani? And what happens if you break your nail? You can paint over it.

Can you? Yeah, yeah, it can be painted over. It's just got to be underneath. A lot of them look like they've bedazzled them. Yeah, decorated them. Like, decorated them with something to go over it so you can't see it. Well, you know, but the pictures I saw were like, yeah, quite out there. Then what happens, like, if your gel peels off or something?

You need to get it done again. Get your new one. But then that's also another point is that it doesn't seem like a long term. No. I might just get mine and plant it under my skin. I've said that. Just put it in my wrist.

I'm actually alright with it as long as you don't track me. How long until that's a thing? But then when you've got them on your watch now that's enough isn't it? Yeah. Get it in the wrist

and you go to pay one day and it's not there and it's just travelling towards your heart. You're like uh oh. Yeah. It gets to the point where you just pick up the paywave machine and just scan your body.

It's in here somewhere, mate. It's in here somewhere. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. ZM. Stepping up to the podium for the 10th year of Miro. Your gold medalist. Where's my medal? Yes. It's time for Where's my medal? Yes.

It's time for Where's My Medal? Do you need a pen? Yeah. Producer Jared, may we grab one of your pack and save pens? Always.

They always work. Those Office Max pens are rubbish. I'll name and shame the Office Max pens. No, you're the back. You cannot. It's a back.

Lovely back. What I do is I draw a grid. How many of those pack and save pens did you steal over your time at pack and save? Close to the thousands, I think. Yeah, good. Probably made up for the pay, did it? Did you just take one at a time?

Like one at the end of every shift or boxes at a time? Yeah, I'd go home with three or four of my little, like, clipped onto my shirt. Cute. I reckon they could still go you for that, theft as a servant. Nah, the statute of limitations. That's not a thing, Gary. You've been watching too many American-based

crime shows. Oh, cute. Alright, it's time for Where's My Medal? We celebrate those little tiny achievements in life where maybe

your significant other doesn't care that you cleaned the fridge or the oven or took the rubbish out. But you did and that deserves praise. Jenna

joins us this morning. Good morning, Jenna. Gina, sorry. Hi, good morning. Now, Gina, why do you deserve a medal? Well, this weekend, I put petrol in my car before my petrol light came on. Oh, yes. This is a bone of contention in your house,

isn't it, Vaughn? Last night I used Sade's car To go to the gym And she said And I said She said, dinner's almost ready How far away are you? I said, you've got a choice here

Do you want me to fill up your car before I come home? Or come home now? And she said, come home now And I said, this is out of my hands Because I wanted to fill it up Because it was getting low Well, I didn't care if your dinner was cold. Fill up the car.

Yeah, I don't know. I was like, because I hate stopping having to fill up the car. Oh, nothing's worse on the way home from work. You just want to get home. You've got to fill up the car. Yeah, so Vaughan does it in the morning and messages us and says, I'm just late. I had to get petrol. Yeah, my car's being used.

You can tell when Sade's used my car. It's those mornings where I'm like, I'm just filling up. Yeah. Okay, so good effort from you, Gina. How far off the light coming on? Oh, well,

it was like on empty, but yeah, every week I leave it until the light comes on and then I'm always racing to find the petrol station, but this week I was like,

no, it's on empty, just go and put it in before the light comes on. You've grown up. Yeah, this is really growing up. I literally never fill it up before it's on empty. That's like your indication you've got to go.

Otherwise, why would you? All right, Gina, wait there. Our medal ceremony very soon. Jasmine, good morning. Why do you deserve a medal? Hi, good morning. I finally cleaned my running shoes, and they were super muddy.

They were really damp, and they really smell, and I finally cleaned them after shoes, and they were super muddy. They were really damp, and they really smelled, and I finally cleaned them after two weeks. Yeah. Two weeks. I don't think I ever cleaned. They don't get muddy, though, my gym shoes, but sometimes I'll chuck my white shoes in the wash. Oh, yeah.

And a pillowcase? They even had rabbit poo on them. Where do you run? It was really bad. Where do you run? It was a group run in Kawhi Nui with all the girls, so we're all in the same situation, and I think I might be the only one that's cleaned their shoes. You didn't even run through a coldie forest, did you,

without adequately cleaning your shoes to prevent coldie dieback? Oh, no, it wasn't one of those trails. No, we will always spray our shoes. Oh, good. Good, good, good. Cleaned the running trails. No, we will always spray our shoes. Oh, good. Good, good, good. Cleaned the running shoes. No, no, no, thank you. All right, and our next contestant, Claire.

Good morning. Why do you deserve a medal? Morning. I deserve a medal because I have finally put my art up on my wall in my flat. 11 months after moving in on a 12-month lease. So you decided to put some holes in the wall just before you try to claim your bond back?

Well, I mean, to be fair, I actually used some holes that were already in the wall and created a couple of new ones. This is good. Now, Clea, are you definitely moving out in a month? Yeah. Hey, but it looks great for that month. Why did you do it?

It looks pretty now, you know. For the last month. Yeah, wow. That is amazing. All right, well, I can't understand it for the life of me. No. Where was it previously? Was the art hidden away or was it just sitting on the floor against the wall? Floor against the wall, yeah.

For 11 months! So you could still see it it's not like it was in a box gathering dust. Yeah, no. Okay. Wow, did you damage it? Like did you run the vacuum cleaner into it accidentally or drop something on it? No, no, move it carefully vacuum, put it back. Okay. Wow.

A few minutes lost in my life. That is some amazing procrastination, Claire. Yeah. All right. Our medal ceremony now. We'll just have the judges confer. Let's, um, I'm going to point to gold first. Okay.

You happy with that one? Yeah. Yeah. Okay, cool. Mark's gold. Silver. This one? Or this one?

That one. This one. Because I'm, yeah? That one. This one. Yeah. This one. You want that to be silver? Yeah. Okay. All right.

Okay. Okay. Good. Good. Today, receiving the bronze medal for services to shoes cleaned. Even though she went for a run, and I feel it was kind of like her way of also telling us she'd been for a run. Yeah, and I got muddy and I finally cleaned my shoes

but they even had rabbit poo on them. Making us feel lazy. Yeah, so that's why she was disqualified one place. Making everybody else feel bad about not going for a run through some bloody muddy terrain. Jasmine, congratulations a bronze medal. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. And shout out to the North Harbour Bays ladies. Yes. You've got to run and clean your shoes, ladies. Do you reckon they've all cleaned their shoes? No. Okay. Well, you're better than them then.

I doubt it. All right. And silver place. Silver place, silver medal, second place today. Kind of really confused as to why you'd bother. After 11 months of them sitting on the ground, she's finally made holes in the wall, so she might be able to climb all that bond back, one wouldn't imagine.

Claire hung her art, and for that, she is the silver medal recipient. Yes. Thank you. Congratulations, Claire. Never. Silver medal recipient. Yes. Thank you. Thank you. Congratulations, Clea. Better late than never. Which means she did something that the majority of New Zealanders struggle to do. Because there wasn't even that light being like, you're about to break down somewhere and no doubt it'll be raining when you do.

She put petrol in her car before the orange light Flashed its flash Amazing Gina Today's gold medal victor And where's my medal For filling up her car Yes Truly amazed

You're a national You're a national hero Gina Oh thank you very much Did you pay Did you pay at the pump Or did you go into the store Oh I paid at the pump Yeah good

I love a pay at the pump Avoid the you go into the store? I paid at the pump. Yeah, good. I love a pay at the pump. Avoid the temptation of all those yummy choccies. It's always the ice creams that get me at a service station. You're walking past that freezer and you're like, hello, colossal cone. Better get one of you. Congratulations, Gina, a gold medal for your services. Thank you very much.

ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. A gold medal for your services. Thank you very much. We're talking about your workplace bad influences. This doesn't have to be. The study was about how workmates can derail your healthy eating habits. When you're on a health kick. Yeah, yeah. If you're trying to be good. You spend so much time with these people around the meals and the tired parts of the day that you are easily derailed by these folk.

Yeah, we were talking about this before the show, and it popped up from the producers that this is an issue, isn't it? Yes. Caroween is a terrible influence in terms of scones across the road. Scott loves a scone across the road. Dangerous. Every day, should we get a Vegemite scone? And I can't say no.

Those are delicious though. Those Vegemite cheese scones are so good. Carl Wayne influenced me to get a Vegemite scone on Friday. I was like, this cannot be an everyday occurrence, Carl Wayne. Good. What have you got to say for yourself? This is blasphemy. But I get it because if everyone else eats a scone,

then, you know, it's just going to stay the same, isn't it? And this is how everyone eats those Vegemite scones. Oh, my man. Oh, my God. Oh, that is, mm, that's good. It's because they toast them and then they give you some butts for it. I'm putting in more butter. I'm putting in more butter. I'm putting in more butter.

And if you hear someone having that sort of fun, it sucks to be left out. Also, you don't want to be the only one over at the cafe or the bakery getting goodies. It's better if you go with a friend. Exactly. And then we're lethargic together for the rest of the day. Exactly. But every time I try and be healthy, you like literally call me like unfun. Boring. Yeah.

You're like, when are you going to get a salad? I did actually when I got on this health check just before you got back, I was like, Jesus, Megan. I keep calling her Megan every time you say no to a treat. But yeah, I can totally see how it would happen. Yeah. So we wanted to ask the question this morning, who's your

bad influence at work? Yeah, and not just like food. Yeah. Like this could just be if you've got a bad influence, like I'm not going out after work drinks. After work drinks aren't happening this Friday and then they start petitioning at about lunchtime that it happens. Yeah. And they sure shank you down throughout the afternoon.

Now I'm not saying there's no amount of personal responsibility here because if you wanted to say, if you really wanted to say no, you down throughout the afternoon. Now, I'm not saying there's no amount of personal responsibility here because if you really wanted to say no, you could still say no. Absolutely. But you probably would have found it easier to say no. If they weren't chipping away at their willpower. A bad influence. When you have a bad afternoon at work and you're like,

okay, well, maybe I will go for that wine with Janine after work. Yeah, I mean, this day's a write-off. We'll start again on Monday. Yeah, or maybe there's a vending machine and it's like, you know, you don't want to go to the vending machine by yourself, but if I get Megan to go to the vending machine with me, I'll feel this bad.

Yes, you can share the guilt between the two of you. The burden of guilt. Yeah. Or maybe you've got a bad influence at work for slacking off. Yeah, true. Not doing your work. Yeah.

Okay, we want to know who the bad influence is and what they influence you to do at work. Talking about your bad influences at work, how bad are they and what do they make you do? A lot of scone eating around here. Yeah, there's a lot of scone blame

getting thrown around this corner. And scone blame everywhere. Megan's been asked for a scone after the show already. I'm not. I'm 100%. I'm done. I'm beginning to think

while executive intern Anya was quick to blame Carween as the influence apparently. A scone queen. Anya just said to Carween speaking of scones

should we get a scone later? I'm beginning to think she's the guilty party. She's the influencer. Yeah. The bad influencer. I'm not doing a scone thing. Again, it makes you feel better when you're eating bad food Unless you have to share it

Exactly So the bad influencers at work And what kind of bad influencers they are Bex messaged on Instagram saying It's me because I won't stop talking And then we do too much talking And not enough work And another person, Polly, admits that she's the bad influence.

I'm consistently convincing others to tip along the beers reserved for Fridays. So she's getting into the midweek beers. It's like an after work Wednesday beer. Does it get restocked for Friday? One would certainly hope so. You're rubbing Peter to pay Paul. Yeah. My boss who consistently takes two longer breaks. And so we're like, well, we don't have to take a short break because the boss is going to be away. Yeah. Yeah. My boss who consistently takes two longer breaks.

And so we're like, well, we don't have to take a short break because the boss is going to be away. Yeah. And so we're taking longer breaks. And then brings back junk food to share to make up for having a long break, even though we got a long break as well. No. Bad influence.

I work in an ICU. And my bad influence at work is the temptation trolley. Every day at 3 p.m. this trolley gets wheeled around. It's got home baking, chocolate, coffee, et cetera. 3 p.m. That's a weak point. You're hitting it in the weakness. That's a weak, yeah.

It gets wheeled around the whole unit, then comes back out again at 9 p.m. for night shifters. So if you're still around at 9 o'clock and you've had a 3 o'clock trolley, doing a bit of overtime. Double temptation trollclock. Yeah. And you had a 3 o'clock trolley. Doing a bit of overtime. Double temptation trolley. Yeah. My workmates convincing me to go for meat and chips for lunch every day,

even though I bring a packed lunch. So I eat my packed lunch at playtime. Playtime. And then go and eat meat on chips every lunch. Wait, what's meat on chips? Is that like, you know, the kebabs? The kebabs stores that do meat on chips. Oh, and then you get like sauces on top. It's like loaded meat on chips? Is it like, you know, the kebabs? The kebabs stores that do meat on chips. Oh, yum.

Oh, like loaded fries. Like loaded fries. You know you can get a kebab meat. You can get chicken on rice without getting chicken on chips. Yum. That sounds better than rice. My old work wife used to sneak off for Tinder dates at lunchtime and the bad influence was that it made me wish I wasn't married sometime so I could

have some lunchtime excitement. That's naughty. Somebody else said, my workmate Rochelle is my bad influence. Okay. She forced me to try Lindt balls. Oh, she forced you? Yeah, yeah, yeah. She held you down.

Delicious chocolate in the world that I knew once I started I wouldn't be able to stop. So I both love her and hate her for this. Yeah, it's expensive for a packet of balls. Yeah. The Linden balls, but God, they're good. Yum. Even the, have you heard the Linden, like, little cakes of chocolate? What do you mean little cakes of chocolate?

They have little bars of, like, chocolate. Oh, yeah, I have, yeah. The balls are better, though. They're all separated, like, individual bits. Oh, my God. There was something about a ball of chocolate. It tastes better. Yeah, it does. Why? I don't know.

It's like soft drink out of a bottle or beer out of a keg versus out of a can or a bottle. The feeling in your mouth is pleasing? Yeah, the balls in the mouth. Is that it? Because I'll put the whole thing in at once. Whereas chocolate, you break off the square. Maybe it's the jagged edges of the chocolate.

Yeah. Maybe you've got to tread lightly because you're worried about the sharp edge of chocolate. Somebody else said, me and my two work wives have our own office and we've actually become best friends.

And I don't think the company realized how close we are because every day it's like a party. Distractions, dancing, online shopping, you name it. We just close the door to our office and have a little party. That's good to hear you're enjoying the work.

And if work hasn't noticed, keep going. Get away with it. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast ZM. Megan, there has been some concerning correspondence into the FVM ZM Instagram inbox. Vaughan, I would like you to open up a Google, a fresh Google page. Okay.

And type in the following. How old is Vaughan Smith? Just that. How old is Vaughan Smith? 57 years old. Yeah, but you know who this is. Well, it's got your picture. Yeah, I know, but then read on the side, it says

Henry Vaughan Lockhart Smith is an English restaurateur, sustainable farmer and freelance video journalist. He's friends with Julian Assange. That guy. That guy, Vaughan Smith. So there's two, there's Vaughan Smith that works for Facebook.

There's like some dude who's quite high up in the rankings, Vaughan Smith, he works for Facebook. Yep. There's like some dude who's quite high up in the rankings, Vaughn Smith. He works for Facebook. Yep. He gets mentioned a bit. Yeah. And this guy is Julian Assange's friend. Well, you've got to sort this out because everyone's thinking you're 57.

That's fine. If I look like that when I'm 57, I'll be still. I thought when it says restaurateur, sustainable farmer, and freelance video journalist, I thought that was you being silly. Or me just claiming things. Like embellishing what you are. Well, you farmer and freelance video journalist. I thought that was you being silly. Or me just claiming things. Like embellishing what you are. Well, you do have free range chickens. Yeah, that's my sustainable farming.

Very sustainable, isn't it? And a freelance video journalist. On your barbecue. I always tried to submit footage for 0800 AMCAM1 when one news had a line you could call if you had amateur footage of news stories. Now I guess you just put it on Instagram. You love cooking meats on your barbie. And that's pretty English.

Yeah. And every now and then it'll be like, dinner's up, kids. Come on, get a table. And that's me being that. This is Julian Assange's friend. Okay, which is that people are concerned that they're Googling you. And so maybe you need to sort that out. I don't know how you do that.

God, Sade's going to be pissed off when she that out I don't know how you do that God Sade's gonna be pissed off when she finds out I've been married twice before too to Sanala and Panvera

and also that you're 57 and that I'm a right wing libertarian she's not gonna like that at all she's not gonna like it at all

she's not gonna like that at all I actually because I have a famous there's a famous footballer or there was

like in the 2000s, called Carl Fletcher. Yes. And I actually got a message on Instagram the other day and I forgot about it because it was early in the morning when I was going through the inbox and it was like someone saying, hey, you're that guy that scored that winning goal in whenever in that match.

And you're like, yes. Could we talk to you for the podcast that we do? And I've actually, that just reminded me that I've forgotten to reply, but I was thinking maybe I should go along with it. Yeah. Speak on the podcast. Put on an English accent. See how far along you can get.

Yeah. Yeah. And I'll be like. Before they realize that I'm not a 50-something. Year old. Yeah. Soccer player. Yeah.

At the bottom of this Vaughan Smith guy, it says movies and TV shows, and it says, have you been paying attention in Blood Trail? Now, I've been on one of those shows. What is Blood Trail? Blood Trail was a 2008 documentary film. This might be where the freelance journalism comes in because apparently it was from some situation in Afghanistan.

Right. Afghanistan. Afghanistan. Sorry, Afghanistan. Afghanistan. Sorry, why are we so hard on the R there? What are you, Afghanistan? What are you, posh all of a sudden? Afghanistan. Is that how it happened there? Afghanistan.

Afghanistan. Afghanistan. Afghanistan. Okay, all right. I've never been on a blood trail and I've never been to Afghanistan. Afghanistan. All right. ZM's Fletch blood trail and I've never been to Afghanistan. Afghanistan. All right.

ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do. I just found a picture of the football player Carl Fletcher and he is quite handsome. He's a balding brother. Of course, of course he is. He's a handsome man.

He looks like rugged. Namesake. Yeah. Well, that was a bit much, that last noise. Your Honour, I wish to retract the last noise from the statement. It was just a bit much. So, today's fact of the day. I saw this pop up and I was like, this is right up my alley.

This is, I watched a little like 12 minute mini doc where they talk to the guy who made the noises on Star Wars. Okay. And how he made the noises on Star Wars. And one of the noises, you can make it home. Oh, okay. I'm so excited about this. Okay, that sounded a little bit sarcastic.

I was just thinking about all the noises, like, you never really think about it. The guy, well, the team of people behind Star Wars that invented the sounds, like, they've created some, like, legendary, like, the lightsaber battles. Yeah. He showed how he did that. That was quite technical. That was a mix of a whole bunch of sounds. There's one of them with the vacuumaber battles. He showed how he did that. That was quite technical.

That was a mix of a whole bunch of sounds. There's one of them with the vacuum cleaner pipe. No, it was actually electric. He recorded some old TV humming and some projector noise of a motor whirring. Oh, yeah. That he actually got from the projectors that ended up playing the movie.

Right. Oh, I reckon that'd be such a fun job. Yeah. Inventing sounds. Yeah. You know the famous blaster sound from Star Wars? Whenever they're like, pew, pew, pew, pew, pew, pew, pew, pew, pew, pew. Like some of the first lasers.

Yep. And we take it for granted, don't we? It's just all around. The guy who made that noise, made that noise by finding an AM broadcast tower. Yeah. So I don't know where these are around the country, apart from I know Megan Widger, I've passed one on the way home every day. You know those

massive tall red and white towers? There's two of them on the way out in West Auckland? Yes. Is that what they are? Right beside the motorway. That's an AM tower. You've got to have two of them. Oh, cute. It's an old AM broadcast tower. Right. And they are held in place by guy lines. I always thought they were called guide lines. Oh, cute. It's an old AM broadcast tower. Right. And they are held in place by guy lines. I always thought they were called guide lines. They're not.

They're called guy lines. Yeah, like a guy robe. Yeah. I knew that. Sexist. Named after a person, not a gender. Right. So, in my very brief research about guy lines.

So, those are, when they hold up an AM tower high tensile cables what does that mean? like steel like real taut yeah real taut okay real taut

it's a tensioned cable yeah okay yeah that is both lightweight and strong and he apparently walked past one previously working

on the Star Wars sounds and tapped it and he was like that's a cool sound I gotta remember that pew pew this is the sound and while he sped it up working on the Star Wars sounds and tapped it. And he was like, that's a cool sound. I've got to remember that. This is the sound. And while he sped it up, he played it about one and a half times speed.

So that also changed the pitch to be slightly higher pitch. Yeah. This is somebody with a spanner tapping a metal guy line, and you'll see how much it sounds like a Star Wars blaster. Wait for it. Oh, that's pretty cool. Horn. Okay, that's pretty cool. Do not do that. Megan, I'm stopping on the way home.

There's horses in that paddock. I'm going to be like, get out of here. Pew, pew, pew, pew, pew. Oh my god, that's so cool. Pew, pew, pew, pew, pew. Oh, that's the next video about how to make Star Wars sound effects. I don't know. Wow. Okay, but you did slightly mislead us

because you said that we could make Star Wars noises at home unless you've got an AM tower in the background or a guide rope. Or just... A guide rope. Because I guess the sound comes from it being so long. Yeah, right. Because these sorts of things hold up like power poles and different things. Yeah.

Well, let's not be on a much shorter, but I guess, and this one works just because of the insane amount of length that it needs to be to tap to get the sound. Right. So if you just see one,

you could. No. I'm not saying whack it hard. No, I think that's sharp. But apparently all he did was just tap it really lightly with a hammer. Yeah.

And then boost it and speed it up a little bit. Do you want to listen to it one more time? Yes. What are you yelling at the producers for? Nothing. Oh, okay. Very cool.

That's so cool. Yeah. So today's Star Wars fact of the day. Today's fact of the day is the now famous Star Wars blaster sound was made by tapping a high tensile cable with a little wee hammer. Fact of the day, day, day, do, do, do, do, do. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast, ZM. Apparently, if the chores were more evenly shared through your household, that would be a $1.5 billion boost to the economy.

Whoa. As in, like, and this is if the men did more, right? No, it doesn't say that. Okay. It doesn't say that. You said that. I didn't assume that. It says that we'd be better off if housework and childcare was shared more evenly by couples.

Right. Sharing the load equally. Because 10% of couples who worked full time went 50-50. Okay. And the chores and 7% of couples who worked the same amount of hours did equal unpaid work. So that's basically saying I might not be going to an office to work, but I'm spending four hours a day housekeeping. Yeah, right.

And that's as much. You know, that teamed up with everything else. That's like the same thing. So you're not necessarily earning a wage because you're housekeeping, but if the other person was willing to do a bit before work and a bit after work, that would free up the other person to get a full-time job. Or at least like a part-time job.

Yeah. Yeah, right. Yeah. So men and couples, we both worked, did the same amount of paid hours, but they said on average they did 19 hours of unpaid work a week, while a woman said they did 28 hours of unpaid work. So unpaid work is the

chores and stuff. Yeah, yeah, chores around the house, right? Housekeeping. But here's my problem. I didn't think I needed vacuuming. Honestly, that's me and our relationship. I'm like, I don't need vacuuming. That doesn't need doing. But your husband...

No, he didn't say you need to vacuum. He said we need to vacuum. Your husband, Mr. Toyboy, is an absolute clean freak, though. 100%. So that's on him. Yeah. Are we counting the amount of hours I spent restacking the dishwasher after it's been stacked correctly?

And there's like dishes on the bench that could totally fit if that pot got taken out because that's a pot. Our economy would definitely be at least $20,000 better off if your wife would just take a dishwasher. Totally. Yeah. Yeah. And the reason I don't do the washing is because I do separate loads

for like I'll do a socks and undies load. What? We've got four people in our house, right? So at the end of a couple of days, you've got enough to do a low water socks and undies wash. Socks and undies should be washed together. They're friends. They both are worn under other things. Any other undergarments?

Singlets? We're not a big singlet family, but you can jump in that wash too because you're an undergarment. Now, T-shirts, you get washed pretty much by yourself. Okay, because then you don't want to wash. People wash towels with their T-shirts. No. No, no, no, no, no. I'll even separate out my towels.

Yeah, you don't want fluff all over your T-shirts. And that's why I don't do the washing is because it takes too long and I do too many loads. So it all just gets shoved in. Yeah, and you're actually costing. And I have to turn a blind eye to that because I will stop the load and, like, redo it. You're actually costing the economy.

Exactly. It's better that I offload these jobs that I become so finicky about and they take way too long because I'm doing different loads for everything. You've adopted the Megan Pappas mantra of life. Don't get good at what you don't want to do. See, I do want to do it because also when I hang the clothes on the line, I put the socks in the right way and peg them together so that when it's dry you can just be like,

wang and just get them together so they don't get lost in the basket way and peg them together so that when it's dry you can just be like, wang, and just get them together so they don't get lost in the basket. That's good stuff. Well, you spend so much time when you're inside folding the clothes, you spend a lot of time looking to match up those socks, but they're already together, baby. They're already back in their partnership.

And they're hung on one section of the line with the same coloured pegs. Okay, same coloured pegs is a bit too far. Yeah. No, all the socks go on one side. Socks and undies all take up one side of the line. We've got one of those rotary lines, and then you spin that, and the next step you've got your T-shirts.

They're all on there. And then your heavies. Your heavies, your jeans, which don't get washed very often. Your jerseys. Your jeans, your jerseys, your heavier things that take a little bit longer to dry. It must be so hard being so perfect at chores. It does take a long time to hang out the washing machine. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

And then because you've got to spin it every time you can pull something out of the bar so you're like, what's next? Oh, it's a t-shirt. Where were you t-shirt when I was doing the t-shirts? Yeah, exactly. And the towels, they're a day into themselves more or less because they'll take up a lot of line space and they need to have like they can't be on every

line. There's got to be, you've got to leave a gap so that the air can get between them and they catch a bit of sun at a higher angle. I think we've just cost the economy just listening to how you hang the washing. Good things take time. We've got a little bit of a... This has got to stay between us. That's what I'll say. This is how I've got her to talk.

Right, okay. She said she'll tell us as long as we don't tell anybody. Okay. Yeah, okay. Is that she said she'll tell us as long as we don't tell anybody. Okay. I won't tell anyone. Yeah. Okay? And even you guys listening, let's get this between us. Okay. Okay. Hey, listen up she, because executive intern Anya's got the inside word.

She's got the inside word on a huge topic of the day. This happened before the show. Go to the producer's booth. Where we float ideas about what we're going to talk about on the show. This was a big one. This was a spy. This was a spy.

We didn't even know how to address this. I mean, technically, this story didn't make the show. But it just, now it's going to. Now it's going to by proxy. Yeah. So what's the initial story? What was the foot in? Tomato prices have doubled in the last month.

Now I've got... Is that the tea? No, that's not. I was like, I think I heard that. That's the cup being put on the saucer. You know tea's coming. You're about to pour it. Because it was after that,

the sexy story that tomatoes are doubling in price. Because apparently they don't grow as well in winter. What? What? You mean the demand isn't there, so the tomatoes that are available go through the roof in price? What? The supply isn't there, but the demand remains.

We've become used to eating a summer vegetable in winter. What? So apparently they've doubled in price in the last month. And we didn't see it coming even though the exact same thing happened last year. And the year before. And the year before. And the year before that. Well.

But here we go. Here we go. The tea has been poured from the pot to the cup. Executive Internet, he's got the inside word. Again, I'll reiterate. We're just keeping this between us, alright? We're just keeping this between us. This is what she says.

You're not going to reveal your source, right? I'm not. I can't tell you who told me, guys. I've got my fingers in a lot of pies, right? Okay. So tell us. All these little pies. Tell everybody what you told us this morning.

Okay. I just want everyone to be careful because avocado prices are going to increase. pies. Tell everybody what you told us this morning. Okay, I just want everyone to be careful because avocado prices are going to increase. Santa! Yeah. I've had Intel. I've had Intel. And she won't

tell us who told her. We're like, well, who do you know in the avocado industry? Like a high up or something? I can't say, but I'm just saying, friends, maybe pick one up on the way home today. So like, you're almost saying like tomatoes, avocados when they're not in season, yeah, they go up in price.

I'm not at liberty to discuss growing seasons. Yes. Okay? Right, okay. But I just want you to be aware. Is it that we've become too reliant on one specific breed of avocado? And maybe if there was... The Haas. Yeah.

Which I'm very partial to a reed. Is it a reed? Yeah, a reed's the round three. Nothing wrong with a reed. The avocado grenade looking one. I love a reed as well. But this always happens. What?

Would he have a secret sauce? He knows. He obviously, he knows. Whoa. Tell your avocado person he knows. You tell them it's a secret. I know. You walk too close to the line, you You tell them it's not a secret. I know. You walk too close to the line, you'll fall off.

I'll be taken out by them. You'll be taken out by them. Big avocado will take you out. Big avocado. Big avocado will smash you. Right. You've been smashing avocados. How do you know the secret?

You can't reveal the source. I can't say. Do you know how espionage works? It's not as just like, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do. I can't say. Do you know how espionage works? James Bond's like trying to get the information out of someone at a bloody casino table. And he's like, the name's Bond. And Fletcher's like, oh, Fletcher, where'd you hear that? Oh, where do you get your information from?

If this was a spy movie, I would just shoot you in the knee. You would tell me straight away. I'd be like, boom. Wow. I hope you have a lifetime of expensive avocados. You're leaving too big a trail. You can't be leaving a trail like that. She's got an inside world.

I'm 007. She's got to protect her source. I'm 007. I'm allowed to kill people. No, you've got a license to kill, not to kneecap. I'd start in the knee, and if you refused to tell me, I'd just shoot you. I'd have to just go find an avocado farmer and they'd tell me. They wouldn't tell you.

They absolutely would. They can't give up the secrets of the cardo. What else is going up in price then? I don't know. I've just got this. Beans? What about beans? No, because you can grow a good bean over one.

Corn? I'm making clurries. Even hard to come by a corn. You just have to get a vacuum-packed four-pack. It doesn't travel well. Courgettes. Courgettes. Oh, shit.

Don't even start with courgettes. All right. Only five bucks a kg. I'll leave you on this thought. Okay. Strawberries. Yeah, quite hard to find this time of year. Who told you that?

Intel. Big strawberry. All the second-rate strawberries are the ones you can buy frozen. Don't buy frozen strawberry. You've been let on on the secret as well, haven't you? I think we've let out too much info. There's going to be mass panic. Yeah, if Anna doesn't turn up to work tomorrow,

she's been taken out by Big Avocado. ZDM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. If you enjoyed this podcast, why not give ZDM's Bree and Clint a listen too? been taken out by Big Avocado.