ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Megan Podcast - 18th September 2020

Episode Date: September 17, 2020

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Hello, welcome to the Fleeche Warner Megan podcast. Thanks to McCafe Coffee for great tasting barista made coffee on the go. Some free stuff's arrived. Where's Megan gone? She's gone out to get a cake. Apparently a cake's been delivered. Yeah, I got one of these cakes yesterday. It's the Whittaker's.

Did I get a cake? You never talked about that? No. Well, I didn't see your name. I didn't see any cakes. Why didn't I get a cake? I didn't get an email saying I got a cake. It was a Whittaker's, Whittaker's new...

Now, what the fuck have I done to them? Because every time there's a new chocolate, you guys get sent one and I don't. And I love chocolate more than both of you. Yeah, but you've gone too hard in the caramel camp and that's a Cadbury product. Whereas I'm... No, no, I'll go...

I'm by chocolate. I'm hard in each camp. No, you're a homo... You're a homo chocolate. Yeah. I'm by chocolate. I'll buy chocolate from anybody. No, I'm every chocolate. I'm cis chocolate. You're pan chocolate. I'm pan chocolate,'ll buy chocolate from anybody No I'm I'm every chocolate

I'm cis chocolate You're pan chocolate I'm pan chocolate You're pan chocolate You like the chocolate For who it is Not who makes it I don't care

Who makes the chocolate I'll nom it You'll eat it See I think you went too hard On the caramel vibe You became An unofficial caramel She did get an effing cake

Why did you Is there a cake for me No Okay we're dealing with this on Monday on the show. Hello, chocolate lovers. There's the Nigella. Oh. Fold out in the top.

Is it because I've seen, remember I talked about her hoovering Coke on air once? Is it? But I mean, that's factual. Coke and chocolate come from the same area. She just loves cacao. She just made a mistake. She loves cocoa.

She just loves the coffee belt. Hello, chocolate lover. Not you. What is it called coffee belt. Hello, chocolate lover. Not you. What is it called? Berry forest. Berry. Black. Berry.

Forest berry? I tell you what, if they want me. Berry forest. Berry forest. God, I'm actually like. It's a very rich cake. I'm actually past day. Like, I cannot believe.

Yeah, it doesn't say Fletch. It says Megan. It's a delicious. Well, I'll be boycotting them if they don't send me a cake. John and Andrew, who are you? How dare you? Oh, look at that cake. It's a killer cake. Who makes the cake? Bluebell Bakery cake. You can't eat that because

you're pregs. You should give it to me. I bloody can. Watch me. Snap your neck around like that, you're going to hurt yourself. I might eat the whole thing myself. Even I would struggle to eat that whole thing by myself. It's very rich. Just cut it in half, I'll have half. No. I don't want to give you half

just because it hurts you. I wish I hadn't taken it all home because it's one of those things that stares at you every time you open the fridge. Yeah. It's like,

why don't you have a little slice of me? Leave me too long. I'm going to go dry. Why does it sound like that creep off family guy? Add me to your

nice milk and fat. ZM. Head music. Lives here. Flesh, fawn and Megan. The podcast. I had my tea Nice little fish Good morning Welcome to the show Fleech, Fawn and Megan Yo Good morning Yo You're a little bit Your cord's tangled isn't it?

My cord's a big tangle Big tangly cord Friday, yes. Friday. And do you know what? We're a week away. Next weekend will be Daylight Savings. Oh, my God.

Yeah. Cool. Yeah. I mean, apart from the sleep we lose, but otherwise, cool. And then the week after that, it's 2024. So what a time to be alive. Yeah. 2020, mate. Weird what a time to be alive. Yeah. 2020. Weird.

Time's been almost impossible. On the show today again your chance to win our 50k factor of the day. Thanks to Save My Bacon. Make sure you're listening at 8.25. We've got the Prime Minister on the show today. Jacinda at 10 to 8. Yeah. Where's

she now? Oh she's everywhere. She's been all over the show. Where's she now? Oh, she's everywhere. She's been all over the show. She's been all around the place. So it'll be Judith and Jacinda in one week. It's like we're collecting the whole set. That's balance. That's balance.

That's balance. We could always talk to your friend David Seymour after you had a fight on Instagram. I'd rather talk to Winston Peters. Well, I think you'd have to talk to Winston if you talked to David you'd definitely catch him having a mid-siggy during the interview

I loved he was having a whinge about the price of durries yesterday but was on the side of raising the price of durries

previously did you see somebody ask him about his smoking habit and it was the first time he was like, um, hmm. And I was totally off guard. I was like, Jesus, Winston, that's the number one thing people were going to ask you after your durry break

at Otago University, surely. I hadn't even spared the thought of what he would say. All right, also coming up on the show, the top six. Yeah, Australia, Qantas in Australia did a flight, the top six. Yeah, Australia. Qantas in Australia did a flight around Australia called the Sights of Australia. I saw that they launched it and it sold out straight away. Yeah, people were just so eager to get back on a plane.

Would you want to spend seven hours on a plane going above Australia? I have flown over Australia on the way to Southeast Asia and it is fascinating looking out the window and just seeing as far as you can possibly see, nothing but sand and dirt and desert. But do you reckon they've got a yellow for like, say, Ayers Rock and stuff where they do a flyover? But then, like, I liked that flight

because at the end of it, I was going to a beach in Thailand, not just circling around and going back home to isolation, you know? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, but interesting. I got the top six things you'd see on a Sites of New Zealand flight. All right, it's coming up in the top six. Next, 84% of adults do this. What percentage is that of this show?

A few of us. Fletch, Vaughan and of adults have tried BDSM. 84%. What constitutes BDSM? Yeah, okay. So this is the thing. It can be quite innocent. It can be from blindfolds to fluffy handcuffs to like...

Oh, yep. I had a friend that had fluffy handcuffs and went through security at the airport. Oh, right. They took them on holiday. Well, yeah, they did, but they had to obviously like give them up. Are you not allowed?

Oh, you could handcuff the pilot. You could handcuff the pilot with like cute little pink fluffy handcuffs. So I'm just taking over the plane. Yeah, so I mean, it can be quite innocent to like whips and stuff. Right. But yeah, apparently 84% have tried. Why do you look all sheepish?

Me? Yeah, why do you look guilty? But, well, excuse me. Throw Megan under the bus here. 84%, that's like, what, one of us in this whole show has not. I don't think I have. What? No, no.

A blindfold. No, I don't like to be blindfolded. No, gosh, I like to see what's happening. I don't even need to ask Fletch because. Oh, yeah. What do you need to ask me? Oh, you don't even need to ask Fletch because... Oh yeah. What do you need to ask me? Oh, you don't even need... No, no, I wouldn't even...

No, but also we get like sent random things all the time and so like... Oh no, we get sent them as a show and you're like bags that one, bags that one,

bags that one. Oh, it's made of leather. I don't even know what it is. I'll have it. That looks like it's for smacking. Yeah, that's exactly what happened. Fletch is like,

oh, I got one of those. I already got one of those. Oh God, that one. No, I's exactly what happened. Fletch is like, I already got one of those. I already got one of those. I already got one of those. Oh, God, that one. No, I've got the latest model of that. We sent a paddle once. You did, eh?

No, we all got sent that box of goodies. That's right. Yeah. Yeah, and she was like, bags that one. I was like, what's this? So you're part of...

Lubricant. Oh, my God. I still have the paddle. How? Oh, lubricant. Oh, my gosh. This is so... Oh, my God. I still have the pen. How? How? Oh, on lubricant. Oh, my gosh. This is so... Oh, my God.

Unchristianly. Dear God, please forgive me for looking at lubricant. I don't think you took anything. No. Yeah, because God would have seen. Yeah. That's why. No, I think I took the lubricant for the slip and slide.

Because if you get a water-based lubricant for a slip and slide, it lasts longer. How amazing would a lube be on a slip and slide? Yeah, I broke the sound barrier. Yeah, I think it would be too amazing. Oh, my God, that would be great. Could you take it to a hydro slide and lube yourself up? Yeah, if it was water-based. 100%.

Imagine how fast you'd go. I mean, they might not be stoked at the top. Everybody's lubing themselves up with Jurex. What is it? Dual purpose. Jurex Play What is it? Dual purpose. Durex play. Durex tingle. Durex tingle.

It can be a massage oil or a sexual lubricant. Or as it turns out, dual use, triple use. Could be used to lube you up before you hit a hydra slide. Just Googling, is lube banned at Wet n' Wild? Park rules and policies. No lubricant? No. You know how Google says missing the words? Lubricant. Lube is missing. Lube bandit wet and wild. Park rules and policies. No lubricant. No gas. You know how Google says missing the words?

Lubricant. Lube is missing. And it's not in the FAQs either. Well, this is what shut down my way to hot springs. Too much lube on the slides. What if they got enough lube that they just ran lube all the time? All the time. But it was like a warm lube.

Like a watery lube all the time. All the time. But it was like a warm lube. And like a watery lube. Holy shit. You'd hit that lube pool at the bottom and just bounce straight off it. Yeah. Imagine that. Have you ever been on that funnel one? Yeah.

And you come in on the mat or the little raft and you go, yeah. You flick up the other side. Yeah. Now we're talking. God. Did we just come up with the ultimate water park? I think we did.

Lube world. Lube world. Lube world. Lube and wild. Yeah. Doesn't sound family friendly, though, does it? Lube planet. Lube planet. Okay.

Splash and lube. Yeah, these are all great. Great ideas. Good stuff. Yeah. What were we talking about? BDSM. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast.

Bad news for dog owners and dogs, or bad news for dogs, really, because... It's me and Vaughan. Yeah. Okay. Humans, new research has found that dogs are picking up allergies because humans are pampering them too much. What do you mean pampering? Like feeding them fancy things?

Yeah, so research has found that up to 20% of the UK's 8 million dogs suffer from allergies and that their conditions are being triggered by their comfortable lifestyles. What? So it's found an increased amount of time spent indoors, sitting on sofas, eating human food is causing them more allergies. Right. Labradors, which were 2019's most popular dog breed, they're particularly susceptible. Because they like to nom up anything.

Because they love, yeah, they'll eat anything. Yeah, basically. But that's making them develop allergies. Yeah, so the research suggests about 2.56 million of Britain's dogs suffer from inflammation and that around 1.6 are linked to an allergic reaction. Well, because there's lots of things like, because every time I go to feed Leo anything, if you Google it, it's like, no, they shouldn't have that because it can inflame their kidneys or whatever.

You know, they're not supposed to eat human food. But not even just that, like apparently dogs growing up in a clean house, so you bring the puppy home, your house is spotless and clean, their immune system isn't challenged enough. And so that can lead to an overly sensitive immune response further down the track. So just have a filthy house. Yeah, I don't think my house is that clean.

But then you take them outside and they eat dirt and other dogs poos and you're like, oh, there you go, mate. Rolling things. Drink water. They've got like a clean bowl of water, but they will drink out of like a manky puddle or like the water that collects on an outside chair. Yeah. And you're like, really?

You've been offered tap fresh water. Yeah. And you've opted for that. No, good, good, good. Help yourself. Fleshforn and Megan, the podcast. ZM. So Kanye, yesterday we good, good. Help yourself. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan. The Podcast. ZM. So Kanye, yesterday we were talking about his tweetstorm and that's when he did a

wee on a Grammy in the toilet. Yeah, just chucked his Grammy in the toilet. It was all about record labels and how they screw artists, which isn't untrue. It's not untrue. Did he tweet his contract as well? Yeah, sections of it.

Wow. I was like, phew, that was a lot. That was a contract with Def Jam, was it? But those are old school contracts, but he was saying that, you know, a lot of artists still get put on those and they get screwed and people don't realise. They're just excited to get a contract.

So, I mean, yeah, the crux of his rant wasn't untrue, but there was, do you remember me saying there was a tweet that was deleted? And I was like, oh, wow, he had a sense of realisation and deleted a tweet. Yeah. I think you said, oh, it was probably Twitter that was deleting it. So it turns out that tweet that was removed yesterday morning was a tweet where he revealed the phone number of someone who works at Forbes. So he called out a journalist, Randall Lane.

In his phone, he just had him as Randall Forbes. And he shared the contact and posted it on his Twitter and called him a white supremacist. So because it's more to do with because you're sharing someone's personal information. Yeah, he could easily sue him, surely. Yeah, what Twitter does is they hide the tweet and then they issue the publisher with a warning saying until you delete this,

your Twitter account's going to be suspended. Right, so he had his account suspended for a while. Is it 24 hours or 12 hours? Right. So Kanye has to make a decision if he's going to back down and delete the tweet and have his Twitter restored, which we know he loves his Twitter, or stand his ground. So if he doesn't delete it, if he doesn't agree to delete it,

they'll just deactivate it until he does. Yeah, they won't reactivate his account. Why haven't they done that for Donald Trump yet? I know. Because it's personal, sharing personal information. I mean, if Donald Trump's shared someone's phone number, maybe? Well, as opposed to

incite riots and racial division. Yeah, I mean, social media has a lot to answer for. Yeah, it does. But yeah, and also Kanye's been asking his team, who's been working on his election campaign, to abstain from sex before marriage. So now he's pushing working on his election campaign, to abstain from sex before marriage. So now he's pushing it upon his...

Wait, with anybody, not like with each other? Like he's like, there is to be no... Unless you're married. No, anyone. Because that's what he believes. And if you're to be a part of the team, then... Since when does he believe that, though? Just recently.

All good for you, mate. You got married. So what about us? Who haven't? I always find it so interesting listening to like older songs from him now and it's like

all those were different times. That was a different different car. Do you think Kim's waiting till after the election to divorce him? Why wait, hey?

Just get it rip the bandaid off now. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan the podcast. From the ZM Think Tank, this is the Top Six. Hello there. Qantas have decided to fly around Australia. The Sights of Australia flight sold out really quick,

about $800 New Zealand dollars. Seven hours is how long the flight is. They've got a whole lot of planes doing nought. So they're like, let's do this. And it sold out real quick, so they'll probably do it again, right? I wonder if they sold all the middle seats. I don't know. That would be like, imagine you're in that middle row.

You wouldn't, like, do they rotate the seats or do they let you get up and look out the little window of the door? Yeah, because you won't be able to see anything. Yeah, so unless you've got a window seat, why would you bother? Don't know. But then they also were selling business class seats. Okay. Premium economy business class.

And I believe it's ex-Sydney, meaning it's leaving Sydney. Yeah, right. So it goes up the coast. Yeah. Byron Bay. Hoops around. The Goldie. Wet Sundays.

Great Barrier Reef. That's a bit of a tease taking you all the way with the wets. And then inland to like Uluru. Carter to Judu. The Mount Olga.

Okay. The Olgas, which are kind of like the same vibe as Uluru, yes, Rock. Kata Te Juru, the Mount Olga, the Olgas, which are kind of like the same vibe as Uluru, except they're more of a range, not just the one-off. Oh, right, okay. And it'll be low-flying too. So you'll get a good walk. As long as you're not, as we said, in that middle seat. I tell you what, people that are missing travelling,

they'll do this, and they have, because it sold out in 10 minutes. It sold out the coolest selling flight in Q middle seat. I tell you what, people that are missing travelling, they'll do this. And they have, because it sold out in 10 minutes. Sold out the course. Put a selling flight in Qantas history. So the top six things to see on the sights of New Zealand flight. Because why not? We could get it done in a few hours.

What, six hours? That's lots of time. Well, yeah. So what, two hours from Auckland to Queenstown? Yeah. So you could go down and back? Four hours?

But what if it flew like in a loop and then went around the Chathams and... Or you could pop out to the Chats. The Chathams. I think the Chathams would be a long flight for not much. Like not... To go to, it would be great. Yeah, but... But to fly over, it's a long way.

Yeah, right. You could use that time to zigzag up the country a bit more maybe. But the top six things to see on a Sights of New Zealand flight number six, the shocking difference between what the Canterbury Plains naturally looks like versus what it looks like when you pump billions of litres of water onto it. Because if you've ever flown over, especially in summer, to Dunedin or even to Christchurch on the way and you're like, oh my God, there's these big green circles from the irrigators

and then everything else is just ploshed. Ploshed and brown. It looks pretty though. It looks like drawing. Big green circles. How do they do that? It looks like you did

a drawing on Microsoft Paint and then just did the bucket fill thing. Number five on the list of the top six things you'd see on flights of New Zealand, sites of New Zealand flight,

Hamilton. Beautiful. What, a low level flyover of Hamilton? People would just be like, you've only got one choice to make. What side of Hamilton are you going to fly over? None of them. I reckon go one way

and then come back and go back the other way. So people on both sides of the plane get a look at what is a gorgeous city. Not even the gardens would look good from that angle. Number four on the list of the top six things to see on a Sites of New Zealand flight, just how far out and isolated an oil rig is. I'm looking at you, Maui rig off the coast of Taranaki.

Because there's miles that you don't really know until you're that high. So isolated. It's just in the sea, isn't it? What if a gang of sharks decided they were going to eat the legs of it? Because they knew

that there was people up there that they could eat. And they've developed the ability to chew through metal. Steel. Yeah. Well, they just made it rust.

Okay. And then yumbed it. Number three on the list of the top six things you'd see on the sites of New Zealand flight, you'd see on the sites of a New Zealand flight, you'd see just how crazy people who have swum Cook Strait are. I know.

Because A, it's a really long way. B, those sharks have just worked out they're not going to be able to eat through the oil rig. So they're coming down to see what they can snaffle up there. And it's like always rough. Yeah. Always nuts. Yeah. Because it's the collision rough. Yeah. Always nuts. Yeah.

Because it's the collision of two oceans. It's crazy when you're flying over it you look down and you're like nah. No way.

You're like oh that wave looks pretty big and then you see it compared to a boat that's trying to get through and you're like oh yeah nah. Number two on the list

of the top six things you'd see on a Sites of New Zealand flight your house. Hey that's my house. I love doing that. Why is it so exciting? I love doing that. Every Zealand flight? Your house. Hey, that's my house. I love doing that. Why is it so exciting? I love doing that.

Every time I fly into Nelson, I'm like, this is my house. It's like, yeah, you try to work out when you're flying like to Tauranga or Rotorua from Auckland

and you're like, okay, Morrinsville's around here somewhere. You're trying to identify a small town on these big plains. You're like, okay,

I'm looking for a mountain just outside. That'd be looking like a hill you've got a real time limit so there's a bit of panic

yeah yeah yeah and then a cloud comes oh my god and number one on the list of the top six things you'd see

on the sites of New Zealand flight clouds and apparently under those clouds that's where Mount Taranaki

is but nobody knows for certain apparently there's always clouds there's always clouds. There's always some clouds over there. You go to the pilot, go higher so we can see the

mountain. He's like, nah. Yeah, you're not going to see that, mate. That is today's top six. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. ZM. Yesterday we had an in-house radio turn to producer Jared stepped up. We had more woman

clawing at the door to be part of this than ever before. We spoke to five Wahine and five were chosen. Jared matched with all five but now he has to communicate with them, drop them a message and that's hard

because where do you start, right? Do you have one you want to message first? Do you message all five? I don't know. At the same time? Copy and paste and message all five the same thing. Yeah, do you send them all the same thing and then judge who replies the best? Yeah. That's not my vibe

though. No, I wouldn't either. I think it's got to be catered. Yeah. This is just a question. And during lockdown you had 400 and how many matches? 56. And then yesterday, you matched with all of them. Yep. Are you just too nice? Are you not saying no?

It's one of those people that matches and then never talks. I might be one of those people. You know, you're like, what's a rugby player with a really bad conversion rate that kicks the goals and always misses? What are you looking at me for? Well, I don't know. I thought maybe. They probably wouldn't be famous if they had a terrible conversion rate.

Yeah, but was that when Mark Ellis was in the Warriors? I don't know. And they paid him a fortune to come and play, and then he kind of got like benched for most of that. What are you talking about? He did that radio show in Juice. He made Juice. So he played rugby league.

Mark Ellis played rugby and then rugby league. Oh, I was like, are you kidding me? And then him and Matt went on a rocky road to all sorts of places. A variety TV show. People would love that. My point is, Producer Jared, that you have a terrible conversion rate. You've got all these matches and yesterday included. Where's the follow through?

Well, like in a normal Tinder situation, I'll match with one girl at a time and I'll spend probably a day reading their bio and trying to figure out like what's a real smooth opening line. Okay. Right. And then I've got photos to work with. I can be like, oh, she's at church. smooth opening line. Okay. Right. But, and then I've got photos to work with. I can be like,

oh, she's at church. She loves the Lord. Yeah. So you're like, hey, how was Sunday service? How's God?

Stuff like that. Do you come in instead of trying to be real smooth, does it end up being like a bit of a slippery? Like a weird

creepo vibe? Slippery weasel. I hope not. You try to come in like a cute of a slippery like a weird creeper weasel you try to come in like a cute dog but you look like a slippery weasel so you're one at a time you need to just you fire out all the messages yep i've got no bios to go off i've got no pictures all i have is a name um a general location and you gotta start some convo well what was the name of the um girl that did the wap annie so. Send Annie a WAP gif. Yeah, that's a good start. That's what I'd do with Annie. Or you could say macaroni in a pot, question mark, for our first date.

Oh, yeah, because that's WAP lyrics. Or what about the one you matched with who was a public... Or you could send her a moggy that's been drenched. Okay, yeah, yeah. Like a cat that's been caught in a downpour. A moggy or a tabby. I mean, it doesn't matter what. Any sort of kitty cat.

Any sort of cat, yeah. The girl that worked with public transport, she was big on the buses. Could you send her a gif of like a double-decker bus? Say, oh, this is good. Lots of people can fit on these. I feel like that's something. Some public transport banter.

Or a picture of like the magic school bus. Yep. Oh, yeah. And be like, you want to be my Miss Frizzle? Yep. The trouble is now if they hear any of this and then you send it, they're going to be like. They're going to want to date me instead.

Will they? They could just hit me up on my Instagram. They could just do that. No, you have to make the first move, Jared. I'm too nervous. It's so intimidating. Here's some homework. You've got the weekend first move, Jared. I'm too nervous. It's so intimidating. Here's some homework. You've got the weekend to send some messages.

And then next week, we can sort out the dates. Okay. Or a date. Maybe that's asking a bit too much multiple. We're going to hold your hand through this. Thanks, guys. Because surely we've got some budget. What?

Yeah. I'm just thinking a free dinner. Like, we get a free dinner. The show is sponsored by McDonald's the most romantic okay yes the most romantic

everybody loves a Big Mac cheeseburger there's something I mean that's a good thing too because if you go on a date with someone and they order filet-o-fish there's not a second date

this is a family who is torn apart by a tattoo. So Casey is the daughter and she really wanted a tattoo of a dreamcatcher. She had like dreams of succeeding in life and she thought a dreamcatcher symbolises good luck in Native American culture and she just always wanted it. Okay.

So she was 16 and this is in New South Wales. Okay. So under New South Wales law, you need to get written permission from a parent or a guardian to get a tattoo. What is it in New Zealand? Well, I think it's the same because I remember a friend of mine got a tattoo at high school and her mum had to sign it off. Or like go with her and say, yeah, she's my kid.

So just a quick Google. New Zealand doesn't have a national legal age restriction for getting a tattoo or for getting a piercing. Some regional councils have bylaws, which may make it 18 or 16 or you've got to have parental consent.

It's so weird that it's up to a regional council. I know. To decide. Hey, yeah, all right, Auckland City Council, two things. Water, we're still short on water, and two, how old should you be to have your nips pierced? So some are 18 and then others are 16 with permission. Right.

Or you don't require permission after 16 even in some areas of New Zealand. Right. That's crazy. So she needed permission. Right. Okay. Or you don't require permission after 16 even in some areas of New Zealand. Right. That's crazy. So she needed permission at 16 just from a parent

or a guardian. Okay. So she went to dad, Brad, and as a Christmas present he knew she'd always wanted it. Brad sounds cool.

He sounds like a cool dad. Cool dad, Brad. He gave her this, he gave her the permission as a birthday present and we got the tattoo with her. So she's stoked. He's like, oh yay, daughter's happy. And a few months later, he gets a court summons. Yeah.

So him and Casey's mom are not together anymore. Casey's mom has found out about the tattoo and she is not happy. Where did she get the tattoo? It's on her ankle. Oh, on her ankle. So the ex-wife is suing the dad. The mum's suing the dad.

Yes. Oh, God. What's that going to achieve? What's that going to... It's not going to de-ink her, is it? Yeah. And he's... Cool dad Brad has got tattoos. So he's like, well, I couldn't really say no.

I mean, a bit hypocrite. And, you know, I was with her and she really wanted it for ages. Went through, you know, everything. And mum is just not happy. So. It's not like he made her get it. She wants it. So the charges against Brad, called our Brad, are of

assault occasioning actual bodily harm on the daughter. Wow. That's crazy. He obviously says that we're not guilty, but yeah. He's like, I'll do anything for her. She went to the police and they're charging.

Or this is like a... Well, if you get illegal summons, what does that mean? You've got to go to court. Yeah. That's crazy. Yeah. But I mean,

that's not going to... You're a parent. That's not going to stand up in court, right? Surely the kid would say, mum, what are you doing? Stop this. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, I wanted this.

Like, do you want... 16 with permission. I'm going to go live with cool dad Brad. Well, the other kicker is that Casey, the daughter, hasn't spoken to her mum in three years. Oh, right. Okay, so... Mum's come charging in all hot and it's like,

well, she hasn't been around. So I'm sure it's not going to stand up. But what a... Mum sent dad a summons over your tattoo. Because all of our parents are still together. But do you remember growing up, would you always play the parents off against each other? My parents always presented a united front.

Always. They didn't negotiate with terrorists. No, and if you went, no, God, no. There was no negotiation. No, what one said went. Right, okay. We would always go to mum because she was the easy one. I'd be like, can I go out to this party?

She'd be like, ask your father. And that means no. So you'd be like, can I go out to this party? She'd be like, ask your father. And that means no. So you'd be like, oh God, I'm not asking dad. You better, in our house, when I say you better ask your mum, it's like, I don't want the whole responsibility of making a decision that could blow up in my face. It's all selfish.

Right. I don't want to say, yeah, sure, have another biscuit. Yeah. If mum's going to walk in when the biscuit's happening and she'll be like, what are you giving them another biscuit for? Yeah. Dinner's in an hour and a half or dinner's whenever. I'll be like, oh, sorry, kids, stop your biscuit halfway.

But I don't want that. Yeah, right. I don't want the blowback, so I'm always palming it off. Yeah. Yeah. But then does she go, oh, we'll ask your father? But then other way around, I'll say no screens and then like an hour later they'll be on screens and she said, oh, we'll ask your father? But then other way around, I'll say no screens. And then like an hour later, they'll be on screens.

And she said, oh, I said they could. And I said, but I said they couldn't before. Oh, yeah, but that was an hour ago. So there's not always a united front other way around. Right, okay. What did Dad say? And she never says what did Dad say. I've never heard Sade say what did Dad say.

You've always got to say what did Dad say. Or you better watch out. You might end up in court She might be suing you Yeah For biscuits before dinner Too much YouTube And biscuits before dinner

Could we take some calls though Does anybody listening now Have like one of those famous Mum said no Dad said yes Like a Stories 50% parental permission

Yeah Situation When did you get 50% parental permission Like one of your parents said yes, the other said no but you did it anyway

and then maybe there was some fallout. I don't think anyone's going to end up in court like this situation. Mum always let me watch Home and Away and Dad hated me

watching Soaps and he'd come home and be like, why are you letting her watch this crap for? I thought he would have been down for a bit of the bikini

Summer Bay. Home and Away was pretty tame back in the day. Yeah, he wasn't down for it. Right, okay. Bit of an Al Stewart. All right, 0800-DARN-ZM-9696. When did you have 50% parental permission?

And did it blow up? Then poorly. Talking now about 50% parental permission. And maybe this was a story from your teenage days. Yeah. When one parent said yes, one said no. A dad in Australia is being sued by the ex-wife, by mum, because he let his 16-year-old get a tattoo.

She wanted it. Yeah, for ages. Somebody said they know someone who went to jail for assault on a minor for tattooing her without permission from the parents. Like an artist, a tattoo artist. Well, I assume so. Wow.

Because that's the charge against the dad, assault on. Yeah, assault on a minor. That's crazy. Yeah. But then he's also the legal guardian of the parents. So, yeah, we don't know how that's going to stack up. It just seems silly. She wanted it.

He's the dad. That's enough, surely. Yeah. Somebody messaged in saying, mum said there was to be no drugs of any sort at my 21st. Yep. Okay, that's fair enough. Dad called my friend and I having some.

Okay. And he said, well, I'm a little bit disappointed, but I won't tell mum if you share with me so we shared with dad that's 50% parental permission isn't it? yep I believe that is and probably if the other 50% of it finds out

there'll be trouble there'll be a lot of trouble I went and got my belly button pierced with my dad because my mum wouldn't let me they were divorced at the time and my mum was so disappointed

but if there was a blowout I didn't hear about it between them but she just said that she was really disappointed they'd let me do that

do you reckon that would be a big one for like parents that are separated and then like kids getting piercings yes

I feel like there's a lot of I would have thought dads were the harsh ones but it sounds like dads are like, letting it all go and don't tell mom. Right. Fine.

Kate, when did you get 50% parental permission? So I was 16 and had wanted my own dog for ages and mom said yes, dad said no. So me and mom drove out that weekend and bought a dog. And then dad can't say no when you get it back and it's all cute, being a cute puppy. And we'd had like border collies and things like that. And this little dog was like a Maltese Shih Tzu. So it was a complete opposite to what he was used to.

So we got the silent treatment for about two weeks. But it's not so bad when you and mum are in it together. Like mum's going to cop more than you will, probably. Oh, yeah, he loves it now. I love that he packed a tent for a whole week, though. But you've got to stand your ground as a dad. If you've said no, you've got to stand your ground for a bit. Hey, thanks.

You called Kate. Some text messages. I didn't get bursary in year 13, so I asked dad if I could go overseas instead. He said, yeah, you'll only have this opportunity once. Mum cried and said no and cried every day I was away and still holds it against me. That's what Liam Neeson said.

Remember that? That didn't end well. Yeah. Mum doesn't want to hear you talking about that. She's already crying every day. No, I assume this person's back. Oh, okay. By texting us. So I assume that. Either that or they're in an isolation hotel. Good morning. Good morning. What's on the breakfast menu?

Flesh, Vaughan and Megan The podcast ZM Dive into Flesh, Vaughan and Megan's fishy tag Well, we're after the ultimate side hustle And in these COVID times, a lot of side hustles People getting their business ideas off the ground You've got to pitch your business idea to us, your side hustle. We're going to pick three of our favourite ideas, one each,

before the show ends today. And then voting will take place over the weekend. So many entries. It's going to be very hard for us to pick. Well, let's meet our latest and greatest then. First to enter the fishy tank is... Connor, good morning. Good morning.

How's it going? Good, good. All right. Tell us about your business, your side hustle. So my side hustle, it's a little leather craft business I started at university. When COVID hit, I had a job in Queenstown, but it was made redundant. So then, yeah, this became my main income. Since then, so I've just started to store, expect a range. And yeah, it's just all leather, making wallets to laptop cases to sheets.

Oh, and what's your business called? Your side hustle called? Hide and Seek Boutique. Hide as in like hide, animal hide. That's clever. That's good. Where do you get your leather and stuff from? Cows? My leather comes from a place up in Auckland,

so it's all New Zealand leather, except for some, which is buffalo leather. Obviously, we don't have buffaloes in New Zealand. And how did you get into that? Were you just like, I want a cold leather wallet? Actually, pretty much. Pretty much.

I was at uni. I keep losing my wallet at uni because we're all useless then. One day I went to a craft store and I saw some upholstery octup. Just thought I'll make something out of that. And then a friend liked it and so I made them one

and then kind of grew from there. Wow, that is so cool. Do you have a website or anything, or Insta? I do. Yeah, I have an Insta, Facebook, and a website. It's Hardin Seek Boutique. It's spelt with a Y. Spelt with a Y?

Spelt with a Y. Excellent. All right, fantastic. All right, Connor, in the running. Diving into the fishy tank is... Bryce, our next contestant. Fishy tank, good morning, Bryce. Good morning.

Tell us about your side hustle. Yeah, so mine's called Sand Pits for Play. Okay. And I build sand pits to suit whatever size you need in your yard. And they can come with a fold-up lid that turns into seating. Oh. So you can fold it up and keep the rain and the cats out. Yeah, because that's the thing about having a sand pit.

Cats look at it as one giant toilet. Yep. They don't want their toilet business in there. It's a big litter box, isn't it, really? Yeah. Yeah, that's all they turn into. That's a good idea. So maybe even if you've just got a little bit of yard space,

you just put this in. Yeah. Fill it with sand. And then the lid folds back into seats. Yeah, that's right. So if you've got a large yard and you've got three or four kids, you can make it bigger. You can make it two metres by two metres or whatever.

If you've only got one kid and it's a small yard and you don't have much room, you can make it smaller. Whatever size you need, we can make them to fit. Where did this idea come from? My kids wanted a sandpit and I just decided to build one and then, yeah, sort of just went from there. Would you do one for a single male adult who just wants to play with a digger in a sandpit, Bryce?

Mate, I would do one for anyone. Fantastic, I like this. Good one. No judge. Versatile, versatile. All right, Bryce, fantastic. Casting a net in the fishy tank is... Laura, our third pitch this morning.

Good morning. Hi, guys. Thank you for having me. Oh, no worries. Now, Laura, what's your side hustle? So my side hustle is called Plant Basics, and it's basically, I know you guys aren't like super vegan fans,

but it's basically... You were talking about Vaughn there. and it's basically, I know you guys aren't like super vegan fans, but it's basically good to try. You were talking about Vaughn there. I don't ever want to be blanketed with what Vaughn says. You can't spell Vaughn without vegans. Hey, so basically just trying to encourage people to try something vegan. Okay. I grew up on a farm.

I would have never in a million years said that I would be vegan. Right. But I have been for three farm. I would have never in a million years said that I would be vegan. Right. But I have been for three years and I love it. And it's just trying to share that with other people with yummy food, basically. Okay, because what did we read out the stat the other day? New Zealand was the fifth biggest vegan country? Yeah, it's so amazing. I mean, I'm in Christchurch and we are so lucky with all the shops down here,

all the wee cafes and businesses. Yeah, it's just exploding and it's just really amazing to be a part of. It's such a cool community. So, you send out vegan goodies to people? Yeah, so basically one night drinking wines with a couple of

friends who'd been vegan about the same time as me we were like, oh, it would have been so cool if someone had actually given us some stuff at the start to make it easier. And that's literally where it started. So the key thing is the main product is the vegan starter box, which gives you kind of the basic

plus some recipes to make, like vegan mac and cheese, which is yum. Yum. Yeah, and it was just things like that, which I thought, I'm never going to be able to have that if I'm vegan. And then I found recipes and made it

and was like, that's so freaking easy. I need to share this with other people. So yeah, that was pretty much it. And we do other things now. So I just launched a chair pudding range, which has been amazing. And I sell it down at Riverside Market in Christchurch. And I'm actually working with a couple

of shops in Auckland, which have been so supportive. And that's the Cruelty Free Store and another one in Hamilton, mostly vegan. The shops have been so,, and that's the Cruelty Free store, and another one in Hamilton, mostly vegan. The shops have been so, so cool to work with. That's the thing. I like vegan food, but I'm just like, I do not know what I'm doing. Yeah, totally.

100% get that. And I was in exactly the same boat. Literally, I went from full meat, dairy, eggs, the whole nine yards. The next day I woke up, I'm a vegan. So I'm probably the exception to the rule. But I had great support from a gym here in Christchurch. There's actually a vegan gym in Christchurch as well called Plant Physique.

Where did Christchurch go? I know. So I've just been super lucky. But there are so many people out there supporting people in this way. Yeah. What is a vegan gym? Born so quiet.

I'm wondering about what makes a gym vegan versus an ordinary gym. Like the dumbbells are like coconuts or something. No, I think it's more their philosophy around the way you eat and support the way you exercise. So one of their big things is a 21-day vegan challenge. So it's just really to encourage people to go in, doing the workout as you would in a normal gym, but they're supporting you with the food side of it that's all vegan.

And they give you all the menus and all the encouragement and all the guidance and that's where I got my start and it was just incredible. I mean, I lost a load of weight and I was like, this is insane. You've piqued people's interest there with that one. Laura, very passionate. Thank you so much for your pitch this morning.

It's what. All these side hustles, it's insane. I don't want to choose. People are so passionate. Now, we are going to have to make a decision. We're going to pick one each. And I think no matter what happens, I think we've got to run this again. Yeah. Like, get a bigger cash prize in because it's so, like, we've had hundreds of entries.

New Zealanders are so entrepreneurial. I love it. So, I definitely want to apologise to anyone if we haven't got to your pitch because we have literally had so many entries it's been, it's just blown us away. But we'll make a decision later on the show this morning. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Yesterday we went for a corporate high power,

I'd say a high power corporate lunch. A highfalutin. Corporate lunch. You took a nice jacket but you didn't wear it. It was too hot. Too hot. I was say a high power corporate lunch. A highfalutin. Corporate lunch. You took a nice jacket, but you didn't wear it. It was too hot. Too hot. I was already a bit sweaty. A place that we would never normally go.

Nah. It's very flash. Fun scene. I looked at the prices, I was like, Jesus. That's an entree. It's not the place you go when you're paying. No. No, but of course work was paying,

the big boss was paying, so we're like, well, fine. We've known her for a long time, but we've never eaten with her. And that really showed when I said, what's the vibe? I said, what's the vibe with ordering? And she said, knock yourself out.

And my eyes lit up and you two looked at her like. I almost gave her a nudge and was like, please don't say that. Don't tell them that. Don't tell them that. Don't tell him that. Don't tell him that. You proceeded to order like every dish on the menu. I don't think you can put this all on him.

You dropped balls. You said, what do you want to share? And because there was a sharing thing and Megan and Ross were like pork belly. I was like, well, if they're getting pork belly, we can help ourselves with some of that. Let's get the lamb shoulder. And then it came to you and you were like, mozzarella, please. Okay. I was like, come on.

So the waiter said that that sharing plate would do two, if not three people for a main. That's all you needed to get. I don't know because that lamb shoulder mostly went in my tummy, man. You ordered entrees. Then you ordered another main each. I got oysters too because no one else got oysters. When oysters are on the menu, you've got to have oysters.

We're not going to get gout if we're eating healthy, all right? Literally, when you're on the table, everybody ordered a starter and a main. I didn't order a starter. Megan. Because I'm not greedy. Sharing and a side. Yeah. Who gets told to knock themselves out and gets a sharing and a side?

But then it came to you and not only did you get like an entree, you got two shirring, a main, and then oysters. I don't see the problem. I was told to knock myself out. You ordered a $45 pie. And it was a delicious pie. You look at a menu that says our specialty lobster snapper and prawn pie and not be like well I've got to have that

You've got to have that I've got to have that You literally just saw all the really good expensive stuff and you're like I'm having all of that I was told again your honour Knock yourself out I was told to knock myself out I think our big boss had a panic because

she ended up just ordering two starters. I did. I was like, oh, when she ordered like a really posh toasted sandwich, but that was a toasted sandwich. Like that was the basic premise of it. And Ross's came out, he got the same. And she was like, oh,

that does look a little bit heavy for me. I was like, what? I'll have yours. You order something else. And then at the end to top it off, little bit heavy for me. I was like, what? I'll have yours. And then at the end, to top it off, she said, I'm surprised you ate all of that. She knows now. She knows.

So embarrassing. And I was a little bit just, I was a little bit, well, I wasn't angry, but I was a little bit disappointed. Nobody got dessert. I know, I was about to say, did you only not get dessert because everyone said no? Yeah. Really?

She just said to me, I'm really surprised you ate all that. Yeah. And then she's like, oh, dessert, oh, I couldn't possibly. I was like,

I honestly don't know where you put all that. I've been looking forward to that for days. Did you have dinner last night? Yeah, I did a little bit of dinner. I was pretty full.

Flesh fawner Megan, the podcast, ZM. The absolute shock and horror behind the scenes at the realisation that I need to pick a Friday flashback in 10 minutes. You messaged a group chat yesterday asking whose turn it was and we all said yours. No, and then I looked at some... You had 12 hours. I looked in the database, in the playlists and charts and I was like, no, I can't find anything.

Well, what people can look forward to a week from today is the ABBA Friday Flashback. You are not playing ABBA as a Friday- I am 100% playing ABBA. Next week I'll run a survey on what ABBA song I should be playing. No. Mamma Mia, Dancing Queen. If somebody's got a suggestion and wants to help me out with a song that would be great

for Friday Flashback, you are absolutely welcome to text into 9696 right now. The people's choice. It's got to be at least 10 years old though. Got to be at least 10 years old.

Yep, it's next. Oh, here she is. Joined on the phone by the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning.

Whereabouts are you this morning? You're on the road. I am. I'm in Palmerston North. Sorry about that. Is there any reason you should have been invited to anything that I'm doing at the moment? Okay. I just feel like there's been a lot of shade the last week.

I was tagged in. To catch people up, Jacinda was invited back to our old high school. Sorry, the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern. Right Honourable. Thank you. Jacinda was invited back to our old high school to open what turned out to be a performing arts

centre. You're not a performing artist. Megan, are you kidding me? Look at me go. I was tagged in so many times by like, people were just being like, wow,

not even invited. I was like, unbelievable. Unbelievable. They had the Prime Minister. They didn't need you. So I don't believe Vaughan has any

affiliation with Palmerston North at all. Good. Good. We're in a safe space then. Yeah. Yeah.

Carry on then. Now, let's talk about the levels. What can you let us in on? Any, like, any scoop before any decisions?

No. We won't tell anyone. No. No, no scoops. But what we did try and do was just give a little bit of, you know,

just guidance, really, a bit of a path on where we anticipate we should be able to go if things are looking good. So rest of New Zealand, if we're tracking well, should be able to move to level one and we should be able to lift some of those gathering restrictions a bit in Auckland. So that's how things are looking at the moment. Cool, because I've got a hen's party and a wedding coming up. Oh.

Wow. I bet she hasn't heard from anybody who's just putting themselves ahead of the nation lately. I'm just joking. No, nobody. I understand. Hey, being on the road, what's, because politicians are out and about at the moment, every party's doing, what's been your favourite place that you've visited?

Like, what's been an inspirational spot in this beautiful country of ours this week? It feels almost too soon to be making such big calls. But I have to admit I did really enjoy the week that I spent based in Morrinsville.

Because as you'll know, the old slogan Morrinsville, you're not far from anywhere. I mean it was really easy to go to a lot of other places. Morrinsville. Don't worry, you're close to getting out of here to go somewhere else. That used to be the town slogan until I think they realised that they were overly promoting leaving Morrinsville. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah. Because then they designed the saying to mean, like, wherever you are, you could come and see us but it actually was more it was more interpreted as like sweet as to get out of here you're pretty close to but it was

then I visited from the Ifakatane Tauranga it was yeah it was it was it was a great week

right and um has Winston Peters ever tried to bum a durry off you is he like he got any smokes no I don't think he's the first person he would turn to and think Peter's ever tried to bum a durry off you? Is he like, you got any smokes? No, I don't think he's the first person he would turn to and think, she's going to have

a lighter. Yeah, you got a lighter? Yeah. I just don't think I don't think I'd give off that vibe. No. Don't have a packet of beehive matches in your pocket? No. No. Someone did ask me yesterday whether or not I've ever tried to have a little talk to him

about his smoking. I couldn't imagine that going down well. And I thought just the suggestion of it just made me laugh. Yeah. The answer is no. It's like trying to talk your granddad out of a lifelong habit. You're like, granddad, we're just worried about you. Yeah.

It's fair to say that kind of conversation has not been had. No, it hasn't been had. So where to from Palmerston North? I'm imagining you're just passing through. You don't want to hang around there too long. I'm heading over to the Wairarapa today. So I'll be spending the day with Kieran McAnulty. No doubt there'll be a bit of time in his ute,

which is the one that he famously had to pull someone out of it who was trying to steal it once from, I think, the main street of Cardiff. It has no back window, but apparently it's warranted. I've checked. Okay, I don't know what's happening here, but is that the town? Kieran McAnulty

is our candidate there. He has famously driven a ute there for a long time that is not in great shape, but it's now almost got a personality of its own. But someone did try and steal it. But he wrestled them out of his car mid-attempt to steal it.

Yeah, but I don't imagine it would be insured given the look of this ute. I'll send you a picture. Should you be riding in this ute? Yeah, does I don't imagine it would be insured given the look of this ute. I'll send you a picture. Should you be riding in this ute? Yeah, does that sound safe? Well, the last time I rode in it, it had no back window. But apparently it was still warranted. I'm not sure how that could be true.

I actually don't know if you need windows to get a warrant of fitness. Maybe not a back window. It seems like a leisurely addition to a vehicle, doesn't it? A piece of structural integrity. Just a comfort. Yeah. Especially on those

cold, carded-in mornings. All right, well, enjoy Cardison. Beautiful part of the country. Gorgeous part of the country.

It is. Thanks for the chat. Look forward to hearing what happens with the levels after the weekend.

Talk to you again soon. ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Last night, though, emotional

scenes at the Papadopoulos household in the kitchen. Yeah, dinner time was eventful for us. We need to talk about this soon. Oh, God, it's my pick today, and I'd completely forgotten about it until literally 10 minutes ago. Lots of good suggestions, but all songs that we've done. Yeah, and some complete absolute rubbish ones, so I'll be up front. I mean, people are quick to say when we pick a rubbish song.

Hey, they sent you lots of suggestions. They were just trying to help. Oh, my God. I might have panicked with this one, guys. I'm having a lot of doubt. We are going back to 1995. No, 93, the original was released. Wow.

Big in the 90s. This song has been crowned the greatest one-hit wonder of all time. Really? Everybody knows this song. I'm so on board with this because I love a left-field flashback. It's so left-field for you. It was also ranked number seven on Billboard's all-time top 100. It also ranked number one on Billboard's all-time Latin songs.

This could be how you nail Friday Flashback. It's under pressure. I nail Friday Flashback every time. Maybe you should leave it to the last minute every time. It's very stressful. Hit it. So. I'm really nervous.

You're doing like nervous stretches. They're going to be on their feet for this. This will get people on their feet. Do you think so? It's supposed to be a dance. It's your Friday flashback. What do you mean you wanted me to do this?

No, I know, but it's you. You're such a nerd when it comes to Friday flashbacks. Can't play that. Well, we're not playing, you're not playing ABBA

next week, that's for sure. Next week, ABBA, baby. Alright, so Macarena, ZM, your Friday flashback. ¡Suscríbete al canal! Ay! Ay! Now don't you worry about my boyfriend The boy whose name is Vitorino Ha!

I don't want him, couldn't stand him He was no good so I Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Now, come on, what was I supposed to do? He was out of town and his two friends were so fine. para ganar la alegría y cosas buenas para ganar tu cuerpo alegría Macarena ¡Eh, Macarena! I am not trying to seduce you. Macarena, macarena, my name is Macarena I always have to party con las chicas que son buenas Come join me, dance with me

And all you fellas chat along with me Bala tu cuerpo, alegría Macarena Que tu cuerpo paga la alegría y cosas buenas Bala tu on with me. Hey Macarena. Hey Macarena. Hey Macarena. Hey Macarena. Friday Flashback on ZDM. What an absolute banger of a pack. And people are agreeing, Megan.

Not so much. You've got to give that final, because the music stops, and then I didn't even hear it. There's one more after this one, isn't there? Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Hey, Macarena. go. Here we go. Here we go.

Hey, Macarena. Yeah. If you're a wedding DJ, that is a surefire way to pack the D floor. Nans up on the D floor for that one. Absolutely. Yeah. I work on motorhomes and caravans. I'm currently at a holiday park and everyone told me to turn my sound system right up. Yeah.

There you go. See? Yeah. Someone said this song sucks. Someone said I'm currently at a holiday park and everyone told me to turn my sound system right up. Yeah. There you go. See? Yeah. Someone said this song sucks. Someone said I'm too sober for this. But someone pulled up to the lights and the guy next to them was doing the dance.

He had to move down. He moves down. Look at that. I'm bringing the nation together. Somebody said, lady on Forest Lake Road behind me. Forest Lake Road. I don't know if that's,

there's a Hamilton and there's an Auckland Forest Lake Road and probably everywhere's got a Forest Lake Road because there's lots if that's there's a Hamilton there's an Auckland Forest Lake Road and probably everywhere has got a Forest Lake Road because there's lots of forests and lots of lakes yeah

so at least see something about our original street naming yeah like Church Street or Rifle Range Road yeah tell the lady on

Forest Lake Road I see her jamming behind me too oh yeah nice yeah lots of people someone said why do you hate us I'd say overwhelming

success there overwhelming this is mine and my husband's song because I'm Ria and he's Mike. So we're Mike and Ria. Hey, Mike and Ria. Oh, my God. Do they have a joint Facebook account? Intensely happy.

They sound like the kind of couple that would have a joint Facebook account. Yeah. Now, this time next week, I'm going to be bathing in the glory that is the post-Aber glow of Friday Flash. You're not playing an Aber song. I'm putting my foot down.

I'm going to play it. I'm going to do some more Aber research this afternoon. Right, okay. I really feel what Aber feels good on a Friday. Could it be Gimme, gimme, gimme

a man after midnight What about Waterloo Oh, that-da-loo. Oh, that's a banger. What about Dancing Queen? Dancing Queen. I mean it's good, but... Mamma Mia?

Here we go again. Bye bye. Look at you. I'm gonna like this. Everyone's gonna love it. Everyone's going to love it. All right. Last night in our house, it's dinner time. And I was, my, Andrew wants me to tell everyone that the reason I was making dinner was because he was busy and he wants you to know that he does help with dinner.

Right. But I was. I wasn't even going to go there. I was tasked with dinner because he was busy. So. What was he doing? I don't even going to go there. I was tasked with dinner because he was busy. What was he doing? I don't know. Something to paperwork and stuff for the cafe. If I ask, sometimes I get drawn into it, so I don't.

Right. Okay. Yeah. Just like, I'll make dinner, you do that. So we were just, it was just basic. We were just having steak and mashed potatoes and some beans. Just absolute basic. I make really good mashed potatoes. N beans. Just absolute basic. I make really good mashed potatoes.

Nailed it over the years. Yeah, it's because you put a whole thing of butter in. Do you know what the secret is to really good mashies? What? Little, little sprinkle of baking powder. Baking? Not bacon powder. Mm-mm.

Baking powder. I eat bacon too. It makes it fluffy. Oh. Not much. The milk and the butter. You've got to give people an amount. Because I eat bacon too. It makes it fluffy. The milk and the butter. You've got to give people an amount. Like not quite a teaspoon. How many potatoes?

Oh, if you were serving two people. So it makes it fluff up like a volcano. Because once you put milk and butter in and then you put baking powder in it, it goes all. The heat makes it fluff. Yeah, right. Very good mashies. Please be careful with your minute baking. Because otherwise your tater will fizz on your tongue. And that's powder, not soda.

Yes. Very important. Okay. So boiling the potatoes and obviously just frying the steak. And I don't know quite what happened, but I came back to find that the potatoes had dried out of water. And you know when they stick to the bottom of the pot, they'd absolutely charcoal the pot. And then the potatoes, there's no saving them because the whole thing just tastes like burnt.

Oh, yeah. It infiltrates the whole thing. Right off some tates there. And I thought I'd nailed the steak, but he likes his medium and it bleeded all over the plate. Right. He wasn't. Bleed? Oh, yeah.

I was just letting her have that, Vaughn. It bleeds. After the potato incident. Can I just pause your story? Mr. Toyboy likes his steak done medium? Yeah, but I like mine done well done, so. You're a horrible couple. You're like a, yeah, you're a chewy steak. He likes it like pink, but I like mine well done, so. You're a horrible couple.

You're a chewy steak. He likes it like pink, but not bleeding. No bloody. Right, okay. No bleed there on the plate. No, no, no. So there's burnt potatoes. He tried to eat those and was really pleasant, but they were disgusting. His steak was bleeding

on his plate, and I at that moment just broke down in tears. And I was inconsolable. And he's like, what's happened? Are you okay? Did something go wrong today? Are you all right? And I was like, I just wanted you to have a really nice dinner.

And I burnt the steak and I burnt the potatoes. And I was, in that moment, I was just like inconsolable, just having an absolute meltdown because I'd ruined his dinner that I'd been tasked with. Inconsolably crying. And he didn't know what to do. So he said, this could go either way, but I'm just going to put it out there and say,

maybe is it just the hormones that are making you feel this way? Dude, dude, dude. Wow. That literally really could have gone either way. 90% chance it would go one way, 10% chance it would go the other. I was like, maybe I just wanted you to have a good dinner.

He took a roll on it and he came out because that's the 10% chance. I think like deep down, I knew maybe that was it, but in the moment, I was just devastated. Was this your first big hormonal cry?

Yeah. Apart from when I cried like with Indy and August getting on stage. Like I cry at nice things a lot. We didn't know you were pregnant then. No, I cry at nice things, but that's the weirdest moment. Right, okay. Where I've just like absolutely lost my shit. So I'd love to know when you,

and if you're willing to admit that it was a hormonal breakdown. Right. Do guys get these? We have more fluctuation. There's the menstrual cycle, eh? Then you have your myriad. Right, your myriad. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And there is a time of the month when men are maybe a little bit more emotional than they are at other times of the month, isn't it? But that's when Mercury's in retrograde, I think. Oh. Fletch has his myriad a lot. Like, I reckon more than we would. No, Fletch is just a Mitch.

Yeah, remember we did that personality profile? Yeah, right. Yeah, I don't have a lot of time for useless people, it turns out. And everybody's deemed useless. Yeah. Pretty much, yeah. Everybody's below me. Okay, so what you want to hear from other women that have been through this.

Your ridiculous hormonal meltdowns. Right, and it could have just been over the littlest, tiniest thing. A burnt-in-potatoes. A burnt-in-potatoes. Yeah. Why didn't you just go in and get takeaways? I don't know, man.

It's late. I don't know. Just have a cry. It feels good sometimes. It did feel pretty good. Wow, so many stories and texts coming through. I had a bit of a hormonal

meltdown last night because I burnt the potatoes, but we're not just talking like, oh, I'm really sorry. I last night because I burnt the potatoes but we're not just talking like oh I'm really sorry I inconsolably crying about the potatoes. So we'd love to know when you had a

hormonal meltdown. Let's start with Bryony. Bryony what happened? I was about four months pregnant and I was cooking dinner for my partner just

like stuffed potatoes and I couldn't open a tin of beans and I just cried and for my partner, just like stuffed potatoes, and I couldn't open a tin of beans, and I just cried and hid in a cupboard. Was it a pull-tab tin of beans, or like can-opener tin of beans? Like a can-opener tin of beans, and I was like smashing it to pieces,

and yeah. Oh, brilliant. Bryony, thanks for your call. Charmaine, when did you have a hormonal meltdown? I was overdue with my baby, and I was sitting on the couch trying to eat a sandwich, and a fly landed on me, so I hit it off, and then it landed on me again, so I shoot it off,

and then the third time it landed on me, I just lost my shit. I was just like, I just want to eat my sandwich. The fly's like, whoa, whoa, whoa. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. And then I'm like, people shush me away, I come back. Oh, Charlotte, thanks for your call. Ashley, when did you have a hormonal meltdown? Mine was totally rational i feel but me and my partner

we watched we watched the blind side oh my god i just was yeah like could not stop my partner was like oh let's just turn it off let's just turn it off i'll be fine but yeah we had to turn it off and put like some sort of animation on to make me feel better. Oh, no, animation movies. The modern animation movie always, like, ends happy but destroys you. Yeah, in the middle. Before you get there. The Pixar movies.

You're like, let's put on Up and see what happens in the first ten minutes of this movie. Hey, thanks, Nicole. Andrea, when did you have a hormonal meltdown? Hey, guys, I was actually at the supermarket, and we were doing the shopping, and I was testing the body washes to see which ones melt nicest. I took the lid off, and I gave it a bit of a squeeze to get the smell, but it blew up in my face, and I got the giggles,

and I was cracking up laughing. But my husband was at the other end of the aisle, and he saw it happen, and he had the straightest face on him ever. And I, the whole way home, I'm like, why didn't you laugh at me? And he was like, because I didn't know if I was going to laugh, if I laughed at you, if you were going to cry.

He's like, I just didn't know what you were going to do, but I was so angry. He didn't laugh at the fact that it squirted me in the face. And so you broke down over that. Yeah, I totally lost it. I was like, why didn't you laugh? It was funny.

See, damned if you do, damned if you don't. Because if it had been me, I bet you would have been like, why are you laughing? Exactly. And that's what he felt like, so he just deadpanned me. Yeah, he's like, well, I'll just sit on the fence on this one. And no, that didn't work. No, that was the wrong thing to do too.

Andrea, thanks for your call. Some text messages. So many. When pregnant in a baby shop, I absolutely lost it. The shop lady told me that the port-a-cots didn't come with a mattress and I just started crying and she had no idea what to do. They deal with a lot of that though, right? Yeah.

You'd probably be used to that. You surely would be told in any sort of like baby place that the general clientele will be quite emotional. When I was pregnant, there was a Nutri-Green ad where the kid says, thanks, mom. Every time it came on,

I hope my kid loves me that much. I hope my kid thanks me for breakfast. My husband finished the last of the ice cream. I cried. He now is so emotionally scarred, he can't eat the last of the ice cream. I cried. He now is so emotionally scarred he can't eat the last part of ice cream. Ever. And our son,

I was pregnant with at the time, is now 15. So for 15 years he's been unable to finish a tub of ice cream. That's good. The other day I went to order Sal's pizza and they were out of garlic knots and I stood in the middle of the store

and just bawled my eyes out. I'd cry over that cry over there on a good day we've got the other bread things i don't want them like what would you do you just i'm like go to another store no i meant what would you do if you were working there oh yeah we can call another sales get some send over i don't know we've got some more in the oven. You want to wait 15 minutes? Help. I was watching a funny video on YouTube and I started laughing uncontrollably and then the laughing made me cry. I had snotty nose. My husband was like,

I don't know what's happening. What do I do? Are you laughing now or are you crying? And he just stood there and watched. And then I was angry at him for just standing and watching. So they went from like overly happy to like mortified sadness. Straight back to angry. That's the rollercoaster you're on, baby.

One of my favourites is I cried because I thought we were stopping for ice cream, but we didn't stop. Made it all the way home because it was so inconsolable. Had to turn around and go back and get the ice cream. Ice cream is important business though. Oh, yeah. You don't get between a pregnant woman and any sort of yum-yums, but particularly ice cream.

Fleshforn and Megan, the podcast. ZM. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Now today's 50k fact of the day. It's all thanks to Save My Bacon helping you borrow money online and growing your credit score at the same time. We'll ask you a question about this fact of the day at midday and 4 o'clock. If you can get through and correctly identify or answer the question,

you win the $500 cash. Today, a bit of etymology. Okay. That is the origins of a word. And I just liked it. It was simple. And the word itself is a very enjoyable word to say, write down, and just even look at.

Okay. The word is squiggle. Squiggle. Squiggle. Squiggle tops. Yep, squiggle tops. That's the first thing I thought of too. Delicious biscuit.

So what do you think, what's the origin of squiggle? It was before the biscuit, wasn't it? It was pre-biscuit. Squiggle. Squiggle. What does it actually mean, like a squiggly line? Well, because it means squiggly line, right? Does it?

But then the Gs look all squiggly, don't they? So is that why they were like, let's call, let's use some squiggly letters? So the visual, it's a noun, it's a short line that curls and loops in an irregular way. Okay. However, squiggle is also a verb, and that is the origins of the word squiggle. It's a word made of two words which has a name. Okay. What is that when two words become another word?

Conjection. Is that what? I don't know another word? Conjection. Is that what? I don't know. Yep. Conjecture. The word squiggle is a blend of squirm and wiggle. So the original meaning of squiggle was the verb to squiggle. But only really fully recognised in North America as a verb.

Compound words. Compound words. Oh, yeah. When two words are used together. No, that's when two words get pushed together to make a word. To make a new meaning. This is when you take a part of each word and match them together. Oh, right.

Okay. A compound word is like, I don't know. Neither. I was going to chuck you an example of a compound word. I wish, because I remember in English, you're like, you need to know this. But when? Fast forward. Now.

Now's that moment. Now's that moment. Yeah. Fast forward. That's a compound word. Okay, right. Whereas squirm is where you take parts of, what is it called? People are screaming.

People are screaming. They're English teachers. I could probably Google more, but I'm done. Do it. I don't want to. Well, I Googled when to. It's Friday. Well, I Googled when two words become a word. When two become one.

When two parts of words. I need some love. I'll sing Spice Girls till you find the answer. Never needed love before. Potmanto. Yes, portmanto. Portmanto. Portmanto.

A portmanto word also called blend, a word that results from blending two or more words or parts of words. Is it portmanteau or portmanteur? Portmanteur. Portmanteur. Portmanteur. Portmanteur. So squiggle is a portmanteur of squirm and wriggle.

Who knows that in text today? Portmanteur. I've heard the word before. Just because they're smarter than you. It always sounds like an aperitif. Yeah, it in. Portmanteur. I've heard the word before. Just because they're smarter than you. It always sounds like an aperitif. Yeah, it does. Or a wine. I'll have a portmanteur.

Yeah, I'll have a tawny portmanteur. So today's fact of the day is the word squiggle is a portmanteur of squirm and Wiggle. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. ZM's Fletch Warner Megan, the podcast. 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 Fletch Vaughan and Megan's Fishy Tank. Well, it's been a week of looking for our favourite side hustles for you to vote on. To eventually find one winner, $500 cash, and an extensive media package, including a Fletch and Vaughan jingle. Do you remember that we wrote one for your cafe, Megan? Oh, and did wonders.

Help me! You've got to work on your sarcasm. I did wonders. Oh my gosh, you did wonders. Did wonders. It's been, like, in all honesty, overwhelming. There was hundreds of entries that we just couldn't get to. Yeah, there was like 400 entries.

So a lot of side hustles going. So if you didn't get picked, we don't get through. Please don't feel disheartened. I think we do want to do another round if we can. I just thought we should just do a food truck round and they all have to come here and then we eat all of the food truck food and we just crown a winner. What do they get out of it?

They get to feed me. How are you not full after yesterday's corporate lunch? I'm hungry again. Right, okay. Well, that is how the human metabolism works. We are each going to pick a finalist and then you'll be able to vote at ZM Online and then next week we will find out who's won,

who's got through with their side hustle. I'll go first. Should I go first? Sure. Hit it. I was very impressed with this presentation, and I thought this is something that we need now, and we're going to need more of in the future.

One day, we might need it ourselves. The Vaughan Smith representative joins us on the phone. It's Melissa from Golden Years Training. Hello. Yeah. Thank you, guys. If people missed that Golden Years Training, you're basically, you've been helping your grandparents

and older members of your family to use technology because they want to stay in touch and they want to have all these things but obviously it's a far cry from the old tap tap ting typewriters of their day uh so you do like specific really easy to read guides and you help um older people with new technology yeah that's uh that's what we do we also do one on one training so i sit down and take them through it step by step and answer all their questions. Oh, the patience of a saint.

Yeah. And this was born out of COVID, right? Your job dissolved in COVID time, so you decided to focus on this? Yeah, yeah, I did. My grandmother got an iPhone because it connected to a hearing aid. Oh, okay. And she needed to learn how to use it properly. Oh, please.

So that was what started it all. And then she told some of her friends and family and stuff. And it just kind of grew from there, really. Wow. And Golden Years Training, that's such a good name. It's a good name. And how many people do you reckon would have given up on, like, helping their old people in their life with technology?

Because it doesn't get... But it's not even that, like, my mum's... Well, you don't even say a lady's age, but early 60s, and she needs help with stuff like this, because it is just changing constantly. For sure. Well, congratulations, Melissa. You're in our top three,

and if you like Melissa's idea for a side hustle, you can vote for her at ZM Online. Alright, I'm going to announce my pick. This was so hard but this one appealed to my sweet tooth. Because I love lollies so much.

Alison joins us. Good morning, Alison. Good morning. Congratulations. You're my pick for Fishing Tank. Oh, it's awesome. Thank you. With your lolly subscription service.

Now, maybe for the new listeners that missed your pitch the other day, Megan, you were away. I wasn't here and I love lollies. Tell us about your lolly subscription side hustle. Yeah, so it's called All My Lolli, and it's a candy subscription box. So every month we'll send you out a box full of just really good premium candy that we've got from all around the world.

I love this. Oh, all around the world. Yep. Okay. Now you're into it. How do you say it when you say, Oh My Lolli? Like, is there a way that you like it to be said? Do you answer the phone a certain way?

Not really, but maybe if you guys do the jingle, we can. Yeah, we'll do it. Oh, my lolly. My lolly. Lolly, lolly, lolly. Already I'm just bouncing around some ideas. Yeah, they sound great. That would be great.

You just made a noise. Lolly, lolly, lolly. No, that's going to be the jingle. And then people in the car when they're listening to the jingle will be like, driving along, it'll be like,

la-la-la-la-la-la. La-la-la-la-la-la. I mean, that's just a brain... We'll work on it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No bad idea in a brainstorm, Megan. Well, if you like Alison's idea, you can vote for hers

at ZM Online. Okay. Final pick is mine. This particular pitch spoke to me. They've created a product for something very close to my heart. They love them as much as I do, and I

can tell this person is very business minded and would use this money to propel their business even further. My choice is Ruckus and Tucker. Good morning, Amberley. Yes, Amberley. Good morning.

Congratulations. Congrats. Thank you. So for people who didn't hear, you make premium dog collars and leads and they are super cute. They have rose gold hardware, different kinds of hardware. I remember when I first got my doggy, I was like, I want something blinging. And it's actually quite hard to find cool, different dog calls.

Yeah, definitely. And in New Zealand as well, there's not many people who actually do premium stuff like that. It's not just plastic hardware and plain colours. Yeah, yeah. Well, you've spoken to me because I love doggies. Awesome. Alright, well, Emily, congratulations. You're our third and final

pick. So the final is on. You can vote for your favourite at ZM Online. And then we'll come back next week and announce our winner. Lollies, doggies and old people. Oh! It's all the best things. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan.

The podcast. ZM, Fawn and Megan, the podcast, ZM. Okay. Say something, and then don't give me a chance for a witty reply, and then you turn on the microphones, and half of what I say ends up on air. You said something,

boom, microphone on, I was mid-reply. Yeah. And it wasn't for broadcast. It was certainly not for broadcast. We would like to discuss a new term. It's to describe men.

It's called certain types of men. A himbo. So this is a new dating term. Is it like bimbo? This is a portmanteau. It is. Yes. It is a portmanteau.

Oh, haven't we learned something today? Why are we saying portmanteau? Oh, because we're trying to sound familiar. T-E-A-U. Yeah, portmanteau. Which is two words, parts of two words jammed together. A new word. So it is.

It consists of him and bimbo. A himbo. What would you say? I've heard this. I'm sure this word was around. Didn't this get chucked around in the 90s when bimbo was being chucked around? A himbo. Yeah, maybe.

I haven't heard this word. I haven't heard this word. Bimbo for a long time. I know. No, neither. Horrible word, isn't it? Yeah. So, I mean, technically, if we're not accepting bimbo, we probably

shouldn't accept himbo. But I'll tell you about it anyway. Do we know the definition of a bimbo? Do you want the official definition? Yeah. An attractive but unintelligent or frivolous young woman. Okay. So, a himbo...

Is pretty much the same thing. Is that the same thing? This type of man is not conventionally smart. Okay. But very good to look at. Right. So some qualities, they're handsome, they are very caring.

They will look after you, but... You've got another name for them don't you Megan? No. Oh no. You don't want to be cancelled. Is this what she was calling shush babies before? Yeah.

Shush babies. But doesn't shush baby that's a genderless term. Yeah that's a genderless term. Yeah it's when they're really really hot and they're like start trying to have

a conversation and you're just like shush baby. Tell me about your protein shake later. I had a shush baby once and didn't know what a wheelbarrow was. I was in a conversation

and I was like, are you chucking in a wheelbarrow? And she was like, what? Yeah, but you grew up on a farm. It's a wheelbarrow. Everyone knows what a wheelbarrow is. I'm just playing devil's advocate. She was lovely. Because it is an old term bimbo, why is that coming back as himbo now? Apparently

they're saying they're growing in popularity in 2020 because, you know, like smart, intelligent, strong women are like, you know what? A himbo is just perfect for them. I need an outlet. Is that like what it is? Okay. They say, you know, there's a lot

of stronger women now with the growth of feminism and a modern woman can often just be really satisfied with a himbo. Okay. Just maybe. Okay. Whatever works, you know, if the dynamic works in the relationship, then... And, you know, it's said they were very caring, a good partner. Yeah.

Just... Like a big... Like a big... Slubbery dog. Teddy bear. Yeah. Yeah. Just. Like a big, like a big slobbery dog. Teddy bear. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Sure. Like a dog. Three minutes. It won't poop on your lawn. Maybe it will. Maybe it will. Yeah. ZM's Fletch,

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