ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Megan Podcast - 19th June 2020

Episode Date: June 18, 2020

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Hello and welcome to the Fletch, Vaughan and Megan podcast, brought to you by McCafé. Grab yourself a delicious barista-made coffee for only $4. ZM. Hit music. Live the air. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. Always a little unnerving when you wake up and you open your social media for a little scroll

and you see 7.4 magnitude earthquake. But luckily, off the coast. Right. And no tsunami threat, as you might have just heard Ash mention. But you felt widely. Yeah. So off the east coast,

widely in Gisborne, Hawke's Bay, but also in Auckland, people felt it, Wellington. What time? Midnight, right? Yeah, just 10 minutes to 1. 12.50am. So it must have shooken them awake.

Yeah. Well, more than 9,000 people reported it. Because I think you can register on GeoNet if you felt it, right? Yeah, if you felt something. But yeah, and obviously a lot of people freaking out that there could be a tsunami. 33km deep. But GeoNet listed it as weak. Right.

So, great news here. Relax. Right. So, great news here. Relax. Wow. Not great news for you, though, because it's your Friday flashback today. So, we're going to hear about this all morning. Yeah, because it's hard. We're already halfway through the year. I feel like we're running out of songs.

We've used old ones this year. I know. You've still got lots from 2010. All right. Well, my pick coming up at 8 o'clock this morning. Vaughan, you've got the top six. Yeah. Elon Musk's talking about hypersonic terminals.

Must have been smoking weed with Joe Rogan. He reckons eventually you'll be able to get from Sydney, Australia to Los Angeles in about two hours. Currently that takes 14 hours. So that's going to make travel a lot quicker. But I've got the top six other names for hypersonic terminals. All right, coming up. Fletchbourne and Megan's Free Shelf Friday. And we're doing this today. Every 15 minutes, your chance to win $100 towards dining out at your local bar or restaurant.

Cheers to your local. You support your local hospitality venues. You can tag while you're out. Cheers to your local NZ. So every 15 minutes, giving you the chance to win. If you would like to win right now, $100 towards local dining, $800 at M right now. Now we've got a little issue in studio

that won't affect you listening now, wherever you are. We've got a broken phone screen, but I believe if I press this, it should work. ZM, good morning. Good morning. Who's this? It's Hay work. ZM, good morning. Good morning. Who's this?

It's Hayley. Hayley, congratulations. $100 towards dining at your local bar or restaurant. All yours, well done. Awesome, thanks. All right, we'll start the timer. Do it again in 15 minutes. Next, it's another TikTok hack.

This one I'm behind. I need to try this. Fletchvorna Megan, the podcast. ZM. This is a TikTok trend that I can get behind. A I need to try this. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. ZM. This is a TikTok trend that I can get behind. A few people are doing this. One TikTok user, Ace B. King, started this. Will you freeze your cereal?

Now, the one that he's frozen is Cheerios. This is him giving it a go. Hold on, I missed the play button. I seen somebody do this shit and it better be mother f***ing good because if I just put my bowl of cereal in the mother f***ing freezer for no reason I'll have some. Milk's going in.

Yeah. So you don't freeze it with the milk? No. There's nothing. Oh god. Yuck. That was nothing. Oh, God. Yuck. That was a good... That's a good reaction. It sounds extra crunchy.

Oh, yeah. So... Gross. They did that thing where... Oh, it's gross watching other people eat cereal. It dribbles out their mouth. Yeah, the milk dribbles out their mouth, and then there's the slurps.

See, I reckon trying that with Cocoa Pops. Yeah. Because they'd be real hard and crunchy. You add the milk, you'd get more crunch out of them. Yeah. It would take longer for them to go soggy. I'm trying to think what else would be good. Because, like, it's not really a muesli kind of thing.

No. Fruit Loops. Yeah. Rice Bubbles. You'd just describe it all. They should be my sugary cereal. All the sug of thing. No. Fruit loops. Yeah. Rice bubbles. You're just describing all the most sugary cereals, which are yum regardless. All the worst cereals for you.

Try it with that. Wheat Bix with that. Nah, because you want that to go soggy, don't you? Yeah. And that's just, meh. You need to do it

with the yummy ones. So freeze it, put it in the freezer the night before. Without the milk, add the milk the next day. Super, super crunchy. I need to try this.

Yeah. With your muesli. Well, that's the thing. I'm not really a cereal, like, Cocoa Pops kind of guy, but every now and again I'll just... Treat yourself. If I get Cocoa Pops, I'll just eat them out of the bag just as a snack. Does anyone else do that?

No. No. And Froot Loops. They're the best for that too. I don't think I've ever had Froot Loops. What's that one with the, it's got like marshmallows in it? Lucky Charms. Lucky Charms. Yeah, Lucky Charms.

Frozen Lucky Charms. They're Queenies. Yeah. I think they would be. All right, well, chuck the Cocoa Pops in the freezer today. No milk. Again, no milk. No milk. No milk. Because then you're just going to get a block. ZM's Fletch, Va in the freezer today. No milk. Again, no milk. No milk.

No milk. Because then you're just going to get a block. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. GST, online shopping. When did that kick in? December 1st. So it's been six months and a bit. Right.

So in the first, there's been some stats come out. In the first four months that they made overseas retailers collect just $33 million. We made $33 million. Yay. Free money. Free money. Also, a good chunk of that was in lockdown. Yep.

Yeah. You know, where stuff took longer to arrive. Yeah. Or, you know, just kind of, just a lot of places were like, oh, not now. So that's literally money that we wouldn't have got before. Yeah.

Like if you'd been on Amazon or all the big retailers. Yeah. In the past. Good Lord. Isn't that insane? Yeah. Wow.

But have you found that with any of your... That's enough to do another flag referendum. How much did that even cost? Wasn't that $26 million at low estimates? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Sorry to bring it down, guys. Yeah, you really did, didn't you?

It is kind of... It makes it a little bit of a deterrent because some of the sites that I go on, they don't calculate it when you're initially looking. It's not until you put it to the cart that it gets added. And then they're added. And you're like, oh man,

that extra 15% really tipped me over the edge. Yeah, I guess I'll just go to the local shop and buy it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so I mean, it's good. It's kind of, you're levelling the playing field, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah.

But then at the same time, is anyone really shopping online overseas anyway? Because it's taking forever to get here and even sites that were doing free shipping. So ASOS isn't doing free shipping anymore. They say it's because the limited flights, it's $50 on any order for express shipping. But then express, I don't think exists either. So what's that like a month? How long is it taking you to? Yeah, because I sent some back that I bought before lockdown and they've literally only just got it. Oh, wow.

Okay. So it's taking weeks. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. ZM. From the ZM Think Tank, this is the top six. Hello there. Fresh off the back of the SpaceX-NASA successful launch of the Falcon and Dragon bits and pieces of rockets

where Doug and Craig and Bruce and Steve, a couple of old mates' names, went up to the International Space Station. SpaceX is looking to the next project and they're hiring people. Apparently SpaceX is hiring for offshore operations engineers in Brownsville.

And Elon Musk saw this tweet of somebody who thought that they were getting a bit of a scoop. And he said, oh yeah, SpaceX is building floating super heavy class spaceports for Mars, Moon

and hypersonic travel around Earth. Imagine that. So they reckon you can go from LA to Sydney in two hours. And that would normally take 14 and a bit on a commercial plane. And they'll be the same massive floating facilities that would take people to the moon.

Or could launch different people to Mars depending on times of the year or if their weather conditions are better at a certain time. Do you really need to get from, like, LA to Sydney in two hours? Because that wouldn't be cheap, would it? How much would you be paying? Not sure. Ridiculous money.

But then business people can get there and back in every four hours. Do you still get, like, what happens to jet lag? In 2017, they did a story on this and said to fly from New York to China on SpaceX Air would be $2,900. But significantly quicker.

Wow, okay, that's cheap. Which is what they're aiming for. Yeah, right. Yeah. So they're building basically these massive offshore rocket launch facilities. So they're building basically these massive offshore rocket launch facilities. So they're going to be floating like repurposed Royal Reg type things. But hypersonic terminals are what they're going to be called.

But I've got the top six other names for hypersonic terminals because I think everybody, every region would want their own sort of name. Because like, you know how we might call it a chilli bin, but Australia calls it an esky and somebody else calls it an icebox. It needs a little regional flavor. So the top six other names for hypersonic terminals.

Number six, zip-zap stops. Zip-zap stops. Zip-zap stops. Sounds pretty cute. Number five on the list of the top six other names for hypersonic terminals, express transport depots. Oh, yeah. Quite formal sounding.

Yeah. Just popping down to the ETD. Yeah. That sounds fancy. Quite formal sounding. Yeah. It's popping down to the ETD. Yeah. That's got a nice acronym sound to it. Number four on the list of the top six other names for the hypersonic terminals, the turbo conveyance stations. Oh, I like that.

Yeah. Got a little turbo in there, so it sounds... Still going to have to put your toothpaste in a little plastic bag and go through security at these places? Yeah. To get that far that fast, there's going to have to be a period of extreme acceleration. Unless it's accelerating...

Because you know how the pilot's like, hey, we've reached our cruising speed and altitude. Yeah. And it takes you like... And the plane always goes... And I'm like, we're going down every time. Unless you're accelerating exactly to the point where you start to not...

You know what I mean? Like, to go that fast, there's got to be a period of extreme acceleration. Got to be some Gs involved. So maybe you won't be able to get out of your seat at all on the plane. You just have to have a catheter if you need to go to it. Always need to go for a wheeze.

Okay. Our number three on the list of the top six other names for hypersonic terminals, the meteoric deployment facilities. Oh, yes. I like that. Yeah. That probably, meteoric. Sounds spacey because of meteors, but it does just mean going super quick.

Oh, does it? Okay. And number two on the list of the other names for a hypersonic terminal are the Swift Mobilization Yard. I like it. And number one on the list of the top six other names for hypersonic terminals, the Expeditious Launching and Halting Amenity. Oh, yeah, I like that.

Yeah. Just get out there. Anybody can take those. Those are all freebies. You got out the thesaurus today. Didn't you? I basically just searched those words with synonym beside it. That is today's

Top Socks. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Last night on the television one program Savage Sharp, Hilary Barry, regular host of said show, was wearing a lovely number. It was pink. Off the shoulder.

Yeah. I saw this pop up on Instagram. And you know how they, during the news, they're like, and what's coming up on 7 Sharp, Jeremy and Hilary? Yeah. And then Jeremy and Hilary tell you what's happening. Yeah. The minute I saw it, I was like, well, that looks lovely, but I can almost guarantee there's going to be some old mate that has issues.

Just remember, Cleavage Gate, when Hilary dared show part of her chest. And someone's commented on her thighs before. Yeah, yeah. I don't know why. But I like that she calls them out, because it is rubbish, isn't it? It's rude.

So it came back to the start of the show, and she pointed to her exposed clavicle and said, already had complaints about this. Wow. And then later on Instagram, she shared a post to the 7 Sharp Facebook page from a Jeff whose profile picture is a very close up of Jeff's face. Yeah. Jeff's no oil painting. No, from. Yeah. Jeff's no oil painting.

No, from that thumbnail, he's no oil painting. No, and he wrote, please encourage Hillary to dress properly. Exposed shoulders are for the young. Excuse me? Wow. Straight up ageist.

She looked great, though. I thought she looked fantastic. It doesn't matter if you didn't think she looked fantastic. She can wear whatever the F she wants. Yeah. It's her show. And it's...

I just can't understand why someone would be like, well, fire up the Omega 500, Cheryl. I'm going online to make a complaint. I know. You're right. I do love that she calls it out, though. Yeah. Because you can imagine them being like,

no, don't engage. Don't fire them up. You don't want to, because that's the thing, if you do call people out, then you're just encouraging other people to do this, aren't you? Are you?

You're encouraging dickheads to do it. Because I've always thought there should be a TV show, maybe she'd be perfect to front this, where she knocks on the door of stuff commenters and people that comment maybe even about her and just sit down and have a cup of tea with

them, a biscuit, and just chat to them and say, what is up with you? What is it about my shoulder that offends you so much? Yeah. I think she should just... And then right at the end just say, you're no oil painting, Jeff. Hilary's followed it up with a picture of her on the beach in a

strapless pair of togs. This is for every Jeff who ever told a woman what to wear and what part of her body to cover up. We'll not be told, not now, not ever. Good. She should go double off the shoulder next week. Just keep pushing it. Turn up in a bikini.

Every episode, just wear one item less of clothing just to see how right up Jeff can get at home and all the boomers. They literally had a story last night about men's health and it showed Jeremy Wells getting a, well, it didn't show the actual finger going into the butthole to check the prostate.

He focused on his face. Yeah, but there was no mention of that from Jeff who obviously finds, you know, body parts so horrendous that they didn't comment on. But he didn't comment on that. Didn't comment on seeing two men get a finger up the bum line, Tally. Not at all. Fleshforn and Megan, the podcast, ZM.

Now, isolation is something that's happening when people are coming back into the country. Also, yesterday, after we talked about, you know, people are like, what happened to the borders being shut? I saw a couple of people say it online, and I said, you know that that is to non-New Zealand citizens and people who can't apply like specialists who have to be in New Zealand.

They're like, oh, no one told me. Yeah, it's weird because you just think when everyone was locked down, I thought everyone was watching the one o'clock briefings. Yeah. But obviously not. So New Zealanders are coming home some 1800 a week still. I think when everyone was locked down, I thought everyone was watching the one o'clock briefings. Yeah. But obviously not. So New Zealanders are coming home, some 1800 a week still. So that's why yesterday when there was another new case of COVID, a guy coming back from Pakistan, he's a New Zealander who's in isolation.

So there will always be, there will be, as long as we're accepting New Zealanders coming home, there will be little cases that pop up. But as long as it's isolated. We can't say to our fellow citizens you can't come home. Yeah. No, you're on your own out there, champ. Isn't it weird

that this hasn't happened sooner? That's what I thought. Yeah. It's bizarre. I would have thought we would have had one a week at least. We had a great streak. Yeah.

Those two women that ventured south from Auckland though, that's still a blunder. See, some people are saying what I'm about to tell you, some people are also saying this is a blunder, but I'm saying this is amazing.

Okay. A Auckland homeless man joined a queue outside a $500 a night Auckland isolation hotel. He just joined a queue of people who had arrived from overseas. So they got off the bus, got their suitcases, lined up. Lined up. Okay.

And he joined the queue and for two weeks, he lived. He lived in a hotel for two weeks. And they had not, like, a hotel that had been specifically set aside

for quarantining people coming back to New Zealand. Because I live in the city. I walk past some of these hotels and it's pretty grim. Like you see the little caged area they walk laps in. Oh yeah, but this is a guy who, what's his other choice? Going into winter, living under a bridge or doing it rough on the streets.

Yeah, nice bed. And you live centrally. You see the sort of deterrence shops have outside. Like they've got water guns and stuff. Oh yeah. When they sense movement or something there, they'll squirt them with water. And of course, if you're wet and it's cold,

it's only going to get worse. I thought, how far has this story got? Because this is the sort of story that the world would love. Yep. So I just searched the keywords, homeless man, hotel, COVID, New Zealand. So all your usual New Zealand outlets. Then the Herald Sun in Australia has run a story on it.

The Daily Mail in the UK, The Guardian, the BBC. Wow. The Camden New Journal, LA Times. Oh. I love this story though, isn't it great? Like he found a loophole and he got two weeks free at a hotel I love this

but they call them constantly yeah being like how you doing he would just be like good really loving this it's so good

they've got towels and everything how did they find out that this happened on checkout right you have to then give your address

all your contact details going forward so that if anything happens that they can make contact with you again. Contact tracing. And they said what address will you be staying at? And he was like, um... And that was when they found out

he doesn't have a permanent address. Just make up an address. Probably not the time to be making up addresses. No! Probably not the time to be, you know, when you're going somewhere overseas And it's like Where will you be staying For the period of your stay

And you're like Oh yeah always lie on that What's the hotel called I can't remember Oh I can't be bothered Getting the thing out of my bag Just have a little bit of a guess 1, 2, 3, 4

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I hope I'm not the only one. Oh, you ruined it at the end. You started so good. I know. I just wasn't going to be able to hold that. Yeah. Joining us this morning, Rio. Good morning.

Good morning. Now, you think that you're a... What a great name. It is. It is a great name. Yeah. I don't think I've ever met anyone with the name Rio. The bird.

There was the movie, The Bird. Yeah. And Rio Tinto, the movie, The Bird. Yep. And Rio Tinto, the aluminium smelter paper. Are they Rio undies? Yes, they were. Rio de Janeiro, just reminds me of a party. Do you know what you were named, were you named after the Brazilian city? Yeah, the country, yeah.

Oh, wow, okay. Oh, the city. The city, yeah, right, okay. Oh, wow. Now, so you think you're alone in a particular aspect. Why don't you tell us about this? Well, I can't touch fruit stickers, or any stickers really, but it's mainly fruit. Wow.

So if there was a price sticker on something, what would you do? Give it to someone else to take off. Avoid buying something with a brass sticker. What is it that you can't stand? I don't know. That's what everyone asks. I just find it so gross. I don't know.

Is it the actual sticker itself or is it the act of peeling it off? The actual sticker, like after I've peeled it off. What about the residue that it leaves behind on whenever you peel it off? How actual sticker, like after I've peeled it off. Oh, what about the residue that it leaves behind on whatever you peeled it off?

How's that go for you? No. You don't want to talk about that. No. See, I get frustrated when you can't get a sticker off something

and you've got to get out the dissolver. But I've got no problem peeling it off or scratching it off. Right.

But it's just the entirety of the sticker. Of the sticker. Yeah. So if you're at the supermarket, will you buy apples that don't have the sticker? Yeah. I can't. Carry on.

I used to be able to buy them with a sticker and cut it off with a knife. But now it's gotten to the point where I can't, literally just can't buy it if there's a sticker on it. I was going to say, could you eat an apple and just eat around the sticker? But you don't even want it. That is so... Okay, so would you say you've got a phobia to stickers?

Yeah, I think so. But I'm not scared of them. I just find it so gross. Right. Because some people, if they went into the shower and there was a spider, they couldn't get in the shower. If there was like an apple sticker on the corner of the shower, would you get in?

That actually happened last year because I was in a uni hall and there was a sticker and I just couldn't. I'd go to the gym and use the shower at the gym. Let's go back to your childhood if you would allow us.

Did you like stickers as a child? Because, man, you could get me to do anything when I was a kid for a sticker. I know.

Like, stickers were just gold when you were a child. Yeah. I have memories of, like, at school, you know, how you get, like, gold stars and stuff

and kids would put them on their foreheads and I just remember finding that disgusting. I like couldn't touch it. Oh, so even back then you were like, wow. Did you have a good behaviour sticker chart? Not at home, but at school, yeah. Okay, because maybe if you'd had a sticker chart growing up. Perhaps at home.

Maybe. Love for stickers. This could be a parental acceptance issue. Well, this is how Vaughan Smith psych 101. This is the part of the show now where we're asking people to call in to ask if Rio is alone here. Are you listening? Do you have a sticker phobia?

A phobia of Apple stickers or just stickers in general? You can't touch them, can't go near them. Otherwise, you could be alone in this. Yeah. Have you met anyone else that's got a sticker phobia? Nah, everyone thinks it's so weird. Wow. Okay, well, let's see.

0800DARLS.M, give us a call right now if you have a sticker phobia or you know of someone that does, even if you just know of someone, just to help out Rio here. Give us a call, and Rio, wait there, and we'll see if we can match you up with someone else who's sticker phobic. Didn't we know someone that was allergic to the stickers, but it was the adhesive in them?

But that was just an allergy. They're not scared of stickers. They just had an allergy to the goo on the back. Are you ready to sing? As ready as I'll ever be. I hope I'm not the only one. Wow. That's so dramatic.

Now, we just heard moments ago from Rio. If you we just heard moments ago from Rio, if you're just joining the show, Rio has, you'd call it a phobia. You're scared of stickers, Rio. Yeah, that's right, yeah. Fruit stickers. Especially.

Especially, yeah. Did you know this has got an actual name? No, what's the name? It's pittakionophobia. So it's a recognised phobia, a fear of stickers, and there are some actual stories online. It looks like there's a famous girl. I don't know if she's got a YouTube channel.

One of them was cured by hypnotherapy. This girl couldn't even wrap presents or go to the supermarket because of the stickers. How do you get on with, like, sticky tape, like sellotape? Yeah, I'm fine with that for some reason. Like, if I, yeah, use it. Okay. Okay, well, you are not alone.

Good morning, Dane. Good morning. How are you guys? Good, good. Now, you have a fear of stickers. Yes, I do. I morning. How are you guys? Good, good. Now you have a fear of stickers. Yes, I do. I'm absolutely petrified of bloody things. So what about an apple

sticker? Yeah, as soon as it comes off the apple, I've just got to get away from it, eh? I can't handle the stickiness. They do, and sometimes they roll themselves up and get stuck to your fingers and you're trying to get them off and they're like a spider, they're running up your arm.

Yeah, it's even worse when you bite them too. Oh, yeah. I've done that. So what about sellotape? Are you okay with that? Nah, nah. I can't even be near sellotape, duct tape, anything like that. As soon as it comes out, I have to get away from it.

Wow. Oh, my God. So your kind of scariest part in a horror movie would be someone running after the girls in the woods with a roll of sellotape. W, my God. So, like, your kind of scariest part in a horror movie would be someone running after the girls in the woods with a roll of sellotape. Wrapping presents. Yeah, and instead of running down the hallway with a chainsaw, they'd be running down the hallway with duct tape

and that'd be me gone. Yeah, you know that sound when you get a good... What about, like, unwrapping presents that people give you? I can handle it to a point, but yeah, I'm still sitting there swearing and carrying on and don't want to be around it. Wow. Rio, is this interesting to hear that you're not alone?

Yeah, it is. What? I'm kind of speechless. Well, no, it's good, and it's a valid, like, phobia. It is. It's a phobia. Dane, thanks for your call. Hayden, you're also, are you scared of stickers?

Yes, very much so. Okay, and so, like, Dane was saying. It's mainly fruit stickers, and there's, like, some people who, in kindergartens, will get stickers from their teachers and they'll stick them on their hands or their foreheads or something. Yeah. Not you.

Not you. No, no, no way. Not for you. Wow, that's crazy because you don't even think that someone would be scared of like a sticker. I know and I'll go up and I'll tell someone like, oh no, no thank no, thank you.

Oh, could you take this sticker off this apple for me? Or, like, oh, I don't like stickers too much. And they'll be like, oh, you're just being silly. Let me stick it straight on you. Let me stick it on you. And, Rio, that rings true for you too? Yeah, every single thing that you say. Wow.

Well, that's nice to know you're not the only one. And it is an actual phobia. And you guys should Google it as well because there's a news story about a girl who was cured with hypnotherapy. I guess it's like, you know, the funny, when that hypnotherapist came in and you thought, we made you

eat mushrooms. And now you like mushrooms. And now you like mushrooms, Megan. If you see it as a problem, otherwise it's just a unique thing about you. Yeah. An interesting personality quirk. All right. Hey, thanks for taking part, guys.

We're going to send you out a ZM bumper sticker. Bitch. Don't promise the bumper stickers. We can't waste the bumper stickers on people who will literally, like, throw the envelope in the bin the minute it arrives. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. ZM.

There was a little revelation we found out regarding Fletch. I don't know why this is a big deal. I've been getting roasted this morning behind the scenes. You love a bulk buy. You bulk buy your heavy hat. How many kgs of olives have you got at your house at the moment? Oh, my God. I actually regret buying so many olives.

You've gone overboard. I'm sick of olives now. Yeah. I love olives, but I bought like a 5kg jar of olives. It's like Gilmore's probably isn't a good idea for you because you get excited. I get real excited. You buy a big one. You buy bulk.

Yeah. And then we saw Hilary Barry there and I got extra excited because she's a bulk buyer as well. Yeah. And I just went

a bit overboard. How many have you got to go? Of the olives? I reckon I'm two thirds of each container have to go. Oh right. Yeah.

What so you didn't finish one container before you opened the other one? No, because there's like... Different flavours. Different flavours of all of them. Calamari. The big ones and, yeah, those ones, the little red ones.

No, the calamari, the little red ones or the big green ones? They're the little red ones. Are they? Yeah. Yeah, and then the big green ones. I'm getting through those because they're bigger, obviously.

Yeah, but I do, I love a bulk buy. You're right. This is actually food related. I don't know if it's so much bulk, but it's something you're making in bulk on the cheap. How did it come up yesterday? I can't remember.

They mentioned it very lightly in passing and wanted to carry on. Somebody made it as a joke, said it as a joke, that their mum had an Easy-O yogurt maker, and I said, well, I've got an Easy-O yogurt maker, and then I'm getting roasted relentlessly. He got set upon. So every

morning I see Fletch eat his muesli and his yogurt, and I just assume that you're buying one of those tub, one litre tubs. Like a big tub. A big Greek yogurt. You are literally at home making your own easy-o. Yeah, and then I bring it into work and leave it in the fridge. It's great.

You get the little sachet, you mix it into the container, you put it into the easy-o with hot water, and then in eight hours you've got yoghurt. It's great. How often do you make one of these? Like every week and a half, two weeks. What flavouring do you use? I do coconut.

I do coconut yogurt. What? It is so yum. Why do you do the coconut flavour? Is that in the sachet? It's in the sachet. Because I remember when we had Easy Yo as a kid, as kids, you had some flavour you squirted in afterwards.

Didn't you? Nah, I don't do that. Yeah, you do. So you can get the flavour in the powder, but you can also get like toppings. It's like fruit toppings or you can stir them in. But that's sugar. I don't do that. Yeah, you do. So you can get the flavour in the powder, but you can also get like toppings. It's like fruit toppings or you can stir them in. But that's sugar. You don't need that extra.

But ours was just plain and then you squirt it in like the strawberry topping. Yours is sweetened with. It depends what wine you get, but you can get some unsweetened yoghurt flavoured. It's brilliant. It's a couple of dollars. It's saving so much money. A couple of dollars? Yeah, for a sachet.

For how much yoghurt? And how much does that make? A big thing. Two litres of yogurt. No, it doesn't make two litres. It makes one litre. No, it makes like a litre. So the same as what you'd buy in the supermarket.

He pays $2. Versus $4. Five or six, depending on what yogurt you're getting. Guys, why are you laughing at me? Everyone should have one of these. I just think it's like, I don't know. It's just such a, it feels like such a boomer.

I think my dad was the last bastion of the easy yo maker that I was aware of. He used to make an easy yo. Have you not been to the supermarket? The section is so plentiful of flavours. Yeah, but I've also been to the yoghurt area. It's so plentiful of flavours. This is how they've also been to the yoghurt area.

It's so plentiful of flavours. This is how they get you at the supermarket. They're always like, this yoghurt's on special and you're like, oh my god, I'm going to buy it. And you get it home and it expires in two days. I don't have that problem with my Easy Yo. How long do yours last? Like two weeks? I don't know how long it's meant to last, but it's always,

you know, it doesn't go off. Somebody, and I think this is a very good point. Yeah. They said you love Easy Yo, but you don't like the Kiwi Onion Dip. Which is made from powder as well. But how do you think yogurt's made from stores? The same way, Megan. Why don't they make it from milk?

Or do you just think they truck in tanks and tanks of milk? It would all just be mixed. That would be pretty easy given that we produce milk. They make them at the dairy factories where they make dairy products. You're thinking they're just putting powder in big bags. Do you think they've just got a massive easy-o? Yes. At the fresher foodie factory is just a massive easy-o.

They do. Why am I getting roasted for this, guys? And I'm not wasting plastic. And it's not wasting plastic containers. That's true. That's true. But I buy my yogurt in a glass jar, so I'm not. And then chuck the glass jar out.

Oh, no, I repurpose it for screws. Plants. Small terraniums that I make and I sell down at the market. Right, okay. It's the circle of life. Why won't you roast it? I don't buy, do you know how much those yogurts in a glass jar cost? It's like $15.

Oh, yeah, I know, yeah. I shit myself when I saw the price of that. I was like, for one? Not the whole box, right? Somebody, some text messages in, I thought of some support. Okay. I'm 24 and I love my yogurt maker. Because I always,

do you know what put me off for ages is yogurt maker. It sounds like some whirring fancy ice cream making machine or something. It's just a container. It's just a chili bit, isn't it? Yeah. It's an insulated thermos. I would be an influencer. I'd be a, what do isn't it? Yeah, more water. Yeah. It's an insulated thermos. And you can buy them. So I would be an influencer.

I'd be a, what do you call those? An easy yo. A campaign ambassador for easy yo if they need one. Oh, great content. Hey, guys. Remember, just before we start today's video, like and subscribe to my channel and turn on notifications because if you love killer content,

about eight hour culture process to make pretty boring flavoured yoghurt for only $2 a litre, you're on the right channel. Tag your friends. You can laugh. Like and subscribe. Laugh all you like,

but I've got delicious yoghurt every day. So do I. I'm in the supermarket. Somebody said there's a new bougier one. What do you mean? Do I have to upgrade already? They make a really good coconut cacao flavour. Oh, tell them to message me the recipe.

It's the new brand. It's called Culture. So it would require you turning your back on Easy-O by the sounds of things. Well, but you might just be able to buy that thing and put your make-in in the Easy-O. You don't need to buy the Easy-O sachets. There's the beauty about the Easy-O maker.

You can put any sachet in it. Oh, my God. I'll be back next week, guys. We're going to make passion fruit lemon flavoured yogurt. Remember, like and subscribe and tell your friends. Leave me alone.

Leave me alone. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. One in five people have admitted that they lie about working out. It's only one in five. That's not true.

It's more than that, isn't it? 19% of people say they lie about working out when they're actually doing something else. Right. So they looked into the reasons why. 37% of people lie about it because they want to convince someone they're busy. 35% said they wanted to impress someone. Okay. Yeah, they're working out at the gym, brah.

And 31% said they lied because they were too embarrassed to say what they were really doing. Which was what? Too tired to exercise. Right. And eating. Yeah. Eating too much was one of the big...

But then that's going to be really obvious if you're like, oh yeah, I'm going to the gym five times a week. And the opposite's happening. But I don't know if it's a regular lie. It's like a one-off kind of thing. Huh. Yeah, you're not going to get away with lying about

that all the time and then... Executive Intern Anya, didn't you lie about doing a marathon? Is that the same thing? Is that the same thing? Is that the same thing or different? I did the actual marathon. Right. But there was quite a few training runs that my family were like,

are you going out tonight? I was like, yeah, yeah. And then I'd go in the car and get a coffee and sit on the beach for an hour and a half. Did you do a marathon? Half marathon. Oh, okay. And I waddled it. I didn't really run like the whole thing.

But you did it. You did it. Yeah. It was a Queenstown mom, wasn't it? It was. It I waddled it. I didn't really run like the whole thing. But you did it. It was a Queenstown mum, wasn't it? It was. It was beautiful. Incredible views. Yeah, don't rush it. It's good views. I would have done that half marathon way faster, but have you seen the scenery? I just wanted to take it all in. And there's some good snack stops and I wanted to get my money's worth.

So would you, if you had said, I'm probably just going to go sit on the beach, do you think your mum would have been like, you get out there? Yeah. You said you were going to do it? I was doing it with my sister at the same time and we'd Snapchat each other as we were doing training runs. So did you ever

Snapchat her when you were having a fake run? Did you ever do that? Um, yeah. But was she faking too or was she actually? No, she did it in like two hours on the day. So all of her training runs happened, I'm pretty sure.

Wow. Whereas this guy took like three and a half hours. How did you make yourself look really sweaty though? I didn't. I'd be like, oh, off for a run and then I'd kind of angle it on a high angle and then have the coffee cup sort of out of shot. You just need to be in active wear.

Yeah, exactly. Who would age to know? No one at the cafe questioned it. It's fine. Okay, well you could have put the coffee cup down. And gone running.

Didn't even want to do that. No, no, take the photo. To do a bit of sell of the fake. I'm just going to move my hand a couple inches that way. And your sister's like,

where's your hand gone? So did she suspect? No. I'm just going to move my hand a couple inches that way. And your sister's like, where's your hand gone? So did she suspect? No. She's probably going to hear about this for the first time now. Right. Like that time you bagged her out for not being able to drive. What have your eyes lit up like that for? Oh, we're still not talking about that.

Vaughn's in trouble. What's your rude to her? Telling all these secrets on the radio? Or the tea. All right, next on the show, another chance for you to win $100 towards dining out at your local bar or restaurant, doing this every 15 minutes. And entry songs, hype songs.

We've all kind of got one in the back of our head. But yeah, my daughters need to pick theirs. Fleshforn and Megan, the podcast. ZM. I want to put it out there first that it wasn't my idea to talk about this but I was hardly invited and I romped right in with muddy boots

but next week both, not one but both of my daughters are getting an award at school that only four kids in their entire school are getting that's half So your children are half of the recipients.

Yep. What is the award? Did I tell you my mum brought up all my school reports last week? No. I should bring them in. They're a real hoot. You can kind of map when the trains start going off the rails. Right.

Okay. I think the best comment is, due to Vaughan's inability to concentrate or care at all for the subject, I would consider this a wasted year. It's much like you at work, isn't it? That was my year 10 graphics. Oh, okay. Class.

Yeah, that teacher didn't like me at all, really. Right, okay. But if your last name was Brown Sword, would you wear nothing but brown cords as pants? It's a good point, yeah. But if your last name was Brownsword, would you wear nothing but brown cords as pants? It's a good point, yeah. Yeah. And he was lucky we only picked up on the brown cords then because now knowing what I know,

Brownsword could be a completely different reason for mocking. Yeah. Anyway, that's fine. That's a lovely name. I wouldn't do it now. I'm an adult. But yeah, the rest of the reports are pretty good stuff. Right.

But yeah, over lockdown of the reports are pretty good stuff. But yeah, they, over lockdown, just before lockdown, they brought home these pamphlets about leadership awards and different years at school have to do different things. So August had to do slightly less tasks than Indy, so it took Indy a little bit longer to get them all done with the help of my lovely wife.

She deserves a good pat on the back because if they're like, oh, I can't be bothered today. I'd be like, sweet, you're on your own. But she's like, come on, guys, let's see what we can do. I'm like, where do you get this from, this persistence? And she said, well, I've persisted with you. And I said, point taken.

I shan't interrupt anymore. But they had to choose entrance music. Right. You had to choose entrance music for anything in your life? I thought it was primarily the domain of kickboxers and wrestlers. Only when we did the final conversion on the show, remember we had entrance songs? That's right.

We had hype songs. Hype songs, yeah. It's a hype song. That wasn't for an award. We talked a couple of weeks about people's hype songs, didn't we? For some reason. I forget why. To eat your jazz before interviews and stuff. Yeah, that's right. You say a couple of weeks, I mean that was months ago. Who even knows what month it is now?

It's a muddy puddle of a year, isn't it? Who knows where it's happening? But they've picked their songs. This is, oh, no, Fletch has just thrown a look at me like I've lost them, even though, well, you've really warmed this up,

haven't you? I've got them. Okay. I've actually got them. Will you play one, and I'll say which child it's for? This is August's one. I think she's just gone for a bit of a classic. Oh, I wanted hers to be Lizzo.

They win. I don't think they're allowed songs with any cursive. That'd be great. Language in them. Skills changed, eh? Like, we didn't get to pick a song. We got a certificate. It's not fair.

What you're doing now is you're doing what boomers do to us. Yeah. Everybody gets a participation ribbon. It wasn't like that at my day. I didn't get a ribbon for participating. That's all I hear when I hear an old person saying that, is that they're shitty that they didn't get a green ribbon for doing their best or a Kiwi Kids triathlon medal? They didn't have those in my day.

I want a ribbon. That's all I hear from some whinging old person. Don't you wish that you got a song and a ribbon and a certificate? If I'd applied myself I might have got a certificate. That's what it says in another one of my reports as previously mentioned but Indy's gone for a more contemporary.

Shouldn't ask for a free ride. It's quite an opening line as you're marching in to accept your award in front of all the children, pretty much saying, this could have been you. Do they queue it up to the chorus? Or do they? I've got no idea. Because I just walked really slowly until I got to the...

Wait for it. Indy said she did the time and she had 17 seconds. I was like, slow that right down. Drink it in. And then you want to get your certificate. And then just as the chorus drops, you need to start throwing down. Breakdown. Would it be overboard if I organised some pyrotechnics?

No, some backup dancers. Just for my two, though. I'm not pyrotechnics? No, some backup dancers. Just for my two, though. I'm not pyrotechnic for everybody. Yeah, right, okay. I think it'd be weird, though. You might scare the kids. Born to start pyrotechnics. You're burned down the school hall.

Confetti cannons. A lot. Right. Are you going to cry? Are you going to go to this and cry? Probably. I'll probably be quite emotional. Yeah, right.

Sitting there watching it. And Shadow will do what she did last time. She'll say, you can't cry at these things. You can't cry at these things. No, I don't see it. No, I don't see you crying. People hear you crying. You're a loud crier and you sniff a lot when you're crying.

I can't help it if I'm proud. It's okay to be proud. Hold it until we get out of here. All right, next on the show, It's okay to be proud. Hold it in till we get out of here. Alright, next on the show it's Friday Flashback Time. It's my pick and this song was number two in New Zealand. Okay.

Got pipped at the post by something. Yeah, I can't find out exactly what. I know that it was ten years ago, so 2010 this song was big. Okay. I'll see if I can delve in and find what song pipped it for number one. ZM's Fletch Warner Megan, the podcast. Friday Flashback. But it's a Friday tradition. We go back at least 10 years and pick an old song to play as a

Friday flashback. Now, I have picked a Grammy award-winning song. No big deal. No big deal. This song is 10 years old, by the way. This was big in March. 2010. 2010. And it didn't get to number one in New Zealand. It made it to a lot of number one chart positions around the world.

Number one in Australia. I would say it was top five in most countries around the world. If not in the top ten. Okay. It was beaten out in New Zealand to the number one spot by Jay Williams Scribe. Yeah. This song here, You Got Me. Remember this song?

I'm not playing this. This is the reason that they couldn't get to number one here in New Zealand. But this song did win a Grammy Award. Okay. Who said that? And it was... I don't really know what else to say. What chart position did it make to New Zealand?

It made it to number two. Made it to number two. Okay. Just repeating your two basic facts. So this song is the band's... What keeps it from being number one? This song is the band's biggest number one. The most successful song.

Okay. But it didn't make it number one here. Successful to the point where they'll still be comfortably living off the royalties? Oh, you'd say so. Okay. You'd say so. I love a good story of somebody has a song where they're just like 15 years old. And now Megan's on board with this, so she can't sass me,

because you were like, I like the song. No, I do like the song. It's a good choice. It was a jam at the time. It's a jam now. I haven't heard it for ages. All right, well, that's our Friday flashback today. Train, Hey Soul Sister.

Mr. Mister on the radio. Isn't that the lyrics? Radio, stereo, the way you move is... That ain't fair, you know. That ain't fair. That's your Friday flashback. ZM. Wow. I knew I wouldn't forget you. And so I went and let you blow my mind. Your sweet moonbeam.

The smell of you in every single dream I dream. I knew when we collided, you're the one I have decided. Who's one of my kind? Hey, soul sister. Hey, that Mr. Mister on the radio. Stereo, the way you move ain't fair, you know. Hey, soul sister. I don't want to miss a single thing you do

Tonight Hey, hey, hey Just in time I'm so glad you have a one-track mind like me You gave my life direction A game show love connection We can't deny I, I, I

I'm so obsessed My heart is bound to beat right out my untrimmed chest I believe in you like a virgin, you're Madonna And I'm always gonna wanna blow your mind Hey, soul sister, hey, that Mr. Mister on the radio Stereo, the way you move ain't fair, you know. Hey soul sister, I don't wanna a rug, watching you's the only drug I need. So gangster, I'm so thug, you're the only one I'm dreaming of. You see, I can be myself now finally. In fact, there's nothing I can't be. I want the world to see you be with me.

Hey, soul sister, hey, that Mr. Mister on the radio. Stereo, the way you move ain't fair, you know. Hey, Soul Sister, I don't want to miss a single thing you do tonight. Hey, Soul Sister, I don't want to miss a single thing you do Tonight Hey, hey, hey Tonight Hey, hey, hey Tonight Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, and what a banger. And I tell you what, the feedback, overwhelming. Majority of people really love it.

You don't have a text machine in front of you. I was to compare this, I don't know why this popped into my head. Did you ever play a game at school called Brandy? No.

Where, in this case, Fletch would stand against the concrete wall and we'd all have tennis balls and tennis rackets. Oh.

Do you remember that game? Yeah. Oh, you're Brandy. Yeah. And you'd bash the tennis ball at them. Yeah. And then they'd dodge.

The rule was one at a time but it pretty quickly descended into chaos and everybody was Brandy. Yeah. And you'd bash the tennis ball at them. Yeah. And then they'd dodge. The rule was one at a time, but it pretty quickly descended into chaos and everybody was just launching school tennis balls at the person against the Brandy wall. Is that me? I'm on the wall and people are shooting me. That's horrible. Try to dodge these. That's such a good feel-good Friday song. Written warning.

Somebody's demanding a written warning. Someone said, Fletch, I don't know how you made Friday feel like a Sunday, but you did. Somebody's demanding a written warning. Someone said, Fletch, I don't know how you made Friday feel like a Sunday, but you did. That's not a good thing. Feel like a Sunday.

Ouch. Ouch. There is this one. This ball missed. Love it. Great start to a Friday. Good. Oh,

this one makes a connection. Nothing else to say apart from shit song, Fletch. Someone else said, Fletch, you're fired. Terrible choice. Someone just wrote, Jesus,ch, you're fired. Terrible choice.

Someone just wrote, Jesus, and put the face palm. Yeah, right. Emoji. I feel like you're just reading out the negative ones. You just,

no, I found a good one. Good work, Fletch. Such a good song for a Friday morning. Don't read it like that, though. Someone else, lame, with lots of A's

and then someone's just put lame with one A. Do you know, the problem is that the people loving the song were loving it so much they didn't have time to text. They didn't have time to see it. That's the problem. Singing so hard. That's the problem when you pick a banger.

I mean, it's got a Grammy Award. The facts don't lie. They don't. Let's move on to you, Vaughn, because you have had an issue at the gym. Oh, no, I just, I just just there was a machine I was going to use but somebody was on it. What machine was it? It was the steps machine. I like the steps machine.

5, 6, 7, 8 My boot scooting baby is driving me crazy I was a session for a lesson My dad's four days Romeo, Romeo 5, 6, seven, eight. That's the machine I wanted to use. I don't like the set machine because it's like big giant teeth

and it just goes too fast and I don't like it. You know you can slow it down, eh? Yeah, but then there's no point. I like it because it's the machine that burns the most calories. Is that? Yeah, you stand on that for long enough and you're like, whoa. Yeah, you don't have to be on it like, you can be on,

what are these called again? Elliptical things. Yeah. For like twice as long. You don't have to do it fast. You can do that steady for... I pretend I'm a firefighter

making a damn deal. Yeah, I was thinking about using it the other day but there's a girl who's always on it. I don't know, is she practising walking up the sky tower

or something? She's always on it. She wants't know, is she practising walking up the Sky Tower or something? She's always on it. She wants the ass that don't quit. Yeah, right. That's what I'm on there every day. I'm like, come on, boy, let's get that ass that don't quit. If one day someone says to me, your ass don't quit, I'll just probably, that'll be it for me.

You'll be a puddle on the floor. You'll be like, job done. I'll just be like, life achieved. Yeah, right. And then I'll just fade to nothing, I'd assume. Life goal achieved. But somebody was on it, I guess, and they also want an ass that don't quit.

Yeah. And then, so I used the rowing machine just as a time pass because I was like, how long are you going to be on there? Were you giving them the look like, I'm next? A little bit of a, come on. Because you put a 50 cent coin on there. You put your $2 coin on there. Yeah.

I'm next. You know you're next. Right. That's no. Like Paul. It's not a Paul machine. Okay. But when she hopped off, she just walked away.

And I was like, is she coming back? Yeah. Because she hasn't wiped down the machine. Oh, you get sweaty Betty on the steer machine. And you've got to wipe. Even if you're not sweaty Betty, we're all wiping all the surfaces. No one like gyms were very particular about hygiene levels. We've got lots of spray and wipe bottles everywhere.

We've got those. We've got the wet wipes. We've got all the wipes. So she walked away. So I gave it like 30 seconds. Yeah. And then I got up. I wiped the rower as I was finished with it.

And I went and I said, oh, are you finished with the stairs? Stair machine? The steps? 5, 6, 7, 8 boots could be. And she said, oh yeah. I was like, well, do you want to wipe it? Passag? She shouldn't be walking away from not wiping it. I don't think it was Passag.

She was like, oh. Yeah, okay. And went back and wiped it. But then I wiped it before I got on it as well. Just double wipe. If you're going to walk away from a wipe, maybe you're not a thorough enough wiper. I'm not good with confrontation. So instead of that, I just wipe it first and eyeball them.

As you're wiping it. This is what you should have done. While you're wiping it, just giving them that look like, I'll do this. She was on to the next one. so she might not have been looking back. But you told her for Stranger. Why didn't you tell her off? I just said, are you going to wipe it? Are you going to wipe this?

Passive aggressive rhetorical question. Yeah, it was passive aggressive, but I don't think it was like aggressive or a telling off. Right. But yeah, no, I think that was fair. I should be like, that Bob Smith off the radio is a real dick. Um, wow. Or she could think you're that guy from Shortland Street, which is even better for you,

but not good for Ben Barrington. Because now his name's tarnished. That's all right. He can take this one. I wonder if she takes some calls this morning when you've been told off by a stranger. Because it's weird when a stranger tells you off. Like, this woman must have just been shocked.

But I wasn't like, excuse me, get back here and wipe the machine. You didn't go full Karen on her. No, I didn't go full Karen. I went moderate. Passag Karen. Passag Karen. Yeah, right. What would the Passag version of Karen be?

Because Karens are always like, can I speak to the manager? Would it be a Barbara? A Passag Barbara? A Passag Barbara, yeah. Passag Trish. Have you ever been told off in public? Yes, but I don't want to tell you why. Why?

Because I probably deserve to be told off, but I still don't enjoy it. Okay, well tell us why. No, because everyone will give me shit on the text machine. Why? It's fine. Tell us. but I still didn't enjoy it. Okay, well, tell us why. No, because everyone will give me shit on the text machine. Why? It's fine. Tell us. Technically, I wasn't driving, and I didn't... I don't want to tell you.

Come on. You know those parks for mums and babies? Oh, yeah. And then, like, it was late at night, and I was like, there's going to be no babies out. Because they should be asleep. Because they will be asleep. So I went to the mall to go to a movie and we parked in that park

and got a little bit yelled at. You need to get, next time there's organic rubbish collection, just pick up an old one off the side of the road. A cot. Car seat.

Car seat, yeah. Because those pods or whatever, they've got expiration dates on them and they don't last forever so people don't know what to do with them so they just chuck them out. Chuck my eyes in the back.

You won't get any questions. Yeah. I haven't done it since. Or just next time just say, what are you talking about? The kid's in the boot. And then just drive away. They can't prove it. So you've got them.

It's a seven-seater. We can't help having you in the boot. Mountie at the social media desk, you've been told off. You told off some people. Yeah, I did the telling off. Why did you tell people off? Well, I was out for a walk and I was just waiting at the crossing lights for the little green man to go off.

Yeah. And there were some school kids. Yeah. Some youth. Some youth. And they were kind of egging each other on to run before the little green man. Oh, well, that's not safe. It's dangerous.

And without even thinking, I just said, girls, don't even think about it. I love the mum voice. Were these intermediate or primary school kids or were they high schoolers? No, I think they were probably about 12. I don't know. Oh, right. Okay. Talk about those times you've been told off by a stranger.

Or you've been the stranger doing the telling off. Like Vaughan was at the gym, text messages in. Yeah, somebody said they have dealt out many a telling off. And most of the time it's for people who are smoking and chuck the butts of the cigarettes on the ground. They say they take like 100,000 years to break down or something as close to that. Yeah.

And pigeons get addicted to the cigs. To the ciggies, yeah. That's why sometimes you'll see a pigeon with like a nicotine patch. Yeah. Trying to break the habit. Yeah, trying to break the habit. They're trying to get it. And vaping pigeons.

Yeah. Just to wean off. Yeah. Yeah, that's what they're trying to do. Or the ones that just chew a lot of gum. Yeah. Just to wean off. Yeah. Yeah, that's what they're trying to do. Or the ones that just chew a lot of gum. Yeah. Maybe turn back to food. Put on a little bit of weight after they quit smoking,

but those are pigeons. But yeah, this person's like, I'll just tell them off. I'll say, there's a bin over there. Pick it up. Put it in the bin. See, I won't, if smoke is in an area they shouldn't be smoking, I'll just do that pass act. Eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, thing.

Because they love that. They love that. Zoe, you told off some strangers? Yes, I did. What for? So, it was during the lockdown and I went for a pharmacy and we

had like a plastic sheet kind of covering the entrance so people could come in but not ride in. Yeah. And we had like a plastic sheet kind of covering the entrance so people could come in but not ride in. Yeah. And we had like a drawer where we could pass through prescriptions and things. And so we had some hand sanitizer in the drawer. Yeah. And one guy was picking up his prescription.

And as I was walking over to get it for him, I saw him put the hand sanitizer in his pocket. So I turned around and I said, excuse me, could you put the hand sanitiser back, please? Oh, yeah, you could. Oh, oh, oh, okay. It's not a gift with purchase. No, I was like, you're more than welcome to use some, but it's for everybody, not yourself.

Yeah, this is why we have to tie a string onto the hand sanitiser. Yeah. We can't have nice things. Thanks for your call. Jess, you did some telling off to a stranger? This is why we have to tie a string onto the hand sanitiser. Yeah. Yeah. We can't have nice things. Yeah. Thanks for your call. Jess, you did some telling off to a stranger? Morning, Tam. I sure did.

Okay. Who did you tell off? So I was driving past some schools, peak hour. Everyone's picking up their kids. And there was a group of high school girls driving towards me. And obviously traffic's going quite slowly at that time of day yeah and i could see the driver of this particular car was flat out on her phone snapchatting texting whatever it was a hot day i had my window down and as she came past me she just happened to stop in the traffic and i said excuse me i think you should just put your

phone down you're driving and she looked at me like, who are you? Why are you growling at me? And she carried on on her phone and the traffic was still stopped. So I said, no, seriously, put your phone down. And I happened to have friends in my car with me and I don't know who was more mortified, the girl that was driving or my friends that were with me. Brilliant.

This is how it starts. You become a Karen. Yeah, yeah. A road to Karen. You're like, what have I become? It slowly creeps in. Karen actually joins us now.

Good morning, Karen. Good morning, guys. Oh my God, a real life Karen. Now, firstly, I've wanted to ask you, Karen, for a while. How do you feel about the fact

that Karen has now become synonymous with speaking to the manager? Oh, fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. About time. You love it? Yeah. Okay.

All right. I mean, you've told people off? Yes, yeah, yeah. On this one occasion of many. I was out for a walk and quite a substantial, and not too fussed about where I go, and I was walking behind some guy who'd been to Burger King and had a packet of his Burger King there, and he finished his Burger King,

and he dropped the packet on the ground. Oh, no, I'm not down for that. Oh, no, yeah, no. Yeah, and I was about 20 metres away from him, and I yelled out, excuse me, excuse me, you seem to have dropped something. Oh, yeah. That's the good stuff. dropped something. Oh, yes.

That's the good stuff. Real passing. I love this. Yeah, so he turned around, and I picked it up, and I handed it back to him, and I said, there's a bin about K down the road there. I'll follow you so that you can find it. Yes. You went full Karen on him, Karen. I went full Karen, so I walked behind them about 10 metres behind them

so he knew I was still there and he looked back occasionally. And he popped it in the bin and I said, well done. Oh, you did well done. Oh, that condescending well done. Love it. Karen, thanks for your call. Some text messages. Actually, Karen, you just put it through to Ross Boss.

I think she wants to talk to our manager as well. Probably. Just to start her day right. I think she wants to talk to our manager as well. Probably. Just to start her day right. I told off some little boys. They were poking at a bird's nest. I could hear the baby birds chirping. Their dad was right next to them. So they got a telling off for doing it,

and then they got a telling off for letting them do it. Yeah. A group of teenage boys were getting food at a shop I was at, and they were being rude. So I told them manners were free free and maybe they should use them. And then there was a little bit of a set too. Not a fight, not a physical fight, but a

brief exchange of words. I've been told off by a stranger, reads another text. I got told off for being in the woman's changing room in Farmers. And boy, when I broke it to them that I was a woman. Oh my god! That was absolutely was a woman. Oh my God. That was absolutely horrifying for them.

Oh wow. That's mean. I was at the zoo and a lady unwrapped a lolly and she was about to pass it to the monkey. Wow. Charged over there. Gave them a royal barreling. Like a Werther's or something. Could monkeys eat a Werther's original?

Serious question. I mean, they probably could. Totally could. Why couldn't a monkey eat a Werther's original? Well, I'm just wondering if they would swallow it or if they'd be like, yum, this is caramelly. Yeah, do they suck on it or do they chew it? Do they enjoy the flavour or are they straight in for the crunch and swallow? Who knows?

What are you googling how does a monkey eat a lolly oh is it eating can monkeys eat lollies can monkeys taste sweet but the same as

humans eating lollies it's probably a bad thing to introduce to them because then they'll just want more yeah and it's bad for their teeth well Yale's done a study

whether or not monkeys have a sweet tooth yeah do they what's the finding? Well, I've got to read this big study. It says here some monkeys cannot taste sugar and show no preference for sweet foods.

Oh, imagine if that was us. That'd be good. That'd be good for me, to be honest. Yeah, it'd be great. That's what I'm saying. It would be. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast.

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Are you ready? I think so. All right. Okay. It's time for. Fact of the day. Day. Day.

Day. Day. Day, day, day. Today's fact of the day is about what to do if you encountered a bear in the wild. This comes to us from the National Park Service of Canada. Okay. What to do when you encounter a bear. There is a very basic rule. Stand still.

If it's black, fight back. If it's brown, stay down. If it's white, say goodnight. Ooh, what's the white one? Polar bear. Oh. Yeah, apex predator. There's no escaping.

Night, night. You're, you're, you're toast, mate. What if I reach into my pocket and get out some lunch and there's a distraction? Yeah. What if you actually had like a sausage and you're like, here you go. Megan raises a great point. If you have a sausage, because you can buy like

bear sprays and stuff, eh? Yep. So there's other rules about bearing encounters. Once a bear has noticed you and is paying attention to you, additional strategies can help prevent the situation from escalating. Identify yourself. I am a human! Talking calmly to the bear so it knows you're a human and not a prey animal.

I am a human. No, but loud. Still, but apparently you've got to speak in a very low tone. Oh, you're screwed. I am a human. I am a human. Remains loud. Still, but apparently you've got to speak in a very low tone. Oh, you're screwed. I am a human. I am not a prey edible. Standing bears usually curious, not threatening. Oh, okay.

Stay calm and remember most bears don't want to attack you. They want to be left alone. They bluff. They'll charge at you, but last minute they'll turn away. So it's a big... So what are you supposed to do if they're charging at you? Just wait and see? Kss, kss. Do that thing. Okay. Do you ever have someone run

at you at school and they go, kss, kss, kss. And you'd be like, ah! And they'd be like, got you! And it wasn't even like, they weren't going to hit you. It was all about intimidation. Bears may yawn, salivate, growl, snap their jaws and put their ears back. But remember to continue to talk to the bear in low tones.

It will help you stay calmer and it won't be threatening to the bear. Apparently, never imitate the sounds the bear's making to you or make a high-pitched squeal. Okay. Also, pick up small children because they look like snacks, I guess. Because the idea is you make yourself look as big as possible. You put the child on your shoulders, or is that? Yeah, that would be good.

You look bigger. Like a pile of humans. Yeah. To make yourself look big. So, yeah, make yourself look as large as possible or move to higher ground. That's the Obi-Wan Kenobi defense there. I'm concerned about the one that said fight back. You know?

Like, what? Well, Blackbears. I'm going about the one that said fight back. Well black bears black bears you don't play dead for black bears. And if you can't secure, if you can't get to a place like up a tree, which they can kind of climb or in a car or a building fight back. Concentrate

your kicks and blows to the bear's face and muzzle. But brown bears and grizzly bears play dead. Lie flat on your stomach with your hands clasped behind your neck. So that's to kind of like protect your neck. And spread your legs to make it harder for the bear to turn you over. Because they like going for the soft belly. I feel if you're at this stage, it's too late, eh?

Have you seen the videos of people who have survived bear attacks? Yeah, well, there was that one last month of the boy walking away from the bear. Oh, that was... Was that in Europe somewhere? Yeah, it was in Europe. And they were just like, just keep walking. They have bears. Yeah, mainly in Europe used to have heaps of bears,

but humanity kind of rocked in and were like, oh, hey, we want this now, so... This is why I love going into the wilderness in New Zealand. Like, what's the most it's going to get you? Like a pesky kea? Or maybe a feral pig? Like, it's the worst that's going to happen to you, right? I don't want to be scoffed at, though.

A feral pig. No. And there's also some bears where the bear pepper spray will only aggravate the bear more. Oh, lovely. So, yeah, identify your bear before you pepper spray them. Are you dark brown or black? Sorry, come closer. Just, yeah.

Come out of the shade because I can't quite. Oh, brown. Okay, I'm just going to go down. I'm going to spread my legs. I'm going to the neck. I just imagine you're on the ground, spread your legs, and then the beer's eating you and you're like, well, that guy on the radio was completely wrong.

My life is over now. Yeah. I did everything I could. So today's fact of the day is if you come across a bear in the wild, if it's black, fight back. If it's brown, stay down. And if it's white, say goodnight. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. So some stats have come out about April spending in Southland So they've got a licensing trust

Auckland has a licensing trust West Auckland has a licensing trust This is where when you buy booze It's all done through them, isn't it? Yeah, you can't get booze You can't get it at the supermarket,

yeah. Yeah. Any bars that want to start up have to get the tick of approval and restaurants to serve booze have to, and it all,

but it's good because then the community gets things like an Invercargill, they've got the nice stadium. Yeah. As long as all the money's going back to the community and it's not sitting somewhere

and someone's getting paid too much. Right? Without getting too political. So, our stats come out about Southlanders during April. They spent $3.2 million on bottle store sales. Now, compare that to April 2019. It is up $300,000. Whoa.

And that's just in April, during lockdown. Yeah. It's because what else were we doing? Does the licensing trust go outside of Invercargill or is it just within Invercargill city limits? I think it's just Southland. I think it's just, yeah, I think it's the city, right? But is it the, I think it's just everythingland. I think it's just yeah I think it's the city right? But is it the

I think it's just everything down from Queenstown and Lakes and Otago. I think so yeah. Okay. So yeah they isn't that crazy?

Like I'd love to know like just country wide I'd just love to know Boo's stats. Tell me how much it was again for 3.2 million. Three, two, zero, zero, divided by, now the population of Southland's 101,000 apparently.

Okay. How much did each person spend? $31. And that includes infants. Okay, well. So that's nuts. When it's $31 a person. That's every person.

Yeah. For a month. Yeah. So that's a bottle of spirits for every person. Every person. For the month. Right, okay. And there'd be the teetotalers.

Yep. And the kids. So everyone was at least doing two bottles, right? Everybody was enjoying a... A drink. A drink, yeah. It very much feels like everybody had very much enjoyed a drink. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan.

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