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The lovely Hayley Sproul is not with us today, still at marching.
Uh-huh.
And Megan's still on maternity leave, so just say lads.
Lads.
Today, lads, lads, lads.
And I want to shout out to the Wiggles and give them our thoughts at the moment because they have received.
Wait, thoughts and prayers?
Just thoughts.
I don't do prayers.
You don't do prayers.
Just thoughts.
I don't do prayers.
Maybe you need something to make up for the prayer.
Thoughts and best wishes.
Thoughts and best wishes.
Hello.
Well, what is a prayer if not a wish for God to, like God's a genie.
Yes.
You're like, I hope my family's happy.
Yeah.
That's one wish
God the genie grants that or he doesn't
Okay prayers are exchangeable for wishes
Thoughts and wishing wells for example
The Wiggles have received
Death threats over their spots
Taken in MIQ
Can you imagine calling in
Or emailing a Wiggle with a death threat
Dear purple Wiggle
You're fucking dead.
You fucking arsehole.
Fucking red wiggle, my nana's trying to get back from the Goldie.
She can't.
Fuck you, blue wiggle.
My sister's been stuck in London and now she can't get a spot at MIQ because you're banjo
playing arseholes in there.
Yeah, blue fuck, I'm going to run you over with that big red car.
Do they have a big red car or is that what big red car. Do they have a big red car
or is that what they have?
Yeah, they have a big red car.
If I see fucking Dorothy the dinosaur
got her own room,
I'll kill the lady out of here.
She should be sharing
with the yellow wiggles.
Stack up the female wiggles.
One less in my queue room.
I know, horrible, isn't it?
Oh my God.
But I mean,
calm down.
I get though that there are families
that have had, like,
loved ones overseas for a year.
Death threats aren't going to fix.
Death threats don't fix anything.
Yeah.
Oh, my God.
But, yeah, bless them.
Calm down.
Jesus.
Calm down, everybody.
Yeah.
Yeah.
ZM.
Hit music.
Lives here.
Fletchfornner Megan, the podcast.
Good morning.
Welcome to the show, Fletchfawner Megan with Hayley Sproul.
But no Hayley Sproul today.
No.
Because she's at Marching Nationals.
In Dunedin.
In Dunedin.
Have you spoken to her?
Did she win?
No, there hasn't been one yet.
Still ongoing.
That is day one of Marching.
Okay.
And she had sore feet.
So that's what you do a lot, spend a lot of time on your feet.
And I imagine those boots aren't comfortable either.
They don't look comfortable.
No.
Anything that requires laces to go that high never looks that comfortable.
Although I did have a pair of leather thigh-high boots in the mid-2000s that were absolutely Of course you did.
Plush with comfort.
They're Doc Martens?
I don't know.
They were stilettoed.
Oh, right.
They were really something.
Right up to the thigh.
Sometimes the oglet.
Sometimes the oglet of the lace.
You familiar with the oglet?
Of the lace?
The eyelet.
The oglet.
Is that the hard bit at the end?
Yes.
Oh, yeah.
I don't like when that comes off.
Because how do you make a new one?
I had to cut it off those boots because the hard part of the oglet would occasionally
rub against the genitals on my thigh high leather boots.
Yeah, right.
That was the least comfortable part of the entire ensemble.
And about all there was to the ensemble.
But hey, you know, it was a wild time.
It was a wild time, guys.
Let's stop talking about your early 20s.
Yep.
And move on with the show.
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Can I also mention Disney Plus tonight,
Falcon and the Winter Soldier.
I know you're excited about this
I have been waiting for this
since the end
of Endgame
yeah
the team up with Bucky Barnes
and Sammy Sam
the flying man
early early reviews
are in
and they look pretty good
yeah yeah
very action packed
after they gave us
all that WandaVision
and they left me wanting
and now I've just seen
the first key art
for the Loki series
I'm very excited about everything Disney Plus has to offer,
including Star, which I've been watching.
Solar Opposites.
And it's one of those animated shows
that you don't start watching with your children
just because it's an animated show.
But it's very funny.
Awesome.
All right, well, that's coming up.
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Next on the show, there's been more details revealed
about the Expo that's happening in Dubai.
This is like a big thing where all the countries go along.
In the middle of a pandemic, it turns out.
Yeah.
Fleshforn and Megan, the podcast.
ZM.
The Dubai expo.
We've talked about this.
One of Hayley's friends went to Dubai to work on the World Expo
and was only supposed to be there for a bit and then COVID struck
and has been there ever since working on it.
Yeah.
And when's it going ahead?
2020.
Oh, no, sorry.
It's called the 2020 Expo.
Do we have time machines that I don't know about?
I stopped before I finished my sentence.
2020 Expo is now happening later in 2021
and will go through into 2022.
So obviously delayed on the initial expected time of Expo.
But it's like a world Expo.
New Zealand has a pavilion
and apparently it's almost ready to go.
It's a $62 million investment in global trade, basically.
You'd think they'd push it off another year or so.
Like, is Dubai a place
you can go without a vaccine?
Or is it pretty low?
I don't know.
Well, I know that they've
vaccinated a lot of people.
I know a lot of people
were flying from, like,
the UK to do vaccination holidays.
Then also,
before there was a vaccination,
people I know that lived there
said, oh, it's just like,
this is just,
they're trying to keep
it business as usual
and casualties will be casualties. It's going to have collateral damage. I was like, that's so dangerous. And they had, oh, it's just like this is just, they're trying to keep it business as usual and casualties will be casualties.
It's going to have collateral damage. I was like,
that's so dangerous. And they had like insane
spikes where there'd
be outdoor parties and it would spike
again. Right. So
I'm not sure.
But the contingent of New Zealanders who
do go for the expo will be vaccinated
according to the article I read.
And also 660 are going to play for over a month.
It goes for six months, doesn't it?
Yes.
This whole expo.
Yep.
So it's going to run, yeah, from the end of this year into next year.
Is it aimed at tourists or is it aimed at?
No, it's aimed at trade.
Right.
It's a big trade expo.
It's not really a tourist, hey, this is what we've got to offer. Come to
New Zealand. Because as you said, if that was the case, you'd delay
it a couple of years, wouldn't you? Until tourism
could be
undertaken again.
But no, it's more like a
trade expo. Right, to kind of wow
overseas countries, get them to invest.
What are we going to have like?
Milk?
I don't know. 660. Try our milk. Try our milk. Paris Goebbels is going to have like Milk I don't know 6.60
Try our milk
Try our milk
Paris
Paris Goebbels
There's going to be
Some dancing
Some dancing
Some nice cheese
Celebrate New Zealand productivity
I hope there's nice cheese
We do good cheese
Don't we
And like we've got
Amazing culture
Yeah
Like the Maori culture's
Unique
As many are around the world
But I
And I'm sure
it will be well represented
but if it's a trade expo
but you've got to give that feel
that unique
I'd imagine there would be
performers based there
for the whole six months
100%
Honey
what else have we got?
Mountains
take a mountain
take one of the mountains
oh I reckon
they should take a mountain
just a small one
man aspiring
that's quite large it's big but it's not the biggest and it's beautiful Take one of the mountains. Oh, I reckon they should take a mountain. Just a small one. Man-inspiring.
That's quite large.
Yeah, no, it's big, but it's not the biggest.
And it's beautiful.
And it's like a South Island one.
Have you seen it? It's quite like a picturesque mountain.
Very picturesque, yeah.
And then just have that in the middle of the expo.
Yeah.
And have everything else around it.
Yeah, I reckon.
Like a cheese table.
Yeah.
Your honey table.
The honey table.
Your 660 table.
And some timber, some pine.
Yep.
So you can smell the pine.
Lovely.
Yeah.
Okay.
Well, that sounds like us, doesn't it?
Sounds very New Zealand.
Have some mussels.
Yep.
Have some mussels.
Maybe you could put the mussels by the cheese so people could mix that if they want, but
it's not necessary.
Yes.
Just a big Kiwi charcuterie board.
Oh, yes.
With some yoghurt.
Yep.
Lovely.
I mean, you've got to keep that cold, though.
Yeah. So, yeah. Good gig
for 660. How much are they getting
paid? Well, we can ask them.
Next time they're in for an interview, why don't you just ask them to their face?
How much are you guys getting paid
for this tour? Well, the thing is, it's
taxpayers' money, so I'm sure we'll find out.
We're entitled to know. Well, they've
come out today, last couple
of days, at Rod Stewart.
I don't know if you saw this last weekend, because he
sang that sailing song, right?
We are sailing. And it was big
in like a past America's Cup, like in
the, what, the 80s or something? Or 90s?
Yeah. And so he did an interview with
Clark Gayford, and that was
online, and I think, did he sing?
And it was maybe
screened at the viewing points?
Yeah, and it was sung along.
Yeah, that was a million New Zealand dollars.
Just under a million.
Was that a million dollars well spent?
That's up for debate, isn't it?
I mean, I could have thought of some better ways to spend a million dollars, but...
I'm pretty sure we could have got Lady Gaga over here for a million dollars,
or to stream in for at least one song.
Well, she has to pay that half a million dollar reward for those dogs she got back.
She'd do it.
Would have done it.
Yeah.
ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast.
Well, the University of North Carolina, a team has done a research, some study into
micro breaks.
And this is basically how you work, Vaughan, at work.
Yeah.
Your entire work day
is a series of micro breaks.
It's a series of micro breaks. Uh-huh.
Now, they have found that five
minute micro breaks, otherwise to you,
Vaughan, known as a song or an ad
break. Or a solid
bit of work. Or just drifting off during
a meeting. Yeah. Taking a five
minute micro break is enough to improve
mental sharpness and help employees fight fatigue.
So this is probably more in like your nine to five office job.
You've actually mistimed this break because I'm just going to need a clock out for five minutes to take a break because that song wasn't long enough.
So you're due your micro break.
So a micro break can be as simple as getting a coffee, doing a crossword, or checking Facebook.
All of which you do on the regular.
Constantly.
Constantly at work.
And if I have to do something at home,
like if you're putting together a video or editing something,
I constantly need to stand up.
Even if it's just walk to the window, look outside, walk back.
I couldn't imagine you in an office doing an office job. God, no. I'd drive people crazy
because I can't sit still. I'd need to be
moving around. Yeah.
So those breaks
help complete tasks and make people
feel better about their job. Just because it's a
little chance just to step away.
And apparently,
yeah, if you do this, you're more productive.
Right. And you're more
into it. As opposed to just working non-stop, non-stop, non-stop productive. Right. You're more into it.
As opposed to just working non-stop, non-stop, non-stop.
No Facebook, no coffee, no breaks.
I couldn't agree more.
I think it's just in and out.
Stop, start, stop, start.
Do that, come back, concentrate.
Yeah, and then they go on to talk about,
like, obviously people are now working a lot from home.
Microbreaks could be things like having a snack,
crossword or playing with a pet,
which is what you do at home anyway when you're working.
Yeah. Because we'll work in the afternoons at home.
And yeah, I'll always do that.
What? You don't work at home.
Are we supposed to?
Well, you do send through some work.
Oh.
That takes me all day.
Does it?
I'm just constantly working at that.
I'll find that.
I'll just be like, I'll just turn around and the cat will be like on his back.
Yeah.
Just like, and I'll be like, oh, I've got to pat your tummy.
That tummy needs a scratcher.
Now I've just taken a micro break and I didn't even know it.
Uh-huh.
Okay, I got you.
So there you go, micro breaks.
Well, that's exactly how I've worked my entire life.
I know it is.
Anyway, you play the song.
I'm going to go for a look in the office.
Okay.
Maybe turn the photocopier off and on and then I'll come back.
Fleshforn and Megan, the podcast.
ZM. From the underground
ZM Think Tank.
This is the top six.
Hi.
Hi.
Hi.
I've started watching Schitt's Creek, so now
I get the David reference.
She says it. I do laugh.
David.
It's like a mega cut, but wait until you've finished Schitt's Creek.
Oh, I won't watch any mega cuts until I've finished.
There's mega cuts of her saying David and also Moira saying baby.
Baby.
Moira, I don't think Moira said baby yet.
No.
I think it just kind of.
She's so good.
She's incredible.
The whole show is just.
Every character, like, I think I'm six or seven episodes in,
and every character already, I'm like, okay, I can see.
These are going to be great.
Yeah.
So very, very good.
One of the just greatest shows.
Sad that it's ended.
This is not about Schitt's Creek.
This is the top six songs that you should write
if you want to make a million dollars one day
on the off chance that New Zealand hosts something.
Do with it.
Sure.
So this is off the back that Rod Stewart,
some like, when did that song come out?
The 80s.
So some 35 years after Sailing by Rod Stewart was released,
he got paid a handsome sum.
It was out in 1975, that song.
1975, so 46 years old.
So they won't say exactly how much they paid Rockin' Rod Stewart,
former husband of Rachel Hunter, BT Dubs.
He's eaten a trumpet or two in his time.
The whole hour-long show at the main stage at the America's Cup Village
cost just under a million dollars.
So I'm guessing that includes stage hiring,
unless the stage was already there.
I think the stage is already there
Right, so
But maybe they
It was a lot of money for basically
An interview with Clark Gayford
That aired on the media
Yeah
And in news
And then a sing-along where he zoomed in
And sang along with the village
Yeah, but I feel like it was definitely pre-recorded
Yeah
Yeah
And they sang along
A lot of money
But good payday for Rod.
Yeah.
Sat at home.
He loves model trains.
Did you know this?
He does.
I did see that.
He's phenomenal.
If you've got some time
and you like model trains
like I do,
I don't have any,
but I can really admire
the craftspersonship
that goes into it.
He's got like a whole room
set up.
Yeah.
It looks legit.
Have you seen online
this video of like cats walking through a model train set? Oh. They's like, it looks legit. Have you seen online this video of like cats
walking through a model train set?
Oh.
They look like giant monsters.
Yeah,
I'm down for that.
Just Google it.
It's quite funny
and the trains like
just go between the cats
and then the cats knock the,
yeah,
it's real cute.
So,
Rod made a lot of money
because he wrote a song
in the 70s about sailing.
Yeah.
So,
this is a future investment.
This is like the KiwiSaver
for songwriters.
Yes.
These are the top six songs you should write, what you should write
about to make a million dollars one day off the off chance
New Zealand has some high level involvement.
Number six, tennis. Yep.
Okay. I mean, I'll get you started.
Whoa, you've served
the ball and now it's coming back.
When will it end?
Hit it back. Right.
Here it comes. This is how it goes
Tennis!
I mean, his song kind of was big
before the America's Cup
and then it was used.
Well, I was playing to be a songwriter.
I was just trying to get the...
Just an idea.
Like a songwriter might be listening
and thought that was terrible.
It would be better if it went.
And then we go,
that's all that was meant to be.
You were just the inspiration,
the Kickstarter.
Yeah.
Okay.
Number five on the list of the top six things you should write songs about
to make a million dollars one day on the off chance New Zealand
has some high-level involvement.
Motorsport.
Yeah.
Because that's another.
Yeah, it's a big one.
That's another one with a lot of money.
Yeah.
It's a big money sport.
How would that song go?
Oh, go the tires as they come around the bend.
I mean, it sounds similar to the tennis song, but it's different.
It does sound different.
Brum goes the car as it goes real fast.
Brum, it's blasted past.
It's Formula One.
That's just your band's sound.
You know, all bands have the same sound.
Yeah, well, I'll try something different for number four.
The top six songs, top six things you should write songs about
if you want to make a million dollars.
I know that Off Chance New Zealand has some high-level involvement.
Number four is horse racing.
Okay.
How would that song go?
Clippity-clop, clippity-clop.
Here come the horses.
Clippity-clop.
Running reverse.
They're never going to stop.
It's horses.
And they're racing, baby.
One's falling and it's gonna be shot.
The others are still going clippity-clop.
The race is over.
A fat old man is a million
dollars richer.
I could still tell that was the same band.
It was the same band. Yeah, same band.
Just trying a new sound. I'll try something different for number three
maybe on the top six
things you should write songs about if you want to make a million
dollars off the off chance New Zealand has some high level
involvement one day. Golf. Yep.
This is going to be
different. Okay.
He's hitting the ball
with the club. No, I don't know why I'm still doing the horse
racing thing. It should have stopped at the horse racing thing.
Hitting the ball
and it's going real fast. It's going to
land up there on some nice green grass
and then you've got to hit the ball into the hole.
Whoa!
You did it.
It's in the hole.
Fantastic.
I'd actually rather pay you a million dollars
and have heard that during the America's Cup
than Rod Stewart's song, just for pure entertainment value.
Yes, yeah.
Number two on the list are the top six things you should write songs about
if you want to make
a million dollars
when Off Chance New Zealand
has some high level involvement.
I'm skiing.
Snow skiing.
Yeah, yeah.
That's quite like a
well-to-do sport.
Yeah.
That'd be something like...
Could it be a rap maybe?
Yeah, okay.
I'll try a rap.
Okay, here's a rap.
Like an off-paste.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Off-paste.
Yeah, on-paste. Yeah, on-paste.
Yeah, on-paste.
Okay, it'd be like,
Strapping into the skis down the hill.
They're going real fast.
They're gonna die if they don't do something cool.
They need to jump.
Oh, a spin and a flip.
What's next?
Oh, they're at the bottom of the hill.
Do it again.
Yeah, something like that. Yeah, right. I think you've got more future in your D hill. Do it again. Yeah, something like that.
Yeah, right.
I think you've got more future
in your Dane Rumbles cover band.
Yeah, Dane Rumble.
It's time to kick off Dane Rumble again.
I think it's time to brush off Dane Rumble.
And number one on the list
of the top six things
you should write songs about
if you want to make a million dollars
on the Off Chance New Zealand
has some high level involvement,
just write it about the All Blacks.
Yeah.
Yeah, just write about the All Blacks.
Do you want to hear what...
No, we can probably...
Do you really think people can probably imagine it?
We can probably imagine it, yeah.
Just for those with a lack of imagination.
They're scoring a try.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Did I get it right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And they're going into a rock and they're getting stomped on
and they're going to have those ears that look a little bit yuck
because they got...
Oh, like the blood vessels got smushed in the rug.
And I can't get over that our number one sex symbols have such gross ears.
I'm stuck on the ears, but I can't help but look.
And every time I see one, I gotta have a look.
And why wouldn't you wear headgear?
Because you can't play rugby forever.
But you'll always have those cauliflower ears.
Freddie's a beautiful song.
I couldn't imagine that opening the Rugby World Cup
though, just saying. Oh, do you reckon
closing it then? Closing the ceremony. Maybe.
Okay, that's great. That's today's top six.
ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan.
The podcast.
Bakery of the Day.
Well, it's time for Bakery of the Day.
We do this every Friday.
It's a tradition.
It sure is.
We find out about you, Colin.
This is a user-generated segment because without you,
we could only do the bakeries in our area.
But we want bakeries far and wide.
We want you to call up, represent your local bakery.
They don't even need to know what's happening.
No, they don't have to know anything about this.
Maybe you work at the bakery, that's also fine.
It is. Alright, let's get into it.
Two callers now.
Bakery number one.
And Scott calls us. Good morning, Scott.
Good morning.
Good morning. Scott!
Now, which bakery are you nominating,
Scott?
The Oliver's Bakery in Thames. Oh, okay. Now, are you nominating, Scott? The Oliver's Bakery in Thames.
Oh, okay.
Now, are you a regular here or just when you're passing through?
Just when I'm passing through.
Okay.
Now, there's an Oliver's Bakery in Whangamata as well.
Is that sort of like a franchise or a different branch of Oliver's?
Well-known sort of Coromandel-based bakery franchise?
I didn't even know there was one over those
ways. Well, there's a
treat next time you head over the hill.
What's the one thing you look forward to there?
Oh, the gourmet butter chicken.
Oh, yes!
Okay, that sounds delicious. You got
me there. Oh, they haven't had a Facebook post
since 2014.
I was like, they've got Valentine's treats
on and I was like, oh, okay, that's a few weeks back.
But I realised then I look and it's 2014
so I can't, like, look at any
photos of...
Right. Well, maybe they've given up on the
social media. Maybe it's not for them.
Maybe they've, yeah, gone dark on social media
and they just want to... So a butter chicken
pie. You think the
wild bean butter chicken pies are good.
Well, these just need clever.
Okay, okay.
All right, so that's your go-to.
All right, Scott.
Wait there, mate.
John joins us.
Good morning, John.
Yeah, good morning, team.
Good morning.
All right, now, which bakery are you nominating
for bakery of the day?
Valare. Valare.
There's two of them, one in Te Amuru and one in Kihikihi.
God, look at these bakeries just branching out with their multiple branches.
Valare, V-O-L-A-R-E.
That's it.
And isn't there, there was one in Hamilton too, wasn't there?
Didn't they have a bakery base in Hamilton?
Yeah, I think they might do.
Oh, okay.
I don't mean that way.
What's your go-to there, John?
A couple of things in the slices.
A caramel slice, a very good, tasty caramel slice,
full of caramel, and a peppermint slice as well.
Oh, yeah, good.
I've been to this bakery, Fletch.
I've been to this bakery, and I can speak for everything it had.
You love it?
Okay, what about the, do they do a good ginger slice, John?
Because that's my go-to at a bakery.
Yeah, they do do a ginger slice, but I'm a fan of the caramel one.
Okay, you're more of a caramel.
Now, what about the level of topping and icing and gooeyness?
Is there a lot, is it thick?
Yep, full of it.
I'm wondering,
I've had correspondence
from my sister's partner,
a big fan of bakeries
in the Taumuru area,
and he said,
do you mean Vian's Bakery,
not Vilara's?
Vilara's Hamilton-based.
Vian's is the Taumuru.
Oh, is there some kind of...
Some sort of Vian's.
Sorry.
Vian's is correct.
He knows his bakeries.
Wow.
Okay, goodness me.
Right.
All right.
Well, I mean, I haven't been to Vianne's.
I was thinking about Valare.
Yeah, well, I'm probably going to side my vote today.
And I do love a butter chicken pie, Scott,
but I'm probably going to go with John because slices is where it's at for me.
Right.
So that would be my vote if I'm being tempted into one of these two.
Yeah, being a Waikato lad,
I'd probably have to put my vote behind you as well, John.
Even though there was the name confusion at the start,
I was very excited that someone had called up
to recommend Valero's
because every time we drive through
between my parents and my in-laws,
we'll stop it there
and grab a couple of loaves of delicious bread,
but we'll go with you.
There we go, John.
Winner there at Bakery of the Day.
You can't go wrong with a caramel slice.
Do they have a ginger crunch that'll make you go, huh?
Well, you just said they do, yeah.
You know, but what I want to know about the ginger crunch
is it makes you go a little bit puckered.
You know when you eat a ginger crunch and you're a little bit like, ooh.
Well, yeah, because there's lots of icing.
The gingery, yeah, that gingery.
All right, there we go.
Bakery of the Day.
Flesh, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast.
ZM.
So you may have,
should you have attended
a summer festival,
or you might have seen this on Facebook,
or you might have seen it on YouTube,
it was the COVID alert level remix
featuring Dr. Ashley Bloomfield
to promote COVID safety at festivals.
Kia ora koutou.
I saw,
I don't think there was
a single person
that went to a festival
that didn't post this
on their story.
And that's what the idea
of it, right?
Yep.
It was good,
it was different,
it grabbed the attention
and,
if you'll excuse the pun,
went viral.
Wash and sanitise
hands often.
So,
it is the estimates
of the insights,
if you're familiar with how social media insights the word.
Yeah, that's how many people view it and interact with it,
share it, see it, have any...
Let's unite against COVID-19.
More than 46 million people saw that.
Holy!
So, 10 times the population of New Zealand.
And so, it's come out that taxpayers
money, we spent $40,000
I'm imagining an ad agency did this.
Yeah. So there's probably their
fee. Yeah, probably would have cost two and a half
if they'd asked a
student in the visual arts
doing a visual arts degree to do it. Probably would have
cost two and a half, but advertising agencies
like to hike the price on these
things so they can go out for lunch on a Friday.
And so $40,000 taxpayers' money for $46 million, which for 46 million people to view something,
only $40,000 is actually really good.
Yeah.
A return on investment.
Great.
Great spending of taxpayers' money there.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And we'll probably live on.
And it's still on Facebook and getting more shares and more views every day.
$40,000.
Money well spent?
Yeah.
ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast.
ZM's $50,000 secret sound.
Well, Soundkeeper Al's joins us.
Had a big night last night.
You went out on a school night.
Don't say that.
There was no drinks involved. Just a late night last night. You went out on a school night. Don't say that. There was no drinks involved.
Just a late one.
Okay.
Oh yeah, when you get up this early,
there doesn't need to be drinks involved
to feel hungover.
That's it.
That's true.
Well, ZM's $50,000 secret sound
is thanks to Star Streaming
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$50,000 is the jackpot.
It must be won.
Angelina, good morning.
Oh, my God.
I'm actually on.
Good morning.
You've done it, Angelina.
You've made it through.
Oh, wow.
Okay.
I've been playing this for over a week now.
It's been doing my head in.
Wait, so have you only been playing for a week?
Yeah.
Wow, because you know this...
It was my son that actually was like,
Mum, Mum, you should actually just guess.
Just look at the clues and just make it.
Wow, that's going to really annoy someone
if you win and they've been trying
for like the last five weeks.
Yeah, people get very passionate about this.
They do.
Alright, so Angelina, this is the secret sound.
Which you'll be familiar with.
We're all familiar with that staticky sound.
What is it?
Well, you get $50,000 if you can tell us what it is now.
Okay, so my guess is manually spraying an aerosol can.
And, you know, like, say, a spray paint can or, like, a hairspray can.
Like, you actually manually just get initial spray.
Did you see a spray can or aerosol can in the video, the Clue video?
Yep, I did.
I actually took a screenshot of it, and it was in the initial, like, as the video actually started.
It was up on the shelf.
So an aerosol can.
Yeah.
That makes complete sense.
Like, get the mic right up close to the nozzle and spray.
Yeah.
I actually took a recording of it at home.
And does it sound...
And then it extended down.
The only thing that I could possibly think of
was putting the cap back on so that clip...
Oh.
So putting the clip...
Yeah, putting the cap back on.
It's a spray cap.
Yeah.
So that's like clicking the cap back.
Yeah, right.
Okay, I like this.
I didn't mean playing a week,
but this is a very detailed thought process.
And it works in,
does it work in with the clues?
So with the clues,
like,
so the one clue that initially got me
was the doll face one.
Because when you paused it right on that time
in the background,
she had a dresser that had
a whole lot of hair products on it
and then one of them
was a can,
a spray can.
Okay.
And it was blue
and then the next clue
was the sapphire
from the Titanic.
So I just linked the blue
to the blue can.
Okay.
And then with the dude
in the,
was it the Skypilot one?
He was a police officer and I just linked super spray.
Okay, so you have thought about this.
You have thought about this.
How far into this like week-long investigation was your son like,
I wish I had not suggested this.
My mother has gone deep.
Like I said, it's been really doing,
I've looked at all the clues and I've tried to link every single one
and I've looked at the inside of Sam
and everyone's been on some other track.
So I don't know.
And I've seen that there's been a couple of similar guesses,
but not exactly this one.
So I just wanted to point that out.
Angelina.
Yeah, it's time.
$50,000.
Yeah.
You've done a heck of amount of research.
That's not the secret sound, mate.
It's all good.
And, Jelena, back to the drawing board.
Do you have other guesses that you can continue playing with,
or is it back to, like, square one?
No, that was my guess that I was on.
So I wanted to go back to that.
Actually, that makes me feel so much better.
At least you know.
It's a weight off your shoulders.
The pass has been ripped off.
Angelina, $100 for an incorrect guess.
Fleshfauna Megan, the podcast, ZM.
Video is going around, and I've seen a few videos like this,
mostly out of America, where the average internet crusader
knows better than the medical professionals.
And places are opening more for business as the vaccine rolls out,
but still masks are asked to be worn in public spaces,
retail, anywhere you're going, cafes, et cetera.
I think some states drop the mandatory requirements.
Yep.
They're like, oh, we're fine now.
Yeah, which is not the case.
No.
But video has gone around of a woman
who is working at a coffee shop,
quitting on the spot after somebody refuses to wear a mask
and her manager won't...
Do anything.
Do anything to make them put on a mask
even though the woman
has a mask
because in this video
later on
there is a mask
and she's like
yeah happy now
I'm wearing a mask
but this girl
had quit in the meantime
so she just
there's a video of her
just saying
you're not making people
wear masks
she's like
I feel so unsafe
even though she's
wearing a mask
she said
I just want everybody
to wear masks
it's an easy thing to do
well and you'd imagine the workplace isn't making it safe for her, so she'd probably sue them.
Yeah, well, good old America, right?
And it's videoed, so they've got the proof.
Yeah.
But, yeah, she quits on the spot just with no mask.
I love a good story about a quit on the spot.
I love a quit.
It's not a, I've had enough, I'm going to find a new job, I'm going to give this weeks of job searching, find the right job and then go.
Yeah. It's, I've had enough, I'm leaving right now. new job. I'm going to give this weeks of job searching, find the right job and then go. Yeah.
It's I've had enough.
I'm leaving right now.
This is where I leave.
I love that.
It's brave.
I think it's brave.
Yeah.
I mean, it might be a bit hot.
Some people might say it's hot headed.
In spur of the moment.
And probably something you're more likely to be able to do
working at a cafe versus like in the middle of your high court proceedings
as a judge or a lawyer. Well, yeah, if you're in the middle of your high court proceedings as a judge or a lawyer.
Well, yeah, if you're in the middle of it, like your career.
Yeah.
But then maybe people have, I don't know,
I'd love to talk about this because I just think it's like,
it's ballsy just to be like, I quit here and now
and you walk off the job or you're like at the end of the day
and you don't come back.
Yeah.
You just quit on the spot.
Very intense.
Is there anybody listening who just quit on the spot very is it is there anybody
listening who's quit on the spot the more the i won't lie to you the more dramatic the better
like if things were thrown over spilled yeah um yeah just a dramatic quitting on the spot
and leaving immediately love it when have you quit on the spot when have you been like that's it i'm
out quite a video online going around of a woman just quitting judo the customer's not taking the Love it. When have you quit on the spot? When have you been like, that's it, I'm out?
Quite a video online going around of a woman just quitting due to the customers not taking the company's mask requirements seriously.
Yeah, in America.
Yeah, which you can understand.
By the way, still, COVID's just absolutely rocking through.
Yeah.
Anonymous, you quit on the spot.
I did, I did.
Now, what kind of job were you doing where you were just like,
see you later? Well, I was riding
racehorses, actually.
And, yeah, I was breaking a few
horses in. So, it's a bit of tough
work, tough on the body.
And...
Okay, carry on. Sorry.
No, I was going to say,
you know, I had a really, really tough morning
and I sat down for a bit of a break because I was sweating
and couldn't really breathe.
And anyway, my boss come over and told me that I can't sit down
and catch my breath.
So I, yeah, told him to shove it and threw the bridle at him,
and I left.
There were six more horses still to work.
Oh, yeah, now that'll show him.
Old mates, get a bridle in the eye
or the face.
Yeah, I didn't aim
for the head,
but it was in his direction.
Right.
And then that was it?
He didn't try to, like,
lure you back?
Or he just...
Oh, he did.
Yeah, no, he did,
but I turned my phone off.
Yeah, no, good.
You got to stick to
these brash decisions.
Thank you, Anonymous.
Brunner.
Is it Brunner or Brunner? Brunner. Brun, Anonymous. Brunner. Is it Brunner or Brunner?
Brunner.
Brunner.
No.
Brunner.
Brunner.
Yeah, Brunner.
Many apologies, Brunner.
What's happened here is you've talked to the producers
about your name.
B-R-U-N-N-A.
I was like, Brunner.
No, it's not the first time.
It's okay.
Brunner.
I apologize, Brunner.
Now, this is your boyfriend that quit
on the spot yes it is so basically he had just gotten his um visa again he was on interim for a
while so he wasn't working yeah and he um finally was able to work again but i got really sick so
we both got covid tested so we were at home.
He got pulled into work, and
he said no, because he's in, you know,
isolation, quarantine.
And his boss said, enjoy your
extended, glorified holiday.
You don't even seem that sick.
This was
a problem, eh?
Good on him.
This was a problem during the COVID thing. You'd hear about people whose bosses were like,
will you just come in?
It's like, you don't quite understand that.
No, yeah.
If I am sick with it, you're going to be like enemy number one.
Yeah.
Exactly, exactly.
So, no, I'm happy that he didn't go in,
but yeah, it wasn't the first time that he said something like this either.
Like, he he said a lot
of rude things to him
and I think this was also
just like the tipping point
so yeah he just
quit effective immediately
yeah good on him
okay Brenna
thanks for your call
some text messages in
um
a mate was
a work mate was having
a large
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loud argument
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Vocal exercises.
Large, loud argument with the boss about where the doors get stacked.
We were working in joinery.
Yeah.
And the boss wasn't compromising at all.
He said, I've had enough.
And grabbed all his stuff on the way out and said, I'm off.
I'm out.
And just left in the middle of the work day.
I quit when a stacked pile of hundreds of pies fell over.
I tried to go through and put the orders back in the individual trays, but it was far too
much to do.
So I just took the truck back to the yard and quit.
So this is like when they say a pile of pies, it's a truckload of pies.
It's a truckload of pies.
It wasn't just like six pies on the way to their warmer
I get that
you just had enough
I'm out
I quit
yeah
um
somebody said
I was working as a waitress
at a restaurant in Ireland
and the boss started
shouting at me
for something
I hadn't even done
um
so I quit and walked out
it was quite dramatic
because it was like
in front of a restaurant
full of people too
so there was a good crowd there
I would have walked out and yelled
at the same time, the whole time.
And taken a couple of mints before I left.
I would have taken a whole bowl. Handful of mints.
Yeah, and some toothpicks.
And I'd be like, I'm out.
There's a sleep story
out and when you work
our hours, you're always drawn to a sleep
story. Anyone up at this time of the morning.
Anyone up and at it.
Maybe you've been at work for a couple of hours
or maybe you've had a late night and an early start
and getting kids ready for whatever.
As executive intern, aren't you yawns?
Do you think that yawn was because we were talking about sleep
so it made you think about it?
And now we're talking about yawns.
You've just yawned.
I'm imagining hearing the word yawn is causing a whole lot
of people listening to yawn
I have not yet yawned
I'm saying yawn so much
that I'm hoping to like
trick my brain
into not yawning
you did it again
I just made you yawn
you double yawned
because it is
it's contagious isn't it
yeah if you've got empathy
right
wasn't that the thing
if you can yawn
in the face of somebody
and they don't yawn
they're a sociopath
and you haven't
so you're the sociopath here
oh my god
I am
so this story about sleep is that what you should They're a sociopath. And you haven't, so you're the sociopath here. I am.
So this story about sleep is that what you should watch before bed,
a US study asked 200 people to use sleep trackers for two weeks to record their sleep patterns.
You're going to yawn again.
I'm really tired.
So watching TV, listening to a podcast,
listening to music or having no technical
engagement for two hours before sleeping.
Because that's what people will say if they listen to our
podcast. They're like, I use it to go to sleep. And you're like, that's
great. I mean, I'm glad
you're listening. That's fantastic. But is this a compliment?
It's not like we're an ASMR
podcast. No, we're not like, hello
and welcome to the podcast.
Now I want you to focus
on your breathing
slow and deep.
That just sounded creepy.
I'm a sociopath.
So then they tracked people. Now, this
is the interesting thing. The people that they tracked who watched
TV before bed from those
four categories.
Within that, they even had more
breakdown
within that because they found out what they
were watching. And they were asked
to sleep for nine hours
from a specific time. Nine hours would be
nice. If you watched reality, wouldn't that
be a dream? I just don't even know if I could.
Reality TV before
bed, they slept on average 32
minutes longer than those who watched
romance films
and rom-coms.
And people who watched horrors
or thrillers
slept the most.
Trying to sleep nine hours,
they slept seven hours,
50 minutes.
Although it did take them
a little bit longer
to fall asleep,
but once they fell asleep,
they lasted longer.
Do you think it's because
they'd gone on an emotional
rollercoaster?
Like heightened, they were so heightened by the thriller and the horror. The adrenaline had pumped They lasted longer. Do you think it's because they'd gone on an emotional roller coaster?
They were so heightened by the thriller and the horror.
The adrenaline had pumped and so it was there,
but when it disappeared, they stinked better.
Maybe.
Wow.
So watch a horror or a thriller before bed for a bit of sleep.
You wouldn't think that would be the right way around.
And I don't think that works for everybody.
There'll be people who watch those and then they're literally awake all night.
Yeah. I was a part of Tom Sainsbury's show last night
at the Auckland Arts Festival,
and he said, oh, you've got an Apple Watch.
I said, yes.
And he's like, I've got one too.
And we had this big brainy moment
about how we're both wearing Apple Watches.
But then he's like, do you monitor your sleep?
I said, no, that's when I charge mine.
Yeah, because I always charge mine overnight too.
And people always say,
because I've got a friend who's got a Fitbit,
and he's always like, oh, my God, look at my sleep.
And I'm like.
Must be nice.
Must be nice.
A wearable.
A wearable.
Well, that's what I charge mine, right?
But he said, because he said, I didn't think I was getting enough sleep.
So I've been using it to monitor my sleep.
Yeah.
And he said, you're supposed to get 25% of your sleep.
It's supposed to be deep sleep.
And deep sleep is where the body regenerates, heals, recharges.
Yeah, because if you ever get woken up during a deep sleep, that's when it's horrible.
It's jolting.
Yeah.
Wildly jolting.
So he said he's rocking at about 2.5% of his sleep is deep sleep.
He said he's getting sleep enough.
The hours are there.
But not deep.
But not the deep sleep.
Does he need earplugs maybe?
Is he hearing noise or something?
I don't know.
Not enough to wake him up maybe,
but enough to stop him falling into a deep sleep.
Although who knows what's happening in his mind, eh?
It'd be a busy place.
I'm a very funny man.
It could be a very, very busy place.
ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast.
Drax Project, brand new.
It's called Over It.
Yeah, and I'm looking them right in the face right now,
two lads from the Drax Project mansion.
Actually, just Drax Project.
Know that.
Thank you.
Know that.
Very early for you guys.
Thank you.
Yeah.
Any time, really, except, wow.
Any time except any earlier than now.
I just always think I need to apologise to comedians and musicians
for coming in this early.
Yeah, you probably do.
Yeah.
Not sports stars though.
No.
Because they should be out going to the gym and such.
Yeah.
Because they're professional athletes.
Doing real work.
They should be out.
Full eight hours by now and be into their second gym workout
and fourth protein shake of the day.
You guys are sick of answering this, but what time do you get up?
4.30.
Oh, no way.
What?
Horrible, isn't it?
A little bit earlier because I've got travel.
So you guys have been going around a bit with 660?
Yeah.
How's that been over summer?
Amazing.
After having no gigs last year, really,
doing these massive shows, 20,000 at least every time,
we're so grateful to them because even if the four, so they did six shows, we opened for four of them.
But on all of them, they got us up to do Catching Feelings together.
So we jumped up in their set and did that.
So was that your favorite one where you just got to go along and do one song?
And eat all the food.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Exactly, yeah.
Without actually having to like exert yourself too much. Exactly, yeah. Without actually having to exert yourself too much.
Exactly, yeah.
No, it was awesome.
It was that the catering was good.
Was it?
Yeah.
So if 660 reached the level where their writers and their catering are good.
No, the catering for all the Eccles shows are always good.
Oh, really?
Eccles knows a thing or two about catering.
They do.
Talk me through it.
You've hit my passion for their food.
They had some 48-hour braised beef or something.
Oh, my gosh.
Cooking for ages.
Cooking for weeks.
Wow.
Yeah.
48 years.
It was disgusting.
It was moldy, but, God, it was tender.
It was delicious.
And it was during one of these shows that everyone,
I mean, it was weird.
I know Sol and me
were in the middle of a show
in Christchurch.
Yeah.
We were like,
weddings happening
and you guys were at the gig
on the Saturday night
where at nine o'clock
we all got told
six o'clock the next morning
it was Level 3
in Auckland again.
Six, six, six,
he was still on stage.
This was in Hamilton.
In Hamilton
and we knew
because we finished our set
and we were in the green room
waiting to come up
to do catching with them
and then everyone's phone's been off. Yeah. So they don't know they're on stage playing and we were in the green room waiting to come up to do catching with them and then everyone's
phones been off
so they don't know
they're on stage
playing and we
got jumped off the stage
and play catching with them
and we're not gonna stop
everyone in the crowd
knows they're about
to go to lockdown
660 don't know
like
and then people
I saw videos of people
leaving as soon as
they got the alerts
terrible timing
but at the same time
so lucky to even
get to do the gig same with the Wellington gig which was like 30, but at the same time, so lucky to even get to do the gig.
Same with the Wellington gig, which was like 30,000.
Yeah, the images have gone all over the world of the shows.
It's just some incredible, people are like, what?
No masks?
Yeah, yeah.
They will put up a video of us playing to some people,
and then there's so many people like,
why aren't you social distancing?
People from overseas are like, what is going on?
You're all idiots.
It's like, well.
Yeah.
We've got actually
zero community cases.
And then all the Kiwis
just jump in and rush them.
Yeah, yeah.
That's actually true, right?
Yeah.
It's just Kiwis
all high and mighty.
Yeah, yeah.
We don't have COVID.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So what is over and about
the new song?
Is it about COVID alerts
during concerts?
Level changes,
not being able to travel.
Yeah.
Over the early mornings as well.
Yeah.
Nah, it's about...
The lyric is,
If you're over it,
why'd you let me take you home?
If you're over it.
If you're over it.
Why'd you stay until the morning?
It's kind of like...
It's like, I don't know.
You had this thing and it's over, but...
They say it's over.
They're saying, no, we're done.
But they keep coming back and hit you with that text or like,
hey, what are you doing?
But you're like, if you're over it, why did you?
But also you don't, you're not a fan of this.
Maybe you're not mad about it.
But maybe you're not that mad about it.
Yeah, because you think if there's a little spark there,
it could be rekindled into the roaring fire it once was.
Roaring flame.
Furnace, yeah.
Personal experience.
Everyone's probably had that, right?
Song, right?
Just a little bit of fantasy.
Yeah.
Right.
Nah.
That's music, really.
Not my personal experience.
Writing songs about stuff we've never done, like walk on the moon and jet rides and space and stuff.
Exactly.
So what's next then?
What do you guys,
what's on the calendar
for like the next month?
Yeah,
I think it'll be shows soon.
Yeah.
We're just sorting
all that stuff out
at the moment.
Heaps more Mew music.
Mew music.
Yeah.
Wow.
Heaps of music.
Mew music.
Yeah.
Okay, yeah.
We've got bangers
and this one,
we've just been excited
for a while about.
Yeah.
Exciting stuff.
All right, well, thanks for coming in, lads.
Thank you.
Thanks, fellas.
Well, considering the last year we've all put in the hard yards,
the hard work, we've been pretty lucky.
We've been able to go to concerts.
We've been able to enjoy New Year's and summer.
We've had a lot of freedom. We've been able to go on concerts. We've been able to enjoy New Year's and summer. We've had a lot of freedom.
We've been able to go on dates.
I was talking to somebody yesterday about the
Lion King coming to town.
The cast of the Lion King have been approved to come
and there was a lot of people saying, well, that's
not fair because I wanted to come home to New
Zealand for three
months to the day and leave
so I don't have to pay MIQ. But then you think
about, and I thought this was a really good point,
people who have been in New Zealand the whole time,
been working, haven't travelled overseas,
they need some, like, a bit of entertainment,
some reward, a little bit of culture.
And the Lion King musical is world-renowned
as being absolutely fantastic.
And why shouldn't New Zealanders have that opportunity for entertainment?
It's going to give us like 100 jobs.
But I mean, I know families are split up.
And they haven't seen loved ones for a year.
It's horrible.
Well, in America, much the same.
They've been locked in their houses for a year.
And Tinder have recognised this because they have noticed that people just aren't dating as much in real life.
Like they might be matching
but they're obviously not meeting. They might be
matching and talking on Zoom
until they can meet in real life.
40 as of the
end of last year, 40% of
Tinder users under the age of
30 had not met a match in person.
Wow. And they say
Do they have actual like, because that's like a percentage,
do they have actual numbers of how much?
No, they don't.
Because that would be huge.
Hearing it as a percentage is one thing,
but the actual numbers would be massive.
Oh, yeah, when you think of all the people in America on Tinder,
they say most of Gen Z have been stuck at home with their parents,
52% to be precise,
which means their social lives have basically been put on hold
because they're locked up with mum and dad
and they're not able to meet.
So starting tomorrow in the US, Tinder will be giving out vouchers
so you can match with somebody and then you both get a COVID test,
an at-home COVID test.
And then you send it away and you're both neggy.
Yeah.
And then you can meet and have a date.
What if you're posi?
Well, then maybe stay at home.
So they'll send you a test.
A home collection kit.
It's backed by the FDA
so it's a legit test.
Do you get the other person's results?
I don't know actually.
I would know the other person's results
because what if they were like photos
and they were like really hot for it
but they're posi
and you're neggy
and they're like, I'm neggy too and then they they're posse. And you're neggy.
And they're like, oh yeah, I'm neggy too.
And then they make you posse.
You just wait a couple of weeks, right?
And then you'd meet them.
Yeah.
After it's all out of the system. If they're worth it, totally.
But yeah, that's happening at the moment in the US.
Wow.
And I know they've just released a new feature as well,
background checks.
We talked about this briefly yesterday.
You've got to pay for it.
But you do have to pay, which was weird.
But you'd pay, wouldn't you? Well, it's better than getting. You've got to pay for it. But you do have to pay, which was weird. But,
you'd pay, wouldn't you?
Well, it's better than getting your...
Your parents will pay for you,
by the way.
If you've got a father,
he will happily pay
to have a background check.
He would do that.
Yeah, this is your future,
paying for background checks.
Oh, I know.
We'll pay for every background check
just to be sure.
Just to absolutely know.
Well, it's better than
asking your friend
who's a cop to do it
because they get in trouble,
don't they?
Apparently, you're not allowed to just search random people
in the police database anymore.
Ugh!
PC madness!
Fleshfauna Megan, the podcast.
ZM.
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My thriving Friday night social
I told you what I'm looking forward to doing on my Friday
And you were like, oh what?
And I was like, oh I'm going to mow the lawns
And you were just like, stop talking
Roll my eyes, yeah
Alright, joining us this morning
With a shot at $50,000.
Kelly, hello.
Hello.
All right, so you've managed to get through.
It's the hardest bit.
And now that you're here, you need to tell us what this sound is
to win $50,000 as she clears her throat.
She's ready.
Stretch it out, Kelly.
What is it?
I think it's a belt pack transmitter
that's connected to a wireless microphone
that's been dropped on the ground.
That is very specific.
That's very specific.
Now, this is something that a Britney would wear
or a performer on stage.
Like, they wear a little,
they tuck it into their pants or they wear a belt.
Yep.
And they have the headpiece, microphone,
and that transmits back to a unit side of stage.
Yeah, if you're out and you want to have fun pretending you're doing that,
you can stick a straw in your hat or behind your ear
and twist the bendy straw at the end there.
But I prefer a compostable straw because I'm woke for the environment.
For the environment.
Pro turtle.
Was there, Kelly Woods, did you see one of these belt pack transmitters
with wireless mic in the video?
Well, she is wearing one in the actual video.
Wow.
Okay.
So you think it could be that?
How does that work with the clothes that we've given?
Yeah.
I think with the clothes and stuff,
I think they all kind of talk about weddings.
Okay.
Like each clue is kind of,
I think it's like referred to weddings and stuff
and obviously need microphones,
you need to have wireless microphones
at weddings for the speeches.
True, true.
Okay.
Is this your first,
have you had this guess from the start?
Is this your first guess?
I've had this guess from the start,
but I thought it was called something else.
Okay.
Right. Well, wait, what did I thought it was called something else. Okay. Right, well...
Wait, what did you think it was called?
I thought it was called a
PA system.
Oh, right, okay. And we've had that guess.
It's not a PA system.
So are you like a sound
engineer or are you just very invested
in research? I'm just
convinced that's what it is.
I rang the sound shop. What? You rang the sound shop? You is. I rang the sound shop.
What?
You rang the sound shop?
You rang a who?
The sound shop?
Yeah.
What, like rock shop or what is it?
No, I rang just our local audio shop.
Right, Kelly, how did that conversation go?
Hello, I'll be, I'll be, hello, audio shop.
I was kind of just making out like I had dropped my wireless mic.
What?
So you wanted to know what it was called.
You had one.
You dropped it, but you didn't know what it was called.
Yeah.
You should have just literally said,
I think this could be the answer to a radio competition.
And he would have been, ah.
But he was already, yeah, yeah.
Okay. All right, well, let's see if was already, yeah. Yeah. Okay. Okay.
All right.
Well, let's see if it was worth it.
Sorry.
Yeah.
Was it worth it, Kelly?
Wow.
That's the most thorough research ever.
Kelly.
That's not the secret sound.
Hey.
Oh, Kelly.
Bring back the sound shop.
Tell them they were wrong.
Kelly, we've got $100 for an incorrect guess.
ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast.
Friday Flashback.
And it's a Friday tradition.
It's got to be a song that's at least 10 years old.
It's got to be a banger.
Not a problem.
1995, I incorrectly said 1992 earlier in the show.
1995, this song came out.
Soundkeeper Owls, were you born at this stage?
No.
Mountain.
2000.
Mountain's birth year.
Is it?
Okay.
So you're 2000.
Yeah.
I'm 20.
So this was five years before you were born.
You might be thinking to yourself,
how did this do in the New Zealand charts, Vaughn?
This is where Vaughn says, disappointingly.
44.
Yeah.
It peaked at 44.
However, number one on the US Hot Dance Club play.
And it got to number six in the overall Billboard 100.
Okay.
Number one in Sweden.
Number one in Europe as a whole. The Canadian dance
single's number one. Say what you want
about Sweden, but they know a club banger.
They do. Australia got to number two.
You might think, what was number one in New Zealand
at the time that this was released?
Cotton Eye Joe by Rednecks was number one.
Goodness.
So let's not scoff at
other countries for having this as their number one
when that was our number one at the time.
Okay.
Okay, so this band is German-American.
Have you seen it?
I've just seen it be inserted into the loft.
It is their second single from their album Sweet Dreams.
Do you know this song, Soundkeeper Else?
I'm looking at it.
But that's the thing.
You won't know.
You might not know the name of it or the name of the band, but when you hear the song,
you'll definitely know the song. I want a boogie.
It's quite infectious. It's very infectious.
I would say it's infectious, yeah.
Where are they from? Did you say German? German-American.
Oh, okay. German-American Eurodance
Group. Okay. Okay?
The album was Sweet Dreams. The year
was 1995.
The band is La Bouche
and the song is Be My Lover.
Yes, Executive Internadio is ready for this.
All right, it's your Friday flashback on ZM.
Oh, my lover.
Looking back on all the time we spent together.
You ought to know by now.
You want to be my lover.
I want to be my lover.
Go ahead and take your time.
Boy, you got to be secure.
Before I make you mine.
Baby, you have to be sure. You want to be my lover. I want to be my lover. Take your time. La la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, yes, I wanna be your lover. Take a chance, my lover's like no other. On the dance floor, getting down.
Hold tight, I'll never let you down.
My love's definitely the key.
Like what you've been, I'm on bend and beat.
Loving you, not like your brother.
Oh yeah, wanna be your lover.
I hear what you say, I see what you do.
I know everything I need to know about you.
And I want you to know that it's telling me You're gonna be my lover
La-la-la-dee-da-da-da-da
La-la-la-dee-da-da-da-da
La-la-la-dee-da-da-da-da-dee-da
La-la-dee-da-da-da-da-da
Ah-ha-hey-hey Wanna be my lover
I'll be my lover
I know you wanna be my lover
I know you wanna be my lover I know you wanna be mine
Na-na-na-dee-na-na-na-na
Na-na-na-dee-na-na-na-na
Na-na-na-dee-na-na-na-na-na-na
Na-na-dee-na-na-na-na-na
Na-na-na-dee-na-na-na-na
Na-na-na-dee-na-na-na-na Bye. I wanna be my lover I wanna be my lover
I wanna be my lover
And it's your Friday flashback.
On to them, La Bouche.
La Bouche.
Be My Lover.
I mean, it only made it to number 45, 44 in New Zealand in 1995.
But I tell you what, elsewhere around the world, it was top five song.
Absolutely.
Ripper.
Do you know what?
That was catchy.
So catchy, right?
It was infectious.
You couldn't help but move.
And I feel like the BPM through the roof.
Oh, absolutely.
We were in the middle of a grunge revolution when that song hit the ground.
Yeah, you're not wrong.
Because Silverchair was number one in New Zealand just before that got released.
I was looking at songs that were like number one
at the time in New Zealand. Yeah, it was
a big rock and grunge.
And so for a track like that to
make it through.
What's the feedback? What are people saying?
Pretty good. Pretty good. I feel
energised and ready to go for Friday.
Someone said, you know it's an across the
board banger when the bearded tradie in the ute in front of me
is throwing his hands up.
Yes.
And dancing.
Good.
Someone had a jazzercise flashback.
Now, that's right, because that was an absolute jazzercise anthem.
Yeah, we were just pretending to be on little trampolines,
jazzercise trampolines.
You remember those were big, too, in the 90s.
Huge, because of the low impact on your knees.
Mums always had a trampoline, yeah.
They were very worried about their knees, mums,
and rightly so. They probably very worried about their knees, mums. And rightly so.
They've probably had knee replacements by now.
I had two screaming children in the car
until the song came on.
It's quietened them.
Whether it be confusion on it, I'm not sure.
But a quietened child is...
Again, it's beats per minute confuses a child, don't they?
Yeah, they really will throw a child out.
Someone said this used to go off in flesh in Wellington.
Okay, right, yeah.
So that's...
I've done a little bit of research.
That seems to be a gay club at the time. Yeah, right, okay. And I can totally see why. Okay, right, yeah. So that's, I've done a little bit of research. That seems to be a gay club
at the time.
Yeah, right, okay.
And I can totally see why.
Yeah, Beats Per Minute.
Beats Per Minute
has always been
key to a homosexual anthem.
Yeah.
Yeah, lots of great feedback.
Couple of people said
they've never heard this song before.
That's on them.
That's not on me or you.
I don't want anyone
feeling bad about that
apart from those people.
Coffee Cart,
rocking it this morning. A Les Mills Body Attack classic. about that. Yeah. Apart from those people. Coffee Cart, rocking it this morning.
A Les Mills body attack classic.
It is.
Yeah, you're right.
Yeah.
Imagine doing that in a class.
Someone said, I woke up grumpy, but that's really hit the spot.
Good.
You're welcome.
That's good.
I'm pleased.
Some stats come to us now from Australia, across the ditch, about last names in marriage.
And this is quite interesting.
We wanted to talk about this.
I'm married.
You are married.
And my wife took my last name.
But 80% of women who get married
continue to take their husband's surname in the marriage.
Now, apparently, pre-1970s, it wasn't the done thing.
If there was a divorce or a separation,
you could go back to your maiden name,
but keeping it very little.
Nobody kept their last name as a female.
No.
You always went with the, okay, so 20% still quiet.
I thought it might have been more kept their last name.
Yeah.
I mean, I know when, say there's a celebrity, they always keep their name.
Yeah, because they're a brand, right?
Yeah, because you know.
Or famous people do change their name.
And that confuses me. Their stage name remains their name? Yeah, because you know, yeah. Or famous people do change their name. And that confuses me.
Their stage name remains their name.
Yeah, that's true.
So on paper, on passport, official documentation,
they have changed their name,
but their stage name remains pre-marriage.
The same.
Yeah.
So 20%?
Because there would be the odd name where you're like,
I'm not.
I don't want that.
I don't want that name.
I love the person.
Yeah.
I don't love the name. I don't like that name.
How was your wife? I mean, you've got
one of the most common surnames
in the world, Smith. Yes, but we've both got unusual
first names, so unusual first name
teamed up with a very common last name.
It's a work. Born and Shoddy
Smith. It works. Like it rolls.
Yeah. It rolls well. BNS.
So she had two family names.
One was always confused people because her dad's Thai.
So his last name was Tana Tarikit.
And I personally wanted to be born Tana Tarikit.
I've talked about it on the show before.
I would love to say Fletch and born Tana Tarikit.
Tana.
Tana.
Tana Tarikit.
Tana Tarikit.
You've got to dull the tongue.
Tana Tarikit.
Tana Tarikit.
And Megan with Hayley Sproul at the moment. I think thatikit. You've got to delve a tongue into Tana Tarikit. Tana Tarikit. And Megan,
with Hayley Sproul
at the moment.
I think that would be
great for me to say.
It would just be
eight more syllables
to add to it.
To add to the whole thing.
Exactly.
And I've just learnt
to spell it
and how to say it properly
and then she ditched it.
Yeah.
So yeah,
she took on Smith
and I think it's just
easier to spell.
Executive intern Anya,
your boyfriend, is he Dutch?
Is that?
Yep.
Yeah, so his last name is Sluys.
Yes, so it is S-L-U-Y-S.
Sluys.
Now, if he proposes to you and you go down this.
When he proposes to you, not this.
Oh, get out of it.
Are you happy with his last name?
I am very happy with his last name for him to have it,
but I would like to keep my name.
Are you allowed?
Now, what's the deal with that?
Can you still have the same last names and be married?
Obviously, yes, but how many people do that, do you reckon?
Do you know of anyone?
Oh, of women that keep their name.
Yeah, but then the other guy, doesn't the other guy go with her name?
No. No, no, no. No, doesn't the other guy go with her name? No.
No, no, no.
No, no, no.
You just keep your names.
I don't have the stats on how many guys change their names in marriages,
but it would be few.
Yeah.
I've heard the hyphen.
People will hyphen the names.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But then who goes first?
And also, like, my last name is Henbest.
His last name is Sluice.
Our poor future children having to spell that on thevest, his last name is Sluice. Our poor future children
having to spell that on the phone. What
a nightmare. Sluicevest.
Or Hen
Sluice. Yeah. Senvest.
Yeah, Senvest. Okay.
But then what about your kids?
Yeah, that's what I mean. We hyphenated
it, Henvest Sluice. Yeah. That poor
child having to spell out all those letters. Right.
Yeah, so maybe we'll just make up a name.by Slows. Yeah. That poor child having to spell out all those letters. Right. Yeah.
So maybe we'll just make up a name.
People do that.
Smith.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, yeah, I guess you could, right?
You just deed poll your name when you get married to whatever name you choose.
Yeah.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't think anybody would do that. Are family names that much anymore?
Well, yeah, because some people want their name to continue, right?
Yeah.
So you ditching the name might cause a family issue.
Well, insulting to people, but like, what are you, royal bloodline?
Like, I can understand that, but otherwise, don't worry about it.
It's just a name.
Yeah, that is weird.
But I thought, could we take some calls this morning?
Did you keep your name when you got married?
Asking the females this morning.
Or the males, maybe your new wife wanted to keep her name.
And why?
Because maybe her name, you didn't like it.
We don't have a problem with it at all.
But this article that was written,
woman told their stories as to why they didn't change it.
And there was some really cool stories in there,
some fascinating stories.
So 0800DARLSATM, give us a text if you can't get through, 9696.
Did you keep your last name when you got married and why?
We are talking about why you kept your name when you got married.
Your last name, yeah.
Fascinating stories in an article about why a woman chose to keep their last name.
And a variety of reasons too.
And heck, this might, if you're currently in the throes of this with your partner,
this might help them understand.
20% of Australian women in this survey or in this research have kept their last name.
Yeah.
Not taking the man's.
I honestly thought it would have been more.
It's not a big deal these days.
Somebody messaged in and they were married for five years.
They took their husband's name and then they changed it back.
Oh.
And everyone thought they were divorced,
but they weren't.
They just...
That sounds like so much admin for passports.
Yeah.
Do you reckon they did it like that?
Do you think because they hadn't changed
all their passports to their new married name
and they were like,
oh, it's probably just easy to go back
to my old name.
Uh-huh.
I don't know.
Yeah.
A lot of life admin.
Ash has called in.
Ash, did you take your partner's name?
Or did they take yours?
No, so when we get married, we're getting married in 23.
Her name's Victoria and my last name's Vale.
So I've asked if she can take my name so then she can be Vicky Vale
and I'll be a step closer to being Batman.
Oh, yeah, hot play there.
Vicky Vale, the romantic
interest there, the reporter.
Of Bruce Wayne, well not the
Batman, but close enough for me.
You get to do the fun part of being
Batman, not so much getting beaten up
and people trying to kill you, you get to live the billionaire
lifestyle. Yeah, how does she feel about that Ash?
Exactly. Well, I just sort of
got to roll her eyes. She doesn't really care
but it was pretty big for me.
She's just rolled her eyes is pretty much how whenever anybody asks me
what was Sade's reaction to anything, I'm like, hold on, I'll check.
She's rolling her eyes.
Brilliant, Ash.
Thanks for your call.
Yo-la-lia.
Yo-la-lia.
Yo-la-lia.
Yo-la-lia.
Did I say it?
Yo-la-lia.
Yo-la-lia. It's a lovely Yo-yip. Eulalia. Did I say? Eulalia. Eulalia.
That's a lovely name.
It is.
And rolls.
Thank you.
I'm also tongue-rolling Eulalia.
I apologize for three takes there to get that right.
Now, are you taking your husband's last name or not?
No.
No, I'm not.
We've been married for six years now.
And when we got married, that's the time that I just had a new passport
and a new New Zealand driver's license and stuff.
So I had that as an excuse
that it's too much of paperwork,
too much of money.
Yes!
Yes, yes, yes.
I just keep my last name
and I'll change
another passport
after that
and I still keep
my last name
and it's a forgotten story.
That's amazing
that it's all to do
with admin.
I totally agree.
Admin sucks.
Yeah, totally.
It's like the worst part about losing your wallet
is getting the admin.
You can cancel your cards.
That's easy peasy.
It's the admin.
You can get your driver's license and cards.
Everything.
And now my three-year-old son as well now has taken it
that he's got his father's last name,
but my last name is different.
Right.
That's the other stat from the story.
It's a forgotten story.
96% of children
Yep
In marriages
Where the mother
Kept her
Take the father's name
Right
Yeah
Which I thought
Was interesting as well
Yeah
Okay brilliant
Hey thanks
You called some text messages in
Somebody said
I couldn't take
My husband's name
I had a hyphenated
Last name
And then somebody said
Why don't you hyphenate Your already hyphenated name
With his name
And I was like
Can you hear me
It'll take a bit more like
I won't fit it in
When we're leaving the country
And you've got to put your name
In all those boxes
It's too long to fit
Sometimes they don't give you
Enough boxes
Yeah
My partner and I
Are thinking about
Merging our names
And becoming the Birdsons
I don't know what their names
Were originally
But the Birdsons
Like the Thompson The Thompson and Bird Or Birdsons. I don't know what their names were originally, but the Birdsons is a great name. Like the Thompson and Bird.
Or Bird and Soms or something.
Bird and Jasons.
Hipsoms.
Hipsoms and Bird.
I like making a hybrid name
because then going forward on the family tree,
you're like,
you're a new branch.
Whole new branch.
Yeah.
Birds and Thompsons, they said you're right.
Birds and Thompsons.
There you go.
Yeah, they're going to merge it to the Birdson's.
I actually love that idea.
Lots of people saying that merging the name was the ultimate problem solver for them in the end
or hyphenating the names.
Yeah.
I always wonder, like, the names like Fraser Jones, you know that name?
Yeah.
Was that the Frasers and the Jones, like a meeting of the clans?
And then it became like its own hyphen?
It's like when they say
if you put your middle initial
when you say your full name
it just makes you sound smarter.
Like Vaughan S. Smith.
You could be,
I mean it's a plain last name
but you could be a writer with that name.
Yeah.
But Vaughan Smith doesn't sound like an author does he?
No.
Vaughan A. Smith.
Yeah, Vaughan A. Smith.
Yeah.
Vaughan A. Tanatarikit again
would have been a prolific
writer. But again, hyphenating a name,
I think you sound a bit flasher too. Yeah, you do.
You sound a bit posher. And lots of people
doing it. I kept
my last name. We have the same first name
as we're Christine and Christopher.
Oh, okay. And we both get called Chris.
So if we had the same last
name, we would be Chris.
People would say our names and we wouldn't know who they were talking to
You'd both turn around
So they kept their last names
As to have a bit of a differentiation there
Yeah
Yeah
Imagine paging that over the intercom
For the late flight
We're waiting for Christmas and Chris Smith
Yeah
To Christmas squared
We will wait for your flight
We've started the offloading procedure
My mum kept her last name
Because her name is Joy
And my father's last name is Hoy
and she did not want to be called Joy Hoy.
Brilliant.
And lots of situations coming in like that.
Like people whose names rhymed or just did not go with the name.
There was a Richard who was marrying his partner
whose last name was Head.
And he said, obviously, I don't want to be Richard Head.
Dick Head is not suitable suitable so I'm going to
keep my name
he's going to
keep his name
and we're married
on paper
legally as the
court said
as everybody
sees it
it's recognised
as marriage
we've just got
different names
somebody else
became the
McLawsons
after the
McDonalds and
Lawson clans
joined
McLawsons
to wage war
on other clans
that sounds like
a very Scottish
It does
Clan hybrid
It does
Fletch, Vaughan and Megan
The podcast
ZM
Fact of the day
Day, day, day, day
Look at this guy.
What about?
Do you know who his name is?
No.
Vaughan Smith.
Okay, what?
Lives in Wellington.
He's got a beard like you.
He's bald and he's got a beard like me.
I hope he's not trading too much on this fine name of his then.
I hope you're not ruining his fine name more like it.
Yeah. Poor fella. That's not today's fact of the day. I hope you're not ruining his fine name more like it. Yeah, poor fella.
That's not today's fact of the day. It just popped up.
Today's fact of the
day is about the origins.
One of the
supposed proposed
origins to the hold my beer
phrase. You'll be familiar
with hold my beer. It's taken on a whole new meme
lifestyle in the last bit. Like someone
does something and then it's like,
Hold My Beer, and then they double down on it.
Yeah.
And go and do something or whatever.
Like swine flu.
Boy, I sure put a brake on everything.
COVID-19.
Hold My Beer.
That sort of thing.
So where does the original, obviously this isn't going to take long,
Hold My Beer while I get it done situation come from?
Well, one of the possible origin stories happened in 1956,
September 30th. Whilst in a drunken argument in a New York City bar, a man called Thomas Fitzpatrick said, I can fly an airplane from New Jersey to New York in under 15 minutes.
Okay. People said, no, you can't. You're crazy. Do you even know how to fly a plane? And I've
looked into Thomas Fitzpatrick's past.
He was a pilot.
Okay.
And he may have had flight experience in World War II.
Okay, right.
So he said, I can totally do it.
They said, no, you can't.
At 3 a.m., he stole an airplane from a New Jersey airfield.
So he went from New York to New Jersey.
I don't know how long that would take to drive But he drove over there
He caught a cab, got there somehow
Because he had been drinking
He got there at 3am, he began the journey
He flew without lights or radio
Because he'd stolen the plane
So obviously he wanted to do it undercover
Boozed
He landed the plane on the street in front of the bar
Walked back and said
I told you it'd take less than 15 minutes
In downtown New York?
Yeah
Wow And he landed there and he said Because he said, I told you to take less than 15 minutes. In downtown New York? Yeah. Wow. And he landed
there and he said, because he said it was only
going to take 15 minutes, apparently
rumor has it. Yeah. He said
to somebody, hold my beer, don't drink it
because I'm going to be back. I'll be back. Very
shortly to prove you that I was right. The longest
part would have been getting from downtown New York to
New Jersey. To New Jersey, yeah. Over the bridge
or... Yeah. And then he flew it
back, landed it, walked back in.
Obviously, then the police arrive.
Why, is there a plane parked in the middle of the street?
There's a very famous picture of the plane
literally parked in the middle of downtown New York.
Wow.
The owner of the plane was so impressed,
he said, I don't want to press charges.
The plane is without damage.
Yep.
And that's an amazing stunt.
I wonder how they got rid of the plane.
On a truck or did they fly it back out?
There are trucks there,
so they probably loaded it onto a truck
rather than flew it out.
Okay.
And he only got fined $1,000 for a stunt.
Two years later.
He did it?
He got into another drunken argument in a bar
saying he was the guy that flew the plane
and landed it on the street in New York.
Yeah.
And people said, no, you weren't.
And he said, again, hold my beer.
Hold my beer.
He did it again.
And landed in front of the bar.
Uh-huh.
Oh, my God.
This time, however, he got himself six months in prison.
Right.
So the origins, one of the possible origins of the hold my beer story
is in 1956 when Thomas Fitzpatrick flew a plane drunkenly from New Jersey
to New York
in under 15 minutes and landed it outside the bar where he made the bet saying he could.
Fact of the day, day, day, day, day.
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Travel baby.
Baby.
Hey, baby.
Someone's watched Schitt's Creek.
They have, haven't they?
I'm well behind.
I'll apologise.
You're likely to get a few.
Da-dat.
Da-dat.
But I've only just started watching,
so apologies to all the Schitt's Creek people
who I'm years behind.
But I am liking it a lot.
Travel bubble, Chris Hipkins.
Talk about a travel bubble,
and Chris Farfoy said this week
that if there is a travel bubble
with Trans-Tasman Travel Bubble...
Wait, which Chris?
Hipkins or Farfoy?
No, no, no.
Chris Hipkins has responded to Chris Farfoy. Oh, okay, right, okay. Or added to what Chris Farfoy? No, no, no. Chris Hipkins has responded to Chris Farfoy.
Oh, okay, right, okay.
Or added to what Chris Farfoy said.
It was a Chris squared situation.
And different Chris's.
One's with a K.
Yeah.
And the other's a C.
No, one's with a CH.
One's just a KR.
One's a Chris Jenner.
One's a Christopher Hitchens.
Yep.
So Chris Farfoy said that if there was a trans-Tasman travel bubble,
it would potentially free up 40% of space in MIQ.
Now, that's only based on the amount of people
coming from Australia to New Zealand.
40% of the current MIQ situations are Australians.
We've just had friends come back,
spend a couple of weeks in Christchurch.
And did you see that friend made an official request
from the Information Act to see how many people
coming from Australia to New Zealand
were actually positive for COVID-19
and it was one in the calendar 2021.
Yeah.
That was fascinating.
It was, yeah.
That was fascinating.
I don't particularly think finding out
where the imported COVID cases,
what country they're coming from,
would be particularly helpful. I think that could
probably just lead to a bit of xenophobia to be honest.
Yeah. I don't think that's going to help anybody
but it was interesting to know
between Australia and New Zealand there'd been one
case. I mean with the exception of the whole
that whole Melbourne thing last year
Australia have been pretty good like us
at getting on top of things.
Took them a while but then they got on top of it.
And I know Queensland at the moment are
having a lot of people come in. They've got a lot
of cases in MIQ, but we do at the moment as
well. And they're on top of that. But
there is a warning, and Chris Hipkins
said this yesterday, that
New Zealanders, if they're
hoping that mid kind of April
that it'll be available, this
bubble between New Zealand and Australia,
but they're warning that if you get stuck there in a lockdown,
like, for example, community cases happen
and Australia, like us, have been very quick to shut the border,
you're on your own.
Yeah.
Like, you're not getting a handout.
If you're on the Goldie and your week at the hotel's run out,
you're not getting money to stay there for another month.
No.
Or two.
Or two weeks.
So, it's literally the trans-Tasman bubble You're not getting money to stay there for another month? No. Or two? Or two weeks? Whatever it is.
The trans-Tasman bubble doesn't effectively mean it's business back on with Australia.
No.
Here we go back and forth, back and forth.
Would you risk it?
It still means that when there is a case where it will be shut down, we're back to being
individual countries.
Would you risk it?
Not Australasia.
Nah.
See, I would if I was vaccinated.
Because I think when you're vaccinated,
I think they'll let you back through, right?
Right.
Don't know.
I don't know because it hasn't been done before.
This is the thing.
People get angry about the situation.
This is all new.
This is all new.
Last time there was a pandemic of this, you know,
epic nature and, like, I guess it would be the Spanish flu
after World War I and everybody came home and would be the Spanish flu after World War I
and everybody came home
and just brought it with them
after World War I.
Like,
millions of people died.
Yeah.
And it was,
there was no air travel.
Everybody was on boats
and took weeks
to get anywhere
and yeah,
the whole thing.
The whole thing's new.
So I know people are,
not in a hurry.
I'm happy.
We're very lucky
we're in this country.
Yeah.
Well,
fingers crossed here,
could be a couple of weeks away.
Mid, oh, sorry, a month.
In saying that, though,
old Vaughn E. Smith wouldn't mind a trip to Rarotonga.
I know he wouldn't.
He wouldn't mind getting on Murray Beach
and sucking back a couple of pina coladas.
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Segment of the show where we take a look at new food items and products.
Now, this has been released in the UK, but these are sold here.
So.
I don't know if these.
These are also not the first time this has been for sale in the UK.
Okay. Because I was like, I wonder if it has been.
Google tells me in 2018 they gave these a blast
and they were very popular but did that thing
where ice cream companies make you fall in love with something
and always become dependent on it emotionally
and then they strip it away from you only to bring it back.
I'm looking at you, Fruit Juice Snow.
And Caramilk.
Oh, yeah.
But then it's full-time, right?
Because they realise
they can make
untold amounts of cash
because they keep
these things on the market.
These are Cornetto ends.
So it's Cornetto.
I've never really been
a huge fan
but they're basically trumpets.
I'm a trumpet guy.
I'm a trumpet guy too.
I'm a trumpet guy.
It's the Cornetto ends
are like the end
of the trumpet
where it's got
the big chocolate filling.
Yeah, so I don't, not all trumpets did it,
but it was always a famous thing with Cornetto.
They gave it a little chocolate squirt in the bottom.
And it's clever because it adds a seal to it
because if you've ever eaten one,
if you're taking your time,
I mean, it's not a problem I have.
I literally inhale them.
But my kids take forever to eat an ice cream.
It's easily the most disappointing part about parenthood.
The bottom of the cone sogs out.
Yeah.
Now, the Cornetto plug keeps that from sogging out.
Now, do Cornetto, do they put more chocolate in?
Do they fill the whole cone?
No, no, no, just the bottom bit.
And then there's the other stuff that makes up the actual ice cream part.
Right.
And then there's the ice cream that pops out the top of the part.
So these, what they're selling, just the bottom bit.
Is the Cornetto ends.
Is there any ice cream at all?
No.
It's chocolate and it's cone.
It's the end of the cone.
Is the whole thing chocolate in these?
Yes.
Okay.
Oh, there you go.
So you're eating a frozen chocolate end of the cone.
Yes.
Wow.
Cornetto tips.
I'm here for this.
So my problem is they're very small.
Yeah.
And they only come in a pack of five.
Well, just buy two packs.
Two packs.
Three packs.
Four packs.
Maybe buy five packs just to be sure on the first purchase.
Nothing would be worse than getting home.
Because I'm imagining if it's just the tip.
You could eat five. Sure. Right? Yeah. Just the tip. You could eat five.
Sure.
Right?
Yeah.
Just the tip is never enough.
I know.
I want the whole thing.
I know you do.
I don't want to be stuck with just don't tip me.
So that's what I'm thinking.
How many tips are equal to a whole?
Well, you might as well just buy the full packs, right?
And then you're still getting-
I like where you're headed there.
Buy a family pack of actual full-size Cornettos,
bite the bottom of all of them,
and then eat the rest of the- Yeah. Okay, I'm happy with that. It sounds like these, you're headed there, buy a family pack of actual full-size cornettos, bite the bottom of all of them, and then eat the rest of the...
Yeah, although it sounds a bit easy getting more chocolate.
And the cone.
It's 100% chocolate and with a little bit of cone around it.
But again, it's more like a snack than it is a full ice cream.
It's delicious but also confusing.
And if I was Trumpet,
I would absolutely jump on this and just do it before they...
Oh, copy it.
First to market.
100%.
The podcast. If you enjoyed this podcast, trumpet, I would absolutely jump on this and just do it before they first to mark it. 100%.