ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Megan Podcast - 1st December 2020

Episode Date: November 30, 2020

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Hello, welcome to the Fleach, Vaughan and Megan podcast. It's thanks to McCafe. Download the Maccas app to get McCafe rewards today and you'll be pleased to know I've opened the first door and eaten the chocolate of this complimentary advent calendar we've been sent by Disney Plus. Yeah, you've been very reserved and you've only had the one. And behind it is Homer Simpson. Do you get a different character behind it? And there was an M&M in the chocolate. Now, the M&M, obviously delicious, but I've just turned over the back.

These were actually made by Australia. Australian chocolate. Australians and chocolate, eh? What is up with them and their chocolate? It's because of their substandard dairy products. It's because we have a beautiful dairy product here in New Zealand, don't we? Yeah. Yeah.

I was just thinking with that, you opened it up. It's got three big Christmas movies on the front that must all be available on Disney+. Yes. It's got Home Alone, The Santa Clause with Tim Allen as Santa Clause, and that one with Anna Kendrick that came out last year. Oh, I loved that movie. What was that one called? And she was Santa's daughter, eh?

Noel. Noel. She wanted to take over the family business. Oh, I loved that movie. What was that one called? And she was Santa's daughter, eh? Noelle. Noelle. She wanted to take over the family business. And it got me thinking, what are the new Christmas movies this year? Oh, okay. The Christmas Switch 2 with Vanessa Hudgens. I've watched that. Do we need that?

And there was three Vanessa Hudgens. Two in the first one. There's three in the second one. So, yes, we did need that, actually, Fletch. Spoiler alert. What I've done is I've pulled out the- Every advent calendar can do that. Yeah, and now I've just got a tray of chocolates, which is delicious.

Some chocolates have two M&Ms in them and some only have one. No, some have jelly beans and some have gummy bears. Right. Okay. I'm just looking at other Christmas movies. Yeah, there's the Princess Switch. Dolly Parton's Christmas on the Square. Do you see another one?

Yeah, we like Dolly Parton. We love Dolly Parton. She's cute. No, they didn't have, those aren't in the advent calendar. There's empty space. This one says Merry Christmas. It's called Blackbird. Listen to this.

Blackbird starring Susan Sarandon is a woman who wants one final holiday season with her family before ending her own battle with ALS. That says Merry Christmas, doesn't it? It really does. Jeez. Maybe dodge that one. Mariah Carey's magical Christmas special is coming on Apple Plus. What about the Christmas Chronicles 2? Remember that was like... Yes.

Didn't we all agree that that was one of the best Christmas movies for a while? Yep. That was really good. Kurt Russell. Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn plays Mrs. Claus this time. And what's that one? The Fat Man with Mel Gibson playing Santa and that kid hires Walter Goggins to hunt him down? That's right. That looks really down. Oh, that's right.

That looks really good. Yeah, that does. Kind of like a return to R-rated Christmas cinema after like the bad Santa run. Yeah, that's what we need. Yeah, we certainly need more swearing in our Christmas movies. It certainly doesn't go amiss. But oh well, you three down now I see.

Wait a minute, you've eaten a whole wig. No, I told Megan that's not a wig. That's just a filler week That's an empty filler In the box Yeah that's not true Do you want one? No put it back in the thing And do it properly

I'm anti Christmas Megan Oh my god You're eating Christmas treats So you're pro Christmas Just anti waiting it turns out Yeah ZM Hit music

Lives here Flesh fauna Megan The podcast Happy first day of summer. Oh, yeah. Doesn't it feel like it? Isn't it summery? It really is.

Wow. That's okay. We need, well, some places need the rain. Some places do not. Well, some places need the rain to stop. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

But well, onwards and upwards. Other happy news, first day of the advent calendar. need the rain to stop. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, onwards and onwards. Are they having it as first day of the advent calendar? You can have your little chocolate behind window number one today. If you do it that way,

you don't count down, don't start at 24 and work backwards. Didn't we establish that last Christmas or the Christmas before? Yeah, no, you don't do that. It's definitely one through 24.

It's not a 24-day countdown. Why don't you start at the top of the calendar? No, because they mix it around. Oh, they mix it around. Right. Because it's the last 24-day countdown. Well, don't you start at the top of the calendar? No, because they mix it all around. Oh, they mix it around, right. Because it's the last time you had one. It's days left, isn't it? Well, I don't normally.

But this is the first year that I've seen one in the supermarket and thought, well, actually, I could do that one because the people that make those balls, Linda did. They did an advent calendar. But it was like $25 or $30. So there's those real nice balls in it. You could never do an advent calendar.

Well, no. Just sit down and eat them all. Because I'd be watching a movie at the weekend. I'd be like, well, I need chocolate. And then I'd just eat the whole advent calendar. Yeah, yeah. So it's just better I don't buy one. Yeah.

What is the digital advent calendar in Wellington? So deals. Like it'll show food deals. Two for one entry to Wellington, Sue. Oh. So you click on the date. It's like today. It just said Tuesday the 1st of December.

Clicked on it. It's like two for one entry to Wellington. So email me this treat. And then I guess you have it. That's a good idea. What a great idea, Wellington. Yeah, valid until February. Yeah.

You could do, like tomorrow could be half price rug doctor hire so everyone can clean their carpets after they got excessively wet in that flooding that happened in Porirua.

Sure. Different city though, wasn't it? Porirua is its own city. Yeah. Classic. Classic Porirua. Alright, the top six coming up soon. Classic Portidou. All right,

the top six coming up soon. You'll be dealing with, this is not going to have people excited or happy in Auckland. It's a $3.50 congestion charge being proposed to get into Auckland in peak hours

to relieve traffic issues. Of course, if you come on public transport or on your bike, you won't pay it. But if you're coming in a private automobile, you'll be paying it.

So I've got the top six other things you could spend that $3.50 on just outside of Auckland Central. Right. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast, ZM. This is from the Journal of Sex Research. They've looked into men who send unsolicited, that's a very important word in the story, unsolicited dick pics to women. Okay. And what it means about their personality. So if you're in a relationship and you've done it, you don't count. If someone's asked you and you've been flirty, you don't count.

So this is sending one to someone that maybe you've just started talking to from a dating app or whatever. How do you ask for one? Well, I don't know. If you're having like flirty back and forth and then there's like. Megan will reach into the vault. So why do they call you Big Steve? Give us a gawk at you.

That doesn't count. Yeah. In this scenario Because you've never ever sent one Nah But I also can't imagine anyone ever asking for one Send us a big pic of your It doesn't go like that

It doesn't go like that How about you MMS me through a picture of your diddle MMS Send me a pic Send me a sexy pic How about you spend 20 cents MMS me through a picture of your diddle. MMS. Send me a pix. How about you? Sexy pix.

How about you spend 20 cents pixing me a picture of your willy? But, like, even in the early days, you and Sade never sent, like, fluty pix or anything. Well, at least they were faxing each other, Megan. The technology wasn't there. The technology, the quality was terrible. I think the sexiest it got was I took a little Polaroid of her and her boobies and I was just like, I'll put that somewhere and not hold onto that for later.

And then she found that years later and was like, oh, my God, you've got to get rid of this. She ripped that up and burnt it so that nobody would ever see it. Wow. That was about as much as it got. Okay. But it was one of those cool Polaroid cameras. Oh, yeah.

It wasn't like a... This was in the 1970s. So it's found that guys who send unsolicited dick pics are narcissistic and sexist. They also got them to respond with why they do it, why they think in the response they're going to get. So, sending pics gives me a feeling

of control over that person I've sent it to is one of the responses. Another one, this is even worse, this is a quote from the study. I feel a sense of dislike towards women and sending these is satisfying. Another stat from the study is 50% of these men hoped that receiving the picture of their bits and pieces would make a woman feel attractive.

That's what they hoped to achieve. Sending a picture of their junk would make the woman feel attractive. Yeah. What planet are they on? And 82% said they sent them so that they would sexually excite the woman. Right.

That's more, you can kind of Yeah, they're of the opinion that that's going to sexually excite them. But yeah, most of them are found to be completely deluded with the appeal of their apparatus is quote from the study. Appeal of their apparatus. Well, the effect they think it's going to have and the actual appeal that they get is...

Two wildly different things. Yeah. But yeah, apparently narcissistic and generally pretty sexist guys. So it's a good warning if you're on a dating app and they just send it unsolicited. Maybe just like...

Avoid them. Avoid them. Yeah. ZM's Fletch Warner Megan, the podcast. Shook I was. Shaken. Shooked.

Rolled around. Picked back up. Shook again. Slammed into the ground, and then thrown in the bin. When I found out that New Way Sausage Rolls, which won't mean anything to you, the name New Way Sausage Rolls, because I didn't know this, no idea. Yep.

Alison Holst Sausage Rolls. Oh, yeah, Kiwi Classic. Now you're on board because you know that was what you would buy frozen from the supermarket and there was like five lengths of sausage rolls and you could cut them to any length. You could have little stubbies. You could have like long ones. Perfect for a party.

Wrapped in like glad wrap in the freezer. Yeah, and you would defrost them and then unroll them and then cut them to your desired length. Maybe paint on, brush on a bit of egg and then get that bad boy in the oven at 180. 220 actually. 220? Oh, okay. Maybe just rock 180 because whatever.

Yeah. Why don't you go okay? Well, you'd just have to have them in longer, wouldn't you? I'm Thor. Thor and run them in a little bit longer. You might actually be all right. And then you would bake them for 20 to 25 minutes or until golden brown and thoroughly cooked,

and then you would eat them, and they would be delicious. Sometimes they'd be too hot, and you'd be like. Well, there's been a change, and this is the part that shook me. Somebody got in contact and said that no longer does Alison Holst adorn the front of the New Way sausage roll. What? She's been on that sausage roll brand for ever. Ever since I can remember.

They haven't changed it. The photo of Alison Holst, who's well into her 80s by now, I'd say it's from the 1980s. It's when she used to be on the TV. A lot of people probably didn't even know who she was apart from the sausage roll lady. And then, of course, the pick and mix. Alison Holst pick and mix.

Yeah, they call it Alison's Pantry now, don't they? Yeah. But is that still Alison? That's still got Alison's face and stuff on it? Not her face. Just her name. Just Alison's pantry now. Well, this is the one I recommend. That was the

quote by Alison Holst on the packet of the frozen sausage rolls. It was an ambassadorship. It was. A long ambassadorship, but it must have ended because it's done now. So the 800 grams of frozen saucy roll. It says there is a sticker that's saying a new pack is coming. The Richmond Food Co.

Same great taste. Because that's the other thing. I googled New Way because New Way has disappeared off the front of the packet too. Right. I googled New Way. I can't find anything else about New Way apart from the sausage rolls. You're telling me there's been big moves in the sausage roll industry. Huge moves in the sausage roll industry. Huge moves in the sausage roll industry.

We've been left in the dark. They've snuck it under the radar. Right. And the Richmond Food Co. obviously have purchased this hallowed ground of New Zealand sausage roll.

Did they say new packaging was coming? Or is that the new packaging? No, it says new pack is coming soon because it's still the same old brownish like really 80s looking pack with some really 80s looking fonts on it.

I know. It's a, you just look down, you see that, you're like, those are the ones. Those are the pre-packaged frozen sausage rolls you get. But Alison, what can you find? What are you Googling? The Richmond Food Code? That was in 2013 though. Yeah, I don't know.

I love Food Code. I'm just doing some online research here. A lot of the other sausage rolls that you have to cut into your desired length are in boxes now. You know? They're out of the plastic? Yeah. Is that what you're saying? Maybe they are.

They've got plastic on the inside? No. Okay. Just a log of sausage roll. I found Richmond Foods Limited on LinkedIn. They're in Albany, Albany, whatever you call that place. Albany. I never get that one right, so I've stopped caring.

Okay. So originally from Ototurua, I believe, Richmond Foods. Right. Yeah, best known for their sausage rolls. The ones with Alison Hulse on the packaging. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. I Yeah. Wow.

I know. Wow. Things have changed. Things have changed. Things are changing right under our nose. Well, as long as it's only the packaging and not the actual saucy roll. I'd imagine they'd say the same. Boy, you wouldn't go messing with it, but then I wouldn't have taken it.

Maybe they couldn't come to an agreement with Alison's family. Well, maybe she's getting old. Bless her. Yeah. You probably can't be the face of something forever. Forever. Yeah, no, it was an old photo, but still. Would have been good.

That would have helped the KiwiSaver, eh? That would have topped up the KiwiSaver, get a bit of sausage roll money. Big sausage money. Big sausage money. Big meat and pastry money. Sure. All right. Flesh, Va Big meat and pastry money. Sure. Fleshfauna Megan, the podcast.

ZM. From the ZM think tank, this is the top six. What a pig of a place to drive into. That's what my dad said at the weekend when we were driving into central Auckland. Yeah. What a pig of a place to get around. That's, as far as his language goes, that's up there for a cursive. Yeah. What a pig of a place to get around. That's, as far as his language goes,

that's up there for a cursive. Yeah. He's not a huge swearer, but it could all be solved. An idea to put a $3.50 congestion charge

to enter Central Auckland at peak hour. It could reduce traffic volumes by 8 to 12%. So it would be similar to what it's like driving on the school holidays. Right.

Yeah. This works in, I remember when in London somebody said, oh yeah, it's a few pounds to get into London. I was just like, what? But it works. Yeah. It sorted out the traffic. When you think about it, every day you have to pay $3.50

times, you know, your five working days. Yeah. $17.50. Plus you know, your five working days. Yeah. $17.50. Plus your parking when you get there. Would that be enough to make you get on a bus, Megan? I would probably go early.

People pay way more than that for parking. Like if you're allocated a work park, some people will pay, yeah, a mate of mine took up e-biking. It saved him like

every month it saves him a couple of hundred bucks. Yeah, right. Just because his parking e-biking. It saved him like every month it saves him a couple of hundred bucks. Yeah, right. Just because his parking wasn't provided by his work but he had to work in central Auckland. So apparently between 6am and 9.30am it would be $3. 6am? Damn it.

That's really early to get up. I was going to say you've got to be in the city by 6 o'clock. And then 3.30pm till 7pm would be $clock. And then 3.30pm till 7pm would be $3.50. Right. This is a proposal a few years away. Oh yeah, this is an idea that's just been put out there.

But then it's got a little map that shows the roads into central Auckland. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15. That's all. If you block those, if you toll those 15 roads, there's no other way to get into central Auckland.

Ah, I've got a hot air balloon. But that's fine because that's not congesting the road. Oh, yeah. That's just going to get shot down by... Snipers. ...military aircraft because you're getting too close to the Sky Tower.

Okay. But, yeah, reduce congestion, make a little cash. Probably not what Central Auckland businesses want to hear, already struggling with COVID-related quietness. And no tourists. But I've got the top six other things you could spend that $3.50 on instead of coming into Central Auckland.

Number six, the amount of gas required to sit in traffic and then just park on somebody else's berm outside of central Auckland. People love that. And you've still got to be paying for gas. Number five on the list of the top six other things you can spend that $3.50 on, buying that person who owns that berm a coffee every day so they don't smash your car when it's parked on their berm. But Vaughan coffees don't cost $3.50.

Well, they do when you average it out using the new Maccas app. Buy five, get the sixth free. Brilliant. That's a good mention. Yeah, for the show sponsor. For the show sponsor there. And you tick that one off, aren't you? Brilliant.

That's a freebie. They can have that one. Number four on the list of the nothing's for free. Okay. Well, apart from the sixth coffee when you use the Maccas app. Of course, yes. It's another one. Two separate ones or one together?

Number four on the list of the top six other things you could spend that $3.50 on by not coming into central Auckland. Well, you'll need some CRC to lube up the wheels of your rollerblades, baby. It's time to get back on the skates. Narrow just in the boot of the car that's parked on the boom

just outside of central Auckland. So you'll be able to get those out, give them a squirt and get on them. Number three on the list of the things you'll spend $3.50 on. A bag of lollies, because you'll need extra energy to get to work on your rollerblades that you've just CRC'd,

that you pulled from the boot of your car that's sitting on the berm just outside of the Central Auckland toll zone. Yep. Number two on the list of the top six things you could spend that $3.50 on instead of coming into central Auckland, some roll-on deodorant.

Because you just rollerbladed to work while eating a bag of lollies after you CRC'd your rollerblade wheels that were in the boot of your car that's parked on the berm just outside of the central Auckland zone. Is anybody doing roll-on? Yeah.

Or spray? I feel like quite a few people do roll-on. I know, people love the roll-on, but I'm like, I can't stand it. That little ball gets all like... I don't like how it... You've got hairy armpits. No, and it feels wet.

Yeah. And then you can't put your T-shirt on straight away. Yeah. It's better to put your T-shirt on and spray. What? Do you put the T-shirt on then spray? Yeah. Because otherwise you get stuff on your T-shirt.

You get stuff on your T-shirt if you... Yeah, you get the white powdery stuff. How close do you go when you put the can up your shirt to spray? You know, there's sprays as well that don't leave the white powdery stuff. Oh, yeah, but you know I love my Nivea. But they also haven't come to the perfect balance. The ones that don't leave the mark don't protect you for as long. But the ones that keep you from perspiring as much leave the white mark.

I reckon roll-on people are bar soap people. That's why I knew you'd be a roll-on. I didn't even need to ask. It's just the kind of person you are. Pretty washy plastic bags, too, on the line. I'm not even biting. R.I.P. plastic bags. And number one on the list of the top six other things you can spend $3.50 on

instead of coming into central Auckland, you could hire an accountant to six other things you can spend $3.50 on instead of coming into central Auckland, you could hire an accountant to tell you that you just spent $17.50 to avoid paying $3.50. And also to tell you that no accountant will work any amount of time for $3.50. So they're going to charge you a couple of hundred bucks. You should probably have just paid the $3.50. Yeah, it could always be worse. That is today's top six.

ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. So the Kardashians are ending and it's only now that some people are finding out the Kardashians' homes, the exterior is fake. So they use, like they do for a lot of like the fresh prints of Bally Mansion, for example. They use an actual mansion and then shoot it in a studio. In the full house. Yeah, but use an actual mansion and then shoot it in a studio. In the full house house.

Yeah. But those are for like sitcoms and stuff. So the interior of all the houses is their homes. It's real. Yeah. But the exterior, for example, Kris Jenner's big brown bricky situation, that's fake.

That's not her house. But it is someone's house. It is someone's house. Just a randomness house. The inside's her house, but the outside's not her house. But it is someone's house. It is someone's house. Just a randomness house. The inside's her house, but the outside's not her house. Yeah. And this was done because back in the original seasons, Kim Kardashian started getting people turning up at her house

because they recognised it. So they were jumping the gate, they were getting in touch with security, trying to get through to see her. Why if you had a normal, like a nice house, and someone turned up and said, can we use this in a TV show? Would you say yes? Because then you're going to get all those crazies at your house. Well, here's the-

Ask the people who own the Outrageous Fortune House. Yeah. Yeah. So here's the thing. We found out because the Kris Jenner home is up for sale. And it was originally up for sale in 2007. It took 11 years to sell. So it must have been vacant because it was used for True Blood.

It was used for Chelsea Lately. It was the exterior of Kris Jenner's home. And maybe no one wanted to buy it because they didn't want that. They didn't want people like banging on the door being like, where's Gina? So yeah, it finally sold in 2017 and it's up for sale again for $11 million.

Maybe that's why it didn't sell because it's $11 million. Well yeah, they put it up for $12 million originally in 2007 but it sold for $5 million. Oh wow. In two three years, they want an extra. So their housing market does the opposite to ours. It goes down.

Yeah. But yeah, they used to get those star tours turning up at their gates and everything. So I guess that's kind of like put a halt to it because we don't actually know what the outside looks like. But yeah, if you want to buy Christina's fake house and you got a spare 11 mil, it's up for sale. Oh, a spare 11 mil.

I've got 11 mil, but it's allocated. Okay. This is the sweetest thing. Angelo Brown, he is five years old and he is part of She Is Not Your Rehab group. Now, he, with the help of his family, sent a message to The Rock to get him involved in the

She Is Not Your Rehab movement. This is the video that he sent. Dear Mr. Rock, my name's Angelo Brown and I'm five years old. My dad is Samoan, so I'm pretty sure you're his cousin. And since you're part of the Aina, I thought I'll send you a gift. It's a T-shirt.

Not just any T-shirt. This T-shirt my dad and my uncles wear to encourage other men to treat girls well. That's pretty cute. That is so cute. I've seen this during the rounds. I was like, there's no way that's not going to get to The Rock. His attention. Yeah.

It took about five days and then The Rock did respond. He posted a lengthy message. I'll read you some of it. Just watched and this one just sat me down. A bit emotional watching this five-year-old little boy speak to me. Angelo, it's your uncle Rock. Yes, I'm your uncle because, of course, all Samoans are related. I'm very proud of you, son.

That's so cute. You don't understand yet because you're too young, but just know how courageous and inspiring you are to myself and our ainga, but now to the world. He talks about the way he sits in his nana's arms is the way that he would sit in his, the rock would sit in his nana's arms. It's pretty cute. He said, One day you will become the leader of your ainga and also a leader the world will admire until your sister stops showing you pictures of me wearing a fanny pack. But then at the end he said,

P.S. I have my office reaching out to connect with your family. So he might get to meet us. If this wasn't COVID times, that could have been on our line. On a flight, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But what a great message. And it's so cute because, yeah, yeah, yeah. But what a great message and it's so cute because yeah,

he's going to get to meet him now. And he put down the bottom hashtag she is not your rehab, which is the important message to remember. Good on you, Angelou. That's so cute. That really got to me.

Carry on. No, I was just going to leave you almost there. No, he's so... No, carry on. I just thought that was really sweet. It is really sweet. It's a great message too if you're not familiar with it.

It's, yeah, I read the website and the Facebook page and, yeah, there's a lot of... There's a really good message in there. Yeah. And a great marketing vehicle as well, little Angela. Protect you. Well, they wouldn't have done it if Dad... Don't PR him. They wouldn't have done it if dad had sent

the rocker message. No. You needed that ultra cute little Angelo vibe going on, the cheekiest little grin. Yeah.

The cheekiest little grin. Yeah, it's the reason Harry Styles isn't returning any of your videos because they're not cute enough. I don't. Yeah,

they're real creepy. You're sweaty. Harry, I made you a t-shirt. Sweaty. Yeah, very sweaty. Sweaty under the pits. sweaty. He threw a bit of sweaty under the pits. Yeah.

I just got nervous when I was doing the first five takes of this video. I'm making for you, Harry. I love you, Harry. Yeah, it's fair to say his people are not reaching us like people. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. I'm reading an article here from the New Zealand Herald and our friend Jason from the... Jason from the press conferences. Yeah, from the New Zealand Herald and our friend Jason. Remember Jason from the one o'clock briefings?

He's filed a story from our Wellington Bureau. Okay. That the government will start the process of giving every New Zealander an extra five days of sick leave a year before Parliament adjourns for the summer break. So that would take it to 10. Yeah, so legally you get five. Although some people, do you know people that get like more in their contracts? I think you can negotiate it, right? Yeah.

So you're legally five at the moment and it'll be 10. Which is the same as Australia, right? Do they get more than us? Yeah, Australia has 10. I'm all for it now. They can't be beating us. Yeah. No, we've got to be as good as, if not better than. More than us? Yeah, Australia has 10. I'm all for it now. They can't be beating us. Yeah.

No, we've got to be as good as, if not better than. Well, let's do 15 if we want to beat Australia. I reckon. Yep. Tell the businesses. Let's just do. When I reckon. Most businesses aren't happy. I also reckon, like, if we want to be better than Australia, 15 days and some days can

be allocated to sick days where it's just, like, sick of work. Work. Like, just a mental health, no questions asked. Some workplaces do that anyway, don't they? They're like, if you just need a day, no questions. Just a mental health day, just do it. Just take it. Which is great. Especially this year. They touch on the

New Zealand's attitude of, oh, especially in COVID times, of just tough it out. Yeah, because if people have run out of sick leave, then they don't want to be taking unpaid leave. So they're like, okay, well, I'm just going to work when they're not well, which is not what we want. As we saw recently, that can breed a bit of COVID. That can pass a bit on.

Yeah. Even just the flu, because we've saved lives stopping the flu over winter. Just normal flu, colds, whatever. Are you allowed to cash out your sick days? Because you can't accumulate them. Don't they reset every year? Somebody? Yeah.

Yeah, by default they do. Because I never use mine. Somebody's rolled over. Because businesses can roll them over if they want to. Oh, right. So some places if they're GBs, yeah, let them accumulate. You can opt in so that, yeah, if something does happen,

you can accumulate it. But yeah, I think normally. Because I'd have a few. Although, remember that time I got adult chicken pox? Yeah, you were out. That got me to, that minus two weeks

of leave, didn't it? You don't really get sick. No, but I'd love to cash them out. Imagine that. Cash equivalent. Or just like, oh, maybe I could cash them out for New World Knives. You know, maybe like a Flybuys or something.

That could be an option. So sick days could be a reward system is what you're saying. Or air points. Oh, my God. The more days. Oh, yeah. Isn't that just holiday leave? The more days you work.

Yeah. Somebody desperate for a new blender will come to work sick and get everybody sick. Yes. Just because they're two days off at the end of the year if they don't get everybody sick just because they're two days off at the end of the year if they don't use those sick days, they're two days off the blender. So they come in and they're like, oh my God, oh my God, guys, I don't use my sick days. Okay, yeah, we shouldn't incentivise that, should we?

No. No. But how good would a free blender be? Because when you get a sticker every day you come to work and put it on your chart. And then you get a nice set at the come to work and put it on your chart. And then you get a knife set at the end of the year. Love that idea. Some sort of perfect attendance situation.

Yeah. Again, you're rewarding people for being there when they probably shouldn't be because of illness. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast, ZM. The most popular day of the year to be dumped, to break up, is coming up on December 11. December 11? 10 days away. Okay. So... You've got some warning? They've

broken it down to the stresses of the holidays and people getting in before it really kicks in. So you're thinking about buying presents. You might be arguing about where you're going to spend Christmas, whose family, there's the kids that are pressuring you to... It's Hayley Steinfeld's birthday.

You know how that always weighs on your mind this time of year? Imagine if it was your birthday on the day that is the most popular day to be dumped. American wrestler Rey Mysterio, his birthday. Right. Surely someone's waiting till... You wait till after the birthday. You give them the birthday present and then do it on December 12th. Or 15th.

Oh, you reckon give it a breather. Give it a couple of days. Okay. Give it a little bit of time. Monique's birthday. Okay. Monique. Singer.

Oh, right. Okay. Actress. Not a lot of famous birthdays on the 11th. Not a lot, no. But yeah, look, most people are getting in before Christmas, so you don't have to buy them a present. I would have thought before people's birthday

or before Valentine's Day would have been a good one. The second most popular day of the year is after Valentine's Day. Right after Valentine's Day. Is it because people... 15th of February. Yeah. Brutal. Oh, and March.

No, sorry, March. March. So they've given it two weeks. Two weeks. Wow. They've given it a weeks. Two weeks. Wow. They've given it a month. That's a month. That's four weeks.

No, not the 15th of March. Just in March. Oh, I thought you said the 15th of March. You definitely said the 15th. I said the 15th. I was led astray. You're dumped. Both of you.

I mean, you're not dumping me. Yeah, we're dumping you. I'm 100% dumping you. Absolutely not. This was the thing. I would be dumping you. No, we're telling everyone we dumped'm 100% dumping you. Absolutely not. This was the thing. I would be dumping you. We're telling everyone we dumped you.

Oh, you tell everybody whatever, but when you tell them, they'll all look at each other like, unbelievable. I know how this went down. You've been lucky to have us. You've been lucky to even. And then the next time we saw each other, I'll be like, oh, hey. Like, you know, the person that does the dumping is always a bit cooler about the first time you run into them. Yeah.

Oh, hey. And you're like, oh, hello. Hello. You're blown out. We've got a new hot side piece. Wait. No, I haven't blown out. Yeah, no, you're blown out.

No, I'm the dumper. I don't blow out. No, because we're getting revenge because you dumped us. You might look all right, but I haven't blown out. You have. But I've settled down with somebody and they're very wholesome. And people didn't see it coming. Because I had a string of hotties

you guys included. That was a compliment. You've lowered yourself, have you? No, I haven't lowered myself but it's a really different sort of person than I've been with before because I just decided

it was worth a change of pace. What were we? Selfish hotties. Yeah. Thank you. You're welcome. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan The's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan's Fishy Tank.

Season two. Backed by Vodafone Business. Yes, thanks to Vodafone Business, our top prize, $5,000 cash. Not only that, we will, after the show today, be writing some radio commercials. As part of the very amazing FM business package. Yes. Going to give all of our finalists a radio commercial, though.

We're just going to take a turn writing one. Yep. And then writing, recording, producing, the whole. That's right. And that will help with the voting process before at the end of the week we announce the winner. All right, so can I just start by saying this was very hard to pick three finalists. They were all amazing ideas. If you missed out, like it was even hard just to get, you know, a couple of days to talk to.

Like the quality of side hustles and entries that we had were remarkable. And between the time passing between season one of Fisher Tank and season two, a lot of the same companies entered and have really stepped it up. Like, yeah, become fully fledged little businesses. It's pretty cool to see. Yeah. It's really cool to see New Zealanders out there doing it.

Megan, would you like to announce the first nominee? I'll go first. From Flora Grow Kits, we welcome Flora. Good morning. Hi. Congratulations, you're one of our finalists. Oh my gosh, this is so exciting.

So a Flora Grow Kit is where you, there's six different kits to choose from and you can buy these little kits that have seeds, plant labels, instructions, little peat pellets and peat pots and you can grow different herbs. There's a cocktail kit and all kinds of different things. Plus you're donating money to the Ronald McDonald

house, which I really appreciate it. So congratulations. Oh, thank you so much. Alright, well one of our three finalists, congratulations Flora. Taff joins us. Good morning Taff. Well, one of our three finalists, congratulations, Flora. Taff joins us. Good morning, Taff. Hey, good morning.

How are you guys doing? Good. Thank you so much. We only spoke to you yesterday, but congratulations. You are our second finalist. Thank you so much. Yeah, it was a very last-minute call to actually get it done. So thank you, guys.

So your app is called Paw Planet. Just quickly tell people what that's about again. It's basically a pocket guide app for dogs. It has all your off-leash parks, beaches, hikes and trails, and everything else. It's got your vets, groomers, anything that's pet-related effectively under the roof, and also your charity organisations who we list on there for free.

Amazing. Amazing. And you've already had quite a few downloads as well. I downloaded it yesterday. It's very good. Yeah, we saw that actually pop through. We've got just under 20K downloads. So that's awesome.

Thanks, guys, so much for the support. Wait, you saw Megan downloaded it? Yeah, because we have access to the control panel. So we can spy on who's downloading and who's not. When you crack into her phone, she's got a photo vault on there. Don't open that. Don't go in there. You'll be scarred.

You think you might want to, but you don't want to see what's in there. Excuse me. Taff, I'll be writing and producing your radio commercial after the show today. Yeah. Good luck. Sorry about that. Lucky you already got your 20,000 downloads. Thanks, Taff.

Alright, and let's meet our third finalist in Fishy Tanks, Season 2. He is a full-time winemaker, but a part-time children's book author. Luke, congratulations. Your story about Grandfather Pop and the

surfing grandchildren is one of our Fishing Tank finalists. Oh, no way. That's epic. That's good. The book's written. The illustrations are done. But they need a little push for the publishing and then, you know, marketing there afterwards.

So that could be what you get if you win Fishing Tank. Yeah, yeah. And to be honest, last time I dropped the ball a bit, I didn't even tell anybody where to kind of follow us. So here we're on Instagram. That's why everyone liked you, Luke, because you were a man of mystery. Yeah, and to be honest, last time I dropped the ball a bit, I didn't even tell anybody where to kind of follow us. That's whenever I liked you, because you were a man of mystery. Yeah, yeah, certainly, wasn't I? So whereabouts can people follow you?

Whereabouts can they find you? Yeah, so on the Gram at Surf With Pop, we've got a page set up there that's starting to drop a few pictures and a few of the rhymes. So, yeah, hopefully people can start getting excited about the book coming out and we can go from there. That's very, very cool. Well, congratulations on making the finals. Hey, no, no, thanks.

Do you guys want to have a little snippet of the book? You got time for that? I'll have a snippet of the book. Absolutely. Yeah, give us a couple. Okay, cool. All right, you ready? Yep, yep.

Pop taught them to surf before they knew how to walk, how to hang loose and hang ten before they knew how to talk. Pop taught them to love and respect the ocean, and when you're feeling down, how it can be a magical potion. I feel like we need you to read it. We need an audio book. Yeah, we're going to need an audio book. Well, that could be part of it, couldn't it? Yeah, no, totally.

All right, Luke, congratulations. Those are our three finalists. I'm just going to go to executive intern Anya, who I believe can tell us about voting. How do people vote? Zedium Online. Okay, I could have probably just said that, couldn't I? Yeah, but thank you for crossing to me.

Good morning, everyone. I just didn't know if we had the thing set up to vote already, but it is. We're all good to go. Yeah, look, she's taking a minute to load, but I reckon, look, pop the kettle on and then come back about, what, 7.30, do we reckon? And then, yeah, you vote away.

In five minutes' time. Fantastic. All right, okay, so you can vote from 7.30 and we are thanking Vodafone Business. $5,000, the cash prize there. So your vote really does count towards the winner there. Why have you turned my microphone off? You're cutting me out already.

Unbelievable. This is a classic business strategy, isn't it? Silence the partners. Fleshforn and Megan, the podcast. ZM. Yesterday, my usual daily routine had to go out the window. Because it was raining? Well, that certainly helped. You're a creature of habit too, so I'd imagine this must have been very important.

Well, I had to binge a TV show. Okay, yep. Very important. So I started on Sunday The Undoing, which is on Neon, and is a show with, and normally I wouldn't have probably gone towards the show because Hugh Grant and Nicole Kidman are in it. No, I have such a soft spot for Hugh Grant. Yep. I don't know why.

But I started seeing all these things online and people were talking about it and friends were mentioning it. And I was like, okay, well, I do love a good murder mystery whodunit thrower. So that's the vibe of it. Yeah. But also, you've got to get to the right friends who are recommending it. You know, I... The right friends. Yeah, the right friends.

Okay, good. And so I was like, on Sunday, I was like, well, I'll just watch a couple of episodes. And I watched them. And I was like, I'm absolutely hooked. And then I get to work yesterday morning and all these people in the US of A are saying, oh, I can't wait for the final tonight. And I'm like, well, I can't have this spoiled for me.

So you'd watched two of six? Yes. Two of five at the time because the six, obviously, you know, we have to wait for it to come out. So I'm like, well, I have to do all these episodes today. And how, are they hour-long episodes? Yeah, they're good 50-minute episodes.

So I was like, well, I just have to fit this in today. So I did it. So how many hours of television was that? Well, I mean, probably about five. Is that how many episodes there are five hours Yeah there's six episodes The last one's an hour ten So it's a bit longer Right

Yeah so I did the whole show Good and it's really good It's really good So you've seen the final I've seen the final So it's worth watching It's worth watching Okay Because I've seen lots of people Talking about's worth watching. It's worth watching. Okay.

Because, yeah, I've seen lots of people talk about this show. It's one of those ones where you're watching it and you're like, you think you know who's done it. And then they just keep, like, chucking out some red herrings. Hearings? Hearings. Hearings. They're the birds, eh?

Hearings. Hearings. Hearings. Red herrings. Red herrings. And you think, oh, well, that's who done it. Because, you know, it's the whole thing that's who's the murderer. How many of these can there be, though?

How many of these? This is what it is. Like, every time, if it's the person you're suspecting in episode two, it's not going to be them. And then the person that they're looking to line up for episode three, it's not going to be them. Well, you're just describing a whodunit. Episode four, it's not going to be them.

It's the journey, isn't it? Did you have any idea? It was the same journey. No spoilers. No, well, at the end, yeah, I kept flip-flopping, and then I was like, I know who's done it, and then it looked like it was, and then it wasn't. Wow.

Who'd have thought? I know. Who'd have thought that's how a whodunit did it? I knew. Because you don't want to go too early on whodunit. So I was like, oh, no, no, not yet. And then episode five, I was like, it's... Andrew hates watching those with me because I'll be like,

no, it's episode two. Oh, that's this person. He's like, oh, yeah, okay. But, like, I pride myself on always being able to pick who it is. But it was definitely one of those shows where you have no idea. Okay. I don't want to give away any spoiler alerts, but very good. Very good.

The undoing. You could just be describing any show, really. Basically any whodunit. Any whodunit. Oh, I thought I knew who it was, but it wasn't. And then right at the last minute, it all fell into place. That's just what whodunits are. What do you want the person in the first episode to be found out?

Yes. That's called a movie. Good. I like that. I'll leave it that way. It's Yes. That's called a movie. Good. I like that. I'll leave it that way. It's not. It's a journey. Did Sugar Aunt do it?

I'm not saying who done it because people need to. Did Nicole Kidman done it? I'm not going to say who done it. Did Nicole Kidman done it? Did Nicole Kidman done it? I'm not going to say who done it. Could have been someone else that done it. Well, I don't know who else is in the show.

Who's that guy from 24's dad's in it? Donald Sutherland. Yes. He done it. His eyebrows are real. Do you reckon when you're going to get old, your eyebrows will be real long? Mine already have.

Like, they go like, he could put, it's almost like he gels them. To get them. To get, yeah. How did you reference him? The guy from. Keith Sutherland's dad Yeah

Who was in 24 The TV show What about President Snow From the Hunger Games Yeah I didn't watch the Hunger Games You haven't seen the Hunger Games Nah

I haven't seen the Hunger Games I mean Donald Sutherland's Literally been acting for like 80 years Harry Potter The Hobbit Lord of the Rings Apart from the first one

I know I watched that Sixth Harry Potter No you watched The second half of the seventh Harry Potter. Oh, yeah. See, I just... Too long there. Too long.

Straight for the spoiler. Yeah. Too long, yet yesterday you watched an entire whodunit in one day. Yeah. In the story of Harry Potter, you know whodunit.

It was Voldemort. Yeah, well, spoiler alert. How's he going to do it? Oh, right. Okay. ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Megan. The podcast. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan's Baby Chase.

All right. Got five questions to put to you. Megan Pappas, mother-to-be, and Carl Peter Fletcher. Anti-children. The anti-child. The anti-child. Megan's just been telling us she's been snoring. Really loud, apparently.

My husband put a noise-cancelling headphones beside his bed last night. I was like, what are those for? I thought you had a pillow to keep you on your side. Yeah, I do. But he's like, you can't sleep on your left side because it's worse. Well, you snore when you're on your side. Yeah. Oh, thank God we're not away for work in an Airbnb.

Do you remember that time you and Anya were both snoring that time? No, it was just Anya. It wasn't me. But she was sick in her defence. I had a cold. Yeah. Well, I'm growing a human, so. That's your excuse.

For snoring. Okay. So I've got five questions. Are you ready for your first question? Yes. Number one. Oh, how are we buzzing in again? Your baby crying.

Yeah. Okay. Megan, what's... Shivers. It changes every time. Number one, question number one. Approximately how many nappies do babies go through in their first year? Oh. Fletch. 600. Number one, approximately how many nappies do babies go through in their first year?

Fletch. 600. Isn't that something crazy like 10 or 15 a day? 10 a day? 10 a day? So like 4,000. Megan's closest. So the points go to Megan.

Approximately 3,360. Oh, my God. So not only are you bringing another human into the world, you're also... Filling the landfills. You're also filling landfills and all that wastage. Are you going to use material nappies? No, but someone told us that material nappies, because you're using so much of your water and washing machine

and all that kind of stuff, they kind of do the same damage to the environment. Is that true? But it's using water, right? Rather than filling up a landfill. The economical footprint. Could you burn them? No, they don't burn.

No, I don't think so. Oh, my goodness. Oh, well, chuck them in the landfill. Yeah. Well done. Well, there's no perfect solution there. Number two on the list, let them run around landfill. Yeah. Well done. Well, there's no perfect solution there. Number two on the list, let them run around

bare ass. Pooing and weeing everywhere. No. Number two, question number two, on average, how many days of sleep

do babies deprive their parents of? How many days? In the first, yeah, in the first year, approximately, how many days? Fletch.

365. Megan. That was a baby crying. 35. You're closer again. 44 days of sleep in the first year alone. So that's over a month. Boo!

What? You're saying every... Rubbish. Every day you don't sleep. No, I know, but it all adds up to... To how many days? Okay, well, you didn't say collectively. Well, how come I understood the question?

She knew what I meant. Oh, these are regs. Question three. How much does a Ford Ranger ride on 12-volt battery-operated car retail for? Like a toy car. What's that got to do with this? It looks like a Ford Ranger. Yeah.

A what year? What did you say? It's a toy. Oh, I thought it was a toy. I thought you were asking about a car. Ford Ranger. Yeah. A what year? What did you say? It's a toy. Oh, I thought it was a toy. I thought you were asking about a car. It's a 12-volt battery-operated Ford Ranger. One of those ones you sit your kid in and then you can drive around.

499. 350. Fletcher's closer. Yes! 449. That would be pretty cute. What year is it? I thought you were talking about an actual car, like a family vehicle. I'm sizing to a ranger.

So good lord. So you can be a tradie and a mum. Yeah. Nice. This one is a little bit different. Whoever gets the higher ranked name gets the points. Okay. Name one of the top female middle names of the 2010s.

Oh. Megan. Louise. Is that? Oh, no, that was earlier. Not even in the top ten. Not even in the top ten. All you have to do is get one that's in the top ten.

No. Middle names. Annie. Annie. Anne, is it four? No, it's not. Yes, Anne, Annie, same thing. He said Annie.

Same thing. It's not the same thing. That's a point for me, and we are locked. Who said Annie? Jane, Jane's not. Yes, Anne, Annie, same thing. He said Annie. Same thing. It's not the same thing. That's a point for me. What about Jane? We are locked. Jane? Jane, Jane, Jane. Little Annie.

I don't know baby names. No, that doesn't count. It's not the same name. For those of you that are interested, Marie was number one. Because the guys have so many names. Marie. Lisa Marie. Anne Marie.

Anne Marie. Rachel Marie. Yeah, but it's the middle name. Gertrude Marie. Lisa Marie. Anne Marie. Anne Marie. Rachel Marie. Yeah, but it's the middle name. Gertrude Marie. Rose was three. I thought Rose would be higher. Okay. Well, it's two all, Megan.

No, you didn't get that one. We're locked here. You didn't get that one. It's not the same name. Comparable to something that's edible, what size is a newborn baby's stomach? Fresh out the womb, baby. What size is their stomach?

Megan. A mandarin. Oh, I'm going to say a plum. This is very similar. No, plums are smaller than a mandarin. Fletch, you take it out. Closer. You didn't get this in any. Not smaller than a mandarin. Fletch, you take it out. No! Closer. You didn't get any!

You said any, not any! A mandarin! A mandarin! A newborn's stomach is the size of a hazelnut. Yes. I was actually going to say grape, actually. That would have been much closer. A mandarin is smaller than a plum.

No, it's not. No, it's not. And he actually said... No, it's not. He stated a plum smaller than a mandarin. Yeah, so I'm certainly the winner there. Oh, this is some bullshit. But it will go quickly.

Maybe can you cancel this? Because I don't know if you're ready. This is some bullshit. You also said Annie, not Ann. Same thing. It's not the same name. It's a derivative. Excuse me, producers, what's bigger, a mandarin or a plum?

Don't shake your head. Answer the damn question. I'm so scared. Oh. A mandarin or a plum? A pregnant woman's angry. What are you going to say? A big mandarin is bigger than a bigger plum,

but a small plum is smaller than a small mandarin. A plum is smaller than a mandarin. That's inconclusive. I'm just turning off Megan's mic because she's getting a bit, she's pregnant. I'm getting a bit what? Finish that sentence. Oh, God.

He might have won the game, but I think he's lost his life. Executive Internania, is a plum smaller than a mandarin? How did you turn that on? I've got a button by myself. Everyone says this is some bullshit. A mandarin is smaller. Thank you.

A mandarin is not smaller than a plum. You say, ah. What planet are you on, people? A small mandarin is still not smaller than a small plum. Also, let's go back to the previous one. Annie and Anne are two different names. Executive Internania is a small pile. Also, let's go back to the previous one. Annie and Anne are two different names. Executive Internania is a Mandarin.

I think it would be so cool if we just called it even and we moved on. No, because I've won. She can't handle it because she's actually having a baby and I know more. Oh, God. Someone said if we listen to an action replay, you change your answer to lemon anyway. Yes! I didn't change my answer.

I was hedging my bets. Megan's lost. Excuse me. Ann and Annie are not the same. That's what everyone's saying. The only people messaging in to agree with you are people called Ann. Annie is not Ann.

Same thing. Fleshfauna Megan, the podcast. ZM. Yesterday, I don't even know how we got onto it, but we got there. I don't either actually remember how we got onto this. About moving. Weird holiday visits. Oh, that's right.

Somebody from Napier, the only thing they wanted to do in Tauranga was go to Bayfair to go on the escalator. Ride the escalator. Because they hadn't been on an escalator. And we assumed that they didn't have an escalator in Napier. Now, we may have been correct historically. We don't know when this person went on the travelator, but somebody said recently the farmers,

what we did a little bit of a deep dive, on the spot deep dive, a bit of a plunge into the escalator hobbies and habits and locations of your average Hawks bayonet. Yeah. And apparently Hastings Farmers has one and Napier Farmers has one. Not to be outdone, Napier got one as well. Well, we can't have people taking the lift. We've got to get an escalator. And then it got us onto talking about places like Blenheim.

They got their first one recently. That was at the Working Man's Club. And heck, didn't we get a response for them? Yeah, and I kind of felt like we could leave it there. No. Maybe that wasn't enough. Megan is, I would say, vehemently against us proceeding now with a definitive list of what towns have escalators

and what don't. I just don't think it's like... Okay, I'll get her on board with a little bit of hometown heroics. Nelson doesn't have one, but Stoke does. Where does Stoke have one? Stoke has an escalator.

Somebody said Stoke had an escalator. No, Stoke doesn't have an escalator. But they had been distancing themselves from Nelson lately. They were trying to make themselves their own thing in Stoke. I don't know if anyone... Richmond has an escalator. Where's Richmond's escalator? Well, a bit further on from Stoke.

They're not counting that because where's the escalator in Stoke? Where does the one in Richmond go? In the farmers. In the farmers. It's always a farmers. Do farmers have a discount on escalators? I don't know. They must have got Do farmers have a discount on escalators? I don't know. They must have got like a Red Dot special on escalators.

And so they made all these stores double store, double store so they can use all these escalators they'd purchased. Well, Vaughn and I thought, well, we got such a- Does Whangarei have an escalator? Who knows? And are we just counting, we're counting escalators, forced to hop on escalators, excluding farmers? No, I just think if your town has an escalator,

wherever it is, it doesn't matter. But does your town have one or not? Megan thinks we shouldn't be doing this. This is keeping you up at night. You need to know. We got such a response. Like, does Timaru have an escalator? I want to know that.

Timaru would have an escalator. No, they wouldn't. I also think we just need people to text message in and say, my hometown doesn't have, or this place doesn't have an escalator. No, they wouldn't. I also think we just need people to text message in and say my hometown doesn't have or this place doesn't have an escalator so that then we can mention it so that if somebody is aware of an escalator in that town, they can offer a rebuttal and in the end we'll have a definitive list

of New Zealand towns without escalators. Thank God. Timaru? Omaru? Somebody said Whangarei only has one escalator and guess where it is? It's in the bloody farmers. Bloody farmers.

Someone said my hometown of Thames doesn't have an escalator. Okay, right. Are you going to do one of your grid lists? Do you want this pen? From the Tom, the Top Gun. Stop indulging them. Tom Cruise Mission Impossible movie or whatever it is. So Thames.

Farmers, guess where Timberooze is? In Farmers. Bingo.berooze is? In Farmers. Bingo. Are you kidding me? Wow. Why do they have so many multi-level department stores? Because it's massive.

I don't know. Homewares? Menswares? And ladieswares? Ladies, right. Manchester? Children's clothing?

Toys? Invercargill, does that have one? Invercargill would definitely have an Eskimo. No, I don't think it would. It's a big smys. Invercargill. Does that have one? Invercargill would definitely have an escalator. No, I don't think it would. It's a big smug. It would have lifts. It's got lifts.

I've been in a lift in Invercargill, but I don't think it's got an escalator. What about in that department store, that big H&J Smith? That'd have an escalator. Yeah, maybe it would have an escalator. No, but maybe it's just a full lift. This is so weird.

Somebody said, reporting from Gisborne, our farmers does not have an escalator. Now, does Gisborne even have an escalator? I don't think it would. No, they don't. They don't believe Gisborne, our farmers does not have an escalator. Now, does Gisborne even have an escalator? I don't think it would. No, they don't. They don't believe Gisborne has an escalator. Okay, well, we're opening up the text line and the phone line now.

9696 0800 DALS at M. This is happening, isn't it? Someone is messaging saying Lower Hutt has four. We don't care if you've got one or more. We care if you've got none. Invercargill has three. Bosh. Where?

Apart from Invercargill Farmers, the only other escalator is at Kmart, Invercargill. Oh, okay. They have a multi-level Kmart. Fancy. Uamaru, no escalator. Okay. Timaru has an escalator in Farmers.

Well, don't blow it all now because we're going to come back next and we'll have nothing to talk about if you read out all the... Definitely, everyone's sticking around to find out where the escalators are in the country. Are you hearing this, this rudeness? Also, how small are we going?

What do you mean, how small? Because somebody just said, Pawanui doesn't have an escalator. But you've got waterways, so I think you've trumped it. Plus, there's no, like, multi-story thing. Well, I think if you're a town, it would have to be a fairly big town for us to consider it on our list of definitive towns. Yeah.

Well, I think when we just get to it, we'll decide if it goes on the list or not. But maybe don't put Pahunui down on the list. Somebody said Vaughan, you've been led astray. It's not Stoke that has the escalator. It is Richmond. It is Richmond. Thank you. Yeah, I didn't think Stoke would have a...

All right, well, we'll be back next with our definitive list of Does Your Town Have an Escalator? Oh, my God. Don't go anywhere, New Zealand. Fine lines are absolutely steaming, Megan. It's lit up. Somebody said, interesting fact, we're talking about if your town has an escalator or not.

We're trying to get forward a definitive list of what New Zealand towns do not contain an escalator. Yes, because it's important to know these things. Thank God I know now. Megan is absolutely hating this segment. Not since we did that segment in Australia, have you seen a dingo? Have you seen a dingo?

When we ran and asked Australians if they'd ever seen a dingo, have you been so upset? So many Australians have never seen a dingo. No, and you think they would have, especially in Melbourne. But no, they haven't. So we're talking about if your town has an escalator or not. Somebody said interesting fact about the city of Laos. The country of Laos.

The country of Laos. Not a single escalator in the entire country. Wow. Remember that if your town doesn't have an escalator. Yeah, there's a whole country that doesn't have one. Southeast Asian country without one. Yes. Well, thank you for your calls.

Let's start with Nadia. Nadia, where do you live? In Gore. An escalator or not? No. Now would you be open to being proven wrong? Perhaps it's one building in Gore you've not been into that has an escalator.

No, I don't think so. You're putting your money where your mouth is. It's Gore, mate. There's so many old people there, though. Mind you, old people prefer a travelator to an escalator because my Auntie Pat took a tumble in New Plymouth on an escalator because somebody kicked the button stop.

Oh, that's... She was going down. Now, she got cuts and bruises. Auntie Pat. Now, that would have been in Centre City. Yep, Centre City has a... Yeah, she's in New Plymouth. Sometimes they're a bit scary, like, timing-wise to get on.

Yep. That's correct. Some people are asking if a travelator is, are we counting a travelator? I don't think we should. Because an escalator, like, escalates, right? Goes up or down. Travelators are the posh escalators.

You wouldn't have a travelator without an escalator being in your town. If you went straight to escalator, straight to travelator. What a bold, bold step. A big, bold move. Yeah. All right. So we've got some other, if you can debate any of these, by the way, text me, Sir Jin, and tell us.

On my list so far, I've got Whakatane. Apparently no escalator in Whakatane. If you want to debate that, feel free. Georgia, we're about to you. Yeah, well If you want to debate that, feel free. Georgia, whereabouts are you? Yeah, well, you thought you were going small with Kaunui, but Great Barrier Island, no farmers, no escalators. Oh, yeah, I wouldn't have thought. God, I want to visit Great Barrier.

It's lovely. It's on my list. Great Barrier locals famously love tourists coming, don't you? Absolutely. Put it on your summer list. Put it on your summer. Put on your sunglasses. Brilliant. Thanks, Georgia.

Juliana. Good morning. Good morning. Whereabouts are you? I'm in Auckland. Okay. I'm from Wairoa in Northern Hawke's Bay. Oh, no, no escalators there.

Oh, no escalator there. No, but I used to try to travel through to Gisborne to go to the movies, because there were no movieator there. No, but I used to try to travel through to Gisborne to go to the movies because there were no movie theaters there either. And I would go right on the escalator in Farmers. So you're telling me Gisborne, because Gisborneites were claiming no escalators in Gisborne. I don't think there was any more, but there used to be

because I definitely used to go to Farmers just to go on the escalator. Did Farmers shut down or move premises? I think it might have moved premises. I'm not really sure. I'll be speaking when I go back to Gisborne. Okay, so that's going to remain on the list. For your weekly escalator ride. Brilliant. Juliana, thanks for your call. Jared

in Levin. Yes, I'm not currently in Levin, but I grew up in Levin for about 18 years. Okay. Still go back there at least once or twice a year. No escalators as far as I'm not currently in Levin, but I grew up in Levin for about 18 years. Okay. Still go back there at least once or twice a year. No escalators as far as I'm aware still. Yeah, right. Single-level farmers.

Oh, single-level. Yes, that's the key. That's the key there in Levin, single-level farmers, because farmers, if they're dual, they'll always chuck in an escalator, apparently. Well, they bloody love an escalator, we're hearing. Thank you, Jared. Levin there, added to the list of no escalator. No escalators.

Also on the list, Grey Mouth. Someone dare say that none of the west coast of the South Island, there's no escalator to be seen. But surely there's a large department store that's

two storey down there. Virgin West Coast. Yeah. Maybe we should go to... Imagine the first trip that the Schindler truck's going to take over the Arthur's Pass

from Christchurch to the solar escalator. What a triumphant day. Maybe we should go to the Wild Food Festival as escalators. The locals will be walking all over us. They won't know who we are or what we're for. I think we're magical moving stairs. Josh, we're about to you.

Bluff, mate. Bluff. Oh, there's no escalators in Bluff. You've got a lovely sign, though, don't you? Pointing in all the directions. Yeah, we certainly do. It's a beautiful spot. You do a great oyster, but you don't have an escalator. No, no escalators, mate. I'll put it on the left.

Anybody know if there's any escalators on Stewart Island? There wouldn't be on Stewart Island. I'll safely write Stewart Island. Did we decide if Invercargill had an escalator, Josh? Yeah, it's got one at the library, H&J, Farmers. Yeah, it's got three, I believe. And Kmart's got a travelator, the first travelator at Invercargill. Yes.

Okay, brilliant. Thanks for your call, Josh. Sam Fielding, good morning. Morning. Is it yes or no for Fielding? It's definitely a no. No escalators here. It's a no, yeah, because it's all kind of single-level story buildings, isn't it?

I would have thought Evermore would have put in an escalator there. The 2000s band. Yeah, the three brothers. What are they up to? Who's Evermore? You're from building and you've never heard of Evermore. No, I know. I'm saying, you know, it's 2020.

Those times are gone. Oh, no, I was going to say, what am I up to now? But you're right. They could have spent their royalties on an escalator. I thought they would have put an escalator into a double-story building for the old folks. Absolutely. Thanks for your call, Sam. Fitu, good morning.

Good morning, guys. Good morning. I'm from Kati Kati, and we don't have an escalator. Okay, definitive list there. On the list, yeah. Actually, it'll only be a matter of time, because the old people will love a bit of bloody Kati Kati, don't they? And old people love an escalator. Old people love an escalator

because they don't like stairs, do they? Thanks for your call. No escalators in Cambridge, which surprises me. Cambridge and the Waikato there. It's all horse money. Yeah,

but there's no second story to get up to, is there? So you don't need an escalator. What's the second stories? Like in houses. In houses. Not in like buildings. Do we have those old people?

Are you guys going to get One of those old people Lifts up the stairs When you get old Oh the chairs You've seen those on the ads Yeah Yes

Even now I'll add a second story In my house Just to have one And it's got to be A curly staircase Yes You've got to wind it up

Because you go out And you'll be like Oh I've forgotten my shoes So you have to go back up. Yeah, and I promise myself I won't be one of those grandads that tells off my grandkids for riding it either. But I will. You will.

I will. One ride each. Per day, per visit. Because then they'll come and visit me more. Ash Burden, no escalators. Okay. Te Ao Mutu, no escalators. What this really equates to is if you have a double level Farmers, right?

That seems to be... Yeah. It seems to be very much so. Farmers are escalator influencers. Whanganui, one escalator. Only one. One escalator. Well, I'm so glad we know that.

I have had fun. Have you had fun, boy? I've had great fun. I've had great fun. I've had great fun putting together this list. What are you going to do with the list now? It's the definitive list of New Zealand towns without escalators. I don't know.

What if we don't have to do anything with the list? I haven't seen anybody else do a definitive list. Taupo, no. No escalators. No escalators. No escalators in Taupo. Rotorua, do we? So there was debate earlier in the piece about Rotorua.

We have it inundated. The text machine's lit up. See, Megan? People love this segment. Why can't you love it too? I mean, yeah, I love it. Somebody messaged and they weren't expecting this to be so captivating, but they've had to stay in the car.

Exactly. They've had to stay in the car to hear the interview. I actually looked on Trade Me to see if you could buy a secondhand escalator, but there's none listed. Can you believe that? Somebody is actually responsible for Thames no longer having an escalator. In 1996, Goldfields Shopping Centre. I was five years old playing on it on Boxing Day,

and I fell over and it started ripping my shorts. Like, you have dreams about it. My shorts got caught. It pulled me right in at the bottom. 1997, Boxing Day trip to Goldfields Shopping Centre. There was no longer an escalator. What did they just concrete it over the stairs? The escalator or something?

Must have, yeah. Or put some stairs in. That's just inviting skaters, though, isn't it? I'll say that is a challenge. Not if you put those small little domes along so they can't rail it. That'll quickly put an end to their shenanigans, won't it? Won't it? ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast.

Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Today's fact of the day is about chess. Because I've been watching The Queen's Gambit. Oh, yeah, lots of people talking about that. Everyone's going crazy about that show. They love it. Does that get... Because I watched the first 10 minutes and it was just playing chess.

Does it get better? The first 10 minutes? I can't remember. I was half watching it. The first 10 minutes is her waking up from a booze and drug-fuelled one-night stand and tearing downstairs to play in a chess tournament. And you're like, well, you've got me. This is the most exciting chess I've ever seen.

Oh, okay, no, yeah, right. Well, I definitely got up to some chess and I was like... It's really good. Yeah, maybe I wasn't in the mood for it. Yeah, yeah, I really like it. It's good. Okay, she's a great actress. Because people are taking up chess because of it.

Which is fantastic. They're getting really into it. Which is fantastic. It's about sort of a chess protege and yeah, just her life, really. Right. She's had a hell of a time. And the Queen's Gambit is a move. It's like an opening.

It's like an opening in chess. But today's fact about chess is that in 1770 a man who has a name, his name was Wolfgang von Kleppelin. Kleppelin. He sounds like he'd have an eye patch and be a baddie in a Nazi movie.

Oh, no, it was well before the Nazis. It was. 1770. He invented a machine that would play a strong game of chess against a human opponent. 1770. Wow. The Android, that's what

you know, that's kind of what it was, that played the game was nicknamed the Turk. And the Turk toured around for many years. It toured basically from when it was made in 1770 until it was destroyed in a fire in 1854.

Was it like wood with lots of wheels and pulleys? It was a wooden box. Okay. And all the workings were inside. How it worked was a secret. When it was travelling around because that's the other thing, it travelled around Europe and the Americas. It had games of chess, like demonstrations of

chess against Napoleon Bonaparte, the little French general from Night in the Museum with Ben Stiller. That's where he's famous from, yes. And Benjamin Franklin. Who was also in Night in the Museum? Yes, I think. So he just played against Night in the Museum

one and two characters. Yes, basically. So it wasn't until much later on that it turned out that inside the box was just somebody playing chess. Was it? I wondered because I was like... I wondered that too the box was just somebody playing chess. Was it? I wondered because I was like.

I wondered that too and I was like, no. How in like the 1700s would you have had all those kind of. I know. Like it wasn't even computers up until the 80s. Humans could regularly beat. The chess masters could regularly beat computers at playing chess, but this could play a good game. This game didn't win every game,

but it knew all the rules and it played very well. Right. That's brilliant. Basically how it worked was, from what I can see and read on it, because it was destroyed in 1854, so quite a while ago, the person would sit inside the box

with their own little chess board. Yeah. And when the chess pieces would move, they'd with their own little chess board. And when the chess pieces would move, they'd replicate it down there. And then they'd do their move and use a little magnet to then drag their... Oh, so they were playing on top of the box. The other person played on top of the box. The person inside the box was using a magnet under the board to drag their bits around. Wow. But how could they see what the person above was doing?

They would say that's a knight to so and so because they said that it was voice activated as well as the movement. So they would do it and they would rip what they had underneath. No one in the 1700s was like well we have none of this kind of technology anywhere

but yet how have you done this? No further questions. And you think it came up against like Napoleon Bonaparte, who was like maybe one, so didn't have too many questions, was like, ha, inferior machine. Yeah, right. But if you got beaten, wouldn't you be like, how? I'm going to destroy you to see how that works. Yeah.

I need to see inside that. So yeah, it traveled around for a very long time. Playing demonstration games of chess. And it wasn't until a lot later that they realized that there was somebody inside the box. And each chess master that had been inside the box had inscribed something on the inside of the box so they could prove that it was them.

And there's a list of chess masters who went in during the tour. So today's fact of the day is in 1770, there was a chess playing machine and it wasn't found out until many years later that it was just a person in a box playing chess. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do- They were rich. Yeah. I think we all settled on one thing. The SodaStreams. We had a SodaStream, but we weren't rich.

Because I thought pools. And you had a pool. We had a pool, but we weren't rich. You keep saying these things. We didn't go without, but we certainly weren't wealthy. We didn't have starter jackets. That was for me. If the kids had nice clothing

They were rich Because Well Like we never looked after clothing We just Had to have clothing over us So we weren't naked When we were destroying everything

So Yeah Yeah if kids had flash clothing I remember a friend at school They had a spa pool And a soda stream Rich Spa pool

I would consider a real Mark of I didn't know anyone with a spa pool But back in stream. Wretch. Spa pool. I would consider it a real mark of... I didn't know anyone with a spa pool. But back in the day, soda streams, if you had one of those, you were ooh-la-la. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 100%. Two-story houses? I felt like, yeah, when you're little, you're like, whoa. Stairs. If they had internal stairs. Yeah. My grandparents

had a split-level house, and I thought they were probably the richest people I knew. Well, certainly in my family, but they weren't. They just, when they built, had to do a split level house and I thought they were probably the richest people I knew. Well, they're certainly in my family, but they weren't. They just, when they built, had to do a split level house. So they had carpeted stairs. Ooh, fancy. You could slide down those on your bum if you wanted to. So we're wondering this morning, we're going to open up the phone lines and take some texts

on when you were young, like what indicated that a family had a bit of cash? If they went on a plane. If they went anywhere on a plane? Yeah. Or just on holiday? Yeah. But like specifically on a plane, even just to like,

you know, Wellington or something, you're like, what? Yeah. That was rich. Because you could take the ferry for cheaper.

No, I never went on a plane. Yeah, we'd always take the ferry. Yeah, yeah. Because you could get the car across, you didn't have to hire a car when you got there. Yeah, yeah. And you, what, did your parents smuggle you across in the boot on the under island?

Absolutely. Yeah, put a rug over us. Just say we'll be down in four hours to continue the drive to Nelson. Yep. Somebody messaged in. This is a good one to get us started. Brand name cereal. Oh, yeah.

If they had like the Cocoa Pops. Because we had to do rice bubbles with a sprinkling of Milo If they had like the Coco Pops. Because we had to do rice bubbles with a sprinkling of Milo. That was our Coco Pops. And it wasn't just rice bubbles. It was like ricey puff puffs. Yeah, yeah. Puffed rice cereal. The home brand.

All right, well, give us a call. 0800-DARLS-AT-M-9696 to text in. When you were a kid, what indicated to you that a family was wealthy? We're talking about those signs. When you were a kid, when indicated to you that a family was wealthy? We're talking about those signs. When you were a kid, when you saw something at somebody else's house and you're like, oh, you must be rich. Yep. Somebody said, I went to someone's house once and they actually had a jar of chicken tonight.

And we were like, you buy sauce in a jar? Wow. We're just used to Maggi, like, packets. Is this the Chicken Tonight that the ad's about? I feel like Chicken Tonight. Like Chicken Tonight. Yep. Wow, you were.

Yeah, yeah, that's well off. And they had proper orange juice. Oh, what? And it was just sitting in the fridge. Because that was crazy. At my house, if there was proper anything, it was all just destroyed the minute I walked into the house. All the orange juice was drunk.

Freshly squeezed orange juice growing up. It was watered down Raro sachets. We're talking about when you're a kid, what made you think other families were wealthy? What made you think they were rich? And some really funny things when you're a kid, what you associate with wealth. I remember this.

If you had a boat, that goes without saying. But this wasn't the one that somebody said when their kids had wetsuits. Because if you went, when you go skiing with people who had a boat, but all their kids would have like wetsuits and stuff and we'd just rock up with like togs and my dad would be like, tie your togs

tight because if you fall off your pants will come down. Or you'd try to squeeze into their wetsuits but you were bigger than them and you'd be like, tie your togs tight or you'd fall off, your pants would come down. Or you'd try to squeeze into their wetsuits but you were bigger than them and you'd be like, what? Somebody else said, I went to a friend's house once and they had a chandelier. I was like, this is very wealthy.

Very rich. Lots of money here. Cordell, what was the sign of wealth when you were a kid? Whenever I went to somebody else's house, if they had a set of stairs inside their house anywhere, I assumed they were filthy rich. Yeah, internal stairs. Internal stairs.

When you're a kid and you don't have internal stairs, you assume that means a lot of money. You do. Cordell, thanks. Rachel? If the family had two cars. Oh, yes. Yes.

Ratch, ratch, ratch. Ratch. Man, man, someone was just bloody able to just go somewhere while somebody else had their car at work. And if they had a spa pool and a soda stream, they were just next level wealthy. Yeah, royalty. Oh, absolutely.

Or cakes in their pantry every day. Cakes. Mum, I do have a two-story house and a balcony and a playroom. A balcony. That's really rich, isn't it? And a playroom. And a playroom. That's so flash.

Brilliant. Rachel, thanks. Matt, what was a sign of wealth when you were a kid? Definitely one of my mates had a rumpus room. And we were like, frickin, this dude's baller. He's actually got a room specifically for rumpusing around. Yeah. Like games.

I remember a mate of mine's family got a new house, and the first time I went there, it was two-story, and upstairs was a rumpus room. I was like, what happens in this room? He's just like, whatever we want. I was just like, rumpusing. Yeah. All the rumpusing.

Yeah, this dude also had pegs on his bike as well. Rumpusing. Yeah. All the rumpusing. Yeah, this dude also had pegs on his bike as well. Oh. Yes. So he could give you a ride if he wanted. Like on your BMX.

Yeah. Yeah. Wow. They were balling. That was pretty hardcore. Yeah, totally. Matt, thanks for your call. Dylan, what was a sign

of wealth when you were a kid? I went over to my mate's house one day and had this magical cupboard that you opened up and threw clothes into and it took it straight down to the washing basket. A laundry chute.

Oh my God. Yeah. That was mind-blowing. That also meant that it was a two-story house or it had a basement or something, eh? Yep. Definitely. Did you ever slide down

the laundry chute? I think we tried and we got in a bit of hot water, so. Yeah. Fair enough, Dylan. Thanks for your call. Some other text messages in

on what made you think other families were rich when you were a kid. Somebody said they had long carpet. Oh, like shaggy. Shagpile carpet. That does seem bougie.

Um, they had more than one TV. Somebody else said, I remember going to my friend's house and there was a TV in the lounge and then there was a TV in the rumpus room as well. Oh, if you had a TV in your bedroom, that was rich. Oh yeah. Like in the kid's bedroom. Yeah. Did you and your brother have one?

We had, um, the TV that we kept after we sold the caravan. Oh, okay. See, that was rich. You sold the caravan. Oh, okay. See, that was right. She had a caravan with a TV in it. Well, my dad thought the caravan was going to be the answer to our holiday solutions. It wasn't. He hated it. He hated it.

But we wouldn't let him sell the TV when they sold the caravan. So we put that in our room. But it didn't have a remote. You had to get out of bed and push the button if you wanted to change the channel. Use a broomstick. We tried, but it didn't have a remote. You had to get out of bed and push the button if you wanted to change the channel. Use a broomstick. We tried, but it was like really rounded, slippery buttons. It was really hard to get a good push on with the broomstick. We tried, we stuck a, you know,

those things that you draw circles with in maths, the compass, the needly pointy end. Protractor thing. We taped one of those to the broomstick and was like stabbing the button, but then like we broke the button. So then you had to actually go out and put your finger through the button, where the button used to be.

To push the button. To push the little thing behind the button. So yeah, we were rich as man. With our black and white TV in our bedroom. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. If you enjoyed this podcast, why not give ZM's Bree and Clint a listen too? Subscribe on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. Hit music lives here.

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