ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Megan Podcast - 1st December 2021

Episode Date: November 30, 2021

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The ZM Podcast Network. Play. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. Hello, welcome to the Fletch, Vaughan and Megan podcast. Thanks to Mick Cafe, barista made coffee available from drive-thru and Mick delivery at level three and dine-in at level two. Now, on the podcast today, you will, because we record this after the show. Yep, but it plays before the show.

So we get a bit of a retrospective look at what is about to be on the podcast. Yeah. Kind of like set the show. Yep, but it plays before the show. So we get a bit of a retrospective look at what's about to be on the podcast. Yeah. Set the tone. Now I may have screamed nerd at the Prime Minister. A couple of times you did call her a nerd. Yeah, I said, give us a headline, nerd. I don't know what happened there. I'd like to apologise. Well, I think

I did say to you afterwards that's the Prime Minister of the country. Yeah, like if you were in America, you wouldn't say that to the president. If I went to school with him, I would. Yeah, that's true, yeah. I'd be like, hey, nerd. Yeah. On a less public forum, you need to behave yourself publicly.

Yeah, I messaged afterwards. I said, look, I just have been reminded that you're the prime minister. I apologize. I've crossed the line I love that she still has time to message you on Instagram Don't worry She's fine Getting called a nerd is probably very low

on the spectrum of things she's been called lately At the moment Who'd do that job? Not for fucking anything I said to her I hope you. I, I, I said, I was like, I hope you will. Cause I would have told the country to get fucked by now.

No, fuck you. Fuck the lot of you. What'd you say? Even, even if Barry Soper would say, what'd you say? Jared,

take that fucking alfresco dining Barry and stick it. I will come down there, Barry. I'll put my foot so far up your fucking ass. Youco dining, Barry, and stick it. I will come down there, Barry. I'll put my foot so far up your fucking ass, you'll be choking on my toes. Try me, Barry. Fucking try me, you old shit.

Bleep it again. There's a few bleeps there. It's fun to say it. But even if you were the Prime Minister and there was no global pandemic, there were no terror attacks, there were no natural disasters, it'd still be a horrible job. Oh, horrible job.

It'd still be a horrible job. I don't know why. Because there's guaranteed to be people who hate you, no matter how hard you try, no matter what you do, because you don't align with their political beliefs. Yeah, even local politics. You're trying to make people a lovely park, and they're like, fucking do this.

It's public service. That swing's not low enough for me. I know, I couldn't do it I have lacked the patience Yeah I'd call a few more people a **** You've made Jarrod do a lot of beeping Vaughan There's three just

Thanks Rachel Good morning Welcome to the show Fleets Vaughan and Megan Happy 1st of December. Summer! First day of summer. And the 1st of December, which means we're closer to Christmas.

24 days away. Did you just do 25 minus... I was like, do I say 25 or 24? I don't know. I think you say 24 or 24 sleeps. This early in the day, you count today. Right. The elves are back. Yeah, they are.

I see on Instagram. December. Elves on the shelf. But you've got elves. Elves on the shelves. Yeah. Yeah. They're back to motor behaviour.

Are you like, why are you back, elves? You seem like so much hard work. Yeah. I you like, why are you back, elves? You seem like so much hard work. Yeah, I'm like, what are you doing here? Elves? Do you think it'll be the last year they visit? I don't know. When do elves decide to stop visiting? I don't know.

When Santa decides the children have done enough good behaviour. Right. Okay. Whoa. Yeah, I don't know. God. I don't know how they do it. I don't know how they do it.

Well, they do. So much effort. They do it for the joy of children, those little elves. Is that why you were tired this morning? Maybe. The elves kept you up, weren't they? Maybe they bloody just got so excited I couldn't wait for them to arrive. When I heard their little twinkly jingle bells and I was like,

oh, I can go to sleep now. The elves are here. Yeah. Ta-da. Coming up on the show, the top six. Yeah, the top six ways that Christopher Luxon might try to make New Zealand like Air New Zealand. Now that he's the leader of the National Party.

Yep, he is the leader of the National Party. Beating out the bridges yesterday. We can ask the Prime Minister about that. Oh, no, there was no contest. Oh, there was no... Simon withdrew once hearing Christopher's argument, slash knowing he probably wouldn't have the numbers to beat him in the caucus election. The Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, is on with us this morning.

10 to 8, for our regular catch-up. Should we want an insight on what makes our white bald dudes tick today, I reckon? Are you happy to provide? More than happy to spill the secrets of the WB M. Yeah. White bald man. Collect that, collect that.

I can do that. Next on the show, Uber Eats is trialling something new. Proving that we are just very lazy. As lazy as ever, New Zealand. ZDM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. Uber Eats is trialling with 22 New World and Foursquare stores delivery of groceries. Don't they already do delivery?

Of groceries. Some of the supermarkets, rather? Yeah, right. Well, you can do it with New World and Foursquare. So does the Uber driver have to park up outside, put the hazards on, and then go around and get your groceries? Surely the supermarket does it,

and then it's for pick-up. So it's going to say that's going to make me wait longer for just a regular Uber if all the Uber drivers are doing your supermarket shopping. You get that phone number from that weird 09887 number and you pick it up

and you're like, hello, and they're like, hi, I'm just in the cereal aisle. They don't have the one you want. It's like, Skippy Corn Flakes again?

So that's not how it's going to happen. No. Good. So you just select the grocery option and it overrides that. But obviously a delivery fee applies. So they have a service fee for $1 for items less than $10. 10% of the order between $10 and $40. 10%?

Yeah. And then $4 for orders over $40. So it's still like, that's still pretty cheap. Because. Just go to the supermarket. Who, if you're in an Uber Eats zone,

you live. People who don't have time to go and do it. Like, I don't know. People who have lots of children. Right. People who don't want to take their kids to the supermarket. Because you can't smack them anymore.

Oh, right. Okay. Right. You can't smack them anymore. Yeah. And also they just want everything that's there. Yeah. My parents weren't afraid to give me a swift kick in the ass in the bread aisle, I'll tell

you what. Boot in the ass in the produce section. Yeah. Smack when you go past bread. Just a constant reminder that behaviour is a tantamount. Yeah. Okay. So drop it off.

All right. Ten past six, Christmas, fast approaching, 24 days away. Yeah, and a record number of Americans not getting Christmas gifts. It's like the number of which who are thinking about getting rid of gifts in their family. And this is vindication for you, isn't it? It is. I'm currently in a family stoush about the present situation.

Play ZM's Flesh, Vaughn and Megan. A survey in America has said that this year there's more Americans than ever who won't be buying Christmas gifts. They call themselves, what do they call themselves? Gift adverse individuals. Gift adverse. Gift adverse individuals. Gift adverse.

Gift adverse individuals. That's not how you describe yourself, Megan. No, what's the opposite of that? Gift. Gift verse. Gift verse. Pro. Pro gift.

Pro gift. You're pro gift. So they reckon retail spending is going to be up this year over last year, but it's coming from people with the money to spend. Right. Right, because a lot of people will be tightening the budgets because, you know, the present petrol, everything is going up with inflation.

Everything is going up. So lower income participants who answered the survey said last year they spent roughly $536 on Christmas gifts, whereas those making over $100,000 averaged a spend of $2,500 American. Right. Yeah. So there was 3% of people in 2019

that said they were gifting adverse. Yeah. And this year it was up to 11.5%. Can you imagine after you've opened your Christmas presents from the family and they're like, oh, where's mine from you? And you're like, well, I'm gifted versus I'm just tightening up.

But you've taken your gift. Yeah, it's not a tightening up thing. I proposed this year that the cousins, like my kids and their cousins, all do Secret Santa. So rather than we buy a gift for every one of my brother's three kids and every one of my sister's three kids, I was like, exactly. Bloody breeders. So I was like, why don't we just do draw out of a hat

so each cousin gets one other cousin. Everybody still gets a present. Yeah. But it's just less shit because that's my problem. It's like a $30 limit. What do you buy kids for $30? It's just like some junk that I really need. And all of these kids

are already getting enough presents. It shouldn't be about presents. Yeah, so it's a huge family argument I'm having with my brother at the moment. Who are you? Oh, your brother. He's like, don't you care about the joy

of children having presents on Christmas? I was like, they're still getting a present on Christmas. Yeah, you should have determined that. We're just not buying endless amounts of junk on Christmas. I was like, they're still getting a present on Christmas. Yeah, you shouldn't We're just not buying endless amounts of junk. Because when I was little you used to count

how many presents. Isn't that bad though? Yes, it is. You should teach him something about that. It had to be the same value and it had to be the same amount of presents.

It shouldn't be about that. I remember I had a big tandy because I think my brother got a better Christmas present than me. But was it the same value? Smack your ass quite ceremoniously on Christmas is what they should have done. I'm not raising my kids to think that's what Christmas is all about.

Didn't your mum have receipts and show the exact dollar value? And that's why my brother's like, he is. Because he thinks that was fair and just. I'm like, have you met the world? It is neither fair nor just. Yeah. We shouldn't be doing, like, how many presents do these kids need? Yeah.

Yeah. Oh, I'm with you. I'm going to give his kids those little things. You've just bought a family in Africa or a goat or something. And I'll be like, but imagine the joy on the children's faces when they see the goat. Or just buy them something really loud like horns or electric buzzers. I was thinking of sending them a spray can each full of paint.

Yes! Just written on the outside, have at. Just like Vivids. Paint Daddy's fence. Yeah. And make it like pink or green or something. Yeah, brilliant. Good idea for a present.

Just thinking of just as the chaos I can cause now. Next on the show, Australia and New Zealand have topped the world at something. ZDM's Fletch, Ron and Megan.

Well, Paki Paki New Zealand and Australia lead the top of a Gallup survey across 113 countries. Australia and New Zealand are equal first. The two countries where its citizens say they trust science the most. Doesn't feel like it sometimes, does it?

And only at 62%. 62%? Is that how much we trust? That's how much we, and we're the highest. I was assuming it must have been in the 80s, given our vaccination rates. New. Well, that certainly does come into it,

the fact that, yeah, we've had both Australia and New Zealand have had a leadership or just have had science at the forefront of everything, explaining why things are like they are. Well, like literally science has pretty much given us everything, right? The global average. Yeah, I know, right? Like you get into an accident and it's medicine and science that are saving you, right?

At the hospital. Yeah. Yeah. It's mind-blowing. 41% is the global average. Whoa. Isn't that mind-blowing? Apparently, trust in scientists had increased around the world since 2018.

It had increased. It had It had increased Prior to pandemic What had they done before that that was so untrustworthy I don't know The thing about being a scientist is that If you're proven wrong You're more than happy to admit it How would you define science Like there's an idea

And then you go out and test it, right? And you prove it. Yes. Science, the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment. So you observe it, you experiment,

and then it either works or it doesn't. Or you just look it up on Facebook. Bingo. It's a lot quicker than all those experiments and labs. Yeah, and sometimes Facebook's so much reading with the words, I'll just go straight to YouTube. The region where the Global Monitor documented the lowest levels of trust in scientists were the sub-Saharan Africa area,

down five points to only 19%. The region with the biggest jump upwards was East Asia, 33% to 49%. And Western Europe, only 59% their trust science. North America, up 10% to 54%. So it's still much like their country, very divided. Jeez. So people are just not trusting anything. Is it because of the global warming thing?

People are like, oh, scientists. Oh, there's a bit of that. I mean, there's, is that COVID? There's everybody going to find something that they don't like science telling them. It could be global warming. Yeah. For me, it's like, oh, you don't drink too much. I'm like, shut up, science.

Come here, science. Don't eat too much fried food. I love science. Why are you trying to kill my bus, science? But then, like, you use science every day, right? And then if you get sick. We all benefit all the time from scientific discovery. It's mind-blowing. I just googled

because I believed that would corroborate with vaccine rates. Oh yeah. So I looked up what are the most vaccinated places in the world. Gibraltar. That doesn't count. Because it's so small.

They've dished out 99,000 COVID vaccines and they're at 97,000 doses given and they're at 99% fully vaccinated. That's just a small town. What's the biggest country? The United Arab Emirates is at 89% vaccination. Yeah. They have given out 21 million doses. Singapore is at 88% vaccination. Yeah. They have given out 21 million doses.

Singapore is at 88% vaccinated. Portugal at 86. Northern Cyprus is at 84. Chile up there at 84. I saw that. That's good. Yeah. The Cayman Islands, again, that's a bit of a small one, isn't it?

Very small, yeah. A bit of a tax sidestep too. Cuba's doing all right, 81% vaccinated. Cambodia, 79% vaccinated. That's good. It's awesome for Cambodia. Spain, South Korea, Seychelles, Brunei. Where are we?

Where are we? Where are we? Faroe Islands, Malaysia, Japan, Qatar, Jersey. Surely us soon. Iceland, Uruguay, Denmark, Canada, Isle of Man, Jersey, Iceland, Uruguay, Denmark, Canada, Isle of Man, Ireland, Belgium, Bermuda, Italy, Bhutan, Aruba, Jamaica. Ooh, I want to take you.

That was good. I feel like they did that on purpose. This list did that on purpose. Australia, Finland, Netherlands, Mauritius, Norway, Newark, New Zealand. Yes. Are we at 70.9% fully vaccinated? We're above that now, right? We're above that, yeah. That could do with an update, actually.

Yeah, okay. Jump up. Blah, blah, blah. Blah, blah, blah, blah. This is the Top Six. Hi there. Christopher Mark Luxon, born 19th of July, 1970, is the leader of the opposition now, the leader of the National Party. He looks too much like my Uncle Paul for my liking.

What's Uncle Paul's deal? What is an Uncle Paul's deal? Is Uncle Paul a bald brother too? Yep. Yep. Okay. Is Uncle Paul a bald brother too? Yep. Yep, okay. Uncle Paul yelled at me on my eighth birthday or seventh birthday telling me to shush because I squealed when I opened a master system, a Sega master system.

Oh, that's the reaction you want. Pure joy. Yeah. Pure joy. Uncle Paul said, hey, do you know in the bottom of sleeping bags there's like a tag that says something on it? So I crawled in to know in the bottom of sleeping bags, there's like a tag that says something on it. So I crawled in to see at the bottom of the sleeping bag and he tied the top of the sleeping bag shut and then like spun it round.

Uncle Paul. Well, I hope Christopher Luxon doesn't put us in a sleeping bag and spin us around. I was little. Whose brother is Uncle Paul? My mum's. My mum's older brother. Goodness, Uncle Paul.

Uncle Paul. So he looks like... He looks too much like Uncle Paul! Okay. So he's the leader of the opposition now and he would love to be... Uncle Paul. No, not Uncle Paul. Thank God.

Christopher Luxon. You think Christopher Luxon's got some extreme views. Wait till you meet Uncle Paul. Will he let you get an abortion? I have never had the abortion chat with Uncle Paul. Okay. Or his thoughts on safe zones around abortion clinics. Right.

Okay. Probably errs on the side of Luxon, to be honest. Right. Okay. I've got the top six ways that Christopher Luxon might try to make New Zealand like Air New Zealand. Not the top six similarities between Christopher Luxon and my Uncle Paul. Uncle Paul lived at home until he was 40.

Oh, okay. He spent all his money on overseas trips. He was basically you. Yeah, but lived at home. But lived at home. God, imagine the rent savings. Well, there was a ton of rent savings. Never paid any rent.

So the top six ways Christopher Luxon might try to make New Zealand more like Air New Zealand because that's where he used to work. Yeah. Number six, he'll start every day by telling us what the weather is like where we're going. But it might change. That might be quite handy. At the moment. Yeah.

This is what's happening out there. Number five on the list of the top six ways that Christopher Luxon might try to make New Zealand more like Air New Zealand. He will also, everything you do will start with a cheery but all too long safety video on how to do it. Yeah. Imagine that. You get to work, it's like

just a reminder, you work at a plumbing store. Yeah. And here's a drawed out Sir Peter Jackson video on what it's like to work at a plumbing store. Number four on the list of the top six ways that Christopher Lux and Mike try to make New Zealand more like Air New Zealand. Everyone has to wear teal or purple.

And if you speak more than one language, you have to wear a little flag that tells everybody. Oh, I like that. I'm like, oh, you speak Spanish too. Hola. Yeah. What did you think the little flags were for? I just liked the little... Where they're from.

I just love Japan. Yeah, I thought they just decided to wear them. Did you not think it was weird that not everyone had a flag on their badge? They just chose not to wear a flag. I just thought that they... You just thought they didn't like any other country? It was preference. I like this one.

Okay. Lucky you didn't wear that. You'd be like, I'll have a... What do I like? What's a pretty flag? Yeah. I'll have a French flag. And then someone jumps on, bonjour, monsieur, and you're like, croissant. No, no croissant on this flight.

Number three on the list of the top six ways Christopher Luxor might try to make Air New Zealand more like Air New Zealand. He'll try to bribe us with some average hard lollies to fly again. Oh, yeah. Because let's face it, that's why they give you the lollies. Yeah. Because you suck it on them on the way in. They're not that great. You never say yes to the lollies.

Nah. Old Smithy over here never does say Air New Zealand lollies. They're just not, like, not my jam for a lolly. Number two on the list of the top six ways Christopher Luxor might try to make New Zealand more like Air New Zealand. Charge you $25 to own more than one bag. Everyone gets one bag and one backpack. And then if you own any more baggage, you have to pay $25.

Might raise some tax money, though. Get some bridges and roads built. I'd just get rid of my bags. No, I'm not paying $25 for the privilege of having a bag. And number one on the list of the top six ways that Christopher Lux and Mike Trotter made New Zealand more like Air New Zealand make cassava chips the only option.

Oh, imagine you went down the supermarket aisle and it's just cassava chips. He'd be down the gurgler quicker than Judith Collins if he got rid of our sweet potato based anything flavoured chip. That is today's top six. Play ZM's Flesh, Vaughan and Megan.

75% of people in the new year are considering leaving their job. The great resignation. Is this New Zealand or a worldwide thing? It was done by a job website called CV Library. Okay. Maybe America? Yeah. And they are either considering leaving their jobs because of pay

or because they want to retrain and do something completely different. Most people are, I mean people are already starting to resign. Well yeah, the great resignation it's called, isn't it? Yeah, they reckon in the new year people are like, okay, new year, new me, doing it. But does it say are they getting a job first before they leave their job?

Because this thing where people just quit their jobs. I don't know how any, I've never been in a position in my life to do that. Like, you know, because you've got to pay rent. You've got to like pay your bills. Yeah. Like that's quite scary to me. I You've got to, like, pay your bills. Yeah. Like, that's quite scary to me. I'd rather have a job before I left the job. Well, yeah, and I guess a lot of people retraining

so you can get money from the government to do that. Yeah, right. Yeah. I mean, I always thought in my life I'd do multiple different things, but then you get in the workforce and you're right. You're like, I don't want to leave. Well, you're too lazy. And like completely retrain

and do something else. But yeah, apparently a lot of people in the new year are planning on doing that. Good on them, you know. What would you do if you get to retrain? Okay, you've got to retrain and do another job. What is it? Orchard. You'd run an orchard.

Work in horticulture. Right. Because I'd just drive my little tractor around an orchard I'd work in horticulture Right Because I'd just drive my little tractor around all day I'd do some chores I'd do some cutting I'd probably have a chainsaw For chainsaw tasks Okay I could go and have like a little siesta

Under a plum tree Okay you I'd be in charge of pest control You know that they work really hard Totally Yeah, totally But that's what I do Because just what you said

Doesn't correlate to what they do Well, yeah But you're driving a tractor with a purpose I'm not just putting around A little orange But you just said you had a siesta Yeah, but I'm You're taking this very hard

That's how I spend my lunch hour Right I'm allowed to have a lunch hour I'm having a siesta Right, okay Under a tree. Yeah, that would be me. And it would be in the middle of nowhere as well.

Yay, hooray, no people. No people. ZM's Fleshworn and Megan. Play ZM. Doja Cat. If you're not familiar with Doja Cat, sing songs. It gets played on the radio. Thanks for that. You're most welcome

Didn't she used to do weird stuff, Carwin? Carwin, you told me about Doja Cat Weird things She used to do videos Was it OnlyFans? I'm not sure if it was OnlyFans Oh, we can't hear you Videos on the internet

What's that? Like meme videos Yeah, she's got a song called Meme. She's got a song called Moo or something, and it's about like, moo, that's the sound a cow makes. Oh, right. Really weird. Right, okay.

Weird stuff. So anyway, she was sat down for one of those quickfire questions, 21 questions with MTV News, and they asked her, has she ever had... Plugging in my... 21 questions with MTV News, and they asked her, has she ever had... Plugging in my... The magic of radio absolutely ruined when people can hear you plug in your ox call. Has she ever had a cartoon crush?

Absolutely. Oh, my God, are you kidding me? I have, like, 30 or something. Hopper from Bugs Life. He does things to me. Hopper from Bugs Life was... What? to me. Hopper from Bugs Life was the bad grasshopper. The real ripped one. From the Bugs Life who was.

He had like a good body. He was just this big husky dude voiced by Kevin Spacey. Oh. Problem. Okay. Yeah. I don't know if I'd be finding that attractive. Nah.

It's not even an animated. It's not even an animated human's not even an animated human. I don't get cartoon crushes. Like, they're not real. But what about Jasmine? That's the way

they hold themselves. Okay, who's yours then? Who was the brainy Ninja Turtle? Donatello. Yeah. Yeah,

Donatello. What are we talking like original Ninja Turtles? Yeah. Okay. The one that was really smart because I like the way he used his words. He was all, and they're muscly. Those Ninja Turtles? Yeah. Okay. The one that was really smart because I like the way he used his words.

And they're muscly. Those Ninja Turtles are muscly. Ninja Turtles? Those Ninja. I said it. It was a mistake. Those Ninja Turtles were jacked. I imagine there would have been some like.

So he was jacked and smart. Yeah. Good Lord. And he could eat whatever he wanted and remain jacked. He ate a lot of pizza. You try living on nothing but pizza. Oh, my God, I love pizza. Living in a sewer.

You'd be very sick. You'd be somewhat smelly. Are you talking characters that are not human? Like what about Aladdin? Aladdin and his lack of nipples. Absolute awakening. Does Aladdin not have nipples? No nipples for Aladdin.

If Aladdin had had nipples, that would have been absolutely problematic because it was a sexual awakening enough as it was. Yeah. Yeah, in the 1992 version, why doesn't Aladdin have nipples?

Yeah. I've seen people try to add, like animators have tried to add nipples to it, but it's too much. The nipples become the whole thing. It's like cats in the buttholes. Is it too much? No butts

on the cats. His hair just falls perfectly with that little... You know why? He probably had giant areoles and so they've actually removed them. You think he had a Jonas Brothers situation? Well, maybe he had... Giant dinner plates. Like your nips, they're semi under his armpits.

Because he's wearing the vest the whole time, the vest covers the nips. The vest covers them. My nips are very small and to the side. Yeah, if you wore a vest, it probably would cover your nips. Yeah, it probably would, actually. Well, here comes the question. Who is your cartoon crush? That's what we want to know this morning.

If you've ever had a, Megan, yours is a Ninja Turtle. Yeah. I don't have a cartoon crush. The brainy Ninja Turtle. I feel like I'm the left out one. What's that? No, I don't. Our cartoon crush. I don't.

There's never been a cartoon that you're like, yeah, that's hot. No, my mind says that's a drawing, an animation. I don't, you know, like. But they have a personality. Whereas, don't you get, I'm looking at Hopper from Bugs Life and I'm like, okay, this is weird. Yeah, I don't get that. That's not a human or... They've personified a grasshopper, though.

Give her some credit. He looks like a boss. I mean, way to tell us all you've got daddy grasshopper issues, Doja Cat. Yeah. You're really all out of the bag there. All right, well, we really are asking you to open up this morning. 0800-DARLS-AT-M.

You can text as well, 9696. Who is your cat? Who is or was? Yeah, because maybe you've grown out of it. Growing up, you had a cartoon crush. Your cartoon crush. Who did it for you? Okay, you can anonymously text as well, 9696.

We're talking about your animated crushes. Doja Cat's got, like, I can understand it, but I'm struggling with hers. It's the bad grasshopper from the movie Bugs Life. Just does things. What is his name? Hopper.

Yeah, Hopper. Big, bad, like, locusty grasshoppery thing. They made him look jacked, though. Yeah. So we want to know from you if you've ever had an animated crush, whether it was in your formative teenage years or even now as an adult. You're like, you know what? Yep.

Yep. Some texts. When I was younger, I was in love with Bart Simpson. When it was my 10th birthday, I was happy because I was the same age as Bart Simpson and I thought we could probably date. That's pretty cute Someone said There were signs That I may have been

A man who would grow To enjoy the company Of other men Okay And then when I first saw Captain Planet I knew It was meant to be

With the green or blue hair The mullet And the But he was wearing like The jocks The whole thing Was very like He was powerful He fixed things and the but he was wearing like the jocks, the whole thing was very like, he was powerful he fixed things. Do we think he

was a homosexual? Was Captain Planet gay? What do you mean was? There'll be some theories. He's not around anymore. Maybe they should redo. Was Captain Planet black? I'd never really thought about his race. He was the planet, wasn't he?

Yeah. Was Captain Planet gay? Question mark. Has the internet asked that previously? Well, in 2017, Captain Planet came out in favour of same-sex marriage. Oh, did he? Reminding Australians to vote yes on gay marriage. But that doesn't mean he's gay now. I love that that's what Australians needed,

is Captain Planet coming back down to Earth to say maybe this is a great idea. The whole place is on fire. Global warming's happening. He's like, guys, it's me, Captain Planet coming back down to Earth to say maybe this is a great idea, guys. The whole place is on fire. Global warming's happening. He's like, guys. It's me, Captain Planet. Yeah.

Please put out the fires. Not yet. Shush. Vote yes on gay marriage. Andrew, good morning. What was your teenage animation crush? Do you guys remember the OG Teen Titans from like the 2000s? Yeah.

Teen Titans, yeah. Yeah. Starfire. Mine was Starfire, yeah. Starfire. Red Jewel, like the dirty little book you are. What did Starfire do? Is Starfire the pink haired?

She was... Red hair. And to this day, I still have a single woman with red hair. All because of Starfire. Uh-huh. I hope you meet an woman with red hair. All because of Starfire. Uh-huh. I hope you meet an alien with superpowers too, with red hair, because then that's all the Starfire. Andrew, thanks for your call.

Anonymous, who was your animation crush? Hello. You remember Avatar, the last airbender? Yeah. Yeah, so Prince Zuko. He was the bad guy that came good. Exactly. So only in the later season when he grew his hair out and started to be good.

Yeah, when he had the burn and everything. Oh, he does look very mysterious, doesn't he? Yeah, very. His father gave him that burn. Oh, did he? And then the bad guy go good guy. Yeah, bad guy go good. Helps out, teaches him the firebending.

Yeah, that was a hot play from Zuko. Good change of teams. It was. It was. Do you two need a moment? Anonymous, thank you. Dom, what was your cartoon crush? Kim Possible.

A lot of messages. A lot of them say Kim Possible. Yeah. What was it about Kim that you fancied? A lot of messages She's saying Kim Possible Um Yeah What was it about Kim that you You fancied Just the fact that she Fights crime

And she was hot Yeah So you do like a vigilante Dom Is that kind of the big The big one there And the red hair Another red head Another red head

Red head Yeah Okay Crop top Speaking of red hair Daphne off Scooby Doo A lot redhead, Daphne of Scooby-Doo. A lot of people saying Daphne of Scooby-Doo, but then also hearing from Velma fans, somebody said Velma from Scooby-Doo just hits different.

She's become quite the sex symbol, hasn't she? Yeah, right. Yeah, Dom, thanks. In the real Scooby-Doo movie, Velma was played by, she was on the, this is terrible. She was on the show with Christina Applegate where the husband dies. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And she's Hawkeye's wife in the MCU. Linda Cardinelli.

Linda Cardinelli, yeah. She played Velma. Did not disappoint. Yeah. A young teenage Vaughn Smith. Did not disappoint. Jessica Rabbit from Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Yeah did not. I did not disappoint. Jessica Rabbit from Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

Yeah, that's quite a popular one. Kim Possible. Quite a few Kim Possibles. Grown Up Simba. Oh, yeah. Made them feel funny. Like Simba was like cute. I love that, yeah,

when he comes back. They do the montage. No, when he goes from Baby Simba to like Grown Up Simba, you're like, okay. You would. Absolutely right up your alley, you perv. Somebody said, it's a liar.

Toothless. Toothless from How to Train Your Dragon. Toothless is cute. Yeah, but they said, I don't know what. The first time I saw it, I was like, oh, he's cool. But then when I watched it again when I was a little bit older, something funny happened. I really wanted to take him for a ride.

Maybe it's a gap tooth. No, there's no tooth. He's toothless, not gap tooth. I thought he had like a couple on the side. Dark and mysterious. No, he's gummy. He's very gummy. Oh, is he gummy?

Yeah, see? Super gummy. Oh, yeah. Oh, somebody said gummy. He's very gummy. Yeah, see? Super gummy. Oh, yeah. Oh, somebody said, speaking of the Lion King, what about Scar from the Lion King? It was the deep, smooth, rich, velvety voice of Jeremy Irons and he was such a bad boy. He killed the king. I think that's more Jeremy

Irons' voice. Yeah. Yeah. More Compossibles, Ned Flanders from The Simpsons. When that episode where he rips his shirt off. Yeah, he's really ripped. Yeah, I had funny tingling. I had funny tingling. Yeah, right.

Gaston from Beauty and the Beast. I know he was supposed to be the bad guy, but he had big daddy energy. And just other BDE. Gaston must have been packing because he walked around with a lot of confidence. Yeah. That or it was overcompensating. Yeah. Totally.

Somebody said, when I was younger, I always played as Peach in Mario Kart from the Nintendo world of Mario. And someone's like, why do you always race as Peach? And I was like,

leave me alone. And then everyone worked out that it was because I had a little crush on Peach. Mrs. Incredible from The Incredibles. Holly Hunter's voice teamed up with Mrs. Incredible's animated body. Did it for them. Oh, somebody else just said Elastigirl.

Yeah, that's Mrs. Incredible's secret name. And there's another one. Yeah, Mrs. Incredible. There's the Incredible fans coming through. Okay. Yeah, somebody said Dexter's mom from Dexter's Laboratory. You never really saw her face. Don't know why that was so hot, but it was.

Hey, each to their own. Yeah. No judge here. I'm loving this. I'm loving this. Don't show me your face. Yeah. Somebody said, what about when

Bugs Bunny dressed up as a woman rabbit? Hey, each for their own. Yeah. I don't know. I'm not here to judge you. No, I know. Absolutely. Amazing. You do you. Some incredible messages coming through. Do you feel left out? Yeah. Am I the

only one that's not like tingling for some cartoon? ZDM's Fletchborn and Megan. Survey's been done asking people what they hate the most about Christmas. Just to get into the Christmas spirit. What do you think it is? Expectation? Music, no.

The Christmas songs. No, it's not Christmas. I'm talking about the actual, you know, going. The Christmas songs. No, it's not Christmas songs. I'm talking about the actual going about Christmas. Okay. The day. The day of Christmas. And leading up to. Expectations.

No. Like spending money. No. The colour red. It's not for everybody. No. I wouldn't pull off a red T-shirt. The chore of wrapping Christmas gifts.

Oh. Tops the list. Farm it out. Tops the list of things Americans hate the most about the holiday season. That's it. I'm starting a business. The thing they hate more is Secret Santa, which is what I agree with. Because that's, you get lumped with a Secret Santa at work.

You know nothing about them. And you've got to find a gift this is my current predicament but what was your excuse last year because I don't know it was literally a friend of yours and yeah yeah so um they delved into the the the gift wrapping and the things that people find hardest to gift wrap. 52% of Americans believe wrapping gifts is the worst part of the holiday season. Candles at 22% of the hardest gifts to wrap. But then, like I think of a coin. They're in a box. They're in a box.

That's the easiest thing to wrap. Guitars, 45%. Hard to wrap a guitar. Are they not in a box already, though? Do you not get a guitar? No, but even a guitar box is a weird shit. My Christmas hack is put everything in a box. Sporting balls, next on the list. Put it in a box.

Put it in a box. Gym equipment, 46%. How do you wrap a kettlebell? Well, the thing is, a lot of, like, if you've done online shopping, a lot of them come in boxes. Just leave it. Take all the packaging info off it and leave it in the box it came in. Leave the shipping thing on there so they know how much you spent.

Yeah. Maybe Photoshop it to make it look like a costume more and pop it it in the box. No, no, no. Leave the shipping thing on there so they know how much you spent. Maybe even Photoshop it to make it look like it cost you more and pop it back in that box. The hardest gifts to wrap, bicycles. Oh, yeah. But again, they come in. They can come in a box. But then it's not assembled. You want it assembled so that little Timmy can ride around the

backyard. But then maybe you assemble the bike and then you like wrap a box but leave one side open and then you just put it over the bike and then you like wrap a box but leave one side open and then you just put it over the bike. Yeah, okay. Yes. That's a good idea. But then that's a big handlebars.

You've got to get a massive box. Oh, you'd have to get a fridge box. Yeah. Yeah. You've got a lot more choice for a big box these days than you did back when I was a kid. Kids, you had to go to the local whiteware store and get a fridge box when you wanted to do your science fair.

Yeah. And everyone was after a box for their science fair. Also noting in the survey, nearly 9 in 10 admit re-gifting items to a Secret Santa. Absolutely. For Secret Santa, it's perfect. It's the perfect place for a re-gift. Absolutely.

Don't feel bad about re-gifting on a secret Santa. Yeah, but just use the mall wrapper. Nah, the lines are always long. If you can get in there with no line. Are you going to use a mall wrapper or are you going to do it? No, I'm going to be a mall wrapper. Set up your own. Yeah, it's a dream come true.

How much do they charge? No, it's free. No, isn't it a donation to a charity? Oh, yeah. Like a dollar or something? Right. Yeah. All right, next on the show, Vaughan,

your wife received a call from the police this morning. Mm-hmm. At quarter past five in the morning. Correct. Mum, mum, mum, mum. Someone's in trouble, aren't they? Someone is. It's not me.

Oh, it's you. Oh, no, I would ask for proof. ZDM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. I was nearly at work. I was actually just pulling in. And my wife text messaged me saying, well, well, well. And I said, oh, my God. This is far too early for her to be awake.

What's she doing awake? Yep. And I said, what's happening? And she said, I've just received a call from the police. And I said, shit, what's happened? And she said, are you the owner of a car with the number plate? And it's our number plate. Yeah, on the Honda.

He said that you were driving very erratically down the motorway. And I said, I beg your pardon. And she said, yeah, I told him that it wasn't me. It was you. And he's going to give you a call. And I said, who reported this erratic driving? And she said he didn't say it, but it sounds like he saw you. Because it's very quick.

Like, it sounds like he, so was he off duty? Perhaps. And what, like, radio's HQ and says, can I have the number of this? Why does he care so much? Also, how badly were you driving? It must have been pretty bad for him to care. There was one part of the drive I can remember. I was driving and there was a ute.

So I always go middle lane. I'm a middle lane guy. So you've got a buffer of lane either side? There's a lane either side. But then if people want to go past me, they can go past me. If I want to go past people, I can go past people. And then I can pass people that are in the slow lane. I'm a middle lane guy.

Okay, yeah, right. I stick predominantly to the middle lane. That makes sense. Because it's also the daydreaming lane. Because if you're in the fast lane. I'm always in the fast lane. And I go past Bourne and he's got no idea what's going on. I'm always waving and he's like vacant.

It's autopilot. Engage autopilot. Yeah, yeah. And I'm thinking waving and he's like. It's autopilot. Vacant. Engage autopilot. Yeah, yeah. And I'm thinking or listening to a podcast or whatever. But it's middle lane, daydreaming lane. Yeah. I get home. I'm safe, but how did I get home?

I don't remember any of the drive. Jesus. Now, there was one stage where this morning I'm in the middle lane. Yep. And a ute pulls in front of me to pass a ute going. This is a whole ute situation. Okay. There's a ute in the slow lane. He's going slow enough that the other ute pulls in front of me to pass a ute going. This is a whole ute situation. There's a ute in the slow lane. He's going slow enough that the other ute's like,

I need to pass him. So I need to get into the middle lane. And so he pulls in in front of me. And then we're both driving. And there's also a car in the fast lane that's going the same speed as the ute in the middle lane. But they're slowly getting past the guy in the slow lane. And then I'm like, well, I need to get past this ute in the middle lane.

So I pull into the fast lane and there's just a little bit of like a row of utes. I'm like, where's my gap? Where's my gap? Did you indicate? Of course. Okay. Probably a couple of clicks and then. Probably.

I probably indicated. But then when I got past, I got back into the middle lane because that's my lane. Yeah. And the guy in the middle lane that I passed took umbrage with the fact that I passed him and then got back into his lane. Well, it sounds like he was an undercover or an off-duty policeman in a ute. And then he, if it was him, he needs to ring himself and have a word about his driving because he punched it right up my bum hole and then got into the slow lane and overtook me in the slow lane.

Oh, weird. He undertook me. And then, like, you know, we're on the northwest and we're in those 100 to 80 just around by the zoo there. He was motoring. Oh, no, it wouldn't have been him. It can't have been him. It can't have been him.

That's going way too fast. Can't have been him. And then that's the only part of the drive I can remember. Okay, wow. Well, that doesn't rhyme. I mean, there's so many times I've followed you on the motorway and you use the lane as a guide, shall we say. So maybe you should focus more.

Focus? Okay, gotcha, gotcha. Yeah. Is this speed? Yeah, right. No, you don't need speed. Sometimes you're going way too slow. Yeah, because you know when you're young and you're like,

why is Dad driving so slow? But now I am the Dad driving so slow. I'm just like, don't you do. You're just like an annoying 94 on 100. Yeah. Yeah. But I'm in the middle lane, so go around me. Play ZM's Flesh, Vaughan and Megan.

Joined on the phone by the Prime Minister of New Zealand, Aotearoa, Jacinda Ardern. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. We were just talking about the Dewey Decimal System. We were. We were having an argument because you thought that I was a Liberian at school and there is nothing

wrong with being a Liberian at school. I just wasn't one. You were too busy. And then Vaughan said to the Prime Minister of New Zealand, whatever, nerd. Wow. Woo! Yeah, once from Warren's, always from Warren's. What's the vibe check on the nation?

I think there's a lot of anticipation for summer and Christmas and a break for everyone, I think. That's my vibe check. Right. You think it's going to happen and we're on track? Yes, yeah, right. You think it's going to happen and we're on track? Yes, yeah, absolutely. In fact, doing really, really well. Even our public health team, you know,

talking about their cautious optimism about, you know, how we're tracking at the moment. So, no, yeah, no, we're all on track. So, all on track for the new system come Friday. So, I hope everyone's got their vaccine passes ready. And then for Auckland, the boundary opening as well, a couple of weeks after that. What about Omicron?

Yeah. Has that spanned any works? No, look, our whole system has been built around the potential of variants because remember, Delta's a variant. We had Alpha before that. So we've been dealing with it all the way through. A virus's main aim is to spread more quickly

so it adapts and keeps changing. It's going to be a couple of weeks before we know the three things that we're most interested in. Does it infect more people? Is it more severe or is it milder? And it may yet be. And how does it interact with vaccines? So some of that research will take a little longer,

but the vaccine question we should know in a couple of weeks. But till then, we've still got all our border controls, remember. So everyone's still coming through our quarantine facilities. And for those countries that have more Omicron, we've said only citizens are able to come in, just really trimming down the number of people who are able to come in into our quarantine. Right.

Is there any worry as we get closer to the Auckland border opening, closer to Christmas, that people that are anti-vax or that need a test to travel are going to clog up the system and that's going to affect people wanting to leave and people that are vaccinated but want their test results because maybe they're infected. Yeah, so look, a good question. And so what we're working on, you'll know that from the 1st of December

and then again from the 15th of December, we're expanding new testing methods that don't use our labs. So there's a test called a rapid antigen test. It's not quite as, we haven't used them today because they're not quite as good as the ones that we have been using. But they do the job. And so we're expanding the use of those. That'll take some test pressure out of our lab system. And also increasing our lab capacity right up at Christmas as well.

So we've got a bit of a pain to manage that. Right. Do you think that someone that's anti-vax should pay for their test? If it's for travel? Yeah. So look, one of the things that we have to weigh up, though, is that we haven't had people pay for tests because we don't want there to be any barrier for someone who's got symptoms from getting a test.

And also, you know, if we're asking people to get tested, you know, given we've already got one kind of test free, if you then charge for the other one, then it creates an incentive to go and get the free one. So we've got to weigh all of that up. Look, for this immediate period, we want to make it as simple as possible for people to follow

the rules because they keep us all safe. Right. Fair enough. What about, not COVID related because, I don't know, I'm a bit exhausted. I understand. COVID exhaustion is a thing. I think it's actually a thing. What about your wedding plans?

What's happening? You'd have to ask Clark. He's in charge. I do really think I'm probably the least engaged bride. You'll get the invitation and the time to turn up. Yeah. I know the big stuff, but he's really doing a lot. Is he moving a marquee in on the back of a truck?

You know what? Not that far off. Oh, a little insight into the wedding. Okay. Well, no, just that it's going to be pretty low-key. Do you have plans for a summer holiday? Yeah, yeah, I do. I mean, you know, just go somewhere and sit and do nothing,

as much as you can call that a plan. Of course, as you imagine, over this period, we will have ministers who are on call, so I'll do a, I'll do, and I'm, of course, Prime Minister the whole time, so I'm always on call, but there will be a period if anything comes up, then you'll be seeing me. Right, somebody messages in on Christmas holidays, if I drive up north to visit family in Paihia and I'm blocked,

say, by the locals from getting in, what can I do? So, look, happy to clarify this. People have the legal right to move and will be able to do so. What's being talked about at the moment is just compliance checks with the rules that you need to follow before you go north. So as an Aucklander, of course, you either need to be double vaccinated or you need to have the negative test in the 72 hours before you travel. So we've said it's up to the police around checking that. They can decide how they're going to do that. They've always said that they're going to work with the local community

to work through how they'll do that. So it's not that you can be stopped from being able to travel if you've done those things. It's just around checking that people have done what they need to do. Okay, and finally, thoughts on Christopher Luxon. Were you upset to see Judith go? It's not something I've spent a lot of

time thinking about. Pandemics really do dominate a lot of thinking and time. But look, it means that this is someone new then in the house next week but I'm pretty much focused on doing my job they're all focused on doing

theirs, but yeah That was very good That's all I've got on it Give us something to tell the hero Come on, give me a little something Give me a You've said it and I'm in the interview so it probably will be attributed to me. Come on, nerd!

You know it. Come on, librarian nerd, give me something. Who's me? Who's the Prime Minister? The Prime Minister abused by DJ Ho. The Prime Minister denies being librarian. We'll get something out of this. Hey, thank you so much.

Yeah, thank you so much. Thanks, guys. ZM's Flesh Warner Megan. Play. ZM. We've received a message in. Somebody needs some help, and we thought, hey, let's put it to the people. Maybe we'll have definitely dealt with this scenario before. Okay, I've been in this situation.

I may have been in this situation, too. I can't remember what the situation is, so I'm really looking forward to seeing if I've been in this situation I may have been in this situation too I can't remember what the situation is So I'm really looking forward to seeing if I've been in this situation Probably not Please, enlighten me Like you're driving Was I here? Like you're driving, which you received a call from the police about this morning

You don't pay attention I think it's nice that the police are ringing people to say well done on the great driving It encourages me to drive even better next time. How about some positive reinforcement? The TV show that you're on too, have you been paying attention? Right. No, is the answer, just constantly. Not yet.

Right. So the message that we got. Hi, guys. Orky's sitch. How do I hang out with my friend without his partner? It's so awkward. I love my mate. We've been friends for so long, but lately

whenever I arrange a hangout, his girlfriend comes too. I can't even play the girl slash lads day card help from Sarah. Yeah, I've been in this situation. Because that's the thing, you're friends with your friend and then they get a partner

and maybe, I don't know, they're not going to be around forever or they are. You just want to're friends with your friend, and then they get a partner, and maybe, I don't know, they're not going to be around forever, or they are, and you just want to catch up with your friend. Just cut them loose. If you want more friends, you'll be able to find more friends. You were saying get rid of the friend. Get rid of everybody. No, but you don't want to get rid of the friend.

Get rid of everybody. You've probably got other friends. Yeah, I don't know. How long have they been with the girlfriend? How many humans do you need? Because if they've been with them for a long time, you kind of probably need to get on board, right? Everyone's got that friend, right? You're like, why are you with

them? And then they bring them and you're like, why are they here? I don't have enough friends to have a friend. I don't have enough friends that I've got a friend that I don't like their partner. Yeah, but then you can't say to your friend,

hey, don't bring your girlfriend or your boyfriend because that's rude to the friend because they obviously like them because they're with them. Yeah. We need like a really polite phrase that we can say. You could say if it was a girl, another girl, you could say, let's have a girl's day. Yeah.

And then the boyfriend wouldn't come. But that's not going to help Sarah unless you just say. Well, yeah, if her friend's the guy. You found out that you both liked something that their partner hated. So they'd be like, I'm going to, for example, I'm going to play Dungeons and Dragons with so-and-so. And the girlfriend's like, I'm going to, for example, I'm going to play Dungeons and Dragons with so-and-so. And the girlfriend's like, I'm out. Yeah, but then you run the risk.

We don't have to play Dungeons and Dragons. Yeah, but you run the risk they'll break up with you because you're playing Dungeons and Dragons. Right, yeah, but then that's a win-win for the friend because they get their friend back without the partner. Yeah, true. Could you just, like, message the friend and be like, hey, I just want to hang out with you? Is that unreasonable? Okay, well, so let's take some calls.

0800DilesAtAm9696 What's a good way about going about this? Have you been in this situation? You want to hang out with your friend that you've been friends with for ages without the partner. How do you, or like, what do you say? Does anyone have a good line or way to make this work? Or do you just

have to have a chat with your friend and say, look. But then the friend's going to be like, why don't you like her? Yeah. No. So we've had a message in from someone. They want to hang out with their friend without their partner. So this is from, oh, should I have said her name? This is the greatest ploy ever.

Yeah. Yeah, maybe this is the plan. So it's a friend that wants to catch up with her friend, but not the friend's partner. They don't want them there. It's hard. Give them a name. So Sarah wants to catch up with her friend, Tracy.

Janelle. Sarah's the real name. I don't know the other names of the other people. I think people are getting focused a lot on the fact that Sarah is a girl and her best friend is a guy and his partner is a girl. So people are blaming the girlfriend. There's no romantic nothings here. People are blaming the girlfriend and saying that she's really jealous.

Right. I think that she, I don't know, I imagine she just wants to hang out with this. Yeah, I'm not even thinking about that. I'm not thinking there's any kind of romantic involvement. I'm just thinking of when I've been in this situation. You just want to hang out with this? Yeah, I'm not even thinking about that. I'm not thinking there's any kind of romantic involvement. I'm just thinking of when I've been in this situation. You just want to hang out with your friend. Yeah. You don't want to have another whole thing going on there that you're not...

You know what it's like, Vaughn. No. It's not even necessarily because you don't like them. It's just you want to have, like, bestie time. Yeah, exactly. Just the two of you exactly Just the two of you Just the two of us What will you do though

If your If your wife wants to go see her friend And you don't want to go I'll just say I'm busy Okay And she'll say Do you know when I come And I'll be like

You've absolutely seen through my ploy No I don't I don't like I don't like going No I'm not a huge fan of leaving my house Okay Bethany What do you think

What's the What's the best way to deal with this? Hi, how's it going? Good, good. Bethany, I just need to check your last name's not Frankel. No, no, it's not. This is a podcast I listen to. This woman comes on, she's like, I'm Bethany Frankel.

Oh, yeah, I hate that. And now the name Bethany's been ruined for me by Bethany. Bethany Frankel. Bethany Frankel. Who is she? She's a real housewife. Oh, she's so annoying. Oh, my God, that's why. That's why I hate her. It's me, Bethany, but I hate her. Bethany Frankel. Bethany Frankel. Who is she? She's a real housewife. Oh, she's so annoying. Oh my god, that's why. That's why I hate her. It's me,

Bethany Frankel. Yeah, I'm always like, skip, skip, skip the podcast. No, we don't. Anyway, Bethany, not Frankel. What should she do to hang out with her friend and not the partner? Yeah, well, I've actually been in a situation previously, so

where my partner's had a girl best friend and she's just turned around to him and said, you know, do you mind if it's just us and we just hang out? And then he's come to me and asked me about it and I'm like, yeah, that's fine. I'm just, I'll say, maybe just be honest and hope for the best. It's hard, though. You can't really be honest and say,

I think your boyfriend or girlfriend is so boring and they add nothing to our conversations. You don't have to say that. Me and his best friend actually got along really well. It was just that she just wanted some time alone with him

and just hang out. Yeah. Which was, yeah. Okay, all right. Bethany, thank you. Tyler, what do you think she should do in this situation?

Oh, this is a good question. I feel like you should just like tell them, oh, I do you think she should do in this situation? Oh, this is a good question. I feel like you should just, like, tell them, oh, I'm going to hang out with this person. And then if that's, like, I don't know, not going to work, then maybe you can be like, oh, we can have lunch together all together after. You kind of have to take the L's with the W's. Oh, yeah, I like that.

So you could all meet up later. Yeah. Yeah, like, do your thing. I'd be like, oh, I think they just kind of need to hang out with me. Maybe they want to like talk and just hang out. And then you can try and include them later on. Okay, no, good idea. All right, Tyler, thank you.

Siobhan, what do you think? Hi, yeah, I had this problem with my sister for years. Right. So my sister wouldn't go anywhere without her partner. And then her partner had knee surgery. Right. So I invited her out for a long walk, which was something her partner couldn't do.

Oh, good. So you'll say find their weakness and exploit it. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. And then it ended up raining, and I knew it was going to rain, so we went shopping instead. You're a genius. I love, very conniving, I love that.

So it could be like if the partner wants to come, you're like, oh, but they're colour blind. You could be like, well, actually, we're going to go fly fighter jets and join the Air Force. Yeah. Or we're going to start snipping wires, cut the red one, that sort of thing. Yeah.

Okay, if they're allergic to bees, you're going to do an amateur apiarist course. Yeah, I love this. Siobhan, thank you for your call. Oh, my partner's allergic to peanut butter. Oh, what a shame. We're going to have a satay bath. Or we're going to tour the Peck's Peanut Butter Factory. Yes.

Yes. And tasting is mandatory. Yes. I don't want your boyfriend to die. It's just best to be us. Yeah. Yeah. That's a hot plane.

Some messages in on how to deal with this. Not a lot of solutions, just a lot of judgment happening on the text machine. And who's the judgment for? It's for the girlfriend, right? Yeah, it's for the girlfriend. Which had nothing to do with this, really. But Sarah doesn't like her. No.

It doesn't say that Sarah doesn't like her. It. So that's we, we. It doesn't say that Sarah doesn't like her. It says that Sarah wants to hang out with her friend. Read between the lines. No, it's not the same thing. Sarah doesn't like her. It's not the same thing.

Somebody just said I wouldn't let my partner go and hang out with this girl, friend of his that didn't want me around. Why doesn't she want me around? They've been friends for ages.

They just want some bestie time You're probably a bit annoying Crazier than me You just aren't fun Maybe you should take a look at yourself Oh my god Somebody else said That

No someone said boys night But you've missed It's Sarah Best friend's a guy Somebody said you've missed, again, you've missed. It's Sarah. Yeah. You know, best friend's a guy. Somebody said, yeah, you've got to fall back on, like, what made you friends in the first place and find something that the girlfriend has no interest in. Yeah.

Yeah. And you can do that without them. ZDM's Fletch, Ron and Megan. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Yeah. Today's fact of the day is about reducing your blood pressure and relaxing. Bless her. Bless her. Bless her and relaxing.

And relaxing. Okay. People were studied by the University of Alabama. They watched a 15-minute video of a crackling fireplace, complete with sound, and their systolic blood pressure dropped by six points, and their diastolic blood pressure dropped by three on average. Okay.

So this was done during the daylight hours. They knew it was a fake fire. Yeah. It had the sound, and so they're saying at nighttime, when you know the fire is real, it may even lower your blood pressure even more. Also, these people did it by themselves. If they were cuddled up, having a smooch or bonding with some buddies around a fire, it

would be even better for them. Okay. Yeah. So, I mean, that's great for the Northern Hemisphere, which is going into winter, and they can have like a... Yeah, crackling fire. It's so nice, isn't it? Oh, yeah, isn't it good?

Isn't it good? But we can have a safe fire, unless you're in an area with a fire ban and there's no open fires, in which case, if you wanted to chill out, you could put it on the TV. You can watch the YouTube videos of a crackling fire on TV. Is that lower blood pressure in turn nullified by the air pollution that you're breathing in and you're sitting? From the open fire?

Yeah. Perhaps. Perhaps. So, Dr. Lin. Lin. The Lin balls? No, no, no, Lin, no. I love those. Christopher Lynn, PhD

said that humans may have evolved to find fire relaxing because people could find ways to manage stress, live longer and reproduce more. Oh, okay. Right. Yeah, and so if you had a fire, you would keep warm you could cook food on it, you could help your family stay warm so you'd be a little

less stressed about, you know, that survival instinct the entire time. So today's fact of the day is if you want to relax, light a fire. Not one that's going to burn down native bush or whatever, like a nice relaxing fireplace crackly fire. Or watch one on YouTube. Or watch one on YouTube.

Much more environmentally friendly and also at this time of the year, it's too hot to light the fire. Yeah, it is. It's just damn too damn hot. That is today's... Fact of the day, day, Vaughan and Megan. Wow, we're joined on Zoom by Michael Bublé.

Vaughan's actually just trying to make Michael Bublé full screen. Yeah, I did it. I did it. I made Michael Bublé the biggest. No, no, no, no. What's up? What's going on? Well, I was just trying to make you the biggest on the screen.

I don't want to be the biggest on the screen. We don't want to. These are the chumps. Why did they tell me to wear a suit and you guys are in your t-shirts and hats and shit? What's going on? I feel, I mean, I'm in a blazer to match you, but yeah, I can't explain these two. No, make yourself big because I

gotta see you. I gotta. I made you do what? Are you the biggest on your screen? I don't want to be so giant. What's going on? I smell like for everybody. I don't know what I'm doing. Okay, me neither. I've actively avoided all Zooms over the

pandemic. Can I just say something now that I see myself big? Yeah. I look good. You do look very handsome. Holy God, look at that hair. This only took me like four hours. Four hours? That's a good return on investment, I think.

Thank you very much. You're looking fantastic. You look so real, Samu. Honestly, you did a great job with the toupee thing. That's great. I've got to get your toupee guy's name and number because I need one. Samu, he's amazing. Yeah.

Well, we are talking to you through the magic of the Chemist Warehouse because you're releasing new fragrances. And you've got a look that I can almost smell. Is that a compliment? Yeah. Yeah, because he's clean and his toupee looks great. That's why it's a good smell, not like a bad smell. What, can I ask you, what do you wear?

Like, when you get up in the morning, do you have like a thing, a fragrance? Is there like an odour special thing? Well, I mean, to be honest, Michael, it's 4.30 in the morning, just deodorant. Yeah. That's good enough. Yeah, it's better than nothing at that stage. Yeah. That's good enough. Yeah, it's better than nothing at that stage.

Yeah. Sometimes I forget and I sit like that all day and then sometimes I don't forget so I can be a bit more free with my arms. What about you? Do you wear your own perfume or is that a little like self-indulgent? Oh, God, no.

Of course I wear my own perfume. I just love it so much. You know, it's fine. I don't even use syrup anymore when my own perfume. I just love it so much. You know, it's funny. I don't even use syrup anymore when I have pancakes. I just actually use it. Yeah. Do you just have boxes of it in the garage? Listen, my wife loves it, okay?

That's the truth. You want the real truth? The whole thing is my wife saying. I say, like, is it good? And she says, it's good. And I say, okay. And that's fine with me you know what i did an interview the other day and they said to me oh i hear that you have

the fragrance in your face and your name and i just thought thank god my face isn't on the thing because that would just make it worse what about the the bottle as your face no it doesn't have my face no no no i mean like next time do one, get a bottle that is your face. You go and do one of those face imprints and then they turn it into glass. And it sprays out your mouth. Like the Han Solo frozen in carbonite kind of thing. Yeah, even better. Yeah, and look like you're in wistful pain.

I think I might just do that. And they push on the top of your head and it squirts at your nose. I mean, what a terrible time to release a sneeze perfume in the middle of a pandemic. But when this whole thing blows over, people will find it a real gas. Well, it's 10 years since the big Christmas record. I know. I'm old.

God, you're old too. I remember it. You know what's funny, you guys? I used to go like – I used to go like, I used to walk into like coffee shops and stuff and then the girl behind the desk would look at me and I would, and they would,

and now they, and they used to look at me and I would know the look because they do that look like I go, ooh. And now I get the look that it's like I'm an uncle or something. An uncle, an old uncle. And the fact that at this time of the year, they are literally hearing you nonstop.

So then when they see you, they're like, I've already heard you today. It's not my fault. I just want to say, listen, I didn't choose to be the king, okay? I didn't choose to be. When you mix the voice and the charisma yeah it just impossible for people not to feel the christmasy goodness that comes out of me and i didn't do this i just you know and but you know what couldn't you can i put out

like a public service announcement yeah before i the whole the whole uh blue blade defrosted thing yeah yes if you're If you're using that joke You're not funny anymore It's not that it's not a good joke I wouldn't even dream of it We definitely didn't have that Just understand this If you were going to go

And double down and toss that out again I just want to give you a little warning, okay? I will warn you. Blue Blade Man, he won't just come at your Christmas party. I will take over Easter and Valentine's Day. Every time your mama pulls a turkey out of the oven, you're my boy. He's threatening all the other holidays.

The nicest smack talk I've ever heard. What's it like? So now when you go out in public, not only do you hear yourself, you can walk around and literally smell your own, your fragrance. It's all stupid. I can't. You guys, I just, I'm like a, a i don't know it's all just crazy it's all crazy i'm just like this can vancouver hockey playing you know beer drinking idiot and it's just so weird and so lovely you know what what I mean? It is amazing.

I mean, I have been invited into so many people's homes to be part of something so special for them. And it had made me so rich. I feel like I'm going to be, it's going to make me like Oprah rich one day. Yeah. That's really where the Christmas spirit is. Wow. I hope that the 2021 10 year anniversary release,

re-release of the Christmas album and your, your range of perfumes push you a little bit closer to owning that hockey team. Thank you. I just can't. I think like all of you, I can't wait for the 11th anniversary. Yeah. That's really where we're going to go into a hard sell.

Yeah. And then, of course, you've got the unlucky 13th anniversary. Yeah. But just so you know got the unlucky 13th anniversary. Yeah. But just so you know, the 12th anniversary, the cover, it's a different color. It's got to get that one. Well, if you feel like supporting Michael this Christmas, Chemist Warehouse for his new fragrances.

Michael Buble, thank you so much for taking the time to talk to us this morning. I'm doing the eyes. Yeah. You told me if I do the eyes that maybe people will buy things more. Beautiful eyes, yeah. It just scares me. I think it's

actually scaring people. Michael, please stop that. CDM's Fletchborn and Megan. Are you planning a party in the traffic light system? Yes. You are? Yes. You are? Yes.

Interesting. Dick, you're invited to it. That's in New Year. That's Bastiano's. Have you even? First the birthday. You haven't RSVP'd today. Here we go.

In my defence, I am getting invited to a lot, because I'm very popular, to parties and stuff. But I turn my notifications off for events and everything on Facebook. And you muted me, didn't you? And now people are like, why haven't you responded to my event? I'm like, I'm so soz. I didn't even know I had been. So popular.

Now, you know I'm not a fan of babies. Will the baby be there for his first birthday? So many people have just replied to me saying, Fletch has definitely muted you at this point. And I'm like, probably. That's okay. Dare I say. You don't have to come.

The baby will be making an appearance at his own birthday. You don't have to come, but can you imagine if I invited everyone but you? Yeah, and I wouldn't be upset at that because it's a baby thing. Okay. But I'll click maybe. Now, I do also have a – this is exciting. You're allowed a plus one. I've got a Christmas pot like in nine days.

Because the baby shower, you said you'd come if you had a plus one. So you can have a plus one if you want. Okay. He just needs a ride. He's like, he needs a plus one so I can make James a driver. You may as well live in Iran, Megan. You live so far away. I want you to have a plus one because I'd love James to come.

There's no Ayatollah of Riverhead. It's very hard to get out of there. It's not under strict laws. So a lot of people have been asking this question. If you're having a party or a gathering at your house when the traffic light system kicks in, do you have to check your guest's vaccination passport? And yes, yes you do.

You are required to scan it. You downloaded this app yesterday. It's super easy. You just Google, you see, you just go into the app store where you get your apps from. What's the other one called? Google Play. And you go New Zealand Pass Verifier and you download it. You don't need to log in or anything. What's the other one called? Google Play. And you go New Zealand Pass Verifier and you download it.

You don't need a login or anything. It's just an app on your screen. You open it up. Megan, if you would, open up your... My vaccine passport.

Yeah, which you can just double click if you've got an iPhone on the side. It'll open up your wallet. What if it's fake and I forge my pass? Well, it'll tell you.

Okay, here you go. Okay, so I just go scan. Yeah. It opens up the camera and boom, there you go. Megan Louise so I just go scan. Yeah. It opens up the camera and boom, there you go. Megan Louise Pappas, date of birth, 84. Excuse me, that says what's...

And it just gives a tick. It just goes tick, valid, your name and date of birth and that's all the info there. There's no photo, there's no anything. But then if I was a bar, I could, I guess, check your ID. But I know you because you're a friend. So that's, yeah, there's no anything. But then if I was a bar, I could, I guess, check your ID. But I know you because you're a friend. So that's, yeah, that's legit, that pass.

Are you going to stand at your front door with it and scan everyone? I mean, you're going to know which of your friends are vaccinated and which aren't. Great way to see which one's lying about it though. Do you think this will happen at Christmas? Because you know there's one person in every family that's a little bit nuts. Oh, I'd rather tell that person in my family to take a hike than I would one of my friends, though. Family's easier. Yeah, right.

And it's probably the one you don't want to be there anyway. The one that's going to take it really well. The one that's going to completely understand. Is that the official That's the official ruling Like if you're going to Host anything Yep Just get the scanner out

Yep Or I guess you could just Visually check Everybody's passport right They just open up Their phone and show you Yeah Huh

So you just Scanneroo You need to Is that going to be awkward Yes Totally If you're not going to use it You'll need to

Limit the number of people Attending Okay Depending on what setting And If you're not going to use it, you'll need to limit the number of people attending, depending on what setting. And if you're caught using forged, altered, or fraudulently obtained vaccine passes, you can face up to six months in prison or a fine of up to $12,000. Woo. Wow, okay.

All right. ZM's Fleshborn and Megan.