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

Episode Date: September 30, 2021

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The ZM Podcast Network. Clay. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. Hello, welcome to the Fletch, Vaughan and Megan podcast. It's thanks to Mick Cafe. Barista made coffee available from drive-thru and Mick Delivery at level three. And also dine-in at level one.

And just thank you to Pick and Mix Lollies who sent us so many lollies. It seems they weren't happy with the fact we've been talking about weight gain during lockdown. They were like, you know what? You guys need 10 kgs of lollies. But they chose all our favorites, all the ones that we mentioned.

The spinning wheels. So pick N, max, NZ. Yeah. And they just box them and send them out. And my God, they're delicious. Yeah. We have so many lollies now. All raspberry drops.

We should do a lolly jar for guests. It's not very COVID. Nah, you've got to stick your hand. Well, we don't have guests anyway. Take them home too and eat them myself. Yeah, you could do that.

All lollies should be stored at less than 21 degrees Celsius. What about summer? Where do you store your lollies in summer? A cool box. But not the refrigerator.

Your pantry wouldn't get too hot. Oh no, I've got a hot pantry. I've got a steamy pantry. You've got a moist pantry.

Old moist pantry they call them It's got a big flat door Your door's still flappy? Yeah yeah yeah It's one of those corner Bloody fuck I hate those You've got a flappy drawer In your moist pantry

Yeah he's got a floppy He's got an I told him he's got to be Take it easy Flicks it open and shut And slams it I said don't slam Your moist pantry

Yeah I've been saying it for years You have you have Absolutely Shutting. Oh, yeah. Slams it. I said, don't slam your moist pantry. Yeah. I've been saying it for years. You have. You have. Absolutely. Thanks, Pick and Mix. Yeah, no, thank you very much.

I'll be storing those in my fridge, I think. Not in your moist pantry. Not in my moist pantry. Not in the moist pantry. Absolutely not. Uh-huh. Thanks, Rachel. Good morning. Welcome to the show, Fleeche,etspawn and Megan. Thanks, Rachel. Good morning. Welcome to the show, Fleetspawn and Megan.

It is three minutes past six. Good morning. Good morning. Happy Friday. I haven't got my hair. Oh, is it my Friday flashback? Was it yours last week? It's yours, yeah.

Right. I drunkenly put a note on my phone of other songs you danced to in that club in Queenstown. Boy, that's not great. Yeah, I know. It's a real thing about some songs in the moment, right? Yeah. Do you remember enjoying Here I Am by UB40? No.

You can't play that. Here I am, baby. Do, do, do. Come and take me. I feel like that needs a couple of gins. In our defense, we were all very drunk that night. Yeah. And I was dancing to everything.

There's another song here, and I've never known the title of the song, but I just wrote down, like, the chorus. So that could be a goer. I'm just going to have that. Is this maybe how we choose Flashback Fridays from now on? We just go out, go to Cowboys in Queenstown. Yeah, sure, Fletch. Let's just go out and go drinking at a club.

Well, a lot of people still can. Virtual reality. Lucky them. Oh, yeah, right, okay. That would be a far better way. All right, well, Vaughn's pick for Friday Flashback today at 8 o'clock. It was by Casey and the Sunshine Band. Okay.

Mmm, no. You, I tell you what, you were bloody loving it that night. The top six is coming up soon on the show. The Reserve Bank of New Zealand looking into digital currency. Obviously, the future of money is digital. Yeah, well, they'd rather them keep a tabs on your digital money than you do it. All sorts of shenanigans. Yeah.

The top six names for the New Zealand digital currency. All right, that's coming up. Secret Sound back Monday morning. $50,000 cash up for grabs. We'll play that sound 7am. Next on the show, a male chimpanzee has been found to be

doing something for the first time and researchers are very excited. So is the chimpanzee. Yeah. ZDM's Fletch, Ron and Megan. This is a wild male chimpanzee. So not in a zoo, but they are aware of this chimp. His name is Arali, and he lives in Burlindi in Western Uganda.

Okay. So they keep tabs on what Arali's up to, and they believe this is the first time that a wild chimp has done this. There is actual video footage as well. So they got out there, the researchers, and they're taking videos of a Raleigh. And that's when, and this is kind of sad because a Raleigh found a plastic bottle,

of course, in the wild. Right. Sad because it's, you think it's sad because it's obviously littering. Plastic, yeah. So he found this plastic bottle and studies it for a little bit. And that's when

Raleigh decided to use the plastic bottle as a sex toy. So he... More of a Gatorade. I don't know. I don't know how big the wide mouth... No, I didn't have a wide mouth. It was pretty... pretty slender.

Have you watched the video? I was like, I don't know if I should watch the video or not. This was a chimpanzee? Yeah. Well, IT, I'm Googling chimpanzee penis. So this is now a scientific paper.

Could you imagine handing that in? They said, well, I'm going to read this verbatim, okay? Okay. While captive chimps commonly masturbate often due to stress or lack of mates, researchers believe O'Reilly... That's why I masturbate too. Like I'm stressed out.

It's lockdown. You've got no friends. Yeah, people are watching me from the other side of these bars. Taunting me. Researchers believe that O'Reilly may have derived pleasure from his interaction with the bottle, and he may have been the first wild chimp to use a man-made object as a sex toy.

That's been witnessed by scientists. Yeah. Right. It's quite... I did feel weird watching it. It's a much thinner penis. Okay, we don't..., the testes larger. I did enjoy how he picked up the bottle and looked inside

and looked around the lid and looked inside and was like, can I? Well, you'll never know if you don't try it, Riley. And then, yeah, proceeded to. And then they do a report on this. And now their names are on this report. Yeah. But it is, what, did it have a title?

I love scientific paper titles. They're always something like Impact of Environmental Pollution on Sexual Aggressiveness of the Lower Kenyan Plainland Chimpanzee. I'm trying to see what they called it, but they did say This is a paper We'd never thought

We'd write Monkey having a Toink with a bottle Oh they're like Come on guys Work on the title At least it makes it Sound like we're scientists

Alright Play ZM's Flesh, Fawn and Megan Geez I just said something I thought the Microphones were On my heart

Stopped I was like Wow there goes My ability to Pay the mortgage I listened to ya Sade you're gonna Need to get a job Pretty smartly I was like, well, there goes my ability to pay the mortgage. I listened to you. Sade, you're going to need to get a job.

Pretty smartly. Vaughn's got to go to ground pretty quick. Guys, I've decided I'm going to take some time off. Effective immediately. Vaughn, what did you do? Ah, nothing. Very sudden? Nothing. You always wanted to leave. Yeah? Ah, nothing. Very sudden? Nothing. You always wanted to leave.

Yeah. Right, okay. I just said it. Look after myself. Right, okay. 16 past six. Ah, there's a story. This is actually like the headline.

I was like, yeah. But then I read, and this is actually a really sad story. A mum in Wellington is asking people to stop supplying her 16-year-old son with booze when he's outside the booze store being like, buy us a bottle

of whatever. Oh, I could never do that. Have you been asked before? No, I've never been asked. not for at least 10 years. Not for ages. Yeah, I can't remember the last time,

but yeah, I've been definitely asked a few times by people outside liquor stores just like, hey, can you buy us something? It's just like, no. Do I look? Absolutely not. Yeah, I can't remember the last time, but I've been definitely asked a few times by people outside liquor stores, just like, hey, can you buy us something? It's just like, no. Do I look?

Absolutely not. I must look like a real grizzly prick when I'm walking into a booze store. Yeah. Or I look super focused. I'm going to get in there and I'm going to pick some good stuff. But no, I haven't been asked for ages. Because then you're buying these people booze. You don't know if they're going to drive drunk into someone and kill a family or drive in Or if it's a trap.

Yes, it could be a trap. We were, when was it? I was working in Auckland, but I'd gone back to Hamilton, and we were walking into a booze store, and these kids were like, can you buy us some booze? And I just ignored them. But my mate, Callum, said,um said yeah yeah what do you want how much like cash you got and stuff and I want 10 bucks out of it and they were like yeah okay

and they gave him the money and we walked in and I was like you're not going to buy the booze are you he's like nah and then we walked back straight back past him where's our booze Callum's like I've got no idea what you're talking about and we just got in the car he's like easiest 50 bucks I've ever made

you little rat bag And we just got in the car. He's like, easiest 50 bucks I've ever made. I was like, you little rat bag. Ruthless. That is ruthless. Well, I mean, you've taught them a lesson though, haven't you? Yeah. He's like, you've got to pick your, you've got to pick what kids you're going to do it to though. Because if you do it with the tough ones, they'll beat the shit out of you. But this mum's saying apparently this has happened a lot to her son, but also even younger.

People are hooking up like 14. He's been hospitalized a whole bunch of times after shoulder tapping people, which is apparently what it's called. I mean, I'd lock him in the basement for a couple of weeks and then cool off. Right, okay. But yeah, gets out, gets out of the house and says to people,

here's the money, can you buy us some spirits too? Cheap, cheap bottle of spirits. People don't think about the consequences after they've bought it, do they? So if we can learn anything today, it's just take their money and then run away with it.

It's like stealing off someone who stole something. Are they going to tell the police? Unless they're those 16 year olds that look like they're like 22. Yeah. And they'll beat you up. And then have a good pair of running shoes on if you're going to try that over again. Sure. From the muggy ZM think tank, this is the top six.

Ti putua. Oh, no, buggered it up. Sorry, let me have another go. Ti putua. I'm going to get this right. Because I didn't know the Reserve Bank had a name in Te Reo. But of course. It does, yeah.

Is that how you would have said it? Yeah, that's how I would have said it. Because it's got a thing over the U. Yeah, so you give that a bit more. Mfa! The Putu Te Matua is seeking public feedback on a prospective central bank digital currency for Aotearoa. So that'd be like a Bitcoin or like a digital... Like an online digital, yeah, yeah, a digital crypto coin. Like it's your banking app, but you never see the cash.

Nah. You'd just be able to transfer it here and there. Be the future of money, they reckon. But beyond me, I'm still writing checks. No, you're not. We found out I was doing that clean out of the drawer.

You know, the second or third drawer down in the kitchen at the end. Oh, yeah, that you just chuck crap in? Yeah. The one that used to be just above the plastic bag drawer. Yeah. Which is now the bread bag drawer. Oh, okay, yeah. Because you've still got to pick up dog poo.

And I found out a checkbook that the bank made us get when we first got a mortgage. Oh, wow. I was like, I'll never use this. Guess how many times I've used it? Once. Twice. Guess who both things were written out for? The bank.

So, yeah, really didn't need that. But I finally binned that. But then when I put it in the bin, I freaked out that someone could steal it and write a check. But then there's two things. It's like, they won't. And they could possibly get about $17 out of that account. Congratulations to them.

So, yeah, a digital currency, but of course it will need a name. So the top six names for the New Zealand digital currency should it happen. On the back of Dogecoin. Yeah. Number six, Thingycoin. Oh yes.

Thingy's little face on there. Yeah, and his eye could be falling out. Yes, I could be. Even though that didn't actually happen on the TV show. It was a blooper, wasn't it? It was a blooper, yeah. That kind of made it into the zeitgeist. Number five on the list of the top six names for the new New Zealand digital currency,

Buck Shelford's Bucks. Yep. Or Bucks Bucks. Famous all black? Yeah. I love that. Bucks squared. Bucks to the power of two.

Number four on the list of the top six names of the new New Zealand digital currency, Note Minute. Okay, I like that. Actually, that's my favourite so far. I went to the dairy to get myself a bag of lollies and they said we only accept Note Minute. Number three on the list of the top six names for the new New Zealand digital currency,

Vogel's Bread. Okay. Because you know how people call, you've got to make that bread. That dough. Let's get that bread. What are the kids saying? Do people say bread? They say let's get the bread.

What are they saying, Carl? What do they say? Let's get that bread. See, you old buggers. You didn't even know. Now you know I look like a damn fool. You made me look like a damn fool in front of these. In front of the Gen Zs.

I look like a damn fool. Vogel's bread. I'll go again. Number three on the list of the top six names of the New Zealand digital currency. Vogel's bread. Yeah. You know, you got to get that bread. Paul, man, yeah, get that bread.

Oh, that was better. That one's funny. I can't know, you've got to get that bread. Paul, man, yeah, get that bread. Oh, that was better. That one's funny. I can't wait to drink some pals this weekend. And stay at home. And talk about the Gilmore Girls reboot. That was, I went out on a branch. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. RuPaul's Drag Race.

Yeah, girl. Number two on the list of the top six names for the New Zealand digital currency. Electric cabbage. Okay. Because it's electric. It lives online. Yeah. Requires electricity.

Cabbage. Yep. That's another way of describing money. Yeah. Show me that cabbage. Yeah. See? I'm going to go down there.

I'm going to get my cabbage. And number one on the list of the top six names for the New Zealand digital currency, the GC. The good currency. The good currency, yeah. That guy is a good currency. Yeah. It works. That's today's top six.

ZDM's Fletchborn and Megan. It's not that your jeans are 21 years old, stupid. It's the jeans that you had when you were 21. If you still have them, if you can't fit into those jeans, you are at risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Apparently. Or just jeans of the same size that you wore when you were 21, right? They don't need to be the same pair of jeans.

Yeah. So if you were a... Sure. I never know the sizing. to be the same pair of jeans. Yeah. So if you were a... Sure. What's the... I never know the sizing. What does the second lot of numbers mean? The length of the leg? Yeah, it's the length of the leg.

Inside or outside? It's the waist and then the length. Doesn't it literally say L and W? I don't know what that means. Length and waist. Length and, yeah, width. Right. So how long...

32 and 34. But some of them are just like regular, right? So that's like, you know, just a regular height. I think men need to be wearing jeans, like woman-sized jeans. Like we need to be doing our jeans and like the sexy

sounding numbers. 10, 12, 14, 16, 18. I'm a 12. What size would Vaughn be? Because if I'm like 32, I'm a 12. Are you? I know this because when I was 21, I was wearing females jeans.

I liked the way they hugged the ass and you could have found them at the save mart, didn't you? That was how we got onto it. Oh my god. Yeah, we all bloody thought we were the Datsuns and we were going to be able to rock and roll. And yeah, I couldn't fit men's skinny jeans. I got big, thick quads.

Yeah, that's your problem. And then skinny calves. So I was made for a pair of glass-on bloody size 12s. I mean, is anybody fitting the jeans they had when they were 21? I mean, unless you're like close to 21, then maybe. I'm pretty sure I wear the same size as I did when I was 21, but I don't know. Right. But apparently, yeah, this is from a professor, Roy Taylor,

said that if you no longer fit into the same size trousers, then you're carrying too much fat. Ouch, we don't need to hear that. Come on, you're saying 21 much fat. Ouch. We don't need to hear that. Come on. You're saying 21? Yeah. Remember 21? Your metabolism was cranking.

You could eat a foot-long sub. Yeah. And be like, yum. But now I eat one and I'm like, well, I won't need dinner. And then you still have dinner. I can't even remember. So I ate a foot-long sandwich. Yeah. I've just changed what I like to made a foot long sandwich. Yeah.

I've just changed what I like to eat an insane amount of. Right. Like yum cha. But even like when we were, I'm pretty sure Valentine's in Hamilton went out of business because of my mum's family. Yeah. Like when we'd rock in there for a Mother's Day or a Father's Day, it was always Valentine's. On the corner, it's an Anytime Fitness now.

The irony of that. The irony when we were in Hamilton, I went to Anytime Fitness in there and I was like, I'm here to lose weight, whereas last time I was here to steal jelly beans and put on a whole lot. Yeah. We used to walk in there and take up a table. We'd clear them out. Yeah.

We were a terrifying family to see walking through the door, but now we can't eat nearly as much. It's just pretty disappointing. We can't glutton ourselves like we used to. Right. Right. Yeah. Oh, such a shame. You still got those 20 jeans from when you were 21?

I actually think I'd probably even be a smaller year old. Good work. So you're going for a 10 glasses or something? Oh, I don't know about 10. Is there an 11? Is there a middle ground? ZM's Fleshworn and Megan. Play ZM.

Well, a story comes to us from Danish. A story about a Danish? Yeah, Danish artist. So they're a Danish museum director. There's a big art exhibition that's happening. And they're like, they got a few artists together and they said, okay, here's some money. You paint some stuff for this exhibition.

So they gave to one artist $84,000 US dollars, so about $120,000 New Zealand dollars. And they said, here you go. You're going to do like two paintings, a giant canvas and a little one. Was there any other instruction, like they wanted it to fit into a certain type of thing? So the exhibition is called Work It Out

and features works by many different contemporary artists. So Work It Out. Okay. I don't know what that entails, but that was the theme. Yeah, so it's kind of abstract contemporary art. Yeah. And they opened up the crate with the two canvases. I'll show you a photo.

Just blank. Blank canvases. And the artworks are entitled Take the Money and Run. And so the Danish Museum now is like, okay, I can see the funny side of this. But we are going to need some works to show. There's not white paint on there. No, no. It's just a blank canvas.

No, it's blank canvas. Literally, if you went to an art supplier's shop and got a giant canvas, they've done that. And they're hopeful that the artist will make some art or that they can recover the money. But in saying that, this has gone worldwide. This is hilarious. This is the greatest publicity that this exhibition could hope for.

People will be like, I'm going to go and see. Maybe he's hidden something somewhere on there. Yeah. Maybe the money's hidden and this is the treasure map. I think it's one of those little, I love, I'd love to know the font. I'm sure you can Google this. It's one of those things every time I see it, I'm like, man, that's cool. You know those little white labels they put in museums and it's like,

the name of it, like this one would be Take the Money and Run, and then it's got the artist's name, the year they did it, and like the materials used, like pastels on canvas or something like that. Yeah. I love the simplicity of those design notes, that little label to tell you about the painting. Very cool. Yeah.

There's not going to be a lot of detail on that one. No. Take the money and run. You could print out a couple of news stories maybe. Yeah. Air on canvas. Yeah. Air on canvas. Yeah. Thought on canvas.

Well, to the UK we go and a couple is under fire after they painted their house light lilac. So like a light purple. From the purple family. From the purple family. So it's not a, I'll show you that, Megan. Thoughts? It could almost pass for grey.

You know, like a grey colour. You reckon that's grey? Nah. Maybe in a low light? It might have a bluey. It's the most offensive thing I've ever seen. I'll see if I can find this house that's by my mum and dad's house, which every time I drive past, I'm like, yes.

Someone had the balls to go like purple. Like actual, like, proper purple. It's like I wouldn't paint my house that colour, but also, like, good on them, who cares? Yeah. There's a house around the road from us that would be, you know, like blue, bright blue. Like that blue.

Not that people on the radio can see, but I'm pointing to you. That blue. Oh, wow. That blue. Which is a real vibe. It's a real blue. Like if a kid was to pick a blue, that's their favourite blue. Like national party blue.

Like national party blue colour. Yeah. Or a bit lighter. Wow. Well, they, so apparently they received the council, or the Watford Borough Council received an anonymous... Watford Borough from Watford and his minty biscuits. Which is one of my favourite YouTube clips of all time, Barry from Watford and his minty biscuits.

They received anonymous tip-offs about the colour of this house and the council told them the change was not allowed because of the age of the property. And you'll find this in New Zealand as well. There are certain, when you build or paint a house, you've got to have, there are some councils have certain amount of colours you're allowed to use. Oh, right.

It makes your house blend in with the landscape. Right. So if you were like in central Otago, you couldn't just have a bright pink Oh yeah, that's disgusting. What is that? That's a purple house. That's the purple house that's by my parents' place. Anybody who's ever driven through Scotsman's Valley.

From Kiwetahe. Then on saying that, that's their house, isn't it? 100%. That's what I love about it. It was their house. They wanted a purple house. They're like, we live in the country. And so if the council lets you, if the council has it as one of their colours,

why can't you paint your house that colour? But they apparently live in a conservation area and only certain colours are allowed and purple or lilac is not one of them. So they've been asked to paint their house but apparently the neighbours are just like, if you look at their house it not one of them. So they've been asked to paint their house. But apparently the neighbours are just like,

if you look at their house, it's one of those British rows of houses, brick houses. And it's all traditional brick colours, not painted. It goes, you know, traditional brick house, traditional brick house, traditional brick house. Purple. Or lilac. And it does.

It ruins it. doesn't it? It ruins it. I think when houses are joined, and you see this around some places, when houses are joined and one house is real nice and painted and the other is different, I don't hate it.

It's all got to be uniform. Yeah. It does, my kid. When your wall continues into the next person's wall and you're like, I'm going to draw a line down and from one side is traditional brick

and one side is purple. It's different. Yeah. So I thought this morning, could we take some calls on 0800 DARS at M. You can text 9696. Do you have a neighbourhood I saw?

Like a neighbour that's gone out there, like with a sculpture even. Oh, I love seeing an ugly sculpture. It makes me happy. But maybe it's a big source of neighbourhood argument or a water feature or a garden feature, some ornaments. Like imagine if you lived on a nice street but then just one house had like 500 gnomes in the front.

Everyone would be like, what are you doing? Nah, see if they've gone to the effort of 500, that's cool. Then it's the gnome house. Because they've gone to a great effort. Right. The main thing of it. Yeah. Okay.

They might become a little mini tourist attraction. You could set up a stall outside selling your excess grapefruit. You could make an absolute killing because people who love grapefruit but also love the gnome house. All right. Well, 0800DARLS.M. Give us a call. You can text as well, 9696.

What's your neighbourhood eyesore? Like, what do you drive past and you're just like, oh, I can't deal with that. Maybe it's 800 old cars in the front yard. Oh, yeah, there'd be those stacks of cars. Just West Auckland. A UK couple have been asked to paint their, repaint their house by the council

because they painted it purple. Lilac. Lilac. Lilac. And everyone's like, you can't do that. And it's in a row of houses too. So it stands out like a sore thumb. And we are asking the question this morning, what is your neighbourhood eyesore?

Maybe it's a paint colour of a house or a sculpture or ornaments. Yeah, somebody said there's a really bright pink house by Hagley Park South. Oh, okay. Christchurch. Really bright pink. They sent me the address. I won't give it out.

I'm not giving out people's addresses, but it's like proper pink. Like. Proper pink. It's the same colour as Megan's top. What colour is that top? Magenta. Like a bright, bright magenta.

Fuchsia. But again, like that's their house. They can do what they want. Exactly. But everyone bright, bright magenta. Fuchsia. But again, like, that's their house. They can do what they want. But everyone else is like, no. Just don't expect to be able to sell their house. Emma, what's your neighbourhood eyesore? Well, I technically have two. I've got one neighbour behind me ruining my sunset with the aerial that no longer works.

The old VHF. It's not a VHF for aerial. It was the old digital, not digital, what do you call it? Like the ones that people used to have for Sky before they had the dishes. UHF. UHF. Yeah. Aerial that does nothing and drives

me into. And then I've got another neighbour with a gigantic stained glass window of a golfer. Of a what? A golfer? Of someone Mid-golf swing What? Yeah

It's huge And I see it Every time I drive in And out of my street And I hate it Wow They must love their golf Is it

Who is the golfer? Is it a famous golfer? Or just No we live I live I live by a golf course Oh right Okay Yeah Everyone on my Everyone on my street golfer? No, I live by a golf course. Oh, right. Okay. Yeah.

Everyone on my street's super into golfing. Right. Okay. Except for me. Right. And big aerials as well. And big aerials that no longer work. Amazing. Emma, thank you. Jaden,

what's the neighbourhood I saw? Well, unfortunately, guys, it's us. We're the eyesore. Oh, Jaden. We're the eyesores. Do you have a pink house, Jaden? No, we do have a rather large number of cars that do take up half the street. How does that go down with the neighbourhood?

Well, Beryl from next door has complained to the council about 15 times and the council have just stopped doing anything about it. How many cars do you have? In the garage, four. Out the back, six. Ten on the front lawn and about over ten on the street. Oh, Jada. She's always eagle-eyeing. about over 10 on the street. Oh, Jaden. I'm kind of on...

She's always eagle-eyeing. She's always looking out the window, seeing what's coming up next, and she's always on the phone. I don't know whether it's for her family or the council or what. I'm kind of on her side. You're going to put her in an early grave.

What are you doing? Make her some baking. They're nice cars, though. They're nice. Oh, they're all, like, warranted and registered and everything. Oh, not all of them, you know. You cheeky bugger.

Just take her around some baking. Get her on board. I think we can pass that by the sounds of it. Get her grooming them for the boys. Yeah. Jake, get a vacuum out of the driveway. George, what's the neighbourhood I saw? So just about every weekend during lockdown,

I would sit out on the deck and have my coffee and I'm looking over towards my neighbour and he's standing drinking his coffee, admiring the view, but he's butt naked. Oh, God, okay. Can you see into a private part of his property or is he just displaying? So, they've got

trees on their side of the fence that he must think that blocks our view, but definitely not. Right. Definitely not. Okay. And so... It's a note in the leader box or something. Yeah, but not worth checking out then? No, absolutely not. Okay.

Alright, George, thanks for your call. Some messages in. I lived in the UK in a place called Cheltenham. Cheltenham. Very posh. Yeah, okay. Someone painted their two-story house as Mr. Blobby. Oh my god. It's gotta be a new

story, right? Purple with green spots? Purple with yellow spots? Purple with yellow spots? Purple with spots. Purple. Again, a lilac too, not just like a... I've found it. I've found it. I've found it.

Oh, my God. It's great. Oh, my God. It's not a mild pink either. It's an aggressive pink. Oh, wow. And they put dots on. Oh, my God.

There's actually been a couple that have done it. Yeah, look. Yeah. He was ordered to paint over it. He told them to sod off. That's brilliant. But again, that was a house. The Mr. Blobby house is a house in a row of houses.

Sticks out like an absolute sore thumb. But that's the thing. You live in a row of houses that look identical. You've got to make your mark. Well, especially when you're coming home drunk. Could be any house could be yours, couldn't it? Yeah. And it's not only overseas.

In Carterton, in the Wairarapa, there's a house down the road from us. All flash houses on our street. And then there's one that's bright pink. Really catches the eyes. Tokoroa also reporting another bright pink painted house. Okay. Someone messaged in saying, I painted my house orange.

I don't think I've ever seen an orange house. These are choices I would have made when I was like 11, being like, when I get older I'm going to have a pink house. Is it like a terracotta orange? Like a terracotta colour? Or like orange orange? You'd probably describe it as terracotta if you painted it terracotta.

I've got a section next to me that's nothing but weeds and a massive shipping container on it. From upstairs, it's all we can see. The council said they still just cannot get hold of the owner. Squatter's rights? Yeah, just go and start living on there. Squatter's rights? Is that a thing? New Zealand?

I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. You could start mowing it, but then you're doing them a favour, aren't you? Yeah. I'd crack into that shipping container though, they could be treasuring me. ZDM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. Susie Wiles, who we all know from the latest

and previous COVID outbreaks. You may remember her from previous pandemics. COVID 1.0 COVID 2.0. And whatever COVID point delta dot is now. So obviously at the moment, the vaccination rates kind of, especially with younger people, have stalled a little bit. And there are people that are not anti-vaccine.

No. But that are just hesitant. Vaccine hesitant. And you can totally. I'll get it when it starts to affect me. Totally. And you can see, you know, people have worries and they're scared and that's absolutely 100% fine.

But we thought at 8.40 this morning we would get Susie Wiles on the show and she's going to answer your questions. Yes. If you are on the fence and you're hesitant about getting the vaccine, you can go to our Instagram page, FEMZN. There's a question box there. Already got some great questions through from people that have worries, and we're going to put all of those to her at 8.40 this morning.

Yes. YouTube is banning all content that spreads vaccine misinformation as well as now there is a solution to the problem, and the solution is being administered. That was what I was just looking up on my phone. That doctor that tweeted, the world has administered 6 billion doses of COVID vaccine to 3.4 billion people. So that's half the population of the world. For people waiting for more data before getting the shot, the data's in.

We've vaccinated nearly half of humanity. The vaccines are safe. Also, thanks for banning that now, YouTube. I mean... I know, yeah. Yeah. We've done that. Immediate bans against false claims

that the vaccines are dangerous and cause health issues such as autism, cancer or infertility. The World Health Organization have said absolutely no evidence backs that up. And it's kind of the World Health Organization that have put forward the recommendations and YouTube have said, yeah, okay, so anything like, for example, that the vaccine contains properties and its ingredients used to track those who receive them.

Those will be taken down. You are still allowed to share content related to your personal experience with the vaccine, but only if the videos adhere to the site's community guidelines. And the channel doesn't routinely encourage vaccine hesitancy. It went into effective, it became effective immediately. They've already removed pages that are well known for sharing anti-vaccination sentiments, including, it still blows my mind, Robert F. Kennedy of the Kennedy family. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Is that like a famous? He's JFK's? Yeah, but is this a, I didn't know this was a conspiracy theory. No, he's a big anti-vaccine. Oh, right. Okay, right, right. Yeah. I thought there was some kind of Kennedy.

Page. Right. Okay. Situation. That's gone. Right thought there was some kind of Kennedy. Page. Right, okay. Situation. That's gone. Right. That's been removed as well. So, yeah, they're actively removing them.

And they've got their algorithm onto it. You know, that thing's pretty. That knows you before you do. You know whose algorithm I reckon they should get onto it? TikTok's algorithm. What an algorithm. Yeah, that's just a next. That's a beast, eh, that thing?

That thing knows what's up. They don't have it all weaned out and sorted out in no time. Well, Susie Wiles joins us at 8.40 this morning to answer your questions. Play ZM's Flesh, Vaughan and Megan. Well, a Reddit forum has delved into what people steal from hotels. And I guess at this point we should say you don't steal from hotels, do you? You can take the complimentary little shampoos. I've forgotten what hotels are like.

They're like homes, right? They're like homes, small homes. But you don't trust the kettle. Is that right? Never. Because people are cleaning their undies in the kettle. Never trust the kettle. Never use the kettle.

Never trust the kettle. Absolutely not. So the forum asked people what they'd taken from hotels and then it quickly became a lot of people that work for hotels and at hotels jumping in. Okay. Right. Giving their stories about what guests have taken. So you'd expect the usual. People take

miniature toiletries, towels, bathrobes. Although the bathrobes, everyone knows you get charged for those. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a dumb man's game. They're never that nice, really, are they? Because they've been washed a million times. They've been worn before. And they've got the hotel logo on them.

So why would you steal that? Yeah. So those kind of things that people would consider complimentary, obviously. Slippers, you can take those. Those are meant to be. Yeah, those are like one-time use, right? Because they're not particularly well made Yeah and you can't

wash them and your nasty feet have been in them But this is where it gets interesting people said quite a few people said they swap out the pillow

which to me is manky like how many people have slept on that pillow? Like sure it might be a nice pillow like it could be a nice pillow. Like, it could be a nice down pillow.

I always find the pillows too squishy. I have quite a firm pillow. They're either too big, too small. What about the ones that are squishy but real big? They're very annoying. Yeah. But you're right. People have dribbled on those. And also, Sue, somebody from a hotel jumped in at this stage and said,

you are forgetting that the people that do the housekeeping make hundreds of beds a day or a week or a month. As soon as they pick up that pillow, they know that it's not our pillow. Yeah. And you get charged a lot of money. You will get charged for the pillow. 100%. They've said here that they'll store your credit card on file.

So you just get charged like 100, 200 bucks for a pillow. Or whatever it costs for them, depending on how nice the place is to replace it. Ew. Wow. I always just think if everyone did this, would it be a problem? And if everyone stole stuff from the hotels, yes, it would be a problem. No pillows. Someone else that works in a hotel said they've had people swap out sheets, towels, pillows,

bathrobes, and even mini bar items. How do you change out sheets? They're going to notice the sheets, right? Again, they're making these beds every day. Because you have to imagine the ones you're changing them out with aren't as good. Unless your first set of sheets, you just,

you know, they push the trolley with all the clean bedding on it. Unless your first set of sheets were just nicked from the trolley so they didn't see

them go missing. And then you always go back to the same hotel. But even then, I find those sheets are like, I don't know, they're just,

yeah. And again, like how many people have slept in those as well? Yuck. Yeah. All right, well, stop stealing stuff from hotels. Shampoos and stuff.

Shampoos are fine. I don't know. Although a lot of places, because of the eco thing, the... It's all on the wall now. It's all on the wall now, yeah. Yeah. Big, bulk, squirty bottles. Yeah.

Can't take all of them. No. ZDM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. Welcome everybody to Friday Face Yoga. Namaste to you all. Namaste. Namaste. As we enter October.

Or as we in the yoga community call it, Rocktober. But different sorts of rocks. Yes, amethyst. Yes. Rose quartz. Yeah.

Salt lamps. River ones. River rocks. Crystals. No, river rocks. Real nice ones You find at the beach That have been turned by the ocean And smooth by the sands of time

Imagine a rock skimming across A mirror flat lake surface And I want you to imagine You are that rock Plop That was a big one surface. And I want you to imagine you are that rock. Skip, skip, skip, skip, skip, skip, skip, skip, skip, skip, skip, skip, skip, skip, skip, plop. That was a big one. It was a good one. It was a really good one. So on that note, welcome to Rocktober for Friday Faze. I want

everybody to look around, gasp. Are you seeing this right? A couple of quick blinks. Because you're watching Netflix's most popular show, Squid Games. And episode one sure has changed the whole vibe of a game of statues. Or whatever you choose to call it, Megan. Creep up, Jack. Please keep your voice down in the orchestra. Creep up, Megan. Creep up, Jack. Please keep your voice down in the orchestra.

Creep up, Jack. Creep up, Jack. Producer Jared said in South Africa it was called Grandma's Keys. Of course it was. So you're trying to steal her car while she wasn't looking. Yeah. To Ghana. To get up to Zimbabwe.

To get a zebra for dinner. Snick, sneak. He actually said that was in New Zealand. We didn't have time for games in the homeland. You don't play games outside. You don't play games when you're just trying to survive. If you haven't watched that show, not for the weak of stomach. Number two today, let's rub our face. Rub it.

Around the eyes, the temples. I want to just give the temples a bit of extra attention because I want you to imagine for a moment parenting three children under the age of nine for three weeks in the bush without an iPad or a YouTube video in sight. Yeah, I know. It immediately gives me a headache too. So just rub the temples to relieve that stress. And think, man, that guy wasted thousands of hours of people's time when they were searching for him. And now he's like, were you guys worried?

No, sweaters were in a tent in the bush. Next, clean out those ears. Get a little, whatever finger you want, get it in the ear. Yeah. I like a little finger so I can get further in there. Do the one ear. Work it up. Really work it up.

Can you hear that? Yes. Work it up. Because you must have a waxy buildup because it's Wednesday and you've just heard Dr. Ashley Bloomfield say that there's 45 new community cases of COVID-19. Not four to five. Not four to five. Not four to five. No.

And not fortified. We haven't fortified the community. 45 new community cases. Hard number to swallow. And finally today, let's let it all hang loose. Fletch. Because there's 37 new emojis coming and everybody's favourite

is already the melty face. Yeah. Kind of sums up 2021 too, doesn't it? A big melty face. And finally, just give the neck a little bit of a twist. I need that neck nice and warmed up because neck a little bit of a twist. I need that neck nice and warmed up

because it's a bit of a classic 90s headbanger next on Flashback Friday. Friday Flashback! 30 years ago, the album that contained this song was released. Hell of a week for music. Yeah. The Red Hot Chili Peppers had an album. Yeah. It's a hell of a month, hell of a year for music.

1991. This song got to number one in the charts in Belgium, France, New Zealand, Spain, and the US alternative charts. Okay. Germany got to number two. Germany got to number two. Norway got to number two. Poland also, as well as Portugal, number two. Charted very well for a song released this late in the year.

It also made it on to, in Europe, the number 16 in the best-selling singles of the year. Okay. Which is quite the accomplishment for an alternative track. It was number 10 in New Zealand for the highest-selling singles of 1991. And it was released with, you know, not too long to go. We look at its certifications around the world.

In Australia, it's eight times platinum. Wow. In the United States, it's platinum. Three times platinum in the UK. Gold in New Zealand. And that just means a heck of a lot of copies were sold. Yes.

And also streaming-wise, this song you're going to play is one of the biggest streams, isn't it? Yep, it is. I believe it was the first music video from the 90s. It was uploaded 12 years ago, so 2009. Yeah. It was uploaded. It was one of the only music videos, and I believe the first music video from the 1900s. Yep.

To reach a billion views on YouTube. Wow. Wow. And it was 30 years ago this week that Nirvana's Nevermind came out. And the apathetic anthem of the generation. Friday flashback this week.

Wow, win song for four minutes 50. Yeah. Wow. I'm going to go to the toilet. I'm going to make coffee. All right, it's your Friday flashback. Nirvana, Smells Like Teen Spirit, on Zit M. To pretend She's all alone Selfish I know I know

The dirty world I know I know I know I know I know I know I know

I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know

When the lights out It's dangerous Hello, hello, hello, hello, hello I'm an idol, I'm a bando I'm a ghetto, I'm a fido Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah I wasn't what I'd be best Before this gift I've been blessed A little group

It's always been And always will Until today We'll be right back. And we are now entertainers I've been stupid and contagious And we are now entertainers I'm a liar, I'm a fighter I'm a cheater, I'm a beater Yeah Yeah

Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah guitar solo And I forget just what to listen Yeah, I guess it makes me smile I found it hard, it's hard to find Well, whatever, never mind Well, the lights out, it's a dangerous And we are now entertainers Of the stupid and contagious And we are now entertainers

I'm a liar, I'm a liar I'm a liar, I'm a liar I'm a liar, I'm a hero I deny you, I deny you I deny you, I deny you I deny you, I deny you I deny you, I deny you Nirvana, Smells Like Teen Spirit, it's your Friday flashback on ZM. Cannot believe that album is 30 years old.

That is nuts. And it always still to this day blows my mind that there was a period of time that his ex, Courtney Love, went to Nelson Girls. I know. Yeah, I always forget about that. It always blows my mind. And hated it, right?

And absolutely hated Nelson, yeah. Wow. Jokes on her. What a great place. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Courtney Love. Feedback. Someone said, took me straight back to fifth form Smitty. I don't know if that's someone that I knew in fifth form. Yeah, maybe. They're overly familiarising themselves with me there. I always get nervous when someone I don't really know calls me a nickname. Yeah.

I don't know how to process it. Okay. Oh, my God. ZM's playing Nirvana. Legends. Hashtag cranked. Whoa, it is rocktober. That's how somebody said it.

If I wanted to listen to this, I would have turned to The Rock. They play this on the daily. That's because no rock music's been made since the 90s. Yeah. That's any good. Apart from Stained and Nickelback. Nirvana are my... Oh, Stained, yeah.

Oh, that was a joke. Stained. Stained. He says trying to think of a Stained song, but he can't. Stained. What a horrible name for a band. Stained. Stained. He says trying to think of a stained song, but he can't. Stained. What a horrible name for a band. And a state for your sheets to be in.

Nirvana are a hype man for getting ready for work. This was the first vinyl record I bought to sell my new vinyl obsession last year. Oh, yeah, good. Do you have that on vinyl? I don't. That would be a good vinyl. Bit of a classic vinyl there. My four six by dines and my twitters and my subby are absolutely shaken. Is that on vinyl? I don't. That would be a good album. Bit of a classic vinyl there. My four six by dines and my twitters and my subby are absolutely shaken.

Who are Fusion? You blow up Alien in the back seat, you get yourself a lovely set of Fusion six by nines. Thanks, Beachy. You're Beachy on the wrong. Shout out to Beachy. Legend. I don't know where Beachy is. Where's Beachy on the Rock. Shout out to Beachy. Legend. I don't know where Beachy is.

Where's Beachy now? I don't know. Shitty howdy boys and I, Beachy on the Rock. Yeah, Beachy on the Rock, 10 minutes to four. Best Friday flashback. And then someone said, oh, I thought you were going to play Wonderwall. Have we played Wonderwall? I don't believe we have. Yeah, that's a good song.

Great song. Oh, great. Sing along. So no negativity today, a little bit? Any? No, just that if I wanted to listen to this, I would have turned into The Rock. Okay, all right.

Well, no, not a bad Friday flashback, Smithy. And I can call you that. Yeah, because we know each other. But please don't over-familiarise yourself with me because you don't like it. It makes me uncomfortable. And I feel like I've forgotten you. Oh, yeah, right.

And I'm like, uh-oh. It's like when someone calls me Vorno or Vorny. Yeah, right. You've got to be. Oh, okay. Yeah. That's what my nan calls me, all right? You've got to be my grandmother.

All right. All right, VG. We've had some correspondence. This is from someone who would like to know what to do. Okay. And are they remaining anonymous? Yeah. My friend told me last night that she has started seeing my ex

and I don't know how to feel about it. I broke up with him, but I still feel like it should be a no-go. Oh, yeah. But that's like Edmund Hillary saying, I've just found out my son's going to climb Everest. I did that first. You can't bags a mountain. I don't know if that's the same.

You can't bags a mountain. No, but like if they're a good enough friend and they would have been there with you through the journey and then when you broke up with them, there would have been negatives, right? Yeah, but they saw what you did and how you did it wrong and they're like,

I won't do it that way and they're going to do it better. That's smart. It's not a game, it's a person. It's like watching your brother play Sonic the Hedgehog and he makes a crucial mistake

against Dr. Robotnik's final creation and you know when it's your turn to have a go, you know not to make that same mistake. But they're friends, aren't they? That's the issue. Yeah, and then you have to, like, what? Hang out with them?

You broke up with them, you don't want to then hang out with your ex. Was it a septic breakup or just sort of a mutual fall apart? Either way, I wouldn't want to see them smooching. If it was like a quick relationship, like a month or so and then six months down the track, yeah, and then down the track you end up with them, I don't think you can really complain, but if it

was a long-term thing, it should be off-bounds, right? It would go without saying, you end up with them. I don't think you can really complain, but if it was a long-term thing, it should be off-bounds, right? It would go without saying, right? I think so. Yeah. I know the right thing to say is that, you know, it didn't work out for you, so let her have it. But I wouldn't be down for it.

But then you can't dibsy people. You can't dibsy or bagsy people. They're humans. They can do what they want. That was called slavery. Yeah. Yes. That's actually how it used to go.

Bagsie, that one. Yeah. That looks strong. But then that's frowned upon. Very frowned upon. Of course. Yeah. Yeah, we'd like to know if this is frowned upon.

Have you ever dated a friend's ex? Did it go down well? Or did you keep it a secret? And have you still kept it a secret to this day? You can't be that good at friends. Imagine that. No, you can't be that close. Nah.

I mean, bonus points if you are and you've kept it a secret to this day. You can't be that close. Imagine that. No, you can't be that close. Nah. I mean, bonus points if you are and you've kept it secret. ZM's Fleshborn and Megan. Play ZM. So we've had a message from someone who said they were told last night that their friend has started seeing their ex. I don't know how to feel about it. I broke up with him, but I still feel like it should be a no-go. Right.

You wouldn't like it. I don't like bill code. Nah. You wouldn't be a fan. So we have had a lot. You have to hang out with them then and you already broke up. We had a lot of messages in. And there are some wild ones.

There are some wild ones. My friend dated my ex, but they broke up within two weeks. Hashtag karma. But then two weeks of dating. That's just a hookup really, isn't it? They just wanted to see if they could make it work. They're obviously hot for each other's bodies. They couldn't make it work on an emotional level. Thank you for that wild description.

Hot for each other's bodies. I thought that was quite a PG way of putting it. Yeah, but it was really weird. It was like how aliens would speak if they were witnessing us mating. Shh, don't tell everybody. I'm engaged to the guy that my best friend dated when she was 15. Does it count at 15?

I know emotionally it would at the time, right? It would be a lot. You'd cry into your pillow. You'd probably like, I don't know, listen to some angry music. Olivia Rodrigo for those currently in that age bracket. Is that angry? Is that angry enough?

Yeah, maybe. There's a real lack of really angry music for emotional teens at the moment, isn't there? Do you think it's time for an Evanescence comeback or a Paramore comeback? I can't think of a better person to hold the mantle. Sure, absolutely. My mate married my ex. She acts like we just never happened. This is the mate.

This is the she is the mate. She's married to my ex. I wonder if she can still... Oh, yeah. I know where that was going. Anonymous joins us. Anonymous, have you got a friend that's dating your ex? No, it was,

my ex-husband was dating my friend and my friends knew about it and my kids knew about it, but I didn't know anything about it. Oh, wait, so you break up with, how long were you with the husband for? 20 years. 20 years.

You guys separate and one of your friends starts dating your husband? Yeah. Ex-husband. 20 years. Oh, wow. Yeah. Oh, how did you take that? Yeah. Who am I to argue? I mean, they might be destined to be together. Who knows?

It's like taking the rubbish out and then seeing a rogue dog in the bin. You're like, hey, that's my rubbish. But it's, you know, the dog's rubbish now. Yeah, I don't want it. Anonymous, thank you. Let the bitch deal with the trash. That's what I'm saying here. Amanda, you're the friend in this situation. Yeah. Are you knocking on a door, Amanda? You're trying to find a stud with the trash. That's what I'm saying here. Amanda, you're the friend in this situation. Yes.

Are you knocking on a door, Amanda? Are you trying to find a stud in the wall? No, my kids are trying to get in. My kids are trying. Mum just needs a minute to call the radio station. Mum gets nothing. That's literally what I said. Mum gets nothing.

Let us in. Go outside for a second. Okay. So your ex started dating someone? No, no. So I was friends with somebody. It was a very toxic friendship. It was one of those where you were either like really close or you weren't friends at all.

Frenemies. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. So we had a fallout and she was like obsessed with this guy. He was friends with one of my exes, and he saw me at Speedway, because I'm from Parmy. There's not a lot to do here. Got every great relationship out of the Manawatu starts at Speedway.

I haven't been to Speedway for years. Yes, so he got my number from an ex-boyfriend, and we started hanging out at Speedway. And we've been together now for nine years. We're engaged, and we've been together now for nine years. We're engaged and we've got three kids together. And one of them's screaming right now.

Let me inside. Let me in. Let me in. Amazing. Amanda, thanks for your call. Some messages in. That child is the result of a great night at Speedway.

Hot chips. Babies. Hey, that was in the neck you'd go to the Speedway too. Which is Speedway and Nelson. It's good times. Am I the only one that wasn't regularly at a Speedway? Maybe.

What was your Speedway called? Well, there was a few in the NACU you'd go. There was a few? You had a choice of Speedways? I don't know why I ended up there. I've got no interest now in going to the Speedway. Wack-a-rack-a-pock. Bam, bam. Roaring inpock. Bam, bam.

Roaring in the dark. Bam, bam. It's got its own jingle, that Speedway. That Speedway was such a cultural, you know, point. Yeah. It's had a radio jingle. We had Huntley Speedway. Okay.

But you had to go to Huntley. So people probably gave that a bit of a wide wide birth because you just walk out pregnant very fertile soil go to the bathroom you come out and you're like I think my water's broke it works quick at speed

and then you just realise you'd had a bad bourbon and that was diarrhea it's all those hot men in their monster energy trucker hats And then you just realise you'd had a bad bourbon. And that was diarrhea. It's all those hot men in their monster energy trucker hats that get you pregnant. Where were we? I have a friend who has dated or slept with nearly all of my exes. That just means you've got impeccable taste. Yeah.

As a way I'd look at that. And now getting your sloppy seconds. So don't even worry about that. That's not a friend. I'm sorry. That's not a friend. That's weird. You won times that you could forgive.

Won times, but like, you know, find your own man. I did it out of spite. This seems to be a bit of an occurrence, by the way. And again, this person who did it out of spite also has children with the man now I hope that was another Speedway rendezvous rendezvous

can we run a quick poll how many people met at Speedway maybe we've it's a good night out it's a good night it's at Speedway there's hot chips

there's hot chips there's no hot chips are there hot chicks I don't know there's hot chips I'm worried about the hot chips. Oh, there's no hot chips. Are there hot chicks? I don't know. There's hot chips. I'm worried about the hot chips in the hot dogs. Right.

Maybe we should do a Speedway singles night. And just also worried that a tyre's not going to come over the fence and hit me. That's what I... Or a clump of clay. Yeah, oh, yeah. Definitely clay. You wanted to be sat on the straight because if you were sat any way past that, what do they call a midpoint of a curve? But that's where the crash is happening.

Everyone wants to sit by the crashes. I love you, Brenda. Oh, I hope it explodes. Boom. Perfect date night. Oh, New Zealand. All right. That guy's going to be burnt to a crisp.

Play ZDM's Flesh, Fawn and Megan. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Well, today's fact of the day was going to be about something else, but now I'm on Speedway. So Speedway, Speedway, Speedway. It's been a real bogan half hour of radio. We've had Nirvana. Uh-huh.

Dating your friend's ex. Yeah, and Speedway chat. And Speedway chat. Yeah. I feel like we're really connecting to our regional New Zealand listeners. Absolutely. Yeah, good morning to you. So I've changed the fact of the day to be about Speedway.

Okay. Today's fact of the day, just so we can talk about Speedway, is that New Zealand has 23 recognised Speedway New Zealand member tracks. Wow. I feel like you feel you've been left out because everybody and the producers and Megan and I grew up in rural New Zealand and we all went to a Speedway. I grew up in rural New Zealand. But maybe two rural New Zealand.

You're too rural. You didn't have a. I'm really surprised because my dad likes, never like actively participated in motorsports, but he had a couple of mates that did. I'm surprised we didn't go to Speedway. Well, probably because it costs money. It's by everyone's chips.

We went to Bay Park Speedway, the old one. Right. Which used to be by the old caravan park. Yeah. Which Bay Park Speedway, the old one. Right. Which used to be by the old caravan park. Yep. Which was a top 10 as I recall. Right. No, but see my issue is there's too many top 10 holiday parks. There should only be 10. There should be only 10.

Absolutely agree. It should be top 100 holiday parks. Let me run through these Speedway track names because I just said Carwin's one and she had a big smile on her face. I was like, that made her so happy. What's her one? Well, oh, can I go from north to south? Yeah.

Number one, Rosebank Speedway, Auckland. Number two, Springs Speedway. Number three, Waka Raka Park. Bam, bam, rolling in the dark. Is it roaring or rolling in the dark? I thought it was rolling. Huntley Placemakers Speedway. Don't mention the sponsor. They're not was rolling. Huntley Placemakers Speedway. Don't mention the sponsor.

They're not paying us. McDonald's Kehi Kehi Speedway. They are paying us. Oh, yeah, they are. They're not placemakers. There's a freebie. Bay Park Speedway. That's the one in the Bay of Plenty.

Is that the one you went to, Cowan? No, no, we're not down to her yet. She's three away. The TWS Paradise Valley Speedway, that's Rotorua. Eastland Group Raceway, that's Gisborne. Miani Speedway. There you go, Miani. She was just saying there was wealth shaming at Miani Speedway.

Was there? Yeah. What? Well, people would be like, oh, like I've got $5 to buy chips and a drink or whatever. And some people are like, I got $20 this week. What, like mum would give them $20? $20. Wow.

And did you kiss any boys at the Speedway? Oh, my gosh, no. Did your mum kiss any boys at the Speedway? No. Not that I know of. Yeah, your mum was like, here's $20, bugger off. Mum's got to find herself a racer. Stratford Speedway, there's your Speedway.

Ocean View Speedway in Whanganui. What about the Speedway we blew up the company car that time near Inglewood in the NACU? I don't know. I think that might have been decommissioned. Yeah, it might have been. It's not recognised. That was a great Speedway.

There were many townhouses on that. Palmy North's got the Robertson Holden International Speedway. 13's Max Motors Wellington. I'm going through all of them. Don't hurry me up. Megan, here's your one. Top of the South Speedway. Yep.

Eastern State Speedway over the hill there in Blenheim. There would have been a fierce rivalry between those two speedways, I bet. You'd get stuck behind a bloody stock car on a trailer going over the hills. Oh, my God, Steve. Yes. Greenstone Park Speedway is over on the west coast. That's probably your most isolated speedway. Woodford Glen Speedway. It's around Christchurch. That's probably your most isolated Speedway. Woodford Glen Speedway.

It's around Christchurch. It's really loading up on Speedways. Ruapuna Speedway. Moorpark Motorcycle Speedway. Then down in Queenstown, the Central Motor Speedway. I've only got three to go. Dunedin's got Beachland Speedway. And down the bottom, Invercargill Rockin' 2.

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Out there on the bloody eastern stand. Remember all you goggles that you're down by the wire fence. Bloody Osher down here telling us people are getting blinded by stains. All right. Not my day. Speedway. You're in so much trouble. Today's fact of the day.

23 speedways in New Zealand. Have a good day. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. ZDM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. Well, the 90% Project is a New Zealand Herald campaign to try and get 90% of New Zealanders vaccinated by Christmas. And you can roll up your sleeves, New Zealand, do your bit. You can follow the vaccine

tracker and the progress at the nzherald.co.nz Yep, there was a very interesting tweet from a doctor saying that there has been over half the world's population has received at least one dose of the vaccine. That's an insane amount of vaccine out there. In New Zealand, 1.87 million fully vaccinated New Zealanders, 5.13 million doses given in total. 37.9% are fully vaccinated.

So we know that when we get to a level, they've said that they will start to ease things like we're experiencing at the moment, restrictions and lockdowns. And a lot of feedback we get is that there are still some hesitant people out there. Yeah, so we thought we would bring on a medical professional, someone who knows what they're talking about, microbiologist, Dr. Susie Wiles joins us this morning. Hello. Hey, it's Lorena. Thank you so much.

I know you're having a couple of days off and you've still taken the time to talk to us so we really appreciate that. My pleasure. Now, a lot of hesitant people have messaged us through questions that we're going to put to you this morning. So we'll start with, this is a big one

and I have lots of friends who are also pregnant. Someone asked, what trimester in pregnancy is best to get the vaccine? Well, so the thing that we know is that pregnant people are very vulnerable to having a very serious infection. So basically any trimester

is the best time to get vaccinated. Or if you're even thinking or trying to get pregnant, then getting vaccinated is great. If you're in the second or third trimester and you get vaccinated then, then the antibodies that you make, those protective antibodies will transfer to the baby and the baby will be protected in the first few weeks or months of life. But the moment we're in now where we have Delta in our community, if you are pregnant in any

trimester, please do get vaccinated because you will be protected. Along the same line, someone asked, will the vaccine have any effects on fertility in the future? Like Nicki Minaj's cousin's friend. Who had the big swollen balls. We don't talk about that. Oh my goodness.

This is a really, really great question. And I know it's something that people are worried about. And one of the reasons they're worried about it is because we've seen people, that kind of thing about pregnancy and fertility being targeted by people who are spreading misinformation. So you're seeing stuff because people are targeting it at this particular fear. There's no evidence at all that this is a thing. There's no way that we know that these vaccines would work, that would do that. You know, all evidence we have at the moment is that things are looking absolutely fine. You know, people have been kind of giving semen samples and sperm looks absolutely fine. There's been no change in miscarriage rates or, you know, a couple is undergoing IVF.

Nothing, nothing like that. So just really, really important to ignore that misinformation and to know that, you know, people are targeting people's fears. And this is one of them. So another thing that I see a lot about is the long-term effects. People talk about that. So someone said I'm fully vaccinated but have friends who are worried about the long-term effects of the vaccine. Yeah, again, there's nothing really

that makes us think that there would be any particular long-term effects. And what I find really interesting about this concern is that people are concerned about this but not concerned about the long-term effects of covid which we actually know already you know the the um studies at the moment are looking like what about a third of people who

get covid will have long covid and what we have to remember is long COVID is just still the kind of in the sort of midterm. And the damage that's being caused by long COVID is likely to last into the long term. So, you know, we already have evidence that COVID is bad and will be bad for many people throughout their life. You know, we're thinking things maybe like increasing risk of dementia, diabetes, heart impacts. So it's really interesting that people are not or less frightened of the stuff we know about and more frightened of the stuff that is unlikely. And that's sort of kind of a feature of the way our brains work, which is sort of like working against us really. And long COVID kind of manifests itself differently in everybody, right? Yeah, there's something like over 50 different symptoms.

And I think it's been, at the moment, being classified in sort of three different ways. And, you know, this is a really serious thing, especially given the number of people around the world who've had COVID. And then my frustration on that is people who think this is all made up just say that that's fake and it's a lie. And then until it happens to them and then they make headlines because it's like, oh, COVID denier and anti-vaccinator, final words, I wish I'd been vaccinated.

And then the people who were with that person is like, well, no, that's a lie now. I mean, you're a microbiologist, not a psychologist. How the hell do you combat that? Yeah, it's really, really hard. I mean, again, this is, you know, our brains are almost like our worst enemy, right? Where they, you know, we kind of have,

we build this sort of world for ourselves. You know, we think of ourselves as special and that things won't happen to us, even when we see things actually happening to everyone around us. You know, it's, I mean, maybe that's why we do the lottery because we're like, oh, it'll be us one day, despite the fact that it's, I think,

like you'll never win the lottery, right? So it's just a feature of the way humans work and we kind of have to actively work against that. You know, I think what we need to be, what we need to remember with COVID-19, so it is a serious disease. There is plenty of evidence for that. Millions of people have died.

So that is just, that is the reality of things. There are people out there who are creating false and misleading information because they're trying to push their own agenda and they are targeting everybody, you know, who they can and in different ways. So we have to remember that's out there. And their voices are really loud because, you know, they use social media and the way social media platforms work is it pushes that kind of information that frightens us and it makes us angry. So you see more of it, right? So we know it's serious. We know people are trying to frightens us and it makes us angry. So you see more of it, right? So we know it's serious.

We know people are trying to lie to us about it. And what we do know, the evidence is really clear, is that vaccinations make a big difference. They protect us as individuals and they protect us as a collective. And that's the thing we have to remember. We have got to the stage we're at right now by thinking of each other and caring for each other and working as a team. And that's how we'll get through it.

And vaccination is just another one of those tools that we use, that we have to use, because there will be people around us who get vaccinated, who it's perfectly safe for them to be vaccinated, but they won't make really great antibodies. And they're relying on the rest of us to help protect them. And they might not even know who they are, right? It could be you. It could the rest of us to help protect them. And they might not even know who they are, right? It could be you. It could be any of us. If you can get, this is another question I've been faced with.

If you are double vaccinated, you can still get COVID. Obviously, the symptoms significantly less. But can you, like, if you can still pass it on, what's... Yeah, okay. So the first thing is you, like, you are orders of magnitude less likely to get it in the first place, right? So the data from New York at the moment is suggesting that about 96% of their cases are unvaccinated people. And it's something like 0.03% are in fully vaccinated people. And we also saw that here, sorry to interrupt, but we saw that here with our outbreak, didn't we, that a vast majority of them were unvaccinated?

Yes. So we know this from the trials too, right, that the vaccines were something like 96% effective. So we know that a small number of people, but it really is a small number of people, will get COVID. And those people, if they do get it, will be much less likely to have a serious infection and die. But we do know that that small number of people who get it will be infectious for a short period of time. So again, the numbers are all on our side, that if you are someone who's vaccinated,

you will be much less likely to get it. And you will still, if you do get it, spread it for less amount of time. And that really matters with Delta because it's so infectious. Okay. And the last, I think the other two big questions we've been getting to finish up now, just quickly, most people against the vaccine are arguing

that there is no long-term data, like three plus years. What would your response to that be? And also the fact that it's a new mRNA. So the fact that there's no long-. So the fact that no long-term data, well, obviously the pandemic started less than two years ago, but we actually don't follow other medicines for that amount of time before we put them into people, right? So I think that's kind of a non-argument that's been kind of weaponized against us. As for it being new technology, we have to remember that it's based on decades of lab research and it uses a process that happens in our bodies every single day.

So this is a completely natural process that our bodies use and we're all here still, right? Yeah. So, you know, it's just really, really clever science, really clever science using a process that happens inside of us every day. All right. Well, Dr. Susie Wiles, thank you so much for taking the time to answer those that are hesitant about the vaccine's questions.

My pleasure. And enlighten us more. Thank you so much. Enjoy your break. Yeah. I didn't say you need it. And if you would like to book your vaccine, if Dr. Susie Wiles has put your mind at ease,

book my vaccine online. A lot of them are over the weekend, especially in the bigger centres. Just walk in or drive in, especially in the bigger centres should just walk in or drive in especially in Auckland so we can get out of lockdown. If you are hesitant

talk to your GP. Yeah, exactly. Talk to your doctor. Ring them. Ring Healthline. Talk to medical professionals. Yeah, don't talk to your... Don't take the advice

of uneducated fools. ZM's Fleshworn and Megan.