ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Megan Podcast - 20th May 2021

Episode Date: May 19, 2021

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Hello, welcome to the Fleeche Vaughan and Megan podcast. It's thanks to McCafe by five McCafe coffees. Get one free on the Maccas app. Just done that thing where I've stumbled across a restaurant I want to eat at. And now you're deep in. I'm deep in their menu. And have you ever heard of it? It's not too far from your place. Madrid's. Madrid's. No. It's a Spanish restaurant. Madrid's wants to bring the experience. This is, by the way, I've just absolutely stumbled across this. They're not in any way. It's not a paid endorsement.

Hells no. Taste the experience of an authentic Madrid tapas bar. Taste the best pintcos, paellas, salads, slow cook roast lamb, and much more. Spanish national products directly to the heart of Auckland. Look at this lamb. Look at this lamb. Where is that?

It always amazes me the places that you just didn't know. Custom Street, corner of Fort Lane. Have you ever, speaking of places I want to go to, have you ever heard of Sneaky Snacky? No. On K Road. I saw it on TikTok. Sneaky Snacky.

They do glazed donut chicken burgers. Oh, my God. Yeah, man. It looks like American diner-esque burgers and stuff. I'm not into the glazed donut chicken burgers. Oh my God. Yeah, yeah, man. It looks like American diner-esque burgers and stuff. I'm not into the glazed burger. Yeah, I mean, that doesn't actually look like something I would actually eat, but I mean, I can appreciate it.

It's a lot. Chippies though, chicken wings. There should be a rule. Every burger now has to be a brioche bun. Yeah. Burgers with brioche buns are like, that's the best invention since probably the stapler. Got to be.

I'd say. The stapler. Yeah. You're putting it up there with the. It's right up there. With the given ability to keep paper. A stapler. Joined together.

Yeah, absolutely. It's like just incredible. Through a small metal rod being crimped. Yeah. It's a great invention, the stapler. Absolutely. And so is the brioche bun. And they sell them at the supermarket, the brioche buns.

Oh, always go. If it's home, mate, if it's home burger night, you always go to brioche bun. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So does other ones. Mum and I didn't raise them full. They're just hard, aren't they? Rubbish. Yeah, but sometimes you get a dried out brioche.

That means it's too old. You need a fresh brioche. Yeah, yeah. You need a little squeeze. You don't even tell me twice I need a fresh brioche. Talk to the restaurants. Give out the dry brioche. Right?

I'm with you. I'm with you, Dave. Good morning. Welcome to the show, Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The Friends trailer's come out. Like, literally, it's just come out this morning. It's good. It's not just a sit-down chat.

There's so many different aspects to it. They all go back into the house, and they read lines, and they reenact parts of it, and then they have guests. It looks like it'll be long. And they already said it's going to be hours long. Oh, right, like a couple of hours. James Corden. It was going to be Ellen. Now Oh, right. Like a couple of hours. James Corden. It was going to be Ellen.

Now it's James Corden. Right. Which you're really upset about. Looks good, though. It does. The trailer looks epic. It does. Phoebe reads some of her lines

and she sounds exactly the same. It does. Yeah. Exactly the same. Right, nothing's changed. All the women look fantastic, too, don't they? What are you saying?

Nothing. David Schwimmer looks good. Oh, yeah, he does. Yep. I mean, we all know Chandler Bing's been through, you know, some issues. Yeah, I think Chandler's got new teeth. His teeth look great. Oh.

Yeah. And Joey's just like a silver fox now. Yeah. Yeah, that's the new teeth. His teeth look great. Oh. Yeah. And Joey's just like a silver fox now. Yeah. Yeah, that's the vibe there. Right, coming up on the show today, your chance to win Add to Cart is coming up at 8 o'clock on the show. So it's the celebrity edition of Add to Cart. Today, comedian Guy Williams has picked everything in the cart.

So 8 o'clock, the first item and your chance to win. We have an announcement at 7 o'clock this morning. A concert announcement. And we will give away the very first tickets to that concert announcement. So 7 o'clock just after the news for that. The top six is on the way. Yeah, it's budget day. This is a big one for the government to say,

this is how we're spending those tax dollars. I've got the top six things you probably shouldn't hold your breath for in the budget. Oh, yeah, okay. Yeah, we're going to have to tighten the belt. So you've got the inside word, haven't you? Yeah. We've tightened the belt this year, so top six things not to hold your breath for. Right.

But next on the show, a nappy company has released stats about toddlers toddling. And how many steps the toddlers toddle when they can step. Is this crawling or walking? Like when they start to walk? Right, okay. Yeah. How many steps? Okay.

I'm just trying to think. How many steps do you do a day on your Apple Watch? Like 10,000? 10,000 is what you aim for, right? It's kind of cheating, though, because you imagine how many steps a toddler has to take to your one. And you stride it out. Well, yeah, but it's not on kilometres, is it?

It's on steps. Yeah. So, like, your one step is, like, four to them. Yeah. Oh, and their steps are so slow. You're like, come on. Come on. Come on, toddler.

Come on. Toddlers. They're always toddling around. They're always, that's why they're called toddlers, I guess, because their walking looks a little toddly. When does a baby become a toddler? Is it when they start walking and crawling? When they can toddle.

Okay, right. Yeah. So there's been research released by nappy company Who Gaze. Okay. Is that a boutique nappy? That's boutique nappies. Who Gaze. Who gays? Who gays?

The average baby walks four times as much, takes four times as many steps as the average adult. Yeah, so that makes sense. 17,000 steps a day. Right. Now, if the average adult was going to take that, it would be probably just shy of 17 kilometres because it's a lot of stepping. Right. How, if the average adult was going to take that, it would be probably just shy of 17 kilometres because it's a lot of stepping.

Right. How do I find... You go on your watch. Okay, so here's yesterday. I did 12,000 steps, 11.3 kilometres. Wow. And you were telling me that a baby does 10,000 steps. A baby does 17,000 steps.

But their steps are so much smaller. It's not comparable to your steps, yeah. Well, don't come around here, babies, claiming you're doing better. They won't be doing as many k's. They won't be doing that distance. They won't be doing 12 k's, no. Yeah. That's still mind-blowing.

To fire a toddler to keep up with you. It's about four kilometres. That's still mind-blowing that a toddler's doing four kilometres. Oh, yeah, but it's all, like, inside your house or in your yard. Or unless you're that baby that went bush a few weeks back down east. That was absolutely wild, eh? They're making a T-shirt. Yeah.

Was it three or four? There was a couple of reports there. They started out by saying three, and then when they found him, they were like, they started saying it was four. They may have had his birthday. At least he had his... Yeah, and he was hiding from the pigs. That his birthday. He was in the bush, yeah. Yeah, and he was hiding from the pigs.

That was actually a cute story in the end, wasn't it? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, kind of. They got him back. That was a cute part of it. Once it was a happy ending. Yeah.

Yeah. So that's, they write the equivalent of nine laps of Eden Park was four kilometres, toddling about, being a toddler, or climbing the Sky Tower 16 times but obviously not the steps part of it

just that's the distance comparable distance if it was lying down but that's even more mind blowing that they're just doing that around your house that's like going

round and round and round yeah well they're constantly on the move and then getting into bits and pieces and all the time shitting themselves

yep yeah well that's right if they do a poo in their pants, they might be doing some of those 17,000 steps with poos in their pants, and that's why they get a little rash. And they do a little pit stop. Yeah. That is absolutely mind-blowing.

I don't know how they did it. It doesn't say that they strapped on a... Strapped on a... Pedometer. Pedometer. That's the word I was after there. A little baby eye watch or a Fitbit. But they must have. They must have had some sort of movement because they said the step count alone is impressive.

But then there was the average, daily average of 5,280 crawl steps. Yep. 2,640 commando crawls, 2,400 leg kicks, 1,400 bum shuffles and 720 attempts at climbing. That's pretty cute. Yeah, 1,710 different moves per hour. Yep. How many fingers are towards electrical sockets in the lounge? All 10 fingers.

Got to have your little plastic covers on you, don't you? Yeah. ZM's Fletch Warner Megan, the podcast. Well, guys, there has been a study done with MIQ workers, a report. Now, this is in Christchurch. Okay. And you have to be nice to them. Oh.

Because they are reporting. But I don't want to be. I don't have any interaction. Excuse me. I don't have any interaction with. I was joking. I've never met anyone. Well, you should be joking because they're doing a fantastic report.

Fantastic job. Job. Keeping us safe. Yeah. And keeping, you know, arrivals. Yeah, they're doing a great job resisting having sex with recent re-immigrants to New Zealand. But yeah, so this report says that there's a lot of discrimination and stigma because obviously they work in the hotels and the MIQ facilities during the

day and then they go about their life afterwards and then they experience the discrimination. Everyone's like, oh no. Cooties, get away from me. Yeah, gotcha. Not like putting them at risk willy-nilly like sitting in the same room as people who could have COVID.

But they're fully, you know, PPE'd up. Yeah. And, you know, as we've seen, like, you're still going to... I can see people's reluctance. Like, I can see why people freak out about it. They're the last sort of like barrier, aren't they? But there are like thousands of workers, police, you know, nurses, security that are going in and out of these facilities every day over the past year.

Well, now you've got me freaked out. Now you're just freaking me out about everybody. I don't want to trust anybody. But your point is there's no community transmission. No, my point is this whole time there's been very few instances. Yeah. And so apparently in the survey, 26% of respondents said they felt valued by the wider community

despite being, sorry, felt valued despite being proud of their role at the border. More than half reported being treated unfairly due to their place of work. Oh, that's sad. That's you, Bourne. So that's like, even they say here, like, they go

to the GP or the dentist or attending hospital appointments, and they're the ones that are like, ugh. You just have to get in their gobs though, don't they? Every time I've made an appointment to go to the GP or anywhere, they ask you, have you had in contact, you know, have you get in their gobs though, don't they? Every time I've made an appointment to go to the GP or anywhere, they ask you, have you been in contact with anyone? Do you work the border?

Anything like that. And you always say no, but what would they do if you said yes? Well, yeah, maybe they would discriminate. Yeah, maybe they'd suit up. They'd probably suit up more. So more than half the respondents report being treated unfairly due to their position by family members, others in the neighbourhood, and even making and keeping friends.

Oh. Oh, I wouldn't get rid of one of my friends if they were a... MIQ worker? No, of course not. Okay, so we've got to be nice. That's the thing, yeah. I'd give them a thorough wash before they came. Give them a spray down.

Bourne, this is the discrimination they're talking about. You yell out the window, stand there, I'm just going to hose you down. I'm just going to go get the hose with the detail. The wet and forget. I'm not going to wet and forget them. Although that would be a great way to get rid of any mould, moss or mildew. Well, if they had mould on them, absolutely, that'd be a great way. No, but yeah, be nice to our MIQ workers.

They're doing a fantastic job. Guys, so on my walk home every day through the city, I walk past like a hair place. That's going to be a slap in the face. Fronting. Sure. But so it's got on the window, it's got like a big list of everything they do.

All their services. Like perms, hair, colouring. It's been a while, eh? Yeah, I don't know. Hair, eye stuff, eyebrows. Threading? Do they do threading? Oh, I'm sure they do.

They do a bit of threading. I think they do like other beauty stuff. It's got like skin resurfacing or rejuvenation or something like that. And like veins. Something about vein removal. Laser vein. Oh, varicose vein. Yep.

Choppy, choppy. And then like, so in the big list, this is one that like popped out on the window. What is it? I don't know what it is. And I don't want this to be like grubby or naughty or I don't want you to laugh at this. I've just got a serious question because I don't want you to laugh at this. I've just got a serious question

because I don't know what this is. Tightening. Vaginal tightening. I didn't hear the first word. What tightening? Vaginal tightening. Yeah, and then it's got in the big list of everything

it's got that and I'm like, what is that? Like is there like do you put a screw in and you just tighten it up? Waxing. Yeah, waxing. And then it's got vagina tightening. Vagina tightening. I haven't ever actually come across that before. Have you ever come across that?

It's just on the window. You should go in and be like, sorry, what does that involve? I'm not going to go in and say. Yeah, like, or is it a laser? Does it look like a place that would do surgical stuff? Well, no, like it's hair and skin care. Yeah, so it's so cool. So I'm imagining they might do like hair laser as well and stuff,

all of that, and all that, like your cosmetic, they'll probably get your lips done there. I don't think. I beg your pardon? I beg your pardon? You know, like Phyllis. Oh, like Botox on the face. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

On the facial lips. But that one, I was like, I've got a question about that. Okay, so I've just Googled vaginal tightening. There's exercises that feels like your Kegels. That's Kegels. Bit of Kegels stuff. So there's something called the Tense Care Elise Pelvic Floor Exerciser, and it looks to be something that you pop in.

Okay. I would have thought pelvic floor would be different to what they're suggesting. Well, you're going to a place that does procedures. You're not going to be given an exercise, are you? It's not physio. It's not physio, yeah, or the gym. This is easy to use, elegant, slimline design, rechargeable battery, a drug-free, non-surgical solution.

The at least two pelvic floor exercises provide us freedom from the usual containment pads and help sufferers. Oh, so this might be more for wheeze, unwanted dribbles. Oh, right. Okay. Sends gentle electrical muscle stimulation, EMS, directly to the pelvic floor muscles through a discreet probe to help strengthen, tone, or soothe these muscles.

Right, see, I can understand the benefit of doing your kegels and stuff and pelvic floors. But it's all the same area and it's all related. No, you're not tightening. It's different. It can't be surgical, though. That's suggesting that that's... Well, no, it wouldn't be surgical because it's like in a hair salon place.

And I don't want to get too technical, but that's the interior part, right? Not the exterior. Not the exterior part. There's a part where it becomes that. Well, this is why I had all these questions. And I was like, well, I'll ask Megan. Surely she'll know. No.

Just because you're a female. I found a Replens vaginal moisturiser. I thought the rule was you don't put anything up there like that. Yeah, no. It's a pretty efficient machine. Yeah, yeah. At my antenatal class, the woman taking that said, don't get tricked into these things because after childbirth,

there's no loosening that happens. It all bounces back. It's an amazing machine, the vagina. I feel like this is society saying, yeah, feeling self-conscious about that. Maybe it needs to turn the screw a couple of times. But then I have no idea how that works. Yeah, it's bizarre, isn't it?

You should go in and ask about the procedure. I'm not going to go in and say, excuse me, how does this movement work? It does seem ask about the procedure. I'm not going to go in and say, excuse me how does this It does seem more about the strength of the pelvic floor muscle. I'm looking at some diagrams now. It does seem more about the strength of the pelvic floor muscle which is a muscle that joins

the base of the spine. It looks, now I could be wrong here, I'm just looking at a diagram and it joins through to the front of the pelvic bone. The pubis I believe that's called. Yes, okay. And you can strengthen that through exercise. That's your kegels.

Yeah, right. Yeah, because I don't think you're going like off Queen Street to get a vaginoplasty. No. There's laser vaginal tightening. Oh, you said it could be a laser. They shoot a laser in there. Perhaps. That's a bit more of a procedure, but.

You've had. Brazilian. I've had a laser Brazilian, and that is enough. Yeah, right. Okay. Keep them all. Laser beams. Fascinating.

I didn't know this was a. You know, neither. That's why when I saw it on the window, I was like, well, we've got to discuss this. Wow. Right. I don't know why. I've just noticed I've got my hand holding my privates. And sort of a protective cover. Well, because the laser could shoot you.

Maybe it was just looking at that picture of the laser shooting in the thing. I am more than happy to just look. The little cover there. Yeah, that's all right. The laser will get your hand then. It's like when you're about to be smacked by your dad when you're a kid and you put your hands down and stuff. And he's like, move your hands.

ZM's Fletch Warner Megan, the podcast. What do nappies, peanut butter and cat food have in common? All the making of a great stag do. No, they're all in shortage. There's supply shortages

to these things over the country. Yeah, due to, I mean, the pandemic and international supply chains still struggling to get back to normal. So this is a real good time to work out what pet foods are made locally. Yeah, because a lot of them are from overseas.

Yeah, as it turns out. Wow. Because I noticed when I went to get some of those easy ones, we're going away for a few days. So just those easy singly servey situations. Oh, yeah. Like a tear open pouch. Yeah, that didnly-servey situations. Oh, yep. Like a tear-open pouch. Yeah, that didn't need to be refrigerated and stuff.

Yeah. So I just couldn't find any. Oh, wow. So those must be some of them. I don't remember the exact brand, and I'm not just going to shoot wildly in the dark. Yep. Risk annoying someone who supplies cat food, but internationally supplied peanut butter and nappies as well.

I did notice I couldn't find some peanut butters. What peanut butters? Because I have two. I have the Picks one, and then you have like a trashier one that's got like sugar in it. What's your trashy one for? Oh, for like a sweeter one. Yeah, well, no, because I have the nice one in smoothies and in like my cereal.

I put a bit in my cereal. Right. And then I have the trashy one on toast. I would have thought you would have gone the other way around, put the trashy one in the ones where it's disguised just as a sort of a bit of substance and you'd have your nice one on the toast because you get to taste it more. No, I can't explain it. Now that PECS have introduced us and like there's... Fix and Fog.

Yeah, they've introduced us to this amazing world of peanut butter. I don't know how anyone can go back to that trashy smooth... I've also got a peanut butter that's got like seeds and hemp and... Is that everything butter? Yes. I think Sade got sent that.

And it looks like if like the sparrows got in, they'd just absolutely fiend for it, right? It looks like, yeah, if you froze it, it would be like a great bird feeding. But I've seen heaps of that peanut butter around. I'm guessing that must be Kiwi made. But then the peanuts, we don't grow peanuts here. We don't really have the climate for it.

Although there was news recently that PICS were going to buy a Northland farm and turn it into a peanut farm. Oh, that's exciting. Which is quite cool. Okay, well, if you've got a favourite peanut butter and you see it at the supermarket, maybe buy a Northland farm and turn it into a peanut farm. Oh, that's exciting. Which is quite cool. Okay, well, if you've got a favourite peanut butter and you see it at the supermarket, maybe buy a couple. And what else?

Nappies. Have you had any issues with nappies? You have a nappy brand? We use Cute & Co, I think that's what it's called, and Huggies. Okay, Huggies is one of the ones. Oh, wow. It says Huggies. There's a shortage on H one of the ones. Oh, wow. It says Huggies. There's a shortage on Huggies,

nappies, and selected pet food brands. You should just be using cloth anyway. I was just going to say, I would love to see you go cloth. Really give that washing machine a workout. Yeah, but that's the thing. You use lots of water and then you have to use

the little inserts as well. Not if you wash it by hand. The disposable inserts. Why aren't you washing it by hand? It's easy to say when your kids are out of nappies. We've definitely used disposables the whole time

but now that we don't I don't think anyone should. I think everyone should go back to cloth. You've become an environmental warrior now that your kids are out of nappies.

Yeah, now that I'm done with that I can easily stand back and be like I should just start lying and say we use nothing but exclusively cloth nappies

and that's why our kids are doing well at school. That's great. What a piece of shit. Parents who why our kids are doing well at school. That's great. What a piece of shit. Parents who have done it, looking back on other parents being like, oh. I know, everyone's going to come for me now and be like, yeah, should you be using cloth nappies

and doing 50,000 loads of washing a day and wasting water? What? No. And having the time to. But thank you for clogging up the landfill, Megan, with your plastic nappies. Well, they've dug the hole. It's there anyway.

Something's got to go in it. Yeah. I'm not throwing plastic bottles in it anymore, so you should feel good about chucking your plastic nappies in there. Why should they dig a hole for nothing? All those hard-working digger drivers. Fleshforn and Megan, the podcast. ZM.

From the bustling ZM think tank, this is the top six. Speaking of budgets, my wife's just sent me a link to seven nights on Atutaki. Yeah, get in line. The budget today for the nation comes out on how tax dollars are going to be spent. And they're not going to be spent on a trip for two to Atutaki. Absolutely not. And then the government's going to give me a tax rebate.

Nearly capable of funding that trip. Although it does look lovely. It does look lovely. Have you been out to Atutaki? No, but it always looks lovely. Whenever I get to Rarotonga, I'm always like, maybe we could. And then you see how much it's going to cost you

as much again to go to Atutaki for two nights. But I already paid to be here. You know the perfect, you've got the perfect out here. It's a tiny old aircraft that takes you out. Shadow doesn't like that. She doesn't like the rickety little planes. You'll be absolutely fine. You've forgotten her friend Valium.

She's got a little vial of. She's got a little packet of. She's ready to go. But it is the budget today. I wouldn't imagine that there's going to be splurging after the year

we've had. Although, you know, doing better than a lot of nations. Yeah. But the top six things not to hold your breath for in today's budget.

Number six, Cocoa Pops. You haven't eaten all the Choccy Poof Puffs we've bought you last time yet. We're not buying you Cocoa Pops. You're not buying you Coco Pops.

You're not getting the Flash ones. Your father says he can barely taste the difference. You know, Dad always ended up eating the stuff you like. I'm not eating that. Dad's not a connoisseur. Well, don't throw it out. Your father will eat it. My dad's eaten cornflakes forever.

That's all he is. Forever. He's a cornflakes man. Yeah, and sugar. My papa was the same. Same breakfast every morning, same lunch every day, same one of three,

four dinners every night. Just loved it. Just a man of routine. Number five on the list of the top six things not to hold your breath for in today's budget, a starter jacket.

What's wrong with your current jacket? I can buy an iron-on badge if it's all about the S and the star, if that's all you want. Is this just reliving your teenage years? It feels a lot like the Smith family budget growing up.

You know, I was bidding on an actual, like, authentic 1990s Charlotte Hornets starter jacket the other day on Trade Me. Charlotte Hornets is the worst colour. No, I know, but it was just like I never got one. It was the Brooklyn Nets, although Oakland Raiders were good in the 90s me. Charlotte Hornets is the worst colour. No, I know, but it was just like, I never got one. Brooklyn Nets or the Oakland Raiders were good in the 90s because it was a black jacket. Yeah, right. And they had like a tough looking emblem. I just pretended to like

Charlotte Hornets because this guy I liked had a Charlotte Hornets hat. I was like, yeah, I like them. Charlotte Hornets, Orlando Magic, the Jazz, those 90s teams, the Chicago Bulls were like who you went for because they were like on the hot streak. But yeah, I was bidding on it. And it was going well, the bidding on the starter jacket.

It was like $40, but lots of people thought it was on the watch list. And then all of a sudden, like one hour until closing, it got up to like $240. So it actually probably cost more 25 years later than it did buying a brand new in the 90s. Smithy was out as soon as it went over 60. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, because they said one of the inside zips didn't work. So, you know, take that into account. Number four on the list of the top six things not to hold your breath for

in today's budget announcement are real fruit roll-ups. If you want real fruit, we've got fruit at home. We never got those growing up. And then you wrap them around your finger and make you a finger lollipop. Looking back,

that was grubby. Gross. Yeah. We weren't washing our hands much in the 90s. Yeah. You would have had roll-ups and Lee snacks.

You would have been a posh Dunkaroos. We, no, no, no, we weren't allowed any of that. No, because mum used to make me like meat sandwiches with like salad and pepper and I was like, I just want peanut butter, no, no. We weren't allowed any of that. No, because mum used to make me meat sandwiches with salad and pepper, and I was like, I just want peanut butter, mum.

No. Got to have your protein. She's like fancy as Sammy. Got to have your greens. I love a fancy Sammy. Number three on the list of the top six things not to hold your breath for in today's budget, Doc Martens. Now, rugged sharks are cheaper,

and they sound like they're going to last a lot longer. Look at the ad. They had such a deep grip. The shark could swim through the feet, the soles. Did you have both? Yep. At different stages. Oh, right.

Not at once. Doc Martens younger or older? I can't remember. Older, maybe? Doc Martens on kids who waste time. Your foot grows too quick. Yeah. Save it until you finish growing, and then you can get a pair of Doc Martens,

and you could probably literally wear them for the rest of your life. Yeah. Number two on the list of the top six things not to hold your breath for in today's budget, a PlayStation 5. Your father's got a PlayStation 2 around here somewhere. Lots of games for it, too. Wouldn't he have five? What was wrong with the two?

Even if you want one, you're on a list. I think they are expecting those to be like 2022. Yeah. Delays. The end of 2022 is expecting those to be like 2022. Yeah. Delays. 2022s. Wow. Massive shortage. Yeah.

I've got one. And number one. Take that, mum. Take that, mum. This is a problem when you treat your kids like this. They grow up like me. They're like, I want it. I'm buying it.

I'm buying a little. I'm buying a game. And number one on the list of the top six things not to hold your breath for in today's budget. Takeaways. It's perfectly good food at home. Perfectly good food at home. There's some leftovers from last night. If it's pizza you want, I can get out some buns and put some spaghetti and cheese on top.

Oh, yum. Those are so good. Was it like raining recently and cold? It was a bit of a cold snap. And I was like, today's definitely one of those spaghetti on a, you toast the bun, then you put the spaghetti on, then you chuck some cheese on it. I'm a grown up now.

I'd put a pickle on it too. Oh, yeah, nice. Put a pickle on it and hot sauce. Yes. Maybe even a Tuscan seasoning. Yes. Go wild. Go wild.

Go wild. Get the Tuscan on it, baby. That is today's Top 6. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. We've just announced Benny's New Zealand regional tour all over the country. Tickets on sale a week today. LiveNation.co.nz.

ZM online. We've got all the dates. And the very first double pass is going to you, Katie, and Napier. Congratulations. Yeah. Thank you. So she's and Napier. Congratulations. Yeah, thank you. So she's in Napier, Benny,

performing at the Pettigrew Green... What's a Pettigrew? Pettigrew Green Arena. Yeah, that's it. Is it a finance company or something? No, it's a sports stadium. Yeah, but who's the Pettigrew? Is it named after somebody?

Is it a place? No idea. Yeah, okay. This is a weird name. Oh, my God, I'm not going to be able to sleep until I get the answer to that one. It's a multi-purpose indoor sports entertainment arena near Taradale.

But it must be a finance company. You know, like... Home of the Hawks Bay Hawks. Because of the hawk. Yeah. Of course it is. That really tickled you. It did.

Because of the hawks. It really did. It would be weird if it was like Hawks by Eagles. Katie, well done. I don't think I'd like that even more. They missed the most obvious. Are you done? Nah, I still don't know who they are.

For example, in Palmerston North, it's the Central Energy Trust Arena. Are they the wind turbine people? Well, that's just central energy. But what is, you know, and then there's Trust Power Arena in Tauranga where she's playing. And Nelson, it's like the Trafalgar Centre. That's just the name of it. Well, that's because they haven't sold it.

Lazy. Yeah. But then it could just be the name, Pettigrew Green Arena. This may have been built on the Pettigrew Green. Yeah. From what I'm seeing. It might just be the name of it. And then Pettigrew must have been.

Did they own the green? Well, or they were a family or a settler. Yeah, I'm not going to be able to sleep until I find the answer for that. So someone can let us know. Well, what if you just let everybody know, and I'm not saying this is the case, but what if they were like a horrendous figure of history and now you've brought it to everybody's attention and they're going to have to rename it?

Well, they could be the opposite. We've done a lot for the town. Oh, look, I don't know. Yeah, chip it into my chat about periods too. Okay, we'll let some seamlessly segue from that. Speaking of people who have periods caused a bit of an issue. What? Periods.

What? What? Speaking of another issue. Is? Periods. What? What? Speaking of another issue, is that a segue? Speaking of speaking of monsters with horrendous tempers. Okay. Wow, that was Vaughan Smith. Cancelled. Oh, you know I'm just kidding. I'm an ally.

Yeah, okay. Are you allowed to just claim that you're an ally? Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Don't look into me too much and don't look into who Pettigrew in the Pettigrew arena is. This comes from a personal trainer. Her name is Kate and she has spoken about exercising while, or actually just for people who have periods,

while you're menstruating and the other times of the month. Right. It actually is important to tailor your exercise and food, she reckons, to where you are at in your cycle. And this makes sense because when I was shredding for the wedding, we would never weigh me. We wouldn't weigh me. We wouldn't weigh me when you have your period because you weigh more.

And your hormones fluctuate. Do you? It could be up to like two kgs sometimes. You weigh more and your water retention and all that kind of jazz. I always have my period after a big weekend. But because your hormones fluctuate so much within the month, she reckons it's good to change your workouts based on that. So these are different, what is she, she calls it a cycle workout.

A cycle for your cycle. It's not being on a bicycle, it's for your menstruation cycle. So at the start, you would be better to do less strength and hectic exercises because your hormones are at their lowest and sleep is what you need. Right. Not saying you shouldn't exercise, but do like yoga and Pilates and less hectic things. Or cardio, more cardio?

Not at the start. Not at the start. Because that's quite... Is that hectic? That's like energetic. Right, okay. And so you, during your... So prioritise rest and sleep in that area.

It's better for the board. And do like low impact yoga, Pilates, that kind of thing. But also depending on like what you eat during your cycle as well, your body responds differently. This is all according to this personal trainer. Yeah. But I reckon I can attest to some of that because we would change how I worked out depending on where we were at

in the cycle too. Because if you're tired and you're really stressing your body out while you're going through that time of the month and trying to do weights and hectic workout, it's not going to work in your favour. But yeah, this is like, I reckon this could be, there could be something in this.

I mean, you still have to get off your butt and do some exercise. She's not saying just like stay in bed. Yeah, just stay at home with a bag of chips. Yeah. Like we all want to do. Yeah. Period or not.

Period or not. I know. I hear your sister. Period or not. It's like, yeah, ice cream day one. All right. 14 past seven.

Got our answer. Pettigrew was a Hawke's Bay businessman. Yep. And also a philanthropist. Okay. There you go. What's Okay, there you go Rodney Green Is the other person So it's Pettigrew Green It's a couple of surnames

The Smith Fletcher The Fletcher Smith Arena I'm not saying they should rename it But it's different I'm not going to say no Maybe we should get an arena for somewhere oh they'll probably they'll probably want money sounds like a lot of effort doesn't it probably have done something more to the point yeah that's a good point as well yeah vaughn smith philanthropist doesn't exactly

go together does it not not at this stage no uh vaughn smith uh penny pincher definitely guys sounds great one sman Smith tight ass Flesh Vaughan and Megan the podcast ZM Megan while we just announce Benny's tour of all the regional

New Zealand places that miss out on gigs she's going all over the country she's on the phone with us this morning after 8.30 last night

the Smith family post dinner embarked on a homework journey now I hated homework yeah so what my approach to parenting the Smith family post-dinner embarked on a homework journey. I hated homework, eh? Yeah, so my approach to parenting is that I see my shortcomings and I try not to pass those on to my children. My procrastination, some would say laziness,

but I work well under stress last minute. That's what every New Zealander says, even though they don't, because it's very stressful. Yeah. I'm trying not to pass it on. Okay. So Indy had homework for the week but she gets all the homework

for the week at the start of the week. Okay. So I was like, get it done now and then you're free all week. And Sade's like, yeah, if you get it done,

there's nothing to stop. You've got the time tonight. If you get it done and then they've got this allocated time in Friday, in class on Friday to finish what they haven't done throughout the week see I'd just do it all then

so that's what everybody's doing and Indy's like it's a real panic on Friday I was like well you get it done now so she's done now so Friday I was like well what do you get to do now she's like I get to play

like computer games so I was like well isn't that like a cool thing to do at school and you get to be the kid that's like having all this fun and everyone else is like panicking I was never that kid at school. And you get to be the kid that's like having all this fun

and everyone else is like panicking. I was never that kid at school. No, neither. You know when you got to finish your work early, you got to like, in our days, you got to go outside and play. And then if you... You got to go out outside and play. You had to be awful careful there because you might get diphtheria.

Gosh, no, not scarlet fever. And stay away from the children with tuberculosis. No, but, like, that was the reward because we loved going outside. And then if you hadn't finished your work, you just had to look sullenly out the window and watch the children play and have fun. Yeah. That was oft me.

Yeah, always me. So we were like, well, if you get this done now, then you get the free time. So she's all done for the week. So while she was doing her homework, I said to August, well, you read me your book because now then you get the free time so she's all done for the week so while she was doing her homework I said to August well you read me your book

because I know you've got reading yep so stomps off brings back her book bag chucks this on the floor I'm like oh this is going to go well

god I can relate to August so much and I was like what book are you reading and she's like don't know don't know she's coming with a great attitude yeah I'm like

well no you what book have you been told to read read don't know I was like well what books are in, don't know. She's come in with a great attitude. Yeah, I'm like, well, no, you, what book have you been told to read? Read. Don't know. I was like, well, what books are in there? Don't know. Well, open it and show me the book. So she opened it.

There's one book in there. I'm like, well, that must be the book you're supposed to read. Yeah. Must be. Don't know. She's not even seven. Yeah. Don't know.

And I'm like, okay, we'll sit here. And so we sat there and then she picked the book up. She was holding it upside down. And then she looked at me and I looked at her. Oh my God, the sass of it. And I was like, oh, I'm ready when you're ready to start. And she's just like looking at me like. I'm like, be your book.

She must realize at this point, she's not going to beat the stubbornness that is Smitty. I don't think she knows where she got it from. Right. I don't think she knows where she's directly inherited this attitude from. And I was like I'm ready when you're ready. And she's like hmm. And just

still upside down. And I was like it's upside down. And she turns around the right way. I was like have you forgotten how books work? Yeah. And she's like yeah. And I was like oh okay then cool put it back in that bag. Yep. Puts it like, yeah. And I was like, oh, okay, then cool. Put it back in that bag. Yep. Puts it back in the bag. She's like, I've won. Yeah, she thinks she's won. I was like, and go to bed.

And what time was this? This was like a quarter to seven. I was like, go to bed. And when she stood up and I was like, and don't touch that door. Because on the way out of the lounge, I knew she was going to slam the door. I was like, and before she even stood up, and don't touch that door on the way out of the lounge i knew she was going to slam the door yeah and before she even stood up and don't touch that door on the way out of the room oh she loves the door slam i love the door slam stomp stomp stomp stomp stomp gets into bed and shadow's like what happened

there i was like i don't know i think i won and uh where shadow's like well no one wins because she didn't read the book i'm like don't get angry at me. So you got in trouble. I got in trouble. So then next up in the chain of commands telling me off. Yeah, right. She's like, well, she should have read the book. I was like, well, she claims to have forgotten how books work. And I'm not in the mood. I'm not in the mood to teach a child how books work,

let alone teach her to read. Because that was the uphill battle I was facing to even get her to hold the book up the right way. We didn't even open the book. Imagine what would have happened when we got into the book. Oh, yeah, she wouldn't have wanted to read. Because that was the uphill battle I was facing to even get her to hold the book up the right way. We didn't even open the book. Imagine what would have happened when we got into the book. Oh, yeah. She wouldn't have wanted to read it. She would have been pointing at the words being like, poo, poo.

She knows how to read. You should read when she's playing like Roblox or whatever video game she's playing. And the instructions are coming out, but a rate of knots. And she's like, go to this coming out but a rate of knots and she's like go to this one and get a bloody flying pet and she can read quick this book all of a sudden she gets in the book to read and that's why yeah so then

I got in trouble for sending her to bed early and not reading a book and so you got sent to bed early so I just took myself off the bed actually just hide away in the bedroom so we're all in trouble and I'm grounded. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. Joining us

in studio from the Black Fern Sevens, Michaela Blyde and Niall Williams. Good morning. Good morning guys. Morning. Australia. Are they here yet? They are here. They are. Tread lightly then. You've what? Steered them down. Have you?

Where did you steer them down? Oh, you always do when you... When you go out to the airport and you're like... See you. Made signs like that. No, it wasn't welcome. Go home. Whenever we obviously have breakfast, lunch and dinner

in the same room at the hotel. So every time they walk in the room, it's like this. Really? Is it actually? But really. A little bit. You just do the like a little bit of a But you must, there must be some of them that you guys know because Yeah. Like, you know, like pretty much the whole team. Yeah. But whether you're friends or not is a different thing. I mean, I'm like good mates of probably two. Right. And the rest of them can get stuff. The rest of them have got a

target on their back. But then in tournament, like when you're doing a tournament, do you actually like chat or is it? Only once you've beaten them, eh? Yeah. Yeah, when you walk over with your medal. Yeah, yeah. How's it going, guys? Sorry about before.

I just didn't know if I was going to get this gold medal or not. Get your friendly. Does it feel good to be able to play, you know, against international teams again? Yeah, absolutely. We haven't, well, if you've been on social media, we haven't played an international game for over a year now. Yeah.

So to be able to be given this opportunity to play a team that, you know, is just as high of ranks as us is something that we're really grateful for because it's a great preparation for the Olympics. Some other teams will probably not be able to be given that opportunity to play an international team and really test where they're at compared to where we were at February of last year, which was the last time

we had a World Series tournament. So we're using this opportunity massively and using it to our advantage. So usually the Olympics kind of rolls in straight after a seventh season, like you say, you haven't played for a year, but like last Olympics, what was the gap between the last tournament and the Olympics? Oh, it wasn't a long time, mate. Come on, what are these questions?

Five years ago. Sorry, I'm asking questions from pre-2020. So what did 2020 look like for you guys, like both professionally and personally? Yeah, I guess for myself being a mum of two girls, it kind of turned into more being mum, which was really nice because my poor partner has been mum and dad probably for the last five years.

So it was nice to actually be at home and be involved in their learning. And I was going to say school trips, but the only trips were to the park. So yeah, for myself and just training alongside my girls, I guess the novelty wore off about three sessions in. And they said, no, we don't want to go to the park anymore. Watch you train.

So it was pretty tough. There was definitely really hard times trying to, and also hats off to teachers. Oh my God. I don't know how they do it, but yeah, so trying to play teacher, mum, athlete, all that kind of stuff, it was pretty tough. But let's just say when we got back together I was actually really excited to

get done in fitness. I found that like just, I have no idea how athletes have maintained themselves over like, you know, the past year or so. It just, that must be so hard. Yeah, I guess especially for those that are high professional sports and are competing for the Olympics, that mental motivation of that, we have the Olympic Games ahead of us.

We can't really afford to miss too many sessions. But obviously during lockdown, it was cool to see how many people or how many athletes I guess used their equipment at home and was able to, I remember seeing a swimmer who was lying on top of a bench and had a bucket of water underneath her face and she was still doing her freestyle and just had her face in the water to practice her breathing. That's unbelievable wow that's unbelievable that's just pure determination and um you know obviously something that's really

important ahead of us and you'll do anything to make sure that you're in the best position possible to perform at olympic level so we got around it somehow shape or form but yeah we're here now and only maybe what is it eight weeks until we compete now. So it's going to creep up fast. It's weird because you want to go to the Olympics but then it's also like the world's on fire and there's COVID. Is it a scary proposition? Oh, I think when there's a global pandemic

it's naturally scary to be a little bit frightened, but we've gotten some great advice from our New Zealand Olympic team, our medical staff, so we're quite fully aware of everything that's going on, the risks that come with it. And I guess at the end of the day, each person has their own decision to make

and we all get given a choice about vaccines and all that type stuff. So it depends. Do you want to be on the bus going to Tokyo? Or the plane, sorry. I'm used to just being in New Zealand. That's good. It's the long bus, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. But if you want to be or the plane, sorry. Yeah. Used to just being in New Zealand. That's good. It's a long bus ride.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But, you know, if you want to be on that plane, there's sometimes there's a little bit of risk and, you know, sacrifice that has to be made, so. Yeah. Wow. Okay. So what's the countdown then?

You must have in your mind the countdown. How many days till the Olympics? How many days till you leave? It was 100 days not that long ago. Right. So it'd be in the high 60s 70s now. Right. Yeah and the fact that at the beginning

of this year we were counting down to this tournament and now it's here. Right. It's going quick. It's going very very fast. Yeah I think we worked out the other day with our mind guy I call him mind guy I think it was about

35 more trainings to go until we play at the Olympics at the Olympics wow and playing six games against Australia this weekend

this weekend yeah so two on Friday at Grammar Tech two on Saturday at Eden Park and then two again on Sunday at Grammar Tech oh wow awesome

and people can get tickets to the Eden Park tickets tickets to Eden Park? Tickets to Eden Park for the Saturday game are online. So for those that are listening, if they want to come watch, have a look at the All Black 7s and Black Fern 7s Instagram page. The bio and link for tickets are on there. But otherwise, Friday and Sunday are free entry.

Awesome. Awesome. Absolutely. Michaela and Niall, thanks so much for popping in and best of luck at this tournament and the Olympics. Thank you. Thanks for having us. All right. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast, ZM.

Happy birthday to the subreddit, Am I Ugly? Turn 10 years. I don't want to clap that. No. So people used to ask, like, am I ugly? Put up a picture and then just have that. And what was there? Because that's how Facebook started, eh?

Mark Zuckerberg was like, hot or not. It was like a hot or not. And you put up your photo and people are like, not. And you're like, oh. Smah. I don't know. It was a real, it was mean. So moan. Well, to celebrate that,

lots of people on TikTok are doing something a little bit less like, not am I ugly. People are asking if they're attractive and what can they do better other than plastic surgery. Like tips. Tips on how to be more attractive. Yeah, this has been a thing on TikTok for a while. Yeah.

And everyone says, please be mean, I can take it, say whatever. You say that and people think they can handle it, but then when the internet is unleashed on you, it's another thing. So, I mean, I do worry about some of these younger people who are doing it. I could never comment on someone like,

there's no, I just couldn't. But often people were like, often people were really nice. Yeah. But then there are the comments like, and these are actual comments, lip fillers,

maybe a smaller chin, you're just boring, get over it. So that's mean, see lip fillers is kind of like they asked and that's somebody who's saying lip fillers but you're boring, get over it that's what I expected it to all be like. Yeah, it's pretty hurtful.

I just would, there's no way I would put up a picture and be like, have that. Everybody wouldn't have to dig that deep into their own psyche to remember something somebody has said about your appearance, right? It's one of those things that people say

and years and years and years and years and years later, they wouldn't ever remember saying it, but the person they said it to, 100% as fresh as a daisy in the oil. And it's amazing how many years back you can remember one stupid comment. I know, you could remember something someone said to you at school. When you were teasing you. Yeah, exactly. And this is why I don't take my shirt off

because you tease my small nipples. Oh, I'm sorry. I said I like your small nipples. We never said that small nipples was a negative thing. I like them. Well, you inferred my tiny nipples. I'd like to see them now. You're not seeing my nipples now. I pass this early in the morning. Would you like me to show you them after nine?

Yeah. Okay, yeah, right. I don't really pass on a nipple, me. I'll have a look if it's being offered. Yeah. Executive Intern Anya, did I spot you the other day looking at some of these TikToks? Yes, I love them. Very high on your algorithm.

Do you ever comment and say, here's what you should do for your appearance? God, no. No, because then what if they come for, what if they fire one back? I don't know, you're not asking. Exactly. I don't want that. No, no, no, no.

But yeah, some of them do a follow up as well once they've done the tips, which is always quite exciting to see. Well, these aren't intense, we're not talking lip fillers or anything though. No, no, no. We're talking like parting your hair differently or something. Yeah, to be fair,

I've only ever seen nice comments. Maybe that's because the nasty ones got deleted, but I've only ever seen people say like, oh, you should part your hair this way, or maybe you should try this colour. And it's easy for a stranger to say you should try a fringe, because there's no bad, it's not for everybody. And then when you're trying to grow that fringe out again,

oh, yeah, been there. Yeah, so some of them look better after the tips and some of them do not. But, you know, you've got to try these things. But isn't that, but you love the kind of, the judgment or the just the whole entertainment value of it? Yeah, what is it about it?

Because I don't know. You don't know these people. Why do you care? God, what are people going to say? Do you think, like, you're your own harshest critic. I'm pretty sure this isn't just me. When Do you think, like, you're your own harshest critic. I'm pretty sure this isn't just me. When you look in the mirror, you see five things. You're not going to change them.

Oh, hold on. Because you always talk about your lazy eye, which I never see. You point it out all the time. It's when I smile, one eye shuts more than the other. But no one notices that. And it makes it look lazy, even though it's doing more work than the other eye because it's shuts more than the other. But no one notices that. And it makes it look lazy, even though it's doing more work than the other eye because it's shutting more than the other eye. But it's like a Paris Hilton.

I'm just looking. I pretty much photoshopped it out of there. Yeah, no, I can't see it there. But the right eye is open more. I'm just looking at a picture of ourselves. A little bit. Have they photoshopped that open? Paris, I think that what they see up here.

Yeah. Paris Hilton and I have a wonky smile Oh yeah right Oh my god No one's noticing that I know no one notices it Because when you say it people are like Oh I've never even noticed it

And they might be just being polite But I think everybody's their own harshest critic You don't need to tell somebody anything But the thing is people do I don't know why And that's what I thought Can we do this this morning Take some calls

When has somebody insulted your looks? Like just being so blunt. Especially when it's just like out of the blue. And you know what? It's always older people. It's like aunties or something. Yeah. Or grandmothers.

Yeah. Oh, no. See, I was very lucky. I had two. I didn't have the grandmothers that did that. But Sade's Thai grandmother would put her hand, put her fingers around your wrist. And if she couldn grandmother would put her hand, put her fingers around your wrist, and if she couldn't

meet her own fingers by going thumb to finger around the wrist, she'd be like, oh, fatty. Ow. Sade says it never happened to her, but she witnessed it happen to people, and she was just like, you can't do that. Executive Antonania, you have a

famous incident in a makeup store. Yeah, this is in a massive makeup chain when I was in Europe. Okay, flex. Name it. Flex. You flex and you've been in Europe. No, I'm not going to say. But, yeah, this woman came up.

I was just browsing. This woman came up to me who worked at the store and said, you know, there's something you can do about that, eh? About what? And I was like, huh? And she pointed to my face. I was like, well, okay. The whole thing?

Be specific. I was like, hmm. And then she pointed to my arms, and it became clear that she was talking about my five million freckles. And she said, and I was like, oh, okay. I'm actually not looking for a sort of treatment for that at the moment. And she was like, no, you should cover them up. It's quite disgusting.

I was like, okay. Was English her, like, primary language? No, but she spoke it pretty well. Does she know what disgusting meant? I feel like she wasn't on the hunt for a compliment. I mean, you can get filters on Instagram and Snapchat for freckles. How long ago was this? Because freckles are totally in.

So this is the thing. I was like 13. Oh my God. Yeah. Wow. Not great for a teen. I would love to take some calls this morning. 0800 DANCEATM 9696.

When were you insulted on your looks by a stranger or by someone? Maybe they weren't out to insult. Maybe they weren't out to insult. It was like a critique, but they had no business critiquing you. We are talking about when you've maybe received unsolicited advice on how your appearance could be made more satisfactory to the person giving unsolicited advice.

Yeah. And it's from the point of view of don't comment on other people's appearance. Yeah. And some of the things people are saying to people, just what? It wouldn't even cross my mind. Maybe it's a generational thing

we're hearing. It's a lot of older, all the honesty of children. Now, children, you can forgive children because they have not yet learnt the social norms, you know.

No, but that makes it worse. Primary. Because it's absolutely Because they're being honest. Unfiltered, honest advice. You think you're having a good day and people are complimenting you and a kid tells you the truth

and you're like everybody's been lying to me but man there are so many text messages and calls coming in it is absolutely crazy we'll start with Jess Jess

when did somebody comment on your looks warning guys yeah so when I was really young I was in a car accident and my nose got smashed and so by the time I got to

intermediate kids at school used to tease me about the bump on my nose and then I sort of got through that and then become an adult and then one time I went to a pub and this complete stranger just turned around and goes, it's the nose

for me and I was like it brought all that back, I was like really like I'm an adult now and you're still people are still pointing out the nose thing and then, but then thankfully still pointing out the nose thing and then but then thankfully Lady Gaga made the whole bumpy nose on A Star Is Born cool

so I don't have such a complex about it now yeah right thank you Gaga thank you Lady Gaga but you're right like that's and we're hearing

from so many people some throwaway comment was said to them about their appearance when they were like a kid and it's still like years later like a flesh wound

but this was what, at a bar? And this was a grown adult. Yeah, I would have been about 24. And were they a 10 as well? No way, he was about a 2. Yeah, exactly. He'd been a bare nose, and they'd been like matching noses. But I didn't point that out though, because I'm not a bully.

Yeah, exactly. I was like, that's fine, have a good night. Eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind. Very true. Jess, thank you for your call. Alex, when did you get some unsolicited comments about your appearance? I was getting a bridesmaid's dress altered

and my auntie's neighbour offered to do it for us for a treat. Never met her before. She was like mid-60s, maybe early 70s. And I went in in put the dress on she was like oh it needs to be taken in by so much da da da

and then she was like have you thought about going on a diet but the dress is getting taken in yeah by like lots actually and she was like

oh my gosh it needs to be taken in so much and I was like okay and I was like I don't know what to say and then my sister was there

and she was like um she's been on the diet she's lost like 20 kilos and the woman's like oh well you should make sure you stay on it during the wedding and I was like, I don't know what to say. And then my sister was there and she was like, she's been on the diet. She's lost like 20 kilos. And the woman's like, oh, well, you should make sure you stay on it during the wedding. And I was like, hey. Wow. And again, I bet she could throw stones.

Yeah, exactly. No, no. I was like, okay, thanks for that. And my sister was like, if she wasn't doing this just for a bottle of wine, I would have said something. I was like, that's so awkward. Well, that's what happens when you pay people a bottle of wine, I would have said something. I'm like, that's so awkward. Well, that's what happens when you pay people

a bottle of wine to do something. Yeah, Alex, thanks for your call. Some text messages. A guy approached me once and said I would be perfect for a sunblock commercial because I was pale. When I was 16, I was walking towards my friend's dad and he said, I know what's wrong with her legs.

It's the chubby knees. What? Like, what? chubby knees. What? Like, what? What? Wow. Why? Why? What's going on?

Why say that? What's happening here? She's a fantastic person. Why? We've just got so many text messages from people who have had throwaway comments. So I'm guaranteeing the majority of these people who said it would not even remember saying it. No, and the people that have had it said to them are clearly remembering it. Yeah. Intriguing it up. Yeah, totally.

Just a throwaway comment. When I was 16, my stepmother couldn't understand why I had such a beautiful girlfriend. As she would say, I was certainly nothing to look at. Ruthless. See, you can't remember these comments. I wish people could look at themselves

Through the eyes of people who really love them And then they'd get a decent picture Of what they were like Yeah I was told I was a hot air balloon when I was 10 As I was a chubby child And now that sticks with me And just that way of being described

Pops into my head all the time Nana used to call me thunder thighs Cheers Nana Pops into my head all the time. Wow. Nana used to call me Thunder Thighs. Cheers, Nana. Pops into my head all the time. See, this is why you shouldn't ask the internet. Don't do this TikTok. Don't, yeah. Definitely not.

And shut your mouth. If you feel this sort of commentary bubbling up to say to somebody, swallow it back down. Yeah. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. We're joined in studio by a very special guest. Pretty quiet so far. A couple of groans and a gurgle.

Sebastian Pappas, good morning. Nothing. Maybe not a future of broadcasting. It's very bright in here for him. Yeah. He seems taken with the TV screens. There's Uncle Fletch. The most natural.

I just waved at him. That was the wave you give to your neighbour when you don't really want to, you haven't got time to chat. I'm in a rush. I don't really want to chat. Good to see you. Let's catch up later. Let's have a chat later.

We've met Vaughan, but as of yet haven't like in person met Uncle Fletch. Didn't love him. Oh, he's trembling. Oh, he's blowing your raspberries. His hands are real tiny. Tiny baby hands. Would you expect normal adult size hands on a baby? No.

I don't know. You go to Plunkett, they're like, okay, head's about normal. Weight, length, good. Hands, the size of an adult. Well, just keep an eye on that. Then they'll grow into the hands. Yeah, right. Yeah. Do you want to say that. That's something that'll grow into the hands. Yeah, right. Yeah.

Do you want to say hello? That's a baby. Do you want to have a cuddle with Uncle Fleck? Has he said any words yet? When do they do that? No. God, how old is he? Three months old.

He does repeat the sound, ha-ha, sometimes. Oh, really? That's advanced? Very advanced. Very advanced. Yeah, I think that's hello or something like that. So let's take him with the colour blue. The green on the blue looking at the

screens behind Fletch. Yes. He's pretty chill at the moment. Yeah, he is actually because he didn't like, when we went round he was crying, he didn't want the look of us. Did you hold him? Yep. And he cried. Yep. Yeah.

But he seems content here. Yeah, right. Okay. That's good. Like it would be optimum time to have a cuddle, I think. Yeah, where are we at next strength? Looks like a strong neck. Strong neck, but I would just... Still a bit wobbly.

Oh, it's really wobbly. Look how wobbly that was. A side hand there, just so he doesn't fling himself back, but... Yeah, right. Yeah. Do you want to go give fling to Carlo? Yeah, I reckon. I'll wipe that dribbling.

Can you hold it, Megan? Him? Can you hold him? No, you have to hold. Just do what she's doing. Just copy what she's doing. Now you've got a horizontal baby. Okay, hang on under that maybe go into the arm there you go why i'm holding it but it's what are you holding like that

for i don't know what because i don't want to drop him well you're more likely to drop him you're like balancing don't leave megan come back i could drop him tuck his head into your elbow go further down your arm no why is it taking so many people to show you how to hold this job? I don't know how to hold it. So you have to hold that and then get this arm more under. Like that. But now you're holding it up here. You can put him down.

Does this look natural? We live on Instagram if anybody wants to see the most unnatural holding of a baby. How have you only got worse at holding babies? This is like the second baby I've ever held. He moved a lot. He looks so uncomfortable. When you had your niece, I held your niece before you did and then it got to your turn

and you're like, I think the baby's had enough of being here. Megan, do you want to take him back? Actually, Megan and Andrew are going to take this opportunity to go out for a couple's coffee and I've got a couple of things that we're doing as well. Absolutely not. Do not leave me in the studio alone okay they've actually just left i hate you all how am i gonna press the button to start the song how am i gonna press the button

to start the song he's moving his legs. He doesn't look happy. He doesn't look happy. Okay, I can't play the song because I'm holding the baby. And they've left. Vaughn and Megan have left and walked out. Oh, he just did a gurgle. Oh, don't start crying. He's starting crying. You all right?

No, you're not, are you you you don't like me yeah yes I relax he can hear the panic in my voice you're right oh he calmed down because I was calm that was a good parenting tip from you Vaughn um okay well I need to press the song Jared producer Jared can to press the song. Jared, producer Jared, can you play the song? Yes, good. Good from you. Okay, he's moving his legs. Uh-oh.

Uh-oh. He doesn't like Ariana Grande. You know? I'm trying to stop him, I'm hoping. Help, Megan. He's the reason. I'm here so soon. Grande. You know. Help, Megan. Flesh, Vaughn and Megan. The podcast. ZM.

Look who's back. Vaughn and Megan. Taking away the baby. The baby. You didn't need us. You and Bastion. You had it under control. That was.

Yeah, I was like, I didn't want to drop him. I know, your arms were like fully whipped around him. I was like, I'm not dropping this. That's the first thing they teach you in antenatal class. Is it? Don't drop these. Oh, yeah. Try your best not to drop these. Well, that's good.

I'm obviously a natural at that. Yeah. Fantastic. Thankfully, I won't be doing that anytime soon. I think you've effectively got yourself out of any babysitting duties. Yeah, this is great. Yeah. That was the plan.

That was the plan. Right, from babies to vouchers. Dinner vouchers is where we go now. And we have been running a poll this morning on our Instagram. How would you feel if you went on a first date with somebody and at the end of the date, they whipped out a voucher for the dinner? So say it was like a half price voucher

or they had to grab one or maybe a first table's different. I mean, I guess technically you're getting 50% off, right? Yeah, you're getting a big discount. The catch is your dinner date would have to be early.

Ready to eat at 4.30. I think like first table, that would be like a fun thing to discuss and be like, hey, if we go early, ha ha, we can you know. Yeah. Could it be like kind of kitschy

cute, always in the first date being like Hey you, I've got a Grab One voucher. Yeah. You, or if I approach you to the bank, you have been selected as the lucky recipient of half of this Grab One voucher.

He might be in the delivery. Yeah. Or a comedian about it. But if you went up, I don't know, to pay at the end, you're paid by voucher. Is that a red flag if someone's being a tight arse on the first dinner date? It's a heads up, right? Yeah, this person. But then I love a discount.

Are savings? Yeah, I love a discount. Is this a savings? Yeah, I love a discount. Yeah, but on the first date, you can save it for at least a third or four. It might be a sign of, especially if you like to live lavishly,

that you might be starting a partnership with a penny pincher. Yeah, if you've got a champagne lifestyle on a bare budget, they could really clash with you.

Because you are also, your first impressions, your first date is full of first impressions. Yeah. You know, visually, smell. Yep. You know, all of the senses. And also then you tick your financials.

Yep. And yeah, if you like the more lavish things. Yeah, is it more to do with like, do you want them to know that financials are financially stable and can look after themselves? if you like the more lavish things. Yeah, is it more to do with like... Is this person willing to spend money on me? Do you want them to know that financially stable and can look after themselves? Well, people that use vouchers, that's how the rich get rich. Yeah.

Thing is, if I was on a date and they were a 10, you know, a 10 out of 10... Oh, yeah. They could get away with anything. I mean, if Harry Styles is bringing a grab one voucher, then I'm all good with it. Harry Styles could be like, we've got to go to Resene

and get this free supermarket dock at Test Pot. I'd be like, absolutely, let's go now, Harry. I'd let Harry Styles click at the waiter. No, you don't let anyone do that. You don't let anyone do that. I'd go to the waiter and be like, I'm so sorry about that, but it's Harry Styles. I'm going to get away with it.

I just feel like Harry Styles would never click at the waiter. So we asked you, using a restaurant voucher on a first date, how do you feel about that? 59% of people say no. I would have thought it would have been higher. Did you? That's pretty, it's pretty close. 59%

are not down for it. But then this also said, we never stated that you are being taken for dinner. What if they, okay, this would definitely sway it more into the no, is that if you go out for dinner but you agree to pay halves and then they use their voucher for their half but not yours. That's obviously way more of a no, right?

Yeah. Yeah, I'd be happy for them to use the voucher for the whole. Yeah. Yeah. Some text messages in, someone said, I'm not sure where I stand on this because I'm a stickler for a deal and I love a discount. But I went on a date with a guy who used the voucher for a free dinner he got from work.

And then I realised he had no money to pay for the two drinks we had. So he turned around and asked me if I could pay. Oh, no. The voucher he had only included food, not drinks. Okay. My now husband used the half price voucher on our first date and waved it around so the waiter knew. My now husband used the half price voucher on our first date and waved it around so the waiter knew.

I'd never used a half price voucher before and I almost died, but we've been together 11 years now and married for seven. So they overcame this. But someone said, what if you're doing a lot of dating and you need that discount, baby? That's true. It's going to get expensive. Oh, yeah, exactly.

Someone asked me when I was single, I used the entertainment book vouchers all the time because that stuff really adds up. Yeah. But, like, are you sneaking up to the counter afterwards and doing your voucher? Or are you doing it together at the end and paying and being like, well, I've got a voucher.

You're sneaking up and you're doing the voucher, right? Yeah. I mean, that's okay. You're not loudly and proudly doing the voucher in front of them. You're sneaking up and doing the voucher, right? Yeah, I mean, that's okay. You're not loudly and proudly doing the voucher in front of them. You're just thinking up and doing the voucher. Yeah. Like, even now, if I took my wife out for dinner and I had a voucher, I wouldn't tell her because I wanted to believe I would pay full price

to sit and enjoy food with her. I would go up and I would pay very quietly. Just wait till she's in the bathroom. Yeah, with the voucher. And I wouldn't tell them I had a voucher when I was booking because sometimes when you book and you've got a voucher, they give you the shit table. Oh, you're a second-class voucher citizen.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. They put you right by, like, the toilets or, like, the busy part near the kitchen door. Don't tell them until afterwards. Yeah, no. Yeah, right. Producer Jared, you actually had a tip when you were dating. You're not single now after your lockdown 400 Tinder matches. But he's still dating.

No, he's not currently. He's dating his girlfriend. But I'm not dating around. Yeah, but when you were dating different, you know, you're dating around to try and find the one, you've got a tip. Yeah, so instead of taking a voucher, you can just Google

the place you want to go to and see what specials they have on what days. Oh, like Dollar Wings night. Yeah, or like two-for-one Tuesdays or two-for-one hot plates. That's okay. But then what if they don't want a hot plate? Oh, that's on them. Yeah, that's on them.

Then you're getting two hot plates. Then it backfires. Yeah, just stipulate. Because it's like Wednesday night, steak night. And so you're like, that's on. And then you get there and they're like, oh, no, I don't eat steak. And you're like, well, don't you order too? You think too expensive?

I'd kind of bank on the discounted steak night. So you've got to be sure that you're not going to order. Yeah, good tip. And don't order for someone on the first date. No, don't do that. Never order for someone on the first date. It's not sexy. No.

Are you allowed to finish off their leftovers if they don't eat at all? I would take that on an individual basis. Right. If they offered. Yes. Yeah. Okay. What if they offered you?

Like wings. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because I don't want to see those go to waste. I don't know if I'd eat half their steak. Sometimes I see people eat wings and they leave so much meat on the bone. I'm like, what are you doing? I've got to hoover that off.

A chicken sacrifice itself for us. I mean, it didn't have any? I've got to hoover that off. A chicken sacrifice that suffers. I mean, it didn't have any say in it. It wasn't a self-sacrifice. Yeah. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Fact of the day, about suicidal sex mice. Okay. Wow.

This is phenomenal. Have you seen Australia has a... Oh, my. Like, if you are scared of rodents or mice, do not Google, but they're, like, farms in... Is it New South Wales? The plague, yeah. It's plagues. Like, overruns. Like, they are, but they're like farms in, is it New South Wales? The plague, yeah. It's like overrun.

Like they are like not just a couple, like. Tens of thousands of mice. Rivers of mice. It's just this population explosion. It must have been perfect conditions. And one spokesperson for PETA said, please don't kill them. It's the natural cycle to which everyone's like, no, no, no, no. But then I don't even know how you would go about killing that many mice.

Because it's ruining like crops and farms, like decimating. They ate an entire like barn of grain in the space of like an evening. That's how many tens of thousands of mice set upon this place. Did you see there was a tractor or something that had caught fire and they said that that was the mice that had done something. It was full of mice and they mice had done something, yeah. It was full of mice, and they'd made nests and stuff. Yeah, if you've got one rat, it'll look for the warmest place, and after a day working, that'll be a tractor,

so it'll make a nest in the tractor engine. Then when you start it up, birds are the same. You've got to check. Check the tractor. With that, the snakes and all the racists, I don't know why people do Australia. It's good for a holiday, but I don't want to live there. They've got permission now to use double-strength poison because they were putting poison out, and the mice were just like... Yeah, but I don't want to live there. They've got permission now to use double strength poison

because they were putting poison out and the mice were just like, yeah, well, I'm immune to that now. I'm back to eating your grain. Well, these aren't the mice because those are introduced mice. Right. Those are introduced pests. The mice we're talking about are Australian, however. Okay. They're suicidal sex mice. They're a marsupial

mouse. They're a tiny little marsupial. And there's 12 known species that do this, but in the mating system, their body pretty much stops doing everything apart from looking to mate. Okay. So, at about 11 months old,

which is when they reach sexual maturity in the males, they stop producing sperm and their testicles disintegrate. Oh, okay. Right. Just dissolve, do they? And get reabsorbed back into the body. Oh.

And they can only rely on what they've produced sperm-wise. Yeah. That they've got that on board now and that's that. Okay. And then they know that it's time to reproduce or die. And then the frenzied, as they describe it, frenzied mating season begins and only lasts a couple of weeks

and usually the males die right at the end of it and they're definitely dead by the time their offspring are born. So scientists originally would see these marsupial, these mice-sized marsupials and they would be like they're losing fur and they look like they've been fighting for, but they haven't. Their body just literally begins to shut down. They lose losing fur and they look like they've been fighting for, but they haven't. Their body just literally begins to shut down.

They lose their fur. They get ulcers. They have gangrene because everything in their body is just like, I've got one thing left to do in this life. And it is do it. They will mate for up to 14 hours at a time. Oh my God. During which time to keep them going, other parts of their body just start disintegrating and going back into their system so that they can concentrate on the muscles required

for this frantic lovemaking. It's like Grandad at the rest home. He knows he's only got a few days left. Grandad at the rest home. Disarm my arm so I can carry on. He's like, don't need the hand anymore. Goes back into the body. He's like, okay, I've got five more minutes

before I have to sacrifice another hand. Don't make that movement. And Beryl's like, I'm over it. And he's like got five more minutes before I have to sacrifice another hand. Don't make that movement. And Beryl's like, I'm over it. And he's like, five more minutes. There goes the other hand. He's like, no, no more. God, I don't think it's going to happen. And he's like, I'm sacrificing a leg.

God, and then Ryman had to come in and vacuum him up. Yeah. And he's like, I've got last one last move i'm sacrificing my hair and then just like at the end of avengers infinity war where they all just yeah dust yeah and then rhyme and rent the room out good mr bit Good to go. You missed a bit. Vacuum up and away they go. But yeah, they just literally start falling to pieces.

Wow. Knowing they're going to die, all their hair falls out, their body's open to infections. Apparently they've like studied the body afterwards and ones that were healthy with no sign of disease, at the end of this, their immune system shuts down. They've got like cancerous growths. As I said, gangrene. And then they just fall to the ground

and that's what's left of them dies. So today's fact of the day some Australians will literally just kill themselves and give it all to have sex and they happen to be little mice. Fact of the day, day, day, day,

day. day. Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do. Flesh, Fawn and Megan, the podcast, ZM. ZM and Live Nation present, me, Benny, taking her Aotearoa tour off-road. We announced the Aotearoa tour this morning, and she joins us on the phone now. Benny, good morning. Good morning.

Happy tour announcement day. Thank you. Thank you, thank you. Now, as people that grow up in small-town New Zealand, myself in New Plymouth, Megan and Nelson, we never got the, I mean, New Plymouth, we had the bowl, so we had the odd big name, but we never got the tours, we'd never really come through town. We had Tina Turner once, I remember that, but I mean.

Aww. But not since Tina Turner has been in Nelson, Benny, has it been such a big show. So thank you. Thank you for doing the regions. Of course. What made you do, what made you decide to do that? I think I kind of just, you know, I did my Welly and my Madonnas

and Auckland and Crashers stuff last year. And I thought I'd just kind of, you know, touch all the spots and it's nice to make everyone feel included. And obviously not everyone can fly up to big cities so I feel like, you know, I also haven't been to all, like this is my first time in Invercargill. I'm currently in Invercargill. It's fun for everyone.

Are you just sorting out the contract with the venue? What are you doing down there? This is my spot to do promo today. Okay. Yeah. Cool. Are you going to Stewart Island? Not today, but hopefully. Oh, you're simply in the show.

It's so lovely. Now, I think you're surprised at how wide the streets are in Invercargill? Um, I actually haven't noticed how wide the streets are. There's some wide ones. We've got road in town. We're about to drive round, so I'll have a couple of hours.

Yeah, real future proofing, yeah. I tip my hat to Invercargill there. Now, are these regional venues going to be able to handle your touring demands?

Like, do you have, what do you have in your rider and backstage? Are they just going to think you're a diva, like, because

you want a foot spa? No, no. A foot spa? I think I've requested, I think we have, like, purple powerades and that's, like,

about it. Is that your go-to colour? Is it? What's? Pardon? Yeah, that's my favourite colour. Is that your go-to colour? Is that what's... Pardon? Yeah, that's my favourite colour. Is it?

Purple Powerade. Not purple in general. Okay, you what? Okay, because I... I didn't even know there was a purple Powerade. Yeah, man. Do they just mix the blue Powerade with the red Powerade?

I don't know how they do it, but... That's your go-to. Okay. All right. It's grape. Is it? It's not flavoured. Is it? Oh, yeah, see? That's why it-to. Okay. All right. It's grape. Is it? Is it?

Oh, yeah. See, that's why it's my favourite. Yuck, Benny. You've started something. That's yucky. That sounds good. That's yucky, Benny. Gross. I'm so disappointed.

Oh, I'm sorry. Grape flavoured anything, apart from grapes. Hubba Bubba. Hubba Bubba's good. No, thanks. Hey, well, Benny, we'll let you get back to Invercargill. You've obviously got a busy day there. We're doing... Thank you.

And your tickets on sale a week today. LiveNation.co.nz You can grab all the details as well at ZM online. Touring the regions. Benny, thank you so much. Thank you, guys. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. We get this every year.

It's the strangest items left behind in Ubers. Uber lost and found. Uber lost and found. Always love this list. So some of these, I literally don't know how you would leave them behind because some are so large. Someone left a chili bin with prawns inside. That one might have been in the boot though. You know how you always forget when you get out of it?

As someone, because I dropped my keys in an Uber, they just slipped out of my pockets, trackies, left those in the Uber. I'm always super, every time I get out of an Uber or taxi, I'm always just like, okay, check, check, check, look, look, look. I always do a second glance and a swipe of the seat just in case you can't see because the back of my phone's black and if it's face

down. You'll feel it. You'll feel it. Also a small mysterious purple toy. They say about three or four inches in length was left in the nose. When you say mysterious toy, you're giving us a bit of a wink wink. Mystery toy. An adult toy. A GHD hair straightener.

A bike. Again, probably in the boot, right? A bike in the boot. Got to be GHD hair straightener. A bike. Again, probably in the boot, right? A bike in the boot. Got to be a little kid's bike. It's in the boot. Preoccupied. It can't be on their mind always to be like, check the boat. You've got something in the boot.

A singular tub of Ben & Jerry's ice cream. A snare drum. A deck chair. An electric scooter. A mop. A mop. Why are you even, why is the mop coming with you? Yeah, just left it there.

A walking stick with a snake head on top. Oh, that sounds like a villain. If you see a hobbling villain today, that'll be why. An orthodontic mouthplate. Why was that not in your mouth? They might have fallen out of a purse or a bag or something. A ukulele has been left in there, a vacuum cleaner, a bongo drum has been left. How are you leaving

it just again in the boot? So you get out and they drive off and you're like, oh. Yeah, right. There's a whole bunch of things, but it's got the most common items left in Ubers as well. Number one, of course, is your phone and your camera. Yep. Phone. Number two, wallet and purse, and then three is keys

like Fletch always does. Yeah, I never got those keys back either. But if I was an Uber driver, I'd just be like, oh, no, I can't see it. Oh, they're not here. What? Yeah, because then you've got to go round to their house, it's effort. Yeah. Just write it off. You'd get them five stars and you might even offer them a little tip.

Yeah, true. Yeah, you could. A little post-ride tip. Yeah. They've released them 20 most forgetful cities in the world. And number 10 is Christchurch, the highest New Zealand city. Okay. And number 18 was Auckland, New Zealand. What was the most forgetful city? Tokyo.

Huh. Japan. I don't know. It's all those long 16-hour business days and they're leaving their keys and wallets in the Uber. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. If you enjoyed this podcast,

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