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Hello and welcome to the Fletchmore and a Megan podcast.
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I was just reading the death notices in today's New Zealand Herald.
Why?
Do you know, they put a happy birthday notice in!
You can put a birthday notice in the paper!
Why?
Before the deaths!
What does that one say?
Happy birthday Dave Fernie, you are such a legend, so remarkable, pure class, a privilege to know,
and the greatest human to be around.
It's a very small print.
Who from?
Who by?
Have a wonderful birthday.
Love, Suzanne.
That's cute.
It's like old school Facebook posts.
No.
Who's?
But in the paper.
I've never in my life seen a birthday message In the death notices
I mean it's births
Deaths and marriages
Do you have to pay for that
Yes
I was going to say
You could get me one of those
For my birthday
Because it would be like
Vintage
We could definitely get that done
Oh yeah
100%
Let's pop up to reception
Don't you
Will they give us a freebie
Because we
Well they better
Happy birthday to Megan
This is my indication
To the producers
That I'm handing off the task
Birthday message You're handing off the task.
You're handing off the task in front of me. For Megan.
Saying, CBF, you do it.
Your birthday's Saturday.
Are you working at the cafe on your birthday?
Yeah.
Or have you been gifted a day off?
People, you could come in.
You could have it open on the birthday.
The death of family.
Circling.
I mean, fucking depressing for 99% of the page.
But there's that little blip
Up in the corner
Of a happy birthday
Are you excited
How old are you
Going to be this birthday
36
Yeah
36
On my calculations
Yeah right
Okay
Same age as my sister
Should be proud of your age
This is your sister 36
Fuck off
I know crazy eh
Why did you not say that when I said I was 36?
Because he's kind of seen you all the time.
I see you every, I see the ages.
You see me deteriorating in front of your eyes.
You met my sister when she was 19.
Yeah, that's, I think that was what it.
And now she's old.
Yeah, like I knew you when you were like 30.
Right, I thought you meant you didn't think she looked 36.
Yeah.
Um, excuse me.
Six years.
And the rest of it.
It feels like a lot longer, but I'm not sure.
Isn't that like almost 12?
As a birthday gift to you, turning 36, I'm going to teach you how to peel a banana.
You pull the stalk down.
No.
No, you do it the other end.
With a black knobbly bit.
This is how the monkeys do it.
You squeeze that.
Just on the very end, you squeeze it.
It'll split.
Yeah.
And then pull down on the split.
Pull apart on the split.
I've just pulled the end off.
No, you didn't.
No, you've got to pinch it and get behind.
You don't even need to use your nails.
Yeah, something like that.
Now, is that the way to?
Then you've got a better handle.
Okay.
And it takes the pith with it.
Oh, I hate the pith.
It takes the pith with it. It takes the pith with it. It does too. It is. Oh, I hate the pith. It takes the pith with it.
It takes the
pith with it.
It is taking.
That's two.
Oh.
Oh.
Don't.
Was that on
camera?
We got out of
corner.
What did I do?
You put a finger
each side of the
banana and gave
it a sexy stroke.
It was great.
It was like
I'm putting on
a very delicate
caught you in there. No, you were fucking lovingly looking at this banana. It was like putting on a very delicate.
Caught you in there.
No, you were fucking lovingly looking at this banana as you went.
And we both picked up on that.
I was checking for path for the stringy bits.
I would have checked with a nail.
You ran it.
This speaks volumes of my delicate treatment of a penis.
It doesn't.
What?
God, I've got a couple of kiwi fruit you can pop underneath it if you need to work the balls.
Jesus Christ.
Wow.
I don't want to eat it now.
Yeah, I don't want to see you eat that.
That's disgusting.
Need I say that to?
Christ.
We're gone.
All right.
Enjoy the podcast. Well, just on that Christ. All right. Enjoy the podcast.
Well, just on that, yeah, enjoy the podcast.
Rub a couple of fingers down it.
Rub a couple of fingers down it.
Christ.
ZM.
Hit music.
Lives here.
Flesh, fawn and Megan.
The podcast.
Good morning.
Good morning.
Good morning.
Good morning.
And the National Party are dropping like flies, aren't they? It's Fawn and Megan, the podcast. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Hmm.
The National Party are dropping like flies, aren't they?
Good Lord.
What an election it's been.
Like, yeah.
Yeah.
And Parliament hasn't officially left yet to start the election run up.
No.
Because how far out do they do that?
Like two months, I think.
Okay. Will it be too they do that? Like two months I think. Okay.
Will it be too
roughly about that?
Yeah.
Man I'd just be
planning some long weekends
of doing something.
And that's why
I'm not a politician.
You've got to be out there
knocking on doors.
Yeah.
Oh that'd be the worst.
Putting up your hoardings.
I could put up a hoarding.
Yeah.
A bit quality hoarding though.
If I was the leader of one of those parties,
I'd just sit down with everyone and be like,
okay, amnesty.
Anyone got anything they want to tell me?
Get it out there now.
I think that's why you don't become a politician.
If you do have something that...
Oh no, apparently you do.
I mean, you say that.
Apparently you do.
The top six coming up.
An electric plane has been unveiled.
Correct.
It's a 70-seater electric plane.
No fossil fuels involved.
Kind of looks like one of those ATR planes you fly on in New Zealand,
around the country, about that size.
It looks about that size.
How long does it take to charge that baby?
Oh, I don't think you could park it
at the New World rapid charge
point for electric vehicles or anything like
that. I don't know. It's got solar panels on
the roof. Yeah, there's some solar panels.
So it's probably charging while it flies.
A bit of that extra juice during flying, but the
top six issues I can see with
this plane in the top six. Alright,
it's coming up. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan,
the podcast, ZM.
The Department of Conservation is saying,
don't go chasing frozen lakes.
Stick to the rivers and waterfalls that you're used to.
Yeah, right.
For your gram, because there is a lake called Hooker Lake.
It's in Aoraki Mount Cook National Park.
And it is a glacial lake.
So it's frozen.
It's frozen.
Well, it freezes over at certain times of the year
when it gets very, very cold.
It freezes over and people walk on it.
However, the Department of Conservation is saying,
we don't know how thick that ice is.
And if you fall through, you may have guessed it's very, very cold.
And it is very, very deep.
I didn't think we had, like, I know Central Otago gets very cold.
Because they do the cooling.
Yeah.
But that's not on a lake, is it?
I thought that's a rink.
I thought it was on a lake.
No, no, there's rinks.
Is it?
But I thought there was lakes as well.
Oh, maybe.
Where do they do the cooling?
Because, yeah, it gets very cold in central Otago.
In central Otago.
Yeah, no, there's a lake.
There's a lake.
And they do it on that.
And there is also the bobsled track, isn't there?
A bobsled track?
Not a bobsled track.
What's the one you sit on?
Luge.
Luge.
Nope.
Step up.
What do you mean that you sit on?
Sledding.
No, it's a step up from sledding.
Well, it must be bobsledding.
The Maniato Toe Curling.
Naseby.
Naseby.
Right, okay.
Yeah, yeah.
They do the curling.
The Naseby's got an indoor curling rink,
but of course they've got the outdoor one as well.
And I'm sure they had a...
Bobsled track.
Not as big as a bobsled.
You lie on it and you go down And on your back
At the Olympics though
Like shit goes nuts
At the Olympics
Oh yeah
What is that called
Horrible looking
They should call it
Rocket sled
And they wear the lycra
And that guy died
Yeah he did die
That's right
Was it Sochi that he died
Or the Winder Olympics
Before that
That he died
Yeah that was horrible
It was like horrendous
And it was like live
All around the world
They had to close the shoot down
For a couple of hours, didn't they?
Anyway, whatever that's calling.
Oh, I googled lie on your back sledding and it's not come up with that sport.
It's come up with other things in the bedroom.
What?
How?
What's sledding, Megan?
Is that a position or something?
This is why I get so sidetracked online.
It's not my fault.
What's on your back sleeping?
Toboggan?
Yes.
Tobogganing.
Yeah, right.
Or is it luge?
Is it ice luge?
Anyway, you can do that there as well.
Right.
But back to Hooker Lake.
Don't walk on it.
It's very picturesque.
And of course, so many New Zealanders are getting out and seeing areas of New Zealand
where the school holidays have just been.
We're in the middle of winter.
And they said as tempting as it may be, don't walk on it.
Yeah.
Because if you go through...
You'll get eaten by an orca whale.
Yes, that's where they live.
In the Nga walls, in the polar bears.
They all live under the ice there.
I fell into a frozen creek when I was younger, so I'd never dare a lake anymore.
But was that the same thing?
It was frozen.
You were like, I'm going to walk on this.
Yeah, my dad and I did a road trip down to South Island,
and I was like, it's frozen.
This looks sturdy.
How far whereabouts were you?
Right down, probably near Mount Cook, actually.
And it looked like it was frozen.
How deep was it when you went through?
Probably up to the middle of my shin.
Oh, so not too bad.
How was that for the ego?
Not great.
Self-esteem, not good?
Yeah, not great.
And it's very cold.
Because on the occasions of it being a very, very cold winter's day at the farm,
the troughs would get a sheet of ice on the top.
And one time we were whacking it, like trying to smash it,
and it didn't smash, and we convinced our neighbour
that he'd be able to stand on it and balance.
And he did.
He just went through.
Well, he went.
He got on there, but then he skidded and like bum, boom,
and then it flipped over, and he went under it,
and man, what a hoot.
Like an ice trapdoor.
He didn't find it funny.
It was like a flop, and gone.
Here's what you need to do at this lake.
You're not allowed to walk on it.
Skim a stone.
Have you ever heard a skimming stone on a lake?
No.
Sounds like a laser.
YouTube it.
YouTube it.
Listen to this.
Yeah, I've got this guy.
Google me.
YouTube one.
He went.
No.
That's the stone bouncing across the lake.
That's what it sounds like.
And then you can get like a handful of gravel.
And it's like that times 10.
What?
That's so cool.
Yeah, that stone's on a lake.
So do that.
That's fine.
Is it fine?
Oh, God, I don't know.
Like that time we got told off for walking on the mossy wetlands?
You thought that was fine?
We thought that was okay.
You can't do anything in nature these days.
So be safe, New Zealand.
And that time I lit that pile of tyres on fire.
Oh, we're in a national park, are we?
ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast.
Some people that are real good with brains.
Neuroscientists?
Neuroscientists.
Neuroscientists.
Neuroscientists.
Scientists.
Oh, Jesus.
They have discovered how many thoughts we have every day.
Because previously it's been quite hard for them because they've studied
like language and they
find it hard to determine when one thought
begins and ends. Right.
But they've discovered like a new
way of doing it where they can literally
follow the
thought worm in the
brain. So do they put wires on your head?
One of those hats?
They didn't mention wires.
But I'm guessing they were involved.
They made people watch clips from movies and then gave them
20 second rest periods.
And then measured the brain activity
and followed the thought worms.
So they can tell when
a new thought worm starts.
So that kind of indicates the end of another. So on an average day So they can tell when a new thought worm starts. Okay.
So that kind of indicates the end of another.
So on an average day, one person can have 6,200 thoughts,
different thoughts.
Wow.
But does that count that one thought just leads into the next?
Yeah. Because you said it started like new ones.
Yeah.
So I guess it would be like, I don't know, like roads.
You're driving down one and then you turn.
Turn, turn, turn.
That's a new thought.
Because every now and then when we're driving somewhere,
we'll be talking and then we'll go quiet.
And then like 10 seconds later, I'll say to Sade,
oh, I just thought about blah, blah, blah.
And she's like, how did you think about that?
And you have to explain the thought work.
How you got to that point.
And she's like, that's madness.
I was like, yeah, I don't know.
I just kind of like turned it off and just let it run.
Yeah.
And that's where we got to.
Isn't that, that's insane.
I don't even know what I would think about.
But it would be everything, right?
6,200 different things though.
It'd be like, where are my keys?
What shade of blue would that be called?
Have I got five minutes to do that crossword?
What did that mean?
Do I need to go wheeze?
Am I thirsty?
Well, I mustn't be thirsty because I need to go wheeze,
but then I will be afterwards.
Like, it's just...
Monster.
Isn't there a myth that guys think about sex every, like...
Ten seconds or something?
Every two seconds?
Myth.
Myth.
But how do you go from, like, do I need a drink? No, I need to do seconds? Myth. Myth. But how do you go from like
do I need a drink? No, I need to do
wheeze. Sex.
Well, because you do wheeze after sex.
I've just googled.
I've just googled. This is
linking to a BBC.com
article. Boy, they're not right.
It's clear that people thought about it
far less often than the seven second
myth suggested.
They recorded a sexual thought in the last half an hour on approximately 4% of occasions,
which works out about once per day compared to 19 reported in another study.
It'd be way higher for men.
Surely.
Everything you're doing is towards your next sex. Another one said the average man telly 19 sexy thoughts a day.
No, they're more than that.
That would be, oh, that's just sexy thoughts.
Okay, you're going to the supermarket.
Yeah.
How does that relate?
Well, I've got to get an aphrodisiac.
You might walk down the lobe and condom section.
You're like, oh, sex.
Oh, yeah, but it wouldn't take me that long.
I'd just walk in and see a banana and I'd be like...
Well, that looks like a diddle.
Especially in that free basket for fruit,
there might be a banana and two apples
and then it's made itself.
Doing this radio show.
Huh?
Doing this radio show.
Well, I've got to get money to get paid
so that my wife stays with me
and I can support the family and then
she'll be so impressed with my support, she'll
offer me sex.
Everything.
Everything. Breakfast this morning
is so I have the energy to continue on
in my day and hopefully my day will end with
sex. Oh my god.
Mowing the lawns. Well, I've got a kid
at the house looking nice. She's not going to have sex
with me if she looks Out the window
And says he's got jobs to do
He's done his jobs
Now he gets a job
Everything
Okay
And it's not just me
Don't say it's just me
Mr Toyboy's the same
Oh I thought you meant
I'm the same
Absolutely not
No Mr Toyboy
Would be the same
He'd be at the cafe
Right now thinking
God I hope this day
Goes fast so I can get home.
To do it, hopefully.
And I've got to work hard so I can go home and I say,
I've done really good today and we're running a successful business
and then that'll get her going.
Handy.
Will it?
That's just me and Mr. Toyboy.
God knows the darkness that's hiding behind the eyes of Carl Peter Fletcher and his motivations.
Well, you've already filled up about, what, 20 of your thoughts for the 6,000 today?
Easy.
Fletchvorna Megan, the podcast, ZM.
From the ZM think tank, this is the Top 6.
Hello there.
Today's Top 6 dealing with this electric plane
that has been floated as the future of air travel,
which I'm all for because of, you know,
the emissions from your traditional jet aircraft
and propellers.
Well, just reading this article,
Boris Johnson, the UK,
he wants to produce the first zero emission long haul passenger jet by 2050.
What?
Oh.
I always get so uninspired when someone's like, you know,
oh my gosh, this could happen.
30 years.
What?
30 years.
In 30 years.
Yeah.
2015.
Why don't we start working on it now?
Aren't they talking about car electric
car batteries that can do like a million miles?
Yeah
Or something ridiculous?
Yeah
Before they need replacing
Not on one charge
Yeah
Isn't the problem what we do with the batteries
once we've used them?
Yeah, yeah
But we'll worry about that later
Yeah, okay
Still, by the way
I'm all still for shooting things into the sun.
Just to see what happens.
Yeah.
That won't affect us at all.
So this...
Nah.
The sun will just be like, pfft, you're gone.
This 70-seat plane can be in service by 2028.
Looks like those ATR planes you fly on Air New Zealand.
Right.
Similar size with the propellers.
Yeah.
Not the little ones, the bigger ones.
So Boris is saying he wants his ones to be long haul, totally electric, whereas in eight
years we could have this one, the smaller one with the props and stuff.
And this could be a regional plane that can travel up to 1,400 kilometres.
Okay.
That's Auckland, Wellington.
Yeah.
Wellington, Christchurch.
Exactly.
Christchurch, Dunedin, and Coimbatore.
A whisper quiet takeoff and landing.
Yeah, that'd be freaky.
But I think it would have a backup of fossil fuels.
Just because, yeah, for obvious reasons.
But it's got solar panels on the roof.
Cool.
And the tail.
Okay.
Oh, it's got a twin tail.
I like when they do stuff like that on planes.
Looks cool.
Oh, and it's got, you know, the things the Dreamliner's got at the end of the wings,
the wing tips, except they point down.
I like when they do stuff like that on the planes.
Like, why not?
Make it different.
The wing tips point down.
Well, you know how on the Dreamliner they point up.
These ones point down like that.
What does that mean?
Oh, I don't know.
And then on the back, you know how it's always just got the one tail?
Yeah.
It's got like that, like a mermaid.
Oh, like a fishtail. Fis's got like that, like a mermaid. Ooh.
Like a fish tail.
Fish tail.
Yeah, that looks sweet.
Anyway.
The top six problems I can see with this electric plane.
Number six.
You said solar panels along the roof and tail.
Land of the long white cloud, anybody?
Hello, cloudy day.
All the time.
Yeah.
I mean, once you get above them, fine. Yeah. I mean, once you get above them,
fine.
Yeah.
But you've got to get above them,
don't you?
Yeah. This is true.
Number five on the list
of the top six problems
with an electric plane.
Plugging in your phone to charge
could cause the plane to plunge.
You're like,
oh,
getting a bit low
could do with some juice.
Clunk.
God imagine if you
plugged your phone in
and you unplugged it.
You unplugged it.
It's like...
You just saw the lights dim a little bit.
Number four on the list of the top six problems with an electric plane.
If Wi-Fi and Bluetooth messed with a fuel-powered plane,
one can only imagine what chaos it will cause on an electric plane.
Yeah.
I don't know, man.
Magic?
It could happen.
Number three on the list of the top six problems
with an electric plane. Those rechargeable batteries
are sweet now, but give it six months and they'll be
running out quicker because someone's been half-charging
them. Oh, yeah.
It's always the case of the phone, isn't it?
You get it? That's what my vacuum... This phone
last rages. Yeah, my vacuum cleaner.
I reckon the battery's going.
So I used to be able to get around the whole apartment
and now I'm like, I miss a room.
I'm like...
But are you still vacuuming on maximum suction?
Absolutely.
Absolutely I am.
But it only needs minimum.
No.
I go max.
Fletch is maxed out all the time on everything he does.
Why would you half suck your carpet?
Because it does the job.
No.
It does the job.
And you'd actually get around your whole place.
Yeah.
I would just charge it and do it later.
You're running out too quick on a hard suck.
You've got to give it a half suck.
It'll last longer.
Yeah, right, okay.
That's always the way.
Okay.
Number two on the list of the top six problems with an electric plane,
speaking of charging,
if the pilots forget to plug them in to charge,
like we've all forgot to plug our phones in overnight to charge,
they can't exactly charge it at work, can they?
No.
It'll be already in the air. And number one on the list
of the top six problems with an electric plane, if it gets
struck by lightning, it'll go eight times as fast
and you'll
overshoot your destination.
You know, you hear about big planes getting struck by
lightning. It's not like a really rare
thing, but imagine that. The pilot's like, oh, we're just
approaching a thunderstorm.
And just like.
Everyone's just stuck to their seat.
That'd be awesome.
That is today's top six.
ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast.
I told you that women were more beep than men.
Yep.
It turns out you're more judgmental
than women.
Really?
Yeah.
Do you want to say
what you just said to me?
Not on air, Megan.
I thought women
were more bitchy
and judgmental than men.
Well, you know,
you love a gossip
and then I thought
so does the woman.
Bitch about each other?
We do bitch about each other.
It's not good.
But it turns out
and I don't know
if they mean judgmental as in like well, I guess it does mean that.
Maybe we are more bitchy, but you're more quick to make a decision and a judgment on things.
So this study had a bunch of people.
They put 50 objects in front of them and you had to put them into categories.
So is tomato a fruit?
Is paint a tool? And you had to be them into categories. So is tomato a fruit? Is paint a tool?
And you had to be like, yes, no.
What a fantastic question.
No, it's a building material.
Okay.
Paint's not a tool.
The paint brush is the tool.
But I'm imagining they gave you the categories, right?
So you just had to put it into a category.
Right, okay.
But whereas women were like, well, it could be a tool,
but it could be a tool,
but it could also be this.
They saw a lot of grey areas.
But I can kind of imagine you two being like that.
Because Vaughn would be like, well, it's not technically a tool.
No, no, I've decided now the paintbrush is the tool,
the paint is not the tool, the paint is the building material.
Yeah.
But that's kind of a grey area because you have to put it into a category. Because nails aren't a tool.
Nails aren't a tool.
Nails are a building material.
So what would you do?
Okay, tomato. Is it a fruit? Technically, yes. But then women't a tool. Nails are a building material. So what would you do? Okay, tomato.
Is it a fruit?
Technically, yes.
But then women are like,
Oh, no, no, no, no.
No technical about it, please.
Don't ask to speak to the person running the test
and say, well, you haven't given us the correct categories.
Yeah.
See, I don't know.
I don't think YouTube fit into this very well.
You put the wrong word.
Not judgmental.
Definitive.
Yeah.
It's all black and white.
Men can be like,
tall,
building material.
This is a proper scientific study though,
isn't it?
So it is literally like,
men can make decisions.
Everything is black and white.
This is that.
This is that.
Whereas women are like,
well,
there's grey ureus.
This is why you dilly dally.
We don't.
We don't dilly dally.
And you take so long to do shopping,
whereas I walk in,
I'm like,
t-shirts,
five of them. And they're like, if you buy six, I'm like, T-shirts, five of them.
And they're like, if you buy six, you get like a seventh free.
I'll be like, yes.
Socks, where are your socks?
Give me five of them.
Is there a deal on them?
Yep, buy another bag of them.
Give me some more socks. They've said it is not necessarily good or bad, but say, take a doctor.
Guys can make a definitive diagnosis.
That is a heart. What happens if the diagnosis is wrong
oh they're dead whereas women can be like okay well let's take into this i mean this symptom
might not go with this and like make it take a bit longer to make a diagnosis so it's not
necessarily good or bad in every situation should we work together then? Maybe. Maybe that's the answer. Maybe we could all like be equal and
like discuss. No, no, no, no,
no, no. You take too long.
Okay. We need this
done quickly.
Flesh, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast.
ZM. That song
came on the other day.
The video of it came on and my daughter
August said to me, this video is
very inappropriate.
Now, I don't know because she just got back
from a week
at my parents' place.
Yeah.
And so they've been watching
because Nick,
Nickelodeon has a music
video channel now.
Yeah, right.
And it's just all like
video songs that kids love
but they're like,
it's the same,
like that song
would be on Nickelodeon.
So I don't know, mate,
because they've been
watching a lot of it.
Or they're just
eating watermelon.
Maybe it came on
and so my mum
might have said to her, this is a bit inappropriate.
Yep.
And she said to me, this is a very inappropriate music video, Dad.
I said, I know, August.
One man getting all that attention from all those women, horrible.
And she said, you'd hate it, eh, Dad?
And I said, I would.
Because you know why?
Your mother's not there.
And Sade's just like rolling her eyes almost to the back of her head.
And I'm just like, oh.
My worst nightmare.
Just terrible.
This beautiful woman from around the world, August.
Awful.
Fletchborn and Megan's Community Notices.
Hello and welcome to Community Notices,
a segment of the show where we have a look at what's happening around New Zealand
a little bit according to local Facebook pages.
This one comes to us from the Christchurch Buy Sell Trade page,
and Les is on to a moneymaker, I think.
A moneymaker that's saving us money.
Okay.
As Les writes,
Hi, I manufacture and sell direct to I'm looking at the coffins.
There's like a purple one.
There's like, you know, a traditional sort of's like a purple one there's like you know
a traditional sort of
a brownish one
there's a plain ply
looking one
the handles are all different
Shade and I talked about
this the other day
I said I will be so furious
from beyond the grave
if any much money
gets spent on a coffin
that's just going to get
yeah
like in the ground
or burned
they're so expensive
I will make sure
it is plywood.
Plywood at the most.
I'll drive around and find some old pallets and I'll just make you one.
That's what Smithy would have loved.
What's the one that you make model planes out of?
Balsa wood.
No, he'll fall out the bottom of that.
I don't need that sort of fat streaming just as I'm about to die.
Oh, God, he's dead and he still weighs too much for balsa wood.
If you're going to get pallets, get a massive pile of pellets
and put me on the top and set them on fire.
Okay.
Those things burn hot.
Just out in the open?
Yeah.
Make it real hot.
There'll be nothing left.
You ever watch season two of Making a Murderer?
Yeah.
Season two?
It's impossible.
Yeah, okay, to get it that hot?
Okay.
And then put me through the chipper. It's my body Yeah. Okay. To get it that hot. Okay. And then put me through the chipper.
It's my body.
I'll make jokes if I want to.
Next.
This comes to us from the St. Heliers, Kohemarama, Mission Bay, What's Happening page.
Oh, lovely.
And Carolyn's posted.
Okay.
What has happened to the seats at Eastridge?
They've been replaced with benches, which have no back to them,
which makes it hard for me to sit and enjoy people watching.
Oh, my God.
Robin White comments, skin colour and last name.
That would be a young person making that decision.
You've got to have a seat with back support.
This is the kind of first world problems
on this page.
If you're wondering
what the upper crust are worrying about,
it's that they're public seats
where they can sit
and watch people walk past
while they don't have to work.
It doesn't have back support anymore.
Bloody hell, Karen.
Am I right, Robin?
You couldn't be more correct. Bloody hell, Karen, am I right? Robin, you couldn't
be more correct.
Next for community notices,
let's pop down to
a little bit of
an interesting situation
in the Cambridge,
New Zealand grapevine.
Josephine writes,
discovered any amazing
place in our town
that is shop local.
Just a lovely shop
local place that seems
to pop up but should stay.
Not at all,
but worth a look. Great products and super ambience. A Waikato person, great prices, no personal interest. What is it?
Now, is she making a recommendation or is she asking a question?
Nobody in Cambridge knows.
Oh.
It sounded like she was making a recommendation.
But didn't say at all what it was.
But didn't say what it was.
No.
Because she said, I've got no personal.
She said, somebody said, what is this place you speak of and what do they sell?
And she said, I don't want to get into any korero about it.
What?
Why say something?
I don't know.
Oh, God.
But that's not the only thing going down in Seatown.
Okay.
Cambridge New Zealand Info, Community community info sharing group, Aaron writes,
dear customer service people,
he's got a picture of his face.
Do you want to see his face now
or at the end?
At the end.
At the end,
because in my mind,
I will make a decision.
Okay, yes, yes, yes, yes.
Dear customer service people,
the face pictured here is mine
and my name is Aaron.
I am not your sweetie,
dear,
hun,
my love,
mate,
buddy,
doll,
darling,
or any other familiar name
that makes you feel nice. Unless you happen to be my wife, my love, mate, buddy, doll, darling, or any other familiar name that makes you
feel nice.
Unless you happen to be my wife, auntie, or another close member of my family, or a shop
assistant, vastly my senior, you should never address a customer by those terms.
If I choose to spend my time and money in your shop, I'll make the effort to be respectful
and call you by your name or appropriate title.
Please return the courtesy.
All right, champ.
I know. I return the courtesy. All right, champ. I know.
I appreciate that post because I hate it when people call me sweetheart and love.
It drives me nuts.
Okay, hun.
Calm down.
This guy feels like it's younger people calling him that that's his issue
because he said, unless you're a shop assistant, vastly my senior.
Oh, right.
Okay.
Is that what you expected him to look like?
Oh, no.
I thought he'd be young.
I thought he'd be younger.
I thought he'd be young.
Oh, did you?
Yeah. He's an old mate. Oh, no, I thought it'd be young. I thought it'd be younger. I thought it'd be young. Oh, did you? Yeah.
He's an old mate.
Oh, no, I thought old mate.
That old mate.
But it's just like some old lady being lovely.
She's like, all right, sweetie.
All right, honey.
You're just like, okay, cool.
They don't know your name.
Yeah.
Better than like a condescending champ.
Yeah.
And finally today on Community Notices,
Jessie writes on the official Lower Hutt Community Notice Board,
carpool from Waianui-a-Mata to City and return daily.
Leaving the Nui at 7am, arrive Wellington train station 7.35am,
arrive Newton Hospital at 7.45am, Monday to Friday.
Leave City at 4.20, but she's written military time.
She's written 16.20 to 16.40, return back to Nui.
I vape and I listen to average shitty music
and I'm not much of a conversationalist.
Minimal conversation would be ideal, especially at 7am.
$30 per week return.
That's pretty good.
That's pretty good.
I mean, if you were getting the bus, way more.
Let alone an Uber.
And the best part about them is when they don't talk.
And I mean, like at least a Vapor, it smells like nice apples.
It's not ciggy smoke.
It's one of her vape of choices.
Yeah.
I have been police vetted and also vetted for Vulnerable Persons Act.
Working professional.
No creeps and no morning or afternoon sob stories.
I like this.
She knows what she wants and what she doesn't.
No eating in the car unless you're okay with paying to have it groomed.
Drinks are fine.
The ride is for work purposes only.
If I wanted a seedy hookup or the messages involved,
I'd whack an ad on a dating site.
Okay sign, peace sign.
I love that.
How great is it though?
Because you know exactly what's expected of you.
Yeah.
Don't sob story.
There's no room.
But what if you're having a bad day and you're stuck in the car?
She doesn't want to hear your shit.
You're paying $30 a week.
Yeah, I love that.
I've got to be under half of what that gas would cost.
Easily.
That's a bit of a drive.
Yeah.
So yeah, hit up Jessie
on the official
Lower Hutt Community Notice Board
if you're into it.
Those are today's
community notices.
If you see anything
on your local Facebook page
that tickles your fancy,
screen cap it
and send it to us
with FEMZM on Facebook.
ZM's Fletch,
Vaughan and Megan,
the podcast.
Yesterday,
Air New Zealand
released their online tool
so you could use credit for flights.
So if you'd book flights during COVID, and obviously they were cancelled,
you couldn't go.
You know how they said there'll be credit?
There'll be credit.
Yeah.
Well, they've released a tool because they had to build that tool
so that I guess they could deal with all of the credit requests.
So previously you knew you had credit, but you couldn't use it?
I think you had to call up the call centre,
which was again a mission in itself to get through
for a lot of people.
I know, I think recently it's been a bit easy to get through,
but obviously at the time, you know, April, May,
just impossible.
People were on the phone for hours, weren't they?
So the new online tool
enables more than 300,000
customers who purchased
a ticket with Air New Zealand dollars
sorry, with New Zealand dollars
to view a breakdown of their credit
and then you can then use
that credit to book other
flights. But still, if you had like
a return, say you had some flights
to LA or London
or anywhere overseas.
Are you only getting credit for that? You can't get a refund?
Well, you could get a refund if you
went into America because that was law.
And I think there were some other places
where you were legally entitled.
Otherwise, credit. So I mean
that's a lot of return flights to
Queenstown, isn't it?
If you had like, say you had a $2,000 flight to London. Yeah. I guess you've got a lot of return flights to Queenstown, isn't it? If you had like, say you had a
$2,000 flight to London,
I guess you've got a lot of
credit to use.
Yeah, true.
Positive thinker over here. You know that about me.
I'm ever the optimist.
Still,
I've been to London
and I've been to Queenstown and I'll tell you what was
nicer.
Queenstown. Yeah, I'll tell you what was nicer. Queenstown.
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, you're not wrong.
It is beautiful.
Yeah.
Like the UK is awesome, but it's not going anywhere.
It's been there for hundreds of years.
Like all that stuff that you go there to see is real old.
So if you have to wait like 10 years to see it,
it's going to be older, man.
It's going to be better for you to go then.
Why don't they have me in their marketing team?
Those people are lapping this up.
You know,
Queenstown
nested amongst the mountains caused by
two fault
lines. You know, a big earthquake
that could what?
Oh God, I've just lost my marketing job.
And Big Ben's covered in scaffolding my marketing job. You have, yeah.
And Big Ben's covered in scaffolding at the moment. You can't even see it anyway.
Lots of scaffolding.
Give them time to get that done up.
And they've all got their roans at the moment, don't they?
Yeah.
You don't want to be going there.
The River Thames is yuck.
Dirty.
Very dirty.
Dirty.
Although I have seen heaps of videos of people doing that thing,
which I so want to try.
Yeah.
You buy a big industrial magnet, you tie it to the end
of the rope, you just start throwing it. On magnet fishing?
Yeah. Yeah. We should do this.
Because there was that kid in Germany,
was it Germany or in England somewhere,
he went magnet fishing and...
Fished up a bomb? A grenade. A grenade.
A World War II grenade. No, thank you.
I'd be too scared of what
you'd actually fish up. Oh, you'd fish up a lime
scooter.
A shopping trolley. Do it's the same people that do that do like metal detecting
yeah yeah except this is kind of better i think really well metal yeah because like you need a
strong line yeah you can't just use an eye-lined line.
Imagine pulling it and you're like, it's not coming.
You're like, get in the crane.
And then you go and get one of them high-ab trucks.
Yeah.
You chuck a magma on the end of them.
And it's just like a wheel rim.
No, that'd be easy to pull up.
I reckon you'd pull up a whole car.
Then you've got a car.
But then imagine when you pull up a car, you're like,
well, where am I going to put this car?
And you're like, just chuck it back in.
And then you get done for littering.
Because technically...
You picked it up, but it's not your litter.
But you dropped it back down again.
What does the number plate say?
I'd say, talk to them, champ.
Flesh, Vaughan and Megan.
The Podcast.
ZM.
Bluff or Stuff.
We have a Naked 3 Urban Decay eyeshadow palette to give away.
We've had this for a few weeks because we're such good liars.
Basically, one of us is holding it,
and you have to decipher who is actually holding it to win the prize.
Vanessa, good morning.
Good morning.
Good morning.
How good are you at trying to work out a liar?
Can you pick out a liar?
I hope so, but no, I don't know.
It's hard.
This is our, what, third time trying?
Fourth time?
On this prize.
Vanessa, which one of your 12 rose-hued neutrals
and ultra-smooth mattes, gorgeous pearls,
and glimmering metallics do you think you'd possibly be?
The nude.
The nude?
What colour would nude be, Vaughan?
I'd say limit, probably.
That would be a good nude.
I've got the box and I can see limit, the picture, right there.
So, strange, I think, might be a nude.
Strange, that's a bit peachy.
Obviously, you're on the website, Vaughan.
Stop reading out all the colours on the website.
No, I'm not on the website.
I'm holding the box.
I'm looking at the back and on the front, I can feel, again,
as previously mentioned, that lovely embossed box on the outside.
Yeah, right.
Well, it's nice because all of these colours are exclusive to this set.
Yeah.
So you're not going to get it in any other one.
This is really you, Vanessa.
I mean, I'm just feeling it through the phone,
looking at the box in my hand.
It's definitely you.
It's a real day to night, just like the sun goes down.
Your eyes need colour from day to night.
Stop reading online.
Oh, I think you made that up just because it goes from light to dark.
Yeah, well, I can tell you because I'm holding the box
that there's a pigment infusion system.
What does the barcode say?
What doesn't the barcode say?
It goes line, line, line, line, thick line, long line, line, line, line, line,
white bit, white bit, white bit, white bit.
Sorry, the white bits were in between all the lines.
No, I can tell you it says 946782661421.
No, it doesn't.
It says 0421499900.
Vanessa, at this stage, I would like you to eliminate one of us.
Before you do, Vanessa, I think it's worth mentioning the size of the mirror.
It runs the entire length.
You can see that on the website, Vaughn.
And that's in most palettes, you egg.
Of the compact.
Is this not a compact?
I wouldn't call this a compact, no.
That's not written on the box.
I just don't know what this is.
I say this as I'm holding it.
Okay, Vanessa.
I wouldn't call this a compact.
Who do you want to eliminate?
Who's definitely not holding your prize?
Oh, I don't think Vaughn is.
You fool.
That is correct.
Wait, am I not holding the box?
No, you are not holding the box.
I lied so well I fooled myself.
What is this I'm holding then? A spoon.
It's a spoon?
Unbelievable. Well.
Okay, so Vanessa.
Van, Van, as we called her back in the day.
The box is embossed, Vanessa, and do you know how I'll tell you that?
Because I'll run my fingers over it and you can hear it.
You were holding it.
That's me doing that.
That's her denim jacket.
That's my nails on the box.
Okay, Vanessa, who's holding your prize?
I'm going to go with Megan.
That is correct.
Yay!
You nailed it.
Great, thank you.
You've won a Naked 3 Urban Decay eyeshadow palette when no one else could.
Nice.
Good work, Vanessa.
Can't they get their money's worth out of that?
We bought that.
We did.
We paid zero dollars to it.
We should say we've got a nondescript makeup thing,
but then that's not as appealing, is it?
Yeah.
Unbelievable.
ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast.
I know that 2020 is probably not the year you really feel like being judged
on who you are as a human being, but we're going to do it anyway.
Okay.
The shopping cart theory supposedly determines who is a good person
and who isn't.
The shopping cart theory, like the shopping trolley?
Shopping trolley theory.
So basically, if you put the shopping trolley always back in the trolley bay.
Yep.
Or if you just drop it somewhere that's handy for you.
In the car park next to you?
Yeah.
You just put it in the garden or like shove it next to your car.
You check the wheels over the little, yeah, curb that holds it there.
Oh, how courteous of you.
And then it won't roll
into people's cars.
But it's in the garden.
Yeah.
Because there's no
dire emergency
and there's no consequences
if you don't return it.
And if you do return it,
you gain nothing.
But it's the kind of the...
Right.
So there's no reward.
You're saying there's no reward.
So if you're doing it, you're doing it for being a good person,
no reward, but you know that you'll be helping somebody.
And there's no consequence either if you don't.
So they're saying that's why it's the ultimate test.
Yeah.
Yeah, because you're not going to get arrested or charged or fined
for not returning a trolley.
No.
And there really is no reason why you shouldn't.
No. You're just being lazy. I would say 99% of the time I've returning a trolley. No. And there really is no reason why you shouldn't. No.
You're just being lazy.
I would say 99% of the time I've returned the trolley.
There's been the odd time I've been like...
What would you say...
Where on the spectrum does it fall
that if you kind of line up the trolley bay
from a little way away
and give it a shove in the general direction
and stand there and watch it
and then if it goes in, be like, yes.
But then if it doesn't go in, be like,
you win some, you lose some.
And then it's by the trolley bay, but you go back to the car.
I mean, you're at the trolley bay.
You may as well just push it in.
You just go on to the trolley bay.
I'm miles away.
You may have, didn't you hear that I'm a professional?
Oh, I shoot from way back.
Oh, no, because I like at the trolley bay being right at the opening
and then huffing it in.
There's no challenge there.
You've got to push it from way back and see if you can get it into the gap.
No, you've still got to get it into the trolley in front because sometimes
it'll ting, ting, ting, ting and it won't go in.
If you ting, ting, ting, ting, it's in the trolley bay.
So, um,
a theoretician,
is that a thing? A theoretician?
Okay. Has said if a person
is unable to do this,
it's no better than an animal, an absolute savage
who can only be made to do what is right by threatening
them with the law. Oh, calm down, theoretician.
You're not even a real thing.
We only heard you existed about 10 seconds ago
and now you're saying we're no better than animals.
But I just, I'm a real stickler for the rules.
You use the trolley and then at the end,
they're like, this is where it goes.
Yeah.
Just be polite and put it back.
Okay, but what about when they don't have many trolley bays
and you're way over the other end of the car park?
That's on them for not having enough trolley bays.
Into the back.
Yeah.
What if, now this is something,
if I'm putting the trolley back
and somebody has bumped a half trolley in behind a full trolley
and they don't fit into each other.
Oh, that annoys me.
Yeah, I'm going to take the half trolley out
and put the full trolley in
and then if there's two bays, I make one
and then I get two involved and I spend five minutes getting all the trolleys out and putting them in one side and the half trolley's and put the full trolley in and then if there's two bays, I make one and then I get two involved
and I spend five minutes
getting all the trolleys out
and putting them in one side
and the half trolley's
in the other side.
Literally,
yesterday I returned a trolley
and I was like,
oh,
that's so courteous.
Someone had put all the big trolley's
in one lane
and all the half trolley's
in another
so I put my half trolley
back in the half trolley lane.
Yeah,
yeah,
yeah.
I was like,
oh,
that's so great.
I saw,
that just triggered me.
Yesterday at the supermarket,
a lady with a half trolley,
she would have had 10 things in there, tried to go on the self-serve lane,
and the lady at the supermarket said, stop.
Really?
That was me.
Unbelievable.
I would have had like maybe 10 things, but I'm like pretty swift.
I was like, I cannot believe you just did that in my head to the lady.
She told her no.
Yeah.
Was it busy?
Nah, it wasn't.
It was weird. She told her no. Was it busy? Nah. It wasn't. It was weird. She saw
trouble coming. Can we just cross out
a producer, Jared, who I believe
in your time, you got a job
doing the trolleys, didn't you?
Yeah, during Christmas I had to step
up and help out the trolley lads.
Now how did you feel, Jared, when
someone had parked two front wheels
into the garden and ditched their trolley somewhere
random? Lowest form of human.
They're just the worst.
I'm sorry for keeping you employed.
Okay, yeah, yeah, all right.
That's why I leave my food.
I mean, he was put on trolleys.
It's not his sole employment to put the trolleys away.
That's why I walk away from dishes in a food court.
But see, that's another great test.
That's a similar test. Yeah. The tray at a fast food restaurant or a food court. But see, that's another great test. That's a similar test.
Yeah.
The tray at a fast food restaurant
or a food court,
you can just leave it there,
but you shouldn't.
Just clear it away.
If it's a busy food court,
it sucks when you're like,
oh, free table
and you're walking over
and you see the person.
Because I was just joking,
I always take all the plates
away from the food court.
But if I don't have the facilities
to wipe the table,
I can't be held responsible
for a spilled butter chicken. I always take my trays and stuff back in a food court. But if I don't have the facilities to wipe the table, I can't be held responsible for a spilled butter chicken.
I always take my trays
and stuff back in a food court and a fast food restaurant
because of an incident that happened in
2000 and something. You're in a safe place.
I was there with a friend and we
just left our trays there and this guy
just went off at us and he didn't even work
there. I was like, what's your problem? And he said, I'm waiting
for my girlfriend if she has to clean up all this.
And we were just like, see? Think about the humanity my girlfriend if she has to clean up all this. And we were just like, see?
Think about the humanity behind it.
Someone has to clean up your mess. So now, every
time I'm in a food court or a fast food
restaurant, I'm like, that guy's going to yell at me if I don't
take this back.
So you're easily trained with trauma
is what we're learning here.
Right. Yell at me.
Note that down.
Fleshforn and Megan, the podcast, ZM.
Yesterday at the gym, after work, I was working on my fitness.
Ooh-wee.
You've got to pay tribute to the queen.
So I was on the stair machine.
You bloody love the stair machine. I do machine You bloody love the stair I do
I bloody love the stair machine
Do you like
It's too hypnotic
It looks like a
Scary escalator
You don't look at the steps
You don't walk up an escalator
Well you can walk up an escalator
Yeah it's weird
I don't know
I just don't
It's weird
So I was on that
I'm 17
That's my speed now
Is it
You like it because It burns more calories's my speed now. Is it?
You like it because it burns more calories in my fitness palette, isn't it?
100%. I think I just do 11.
Speed.
Yeah.
17.
So this is fast stairs.
I'll see at the top.
It's fast stairs.
Okay.
So I was on that yesterday.
And when I'm up there, because you're the highest person in the gym.
Yeah.
So you've got to watch whatever you're watching on there because I take an iPad
and watch TV shows on Netflix
so I can just like zone out and forget
I'm exercising because the thought is still quite
and I'm up the top
so I'm just kind of like
looking around because I'm watching a show
White Lines on Netflix, it's about
Ibiza and there's drugs and the odd bit of
nudity and stuff, so whenever there's a scene
coming up I can tell it's going to get it.
And I just give it a bit of a look around just to make sure nobody's like right there.
And I noticed a few treadmills over, there's a young lady and she's looking at me.
And I'm like, that's weird.
So back to the stairs I go.
And then I look again and she's kind of like looking.
And then when I look, she looks away.
And I'm like, damn.
Shoulders still got it.
I like what you see.
Because at that stage I'm very sweaty because it's always the last thing I do.
Yeah, okay.
I'm wearing some shorts that are a little shorter than your usual shorts.
Oh, you're showing a bit of sexy Vaughan Smith legs.
And they hug the buttock.
Right,
okay.
They really roll.
And with the sweat,
there's a bit of cling.
Yep,
okay.
I always think
if you're like sweaty at the gym
and someone's checking you out,
you've like.
You're doing okay.
Yeah.
Yeah,
that's what it is.
So that's where my mind's at.
I'm stepping in
and I'm trying to pay attention
to the show,
but every now and then
I'm looking across
and I'm like,
well, this is good.
She's still looking at you.
I personally have sought objectification my entire life.
And you're finally getting it.
I won't be offended by it.
Yeah.
But people aren't to know that.
Yeah, but this is what hot people get all the time, 24-7.
And I liked it.
Getting a taste.
Oh, I like you.
I had a little taste.
So I'm looking and then I see her stop the treadmill.
She's finished on the treadmill.
Gives it the wipe.
I'm like, that's good.
Yep.
My love interest is hygienic.
And it's purely a one-way street.
Right.
Oh, no, Sharda's not listening.
So, no. It's a one-way street. I'm Oh, no, Sade's not listening. So, no.
It's a one-way street.
I'm like, this is weird.
And then she's done.
She wipes down the machine and she walks.
And I look and she's like, high, like, indicates.
And I'm like, oh, here we go.
Wait, wait, wait.
Is she quite attractive?
Uh, yeah.
You just said Sade's not listening.
But, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Not as attractive as Sade.
Of course.
You're still getting in trouble.
She is my wife and I love her.
Yeah, this is going to be on a highlights thing.
One of those things.
It's going to get played on Facebook.
Is it?
Yeah.
Can we do one of those custom audiences where you're like,
everybody except Sade.
So, anyway. So, she's very, just to Sade. Not Sade. Yeah, Sade. So anyway.
So she's very, just to establish, she's very attractive.
No, no, no.
Attractive.
But not as attractive as Sade.
As your wife.
Oh, and Sade.
And she's been perving at you the whole time,
and now she's standing there at the bottom of the stem machine.
Yeah.
And I'm like, I better deal with this.
I better nip this in the bud.
Because I don't wear my wedding ring
oh right okay
because my fingers
have got too fat
you're not wearing it now
and I can't get it
over my knuckles
no I've
stopped wearing it
really
Shade asked me
yesterday
side story
this is after this happened
so I'm pretty
I'm pretty high
I'm pretty high on life
yeah
because I've been
objectified
yeah
and
when I went to get the girls from school, she said,
I've got to make a phone call.
I'm going to wait in the car.
I'm going to be like, you're going to let me go in there by myself?
You know, I'm like burly to mums, right?
And she's like, you'll be fine.
And I tapped my empty wedding ring finger and I said, DTF.
Wow.
Did she just roll her eyes and get back to you?
Down to flirt.
And she said, what did you say?
And I shut the door and I ran away.
Scared.
But anyway, back to the gym.
I'm sweating.
This person's walked over to me and I pop an earmuff off.
Sexy.
Yeah.
I'm like, and I'm bringing the speed right down.
And I'm like, hey.
And she's like, your shoelace is undone.
I have been waiting for you to eat shit on that machine.
And I was like, oh, thanks for telling me.
And she's like, I should have come across earlier.
But I was doing the running and I really did want to see someone fall on the stair machine.
I was like, you're a monster.
But thank you.
And so I stopped and I did the thing and I got back to it.
And then so she walked away.
So she wasn't actually checking you out.
100% confirmed not.
She was checking out the possibility of you falling.
And, you know, I wasn't even angry because I was like,
I'd probably like to see someone fall off the stair machine too.
Yeah.
Same.
Like you said before, it's a scary escalator.
Yeah, it is.
Crossed with a treadmill.
Yeah.
What a wonderful thing to watch someone have a tumble on.
And I was going for it,
so it would have been
a tremendous fall.
But just for like those 10 minutes,
you felt...
Or it was a great excuse
for her to come and talk to you.
How, in your mind,
how long do you think
she was watching me
from my theatrical retelling?
About six minutes.
10 minutes. 30 six minutes. Ten minutes.
Thirty seconds tops.
But it felt like a long time. Yeah, right. It felt
good. Yeah, didn't it?
It felt, in my mind,
that's what hot people have to deal with all the
time.
I don't know how they get sick of it.
I could go
another course today.
Well, yeah.
Like the laces undone, maybe you can.
I really could. But I was wondering if anybody else
has been in this situation.
Where they thought they were being checked out.
And then
they come up to you and you're like, okay,
it's on. And you're like, you've actually got food
on your face. Or your fly's undone.
Yeah.
Or you've got your.
What about the dog?
What about when you've got a dog and you think,
and they're coming over, you're like, okay, dog,
this is just a way to get there.
We're using the dog.
Someone comes over and they're like, can I pet your dog?
You're like, yeah.
And they don't even look at you again.
That's it.
That's it, yeah.
Funnily enough, that's never happened to me.
Me or the dog. You're like, damn. Funnily enough, that's never happened to me. Me or the dog.
They'll come over and they're like,
oh God, I just wanted to make sure that was a dog.
Hell Christ, I thought you'd captured some sort of ferret.
All right, well, give us a call.
0800-DIALS-AT-M.
You can text as well to get through 9696.
When did you think someone was checking you out
or was interested in you, but they weren't?
It was something else.
We want to know when you thought someone was checking you out,
but it turns out they weren't checking you out.
It was something else was the problem.
But for that moment, your self-esteem is...
Yeah, through the roof.
Yeah.
It's in top gear and you feel a million bucks.
Some text messages in.
A guy asked me for my number in the pack and save car park.
Oh, okay.
I was about to respond with,
sorry, I'm married when he completed his sentence.
I just hit your car,
so I'll need it for when I call your insurance company.
I feel like he did that on purpose.
He crafted that sentence
to lead you astray. Yeah.
My brother went
to work for the day with my knickers on the back of
his jersey as they were in the dryer with
his jersey. He thought that everyone
was checking out his butt,
but they weren't. It was
knickers on his back.
So there's that
as well. Kushla is on the phone. So there's that as well.
Kushla is on the phone.
You were filling up your car and you thought a guy
was giving you
a bit of the eye.
And I was thinking,
oh, he must like my car
or maybe there's something,
you know,
something about me.
And he smiles
and he nods his head
and he comes up to me
and I go, hi.
And he goes,
hi, you realise
you've got a huge rip
in the butt cheek
of your black jeans, lady.
And I was wearing
skin coloured undies too. Oh no. So you look like a huge rip in the butt cheek of your black jeans, lady. And I was wearing skin-coloured undies too.
Oh, no.
So you look like a bum.
I was going commando maybe.
Brilliant.
Hiya, Kushala.
Thanks for your call.
Dana, someone was checking out your boyfriend.
Yeah, so we were down at a club in Wellington.
There was this guy totally, like, staring at me and my friends,
well, I thought. And my boyfriend was next to me, so I was like, was this guy totally, like, staring at me and my friends, or I thought.
And my boyfriend was next to me.
So I was like, my friends were like, oh, look at that guy.
And I'm like, oh, yeah, whatever.
So he comes over to us.
And then he starts chatting to my boyfriend.
And then he asks my boyfriend's number.
Oh, so he wasn't even checking.
Yeah.
And he said, oh, I'm not really interested about that man.
But they had a little dance together on the dance floor,
so it was pretty cute anyway.
Watch that one.
Wow.
But you thought he was checking you out.
Yeah.
You're like, babe, still got it.
Look at this.
That's brilliant.
Hey, thanks, Nicole.
Good to know you've got broad appeal.
Yeah.
Melanie, when did you think someone was checking you out,
but they weren't?
It was at the doctor, and it was so embarrassing and I thought, looking at me, what have I
done today? And then a little girl said, you've got a horse tail. I did, because I work with
kids and I was like, what do you mean? And she said, look, it was like a metre of toilet
paper hanging up. Oh!
Wow, you're like, I don't really think the doctor's waiting room is an appropriate place to flirt with people,
but everyone's trying to have a good laugh.
It was just so embarrassing.
They're probably wondering what a hot, hot piece of towel like me
is doing at the doctor's office.
Oh, I've got a tail.
Is that what you meant?
Melanie, thanks for your call.
Some text messages.
A guy approached me at the petrol station.
This is another petrol station story.
He was looking at me for ages and then he came over and I was like, oh my God.
I was like, he's like, hi.
Flirtatious tone.
Yeah.
I was like, hi.
And he's like, that arm poo kicker you hit back there is still stuck in the front of your car.
And this half dead poo kicker is like, meh.
I scream instead of crying.
Help me remove it.
I'm pretty sure you just get the washing brush, don't you?
And just poke it out.
He helped her remove it.
That could still end sexy, right?
Like, he helped her out.
Yeah, and then at your wedding, it's like, how did you meet?
Oh, I helped this great poo kicker out of the radiator.
She ran over a native bird.
I was wearing a new red jacket.
I heard a stranger saying to a friend about the person in red,
positive things about the person in red.
I thought, that's me.
And I peacocked around in my red jacket.
And then I heard, no, not the fat one.
And realised, no, they were fat one and realised, no,
they weren't talking about me originally.
That's not.
Ruthless. How did you hear
that? Yeah.
No. That's not cool. No.
Ruthless.
Oh, here's one. I was at the airport on Saturday and the
Highlanders were there too. I was
checking them out, naturally.
Naturally, okay. If you're into that. And was checking them out naturally. Naturally, okay.
If you're into that.
And was then surprised
to see a number of them
also looking in my direction.
Wow.
Color me stoked.
Then I turned around
and standing right behind me
was this glamazon
who looked exactly
like Nicole Scherzinger
and I've never felt
more like an invisible
hobbit than that.
You don't know that it wasn't you.
I'm trying to answer that.
Get on board.
She's very small.
She's got hairy feet.
I'll let her be the hobbit.
They were the stars of those films.
Fletch, Vaughan and Megan.
The podcast.
ZM.
It's Pauly, Mowly, Mowly, Mowly, Mowly.
Pauly, Mowly, Mowly, Mowly. Come on! It's the besties edition of Poli Moli.
We chucked a bunch of questions up on our Instagram and got your answers.
Very interesting.
First of all, do you have a best friend?
I just thought everyone kind of did.
No, but they're like a singular best friend.
Yeah.
Some people have like groups of best friends.
Right, but you don't want to class one of them as a bestie.
As your best friend.
So do you have a cluster of...
I've got a cluster of top tier besties.
Do you have a bestie, Fletch?
I don't have any friends.
Whatever.
Morgan, she travels with you.
I just think if someone's going to travel with you,
then they must be a pretty good friend.
Yeah, she's up there.
But I'd just say just a cluster of people I can stand. I think if someone's going to travel with you, then they must be a pretty good friend. Yeah, she's up there.
But I'd just say just a cluster of people I can stand.
Well, 64% of people said yes, they said they had a best friend.
36% not really.
Okay.
But someone said, does my partner count?
Yeah, your best friend can be your best friend. I'd say they should be your best friend.
That's a given.
Yeah.
My husband's my best friend, yeah, but I've got a best friend.
Yeah.
Who's a girl.
But who would you pick if you had to push one of them off a cliff?
Oh, shit.
Well, no, you don't have to push your not best friends off a cliff.
Okay, there's a safety bag at the bottom.
Why do I want to push one off a cliff?
Well, you have to.
Otherwise, the world's going to end.
Nah, I'll just jump off myself.
I wouldn't push anyone off a cliff. No, you wouldn't. Otherwise, the world's going to end. Nah, I'll just jump off myself. I wouldn't push anyone off the cliff.
No, you wouldn't.
Yes, I would.
I absolutely would.
So someone was like, Megan, the world's going to blow up
and everyone on the world's going to die.
Oh, well, then no one needs to go off a cliff.
We'll just stand there and wait for it.
No, but you going off the cliff can save millions of people.
Yeah, you have to put either Mr. Toyboy or your best friend.
Can't I just push them both off simultaneously
and they both land on the cushion?
Okay, there's no cushion.
I don't want to push one of them off.
Well, you just jump off yourself.
I just jump.
No, but I'm saving myself.
No, she's not allowed a sacrifice.
That's not how the world ending works.
Aw.
That's what they did on Avengers.
Okay, moving on to the next question.
Have you had to keep a secret from your best friend?
52% said yes.
And I have a couple of these secrets.
Okay.
I slept with her now ex-boyfriend while they were still together.
That is not a best friend thing to do.
They're still best friends, so she obviously doesn't know.
Found out I'm pregnant and the due date is the same as her wedding.
I'm supposed to be a bridesmaid.
Ew.
I'd get onto that sooner.
Although COVID weddings, like maybe people will be trying to come over from America or
London and they won't be able to make it.
So they might have to post find the wedding.
I think she can forgive you for that.
It's not like you necessarily did it on purpose.
And also she's going to figure it out.
I was born on my aunt and uncle's wedding day.
Were you?
Yeah.
My mum and dad didn't go to my dad's brother's wedding
because of this guy right here.
But they would have liked that
because then we would have got out of going to somewhere.
Or did they like going to his brother's wedding?
You're like, do I still have to buy a present?
Yeah, you know, I don't like going to things.
Is your best friend the same gender as you?
82% said yes.
Someone said I'm gay and we're the same gender.
It kind of hurts that no one has accused us of being more than mates.
Oh, because your best friend's way hotter than you, right?
That's why that dude's hurting.
You reckon?
Yeah.
Is that like why that dude's hurting?
He's like, oh, I'm the gay one and he's straight,
but nobody thinks anything's going on because he's...
Oh, yeah, right, yeah.
And that's insulting to me.
Yeah.
Because I could totally score him if I wanted.
Oh.
I have a male best friend and a female best friend,
but our relationships are very different.
Okay.
Do you tell your best friend things,
your best friend things that you wouldn't tell your partner?
Ooh, okay.
70% said yes.
That's just when you're with the lads, though.
Lads chat.
Do you think that that's more of a guy thing?
Because I don't have anything I wouldn't tell.
I'd tell both of them.
Everything.
You don't tell Mr. Toyboy about your online shopping.
Oh, that's like, he finds out eventually.
That's just like a little white lie.
Are you like, Ali, look what I bought, and you send her the links?
No, so yesterday.
Oh, what's that?
Fletch, that's an iceberg of lies.
And you know what they say about the white bit.
Yeah.
The little white bit, it's only 10% of the actual lie.
There's a fun new trick where it's like you always buy them something.
So it comes to you like, look what I got you.
And then your package is there, but it falls by the wayside
because he's so stoked he got something.
Yeah, right.
It's genius.
So these are some of the things that they didn't tell their partner.
My partner is my best friend.
Sounds cheesy, but we were besties for six years before we finally hooked up.
Someone said, even though I love him,
my best friend is a better yarn.
Have you
ever had sexy thoughts about
your bestie? 12%
said yes. Ooh, okay.
I had a sexy dream about her once, but I haven't told
her. Bound to happen when
you're the opposite gender.
And lastly,
would you dob in your bestie if they committed a crime?
Now, it doesn't specify what the crime is.
Yeah, I feel we should have said the crime.
Because...
No, but I figure if it's...
Murder.
It needs to be, like, any crime as in, like, could be murder.
Is it murder?
It could be shoplifting or it could be like...
So you're not going to dob your friend in if they
shoplift or, you know, reach behind a bar
and take a bottle of Bacardi.
But you
are going to dob in your best friend if they're like,
hey look, I murdered someone
last night, had to bury the
body in the woods, but don't tell anyone.
Of course you're going to dob
them in.
Well... Wouldn't you?
Who did they kill?
Someone that didn't deserve it.
Fletch killed me.
We can cover this up.
We just don't know where Megan's gone.
What are we doing?
What do you reckon?
I'd hear out your plan and if I thought it was full of holes,
I'd be like, you best just hand yourself.
78% of people said they'd be like, you best just hand yourself. Yeah.
78% of people said they wouldn't dob in their best friend
if they committed a crime.
That's, okay, that's good, right.
We're loyal to our best friends, aren't we?
Yeah, I'd probably be the one who suggested the crime.
But then, like, if they're your bestie,
you might almost be with them as well.
Well, as long as they do the actual murder, then you can just be like...
You can be an accomplice.
Yeah, because you get less time, don't you?
Yeah, and then you go to the police and do a plea deal.
Oh, do a plea deal, yeah.
What do you need?
I'll need witness relocation too.
Witness protection.
Yeah, witness protection.
I feel like you don't care.
You've got nothing to lose.
Just tell me I'm Grindr and your new name.
Pick your new name.
Yeah.
ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast.
We have the cognitive test that Donald Trump has been talking about
over the last week or so.
This was a test because at the moment he's up against Joe Biden.
They're both in their 70s and they're both going each other
for being too old and being, you know, not, I mean, Trump.
Enough said.
Somebody messaged in saying this is the test they use
for elderly driver's licence as well.
Their 93-year-old popped it last week
and scored 14 out of 30 and lost his licence.
Oh.
Like he can't reset to get another licence.
Right.
Because I guess, yeah, you've been driving all your life,
so there's some muscle memory in it.
Right.
But it's a bit more than that, isn't it?
It's not an IQ test.
Okay.
Because the doctor behind a cognitive test that Trump took
says that it's supposed to be easy.
So that, you know, functioning adults should be able to do every one of these questions.
And when you can't, it's a sign that your cognitive ability is in decline.
Okay.
Like you say, Alzheimer's.
So Trump came out and said, I did this.
It's a very hard test.
It's not something that everybody can do. Hold on. 20 seconds ago, I did this. It's a very hard test. It's not something that everybody
can do. Hold on. 20 seconds ago, you
said any adult should be able to do it.
Now, this was brought up on
Sunday night in a Fox News interview.
Incidentally, I took the test too
when I heard that you passed it.
It's not the hardest test.
It's a picture and it says, what's that?
And it's an elephant.
That's all misrepresentation. that's all misrepresentation.
Well, that's what it was on the web.
It's all misrepresentation.
Because, yes, the first few questions are easy.
But I'll bet you couldn't even answer the last five questions.
I'll bet you couldn't.
They get very hard, the last five questions.
Well, one of them was count back from 100 by 7.
And let me tell you, you couldn't answer.
You couldn't answer many of the questions.
I'd get you the test.
I'd like to give it. And then
he says, we should do a test.
Didn't the guy just say he did it after
Donald Trump? And he passed?
And then Donald Trump's like, you couldn't even answer the last
five questions. He's like, why doesn't he just say
yes, I did. Yeah.
I think he was too busy laughing.
Yeah. Okay, so the
I've got the test here.
Yes.
In front of me.
There's things we talked about before.
It says name these and there's a lion, a drawn and a rhino and a camel.
Done, done, done.
And you just name them underneath.
This is what I want to do with you guys though.
Right.
Have you got it?
Yep.
Give it here.
Is that the answer on the sheet he just had?
No, the answer's up here.
No, no, no, because I'm about to tell you the answer.
This is the memory part of it. Oh, okay because I'm about to tell you the answer. This is the memory part of it.
Oh, okay.
I'm going to tell you five things.
Okay.
And then I'm going to ask you to repeat them to me.
And then at the end of this break, when time has passed,
I'm going to ask you to recall those five things again.
Okay.
No, but that's not what they do in the test.
Yes, that is.
They just say, read the list of words, subject must repeat them,
do two trials and do a recall after five minutes.
Oh, five minutes Oh five minutes
So it is going to be later
Okay
Now can I write these down
No
What are you talking about
Face
Yep
Velvet
Yep
Church
Yep
Daisy
Red
I'm definitely not going to remember
All those five
Fletch
Yes
Go
What were they
Oh right now
Yeah Church Face It's got to be in the right order Definitely not going to remember all those five. Yes. Go. What were they? Oh, right now? Yeah.
Church, Face.
It's got to be in the right order.
Daisy, Velvet, something.
Like, I can't even remember.
You're all out of order.
You got four out of five, but all out of order.
Face, Velvet, Church, Daisy, Red.
Yep.
Thank you.
Yes.
Yep.
We'll come back to you soon.
I'm not going to remember.
Like, I couldn't even remember them then.
But then there's other things like you have to repeat this list of digits.
There's one you have to read forward, 21854,
and then one you have to read backwards, 247.
The counting back from 100, because I'm so bad at maths in sevens,
I don't think I could do that.
It would take me ages.
You don't have to do it quick.
You just have to do it correct.
93.
And then it's marked on how many you could get to.
Right, okay.
If you got to 93 and then you were out, you'd get one point.
But if you got four or five back, you get three points,
or if you got all the way back.
Right.
Well, there is a question now that we wanted to try on Megan,
and that's why we have the whiteboard behind Megan,
and that's why we're streaming live FBMZM on Facebook.
So is this one that Donald Trump failed?
I think he passed.
I don't know.
Well, I mean, he says he passed.
Now this is worth, I believe, three points.
You get a point for contour.
I don't have the...
A point.
I've got it because I don't want you cheating with those numbers I gave you before.
Numbers and hands.
Draw a clock that is telling the time at 10 past 11.
Now, Megan, famously, you're not good with analog clocks.
That would be in front of me and I couldn't tell you it was 10.
I'd have to sit there for a minute.
Okay, well, you need to go to the whiteboard now and draw a clock.
This is bullying. Okay, well you need to go to the whiteboard now and draw a clock. This is bullying.
Okay.
Well, we're just worried about
your cognitive decline. There's a circle. That's a start.
That's a bad circle.
Points off for the circle.
Okay, now you've drawn one, three,
six and nine. The time that we want you
to do. Megan.
Look at that clock. Look at that clock.
Look at it.
Yes!
Yes!
Not one. I wouldn't have helped you in the test,
so I don't know. I don't know about that. Maybe numbers
you're not getting a point. Okay,
so 10 past 11.
Okay.
That's 11, Megan. She's drawn an 11
there, just to the left of 12.
We'll give her that.
Which was a one just moments ago.
Yes.
Now she's drawn the dot in the middle.
That's the pivot point for the hands.
I know the hands confuse her.
One goes at 11.
Which one?
The short or the long one?
Some very real stress.
Some very real stress on her face.
Okay.
Okay.
She has one hand pointing at the 11.
And we were after the time of 10 past 11.
10 past 11.
She's struggling.
Okay.
Is that your final answer?
Oh, no, no, no, no, no. Struggling. Okay. Is that your final answer? No, she's changing her mind there.
She's changing her mind.
The other hand pointing at where the 10 would be.
Megan, could you stand just to the left there so we can see that?
Okay.
No.
I would give you a point for the numbers.
You haven't drawn all of them, but some clocks don't have all the numbers.
Wow.
The shape of it and everything is good.
However, you have got the hour hand pointing at the two.
So that is five minutes to two, not 10 minutes past 11.
The long one is the minutes.
The long hand is the minute hand.
So my problem with that is
I always think the long hand's the big one.
So that's like,
I'm pointing at the big 11.
The minute should be,
the minute's just a small amount,
so it should be pointing at the small numbers.
The smaller.
Yeah, also if we hadn't told you that 12 you that 12 was meant to be 12 instead of 1,
then you would have been out as well.
So you've failed.
The only thing you've managed to do there is the circle of the clock,
and even that looks like an orange or a peach.
Oh, no, that's a pretty good circle.
You've failed Trump's Cognitive test there
No ask me the
Things to remember
Okay what were the five words
In the right order you needed to remember
Face, velvet, church, red
Deer
No
What was the last word
It was face
Was street in there
No street wasn't even mentioned
Are you sure
You definitely said street I didn't say street You definitely said street No there? No street wasn't even mentioned Are you sure? You definitely said street
I didn't say street
You've definitely said street
No there never was a street
Ice cream
Velvet
Church
Red
Church something red
Yes
Red velvet
Church something red
Yeah
Church daisy red
Daisy
Yes
Daisy red
Alright
Trump didn't pass this
Trump didn't pass this
There's no way Trump passed this.
Repeat after me.
I only know that John is the one to help today.
I only know that John is the one to help today.
Good.
Name the maximum amount of words that you can start with the letter F.
F.
Fridge.
F doesn't start with F.
Oh, I thought you were entering F.
I would like to put F as a word.
Fridge, fox.
I just said fridge and fox.
Fridge it.
Friend.
Fly.
Fly.
Flounder.
Flower.
Flower.
Flop.
What did you just say?
Flop.
I thought you said a very different word.
Fact of the day is next.
Fact.
Fact. Fact.
Yes.
Frigid.
Flaccid.
Yes.
There we go.
Now we're getting a peek into his mind.
There it is.
Flesh, Vaughan and Megan.
The podcast.
ZM.
Fact of the day, day, day, day, day.
Today's fact of the day is about a song that was released in 2004.
Okay.
A pretty big song.
Do you have the song there?
Everybody knows the song.
Yeah, but I just wanted to give you a little bit of a tease before I played the song.
The song was released in 2004.
Okay.
Has spent some 235 weeks in the British charts.
Wow, that's a long time.
And its peak position was number 10.
But it's never been to number one.
No.
But it's been in the charts.
And this week, it's number 94.
Previously, in 2020, it has been in the charts
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13,
14 weeks of
this year. Yeah. Some 16
years after it was released and this year it's
in at 94. It's been as high as 72.
How's it
still in the charts? Is people always listening to it?
So it must be very popular.
They must be. The song
is this song
right here.
Mr Brightside by The Killers.
What a great song.
Well, according to the Brits, an absolute banger.
Yeah.
Because I've looked into, I was trying to find like why.
Yeah.
And I can't.
It annoyed me they opened their concert with this song,
with the lights on.
Oh, why they have the lights on?
I don't know.
I think they just get it out of the way
because they're like,
screw you all.
They're like, screw you all.
Right.
Because the whole time everyone would be like,
hi, Mr. Brightside.
And they'd be waiting for Mr. Brightside.
Right.
Well, I can tell you that Absolute Radio in 2009
ranked at the number one
in the 100 best songs of the decade.
Okay.
XFM in the UK made it number one
in their top 100 songs of the decade. XF XFM in the UK made it number one in their top 100 songs of the decade.
XFM did a top 1,000 songs of all time in 2010, and it was number one.
BPI in the UK, it was the most streamed song released before 2010.
Right.
Other accolades, greatest song of the noughties.
Top songs of 2004 and 2005.
Chart-wise, it didn't really do much upon its release.
In New Zealand, it only got to number 15.
Oh, wow.
In Australia, it only got to number 29.
But man, this song would be making the money to be able to retire on the song alone.
But it is still being played enough and streamed enough
and played on radio stations enough
that this week,
some 16 years after it was released,
it is number 94.
Wow.
That is crazy.
What was that?
Was it 50's Drop or Salmonella Dub
and their album
and 60's album is the same.
Just always in the charts.
Years and years later,
the album was still in the top 40 albums.
Because if you're having a party, the great party songs, you're streaming it.
And now that it can take streaming into account,
like you bought the CD once upon a time.
Yeah.
And then that was that accounted for the week that you bought that.
Yeah.
But now if you stream week to week, it counts that. Which is maybe why, but like last year in in 2019
it spent
okay, no, actually in the charts
for heaps of 2019 as well.
It's just every year it does a few weeks in the charts.
It's only had another life and there's lots of
memes as well, like this is that
meme, it's like when Mr. Brightside comes on
and all the white people are like,
I know the words! Stand back like, I know the words.
Stand back, everybody. I know the words.
I'd probably get thrashed
at karaoke, too. Yeah, it would.
A real thrashed song. So, today's
fact of the day is
right now, in the UK,
this song.
Sorry, Bourne, what were you saying?
I thought that was very white of you to turn that up.
Drain out conversation.
16 years after it was released,
Mr Brightside is still 96 in the British singles charts.
Fact of the day, day, day, day, day.
Yeah. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast.
Bit of controversy with The Voice Australia 2020.
Still happening.
Still happening despite New South Wales and Victoria being on lockdown.
Is there an audience?
I think they have an audience because they cut to lots of screens of people.
So, actually, I don't think there's anyone in the audience.
Right.
Okay.
Well, this was the moment they announced the winner.
Oh, spoiler if you haven't watched it, but it's everywhere.
Yeah.
Can you watch it here?
I don't know, mate.
Well, why are you saying spoiler if...
Well, like, because there's lots of ways to watch things.
Well, they're doing it illegally, Megan.
We shan't be issuing spoiler alerts for people who are doing illegal things. No, I'm pretty sure you can watch it here.
The winner of The Voice 2020 is...
Chris Sebastian!
Fake audience noise.
Nah.
Fake audience noise.
Now...
Last name Sebastian.
His brother is Guy Sebastian
who is a judge on The Voice.
How is he
even allowed to go on? Isn't that
crazy? Yeah. Well, apparently
he's got a very musical
family. So Chris Sebastian's been singing
his whole life. It's not just a new thing.
But obviously Guy's the famous
one.
Wouldn't you give up?
Pretty miffed.
Because I saw his audition when they did the chair spinny thing.
And like Guy Sebastian knew straight away it was his brother.
But he's got an amazing voice.
It would be hard to say he didn't deserve it,
but that's kind of what's happened.
So everyone's saying.
Everyone's piling on.
A relative of The Voice judges won this year.
What a surprising and totally not rigged coincidence.
And everyone's had a collective jaw drop as Chris Sebastian wins.
I just don't think he should have gone on the show in the first place.
But like he might have been like grinding this whole time.
Yeah.
And just like living in Guy Sebastian's shadow.
God, if only there were other shows to go on.
Other singing shows to go on.
But then people would say that there's beef
if you go on an opposing show.
Yeah, true.
They're what your brother's judging.
He can't win.
Yeah, but...
What he just did.
Yeah.
But everyone's saying it's rigged now, so...
Wouldn't it be horrible if your brother was real famous as a singer
and then you want to be a singer too?
Because, you know, some brothers can be very competitive.
All siblings can be competitive.
Yeah.
Imagine if, like, you grew up having the same passion
or doing the same thing as your sibling.
Yeah, and they were better than you.
Yeah.
Especially if they took it up afterwards and just, like, swooped by.
Well, it's like the Barrett brothers in the All Blacks.
There's like eight of them in the All Blacks, isn't there?
Yeah, but at least they're all in the All Blacks.
Like, because.
Yeah, but what about Barry Bowden?
They're not all in the All Blacks.
But do they all play rugby?
Rugby.
Yeah, they all play rugby.
Some of them play.
Do they all play rugby?
No, I don't know.
I don't know.
Laugh back.
I don't know if all of them do, but. That would totally be a thing in New Zealand though, because like brothers would play rugby? No, I don't know. I don't know if all of them do.
That would totally be a thing in New Zealand though because brothers would play rugby and then what if one of them got in the All Blacks?
It'd just be so hard to be happy for them.
Your brother gets in the national team and you're just like,
but I always beat him in the backyard.
This isn't fair.
Yeah.
God.
It's cheating.
Obviously he's cheating.
He's got to be cheating.
And the only answer is to I'm kneecapping
So he can't
If I can't have that dream
Neither can you
How about you
And your brother playing
Like hockey and stuff
Were you
Did he play hockey
Yeah yeah yeah
We were in the same team
It was very competitive
Who was the better player
Do we need to call Chris
I don't know
Actually that's a good question
Because we played
Different positions But I don't know Who would have that's a good question because we played different positions,
but I don't know who would have been deemed the better player.
But did your mum select him for the representative team?
No.
Okay, so you made the reps, but again...
But he made the reps the year that he was eligible for the reps
and then I made it because I was a year below him at school and stuff.
Did your mum select him for the team too?
For what team?
The reps.
The reps.
I just said we didn't play
the Reps in the same year.
No, but like when you did
because your mum selected you
for the Reps.
My mum didn't select me
for the Reps.
I got into the Reps
and then she co-coached the Reps.
Was she co-coached
when your brother was playing?
No.
No.
I think she was management
but she didn't manage her thing. This is Guy Sebastian's brother all over again. You and Phillip No No I think she was management But she did the manager thing
This is Guy Sebastian's brother
All over again
You and Phillip
Getting into rep team
Oh yeah yeah
Phillip got in on his merits
Whereas you
Nepotism
The Smiths
Regional hockey
Rivalry
Can be directly compared
To Guy Sebastian
And his brother Chris
On The Voice
Yeah
Waikato hockey reps
Are always wary
Not to have another
Smith debacle
I don't want another
Smith debacle on their hands.
Can we take some calls over how competitive you get with your siblings?
And over what?
How competitive are you with your siblings?
Is it sports or a hobby?
Or just anything?
Does it still end in fights? Especially when you're adults.
Because, you know, as kids, understandable.
if you're still competitive when you're adults,
that's quite, is that crazy?
Like Chris Sebastian, I mean,
Guy Sebastian was stoked for his brother.
But what happens now if Chris comes by
and gets like number ones and stuff all over the world?
Guy's going to be like,
I mean, I've only been at it years.
How did he not see that being a problem?
His brother winning.
How was he not like,
oh, we're going to wear it for this?
I would definitely not have voted for him to win.
No way.
Well, Guy Sebastian's
brother won The Voice,
Australia, spoiler alert.
And everyone's like,
rigged.
I wouldn't have even
let my brother win.
Nah, neither.
Not even for the
fallout afterwards.
I just would not
have let it happen.
Nah, same.
But it's votes though.
Guy Sebastian didn't
have much to do with it.
Nah, I would have
just said to the producers,
don't let this happen,
just rig it. He can't win.
I'm the older brother.
I'm better. I'm the singer.
So how competitive do you get with
your siblings?
I've got three sisters. We're all in our
30s and still very competitive about who's
considered the skinny sister.
Oh my god. That is terrible.
That's not good.
Ashley, how competitive are you with your siblings?
Hey, when we were kids, we used to fight for the front seat.
Yep.
Yep.
And I got pretty rolled up one day and ran across the road
ahead of my sister and got hit by a car.
Just because you wanted the front seat.
Yeah, I got it too
Yeah
Even after you got run over
No, on the way home from hospital
I would have thought the back seat
So they could lie you down
On the way to the hospital
Would have been the better
Oh my gosh
Brilliant
Ashley, thanks for your call
Some more texts
Somebody said I'm 21
My sister's 19
We've got a fierce rugby rivalry
But mum is 41
And she plays rugby too
We all play for different teams.
Oh, wow.
It gets so competitive that when we play against each other,
we're always getting penalised for cheap shots.
Imagine just in the ruck and you just chuck a fist in my mouth.
Or just give her like an ear grip or something,
or a finger in the eye.
When you went like that, I thought you were going to,
yeah, your nipple grip.
I was going to nipple grip your mother.
Those nipples gave you life.
You'll hear about it from Dad when you get home.
Just an eye gouge.
Mum's got an eye patch for a week.
Somebody said, I've got five siblings and whenever we get an I love you or I'm proud of you text from Dad,
we screenshot it and send it to each other.
I get the most because I'm the favourite.
We're all in our 30s and 40s, by the way,
but it's still a big thing.
All right.
Dad loves me more.
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