ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Megan Podcast - 21st July 2020

Episode Date: July 20, 2020

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hello and welcome to the Fletchmore and a Megan podcast. It's thanks to McCafe, buy five McCafe coffees and get one free on the Maccas app. 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!
Starting point is 00:00:21 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.
Starting point is 00:00:37 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
Starting point is 00:00:46 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
Starting point is 00:00:53 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
Starting point is 00:01:00 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?
Starting point is 00:01:14 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
Starting point is 00:01:27 Up in the corner Of a happy birthday Are you excited How old are you Going to be this birthday 36 Yeah 36
Starting point is 00:01:36 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
Starting point is 00:01:44 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.
Starting point is 00:02:00 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.
Starting point is 00:02:15 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.
Starting point is 00:02:24 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.
Starting point is 00:02:34 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.
Starting point is 00:02:46 It is taking. That's two. Oh. Oh. Don't. Was that on camera? We got out of
Starting point is 00:02:54 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
Starting point is 00:03:02 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.
Starting point is 00:03:21 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.
Starting point is 00:03:40 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.
Starting point is 00:03:48 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.
Starting point is 00:04:02 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.
Starting point is 00:04:14 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
Starting point is 00:04:27 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
Starting point is 00:04:36 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,
Starting point is 00:04:46 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.
Starting point is 00:05:01 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.
Starting point is 00:05:19 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.
Starting point is 00:05:35 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.
Starting point is 00:05:56 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.
Starting point is 00:06:14 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.
Starting point is 00:06:34 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?
Starting point is 00:06:44 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.
Starting point is 00:06:58 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.
Starting point is 00:07:06 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,
Starting point is 00:07:17 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
Starting point is 00:07:27 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
Starting point is 00:07:35 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
Starting point is 00:07:42 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?
Starting point is 00:07:57 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.
Starting point is 00:08:09 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.
Starting point is 00:08:20 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.
Starting point is 00:08:36 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.
Starting point is 00:08:50 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?
Starting point is 00:09:07 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
Starting point is 00:09:23 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.
Starting point is 00:09:38 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.
Starting point is 00:09:52 YouTube it. YouTube it. Listen to this. Yeah, I've got this guy. Google me. YouTube one. He went. No.
Starting point is 00:10:03 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.
Starting point is 00:10:23 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.
Starting point is 00:10:38 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.
Starting point is 00:10:59 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
Starting point is 00:11:15 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
Starting point is 00:11:34 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,
Starting point is 00:11:54 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.
Starting point is 00:12:08 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.
Starting point is 00:12:23 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?
Starting point is 00:12:38 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,
Starting point is 00:12:51 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.
Starting point is 00:13:04 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.
Starting point is 00:13:19 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.
Starting point is 00:13:50 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.
Starting point is 00:14:03 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?
Starting point is 00:14:19 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
Starting point is 00:14:34 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
Starting point is 00:14:47 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
Starting point is 00:14:58 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.
Starting point is 00:15:08 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?
Starting point is 00:15:32 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
Starting point is 00:15:56 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.
Starting point is 00:16:18 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
Starting point is 00:16:27 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
Starting point is 00:16:38 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.
Starting point is 00:16:49 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.
Starting point is 00:17:05 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.
Starting point is 00:17:22 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.
Starting point is 00:17:37 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.
Starting point is 00:17:49 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.
Starting point is 00:17:59 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.
Starting point is 00:18:10 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,
Starting point is 00:18:25 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.
Starting point is 00:18:32 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
Starting point is 00:18:42 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.
Starting point is 00:19:00 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
Starting point is 00:19:11 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...
Starting point is 00:19:25 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?
Starting point is 00:19:39 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.
Starting point is 00:19:49 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,
Starting point is 00:20:03 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
Starting point is 00:20:19 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.
Starting point is 00:20:38 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?
Starting point is 00:20:52 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.
Starting point is 00:21:00 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.
Starting point is 00:21:18 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.
Starting point is 00:21:36 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.
Starting point is 00:21:50 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.
Starting point is 00:22:03 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
Starting point is 00:22:12 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.
Starting point is 00:22:24 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.
Starting point is 00:22:32 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.
Starting point is 00:22:39 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.
Starting point is 00:22:51 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
Starting point is 00:23:13 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
Starting point is 00:23:38 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.
Starting point is 00:23:49 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,
Starting point is 00:23:56 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.
Starting point is 00:24:02 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?
Starting point is 00:24:19 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.
Starting point is 00:24:37 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.
Starting point is 00:25:01 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
Starting point is 00:25:28 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
Starting point is 00:25:38 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.
Starting point is 00:25:48 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
Starting point is 00:26:07 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?
Starting point is 00:26:20 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.
Starting point is 00:26:30 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.
Starting point is 00:26:52 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,
Starting point is 00:27:12 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
Starting point is 00:27:25 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,
Starting point is 00:27:37 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?
Starting point is 00:27:51 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.
Starting point is 00:28:07 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.
Starting point is 00:28:21 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,
Starting point is 00:28:32 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,
Starting point is 00:28:41 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.
Starting point is 00:28:46 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.
Starting point is 00:29:09 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?
Starting point is 00:29:21 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.
Starting point is 00:29:27 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.
Starting point is 00:29:39 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.
Starting point is 00:30:07 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.
Starting point is 00:30:25 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.
Starting point is 00:30:45 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.
Starting point is 00:31:05 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.
Starting point is 00:31:15 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
Starting point is 00:31:25 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
Starting point is 00:31:33 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
Starting point is 00:31:43 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.
Starting point is 00:32:02 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?
Starting point is 00:32:23 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
Starting point is 00:32:39 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
Starting point is 00:32:56 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.
Starting point is 00:33:11 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.
Starting point is 00:33:27 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,
Starting point is 00:33:41 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
Starting point is 00:33:58 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?
Starting point is 00:34:14 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.
Starting point is 00:34:23 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.
Starting point is 00:34:38 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.
Starting point is 00:35:06 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.
Starting point is 00:35:19 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?
Starting point is 00:35:31 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,
Starting point is 00:35:51 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.
Starting point is 00:36:09 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?
Starting point is 00:36:29 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.
Starting point is 00:36:46 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.
Starting point is 00:37:03 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.
Starting point is 00:37:25 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.
Starting point is 00:37:47 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.
Starting point is 00:38:09 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?
Starting point is 00:38:20 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.
Starting point is 00:38:37 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.
Starting point is 00:38:57 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.
Starting point is 00:39:18 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,
Starting point is 00:39:34 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
Starting point is 00:39:55 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.
Starting point is 00:40:16 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
Starting point is 00:40:31 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.
Starting point is 00:40:43 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.
Starting point is 00:41:01 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
Starting point is 00:41:14 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.
Starting point is 00:41:28 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.
Starting point is 00:41:40 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?
Starting point is 00:41:56 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.
Starting point is 00:42:13 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.
Starting point is 00:42:27 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
Starting point is 00:42:40 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.
Starting point is 00:42:49 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
Starting point is 00:42:56 in another so I put my half trolley back in the half trolley lane. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was like, oh,
Starting point is 00:43:00 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?
Starting point is 00:43:12 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.
Starting point is 00:43:24 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
Starting point is 00:43:39 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.
Starting point is 00:43:56 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,
Starting point is 00:44:11 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,
Starting point is 00:44:19 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
Starting point is 00:44:29 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?
Starting point is 00:44:46 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.
Starting point is 00:45:02 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
Starting point is 00:45:27 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
Starting point is 00:45:37 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?
Starting point is 00:45:48 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.
Starting point is 00:45:57 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
Starting point is 00:46:11 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.
Starting point is 00:46:30 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.
Starting point is 00:46:54 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.
Starting point is 00:47:09 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.
Starting point is 00:47:17 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,
Starting point is 00:47:23 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.
Starting point is 00:47:36 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.
Starting point is 00:47:51 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.
Starting point is 00:48:03 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.
Starting point is 00:48:16 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.
Starting point is 00:48:33 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.
Starting point is 00:48:46 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.
Starting point is 00:48:58 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
Starting point is 00:49:09 and I can't get it over my knuckles no I've stopped wearing it really Shade asked me yesterday side story
Starting point is 00:49:17 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
Starting point is 00:49:23 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.
Starting point is 00:49:47 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.
Starting point is 00:50:00 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.
Starting point is 00:50:25 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.
Starting point is 00:50:51 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.
Starting point is 00:51:02 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
Starting point is 00:51:14 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.
Starting point is 00:51:32 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.
Starting point is 00:51:49 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
Starting point is 00:52:03 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.
Starting point is 00:52:16 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,
Starting point is 00:52:29 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.
Starting point is 00:52:48 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.
Starting point is 00:53:10 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
Starting point is 00:53:26 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.
Starting point is 00:53:42 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
Starting point is 00:53:52 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,
Starting point is 00:53:59 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.
Starting point is 00:54:09 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.
Starting point is 00:54:25 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.
Starting point is 00:54:40 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.
Starting point is 00:54:54 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
Starting point is 00:55:12 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.
Starting point is 00:55:41 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.
Starting point is 00:55:59 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?
Starting point is 00:56:17 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.
Starting point is 00:56:33 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.
Starting point is 00:56:50 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.
Starting point is 00:57:06 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
Starting point is 00:57:17 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.
Starting point is 00:57:31 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.
Starting point is 00:57:41 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.
Starting point is 00:58:01 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.
Starting point is 00:58:16 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.
Starting point is 00:58:35 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.
Starting point is 00:58:48 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.
Starting point is 00:59:05 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.
Starting point is 00:59:16 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.
Starting point is 00:59:33 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.
Starting point is 00:59:49 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.
Starting point is 01:00:07 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.
Starting point is 01:00:22 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?
Starting point is 01:00:39 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?
Starting point is 01:00:59 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.
Starting point is 01:01:13 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.
Starting point is 01:01:30 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.
Starting point is 01:01:46 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.
Starting point is 01:02:02 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.
Starting point is 01:02:20 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
Starting point is 01:02:38 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...
Starting point is 01:02:55 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
Starting point is 01:03:13 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?
Starting point is 01:03:30 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.
Starting point is 01:03:45 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.
Starting point is 01:04:04 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.
Starting point is 01:04:21 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
Starting point is 01:04:43 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
Starting point is 01:05:05 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?
Starting point is 01:05:17 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.
Starting point is 01:05:40 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
Starting point is 01:05:56 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.
Starting point is 01:06:10 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
Starting point is 01:06:25 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
Starting point is 01:06:42 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.
Starting point is 01:06:56 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.
Starting point is 01:07:06 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.
Starting point is 01:07:19 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
Starting point is 01:07:28 What are you talking about Face Yep Velvet Yep Church Yep Daisy
Starting point is 01:07:38 Red I'm definitely not going to remember All those five Fletch Yes Go What were they Oh right now
Starting point is 01:07:44 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.
Starting point is 01:07:58 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.
Starting point is 01:08:08 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.
Starting point is 01:08:24 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,
Starting point is 01:08:42 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...
Starting point is 01:08:59 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.
Starting point is 01:09:24 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
Starting point is 01:09:39 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,
Starting point is 01:09:58 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.
Starting point is 01:10:10 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.
Starting point is 01:10:27 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.
Starting point is 01:10:50 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.
Starting point is 01:11:13 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,
Starting point is 01:11:34 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.
Starting point is 01:11:53 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
Starting point is 01:12:13 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
Starting point is 01:12:24 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
Starting point is 01:12:30 Church something red Yes Red velvet Church something red Yeah Church daisy red Daisy Yes
Starting point is 01:12:38 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.
Starting point is 01:12:51 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.
Starting point is 01:13:06 I just said fridge and fox. Fridge it. Friend. Fly. Fly. Flounder. Flower. Flower.
Starting point is 01:13:16 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.
Starting point is 01:13:28 Frigid. Flaccid. Yes. There we go. Now we're getting a peek into his mind. There it is. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast.
Starting point is 01:13:40 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.
Starting point is 01:14:13 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.
Starting point is 01:14:32 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
Starting point is 01:14:53 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.
Starting point is 01:15:12 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.
Starting point is 01:15:24 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.
Starting point is 01:15:33 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.
Starting point is 01:15:53 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.
Starting point is 01:16:19 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.
Starting point is 01:16:34 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.
Starting point is 01:16:51 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
Starting point is 01:17:11 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.
Starting point is 01:17:28 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.
Starting point is 01:17:45 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.
Starting point is 01:18:18 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.
Starting point is 01:18:32 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!
Starting point is 01:18:59 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
Starting point is 01:19:10 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?
Starting point is 01:19:25 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.
Starting point is 01:19:43 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.
Starting point is 01:20:09 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.
Starting point is 01:20:20 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
Starting point is 01:20:37 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.
Starting point is 01:20:51 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.
Starting point is 01:21:02 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.
Starting point is 01:21:19 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
Starting point is 01:21:27 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
Starting point is 01:21:35 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.
Starting point is 01:21:47 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.
Starting point is 01:22:03 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.
Starting point is 01:22:12 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
Starting point is 01:22:25 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
Starting point is 01:22:34 The Smiths Regional hockey Rivalry Can be directly compared To Guy Sebastian And his brother Chris On The Voice Yeah
Starting point is 01:22:40 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?
Starting point is 01:22:51 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,
Starting point is 01:23:08 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,
Starting point is 01:23:21 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.
Starting point is 01:23:32 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.
Starting point is 01:23:39 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.
Starting point is 01:23:48 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.
Starting point is 01:24:03 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
Starting point is 01:24:25 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
Starting point is 01:24:35 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
Starting point is 01:24:44 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,
Starting point is 01:25:04 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.
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