ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Megan Podcast - 21st September 2021

Episode Date: September 20, 2021

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The ZM Podcast Network. Clay. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. Hello, welcome to the Fletch, Vaughan and Megan podcast. Thanks to Mick Cafe, barista made coffee available from drive-thru and Mick delivery at level 3. And also dine-in at level 2. This is fantastic news. A winery here in New Zealand has been crowned the best vineyard in Australasia.

Congratulations to Kragi Range. And now, you know I love my reds. They do a great Pinot Noir. I'm a big fan of their salve, actually. It's good stuff. I'll drink anything. You put it in front of me. Yeah, you don't care if it's a cask.

Nope. Not fussy about the vessel, not fussy about the contents. It's the gimlet gravels that make that such a... Hey, it's the way that the... The what? The schist and the stones

and the drainage and all that business that makes it good. I don't see... When do you get to that age? Because I've got friends and they're like, oh, notes of this and that

and they know... No, you can say anything. Nothing's wrong. It's about what you taste in it. I just taste wine and I'm like, yum. That's fine. That's fine. No, but there's definitely ones that are sweeter than others. Yeah, but see, I love the sweet wines.

And then you can go this. Apricot. And just think of what you can taste in it. Stone fruit. Licorice on the tongue. Yeah, I don't like the licorice ones I didn't know that was a thing They put me off

There is one to you Right I don't know I just feel like a bit of a fraud every time No one knows Everybody's a fraud Yeah It's all on the sell

Right, okay You just gotta sell it Believe what you're saying Yeah, I can't even do that But this looks lovely A lovely vineyard Craigie Ranch with Timata Peak in the background. Doogie Doogie River running behind it.

Yeah. I've got a wine club. Can you get to this one on a bike? I'd say so. I'm just looking at our Hawke's Bay resident reporter, Carl Wayne, at the social media desk. Can you get to this one on a bike? Craigie Range.

Can you get that on a bike? Big ride. Kind of. Kind on a bike? Big ride. Kind of. Sounds like hard work. Sounds like you need two pats to ride home, that's for sure. End up in the bloody tuky tuky. Thanks Rachel, good morning. Welcome to the show

Fleets, Vaughan and Megan. Happy Tuesday. Good morning. Thanks. On theughan and Megan. Happy Tuesday. Good morning. Thanks. On the eve of Level 3. For Auckland. For Auckland, yeah. Apart from that one area that's on a bespoke Level 4.

Artisan. Bespoke. What was the other word? Handcrafted. There was another word yesterday in the press conference that was like, very farmer's market-y. Right. It was like bespoke was an interesting word to use. It was an artisanal.

Make it sound flash. An artisanal level four. Yeah. I hope my next Pfizer vaccine's artisanal. Well, it'll be, yeah. Handcrafted. What is it where it's

a one-off in fashion? A couture? What a couture. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Okay. Jab. That's so funny.

That's what they call it when they give you saline. Right. Just as a little test. Aroo. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Seen all the memes popping up about people camping in KFC drive-thrus and McDonald's drive-thrus.

Yeah. When the rest of the country went to level two, though, there weren't too many reports of... There was the odd line around the block early on. Yeah. But it wasn't as crazy as it was that last time. But it has been what, it'll be what, six and a bit weeks? This one? Five and a bit weeks. Five and a bit? Five and a bit, yeah.

So maybe there will be lines tomorrow, we'll see. So one of my friends was like after seven weeks, I was like oh sweetheart, it feels like seven but it hasn't been seven. Yeah, that's a roundup. You're giving yourself a classic dramatic online roundup there. It was like yesterday when people were,

I thought they might have been rounding up how many people were in front of them in the queue for MIQ facilities to come back from overseas. But nope, no. There was that many people. There was, yeah. Are the top sixes coming up? Yeah, I can't remember what I said I was going to do. The top six ways to get people to stop flushing their undies in the Tasman region.

Yeah. This is apparently a big problem. In Mapua. Yeah. That's where I went to the nudist park. Yeah, well, I don't know if their toilet system... Well, it's not the nudists. No, well, no, it could be the nudists because...

Oh, they might need to take them off in a hurry. They're not going to flush them though. So apparently people have been flushing their underwear and it's clogging up the system. Do they have a reason for this? No. It seems very odd. This is why it's in the news. They're like, stop it.

But it's not just their undies, it's other things as well. Yeah. Blocking up a sewage system that can't take it. It's made for the three P's. Pee, poo and paper. And panties. Not panties. No panties.

No panties. So the ways to get them to stop coming up in the top six. All right, next on the show, it's another segment of Yummy Yummy where we take a look at a new food trend. This one has popped up in Australia. And goodness, I hope it comes here. Oh my God. It's one of my favourites. They has popped up in Australia and goodness I hope it comes here.

Oh my god. It's one of my favourites. They're really keen in Australia to overtake us on the list of the fattest nations in the world, aren't they? They're like, we won't have New Zealand being fat. Yummy, yummy. Yummy, yummy, a segment of the show where we take a look at new food trends,

new food items that pop up. This one has popped up in Australia across the ditch, but fingers crossed that we get it here because it is a McFlurry. And this is launching in Australia on the 13th of October. Somebody must have

got a screenshot of some McFlurry inside promotional activity. Yeah. And it's hit the web and it's a caramilk McFlurry. Oh, my God. Yeah. Now, it doesn't, I'm assuming there are chunks.

There must be. It's really hard to tell from the photo. The photo is, it's not really up close, but it looks like it's bits of caramilk and some kind of caramilky sauce. I know. Sade's making a caramilk cheesecake today for her dad's

birthday. Because you can get caramilk Philadelphia cream cheese. There's like five pots of those in our fridge at the moment. Have you tried it? Just put your finger in it? Nah. That's all we've got. There's like five pots of those in our fridge at the moment. Have you tried it? Nah. Just put your finger in it?

Nah. That's a slippery slope. That's like being a drug dealer and being like, I'm just going to see if it's good. Oh yeah, it's good. Actually, that might

have just been that bit that's good. Maybe check another bit. And then she comes in and I'm sitting in the corner and I've got tubs of caramel

Philly chili. Oh no, not Philly, chili. Philly cheesecake. Oh, my God. Imagine caramel Philly chili. Philly chili. That'd be weird. A chili chocolate cheesecake.

Oh, that'd be yum. Will there be any of this left over? Mm-hmm. It's not staying in my house. I'll bring you some. I just don't know if I need it. Yeah, because they do the caramel baking chips now too. I know. Good. They just I need it. Yeah, because they do the caramel baking chips now too. I know.

Good. They just taste like caramel. Yeah. So they're just small chocolate chops. Yeah, so you can make biscuits and use them in cooking. Because baking chocolate's one of those, or cooking chocolate's one of those chocolates that you're like,

let's sneak a bit of this when mum's not watching. And it's yuck. It's like eating straight cocoa. Yeah. Right. But you can get them and they taste like... Yeah, so Caramel McFlurry's Australia, the 13th of October. No word here if it's coming.

But you can imagine, because we get all the same things, right? Eventually. Yeah. Or just make your own. Get a McFlurry and break it up and put it in, or get some ice cream, do a homemade one. Yeah. What is a good, there's no current kitchen implement that will McFlurry though.

Effectively McFlurry, yeah, ice cream. You just have to like break it down a bit. Magic Bullet will just purify. Whip it up with your spoon. Yeah, and crush it. It's a hand mix, that one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What about grating caramel into ice cream?

That's good stuff. And then mixing it, because then it would like, yeah, get in there. Because, you know, grated cheese is better than cheese. I can only assume the same applies to caramel. It definitely does. Never too early in the morning to talk about ice cream. ZDM's Fletch, Ron and Megan. As the world slowly opens up again,

Emirates has begun a worldwide campaign to recruit 3,000 cabin crew. They also need 500 airport service employees to join its Dubai hub. See, I reckon I'd love that as a job except the actual work bit. Like, I'd love all the travel. But the dealing with people,

yeah. Yeah. And, you know, someone would annoy me and I'd accidentally spill water on them. But you're on the plane anyway. Like, you might as well

just serve people some tea and coffee and stuff. I know there's more to it than that. But, you know, then you can do your travelling. Nah. Because, like, an airline like that, you'd be based in Dubai,

you'd see all over the world because they fly everywhere. Nah. You couldn't do that. Have you met people? Yeah. Especially ones confined to a plane and surrounded by other people that are annoying. Their entitlement once they get to above 10,000 feet of skyrockets.

Also their personal hygiene plummets. It's no, no, no, no, no. You've got to be nice. You can't tell them to F off. Sit down and shut up. You've got to have good people skills. Absolutely not. It rules us out, doesn't it? Ugh. Yeah. So they're up to 90% of their pre-pandemic

network. Flying over to over 120 cities. Oh yeah. That's pretty good. I saw an Emirates plane there that I was like oh my god, a plane. You just never see planes over the city anymore. Isn't that crazy? Flying over. Yeah, if we hear one going over

we're like, where's it from? Where's it from? And then you have a quick look and you're like, oh, it's about that big Oregon, Fiji. I only see Air Force planes because they live out that way. When you see an all plane,, you're like, what? Is that cargo? Who's in that? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

That's always like, who's on board? So you must be at least 21 years of age. Okay. Have an arm reach of 212 centimetres while standing on tiptoes. Is that so you can get the overhead? Yeah. The emergency life raft down. And a minimum, oh, oh no, this is me. A minimum height

of 160 centimetres. You're out. Just scrape in. Are you in? Yeah. I thought you were out. No, I'm in. I'm 165 centimetres. I thought you were 158 centimetres. Um, ouch, no I'm not. Oh, okay. Somebody's adding a Hollywood inch. Yeah, we might need to free measure.

We'll just check. That might be with heels on. Um, and you must have no visible tattoos and a healthy BMI. Oh. Oh. Oh. I was like, which is interesting

because I found a news story which only came out a couple of days ago of a flight attendant, a former Emirates flight attendant that says she was subjected to random weight checks for three years.

Ouch. And then when it got too much, she resigned. But it was because one of her colleagues dobbed her in and said, she's too fat to her superiors. So then for three years, she was subjected to weight checks. And it's not really fair on her because they're flying her around the world, giving her airline food and putting her up in hotels. So you're always eating takeaways.

Yeah, it'd be like being on lockdown. Yeah. Lockdown diet all the time. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it might have changed. How many steps do you reckon the average flight attendant does on a long haul flight? Oh, maybe a lot.

They're on their feet for hours and like walking up and down and up and down. Like, you know, sometimes your watch will tell you you've done 10,000 steps and you're like, how? I haven't left the house. But you've been like cleaning or. And has exercise more in the air? You know how like alcohol is like two in the air. Well, let's take that.

Are steps two in the air? Everything. Okay. So the National Library of Medicine. Somebody's done a research paper onto this exact thing. The number of steps taken by flight attendants during international long-haul flights. The results,

the mean number of steps, 636. There's this really weird, the crude number of steps per minute was 16.88. And then adjusted to, it's this really long mathematical formula. Alright, so it's like they've done it on how long the flight is.

Yeah, per hour. Maybe if there's an old I didn't mean old like you're old, I just mean that's what you used to do. Obviously this pandemic's changed how international flight works, but maybe if you used to be a long-haul flight attendant or know someone that was,

and they'd once mentioned how many steps they took. Yeah. Message us in. 9-6-9-6. That's purely out of interest. I bet you'd clock them up. I bet it'd be more than you would imagine in a confined space such as that.

Yeah, right. They're reckoning it on average 14.4 when it's been adjusted per minute. So how many minutes are you... I can't be bothered working that out. Well, yeah, it depends how long the flight is. And then also some of that you're sleeping. Yeah, and take off and landing.

So hold on. So I think they worked that out. That's taken into account. Right. 14 steps. So how long's the flight to say it was 10 hours. Sydney. Say it was, dude, 10 hours. Okay. So 10 long is a flight to? We'll say it was 10 hours. Sydney. Say it was, too, 10 hours. Okay. So 10 hours is 600 minutes. Is that right?

Yeah. 60 minutes times 10. 60 minutes times 10. 600 minutes. 600 times. 8,640. I would have thought more. I would have thought more.

Yeah. You're always sitting up and down and running around. Oh, and they're always going up and down When you're trying to sleep Oh I'm sorry Have you ever Had an aisle and tried to sleep And then your elbows just bumped

Every like five minutes Guys remember flying I'd even put up with that Just to go somewhere From the ZM clickbait room, this is the top six. The Mapo toilets are clogging sewerage systems in the Tasman District Council. That are guts full. The engineers are baffled.

They say clothing and underwear are being flushed down toilets in Mapo. And that is obviously not something that the local infrastructure is built for. Well, it's a beautiful part of the country. It is. Is that where your parents go to their nudist colony? Yeah. Isn't it? That's where we used to holiday, Mapua.

What, is it one specific toilet or just the toilets in general? I think it's one specific. What is happening there? Sewage station. So, because I remember my mother-in-law was talking to a guy that looks after it in Raglan. Yeah. And he said the same sort of pair of undies got flushed on the same

day every week. Remember I told you this? Yeah, but so what, somebody was wearing their undies and then like, I don't want to wear these again and chucking them. Flushing them. Flushing them. And they were getting caught in the same substation or filtery bit of the

effluent system in the same day. Did they ever end it at stop? I don't know. I haven't asked again. It's a very interesting follow-up. I simply asked. Yeah, okay. Yeah. Oh, gosh. The things we used to talk about in Level 1.

How's that weird undie flushing situation going on down there? But the guy said it would blow your mind what people think. Either think it's flushable or don't think about flushing. Just flush it. So since the beginning of August, there's been eight pump blockages caused by T-shirts, singlets, and underpants in Marlborough. Why don't people chuck them in the bin?

I don't know. I can't even have a real idea. I can understand if you've shit yourself and you need a quick ditch. But most toilets have like a bin in it for other things. Yeah. But then do the sanitary ladies' bins hold undies? I don't know, but don't flush them. Find a bin.

If you have shit yourself, you've got a responsibility to roll those undies up, put them in your pocket or hide them on your being somewhere until you can ditch them in a public bin. Yeah. That's what, you know, that's what character building. Yeah. Well, I've got the top six phrases to get people to stop flushing their undies in Marpor. Okay. Number six. It's for stuff from your people to stop flushing their undies in Mapua. Okay.

Number six. It's for stuff from your guts, not flushing your gruts. Mapua. Yeah, good, good. These will all be good signs. Oh, I don't want them to be known for this. I just looked it up. I've never been.

It is quite like the wharf looks beautiful. It is beautiful. Sort of a beautiful area. It's on the way when you drive from Nelson to Motueka. Lovely eateries down there now. Yeah, it looks like a lovely little seaside town. So, yeah, obviously in the ongoing effort to stop people flushing their underpants. Number five on the list of the phrases to get people to stop flushing their undies.

All right, you undie-ditching vigilantes, time to stop flushing your panties. That's good, yeah. It's a bit lengthy. Could be written on the wall. Yeah. More of almost haiku-ish. Yeah. Number four on the list of the top six ways to get people to stop flushing their undies in Mapua.

It's not alrighties to flush your tighty-whities. Yeah. Number three on the list of the top six phrases To get people to stop Flushing their undies When you have a two When you have a Poo based catastrophe Don't flush your G Because G strings are stringy

They can get very Yeah Problematic Yeah But also if you're wearing A G string It'll probably just Cut the poo in half

Doesn't it And it won't either side Yuck Another reason To not do G strings Number two on the list Of the top six ways To stop people Flushing their undies either side. Yuck. Another reason to not do G-strings. Number two on the list of the top six ways

to stop people flushing their undies. Stop being damn silly goons and stuff in the toilet with your pantaloons. And number one on the list

of the top six phrases to keep people to stop flushing their undies in Mapua. If you bring along a thong don't prolong the Start again, mate. I'll start again.

If you bring along a thong, don't prolong the pong by flushing. It's wrong. Dr. Seuss. We got there. Dr. Seuss inspired there at number one. That is today's top six. Play ZM's Fleshphone and Megan.

Just trying to see how far this has gone. This news story we're about to talk about I saw so many people Sydney Morning Herald Oh god, I saw so many people share this last night What would be your keyword search? Just KFC and $100,000? Yep Gang must

Mostly New Zealand there Gang members called it Auckland border With $100,000 cash and a boot full of KFC Gang associates Yeah, gang members caught at Auckland border with $100,000 cash and a boot full of KFC. Gang associates, oh yeah, I don't know if members was the right word because I heard associates mentioned a few times, so they might have had an association to a gang. So if you missed the story, this was at one of the Auckland checkpoints. Yep.

Oh, Nine News in Australia, they've shared it. Oh yeah, here we go. An Indian newspaper has shared it. Ah, yeah, here we go. An Indian newspaper has shared it. That's good stuff. So, yeah, at one of the checkpoints, gang associates were discovered to have $100,000 cash on them. Yeah. And a boot full of KFC.

Picture of KFC. I like how they put it on the bonnet. They put it on the bonnet of the police car too Yeah That's in the boot Yeah, look at that And those are ounce bags there Those are ounce bags So I assume that's an ounce of the secret herbs and spices

Yeah Or the chicken salt to sprinkle But yeah, 23 and 30 And they'll be in court for breaching a health order and further charges were likely yeah but yeah there is a picture a beautiful picture of a well recognized ulta police car your classic white with your your yellow and blue stripes with the kfc strewn across the um bonnet they also so they've got a lot of coleslaw. Good to see.

Yeah. Good to see, you know, options there. They've got buckets. But they've also just got a ton of, like, the little quarter pack trays so they could divvy it up at a later date. Oh, right. Okay. Which is pretty clever.

That would have all gone to waste, wouldn't it? And do you know what? Yeah, they said on the news last night, One News can exclusively confirm that the KFC was discarded of. Wendy was so good, eh? They had the exclusive that the KFC had been discarded of. Because they wanted to tell people that it was discarded. You weren't going to get a slap on the hand and actually take the KFC home.

Yeah, because it wouldn't last till the police Christmas party, whereas drugs don't really go off. No. And they're going to need it this year at the Christmas party. The police, I think they've had a hell of a year. But look, there's these two pictures. Here's the $100,000 cash. Wow. That's a

nuts amount of cash to see in this monopoly. And then, but I bet if you put that picture of the KFC and that picture of the cash, there'd be some Aucklanders that would probably just have to go for the KFC. Well, yeah, only another day to wait for takeaways. Well, if you've got friends overseas that were hoping to come home to New Zealand,

you may have seen on their Instagram stories that they were 27,000th in line for an MIQ spot. That was wild, wasn't it? Yeah. This is a new way of booking the limited MIQ rooms that are available. You went in a lobby. Yep. And it randomly selected. It was random.

Whereas prior to that, I'm not sure. I think you just had to keep refreshing and then when a room came up, you grabbed it. Like you do for concert tickets. Yeah. So apparently some 27,000 people were trying to get it just 3,000 spots. So that's really why we only saw the people who couldn't get in or were massively late in the queue, because the people that did get it probably wanted to keep it pretty quiet.

Oh, yeah, I didn't see any of my friends saying, I got one. Stick it pretty quiet. Oh yeah, I didn't see any of my friends saying, I got one. Stick it. Yeah. So there are people, it all seemed to be around Christmas, so I'm imagining a fair few people wanted to come home all day. I feel for the people that are genuinely trying

to get back, or have an emergency reason, and then people just want to come home for Christmas. It's like, come on, you can stay away for one more christmas i was reading that a um a father of three in this story uh he was hoping to get back to his wife and children who were in new zealand yeah currently in singapore um and but yeah they came home earlier and you know looking to move home so there are the kiwis that are looking to move home that missed out. Yeah. But there are also people who left during a pandemic

who are like, why can't I come back when I wanted to? It's like, well, you left during a pandemic. Well, this is why we all need

to get vaccinated so that we can open things up. And hopefully next year, start of next year, you'll be able to come back, do a little bit of MIQ at home. Yep. And then you'll be all good.

Well, that's the thing. Maybe direct your anger rather than at the government who are trying their best. And there's that many beds available. Yeah, because how many people? 27,000. Yeah. All at once.

Where are we going to put you? Maybe direct the anger at the people delaying a more, you know, lax term of isolation, as you said, home isolation and stuff, because we've got to reach that herd immunity. Oh, God, they sound Provax. Yeah. It's like the media are all in on it.

Yeah. Yeah, we are. We just want life to get back to somewhat of a normality, and you're kind of standing in the way. I tell you what, though, those checks I'm getting from Big Pharma, cashing those in are so good. Boy.

I'm getting checks. I'm getting jack. I'm getting old school checks. Oh, I'm just getting straight cash. Are you? Yeah, straight cash. And pens, man.

Pens. I've got so much Big Pharma pens. Every time you go to the doctor they've got a Big Pharma pen. Yeah, I've got a drawer full of Pfizer pens at home. Yeah, AstraZeneca keeps sending me pens and I'm like, maybe in a pinch.

You wait there. You might provide a good booster that I can be pro later. You can pay me in cash money, bitch. I'm sure there's so many doctors that are being asked to clarify things on TikTok and they're like... And that's what's happened. There is a doctor that was claiming on TikTok and this got... It went viral. There's 30,000 likes when I was looking at it.

Has anyone ever checked these doctors that they are actually... Because what's to stop me going on TikTok saying I'm Dr. Fletcher and just get a white lab coat? Nothing. Yeah, I mean, all we know is that she called herself a doctor and was wearing scrubs. stop me going on TikTok saying I'm Dr. Fletcher and just get a white lab coat. Nothing. Get a desk. Nothing. She called herself a doctor and was wearing scrubs. Oh yeah, I could get some scrubs. Can you be done for impersonating a doctor on

TikTok? Obviously you can walk into a hospital impersonating a doctor. You should get flagged. Oh right, okay. So lots of people were sharing this being like, oh my God, I never knew. This doctor was claiming that peeing either in the shower or on the toilet while the shower was running

could create an association in the brain between the sound of running water and having to pee. So they're saying don't pee in the shower because the sound of running water will make you need to pee. But that's already linked, isn't it? That's already done. No. What, the link between hearing running water and need to pee. But that's already linked, isn't it? That's already done. No. What, the link between hearing, running water and needing to pee?

But it's not going to make you pee. It's going to... Oh, so they're saying it takes it to the next level. They're claiming this causes incontinence and that also women shouldn't stand up and pee in the shower because it's not good for you. Why isn't it good for you? A urologist.

So the Daily Mail was like, we're going to ask a urologist about this. So he is a urological surgeon and I bet he loved being asked about this TikTok doctor. He said there is little or no evidence that urgency incontinence may be caused by habitually urinating in the shower. He said there is little cause for concern when it comes to women standing to pee either.

There is no evidence that has a detrimental effect on emptying your bladder between standing, sitting or crouching. So there you go. You've heard it from a urologist. It's fine to do that in the shower. Yeah. He said that your bladder control is determined by complex neural mechanisms and

while hearing running water might be like it's not actually going to make you incontinent. Ever try to pee your pants? No. Real hard. Why would you want to? Real hard to convince you to pee your pants. When have you ever been in a situation where you've Because your brain's like, I don't know.

I think I just thought about it once and I was like, you know when you really, really need to go to the toilet but your brain can be like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, and it can do a great job. And then if you just kind of need to go to the toilet and be like, I'm going to pee my pants really hard. Like when you're in your togs and trying to pee in the sea. Yeah.

You have to really piss yourself. But imagine you're beside the beach so you're just going to walk straight into the sea. Imagine standing beside the sea and forcing yourself to pee your pants. Oh, you couldn't do it. No, it's real hard. When you're little and you have dreams that you're on the toilet, and that's when you wait. Because sometimes I wake up and I'm so groggy.

I touch around, I'm like, no, I'm definitely here. You can go now. What, but you're still in bed? No, no, no, I'm definitely on the toilet. You're like, okay, there's the toilet roll, there's the wall. I'm not on the toilet. No, I'm definitely here. You can go now. What, but you're still in bed? No, no, no. I'm definitely on the toilet. You're like, okay, there's the toilet roll. There's the wall. I'm definitely here.

I'm good to go. Just got to double check. Yeah, I still have dreams where I wake up and I'm like, I've definitely went to bed. Because that urinating in my dream was the purest, delightful sensation. And you haven't. And I'm like, oh, I'm in bed. I've definitely pissed myself.

And I put my hands down and I'll be like, well, strike one over the ultimately. It's not where they're at today. Yeah. How do you explain that to your wife? I've got traumatic childhood associations for peeing in the shower. Okay. I remember mum and dad, mum absolutely, she walked into the bath.

I was like a little kid and she walked in and she's like, are you peeing in that shower? She could smell it. And I was like a little kid. And she walked in and she's like, are you peeing in that shower? She could smell it. And I got like really told off. Yeah. I didn't know at that stage that all of our shower water and toilet water all went into the same septic tank. So I thought I'm doing something really wrong. Okay.

But she just deemed it grubby. Yeah. And then I remember watching David Letterman. Yeah. And Madonna was on there saying Madonna peed on on her feet in the shower and it was great. And I remember it clearly. And so what? She accepted it after Madonna said.

And so I was like, I think mum's wrong. So I went back to peeing in the shower and have done ever since. Because Madonna said. Yeah. That's the one piece of life advice I've taken from Madonna. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. I've been watching Celebrity Treasure, and I've got a problem that Play ZM's Flesh, Fawn and Megan. I've been watching Celebrity Treasure Island. I've got a problem that I'd like to raise with them.

What's your problem? Well, on episode one, they were like, next time on Celebrity Treasure Island. And it's like, medic, medic. And it's like, what's happened? I'm like, whoa. So I watched episode two. And at the end of episode two, it's like,

next time on Celebrity Treasure Island, Medic! Medic! Oh, okay. Oh, no. Do it not say, like, coming up on this season of Celebrity Treasure Island? I'm pretty sure that in episode three and four, at the end of every episode, it's like, the most shocking moment of Celebrity Treasure Island,

Medic! Medic! Even my kids are like, when's the Medic showing up? They've got you, though, haven't they? I need to know who. Yeah, I know. I know. I can't know where it got inside Gus. I'll got you. I need to know who. Yeah, I know. I know. I can't remember where I got inside gas.

I'll tell you. I'll fear what happened. It was. Do you know? Yeah. You should know too because you were there in the conversation, but you've obviously forgotten. I wasn't listening.

17 past seven. I'm just up to page seven of 34. Okay. page 7 of 34 of the application to have a firearms license in Aotearoa, New Zealand. I wondered why you were so intently looking at your laptop. It's a PDF form.

Yeah. I've had a gun license before. I just want to get a gun license back. Is this when you were living on the farm as a kid? Yeah. 16, I think. Well, it was 16. Yeah. I'm actually not sure.

Oh, yeah, hold on. It says at the top how old you have to be. 16 years of age or older. Okay. And then you get like a little driver's licence thing, don't you? Yeah. Oh, my God. The one I had when I was 16, I looked crazy.

Like they shouldn't have. On the photo alone? They shouldn't base. That should be the final question, final box to tick. Yeah. How crazy do you look in the photo you've submitted should be the final question, final box to tick. Yeah. How crazy do you look in the photo you've submitted to sign your firearms license?

Has it always been 35 pages? Like, I feel like when you were 16, it was probably just like, do you want a gun license? Yeah. And you just tick yes. You know, are you going to point it at somebody

and you're like, no, and they're like, yeah, a couple more questions and then we'll be good. Yeah, right. I remember going to the Morrinsville Police Station to sit the test.

What's the test? For the firearms license. Absolutely zero knowledge. By the way, I'm not like going to the Morrinsville police station To sit the test What's the test? For the firearms licence By the way I'm not like Gonna go Like doomsday prep or anything If anybody's freaking out I just got possums Yeah right

I got possums and rabbits You don't have pest control I'm a pest control kind of guy You know what? I was pretty stoked this morning When I was leaving for work Do you know who I heard? Who?

The Ruru The Mopo Oh you're beautiful. Singing me out to the garage. I was like, good to hear you back. It might be a seasonal thing, I'm not sure, but I have been mowing through the possums lately with a trap. Right.

So you're letting the native birds flourish? Yeah, yeah. Oh, the tui are destroying my orange tree every day. I look out there and I see them. Oh, you're going to have to shoot them. No. It's come full circle. No, they're allowed there.

Oh, they're allowed. They're allowed. Please have yourself It's come full circle. No, they're allowed there. Oh, they're allowed. They're allowed. Please have yourself. I said, Mr. Toohey, please have another orange. The tangelos. I'm saying that wrong, eh? Tangelos. Tangelos, yeah.

Every time I say, oh, I'm going to go up to the tangelo tree, Shado's like, you're not saying that right. I like it. It sounds fancy. Tangelo sounds slightly fancier. So 35, do you need witnesses? Like, do you need? I think so.

I think. I'm not up to that page yet. Because I don't want them to call me. But the test was stuff like, I think I might have talked about it at some stage on the radio, but the test back in the day, again, this was like 20 something years ago. So the test may have changed.

Yeah. But it was something like, you're on a hunting trip with Tim, Steve and Dave. Dave gets a bit agitated. And then do you kiss? Okay, you went one way with this story. What do you do? Kiss or shoot him? Dave's agitated.

You're all camping. He's not quite himself. He starts saying, I can't remember what it was. He loves you. It might have been like anti-government sentiment or racist stuff. Yeah. What do you do? Take his gun away.

A, kiss him. A, tell him to go home. One of them was just like send him home. One of them was like hog time. Oh, that option. And one was just like the safest time, remove his gun and take his ammo. Right. Really kind of common sense stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah. the safest time remove his gun and take his ammo and right really kind of

common sense stuff yeah yeah yeah there's an animal on the crest of a hill on the other side of that hill is a subdivision do you shoot at the animal yeah go for it

oh my god that sort of yeah okay that sort of good stuff so yeah yeah you can't identify

your target it's a bit hazy do you just pop a couple of rounds yeah yeah yeah. That kind of stuff. You're out hunting. You hear a noise.

Could be a duck. Could be a kid making a duck noise. What do you do? Like that sort of common sense stuff. Yeah. Yeah, but now there's questions like, do you engage in any activities including online activities and groups or forums which exhibit, encourage,

or promote violence, hatred or extremism. Wow, yeah, times have changed, haven't they? But then can extremists recognise their own extremism? Wait, and they're certainly not going to tick a box. It's like that, you remember that when you used to fly to America, it was like, are you a terrorist? Yes or no? It's like, well, what am I going to say here if I am one?

God damn it, I wasn't there. I was just filling out the form in a hurry because I fell asleep. And now they know I'm a terrorist. I always thought like when you order alcohol online, it's like, are you 18 years of older? You're like, yes, I am. It's like, well, what, frr, frr, frr, frr. ZDM's Fletch, Ron and Megan.

Well, a study's been done now. Bear in mind, this is in the UK. Okay. And it has found, and this may come as no surprise, that women are doing more of the housework. 54% of women saying that they do all the housework. Inside or outside? Housework.

It would be inside. Yeah, but what about the outside? But that's housework too, right? It is. Maintaining the house. It's maintaining the house. It's upkeep. It's keeping it nice looking. It's cleaning up outside, right?

So over half, 54% of women say they do all the housework in their home. Nearly one in five men surveyed, 17%, admitted that their female partner does the majority of the housework compared to just 6% of women who said their male partner does the majority. Right. So 22% of everybody that they talk to said that it's a source of arguments. I was about to say.

Like you're not pulling your weight arguments. Are they actually upset about it? Because like some women are quite happy to take on that role, but they obviously are arguing about it. You need to do more around the house. But yeah, my household is 50-50. Right.

You should see our place when I claim it. Oof. When I claim, I claim. So you don't do it as often, but you do it really well and then you need a medal. Yeah. I think you've picked up exactly what I'm putting down. We're definitely a 50-50 split, but Andrew always

needs a medal. Yeah, for everything. Yeah, but who moves the couch and vacuums under it? And vacuums under the cushions? You know, that sort of stuff. I don't vacuum under the cushions. Vacuum under the cushions.

I'm a big fan of vacuuming like three times a week quickly. Nah. He wants to do it every two weeks and like

move everything. Yeah, that's the good stuff. He does deserve a medal. He's moving the couch. You're not moving the couch. Go on the cush. We asked here on our Instagram poll here in New Zealand,

and bear in mind that was the UK. Yeah. We said if in your relationship, who does the majority of the housework? We said heterosexual relationship. Okay. The female partner doing 86% to the 14% male. Although we probably

do have more females answering this poll. Yeah. Female audience. But then if the male was then the female answering the poll could then say.

That feels like a trap. Dude, because if a male clicked that they do the more and then their partner answered that quiz, can they see

people who voted yes or no? Oh, we can. We should put up a list of men that were brave enough to claim they do the majority of the housework. ZM's Fleshborn and Megan. Play ZM. This is from a 23-year-old woman now living in the US. She's British.

And she posted on the Reddit forum, am I the a-hole? I feel like if you have to ask, you probably already know the answer. She has not invited her parents and her brother to her wedding because of a grudge that she's held onto for 14 years.

So it sounds like it would be something very serious. That's all right, though. What? If you've been holding a grudge with someone for 14 years, you wouldn't invite them. Yeah, but your parents. Yeah, but how intense? I tell you more about this crush.

What's the grudge? So her parents, when she was nine, rescued a golden retriever puppy, Harry. Okay. And she fell in love with Harry. She said she had an extra special bond, Harry. And she fell in love with Harry. She said she had an extra special bond with Harry. This changed when her brother

began complaining about allergies. Which they found out was due to Harry. I love this so much. My parents told us that we'd have to re-home Harry but assured us he'd be going to a good home. Now, this is when she said,

can't my brother just take allergy medication? Fair call. Stupid brother. But her parents were worried about the long-term effects of taking the medication, and so they were like, look, we can just re-home Harry to a loving home. Yeah, like hell we can. She has resented her parents for the decision ever since.

She moved away. She went to college in the United States to be further away from them, but... What, she's from the decision ever since. She moved away. She went to college in the United States to be further away from them, but What? She's from the UK? However, she did accept the offer to pay for her tuition and money towards her LA rent. Oh, of course. So she's been accepting money.

Yeah, yeah. Okay. But she has now not invited them to their wedding and when they asked why because she obviously still keeps in contact with them, enough to keep getting paid by them, she said, I haven't forgiven you for rehoming Harry. Great. That is unbelievable.

I admire the sticking of the guns. You can't. How much has this eaten her up? She's been happily taking their money and everything. Hypocrite. Yeah. If you're going to grudge, you've got to hard grudge. You've got to solid grudge.

It's fair to say she wasn't met with much support. Online, no. I wouldn't imagine so. If you're a parent and you've got two kids and one of them is suffering because of a pet that you've just rescued, then you're going to rehome it, right? Yeah. Just to look after the sake of one of your kids. I love the audacity of assuming that the parents are going to love the daughter

so much more than the son, that they're going to love the dog more than the son. Yeah. Because of how much they love the daughter. And when they didn't, the daughter was like, you obviously hate me. I see what's happening here you hate me completely overlooking the selfishness of her request like yeah my brother i want the dog um and no word on whether she's actually taking money for from them for her

wedding because that would be hilarious you can help me pay for it but you're not coming yeah you can fund my life for the last 10 years. Yeah. So it was a 14-year grudge and it was something as trivial as that. I would love to know if you are holding on to a grudge. How long for?

How petty was it? Because Vaughan Smith absolutely loves a grudge. 100%. But no, you wouldn't. The hate keeps me alive. It keeps me strong. I don't keep holding grudges. You've got to let these

things go. Why? You just do. No one's ever given me a good reason as to why. Because it eats you up. It doesn't. I don't think about it. Until you see them and you're like, that's right. You forget. I was raised by an

Irish Catholic. we just know our I don't hold grudges I just let them go I just throw the fish back in the water But that's the thing I don't care But I'm not like Forgive and forget

And invite people back in No no no no No no no no Yeah alright Well I'll add 100 dials at M Give us a call You can text as well 9696

What is your historic grudge? How long has it been? Yeah, and if it's for something as petty as the family getting rid of the dog they've only had for a day, wow, let us know. We want to know this morning and right now, how long have you had a grudge for? Your really good grudges. Yeah, your historic grudge.

A woman is not inviting her family to her wedding because they got rid of the dog when she was nine. That's a 14-year-long grudge. That's something very petty. So, yeah, we want to know how long it's been, how petty is it. Talifa, what's your grudge? So about five years ago, I was travelling to a wedding in Italy with my best friend and her boyfriend.

Yeah. And we were supposed to hire a car when we got there and he was going to a wedding in Italy with my best friend and her boyfriend yeah and we were supposed to hire a car when we got there and he was going to hire it as we got to the airport they told me that he had lost his license and that I was going to have to be the one to hire the car so they kind of sprung it on me I didn't really have that much of a choice we were staying kind of quite far out of the city yeah so I hired the car and they were like, don't worry, we'll all put in for it. It'll all go together. And anyway, somebody ended up crashing the car

on the trip and when we went to return it, they left me with a 400 pound fine for the car, never gave me any money for it

and I haven't spoken to them since. Oh, yes. And that was like five years ago. Five years ago. Yeah. You never put anything under your name when you're with a group of friends.

It's like the lease on a flat. Wait, so did you ever chase them for it or they just left and you were like... Yeah, I asked them for it and everyone said, no, you knew the rest. You shouldn't have done it. And I said, I know. I tried not to do it. Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

Oh, that's not petty. I would have dropped them too. Same. Yeah. Never spoken to them again. Hey, thanks for your call. Some text messages in. I accidentally cut my brother's tie off with a lawnmower when I was three.

It's been 26 years. He still brings it up every time we have a family gathering. I haven't spoken to my parents since my mother decided to tell my husband our son might not be his. And 100% is his. It's been four years. No regrets coming out of my life. What was the mum

doing? Wow. Wow. There's people out there. Would they let mum apologise? Or it's too late now? I don't feel like that's mum's first offence. I feel like there's others. You've lived without them for four years. You don't feel like it's mum's first offence yeah I feel like there's others you've lived without them

for four years so yeah you don't need them we're talking about historical grudges a woman has not invited her parents and her brother

to her wedding after they gave away the family dog because he had allergies when she was nine but to be fair it was a golden retriever so it's like you know

top shelf dog top tier dog yeah but still get over it she was also taking money from them to live in America. Yeah. Like, it's not like she cut them out of her life completely. She was still taking money. It's not

a consistent grudge. No. You've got to be consistent with your grudge. You don't want to be called a hypocrite. Oh, no, no, no. Hannah, how long have you been holding a grudge? Hi, hey, Owen. Good, good. How long have you been holding a grudge? It's not me.

It's actually my sister. Okay. So when she was five, she's 27 now, my parents went out for an event and hired a babysitter. Yep. And the babysitter drank all her favorite juice. And we still hear about it to this day. Oh, my God. That's a 22-year grudge about juice.

I know. Tell me about it. I like this kid's moxie. That is. What kind of juice was it? Not even the only grudge she holds. Oh, yeah, no, I bet she's going, if you're holding it over juice from 22 years ago,

you've got some other people that have wronged you along the way. Does she get quite bitter about things? She can do, yeah, absolutely. Is she a middle child? No, I'm the middle child. She's the youngest. What kind of juice was it? It's like the fresh up

kind of stuff. We weren't allowed juice as a kid. Alright, so it was a special treat and then the babysitter came and glugged it all. Also, ballsy from a babysitter to do a whole litre of Just Juice. You never finish that. I know, right? Yeah, I know.

They say, help yourself. You just have a little bit of everything. Yeah. Hannah, thanks for your call. Sophie, how long have you been holding a grudge for? Well, I'm 31, and it happened in year five. So, well, over 20 years. Okay, and who are you

holding this grudge against? Well, a girl who commented that I needed to learn how to colour coordinate my clothes and brush my hair more. Oh! And you have not forgotten those comments from her? No, I still see her

around now and she's really nice. I think probably too nice you know i think she remembers as well she doesn't she doesn't remember she probably doesn't she probably doesn't isn't that amazing that someone that says something like that everybody's got something someone said to them as a kid there would have been a throwaway comment that stuck with them yeah and it's always it's always something along those lines, the way you look or something, and it just sticks with you. And the person will never in 100 years remember saying it.

No. Sophie, thanks for your call. Tracy, who's holding a grudge? My brother is holding one against me. Okay. So how long far back does this grudge go? 26 years. Okay.

What did you do? I accidentally cut his toe with the lawnmower. Wow. There's a few of these. Somebody else said it's 22 years ago. I chopped my brother's finger off when we were kids. He's never forgiven me. The finger was sewn back on crooked, though.

Oh, my God. That's more of a grudge finger was thrown back on crooked though. Oh my God. That's more of a grudge against the doctor. Did they do it the wrong way round so the fingernail's on the inside? Oh, you could bend backwards. Yeah. So how old were you in charge of the lawnmower? I was three. Yeah.

The grudge maybe should be against the people who were supposed to be supervising you. I still maintain it was his fault for walking in front of it while I pushed it. Yeah. I mean, mother and dad probably shouldn't have turned it on. There's a lot of blame to be passed around here. God, it was loose back in the day, wasn't it? Thanks, Tracy. Some messages in.

There was a lot of things that led up to this, but the straw that broke the camel's back was I was trying to meet up with my dad for my 20th birthday. He refused to meet me at the beach. I had to go to him. He lived three hours away from me and the beach was only an hour away from him. So I was still traveling the majority of the way. I haven't spoke to him since. Married, have a baby. I'm 27 now and I still haven't spoken to him. That was the last issue. Wow. Haven't spoken to or acknowledged

either of my parents for 24 years after they sided with my brother who went to jail for smacking his children. It was a bit more than a smacking, but they supported him because apparently a bit of discipline never hurt anybody, but the courts deemed it significantly more. One year, my family got into a fight and my grandma smashed up my mother's gingerbread house and said, you can take your jammed, damned gingerbread house with you.

Gets up, brought up every family gathering that she's not at now. Oh, okay. So I guess that's... I haven't seen my mum for three years since she yelled at my boyfriend on Christmas Day when she was drunk that if he's effing her daughter, he might as well stay for dinner. He said he wouldn't put us through that. He left. I went to bed.

Then she came in and sat on my bed telling me I was as useless as my sister. So I hadn't talked to her three, two weeks ago. I extended an invite to her to my wedding after intending not to invite her, but I thought she's my mother. I better invite her. And she had the audacity to say no to me. Because she said if anything went wrong at the wedding

it would somehow be my fault for some reason. At least you're the bigger person. You always say that you invited her. Yeah. My mother-in-law said that my husband's now ex had far better dress sense and a better body than me. 22 years later I'm still holding that grudge.

It was true, but that doesn't mean she needs to be sick. Yeah. Man, there is a wow. We had some juicy goss there. Yeah. My brother holds the grudge. Yeah. We rescued a kitten.

My brother was allergic. And mum said, well, you're just going to have to get used to it. That cat lived till it was over 20. Oh, my God. And my brother still brings up about how the time we chose the cat over his allergies. Good Lord. Just live with it.

Thanks, and what's that, Claritine? Every day, as someone who's allergic to cats, I feel for them. I mean, it clogs up my throat and I'm a bit like. I would name the cat Claritine as a daily reminder to the person. ZDM's Fletchborn and Megan. What have you just discovered on Instagram? Megan's ex-husband's shared a good meme. She loves it when I...

You must be liking his stuff for it to pop up in your algorithm. No, I always like his post because he's always in a mountain in Canada. Yeah, he's doing to some amazing spots. He's got some great Instagram posts. Where have you been lately? I set that butterfly free. Here's a good one.

Yep. It says, folks, do not buy the iPhone 13. They developed it in just one year. The first iPhone took billions of years to make. How can we trust an iPhone which was developed so fast? You can see where this is going. It's a real Vax thing. And someone said, not only that,

I've heard they contain microchips and GPS tracking software. That's good. They did have a great sense of humour, didn't they? Oh, well, he married her. I'm sorry, that was horrible. That was horrible, but I couldn't stop it. I couldn't stop it. I couldn't stop it. Where are you going?

She has left the building. Albus, we finally broke her. Sorry, that was mean. That was very quick. He did very well. He did very well to marry you. I think he was... Ah, look, you're happy now.

Coming up on the show... You're very happy now. That's the most important thing. Coming up on the show, the top Airbnb searches for summer, this summer coming. Like, it's the 21st of September today. Right. So in a couple of days, we're going to be how many months from Christmas? Three months.

Yes. And that's why we're doing it. It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas next in the show as well. We're finally, God, we're behind the eight ball compared to our usual Christmas penetration, but I thought she was coming back. We've got some reports of Christmas. Okay. And we'll report them to you next.

I've just got an apology to make. I'll be back in a minute. You can come back now. I'm very sorry. She's smiling. It's all for the cameras, isn't it? Classic. She's gone again.

Apologies have been made. We do apologise again. Megan's now back in the studio. Yeah. But you're on thin ice. We're all best friends again. We don't hold grudges around here. No.

I do, but it wasn't against me. Ho, ho, ho. Ooh, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Well, Fletch doesn't have the tab open, so let me tell you it's 94 days till Christmas. I always do that. I know you do. 94 days, 15 hours and 52 minutes.

We've cracked the Hyundai. I know, we're going into doubles. Yeah, so what? It'll be three months and four days. Wow. And daylight savings this weekend. Now, normally, and we found this last year as well with all of the lockdowns and COVID,

it really does put a spanner in the works of the whole it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas segment. Yeah. Because normally by this time, there'd be a lot of Christmas penetration, reports of Christmas Segment. Yeah. Because normally by this time there'd be a lot of Christmas penetration, reports of Christmas in stores. Producer Jared has done some stats chase up

because when he inherited the role of technical producer, he inherited the statistics. Oh, okay. And the spreadsheet. Do you want to know where we're at in years gone by?

Yes, please. So in 2016, at this time, so five years ago, at this time, we were at 37% Christmas penetration. Wow. Well on the road, you know. Yeah.

This time last year, we were at 20% Christmas penetration. Yeah. So we'd seen a 17% decrease in Christmas penetration from 2016, which was the dizzying heights of pre-COVID Christmas. This time last year, though, we weren't in any kind of lockdown state. We had a late 2020 lockdown. We had a September. Didn't we have a September-y August level three?

You know who will be able to tell us? People who have had their birthdays in lockdown. Yeah. Actually, no, you had no recently friends have had their second birthday in lockdown. I think it was in August. I think it was August. Goodness. Well, I am happy to report that 94 days out from Christmas,

we do have some Christmas penetration to report. Jamie messaged me on Instagram saying, here's some Christmas penetration. Merry early Christmas, Christmas cards, Christmas wrap there. Oh, yes. That's sneaking in. Christmas cards, Christmas wrap. Nice.

Did you see Jamie up in the corner? No shirt on in the Instagram profile, which is a bold move. Very muscular. Stop. Okay. Stop stalking his profile. Next up. All you can get is that tiny circle in the corner of that story.

And you're like, how big can you be? This next one, as I screen capped this Christmas story, somebody messaged me, so I can't tell you who sent it in. I can just tell you I got a message at the same time. Oh, yeah. There has been spotted in Countdown the Mars Mary teaser reindeer and the Christmas rainbow treats, which are like little individually wrapped. He's sneaking in individually wrapped Christmasy goods that are sneaking in. I've got a video report that I would like to present to the class.

This comes to us from Hawke's Bay. This was in a Harvey Norman. Okay, I'll do that again. I'm taking a video. So shush. Oh my goodness. Jingle Bell Rock. It's Christmas music.

Christmas music. I loved it. No, I'm going to try that again now. Shush, I'm taking a video. Shush, I'm taking a video. Somebody else said that it's Christmas and it's COVID because they got advertising for sockies, which are making Christmas-themed masks.

Oh, I didn't think about that. Yeah, so you can get a Santa on a mask, or there's a variety there of cotton masks. However, the masks do contain the disclaimer, not for medical purposes. Oh. Tanya. I was going to order a heap from a DHB, but...

Oh, no, probably not. Don't do that. Tanya messages in, I haven't heard any yet, but I would like to make a submission for our Christmas penetration. Chocolate Santas. Oh, okay. Again, your chocolate Christmas-themed Malteser reindeer

there as well, making an appearance. And Belinda wants us to know, it's definitely beginning to look a lot like Christmas as she's received an email from Smith and Corhea about booking your visit with the Santa. Oh, that's a top tier Santa too. This is Bastion's first Christmas. I need to do it. You're going to need to get in early to get that primo Santa.

Also, Christmas joy shipping from various online people have been reporting getting the emails saying it's time to start your Christmas online shopping with us. Alana messages in from Australia, an international report shopping at Coles this morning, and I saw a chest high display full of Christmas mince tarts. Oh, goodness. That's different to your knee high display of Christmas mince tarts. The knee high is more of your... That's your August.

August, yeah. September is more of your chest height Christmas mince tarts. The knee high is more of your... That's your August. August, yeah. September's more of your chest height. Christmas mince tarts. So given those reports and the fact that we are 94 days away from Christmas... Elves, get busy. Right now, Christmas penetration is at... 17%. Oh!

Oh! It is beginning to look a lot like Christmas. ZDM's Fletch, Ron and Megan. Airbnb have released their top summer spots. This is for summer 20 slash 21. So where everyone was searching and wanting to go last Christmas holidays. Right, okay.

This is a wee hint where you should get booking now if you want to go away for Christmas. I remember I looked maybe November and it was impossible to find anywhere decent or cheap in all the main spots. November last year. Yeah. Yeah, because we're all at home, aren't we?

Because everyone had booked it. Yeah, everyone knew they weren't going anywhere. Same this year. So if you've got in the back of your mind one of these places that I'm about to read to you, get in quick. I looked at making a booking over the New Year's period for Jet Park. I think you'll be lucky to get in there too. Really?

I've just heard it. I don't know where I've heard the name, but it's been banging around so much. I've got a way you could get in there. Have you? yeah well maybe we'll talk about it later

sure okay it does involve some coughing in your mouth I just hot I just heard

that you know throughout this whole tumultuous time of tourism jetparks been chocolate the whole time so they must be doing something right

something right yeah failing that I'll have to go the Ibis and Ellerslie, I think. Yeah, sure. I'll hit you with the top 10 most searched places for summer 2021. This is on Airbnb.

10 is Raglan. Been there. Waikato. Never been. Have you never been? No. We've never been. We simply must.

It's so close. And we've never been. Lovely. Doesn't your mother-in-law run a accommodation there? She does, yes. Yeah, there you go. Is that the yurt? She runs the yurt, yeah.

It looks lovely. The original yurt. What's her bookings like? Oh, there are lots of yurts now. The bookings have been pretty steady, I think. Well, yeah, there's been lots of yurts. Well, their popularity led to a yurt boom. Okay.

Number nine is Taupo. Been there. Okay. Lovely. We don't need Dad to tell uso. Been there. Okay. Lovely. We don't need Dan to tell us he's been there. I built that. Lovely. Been there.

One of my favourite memories is swimming at the mouth of the Waka Toa River. Yeah. Gosh, the visibility. You could see forever. Okay. Because it was the mouth. Yeah, yeah. I mean, go too far.

Probably just down past Hooker Falls, it gets all chewed up. Yeah. So the most searched Airbnb destinations for summer 2021 are Whangamata. Been there. Oh, Jesus. Spent many a summer there growing up. Should I go faster so we don't get it?

And a house that was possibly asbestos lined. Are we going to get an anecdote for everyone? Yep. Gisborne. Been there once. Also, I feel a combination there sells out super quick because of R&B. R&B. R&B, yeah. Gisborne Been there Once Also that I feel a combination There sells out super quick

Because of R&B R&B Yeah We're 25 now We don't need to tent We can all just share a house We'll go Maybe we'll do tents

For like two nights But the accommodation For like the rest of it We should never have done Tents for two nights Yeah Number six I would have thought

Would have been higher. Wanaka. Been there. Top five now. This is the most searched Airbnb destination. Been there. Remember, Wanaka, if you want an anecdote, we were there one New Year's and someone we were with,

he angered his girlfriend and she was sober driving for us so we all had to leave early. She packed a big old shit. That sounds like something I would do It wasn't you, for the record Number five is Coromandel It's a beautiful summer location Yeah, that shit

Oh, been there So many options to choose from My hometown, Nelson is number four Abel Tasman is beautiful Been there Kai Terry Rain the whole week we were there Didn't get to do anything

Soured Nelson for me, summer memory. When did you, what? Years ago. It was the end of 2004 because it was after the Bokken Bay tsunami. It's not, I've done a few weeks there where it's been raining over summer. It's not fun. It's not fun to go there in winter, for sure. It's beautiful, but it's cold.

Top three, Auckland. Been there. Really? I wonder if that would be this year still. Is that for like people that are visiting family for Christmas or they have a New Year's in Auckland? Because everybody leaves Auckland. Summer destination.

Oh, right. Oh, I know. Auckland goes dead because everyone's gone home. It's when they like to tar seal the roads. They do all the roadworks. They do. They're like, the bridge is shut today because we're going to tar seal it.. They do all the road works. They do. They're like, the bridge is shut today because we're going to tar seal it.

It's not a problem. Number two is Tauranga. Been there. The mount for summer. Beautiful spot. Number one. This is the number one destination for last...

Where did you... Been there. Been there. Been there. Oh, there's a few must-tos. Let me get through the intro for it. That was my search destination last summer, Queenstown. Go on the boat across the lake, the Earnslaw.

Yeah. Across the lake to the farm on the other side. Oh, my God, thank you for telling me that. I would never have done it. I've never heard about the Earnslaw. I've been tens of times and never been on the Earnslaw and went on the last, like, the most amazing thing down there. It was bloody gorgeous.

Have you done the paraponting? No, no, no, no. Oh, that's so fun. I don't need to be told I'm heavy. I don't need a boat's whining motor telling me I'm a little much. Yeah. The boat's like, God, help me, help me, help me. And I'm like, I'm not even on the ground yet.

Your legs are skimming along the water. Then they're like, this was actually a sea biscuit-ing experience. Play ZM's Flesh, Fawn and Megan. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Today's fact of the day is about birds. Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do. Today's fact of the day is about birds. Birds and their hollow bones. Why do birds have hollow bones?

Lighter to fly. You walked right into my trap. Damn it. It doesn't. I would have thought so once upon a time. Yesterday before I found this fact. And educated myself and was like, wow. Because they've got hollow bones and you would think it's to make them lighter. Yeah.

But what's the name for people who study birds? Birdologists. Orthopedics. No, those are the things you put in your shoe, which are made of birds, by the way, in case you want to ring the link. They have said... Ornithologists.

Ornithologists. They have said that Ornithologists. Ornithologists. They have said that the material that their bones are made out of is denser, meaning they might be hollow, but they weigh just as much as a bone that would be thick, you know. Yeah, right. What's solid? That word just escaping you for a moment. You know how I was going to try to find out what I meant by solid?

I was going to say, what do you call the Easter eggs that aren't empty? Hollow. Because you know when you get an Easter egg and it was hollow, it was never quite meant as much as if it was like a solid rock, which is impossible to eat if you've ever got a solid chocolate Easter egg. You're like... And your teeth skid off it. As a kid, I would have tried.

Oh, absolutely. Or, you know, smashed it and eaten the shards of it because it was more chocolate. But apparently what their bones are made of is so much more dense, meaning that they actually gain no weight advantage by having hollow bones. This is where it gets freaky.

Their bones are hollow so that their lungs can extend into hollow bones. This is where it gets freaky. Their bones are hollow so that their lungs can extend into their bones. To fly, birds need to use so much more oxygen to fly that they needed, over the

millions of years of evolution of birds from when they were like dinosaurs, they needed to have more room to breathe. So that the birds that could breathe more were the birds that could escape the prey. So they were the ones that survived and they were the ones that bred. It passed down the trait that their bones became hollow

so that their lungs could extend into some of these bones. Do you think that's what the Kiwis do with their hollow bones or did they just put hoo-hoo grubs in them? i reckon they store yummies in them they're like they go to swallow and they're like no put that one swallow that way yeah i'll save a little bit of that yeah yummy little grub for later and they are um i can't say this word i practiced saying this word last night pneumonia you can do it pneumonia no no no no pneumonia is what i. No, no, no, no. Pneumonia is what I use to get that P-N-E-A-U P-N

Pneumatic. I got you. The P throws me. Get rid of it. We don't need it. Pneumatic. Pneumatic. Then, say it again. Pneumatized. You meant pneumatized. Say it again but don't put the C on the end. Put a Z. Pneumatized. Pneumatized?

Pneumatized. Right. Which means that they can have pressure in them too. Humans have this in bones around the sinuses. Oh, interesting. Which is why that can become problematic when you get like a sinus infection. But yeah, so they can pump a little bit of pressure in there. So it doesn't make them any lighter.

So today's fact of the day is birds don't have hollow bones to make them lighter because the bone's made of dense stuff that makes it the same weight. So they can store a bit of extra breath in there. So it doesn't make them any lighter. So today's fact of the day is birds don't have hollow bones to make them lighter because the bone's made of dense stuff that makes it the same weight so they can store a bit of extra breath in them. Fact of the day! Day, day, day, day! Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do. ZDM's Fletch Vaughan and Megan. A dating expert in the UK, and she met her husband on a dating platform, Vaughan,

because you always like to know people's backgrounds, so she knows what she's talking about. She has revealed some mistakes you could make on first dates, and one of them is brevity is the key to romance. So keeping things brief. Her example is not talking about Brexit, which you could just summarise as don't bring up politics. Yeah. She said it divided the country, so don't let it divide your date.

When you go on a date, do you want to talk about politics and get it out of the way and then know that you're kind of on board with each other? I'd think so. She's saying avoid it. Because imagine if you didn't, you put it off, you move in together a few minutes in the track, Karl-Mar Brunton poll comes on, David Seymour's up in the preferred prime ministers,

and the guy's like, good to see my boy David doing well. You'd be like, oh my God, I made a terrible mistake. What have I done? She said that 50% of people going on dates say talking about anything political would make them want to leave. So she reckons you should keep to like trivial things like movies, we want to go for holiday,

flirting with people and that kind of thing. But then she's saying, don't ask that. Brevity's key. But then eventually you are going to find out that stuff. So wouldn't you want to know as soon as possible? Because there are deal breakers for people, right? Yeah, I agree with you. But then she said it's good to avoid divisive topics until you have a more rounded understanding of each other. But then I just like them and they've said something dumb.

Yes, that's the thing. You fall for someone. Now I really like you. And then you say you're an anti-vaxxer. And I'm like, who's at fault here? Me for falling for you? You know, like there's some things where you're just like, okay, this can't go any further.

But then are you going to seem too like full on if you go there and you're like, okay, who do you vote for? How many kids do you want? What political party do you like? Are you getting vaccinated? Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

Well, we thought this morning on the back of this, we would ask you what are those things that for you on a first date are off topic, that they're a turn off? Things that turn you off first date. I always go by how they treat the person serving you. Oh, yeah. Because if they're a clicky person or the rude, you're like, oh, it's not happening again.

It's not happening again. But what are those topics? Like if somebody asked you, you'd just be like, oh, this is not happening. I don't want to answer this. Because what do they say to hairdressers? You don't talk about politics, religion, biscuits. Controversial.

You don't bring up a sampler tin. What if you find out someone's favourite biscuit is like the pink wafer with the cream in the middle? Or Megan, she's like, I love ginger nuts. We can't be together. Ginger nuts are the best. They're the best dunkers. Because then you can work your way through a sampler. The structural integrity

when it goes into the tea is great. I'd rather find out on a date if you were like, what's left over at the end of your box of favourites? Oh yeah. You know, if it's the ones that I like, we're a match made in heaven.

We might fight over a picnic, but we're not going to fight over the bounty. I'd be absolutely stoked if I was on a date and somebody said, oh, at the end of the box of favourites, it's always Turkish Delights and Cherry Ripes. I'd be like, this is perfect. I get all of those and they won't eat them. Yeah. You want to like the opposite chocolates. Sure.

It's 12 minutes away from 9. A dating expert has revealed a few mistakes she could be making on first dates, and that includes talking about politics. Yeah. It's a bit of a topic turn-off. She's saying on first dates, like, keep it really brief. Light on details.

To reel them in. But then you might find out weeks later that they are the complete opposite of what you believe in. But then you might find out weeks later that they are the complete opposite of what you believe in. Yeah. Maybe don't just go into it with a first date though. So we want to know from you this morning,

0800DARLS at Emmy, you can text in as well, 9696. On a first date, what are the topic turn-offs for you? I once had a guy ask me on a first date if I would let him smack me on the behind with a hairbrush. Okay, so that was our one and only date.

Okay. Yeah. I guess he just wanted to find out if she was into that. Yeah, I mean, that's quite forthcoming. That feels like a conversation. Yeah, I don't know. I don't. I don't know.

You've got to read the room on these things. Sure, there might be a first date where that's all good for chat like that's not to say she wouldn't be open to it later on yeah true

someone said I'm bisexual so that comes onto the table pretty quickly because you know some people might not be into it

but as a bisexual I'll say this to guys and girls that doesn't instantly mean that threesomes are on the table for discussion and planning their roles because that's the first thing I thought of when you said that I've been asked multiple times

about them on first dates so that's a don't do that you're like males and females, you don't necessarily need everything at once that's what they say, I like either or but not both at the same time so for me that's not and that's just a little bit of a warning for people who maybe don't know that.

Okay, well 0800-DARLS-IT-M 9696 to text, keep stories, your texts coming in. You're a bit flustered, are you? Get those next. Stop it. We would like to know what a first date topic turn off is for you. Our dating expert has said that you should steer clear

of politics because it is a turn off. Even if you want to expert has said that you should steer clear of politics because it is a turn off. Even if you want to find out that they're, you know, aligned with your beliefs, don't do it on the first date apparently. Do that later when you've fallen in love with them and it's too late because it's so hot. Damn it. God damn hot people. God damn hot people. Damn them.

Start talking about terrible politics and you're like, shh. Shush baby. And then their metabolism slows down and you're like tell us about terrible politics and you're like, shh, shh, shh, baby. Shush, baby. And then your metabolism slows down and you're like, tell us about your politics again. And then you're like, I can see it now. Megan, what's a first date topic turn off for you? It is money and how much you earn. Do people, have people asked you that?

Or like, it's brought up, like, what's, like, kind of how much you earn or, like, what you're expected to earn. It's kind of like, I just don't like it. Oh, my God. I could never ask somebody that. No, that's private. It's kind of like, you know,

kind of based on your job description, but, like, or roughly, but, like, if anyone asks you how much you earn, I'm like, nope, no way. I'm sorry, I'm done. Yeah, yeah. Also, why is that one of the first things you're interested about me?

Yeah. Yeah, it's kind of just very shallow, very like, I'm just like, no, if you're judging me based on that, that is no. Yeah. Brittany, thanks for your call. Anonymous, what's the topic turn off for you?

If she mentions she goes to see psychics Watches psychic TV shows Or wants to cast my horror story I'm out the door I'm gone Are you Is your name Vaughn, Anonymous? It's me, I'm ventriloquist thing

And putting on the accent And laughing at the same time as talking No, but based on that, I think Vonna are going to get along like a house on fire. Yeah, we're going to run. We're going to run.

What if you went around to their house and there were heaps of crystals charging on the windowsill? Yeah, no. That's a big no as well. Yeah, definitely not.

Does it vary depending on how hot she is? It doesn't matter. Wow! Even if she was like a 10. We could get along like a house on fire. Any other topic, but those ones are just not. Those would definitely be a breakers.

Because I think even if she was a 10, Vaughn wouldn't care about the crystals. All my principles work till an eight and a half. And then they go out the window. Anonymous, thanks for your call. Some messages in. Oh. Oh. Oh messages in. Oh. Oh.

Oh. Oh. I can't even read it out, I don't think. I had a guy ask me if I'd put things in. Just say in an orifice. Don't say it. In our first date Yeah I went to the bathroom

Didn't come back Oh wow I mean But again he was probably Just sick of going on Like five dates And then asking And being rejected

So why not ask On the first one Someone said they went On a date during the flag Referendum a few years back And the guy would not take Did you see the bar On the corner

Has the bloody stupid flag up? The Weepix flag. The John Key Weepix flag. Yeah. Yeah, I did. I saw it when you saw it the other day, and I saw your disdain in your face as we drove past. Did you?

I wanted to rip it down. God, I hated that flag. I've still got a red peak in the garage. Oh, the red peak. Oh, we were red peakers. I saw a targeted advertising for a flagpole. I was like, red peak could fly again. That was a good flag. That saw a, I got targeted advertising for a flagpole. I was like, Red Peak could fly. That was a good flag.

That was a great flag. Yeah, that looked like a 90s sports uniform, that sanitarium John Key flag that he liked. Wait, so finish your message. So they went on a date during the flag referendum and this guy would not take for an answer that they didn't care about the flag. He was just hounding them for which was their favourite.

He pulled them up. He showed them all the options. which was their favourite. He pulled them up. He showed them all the options. Pick one. I can't move on. Yeah, you've got to pick one. No, I don't want to. I don't care. I don't care at all. So there you go. Lots of that. Sports fanatics. If all they can talk about is sports,

I guess it's just the fact that I know nothing about sports, so I'm going to have nothing to talk about. Unless you're, again, unless you're a 10. And the amount of people messaging in that have been asked on First Dates how much money they earn, or someone will tell them how much money they earn. See, that would be the instant turn off for me. There's no way.

No, me too. Why is that your top concerns about me? Yeah, I don't know. It's not good. That's a way of knowing you're not an eight and a half or above. Probably. ZM's Fleshborn and Megan.