ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Megan Podcast - 22nd October 2020

Episode Date: October 21, 2020

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hello, welcome to the Fleeche Warner Megan podcast. Thanks to McCafe. Download the Maccas app to get McCafe rewards today Thank you for those who messaged me, tagging me in posts as well on the FVM podcast fam Facebook page when I got stuck yesterday with Google You may remember we left the podcast intro yesterday not caring about the term for someone who only wears plain clothing Yes, non-branded non- only wears plain clothing. Yes. Non-branded. Non-branded plain clothing. Nomcore. Nomcore.
Starting point is 00:00:29 Remember, we had talked about that before. Nomcore. That's boring. It's a unisex fashion trend characterized by normal-looking clothing. So, like, just normal jeans, plain t-shirts. Basically, AS Color. You'd say AS Colour's Normcore Normcore
Starting point is 00:00:46 Like normal Yeah And core's all like From the hardcore part Right You'd put like Emo core Scream core
Starting point is 00:00:52 That was our 2000 situation Sure Yeah Right So thank you for those Normcore Georgia Tagging me in there
Starting point is 00:00:59 And many people messaging Right you learnt With the term Normcore Look at that Which is not you Megan You don't do normcore. Look at that. Call back to yesterday's show. Megan, you don't do normcore. You don't do normcore either.
Starting point is 00:01:08 Not really. I wear a lot of plain t-shirts. What are you wearing today? I don't know, a plain t-shirt and jeans. What? What is that little logo? Yeah, but this doesn't count, it's so tiny. What does that stand for?
Starting point is 00:01:21 T-H. Underneath is New York. Tom Hardy. Tommy Hilfiger. You've got a lot of Tommy Hilfiger gear. Yeah, it's just easier, isn't it? It's very plain. They do a lot of Navy. They do a lot of Navy, exactly.
Starting point is 00:01:35 And it goes with your FUBU jacket. No one has a FUBU jacket anymore. And your Hugo Boss jazz. Yeah, sure. And your New York Knicks flexi-fit hat. Yes, absolutely. Oh, the 90s. Good morning.
Starting point is 00:01:55 Welcome to the show, Fleet, Schvorn and Megan. Little shocking to hear a COVID ad in the ad break. With the do-do-do. Do-do-do-do-do-do. Yeah. Hmm. Hmm. So I guess, just a reminder, especially for those in Auckland,
Starting point is 00:02:12 let's use the QR codes. Let's trace that. Let's get that tracer app back. God damn it. And Greenhithe, there was a bar there that a man went to on Friday. Yes. Linked to the case where the guy that works at the ports, most of New Plymouth Port and Auckland Port,
Starting point is 00:02:32 he came in close contact with this person. This person went to a bar. So they're saying if you went to that bar, self-isolate and also get tested. That bar, I'll give you the name, The Malt in Greenhithe. Right. And I think it was here in the evening. Between 7.30 and 10pm.
Starting point is 00:02:52 Right, okay. So they're not considering those that were at the bar close contacts? No. Not like, yeah, but if you were there during those times. They are, they are close contacts. Oh, we've during those times. They are, they are. They are close contacts. Oh, we've just been told. Okay, so they are. So if you were there and you used your QR code, you should have got a notification.
Starting point is 00:03:12 Yeah. Saying ding dong. Ding dong. It's Ashley here. Ding dong. He does all of them. Ashley Bloomfield. It's like a PA announcement.
Starting point is 00:03:19 Ding dong. Hi guys, Ashley Bloomfield here. Isolate and get tested. How many messages did you get last night from people? Oh, this is Christmas gone. Oh, my God. I'm, yeah. Like, I think it was a bit.
Starting point is 00:03:32 But we all need to not be so dramatic for them. I know. I didn't. It was him saying goodbye by Christmas. Here we go again. Goodbye Christmas. I'm like, calm down. He said goodbye Christmas.
Starting point is 00:03:41 I said here we go again. I was singing. Calm down. I was singing Whitesnake. here we go again. I was singing White Snake. Here we go again on our own. Joining us on the show. We're isolating inside our three-bedroom home. Joining us on the phone after seven this morning,
Starting point is 00:03:58 Neville Longbottom. Yeah. Matthew Lewis. He's in Baby Done, the new New Zealand movie. That's so sweet Rose Muthufay you saw it you saw it yesterday
Starting point is 00:04:07 yeah it was very very sweet and I you see all of it I had a little break at the start of the third act okay
Starting point is 00:04:17 if you're going to take a break that's what you want to take a break yeah right but what I did see was very charming and much funnier than I had thought it would be. You actually met him and talked to him after filming in New Zealand a couple of years ago.
Starting point is 00:04:32 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Wow. I'd forgotten about that. I can't believe that was a couple of years ago. It was a while ago. Wow. Yeah, just sat down on a park bench with a really nice guy. Okay, so he's on with us after seven this morning on the show.
Starting point is 00:04:50 Chit chat, paddy whack. Next though, a TV show's coming back to Netflix. One of those shows we grew up with. Missing a little bit of it though. I'd say missing the most important part. Fleshforn and Megan, the podcast. ZM. Dawson's Creek was massive in the 90s.
Starting point is 00:05:07 When in the 90s? Late 90s. Late 90s. Like 97, 98. It gave us the James Van Der Beek crying meme. Isn't that crazy that like there will be people that only know James Van Der Beek from that crying meme? Yeah, that's okay.
Starting point is 00:05:23 Do you know who was in Little Fires Everywhere? Pacey. He always pops up in things. Joshua Jackson. He was in Fringe. He's done a lot. He just pops up. They never set out for him to be the sex appeal on that show.
Starting point is 00:05:37 Dawson was always supposed to be the sex appeal, but then Pacey turned into the sex appeal as well as the more comical character. He was supposed to be like the goofy pal, but then he became the sex appeal. And that's where Michelle Williams started. Yeah, Katie Holmes. Yeah, Katie Holmes. Before the whole Tom Cruise Scientology thing.
Starting point is 00:05:59 Well, if you've never seen it, now's your chance because Netflix has confirmed on Twitter that they are going to be putting it on, but it won't have the original theme song. So open up your morning light Say a little prayer to the mountain
Starting point is 00:06:15 You know that if we are to stay But so how many seasons was the show? Six or seven? Is that how long it lasted? Because didn't near the end of the show? Six or seven? Is that how long it lasted? I've got my Dawson's Creek Wikipedia page open. Because didn't near the end of the show they lose the rights to the song? Yeah, so that's what happened.
Starting point is 00:06:33 They ran into some rights issues in the sixth season. And so they replaced the intro song. And the sixth season was the last season. Right. It ran from 98 to 2003. Right. It feels like it went for longer, but a little earlier. I would have said like 96 to 2003, but not 98.
Starting point is 00:06:52 You might be thinking of Party of Five. No, that was earlier. It was earlier. They changed it to a song called Run Like Mad from Jan Arden. It would be like changing the Friends theme song. Or they release Friends on Netflix and they can't use that song, so they use another one. You just can't.
Starting point is 00:07:08 Just don't do the intro. Just be like, Dawson's Creek and start. I don't know if that's how TV shows work, Megan. Dawson's Creek. Mind you, Paula Cole probably had a bit more legs to stand on than the Rembrandts who wrote the Friends song. They were probably just like, yes. They only really had one song.
Starting point is 00:07:24 But she only had one song, didn't she? No. Well, this was actually her second big song. Right. Her song that came out just before this
Starting point is 00:07:33 that actually rated higher on the US charts was Where Have All the Cowboys Gone. This song says, asterisk, asterisk, expletive version. What's there expletives in here? What did she drop? I don't know.
Starting point is 00:07:52 Is there a swearies in here? It's probably a bitch or something. Although it's probably a 90s, yeah, 90s swearie. 90s swearie with like bum. She might have said, yeah, bum. And everyone in the 90s was like, oh. Well, remember that rigmarole with the bugger TV commercial?
Starting point is 00:08:06 Oh, yeah. The Toyota ad? They're like, oh, that can't be on TV. Bugger. And now you can pretty much drop the F on that Toyota commercial.
Starting point is 00:08:12 What would the Toyota dog have to say in 2020 to even make us raise an eyebrow? The dog would be on the ground and be like, you F and C. He'd be like,
Starting point is 00:08:20 whoa, whoa, whoa, Toyota dog, come on in the heart. Fair though. ZM's Fletch, Va, whoa, whoa, Toyota dog. Coming in hot. Fair though. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:08:33 Is this mine? Yeah. Because Fletch literally said to you before. Oh, no, I was in the middle of something else. I wasn't listening. You responded. You literally said, I said Vaughan. No, no, I said I'll. You responded. I said, no, no. I said, I'll do it as in I'll do
Starting point is 00:08:48 like if they're asking, I'll do it. Oh, I didn't know who you meant. This was ages ago. So like three minutes, 30 ago when we started playing the song Megan, you'll remember I said, Vaughan, you're going to bring in the break about the spies.
Starting point is 00:09:03 And you said yes. And you said yes. And you said yes. And then we got to discussing some tea. I thought we were still talking about me being a spy because I would be a great spy. People trust me. I don't know why. Sometimes people will tell me things and I'm like, that was too easy. Yeah, you just got it.
Starting point is 00:09:20 What did you tell me that for? You just elicited it out of them. Is that right? Right? Elicited it out of them? Solicited it out of them. I didn't even solicit itlicited it out of them? Solicited it out of them. I didn't even solicit it though. Right.
Starting point is 00:09:27 They offered it up. Sometimes they offer it up. Right. It's my kind face. The New Zealand intelligence community is looking for people with what they are describing as an analytical mind. Okay. I'm here for that this morning.
Starting point is 00:09:45 We need this light relief. So apparently they're looking for people to be spies as part of their spy network. How do you put out an ad for that? Yeah, how do they do that? They just put it online. But you can't ever be like, what do you do for a job? I'm a spy.
Starting point is 00:10:05 The New Zealand Intelligence Community, nzic.gov.nz is the website you can go to. And it tells you, yeah, are you looking for a beyond ordinary career? For a fulfilling and challenging career? And then it tells you what they look after.
Starting point is 00:10:21 Oh, right. How much depth does it go into? Because the bubbly thing outside of Blenheim. The golf balls. The spy base. Yeah. I used to know someone who worked there, but I don't know anything about it. You'd be like, what are you doing?
Starting point is 00:10:36 I can't tell you. Well, they were probably just like. Oh, God. That's like people who put up a picture on Facebook of their feet in hospital. And want us all to ask. Just please tell me no what are you what like what's your day-to-day no we can't even oh that sounds like a great job because then they'll be like oh do you want to come for dinner you're like see you you couldn't be a spy you're
Starting point is 00:10:56 too much of a big mouth no no no i could oh i'm big ears and big small mouth you were told something yesterday that you literally just told Megan and the person said don't tell anyone and you just told Megan oh yeah I don't count that hey no it's just like
Starting point is 00:11:12 you tell one of us you tell all of us right oh yeah we're a unit we're a unit we're a tight we're a tight unit we're in our gossip bubbles
Starting point is 00:11:20 we're not telling anyone else except you you'll tell Mr Toyboy oh but your partners are part of the bubble. He's part of it, right? And then he'll just tell someone for some light chat when they come into the cafe while he's making their coffee.
Starting point is 00:11:31 He'll turn around and be like, oh my God, did you hear? This is how viruses spread. This is where you think you've got a closed bubble, but you don't have a closed bubble. This is why none of us could be spies. 39 vacancies at the moment. What? A vetting analyst.
Starting point is 00:11:44 An analyst. Analyst, there we go. Are you able to solve problems? 39 vacancies at the moment a vetting analyst analyst analyst there we go are you able to solve problems ask difficult questions and make evidence based recommendations
Starting point is 00:11:52 see that sounds boring we grew up with James Bond and all these spy thrillers yes it's a foot in the door
Starting point is 00:11:58 they get you in there and then they're like that was a ruse you can kill people too yeah at the bottom it says of the listings there's 39 and there's eight pages. So if I click on the eighth page, that's where the good jobs are going to go.
Starting point is 00:12:11 Click on the eighth page. Click on the eighth page. Do you reckon they'll give you a watch with a laser in it and a little saw? Oh, that'd be better. Because what happens if I get tied up? Exactly. By some baddies. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:12:24 Eighth page. NZSIS Project Manager Oh no that doesn't sound We're looking for a talented Project Manager To help grow the Project Management team
Starting point is 00:12:32 In the New Zealand Delivery Unit What does that even mean What is it There's no There's no fun in that though Because you do these Awesome things at work
Starting point is 00:12:40 And then you go home And you're like You can't tell anyone Yeah better work stories That you can't tell anybody I did something better work stories that you can't tell anybody. I did something kick-ass today but you'll never know. That's half the fun.
Starting point is 00:12:49 A team lead of incident coordination and response. Ooh. That sounds like fun. That was right in the middle. That's on the fourth page. You'd probably be sitting in that big control centre
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Starting point is 00:13:07 Do they do an open day at the base? Where you can just come in and be like, Hey, what's... Yeah, and you walk in but everything's covered in sheets. What's under there? Can't say. Fletchforn and Megan. The podcast. ZM. ZM. Fletchforn and Megan's Community Notices Welcome to Community Notices
Starting point is 00:13:31 a segment of the show where we have a look at what's happening around New Zealand according to local Facebook pages the new screen cap and send to us FEMZM My mate Mike sent me this one which is nice because I don't think Mike listened Was he one of those friends that's hard to impress? sent me this one. Okay. Which is nice because I don't think Mike listened. Oh, cute. Was he one of those friends that's hard
Starting point is 00:13:46 to impress? Um, nah. Okay. Just Mike. Just didn't think he'd listen. I just didn't think he'd listen.
Starting point is 00:13:52 Okay. He messaged me once and he's like, my neighbour's cleaning their car and they're listening to your show, you big turkey.
Starting point is 00:14:00 He always calls me little turkey. I don't know why you're a big turkey. He sent me this one. This is from the hardware community notice board. So what, your friends don't know why you're a big turkey. He sent me this one. This is from the Harware Community Notice Board. So, wait, your friends don't normally listen? No.
Starting point is 00:14:09 Okay, interesting. Yeah. Yeah. Some of them, yeah, some of them do. Some of them do. Yeah, Johnny who delivers Coke, he listens. He listens. Doesn't he in Wellington?
Starting point is 00:14:17 He still doesn't give me any Coke, yep. Still no Coke? Yeah, he's not, Megan, we've been over this. He's not allowed to give you boxes of Coke. Can't he just drop some out the back and be like, oh, they're dented? But then he's got to get it from Wellington to you. Yeah, a courier. It's a lot.
Starting point is 00:14:32 It's a lot. Yeah, a couple do. So there's been a post on the Highway Community Notice Board, and Anna writes, from one concerned parent to another, I just passed Cemetery Road now, where three boys jumped out from the new subdivision close to Domain Road where one child named
Starting point is 00:14:49 Nixon started to proceed to run out in front of me. Luckily I stopped and in doing so he stopped where he started to do a dance that's apparently called The Floss. He nearly gets hit by a car. That's his immediate response. I told the three boys it was highly unsafe to be doing this
Starting point is 00:15:08 as I believed he was running out in front of traffic. But he might have... The floss might have been the whole plan, right? Yeah. Yeah. Wow, you really... That's when... Because when this happens in a small town
Starting point is 00:15:20 and you've got to... Like, you drop his name. Yeah. By the way, if you're a kid and you're up to shenanigans, you don't give your real name. No.
Starting point is 00:15:29 You give it non-depleted. Yeah. Someone says, good on you for putting this up. Even as an adult, you give people a fake name. Yes. Yes.
Starting point is 00:15:37 Always. Always. I tell people I'm Heather Duplicy Ellen. Which is really weird considering what you've just done with them. Yeah. And then they're like, how do you spell that, sir? And I'm like Duplissy Allen. Which is really weird considering what you've just done with them. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:15:47 And then they're like, how do you spell that, sir? And I'm like, I've got no idea. D. They call you sir. Du. Plussy.
Starting point is 00:15:55 Plussy. P-L-U-S-S-A-Y. I'm like, I don't know, just look it up on the ZB website. And they're like, ugh. So apparently he's only
Starting point is 00:16:04 year three or four at school. Right, okay. And they're like, ugh. So apparently he's only year three or four at school. Right, okay. And his parents would not be happy with him playing on the road. But probably pretty stoked
Starting point is 00:16:13 he does the floss. Yeah. Good dance. Good to see kids out there exercising. Next up, from the buy and sell,
Starting point is 00:16:21 Christchurch buy and sell for females page. Okay. I don't know why just for females page. Okay. I don't know why just for females. They probably get sick of all the blokes selling tractors or something. I don't know. I'm always sick of blokes selling tractors. Coming into the community page with their bloody tractors.
Starting point is 00:16:36 Just get out of here with your tractors. Catherine Rose, looking for an exchange. We've got two boxes of cereal. One within date, and one past that's best before. But cereal doesn't go off. Nah, it's so processed, isn't it? Yeah, totally.
Starting point is 00:16:56 Apples, oranges, onions, carrots, kumara, and bananas. What could they be wanting to swap for? A two-litre milk. But here's the problem. What is that? There's that old, one of those old like fairy tales where somebody wants to buy somebody else a Christmas gift, but they end up giving away the thing that the other person buys them a Christmas gift for. That's like one of life's lessons.
Starting point is 00:17:17 Yeah, right. I can't remember what it's called. But anyway, she wants to swap for a two litre milk, but you can get the milk. She's still having enough cereal? Yeah. Maybe she's still got another box. Or and a 500ml can of V. Okay.
Starting point is 00:17:30 So let's put those on the cereal. That's well, that sign is someone who would have it for breakfast. Yeah, true. That's your breakfast drink. Next from the
Starting point is 00:17:36 East Auckland Grapevine, Sunea writes, hello, someone has left this pigeon in a cage in our backyard. Please advise where we can seek help. Thanks in advance.
Starting point is 00:17:47 And it is a caged pigeon in like a cage that looks about the size of the same one that you put your cat in to take to the vet. How awful. Yeah, they said it was just left in their backyard. I would describe the pigeon as manky, but that's my general description on pigeons. I'm not a huge pigeon guy. Manky. They all look a little manky to me. Maybe more light grey than dark grey, but again, its prominent feature is that it's manky.
Starting point is 00:18:14 Yeah, okay. Next for community notices, Jenna is looking for somebody in the Franklin Grapevine Community Info Sharing Group. Does anyone bless houses? I have some tenants being tormented by three woman ghosts. Oh my god. Of course you do. You can't rent out a haunted house, can you, as a landlord? Don't you have to warn them?
Starting point is 00:18:36 Maybe they didn't know until they told them. Yeah, they might have popped up. Also, how do you test for it? Because the meth test, they come in, they test the surfaces, don't they? Yeah. But what do you do? Do you I think you have to get Deb Weber in the corner of your bedroom for an hour. Or wave a little bit of sage in a fear.
Starting point is 00:18:52 Hey, yuck, put that out. Get that outside or we'll have to leave. That's how you might know that it's a haunted house. And finally today from the I Love Kururi Wellington New Zealand page, Scott said,
Starting point is 00:19:07 I was parked in Marsden Village picking up some takeaways when I saw some kids mucking around with my side mirror. Okay. It's bloody Nixon again. Bloody Nixon.
Starting point is 00:19:17 He's gone from hardware all the way up to Wellington. How? Was he flossing? Who knows? Luckily,
Starting point is 00:19:24 I caught it and I said, oi, and I threw a piece of me moist chicken at them before they bolted. I've got my sauce all over his eyes, so if your kid comes home with sore eyes because it's got sauce in it, they've been fiddling with cars.
Starting point is 00:19:39 Those are today's community notices. If you see anything on your local Facebook page, screen cap it and send it to ours, FVMZM on Facebook. Fletch, Vaughan and send it to ours, FVM ZM on Facebook. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast ZM. So Dame Tralee's Cooper, her showroom in Auckland has been burglarised.
Starting point is 00:19:53 Now, we're not talking a few dresses. There was 1500 garments stolen from the showroom. So this is where you, she would loan out looks for people and for photo shoots and they're all
Starting point is 00:20:11 new garments that she would have been working on for a new line. And these have been all stripped. Apparently she said there was one hanger left. One random coat hanger. Yeah. What kind of coat hanger was it?
Starting point is 00:20:25 They probably find a plastic coat hanger, you know those shitty ones that can't handle much weight. How good is a wooden coat hanger? With a steel. Those are my favourite coat hangers. I had one of those and the steel bit came out. Coat hanger intact but without the thing. I know. Well I did go for a cheap
Starting point is 00:20:42 one. It'll teach me. It should have a thicker bottom on it so it feeds up through the hole. It's a cheap one. It'll teach me. It should have a thicker bottom on it, so it feeds up through and holds itself through the hole. It's a rubbish bottom, I think. Always the case. They'll always fall out. Really let you down. Two seasons worth of new sample clothing. So how many dress garments are we talking?
Starting point is 00:20:58 1,500. How much is that worth? So I've been there. She cranked out 750 garments a season. Or were these the same garment but in like six sizes? No, no, they'd be sample size. Right. I mean, I've been there as racks and racks and racks of clothing,
Starting point is 00:21:16 but there's no way you'd fit it in a car. Got a moth. It would have been multiple cars or it would have been a truck or something to fit them all in. Or a team of moths and they just rocked in their life. All right, boys. You know what we're going to do? Eat it all.
Starting point is 00:21:30 So. Young, young, young, young, young, young. It was Burguer sometime over the weekend. I heard you. Just moving on. Has anybody considered a moth? Like a lot of moths. All of the moths.
Starting point is 00:21:46 The building's alarm never went off. You know why? The moths did their dusty thing in front of it. And the dust settled. But then when they opened the door, the breeze made the moth dust. Blew away the evidence. Yep.
Starting point is 00:21:59 Off the camera. So the point of entry, it looks like it was an air vent. This is sub-light. Oh my god, it's all coming up mosh Mosh get through air vents? They get through like open windows? Did someone leave a light on? Oh my god. Because
Starting point is 00:22:16 a private investigator in this story is quoted as saying it could be an inside job. Somebody close inside. Or somebody that's at least been inside that building. And that's the thing, I've been there. Oh, not me.
Starting point is 00:22:28 No, no, not me. But I mean, lots of people. Megan's on the list with moths. Under moths. It's a showroom. Lots of people would have.
Starting point is 00:22:33 She'd be above moth because we do alphabetical. Just above moth. Just above moth. Megan, moth. If I suddenly come to work wearing like some fancy trellis gears.
Starting point is 00:22:41 I thought you were saying if you suddenly come to work dropping dust everywhere. You are both Megan and I'm off. So how much is all this worth? So the finance team did mention a million dollars, but some people were like,
Starting point is 00:22:53 it's not quite that, but it would be up there. So I know that police are on like the Trade Me search list. They're on the alerts. Yeah, they're watching on Trade Me. But how do you sell like distinctive clothes like this?
Starting point is 00:23:04 I've always said, only steal what you can melt down. Which is why I only steal diamonds or gold bars. You can't melt down diamonds. Well, no, you can redo diamonds, but, you know, gold bars you can... Famously, it's pretty hard to redo diamonds. You mean reset them? Reset them, yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:23:21 Okay. Or recut them. But they didn't work when you tried to steal Pioneer of the Reef. No. You took that to the local scrappy, didn't you? And they were like, oh, not even we'll touch that. Yeah. We've got little to no morals.
Starting point is 00:23:33 We're scrap metal dealers. Right. Yeah, no, I imagine someone's going to see a whole bunch of like 1,500 Trelease garments pop up. Unless they take them overseas and sell them. But then even then you'd see them. They're quarantined for two weeks. Yeah, with your 1,500 Trulise garments pop up. Unless they take them overseas and sell them, but then even then you'd see them. They're quarantined for two weeks. Yeah, with your 1,500 Trulise garments.
Starting point is 00:23:49 So you should have something to wear. You literally don't move for two weeks because the whole room's full of garments. You're like, this probably wasn't worth it. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. From the self-driving ZM think tank, this is the top six. Why, the Queen's looking for a cleaner.
Starting point is 00:24:09 Somebody, I don't know, whoop around with a vacuum cleaner. Just get Buckingham Palace. Ship shape. You'd have to sign a huge confidentiality contract, wouldn't you? You'd think so. Do you think there'd be like a fancy old school
Starting point is 00:24:22 cleaning uniform? Like with a little... Oh, like a maid. Like now uniform? Like with a little... Oh, like I'm paid. Like now it would be predominantly like for role play, like sexy maid, French maid. Imagine if they're like, oh, just get your own costume, but we're thinking French maid. You just Google it, order one.
Starting point is 00:24:36 It turns out it's primarily spandex and PVC. It's super short. You walk in, Jesus, Prince Philip would have a heart attack. He'd love it, especially if I turn up because my balls would be hanging up. I'd be like, look, I don't know what's going on with the sizing here. What have you found? Well, that's a stock photo for a Buckingham Palace cleaner. It looks like an old nurse uniform.
Starting point is 00:24:56 Yeah, I was going to say, like a 70s nurse uniform. I don't know if that's a legit photo, so leave that with me. Okay. Here we go. Are these cleaners? Is it sexy? Yeah, it just looks like kind of a Okay. Here we go. Are these cleaners? Is it sexy? Yeah, it just looks like a kind of a nurse. Oh, okay.
Starting point is 00:25:09 It looks like a shirtless dress. Like a navy blue nurse uniform. Right. Okay. Like a sterile sort of a vibe. Yeah, not enough pockets to steal stuff because you'd want to pocket something. So I've got the top six things you'd see if you were a cleaner at Buckingham Palace. Number six on the list.
Starting point is 00:25:27 We'll start with it because everybody's thinking it. Prince Philip's skids. Yeah. In both underpants and toilet bowl. Oh, my God. There would be, and then you'd just be like, you'd clean it and you'd walk out and he'd eyeball you. Yeah. Because he's a bit of a prick, eh?
Starting point is 00:25:44 Yeah. Because of the crown. And he'd almost be taunting you, like daring you to say something about the skids. It was definitely the Netflix show that turned him into a prick. No, no, I'm just saying. That really showed him as a prick. Yeah. Number five on the list of the top six things you'll see
Starting point is 00:26:01 if you're a cleaner at Buckingham Palace. All the Queen's receipts on the bench. She'll do something with them soon. Yeah. She's like, yeah, I've got to put them somewhere, but not today. Nan's love keeping receipts, eh? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Put them somewhere.
Starting point is 00:26:15 They're just all over the bench. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I've got a folder for them, but not today. Can't be bothered. Number four on the list of the top six things you'll see if you're the cleaner at Buckingham Palace. The Queen's signature white hair In the shower drain You have to clean it out Just put like Drano down and burn it
Starting point is 00:26:35 That's not what Drano does, it dissolves the That freaks me out Yeah, how does it not dissolve the pipes? It's like on Breaking Bad Yeah, right Remember on Breaking Bad how it dissolved the ceramic bathtub But's like on Breaking Bad. Because he is made of different stuff than pipes. Yeah, right. Remember on Breaking Bad how it dissolved the ceramic bathtub
Starting point is 00:26:47 but not the plastic drum? Yeah. Yeah. Science. Yeah, science, bitch. Hey, yeah! What? Is that like a faux pas?
Starting point is 00:26:58 Should it? No, no, no, no. In Breaking Bad. Yeah. No, no, no, no. That was the big thing. He thought the bath was going to be stronger
Starting point is 00:27:03 than the plastic but the sort of acid it was wouldn't melt plastic, but ate through ceramic. Right. That was the whole situation. Different acids, different things. Number three on the list of the top six things you'll see if they're cleaner at Buckingham Palace.
Starting point is 00:27:17 Prince Philip's shoes just haphazardly kicked off at the door. He would. I'd imagine he'd walk into the house like my kids do when they get home from school. They literally just walk in and they put a foot and they go, kick, kick. And just kick it at the other side of the hallway. I'm like, for a start, there's little black marks getting on the wall over there from your shoes. Those are non-marked shoes.
Starting point is 00:27:35 Please don't wear them in the school gymnasium. How fun is it using the magic eraser on the wall? It's pretty fun. Yeah, it's pretty fun. We're painting our laundry at the moment. It's exactly the same color as the rest of the walls in the house. And so there's been these marks I could probably clean off, but yesterday I had paint left on the roller.
Starting point is 00:27:50 I just walked up the hallway going, paint the mark. Just everything. I was like, that could be wiped off, but I'll give it a paint. So now there's going to be like weird patches. Patches. And it told off the name. Number two on the list of the top six things you'll see if you're the cleaner at Buckingham Palace.
Starting point is 00:28:06 Old celery and the veggie crisper. She's the queen, but she's still human. She had the best of intentions. Yeah. She's like, oh yeah, I'll eat that celery with some peanut butter or something. And number one on the list of the top six things you'll see if you're the cleaner at Buckingham Palace. The queen's clothes just dumped in the corner of the room after she kicks them all off at the end of a very long day. Bra included.
Starting point is 00:28:26 She's like, get these two out. Oh, Lord. I'm free again! That's today's top six. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. ZM. Yesterday there was a group chat.
Starting point is 00:28:41 A TikTok was shared, which is great. Our group chat is, I mean, it's just like any friend group chat, a TikTok was shared, which is great. Our group chat is, I mean, it's just like any friend group chat, really, but it's intense. There's a lot. It can really get going. It's both personal with the sharing of the memes and the TikTok
Starting point is 00:28:55 content, but it's also serious work chat. Yeah, interwoven. That's why I find it hard to keep up. Oh, Megan is renowned for ignoring vital group chat messages. You'd be proud though, the other day I was going to post something in there and I was like, I'm going to scroll up just
Starting point is 00:29:12 to check and it had already been posted. So I was like, oh, okay, good. Got on me. Well, yeah, that's the good thing about that group chat is you get slandered often, but then you just don't, she doesn't even see it. Yeah. You've aired your grievance
Starting point is 00:29:26 Well yesterday TikTok got shed You put it in didn't you Anya You put the, hold on, go Yes, you put the TikTok in the group chat Pretty good response Yeah, I'd say Ha ha's all round I watched it
Starting point is 00:29:41 Thank you So this was in the group chat with Ross Boss. He also gave me a ha-ha. And I was feeling pretty good about myself. Because you'd say he would be targeted. He was targeted. He could have felt targeted. He said ha-ha-ha-ha
Starting point is 00:29:57 and I was like, fab. And then a mere hours later, oh and I also mentioned Mountie ha-ha'd. Now, did she react? Did she type ha-ha or did she give you a react? There was a ha-ha react. Now, I believe there was four ha-ha reacts.
Starting point is 00:30:13 Okay. So pretty good innings on a top. Not bad in a six-person chat. And mere hours later, in the show group chat, Sans Ross, betrayal. Mountie shares the same TikTok. Ha ha ha, guys, check this out. So you hadn't watched the TikTok that you ha ha'd to, Mountie.
Starting point is 00:30:37 Here's the thing. I would never ha ha something that I have not watched because it's a risky play, right? Like it could be a sad video. It could be a sad TikTok. So somehow there's been a very grave mistake. No, but you saw the other reacts of haha,
Starting point is 00:30:52 so you thought it would be safe to go haha. I always check the reacts. If Fletch has haha'd something, you can't just blindly haha it. What do you mean? It might be. It still might be sad. It still might be brutal. It still might be brutal.
Starting point is 00:31:05 And you're like, haha. Oh yeah, like a, yeah, okay, right. So then you've got to go in and check. Fletch is the only person that's hard at it. What if I'm crying laugh facing emoji? Is that still okay or still check? Still check. Okay. And if I'm like, oh my god, that's so sad, then you know
Starting point is 00:31:21 it's actually sad. Then you're like, oh my gosh, I don't even know if I'm going to be able to watch this. Yeah, okay, right. but i have no recollection of this thought process right you know like i'm not that smart i'm not that sneaky yeah have we gone back in i'm i'm gonna go back in i don't remember this being an hour later i feel like this was like maybe an Anna shared it like a week ago. No, it was literally an hour before. This has been un-ha-ha'd. I was going to say un-ha-ha'd it because I went to check. I said I can't see a reaction.
Starting point is 00:31:54 You un-ha-ha'd it. I don't remember ever ha-ha-ing this or seeing it. You retract a ha-ha. I maintain my innocence. I didn't think you could retract a ha-ha once everyone had seen the ha-ha. Yeah, true. How would you un-ha-ha something? Hold on.
Starting point is 00:32:08 I'm going to see if I can react and then un-react. I've ha-ha'd. You can un-react. You can un-react. Can you? How? See, I wouldn't know. No, you can't.
Starting point is 00:32:16 No, you can't. Exactly. Ha! I win. Isn't that cocked what causes arguments these days between friends? I actually just un-ha-ha'd something. You did un-ha-ha'd. On your phone
Starting point is 00:32:27 or in the computer? On my phone. Yeah, maybe on the phone. You can un-ha-ha. Wow, you've been poured out, Mounsey. Can you imagine our grandparents,
Starting point is 00:32:35 God rest their souls, listening to this conversation being like, what? We would have lost them at TikTok. Are they talking about a clock? Were they listening to the clock?
Starting point is 00:32:45 Were they? ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. It is 63 days, 16 hours and 44 minutes till Christmas. Like, I know that 2020 has been an unusual year. It is 63 days, 16 hours and 44 minutes till Christmas. It does. Like, I know that 2020 has been an unusual year. Say the least. It's felt it's gone really fast in some parts and slow in others,
Starting point is 00:33:15 but it doesn't feel like Christmas is 63 days away, right? No. No, that's a fair call. It's weird. Like, that's two months. Like, I know the supermarkets have been, and we've talked about this in this segment, the supermarkets have been putting up a few displays, but it doesn't feel as much as last year.
Starting point is 00:33:32 That's two months. Yeah, it is, yeah. So it's the 25th on, what, Monday? Oh, my God. Or Sunday. I always start my Christmas shopping in October, and I haven't started. And they're all saying that we need to start early
Starting point is 00:33:47 because of shipments and everything. Shipments? Shipments. I was like, wait, if we wait to the last minute, is the mince going to go shitty? I think you're talking about mince pies. You snapped me right back to reality. Even retailers getting stock in, they're finding that hard.
Starting point is 00:34:04 And also if you're sending anything away, even around the country or overseas, you need to do that way earlier right back. It's reality. Even retailers getting stock in, they're finding that hard. And also, if you're sending anything away, even around the country or overseas, you need to do that way earlier than normal. Or just buy them an E-voucher. Because then they can go shopping. Exactly. All right. Well, let's have a look at
Starting point is 00:34:17 where Christmas Penetration is at. I want to start with this one. Fletch Audio, if you'd please. Audio ready, Vaughan Smith. Jess messaged in from Brisbane, popped into Kmart, and found what I believe to be our first international sightings or hearings. What do you call the audio version of sightings? A hearing.
Starting point is 00:34:40 A hearing. A first. Yeah, it kind of needs a word like that. It doesn't like a sighting, like a receiving. I feel like there is a word. There probably is a word. There probably is a word. We should know it too because this is our sort of sense, isn't it?
Starting point is 00:34:52 Herring. It's the first thing I'm hearing of. The first broadcast of Christmas. No, that's not the word. Not quite. Okay, well, let's come back to that. No, yeah, we'll come back to that. Put that on the piece of paper for discussion after the show.
Starting point is 00:35:07 Christmas Penetration, Kmart in Brisbane. Ah, bloody hell, after that build-up. They're automatically muted. Isn't that annoying? All right, here we go. Wiggle your cord. There we go. Is that Miley?
Starting point is 00:35:25 Jingle bells. Jingle bells. I think you're needing a chord. No, I don't think that's a chord. I think that's Jess's recording issue because before I listened and it was... Well, I mean, yeah, okay. Just go back to her and say the quality was average.
Starting point is 00:35:36 Should I do that now? Fletch has taken umbrage. You're happy for me to use umbrage? I mean, technically the umbrage should be on you for organising that audio. With the quality of your audio. Could she ask to use the Kmart step ladder next time to get closer to the speaker?
Starting point is 00:35:54 Right, next time, please acquire a step ladder to get closer to the speaker. It's easy to blame Jess. We could take the blame. Vaughan could shoulder all of this blame. No, no.
Starting point is 00:36:10 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. One thing about blame, it should never be shouldered. Next, Belinda has reported Christmas penetration from Smith & Coie. They're a real Christmas hotspot. Their Christmas shop is now open. This is where you buy your ornaments and wreaths and all of that
Starting point is 00:36:28 of the like. Ben has reported some Christmas penetration from he lives overseas. I want to say Hong Kong or Singapore. Okay. I think Singapore. The Christmas tree has been put up at the mall by my house. Christmas penetration through the roof. It's like three or four stories tall.
Starting point is 00:36:44 Very big. Very big Christmas tree. And Earl, who every year reports, every year we've done Christmas Penetration, we've heard from Earl. He said Christmas Penetration at the local shopping centre in the car park. You pull out from the big tree and
Starting point is 00:37:00 there's also a giant hanging reef. Oh wow, okay. What's in there? It's all go. She's all go. So 63 days away from Christmas. Comet Cupid, polish the sleigh. Right now, Christmas penetration is at...
Starting point is 00:37:18 65%. Oh. Oh. It is beginning to look a lot like Christmas. And if you see any reports of Christmas creeping in, screenshot them or send us a message. FVM ZM on Facebook. We're joined on the phone by Aptor Matthew Lewis. Hello, good morning.
Starting point is 00:37:43 Good morning. How are you? Very good. Hey, that was almost a little bit Kiwi. Yeah, good morning. Good morning. How are you? Very good. Hey, that was almost a little bit Kiwi. Yeah, that sounded very Kiwi. Was it? Yeah, maybe you just heard us and you took yourself back to your time.
Starting point is 00:37:58 Yeah, because this was filmed a while ago. You and I sat on a park bench at the end of filming and had a chat, and when that video popped up I was like haha, I've aged terribly So how long ago did you guys film in New Zealand? Oh gosh, it feels like this year has been an eternity in itself
Starting point is 00:38:15 It was the start of 2019 I think it was, wasn't it? So it's been about 18 months give or take, I think since we So it's been about 18 months, give or take, I think since we, is that right? Jeez. Wow.
Starting point is 00:38:28 Yeah, 18 months, almost, you know, almost not far off two years, really. So it's been quite a while, and obviously with everything going on this year, it's sort of been a little bit delayed. But finally people can see it, which is exciting. How has your year been? You say it feels like an eternity.
Starting point is 00:38:44 It doesn't sound like you're giving 2020 a rave review. How have you personally found it? As somebody who, you know, you act, whether it be theatre or on set, there's people around and those sorts of crowds are not happening or severely restricted. How have you found the time as an actor? It's been, it's had pros and cons for me personally. The con being there's not very much going on. There's no real work going on. I think people are just now starting to get back into it.
Starting point is 00:39:18 But I will say this, and this is me desperately trying to find the silver lining, is that I've been an actor since I was five years old. And even when you finish a job, you're sort of constantly trying to get the next gig. You know, even when you're towards the last few weeks of filming, probably when we were on that park bench, I was sort of self-taping and auditioning for other stuff that was coming up to try and get onto a new gig.
Starting point is 00:39:43 And if auditions aren't coming in, normally I start to panic and go, what have I done wrong? And this, I think, is the first time in, how old am I, 31, 26 years, that I have not had auditions coming in and it doesn't feel like it's my fault. So I've sort of been able to just kind of relax and be like, it's okay. It's okay to not be working right now, which has been unusual for me, but quite strangely pleasant, if you can imagine that with everything else going on. Well, that's the thing.
Starting point is 00:40:12 If you've been working for that long, it is nice to have a break. It's kind of essential to give a bit of a reset, and I think everybody's having a bit of a reflective period at the moment to see where they're at. So, yeah, as you say, it's not the end of the world. Yeah. It's been tough for a lot of people.
Starting point is 00:40:29 I've found myself very, very fortunate. Particularly, you know, in places that aren't as lucky as the Kiwis are to have such wonderful leadership that you do. It's been tougher for the rest of the world. So how did you actually enjoy your time in New Zealand? Did you get to tour around much? I didn't get to see as much of the country as I'd like. It's ridiculous, really.
Starting point is 00:40:54 I've been down to New Zealand several times, probably three or four times now, and I'm always in Auckland the whole time, which I feel I have to apologise for the rest of the country. But I've got family in Auckland, so I've always sort to apologise for the rest of the country. But I've got family in Auckland, so I've always sort of just stayed in and around the city. And this shoot was no different. We did try and do a little bit of stuff,
Starting point is 00:41:15 and there was some location work in Rotorua and a couple of other spots. And that was really great, to get out of the city and see some of the beautiful countryside. But I'd love to get to the South Island. I've never managed to get down there, and I've heard it's gorgeous. So I guess I'll just have to come back.
Starting point is 00:41:31 Ah, just go to Norway. It's closer. Similar, very similar. Very similar, yeah. Just imagine Kiwis doing binge drinking there. That would be the major difference. So tell us about this movie. It probably feels like forever ago that you filmed it,
Starting point is 00:41:49 but you worked with our very own. And we see her on international projects, and we're like, hey, she's ours, hands off, Rose Matofeo. So how did you find the filming and everything? Did you know Rose beforehand? I mean, the filming was great. It was fantastic. I can't think of a a better place
Starting point is 00:42:06 um to be to work on a film to be honest uh the people were amazing um real grit uh crews the crews are exceptionally talented down there um and um and yeah of course you know work working with with the caliber of of people like like rose was was. I was, we'd never met before, but I was sort of aware of her as a comedian, done a lot of stuff in the UK. And so when I'd seen the people who were involved with it and I read the script, I was like, this has got to be wicked. I'm really, really keen to be involved in this.
Starting point is 00:42:41 And then being on set, about as much fun as you can imagine it was. It was, you know, despite it being really intense at times with the tight schedule that we had and the low budget that we had, it was just so much fun. And making a comedy is always a great deal of fun.
Starting point is 00:42:58 I just felt a bit out of my depth at times because we had so many professional comedians on set. I was just like, you know what? I'm not even going to try and be funny. I was just like, you know what? I'm not even going to try and be funny. I'm just going to play what's written in the script and hope for the best.
Starting point is 00:43:10 Because how did you come about? I mean, this is from the producers of Hunt for the World of People and Breaker Operas, which is very well known to Kiwis and very well known Kiwi actors in here. But how did you come to be on this Kiwi, essentially Kiwi film? Well, that's a good question as the story goes I asked Curtis this Curtis Fowle our director I sort of said you know why why me like why why didn't you want to get a Kiwi actor or even you know an Australian or
Starting point is 00:43:41 someone from from this part of the world and he he said that that was the intention, I think. And I think they had a very vivid image in their mind of what they wanted from Tim. And they just hadn't found it. And so they opened it up to the rest of the world. I believe it was sort of opened up to the UK of the world. I believe that it was sort of opened up to the UK and the US and several other places. And thankfully
Starting point is 00:44:10 for me, it was. So the script ended up on my desk and I read it and as I say, once I saw the people involved, I was like, okay, they mean business with this. And then when I read it, it was a no-brainer. I just absolutely fell in love with the story, the character.
Starting point is 00:44:27 And I was just so grateful that it had made its way across the ocean to me. Baby Dunners in cinemas right now. Matthew, thank you so much for joining us. It's my pleasure. Thanks for having us, guys. ZM's Fletch Warner Megan, the podcast. Yesterday, during a shameless self-promotion of his Instagram page, which has resulted in... Oh, yeah, because you hit 400 followers, producer Jared.
Starting point is 00:44:55 Yep, 400 yesterday. And you resulted... How many did you get? I'm just refreshing. 455 is what I'm sitting on. Okay, so that shameless plug yesterday got you 55 followers. Almost.
Starting point is 00:45:07 Is that the same amount of followers on Instagram now as matches on Tinder during lockdown? Yeah, I'm one short. I'm one short. Wow, magical number. Well, it was when mentioning your Instagram that the cute nickname
Starting point is 00:45:20 that your mum gave you came up. Jarodotsky. Or Jarodotsky. Wait, so she said Jarodotsky. Originally it was Jarodotsky. Wait, so she said Jarodotsky? Originally it was Jarodotsky and then it got shortened to Jarodski. That's so cute. Because she used to be like, Jarodotsky,
Starting point is 00:45:33 the famous Russian spy. Oh my gosh! That's pretty cute. She gave you a backstory and everything. So five-year-old me absolutely frothed it. That's so cool. Oh, feel bad ragging on you now,
Starting point is 00:45:47 but I won't. I'll get over it. Oh, Jared. Okay, I got you. Yeah. And so it's your Instagram handle. It's your gamer tag, right? Big time. Every game ever.
Starting point is 00:45:59 Yep. Jared.Ski. Because it's got a dot on it. Jared.Ski. Jared.Ski. Jared.Ski. And at the time. He's got a dot in it. Jared Dot Ski. Jared Dot Ski. Jared Dot Ski. And at the time. He's got enough followers now.
Starting point is 00:46:08 It's just worked out. Because I thought it was just Jared Ski, Jared Ski. Not all of us have a blue tick and heaps of followers. Don't. I hate the player. I hate the game.
Starting point is 00:46:18 So, we got talking about like nicknames that your parents give you. And if that stuck. Yeah. And because your dad calls you ferret. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:46:27 My parents always used to call me ferret. I don't know quite where that came from. Is it because you looked ferrety? You looked quite ferrety, yeah. Oh, really? Was it a ferrety appearance? We saw the baby photos on the fridge, didn't we? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:46:38 And you were always eating rabbits. You were always scooting down a hole and eating rabbits. By the way, I saw a rabbit in the CBD this morning. What? I knew. I was scootering. That's bloody the plot of Peter Rabbit 2, isn't it? Yeah, I was like, what are you doing in the city? You're not going to be able to dig a hole in the
Starting point is 00:46:56 road, you stupid rabbit. You silly rabbit. What are you doing here? There's no grass here. It's a city. It's the only place safe from Khaleesi virus. Weird though, eh? That is weird. That is weird. But we were wondering if your parents ever gave you a nickname.
Starting point is 00:47:12 But like neither of you two can remember. Not that I remember, nah. That's so sad. Nah. I mean I could message mum and be like, did you have a cute nickname for me? But I doubt it. They don't seem like the cute nickname type. They're not cute nickname types. Neither do Ian and Christine. Nah.
Starting point is 00:47:27 I couldn't imagine them. My nan and nana both called me Vorno, but that's just O on the end of my name, or Vorny or Vorno. Yeah. I think my mum called me Floss now and then. Why? I think it's my great-great-auntie or nana or something. Oh, I'm going to get in trouble now. What, is she just confused?
Starting point is 00:47:44 Because it's like a cute, like, little girl. What is she just confused? Because it's like a cute little girl. It is a cute name, but it's what Felicity's get called. Felicity's get called like Flick and Floss. Yeah. But not Megan's. They don't get called Floss. I just feel so bad for you that you didn't have this. Yours was Ferret.
Starting point is 00:47:56 I would have rather gone without, to be totally honest. All right, so we want you to call us. 0800-DARLS-AT-M. Text in as well, 9696. What nickname Did your parents give you? Or your mum? My sister's was
Starting point is 00:48:08 Strops Because she always Had a strop? Because she always Had a strop Someone gave that to her Because they witnessed Her have a strop
Starting point is 00:48:13 And it kind of stuck Every time she's Having a strop They call her strops But that was Points if you've still Got this nickname And your friends
Starting point is 00:48:19 Call it to you Or maybe it's one of Those nicknames That you're glad That your friends Don't know More points If your friends Don't know. More points if your friends don't know your nickname and you're
Starting point is 00:48:27 horrendously embarrassed about it. So we learned producer Jared's mum called him Jared Dotsky. It was just a cute name that she came up and gave him a backstory as a Russian spy. So we want to know what your parents nicknamed you as a kid.
Starting point is 00:48:44 Maybe it's stuck. Maybe it hasn't. A lot of stories, a lot of nicknames are sticking. Someone said, I knew someone who was 70, and their nickname was Toot, and everyone only ever called them Toot. And it was all because they had a toy truck when they were a kid that went Toot, Toot, Toot. And his parents said he was driving everybody nuts old Toot, and then Toot stuck, and that's been their name for like 70 years.
Starting point is 00:49:06 Wow. Chantelle, what do your parents call you, or what did they? Hi, good morning. My parents call me Birdie. Birdie. Why Birdie? Do you remember? Oh, you might not remember.
Starting point is 00:49:18 From the 25th century or Battlestar Galactica, one of those, there was a little alien thing called Twiggy, and it used to run around going, bitty, bitty, bitty, bitty, bitty. So when I was about five years old, I'd run around saying that. And ever since the last 40 years, my dad, my mum, and my older brother
Starting point is 00:49:34 have always called me birdie. Some of these are so niche. Yeah, they really are. It is. It's like an insight into families. Yeah. One thing happens. Nicole, what do your parents call you?
Starting point is 00:49:47 So it started off with knickers. Like, because of Nicole? Because of Nicole. Yeah, but it's kind of like the underwear now. And I'm 22 years old and people still call me it. Knickers. It's caught on outside of my family. So even at work now, my boss kind of calls me knickers.
Starting point is 00:50:03 That's a trip to HR. That's an HR trip. We're in Kippin. Thanks, Nicole. Catherine, what was your cute nickname? Not so cute. Dad used to call me Captain Ragmop. Is that a hair reference?
Starting point is 00:50:20 Pardon? What is that a reference to? Honestly, no idea. Dad just decided it sounded like Catherine Margaret. So it's Captain Ragmop. Pardon? What is that in reference to? Honestly, no idea. Dad just decided it sounded like Catherine Margaret, so it's Captain Ragnar. And then my sisters joined on the bandwagon and called me Cat Food Maggot. Oh!
Starting point is 00:50:35 Wow. Cat Food Maggot. It got a lot worse. I would definitely still write that on your Christmas presents. Yeah, for sure. Dear Cat Food Maggot. I'm pretty sure anything my sisters address to me is to Cat Food Maggot. I love it.
Starting point is 00:50:49 All right, Catherine or Cat Food Maggot, thanks for your call. We're talking about the cute nicknames that you had as a baby or a kid from your parents. Maybe they've stuck. Bonus points if they've stuck. Yeah. A lot of them have. And some people are saying how someone in their family has always had a nickname and they've never questioned it because it's always what they've known them have. And some people are saying how someone in their family has always had a nickname and they've never questioned it
Starting point is 00:51:05 because it's always what they've known them as. Yeah. For example, Uncle Duck. So apparently Uncle Duck, he was my uncle, but apparently Uncle Duck, when he was born, his ankles weren't quite formed right and his older sister said he looked like a duck. And the surgery, and he got surgery as a baby,
Starting point is 00:51:22 absolutely fine by six months old, but duck had stuck. Oh, right. And he was duck. His uncle duck. And then he was our uncle, so he was uncle duck. Right. Mine is poopsie,
Starting point is 00:51:32 because I pooped in the bath once as a kid. Yeah, you do those sorts of things. That stuck. Tookie took and princess putter pants. Princess putter pants. That's so good. I'd just love to call a grown adult princess putterpants. Princess Putterpants. That's so good. I'd just love to call a grown adult Princess Putterpants. My brother's nickname since he was three was Cheeto.
Starting point is 00:51:53 Did he get into the Cheeto? Just ate one once and got orange around his mouth and that was it. That stuck. That's all it can take in a family echo chamber. One thing happens and then it bounces around so much it sticks almost immediately. Vicky, what was your nickname? So I'm on that whole embarrassing,
Starting point is 00:52:08 don't really want anyone to know, but hey, I'm an adult now so I'll share. Okay. So my dad used to call me, because I was the second in the family,
Starting point is 00:52:16 so my dad used to call me Hubba. As in Hubba Bubba. I know, it was awful. I just hate it. He used to make me cry too. Oh my God. I give him shit about just hate it. He used to make me cry too. Oh, my God. I get upset about it now, though.
Starting point is 00:52:28 Right, so he doesn't call you Hubba now? No, God, no. God, no. I think I'd bloody slap him if he did. Yeah, he'd get a knock. He'd get a knock. Becky, thanks for your call. Dig, what did your parents used to call you?
Starting point is 00:52:40 Dig, and they still call it to me. Oh, that's why. I was going to say, is it Dig? So your name's not Dig, it's your nickname? Yeah, it's my nickname, yeah. Right, did you dig a hole or something? You bloody bang onto it, yeah. I got stuck into the old sandpit one day
Starting point is 00:52:54 and it went from digger to dig and stuck for that since, well, yeah, I was like two. And I'm now 31. It's a cool nickname, Dig's a cool nickname. It is, Dig, thanks for your call, mate. Mel, what was your nickname as a kid? Smelly Nelly. Smelly Nelly.
Starting point is 00:53:11 Who gave you that? I think it might have been my grandpa, like my papa. I got it when I was like three, and now I'm 27, and I've still got cousins that call me Smelly Nelly. So it's wonderful. You're like, we should drop that. You're like, no, absolutely not. I'm like, I'm 27. Do I really need to be referred call me Smelly Nelly. So it's wonderful. You're like, we should drop that. You're like, no, absolutely not. I'm like, I'm 27.
Starting point is 00:53:27 Do I really need to be referred to as Smelly? Now, things you call? Some other text messages in. Tittles. My nickname is Tittles. Everyone in the family and friends call me Tittles. There's members of our family that actually had to ask my mum what my name was because they'd only known me as Tittles.
Starting point is 00:53:45 I love when you don't know someone's actual name. Because it feels really weird calling them their actual name. Yeah, you know you're in trouble. My sister Catherine is PC Fats. Because she was Catherine, that got turned into Catmandu, which turned into Fatmandu,
Starting point is 00:54:03 which got turned to PC because she has the most PC, so then it became PC Fats. See, that's the interview. Trace the lineage. It's pretty crazy. My brother was Boof, so that's the same person. Their sister was PC Fats and their brother was just Boof. If I was Boof, I'd want more time and effort put into my nickname. Yeah, totally.
Starting point is 00:54:20 It feels like it's just a... Yeah. Mine was Desi, and that came from Decibel, because I always made lots of noise and wouldn't stop talking. Apparently, I looked like a rat when I was born, so my dad called me Rat and still does. Like you, like Ferret. Ferret.
Starting point is 00:54:37 No, but it wasn't on my looks. I was real cute. We need confirmation on that. No. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. ZM. Matthew McConaughey's book Greenlights is out now. All about his life. I can see him. The connection is
Starting point is 00:54:49 good. We are Zooming with Matthew McConaughey, the author of Greenlights' new book and a just well-loved movie and TV actor. Hello. Good morning, gang. How we doing? Good. Thank you so, so much for joining us. Now, so your new book, you spent 52 days in the desert writing this book. Thank you so, so much for joining us. Now, so your new book, you spent 52 days in the
Starting point is 00:55:06 desert writing this book. Did you have snacks? Oh, I had better than snacks. I took a cooler with ribeyes. Oh, wow. My own personal rub, so I took a little
Starting point is 00:55:21 barbecue. Every evening at about seven o'clock, I'd go mix my first cocktail, and I'd have that fire going and cook myself a big badass ribeye for dinner. Let's talk about this, your own rub recipe. Obviously, these things are sacred, and you don't just share them with everybody, but can you share them with me? Absolutely not. Were you in just a giant tent in the desert or was it a house?
Starting point is 00:55:47 No, it was a cabin. A little cabin in the middle of the desert where I mainly spent my time. I had a generator. So if I need electricity to, I brought my printer. If I need electricity to plug my laptop in, I do that. But mainly I was just writing by hand and going through this big treasure chest of diaries that I've been keeping for 36 years. But you were completely alone by yourself?
Starting point is 00:56:08 Yes, 100%. Wow. And when did you do this? When was your isolation? Because isolation has been the craze of 2020. Pre-COVID. Pre-COVID. Yeah, this was way pre-COVID.
Starting point is 00:56:21 I didn't know what I was getting ready for. Yeah, I was working out and getting ready for COVID to quarantine. No, it was all pre-COVID. I didn't know what I was getting ready for. Yeah, I was working out and getting ready for COVID to quarantine. No, it was all pre-COVID. So you had how many years of diaries? 32 years of diaries? 36. 36 years of diaries. Wow.
Starting point is 00:56:35 Looking back, I didn't keep a diary a lot. Got one for Christmas, would do like the first couple of weeks of January, and then the habit would disappear. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I found one semi-recently from my last year of high school. It was so cringeworthy and embarrassing to read. I would shudder at the thought of it being shared.
Starting point is 00:56:53 Have you stumbled across that or? Yes. I've been threatening to write a book for the past 15 years, but didn't have the courage because I didn't want that. I'm looking over there at that Treasure Chester Diaries going, man, I'm't want that. I'm looking over there at that treasure chest of diaries
Starting point is 00:57:06 going, man, I'm not opening that. That's going to be embarrassing, man. That's going to be a shame. And you know, like going to, once I decided that's what I was going to do and my wife said, get the hell out of here, take that treasure chest of diaries away and see what's in it.
Starting point is 00:57:22 Like you've been threatening to do for 15 years, but haven't done. Once I did, like going going to work out what's the hardest part about working out tying our shoes to get out the damn door yeah yeah i loaded up and said i'm out of here and i sat down with it i actually found that the stuff i was gonna thought i was gonna be really embarrassed about i laughed at myself i was like what were you thinking you idiot and then the stuff that i thought i might be shamed about i was, I kind of forgave myself about it. I said, no, it's okay. I see you going through.
Starting point is 00:57:48 You were trying to figure shit out, and you always have been. And it was easier. I had much more fun than I thought because for that reason, I was afraid to do it, mainly for embarrassment and shame of what I might find. Do you still keep a diary, even though you've kind of written about your past ones? I was going to say technique, ones what's your i was gonna say
Starting point is 00:58:05 technique but what's your routine with it do you do it every day because obviously you're quite busy well now i'm doing it you know notes on the phone i go to my phone 70 of the time i go to my phone is to write myself i take notes so i hear something you know or i think of something and i'll write i'll write it down and then at the end of say every couple weeks i get some time i'll go back through all those notes see what my central theme of thinking has been over the last two weeks and transcribe some stuff over to uh paper or file it in a different file like this like this book the diaries i didn't know what the hell they were all going to be i looked at them and i said i I got to find some consistency. And what did I find? I found stories, people, places, prescriptions, poems, and a whole hell of a lot of bumper stickers. And that was the stack. And then from those, the central theme came to what the title
Starting point is 00:58:56 is Green Lights, as I found there were ways that I had created green lights in my life. There were red lights and yellow lights that had turned green later in my life and there were lessons that i learned from reds and yellows crisis is in my life that i was like ah you know what i'm glad i had that red light in my life because i got something wrong was it turning 50 that made you think this needs to be needs to be done or was it i had something to do it it's bound to have something to do with it it's bound to be I know that inherently even some of the concepts I was like oh I'm coming on 50 huh okay there's the old half a century okay that made
Starting point is 00:59:32 me go and I have been doing this for the last four or five years what are the legacy choices you're making I've asked myself that what are the choices you're making that once you're dead and gone you're going to be able to hand this off to your kids and What are the choices you're making that once you're dead and gone, you're going to be able to hand this off to your kids? And what are the choices you're making that you can hand something off to your kids
Starting point is 00:59:49 that they can hand off to their kids? And so that's been a new choice-making paradigm for me in the last four or five years. And I think coming on 50 gave me also the courage to go, well, let's go see who you've been the last 50, and let's see if it's worth sharing in a book. I think the rub could be a legacy item too. The rub is definitely legacy. Pass it to your children and say,
Starting point is 01:00:10 this is the McConaughey rub. The secret must never get out, but it must live. That's it. Through generations. Yeah, man. Oh, this has been fantastic to have a chat to you. Is it? I think about, I watched Dazed and Confused so many times in the 90s
Starting point is 01:00:27 because I was like a teenager when I first saw it and it resonated that whole coming of age tale. And now my daughters have watched Sing, dare I say, thousands of times. You've been in both those movies, so you've been with the family. I had to make one for my kids, man. 100%! I had to make one for my kids. And I'm like, my kids haven't seen any of the stuff I do.
Starting point is 01:00:44 I can't show my kids Dazed and stuff I do. I can't show my kids Dazed Confused yet. I can't show them True Detective yet. You know what I mean? I'd like something for them to see. So yeah, I got a little credit in my own household once I made Sing. Yeah, no, I think my kids absolutely loved it. And there's another Sing in the works?
Starting point is 01:01:00 In the works. Yeah. I know it's coming out next year. Yeah. But we've been doing a lot of recording on that. That's awesome. Well, I know my family. You know, we had a dazed and confused virtual read-through with the entire cast yesterday. I know. I saw it.
Starting point is 01:01:12 Yeah. It was wild and cool, man, to see everybody. It was really cool. Because what? That was really early on in your career, was that? It was 93? No, that's the first one. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:01:23 That's the summer of 92. I'm in college i walk in the right bar at the right time meet the right guy who says you ever done any acting said that was in a middle light commercial for that long because you might be right come to this address there's a script waiting for you i go down there pick it up three lines turn into three weeks work for me on that i go back graduate college drive out to hollywood $2,000 in a U-Haul because that movie had just come out, so that got me some meetings, and here I am. And it gave us so many amazing catchphrases as well.
Starting point is 01:01:56 All right, all right, all right. That's the first three words I ever said on film. Wow. Is there any aim that if you ever retire from acting, it'll be the last three words you say on film? How bookending perfect would that be? Bookend it, man. People say that like, hey, they ask me
Starting point is 01:02:13 all the time, do you get tired of that sort of introducing you or preceding you or people tattooing it on their bodies or saying it or whatever. Hell no, I love it. It is the first three words I said in a summer of my life where I thought I might, I thought I'd just got two days
Starting point is 01:02:29 working, a little hobby, a little cool thing that I was like, oh, that was cool. I remember that time in 92, I got to act in that movie. Hell, man, it turned out to be a career. But what if you were having a meal at a restaurant, it's just you and your family and someone's like, all right, all right, like over the room, would you be like, oh, come on. Oh, I always just look up
Starting point is 01:02:45 and go, yeah, I'm the author. Copyright, McConaughey. Along with the rub, it's a secret. You'll never know the ingredients. No, the rub is a secret. All right, all right, all right is more public domain. Right, yeah.
Starting point is 01:03:00 Free to use, not the rub. Green Light is out. Matthew McConaughey, it's been a pleasure. Thank you so much for joining us this morning. Thank y'all. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. It's Polly, Molly, Molly, Molly, Molly.
Starting point is 01:03:14 Polly, Molly, Molly, Molly. Come on! It's the Deal Breakers edition. So we asked a bunch of questions on our Instagram. Instagram? Instagram, on Instagram. About Deal breakers. This versus that.
Starting point is 01:03:28 Some of these are quite interesting. And there's this one that I don't know what I'd choose. Okay. Crack into it. First up, picky eater versus always being late.
Starting point is 01:03:37 So if you had to choose between these deal breakers and a person. How late? Like cute late? You're not cute late. You're late late. I? Like cute late? You're not cute late. You're not cute late. I'm always cute late.
Starting point is 01:03:47 It's never cute late. It's always late. You say you're on your way and you're in the shower. Tee hee hee. It's a cute little fib. That no one believes. Yeah,
Starting point is 01:03:55 normally you're going to be half an hour from your shower. It's not a cute late. That's still pretty cute. At least I'm clean. Yeah. We can always hear the shower in the background though.
Starting point is 01:04:05 Which would you prefer then? Because you always give me crap for being a picky eater. But I just don't like seafood. Oh, no, to me, it would always be late would be okay. But if you were with someone, and I'm talking like picky eater, where you couldn't go to places like you. Oh, not seafood. I don't like that.
Starting point is 01:04:22 I don't like red meat. It's got things in it. It's got sugar in it. I can't go there. Oh my god. No, no, no, no, no. Well, I would choose always late because that's prioritising your time over someone else's and that's the height of rudeness. If you're important, they'll wait. And they always have.
Starting point is 01:04:38 And everyone sided with me. Well, not everyone, but 70% of people chose always being late as they're more of a deal breaker. Wow. Wow, okay. Someone said, oh my God, I'm both. This is confronting.
Starting point is 01:04:51 Picky eating is fine when you're dating, but once you live and cook together, that's a bit of a nightmare. Yeah. Next one, socks in bed versus poor grammar. You'd go socks. Oh, Would you? Socks in bed Socks in bed is weird eh I can't do it
Starting point is 01:05:09 It's not a deal breaker Yeah I married someone Whose English Wasn't their first language So I'm just used to Always correcting him And explaining things
Starting point is 01:05:19 I bet he loves that No he does Because he doesn't want to Like he says things Completely wrong But you get out the red pen and then give him a grade. And that's, like, kind of weird. It's like being a teacher or something.
Starting point is 01:05:29 And if he makes five mistakes, he has to get a strap at the principal's office. Okay, so I was leaning towards socks and bed. Yeah, right. Because I want those touching me. Like, why are you wearing them in bed? Whereas you're a grammar Nazi. If someone used the wrong, Vaughan, if someone used the wrong you're or there or there or there, you'd be like, oh, they're out.
Starting point is 01:05:44 Oh, yeah. I'd be like, no, no, no, no. What if they're a 10, though? And they used to wrong their, their, your, your. That's okay. No, but this is between socks and bed. I know, but I'm just like. So if there are 10 that wear socks and bed.
Starting point is 01:05:57 Yep, with poor grammar. I would rather be with the 10 that wear socks and bed. Okay, right. Okay, right. With poor grammar. I mean, it's great to have choice, you know. It's great to be able to meet a 10 and be like... Majority agrees with you.
Starting point is 01:06:11 Poor grammar, 82% is more of a deal breaker than socks in bed. Okay. I don't understand why wearing socks in bed is a deal breaker. My feet get cold. And then someone said, feet are gross.
Starting point is 01:06:21 Why do you want your BF's nasty feet touching yours? Right. So that's more of a foot-phobe. Yeah. Dislikes cats versus dislike dogs. Surely more people would be cat people, wouldn't they? They're not, though, are they? They're going to be dog people. People can dislike cats, and people are like, that's okay.
Starting point is 01:06:42 But if you're like, I don't like dogs, people are like, what's wrong with you? Yeah, right. Like if you vocalise your dislike for a dog, there's something wrong with you. But you're like, I'm not a cat person. People are like, that's understandable. Because you always say you're a stupid little dog. But then when he's in here, you're like, come on, come here.
Starting point is 01:06:57 No, but he is a stupid little dog. But you love him. I'd rather have a cat though. Okay. Well, 70% of people say dislike dogs is more of a deal breaker. Yeah, I thought it was me. Disliking cats, wow. Someone said if you dislike any animal, we're over.
Starting point is 01:07:11 I can understand why people dislike cats, but if you dislike dogs, what the F is wrong with you? What about ferrets though? Or hamsters? You're allowed to dislike them. Yeah, rodents, you're allowed to dislike rodents. Yeah, absolutely. What about pigeons?
Starting point is 01:07:24 You're allowed to dislike pigeons Yeah absolutely This is the closest one And seagulls No that's our fault In fact pigeons is our fault as well No I'm allowed to dislike both of them Humans did that
Starting point is 01:07:36 We made them what they are That's on us This deal breaker is the closest Which is worse? Bad fashion or annoying laugh? Why did you look at me with annoying laugh? And bad fashion. Let's just say both of those are represented in this room.
Starting point is 01:07:57 Yeah, your fashion choices are shoddy. I'm definitely talking about fledge. I'll giggles McGee over here. Bad fashion or an annoying laugh? It's so close. We're talking 51% versus... You can't change someone's laugh, whereas fashion you could probably put some work in.
Starting point is 01:08:14 That would be the thing that's unique and that you love about them, right? Yeah. Their fashion. Or their laugh. Their laugh. So bad fashion... Yeah, if you find someone's laugh annoying,
Starting point is 01:08:23 you probably shouldn't be with them, right? Yeah. Laughs are supposed to bring light to life Yeah Bad fashion 51% Okay More of a deal breaker Bad music taste versus a smoker
Starting point is 01:08:34 You'd go smoker right Sure That's the biggest deal breaker Because they can listen to this You can always bring them round to some of your music right Yeah or they can wear headphones 84% said smoker. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:08:47 Someone said, who even smokes anymore? Yesterday, walking back from the movie, I saw someone smoking. I was like, I cannot remember the last time I saw someone smoke. I saw a young person smoking and I was like, oh. Because everyone I know that smokes has gone to vaping. Yeah. Yeah. And lastly, being messy or being lazy, which is the biggest deal breaker.
Starting point is 01:09:06 Lazy. I don't. Because if you're messy, you'd be like, you're not too lazy to clean it. You're just messy. Maybe unintentionally. I was going to say, if you're lazy, wouldn't you be messy? But you're lazy. But I wouldn't consider you necessarily.
Starting point is 01:09:20 Oh, no, your car was pretty yuck. I'm nor lazy nor messy. You're both. You're actually both. This is your car was pretty yuck. I'm nor lazy nor messy. You're both. You're actually both. This is confronting for you, I know. Being lazy is more of a deal breaker, 69%. Okay. Yeah, because if you're a person that wants to do something,
Starting point is 01:09:34 but lazy or lazy magoo is like, nah, I don't want to do anything. You can be fun and still be messy. Yes. Yeah. Okay. Sometimes being messy is fun. Fleshforn and Megan, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast.
Starting point is 01:09:48 ZM. Fact of the day. Day, day, day, day. Paul, start from you. What was that? Rough start. It's coming in hot. Yeah, rough start.
Starting point is 01:10:09 I think I hit the wrong note. Hey, these things happen. Yeah. Today's fact of the day is about bears eating honey. Okay. You might see a bear putting its claw into a wild... Winnie the Pooh? Yeah, Winnie the Pooh famously loved a bit of honey.
Starting point is 01:10:23 Famously loves honey. Quite a rotund wee bear was Winnie the Pooh around the midsection. Don't fetch on Winnie the Pooh? Yeah, Winnie the Pooh famously loved a bit of honey. Famously loves honey. Quite a rotund wee bear was Winnie the Pooh. Yeah, around the midsection. Don't fetch him, Winnie the Pooh. It's like he was preparing for hibernation when he wasn't hibernating. But he always ate it out of the pot. There was the odd occasion where Winnie the Pooh would find himself stuck in a tree trunk trying to get into some honey.
Starting point is 01:10:41 Well, he's been forced into that situation though, hasn't he? Because of the price of honey at the supermarket. Have you seen it? He's been forced to go to the honey. Well, he's been forced into that situation though, hasn't he? Because of the price of honey at the supermarket. Have you seen it? He's been forced to go to the source. Yeah, I'm not surprised he can't afford it.
Starting point is 01:10:50 Just rob the bees. Yeah, he's robbing beekeepers. And in the Jungle Book, Baloo the bear, he, in both the original and the remake, famously loved a little bit of honey,
Starting point is 01:11:00 considered it one of life's bear necessities. However, when bears try to eat honey, sorry, eat beehives, they're not trying to eat the honey. What, the wax? No.
Starting point is 01:11:14 What are they trying to eat? They're trying to eat the baby bees and the larvae of the bees. Ruthless. Immature bees, not because they make fart jokes, but immature as they have not yet reached adulthood and can't be active participants in the buzzing world of honey making.
Starting point is 01:11:36 Yep. They are full of protein and apparently fat and protein. Wow. And apparently delicious eating. Wow. And a bee, well, over millions of years of evolution, have worked out that that's a pretty good source of what they need to grow and also for pre-hibernation.
Starting point is 01:11:54 So they get the pupae, the larvae, the eggs, and that's why they just eat the whole honeycomb. And the honey goes everywhere because it's surrounded by it. And so they've been wrongly kind of painted as loving honey. Yeah. But in fact, they don't. They love the pupae, the larvae and the eggs of the immature bees that are inside because that's what honeycomb is, right?
Starting point is 01:12:15 It's like the bees preparing their next lot. Yeah. But we just keep going, hee-hee-hee, and taking the honey. That sounds. And they're like, oh, we're going to have to keep making more honey. And they just keep working and then the bears come along and eat everything as well, but, oh, we're going to have to keep making more honey. And they just keep working, and then the bears come along and eat everything as well, but obviously not in New Zealand because we don't have bears.
Starting point is 01:12:29 Yeah. But today's fact of the day is that when you see bears eating honey, the honeycomb, they're actually trying to eat the baby bees, not the honey. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Oh, Marilyn's just messaged. Oh, what's old man saying? Marilyn said same goes for when bears eat salmon.
Starting point is 01:13:07 They're not so much interested in the fish, they're interested in the eggs, the roe, because it's heaps of fat and protein. That's why sometimes you'll see, like, the salmon hardly touched, but they've torn it open, eaten out all the roe. Right, all the insides. It's just the baby eggs and then dumped the salmon. I need to team up with a bear because I don't like the roe, but I like the salmon. They can have the roe.
Starting point is 01:13:21 I'll have the salmon. Yep. You don't like baby bees. That is a waste-not combo. Yeah. It's like turning up as someone who eats the other part of the Cadbury favorites. Yeah. It's finding that person in your life that likes the Boost bar or the Morrow Gold or the Turkish Delight. I like all of those.
Starting point is 01:13:39 That's why we're friends. You like all the other ones as well, right? No. Oh, what one don't you like? I don't like the Caramello. I love the Caramello. See, you like all the other ones as well, right? No. Oh, what one don't you like? I don't like the caramello. I love the caramello. See, that's why we're friends. That's why we're friends.
Starting point is 01:13:53 Cool. Oh, me? Yeah. What would we eat if we were eating a box of roses? Oh. I like the coffee one. I like the strawberry and... Is it the strawberry one?
Starting point is 01:14:03 I love that one. I like the peppermint. I don't like the oozy coffee one. I like the strawberry and... Is it the strawberry one? I love that one. I like the peppermint. I don't like the oozy caramel one. Oh, I love that caramel business. I don't like the hard yuck ones. Or the one with the nut in the middle. Yeah, I like that. I like that.
Starting point is 01:14:16 It's like a Bergie school of diamonds. I'm pretty sure we'd eat anything between us. Yeah, we get it done. We get it done. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. Weird McGoose nose. It's a look on the show at our pregnant co-worker who already was prone to a nap.
Starting point is 01:14:39 Yeah. Loves a nap. Always has. And now pregnant, obviously more tired. Growing another human inside can be exhausting stuff. It's hard work. It's hard yakka. You've got a nap for two now.
Starting point is 01:14:50 Yeah. Can't just nap for you. That's a good call. Yeah. You'll be napping for two. Yesterday you fell asleep in a movie preview. I have to preface this by saying the movie was really good. Yeah, because this isn't obviously what movies want people to do when they go to the movie.
Starting point is 01:15:06 It's not off. And I've fought it for so long because I was enjoying the movie. But we were in a lovely cinema with reclined seats and I was like, one eye closed. I was like, I thought if I could reach one eye. You should never go into any reclined position if one is feeling snoozy. I thought I'd rest one eye. One eye at a time.
Starting point is 01:15:26 And then switch. And then there's that cross where one shuts and the other one's supposed to open. You're like, wait, no, the bush hit. And then you're like, I'll just do a long bleak. I'll just rest it for a second. And I was out. Now, Executive Intern Anya, you were next to Megan. You saw her recline her seat.
Starting point is 01:15:44 Yeah, I saw her go down about three quarters of the way through the movie. And we'd had a pre-movie scone. And I thought... Oh, a doughy scone, yes. Yeah, I thought this is not going to end well. And then maybe two minutes later, there was some snores. Yep. Snores?
Starting point is 01:16:01 No, I snored once. I snored once and then I looked up And looked over Hold on you were asleep You don't know how many times You snored How many times did she snore I'm so sorry bud There were quite a few snores
Starting point is 01:16:11 A prolonged snoring Because I thought I snored once And woke myself up And I looked over at her And I was like Did she hear that And that's when she laughed at me
Starting point is 01:16:20 How many snores Considering this Is one Like in and. Is one. Like, in and out is one snore. In and out is one. 22. Were they cute?
Starting point is 01:16:32 I'm a cute snorer, though, eh? They were cute. It wasn't annoying. Could you demonstrate, Megan? Replicate for us a cute snore. Okay. It was quite like, because she was, what's the word, horizontal at this point. So it was quite like a. Oh, no. Oh, no. It was all mouth. It was all mouth. It word, horizontal at this point. So it's quite like a... Oh, no.
Starting point is 01:16:45 Oh, no, it was all mouth. It was quite natural. It was a bit gurgly. It sounded a bit gurgly. It was a little. Yeah. I was also mortified because this is a preview and across the aisle from us was Simon Dallow.
Starting point is 01:16:58 And I was like, Simon Dallow. Simon Dallow is not pregnant nor getting up at four in the morning. But, like, I have it on fair authority that I don't think anyone else heard me. No. Did Simon Dallow, like, look over? Did he look around? No. Professional.
Starting point is 01:17:14 But then I said, Simon, check this gal out. Hey, Simon, you should talk about this on the news. And he's, like, leading the news tonight, New Zealand. Breaking news. We've got a snorer over the aisle. Fletchvorner Megan, New Zealand. Breaking news. We've got a snorer over there. Saw this pop up on a, we actually got sent it for community notices. Okay. Someone complaining that the road marking had happened in the area
Starting point is 01:17:36 and the solid white line on the left-hand side of the road. Yep. Has that got a name? It does. It does. Yeah, we talked about Yep. Has it got a name? It does. Yeah, we talked about it. It's got a name. Fog line. Fog line.
Starting point is 01:17:49 Fog line. Because if you get blinded by anything, you can look at that line. And know where it is. And know where you're going. When you turn your fog lights on or lights on in fog and put them on low, you'll be able to see that white line. But if it's really that bad, I'd probably just kind of like get off the road. Yeah, totally. I'm not just like going to be going 80 k's an hour relying on a line that i'm
Starting point is 01:18:09 not even looking at because then you're not seeing the deer that's in front of you watch out ah crash uh so you're just referencing succession no i wasn't but yes i was yes subconsciously i just finished season one and that was season one finale. Oh, you wait, baby. Season two's got it all. It's a great show, isn't it? Great show. Great show. Great show.
Starting point is 01:18:30 What's it on? Neon. Neon. It's about a really rich, it's kind of based on the Murdochs apparently, but we're not here to talk about succession, although it is very good. Tom and Greg.
Starting point is 01:18:40 Tom and Greg's relationship was a great dynamic on that show. Anyway, anyway. It was a brilliant show. Anyway, So the people were remarking the fog line, the solid white line on the left-hand side as you drive. What part of the country is this? Do we know?
Starting point is 01:18:54 Yeah, I forgot. Anyway, it's not important. Well, actually it's very important, Vaughan, because it would be quite good to relate it to those people in that region because they could be like, well, no, because then we're excluding everybody else from all around the country. So why can't people just imagine it happened in their region
Starting point is 01:19:09 and be happy with it? People can chuckle that another region is silly enough to do this. Well, why in their minds can't they establish if they want to laugh at a region for doing it, they can pick a region in their mind. Everybody pictured it. The minute we started talking about Fogline, everyone pictured their local road.
Starting point is 01:19:23 Plenum, a part of the road. It actually wasn't. It was Pukekohe. Well, I think she just made Blenheim up because she wanted it to be Blenheim. That's what I said. Oh, okay. Right, make it up. I'm giving people's minds the details.
Starting point is 01:19:37 This happened on Cape Hill Road in Pukekohe. So a piece of roadkill, which in this situation happened to be a dead possum. Have you seen the photo, Megan? So it was dead right where the fog line went and the truck, because this is just automatic. Yeah. They just drive and it tells them where to keep it.
Starting point is 01:19:54 It's not like when they're doing, like when they're riding stop or doing the giveaway triangle or something. Or they get out. It's a bit more hands on. This is just, they just drive and it, and someone may have been
Starting point is 01:20:05 distracted momentarily and they didn't see the possum, the paint line went over the possum, thus leaving a gap underneath the possum that doesn't have a fresh fog line.
Starting point is 01:20:15 I mean, if they leave it there long enough, technically it will just mush into the road, won't it? Yeah. And the white line
Starting point is 01:20:20 will mush in as well. I wonder if it'll, a hawk will eat it before then. Oh yeah, but then the hawk's like painted roadkill. Oh, yeah. But then the hawk's light painted roadkill. No, the paint might point the hawk off. But the hawk doesn't eat the fur anyway.
Starting point is 01:20:31 The hawk will tear that open and eat the rich innards. The rich innards. The vitamins and proteins. The rich innards. It requires from the possum. Maybe eat the possum's eyeballs. Okay. But I wouldn't imagine the sinewy parts
Starting point is 01:20:46 wouldn't tickle the New Zealand falcon's fancy. Well, the Auckland Transport have admitted the mistake and they've promised to rectify it. You should have seen some of the comments. It was like, someone should lose their job and they're paid too much already to make these dumb, stupid mistakes and this will be, Jacinda got called out for it. Right, it's her fault, is it?
Starting point is 01:21:06 It's her fault. She was driving the truck, did you not know? But I would have thought you'd be quite focused on like where you were on the road. You'd have a lot of positions to be holding and looking out for. I would think so. No, I would just be in the truck and being like,
Starting point is 01:21:19 oh yuck, I'm not touching that to move it. What about kicking it? Over I go. But also you can't stop easily because you're on a roll. It's probably easier to go back and do a touch-up than it is to stop the truck because you're on a roll, aren't you? I mean, I don't know how line marking works. Is it automated?
Starting point is 01:21:36 I feel like it could be. You've got to push the lever forward to stop the paint from spraying. You don't know this. You don't know this. You don't know this. Because if you stop and you, are you going to fade out the line and come back in and fade it back in manually? And then you'll see that there's a line stopped and started again. I see that sometimes and I'm like, poor job, that.
Starting point is 01:21:56 Should have kept going. Yeah, but now that I've got this. Yeah, but it'll be easier to touch it up, surely. It'll be, I reckon the guy that was driving or the girl that was driving, one day wants to drive past to their kids and be like, ran over a possum for the market. See that 20 centimetre gap? That's a mystery, that one.
Starting point is 01:22:12 A lot of people, that will buzz them out and they won't know what's happened. Possum was dead and I just ran it over. ZDM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. If you enjoyed this podcast, why not give ZDM's Bree and Clint a listen too? Subscribe on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. Head music lives here.
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