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

Episode Date: September 21, 2020

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Hello, welcome to the Fleeche Vaughan and Megan podcast. Thanks to McCafe Coffee for great tasting barista-made coffee on the go. So we just need to do this podcast intro and then Vaughan gets to go home to the father-in-law. Oh, he might be gone. Oh, really? He might be gone by the time I get home. He's going home today. Right. Are you happy about that? What's been the latest in the adventures?

He was very angry that Sade didn't forward me on his song to play on the radio He thought this could have been his chance That's what you said I know He would have loved it I definitely, that was my intention Your wife just didn't want to die of embarrassment 100%

I get that, I get that That is correct But last night he got a cake He demanded for his 70th birthday that Indian August make him a cake. So they made him a cake and decorated it. And then he told us during the cake ceremony that this was the first ever birthday cake he'd received. In his 70 years. And Sade's like, Dad, that is a lie.

I can remember you having a cake all the time as a kid. Yes, because Sade's parents separated. But when they were together, their birthdays are very close. So he claimed that he always had you having a cake all the time as a kid. Yes, because Sade's parents separated, but when they were together, their birthdays are very close. So he claimed that he always had to share a cake. And then since they separated, no one had got him a cake, which I know is, for a fact, bullshit, because he's been Sade cooking like three cakes. He does quite often goes out and makes a weird stand on things like this.

Yeah. I told you about the robot vacuum cleaner. Yeah. He claimed to have never, ever, ever heard of robot vacuum cleaners. Everything was news to him about robot vacuum cleaners. And 20 minutes later, he tells us that his sister-in-law has a robot vacuum cleaner. I said to him half an hour ago, you said you'd never heard of them before.

No, I never said I'd never heard of them. I was like, we just had that conversation about you'd never heard of them. When he starts making these bold claims, you need to hit record on your phone. I know, I know. Yeah, he, um, yep, night back. Oh, we'll see him soon enough. 70. He doesn't look 70.

He's going to be around until he's 110 too. Yep. He's going to, yep. He could pass to a 45. I know. On a good day in the right light. Oh, 50, yeah, 45, 50. Yup. He's gonna, yup. He could pass for 45. I know. On a good day in the right light. Yeah, 45,

50. Yeah. I'd be stoked to hear that you've said that. Tell him. Yeah, maybe he'll stop

giving himself his own haircuts at home. $8. Oh my God. He's not poor either, is he?

That's the funny thing. Nope. Brilliant. ZM. Hit music. Lives here. Fleece, Fawn and Megan. The podcast. Welcome to the show, Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. Good morning.

What are you, itchy? Yeah. What's your neck? Itchy neck. Just be another miscellaneous rash. Hashtag misgrash. You do have a lot of miscellaneous rashes, don't you? Miscillaneous. You're always having a rash. You do have a lot of miscellaneous rashes, don't you? Miscellaneous. Miscellaneous. Yeah.

You're always having a rash. You get a new bangle. Yeah. I'm like, oh, that's sterling silver. Yeah. Find out it's cheap. Yeah. Nasty.

Walk past someone wearing perfume. Rash. Rash. That's probably what it is. I probably got perfume on my neck accidentally. Where do you usually put it? On my clothes. That's right. You probably got perfume on my neck accidentally. Where do you usually put it? On my clothes. That's right.

You can't put it on your skin. Yeah. God, you wouldn't have survived in the 1800s, eh? You would have been dead. I would have been out. Super excited, guys, because today on the show, just after 8 o'clock, Carlo Barn, of course, Kiwi actor. Yeah.

He was on Shorty's he was on Shortland Street I've looked into it he was Shortland Street's first gay character ambulance driver slash paramedic Jamie Forrest

in 1993 to 1994 and of course since then he's been in a whole heap of movies do you remember when he was firing a rocket launcher at Matt Damon in The Bourne yes that's right one of the Bourne movies

yep was that one of his biggest Remember when he was firing a rocket launcher at Matt Damon in the Bourne? Yes, that's right. One of the Bourne movies? Yep. Was that one of his biggest? He was two New Zealanders in one of the Bourne movies because the other guy was the guy that played Leonard. It's so bad. This guy's in multiple things. Martin. His name's Martin.

Nope. Martin, Insert Eastern European Last name here He was in there Well anyway Carlo Bano also Has been in Star Tread

Tread Yeah He was in Lord of the Rings And of course The Boys Which is now streaming on Amazon Prime Season 2 Which we're huge fans of

He plays Billy Butcher Yeah Who Says the C word more than maybe any character in TV history. Yeah. And he's in New Zealand.

So he's coming in to talk to us about The Boys, our favourite TV show at the moment. That's pretty cool. After 8 o'clock. I haven't watched episode 5 yet.

I watched it yesterday and in public I had to like cover parts of it. You know when you're watching something and then it gets... Do you watch it at the gym? Yeah. Oh, I wouldn't have thought that was a good gym watch. And then it gets wildly inappropriate and you're had to cover parts of it. You know when you're watching something and then it gets... Do you watch it at the gym?

Yeah. Oh, I wouldn't have thought that was a good gym watch. And then it gets wildly inappropriate and you're trying to cover the screen so that the boomer on the treadmill next to you can't see the wildly inappropriate thing you're watching on telly. He's in with us just after eight. The top six is coming up.

Yeah, there's a leaders' debate this eve. TVNZ's first leaders debate of this election. So the top six things to expect. I heard they might drop a poll before as well. A new poll. A new farmers poll. A new farmers poll. Like, okay.

Like, in the news at six. What, have they got one up their sleeve? I don't know. That's what I read. Hmm. Okay. Don't mind a surprise poll. We go next to Blenheim.

Remember the last time we went to Blenheim? That person spray painted outside the restaurant? Yes. No, someone else in Blenheim. What do you call them? Blenheimites. Is Blenheim becoming out Florida? That's a big call.

No, it's definitely not Blenheim. High sunshine hours. Well, you know what? That's a big call No Lots of old people High sunshine hours Well you know what Crazy ass news stories And alligators Yeah Pretty much Alright we go to

Blenheim next I'm calling it New Zealand's Florida Blenheim The Marlborough region There's Beaver Town What? Beaver Town Why. There's Beaver Town. What?

Beaver Town. Why is it called Beaver Town? These aren't beavers. I don't know. Everyone calls it Beaver Town or Boom Town. Blenheim. Boom Town, like ironically, because it is quite a boom town. The vineyards and everything.

I actually don't know. Everyone just calls it Beaver Town. I've not spent much time there, but when googled. I thought it was bloody lovely. And it was named Beaver Town. It's got a place. There's a thing called Beaver Town. Glenham in the Beaver. What's our obsession with the damn beaver?

Did it come from something else and then everyone called it Beaver Town? Glenham or the beaver. The settlement of Glenham. What? Is it a really old name? I've never heard of it. Is it a really old name? I think so, yeah. No, it's not.

Old Blenheim, Beaver Town. All young people call it that, but I think it's a different meaning. That's because young people like saying Beaver. Marlborough Museum, Old Blenheim, Beaver Town. There's a trip advisor for it. Get out of here.

The Beaver. I've never heard it called Beaver Town. There needs to be some research. No, I've never heard of it. I Town. There needs to be some research. No, I've never heard it. I like it. Better than Blenheim. Yeah. Let's rename it to Beaver Town.

New Zealand's Florida. This just really adds to my... It does, yeah. Beaver Town Preschool. Is it a suburb of Blenheim? No, there's a thing. Beaver Town is a replica street scene based on features of Blenheim around 1900. The beaver, and later on Beaver Station, were early names for what is now Blenheim.

The reference to Beavers comes from Marlborough's historical tendency to flood often. See, I don't think that's why that name's popular now. Right. So, like, yeah, Mum's text, because she's from Nelson, she said it was called Beavertown first. The name changed later. Right. So like yeah, mum's text, because she's from Nelson, she said it was called Beaver Town first. The name changed later. Right. Because beavers build dams and they cause flooding.

Of course we didn't know that. We didn't grow up there. I had no idea. I didn't grow up there. You grew up over the hill. Yeah, and you didn't know why it was called Beaver Town. You'd just be roaming around calling it Beaver Town. Okay, well from henceforth we will only refer to it as Beaver Town. Fantastic. Okay, well, what's happened in Beaver Town?

Well, a Beaver Town man is in big trouble because he was, you're about to learn another thing. I didn't know this. When he was seen driving, he was swerving on the road and he was observed crossing the fog line. And that's what you call the solid white line on the left-hand side of the road. What is it? observe crossing the fog line. And that's what you call the solid white line on the left-hand side of the road. The fog line? Is it?

The fog line. Because when it's foggy, you can see the line and you know that's the side of the road. Or if you get blinded by some headlights, you just look at that line. Yeah, yeah. And you follow that line. So that's the fog line. He crossed the fog line, almost leaving the road there in Beavertown. Okay.

Swerving back, crossing the centre line. So it was suspected that he was over the breath limit. When he was tested, he blew 400 micrograms. So Beavertown PD pulled him over. Yeah, Beavertown PD. Woo! That's the sound that their police cars make. Yeah.

And he got taken to the Beavertown police station for an evidential breath test. Yeah. And he said, can I just use the toilet? And they were like, well, we can't deny you your right to urinate here in Beavertown. Okay. And they caught him eating soap. He thought eating the soap would...

From the liquid soap dispenser. The photo they've put in is a liquid soap dispenser that also foams as it comes out. Oh, okay. Lap it up the phone. I wouldn't need a bar of soap.

You don't know whose grubby hands have been on that. So his thinking was that the soap would null the effect of the breathalyzer. Yes.

But don't they take a blood test at this stage? So that's what, that's, that's what happened next. Right. He apparently repeatedly failed to provide sufficient breath samples and said, oh, I want to give blood.

I want to give blood. So when the person arrived to take the blood sample, then he got very argumentative and said, no one's putting a needle in my arm. Okay. So he pleaded guilty to refusing to give a blood sample. Right. Yeah, but then I don't know what's happening with the...

Because it's illegal to refuse a blood sample. Yeah. If you're suspected of drink driving and you've also blown over the limit. Yeah. But they need the blood sample to confirm it. Yeah. And so did they just notice his soap dispenser had gone down? Yeah, quite a bit.

Neither of them actually saw him. This is the same guy who's driving around Beavertown on the fog line. So he'd already done a breath test and then went to eat the soap. Yeah, because they do a breath test on the side of the road that's indicative, right? And then they take you down to the station

and you do your evidential breath test. A preliminary. Yeah, preliminary. Yeah, and that's how they actually test if you can't say preliminary it's a good test

probably had a couple of drinks god you're sober and you'd be arrested classic beaver town 17 past 6 I have had some targeted advertising

I got it first in the weekend and I wrote it off to just being a fluke yeah weird one but I've had three since okay so I think at first in the weekend and I wrote it off to just being a fluke. Yeah. Weird one, but I've had three since.

Okay. So I think is this going to be one of those situations where targeted advertising identifying a problem before I know I have it? ZM's Fletch,

Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. So they're always, well, someone's listening because the targeted advertising game is pretty important. We've proved this before.

I reckon I would have lost count the amount of times someone's messaged on Instagram saying you guys talked about this weird thing or this whatever today and I've got advertising for it in my feed. All the time. We did that test that time we talked about guttering via house.

And people got it. People who have no business looking up guttering like for your house. Yep. And people got it. People who have no business looking up guttering got advertising for guttering. Yeah. And then you hear about people who get advertised pregnancy products before they know

they're pregnant. Straight after you get married. Yeah, that's when they start. That's the next step. Did you get that? Yeah. As soon as you like were posting all about

your wedding? Yeah. And then it's like all kinds of products like cots and yeah, it's mad. But there's been reports of people who had just kind of worked out they were pregnant from what they were Googling

before they knew that they were pregnant themselves. Because wasn't there that famous story of that like girl that got messaging from a database? It was the loyalty card. That's right. She'd been buying things at the supermarket and then she got an email saying, so you're pregnant, and all the stuff for pregnancy.

She's like, I'm not pregnant. And then she took a pregnancy test. And in the meantime, her dad went nuts at the supermarket. My daughter's not pregnant. She's not married. And then she was. And he had to be like, oh, the divine intervention. God, hello.

So what have you been Googling? Well, I haven't been Googling, but as I've been picking up from other stuff I've been Googling, at the weekend I received my first erectile dysfunction targeted advertising. Really? Yeah. It was this little like clip thing. Yeah.

It looked a little bit like a W. Yeah. With more curved sides. Is that where the balls go? No. Almost. Right. It really piqued my attention. I was like what is this? Because it said simple device to fix ED.

Yeah. I was like what is ED? I was looking at it and I was like, what is ED? And then I, so I was like, bugger it. Oh, you clicked it. Oh, that's your problem. And it's erectile dysfunction. That's what ED stands for. Right.

And this clip goes around the base of it. Right. You like clip it in the bottom. I don't know what it is. What does that do? The middle bit of the W would be pushing right in and then the wings of the W hold it on.

Right. And then, well, that's just my big mistake because I've clicked on that now and they must have targeted advertising. They're paying for people who have ever visited that site and so now I'm getting all their competitors too. I've had a nasal spray.

Okay. Yeah. What other. I've had a nasal spray. Okay. Yeah. What other? I've had your classic, your pills. But yeah, so now I'm in that web. These things tend to last a while too. Yeah. It's going to be a good six months of targeted erectile dysfunction advertising now.

Can you go into your settings? And unclick. You can, eh? I saw a thing that's right, I saw a thing recently it's your interests. Yeah. And there's like temporary interests and I think that's where it, on Facebook it can Because there's nothing more annoying than searching

something to buy and then you buy it and then you get advertised it for the next four months. Yeah. And then you also see it way cheaper than you bought it for and you're like, oh, I didn't see that. Well, because I Google things

for everyone else and then I get everyone else's products that they want to buy for months. Yeah. But you might be able to, it might be an option. You can untick that.

Also, this could be the new, because you know, back in the day, people leave their Facebook logged on, you'd write a funny status or you'd like a page. This could be the next new subtle way of messing with your friends.

It's just Google search, Facebook search things while they're not there. And then suddenly they wonder why they get all the targeted advertising. Yes. Subtle. But a little bit like, ow. Yeah. Someone said the day they turned 39, they started getting targeted advertising for erectile dysfunction. Is that a demographic?

Maybe, yeah. Why aren't you getting it? That knows. That knows what you're up to. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast ZM. From the ZM think tank, this is the Top Six. Hello there. Welcome to today's Top Six.

There is a leaders debate on tonight, TVNZ1, 7pm. So you'll be able to watch the weather. See what the weather's got planned for the next few days. Bit of rain on the horizon. And then settle in. Grab some popcorn. Yeah. Some snacks. And settle in to, well, if you'd in. Grab some popcorn. Yeah. Some snacks.

And settle in to, well, if you'd eaten all your dinner, you wouldn't need snacks. You always need snacks. Okay, Dad. What are you hungry for now? You weren't hungry when you wouldn't finish your dinner. Go to bed. The top six things to expect from tonight's leaders debate is today's top six. Okay.

Moderated by John Campbell, and he'll lead the charge at number six. On the top six things to expect from the leaders debate, John Campbell say, hey, hey, hey, now, now, now. Yes. Hey, hey, hey. Trying to adjust it. Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Hey, hey, hey. Now, now, now. Number five on the list of the top six things to expect from the leaders debate, Judith will cock an eyebrow. Oh, yes. She's got lethal eyebrows. Yeah, she's got that.

No, both eyebrows are always cocked. Yeah. She cocks them up. That side eye cocked eyebrow she does. Number four on the list of the top six things to expect from the leaders debate. Jacinda will cock an eyebrow. Different sort of eyebrow cock. Goes up in the middle, a bit more like,

what? Don't be mad at me. Come on. This is working great on radio. It goes, they go up in the middle. The Emilia Clarke eyebrow. Yeah.

Whereas Judas is like, the rocks, the people's eyebrow. The arch goes up. She turns her head. Body slammer. Jacinda's like that. Two opposite ends of the eyebrows

working, but both technically a cock of the eyebrow. Number three on the list of the top six things to expect from the leaders debate. Those awkward gulps of water because you're in a hurry, but you really need to drink the water. But if they say something and you're going to interject, you've got to be ready for it.

So it's a real... And I tell you what, if you hurry it too much, it can lead to a cough attack. Yeah. And then everyone's going to think you've got COVID. Yeah.

Not a great time for a cough attack. No. And do you want a leader leading the country that can't drink water? Sounds like a bad idea to me. Number two on the list of the top six things to expect from the leaders debate. leading the country that can't drink water? Sounds like a bad idea to me. Number two on the list of the top six things to expect from the leaders debate,

John having to slam on the brakes for an ad break because there will be ads. That annoys me. I'll have to go for an ad. Hey, hey, hey. Hey, hey, hey. No, no, no. Whoa, whoa, whoa.

We'll be back in a minute after him. Word from our sponsors. And number one on the list of the top six things to expect from the leaders debate. Everyone blaming everybody else for everything that's gone wrong. Yeah. Yeah. That's how these things work. Fun times.

That's today's top six. Flesh, Vaughn and Megan. The podcast. ZM. Dive into Flesh, Vaughn and Megan's fishy tank. Joining us on the phone, the one celebrity friend we have. Dive into Fleshpot and Megan's Fishy Tank. Joining us on the phone, the one celebrity friend we have, Manny McLean.

God, what does that say? It says more about us than it does about you. We're fiercely private people. We're not getting invited to all of the hobnobbing parties. We are running a competition, Fishy Tank, to help out the just everyday people and their side hustles during these tough times. And we have three finalists. And we were hoping that you would blindly

endorse them with your celebrity. What, all three? I mean, we told you we only have one friend. Well, yeah, because I don't have any other friends. Oh, okay, right. So what do I have to do? I reckon we read out a thing and then you say, I'm Maddie McLean and I endorse this product.

Okay. Okay. Okay, Megan, you go first. Tell them about Ruckus and Tucker. Ruckus and Tucker are a dog company that, because you've got Odie. You've got. I've got Odie.

You can. Here we go. You need dog collars and leashes and these are beautifully crafted. You can have different hardware, silver or maybe if Odie likes a rose gold. I mean, I don't know what. And we can get you a bigger one if you and Ryan want to try some stuff.

That's. Zero judgment. Up to you We're not here to Because I can hear you thinking Like how big Have you got one here Megan Is that one This one is

Dirt and waterproof If you like it And you know I think if you endorse this I think they should Definitely send you one Okay so now Do you want me to say it I think if you endorse this, I think they should definitely send you one. Okay, so now do you want me to say it? Yeah.

Okay. Hi, I'm Matty McLean and I endorse Ruckus and Tucker. Ruckus and Tucker. Okay, let's start that again. Ruckus and Tucker. Yeah. Fantastic. There we go.

Endorsed by a celebrity on television. Wow. Excellent. Fantastic. Now, the next one, Maddie, is a credit card fraud organisation. Oh. Yeah. So do you just want to say you endorse that?

I'm kidding. It's not. It's actually Oh My Lolly, and it's a lolly subscription service. So once a month you pay a fee, and they send you lollies from all over the place. Oh, yeah. Yeah, see what I mean? Yeah. Easy.

Yeah. Would you endorse that? What's it called? It's called Oh My Lolly. Oh My Lolly. Yeah. Okay. Hi, I'm Matty McLean from Television's Breakfast Show

and I endorse Oh My Lolly Yay, that's a celebrity endorsement Next time you do that Matty from I forgot what I did Next time you should say from that TV show

Celebrity Treasure Island Ah, okay, there you go Vaughan's got the last one. Golden Years Training Co. This is a service to help older people learn to use modern technology so that A, they don't bother their children or grandchildren

and B, they can still communicate with these people using various technologies. That's pretty cool. You wouldn't have to deal with your parents pretty onto it, aren't they, Matty? Mum does have a few frustrations technology. That's pretty cool. You wouldn't have to deal with your parents pretty onto it, aren't they, Matty? Mum does have a few frustrations from time to time.

She's terrible at taking blurry photos and then uploading them to Facebook. Most of her photos, does she take them with her iPad? She hasn't quite got the iPad with her. So wait, what's it called?

So Golden Years Training would be great for your mum with your blurry photos because they have a lot of patience to teach them. Hi, this is Matty McLean, a former contestant of Celebrity Treasure Island, and I endorsed Golden Years Training Company. Yeah! Look at that.

These side hustles now within celebrity endorsement. Well, wait, wait. I've been so careless here because I haven't even talked about a fee or anything for this because I've just blindly done it. There is no fee. Why do you say? In exchange, would you like to endorse your own products? Hi, I'm Maddie McLean

at MaddieMcLeanNZ on Instagram. I endorse myself. Maddie, this is a family show. You can't talk about how endorsing yourself. I endorsed myself

last night. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. The Morning Moo. It's where we start the day right with a moo. A friendly moo from a cow. Such a stupid competition. It's not even a competition. It's just a feel good, right? We've got two rural hotspots on the line already to go to.

Yeah, Hayley in the Waikato, good morning. Good morning. Are you with the cows right now? Yes, I am. Are they particularly mooey this morning? Yeah, a couple of them are going in the background. Oh, okay. What numbers? What numbers?

What numbers? I've got some Jersey cows going. Yeah. Jersey. Beautiful love of Jersey. Yeah. Do you have a favourite? Yeah, I have Daisy.

She's the last girl that comes in the cow shed every day. Oh, the last one. Usually they're a toey lot, the last row. I don't want to be a cow-sist, but don't they all look the same? Yes, they all look the same, but every cow sort of has a different pattern, so you sort of get to know which cow and different personalities. How do you say they all look the same?

They all look the same, they do. Have you been driven past a farm? It's like an untrained eye. There's like 100 cows. I'm like, I'd have no idea which one Daisy was. They're not your workmates. Sure, people drive past here and they're like, I'd have no idea which one Daisy was. You're not seeing them every day. They're not your workmates. Sure, people drive past here and they're like, well, everyone that works there looks the same.

God, I know some twins. I don't even know which one's which. How do you do it? Well, should we, we've already heard a couple of moos, I think, but should we see if we can get a specific morning moo? On-demand morning moo, Hayley. I can try, but I don't know how it's going to... Another one.

Okay, I'll try. I'll walk up and down and see what's going on. Yeah, I'll see what's happening. Let's see if they go... I'll walk right up to them And I've got chickens and everything This is not the morning chicken No

Maybe that could That could be a spin off series The morning chicken Or the morning roaster Yeah Haley Sorry, they get me every morning Crocodile morning we could call it

Yeah, yeah Haley, fantastic Thank you for joining us in the morning. Right. A little morning, we could call it. Yeah, yeah. Hayley, fantastic. Thank you for joining us for the morning moo this morning. We go now to the Manawatu, northern Manawatu. Frank, good morning. Good morning. All right. So no pressure, Frank, but the Waikato has given us a couple of moos.

My cows aren't very moaning this morning. Okay. Okay. Bye, girls. Okay. Okay. Come on, girls. Come on. Come on, girls. Come on, girls. No, I've got nothing.

I just love hearing you talk to them. Come on, girls. It's just good to hear some calm voices in the shed. You don't want to raise your voice in the shed. They really read your vibe. Do they not like it? No, they read your vibe. Oh, do they? They start getting puffy. Yeah, they might hold their milk. Is that what happens?

Yeah, you want to be relaxed, don't you, Frank? We learn. The townies are learning something on the morning milk, aren't we? Frank, now, what milk do you do? Do you do the chocolate milk, the strawberry strawberry milk the banana milk a bit of everything really yeah good man

you can do a bit of caramel as well actually good good you're going to diversify in these times because how do you know if it's green top

or blue top when it comes out you taste it and then you give it to the green top tanker yep that's right you put it in the green top

I usually just add a bit of water for that hey don't give away all the fokter's secrets, Frank. Wink, wink, nudge, nudge. Fantastic. There we go. Morning, Moo.

What a... Okay, I liked it. Maybe it can come back. I just love hearing the cows, Moo. It's very... It's calming. Flesh, fawn and Megan. The podcast.

ZM. We're joined on the phone by Jessica Mutch-McCoy, who we've talked to about COVID press conferences, and now we're talking to her about political debates. Tonight, TVNZ One. Yeah, seven o'clock, it's the leaders' debate. Judith Collins, V. This is the two main parties.

Yeah, V Jacinda Ardern, our Prime Minister. Yep, and then afterwards, a dissection of the debate itself, which means from seven till eight, you've got to be paying very close attention, Jessica. Yes, I do. I feel like I have to pay close attention all the time, but you're absolutely right, particularly between 7 and 8.30 tonight.

I promise I'll be paying attention. Will you be scribbling down notes? Will you have like a notepad? Totally. Yeah? Yeah. Good old-fashioned. I just don't think you can get past the notepad and pen.

I just feel like it just makes me feel more journalistic. Do you do shorthand? Yeah, definitely. No, I think being too long on TV, I've forgotten all my shorthand. I passed shorthand really early when I was in journalism school because the lectures were at 8am

and once you passed, you didn't have to go anymore. So I was very motivated at the time. Unfortunately, I haven't kept it up. I can still do in order to be able to, but that's about it. Right. So you... That's one little line.

You say that, hey, yeah. I love it. You hear it and you're like, yes. Why is that line stuck out of all of the phrases I could have remembered? Nobody knows. So John Campbell's moderating the debate. So does that finish at 8 and then you go from 8 to late 30? Yeah, I'm not quite sure of the timing.

So she's probably figured that out between now and then. But yeah, I'll do the last 10 minutes is my understanding of the debate. And I'll do like the panel, like the analysis of it off the back. So they'll sort of do their thing. And then just the last little bit will be me and a political commentator, Jennifer Lees-Marshman, just kind of dissecting and giving people first impressions of their performance. Because it's pretty big, them going head to head.

It's the first time we've seen it. They've got quite different styles. And it's kind of the face-off. And politically, they're almost more important at the moment because campaigning is so strange because of COVID-19. These debates feel like they've got a bit more importance than they have perhaps in other times. How do you think they're going to come out? Do you think Judith Collins will come out with her gun holster and be, you know, quite voracious? Will she come out swinging? Yeah, maybe literally, actually. Maybe literally. We should just

check under the suit jackets. Yeah, I think both of them are going to bring it tonight. I think they're both at Ben in Auckland for a couple of days. They've prepped for it. I'm sure they've done a couple of rehearsals and run-throughs and thought about what they want to get across. So I do think that they're going to hopefully be debating each other and John will be sort of moderating them and, you know, giving them the topics and making sure he's holding them to account. But I'm sure they will as well.

Right, because she's been doing it a long time. Is she, like, who do you think is the better debater? Oh, they've both been around it a long time. Is she, like, who do you think is the better debater? Oh, they've both been around for a long time. I mean, I always think that the Prime Minister, the person who is Prime Minister, does have an advantage in that setting and perhaps the leader of the opposition is seen as in the underdog position.

But they've both been around for so long. They're both pretty seasoned. They're both very comfortable in that studio setting because that's pretty high pressure as well. And I just think that it's going to be a real scrap tonight. I think it'll be fun. In a contest of ideas, and if people aren't sure about who they're voting for,

it's a good chance to sit down and say, OK, shoulder to shoulder, who do I think will do a better job of running the country? Is there another poll coming out? Do you guys have another poll today? Yes, poll day. So you're going to drop that grenade on the 6 o'clock news and then get them in at 7 for the debate?

Yeah, that's how it's going to roll. Wow. So it's going to be, it's a big day today. It's kind of exciting as political editor to have this much fun in one day. You calm down. It flows by the end of the day. Yeah, you relax. It's only Tuesday.

I know, I know. But yeah, so the polls, I will get those today. I haven't got them yet, but get those today. And then tonight we'll be presenting those. And then the leaders will get a chance to talk to those in more length in the debate as well. Who's doing this poll? Is this a Colmar Brunton or a? Yeah, Colmar Brunton.

One news Colmar Brunton rolls off the tongue, doesn't it? Yeah. Age old. It's age old. I've never been called for one of those. Haven't you? No, I feel left out. You don't have a landline. No, but they call mobiles as well. I haven't either, but I feel like

I wouldn't really be able to answer them, but I haven't either. No, but I'd try. Yeah, but we do do landlines and mobiles as well, so the chances are high. Well, I'm sure there's a few more before the election, so I'll keep my fingers crossed for you.

Megan doesn't answer the phone regardless, so... Well, maybe that's the problem. You've been, Colmar, at the end of the phone the whole time, waiting with high anticipation for your answer. Exactly. I'm not answering that. That could be Baycorp. But no, it's Colmar Brunton.

Hey, super excited. It's tonight, the first leaders debate between Jacinda Ardern and Judith Collins. Seven o'clock, TVNZ1 from seven o'clock. Play the Killer editor, Jessica Mutch-McKay. Thank you so much for joining us and best of luck tonight. Thank you. All right, next on the show.

Fletch is going to get started, but maybe he's got a point. No, he doesn't. No, he doesn't. I've always got a very valid point in this long-running segment. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Put it down at Don't Get Vaughan started on last night's episode of Grand Designs. Jesus Christ. Is that what you came in hot about this morning?

It's like he woke up. Mark and I afford our big mortgage or some blah blah. I tuned out. It was their casual attitude towards the budget, Megan. It was fast and loose. They went nearly twice over budget where's the money coming from it's not your money

what do you care you're just watching oh it was so stressful to watch I felt my and then they had no money and they had a party

I'm like don't have a party now don't have a party now this is no time for a party it's a stressful watch I can feel my heart rate going up

anyway we're not going to discuss that and people's poor attitudes towards planning renovation budgets. Flashbacks to my wife's casual attitude towards handling a renovation budget. But I always love episodes of those Renault show where they're like,

we went back in a year and they're bankrupt. I was waiting for it. If you haven't watched it yet. I know, but it's sad because you're like, no, I wanted to see the finished house. I know, that's what you want, right? You want to see the finish of the house. You can kind of tell. If they've not gone back to the house in the last 10 minutes, you're like, oh, there's no house.

Or they come back at the end of the episode and they're like, Julie left, Barry. And that to sell out. I've never seen one of those. Yeah, and then there's been ones where some of them have died. God, what a rollercoaster. Jesus Christ. I haven't seen any of these morbid episodes. Yeah.

Those kind of shows. The stress of the renovation was too much and their marriage crumbled in front of them. Yeah. Didn't it? Anyway, we're here to talk about what gets fleshed out. But just before we do, Megan, how do you find those prove you're not a robot tests

when you're trying to log on to things? Or sign up for... I don't know. Inconsequential. You're just like, do, do, do, traffic light. Cool. I'm not a robot. You know.

This winds me up. And it winds you up too. You had a good point on the traffic light. How could that wind you up? You have to click some squares. So I posted this on my Instagram story. Oh my god. So many people replied like, oh my god, these do

my head in. Like, why are we not at a point in society where there's a better test to tell if we're robots or not? Because the thing is, like, for example, choose all the squares. These are these tests online. Prove you're not a robot and then you've got to select all the squares, for example, choose all the squares. These are these tests online.

Prove you're not a robot. And then you've got to select all the squares, for example, that are traffic lights. Yeah. But then one square has a tiny sliver of traffic light. And it's like, is that counted? Or is the pole that the traffic light's on counted as? That annoys me because the pole on a street light. The pole is the part of the traffic light.

But you spend so much time debating which... Just hit it fast and loose and it'll make you do another one. Hit that one and then... But I don't want to do another one. I want to get it right.

No, but the amount of time you spend deliberating over whether half the pole is counted as a traffic light, you could have just done another one. But then I didn't. It was like, select the squares

that have cars in them. Yeah. And one of the squares had a. Select the squares that have cars in them. Yeah. And one of the squares had a pickup truck in it. That's not a car. Well, it's a vehicle. Well, it should say vehicle.

Okay, so what do you think? Because I highlighted it. Do you think I passed or I failed? I passed. Failed. I failed.

It's not a car. It's not a car. And then you got to another one and then you passed and all is well. But then, in the meantime, you've wasted 30 seconds to a minute.

Oh, my God. Because you might be with friends and you're like, do you think this is a car or a traffic light? I just don't like a robot questioning my non-robotness. Because I'm obviously not a non-robot. Yeah, I'm a human. It's like, hello, I'm a computer, I'm a robot. Are you a robot?

How dare you? Aren't there ones sometimes it's just a square and it's like, are you a robot and you have to tick it? Oh, yeah, I like that one. I'm not a robot? How dare you? Aren't there ones sometimes it's just a square and it's like, are you a robot? And you have to tick it. Oh, yeah, I like that one. I'm not a robot. If you tick it too quick, that's how it knows you're a robot. Because I was like, how do those work?

I obviously never had a problem. I Googled it and it was like, if that, because you always have to scroll to find the little tick here to prove I'm not a robot. If it gets ticked too quick, you're a robot. Oh, okay. Because it's on an autofill. I have honestly never just thought this much about it.

I've just been like ticked. Oh, I almost got that wrong. Another one. Does it feel like it's infuriating every time? I think there's a trend with all of these with you. If it's obstructing you, like getting it done as quick as possible. I'm all about freedoms, man. You're just hugely impatient.

I am. And I resent that it takes so much of my time. 30 seconds. It's still, it adds up, Megan. You have to do 4,000 of these in your lifetime. Yeah. That's eight hours. I just get annoyed that it shouldn't be loose goose question.

Yeah. It should say, which of these boxes is black, for example, or red? And then you'd be like, that one. That one. Done. Which of these boxes contains a car, pickup trucks not included? Yeah. Because the next one, it was like highlight all of the squares with a vehicle in it.

And it was like a bridge and there was vehicles on the bridge and there's a boat underneath. It's a vehicle. It's a water vehicle. That with a vehicle in it and it was like a bridge and there was vehicles on the bridge and there's a boat underneath. It's a vehicle. It's a water vehicle. It's a vehicle. But I clicked it and I was like, yeah, fool, it's a boat.

I was like, hold them. Hold your horses. And sometimes when it's like, work out these letters. Yep. I can't even read that letter. Like, is that a W or is it a sideways three? Because it's too much of a lean to be a flat W.

You can just put, you can, like, get a new word. Doesn't it let you generate a new word? Have you ever clicked on the audio capture button where it says it out loud? No. It's always like... Thanks for nothing, audio capture. Oh, my God.

Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast, audio capture. Oh my God. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast, ZM. So we've heard on the negative side of lockdown with relationships, lots of people finding it tough and separating. On the plus side, it seems to have made us better partners. So this is a study that was done with a whole bunch of couples. 13% said they experienced less love than before the pandemic 40% said the same amount Which is, well I mean that could be good or bad

If you experienced not a lot of love before and you're still not a lot of love 47% That's that Led Zeppelin song isn't it? Not a whole lot of love Is that what that says? Not a whole lot of love. Is that what that says? Not a whole lot of love. A whole lot of love. Oh, I was just like,

not a whole lot of love. Yep. Famously, big rock songs are always just people going, not a whole lot of love. 47% said they experienced more love than before the pandemic. And that's because you spend a lot of time together. I was going to say, you're at home. You're stuck at home now, aren't you?

Kind of forced to chat. You're forced to talk to your partner. Because communication is very important in a relationship. And so spending so much time together, people are communicating and learning more about their partners and in turn, having more empathy and understanding of their partners and therefore more about their partners and in turn having more empathy and understanding of their partners and therefore more love.

How are you finding that, please? Sorry, you're just smiling and nodding like you understood. Oh, yeah, cool. Have you and Major Fluffington understood each other better now? Well, he does get a lot more play time. Yeah.

When, like, for example, level three was happening. You couldn't go outside. Yeah. I couldn't play with other cats. So he got a lot of pats. You've got a cat now. You don't play with other cats anymore. Well, now if I see another cat, I'm allowed to pat it.

Or is that cheating? That's what I'm even thinking about is cheating. Is it? At this stage of the game. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and the game. Okay, Am I a Bad Person today deals with estate. Like, is that what you call it? When a person dies. Belongings when someone's passed on and we know that gets messy.

So, hey guys, I have a submission for Am I a Bad Person? Am I a Bad Person? Reads this email. I lost my mum four years ago. In her last day, she said to me, you know grandma's ring that I wear? It's yours when I'm gone. I want you to have it. I shut that down quite quickly. I'm not materialistic in the slightest.

I wasn't concerned at that time with her possessions. She had very little. Okay. Fast forward three days to when she had passed. I got to her house and her things had been tidied up by my auntie, her only sister. I was super grateful she'd done that for me as it would have been emotional for me.

I asked her where grandma's ring was and she said, oh, I have that. It's very precious and you'll get it in good time. She also mentioned that she was afraid I'd try to change the setting if I had it. This year my husband and I are married 10 years. I'd really like to get a piece of jewellery, another ring, made from grandma's ring.

It's old and the gold is very worn so I'd have to do something with it. I know that my mum would be more than happy for me to use the diamonds in something more my style. So this brings me to my question. Am I a bad person for asking my auntie for my grandma's slash mum's ring, knowing she doesn't want me to change the setting? My friends say I should just tell her I want it and leave that part out. Yeah, I'm with the friends. Get it and then change it.

You're not a bad person. It's for you. They've said it's for you. Yeah. Why does your auntie hear it? Everything's got to be in writing. Yeah. Mum's saying it is one thing.

Yeah. If you're in charge of somebody's will when they die, make sure, you know, the executor of the estate or whatever it's an estate, make sure that everything's written down and like done properly because if it's not, this is all it turns into.

Yeah. Some auntie saying, well, you'll get it in good time. What's auntie's definition of good time? When she dies? Like she doesn't want to let it go. I mean, is she even going to get the ring? I don't know.

It doesn't sound like it. It sounds like the auntie wants to keep it. But you can understand that because it was her mum's. Yeah. And her sister sound like it. It sounds like the aunt wants to keep it. But you can understand that because it was her mum's. Yeah. And her sister always had it. But then it's this person's mum's ring as well. It gets so messy, doesn't it?

Yeah. That's one thing I've argued about was Nana's diamonds. Not because they were diamonds. It's just something that you can always have on you and put in another piece of jewellery because the diamonds are tiny. But when they go somewhere else, you're like, excuse me. Yeah. I want those.

I want those. So did you get diamonds? No. Have you got diamonds? No, they are elsewhere. It's still a sticking point. And are they meant to be for you? Yeah, well, again, Nana, you know, like they say these things

and they don't write it down. Megan, get it in writing. You've got to get it in writing. Everything's got to be in writing. Although I don't know how I'd feel if someone, if I said to like a grandchild, I'm going to give you these diamonds. And then like two minutes later, they're back with a pad and pen. Can I get it in writing?

And they're like, can you just sign here? It's just like, I'm not dead yet. Calm down. Yeah. So is she a bad person for wanting to take the ring and have it reset? Turned into a new ring. My Nana's other, I think it's her wedding band. And I do not want to change it as is. Because I can kind of understand changing it. It doesn't have the same vibe anymore.

I don't know. I'm torn. I don't know what to do. Because I mean, she's going to have it for longer, right? If she gets it and then she can pass it on. But then she can always get it when her auntie something happens to her. What a shame if something happens to her.

Or will she even get it? Because does the auntie have children? Because auntie will put it in writing. I didn't think about that. Auntie will put it in writing and then that's grinding. All right, so. And again, I'm not like, this isn't necessarily about material things. No.

This could be the principle of the matter. That was somebody's dying wish, but because it wasn't written down, it doesn't get honoured. It doesn't matter what it's for. If that's what they wanted it to happen, get them to sort it all out. That's on them, because otherwise they just leave a mess to clean up.

Well, this is how Am I a Bad Person works. You give us a call now, 0800 JARLS at M. You can text as well, 9696. What do you think? Is she a bad person? For asking for the ring back, but then changing the setting, knowing that's not what your auntie wants. And maybe you've been in this situation before

where there's been a fight over something that was left to you. And I don't know, maybe you've got a way out of this or around this. It involves grandma's ring and mum's ring. So when mum passed away, she said to this anonymous person that she could have the ring, but auntie swooped in and has it in her possession. Doesn't want her to change the setting. She wants it back and she wants to change the setting.

Is she a bad person for switching it up and changing the ring? All right, Jenna, what do you think? Is she a bad person? Good morning. No, I do not think she is a bad person. I think demand the ring back. Don't tell Aunty it's none of her damn business.

I'm sorry. I'm so sorry for her loss. But actually, I think Aunty's a bad person. Yes. This sounds like you may have been through the same thing. No, I haven't. But actually, I'm really sentimental about jewellery. I too.

Not even just about jewellery, just about things. And even if she wants to change the setting or whatever, she can make something stunning out of it. Yeah. Because, you know, gold wears, it's really soft, but the diamonds will last forever. And if she's going to wear it and look down at that piece of jewellery every day and think of her mother, that is just so precious.

Yeah. I wouldn't put it past me doing a bit of a, like, invite myself over to Auntie's for a Sunday roast and then rummage through her drawers when she's out the back. Just going to the bathroom. Yeah, and just doing a slight bit of burglarising. Or, you know, like, pass her up with her favourite wine or something.

Yeah, yes. You two sound like trouble. A lot of fun, you know, lots of fun. Exactly. Why not set her lots of fun. Exactly. Why not set her house on fire? Exactly. Why don't we set her? She's not drinking.

Let's set her house on fire. Flush her out. Am I a bad person? All right. Let me paraphrase. So someone lost their mum four years ago. And when she passed away, she had grandma's ring. Yeah.

And she said, you can have that ring. I want you to have it. So fast forward, she went to get the ring. Auntie had taken it from the house and said she's going to have it and you will have it in good time. Now she wants the ring back and she wants to change the setting to something a bit more modern, but Auntie does not want that. Is Auntie even using this?

Or is it just in a box somewhere? It doesn't say whether. But yeah, it is her Aunty's mum. Originally it was her ring. Right. So we want to know if you think she's a bad person. Phoebe, is she a bad person? I don't think she's a bad person.

Yeah, I agree with you. So you think it's fine for her to melt down the ring and change the setting? Yeah, I mean, like, it would be sad to do it, but at the end of the day, if it's going to sit in a box for the rest of its life with no one using it versus her melting it down and making it something nice that she might wear for the rest of her life, then surely that would be what someone would want.

I'd want that. Yeah, that's a practical recycling way of looking at it. Yeah, definitely. And the materials are still staying the same. Yeah. Every generation can looking at it. Yes, definitely. And the materials are still staying the same. Yeah. Every generation can just change it. She said the gold had worn down. Maybe she could get a nice tooth made.

True. Hey, Phoebe, thanks for your call. Jess, is she a bad person? Yeah. Like, I'm shocked at everything else that I've heard. I would definitely say she's a bad person. But the grandma said she could have it. Yeah, but it's about respect. Like if you're

going to just say, like she's expressed to her that she's concerned that you're going to take it and change the design and she doesn't want that. And then if you just take it and do it anyway, like, that's pretty bad, don't you think? But it's technically the auntie isn't the owner. She said that mum would have been fine

knowing she wanted to change the setting. Yeah, but I just feel like if it was in my situation, that was her mum's ring and her sister's had it this whole time. So I'd be willing to wait for my turn to have it and allow the auntie to have her time with it. But there's no guarantee she's going to get her turn if auntie's got daughters or children to pass it down. I'd get that in writing, actually.

Yeah. It's hard though, isn't it? It needed to be in writing a step ago. It did. Jess, thanks for your call. Some other text messages. Somebody said, my money's on the fact that auntie's already sold the ring. Yeah.

Imagine that. Imagine that plot twist. Mum didn't say not to change the ring. The fear is the auntie's who didn't give or control it. So the auntie's got the fear here. She wants to have some say in her mother's ring,

even though her mother's ring wasn't given to her. So maybe there's some ill feeling there. Not a bad person. Similar story to when my grandma passed away. She didn't have a will. Mum and her siblings had to split everything between them. There's four of them, but they managed to sort it out and were pretty happy with the outcome in the end, but it could have easily gone the other

way. Yeah, right. I think someone just thinks they're entitled to a little bit more. That just means you need to have a diamond ring for every child you have. So I'm going to have seven. Or get buried with the diamond ring. Yeah. Oh, what a waste. And if one of them wants to dig you up, then they have to earn the ring. Or just, before you go out, sell everything. Yeah. Horn it all off.

Yeah. And then leave your kids with nothing. People want that sentimental thing to hold on to. Spend it on a hot young lover. Yeah, mum, where's your diamond ring? I've spent it on a hot young lover. Meet Pedro. Pedro is probably the one that ended it for her.

Well, she tried to keep up with Pedro, and that was her big mistake. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. ZM. Well, season two of The Boys is out on Amazon Prime, now starring our very own Anthony Starr and Carlo Barn. This is like a scene in The Matrix. Now, you could take a f***ing red pill, right? Spend the rest of your life f***ing crying into your chai tea, green latte, what the f***.

Or you could take the blue pill. Or is it the red pill? Anyway, take the other pill and quit being a c***. Which pill do you want me to take? Just quit being a c***. pill do you want me to take? Just quit being a ****. That's what I'm saying. We're joined in studio by the man that has perhaps said the C-bomb on television more than anybody, Carl Urban. Hello.

Good morning, good morning. How are you? Good. You play Billy Butcher on The Boys, season two, is being drip-fed to us now. Does it feel good to be able to speak how people speak? Yeah, it's always fun to be able to do and say the things that typically you don't necessarily get to do at work.

So that's always fun. And one of the strange sort of results of this is that people now are asking me to abuse them on a daily basis. Brilliant. Was it the guy, James Gandolfini, that played Tony Soprano said that was his most common request is people wanted to be berated by Tony Soprano. Yeah.

And if he did it and he didn't swear, they'd ask him to. Yeah, so I guess that's you now. I'm getting that with the C word. Please call me, you know. It's happening all the time. But you can't be estranged into this. You've been in Star Trek. People love the franchises.

Star Trek, you're in Star Trek, so you'll be able to do Comic-Cons for life. You were Judge Dredd. Well, there's a global pandemic, but yes. Not necessarily going and mingling with a lot of people at the moment, but I know what you're getting at. Virtual Comic-Cons.

Have you been in New Zealand? When did you get back? Oh, well, the thing is I actually live here and have done my entire career and I just go and work overseas as and when I need to. So I must admit, it's great. I love lockdown. I love being here in New Zealand.

And to me, it was just a wonderful opportunity to hang with the family and just quality time, just to spend time that you wouldn't normally get. So silver linings, hey. So when did you film season two of The Boys? We shot that the second half of last year. Right. So like when the first one was coming out,

you were already filming the second one? That's right, yep. Wow. Yeah, Amazon pretty high on it. So what about season three? Is that kind of on hold at the moment or? No, not at all. It's currently being written and we're scheduled to start

shooting that at the beginning of the next year and the good thing is there's a bunch of production that's currently happening so there's like a you know, we're not the first cab off the rank so any issues and any problems you know, hopefully we'll have a good modus operandi by the time we get to shoot.

Because I binged the first season. You guys recommended it. Loved it. And, you know, obviously hanging out for each episode weekly. I didn't even recognise Anthony's star

for the first, like, few eps. Yeah. I was like, holy shit, it's him! Yeah. And he obviously must love his character. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. Oh, he's having a ball. He gets some phenomenal writing. He's probably the most complex character on the show. For those of you who don't know, he plays this... The world of the boys is set in a world where there are superheroes exist, but they are morally bankrupt as, you know, a lot of modern celebrities and radio DJs and the like.

Absolutely, yeah. Ah, and so these guys, the Supes are sort of hunted down by a bunch of messy vigilantes of which I'm the leader. And anyway, Tony Starr, he plays the leader of the Seven, which is like a Superman character

called Homelander. And yeah, and he is probably the most psychologically messed up and complex character on the show. And boy, he is hitting it out psychologically messed up and complex character on the show. And, boy, he is hitting it out of the park and he's having a ball. Yeah. Yeah, because season one he was, yeah, like you say, psychologically damaged.

But season two, there's been moments where you're like, oh. Yeah. I'd say the deep is probably up there as well with some of the shit that I've seen go down with him. Oh, definitely. Yeah, no no he's and that's the the cool thing about the show is that there's this fun and irreverent look at this sort of world of celebrity and and sort of you know superheroes but also within that we actually

get to explore some contemporary themes that relate to society like sexual abuse in the workplace like uh you know the whole, like the whole, like racism our sort of fixation upon social media, all these sort of issues are sort of disguised in this naughty irreverent superhero show

Season 2 of The Boys, you end up inside of a whale. Yes Spoiler! Spoiler alert It was on a trailer. It was on a trailer. So I think we can talk about that. How was that? Filming inside a whale?

Because I think you made the point to me. You said they must have paid a lot for the whale. Because it was lingering. It was like there was a little Huey linger at the whale. I was like, I said to Fletch, I reckon that was because they paid so much for that damn whale that we can't just be gone with it now. Yeah, that was

a phenomenal set. I mean, they literally built a life-size whale on a beach and we got to launch a speedboat into it and it was a fully functioning set both inside and out and inside was like, there was a heart that was still beating and it was just gross.

Blood everywhere and it was just gross. Blood everywhere. And it was funny, one of my co-stars, Laz Alonso, who plays Mother's Milk, one day it was really hot and we're inside the whale shooting and he's like, I can just see him progressively

more and more frustrated. And he's like, can we get some AC in the whale? Can we get some AC in the whale, damn it? I was like, only on this show would you hear someone say that. And I'll never let him forget it too. I'll take it as a no. Do you like read the scripts and you're like, yes,

I can't wait to like particular parts that you're really looking forward to filming? Like when you read the script of the whale part, you must have been like, this is going to be a great day at work. Oh, yeah. I mean, when I, well, actually that whole sequence came about because, well, partially came about because of, in my down season, our show runner, Eric Kripke, saw loads of Instagram posts of me on my boat fishing. And he goes, oh, that's a skill set we can put into the show. And so we actually shot that for old school. We actually had a helicopter

that was, you know, doing parallel laps with us as we're racing up and down the lake. And the day that they shot it, it was really choppy. And the guy who plays Huey is Jack Quaid, who's Meg Ryan and Dennis Quaid's son, fantastic actor, has never been on a boat before. And we were getting air and he was at the front and he was freaking the out.

He was like not happy camper. He just went pale. I thought, oh, he was seasick. No, he was in fear of his life. Wow. It was a fun day at the office. Yeah. Wow.

I saw Megan's face. She's just realised that. I didn't know that that was their son. Yeah. Oh my God. Okay. It's such a great show. I'm telling everybody I know.

You must watch it. And The Boys Season 2 is available now on Amazon Prime weekly. And, of course, if you haven't seen Season 1, get into that. You can get a free 30-day trial on Amazon Prime Video. Primevideo.com. Carlo Barn, thank you so much. Thank you very much. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast.

Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan's Motorway Mates. Well, we thought traffic is pretty bad, especially in Auckland at the moment with the broken Harbour Bridge. And you can play this anywhere in the country. You don't need to be stuck waiting to get over the Auckland Harbour Bridge. But we thought we'd do something fun for those people that are stuck in traffic. I'm just looking at traffic. And that, because, you know, a lot of people who are from the north shore of Antal to go west. Oh, that's screwed as well, isn't it?

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Stuck. Not driving. Because you are going to need to be able to talk to us. And you've just got to have a car in front of you and behind you to play. So simple. It's so simple. 0800 DARS at M if you would like to play. Yeah.

Give us a call. Now, this will be involving the colours of cars and vehicles in front and behind. So we have to guess the colour of the car in front of you. Yes. Then the colour of the car behind you. And if only if we can get those two correctly advanced to the final round, which is the colour of your car. And if we get all three, you win $100 cash. And we're your motorway mates.

There's no way we're going to be able to guess that. Okay, here's something that I'm just going to put out there before we play. What about maroon? Is that maroon or is that red? It's under the red family. It's under the family of the main colour. Yeah.

Rojibov. Yes. So if there's like a tealy one, that would just be green. main colour. Yeah. Roi-ji-biv. Yes. So if there's like a tealy one, that would just be green. Or blue. No, that would be blue, wouldn't it? Oh, God. See here. Okay.

These are the kind of dramas we are going to face. We welcome to Motorway Mates our very first ever competitor, Sarah. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Now, do you have a car in front of you and a car behind you? I do. Okay.

All right. Also, we're probably going to need a photo if this does pull off. Oh, definitely. We'll need you to prove. All right. So, who's going to go first? Wait, are we deliberating or do we just pick a colour? We're picking a colour each, right?

Tell us what the make of the car is in front of you, Sarah. A Mitsubishi Outlander. A Mitsubishi. Oh, I'm going to say... Oh! No, I'm going to say it's maroon. I'm going to go maroon. Oh, gosh.

No one went white, guys. We're really balls us out. Okay, I went black. You went maroon. Yep. Even though we just talked about the fact that we're not doing maroons, we're doing reds, but he's blatantly ignored his own rule.

And Megan, you went silver. Silver. Sarah, what colour is the Mitsubishi Outlander in front of you? Dark grey. Pardon me? Grey. Dark grey. Does that come under silver?

No. Sarah's like, she could win Andrew Buck. She's like, no. No, that doesn't count. Really? So we're out, just like that. Dark grey. All right, Sarah, thanks for playing.

We've just been messaged. Did we ask Ross about giving away cash? Executive intern, aren't you? Did we? We did not. We'll just take this out of how I can guess your mum's name's budget. Lisa, good morning. Good morning.

Now, whereabouts are you stuck in traffic? Sylvan Park Road in Northcote. Okay, you've got a morning. Now, whereabouts are you stuck in traffic? Sylvan Park, right in Northcote. Okay, you've got a car in Northcote. Good luck. Okay, what's the car? What kind of car is in front of you? What kind of car? It's a RAV4.

Oh! Green! Green! It's blue. Oh, no, is it an older one or a newer one? Oh, we can't ask that? I don't know. You know that forest green colour?

That was massive. Yeah, that old hairdresser green, we called it. Because they were always hairdressers. But not if it's a newer one. Is it a newer one or an older one? We're not allowed to ask that. Here we can. It's not hairdresser green. Well, Lisa, don't tell us Lisa!

Lisa! Lisa, wait! I'm going to go with... It's not process of elimination. I'm going with blue. I'm going with red. Yeah, I'm going with blue. I'm going with red. Yeah, I'm going with red too. Spread out, here's your beds, baby.

Why don't you try some different colours? Okay, you're going white. I'm going red. You're going blue. What if you have some different ones? Please, so you can't do this. What different ones are there?

I'm going to be in this dresser. It's horrible. Black. Is it black, Lisa? No. Also, we've got to just pick one colour. We can't be all over the show. Did someone say blue?

I said blue. I said blue. You don't want to say blue. You don't want to say blue. What colour is it, Lisa? It's like a grey, cream colour. Yuck. Yuck.

Lisa, thanks for playing. Courtney. Why do you make cars such fancy colours, Lisa? We welcome Courtney to Motorway, mates. Good morning, Courtney. Morning. Okay, what colour is the car in front of you? No, no, no.

What colour is the car in front of you? Oh, no. What colour is the car in front of you? It's a Volkswagen Golf. Oh, green. Green. Green. I already said silver.

It'll be silver. They're all silver. I said silver. White. Yep. Which one? White. All right.

Yay. Okay, all right. We go to the next round. Now, what kind of car is it going to be? It's a big Toyota Ute. White. It's going to be white. It's got to be white.

It's white. Yay. It's going to be white. Okay, so that means if we can now guess the colour of your car, you win $100 cash. What kind of car are you driving? I'm in a Suzuki Swift. Oh, no.

Colours of the rainbow. They are all. Okay, so my friend James has a blue one. Blue, blue, many, many blue ones. And there are many, many blue ones. But there's sometimes you come across a yellow one. They did. They were yellow and they had the stripes on them.

Those were the real racist. But traditionally, I'd say black, blue, red. There's white, red. The maroony one that it did. Now, we must pick only one. What, between the three of us? I think so, yeah. Yeah, okay.

I like the odds here. Are you quite an adventurous person? Yeah. See, an adventurous person would like an out there colour. Like an orangey. That burnt orange. Yeah, they had that too. That orangey colour.

I've got a real feeling about that. No, not anymore. I reckon, yeah, like she didn't react when we said yellow, though. I'm going to, I think, I think it's either white, blue or red. It's one of those. Nah, I reckon it is. I reckon it's yellow. Courtney, don't ooh-ooh-ooh us.

Don't sway our votes with a ooh-ooh-ooh. White? White. I'm just thinking, what was the first? She's a citrus. It's that maroon-y red. Red, okay. It's 100% red.

It's got to be red. Courtney, what colour is your Suzuki Swift? It's white. I told you! You said you're a citrus! And mid-juice people don't have white cars! I can reflect that, though. Wow, that's it.

It's over. Oh, man. No cash today. Adventurous means yellow, Courtney. That means she doesn't wash it. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. ZM.

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helping you borrow money online and growing your credit score at the same time. Today's fact of the day is shot glasses are different sizes the world over. Because in Germany they're massive. Germany? Are they? No.

They call them shot glasses. Germany's got one of the smallest singles. You're thinking of the Stein, Megan, that you had at Fairfax. No, because someone said, do you want a schnapps? Schnapps. Schnapps is different. That is just the biggest shot I've ever seen. No, because you're not supposed to shot the schnapps.

You're supposed to sip the schnapps. I'm not supposed to schnapps the schnapps. Don't shot the schnapps. Sip the schnapps. I'm from New Zealand. That's like when you drink a nice tequila and it comes out in a little glass and New Zealanders are like, huh? You're like, just class.

I'm not sipping that. I mean, if it's Jose Cuere, dear, you've got to get that thing down. It burns like methylated spirits. But if it's a nice. Patron. Yeah, like a patron. No, you shot that too. No, you sip that.

You sip that. It's a waste of it. Enjoy it. You let it burn every time. But the Germans actually have one of the smallest single shots. No, you sip that. You sip that. It's a waste of it. Enjoy it. You let it burn every time. But the Germans actually have one of the smallest single shots. Oh, really? 20 mils. Okay.

What's our 50? We're on par with Australia. We rock a 30 mil. Are we the biggest? Nope. Not by a long shot. India also rocks a 30 mil. Okay.

And the United States do a 30 mil. And the United States do a 30 mil as well. If you want to go to the complete opposite end of the spectrum, Japan, 60 mils. A single shot in Japan is two of our standard shots. So their single

is our double. I thought the United States was a bigger shot because we got very drunk that time, didn't we? They do a large... They do a big pour, don't they? They do do a lot. And do you know what else I learned about shots and shot glasses whilst doing this research?

There's different sorts of shot glasses. And you know those ones with a really heavy bottom? They're called cheetah glasses. They're to make you think you're getting a bigger drink than you are. Because you pick it up and it's a big glass but the bottom half of it is basically solid glass. Yeah. And then it's heavy. So you think you're getting

more. And so you do the drink and you're like you think you're getting a bigger drink but it's called a cheater glass. And it's yeah, 100% the idea of it is to make you think you're getting more than you are. So you think you're getting value for money because of the weight and size of the glass. But it's not. Cheeky.

So Eastern Europe, they roll across the board pretty standard 50 mil shots. Okay. Are you Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovenia? They're all Slovakia. They're all 50 mil shots. But yeah, Japan and Israel. Yep. Do a 60 mil shot. So yeah, Japan and Israel do a 60 mil shot. So those are your two biggest ones

in the world. It's like a double shot. Yeah. Do you want to know what a shot glass is called in Japan? Shoto garoso. Oh, that's cool. Yeah, it's just similar, isn't it? So today's fact of the day is the size of shots are different around the world. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day.

ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. I, when we got our dog, Ralph, I didn't really want him. I just didn't want another dog. Yeah. I just got steamrolled. I'm lying. Steamrolled on a decision. Do you think when Lulu goes, because Lulu's on last legs,

that'll be another excuse to get another one? Yeah, but I get to pick. You think you do? Yeah, exactly. I don't want to just be happy with another dog, but I've put my foot down. I said I get to pick what kind. Then I get to, I don't know. You're going to pick like a farm dog.

I feel like I have some sort of saying. I was thinking a border collie. You know, they're real cute. They're real cute, yeah. Also, I love how you're talking about replacing your dog already. It's important to plan for the future. Oh, Luz. Lulu's getting very old.

Very deaf. Very blind. We did a poo in the hallway the other day on the way to work. I didn't see it. You didn't see it. You didn't see it and left it for your wife. Fletch and I both said if we saw that at that time of the morning, we would walk over it and be like, what?

Didn't see it, can't have happened on my watch after I left. But yeah, exactly. But anyway, but Ralph is also like very rambunctious, you would say. So I was always just like, most of the

time when I was speaking to Ralph, I was growling Ralph. Yep. However, I'm happy to report I'm now Ralph's favourite and I have grown an affinity towards him. Wow. Because he's got a little bit older and a little bit bigger. But because I'm just outside all the time, he follows me around with a ball and then he drops the ball and I throw the ball and he runs and he gets the ball and he brings it back and he sits at my feet and he drops the ball again and then I throw the ball. So now,

because I'm the ball thrower, and this was very easy, by the way, I'm now his favourite. So you're the household favourite? I'm the dog's favourite because I'll throw a ball. Yeah.

It's hard to go from like bad cop back into good cop with the dogs. Yeah, it's a big climb. Does your dog have a favourite out of you and Mr Toyboy?

Really? Yeah. I would have thought you would have had a favourite. He gives him the treats in the morning and I'm never there and then I come home and he doesn't even come and see me when I get home. I'm like, hello? Like, I literally think he's lost. Oh, right. But if Andrew comes home... I'm always the one

that, like, tells him off during the day being like, don't sit there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm the disciplinarian. Yeah, so am I. So I think it's like you're the bad guy. And he's the treat giver. Yeah.

It's not fair. Yeah. Whereas I'm the ball thrower. You should try being, nah, because that's the other thing. This dog never gets tired. Like when Lulu was a puppy, five ball throwers and Lulu would be like, well, that's enough for now. You just throw and throw.

And I'm not a very good thrower. Were you taught to throw? Yeah, I played softball. We just played sports, didn't we? We played cricket. But you were taught to throw. Yeah, during softball practice. You just did it, didn't you?

But if you threw and you couldn't throw very far, was someone like, here's how you become a better thrower? Not really, nah. Neither. I reckon I was let down because I can't throw. I'm not one of those people who you're like, what the hell are you doing? You know who I'm talking about.

Who are you talking about? So we know a growing adult. We know a growing adult that cannot throw a ball. Like, we saw this happen and we were just like, what does he just say? He wouldn't care if you told everyone, would he? He probably would. the joints in his arm we're all i don't know i'll send it okay everybody bloody wants to know i'll send it through to the group chat um and like the joints and his yeah like one of those maybe he had over

flexi joints it's like one of those floppy wavy arm wind yeah well imagine that trying to throw a ball but actually that could bring a chance, a good throw, because of the whip of the wind going through the sleeve. But I would like to know if you are the household pet's obvious favourite. If there's someone in your house that you're pet, you are the favourite. Or maybe there's some arguments with you and your partner over who is the favourite. And there's just a daily battle to win over the animal's affection.

Yeah. The most. And then suddenly it's huge because everyone's given treats. Yeah. You're my favourite. Here's another treat. Yeah. And then the dog's like.

But cats have their favourite. Bow on the mead. Cats would have their favourite too. Like they'd probably prefer to snuggle up on one over the other. Yeah. And maybe that's a bit of an issue in the house. It is quite hurtful when you're both sitting there and they like go over to the other one.

You're like, come here, come here. Ah, stuff you. Sit over there then. We're talking about if you're the pet's favourite in your house and maybe why. What have you done? What have you done? Most of it comes down to treats.

Very treats heavy. Very treats heavy. My dog likes my husband better. I do everything for him, but when he's around, it's like I don't exist. Yeah, that's the same. That hurts.

Cats tend to find the last cat person to sleep on because they won't be annoying to the cat. Well, they won't pat her. Yeah, they'll just sit there and the cat will sit there and they'll just hands off them. That person says, I know this as I'm not a cat person,

so cats always sleep on me and I just like... Because I'm allergic and I'm always like, try to stay away from me, stay away from me. And they always want to jump on my lap. I'm like, get out. Yeah. It's like they get my vibe and they're like... They're like, you don't smell of other cats,

so I'll get in on this. I'm going to make this girl sneeze lots. That's what they think about you. So lots of people reporting very big jealousy issues between their partner and their pet, if they're the favourite. Really? If the partner comes in for a snuggle,

the pet gets between them. So as to create a barrier. Cute. We're currently fostering a dog and he's really taken with me, follows me everywhere. Last night my husband tried to snuggle and he inched his way over to me so I had a person on each side.

I got a little warm. Oh. But then he climbed up on the lap. That's the thing as a husband. You can't climb up on the lap, can you? You're a bit big, perhaps. Or maybe you're into that. Yeah, maybe.

Maybe your wife's into that, having you over her lap. Yeah. Who knows? I'm generally the dog's favourite, but when it comes to air massages, my husband is definitely the favourite. If the husband indicates to the dog that there's an air massage waiting, the dog will leave my side to get an air massage. Dogs like air massages.

Yeah, they love it. Our first kitten, I was the absolute favourite. Then I took him to the vet To get fixed Oh I see you're the reason And my partner Picked him up

And comforted him From that day on I was not the favourite anymore Just like that Because they inflicted the pain And the partner Was the comfort The partner fixed it

Yeah gave them the cuddles And the pats afterwards Oh my god Vindictive cat Mmm Well no Just Pretty good logic there From the cat, I think.

Hey, I was with you just before my balls got nicked off and I had to wear the cone and I was in pain and then this guy came and saved me from the bad place that did it. Yeah, makes sense. Solid cat logic. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. If you enjoyed this podcast, why not give ZM's free and Clinton to listen to?

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