ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Megan Podcast - 25th June 2020

Episode Date: June 24, 2020

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Hello and welcome to the Fletch, Vaughan and Megan podcast, brought to you by McCafé. Grab yourself a delicious barista-made coffee for only $4. ZM. Head music. Lose the air. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. Thanks, Ash. Good morning. Welcome to the show. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. Happy Thursday. Happy Thursday. Um, Vaughan Smith, do we have an interview lined up before seven or what? Boy, oh boy. The gals on the show are fizzing to talk to this hunk.

This is so, you know, I argue with future NSC Smith. This is so stupid. No, it's great news. I understand your enthusiasm, but do it in your own time. Like, this's just stupid. There was a miscarriage of justice in the native bush of New Zealand. Don't sexy it up. And what a miscarriage of justice is sexy in the native bush.

It makes it sound like dramatic. Yeah, yeah. It was horrible. It was so unsexy, it's not funny. It was something. And it looks, we'll get confirmation from our sexy on-air guest, it looks like this could be avoided in the future. Stand by, ladies and gentlemen.

Oh, I cannot wait. For some sexy primal content. Is that why it's coming up soon, rather than in primetime? I'm thinking it'll get a prime time replay. Yeah, it might actually get a prime time replay. Get it in early. Prime time replay, podcast, best of. This is a spat.

A pouring of content. Yesterday we asked you to help us break the Netflix top ten by watching the movie Alf will reveal on the show this morning. If we have made the top 10. I got a lot of messages. Yeah, I don't care, actually, because I had fun. You don't care if we don't make it?

No, because everyone was messaging and I felt like a sense of community and people's dogs were watching and it was so cute. So it doesn't matter. I haven't looked at the chart. Has anyone looked at the chart? I have.

Oh. I have. Oh, that's not a good look. I have. That's his poker face. I have. I have. P-p-p-poker face.

P-p-p-poker face. All right, well, we'll reveal this morning. When should we do that? After 8 o'clock, I believe? After 8 o'clock. Prime time. Just after that replay of that sexy interview that we've got coming up. The top six soon.

And tip top. Have announced that they're renaming the Eskimo Pie. Oh, cancelled. Well, they haven't got a new name yet for it, have they? Oh, no. How am I supposed to talk about what it is without saying what it is? Well, you've been cancelled. It's too late.

The E-Pie. It's been the E-Pie. It's too late. The e-pie. The e-pie. The e-pie. It better not be renamed the e-pie. The e-pie is, I don't think it's the word that's the offensive part of it. Right. I believe it's the use of the word with no regard to the culture. Right, okay. And no connection.

Yeah, right. Or the use of a word on a dud ice cream. Yeah. Shots fired, Your Honour. That is a shot across the bow of the delicious e-pie. But the e-pie, I know you got me feeling guilty about saying Eskimo pie. Oh, cancelled again.

It's getting renamed. Yeah, okay. So the top six possible renames for the e-pie. Eskimo pie. Cancelled again. Getting renamed. Yeah. So the top six possible renames for the E-Pi. Eskimo Pi. Cancelled again. And are the lollies following suit? Well, they must be because I googled the lollies and there's still a thing.

Yeah. Pascal, isn't it? Yeah. Is it Pascal? Yeah. Yeah. I think they are, yeah. Okay.

Well, maybe they could just take whatever goes on the front of the e-pie and blow it to the lollies. The top six coming up. ZM. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. ZM. Let me take you back 18 years. Strap in and let's ride, baby.

Oh, my God. I was a baby. 2002. What? No, last year of high school, right? 18 years ago? Yeah. What? Oh, my year of high school, right? 18 years ago? Yeah. What?

Oh, my God. I know. I know. I saw a picture from like 1999 and it was adults and I was like, ah, they are dressed so funny. And then I was like, oh, wait a minute, I remember adults. So two cargo pants in 99.

Man, there was no shortage of storage, that's for sure. And you'd run and there'd be too much jingling at the knee and then you'd wear your keys in the knee. Oh, good times. Well, it was 2002. The world was reeling probably from the September 11 attacks. I'd still say that was pretty fresh in the mind. When Segway were like, you know what's pretty cool?

And we're all like, it's not now, Segway. And Segway's like, we've invented a thing that balances itself. You can't fall off it. And people were like, well, we'll prove that wrong. We'll certainly prove that wrong. And it was in 2002 that they unleashed their own, as they described it, device of the future.

How did tourists get around the mountain before their Segways? Before Segway groups? The YY Express probably. But the Segway PT was a personal transport, in case you're wondering. And it was self-balancing, mall cops, tour groups.

They were amongst the only people that used them. They really were. Did you ever do a Segway tour? I always opted for the walking one. I'm like, oh, no, I don't want to be. Well, no, because we've been on Segways. We got to play around with them, didn't we? Yeah. Yeah, they're weird.

They're weird. Like, they should fall over, right? But they don't. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Self-balancing they should fall over, right? But they don't. Yeah, yeah. Self-balancing. And then they kind of pulled the handle off them and those hole boards kind of used the same technology. I never did a Segway tour because it was always loaded with boomers and they just looked like they were just going to arse-end you on your Segway or like smash the back of your...

They're bad enough with a supermarket trolley, to be totally honest. The guy that invented it... No, isn't that... No, the guy that invented Segways went off a cliff on one, surely. Segway inventor, well, his name is Dean Kamen. Search it. Dean K-A-M-E-N. I'm searching it.

Well, you're the one tapping at your computer. Yeah, he... Oh, I'm searching it. Well, you're the one tapping at your computer. Yeah, he... Oh, okay. After riding one of the scooters off a cliff and into a river near his Yorkshire estate, Jimmy Heselden. So, yes. Millionaire owner of Segway. British entrepreneur James Heselden bought Segway, the company, off Dean.

And then in 2010, he died in a manner a comedy writer's room could only dream up on a Segway. His untimely death on the unwieldy contraption led to memes and cell phones. Oh, he literally wrote it off a cliff. Yeah, he did, wrote it off a cliff. Yeah. But the reason we're talking about it,

18 years after they first hit the market, Segway's not making Segways anymore. Oh. RIP to the Segway PT. That's the traditional one that we talk about, you strap a helmet and a poncho on and you're off on your tour of Seattle. And that could mean, with tourism not happening, that could mean the end of Segway tours.

Yeah. Well, they'll still be around, won't they? They'll still be around, but then once they all die out, fizzle out. And give it another 18 years and everyone will look at segways and be like, what was that? Yeah. Or be like, why did you need a handle? Because I guess people will just stick to the boards now, won't they?

Yeah. They'll still be making those. But the boards and the wheels, and then the old segways gave you a bit more stability up top, and you could steer using the handle, but the board's all on the balance. Segway make a lot of the e-scooters. I think they make the Lime e-scooters.

Right. And you can buy Segway scooters. Right. Different kinds, yeah. So they're still in the game. Right. Probably considerably harder to drive off a cliff too because of the smaller wheels.

Yes. R.I.P. R.I.P. Well, yesterday in Victoria, Australia, they announced 20 more corona cases. Victoria seems to be Australia's problem area at the moment, eh? Yeah, so Tuesday they announced 17 cases and of the cases yesterday,

most of them, they don't know where they've come from. I think one was in isolation. So they can't even trace the origins of it. Yeah, one was from hotel quarantine and three was found just through routine testing and the others, they're just like, I don't know. So yeah, chaos in Victoria at the moment. They've brought down the minimum group size.

And people, again, Woolworths, which is like their countdown, same owners as here, have said that the demand for toilet paper is, again, through the roof. That's mad. Which is crazy because I thought like we all learned you don't need to do that, right? Yeah, I would have thought so. Like, you know, they were like us. You could go to the supermarket during lockdown.

Yeah. Like it wasn't a big deal. But in saying that, if I saw some yeast, I'd buy it. Yeah. Just like if we're going to be locked down again, I want to get the thing that's sold out. Is that the thought? I'd say so, yeah.

You get flour and yeast and toilet paper. Yeah. If you're eating all that bread though, you're not going to be shitting yourself much. It's going to be pretty stodgy if it is. Yeah. Would you need a wipe? Or would you not need a wipe?

Is it too much bread would make it softer? Or do you need a wipe? Yeah. I don't know. It's because it had grains in it. Whether it's wholemeal, just straight up white bread. Or white bread would just come out looking a lot like a winnowing. It's very stodgy and loafy.

All right. So, wait a minute. So, what else is selling out? Just toilet paper by the looks. But did any... Did they go without last time? Because I know there was a lot of panic buying here, but I don't think anybody ever went without, right?

Well, there was a lot. No, I don't think so. But in Australia, did they? They had fights in Australia, right? Yeah, there were fights. Those two women went to court, didn't they? Yeah. And then there was the guy that bought a whole lot

and then tried to sell it back when he realised that there wasn't a shortage. The thousands of dollars. Was that in the States? No, that was in Australia. Oh, right. Yeah. Wow.

So we've learnt nothing. We've learnt nothing and madness reigns in the state of Victoria in Australia. Right. Next, because you've got your sexy content on here, I'm bringing some sexy content. Megan, Vaughan and I have an interview coming up which people, I believe,

very excited to hear about. Exclusive. Exclusive. A first. A first. You'll need to take a spare pair of knickers. There's a reason why

it's a first because no one wanted to do it before now. Excuse me, Megan. Next, I've got six Zodiac pairings that have the longest lasting relationships.

I know. Stick around. Flesh, have the longest lasting relationships. I know. Stick around. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. ZM. I've got six star sign pairings that have the longest relationships. There's six pairings. Okay.

So these are the best ones. These are the best ones that you can have. That's if you believe in this nonsense. This. Oh, shit. Okay. you can have. That's if you believe in this nonsense. This horse shit! Okay. I'm putting up with your sexy chat. Go on. It's actually factual though.

You can't deny the factual existence of what we're about to talk about. Interesting. No, but factual. Yes. So what, let's start with you Vaughn and I'll check if you and Sade, your wife, are on the list. Okay. You have to tell me what the star signs are.

Oh, no, you should know. Why? I should exude that energy, right? I am on the 20th of February, so I'm a cusp. Okay, a cusp. I mean, that should be obvious to you, but I'm a cusp of Aquarius and Pisces. Okay, and Shade?

Me and Rihanna are both Aquarius and Pisces. So she's a Pisces. Okay, you're not on the list. Sorry. Was that bad? Well, I mean, you're not one of the pairings that have had the longest running relationship. Right.

Yeah. What does it say about my Chinese zodiac? More of a believer in that because I got to be my Amir of the dog. Right. I don't think that's on the list. No. Aries and Sagittarius. But racist, I think. Not including all the zodiacs. Aries and

Sagittarius are on there. Aries and Sagittarius are very happy to be in long-term relationships and they want a partner who naturally stokes their inner fires signs. Okay. Taurus and Virgo are another match. That's the bull and the virgin. That's like a bull in a vagina shop.

I'll see you guys later. Executive producer An, is horrified that you just said that. See ya! Well, it's long lasting. Jesus, no,

it's an absolute mess and the thing has to be euthanised it won't slow down. No, those two are about as compatible as two signs can possibly be. Oh, yes. Oh, what are you and Major Murray Fluffington?

Because you're in a relationship. Well, no, we're just flatmates. Yeah, but like... And often the best ones start here. No, but I didn't say it has to be like a sexual relationship. Well, I'm Cancer and he would be March. What's March? Pisces.

Pisces. Is that a good one? You guys are on the list. Oh, my God. That is. What's March? Pisces. Is that a good one? You guys are on the list. Oh, my God. That is pretty cute. Cancer and Pisces. Because we do love snuggles. For a sign as emotionally deep and sensitive as a cancer.

This is why this is bullshit. I remember I've heard this before, and the breakdown of the cancer is not Fletch at all. Chances are they've been hurt a few times in their romantic life, Fletch. Oh, buddy. As a result, this water sign tends to build up nearly impenetrable walls around their heart. Oh, shit. It's a heart which, frankly, few signs deserve to hold.

It's because when cancer loves, they love all the way, which is the thing that Pisces desires most in a relationship. This is why me and Majumari Fluffington are a great match. Yeah. That's so cute. Scorpio and Capricorn are on there as well. And Gemini and Libra. And also Leo and Aquarius.

That is me and my husband. Leo and Aquarius. Yes. You're on the list. Aquarians can sometimes find it difficult to really connect with people on a one-on-one basis despite their humanitarian heart. But when a Leo falls in love,

the warmth of their heart easily transfers to Aquarius and brings out the side of the air sign they never knew they had. That's what I do. I bring out a side of him. I almost forgot that it was total bullshit. Are you and your first husband on the list? No.

No. See, it's not bullshit. Must be true then. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Well, here we are in Aotearoa, New Zealand. Stuck here. What a place to be stuck. Yeah.

In my personal opinion, no better place to be stuck during this COVID situation, which means we're going to have more options to explore our own backyard and a part of our backyard that Fletch and I very much enjoy. Megan, not so much. As is our beautiful native bush, the tramping trails,

the walking tracks. We love going bush, don't we? Finding a hut. The hiking routes. Love bush. Megan, on the other hand, tracks. We love going bush, don't we? Finding a hut. The hiking routes. Love bush. Megan, on the other hand, is like, ooh, yeah, can I helicopter? I'd like going for a stroll in the bush. I don't need to, like, camp out there and be there for hours and hours.

You're missing out. You're missing out. Oh, nothing beats getting that fire started. Yep. Drying your socks. Eating some of that dehydrated stuff. It's glorious. Now, there was a problem once on one of these painted

at Fletch and Vaughan hikes in the bush. We arrived at a dock hut and it was, no one was there at that stage, were they? We were first. We were first. But then, oh my God, an influx of people because it was one of the huts that couldn't be booked. Yeah.

Is this a problem that isn't about to be? That was us gripping the second time and third time and fourth time I heard that story. We ran down as the sun set. We ran down. Yeah, we left so that families didn't have to sleep on the floor. You're welcome, families. Uh-huh. Because I wasn't giving up my bed.

That's foolish talk. But is that something that could be avoided? Joining us on the phone from the Department of Conservation, Ross, good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning, Ross. I think this is officially the first time I've had someone from DOC on the show. Oh, I'll be the day. I feel like we've talked to people from DOC before.

Didn't we talk to that big seagull guy? See from DOC? No, maybe I'm thinking of something else. Big seagull. Or albatrosses. Yeah, I'm not sure. All right. Now, Ross, because a lot of people are going to hit the huts for the summer

and the booking season's open today. Are things changing up? Yes. We've got a brand new booking system that opens live this morning at 9.30. Yes. We're really excited about it. We've had some sexy content. We're stoked.

Because summer, I'm imagining, I don't know if you're following the news, Ross, but internationally, there's some stuff happening. We're not going anywhere. Kiwis are going to be looking to explore their own backyard, and what a great time to get out there and get into a dock hut. But, of course, that would create booking issues.

It might. It might. And that's why we've put a lot of the huts and campsites onto a brand new booking system so that customers can book in advance, take their time getting to the hut, and then have the assurance of a spot when they get there. So Ross, why didn't you do that before?

Well, a lot of them were, weren't they? Like the popular ones. That's right. We've got probably over 100 of our huts and campsites Well, a lot of them were, weren't they? Like the popular ones. That's right. We've got probably over 100 of our huts and campsites are already on the booking system. What's happening today is they're going live on a brand new booking system, which is a whole lot easier for customers to use.

Just go in, put in your details, the number of nights you want to stay, the number of people coming, and boom, there you go. There's your booking. It's going to be a whole lot easier if you would make bookings after this morning. So is every backcountry dock hut, are they all going to be on the system or still only some? At this stage, some, but we're going to be looking at those

over the course of this year and coming into this very busy summer. We'll be assessing other huts and campgrounds and bringing them onto the system so that we can avoid those overcrowding issues. Do you want me to email through a list of ones that I was thinking of frequenting but wanted to be assured of booking? Please do. Oh yeah. Is there any

vetting process on these people? Because these two have famously almost set fire to one of these dock huts. Do you know that, Ross? Well, it had a smoke alarm, Ross, so luckily it saved our lives. Okay, yeah, I didn't know that. Yeah.

It would have been a hell of a place to watch a dock hut burn down. Well, no, I'm excited for them all to get online because, yeah, it's quite heartbreaking when you get to a hut and you've been, like, walking for eight hours and you see people that have to sleep on the floor. You're just like, ooh. That's right. And you can go in. The other thing is you can go in and have a look in advance.

And if you want to choose a quiet hut, you know, you can have a look. There's a lot of bookings there. And if it's not your thing, choose another date, choose another location. It gives customers that, just a bit more information. Nice. What we've found is that there's a much more relaxed vibe in the huts, you know? It's not people getting up really early in the morning and cooking their porridge and running off to the next hut to make sure they can get a bed.

They're getting up casually, strolling through, enjoying the environment, enjoying our beautiful national parks, and taking their time to get to the next hut. And that's what it's really about. Yeah, it's not the amazing race, Ross. Take your time. Enjoy the bush. Well, that's the thing. If you're guaranteed a bed, you are Ross. Take your time. Enjoy the bush.

Guaranteed a bed. You are going to take your time, aren't you? Yeah, you'd stop and you'd smell the native trees. So with the season open today, is it the big, like, your Abel Tansmans? Are they all open for the new season today? There certainly are campgrounds in the Abel Tansman. And one of those, the larger one, Totranui, is going to be opening in just a few more days' time.

We've got a little bit of a staggered approach, but in total, you know, about 38 campgrounds opening this morning, 20 huts, and we've got 24 lodges as well. So there's sole occupancy lodges. If it's not your thing, Megan, to be sharing a hut or a campground with a whole lot of other people or strangers, you can just put out an entire hut to yourself. That sounds more like Megan.

That appeals to some of our market, yeah. Right. And with, obviously, you know, I mean, it is June, but you've got to think about your New Year's summer plans. Are you crazy? Ross, this has been thoroughly enlightening. Thank you so much for talking to us this morning. Thanks, Ross.

It's a pleasure. Look, can I just say, I'd ask customers to get online, create their accounts first. It takes about two minutes and it's instantaneous. Do that before you make your bookings because if you're after some of those popular dates or locations, that's the best way to snag that date. Brilliant.

Thank you very much, Ross. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. ZM. From the ZM Think Tank, this is the Top Six. Hello there. It was in the 1940s that Tip Top first began making what was called the Eskimo pie in a multi-pack

straight into your homes. And apparently it's been said by tip-top management that since then the name of the product had changed meaning. So I kind of quickly looked into what the fascination was with the Inuit people that led to lollies being named after them, lollies that were shaped like them. They weren't shaped like the traditional dress with the fur-trimmed hood and the thick clothing.

Yeah. But not cold. And this pie, cold. So it may have been eaten by the people of the area. Yeah. And that's why it was named. But there seems to have been this massive influx in the middle of the 1900s of Eskimo-based products and brands tagging themselves onto.

You don't know why. I found this full-blown social science paper, but I barely scratched the surface of it. It does look like a very interesting read. But the Eskimo pie will be no more. And the Eskimo lollies, people have been quiet. This rears up quite often, doesn't it? Yeah.

Pascals have said that they'll be changing the name and the branding of the Eskimo lollies and that will be rolled out soon as well. Oh, brilliant. Okay. I mean, we've only brought that up for years, but good on them for doing it now. Well, it was 2009 that someone of Inuit descent was in New Zealand and said, whoa, what are you doing?

Holy shit. Yeah. That's offensive. Is this, what? And given that we regularly come across our Maori culture being used. Yeah, that's true. You know, around the world,

A, without, you know, knowing anything about the culture, and B, often associated with products that have nothing to do with the Maori culture. You'd think New Zealand would have been a bit more onto it, but we weren't. So it's getting a rename, so I've got the top six new names for the e-pie.

Number six, the teeth tinglers. Because you bite through the chocolate into the cold ice cream, and the teeth would be like... Number five on the list of the top six new names for the e-pie. The I'll just eat it in a bowl, it's already melting and the chocolate's cracked and it's a mess and it's running down my hands pie.

That's what you had to do as a kid because you can never eat those things fast enough. As an adult, you learn you can get your whole mouth over the top and as you crack the chocolate, you kind of go... and suck any sort of like liquidy ice cream that's... Yum. That's why I like those crunchy bar ones. Oh, yeah.

If the middle goes all soft, you can just... They're a bit smaller and you can... You know how you had ice cream sandwiches and you could get ice cream slices? I think my parents used to put those wafers on the outside of Eskimo pies, so then you had, like, something to hold it. Oh, wow. That's a smart move.

It's like, yuck, wafers. Yeah. We're not huge fans of the wafers. All right. Would have been better if they'd used big cookies. Have you had a big... That's a great idea. Do they still make a big kahuna?

I don't know, actually. Is that a cookie time cookie? Yeah, that would be like a homemade cookie ice cream sandwich. I'm just going to see if they make a Big Kahuna. But 20 seconds in the microwave and then sandwichy ice cream. So like two Big Cookie Time cookies and an e-pie. Oh, shit. And like real hard ice cream so that the Cookie Time hotness starts to melt it.

Yeah. Okay, I don't, by the looks of it, I'm not sure they still make a Big Kahuna ice cream. Tip Tops, early 2000s Big Kahuna ice cream wrapper. Well, that was responsible for a few KGs at university. I'll tell you what. Delicious. Number four on the list of the top six new names for the E-Pie, the, oh, they still make those.

Interesting. Ice cream? I know, when you can still make those. Interesting. Ice cream. I know, when you can have anything else. Yeah. Who's getting an Eskimo pie? When I cast a gaze into the ice cream chiller at, like, a supermarket or a dairy, sometimes I often am like, who's still buying that? Like, next door you've got, like, this thing that's covered in the Big Bicky

and it's got gooey caramel, it's got some bloody raspberry in it, and you're like that versus a lemonade ice block. Oh no, I like lemonade popsicles. Yeah, I shouldn't have used that as an example because that's what

my kids pick every time. Yeah. So disappointed in them. When was the last time you had one? You forget how good they are. Nah. Nah.

I'd go fruit juice over a popsicle. I'd go gooey caramel. One of those big Memphis meltdowns. Yeah, there you go. Grandma's sticky caramel holes or whatever they were called. Grandma's sticky caramel holes.

I don't think that's what it's called. This is why Vaughn didn't last long at the tip-top marketing department. They're like, Vaughn, we need an ice cream. We need a name for the ice cream. They wouldn't go for Grandad's gooey, drippy caramel stick, would they? Oh, my God. There was like Grandma's gooey caramel or like Grandma's raspberry gooey. They were good, man.

I think it's just gooey caramel meant for his meltdown. One of them had a grandma on the ad. Did they? And then her name got added to the ice cream. Did it? Yeah. The top six new names for the E-Pie when it gets renamed, the, oh, someone roughhoused this when it was hidden in its wrapper

and that thin-ass chocolate didn't withstand the roughhousing. It needs to come in a little cardboard tray to protect it or something. But you always, when you select an ice cream from the dairy, you always just run a light, just a light. Like a finger each side. A glide over it. You feel for any sort of like. Like an airport security frisk. Yes.

Like you don't want to grab, accidentally grab the penis. You're not squeezing. You're just running your hands up the side. You're not squeezing it like an avocado in the supermarket. You're just giving it a light run up. Yeah. All exterior sides. Yeah.

To make sure it's not smashed. Melted and refrozen. Yes. A sin. Number two on the list of the top six new names for the e-pie, the, oh, you were probably expecting something in the middle, I suppose. Yes, like the chop top. Yeah.

That's what it needs. Chop bar or at the low end of the scale. Or grandma's gooey caramel bits. Make some caramel, maybe a bit of coconut something. Yeah. Yeah, right. Nothing. Nah, mate. She's a big old vanilla slab right through.

And number one on the list of the top six new names to the Eskimo pie. This is for everybody who thinks this is PC madness. Yeah. And, you know, it shouldn't be taken away. The new name is the Pukkiha pie. Plain white and a favorite of the boomers. It tried to jazz itself up with some fake tan on the outside, but once you pass that, it's just plain old whitey through and through.

So the Pukihar pie. Actually, I quite like the Pukihar pie. It's got a good ring to it. Yeah. That is today's top six. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Yesterday, we received a photo to the group chat of a very unusual

assortment of groceries. Yes. There was carrots, there was those, those tweets, those Cadbury tweets. Oh, yep. Which are like

a bag of assorted things. Is that what they are? Um, nah, it's a Whittaker's chocolate. It's a Whittaker's tweet. Yeah, and they only come

in those little individually wrapped ones. And are they eggs? Nah, they're kind of like popping candy, but they're like oblong shaped. Right, okay. So there was that, there was carrots, there was a razor blade, was it a Gillette? A chic. A chic.

Just the essentials then. And marble chocolate. Marble chocolate, yeah. I didn't see the marble chocolate. No, it was right on top of the broccoli. Because I was like, that's quite a juxtaposition. That's quite a... 50%.

Yeah. 50% health, right? Yeah. 50-50. So that was sprawled all over the floor because there'd been a tumble in the supermarket car park, hadn't there? Yeah.

What happened there? Did you forget your grocery bags? I did. Well, it's one of those classic things, you know, you think you're popping in just for broccoli and carrots and then you realise you're a bit vonies and you need a top up. And you don't want to pay for the bag. Exactly.

Yeah, because that's how they get you. Yeah. So I had an arm load of groceries and then I got a free chocolate fish. That was so cool for being a club card member. And I was like, I've actually already got quite a lot of chocolate here, but I will take it. So I've got my armload of groceries. And then as I'm leaving, I've been getting a present for someone for next week.

Okay. And a couple of years ago in my birthday card, I got some scratchies. And I was like, that is such a fun little add-on to a present. Don't do this. What do you mean? You don't do this because you could be giving your friend $100,000. How horrible. Yeah, how fun is that?

Yeah, you could have $100,000. It's like the time I gave my brother that scratchy for Christmas and he won $50. I know you're so pissed. It's weird that the worst idea for you is giving someone something. No, I'll give them a present to the value of $10, but I'm not giving them $100,000. So you want to give them $10 that's worth absolutely nothing. Well, that's why when I give my brother a scratchy at Christmas,

I scratch it first. Scratch the back of the scanner. And if it's less than $10, he gets it. I gave him a $2 one on Christmas. Oh, my God. So good. Take that. Yeah, I had to check it wasn't the $50,000 one. Christmas. Oh my God. So good. Take that. Yeah, I had to check

it wasn't the 50k one but anyway, carry on. So you got a scratchy. I got a scratchy at the last minute and at this point we're really overloading on the arms

and walk out to the car park and it's very blustery. Yeah. A scratchy, well I actually got two and one of them was a one for you and one for the present.

No, I like hardly ever buy them so I got very flustered and I was like one of those and one of those. So yeah, one's a $2 one, one's a $1 one. I'm really splashing out. Okay.

And one of them blew away. Yeah. And I was like, oh, it's only $2. But then I also... No, it could be $25. It could be. And then it also looked like a litter bug. Yeah, you don't want to be that.

Yes. No excuse for that in 2020. Busy car park after school time. And so I ran to chase after it, and I'm like, it's like a bloody Mr. Bean scene. Every time I bend down to pick it up, there goes the broccoli. And then it flies like half a metre further. I'm like, I can make that and still be in time to go back

for the broccoli before a car hits me. And then I'm down, and then the flies like half a metre further. I'm like, I can make that and still be in time to go back for the broccoli before a car hits me. And then I'm down, and then the carrots go. Right. And then we go again, and the marble chocolate's there. But I've still got the chocolate fish, so it's okay. So you're not picking up what you dropped as you're going along. You're just leaving a trail. No, I'm just hoping for the best.

Like a handsome brittle. And I'm flapping around, my skirt's blowing up, and I'm like, fellas in the car park, can we not hit me right now? I'm having a moment. And yeah, and then I managed to stamp it, got it back. I'm like, winning ticket, come here, you are back in my arms. Picked up

my assortment of sad vegetables and chocolate. Sort of a gravel-encrusted broccoli. Yeah. And there was a person in a car like right next to where I'd done my final bend and they were just

looking at me like, are you kidding me? Well, it didn't help to say that's rude. And I put my bloody shoulder out getting the last one. I had to pick

the other stuff back up and I was like, oh Christ. Oh, auntie. I know. Well, how is it today? Is it worse? Is it stiff?

Yeah, she's a bit sore. I'm going to have to go see Kevin. There's some Voltaren EMU gel in the studio. There is actually. Did you how is it today? Is it worse? Is it stiff? Yeah, she's a bit sore. I'm going to have to go see Kevin. There's some Voltaren emu gel in the studio. There is, actually. Did you leave that in here? No, it's a hearty. I don't know.

That's great. This isn't cheap. That's a sign. This is full, too. It's a full tube of Voltaren emu gel. What are you going to write on your ACC form? Dropped strictly broccoli and carrots. Only healthy food

I can relate to you Because remember I was running across the road In the rain in my slides To get some lolos During the lockdown And I did my calf muscle That's right But because of COVID

A physio filled out the form So he didn't have to put I was running for lollies I didn't tell him that I was just running across the road It's very sore. Okay, well you just be careful out there.

Fleshforn and Megan, the podcast. ZM. So it turns out that if you are a hugger, it could be in your genes, but only for women. I was going to say, because you know I'm not a hugger. What about it? Is it that

Well, they looked into why some people were like, okay, they call it skin I was going to say, because you know I'm not a hugger. You're not a hugger. What about it is that... Well, they looked into why some people were like, okay, they call it skin hungry, like to touch people. Right. And like need human touch and want to hug everyone. And some people are more into that than others are. Some people find it weird, like Fletch. But they looked into it to see if it was genetic

and how it differed between men and women. Now, they found that 45% of women, that behaviour is hereditary, and then 55% is influenced by their environment. But when it comes to men, whether they're huggers or not, it is completely down to environmental factors. Right. So nature versus nurture. Media, personal relationships.

If you're brought up by huggers. Your life experience, yeah. Pollution levels. Yeah. Environment. Because I don't find when there's a woman in a city with high pollution, I don't hug as much. And they're not entirely sure why it's hereditary for women. Maybe

it's, this is their words, maybe it's because women are generally more affectionate than men. Yeah. And they're not entirely sure why it's hereditary for women. Maybe it's, this is their words, maybe it's because women are generally more affectionate than men. Right. But yeah, guys, it's completely down. But you're not a big hugger? Nah. Not really. Are your parents aren't big huggers? No, we hug now because we don't live in the same

city. So when we see each other, we hug when we say hello and goodbye. But we were never much of huggers when we were little. I was just thinking it was your birthday last year that we made you say to your mum, I love you, and she said I love you too. Have you said that since?

Can't remember now, probably not. What? I was just wondering. If we ever see your parents and I'm with you, I always hug your mum before you do. And then I feel you feel obliged to hug your mum. No, I always hug mum when I go back. You just let me go first.

You don't hug dad. Oh, sometimes, but I don't know. He's not a hugger. Yeah, right. Yeah, my dad and I are still like this. We'll start with a handshake, and then it's in that handshake that we decide whether or not we'll hug through that. Yeah, right.

So it's one of those. And then does the hand get caught in the hug? No, you pull it in and you hold it against the rulers. You kind of pull it in, but you hold it against your own chest. Right. And then you're all good for the hug. And if they do that, you're good for the hug as well. It's like a buffer in case you touch too close.

No, it's not that. It's just that otherwise you've already started shaking the hands. You like to break the hands to start the hug, but it's one fluid motion into a hug. Right. I feel like my rule is the more often I see you, the less I hug you. Yeah. Because I don't hug you guys.

I don't hug my best friends. I know, because we don't hug, do we? That would be weird. But that's more on you. But then when you guys see Sade, you're always. Yeah, because I don't see Sade very often. Exactly, yeah. And like when I don't see friends for a while,

and then you go out for coffee or something, you'd give them a hug. Yeah. Yeah. And then when you see them all the time, you're like, oh, I don't want to touch you. You've got friends that are your hug friends. Yeah. But then you've got friends who are just as good of friends,

but they're not your hug friends. Yeah, that's true. Because none of us on the show hug each other, eh? Because we're just like... I think I hugged you once and it was really weird. It was one arm and you like didn't touch my chest. I would rank the hugs I've had with you two amongst the worst I've had.

So that's why I think we all well now it's vocalised but we'd all come to some sort of silent agreement. We don't hug. But when I hug Vaughn it's just weird. It's like your brother that doesn't really want to. You're like oh. Yeah you don't. We're obliged. You don't want your sister's boobs on you do you? Not really.

I can tell because he always leaned away from me. You're very like hip away. Yeah, there's a buffer. Yeah, huge buffer. 723, next on the show, a moment Megan and I had yesterday. It was like a realisation, eh? Yeah.

A betrayal even. We're going to deal with this next Vaughn Allen Smith. Interesting. No hugs after this. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The Podcast. This morning we will go through the Netflix chart, the top

10, to see if we made it in with the movie ALF. A lot of you watching it last night. So many messages and tagged in so many people's stories of them watching and enjoying ALF. ALF, E-L-F, not A-L-F, not that old 1980s show with the puppet from outer space.

We'll delve into the chart after 8 o'clock this morning. After the show yesterday, actually, did you leave? Well, Vaughn left a little bit earlier because... I scarpered. Did you go and see the assembly? Yeah. Your daughter's got leadership awards. Yep.

Did you cry? I messed it up. Yep. Welled up, but stopped. I tell you what, we got asked to go up on stage as parents, the parents of the kids, and the whole school did a kapa haka performance. That was emotional. Wow.

Oh, my God. I've never been on the receiving end of one of those before. That's so cool. I've never been on the other end of one of those before either. But I've witnessed plenty but never like intentionally. That was a very emotional experience. Right. Okay. So Misty Eyed.

Well, you'd left. Megan and I stayed at work to do all those boring meetings that you escaped. You're welcome. So yeah, Fleet and I, when we were about to go home. So this is some sort of revenge-y stitch up, is it? No. No, it's betrayal, actually. It's a story of betrayal.

It's betrayal on your behalf. I betrayed you. Yes. Okay, go ahead. Oh, yeah, I know what it is. I've got it. I've got it. No, go on, just in case it's not that thing.

If it's not that thing, let's never mention what I was about to say. So Fletch usually walks and I go down to the car park, which is where the mail room is. Yeah, it's probably that thing that's in my car. And Fletch says, I'm going to come with you because actually I've got something in the mail room. Yeah, we've all got something in the mail room. That's right.

I got that email too. I didn't. I just go in every single day to see if I've got any mail because it's one of the favorite parts of the day. This is what the email said. Good day. A courier has arrived for you in the mail room. Our hours are between.

So Megan and I were like, well, let's go down and get the mail. What time did this come through? This was an email on Monday. So we were a bit late yesterday going to the mailroom. Okay. And so we got there and there was nothing for us. Nothing. But all the other radio shows had received the same parcel.

So Megan and I looked in there and were like, and that's when the... And that's when I said to the person in the mailroom, has Vaughn been in today? And she replies, Vaughn been in today? And she replies, Vaughn comes in every day. He does. He's a great guy. And she said, he takes all your mail.

And what must have been Monday or Tuesday. It was Tuesday. Because it was your birthday. Yeah. It was his birthday, Vaughn. So you took something addressed to all of us and you took it home and kept it. And did not say a word.

You do this all the time. You take stuff for the show and you take it home. If it's chocolate, I'd remove temptation from your life. That's my gift to you. Right, okay. Because, to be honest, lockdown, you know, and you're always worried. You're always like, I don't want it. I'll buy it.

I'll take care of this. I'll grenade this. I'll grenade this. I'll grenade this. It wasn't chocolate, though, was it? It wasn't. And, you know, in total honesty, I can give my keys to someone in the producing team because you won't trust me if I go down. It is unopened.

You're going to say it's in your car. It is unopened in the backseat of my car. Do you know what? This is a Vaughan Smith move. He's going to leave it in his car and wait. Just wait to see if we bring it up. And if we don't, it's his to keep. No, I intended to bring it up.

I was going to bring it up the day after, but I was bringing up that sleeping bag. And what's your excuse today? Totally forgot. There's like five unopened packages in my car. One of them's for all of us, but the other four are for me. I just forget that I've got things in the back of my car because they're not super urgent.

Well, let's tell Akoya in the future to leave your name off those packages. Run down. Be a sweetheart. Run down and get that. They're not doing your errands. I'll go down and get it. We also mentioned...

Akoya liked me better anyway. You guys have smelly houses. They said you're beyond how right. We left a message down there saying that you're not to take our packages in the future. I would just steamroll straight in and be like, that, I'll have it. Yeah. Well, it was her, to be honest.

I've got another courier down there now. Did you guys get an email yesterday at five minutes to three? No. Suckers. I just told them to email me now regarding our fruit package. Right. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast, ZM. This might feel a little bit targeted.

Right. And that's because it is. Yep. We're discussing why so many single men, and yes, again, feel free to dispute it. I don't think Fletch fits into this category. Why so many single men have one manky pillow? Wait, I've only got one.

One sad. One pillow and it's manky. It's stained. It feels like. Is this a trend? Clumps of oranges. Is this a trend? It feels like clumps of oranges.

Because when, so there's this article about, they're like, why do so many men have one single yuck pillow? And I was like, wow, I have experienced this. I have always had two pillows because it's got to look nice when you make the bed.

Yeah. I've always had two pillows ever since I got a double bed purely out of hope. I thought if I put the idea around there that a second pillow might be needed.

Yeah, it's a secret, isn't it? Yeah, and the universe would supply that head for that pillow. Yeah. So, yeah, it's not every single guy. I've got four pillows.

But, ooh, flash. And they're not stained either. No, shit, no. Do you have a European pillow, like a large? No, but I did get a European case. But that's been packed away because it just looks odd. So you've got the case, but not the pillow. One case or two cases? One case.

So the idea is you put two pillows in then the big European one. But I don't like it. I would want two European pillows at the back behind each pillow. You know, but I only got one European case. The sleeping pillow. We'll get another European case. Sleeping pillows, decorative pillows. Perhaps a pillow at the front.

I don't like too many pillows. No, but I love going and just swiping all the pillows off the bed. I just got two new pillows because my mum's learnt to shop on Briscoe's website. So she just sends packages to my door. I'm like, oh, new pillows. I love how you are literally a grown woman earning money. Mum wants to make sure I don't have a manky pillow. She's watching off your mum, Dil. A sleeping pillow. Yeah. I'm sure make sure I don't have a manky pillow. And you're leeching off your mum, Dil.

She loves it. A sleeping pillow. Yeah. Prasam Shrestha, you can't buy another person a sleeping pillow. Yeah, no. I'll take what I... She asked you what you were into for a pillow. No, I just take what I...

Beggars can't be choosers. No, you've got to go into the store and try it. Yeah, you've got to lie down on it. No, I'm happy with whatever. I'm in the ballpark for a new pillow. I took a pillow in farmers from the pillow section to the bed section and lay on the bed to test this. It's a small walk.

No one would have an issue with that. Just sell a pillow. So a psychologist has looked into this. So there's enough single guys that have one yuck pillow. And they see there's a reason that maybe you have an uncomfortable bed, one pillow. It means that they don't get too comfortable in case they have to wake up suddenly and defend the cave against predators or other men.

Right. It's like a caveman instinct. Nah, that's no excuse. The worn-out pillow, probably on the unclean side, will enhance their immunity. So even that has survival value in the context of male warrior instincts. No, it's just manky. That's a dumb excuse as well. It's manky.

You've just got a gross-ass pillow. Well, you invite someone over and they see that. Yuck. And where's their pillow? Well, that's the thing. They're not expecting them to stay the night. If you can't provide a pillow. Did you ever meet someone out and...

Yeah, and you go home and there's a single bed and a manky pillow. That's 100% happened. And then where did you, how did you sleep? Just on the bed and a manky pillow. That's 100% happened. And then where did you, how did you sleep? Just on the half on the manky pillow. On the single bed. On a single bed. I don't want to talk about it.

No, but that's okay then. That's all right. If they're only in a single bed, they're not preparing for guests. How common is this? I feel like we should open up the phone lines. Yeah. Do you mean like going back to someone's house and saying like, wow. Or do we just want to hear about manky pillows?

Or just when you got to someone's house and you were like, oh my God. Well, manky pillows can be included. Because, you know, you might go, I mean, I don't know if anyone would do this, but you get to their house and it's just like a floor drove on the floor. There's mess everywhere. Like people aren't inviting people over. Like old food. Yeah. People aren't inviting over when their their rooms like that, are they?

I mean, if they've got one single manky pillow, maybe. Sometimes you're out and it happens and then it's not until they get home they might remember what state their room's in. Maybe they weren't expecting. They hadn't had any luck before. What about you and your single days? Because you were all over the show. Well, as previously stated, double bed. Yep. Always double bed. They hadn't had any luck before. What about you and your single days? Because you were all over the show.

Well, as previously stated, double bed. Yep. Always double bed. I had sat in sheets there for a while. Oh. They didn't see a lot of action. Surprise, surprise. Absolute Casanova. Yeah, I think I got them for Christmas.

That would wear me out if you went home to a guy's house and they had satin sheets. There was a rendezvous, but I ran and I jumped into the bed, but I was wearing satin boxes. Guys, it was 2001. I don't need any sort of shade. Satin on satin. The world had just seen the Twin Towers fall, and I was in satin boxes and satin sheets. And I jumped on and I skidded straight across and plopped off the other side of the bed. Sexy. Satin on satin, baby.

Frictionless. But now, yeah, I would be totally okay with somebody saying, oh, that's yuck. Well, we would love to know this morning and it could be yuck pillow or it could be some other treat that was waiting for you but when did you go back to someone's house and

discover something yuck. So a trend online was, was it a Vice article? It was single men in manky pillows. Yeah, and so many people got on board saying, yep, they have gone home with a single man with a manky pillow. One single manky pillow. Yeah.

We want to know what you have gone home and seen at someone's house that was there. Executive intern Anya, I believe, in your single days, did you discover a manky pillow? I really regret saying anything. I, yes, went back to this guy's house and it was a hall of residence at uni. Okay. And he had one manky pillow and the bed it was a single bed and half of the bed slats at the end had like fallen

out and he just hadn't put them back in and he had to leave early in the morning to go to the airport so I just woke up and I was like on a 45 degree angle. Wait so the slats had fallen out of the bed so the mattress it was an easy fix. I know.

And I did it before I left. I was like, come on. How did they not, who the hell can sleep on a 45 degree angle?

It was so unpleasant. To be a message later and be like, hey, thanks for fixing my bed. No. Pull him up on Facebook. I want to see

what he looks like. Yes. Show me what this hot mess looks like. I hope to see what he looks like. Yes. Show me what this hot mess looks like. I hope he's in prison. Yeah. Where the beds are flat and can't be tampered with. I love all the stories that people have from B-School

because it means they're broadcasters now, like they're actual on the news and stuff. Yeah. That place was nasty. Yeah. Reporters doing serious coverage of world events were manky. Hearing a lot of stories, a lot of texts and calls coming in.

We'll get to those next. There's been a thread online of people discussing going home and finding single men with one nasty pillow. So we want to know what you have gone to someone's house and found once you got there. And lads, we'll hear from you too. Yeah, of course.

Are we hearing from the lads though, in all honesty? I mean, not so much. A couple. Really? A couple of text messages in from guys. Okay. Well, let's start, I believe, with Hayley. Good morning, Hayley.

Good morning. What did you go to someone's house and find? This young man was using mink blankets as sheets. Was using mink blankets as sheets? That would be toasty. That would be very toasty. So he's got one as the base sheet and then he's got another one over top of him as a top sheet.

Yeah, a fitted sheet and a flat sheet, then the duvet. Can you get a fitted mink sheet? I don't know. I think he said his mum had stitched it into a fitted sheet so it would stay on his bed for him. Wow. The trouble is with that is you know those aren't getting washed, those mink blankets.

Yeah, because you can't wash them too many times, eh? Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Did he have two pillows though? I think he had four. And from what I remember, they were all very thin. Very thin. Oh God, I hate thin pillows. Well they were probably just two mink blankets

sewn together into a pillowcase as well. Hayley, thanks for your call. Morgan. Hi. What did you find at a single guy's house? Well, I was staying at my now boyfriend's house but we were in his flatmate's bed.

Okay. And his bed was seemingly occupied by somebody else. Right. And there was a mangy pillow, the footage tape was half on, and there was a dead fly just to top it off. Oh! Oh, look, dead flies happen. We don't know how long that fly had been dead for.

That might have been a freshly dead fly. That might not have had a chance. He touched the bed and died. Yeah, probably. It landed on the manky pillow. It was like, so much to eat. Brilliant. Hey, Morgan, thanks for your call.

Some text messages. When I first started dating my partner, he used to blow his nose on his sheets, apparently, and hardly ever washed them. No! I didn't find this out until a couple of years ago and I'm still horrified. That's the thing, they're still with him.

Oh, gross. They're still with him. First night I went back to my now husband's place. He had a mattress with nothing except one mink blanket to put over him and a second mink blanket rolled up as a pillow. Wow. So we had nothing between him and the mattress.

Don't know about that. Do they just not want to buy, like spend money on like sheets and stuff? Admin? Yeah, admin. There was a time when I was young, I slept in a sleeping bag. Because I was like, it's so much easier than having to like look after sheets. I just sleep in the sleeping bag. Oh my God.

But then again, I was never bringing anyone home. I was going to say, did you wonder why you were single? No, if you brought someone home, you just unzip it and use it as a doobie. I'd be like, forget how cold that mattress is. This sleeping bag was certainly warm up in no time. No expense was spared on this Dragon Ball Z sleeping bag. Oh, that's so grim. When I first went back to my now husband's place,

he had a mattress with nothing on it. And then I said we're going to get cold and he went into the cupboard and pulled it. Mink blanket! There's so many it seems mink blankets might be the biggest offender. When part of a whole bedding

set, they're fine. But not by themselves. No, no. Somebody, and I don't know what gender this came from, walked into this person's house, numerous cat turds in the litter tray and so the front door, and I know they'd been there for days and some of them were growing mold and I'm pretty sure one even

had a little mushroom. The whole place stunk. Yuck. I had to leave. You've got to empty the litter tray every day, at least. You don't leave. You don't leave turds. Somebody said went home with someone. There was light shining out of the wardrobe. I said, oh, you're going to turn your wardrobe light off?

What's going on in there? And they were like, oh, no, that's my hydroponic setup. Open it up. Marijuana growing in there. In their wardrobe. Wow. Two more mink blanket stories. Wow. Okay, somebodyink blanket stories. Wow.

Okay, somebody said, I said to him, oh, this pillow is really uncomfortable. He took the pillowcase off. Guess what was inside? A mink blanket. So many stories of mink blankets. Oh my god. Somebody said, I went back to a guy's place

and got into bed and then felt something on my toes, reached down and grabbed it. It was another woman's pair of underpants. Oh, my God. Those sheets have not been washed between. But when that last person who left without their underpants. Yeah, how do you leave without that?

They obviously couldn't find them. They might have been doing a quick exit in the morning because they realized they've just stayed in this mangy dude's bed and they might have been like, I burned in G-string. Yeah. Fletch Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. ZM. Fletch Vaughan and Megan's Netflix charty party.

Well, last night, a lot of you joined us in watching the movie Elf. Yeah. We don't have the exact numbers because Netflix never releases that. But, Matt, I would say of the messages I received, if that was like 70% of the people watching, I've got a few hundred tagging. And a lot of people saying they had different devices, they'd leave one on watching the movie.

So a lot of people yesterday were watching Elf. And this was the idea we wanted to see. Because you see the top 10 on Netflix. You're like, how does half of that rubbish even get in there? Yeah. So we were like, can we corrupt the top 10 chart? Because if we can, we should. Absolutely we should.

That's how it works. So I have in front of me today's. It says top 10 in New Zealand today. Okay. Should we start at 10? Yes. Okay. 10.

Friends. What? That wasn't in the yesterday afternoon. No, it wasn't. It wasn't in yesterday's top 10. They should be watching Elf. We've all seen Friends 10 times. Somebody actually on Instagram put up a thing of they said they were watching Friends and they should be watching Elf. Friends. We've all seen Friends 10 times. Well, somebody actually on Instagram put up a thing on Netflix

because they were sick and I said, are you about to watch Elf? And they said, no, Friends reruns. I said, well, cancel that. Yeah. And they said,

oh, I've been watching it for the last couple of days, binge watching. And like if they're sick, it makes you feel better because it's nostalgic. Nostalgia and that. Yeah.

Right? Number nine. Is the Keanu Reeves iRobot looking cheap rip-off thing called Replicas? Rubbish. How is that still in there? Maybe it's good. Rubbish. I love, you know I love him, but that doesn't look...

We collectively love him. That great? No. Eight. Feel the beat. Oh, man. No. I don't know what this is about.

It looks dancey. It's described as heartfelt, witty, and inspiring. Oh, I might like that. Okay, this isn't good. As closer we get to number one, it's not. Seven. Snowpiercer. Oh, I want to watch that.

No, that looks rough. I haven't started it yet. I never saw the movie, but apparently the movie was pretty good. Is there a movie? Okay. Yeah, there's a movie. I don't know if this is like a carry on from the movie or what. Okay.

Six. 365 days. Oh no. The lavish romantic drama that is. That's been out for ages and that's been in the top 10 for ages.

Has everyone not seen it already? Also, I'm going to walk around and start looking at New Zealanders a little bit differently too because everybody's all, you know. Oh no, don't talk to me. Don't kick shame there.

No, no, don't talk to me about boobies. I don't want to hear that film. But yet the number one or the top 10. Yeah, this show's been in there for ages. It has been, yeah. Five. The Order. The dark, suspenseful horror that's got a werewolf on the front bit.

Damn it. Do you know why we haven't been read out yet Fletch? It's because we're in the top five. Somewhere. Alright. Four. All right. Four. Small Foot. The feel-good musical. Kids animated movie. Or just an animated movie.

Actually, it looks pretty good, so I don't want to just say it's just for kids. Okay. Enjoy that. Well, three to go. Three. The floor is lava. Oh, I do want to watch that. We watched a bit of it yesterday.

Man, people get so hurt. You're not helping. You shouldn't have watched something that's in the top ten. It was only a little bit. I watched Alf three times. Yeah, okay. Yeah, right. There was three screenings of Alf in our house yesterday.

Two. Two guns. Oh, no. The exciting action thriller. Okay. Isn't that old That movie I don't know Or is it new to Netflix

It says It might be new to Netflix Oh it doesn't say How old it is Alright But it looks older One The Sinner

Season 3 I want to watch that as well Oh I watched that yesterday. Megan! Megan! Megan! After I watched Elf twice, then I watched The Sinner.

It's really good. Even then you undo it and then it bumps it out of the... So... So we haven't made the top ten. Not yet. There was so... What do you mean not yet?

Here's why I'm hopeful. Okay. People messaged in saying they went to watch Elf on their phone or their iPad. Now, I heard from maybe four or five people that this happened to. Yep. And they clicked into the search bar, and under popular searches, it says 365 days. So people are obviously searching for that.

The second highest search in popular searches was elf yes brilliant okay and then a lot of the other ones

are ones that are either in the top 10 currently or have been in the top 10 this week like the nun

wasn't in today's top 10 but it has been in the top 10 for about 2 weeks running okay the floor is lava people searching for that at three. Yep, Avatar The Last Airbender, which is new.

It's an old show, one of the greatest animated shows ever, but it's new to Netflix, so people are searching for that. But see, I reckon they're not going to put it, I reckon they fiddle the chart. If that's the case, it's a big call, isn't it? Yeah. Accusing them of fiddling the charts. But it is predominantly made up of Netflix original content or movies that I'm imagining they've paid money for. They've paid to have that on there.

But like you say, maybe not yet. Maybe it takes another day. So that's what I'm thinking. All hope is not lost until tomorrow's charts. Then all hope will be lost. Do we have to do that whole thing again? Will we count it down? We could probably just not. All hope is not lost until tomorrow's charts. Then all hope will be lost. Do we have to do that whole thing again? Will we count it down?

We could probably just not. Just talk about it. Yeah. And see. All right. Well, I guess we'll keep an eye on the chart today and see if it does kind of nudge its way in there. Otherwise, I mean, I think it was a good feel, good moment. It was.

Yeah. Just even all coming together last night and everybody sharing their stories and watching it. We watch it every Christmas, but I watched it yesterday and I still laughed at bits of it. It's just genuinely wholesome. I feel a little bit sad, though.

Don't feel sad. I just started watching it on my dad's Netflix account, so I mean, I'm still hopeful. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. It's moley, moley, moley, moley, moley, moch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. It's Polly, Molly, Molly, Molly, Molly. Polly, Molly, Molly, Molly. Come on. Another edition of Polly, Molly. This is the breakups edition where we have a series of questions on our Insta story and we get you to answer them.

So, first question in the breakups edition. Do you think your first breakup was the hardest? They always say, like, your first love is your greatest love. The first cut is the D. Oh, it's kind of those. Did you do one of those, like, primary school breakups after, like, lunchtime? Oh, you got together at playtime and then lunchtime was over. And then you were just devo for the rest of the last two periods?

Nah. Nah. Nah, that's all good because she didn't want to run and jump down the mudslide that we made on the backfield, so. Is that why you broke up? No, she broke up with me, which was good because that freed me up at lunch time to run on the mudslide. Okay, great. But then after school they wanted you back.

Your school let you build a mudslide? That seems very dangerous. Oh, they didn't let us. No, we got in a lot of trouble. The top field went down to the bottom field. It was over the back. No one could see. Okay.

Mudslide. Oh, you should have got chaotic. Did mum hit the roof when the uniform was dirty? Why do you worry? So, do you think your first breakup was the hardest? 53% said not really. Okay. But then 47, so it's pretty split. Yeah.

47 said, oh yes. Do you wish your last relationship hadn't ended? Okay. 80% of people said no. Oh, okay. So that's 20% of people that are pretty heartbroken and would, you know,

go back. Still longing. Still longing for the ex. Who called off your last relationship? Who called off? Who called off your last relationship? Before this one. Yeah. Do you remember?

Her. Her. Her. I'm just going back to my last one. And the girl at Christmas. Oh, sorry. I didn't realise it was going to be so confronting. Primarily the other person did.

Right. In my experience, has done all the breaking up with. That's all worked out for the right reasons though. That's all good. 56% of people said that they called off

the last relationship. 44% said them. How often do you look at your ex's social media? We did a slidey scale for this one. So daily, monthly,

yearly, and never. What do you reckon? What does this mean? Did we mean look at their like... Like Instagram, Facebook. Are we going behind the scenes looking?

Like are we in the DMs looking? Or are we just looking at the grid? No, no, no. You're like checking up on what they're doing in social media. You're not DMing them. You we just looking at the grid? No, no, no. You're like checking up on what they're doing. You're not DMing them. You're not DMing them. You're just looking.

You're just saying you're going into their DMs. Oh, you think you've still got the login to get into their social media so you can... No, no, no. I thought you were just going to see what they've been up to. So who they're following. You just go and see where they've been, what they've been doing, what they're putting out there.

Yeah, sort of an external audit. A low-end audit. What do you guys do? I need to hear your answer before I answer. I don't even know that. Oh no, you'd be all over Mr Toivoo. He couldn't get a follow without you knowing. Oh no, he's not my ex. You're talking about exes. Oh, your exes. I thought you were talking about current partners.

No, how often do you look at your ex's social media? Well, it depends. That 20% that are still probably watching, they hadn't broken up probably every day. So the average answer was yearly. Okay. So something might pop into your mind where you're like, oh, that was now and wonder what they're doing

and then you go and check. Are they happier than me? Yeah. Also, the people going daily probably weren't going to say daily anyway. No, they probably weren't, yeah. Are you still friends with an ex? 64% of people responded no. Okay, so that's still quite a few that are friends with the ex.

You know, it's pretty hard to end a relationship and not have one person, you know, a bit gutted. And last one, would you be okay with your partner hanging out with their ex? So your current partner hanging out with their ex. You wouldn't like it? Absolutely not. No, well, like, what? No. You did things with them, and you, like.

Yeah. And now you do nothing with them. Yeah, it's like, you can't. But then, like, if they've been with them for like 10 years and they've broken up and it's over and they're still friends, you can understand that. If there was kids involved, yeah true. Oh, if there's kids involved and being grown up about it. That sort of thing,

yeah, yeah, you'd want them to be setting a good example for their kids. But there's a reason for them to stay in touch and be friends, so that's healthy. But if they're just like, exes and like hanging out, why that's weird. 74% of people responded, like me, saying no way. Wow.

So I'm glad that I'm not the only one. That was the biggest like one-sided response. I listened to this podcast called Heavyweight. Awesome podcast. And one of... He deals with things that have happened to people in the past. And one of the things was he wanted to know

why this girl that he loved when he was 18, his first love, why it all fell to bits. And he's married now. And so he messaged her and his wife was just like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

go on. You got to go and find out what happened. You got to go and find out what happened. And the whole thing was, he was like, it was this,

it didn't have like a proper end to it. Like, I don't know what my feelings are. But that just tells me, what? Hey, that's what he said. He said, I don't know what my feelings are towards her. And his wife's like, you get out there and get that story. I was just so long ago.

What if the girlfriend's like, okay, I don't know why it ended. Like, you know, I still think about you all the time. And he's like, oh my God, I think about you all the time. When she started talking, even I was like, back off, skank. I was like, no, no, no, no, you're not coming here. He's literally saying I still, like, have a little something burning. No, he didn't. But even, like, she still made him nervous and there was all the stuff.

But he was like, you know, that's. After all these years. I know, yeah. And it was so fascinating to listen to. But I just couldn't believe the wife was like, yeah. He's like, I messaged her on Facebook and I found her on Facebook and I added her and I messaged her and she messaged me back and, you know, she wants to catch up.

And the wife's like, yeah, go on, get out there. God, Megan would be burning that Facebook to the ground. Just absolutely. I mean, good on her. She must just be totally secure in it. Yeah. I don't know what that feels like. To be totally secure enough. Yeah. I wonder what that feels like. To be totally secure.

Must be great. Oh, good on her. All right, that's Polly Molly. Thank you for your votes. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. ZM. Fact of the day, day a man once cycled from Stockholm to Mount Everest,

climbed Mount Everest and climbed back down and then cycled from Stockholm to Mount Everest, climbed Mount Everest, and climbed back down and then cycled halfway home. Why halfway home? I don't know. I think he had another adventure planned on the way home. Oh, okay. Wow. This is, guys, this is an amazing story.

I've never heard of this guy, but maybe if you're into, like, rock climbing and, like, adventure-y activities, you may have. He's probably, like like your poster child for... Goran Krop is his name. Born in 1966 in Sweden. At the age of six years old, his father took him up Galdholpigen in Norway, which is the highest peak in Scandinavia. At six years old.

Wow. After he finished school, he served in the Swedish Parachute Rangers, where they do adventurous stuff. They're always dropping in to silly, crazy places. His mountaineering included in 1988, he climbed his first major peak, Lenin Peak. That's between Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan.

He did it in a record of 10 days. So he set a record on his first major peak. 89. He wanted to climb Choyu, but had no permit. So instead he went to South America and climbed five different peaks. Apparently the big five in South America.

Oh yeah, the big five. Yeah, the big five. They're all above 5,200 meters. But you're also starting, already starting higher, aren't you? Okay, mate, you do the me. Someone's going to go knock off the big five this weekend. I'm just saying if you're starting at 3,000 metres and you're climbing a 5,000 metre mountain,

you're only doing 2,000. I'm just saying I don't want to pick holes in the man's records. We don't know. He biked to Everest. He might very well have started at the seaside, but it kind of piles in comparison to biking to Everest. Yeah. In 1990, he climbed.

He was the fourth person ever to climb one of the most dangerous mountains in the world, the Mustak Tower in Pakistan. In 1991, he was climbing a mountain called Pikk Podiba, but his climbing partner got a headache and he's like and felt very ill they believed it was altitude sickness

so he was like you know I'll just carry on by myself and everyone's like that's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard and he got up the top and then came back down

then he finally climbed that mountain that he wanted to climb that he didn't have the permit for before but during climbing that a rock fell from the top of the ridge and hit his climbing partner underneath his helmet.

The rock hit his temple, killed him. So then he had to get his partner's dead body down as well as himself. Oh, wow. And in 1996, he was in Stockholm and he said, I'm cycling to Everest. So he put a little trailer behind his bike and he towed 108 kgs of gear and food. The 13,000 kilometres on bicycle to get to Everest Base Camp. And he climbed it and then climbed down

and on the way down was when the 1996 Mount Everest disaster happened where New Zealander Rob Hall died and he actually hung around longer than expected taking supplies up the mountains to the rescuers and everything. And then jumped on his bike and cycled most of the way

home before stopping for another adventure. Madness. He shot a polar bear when he was going to the North Pole on just skis. Him and his partner, otherwise unattended, they were being stalked by a polar bear and he shot the polar bear.

Then the Swedish press labelled him a poacher and he was going to get charged, so he moved to the US. And it was there in 2002 that he died while climbing a rock face known as the Frenchman Coulee on the air guitar route. The person he was tied to fell off. Yep.

The little thing came out of the wall and dragged him down as well. I know, they put those little things in the rocks and I'm like, I don't trust that. I don't trust myself putting that in there. And they bang it in a crack, right? Yeah. And then they like, do they twist it or something?

And they're like, that'll hold. Like those things that go on the wall in the jib. Yeah. Those things never hold. I know. Those things never hold. You do a little drill hole and then you put that thing in and you screw it and you put a screw into that and you're like, that'll hold and you put a slightly heavy mirror on

it and it's like, no, I won't. Poof. Yeah. Except they're doing it into rock and they're climbing up it. Madness. Fascinating life. Has he had a movie made about him? I don't know if it'd be a great movie, Vaughn, to be watching a man

climb mountains. Sounds like he's got a whole lot of other stuff happening as well. You know, Rika, that'd be an interesting I mean, Fletch said, I think what, I mean, what I was thinking. You think it's a sure sign that it wouldn't be if Fletch also thinks it wouldn't be. Okay, maybe just me then. So today's fact of the day is a man once cycled from Sweden to Mount Everest,

climbed Mount Everest without bottled oxygen or Sherpa support, climbed back down and cycled halfway home. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Megan, we were just talking about the weather in Auckland. There's been like a heap of rainfall. Which is great because the dams need the water. Yes, they do.

And this certainly won't have solved that issue. That's going to be ongoing for quite some time, I think. It would need that amount of rain forever, I think, to get back to previous levels. It was before the show and Megan looked outside and was like, yes, this will give me something different to get back to previous levels. It was before the show and Megan looked outside and was like, yes, this will give me something different to talk about at the cafe. Because either at the moment it's a nice day and you're like,

oh, it's a beautiful day outside. And they're like, yeah, not good for the dam though. Or like, oh, it's not a very nice day. It looks like it's going to rain. Not good for the dam though. We need that water. We need that water. We need some water. Oh, that water. Need some water. Oh my God.

Either way, weather chat directly goes to the dam. I think I've said that to people. But it's just shifted to weather chat recently because for a long time

we had the, oh, how you going with your new normal? That was our, everyone was asking about the new normal, which. Yeah.

Oh my God, I've said that to people in shops as well but it's yeah people it's just a friendly banter right

but then when everyone's coming in with the same friendly banter it's classic small talk yeah yeah you have to repeat it like they're the first person

that said it mmhmm because rain's good for the dam though isn't it yeah well we'll see

and then if you're having a grumpy day, you're allowed to just say, oh, look, yeah, whatever. Not really. I don't care about the water. Not really. Worked in hospitality for a bit, have you, Flea? No, that's why I never. I'm having a grumpy day, mate.

What kind of coffee do you want? I beg your pardon? Grumpy days, have you not heard of them? You're entitled to them. Do you want a mocha or a chapacino? For God's sake, stop talking, I'm having a grumpy day. But I'm keen to see, like, if the dam gets full again, if, and we solve that problem, like, what the new...

Oh, things like... Small talk will be. Christmas is round the corner. Things like that. Well, usually it's how cold it is. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But it's not been like a really cold winter. Getting darker in the mornings, getting lighter in the mornings.

Yeah, that's a classic. Daylight savings. Mild. Mild for the summer year. We had the shortest day yet. Why is it always weather related? Because it's something everybody experiences. And it's easy.

It's just easy. You know, the small talk that would be worse would be if you worked at a lotto counter. Oh, is this the winning one? God, imagine that.

Can you sell me the winning one? I don't know, mate. If I did, I'd take it myself so I didn't have to work here. But imagine if people did get weirdly specific with their small talk.

Like people are like, God, man, I tell you, having size 9 shoes is something. You'd be like, yeah, I've got size 11 shoes. Really? Weird, man. Yeah, people are different, eh? Wouldn't that be like the weirdest? Someone's like, how's your day going?

Good. When I was a kid, we were never allowed lemonade soda stream. You'd be like, what? So you want a lemonade or? No, I just, nah, just popped into my head. I was just thinking about, I want to try this actually. I'm going to try to be like really weird with small talk. I love that.

Because I don't like small talk. So that would be great. People would be like, don't go near that guy. He's a freak. But that's why the weather chat's good because you dismiss it with a little comment and it's done. Yeah. And that's hopefully the end of the customer interaction. How are you?

Not good. I just remember the time I knocked my granddad's wall clock off the wall and he told me off. And he gave me a high day. Imagine what they'd say. When did that happen? 94? Okay. What would you say if a customer did that happen? 94. Okay. What would you say if a customer said that?

You'd be like, doodly, doodly, doodly. Would a coffee help with this memory? Well, I mean, it'd help with today, but I think given that I'm holding on to this 26 years later, it's really burnt in there. Day by day, man. What else can we hope for? Can we take some calls?

If you work with customers or with the public, what is the go-to small talk? Your go-to small talk. Because do you start the small talk or do you have to wait until they... Depends. Depends. Oh, yeah, it's very dependent. You wouldn't let the silence hang for too long, right?

No. Whoever breaks that silence is the person that's going to start the small talk. Yeah, right. And my favourite thing is when someone comes in and they look like they're a bit down or a bit grumpy

and I'm like, hi, how are you? And I try and like turn it around. Yeah, right. It doesn't always work. It doesn't always work. No, because sometimes

my demeanour upsets them even more. Because you're happy. Yeah. Why are you so happy? I don't want them to be happy when they leave. I just remember

this game of netball that I won in third grade. Granted, I wasn't a first grade player but when they leave. I just remember this game of netball that I won in third grade. Granted, I wasn't a first grade player but I had fun and that was the money thing. Alright, let's take some calls. 0800DARLS.M 9696. If you work in customer service or in retail or

with the public, what is your go-to small talk? Again, talking about your go-to small talk at work. The things that customers or you always go to. The weather chat. Yeah, we all know it, don't we? Yeah.

Somebody said, Megan, if you think you're getting a lot of weather chat in the cafe, you should try working as a sales rep in the agriculture sector. Every single person's like, we need that ride. We need that ride. Even if it's raining. We need that ride. Lotto counter, as we predicted. Many people have messaged me and worked at lotto counters.

I'm a probation officer, and I like to lead with what brings you here today. It's like just a little bit of a joke, but a lot of the time the people who are on probation don't get the joke, and they tell me their crimes. Natalie, what's your small talk go-to? A little bit like that, really. It tends to be the what brings you in or the length some people go to to get out of lockdown. Right.

Injury, if they've had an injury, you know, the length some people go to to get out doing the dishes or going to work. So what do you do for work? I'm a nurse. Oh, right. So you say this do for work? I'm a nurse. Oh right, so you say this to people

when they would come in injured over lockdown. Oh right, I thought they were saying it to you. No. No,

because that wouldn't be a good start for them towards you because you don't want to have to be in a hospital unless you have to. True.

Natalie, thanks Nicole. Jenna, what's your work's small talk go to? I used to work on the Cook Strait series. Oh, yeah. And you'd have all the tour guides come on board

and they would say, now make sure you ask all our people if they've got the correct currency for the South Island. Make sure they know they need to change it over. Oh! Oh, no. Yeah. Yeah.

The tour... Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The tour. I will. I also feel sorry for tour guides because there's only so much. And it's fresh content to the people on your tour every time, right? Yeah, yeah. There's only so many jokes you can make on going over on the cross-strait. Yeah, but fresh content to the people on the tour. They should know that people on the boats have heard it a million times.

Yeah. Yeah, but can you be sure they're going to be on board with the currency gang? Hey, thanks for your call, Tina. Hey, Jay, what's the small talk you get all the time? I get how tall I am and what's the weather like? Do you play basketball? What's the weather like out there? Would you make a height-based reference to a customer?

No, because I know that our boss is really tall and he gets it all the time as well. You never make a comment about anyone's physical appearance. That's the rule. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, true. AJ, thanks for your call. Some text messages.

I'm a courier in Queenstown, so the small talk at the moment is, hey, you're not wearing shorts. Oh. I don't get it. Because careers are always wearing shorts. Yeah, shorty shorts. It's like really cold.

Oh, you know it's cold when they're not wearing shorts. Yeah, hey, mate, you're not wearing shorts. And I bet you haven't come across a slippery driveway than that. Oh. So you know it's a slippery hazard, but there it remains. Some other text messages in of your small talk, your go-to small talk. Taxi driver. Someone said my fiance is a taxi driver.

Busy night tonight? Busy night. I bet you see all sorts. And are you sick of drunk people? Oh, my God. I've said all of those things. I'm sorry. Yeah.

When I worked at the airport, I had to be on at 4 a.m. with smiley, friendly chit-chat, ready to disarm grumpy, sleepy customers, who all starts with, God, it's early, isn't it? I'd say, yes, it sure is. Somebody said, Megan, today the chat, they don't work too far from your cafe. Oh, yeah. It's foggy this morning, so they suspect there'll be a lot of fog-based small talk.

Yeah, right. Okay. Fog-based small talk today. That's so great. You could reply with, oh, if only we had some big fans to blow it away. Yeah. Or maybe we'll go outside and blow it away. Go gently.

Would that work if we all went out? No. No. No, Megan. No. Somebody said bus driver. I'm a bus driver. Small talk.

You shouldn't small talk with the bus driver. They've got a job to concentrate on. Yeah, and stand behind the line. That's why some of them, they say that's why we were quiet when you get on is we don't want you sitting behind us trying to talk to us. Yeah. But I always like being, you've got to be like, hi. You don't do that to a bus driver.

I'll give a thank you driver when I get off, but I'm not going to chit chat with the converse of the bus driver. It's dangerous. Okay, you don't do that. Somebody said, we're refurbishing apartments and hospital rooms and old folks' homes, retirement villages and places where there's more of a hospital. But the deal is you can't refurbish an apartment or a room

until the person who's occupying it dies. Oh, no. So it's between occupants is the only time. Yeah. At the moment, we're refurbishing a few rooms in one place and the old people keep saying, oh, you're so busy, aren't you? You're a busy bit.

Why are you so busy? But you can't tell them it's because you keep dying because old people are dying. Beryl down the hallway passed away. And they said, oh, you should come and have a look at my apartment.

It needs a couple of things done. You don't know how to say to them, we'll get there in time. Yeah. When you're dead, give it enough time. How horrible is that?