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

Episode Date: November 24, 2020

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Hello, welcome to the Fleeche Morning Megan podcast by 5 McCafe Coffees, get one free on the Maccas app. Now, Megan's just told me that at her hen shower, what is it, baby shower? Baby shower. Which I put a maybe on Facebook too, because baby things. But you've changed your, are you changing your maybe? Yeah, because Megan's hired a gin maker. A gin people. It's a little gin bar, yeah. a little gin bar. A gin pourer. A gin pourer.

Oh, and it's a great gin. I've tried this. It's got a berry gin. Oh my goodness. So I'm there. I'm there. I have to get a sober. I don't know if it's too appropriate for you to get wasted at a baby shower though. Why would you serve gin? You can't put gin in front

of people and expect them not to get wasted. And then Vaughan's sneaking off with Mr. Toyboy. You'll hear about this in the podcast today. That sounds sexual. It does, doesn't it? It does, yeah. For a whiskey tasting. So this is going to be great. It's got all the hallmarks of a great day. Yeah. Boy, it's got to be better than today. Look, I've just peeled the sticker off my golden kiwi fruit and it's got a blemish behind the sticker. It almost looks like a bug bite. I've had that with an apple before they hide

like cosmetic issues I kind of appreciate that though because that's very specific someone's gone yes just there

placement yeah this would otherwise be a picture perfect kiwi fruit apart from that yucky mark so we'll just cover that up yeah like when people wear

really big sunglasses covering their face yeah they're covering their eyes which are maybe their weak part of their facial structure. Yeah, it's classic. Yeah, yeah. Just trying to cover a bit of it all to make it look a bit more appealing to be picked out in the produce.

Anyway, that's a real shitter. I'm going to have to eat around that. Because you eat the whole kiwi fruit. You're weird. I do. I do. I eat the whole skin. I just don't eat the bit where the kiwifruit was attached to the vine.

The kiwifory. That's a little nibbly. Yeah, it looks a bit more, yeah, you've got your anus on this end. It looks like a nipple. You're like, it's just not the nipple. I won't eat the nipple. Yeah. Yeah, I won't eat that. That's a bit hard, a bit hard to chew on, a bit hard to swallow.

Good morning, welcome to the show, Fletch, Fawn and Megan. Good morning. Welcome to the show, Fletch, Fawn and Megan. Good morning. Got your rice cracker ready for the day? Yeah. When are you going to treat yourself with that polystyrene biscuit? Look at her. She's got her lunchbox with her polystyrene cracker.

Are you mean? Have you got any flavour with that? Yes. What flavour is it? Sour cream or something. You are such a boomer. Dude, that's entry level. The entry level flavour.

You want those vinegar ones that burn your mouth. Yes. But you can't stop eating them. And then it just turns your mouth into like what your fingers look like after you've been in the bath for too long. You're done roasting my snacks. I'm going to put them back in my bag and not have them there so you can't see them. Is that it though? No, there's a little muffin I made and a banana.

Okay, cool. I just feel bad when the pregnant lady's bringing less food to work than I do. Fletcher's got his mesh bag full of... You've got a whole punnet of strawberries. Well, yeah, because I wanted to... Will you eat all of those? Absolutely. I might share them.

Would you like one? You could put it on your colostyrene cracker. Do you punish a whole punnet every time? No, well, this punnet I will. Yeah, absolutely. It's only like seven strawberries. Three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve. I think it's thirteen.

Is it eleven? Eleven torbies. It's eleven. Eleven torbies. Oh, it's 13. Is it 11? 11 Torbys. It's 11. 11 Torbys. Always rounding down. I'll eat those. It's like that time you only ate three donuts. I think it was three.

It had a three in it. It might have been 13. Coming up on the show, the top six. Yeah, Snoop Dogg's teamed up with SodaStream. And it's not even weed related. There's no like... No. It's not like weed flavoured SodaStream. And it's not even weed related. There's no like. No. It's not like weed flavoured SodaStream.

I've never associated it with that. Which would be nasty anyway, wouldn't it? That'd be nasty. How's about executive intern Anja here? Like, obviously, I didn't have a SodaStream growing up either. But she thought the flavour came out of the SodaStream. No. No, you didn't. She did. Hey. Like the dish. I of the SodaStream. No, no you didn't.

She did. Hey, I didn't have one as a kid. Like when you put the fabric softener in a different part of the washing machine and it just adds it later on. She thought the SodaStream did all the work. So you have to manually mix it. In bed, like millions of different flavours. And you can't put the flavour in before you pump.

That's always a post-pump situation. If you put it in before, I don't know why, but it was far more prone to explosion. Yeah, it explodes. Yeah. Well, anyway, the top six are... It's other hip-hop homeware collaborations. All right, it's coming up next on the show.

Monkeys. No longer just cute banana-eating things in Bali that if you pay a guy $10, he'll make it look like it's taking a selfie. Which was my last personal experience with monkeys. That's why I put it in there. Monkey studiers. What did you say?

Monkey studiers. Monkey studiers. Monkeyologists. Researchers. Primate. Primate. Primate. Prime-ate. Primate. I always say prime-ape.

That was a Pokemon, but prime-ape because it's the most, like, you know, monkeys. Primate researchers have been watching very closely the white-faced capuchin. Oh, that's what Ross had on Friends. A cappuccino, yeah. I was going to say the Marcel monkey. Capuchin monkey. They that's what Ross had on Friends. Cappuccino, yeah. I was going to say the Marcel monkey. Capuchin monkey. They've been watching them very closely and they've found that they have moved into,

officially moved into the Stone Age. What do you mean? Why are we clapping? So it was in 2004 that they first noticed that they were using stone tools. And then in 2017, they put cameras all over the islands because obviously technology had advanced and they could leave cameras

out for ages. They caught them in the act. They were using stones. The male monkeys were at hunter gathering using stones, right? Coconuts, crabs and snails. And then they have confirmed even more so that they are using them using stone tools.

Yeah. Some of which they've kind them, using stone tools. Yeah. Some of which they've kind of changed to be sharper. So that's even like, that's full Blindstone Age stuff. And they got one, they got a couple of them on camera making a wheel. Wow. And a chariot, a little chariot. Wow. Yes. Pretty amazing.

Built a forge and started burning things and they've started to melt metal. Wow. So like watch out Bronze Age. And create swords and stuff. Yeah. It's just like they're on the absolute cusp. That's pretty amazing. Now the macaques in Thailand and chimpanzees in West Africa also have been seen, observed via cameras and stuff also doing it.

But the weird part about it is they said there's other monkeys and other primates on the island, these specific capuchin ones, and other monkeys in the vicinity of the Thailand macaques and the chimpanzees, but they're not sharing their technology. They're not. Really? Yeah. Well, I guess there's a territorial thing between the different species,

but the other species, like, it's close enough that, you know, it would be like us looking over the fence and seeing the neighbour and be like, what you got there cutting your grass? He's like, oh, nothing. And then you're like, yeah, right. I'm going to call that a lawnmower. And then, like, going about trying to use one yourself. So.

Wow. They're clever little buggers. Those aren't, yeah, they are really smart. You see them on TikTok all the time and they're opening their toys and stuff.

Well, they've got a TikTok account. That's pretty clever. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Consumer NZ has lodged a complaint with the Commerce Commission.

They say it is unfair the cancellation. This is not fair. The cancellation fees on Airbnb and BatchCare. So this is where customers are trying to cancel bookings and stuff. Yeah, and this was when we went into all the lockdowns. A lot of people lost money on Airbnb. Yeah, and they weren't giving out refunds.

So, I mean, it's no fault of their own. They couldn't travel, but they were still being denied for refunds. So more complaints being made about Airbnb, 50 complaints about Airbnb and 10 about batch care, but they were allowing the people who were in the houses to have these cancellation fees that denied them any refund, which is not fair. Yeah. So what are they going to do about it?

Burn them all down. Well, they've taken the complaint to the Commerce Commission, so now it's in their hands. But I sort of thought by now people were getting some sort of refunds. No, I think they were from the outset Airbnb. Because they've always, have you ever looked at cancelling something on Airbnb? It was pretty ruthless. Like I think the first couple of days, if you change your mind,

you might be able to cancel. But then you pretty much didn't get anything back. And it's also the cancellation fees as well. They're saying you can't just charge whatever you want. There has to be a limit on the cancellation fees. Whereas beforehand, they're like, well, you know, setting their own limit. How do you get to be the Commerce Commission?

How do I get to be the Commissioner? Everyone comes to you and you're like... Of the Commerce Commission. Would you want to deal with everybody's complaints? I don't know. I would make myself... I would imagine I'd be on the Commerce Commission. I'm almost like an old West Sheriff.

Like, if it gets to me, shit's going down. Like, sort out this problem. They'll be like, Oh, Airbnb, we're going to go get the Commerce Commission. And they'll be like, Wait, wait, wait, don't do that. That's a... No, no, no, no, no, no.

Don't do that. And then you'd hear... I'd be like wait wait wait don't do that that's a no no no no no don't do that and then you'd hear I'd be like did somebody say commerce commission they'd be like I can't hear all about it

and I'd be like hang on are you on a horse hang him in the town square yeah and then yeah that'd be it that'd be

I hung up hung up in the town square and I'd be like let that be a lesson to everybody bitch care property manager get their refunds yeah you'll be going up next Let there be a lesson to everybody. Bitch care. Property manager.

Get their refunds. Yeah. You'll be going up next. Why can't more things be solved? Like the old one. Like a Western movie. No rash decisions were made. Nobody regretted it and everybody behaved. Well, I'd certainly give you a refund if you rode into town on a horse

wanting to shoot me. Right in the night. We got ourselves a problem in here. That's what I would... Click. That's me clicking the gun. Click.

And they'd be like, hey, hey, whoa, whoa, whoa. I'd be like, you got two seconds. I'd shoot their refunds. Why don't they give you a job? Yeah. You sound like a shoo-in.

Yeah, exactly. Because I don't think we just ride into town and shoot people on horses anymore. I would freak people out if that was how the Commerce Commission started dealing with stuff.

It's like, my kids were sitting too close to the heater and the pyjamas caught fire and no one told me that was a problem. And they'd be like, oh, come on,

it's common knowledge. Why didn't you write it on the pyjamas? We'll write it on the pajamas next time. There won't be a next time. Flesh for an Amegan, the podcast. ZM. Well, it's normally this time of year that the Oxford English Dictionary

gives us the word or phrase of the year, something that's been used a lot. In past years, the Oxford Dictionary have given us Post Truth. That was 2016 with Donald Trump. Unfriend in 2009 because of social media. And Credit Crunch in 2008's financial crisis. Those are a couple of examples of previous years. Well, this year, the team at Oxford Dictionary,

unlike the Collins Dictionary, who gave us lockdown as their word, this year, the team at Oxford Dictionary, unlike the Collins Dictionary, who gave us lockdown as their word of the year, have decided it's too hard this year. Too many. But that sums up this year perfectly. They want to give us the word of the year. It should be...

Well, they said it's both unprecedented and a little ironic. In a year that's left us speechless, 2020 has been filled with new words unlike any other. And the president of Oxford Dictionary said, I've never witnessed a year in language like the one that we've just had. Because you talk to yourself in 2019 and be like, oh, this is my bubble.

We're going into lockdown. We have to quarantine. You'd be like, what? PPE. What are you talking about? Exactly. So here are some notable words that they said any other year,

just one of these alone would be a shoo-in. But because there are so many, COVID-idiot, COVID and idiot, pandemic, plandemic, social distancing,

lockdown, shelter in place, bubbles, flatten the curve, circuit breaker, community transmission, essential workers, PPE,

wet market, social distancing, super spreader, flatten the curve. I hadn't thought about that Circuit Breaker Community Transmission Essential Workers PPE Wet Market Social Distancing Super Spreader Flatten the Curve I hadn't thought about that for a while Unmute Zoom Yeah All those kind of

Like crazy right All these make my eye twitch Yeah And then of course you also had Karen As a generic name And Cancel Culture Black Lives Matter Take a Knee,

all these things that were pre-COVID. There's also QAnon. All these kind of words and phrases that have become so much of our vocabulary and conversation in 2020. And Oxford are just like, you know what? Dunno. Can't do it. Can't do it. And you know what? Dunno. Can't do it.

Can't do it. And you know what? Tip of the hat to them. I'd probably go with Collins and say lockdown would be the word of the year. That's a good pick if you had to pick one. Yeah. Yeah. Kind of sums it all up really, doesn't it?

It's not something we were saying. No, no. What was lockdown prior to this year? Lockdown prior to this year was like if a school went into lockdown it was because they were worried about something happening in the area. It might have been something suspicious spotted or the armed offender squad were like put the school into lockdown

but basically everybody locked down at different levels. International lockdown regional lockdowns when we isolated with our own families with our own bubbles that was another form of lockdown, so. What about just COVID? 2020.

Yeah. Coronavirus. Do you reckon Corona Bears stoked that we've kind of, everyone's kind of moved to COVID? Yeah. Because remember at the start, they were kind of like, let's go with COVID. Oh, yeah.

Like, their share absolutely palmed it. I know, like, there was a big box of, big stack of Coronas out the door yesterday. I was, like, their share absolutely plummeted. I know, like, there was a big box of, um, big stack of Coronas out the door yesterday. I was just like, oh, I just think that's because the company got them cheap. There's probably a deal on them at the moment. I'd say so. Pour them into a glass before they give them to you

and tell them they're souls. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. From the underground ZM Think Tank, this is the top six. Hello there. Welcome to today's top six. It's in what a collab in 2020. Snoop Dogg's teamed up with SodaStream.

He's made, there's a few different ads. I've selected the 15 second one for brevity. There's a 60 second one. Oh yeah, we don't need that. It's really good, but you've got to see it. Okay. There's a 60 second one. Oh yeah, we don't need that. It's really good, but you've got to see it. There's a big visual aspect to it. Small things are the most meaningful. So this holiday season, I simply

enjoy fresh sparkling water with a nearly extinct friend. By the way, one soda stream bottle can save thousands of single-use plastic bottles. I just saved the planet. What a weird collab. I love it though. I just saved the planet. What a weird collab. I love it though. I'm here for it.

Yeah. So... He's not drinking... What did he say? Soda water with something. Sparkling water with an nearly extinct friend and it's a sea turtle. That's like a CGI sea turtle

and they clink glasses and they drink it and there's like this pile of plastic bottles beside the sea turtle. He's definitely putting flavour in. He's not drinking soda water. No, he'll wedge a lemon. Oh, okay. That's how he's...

Enjoying his soda. That's how he's enjoying his soda. I don't love sparkling water. I thought you were going to say Snoop Dogg. Isn't that your wheeze way more? No, it's fine. But maybe it's because I drink more. Yeah, maybe because you drink more.

I'm actually out of gas at the moment. I'm out of gas too. I know, because you do that thing where you hold it down for like 10 seconds, way longer, and then you drink and you're just like... Yeah, when you get it towards the end of the bottle, yeah, you can hold it down for ages and it doesn't make the fart noise. Yeah. The soda stream, pump, pump, pump.

Yeah. And that's how you know you've had enough. But I always just give it one more. Same. Because I like things more. Do you have to push it? Mine's automatic things lovely. Do you have to push it? Mine's automatic. Oh!

Do you have to push it? The Queen of England's here! She's got an automatic bubble machine. There's one bubble, two bubble, three bubble. Yeah, but I'm still going to hold my finger down on it. No, just push it and walk away and it's like psss, psss, psss. The Queen of England over here with her blue tick and her automatic soda stream. Does the flavour add itself afterwards?

That's the biggest revelation. Executive Intern Anya didn't have a soda stream growing up, so she thought it automatically added the flavour. Well, I didn't have one growing up either, but I still knew. Because that was always a thing, Mum would be like, only up to that line. And you'd be like, yeah, sure. Straight in, make sure she wasn't looking and then put the little cap in and be like, oh, no, definitely follow that structure.

You drink it and be like. Did you not see all the flavours at the supermarket and think, oh. Yeah, and it was one of the things I was like, one day when I'm an adult, I'll buy one. But like I haven't got round to it yet. So Christmas is coming. If anyone's looking for a present. Tell your secret Santa. Secret Santa. You might have to exceed

the $20 budget. No, I reckon you'd probably get one at a second hand store for $20. Oh yeah, probably. Get a couple of bottles with it. All you need is the gas. That'd get snaffled up quick. My mum's still got one that's got a ranch slider on the front of it. Cute. Well, I always called it the SodaStream ranch slider You had to like twist this thing at the top

It was the same button you push But you couldn't push it until you'd spun it And the door shut in front of it In case there was some sort of leakage You guys must have been rich growing up Did you have little glass bottles? Ours were little glass bottles and it was a brown soda stream. Yeah, a brown soda stream.

We had different size bottles, but they weren't glass. They were like a hard plastic. But no, we weren't. Dad got it free with a barrel of drench. That was what, like, if you grew up on a farm and you had nice things, it was because it came free when your dad spent an insane amount of money on drench. Or like, you'd upgrade the farm bike and you'd get a microwave.

Like weird stuff like that. Wow, okay. Yeah, like farmers had nice things growing up. It was always because it came free with drench. Wow, okay. So I've got,

with Snoop Dogg teaming up with SodaStream, I've got the top six other hip hop homeware collabs that could be on the horizon. Number six is the Dr. Dre-ire.

I mean, he's doing alright with his beetsie bones. He could be doing better with a dryer. He's going through a nasty divorce. Is he? Yeah. That's not good to hear. He's been with his wife forever. Yeah. Because that was a great doco on Netflix. Yeah, that was a great doco on jimmy

hamilton yeah that was an incredible thing is he really going through a divorce yeah he is that upsets me sorry does he yeah oh oh what a shame well let's hope he gets you won't be seeing them gets to keep the dr dre i really one. Yeah, it's a good one. And then when a towel gets caught on one side, it'll be like, boom, boom, boom, boom. Na, na, na, na, na.

Boom. Dr. Dre-ire. Yeah, and it creates hip hop beats when the towels get stuck on one side and it's spinning. Number five on the list of the top six hip hop homework collabs,

the Tupac two-piece toaster. Okay. Just your standard toaster. Yep. Maybe when it pops up, it could be like, bang, bang! Not because he got shot, but because he often had gunshots in his songs. Yeah, yeah. And then, of course, it would be beefing with number four

on the top six hip-hop homework collabs, the Notorious B.I.G. TV. Okay. Because it's a big TV. Everyone wants a bigger TV. Yeah. And there's no bigger TV than Big Papa. Yeah.

So the toaster and the TV are beefing. Are beefing. Okay. They're always shorting out the fuse. Number three on the list of the top six hip hop homeware collabs, Ice Cubes Ice Maker. Yeah, that's a sitter right there. I can't believe he hasn't done it already.

Just put your glass under and push the button and pucker, pucker, pucker, pucker, pucker, the ice drops down. Number two on the list of the top six homeware collabs, the RefrigerDraker. Yeah, that's good. That's a Drake-inspired fridge. He's got to pay for that hideous private jet somehow. Yeah.

And it's got a special holder for champagne, papi. Remember his, like, really expensive hideous bed? Yes. Custom-made bed. There's one thing you can guarantee is that excessive wealth doesn't necessarily equal excessive taste. No. And number one on the list of the top six hip hop homeware collabs is the Cardi B Lander. You can mix up all of your...

Your morning smoothie? Favourite drinks, yes. Smoothie in the morning, booze in the evening. Your Cardi B Ler is there for you. When you press go, does it just go, ahhh. Alright, yeah. When it's finished.

It's actually sounds a lot like Cardi B. That is today's top six. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. ZM. Drew Barrymore has a talk show The Drew Barrymore Show Can we watch this or is this America only?

I think we can watch it I'm pretty sure I've seen it on TV Hey, you do whatever you want I mean, I don't know if I'd Is it just like an Ellen show? Is it like a I do like Drew Barrymore though I don't know if I'd watch it though

It doesn't strike me as your kind of show. Nah. I mean, I enjoy it, but yeah. I don't know if it's your kind of show. Is it just lots of celeb interviews and stuff? Yeah. It's pretty much exactly the same as Ellen. Right.

Except she doesn't yell at her staff as much. That we know of. Yeah, that we know of. She spits on them. So she decided to get a couple on the show who had postponed their wedding due to COVID. Right. And do the wedding for them.

It all went well and everyone's like, oh, warm fuzzies. They put up an Instagram and said, we pulled off a surprise wedding in our studio today. Thanks so much to everyone who made it possible. Lots of lovey-dovey comments. But... Here comes the twist. Here comes the twist. Here comes the twist

in the comments. Okay. There was, because they told everyone they met through mutual friends. Oh, that sounds dodgy. They were high school sweethearts and they met through mutual friends. That sounds like people that don't want to admit they met on Tinder.

Oh, no. If they met on Tinder, I believe this would have been the preferred option to really what is about Tinder? Oh, no. If they met on Tinder, I believe, this would have been the preferred option to really what is meant to be dropped on you. Okay. One of the comments said, it would be a great story if it was actually true. They met in school because she was his student. The mutual friends was the physics class he taught.

Because there's a 12-year age gap, which is not the problem, but the reason there's a 12-year age gap was because she was his student. Someone said, could is not the problem. But the reason there's a 12 year age gap was because she was his student. Someone said, could CBS not find a couple whose relationship didn't begin completely inappropriately? I just hope he's

more observant of his marriage vows than he was of the law when he started dating her. It's illegal, right, in America? Yeah. Yeah, right. And there's different rules for being able to give permission statutory-wise because I think if you're 16, you can only sleep with people who are 17, right?

Oh, I don't know. It's legal at 16 to... And every state's probably different as well. Yeah, every state's different, but the consensual sex age thing over there is different to here which is when you're 16 you've got the choice to.

How long have they been together? How did they not do some background research? I can't find how long they've been together and I don't know their ages. Right. So I don't know how old she was but she was in school and he was a teacher

which no matter the age in New Zealand, that's not allowed, right? Even if you were 18. Is it frowned upon or is it illegal? Is it frowned upon or is it illegal? Because it's a position of power, right? Yeah. They could lose their teaching job, couldn't they?

Yeah. I don't know if they'd go to prison. Probably just lose it. Unless they were underage. Oh, then that's then that's very much illegal yeah yeah um no comment from drew barrymore or the show yeah but obviously didn't do too much research on the couple beforehand but i mean wouldn't you just be like how'd you meet oh through mutual friends you just be like, how'd you meet? Oh, through mutual friends. You'd be like, oh, okay. High school sweethearts.

Certainly no more need to look too deep into this. You sure you were high school sweethearts? Yeah, true. High school sweetheart? Yes. ZM's Fletch Warner Megan, the podcast. We got some Santa photo. We went and saw Santa at the weekend.

How was he? He was in great spirits. Now, did he say if you've been naughty or nice? Me? Yeah. Oh, he didn't comment on me. Okay. Well, I assumed he wasn't bringing me gifts this year anyway.

He doesn't say. I opted out. He doesn't say that to kids, does he? Yeah. Well, he's got to. But they've been naughty. Well, he's got the list. He knows anyway, Megan.

He knows anyway, but he's got to check anyway. Yeah. He's got to be like, what do you think you've been naughty. Well, he's got the list. He knows anyway, Megan. He knows anyway, but he's got to check anyway. Yeah. He's got to be like, what do you think you've been? And they're like, good. And he's like, marries up with what's on the list. Checks the list. I wouldn't tell them in person, though. You might get a wee doof in the nose if they're naughty enough.

Oh, yeah, if they're bad enough. If they're bad children. We went to Snow Planet to get our... So we played in the snow and stuff as well. Oh, yeah. And then... But I've seen some other places we can go and get Santa photos. Photos with Santa.

It's changed this year and Santa's behind a Perspex screen. Now, that's obviously... Was your Santa not? No. Okay. Not behind a Perspex screen. Maybe because it's so cold. The COVID won't get to him.

Maybe. Maybe. it's so cold, the COVID won't get to him. Maybe. I don't know. Yeah, maybe. I don't know. But some other people, some other friends of ours put up their Santa photos, and their kids just had to squish as close to the Perspex screen as they could to be like, imagine Santa looking at that photo, even as parents in like 10, 15 years,

just the horror that would come back to your memory of 2020. I was like, oh, my God. Exactly. Cool memento. I was like, oh, my God. But then the more I thought about it, I'm like, hopefully, fingers crossed, there won't be another Santa photo like that while your kids are kids. Hopefully not.

Hopefully not. Hopefully next year there's vaccines and everything's kind of starting to move in the right direction. But it's kind of thrown off the tradition because that would be a tradition most families and kids would do is the photo with Santa at the mall or wherever it is. Well, here's a new one and I thought this was pretty

cute. I saw this on TikTok. A Christmas tradition. Someone was talking about their Christmas tradition was they go for a walk and try to find the perfect pine cone. Oh, yeah. Rabbit Island.

Yes. And Nelson. Oh, my God. Yeah. Isn't that also a hot gay cruising spot? I don't know. Do they still do

a few of the gay cruising out right now? I don't know. You're the one telling the story, mate. Oh, I grew up a fairly sheltered lifestyle, so when I found out about great gay cruising spots, I did a lot of online research.

Found the hot spots of New Zealand. I didn't do any in-person research. Right. There's one there beside the Waikato River, just past Cambridge there, the Karapero Bypass. Really? Yeah, you can pass a few bars down there. I'll tell you what, it's a big gay cruising spot.

Right, okay. I don't know. I just became very interested. It's all listed on mine. As a heterosexual man, just very eye-opening. Wildly eye-opening. Yeah, right. You can go for a cruise and get a lovely pine cone at Rabbit Island.

Careful. Careful. You can, yeah, so you get a pine cone. Yeah. By the way, the Christmas tradition wasn't gay cruising. It was you get a pine cone Yeah And by the way The Christmas tradition Wasn't gay cruising It was getting a curvy pine cone

Okay But if dad wants to do that Hey It's 2020 I don't know He's fighting a Fighting a big battle here So yeah

But then what do they do With the pine cone You take the pine cone home No not the gays The gays can do this This isn't Anybody can do this Okay

This is just a fun tradition You take the pine cone home And you put it in a bucket with a magic Christmas mix. Ooh, okay. Which could be some sparkles, whatever you want to put in your magic Christmas mix. Some tinsel. Some good thoughts. Okay. A couple of Christmas wishes chucked in the bucket.

And then in the morning, it will have turned into a perfect Christmas tree. Wow. Okay. Wow. Okay. Wow. That's actually a pretty cute tradition. Yeah, yeah. For the kids. And it pops up.

So on TikTok, were these kids kids or were they growing? No, this was a person looking back on their Christmas traditions. It's a good tradition. I like that. It's a cool tradition. It's cool. Put it in there. I mean, I wouldn't do it, but I like it.

It's cool. Put it in there. I mean, I wouldn't do it, but I like it. It's really warm. We've got a Christmas tree placed by our place, and the fun part is walking around and arguing about what makes the perfect tree. This one's good. No, it's not. It's too tall. And last year, we went with Sade's. No, we need a six-foot Christmas tree, and that's all.

Yeah. In the middle of it, because our house has got a pitched roof, in the middle, you could fit a way higher Christmas tree. This year we're allowed. This year the kids and I are like, nah, we're getting the biggest Christmas tree. Yeah, because we had to have a word to Dad a few years ago because they'd always bend over the ceiling, the top. Oh, you've got to measure.

You've got to measure. You've got to know what you're in store for. Take the tape measure to the Christmas tree place. Have you got enough decorations for a big tree? That's a good call. Yeah. And then you've got to get up the ladder to get them, don't you? Yeah.

Put them on there, don't you? Yeah, it just sounds like a punish. But we thought this morning. He's all for the big tree until he's like, get the ladder. He's like, nah, too much work. Yeah, it sounds like a punish. Too much work. We thought this morning we could talk about your cutesy Christmas traditions.

Because it's the 25th of November. Yeah. By the way. Hello. A month today. A month today until Christmas. So do you have one of those cutesy Christmas traditions that you do every year?

0800-DARLES-AT-M 9696. And even maybe you started this when you were a kid and even as an adult, you still to this day do it. Or maybe you're doing it with your kids now. Yeah. Talk about cute Christmas traditions that you do each year. Yeah, because there's a cute one online that I saw that I thought somebody could add to the family situation is

you find the perfect pine cone. Do pine cones? Yeah, I'm just wondering, are they in summer? Oh, yeah, I don't know. Yeah, no, because I always remember we did the firewood in summer. Yeah. It was when we cut the firewood for winter and there was always heaps of pine cones around.

Oh, yeah. Because when you took a break from the wood splitter you had to go with the sack and pick up all the pine cones. That sounds like slave labour. It was. Sounds horrible. But it wasn't

because it was keeping yourself warm in winter. That's how we were sold to it. Oh, okay. Yeah. And I always remember I'd be like, oh, now we're doing

two trailer loads for your grandparents. We'd be like, what, do you want them to die of the cold? Wow. Their death will be on you, infant children. No.

Please don't die. Stay warm. More wood for Nana. So you take a pine cone and you pop it in a bucket with some Christmas sparkle and a bit of Christmas magic and it can spread into a tree overnight. Wink, wink. Wink, wink. Good tradition.

Megan, you actually have a tradition. I'd forgotten about this. Yeah, two weeks ago we did our, well, half of the tradition. So in the Christmas tree, when you pack it up, you write a note to yourself for next year. That's right.

This is six years now. And it's just like little things, little things to note for Christmas time or like goals. What was your last? I don't want to, I don't really want to ask, but I know I'm going to do a little vom in my mouth,

but what did you say to yourself last year? Oh, I actually like got a bit teary because we wrote a note because we were quietly going to do IVF and we were like, if you ever haven't had babies, there's other ways to have kids. And then we said, plus you'll have real cute names for dogs if you can't have children.

I was like, oh my God, that's so cute. A lifetime of dog names. Yeah. Come on, Emma. But then you wrap it up in the tree and then when you get the tree out again,

you read your note to yourself. Right. And what does your note for next year say? Well, I haven't packed up the tree yet. Oh, you do it when you pack it up.

Okay. Are you so forgetful that you can't remember? Because I pretty much remember exactly what I wrote, right? No, it's also like when you drive,

there's a hilly street. What? Do you get drunk and, right? No, it's also like when you drive, there's a hilly street. What? Do you get drunk and write it? No, but there's like simple things in there. Like Franklin Road in Auckland is where there's lots of Christmas lights. Well, not this year. They've cancelled it. What?

Yeah, COVID. What? It's not happening. Bloody toffee-nosed wankers. Excuse me. Are you sure it'sosed wankers. Excuse me. Are you sure it's been yet? Executive engineer is backing me up. They don't want people walking over down their street.

Coughing on them. Well, they can hide in their house. Just put out the lights. But my note to myself was drive down Franklin Road because we burnt out our transmission going up because we were going so slow and the car smelled bad. The reason was they weren't able to contact Trace is the reason they gave. Which is you can't have a QR code.

You can't have a QR code because it's just a huge... But what about in the car? Yeah, you can drive, you can stay in the car. That should have been the rule. Look, I think they were all looking for an out. I think they were all looking for an out for a while. I thought if you moved there, you had to agree that you were Christmas spirited up. Look, they need me on the committee.

I would have solved it. We hire buses and you scan onto the bus you were on. Yeah, okay. You're hired onto the bus. It's a double-decker bus. It goes up the street really, really slowly. That eliminates traffic. There's no foot traffic so people can see the out.

Or you have an in and out at the top and the bottom in the side streets and you scan in there. And then you turn around and you come back down because if you're on one side of the bus, you see one side of the street on the way out and the other one on the way back. I think they were just looking for an ounce, to be honest. You've actually really upset me.

You do that every year. Oh, yeah. People that own those houses can't afford the power either. Julia, good morning. What's your Christmas tradition? Hi, guys. So every year I take my kids and they have to

pick a new ornament for the tree. Oh shit. And we put here that they picked it. So like right from when my first son

was newborn I picked his own obviously. Yeah. And every year when we get the tree out they sort of lay them out

and they try and find every single year. And then the hope that when they leave home they'll take their own ones and then they'll do that with their kids. So pretty much the tree out, they sort of lay them out, and they try and find every single year. And then the hope that when they leave home, they'll take their own ones, and then they'll do that with their kids. So pretty much the tree's down to 13 and 10. They'll have, like, a big tree full of ornaments that they chose themselves. But, Julia, then your tree will be empty and your children will be at home.

Yeah. I know. Oh, my God, what am I going to do? No, you should make them start from scratch when they leave, but they always have to come back to your house to put all their ornaments back on your tree. Yeah. Don't let them touch them.

Oh, their boys. Their boys, they're not going to do that. Yeah, look, I know this is cute and all, Julie, but are they selecting the same colour scheme? I know, I did think that. You know what, Anne, I was going to say this. I'm horrifically OCD, so it's been really hard because like one year, when they

started getting older, they picked like really random stuff, like I've got to join the attractor. That's a smack. That should be a smack. And I'm like, hey, that's not insane. No, take them back. Take them back. Get a refund and get something that matches the colour scheme. I know, right, but yeah.

And I'm sure I'll look back and thank past self for doing it. Yeah, it is, it's cute. Thanks for your call, Julia. Rachel, what's the cute... Hey, guys. Hey, what's the cute Christmas tradition? So me and all my siblings, we're all like

ages 26 plus. We still go and stay at mum and dad's house on Christmas Eve and spend the night. And then in the morning, dad wakes us up blowing this, like, big horn and yells, Santa's been, Santa's been. Oh, my God. Wow.

And Santa's been? He's actually been? Yes, Santa's always been. Good Santa. You're obviously very well behaved at us. Yeah, because he stopped coming. Fletch, don't ask why he doesn't come to your house. You're obviously very well behaved at us. Yeah, because he stopped coming. Fletch, don't ask why he doesn't come to your house. You've been very naughty all year.

And you liked it. Your idea of a good time is being bad, okay? Do not. Santa could hear this. He knows. He could hear this. Rachel, thanks for your call. He sees what you do.

He's had a look at your internet history. He is far from impressed. He's seen yours too. Yeah, I was your call. He sees what you do. Some text messages. He's had a look at your internet history. He is far from impressed. He's seen yours too. Yeah, I was going to say, pop kettle black. Exactly why he doesn't come to our house for me anymore. And I'm fine with it. Right. I'd rather have the payoff throughout the year than one Christmas present.

You know what I'm saying? He still comes to Megan's house because Andrew doesn't do that. Mr. Toyboy doesn't look at internet porn. Eye roll there. So we said, my partner is a Grinch, grumbles every time I put up the tree on the 25th of November. So happy tree day to you. Happy tree day. Last year, I watched Love Actually without the Grinch.

And he got so upset because apparently that's our Christmas tradition. Oh, so he's an undercover Christmas lover. Yeah, he's like playing down how much he loves it. But they totally got their Love Christmas tradition. Oh, so he's an undercover Christmas lover. Yeah, he's like playing down how much he loves her, but they totally got their love actually tradition. Somebody said, oh, to your caller before, don't worry. I did this same plan. The kids picked an ornament every year, and then when they left home, they didn't take them.

But then that's good because they would just lose them or break them. When you first leave home, you should have to come back and get the ornaments when you have kids and you've got your own family. They'll be manky by then. Chuck them out. Oh, no, you're buying a good ornament. You're not buying some soft felt ornament. You're buying a sort of a hard clay one, right?

Somebody else said, yeah, this is the reason why my Christmas tree is covered in Ninja Turtles and Minions. Oh, my God. Minion Christmas tree. I'm for it. I'm all for it. That would be pretty cute. Well, it's November 25,

so we're a month away from Christmas. Flesh for an Amigan, the podcast. ZM. This is quite scary. London antiviral software company, Clario, they have released a list of the major apps and companies that are used in the UK. So this is kind of like most of them are international,

so there's a lot of New Zealand corresponding data. And they've released the top 50 and what they know about you, like what they keep about you at their company end. Which is pretty crazy because how many – most of these apps on this list you would log onto with Facebook, right? Yes. Yeah.

That's true. And Facebook would be one of the top companies, right, that take your data. Now, Facebook is number one, 70.59% of personal data collected. So, they've broken down basically all these different areas of your of your data, your personal data and of that 70.59 is collected by Facebook. But you say you're right if you say for example

Facebook doesn't collect height or weight but if you use Facebook to log on to my fitness pal then they can get it through my fitness pal. Yeah. God. So you're saying we shouldn't, when an app's like, do you want to log in with Facebook or do you want to sign up? You should sign up individually.

Maybe. If you're worried about this sort of thing, you should use your email instead. It's just so much easier to be like logging with Facebook. I know. Because you're already logged on with Facebook and it goes, can I open the app? You're like, sure. And it's like, can we go back to the other app?

You're like, yeah, okay, let's go back there. And then you're done. You're logged on. And then you've already got a profile picture. Yeah. Oh. Easy. But it's crazy because it has a little dot

next to each of the items of information that an app has about you. Yeah. And it is weird to think like, you know, all these apps, they don't need half of this stuff, do they? Really? No. What are they doing with it?

No, there's a weird amount of dots beside bank account details. So Tinder, Uber. Uber, I can understand because they take your credit card. Uber is premium. Sorry, Tinder, do you pay for premium through like a credit card service? I guess this. Through the App Store, though. So they wouldn't need to take your.

But then the App Store's got your details. Yeah, of course they do. So other ones on there, Spotify, but that's like pay to use, MyFitnessPal, Netflix, that's kind of understandable. I would have some access to your... ASOS has got your bank details and we'll hold on to them. Airbnb, Ikea, Amazon, PayPal. I mean, that kind of all makes sense.

Facebook holds on to your email, your name, your age, your gender or sex, your sexual age, your gender or sex, your sexual orientation, your marital status, your race, your religious beliefs, your live location, your home address, your employment status, your job title, whether or not you own any pets, your mobile number, your landline number, your type of device that you're on, your hobbies and interests. Again, it doesn't access your height and your weight, but it could get it through other apps that you've used to log on to

It holds on to your next of kin, your current employers, your past employers Your social profile, which is your friends Your social profile, which is your hobbies And your social profile, which is your interests And it makes a ton of money off your personal data When you list it like that, it sounds bad Now at the other end of the scale, Pornhub It doesn't hold on to much at all

It holds on to your type of device and your interests. But just those interests alone would be enough to shame a few people, I'm sure. How did you know? So, number one is Facebook on the list and number 48, the Pornhub, that's the last on the list. So, that has the least personal information about you. WhatsApp's right down there. I expected that to be higher. Butub, that's the last on the list. So that has the least personal information about you. WhatsApp's right down there. I expected that to be higher. But again, that's owned by Facebook.

So surely what they can't get from WhatsApp, they can get from Facebook, which is why they're the same. But you don't need a Facebook to log into WhatsApp, do you? That's just your phone number. Yeah, but it's all by the same company. Yeah, I know. So they can data share, right? Is it interesting that Instagram's number two on the list,

or not really that surprising because it's owned by Facebook, but Tinder and Grindr, both dating apps, are three and four on the list of apps and companies that take the most data from you. Which is scary, isn't it? Yeah, and then it goes into Uber, and

then there's a couple of British-specific ones. Spotify has a lot of your details. You said shopping apps. What shopping apps? You mentioned ASOS. ASOS is 15 on the list. Oh, that's not too bad. Yeah, it could be worse.

Ikea is on there. Amazon, that's on there. eBay, online Walmart shopping, which is interesting that there's no Walmart in the UK, but people are buying from the US enough that it holds onto details. Yeah. Interestingly enough, the COVID tracing apps are well down the list.

I remember when New Zealanders, when the COVID tracing app came out and people were like, they just want to know where we are. Tin foil hats. 5G. Antifax. And people were like... Exactly.

Have you got Facebook? Exactly. They were bitching about Whereas people were like, exactly. Oh, you've got Facebook? Exactly. They were bitching about it on Facebook of all places. And then they compared what that COVID tracing app in New Zealand has and it's literally just

a number to get a hold of you and a name to identify you by. Yeah. Probably, yeah, one of the least. Yeah. It doesn't even have live tracing so that if you forget

to sign into somewhere it can say that you went into a shop. It doesn't, didn't even have that. Crazy. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. It's Poli Moli, Moli, Moli, Moli. Poli Moli, Moli, Moli.

Come on. This Poli Moli is the home decor edition because lots of people doing renos and stuff to their houses. I went to buy a little palm yesterday, and he was like, we don't have, this is all we've got left because everyone is buying plants and doing up their homes.

Wow. Well, there was that lady in the news who's still waiting for her couch because it's been a couple of months because she paid for it. And they're like, oh, yeah, we'll get it to you. And I guess couches aren't made here,

some of them. Right. Yeah, there's like months waiting. Months. Some people aren't getting delivered till next year. Like appliances, like ovens and stuff, fridges. Yeah, it can be a long wait for some of them. Wow.

Well, this is the home decor edition, and it's pretty. Most of these are pretty split. The first one is man caves and she sheds. She sheds. We touched briefly on this the other day because you said somebody had a very chauvinistic

approach to it and then Mr. Toyboy said He was like, well, you spend so much time trying to find a partner, why then would I want to escape from her?

But then actually after we finished talking about it, we got a couple of text messages from women who are in big supports of man caves because they don't want to see his ugly shit scattered throughout the house, quote. End quote. Which I don't understand.

I don't have that problem. Because yesterday, you know how I bought the horn? Yeah. On Trayvon, I went home and Sade's like, you needn't think that's been put on display. This is why I need an area

for all the stuff that I want to display, but she's like, not. Our home decor was very much in a line, so. Right, yeah. We're lucky. So man caves and she sheds. Do you agree with them? Yay or nay?

I'm yay. Your whole house is your man cave, though. Yeah, my whole house is my man cave, so yay. 53% said yay, so 47% said nay. Now, some of the comments, just because you have your own spaces doesn't mean you don't love each other. Man caves and she

sheds is some hetero BS. A long time... That's a good question. If you were in a same-sex couple, but you had different tastes, you could both have a she shed, but it would just be like one might be more into woodworking and one

might be into crafts or something. So you could both have a she shed, but it would just be like one might be more into woodworking and one might be into crafts or something. So you could both have a she shed. Yeah. Okay. I hadn't thought about it from a hetero point of view, more of just the person. Yeah. Someone said alone time is so important in a relationship. Yeah, I agree with that.

Everybody does it different, don't they? Yeah. Do you need a whole separate area, though? Yes. Mink blankets is the next one. I'm nay on these. They're real warm, though. They're warm as hell, but you've got to hide them under your proper duvet.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're a hidden shame. So you've had one? Back in the day, yeah, but not now. We've got one. I've got one. The kids have got one each. They bloody love them. I had a Playboy bunny now. We've got one. I've got one. The kids have got one each. They bloody love them.

I had a Playboy bunny once. Oh, my God. Did you? I've never had a decorative one. Oh, yeah. I think you would have had a Holden one. No. Okay.

Yay or nay? 53% said yay to mink blankets. Okay. Pretty split. Someone said super ugly but so snuggly. Yeah. Only in the bedroom and not as decor. Yeah, so you hide it

under the duvet. TV's in the bedroom is the next home decor question, yay or nay? See, it's different because when I was like flatting and I was in my room, TV in the bedroom, 100%. Because sometimes you didn't want to be

out in the lounge. Exactly. But then now that I'm living by myself, I'm like, I couldn't imagine having the TV in the bedroom. Yeah. 100%. Yeah. Because you didn't want to be, sometimes you didn't want to be out in the lounge. Exactly. But then now that I've just, I'm living by myself, I'm like, I couldn't imagine having the TV in the bedroom. We used to have the TV in the bedroom,

but in our new bedroom there's nowhere to put one. Yeah, right. So I've kind of just been, which he loves and I hate. There is room. You should do what they do

at the dentist's. What? Put it on the ceiling. Or buy one of those beds. One of those beds where it hides in the foot of the bed and you push a button and it goes. Oh, okay. I think that's real expensive.

Yeah. It'll be great if you could get it to come out of the ceiling. Yeah. No, make your own one in the foot of the bed except just have an air cushion down there so you both grab a little squeezer and you're like. And it just rises up. And it slowly inflates.

I love that idea. And then you over-inflate and the TV goes... and falls forward. Love that. Just be careful with that. So 55% said yay to a TV in the bedroom, 45% nay.

Someone said no screens, full stop. So that counts for phones. Oh, they've got to know phones before bedtime policy. Okay. Yes, but not before bedtime and not for the kids, but it is a good escape for adults to have a TV in your bedroom. Yeah.

Next one, lazy boys. Okay. Very comfy. My parents have got them. Yeah. And it has rules when you sit on one, you flick that thing and that goes, and you're just like, oh my God, yes. Yeah. But they're not that attractive, oh my god yes but they're not

that attractive are they nah they're not no 55% said yay to lazy boys anyone saying no has never sat in one

why does the ugly stuff have to be the comfiest yeah you gotta make you gotta make blanket picture on there situation on your hands there yeah gotta yeah

they're rules and even when there's like a couch and you just sit on it and then someone leans across and flicks it and you're like football. And you're like, oh, couch lazy boy. If anyone actually does have,

because Sade's promised me space in the lounge for a chair. I just have yet to select the chair. If anyone's got a hot link to a good looking lazy boy, let me know. Because I love a recliner. Are you going to have like like, dad's chair? Yeah, dad's chair. Mum and dad have got a couch chair.

A couch, and it comes out at the side. Yeah. Yeah. It's good stuff. No, mine has to be a single chair because there's a couch already, and it has to match that up. Don't even...

Yeah, Sade's going to have to choose that. Don't think your chair's going to be one of them. You're going to be that dad where, like, Indy's boyfriend's going to come over and sit in that chair, and everyone's just going to be like... No, she'll have pre-warned him. Framed canvas or canvas quotes.

How do we feel about those? Letters and canvas quotes. No. But this surprised me, this answer. What, like, live, love, laugh. Yeah. Or like quotes in a frame. Or people that put their name in letters

because they forget their name. Nah, that's a no from me. 87% said no. Nice. But I see them everywhere. I know, so do I. I would have thought out of everything

that would have been more split than some of the others. And fake plants is the last one. Which is what you should be doing because you're a serial plant killer. I've got one but it's in the corner

at the distance in the dark so you can't tell. And the trouble is the ones that look really good are actually quite expensive. 60% said no. Yeah. That's still 40% of people

that would be down for fake plants so that's pretty close. Someone said as long as you get the good looking ones the ones that look realistic though. Someone said as a serial plant killer

fake plants are a gold send. So you think, oh, they're too expensive, the good looking ones, but how much do you spend on plants that just die straight away anyway? Oh, thousands. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. ZM. Um, Megan's you're having a baby shower next weekend,

yeah? Yeah. Okay, good. I've got my weekends pretty sorted. Fletch, what was that face? You look like you've double booked. I know, I'm going. No, you said maybe on the invitation. Oh, that's what I do to all Facebook meetings. But also, remember I said to you, there's no obligation because I know you hate all that stuff,

so you don't have to come. But it's not like a traditional baby shower because for a start, men are on the invite list. We usually get left out of this and that always angers me because the cupcakes always look good. The catering at a baby shower looks right up my alley. It's not going to be like girls sitting down opening presents. Also don't want any presents.

But are we doing that game? Okay, I'm coming. The games where we do the, like, guess the. There might be a few games. Okay, good. Yeah, okay. There'll be, like, drinks and food and. Strippers?

Yes. What? Should I cancel? It's not a hen's night, is it? Will that make you calm? But anyway, but anyway,

on the same day, at the same time, just down the road, Yeah. one of my favourite New Zealand whiskey distilleries is having an open salad day.

Jim Beam. Thompson's Whiskey is having a distillery open salad day. Now, I'm only saying this because I got in trouble and I don't think I should have to shoulder all of this because I tagged in fellow whiskey lover and person who will be in the area, Mr. Toy Boy. The father of the baby that's been showered. The father of the baby of the showered baby thing.

And I said, just down the road, I reckon we nip down. During the baby shower? Yes. And he's like, on it. What does on it mean? Like, down for it, I'm assuming. No, he's not.

We won't be going for long. He is absolutely not. We won't be going for long. Half an hour. What? I don't know. An hour? Half an hour?. We won't be going for long. He is absolutely not. We won't be going for long. Half an hour. Well, I don't know. An hour? Half an hour? How long is this thing going for? It's right in the middle bit. You guys might want some quiet time. And I tagged him in and Shade

saw it because I guess I commented on it and then he replied and she's like, Vaughn Alan Smith. And I'm like, uh oh. Full name, you're in trouble. Middle name. She's like, you can't do that during his baby shower. I'm like, but it's like a long-ish event. This will only take a little. It's literally

like a, what, five minute walk tops. Maybe ten minutes on the way back, depending how long we're there. But I just thought a quick nip down. You can't ditch an event that you're running. You're hosting. I think you'll find I ditch everybody. I'm like'll find I ditch every party.

I'm like, well, clean up after yourself and turn off the lights because I'm going to bed. Or I'll start cleaning up mid-party. It's like quarter past 7pm and Vaughan's walking through with a big black rubbish sack. When you're finished with that, you're like, Vaughan, this is not subtle. And I make these party-ending noises like,

yeah, well. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Jada Pinkett-Smith has welcomed Will Smith's first wife onto her show called Red Table Talk that was made famous after she had Jordan Woods on Red Table Talk. Yeah. I'm talking about that affair, not a fear.

So Red Table Talk, she's had her husband's ex on there. Now they've had a complicated past because his other son is obviously from his first marriage. And there's been some blended family action, if you get what I mean. And Jada Pinkett Smith has been told off before by Will Smith for interfering in that relationship. But they've come a long way. Still, you don't want your ex talking to your current partner or wife or husband, do you? You always want to be there. Yeah, Trey Smith.

Trey Smith is Will Smith's son. And it looks like somebody's done like a face swap. Okay. There's definitely like a Will Smith face there. So you just always want to be there, right? Just to make sure they weren't swapping stories about you. Did Mr. Toyboy ever meet your first husband? Yeah.

I'm just trying to think. I can't remember that happening. Because my first husband dropped, I can't remember what it was, dropped something off to me. But at the time he was like, where are you? And I was like, I'm at a restaurant. But I was only with... Oh no. And he's like, I'll bring it to the restaurant

and drop it off. No. Go meet him outside. But they were both so... And you were like, nah, nah, it's alright, we'll do it another time. He's like, nah, nah, we'll do it now. Yeah, and I was like, I'll come outside. But then he came inside and then the two of them shook hands and had a chat. And I was like, I want to die. I want to die.

But they were both fine. But yeah, it's not pleasant. Oh, God, I wish I'd seen that. It's so vivid in my memory. I bet it is, yeah. That would be horrible. You got any fun stories of this ilk you'd like to share? No, I don't.

I really don't. Can you technically call them exes? We want to open up the phone lines now. I'll let Hindra Dars at M9696. What happened when your current partner met your ex? It doesn't have to be bad. No. Maybe they got on like a house on fire and they became friends.

And then you were like, oh, they like them better than they like me now. Would that be worse? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Your ex becomes. Oh, yeah, because if you did something wrong, your current would look at the ex and the ex would be like, I know. Oh, that would be horrible. Like a team up. You'd have to put your foot down and say, you're not seeing him.

You can't see him anymore. You're bad from seeing my ex. We would like to know what happened when your current ex met your, I mean, when your current partner met your ex. There we go. Good or bad stories. Good or bad. All right, let's start with Hayley.

Hayley, what happened? So my ex from years ago happens to, what do you mean my husband? He happens to have a kid to his sister. So my ex has gone to, gone from my ex

to being kind of like my brother-in-law. This is one of those situations where I need a diagram. Yeah. I often find it easier in these situations. There was a lot of relationships

mentioned there to draw myself on a family tree. A visual, yeah. Well, basically, the brother-in-law I often find it easier in these situations. There was a lot of relationships mentioned there. To draw myself a family tree. A visual, yeah. Or basically the brother-in-law. Going from ex to brother-in-law. Yeah, so you're not escaping him, are you? And you're seeing him at Christmas. No, it's weird.

It's very awkward. But everyone gets on okay? Yeah, everyone gets on real good. Oh, that's good then. That's all right. And we're actually hearing that a lot from the text machine as well. It's not all bad and awkward. Anonymous, what happened when your ex met your current partner?

So it's a bit of a long story, but my ex ends up living with my partner, and he ended up dating one of my exes. So I ended up living with two of my exes and my current partner all in one house. That sounds horrible. Hang on, sorry. Anonymous, if I could just pause there.

Do you need a diagram for me? Is there a bisexual in this mix? Yes, yes. Right! Yes, because I knew you. Because I was like, hold on. I was trying to do the maths. Right, okay, right.

Cheeky bisexuals. Or a spanner in the old smithies planning. And so was that awkward at all? It was very awkward. It ended up being a point where they would bring up past dates that we would go on together to my current partner. Oh no, don't.

What are they doing? To make it even better, I was my partner's first partner, so he didn't have an ex. He didn't have any, like, hard stories to say. And I would, like, gang up and be like, do you remember when we used to do this in front of him? And then they'd be like, why are you doing this? Wow.

Oh, that just sounds so awkward. It does. Anonymous, thanks to your awesome text messages. I arranged my ex-husband to paint the exterior of the house myself when my new husband had purchased. Not sure new hubby was overly keen, but it saved them money and my ex was a qualified

painter, so he got paid and he did a good job, so now they get along fine. Yeah. That's good. I'd be all for that. He's a good painter. Yeah, exactly. At the end of the spectrum, my ex smashed our car window. That was enough of a meter. So he got over that breakup. Oh, yeah, now he's handling it like an absolute champ.

My ex decided he wanted to start trouble with my new man and ended up in a fight and he got a slap. Oh, you don't want to slap in a fight. I was kind of hoping that was going to end up with like they got in a fight and then they chatted and now they're mates. Yeah. I can see guys doing that. My amazing partner

works with my ex. Christmas parties are so much fun. I think that's slightly sarcastic. It did sound yeah. My ex-husband trespassed me from his mother's house. There's way more to this story. What they were, she was getting on with the mum. So the ex is like

I can't have this, I'm going to put a trespass order My new parents ex-husband Trespassed me from his mother's house There's a lot more to this story I'm imagining there's a bisexual in there too If Snithy's confused There's a bisexual in the masks Yeah, definitely

Someone said this is way worse than the lesbian community When your ex is often your current partner's ex And there's at least two other exes involved in the mists. Yeah, definitely. Someone said, this is way worse than the lesbian community when your ex is often your current partner's ex and there's at least two other exes involved in the web as well. Yeah, it can get like that. Goodness me.

God, I was confused at the bisexual situation, wasn't I? I've got a lot to learn. I've got a lot to learn. I forgot my ex works at a certain store. My partner and I went there

to look at barbecues. My ex came over to ask if we needed help. Very awkward small talk was made over the barbecues. And I, to be honest, don't think we got the best deal. Why did he come over? He came over to rip them off. But he might have, like, seen them from the back,

just looking at somebody. By the time he gets here, he's like, how may I help you with this? This is a brother. Awkward. Horrible. But then somebody else said, my mum has had three husbands. Not at the same time, obviously.

So that's good that she's pointed that out. When I was around 10, we had Christmas Day at my nana's and all three of mum's husbands were there. It was no awkwardness at all. They all got along great. Still do whenever family gatherings happen. They all come because they all want to be there for the kids. It's like Mamma Mia.

All the dads come. Is that the idea with Mamma Mia? There's three of them, yeah. So I haven't seen a Mamma Mia before. Is that the... Both times. All the... The dads.

You're saying it's a giant family reunion in Italy. There's three ex-partners. Yeah, yeah. And they've got to find out which one is the dad. That's number one, eh? And they're always singing about it. They're invited. They're invited in the second one. They're invited to go to the wedding.

And why is she there? She's singing. Who slept with all three of those hotties? Meryl Streep. Yeah. Quit Meryl, man. She bagged three good looking dudes but from like

various places on the spectrum of good looking dudes. You've got your Pierce Broslins and your Colin Firths but they're not the same type of good looking dude,

eh? And then that Skarsgård dude. Is he a Skarsgård? Yeah, he's the Skarsgård's dad. Is he the dad Skarsgård? He's Stella Skarsgård's dad.

Isn't he? Yeah. Is he the dad Skarsgård? So. He's Stella Skarsgård's dad, isn't he? Yeah. Is he the dad's Skarsgård? So you know he's packing heat? Well, I don't need to see Mamma Mia now. One of his son's willies in that TV show True Blood. Okay. If that runs in the Skarsgård family, fact of the day.

No wonder Meryl Streep was like, I love one of that. I don't think she actually did it. What? Is it not a documentary? The Mamma Mia documentary series. Yeah, it is. How about you and Abba to sign off on that? Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast, ZM.

Fact of the day, day for the 4.5 billion times that Desposito was streamed. Desposito. Desposito. Desposito. That uses as much electricity as the combined annual electricity consumption of the countries Chad, Guinea-Bissau, Somalia, Sierra Leone, and the Central African Republic. Wow. So Daddy Yankee and I was trying to do it off the top of my head. Who else was in Desposito?

Justin Bieber was in the remix. I can't blame the Biebs entirely for this because the original was very popular before the remix came out. But he certainly put it into the stratosphere, didn't he? Are very much responsible for a huge amount of greenhouse emissions. Wow. Really? Yeah.

So you'd like them to plant some trees to make up for this? I would love to see them. I would love to see Daddy Yankee out there on the arse end of a spade digging some holes so that the other fella... What is that guy's name? Hold on. Lewis Fonzie. Yes, Fonzie.

Fonzie. I'm going to be ready to hear that again. Are we Fonzie-ing? Really? Yeah. You could do a little desposito, couldn't you? You could take care of that request there, Mr. DJ. Don't, don't.

Hey, hey. Don't be condescending. Play desposito, play desposito. Remind us of when that was our biggest grief. Our biggest problem was a very catchy Latino reggaeton. Oh, it's got one of those things at the start of it. It's got a hot intro, doesn't it? That's what they call a hot intro. Yeah. Our biggest problem was a very catchy Latino reggaeton. Oh, it's got one of those things at the start of it. It's got a hot intro, doesn't it? That's what they call a hot intro.

Yeah. Yeah. Oh, that's, yeah, wow. Oh. How many trees would they have to plant? For that part alone, you'd want to plant a couple of native flax bushes, I'd say. Okay, great. To get that going.

But no, this study looked into, this was by the European Commission, Dr. Rabih Barouch, who has also talked about how every time you send an email, if you don't need to send it, don't. Because it all accounts for service space and things online and it all adds up. This is why I don't do work emails. This is why we don't reply. I've taken them off my phone for the environment.

Let's just set up an auto reply that says, oh, does that count? No, that counts. However, streaming an hour of HD video involves over a million times more data than that email. I'm okay with that. I'll forego a million emails to watch an hour of television. Sounds great.

But yeah, it's just kind of looking at, you know, there's the traditional ways that you think of cars being greenhouse gas producers and all the other things, but anything that requires power, and a lot of parts of the world, power is still coal-driven. Yeah, right. So, what are you pointing at? Lights in here.

Just everything around here. Turn it off. Turn it all off. Turn it all off. Turn it off. Turn it all off. Let's get clean and green, baby. Let's turn all this junk off.

Right. What are we here for? We should be out planting trees after every show to make up for the emissions that we've caused. Well, I walk home. You drive home. Yeah, I take the long way too. And sometimes I put diesel in my car.

I don't do that. That doesn't work. That doesn't work at all. So today's fact of the day is for all of the times that this song was streamed, it used as much, by the way, this is forever growing the more times you listen to the song. It used as much electricity as the combined annual electricity consumption of one, two, three, four, five African nations.

Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Well, it's like the TV show Shark Tank and Dragon's Den, except it's Fishy Tank. It's a bit smaller, slightly smaller scale, and we have Up for Grabs. If you have a side hustle, you're in to win. You've just got to register. Send them online. Tell us about your side hustle,

the little business that you've started up, maybe because of COVID. A lot of people have this year. And all thanks to Vodafone Business, $5,000 up for grabs. So we're going to meet another couple of side hustlers now. Abby, good morning. Hey. All right. So what's your usual occupation, Abby? So I'm a chemistry lab supervisor.

Oh. What? It sounds time consuming. What are you working on at the moment? Nothing too much, to be honest. Just testing milk. Oh. What for?

We work at Finlay, so just for instant formula, that kind of thing. Okay. Oh. Do you have lots of beakers? Yes, we do have lots of beakers. Beakers. You're just picking the one thing you know about her job. About science.

Bunssen burners That I can remember Do you have a Bunsen burner? No we don't actually Oh I really thought you would have had a Bunsen What if you need to heat something? We don't really heat anything

Kind of a heating block But nothing like that really It's just something you'd imagine to be honest What were we wasting our time with in science? With the Bunsen burners? I don't really know to be honest It was a waste of time Didn't learn anything useful Lighting the Bunsen burnerers? I don't really know, to be honest. It was a waste of time. I didn't learn anything useful.

Lighting the Bunsen burner was my favourite part of science. It was, yeah. I know. Someone set the curtains on fire. Why science rooms ever had curtains was beyond me. I know, right? Now, tell us about your side hustle.

Yeah, so Pickles Portraits. Do you want me to do my little spiel now? We'll give you 30 seconds. Your time starts now. Awesome. So our side hustle is Pickles Portraits. So we picked up our mini dash and puppy Pickle the day New Zealand went into lockdown

and quickly joined the InstaDog community. So we then decided to join the Dogtrepreneur community after seeing heaps of inspiring owners create really cool pet-themed businesses. So Pickles Portraits was born. Essentially our customers send us the photos of their pets and we work closely with a small team of artists to create a digital image

that captures the pet's character. We then make unlimited revisions until the owner is 100% happy. Then customers can use the portrait as they wish. They make a really cool Instagram profile picture for your pet or if you print them out they're all cool on your wall as well. I've just gone to your Instagram page. These are print them out, they're all cool on your wall as well. I've just gone to your Instagram page. These are really cool.

Yeah, they're pretty cool, though. Really cool. Wow. I don't know about that unlimited revisions, though. Are you regretting that? I think it's all good. You made my chihuahua look less boggly-eyed. I get things like that all the time.

My animal doesn't look like this. So Pickles Portraits on Instagram, you can check that out. That's incredible. Some amazing portraits. Portraits. Yeah, P-A-W, that's key. Yeah, that seems... Someone's got a...

You did a cow for someone. You could do your cows for them. Yeah. So we actually... We partnered up with Cows of New Zealand. I don't know if you guys have heard of them. They're on our Instagram page as well. Yeah, we've made some for her.

So they're really cool. Cows of New Zealand. Yeah, and they put up pictures of cute cows. Of cows, all right. Wow, and everyone's got their dogs. Oh, that's really cool. All right, well, hey, Abby, in the running for Fishy Tank and our $5,000 side hustle.

Making a splash in the Fishy Tank and our $5,000 side hustle. Making a splash in the Fishy Tank is... Good morning, Flora. Morning, how's it going? Megan's like, wait, is that your name? I thought it was written Flores. I was like, no, what's Flores? No, Flora like the margarine, you know, that's what I usually say. I'd say Flora and Fauna maybe.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, that too. You're better than margarine, you know, that's what I usually say to people. I'd say flora and fauna maybe. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, that too. You're better than margarine. You are. Oh, no, I like it. I like it. Now, before we get to your side hustle, what's your main job?

So I'm a high school teacher. Oh, okay. All right. And so your year's been very disrupted then. Yeah, yeah. It's been good though. I enjoyed it. Yeah. It good, though. I enjoyed it. Yeah.

It was a challenge. I love lockdown, being at home. That's something different, right? So the teachers I've talked to have said the same. It was a challenging year, but it was, like, exciting to see, you know, what they're capable of and how kids are, you know? Yeah, absolutely, yeah. All right, well, Flora, we're going to give you 30 seconds

to tell us about your side hustle. Your time starts now. Hey, I'm Flora, and I make Flora Grow Kits, which include everything you need to begin your gardening journey. They have seeds, labels, instructions, peat pellets and pots and even a recipe idea. They're made from start to finish in my lounge with the help of my mum and friends. We have six different kits from the My First Garden Kit,

perfect for kids, all the way to the Cocktail Herb Kit for the thirsty auntie. The packaging is biodegradable. Wow, that's cool. So your name is Flora and you put together plant packages. Yeah, and my business is called Flora, Flora Grow. Now, the irony is not lost on me. You're very handy. Also, if this side hustle takes off, you've got just a whole classroom of slaves to package these products.

Oh, yes, I do threaten that often. Is that how teaching works? Yeah, that's how it goes. Detention today is packing Flora's Flora kits. I've just gone to the website. You've got a website already. floragrow.co.nz. They look really cool. They look really cool.

That was my lockdown project aside from the teaching. Are you also donating to Ronald McDonald House through your... Oh yeah, Ronald McDonald House South Island. So that's with the My First Garden kit. $1 from each of those kit sales goes to them.

Yeah, I think we've donated just over $200 now. Wow. That's cool. This would be a good secret Santa or a good little gift for someone, especially the cocktail herb kit. That'd be fun. I could get some mint for my mojitos. Oh, you do love mojitos.

You know I do love my mojitos. All right, hey, Flora. Love a mojito. Flora, though, amazing side hustle there. In the running for that big price of $5,000 cash. All thanks to Vodafone Business. And there is still time to register your side hustle if you'd like to do that.

Season two of Fishy Tank, Vodafone Business, $5,000 the prize. As you mentioned before, Vaughan the Jingle. A little advertising package that we'll put together some Soshmed oh well we'll do the lot it's gonna be hard

I like every idea we've had this week I've just loved I've just loved them so well no one said this was gonna be easy

no they didn't you're right you gotta pick your favourite yeah Fletch Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. ZM. I saw this online last night.

Just scream dot baby. And you go to just scream dot baby. What's the deal? Well, when you call the number, they record you making sounds and they'd like you to scream. We take any recordings that users have submitted and upload them here for everyone to listen to the next day. This is a project that will be active until January 21st, 2021,

at which point it will be archived. So is that so people can let off steam because this year has been so horrible? Yeah. That's the idea? They said they can't see your phone number or have any way of identifying you, and that's plus not what they're interested in. This is by Chris. He's a teacher and occasional artist and generally rather a quiet person

who has enjoyed a scream or two this year to relieve stress. Sometimes you just need to have a big scream, don't you? Get it all out. So you call the number, you scream, and then you come back tomorrow and you may hear your scream. Here are some of the screams.

Oh, are these going to be bad? Of the last 24 hours. That's a good scream. That's scream 688. That screamed 688. Okay. Now, I don't know what happened to scream 687. Okay. We'll go straight to 686.

684. An hour. No, that person's holding back. Yeah. Don't hold back. They're not going to get anything off their chest with that attitude. Oh, that was a good... That was like a death metal.

Man, someone's never screamed before. Who's calling to go, uh? You've got to put effort into it. This one's nine seconds. Okay. Unscreened, though. Do you want to risk it? I did check a few of these to make sure that there was no, like, swear words on the mix.

Okay. I mean, you've got to live, though, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I have to be kind of quiet? Yeah, that was a bit loud. I think she was explaining why she's got to scream kind of quietly. Oh, right, okay.

That was good. I love the scream there. That was terrifying. That grows. Wow. So can you call this number from New Zealand or is it just online? I don't know.

It's plus one. So that's the States, right? Yep. Five, six. Well, I mean, I can't see why you couldn't. It would just be a toll call. Yeah. Or you might be able to call it over like, is it a mobile phone?

You might be able to call it over like WhatsApp. Yeah, totally. Free calling services. If you really need to scream. To scream. Yeah. And they say, don't worry, no live human will ever be on the other end of the line. Because I'd imagine you ring to scream,

someone's like, hello, you'd be like, just hang up. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. If you enjoyed this podcast, why not give ZM's Bree and Clint a listen too? Subscribe on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. Head music lives here. ZM.