ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Megan Podcast - 26th June 2020

Episode Date: June 25, 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. This is a pre-podcast announcement. Excerpt. Excerpt. Is it an excerpt if it goes before? It's an intro. It's a, what do you call it?

Special intro. It's opposite of an epilogue. Prologue. A prologue. Okay, welcome to the prologue. The podcast prologue. We're just letting you know that we have next week off. And so the podcast will resume on Monday the 7th of July?

26th. 6th of July. Oh, 6th. You do the math. Today's the 26th. The 6th of July. Yeah. Yeah.

So just a little week off next week. Yeah. Which will be nice. Some sleep-ins. Yeah. A little bit there. Keep the week. Yeah. Which will be nice. Some sleep-ins. Yeah. A little bit there. Keep the holiday days down. That's the idea.

That's the idea there, yeah. That's the idea. And there's nowhere else to go, is there? More shorter holidays. Yeah. More holidays, shorter holidays. Shorter holidays. That's the deal there.

What are you going to do, Megan? My mum's here today, remember? That's right. Ray Raising Town. We're going to go get our nails done. We're going to go have some brunch. And it's lucky you're not working because otherwise she'd have alone time with Mr. Toyboy. He works too.

He's at the cafe. He's hard working. He should be volunteering to do the dishes. I'll tell you that much for number. Should be on the arse end of that brush and some suds. Excuse me? Sudsing it up. When does your new beef cheek

item take to the menu? It takes to the menu from tomorrow, thank you Vaughan. At the cafe. A lovely beef cheek is a secret recipe. A beef cheek like mince on toast, right? With a little Parmesan hash cake. If you've never had beef cheek you haven't a-lived. I think you were out of the

room in the toilet, Vaughan, when I asked Megan for her creamy mushrooms recipe. She won't give it to me. It's a secret. I made that. What kind of bullshit is that? That's so popular. I'm absolutely not telling you that.

You wouldn't go back to a cafe? Yeah, you wouldn't come back. You'd just make it yourself. That's silly. No, I'd still go. I still would. Because I'm lazy. That's a special secret recipe.

Yeah, I mean, that's... Yeah, that is... That's why we all go to a cafe. Yeah, because we are capable of making our own food. We just don't want to. And when you learn how much admin is involved in those mushrooms. There's an admin heavy mushroom. Yeah.

Oh, okay. They're twice cooked. They're worth it, though. They're worth it. Twice cooked. That's all I'll tell you. The first time would be fried. A roasted.

Roasted. A roast. Yeah, and then. Oh, my God. And then a saute. And then God knows Oh, my God. And then a saute. And then God knows what happens to them. And then a creamy sitch. All right, well, have a fantastic weekend and week.

What are you doing? And we'll catch you back. Why does it matter? What are you doing? You asked Megan what she was doing. I thought we were doing a round the road. I've wanted to fill some time. What are you doing?

Christchurch, Wellington and New Plymouth. Just a wee ticky-toe around. Just a wee little ticky-toe around. Actually, it's going to be my first time on a plane today in ages. This will be like the longest you've ever been on a plane in a long time. I know. Are you going to Taranaki first? No, last.

And you're going to have your parents? And then actually Rotorua. I had to ring up the hotel to make sure it wasn't one of those COVID ones. I was going to say, hitting all the COVID hotel hotspots. Really? On your time off. And Vaughan, what are you doing? This weekend I'm going to Martinborough. Oh, lovely. Oh, you're going away on a swingers wines weekend, aren't you?

Yes, we're getting the swingers association restarted after lockdown. We all played it safe and stuck with our monogamous sexual partners. You still have to hand sanitize them? Sanitize it all, Megan. I like to give myself a thorough sanitizing. Even pre-COVID, I was big on the sani. Even the dick? Big on the dick and balls.

Big on the dick and balls. On the sani and the dick. Give them a spray. I don't know about you, but hand sanitizer ruined the skin on my hands. I don't think you should be putting hand sanitizer ruined the skin on my hands. I don't think you should be putting hand sanitizer on the dick and balls. I'm often told that the skin on my penis is too soft.

It's very supple. It's silky. It's so silky. It's silk-like. Really? So yeah, I'm trying to roughen that up a smidge. It's unused. Coming back. Fletcher's one is rough as gut.

Fletcher's is leathery. Jesus Christ. Fletcher's a leathery old thing. This is defamation. No, it's only defamation if you prove me wrong. Well, I'm not going to show you my dick, Megan. Well, then she, Your Honour. She goes free.

No further charges. And then our dad's coming up and we're finishing the treehouse. Now, have the new laws about building backyard structures changed to help you with your treehouse? It's too high off the ground. Okay, right. Nah, it's not. So are we going to get a finished picture posted on social or nah? From inside and from certain angles.

Usually I'm shooting from an angle to make it look bigger. Yeah. I'll be trying to shoot from an angle to make it look smaller in this situation. Right, which doesn't happen often, does it? No, never. God, no. Okay. Right, you know.

But that is, yeah, that's the plans for the week. All right, we'll catch you back July 6th with the podcast. Have a fantastic time in life and stuff. God, you do emotion well. Look after yourself. Sincere emotion. Have fun and life and stuff. Play the podcast.

Welcome to the show, Fleets for the Megan. Happy Friday. Bring your dog to work day. How's that gone for you so far, Megan? So they can shit on the floor and... Your dog shits on the floor every time it comes here. I don't know why, because he knows

he doesn't poo inside, but this place must be confusing for him. And I let him out for half an hour this morning, assuming that would be when he'd choose to poo. And it would have been fine if I could have just picked it up, but someone trotted all through the carpet, so, yeah, that's how I've spent my morning so far.

So glad I didn't broom my dogs. The big one had muddy feet, and the other one, when I was like, hey, are you awake? It's so deaf it doesn't hear you anymore. You have to blow on her face. Apparently that's what you do to deaf dogs. Because if you touch them and the first thing they feel is a touch,

they freak out. I saw a video of a guy online. His dog is deaf and blind and he gets down on the floor and blows on its nose so it doesn't get scared. Yeah, yeah, and it wakes up. I'm here. Yeah. All right, well, happy Friday and happy Bring Your Dog to Work Day.

Great news for the country we have been awarded the fifa sims world cup the fifa women's world cup 2023 23 that was it it was down to us and uh oh my lovely one of my favorite countries um but they can have it another time yeah so this fantastic news. We're going to talk to Anneli Longo before 7 o'clock because they're all over the moon. She's a football fan. Yeah. And we've got three years to get over this current sitch.

When people can... COVID. COVID, yeah. And people can come back and we can mangle. So it's another three years for airlines to get back up and running. Yeah, great. Perfect. Which is fantastic. So they can bring three years for airlines to get back up and running. Yeah, great. Perfect. Which is fantastic. So they can bring all the football players here. Get on to it. Also in sports news and dealing with this in the top

six, Vaughn. So much sports. There was a while ago rumoured about a game between the All Blacks and the Kangaroos. Now that if you follow sport as closely as I do would seem peculiar because those are two different codes. That's the New Zealand rugby team versus the Australian rugby league team.

Yeah. There was going to be massive money in it. But which one would they play? A hybrid of the two. Oh. A hybrid of the two. Wouldn't they just take a turn at each code? Because then you'd have to learn all new rules, wouldn't you?

No, they'd just establish what the rules were. Right, okay. But it'd be really interesting because rugby's all about the ruck, whereas the struggle rule of a ruck in league. But anyway, I've got the top six other hybrid sports that we should have a go at.

Like, if that sounds exciting to me, hybrid-ing to sports. Let's hybrid some more sports. All right. It's coming up. Why not, eh? What else you got to do? What have you got to do this morning?

Well, nothing. Why might as well do it then? Yeah, all right. Fire it up. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. ZM. I can't believe we're going to talk about this.

Well, you don't have to bring it up. Okay. How do I talk about it then? Well, I know you wanted to bring it in. No, you... Oh, no, Vaughan can talk about it. You do. You do.

I don't know much more apart from... And I saw this and I was like... I was easily in my 20s before I learned this. Right, okay. How many holes women have. This is in the news, isn't it? Because there has been a shocking discovery. The shocking discovery is that men don't know the discovery.

So a woman put it on her Instagram story after she asked her husband, partner, how many, and he did not know. So she put it on her Instagram story and was like, ha, ha, ha. But then it turned out that a lot of men. Heaps of men didn't. Was it true that some guys set up to like seven, between two and seven? Seven? Seven.

No. I don't know where. Now I think I'm wrong. They were. Because there's too many variables there. Three. Fletch? Yeah, three.

Definitive answer? Yeah, three. Congratulations. Yes. Because I saw the story last night and I was like Out of the blue Hey babe I feel we should have asked Jared before you told us the answer

Producer Jared Five No Depends how We should have We should have Yeah did you actually know that producer Jared I had a hunch

Yes Depends how many They could Yeah, so it depends how many. They could have had five. It depends how many piercings they had. Seven? Who's guessing seven? No, I reckon some guy freaked out because the question would have been right there. How many holes? And he would have been like, oh, my God.

Can I? I thought it was two, but it can't be two. It must be more. How many could it be? Seven? Yeah, so I was like, babe, weird question, but how many holes? And he was correct. This is Mr. Toyboy.

I was like, phew. Okay, can I just, let's put our big people pants on, and I just want to read one of the answers because it's pretty funny. Okay. This is from one of the men who said four. Okay. One for urinating. Yep.

One for number twos. Yep. One for the period. Yep. And number twos Yep One for the period Yep And one for the uterus For the babies Right Okay Okay

Yeah Wow Schools failed some Yeah I remember the diagram Yep From school And everything But I don't remember Ever being told That there was I remember the diagram from school and everything,

but I don't remember ever being told that there was a hole just for wheeze. You're right. You have one too. Yeah, I know. But mine serves a dual purpose. Yeah. Do you know what I mean? Yeah, right.

And I just assumed that may have been a dual purpose on both. Yeah, right. Okay. Yeah. I didn't know. See, I could see a guy saying two by mistake, but not seven. No. Like, that's too many.

Yeah. Yeah. I didn't know more about the seven guy. There was no explanation. I've just got one for the four. Yeah, right. One to breathe underwater. One for just general storage.

ZM's Fletch Warner-Megan, the podcast. Fletch Warner-Megan. From the ZM think tank, this is the top six. The All Blacks versus the Kangaroos. That is a rugby team versus a rugby league team. The idea was bantered about a while ago. Yeah. But neither side could kind of make it work with the intense long NRL season.

And they've got like special times for international league games. And also the rugby season. They could just never make it work. Plus the fact that each team made so much money for their sport by playing their sport. It was kind of dangerous to put them against another team playing a non-sport. Yeah, right.

So this hybrid game is kind of back on the table because of COVID. Is it something that could possibly happen? Imagine it. Yeah. In a bubble. Oh, I was just thinking what sport had I heard was affected by COVID-19? The WWE. Apparently, like, it has ripped through.

Really? Six wrestlers with it, like, all these staff and everything, so. Because weren't they wrestling to empty arenas? Yeah. Right. But then, obviously. They broke the bubble. Well, the people were living places where, you know,

Americans, they're not masking, they're not staying in bubbles or anything. So, yeah, it's got into there now. But the top six hybrid sports that we should give a go. Okay. You've heard of chess boxing? That's a hybrid sport. Okay.

Is that real? Yeah, where you move your chess piece and then, like, whack. And then they get to move their chess piece and whack. Is it a free hit? I think the idea is to give the other person brain damage so they can't make a clever chess move. Oh, my God. But I bring you a further hybrid to chess boxing.

Chess unboxing. You get to move a chess piece, and for every pawn or other player that you take off the opposition's chess board, you get to open a product that's been sent to you. Oh, lovely. And tell your YouTube viewers about it. Okay. That sounds fun.

Yeah, but you can't unbox your latest Shishado lipstick until you've got a pawn off the board, for example. Lovely. Number five on the list of the top six hybrid sports that we should give a go at, water kayak polo. So there's water polo, there's kayak polo,

and there's polo. Now the hardest part would be getting the horse in the kayak. Put them all together. Drill four holes. I hadn't thought about that. A horse's float,

but a floating kayak horse would be great. A floating kayak horse. And put some flippers on their feet. Yeah. Because their hoofs aren't really swimming feet,

are they? Yep. That's fantastic. Would that be a good rehabilitation for one that's got a broken leg? I've seen a horse swim. Even like my grandparents had horses growing up

and they had this deep part of their creek and the horses bloody loved to swim. Oh. They loved it. And yeah, exactly. Completely low to no impact. Yeah. On horse rehab.

Yeah, right. Completely different to the other horse rehab where the horses have to go to get off the meth. And you can tell which ones they are because they're skinny with the long ones. Their teeth aren't great. Number four on the list of the top six hybrid sports that we should have a go at. You ever play force back at school?

Yeah. I love a bit of force back. I wasn't at fun because you didn't get tackled, right? That was my main reason. I didn't like it. And I like kicking. You boot a football and you try to get it over the opposite end. And if they catch it on the full, they're able to take five things. I'm sure there's international rules to force back.

It was a great game. However, it would be better if we mixed it with golf. Oh, okay. Because there's golf frisbees in there. Frisbee golf. Yes, there is frisbee golf. Yeah, yeah. This would be like force back except you'd be whacking a golf ball,

but when you're not whacking, you're also allowed to try to stop the golf ball. If you can see it. How much recommended? Yeah. Yes, if you can see it. Number three on the list of the top six hybrid sports, hydra slide high jump. Okay. This is where you'd come down a hydra slide, and right at the end,

there would be an up and a bar and it would be almost like pole vault height, I think. So you've got to... Kick your legs up. And you've got to go up and then curve over. Brilliant. Yeah. Land on the soft mat.

I think Eliza McCartney would have it. In the bag. Yeah. She just needs a slippery pair of togs. Yeah. Nothing worse than a grippy pair of togs. Yeah. Number two on the list of the top six hybrid sports,

the rowing is massive in New Zealand. Yeah. And so is wakeboarding. So I'd introduce you to the rowing Coxless Falls wakeboarding team. I'm great at both of those. You do the rowing. But I can't imagine you wakeboarding. Well, that's your problem.

Can you imagine her wakeboarding? I've jumped my wake once, excuse me, and I did a 180 switch but then I fell off. I was going to say, was it as part of your tumbling? No, a switch. You're not allowed to claim a rag doll as a 360.

I completed the switch and rode it and then fell. That counts. Where are we wakeboarding? What lake is it? Kaiwi Lakes? And Nelson. No, it's not Nelson.

It's up in North Island. It doesn't even exist. You're making up fictional lakes. Look it up. It's a beautiful lake. Megan, are you making up that time you were wakeboarding? No. So, all right.

Let's see it then. Well, get me a boat and a wakeboard. All right, we'll're wakeboarding. No. So, all right. Let's see it then. Well, get me a boat and a wakeboard. Yeah, all right. We'll go wakeboarding. That's kind of great. Mark it down for summer. Mark it down for summer. I grew up in Nelson.

Megan's going to go wakeboarding. Oh, no, I know. Megan's going to teach us wakeboarding. No, you're good at rowing. I just couldn't imagine you wakeboarding. Okay. And number one. I'm pretty badass.

I'm badass. Number one on the list of the top six hybrid sports. You mentioned Frisbee golf before. Frisbee golf with ninja stars. Oh, brilliant. Frisbee ninja star golf. Okay. You've got to be careful if you lose sight of your ninja star

that you don't just leave it in the grass. Ninja star up. Yeah. Someone will trot on it. And if you're throwing it and it's going to the players in front of you, you yell out four, just like in golf. Or just battle to the death. That could be a good 18th hole finisher.

That is today's top six. Alright, next on the show, if you're funky looking... Funky up your bunker, baby. Whatever that means. If you're a little unusual looking, a chance for you to make some money. Fleshforn and Megan, the podcast, ZM.

Another urgent call has gone out this week looking for extras for the new Amazon Lord of the Rings television show that's being filmed. Right. Because that's fired back. That's looking busy again. Yeah, well, it's all... It's been filmed just around the road.

Yeah, so during lockdown and everything, they were all ready to go. Yep. They had hundreds of, like, trailers and port-a-coms, I'm guessing, for actors and catering and everything, and then it just shut. It stopped. Gate shut, security guard. So are there any big-name actors in this TV show?

Because they all would have been here during lockdown, right? Yeah, I assume so. I assume they had to knuckle down here. I don't know who they've announced. Eyebrows Kid, isn't he? I know who you mean. Yeah, Eyebrows Kid. Yeah, famously if you Google Eyebrows Kid,

the first result is the exact kid we're talking about. He was on Where the Mill Is and he's been in a few. Isn't he in it? Will Poulter. Yeah, he's got a very elvish aura about him. He does actually. Well, the urgent cast has gone out again and I think this is like the third

time and I don't know if they're not finding people or they just need a lot of extras. That's the thing, this is like the third of... This feels like the third time that was. It does. The first time New Zealanders were like, ouch, bitch, what did you call me? And then the second time we were like,

wow, you're still at it. And now we're like, okay, yeah, we'll take whatever work we can get. Well, that's the thing. If you're funky looking, funky looking, if you have an overbite, face burns,

long skinny limbs, deep cheekbones, lines on your face, acne scars, ears stick out, Do you look unusual? Who's replying to that ad? You've got to be 18 to 65, male and female, any ethnicity. And if so,

get in touch with the casting agency. By that description, it sounds like it's a great idea that they've done the filming out in West Auckland.

But what if you're like a budding actor and they've always said to you, no, you're a bit funky. You're not a leading man. Well, this is your chance. Or you're missing

a limb or something and you're like, well, you're never going to get a leading man. Well, I mean, you're a bit funky looking. You're not a leading man. Well, this is your chance. Or you're missing a limb or something and you're like, well, you're never going to get a leading man. Well, I mean, you're going to be an extra, so. Yeah, but that could be your gateway. You'd be like an orc. And then your orc might be so rad, they're like, that orc needs a spinoff. Yeah.

And then you get an Amazon spinoff of like orc adventures. Yeah. Well, if you know somebody, BGT, Actors, Model and Talent. If you know somebody, are you going to be like, go on and tell them you should apply? That's even worse. It has to be a pretty close friend, I think.

You couldn't say it to an associate. Yeah. Like, I could say it to you guys, but you're not, I don't think you are. You don't fit this. Okay. Thank you.

Thank you. So I was giving you a compliment. Oh, this. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. So I was giving you a compliment. Oh, right. Okay. You don't fit it either. Thanks. Right. No, don't say anything.

No, I'm not going to. You were about to say something. No, I wasn't. I was going to leave it at that. You were about to say something. I was going to leave it right there. Okay. ZM's Fletch Warner-Megan, the podcast.

Well, the FIFA Women's World Cup 2023 will happen in New Zealand and Australia, making history. This will be our first time hosting the event. I personally think we soon stab Australia in the back and steal all the games for ourselves, but I'm not sure how this all works. No. Maybe the Game of Thrones approach isn't quite the way to go about it, but we're joined on the phone by one of the football ferns.

Annalie, good morning. Good morning, team. How are you? Very good. This is great. This is, I'm imagining, very, very exciting news. It is very exciting. Yeah, it was an early wake-up start this morning,

but I couldn't be more excited and more thrilled that obviously we get to hold the Women's Little Cup. Now, are you in New Zealand at the moment? I am. I'm in Auckland. Okay, so because you do play for the Melbourne team. Yes, Melbourne Victory. But I'm imagining that season is also not your standard season, given the current situation.

Yes, a little bit all over the show at the moment, but, yeah, no. Back in New Zealand and obviously very happy with the decision we're on our way. Right, so what do you know

about like, is there any word yet on who's put dibs on what games? Like, because we were saying before when we share stuff with Australia

they're always like, we get the big ones. Isn't that voice? I know, it is split so when we put the bid forward we did, we get the big ones. Isn't that voice? It is split. So when we put the bid forward, we did put forward what games we'd like to host. So we do open the Women's World Cup at Eden Park. So the New Zealand team will open the World Cup,

which is pretty amazing, and hopefully we'll get a sellout stadium. And then the games are basically pretty much split throughout Australia and New Zealand. So I believe we get a quarterfinal and a sellout stadium. And then the games are basically pretty much split throughout Australia and New Zealand. So I believe we get a quarterfinal and a semifinal, and I think the Aussies do get the final. But yeah, there's definitely a number of games around New Zealand, which is awesome.

And it's a huge deal, isn't it? Yeah, it's massive. I mean, I think a lot of New Zealanders don't quite understand the scope of the event, but to put it into perspective, last year in the Women's Final, over 260 million people watched that game. I think the US team alone have about 30,000 that travel with them.

So, yeah, to bring that kind of exposure to New Zealand is incredible. How long does the... I'm going to have to Airbnb my spare room. Just thinking about that, Annalie. Me too. So obviously we've heard about it now because we've won the pitch, but how long does that process take?

And what's involved? And getting the bid? Yeah. So it's been going on for about a year now, I think, and we've put the proposal through. And then, yeah, basically it goes to FIFA Council and they go through a bit of an inspection of all the countries.

And they came back with a bit of a FIFA report and we came out on top as favourites. And then obviously this morning it came down to the vote and it went our way. So, yeah, it was a bit of a process and, yeah, just really, really, really excited. And with something like this on the horizon, I'm imagining it starts a bit of a process and, yeah, just really, really, really excited. And with something like this on the horizon, I'm imagining it starts a bit of excitement at, like,

the grassroots level of football in New Zealand. Like, you might see more young females with, you know, the talk about this and it being in the media, they might opt for football over netball or hockey. Yeah, I mean, that would be fantastic. I mean, I think it's just exposure of women's sport in general, whether it be football or any co, just, you know, giving that exposure to women's sport. And I think what's really, really hard usually for us as New Zealanders,

it's really hard to see football as it's usually based overseas and the time zones and all that are quite crazy to watch games. So, yeah, to have live games here in New Zealand and hopefully get, you know, some big crowds. Yeah, I think it will open up sport for girls and boys. And we keep calling it soccer too, so. That's okay. Whatever you're calling it, as long as people are playing it

and enjoying it. Yeah. Exactly. Well, congratulations to everybody that put in a hell of an effort to get it here. But 2023. Yeah, I'm sure it sounds a little bit far away at the moment. I'm sure it will come by quickly and couldn't be happier.

I'm pretty keen to get 2020 out of the way and then look forward to this. The FIFA Women's World Cup is going to be in New Zealand and Australia. Annalie, thanks for chatting to us. No worries. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast, ZM. So during lockdown, there's been some stats that have come out about exercise. Apparently, people, oh, we saw it in our neighbourhoods,

everyone's going for walks and stuff. Exercise was up during lockdown. A lot of people have continued it, but specifically, people doing meditating and yoga has increased. Six in ten adults have been doing meditation. That's your parents. Meditation, yeah. Your parents, they went to the Buddhist centre, didn't they?

Yeah. They're really into it. Went back last Sunday. Did they? They're back. Yeah. Mama always says she's really tired afterwards. Is that what you're supposed to be?

Well, I just think it relaxes her. Probably if she's got any tension or whatever, she just feels relaxed. Yeah. No, they love it. They swear by it. So six out of 10 adults have adopted that, meditating and yoga.

But I reckon during lockdown, I saw so many people going for walks and stuff that you wouldn't normally see walking. But you know why that was? Because they were told they weren't allowed. Yeah. There was nothing more Kiwi. I've never seen people walk down our road. We live Kiwi. I've never seen people walk down our road.

We live rurally. I've never seen people walk down our road. The amount of foot traffic during lockdown. It was just because it was like, you've got to stay home. You can exercise a little bit, but don't go too crazy. Don't go too far from home. And everyone's like, I'm a walker now because I've been told I'm not supposed to. And literally nothing else to do.

But there's a couple of women in my neighborhood that go, and they've continued it on. Because I've been told I'm not supposed to. And literally nothing else to do. Yeah. There's a couple of women in my neighbourhood that go, and they've continued it on, they go for like a 15K walk every day now. Oh, wow. Every day. Just because that's what they did during lockdown. And now they're like, oh, well, let's continue.

That's a walk and a half. Yeah. And that's got to be good, right? Six out of 10 adults are meditating. Yeah. For sure. I just can't concentrate. Swear by the, well, no, that's the idea of good, right? Six out of ten adults are meditating? Yeah. For sure. I just can't concentrate. Swear by the, well, no, that's the idea of it. Can't not concentrate.

Can't not concentrate. Can't not focus on something. Yeah, yeah. Because then you start thinking about what you need for dinner and. Because it's like the key to it is to be able to think about nothing. But then you think about nothing and then it's just, you just. Yeah. All right.

Joining us on the show soon, Ben Barrington, Shortland Street. Going back on Monday to five nights a week. Yes. After they cut back the filming. So we'll catch up with him, find out the latest goss from the street. Also, next week's their 7,000th episode. Wow. On the street.

Holy moly. And next on the show, I know I'm not the only one, returns. This is a... I've had a little sneak peek as the last person says... I think they might be. Fletchvorna Megan, the podcast. ZM. I hope I'm not the only one.

That was good. All right. We are joined on the show this morning by Lizzie Good morning Lizzie Good morning guys Good morning Now in this segment We're going to attempt to find out If you are the only person

In New Zealand that does this I sort of hope not I don't know I think every time Every time we've done this segment I think surely not But There's always segment, I think, surely not, but... There's always someone. There's always someone.

There's always somebody out there for everybody. Yeah, like the Apple stickers last week. Well, I thought that wasn't a thing, but that's an actual phobia. A stickophobia, yeah. A stickophobia. Lizzie, what do you do that you think you're the only one? So I like to just, just out of the,

just any time I'm really feeling, you know, like it, just like to pluck my leg hairs and some, yeah, just, and I'll end up doing a whole strip, like just, it's so bad. Wait, wait, wait. So you let them grow to the point where they're visible and then when you say strip, do you mean from, from toe to knee,

like a vertical? Oh, like, no, so only the knee and the shin, because it's not as, like, sensitive. But if I'm feeling brave, I might go down. I don't know. It's just a bit of an obsession, to be honest. I just love plucking hairs. Do you do this while you're watching, like, TV or Netflix?

You just grab the tweezers and pluck? Grab my leg, yeah, and they're always just by my bed. My tweezers are always just by my bed. It's so gross, but yeah. So do you shave your legs other times? I do, I do. It's not like I'll pluck the whole leg, but I'll just like

pluck a strip or something. What if you've just shaved your legs and you like got the urge? You're like, damn it. Oh yeah, no. so sometimes there's a mist and that's great so I'm just like yeah yeah that always happens

anywhere else that's so weird I'm not being rude here but like did the arms come into play or like plucking the hair out of anywhere else they might

they might oh okay so yeah right yeah doesn't that hurt yeah oh no

like it's not really but I always think if I was on an island I would literally have to have tweezers because you know Right. Doesn't that hurt? Yeah. Oh, no, like, it's not really. But I always think if I was on an island, I would literally have to have tweezers. Because, you know, eyebrows, they'd be one of my things. I'd just have to have my tweezers. But, like, how is she so smooth? We've been on this deserted island for months.

I know. She's just... Lizzie, have any of your friends seen you doing this? Like, have you confided in anybody else that this is what you do? I don't. No, no, I don't. I don't know. So, has anyone seen you do this, or is this a, like... I think maybe.

Maybe someone's walked in and I've just been... I think you should be ashamed. Yeah, but mostly you've been... I'm just ashamed of myself, I know. Mostly you've been plucking in shame all be ashamed. Yeah, but mostly you've been... I think you're ashamed of myself, I know. Mostly you've been plucking in shame all these years. Yeah. Okay, so... And now I'm open to the world.

Yeah, I know, I like it. Right, well, this is the point now where we want to open up the fine lines and see if Lizzie is the only one that does this. Do you have a little penchant? A penchant for plucking your leg hairs? Yeah, do you like to just have a little pluck? Indeed do.

You might not be the only one. You wouldn't do this, Megan? Just for time, like just time. But she's watching TV. It's like being on your phone when you're on TV, right? It's like a little distraction, a little habit. But still it's like a little mini torture, isn't it? I barely pluck my eyebrows because it's like a little distraction, a little habit. But still it's like a little mini torture, isn't it? I barely pluck my eyebrows because it's like, ow.

I like plucking the bits in the middle of the eyebrow because you do a few and then you go, and you do this massive like, oh, it's such a good sneeze, the sneeze you get from plucking hair out of your face. Okay, we had some information come to light, sent to us from an anonymous source regarding ALF in the top 10. Inside information. That's right.

If you missed that this week, we tried to get everybody to watch ALF, and God, a lot of people watched ALF on Netflix. Tons of people. But it didn't make the top 10 chart. It was on the popular search page. Yeah, well, we may have found out why that is, and we'll tell you before 8 o'clock this morning. Huh. Huh. Huh.

Huh. Huh. Huh. Huh. I swear Sam Smith tingles when you do that over the other side of the world. Tingles or shudders? Shudders. That thing where you feel like someone's walking over your grave.

All right. We want to know if you are like Lizzie. Lizzie likes to pluck her leg hairs. Pluck her leg hairs. Sit down, just watch while she's watching telly. It's like a mini torture. Pluck the leg hairs. Cara, do you do this?

I do. It's so funny that this has literally come on the radio today because last night I was sitting in front of my telly watching Netflix plucking my leg hairs. So is this something because Lizzie hasn't done it in front of anyone. Do you do it in front of friends and family? No. So my flatmate was out last night,

so I kind of try and wait to be alone to do it. Otherwise, I do it in my bedroom. Cara, let me just bring in Lizzie. Lizzie, does that make you just feel so much better? I feel so good now. I'm like, oh, there's another one of us. Yeah. I mean, I try and go for, like, mainly ingrown-y sort of hairs

and stuff like that. Oh, they're the best. They are the best. They are the best. Those horrible long horse that. Oh, they're the best. They are the best. They are the best. They're horrible long horses. Oh, mate. Wait a minute. So what is an ingrown hair?

When you pluck it, does it come out and it's way longer than you expected? Yeah. Because it's been curling inside. Yes. Oh, my gosh. That does sound satisfying. It does, doesn't it? Like a pimple, but hair.

Yeah. Yeah. That does sound satisfying. Brilliant. Awesome, Cara. Thanks so much for your call i will bring in emily emily you do this yeah i do like around the bottom of my ankles like where i missed for shaving oh yeah and down my toes and do you get it like is it is it a pleasure thing

you watch tv i just do it after my shower because I can't stand when I've got less overhairs from shaving. Right. And you just have to have a tidy up. Because I, this sounds nasty, but I shave my toes because of those little, you get little hairs on your toes. It does sound nasty. But like, I don't think I would want to plug them. That would be so sore.

I mean, it hurts, but I don't like heavy hairy toes. Right. And were you the same as Lizzie? Were you doing this in secret? Well, I mean, I never told anyone, but I wouldn't say it was a secret. Yeah, right. Don't ask, don't tell policy.

Exactly. Hey, thanks for your call, Emily. Nikki, you do this as well. Yeah, I certainly do. It's very relaxing. Okay. Do you find it relaxing as well, Lizzie? Is Lizzie still there?

Lizzie. I was all too much for her. She popped off for a puck. I think we've lost Lizzie. I don't know. How is it relaxing when it hurts? There are... It doesn't really hurt.

You're just like when you're watching TV or lying in the sun and you just start plucking, it just feels relaxing. There are so many people who are saying the same thing. I guess it's just like, you know, like biting your fingernails or like... Yeah. Somebody said the best time to do it is a couple of days after shaving.

The stubble is the best to pluck and that's when the juicy hair follicles really pop. If you keep doing this, does it grow back thinner or less? Well, it'd be like getting waxed, right? Yeah, I imagine so. Waxing is plucking, but hundreds at a time. Yeah. Do you does it grow back thinner or less? Well, it'd be like getting waxed, right? Yeah, I imagine so. Waxing is plucking, but hundreds at a time. Yeah. Do you find they grow back thinner, Nicky?

Yeah, yeah, they do. They grow back thinner, but then you just pluck them out again. You can't hide from me, you skinny little bastards. Thanks, you're cool, Nicky. Lizzie, overwhelming response. You're certainly not alone. No, I'm quite happy about that. We've found your people this morning.

Maybe you should start a Facebook group or something. I should. Instead of like a book club, you could all just come around and watch Netflix. Netpluckers. Yeah. And just all just start plucking. Netplucking.

Yes. Netflix and chill pluck. Yeah, brilliant. Hey, Nikki, Lizzie, thank you. Some more text messages. So many, so many people do it. Someone said, I'm a dude, and I, pluck. Yeah, brilliant. Hey, Nikki, Lizzie, thank you. Some more text messages. So many people do it. Someone said, I'm a dude, and I do it in a number of spots. I'll just sit there with tweezers and pluck out the hairs.

Somebody said, you haven't lived till you've done your nose hairs when they start poking. Oh, yeah. That's a sneezy one. Well, you do the waxy stick up the nose. Well, I actually haven't been able to do it since COVID. I went in level one, but they said they still weren't doing the nose waxing. So, yeah, I've done a couple of the old mask plucks up the nose lately.

Really gets the eyes watering. It does, yeah. Yeah, good sneeze. Oh, I've got to have a good sneeze. All right, 7.21, next on the show, we have Ben Barrington, your doppelganger. Yeah, Benjamin Barry Barrington will be joining us to talk about Shortland Street. Yeah, going back to Five Nights on Monday.

We'll get the latest from the street next. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast ZM. We're joined on the phone by a man who physically has it all. A bald head, a beard, an over six foot structure. What more could you want? Ben Barrington, good morning.

Oh, pleasure to be here. Hi, guys. How are you? G'day, mate. Really good, thanks. I'm good. How are you all doing? Yeah.

Yeah, great. Yeah, great. Now, you lot over there at the street are going back to five nights a week. We are. We are. So, you know, the nation can breathe a sigh of relief. So, explain to us during

lockdown and level four and everything, you guys weren't working at all, right? Like, what level did you start working again and filming? Three. We went back in level three for about two and a half weeks. So, that was kind of... And there was no

kissing and no, like, how close would you be? Was it a weird experience? Two metres apart at all times. They had, like, the ADs, our assistant directors who kind of run the shoot, they had, like, sticks. They had, like, distant sticks. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They'd walk around with their

sticks all the time. Does that mean we've got a few weeks of episodes or a month of episodes where it's going to be a bit weird? Like, do you even acknowledge it? There'll be no... If you were looking out for it, it might look a little bit strange. There'll be no kissing.

There'll be people literally not getting anywhere near each other. You know, walking indoors and speaking to each other from opposite sides of the room of the set. So it would look a bit strange. I mean, they can cheat a lot of that stuff with camera angles. You know, they can make it look like people are face-to-face when actually they're on opposite sides of the room. What about tending to a patient in bed?

You just have to call across the room and just tell them how to treat their own wound. I need you to make an incision in the abdomen. Take the needle and thread. Now, hold the wound together. Now, start sewing. Poking them with a stick and stuff, being like, are you awake, sir?

Poke, poke, poke. Correct. Oh, yes. So even though I went down to three nights a week when you guys weren't working at all, imagine that means you burnt through the back catalogue of Shortland Street episodes, you know, that you have as a buffer, a barrier

between filming and broadcast. Yeah, correct. So we've got like about eight weeks, eight weeks worth of shows in the vault. Okay. So, yeah, so because we didn't know how long the lockdown was going to go on for, they then cut the show back to three nights a week

to make those stocks last a little bit longer. Yeah. Then we, when we went to level three for those couple of weeks, we were only shooting at about half the speed just because of all of those restrictions. Right. We were only getting about 16 minutes of Shortland Street a day

as opposed to 23, 24 minutes a day, which is basically an episode. Excellent. So then now that we're back, as soon as we went back to normal, we've just literally had two shooting crews going simultaneously, working super long days. Everyone's just flat out to get those stocks back up. So where are the stocks at at the moment then? I don't know.

How close did it get to running out? What was the smallest buffer you had there? I don not know. How close did it get to running out? What was the smallest buffer you had there? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I guess you could work it out. We were on the last episode. Yes!

We got down to the last. Imagine if the country ran out of Shortland Street. Auckland's running out of water We had to ration our shorty We did have to ration it So we didn't run out of shorties I don't know what they would have, you know What they would have done

Just played old episodes Or, you know, we just would have been seeing Top Town and Funniest Home Videos And all that sort of stuff that they've got That they have in the archive Oh no, it would have been brilliant If they'd just been able to film, like, just one scene of, like, Michael Galvin

playing Chris Warner being like, it's like that time, I remember it clearly. And then it flashed back. Oh, I wonder why. And you could just do bits and pieces from, like, 1994 and... Yes. Right, yeah, favourite moment. Yes.

So it's back to Five Nights a Week from Monday, and also next week, your 7,000th episode. Yeah, yeah, favourite moments. A favourite moment. Yes. So it's back to five nights a week from Monday, and also next week, your 7,000th episode. Yeah, I know. Oh! It's insane. Congratulations. Thank you very much. I mean, yeah, it's all me.

Yeah. You were there for all of them. But, yeah, it's insane when you think about it. I think I've done a couple of hundred or something like that. I don't know, two or three hundred episodes, which even is weird in itself. But 7,000, 28 years, I think, 29 years. 28, 1992.

March 23rd. May 23rd, 1992. Yeah, it's bananas, eh? It's bananas. Wow. Well, yeah, back to Five Nights from Monday. Ben Barrington. Yeah, yeah's bananas, eh? It's bananas. Wow. Well, yeah, back to Five Nights from Monday. Ben Barrington. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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is The Real Pod. Brought to you by the Spinoff Podcast Network and available wherever you get your pods. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Talk to Ashley Bloomfield. Who was he last year? Dunno. Where was he sent from? Presumably heaven.

Sure. But he grabbed the steering wheel of the ship that is Aotearoa. Yeah. He captained us, co-captained us through some turbulent waters that were the early days of the COVID-19 situation. Now, with New Zealanders coming home from all around the world, there's been a few more cases pop in. There's been some whoopsie daisies.

God, I nearly became a stuffed commenter yesterday. Oh, no. Why didn't you even read? If that ever happens again, you call me. I will. I'll be your support person. I agree. It's really hard lately because I've delved in a couple of times.

People don't understand that these are New Zealand citizens coming home that have the COVID and they're in hotels. They're in quarantine. We can't shut the borders to New Zealand citizens. It's illegal. You just can't do it. They have a right to come home. Because they're not going to get stuck overseas.

Yeah. And the country they're in won't look after them because there might not be citizens there. So people just wiring on like they're not doing enough. Like, keep them out. And then did you see people who are coming home, New Zealanders, maybe who have tested positive, are getting heat as well.

Yeah, people are abusing them and yeah. They didn't choose to catch it and of course they'd want to come home. Saw a really interesting story yesterday because a lot of it is why are they waiting for now to come home? They want to come home now because we're a safe haven. I think I said that to you, didn't I?

Was that you? Hey, we've probably all thought it, but hearing somebody who's in that you? Was it? Hey, we probably all thought it, but hearing somebody who's in that situation saying when it was announced that New Zealand was shutting down borders, what was that now, like two months ago? Yeah. Longer? They started getting their affairs in order to come home

and they said it was an absolute nightmare. The whole world is like getting a lease ended. Shutting bank accounts. Give your notice for your flat, but you can't because no one's going to move into the flat because the city's on lockdown. Yeah. So then you have to wait until lockdown lifts,

which is like now in the UK. There's a lot of different situations. And I'm sure that amongst them, there'll be a couple of people that dilly-dallied and fannied about. Yeah. But you can't just assume everybody did and put that sort of blanket hate on everybody.

Now, there has been a bit of a rigmarole with the Ministry of Health and testing in these facilities, and we've all just all collectively just gone, oh, for heaven's sake. And the Health Minister, David Clark, has been wearing it, hasn't he? He has been. He went biking during level four lockdown.

I was going to say, is he the bike rider? He's the bike rider guy. Who does he look like? I don't know, but it bugs me every time. I know. It's the glasses and the hair. He looks like somebody. Is it an actor?

Yeah, yeah. It's from like a TV. No, Heston Blumenthal. Who's that? I do not know. Don't say an actor we know one knows. No, no, no. It's that English chef, and he's got the barbecue line,

and he does, like, the big cupcakes and stuff. Yes. Oh, just the glasses and hair, though, is it? Okay. Yeah, all right. Fair enough. I'll give you that. I'll give you that.

Close enough. Well, anyway, there was a... Remember when, like, 10 seconds ago, I said it's definitely the glasses and the hair that make it look like whoever it looks like? Well, there was a clip of him in Parliament. He's getting the heat as to why his ministry, he is the Minister of Health, weren't testing these people in isolation, rightly so.

Yeah. And he threw Daddy Bloomfield under the bus, and the camera pans across to a... To the Director of General Health, Dr Ashley Bloomfield. And he just looked absolutely gutted. Yeah. Doesn't he? Just in just looked absolutely gutted. Yeah. Doesn't he? Just in that moment, just looks real sad.

He looks down at the floor and he's just like, oh. Because he said, the health minister said he's accepted all responsibility. He's accepted these are his shortcomings and his fault. And then it pans to him, he looks sad and it goes back. And Tova O'Brien says, should you be accepting any of the responsibility? And he says again, nope. Nope. And there's just that look in Ashley Boomfield's face

where he's like just for a moment like I should've was it not enough or I should've just worked in a white cross you know like I wouldn't have had to deal

with all this BS well then I should've just worked in a white cross god I'd rather I'd rather do what he does than work in a white cross and get that into a white cross. Have you seen the show?

Christ alive. I'm not drunk now. I'm not drunk now, but I fell in a dumpster. But that's what I'm saying is you have to deal with a lot less probably. Oh, well, it didn't go unnoticed. New Zealanders online started raising money. Hashtag blooms for Bloomfield. This was to send flowers to Dr. Ashley Bloomfield

for the fantastic work he's done and cupcakes and stuff. And over $1,800 got raised. And so I think there was a bit extra they were going to give to a charity that he'd previously mentioned, which is nice. Does he even had a day off? Oh, yeah, I think he did because there were some times when he was... Yeah, but his days off wouldn't be like days off, days off. He's still getting phone calls and he'll be on his emails and...

Like he didn't flop on the couch in his undies and watch like... He is trying his best. Yeah. And what, is he supposed to go to every one of these hotels? I know he's the manager, so, you know, the buck's got to stop somewhere, but the wave has just huffed under that bus. There was a poll online last night that was like, should David Clark, the Heston Bloomin' Fool,

still be health minister? 97% said no. Yeah, so. Well, he rode his bike, you know? Yeah. The good news is post-election, they've got that virologist. They're lining up a new one. Yeah.

He'll be on his ass. I mean, he's got to see the writing on the wall. Next on the show, we received some correspondence last night secretly. Corruption. We tried to get Elf, the Christmas movie, into the Netflix top ten. It has not even appeared in the trending top 10. It was second top searched. Yes.

That's all we got. But that is all. And we think we might have found out why that is. And we'll explain that next on the show. But people will be listening. We'll just say that. Fleshfauna Megan, the podcast. ZM.

Now, earlier in the week, it was proposed that on Wednesday, everyone that listens to the show and is involved in the show would watch the movie Elf, the Will Ferrell Christmas classic from 2003 on Netflix to trade it into the top 10 because it was midwinter Christmas, but it had no place in the top 10. And we wanted to see what makes this top 10. We wanted to see if we could corrupt the Netflix top 10 because you see some stuff

in there and you're like, how did that get in there? And so many messages, so many people messaged screenshots of them watching Elf. It made it yesterday, I think it's number 3 at the moment, it was number 2 in the search, top searches, but it did not make it

into the trending scroll along. It did not make it into the top 10. No. And we were like, well, you know, that's just life. That's just tough, isn't it? Yeah, yeah. We tried. I was happy with the top searches to be number two on the top.

I was like, well, that's something. It's searched. Yeah, people went to look for it and they just clicked in it and it brought up the top 10 searches. Yeah, I'm not seeing it in my popular on Netflix. Some people have had it on the home. Some people have screenshotted it. It's been on their homepage as well.

But then that's a unique thing for everybody, isn't it? Yeah. Is that individuals? Is that sort of catered to by the individuals? Because I just looked and I had Space Force. So it's not there for me. Okay. So the top 10, again, just looking, not there.

Yep. Not there. But yesterday, somebody sent in evidence that Netflix were very aware of what was happening. As they have sent through an email, and it looks like a transcription service sort of situation. I don't know if just any time Netflix is mentioned in the media, there's somebody monitoring us? Well, because we were posting on Facebook and Instagram and our podcast would have a description of what we were doing, if you can set up a Google News alert or a Google alert,

so any time you're mentioned or your business, it would be flagged. So I'm imagining maybe that's how that got their attention. This says, Compere says they want people's help to corrupt the Netflix top 10 chart by watching the movie Elf. This is a transcription of a voice break that we did on air. Yes. How creepy is that? It's got it.

It's got four minutes, 11 seconds. It's got an audio file and it says this was ZM Auckland hosted by Carl Fletcher Vaughan Smith and Megan Sellers. Oh, not me. Damn it, you've escaped it. That's not me, Your Honour. Megan Pappadopoulos, if you're listening, Netflix. He knows the movies and shows that are currently in the top ten

of the Cine, Two Guns, Smallfoot, The Order, The Sexy One. Yeah, it was because I said, oh, you know that one, that 365 DNI, the sexy one. And then there's a bracket with an asterisk in it indicating that that's not its actual name. Flora's lava, replicas, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, all of them. And they talk about how they want to get Alpha into the top 10. This is just a brief rundown because you can listen

to the attached audio file. Added they've challenged, they're going to challenge Matty McLean to mention it as part of his weather broadcast on TV One's Breakfast Program. We've dragged Matty into this. Underneath,

it says keywords, shows, program, The Sinner, TV, broadcast, Netflix. And then it says

interviewees, Matty McLean, mentions, Christmas, John Campbell, Matt Bomer. Oh, because we thought he was the actor of... Oh, in The Sinner.

Right, okay. Shorty. And then in brackets it says Shortland Street and Wipeout because we mentioned that we'd watch it after Shortland Street. And I said Flora's Lava is like a wipeout for kids. So you're telling me there's someone's job somewhere in the world is to

transcribe everything that is being said about Netflix and then send reports to them. I don't know. Then there's another one. Yep. And it says this is the specific interview with Maddie McLean. Yep. And then again, it says ZM Auckland hosted by us. Yeah.

Again, Megan's name's her birth name. Yes, my articles. Interview with Maddie McLean. Compare says basically what they were trying to do. He adds they want McLean to plant the idea into people's minds and he should do it without mentioning Netflix. So not getting in trouble given that TVNZ has an on-demand platform also. Oh my God.

This is creepy. He then shares some ways in which McLean can do it. McLean mentions they talked about Christmas on the show this morning and agrees to their request. This sounds so much more dodgy than it actually was. Key words. I just want to get ready to watch a movie. Mentions.

ZM producer Anna. Oh! We're all going down. You've been dragged into this murky underworld of reporting. The only time my actual name is used. Because we always call you Producer Anya, but your real name's Anna, and it is in there as your real name.

I would have made my definite set Anya. Other mentions, Coromandel. Oh, yep. Instagram. John Campbell, Killing Eve, Love Actually, Midwinter Christmas, and Will Ferrell, also broadcast from the two following stations, ZM Christchurch and ZM Wellington.

Oh, they're in it too. That's so weird. This is so weird. So do they use these reports for like their marketing and stuff and interviews maybe? From what I can gather, yeah, because then it's saying that we've talked about Netflix. Right.

So we might be open to talking about something they want to promote. If your job is to scour the media for any press, good or bad, you're going to send that to someone high up at Netflix. So that's why this hasn't happened. But then what? Because you can't get, they won't give you the numbers of like how, on, yeah, how many views did the number 10 get versus how many views did Alf get? They don't, they never release that.

But then is that why we don't get numbers? Because then they can dictate the charts. Yeah. And all of the ones in the top 10 are either Netflix originals or movies or TV shows that they'd be paying right for. So they'd want them to be viewed. If they knew about this, they'd miss the trick. Because if they'd put it in the top 10,

it would have been a big news story. If it was in the top 10 for a moment. Yeah, it would have just given us, you know, given them some more publicity. And given us heaps of fodder. I just can't believe it. I mean, do you think they'd be listening to this voice break right now?

I think someone will be writing a report about our report on their various reports. I'm surprised that they managed to decipher our accents and get it pretty accurate in that. I wonder if that's New Zealand based. Well I'd like to see them transcribe this. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah Netflix. Blah blah blah blah blah

Netflix. Voltaren MU Gel. Blah blah blah blah blah Netflix. Vanilla scented. Keywords. Voltaren vanilla scented. Netflixaren, vanilla-scented. Netflix.

Artificial fiddle leaf fig. And then the compares, laughed and cackled. Hand and surface wipes. And randomly read out random. Gafford. Gafford. And trolloped. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan.

The podcast. ZM. Megan, wow, some more developments on our attempt to get the Christmas movie, Elf, into the Netflix top 10 charts. We revealed some

behind the scenes emails transcribing our show, talking about this that was sent by Netflix to Netflix people. Follow up soon. Just had some developments. Also, I'm an influencer, guys.

Accidentally. Just being me. You're a bacterial influencer. Oh, yuck. That's not wrong, though. That doesn't sound sexy, though. No, it's viruses that everybody's anti. Oh, yeah, true.

All right, we'll explain more soon. Friday Flashback. Hi. Every time it's your pick, I'm like, you just do this to try and wind me up, don't you? Vaude was on this last night. He hit up the No Fletch chat, which is reserved for birthdays. I've been on this for a long time.

Okay. But I just thought it's time. We're off next week. So I was just going to light a fire and walk away from it. The wheels are off. As the producing team described this. But this isn't an old song. 2003, the song was fully recorded.

The chorus... Fully recorded! The chorus was written 30 years before, but never was developed into a song. Really? Until another band stepped forward and said, we can finish this off. Oh God, Ross has just figured out what it is and he's not happy.

This is a Gen Z... He just rolled his eyes. This is a Gen Z tune. I didn't realise we were broadcasting from the bars of Christchurch today. Exactly. This is great.

This might be weird hearing this song when it's not time to go home. I don't know if I've ever heard it on a radio station. I've never heard it

on a radio station. Well, why are you playing it? I've never heard it. And that's part of this song's mystique. How has a song penetrated our culture so much when it's never been played on the radio?

I couldn't even tell you where I heard it first. It would have been at a party or a bar. It was like, that is a banger. Okay, what song is this? I'm just going to check to see how many plays it has on the five. Did it chart anywhere? It did. Yeah, yeah.

It's charted. It's certified platinum. Oh, okay. Wow. It's sold millions of copies around the world. I have no idea what song. The covers have been absolutely huge. I've got no idea what song you're talking about.

You're going to be so pissed. But the best part about it is Fletch is going to hate it, and we're all going to love it, and then you'll text us, you'll be like, Yas, and like, and then it'll be another case of us and Fletch. See? Oh, no.

Not this song. We'll record him as soon as we turn the microphones off. Yeah, you start recording. This will actually be good for the court case. We're not paying 4 minutes 52 seconds of it. That's how long it is. I'm pretty sure once it gets started, the people will demand Will they? Will they? It continues.

Yes. Finished in 2003. After originally being started in 1973 by Bob Dylan. Oh my god, how good is this song? Ladies and gentlemen, rock me, baby. Because your Friday flashback today is Wagon Wheel.

You're welcome. Heading down south to the land of the pines I'm thumbing my way in the North Carolina Staring up the road and pray to God I see headlights I made it down the coast in 17 hours Staring up the road and pray to God I see headlights. I made it down the coast in 17 hours. Picking me a bouquet of dogwood flowers. And I'm hoping for Raleigh I can see my baby tonight.

So rock me, mama, like a wagon wheel. Rock me, mama, any way you feel. Thank you. Mama rock me I'm running from the cold off a new wing When I was born to be a fiddler in an old-time string band My baby plays the guitar. I'll make a banjo now. Oh, no country where does keep getting me down? Lost my money playing poker so I had to leave town. But I ain't turning back to living that old life no more. So ride me mama like a wagon wheel. We'll be right back. Rock me, mama, like a southbound train Hey, mama, rock me ¶¶

¶¶ ¶¶ I'd rather feel he had a nice long toke. But he's headed west from the Cumberland Gap to Johnson City, Tennessee. I gotta, gotta move on before the sun. I hear my baby calling my name and I know that she's the only one. And if I die in Raleigh, at least I will die free. So rock me, mama, like a wagon wheel Rock me, mama, any way you feel Hey, mama, rock me

Oh, rock me, mama, like the wind and the rain Rock me, mama, like a cell phone train Hey, mama, rock me self and train hey Rock me, rock me, mama, like the wind and the rain Rock me, mama, like the sun and the rain Hey, yeah, yeah Mama, rock me, rock me, rock me ZM, it's your Friday flashback, and that'll be the first time a lot of people are hearing this during daytime hours and sober. Okay, I'll admit that that had a good response.

You enjoyed that. And I did enjoy that as a Friday flashback. I think I saw one negative text come through in the whole hundreds and hundreds. Yeah, that was one hell of a text response. Thanks, everybody. Great choice. Somebody says, my mum and I are singing together.

Oh, you're reuniting. The amount of people messaging in who are driving tractors. We had like seven messages. We're like, I'm in the tractor and this slaps. That would be a great tractor song. Great tractor song. I've never thought about what song I'd have if I was driving a tractor. I feel like that's it.

A lot of violin heavy country. Fiddle devil country. Yeah. The chorus would work good in a tractor, wouldn't they? Would they? Theydlehebel country. Yeah. The cause would work good and attractive, wouldn't they? Would they? They'd have their place. Yeah. Maybe on a warm-up for a Monday.

Well, great Friday flashback. Yeah. I'm even going to give you a little round of applause. Thank you. Thank you. Love that. Fantastic. Great song.

Now, if you're just joining us, we touched before on some emails that we'd seen that were secretly forwarded to us behind the scenes at Netflix. Now, we tried to get the movie Elle into the top 10 on Netflix, and we didn't do it. Despite how many people watched it. Number two on the search bar. That's the only thing we can claim. But we were unable to corrupt the Netflix top 10 charts. And we read out some emails before transcribing our show, like word for word, all the voice

break, the audio of our show, a synopsis of what we talked about. Naming us, naming the people we talked to. And that goes around Netflix, and I'm guessing they use it for marketing. Keywords were in the system. Yeah. To maybe tell the people in charge of the top 10, don't put alpha in there. There's corruption. There's corruption. There's corruption.

There's corruption abound. Wow. So somebody messaged in with some more knowledge on the topic. Tracy, good morning. Hi, guys. Oh, it should be. Hi. I feel like we should be using code names.

Code names. That is a code name. Fake name Tracy. Definitely not real name Tracy. Now, this is your job is to transcribe things that are said in the media. Yeah, yeah. So I picked it up as a side hustle about three years ago. It's pretty interesting.

So it's an American company that they send you tasks. Right. And they use it to improve artificial intelligence. So my first ever task was to transcribe a New Zealand weather show. And then I had to re-record it so that they could improve things like Alexa and Siri to pick up the New Zealand accent.

Wow. Okay. Oh, right. So you would write the words. things like Alexa and Siri to pick up the New Zealand accent. Wow. Okay. Right. So you would write the words, it would match the words with the audio and be like, oh, when they say tukut, they actually mean ticket. Yes. Wow. And whether, because you can say to your,

you don't say their names too loudly, they switch on and start listening, but those things in our house, no, don't apologise to me. loudly or they switch on and start listening. But those things in our house. No, don't apologize to me. The S-I-R-I and the I-S-E thing. They do give you weather reports. So they'd want to know. So in our case, do you think that there was like some Google News alerts

and they were like, find out what they were talking about? Oh, absolutely. So I have done it for another radio show where I got an alert that they were talking about a large corporation. So I had to go and do exactly the same thing. So I had to write out the entire four-minute segment and the keywords and everything like that. You've eliminated a lot of radio shows, including ours, with the four-minute segment and the keywords and everything like that. You've eliminated a lot of radio shows,

including ours, with the four-minute segment. Four minutes? What, were they in a hurry? Wow, that is so... Because, I mean, I guess when you're on the radio, you know that, like, you're talking and anyone could be listening. So you do watch what you say, but you don't think that, say, they'd go to that much length.

I mean, it's all on the podcast anyway. You could be going for a job at BMW one day and BMW might be like, no. I just feel sorry for the person that had to sit down and listen to that and then try and... Because they had to listen to it over and over. And we talk over each other and... Yeah.

A lot of it is just is it hard uh it's time consuming and sometimes you'll send the audio with your transcription back and they'll come back and say oh the ai didn't pick up on it can you do it again so how would you like if you were transcribing, how would you write down if I went like... You just sort of smack on the keyboard a bit. That's what I'd do too. That's what I'd do too. The host talked garbly nonsense and ended with a fart sound. Yeah, yeah.

Well, Tracy, thank you so much for shedding some light on that corporate behind-the-scenes world and the scary future of AI listening to every word we say to learn our AOC. They're literally always asking to record tasks so that they can get better at picking up the New Zealand accent. The amount of times I've had to record fish and chips, it's quite funny. I'm kind of all for that because a lot of these things like Suri and that don't understand you a lot of the time. So, yeah, I guess that's good. We can help our new AI overlords take us over quicker and faster.

That would be much appreciated, I guess. Well, if it is our new AI overlords, I say we all go by the name Fish and Chips. They'll never catch us. Tracy, thank you so much for talking to us this morning. Next on the show, I have become an accidental influencer. This is genuine influencing. You love it. It's grassroots influencing.

It's unpaid. Oh, yeah. Does that mean I'm an influencer? A cheap one. A free one. And a genuine one. ZM's Fletch influencer? A cheap one. A free one. And a genuine one. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Was it last week?

I think it was last week that I mentioned that I... The start of this week. I don't know, man. 2020. It was 2020. It was sometime this year. It was 2020 where I was ridiculed by both of you for making my own yogurt right that's right yes you were because i didn't know megan didn't know we didn't know you were easy

yo and at home did we i thought you bring a yogurt in every morning with your cereal and i just assumed i do it at the weekend and then i bring it in for my oats should you be having that much dairy before broadcast you know i've eliminated dairy from my diet almost entirely so my crisp voice will go flawlessly through the broadcast media. He always turns off

his microphone and he's like He's always essentially the same show. If you listen early in the morning you'll hear or if you'll hear

you'll hear this. That's a microphone turned off but other microphones picking up a phlegmy. But it's either that I don't like oats so I've got to drown the oats in the yogurt to make it edible. Why don't you have oats?

Why don't you have something else then? Why don't you bring some eggs? There's other options in the world for breakfast. I just can't make eggs at work. Tony Street's made eggs at work. You've got to have a chat to the street. I don't know how much she's getting paid to have bloody four eggs every morning. She doesn't have four eggs.

She has two eggs. Bring a little cooker. There's a plug over there. Bring a little cooker. Actually, my dad's got that egg maker shaped like a chicken. That poaches it? That poaches it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Bring that in. Bring that in. That's legit. Could you imagine if I stank the studio out with eggs every morning? Anyway. Well, Producer Jarrod, would you like to bring in my influencer boxes? Because I've become an accidental... Oh, my God. in my influencer boxes? Because I've become an accidental... Oh my God, are we doing an unboxing?

I've become an accidental influencer. So I cannot believe in the last week how many people have sent me photos of them making their yogurt at home. Great content. Whoa. Hey, slow down with your intense content. And because you guys actually, like, you roasted me on this. You absolutely roasted me on this, by the way. And I went down to the mail room

yesterday and found that Easy Yo had sent me all these boxes and they've even given you guys a yogurt maker. Yogurt a yogurt maker. Yogurt a yogurt maker. They also got sent this yogurt from Culture which is like real pro No, no, no, you can't do this.

What? No, but you make it in the Easy Yo. But you're an influencer. You can't be endorsing Easy Yo but promoting a competition. No, but they both sent me stuff. Have you influenced before? No, but they both sent me stuff. Well, pick a team, buddy.

You can't influence for two sides of the competition. No, but you put this stuff in the Easy Yo. No, but what would Easy Yo say about that? Yeah, but wouldn't that be like Suzuki sending you a Swift and then Honda sending you a Jazz? That was like when I drove a Mazda and I had a Mercedes key ring. No, that would be like me putting the Mazda into the Suzuki Swift. It's still fine.

The Suzuki Swift's on the outside. Where did the Mazda come from? It was a Honda. That's in the boot. God, this is confusing. I don't know. Anyway, my point is I've got yogurt out the yin-yang now because. Well, you can share it.

That's lovely. I mean, I'll give it a go. How does this work? Oh, it does have a best before date on it. Because it is like bacteria, right? So it wouldn't last forever in a day. Well, you put it in the thing and then it's great. You guys are going to love it.

So I've become an accent. I've become a yogurt influencer. Is that sexy? Greek style coconut with coconut bits. I'm going to have to take a photo of me in my knickers. With coconut bits. With my easy yo and my bowl of... I'd watch how you influencers are being hunted at the moment.

Online, aren't you? You are. There's certain people out there trying to... Don't get me dethroning the influencers. Don't get me cancelled just because I'm trying to get people to eat delicious yoghurt. You are right, though. It does save the environment.

That's what I'll give you. You can recycle the plastic, but then it's still not good. We go through a lot of yoghurt puddles at my house. Well, there you go. Not now. You've been influenced. Oh, my God, I've been influenced. It feels good.

You're welcome. I feel dirty. I feel like I've lost free will. Is it because you liked a photo of Fletcher and his undies that you feel dirty? I haven't taken it yet, Megan. I meant to like the photo above that where he was endorsing toothpaste, but I accidentally did the undies one that we chuck in to keep you following them. Back to the day next. No one's following for the toothpaste, but I accidentally did the undies one that we chuck in to keep you following them. Fact of the day next.

No one's following for the toothpaste, Megan. Flesh, fauna, Megan. The podcast. ZM. Fact of the day. Day, day, day, day. It's Friday. You're being silly, aren't you?

You're being very silly. Today's fact of the day is about what you should do after you vom. Okay. Heading into the weekend. Is it? Have a couple of tablespoons of yogurt that you've made at home. Replace the bacteria. Oh, no, I don't know. No, this is specifically what to do with your mouth.

Oh, sorry. I just saw a chance to. Brush your teeth. That would be what you do, right? Because it's like, tastes bad. And a mouthwash. However. No, no, no.

No, no, no. No, no, no. Don't brush your teeth. Brushing your teeth immediately after vomiting can cause additional problems. The stomach acid weakens the enamel on your teeth. So when you spewage and it gets in your mouth, presumably you have a couple of spewages. This is a great chat, but we all spew.

Yeah. Have you ever thought about, like, this weekend, like tonight, will be the drunkest someone ever gets in their life? Do you ever think about that? Like every day, every day, like last night was the drunkest someone will ever get in their life. Yeah. That's pretty crazy.

And obviously higher at the weekends. Yeah. But through the weeks, someone might just have a blowout and it will be the drunkest they'll ever get in their life. Wow. And that happened to somebody last night and it will happen to somebody tonight. Do you ever think about that sort of stuff?

I sit on the couch and think about all the different things people are doing right at that moment. Like someone's getting down right now. All the time. Or like someone's eating fish and chips right now. Maybe not right now. That's two very different ends of the spectrum. Yeah. Are you all right on the couch?

Could someone be doing both? Are you bored? Both of those things just sound like great fun. Yeah, right. Imagine doing them at the same time. Fish and chips. I don't want... No.

I want little bits of batter on me. Greasy grease everywhere. No, you can turn it... Okay. Okay, don't. No. I don't need it. And I bet there'd be absolutely no...

Visuals. Anyway, so if you're sick, a lot of people's immediate reaction is to brush your teeth, but brushing them right away can cause the enamel to erode because if you're vomiting and the acid's been all over your teeth and then you're brushing it, the enamel that covers your teeth is weakened and a vigorous brushing could loosen or damage the enamel.

After you've stopped throwing up, make sure you end up brushing your teeth with a toothpaste that contains fluoride. However, when you have vomited afterwards, you should continue to rinse your mouth and the area, like your throat and stuff, with water

and maybe even salt water to neutralise the pH again and give the enamel a chance to resettle in your mouth neutral environment before then brushing with a toothpaste that contains fluoride. So you should probably mouthwash first and then brush. Because mouthwash after you've rinsed your mouth.

Right. Okay, so water, gargle. Water, gargle, maybe a bit of salt water. Yep. Bring that mouth back to its normal acidic levels. Could you go back to half the kebab you've got? Waste not, want not. If you're drunk and you've had a vom and you're sitting on the toilet floor,

like, you're not going to be like, okay, I need to get a saline solution going. Oh, here's my contact lens solution. Oh, no, I was supposed to gargle, not swallow. And then you're like. You go again. Yeah. But, yeah, you rinse your mouth go again. Yeah. But yeah, you rinse your mouth

with water, mouthwash, wait until your mouth returns to normal and then brush. Otherwise you can cause yourself additional damage.

Okay. Now that's not just for people who are drunk, that could just be for any vomiting, okay? So that's just a general handy tip. It's not encouraging

binge drinking. You're welcome. Look after yourself and each other this weekend. So today's fact of the day is after you vomit, you should not brush your teeth straight away.

Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Reese Witherspoon has done a chat with Regina King. It's for Variety. It's called Actors on Actors. And it's at their homes. And they were doing this because Legally Blonde 2's been out how many years? Legally Blonde or Legally Blonde 2?

Legally Blonde 2, 20 years. Get out. Legally Blonde 2003. Legally Blonde 2. 20 years. Get out. Legally Blonde 2003. Well, so not 20 years. Maybe Legally Blonde 1 was 20 years. Yeah, that's going to say surely not. What about Cruel Intentions? Oh, that's even older.

Oh, my God. That was 21 years ago. I love Regina King. She's great. She was in that, what was that comp show, Southland? And that Netflix show, she was great in that. Netflix probably transcribing this break. Big ups for you.

Seven Seconds, was that what that show was called? Yes. Good, she's brilliant. I think she won a Golden Globe for that. She's fantastic. Yeah. So it was in this conversation that Reese Witherspoon was talking about how she grew up in a very sheltered environment.

Right. And she didn't understand what homosexuality was until she moved to LA for her film career. When she gets to LA, she's like, why are those two guys holding hands? She's like, what? She said no one's... They're very good friends.

No one spoke to me about sexuality when I was a teenager. I didn't understand what it was, homosexuality was. My grandparents didn't explain it. My parents didn't explain it. I had to learn from somebody I met at an audition in LA. In the big smoke. Where did she grow up? Like the back country?

Nashville, Tennessee. Yeah. But like out on the walks or something. But did you ever have homosexuality? We got the whole chat on where babies come from and everything, but there was never a homosexuality chapter. A little bit. And then she rolled the condom on the wooden penis.

That chat. I think I knew some... What happened to all those wooden penises? I bet there's a garage somewhere where they're... Yeah, full of... Someone's collecting them. Also, who was making all those? I know.

Someone's job was to make those. Carve them. Yeah. Lovely. I think I knew some homosexuals really early on, like at school and stuff. So move to the big smoke, and that's a bit of a shock, isn't it? Yeah. But then sexuality on a whole, if there was other aspects that had never been explained to her,

like homosexuality would have been one aspect of it, but there's a... Like what? Babies made hell? There's a whole raft of human experience that falls under that umbrella. Yeah. It's been a very enlightening time. You moved to the big smoke from the country.

Did you ever get a shock like this? Not like this. Right. But, oh, okay, I can remember a few things that blew my mind. You couldn't just put a letter in your letterbox and have it taken away? That blows my mind. You couldn't just put a letter in your letterbox and have it taken away? That blows my mind that you

could. In the country, you'd put a flag up. You'd put your little flag up to say, hey, there's mail for here. And the postie would take it away. Because as a kid, you always wondered what the flags were on letterboxes when you lived in the city. I thought they put the flag down or up when you've got mail to go and get. So you look

from your house and you see down those long driveways, you're like, oh. It was to indicate that the postie, maybe you could come to some sort of agreement with your postie. They're pretty fast and loose. That's really what needs to be done. When you moved to the Big Smokes, did you try to send a letter home to mum and dad and it didn't go?

It just sat there? No, to my nana because she used to send me like care packages. And I tried to write back and the people I was living with were like, oh, you can't just put that in there. You need a stamp. I was like, where do I need to go? I had care packages. Yeah. And I tried to write back and the people I was living with were like, oh, you can't just put that in there. You need a stamp. I was like, where do I need to go? I had a stamp.

Right. I was aware of stamps. I was like, where does it go? They're like, oh, there's like post boxes around. Yeah. And I was like,

what? And then they showed me and I was like, this is a different one. Were you like, where's my mailbox's red flag? Yeah. Yeah.

Country bumpkins and the big smoke. Another thing that blew my mind, they took your rubbish away. Yeah. Yeah. Country bumpkins and the big smoke. Another thing that blew my mind, they took your rubbish away. Yeah. Yeah, because in the country, you just dig a hole and bury it, eh? Pretty much. Yeah. Or set it on fire if it'll burn.

Yeah. And, well, we did like recycling, but we had to, or you could do a rubbish, but you had to go to the tip. Yeah. You had to take it to the tip. Okay. And I just assumed everybody did that that lived in town every couple of weeks. I'd just go to the tip. You had to take it to the tip. Okay. And I just assumed everybody did that that lived in town every couple of weeks. I'd just go to the tip. I want to take some calls now on, because you think about like in the big cities,

like it's in Auckland here where we live and work. Most people I know all moved here. Oh, yeah. Well, we're not from here. I want to hear from people that moved to the big smoke. What did you learn when you moved to the big smoke? The big city. What did you learn? Yeah, you just never had to deal with it at home like maybe you learned that shops could open past nine o'clock or on sundays yeah sacrilege yeah um but you may be like only the bakery is allowed to be open on sunday so you can get um a treat on the way home

from church yeah the cheese and bacon life was our idea of a pretty out there treat. Yeah, right. And mum would make them get the one with the most bacon bits on it. 20 years. To celebrate the fact that 20 years ago the Legally Blonde movies came out, Reese Witherspoon and Regina King were doing some interviews. It was in that interview that Reese Witherspoon revealed that she didn't know what homosexuality was before until she moved to the Big Smoke, to LA.

Yeah. And it did get us talking about moving to the Big Smoke and the things you just learnt all of a sudden. Vorn, like leaders. You have to post leaders. They don't just come to your mailbox to link them. From other country kids that grew up with their mail being taken straight out of their mailbox

when you put the little red flag up. Danielle, what did you learn when you moved to the Big Smoke? I learned that there are more takeaways than just fish and chips. Yeah, that's true because small towns could only, I mean now you might need a subway if you're lucky. You get a few more, you get a subway. You maybe get a... Where?

There's a Chinese takeaway in Lawrenceville now. Thai, yep. Thai. Recently got a Thai. That took a while for the locals to get used to, I think. Yeah. Wow.

And so you were just overwhelmed when you moved to the Big Smoke with the takeaways? Yeah, there was just so many options. There's so many cuisines out there in the world, aren't there? Isn't there? Talking about the things you learnt when you moved to the big smoke, Alaska, what did you learn when you moved to the big smoke? I learnt that grown-ups still catch the bus. Oh, not the school bus.

No, not the school bus. I thought that once you finish with school, like, you know, you don't really need to catch the bus. It was when your parents couldn't take you into town or whatever, but, you know, these, like, full-grown adults

in business suits with their briefcases catch them a bus, and I'm like, there's like full grown adults in business suits with their briefcases packed on the bus. And I'm like, where's your car? What are you doing? So you moved to the big swing and you just couldn't believe that these big grown-ups were on the bus.

I couldn't believe it. It was 7am and it was just packed. Like we all had to stand. They're in their heels and everything. I'm like, oh no. What are you doing here? Get in your car or your motorbike. Get out of here.

Yeah, you can afford parking. You work in an office. Love it. Alaska, thanks for your call. Some other text messages on what you learnt when you moved to the Big Smoke. Somebody said, I thought homeless people were just in America in movies. I could not believe it when I saw my first homeless person. Yeah, wow, okay.

That's the thing. If you live in a small town, yeah, you just don't. There just isn't. Yeah. So, yeah, and that's quite a confronting thing. I learned that when I moved to the Big Smoke, you didn't have to take the paper off the tin can and scrub the glue off the tin

or the sellotape off wrapping paper. You just chuck it all away as it is. There's no rubbish prep. You townies are lazy. What's rubbish prep? In the country, if you were doing like a can of spaghetti you would take the... Why? Because

then when you would take them to the recycling centre at the tip sometimes they'd be like well no we can't do that. You've got to take the paper off. They do that at the recycle place. My mum would scrub the... she'd get them wet and it would like all peel off and then she'd put the tin in the recycling.

Susie, what did you learn when you moved to the Big Smoke? So I grew up in the Solomon Islands and when you're on the bus, another bus story, sorry. But when you're on the bus, you push the buzzer and the bus driver pretty much pulls over, you know, when you push the buzzer. So when we moved back to New Zealand, you know, I was on a bus and I pushed the buzzer pretty much when I wanted to get off

and the bus driver, how obnoxious he just kept driving. That's why I was like, I didn't, that would be, I'd get on buses if they did that. You'd be like, there's my house, stop. Stop, stop, stop. Not a bloody airport super shuttle, Megan. They had the little bus stops. They stopped at the nearest stop.

And then you walked to the closest one. So I was just wildly pushing the buzzer over and over and everyone was kind of looking at me. Excuse me, I'm pushing it. You're like, I'm being bus-napped. Let me out. Susie, thanks for your call. Some more text messages.

Somebody said, I couldn't believe when you moved to the Big Smoke how often you could just pop down the shop if you ran out of something. Because when you grow up on the farm, you go to the supermarket like once a week. Oh, yeah. Um, when I moved to the Big Smoke, it blew my mind that everyone didn't have a petrol tank at home. A petrol tank? Yeah, because you've got farm petrol at like home.

You'd have farm, like diesel for the tractor or whatever, and like petrol for the motorbike. And so if you need to top your car up, you top it up and then you might fill it when you go to town. And then when they moved to town, nobody had fuel tanks at home. We're going to keep a fuel tank in my backyard. It'll blow up. Yeah. Yeah, well, that's part of the fun of having a bloody fuel tank, isn't it?

It could blow up. Oh, yeah, lots of people learning lots of things. Oh, when I moved to the Big Smoke, I learned that my old nomad gummies, like those are shoes. They weren't acceptable school shoes anymore. Oh. They got monks in there.

Those are great shoes. Those are great shoes. The gummy nomads. They'd almost be back in fash. Yeah, keep it classic. Oh, no. No. Everyone was a bit more poncy about their tough shoe.