ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Megan Podcast - 28th October 2021

Episode Date: October 27, 2021

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The ZM Podcast Network. Clay. ZM's Fleets, Vaughan and Megan. Hello, welcome to the Fleets, Vaughan and Megan podcast. Thanks to Mick Cafe, Barista Made Coffee available from drive-thru and Mick Delivery at level 3 and also Dine-In at level 2. I'm just, um, Carwen and I are obsessed with RuPaul's Drag Race and there's a new game out where you can literally add yourself as a drag queen

and then take part in the show. Who's made this rupal oh bullshit rupal doesn't know coding well rupal's had the game commission rupal is this like the kardashian game that you got hooked on like you're going to be paying rupal real money soon have you i haven't got to that point i'd say there would be in that purchases probably yeah they have to warn you at the outset now do they if a game is free and it's got in-app purchases it always say get be in-app purchases probably. They have to warn you at the outset now. Do they? If a game's free and it's got in-app purchases, it has to say get and under in-app purchases. It always says that, yeah.

So I'm just creating my avatar at the moment, but I have to have a drag name. Oh. Oh. Do you know what's your name, Carwin? I don't know if your mic's on. That's working. What's your drag name?

No, it's not working. It's Chastity Belt. Chastity Belt. Wow, okay. I don't know what to put. I've never considered what my name is. Crystal Buttplug. Crystal Method was a famous drag queen.

What about Crystal Buttplug? Crystal Buttplug. It doesn't have to be about butt stuff. It does. It has to be sexually charged, though, right? It does. Not always. Not always charged though, right? It does. Not always. Bianca Del Rio, Trixie Mattel, Bob the Drag Queen.

Bob the Drag Queen. See with that Bob the Builder, he was very sexual. He was a sexual awakening for me. Yeah, that's why you've got to think for construction workers. I tell you what really gave me my sexual awakening was that concrete mix of the talk. Oh my. God.

Ever since. I'm so disturbed. Anytime I see a ready mix truck, I imagine it's Big Daddy Concrete Mixer. Oh, okay. What about the name that you use for. Chloe Carbashian. Yeah. Nah, that's...

Roller derby names are different to drag queen names. Yeah, it's a bit more violent. Yeah. What about... I want it to be classy. I want to be a classy drag queen. An expensive one. I want to be a look queen.

What does that mean? I'm like, I'm here for the looks, you know. Some are like singers. Some are dancers. Ah. Like comedy queens. I want to be a look queen. Is there like whole packages?

What? Where you can be all of? All of the, like a triple threat or a quad threat. Okay. I can be that. No, no, no. I'm not saying you could be. You'd well be on your skill set, but I'm just saying how have you been?

You'd be very famous if you were. Who's like a, I can't think of many that are like all of. Yeah. Right. Yeah. You even got any good ideas for me like a variant i'm with vaughn though they'd be dirty and i don't know why they just think that it'd be funnier vorn oh no that doesn't um spaghetti no spaghetti and meatballs yeah spaghetti butt plug we need it to be classy i meatballs Yeah Spaghetti butt plug We need it to be classy

Remember I wouldn't make a butt plug Out of spaghetti I'd put too much in You know how Whenever you're making spaghetti You always make too much Jesus

We've learnt too much We've learnt Too much What's a single serve I put a family pack in there I think we need to go home We've been locked up too long I brought a family pack in there. I think we need to go home. We've been locked up too long.

And here we go. Thanks, Rachel. Good morning. Welcome to the show, Fleets, Fawn and Megan. Welcome to the show. Fleets, Maughan and Megan. Two minutes past six. Big show today, guys. Big show. Rebel Wilson is on with us after eight o'clock. And, you know, normally any other day I'd be like, well, that's exciting.

I'm super excited about this. That's what you'd say. I'd say that's the big one of the day. But another special guest joining us at 7.25 this morning, Francis Bourgeois. Train guy. He's my favourite guy on Instagram and TikTok at the moment. Just his love for trains. He does this little laugh when he sees a train. Super wholesome.

So wholesome. So good. So we're going to chat to him this morning around 7.25. Yeah. If you want to know more about him before then, I believe you can click through to one of his reels on our Instagram story. Right. And get your absolute feast of wholesome, train, happy, chappy content.

And he waves at them and they give him tones. Yeah. He calls them toots. And it's so great. It's not like the old honk. It's like, ee-me.

Like, it is tones. After he said it, I was like, how does it horn? It's a bit different. I don't even like trains, but I just like that he likes trains.

I know, I'm not like into train spotting or anything, but it's just like. He loves them. He's so wholesome. It makes me happy. He's followed by Kurt Cobain's daughter.

Is he? Francis Bean. Cocaine, the space witch on Instagram. What did I say? Cocaine. Did I say cocaine? Yeah. Goodness. Probably, though. Probably at least a little bit. Well, when we first saw him, didn't he have like 20 or 30,000 followers? And I think now he's

up to like 300,000. He's been on like Good Morning Britain. Yeah. He's what we need in these times, you know. Totally. In these lockdown times. Four minutes past six. The top six is on the way. There is a futuristic new touchscreen

that is going to be able to change its shape to replicate textures. That's weird, eh? Like, imagine online shopping. Yeah, and you'd be like, oh, what that dress feels like. Yeah. Or that furry coat.

I don't know if I want to let that into my life. Yeah, it's like an etch-a-sketch, I guess. And then you shake it and it can go back to normal. But I've got the top six uses for this futuristic touchscreen. Alright, Secret Sound coming up. It's your chance to win cash 7 and 8 o'clock this morning all thanks to Neon. The current jackpot, $20,000. Just going to

be able to get through and identify this Secret Sound. Easy. Just like that. Easy. Also, Warehouse Mobile giving you the chance to win $500 cash. We'll do that before 7 o'clock. Next on the show, Squid Game, Season 2 update, and also, how much did the creator make?

ZDM's Fletch, Ron and Megan. Squid Game, massive show this year. Haven't heard of it. Is it like a fishing show? Yeah, it is, yeah. And everyone wants to know if there is a Season 2. So the creator gets asked about this all the time Yeah, it is. Yeah. And everyone wants to know if there is a season two. So the creator gets asked about this all the time and has confirmed.

There is talk. That's inevitable because it's been such a success. I'm considering it. I have a very high-level picture in my mind, but I'm not going to work on it straight away. There's a film I really want to make. I'm thinking about which to do first. I'm going to to work on it straight away. There's a film I really want to make. I'm thinking about which to do first. I'm going to talk to Netflix.

This is a great opportunity for him to make the film, though. Be like, I'll do season two. You let me do this film first. And also make some money. Because a lot of talk about how much he actually made from it, eh? He didn't make that much. $900 million is what it made for Netflix at the moment. They reckon that's like the impact value.

What does that mean? Like, I don't know, just... Before tax. Before everybody talking about it, there's like merchandise in America, all that kind of stuff. Okay, right. That's the thing. He should have, they should have had the merchandise absolutely locked up tight. Those pink overalls and the masks.

The thing is, this could have just been a non-event TV show, like 98% of the stuff on Netflix. You're in no position when you haven't made anything decent to do that. Is it New York City or some places are banning the Halloween costumes because it's too violent? The pink overalls and stuff. But yeah, given that it's 900 million for Netflix, everyone's like, well, you must be rich now. And he said, no, I'm not that rich.

I have enough to put food on the table. It's not like Netflix is paying me a bonus. Netflix paid me according to the original contract. Because he tried to get it made for 10 years and then when someone was finally like, I'll make it, you sign a contract and that's it. Are you going to get your passion project off the ground?

Yeah. I mean, the next project he does, he'll probably make bank. Yeah. You'd hope. But he said it was so stressful, he lost six teeth making the show. So no wonder he wants a little bit of a break.

Did he fall off that glass thing? Did he fall off the glass walkway? That is wild. I didn't know stress could lead to tooth loss. Yeah, your hair lost. No, that sounds like he hadn't cleaned his teeth. Yeah. He didn't brush. He's just using that as an excuse. Right. Well, either way,

when he signs up for season two, he'll be able to get all new teeth. Yeah, and lots more money. Yeah, based season two, he'll be able to get all new teeth. Yeah, and lots more money. Yeah, based on this. Play ZM's Flesh, Vaughn and Megan. Kellogg's. Kellogg's? Kellogg's.

Kellogg's. Yeah. Kellogg's. Is that the guy that invented cornflakes as an anti-masturbatory mission? I believe it is, yes. Have you ever watched it? That's right. There's this movie, and I'm sure it found one of those movies that I dreamt.

And then I said it was on during the day on a Sunday once. Yeah. And Anthony Hopkins plays Mr. Kellogg. Mr. Kellogg. Well, I just Googled John Harvey Kellogg was born in 1852. He invented cornflakes in 1878 in the hope that the plain food would stop people masturbating. Yeah, that's it. Like, oh, God, I'm so horny.

Oh, I'll just have some cornflakes. That'll kill the mood. That'll kill the mood. All right, so it was 1994 this movie was released. It had Anthony Hopkins as Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, and he runs like a wellness resort. And John Cusack's in it. Matthew Broderick's in it. Bridget Fonda's in it.

It's a real... Dana Carvey, the guy from Garth from Wayne's World, he's in it. Okay. I'm watching it and just going to the end

and being like, that was really weird. What did I just watch? Yeah. His big thing is he goes through a cold swim in a lake every morning and it...

Stops the horn dog. Yeah. St big thing is he goes through a cold swim in a lake every morning and it stops him wanting to play with himself. Stops the horn dog. Yeah, stops the horn right then and there. Well, they've got a problem that any amount of masturbation isn't going to get them out of. Not with cornflakes, though. No, with Pop-Tarts. Okay.

Now, do we have Pop pop tarts in New Zealand? I've never had them. I've had them overseas in America. They're like a, what do you call them? Like a tart, almost like a skinny apple pie pastry thing. Right. But real skinny, and they've got a thin bit of jam or something. And like a Jaffa, you pop them in the toaster like you would a bit of bread,

and then it heats them up, and inside there's like gooey deliciousness. I think maybe the International Isle or some supermarkets in New Zealand. Right, might have it. But I think they're parallel. It definitely got that colour in it. Yeah. You know, the colour we're not allowed. Oh, yeah, probably.

The reds and the blues. So Elizabeth Russett of New York, she loves strawberry Pop-Tarts, but she's seeking $5 million. $5 million. Because she said, the whole grain frosted strawberry toaster pastries, it's deceptive, misleading. It almost contains no strawberry.

Studies, less than 2%. The entire Pop-Tart is less than 2% strawberry, yet strawberry is its... Oh, come on. ...is its primary flavor. It's filled instead with the cheaper pears and apples. Yeah, right. It's like orange juice.

Is it orange juice that's got a lot of apples in it? Apples are doing a lot of the heavy lifting of your filling and your flavoring, by the way. Yeah. I mean, there's a lot of orange juices that are very little orange. Yeah, very little orange. So, yeah, she wants $5 million because mean, there's a lot of orange juices that are very little orange. Yeah. Very little orange. So yeah, she wants $5 million

because she said there's not enough. America, right? If she read the back, would it not have spelt it out? Absolutely, it would have.

Yeah, but she's saying it shouldn't be called a strawberry pop tart. A strawberry flavoured pop tart. Maybe more along the lines. That's what we know that means,

surely. No one's eating that thinking that's healthy. Although you'd be surprised. But maple flavoured syrup. Oh yeah, you've got to be careful. Versus like maple syrup. Yeah.

Everything's maple flavoured. You've really got to pick it out and you be prepared to pay a little bit more for the maple syrup. Well, that's how you know you're getting actual maple syrup. That's a bit more expensive. You're like, how much is this? Yeah. Because they drained a tree for it.

Yeah. I saw a jug and it even had a little like, you know your mum's flagons of sherrys that she refills? Yeah, she loves her sherrys and her flagons. Yeah, cut for the bacon, cut for herself. Why not? You know how flagons have that little hole in the side so you can put your finger in and tip your jug back? Yes, you hand it, tip your jug back.

It was like a flagon of maple syrup. Except I read the price on the thing above, but the price was on the below. And I didn't know until I got to the checker and then it scanned and I was like, but then I was too scared to look like I was tight. So I was like, we've still got it. And it's used sparingly.

The children aren't allowed to pour it on their own like pancakes and stuff because it'll be like, blop, blop, blop. I'll be like, ah, you just poured $10 of syrup on you. Get that here. Drizzle. You've got to drizzle. CDM's Fletch, Ron and Megan. Well, a study out of America, so I don't know if we'd be better here in New Zealand,

but a third of people that they surveyed had almost burned down their kitchen whilst trying to get creative with dinner at some stage in their life. Yeah. So a third had to resort to either a fire extinguisher or putting out the flames. No, when as a kid we did. How?

Well, we were only ever allowed to do oven chips. Oh, when as a kid we did. How? Well, we were only ever allowed to do oven chips. Oh, yeah. You know, like you spread them thin on the pan and then it was never enough if you were doing a single layer. And then when it came to like tossing them to get them crispy on the other side, it was hard. They'd pile up. It was like a rigmarole.

Yeah. So when my parents went out once, we got that electric fry pan that every mum who ever cooked a rice risotto had. Yeah. Handles on each end. So when my parents went out once, we got that electric fry pan that every mum who ever cooked a rice risotto had. Yeah. Handles on each end. And when you washed it, you weren't allowed to get the electrical bit in the sink. Yeah. That, and we filled it up

with oil. Filled it? What, to like deep fry them? Oh jeez. Oh my god. Crazy, right? And then we got the sieve because we'd seen them at the fish and chip shop, how they lower in the basket. So then we put it. Yes.

So you were like making your own fish and chip shop. Frozen, so you put water in hot fat. You bet. And it is cranky. And it wasn't hot fat. It was like the cheapest cooking oil. It was literally probably called cooking oil. Yeah.

And it was like smoking hot. But again, kids, no idea how hot the oil was. And we dipped it in and it went. And it just blew oil out and it was like on fire and it was wild. But luckily the fire didn't get in the pan with the oil. It's just where the oil got outside, like on the ground and stuff. Oh, Lord. And our kitchen was mid-Renos, which was our only saving grace.

Yeah, right. Because we put it out, but everything was oil-stained. Oh, no. But then they just lino'd over it. Oh, my God. That could have gone really bad. We couldn't. I think about it now.

Like, I'll say to the girls, Sade will be out, and I'll say to the girls, I'm just going to go have a nap, don't do anything silly. And they won't. They're like angels. If that had been us, we would have been like, all right, dad's in bed, what can we eat? What can we cook? What can we do?

Yeah, we would have burned the house down, 100%. Yeah, what can we play with? We should flick matches at something. Hey, what we should do is hold a lighter in front of that fly spray machine that goes off every nine minutes. And every minute we have to switch who's holding the lighter and it has to be like pointed at our face.

So then when it like catches fire, it like sets our eyebrows on. Let's do it. Let's do it. Let's get one each. See, that's how it escalated. God knows. I don't know.

There's multiple times where I could have been seriously injured or killed. Play ZM's Flesh, Fawn and Megan. Hey, Christchurch, Christchurch. Welcome to the 2021 COVID Club. Two cases this morning, unfortunately. Same household. One of them recently returned from Auckland.

Yeah, so at this stage, no locations of interest. Interviews happening at the moment. And we'll update you as soon as we do have any locations of interest. But keep an eye on that today because poos. Yeah, sorry about that. They actually keep an eye on the poos to see how it's going. When you get caught out doing something, it's always like, do I admit it or do I double down on the lie

and hope that people will give up? That's exactly what's happened to an influencer. She has been called out but does not want to admit it. So her name is Jess Hunt, and she recently put up a picture of her in front of the Eiffel Tower. She's on the bridge, the Pondelina? The one that goes to the Eiffel Tower. She's on the bridge.

But the photo looks like she has Photoshopped herself in there. You can see like the white around her. Get out. Where can I see this photo? This is fantastic. There's like a white, like look at her head. You can see the white. Yeah, it's completely different.

You can see the white between her black hair and the Eiffel Tower. Let alone the lighting contrast. She would have to have had like a very different lighting rig. Everyone's called her out and she was like, hey, I was genuinely there. Look at the video. I posted a video of me walking in front of it. So then everyone goes at the video. I posted a video of me walking in front of it. So then everyone goes to the video. She is walking in the

middle of the road, which a lot of people have flagged as the first hint that it's not real. She's walking in the middle of the road and again there's like a white line around her and also the size of her feet compared to the line in the road.

So she hasn't done a very good job. Also, the size of her feet compared to the line and the road. Oh, yeah. So she hasn't done a very good job. I love it. Why did she lie about going to Paris? No, she's still doubled down on it. She maintains that she was 100% there. Let's see some receipts. Yeah.

I mean, if you've ever been to Paris and you've been anywhere near the Eiffel Tower, you know that so many people walk in the middle of the road. Yeah. Really? 100. There's cars everywhere and people are posing in the middle of the road to get the shot of the Eiffel Tower. Get the perfect, yeah, the perfect shot. You're about to be hit by it and people are tooting, but they don't care.

It just, so many people, I'm surprised they don't get knocked over. So that could have been legit, but the Photoshop's not great. I see your influencer story about faking a trip to Paris and I would like to raise you the Gold Coast based influencer that are motor on lawn

and it's a small backyard lawn. It's not like she undertook it. She put up an Instagram story and these are the words. I had tears through this process. Happy tears because I'm so effing proud of myself.

It's so easy to be faced with an unknown new situation and say, I can't. My advice and something I'm only just learning is give yourself more credit and challenge yourself

to create the results you want in life in every aspect. It's damn effing empowering. God, what's she done? She just mowed her lawns. And she didn't even do the edging. She didn't get out the weeding to redo the edging.

To be fair, when I first mowed my, like, used the lawnmower myself, like, two years ago, I was really proud. Yeah, and I'm, but. I didn't go on like that. No, you didn't do a big post like you just climbed Everest or something and overcome your fears. It continues. Shout out to my weapon of a mum.

Setting the absolute best example of someone who doesn't give up and continues to defy all odds. I'm so lucky to have the best role models and people that believe in me. I'm done now. And then, like, fist of power. I'm happy for her. She's real happy. You mow your lawns though.

You just look. This is what you do when you mow your lawns. You send your best mates a photo of the lawns you've just dropped. Oh, yeah. And you go, that's not bad actually. And then you have like a drink and you look at the lawn and your kids are like, Dad, how much longer? Mum wants to know how much longer you're going to be out of here.

And you say, till the goddamn sun goes down. But you enjoy it. Because you're just looking at your lawns. Yeah. Write some big motivational post like you just killed cancer or something. I mean, the message was amazing. But then when you attribute it to mowing the lawns, it doesn't quite fit. No.

Hey, but she's happy. She's happy. Also, nothing would make me happier than Jim's moan to come out and be like, we actually did that. ZDM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. What's lower? With Warehouse Mobile and Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. Erica, good morning.

Good morning, Ryan. Who are you talking to? Oh, just the two I see because we're in the middle of milking. Oh. It's quiet. You've got a quiet milking two I see because we're in the middle of milking. Oh. It's a quiet, you've got a quiet milking shed. Yeah, we're in a big rotary. Oh, yeah, running the run for the big rotary. Not the herring bones around here, mate.

Not the herring bones around here. How many are you milking? Four 50s. What are you milking? What breed? They're crossbreeds, so Friesians and Jersey. Yeah, right, right. That's a trim milk, isn't it?

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Hello. Cynthia Hipwell of Texas A&M. Remember we talked about A&M the other day? What's A&M? Agriculture and... Machinery. Something, something. It's a university.

Oh, yeah, okay. Remember I said you could go and learn barbecue? That's right. So their Department of Mechanical Engineering, it's not all just bloody barbecues down there, is leading the research that would allow touchscreens to have changing textures. So that would be like using your iPad and you can feel stuff.

Yes. How does that even work? So there's a screen on top. Yeah. That is the image. Yeah. Underneath, so it's like a movable screen. Underneath, there's thousands and thousands and thousands of little nodules.

Kind of the top half. Yeah. Now, those things can change what's around them. Oh, okay. Like to make a texture. The pressure and stuff. So it would be like a soft, soft, hard, soft, soft, hard, and a massive pattern could be like carpet.

Wow. Nuts, right? That's crazy. Does that mean screens are going to end up getting thicker again? No. Oh. They said one of the things, because the technology involved in screens has got so much thinner, that it'll continue to get thinner with the advance of technology, and then this will

just go in the back. That is just, could you imagine that? Wow, yeah. How good, eh? That's the future, though. We're living in it. Well, I've got the top six uses for said futuristic touchscreen. Number six, getting high and touching all the textures.

Okay. So I've heard. Yeah, so you've heard. So I've heard that it'd be like, next. Ooh. Nice. Number five on the list of the top six uses for futuristic touchscreens. Turn on the stubble setting and rub your face against it to replicate face-to-face snuggles with a bedded person.

Yeah, right. Or a stubble individual. Or if you can't grow a beard or a moustache, just give it a little touch. Yeah, so you lean in and when your partner wants a smirch and you push the screen on the side of the... Is that what you mean? Yeah.

Or your wife could be like, okay, you have to completely shave off all your hair and then kiss yourself and see what it feels like with that big beard. Done. You know, what if I could? It's not cheating. It's not cheating if it's with yourself.

Totally. Yeah, fair call. You could clone yourself and hook up with yourself. It's definitely not cheating. It's experimental. It's a form of playing with yourself. That's so weird. It seems like a cloning loophole that you found there.

I'd have to agree with that, yeah. Absolutely. Is it yourself, Megan? I don't think I'd be attracted. Oh, no, neither. But that's also going to help me not fall in love with myself. God, if you were a hot person and you were a hot clone, you'd never leave home again. You'd probably starve to death. This is so weird.

Number four on the list of the top six uses for futuristic touchscreens. Make it feel like you're reading a book when you're reading a fake book. Oh, yeah. You could put it on paper settings. You could. So it would feel like paper. And then you just do that thing where you flip the next page. Yeah, yeah.

And it would feel like you're running your finger across a lovely paper. Yeah. Number three on the list of the top six uses for futuristic touchscreens, put it on the long hair setting and then like just have it touching your face and be like, pretend you're big spooning with your long-haired partner and you're constantly like, blowing their hair out of your face. Yeah. Number two on the list of the top six uses for futuristic touchscreens,

you can pet a pet without having a pet. Oh, that's cute. Oh, yeah. hair out of your face. Yeah. Number two on the list of the top six uses for futuristic touchscreens. You can pet a pet without having a pet. Oh, that's cute. Oh, yeah. You can put it on like bald cat. Or you can actually like pet like things

you couldn't normally pet like tigers. Or like a lollipop. Possum, don't they have like soft fur? Possums do. But you wouldn't want to pet that one?

Nah, well, have you? Unless it was your pep possum in which case get rid of that pep possum they're a pest and number one

on the list of the top six uses for futuristic touchscreens sex stuff I'm just leaving that book open I think you

already opened that up when you started hooking up with your clone gaps yeah yeah well it's a bit to get

a whole lot weirder with me sex clone in this touchscreen alright Yeah. Well, it's a bit to get a whole lot weirder with me. Sex clowning this time. All right. Oh, yeah. That's today's sub-sex. Kia ora. I'm Simon Bound, and I host Business is Boring, a podcast that reckons it's anything but.

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Secret Sound Season 10. It's all thanks to Neon. Get a Kiwi streaming service. Get great value. Get in on Neon. Finally watched the first episode of the new season of Curb Your Enthusiasm last night. I watched it too. So good.

So good. So good. Goodness me. Get into that. That's the 11th season because I had to scroll through to get to season 11. It's like, imagine finding that show, because you've never watched, have they, Megan? I've watched a couple of episodes in the first season. Just being able to watch all 11 seasons?

It seems like such a mountain to climb now. How many episodes per season? There's only like 10, and they're only half an hour, so you could definitely, I reckon you could do that in two weeks. How many seasons of Drag Race did you watch? That was maternity leave. Ha. Get it done. I don't want to hear any more excuses.

All right. Well, joining us for a crack this morning, Laura, good morning. Morning. All right. So this is the deal. We will give you $20,000 cash if you can tell us what this sound is. Easy. Okay.

Can you say that? I think that it's a, you know, when you go to a hotel, you get given a card to unlock your door? Yeah, like that you put in or you swipe sometimes. Yeah. Well, they're all different. So the ones that you put in,

so it's the hotel key card and locking the door to get into your room. Okay, yeah, right. They do sound quite clunky sometimes. Yeah, because they open the lock, don't they? Yeah. Yeah. Well, soundkeeper owls. Well, well, well.

Hello. Hi, Laura. Hi. I'd love to know how you got that guess um with the clues level three made me because level three obviously miq so you're in a hotel oh okay that works and then miq by now you've left so you get your room and then you use it later yes um are you clicking at like a bullet point? Yeah, I am. I am. Good. And also my husband, Walter

helped me as well. Do you remember Walter? Walter. Oh, it's Walter. Yeah, Walter was a thousand percent sure when he guessed. Oh, tell me about it. Oh my gosh, he's been going on and on and on. Your phone must have an epic redial.

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See you later, Jenna. Next round. Round two. We need you to name a New Zealand city. Jared. Wellington. Wellington. Dylan.

Auckland. Shauna. High Church. Annette. Hamilton. Pardon me? Hamilton. Hamilton.

Tracy. Dunedin. Sorry, Annette. You've got to go because the losing city was the one closest to New Plymouth. See you later. See you later. Thanks for playing. It's time for the next round. Name a tree.

Jared, name a tree. Pahutukawa. Pahutukawa. Dylan, name a tree. Kowhai. Dylan, sorryawa. Dylan, name a tree. Kofi. Sorry, Shauna, name a tree. Gum. Pardon me?

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Wings. Dylan, name a feature of a bird. The beak. Jared, name the feature of a bird. Colours. Pardon me? Colours. Colours?

See you later, Jared. Oh, my God. Heaps of things have colours. He went last part. There's feathers in a beak. All right. Dylan, how old is the oldest living member of your family? 57.

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Rebel Wilson on the show with us just after 8 o'clock this morning. Washing the dishes by hand is good for you. So even if you have a dishwasher, like, you have to wash your pots, right? You're not one of those people. Oh, yeah, I'm not a monster. Yeah. And do you know what else you shouldn't? People put these in the dishwasher. You shouldn't.

You're good knives Like I've got my knife set for New World But I'm scared of putting knives in the sink And forgetting it's there And ramming my hand in Well no you do separately You just dip them and wash them Why don't you wash them

Because I have put them in the dishwasher And they go a bit weird Do they get like like, a stain? Yeah, they get rusty. Oh, right. Because they sit with water on them for a while, right? I know you should never put anything with a wooden handle in there. Oh, no, see, I put my wooden spoon in the dishwasher.

I don't care. Why not? Wooden, like, I've got a wooden handled spatula thing. Oh, really? Does it not split the wood? The hot, like, intense heat? No, it's a $2 spoon. Oh, yeah, a spoon's not too bad.

I'll buy another one. But also, you've got to get, as soon as that's finished, you've got to, yeah, spoons aren't too bad. I'll buy another one. But also, you've got to get, as soon as that's finished, you've got to get your wooden spoon out and give it a dry, an airing. Otherwise, it can get a bit like slimy. Nah, it just dries in the drawer. I don't know where your drawers are, but they're not moist. Maya, I don't have moist drawers. Well, you're going to have moist drawers if you keep chucking a damp spoon in there.

So, the reason it is good for you and it would be the same for other, you know, maybe chores. We're pretty rock and roll here on the show. Yeah, we are. Sometimes they catch us talking about chucking a moist spoon back in the drawer and I'm like, watch out. That's pretty bad.

They're like, man, people must be listening and being like, these guys are crazy. These guys are a bit like party animals. God, what a wacky thing are they going to do next Put a wet spoon in a drawer Hey Dix with the show Stay tuned We're going to sneak around to the boss's house And chuck a wet spoon in his drawer

Maybe our lives aren't that exciting I won't hear it Definitely not at the moment Shit dude All I've got is the dishes This damp spoon chat's got me absolutely humming for a day. I'm damp from all this damp spoon chat. Gross.

I've got to say moist spoon. Why should we do the dishes by hand? Because it's mindful meditation. Oh, yeah. I've heard about mindful meditation. So it's not just the dishes, but this is the one example they've used. So paying attention in a particular way on purpose in the present moment, non-judgmentally is how you do mindful meditation.

And it could be a range of things. Could it be mowing the lawns? Yes. Because that's what I think sometimes is quite like. I do the circles around the trees and I get wider and bigger and bigger circles. And then I do my circles until I get within the radius of another tree and then I start doing the circles around that. Oh yeah. Because that's holding your concentration

without thinking about anything else. And at the end sometimes it looks like one of those Japanese sand gardens how you do like the circles around the trees. See I like doing the dishes. This is so me. The heat of the water and like the smell of the dishwashing liquid because I of the dishwashing liquid.

Because I like... What dishwashing liquid do you have? I've got a raspberry one at the moment. We had this grapefruit one once. A raspberry? See, this is what I'm talking about. The rock and roll lifestyle. You should go to some raspberry flavoured laundry. Bloody treat yourself.

I'm damp again. You'd be sticking your bloody tongue in there. You'd be lapping at the dish. Because you know I love raspberry. It's my favourite. Oh my god babes, I'll send you a link. Oh yeah, okay. Are you reluctant to mention who's given this? You don't want to give it a freebie.

You're hoping they're going to pay you for a bit of influencing. The one with the green lid. Palm olive. No, no, no, no. Wait. Are you really that interested? Is it Morning Meadow or Meadow Fresh? Meadow-y cousins or i know the brand is it more is it morning meadow or meadow morning meadow morning fresh happy fresh fresh fresh buttons they're not paying for this yeah it is it's morning fresh morning fresh morning fresh yeah

raspberry and apple they're not the only only ones who dip their toe into the raspberry. Oh, Active do a wild blackberry and rhubarb. Hey, that's our dishwasher tablet. That's our favourite dishwasher tablet. Sade bought the other box because I went on to Active on your recommendation and they did find that they were a good dishwashing tablet. Rock and roll. And Sade's gone back to the other box. Oh, no.

I thought we'd made the switch. She's like, we didn't talk about making a full-time switch. Oh, no, she's being too brand. She's being brand loyal. Yeah, but you should have discussed it. If you have a brand. We've scheduled it in tonight. Okay.

I'm hoping it's a sort of, you know, rock and roll chat that's going to get us both horned up. Some chore play. Yes. There you go. Right. Okay. Well, I tell you what, it gets pretty rock and roll on the show next.

Someone that has genuinely given us a lot to smile about during lockdown and these COVID times, someone that's exploded on TikTok and Instagram in the last month. Francis Bourgeois is a man who loves trains. Yeah. And we're going to talk to him about, spoiler alert, trains. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. We are stoked because this man has been delivering us what we need in these times. Some wholesome internet content.

No nudity. No gratuities. No negativity. No nothing. It's all wholesome and it's good. If you're not following Francis Bourgeois on TikTok or Instagram, you should be because of stuff like this. This is going to be the climax of my 21st birthday weekend. We had to see this tornado.

What? Yes! Yes! I'm Max on my 21st birthday weekend. We're here to see this tornado. What? Yes. Yes. That was funny. Hello, 158. I love it. Yeah, so lucky. He is on the phone.

Francis, good morning. Hello. How's it going? Very good. Very well. Even just hearing the phone. Francis, good morning. Hello. How's it going? Very good. Very well. Even just hearing your voice has just made me smile. What does it mean to you knowing that, like, so many people are watching your videos

and you're bringing so much joy to people all over the world? It's quite overwhelming, but at the same time, I'm quite shocked by it as well. And I've always strived to sort of make people happy. And the fact that it's happening on a worldwide scale is absolutely amazing. What is it about trains that you love so much? I mean, most of us take them for granted. In New Zealand, most of our trains that we'd see would be freight trains.

And you're driving somewhere on a state highway in the country, and you'll see a really long freight train loaded up with logs or containers, and you might count the carriages that it's pulling. But what is it about trains that gets you going? I think there are so many different things that I love about them. I think the essence of how the trains work so they go on the rails and you can predict exactly where they're going to be and they slot perfectly into the stations as well as the sound of the diesel engines and and the variety that you can get as

well the passenger services the different types of freight you can see and also um some um train operating companies in the uk use quite old locomotives, which are very kind of classic and have wonderful diesel engines. Do you have a favourite? Because you are excited about like all trains. All of them. But is there one that is your absolute favourite? Yes, certainly. It's called the Class 43 HST and it was designed by a genius called Sir Kenneth Grange. And coincidentally, it's quite sad,

but tomorrow, for the first time ever, two Class 43 HSTs are going to get scrapped, and I'm going to go and see them just to say goodbye. And you're going to film it? Yeah, certainly. I think it's a momentous occasion. And yeah, I definitely need to say my goodbyes. Could this be the first video where you get emotional rather than happy?

Yeah, well, there was one time where I actually got emotional with a Class 43 HST before. And it was the last ever HST service departing from London. And as I got off in a city called Leicester, the train departed into the distance, and it was blaring its horn, and the diesel engines were screaming, and it really actually made me cry because it was so intense. Wow.

So I'm just reading here there was 197 produced in the Class 43 HSC. How many are left? I think all of them apart from, I believe, six or seven that have been involved in accidents and therefore scraps. Right. Yeah, there have been some serious crashes in the history of HSTs and they've had to be scrapped. Some of the drivers know you, right?

So they'll see you and give you a toot. Tines. Tines, sorry. Give you tines. Yeah. Some of the drivers I see, for example, there's a legend called Gordon

and I once contacted him on Instagram because I saw that he runs the same route that I spot on. And I said, oh, just wondering if you're running tomorrow, I'm going to be on this bridge. Do you mind giving me some tones? And he said, oh, yeah, sure. And then I went to the bridge and he was doing so many tones, I just couldn't believe it.

I love it. So great. Now, one of your recent posts, you said that there was a class 57, the Pride of Cumbria, and you said it's pulling something, but you didn't know what it was going to be pulling. It turned out to be pulling some

coaches. But did someone just say, hey, you want to come down here? It's going to be worth your while, a little treat. You're going to get a surprise. Well, the thing is there's a great deal of information out there about where trains are and what it's going to be, but sometimes there is a bit of unpredictability. So I knew that that train was going to be operated

by a company called Rail Operations Group. So I knew that it was either going to be a class 57 or a class 37 um but what i didn't know was what it was going to be dragging which was quite exciting to see where like what next is is there when travel is easier and more of an option is that something you want to do go around the world train spotting or oh it would be my dream to do that and um yeah, I've been thinking about the sort of the places that I'd love to visit and certainly Japan and everywhere really.

And I think every country has their own kind of niches. For example, you know, in Russia, the Soviet metro stations and yeah, just there's so much variety to explore. And I can't wait to hopefully do that at some point in my life. Wow. You have hundreds of thousands of followers on TikTok and on Instagram. I just wanted to know, like, are you getting recognised in the street?

Yeah. I can't really leave the house nowadays without getting recognised. That is so cool. And what do people say to you when they see you out there? Yeah, I can't really leave the house nowadays without getting recognised. Wow. That is so cool. And what do people say to you when they see you out there? It's, oh my God, it's the train guy. Forever known as the train guy. Oh, I love it.

But it's a passion and you do such a great job. It's so good to just see some wholesome passion online. That's not, you know, horrible vitriol in this time or arguments or anything like that. It's fantastic to see. Oh, thank you. I really appreciate it. We appreciate your time. Francis, thanks so much for being on the show.

Okay, thanks, Fletchford and Megan. Have a lovely day. ZDM's Fletchford and Megan. Princess Marco of Acacino. Well, formerly Princess Marco of Acacino. Well, formerly Princess Mako of Akashino. Had to resign. Yep. She is the first child and eldest daughter of Prince Fumihito and Princess Kiko

and a former member of the Japanese imperial family. She has handed in and she's resigned her royal status because she wanted to marry a commoner, and that is against the rules. A commoner. Yeah. He's wearing a suit and stuff because whenever – When I read the –

Commoner, I imagine this, mate. He walks in, he's like, it's a pleasure to meet you all. I'm just a common farmer. And he's covered in mud and socks. Yeah, yeah. I've got to get home or my geese might escape. And if I lose my geese, I won't have any money.

I'll freeze to death over the winter. Like they've married someone outside the castle. In the village. Yeah, with a bit of leathery old boots. What is this comment? Do you know what he does for a job? This guy?

Weren't they gonna move To New York And he sounds like He's a businessman Yeah That's the thing Apparently she can't Stay in the country Like

She's gotta leave She's been outcast Because she's been outcast Because she's married A common person She was also offered When you leave The imperial family

You are Entitled to a payment that's about the equivalent of one and a half, just over one and a half million New Zealand dollars. Okay. And she declined it. Oh, wow.

She's the first person since World War II to leave the family and not take it because she's like, I don't need it. And I feel like it's a cop out. Yeah, right. And letting me stay a member of this family and marry someone outside of, because that's the thing, if it's outside cop out, letting me stay a member of this family and marry someone outside of,

because that's the thing, if it's outside of royalty, wouldn't you only be pretty close? Yeah. Small gene pool. So I'm imagining this is like kind of a Meghan Markle situation, like the family just hate it. And they're just like, you can't do this. It's not what's done.

It's just what's, yeah, it's not what's done. Apparently they don't get on super well with his family either. Right. So they're just getting out of there and just going to do it. I kind of do love stories though like this. Same. When someone finds. Are you there to tell us you love a love story?

Come on, I'll listen. No, he likes the fact that someone isn't doing what they're told. Someone's pulling the fingers to the head. Yeah, yeah. Like you find someone that you love and you're like, I want to spend the rest of my life with this person, but the family are like,

no, you don't, for whatever reason. Right. That's a great story. Yeah. Because that's like overcoming adversity, isn't it? It could be a movie.

Hey. It could be a Disney movie. That was kind of sweet. I'm not going to watch it. It is a Disney movie. Of course it is. That's like... The format of it.

There's so many movies. Yeah. Okay, well, could we take some calls then on this? When you've got together, you've got into a relationship or got married to someone who your family didn't like. And I mean, sadly, this will happen based on race. Oh, yeah. There'll be many reasons, but that would be one, sadly.

Yeah. Or there'd be your family not liking them because maybe... Don't get... There'll be wealth. Oh, yeah. The wealth thing will be massive. The job would come into it for some families,

whereas, like, if you love them, it doesn't matter. I'd rather you married a douchebag that's also from a rich family than marry someone genuine who's going to care for you that doesn't have as much wealth. Well, maybe you can relate.

0800DARLS.M. I want to take your calls now. You can text as well. 9696. When did you get together or marry someone that your family didn't like? Have you ever got together with somebody or married someone that your family hated? Hey, maybe you've won them over now after all these years, or maybe you haven't.

And what was the reason they hated them? Some incredible stories coming through. Yeah, this is based off the fact that a Japanese princess has given up her royal title to be with her commoner. Yeah. Who seems like a really successful businessman, but a commoner nonetheless. That's my mum whenever I date anyone that's not a Christian.

I mean, that's great Christian values, isn't it? Rejecting people. Thou shalt not judge. Yeah, that's pretty much what Jesus was all about, I think. She's getting better now that I'm pushing 30, and I'm no longer dating a passionate atheist. Oh, now that you're 30, she'll just settle for you with anyone. Jesus was almost dead by your age,

so you need to get on with it. Yeah. I married a guy I grew up with for 10 years. None of my family agreed because he was unmotivated and lazy. Turns out I should have listened. Yeah, but it's what you wanted at the time, isn't it? In 10 years, you've got to make your own mistakes.

Right now, though, talking about when you've got together with someone or married someone that your family hated. Man, there is some drama going on. This is like, it blows my mind as a parent that parents can put anything before their children's happiness and just their children. You just wait until you're... I'd like to think I'd accept anyone, but you just wait.

When we're talking to the girls about growing up, we always say, your partner, you know, guys, girls, whatever. Yeah. It doesn't worry us. And Andy's always like, oh, I don't think I'm gay. And I'm like, oh, no, no, I'm not saying you are, but if you are, no big deal at all. And they're like, oh, no, no, I'm not saying you are, but if you are, no big deal. Yeah, just whatever.

And they're like, what parent would care if their kids were gay? I was like, oh, hon. Oh, sweetie. Oh, hon. Sweetie.

Oh, hon. So some messages in. My dad disowned me for six months when he found out I was going out with my now husband. They don't explain why,

but they do say 25 years later, I think he actually likes him more than he likes me. So that's good. Won him over, won him over. That's a good story. My mother's family disowned her after marrying my dad because he was a son of a fisherman

and not a farmer with a large plot of land. Guess what island? It's very specific. South Island. All right, we'll take some calls. Anonymous, did you marry someone your family hated? Other way around, actually. So I'm in a relationship at the moment for four and a half years,

and my parents have accepted my current partner, but her parents have disowned her because she's with me based on religious views. Oh, no. So I've been... You guys obviously love each other, right? You're together. Yeah, we've been together for a long time now. And I'm a Hindu and her parents are Christians.

So, me and my partner decided we can compromise and make it work. But her family thought otherwise. And the sound kicked out of the house when she was 18. And, yeah, she's been struggling since then. I mean, you know, of course, tried and support where I can, but yeah. It must be so hard for you knowing, you know, that that's the reason the family have disowned her. It is hard in a way, but it's more hard for her because she has a lot of memories with

them growing up, right? So now just for her to think back on those memories, it does cause a lot of mental stress, I guess, in a way. Yeah. So ruthless for your family to do that to their own, like, daughter, right? Like, crazy. Anonymous, thank you for... Just because I've got different Sky friends. Yeah, exactly.

Anonymous, thank you for sharing this morning. Kirsty, what happened? You got together with someone your family hated? So I had a new boyfriend at the time and I hadn't been with him for long. And I wasn't actually aware that my brother didn't overly like my partner. But on Christmas Day, when we were unwrapping presents, my boyfriend at the time unwrapped his presents for my brother and he gave him a packet of rice.

And my brother joked that he was like, I thought toilet paper would be a step too far. Oh, my God. In front of everybody, shots fired. Yeah, yeah. So that was... What did you... We laughed it off.

Well, you laughed it off. And then, so are you still with him now? No, we were together for 17 years. And then when our marriage broke up, yeah, we often referenced that, though, about my brother was like, see, I told you I didn't like him from the start. Wow. Oh, my God. That is horrible.

Yeah, it's pretty blunt, but that's my brother. So, yeah, yeah. He wasn't wrong, though. Yeah. Wow, yeah, but 17 years is still a decent... That's a... And you don't need to hear I told you so at the end of it. No. Kirsty, thanks for your call.

Some other text messages in. My in-laws hate me. I got blamed for my now-husband quitting uni. We got engaged. We went straight to my parents to tell them, and they said, to say we could not get married and they told

us it's totally up to us. It's got nothing to do with his parents. If you're in love with a person, go for it. They still hate me. We've been married since 2007 and have two kids. Man, some people need to move on, eh? Holding grudges

like this. Someone said, I once caught my dad spitting in my partner's shoes when he left them at the front door. I'm okay with that. That's terrible. No, that's terrible. My family hated my wife because apparently she made me gay. I think that's how it works, isn't it?

Yeah, still happily married with children. Everyone is so-called over it, but like normal families, you know. Yeah. Nice to your face, but not sure what happens when you're not there. Yeah. ZM's Fleshborn and Megan. Play ZM. ZM's $50,000 Secret Sound Season 10

Rebel Wilson is on the show with us in just a couple of minutes, but right now it's Season 10 of ZM's $50,000 Secret Sound. Karen Jackpot, $20,000. It's all thanks to Neon. Watch TV series and movies handpicked for Kiwis by Kiwis on Neon. Joining us, Brooke. Good morning. Morning.

All right, so it's pretty easy. It's the easiest radio competition in the world, really. You've just got to tell us what this sound is and we'll give you $20,000. Easy. Easy. Hopefully. What do you think it is Brooke?

Okay so you know like those blackout blinds that you have in your house Yeah I think maybe it could be like pulling it up and it's going right to the top and kind of like clicking in So they're the blinds like we've got them in the studio here when you get right to the top When Fitch aggressively like lifts them to the top and they hit the roof. We've got really long ones here. Yeah, okay, that works, doesn't it? Because it does, it hits the top, doesn't it?

Yeah. Clunky at the top. Well, I don't know what Soundkeeper Owls is, whether she recorded the sound in here at work, or if you've got these blinds at home. Soundkeeper Owls? Hello. Hi, Brooke. Hello.

Have you had a look at the clues as well? Yeah, kind of. But I've actually been on before and they just completely threw me off. Okay, well, yeah, they're there. Some people get confused, but I'll let you know, Brooke. $20,000. That is not the secret sound, Brooke. Oh, Brooke. All right, back to the drawing board. 11 o'clock is the next chance with Georgia to have a crack at the secret sound.

ZDM's Fletchborn and Megan. She's done acting. She's done a lot of things. Presenting. And now she's giving book writing a go. It's called authoring or something. The book is called Bella the Brave. And her name is Rebel Wilson.

And she joins us on the show. Good morning. Hey, what's up, guys? Published author of children's literature. Oh, yeah. Who would have thought? I didn't think that. But now I am so proud.

I'm so proud to add that to my resume. Is this your first book? Because from what I can see, there's no IMDB version for book authors. I'm probably absolutely wrong. There probably is. It's probably an amazing website, but I can't easily find it. Have you done a book before? No, this is my – oh, wait. No, actually, I think I did

do one maybe about 10 years ago to accompany a TV show that I'd written. Bogan Pride? Yes, that one. 2008 by the way. Yeah, okay. Cheers. Okay, so

technically yes, I did do that one. I think that was more like pictures from the TV show and stuff. Maybe a little bit of Bogan poetry or something was in it. Do you miss Bogans being in America? Because we've got Bogans here. Yeah, but there's like no Bogans in America. More like rednecks, which is something a bit different. Yeah.

But, yeah, definitely miss the Bogan culture and, like,necks, which is something a bit different. But yeah, definitely miss the Bogan culture and like, you know, just all what goes on in Australia. Yeah, I haven't been back to Australia in like well over a year because of the quarantine laws. So hopefully now that they've relaxed things, I can get back for Christmas. Right, get back to that sound of a Commodore doing a skid. Oh, that's the real sound of Christmas.

Bella, The Brave is your book, and it's about a young girl overcoming shyness. Is Bella you? Yeah, essentially it's me, and I thought this is a great way to put real-life things that happened to me and things that I had to overcome as a kid. And yeah, and so I put it all into these into the Belle of the Brave books. And yeah, the first one's about overcoming shyness because that was like the first thing I kind of had to tackle in my life. I was such a shy, shy kid in primary school.

And and then my mom forced me to kind of break out of my shell by dragging me to, like, the local community centre. Did it work? It actually did. And now my mum wants credit for, like, my whole entire acting career. She does. And I did say, weirdly, when I was a kid, I said, when I'm famous, I'll buy you a Malibu beach house.

And then now she remembers that. But Malibu beach houses are, like, really expensive. You should have set a parameter for, like, just how rich you needed to be. Yeah. Yeah, I know. Buy her a Barbie beach house. I'm pretty sure that came under the Malibu umbrella of Barbies.

Yeah, they do. Yeah. As a joke, maybe that'll be her Christmas present. And I'll be like, there you go, mum. That's your beach house. How did the illustration work? Did you write the book? And then, because I, excuse my, I forgot.

Annabelle Tempest was your illustrator. Did you hand the words over to her or did you work quite closely with her? I kind of like wrote the story first and then I kind of wrote descriptions of what I thought like the illustration should be, but it's weird because I'd never done it before. And then I send it off to her. She's in London. But then what I did is have real-life photographs and then give it to her.

So, like, in the book, like, the school uniform, like, is my school uniform, so I'd send her my kindergarten picture and stuff. And so she takes the real things, like real pictures of my mum and dad and stuff and, yeah, and illustrates it. So not everything was like that, but a lot of it was just from photos which is awesome it's a very yeah her illustration's awesome now i'm following her on instagram so that's um oh geez i'll get lost in it oh i love children's illustrations and i only just kind of

learned a lot of the times people will if it's a pre-existing story they'll put together storyboards to like apply to be the illustrator. Yeah, they do. There was two illustrators that was in competition and then I had to choose just which one I related to. Because we know one of your favourite TV shows is Survivor, so that's like illustrator-survivor. Yeah, which one am I going to vote off? Do you summon them both to a meeting and extinguish one of their pencils or something? No, I don't think it's that brutal.

Okay. One gets the job. And you said just before, the first one's about overcoming shyness. So there's more in the works or? Yeah, I've just been working on like, I think the second one's going to be about body positivity. And then the third one's about sisters and sibling rivalry. So it's like, yeah, they're just like I have so many stories. Like my life has been quite colourful.

So I'm like I just wanted to have an outlet to put them in and hopefully kind of inspire and motivate kids. Plus you've got that beach house you have to start saving for. Yeah. I don't know whether I'm going to sell enough books. Right. In Australia and New Zealand. Yeah.

Does Rao Dahl have a beach house? Or I'm just trying to think of any other, like, I mean. I don't know, but he just got a $1 billion deal on Netflix, his estate. So he'd have a beach house. Good Lord. Oh, my God. You never know where writing can lead to, guys. You never know.

Yeah. Speaking of body positivity, how sick of talking about yours are you? Oh, well, I don't know. Yeah, a lot of people, like, when they see me, especially if they haven't seen me for a while, they want to talk about the transformation. And I don't know. I'm happy to talk about the transformation and I don't know I'm happy to to

talk about I made it pretty open and putting my story on Instagram and stuff um but yeah I don't know but I'm someone you know I feel like I was confident at both you know being a bigger girl like 16 size 16 to 18 and then um now I'm about I don like a size eight. So, but I still feel confident like, you know, at any size, but I'm just proud of being healthier overall now. So yeah, that was a big thing for me. We're going to come back with Rebel next and I want to say a little thank you for something. We're on Zoom with Rebel Wilson.

She's the author of the new children's book, Bella the Brave. Got a couple of copies to give away in just a couple of minutes. I did want to say thank you, Rebel, because you've been really open about your fertility journey and freezing your eggs.

And I know for me and our own journey, it was important to let people know they weren't alone. But why was it important for you to talk about? Oh, well, yeah, I appreciate you sharing that. And I'm actually doing another round of egg freezing right now, which is why I'm not on screen because I look a bit feral.

It's a tough journey. Yeah, it's tough with the sleeping and all the medication that I'm on and stuff. But, yeah, I just thought that was one of the whole things that kick-started my health journey because the doctor, like, looked at me and I was obviously, you know, a bit pretty overweight. And he's like, well, you'll have a much better chance if you're healthier. And I was like, oh, okay. So I kind of needed to think of somebody apart from myself

to start my own health journey. But it's been like, yeah, it's been like a, it's kind of like an emotional rollercoaster in a way, which maybe you can relate to. But I keep trying and see. I think whatever's now meant to be is meant to be, but I'm still trying and, yeah, trying to hopefully free some eggs this weekend, some more eggs, and see what happens.

Oh, all the best. Just for other people out there who are, like, in the same process, have you got any advice or any words of wisdom oh well I just think it's I know in some countries it's not I don't know what it's like in New Zealand but uh like in in Hollywood it's kind of like everybody's doing it and everybody kind of talks about it but I know some women in other places like it's not as common and so I think just to share the message that these alternative ways of having kids and starting a family is like is really like embraced

and the medical advancements, like it's so cool. Like I really like learning about it through the process. So just to know that they're like, I mean, I know all of my Hollywood actress friends, we're all freezing our ex. Like, you know, I was just talking about it with the Pitch Perfect Girls and like everybody's kind of doing it. So it's really common. So I just feel like, yeah, you're not alone in wanting to explore it.

Well, that's cool. I'm glad that you've got like a sisterhood and support around you doing that. Yeah, yeah, it's good. I guess because a lot of us over here in Hollywood are like career women, so that's a good option for us. Yeah. Oh, good luck. Awesome. Well, the book is Bella the Brave. It sounds like it's going to be the first of many. We've got two copies to give away. With your permission, can I just scroll like to Kate, all the best, Rebel Wilson, because it's got a bit more

punch if it's a signed copy, you know? Okay. I should have signed them before they were sent to you. What's your handwriting like? Is it like, oh, look it up. Your autograph's got to be online, right? He's got to forge your signature. Yeah.

I got out of a few PE classes by forging my mum's signature on a Croxley shopping list, so I reckon I'll be the best option to give it away. Maybe just put some lipstick on. Gotcha. On those luscious lips and then just give it a kiss. Yes.

Gotcha. Megan, what shade are you wearing? I'm going to have to – that's a brown. I don't feel you can do like a kissed autograph in a brown. I feel like it needs to be red. It needs to be your classic bright red, right? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, okay.

Well, we'll do that. We'll work on that. Well, we've got two copies to give away. Rupa Wilson, thank you so much for your time. Thank you, guys. Have an awesome day down there. Take care. Best of luck getting your bogan Christmas.

Oh, yeah. Oh, it'll be happening for sure. It'll be happening. I'll be making the pavlova. Oh, yeah. Strawberries or kiwi I'll be making The pavlova Oh yeah Strawberries or kiwi fruit On top of your pavlova Raspberries

I put both actually Wow Okay Sort of an admittance there That an Australian Thinks a kiwi I make my pavlova From scratch

And I'm like The queen of pavlova Oh girl Okay Bam Awesome River Wilson Thanks so much Alright Thanks guys CDM's Fletchborn and Megan Oh, girl, okay. Top pair. Awesome. River Wilson, thanks so much.

All right. Thanks, guys. CDM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Today's fact of the day is about that big shark. You know the big shark from the movie? The shark? Jaws.

Ha! Cha-cha! Oh, why'd you even treat me like that? That was real mean. I trapped you and you've made a right hit of yourself in front of all the listeners. I'm the big shark. No, I was thinking of the big shark that's in the tank of formaldehyde and is it Melbourne

an old aquarium that you always see on the internet have you seen that no it's like an abandoned shark abandoned abandoned

shark Melbourne is it too big to move it's just I hope someone does a great design so they buy that they buy the aquarium

to put it into their house but they can't shark found preserved in tank at abandoned Wardloff Park. Oh, yes. There's like a YouTube video of it. How do you remember that? I saw it online the other day. And there's like a really

freaky little, like, in the dark room and you can just see it, like, in the green tank. You said shark and in my mind I went, baby, shark, that's where I'm at. You've been infiltrated by Pink Fong. But no, I'm talking about the movie and book Jaws.

The author, Peter Benchley, he wrote Jaws. It was a book before it was the Steven Spielberg movie. Yeah. That we're probably all familiar with. And let me tell you about the title, Jaws, because never at any stage is the shark called Jaws. Oh, yeah. Never does anybody in the book or the movie ever refer to the shark as Jaws.

What was the book called? Jaws. Oh, okay. Shortly before the book went to print, Ben Schlee needed to choose a title. He had many working titles during development, many of which he called pretentious, such as The Stillness in the Water and Leviathan Rising. He regarded other ideas such as The Jaws of Death,

The Jaws of Leviathan as melodramatic, weird or pretentious. So with 20 minutes to go until production of the book started. Oh my God, this sounds like me with any homework ever. He was having a meal with the editor, Tom Congdon, at a restaurant in New York, and they talked to the person printing it, and they said, we can't agree on a title that works or that we like. In fact, the only word that is kind of running throughout is the word Jaws. Yeah.

And they said, but Jaws enough. Jaws alone isn't enough. And the person said, why can't it just be called Jaws? And he's like, well, I thought you guys wanted a more melodramatic title. And they were like, no, Jaws, well, it fits on the cover. And to be honest, we've now only got 17 minutes. So.

And you could not imagine it being called anything else. Other than Jaws. No. So, apparently also in his later life, he died in 2006. He wrote other books. Yeah. But he always pointed out to people that called the shark Jaws that it wasn't called Jaws. Once even, so rumor has it, on the Universal Studios ride

where Jaws comes out of the water, a kid said, ah, it's Jaws. And he said, it's not his name. To a kid. Did the shark have a name or it was just a shark?

No, it was just the shark. Wow. Yeah, I'm trying to think if they ever referenced it as anything. But yeah, they're just like shark in the water. The shark and it's big

and we're going to need a bigger boat. Yeah, right. It's been eating people but no, it's never called Jaws. I just love this imagery of a grizzled old man sitting on the ride

at Universal Studios and some kid's like, ah, it's Jaws. Look here. You bloody kid. The shark was never called Jaws. The shark never once had anyone furtage as Jaws and this kid's like,

Get away from that grumpy old man. He's more scared of the old man than he is of this giant shark that just bursts out of the water. So today's fact of the day is whilst yes, the book was called Jaws and correct, the movie was called Jaws, the shark was never called Jaws.

Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. They're better friends. The weekend on ZM. It was directed at me. Megan's running out of friends on her Facebook feed to delete. You said a lot about me. I mean, if they're not anti-vaxxers, they're multi-level marketers, aren't they? Here we go. A story that really amused us yesterday. I love this.

I love this. Some kids wagged in an East Christchurch school to get the COVID-19 vaccine with the promise of a $20 pack and so forth. Get it. Now, apparently also some hot chips. Yeah, why not? If you're out of school,

might as well get some hot chips. A little part of me is sad that I didn't get a Chippies or something. Also some hot chips. Yeah, why not? If you're out of school, you might as well get some hot chips. A little part of me is sad that I didn't get chippies or something. I know, but you know. I got in real quick and I did move up the community. It was almost like giving yourself the best shot against a pandemic that's literally killed and disabled millions of people around the world. It was like it was enough. Just wait.

Just wait. Chippies is the sweetest deal. I know. You can buy your own chippies, though. Yeah. But do you know what? If that's what it's going to take, I don't care. Give them whatever they want.

But yeah, the lure of free chips, that would have got me out of school. So they scarped it after assembly on a Wednesday afternoon. I mean, if you've got one free period on a Wednesday afternoon, I don't know why you just don't make it a double, you know? Yeah, go home at lunchtime. That's what I did. Yeah, that's the way. And then they decided to get the vaccine at a pop-up clinic.

Good stuff. When did the chips, oh, did they get the chips? I think they were doing like hot chips there, were they? Or, yeah. No, no, no, they went to get chips at the shop and I think they just spotted the COVID thing and they were like $20 pack and save voucher. And they were like, yeah, well, they went to get chips at the shop, and I think they just spotted the COVID thing, and they were like, $20 pack-and-save voucher. And they were like, yeah, well, I'll get that,

because I don't know if you know about pack-and-save, but you can get chips there. Yum. For whatever reason, I liked that they did it, and one of their mothers was not happy. Is the mother anti-the-vax? Or just was up-side-school? Apparently one of the boys who did not want to be named said,

oh, my God, is she pro-school? I won't stand by suddenly anymore and pretend to be pro-school. With all this learning, education. I said, get out there and just see what happens. She said she was, he had not received adequate information about the vaccine. There you go. I felt my rights as a mother had been stripped away from me, so I was so broken.

I had no knowledge of the no parent consent. You're actually allowed, you're allowed to. The minute you're over 12. Yeah, you're allowed to make that choice yourself. It's almost like it's their body or something. Because you do hear of people that have parents that are anti the vaccine and they sneak out and get it. Good on them.

Get it done. Yeah. Good on you. Might get you will sooner too. Should be good. Just make sure they don't find out about that vaccine and write you out of it is all I'm saying. So we want to know what you did when you wagged school.

It could be like an amazing adventure. It could be shenanigans. Yeah. Or it could be something like super wholesome. There's something about a wholesome, I wagged school and I went and planted trees for the day. Nobody's doing that. I wouldn't do that.

But I'm imagining there's someone out there. But it was always your friend that had a house near school. Yes. The parents would be at work and that was where you went. Correct. Anna had a pool. She lived next to the school. You'd go down the school driveway, not the entrance where everyone walked in. That driveway where

the caretaker drove the little tractor down. And you'd just haul it across the street. Or it's your friend with the car and you'd just get in the car and get out. Or not come back. So 0800-DARZIT, and I want to take your calls now. You can text as well, 9696. What did you do when you wagged school?

Yeah, bonus points if you got in trouble. Yeah, what else was it called? Bunking. We always just called it wagging. Never called it bunking. Skipping. Playing hooky. No, that's hooking up, isn't it?

That was it. Well, I never got to hook up while I was playing hooky. It was only the dudes that were there with us. They will wait there and keep watch. A couple of school kids in trouble for leaving school to get some hot chips and the vaccine, which I'm all for. Yeah. And same with workplaces.

If your employers want to go take an hour to get the vaccine, let them do it. We'll get out of this bloody mess. But we want to know why you wagged school back in the day. What was the reason? What shenanigans you got up to? Shay, what did you wag school to do? I wagged school with a couple of mates. We had an assembly in the last period, and they didn't get out.

They got caught by a teacher. Yeah. So I was just going to go home, and then I realised, oh, my parents are going to know that I'm wagging. So there was an old lady that was sort of just doing some gardening near the bus stop. Yeah. So I thought, oh, I'll just help her pull out the roots,

just fill in time. Oh, my God. Oh, precious, precious boy. You actually did some community service. You wagged school and helped an old lady garden. Yeah, it was just like, like I said, I was just filling in time. I didn't want anyone to know that I was wagging. What did you talk about?

I just asked her how her day was and that, you know. Oh, she was probably so happy to see someone and talk to someone. Yeah, she did later on go in and like talk to the school and like, you know, she met like such a lovely guy. I got in trouble for the lady. Oh god, she double-crossed you. She dobbed you in after you'd done all the hard work. Unbelievable.

Shay, thanks for your call. Keep your texts coming in. 9696. I'll wait $800 at M. Tell us why you wagged school. Bonus points if you got into trouble. Shout out to the girls' school that used to wag to go watch the hot boys' high school do cross country. Yeah. See them.

We want to know what you wagged school for back in the day. Yeah. God, I just, there's some wholesome ones, and I really, really like it. Somebody said, we were wagging school, we were sneaking around, we were worried we were going to get caught, so we saw some people painting over graffiti

and asked them if they wanted a hand. They didn't have anywhere to be. They just didn't want to be at school. Yeah. So they were just like, eh. Something I never knew was a thing until I moved to Auckland was when big bands or celebrities would come for a concert or whatever, and then people would leave school and just stand outside their hotel or the radio station wanting to see them.

Yeah. And they'd never be at school, sometimes in uniform. Yeah, I remember One Direction. Yes. Everyone was outside screaming. They had to put up like guardrails and stuff, like safety fences,

and they had police and everything outside the Langham at the time. Yeah. Yeah, wild. If this had been in China, they would have had facial recognition technology and school uniform recognition technology. You all would have got detention. Yeah, you'd be in some

concentration camp up north. You'd never be seen again. Message is in. We asked on Instagram what you did. Someone said, we went ice skating and pretended to be Australian tourists with fake names and terrible accents. God, I'm loving this ice skating, Karen. I love that.

I love that. I'm also loving it. I love that. Shane, what did you wag school to do? I ended up knowing that my mum was going to make my dad a really good brunch. Yeah. Okay. And what did you do?

I decided to just leave school and go home. For the brunch? I was like, oh, mum's making those yummy roasties, so I thought I'd up my nose. Mum's making roasties. In my head, she's

doing the roasties And she puts them on the bench And the smell waves go out the window And go all the way to school And go up your nose And then you just like float home To get mum's roasties Mum's making the roasties

Shane thinks you call some more messages We once drove three hours to Auckland To go to Top of the Pops Oh yeah right Top of the Pops Wow Wagged school Someone said we wagged school.

The minute I got out of school grounds, I felt so riddled with guilt, I found the nearest playground and hid under it. Okay. And just felt so guilty about the entire thing. Some text messages in on what you did when you were wagging school. A guy at my school in Dunedin in the 70s wagged school, went surfing. A shark attacked him and took a bite out of his surfboard. It was on the front page of the newspaper and he was wagging school.

Cool story. Cool story. Worth it. Worth it for the story. Wagged school to make some money and help a lady pick up some timber. She texted us before picking us up from school. So like the school was like, you know, in America they get day workers. It's like illegal immigrants that they pay in cash,

but they don't pay them much. Yeah. She texted us before picking us up, asking us to wash all of our deodorant and perfume off. Then when we hopped in the car, she made us put a hoodie on. Have you read this whole message? Is it so her husband didn't know she'd been picking up Skull Boys?

No, she was allergic to deodorant and perfume. Oh, right. And she made me put a hoodie on to hide my head because she could smell my shampoo. Okay, that said, this sounds... I'm out of that car. I'm out of that car. I'm out of that car. Because they say you end up in a sex commune.

I was like, read the rest of that. Oh, my God. To top it all off, she met us late for a football game and said she'd pay us. But then when we got out of the car and walked around to the driver's door to get the cash, she blasted off. Okay. You know where she lives, though. They're texting in, so they're okay, right?

Yeah. It's the woman who doesn't like the shampoo that's texting and pretending to be them. That's like the start of an episode of CSI. Yeah. More like Criminal Minds. Get out of there. Yeah. I wagged to go to the 1996 America's Cup Parade in Christchurch.

School knew a whole lot of kids were wagging. So when they knew everyone who was going to go to the parade had left, they locked the gates so that when we got back to school, they could see. Yeah, right. Joke was on them, though. I climbed the fence. Yeah, I was about to say, there's more than one way to get into school. There's more than one way to skin a cat and there's more than one way to get into school.