ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Megan Podcast - 2nd December 2020

Episode Date: December 1, 2020

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Hello, welcome to the Fleeche Vaughan and Megan podcast. It's thanks to McCafe, my five McCafe coffees, get one free on the Maccas app. And a story that I've just seen, we missed this for the show today and the podcast, but they have found 29 instances of drug smuggling or use in New Zealand's network of managed isolation and quarantine facilities. 29! Including one where a guest, a friend of a guest at a managed isolation and quarantine facilities. 29! Including one where a guest, a friend of a guest at a managed isolation hotel tried to smuggle cannabis into the facility

by taping it to a tennis ball and chucking it over the fence. Not inside the tennis ball, which would have been... Oh. No, but inside the tennis ball. Yeah, cut a little... And then glue it up.

Yeah. God. Bloody dickhead, do everything of everything. Fucking amateurs. You just cut a little section, right, and then squeeze it and it'll it up. Yeah. God. Bloody dickhead. Do everything of everything. Fucking amateurs. You just cut a little section, right? And then squeeze it and it'll pop open. Yeah. Yeah.

It goes over like a mouth. Yeah. And you poke it in and then shut it. Yeah. Another instance. Imagine if that landed on your balcony though and you were like, oh. And you weren't expecting a drug delivery and you just start bouncing the tennis ball against the wall to pass the time.

And then you're like, it's got a hole in it. Clunk. Out it comes. You're like. Yeah. Another returning escaped police sanction despite receiving a courier package containing the wall to pass the time. And then you're like, it's got a hole in it. Clonk, out it comes. You're like, oh. Another returning escaped police sanction despite receiving a courier package containing a gram of meth and a glass pipe. Jeez.

Oh my God. Yes. Okay, I was willing to have a joke about weed and a tennis ball, but meth and managed isolation is not, no. So nine of the 29 attempts happened at the Ramada Suites, which is in central Auckland. Now, that's a high-security facility where they've taken a lot of the deportees from Australia.

So I'm imagining the meth one happened there probably. Oh, right. So people that didn't have any choice but to come home from Australia because they were naughty. Yeah, and they kicked them out. Most of the bust't have any choice but to come home from Australia because they were naughty, naughty. Yeah. And they kicked them out. Most of the bus have centered around cannabis, but two have involved meth and another is believed to have centered around synthetics.

And the tennis ball incident unfolded at the Grand Mercure isolation facility. And yeah, that's all I know at this stage. Which one? The Grand Mercure in Auckland? Yeah. Is that one that you showed your parents around when you did the weekend tour? Because that would be hard to throw.

No, we couldn't get down there because that street was shut for the Santa Parade. Oh, okay. Right. Yeah. That would have been a good chat with him today. You know that one you went to go and see? Well, yeah. Yeah, well, bloody hell.

That would be hard to get it up there as well. You'd have to throw it over a lot of roadworks. Yeah. You could lose it down the central rail loophole. And then, I don't know, archaeologists could find it a couple of thousand years when they're digging that up. Yeah. Wouldn't that be a great find for them? We're unsure why ancient New Zealanders put marijuana inside a tennis ball.

But they did. ZM. Hit music. Live the air. Flesh, fa but they did. Good morning. Welcome to the show, Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. And apparently Winston Peters got a bit teary. Did he? He had a little dab of the eyeballs, I was reading. In a news article when he was farewelled in Parliament yesterday. Although he hasn't officially said he's retiring.

Has he? No, but he wants the hoo although he hasn't officially said he's retiring. Has he? No, but he wants the hoo-ha, even if he is coming back. You've got a little party. Loves a bit of a hoo-ha.

Whose words? Oh, apparently Jacinda, the Prime Minister's. Really? Shit. I should tell him he was going to have to pay capital gains on

his houses. I don't know. I don't know I don't know I'll bring a tear to his eye alright oh he's gone but as you say

he hasn't been like I'm out I'm not coming back I know everyone's just like see you later bye see you next time I don't know why

I'd want to come back just enjoy it retire he's got a gold card he's got a gold card yeah thanks to himself yeah I think he likes the attention.

Who doesn't? Who doesn't, my man? Maybe he could get into talk radio. Yeah. Stir up the boomers. Oh, they love to be stirred up. Imagine that. They absolutely love a stir.

Well, open up the sheet so I can see what's coming up. Thank you. Coming up on the show, on the top six, Unilever in New Zealand, trialling a four-day work week for their 80-odd employees. They make like a million different things, eh, that are there in your house. So many things.

So I'm putting the condition in is that if they're having the day off, they've got to use the Unilever products. So, the top six Unilever products to use on your day off and how to use them. Right. Also on the show today, it's the final of Fishy Tank Season 2. We've got our three finalists getting close to giving away that $5,000 thanks to Vodafone Business.

And today, as people are voting for their favourite, we've each produced a radio ad. Yes. I've had doubts about mine now. Really? I'm backtracking. I'm really happy with my radio ad. You went into it doubtful and now you're like, yeah.

Yeah, it was almost like a little mini radio play drama that I made in my ad. Oh, was it? Wow. But a theatre of the mind. But a theatre of the mind. That's radio strength, isn't it? It is. It certainly is,

Vaughan. So we're going to play. TV tells you what it looks like, but radio lets you imagine your own world. It does. We're like a book. We'll play you those ads.

You can vote for your favourite fishy tank entry at ZM Online. Next on the show, though, yesterday, the news that we had extra sick days. Yeah. So it'll yesterday the news that we had extra sick days. So it'll be law, it'll be 10 sick days.

Well, there's a man that wants another day off and he's petitioning. Good on him. I'll tell you what day he would like all of us to have off next. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast, ZM. Well, a man has petitioned parliament, and I believe that anybody can start a petition, right? You can go to the government, the parliament website,

and you can just start a petition. And then how many signatures does it need to be taken seriously? Is it 100,000 or is that too many? I feel like it's... I feel that sounds about right. It's something like that. Because I don't just want to deal with petitions that have 100 signatures like this one. No.

There's only 100. Well, a man has made headlines because he has started a petition on the New Zealand Parliament website, as you do, to have an extra day off work on your birthday. Sounds good. Don't a lot of companies already do this? Yeah, I think so. Yeah, or they give you the day and you can use it just as part of your annual leave. Right.

As you would. Did the warehouse do this? I feel like they used to. They used to at least, yeah. Yeah. So on your birthday, you can just be like, I'm out of here. Yeah. Does our company do it?

I don't know. I feel like it's a half. Is it a half day? I don't believe. It just gets chucked on your annual leave. I don't believe so. Oh, I't do that. Does our company do it? I feel like it's a half, is it a half day? I don't believe. It just gets chucked on your annual leave. I don't believe so. Oh, I thought they did. If you wanted the day off on your birthday,

you just take one of your annual leave days, right? Or pull a sickie. But this is an extra freebie, right? I think that's the idea of the petition, yeah. Well, the petition is worded. Petition request that the House of Representatives pass legislation to entitle people to an extra day of work on their birthday.

Petition reason, my birthday is coming up on the 16th of December and I believe all people should be allowed to have that day off work. I don't really want to argue. Yeah. Unfortunately, it closes on the 8th of December and he's had 128 signatures. Now, I've tried to Facebook stalk this man.

Okay. To see... Not on Facebook? Well, there's a couple of Cliffords. There's one guy that I really want to be him. He just looks like a Clifford that would start petitions. Okay. Googling his name, though, I found another old petition that he put forward,

and I believe he is a bit of a larrikin. Why? Okay. I don't have a date here, and it won't load, but I've just got the Google result. It just says, petition of Clifford Hallett. How is Hallett spelled? H-A-L-L-E-T.

Okay. His request is that the House of Representatives change the law so that all people are allowed to be naked at all beaches in New Zealand. I don't know how that petition took off. Okay. It doesn't tell you how many signatures that one got. Or if he just wants to see nude people. I mean, this could be a 16-year-old boy that just wants to see some nudies at the beach. Boobs at the beach.

And has a job and wants the day off on his birthday. So it doesn't tell you how many signatures the past petition got. No, it won't load, so it must be old and obviously it didn't go anywhere. Clifford's other, I found some more. Oh, yeah. Clifford petitioned for the minimum wage to be increased to $27 an hour. Well, that's all right. It's $27.

I think the minimum wage should be set at $27 because the government has the money. People are working very hard to live, pay their bills, buy food. It's time to make New Zealand an even more livable country. But the government doesn't pay the... Yeah. Yeah, Clifford. I don't know that. And to extend New Zealand's lockdown.

Well, he wanted to extend it. Yeah, he petitioned to have New Zealand's lockdown extended. He just doesn't want to work. Go to the beach. See some boobies. He wants to get his cat off at the beach. Not work. Spend the money he's made.

Or maybe mojitos at the beach. He's got a LinkedIn profile. I might endorse his skills of being... Petitioning. Petitioning. Great at petitioning. All right, it's 11 past six. Someone Vaughn is very fond of has been very naughty.

Ooh. Okay, you sounded like a real creepo there. Now, okay, I don't even know who we're talking about. You said I sound creepy because I was like, oh, but if this was Harry Styles and I was like, Harry Styles has been very naughty and Megan was like,

oh, we're just moving on, aren't we? Yeah, but we know that she's like that. Oh, you're saying you don't know I'm a creep? ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan,

the podcast. Rita Ora has been fined $20,000. Naughty, Rita. Naughty Rita. Naughty, naughty, naughty. So this fine is because she broke the UK's lockdown rules. They need to do this in LA because everyone's throwing a party in LA. And you'll be like, sorry, we tested everyone.

No, they're Americans. They'll be like, it's against the... Yeah, Second Amendment. Yeah, it's against our constitutional rights. So she's already paid the fine and she's actually apologised. So she held a party and she told everyone on social media, which was also another mistake. It was her 30th birthday.

Why would you go on social media if there are lockdown rules and party rules? Why would you do that? I don't know. Yeah. She said, I attended a small gathering with some friends to celebrate my 30th. It was a spur of the moment decision made without,

with the misguided view that we were coming out of lockdown and this would be okay. I'm deeply sorry for breaking the rules and in turn understand that this puts people at risk. There was a serious and inexcusable error of judgment. Given the restrictions, I realise how irresponsible these actions were and I take full responsibility. I feel particularly embarrassed knowing firsthand how hard people have worked to combat this terrible illness

and being fully aware of the sacrifices that people and businesses have made to help keep us all safe. I want to sincerely apologise. And she paid the $20,000. $20,000. So that's pounds, eh? Or is that, have you doubled that to New Zealand?

No, it was 10,000 pounds. Oh, right, okay. So I'm just going to quick Google. She had it at a place called Casa Cruz. Now that was at a restaurant. Should they, they know that they shouldn't be open for anything other than takeaways? Yeah, I feel like that's kind of on the restaurant too, right?

Yeah, because they had it there. so they had to staff it and know. They're weird over there because they're like, oh, we'll do drinks, but only till 10. It's like, oh, does COVID only infect after 10? America's weird. Like, what are you, 1A? Yeah. Oh, bars have got to be shut by 10.

But we can like cram you all in until then. It's like, I don't know if that's how it works, but okay. Yeah, and allowing people Not to social distance In your restaurant Would be irresponsible as well But she's the one Who's had to pay the fine Oh well this will be terrible for you

You'll stop checking out Her Instagram probably After this I'm so disappointed No this is great For her Instagram Because she's They're stuck at home more

So her selfies Is all she can do She's actually got to Work off that $10,000 bill as well. It's a £10,000 fine, so she'll probably be doing some spawn posts. And I'll like them so her insights are good. That's how I'll help her.

You're just helping her out. You know me. Charity. Charity. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. ZM. A woman has won something mad. absolutely mad in a raffle.

She spent four pound on two tickets. So it's $8. Yeah. New Zealand, okay. Two tickets. And they sold 340,000 raffle tickets for a farmhouse. So this was a raffle for a house. And it's not a shabby

house. It's £545,000. Have you never seen a house? They do this and don't they do it in the Goldie? My mum and dad love a Boys Town Lottery. That's the people that organise it. It was always like a charity thing. And it was like 20 bucks a ticket and first prize was like

this house on the waterways in the Galdi or Noosa or, you know, anywhere that's warm that boomers always talk about. Because if it was $2 a ticket, or four pound a ticket and they sold 340,000 tickets. Oh, they're making money. Yeah. Yeah.

Okay. Because aren't those tickets normally more for the, when you win a house? They're more like 50 or 100 bucks? Yeah, yeah. Well, there were different stages. Yeah, and you could buy like five entries for 150 or something like that. Right.

Yeah. And she said she hadn't won anything for 23 years, and she was like, oh, why not? Can someone do me a favour, if you're listening, if you ever win something big? Can you just say, man, I win stuff all the time? Because it'll drive people crazy because people who win stuff are always like, I never win anything.

I haven't won anything for 23 years. I'd love to see someone win and be like, man, I win everything. I'm so lucky. I don't know what it is, but if I enter something, I win it. Man, you guys should really make me not want to enter things. Like those people that win lotto. They're like, oh, I've won before. It's like, oh, how dare you.

Yes. So apparently there is asterisks, and they often raffle off houses, but they have to sell enough tickets for it to be over the price of the house. They have to make their money back. So she had that to contend with, and the fact that 340,000 other people had bought tickets. Wow.

And she won it. Well, someone's got to win that, don't they? Yeah, you've got to be in to win or whatever it is. Wow. When was the last time you bought a raffle ticket

and what was it for? You only ever see them, like maybe they're selling them outside supermarkets, the old local, you know, you go, especially in the regions, the local, what do they call them, those clubs? The Lions? Yeah, the old local, you know, you go, especially in the regions, the local, what do they call them?

Those clubs. The Lions? The Kiwianis? The Kiwanis? Yep. Was that their owner? The Kiwianis? Kiwanis?

The Rotary? Yeah, like a raffle, the Rotary raffle for like a firewood, a load of firewood. I bought a couple of tickets at a plant market recently to like win a $400 plant. One of those fancy ones that sells on Trade Me. You should have heard when the person got called out who won, everyone else was just heckling. And watching her walk away like

trap or like, I was so sure someone was going to steal it off her. It was very like... Did you have to bet, was it one of those raffles you had to be there to win it? Yes. There was a crowd of people though waiting for this like plant. For a pot plant. It was madness.

Yeah. It was probably because I want to win it and sell it on Trade Me for like $6,000. Even more, yeah. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. From the fart-addled ZM think tank, this is the top six. Today's top six, Unilever, thinking, well,

they're going to try a four-day work week in New Zealand. I think this is, I think I read this might be Unilever Australasia, if not the world. Right, but New Zealand's trialling it. Yeah, if it trials well, it'll go around the world. Yeah. Huh. So, oh, they're in that building.

I just Googled Unilever New Zealand, and I've seen the building, and I looked at the map, I was like, I know where that is, and I was like, oh, that building. Cool. Oh, they're in that building. You know, you go past buildings all the time, you never know what's in there. Yeah.

I mean, isn't there a giant logo on the side of that building? Probably, actually. I'm probably not wrong about that. So they make all kinds of stuff. Everything that's in your house will be something from Unilever. Everything that's in there. Well, I've got the top six Unilever products you could use on your Unilever day off. Number six.

Why not start the day with a healthy Unilever breakfast of Ben and Jerry's ice cream? Are they Unilever? Yep, they're Ben and Jerry's ice cream. Yeah. Felt like they were just like a couple of dudes. Yeah, Ben and Jerry's. I thought it was just Ben and Jerry.

It was once it was Ben and Jerry. Wow. Then Ben and Jerry got out of the ice cream game and set themselves up a... For life. Yeah. Set themselves up a mansion on the beach and let Unilever take it from there. Number five on the list of the top six Unilever products to use on your Unilever day off. After you've eaten your Ben and Jerry's, you better have a shower and wash those balls with that tingly mint radox.

Do they do radox? They do radox. And Ben and Jerry's. And Ben and Jerry's. Unbelievable. I love, I'm a huge fan of the, I've said it before, I'll say it again, the coconut-scented radox.

What an absolute treat. And sometimes you get a really, really big bottle of radox. Oof, why not treat yourself? Do you know they bought Ben and Jerry's for $326 million? In what year? And sometimes you get a really, really big bottle of Red Ox. Oof. Why not treat yourself? Do you know they bought Ben & Jerry's for $326 million? In what year? 2018. Oh, wow, recently.

Hang on. You know, this is 2000, April 13, 2000. They bought it for that much then. Yeah. How much would it be worth now? Oh, my gags. My gags. Well, on number four on the list of the Unilever products you can use on your Unilever day off after you get out of the shower,

you better put on some links. Oh, do they do links? They do links. These guys are all about getting the honeys calling. You've got some ice cream. You've got some smellies. You could be at a date at Ben and Jerry's after you've washed yourself with the tingly Ray-Dots wearing links.

Oh my gosh. And you're part of the Unilever family. Yeah. But it's not all sex, drugs and rock and roll. Because then it placed three on the top six Unilever products you'd use in your Unilever day off. Do you need to clean your bath or any sort of like surface without harsh scratching? Jif! Jif!

They do Jif! They do Jif. They do Jif. Bloody used a bit of lemon Jif yesterday. Did you? I like a lemon Jif too. Prefer the lemon one. I don't have a bath, so I don't use Jif. But do you not use Jif on your towel surfaces?

No. Not really, no. I just use a spray. Planes without harsh scratching. Do you remember the ad? It was an ice skaters spinning around yep

it was good stuff well yeah after all that you've probably worked up a little bit of a hunger and number two

on the list of the Unilever products to use on your Unilever day off why not have a continental cup of soup

what they do continental all the continental imagine working for them not only will you get this day off, you'd surely get some discounts and free product, right?

Get a pack and a cup of soap for your birthday at least. God, I'd be so fat, but I'd smell good. And you'd have a clean bath. True. And number one on the list of the top six Unilever products to use on your Unilever day off. I wouldn't reckon a million to myself, but you work for Unilever,

so you better lube it up with some Vaseline. Vaseline, yep. Wow. Vaseline. Really? Wow. They do everything, don't they? They also do Lipton.

This is just another. I'll just read you the other stuff on the list. They do Dove. Yep. They do Lipton, like the iced tea place. They do Luxe Bar Soap, Megan. You'll be all about that. You love a bar soap. They do Purcell. They actually are competing against themselves in the iced tea place. They do Lux bar soap, Megan. You'll be all about that.

They do Persil. They actually are competing against themselves in the clothes washing arena. They do Persil. They do Surf. They do Drive. Sproun some impulse. And they've got a four-day working week. God, they're just winning at life, aren't they? Oh, they what?

That's today's top six. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan the podcast ZM Well uh Chloe I feel like I'm on first name basis with the swore.

The swore. The swore. What? The swore. The brick would have been better. Oh the brick.

The brick. Chloe's swore book that's what we should call her when she's like swinging. Yeah. I feel like we need to tell her that's complimentary. The brick.

Yeah, but she's hard-hitting. She is hard-hitting, yeah. I wouldn't want to come face-to-face with the brick. No. There's so many good things here. Oh, my gosh. Okay, so the brick's swinging. She's been put in a sock and she's swinging.

She's a dangerous weapon. She said on Facebook 18 hours ago, we will legalise festival drug checking services in Parliament this week. It's been a long time coming. Thanks to those for sticking their necks out and risking criminal prosecution for the past few years to reduce harm. Particularly, and tags in a Facebook page, Know Your Stuff NZ. So this is good.

There's been so much debate about this over the years. Like, they've had the testing. Yeah. But like you say, it's still a risk for people and they may not trust it. Well,

I always, like it's a trap. I never, drugs at festivals weren't, festivals themselves were scary enough for me. Even festivals.

People everywhere knew how hot it was. Where am I going to get a cool drink Is there a quiet room Etc I was never into the drug scene But

Even I, someone who Has absolutely no skin in the game Could see that that was a good idea Because you can't trust drug dealers No But people will take them regardless. So knowing that they're safe has got to be a good thing. Yeah, so you'll be able to legally at a festival test your drugs.

Yeah. Which, and like you say, people are going to do them anyway. People are going to do them anyway. Like speeding. Yeah. People are going to speed anyway. It's like them saying, is this seatbelt safe? Yeah.

Is that a good analogy? Probably not. The brick would have a better one. A hot analogy so you'd be able to get involved wherever you sat on the spectrum. The idea is that there's the ability to test drugs that people are going to take anyway and then if it's dangerous bad in the bin, someone doesn't end up hospitalized. Yeah.

Or dead. Or dead. Yeah. So that's going to happen. It's great then. It's good. Yeah. Because, I mean, yeah, like you say, people are going to take them anyway.

But if you're standing there and someone's telling you that, like, what you were intended to take. Had rat poison in it. Yeah. Because wasn't that a couple of years ago? Wasn't there one testing batch and someone's telling you that like what you were intended to take had rat poison in it yeah wasn't that a couple of years ago wasn't there one oh okay testing batch and someone they were people came out and said oh if you got them from old steve on the corner he's got a little bit of rat poison in them or something yeah i mean it's a sad word when you can't trust drug dealers too that much but to make it legal so that people know

that they can get it tested without ending up in the clink or with a criminal charge when they're going to do it anyway. That's got to be the better option, right? It's going to happen anyway. This has got to be the better option. You can't plead ignorant on that

at festies. No, no, no, no, no. You've seen it. Yeah. Now if we could just get an inquiry into the price of hot chips at festivals, that's probably the next step. That's the seen it. Yeah. Now if we could just get an inquiry into the price of hot chips at festivals, that's probably the next step.

That's the next step. Yeah, and whether or not what they're selling as cola is actually a branded cola. It's an imitation. Because it comes in a plastic cup. Yeah, sometimes you feel they just go to the warehouse and get that cola. Yeah, this isn't a beach party in Bali or the full moon party in Thailand. Like, we expect a branded cola. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast.

The Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, she flashed her phone and has accidentally revealed something. So she was doing a Q&A session and, yeah, she was trying to show how many people had questions. And she turned her phone and that's when we saw her top three favourite emojis. They are different. Because everyone's got face ones, right?

For their top three. Some kind of face ones. Yeah, I'm just looking now. Mine are all... Mine's cry laugh face is my first one. Yeah, same. That would be my most used emoji. Cute, we've got the same.

Cry laugh. Yep. And then got the same. Cry laugh. Yep. And then a heart. Just a heart? Yeah, just the plain heart. Okay. That's my number three. Is it?

Yeah, heart's number three. Oh, that's like 10 for me. And the smiley face with the three hearts, like, aw. Oh, that's well down my list. Mine is cry laugh face, full-blown tears streaming down the face. It's number two. Yep. That crying? Yeah. Oh, that's well down my list. Mine is cry laugh face, full-blown tears streaming down the face is number two. Yep. That crying? Yeah.

Oh, yeah. And number three is the single heart. Number four is the clap. Oh, yep, yep. And I don't know how this one's worked its way. And number five is the green face that's about to vomit. We usually send that to you when you send Yucky Farm stuff. Yeah, yeah. Like dead rats Farm stuff. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Like dead rats and stuff. Yeah. Yeah. What are yours? So laugh, cry face. Yeah. The emoji with the heart eyes.

Okay. Wait, what? I know I'm intrigued by that one. The emoji with the heart eyes. Heart eyes. Yeah. Because if someone's sending pictures of food And you're like Yeah

Yeah okay Let's go with that Someone in a nipple on That's for sure Excuse me I will not be emoji shamed What's that one Is the blush

Like blush face Like What's that face What That one That third one Yeah I know what one you mean how do you explain that show me smirk with the blush like yeah oh like um bashful yeah a little bit

like stoked as well like you just received a compliment and you're like yeah and then sideways crying and then eggplant. Wow. Yep. Wow. No, eggplant's not even there for me. Isn't it? Okay. Yeah.

So what were Kate Middleton's? A pineapple. What? Was number one. A pineapple. Well, that's got to have some hidden meaning, doesn't it? The next one. Shall I get on to Googling the hidden meanings? Yeah, but urban dictionary's meaning,

it's probably different to Kate Middleton's meaning. The hidden meaning of pineapple emoji. What do pineapples on Snapchat mean? People post a certain fruit, the response to different relationships. That is, blueberry means you're single. Cherries mean you're in a relationship. But if your love life isn't straightforward,

pineapple means it's complicated. I mean, it could just be that, I don't know, sexually, he touched my pineapple. Okay. Maybe she's messaging him. A pineapple is placed on your porch or mailbox and it lets swingers know that there's a swinger party going on. Oh, my God.

Kate and Wills are swingers. The head and knee to give pineapples. The second one is a cucumber. She's making an odd salad. Yeah, she makes an odd salad. A pineapple cucumber salad. Oh, no, that doesn't. That could go okay.

Yeah. It's a good one right in a cocktail. Yeah, it would. Now, I've watched the video and I'm trying to get a good look of what they've described as a puff of wind. So it's a puff of air. Those are weird emojis. Yeah. It's the fart emoji.

Because it's always like, surely it's always just your face, cry, laugh emojis, right? So everyone's saying, oh, she's sending cucumbers to worlds like that. Full on. And then the last one is. Kate sends me another cucumber. Maybe the puff of wind is her venting. At the paparazzi? Venting at someone or about things happening.

Or the queen's getting old. She might be doing involuntary farts. But the thing is, these are in the top used emojis. They're being used a lot. They're not just being used once. Because that's not enough to get a cucumber or a pineapple on your top one, two, three spot. No.

Odd. Very weird. Unless she top one, two, three spot. No. Odd. Very weird. Unless she did one message and was just like... And then does that do it? I always thought it was use over multiple. Right. Look, I don't know. But it's odd.

Considering she's got a very weird top three emojis, who want to know what your top three are? So Kate Middleton has accidentally revealed her top emojis when she showed everyone her phone. They're weird. It's a pineapple, a cucumber and a puff of wind. Weird. Yeah. Weird.

Everyone's trying to figure out when a duchess would use those. She's talking about a salad and... Oh my god, I didn't think about them as a... Collectively, we were dealing with them individually. Collectively? What? Just turn the microphones off for a minute.

Okay, yep, yep. That's a wild theory. I'm glad that we turned our mics off because you can't say that on the radio. No, you are not allowed to. Certainly not with regards to the royal family. And do you know what? How dare you say that about our royals? Oh, my God.

Wow. It could be, though, right? I mean, it could be. So we want to know what your top three emojis are, and then we're going to psychoanalyse you just because, you know, we're completely qualified to do this. Holly, good morning. Morning.

Now, what are your top three emojis? So mine's the standard laughing, crying face. Yeah. Then the second one's sort of like the hang loose. Oh, okay. Oh, the shakka. What's the third one? The drooling.

Drooling. I use the drooling for all sorts of food-related replies. The shuck is a good one. That's kind of like an end to it. That's a bit like the thumbs up, but it's a bit more casual. Like you're ending the conversation? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's very casual.

Yeah. Why are you sending the drool so much? Is it food-related posts? A bit like food-related. A hundred percent. Yeah, a hundred percent. A hundred percent. Okay, you said good. Okay, well,

I don't think there's much to delve into here, Holly. You just sound pretty standard. Pretty, pretty, I don't mean that in a bad way, but just, you know, there's no cucumber or pineapple in there.

What would it be? I think they would be making turtles. Yeah, you're cutting out there, Holly. Let's go to Erin. Erin, good morning. Morning. Good morning.

Now, what are your top three emojis? So, first one is your standard laugh, cry, say. Would this be the world's most popular emoji? Maybe. Has anybody done a list on those? The most used emojis. Just a good standard instead of writing ha-ha-ha. Yeah.

Just a good laugh. Okay, and what's your second top emoji? Second one is a heart eye. Oh yeah, okay. And then my third one is the kind of

grinning, big grinning face. Okay. Is that a deviant grin, that big grin face? No, it's not. I thought it would

be. You know, the devil smile, but it's not. Right, the devil The, you know, the devil smile, but it's not. Right, the devil smile. The deviant grin is that side grin, like. Yeah, that's it. That's also one of my top faves. The big grin one you've got, what are the eyes doing on that emoji?

Is it the small ones? Because there's three grins that are pretty similar, and the only difference is what the eyes are up to. So just having a look at the smiley ones. Yeah. If you're on the iPhone, it's the

the fourth one down next to the one with the single tear with the smiley face. All right. So, yeah, pretty standard grin there. Okay.

Yeah. I mean, nothing dodgy here, Erin. Nothing negative either Nothing negative, no What do you make of the pineapple cucumber In the top emojis for the Duchess? I don't know

I kind of want to know what she uses it in Me too, we need the context We need the context We're never going to get that Because I don't think it's a salad, Erin I don't think it's a salad It could be a salad that gives her farts Yeah

Erin, thanks for your call. Some text messages in. My top emoji is the purple smiling devil face. Oh, okay. So that's your top. That's deviant. Yeah, that's deviant. Then the shocked face and then the water splash. Okay.

Wow. All right. A bit to unpack there. Yeah. When they are being good, they're deviantly good. Yeah. Easily shocked. And.

I feel like they sent something a little bit like naughty. And then what they got back, they were like. Yeah, right. With a bit more naughty. Yeah. Somebody said thumbs up, shakabra, and then the shrug one. Oh, yeah. That's a good one. I love the shrug. On the shrug one, somebody else said they, and then the shrug one. Oh, yeah, that's a good one.

I love the shrug. On the shrug one, somebody else said they've got a female shrug as the first used emoji and the male shrug as the second used emoji. And then the third is just the arms crossed into the X. So they're like, look, I don't know. They're like, look, I don't know. Look, I don't know. No.

Fats. Somebody else said, somebody said my top three, the red-faced sweaty one. Oh, okay. Followed by- Maybe they sauna a lot. The standard sort of sweaty one. The one where the tongue's out going. Yeah.

And then the shh emoji. Oh, cheeky. That's not good. They must live in a very humid city or town. I don't. I don't know. What happens in the sauna stays in the sauna. Yeah. Crazy face, mind-blowing potato.

I didn't even know there was a potato emoji. Very versatile vegetable. You know when you're texting your partner like, what are we doing for dinner tonight? Maybe it's just emojis. Every night that's potatoes. Yeah. So that's why it's in there every time. Okay. Well, some nights it could just be burger, question mark.

That'd be a great way of asking what's for dinner. Yeah. Just doing emojis. What do you want for dinner? You're like, I don't need another bento box again. Taco. Sushi. Sushi.

Somewhat limited, isn't it? Somewhat a little bit, yeah. Ramen. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Air New Zealand coming under fire yesterday for the price of airfares between Auckland and Wellington. Some say just hitting $400. One way.

One way. Mad. One way. How much does a train cost? Do you have 13 hours? Yep. Imagine going to Wellington for the weekend, train down. I did this when I was a student.

Yeah. It's cool on the way down because you're like, oh, I'd train. And then on the way back, I just slept overnight. Because you'd seen everything. Right. Yeah. Well, it was darker. I'd like to do it, but it's so long.

It's 12 hours. 13, 12, 13 hours. Yeah. It's just if you want to not drive and chill and yeah yeah like if you have you could i have look i haven't been on that train for a long time but i'm going to be able to charge your ipad and stuff now so if you had enough yeah things to watch just think everybody look at look at you like you've been on a no-fly list like you must have you must have not been listening during the safety briefing or something. You've been banned from our only two airlines.

Well, at the same time as this news was out yesterday and people were having a go at Air New Zealand, a flight hack appeared online. Booking a domestic flight in New Zealand on a Sunday can save you 25% on the airfare. Interesting. Why? So apparently Friday, so Expedia looked into this and what Kiwis paid for travel

between January and October in 2019 and 2020. Booking a flight on a Sunday rather than a Friday can save you almost 15% internationally. You're meaning physically making the booking on that day, not flying on that day? No, for a flight on that day. On a Sunday? Yeah.

But that's like after the weekend, that's when everyone comes home. That's what I would have thought. But then maybe I was thinking about it, maybe Friday, everybody finishes work on a Friday and they're like, we're going away. Some people come back on a Sunday because they only have the weekend,

but then other people are going away for the rest of the week or longer. So maybe not everyone's coming back on a Sunday. Yeah. But I would have thought Sundays would have been one of the most expensive as well. Yeah. But no, yeah, no, apparently not. So you're 25% cheaper to reserve it on a Sunday instead of a Friday.

Yeah. So starting a domestic holiday on a Thursday can save you almost 20% compared to a Sunday. While departing on an international trip on a Tuesday or Thursday can also save you 20% when we get back to that.

You don't need a reminder of that. You're okay. Interesting. Yeah. Oh, I remember travel. Hey, we still do it. We're still luckier than most. We are.

We're still very lucky in this country of ours. Fleshforn and Megan, the podcast. ZM. We went and got the family Christmas tree yesterday. So I saw this on your Instagram story. This is where you go to a field and there's live Christmas trees. Yeah. Live action Christmas trees and you pick one.

Yeah. Do you always do it on the 1st of December? I feel like that's lots of people's date. Usually we wait for the elves to bring a voucher from the North Pole. Oh, yeah. Their girl's good behaviour has translated into a currency that Santa can exchange with the Christmas tree people because they're all in the same industry.

Oh, yeah. For a free Christmas tree. But someone couldn't wait this year. So I don't know what we're going to do with all this good currency we've got sitting with the North Pole. But anyway, yeah, we went and got one yesterday. Okay.

After school. Because I saw your story and I was like, that's cool. Like they're real perfect looking cute Christmas trees. But then it was actually Benny's story. She had a story. She got a cute little Christmas tree and it's only like, it's not even a metre tall

and I was like, I could do a cute Christmas tree like that and you know I'm the Christmas Grinch. But did they do little ones? Yeah, there's a little one right by the gate because when we were walking out, Indy was like, I want one for my bedroom because that one's like a good size. Right. And then yeah, you just showed me Benny's story. It's about that size.

Oh, it's perfect. So you could be totally in the go for that. And how'd you decorate it? Benny's story. It's about that size. Oh, it's perfect. So you could be totally in the go for that. And how do you decorate it? I feel like that's like catching an undersized fish, though. It's a pine tree. It's like catching an undersized koi carp. Yeah, but next year you could come back and it's a full big Christmas tree for a family. And I'm just taking a little one.

There's no shortage of big ones this year. Okay. Yeah, no, you don't feel bad about the little ones. No, if it's got a white tag on it, it's up for grabs. Right. That's the deal. Okay. You know, you don't feel bad about the little ones. No, if it's got a white tag on it, it's up for grabs. Right. That's the deal. Okay. And it's a good size too because I reckon I can get it into a council rubbish bin when I'm finished with it.

Yes. Because I just live in the city, so I'll just shove it next to the rubbish bin and leave it. See, I thought you were like, it's small, it's easy, but really all you were thinking of, you were already thinking of how you were going to dispose of it. Absolutely. I was like, this is weird. He's into it. He's thought he can fit it in a bin.

So it's admin just halved. Or just chuck it in a park somewhere in a big bush. Oh, my God. No one will know. Right. So what size did you get? Did you get a big monster? I wanted a big one because we've got a pitched ceiling.

Yeah, you've got space for a tall one. I wanted a really tall one and have it in the middle of the lounge where the ceiling's the tallest. Because my dad famously will bend it over the ceiling. Yeah. So you can't put the angel on the top or the star. Shardé was like, we can't have it there. It'll block the walkway.

I'm not having it so it's inconvenient to that door. The cat, blah, blah, blah. We can't block that doorway. It's good of you to think about the fire exits. I'd trim it's inconvenient to that door. The cat, blah, blah, blah. But you can't block that doorway. It wouldn't block the doorway. I'd think about the fire exit. I'd trim it. I'd trim it if it was a problem. Get out my little still head trimmer and give it a reshape.

Oh, my God. Just trim half of a door shape into the side of the tree. I love it. That's a good idea. So it's still convenient. But no, we've got a pretty big one. It's like tall enough that if I was to estimate it, it's like eight foot.

Ooh, wet. Whoa. Eight foot. Okay. Sounds about it. The best part was, got it inside, pine needles everywhere. Yeah. And I said to Sade,

wouldn't it be funny if a possum was hiding in this tree? And she's like, that would not be funny. And she's like, check it. Check the whole tree. Check for possums. So I had to to put my hands up through the tree and give the tree a full internal investigation. I was like,

no possums, but man, a rat could have slipped past my thorough check. You do this to yourself. Check it again. Check it again. The Rockefeller in New York, the Rockefeller Christmas tree they put up and there was an owl inside it. Really? Yeah, they had to rescue the owl.

Wow. Yeah. That's so cool. That was a few weeks ago. We'll give a little shout out to the place we got our Christmas tree from. It's just like a local family that do it every year. 69 Pukie Road in Kenya. Okay, do you reckon they could give me a free little one for that?

It's not really the festive discount. It's a discount. Yeah. Okay. But you go along and you pick your tree and then when you're ready, you wave a big bamboo with a Christmas stocking on the end and they drive the motorbike down and they cut it and they pop it in. Oh, that's cute.

And then they meet you back up the top. Well, now that you've bought your Christmas tree and you're potentially getting one, I've got three ways you can make it last longer. So apparently when you get it, you're supposed to shake it. Shake it off. Yes! That's what the lady said. She said when you get it home Oh, that was the other thing. I got it home in the back of the Land Rover and she was

barely legal, I reckon, to transport that tree. I'd say a good half of the tree was hanging out the back of the Land Rover, but that's right. Got it home. Yeah, so what you're supposed to do is you're supposed to give it a good shake and like even stick your hand up and pull out all the loose needles. Oh, okay. Well, they say before you buy it because if like everything's starting to fall off,

it's a bit gone. Oh, I know, but see, we bought it, it was in the ground growing and it got cut. Oh, my God. And then we took it home. It wasn't like where you go and there's a whole bunch of cut ones. I know, it is sad. It's like, like I said, it's like you're fishing. Yeah.

It's not sad. It's a pine tree. I don't know if you've been into anywhere that's not a city lately. I mean, there's no shortage of them. Megan will have no problem at all buying a TV wall unit or a bookshelf. It's not growing, is it, when I bought it? I'm not ripping it out of its life source. No, that's true.

Next one is... You did cut down that kauri tree that time though because it was blocking your seaside view. No one's believing any of that. Your parents lived up on the hill and they cut down that kauri tree. No. That didn't happen.

Make it a drink is the next one. We've heard this before. Have you heard about like putting vodka? Nah. I heard a dribble the next one. We've heard this before. Have you heard about putting vodka? Nah. I heard a dribble of vodka. Oh, this is all rubbish. It's just straight water is the best, right? One part lemonade to three parts water.

What about Jim Beam? Would that be all? So, you know people leave bottles of booze at your house after parties, and I don't. Yuck. Yeah. So, I just use that. Or you're going to pour Woodstock cans into your.

No. But apparently the vodka helps kill off the bacteria in the water. So you're literally going to like fix up your Christmas tree like a vodka lemonade. What about just a can of Pals? Yeah. A long one. Do you want your Christmas tree vomiting on the floor and making an arsehole of itself? Sure.

You go ahead. Give it a Pals. And the last one is Christmas lights. Be mindful of how many you're putting on because the heat dries up the plant and dries the pine needles. Oh, okay. So just, like, put a few on. Don't go crazy with the Christmas lights.

Who's running a non-LED in their tree? Like, who's running a standard bulb? LEDs don't produce a lot of heat. Nah. Especially the little ones and Christmas lights. No one's running a big old prehistoric archaic, yeah, bauble bulb, are they? Or just go to the warehouse or Kmart and get a fake one.

Yeah, there's that too. But you've got to keep it forever, right? You've got to keep the fake ones forever. Yeah, you've got to keep it forever. Otherwise it's not environmentally. Because you've got a fakey, eh? Yeah. It's a real good fakey though.

You'd never know from 100 metres. ZM's Fletch, Vaugh Yeah. It's a real good fakie, though. You'd never know from 100 metres. Well, it's like the TV show Shark Tank, Dragon's Den, but it's Fishy Tank. It's a bit smaller. And we started this during, just after the lockdowns. Yeah, the first lockdown. So it was something like 42% of Kiwis at some stage this year have questioned the job they're in,

if it's the right one for them, and they've had something, you know, of their own making in mind to put a bit of time and passion into. Use that time during lockdown to just start it. Yeah. Start that idea they've always wanted to try. Season one was massive for us, and people really responded to it. So we gave season two a go.

Vodafone Business have come on board and said, well, I don't know if you guys caught, but we've got business in our title. Yeah. And we said, oh my God, we didn't even notice. But yeah, great. Welcome aboard. $5,000 the main prize and also a radio ad and a jingle. You get a jingle if you win.

But we've each written a radio ad for our finalists. There are three finalists and you can vote for them. Your favourite at ZM Online today. Should we start with you, Vaughan? Your radio ad. And we've actually got Luke on the phone. Good morning, Luke. Hey, how's it going, team?

Good, good, good. Hey, Luke sent through some of the artwork, like a PDF of The Island Dawn, which is one of the books you've written about a surf adventure with pop. And, man, it's amazing. Yeah, cool. I'm pleased you're into it. Yeah, it's pretty exciting, eh?

The illustrations and stuff are so cool and the words and everything. It really flies. It's awesome, man. Yeah, yeah. So shout out to Nate Belgin there. He's the illustrator. He's done a cracking job. So they're coming along really well, eh?

All right. Well, in the running, Luke, Vaughan's written a radio commercial for you. Now, the idea is we're each going to play our commercial and I hope this will help with the voting. Yeah. Do you want to say anything about your commercial, Vaughan, before we start it?

No, I think like every great commercial, it will speak for itself. Okay, you don't sound that confident. I'm just low-key, man. All right. It's about surfing. You've got to be low-key. Books.

Since the beginning of time, there's been books. Well, since the beginning of the time of books, there's been books. Books about religion. Books about books about religion. And books about books about books about religion. Books for colouring, books for cooking, books for learning and books for looking. But there's a new book coming. A book that hasn't been booked in all the years of booking.

Surf With Pop is a story unlike any before and that's why Luke Miller wrote it. In a year of local, local, local, it's all those things. Local author, local illustrator, local story, but not those locals that won't let you surf their waves. Follow Surf with Pop on Instagram and support local. P.S. It rhymes. Well, the words in the book, they rhyme.

There it is, your selling point. Local and rhymes. Done. There we is, your selling point, local and rhymes. Done. Yeah. Here we go, Luke. Although I'd like you to make it very long. I didn't feel that. When I was recording it, Al was like, you can slow it right

down. I was like, okay, Al. Alright, well if you would like to support Luke, you can go to ZM Online right now and vote for his side hustle. Megan. Yeah. It's your turn.

So my side hustler is Flora. Good morning, Flora. Good morning. How's it going? Good. From Flora Grow Kits, which you can find at floragrow.co.nz. And I made her an ad. Jeez.

I mean. I thought you were about to ask her if she. Jeez. I mean. I thought you were about to ask her if she wants to be your girlfriend. I did it. I made you an ad. I mean. I really like spending time with you. I'm not an ad writer, Flora.

So, I mean. I think it's lucky for Flora that her side hustle speaks for itself, really. It does. It's incredible. It does. All right, well, let's play. Okay, let's play the ad.

I'm nervous now, guys. What am I going to get Steve for Secret Santa? I don't even know what Steve has for lunch, let alone anything he does in his spare time. And I am deaf not going over the $20 budget. What about a grow kit? That's still not legal, remember, and I'm not going

to incriminate myself, even if it is a thoughtful gift for Steve. OMG, Hon, no. I mean, Flora grow kits, they are super cute. There's six different kits, and they all come with seeds, plant labels, instructions, pots, there's even a cocktail herb kit. Oh, that's cool.

But you missed the point where I don't want to spend a lot on them. They're $18. Oh, okay. Flora Grow Kits. The perfect gift for the littlest people, the hardest people, and the steviest people in your life. floragrowkits.co.nz

Okay, and disclaimer, that's also floragrow.co.nz is the website. Did you get the website wrong in the ad? I did. It was amazing. So many people say to me, are you going to do one if it goes legal? Are you going to do it? Oh, yeah, right. Wow. I love that Ross Boss,

who voiced that, really got into that, didn't he? It was all three voices. He's very versatile. Yeah, he did. That was awesome. Thank you so much. If you would like to support Flora and the Growcats as the side hustle winner, you can go to ZM Online and vote now, all thanks to

Vodafone Business $5,000 prize for the winner. We're going to listen to my ad and we'll delve into my SideHustle before 9 o'clock on the show. Ooh, long tease for yours. I don't know if that means it's better. It's just because we can't fit them all in now. Well, you seem pretty chuffed with it. No, I mean, I had fun making it. Okay.

And as long as I'm having fun, isn't that just been the show motto? As long as we're having fun that's the main thing? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Is it? I don't know. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan. The Podcast. ZM. So I only found out at like the

weekend, I think it was on Sunday, that I needed to go to a school thing on Tuesday night as India chose me as her illuminating person. And everybody in her year had an illuminating person that they wrote a little study on. Right. And I know, heck, when she told me on Sunday, I was like, uh-oh. She's like, what?

I was like, I'm going to cry. She's like, when? I'm like, well, now like what I was like I'm gonna cry she's like when I'm like well now and then probably at the ceremony and then every time I think of it afterwards what does she say when you say that that you're gonna cry oh no she keeps telling me like because we all sat up there and they passed the microphone around and some kids did speeches and some kids were like this is my special person like this is my dad this is my special person and then so she said she put her hand on my shoulder and said this is my dad this is my special person and then i was like i waved i was like hi hey everybody hi and then afterwards

when it was other people saying she kept leaning into me and being like are you crying i'd be like no i'm not crying do you reckon you won't cry? I told Melissa you were probably going to cry. And I look around, I see Melissa and she's just eyeballing me like, is he crying? I'm eyeballing her back and I'm like, I'm not crying, Melissa!

Stop looking at me! She made a bet with Melissa. 20 bucks, Melissa. Stop looking at me, Melissa! Maybe that's the only reason you were there. She wanted you to show her friends. She wanted some emotion. Yeah. It was super sweet, though.

It was so lovely. And who else did the kids bring? I was actually, like, stoked at the amount of dads that made the cut. Because often dads don't make the cut for that sort of stuff. Mums. Yeah. Mums are the ones you run to when you're hurt. And mums are the ones that can solve the problems.

Dads are often just there to lift the heavy things and do things that mum doesn't want to do. But then that's okay. We all know our roles. But I was stoked at the amount of dads that made the cut and some of the kids talking about their dad. It was pretty cool. It was really special. What amount of dads that made the cut. And some of the kids talking about their like dads. It was pretty cool.

Yeah, right. It was really special. What kind of things did she say about you in your speech? Why did you get illuminating person? That I, well, she had it written down and she gave it to me afterwards. And then she gave me this like, everybody got a lolly lay, which is like a necklace with some lollies on it. And they had different things on it saying like what they liked about you. So that was pretty cool.

But like, yeah, I sent you guys a picture of it and one of them was like, you are honest. I was like, well, you probably just need to, you couldn't exactly leave one of the petals empty,

could you? So that's just a, that's just a filler petal. But it was really nice. But afterwards, Sade said, well, that was nice, wasn't it? And that time,

it was nice for you, wasn't it? And I time, it was nice for you, wasn't it? And I was like, oh, my God, have I become favourite? Have I superseded Sade's favourite? And then Sade said to August, who would you do yours on? Yeah. And August was like, I don't know. I was like, anybody coming to mind? She's like, not right now.

I was like, you know, mind? She's like, not right now. Off the top of my head. I was like, you know, I could probably go up there again. And August was like, yeah, okay, you did all right. Because when you told me that was happening, my first thought was, what, would I be upset? It would be like, what about me? Sianae was like, oh, you know, no, it's awesome.

And that's like really cool. But then she put up a thing on Instagram and somebody commented on it being like, are you gutted it wasn't you? She was like, well, I am now. That was my first thought. That was big. It's like, oh, no, I would be so jealous. Excuse me.

Yeah. See, I think when you have your Lawrence, when Lawrence enters the world, and Lawrence is a little bit older, I can see Andrew being the one that deals with like the upset child because he's slightly more empathetic than you. Excuse me? Andrew's a very empathetic person. You'll be like piss off, I'm no more online shopping. You spend too much time

with me and Fletch I think. We've drained you of your empathy. Plus he's stay at home dad so he'll be there all the time. Yeah. Cool. But you're just going to be money bags. He'll come to you for a dollar out of the purse. Mummy. Mummy.

I need to buy some Louis Vuitton loafers. Can I please have $600? I'm fresh out of Versace fragrance and I shan't go to kindergarten smelling like Play-Doh. I'm not taking offence. Yeah, no, because you know it's true. Off the back of you being favourite parents. For the moment. Yeah.

I would love to know. Contemporary favourite. I'd love to know who the favourite parent was growing up and why. Oh, and did you play them off? Yeah. Because that's the thing, like, you always ring your dad if you want money. Yeah. But you wouldn't ring your mum for money.

No. And there's certain things I wouldn't ask my dad because, you know, mum would say yes, but then if mum says ask your father, that means no. My parents were, I didn't have a favourite. My parents were a united front. Like, you know how all these kids that work out how to play their parents up against each other?

My parents were ahead of that game. Like, they were a united front. I can never remember them like disagreeing on anything. Like if someone said something, that was the go. Right.

It was loose. It was like they planned it. It was like they woke up in the morning and were like, all right, they're going to ask for something today and we're both going to say no. They shit all over their dreams.

As a united front! All right, well, what? So you want to hear from people that you want to know. You had a favourite parent. Right. Or maybe you alternated.

And why? And, like, did you play them off? Yeah. Because you do hear, because we're, all of our parents are still together, but you hear of people that have, like, parents that have split up and they play them off. Oh, yeah. And they say, well, Dad brought me a secondhand car this week.

What are you getting me, Mummy? Secondhand car. What was I going to say? I want to see his, Dad brought me a secondhand car. this week. What are you getting me, mummy? A second-hand car. What was I going to say? I was going to say, Dad bought me a second-hand car. Dad bought me a car. Dad's bought me a second-hand car. That's really putting it out there

that mum needs to buy a brand-new car. That was where I was going with that. Super Z dad. All right, well, Dad bought me a car with 135,000 kilometres on the clock. Can you beat that, woman? We're talking about

if you had a favourite parent. I don't think it's going to last for a long time, but I think perhaps at the moment I am. Right. You are now the favourite. Yeah.

Okay. I'm going to milk this for what it's worth. I don't know what I can get out of this personally. Hearing stories about the people playing off their parents for things.

Because you'd always go to dad, no, mum. Mum for parties. Dad for money. Dad for money. Because you'd always go to dad. No, mum. Mum for parties. Dad for money. Dad for money. Because mum would just be like, oh, please yourself.

And I think that was supposed to put the guilt on me to not go. But it didn't work. She'd never say, ask your father. No, but then like there was one time where dad took, he didn't want me to go. So he went to the party and dragged me home.

Yeah. How does that go down as a teenage? Not great. Do you get teased for that? Not great. Like looking back on it now. Oh, you asking if you can do that? No, no, no, no, no.

Like, are you looking back and you're like, oh, no, he was like. I understand now. Why he did it. But it was ruining my life at the time. Fifteen. Oh, you were too young to go to a party. Absolutely too young. Holly, it's not even your mum or your dad that's a favourite, it's grandad.

Yeah, my grandad. So I have both parents and they're still together. But my grandad was my, I was his shadow, the poor guy. He would go to the shop to get, like, a newspaper and come back with lollies and gone. He'd spend about $10, poor guy. No, this is not granddad. Granddads love it. Yeah, yeah.

Grandparents. Like, I never had a tree hut, but my dad's built my kids one. Like, stink. Yeah. tree hut, but my dad's built my kids one. Like, stink. Yeah. That's what grandparents are for. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Did all the hard yards as parents, and this is their reward. It is.

And they can load them up with lollies and palm them off. They don't have to deal with the tooth decay and the dental bills. I think that's what my granddad did. Yeah. So if you ever needed lollies or money, you'd just go to granddad instead? Yeah, yeah. And when mum and dad said no to me moving back in when I was about 19, Nana and granddad were right there.

Granddad was telling mum off. Did you move in with Nana and granddad or did you move in with mum? Yes, I did. Yes, I had to. One time it wasn't even my fault, but the other time, yeah, that was me. That was my fault. Oh, my God.

Did you have to go to bed at 8.30 and put your teeth in that jar by the... I swear, my poor Nana, she probably did most of the work, but my granddad was just my idol. Yeah. I ate a steroid tablet once. Not as a kid. Not to be eaten. Not Lolly, turns out.dad was just my idol. Yeah. I ate a steroid and tablet once. Not as a kid. Not to be eaten. Not a lolly, turns out.

Thanks you call Holly. Not to be. A few other grandparents as well being like, it's hard to pick a favourite parent, but you've always got like a grandparent that supersedes them just because they get to do all the fun stuff. People very reluctant to name their favourite parent publicly. Probably because it's close to Christmas.

Yes, probably because it's close to Christmas. If they say dad, mum could pack a shit and then who's going to buy the Christmas present? Have you ever opened something on Christmas and your dad's like, what you got there? You're like, well it says it's from you, dad. And he's like, yep. Open it and tell me what it is. What have you got? Oh, cool.

Because mum was in charge. Definitely knew what you were getting there. Fantastic. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Hello? We were off air. No, we're on air now. Are we on air now? Weird.

Are we on now? We were singing to no one. We were singing to no one. We were singing to no one. We were singing the fact of the day intro. Well, anyway, it's time for... Fact of the day, day Well, anyway, it's time for Fact of the Day Day Day Day Day. Did you not turn our microphones on?

I've figured out what's happened. We'll talk about it after. It's because Megan was like, can you hear that whirring noise? So I turned everything off so it was silent so I could hear the whirring noise and I couldn't hear it

and I said, Megan, you're hearing things. Right. And then we went on air but we weren't on air. But the microphones were on. Yeah, because I was feeding the program. People don't understand what I'm saying.

You'd pushed a button. I pushed a button so that the people could hear the ads that we were playing. Anyway, we're on air. We were still singing. So it is my fault, but I'm blaming Megan. For hearing weird plane noises. Okay. Anyway.

Is it Christmas holidays yet? It must be getting close. God, I hope it is getting close. I just love that we were singing so hard out to no one. I was going to say, even though we didn't finish because everyone was like, we're off air, so we stopped mid-faculty to sing the song

where no one was here. I was going to say at the end of that, man, we really all got into that. We did. It was a really good one. We really got into it. I was going to say at the end of that, man, we really all got into that. We did. It was a really good one. We really got into it. I guess that's what happens with perfection. That's often not around for people to see. Or people aren't around to... Anyway, whatever. Today's fact of the day is that you can change the colour

of the yolk in an egg, in a chicken's egg. Yeah. Beetroot. Yes. Is it? Yes. Or any vegetable or any food product that contains high carotenoid, like the high carotenoid, and for example, red peppers will do it.

Yeah. If you feed them red peppers, because birds don't have the ability to taste heat like we do spiciness. That's why peppers and everything developed that through, so it was to scare off mammals and everything,

but it was so birds could still eat them because birds spread plants the most. Yeah. Because they nibble, nibble, nibble, fly away,

poop grows there and then when that one grows, nibble, nibble, nibble, fly away, poop and that's, it spreads. So birds could eat like hot chillies and stuff

and not affect. If they had a hot vindaloo, would it still go through them like it does me? A bird? Yeah. Is it a chicken vindaloo? I wouldn't feed a chicken vindaloo to a chicken. But they don't know. They've just eaten it.

Lamb vindaloo? Okay, it's a lamb vindaloo. It's more of an ethical thing for me. Right, okay. I would feed a chicken to a chicken. They wouldn't taste the heat, but it would still go through them. Not even a chicken's eaten a tofu in a delay. They're like...

Because I sort of think... I don't know if we... Because is it true that the cage farmers, the cage egg people, they'll feed a colorant or something like you're talking about. Yep. So you... Just give it an artificial vibrancy. I've heard that too.

You crack open the yolks and you're like, well, these are good eggs. Because, you know, you get farm eggs like from your chickens, Vaughn, and they're lovely. Yeah. Yeah. good eggs. Because, you know, you get farm eggs, like, from your chickens, Vaughn, and they're lovely. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So don't be fooled by... Where did an egg inside an egg?

I know, I saw that at the weekend. Yeah, but was that other one an egg? It was the egg. It was like the beginnings of an egg. It was like a soft eyeball-y feeling egg. Are you sure you hadn't won, like, a cash prize of $1,000 from the egg people? You know how they do, like, the lucky ticket inside the Willy Wonka chocolate? Had I won the chicken factory.

You might have won a chicken factory. I've just got to not fall into the river of chicken. You might, you should ask Big Chicken. Egg, if I win something. If you've won their chicken factory. Putting an egg inside an egg. So anyway, this chef, Dan Barber, he was told in Italy that there's a whole lot of things you can do with the eggs before they're even laid.

And so he started feeding his eggs high carotenoid red. What? You said he started feeding his eggs. Well, we're just going to correct you there. Yeah, no, thank you for that. He started feeding his chickens, his free range chickens, high carotenoid red peppers. And then he did this for a little while and then he put up this photo of his egg.

Whoa, it's almost like reddish, isn't it? Yeah. Like a reddish orange. Like a blood orange. It's a blood orange colour. You can't sell those though because everyone will be like, whoa. They look a bit bloody, right? Yeah. Like if you went there and he was the chef and you know how the chefs have got a story about

like they won't just say this is some corn. They'll say this is artisanally grown vintage heirloom heirloom

corn that my grandfather bought from Albania in 1897. He smuggled it out and decided to

sock up his bum. I don't know if I want to eat it anymore. Well, no, the seeds got planted. Oh, okay. And then that grew the corn through the generations. Why did Grandad choose a sock? That's easy to breach.

He was an Albanian, man. There was no Glad Bags. There was no Glad Bags in the 1800s. And so you get this big story and you're like, wow. So if Dan was like, this is the story of the red egg you're about to eat.

Right. And told you the red egg story, you'd be like, oh, that's cool. But if you just cracked open an egg and it was that red, you'd be like, ah! Yeah, you would. Good to know. So when the chicken eats beetroot, it's got a right B on its hand, also on its claw. Yeah. So when the egg comes out, it's not like, ah!

Oh, my God, I need to go to the chicken doctor. That sounded stern, but it was supportive. Yeah. As a doctor giving support. A doctor chicken. So today's fact of the day is you can affect the colour of a chicken's egg yolk by what it is fed. Fact of the day, day, day,. ZM. Fletch Vaughan and Megan's Fishy Tank. Season 2. Backed by Vodafone Business. Well, you can vote now for your favourite side hustler

to win our major prize, $5,000 cash, all thanks to Vodafone Business. Go, you side hustlers. And, Megan, we've heard your ad today for your side hustler. Laura Grokitz, yes. Yep. Vaughan, we've heard your ad. Yeah, Luke's Surf with Pop book series.

They've got the best ad to finish. Don't say that. Taff joins us. Good morning, Taff. Hey, good morning, guys. How are you going? Good, good. Now my side hustle, well, I should say Taff's side hustle, Poor Planet, it's New Zealand's first

mobile dog pocket guide. So it's got in there, it's got like Megan, you downloaded it as a dog owner. You love it. I got a great email update from you guys yesterday telling me about the changes to the beaches and warning about some toxic sludge on beaches, which I would have not known otherwise. Yeah, perfect. We've been trying to basically keep it as up to date as possible with local input as well as council websites. So, yeah.

That's very good. So the idea is you can find, like, all kinds of dog walking areas. Dog-friendly cafes, vets, everything you need to know. Yeah, exactly. You can find everything. Funny you say dog-friendly cafes, Megan, because that's an angle I took with my radio commercial that I have written for Poor Planet.

Okay. Now, I've used, I've actually, I had to bring in Celia from the office. She plays a part of my ad and also I got the, I don't know if you know this Taff, but I got the voice of Ice Road Truckers to help. That was just Ross Boss.

He did that. He actually voiced over the New Zealand series of Ice Road Truckers. His mum thought he went to Canada. That was my favourite story from yesterday when Ross Boss told us his mum caught Ice Road Truckers and His mum thought he went to Canada. That was my favourite story from yesterday when Ross Ross told us his mum caught Ice Road Truckers and thought he had to go to Canada to narrate it. Brilliant. So good.

Ice Road Truckers and now Poor Planet. How good is that? Exactly. All right, well, here we go. Your radio commercial, Tav. Here we go. Hi, dear. What can I get you today?

I'd love a large mochaccino, please. And what about you? Oh, sorry. We don't serve your kind here. Your kind? Excuse me, what does that mean? Well, we don't serve dogs. Well, why'd you ask him what he wanted to order then? I didn't realise he was a dog. Of course he's a dog, he's sitting on my lap and he's wearing a cashmere dog sweater.

Sorry, it must have been the sweater, but no dogs at this cafe. I'm going to have to ask you to leave now. This is unbelievable. You're being too rich. We're just more cat people, okay? This wouldn't have happened with the Poor Planet app. New Zealand's first and only mobile dog pocket guide. It's an interactive map

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and you don't wanna be a naughty boy. Who's a good boy? Who's a good boy? Excuse me, are you gonna come back and pick up your dog poo? It's mine, not my dog's! There we go. Oh, my God.

Yes. That is brilliant. I can't believe that. You're welcome to use that anytime. Oh, my God. Thank you, guys. That is based on true events, too. Flesh did once take a dump on a cafe floor.

That's why you've always got to get his eggs right. You've got to write from the heart, don't you, when you make these things? Yeah. You guys crushed it. That was brilliant. Hey, man, that was good. All right, well, if you'd like to vote for Taff's Poor Planet as part of our fishy tank competition, go to ZM Online.

And I believe we're going to close votes tomorrow, Executive Intern Anya. At what time? 10 a.m. sharp. 10 a.m. So we'll shut those votes off tomorrow, and then we can find a winner. Good luck, Tav. Thank you.

I think we're getting smoked. There's the pot plant. You know, I don't know what happened in the referendum, but it's happening now, so we'll let you go. The poor grokets. The grokets. Yeah, maybe the nation's striking back after that referendum. I think as well.

You know, I might have to secretly put the vote in as well, so who knows? ZM's Fletch Warner Megan, the podcast. striking back after that referendum. I think as well, you know, I might have to secretly put the vote in as well. So who knows? Kelly Clarkson and her husband, Brandon Blackstock, have called it quits. And now it's getting to the divorce stage. Megan and I have spent the last 20 minutes just so confused and... Yeah, this is such a weird outcome.

Yeah. So I'll tell you what each of them are worth. She's worth $45 million. He's worth $5. Okay. So he's been her... He's a talent... Scout manager.

Manager. So he's actually been earning money off her anyway because... He represents her. He represents her. So he gets like what, 10 or something? 20%. 20% from what she earned anyway. Yep.

And she was getting what, like 14, 15 mil a year just for doing the voice? For the voice, yeah. So she's got her talk show now. I can't seem to find out what the contract was for that, but it'll be a lot. But they're broken up and they have two children together. And he has asked, I'm doing this in New Zealand dollars, he has asked for $620,000 a month from her. So that breaks down to $428,000 New Zealand dollars

for spousal support and $192,000 in child support per month. So he wants $428,000 just for him to get by. Isn't that nuts? A month. What? It's over. I can understand getting child support if you're going to look after

the kids. That 100% makes sense. But why should you support someone in their lifestyle when they've left you or it's over like you're on your own buddy so much money it's like almost half a mil a month so i thought this was like an american thing but i've just googled and spousal maintenance in new zealand that's what it's called under the family proceedings act and yeah the obligation to pay um arises following separation when one partner is left in a position

where they cannot meet their reasonable needs. And... Reasonable needs seems very subjective. No, so it's not considered to be the minimum required for food and rent, say, for example. It refers to the lifestyle that the partner was accustomed to during the relationship. Isn't that nuts?

So if you're used to like living in a mansion and eating caviar and... But then you split up half your assets. Is he getting half? I don't know. When they split up, is he getting half of the stuff? Isn't that nuts though?

He could sell that and then put that towards... Unless he was a prenup though. If this is agreed to, he'll get $7.4 million per year for him to take care of the kids. What happens if she doesn't find any more work? Well, yeah, that's a talk show. I guess you just can't pay it anymore, surely.

But he's worth $5 million. It's not like he's poor. No, it's not worth nothing. He's so bizarre. And he still represents people, right? Yeah, he's still got work. Isn't that nuts? Never trust anyone ever.

Always get a prenup. Great life advice there. Tell you what, could make a good remix for Since You've Been Gone, though. I haven't had much money left. Since you've been gone. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. If you enjoyed this podcast, why not give ZM's free and Clinton to listen to subscribe on the I heart radio app or wherever you get your podcasts.

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