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

Episode Date: November 1, 2020

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Hello, welcome to the Fleeche Warner Megan podcast. Thanks to McCafe, download the Maccas app to get McCafe rewards today. Trick-or-treating, the weekend has been, I was in what has been claimed to be the busiest street in the country. Oh really? Excuse me? I'm so hungry. He was like completely not interested in the Halloween.

No, tell me. No, it was packed. So packed, people were walking on the roads, like crowds of people. On the roads? That's so dangerous. So this is a neighborhood renowned for getting into it. Torbay in Auckland, North Shore. I saw what could only be deemed as the best costume of 2020.

There was a family. One was a stormtrooper, and they'd made the pram of the baby's... Baby Yoda? The baby Yoda was in the pram, and the thing was a big silver spaceship. It was a circle, and then it had big things on the side,

which I assume is from Star Wars. What, Razor's Crest? I don't know, man. No, one of those, the baddies fighters. The TIE fighters? Yeah. Yeah. Right with the hexagonal things on the side, but the pram in the middle.

The pram had been made into that. Wow. And I don't know who was who, whether the mum or the dad or what, or two dads, but it was a stormtrooper and a Chewbacca. Wow. All family, fully committed. Real mixed messages, though.bacca. Wow. All family fully committed. Real mixed messages though. Real mixed messages.

Like good and bad. The child wouldn't be flying a TIE fighter and Chewbacca has no business interacting with the child. Heck, that might happen in the season two of The Mandalorian. Oh, well we went on our hot date at the weekend to The Mandalorian launch. Did you dress up? No. I wore the t-shirt they gave me.

Oh, cute. That was... Vaughn came down to it. Because Vaughn, I didn't realise, t-shirt they gave me. Oh, cute. That was... Vaughn came down to it, because Vaughn, I didn't realise, but when you messaged me, Vaughn messaged me, and I didn't get it until 20 minutes later, said, is anybody wearing their free promotional t-shirt that we got given? And so Vaughn comes down to dinner,

and the look Maddie McLean gave him, TV One breakfast weather presenter... Maddie McLean had no business at the Mandalorian season two preview. He hadn't even watched season one. The look he gave you when you turned up in a free t-shirt and everyone else is dressed up. He's just like, oh. I was wearing the socks too.

I got some socks. I liked it. You're so proud. You don't care. You don't care. Kate Rogers' hot husband was wearing his free t-shirt too. Does she know that you – oh, she does have a hot husband. Yeah, Kate Rogers. Saw him in the circus. Yeah. She's got a hot husband was wearing his free t-shirt too. Does she know that you – oh, she does have a hot husband. Yeah, Kate Rogers.

Saw him in the circus. Yeah. She's got a hot husband. She does. Yeah, good work. And then Vaughn had to explain to everybody there the Mandalorian because most people didn't know what the hell it was. Oh, I was so disappointed.

I was like, that's going to be cool watching it with a room full of people that are like Star Wars nerds. And like Fletch was probably the second or third most clued up person there. That's saying something. Oh after Stacey. Stacey and I had a big discussion and then Ross Boss's wife. Did you pick Fletch up?

What? Did you pick him up? No it was right by his house. Oh okay. He walked down. And there was Sarah like. He was very persistent about popping up for cuddles afterwards. Yeah I was going to say was there a kiss at the end I was like you go home You go home He kicked me out Yeah

We didn't even get to spoon in the nice hotel room Nah Unbelievable Worst date ever Yeah Didn't put out But great show Oh yeah so good

No spoilers No spoilers ZM Hit music Lives here Fletch, Vaughn and Megan The podcast Good morning

Welcome to the show Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. Good morning. All Blacks played at the weekend. No one told me. There was another one I had no idea it was happening. They played it in Australia. Yeah. Did they isolate for two weeks?

It doesn't feel like there was two weeks between them playing here. No, I don't think they did. They just went in. Are they isolating when they come back? Yes. Good. How do, like, honestly thousands of people know about it but you don't? No one told me.

Just sit you down and give you an all-nights update. You're all over the news all week. They just played the week before. I thought it was madness that they were playing again, let alone in Australia. Do they need a rest or something? They're professional. It's a series. It's underway., let alone in Australia. Do they need a rest or something? They're professional. It's a series. It's underway.

Just make a bit more noise about it. I think they were. Oh, my God, yeah. I think the rest of us knew it was happening. Didn't hear a thing. I watched the Waikato-Auckland game. Oh, yeah. That must have been on before it.

No, you just switched it off. And that game was like, boy, oh, boy, if you like rugby, you're before it. You just switched it off. And that game was like, boy, oh, boy, if you like rugby, you're going to love the All Blacks game tonight. No one said that. I didn't hear them say that. I went trick-or-treating and no one was like, yeah, mate, get this all wrapped up.

Get up for that All Blacks game. No one said that. Right, okay. You want to hear the All Blacks tonight? Yeah. Not a single person. I was tucked up in bed fast asleep. I missed the haka. Right, okay. You want to do the All Blacks tonight? Yeah. Not a single person. I was tucked up in bed, fast asleep.

I missed the haka. Yeah. I missed the anthem. Yeah. You know those are the only two parts that I must see. Yeah. Your chance to win cash again today with our COVID rain check. All thanks to Save My Backin.

Make sure you register. Send them online. We could call you back at 8 o'clock this morning. Bree and Clint doing it in the afternoons as well and hook you up with some cash. Just got to register and tell us what COVID took from you, what you missed out on. Next, something from the 80s and something from the 90s. It's made numerous comebacks, but it's coming back again.

All Blacks games. No. No one's telling me about them, though. Fletchvorne and Megan, the podcast. ZM. This is something I did at school and it's made a comeback. Elastics.

Boys did play elastics, but I can't imagine you were much of an elastics guy. No, I wasn't. So that's where like two people stood at the end and had a big elastic thing around their legs, right? Yeah. Starting at the ankles, then you go kneesies. Do you do

thighs and hips? You definitely went hips, but you might have just gone knees to hips. Yeah, you went ankles, knees, hips. Under the armpit. Oh, that's right, yeah. And then yeah, neck. Kind of upper neck. I think you should jump over it. What's that? You do. All you had to do

was get a leg over it to hook it down It was bloody hard You were allowed to touch it It's not as if you had to get over like high jump Right But you just had to get a foot over to hook it down But that's why when it went up to like the neck Yeah it kind of got pushed down to the shoulders

Because it was the next thing that could stop it But it's making a comeback And The In Christchurch there's a mum who started making them it was the next thing that could stop it. But it's making a comeback and in Christchurch there's a mum who's started making them. If it's making a comeback I don't even know where you buy them. That's what I was just looking to see if I can

find where you buy them because it is just a big thing of elastic. Had a big roll of elastic in her sewing kit, she'll be like, oh no we're not spending $20. You get in here. Wasn't there an elastic shortage at of elastic, isn't it? Had a big roll of elastic in her sewing kit. She'll be like, oh no, we're not spending $20. You get in here. Wasn't there an elastic shortage at the start of COVID

because everyone was wanting to make masks? Yeah. But this would be some thick as, and it has to be quite stretchy. Yeah. Elastic.

Elastics, five pieces, Chinese jump ropes, colourful stretch rope, elastic. Oh, there you go. That's a lot. That's a big mouthful. Five of them for $30.

Is that on AliExpress? No, that's on Fishpond. Fishpond? I know. Fishpond. Fishpond. They always pop up. They're always like, I want to buy something.

They're like, Fishpond. They're like, don't forget about us. You're like, get out of here, Fishpond. Go back. Tab back. Were you good at elastic? I was. Susie Cato sells them, fish pond. Go back. Tab back. Were you good at elastic? I was. Susie Cato sells them on her store.

Does she? Susie, get out of it. She does. It's Susie's store. Oh, we'll go to Susie's store. $10. Oh, bugger. And it's got Susie.co.nz as a little label sewn on.

Well, she must be single-handedly responsible for bringing this back. Do you think so? It sounds like it. If you had no siblings or no friends, you played it with kitchen chairs. That's right, yeah. Or if there was just two of you, you needed a chair sub.

Yeah, if you wanted to practice at home. That explains a lot of growing single children, doesn't it? Only children. Yeah. It explains a lot. Bad siblings, cheery and city. And then you've got a leg caught on it and the chair came flying at you.

Oh, yeah. If you stood on the elastic and the chair was like, bang, and your mum would be like, don't break the chair! Then you'd get a smack because it was the 80s and that was the shit. It's just what happened. Well, a mum's posted on a Facebook. I don't know which Facebook page this is, but it is one in Australia. So a mum went to Kmart and posted her Kmart hack.

Famous Kmart hacks. Oh, yeah. They love this. People love a good Kmart hack, don't they? Well, this was the post. First time posting, she says. My teenage boys would always take their phones into the shower with them, no matter how many times I told them not to.

What? I was forever telling them they were going to drop it, and I wasn't getting them a new one until I came up with a fam idea. Went to my favorite shop, came out, and got some car phone holders. Yep, that did the trick. And there's a photo of, like, you know when you stick them onto the window, you pull the suction cup? Yeah.

So she's done that, but on the shower wall. She glued it as well. So they're taking their phone into the actual, not just into the bathroom while they have a shower, they're taking it into the actual shower. Into the cubicle. So it's a tiled shower. She's stuck it on and then as an edit on the post,

she's written the sticky pad that they come with isn't good to hold it. So I got some fixed nail power adhesive from Kmart and it worked great. And that's when... Fixed nail power adhesive so it's stuck there forever now. Yeah. She's got a huckery phone holder stuck to the glass wall of her shower. Yeah, the tiled wall. Above the soap holder and the bottle. Horrible. So that's when people started commenting on the post saying,

I know what that's being used for. Because you'll remember in the post she said, my teenage boys. Yes. And that's when people pointed out that her boys are going to the shower, putting the phone on the phone holder. Well, they've got both hands now. And masturbating. To porn.

Here they go. So both hands are free to do all sorts of stuff. She was under the impression that they just really liked to listen to music in the shower. Yes. And they couldn't possibly just sit outside the shower. And they're with them. You get them a cheap Bluetooth speaker, you can get those little hook ones that are like waterproof.

Yeah. She said, she then commented on the post saying, I didn't put this up for backlash and not all kids do that, gee. And that's when, like, people just went all out on her. So my boys do the same and I hate it. And other people saying, we've got teenage boys and yep, we know what's going on in there. Grim.

Yeah. First time posting and last time I'd say. Yeah. Although some people were convinced it was a set up, the whole post, for a quote, a masturbation station. Because there's the menstruation stations. Yes. They're very popular. Yeah. Masturbation stations. Yes. They're very popular. Yeah.

Masturbation station. Yeah. That's how I came up. It should maybe... She's going to have to get new phones for them anyway because the moisture's going to get in. Yeah. Unless the family buy a waterproof masturbation phone

and it just stays in the shower. It just stays in the shower. But most of the time, Stevie will get in and be like, someone's ran the battery flood and uncharged it. How am I supposed to have a... Oh, yeah, grim, isn't it? Yuck. Obviously not plumbers.

They'll tell you that's a terrible idea and it is a terrible idea. Well, yeah, someone's had a blocked shower recently, haven't they? Yes. Producer Jared's flat. Do you ever get to the bottom of that? Yeah, we fixed it over the weekend. Don't need to know.

So we weren't allowed to talk about it last week, were we? Because it's yuck. I got the biggest dreadlock of hair out the way, Stuart. Oh, yeah. Oh, it was grim. Why don't you talk about what was holding it

together? No! Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast, ZM. KJ Apa has a new movie coming out.

It's called Songbird. I have seen the trailer for this. COVID-23. Curfew is now in effect.

All unauthorised citizens must stay indoors. Tensions rise as we enter the 213th week of lockdown. A grim new reality emerges. COVID-23 has mutated. Get on your knees! Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! I'm immune! I'm immune!

That is all too real. Like lockdown. Read the room, guys. Read the room. When we watched the trailer on Friday, I was like, hmm, it's a bit on the chin. And the trailer ends with saying, remember, stay sane, safe and sanitized.

And it's like, wait, is that for the trailer? Or is that for us? Or is that for now? I think it's covered. So this is about a pandemic that's been going on for like, what, is that for the trailer or is that for us? Or is that for now? I think it's covered. So this is about a pandemic that's been going on for like,

what, four or five years? You say a pandemic, it's about COVID. COVID-23. They didn't even rename it. So COVID's mutated. Yeah,

from what I could see, it was COVID-19 had been controlled and then COVID-23 happened. Right, okay. Which, so KJ posted so many incredible things about this movie.

One being it was the first movie back to shoot in LA during quarantine. Very much in an unknown territory and paving the way for production safety protocols. It was strange at times, especially while shooting a movie about the pandemic. Yep. Yeah, wow. I mean, like, of course, he was just like, yeah, I want to get back to work and stuff.

But like, what about the producers? And like, they didn't ever have a moment where they thought that might be a bit weird. So, so many people have said, look, who else watched the Songbird movie trailer

and is even more depressed? The more I think about the Songbird film, the more I'm seething about it. It really got me panicked and people feeling very anxious. This is supposed to be a dystopian horror movie, but it's all too real right now. Well, it's like Black Mirror. What's it, Charlie Brooker came out and said, oh, we're not going to do any more of this because it's just too much of a real life Black Mirror right now.

Yeah, 2020 is an episode of Black Mirror. But like, wait until everything's over. But even then, 200,000 Americans have died of it, of COVID. When's that going to be okay to do? No. In a movie, yeah. Well, it's like they didn't make World War II movies

during World War II. No. And if they did, they were propaganda films. Yeah, they didn't make World War II movies during World War II. No. And if they did, they were propaganda films. Yeah, they weren't filming Saving Private Ryan at the same time. Yeah. You know? But even then, that was about how wonderful they were doing during the war and the good work American soldiers were doing and did

and, you know, reunited that family. Spoiler alert for Saving Private Ryan, a 20-year-old movie. But this isn't. No. Is it supposed to look worse and be like, see, it's not as bad as this. It could always get worse. And it probably will. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast.

I must say my garden is flourishing. Is this garden drama? There's a little bit of garden drama. Your veggie garden. Yeah, my veggie garden. Your massive veggie garden. Flourishing. And I didn drama? There's a little bit of garden drama. Your veggie garden. Yeah, my veggie garden. Your massive veggie garden. Flourishing. And I didn't want to plant silverbeet.

You'll remember it's on my list of... Yuck. Yuck. Yuck. Who eats that? I ate silverbeet the weekend. It's very high in iron. Is it?

High in iron. Yeah. It's better cooked than spinach because spinach goes all soggy. Spinach disappears. No, spinach is like, hey, look how much of me there is. You should try cooking me. See ya. Where did the spinach go?

Spinach is like, I'm here now. You could put a whole pack of spinach in like water and it would just be a little clump on your eggs, you know. Yeah, if you're fruit, if you're like,

just put it in a hot pan. It's like, bye. So I don't want silverbeet in there. And yesterday I said to Shana, that silverbeet's going crazy. She likes silverbeet. And she came out and she had a look. She's like, oh, okay, what am I supposed to do with all that silverbeet? I was like, be good.

You wanted it. I didn't want it. Of course it was going to be lots. Is this a drama? Yeah. That's taking up valuable real estate in the garden. And she's like, what am I supposed to do with all that silverbeet? I said, well, I only planted it because you wanted it.

Now she's all hum-ha about it. It's her bloody silverbeet. She doesn't want it at all. No, no. She said, what am I supposed to do with all that silverbeet? Right. And she's like, oh, some of these leaves have got holes in them. I was like, oh, boo-hoo.

Wash them. Most of them end up with holes in them. Yeah, that's silverbeet, baby. That's natural. I don't know if I can say organic. Everyone says organic. It's organic silverbeet. And she's, what am I supposed to do with all the silverbeet?

Do you want some? Give it to the chicken. I'll have some. No, no, no, no, no, no. You can't give the animals a taste for what you've got in your garden because then they'll go out

of their way to get it. But won't they try to get it anyway? Well, they can't get over the fence and they're like, oh, who will ever know what's on the other side of that fence?

But if you feed them stuff from the garden, they're like, that was yum and that's, I can smell that, that's that there. Right. And then they'll try to get over the fence into the garden. Right. Which you just can't do. You can't tempt the fate like that. Yeah, right.

But yeah, I'll bring in some silver bait because apparently I have an abundance of it. Don't bother. Why? Oh, you don't like it. That's fine. It's not bok choy. That's a stringy son of a bitch too. Bok choy, you're always like, I might eat this.

I feel like that's how I'm going to die. Bok choy. The whole stringy bit goes down. Yeah, because you're like, I know, I'll just put this bok choy in my mouth to begin chewing it. And the stem's like, I'm out of here. And the leaf's like, I'm being of here. And the leaf's like, I'm being chewed. And then it's just like, and it's

halfway down your throat. It's like swallowing a long piece of spaghetti and you can feel it down and half of it's gone, but you've still got the other bit in your mouth. But I'm sure you son of a bitch. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast ZM. From the sophisticated ZM think tank, this is the top six.

Hello there. Apparently, when discussing laws on other planets, due to the fact that Mars and the, I should guess, the near future will be settled by humanity and we'll probably make a mess of that too. But we'll do our best to be like, oh, at least we tried by having things called laws. And Elon Musk has said, well, I guess SpaceX will make the laws

if they get there first. So this has come about because the terms of service of its Starlink internet project have come out. So you know all the satellites that they've got up at the moment? Yeah. The Starlink. Apparently that'll adhere to a set of self-governing principles that will be defined at the time of Martian settlement.

Good Lord. Weird. Why does everything have to be so weird? Because it's Elon Musk. Yeah. Well, when Mars is settled, it'll need its laws. So these are the top six Mars laws, according to Elon Musk. Number six, every radio session just plays Joe Rogan podcasts.

Could you imagine it? Please, no. He loves a Joe Rogan podcast. Number five on the list of the top six Mars laws according to Elon Musk, you're only allowed to drive Teslas. No other cars are allowed on Mars.

It's a good law. No other cars. I mean, do they supply you with the Tesla? You'd probably have to buy the Tesla. I mean, there might be a few Teslas.

You could borrow your neighbour's Tesla. Number four on the list of the top six Mars laws according to SpaceX, no guns. Just those flamethrowers that he made that time. So you've got to sort

out your disputes face to face. There's no distance. Yeah, right. Everybody's just got flamethrowers. And number three on the list of the top six Mars laws according to Elon Musk. Children aren't allowed names, just serial numbers. Oh yeah. That's right. Because what did he end up calling his kid in the end?

X-A-E. A-E. A-E, that A-E, and then A, and then hyphen, and then X-I-I. He's cocked, eh? Yeah. Yeah. Grimes, one day ago said X-A-E-A-I-O-I-E-I-O-U is into radical R-rated movies.

So the five-month-old baby's watching radical R-rated movies. Number two on the list of the top six Mars laws according to Elon Musk. No Jeff Bezos is allowed and no Amazon deliveries. Oh yeah,

because those two hate each other, don't they? They're dueling bajillionaires. They are at it. Imagine being a billionaire and you've got Arch Nemesis who's also a billionaire. Billionaire battles.

Yeah, because it's always like if there's a billionaire it's only one of them. Batman and the Joker.'s also a billionaire. Billionaire battles. Yeah, because it's always like if there's a billionaire, it's only one of them. Batman and the Joker. Batman's the billionaire. Lex Luthor and Superman. Lex Luthor's the billionaire. It's not dueling billionaires, is it? Often. Because it kind of cancels out. Because if you were just a billionaire,

you'd be able to screw over anyone that wasn't. But because they're both billionaires, you have to fight in an arena non-financial. Yeah. And number one on the list of the top six Mars laws, according to Elon Musk, no vaccinations and no 5G, but when you arrive,

you just have to have this little microchip popped in your brain. No big deal. No big deal. No big deal. It's this Neuralink thing. It'll be... It'll save heaps of time.

It's really's really easy. That's today's top six. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Auckland Marathon yesterday, many runners. Is it the biggest in New Zealand? Yeah, did I read that it was like in a massive... It's New Zealand's biggest marathon. Yeah.

But it is every year, isn't it? Even bigger this year. Right. Because I guess people were doing Fitspo during lockdown and they're like, yeah, I can do biggest marathon. Yeah. But it is every year, isn't it? Even bigger this year. Right. Because I guess people were doing Fitspo during a lockdown and they're like, yeah, I can do a marathon. They were trying their best. Yeah. And they did.

They tried their best and everybody, hmm? It's still crazy though to think, like it's even like concerts that I saw at the weekend and recently. You just forget that in little old New Zealand that we can do this. Well, England's just about to go into another four week intense lockdown.

This Wednesday or Thursday, I think it's Thursday, our time. Italy, Germany, it's all crazy. We can't forget because we could slip back and just end up being like this. Use the QR codes, use the QR codes please. She's right. Yeah. She's QR coding.

She's right, you know. She's not wrong. Not wrong. Well, yesterday many people ran and many people had goals of times that they wish to cross the finish line. Just completing would be. Would be something. Yeah. Be it a half or a full and joining us on the phone from the office. She's not in the office.

She's still at home, but the office is where you'll usually find her. Danny, you ran the half marathon yesterday. Hello, Tame. Yeah, I did. I did the half marathon. Did you get a medal? Did I see you holding a medal? Because when I did the half, they didn't give out medals. Unacceptable. Yeah, that's not,

I mean, that's what you do it for, right? Yeah, no, they gave you a medal for the full. It used to be you did the full, you got one. But mean, that's what you do it for, right? Yeah. No, they gave you a medal for the fall. It used to be you did the fall, you got one. Right. But when that year that I did it with you, Vaughn. You did the one. Didn't get a medal. They didn't do medals.

I mean, you want something for that $130 registration fee. Exactly. I think I did get a free muesli bar or something that they were trying. I think they got a banana at the end. And a banana at the end and a Powerade. You need some sort of proof for when you tell people forever that you did a marathon. You get the run shirt and a little square piece of paper.

I know. I've only even done one half marathon, but I still tell people shit. I love to tell people about it. But it was your time that we want to talk about this morning, Dani, because you set yourself a goal for the half marathon. Oh, I'm so livid with myself. So all I wanted to do, I wanted to do it in two hours.

And I'd done like a few training runs by myself. And I'd gone in like a minute 58. And I was like, yep, sweet, sweet, I've got this. Got over the finish line, got two hours in seven seconds. I am so angry. Right, okay. I just get rid of the seven seconds. Just say two.

No, official time. Seven seconds. The time that they'll print on your... Yeah, is that the official time? Have you looked it up on the website? Because if you just... Yeah. Oh.

Yeah, it is. Do you know what it was? Do you know that seven seconds? So I was in the last two kilometres and I could feel myself weighing myself just a little bit. a bit of ways came out some leaves were coming out and i was like oh i could just keep running and i could bring myself and go out to lunch afterwards people do that people do that professional runners they will wait they'll wait where they have to yeah absolutely and then my dignity got the best of me and I was like,

oh, I'm just going to go to the bathroom. And then that, that is here. That would have been the difference. You can easily say two hours. No. No, you can't. Because the wee stop doesn't count. So you had to use a port-a-loo.

Yeah, I had to use a port-a-loo. Was there a line or were you straight in and out? No, I was straight in and out and And it was literally in like the last kilometer. And I was like, I just, it was the waves. Going back now, doing it again, would you do it differently? I wouldn't smash as much water. And if I needed to weigh, I'd just paint that stuff. That's what I was wondering.

Is there, in the last stretch, like water cups on the side of the, are people holding? Yeah, there's water everywhere. Why don't you just pee yourself and then just splash yourself with water? Be like, oh, I'm so sweaty. And then get to the end and be like, man, sweating everywhere. Those last two Ks are horrible, especially if you've wit yourself. Yeah.

Yeah, you've got to get a chafing. But again, is it worth it for those seven got to get a chafing. But again, is it worth it for those seven seconds? I reckon it is. But the chafing might have slowed her down even more, you know?

I wish I'd wet myself. That's it. And I'm going to think about that for the rest of my life. Ten, seven seconds. I was the same though because I had a goal and I was a minute over it.

And even to this day, it really bugs me. But who's going to, if you tell me your time, it's not like I'm going to look it up and be like, you liar, just say two hours. I'm not going to check. But it's like, it's cheating on yourself, isn't it? Megan doesn't have a problem with that. It's like when at school they were like, cheating is only cheating yourself. I'd be like, sweet, I'm okay with cheating myself.

So we want to open up the phone lines now and ask you, when did you just miss out on something? Maybe it was seven seconds. Maybe it was a time that you aimed for and it was seven seconds. I know Producer Mountie at the social media desk, you, when we were talking about this this morning, after seeing Danny's story, you just missed out on something, didn't you?

Yeah. I was standing in line for a free donut and there was a cut off of like a hundred and something donuts and I was behind the guy that got the last donut. Just missed out. They didn't feel sorry for you and get you another one? No, no. They said you can still buy one and I was like, absolutely not.

So you didn't buy one? No. How long were you in line for? Ages. How much are the donuts? Five bucks. It's the principle. Nice.

Nice. Stubborn strength there. All right. So 0800, dials at M is the number. You can text as well, 9696. When did you just miss out on something?

Maybe it was by seconds or minutes or you had a goal, whatever it was. Or the placings. You could have been the very next person. So Danny from work ran the Auckland half marathon yesterday, as a lot of people did, the full and half

yesterday. Missed out on her two hour goal by seven seconds because she stopped to use the loo. Seven seconds, that will haunt her. It was a quick wee. She said there was no line, so it really was, you know, that and haunt her. It was a quick wee. She said there was no line, so it really was, you know, that. The difference. Yeah.

Yeah. Just, I just discount that in my head. I'd round down, but in your mind, you know that you didn't beat your goal. You were just a little bit over by seven seconds. She wasn't running. She was on the toilet. So just get rid of that little part. Well, when did you just miss out

on something, is the question we're asking. Just maybe it was by seconds? Yes. By minutes? Or just you were in line and was the very next person? Alice, what did you just miss out on? Morning, guys. Morning.

So I was about 12 years old, and me and my sister were competing in the North Island Cross Country Championship. Oh, okay. And she's my little sister, by the way. And we're in the same age group. So anyway, basically I led the race the whole way. I carved out the whole track, walked the wind, and I got to the last 100 metres, the race.

And I was in first place at that point, and she was in second place. And basically I had asthma. My asthma got better of me. She sprinted past me in like the last 100 meters and won first place and I got second. And I always got second. Like, that was like my first chance of getting first and basically she took that away from me. Oh, wow.

And she's your youngest sister too. She was my step. She was like a year and a half younger than me. Were you good about it? What? I'm gutted. Like, I cried for days. And, like, she literally still holds the record to this day.

And it's, like, 10 years later. I don't mean to be rude, Alice, but she's the smarter runner because she streamlined behind you the whole way. Like, let you. I had asthma. She just took that away from me. And then she let the asthma and she was like, now I strike. Anyway, it is what it is

yeah brilliant alright Ellis thanks for your call Jordan when did you just miss out it was a few years ago now yeah my first daughter's birth

I went back to where we lived to pick up like the the birthing bag and stuff like that because my partner's water broke at work yeah

and pretty much came back the next morning with all the stuff and it was like 4am saying I'm going to give birth. So I rushed back, it was about 45 minutes away and she gave birth in like 26 minutes I think it was. And then literally, yeah, coming over Saddle Road where I live, got stuck behind a truck

so I can't pass up there too windy. And then got to the door, because I got a backup emergency door sort of thing. The lady just took her time, like took her time. You're like, come on. And then I go up to the reception desk, and she's like on the phone. I'm like, are you kidding me? And she pointed me eventually to the door. And as soon as I got to the door,

the lady ran out and my daughter was born. So if any one of those four delays hadn't happened, you would have been there for it? Yeah. Oh, dude. Oh, Jordan, thanks, mate. Mitchell, what did you just miss out on? Morning, guys.

Morning. Yeah, it's just as heartbreaking as the last story. Yeah, okay. It was just before the lockdown on the last day, level four. Yeah. And went and lined up for KFC drive-thru. Yep. All ready for the last feed before the level four.

Yeah. Waited for half an hour, got up to the window, went to place my order, and they said, oh, sorry, the car in front of you has just taken the last of the chicken. So, yeah. Oh. Yeah. Heartbroken.

And then you can't even get out of the drive-through until you've watched them get it. No, I had to watch them get their big box of chicken passed out while I just sat there, heartbroken. Oh, my dude. That's actually pretty more heartbreaking than the last story, if I'm going to be honest, Mitchell. Thanks, Mitchell.

Some text messages in. When did you just miss out? Someone said my kids and I lined up for a couple of hours to, oh, I'll say where it was, to go into the Sky Tower for free. Because you know every now and then they'll do the Sky Tower free day, but then they cut it off at a certain time. Because do you know it's like $30 to go up there or something like that?

Yeah. It's like that. I can't exactly remember. It's a lot. So you do it in school holidays. You're taking the whole family, though. Yeah, but it should be $5. That's a good price.

$5. They've got good price. $5. They've got a lot of stuff to run. I'd go all the time if it was $5. What they should do is it's $5, but to get the $5 discount, you've got to spend half an hour in the casino and then they'll easily get their money back. Yeah, well, you spend like half an hour on the pokies

and it prints you out a free voucher. Yeah. It's probably bad, though. That. Yeah. It's probably bad though. That's terrible. That's terrible. It's very terrible. In fact, that sounds illegal.

Yeah, it probably is. Sounds morally shadowy and very... Anyway, they came out and they said, I'm sorry, the line ends here

and put the thing down right in front of us. But that's the thing, the line's got to, it's got to finish somewhere. You know, they can't just like carry it on through. Do you reckon they'd pick though if you had to put the breaker in the line's got to finish somewhere. You know, they can't just like carry on through.

Do you reckon they'd pick though, if you had to put the breaker in the line, would you pick someone that looks like they're not going to kick up? Absolutely. Too much of a stink. Like not a Karen and not a big muscly. So if you're waiting in the line for something, look like a real punish. Like you're going to make their life hell if they don't let you in. But not too hell because then they might might get off on letting you have it.

Or just pay to avoid the heartbreak. Yeah. Perhaps. There you go. ZM's Fletchvorn and Megan, the podcast. Fletchvorn and Megan's Audio Ninja Warrior. Well, it's like Ninja Warrior, but it's Audio Ninja Warrior. Yeah.

You've just got to make the sound effects to get through the audio obstacle course. Yes, we can pause to discuss whether or not we believe that sound effect was sufficient. Yeah. And we'll pause the timer as well. It's whoever gets through the obstacle course the quickest. We welcome to Audio Ninja Warrior first up. Sophie, good morning. Good morning. Now, you'll be playing against Tyler, who we've

just put in the cone of silence. He can't hear the sound effect. So there'll be no advantage. Yeah. To how I second. We're going to give you a sound effect, Sophie, when your time starts, and you've got to make the sound effect. As quick and as good as possible. Sophie, are you ready?

Yeah. All right, your time starts now. The supermarket trolley one-way gate thing. That was bad. That was really bad. Okay, let's pause. Let's pause. We've never had a contestant admit that they've done poorly. Straight up. That was really bad. Okay, let's pause. Let's pause. We've never had a contestant admit that they've done poorly.

Straight up. That was really bad. Well, do we start the timer again and then give us another go at that? What do you think? What's that? It's metal. Yeah, it is metal. Yeah, it is metal.

More like a ting, ting, ting, isn't it? Don't give her any help. I don't think we're supposed to be. There's no ladies' tea in this game of golf. I don't think we can start again because had this been a question further in, we wouldn't start again. No, we wouldn't.

We continue the timer. We might give her another shot. Yeah, right. I'll continue the timer. I'll give you another shot, Sophie. Yeah. Are you happy with that? And go.

I'm just going to stop again, Sophie. Do you know what we're referring to? You know when you're going into the supermarket and there's that gate and you push your trolley through but it won't let you pull the trolley back through It's got those metal bars Oh, we don't have that

Oh, okay, well she doesn't know what we're talking about Whereabouts do you live? Like North Canterbury Yeah they probably don't Even small supermarkets No they don't Because people don't

Take trolleys of groceries Out in North Canterbury They're very honest They've just got like Big old Oval things now We've never had A reception on the phone

In North Canterbury I'm beginning to believe They might not have Supermarket entrance gates We've never had this before She doesn't know What we're talking about Someone said I live in North Canterbury. Now I'm going to need to believe they might not have supermarket entrance gates. We've never had this before. She doesn't know what we're talking about. Someone said I live in North Canterbury and we do. Oh. You know what we're talking about, right?

It's like a trolley turnstile. Yeah, I do now. There's oval ones and there's ones without. Oh, right. I wasn oval ones and there's like ones with bars. So I was... Ah, right. Okay. I wasn't thinking of the ones with the bars. Yeah, okay.

So we're talking about the ones with the bars. Okay. You go up to it and it automatically opens as well. That's called a door. No, that's not that. You know, it's just the trolley thing. We don't want the door. It's not the door.

No, not the door. Okay, one... It's not the door. One more chance, Sophie. Okay. One more door. No, not the door. Okay, one more chance, Sophie. Okay. One more chance. Here we go. Okay.

Go. Yes! It'll do. Slurping soup. That's hot. Hey, oh, that's... I like that little follow-up, you know, bit on the end there.

A space ray gun. That'll do. That'll do. That'll do. A slug slipping along the ground. Sufficiently slug-like. A sizzling power line. That'll do.

I've got power lines in North Canterbury, apparently. And a slinky going down some stairs. That was good. Yay! That was good. That was good. We got there. We got there. Good work, Sophie.

That was great. Once we got over that little gaty turnstile-y thing, I got you. Tyler's wondering what the hell's going on. Tyler, out from the cone of silence. Good morning, Tyler. Good morning. There were some issues there, Tyler. The first hurdle, it turns out, was the hardest.

Ah, all right then. Well, Tyler, your time starts now. All right, one of those supermarket trolley turnstiles that you can go through but you can't come back out of. Ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting. Yeah. He bloody knows. Slurping soup.

Great. A spaceping soup. Great. A space ray gun. Pew, pew, pew, pew. A slug. A slug slipping along. That's a fast slug. That slug's moving it. He's a silver bait on the horizon.

A sizzling power line. That's good. Reminds me of travelling in Southeast Asia. Oh, bless you. And a slinky going down some stairs. I'm just going to stop. Oh, oh, oh, oh. At the last. Turns out the last hurdle is the hardest for stop. Oh, oh, oh, oh. At the last.

Turns out the last hurdle is the hardest for Tyler. Oh, okay. That, to me, that wasn't a slinky. You know what a slinky is, right? Yeah, the little spirally thing. Yes. Yes. It walks down the stairs.

Tyler, we are going to need that again. I'm a millennial, eh? Like, they were the 90s, so I'm maybe a bit young for them. Burn. My children have slinkies. I can hear the lying in his voice. Yeah, I know, Tyler. I never had one either.

But old for me. Okay, Tyler, we are going to restart the timer and we are going to need the slinky again. All right. Okay, here we go. Your time starts again now. Joink, joink, joink, joink. Okay, we're going to stop the clock there.

Joink, joink, joink. I thought it was joink, joink, joink. That was sufficient for me. I thought that was okay. Are you accepting that? Because I thought it was. You know when you get a slinky going and it goes joink, joink, joink. It walks over itself.

I picture a slinky. That's like an onomatopoeia. He's spelt the word, but he hasn't done the sound effect for me. Joink. Yeah. You think a slinky should be renamed a joink? Not you're writing down the name that a slinky makes. Joink would be it.

Joink? Joink. Could you give it? Man, how good would a rip-offink would be it. Zoink? Zoink? Could you give it? Man, how good would a rip-off slinky be called the Zoink? The Zoink, yeah. Zoink? I don't know. How do we feel in the producer's booth on that one?

I felt the Zoink. Yeah, there. I was okay with the Zoink. You guys like that? Yeah, I liked it. Eh. Yeah, see, I'm a bit with the fishers in there. It's a bit 50-50.

Producer Mountie. Mountie, you've got the deciding vote. Was that good enough for'm a bit with the shoes again. It's a bit 50-50. Could you do some Mountie? Mountie, you've got the deciding vote. Was that good enough for a slinky? Oh, no. I'm going to say yes. Oh, she's a soft... OK, that's... You know that's... I've done it!

OK, Tyler, we're just going to bring you in now with our first contestant. Sophie, you tripped up on the first sound effect. Tyler, there was some drama with the slinky at the end. So it ended up being a lot closer than I thought it was going to be. There was still 10 seconds in it. OK, and today's winner of Audio Ninja Warrior and the inventor of the joink. Tyler, congratulations.

Yay! Congratulations, Tyler. Thank you. Great round of contestants today, though. And every time Sophie goes through one of those turnstiles, she's going to be like... Yeah! She's going to be like,

God damn it, we do have them! Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. ZM. It was Friday afternoon when the referendum results, the preliminary referendum results came in. There is a final count of special votes going on as we speak.

So these are all the votes that people that are living overseas have cast. Sent in, yeah. Yeah. Or people outside of their electorate in New Zealand? Yeah. Yes. Yeah, okay. So there's still quite a few.

There are quite a few because the referendum results were yes to euthanasia and no to cannabis. The legalisation of cannabis. Did you see that Jacinda Ardern said she voted yes to cannabis? Fair bit of backlash online. Yeah.

I'm surprised she... I would have just kept mum and not told Yeah. I'm surprised she ought to just like keep mum and not told anyone. I don't admit when I back the loser. But I wonder if she'll regret the whole before the election

not saying. Because that just became such a big issue in itself. Yeah. That it was almost just worth her just saying. And then there was, yeah, the backlash

of people being like, how desperate was the... worth her just saying. And then there was, yeah, the backlash of people being like, how desperate was the... Yeah, I know. It was very interesting to watch the whole thing. Watch the whole thing happen. However, if the special votes that are counted this week are in favour of the legalisation of cannabis,

69%, 69%, it means that it would sway the results. Now, that would require, obviously, quite the shift between special votes. And special votes traditionally are a little bit more progressive. But are they 19% more progressive, you know? Yeah, you need like 69% of all those votes to be in favour. Yes.

That's a lot. Especially when the country's this split. Yeah. That would require massive change. But euthanasia has been voted, yes. Right. Despite the insane amount of money that was put into the no side of that. Yeah.

All the questionably principled billboards around with the election hoard that. Yeah. All the questionably principled billboards around with the election hoardings. Yeah. But yeah, that got passed. And so that wouldn't be

a law for like another year. Yeah. Or so. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's right. It takes a while for these things to come into law.

Right. I mean, for that to be a year and cannabis to be 18 months if they got legalised. But yeah, as yet, it hasn't.

Now everyone with their Sharesies app that had all shares and like Oh yeah, all the people who were going to start up businesses and had already done the groundwork. Can they not do any of that now? Does anything change? Don't we just stay with the laws we had?

Well, the medicinal stuff can still happen. But I had some investment in some of that. I got out of Sharesies. It was too stressful. Canaself. No, Canaself's up. Oh, it's up? Okay.

It's up bloody 60% since I invested. Wonderful. What, are we just doing this under the radar, are we? How much have you made? Canaself? We're just going to push on. I don't even know what that company is, but if they're doing medicinal, then I'm sure.

It's a New Zealand-based biopharmaceutical research and development company that focuses on the commercial development of the medically beneficial attributes of cannabinoid products. Right. How are your New Zealand shares? I don't have. Oh, you don't? I don't believe I have any New Zealand shares. Why your Air New Zealand shares? I don't have. Oh, you don't?

I don't believe I have Air New Zealand shares. Why? Right. Oh, I just don't know. You know, because of COVID and stuff. Oh, yeah. No, it would have been a bad. I've got some money in my wallet.

Anyway, play the next song. I've got to do some investing. Tell them what my Scalarup shares are up. Everyone buying boots, are they? Everyone buying boots. Everyone buying gumboots. I'm big. I'm big on the New Zealand dairy investments.

Got my Fonterra shares. I made money off that company because I don't do shares anymore. But when I did, I made money off that company because they fired heaps of staff. I was like, this is great. Wait, this is not great. This feels morally questionable. Wait, I made lots of money. This is, yeah. You didn't. The world's upside down, this is great. Wait, this is not great. This feels morally questionable. Wait, I made lots of money. This is, yeah. You didn't.

The world's upside down, eh? Yeah. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. I have signs that you're dating a time-wasting love loiterer. Now, it's kind of like a duck boy, except this is more a gender neutral term than anyone, rather than just branding the boys with this. Okay.

So these are the people who you put lots of time and effort into and then you're like don't get any commitment from them. So it might be like months down the track

and then you're like well what is happening here. Yeah. And then they're just not still not that interested. They're not committing.

Not committing. Probably because they've got another couple of relationships they're juggling along with yours. Do you reckon or do you just reckon they're just lazy so they're content with something but they never want to lock it in? Yeah, maybe they just like the start of the relationship

and then just never intend to go any further. Yeah, they're just cruising. But you're never going to get anything more out of them. So these are the people who they put minimal effort into arranging dates. So if you feel like you're working harder than they are, you're probably messaging one of these.

Time wasting love loiterer. So the other signs that you're dating one of these is they barely put any effort in. They take over 24 hours to reply to your messages. They don't. What's funny? No, it's just like if someone's taking that long to reply to your message, surely the writing's on the wall.

No, but if they still reply, you're like, okay, well, they replied. But a day later, they're obviously not that interested. You need to have a chat about your expectations with communication. They don't put in the effort to keep the conversation going. They cancel plans last minute. This is a big one.

They don't ask many questions about you. Who's in one of these relationships that's lasting months? No, but you don't understand. Like if a guy shows interest and then doesn't ask questions about you, you're like, it's confusing because you're like, well, I mean, he wants to go

on a date, but he's not asking much about me. And then you're like, oh, he's not texting me back. But then he does eventually text back. So you're like, it's confusing because you're like, well, I mean, he wants to go on a date but he's not asking much about me. And then you're like, oh, he's not texting me back. But then he does eventually text back. So you're like, well, he just wouldn't have bothered. You know, like it's, for a girl, it's kind of like mixed messages. You're like, I guess you can kind of read the signs. But if you're into him and he's still giving you something, this is how you end up being strung along.

Don't look at me like that. But hearing yourself say it. I know, but when you're in there and you are going out on a date and you're getting a cheeky bash and then he does message you and then there's like a day where he doesn't, you're like, what's happening? Would it help? This is a serious tip.

Okay. Would it help looking at yourself in the mirror and saying out loud the things that are happening to you so you see yourself saying it and you're like, okay. No, I don't think so. That would help, right? If you looked in the mirror and you were like, he doesn't text back until it's convenient for him.

He never asks about me. He doesn't want to do anything. Look at yourself in the mirror because then you've got to look at yourself while you're saying it. You've got to see yourself saying that out loud. But I don't know if that would help because you still say it to your friends. And you don't hear how crazy it sounds.

And they'll say, oh, he's just, just drop him like he's not into it. But in the back of your mind, you're like, no, he, they don't get it. I'm still like, he's still, we had a pash. You know, like. God, he must be bloody we had a pash. You know, like. God, he must be bloody good at this pash thing he kept talking about. He mentioned it three times as a sort of, like,

all he's actually bringing to the situation. I love that term, though. What is he doing with his tongue? Not too invasive. Light on tongue, but good on pash. Give yourself a look in the mirror. That would help, I think. Hey, that's just a tip from me to you. Okay, Dan. Now, I'm in

no way qualified, but I believe what have you got to lose? So you're saying the two of you would not get caught up with one of these people? You'd just be like, cut them loose. Oh, Fletch, wouldn't he be next? Fletch would be like, next. No time, no time wasting. I would probably be one of those people because I'm so lazy.

Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The Podcast. ZM. Um, a survey's I would probably be one of those people because I'm so lazy. A survey's been done. This is in America. It's asking women how they feel about their relationship. Because this year, relationships have been accelerated and stuff just because you're spending so much time together. So a lot of women have said that they would prefer it was 41%. If they didn't have a say in their ring selection when they got engaged, they wished they had been consulted.

41%. That's a lot. Also, one in three women say they are with the one, say their partner is the one. This is one in three women, all women or women dating men. Because surely if you're married to him, you've kind of got to think

that, eh? Even if it's not forever, you've got to think it. I don't know if anyone would think that. What about your first marriage? Did you think this is the one? Jesus. Very pointed question. I think you already know the answer to that.

Well, just proving the point that, you know, people are obviously in these relationships with not the one. Yeah. What are they just hoping they will, or is it just that rent's half price? Like, what is it? I don't know. You just kind of fall into these situations and then you're like, oh.

It's a lot of admin to break up. Yeah. Bob them down with admin, baby. And like some people, if they've never been like properly in love, they don't really know like, is this what it's supposed to be like? Yeah.

But that's still like two in three are not with the one. Yeah. That's a lot. Yeah. So yeah, lots of women said, there's a lot of chat about rings. 5% get their friends to give their partners a hint on what they want for a ring. Why wouldn't you just talk to your partner about what you want in a ring? Like, if you've been together for a while, you don't need to be like,

get me an engagement ring. This is what it's going to look like. But you tell them what you want in a ring. Like if you've been together for a while, you don't need to be like, get me an engagement ring. This is what it's going to look like. But you tell them what you want, right? 36% just pick it out with their partner. Right. That's what we did my first marriage. You get just a cute ring and then you're like, but we'll go pick the actual one together.

So you do that after the proposal? Yeah. So what do they use for the proposal? Just like a cute like Push one of those ones with a lolly on top because then you get a lolly. But you always get a really sticky finger from those lollypops. Just a cute ring that you'd still wear

but like not diamonds and stuff. Yeah right okay. What if they got you like a chunk of whatever like say you wanted it made out of gold they got you a chunk of gold and a diamond and were like, there you go. It's like a make your own kit. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Like a deconstructed gauge. You buy a deconstructed burger. That's kind of cool. And you get a deconstructed ring. Take it into the jewellery. I mean, yeah, and then they'd make it. You'd have to be pretty loaded. To get a chunk of gold in it. It wouldn't look great I mean, yeah, and then they'd make it. You'd have to be pretty loaded to get a chunk of gold

in it. Also, that wouldn't look great in a box because, you know, I imagine a big huge gold nugget, but it wouldn't be, would it? No. Flat, small. Tiny diamond, a tiny speck of gold. There you go, make your own ring. But when that conversation comes up, there's already, you know,

the surprise is gone. If you're going to ask your partner what kind of ring they like before you propose. But, like, you could be having that conversation for years. You just don't really know when it's going to happen. Yeah, but then every time you go away on a holiday, like happened to you, you're waiting for it. Your workmates tell you that it's going to happen, and then you're waiting for it. Were we wrong?

You got proposed to. No, thankfully. We're very rarely wrong. Yeah. I can't even think of the last time. Are you flossing? No, no, I'm just moving. I've been sitting too long and I was getting cramp.

And I stood up and then I walked. It's all your ducky hip. You've got to keep your hip moving. I'm just kind of moving in the hip. Yeah, I think I've been sitting down for too long. Why are you standing up flossing? But my arms were going a little bit so I looked like I was flossing. I'm one of those kids that you see that love TikTok so much. I'm TikTok-ing Why are you standing up flossing? My arms were going a little bit so I looked at you and was flossing.

I'm one of those kids that you see that love TikTok so much. I'm TikTok-ing while I'm doing anything. Yeah, pretty much. Then off the back of engagement rings, engagement chat. Sorry, I was doing a TikTok dance and I brought my microphone. And the fact that your workmates may have spoiled it for you, like me. We'd love to know when you knew your partner was going to propose. Maybe there were some signs,

maybe someone like straight up spoiled it for you. Maybe like on TikTok, your friends took you to get your nails done. You're like, hmm, this is sus. What were the signs? How did you know? As soon as you know, every time you go somewhere, you're just going to be like, oh, is it going to happen? Yeah.

And then that anticipation can be quite full on for some people. As soon as you know, every time you go somewhere, you're just going to be like, oh, is it going to happen? Yeah. And then that anticipation can be quite full on for some people. Someone said, the village goldsmith in Wellington sells a bar of gold with a diamond to make the ring together. That's cool. I think that's so cool. So that's how you propose a little bit of gold and a diamond. That's such a great idea. Oh, and Nevaeh and Sloan in Auckland do it as well.

They do it. A deconstructed ring. I came up with it, but it was already invented. This is happening all the time. Like all of your ideas for apps that you always have. Yeah. Yeah. Damn it.

We want to know this morning how you knew your partner was going to propose. Someone gave it away. What were the hints? Some great stories coming through. And some heartbreaking ones because people have this moment ruined for them by silly people, by big mouth parents too. Or just as simple as, my partner is not very clever.

Used our joint bank account and spent $4,000 at a jeweler. So yeah, I knew it was coming. Yeah, but then how do you do that? Because what, are you meant to take out a little bit of cash every time you go to the supermarket and build it up? Yeah, there's that.

There's various ways to do it. Cash deposit and just say... Well, we just didn't have joint bank accounts until we were married. Anonymous, how did you know that you were getting proposed to? No. This wasn't actually me. This was a friend of mine. Okay.

She had found her, found the engagement ring in amongst her partner's stuff. And he had been acting kind of weird. And they'd gone on numerous amount of dates, but he hadn't got the courage to actually ask her. And they ended up having drinks one night after dinner. And she started thinking that the ring wasn actually ask her. And they ended up having drinks one night after dinner. And she started thinking that the ring wasn't for her and they got into a big argument. And he ended up pulling out the ring and throwing it at her and saying, will you marry me?

Oh, no! What a story for the grandkids. Wow. I thought he was cheating on me. Yeah. Wow. So he just needed a bit of drunk grandkids. Wow. I thought he was cheating on me. Yeah. Wow. So he just needed a bit of drunk courage to ask her. Yes, yes.

And an argument. And an argument. Brilliant. Thanks, Anonymous. Sarah, what made you think you were being proposed to? So my husband put his phone through the washing machine when we were living overseas. Yeah.

And I was at home and so when he went to work, I was drying it out and rice and trying to get it to turn back on. And eventually after hours, I turned it back on and when I clicked the message button, I saw the first message, like the line from his sister that said, how's the ring shopping going? And we

had a huge holiday booked our last holiday before we moved back home. Yeah. And so I just knew it was going to happen. And to this day, he has no idea that I found out. Oh, you kept it from him. That's cute. Oh, man. How's your acting?

Apparently amazing. Yeah. Oh, my God. What? We've been married for like five years in the end. And he still doesn't know. I would break his heart. I couldn't do it.

I can't tell him. Wow. Sarah, thanks for your call. Anonymous, how did you know that you were getting proposed to? So my now husband planned a nice walk for us, and I didn't think anything was suspicious until we were walking out the door, and I heard a thump, and I turn around, and the ring box has fallen on the floor at his feet.

Oh, what was I thinking? I pretend not to see it. He gave me a deer in the headlights look and I just kind of looked the other way and was like, oh my, the key's stuck in the door. Just giving him a chance to fix it.

Wow. You saw it. Child sexist. Wow. Yeah, you knew. All right, thanks, Anonymous. I would have been suspicious when a walk was planned. Yeah. This evening, let's go for a walk. You don't normally like to go for walks. No, we're going for a walk.

This is a walk business. Jess, how did you know that you were getting proposed to? My partner at the time, who basically never wears pants, just always in stubbies, turned up to my work to take me out to lunch and he was wearing dress pants. So I was like, something fishy here. Did you ask him? You're like, why are you wearing those?

No, I had an idea, so I didn't want to put him off. But were you wearing those? No, I had an idea, so I didn't want to, like, put them off. But were you sufficiently dressed? Like, if he's wearing dress pants, obviously you'd want to be dressed. Yeah, we dress differently, so, yeah, I was. Yeah, so you dressed semi-normal. Yeah, right, brilliant. What a stubbies guy. Thanks, you're cool, Jess.

Awesome text messages. I knew he was going to propose because his mother told him he had to right in front of me. 45 years later, though. Oh, yeah, great. Goodness me. She obviously knew, Mum. Yeah. Or everybody's just too scared to break up.

Even now, she could probably haunt them. Well, I'm not saying the mum's dead, but she's obviously old. So that's what happens to people. Yep. Somebody else said, my now husband was gearing up to propose in our fifth year of dating, like our fifth anniversary. I knew it was coming. Had a hotel going out for dinner,

but he didn't want any beers before we went out, which was very unusual for him. He was pacing up and down in the room. He was fidgeting. He was so on edge that we ended up having a huge fight before dinner. So we didn't actually end up getting engaged that night. Just sit still. I can't sit still.

What's wrong? What do you want to do? Nothing. Guys get so nervous, eh? But you know, surely you're going to get a yes. You know, so it's like. Yeah, but there's so much pressure on it being like perfect. Yeah.

Isn't it? But you want it to be perfect as a guy too. You want it to be nice. You want everyone to remember it fondly. Not a Screamy match where you end up throwing it at them. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. ZM.

Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Today's fact of the day is about Sean Connery. Sir Sean Connery. Oh, yeah. Passed away at the weekend. 90. 90 years old. Today's Fact of the Day is about Sean Connery Sir Sean Connery Oh yeah Passed away at the weekend 90 years old Yeah, James Bond, the first live action on screen James Bond Yeah

Indiana Jones' father That's right Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Yep Was in the League for Extraordinary Gentlemen Was his last That was 2003. One with Nicolas Cage.

The Rock. The Rock. Yeah, yeah. Where they had to break back into Alcatraz. Yep, that was a great movie. That's a very good movie. But today's fact of the day is about the movie role that Sean Connery turned down and why he turned it down. Okay.

Sean Connery was offered the role as Gandalf in Lord of the Rings. How incredible would he have been? Ooh, shall I look? Yeah. Not that Sir Ian McKellen. Oh, Sir Ian McKellen was amazing. Incredible. I can't imagine anybody else playing Gandalf now after Ian McKellen nailed it.

Anyone else could have nailed it. It would have been Sean Connery. So Sean Connery was offered the role. He read the book. He read the script. And he said, I don't understand it. I don't get it. It would have been Sean Connery. So Sean Connery was offered the role. He read the book. He read the script and he said I don't understand it. I don't get it. I don't want the job. I don't understand it.

Why didn't he fly the big eagles to destroy the ring? The ones that took him back make no sense. Good question. Yeah, I mean it's the ultimate Lord of the Rings question that everybody asks. But apparently he turned it down because he didn't understand it and he didn't want to live in New Zealand for that long.

Well, because he had a place in the Bahamas. He bought like a massive mansion in the Bahamas. That's where he retired to, an island in the Bahamas. And him and his wife for the last 45 years lived there in privacy pretty much. Last time he was seen like at a public event in public, 2017 at the US Open, the tennis. Yeah. And apparently they

showed him on screen and played the James Bond theme and he smiled, but everyone was like, wondering if he was actually super stoked on that or because he, yeah,

when he retired from acting, he literally did live a fairly private life. Yeah. What year did I see him? You saw him in the elevator, didn't you? coming out of the elevator.

At the old work building. Old building. 2007, maybe? Yeah, that must have been Post's retirement. Because, yeah, he still made money because he had investments and stuff. Because that's why you saw him. He was at a board meeting for a media company. We were told we weren't allowed to take photos or, like, stop or be silly or anything.

And I came out of the toilets and he was coming out of the lift. And he was like, where do we go from here? And I was like, oh! Sean Connery. Do you expect me to find my own way? No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die!

I was just so excited to hear the voice in real life. I, it's a... Send shivers through your spine. Hell of a voice. But yeah, passed away over the weekend at the age of 90.

So today's fact of the day is Sean Connery turned down the role as Gandalf because he didn't understand it and he didn't want to move to New Zealand for that long. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Fleshforn and Megan, the podcast. Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do- Yes, where's my medal? Celebrating those little tiny achievements. Those things you do and you're like, I don't deserve a medal for this. Yeah, where's my medal? You said yourself.

Like you made the beard yesterday. Yeah, I did. I just flicked the duvet and it landed. I probably wasn't right. Probably needed to be redone. How good is it when you flick the duvet and it just settles perfect? Yeah, first time. Oh, that's a skill.

Sometimes it's perfect first time, but you give it another flick and it doesn't end up a skill, first time. Oh, that's a skill. Sometimes it's perfect first time, but you give it another flip and it doesn't end up a skill. That's life though, guys. That's life. It is. Sanj, good morning. Morning.

All right, so why do you deserve a medal? I didn't eat any of the Halloween candy that we bought for the trick-or-treaters this weekend. Wow. Oh, no. Yes. I'm not going to reward that. That's sad.

Hey, no. Okay, it was really awkward because the first trick-or-treaters came and I had to offer them the apples that I had and then had to quickly run out and get more candy. And then I didn't eat any of it. I left it all for them. And was there any left over? Yes, there is.

And it's sitting on my bench. But maybe I'll eat it tonight. But after I get the veggies. Yeah, see, I'm surprised you didn't eat it last night. It took a lot of self-control, which is why I think I deserve this. Yeah, no, I get that because this is why I can't have lollies in my house or any chocolate. Was it a high-quality Halloween candy, or was it just like that bag of those real yuck ones?

No, no, we were good. We bought them Milky Bars, Twix, and Morrow Bars. Oh, my God. How did you say no? How did you say no? Yeah. It's so good. Okay, wow.

All right, okay, wait there. We'll vote in just a minute. Lucy, good morning. Hello. All right, now, why do you deserve a medal, Lucy? Yesterday, I finally refilled my water wiper fluid in my car. How long has that been shooting

blanks and squirting dries? For about a month and a half. I had a really long rural commute and I had a lot of bugs on that windscreen but I finally did it. Now, did you do it or was the guy

at the service station, was he like, do you want me to check everything? Or did they get... I don't know, I did it myself. Some of them do, eh? Some of them do.

I think they pick who they want to help, like older people and stuff, which I'm fine with. You can tell you haven't had a car for ages. I know. Ding, ding.

Good morning, sir. Would you like your Model T Ford filled up with the finest petroleum gasoline? Only three tuppence worth of fuel for me today, thank you. When I did have a car, I was always terrible at the water. You just forget. It was a very clear drive to work. I bet it was. Did you get just water or did you get some of that, what is that, that bugs away?

I had that bug off. Yeah, bug off. I got my loading and I got the right amounts and did it all properly. This is good. That's good from you, Lucy. Good from you. All right, I'll wait there, Lucy. Natalie, good morning.

Morning, Kato. Morning. Why do you deserve a medal, Natalie? Why? Well, I finished a whole bag of spinach without it getting soggy. Wow. Wow. Wow.

Wow. There's always a little bit left in the bottom, eh? Like leaves stuck to the side and they're slimy. No, it's the whole bag. Wow. So there was no greeny, yellowy juice in the bottom? No, it was still a little bit crunchy and fresh as well. Oh, my goodness. Wow. So there was no greeny, yellowy juice in the bottom? No, it was still a little bit crunchy and fresh as well. Oh, my goodness.

Wow. You must have had a lot of salads over the weekend. I made a couple of smoothies and I did some baking as well. Oh, okay. How did you use spinach in baking without making the thing you were baking yuck? I made a little savory egg in baking cup thing for my daughter's day. How much spinach can you fit in an egg in baking cup? Because I understand once it's cooked, it wouldn't take up much real estate.

But early in the piece, there's a lot. Oh, well, it was like overflowing. So I was like, I've got to get rid of the spinach. So I put lots and lots in and then, you know, it all shrivels up. Yeah, it does. We've talked about this a couple of times on the show this morning.

It was a high spinach show. We've been hit very spinach-heavy show today. Wow. I'm so impressed. By the way, if you've just tuned in and you've missed

our other spinach chat, there's a podcast. I wouldn't want you guys missing out. I was like, don't repeat it. On our iron-heavy spinach chat. Yeah, all right.

Natalie, wait there. Yeah, alright Natalie, wait there. Man, that's tough. You reckon? Yeah, do you agree? I agree with me.

Man, please, I agree. Wait, so would this be? We always pick the winners. Would that be? Yeah.

That's what I'm indicating with my fingers. Well no, I thought you were, that was the points allocated, not the price. No, no, no, no. Okay, but we can agree that. Do you agree?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, so I would have gone that for that, but then this happened. Yeah. For her services to children who are seeking candy and also adding to the next generation's skyrocketing obesity and type 2 diabetes numbers, Sanj, congratulations, a bronze medal for not eating the candy. Oh, thank you so much.

Congratulations, Sanj. Well done. Very well done. Well done. Thank you. Thank you, thank you. I will. Did you have any left over at the end of the trick-or-treating?

Oh, yeah, yeah. I have a whole bowl full, so now I'm going to get in there. Yeah, you got your medal. Now it's time to... It's like passing the drugs test at the Olympics and then enjoying all the drugs you could. Yeah, after you've got that medal. Yeah, I got the medal.

Now I have some more drugs. Get back to that hotel in Hoverlands. I mean, there's no point taking steroids now. It's too late. the medal. Now I have some more drugs. Get back to that hotel in Hoverlands. I mean, there's no point taking steroids now. It's too late. Silver medal. She's gone from six weeks of a dust-covered, bug-splattered windscreen to the smooth, crystal-clear vision

of being able to see the road again. On her long rural commute. Lucy, congratulations on your silver medal. Bless, thank you. I think it was a tough fight for number one. It was super tough. It was really tough. I feel if Natalie hadn't have come in there, you would have had it.

Oh yeah, definitely. You would have absolutely had it. Alright, so. Today's gold medal Don't sing Is for something No one here on the show Has managed to achieve Lately Or maybe even ever

Finishing an entire bag Of spinach Before having to throw it out And being like It's touching me Congratulations And a gold medal To Natalie For finishing a whole bag Of spinach before having to throw it out and being like, it's touching me. Congratulations and a gold medal to Natalie for finishing a whole bag of spinach. Oh, yay, thank you.

An incredible effort, Natalie. Just amazing. The task of strife and war Make her praises heard Oh, he's praises heard. I've got a piece of land to sing. Absolute massacre there, but thank you. Well done, Natalie. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast.

Well, you know, for years I've always said that the supermarkets always have those rubbish collectibles for kids, like dominoes. You've always taken huge issue with the fact that it's always targeted at kids and not targeted for you. Literally said recently when the little plant, what are the little plant ones? Oh, that's right, the little plants. You were like, when are they doing the next one for the grown-ups?

And there was, what was the last Countdown one? Was it a Disney, a cartoony? The last Countdown one was the insects one. Yeah, again, rubbish. Nothing in it for me or grown adults. Well, imagine my surprise today when I learn that both New World and Countdown are launching aimed at adults different things. And New World

knives at Countdown glass containers. Which I already have quite a lot of anyway. Right. You know like glass containers

you put in the fridge. I find these are great for like if you cut up chicken so you don't need all of it. Chuck it in a glass container with a rubber lid or whatever. Or a sealed lid.

Great for leftovers as well. Are you on big container? I'm on big container money. He's been on big container for years, Megan. No, because they're better than using glad bags or plastic. Or putting glad wrap over things. Thank you. I'm on big environment money here.

The environment famously loaded. So both New World and Countdown will give you stamps for every $20 that you spend. And I've done the maths and I'll tell you what, there's no way in hell I'm even going to come close as a single man living by myself. I don't spend this much money at the supermarket. Because that's the thing, you've finally got something that is targeted at you, yet you've been priced out of the game. Now, while the countdown glass containers are pretty cool

and, you know, very handy, I think New World wins with its sexy smegma knife set. I didn't know that smegma made knives. They do the retro fridges and kettles and stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And they do all kinds of home appliances. But yeah, they're very sexy retro knife blocks. Right. And so you can collect all six knives and the block set. Yeah. So is that the options? There's six different sorts of knives? Yes.

Okay. And then the block set. Okay. Now, are the knives worth different amounts of stickers? Yes. Like is the big... The big daddy knife is worth way Yes. Okay. And then the block set. Okay. Now, are the knives worth different amounts of stickers? Yes. Like is the big... The Big Daddy knife

is worth way more. Okay. So you tell us what you've worked out with your maths. This is... If you were... Look at your worksheet.

Show you're working. He's getting 10 points for showing his working. At New World, if you collect all the stamps, they do have some options to pay a bit of cash as well. But if you didn't want

to do that, if you just wanted to collect the stamps, you would have to spend $4,900 by the end of Jan and then pay $50 for the block set. So the block is $50? Yeah. What if you wanted to put your knives, otherwise chuck them in the drawer?

Right. But you do have to pay $50 for the block set as well on top of that. At Countdown, to get both sets of glass container-y things, you've got to spend $3,800. But then I feel like if you do the countdown one, you don't need the whole set. You could just have a couple. Yeah, but with knives, you want the whole set of knives.

Imagine if you miss out. You have one knife short. Like if you don't want to fill up the knife block, you could still just get individual knives. Don't look at me like that. Have you looked up what it costs just to buy the Smeg knives? Well, I found one website that was euros.

It was like 300 euros. So they're quite moving. So it'd be a few hundred New Zealand dollars just to buy it outright. You understand the point though, right? People are going to the supermarket and you're spending supermarket money anyway. They just want you to spend your food money at that specific supermarket.

I know, they want to get you in. It's like gift with purchase, you know. But I'm never going to spend nearly $5,000. So is it this brand of knives? Yeah, those are them. Right. So if you add all the knives up, they're for sale online. How much did you have to spend on groceries to get the...

$4,900 and then pay $50. For all of them. So the real bugaboo here is that they're not thinking of you in particular. Yeah, basically, yeah. Yeah, okay. You'll find that most of Fletch's... You'll find that most of the time Fletch has a problem with something is that it's not being particularly catered to him.

It is very niche, very specific situation. Whereas with you and your giant family, I have two children. You and your planet-wasting giant family, how much would you spend at the supermarket? Like, lots, eh? Because families eat heaps. Famously, four people eat more than one

person. Yeah, I know. Have you got the maths to show that working? Because if I went in for this, I reckon I'd get like the little veggie knife and my little block and that'd be it. And then I'd have five empty slots. I'd be like, well, this isn't fair. It's just the world against me.

Yes, a well-off white man. The world is definitely against him. With no dependents. Is this how you end up voting for Trump? Is this how it starts? Slippery slide, my friend. At the top of the slipping slide.