ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Megan Podcast - 2nd September 2021

Episode Date: September 1, 2021

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The ZM Podcast Network. Clay. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. Hello, welcome to the Fletch, Vaughan and Megan podcast. It's thanks to McCafe. If you're at level three, McCafe is ready with contactless delivery and drive-thru. And another day of lockdown for us and another day of... Oh, there's the bloody Jeremy Wells.

Where? The delicious Jeremy Wells. He's a good looking man. He's a good looking man, isn't he? Got great skin too.'s a good looking man. He's a good looking man, isn't he? Got great skin too. And a good posture too. That great skin is not going to last forever though, is it? With his celerium.

Did you see his bum on Seven Shark? God, if you turn your head much quicker next time I say, did you see his bum, you're going to hurt yourself. What are you talking about? I didn't see his bum. He did a last lockdown. Him and his family got a lamb. Like a lockdown pet.

And then it had to go back to a farm. So he went and caught up with it. Delicious was its name. And then at the end he was naked apart from a sheepskin to try to amalgamate and become friends with it again. And then he dropped it and walked away and his bum was on show. Wow, okay. Do you think that will get any complaints compared to Hillary's shoulder?

Absolutely not. That would be quite interesting to follow up on, actually, just to see. What were we talking about? Oh, another lockdown and no bloody scones. Excuse me? You've done more baking in the Papadopoulos house. If you want a bum like Jeremy Wells', we've got a rip-wrap right back on our carbohydrates. You have roasted, slow-ro roasted, a whole shoulder of pork,

and we've had none of that. That's a good call, actually. There's been no fall apart in my mouth. That's my household sustenance. I can't believe your protein for this week has been almost 100% pork. Every day you're like, oh, how can I repurpose this? I've got two more pork meals, and then I'm done. I'm done with pork for a long time.

I'm done. Oh, God, I love a pool pool. And it goes right through, yay. Yeah, it's great. It's a flush. It's a good clean out. Oh, God. Especially now you're eating it nine days later.

It's probably going straight through for a completely different reason. Thanks, Rachel. Good morning. Welcome to the show. Fleach, Fawn and Megan. Two minutes past six. Morning. Yes, good morning. The moustache. The moustache is here. Yeah. I've gone. This is lockdown look three. Okay. I've just gone for the moustache.

I called it a Mario. Someone messaged and said that's got a new name. It's the Ted Lasso. Oh, it is the Ted Lasso. It's much better. You've lost the handlebar aspect. I've lost the handlebar part. Does this mean you're always going to have to shave, trim your beard now? Around it.

Yeah. Well, I'm going to give this a couple of days, then I'm going to do a proper razor shave of my face so the moustache really pops. Okay. I don't know if I've ever seen that. It's real bushy.

The last time, remember when... A razor shave. Oh my God. I learned that magician trick and I shaved in the strap bed and then afterwards

immediately shaved it all off. That's the last time it's been... Yeah, right. Probably shaved it prior to that a long, long, long, long time. But yeah, no,

I'm digging this. Beard or moustache? I'm digging this moustache. I think moustache, definitely. Oh, long time. But yeah, no, I'm digging this. Beard or moustache? I'm digging this moustache. I think moustache, definitely. Oh, no, beard. I think you're meaning the handlebar. No, no, no. This is definitely better than the handlebar.

Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. Maybe it's just because it's different, you know? We're vibing differently. You look like a policeman. Oh, thank you. That's a good look. Very authoritative.

Yeah, so it was handlebar and then handlebar linked to sideburns. Yeah, that was hideous. And then moustache and then someone said, is the soul patch next? Oh, no, no, no, no, no. That's what I said.

I was like, no. Is that under the... Yeah, just under the lip. Just that one part. You've ragged on way too many people with a soul patch to have one. It's not even something I've ever been interested in having. So, no.

The top six coming up on the show. Yeah. Chris Hipkins said yesterday when questioned about Kiwis coming home just for a little visit over summer. A little Christmas visit back to Kiwi Land. Some sun. And he's like, nah, don't. Don't bother. Don't do that. Don't do he's like, nah, don't. Don't bother. Don't do that.

Don't do that. It's weird they haven't called this out sooner. Like, I know so many people that have come home for a holiday. Yeah. In the last 18 months. It's like, what about all these people trying to get home? Well, there was the, if you're coming, you're paying situation. Yeah, which is fair.

Yeah, but who's paying? Because didn't they say recently how many millions of dollars they owed from Kiwis who just came back for a quick visit and then scarpered back overseas again? Yeah. So, yeah, he said, put the brakes on that. So I've got the top six ways to make a London Christmas feel like a Kiwi Christmas. Okay.

Yeah. Also, the Prime Minister joins us on the show this morning, 7.40, and we've got your chance to win cash at 8 o'clock, a free ride with the movie Free Guy, get some of those boring mundane bills paid off. But next, there was one example of people trying to cross the level four, level three gap between Auckland

and the Waikato yesterday that we need to discuss. ZDM's Fletch, Ron and Megan. Mercer, the small North Waikato town that has a McDonald's and a toilet and a claw machine. I know this because that's halfway between my house and my parents' house. So when my daughters go to my parents for a holiday, that's where we meet and exchange children. Well, like a drug deal, but with kids. So potentially more expensive than a drug deal.

Yeah. Sw potentially more expensive than a drug deal. Yeah. Swapping children. So that's kind of where the border is between level three and level four. That's the rough area. It kind of wickweaves. Wickweaves? Wiggles and weaves. It's perfect for them to set up a checkpoint there because there's ramps and different areas.

That's why there's a road there. I'm sorry. That's why the's a road there. I'm sorry. That's why the border's there is because of the road. Well, yesterday, police have given an example of someone they found there. And these young gentlemen had drugs in the car. Okay. They were just popping a Hamilton. I don't know, to replenish their drug supply, to take the drugs.

They just thought cannabis would be a wonderful drug to do in level three lockdown Hamilton, I don't know, to replenish their drug supply, to take the drugs. They just thought cannabis would be a wonderful drug to do in level three lockdown Hamilton, which is like level four, except we can get takeaways. Yeah. Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. So taken from the car, a bag of cannabis and a toy gun. And there was a bong and the driver had to destroy the bong in front of the cops.

How do you destroy a bong in front of a cop? So if it's made of a... Just glass, you smash it. Yeah, if it's glass, you smash it. But you can't smash glass on the side of the road. That would have to have been into a bit. Who doesn't know there's a checkpoint and then leaves their bong in the car in full view?

Like, wouldn't you hide it if you were coming up to the checkpoint at least? Yeah. Like... Can they test you on the spot for driving under the influence of drugs? I don't know. Booze they can. Yeah, I don't know.

Melbourne and Victoria they developed or Australian place developed that one where they'd take a swab of your mouth and they could tell if you'd had ecstasy or. Oh, right. Okay. But I don't know about driving under the influence of marijuana but these dudes just got turned around No fine Are you telling me that MB didn't give them

an exemption to pass the border Oh yeah they weren't essential workers Yeah Wait So they they were consuming drugs

There was drugs there But they were in the car Right Okay Yeah I'm sure if they were So they don't know if they were under the influence or not I'm sure if they were under the influence or not.

I'm sure if they were wasted they would have probably done more. Yeah. You'd imagine. Okay. Maybe they were busy though.

They just turned them around and sent them home. Wild. But the good thing to know is that on their way back Pocono's in lockdown too so they

couldn't stop and get one of those massive ice creams. Ha ha. They just wanted Takeaways Well they've got to Wait two more weeks Like the rest of us

Yeah In level four In the meantime It's a service station pie And a Memphis meltdown Yum Yeah

That doesn't sound so bad No All good Play ZM's Flesh, Vaughan and Megan How many hours sleep Do you get a night? Just on average. Well, I just looked.

I got six hours 48 last night. Okay. I'd go between seven and seven and a half. Generally. Yep. That's my norm. Yeah. What's it called?

Sleep. I know what it's called. The health app. Is it in health app? On the iPhone. It's in the health app. Was it you where you watched to bed? I don't do that.

I do. I just... My heart rate got up to above 75 last night. I must have been having a wild dream. Oh, sexy dreams? Or scary dreams? Nah, scary probably. Okay.

You're 76. Five hours 55 last night. What time did you go to bed? I don't know. I thought I went to bed at an okay time. It turns out you did not. But how does your phone just judge it? When it stops getting looked at and when it can't hear noise

and when it can't be moving and there's a sense of no light maybe. Whereas when you wear your watch, it just knows that you're out because of your heart rate and you're not moving. Right. So, yeah, I got 640 something. But that doesn't count the times I wake up in the night either. Yeah, you've got a child.

Yeah. Is Andrew still wetting the bed? He doesn't wet the bed. I was just trying to make a thing about how young he is. But then I realised we always joke about him being 17 and 17 year olds don't tend to wet the bed. But if they do, that's all right. I didn't know him when he was 17. Don't say that.

I did not. You referred to him as that bed wearing kid that I got the hots for. So apparently 7 to 8 hours sleep is the sweet spot. 7 to 8? Yeah. Okay. So if you sleep less than 6 hours,

you're at risk. And if you sleep more than nine hours, you're at risk. Risk of what? So you really have to, like, get in that sweet spot. It's your brain health. I find that if I have any more than eight hours, I feel even worse. I feel tired. Yeah. I mean, I can do it.

Some days I'm like, oh, I'd just love to hit a 12-hour, just for a bit of a top-up. Yeah. But people who sleep less are at risk of, do you know you can get plaque in the brain? There's like a plaque, P-L-A-Q-U-E, that's plaque, right? Yeah, that's plaque, like on your teeth. Yeah. But it's more of a name for just like a build-up. Yeah, a build-up. A manky build. Yeah, that's plaque, like on your teeth. Yeah, so. But it's more of a name for just like. A buildup.

Yeah, a buildup. A manky buildup. A manky tree. Yeah, right. So if you get less than six hours, you had worse cognitive function and higher levels of dangerous plaque in the brain, which is linked to dementia.

And those who slept more than nine hours have a poorer memory. And they are at risk of when they're older to be forgetful and not like very active. How many hours did your grandparents sleep when you were kids? Do you remember your grandparents?

I can't remember. Hardly any. My nana, my dad's mum, would go to bed super late and she'd be up at four in the morning. Like she just wasn't a person that slept a lot I've got friends that you can get by

on five hours sleep I'm like how do you do that isn't that a genetic anonymity mini anonymity genetic anomaly

where there's like a small percentage of people that can actually function on four hours of sleep so does that mean

what do we need some kind of Listerine brain plaque wash? You just need to put it up your nose. I'll probably go plaques. It's a little less burny. Yeah.

I'm a plaques guy too. Less burny. Don't snort plaques. Don't snort any of them. It would burn. I wouldn't snort anything. It gets rid of the plaque on the brain. And then your brain will have like a spearmint tingle.

Yeah. It'd be lovely. yeah be lovely you need to go into hospital get a deviated septum looked at and while you're in there you get a nose job yeah sure uh next on the show the there's been a prank played on a virginia state this is the state of virginia yeah in america uh school board um and it will probably blow your mind that someone got away with this. ZDM's Fletch, Ron and Megan. I can't believe this worked in 2021. Can we say first, I can't believe that producer Anna

didn't know about this on The Simpsons? I thought she was joking. When this audio came to light, I'm like, I was explaining it, and I said, you know, like when Bart Simpson would prank call Moe's tavern? And she said, nope. Never heard that in my life. He'd ring up and he'd give fake names, and Moe would yell it to the bar,

and it was, like, funny. And it was very naughty. To be fair, it was early Simpsons, but still. They still do it. Do they? Yeah, because I haven't seen The Simpsons for years. I haven't seen it for ages either, but there was one the other day and it was like The Simpsons set in like a fabled land.

Yeah. Like medieval times. And yeah, he wrote him a note and stuck it on a pigeon and the pigeon flew it in and then Mo read it out. And it was like gold. But like I just assumed that was a pop reference, a pop culture reference that everybody got. But no.

She wasn't allowed to watch cartoons when she was young. Were you not allowed to watch The Simpsons? Were they banned in your house? No, I was. I just didn't like it. Yeah, whatever. That's what the kids who weren't allowed to watch The Simpsons said. I'm cool, okay?

I don't want to watch it. Were you allowed to watch South Park? Oh, God, no. My Catholic mother would not approve. My Catholic mother wasn't a huge fan of that. Oh God, remember the Catholic Church of New Zealand loved to whinge about South Park? What are they whinging about

now? They haven't whinged about anything. Who was that? There was always that one person and every week South Park would come out and be like, the spokesperson for the blah, blah. Yeah, what was her name? Lindsay?

I think, unfortunately, the world's got quite serious problems. Yeah, yeah. And then I think people started saying at Catholic Church, maybe take a look inwards before we start dealing with the problems out. Maybe we need to take a little inwards reflection Yeah But the Simpsons prank has come to real life Yep, Virginia School Board

This was Thursday's meeting at the Henrico School Board And the idea is that you get your name on the AGM The agenda of the school board meeting And they'll call you up when it's your turn to speak. So was this in real in-person or were they taking Zoom calls? Well, the people who are sitting in the school board are there.

They might have had a Zoom call option, but these were all this was in-person. Everybody's masked up but it was in-person. So this was this week in 2021. Phil McCracken. Phil McCracken. Phil McCracken. Waiting for them to come up.

Sok, Sook, Mahedek. Eileen Dover. Eileen Dover. Don Kedek. You got that one. Don Kittick. You got that one. Don Kittick. Yeah. Wow.

I didn't get the second one. Then at the end, did he, like, realise what's happening? Cottoned on to it a little bit more? Yeah. But, like, he was calling on these people and they just weren't coming up and he was just like, well, if they're not here, we'll move on to the next one. Don. Don.

That one's great. Yeah. Well, if they're not here, we'll move on to the next one. Don. Don. That one's great. Yeah. What was it? Was it the Australian TV show The Chaser? They paid like airfares and they were calling their names out at the gate. I was like, that's... Yeah, they bought Terry Wrist. Yeah.

The flight's about to depart. Just waiting on our last passenger, Terry Wrist. If the tourists can please make it their way. That was wild when they did that. That was wild. And that was like, it was quite some time ago. But they paid for the airfares. Is Terry Wrist family here?

The family of terrorists? Oh, God. Play ZM's Flesh, Vaughan and Megan. We got comfortable for a bit there and we were like, ugh, who's Zooming anymore? Who's doing? We did. We did.

Well, after. Is that COVID? Oh, no, sorry. I turned off the wrong thing to cough. COVID free cough. Okay. After, what has it been, like a couple of weeks at level four, we might already be feeling Zoom fatigue or like FaceTime fatigue

or whatever else you're using that involves your camera. I had a friend was on Zoom yesterday. I don't know what it was for. There was heaps of people. And then he Zoomed in on one lady and she was in her dressing gown. Negligee. And had a dog in a costume on her lap. Nice.

I was just like, I love that. That's good stuff. She does not care. We did filming Have You Been Paying Attention over Zoom. Nice. I was just like, I love that. That's good stuff. She does not care. We did filming Have You Been Paying Attention over Zoom? Yep. And yeah, so six and a half hours yesterday staring at a Zoom screen, I was just like, how do people do this?

I know, like some people are spending all day for their work on it. Like, no thanks. Just getting to the point where you're like, can we just take five? You've got to go outside and concentrate your eyes on something that's not, you know, two foot away from your face. So a lot of people around the world are complaining of feeling particularly drained after a day spent on video calls and Zoom.

And so they looked into why this is because you go to work and you might have as many meetings. So why are you feeling more fatigued when you're doing it over Zoom? Especially when you're just sitting in your house, right? Yeah. And you can just be comfy. Maybe you can even be in bed. But there is the assumption that if you're going to do meetings,

a lot of workplaces are like, you have to have the camera because you're more engaged. So we can make eye contact. Right. That's the theory. Yeah. It turns out, and they did a study of a bunch of workers. They had some doing video calls and some just doing phone calls.

Okay. And they found that when people had their cameras on and told to keep their cameras on, they had the fatigue correlated to less voice and less engagement during meetings. So they found that the people who had cameras on were potentially participating less than those not using cameras. And this comes down to the fact that there was a lot of pressure to be performing and to be on camera and to set up your background and to make sure you look okay. And then you spend the whole time just looking at yourself like, okay, am I looking like I'm paying attention? Yeah. Am I looking like I'm paying attention? Yeah. Am I looking good for everybody at work? A lot of self-presentation pressure, they say,

associated with being on camera for that long. And then there's also the pressure of, yeah, the professional background at keeping kids out of the room. Like, did you see Carmel Cepollone's kid? With a carrot. What? Was she on One News? Yes.

I'm doing a TV thing via Zoom, and he blasts in with his carrot, and she spins around, and he's like, look. It looked like a penis. And she spun around, and she gave him the big wide eyes and grabbed the carrot and was like, get out. That was so good. I saw it on overseas news sites. It was pretty funny.

But you imagine when you're just doing a voice call, you don't even have to, you can have the phone a little bit away. You can be in your pajamas. You can be naked. You can be going to someone in the background. Get out of my phone. Get out.

Yeah. And no one would see. Like there's a whole lot more pressure when it comes to being on video calls. Right, so it's draining. And then on top of that, and we've mentioned this before, so many people are seeing themselves on Zoom.

They're like, I need cosmetic surgery now. I need Botox. I need something. You notice everything about yourself. You're your own harshest critic, and then you're forced to see yourself in a little square where it's small and that's all anybody can see of you, but you're judging yourself on what you look like.

Yeah. Yeah, even if you don't. After six hours on Zoom yesterday, you're okay? You're not going to go to the? The Casey Clinic? Do I need something? No, not at all. Do I need some work?

It's just a welfare check. Right. No, I'm fine. You're fine? I'm fine. I do notice I sit in a Zoom with my head on a tilt. Oh. When I'm relaxed, my head's on a tilt.

So I was constantly looking at myself and trying to work out how to get my head straight. It's a heavy head, isn't it? It's hard to keep still. You're worried about what everyone thinks of you. But everybody's only looking at themselves. 100%. ZDM's Fletchbourne and Megan. Fletchbourne and Megan is five minutes away from

seven. From the underground ZM think tank, this is the top six. I'm actually just trying to find the mouse cursor. Oh, yeah. If you wiggle it real quick, does it go real big? No, it doesn't. I turned that off for my mum and dad on their computer.

They're so thankful. Because you wiggle it real quick and it goes real big. They're like, ah, there it is. It doesn't do that on this one. Don't plan on coming home for Christmas, you filthy beggars. Wow, that's the exaggerated headline. Chris Hipkins was questioned regarding Kiwis who are no doubt going to want to come home for Christmas

because that's what you do. Yeah. You come home for Christmas when you live overseas on your OE, but those were different times. And he is asking Kiwis not to just pop home for a casual visit as MIQ facilities are stretched, bulging at the seams. And, I mean, it's not enough that we're making people pay if they are leaving New Zealand within a few months.

No. Because it's a couple of grand and rich people just pay it. Yeah, totally. So is there another way to stop them doing this? Don't know. Prison. We'll ask the Prime Minister. She's on at 7.40. Is prison excessive for those on their

OE holidaying over Christmas? Yeah, and then their parents can come and have Christmas with them in prison. So they see them. And then we send them back. Yeah. To a country that they're not originally in. Well, just don't let them go back. I mean, yeah, okay. It's a hard situation. Everybody not a resident in. Or just don't let them go back. I mean, yeah, okay. Everybody's situation's different.

But I've got six helpful tips to make a London Christmas feel like a Kiwi Christmas. Okay. Number six, start teaching an old person that lives near you the Kiwi accent. So you can still get that feel of outdated, sometimes racist, always sexist, conservative views at Christmas time,

but it's in the Kiwi accent, so it makes you feel like home. Yeah. Now, I'm not racist, but... But. Here we go. Yeah, well, now, some people would call this racist. Did you see what Hilary Barry was wearing? Yes.

All those kind of things you hear, those are the ones you want. Yep, from the relatives. Nothing says Christmas quite like it. Number five on the list of the top six tips to make a London Christmas feel like a Kiwi one are crank the air conditioning to 30 degrees and sweat it out, but also have the shower on hot constantly

and the bathroom door open so the humidity can flow through. Yeah. And sometimes walk through the shower to replicate that Christmas Day rain you always get in the afternoon when you're finally getting outside to play with your new toys. Yeah.

Get out there, get the backyard cricket set up. Yeah, nice. And then rain comes through. Number four on the list of the top six tips to make a London Christmas feel like a Kiwi one. Watch the Queen's Christmas message. Nothing screams forced colonisation like the Queen wishing everyone a happy Christian holiday. Yes. It takes so long, that speech, too.

No, it's only like five minutes. No, but she should just do a TikTok one now. Yeah. Our attention span's short. We're like, hello, everybody. Boom. Boom. Yeah.

I used to do this dance with Philip, but he's passed. It'll be a good one this year. Was that this year? Yeah. It's going to be a good, great Christmas message this year. Why? She's got to address the elephant in the room. Her dead husband.

Oh, I thought you were talking Prince Andrew. Oh, you know, she's had a couple of Christmases to deal with that and has chosen to ignore it. Yeah, she's got a couple of elephants. A few elephants stomping around. Number three on the list of the top six tips to make a London Christmas feel like a Kiwi Christmas. Jandals, short shorts and a singlet.

That's a Christmas uniform and you can wear that anywhere. And if you've got the AC cranked to 30, you won't be cold either. Yeah. You won't be cold. Number two on the list of the top six tips to make a London Christmas feel like a Kiwi one. Missing that hot sand between your toes? Well, fear not.

Get out there now. Get to a Landscaper's and buy a bag of one. Missing that hot sand between your toes? Well, fear not. Get out there now. Get to a landscaper's and buy a bag of sand. Come home. Microwave that bad boy and then spread it across the lounge floor and run across it

like you're scooting down to the beach. Yeah, nice. You've gone from the dunes to the sand and you've got to get to that darker sand that's wet.

Yeah. Always cooler. Always a treat for the feet. And number one on the list of the top six tips to make a London Christmas feel like a Kiwi one.

Basically, just force as much food and booze into your mouth hole as you can for a sustained period of time. It's very important on the 25th. You can be anywhere

in the world. You eat too much at lunch. You try to drink, but then it gives you a sore stomach or maybe you drank too much beforehand. Either way,

there's a sore stomach that then forces you to have a nap. You wake up later groggy, but peckish. Yeah. And you do it all again for dinner, baby. That's Christmas. Anywhere in the world.

That's today's top six. Yes. The Paralympics happening. And we've got some more medals to report, baby. The 200-meter individual medley. The Paralympics happening. And we've got some more medals to report, baby. The 200-meter individual medley. Sophie Pascoe, another gold medal. She's amazing.

We should call her Fort Knox because she holds so much gold. Oh, yeah, good nickname. Yeah, 40. We'll call her 40. 40. And it'll take explanation As every good nickname should She was alright though eh Noxie

I'll just call her Noxie Noxie Fort Noxie Fortsy Fortsy Noxie One of the two She can decide

We should let her decide Yeah we'll run it past her I'm certainly not going to Impose a nickname on her I'll message her I'm always making my Oh my god I'm always

You're such a pest I'm always making myself... Oh, my God. You're such a pest. I'm always making myself overly familiar with metal-winning athletes. To be fair, though, we have met Sophie before, so it's not going to be as pesty. But how many Olympic athletes have you pestered now? What's this number? 40?

It's not limited to Olympic athletes. Well, last time I was talking to Sophie Pascoe we were talking about custard squares and a good vanilla custard square. Okay. Good stuff. She better treat herself

with the Denheaths. Well, that's what she's been she's been depriving herself and I hope she comes home and eats all the custard squares. Oh, I think the Denheaths are listening. They should send her a box

to MIQ when she gets back. Oh, that's not a bad idea. In fact, you could organise it. It was the Copenhagen Bakery in Christchurch. She said the best vanilla custard square. That's a gold medal athlete endorsement. We'll get her

a bloody box of those when she's at MIQ. It's the least we can do. Yes, yes, yes. So she won gold and also Daniela Aitchison won a bronze. She's having a hell of a Paralympics too. Does that mean she got a silver and a bronze now? So no pressure, Danielle, but you need a gold.

And then you've got the whole set. Hey, 100 metres. We've moved up the table too. We're 20th now. Yeah, suck it. Ten medals, four gold, three silver, three bronze. Sorry, I got a little bit aggressive. Sports, you've got to be competitive.

You've got to have competitive. These people didn't go to Weepix Triathlon. No. It's the Corn Flakes Killathon. Get out of my way or I'll choke you with corn flakes. Okay. Or the bag. The bag that corn flakes comes in would be a choking hazard.

Yeah. Sneak up behind someone, over the head, hold it at the base. Where did you get so aggressive? This is a Paralympics update, not how to murder someone. With a bag of cornflakes. Alright, today. Just as you're taking your last breath, you get a bit of cornflakes dust.

Ironically, you're choking. Yeah. Because I'll always choke on a bit of cornflake when it shoots back there. Alright. Today, what's on? Also, you couldn't get a bag of cornflakes over your big head. Well, thank God for that. My big head saved the day. Every time we go somewhere and Vaud needs a helmet,

they're like, we'll have to go find the XXL. It would get to my eyes and it would just impede my vision. But I'd be breathing, clearly. People gift you a cap. You're like, oh, horn. Thanks, horn. Thanks, horn. Thanks, Han. Han. Thanks, Han. Paracycling.

Road cycling today. Nicole Murray in the women's C45 road race. This is a medal event, obviously. That'll be at onenews.co.nz if you want to watch that at 12.30. 4 o'clock this afternoon, Stephen Hills. No relation to Michael Hill. Well, he's Michael Hill, not Hills. It's not Michael Hills' jeweler.

Yeah, but Michael Hill and his wife. You said Michael Hills. Michaela Hill. They have a baby and that's a plural of Hills. Oh, okay, right. Hills, plural. And if it's a big one, mountain. Okay, that's good.

I don't know why I laughed at that. Stephen Hills is participating in the road race this afternoon. The men's T1-2 are at 4 o'clock, and the women's T1-2 road race starts five minutes later. What? Alt-Jay Malesbender. I'm so sorry. Usually I read ahead with the names,

and I'll give myself a bit of prep time on how to... You've absolutely missed. Alt-Jay. Dutch? Alt-Jay. Oh, I don't know. Alt-Jay. James, and I'll give myself a bit of prep time on how to... You've absolutely missed. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Dutch? Ouch. Ouch. I don't know. Ouch.

Para swimming. Jessie Reynolds this afternoon in the men's 100 metres butterfly. That's the heat. And should he progress the final tonight at 8.20? Sophie Pascoe in the women's 100 metre butterfly. She could win another medal tonight if she does the finals at about 8.30. The para canoe. I always want to say para because when it's just by itself, para,

it looks like the start of a Maori place name. Para canoe. Scott Matlu in the men's KL2. Corbin Hart. This is all happening from pretty much 10 to 1 to half past 2. And Scott's again in the men's VL3 and Para Athletics tonight

Anna Stephen in the women's 100 T64 oh good stuff you can watch a lot of it on TVNZ Duke which is

Freeview 13 I'm told and or you can watch it at onenews.co.nz they'll have some streaming without commentary good luck to all of our athletes participating today.

ZDM's Fletch, Ron and Megan. Ho, ho, ho. Ooh, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Ooh, ooh, ooh. Da-da, da-da, da-da. 113 days, 16 hours and 40 minutes until Christmas. So in two weeks. Sorry, I'm bored.

In two weeks. When Auckland gets out of level four, it'll be three months. It'll be double-didge. Yep. Double-didge of Christmas. And it's only 24 days away from daylight savings. Yeah, that's exciting. Two weeks on Sunday?

Yeah. Yes. I fired up the gas barbecue last night to cook some sausages. Oh, yeah. It's got the charcoal barbecue and the pellet barbecue. Yes. I fired up the gas barbecue last night to cook some sausages. Oh, yeah. It's got the charcoal barbecue and the pellet barbecue. Okay. But the gas barbecue's only ever used in summer. Right.

And that was a real sign, I thought. The daylight savings is on the horizon. God, yeah, what an issue. You've got three barbecues. I've got more than, I've got like more. Okay. But those are the three main contenders. You love your meat, don't you?

I love me meat! It is beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Hello, targeted Facebook advertising from Zach's Christmas trees. The lowest pre-order prices have been. Oh, I've put the wrong emphasis. That makes it sound like the pre-order prices have already expired. You've missed it. I said the lowest pre-order prices have been.

But what I meant to say was the lowest pre-order prices have been. English is hard, eh? Wait, punctuation didn't change at all there. That was my interpretation of it. Yeah. Save 50% August only. Oh, suck it. It's September.

Sorry, everybody. A bit late on this one. Yeah. That's right. So they have, suck it. It's September. Sorry, everybody. Bit late on this one. Yeah. That's right. So they have been. Yeah. They have been. Yeah.

I was right the first time. You were right. Three months till your Christmas tree is delivered, said Zach's Christmas trees. Who is this Zach? He was in Hanson. But he's Zach That tickled me. Taking a back seat. Right.

Got into Christmas trees. I always, like, when I'm driving on a roadie, I'm always like, God, that would be a perfect Christmas tree. Oh, yeah, yeah. But that's naughty, eh? Don't do that. Wow. Is it though?

No, don't do that. Trees fall over all the time. Because they don't look like they're planted. They just look like they're rogue ones. I'm always like, that looks like a perfect... Yeah. Perfect. That's bad news. Well, that's what I was thinking. Cut them that looks like a perfect year. That's bad news.

Well, that's what I was thinking. Cut them down. That's what I was thinking. And then take some stump killer and put that on the stump. Don't encourage that. We should be no wildling pines, Megan. Wildling pines are going to be

the next big problem. But these Christmas trees from the farms are always perfect. I'm always like, oh, they're neat. Yeah. Maybe I'll get a Christmas tree this year. You say it,

you've said this every year you've been in Europe. Nah, but this year it's like, there's definitely, we're not going anywhere, are we? Oh, yeah, they're neat. Yeah. Maybe I'll get a Christmas tree this year. You say it, you've said this every year you've been in Europe. Nah, but this year it's like, there's definitely, we're not going anywhere, are we? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. You're stuck, you're stuck, baby. Yeah. Well, that's not the only signs of Christmas. Let's pop on down to Tawa. Oh, Kilda.

Okay, lovely. Kilda. Postcode 5028. That sounds like a great name for a TV show. Postcode 5028. Yeah. That sounds like a great name for a TV show. Postcode 5028. Tawa Lions Christmas Parade in 2021 has been confirmed Saturday the 4th of December, Main Road Tawa, followed by the Tawa Rotary Christmas Party in the Plaza.

Oh, nice. Kicking off 2pm. Tawa's got a little logo too. I didn't know this about Tawa. It's like poof. It's like confetti. Oh, too. I didn't know this about Tawa. It's like poof. It's like confetti. Oh, okay. Pee.

Like that. If you imagine. Pee. Tawa. Pee. This is babies due October. This is a mum's Facebook group. Oh, okay.

Dads can join, too. Okay. If you've got a baby due in October. For all the Christmas lovers who live in Auckland, says Sarah Jane, Smith & Co has opened up the Santa bookings already. Wow. Usually they don't do it

until September, so they're pretty early this year. This is obviously from last month. $20 for a child. Get in quick because they usually get sold out. That is a rip-roaring as a man who has

seen his fair share of Santas. There's top notch. Smith & Co is the snow planet. Two great Santa options. Yeah, and do you reckon all Santas will be fully vaxxed this year? They must be, yes. I'm not sure how Bea will cope with a Santa.

Oh, yes, your first. I've probably forgotten about that. You want to start breaking them in. What, putting them on old people's? Old people's knees. Yeah. Old men's knees, old men's with bed's knees, fat people's knees. You want to approach all aspects of Santa individually. Old people's knees. Yeah. Old men's knees. Old men's with beard's knees. Yeah. Fat people's knees. Yeah.

You want to approach all aspects of Santa individually. Yeah. And then slowly start grouping them. A fat person wearing red. An old person with a beard. Right. Okay. A fat old person with a beard.

Not red yet. Hold at the outer mark and now introduce red. Yeah. On a fat old man and he'll be confused. Plus, don't even worry. Everyone loves that photo of when they're a kid and they're crying because they're sitting on an old man's knee with a beard. But don't be that person that bails.

Sade, my wife, weak. Oh, really? Weak. The kids were crying. She's like, it's okay, they don't have to. I was like, throw them at the old man. You take the damn photo. Oh, I want a photo of a kid crying.

And the Grey District Council said four months till Christmas. We're gearing up for another fantastic Christmas carnival in central Greymouth. Oh, lovely. There's always so much to see at a Christmas. And then it cuts off, dot, dot, dot, because somebody just sent the screencap. Oh, right. Okay. So with all that in mind and 113 days away from Christmas.

Has anyone seen the wrapping paper? Christmas penetration is at 8.5%. It is beginning to look a lot like Christmas. And if you see any reports of Christmas creeping in, you can message our Facebook page or Instagram, FVMZM.

Play ZM's Flesh, Vaughan and Megan. This is brought up on Good Morning Britain and it was after a cabinet minister, Michael Gove, was spotted in a nightclub at 2am. And the general discussion was that over 40s should be banned from nightclubs. This would be like seeing... Let's drop the age to 35.

Let's drop the age to 30. This would be like seeing David, what's his face from act, David Seymour at the club doing a dad dance. Or someone older. How old is David Seymour? He's just 40? I don't know. How old is this minister in the UK?

Like dad age, eh? Yeah, he's over 40. And so this came from a 22-year-old singer. She was like, no, I don't want to walk into a club and see someone like my dad's age or my dad's friends or granddad's dancing in the club. You've got no business being there. I'll give exceptions to a Christmas, a work Christmas party.

If everybody's like, let's go there. And the older people are like, well, it's Christmas. I've kind of got to go with the crowd. They'll be there for a bit. But then home by 11. But what if like some dad gets a divorce? There's dad clubs. There's dad clubs.

The RSA. Maybe it's not his vibe. Irish bars. Yeah, Danny Doohans. Maybe it's not his vibe. Irish bars. Yeah, Danny Doolin's. Maybe it's not his vibe. I'm not going to be like ageist about it. Because, you know, dads have to go to bars that are the something and something. Yes, the cock and bull.

The fox and the ferret. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You just name two randomly not usually associated things. And this is the bar your dad has to go to. The wall and barrow. The floor and barrow. The floor and tree. It doesn't hurt her seeing them

there. You don't have to go talk to them. Just leave them dancing in the corner. It depends what kind of club it is. If it's like a club that everyone's under 30, I don't know why you'd want to, you'd feel awkward and old. Why would you want to be there? You would, but maybe they wouldn't. It's loud. It's hot.

Even when I was in my 20s. Always crowded. Oh, my God. You had a bump and such. Even when I was in my 20s, I hated to club. Yeah. Like, I much rather prefer a sit-down booth. Yes.

And you're drinking with your friends, and you're talking inane amounts of rubbish, and it's hilarious and funny, and you're having a great time. I did like his seat, but that was generally down to the footwear choice. Right. But I just don't want to say that people can't go. Like, even if it's not your vibe, like, it would be cute

seeing an old dude there just popping away. Okay, then it gets to an age where if they're like 70, 75 it becomes cute again. Yeah. But you're the laughing stock. Yeah, but everyone's not before that age.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. No one's taking you home. Well, there's some people who are into that. And I won't. They talk to a DJ, Tony, DJ Tony. He's 78. I was going to say, DJ Tony sounds old. He started DJing in Ibiza when he was around 40,

and he's like, look, you can't ban people. We want to have fun too. Yeah, exactly. I've got a picture of what DJ Tony looks like. He's a leathery old handbag. Is he a leathery old handbag? I mean. He wears a train conductor's hat.

He's been in the Ibiza sun. Oh, no. No, that's not at all what I thought he looked like. He looks like a politician. Yeah. Or an accountant. He looks like an hat. He's been in the Ibiza sun. Oh, no. No, that's not at all what I thought he looked like. He looks like a politician. Yeah. Or an accountant. He looks like an accountant. He looks like an accountant.

And see, you shouldn't judge a book by its cover. I've got a nose for shoveling coke up. Well, he's an Ibiza. Yeah. ZDM's Fletch, Ron and Megan. Joined on the phone by the Prime Minister of Aotearoa, New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern. And as usual, we're going to start with a vibe check of the nation. What's your vibe check, Prime Minister?

That is so impossible to ask when we're all trapped in our different areas. You'll have to give me yours. He's got a moustache now, Prime Minister. He's riding high on the compliments he's been getting. You know what this moustache looks like? Remember the moustache of a certain PE teacher that we both have a shared history with? You've got a Hampton moustache.

I've got a Hampton. It's a Hampton. Yes. It's a Hampton. A Hampton. Maybe that's why I'm flying high. I've got the power now. A good vibe check.

I'm going to need the Prime Minister. I'm going to need you to pick up that bench there and put it over your shoulder. That's famously why she got an injury. Yeah. Are you hearing any news this morning on any new cases or poo water results or anything? I get those results later on in the morning. Literally, we get breaks in the morning and then an, like an hour later, we come down and share the news with everyone.

So we try and be up to the minute for you. I don't know if we've asked too much. The wastewater stuff fascinates me. So fascinating. How do they detect it? So I'm not going to be able to get into the nitty gritty of the science, but they literally take a wastewater sample and ESR,

who do all of our, you'll hear us when we talk about genome sequencing, they do all of that work for us. So they run the samples for us. And it's really, it can be really sensitive. So I think my recollection is one in 10,000. So really, really amazing. But I don't know if you noticed that recently they were able to run genome sequencing from

the wastewater. So that means that they were able they found it in a sample and they were able to tell us that it was from our outbreak which is amazing. I think it would be interesting too that we've found some in the wastewater. We've also found that, and give us some other stats. Well no, they normally have

in the past. Well, that's how they can do the drug use and stuff, right? What regions are using what drugs. Crazy stuff. Yes, they can do that as well. Yeah, that's right. Now, what about vaccine numbers? Now, over 12s now can book. From yesterday, we talked to the lovely Dr. Ashley Bloomfield yesterday.

And how are you seeing the booking numbers going? Well, I mean, I haven't got any mean, I haven't got the latest from yesterday, but what we know is that the booking numbers so far have been really, really good. We had some record days when we had the last phase that we opened up for, so I'm expecting us to, well, I'm hoping that we'll have that again. This particular outbreak has really hit young people.

And we've got someone who's 18 in hospital right now. And so really, I just hope that we see that same uptake amongst our young people because COVID hits everyone hard. And I don't think it's fair to say that it's only if you're vulnerable. That's definitely not what we're seeing. What about Australia? I've just seen Australia. Some states have kind of said it doesn't look like we're going to be able to eliminate Delta almost.

Yes. So obviously Victoria's in that position. I've got over 1,000 cases a day at the moment. Sorry, in New South Wales. Victoria had 120 yesterday, but they've been bubbling along for a while. They've had cases since, you'll remember there was an incident with someone who was a moving guy

who came over from Sydney and that's how they started and they haven't really been able to get rid of it since. So they're now talking about keeping restrictions while they vaccinate. So they're not opening up, they're keeping restrictions so that they are safe while they continue to vaccinate. So they're not opening up, they're keeping restrictions

so that they are safe while they continue to vaccinate people. What does that mean going ahead for like the trans-Tasman bubble? Is that a distant memory and maybe something that will happen well into the future? Well, it is tough because, of course, that was all based on, you know, we'll open up because we don't have COVID in both our countries. And now the equation at the moment is different for both of us.

I mean, for instance, Queensland wouldn't open up to us right now because they're in quite good space. But, you know, Sydney and Melbourne aren't. So I think it probably does, you know, make things tough. But our goal, of course, is in the new year to have really good vaccination rates and to start moving into a new phase in the way that we're doing things.

So, you know, we're all, I think, changing up with vaccines, looking at how things might be different for us in the future. So Chris Hipkins mentioned yesterday, and I can't believe it hasn't been more of a talking point,

the fact that he said to Kiwis overseas, don't come home for a holiday this Christmas. Yeah, so a lot of people have already booked in to do that. We've still got, you know, spaces that are taken up by people in our managed isolation facility. But what has been putting pressure on the system has been people coming and going. And that's different to Australia. You can't do that in Australia. You can't come and go. You have to get permission to leave.

Right. Do you think that's what, we should do that? Because I mean, I personally have three friends that have come back for holidays. Love them all to bits. But I mean, we've got people that apparently for the last 18 months haven't even been able to get back. Like, it's unfair.

Well, that wouldn't quite be true because there have been points where we actually had vacancies. And I remember us flagging that and saying at the time, look, we've got space. If you want to get back to New Zealand now is the time to do it. But unfortunately, everyone wants to come back at the same time. Everyone wants to come back over summer and Christmas. And that's when the pressure really comes on.

We haven't wanted to limit people's ability to come back at the same time. Everyone wants to come back over summer and Christmas and that's when the pressure really comes on. We haven't wanted to limit people's ability to come and go. We have put some, you know, we have asked people to pay if they're coming and going. So that means that that naturally filters out a few people. But we've tried as much as we can to keep the ability for people to move around because there are genuine reasons. Yeah. I just wanted to know, because it's pretty scary

that there's young ones that have, I'm talking under one, have COVID. What's the situation with vaccinations for under 12s? A good question. There's trials that have been going on this year for vaccines for under 12s. And I expect probably we'll hear more about that over the course of this year.

You'll see that actually we've moved through the age groups quite quickly. You know, we're obviously down to 12 now. But it's one of the reasons we need everyone else to get vaccinated because while there are some children that can't be, we then become their protection because the more of us that are vaccinated means it's less likely that COVID will take off and reach children.

So that's why it's not just about whether or not we feel that we're bulletproof and don't need it or it doesn't matter to us. It's actually about protecting other people because if you're not vaccinated, you can become a link in a chain that leads to a child. Right. 100%. Totally. Did you celebrate level three yesterday with a takeaway or a coffee?

So I had someone on my team came and bought me one in the morning, which was lovely. I then split it with some other staff members who didn't have one. We have a small bubble and I felt guilty having one, so we rationed a coffee. That is so socialist. Wait till Hosking hears about this. Do you know what the saddest thing

for them is that I drink half-drink coffee, so they have these little symbols that are completely done. You're one of those people. Extra hot, half-drink coffee. Do you know what? No, no, none of that. But, you know, I mean, after no one having coffee for that,

they needed to take it easy. Just don't go in heavy too hard. But you effectively gave them a sixth of a coffee. Pretty much. Well, thanks for your time this morning. When's your second? Have you had your second vaccination? I have.

Yeah, yeah, I have. Yeah, I had that in, oh, when was it? The end of July-ish? Oh, okay. Oh, yeah. I have. Yeah, I had that in, when was it? The end of July-ish? Oh, okay. You're well done. You're well cooked. I'm done. I'm done. You guys, how have you gone? I've just had my second one. I've still got a dead arm but other than that, feeling good. I've had

mine and we had to book Vaughan in yesterday. Oh, well, I'm younger than all these guys so I needed to wait my turn. I had to book Vaughan in. I was going to do it. They just made me. You've got to help your elders, you know? Yeah, that's right.

That's right. The elderly, the infirm, and the vulnerable. So I'm glad you're there. And Vaughan. I'm glad you're there. Ever since he grew that moustache, you just can't do things for himself. I was going to say, I'm going to make you do the 12-minute run around the Moronsville College field if you're not careful. It's the beep test, I think.

That was the worst one in the gym. Thanks so much for joining us this morning. Take care, everyone. Look after yourselves. Play ZM's Flesh, Fawn and Megan. Play ZM's Flesh, Fawn and Megan. Coming up six minutes away from eight, producer Jared joins us on the phone because he's in a distant studio,

but he's just raised a very good question. You went to the supermarket yesterday for a specific treat, Jared? I did, and I couldn't find them anywhere. Are Starbursts still around? Starbursts. Yeah, that's a very good point. I don't think I've seen them. But no, the yellow packet. Yeah, with the gooey insides.

No, those are the stubby squirts. Oh, those are so yum. No, those are yuck. Because you'd eat them and then they'd go in your mouth. You have like one flavour and then it's like grape. Yeah. Although I much prefer the dinosaurs. What's that?

The natural confectionery. Don't chop the dinosaurs, Daddy. Those were great. Yeah, those are great lollies. But you couldn't find them? Nah, so I couldn't find that iconic yellow packet anywhere, and I was craving my gummy lollies. But are you just, they're not at your supermarket,

and you're just making a sweeping generalisation that they don't exist now? Nah, because I did some research, but I couldn't find them anywhere on any supermarket site. Okay, so what you want is a hot link to somebody who's got a Starburst connection. Yes, please. Or if no's of there anywhere. Because you know those places that

parallel and port lollies? Yeah, maybe. From the States, they might be the go-to. Well, if you can help producer Jared, it really is an important question this morning. And is it the best gummy? No, it's not. What's the best gummy? It is. I like Macy's gummies. Macy's. Oh, no. I think Dave Next. I like Macy's gummies. Macy's.

Oh, no. I think Dave Nextdoor works at Macy's. Of course he does. Hook your sister up. All right. Well, if you can help producer Jared out with this lolly question. 0800-DARLS-AT-HEM-9696. Are Starbursts still in Aotearoa, New Zealand?

A question being asked by producer Jared? Yep. Who loves lollies. Well, he loves these ones. He loves. He loves his lollies. He loves lollies. Megan and I have just been talking about the Macy's lollies.

Yeah, the sour fruits. The feed jollies. The feed jollies. That's Dave. That's Dave next door. Dave works at the Macy's factory. He's in a bag. Every Christmas they give the girls a big bag of like Macy's lollies.

Dude. Hook a sister up. Do they do a strawberry one? I feel like. Yes. Yeah. I love the strawberry one. Little grapes. And apricots.

Absolutely strap yourself in. I'll send Sheree a message. Dave's an essential worker. You've got to keep the lollies going. Yes. Oh, that's good. Yes, yes, yes. Okay.

Well, so I'm just looking on parallel imported stores. Cracker Jack. Multiple people have reported Cracker Jack. Really? Yeah, but they're expensive, aren't they? Oh, no. $3 a pack for Starbursts at Cracker Jack. Oh, okay.

But they're being imported, so of course they're a little bit more expensive than your supermarket ones. Somebody said the Party Mix Packet's my go-to and I haven't been able to find one for months. The Starburst Party Packet. The Starburst Party Packet. I didn't know they did a Party Pack. I didn't know they did a Party Pack either.

Okay. So it looks like... To be honest, you know, I put the blame squarely at the feet of the Starburst Squirt. I found a Reddit post from the start of the year and somebody rang them and it doesn't sound like they're in New Zealand anymore. Well, Starbursts on a whole have withdrawn. Starbursts, yeah. Unless they've

um, but again I mean I could be wrong just reading one post. Someone said Pack and Save Albany. Yep. Did I say that right? You said it right that time. Pack and Save Albany has Starbursts so if you go to online shopping and change your location to Albany

you'll be able to see them. Well, there you go. Go to Albany. What are you whinging about? Isn't that your supermarket? Isn't that your supermarket? It's his local pack and save. Jeez.

It's his local pack and save. And he can do everything for him. He'll feel like he's wrought back in Chauvur. He's looked at one supermarket. Cape Town. Don't you talk to babe about Cape Town. The things that happened there. I don't know what happened there.

No, he said they didn't have any. Oh. So I don't know who's ticked seven. A liar? When is your last... A big fat liar, liar pants on fire? I'm going to send them back and say when's your last known sighting. I'll ask them to provide photographic evidence.

Yeah, exactly. A screen cap will do. You know, people just saying they're discontinued. Yeah, exactly. A screen cap will do. You know, people just saying they're discontinued. Oh, RIP. RIP. They couldn't muscle into the New Zealand market.

I know. Clearly we didn't love them that much because we didn't notice until now. Because Dave's doing too good a job at Macy's. Yes. ZDM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. I don't like studies that come out that are like,

women think this because I don't agree with this one. Oh, okay. I shan't be that come out that are like, women think this because I don't agree with this one. Oh, okay. I shan't be lumped into this. Well, do you mean a lot of women think this, but not you? So a lot of women believe that a man who mumbles is sexy. Oh. A mumbling man is apparently a turn-on for women,

and a voice study says, yes, that is correct. So scientists with the American Institute of Physics say males who speak less clearly or mumble tend to be more attractive to people who are attracted to men. Oh, yeah. Because they see it as a sign of masculinity. Oh. Do you want to try some mumbling, Vaughn?

I've found mumblers. Okay. Famous people that mumbled. Famous like actors and stuff. Marlon Brando? I don't have sound. He was like Mr. Mumbles. Yeah, Marlon Brando

mumbled. Sylvester Stallone? Oh, he's a famous mumbler. Heath Ledger was a mumbler. Oh, that's right. He was. Especially in Brokeback Mountain. Yeah.

That was the performance listed here. I think that was a character though that was more of a mkeback Mountain. Yeah. That was the performance listed here. I think that was a character, though, that was more of a mumbler. Orson Welles was a mumbler. He didn't get away with mumbling on Home and Away. No, he had to speak, or Irene would say, speak up, boy. Yeah. If you're going to live in this house.

I don't know if he ever lived in this house. So apparently the opposite is true, too. Men find precise pronunciation alluring. That's why Nigella Lawson's hot. Yeah. I've got a whole voice because it's that and it's got that crisp. Mr. Toyboy must love her. He, yeah.

You know he loves her. He's a fiend for a bit of Nigella. Mickey Rourke's a mumbler. You know the actor Mickey Rourke? Yeah. Might not be your cup of tea now, but, you know, peep him in the 80s. Benicio Del Toro. Oh, yep, yep.

He's an actor that kind of mumbles. See, I love it when a guy, like, speak total opposite. When they, like, enunciate and, like, have intelligent conversations. Keanu Reeves? Somebody... Oh, yes. He doesn't mumble. He doesn't mumble.

He just speaks Quite quietly Yeah Right Who else is on this list Oh no Oopsie I've gone back Singers that mumble

The singers who kind of mumble Bruce Springsteen Is listed as one of the Biggest mumblers Kurt Cobain was a singing mumbler Eddie Vedder from Pearl Jam Yes He's a mumbler

Especially that What did he do the whole soundtrack to that movie? Into the Wild. Oh, yeah, that was an amazing soundtrack. Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, other mumblers. Yep. Janis Joplin listed as a mumbler. A mumbler, okay. I find that so offensive.

You're 13 on the list of everyone's favourite singers. Oh, my God. Singers who mumble. What? Yeah, rude. Play ZM's my god, singers who mumble. What? Yeah, rude. We're evolving over here. I just said, can we do polls on this live stream on our Facebook?

Carl Wayne at Social Media Desk was like, I'll get onto it. And now she's popped up a poll. If you want to be amazed by something pretty simple, if you want to be like me and be like, wow. Wow. We're live streaming on our Facebook page, FVMZM.

I'm going to go lemon and lime for my favourite. Me too. That's what I went to. Strawberry and wild berry. I didn't know that there was lemon in that. I thought it was just lime. No. Fascinating.

You might be right. Have you done your adequate research yet? Have you done your research? Or are you doing fake news? There's no lemon in that. It's just lime fruit. No, it might be lemon and lime. It might be right. Have you done your adequate research here? Have you done your research? Or are you doing fake news? There's no lemon in that. It's just lime fruit. No, it might be lemon-lime. It might be lemon-lime.

Oh, no. Hold on. Hold on. Sorry. Go ahead. The green flavour is lemon-lime. That's what it says. Apologise.

I googled it. She did her research. Okay, fantastic. Sorry, Carwen. Sorry, Carwen. Thank you. I'm not sorry. Amazing question.

I'm just making sure we're right. I said I think she's right. Sorry, Carwen. Sorry, Carwen. Thank you. No, I'm making sure we're right. I said I think she's right. Same. Good work. Banana, orange. It does feel like we're missing. Did you lump strawberry and wildberry together because they're the two least favourite?

Good work there. Good work lumping those two together. No, no, no. Strawberry and wildberry had to go together because there weren't enough poll category, I think. I would have gotten a banana. Nobody likes a banana fruit boost. No because no one likes banana fruit bits. No, no one likes the orange one.

My mum loves the banana fruit bits. Yeah, but see, she's out of our key demographic. Rude. So rude. Now, with a lot of us stuck at home, level three dash four, a lot of streaming,

and we are taking your nominations all week for your favourite shows and the Genre Today documentary. Yeah, I'm going to add this one in because it came in on text and this is a fantastic series to watch. F1, Drive to Survive. I didn't even like Formula 1 and then I watched this and it's great.

Is it? It's amazing shots of cars going super quick but then you learn about the teams and all these insanely passionate Formula 1 drivers and these insanely rich people who own the teams. I honestly reckon, I know you're not a Zoom Zoom car going round the circle guy at all. But I love that movie

with Chris Hemsworth. Rush. Rush. That was so good. So think that, but real life. Yeah, right. It's pretty cool, like the crashes and stuff, they have a nuts. You should give it a go. I would encourage you to. Fourth season comes out next year. Down to Earth with Zac Efron, which is on Netflix.

Have you watched this? Yeah. Is there more to it than just beefy Zac Efron? Yes. He, I can't remember, is it Darren, the guy here? Darren Oil. But what does he do? Does he just get a crystal out and charge it on the beach?

No. So he does all different episodes. The episode about water is so fascinating. You know, like, and they go to Iceland. Yeah. Their water system over there is pretty amazing. But like... I reckon he'd love the Margaret Mahi playground.

You know that water thing? And you make a dam? Those are lots of playgrounds. Now the water play. Oh my God, those are so cool. That's so great. They taught me that the more purified the water is, the worse it is for you.

You take out all the minerals and stuff. Yeah, it's really fascinating because Zach kind of just tastes things and goes, yum, and then Darren does most of the information. And then he sings

two high school musical songs each episode. Yeah, that's nice. And he takes the stop off. A little extra. Pray Away is on Netflix. This is about five evangelicals in the 1970s

that break away and form the Exodus International, a church group that claims that gay people can become straight through prayer and conversion therapy. So it's like the origins of conversion therapy.

Oh, wow. Okay. So you can watch that. A lot of people signing. And then go and sign that. Go and sign. Have we shared that on the FBM Instagram?

I think we should. It's a very easy, like there's a link to, because there's like, you've got to fill it out, but somebody's done All the hard work Yeah you just copy and paste it

Easy And it's easy peasy So that would be An interesting insight Into crazy people Last Breath Is on Netflix A diver is stranded

At the bottom of the North Sea With only five minutes Oxygen and no chance Of rescue For at least 30 minutes The original participants Deliver emotional First hand accounts

Of an incident Which changed their lives. But then he died. Did he die? I don't know. I haven't watched it. I don't want to watch it if he died. There's only 25 minutes of oxygen.

There's 25 minutes of unaccounted oxygen. Yeah. Huh. Hmm. Okay. I only want to watch that if there's a happy ending. I've been disliked. And apparently that's what producer Jared said is the documentary that hooked him on deep

sea diving. Oh. Really? Because he loves underwater welding. He loves underwater welding. Were they down there welding? Yeah. This is why I don't on deep sea diving. Oh, really? Because he loves underwater welding. Were they down there welding? Yeah. This is why I don't want to go diving.

It scares the shit out of you. I'll do it with a snorkel. Yeah, I love a snorkel too. I'd do it with a tank, but not anywhere deeper than where it gets a little dark. Yeah, okay. Speaking of deep diving and snorkeling, my octopus teacher. I still haven't watched this because it's Marley and me with octopuses, right? Yeah, pretty much.

No, but it's about the journey. It's pretty amazing. I mean, the guy's like a bit kooky, isn't he? A diver swims with an octopus that lives in a kelp forest off the coast of South Africa and they become best friends over the course of a year. It's amazing. The octopus. Yeah.

Octopus is phenomenal creatures. I can't have octopus. Oh, we did have it at that restaurant, and I was like, I feel really bad about this. Reluctantly. I did, but it was delicious. Some countries have outlawed eating it. Have they?

Because they're smart. Yeah, they're too smart. They're too smart. Patty Gower's homegrown documentary, Patrick Gower on hate, a victim-led documentary about the March 15 terror attack in Christchurch, got lots of recommendations. I watched this yesterday. It's very powerful.

It's really well done. And just hearing the people involved, their accounts, you know, in the mosque, and those people that were shot. One of them lifts up his shirt and shows his scar. Oh my god. And this guy talks about lifting his daughter up away from

the gunman. And she gets... It's nuts. Yeah, it's nuts like yeah that's a lot it's really powerful i don't think i'm ready for that super powerful definitely a must watch but pick your mood yeah because it's probably like quite traumatic for a lot of people as well yeah uh explained is on netflix this is amazing this is series, and each episode is explaining a different thing. Right. It changes from how money works in the modern era to what caused that massive crash in 2008.

It's not all financial. It explains how vaccines work. Isn't there a baby's one? I watched the baby's one, I think. Yeah. They're phenomenal, and they're all narrated by celebrities, which is quite cool. You try to work out who the celebrity is before it pops up on the screen

saying narrated by. That's what I do anyway. They're like 10 to 15 minutes so you can crank through them as well and feel a little bit smarter in amongst watching trash like Love Island. You should do one for one. You know how if you're going out, they'll have one wine and then one water and you won't get a hangover. You watch one Love Island and then one Explained

and you won't get brain plop. It's not a bad idea. So yeah, that's the list. Today's fact of the day is about how one volcanic eruption in Peru led to the death of 30% of the Russian population. Oh, goodness. In 1600, a Peruvian volcano called Huaynto Potena erupted on the 19th of February, 1600. Earthquakes began four days prior. So the locals kind of...

It was the 1600s, early days. So they weren't getting a civil defense emergency text? No, no, no, no, no, no. Certainly not. They reckon it lasted... The majority of the eruption lasted 12 to 19 hours. Earthquakes and ash and stuff continued to come out for a little bit. Right.

And then March the 6th, so just over two weeks later. But it went so high, the volcanic eruption, that it caused a global cooling. Oh, wow. How crazy is that? Maybe we need one of these now. That's what I was thinking. But at the same time, it's probably that Maybe we need one of these now That's what I was thinking But at the same time The

The It's probably not what we need now No We're dealing with this at the moment Covid Yeah As a world As a globe

But This could happen That's the thing about volcanic eruptions Completely Unpredictable And this one just Yeah It really went and it blew up and it caused Earth's cooling. The northern hemisphere decreased and cold waves hit parts of Europe,

Asia, and the Americas. And it played a role in the onset of what is known as the Little Ice Age, which is the five-minute thing with that little squirrel whose horn always gets caught in an iceberg. It's just a little one. But, yeah, there was a little wee Ice Age that caused the temperature of the Earth to go down, and I think it was directly related to that, and it was the cooling as well as unrest at the time in Russia

that led to 30% of the population dying. Wow. Yeah, just famine. At the time, there was, excuse me, there was problems in Russia, political problems, and then this added to the thing. They kind of had back-to-back winters for a few winters in a row and they couldn't make their summer crops to put away for the winter.

Yeah, right. So it led to 30% of the population dying. So that shows you that's a butterfly effect, isn't it? Yeah, it is. Ashton Kutcher. One little thing. Yeah. And then he does

a hidden camera prank show. Yeah. And marries Mila Kunis. They don't bathe their children and then 30% of Russia dies. It can happen. Butterfly effect. Yeah.

That's how the butterfly effect works. So yeah, today's fact of the day is a Peruvian volcanic eruption led to 30% of Russia's population dying. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. We're just talking about what you maybe grew up with that you didn't know other people didn't have

because of the money involved. Yeah, I remember our friend growing up, Shane, he had a soda stream. His family had a soda stream and a spa pool. That was like... Spa pool! Spa pool! Back in the day, a spa pool was a sign of...

They're doing it right for themselves. They've chosen to drop money on an outdoor bath with bubbles. I know. Wild, eh? Wow. I didn't know anyone with a spa pool. Neither. They're a bit more common these days.

Common these days. Yeah. But all the old splash. Yeah. And as a kid, there was also the thing of you just weren't allowed in them. Like if you went to someone's house and their parents had a spa pool, the parents were just, it wasn't even on the cards. Well, no, they didn't want to waste money heating it for you. Yeah.

And you're a kid, you'd probably sneak away in there. So, it was that. Okay. Yeah, yeah. Because I didn't know, and I never really thought about it, but we'd go to other people's places and no one ate, no other kids ate steak. But because we grew up on a farm, and we had home kill the whole

time, like, we'd get a steak each. Well, because we've been giving... Oh, my God. Sometimes do. Yeah. But that's because you just kill them on the farm and have home kill. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And we just had a chest freezer full of red meat. And, like, kids would have mince. They'd be like, oh, do you guys ever have steak? And they're like, mm-mm. We got onto this because behind the scenes we've been teasing Megan because her and her husband have launched their home gym.

Yeah. The Pappas Pump House. With a neon sign. Okay. So it would stem from last lockdown because, and we're at home a lot because we have to look after him, but we want to like, obviously gym. So it's just easier to like.

Stay at home. Stay at home. Totally. But nobody puts up a neon sign. Oh, babes, do you know us? I was like, you know, no one does, no one does apart from me and Angela. So we're like, this baby bastion is going to grow up thinking everyone has a home gym with a neon sign in the garage. Yeah.

He's not going to know. A neon garage, a home gym, a jet ski. Yeah. That was a boat family. They had no idea. Those kids had no idea how well their parents were doing. No. We had a boat.

Oh, I thought you did. That's why I'm always partial to water and water sports and stuff. Ew. Okay. Up on the hill, let's go to Kytaria. To the family beach house you can't have a that's the other thing

you've got a boat did you leave the boat at the beach or did you tow it there every time no you tow it there oh my god we've got diesel to burn

apparently so we want to ask the question this morning on 0800DARLS.M you can text as well 9696 what did you grow up with that you didn't know

was for rich people? Like, maybe your family had it and you were just like, but everybody's got a boat, don't they? I can't call up this one. I don't have an example. You would have had something. You would have had something. Because everybody, we didn't have a boat.

We were all right. We were just, you know. We'll work through the ads and we'll find something that you had. Look, we weren't allowed a soda stream. Tell you that much. What else did you have in the kitchen? Did you have Nutella? Nope. We'll work on it. We talked about lunch

and it was that slice. It was lunch and no, we got champagne ham later. Oh my god! Oh my god! We had one! Yeah. I mean won. Yeah. I mean, I still think the price at Pack and Save per kg was like, or 100 grams was just slightly above luncheon, but sure.

But mum's will always buy the cheapest version. Went well on a 20 cent bun, that's for sure. All right, well, 0800DARLS.M, give us a call. You can text as well, 9696. What did you grow up with? or maybe your friends grew up with, and they didn't know it was for rich people? Well, we're teasing Megan behind the scenes because baby Bastion's growing up with a home gym now with a neon sign.

Papa's Pump House. Somebody's messaged me wanting to know if it's coincidental that your home gym has the same name as a gay porn production. Oh, my God. Does it? The Pump House produces some of the most high-quality man-on-man porn on the internet. It's on Pornhub. It's also a theatre.

Well, now it sounds like a gay sauna. A gay-only theatre. I didn't do a name check. You always do a name check. Always do a name check. Always do a name check. Pepper's Pump House. Wait, name check. Pepper's Pump House. Wait, is it actually Pepper's Pump House?

No, no, no. Oh, well, yeah. We're aware of the connotations of that. Well, you are now. Obviously not at the time. So we want to know, with baby Bastion growing up with a home gym, the things that you didn't know growing up were rich. Some great text messages.

My friend had a laundry chute. Which means they either had a basement, which was another thing for rich people. Two levels. Yeah. Or a two-level house. Someone messaged a two-level house. We had no idea that was fancy.

He had an upstairs. Yeah. Yeah. My friend's parents had a waterbed back in the day. We assumed that they must have been kings or some sort of royalty. Yeah. Yeah. My friend's parents had a waterbed back in the day. We assumed that they must have been kings or some sort of royalty. Yeah. Somebody else said, we had tasty cheese all the time. And people would be like, this is expensive cheese.

And I'd be like, no, it's not. It's just tasty cheese. You still got to slice it yourself. Yeah. Someone said I had nomad shoes. Oh, yeah. They were ratchet. We're talking about what you may have

grown up with that you had no idea was like a sign of wealth Yeah, right. And maybe it was the one thing that your family had that you know, they'd spend a lot of money on and maybe most of their money, but it was the one thing that they had. Or maybe you had friends that didn't know how well off they were

and the things they had. Some amazing messages coming through Somebody said some really like interesting ones too. People saying like, we were not rich by any means.

We were poor, but dad had a connection for oysters. And so we always had oysters. And that's like, people would come around and be like,

where'd you get these oysters from? Oh, we always get oysters. And people would think we were wealthy and wondering why we were all just dressed in second hand clothes

and stuff and it was because dad had the hook up rocking oysters and that was somebody else said we grew up pretty poor but dad was an avid deer hunter

every single night I'd be like oh my god not fresh venison again all I wanted was one of those supermarket chickens that we were always sold

were too expensive yeah wow Lenny what was the thing growing up the rich thing that you thought was normal? So we had an indoor swimming pool.

Oh! Oh, like the aquatic centre. Yeah, it was brilliant and all the pool gadgets to go with it. I actually used to go riding from my bike because there used to be a big long walkway and I used to go flying through that, flying

through the door on my scooter or my bike and straight into the pool. And at the time you were like, this is just a thing, we've got an indoor pool, but then obviously you get older and you realise, oh my God, we had an indoor swimming pool. That was rich. Yeah. And I quite often see the house for rent and that and I think, ooh, should I go and rent it again just to have a bit of nostalgia?

Were you renting, was your family renting it, or did you own it? No, they owned it. Wow. Indoor swimming. Now when people come round, they'll be like, we can swim at any time of the year. Yeah, it was brilliant.

Heated, and it was like a... Oh! Yeah. Oh, my God. And heating that thing would have cost all the power. So you were rich then? Well, no. Well, my parents worked really hard for what they had.

My dad's a fisherman, so we always, yeah, never really went without. But I wouldn't consider us rich. Well, not from my point of view anyway. It's costing a goddamn fortune to heat that pool all year round so you can jump in it on your bike or scooter. Yeah, amazing. Lenny, thanks for your call. Ethan, what did you

grow up with that you didn't know was a rich thing? Having a bigger bed than everyone. Like what size bed we're talking? Super size king bed.

What? As a teenager? Yeah. Jeez. I grew up in my house and they all had like single beds. Why did you have

such a big bed? Did you inherit your parents' old bed? I guess. I don't know. Just had a big bed. Oh my God. So,

from how old did you have a king bed? Like, 10. Oh my God. And was it a new bed or a second hand? I don't know.

I think it was just a hand-me-down. And you weren't sharing this bed with any siblings or anything? No, just me and myself. I think it was just a hand-me-down. And you weren't sharing this bed with any siblings or anything? No, just me and myself. So you had your own room? Yep.

See, that was a sign to me of a wealthy family if all the kids had their own rooms. Because Vaughn had to share with Phillip, didn't you? Yeah, yeah.

And fight over which was your favourite Spice Girl. Well... And the TV channel. Yeah, yeah. That was a bit more of it. And where your half of the room ended for your cool posters. Ethan, thanks for your call. Some, yeah. That was a bit more of it. And where your half of the room ended for your cool posters.

Ethan, thanks for your call. Some messages in. Somebody said, in the 80s, we had a dishwasher. Didn't think anything of it, but nobody had dishwashers back then. No.

They were. Ooh la la kitchen. They were. Somebody said, what about families that had rumpus rooms? Oh, yes. They had a room. What a TV.

Another TV. Yeah. What? Just a spare room to rumpus around it? I know. That was all. I remember our rich friends had a rumpus room and I was just like, this is a room for activities. My dad's a sparky.

We were never well off, but he'd get hookups. One time he got a cheap TV, so he put the TV in the bathroom above the bath so he could sit in the bath and watch TV. Yeah, wow. And everyone always thought that was a bit posh. We're hearing from everybody after the Oyster Connections. I'm one of 10 children, and we had crayfish a couple of times a week

because my brother was a fisherman. So every time he'd go out fishing, he'd put a craypot over and bring a few cray in. I was quite shocked to find out how much money people pay for crayfish. We used to have it all the time when we were kids. No qualms. We asked on Instagram

if you ever had any signs of wealth growing up that you didn't realise. Someone said having branded food growing up. Like the nice brands. I just assumed everybody did, but they didn't. I don't feel that's it. The home, all the supermarket budget brands,

it's the same stuff most of the time. Yeah. But again, you don't feel that way, do you? No. No, no. It's like, I want the brands. I want the brand. Someone said, always filling up the car full with petrol

instead of doing like a half tank or like a certain amount. Oh, yeah. Like 20 bucks. The family always filled it right up. A rich thing to do. Somebody said, a mum that didn't have to work. We grew up rurally. So mum was always home.

She helped on the farm, but she was always around home. And everybody else that I went to school with, their mums all had jobs. Someone said, going on a holiday every school holidays. I just thought that's what it was because it was called school holidays. So why isn't everybody on holiday? That's wild, eh? Two-car household. That was a sign in the 80s that you had a bit of cash to play with

if you had a two-car household. Somebody said, growing up, we had a live-in housemaid. What? I just assumed everybody had one, but they didn't. Get out. Eating wadi spaghetti, even more so, was always the one with the little sausages on the meatballs. Oh, we never had the sausages on the meatballs.

They were always a bit for like 50 cents more a can, eh? Yeah. I was brought up on oak. Same. Sadly. Well, you had to save money because you were going to go boating that weekend.

My family just didn't have it. Oh, little Bastion. He won't be spoiled. Don't worry. He'll be bloody jacked by the time he's 10 though in that home gym though, won't he? Sne Don't worry. He'll be bloody jacked by the time he's 10, though, in that home gym, though, won't he?

Sneaking out to the garage. Dad, I'm going to hit the pub house.