ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Megan Podcast - 30th July 2021

Episode Date: July 29, 2021

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is never far away. Play. The N's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. Hello, welcome to the Fletch, Vaughan and Megan podcast. It's thanks to McCafe. Grab any size McCafe coffee. For only $4, conditions apply. Well, producer Jared and the middie, uh,

podcast listeners will know that, God, they fell head over heels, didn't they? They moved in very quickly. Oh, I love you.

It was dropped within hours. Yeah. Um, and how, how long have you been together today? What's the current? Oh, don't look at me like that.

Um, I want to say eight months. I think it's eight months. Yeah. It's going to say five, but yeah. Okay. Eight or nine, I think. Yeah, months. Has it been? Has it? Yeah. It's going to say five. But yeah, okay. Eight or nine, I think. Yeah, right.

Eight or nine. Yeah. Wow. Okay, post-pandemic love. We found love in a post-pandemic place. Yep, it's been good. That's how the song went. It has been great.

And you two have now had your first argument. There was a disagreement, right? But this is, you described just before when you told me, as her having a go at you. Yeah, because, like, from my standpoint, I was in the wrong, so I couldn't really defend myself. What did you do? I set three alarms in the morning. Oh!

I fucking hate this. Yeah. And Megan and I, we're on the same page with this. If you are getting up in the morning, partner or no partner in the room, you set one alarm at the very latest you want to get up, and you get the fuck out of bed then. I don't understand how people snooze for 40 minutes, half an hour. That's 40 or half an hour's sleep you can have uninterrupted. You don't have anyone sleeping next to you, on the reg anyway.

But I set the little bird noise, and I set one alarm. So he never wakes up. Oh, do you know the best is if you wear your Apple Watch, just for Apple Watch wearers, it just pulses your wrist. So you don't even hear an alarm. And it's so nice to wake up to. Right. I just say, I'm getting up at 4 a.m.

Why isn't everyone else in this house awake? I stomp around the house. I flick all the lights on and off. No, you do not. And if anyone has a go, I'll be like, well, you go then. I'm very emotional at that time in the morning. So you set three alarms. What's your alarm tone?

I think it's called circuit. It's quite grating. Oh, no, you need the birds. No, I sleep through the birds. Oh, do you? Yeah, I'm quite a heavy sleeper. The birds always incorporate, if I'm in a deep sleep, the birds always incorporate into the dream that I'm having

before it wakes me up. Like there'll be birds in the dream doing something. Yeah. And then I'm like, oh, I'm awake. And I was like, oh, yeah, it was just the alarm. Yeah. The key is I'm telling you the watch

and then you're not going to wake anyone up I can't afford it oh yeah that's okay fair call yeah it's not for everybody apple watch

oh oh we just hear about it all the time don't we close your bloody rings close the ring in your face and shut up about it

yeah good call fair call thanks so what are you going to have in your face and shut up about it. Yeah, good call. Fair call. Thanks. So what, are you going to have to make up tonight when you get home? Yeah, she said I'm on the couch tonight. Oh. Oh.

Yeah, okay. So one alarm from now on then for you. Yeah. ZDM's Fletch, Fawn and Megan. Yes, thank you, Rachel. Good morning. Welcome to the show, Fletch, Fawn and Megan. What an absolute turnaround that sevens match was. I went to bed before it was on.

Yep. I watched them play Kenya yesterday afternoon. I wouldn't say that was a walk in the park, but the scoreline was, you know, decent. But then to wake up this morning and see what was the headline, last minute saving or something, and I was headline? Last minute. Last minute saving or something. And I was just like, ew. 21 points down halftime, but they... Yeah.

So is it even semis yet for the women's sevens? No, it's still warm action. Wasn't that the opener? Yesterday. Yeah, yesterday was the first day. Oh, okay. Because they wrapped up the men's sevens before they started the women's sevens. Right, but more rowing medals possibly today, and I want to jinx it.

Yeah, well, gold yesterday. Yeah. The first gold. Yeah. And the Sky Tower's gone gold. Has it? I saw this morning on the way to work, yeah. Oh, is that why it's yellowy?

Yeah. Yeah, that's the thing. Look, it just looks yellowy. What? I mean. It looks like wheeze. Yeah, it's a light yellow, just looks yellowy. What? I mean. It looks like wheeze. Yeah, it's a light yellow. So it's not really a goal.

Because there's that website, Why is the Sky Tower that colour? Is there a website? Yeah. I wish I'd known this. I go, who runs it so much? I've got it bookmarked on my phone because when I'm driving to work and I'll see it and I'll be like, why? And I'll just be like, why is the Sky Tower that colour? And then does it suddenly...

Is there always a reason? Or because sometimes you just be like, why is the Sky Tower that colour? And then is that always a reason? Or because sometimes you just be like, this is a cool paint. No, I think sometimes the people that put the filters on are just like, that's a nice colour. Why is the Sky Tower that colour? Dot co dot nz.

Who runs that? No scheduled lighting. No scheduled lighting. Well, that's because it was last minute. Yeah, I know, but that's so it wasn't scheduled. Or who runs this bloody website? They need to get onto it.

Can you send them a message? So on the 20th of July, it was blue to congratulate the Auckland Huskies on making the NBL. Oh, okay. Yeah, and then on the 11th, celebrated Matariki. The 10th, celebrated Matariki. Apparently purple through to blue to look like the sun rising. That was nice.

Thank God for this website. Yellow to pink looking like the sun setting. Yeah. We get jazzed about things, don't we? Oh, and on the

1st of July, comedian Chris Parker got to choose the lighting. Ah! Pride? I want to choose the lighting. So you went rainbow.

Pride? No, maybe. Goodness. Start of the 40-hour famine. Yeah, you can just go to this and see why it was any colour on any given day. Well, it's gold, wheezy gold today because we won gold. Wheezy wheeze. On the show, coming up, your chance to win cash.

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Good. Good. Don't give me a corn chip that's ready salted. Yeah. Give me a flavour, some salsa. But yeah, the top six snacks. Okay. Try on a plane.

Next though, the Ministry of Health has something to say about our boobs. Wait, mine? How dare they? Yours too. ZDM's Fletchborn and Megan. No doubt you would have heard of the Pfizer boob job. I haven't heard of the Pfizer boob job. I've seen it on TikTok.

So overseas, I think this came from TikTok, but I saw a girl on TikTok who said she'd been in a cup her whole life and she got the Pfizer vaccine. She claims her boobs grew almost two cup sizes. Now, at this point, we should probably point out that let's not panic because we are all getting the Pfizer jab.

Yeah. AstraZeneca's been given the... It's, yeah, but we don't want that, do we? Are we getting that one? I don't know. That's for the older crowd, eh? Yeah, maybe. Isn't it over 50s that AstraZeneca's all G? Oh, right. I don't know. That's for the older crowd, eh? Yeah, maybe. Isn't it over 50s that AstraZeneca's all G?

Oh, right. I don't know. Well, the Ministry of Health have heard about the Pfizer boob job too, and they would like to say something. I have had, this is a spokesperson, I've had no reports of breast enlargement in women or men. This is not a known side effect of the COVID-19 vaccine, but this is where it gets scientific.

The mRNA vaccines deliver a small amount of genetic code to instruct cells on how to replicate the virus surface protein spike, which in turn activates the immune system, blah, blah, blah. Lymph nodes contain B cells that use this information to generate antibodies in response to a foreign entity. The buildup of the antibodies in the lymph nodes results in them becoming enlarged. So your lymph nodes swell a bit after you get the vaccine.

And that head behind the boobies. They're underneath. Which are behind the boobies, so you may have a short time, you may feel it a little bit larger to yourself because they're a little bit swollen. Right, but then it'll go down after a day. Apparently it's no cause for undue concern and, yeah,

I mean, imagine it goes back down. Did you want a free boob job? Oh, no, I've got a couple of lymph nodes in my penis. That's where I keep my lymph nodes. Do you? Yeah. Right, okay. Let's see, I've got a cough.

I've got a slight infection in. Yeah, okay. You keep your lymph nodes. I'm packing. I've got a slight infection in. Yeah, okay. I'm packing out my tighty-whities today, if you know what I'm saying, every time I get a little bit sick. You might have two days where you're really feeling quite good about yourself. That's when I'll do my nudes.

Okay. And then I'll catfish my wife. Okay. No, that's not... No, you're misrepresenting that horrendously. Next on the show, a Christchurch car yard's in a bit of trouble. Yeah.

They sold a woman a hybrid. That was not a hybrid. Play ZM's Flesh, Vaughan and Megan. A Christchurch car yard sold a car, a Toyota Harrier. Oh, what does that look like? I've read the story, but I haven't Googled what a Toyota Harrier looks like. I think it's a people mover.

Oh, no. It's a small car. Oh, it's one of those Toyotas that's also a Lexus, just different badges. Oh, right. That's quite nice, isn't it? Oh, that's quite fun. Small. Imagine a fun mum driving that.

Yeah, mum could put her golf clubs in the back. If mum's into golf. Yeah, if mum's... I was just thinking the week we're shopping. I was thinking what my mum would do. Right. Yeah, but mums don't want to buy a car thinking this is good for the shopping. Even though they're thinking it, they want to think this is good for all those other leisurely activities that I do now.

You've got to have the boot space. Got to have the boot space. It's a lovely interior. Because it varies a lot. I feel like 2006 I do now. You've got to have the boot space. Got to have the boot space. It's a lovely interior. It varies a lot. I feel like 2006 I read somewhere. Look at the lovely interior. It's a lovely interior. It's a lovely interior.

You can see why it can just be rebadged as a Lexus. Well, she purchased the Harrier under the guise that it was partly electric powered, aka a hybrid vehicle. Okay. So she purchased it. It was advertised as powered, a.k.a. a hybrid vehicle. Okay. So she purchased it. It was advertised as a hybrid vehicle. Yeah.

So she was like, this is a hybrid vehicle. This is great. It'll save me a bit of money. Yeah. I would also not know what to look for in a hybrid vehicle to make it. I only know diesels are diesels because of the extra road user charges sticker on the windscreen. So when you have a hybrid, there's a battery in it, right? Petrol, battery, and electric engine.

And when you're driving it, it charges. Charges the battery. See, it's not a car that you're plugging in every night. There are plug-in hybrids. Right. And they're more electric than they are petrol. Right. There's a few different types.

I wouldn't have a clue. But so she purchased it thinking, well, this is the future. I'll do my part. Hybrid vehicle. Got home. Not a hybrid. Not at all? Solely a petrol vehicle.

Oh, wow. Okay. Despite the advertising on the website, the sale agreement, and the consumer information notice saying that this is a hybrid vehicle. So she said to the dealership, hey, I've purchased a hybrid that, it turns out, doesn't have the hybrid part. And she won't get a rebate? No.

I think this is pre-rebate. Oh, right. Pre-rebate. They said you should have been aware it wasn't a hybrid. And she won't get her rebate? No. Or was this before the rebate? Oh, right. Pre-rebate. They said you should have been aware it wasn't a hybrid. Now, all advertising, she still got it, said that it was a hybrid. Then later on, she emailed an official, like, well-worded thing saying, this is what's happened, and it was rejected. Yeah.

And since then, they've been ordered to pay the money back. Oh, wow. Okay. Yeah. So more than the $12,000 that she paid for it. Oh, okay. That's good. Because she thought it was a hybrid.

So, yeah, she... Which I can't even believe it even had to go that far. No, you'd sit on the thing hybrid, and you'd be just sitting there, and you're like, oh, hey, this isn't a hybrid. They're like, tough. You think the car yard just take it back and give her a hybrid or give her her money back? Yeah. Well, they have now, but only because it's in the news. Yeah.

Someone stepped in. But then what do you, how do you check if it's a hybrid? I don't know. It doesn't say in there. Because I know when you get into an Uber and it's a Toyota Prius, it's got the little diagram of where the power's coming from. Oh, yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah. Which I like when I'm in an Uber, but I think that would drive me nuts being in my car. I'd get sick of it being there. Yeah, same. I'd want to switch the screen to something else. Yeah. But, yeah, I don't know. I don't know what else to look for. A But, yeah, I don't know.

I don't know what else to look for. A giant battery somewhere? I don't know. Or a badge? Do cars have batteries? That would be confusing for me. Yeah, but they're just those little ones. Yeah, but I don't know what an electric vehicle battery looks like.

You know, you could call. Yeah, well, I'm clueless. Don't look at me. Who do we trust? Don't look at me. Who do we ask? I don't know. Google.

Maybe do some research. Our dads? When you find a car? Yeah. No. Dad! Dad would be like, I don't know. Google. Maybe do some research. Our dads? When you find a cat. Yeah. No. Dad! Dad would be like, I don't bloody know.

The top six is next. Yeah, the top six snacks for Air New Zealand to trial. All right, it's next. Blah, blah, blah. Blah, blah, blah, blah. This is the top six. Hello there, Air New Zealand. They're going to try some new in-flight snacks.

See you later, plain salted corn chip. Tea and coffee are going to be axed from some flights. What? Yeah. Will it be replaced by gin? Yep, gin and moonshine. So there were some tests involving more than 7,000 passengers across 100 flights. And the new range of in-flight snacks will be offered popcorn, crisps.

Just say chips. We're not... Yeah, just say chips. Calm down with your crisps. Stop trying to be Flash. Yes. Stop trying to... I don't want anyone to come on board and be like,

oh, where's my hot chips? Oh, yeah, that'll be it. Yeah. Potato would just put cold potato chips. Cold potato chips. Everyone would think they're going to get cold chips. Crisps, muesli bars, and chocolate. In addition to the cookie, which stays.

So they tested a whole lot of other stuff. Apple crumble flavoured ice cream. Paprika flavoured proper crisps. And mandarins. Oh, you know I love a mandarin. I don't know if I'd want all the peels everywhere, though. You'd have to put the tray table down

to put the peels on. Yeah, where would you put the peels? You could hold the peels because they come around for rubbish. You can imagine they're cleaning up the planes. All the people will be like, oh, yuck, there's Mandy skins.

And all the little pith skins. Yeah. Fingering the peel into the little thing on the back of the seat in front of you. They've got to get down in there to get it out. Well, I've got the top six snacks for Air New Zealand to trial. Okay.

I think they've closed the book on this too soon because these six weren't trialed. Okay. Number six on the list of top six snacks for Air New Zealand to trial on domestic routes, yogurt puddles without spoons. It's just like being at school. Remember how gross that was? Seeing someone at school finger the pottle. Two fingers and using their fingers as a spoon when they come straight from the adventure playground.

Well, you can get two thirds of it down your mouth without your fingers. And then you can squeeze the bottom. And then it ends up on your nose and all over your face. Either your tongue or your fingers are going in there. To get out that delicious yogurt. And then there's going to be some left in the bottom. Yeah. Maybe they could do squeezy pouches.

A lot of waste in a squeezy pouch. Yeah, there is. It's not waste-free, is it? No. Number five on the list of the top six snacks for any New Zealand to try on their domestic routes, a very crunchy apple. Imagine if everyone on a plane got a crunchy apple all at the same time. And then Fletch is like... a crunchy apple all at the same time.

And then Fletch is like... The skin gets caught at the back. And then I'm looking around and everybody's eating, like, not nearly close enough to the core. Yeah. I'm like, give that hair off. You eat the whole thing. You're a manky. Eat the whole core and all.

Our number four on the list of the top six snacks for a New Zealander to try on their domestic routes, An insanely hot, sealed toasted sandwich. Can you imagine the chaos? With tomato, molten lava inside. Tomato and cream corn. There'd be so many burnt mouths. I haven't had a toasted sandwich for ages. Which one?

I thought you bought it. Last time we talked about this, I thought you were off to buy a toasted sandwich maker. No, I did. I bought one in the pandemic last year from the supermarket. And then I had a few. And now it's just in the cupboard. Now you're off carbs.

Now I'm off carbs. Because we're not in lockdown anymore. Yeah, exactly. Let me just check if there's an embargo on this. Because you know how it was the Pie Awards this year? Yeah. It was the Great New Zealand Toasty Takeover, the annual toasted sandwich competition as well. Oh, goodness.

And for the third consecutive year at South Island Eatery, Molly's Bar and Eatery attached a Hotel De'Urville in Blenheim that won it. Yeah, right. Okay. Oh, damn. It looks like a good toasted sandwich. It looks amazing.

Look at the thick. It's like a Reuben. Oh, okay. I goddamn love a Reuben. In fact, I'm It's like a Reuben. Oh, okay. I goddamn love a Reuben. In fact, I'm going to have a Reuben sandwich today. Cool, man. God damn, how good is a Reuben? Thanks for telling us your eating diary.

Okay, on with the top six. Number three on the list of the top six snacks for in New Zealand to travel on the domestic routes. Four scoop ice cream in a single cone. I can't see a messy problem with this at all. At least you wouldn't have the sun and the heat to melt it quickly. Yeah, but the kids would want one and then... Yeah, shambola.

And you know what they say, four scoops in the air is worth eight on the ground. Yeah, you're drunk and fat when the plane leaves. Number two on the list of the top six snacks for in New Zealand to try on the domestic routes. A beetroot soup in a very full, very shallow bowl. And you're wearing a white crisp T-shirt. Always wearing a white T-shirt on a plane. And number one on the list of the top six snacks for in New Zealand to try on the domestic routes.

Individual servings of reheated fish pie. No. Can you imagine the poor person that has to open the door? It'd bes of reheated fish pie. No. Can you imagine the poor person that has to open the door? Open the plane. It'd be like farts and fish pie.

It'd just be a wall of stank. That is today's top six. All right, the latest next. Matt Damon loves getting asked about Ben Affleck's relationship. His latest response is next.

So, obviously, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are very good friends. So whenever, and I do feel a bit sorry for Matt Damon because when Ben Affleck was going through some struggles, people asked him about him then. Yeah. And now Ben Affleck looks like he's living his best life. He's in the Amalfi Coast with Jennifer Lopez on a super yacht.

And Matt Damon still gets asked about Ben Affleck and what he thinks about their relationship. You're very happy for Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez. I know you love getting asked about that. Right. But how else would I be? Like, would I be unhappy? You should.

I think. Like, I hate true love. That would be the headline. It sucks. That would be the headline. Yeah. Yeah. I wish I had nothing but, you know, hardship.

He said true love, though, didn't he? Yeah. Oh. Yeah. That is the latest. It's thanks to the Suicide Squad. See it only in cinemas from August 5th. Tech Squad to 9696 to be in to win a double pass.

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You're doing it? I've got some shocking Kiwi statistics on hand washing. Next on the show, washing your hands. You're doing it? I've got some shocking Kiwi statistics on hand washing. 660 Castle Street is where the band 660 gets their name from. My brother-in-law was in that band, 48 May. I've just messaged him saying, hey, he has to go and buy that house now. Because that's the news. They have purchased 660 Castle Street.

Yeah. Isn't that? And if you needed any example of how the New Zealand property market at the moment is ridiculously out of control, this is it. They paid $1.7 million for it on the 16th of March. That's when it was last sold for that amount. I'm looking at what properties around there are kind of worth. The one next to it, 622. I don't know, 662. Yeah. Is valued at 740.

And that seems to be the vibe around that, sort of your 700 mark. Valued. It's one over the road worth 1.5, but it's a massive section. Does 660 have any, like, sales history? Or has it just been sat on by a landlord for years? Oh, that's a massive section. Does 660 have any like sales history or has it just been sat on by a landlord for years? Oh, that's a big question. I love looking into this. We got to wander around 660 Castle Street

and I don't think it's... I don't think I'd like to live there, should we say that? Well, no, it's a student right of passage and I mean, it's been a famous house to live in for like the last decade but it's not worth $1.7 million. No offence to anyone.

It's not. Nah. Like, that's nuts. But then in saying that, that's every house in Auckland at the moment. So the last time it was sold was in May 2003. Yep. How much? $300,000.

Whoa! It's rateable value assessment. So the rates that you pay to the council based on the value of the house. Yeah. In 2019 was $655,000. Now things are selling

above their RV. Yeah. In Auckland insanely above their RV. Yeah. But yeah. That's crazy. 1.7. Okay. Six bedrooms. And so the idea is, yeah. Mom-droom, yeah.

The idea is that they're... You're not a very good real estate agent. You're like, six bedrooms? Six bedrooms? Indoor, outdoor flow? So the idea is that they've teamed up with the university. They're going to offer scholarships for, like, art and the music. Yeah, that's pretty cool. And that you get in there and you'd live there.

And it's going to be like a communal band space and kind of area that's a creative area. Yeah. Which is pretty cool. That's pretty cool. It is pretty cool. And they're your landlords. Yeah. Let's see if they're as cool when they're your landlords and they come around.

And there's a hole in the wall. There's a stain in this carpet. Yeah. This needs to be cleaned. But also quite the clever tax write-off there. From a New Zealand band making a lot of money as a business. Because you wouldn't buy it outright, would you? You'd buy it with a loan

so that the interest, I don't know how it all works, but yeah. It's a very savvy move. Well, even if you bought it outright, would you? You'd buy it with a loan so that the interest, I don't know how it all works, but yeah. It's a very savvy move. Well, even if you bought it outright as a business expense for that flat amount, that would be debt against your business.

It would be an investment into business. Yeah. A 660 about to become like slumlords? Are they going to start buying all of the whole street? Imagine if they bought the whole street. Yeah. And then they roll in in a Mercedes

and they tell you that there's just no money to fix it or insulate it because it's not easy being a landlord. How long before the first headline of cold students because it's poorly insulated? Yeah, yeah, yeah. 660 Castle Street fails to measure up to current warranted standards for rentals. Landlords tell tenants to just get out then.

Wear a puffer to bed. Yeah. Good on them. Yeah, awesome. And so I'm guessing the scholarships are up for grabs, what, next year? Dunno, mate. By the look of that house, it's got a bit of work.

Thanks, Rachel. Welcome to the show, Fleeche, Vaughan and Megan. Got a mouthful of muesli. Are you okay? No, we just got our 7 o'clock coffee from the kitchen, and Vaughan needed a little muesli pick-me-up. Absolutely starving. You get those yoghurt things from the vending machine

when you're a bit bony. Look, it's been a long week. I had a couple of drinks last night. Not like I hung over, but when I went to bed and I lay down, I was like, whoa. On a Thursday, on a school night. Unbelievable. I've got a bad habit. Joining us on the phone before 8 o'clock this morning, Karen O'Leary.

Some big news yesterday. This made me feel really proud. Like, you know when the flight... Oh, you didn't do it. No, but just as a Kiwi. You know like when Flight of the Conchords were massive overseas?

Yeah. And it was just really cool? Kind of the Flight of the Conchords connection is Jermaine Clement, Taika Waititi kind of created this universe that Wellington Paranormal is set in. Yeah.

An executive producer series. Jermaine Clement shared yesterday, Wellington Paranormal is set in. Yeah. And executive produced the series. Jermaine Clement shared yesterday, Wellington Paranormal is the most streamed show in the US. That's so cool. And he did this awesome Q&A answering people's questions that they had about New Zealand. Oh, yeah. Like, what's a metre?

Like, I mean... I think it was a good bit of tongue in cheek from everybody So we'll catch up with Karen O'Leary from Wellington Paranormal before 8 o'clock on the show We've got an Olympics update as well for you We'll update overnight events and what you can expect today from it We've got some medal

events, I was going to say matches but no, events, yeah, prospects today We'll go through those soon Next on the show, though. I, for some reason, this popped into my mind, a toy I had when I was a child. Yep. And I can't stop thinking about it. Because my parents never let me play with it.

We want to talk soon about toys that you had that you weren't actually allowed to play with. I can see why your parents, when you sent this video to the group chat. Me too. Now that I'm a parent, I kind of can understand. Yeah, all right. We'll delve into that next. ZM. ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Megan. I don't know why. The other night, this popped into my mind,

and I laughed, and every time I kind of think about it, I laugh. I think about it. Every time I think about it. Every time I think about it, I have a laugh. My wife thinks I'm losing my mind, which is a fear. You keep going on about this, and you've sent this in the group chat,

and our interest is low as well, isn't it? In all honesty. Yeah. The other night, I don't know why, it popped into my mind. I said, I am the atomic-powered robot. Please give my best wishes to everybody. And then I just cracked up laughing. And Sade's like, what is wrong with you?

I said, I've just had this, something's triggered me, and I've had a childhood memory pop into my mind. Okay. Of a robot we had when we were kids, and that was what he said. I am the atomic-powered robot. Please give my best wishes to everybody. That would have been some, how old were you? That would have been some incredible technology for the day.

So I Googled that saying. Yeah. And it led me to this world of people online who collect retro robots. Okay. So I learned that this retro robot was a very, very popular retro robot. Lots of people had this robot. Okay. Because they kept, originally it came out and it was called Tommy the Atomic had this robot. Okay. Because they kept originally it came out

and it was called Tommy the Atomic Powered Robot. Yeah. And then all that happened really was little things got changed, like the colour of it. Yeah. The thing stuck on the side of its head and then it got called Magic Mike and he was the one

that we had and I found him online and this, so this is Magic Mike. This is the one that we had and I found him online. So this is Magic Mike. This is the one we had when we were kids. Hold on, they've got to push the button. Yeah. Is it now evident to you why your parents wouldn't let you play with that? You're so messed up this season.

I am the atomic tower robot. Please give my best wishes to everybody. To you why your parents wouldn't let you play with that Why he's atomic powered why does he care about Oh my god Oh god, that's hideous Bored it and then they realised it. They didn't buy it. And when I was a kid, I thought it was theirs. Right.

Because it was always in the box. Yeah. And it never had batteries in it. D cell batteries, by the way. We're talking 80s, baby. Oh, yeah, right. Everything was powered on a D or a C cell. Yeah.

And it was always up in a very high cupboard. Yeah. With Dad's remote control cell. Yeah. And it was always up in a very high cupboard. Yeah. With dad's remote control truck. Okay. Which was also cool because his remote control truck had a trailer on it and it had a button where you could unclick the trailer. Oh, wow. And then drive the truck around and be like, oh, I better go get my trailer. And you'd back in and it would click the trailer on and then you could drive around

with the trailer. Oh, wow. When you're a kid, that's about the coolest thing in the world. Yeah. Because I was a truck kid. Yeah. So we've got two robots. Yeah. So I messaged my mum. She gets this a lot, that's about the coolest thing in the world. Because I was a truck kid. So we've got two robots. So I message my mum.

She gets this a lot, by the way. All of a sudden I'll remember something from my childhood and act like it's some sort of trauma. Mother! Mother, why? Why did you not let us play with Tommy the Atomic Powered Robot? And I also remember

sewing machine oil. Are you also remember sewing machine oil. Are you familiar with sewing machine oil? No. It was a lubricant for sewing machines. Right. Now, modern sewing machines, I don't believe, need it. Okay. Old stuff did it.

And it must have had a low smoke temperature. Right. Because you used to put a little bit of sewing machine oil in Tommy the Atomic Powered Robot and he'd blow smoke rings. Of course he did. Okay. Yeah. That was his superpower.

Right. So I said to Mum, I was like, why were we never allowed to play with this robot? And she's like, I think you're making this up. This is the other thing about my childhood. Every time she said, I think you're imagining that that ever happened. Yeah, I think you're imagining this trauma I forced upon you. And I said, well, if it's not true, go into the laundry and look at the back of the highest cupboard. Yeah.

You've been moved out of home and you're nearly 40. Mate, there's stuff in the Smith house that hasn't been moved for decades. Where do you get your hoarderism? Yeah. So I FaceTimed them last night. Dad gets up on a stool, the same stool we've had in our kitchen since I was a kid. It was one of those ones. The one with the flip top.

And you used to sit in it until your butt got too big. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then you had to sit on the actual top of it. It was a step later and a stool. Yeah. And it had a cracked top on it

but no one ever got it refurbished. What colour is your material top? Cream. Grey. Right, okay. Oh, and we had the three different colours.

Okay. Nan had a blue one. No, I remember Gran had one, yeah. Oh, maybe ours was blue and it went grey. Blue, grey, green and cream. And so I said, if this is the case, it'll be up there.

Dad gets out that thing, turns it into a stepladder from a stool, climbs up and he finds them. The two robots that I can remember having as a kid that we weren't allowed to play with. And I said, why weren't we allowed to play with them? Were they your robots? And mum's like, no, they were your robots. And she's like, well, what did they do? And I played her that video and she's like, no, they were your robots. And she's like, well, what did they do?

And I played her that video and she's like, now as a parent can you appreciate why you weren't allowed to play with those? Just because she didn't like the noise. My parents had really short fuses. Really short fuses growing up. They were retired. They were young. They had like three kids under five at one stage.

The mortgage rates were 26%. How many times do you hear about that these days? Yeah, they didn't have time for this shit. No. Weep, weep, I am the atomic power robot. Please give my best wishes to everybody. But she said, and mum said, you can have them. Next time.

I'll wind you down, grab them. And I said, when was the last time those would have been moved? And she was like, well, when was the last time you can remember playing with them? And I was like, maybe it's like a 10-year-old. So I'm going to be 40 next year. So those have been sat in a cupboard for 30 years, untouched. And they're boxes. You pretty get some money for those. Yeah.

But I don't want to sell it. You just want a water house playing with it. I'm off water. Make up for all the lost time. And find some sewing machine oil. I can puff smoke out of his mouth and probably burns my house down. Yeah. So I'd love to know if anybody else had this growing up. There was a toy that you weren't allowed to play with.

Because the classic for us was, oh, no, we don't have any batteries. Yeah, that was a classic. And then, yeah, we can't. We just, there are no batteries. Yeah. And so, therefore, the noise stopped all the machines. But you could still play with it, but it didn't have its lights and its noise. Exactly.

Yeah. Yeah. Another thing we had was one of those balancing birds. Oh, yeah. You remember those? You put the beak on your finger. Yeah. And there was weights in it, and it would balance, but we weren't allowed to play with it.

Why? It was made in place. It didn't make a sound. God, your parents. They didn't want us to break your parents was so mean and we weren't allowed to swing the dolphin do you ever have a dolphin thing and you'd like push it and it would have a magnet in the bottom it would keep it swinging it would make it look like the dolphin was leaving they got it from hawaiy. They got it from Hawaii because my parents loved Hawaii. We weren't allowed to swing it. Oh, my God.

Because you'll probably break it. That was because once my brother and I tried to work out the exact amount of force you need to do a loop to a loop and it came off its thing and it broke the end off the dolphin nose. So then we weren't allowed to touch anything dolphin related. Okay. Well, maybe you had a traumatic childhood like Vaughn and you had a toy

That you weren't Allowed to play with Or just toys In general That your parents Banned you from Yeah And maybe looking back

It was the noise Or another reason We want to know If you had a toy Growing up That you weren't Allowed to play with Yeah

Tommy the atomic Powered robot was mine although mum has said I can have him next time I go and see them. Yeah, because it won't be her problem. She won't have to hear

the incessant noise. Are you going to lord this over your brother? So I messaged my siblings yesterday saying can you guys remember these robots? Yeah.

And he's like I kind of can semi-remember a robot that shot missiles. I was like that was the other robot. That was the more annoying robot sound-wise. Right.

It would spin around and it would be like, pretending to shoot things. And it would be like, Yeah, I can see why your parents hid those and didn't let you play with them. Oh, they were so obnoxious. Just the same thing over and over and over. Do your kids have a toy now that's that? They had a frozen phone.

Someone gave them like, but it wasn't like official Disney merchandise. Right. So it'd be like, hi, Elsa, it's Anna. And then it'd be like, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing. And it would go off when no one was touching it. Right, okay. There's those ones. I'm too early in my motherhood to, I can't imagine taking away a toy.

The next stage of Bastions, like, you'll get given this Fisher-Price mailbox, and it's like, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, every time you open it. And the kids just love opening and shutting it and putting a letter in. It's like,ing ba bing bing bing bing bing every time you open it and the kids just love opening and shutting it and putting a letter in it's like there's a letter in the post bing ba bing bing bing bing bing Oh my god hideous. Kim what toy weren't you allowed as a kid?

My dad got a 1967 remote control Mustang in the 90s and we weren't allowed to touch it now he's still got it now. It sits up on his cabinet where he keeps all of his nice glasses and things and all of that.

And we're still not allowed to touch it. I'm in my 30s now. For the worst part, it gets worse. He got my son, my 11-year-old son, almost a matching one for Christmas last year. He gets this one down and he's out playing with my son with it, but me and my brother's aren't allowed to touch it.

You're going to go snatch it off your son and be like, no, I'm going to play with this one. I was like, you know what, if he can play with it, I can play with it. Like, how is that fair? Wow. No, that's the grandchild paradox there. They care more about the grandchildren. They couldn't have that grandchild.

They've got totally different roles. Yeah, they couldn't have that grandchild they've got totally different roles they couldn't have that grandchild without you but they want that grandchild without you we all experience that

brilliant Kim thanks you called some text messages my relative in the US gave me a toy gun with a cork bullet attached to a string

now when I was a kid that was pretty cool punk and it would pop the cork out I have not seen that toy since my mum packed it into her suitcase 24 years ago I feel like it didn't even make it a cork bullet attached to a string. Now, when I was a kid, that was pretty cool. Punk, and it would pop the cork out. Yeah. I have not seen that toy since my mum packed it into her suitcase 24 years ago. I feel like it didn't even make it to the airport.

Oh, wow. There were, like, did you have a friend that's, your mum didn't like you playing with guns, eh? No, I think we weren't allowed too many. I just remember that being a thing. But then we'd have a super soaker. They were guns. It's super soakers. They were fun.

But no one. But I, yeah. But batteries would go missing. A lot of toys going missing as well. Yeah, somebody said my chatter rings went walkabouts. Coincidentally, a couple of days after my mum said she couldn't stand the noise it was making,

my Furby mysteriously stopped making noises. They were quite demonic Furbies. Yeah, and they were another thing that would go off in the middle of the night. Yes. You know, no one would do anything to it. No one would be like... You'd be like...

Furby! My dad took the clacker part out of the iconic New Zealand Buzzy Bee. That really set the tone for our childhood. And then to clarify, my father was, and then uses a word that I would never have heard of my father as. There's a lot of childhood trauma here. Anonymous joins us. What weren't you allowed to play with as a kid?

Well, when we were kids, we got given a, well, my brother for Christmas got a video camera. One of those big old ones with the VHS where you still put the tape in it. Yes. Mum promptly claimed it and said it was the family's video camera and we were not allowed to touch it or use it. Who gave it to them?

I'm not too sure. I don't know if she brought it for herself and then said it was a present, you know? Wow. So how many people has your brother killed? herself and then said it was a present, you know? Wow. It was great. So how many people has your brother killed? And how long is he in prison for?

Wow. And so you didn't... Right, have you hit her up about it since? Yeah, well, so we weren't allowed to play with it. However, one morning we conspired and got together and decided to play with a video camera and filmed ourselves doing a bunch of things that we also weren't allowed to do. Yeah.

You know, eating the teller out of a jar, pretending to smoke a cigarette. I know you couldn't just be like, let's start, we've just got our hands on this, let's start, low end. You're immediately like, let's film ourselves doing stuff we're not allowed to do. We were so, oh,

and then we thought we'd gotten away with it. We were like, oh, we've done it. A couple of weeks later, we get home from school. Mum's like, oh, movie night. And we were stoked. We were like, this is great. She'd got popcorn. She'd made beds in the lounge.

And we were like, we were just, we had no idea. We were clueless. And as soon as she hit play, we, I swear to God, our faces. Oh, my God. What is this? That is such a trap. I love that. It was like the most silence you've ever experienced in a house with three children.

And I bet mum and dad were just like, yeah, she's just like, you watch this. As soon as it was done, we just went straight to bed. It was like 4 o'clock in the afternoon And then we just stayed in our room all night And never spoke of it again Oh wow that is brilliant That is so good Hot play from mum and dad

Thanks you call anonymous My dad bought me a keyboard And I loved it It was my favourite ever But I played it so much He got mad He threw it in the fire Oh my god

Now keyboards aren't made of wood either. Yeah, Dad. You were just the straw. Chopsticks. Remember that song? Dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun. Oh, I've got to start again. Dun, dun, dun.

That would have drew it. Dad's like, this Elton John thing's not happening fast. Dun, the fire. Speaking of Elton John, someone said, I'm a guy and when I was a kid I wanted an ironing board for a toy. Mum said no as it would make people think I was gay and make me gay. Her mistake still turned out gay. Ironing board or not, Mum, it was written in the stars.

All right, we'll give you an update of what you can expect at the Olympics today. From iHeartRad heart radio this is the latest so lizzo um has taken to tiktok she says um there is lots of rumors that she hears about herself but there is one that she would like to respond to because it is so nuts so i've seen a lot of annoying things about me on the internet but the thing that bothers me the most is this rumor that I stage dived at a concert and killed somebody like that rumor. It's a fly. First of all,

I've never staged dived in my life and bitch. How like kill somebody. Y'all really going to put that on my name? Like, I know I'm big, but bitch, I'm not that big that's what we said when we met her eh she wasn't no she wasn't that big no and like no she's tall she's rich she's way taller than me way taller um that is the latest it's thanks to the suicide

squad see it only what just that she had to come in and say, that's not true. First of all, she'd be in jail. Yeah, yeah. See it only in cinemas from August 5th, Tech Squad to 9696 to be into in a double pass. Who was that rapper that tried to jump that gap? And they all went short and then karate kicked somebody in the face. Really badly hurt. Joining us on the show before,

Karen O'Leary. We're going to chat to her about Wellington Paranormal and has become the number one streamed show in America this week. Got Friday Flashback coming up. And now if you'll remember, before we went on break, I said, Fletch, I think you absolutely had another mare. Another terrible choice for a Friday Flashback. I don't know.

It was well received by the general public. It didn't get the people humming. Well, this is going to get them going. Really? I made a promise to the people, and I always deliver. Okay. I always deliver. But next on the show, what happens when your nine-year-old can't swallow a pill?

Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Megan. Fletch, Vaughn and Megan, we should just correct our previous comments with the Olympic update. We said that the rowers could be up for a gold today, which would make them the first people to do gold medals at the same Olympics. Two gold medals at the same Olympics. But we've completely forgot about Daniel Loder. Somebody messaged in, Daniel Loder, two golds at the Atlanta Games in 96. Dead right.

So sorry, Daniel. What were his golds for? 200 metre freestyle and 400 freestyle. And then he got a silver at the Barcelona Olympics in the 200 metres butterfly previously. Barcelona? 92? Barcelona 92, yeah. We should have a quiz.

Lovely man too. You named the place. Haven't we? Daniel Loda, lovely man. Phenomenal. And he did it all with a ponytail. Imagine the drag on that. Imagine the drag on a ponytail.

Still has New Zealand records. For the last length, right? No, no, no. No swim cap. And for the last length, he undid the bun and just let it all fly behind him like a golden god. Did he? Beautiful head of hair, Daniel Loder.

Of course he did. Imagine if he had. What would have been epic. Statement. My oldest daughter, Indy, who's nine now. I know that blows my mind. Oh, my God. I know, it blows my mind.

Ten next year. She gets, I know, she gets smashed by mosquitoes. Like, I thought I got smashed by mosquitoes, but she gets i know she gets smashed by mosquitoes like i thought i got smashed by mosquitoes but she gets like mosquitoes there must be something that they very much like about it i don't i reckon i don't they don't like me mosquitoes not a huge thing because like say you go to the beach or something my friends will be like i've got lots of mosquitoes and they don't eat me am i not nice you're sour yeah I'm scared. And riddled. You're riddled with something. Right, okay. This girl's like tarnished.

They're like, yuck. But so she got bitten and she was all like, these are really itchy. And Shade's like, well, take an antihistamine pill. But she's always been on the antihistamine. The kids, everything for kids comes in a liquid. Like your Pamels, your liquid paracetamol. What is the, there's a kid's antihistamine, but it's like liquid. Yeah.

Oh. But she's nine. So we're like, just take. There was no kid's liquid antihistamine. So Shade's like, take one of these pills. I was like, this is going to go. I was sitting in the lounge with August. I was like, this isn't going to go well.

As far as pills go, antihistamine, a tiny pill. Tiny pill. Tiny, tiny pill. Yeah. So, it's not like a centrum, a multivitamin. Oh, I know, I know. Those are grunty, those are like horse pills. Those are horse tranquilizers size, yeah. So, she puts it in her mouth, and

she's immediately like, it's his yuck, it's his yuck. Sharday's like, swallow it. She's like, it's his yuck. Sharday's like, here.'s like Shardé's like here And then everybody Starts panicking And I'm just like thriving In this chaotic energy

That starts coursing Through her house And Shardé puts a spoon Of jam in her mouth Because apparently That's what happened to her When she was a kid Her mum

Yeah that's what I'm getting flashed I'm triggered Yeah I never had that I just drink a glass of water Or they'd crush it in jam Oh and then you chew it And you get bits of pill

In your teeth In your teeth And she's like And so. And you'd eat the jam. But it's a pill in your teeth. In your teeth. And she's like, and so she's like, swallows the jam and then she's like, the pill didn't go down. All the while she's holding

this pill in her mouth. She's like, I'm peeing it out. And Sade's like, you're not spitting it out. And then I'm just like, all right, August, it's time for us to join this

frat going down in the kitchen. So I walk in, I'm just like, swallow it. And we're'm just like, swallow it! And we're all just going, swallow it! She's like, swallow it! I'm like, don't you dare spit it out of the bin! Swallow it!

Take a drink of water. She's like, swallow it! It's like, use the saliva. It's in a pool of saliva. Swallow the poo. Swallow the poo. Swallow the poo. Is it not melted by the pill? It's dissolving.

You're going to taste every tiny piece of that pill unless you swallow it now. And everyone's just, it's so much like yelling, the dog starts freaking out. The dog's like running on the hard floor and its nails are like skidding around and everybody's freaking out and we're just like It goes on for ages and then Sade like has that mum snap

and she's like Fine! Spit it in the bin then. And I was like Don't spit it in the bin. Don't spit it in the bin. It's a trap. She does this to me all the time.

She tells you to do something. How much do you mean? And then Indy was like Conf oh, confused as to like. Why didn't she have a glass of water? She tried, but she couldn't get it in her mouth. She had so much saliva sitting in her mouth, she couldn't close her mouth around a lip because it was literally like she was tilting her head back

because it was just, the saliva was just filling up. But it's hard to tell a kid to ignore the lump in your mouth and just let it go down. You hold on to it with your tongue. I don't get when people swallow pills, like just swallow them. Try. Try. I've talked about that before.

That takes a special sort of person. You've got saliva in your mouth. Get it done. I'm always worried I get stuck and then I'm like. Have you ever swallowed Like a Panadol Or something Like one of those

You know where You go to the doctor And get a thousand Of them for three bucks Or whatever They don't have That candy coating Oh yeah

They don't slide down As well Those ones are just Like slip slide But those other ones They'll get caught Halfway down You're like

And you can just Taste it all day Yeah you're like Oh that's what I was Paying the extra Eight dollars for A lolly coating A lolly coating So it slides down You're as bad As my husband and you can just taste it all day. Yeah, you're like, oh, that's what I was paying the extra $8 for. A lollycoating. A lollycoating, so it slides down.

You're as bad as my husband. He had a little vom in the sink the other day because he couldn't swallow a pill. Kids, eh? They're cute. So Indy spat it in the bin and Andy had to spew in the sink. It's cute having these parent stories to share. ZDM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan.

Thanks, Rachel. Good morning. Welcome to the show, Fleets, Fawn and Megan. Six minutes past eight. Coming up on the show, Am I a Bad Person? Oh, yeah. It's a sticky one today. It's about moving in together, which, yeah, I don't know which way it'll go.

All right. Well, you can weigh in on this in somebody's personal situation. Decide if they're a bad person. Yeah, that's coming up. Also on the show before nine o'clock, we're going to refund somebody's bad date that they've had. A lot of people wasting money on movies, dinners, drinks. Chalk it up to personal experience.

Yeah. But we could give you your money back. Yeah, we're going to do that soon. But. Friday Flashback. This is before our holiday. Vaughn, you promised a Friday Flashback for the people. Yeah.

And you're going to deliver. Yep. I said this. Matt, I heard from some people. This came because I was busted listening to Celine Dion at the gym. I just put it on for a little bit of extra emotional dig deep. And I heard from so many people that said absolutely. Like those really like emotional anthems get them through.

Yeah, because we weren't feeling it. I've never heard of listening to a power ballad to do the exercise. Absolute power ballad at the gym. I had some real fit looking gym bras sliding into my DMs being like, you've got to do it. You've got to do it. You've got to play it. Did they send photos? Yeah, nudes. I was like,

yeah, sweet man. That's what I'm aiming for too. No, so you've got to have beats per minute at the gym. You've got to have BPM. Well, you've got to branch out and try something different. So you had Jim Browse saying this song here is... Absolutely.

Wow. Absolute gym classic. Okay. So I've looked into it. This song was written by a guy called Jim Steinman. Now, Jim Steinman, absolutely,

it sounds like you need a Jim Steinman playlist at the gym. Okay. He wrote Total Eclipse of the Heart for Bonnie Tyler, which is another absolute classic. He wrote Total Eclipse of the Heart for Bonnie Tyler, which is another absolute classic.

Yeah. He wrote Hulk Hogan's entry theme for wrestling, for his wrestling. Holding Out for a Hero by Bonnie Tyler, which if you've ever seen like any 80s movie where the hero's chasing down the bad guy or trying to get to the person he's going to save. Yeah.

A whole lot of Meatloaf action too. The person, not the recipe. In fact, when Meatloaf heard this song by Jim Steinman, he said, I want to release that. And Jim Steinman said, I wrote it for a woman. I didn't write it for a man. I wanted to, this was my attempt to write the most passionate, romantic song I could ever create.

Oh, wow. He gave it to a girl group called Pandora's Box. They recorded it, and it was that that caught the ear of Celine Dion. Oh, okay. So Celine Dion said, can I please record it? She didn't do it first. No, she did it second. And then Meatloaf got really angry because he's like,

I wanted that song. So after Celine Dion had a lot of success with it, number two in the US charts, this got two. The only thing that stopped it was the Macarena. Can you believe that? That's unfortunate timing, isn't it? Wouldn't you be gutted? You're so close to number one and Macarena's like,

Hey, Macarena! Hey! Okay, yeah, you know what? It deserved it. It was a great song. It deserved it. It was an great song. It deserved it. It was an absolute cracker of a song. So let's do it.

Let's play it. Today's Friday Flashback. Dig deep. Give me that car sing-along. Yeah. I want to hear that emotion. Yeah. It's Celine Dion's version of Jim Steinman's

It's All Coming Back to Me Now. ZM. Ross, I broke the microphone. Celine Dion, It's All Coming Back to Me Now. Ross bosses in. He's got his Celine Dion mug. Oh, my God, you're with her. Oh, what is this? This mug I have where I met Celine Dion. She's in a gold sequined

suit. When did you meet Celine Dion? When she had her concert and I went backstage and met her. Oh, my God, Look at your face. I look good there, don't I? Oh, my God. Rollercoasters and with Celine Dion. That's my good photo memories. You look so chuffed.

That was a five-minute song. That's a banger of a song. But specifically, Vaughn and Megan, you look like losers in the studio. Oh, God. I had a good time, though. I didn't feel like a loser. Like a winner, baby. I felt like a king.

I'm a winner. Just some feedback before we move on from Vaughan's. Are you even going to have a voice left? Yeah. I've actually recovered really well from that. I think you were born to sing. Cranking it. Yeah.

Well, I'm looking back. I'm on to the fourth page of texts. Oh, yeah, and it's all good, isn't it? Can't find a bad one amongst it. I did see one spew emoji, but it's all good, isn't it? Can't find a bad one amongst it. No, there was one. I did see one spew emoji, but it's gone. Yeah. That's probably Shania Twain.

Sorry, her arch nemesis, Shania Twain. Arch nemesis, but in my mind, they were. Oh, my God, I've got time for both. I've got all the time in the world for both of those. Does she still shop at Wanaka New World? No, because she still live here? No, she had to sell the ranch. But, like, did she sell them by another something here, or is she out?

I don't know. No, I thought she popped out. Oh, right. Okay. All right, so overwhelming success there. Yeah, thanks, everybody. That was great. Many messages.

Am I a bad person? So, am I a bad person? We've had a message in from a listener. There's a lot of saliva in my mouth, so I apologise. But I will attempt to read this now. So you have to decide whether you think this person is a bad person or not. Or just pass judgement on what you think they should do. Yeah, and if there's one thing New Zealanders are good at...

It's passing judgement. Passing judgement. And rowing. And rowing.. And rowing. And rowing. Yes. Rowing. And he said, my daughter said to me, why are we so good at rowing? I was like, I guess it's because of like the rivers.

She's like, well, why are we better at swimming? Fair call. I don't have an answer for you. Because the rivers are yuck. We'll boat in them, but we're not going in them. Yeah. Okay, here is the correspondence. My boyfriend and I have been together for two years,

and he moved into my flat about a year ago. We've been talking about being together forever, our future, kids, and buying a house. But whenever I talk about us moving into a place, just us, he gets weird. He says he's not ready for that, and I can't help but take that personally, being together two years.

Okay. And he has moved in with her, and I can't help but take that personally, being together two years. Okay. And he has moved in with her, so they flat together. Yeah. Right, but with other people. And they talk about their future, kids and buying a house. I guess I just want to know if I'm a bad person for putting a deadline on it. Like, if he isn't ready this time next year, I feel like I need to move on. I've always wondered about people that deadline

relationships. Do you know what I mean? Like, we've been together five years, but he doesn't want to get married, so I'm out. That doesn't seem like a compromise of... No. Everybody's just guns drawn, not willing to make any... If that's what they

want hard and fast in their life and the other person doesn't want it. But then it feels like they want that specific thing more than they want this person. Yeah, like you've got the person. What more do you need? Yeah. You're with them.

I always think if you're going to give an ultimatum, you've got to be ready for the fact that they might take it. Yeah. And if you don't want them to take it, like if ultimately if they don't want to, if she doesn't want to break up with him, you can't do the ultimatum because he might just be like, fine then.

It's like parenting. Don't make a threat that you're not willing to follow through on. Exactly. Don't call this bluff. Like you didn't stop the car that time in the motorway, did you? I did. I wouldn't say I'm going to stop this car right now unless I actually was in a place where I could stop that car right then.

Oh, yeah. But I understand the frustration because obviously they're living together. She just wants to live exclusively with him and kind of start their life. But maybe he's doing the maths. They might need to buy a couch because the couch is the other flatmates. There'd be a whole full cutlery set, Megan. Do you need that pressure?

Budgetary situation. Yeah, and then, you know, it might cost them more. Maybe that's why he's being weird about it. But she says, whenever I talk about it, and then he gets weird, maybe there's a further conversation that needs to be had. Like, I feel like this is where I want to go to next. And then he can weird maybe there's a further conversation that needs to be had. Like I feel like this is where I want to go to next and then he

can step in with how he feels. Or he's just comfortable and maybe he doesn't see it going too far into the future. But then he's well when she says we've talked about kids in a house. He hasn't been weird about that. Well you never know how the conversation has gone. Whether he's been like yeah

yeah yeah. Okay. Whether he's fully into, yeah, yeah, yeah. Or whether he's fully into it. Alright, well, maybe you've been in this situation. Yeah, shed some light from the other side of it. Does putting a deadline on it work? Yeah, have you ever put a deadline on something? Maybe you've got some advice. You've been in a similar

situation. Am I a bad person? So, this is the message that we got in. My boyfriend and I have been together for two years. He moved into my flat about a year ago. So they've been moving living together but with other people for a year. They've talked about being together

forever, kids and a house. But whenever I talk about us moving into a place he gets weird. He says he's not ready for that and I can't help but take that personally. So she wants to know if she's a bad person for putting a deadline on it. Like, if he isn't ready this time next year, I feel like I need to move on.

There's a lot of admin involved in shifting. And as somebody said, it could just be as simple as the fact that he doesn't know how to tell her that he loves the shower pressure. Oh, my God, yeah. When you find a flat with the perfect shower. Always check the shower. That's why I never moved out of that flat for, like, eight years find a flat with the perfect shower. Always check the shower.

That's why I never moved out of that flat for like eight years. Yeah, great shower. You used that shower. Wasn't that a great shower? Oh my God. No wonder Auckland had a water shortage. That thing would really pour gallons on you at a time. So what do you think, Karen?

Is she a bad person for putting a deadline on her boyfriend? No, not at all. Get to the point. Have you putting a deadline on her boyfriend? No, not at all. Get to the point. Have you put a deadline on someone before? Yep. And did it work out? It was... It did, but it hasn't subsequently because, yeah,

we ended up having children and then we've separated. Right. Yeah, I did at the time. Mainly because as a woman, we have a time frame on families and fertility, and I think that is a factor. Okay. Right, so your deadline was regarding children? Yes, it was.

Yeah, and just the age that I was. Yeah. Okay, that's fair enough. If you wanted kids, you know. Yeah, and it does make that I was. Yeah. Okay, that's fair enough. If you wanted kids, you know. Yeah, and it does make it hard. Yeah, Karen, thanks for your call. Kate, what do you think? Is she a bad person for putting a deadline on her boyfriend?

Yeah, yeah, I do. I think she's a bad person. Okay. I feel bad for saying she's bad, but... Yeah. Well, what would be your advice for her then? I think if she's... If he's the one,, like if she really wants to make a go of it and he's really the one she wants to spend the rest of her life with,

then they'll just make it work. Like putting a deadline on it shouldn't be the be all and end all. You're going to force him to make a decision one way or the other. And if it's like she wants it, he doesn't. There's resentment there. You know what she should do? Yeah, yeah. Sprinkle some asbestos in the flat ceiling and then get the house.

They have to move out. They have to move out. Because of the asbestos. Maybe some grass seed in the carpet. Oh, no, don't do that. Jesus, Kate. That can be cleaned. I'm talking long-lasting, beautiful building material.

Yeah, burn it, burn it down. Cancer-causing asbestos. Burn down the house. Let, beautiful building material. Yeah, burn it down. Cancer-causing. Burn down the house. Let's see who can live in it then. Brilliant. Kate, thanks for your call. Some messages in. Sounds like their paths may not be aligning.

You can be in love with someone, but they may not be your person. Does it make you a bad person? Sometimes you might just be the reason rent's half price. Just saying. Yeah. Someone said, my partner was a bit like this, really reluctant to move out of the flat. Turns out he was sleeping with one of the other flatmates.

Don't put that on her. Might not be the case. That's why only if I ever go flatting again, you've got to have less attractive flatmates than your partner. Yeah. So they don't cheat on you. What if they have a better personality than you? Damn it!

No, see, that's going to be easy for my wife if we ever have to go flat in again. No one quite measures up. You're right. Someone said if you've been cohabitating with them for two years, then you can pretty much have half their stuff anyway. So you could always just say, it's going to be cheaper for you to move in with me.

This is a healthy relationship built on the foundations of blackmail. My husband put a den light on marriage and kids with me. Oh, wow. That's a reverse the other way around. If it's any other man, I would have run him a mega commitment for, but the fear

of not having him in my life was way worse. It worked great for him because it erased his fears that I was waiting for someone better, which apparently is what he always considered my commitment phobe. He interpreted it as I was just waiting for someone better. One eye on the door. Yeah. I dated a guy for 13 years.

We shared two kids. I broke up with him when he said, before we can get married, I have to get along with his family, who were horrible and toxic and awful to me, so it was something I couldn't accomplish. So the outies. Wow, okay. Yeah.

So if you had to put a percentage on it, is she a bad person for putting a deadline on her boyfriends and the relationship? Nah. I'd say the majority of text messages would side saying it's kind of fair enough because you've got expectations, you've got somewhere you want to be, and if they don't want to fit into your time frame that badly, you're not a bad person for saying so. All right.

Fact of the Day is next. It's another Olympic Fact of the Day. Play ZM's Fleshphone and Megan. Fact of the Day, day, day, day, day. Yeah. Firstly, I've got a follow-up from yesterday's Fact of the Day where we talked about a whole lot of nations that had never won Olympic medals. Oh, is this a correct...

And San Marino was on the list. Is this a correction? Had they won a... Yesterday, they won their first ever Olympic medal in the shooting. Yay! Alessandra Pirelli. That was a landlocked little country in Europe, isn't it? It's the least visited country in Europe, and it looks beautiful.

Has like 60,000 people. Yep. San Marino. And if you're from San Marino, you get called a Samarinese. There's five Samarinese athletes there. So how many nations left that have never won a gold medal? What does that mean? No, no, it's not a gold medal.

Any medal at all. Any medal at all. She won a bronze medal. Okay. And what was it? In trap. So shooting. Oh, yep, yep, yep.

In this trap shooting. Oh, nice. So, yeah, she was so stoked, like, in tears and stuff. She'll probably be on a banknote. She's got a cool-looking shotgun too. Does it have a silencer? Not on a shotgun. Oh.

This isn't John Wayne, mate. I mean, I know nothing, but I know that. I don't know why, but in movies, I get so fizzed when they have a silencer, because I'm like, hee-hee. I don't know why. I don't think you can get a shotgun, but it would be very rare, because they're so noisy.

They're like the loudest guns like a.22 and stuff like where you're hunting and trying to be stealth yeah but no one's walking up to a deer with a shotgun and getting close enough

and be like hey deer a boom you can get one yeah I know but not many people who would they wouldn't put one on

for the Olympic shooter look at this it's like a big muscle at the end of it they actually do have one huge can might do that when I do my next playbird shooting it's also the smallest on for the Olympic shooter. Look at this. It's like a big muscle at the end of it. They actually do have one. Huge can. Might do that when I do my next

playbird shooting. It's also the smallest country to ever win a medal. Yeah. So, yeah, because the Vatican won't balls up. The Pope won't get out there

and give the marathon a go. You said she might end up on a banknote. Yeah. Which brings us nicely to today's fact of the day. But they use Euro notes, so do they?

Yeah. Yeah, so I was... Today's fact of the day. But they use Euronotes, so do they? Yeah. Yeah, so I was... Today's fact of the day is when Fiji won the gold medal in the sevens at the 2016 Olympics, Fiji issued a $7 note. Two million $7 banknotes. I can't deal with... I would have felt better if it was like six or eight. I know.

Why not an even... Seven. Seven dollars. The only known $7 notes in circulation in any country around the world. No, that does my head in. No. Put out a coin. They did as well.

50 cent coins. But what's the number seven? $7. It's because they're the sevens. Oh, yeah. Sevens goal. Okay, that's quite clever then. That's why they did a $7 man.

But still, that's annoying. That's going completely over our heads. They did 1,050,000 coins as well with English-born seven coach Ben Ryan on one side and the Fijian players hoisting it on the other. The $7 note was literally a photo of the sevens team hoisting their coach up. And are they going to talk about another one after this latest win? Well, yes, they will need to because they couldn't just redo that one. A, the players have changed, but also the coaches changed. It's now Gareth Baber.

Right. Now, they need to have a $14 note. That'd be great. Because of two sevens. Yeah, two sevens, 14. That's pretty cool. So, yeah, maybe they will. Maybe because they're very happy to celebrate and it is kind of Fiji's going through it at the moment. Oh, yeah, it's

horrendous numbers. Really? Was there 1,000 or something cases yesterday? Yeah, but then did you see them all out celebrating? Yeah. I know, I was like, guys, let's celebrate at home. We did yesterday screaming at the TV when the girls won gold in the double skulls.

Ah, but they're very excited. So today's fact of the day is after winning the gold for the sevens at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics Fiji printed a $7 note. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. I 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. Alright, the latest is coming up. Britney's former manager releases some voicemails Britney left him. Details next. From iHeartRadio, this is The Latest.

Britney's former manager, Sam Lutfi, her parents, if you remember back in the day, claimed that he exploited her during her mental breakdown. He has released four voicemail messages. I've listened to them all. Some of them are a little bit hard to hear because they are from back in the day. He says around 2009.

He doesn't give exact dates. Okay. He's released these before, but in light of everything that's come out recently, he decided to release them again. So basically, this is Brittany asking Sam Lutby to help her out with the conservatorship, and she is worried that she's going to lose her kids.

Hi, my name's Brittany Spears. I called you earlier, but I'm calling again because I just wanted to make sure during the process of ending the conservatorship that my father has threatened me several times that he'll take my children away. I just want to be guaranteed that everything will be fine with the process of you guys taking care of everything

and things are being the same as far as my custodial. Okay, bye. She sounds pretty, she sounds pretty aware and clued up to me. Matter of fact, yeah. But in case you didn't hear it, she said, I just want to make sure my dad said that he would take my kids away. Yeah. Well, let's see.

You're listening to a podcast about all of this. So I'm listening to Pieces of Me, which is a BBC podcast, and it just breaks down how the media treated Brittany and how we got to this point. But it's very in-depth. The main thing I've realised from this is it is a voluntary conservatorship, which no one told her. She wasn't told that, though, was she?

She wasn't told that at any time she could petition. And it is a process to go through what she's going through now, but she wasn't told that she could petition this and get out of it. And what was it, end of August or September? End of September, the court will rule on that. But I believe that her family have said from here on out, a lot of the proceedings will be sealed, so we may not know details.

And it could take a year before she even gets out or anything major happens in the case. Refund Your Date is a segment on me. I depend on me. Refund your date is a segment where we talk to people who feel like they've been ripped off from a date they've had and they want their money back. Yeah, maybe you want a refund for the dinner,

the movie tickets that you've wasted on someone. Yeah, and you know it's a juicy story when Anonymous is on the phone. Good morning. Hello. All right, Anonymous, tell us what happened on this date. So I drove about 40 minutes to go see this guy that I'd met. And he was like, oh, cookie dinner.

I was like, okay, cool. So I drove out there and I got their head made burnt venison on spaghetti on toast for dinner. What? Venison? No, that's flesh. Yeah, no, it was flesh, but it was disgusting. The expensive meat due to the burnt spaghetti on toast,

that's quite a... Had he hunted his own venison? Yes, he had. He had. So it's not expensive, it was just time. It was free. Yes. Okay, right.

Yeah. When he said, I'm cooking you dinner, had you also done any background digging, like questions like, oh, are you a chef? What's your favourite dish? How good are you at cooking? No, I'm cooking you dinner, had you also done any background digging, like questions like, oh, are you a chef? What's your favourite dish? How good are you at cooking? No, that was not a mistake.

I really should have done that. Yeah, okay. All right, so did you eat the venison on spaghetti and toast? I tried to. So we had the dinner, and then we sat there and we watched TV for a little bit, and he was like, oh, I've just got to take this phone call. So we went outside, and he was like, oh, my best friend's just take this phone call. So we went outside, and he was like, oh, my best friend's just called. His mum's passed away.

You've got to go. And I was like, oh, I'm so sorry. And I, like, left, and I left, and I texted him the next day, and I was like, hey, how's it going? Never heard from him, but we actually went to high school together, so I knew that none of his friends' mothers had passed away. Oh! You can't use someone you know as well.

So wait, I'm beginning to think he burnt the venison on purpose to drive you away. You ate it reluctantly. You're both, like, not enjoying it, but you don't know how to say it. Yeah, yeah. It was probably a blessing in disguise that it happened. Yeah, right. Okay.

Well, and so you said you had to drive quite fast, so your refund, I'm guessing we're refunding you not for the tins of spaghetti because he paid for those, but for the fuel. Yeah. I'd rather refund him because it'll be cheaper. Probably oak spaghetti too, so it's probably like $1.50 for two tins. A loaf of dollar bread.

Yeah, yeah. How much do you need anonymous? I think I might have spent probably close to $100 on petrol. Jeez. Wow. For burnt venison on spaghettino toast. All right, Morn, you're going to feed.

I'll feed it into the date refund of $3,000. Your date refund request has been... Accepted. Yay! Accepted, accepted. You might be wondering why we're back to using the $3,000 from the $6,000.

I've sent the $6,000 back. Oh, right. You might be wondering why we're back to using the $3,000 from the $6,000. I've sent the $6,000 back. It's just stopped working, isn't it? It was an upgrade that wasn't worth it. Happiest with what I know at the $3,000. Congratulations, Anonymous. $100 cash. Awesome. Thank you so much.

And if you would like to nominate yourself for a refund, it's super easy. Send us a message on our socials, FVMZM, or just go to ZM online. It's just suicide. Well, that's kind of our thing. ZM's Fleshborn and Megan and the Suicide Squad. The Suicide Squad. It's a star-studded cast

including Idris Elba, Margot Robbie, John Cena. Margot Robbie actually on the show with us next week. We've got an interview with her. Yeah. On Thursday when the movie's out.

August 5, it's in cinemas. Read some reviews. They're saying it's James Gunn's best movie. Well. August 5, it's in cinemas. Read some reviews. They're saying it's James Gunn's best movie. Well, you've seen it so you can probably... I loved it.

Yeah, it was great, wasn't it? It was fantastic. So good. Right, we have a chance for you to win, Sammy. Good morning. Good morning. Sammy, we've got

the whole Suicide Squad in studio. Who do you want to pick from our lineup? I will go with The Thinker. The Thinker played by Peter Capaldi. You might know from Doctor Who or Malcolm Tucker.

It looks like he's got spark plugs coming out of his... Or he's from that Lewis Capaldi music video. Sure. Now why do you want The Thinker in your squad? I did have a think about this. It's Friday.

My brain doesn't really work at the end of the week, so I feel like I need that telepathic ability. Yeah, good. You need the thinker. He can do the thinking for you. Megan, if you flick that around, what's the cash amount behind the thinker? He can also bankroll you because he's got $1,000. Oh, my God $1,000. Oh my gosh.

Sammy, congratulations. $1,000. Nice. Oh my gosh. Well done. What are you going to spend that on? Well, my partner and I are hoping to go to Australia at the end of the year, so it'll be spending money. That'll be like a third of MIQ.

Yeah. Hey, you're good luck. Hopefully it's all cleared up and you can spend it on a holiday. Well done, Sammy. Thank you so much. All right, next on the show, a doctor has weighed in on this thing that we're all doing when we get hungover. Hungover. Yeah, who knew?

And we shouldn't be doing it. Play ZM's Flesh, Vaughan and Megan. Nine. Well, this is something I am guilty of. I've done it. You've done it. If you're hung over, you take a couple of paracetamols or pre-pennies.

I'll get home. Pre-bed pennies. I'll have some pre-bed pennies. With a powerade beside your bed. Yes. I just have one of my Sodaies. With a powerade beside your bed. Yes. I just have one of my SodaStream bottles full of cold water, ready for that 3 a.m., 4 a.m. Dries.

Yeah. And I'll do a couple of pre-bed panties. And I was like, this is fine. It works for me. Uh-huh. Well, a doctor, he's quite popular on TikTok. I love finding out medical and dental advice I know

Because what did we learn from the No, there's no dancing The dentist the other day This week about the mouthwash You shouldn't do it right after you brush Anna Henderson dental Anna Henderson dental Don't mouthwash after you brush

Has she heard our jingle yet? I don't know if it's Anna Peterson, wasn't it? Anna Peterson Oh, Anna Peterson dental Yeah, it? Anna Peterson. Anna Peterson. Dental. Yeah, so she's dishing out the TikTok dental advice. But Dr. Karana on TikTok, an English-based doctor, he has said that you should not take Panadol when hungover or drinking because you're risking severe damage to your liver cells

because of the way that the alcohol in the body breaks it down and you're producing toxic products. So you can actually be doing your liver damage. He's saying you should do ibuprofen, which is norepinephrine. Yeah. You still can have something. Well, he's saying that, yeah, if you were, but I mean, I guess taking any drug,

it's Panadol, Ibuprofen, it's a drug, isn't it? Yeah. I guess, yeah. But the way that Panadol breaks down is toxic because of the way

alcohol breaks down. So he recommended taking, if you've got a headache, Ibuprofen instead of paracetamol. Huh. But yeah. Big roof and money.

Big roof and money. I don't know. Where's he at with a greasy drive-thru? ZM's Fleshworn and Megan. you you you you you you