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

Episode Date: March 29, 2021

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Hello, welcome to the Fleeche, Vaughan and Megan with Hayley Sproul podcast. Thanks to McCafe, download the Maccas app, buy five McCafe coffees, get one free. It's done, it's free, the ever given. It's free, it's no longer lodged sideways in the Suez Canal. God, it reminds me of a horrible constipation I had when I was in Tokyo once. Really, it was sideways, was it? Yeah, the sideways lodge, the day it was free there was tears of applause. Yeah. My lord. Yeah, did you get

some international tugboats in to bunch you in the right direction? No, I just spent some time by myself. Right. Squeezing it out sideways. Yeah. We pulled it off, said Bosculus, a salvage company that helped with the operation. A successful salvage operation

of the grounded 200,000 sorry 20,000 container ship. Blows my mind how many containers were on that thing.

Absolutely mind blowing. Imagine like how many would you fit in this room? Two? Four? I reckon four long ones on top of each other.

You wouldn't fit a 40 foot container in here. You'd struggle to fit a 20-foot container in here. See, that's how big it is. I can't even fit in it. I think Bourne's depth is... That's not seven metres. What is that?

That's like five metres tops. Get a fucking ruler. No way, Asia. Get a fucking ruler. No way. Get a fucking ruler. Get a fucking ruler. That's eight metres at least.

That's not fucking eight metres, you madman. I'm going to say six metres. We've got a six metre wide studio. We do have a chody wide studio, don't we? It is. How long, how many big... I just did some big steps and I reckon it was about six and a half to seven. Yeah.

So you reckon it's seven. So you're telling me it's 20 foot across. Six, see? Okay. Six. Seven. And that's on Jared's bloody phone. That's not even an actual tape measure.

I think we'll take that as six-ish, you know? Yeah, so you could fit a giant. No, the giant one's 40 foot. You said a giant one, four on top of it. No, there's no way. There's 20,000 giant ones on there. No, there's 20,000 TEUs. Oh, that makes more sense to me.

Containers, of course, of course. Now I understand the type of shipping container. We've got a big studio. There's no way we put that many in here, though. All I'm saying is... Stop sizing up your studio, okay? Because someone's going to meet the studio in real life and be really disappointed because you've told them how big it is and then they get it out and it's little.

Always measure from under the balls. Always measure from under the balls. Always measure from under the balls. Always measure from under the balls. If you're going from the top, you're absolutely shortcutting yourself. You are, yes. You're missing a whole chunk there. And then if anybody complains, you just say, well, you haven't measured from under the balls. You didn't get all the way down to the balls.

It's like a cat's tail. You measure it from the arsehole. That's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. Absolutely. Right. So apparently it's moving. Now, latest reports are that it is moving at a speed of 1.5 knots towards the lake.

Because I assume it can't just get back on with its journey, right? It'll have to have an investigation as to if it's... Yeah, there's been some penetration, I think. There may be some damage. Has there been some hull penny? I believe there's been some hull penny. Oh, God. The big bulbous ball at the front.

I hope not. The big double, yeah. I hope it's all... Because that's the other thing. Where are they going to repair that? It's an absolute monster. Yeah. I think the repairs will have to come to it.

Yeah. But where are they going to park up? Have they cleared it enough that other boats, other things can go past? Yeah, so that's why it's moving into the lake, so that it clears those skinnier passages. Because there's lakes and stuff in part of the Suez Canal. Because we were talking about the millions it costs an hour that they're losing, world trade and shipping and stuff.

But yeah, I think Egypt as well lost like $9 million in tolls. Because you have to pay a toll. That's a lot of money. To go through the Suez. That's more money than I'll make in a month. On your big TV money. Your GDP is up there with Egypt's. The Suez Canal,

suezcanalblockage.com was taking guesses of how long it would take to get it dislodged. And they were using the formula of how much money it was costing per hour and how much freight was being held up. $43 billion was the estimated cost

due to the ship blocking the Suez Canal. And at the end of it, before they moved everything, there was $59 billion worth of freight held up with all the ships waiting to get through. These numbers are staggering. We're like, oh my gosh, can you imagine being the captain of this ship? Oh, you're not getting a job after this, are you? Although they're saying it was a sandstorm darude yeah apparently it was the wind yeah i was wrong with my tolls 95 million and lost tolls oh

you just missed a few i missed a whole about 90 million yeah basically wow i mean that's too much that's the kind of thing that would make me just be like, this is too much. I can't even think about that. That number. Gosh. Good morning. Welcome to the show. Fleeche Warner Megan with Hayley Sproul. Put your hanky down.

That is disgusting. Don't hanky shame me. I'm saving the planet. I'm not shaming you. I don't have pockets today. I'm just shaming you for putting your hanky shame me. I'm saving the planet. I'm not shaming you. I don't have pockets today. I'm just shaming you for putting your hanky down your bra. It's fresh from the nose as well. Yeah, straight from her.

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That's all. Now, just the news overnight, there has been a big blaze at a Christchurch pizza factory. You may have heard Rachel just mention this in the news. This is at the Romano's Pizza Factory. You know they make all the, aren't they all the supermarket pre-made? The little oven-y bits.

The ones that you grab and you just chuck in the oven. Do they do the garlic bread as well? Yes. They do? Yes. Now, apparently this was overnight, and I believe you may still be able to, as they're saying here, to quote somebody, people may wake up smelling smoke this morning.

Oh, my God. Surely you wouldn't be smelling pizza. Oh, my God. Imagine waking up to beautiful bacon, cheese, my God. Surely you wouldn't be smelling pizza. Oh, my God. Imagine waking up to beautiful bacon, cheese and onion. Can somebody in Christchurch around Hillsborough, where the Christchurch Pizza Factory is, please call us. Open the window and have a big sniff.

Open the window and tell us if it smells like pizza. If you're in Hillsborough, in Christchurch, 0800 dials at M now. We need a pizza sniff report. I'm just having a look at the Romano's website at their products. I'm hoping we need a pizza sniff report. I'm just having a look at the Romano's website at their products. I'm hoping to smell a barbecue chicken. Is it a barbecue chicken?

It's a barbecue chicken. It was smoky bacon. Oh, yeah, right. Okay. Those ones that you're referring to there, the plastic wrap that you can see through the top, it seems to have a bit more topping on it than you're... If I go to the supermarket and the pizza and the frozen section's in a box, I feel like they're hiding something.

And generally they're hiding, they're skimping on the cheese. Yeah, maybe on the spinach, low on the cheese. Yeah, but you can see when it's the Romano's, you can see how much cheese is on there. So you can really pick which one really tickles your fancy. I'm so hungry for pizza. They needed 11 fire trucks or appliances. Holy cow.

So that must have been a blaze, which is terrible because, you know, that will mean obviously people are out of jobs today or... Hopefully it won't take too long to get back to some kind of normality. But, yeah, if you can smell pizza, let us know. Coming up, the top six. Yeah, there is a wood shortage. Not so much a shortage because we're still growing the trees. And if you've ever been past one of our many ports,

you'll see like 10 bajillion logs sat there. Yeah. But they're being exported. It's apparently going to leave New Zealand wholesalers and timber merchants short on timber. So we've got the top six other things we can build our houses from. Fleshforn and Megan, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast.

ZM. This story at multiple parts of it seems like it might be a joke. Yeah. But it's not. It's serious. It's a very serious issue to the potato growing portion of New Zealand. Right. That slice of the horticultural pie. Okay. Hot chips are being dumped in New Zealand. Right. That slice of the horticultural pie.

Okay. Hot chips are being dumped in New Zealand, but in their frozen manner. Oh, not like on the beach for the seagulls to have a go at? No. No, God, you don't want to do that. God, you'd never get rid of them. Oh, you're starting an absolute frenzy.

That's also, that many birds pooping in one place like that, that's also, you've got avian bird flu 2.0 on the horizon if you keep doing that last thing we need is another blooming flu running around exactly

unless that flu takes on the current flu sort of a King Kong Godzilla situation have we tried that? finding flu with flu

yeah I'm I'm willing to try anything well not me personally but let's leave that to the professionals. Are there people that know?

I think so, yeah. Okay. So I remember this was a problem last year because Europe, they've been in lockdown the whole last year, so they're not going out and eating chips. The demand has slumped because hot chips are getting eaten less in restaurants, et cetera. I've got to say, if you're going to Europe and ordering a bowl of fries,

you should just stay home. Because we've got them here. Yeah. And they're pretty good. It's like when people go overseas and go to your classic fast food restaurants in a foreign city. You're like, come on, live a little. Oh, Pizza Hut in Hong Kong, though.

They do a bloody good pizza. Is that from experience or was that just a random place? Well, the first I went to Hong Kong like a number of years in a row and I was a teenager and I wasn't very adventurous with my food. So I went to Pizza Hut like every day. Oh, I don't know. Really? Yeah.

I'm not like that anymore. Okay. Brunch out and trust the things. Yeah, I'll get like a pasta dish or something. From Pizza Hut. And Hong Kong. Known for their pasta, aren't they, Hong Kong? Yeah, sandwiches and pasta.

Of course. Well, the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment has now launched an investigation into this dumping of frozen, cheap frozen fries from Europe. Because I don't know if they targeted us specifically and were like, they'll eat them. Have you seen them? Have you seen New Zealanders? They'll eat them.

We love fries. Of course we will. They're not wrong. So they launched an investigation because evidence was presented by Potatoes New Zealand. Which is an actual collective. That is not a thing. It is. A collective or a company.

Potatoes New Zealand. No, I guess it's like, maybe it's a co-op where it represents potato growers in New Zealand. They have a website. PotatoesNZ.co.nz. So is it like an equity type situation? I don't know, but they've said... A union. The European market has an excess of 500,000 tonnes of frozen fries.

So 500,000, 1,000 kgs. Wow, okay. So it's not 500,000 kgs, it's 500,000 tonnes, and a tonne is 1,000 kgs. 500,000 thousands. Yes. And so they have to find them somewhere and apparently they're selling them to New Zealand at a loss

just to get rid of them. But the problem is that affects local potato sales. And these people in New Zealand, you're looking at the board of New Zealand Potato, are you? I am. Here's the board of New Zealand Potato. Is Chris Claridge still up there? No, there's Mike.

Now you've got Berat, Tony, Darcy. You're emotional, aren't you? I'm getting emotional. John, John, Stuart and Paul. And they all look like they love a spud. Oh, huge fans of the spud. Of course there's a Tony, John, Stuart and Paul. Yeah, and they're all the colour of a spud.

Yeah. Doing the Lord of a spud. Yeah. So. Good doing the Lord's work, though. Oh, yeah, exactly. Who doesn't love a bloody lovely starchy spud? Ooh, mash them, roast them, scallop them. Oh, scalloped potatoes. Scallop those tates.

So, yeah, we're getting, they're being dumped in New Zealand. So how do we know if we want to support local, how do we know that the spuds from overseas? And where overseas are they coming from? Was it Belgium? Europe and Belgium specifically. And they said this is just the start of it because they've actually planted more potatoes than ever in Europe.

But, you know, when you say they're dumping them, surely they've got an address that they're sending them to or are they just doing anonymous dumps? I don't know. Is it like drop boxing? Yeah. Is it like influencers being like,

hey guys, swipe up to make the most of my potato code. I would happily receive some fries and do an Insta post. Yeah. I've got a few followers.

Vaughan 20 and you can get them delivered straight to your door. I would like to be on the receiving end of these potatoes. I'd like to support local, but I'd like to be gifted international. Right.

But they've been dug up over there. They've probably been sitting in the Suez Canal for a week as well. They've been all green and rooty. Processed. No, because they arrive as frozen chips. So they do all the processing over there and they're arriving here as frozen chips. Can we repurpose them into different sort of forms of potatoes? Like put the chips into a blender and make it mash crispy potatoes.

But it's still overseas potatoes. We've got enough here. Do you know what I made at the weekend? We went out on Saturday night and had all these leftover chips because Shardy's like, all of the girls' chips. I was like, they won't eat the chips because they'll just pick at our chips and then we're going to have excess chips. But I'm not right ever.

At the end of the night, we pretty much took home all of their chips. So I guess I won that one. You were right. The next morning I made hash browns out of the leftover chips. It was so good. Because did you add more oil? I cooked it in beef fat. Yeah, so yum.

Oh, ouch. So I mashed it up And I put in like onions And like capsicum and ham And all the stuff and then egg and a bit of flour So it stuck together and I was like smashing it with my hands And then fried it again In beef fat How is your family

So slender With beef fat recooked fries. Fries in it, yeah. From your dinner out the night before. Yeah, that was good stuff. Aw, can we have some? Can you make us some? Yeah, yeah, I'll make some.

I'll make some more. They were really good. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. So the first of their new police cars, Skodas, will be rolled out from now until the end of June. God, it doesn't feel like that long ago that a skoda was like a joke. Well, yes, I googled why just before we're going to talk about this. I was like, why were skodas a joke?

Right. And I found this article from The Guardian in the UK. They're a Czech car company. Yeah. And they were bought over or taken over by Volkswagen. Oh, that's right. And like 20 years ago or something. Right, so Volkswagen

have turned them around, have they? Yeah, basically. And there were jokes like, why do Skodas have rear wash wipers to remove the flies that crash into them? Oh, yeah. And they were called

skips with sunroofs. Wow. Wow, brutal take. Now they're going to be chasing out our most dangerous criminals. Yeah, and I think they were a bit like the Larders back in the day. Yeah, Soviet. Soviet. Probably a lot of it just rooted in the fact that in the Cold War,

it was anything done by that sort of communist belt of states was considered inferior. Yeah, basically. Hangover from that. But, yeah, so these are station wagons, and the police say that they're safer, more comfortable, value for money, and reduce the carbon emissions, so that's a good thing.

But it's the first time that they've ditched Holden and Ford. Yeah. Because that's been the New Zealand police fleet forever. It's going to be a real shift in the brain, isn't it? Because every time you see a Holden or a Ford, you're like, oh, any more additional aerials on that? Yeah, what kind of wheels you got there? Is that an undercover car?

Undercover car. Is that guy in police uniform or just wearing a blue polo? Yeah, can't see. That's the thing now. Will the undercover cars be just Skoda station wagons? I guess so. With lots of aerials? Do you reckon if you cars be just Skoda station wagons? I guess so. With lots of aerials? Do you reckon if you already had

a Skoda, you'd just buy a couple of fake aerials, stick it on and cut your way through traffic because everyone slams their brakes on around you? Yeah. Well, my friend Morgan has a Fabia, which she calls Labia, the Skoda Labia, and that's like a little red, looks like a little red, like

I guess equivalent of like a little runaround car, like a little Suzuki Swift or something. Right, like a little small one. And that's been going for years. It's a good, reliable car. Yeah. Big Skoda money now? I'm not so much of a European car user.

I've been raised to believe that they're expensive. Yeah. You know, to fix and to maintain. Yeah, to fix. But every car's expensive to fix and maintain, isn't it, really? I love a Mazda. You're a Mazda girl, are you? Yeah.

Nice and cheap. My Honda's very close to a quarter of a million. Yeah, I'm surprised that's still. You've crashed that a few times. Yeah, well, my last Mazda was 340,000 kilometres. Yeah. 2005. That's the good stuff, eh? So I just bought the same few times. Yeah, well, my last Mazda was 340,000 kilometres. Yeah. 2005. That's the good stuff, eh?

So I just bought the same car again. Yeah. But maybe I need a shorter. You're going to be like a Burmese. You buy the same brand forever. You will see me in a Mazda 3 to the day I die. Yeah. So have you seen the new Suzuki Jimny's?

Jimny's? Oh, they're quite square looking, aren't they? Yeah. I call them a Land Rover on a budget. It looks like... Oh, no. It looks like a... Yeah, right.

I've sat in one of those at the weekend, and I look like that guy in that episode of The Simpsons where Nelson Muntz laughs at him, and he pulls over and he's like, are you laughing at me because it says my automobile? I just look like this giant man in a little... little Jimny. Yeah, right.

Well, they come with Perspex screens. Who do? The new police skodas. Where? Not just to buy. Oh, between the front and the back. But as a man with children, is that an option I can get in my ordinary car? That'd be nice.

No, you need like the limo one that's like, bye. Yeah, yeah. Shut up. No, yep. Solidate yourselves. Bye. Fight amongst yourselves. Bye.

That would make a road trip so great. Oh. Oh, my gosh. They could project a little movie onto it at the back. They could. Everyone's happy. It could be a two-way mirror. Mum and Dad's at the front.

Flesh, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. ZM. From the bustling ZM think tank, this is the top six. Hello. This is weird. Over the weekend, it was kind of talked about that there's going to be a shortage of wood because Carter Holt Harvey are going to maybe stop supplying major retailers like Mitre 10, Bunnings, Placemakers, ITM,

all those places that you go and you get a trailer load of wood and you strap it on and you tie it down and then you go, you're not going anywhere. And then you drive home with a little bit of orange tape on the back so nobody just plows into the back of your trailer and be like, I didn't even see that load of wood. That sort of stuff. And I don't know, it seems that it's getting sent overseas.

And I have just learnt that Carter Holt Harvey is a New Zealand company controlled by Rank Group Limited, which is owned by the country's richest man, Graham Hart. And so they're sending it overseas because they can make more money. I believe so. Wow. I believe so. Wow. I believe so. Look at the housing prices. Look at that wood.

Yeah, I know. Well, that's the thing. Yeah. This is only going to make products more expensive and actually mean that some people can't get a hold of the wood to keep the building. And then builders are going to have to keep paying staff even because they might have them on contracted salaries. Oh, no.

And then they can't be making the money because they can't build any houses and people won't pay for houses on the promise that they'll be built one day. And then there's going to be more downtime on the construction sites. There'll be more V and Monster Energy drunk and pies. That'll make obesity go through the roof. Yeah, or they'll cut back on staff. Divorce rates will soar. Yes.

With obesity going, you know, suddenly your partner's coming home. You're like, who are you? You're a builder. You're supposed to have like a hot bod because you do nothing but physical labour all day. Yeah. Look what this is sparking. It's a butterfly effect, isn't it? It is. Small flat plant around the world. Do you think we're being alarmists

here? Nope. If there's one thing I've learned about the media, it's that even if it's completely unfounded, you can't be too alarmist these days. And then I can't build a shelf. No, exactly. Because there's no wood. Yeah. Where are you going to put all your stuff?

So that gets broken. Yeah. Heirlooms. Then you might have a kid. What are they going to get when they... You go to put it on the shelf that you thought you remembered building, but you didn't build it, and it falls and it smashes. That's great.

You're going to break my foot, and then I end up in hospital. Thanks to New Zealand's richest man, Graham Hart, I don't have a shelf here. But I'll tell you who does have a shelf. The Chinese middle class. Because it's all been exported. It's all going over there. Wow, this really snowballed, didn't it?

Well, I think it's based in fact. It started in fact. Starts in fact, ends in light xenophobia. Yeah. That's how the media and news conglomerates work. But anyway, there's going to be like a wood shortage. And, you know, me, Silver Lining Smith, they call me. Yeah, they do.

Never one to let facts get him down. He'll find a workaround. The top six things you can build houses out of. You ready? Yep. I'm ready. Let's do this. Number six, bricks.

Hello. Do you remember the three pigs? The one with the best house at the end of it? Yeah. It'm ready. Let's do this. Number six, bricks. Hello. Do you remember the three pigs? The one with the best house at the end of it? Yeah. He didn't build it out of sticks. He didn't build it out of straw. He built it out of bricks. Dirt bricks.

Let's make some more bricks. Come on, people. Are brick houses as secure as wooden houses, though? Because they don't move as much. No, but like... And we're in quake country. Warmer. And cooler in summer and warmer in winter.

Because my parents will always say after a hot day, all the bricks are warm. Yeah. Yeah, I live in a brick house and it's hot in there. Do you ever say that? All the bricks are warm. No, but I'm going to say it. You should touch the bricks next time it's a hot day.

Well, today I feel like they might be wet. Oh, the bricks are wet. Yeah, say that. That's good. Real weather predicted the old brick, isn't it? Yeah. And if you're going to plant some frangipani, you plant it on the north-facing brick wall.

Because it uses that warmth at the end of the day. We'll catch up about this gardening later. About frangipani? Yeah. I am so keen to plant some frangipani. I love a frangipani. Frangipani in Jasmine, imagine. Moving on.

Oh, I'm happy. Number five on the list of the top six things you can build houses out of. Ice. Hello. Have you guys seen how the people of Alaska do it? Yeah. The people who, the Inuit tribes. Yeah.

And like most fridges have ice makers these days. So just make a new, like if it melts, just make a new one. That'd be a real lifestyle shift, that one. It would be. Be coming home from being in the office in your civvies. You have to go home and put on your seal fur coat. But quite warm inside due to the insulation. That's what I've always heard about the igloo.

Seal fur coat. Cancelled. That's the only way to keep warm in an igloo. What about just a Kathmandu puffer? I've been down the east coast of the South Island? There's so many of them. Bart, stink too. Give that coat a wash before you wear it.

Oh, yeah. Club. Oh, my God. Get him out. You can't stop me now. I'm not standing by this. All right, Andrew Hoare. I was going to give you that.

No, he shoots. Oh, yeah. He famously shot once. Shot a seal while out fishing. No, I'm talking about clubbing, preparing, always wash. But again, I'm kidding. Number four on the list of the top six things you can build houses out of are a series of old water tanks connected through tunnels.

Oh, okay. Sort of like, I don't know, this sounds cool though, like little wee rooms and then you go through a little wee doorway into the next water tank. Sounds ratty. Yeah, it does. It could be underground. It sounds dank, quite drippy and ratty, like a sewer. It doesn't have to be underground.

You guys have automatically put this underground. I was thinking it could be above ground. Okay. Put a whack of window in there. Number three on the list of the top six things you can build houses out of, paper mache. Oh, yeah. I know if you take that back a few processes, it is wood that gets pulped, turned into paper,

and then, you know, you with some glue and a balloon. Yeah, I've got a bit of a background with paper mache. I did that at school. Balloon. Yes. Paper mached, and then I put egg cartons on for trotters and a snout and made a pig. A little pig.

And then a pipe cleaner for the tail. Did you advance to when you were moulding your own shapes of chicken wire? Yes. And then papilla mashing. I did a penguin. Oh, my gosh. Yeah. Really?

Yeah. That's clever. That's quite the artiste. I don't believe it. You probably intended to make a penguin, but it looked more abstract. Yeah, abstract penguin. There it is. Number two on the list of the top six things you can make houses out of

if we've got a wood shortage, Lego. Yeah. That makes sense to me. Lego, structural. You'll need a lot of Lego, but have you ever tried pulling that shit apart? Hard work. Especially when you've got the thin layers on thin layers. Yeah.

The thinner the layer, almost the stronger it is. There's that orange tool now to help them pull apart, but even that can really work on those thin layers. We'll be like, where's Vaughn? He's late for work and you're stuck in your house because your foot can't get off the little circle you're stuck on. Oh, yeah. In your lounge.

Or I forgot to build a door. Yes, that too. Or I didn't do the joins in the corners like overlapping and my whole wall just went pop and fell over like that. Yeah, that's a crisis. It'll happen drafty. And number one on the list of the top six things you can build houses out of if there's a shortage of wood, ramen noodles.

Everyone's building, you know, fixing their toilet and stuff with ramen noodles. I see those videos online. Get a bit of resin, get a bit of ramen noodle. Have you never seen a noodle resin video on Facebook? I'm going to look it up. Search fixing the sink is the best one.

They fix a sink with ramen noodles. And they fix holes in the wall. They fix everything with ramen noodles. I've heard about, you know,

like crumbing up stuff to fill holes in wood. It's like that. Yeah, it's like that but filling entire things. That is today's top six. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. George R.R. Martin.

Too many R's. Too many, one too many R's. George R.R. Martin. George R.R. Martin. The author of Game of Thrones. Yep. Yep. He has just signed a five-year, eight-figure deal for more HBO projects.

Huh. Now, see, I was of the understanding you had some books to write. He still hasn't finished Game of Thrones. Where it went poos in the TV show is where he stopped. You can exactly track is where they stopped following the books, loosely following the books.

There was some stuff that got missed out, but there was... I think he finished the books. He did talk to the show writers, though, about where it was going to end up, though. So he gave them some plot points. Yeah. For sure.

Like, he would have made the decision about whom took the throne. Throne? Do you reckon? I thought he said afterwards, he's like, that's not necessarily how the books are going to finish, with whom ends up on the throne. But I remember reading at some stage he asked them, and that's how they got the job. He said to them, who ends up on the floor. But I remember reading at some stage he asked them and that's how they got the job.

He said to them, who ends up on the... No, he asked them who is John Snow's parents. Oh, right. And that's how they got it. And they worked out who his parents were through the theory at him. And he was like, yep, that was it. But then I also think maybe he hadn't worked that out himself

and he just wanted to... And then he just went... Has there ever been a more disappointing end to a TV show? From the dizzying heights. From the incredible heights. That was the most watched TV show in the world. Oh, it's one of my all-time favourites. Still

great. It's still great. I forgave the end quite easily because they'd given us so many years of great television. So what? The ending wasn't perfect. It couldn't be. It would have never been the perfect ending. Yeah, true. But then in saying that, like a show like Breaking Bad,

that was a perfect ending, wasn't it? It was a great ending. Great ending. I haven't watched it. I'm very behind. I know, I know. I'm behind. Big part, big part. I haven't watched it.

Big part. So apparently George R.R. Martin said that if he did not finish the book by the 29th of July 2020, fans had to imprison him in a small cabin where he could then promise to write the scripts. Well, it's too late. Until he finished. But he hasn't done that either. And he promised he also wouldn't work on any scripts for this new HBO show, House of Dragon, which is the prequel set thousands of years before until he'd finished Winds of Winter,

which he's been working on for like a million years. And he said, oh yeah, so I've got two volumes to go and the last two volumes will probably be about 3,000 pages. So, hello. He's lazy, isn't he? I don't blame him. I'm lazy. I get bored with things.

Also, it's sort of done now. Like, this TV series is all finished. He would have a lot of money now. Like, he's probably just too busy spending his delicious telly money. Well, now he's going to be, he's signed a five-year, eight-figure deal for more HBO projects. So. That's tens of millions, isn't it? One, two, three, four.

So six is... Seven's a million. Yeah, in the tens of millions. So we can expect some more great HBO, George R.R. Martin shows and... Well, right up until he gets bored with writing them and then everybody's just on their own from now on. It'll fizzle out at the end and disappoint you.

Fleshforn and Megan, the podcast. ZM. I'm just going to park my personal opinion on the death sentence to the side. Okay. Sort of the lighter side of that.

Because you're all for it, eh? You were saying before that you think it should be around for even lesser crimes. Yeah, I think so. Shoplifting. Yeah, shoplifting. Speeding.

You said three speeding tickets in a year. Ford parking infringements. Yeah, yeah. You should be sneezing without going. Speeding. You said three speeding tickets in a year. Ford parking infringements. Yeah, yeah. You know. You should be sneezing without going into the elbow. You said they should all just be shot. Look, we'll just put politics to the side.

Okay. But one of the sort of most tickling and intriguing parts of the death sentence that people love to know about, very macabre fact, is the last meal. The final meal. Yes, right. You know, you see those articles and it's like, this person ordered this for their final meal. You're like, what?

What would I choose? Well, in Texas, that is no longer. They will not do a last meal on demand. You will just get the same prison slop that everyone else is getting. Okay. And that is thanks to one particular prisoner. I won't say their name because they're a horrendous criminal.

Okay. Right. But before their sleepy times. Execution. Of which, do we support it, do we not? We'll just put it to the side. They ordered a ginormous meal. So they had a bowl of fried okra with ketchup,

two chicken steaks with gravy and onions, cheese omelette, ground beef, jalapenos and bell peppers, a triple meat bacon cheeseburger, three fajitas, one pound of barbecue and a half loaf of white bread, pizza meat lovers special, one pint of homemade vanilla blue bell ice cream, one slab of peanut butter fudge with crushed peanuts and three

root beers. Good lord. So this is back in the day where they would try to accommodate whatever you asked for. I always thought that was kind of crazy. You've done something bad enough to be executed. Like there is

no larger punishment than having your life removed from you, but you know what? We'll do you one last solid. I watched a documentary, it might have been a vice doco, on the two chefs in the kitchen of a particular prison that took charge of the final

meals that people had ordered and then the love and care that they were put into that because, you know, in their eyes, they're about to return to the Lord and blah, blah, blah. So anyway, so this ginormous meal, they tried to accommodate it as best as possible. This huge meal turned up and

he looked at it and smiled and said, I'm not hungry. Oh, you piece of shit. And now he's ruined it for everybody. He refused to eat any of it. So immediately, the Texas Senator at the time put an end to the final meal choice and effectively immediately no one on death row

was able to have that kind of food. What would you have? What would be your... Let's take it away from death row because we want to put politics to the side here. If you, you know, you're about to euthanise yourself, you're an old person What's your final meal that you want to have?

Putting politics aside she says Just politics to the side And then wades into euthanasia Politics to your side, you're just having your law given right to end your life in a humane way Just politics to the side though I would Your law-given right to end your life in a humane way. Just politics aside, though. I would...

That's hard because I like so much. I'm old. If it was right now, because I don't know if I'm old, am I going to be able to chew? Oh, yeah. No, just imagine you can. Let's just say it's now. It's based on your taste buds now.

Massive steak. Okay. Like a huge steak, like a T-bone steak. Yeah, but this is hard because it's like when you go to the, you know, like a food court. Yeah, what do I want? It just depends on that day, doesn't it? I think I would just, I'd have an around the world sort of sorghum sport. I'd have some dumplings.

I'd have a beautiful, rich chicken curry with some buttery naan. Yep. I'd have, I'd have a roast. Yep. I'd have a roast. Yeah. I'd just have a little bit of everything. I'd be this guy ordering absolutely everything. Yeah, get it all. Maybe a beautiful bottle of Chinon Blanc and banoffee pie to finish.

Oh, yeah. God, how good is a banoffee pie? Do you know what I mean? Good banoffee pie. But there's this local restaurant out my way that does a bourbon pecan pie. Yikes. It is so good. It is so good.

Okay, so you're ending on bourbon pecan. I'm going on bourbon pecan pie. I'm ending on banoffee. What's your pudding? I was just going to do a sundae. Oh, my gosh. With chocolate at the bottom and top. And at the top.

Super sundae. Is that what we call a super sundae? Yes. Don't judge me. And a tawny port. Am I allowed a tawny port? You're allowed whatever you want. I'll have a tawny port to finish. God damn it, I'll have a tawny port am I allowed a tawny port you're allowed whatever you want I'll have a tawny port

to finish god damn it I'll have a tawny port at the end of an evening of good meat of good eating I want a meal so dense that I'm almost falling asleep anyway

it's not too much to tip you over there do it now just putting the lethal injection in you're like what was that just go

putting politics aside politics aside ZM's F, oh, what was it? Just go. Putting politics aside. Politics aside. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Fletch, Vaughan and Megan with Hayley Spells, ZMD Tank. Well, it's time to play ZMD Tank

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Well done. Oh, thank you so much, guys. Have a great day. You too. And we're going to play again at 8 o'clock. So listen up for The Activator just before the news at 8 o'clock. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. The Wiggles are in New Zealand.

Probably the most controversial MIQ stay yet. Yep. Everybody was wild. The Wiggles got death threats. They got death threats. These are the people that bring joy to the masses. Yeah. And us Kiwis are like, die, you took my son's spot.

But then, you know, how great was it seeing Richie McCord dance with the Wiggles? And I've seen like parents post on Instagram like, were they at Spark Arena? Yep. At the weekend? I mean like two sold out shows at Spark. That was packed.

And I was like, well, that's great. Like that's worth the MIQ, right? Yeah. All that joy for, you know, the rest of us. It's great. Some jobs for the touring companies that are, you know, doing it tough at the moment and all the stuff around it. People spending money, people getting out there, people going to their main centres.

Thingy's wife in that other country can't come back, but she's not a wiggle. Who's Thingy's wife? I don't know. There's heaps of those stories. Oh, right. It is really sad. You were specifically referring to somebody's wife. No. I knew. there's heaps of those stories. Oh, right. It is really sad. You were specifically referring to somebody's wife.

I knew. They got in. Politics aside. Politics aside. And I tell you what, they've been really Instagramming up a storm as well in their time in New Zealand. I follow the Wiggles. Do you? I think of them a hot follow. And individually.

Emma Wiggle, Lockie Wiggle, Saini Wiggle, Anthony Wiggle. I've never seen something so embarrassing as the time we were saying at the Quest in Dunedin, Emma Wiggle, Lockie Wiggle, Sonny Wiggle, Anthony Wiggle. I've never seen something so embarrassing as the time we were staying at the Quest in Dunedin, the service departments. And the Wiggles are also there. And I thought that might have been a bit below them. I thought they would have been more of a five-star hotel kind of touring party.

Yeah, or a bougie Airbnb. Not that there was anything wrong with the Quest in Dunedin. It's lovely and clean and nice. But I just thought, you know, they're multi-bajillionaires aren't they the Wiggles and Vaughn went up to them in the minivan

and harassed them for photos like he was a five year old boy yeah no I just asked nicely Simon we met

on the street the night before he was going out to watch a league game and have a couple of beers a couple of brewskis that's so

oh my gosh okay so the Wiggles bring in about 30 million dollars a year and have a couple of beers, a couple of brewskis. That's so, oh my gosh. Oh, okay. So the Wiggles bring in about $30 million a year. That's not. That's not. I thought that would have been more. Not meant to be, not to be sneezed at. Is that touring or royalties for songs?

And merch and everything. Touring, hit albums, sold out shows, all that kind of stuff. Because if you go to their gigs and like. $30 million, like 30 million US right oh wow kids get a bit of merch that's all

money in the pocket well one of the news stories around the Wiggles is Robbie Rakete who is not ageing by the way I know he's looked exactly the same

since he did RTR Countdown in the 1980s I know he's a good man he's a great man not ageing a really nice guy and no one's got a bad thing to say about him. In 2014

he had bestowed upon him the honour of being an honorary Wiggle when they were in New Zealand and was given a brown skivvy and was the brown Wiggle. And I remember it happening because it was when my oldest daughter was like two and so she was into the Wiggles and at the time I was like

brown Wiggles. And at the time I was like, ooh, brown, brown Wiggle. I was like, hmm. So, I didn't, but I didn't like complain or anything like that.

I was just like, oh, I probably wouldn't have, but, hmm. There's no ill intent. So you're talking about the fact that someone of colour

is called the brown Wiggle. He's the only brown person on stage. Yeah. It sounds like you're saying, oh, I'm having a brown person. Oh, no, no, no, no. I just thought labelling them the brown wiggle,

even though there was no ill intent. And I understand a lot of it is purely intent. But anyway, apparently, I didn't see this, but apparently behind the scenes, there was the odd person saying brown. Just because... Doesn't sit right. Doesn't sit right.

So he's changed. I noticed this on their gram when they were in Queenstown. He had a picture with the Wiggles and he was, and then again with when Richie McCaw was on stage, Robbie Aracate was there. Oh yes. And he's now like the Kiwi Wiggle, like the green Wiggle.

Oh, okay. And they didn't already have a green one. No. I thought, this is my problem with the Wiggles. They've got a blue Wiggle and a purple Wiggle. And you know, in the right shade, those look like the same colour. I always thought

they could have gone for a green Wiggle earlier in the piece, but they missed the boat, of course. But do they do a lot of green screening? Because if you're wearing green and you're green screening, that's bad. What colour is Dorothy the Dinosaur? She might be green as well. You don't want to clash with Dorothy the Dinosaur. There's a lot to think about. So the green as well. You don't want to clash with Dorothy the dinosaur.

There's a lot to think about. So the green Wiggles, so Robert, he only performs with them when they're here? In New Zealand, yeah. Why don't they make him a full-time Wiggle?

You can't have five Wiggles, can you? I don't know if you could do a full-time. I don't know if there's room in the big red car for five. The middle seatbelt's not there. Yeah, they never were certified

with a middle seatbelt. No. Look at this monstrosity. So here's a photo on their Instagram. So Robert's not there. Yeah, it never was certified with a middle seatbelt. Look at this monstrosity. So here's a photo on their Instagram. So Robert's in there, all tucked in with his nice green skivvy. Richie McCaw is in his black wiggle skivvy, untucked. It looks like a little mini dress. We all know the uniform is tuckage.

We're going to tuck it into a black pant. He's wearing a blue jean. Richie, that's really embarrassing. Well, you're up to date on the slow news date with the latest. All things Wiggle. In the Wiggles department. The people need to know. Yeah, the people do. Also, I know he's probably working his own radio program,

but God damn it, how is Robbie Rucker not ageing? I didn't know the secret. Well, the moisturiser he's using. It's probably a good moisturiser. Oil of Olay. Oh, do you reckon he's old school? Yeah. Yeah.

Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast, ZM. All right, guys. I want to take you back to, was it last week or the week before? The week before last. We had Karen Walker in to celebrate the fact that she's been turned into a Barbie doll. She's the Barbie New Zealand hero. Absolutely. And she's an absolute icon, Karen Walker.

She is absolutely amazing. Long time fan of Karen. So if you were listening then or following the social media roasting afterwards, I was playing with the Barbie and I picked up the little accessory sunglasses and I snapped them. And Karen was keen to remind me that this was a one-off doll, one in the world that Mattel had made just for her to keep. Yes.

As an honour. And it was all a little bit awkward, wasn't it? Yeah, it was. I mean, I found it very entertaining. I went home after that and I really thought about it and I just felt absolutely horrified. Also, I want to note that afterwards you guys were giving me a hard time for trying to grease up to her.

Yeah, you were trying to get a discount. You were like, I'm just on your website now. Oh, my God. These pants. And I was like, absolutely, that is not what I'm doing. I'm not trying to get some freebies out of Karen Walker. Well, that all changed last night. Karen Walker came on.

You can watch tonight on Have You Been Paying Attention, 8.30 on 2, that she was our guest quiz master last night. And I was so nervous. I had to go into Karen Walker, get fitted for an outfit. Yep. Because, you know, she was our guest quiz master last night. And I was so nervous. I had to go into Karen Walker, get fitted for an outfit. Yep. Because, you know, she was on the show. It'd be rude to not be wearing Karen Walker. And I went upstairs. I don't know if you know this, but in Karen Walker in Ponsonby, darling,

there's a private fitting room upstairs. I had no idea. Well, there it is. And I went up there. And up in that space was the exclusive not easily for sale Karen Walker bridal range I didn't know she did a bright I didn't either I learned this last night but I pretended I knew all right because she was right there yeah you didn't want to be like oh yeah just like I had to pretend I knew she didn't do men's clothing yeah did you assume she did no she doesn't no

no I didn't think she did. But she also said boys can wear anything that she makes. Well, yeah. It's not a rule. If they're a size New Zealand 14 or below. Yeah.

Anyway, so I saw these and I absolutely flopped because when I got proposed to a year and a half ago, we've made no plans. The first thing I looked at was Karen Walker's bridal range

and I went, oh my gosh. Anyway, so I looked at these things and I got my outfit on with the manager of the store at was Karen Walker's Bridal Range and I went, oh my gosh. Anyway, so I looked at these things, I got my outfit on with the manager of the store and then Karen came in and I thought, well, I wasn't greasing about the jeans before, but I am going to try this wedding angle. Yeah.

Very expensive. What, to try and get a discount or free? No, free. You should have seen this. I was proud of this kid. Yeah. As someone who's always on the scrunch or something for free.

Thank you so much. So we talked about the fact, this is all on here, we talked about the fact that Karen Walker was our guest quiz master and people were commenting on my outfit saying it looked great and I made mention then and there

that I had seen this bridal range and I was very excited about it, wasn't I? I was making sure that everyone knew that I had seen the Karen Walker bridal range and I was excited. It it, wasn't I? I was making sure that everyone knew that I had seen the Karen Walker bridal range and I was excited. It's all I ever dreamed of. And then so when Karen came out, I had to bring it up, didn't I?

Yeah. I said, and I did. I was hearing myself back going, Hayley, ease the pull. Whoa, horsey, pull back a bit. I said, oh, Karen, Karen, I went into your store and I saw the bridal range. It was absolutely beautiful. And then I'm kind of like when she was in store, Karen didn't really pick up on the fact that Hayley was really angling for the free stuff.

Yeah. Like with the jeans. I guess she's just used to getting compliments on her clothes. Yeah. So it was at that stage, wing woman, Madeline Sami says, I don't know if you're quite picking up on this, Karen, but she's angling for a free one. Yeah.

And then Karen Walker turned to me and said, I'll sort you out. So safe to say. The engagement's back on. Safe to say. I was about to leave. You want to get married now. You want to.

My bags were packed. But now I've got to get that dress. So I think all this has happened. Really? She did have the Barbie doll. I mean, look, I'm going to hold her to this, Karen, if you're listening, and I know you are. You might not have meant it at the time,

but I will be following up on that. Yeah. I've been engaged for a year and a half, and we're just going to get things moving now. Yeah. Did she bring up the broken Barbie doll? She did. She actually brought the Barbie 2 set yesterday.

Oh, and the broken glasses that she still carries around in that little accessory box. That's still in the box. So they haven't been fixed. And I was forbidden from touching it. Oh, wow. So we had to do this preset of the Barbie doll

before segment two, and someone else had to do it, and they had to go tucked under my desk the whole time. I was like, don't you bang your big thighs on this Barbie doll. It's going to fall off. All right. Well, have you been paying attention tonight?

Karen Walker's on the show tonight. Who else? And Angus Ta'avao from the Chiefs. Yep, All Blacks. All Blacks. The biggest mitt I've ever put my hand in. When I shook his hand, it went halfway up my forearm. And he's really hilarious.

We've got Madeline Sami, Jesse Griffin, and Eli Mathewson, plus this one across the table, and Ursula Carlson. Yeah, it's tonight. TVNZ 2 at 8.30. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Beef and Lamb New Zealand have looked into pizzas. Beef and Lamb New Zealand. Yeah, which you'd normally do.

That's like, you're talking meats. Yeah, but down the list of meats that go on pizzas. Don't get me wrong, I love them, but if you're thinking traditional, you're thinking like bacon, ham. Yeah, but beef, you get those little meatballs. Yeah. You know the little beef balls. Oh, I love beef.

Any time of the day. So they haven't just done this study on pizzas, but pizzas is the one that everybody's taking from this because their recent survey has found that 65% of Kiwis would chuck pineapple on their pizza. Yeah, I would. If it was a ham and cheese option, but you could option up to pineapple, I'd put it on it,

and I don't care what people say. See, I wouldn't make my own and put pineapple on it. If it was at a party or, you know, there's pizza at work here and there's pineapple on it, I'll eat it. It doesn't bother me. I don't specifically, when I'm like, I'm going to make homemade pizzas tonight, I wouldn't specifically go and buy a doll tin of, you know,

diced pineapple to put on it. Yeah. Have you ever put fresh pineapple on a pizza? Big difference there? Like, who could have? How could you get your own pineapple? I mean, you could. Yeah.

I just feel like too much work. Yeah, too much admin. Too much life admin. Have you seen now at some supermarkets you can buy a pineapple, stick it in a machine, they core it for you? Yeah, I've done that. I did that. I didn't even want a pineapple, but I wanted to use that machine.

Oh, my God. There's a lot of wastage, though, I feel like, because it just cores it out. Yeah, and then spins it. Does it spin it around and take the outside off? Yeah, it takes the outside, it cores it, and then it slices it. So fresh rings. Yeah, and then you put it.

It's pretty amazing. Also in this study, 74% agreeing egg was an appropriate burger topping. That's a real Kiwi thing, eh? Yeah, it is. On pizza, I was like, no. Yes, egg. Love egg. What about a breakfast pizza?

You could put eggs on a breakfast pizza. I don't have breakfast pizzas. Favorite pie filling, steak and cheese, 32%. That was the favorite pie in terms of meat. I'm a mince and cheese guy. You know, steak, more traditionally Kiwi, isn't it? The old steak and cheese pie. Mm-hmm.

Right. Bit of tomo sauce. Yeah. Okay. I just feel like- We have talked about food a lot. So we've covered the pizza factory- Fire today.

Fire and then the smell of like slightly overdone, like when you're sitting in your lounge and you're like, Oh God! And you run to the living liquor and you've got your pizza that was in the oven. That wouldn't happen to you because you've got that specific pizza. I do.

I'm a pizza influencer now. I've got a pizza oven, a Breville pizza oven. When are you going to make some pizza and bring it in for us? Bring in the oven. I can bring in the oven. We can just do it.

You do the hard stuff at home. I just want to smell it. Yeah. Oh, it's amazing. I made my own bases and stuff. So we're talking about more food. We talked about the hot chips being dumped in New Zealand because Europe had an oversupply,

so they're selling them to us at a loss. We're only halfway through, and now we're talking about pineapple on pizza. Pineapple on pizza? Why don't we talk about something healthy, like quinoa? What is it again? What is it, quinoa? It's a seed, isn't it? Like a soda-havening seed of rice. Healthy. Like quinoa. What is it again? What is quinoa? Because I was talking over quinoa. What is it though?

It's a seed, isn't it? From South America. So you have an issue with rice. You can do. Well, yeah, you can make salads and stuff. It goes right through me though. I don't like it. Does it?

Slip it right at the other side. I'm going to have to get a colonoscopy in the near future. Oh, yeah. Not like nothing's wrong. Well, shit, I might be dying, but I don't know. I'm living in ignorant bliss right now. But they said, well, that was on the list of the, because I had one, but then it got cancelled and rescheduled, et cetera.

That was on the list of things you can't eat for like a week or two before. Yeah, because it's little bits here. It probably stays in there. Because it parks itself in your colon. Can we just pause at the audacity of Jared walking in right now with reheated pizza? You. You're a bitch! of Jared walking in right now with reheated pizza. You! You! You!

We're working hard in here. Flesh, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. ZM. At the weekend. Just my hat. This looks a bit more comfortable. There needs to be an off-air.

I've just given everybody. An off-air short film about what Vaughan gets up to in the break. I just jazzed. The whole crew's got a second wind now. You absolutely had a fit of rage. It wasn't rage. It was motivation. It was leadership.

That's what leadership looks like. It was Wolf of Wall Street type leadership. Yes. Really. It was an absolute jazzing for the whole show. Sade and I and the girls went and met Andrew and Megan's baby, Bastion, at the weekend. Yeah. I saw the photos.

That's good for me. He screamed. Photos are enough for me. Yeah, yeah. That was raised. I don't need to see a baby. I've seen hundreds of them. And a photo is like you're there.

Yeah. But you don't have the noise. It's not cute yet either. They're just like. No. Oh, no. That's actually, I think Megan will be pleased because it was a concern of hers that she'd have an ugly baby.

It was. You'll remember how concerned she was about it. She's raised that many times. But very cute young man. She goes, yeah. No, my luck, I'll have an uggo baby. Little chap. That's what she said regularly.

I mean, that's what she said. But she was preparing us. Verbatim. Yeah, yeah. She said, yeah. The minute she told us she was pregnant, she's like, don't have any expectations. I was just like, this is a wild conversation. Anyway, got a natural because, you know, she didn't like holding babies.

I was very pleased to see her. She looks very natural, very happy. But Bastion, every time he was handed to one of the smiths, cried. Oh, okay. Cried. And Sade, my wife, doesn't like that. She really likes babies to like her. I don't know.

She's very maternal. It's like dogs, though. They can smell your desperation. Yeah, that's what I said. I said, you're too desperate. You're coming across a little bit desperate. So you'd be like, whatever. And then it kind of like, I saw some smart,

some wry smiles that when I was like saying to Sade, you're coming across too desperate. I was like, okay, I've found my rich comedy vein. I'm about to get the attention that I so desperately require from people. So I started really going in on Sade. What did you do to the baby? Why does the baby hate you? And then she tried again to hold

the baby and he cried and I said, oh my God, he just knows. He knows he hates you. The baby hates you. And she was like, don't say that at the time. And then when we left, later on when we left on the drive home, she's like, seriously? I was like, oh shit. This is always

comes back to bite me in the ass that I was talking about. I was tapped into oh shit. This is always, this always comes back to bite me in the ass that, you know, I was talking about like that. I was tapped into that vein of attention I see. Yeah. The possibility of getting a couple of snide laughs. Yeah. Maybe a cheeky grin. Yeah.

It's what I feed on. Yeah. It's the essence of my being. So I hunt for it. But later on, there's always the repercussions of who I put up for sacrifice to get it. And often case, it's my lovely wife who puts up with a lot. And she said, seriously, when you said the baby hated me,

I didn't like that. Oh, no, that's serious. But you were joking. The telling off on the ride home. She's like, don't say that again. Babies don't hate me. And that's classic. That's old school language, isn't it?

Stop it. I don't like that. Stop that. I don't like when you said, I did not like when you said don't hate me. And that's classic. That's old school language, isn't it? Stop it. I don't like that. Stop that. I don't like when you said, I did not like when you said the baby hated me. And I said, well, he wasn't fond of you. And I would tear you apart. And then she looked at me and then this is where I was like, I'm on an island.

I'm a French atoll. I'm taking a nuclear bombardment. I'm a writer for the next 10'm taking a nuclear bombardment. Yeah. I'm a writer for the next 10,000 years. Yeah. No one can live here. No. Probably pollute the ocean around me.

Yeah. And then I hear my daughter, Indy, say, dad's right. That baby didn't like you. And I was like, no, no, no, no. The talk's, no, don't. I'll be out of here by myself. And she's like like don't say that indy and indy's like i cried a lot and i was like yeah just leave this one to dad dad will take the heat on this one you gotta stay on mom's good side brilliant and so um she got a telling off

i got a telling off we got the we got the car ride home telling off which is one of my least favorite telling yeah right so yeah i was wondering uh for people listening if you would like to share with us this morning what you got your telling off for on the car ride home oh yeah because that's always like and then it always happens pretty much as soon as you start driving car ding belts on driving give it a beat turn around the first corner and it's like hey i didn't like and you're like oh oh, now here it comes. And then it happens. And one of you is oblivious as well.

You're sort of going, oh. Have you done? What's the quickest way home? Yeah, I've had the telling off before. Not a telling off, just, hey, where were you in there? We had a games night with a couple and we got rowdy to the point that we ended up leaving. Okay, what game? We had a games night with a couple and we got rowdy to the point that we ended up leaving. Okay.

What game was it? I won't go into too much detail. It was actually a game of Monopoly Deal. Oh, okay. That's the short. Oh, my God. I've been told to avoid it because I'm really keen to give it a go. But somebody's like, not in your relationship.

People know the shadow and I, the cranium history. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh my God, we've got a cranium history as well. But anyway, yeah, same thing. We got into a fight

and we got a bit heated and we were like, well, we'll just leave. And I had been silent the whole time as this was all sort of popping off and I got in the car

and I was like, oh God, it was a bit weird, wasn't it? And then he was just like, yeah, it would have been nice for a bit of backup.

Oh, yes. And so you for a bit of backup. Oh, yes. And so you got the telling of no backup in the argument. How long was the drive home? It was really long. We were in the hut

and we lived in Wellington City at the time. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that's like a 20, 25er. Yeah,

it happens. So it was quite icy. In the start, you admit fault. I always admit fault because there's no escaping in the car. Yep. It's a very dense environment as well. Yeah, you admit fault. I always admit fault because there's no escaping in the car. Yep.

It's a very dense environment as well. Yeah, you could commando roll out of a moving vehicle, but that's problematic when you're driving because then it'll crash and your children could end up injured. But, yeah, I'll admit fault early and then just sit in the silence for a bit. We're talking about when you're being told off on the car ride home. Many people have been. You've got a telling off to me.

I've got a telling off and I've just been told off again the car ride home? Many people have been. You got a telling off? I got a telling off and I've just been told off again. The baby didn't hate me. See, she's messaged that. It really sounds like it did. I said, it didn't love you. Okay, it didn't hate you,

but it certainly didn't love you. Now I'm going to get a telling off. You're going to get told. Everyone's getting a telling off. So we're asking when you've had a telling off in the car on the way home. Someone said, I got told off in the car by my wife for yelling at her mother to stop yelling at everybody.

So there's three stages of the yelling here. The mother-in-law started yelling at everybody at the dinner party. The husband then yells at the mother-in-law to say, stop yelling at everybody. And then on the way home, he gets yelled at for yelling at the mother-in-law to stop yelling. It sounds like a yelly family, doesn't it? That's a really loud ear, isn't it? Some great texts and calls coming through. We'll get to more of those next.

Talking about being told off in the car on the way home. Yeah, it's an age-old tradition. As soon as cars were invented, Henry Ford said, what I'm hoping for the Model T is that people can tell off their partners on the way home from social events for something they deemed inappropriate behaviour. So a lot of messages coming through. Somebody messaged in saying driving the car is my mum's favourite time to

tell herself for anything we've done. Because otherwise if she tried to do it at home we'd run away from her. But when you're in a car you've got no choice but to listen to the lecture. We even had the back doors kitty locked. Oh. Mum's like,

if we stop at the lights, they're going to bolt from the telling off. Yeah. Jamie, you got a telling off in the car. What for? Oh, multiple times.

Like, when I was a young boy, I used to always ask my, like, in front of my mum if my mates could stay. Like, in front of my mates if my, I think, A classic in front of my mates if my... Oh, yeah. A classic technique.

They can't say no, can they? Yeah, yeah, yeah. As long as she stays. Multiple times. And then as soon as... Like, she couldn't say no, so obviously they'd stay. Yeah. And then, like, too young to drive,

mum would have to drop them home in the morning. And as soon as the car door shut behind them, they'd just be grill city up there up there in so much rubbish she'd been festering on it all night like all day

just waiting for it I remember as a kid a mate saying and literally saying if you ask in front of your parents they can't say no and I was like

okay you click onto it straight away too like you know as a kid oh and I said to mum can they stay and mum's like

no they're going home in 10 minutes and I was just like yeah Christine they stay? Mum's like, no, they're going home in 10 minutes. I was just like, yeah, Christine was ruthless. She's rerouting the rules. Ah, yeah, thanks, you're cool. Jamie, Sam, you got a telling off in the car? So I was on the way home from having dinner with my ex's family, and we'd been together for like three years,

so I've met them multiple times. And he told me off and said that I smile too much and gave people the wrong impression that I'm too happy and nobody likes an overly happy person. I just want to clarify, you did say your ex? Yes. I'm glad he's got that little prefix. Did you feel like you did?

Were you putting on the smiling or were you just actually happy? No. He actually kind of upset that day, so I was really confused. What? What a weird thing to complain about. Was it a miserable family or something? No, I wouldn't say so. It wasn't a miserable family.

It was a miserable bunch of kids. Please don't smile in front of my miserable family. It reminds me how miserable they are. I just want to know where this is coming from. It sounds bizarre. What a bizarre complaint. You sound so smiley, Sam. You do sound so smiley. I wish want to know where this is coming from. It sounds bizarre. What a bizarre complaint. You sound so smiley, Sam. You do sound so smiley. Actually, you know what? Annoyingly

so. Hey, you know what, Sam? Knock it off! Knock it off! I'm sorry! Sam, thanks for your call. Don't say you're sorry! Some text messages to finish. Somebody said, I once got a huge container ship stuck sideways in the Suez Canal.

We're just getting off home now. I feel like I'm in for a day. I'm in for it. That's good. That's really good. That is good. I'm really good for that one. Some other ones. When I was a kid, it was always Dad's favourite place to tell us off

in the car ride home from somewhere. Sometimes he'd tell us off for other kids' misbehaviour. If there'd been like a party with multiple families, he'd be like, don't you ever think of behaving like that. We'd be like, why are we getting told off? We didn't do anything wrong. Don't even think of being like that. Do you think that we choose the car to confront people

because you don't have to look them in the eye? Yes, and you can't escape, but you also don't have to look them in the eye. That's a good call. So for parents as well, parents who don't really want to tell their kids off, but they know they have to because they've been naughtier, just like, right, you guys,

they're concentrating on the road and I don't have to look at you, look at your little heart breaking. They're just raging and every now and then they just flick a little eye up into the rear view mirror to make sure you're crying. Yeah, that's it. Car rides were pretty traumatic for us.

We had a piece of alkylthene pipe. You're familiar with like water pipe, like black alkylthene pipe? And if there was misbehaving, Dad wouldn't even look. He'd just have it down by the handbrake

and he'd just push it back and just like wildly swing it until he hit three things. The same person could get hit three times. But he's counting. He's swatting. Whack. One he hit three things. The same person could get hit three times. But he's counting. Swatting. Whack.

One, two, three. And he was just trying to evenly distribute the whacking. Jokes on him. I would have had a police riot shield. Yeah. Well, my sister was always in the middle, so she had to pull her legs right up as far as she could. And my brother and I would like cow her in the corner like that.

But he just kept swinging. So in the end, it was best just to kind of like put a leg in and just kind of get a whack. Yeah, right. Just so I was over with. The 80s. The 90s. Yep. Fleshborn and Megan.

The podcast. ZM. Fleshborn and Megan with Hayley Sproul's Z-Empty Tank. Well, I hit her the long weekend giving the chance to win free fuel every morning with Zed Empty Tank. The first one was so fun. I just love these. You've got to remember, I'm fresh. This is a novelty to me.

I was going to say, how great is new to radio people doing an age-old reskinned radio promo? Oh, I just love it. Casey, good morning. Good morning. How are you guys? Good. Okay, so you're going to be on the forecourt of our service station. You will hear the cash amounts go up,

and you've got to say stop before the car behind you toots aggressively and wildly and asks you to move on. Loses it. Okay. So if you take too long, you will lose all the money. But at any stage, you can say stop, and that money is yours. So it could stop very quickly, or it could go on.

And on and on. At 7 o'clock, we gave away, what was it? $210. $210. But it went up to? $345. Yeah. Okay.

All right, here we go. I'll be happy with anything. Here we go. $20. $ go. $20. $80. $120. $220. $220.

Is that the same as what? She got $210. $210 last hour. We gave away $210 at seven. It's a really good amount, but you know but some people have been conservative, I reckon. You reckon it would have gone on a bit. Should we have a listen? See how much you could have won.

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Oh. $410. Oh, $410. All right, you got moved on at $410, but you've won $220. Yay! Yes. Casey, congratulate. Are you going to head away for the long weekend? You've moved on at $410, but you've won $220. Yay! Yes! Casey, congratulations. Are you going to head away for the long weekend?

Yeah, yeah. Well, I've been on the light for about three days, so that will be good for me. I'm going to the beach this weekend. Oh, yeah, the old fuel light. Well, congratulations, Casey. That's all yours. We'll play again tomorrow at 7 and 8.

See you at the empty tank. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. You might not think of the long-lasting effects of something like an argument. You know, you do hear that saying, oh, never go to bed on an argument, never go to bed angry, always kiss and make up before you go to bed. It doesn't always work like that. Sometimes you need to let it linger in the room.

Excuse me, turn my microphone on Sometimes you need to let it linger in the room. Yeah. Excuse me, turn my microphone on. You need to let it stew. Yeah, and I think sometimes a passive-aggressive sleep as well, a bit of a tug of the blanket really lets them know who's right and who's wrong. Don't put your feet on me. Don't touch me. Get off. Are you snoring?

I'm going to go to the couch. Or never go to the couch. Never be the person to relinquish the bed. Proprietal control of the bed during an argument. That shows weakness. Oh, okay. So you're going, if anyone's leaving, it's you. Yeah.

Okay, well, look. Take a claim, put a flag in it. The saying may have a little bit more worth than just resolving an argument quickly. They're called daily stresses. Things like our, you know, emotional stresses, minor inconveniences, arguments, things that cause us an emotional response. If we don't resolve them before we go to bed, it can have a lasting impact on our mortality. So it just eats you, literally eats you up inside.

It eats you alive. It sends the stress things into your brain and it changes all the chemical things in there. That's a good wrap up of the science behind this. I've heard there's quite a few of these chemical things in the body. But it causes major inflammation in your body and with your cognitive function. So don't go to bed angry bottling things up.

Because do you think that depends on, because you're a very stubborn person, Vaughn. I feel like you wouldn't be able to go to bed angry, bottling things up. Because do you think that depends on, because you're a very stubborn person, Vaughn. I feel like you wouldn't be able to go to bed. You'd happily go to bed not sorting an argument because you don't want to give in. Yeah, it actually releases my cortisol and I'm a happier man. Well, this is actually,

I mean, it's not a new thing, is it? But I didn't realise it was so sort of important. And it actually opens up a whole other can of worms. So they're saying the thing you need to do is work to resolve issues quicker. So that's even like,

if we were at work today and something happened, we need to resolve it before we leave. Because that's actually going to carry on into our sleep where all that damage

is going to happen. So it's not just about arguing with your partner. No, you see, because the minute I leave her, I don't care. The minute I'm out the door, I forget this place exists. What if someone's really upset you? I don't care. You would.

You'd skew on it. You'd do. You would. But I've got this Irish gene in me that gives me my stubbornness, also gives me a sick joy from being so stubborn. So it kind of neutralises the whole thing thing and that's why we live forever. Right. Well, that's actually good.

So what you're doing there is you're letting go of stress, which is what they're saying you have to do. You've got to release the stress before you go to bed. Don't take to bed. Apparently older people are better at this and that makes sense. You know, they've been married for longer. They know, like, I know where this is going. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You've mapped it out. You've mapped out the road to resolution, but you just don't want to be the first person to start walking. So adults 68 and older were over 40% more likely than younger people, people younger than 45 years old, to successfully resolve their conflicts quicker. Also, do

you feel like, and this is a genuine question, I'm certainly not trying to sound ageist, but do you think when you've got less life left to live, God, that's when you've got less life left to live, God, that's a hard saying, less life left to live, you are willing to bury the hatchet a little easier? Let go of the small things. Well, I think you've had a lot of experience

and I think maybe you're just like, well, I don't need to stew on this. Yeah, I know exactly where it goes. I'm not going to leave this guy. Do you agree with never go to bed angry? Our listener poll, yes, sorted out. 70% would rather sort it out than go to bed angry. But it's hard sometimes when you know you're right.

What's the last time you went to bed on an argument? Last night. And it wasn't resolved. No, no, no, not last night. And it wasn't resolved. No, no, no. Not last night. Look, very recently, but it's because I'm very tired at the moment. So I know it's hard because I'm being

short and snappy and unreasonable and my partner just has to put up with it. And I'm a bigger bit of a brat at the moment. I'm digging in my heels. That's just breakfast radio. That's any situation. The ones that you love the most are the ones that you feel can take the most.

Absolutely. And that's a pretty horrible thing, but it's something if you acknowledge it. Yeah, just be like, I'm just going to treat you real terrible for a little bit, babe, because I'm tired. I'm a bratty little child. I've got lots of jaws. Flesh, Vawn and Megan. The podcast.

ZM. Prince William was named the world's sexiest bald man this week and social media was outraged. This has even reached as far as the Times of India. Yeah. Who printed a story on it and listed a bunch of other bald men. Well, I know we said this yesterday. He's bald, dang.

Yeah. It should be bald only. Yeah. Like you're Jason Statham, you rock. Oh, you're Stanley Tucci. Yeah. Yeah. So, hell of a week for bald men competing for this title,

but also like really just having each other's backs. Yeah. And, you know, nominating each other. Like The Rock, he nominated Larry David for the sexiest bald man. You know, many, many, many bald men, you know, bolstering their bald brothers. Yeah. Beautiful.

And that's great to see. That's great to see. Yesterday, I shaved my head with a razor. Yeah. Like, I, you know, really embraced the baldness this week. Well, I do it every week. But I shaved my head and then went straight away to have a beard trim. Because you're going to be on the shows tonight, isn't it?

You were filming yesterday. Yeah, and Sade's been saying a bit more than usual that it's looking a bit scruffy and what have. It's very well shaped today. So, yeah, no, great shape here. Great, great. Very pleased with the outcome. But when I got there, the head had literally been shaved minutes before. Yep.

And I rocked straight in. Just the head had literally been shaved minutes before. Yep. And I rocked straight in, just the head shaved, the beard left as is because I'll let them work their magic on the beard area, the lines. Why don't you get them to shave your head while you're there? The things. I don't know, they could use that cutthroat razor. Oh no. But I don't know, it was just quick enough to do it myself. And when I got there, I took off my hat and sat

in the chair and the guy said, oh, what are you after? I said, oh, just to tidy up the lines, blah, blah, blah. Do the beard. Bit of beard chat. And he was like, did you just shave your head? I said, oh, just to tidy up the lines, blah, blah, blah. Do the beard. Bit of beard chat. And he was like, did you just shave your head? I said, yeah. And he's like, God, it's so shiny, isn't it? It's very shiny. And then the guy next to him was like, huh, that is really shiny.

I was like, oh, yeah, it's just freshly shaved. And they're like, do you use an oil? I was like, I do use an oil, but I was coming literally straight here. So I didn't want to put oil in my beard because I thought you guys will shave it and then I will go home and I will oil. Yeah. Oil. And the guy's like, yeah, because oil will take away that shine.

I was like, yeah, I know. Yeah, I'm familiar. I didn't go bald this week. I'm familiar with how being bald works. Oil, very important after shaving any part of the body. Yeah. Any part of the body because it's an exfoliating process to moisturise again afterwards on the head and oil works best.

Yeah. And so I was like, yeah, yeah, that's. And then like instead of working on the beard, then he grabbed a little towel and like just like as a joke, just polished my head like it was a bowling ball. Buffed it. Buffed it a little bit. And he's like, just can't get over the shine.

I'm like, yep. I can't get over the shine. I'm like, yep. I can't get over the shine. Right underneath the light. I must have been like a disco ball under the light. It's like saying to someone, I can't get over how big your nose is. Yeah. And then just going on about it. You wouldn't do that.

And then just going boop, boop, boop on the end of it. Yeah. Look at this. Look at the size of this. Yeah. I don't know, but I wasn't insulted. I just thought it was weird how long it went. And that he is a hairdresser,

but he was just obsessed with the shininess of my bald head. Wow, I want to see this fresh shine next time. No, no, no. It's shiny at the moment. It's not as fresh. Well, yeah, the light's reflecting off it. Yeah, but no, it's not. But it's like a mottled.

Yeah, maybe you need a matte, like, makeup. Do you think a matte makeup? I'm not going like, oh, boy. But then yesterday when i got to have you been paying attention um they put a lot of this gel on me a lot and i was like what's that for and she's like oh no it's nothing really and i was like that's how you play it yeah yeah it's a takeaway the shine isn't it and she said oh yeah but it's not you don't have much and then throughout the night they were just constantly

powdering me. And I was like, God damn it, why so shiny? So if you watch Have You Been Paying Attention Tonight, there's up close, there's like, what, a centimetre of anti-shine caked on you. Do you feel like maybe yesterday, because they don't normally have an issue with shine

at HYBPA. Do you feel like yesterday, something you ate made you shinier from the inside? Well, I have been eating raw eggs. You know, if you want to get your dog to have a nice shiny coat, it's raw eggs. Raw egg wash, yeah. A raw egg wash. Maybe I got myself a raw egg wash. What have you Googled?

Well, I just Googled. Am I pregnant, babe? Foods make your skin shiny. Glowing skin. Vitamin C? I don't know. I've been on the lipospherics. Avocados, walnuts, dark chocolate?

I'm just Googling. Super foods? Why is my bald head so shiny? You're going to start getting a lot of weird targeted advertising. It's your bloody sebaceous glands, mate. What have my sebaceous glands done? You're secreting too much oil. I'm an oily boy.

I see you're oiling too much. No, but I just shaved. It was dry. It wasn't oily at all. Had they opened up? Well, they've got a... I had been to the gym and I shaved my head after the gym. Maybe your pores were too fresh. Your sebaceous glands opened up.

I had been sweaty pore. And it just really added to the shine. Didn't help that the man then buffed it. Yeah, he gave it a light buffing with his little towel. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Today's Fact of the Day, Fletch, you're going to like this one. Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do- Air crash investigation. Oh, yeah, I love planes. I love air crash investigations. Wow. It's about planes. New series coming out soon. So good.

Yeah. But with the lack of international travel, will there be enough stories? Yeah, they might dry up. Yeah. The plane crashes. Going to a couple of historic ones. They could totally do this. In fact, maybe they have.

Okay. This happened in 1956, and this is the story about the fighter plane that shot itself down. Have you heard this story? No. Okay, then, good. The F-11 Tiger was a plane that was being flown in a series of test flights.

And it was the first by the Grumman Aircraft Company that was capable of supersonic flight. Oh, okay. And its first fighter that was capable of supersonic flight. Oh, okay. And its first fighter was capable of supersonic flight, which means it's capable of going over 843 miles per hour. Which is fast. So it can break the speed barrier.

Mark 1.1. So it was out doing one of its test flights and I'll read you here exactly according to their data what happened. Yep. The Grumman test pilot was flying the Tiger off the coast of Long Island, New York. He dropped his nose 20 degrees and pointed to an empty spot of the ocean. He fired a brief, yeah, a brief.

How good is it when you actually hear like a military aircraft let off an insane amount of rounds per second? And it's not like, it's like, yes. Yeah, imagine. You're like, how many?

How many? How many just went out? Oh my God. Have you ever seen the Iron Dome? No. That is in Israel? No.

Like a military missile defence system? I haven't. Because I don't know if you know, but it's a hotbed of conflict. The Iron Dome. I'm putting politics aside today. Putting haven't. Because I don't know if you know, but it's a hotbed of conflict. The Iron Dome. I'm putting politics aside today.

Putting politics aside. Politics aside, I can appreciate the Iron Dome for the amount of bullets that come out a second because it warms up. Holy, I'm having a look at it. It warms up, it goes...

And you can hear it rotating and it goes... Absolutely lights up the night sky. So you're right, he dips his nose 20 degrees, points at an empty spot of the ocean, and fires a brief four-second burst from his Colt, from all four Colt Mark 12 20-millimeter cannons. That's four seconds.

That's four seconds. Wow. Of insane gunfire. From four guns. Yeah. Yeah's four seconds. Wow. Of insane gunfire. From four guns. Yeah. Yeah. Then he dipped the nose a little further and hit the afterburners. Oh, yeah?

This was all part of their test thing. Then, all of a sudden, the windshield caved in. The engine started making funny noises. And he was forced to return to the airfield that was very close and just got there. Now, when he landed, he was like, I believe I was a victim of bird strike. However, they found bullets.

So what he did is he fired his bullets. Yep. Then hit the afterburner and he ended up going faster than the bullets and he flew through. He flew through a storm of bullets that he hit with such pace it caved in his windshield and caused what they described as mortal injury to his engines. So he only just limped back and managed silly pumpkin. What they described as mortal injury to his engines. So he only just like limped back and managed to land. So you'd be better to fire them and then when you take off

pull up or to the side or something. Yeah, pull to the side I reckon. Flying into your own bullets. No, madness. Just a fluke that he went down in the angle, and that also happened to be the angle that they started to fall on, and he flew through them because he was going so far. So today's fact of the day is in 1956,

a US fighter pilot shot himself down. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. I produced a Jared In his relationship with The Middy It's flourishing However he did mention something and I was like It has begun He was asked It's flourishing. It's flourishing. However, he did mention something and I was like, oh, it has begun. Yeah.

It has begun. He was asked, what are you going to do with all these D&D books? Now, to any untrained ear, that might seem like someone just making a Gentile inquiry as to what's happening with these books. How many books are we talking here, Producer Jared? How many D&D? This is Dungeons & Dragons. Yep. I'd say 15 to 20.

Did she know about this? Are there all the different rules of D&D? Yeah. So there's... I won't go into the details, but there's a lot of books. Did she know about the books when she initially met you?

She did. Or did you creep those in later? Yes, she knew about them. She was aware. Okay. Yeah. But she's made inquiries as to where they're going, these books now. Yeah.

That's a really good way and also a very female way of being like, these are going in the bin. Yeah. These are going into storage at best. These can be put in a box and put somewhere where I don't have to see them. Hey, where are we going to put those? I still get this. So Aaron's collection, my fiancé Aaron, he has,

I don't know if he's going to be proud of this. He had, when Lord of the Rings was booming, Aaron bought every figurine. So the dolls, like that big. In their boxes? In their boxes. Right. We're talking Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli.

Everyone you can think of. The whole shebooba. He just got a couple and then everyone would buy them for him as gifts and then he just fulfilled the collection and then he got a couple of special ones. Now he has three whopping big plastic containers with them all neatly stacked. That's cool.

Yeah, and when I first saw them It wasn't more like It wasn't Jared and I Giving each other An appreciative nod Of this amazing Lord of the Rings He's got a couple of those

Like Cast ones You know like The real Like Full size I love those And I admire them

These could be worth a fortune Worth a bit of money Well that's what we thought For a while And then When they were at his parents' house and every time we'd go over to his parents' house, they'd have them out for us to take.

And I was always like, where are we going to put these? And I started looking to how much money we could get for them. And they are still our burden to bear. But that's his retirement plan. Got to love the man. Yeah. I get this. At the moment, I buy little Land Rover models and

just put them on shelves and then I'll go back and they'll all have been moved and I'll be like and I'll put them back on the shelves. It's like a little pass ag battle for shelf territory. I'm on your wife's side. She runs a great interior design. Oh, she's got style. And she doesn't need you coming around with your

bloody stupid toys and Star War things. It's not classy. It's sou classy. It's not classy. It's soulless. Get the Millennium Falcon under the TV. Why can't the little Millennium Falcon be under the TV? It doesn't go with the Scandinavian furniture look. The lightsabers.

I said I'd build a thing that mounted the lightsabers and they could go on the wall. She's like, I don't want lightsabers in the lounge. I was like, you don't want anything fun in the lounge. You would have lightsabers mounted on the wall of the lounge if you could. Yeah. 100%. Well, I thought we might take some calls on what your partner couldn't get on board with

in cohabitation. Yeah, maybe it's a hobby you've got and they've got no time for you storing your collection of pens maybe. Yeah. Maybe your stamps are starting to take up a lot of space. Stamps. I don't know, do people still to take up a lot of space. Stamps. Do people still do that?

Books full of stamps. I don't know. But maybe you collect something and your partner's not on board or you've got a hobby and your partner's not on board with it. Give us a call. So talking about the hobbies and collectibles that your partner is not on board with or maybe you're sick of your partner trying to hang his taggy crap on the wall.

Good point, isn't it? Taggy crap. of your partner trying to hang his tacky crap on the wall. Why is that? Tacky crap? Why do collectibles have to be so tacky? Why couldn't you be collecting designer cushions? Why couldn't that be a collection? Too many cushions. You sound very familiar. Some text messages, and I have 30 guinea pigs.

That's too many. Too many. That's exactly 30 too many. Yeah, who buys guinea pigs. That's too many. That's exactly 30 too many. Who buys guinea pigs these days anyway? My husband hates them. He asks when they're going. I ask when he's going. They're my happy place.

Guinea pigs are my daily time out. Okay, well I take that back. What do you do? Lie down and they scurry all over you. They are like a little cushion. I wonder if by the time you've got 30 of them, would you name them all? You'd probably lose track. Yeah, you would.

At least you have little collars. Little collars. Little leg bands with different colours and stuff. My nearly 30-year-old partner moved in during COVID and has moved in his hobby of collections of thousands of dollars worth of Pokemon cards in the last year. He doesn't open them. They're just stored throughout the house.

I have an eight-year-old who wants so desperately to touch them but isn't allowed to touch them. We're talking about the collectibles and the hobbies that you just can't get on board with. Your partner's hobbies. Maybe they're trying to fill the lounge with tacky stuff. Yeah. Collectibles.

I once put three different pianos in my lounge and that lasted for a long time. A good couple of weeks I was doing that and now I had to live around it. Three pianos. One upright piano, two electric. You had to climb over a piano to get to the couch? Yeah, well, yeah.

It was terrible. Sarah, you're not on board with your partner's habit? My partner's obsessed with Taylor Swift. What? And so does he have a lot of the memorabilia in the collectibles? He's got like four of the record covers from her.

Oh wow, and you're like, you're not hanging Taylor Swift record covers on the wall. Oh actually, we've got like a glass cabinet and they're sitting in that at the moment. He's got like frames and stuff. She's not even

a classic yet. I've got a framed Queen album. It's Bohemian Rhapsody. It's original and that's a piece of art. That's classic, right? Yeah.

Taylor Swift, she hasn't, you know, met her vintage yet. Yeah, no, she's pretty cool, but... Yeah, but not like... I wasn't expecting that. Yeah, not like have a cabinet in the lounge call.

Yeah. Well, hey, Sarah, thanks for your call. Sally, does your partner have a hobby that you're not into? He does. He's a massive NFL fan, and his favourite team is the Colts, and it's just beyond. He has pop vinyls and figurines blue tap to his office desk at home he has two big helmets he's been trying to get me to let him have on display um where are you

gonna put that helmet oh honestly they're just so ugly and it could be if i could interject sally it could be upside down it could be a good fruit bowl True Not a bad idea Not a bad idea If you had to incorporate it Into the decor If you had to

No That's true Wrong colour though Oh right But he has Yeah And numerous jerseys On every game day

That his team's playing He's decked out In Colt stocks Jerseys Hats Everything He even has Colt's mask To wear on the bus to work Oh my gosh and cult socks, jerseys, hats, everything. He even has cult masks to wear on the bus to work. Oh, my gosh.

He really likes them. He really does. Amazing. Sally, thanks for your call. Some other text messages. My partner loves chairs. We've got 25 chairs, and there's only two of us in the household. Oh, no.

I've always thought about getting a chair for my bedroom, but you know those chairs always end up where you put your clothes? Oh, my gosh. Don't do it. It's all it becomes. Oh no. I've always thought about getting a chair for my bedroom but you know those chairs always end up where you put your clothes? Oh my gosh, don't do it. It's all it becomes. I know. An occasional chair. Yeah. It looks nice, it'll just sit in the corner and I can use it to put my shoes on. Yeah. But it doesn't, this becomes a crap chair.

Yeah, Jack. It's like the kitchen drawer for stuff but in your bedroom. It is. 100%. I have over 350 indoor plants. Had to get a big greenhouse built for It is. I have over 350 indoor plants. Had to get a big greenhouse built for my obsession. I have bought another 10 though, so I don't know where to put them. They need to teach me their magic.

Yeah. Water, care, light. Love. My indoor plant obsession is the one thing I'm not allowed to be told off for. Right. If I walk in with a new plant, I just have to do a cute,

how did this happen? I literally just bought one in that last break. Who bought, did you? Yeah, she's on Trade Me looking for plants. So if I walk in with a new plant, I just have to do a cute, how did this happen? I literally just bought one in that last break. Who bought, did you? Yeah, she's on trade me looking for plants. What one did you get? I got a bird of paradise. I need something for a very warm window and my fiddle leaf fig is getting burnt.

Oh yeah, fiddle leaf figs will get burnt. Yeah, he's not enjoying the new window at the new house. Yeah, no direct sunlight for the fiddle leaf. He's getting moved. The bird of paradise, I've got, there's a massive one of those in our garden. Oh, we've got outdoor ones. I just want a nice, curated, clean indoor.

Can you get a little one? Oh, we are learning. A metre high. Yeah, I get angry at plants. Look at them in our house freshening our air for us. How dare they? Yeah, get out. Everywhere with their delightful greenness and reminding of nature.

Somebody said, after seven years of marriage, my wife's banned me from going to all comic shops. It's been five years since that banning and my collection is looking a little bit sad. Get out there and buy yourself

some Transformers because apparently that was what they were into. I'm a sneaky head. I've been collecting Air Max 90s way before she came

into the picture and now I'm collecting Air Max 270s. She's told me to stop buying shoes because I don't wear them. They're still in the original box. 80 pairs.

That's a collection. Yeah, it'd be worth a bit of money. Yeah, it'd be worth a bit of money. Are they one of those people that lines up outside Foot Locker at 2am? Probably. From a sneakerhead. Yeah, sneakerheads. Yeah.