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Hello, welcome to the Fleeche, Vaughan and Megan podcast.
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And we're a few days away here in New Zealand from Guy Fawkes.
Yeah, two days out.
And they've started popping up all the little stalls
because the rules changed on how far out from Guy Fawkes you're allowed to sell Guy Fawkes.
What are you picking up?
Someone was like using the window as a mirror.
Oh.
We can see right through.
We can see what were they doing, checking their makeup, checking their lippy.
I think it was a makeup lippy check.
So in two days, yes, it's going to be Guy Fawkes and all those little Guy Fawkes kiosks
that are popping up left, right and centre.
So it seems like less and less people are into it these days, eh?
Yeah.
But then very few places are actually even doing public displays on Guy Fawkes.
Right.
Very few councils.
A lot of them have stripped back.
I'm guessing it's a money-saving thing.
Hells yes.
It's not the year to be blowing lots of ratepayers' monies on fireworks.
But I'm kind of a fan when it's New Year's or there's Diwali or there's a celebration.
Have fireworks then.
Yes.
That's more of a celebration than just some- Rather than on actual fire on Guy Fawkes.
Yeah.
And I've seen Wellington Zoo are asking people within a two kilometre radius around not to
set it off because it freaks the animals out.
Auckland Zoo kind of asking the same.
Yep.
So, yeah, there's lots to consider with Guy Fawkes.
Be safe.
Yeah.
I mean, this is coming from two people who have been very,
very unsafe with fireworks in the past.
Take it from us.
We made the mistake so you don't have to.
I blew a window out with a Roman candle.
You did, yeah.
Yeah, absolute shenanigans.
To be fair, though, it was one of those windows.
It was in an old building, wasn't it?
It was a very old thin glass window with uh the
putty held into wooden joinery which actually um i don't know i know personally costs a lot more to
get fixed hello good morning welcome to the show fleek's morningwn and Megan, minus Megan, who's been taken down with a bout of the diarrhea again today.
Strong case of the squirts.
That's the rule.
If you have a sick day, you have diarrhea.
You have diarrhea.
But no, she'll be right.
We wish her well.
But in lieu of Megan, welcome my legs to the show.
Shorts today.
Now, is this because I've been wearing shorts
for the last week?
You wear shorts a lot more than I wear shorts to work.
I've been wearing jeans and jandals lately,
but I've found it's led to a sweaty quad.
And it traps the heat.
Yeah, right.
It transfers to the arms.
Right.
And then I get the sweaty pits.
So, yeah, right.
It's very warm, very muggy out there. Yeah, it pits. So, yeah, right. It's very warm. Very
muggy out there. Yeah, it is. So, yes,
the shorts are out today.
Good.
What is this? Don't be ashamed of those
legs. Oh, I'm not ashamed. Executive
Antonio. Now that you've mentioned not to be ashamed of them, I feel
like there might be some reason to be ashamed of them. What do we
feel about the legs? I'm
not a fan. You've got yours out.
But I have Bondi Sands.
Should I Bondi Sands?
I'm well-pressed.
Would it stick to my hair?
I actually don't mind the legs.
It's more the feet.
Yeah, they've got a real issue with my feet.
Yeah, because they're always up in my face.
I like to put them up.
Maybe wear some shoes.
Nah.
Well, I haven't done my...
Every year at Labor Weekend,
Megan sends me a special she's found for New Balance shoes,
and that's when I buy her new pair of shoes.
That's right.
Every year for, like, the last three years.
And then I just wear them every day and wreck them,
and then I need a new pair by the time next summer comes around.
How are you going to cope when she's on maternity leave?
Oh, she'll have so much time up her sleeve.
She'll be able to send me
something once a
year.
Yeah,
should be able
to personal
shop for you.
Now,
today,
I believe,
is Melbourne
Cup Day.
Is that correct?
Yes.
But is the
Melbourne Cup
going ahead?
I think so.
I don't know,
I'm not a huge
horse race guy.
Melbourne,
yeah.
But like,
are we still
doing like
office sweepstakes? I guess so. Melbourne, yeah. But like, are we still doing like office sweepstakes?
I guess so.
I guess so.
Five days ago.
Personally, no.
Okay, five days ago, no crowds for Melbourne Cup
despite easing of restrictions.
The horse race will go ahead,
but there'll be no crowd allowed
despite of the COVID easing in Melbourne,
the restrictions easing.
The horses are probably like
guys
this would have been
the perfect year
for us to not do this
and they look around
at all the other horses
and they're like
one of us
statistically
one of us isn't coming back in here
no
which is sad
the top six is coming up
yeah
today's top six
in the census
there's going to be new questions
so I've got the top six
other questions
we can chuck
into the census.
Okay,
it's coming up,
the top six.
Flesh,
Vaughan and Megan,
the podcast,
ZM.
That song
is still just stopping.
Oh,
if that's going to get you going
at this time of the morning.
Wait till I tell you
I forgot my
Herald Premium sign-in.
You just sign in and leave it. Is it Vaughan.ZMOnline.com or is it Vaughan.Smith.NZMe.co.nz?
It's that one.
Vaughan.Smith.NZMe.co.nz.
Yeah.
And then you put in your password and you've got.
Incorrect.
Basically, I went to click on the story,
which is behind the paywall of our print media at NZ Herald,
and it's asking me for my sign-in.
Now, we are given a complimentary sign-in.
Yes, we are. As platinum-level employees of the company.
We platinum.
Not everybody's getting a free sign-in. No, no, they're not. Platinum-level employees like us, we get. As platinum level employees of the company. We platinum. Not everybody's getting a free sign in.
No, no, they're not.
Platinum level employees like us, we get a sign in.
It sounds like there's some levels above platinum that we could be though.
Like I thought you would have said like gold elite members.
Oh, platinum.
No, platinum's top.
Is it?
Yes.
Platinum's what they brought in when gold wasn't sufficient.
Oh, right.
So platinum's best.
Platinum's definitely best.
Okay, fantastic.
Platinum level employees get. Okay, fantastic. Platinum level employees
get a complimentary sign-in.
Even if it wasn't a platinum level,
I'd pay for it.
Of course you would.
Wonderful content behind the paywall.
Of course you would.
Huge fan of the company.
Yep.
But there's a story behind that paywall
about Costco coming to New Zealand.
Long enough to log in to read it.
I believe if you go in the chat,
Anya has circumvented the...
This is what Fletch does for his friends.
He screencaps the story behind the paywall.
My friend James the other day was like,
hey, look, there's a story behind the paywall.
I really want to read it.
Can you screenshot it and send it to me?
And I was like, there was like five screenshots.
I was like, could I go to jail for this?
But then I remembered
as a platinum level employee,
they'd never send me to jail
for circumventing the paywall.
I don't believe they would.
No, I doubt they would.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Just lie.
Just, you'll lose your job.
Definitely.
But sure.
And you'll certainly go down
a couple of status points
at the NZME platinum level employee.
Oh, at the most.
You'd be jade yeah
hey that's all i've ever been with in new zealand and like to be honest i don't see it going up
no uh so costco is uh coming to new zealand screenshots in the chat yeah thanks great i
love it so i know where the walkman costco is going to be because I was talking to Dave for a Mitre 10.
Okay, shit, you're an old mate.
I said, where's it going?
Is it going up there?
And he said, no, it's going down there.
So if you are familiar with Westgate in Auckland,
at the kind of the end of the motorway,
you can actually see it from the motorway.
Where there's a massive mound of dirt,
which is flash dirt,
where there's a massive mound of dort, that's where it's
going to be.
So they started digging that area out in September.
Yeah.
Right.
A lot of fun.
They look like they're having a real hoot on all those diggers too, getting that area
ready.
But it doesn't look that big, but that's a massive area that's going to have the Costco
there.
But now Wellington and Christchurch are like, what about my?
And they want Costco's as well.
And apparently that's on the plans.
Yeah.
On the Costco plans.
Yeah.
Because it's a giant area.
I was thinking Christchurch, sure,
there's lots of places that could go.
Wellington?
It'd have to be suburban Wellington.
I feel like it could be a hot job.
Yeah, right.
Because it could be an old industrial complex that's not been used
that they could just
roll sham bowl
and then build
this specific thing
because it's one of those
destination,
shopping destinations
like you go there
and you,
because you basically,
you pay a membership fee
and then you just go ham
every time you go there
and you buy 10,000 toilet rolls.
Yeah.
That sort of thing.
And you,
you know those people
And electronics as well
There's all kinds
Oh everything
It's like walking in
Petrol, everything
Yeah it's like
Tires
Yeah it's like walking into
How would you describe it?
Kind of like a warehouse
Kmart
Supermarket
Yeah
And there's lots of
Bulk buy stuff
All of the biggest stores
That you can think of
In one roof
Yeah
It's everything
I've been into one in America and it just blew my mind.
I just walked around just like, whoa.
It's just behind Walmart in America, right?
For the world's biggest personal retailer.
So yeah, a lot of people pretty excited that this is coming to New Zealand.
But yeah, news yesterday that Christchurch and Wellington also on the list.
Yeah, and you can read further details at nzherald.co.nz behind the paywall.
Right. You can get it free. You can get it free. I think you can get a free nzherald.co.nz behind the paywall. Right.
You can get it free.
You can get it free.
I think you can get a free trial.
Trial.
Fantastic.
Don't quote me on that, but if you are going to quote someone, Vaughan Smith, platinum
level NZB employee, will be a pretty powerful person to quote.
I hope Bogsy, the CEO, is listening to this.
Synergy.
Company Synergy this morning.
I'd be very proud of you.
ZM's Fletch Warner Megan, the podcast.
Now behind the scenes, our inboxes
quite often we're
flooded with requests and
emails of things that we might find
handy to talk about.
Which is great.
Which is great because sometimes it can fill
a gap at 17 minutes past
six that might often
be filled with a hilarious story
about
what your sleeping style means.
Yes, yes. What does it mean? Which way do you
face? What way do you go? Do you face your partner?
Do you not face your partner? Could this be the
terminal shot to your relationship?
Is coffee good for you or bad for you this
week? And is chocolate good or bad
for you this week? Yes, and five reasons you should
never trust your partner.
So, you can imagine my
delight when Mike from
BNZ emailed. He's the head of their
communication. That's me bank.
Is it your bank? Okay, well it's not my
bank, so I'm certainly not on big BNZ
money here. I'm not on big BNZ
money either. I owe BNZ
big money. Yeah, which is
why there is big BNZ or bank
money. Well, it's
Scam Savvy Week
this week. And Mike, who's head of
the communications, has emailed through something.
And normally I'd delete this, but
there was actually some interesting stats
about scams. So you know what? It's work.
You're in, Mike. It's in.
That lady from Domino's
is going to need to try harder, though.
She keeps emailing Anna pictures of smiley face pizzas.
But I like, she never gives up.
She never gives up.
She never gives up, does she?
What's her name?
Domino's Deirdre.
Domino's Diane.
Domino's Donna.
It's Yvonne.
Yvonne.
Domino's Yvonne.
Yvonne, if you're listening, and I don't think you are,
but if you are, Yvonne, never give up.
There have been some good ones, though.
Yeah, keep on pushing.
Keep on pushing.
Well, the rise of the scams.
It is Scam Savvy Week this week,
and it's broken down some statistics I thought we'd run through.
78% of New Zealanders have been the target of a scam.
Have been the target of a scam, but not like...
So that's 78% New Zealanders report,
yeah, I believe they've tried to scam me.
And I mean, that would be anyone
that's ever received a spam email, right?
Yeah, right.
Or, you know.
Or one of those fake IRD emails.
Yes.
Or one of those...
Remember those ones that was like,
log into your Trade Me?
And I was like, oh my God, I need to log in.
And then I stopped and I was like,
this looks suspicious.
Tricks.
61% of New Zealanders who have fallen victim to a scam have not reported it.
Isn't that amazing?
Because of the embarrassment.
Yeah.
That's why.
Yeah.
They reckon amongst older people, it's a real embarrassment of how could I have been so foolish?
Well, especially, yeah, when people try to rip off one of your, you know, your solo parents
or your newly single parents. Yeah. And they get scammed. They're like, well, we people try to rip off one of your, you know, your solo parents or your newly single parents.
Yeah.
And they get scammed.
They're like, well, we can't talk about this.
It's embarrassing.
I can't believe this is happening.
This wouldn't have happened if John hadn't fallen into that combine harvester, like that
sort of thing.
Yeah.
And they're already going through that.
Yeah, they get embarrassed.
Yeah.
Quarter of all New Zealanders fall victim to a scam.
Don't tell anyone.
Wow.
59% of New Zealanders want to learn about how to avoid being scammed.
But that would be your older.
The other 40% have a scam kink where they're like,
they find it hot to be scammed.
So the top five scams in New Zealand,
five pretending to be a government service, like the IRD,
log into your account here.
The fourth biggest inheritance scam.
Like your great auntie Ethel's died over here in Nigeria.
Yeah, so send you a detail.
What do you want me to do with all your diamonds?
Nigerian fraud letters, 31%. That was the third biggest scam last year.
Number two, the tech scam phone calls, 36%.
Oh, that's the whole whole it's me from Microsoft.
Oh, yeah.
We think your computer's
been compromised.
Yeah.
And then they,
yeah, you give them the IP
and they get a hold
of your computer.
Yeah.
And the biggest scam
in New Zealand,
fake lottery prize
or grants.
40%.
Yeah, but no one.
41% last year.
No one's clicking on those.
No, they are.
So they think they've won a lottery that they never entered.
Fantastic.
You know who's to blame?
Monopoly.
Because of the chance card.
You'd flip it over, you'd be like, oh, you've won that.
You're like, I don't even remember entering.
And now, free money.
It's real life Monopoly.
Fletch, Vaughan and Megan.
The podcast.
ZM.
From the panoramic ZM think tank, this is the top six.
Hello there.
It's 2023, March.
That's when the next census is going to happen.
And there's going to be some new questions, some new possible answers.
Was the last one a bit of a visit?
Do you remember that everyone did it online
and then they didn't get enough?
Is that what happened?
I don't know.
I can't remember.
I feel like it was a bit of a fizzer
and not everyone did it.
Did we do it online?
Yeah.
Was it one of those online things
that was taken to a long
halfway through
and you were like,
I'll come back to that
and then you completely
forgot about it.
And you went back
and then it was like,
oh, we've had to reset your cookies and all your stuff's gone.
You're like, you son of a...
I mean, a shopping website never does that.
It always remembers what you had in your cart.
And then reminds you every day, do you still want to buy this?
They should have talked to ASOS's people about how to make those carts never disappear.
But one of the questions to do with sex, gender, and sexual identity,
the Rambo community felt wasn't broad enough in its answers.
And I totally get that.
There will be questions on a person's gender at birth, gender identity, and sexual identity.
Okay.
And you know what?
If you're upset about that, they're not taking away the old answers.
They're just giving some new ones.
So really, you're not about that? They're not taking away the old answers. They're just giving some new ones.
So really, you're not affected at all.
Yeah.
You can look at that and still select straight male at birth and straight male now and not get upset about other people having options to not be straight male
because you can still tick that.
Yeah.
Great.
Just giving other people some options.
They are looking for some other questions to add to the census.
So I've got the top six new census questions.
Okay, good.
Number six on the list of the top six new census questions,
coriander, yay or nay?
Such a divisive herd.
Imagine, though, being able to find out how the whole country felt about coriander.
New Zealand's feeling on coriander.
Like, that's what they should use the census for.
Let's get a few of these going.
Yeah.
I'm all for it.
It'll be a, yeah, it'll be a, I think it'll be pretty split.
Oh.
Nah.
As split as the weed?
Or.
Ooh.
Don't know.
Maybe.
Nah, I think more people will be in favour of coriander.
Oh, I don't know about Burmese.
I don't know.
Look, they're an unpredictable lot.
Number five on the list of
the top six new census questions.
How often do you dribble in your sleep and
does it lead to those little cracks in the corner of your
mouth?
Okay. That's alright. They get sore.
Could you use a lip balm?
You yawn when you've got a little crack
in the corner of your mouth.
I haven't had one for a while.
Is it from dribbling?
It's when you dribble in your sleep.
Are you sure?
It's when you sleep the whole night
and you dribble and you get those little cracks
in the corner of your mouth.
I'm sure it is.
Okay.
Don't quote me.
Number four on the list
of the top six new census question suggestions.
Who's your favorite parent?
Imagine just getting a definitive answer.
It'd be mums.
Mums would win.
Mums would win.
But wait, how old do you have to be? No, everyone
fills out the census.
But imagine like, because you have to fill
it out for your toddlers. Imagine being like,
who's your favourite, mum or dad?
And then they're like, mum!
And dad's got to sit there and try not to cry.
Always been not favourite.
But then if Megan was here, she would say her dad's the one
that gives her the money every time she asks. So maybe he'd been not favourite. But then if Megan was here, she would say her dad's the one that gives her the money every time she asks.
So maybe he'd be the favourite.
But her mum always fills up her car.
That's true.
It's fascinating.
She's getting too much.
Number three on the list
of the top six new census questions.
Do you always wear the same sock
from a pair of socks on the same foot?
What?
You know if you've got a pair of socks?
Yeah.
You undo it and you look and you've got a pair of socks? Yeah. You put them on the,
you undo it and you look
and you can see that your toe,
you must have always put this on your left foot
because it slightly tilts up.
I don't know.
I don't know this.
Do not do that.
When you open a pair of socks,
be like, what foot have you been worn on predominantly?
You can't tell.
I should switch and change them between,
but I don't because then it always wears out
in the same spot.
I had those socks once that were left and right
and they said L and R on them.
Yeah.
And that was the way.
Sometimes I'd put them on and realise
that the right was on the left
and I was like,
gotta start again.
Yeah.
And if you've got two lefts
because you've got a few pairs
and they all look the same,
you can just turn the left inside out
and put it on your right foot.
Okay.
Done that.
Number two on the list of the top six
nuisances questions. Dogs or cats? Oh yeah, good. Okay. Done that. Number two on the list of the top six new census questions,
dogs or cats?
Oh, yeah, good.
A final answer to the questions New Zealand wants answers to.
And number one on the list of the top six new census questions,
please list the three best excuses you've used to get out of a social occasion
in the past 12 months.
Yeah, my kid's sick.
Kid's sick.
I fell down a hole.
Yeah.
I'm still in the hole.
And sorry, your snacks aren't good enough.
There's three just off the top of my head.
Brilliant.
That is today's top six.
Hello there.
Welcome to Community Notices,
a segment on the show where we have a look at what's happening around New Zealand
according to local Facebook pages.
Yeah, if you see anything pop up, screenshot it, flick us a message,
FBMZM on Facebook.
We still do it.
Yeah.
But sometimes people will send in screencasts being like,
do you still do the buy-sell exchange segment?
I say, Community Notices, of course we do. And they say, well, still do the buy-sell exchange segment? I said, community notices,
of course we do.
And they said,
well, how about this?
How about this one?
This is on the
free pets in Canterbury.
Rangiora to Ashburton.
Okay.
I don't know.
That's a very geospecific.
If you're just outside.
No, not for you.
Not for you.
Find your own free pets
in Canterbury page
of a slightly different setting.
Well, Troy writes on there,
I'm looking for a dog, but I'm in Topol.
Okay.
And Scott says,
why not delete this post and maybe even this group
and join a local group then?
You're miles off.
See, there he is.
He's launching his geographic specificity to Troy.
Mind you, Troy's in a different island.
Troy's bloody miles away.
Troy could take a journey for a dog.
A free dog.
A lot of people buy dogs from cats from all over the country and get them flowing.
But if you just want a free one, why don't you go up and see the local animal shelter?
Yeah, true.
They're always struggling to rehome cats and dogs.
Yeah, true.
This is from the Otaki page, which is simply called OTK364.
I'm guessing 364 is their 3D code on the telephone.
Shelly says, and I will say I will have to censor this
because Shelly has a foul mouth.
She's got the mouth of a sailor.
Okay.
To the scum-sucking W Stain who damaged my car twice in three days.
We will be reporting it to the cops, you absolute shit bucket.
Now that's caused a little bit of outrage.
Yeah, right.
And people said I would have probably reported him after the first time.
Why did you wait till the second time in three days?
And somebody else said, mind your language.
So it doesn't matter how angry you are.
It seems on that page you can't call someone a W stain.
Yeah.
Or a shit bucket.
I don't know which one of those two insults caused particular offence.
Now, this is an absolute.
I was thinking of purchasing this for you.
Okay.
For your Christmas present.
Kat has put on the buy and swap Christchurch and North Canterbury page.
Never used.
Pick up in Parklands.
It's a 1998 memorial calendar for Princess Diana, Princess of Wales.
Wow.
Cheers to Princess Diana.
It was a 1998 calendar.
So when could that be reused again?
Google when will a 1998 calendar repeat.
How's that?
Someone's already definitely Googled this.
So the same years, 2009.
Okay.
2015.
Yep.
2026.
Well, I mean, it's...
So you'd have to sit on that for five more years.
But that's okay.
And then imagine 2026, New Year's Day, you're a little dusty.
Yeah.
You hang up your Princess Diary memorial calendar.
And you open it up to January.
Beautiful.
And it all works.
The 12 amazing photos of the Princess.
Would Easter and all that still be the same?
And Waitangi Day and all of that would be?
Waitangi Day would be because it's anchored to a day,
but Easter might not be.
But that's all right.
That's all right.
Just remember that when you get to Easter.
Yeah.
This one is posted on the Glen Eden page.
Okay.
A suburb of Auckland by Janelle Gary Eden.
And she said, I don't live in Glen Eden.
I don't even live in New Zealand.
I'm not sure why I asked to be on this page.
I may have thought after a drink or two that that's something cool
as my husband's name
is Glenn Eden.
Cool.
But still,
I have no idea
why I actually joined.
But I thought
I liked this group
and man,
this town or suburb
is really community spirit.
Look at it all,
you good people posting.
I've never come across
so much stuff
happening in a community
in one day.
I think I might move there.
Then I will be legit.
Don't believe me because you're in, Don't delete me because you're inspiring.
That's just a nice, good-hearted post from Janelle
just because her husband's name is Glenn Eden
and she decided to post it on the Glenn Eden page.
And finally, from the Methvin Notice Board,
pregnant Katie writes,
does anyone else know what that odd,
disgusting smell
on Spackston Street is?
Can we stop for a moment
to appreciate Spackston Street?
Spackston Street.
Spackston Street.
S-P-A-X-T-O-N.
Spackston Street.
I want to be polite,
but it smells like
burger rings.
Oh, right.
Okay.
Lightly chlorinated Yes. water, right. Okay. Lightly chlorinated.
Yes.
Water.
Okay.
That.
She writes a J word, but I've said burger rings.
And it's making me want to vomit.
I am pregnant, so my sense of smell is currently heightened.
How can we get rid of said smell?
Now, I don't know if mystery smell still permeates Methvin,
especially down there on Spackston Street.
Yeah.
But Katie thought it smelled like
something that made her pregnant
but is making her sick
when she feels pregnant.
Wow.
Okay.
Odd mystery smell.
What a mystery.
Today's community notices
if you can answer Katie's question
as to what that smell is
on Spackston Street,
you can message us
FVMZM on Facebook.
Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast.
ZM. There's a
Kmart are going to start supplying something
that I think my mum would have had
should we have had phones when we were kids.
Yep. But it's a phone jail.
I've seen these before, but
generally they've been made
for purpose. Right. But
Kmart's going to start selling them.
You put the phones in and you put the lid on
and then you lock the lock
and it means you can't get the phones out.
You can see them.
Like you'd be able to see it if you had a notification.
It's like a little jail
so you'd be able to hear it and see it
but you couldn't.
Because it's padlocked.
I'm just looking now.
They need to put a wireless charging base in it
so that at least while your phone's in jail, it can be charged.
But you can still poke a wire through the cage.
Oh, you could charge it.
So you could charge it on the bench.
Okay, you could do that.
You could do that.
So how much are these?
$9.
Yeah.
I mean, they're of the sturdiest construction.
You could definitely get into it if you put your mind to it.
Oh, these even look like... Just by stomping on it. Yeah. Did you ever pick get into it if you put your mind to it. Oh, one of these even look like...
Just by stomping on it.
Did you ever pick a padlock when you were a kid?
Yeah, like one of those little dinky padlocks on a diary or whatever,
and you just stick the key in and you just jiggle it,
or a stick in or a toothpick in and jiggle it until it comes out.
Unless mum actually gets a good padlock on this.
Yeah.
I reckon this is just going to fuel mum, though,
because she'll do this and you'll be able to pick the lock
and then you'll come home and she'll have had one constructed
by the local engineering firm
out of a
you know, short of a
short of a powered grinding
grinder with a diamond tipped
disc. You're not going to be able to get into this thing mum's
going to have constructed at the local engineering place
and the padlock's going to be one of those seven star
security padlocks
that you can't get a...
Or mum could buy a hotel safe.
That'd be a hot play for mum.
Or mum would just turn off the Wi-Fi.
Mum would just turn off the Wi-Fi.
But then you could still play games, couldn't you?
Yeah.
Yeah, so that's the other thing.
It can fit controllers and small tablets and stuff.
But also it'd be a good place if someone broke the rules and thus they
were having their
piece of technology confiscated
because they can still see it.
But they can't have it. The ultimate
tease. Unless they
got one of those pens, you know the pens with the little
touchy ends that you can use as a smart pen
and they put it up against
the other side of the cage and
communicated through
the bars.
That's a possibility.
But yeah, nine bucks if you're a mum that wants to hide away phones, etc.
ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast.
Now, I didn't know how it worked and I hadn't thought to look into it.
Returning to New Zealand into managed isolation and quarantine for two weeks until you get
the all clear and you can go to wherever you need to go to in New Zealand into managed isolation and quarantine for two weeks until you get the all clear and you can go to wherever you need to go to
in New Zealand. But of course, with COVID times, things have changed. I hadn't thought
of this until I saw a New Zealander trying to get home that I know saying
that you could only book ahead by a certain amount of time.
You couldn't go infinitely into the future and be like, I want to come home
in February 2021.
On the 22nd.
Yeah, at the stage when she was doing it,
you could only book weeks in advance.
I think it was five or six weeks in advance.
So as of midnight, I believe, you need a voucher to come home.
Isn't that crazy even just to say out loud?
To come back to New Zealand, you need a voucher.
And apparently, if you've left it till now to try to get home for Christmas, Isn't that crazy even just to say out loud? To come back to New Zealand, you need a voucher.
And apparently, if you've left it till now to try to get home for Christmas,
you might be out of luck because the managed isolation rooms,
all 6,200 managed isolation rooms are fully booked the fortnight before Christmas.
Wow, so that'll mean people, right, so you could still come back for the new year,
but you'd miss family Christmas.
Well, by my reading is you could arrive home just before Christmas,
the fortnight before Christmas.
Yeah.
But then there's two weeks of isolation,
so you'd still be in there for New Year's as well.
Oh, yeah.
Because it's only a week between Christmas and New Year's.
So you've arrived back on the 23rd.
Your first week takes you through Christmas right before New Year's, and then the second week takes you into the New Year. Right.
See, I would have thought this was nuts that people wouldn't come back just for
Christmas. But I was talking to a friend in London and he said his mum
wanted him back so bad and he was, it's hell over there, that she
was like, just come back for two months, I'll pay. And he's like, well,
I could do two weeks in isolation.
Right. Mum's paying.
Why not? And then be here for
what, just two months and then head back? Yeah.
Because if you're here for three months, you don't pay for your
isolation. But if you say, oh,
I'm back for good or I'm back for over three months
and then you try to leave early, they sting you on the way out.
I just don't, I think mum was just going to pay.
Executive intern, aren't you? You know someone
as well that was, what,
going to come back just for holidays?
Yeah, he's booked in.
He is coming back.
Oh, so he's coming back.
Yeah, so he wanted to have Christmas here with the fam
and also someone in his family is getting married.
Right.
And so do you know how long they'll be back for?
I believe without quarantining at both ends, six weeks.
Including
four.
Does he used to quarantine, is he coming
back from Australia or something? He'd have to quarantine
when he goes back to the UK.
But that'd be at home though, because they
don't do the hotel thing like here, do they?
Yeah, and he has a job where he can work remotely.
Oh, okay, right.
And he's happy to pay.
Oh, even two weeks just to come back for a six.
Is that like, I'd do it to move home.
I don't know if I'd do it for a holiday. I don't know why anyone's still not living here.
Essentially, when is the UK going to its four-week lockdown?
Is it, I think it's any day, isn't it?
Or now?
Well, yeah, yeah.
It was midnight one night.
I don't know if it was their Wednesday or their Tuesday.
But see, they're going to be locked
down until, you know, the start of December
and maybe longer. Wouldn't you just get
out of there? And it's cold. It's getting into their
winter. Okay, maybe two weeks isolation
for a four-week holiday does sound
alright. Imagine being in the isolation for the two
weeks over Christmas and New Year's, though.
That's the part when New Zealand absolutely
bloody shines.
So that's, again, why I must remind everybody
to please use the COVID tracing app.
Because me, and I don't like going out,
but I do at that time of the year,
do some light exploring of this beautiful nation of ours.
So everybody do the part.
Flesh, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast, ZM.
Maths homework can get to the point
where it starts puzzling parents.
However, hopefully you get past primary school.
How are you going with?
All good.
Right.
All good.
Well, you can just Google and use calculators, right?
It's not a test because you're supposed to be teaching them
that they don't need that at this stage.
You're teaching them that calculators.
You could just be like, oh, yeah, sure.
I'll just, hold on, let me work it out. I'll just go
up to the toilet while I...
And you go and you're like, alright, I'll go and do your thing.
And you've got to work it out. That would be me.
One mum has gone online
and been like, I don't, what is
the answer to this? Am I missing something?
What's happening? Now the reason, this is
the question. Carla says,
Carla says, this is in English,
this is maths, it doesn't matter.
Carla enunciates,
I have three hundreds counters,
17 tens counters,
and 16 ones counters.
Counters,
like coins.
We'll just say coins.
What are counters?
They're not coins,
they're like disks.
Okay.
And one might be like,
one might be small and green and and that would represent the ones.
And then the tens one's a bit bigger, and it's yellow.
And then the threes, the hundreds are bigger yet again, and they're blue.
Already I'm out.
This would be-
Already I'm out.
But the thing is, I don't remember doing maths like this,
but everything's broken down into tens and hundreds these days.
Like the kids, when they go to school, they're like,
today's the fifth day we're at school.
So how many counters should be in the ones column?
Five.
Bingo.
Oh my God.
Okay.
So then when you get to 10,
you take all the ones counters out and you put one stick in the tens.
You're like, today's the 10th day of school.
How many counters should be in the ones column?
10.
Or how many should be in the tens column?
One.
Bingo.
Yay, maths.
And so we work our way through
and then when they have their 100th day at school,
you may or may not have seen this,
often they'll do like this little mini celebration
because they've filled the tens box 10 times
and they get to take all those out
and fill up one in the 100. See, this is why I'm
terrible at maths. The teacher would just leave us
to it with a worksheet and have a ciggy out the front.
Like, it was the 80s and 90s.
You know, it's a different time. Different times.
Different times. They vape out the front now.
And they just let you do the worksheets
on the digital... On your
iPad. On the iPad. Yeah.
So that's basically when you understand that
there's that, this isn't that hard.
Because so three 100s counters, what would that add up to?
100.
300.
Yes.
Oh, yeah, okay.
Yes, because you've got three of them and each one of them is worth 100.
Okay.
17 10s counters.
I don't know.
17 times 10 equals?
Bingo.
Okay.
And 16 ones counters would equal?
16.
Good work, hey.
And so you just add all those together.
Now I've got a stamp somewhere for you
because you've done very well.
I've done real good.
I'm going to give you a sticker for your chart.
Okay.
So then you add it all up and you get 486.
See, when I read this story before you explained that to me,
I was like, I'm out.
I've got no idea what this answer is.
Perhaps it did need some more clarification.
But all I'm seeing in the photo that the mum put up is this question.
So maybe above it there's a diagram or something.
So then it says, can Carla make two equal three-digit numbers?
If so, draw the counters to show them.
So that's easy.
Yeah, right, okay.
Because she could just work.
She doesn't have to use all the counters.
But then it says,
can she make two equal three-digit numbers
if she uses all of the counters?
So then it's just about dividing 486 in two
and working out how to get them
even amount in each pile.
Still, I'd just be like,
use Google, kid.
Get it.
Use your calculator.
That would confuse Google.
It would be like,
look, I need more information.
This is why I couldn't be a teacher,
because the teachers have to be good at maths and spelling and stuff.
I think they have to have a better temperament
and an ability to explain things in the simplest terms.
Yeah, right.
That's why, and over and over and over and over and over again.
That would be the worst part of the teacher, because you'd explain it once and the kid would be like, I don that was what, you'd be the worst part
of the teacher
because you'd explain it once
and the kid would be like,
I don't understand
and you'd yell at them.
You missed out.
And then you'd pop out
front for a ciggy and a vape
and leave them
with their worksheets.
It just seemed like
that's all school was,
a lot of worksheets.
Heaps of worksheets.
Photocopied worksheets.
I feel like the teachers
are being very lazy.
I remember when,
like,
photocopying must have
always been a thing because, God, they had some time on their remember when photocopying must have always been a thing
because, God, they had some time on their hands
once photocopying became a thing.
They're like, God, I don't even need to write this out 100 times.
And now I guess it's all on the iPad or the Chromebook or whatever.
And they just Bluetooth it to you.
Sure.
Airdrop.
Kids, I'm about to airdrop you the worksheet.
Oh, shit, I've selected the wrong photo.
No one open their airdrop.
You're about to see
Mrs.
Bits and pieces.
I was going to
chuck a random
surname in there
but I was like
actually no
because there might
be a T
You could have said
Smith
because there'd be
lots of those
Mrs. Smith.
I know.
Just the more likely
the airdrop you
they're nudes.
So just be careful
out there.
ZM's Fletch Vaughughan and Megan, the podcast.
Well, it's the 3rd of November today, Christmas.
How many days would Christmas be today?
I've got that shortcut in my bookmarks.
Just let me open that up.
Christmas countdown, click.
Do you use christmasclock.com?
I do.
51 days until Christmas.
So that means like a lot of people might work right up to Christmas.
Some people are taking the finish on the Friday the 18th.
Yeah.
So, you know, Christmas holidays are not far away.
Executive Intern Anya, have you booked?
You're a big Airbnb-er.
Yeah.
I've just done RMV.
It's all sorted.
Okay.
And like accommodation either side, but that's about it.
Are you tenting?
Yeah.
So this is the first year that I'm tenting.
So I don't know how that's going to go.
But, you know, you've got to try these things.
Just can't see you as a tenter.
Neither can I.
What campground?
Like the official campgrounds?
On site, yeah.
Yeah, so I've picked one that's not very noisy.
Have you ever seen?
Yeah.
What, the boomer section?
The one that's like, it's a good walk away.
The millennial boomers.
Yeah.
Right.
So, yeah.
Have you ever seen that campground when everyone's left?
Wow.
Yeah, it's pretty gross.
It is a sight to behold.
Yeah, we'll see how we go.
It is something else.
We'll see how we go.
Right. And this is the thing,'ll see how we go. Right.
And this is the thing.
I've booked nothing for summer break.
And then last night, talking to friends, I was like, okay, you know what?
I'm going to have a look online and see what's available.
There's not a lot left.
No.
It is dire.
Like, I was looking at, like, all different regions of New Zealand,
and I was like, okay.
Like, the only stuff that's left is super expensive.
Stuff that's normally really cheap that is real expensive.
Right.
Or just there's nothing at all.
What about areas that aren't your usual?
Yeah, see, that's what I reckon I'm going to have to do.
It's like holiday in a place like...
Taihape.
Taihape. It's got a
There'd be some lovely parts of
In the central North Island
But that's the thing
But it's also like
What if it rains
And my only option is a tent
I'll be on the news
As one of those holiday makers that had to pack up
From a camground that turned into a river.
Yeah.
And you say that.
You were like, oh, we were just sitting here, right?
And then the rain started and then it was just like
the road turned into a river.
That's what they always say.
It's always like, yay.
And because aren't we meant to have one of those
La Nina or Nino or El Nina?
La Nina.
It's one of those.
And apparently it's from November
and we're in November
apparently it's like
tropical cyclones
I don't look good
in a poncho
you
tenting
at R&B
in a poncho
is what I'm
waiting to see
on the Instagram story
am I going to need
to take gummies
I'm going to need
to buy gummies
for a start
just in case
I mean I'm not saying
it's going to rain
get a summer gummy
that's a lower legged gummy don't get a's going to rain, but... Get a summer gummy.
That's a lower-legged gummy.
Don't get a full,
like, up-to-the-knee gummy.
You get a summer gummy,
like a red band,
not a long skeller-up.
It's a cute gummy. A jelly shoe.
Yeah, that'll work.
No, you'll get chafing.
You'll get foot chafing.
Not if you're a long sock.
You'll get blisters.
A sock teamed up
with a jelly shoe.
You're going to look like
a European tourist at R&B,
and I'm here for it.
Like a long,
like a German walking sock.
Like a German walking sock.
Tamed up with a jelly shoe.
Yep.
A rugged shark.
Lovely.
Yeah.
Sensational.
Yeah.
That doesn't sound humid at all.
Anyway, I wanted to give a warning that if you haven't booked anything for New Year's
and summer holidays, you probably want to get onto it pretty, pretty quick.
Right.
Because it's pretty dire.
What are our thoughts on freedom camping?
Well, I'm actually thinking
that...
If we're New Zealanders.
No, because I was looking
on the GC website
and there were campers
and I was like,
farmers don't care
if you just pull up
in their paddocks, eh?
No, no, no, no, no.
They love when you poo there too.
Famously.
Okay, yeah, right.
Huge fans of you doing poos on there.
Well, that's right
because they don't all have
poos places in them, eh?
Those campers.
No.
You've got to get one
with a poos place.
They're not all self-contained.
Okay. Ice cream container? get one with a poos place. They're not all self-contained. Okay.
Ice cream container?
Bucket with a lid?
Grime.
Flesh, Fawn and Megan,
the podcast.
ZM.
Well, well, well,
look who stuck around
to find out the funny
name of the lady
who works at the
donut shop.
What is the name
of the lady that
works at the donut shop?
Well, let me give you
the background.
Okay.
A couple have got
married at the
Dunkin' Donuts
drive-thru
where they first met.
This is in America
because they don't,
because Krispy Kreme
has a drive-thru here
at the Auckland store.
There's a drive-thru.
Oh, does it?
Yes.
Oh, yes, it does.
It does.
But the Dunkin' stores I know don't.
I don't know.
But yeah, no,
this is definitely in America.
This is in Oklahoma.
Okay.
So John was a regular and he'd always go through the drive-thru.
John.
Yep.
45.
45 years old.
John, pretty standard name.
Yep.
Here it comes, here it comes, here it comes.
The manager of that branch in Oklahoma, Sugar Good.
Good.
Her name's Sugar Good.
Like good with an E?
No, good without an E.
Sugar Good. Sugar. Wow. First name. Good. That's Sugar Good Like good with an E No Good without an E Sugar
First name
Good
That's amazing
That's amazing
She didn't change that
In some kind of
Staff incentive
Maybe
Maybe
But they
Met
He ordered the same breakfast
Most days
That's right
Because over in America
They do like breakfast
And stuff
Yeah
And in 2018 He was like I'm gonna give This breakfast most days. That's right, because over in America, they do breakfast and stuff. Yeah, and in
2018, he was like, I'm going to give
this little bit
of sweetness my number.
And he gave it to her, and
then they started dating. Oh, wow. And then
they fell in love, and then they
got married, and they got married at the
Dunkin' Donuts drive-thru.
Where they met. Guess what? He was in the
car, she was at the window, and
she was in her Dunkin' Donuts uniform, and he
was in his casual work attire.
Wow. Okay, that is some love for the company.
Yeah, they got donuts
to share with their guests, and she
had a donut bouquet. Was there a donut wedding
cake? Yeah, that's kind of like
it had a big pile of donuts
as a cake, and also just like a whole
bunch of donuts as well.
Wow.
And Sugar Good continues to be probably the best employee of a donut shop ever.
Now, is she going to have to change her last name to what's old mate's last name?
Thompson.
Sugar Thompson.
Sugar Thompson.
Nah, you just keep it Sugar Good, wouldn't you?
Sugar Good.
I think if anything, he should change his name to John Good.
To John Good.
Yeah. Hmm. Hmm. Or maybe they could to John Good. To John Good. Yeah.
Or maybe they could hyphenate it.
Thompson Good.
Yeah.
Thompson Good.
Not the same ring.
Not quite.
So here's the question we want to ask on the back of this this morning.
If you had to marry your partner where you met them, where would that wedding be?
Because for Vaughn, it would be the Outback in Hamilton. Yeahan it would be the Outback in Hamilton.
Yeah, it would be the Outback in Hamilton.
Has there been a wedding
at the Outback in Hamilton?
I would
I'm going to go out on a limb and say
I'm pretty sure there would have been.
Because if you Google wedding in the Outback
it would take you to Australia.
Well, I've Googled
the Outback in Hamilton, the bar
and they do have
three areas with a total capacity
of 1,600 people.
My wife had her 21st at the Outback.
She did.
We are a family with strong ties to the Outback.
Yeah.
Very strong ties.
Well, it's your Hamilton, so it makes sense, doesn't it?
Well, every Hamiltonian must have their roots.
You'd think they'd give you a discount if you were to have your wedding.
I mean, you've had your wedding at a lovely vineyard.
Yeah, yeah.
Coming up 10 years ago.
Coming up 10 years ago. So, I mean, you've had your wedding at a lovely vineyard. Yeah, yeah. Coming up 10 years ago. Coming up 10 years ago.
So, I mean,
sure, it's an option for people.
But if you had to meet,
if you had to marry your partner
where you met them,
where would it be?
What about Executive Intern Anya?
Can we go to the producers?
Where did you meet Mr Bun Buns?
This was at uni,
but I think the first time
we actually met
was at a flat in Christchurch.
Is it Derby or Derby if it's D-E-R-B-Y?
Is that Derby?
Derby Street.
Right.
So you'd have to get married at the flat.
In the garage, specifically.
Right, it's a flat party in the garage.
What about Producer Mountie?
Where would you have to marry your boyfriend?
Well, we met on Tinder, so I'm not sure that worked.
Oh, yeah.
But where did you meet in person for the first time?
I didn't know you guys met on Tinder.
Yeah, six years.
So we're a success story.
You're keeping that quiet.
Not really.
Yeah, I feel like I have to.
I feel like I've never asked.
No, we haven't asked.
It's not a very romantic story.
Because I feel like back in the day, people used to lie about that.
Yeah, we definitely did.
Because that was, but now it doesn't matter.
No.
Everyone meets on Tinder.
I like to say now because everyone
says Tinder is so
bad. So I'm like, no, it can
be good. Yeah. So where did
you first meet in person?
At the AUT student
accommodation. That was a Netflix
and chill date.
Was that a breach of the rules?
Were you allowed guests
of a romantic nature in your single bedroom?
I didn't ask.
How far did you get through your Netflix?
Do you remember what you were watching?
Five minutes?
I know what we were planning to watch.
What were you planning to watch?
All the Batman movies.
Hot play.
How many minutes did you get through the Batman movie?
We didn't start them.
Did you even get to him being Batman? We didn't start them. Did you even get to him being Batman?
We didn't start the movie.
You didn't even start them.
You didn't even see the brutal killing of Thomas and Martha Wayne.
Unbelievable.
All right, so we want to ask this morning, 0800 Giles at M.
Give us a call now or you can text 9696.
Where would you be getting married if you had to get married where you met?
And this does apply even for people that have been married
at a proper wedding venue
and maybe met somewhere a little bit unusual.
Yes.
Now, there has been a wedding at a Dunkin' Donuts store.
The couple married where they met
at the drive-thru of the Dunkin' Donuts.
One of them, the manager, her name, Sugar Good.
You're still on that, aren't you?
What a great name for someone who works at a Donuts bar.
It is.
So, we want to ask a question this morning.
Where would you be getting married if you had to get married?
Where you met your partner?
Yes, actually some really romantic spots
where you could possibly be getting married.
For example, the main beach of Mount Ponganui.
However, we would have to be getting married
in the back seat of a hatchback.
Do you think they were part of a pile into the hatchback?
Maybe.
After a party kind of a thing.
Or a quick hook up in the hatchback.
Yeah, right.
Lay those seats down.
Lots of people saying where they worked is where they'd have to get married because that's where they met their partner.
And I tell you what, lots of McDonald's marriages happening.
Really? Yeah. You can get married in a's where they met their partner. And I tell you what, lots of McDonald's marriages happening. Really?
Yeah.
You can get married in a McDonald's.
We found love
in the kitchen of a Macca's.
In the Nagi place.
We found love
in a Nagi place.
Anonymous,
whereabouts would you
have to get married?
Oh my goodness.
The Mongol Moped.
Oh my God.
At least it's got
a nice high fence and good security too.
Great security.
No one's getting in.
The paps aren't getting any photos.
No.
There's some person I can't believe I said that.
That's brilliant.
I reckon there might be a drink or two for the reception.
Oh, no.
Thank goodness we didn't get married there.
I mean, we've been married for over 10 years.
Oh, wow.
Okay.
Yeah. Yeah, it would have been there.
Do you normally tell people when they ask, like, how did you meet?
Are you just normally like that or something else?
I'm just like, I kind of just get embarrassed and I just say, oh, we met through his brother.
Oh, yeah, okay.
But that's not as good a story, is it?
No.
Anonymous?
No, it's not.
Oh, that's all right.
And I feel sorry for my kids
but
Just tell them you met
through his brother
or something
yeah
oh that's so funny
thanks for sharing
So we want to know
if you had to get married
where you met your partner
where would it be
a couple got married
at the drive-thru
at Dunkin Donuts
in America
because that's where they met
so that's where they got married
So some text messages on where you'd have to get married
if it was where you met.
I would have to get married at my best mate's place
as I'm now with his wife
and I met her when they were together
and at his place.
I'm guessing they're not best mates now.
That's a controversial hookup there.
Yeah, no, I would imagine so.
Very controversial.
Super controversial.
Toilets at the Fish and Chip Bar in Christchurch
is where we'd have to get married.
Okay.
Somebody said,
I met my partner at Spark Arena
for the Elton John concert.
So I would have to get married at Spark Arena.
Presumably Elton John would be then obligated to pay.
Yeah, but would you feel the pressure
with your invite list to fill that place up? It's a lot of seats. I don't think I'd have enough friends. would be then obligated to pay. Yeah, but would you feel the pressure, like,
with your invite list to fill that place up?
It's a lot of seats.
I don't think I'd have enough friends.
I'd probably pull those curtains around.
When a concert doesn't sell well
and they pull those curtains around,
I'd just do that.
My partner and I have to get married
at the port of Tauranga on a logging truck.
Because we met at work
and that's where we first officially met.
What?
Yeah.
How do you met?
What, like, they were the person coming in
with the truck, the logging truck? Must have been.
And were they the person with the, I don't
know, walkie-talkie and they're like, just park over there.
Leave the arm up so they can go in, yeah.
Megan, whereabouts did you
meet your partner? Where would you have to get married?
It's kind of cute.
It's the side street behind Bar 101
in Auckland.
I know the side street.
It's Elliott Street, isn't it?
That one.
Okay.
It was nice.
There was, you know, the benches and things,
and I was outside not having a cigarette.
It was all very nice.
There's a lovely dumpling.
You've got to dodge the cars because that's a shared zone.
Yep.
You can hear them coming because it's cobbled.
Yep.
The dumplings in one of those container stores.
They're good.
Yep.
There's lots of those
Weird little container
Food distributors
Wow
Okay
I mean I'm sure
You could get
Council permission
To shut the road down
For a wedding
Oh let's do that
Little cobblestone
Side street
Absolutely
So romantic
Some girls
Toddling out of bar 101
Yeah
A rubbish truck
Comes down to collect
The rubbish
Yeah
Tips the glass
All the way to the back
Hey Megan Thanks for your call Shania If you had to get married Where you meet your partner Where would you be getting married A rubbish truck comes down to collect the rubbish. Yeah, tips the glass all over the place.
Hey, Megan, thanks for your call.
Shania, if you had to get married where you meet your partner,
where would you be getting married?
We actually met in high school, specifically in health class.
Oh, okay.
I mean, could you get married at that school?
Would that be a possibility?
Well, probably not.
I don't think they'd let us.
No.
You specifically or anybody?
Anybody.
Yeah.
I thought maybe you'd try to burn it down or something.
Schools need money, don't they?
They should start hiring out their halls for functions.
Oh, yeah.
They get along with all of the teachers there,
so I don't think they'd be too negative about it.
But if you were going to get married in the gymnasium,
you couldn't wear marking shoes is all?
Yeah.
Yes, exactly. No shoes allowed right should i
thanks you call katie if you had to get married will you meet your partner where would you be
getting married we would be getting married at town nightclub in las vegas oh you see you was
your husband a kiwi as well he was a kiwi yeah so i he was living in london at the time and i'd
actually just moved home from london back to seattle um and he was there in London at the time and I'd actually just moved home from London back to Seattle.
And he was there for a 30th birthday party
and I was there for a hen's night.
And we bumped into each other.
Well, we can't do Las Vegas due to COVID.
We can do Roto-Vegas or Inver-Vegas.
I'm going to go Roto-Vegas.
Roto-Vegas, yeah.
I don't know too many people choosing Inver-Vegas.
It's really my first.
I don't know if Inver-Vegas is taking off. I think that's a you thing. I'm trying my best choosing InverVegas. It's really my first. I don't know if InverVegas is taking off.
I think that's a you thing.
I'm trying my best, InverTargo.
I'm doing all I can.
Thanks for your call, Katie.
Some more text messages.
We'd be getting married on a goat farm.
No explanation as to how they met on a goat farm.
I'm imagining some sort of vet, maybe a vet.
Yeah, and then the person working there.
We need the backstory for that.
Somebody else said it would be a cow shed.
He was a stock truck driver.
Oh, yeah.
And I was working there.
I'd be getting married at Cook's Beach.
That sounds lovely.
See, so many lovely beach spots.
Yeah.
I'd be getting married at a bus stop outside McDonald's on Queen Street.
That's a lovely place to meet someone.
So you're saying that some people struck up a random conversation at a bus stop?
Yeah.
Must have been drunk, eh?
Must have been.
Because I wouldn't do that sober.
At a primary school outside the principal's office.
So they must have met when they were like, primary school sweethearts.
Yeah.
Wow.
Or they met there, but they didn't get together for.
Or they were just two solo parents waiting for parent-teacher interviews. That's true. And they were there, but they didn't get together for... Or they were just two solo parents
waiting for parent-teacher interviews.
That's true.
And they were sitting on those little chairs.
And they're trying to make it sound like a primary school love story.
Here's another school, one.
We'd have to get married in, I'm not going to say what school,
they've listed what school,
as they were a teacher and I was a student.
Oh!
Scandal!
Scandal. Art teacher. Scandal. Scandal.
Art teacher.
Definitely.
Or PE.
It's always the PE
or the art teacher.
Sometimes a maths teacher
will pull one out of the bag.
And you're like,
hey, good for you.
Good for you, maths.
It's never,
it's never a chemistry teacher
though, is it?
Nah, nah.
The sciences are pretty quiet
when it comes to hooking up
with students.
Which is either a great,
I think it's a great
indictment on the science department.
It's fantastic. Isn't it?
That they're working professionals. They are,
yeah. That's definitely
the approach I'd take if I was a science teacher that couldn't
get any anyway.
Fleshforn and Megan, the podcast.
ZM. Fleshforn and Megan's
Radio Tinder.
Radio Tinder, Radio Tinder.
It's just like Tinder, but it's on the radio,
so you can hear the awkwardness.
So depending on how you do Tinder,
maybe less people partaking.
Yeah, true.
Because sometimes you might sit around with a group of friends,
and you might have more friends than we have listeners.
That's just a fact.
That could happen.
That could happen.
All right, well, let's meet our Radio Tinder contestant.
Spitting the wheel on Radio Tinder today,
a yoga-loving karaoke queen,
this Scorpio wants someone who's outgoing,
funny, and has a great smile.
But if you're a dickhead, put the phone away
because she's one of ZM's finest weekend announcers.
And if you break her heart, we will find you
and we will kill you.
Meet Celia.
Celia, good morning.
Hello.
Scorpio, that means you've just had your birthday.
Yes, over the weekend.
Okay.
Scorpios, aren't they quite a handful?
We're passionate people.
Passionate, yes.
What's your,
you're in Sydney's The Scorpion, isn't it?
That's your name, Scorpio.
Yeah.
Weird if it wasn't.
Now,
how long have you been single for?
Let's start with the hard questions.
10 months.
10 months, okay.
You were due to go overseas,
weren't you, this year?
But then COVID all happened.
COVID ruined that.
I was meant to move
to Canada in April.
Right.
So what if you made a honey
and like the world
just opens back up?
Would you stay for him?
Oh, it depends.
That's a big question.
Okay.
Or maybe go travelling with him.
Oh, that would be ideal.
Yeah.
Okay, but what if
someone's done their travelling?
They're done,
they're like,
no, I'm back in New Zealand
for good now.
Would that be kind of a little bit an anchor?
Would that be an off-putting thing?
Or do you think you could go without them and then come back to them?
I really feel like it depends on the person
because I definitely do need to do some travel.
Okay.
Yeah.
Right.
So you'd probably want someone that wants to travel
and likes travelling as well?
Okay.
And what kind of guy are you looking for?
Just someone nice someone okay
uh kind-hearted fun spontaneous okay adventurous um yeah just someone who gets along with everyone
i guess what about age range how old did you turn at this recent birthday? 26. 26. So what's your upper range?
What are your settings at?
I think maximum 32.
Okay.
Yeah.
Okay, so not into the older guy?
No, unfortunately not.
I feel like I'm quite young at heart.
Right, right.
Okay.
And what about low range?
24.
Oh, this is a very small window.
Small window.
Okay, well, I mean, give or take a couple.
I mean, you never know.
Never know.
What are any other questions before we open up the phone lines, Vaughan?
What are you thinking?
What about like physical features?
Like what about height and stuff?
I'm all about a good smile.
Love nice teeth.
And nice arms.
Nice arms?
Does Morn have nice arms?
The deal of the...
No, you've been working out.
Who's got nice arms? Tennis player
Rafael Nadal? He's got good arms.
He's got good arms.
So do you want big arms? Not necessarily, just like nice toned's got good arms. He's got good arms. Yeah. Okay. So do you want big arms?
Not necessarily.
Just like nice,
like toned arms.
Strong arms.
Strong arms.
Okay.
Yeah.
So you've got to be able to like do pull-ups then,
right?
Yeah.
Can you do pull-ups?
Yeah.
Can you do pull-ups?
Of course I can do pull-ups.
This isn't about me.
Vaughn's off the market.
And those arms.
You've got these.
Arms.
ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Megan. TheM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast.
Fletch, Vaughan and Megan's Radio Tinder.
And we're joined today for Radio Tinder by Celia,
who works with us here at ZM.
Megan's away sick today, so Executive Intern Anya has asked either Vaughan or myself
to ask the romantic questions.
Apparently, I'm not romantic enough.
What kind of romantic questions?
What kind of romantic questions?
What kind of romantic questions do you want us to ask?
You did quite well to start with, like,
what are you looking for in a man?
Yeah, that was really great there.
What about something more about Celia?
Like, what are your strengths and weaknesses?
Oh, that's not a job interview, though, is it?
SWOT.
Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.
What's your strength?
Oh, mine.
Oh, my strength.
You seem like quite a patient person.
Thank you.
Because in our meetings, sometimes I don't listen the best.
And you never yell, which is nice.
All right, well, let's meet our first contestant for Radio Tinder.
Good morning, Evan.
Morning, guys.
How are you?
Good.
All right, Celia, I'm going to hand over to you.
Hi, Evan.
How are you going?
Good.
How are you, Celia?
Good.
Thank you.
So, first question.
If you were to go on any reality TV show, what would it be?
I would say Love Island.
Oh, I love Love Island.
Yeah, but do you love
the people on Love Island?
I do.
I like the people on Love Island.
Yeah, but do you love the situation?
Would you want to date one of them,
you know?
Well, they're all quite hot.
Some of them.
Yeah, exactly.
Now, Evan, just some background.
You're from Wellington.
Yeah.
And you're 21. Yeah, so I'm under her age background. You're from Wellington. Yeah. And you're 21.
Yeah, so I'm under her age range.
All by one.
But I'm almost 22.
Okay.
All right.
And we could lie and say you're 23.
Would your friends and family describe you as mature, Evan?
I would like to think so.
Okay.
Okay.
And what do you do for a job?
I work in private security.
Okay.
All right. Security. There you go. That's what for a job? Work in private security. Okay.
All right.
Security.
There you go.
That's what they say when they're like a SAS.
Yeah, they do when they're a secret agent.
Yeah.
James Bond over there. Or an undercover policeman.
Old Evan Bond.
Okay.
All right.
You've got some questions?
More questions?
So if the world was open right now, where would you go?
I'd like to go back to Italy.
Back to Italy.
What were you doing over there?
I did an OE, the end of school,
so I went around most of Europe and a bit of Canada as well.
Nice.
What part of Canada did you go to?
Yeah, we're going to go to Canada.
I know.
That's great.
I went to Montreal.
Oh, amazing.
That was on my bucket list.
Bonjour.
Do you speak French?
I don't speak French.
No, I don't speak any other language, unfortunately.
I do want to learn Italian or German, though.
Oh, nice.
Nice.
And, yeah, I've got another question.
What's your hype song?
My what, sorry?
Your hype song, like before you've got something big on.
Oh, it's usually something by Dua Lipa.
Oh, okay. Is that just because we played Dua Lipa. Oh, okay.
Is that just because we played Dua Lipa?
No.
No, I just like her music.
Okay, all right.
I do love a bit of Dua Lipa.
It's a yes, Evan.
It's a yes, Evan.
Evan Bond.
It's a yes.
We welcome to Radio Tinder, Andrew.
Good morning. Morning. All right Radio Tinder, Andrew. Good morning.
Morning.
All right.
Now, Andrew, you are 35 from Auckland and you are a structural engineer.
I am.
But I'm wondering, 35, it's a bit of a push, is it?
Well, so is 21, so.
I'm young at heart, though.
I'm young at heart.
Young at heart.
Okay.
All right.
So if you could be in any movie, what would it be?
Probably James Bond.
Yeah, good.
Okay.
Just checking.
Would you be James Bond?
Or would you be like an extra?
No, I'd be James Bond. Oh, you'd be James Bond.
Okay.
Andrew, what's your favourite carb?
Carb?
Carb.
No, carbohydrate.
What a great question. Holyb? Carb. No, carbohydrate. What a great question.
Holy.
Wow.
Yes.
Well, I just cooked a potato salad last night,
and that was a pretty good one.
But is it your favourite?
Because you know you can fry those carbs, eh?
Maybe the next day, eh?
And what about garlic bread?
Yeah, definitely.
Garlic pizza.
But not before a date.
I wouldn't have garlic bread before my date was earlier.
Yeah.
Okay, good for you.
Thank you.
And what are you usually up to on a Friday night?
Friday night?
Usually go out with some friends,
either keep it chilled or a couple of beers.
And yeah, I mean, I'm doing a couple of renovations at the moment,
so I don't want to have too many beers on a Friday night
because I have to get up before the Saturday,
but then go out more, you know, Saturday night.
Okay.
Homeowner are you, Andrew?
Homeowner?
Oh, she's already given you a thumbs up.
We don't need to know your property report there.
Hold on to yourself.
She wants that property, Andrew.
Wait there.
Johnny.
Aucklander homeowner.
Johnny, 25 in Christchurch. Good morning. Morning. How are you going? Morning. Good, there. Johnny. Aucklander homeowner. Johnny, 25 in Christchurch.
Good morning.
Morning.
How you going?
Morning.
Good, mate.
Good.
All right, Celia, you've got some questions.
Hello.
If you could max out your credit card at one store and not pay the bill,
what store would you choose?
Oh, I don't know.
Probably just some sort of clothes shop, like Ripple Sport maybe.
That's just extensive.
Yeah, and you get everything because you can get some balls and you can also get some activewear and a tent.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah, and some fishing rods, I guess.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
And an NBA singlet.
What's up there?
So, Johnny, what is your weirdest deal breaker?
Oh, body odour.
I can't stand it.
Yeah, same, same.
Good, good.
Body odour, right.
Do you know what was coming up the escalator
when I was at the supermarket yesterday
and the guy in front of me had ridiculous body odour?
Okay.
Well, he might have had a condition.
I don't know.
I can't speak to him.
I can't speak to his body odour issue here.
He literally just went into the supermarket, buy deodorant. know. I can't speak to him. I can't speak to his body odor issue here. But it literally just meant it's a supermarket.
Buy deodorant.
Oh, I see what you're saying.
Yeah.
Maybe he had, but he didn't feel comfortable putting it on in store.
I just maybe be a little less judgmental.
If people you don't know, Fletch, you don't know the situation.
He smelled terrible.
I think you're allowed to be a little judgy.
Are you not?
I get what I want.
But you can't even be judgy anymore.
No.
All right.
Final question.
What's your favourite ice cream flavour?
Oh, rum and raisin.
Oh, God.
Oh!
Oh, my God, rum and raisin!
You're gone!
You're gone, Johnny!
Born wanted a date.
Yeah, I love a little rum and raisin.
A little walnut, a little maple.
Johnny, but you're not, come on, you're not 65.
Rum and raisin? Celia's not going to be able to share that with you. No, I you know what? Come on. You're not 65. I'm sorry. I mean, raisin.
Celia's not going to be able to share that with you.
No, I hate that.
I hate that.
I'm not sharing.
Johnny's not sharing.
See, it wouldn't have worked out anyway.
Here's the house of cards that is Johnny comes crumbling down.
Daniel, 29, in Auckland.
Good morning.
Morning.
How are you?
Oh, you're right in the middle of this age.
You're right, like, right in the middle of the age bracket that she's put forth.
That's always a good thing.
Hey, Daniel.
Hey, good morning.
How are you?
Good.
How are you?
Good, thank you.
Oh, my God.
Get a room.
So, if you had a date of yourself and unlimited money, what are you going to do?
Oh, God.
That would be the dream scenario.
I don't know.
Yeah, that's a really tough one.
My old man would say invest it.
Boo!
Boo!
But that's not how I roll since it's Melbourne Cup Day
and there's probably a fair amount going down on that.
Okay, so you could be a problem gambler.
Just to keep that in mind.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, let's settle down.
You like the occasional gamble.
It's not a problem yet. Okay, good, good. All's settle down. You like the occasional gamble. Not a problem yet. Okay, good, good. Alright, Daniel.
Next question. This is kind of a random question,
but if you could smell like
a specific food for the rest of your life,
what would you choose?
Oh, God.
I've got a bit of Spanish heritage,
so I'd have to go with some sort of Spanish flavour
because I feel like that's something that you
don't really get sick of and you don't get a lot of over here.
Nice wedging in there that you've got some Spanish ancestry.
Yeah, that was a hot play.
That was a hot play, Celia.
But no one wants to smell like paella.
Paella.
Or Spanish sausage.
He is, he smells like a chorizo.
Everybody knows old chorizo, Dan.
Wouldn't you go for a nice, like, a citrus smell?
Like a Valencia orange.
Yeah, or an orange or a lemon,
because then that's like a clean smell, isn't it?
It's associated with clean.
Whereas if you smell like a banana for the rest of your life,
that'd be horrible.
That'd be weird.
Yeah, but you don't want to smell like
Ajax, you know?
No, no.
You're right, there's a fine line between
lemon and lemon pledge.
Dan, do we settle on what you would
want to smell like?
Paella. It is paella.
Yeah, we'll go paella.
A huge pan of shrimpy paella.
I think you normally see it at a music festival
and you're like, how long has that been sitting here?
I don't know, how hot's that?
And final question, what's your go-to karaoke song?
Karaoke with me is like a bit of a rollercoaster, really.
You've got to start with the highs, drop down to some lows,
get back to the highs.
All my friends will tell you that too.
Yeah, it's a bit of a nightmare when I'm there. Hold the mic. But what friends will tell you that too. Okay. Yeah, it's a bit of a nightmare
when I'm there
to hold the mic.
But what song?
He's a Mike Hogg.
He's a Mike Hogg.
So Celia loves
a bit of karaoke.
I do.
You'll never get
the mic off of him.
Oh,
I do love
the Angel of Robbie Williams.
That's probably
the belter.
Okay, okay.
It's a yes!
Song choice
and love of karaoke. Some Spanish heritage and he smells like paella. Ah, paella, okay. It's a yes. Song choice and love of karaoke.
Some Spanish heritage and he smells like paella.
Ah, paella, Dan.
Daniel is in.
We've got time for one more.
We welcome to Radio Tinder.
Jared, good morning.
Good morning.
Good morning.
27 in Auckland.
Celia.
Hello.
Hi.
So if you were to trade lives for someone for a day, who would it be?
Oh, gosh.
Bear Grylls.
You bet he drinks his own pesto.
Not very often, though.
Yeah, I mean, he doesn't do that every time.
No, not every time.
Okay.
So you're like a keen adventurer.
Oh, you know, I would be up for some adventure for a day, you know, and then go.
And then go what?
And then go back home and watch some Netflix.
Oh, okay.
All right.
That sounds good.
If you could go back in time to any decade, where would you go?
You know, I'd be really keen to go back to, like, the Stone Age
and just to see how simple life was back then
or how difficult life was back then.
So you'd go back with your iPhone and your Apple Watch
and you'd show them a thing or two?
Yeah, or I'd go back to, like, the 50s and 60s
because I work in cinema and, you know, I'd have like all of these ideas that people have never thought of before.
Oh, yes.
Yeah.
Good idea.
Cool.
And what do you have for breakfast?
I actually don't eat breakfast.
I'm doing that intermittent fasting thing.
Oh, no. She wants a breakfast later, Ger thing. Oh, no.
She wants a breakfast eater, Jared.
I love food.
I love food.
I'm eating constantly.
All right.
Well, Celia, not bad.
Thank you, Jared.
Thank you to our contestants this morning for Radio Tinder.
A few matches there.
Three hot leads.
Evan, Andrew and Daniel, but Johnny and Jared.
The two Js. Although one of them does smell like paella.
Daniel smells like paella.
I'll put a question mark behind it beside him for
scent. Let us know how you get on
Celia. I will. Thank you.
Thank you.
Lovely.
Megan's away today, sick, but
sort of just be the two of us for Fact of the Day.
Oh, okay.
You don't want to join in?
Ouch.
Well, no, you're not trained.
You're not trained.
Ouch.
Have you ever done the Fact of the Day jingle before?
No, but I reckon I could do it.
Many, many reckon.
Many reckon and many fail.
I've only heard it a bajillion times.
Yeah, I know.
Okay, well, do you know what?
You can join us for the in, and if it's not acceptable,
you won't be joining us for the out,
and we'll be Simon Cowell ruthless.
Okay.
It's time for...
Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Not bad
Not bad
I feel you held that though
You're like the kid in choir that mouths the words
Oh my god, excuse me
Or the kid in orchestra that pretends to play the trumpet
That was me
I just sat in orchestra just being like
Pushing it Pushing the buttons tends to play the trumpet. That was me. I just sat in orchestra just been like pushing it.
Pushing the buttons.
Today's fact of the day
is about Worcestershire sauce.
Yep.
Worcestershire.
Okay.
Worcestershire.
Worcestershire.
Worcestershire.
Worcestershire sauce.
Worcestershire?
Worcestershire.
Worcestershire.
Yes.
Worcestershire.
Yep.
But then it says Worcestershire. Worcestershire. Yes. Worcestershire. Yep. But then it says Worcestershire.
Worcestershire.
Just say it fast.
Just say it fast.
Worcestershire sauce.
Worcestershire sauce.
So here's where I got a bunch of facts about Worcestershire sauce.
Okay.
It's got anchovies in it.
Really?
Yep.
Traditional Leanne Perrins Worcestershire sauce had anchovies in it.
Okay.
And continues to have anchovies in it.
You can't get a non-fishy version.
Okay.
Here's another fact of the day about Worcestershire sauce.
Lian Perrins made the first Worcestershire sauce.
And you can still buy it in a bottle that almost looks pretty similar
to what it looked like when it was first released.
Yeah.
And when other people started making Wushashire sauce,
Lee and Perrins were like, excuse me, we will sue you.
And a judge said, I'm afraid that your sauce has reached a point
where it has become the generic name.
And you don't own Wushashire.
Really?
Because that's a place.
So you don't actually own this so other places can sell your sauce
and call it Wushashire sauce. Wow, that's cheeky. So you don't actually own this, so other places can sell your sauce and call it Worcestershire sauce.
Wow, that's cheeky, isn't it?
Yeah.
But the main fact of the day is
what country do you think consumes
the most Worcestershire sauce per capita?
This is a trap because I would say the UK,
but it's not going to be, is it?
No, it's not the UK.
They do love it.
They really get into it.
Is it a European country? No. Is it an is it? No, it's not the UK. They do love it. They really get into it. Is it a European country? No.
Is it an Asian country? No. Is it America?
It's in the Americas. Mexico. Nope. Down.
Is it South America? No, no.
It's in the middle Americas. I'm just going to say. It's El Salvador. El Salvador. Do they love it?
El Salvador love the Worcestershire sauce.
So they pretty much drink a bottle per person per year,
which is the highest per capita consumption in the world for Worcestershire sauce.
They call it their salsa inglesia, which means English sauce.
English sauce, yeah.
Or salsa Perens, which is Peren sauce, but it's a Worcestershire sauce.
Yeah, right.
And they consume, yeah, a bottle each per year,
which is far higher than any other country when it comes to Worcestershire sauce.
Who knew?
So today's fact of the day is that El Salvadorians love them some Worcestershire sauce.
Worcestershire. Worcestershire. Worcestershire sauce. Worcestershire.
Worcestershire.
Worcestershire sauce.
Fact of the day, day, day, day, day.
ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast.
Producer Jared had a Halloween party.
This is an annual event for his flat.
They have a Halloween party.
So we were invited or we weren't invited?
Yeah, we got invited on Facebook.
Everyone knows you were invited.
And he said we were only invited because he knew we wouldn't go.
No, that was to cover my own hurt feelings.
Oh, right.
Okay, so you did want us to go.
Of course.
Aw.
Fletch, you literally put maybe in the Facebook event.
That's a Fletch classic.
At least I'm not building up anybody's expectation.
No, but that's exactly.
No, you put going and then I knew you weren't going to come,
so I switched it to maybe.
Did you switch it to maybe?
Oh, power play.
Oh, wow, that was a power play.
Because I'll quite often put maybe because I don't know what I'm doing
that weekend when I get an invite two months out.
When someone actually asks you first and you're like, maybe not.
Yeah, because I don't want to switch from a yes to a no
because that's way worse than going from a maybe to a no.
You know what I'm saying?
Yeah. Yeah. It's fair. There's from a maybe to a no. You know what I'm saying? Yeah.
It's fair. There's Facebook etiquette here, people.
In my efforts to remain
a social recluse, but a nice guy, I said
how was the party? And made
some general inquiries as to the party
and that was when we found out
there was a few things, a few different
chit-chat pieces about the party, but
then Jared told us
this little tidbit. What did you tell me
that made me go, what? Someone
brought a baby.
At what time of the party did
this baby appear? Would have been
probably 10, 30, 11-ish.
What time did the baby
stay till?
I can't remember. I wasn't
around when the baby left.
But it was very late. I think I went tomorrow. Oh, you can't remember. I wasn't around when the baby left. Where did you go? But it was very late.
Right.
I think I went to my room.
Oh, you don't?
Can't remember.
Okay.
So you passed out before the baby did?
Probably, yeah.
This is, how old was this baby?
I'm just like blown away by this.
I want to say six to eight months.
Craziness.
Like it was definitely an infant,
not a toddler or anything.
Could they not get a babysitter?
I'm not sure.
I think the baby was part of their costume
because they also brought their dog.
They brought their dog as well?
Yeah.
What baby?
What was the costume?
They were dressed like kind of safari-y.
Yeah.
And the baby was dressed kind of monkey-y.
As a monkey?
Yeah.
So the monkey was holding on to them
and they were like a safari.
Yeah.
They could have done that hangover costume.
Yes.
With the baby harness.
And the front pack.
That would have been good.
That would have been a good one.
Wow.
That's a weird, that's...
Was it loud?
The party was loud?
It was a pretty doofy party.
Party-ish.
Pretty naughty, wasn't it?
Party-ish, party-ish.
I thought, I thought.
It's a bit naughty.
It's a bit naughty.
I mean, I'm not a parent, so I can't.
You're a parent.
But even taking a pet to a party.
You don't take a pet to a party.
No.
You don't take your pet to somebody else's party.
Well, unless you're going as Scooby-Doo and you're Thelma Dinkley.
Velma Dinkley?
Velma.
Thelma.
No, Velma.
That's Thelma and Louise and Velma Dinkley.
Yes, Velma Dinkley.
Yeah, so you'd be Velma.
I'd be...
Don't say you're Daphne if I'm Velma. Although Velma has had a sexy resurgence lately. Yeah, yeah. So you'd be Velma, I'd be... Don't say you're Daphne if I'm Velma.
Although Velma has had a sexy resurgence lately.
Yeah, yeah.
And then, you know, we'd have a dog as Scooby-Doo.
Right, yeah.
I think we should probably just go as Fred and Shaggy.
I don't think we should dress that woman just for the...
Hey, it's 2020, we can do whatever we want.
Yeah, okay.
We will not be judged. No, fair enough.
So... Anyway, that's the only acceptable
time that you should take a dog to a party
is if you're going as
Daphne and... Whoa, dog
or baby. I don't think that's a weird thing
to take to a party. I was
fine with the dog. I just wasn't
expecting the baby. A baby, you know, I wouldn't expect
a baby either. We would like to, on the back
of this shocking news
of somebody bringing an infant,
small, tiny, little baby to a party,
ask, what is the weirdest thing that someone
has brought to a party?
What has someone turned up to
and they've got?
Yeah, and you're like... Because, you know, drunk shenanigans
happen. Yeah.
And people just arrive, don't they,
with things.
Maybe not living. Maybe an inanimate object they collected along the way. Mannequins happen. Yeah. And people just arrive, don't they, with things? Hmm.
Maybe not living.
Maybe an inanimate object they collected along the way.
Like a giant statue.
Yeah.
Or something living that they had no...
Parnia of the Reef.
I don't want Parnia of the Reef for my party.
That is...
You've stolen that and that is a valuable metal.
Yes, they did.
Oh, they did find that.
Okay.
But what did somebody turn up to a party with?
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ZM.
So we want to know the weirdest thing that somebody's turned up to a party with
after a small, tiny baby was, well, appeared at producer Jared's party at the weekend.
As part of a costume, apparently.
So that's an exception.
You're allowed to bring an infant baby to a party at 11 o'clock at night.
That'd be still frowned upon.
Some text messages in.
I was at a nightclub a few years ago.
There was a guy walking around handing out celery sticks
and I said, where's the dip?
And he pulled a container of hummus out of his back pocket.
Wow.
It's very unusual.
I like that.
The entire situation.
Somebody else said, a guy from school bought a bag of lamb's tails
to chuck on the brazier at my 16th to cook up for everyone to eat.
Lamb's tails not for everybody.
What?
Darren, what did somebody turn up to a party with?
Sorry, sorry, what was that?
A coffin.
A what?
Right, okay.
Who was in it?
No one.
It was a letter P party, so they came as pallbearers.
So six guys brought in a coffin
Wow
That is good from them
That is good from them
Yeah
I like that
Brilliant
And a bit of a somber mood
Easy to put on
You know just a shirt
A suit
Sometimes just a shirt
Just a shirt
And then you've got the P party
And then also
That could be a seat or a table
If seating
Was short at the party.
Yes.
Or a table.
Put your feet up.
An ottoman.
A wooden ottoman.
Play poker on the table.
Exactly.
Great options.
Thanks, Darren.
30 German exchange students turned up to my party.
No one owned up to inviting them.
My house was quite off the road, so they definitely just didn't wander in.
Very unusual amount of people to bring to a party.
Okay. But they stayed? people to bring to a party. Okay.
But they stayed.
They had a wunderbar time.
We're talking about the weirdest thing
that turned up to a party
after a baby came to produce Jared's Halloween party
with its parents, not by itself.
Not old enough to walk,
but apparently old enough to be strapped into a front pack
and come to quite a noisy party.
Don't know.
Not for me.
So we want to know the weirdest thing that you've seen turn up to a party.
Somebody said, I turned up to my sister-in-law's 40th birthday
with a three-day-old lamb and a nappy.
Everybody thought I was crazy, but it needed to be fed,
and I was going to be there longer than it needs to turn its feed.
Oh, so they weren't taking it for a joke.
No.
It needs to be fed.
Okay, fair enough.
And that would have actually gone down quite well
because it's cute.
Are they cute?
That age?
Yes.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
There you go.
Very, very cute.
Nan almost took a corpse to a New Year's Eve party
back in the 80s.
Grandad was dressed up as Mahatma Gandhi
for this New Year's Eve party
And just as they were leaving
To go to the party, poor old grandad had a heart attack
Over the kitchen sink and got his head stuck between the taps
She went in and she said come on
And she thought he was playing around but he was deceased
And she still wanted to go to the party
No word what if she ended up going to the party
Because I mean what could she have done for grandad
He was already gone
That's such an old mate thing to say.
Well, I mean,
I'm dressed up
and they would have wanted me to go.
Yeah.
I can't.
Popped him in the fridge.
He'll keep till I get home.
I was at a ice bar
very recently
and a couple took a baby
that was very young.
An ice bar?
Yeah.
Like the minus five?
Yeah.
Oh, okay.
But everybody was just looking at them like,
what are you doing?
Like, what?
You don't come in here with that.
Somebody said,
I was walking to a party
and I found a kitty cat.
And I picked up the kitty cat.
It was a very young kitten.
And the kitty cat is still with us.
Eight years later.
What if they catnap somebody's kitten?
Well, I don't know.
Good question.
I mean, hopefully
they did the research,
maybe checked up
some posters or
something.
Yeah.
Wow.
All right, Tony,
what did you turn up
to a party with?
Yeah, so I went to
a friend's birthday
party.
Yeah.
And they live on a
farm, so I thought I
took a sheep along
to the birthday party
because I thought
it would be funny. Okay, you'd just take a sheep along to the birthday party. It's probably a bit funny.
Okay, you'd just take a sheep along?
Where did you get the sheep from?
Yeah, so my other friend owned the farm, so he said,
oh, you can take one of my sheep, it's fine.
So I just took one of his sheep and then gave it to my other friend's birthday party.
So I said, hey, go get a sheep for him.
Did they keep the sheep?
Yeah, of course they kept the sheep.
Oh, sorry, what a stupid question.
So it was a present? Yeah, basically course I kicked the sheep. Oh, sorry, what a stupid question. So it was a present?
Yeah, basically, yeah.
Right, right.
I thought it was a prank and that there was a sheep,
but they're a farmer, so they do something with the sheep.
That's brilliant.
Well, you know, I was thinking, you know,
you've got to do something extraordinarily extraordinary,
you know, that no one's done before.
Yeah, because, you know, people just get a voucher normally,
don't they?
Well, they do, you know, so I thought, you know, I thought I'd take it the next level up, you know.
You're a good friend, Tony.
You're a good man.
So this person's not, though.
They said they were having their bridal shower.
It was a big party.
Someone who was an acquaintance got an invite, like a cusp invite.
Oh, yeah.
Like, will they invite them?
Will they not?
Not really a friend.
More of an acquaintance.
And when they came in, they were carrying a big box.
And they were like, oh, my gosh, they've bought were like, oh my gosh, they've bought like food.
No, they bought their entire Arbonne collection.
And they tried to turn their bridal shower into an Arbonne sales pitch.
And said there was, nobody was having it.
No one was having it at all.
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