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Hello and welcome to the Flea to Warner Megan podcast. It's thanks to McCafé. Grab yourself a delicious barista made coffee for only $4.
Hey, I remember, rememberized that.
You rememberized that.
Because I don't, look, I don't have my piece of paper. I always read the piece of paper.
You did. Good on you, sister.
It's at the bottom of the first one. That one.
Grab yourself a delicious barista made coffee for only $4 at McCafé.
Nailed it.
Harmonious, Harmonious.
Harmonious.
Nailed it.
Well, it's very late here at ZMHQ, so we're going to go home now.
Late?
Oh, you're like, we're here late.
We're here late.
Yeah.
So we're not going to dilly-dally with an intro, are we?
It's before lunchtime, but after morning tea.
Yuck.
Yuck.
Anything to add before we go?
I'm just on LinkedIn.
Oh, okay.
Why?
Just my monthly check-in on LinkedIn to clear the notifications
so I don't have any annoying little red buttons on my phone.
I've also got a couple I can't get rid of.
So all I did was I just turned off notifications.
I do that too.
Why can't you get rid of them?
I don't know.
A friend the other day that was on their phone and I saw they had all these bubbles,
like a thousand emails, like nine notifications here or there.
I don't know how they live with themselves.
I have a few bubbles.
I can't see them.
I said to my brother-in-law, he had something like eight and a half thousand emails.
I said, well, can you turn that off?
Yeah.
At least if you're not going to read them, he's like, well, how will I know when I get a new email?
That I won't read. Yeah, exactly. If you're not reading them read them, he's like, well, how will I know when I get a new email? That I won't read.
Yeah, exactly.
If you're not reading them, just delete them all.
Delete the account.
But now I've cleared it.
Not a lot happening on LinkedIn.
Can't report anything.
What are these notifications?
What are people like?
What's the deal?
Okay, my notifications.
I've got a few.
Congratulate people on work anniversaries.
Okay.
So if people have worked there for
so long, people get a new
position and then you
congratulate them on their new job.
Sounds like too much
admin. Because I just connect
with everybody. I've got a massive
network of people
that I would never
talk to in real life. I'm just going to
congratulate Harry Chang.
He started a new position as an interior consultant at HRV.
Congratulations, Harry.
Look at that, and I feel great now.
Oh, no, and it's given me the option to put a gif,
and I've put a Minions gif.
Is that like a LinkedIn version of being creepy?
Like if that was a hot woman.
Oh, or Harry Chang's a hot man.
Yeah, well, exactly.
It's very creepy.
You don't know him.
Okay, so my creepiness is presumptioning.
You're presuming my creepiness based on my sexual preference.
So because it's a guy and I'm a heterosexual male.
It's okay.
But Harry doesn't know you're a heterosexual male. Well, should I flick him a message telling and I'm a heterosexual male. It's okay. But Harry doesn't know you're a heterosexual male. Well, should I flick him
a message telling him I'm a heterosexual male?
This is a platonic message. He'll probably look at you
and say, mate, I love Sheila.
That's also
very creepy. That's not going to be good.
No, because he might look at your profile picture
and think you're a gay bear because you've got the big
beard. No, my profile picture on here
is a very, it's actually a very professional image.
I'm surprised I did it.
What is it?
It's, um.
Is it from your TV days?
It was from a photo shoot we had for.
Look at that.
It's me there.
I look like a real estate agent.
Oh, you do.
You do.
I'd sell the shit out of your house.
You do.
Trust me.
What are you wearing?
Like a cream colored suit.
Yeah.
You look more like Alex Perry. Who are you wearing? Like a cream-colored suit. Yeah. You look more like Alex Perry.
Who's Alex Perry?
The guy with the Specsavers ad.
Oh, not that again.
The sunglasses designer.
The sunglasses designer.
Oh, my God.
Can someone Photoshop the sunglasses on top of my head?
On top of my head.
And then I'll be able to do that.
I'm just looking at – I've got no work, I've got no work anniversaries coming up.
Okay.
Because I like that
because you get all of this notification.
You're like, what's going on?
And then you're like,
people will say,
congratulations on two years
at Accidental Genitalia
and Design Identification Consultancy.
That's always a good one to get.
Anyway, pop on your LinkedIn,
add me,
let's get this network going.
I'm Vaughan Smith. I'll write you a fake resume to get. Anyway, pop on your LinkedIn. Admeet, let's get this network going. I'm Vaughan Smith.
I'll write you a fake resume like that.
It's nuts.
Enjoy the podcast.
ZM.
Head music.
Lives here.
Flesh, Vaughan and Megan.
The podcast.
Good morning.
Vaughan was on TV last night.
Yep.
On. What about it? Vaughan was on TV last night. Yep. On...
What about it?
On Close Up.
Close Up?
Seven Sharp.
Homes.
There you go.
The Homes program.
The Homes show.
I was on the Homes program at seven o'clock.
TVNZ had you back.
I know.
That's lovely.
They probably didn't know.
Yeah.
You went to a Land Rover day.
Yep.
Last week.
Drove that around.
We talked about it.
That was the one you broke.
Yeah, the windscreen one, but they didn't show that, thankfully.
Oh, good.
Okay.
Yeah, yeah.
How did you edit?
What did you say?
Fine.
Nah, good.
I missed it.
It was a flawless edit.
It's great editing.
You're trying so hard to get a free one.
It's not going to happen.
I'm under no illusion that anything I could do
could get me a $90,000 vehicle for free, Megan.
You'd be lucky to get a Suzuki Swift for free.
Hey, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
I could get a Suzuki Swift for free if I really put my mind to it.
I don't know if you could.
I think so. Like a secondhand one.
Like someone that traded in.
Yeah, right.
And a car yard's like, tell everybody about the car sale for eight weeks
and we'll give you a Suzuki Swift.
If I put my mind to it, I could get a Suzuki Swift.
Yeah, I don't know.
If I really put my mind to it.
I don't know about that.
And then just threw all of my ethics out the window and just went in.
Yeah.
Coming up on the show, the top six.
Yeah, we have been deemed to have the world's best passport.
Well, great.
Finally.
Rub it in our face.
Every year this list comes out and we're like, we're getting there, guys.
We're always really close to the top, though. We're always top ten. Yeah. But this, we're getting there, guys. We're always really close to the top, though.
We're always top 10.
Yeah.
But this year we're number one, but what are you going to do with it?
Yeah.
Well, I've got the top six uses for the world's best passport coming up.
All right.
Also, next I'll tell you what we binged on in lockdown.
It's not very good for us.
No.
Fleshforn and Megan, the podcast.
ZM.
Around the world, chocolate sales have gone down.
And that's probably because it's kind of seen as a luxury item
and everyone's like tightening their belts and stuff
and not spending as much on luxury food items.
Yep.
Nah.
Well, we'd like to think so.
When you said tightening their belts,
they actually had to loosen their belts significantly
because of the amount that was eaten.
I did say around the world, but in New Zealand,
we are spending more on chocolate than we were a year ago.
So is that right now or in the last, like, the lockdown COVID months?
From level four lockdown till July 19.
So what, like a week ago, two weeks ago.
We spent
$146 million on chocolate.
That's good for the chocolate industry
though, because we've got to think about
supporting local.
Not that we're gross chocolate here.
But that is so much chocolate.
So much chocolate. That's so bad.
The sales at supermarkets increased 14%.
Yep.
And 5% of that was just chocolate.
Because I remember just after lockdown,
Countdown released those stats of what everybody was buying
during like level four and three.
And I remember chocolate was big there.
Yeah.
So $146 million in that period.
Yep.
But that's up $7.2 million.
So we still spend like 138 mil usually.
Wow.
Okay.
This is a lot of money.
This doesn't surprise me.
It doesn't?
Such a selection of chocolates in supermarkets.
Okay.
It is nuts when you go overseas to supermarkets.
The selection of chocolates, the lolly aisle,
is nowhere near as vast as it is in New Zealand or Australia.
There's cereal aisles overseas.
There's some countries with insane amounts of cereal.
Like America's, we went into a supermarket and it had RIP America.
And it had like almost a whole aisle of cereals.
Whereas here you might get like one side or half an aisle of cereals.
Yeah.
But yeah, because I've got such a sweet tooth and when you're overseas,
you're just like, well, I'll go get some chocolate.
And you're just like, is this all?
Like there's five different blocks.
Why is that, do you reckon?
We just really love chocolate.
Curse our fatties.
We just love chocolate just really love chocolate. Curzwe parties. Just love chocolate.
We love chocolate.
But yeah, apparently, because supermarket shopping is up as well,
so we're going to the supermarket to buy our treats
rather than going out to buy treats.
So we're spending more buying chocolate when we're at the supermarket.
Because we're like, well, stuff it, we're not getting anything else.
Right.
Put the chocolate in. But that's so bad for our nation's health, though, isn it, we're not getting anything else. Right. Put the chocolate in.
But that's so bad for our nation's health though, isn't it?
Yeah.
And it's so funny that it's the opposite to the worldwide trend.
Yeah.
Everyone else around the world is like, no, that's a luxury.
We're like, get it in.
More for us.
It's always saying a little bit more for us.
It's also winter and lockdown combined.
So I feel those are definitely the chocolatey months,
whereas overseas at the moment it's summer.
And so that's less of your chocolate time
and more of you have to go to the beach.
So you don't eat as much chocolate.
That's true too.
We probably shouldn't be going to the beach either.
Well, no.
There's no stopping summer.
No.
ZM's Fletch Warner Megan, the podcast.
Kevin Clark is a man from
North Carolina and he just had
an inkling, an inkling
that the Mega Cash scratch-off
game, the scratchy ticket, would
be won in North
Carolina. Okay.
He just had an inkling.
I'm sorry, but an inkling? Was there any
mathematical reason?
I don't know if this was just a scratchy for North Carolina or what.
Right.
It had a top price of $5 million US.
And so he was like, and these are 20, you know those $20 scratchies?
Yeah.
I never buy those ones.
Because it's all right to buy a $2 one and you lose and you're like,
it was $2 or $3 or $5.
But $20, you just, I don't know.
You just feel a lot more butt hurt
when you lose $20.
Did you win anything
at Lotto on the weekend? I know you didn't win
Powerball. I got a free line.
I got a free ticket. Got bumped again. Yeah, I got a free ticket too.
Because this is the only time I buy Lotto tickets
when it's big. I think I've got like
four Lotto tickets
from various other times where I've got a free ticket. I've got like four lotto tickets from various other times
where I've got a free ticket.
I've got to cash them in before this next one.
Do you not have the app?
Do you use actual tickets?
Yeah.
You're old school.
No, because we had the app and I don't know what I did wrong trying to log in,
but I did it three times and it was like, you're out.
And now I can't, like, do it.
Because my credit card's already associated to an account.
Oh, right.
I can't make a new account.
I don't know what happened.
But yeah, I'm old school.
You boom it out there.
I go old school.
Yeah, I boomed it out hard.
And I did that classic boomer thing too,
where I just gave up and went back to what I knew.
Yeah, totally.
But yeah, I'm going to cash them in for this one.
Can you remind me
I was going to buy one
last weekend
and then I forgot
and then no one won
and I was like,
save myself some money.
Yeah.
Well, this man
in North Carolina,
I don't know why
he had an inkling
but he thought
it's going to go.
Maybe.
Psychic.
Maybe he's psychic.
I don't know
but he decided
to drive around
to 40 different stores in North Carolina
and bought every single ticket in those stores.
Now, he hasn't said how much he spent.
They're $20 tickets.
$20 tickets.
But you would imagine he's come out on top because he won the $5 million prize.
Wow.
So in America, you pay tax on prize winnings.
Okay.
So big lotteries, you can choose either a lump sum payment and then, so he's got $3
million and he'll pay $2 million in tax or he could have chosen to be paid $250,000 for
the next like two decades, basically.
So he's chosen the lump sum.
So even after tax, he's still come out on top, he says.
How much on top?
I don't know.
I mean, he wouldn't have had $3 million kicking around, eh?
You don't have $3 million kicking around.
Also, say he bought 100 tickets at $20 a pop at each store.
What is that, $20,000?
Times 40, 40 stores. Oh, okay, quite a bit. Like each store what is that 20 000 times 40 40 stores oh okay quite a bit like
how much is that i'd just love to know how much he actually spent that's a hell of a gamble and
who is that much cash just being like i'm gonna do this because how do you know that someone didn't
just walk into the store before you and picked up the winning ticket i, maybe you'd get some, and it doesn't say if he got any lesser prizes, you know,
like any $2.
True.
$100.
Yeah.
He probably would have.
He 100% would have because he bought all the tickets in the state.
Yeah.
So there were 20.
And let's say, as you said, there was 100 in each store.
That's $2,000.
Yeah.
And then times 40.
And there probably would have been more than 100 in each store. So that's $80,000. And then times 40. And there probably would have been more than $100 in each store.
So that's $80,000.
Wow, okay.
So even if there was 200 tickets in each store,
that's still not too bad.
It's $160,000.
But who has that money being like, I'm going to do this?
No, but if you knew it was a surefire,
if you statistically,
because it was that,
there's some famous story
about some mathematician
who looked at the lottery
and he's like,
oh, I'll just buy
every combination
and I will still
come out on top.
And he did it
every time it got
to a certain amount.
Every time it got to...
Right.
Jackpot it up,
he'd be like,
oh yeah,
we'll do this again
and then win again.
And did he...
Wow.
Yeah, and he won
a whole bunch of times
and then they ended up
changing how it was done
after they kind of caught on to the fact
that one guy had won six or seven times.
Chuck with some more balls in the mix or something.
See, if I won the $30 million in Powerball,
I'd just start at the bottom of the South Island
by every scratchy and work my way up.
How fun would that be?
You just won 30 mil.
You greedy shit.
Yeah, but how fun does that sound?
Is there collectively more than that?
I don't know.
I just think that's something I'd have to do because I'd have quit my job
and I'd be bored.
You'd need something to do.
So I'd need to entertain myself.
Oh, my God.
Fleshforn and Megan, the podcast.
ZM.
From the ZM think tank, this is the top six.
It's the most
desirable and it is
the best passport in the world, the New Zealand
passport.
What a time. What a time to take
that honour. You want to
be reminded of a pre-COVID world?
It was Japan that led the charge. Singapore
was second spot.
And we were up
there but we weren't the be-all and end-all.
So is it because of our COVID-free status?
Yeah.
That's made us desirable?
Well, because travelling's kind of not happening
and our COVID-free status, it would be handy to have a New Zealand passport
because then you could come to a COVID-free country
and enjoy the freedoms of a country that dealt
with it early. But I'm reading a lot of, I'm reading
a lot that we shouldn't be getting complacent.
I'm reading a lot. Well, no, that
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern
reiterated that yesterday in her presser.
Yeah. Saying that, you know, a lot of people
was it a quarter of people that are asked
for a test at their GP
are saying no.
I didn't realise you could be like GP are saying no. I didn't realise
he could be like, oh nah.
Well, yeah, and that's the thing, you're meant to do
your part. It's the same with vaccinating.
They should just be like, hey, look over there.
That's pretty much what happens to me
with the bluejack. Hit you with the MMR.
Yeah. And then
they'll be like, hey, look over there.
And then you look and they grab the back of your head and
swab up there. And swab you, yeah.
Swab you.
Yeah, do your bit for the kid.
It's not pleasant, but then.
For the greater good.
COVID's worse, I'm sure.
But what can we do with the world's best passport?
These are the top six uses for the world's best passport,
the New Zealand passport.
Number six, you might as well let your kids use it as a stamp in a sticker book
because it ain't like it's getting any other stamps anytime soon.
Who got in trouble for going to a bar with stamping them?
Was it a bar in Dunedin years ago that stamped your passport?
Actual passports.
As a lolz?
Are they not allowed to do that?
And some tourist attractions have done it
and it's ended up with people being denied or getting in trouble
because they're just like, mate, this isn't a joke stamp book.
Yeah.
They can go through your...
Yeah.
Oh.
They can go through it when you arrive in a country.
Yeah.
And if it makes it look like a joke,
they can deny your entrance.
Yeah, but it's not your gun anyway, so...
But I mean, mine's valid for like 10 years,
so I'm hoping that within 10 years...
Put those reusable stickers in it then
if you're going to use yours as a sticker book.
The ones that peel off.
Because the page in a passport is quite good stock paper.
What is the GSM of a passport page?
Oh, lovely.
It's lovely paper.
Yeah, a woman was barred from travelling because of a Machu Picchu stamp in her passport.
She got the novelty stamp at a trip to Machu Picchu.
And she was denied
her trip to Phuket.
Oh, goodness me.
Yeah. Phuket? I thought they'd take anybody.
Madrid Airport, they were like, no. Here's a
picture of it.
Like, it looks official. I used to
always get excited about stamps from different places
but then when my passport expired, I threw it out.
So it's like, oh.
Yeah.
It's not like you're going to sit there and look back on the stamps.
You threw out your passport once it expired.
Yeah.
Well, you've got to cut the corner off it, don't you?
You don't want any Israeli spies going through your bin.
That happened.
That happened some years ago.
Okay.
I was just trying to find the GSM stock weight of passport paper.
It's a beautiful paper.
I know it says here when you're supplying the photo,
it's got to be at least 200 GSM.
Oh, yep.
Like photo paper.
What is GSM?
Is that the thickness?
What does it stand for?
Grain square millimeter.
I thought it was grams. I thought it was grams.
I thought it was grams.
Grams stock of this paper. GSM paper, not papatoe.
GSM paperweight stands for grams per square metre.
Oh, I wasn't there.
So you were real close.
Square metre, that's a huge piece of paper.
200 grams per square metre.
That's not enough. Yeah. Oh, my God, I'm real piece of paper. 200 grams per square metre. That's not enough.
Yeah.
Oh, my God.
I'm real proud of myself.
How thick?
I want to see a 500 grams per square metre.
It would be cartridge, mate.
You're not giving me enough praise for, like,
pretty much hitting that on the head.
You said millimetre.
Did you say millimetre?
Grams square millimetre was what I said.
I think you said Grandpa Simpson Milo. That was what you said. I think you said Grandpa, Simpson,
Milo.
That was what you said.
You're just trying to claim the victory.
Number five on the list of the top six uses
for the world's best passport.
You know that hard plastic page
now that's in there
and it's got your photo and stuff on it?
Does it have a chip in it?
Yeah.
Well, you can use that
to scrape ice off your windscreen
on a cold morning.
The New Zealand passport, making it easier to get places.
And that places work and you're late, so hurry up and scrape.
Number four on the list of the top six uses for the world's best passport.
Chuck away that 18 plus card and that pesky driver's license.
Use it as ID to get into a bar.
Woohoo!
It's like traveling.
You've got to approve it.
Sorry, mate, you can't come into this country with's like travelling. You've got to approve it. Sorry, mate,
you can't come into this country
with white shoes on.
But she's wearing white shoes.
The ladies have different rules.
Number three on the list
of the top successes
for the New Zealand's best passport
are to stop the table
at your local cafe wobbling.
Oh, yeah.
Do you have any wobbly tables
at your cafe?
Yeah.
Yeah.
We're going to sort that out.
You've got to unscrew the little knobby on the bottom to even it up.
But I can't either.
I'm not sitting in it.
Megan.
Megan.
Someone else can fix the knobbly bit.
There was a whole entire season dedicated to wobbly tables.
Cuba enthusiasm.
Yeah.
It's a huge issue.
I hate it.
It's a huge issue.
It is a huge issue. It is.
Okay.
Do you want to come fix some things?
What's the biggest issue you have with customer service?
We don't have any issues with customer service.
Wobbly table you do. I'd message
Andrew now and say, hey look babe, just before you
open the cafe today, can you just do a...
If I own a cafe,
I'd be horrible because I wouldn't deal with people well.
But I'd every morning go around and give the tables a wobble check.
I think there's only one or two.
That's one or two too many.
Yeah.
Sort out your wobbly tables, please.
Number two on the list of the top successes for New Zealand's best passport.
She wonders why she's got one star on TripAdvisor.
Excuse me.
I'm going to come and do a Google review.
Do not do that.
I will.
No, because I can't delete it.
Fix your wobbly table then.
Well, you can launch a preemptive strike by fixing your wobbly tables.
You ruin our rating.
I'll walk up to tables with people on them and be like,
excuse me for a moment.
That wobble.
Their drinks on the floor.
Yeah, I'll sort that out.
Run away. Number two on the list of the day I'll sort that out. Run away.
Number two on the list of the day,
top six uses for the world's best passport
are as ID when you get on the inter-islander.
Makes you feel like you're travelling internationally.
Like, sir, this is the inter-islander.
We don't need to see ID.
I'll be like, just take it.
I'm going overseas.
Yeah, we're going overseas.
We're going overseas.
Just take it.
No, no, we've got your number plate.
It's fine.
I said, just take it.
And number one on the list of the top six uses for the world's best passport
as a coaster to stop your bedside table getting water rings.
Oh, yeah, nice.
You don't want to get your water rings on your table.
And it also keeps it flat because if you notice how curly the edges get on those passports.
It's an expensive coaster.
What else are you going to use it for?
This is true.
There's not many options.
That is today's top six.
ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast.
Uber Eats have released stats from Rotorua,
where they launched at the beginning of July,
and they have released a list of the top orders from quarantiners.
Ah.
In isolation.
Quarantiners.
Quarantiners.
That's tiners who are currently in quarantine.
And so they've, I guess, you get fed.
Like, you get your main meals, don't you?
I don't know if you get snacks in a quarantine hotel.
And I'm assuming they take all the minibar stuff out.
Or they charge you credit card at the end.
They charge you for it if they don't.
So you get breakfast, lunch
and dinner in a quarantine in an isolation
hotel but that has not stopped
people ordering on Uber Eats
and you know it's a free world, they can do it.
Yeah and maybe you don't feel like what's on the menu
that day. Yes.
Now they have revealed that one in ten
orders came from Hell
Pizza. Really?
So 10% of orders were pizza. More than a quarter of all orders were from Hell Pizza. Really? So 10% of orders were pizza.
More than a quarter of all orders
were from burger restaurants.
Okay.
And one in particular
customer ordered from the app
11 times while in hotel quarantine,
including from Subway
five times. That's like a bit...
If you were that person,
you'd be like, um, excuse me.
Yeah, like the only thing they've left out is that
person's name.
Like, you don't need that
shame. During quarantine, Tina.
It's Tina. Because you said at the start it was
quarantinas. It was quarantinas. Yeah.
How does your subway go?
Like...
Yeah, because that's
something I want to see happen.
I don't want someone else to go there.
They must have been very impressed with how it
turned out to go again.
They must have been very pleased
with the sandwich artistry.
Yeah. Maybe there's
a true up and coming
Picasso of sandwiches
currently in Rotorua.
Yeah, but you need to eat it
reasonably quickly.
You think so?
A lot of sauces, you know?
No, well, a hungover Vaughan Smith would tell you differently.
Half a foot now, and then the cookie, and then a little nap.
And then half a squished.
And then wake up and eat the other half.
It's not a hangover meal.
Really?
A Subway.
A big footlong.
No, shit no.
Burgers.
What about like a meatball sub?
Burgers.
No, we always used to roll
a whole footlong.
That was the way to go.
Madness.
Cookies.
The cookies were the...
No, I think the cookies
were the secret.
Right, okay.
The cookies were the...
Okay.
But yeah, I mean,
it's a dangerous...
That's a...
I mean, we all went through
it with lockdown.
We were in our houses eating lots, making sourdough bread.
Bananas, don't know what they've done wrong, but no one's mashing them and making bread
with them anymore.
But level four, we couldn't do that, could we?
We couldn't order.
No.
We had to, it was supermarket only.
That's for the best.
It is, because I would have done this every night.
We would have just been sitting there being like, you know what, pizza.
Yeah.
Burgers. And then when it went to level being like, you know what, pizza. Yeah, burgers.
And then when it went to level three was when fast food joints opened again.
Yeah.
Yeah, because that's right.
I was like, I'll treat the girls.
I've been so good.
You're in quarantine.
Get the Happy Meal on the way home.
And I pulled in.
There was like 8,000 people in the drive-thru.
I was like, not today. That's right.
Do you remember the lines?
They were nuts.
Oh, guys.
It was like it was just yesterday.
Oh, guys.
It might have been. This year's not really was just yesterday. Oh, guys. It might have been this year.
It's not really fit the norm for how time passes.
Preparations are happening at the Auckland International Airport.
The international terminal is going to be split into two different zones.
This is in preparation for the Pacific travel bubble.
Which is going to happen before the Australian one.
Which bit's going to have all the food bits?
I want that bit.
Well, I'd say...
The safe travel area.
Right, okay.
The safe travel one definitely will.
I don't know about the...
So there's two zones.
One's called the safe travel area.
That's zone A.
Right.
And zone B is the health management area.
They're pretty self-explained.
So the safe travel one is for when we set up travel bubbles.
Right.
Whomever it might be.
So that's people travelling to and from countries
with which we have formed a travel bubble.
So say the Pacific Islands,
all those flights will go from,
and you won't even see a COVID person.
No, because they're building internal walls
because obviously it has to be safe.
And then they're working out systems
so that people who are dealing with,
you know, like COVID people will be separate
to the people who are dealing with the safe travel people.
Right.
So they have to work through all those practices,
but apparently it's in the final stages.
So the safe travel area, yeah, we area, yeah, it's a bigger area
and I guess it will have duty free.
Yeah, definitely.
Fungus cross.
What is the current protocol for when you go to the airport?
Say if you were in New Zealand,
but you were going back to the country of your residence.
Do you just rock up?
I think so.
I think so.
I think you show them your passport and your e-ticket.
Right.
And then they let you in?
Right.
Into the airport.
Yeah.
And then you go about normally.
Yeah, because the only people flying at the moment are,
I guess, people repatriating. Yeah.
And then the only people that are arriving are,
well, the vast majority of people that are arriving,
apart from people in special cases, are New Zealanders coming home.
Yeah.
And then you'd have some transit people as well.
Yeah.
Ooh, what a logistical nightmare.
Yeah.
So you can see why splitting it in two would be the better way to go.
Yeah.
But like having actual physical walls built up as well, that's quite an undertaking for them.
Yeah.
I wonder if that guy
will still be outside
being like,
you can't stop here.
You can't unload.
You can't get out of your car here.
But there's no one else around.
But when I went to the domestic airport
to pick up my mum
a couple of weeks ago,
I literally sat there for ages.
There was no one.
No one's dead?
Yeah.
There was no parking warnings.
Where's that person that's,
you can't park here. You can't park here. There was no one there. There was no one doing that. There was no parking warnings. Where's that person that's, you can't park here.
You can't park here.
There was no one there.
There was no problem.
I'm not going to pick up a half hour shift this afternoon telling people they can't park here.
Because normally you just have to leave it in drive and then just get out and the car's just moving.
It's just rolling and you're throwing your family out.
You're like, see ya mum, see ya dad.
You can't park here.
I'm not parked.
It's still moving. Yeah. I'm moving. I'm not picked. It's still moving.
Yeah.
I'm moving.
I'm in drive.
Flesh, Vaughan and Megan.
The podcast.
ZM.
A recent poll has discovered that men are in total denial about their hair status.
Their hair status?
I thought that was a really nice way of putting it.
Their receding hairlines.
Oh, okay.
Apparently, on average, for two and a half years, they will be in denial
about the fact that their hair is thinning.
I know some guys that are just,
you can see.
You can see it's happening. Yeah.
And
they should just shave.
You can see it. They've definitely noticed that.
Yeah, 100%. You're always very well aware
when you see yourself in the mirror quite a bit.
Yeah.
You're always far more critical of yourself
than you are of others.
Yeah.
So apparently they are worried
if they shave their head,
they'll look less attractive and older.
And a third of the people polled
said that they were worried their friends would make fun of them
because their hair thinned.
Right.
Who on earth would do that?
Like your friends?
Like you roast your friends in a friendly roasting way,
but you're not going to be...
I would never roast someone about like their hair thinning.
Oh yeah, but you know these things.
But there's lots of people who don't.
Oh, that's really sad.
Yeah.
So, yeah, they said it's left their confidence feeling pretty rocked.
They feel anxious.
They feel embarrassed about it.
I would have thought that there was like enough bald men who are like really.
Jason Statham.
The Rock.
Jason Statham. The Rock. Jason Statham.
The Rock.
Do you know Jason Statham is 53?
That's nuts.
How's he 53?
Yeah.
I googled him with hair.
Not the same.
Absolutely not the same.
Do you remember that video that came out a few years ago?
He came to the Commonwealth Games in Auckland.
He was a diver.
In 1990 he was a diver.
Yeah, he was a diver.
He had hair in his ears. Yeah. He looked so diver. In 1990, he was a diver. Yeah, he was a diver. Just, he had hair in his ears.
Yeah.
He looked so much better as a bald brother.
But you two are both bald and you had your moments.
Did you feel like people were making fun of you?
No, because I shaved mine off, I can't remember when.
Do you remember when?
Yeah, because I shaved mine in 2004 was when I first shaved it off.
And you were a little while after that.
I think you were more like 2006, 2007.
And then just, yeah, it was easy.
Would you say you had like two and a half years denial?
No.
I'm just saying that because that's the average.
I remember because when I was growing up, I'd always get my hair cut
and the hairdressers would say,
God, you've got thick hair
and they'd thin it out
and so it didn't like puff out
and go all coolly and crazy.
And then I remember the first time
that they didn't say it
and then the next time they were like,
oh, thinning out a bit.
I was like, oh.
And that was the last time
I got like a proper haircut.
The next time it was just getting it shaved off.
I can't even imagine you two with hair.
No, I've seen Fletch with your hair
and it was much better now.
Yeah, I see myself with hair
and maybe it was just because it was the early 2000s,
but there was some big sins going on there
that should never have happened.
Yeah, embrace the baldness.
And how many studies have we had
where women and people attracted to men
find bald brothers quite sexy?
And you save on, here's the pros, save on shampoo and conditioner.
You don't need that.
You just like shave.
You just start shaving.
You don't even really have to look.
I do because I've got a beard.
I have to do it like around the beard, but then I just do that
and then I just jump in the shower and just do the rest of my feel.
But it's annoying having to shave your head all the time.
Well, we're making a pros list.
Yeah.
No, that can be on the comms last year.
You should be supportive.
But then you've got to go to, you don't pay hairdressers.
No, you're avoiding that.
There's lots of good stuff here.
If you've got light-coloured hair like Jason Statham,
you can get away with the not like the razor shave. You can get
away with a close clip. Yeah.
And then if you've got a, and then if you don't
wear a hat all the time, so you've got a tanned head, but
also beware because your head burns
like nowhere else. Yeah.
The top of your head will burn before
anything else. Always sunscreen
up. And also when you
shave your hair off, when you like bang
your head on things,
it bleeds a lot easier.
Yeah, right. It really hurts.
There's no hair to cushion that.
Again, we were trying to do a list of positives.
Oh, you've got to be realistic about the old banging of the head.
You've got to be realistic about it.
The first time you do it, after you shave your head,
the first time you bang your head, you're like, what has happened?
My brain felt that.
I'd like to imagine even Jason Statham, that's happened to him.
Bangs his head.
Yeah.
Ow!
Ow!
Oh, my God!
Like, he does his own stunts and movies, but he's like, ow, ow, wowie.
He still doesn't want to bang his head.
Yeah, that hair just provides a cushion, doesn't it?
Normally.
ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast.
Blackout movie! This is wild.. The podcast. Blackout movement.
This is why.
This is why.
This is why.
This is why.
Oh, that's not all.
Excuse me.
A little
tootie when I get on my
dairy. Get a little tootie.
Tried this recently. Some yogurt.
Still got it.
Yeah.
But Lewis Road Creamery.
Do you remember?
It was a simpler time, ladies and gentlemen.
It was a simpler time.
Let me take you back to 2014.
Or was it prior to that?
The Lewis Road Creamery Whitaker's chocolate milk debacle.
I reckon the trucks dropping them off were getting stormed
by people. And there were lines at supermarkets
and that was when they first launched,
wasn't it? Yeah. That was longer than that.
Are you Googling? Yeah. Yeah, because I reckon
it's going to be longer than you think. 2013, 2012?
2014. Uh-huh, uh-huh.
How do you know that?
Um...
The great chocolate milk shortage.
You'll be on the chase one day
And they'll be like
What year was the great
Whitaker's
Lewis Road Creamy
Chocolate milk shortage
2014
And you'll be like
2014
And they'll be like
1000 points
Next
Oh when am I having it
Against the chaser
Is it multi-choice
Or am I having it
In my points
But my cash going around
Against the chaser
Oh okay
So I'm still closer to home
Also I've decided if I'm
ever on the chase, you know how they always
turn to the panel and they're like,
you're a better player
than the minus. You're a better player
than just bring home
what you earned. It'd be great to have you back on the team.
I'd be like, go for the
higher one. What are you, a sook? You're gonna be on
the chaser once. We want
money. No, but you need team.
Nah. You need the team to do the
final chase. Nah.
Because if you all get knocked out,
you come back and have a shot anyway because they've
got to fill the hour. Yeah. It's balls
to the wall, baby. It's the European
chase. I don't hate it when you've got someone who's like done
really well and they go for the middle and you're like,
you've got to smash that 30k.
Someone the other day took the negative to get back.
Some old mate took the negative to get back.
And the whole team was like, you should have just.
Also, you're taking money from people that you.
I know.
That's what he did.
He got back, but he took the money.
We're doing a deep dive into the chase.
Just have a listen to yourself.
The chase is so reflective of our times.
Is it?
It really has it all.
It does.
It's almost like a poetic comparison of geopolitical situations currently.
Yeah, right.
Okay.
Yeah.
And Bradley Walsh is like God.
Okay.
We haven't actually gotten to the product that we're talking about today. Oh, yeah, that's right.
Lewis Road.
There's a new Lewis Road creamery product,
and they have gone in with ginger nuts.
And Megan's favourite biscuit, which again is a huge discussion point.
This is the one that'll get me.
This could be the best milk yet.
Like a sweet spiced ginger milk.
Because what is the deal?
Having not tasted it, do you think it will be like a spiced?
Well, ginger nuts have got a little bit of spice to them.
It's like those spiced lattes, those pumpkin spiced lattes
that Americans go fanatical over around Halloween
In fact they must be getting ready
To wheel those out at Starbucks
They said they promised something a little spicy and delicious
Oh yum
Would you dip a ginger nut in it?
No because then you double ginger nut
You better to get something that
No no you could double ginger nut
I think you could double ginger nut
Double ginger nut Double ginger nut. I think you could double ginger nut.
You could double ginger nut.
Yeah.
Double ginger nut.
Good Lord.
This is my one.
This is my time.
When something like this comes out,
would you think at the cafe we get some of these and we do a latte special?
A ginger nut latte?
Oh, don't worry.
I'll run your bloody cafe then.
Yeah, do a
ginger nut donut. If you want an ideas guy, you didn't
immediately think, because the minute I saw this, I was
like, I wonder what Megan's got planned for the cafe
with this. And you've been sitting on it for
ages and you hadn't immediately
thought of that. Yeah, okay. It's a good
idea. So what would you do? You'd get your milk, you'd
throw it up, you'd put some coffee in it. It would be like a
ginger nut latte. Yeah. A shot
of coffee in it.
Oh, yeah. Yum some coffee in it. It would be like a ginger nut latte. Yeah, a shot of coffee in it. Oh, yeah.
Yum, you're welcome.
But how much is a bottle?
It's got to be worth more.
Yeah, that's it.
But what are you charging for them?
Let's talk economics here.
The trouble is, though, you'll get the ginger nut latte to the table.
It'll be a wonky table.
You'll put it down and then they'll be like, oh, great.
And they'll move it a little bit and the whole thing will go like a boat in the ocean.
It'll justap around everywhere.
Megan's got a couple of wonky tables at the
cafe and doesn't care about them.
That's so I can put a little
thing in there. Doesn't care about her customers.
No, it's...
I'm going to fix them today.
Promise. Good, good. You better.
Anyway, ginger nut, Lewis Road
Creamery.
This is why.
Fat.
This is why.
Fat.
This is why.
This is why.
This is why.
Fat.
Fletchvorna Megan, the podcast.
ZM.
Vaughan Smith rocks into work this morning.
Little pep in his step.
Yeah, well, I bounced then, didn't I?
God, I was just like.
Somebody make me a coffee.
I'm back on the television.
Yeah.
I've got a swipe card, but I demanded every door be open for me.
Yeah.
I said I had a security.
Have you put back on your TVNZ lanyard?
No.
No.
No, my TVNZ lanyard.
No, I never had this on a TVNZ lanyard because I knew that there would be endless amounts
of shit given.
So, and then I faced my TVNZ swipe card.
It's been deactivated.
Oh, do you have to hand it back when they fired you?
No, because they print your photo on it,
so it's just junk.
It's just...
Oh, yes.
Well, you were back on last night.
On TVNZ.
Sure was.
Boy, the offers are going to be rolling in today.
I'd say it won't be a panelist.
It'll be a host next time.
Right.
Okay.
Yeah, right.
You were invited on to Seven Sharp to talk about a Land Rover.
No, I was invited to drive a Land Rover day by the crew at Land Rover
and Seven Sharp were there.
Right. It was a day that they came to rather than a day set up specifically for them. Land Rover and Seven Sharp were there right
it was a day
that they came to
rather than a day
set up specifically
for them
right
and then they did
some filming there
and you're there
because you inherited
your grandad's
Land Rover
and you love Land Rover
well I love that
I love that Land Rover
and yeah
and you're hoping
they'll give you a free one
I mean I wouldn't say not
but I'm also not like
it's not happening
I'm not putting all I'm not putting all
I'm not all in, you know, if this is a game of poker
I'm not all in on that
because that's just setting yourself up for
disappointment that they're not just going to give you
one. I didn't watch it last
night. No, I didn't watch it.
You forgot to remind us that you were going to be on the television.
Why would I have forgotten
to remind you?
Heck guys, I guess it's
just a slip of the tongue. Well, luckily, we've
managed to find a little clip of you
on last night.
And we thought we'd play and just
give some running commentary
of the segment.
Radio personality Vaughan Smith.
Rate yourself. I didn't say it.
That's what AJ used to say.
If I said to you, what do you want to be called?
He's getting asked.
Radio personality.
Wow, okay.
All right, let's carry on.
Radio personality Vaughan Smith,
another with a Land Rover bent.
He drives his grandfather's 1967 Series 2.
I've inherited it, rust and all,
and actually that's where it is today.
It's getting some minor surgery.
And didn't need too much arm twisting
to test the latest in the
long line of Land Rovers.
The 2020 Defender.
If it's good enough for James Bond
it's good enough for us.
Why?
Cute.
That was soundbite.
Megan loves that. If it's good enough loves that if it's good enough
for James Bond
it's good enough for us
really I'm just laughing
at how much Megan's laughing
you've got to know
your audience
the seven and a plus
seven sharp watches
are old mates
they would have lapped that up
he draws her
in the new movie.
What's happened to the Aston?
I think he's got one of those in the garage, but, you know,
it gets stuck if you tip it in the sand, wouldn't it?
And then the bag...
It would.
What kind of old mate chat, eh?
It gets stuck in the sand, wouldn't it?
They should have said,
Vaughan Smith, adaptable broadcaster at the start.
He recognises who he's talking to and he adapts thusly.
Guys, get you.
You've got to have a bit of four-wheel drive.
Because it feels kind of big city.
For me, yeah, it would be
because I've never ever driven a car that's nice.
Mine doesn't have these little squirts that will clear your light.
If you want to do this on mine,
you have to get out and give it a bit of that.
That was me going down a hill.
You just weren't worried about sounding cool at all,
were you? I was really excited.
They said
when they were reviewing the GoPro
footage, they said you were smiling a lot.
I was smiling the whole time.
You should see how steep
that hill was though.
That was really steep.
Like, Fletch would have been like,
no, no, no, no,
don't go down there.
That is silly.
No, no, no,
we don't need to go down there.
We'll watch somebody else do it.
No, no, no, no,
we don't need to go down there.
Absolutely.
I'm not doing anything.
How much safer
would that Barry Crump ad have been
if it had one of these?
He just would have been able
to take it nice and slowly
with Scotty.
I thought for this interview we should lean up against the car. I'm in my good 20 so I'll have to just finger lean. The main difference I noticed
between mine and this brand new is that the speedo is in kilometres an hour not miles.
That's basically the biggest difference. I'll take one. I'll take one. That was an easy
sell. You've got a deal.
You're the salesman, right?
See, the jokes,
I'll explain those. I feel like you missed them.
The joke is that there's lots of differences, but
I just said the main difference is miles
versus kilometres. We picked that one up.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That was a pretty good one. They like that. The old boys
like that one. You were really cranking the, like, relatability, eh?
Oh, my swanny.
Is my swanny here?
Also, my good swanny, yeah.
Well, the car was very muddy, so I didn't want to, like, lean on it.
Did you, driving here, what did you drive to this in?
To that thing.
In your nasty Accord?
The Honda Accord, yeah.
They said, because everybody else, like, turned up, because my Land Rover's. They said, because everybody else turned up,
because my Land Rover's in the shop,
but everybody else turned up in Land Rovers.
And I was like, oh.
And the guy said, hey, these are very good cars,
the Honda Accord.
The driving guy.
I was like, these are very good cars.
How many cars has it done?
He was feeling sorry for you.
I said, 238,000 kilometres, and he's like barely broken it in.
Did he see when you had to unlock it and climb in through the back seat
to unlock the front door?
Yep.
I took his wife back along the road to get back to her car
and I was like, sorry about the state of the car.
And she wasn't like, because you know when you say that to someone,
they're like, ah, that's all right.
She didn't say anything.
She's like, you should be sorry.
I was like, I've got to unlock that door from the back seat.
Yeah, right.
I'll just crawl across the pool.
Okay.
ZM's Fletch Warner Megan, the podcast.
A Welsh woman.
Her name's Marion, although she's Welsh,
so it's probably like...
So it's got heaps of A's and lots of letters and stuff.
Dragon symbol halfway through. She grew up in South Wales
Okay
As a young child
She's 42 now
But as a young child
She said she grew up in a working class family
Yeah
And they lived just down the road from
Lanstefan Castle
Oh yeah
And it was like a ruins
It was like a 900-year-old castle.
But she said when they were kids, it was their playground.
They climbed up around it and, you know, played games
and hide and seek in this old ruins of a castle.
And guess what?
She just bought it.
Because what?
She loved it so much.
She loved it so much.
She's done very well for herself.
How much is a castle?
Well, that's what...
I can't find in this article how much she paid for it.
Well, I can check the One Roof property report
and see if castles are up or down.
Please do.
You knock yourself out.
Yeah.
But it's not like a castle like Buckingham Palace.
Yeah, right.
It's like a 900-year-old remains of a castle.
So could you do that thing they do on Grand Designs
where they just put a bit of like a few timber walls on the side?
Nah, I don't believe so.
Heritage building, it looks pretty shagged, to be honest.
But the grounds are maintained and it did come with a farmhouse
that's not 900 years old
but still very old.
Livable.
And she's going to turn
into accommodation.
Oh, right.
Okay.
But she still lives
not too far from the area.
They're going to restore it
but she said we are aware
it's going to be
a hell of an undertaking
because if you've ever
watched those ones,
what was that?
Renovation Man
with lovely Georgia
had a nice soft English voice.
He does small spaces now
He does a small spaces guy
He'd be like
They've bought themselves an old castle
And then he'd start talking really softly
So I've taken a look at their designs
And then he comes back
And all the mums are like
I like the show for the architecture
And then they come back six months later
And they're bankrupt.
Yeah, yeah, they've spent a bajillion dollars on something they still can't live in
and it still just looks like an old castle.
So she has purchased the castle.
She loves the castle.
She said, when I was a kid, that was my favourite thing.
I threw it up for sale.
I had to have it.
Wow.
Good on her.
I simply had to have the castle.
If you've got the money.
And it's, you know, got some sentimental value.
Yeah.
Then why not do that?
But if you're running around and playing on a playground when you're a kid,
it's very different to the realities of owning a drafty castle when you're older.
Yeah.
Oh, okay, Funplates.
You sound like my mum.
I'm just being realistic.
You sound like my mum when I wanted to buy anything.
Or have anything.
It's like, you don't need, what do you need that for?
What do you need that for?
Like if I saw a Charlotte Hornets starter puffer jacket for sale,
I'd probably buy one just because.
You couldn't have one as a kid?
You mean now?
Yeah.
Oh, my God.
Where would you wear it?
To work.
Where my supportive colleagues would no doubt say,
I'm so glad you're living your 1990s dream.
I mean, it's teal and purple.
What a combo, Megan.
Yeah.
Bring out my eyes.
I mean, ironically, that fashion's done a full 360,
so you'd be fine to wear that to work now.
It's back.
But that was one of the, what else?
We didn't need Doc Martens because we had cheaper Mr. Henry's.
Yeah, right.
Okay.
Or like rugged sharks.
But you've gone out and bought yourself some Doc Martens, haven't you?
I've got Doc Martens.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Good.
I can see what mum meant.
They're not that comfortable.
And you know, most of the things I really wanted, if I, like Lego was one of them, I was like,
you don't need, you've got a Lego set.
Just, that's the good thing about Lego. of them, I was like, you don't need, you've got a Lego set.
Just, that's the good thing about Lego.
Pull it apart and build the one you want.
But I can't build the Millennium Falcon.
Well, I've got one of those now, Mum.
Isn't that what Ed Sheeran did as well?
Bought, he used the Lego. Like, just went out and got all the toys and stuff.
All the toys he wanted as a kid.
Yeah, yeah.
And then bought his neighbours and half a town.
Yeah.
Oh, I'm shocking with my kids.
They'll be like, oh, that would be cool.
I'll be like, that would be cool. I'll be like,
that would be cool.
I wasn't allowed
one of those.
Yes, for you children.
For you.
Go and sit over there.
I'll do it.
I'll do it.
I'll play with it.
Yeah.
So I want to know
this morning
what you purchased
as an adult
because you didn't get it
as a kid.
Like maybe you really
wanted something
when you were young
and your parents were like, you don't need that.
Like a castle.
Yeah.
Because you wanted to be a princess.
Yeah.
A woman in Wales bought a castle that she loved as a kid.
We want to know the things that you bought as an adult
because you weren't allowed them as a kid.
Do you know somebody's just messaged in their fiance
literally bought a 1990s Charlotte Hornets starter jacket.
He found it for $60 on the Facebook marketplace.
Wears it everywhere.
Wow.
He's been very happy since.
Only some people can pull off those colours.
Yeah.
Am I more of an Orlando Magics guy?
Remember then they were black and blue and white?
Yeah.
Or a New York Knicks? I'm just thinking of 90s. guy. Remember then they were black and blue and white? Yeah. Or New York Knicks?
I'm just thinking of 90s.
You definitely, what's the purple one?
That was Charlotte Hornets.
Charlotte Hornets, yeah, you can do Charlotte Hornets.
I wouldn't do Chicago Bulls.
That's really setting the precedent that you can talk about basketball.
Sure, yeah.
All right, we'll take some calls.
Karina, what did you buy as an adult that you couldn't have as a kid?
A puppy surprise.
That was the toy, right?
That was a toy.
And I bought my daughter three of them because I couldn't have it as a child.
Right.
It was a puppy we opened up its stomach and out came these little puppies.
That's right.
And there was a kitty surprise too.
Who got to play with the puppy surprise first, Karina?
I did.
Yeah.
You slash we shall have all the puppy surprises.
Brilliant, Karina.
Thanks for your call.
Liz, what did you buy as an adult that you weren't allowed as a kid?
I bought a horse.
Oh, okay.
Wow.
And you were just like, well, no one can tell me not to.
Well, that's right.
I'd waited 40 years, which is long enough.
And there was a small window of opportunity where I could do it.
Yep.
And I did it.
And I bought a horse.
And then when you bought it, were you like, oh, God, my parents.
Oh, God, I got a horse.
Yeah, my parents were right.
This is really expensive.
Oh, it was terrifying.
It was absolutely terrifying.
She came off the float and she was a ticking time bomb.
And this was my dream, but I'd left it too late.
And so she lives next door now and she's having a happy life,
but she threw me off.
So you couldn't handle the horse, Liz.
Your dream became your nightmare, Liz.
That's right.
It did become my nightmare.
And you've got to be careful what you wish for.
You do, Liz.
Was your mum, were your parents still around when you got the horse?
Like, were they alive?
I didn't.
My father wasn't, but my mother is, but I didn't tell her.
You didn't tell her about the horse?
No.
In fact, there were quite a few people I didn't tell that I had the horse.
Okay, right.
How long ago was this, Liz?
This was like last year.
Okay.
Brilliant.
Wow.
So the dream's over.
It went from getting a horse to over in a year.
Well, I still hold that, you know, I still have that desire.
I still have that desire.
It was the wrong horse, Liz.
Could you, Liz, why don't you give up?
Don't give up on your dreams, Liz.
Another horse, another horse.
Or why not a miniature pony, Liz?
Or a miniature horse?
A pony.
No, no, no, because you have to have what it was that you wanted.
And I wanted a horse.
And I don't think you can ride a minute's here, Pony.
Oh my God, I love you, Liz.
You are great.
Liz, please let us know
if you get another horse, Liz.
Um, I would...
Um, I haven't given up.
I haven't given up.
Liz, let me put this out there.
What if someone is listening right now
with the most angelic horse imaginable?
They're telling a lie.
Oh, okay, they're lying.
Wait, you don't sound like you want a horse, Liz.
But you do want a horse.
It sounds like a massive internal battle, Liz.
Please let me have one.
Unless you have one.
I, as the Nordic god of horses, grant you permission for another horse.
Oh, Liz, good luck.
Oh, you are so sweet.
How pissed are your neighbours going to be?
They've taken on your horse because you're like, it's not for me.
And then, what's Liz got?
Oh, my gosh, she's not another horse.
I love you, Liz.
You're fantastic.
You're another horse.
Thank you, Liz.
I'll send more text messages.
And then two days after, Liz gets a new horse.
There's a knock on the neighbour's door.
The neighbour's like, oh, hi, Liz.
She's like, you're never going to believe this.
It was another dead horse.
Not for me.
Third time's the charm, they say.
Anyway, it's already in your paddock.
Oh, my God.
Some more calls.
Alex, you always wanted a train as a kid.
I always wanted one of those ones that actually had a little battery in it and would pull the train along.
Oh, yeah.
So I spent $65 and I am almost 30.
I love that.
And did you just set up like a little loop and you watched it go round and round?
Yeah.
Okay.
So I sat there with my two and a half year old niece and watched it go round and round and round. And. So I sat there with my two and a half
year old niece
and watched it go
round and round and round
and I had more fun
than she did.
Oh.
I love that.
That's so cute.
And then I,
because I did have
one of those as a kid,
I don't want to brag,
but-
You had a battery
powered train.
Yeah.
Wow.
And then you can make
a figure eight or a loop
and then when the
batteries got real slow
it would just go
choo-choo-choo-choo-choo. Yeah, slow. And go real slow and then stop. And then mum would batteries got real slow, it would just go chuk-a-chuk-a-chuk.
Yeah, slow.
And go real slow and then stop.
And then mum would be like,
no, they don't make batteries until Christmas.
Yeah.
I'd be like, really?
And then you'd just be pushing it around by hand,
ruining the little electric motor inside it.
Exactly.
Alex, thanks for your call.
Jalyn, what did you buy as an adult
because you couldn't have it as a kid?
My favourite Bratz doll.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, okay.
Which was your favourite Bratz doll?
Well, back in the day, it used to be the one called Jade.
Jade, Chloe and Yasmin.
Okay.
But mum always got me the dumb one.
Okay.
So I made sure when I turned 20 and I had, you know, worked and stuff and I saved up,
I had to find it because they don't have the OG Bratz dolls that I liked.
Right.
But you did manage to find one.
Yeah, I found them all.
Oh, wow.
Wow.
So you had as an adult all of them.
All of them.
Are they on display I'm so happy.
Are they on display or do you actually play with them?
Well, because I'm into cars, so Dad bought me a Bratz car,
but I had no Bratz to go off it because I hated the one that Mum bought me.
Right.
So it sits in the car.
Okay.
Brilliant.
Jalyn, thanks for your call.
Some other text messages.
Somebody said, just a whole cake.
I've just always wanted a whole cake.
Do it.
So, you know, you don't need an occasion to have a cake.
You can just buy a cake.
Yeah.
So I bought a cake.
A new bike.
I was the youngest of five.
Always wanted a new bike.
Always got the hand-me-downs.
Oh, yeah.
Here's one.
This has been a few people have messaged this in.
Furby. I always wanted a Furby. I had one. This has been a few people have messaged this in. Furby.
I always wanted a Furby.
I had one.
Waste of time.
Did you get a Furby?
That doesn't sound like you.
You don't strike me
as a Furby person.
I don't know how
I had one, actually.
So, did you have
a hand-me-down Furby?
No, I can't remember.
Somebody bought it for you?
Maybe a friend had one?
Yeah, but they were rubbish.
Someone said...
I did nothing.
At the age of 23
on a trip to Australia,
I finally bought a Furby,
treated it like my best friend for the entire trip.
This photo's a man Furby.
Did you say a dream world?
You have to leave Furby in the little cubby hole
to go on the roller coaster.
Furby's not big enough to go on the ride
and you can't hold on to Furby
because if he comes loose, he's a projector.
ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast.
Hey, you on the phone, I bet I can guess your mum's name.
Well, it's time for I Bet I Can Guess Your Mum's Name.
Vaughan, coming off a hot run.
I'm on a, I've had a rich vein of mum's.
Mum name gold.
And I'm calling in the big machinery.
Kelly, good morning.
Good morning.
How are you?
Good.
Thank you.
Welcome to I Bet I Can Guess Your Mum's Name.
Vaughn has five questions now to establish your mum's name.
If he can guess it within those 15 seconds, you win $100 cash.
Awesome.
Thank you so much.
All right.
Not yet, Kelly.
Just chill out, Kelly. All right. Has it happened yet? Not yet, Kelly. Just chill out, Kelly.
All right.
What's mum's...
Question one.
What's mum's favourite fruit?
Mum's favourite fruit is apricot, I would say.
Really?
She loves the stone fruit?
Hard to tell by year round, though.
Am I correct?
An apricot?
Well, yeah.
And even to get a good one because sometimes it's too hard and too soft.
Well, they go a bit mushy. Oh, when they're mushy, they're not good. No. Does I correct? An apricot? Well, yeah. And even to get a good one because sometimes it's too hard and too soft. Well, they go a bit mushy.
Oh, when they're mushy, they're not good.
No.
Does mum like a dried apricot?
No, no, no, no, no.
There's no time for that, Celina.
Have you ever made the mistake of eating a whole bag of dried apricots?
And then realise that you've eaten like 12 apricots?
18 to 25 apricots.
And you're like, uh-oh.
And then your guts is like, hey, don't forget about me.
You just loaded me full of fruit, and then your guts is like, hey, don't forget about me. You just loaded me
full of fruit, boy.
How old is your mum?
My mum is 53.
Okay.
53,
I'm just going to
age 53.
All right,
what is,
this is a little bit
of a classic question,
kind of sets the mood
for what your mum's
name could be.
What do you,
does your mum
have any siblings
and if so, what are your mum's siblings' names?
She's got five siblings.
One passed away.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
So there's Karen, Tony and Kelly.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Karen, Tony.
Because I was thinking we were almost due for another Karen.
Yeah, it's been a while, hasn't it?
It's been a while between Karens.
That was the first ever mum, wasn't it?
Yeah.
That played.
Yeah.
I bet I can guess your mum's name was a Karen.
Yeah, it was.
So I've got Karen and Tony.
And Kelly.
So Kelly is her brother.
A male Kelly.
Okay, yep.
Male Kelly.
That's who I was named after.
And we have Wayne. Wayne. Oh, okay, yep. Mayo Kelly. That's who I was named after. And we have a Wayne.
Wayne.
Oh, okay.
That's my dad's name.
That's your dad's name, yeah.
Yep.
And there's a Wayne Jr. who passed away after being named Wayne.
So they're named after each other.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
All right, question four.
What's your mum's hot beverage of choice?
Definitely coffee.
She's a coffee.
And just a subset of that, but still under the same question,
how does she have that?
Cappuccino.
I was going to say.
It's a cappuccino.
Of course she does.
With chocolate or cinnamon on top?
With two sugars.
With chocolate.
Two sugars.
Two sugars.
See, mum has got a sweet tooth.
Yeah, but give her a couple of years and she'll be doing what my mum does.
She'll reach into the handbag and pick out the little splendid pills.
My mum's an equal lad.
She does have equals at work But at home Treat yourself
Is it a judgement free zone at home?
Yeah
Yeah right
She's like
I've just seen the way bloody Christine looks at me at work
With her judgemental eyes
Okay and
What would mum cook the family
If you were all
coming together for a meal?
Steak, egg, chips, and salad.
Oh, yes.
Really?
I like this.
Mum's running a truck stop out here.
I love that.
Okay.
Steak.
Hmm.
Well.
A moment's contemplation.
Vaughn Alan Smith
Okay
You now have 15 seconds
Okay
To guess Kelly's mum's name
Now Kelly if you hear your mum's name
Yell out stop
That's my mum's name
And then if that happens within 15 seconds
You win
$100 cash
Here we go
Your time Vaughn
Yep
Starts now
Sandra, Michelle, Joanne, Donna, Debra,
Christine, Jackie,
Tracy, Linda,
Trudy, Angela,
Nicola, Fiona,
Catherine, Jennifer,
Robin, Judy, Sarah,
Marie, Jane.
What was the first name you read out?
Susan?
No, it wasn't Susan, was it?
Sandra.
Sandra.
Oh, Sandra.
Did I say Sandra?
No, you didn't say Sandra.
I don't remember Sandra.
Did you say Sandy?
No.
I said Sandy.
You didn't say Sandra.
No, you didn't say Sandra. Sandra. There ends say Sandy? No. I said Sandy. You didn't say Sandra. No, you didn't say Sandra.
Sandra.
There ends the hot streak.
Just like that, Sandy.
Sandy.
Was it on your list?
That's a popular mum's name, Sandy.
Sandra and Sandy.
Yeah.
And it's Sandy with an I.
Oh, okay.
Okay, and what about Dad?
We didn't get to the bonus round, but what's Dad's name?
Do you want to have a guess of that one?
You don't win, though.
Craig.
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
Were you going to say Craig?
Yes, we Craig-synced.
I've got a feeling this is a full moon as well.
I'll charge my crystals.
Like Colin Craig.
Sure.
Just Craig.
That's his first name.
No, because I know her dad's name's Colin.
Oh!
Oh, my God. We felt the same, though. dad's name's Colin. Oh! Oh my God,
we felt the same though.
That's why,
maybe we were
tuned into Colin Craig.
Sandy and Colin.
Well, Kelly,
unfortunately,
you go home
empty handed.
For you,
the chase is over.
You've been caught.
You've been caught.
And the chase is over.
Fleshforn and Megan,
the podcast.
ZM.
Some six months after Alton John's concert was called. Sure, it was a different
world, guys. It was a different world. We'd heard
COVID-19, hadn't we? We were all calling
it coronavirus then. And before
we gave it its official... We were all crammed
in. Crammed in it. Oh, God, were we what?
At Mount Smart Stadium, were we? Alba to Alba
on Mount Smart.
And we watched Alton John play a show, but then stop.
Yeah.
Halfway through, just over halfway, walking pneumonia, he said.
God, if we'd been a bit more COVID savvy at the time,
we may have suspected the old fella had COVID itself.
But we got ushered out and everyone was like, oh, poor old guy,
poor old guy.
But then when the sympathy waned, we're all like, where's our money back?
Had a lot of money for that show.
In about 12 hours when the sympathy waned, we'd woke it up and realised we'd been.
Yeah.
We're like, well, one man's fight never ended.
And he joins us on the phone.
Fletcher and I gave it a couple of days.
We gave it one couple of days and an email or two.
We gave it one email and gave up.
Yeah, but this week
Michael Betty,
who we know personally,
received a 40% refund
of his Alvin John ticket.
Good morning, Betty.
Good morning, guys.
Thank you for having me.
What are you doing?
Why are you not
collecting your 40%?
Michael, you know
we're very lazy.
Getting your producers to do it. Isn't that what you pay them for? Yes. Surely they've got fun house to do. No, you know we're very lazy. Getting your producers to do it.
Isn't that what you pay them for?
Yes.
Surely they've got something else to do.
No, she's shaking her head.
Anna doesn't want to do that.
It took you six months, Betty.
Is it worth it?
Oh, look, I think it probably would have taken around three months
had COVID not kind of shut down the courts and everything.
But I think what really, what tipped me over the edge
was when Chug was kind of originally coming out
and saying that Consumer New Zealand didn't have to, well, they said that they didn't have to pay refunds and that he played for over two hours and all these untruths.
So that really got my back up.
And then, you know, it was really, really starting to grow on my gears.
And so then I reached out to them very nicely.
I said, hey, look, you know, I've worked it out.
It's about a 40% refund. And then more crap was coming from customer service.
So I just filed with the dispute tribunal, real easy, really simple. And then some months
later, then a couple of the head honchos from each company got back to me and wanted me
to sign confidentiality agreements to settle. And, you know, I just kind of said, no, thank
you. I'd rather take it to the court and tell the good people of New Zealand
that they're entitled to their 40% as well.
You are an actual hero, Betty.
You are a hero.
I love it.
Because I see it at that time.
It's the principle of the matter, isn't it?
Yeah.
It's 100% the principle.
I mean, all I would say, all I would advise everyone to do
is give Ticketmaster a real hard time today.
Ring them up, email him, tell him,
Michael Batty got 40%, so how come I didn't
get 40%? Request your money back.
Oh my God.
You honestly shouldn't have to go through to
the Disputes Tribunal. It should just be based on
this case and they'd be happy to settle with you.
Wow. But that's the thing, it's said a president,
hasn't it? Like, this is,
you give it to one, you've kind of got to give it to everybody
really if they make enough noise.
I would understand.
I mean,
it's a giant multinational corporation
that doesn't want to pay
New Zealanders thousands and thousands of dollars
back that they're owed.
So I can understand
that they've been a little shady about it.
But, you know,
now that they've settled with me,
why not settle with the other 30,000 plus people?
Not all heroes wear capes.
Did you need a lawyer? Did you need a lawyer lawyer for this or did you, like, this is like
an Erin Brockovich movie, isn't it? Where you've represented yourself.
I've done all the hard work for everyone. I read the Fair Trading Act. I read all the Consumer Guarantees
Act. We're all good to go, guys. Oh my God, Betty!
I love you. This is great. Do we need to get like a
Microsoft Word document off you
that we can just put our name in, change out Batty for like Von Smith
and then just send it off?
Or we just be like cite the people versus, well, no,
you are the people, aren't you?
Batty versus Chug.
It's a bit different when you're kind of getting a whole group
of people together and filing it in the high court per se.
But if you go through to the dispute tribunal,
it's on an individual case.
But you shouldn't have to do that.
I mean, just tell Ticketmaster that based on this case,
you want to settle with them.
Get your 40% back.
You're owed 40%.
I love this.
Don't think that you're ripping Elton John off.
He doesn't care.
He doesn't know anything about it.
Stick it to the promoter.
He's apparently struggling, though,
because he's got a very expensive lifestyle, Betty.
Come on, have you seen the size of his houses?
He's doing all right.
I love this.
He's not missing 40%.
If he wants to save a bit of money,
he can stop putting diamonds in his sunglasses.
All right.
Exactly right.
He gets paid anyway.
The insurance has paid all that out for him.
It's the promoter that gets the insurance back.
He gets paid whether he goes on stage,
sings Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, and then walks off.
He gets paid.
It doesn't matter for him.
Right.
Ticket to the promoter.
Ticket to the promoter.
Ticket to ticket master.
I love it.
Brilliant.
I'm too lazy to take it to the level that you've taken it to,
Benny.
I can't lie.
We don't need people like that.
We need a positive message.
We want to get all 30,000 people filing, and then it'll be hilarious.
That's what they want.
They're relying on New Zealanders' laziness.
They're relying on that.
Yeah.
100%, Megan, 100%.
They just rely on the laziness that no one's going to follow through.
Follow through.
It takes literally five minutes.
What did the tickets cost?
And then 40%?
That's like a night out, really, isn't it?
That's like a really good night out.
Big meal.
Oh, hell yeah.
We went to Mudbricks for lunch on the weekend.
It was beautiful.
So you went through six months of agonising punish for a free lunch.
I wouldn't call it agonising punish.
It was more on the couch with my feet up, just sending off a couple of emails.
It certainly wasn't punishing.
Brilliant.
Yes.
It's a win for the little guy.
I love it.
It's so good.
I love it.
So good.
Betty, thank you so much, mate.
Take it easy, guys.
Have a good rest of your day.
File for the 40%.
Ring kick it, Mark.
File for the 40.
Hashtag file for the 40.
File for the 40.
ZDM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast.
How long is that song?
It's three minutes 20 Vaughan.
I've just witnessed two of my co-hosts spending three minutes 20
poring over photos and video of Harry Styles going for a jog.
So we can talk about it.
And Rome. Yeah. He's going for a wee jog. He's going for a jog in short shorts. So we can talk about it. In Rome.
Yeah.
He's going for a wee jog.
He's going for a run on the common streets.
Those are little shorts.
Those are little shorts.
Someone zoomed in on his legs and just said,
bless.
Someone, not me.
Not me.
You thought far worse things than bless.
Well, if everyone in here apart from me
is being wildly inappropriate.
You came over and had a squib.
I looked and then was like, he's going for a jog,
good on him. Keeping his cardiovascular
fitness in mind.
You were dribbling.
I had to get a paper towel for you.
Napkin for auntie.
Auntie and uncle were both
having a bit of a dribble if I'm being totally honest.
It was a dribble fest on that side of the...
All right, it's time for...
Fact of the Day!
Day, day, day, day!
And it is our 50k fact of the day.
All thanks to Save My Bacon, a safe place to borrow money online.
We're going to ask you a question about today's fact of the day at 12 o'clock with Georgia.
And then again at 4 o'clock with Brent and Clint.
And if you get through and answer correctly, you win $500 cash each time.
Today's fact of the day is about the Simpsons.
Okay.
What season are they up to, the Simpsons?
I just did a quick, I just did 50.
So last year was the 30th.
Oh, okay.
31 is the last year it started on,
and it ended in May 2020.
That's season 31.
Oh, wow.
Okay.
It was season 32 will start at some stage.
So that's been around forever and a day.
This is a fact about The Simpsons
from a book called
An Uncensored, Unauthorized History of The Simpsons.
Marge Simpson,
you know how she's got the tall blue hair?
Yeah.
And nobody else,
well, for a start,
no one else in The Simpsons has,
in her immediate family,
has blue hair.
Like her kids don't have blue hair.
Her sisters have got purple.
Her sisters have got purple hair
and her mum had like a purple hair.
Yeah.
Now, her mum was the only one with the hairstyle like Marge's
and her mum wasn't introduced for a little while.
Today's fact of the day,
originally the design of Marge Simpson's hair was to hide her rabbit ears.
That's right.
She's got rabbit ears.
What are rabbit ears?
Rabbit ears.
Long.
She's a rabbit.
Original design was James L. Brooks,
whose name you will always see on the end of The Simpsons
and pretty much nowhere else that I'm aware of,
who's made a lot of money off The Simpsons,
had a meeting with Matt Groening,
the guy that created The Simpsons.
Yeah.
And he said, oh, I'd like to use your comic strip
to animate it,
to put it on this show I'm doing called The Tracy Ullman Show.
And Matt Groening was like,
okay, the comic strip I do that you're interested in is about rabbits.
Right.
And he's like, but I'm just a bit worried.
You work for a big network.
If I sign a contract where you can use these rabbits,
I might not have full ownership of them.
Right. And the guy's like, okay, that's fair enough. He's like, but I've got some
other characters in mind. He didn't. And so on the spot, he sketched
the Simpsons family and pretty much gave them names from people in his
own family because he was so much on the spot. And when he drew Marge, he
based her on his rabbit characters and then was like,
I can't have her ears out.
She's with a human family.
So he drew the big, tall, blue hair to hide her rabbit ears
on her original design because she was a straight copy
from another character he had.
But when he got to the part about the ears,
he drew over it with blue hair.
And there was always the plan that at some stage,
her hair would come down.
Right.
And you would see the rabbit ears.
But then at the end of the first season when it hadn't done that,
he's like, I'm not going to do that.
Because you know how Marge did like whenever Marge had like a sexy moment,
her hair was down and, of course, you'd be able to see her rabbit ears.
Right.
It's the same – it was the same line of thought he had
when he very first started The Simpsons.
Krusty the Clown was going to be Homer's secret identity.
Oh, cool.
He was Krusty the Clown, just in makeup.
That's why they've got a very similar face.
And there's that episode where Homer goes to clown school,
and he looks exactly like Krusty the Clown.
It's kind of an homage to this idea they had that he was going to be Krusty the Clown at kind of an homage to this idea they had. Right. That he was going to be Krusty the Clown at night time as like a second job.
Hannah Montana.
Yeah, but they never ended up doing either of them,
but have paid little homages to both throughout The Simpsons.
So today's fact of the day is Marge Simpson's hair was originally designed
to hide her rabbit ears.
Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. you're like, this could be it. Do you need me to call St. John? No, I've already pushed my Medialert bracelet.
I actually better make a call and tell them to relax.
It was a panic push.
Okay, so there's been a study and three quarters of parents already know,
note the tone, three quarters of parents already know
what their kids will be when they grow up.
Sure. This is one of those cute guesses, like they really like swimming, so they're kids will be when they grow up. Sure. This is like one of
those cute guesses, like they really like swimming,
so they're going to be an Olympic swimmer or like...
Yeah. Maybe. Little
Stephanie loves animals.
She'll be a vet. Yeah, that's what we're doing.
That's what we're saying.
The intake of vets is like 10 a year.
It's hard. Like, but if
anybody can do it, it's my Andy.
So advanced. Loves animals, apart from the other day
when she saw blood on a goat's hoof and nearly speared and passed out.
But once she gets over that, I'm sure she'll be fine.
And so what happens when these parents and their little Timmy,
that Wells meant to be an astronaut,
works at KPMG doing chartered accounting?
Hey, whoa, that's still...
That's not a bad job.
I'm just saying, but what...
Until Timmy gets done for embezzlement
because he had access to a whole lot of big companies' books
and he's been skimming off the top.
Yeah.
He's off to white collar prison.
So the top answer is somebody
in the science, technology, engineering,
mathematics career department.
Is that what parents are saying?
Yeah.
Is that just because their kid knows how to use their iPhone?
No, I think it's what they want their kids to be.
Oh, your dream for them.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So it's that smart area.
It's that smart man area.
Science, technology, engineering, maths.
That covers a huge, that's a huge portion of the job market.
As you said, mathematics could be there.
Surely that would count towards accounting.
Science, anything in that.
And then healthcare and wellness industry.
So 32% are happy for their kids to peddle Arbonne products.
And the food industry is also up there as well.
Right, okay.
So maybe they've got a little baker on their hands or a developer.
So kids also, through their parents, said they're construction,
farmers, like the agricultural sector,
quite a teacher's still quite popular in there.
It's weird though that like a parent would,
I mean, it's believable that a parent would pressure their kid
to going a certain way.
That would happen all the time.
You want your kid to be financially stable
and that's the areas that you're always told are financially stable, right?
But then you also don't want your kid to be miserable their whole life.
So there's got to be that balance.
Yeah.
They've got to find a love in what they do.
Yeah.
As long as they can, you know, feed themselves.
Yeah.
For sure, at the end of the day.
But I would like to know what your parents thought you were going to be
or what your parents wanted you to be.
Because there's that as well.
There's not even the consideration.
Like before when we were saying,
oh, it's great to be financial,
but have your balance of what you love as well.
A lot of parents don't think like that.
They're like, I had to work in a job I hated.
So you will earn money working in a job you hated.
But it's a bit like over-the-top sporting parents
on the sideline.
Yeah.
And make their kids train and train.
It's kind of like they're living through them.
Like I didn't do so well,
so I'm going to make my kid be something I want them.
That reflects badly on the family.
That weird old situation.
So I'd love to know what your parents expected you to be
versus what you are now.
So a study looking at what kids or parents
wanted their kids to be.
Yeah.
75% apparently already know what their kids are going? Yeah. 75% apparently already know
what their kids are going to be.
Which is just wishful thinking, really, isn't it?
Alex, what did your parents want you to be
when you were a kid growing up?
Alex.
Oh, hey, man.
Hey.
So both my parents were police.
And so they kind of nudged me in that direction
because it's more of a stable job, and I was kind of in a mix of like,
what do I do after high school?
Yeah, right.
And you were just like, no, no, it's scary.
Yeah.
Well, yeah, the stories I've heard are pretty cool work stories from Dad
and also pretty scary stuff as well these days, especially.
Yeah, totally.
And so what did you do instead?
Well, as hard as it was, I actually wanted to be a game developer,
specifically more of an animator, 3D artist.
And so I kind of did the research and I went to study
and I ended up getting pretty lucky and getting a job in Auckland.
So that's where I'm at now.
Wow.
That's so cool.
Yeah.
No, I love it.
It's great.
And I think, yeah, I just put my mind to it. And then afterwards, mum's like, I Yeah. No, I love it. It's great. And I think, yeah, I just put mine to it.
And then afterwards, mum's like, I didn't think you could do it, but you did it.
And I'm really happy for you.
Oh, that's nice.
Follow your dreams.
Yeah, exactly.
Exactly.
Good stuff.
All right, Alex, thanks for your call.
Ask some text messages.
My parents wanted me to do whatever made me happy.
That's what they said.
You know, I work at a doggy daycare, and that makes me very happy.
I would love that job.
I would love that.
We're currently on at the doggy daycare.
We're currently broadcasting over $70.
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Who wants to go walkies?
Don't drop the W bomb.
I believe we have the doggy day here on the line.
Listen to me.
Look at what you've done.
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Oh, I'm so sorry, Mark.
Sorry, Mark.
These are bad people.
Did they hear us say walkies?
Yeah, they're a bit excited.
75% of parents in a study say they know what their kid's going to be when they grow up.
Yeah.
And maybe they had an idea of what they wanted you to be.
We want to know what that was and what you're doing now instead.
Some texts.
My parents wanted me to be a doctor.
I've just been made redundant from a job with an airline and I can almost feel that I told
you so.
Now is not the right time, mum or dad.
No, not for anybody in the tourism industry to hear it, I told you so.
Yeah.
Parents expected me to be a doctor.
First time I saw blood, I passed out.
Yeah.
So now I sell stuff, which is much easier than being a doctor.
Yeah.
Less blood.
Well, yeah,
but some sales calls
are an absolute bloodbath.
Jacinda,
what did your parents
want you to be
when you grew up?
Well, my mum wanted me
to marry someone rich,
ideally a rugby player.
Okay, I mean,
it's not a bad plan.
And how did that turn out?
Well, it didn't turn out.
Right, okay.
You didn't hang around some rugby
after rugby celebrations?
No.
To be honest, it just wasn't my cup of tea.
They're just two arrogant people, in my opinion.
Yeah, okay, fair call, fair call.
Yeah.
That's exactly the sort of guys that I'm staring my daughters away opinion. Yeah, okay, fair call, fair call. Yeah. Not my country. That's exactly the sort of guise that I'm staring my daughters away from.
Yeah, exactly.
Jacinda, thanks for your call.
Tom, what did your parents want you to be?
Oh, mate, the old mumsy wanted me to fly helicopters, but...
It's kind of niche.
Also, that goes against mums, like, be careful.
Yeah, be safe.
Be safe.
Mum just likes... Yeah, yeah, exactly. I mean, she was always like, oh, you're really mum's, like, be careful. Yeah, be safe. Be safe. Mum just likes...
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
I mean, she was always like,
oh, you're really aerodynamic and stuff.
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
She was saying, you're aerodynamic.
Oh, you know, like, space awareness.
You know, if you're in the air, you know, you're aware of what's going on.
Oh, you know what we always say about Tom?
Very aerodynamic.
He's an aerodynamic kid. Did you used to look at helicopters when you were a kid or something going on. You know what we always say about Tom? Very aerodynamic. He's an aerodynamic kid.
Did you used to look at helicopters
when you were a kid or something?
I don't know.
It's just mum's sort of plan.
I mean, I like helicopters.
As much as any kid.
Right, so when did you have to break the news to mum
that you weren't going to be a helicopter pilot?
Oh, probably, you know, as soon as I left school.
That ain't going gonna happen, mum.
So what have you, what are you
now? What's your job? Courier
driver. Well, I mean, it's safer on the...
One step away from a helicopter, really, isn't it? I was gonna say
safer on the ground, but we do have some dangerous
roads. Yeah. Pretty much as a driver on the
road. You're far off.
You probably won't have a
approximate licence cost
$91,000 to get your helicopter hours up.
Wowza.
So, yeah, at least he's not there.
But mum just wanted to go heli-skiing and now she can't.
Thanks a lot, Tom.
And now plans have changed.
Yeah.
Plans have changed.
Hey, Tom, thanks for calling, mate.
Some text messages.
My grandmother was the only one that really pushed a career on us.
She wanted me to be a nun.
No. Yeah, right, Nana.
Somebody else said that their mum wanted them to be a florist,
but they're a mechanic.
Okay.
And all I hear from her now is, oh, those aren't ladies' hands.
Well, when she wants a wife.
Don't ever fix her car.
Tell her to go get a bunch of flowers.
Find a bit of rust.
Yeah.
In a crucial area, like around the window.
Being like, oh, you're going to have to get that fixed.
Mum, I guess he's not fixing it.
These lady hands.
Hands that are attached to a lady.
My dad thought I was going to be an architect
because I played the Sims heaps
and I took a lot of time to build my Sims house.
I'm not.
No, I work in retail.
My parents thought I was going to be a fashion designer.
Then I became a fashion model.
I feel like that was just bragging, to be honest.
I feel like you just messaged in to remind us all the time you had a portfolio.
Some of us never had a portfolio because we weren't good enough.
I'm done.
I don't need to be reminded, Mum.
I don't need to be reminded of when I failed.
Oh, we've hit a nerve there, haven't we?