ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Megan Podcast - 7th May 2021

Episode Date: May 6, 2021

Top 6: Moet Shortage  Mitch James!!  Bakery of the Day!  Crocs are cool!  Urzila Carlson!  Where is the Popular Kid now?  Bet I Can Guess Your Mums Name!  Fact of the Day Day Day Day Daaaaay!  Hayleys Final Show :'(See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hello, welcome to the Fleeche Vaughan and Megan with Hayley Sproul podcast. It's thanks to McCafe. Download the Maccas app to get McCafe rewards today. It's the last podcast today for Hayley Jane Sproul. Are you looking forward to not having to say with Hayley Sproul all the time? I reckon because it's been three or four months of saying it, I'm going to start saying it. And then Megan's going to give me this look like... What the hell? There's gone.

Yeah, so... It is the last one and i've had so much fun all the potties hey potties potties thanks for the messages the fano yeah no my god so much niceness now don't come at me being like i'll give you a bit of beef yeah because i don't want it but uh no you potty listeners are bloody uh lovely uh you're off to the nutritionist? Yeah, so I went to, I'm sorting myself out. I've really eaten truly a myriad of carbohydrates since working here, and my stomach is fucked. So I'm starting Monday.

I'm staying fresh. I'm turning my back on you guys. No, I'm not. I'm seeing you next week. You're turning your back on me on Monday as well. So you're turning my back on you guys and the I'm not I'm seeing you next week but you're turning your back on you and you'll see me on Monday as well

so you're turning your back on carbohydrates I'm turning my back on carbohydrates and bad for you food so I went and saw the nutritionist yesterday she's going to guide me

through this 12 weeks to help me through it and then I was like I'm so motivated I was telling her really passionately like this is what I need and I just want

energetically I'm feeling spiritually for me for my gut health I'm doing this and she was like yes yes yes we made just want energetically I'm feeling spiritually for me what I am for my gut health I'm doing this and she was like yes yes yes we made this plan she's like I'm going to email you we're starting Monday then I crossed the road in Pakapuna and I bought a bag of lollies and some fro-yo baby

what were the lollies? so you know with like yeah the classic now that they do they don't do the mixes in dairies they just do the clear plastic bags yeah and I got the the gummy strawberries I love those oh yeah not a bad

not a bad choice I love those I either go for a gummy straw or a fizzy coke now were they was it a dollar or two dollars because I feel sometimes the dairies

two dollars taking the piss with those bags of lollies two dollars for a dollar's worth let's be honest yeah let's be honest exactly and then I popped next door

to the fro-yo on the main sort of drag of takapuna and i got a massive one it was eight dollars because you know with bro it's so easy to put on the scale and you're like but it's it's the lollies yeah and i put more you put more lollies on the top so you did double lollies double lolly i would have expected that to be more than eight dollars fresh from the nutritionist yeah actually to be fair it's not too bad well you're like god i hope the nutritionist. Yeah, actually, to be fair, it's not too bad. Were you like, God, I hope the nutritionist doesn't see me?

It was literally like her office looked down on the street. She would have seen me be like, bye. Do-do-do-do-do. Dairy. Do-do-do-do-do. Fro-yo. Right. Was it the idea that you won't be able to have this from Monday?

That's where I've been going this week is i am filling up my week with all the foods that i crave yep but that general like ultimately make me feel pretty crap yeah so uh yeah lollies i've been having lollies i had a big like shawarma yesterday yeah having curry i'm going out tonight tomorrow night sunday night so monday you'll just be ready for it it's sort of annoying because monday we'll wake up hung over and be like, I have to eat kale. And salad. So you know what you're going to have to eat for this? No, it hasn't come through yet, but

high protein. You get that raw chicken breast, shove it in the smoothie. Send it all up. That's great. That'll definitely help you lose weight. When you're just squirting straight out of your anus. Aren't you glad I'm not coming in on my day? I was just going to say, I'm glad you won't be opening your chicken breast smoothie in studio.

Good morning. Welcome to the show. God, I thought she sounded a bit coarse this morning. Rachel. Yeah. Yeah. She's come down with a... She's got a terrible flu.

The man flu. So much so. She's come down with a... She's got a terrible flu. The man flu. So much so, she's become Dave. Yes. Thank you, Dave. And welcome to the show. Pleats for Megan with Hayley Sproul. On Friday, Hayley's last day with us before Megan returns from maternity leave on Monday. Yeah.

Look, no tears, guys. No tears. I can't promise that. Well, I can see you're already... I'm an emotional man. Can't even look me in the eye. Mm-mm. Look, it's business as usual, team.

It is. And I tell you what, I don't know what basket you put it in. Moet. Moet. Is it a silent... I believe it's Moet Because it's It's posh

Yeah it's posh But when I was young Moet was the posh version And trashy people said Moet And then it turned out The trashy people Were right all along And by trashy

I don't mean like White trashy I just mean Not as upper class As your standard Moet drinker. But now, I don't know. What have you said?

It's Moet. I'm going to pronounce Moet. Yeah, stop saying it wrong. YouTube. Okay. This is Julian, the French winemaking guy who makes wine videos here on YouTube. Yes, wine videos. And we are looking at how to pronounce the name of the most famous of all champagne brands.

We are looking at how to pronounce the name of the most famous of all champagne brands. We are looking at how to pronounce the name Moët. Moët. Moët is part of a famous brand belonging to the Louis Vuitton Moët NSC that is called Moët & Chandon. Moët & Chandon. Moët. Moët. Moët. Chandon.

There we go. And he was French. Yeah, he was French. He would know. He'd know. And Chandon, not to be confused And he was French. Yeah, he was French. He would know. He'd know. And Chandon, not to be confused with pink chardon, which is apparently still about $6 a bottle. Yeah, delish.

Shocking news in New Zealand. There's shortages. A Moet shortage. That means a glass of delicious bubbles isn't going to be as accessible to the affluent area near you. So I've got the top six. Where there's a will, there's a way, Vaughan. Yeah.

Robbing. Yeah. They'll turn to crime to fill their boots with moet. Well, I've got the top six things you'll hear in affluent areas this weekend as they struggle through a moet shortage. Okay, we've got Bakery of the Day returning on the show today before 7 o'clock. Your chance to nominate your favourite bakery. Yeah, let's get some good numbs lined up for the weekend.

Tell us these bakeries with the good treats. You saw a lolly cake with icing the other day. I know. I messaged Hayley. I was at the airport at Christchurch, and one of the cafes there had a poster outside, lolly cake, and then like pink icing and hundreds and thousands sprinkles.

See, I needed to try that. And I said, grab me one. No, they didn't have any. Oh, so it must be popular. Don't advertise it. So it's a hundreds and thousands biscuit topping on a lolly cake. Those are your two favourite things.

I know. That's Sprouse. That's Sprouse. Absolute foxhole. I can't believe it. I'm going to have to make it, I think. I know. And it would be so yum.

I was all here for it. I hope we hear for Bakery of the Day about some of those bizarre creations. Yeah, those cross-pollinations. Mitch James is in to talk about his new single. He's got a new album coming up. I think he's heading overseas soon. Very excited. He's in at about quarter to seven this morning.

Next on the show, though. Oh, someone's left a lovely note for a lady. I think it's a bit patronising, to be honest. But it's a very kind gesture. Flesh Warner Megan, the podcast, ZM. A West Auckland mother has had a heartwarming moment when she returned to her car and found a little note under the wind wiper.

Lucky to blow away. Windscreen wiper under the wind wiper. Lucky it didn't blow away. Wind screen wiper. The wind wiper. Window wiper. Wind screen wiper. The wind wiper just blows it away. Gets it out of the way of the vehicle. Oh, oh.

Out of the way. And the note, it was a $5 note. Yeah. I didn't even know they existed anymore. Okay. And your entire time here on the show. What service do they serve? And your entire time on the show,

that is the most private school thing you've ever seen. I just don't understand. That is some good stuff. I just don't understand what you would do with them. It was a $5 note. I'd say they are the note, right? Yeah, because I use them most. But they're so hard to find.

When you need a fiver and you have to go into every dairy or petrol station and be like, can you split this? Oh, because they start the day with the big notes. But you can't get the fives out of the machines. But there are some machines that do a 10. You're right, actually. ATMs only do 10s and 20s. And not all of them do a 10.

No. The odd 50. The odd 50. The odd 50. Yeah, I mean, I'm hitting the five hundies. Anyway, it was a $5 note, and there was a little note under it from a stranger that said, shout yourself a copy. You're a wonderful mum. A coffee.

Yeah. Okay. Five bucks. Would that cover a coffee? Well, no, not at all. Depends if you get all your extra shots. No, sometimes you get us $5.50 for a mocha. What's she supposed to do with five bucks then?

I always just get a small mocha. Yeah, true. She might need a mocha. She's got kids. She might let a little chocky hit. Is this a long black or a short bloody piccolo-y thing? Oh, you love a bloody piccolo. I love the piccolos. Is this ver long black or a short bloody flitty piccolo thing? Oh, you love piccolos. I love the piccolos. Is this

verging on creepy this night? They're like, who's this from? I don't know why I don't know. I'm sure it's such a lovely thing and people will be like, what is with you you Grinch? It feels a bit patronising to me. Did somebody see her with the kids struggling and think, oh that, she looks like she's having a rough day.

She might not have even been. She's like, mum, I'm taking it my stride. It's not really that hard. I love being a mum. Yeah, maybe she was,

but she, no, the woman was really grateful. She posted it to like their local Facebook page and was like, oh, made my whole week. Oh,

that's nice then. Yeah, she did on the note spell, you're wrong, but then we'll just let it pass. Like, you're doing a great job, but you're,

as in possessive, you're not, you are. You're possessive you're possessive yeah shout yourself a coffee you're a wonderful mum i would have tried to find a car and been like asterisk you are a foster baby thanks for the money but cheers yeah i'll buy half a coffee with this thanks yeah also what do i do with this? What is this? How does this work? Is it monopoly money? Do I exchange it for something? But it is weird when you see cash now because I'm just FPOS everything. I get annoyed when I get cash. You know like someone buys something off you for trade me

and they pick it up and they give you cash. You're like, I don't know at what point I'm going to spend this. I love having a little cash in the pocket. What do you do with it? You pay for things with it. I'll put it in the self-serve checkout machine and then pay the rest on FPOS. Oh, really? Split payment.

I love getting rid of cash that way. Because cash to me now, having been FD so long, it doesn't feel like real money. You know, when you put your FPOS or your debit card over, you feel like, oof, I'm leaving some money behind. No, I'm the other way around. I'll swipe a card and it feels like a fun game. But if I've got the cash and I see it going down is when I,

or handbrake and be like, well, I actually don't need that. Yeah, that's like a way they say you can watch your spending. If you've got a weekly budget, you get it all out in cash and then you actually see yourself handing it over. And it disappearing. Yeah. And then someone steals it and you've got no cash for the week. That's irresponsible advice.

Yes. Go back to Traveller's Check. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Fire in aisle sacks in the chips. This was the situation. And ironically, look, this was in Countdown in West Auckland. And look, at the end of the aisle, there's a hot, hot, hot sale thing, and there's some chocolate underneath, but they're not nearly as hot as these chips, which are actually on fire.

Yeah, wow. That is a huge... A blaze. So they're investigating this, right? Somebody has done this on purpose. It certainly looks like it. I don't know when chips last decided they would just blow up. Do you reckon they annoyed that there's no booze in the West Auckland...

Supermarkets. Supermarkets. They came for a bottle of wine. So you just light fire. Yeah. God, you've really got a strong dependence on alcohol, eh? The first thing that popped into your mind was, there's a fire in a supermarket.

Maybe it's because someone couldn't get a goddamn drink round here! Oomph. Light. But they went up. So apparently, what, somebody tried to put it out with the fire extinguisher, the security. And it was kind of believed to be out. And then it reignited itself. Because have you ever seen that video online of the person using Doritos as a fire starters?

Yes. What? They go, they're crazy. Yeah. Don't eat them then. But they're so yum. No wonder they go, they're crazy. Yeah. Don't eat them then. But they're so yum. No wonder they're so high in calories. They're so high in calories,

they can literally burn the energy off. I reckon the sweet chilli ones would go up. I'm not a massive corn chip fan. Or a lover to Dorito. Controversial. Smash a Dorito. I eat them so much that at the end of it, your mouth is sore from the flavouring.

Yeah. And also sore from the triangles. Yeah, because you munched out on some pyramids. Yeah, it's bad. And then your teeth, all the gaps in your teeth are just filled in with the paste made from chewing a chip. Yeah. That's the Dorito vibe. Yeah, so it really went up.

They'd have cameras, wouldn't they? Oh, yeah, 100%. I think every aisle's got a camera. Yeah. Well, I'd imagine they'd be closed this morning. Which countdown is this in West Auckland? I think it was the, no, not Lynn Mall, Henderson.

Henderson Mall. Henderson Mall. Why is it, was in here just before and now it's gone? The three to five trucks could be seen on Edsel Street. Oh yeah, okay. So yeah, West Auckland. And the, because it was a Te Atatu resident saw it and it was, it literally said what one it was. I've edited this article.

No, they haven't. It'll be there. It's in a mall. Henderson. West City Shopping Mall. West City. There you go. Right.

That was the one that it said it was in before. Oh, yeah. There's a photo there. You can see West City written on the side. Okay. Do you think West City were like, get any mention of us out of there? Yeah, they were like, shush, shush, shush, shush, shush.

You've dragged us into this whole fire thing, and, like, that was in Countdown. I think you'll find that wasn't even a fuss. But, yeah, I'd imagine there'll be... Well, just set the blimmin'. Or at least there'll be stop-go traffic and red light, green light on that aisle. Do you remember when we went to the fire sale at Farmers in Rickerton?

Yes. Oh, my God, we got cheap undies. We got cheap knickers. Did you? Oh, my God. And they opened the door. It was nuts. I've never seen anything like it, the people scrambling around.

Because everything in the store was smoke damaged. So they were like, everything has to go for ridiculously cheap prices. So do you reckon there'll be like half-priced chips? Most things are sealed pretty tight. The ones next to it would be sealed. Like a slight singe. Yeah, I reckon I could get some smoky cheese balls.

Oh yum, that'd probably actually make it a bit nicer. Imagine how smoky the rations taste at the moment. Except it's like a plasticky smoke. Flesh, fauna, Megan. The podcast. ZM. From the triangular ZM think tank, this is the top six.

Hello there. Moet shortage. Oh, being hired. Moet shortage. Apparently there's a whole lot of shortages in booze. Teet shortage. Apparently there's a whole lot of shortages in booze. Tequila shortage. That's terrible, isn't it? Ages for

tequila to get to New Zealand. Right, okay. There's a tequila shortage. I drink a lot of tequila. I've had a message from a friend saying if you're missing your moet, there's mum. You know the mum? Mum, mum, mum. Yeah, lots of that around. Mum.

It's not the same though, is it? I like a piper. A what? Piper hates. I've seen a piper hates. It all just tastes the same to me. Is that like, I'm just not cultured.

No, you're not. It's just champagne, isn't it? I had a lovely, I know it's not, it's different, but I had a lovely Prosecco the other day and I thought of you.

I do love Prosecco. I drink a lot of Prosecco. You had a lot of's not, it's different, but I had a lovely Prosecco the other day and I thought of you. I do love a Prosecco. I drink a lot of Prosecco. You had a lot of tequila, a lot of pipe booze. I love a lot of Prosecco. I eat a lot of food. I'm a consumer. And you're keeping the economy going, so for that we thank you.

The top six things you'll hear in Moe affected areas this weekend. And you guys should be feeling it for these areas. They're going through their own sort of hell at the moment. Number six, Maryvale. You'll hear in Maryvale, do they expect me not to drink during the day when my kids are at private school

and my husband's at work ignoring me? I simply will not do the school pickup sober. I won't. I won't. That's why they drive Range Rovers and large four wheel drives. Yeah. Autopilot.

Yeah. Autopilot and a bit more give when they bump into things. Exactly. You'll be fine. How dare you accuse me of drinking all this stuff. Get in the car. If there's a sausage, it's my wife and then I'll be dead. Number five on the list of the top six things you'll hear in Moet affected areas this weekend.

Arimuera. You'll hear, that'd be right. This wouldn't have happened under John Key. Classic tax cinder coming in and taking away our hard-earned booze. This is all tax cinder's fault. It is tax cinders' fault. Taxing things and slowing down the economy. Blocking the Suez Canal.

That's what it was because she blocked the Suez Canal. Number four on the list of the top six things you'll hear in Moet-affected areas are in Thorndon, Wellington. You might hear, check the third wine cellar. There might be some vintage Moet from Papa's pre-World War II collection. Crank it open. It's a Wednesday. I mean, this is what Papa would have wanted.

Number three on the list of the top six things you'll hear in Moet-affected areas. To Arrowtown now. Oh, okay. Lovely Arrowtown and just out of Queenstown there. Thank God it's mulled wine season, darling. I'm not drinking anything that comes out of a bottle without a cork in it. Those screw-top bottles are simply so uncouth.

Number two on the list of the top six things you'll hear in Moet-affected areas, to Ponsonby, Auckland. Oh, yeah. What do they expect us to drink this weekend? Moms? Moms? I won't do it.

I didn't work this hard to inherit all this money to not drink Moet. And number one on the list of the top six things you'll hear in Moet affected areas this weekend to the Waikato hotspot of Cambridge. Oh, okay, yeah. A lot of wealth in Cambridge. Yeah. A lot of horse money.

And you'll hear, whatever shall we drink after this weekend's equestrian events? I shan't be sober after a hard day of Polo That is today's top six ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan The podcast It's a new song from Mitch James And you'll never guess

After the new song from Mitch James Who's in studio to talk about it Peter Jackson No Yes, I'm here I'm here Mitch I'm here. New film coming out next week. Mitch James.

Mitch James, hello. Mitch James, good morning. Good to see you guys. Bang a song. Thank you so much. What have you been doing? I have been, I've been in Australia

the last little bit, sort of trying to make it happen over there. Traitor. Wait, where did you go there? What stage of the bubble period? I actually went over there last year,

the day before their borders closed, which was awesome. Worked out so good last year. But yeah, I came back here in about September, spent six months at the summer festivals and stuff here. And then, yeah, I was back for a month to just do some promo and stuff. Then off to LA in a few days to record the rest of the album.

Oh, wow. Exciting. Because I've seen a few. David Farrier, for example, he just went to America. You can go. Yeah, but you have to come back and do the two weeks. Yeah, yeah. Right, okay.

So how long are you planning to be over in LA? Three months, I think. Okay. Wow. That's a decent amount of time to come back and do a two-week. Yeah, I can live with the two weeks after three months, yeah. Who are you recording the album with? Anyone that we'd know of?

The producer's a guy called John Ryan who's done all the One Direction stuff and Maroon 5 in there as well. Right. Yeah, yeah, I think he even did a Pitbull song. Mr. Worldwide. Mr. Feel Far. Yes.

Wow. That's so exciting. Yeah, so I kind of just threw the One Direction and stuff to the side I was like, you did Pitbull Do you get nervous going over to the States And jumping in a studio like that? No, not really I think it's just sort of what I do, I guess

But I am nervous about the whole COVID situation True But yeah, they make you quarantine Or like self-isolate for two weeks and coming from New Zealand, I was thinking there's probably more chance of me getting COVID on the Uber to my isolation spot. Yeah, totally. So that, but it's not mandatory

quarantine. You just kind of like just stay small. It's American quarantine. So what that means is just don't go on social media for two weeks but still just do whatever. Yeah, pretty much. Lock it in. Head up Tinder. just get out there, get around. Disneyland. Yeah.

Crowded public transport. How's the last year been? Because for artists, it's been tough. Yeah, it has been tough. I guess in New Zealand, we're obviously so lucky that we get to play gigs because I'm pretty sure we're the only place in the world that's doing full gigs.

I think Oz is doing socially distanced ones and stuff. But yeah, it has been tough. But I mean, I can't complain in comparison to like all of our friends around the world. So yeah, to be able to play a few shows was awesome. But yeah, it's still COVID definitely had its effects on my sort of career in its own different way. But yeah, not going to whinge about it. No, no, we're so lucky. But tell me about Be Somebody. Where did that come from? Where did that come out of? Yeah, so I had a breakup a couple of years ago, which was, it kind of just hit me real hard. And basically, I just kind of became someone slowly day by day by day as someone that got thrust into the spotlight a little bit and didn't really know how to handle it and so I came out the other side and I just realised I became everything I despised in a relationship

so as all angsty songwriters do, I wrote a song about it. That's what you need. Alanis Morissette taught us that. When you write a song is it a bit armed at the person? Do you write it like, I want you to hear this?

Yeah, you write it for them to hear it? I mean, a little bit, I guess. I'd be lying to you if I said no, but there's definitely no ill intent behind it. It's kind of like a I hope you hear this and hear how much I'm sorry, I guess.

Or how much money I'm making on the misery you caused me. How much my record label is making, not me. Yeah. Or how much money I'm making on the misery you caused me. How much my record label is making, not me. Let's be fair. Yeah. Yeah, but no, it's never with bad intentions unless, like, I guess the roles were reversed. But, yeah, it's just, I mean, I'm just happy to have another song out.

So if she hears it, she hears it. If she doesn't, I can understand why she's probably avoiding it. Well, here's the surprise. She's here right now. Hey! Bring her in, bring her in. No. God, you guys are good at radio.

We pre-empted it. We worked out who you're talking about. We tracked them down and here they are. Hopefully you've got enough, I mean, I hate to say this, I hope you've got enough pain and angst to finish off the rest of the album. Oh, don't you worry. Don't you worry, Hayley.

Dig deep. There's songs about a blooming with it. There's songs about teachers and kindergarten supervisors. You've got to dig deep, go right back to the start. Oh yeah. Enjoy LA, looking forward to the album. Will do. Thank you Sam, good to see you. Wear a mask. Oh I will.

What a tradition. Every week we search for the bakery of the day. A bakery that you love and maybe it's got your favourite slice or pie. I love for my last day we were really playing a lot of my favourite things. I love bakery of the day. People get so passionate about their pies. Yeah, and their sweet treats and their bakery's little goodies. Well, how passionate were you the other day when I showed you that lolly cake with an icing?

There's two things I love in this world. It's hundreds and thousands of biscuits. Yep. And it's lolly cake. And they were together. They were together. I had no idea. Yeah, I know.

How upset was I when I found out that you couldn't actually give me one? It's not surprising, though, that most bakeries don't put icing on lolly cake because do you know what's in a lolly cake? It's like a whole tin of sweetened condensed milk and biscuits. And lollies. And just a sprinkling of type 2 diabetes. Alana, good morning in the Hawke's Bay. How are you?

I'm good, thank you. How are you? Good. Now, thank you. How are you? Good. Now, what bakery are you nominating for Bakery of the Day? The Fire Station Bakery. Oh, now let me guess. Did it used to be a fire station? Yeah, it did.

How did you guess? Oh, my gosh. Dan Weber over here. I love when they turn, because the old Ponsonby Fire Station, that's a bar and an Italian restaurant now, isn't it? Oh, it looks bloody good. And my kid's old daycare was called the Fire Station, and it was because it was an old fire station.

And I love when you go past an old service station, and it's something else. Or a Pizza Hut. Yes. There's an entire, like, wallet was on Tumblr, so it may be gone now. But there was a whole account dedicated to what Pizza Hut's become. Oh, no, that'll still be there.

It's only the other stuff they got rid of. I know all of these restaurants had nipples. Alana, what's good at the Fire Station Bakery? My favourite would have to be the steak and mushroom pies and their cranberry and white chocolate muffins.

I might be speaking out of line here, but I'm just looking at a picture of their glass cabinet. Everything looks huge. Everything is massive, and I try to try something different every time I go in there, but I just can't stay away from it. Oh, my God.

Oh, my God. The slices are ginormous. Because I'm like, am I not seeing that? And then I was trying to compare it to other things for scale, but look how big the cream donuts are. And the filled rolls are stuffed to the brim. Are those slices $3.30? Is that what that is?

$3.50. Oh, my God. For a giant slice. Look at that lolly cake. Huge slice. Holy majoli. You're not wrong. I've just got to the filled rolls.

Sprayle, you're not wrong. Those things are packed. Absolutely brimming with goodness. Okay. I love that. The lo filled rolls. Sprayle, you're not wrong. Those things are packed. Absolutely. Brimmon. Okay, Alana. The lolly cake is chock-a-block with lollies. Yeah, that's good. I think they're underpricing the slices. And you know what?

You know what? This is also, we've not really touched on it too much in Bakery of the Day to date, but also check out its V fridges. Oh, yeah, that's a lot of V fridges. Just a lot of drink options there. Alana, what a great recommendation. Biggerly number two. Where's Phil Rose?

Oh, anyway, no, I'm listening. I'm open to the idea of a second one, but this one was banging. Ashley, good morning. Good morning. Now, what bakery are you nominating? Danny's Kiwi Bakery in Waiuku. Danny's Kiwi Bakery in Waiuku. Danny's Kiwi Bakery in Waiuku. There's one in Pukekohe as well,

but this is you specifically speaking about the Waiuku. They need to update their Facebook because they do have a post saying, okay, we're at lockdown level three again. Haven't posted since February 28th. Okay. So Danny works at the Waiuku one and he remembers everybody's name that comes in.

You just introduce yourself once, and he will remember your name forever. Really? Danny. I am always amazed at people that, like, work in bakeries or hospo or, like, you know, baristas, and they always remember your name, because I just can't do it.

I better remember your names. Look, this has chicken and chips. Oh, yum. You know, they do a great option. Yeah, and they do a good chicken and camembert pie. Oh! They're using the posh cheeses. Yeah, do they do a bit of cranberry in that as well?

Yeah. Oh, my God. Okay. I'm just going through Denny's, Kiwi Bakery, Google reviews, and all the photos and stuff. Joseph Parker popped in. Oh, did he? Okay.

A bit of fuel before the fight. Yeah. Okay. It's beside a booze store as well. Now, we don't usually take that sort of thing into consideration, but that is something I'd like everybody to keep tabled today. Yeah, well, you don't have to stop the car twice, you know? You can get it all in one.

And there's mechanical repairs next door, so if your car does stop and doesn't start again. So when you go to get your warrant of fitness, you can pop across, get a cranberry pie. And a bottle of champagne. And there's mechanical repairs next door, so if your car does stop and doesn't start again... So when you go to get your warrant of fitness, you can pop across, get a cranberry pie... And a bottle of Chardonnay. And a bottle of Chardonnay. And then drive your car back.

Brilliant. All right, well, Ashley, oh, my goodness. I think I'm going to... Okay. Silent vote, silent vote. Silent vote. Yeah. Yeah.

Alana. Alana, you've taken it out for the Fire Station Bakery in the Hawks Bake. Congratulations. Oh, yay. Do you know what I think did it for you? The fact that when we saw the pictures, the slices are like the size of an A4 paper. Yeah, they wouldn't fit on a plate. They're massive, huge.

But delicious. If you come to Hawks Day, you've got to go there and try it. Yeah, they wouldn't fit on a plate. They're massive, huge. But delicious. If you come to Hawks Day, you've got to go there and try it. I will. I will. Write that down. It'll be the first stop.

And it's the long list. You think we're just saying that, but literally the last time we went to Christchurch for work, we stopped at the bakery, didn't we?

Yeah, we did. We need to do a bakery tour. From top to bottom. It's my last day, so. You can make these sorts of guarantees that you don't have to follow through on.

We need to get on the road. We need to go now. All right. Hey, congratulations, Alana. And thank you. Thank you, Ashley. Unfortunately, missing out there. But that's, God, Danny's Kiwi Vodka.

It was close. Delicious as well, doesn't it? All right. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. Get me a bucket because I'm going to throw up. I don't know how this has happened, how we have let this happen. Crocs are cool.

Crocs are cool. Do you know who I blame? Justin Bieber. Justin Bieber. Was he or was he just following the trend? No, he's not allowed because he just got dreadlocks too. Yeah, Crocs and dreadlocks. We can't have skinny, white, meth-y looking dudes going back to dreadlocks again.

That was the 1990s. I know, long may they last. But yeah, apparently the absolute horrendous shoe that is the croc that serves only a purpose in hospitality and nursing. Or gardening. Mums love them for gardening. Even then, though. Put on a pair of gummies.

I've wondered about the gardening. You get a bit of dirt under there, or the dirt, you're doing a bit of something and the But then I've wondered about the gardening. You get a bit of dirt under there, or you're doing a bit of something, and the dirt falls through the holes in the top. It just turns into a big sweaty mud hole. Yeah. Well, all these... Your mum doesn't need a big sweaty mud hole out there, does she?

No, not in the back lawn. It's not helpful. She's already got to watch the rose thorns because she's getting older, and if she's on... What's that stuff you go on when you get old? Like blood thinner. Yeah. Wolfram.

They'll just bleed out in the garden. And then they just bleed out in the garden because they got too close to a rose bush. That's not a good idea. Long sleeves mum. Please. It's not your mums in the garden that are making them cool. It's that bloody Generation Z. Gen Z. I see you.

Ruining everything. Gen Z. Ruining you. Ruining everything. Gen Z. Ruining our hair partings and our skinny jeans, and now they're bringing Crocs back to the market. I was going to say, already killed off the skinny jeans. That's a no-no. Getting wider and wider. My thighs can't handle it. Most poles I see, people aren't ready to let go of skinny jeans.

I don't know if it'll be a full let go. No, I'd go a slightly more relaxed, but gosh. That's your maximum. I just see them and it looks like they've absolutely rolled out of a homeless car park. Okay, now you sound like you're 60. No, no, no, no, no. Anyway, so yeah, Justin Bieber's wearing the Crocs. Lots of models

wearing the Crocs, but it's mostly Instagram influencers who are wearing the Crocs. Harry Styles will never wear Crocs, will he? Harry Styles? That's just the one. Harry Styles. That's half of the Crocs. Harry Styles will never wear Crocs, will he? Harry Style. That's just the one Harry Styles. That's half of the Harrys. Harry Styles. But Questlove wore Crocs at the Oscars.

Did you see that? Gold Crocs. Who? Questlove. You know, the music guy. Jimmy Fallon's band. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, and The Roots.

Producer Jared, would you like to tell the nation now what you just told us before? The middie won't let me buy a pair of Crocs. Because she knows what's good for this planet. Well, she can't be dating a dude who wears Crocs. She can. No, she can't. She doesn't want to.

She just doesn't want to. She desperately doesn't want to. If Aaron came home in a pair of Crocs, he'd be out so quickly. I think Aaron could pull off a pair of Crocs. Size 13 feet. Yeah. Do they do Crocs off a pair of Crocs. She's 13 feet. Do they do Crocs in a 13? She puts up with all of the nerd stuff.

All of it. It's not like it's a bad thing. And she's drawing the line at Crocs. I love that. I mentioned that I wanted the little badges you put in the Croc holes. Like the little flowers? The kids got those when the kids had Kid Crocs.

Yeah, I used to have kid Crocs back when I was a kid. And I had like football badges and stuff. I was trendy, guys. They've been around for a long time, Crocs. Yeah. Do you remember they had stores all over New Zealand and then did they have a bit of financial trouble and they closed a lot of them?

Yeah. Do you know what they call them? The classic clog. Original, versatile, comfortable. I tell you what, last time we spent a good amount of time, well, one of the times we spent a good amount of time bagging out Crocs, they flew us to Rotorua in a helicopter a few weeks later to try to like

win us over. And I tell you what, they did. But that's expired now, so Crocs. That's right. If you want the good stuff, it's going to need, we need to go back there. At least a weekend In Queenstown

To win a side Yeah honestly I wouldn't say no To a Thailand They're like The classic clog $70 $70

To look like a Bloody fool I said how much they cost I've never looked At how much they cost $70 Oh there's a bistro clog With the

That's got your Closed toe With no holes You're dropping your Your night That's got your closed toe with no holes. Yeah, that's for your chefs and your... That's $90. A bistro clog. Oh, my good Lord. There's a croc jandal.

Yeah, I think they've done croc high heels as well. I saw croc boots, but they just look like gum boots. Your standard rubber boot. Right, okay. But with a bit more Of a croc shape to it Those are probably The best acceptable

It's ever been We were actually going Shoe shopping next week Fletch Yeah We were going to buy Some cool You know what the kids Are wearing these days

Cool sneakers Now I'm having doubts Do we need to get crocs Maybe we need to get crocs Yeah I don't know I reckon they make your feet Smell all jammy

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ZM. The International Comedy Fest is in full force and one of the hottest acts and one of the hottest women I know, Ursula Carlson, is performing at the Bruce Mason Centre. She joins us on the phone. Morena Ursh. Morena, how's it going? I'm good.

Now you, where are you? I'm in Brisbane in a very nice hotel. And you did, you performed over there, didn't you? How did it go? Yeah, I did three nights. It was amazing and poor things,

poor little souls here. I think they're in the clutches of winter. And it's our summer. I went in places where I forgot that I had body parts, so it's great.

I feel you there, Urge. I love a good Queensland whinge about winter. They're like, oh, it's so cold. We love a good Queensland whinge about winter. They're like, oh, it's so cold. We've barely been over 25 this whole week. Yesterday there was like a bit of drizzle.

I felt so strong. I just walked around doing some clothing shopping for the kids and everyone's like in puffer jackets and I'm just in a T-shirt and this woman at Big W no big flicks but yeah I shopped this out she said to me it is so cold and I went

nah I'm alright thanks I'm looking on Ticketmaster here at your show Bruce Mason's Centre one night only you absolute tease

why are you only giving us one night? because I've already done three nights. I did Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch, the same show. And then this year, it's like the only way I can get people off my back in Auckland. Oh, I never got to see your show.

I know. You need to be faster. You're like, fine. I'll do another show in Auckland. And also because I've missed the festival. Yes. You know, because it's such a nice little creative hub and you're with all the other comedians

and you get to go to the Classic or to Kew or to any one of the other venues and you can have a beer or a wine or whatever with the other comedians and it's just a nice buzz. Yeah, totally. And do you feel like, I mean, you're, I mean, actually, you're bloody huge. Well, I mean, I've been.

Okay, mate, I mean, everyone's picked up a few kilos during lockdown. You know what I mean. You've been working for years now, but, like, you're just. So you're calling her old and fat? I won't stand by and let you talk to my friend that way. No, but the shows you're doing, just the size of them, are just getting bigger and bigger, and people absolutely adore you. It's no secret that people come to have been paying attention live

to watch you. When you're hanging out in the festival circuits, do you feel like the other comedians are like, oh, my God, Ursula Carlson? No, I don't, because even now, when you said you've been doing it for years, it's been such a blur. And the other day I said, oh yeah, I started in 2008.

It has been years, but in my mind I'm still brand new and I'm still trying to figure out what I'm doing. And every time I walk out on stage, like even here in Brisbane, I walk out and there's people in the auditorium and I'm like why are you here? I still remember the first couple of shows when if three tickets went I went okay that's Elizabeth Greig and their daughter you know like I would know exactly who buys tickets now and I go um guys how many people was there out there tonight? They go, 2,800. I'm like, oh, I don't know these people, you know. And it's a surprise, right?

Do you love a big crowd or do you love a more intimate crowd? I mean, it's like picking your favourite child. They both have benefits because I think my audiences are so lovely and I don't just say that to fuck up to them. They are really, really nice people. Even when people see them afterwards because they always go out and say hi. They're just real nice, salt of the earth

types of people. You know, the people that politicians talk about that you want to hear about, those are the people that come to my show. It's a reflection of who you are because you're exactly the same. I mean, no matter all your successes, you're just so down to earth and lovely and you're always keen for a chat with your fans. So I think that's, yeah, it's're exactly the same. I mean, no matter all your successes, you're just so down to earth and lovely and you're always keen for a chat with your fans.

So I think that's, yeah, it's a reflection of you. Stop coming on to me. I think she's trying to work her way back. When you come back from Australia, we'll just see what happens. We'll just see what the dynamic is between us when we record. I'm packing this to Bara as soon as I get home.

And the show with the Bruce Mason Mason that's very close to South African Central like North Shore's Johannesburg's just kind of you're going to be within vicinity of the South Africans and I know they love you I mean it is a home game and I expect quite a bit of dried meat

in the audience that night. And some biltong. Biltong in the seats. But actually last time, because I did a show at Bruce Mason a couple of years ago, you know, when we didn't even think about shows and we could just do whatever we like. And it was pretty wild. People were very excited. And there were two young ladies who came in half an hour late.

And then they both vomited in their handbags. Oh, good Lord. And then they just left their bags and left the venue. Just cut your losses. Here you are talking about your lovely audience and now you've shared that people are vomiting to their handbags and you told us the other day that someone cacked their pants in the middle of your audience.

What are you doing with your content? I mean, they are so ripe for a laugh, they sometimes explode. You need to put that on your poster. So funny, I shat myself. Yeah. Well, still tickets available for tonight's show at the Bruce Mason ticketmaster.com.

Yeah, not a lot of tickets. Ticketmaster.co.nz to book to see Ursula 8pm at Bruce Mason. Good luck, Ursh, and enjoy the show. Thanks, Tim. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Ash Burden, they're after a new slogan, ladies and gents. Right, what's their current one?

I've had it for like 30 years. Okay. And you're not familiar with it? Ash Burton. Very ashy. Ashburton, whatever it takes. Whatever it takes? What does that mean?

It doesn't mean anything. Whatever it takes. Whatever it takes. Like? They'll do whatever it takes. Or do whatever it takes to get there. Or? Whatever it takes to come to Ashburton.

Yeah, that's kind of the... Even if you have to walk. What do you mean whatever it takes? It's not that far away. But then that's the whole vibe with slogans, right? Vaguely inspirational sounding. Yeah. But not too...

What's Hamilton's at the moment? Your home... Because it used to be City of the Future, didn't it? No, that was unofficial. That was like Hamilton's at the moment? Your home. Because it used to be City of the Future, didn't it? No, that was unofficial. That was like Hamilton City of the Future. Right. That was like the unofficial slogan. Then I think they kind of had it as a sub-slogan.

Like they didn't say, no, that's not a slogan. Because they saw people actually engaging with Hamilton for once. And that's kind of the whole idea. Didn't we look into this last year and we couldn't get a definitive answer? Hamilton's had Hamilton It's On. It's On Hamilton. I just looked up Taranaki, Like No Other. See, that's good because it's got the mountain, it's got the city.

It's really telling you. It's really saying that this place is like no other. Come and have a look because it's like no other. More than you'd expect apparently was Hamilton's. Yeah, they've had a few. Hamilton, Where It's Happening. Yep, I remember that one. Hamilton, More Than You Expect.

We had a jingle growing up in Hamilton. Hamilton, it's moving. This is where you belong. Where's it moving to? Where was it moving to? No, like the whole, it's moving, baby. It's spreading. It's becoming Auckland.

You know, it's moving and it's shaken. Okay, here's Nelson Tasman where the ordinary is extraordinary. Too long. Yeah, it is too long, isn't it? Too long. Wairoa? New Zealand. The way it used to be. Wait, Wairoa, are you talking about

in Hawke's Bay? Wairoa, East Coast? Wairoa. Yeah. Not Waiuru. Waiuru's in the middle way. That's kind of saying we're stuck in the past. In Hawke's Bay Wairua East Coast Wairua Yeah Not Waiuru Waiuru's in the middle way Yeah yeah yeah That's kind of saying We're stuck in the past

Yeah Like It'll all be None of that PC Manders here Yeah Gollywogs in the window Come on down I love this

Right up my hut valley Yeah that is not The official hut valley Well it was Not anymore But it was I remember that Right up my Hut Valley

Right up your alley Right up your Hut Valley I like that Better than when Porirua had P-Town P-Town Porirua had P-Town Oh yeah because of P

Because of P Yeah yeah yeah Tempt me Tauranga There's been a few P-Town Different ones But okay so Ashburton's after some new one

I reckon open a casino Cashburton Oh yeah Like Cassie Or what about put an influx of single men in there Pashburton Single men famously do love to pash Yeah

Sometimes each other and sometimes Women Ashburton I don't even really know What about I'm certain about Ashburton Sometimes each other and sometimes a woman. Ash Burton. Ash Burton. I don't even really know. What about I'm certain about Ash Burton. That's good because it rhymes.

Oh, guys, every time I've Googled a town, it's had their slogan on their website. Invercargill's just got Invercargill. Is that it? Invercargill. Yeah, Invercargill. That's just it. Nothing more to say about it. Surely Invercargill's got a,

got a, didn't it have something about like, shit, our roads are wide? At one stage. It just says Invercargill. Invercargill's new one is Dream Big. Yeah, their roads. They did. They were like, let's build roads wide enough

for the biggest cars you can possibly ever imagine. Right. Free of breast. What's Wellington's? Absolutely, positively Wellington. Doesn't mean anything. No, they still were there? That was like...

Yeah. Oh, yeah. What's Featherston's one? If you'd live here, you'd get it? Or if you lived here... If you lived here... I like it because there's like... That's a multi-pronged one.

Oh, no, no, no. This is it. I know this because my parents live in Featherston. If you lived here, you'd be home by now because you go over the rimutakas yeah uh and then you land at featherston first and i was like yeah do you know what if you lived here you'd be you'd be home by now and that's that's the oh no i liked the other one if you lived here you'd get it because it's like you'd get it yeah the local scene you'd get it like sexy times you'd get it and you or you'd get it, the local scene. You'd get it, like, sexy times. You'd get it.

Or you'd get it vaguely threatening. Yeah. You'd get it. You'd get it. Move here. Wow, Dunedin. It's all right here. Yeah, I know.

That made headlines when they changed it because people were, like, pissy, but other people were like, well, you can't, like, promise the world. It's just bloody Dunedin. Well, it used to be I am Dunedin. Dunedin, I remember that. Yeah, that was stupid. But, yeah, it's just bloody Dunedin. Well, it used to be I am Dunedin. Dunedin, I remember that. Yeah, that was stupid. But yeah, it's all right here. It's not great, but it's also not like rubbish.

That's managing expectations, which I think is very important in the modern age. I think I've come up with the best suggestion. I'm certain about Ashburton. I'm certain about Ashburton. Certainly Ashburton-ly. Yeah. Have a bit of fun with it. Open the curtains on Ashburton. Open the curtains on Ash Burton.

Open the curtains. Oh, God. All right. Remember Andrew Mertens? He came to Ash Burton's. Fleshfawner Megan, the podcast. ZM. Fleshfawner Megan with Hayley Sproul.

Sweetening our Mother's Day with The Cheesecake Shop. Yum. The Cheesecake Shop Mother's Day is on Sunday. And if you're after a sweet treat for mum this Mother's Day with the Cheesecake Shop. Yum, the Cheesecake Shop. Mother's Day is on Sunday, and if you're after a sweet treat for Mum this Mother's Day, the Cheesecake Shop have you covered. Now, we have been giving away daily prizes every day this week, thanks to the Cheesecake Shop, and today, a spa.

We've got a spa treatment. I thought you meant a spa pool. I was like, good Lord. A spa treatment for one lucky mum. Now, we're going to take two callers right now and then vote the most deserving mum. TJ, why does your mum deserve this prize? Hey, guys.

So, Hayley, you'll love this. My mum is also a taxi. Oh. I'm in, I'm in. She's incredible. She's amazing My own friends want to adopt her But she can bake like an angel

And we all know you guys love your lolly cake Oh we do I love a lolly cake Yum And her lolly cake's the go-to It's the best Oh yeah She can bake anything

But she does a good lolly cake Is she heavy on the lollies? It's all lolly. Exactly. You might want to get her to try the icing, the pink icing with the hundreds and thousands. Yeah, I did hear that this morning. What's your mum's middle name?

Oh, I don't know. What was her name before she got married? What's her favourite colour? What was her first pet? What road did she grow up on? Are you trying to get her internet password? No, I just don't know a lot of patsies. My mum's a Patsy Anne and I was just wondering. Right, okay, well TJ, wait there. We'll vote in just a second.

Grace, why does your mum deserve this Mother's Day prize? Morning. So I'm in my 20s and I don't live at home anymore, but if I ring her up in the middle of the night or a terrible time, small hours of the morning, she'll always pick me up from the night out. They do, don't they?

Oh, they're so good like that. They just want you to be safe. No, my mum would tell me to piss off. Really? I think Christine would, wouldn't she? No, no, no, no, no. Would she come out at 3 o'clock in the morning? That's what they do dearly.

That's what mothers do. Not like all the way to Auckland if I rang and I was like, Mum, I'm not going to drive an hour and a half from here. But if we're like home, 100%. I think Dad like recently came and got us at like 2 o'clock after the pubs closed. Yeah, like a couple of years ago. Yeah, my parents always did that.

You live in the WAPS though. You can't get a taxi at 2am in Morrinsville. Oh, no, you can't. No, you did right. And they do it with a smile, don't they, Grace? Oh, definitely. Does she ever name... Does she ever name for her taxi company?

Oh. Because like our one is My friends call her Mama Mel because like Mel's mobile mum. Yeah. Mel's cabs.

Who are we voting? Because this is a tough one. I'm going to go I'm going to probably go as much as the taxi does sound like a great service you know I love lollycats I'm going to go lollycats. I'm going Grace go, I'm going to probably go, as much as the taxi does sound like a great service, you know I love lolly cake. I'm going to go lolly cake.

I'm going Grace with the taxi. Okay, you've got the deciding vote, Hayley Sproul. Do you know what? TJ played me like a harp. Oh, because of the patsy there. The patsy and the lolly cake. I can't look past it. Patsies make good mothers.

We'll add some cheesecake to that as well. The Cheesecake Shop. We've got a spa treatment for you, TJ, for your mum. How good? Thank you. All right, congratulations. Just like that.

ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. The podcast. Science has delved into what's happened to the popular kids. You'll remember. You guys both went to single-sex school.

Yes. You went to New Plymouth Boys High School. And I went to Queen Margaret College in Wellington. That was private, wasn't it? Very private.

See, you said your school, and I just felt like you were telling us where you went. But when a private school kid tells you where you went to school, I feel like they're trying to shame you. Yeah. I am. I'm education shaming you. Oh, right.

Yeah. And yet here we are in the same room. Yeah. Exactly. Exactly, man. Same job, man. So, yeah, A study's been done Into popular kids

And what happens to them It's like There's a bit of a classic You know The peak in high school And then later in life They realise they peaked In high school

And that can be quite You know A confrontational thing To look at later in life Yeah But we want to know More about like What happened to your

Popular kids Yeah What does the study say though more about, like, what happened to your popular kids? Yeah. What does the study say, though? Is it like, does the study say most popular kids then have a downward trajectory? Yeah. Trajectory. Trajectory. It's not to speak for all of them.

It's not to speak for all of them. Right. Because they might have been popular but also, you know, been motivated. Yeah. But if you think of, like, the popular kids who, I'll put this nicely. Remember the ones that were only popular because they were naughty? Yeah. Or, like, did things that, you know, nobody else did because I was terrified of my parents

finding out and giving me a good crack. But then you had, like, the good,, like the popular people that were good at sports. Yeah. See, the popularity thing is a weird thing at my school. It was a really small school. It was private. As you mentioned. How private?

So private, not many people even went there. So a good teacher to pupil ratio. The teacher to pupil ratio was exceptional. Worth every dollar. But I feel like, especially when I think about the older years, like being 16, 17, we were more separated by like groups or like interests than popularity. I feel like popularity was also linked to how much importance

the school put on different areas. At my high school, like rugby was rugby and netball, those were the sports. The other sports were what you played if you couldn't play rugby or netball. So if you were in the first 15, you were elevated by the school. By the school looking at you was so important. And if the game was going to be played during school hours, you were allowed to leave school to watch it. So everyone was gathered around watching the people

and then putting them in the centre of all the attention makes them popular. So maybe if your school prioritised different things, that was also a part of it. And at a co-ed school, the hot people were always popular because they were hot and everybody's hormones are going crazy. So you elevate and fawn over the hot people so they just become popular.

And it's also like, who's at the parties? And being that I was both ugly and scared of playing rugby. Oh, I wasn't. I wasn't. If one of those popular people was like a bit of a bully or, you know, an arrogant a-hole, there's nothing better than seeing that person later in life fat and failing. Fat, single, broke. But isn't that the

Kiwi in us, the New Zealander, the tall poppy syndrome? Yeah, it is. Yeah. Well, I wasn't going to say we have to mow them down. I was just going to say, what are they doing? Like, where are your popular kids from school? You want to hear from what happened to the popular kids. What are the popular kids up to?

Right. I don't want to hear names though. I don't want to even hear schools. I just want to hear what what happened to the popular kids. What are the popular kids up to? Right. I don't want to hear names, though. I don't want to even hear schools. I just want to hear what they're up to. So maybe, was there a popular kid at your school that was the number one popular kid, and where are they now? Maybe they have done really well. Yeah.

Because they just exuded, you know. Charisma. Yeah, confidence and all of that. Or maybe they just peaked at school. I, a couple of years ago, you know. Charisma. Yeah, confidence and all of that. Or maybe they just peaked at school. I, a couple of years ago, was driving. It was over summer and we were going to the beach and there was stop-go signs. Yep.

And I was driving and I waved like this to the lollipop man. Yeah. And he looked at me and he was like, hey. And he pointed at me and was like, hey. And we did that and that was all. But that was the popular dude. At school? Yeah.

I don't care. He's out there. He's got a job. Good on him. I've seen news stories. That was the last time I saw him. You can earn a lot of money doing that. One of the girls I went to school with just have kids.

So I'm like, shame. Shame. I'm going travelling. Well, you're not though, are you? I'm not, am I? Now I'm like empty and alone. Yeah, I was going to say, shame, you're empty and alone.

Directionless and no one's going to wipe my bum when I'm old. You do have a fiancé. Well, he's older than me. Oh, yeah, right. He's too tall as well. He couldn't get down there. All right, 0800-DARZATM-9696 to text. Where is the popular kid from school now?

Whereabouts is the popular kid from school now? It's not always like they're doing bad. A lot of them are actually doing really well. Yeah. Like this one. Popular kids now playing professional football in England. And here's me sitting in Auckland traffic. We can't compare.

We can't compare lives. You can't compare. We can't compare lives. You can't compare your life. They could be miserable. There's no better you than you. Not miserable. Do you know how much footballers get paid in England? Yeah, lots. But so much pressure.

Yeah, but they could be miserable. By the way, have you seen how much running they have to do? Oh, my God, so much running. Awful. And they play when there's snow and stuff. That sounds miserable. Those are like tricks. Yeah, if they make a when there's snow and stuff. That sounds miserable. All those tricks and stuff. Yeah, if they make a mistake,

some bloody scouser will knife them. Like, you're in a fire, but you're not going to get knifed sitting in Auckland traffic as long as you merge like a zip and don't piss anybody off. You might get claw hammered. Don't wind the window down.

Floor it. Some of the text messages in, they're all real estate agents or deep into pyramid selling schemes. Now that seems to be a very popular... A lot of real estate agents, I know. A lot of real estate agents, the popular kids become real estate agents

and a lot of them are involved in various multi-level marketing or pyramid schemes. Do you think the multi-level marketing appeals to the once popular school? I think so. It appeals to their networking and their friends. Yeah, maybe. They're good at making friends.

Yeah. Yeah. One of the most popular girls at our school was a grandmother at the age of 30. Wow. Okay. We had no teen pregnancies that I know of at Queen Margaret College. We had very few.

Very few And somebody else said Two of the popular girls from my school One is a model An international model for Victoria's Secret And one is a personal trainer Influencer living in Australia I went to high school with a Victoria's Secret model

I wonder if it's the same Stella Maxwell She was in my year Were you friends with her? You know a Victoria's Secret model. I wonder if it's the same. Stella Maxwell. Well, we don't have too many, do we? She was in my year. Was she? Yeah, she was. Were you friends with her? Were you friends? You know a Victoria's Secret model.

Yeah, I do. Sorry, that went really high. I'll try that again. Oh, that's... No, still there. That's interesting that your friends are the Victoria's Secret model. No, too low. Too low.

That sounded really creepy. That did. Like I say, at Queen Margaret's, there wasn't like a super isolated popular group. Who were you friends with? Who was I friends with? Who's the model? Stella Maxwell. We weren't like super close, but we shared friends.

Right. And would you hang out and stuff at lunch? Yeah, yeah. Once we crashed a car together. On lunch break? Yeah. You know in seventh form when people bit by bit started getting their full licenses and they'd just start driving.

And then we went out for lunch. It was her, me and our mutual friend Torzi. And then we went out for lunch. It was her, me, and our mutual friend Torsey. And then we pulled out and smashed right into the back of a car. What did buddy Morris Maxwell have to say about that? Oh, man, he would have been absolutely gutted. Morris would have been livid. And then the deputy principal was driving past and was like, well, now you're caught, aren't you?

And we were like, yes. What happened to the popular kids at your school? Where are they now? What are they doing? We want to know. It's more the stories about the fall from grace that we like. Yeah, I know. Everyone's so far doing well.

Yeah. How's this message? Somebody said, I recently found out that one of the popular kids at my school has been battling cancer. And I tell you what's bloody heartwarming is how many of the kids that they used to pick on in school have rallied around and fundraised

them to help them with their treatment and ongoing costs outside of. Wow, that's cool. Far out. You wouldn't feel the same if you were like bullied by them? I was giving you a private nod not to be shared on radio that I wouldn't. No, I would. No, but that just shows the bigger people.

And what a lesson for that person. Totally. Someone said, Simon Bridges a lesson for that person. Totally. Someone said, Simon Bridges was too cool for me in school. Not sure what he's doing these days, but my guess is nothing productive. Simon Bridges was not. Do you think he was the popular kid at school? He would have been like head of everything, eh? You went to school with Jacinda.

Was she popular? Nah, everyone liked her, but not what I would have called like super popular. Annie Anonymous, good morning. Good morning. Where's the popular kid at school now? Well, I was watching TV a while ago and a friend messaged me and said, are you watching Police 10-7? I said, not at the moment, but I turned it over, checked it out, and there he was on there,

the most popular kid in my college days. Guy, hot, handsome, all of that. Man about the town when he was a bit older, and there he was on Police 10-7, wanted for car theft and assault, do not approach, and he was looking feral as. Wow. That was my next question. Was he still looking hot?

But no, feral. A career in television. Who would have thought? Anonymous, thank you. Emily, where is the most popular kid from school now? So basically she is in the Netflix TV series and she won an Emmy for it. And also she's in a TV series as a regular.

Who is this person? Name. No name, but I went to high school in England, and my name does have a bit of a phallic word in it, so it makes me giggle. Her name's got a phallic word in it, so it's like a dick. Yeah. So it does make me giggle everyic word. Dick. Yeah. Yeah. So.

It does give me a giggle every so often. Okay. Wow. And she was popular at school, so you're, like, not surprised at all that she's got this kind of. No. She was, like, popular, gorgeous. She played netball. She was rich.

So I was just, like. She's already gone a little. What is she in there? What is she in there anymore? All right, Emily. Thanks for your call. Flesh, Fawn and Megan, the podcast. ZM. Friday Flashback.

Well, it's time for your Friday Flashback. My pick today, Executive Intern Anya has lent on me heavily here. This is her suggestion. And, you know, I said, I'm on board with this. I could have sworn we'd done it. No, apparently we have not. We've checked the archives. We do have the Spotify Friday flashback playlist. Every week we add the song to it. It's not in that. It's not in the Excel spreadsheet. So we can go ahead with this. It was number

two in New Zealand. In fact, it was in the top five in almost every single country in the world. It was number four in Taiwan before China. Got all bloody... Don't do that. Don't you dare. Huge, huge single. This was a band that got Beyonce into music. I'll be talking about that a little bit later.

My boy just ruined your latest. You just ruined my latest. You ruined my latest yesterday, Vaughn. You've ruined my latest now. Oh, well, because I said about Mark Wahlberg, put it on the way. Yeah, tell us about the song. Born. You've ruined my latest now. Oh, well, because I said about Mark Wahlberg, put it on the way. Yeah. Tell us about the song. Okay.

This was the... What song was... Released in... Second album? It was launched with a movie. Yeah. Yeah, I was going to say the movie. And that was the news this week, that the Spice Girls, there could be a sequel.

Yeah. Filming. Oh, my God. To Spice World. Your flare's on. Your cop top's out. So, from 1997, it is your Friday flashback today. Spice Girls and Spice Up Your Life.

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Every boy and every girl! People of the world! Scream into the light, if you haven't seen the light Scream into the light, if you haven't seen the light Scream into the light, if you haven't seen the light Scream into the light, if you haven't seen the light Scream into the light, if you haven't seen the light Scream into the light, if you haven't seen the light Thank you. Shake it, I got Riva How's the world? Every boy and every girl

How's the world? How's the world? And ZM and your Friday flashback. Spice Girls, spice up your life just quickly before we get to the ZM and your Friday flashback. Spice Girls, spice up your life. Just quickly before we get to the feedback for today's Friday flashback, if you would like to play, I bet I can guess your mum's name. Vaughan will ask you five questions about your mum, a chance to win $100 if you can guess your mum's name, and the first ever time, it's a Mother's Day special,

we are going to do two mums at once. Guess two mums at once. I two mums at once. 0800 Darls.com right now to play. Feedback. My immediate feedback is I'm sweaty. It was a lot. A lot of dance there. My poor ears.

Well, you know what? Get out. Somebody else said this is my 11-year-old self had a very good dance routine. Yeah, right. Yeah, good. Somebody else said, my bestie and I were in a Spice Girls tribute band in the 90s. She passed away a few years ago, so you've made me cry at work, but happy memories.

Nice. In a Spice Girls tribute band. Yeah. Amazing. Yeah. I saw a Spice Girls tribute band once, and my mum told me it was the real deal. And I got there, and I was like, you're a liar. It's not Gerry.

What was Patsy thinking that you would believe that? Because they never came to New Zealand like in the peak of their fame. No. And then I cried. Their tour would have been cancelled, right, because of COVID last year. I know a lot of people had bought tickets. They were going to Aussie. Yeah.

Yeah. Somebody said, banger or let's get spicy. Quite a few people were upset about it. I don't know if they prefer another Spice Girls number there. Just didn't like it. How can you not? Is it sham?

I don't know what's wrong with them there. I like the infectious energy. Spice Girls forever. Yeah. Okay. So it's 50-50? Or did I win that one? My 11-year-old daughter

who loves all music just said, who are these people? They're bad. Oh. How is an 11-year-old daughter who loves all music just said, who are these people? They're bad. How is an 11-year-old girl not immediately taken by the Spice Girls? Yeah. Okay. All right.

Well, I'm shook. We'll blame Anna for that one. No. I stand by it. No, no, no. I stand by it. Hey, you on the phone. I bet I can guess your mum's name.

Mother's Day on Sunday. So we thought, hey, let's play I bet I can guess your mum's name. Mother's Day on Sunday. So we thought, hey, let's play I Bet I Can Guess Your Mum's Name times two. Yeah, make it harder. Yeah. Two mums. So... I haven't had my usual warm-up because I was so spiced up. I was spicing up my life.

Yeah. Now, how do you want to approach this, Vaughan? Do you want to do questions for one mum first or have both callers? No, no, no. Have both callers answer the same set of questions for mom, for their mom. Okay. And then from there, we move into guessing the mum's names at the same time. So I'll just start spitting the names out and they can be like, stop, that's my mum's name.

But I'll just keep going. Right. Until I hit two. Okay, well, we are joined on the show this morning by first up, Sophie. Good morning, Sophie. Good morning, guys. How are you? Good, thank you.

And also Raina. Good morning, Raina. Good morning. Okay, well, Vaughn now has five questions about both your mums. And then in the 15 seconds that follows, you have to be the first to yell out, stop, that's my mum's name, if you hear your mum's name. All right, so first question. What is your mum's sibling's names? We'll start with you, Sophie.

There is two. There's Karen and Ian. Oh, okay. Karen and Ian. Classic parents' names. Kiwi parents' names. Classic late 50s, early 60s. Maybe going into the 60s parents' names. Kiwi parents' names. Classic late 50s, early 60s. Yeah.

Maybe going into the 60s parents' names there. Raina, what about you? My mum's got four sisters. Okay. So they're Carmen, Rebecca, Yvonne, and Bonnie. Okay. I've always liked the name Bonnie. I've always liked the name Yvonne.

But it's just you were born with class. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Bonnie, okay, so I'll take those out of my list. And as we go through the questions,

Vaughn likes to jot down some mums' names. Jot down some ideas. How old are your mums? How old is your mum, Raina? 47, nearly 48. Oh, really? Okay.

And Sophie? Goodness, I actually have no idea. I think 54. Okay. Yeah, good. All right, ballpark, I actually have no idea. I think 54? Okay, yeah, good. All right, ballpark. I've got no idea how old your mum is. Honouring the birthdays?

Okay, that's fine. What's their go-to mum dish if they were going to make dinner, Sophie? Oh, it would be... Oh, that's a good one. Maybe, like, pasta bake? Yeah. It's an easy, it's easy to one. Maybe like pasta bake. Yeah. It's an easy, it's easy to pasta bake, isn't it? Serves the masses.

It's easy, it's effective. Yeah. Okay. Raina? She makes a really good fish pie, but she hasn't done that in a while. She lives alone, so she eats like cheese and crackers sometimes after work. Oh, yeah. Who can be bothered, right?

I don't love cheese and crackers. Yeah. Okay. All right, next question. What's their coffee order, if they were going to order a coffee? Oh, they love cheese and crackers. Yeah. Okay. All right, next question. What's their coffee order, if they were going to order a coffee? I think this says a lot about a mum. Yeah. Raina?

She'd get a mocha. A mocha. Oh, yeah. Okay. Sophie? She would get specifically a trim latte. Trim latte. Okay.

She keeps a trim. Still likes the milk. Yep. What is that? Trim latte is just trim milk, isn't it? Yeah, low-fat milk. Right, okay. Okay, good.

The last question. And what are your siblings' names? If you're only children, that's fine as well. But, like, Raina, what are yours? Do you have siblings? What are their names? Yep, I've got an older sister, Leandra, and a younger sister, Zarian. Zarian, Leandra, and Raina I don't know, is that going to help

you Vaughn with a mum's name? I think you've wasted that question. No. I think you have. No, no, no, it was more about I've got the feeling because even when I saw Raina, but then when I heard mum's siblings names, they weren't like wildly out there, so

she's given her kids out their names, which tells me she's like not that the name's not that out there, sort of like given her kids out their names, which tells me she's like, not that, the name's not that out there, sort of like middle ground sort of stuff. Okay. And Sophie, what's your mum's sibling,

oh no, your siblings' names? I have a sister called Olivia. Okay, so again, one. Sophie and Olivia. Yeah.

Your mum's siblings are Karen and Ian. So you're saying, you think that it's going to be a classic mum's name as well there. Okay. Can I pop a Jan on that list? A Jan? Pop a Jan on? A Jan on that list. Okay.

Fletch, you don't want to pop anything on the list? Well, no, no, I don't. Because you've had an absolute hot streak and obviously you fail. Yeah, you don't have the power. I know. All right, so Vaughn now is just going to just spend a second. You've got some mum name options there. Yeah, yeah,'t have the power. All right, so Vaughn now is just going to spend a second. You've got some mum name options there. Yeah, yeah, I'm getting there.

Yeah. Okay. I'm good to go. Are you good to go? All right, now, Raina and Sophie, you are now competing against each other. If you hear your mum's name. No, they're not competing against each other. Well, they are because they've got to be first to say, that's my mum's name. No.

You want to go for both. I want them both to win. I thought this was me and their two mums. My goodness, you are dishing out the money. We are in a recession. Well, I'm not going to say I'm going to get all of them. I'll cover it. Let's go. She's going to cover it. It's coming out of hers. Alright, well, if you hear your mum's name,

yell out, stop, that's my mum's name. 15 seconds and your time, Vaughan, starts now. Lisa, Michelle, Tanya, okay, well, if you hear your mum's name, yell out, stop, that's my mum's name. 15 seconds, and your time, Vaughan, starts now. Lisa, Michelle, Tanya, Kim, Joanne, Nicola, Angela, Leanne, Sue, Karen. Stop, that's my mum's name. Well, pause, pause the timer, Fletch, pause the timer. Oh, wait, wait. Don't finish the timer. When does the timer?

Did they both talk? Yeah, you got my mum's name too. Oh, you got both of them. Are you kidding me? What names did you have? Raina, you got my mum's name too. Oh, you got both of them. Are you kidding me? What names did you have? Raina, what's your mum's name? My mum's name's Kieran. And Sophie, what's your mum's name?

My mum's name's Leanne. And did you read out Leanne? You got Leanne really early on. Yeah, I got Leanne because that's why I got confused. I thought they had the same name because I thought they both said it at the same time. I was like, there's no way I've been stitched up with this. So our Mother's Day winner, double special, is a double winner. That's what I think's happened.

Wow. Yes. You're a bloody genius. I don't know how you do it, Vaughn. Now, this is the weird thing. I don't think I said Karen yet. I thought I said... You were in the middle of saying it.

I think you'd just finished saying it. Yeah, it was on my list, but I thought I'd said Karen earlier, but I hadn't said Karen because that was someone's auntie's name. I just think I was that far through my list. I just blank out. It just takes over. Well, there you go. Do you want a replay? Stand by.

Here's a replay. Let's have a listen. Tanya, Kim, Joanne, Nicola, Angela, Leanne, Sue, Karen. That's my mum's name. Yeah, you just said Karen. Yeah, you did say Karen. I didn't get up to Karen. I saw my list.

I just didn't think I got up to it yet. Don't try to strip her from the win. Okay, well, Raina and Sophie, happy Mother's Day. Guess your mum's name special. Karen and Leanne, happy Mother's Day. I'm going to go in with their dads. Oh, my gosh. We do not have all this money, Vaughn.

Oh, my goodness. I'll sacrifice my next story. I want to hear the dads. Bonus round. While you're on the phone, I'll have a go at guessing your dad's name. All right, so you need a dad's name for Raina and a dad's name for Sophie. I'll tell you something for nothing right now. No hesitation, no nothing.

There's a Paul in the mix and there is a Nick in the mix. Okay, well, who's who if you're so bloody sure? Who's Leanne married to and who is Kieran married to? Kieran is married to Nick. Raina is Kieran married to Nick My mother's not married and my dad's name's Nathan so no But you got the end

Slipped down the side though Well Raina unfortunately you don't get the bonus $100 here but you do have $100 and that is yours and safe Amazing thank you Now Sophie Who is Sophie's mum? Who is Sophie's dad?

Don't want to assume they're still married. Yes, this is true. Divorce rates skyrocket. What did I say before? Kieran. Paul. Paul. You think Leanne and Paul?

Yep. Well, I don't know. Yep. Sophie, what is your dad's name? My dad's name? My dad's name is Paul. What? How did you do that?

I didn't even think about Paul. Oh, wow. I didn't even think about Paul. It was just... Executive Internani, do we have $300? Nah, but I'll find it. Yay! Check the Ts and Cs. It probably says, like, cash equivalent or something.

Nice. Hey, congratulations, cash equivalent or something. Nice. Hey, congratulations, Sophie. $200. Thank you, guys. I'm so glad. I'm ready to have $200 now. No, don't be willy-nilly. $200 would be great.

We do not have $400. I'm getting absolutely screamed at in my ear. Yeah, well, hey, congratulations. What a great round of I Better Can Guess Your Mum's Name. That was neat. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan, the podcast. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Today's fact of the day, a lot of people will know this.

Okay. But it will blow your mind who doesn't. Right. A turtle doesn't live in its shell. It is its shell. Oh, yeah, of course. It's not a crustacean. No, it's not like a hermit crab.

A hermit, yeah. But then that's because I floated this with a few people, none of which I'm related to. And some were like, what? But on the cartoons, they hop out of the shell. And I'm like, you know, they can't hop out of their shell. Yeah, they've led us astray, haven't they? And they said, don't tell me that slugs aren't just snails without shells.

And I laughed. They weren't joking. Yeah, and they said, don't tell me that slugs aren't just snails without shells. Yep. And I laughed. They weren't joking. So that's something that people think, that slugs are like homeless snails, which is worrying. Oh, yeah. What dum-dums thought that? When did you?

Don't tell me you just learned that now. I was 31 years old when I learned that a slug is not a homeless snail. It's a hermit crab. Did you actually think that? I was going to say, you were just earlier telling us what a wonderful teacher-to-student ratio your private school had going up. They didn't teach you the basics. You're not going to learn about slugs at a private school, though, are you?

No, we're learning how to save the world and get into comedy. Tell the gardener how to get rid of the slugs. Yeah, yeah. So the turtle shell, what you Yeah, yeah So the turtle shell What you might not know about the turtle shell More facts about the turtle shell Is that the turtle's spine Is actually the top of the shell

So it goes shell And then underneath the shell Stuck to the shell Is the turtle's spine Yuck Why? I don't know I'm sorry

I don't know why we're lying here The image of it stuck and fused in there. Yeah, so if you open up the turtle, its guts and stuff is just all rocking around in there. Yeah, right. Like our abdomen. Yeah. Yeah, but they do have a spine,

and it runs down the top inside part of the shell. Okay. The two parts of the shell are joined at a part called the bridge, the carapace, and the plastron. Oh, yeah. If you look, I'm just showing the boys

a skeleton of a turtle. Like a cross section. And it is, you're right. The whole spine is up the back. Yeah. And inside, it's all just floating around in there. The legs go all the way up

inside the shell. So you see the little bits that walk out there, but the actual support structure for the legs, like I guess essentially the hips, goes right up inside the shell. Wow. Just a nice one today.

Just a nice, simple, easy to take on, palatable fact of the day and the fact that a turtle doesn't live in its shell. It is its shell. Fact of the day Day, day, day, day Tis my last day A package just arrived Full of brittle

Shout out Morden Howries Yeah, thank you Love a walnut brittle Podcast ZM. Tis my last day. A package just arrived full of brittle. Shout out Morden Howries. Yeah, thank you. Love a walnut brittle. What is brittle? Is it like toffee? Yeah, it's like toffee and you sprinkle stuff through it and break it all up. Oh, okay.

It's more like a hard fudge than a toffee. That's a great way of describing it. Fudge. I remember because when I was growing up we had a book, a golden book, about a cat that liked peanut brittle. Cool story. Awesome story. Great. The cat.

What business was the cat in? I'm going to miss stories like this. Eating a peanut brittle. Oh, man, I'm really going to miss this when I'm sleeping in. I'll pop through the WhatsApp crew. I wish I could say I'll tune in, but I'm honestly not going to be awake before 9 a.m. Ever again.

But no, look, I have genuinely had such a good time being on the crew with you guys. Yeah. And one thing I'll definitely say is I thought when I was like, yeah, I can do cover Megan for her maternity leave. I thought that fans would be like, get out, you fake Megan. Yeah. And they'd be like, you're no. But honestly, everyone listening has been so nice. My inbox absolutely filled with messages this whole time.

It's been really, really lovely. Do you want to get your Instagram plug in one more time before you leave? Yeah, so just at Hayley Sproul. Yeah, I'm open to any kind of endorsements and that kind of stuff. Yeah. Absolutely. No, honestly, your listeners, I don't know what you do to them but they are

they were raised right that's what happened they were raised right they're good people good people yeah so I've and we tell the ones who aren't literally

to F off to F off yeah I haven't had anyone tell me to F off it's been nice but I've so I've made you guys

a little something oh okay but before that I do want to say I've been mocked ruthlessly on this show for the last four months about having a lot of plants. Yes.

So I wanted to leave something with you guys. Okay. And I want to tell you why I've bought these each for you. Okay. Actually, this is great because Vaughn and I do have a gift for you, but we're going to give that to you in the last break of the show. Oh, now this is in a box. You've covered this with your jacket.

Okay. The first plant I've bought, you know this was just for me really because I needed to buy more plants, but I can't bring any more into the house. So I was like, I'll buy plants for others. So you're feeding your addiction. Yeah. So the first one I bought, I'm just going to have a little,

don't look at me too closely. Okay. The first one I bought is for Karween. Oh, Karween. Well, you're giving everybody a plant. Yeah, why have you not done gifts for everyone else?

No, just you. So, Karween. That's lovely. Their gift is their continued employment. Is that mint? So, no, this is a lemon balm. You can use it to make tea

if you want once it grows a lot. Oh, okay, lovely. Karween, I thought of you for this because it's fresh and it's new. The flavour of this is a very fresh flavour when you make a tea with it and it's full of new growth just as you are to this show. So I'll give that to you, Carween.

You've not yet become the wilted old plant that's not getting enough sleep and not enough water. Indeed. The next one I have is, of course, for Jarrod to add to his collection of plants here. This is the Trans, what's it called? The Transdiscantia zebrina. I've got this for you, not so much for you about your

personality but just it's bloody hard to kill. That's good. I've tried and you can't kill those so that's for Jarrod. The next one I got is the aloe succulent for Anna here because aloe is known for being soothing and calming. Like you are.

Oh my god. As you are to this energy. Oh no, she needs soothing and calming. No, but she soothes and calms our show. The one I got for you here, Vaughnay, this is the peperomia, a red peperomia. And I got it for you because it's

a hardy, red-blooded man. Yeah, like me. You it for you because it's a hardy, red-blooded man. Yeah, like me. You know, it's a rugged, hardy, red-blooded man. It's too miserable. And for you, Fletch, I don't know why, I just saw this and thought of you. Holy moly. Well, it's a big, spiky prick, isn't it?

And that's gone Fletch to a T. It looks like it's soft, but you don't want to wrap your hand around it. And the rest have like leaves, and it's like a plantetch to a T. It looks like it's soft, but you don't want to wrap your hand around it. And the rest have like leaves and it's like a plant that's working together. That is literally just a monolith of a plant that doesn't want to be touched. It doesn't want to be touched. This is the thing. I'm a hugger and you won't let me hug you.

So this is another plant. I've just noticed it looks like a penis. I didn't notice it at all. Did you not? Oh, right. Okay. Yeah, fantastic. Thank you so much

guys you're welcome thanks for having me shot plants on your behalf but I do have a little a little song I wrote for you guys okay we do sing a lot

in the studio yep and we particularly sing along to this song so I've changed some of the lyrics this is my ZM song for you okay alright This is my ZDM song for you Okay, alright Megan's having a baby

She's taking maternity leave Now what will they do? Can't just be these two They need a woman in the house to make sure the show's not about just boobs and gaming. They need a lady. They need a cover. While Megan became a mother. So when they thought of who it should be, they thought of no other.

They turned to Haley, said Megan's having a baby. Can you come and join Fletch and Vaughn and make sure they don't go crazy? And I said, whoa, oh, okay, Ross boss, I'll have a go. Oh, even though 4 a.m. is not my jam. I'll go on the radio. And so I joined the ZM crew. And what I thought would make me spew was actually great. Causing so many complaints. And though I've gained heaps of KGs.

And I'm deprived of decent sleep. And drank too much wine. I've had a good time. Oh, oh, oh, oh, the greatest show. Oh, oh, oh, oh, I love ZM. Even at 5 a.m. And gosh, I ate so many. And but it's gone.

This is my ZM song. And even though it's time to go, no more unsubtle innuendo or X-rated conversations in the ad break. Don't forget Anna, who puts up with our relentless banter and doesn it kill us when we ask to go to RuPaul even though we gave her shingles? I'll miss all our stupid rants. Jared and his midi getting plans. I'll miss the whole team. Anna J, the boys, and Karween. All the DMs from the fans

and all the freebies in my hands. I'll miss the whole thing when I'll be sleeping. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, the greatest show. Oh, oh, oh, oh, I love ZM. Even at 5am. Wow. Man, I'm glad she's leaving. Guys.

I am not putting that much effort into anything ever, okay? So she's making me look bad. She's got to go. No, I've had a blast, guys. Thanks so much. All right, well, Vaughn and I have something that we know you want. It's our gift for you for putting up with us for all this year. ZM's Fletch Vaughn and Megan, the podcast.

But it is our last morning with Hayley Sprower, who's been filling in for Megan. Do we need a bit of Andrea Bocelli, Time to Say Goodbye? Oh, that would be quite nice. Didn't we? In the time that I've been here, we have listened to this song from start to finish. Oh, yeah, here it is.

We're finding it now in the database. Oh, this is live. Do we want live? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Well, maybe for the brevity for the... What's it called? Time to say goodbye. It must have an Italian name.

I'm just going to play the live version. Yeah, do it. Oh, the audience. Yeah, the audience. Lovely. So it's like there are multiple people here to say goodbye to you. It's all the fans applauding. And it's been a wonderful time.

Thank you so much for, because a lot of people don't know, the hours are killer. Getting up. You have to eat a lot of brioches to survive. You do. You've got to gain a lot of weight to get through this job. You've got to. Yeah.

And then, like, you'll be later in the day, because you are tired, and you'll be like... Yeah, I want to say thank you to Aaron. He took it all. He really... One thing people that work crazy hours don't thank enough is their partner for putting up with a lot of bullshit. Aaron said to me yesterday, he was like,

you are all over the show. I was like, oh, are're going to come eat dinner? Oh, I do. This person called up yesterday. What do I do? He was just like, holy. Sprowratic. No, I tried to make it worse.

Sprowratic. Sprowratic. I'm sprawling all about the place. Well, we got you a gift. This is something where you've mentioned lots, especially in like the last week, because next week when you're back to normal sleeping hours and you're going to get nutritionist.

You're seeing your nutritionist. You're doing the PCOS protocol. That's the nutritionist plan along with exercises. You guys are still doing that LSD-inspired bike class that you do. Yeah, the trip. We booked a shopping trip and two gym sessions.

So we've got you a little gift. We'd like you to open that. Can I tell them what it says on top? Or maybe use some on-the-fly censorship. Why don't you just F off then? Love, Fletch and Vaughan. Is this actually what I have been speaking about all week? Yeah, well, maybe it is.

Now, I don't know if we've taught you this in the three months you've been here, but when you open something, open it near the microphone to get the paper. The folly, yeah. Now people are like, oh, I can hear her opening a gift. Oh, my God, it actually is.

Hang on. Yeah, they're in. I get it. I get it. So I went and... You're so mean! This is... I will say what I've just opened. I've been going on about getting an Apple Watch all week. Out comes an Apple Watch bot. It is...

It's heavy. It's got some weight to it. You open it up and inside is a piece of paper and an Apple core. Yeah, it's meant to look like a watch. Jared did some arts and crafts this morning so that it looked like a watch. I want my plants back. I want that back. I want this back.

I'm putting it on my wrist. Yeah, because I went and picked up my Apple Watch yesterday because I was borrowing Fletcher's, as we talked about on air, because I'm almost at the perfect streak of a year. And I went and picked up my one and they gave me a brand new one in a box because apparently they don't repair them. And I was like, well, don't we just have a little gift right here? I think this is actually quite good.

It's going to go well in the gym. I might sweat through the brown paper. Yeah. You might get those little fruit flies. Yeah. Hanging around. It's very sentimental. Thank you so much, guys.

I'll keep this for all of, honestly, one minute. Yeah. For a photo and then just throw it in the bin. Yeah, totally. Check it out on my Instagram. I'll get some more Instagram followers before I go. Yeah, Hayley Sproul. At Hayley Sproul Instagram.

There we go. Get that up there. No, thank you so much, Hayley. Oh, it's been a blast. I've absolutely loved it. Everyone's... Absolutely fun. Has been fun.

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