ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Megan Podcast - 8th September 2021

Episode Date: September 7, 2021

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The ZM Podcast Network. Play. ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. Hello, welcome to the Fletch, Vaughan and Megan podcast. It's thanks to McCafe. Barista made coffee from drive-thru and McDelivery in level 2. I've got something here I have to read. Okay.

I want first of all to say I'm not being held against my will. Okay. I'm being looked after very well by my captives and I could leave at any time I want. A very happy birthday to Tony Street, who is a lovely lady, kind, generous broadcaster, multi-talented, wahine toa, and wonderful birthday girl. It was somewhat lacking in... Please don't make it big.

You're scared of her, aren't you? Your tone kind of... You're scared of her, aren't you? She's got my family. Blank twice, do we need to call the cops? Don't get them involved. She said she'd kill them if I called them, please. The ever-ongoing beef with Tony Street.

The nation's sweetheart. Yeah, wow. I heard she spat on her birthday cake. She spat the candles out because she didn't want to have to share. That's the sort of crazy stuff. People don't see that when she's filling on on 7 Sharp, do they? No, they don't see that. She's going, well done to our athletes.

We're so proud of all of you. Do you need to tell New World? Do they know? Oh, they've probably got no idea what they've jumped into bed with. She's telling us about chicken salads and stuff. Yeah. And she actually has a part-time job at Tegel strangling chickens, and they don't even pay her.

She just does it to release her dark passenger. So many kills will appease the inner demon. You will try to knock her down, but nothing's knocking down the streetie. She's an incredible broadcaster. She's got to you too, does she? She's got to everybody in my life. My wife said to me last night, she is so lovely, isn't she? And I said, she's got to you too.

Watch my, you know, mark this day in the calendar The day you warned us about Tony Street Mark this day And she may indeed even use her birthday to unleash her super weapon Oh, what's that? The harp machine that can cause earthquakes and tidal waves She's in charge of it Yeah, right, okay

And she has hacked the program to the CERN super collider Okay, yep She's planning on setting that off and creating a black hole right here on Earth Okay And she has hacked the program to the CERN super collider. She's planning on setting that off and creating a black hole right here on Earth. Mark my words. Today's the day we die. You heard it here first. Thanks, Rachel. Good morning.

Welcome to the show. Fleets, Vaughn and Megan. Three minutes past six. I've got dry eyes. I need some eye drops. Oh no. Some eye drops. Very dry eyes. I don't know. Is it allergies? I don't know. Do allergies manifest themselves? Nah, usually watery eyes.

Yeah, it's a watery eye. Maybe I need a little allergy. Yeah, right. Moisten up these balls. Oh, these eyeballs, of course. Put some water. Could you just cup some water in your hand? Put some water into them. Yeah, that could lube them up a bit. No, try though.

Well, happy Delta Level 2 for everybody outside of Auckland today. Yep. What does that mean? I'm happy for you. Back to work. A mate of mine in Hamilton, he isn't back at work till next week.

They're like, you might as well just work the rest of the week at home. Oh, okay. And then come back next week. We'll hit the ground running. Has he actually been working at home?

Well, he's been getting it done. Okay. I don't know how long it's actually taken him compared to what he's doing with the rest of his time. Yeah, right. Okay.

But yeah, getting it done. Yeah, good stuff. All right. Coming up on the show today, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern joins us at 10 to 8 this morning. Chat to her about Level 2, how everything's going. That's our regular monthly chat. It is, yes, which is just so happy we've fallen. We've got a bonus chat.

Yeah. You know, people on Twitter weren't happy about that. Weren't they? What did they say? Let me tell you, it was quite funny. About our chat. About all these miserable old white pricks. Why are you on Twitter?

I know. I don't know why you're still on Twitter. So it was when we talked to Jacinda and she said her and her team split a coffee. Oh, that's right. And I called her a socialist. A half-strength coffee. That was very Mike Hosking of me, though. It wasn't like I called her a socialist.

Yep. Yep. And somebody, call me LNZ, said she talks to Fletchford and Megan. What does she think? This is a comedy, but she won't make herself available to talk to Hosking? This is bizarre. And then someone else said, proves that during a Delta outbreak, her own government's doing the outbreak of her government's own doing.

Oh, so he's saying this outbreak of Delta is her government's own doing. Oh, so he's saying this government, this outbreak of doubt is her government's fault. You can always make time for soft media like ZM's Fletch, Fawn and Megan whilst running away from being grilled on The Breakfast Show with the biggest audience in New Zealand. Soft media, ow.

She's down with Fletch, Fawn and Megan, they're her homies. It's how you reach the youth audience, says Tony, who looks so miserable. Sorry you don't get to pick who you call journalists. This was in reply to somebody else saying she does the rounds on all the media. It's rude because you know I did course. And we did journalism at course.

Are you insinuating that Fletch, Vaughan and Megan are journalists? The audience has the depth of an English and history major looking for shock jock entertainment? Um, no. No. Excuse me. That was call me out again. I take offense to that.

Those Hosking listeners are butthurt, aren't they? Yeah. Well. Our listeners don't study English or history. Excuse me, that's actually insulting to our listeners. Well, the Prime Minister joins us at 10 to 8 this morning, so I'm sure we can look forward to some more Twitter commentary.

Oh, I like it. Hey, they're talking about it. Yeah, that's true. They're talking about the show. I think Al might actually listen. Oh, okay. Well, welcome, Al. The top six is coming up on the show, and Spotlight in Australia in the news. Another place I'm looking forward to visiting.

In level two. In level two. Buttons. Buttons. Buttons. I want to buy a thousand buttons. They have said in Australia you won't be getting your Christmas bonus if you don't vaccinate. If you work there, not shoppers.

Oh, yeah. Shoppers don't get a Christmas bonus. The specials are for everybody. But the top six other ways to punish Spotlight employees who won't get the vaccine. This is going to be a big thing now, isn't it? Like in New Zealand, especially. Like if you're not vaccinated,

you might not get to work in certain areas. It's already happening. Yeah. I think customs let a couple of people go. The border workers. Yeah, border workers because they didn't want to get vaccinated. I've been unjustifiably dismissed. And then everyone's

like, nope, nope you haven't. Alright, well the top six coming up. Next, one of us on the show sleeps naked and I'll tell you why you should not. Oh, great. ZDM's Fletch, Ron and Megan. Fletch likes to sleep naked.

Yeah, well, I've talked about that before, haven't I? It's a fact. And I remember news stories saying it was good for your bowel death to self-regulate the heat, right? Yeah, well, you're born naked, aren't you? If you were meant to have clothes. And you die naked. Well, not all the time, but, you know.

We're all naked underneath our clothes. Exactly. Shakira sung that song about it. Yeah. Underneath your clothes, there's an endless story. Do you still have a thing for Shakira? Very much so. Okay, good.

Why? She hasn't done anything silly, has she? Well, no, there was a tax evasion. That's the state of the... There was a tax evasion. That was her accountant. Right, okay. She a tax evasion. That was her accountant. She explained herself. Okay.

That was her accountant. I don't think she's an anti-vaxxer. That's such a 2021 statement. Has she done anything silly? Oh, my God, I can't. Can I publicly like her? Am I allowed to like her? Oh, yeah.

I'm not going to get cancelled for her being cancelled, am I? There should be a website. Is this celebritycancelled.com? And you just put their name in or there's a directory and you can see. Because, yeah, you're at a dinner party

and someone's like, okay, it's a silly question, but if you could marry any celebrity, which celebrity would it be? And you name someone and then there's a gasp. Yeah. And you're like,

what? What's happened? And they're like, oh my God, have you not checked ismyhercelebritycr my celebrity crush cancelled dot com this week they've been cancelled yeah

I was going to say who would you say Harvey Weinstein yeah I just you know he's a lot older than me but Bill Cosby

he makes me laugh and then and then yeah this is like where have you been living yeah so this is why you shouldn't sleep naked so we've heard that you know like it's like, where have you been living? Yeah. So this is why you shouldn't sleep naked.

So we've heard that, you know, like it's good because you self-regulate and it like ears out your bits and stuff. I love it. I can't go back now. Why? You just... Just get used to it. Sometimes in summer I'll sleep naked because, I don't know,

sometimes you get a bit caught up in your gym jams and then it's hot. Sometimes I'll wear boxes if, say, friends are staying in the spare room because I'll always go for like a 2, 3 a.m. wheeze. Yeah. And I don't want to be caught naked while they're doing a 2 or 3 a.m. wheeze. And then when I do that, I'm always just like so hot and sweaty and I'm like, yeah. Why don't you just leave the boxes on the floor?

It's too hard to get into boxes at 2 a.m. Okay. And you don't turn the light on because it wakes you up. I don't turn the lights on and I do that thing where I don't open my eyes much so then I can go back to sleep straight away. So apparently this is from Dr. Anthony Yun who is on TikTok

and he has said that you should wear underwear to bed because the average person passes gas 15 to 25 times a day and a lot of this could happen while you're sleeping. So apparently when you pass gas... Or sharts?

Is he worried about sharts? No, not so much sharts. He said a scientific study proved every time you pass gas, you're spraying a tiny amount of fecal matter. This is true. Right, okay. time you pass gas, you're spraying a tiny amount of fecal matter. This is true. So he said luckily if you're wearing undies, it'll catch these poo particles.

But for the sake of your partner... But if you're wearing undies, oh, for your partner. Because if he was saying undies, it's just encasing them with your own genitals. Yeah. Yeah. But like you're spraying poo particles into the air. I mean, you don't want to breathe those in either. Well, that's grim.

But if you've got sheets on, right? Yeah. The sheets are catching it. And you wash the sheets every week. This is just a story to advocate for top sheets. Exactly. You see, this is why I'm all about the top. This is really for Gen Zers and why you should use a top sheet.

Yeah. Are they still not using a top sheet? Well, they don't wash the duvet or the top cover every week, do they? Yeah. They're manky. Yeah. I saw like a TikTok recently and people were like, what is a top sheet? I was like, come on, people.

Yeah, that's grim. All right, 18 past six next on the show. Shakira's not cancelled, by the way. I've done some research. She's still good? She's still all good. She sold this year, she sold her music catalogue.

Yeah, she sold her catalogue for an undisclosed amount. Oh, it'll be so much money. To the Hybogenosis Songs Fund. Wow. They buy them all. So she's alright. She has had a big cash injection this year. She's fluid baby, she's fluid. Play ZM's Flesh, Fawn and Megan.

Well, a New York University research has found that Facebook misinformation posts that are factually incorrect get six times more attention than factual posts. So, yep, we're still all screwed. Why? Isn't that insane? Just because it's more sensational? Yeah, maybe And I guess the right or people that fall for that share it more I don't know

But it was like you said a few weeks ago You go on Facebook and you see a link and you click it to a news story And all the, I'm going to say good ones because it's scientifically backed and stuff, are behind paywalls. Oh, yeah. The ones that are misinformation, free to access. Yeah. So you hit a paywall, you turn around, you go back. That's a big problem.

It's like, oh, they clicked a link on Facebook about a story regarding ivermectin. Yeah. And then it's like, well, have we got an ivermectin story for you? And it's paid content. Yeah, the algorithm serves you up an ivermectin story that you can access for free that's more likely to be the ramblings of a madman. And not true. I thought Facebook were doing something about this.

No, Megan. Silly me. The Zook yesterday was doing that thing, that waveboard pumping thing that he likes. He's a weird man, eh? He's a weird man. I liked him. Get off your wave pumpy board.

Get off your pump board. And sort this out. So the study looked at thousands of right and left leaning news publishers and it found that those peddling fake news got far more traction than those that were factual. So conservative outlets are more likely to share misleading news, however. The researcher says 40% of far-right sources are misinformation. Right.

But she would say that. She's on the left. On the right. Yeah. I don't know. But yeah, apparently, yeah,

they looked at this and it's bad. It's bad news. Yeah. 31% of people get their COVID-19 news from Facebook as well. See, I don't care if it's the right or the left, as long as it's factual, like.

Yeah. It doesn't. Yeah. I don't think it's a, it's a partisan issue. I don't think it's a political issue. No. If it's true, it's a, it's a true and it's a partisan issue. I don't think it's a political issue. No. If it's true, it's a true and it's a false issue.

Yeah. Also, somebody sent me this and I thought before, I've just been doing a quick Google. Yeah. Before I thought I would spread my own brand of fake news. Someone said to me, you've been joking a lot about people taking ivermectin. Are you aware that there's been all these studies into ivermectin affecting male fertility?

Oh, right. Okay. And I was like, no. And they said, yeah. And I've Googled it. And there's like, yeah, the effect of fertility from ivermectin. Because when it was used in humans, this was in Ethiopia. Yeah. In humans, this was in Ethiopia for when aid workers would get to villages

where humans would have worms and excessive malnourishment. It can be prescribed on a small level, right? Tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny. And we'll do nothing for COVID whatsoever because it's antibacterial. Tape worms and COVID could not be more different. Yeah. Apart from they're inside you. And yeah, it affected the fertility of men.

So you're saying that these people that are taking ivermectin could be stopping themselves. Taking themselves out of the breeding pool. Are we clapping that? Yes. That's exactly what I was thinking. Yes. We're preventing them from breeding.

Yes. I don't think that's so bad. Take it. Take it all. My dad's got a backpack full of the stuff. I was talking to him last night about it. Can he do a public drenching? He can do a public drenching.

We can do a sheep dip. Oh, Jesus. We'll fill it up. You ever seen a sheep dip? I'm not going to joke, but people want this. It's madness. In all seriousness, have you ever seen a sheep dip? Oh, you joke, but people want this. It's madness. In all seriousness, have you ever seen a sheep dip? No.

Is it like a bath? Is it like a baptism for a sheep? Kind of. It was like a wild thing they used to do before like poron and drenching sheep in large numbers. You'd get it. You basically had this really deep concrete pool and you'd fill it up with all this like toxic shit and then you'd run your sheep through it and they'd get to the

thing and they'd be like, oh, I'm a sheep, I've got to jump here and it would be like, oh, I'm never going to make it and splash in and then panic and get out the other side and run it and drag all these chemicals into the paddock. The old sheep was a hell of a thing to witness in the 80s. From the ZM think tank, this

is the top six. Spotlight in Australia have said unvaccinated staff won't get their Christmas bonus. Nice to know that Spotlight staff get a Christmas bonus. Yeah, that's in Australia. Do you think the New Zealand staff get that too? It's all run out of Australia. Oh, that's good, isn't it? Maybe.

I remember once my friend, his partner got a Christmas bonus. She worked in finance and it was more than I earned in the whole year. And I was like, cool. In the wrong business. Yeah. Need to sell people mortgages. Yeah.

Get them all tied up in debt and freaking out and then... Crazy. Sit down on your Christmas bonus. Yeah. So they've said, yeah, you won't be getting a Christmas bonus if you're not vaccinated. Okay. And this is going to become a thing.

And Christmas... It also announced Christmas bonuses will be paid out two months earlier for this 8,000 staff who got at least one COVID jab. Okay. So they'll give you their Christmas bonus pre-Christmas. I was just reading in Australia that the modelling they've done in this outbreak, they reckon because they jab people so quickly, it saved 5,000 deaths. Whoa. That's nuts, right?

Wow. How many deaths have they had in their latest cluster? Oh, good question. Unsure. I don't know that info top of my God. How many deaths have they had in their latest cluster? Oh, good question. Unsure. Unsure. I don't know that info top of my head. Yeah. My wife's fully vaccinated now.

I saw that yesterday. She got the second jab yesterday. Yeah. My absolutely needle-phobic father-in-law's got his first. So he's on the way, and he said it didn't even hurt. He celebrated with his Christmas jacket yesterday, didn't he? He wore his Christmas vest to celebrate, yeah. Because it covered his main organs, but not his arm where he had his injection.

What a treat. So I want the top six other ways to punish Spotlight employees who won't get the vaccine. Okay. Number six on the list of those ways to punish those Spotlight employees who won't get the vaccine. They've got to sort the buttons out. I want colour. I want size. And I want the way that it attaches to shirt.

Because some buttons have four holes. Some have two and some have that little loop on the back. What of a blazer button, isn't it? I've never been to the button section at Spotlight. How do you pay and buy? Do you select a button and take it to the button section at Spotlight but how do you buy how do you pay and buy do you like select a button and take it to the counter I've seen them in like rolls you know you see a roll of coins

I believe you can buy individuals can't you oh what a nightmare for Sue who doesn't want the vaccine she's got to sort out that code and then yeah everyone takes it and then you've got a few spears whoever didn't get vaccinated is going to have to sort out that code. Yeah. And then, yeah, everyone takes it, and then you've got a few spears. Yeah. Whoever didn't get vaccinated is going to have to sort them.

Good. Number five on the list of the top six ways to punish Spotlight employees who won't get the vaccine. They have to pick up all the beanbag balls when one beanbag perforates. We've all been there. Good luck chasing those light little bastards around. Finding them for years. And then static electricity sticks them to everything.

Yeah, and they get up under things, and then the static electricity dissipates, and it falls back down. You think you've got them all. They're a nightmare to vacuum, too, because even getting them out of the vacuum is an absolute experience. Number four on the list of the top six other ways to punish Spotlight employees who won't get the vaccine.

Dealing exclusively with the hard-of-he hearing old gals who have a thousand questions about knitting yarn. Yeah. Because you know they've got questions. Yeah. When you get more questions from the new hipsters that have just taken it up. Just different questions. No, because they probably do a lot of research pre-visit.

Yeah, okay. On yarn websites and Facebook pages number three on the list of the top six ways to punish spotlight employees

who won't get their vaccine they're no longer allowed to use the helium tank to fill the big silver balloons with numbers on them

yeah that would be fun that would be the funnest job yeah because you'd have one for the two one for me yep one for the one

one for me hey Susan your the one, one for me. I'm seven. Your numbers are ready. Happy 21st. I hope it's a good occasion. Someone's standing, looking sullen to the side. They're like, I used to love doing that, but I wouldn't get vaccinated. Meh.

Number two on the list of the top six other ways to punish Spotlight employees who won't get the vaccine. Make them wear big googly eyes over their actual eyes. You can get them in the arts and crafts section of Spotlight. Pop those over your eyes. That's so funny. I had a little chuckle yesterday. I was walking past a drain, you know, just a drain grate on the road. Where the clown hides.

And someone had put little googly eyes above the curb. So it looked like... It's mouth. It's mouth. Yeah. I was like, good for you. You'd be amazed. Googly eyes can make anything look human.

I know. It's so good. Yeah, maybe that should be your... Get some googly eyes. Yeah. Put them in your backpack. And when you walk home from work... It's graffiti though, isn't it?

It's victimless graffiti. Absolutely victimless. Yeah. And number one on the list of the top six ways to punish Spotlight employees who won't get the vaccine, they have to be coated in glitter

once and once only because you know they'll be finding that glitter for years. It's like sand after the beach. Yeah. You're like, three years later, they'll take a poo and they'll. It's like sand after the beach. Yeah. You're like three years later, they'll take a poo and they'll look down and there'll still be glitter in it. Because that's how glitter works.

It's impossible to remove. That is today's top six. CDM's Fletch, Ron and Megan. Where did that come from? I don't know. Did it come out of my mouth? What did you do? Spit on yourself?

I just dribbled. Some fluid came out of me. Oh, God. Are you dribbling? Some fluid came out of me and I don't know where it came from. Maybe it's the asbestos poisoning you've received. Yeah. So we, last week, there was a weather event,

and Kumu, where I live, got pretty, like, smashed. Saw it on the news. Like, we had all 150% of the rain for the month of July or something in one night. Like, it was insane. I've never seen rain like it. It led to a lot of flood damage. And the last night on the news, what did it say? Like, there's four homes that are just done.

Oh, really? Yeah, they've just had it. There's other ones. Yeah, horrible. People have lost, like, all of their belongings and everything. It was just that level of craziness. Yeah. But then on the community page, everybody's been really good.

Like, hey, if you've lost anything, here's some stuff I've got that I don't need. So if anybody needs it, it's bikes and stuff. Really beautiful rallying on the community page. Yeah, it was awesome. Yeah. And then there was a post where someone was like, is this asbestos? And it was like a chunk of asbestos cladding or something. Okay. And someone was like. The stuff onbestos cladding or something. Okay.

And someone's like- The stuff on the side of the house. Yeah. Well, it shouldn't be on the side of the house. Oh, cladding, yes. Right. But asbestos shouldn't be on your house. No.

If you don't know about asbestos, it was like this fireproof, cheap, semi-naturally occurring substance. I've watched a lot of documentaries on asbestos this year. Why? Went into a rabbit hole. Okay. Carcinogenic, people that worked in the factories that make it. Yeah.

There's actually a cancer that's named, I can't remember the name of it off the top of my head, specifically for people who have got lung cancer from. Yeah, well, that's why if they find it in a building, people have got to be all masked up and look like spacemen. Full-blown, like, P-Lab sort of stuff. Yeah. So someone was like, yep.

And then they said, oh, there's chunks of it all up. So somebody obviously afterwards had this damaged flooding or whatever and all this soggy asbestos. And just rather than dumping it, which can be expensive. Yeah. Just decided to drive around the neighbourhood distributing it on the side of the road. That's crazy. Nuts, eh? Like this car's anogenic. And then I

didn't know what road it was on and then purely I was driving to not the usual supermarket, a different supermarket. Because I've gone to this other supermarket. There's never a queue. Oh yeah, nice. Okay. I'll tell you about it. I'm not letting anybody know about it for a second. And then I saw the spacemen picking up the asbestos. They were like waving nice okay um i'll tell you about it okay i'm not letting everybody know about the secret and then um i saw the spacemen picking up the asbestos they were like waving like slow window up okay

yeah right i was in the land rover i was like there's no window up window down situation pretty much shut this car's old it's just what it is those windows don't do much yeah um so my windows were shut Yeah And It went past And they were like Slow down And then I was like Well I was slowing down

Anyway because I wanted A nosy And that was where The spaceman The spaceman was Had to go around And pick up All this asbestos

That someone dumped From their flood riddled Whatever Or they were just Opportunistic After the flood Yeah And were like

Oh I can make this Look like it was somebody who got flood damaged because I don't want to have to pay for the suspense to be taken away. That's wild. Yeah, but the spacemen were like. Picking up the. I don't know why they were jumping like they were in low gravity, but I had to admire they were selling it.

They were really selling the whole being in space thing. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. So I saw Spaceman and on the back of this little truck they had like a they would put it in

and then shut the flap so no asbestos right fairies could get out It was in a clothing recycle bin with the flap a little bit like that

a little bit like that flap okay yeah so don't dump your asbestos. I wasn't going to. I don't have any, but okay. Play ZM's Flesh, Vaughn and Megan.

We are now going to delve into the rose-tinted area of nostalgia. And we're going to remember dangerous playgrounds. Looking back on it, you can be like, that was a little bit sketchy. In your childhood. Yeah. Because now, you know, you go to the Margaret Mahi Playground in Christchurch. That's a top-notch playground. Top-notch.

And you go to playgrounds, you see the water features you were saying there and heaps of. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The ones where you can, like, make dams and you've got to turn the screw and get the water up and then it rolls down the hill. Those are awesome. Very creative. And all rubber mats now, playgrounds, aren't they?

Most of them, rubber mats. I mean, that's probably for the best because there's a lot of broken limbs back in the day. And then, like, yeah, it's just ground and then they were like, I know what would be nicer to fall on, bark. And then you fell three stories onto your back on bark and you were embedded with bark. Yeah.

Or you ran out with your feet and you had a sharp bit and it went straight through your foot. Yeah. Bark. I remember at primary school we had a log with the big, like, fence posts. Yeah. Like, maybe two metres long, three metres long.

Yeah. And then at each end were chains and they just swung. Yeah, yeah. You were literally on a battering ram if you fell off. And a kid would run out and be like, I want to hop on, I want to... And just like in medieval times, he'd be smashed in the face. It's amazing all we got was broken limbs.

Well, it's amazing this slide in Wellington has even stayed around as long as it has. The legendary Frank Kitts Park slide. So you climb up to the lighthouse. It's made to look like a lighthouse. There never was a lighthouse, eh? I don't believe so. But there was a sign. There has been a

sign for a while that told you it was dangerous. Yeah, it's like you climb up three stories effectively looking at it. It looks like you're on about the third story of a building and then you come down probably four storeys because the slide comes down. Now, the top part of the slide is covered. That's the kids tumbling off the side

and falling just straight down multiple storeys. But then it opens up and gets a bit steeper and then there's a light curve. It's one of your classic 80s slides. Yeah. Is this just for kids? I've been down it Because I haven't been down it

And I feel like I needed to before it No not you I feel like did we go down it? Your break I've been down it I feel like we've been down it Drunk one night Yeah

Yeah that sounds like something Ex-air The last of my last fun at the Pretty in the ex-air days Probably yeah Just been watching some skateboarders do some kickflips I'm feeling pretty extreme myself. I might go down the Frank Kitts Park slide.

Yeah. Well, it's gone now. It's been closed. Yeah. Well, in March, it had a sign put on it saying, this is a very fast slide and not suitable for children under six. And now they've said people are still getting hurt, so we're going to take it down.

At least eight kids have broken their legs. I know. But how many kids have broken their legs. I know. But how many kids have been down it? Let's talk about percentages. Yeah, that's a small tiny percentage. Tiny percent. Yeah. More kids have probably vombed after being on that thing that you sit on and spit in the middle and it just gets

really out of control. I love those. I hate them. I've always hated them. Or as you say, like some sort of swinging apparatus where a kid walks in front of it and doesn't have teeth anymore. Do you remember the Grimace, the shaky Grimace at McDonald's? Yeah, I loved it. Imagine how, that was amazing, but imagine how many kids either A, got their heads stuck in between the bars,

or B, got knocked out because Grimace was having an epileptic shake and just smashed you. He was in tremors. Yeah, if you had some big kids in Grimace, you could really get them going side to side because he was in tremors. Yeah, yeah. If you had some big kids and grimace, you could really get him going side to side because he was sort of centralised at the bottom

as though he was on a giant spring. Even merry-go-round, was that what you called them, the merry-go-round? No, what would you call the spin, it was like a,

just a spinny thing. No, it was a spinny. I think you just sat on and spun around. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know what those are called but they're absolutely horrible.

Yeah, because if you got some speed up, you'd just go flying into the wall. Just flung off. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know what those are called, but they're absolutely horrible. Yeah, because if you got some speed up, you'd just go flying into the wall. Just fly off. Yeah. Centrifugal force. Yeah. Madness.

Yeah. So we want to know what made your childhood park dangerous. Yeah. And I mean, bonus points if you can tell us if it's still there or not. My school, once they were like, we're building a new playground. Everyone's like, yay.

And then all these farmers, these men that were trying to out-masculate each other came and they started designing and they're like, it's going to be three stories tall, predominantly made of dangerous wood. And there's going to be a fireman's pole in it. Well, we put guards around the pole so kids don't fall down. We will not.

There was a couple of broken arms there where kids were crawling around and just flying foxes got a few fingers in the day didn't they? Yeah, they were a beauty. Or the flying fox went so fast but didn't have a cushioned stop at the end so it was like wham! Bam! We're talking about dangerous parks from your childhood.

The Frank Kitt slide will be removed. In Wellington, famous slide, looks like the lighthouse by the TSB arena. Someone messaged in saying they went to Wellington for the first time recently and their daughter loved that slide. It was very hard to get her off it. Up and down, up and down, up and down. I'm glad you got in because it's gone.

She'll be slide-less. I don't know if they're replacing it with another slide. Maybe a wider, slower slide. A small, lame plastic one. Oh, boo. Some text messages. Growing up at our two-teacher rural primary school in the late 70s, we had an old trampoline.

No nets or nothing. It was placed on the concrete because the teacher didn't want to have to move it every time he mowed the lawns. Oh, my God. Many a broken bone from a double bounce. Amazing. Kere, good morning. Good morning.

Now, what was your dangerous park growing up? Your playground? That's Memorial Park in Tama. Oh, okay. I had a couple of text messages about this. Is it the middle slide that you contact us regarding? It is the middle slide. Oh, yeah, I've had a burnt bum on a middle slide.

Was it stainless steel? I believe so, and it's also right next to a fountain. So kids would go jump in, get all wet and slippery, and then jump on a slide, and that's been cooking all day. So you got a parboiled child by the end of the hot slide.

What stopped you at the end? We've got a whole bunch of parboiled children. What stopped you at the end? Was it dirt, concrete, or bark? I think it was bark. There might be mats there now. Oh, no, I'm looking. It's still bark.

Oh, really? It's still bark. And it's still stainless steel? Yep, the slide's still there. Man, those are ruthless, eh? They get so hot. Skin burns. Was it enclosed in your day, the slide,

or is that a recent addition? It must be a recent addition because I don't remember that. Right, yeah, this one looks enclosed. Lost a few kids over the sign. Whacked a roof on it. Back in the day. To keep the direct sun off it, maybe, but in place, turning it into a pot. Thanks, you guys.

Sheridan, what was your dangerous memory? We had the Macca's Playground in Levin, and you remember the old spinny hamburger that used to go round and round that you were talking about earlier? That's what I was thinking about. Was it the hamburger? It was the spinny hamburger, yeah.

Yeah, ours was sort of placed in a wonderful spot where if you let go at the wrong time, you went straight into a steel fence, straight into the slide, or straight into Grimace's butt. Yes. Man, Playgirls were wild back in the day. Mayor McCheese, I found a photo.

Is this the guy that you're thinking of? Mayor McCheese? Yes, Mayor McCheese. So it was a lower. You sat and you hold on and some kid would put a leg on and a leg off and like kick it along, right? Yeah. Mayor McCheese.

Oh, that was great. Yeah, then that's Mayor McCheese. He was loose. I forgot aboutheese. He was loose. That one, forgotten about him completely. He was loose. Thanks, Nicole. Melissa, what was your playground memory? Yeah, it was involving a fireman's pole

and a playground with bark that didn't have bark at the bottom, so I sliced my heel on some jagged concrete at the bottom. Man, playgrounds are loose back in the day, eh? That's why. Somebody's messaging in saying, you know, taught you the value of pain, though.

You only did it once. And you were careful. Whereas what, now kids just willy-nilly in a playground. No comprehension of a misstep could lead to, you know, weeks worth of... Having a heel. Being laid up and having a huge cut. Melissa, thanks.

You called some messages in. Our school playground has a tyre wall that was about five metres high. We used to hold onto the chains and flip ourselves down. There was only bark at the bottom. Not sure how nobody died. There was also a high wire rope type thing that was at least two and a half metres high. And we took off

the things on the side to help you balance and then would run across it. No safety net or anything. Wow. More reports of the giant rocket slide at Memorial Park in Tauranga. I got a few kids in the day, didn't I? There's a photo in the family album of the insane amount of blistering I had on my arses.

I was the first child to go down late afternoon after it had been kind of like too hot to touch all day. What do you think about a stainless steel baked at 30 degrees? Or in the direct sun.

It's got to get hotter and hotter. And then friction as you slide down. Yeah. At Morrinsville Primary there was something called the High Adventure. I remember this.

You'd go past the school you'd be like that looks like fun to play on but also very, very dangerous. It was a tower that you'd climb up stand on the edge of the rope and jump off doing a big Tarzan swing. Would have been a story off the ground.

Multiple bones from kids were broken, but taught you the lesson. Everyone's like, kids these days are so soft. I'm like, if I saw my precious children climbing, I'd be like, be careful, please. Whereas our parents were like, yeah, get up there. What do you need? You don't need shoes on. Get up there.

Walk it off. Walk it off, yeah. Yeah, walk it off is a classic. I can't walk. I've broken my leg. Oh, well, drag it off then. ZM's Fleshborn and Megan. Play ZM.

Mac knee. Mask knee. Mask knee or mac knee? Like acne from your mask. Yeah. Yeah. Mac knee. Mask knee. Mask knee or mac knee? Like acne from your mask. Yeah. Yeah, mask knee. I feel like mac knee would be better. Mask acne.

I had a back knee this morning. I could feel it when I got out of bed, but I couldn't reach it properly. Oh, I hate when you can't reach it. So I got a rogue half squeeze. Sorry, everybody. That's a bit gross now. I said it out loud. I realized how yuck that sounded.

Couldn't you use your exfoliating towel on it? Oh, the exfoliating towel got binned. They get to a certain mankiness, don't they? Yeah, they do. They never dry out like 100%. So there's the way they get a sliminess to them. You've got to wash them every now and again. Yeah, you do.

Well, maskne or macne or whatever you want to call it, it's acne that comes from wearing a mask a lot. And level 2, delta level 2, we need to be wearing our masks. We're wearing them in level 4 and it can give you a little bit of acne. So apparently it's purely because

your skin can't breathe as much. Masks can provide a perfect breathing ground for bacteria. It's nice and warm. It's a little bit moist. Okay. Gross.

Have you guys had any maskne? I've had like acne from like bad food, but it hasn't been in the mask area. I got a whole lot of acne here, but it was just because I shaved my face with a razor for the first time in forever. And it was like, why? Why have you done this for?

Yeah. No, but my skin hasn't been right. I haven't had like pimples per se, but I've had like, my skin hasn't been feeling great, shall we say. Okay. But yeah, that's the reason we're getting them. And it's, you know, trapping moisture and sweat and stuff. So apparently you need to cleanse and exfoliate a little bit more.

Do you ever do that? I'm looking at Fletch because he has pretty good skin. Yeah, I do exfoliate every few days. Got a face scrub. Moisturize? No, not really. Is it activated charcoal? It's just stuff and it's got bits in it that are hard.

Is it Senni's foot scrub? No. Stand by the apricot stone. Senni's foot scrub was the best face wash I've ever had. No, because it's not even made in Switzerland. It's a rip off. It was tearing the years off. Oh my God.

Tearing the years off. Dermatologists are like cringing right now. So you don't moisturise? I don't do a lot. I just shower. I don't hardly moisturise. But I feel like you'll get to a point maybe when you get to 50 and suddenly it'll just be like boom.

Oh, I can't wait for it. Like you buy a solarium for your spare room. You go on holiday, you come back with hair plugs. You start wearing shell necklaces again. This is not going to happen. Like full-blown midlife crisis. Oh, yeah, no. At the moment you start wearing shell necklaces again. This is not going to happen. Full blown midlife crisis. At the moment, we're fine. Start a band.

I don't know what you do. But you're in the band. You're going to get a little Mazda like I had. Yes. A little Bichon. No. This is not what you're describing is nothing I would do in a midlife crisis. It sounds more like what I'm doing right now. You're just describing Megan I'm doing right now. Yeah.

You're just describing Megan's life. Yeah, pretty much. So you need to wash your pillowcases more? I didn't think about that. Well, how often is more? Like, I do my sheets once a week. Is that enough? Twice a week.

What? For pillowcases? Yeah, apparently. Okay. But then I have to take the pillowcase off and be confronted with the grossness of my pillow. Just like, why let that come off. Yeah. And then they're suggesting that if you do wear makeup, maybe you just don't need to.

Or wear something lighter. Okay. Well, I guess if you're, I mean, you're zooming on, you might be zooming for work, but most of the time people might not have to see you during the day if you're still working from home. Yeah. I still wear lipstick under my mask. It's for me, you know.

Does it come off on the mask? Sometimes. But then you wash your mask. You wash your mask. Wash your mask is another one. Megan gets to work and she's got red all over her face. That looks like a bit of pash. Yeah, pash-ish.

Play ZM's Flesh, Vaughn and Megan. I actually saw this originally on the Shit You Should Care About Instagram account that linked to a New York Times article by a man called Adam. Adam Grant wrote an article about languishing. And that is the name for the bleh that a lot of people are currently feeling, myself included. I've had this. I'm not, and this isn't a pity party and you don't need to be worried

and anything like that. But I have just like for the last few weeks had this blah hanging around. It's not like I'm unhappy. I'm not like sad. It's not like I've got no energy. You're not depressed. I'm not depressed. It's just like, it feels like you're in a rut. Yeah.

I guess that was with, and it's not like woe is us because like New Zealand as a country has done so well during this pandemic. Yeah. Like amazingly, but maybe we took it for granted. You were trying to liken it before you said, is it like being a beached whale?

I said, no, it's like watching a whale be beached, but you're another whale just being like, what do I do now? Yeah. Do I swim do now? Yeah. Do I swim away or? Yeah. Do I help them?

But then I'll be. This article has really kind of hit the nail on the head, hasn't it? It's so, yeah. It wasn't burnout. There's energy. It wasn't depression because you didn't feel hopeless, but you just felt somewhat joyless and aimless. Yeah.

And languishing is the name for it. A sense of stagnation and emptiness. It feels as if you're muddling your way through the days, looking at your life through a foggy windshield, and it may be the dominant emotion people are experiencing in 2021. Is it because we don't have the things like travel to look forward to? The usual kind of things. We're in lockdown.

A lot of us in level four still. Yeah. Level two's a pain with masks, but we know we're going to do it. And that's the other thing. We should count ourselves so fortunate because there was like a year there where the rest of the world was locked down in a bad way. And we were just like, well, we can't go overseas, but we can do whatever we want here.

We'll have concerts. We can go skiing. We can go hiking. We can catch up with 50 friends at once if we want to. And then the lockdown happened again, and maybe it was like a sudden pull back. Yeah. But yeah, they talk about a mental health spectrum in this article, from depression to flourishing.

And flourishing is like the peak of it. Yeah. And then we're like this languishing is like this middle child of mental health situations where you're not depressed and you can recognise that you're not depressed. Yeah. But you also don't feel

like you're flourishing or know when again you will flourish. Yeah. Because then you don't feel like super chipper every day and so someone's like, are you okay?

And you're like, yeah, I'm okay. I just say, and it's the Kiwi thing, you're like, yeah, yeah, yeah. But what is the response? Because you don't want to be like, well, yeah, I'm okay. And it's the Kiwi thing. You're like, yeah, yeah, yeah. But what is the response? Because you don't want to be like, well, no, I'm...

You're languishing. The guy said if someone says to you, how are you feeling? You should say, I think I'm languishing. But then that's the Kiwi thing as well. And that's why mental health's such a problem in this country

is because I could not be feeling great. And if someone said, how are you? I'd say, yeah, good. Yeah. I'm not, but I'm going to say, yeah, good. And so they're like,

yeah, he's fine. I asked them, but even the last few weeks, I've definitely found myself saying, oh, it's all right. I mean,

but like you say, you're not, you say I'm not bad, but I'm not great. We're not Afghanistan, which is like, you know, you see that on the news and that's the other thing.

You can recognize that there's people in significantly worse situations than you. Yeah. There's something muddy about the whole situation. It's an incredible article. It's definitely worth a read. I was reading it and I was like, yes, yes, yes. Because my wife said to me yesterday, she's like, are you all right? I'm like, I'm all right, but I'm not like flourishing.

I'm not great. Yeah. I don't feel like, I'm not unhappy. Yeah. I said, I love like the kids and stuff are doing like all the homeschooling and stuff. They're nailing it. But there's something weird in the air. Yeah.

That's kind of hanging over. It's just nice to recognize that like lots of people are languishing. Yeah. And there's a word for it. Yeah. And it kind of hits the nail. Yeah. We're going to put the link to this article.

And there's also like a TED Talk associated with it as well. Oh, yeah. Okay. We'll put a link on our Instagram page and there's also like a TED Talk associated with it as well. Oh, yeah, okay. We'll put a link on our Instagram page. We'll do one of those swipe up things. ZDM's Fletchburn and Megan. Joined on the phone by their Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern. Good morning. Good morning.

Good morning. Level four in Auckland, level two around the country now. Whereabouts are you? Are you in Wellington? Are you living level two, or are you? Are you in Wellington? Are you living level two or are you in Auckland living level four? I have been in Wellington

since the beginning. So everyone around me I can see is moving into a level two situation. But Parliament's a little bit different at the moment because we draw people

from across the country. We've been operating a little bit differently. Now, has anybody taught Judith Collins how to work Zoom yet? Because I walked my mum through it and I think they're the same age and have the same

hairstyle. She did well not to laugh there. My mum's probably as acid-tongued as well, but only to me. But I could give her a tutorial. Lovely. Yeah, to you she was. At home it was a different story. She raised us with an iron fist.

I'm seeing a lot of parallels, actually. Anyway, moving on. So do you need your lawns mowed or anything? Probably, actually. Is that an offer? Yeah, 100%. Although not today because it's pouring. It's raining. I'm not a monster.

I'll wait until it's dry. You don't want mud marks. Would the Secret Service tank down a man with a lawnmower that just turned up at your house? I think possibly yes. I'd bring a weed eater as well because I know the importance of getting to the edges there and a leaf blower for afterwards. Bringing a weed eater would make you look much less suspicious.

I'll try it with multiple gardening implements. You might need to warn them. I'll give them a heads up if we do that. Now, I have a question. We announced yesterday you talked about securing extra vaccines. Has that come along, moved along? Because I know you can't say

too much of the detail. Yeah. Just because there's a few things that we need to finalise, but this week we'll be able to share, yeah, actually most of, if not all of the detail, that's what I'm anticipating. So the issue that we have is in October is when we get everything, because we have an order with Pfizer that enables us to vaccinate every single person in New Zealand.

In fact, more than that, we've got a bit extra as well. So all of that was coming in October. But of course, through September, when the outbreak hit, we decided to just chuck everything at it, just surge, allow people to come out and be vaccinated in large numbers, which left us a gap in supply. We just didn't have enough doses in the country to maintain that. So that's why we've gone out to see if we can make arrangements to find more.

Right. So it's like a trading MBA cards at school sort of situation. Well, so I'll be able to give a little more detail on that because actually some people have asked about trading. Well, actually, with vaccines, because you've got to make sure that they are also regulated for use in New Zealand. We don't just say, okay, Pfizer, the company, their vaccines can be used in New Zealand. We also approve right down to where they are manufactured, so right down to batches. So it's actually quite a complicated process.

Wow. So definitely not like buying something on ASOS at all. Thank you for breaking that down for me. I had a thought yesterday during the press conference when you were talking about Northlanders travelling through Auckland for essential events only, say for a wedding. On the other side.

Yes. So you can be in Northland, you can drive right through Auckland, not stop, and then go through the checkpoint and then you're in the North Island, the rest of the Level 2 area. If you think about it, Northland is the only area in that situation where if you're driving from Hamilton to Grosadour, you're fine. But it's a bit unfair for a Level 2 environment

to not be able to connect with anywhere else. Are police giving anyone that goes through that Northland to Auckland checkpoint anything that they then have to give to the checkpoint before Hamilton? Because what's stopping someone? Like a token. Like a token or a bar, you know, like a smiley face stamp that the bar gives you sometimes or the bar stamp?

I don't believe so. But, you know, it's everyone in Northland's interest when they're travelling through to make sure that they're not putting anyone back in Northland at risk. So what we're asking them to do is just to travel straight through. No, but what's stopping someone in Auckland? What's stopping me printing out a wedding invite for a wedding that doesn't exist just so that I can drive through and say I've come from Northland? You know what I mean?

Do you get something from the police at that checkpoint? No, we're doing checks, but these checks on either, these border checks on either side as well. But what you're saying is, what is there to stop someone coming from Northland and going into Auckland? Well, of course they also get you coming back out, of course. So we've got the boundary on both sides. If you ended up coming in and

just staying in Auckland, we would be checking you as you're exiting as well. So look, if people want to lie and try and act fraudulently, there are ways that people can do that, but also we're asking people to make sure that they're keeping people safe and so there are good reasons not

to go into Auckland right now. I just don't trust people. Neither do I. So it is constrained that you can't come through just for anything. You have to have evidence. So when you are getting checked from that Northland boundary as you are passing through Auckland, you have to have evidence that you are

going to somewhere on the other side and for what purpose it is. What about if you were in Auckland, say I'm in Auckland, I'm going to use myself as an example but don't think I'm ever planning this, but I want to go and see my parents in Hamilton so I'm like, oh yeah, I've got a funeral to go to. I'm in Auckland. I'm going to use myself as an example, but don't think I'm ever planning this, but I want to go and see my parents in Hamilton. So I'm like, oh yeah, I've got a funeral to go to. I'm from Whangarei, which I'm not, but am I going to be asked to prove that I'm from Whangarei?

You need to carry evidence. So if people are going from Northland to the Waikato, they should be carrying a power bill or something that proves their address. Yeah, because They need to be demonstrating evidence that they're coming from and going through and for what purpose they're going through. Okay.

There is an order, there's a legal framework that sits around this as well. So that's why it's not just for anything, it has to be for a specific purpose and we've written up what those purposes are. We could time them. This has always been one of the hardest areas is that Northland corridor. That has always been one of the toughest bits and we've been working with the mayors on

how we make it work. Just some of those details about exactly what happens at the checkpoints, that's worked through with police. Right. Pre-Prime Minister days, did you ever get drunk and go on the Frank Kitts slide before it was shut down? No. You've never been on the Frank Kitts slide before it was shut down? No. You've never been on the Frank Kitts slide?

Not under those circumstances. Have you been down it sober? Yeah, I think I have. I believe so, yes. With me. You've got to get down there and get on that thing before they remove it. Yeah, I think I've gone down it with Niamh, I think.

Oh, okay. I was going to say, yeah, because Niamh needs to get down it as well at some stage just before that gets removed. It's a bit of a legendary slide. Yes, yes, yeah. Sorry, though, not to add a little more flourish to that story. No, that's all right. That's absolutely fine. That's fine.

Without being drunk on the Margaret Mahie playground in Christchurch. Also no. Also no. Yeah, okay. These are things been drunk on the Margaret Mahie playground in Christchurch. Also no. Also no. These are things you can look forward to when you're not Prime Minister anymore. I'll add this to all my post-Prime Ministership list. I'm going to say Rob Muldoon wouldn't have waited. He would have polished up a bottle of scotch and got on that playground this afternoon. Can you imagine what he would have done with that parliamentary slide that's out on the forecourt of Parliament?

He would have had a lot of fun. Yeah. Great part of us for that, man. Anyway, thank you very much for both entertaining us with the light side, but then we actually dealt with some hard-hitting issues this morning about this.

Really got into detail. What really got in there? I am happy to send you the outcome of the meeting between our drafters and those Northland mayors because you sound deeply interested. Fire it through. If it's in PDF form, I'll read it. You can't afford words.

You don't have words, do you? I know. I'm not paying for words. I'm not paying for words. Thanks for joining us. Take care, guys. Play ZM's Flesh, Vaughan and Megan. People are split on this.

Keen to know what you think because a woman who is known as Jane, weird name on TikTok, but Jane is her name, and she has made a confession that's now been viewed 1.7 million times. She explained that her boyfriend has been living with her for a year

and pays rent and all the major bills. Okay. But he is clueless to the fact that she is his landlord. So she owns the building. The whole building? Apparently. And this has been viewed how many times? 1.7 million.

God, she better hope he's not one of that 1.7 million. Yeah. Or it's over. So he's been paying rent to the landlord, but she is the landlord and she never told him. But you said also major bills. So has he been paying all of those bills or just his share of the bills? I'd say his share of the bills.

Okay. But it's not the fact that he's paying rent, right? Yeah. Because, I mean, she still is obviously paying like a mortgage or something. Yeah. It's the fact that she hasn't told him any of those details. But then do you think if you were seeing someone and they were like, oh, this is my place, like, would you then think, oh, well, I'm getting a discount?

If you were seeing someone that had been together for a while because they're living together, they've been living together for a year. So it's not just like a new thing you wouldn't have thought. Cheeky. Do they have a prenup? Do they have a live with them for two years law in America? I don't know. Like a de facto.

Like a de facto. I don't know. I don't know. But a lot of people are saying she's smart and that's brilliant. And then a lot of people were like, well, that's just straight up deception. Well, here's the thing. She's got to tell him at some stage. She said, do you think he's going to be mad

if he finds out? Yeah, because it's not that you've lied, it's that you've kept something from him. Yeah. You know, it was the initial lie

and you might have been lying to him early because you weren't in a, you know, a serious relationship or whatever. And then you were like, well, when's the right time

to say? And then a year goes by and you still haven't told him. Yeah. Do you think though that part of it is that she doesn't like that might affect

how people see her? If they're like, oh well she's got an apartment building. Yeah, that totally explains the initial deception. I'm going to stick around. But you're right, is he entitled to a discount just because his partner

Owns the place When she's gonna She might have a mortgage on it Or have to pay Yeah Certain things on it So he should be paying anyway Yeah

And totally It's not It's not that I mean he could still pay rent And that's still a discussion It's the deception of it Right That he's

She hasn't told him Oh actually I own this whole thing How would you feel If After a year I'd feel deceived Your boyfriend was like Oh I own this whole thing. How would you feel if after a year... I'd feel deceived. Your boyfriend was like, oh, I'm the landlord.

What? Why didn't you tell me? Do you not trust me? I'd be like, cool, I'd be like, cool. Let's get married. Yeah, we should get married immediately. See, I reckon that's why she isn't telling him. Because guys might think, oh, well, this is...

I'll stick around, get in there, get me half an apartment. Yeah, but they've been together for ages now there's got to be some kind of trust it's not something I can at all relate to but some guys have a problem

with their partner being wealthier than them it emasculates them oh my god it emasculates them it blows my mind who cares we've talked about this before

remember that and like women were saying he couldn't deal with it he left me yeah well my husband doesn't have a job so I earn more than him.

And he does not care. He likes the older birds. He loves it. But he's like, money comes from where it comes from. It doesn't matter. We're in a partnership. Exactly. But some guys aren't fond of that.

Yeah, if Shade said, I hate to mention this, but I've been offered a job and it means you wouldn't have to work, I'd be like, oh no. Yeah, he loves it. Starting when? He can. He loves it. I'll quit now. Immediately tell me when because I will hand in

me notice and do nothing at home. I would love to open up the phone lines, take some calls. Is there anybody out there listening that has hidden their money or wealth from their partner? Or maybe it's coming from instructions on high.

You know if someone comes from a wealthy family, but dad's like, it's all wound up in a trust, then he'll never get his hands on a dollar. Or maybe you've found that meeting people, your money, maybe you earn more, that affects things. And so you don't tell people. And I totally get that. But there's got to come a point where don't tell people. And I totally get that.

But there's got to come a point where... You tell them. Yeah. They've been living together for a year. Because imagine what if you're shouting this person drinks and trips away and weekends and then you find out they're really rich and you're like... Excuse me? That's how the rich get richer, baby. That's how the rich get richer.

All right. 0800 dials at M. Give us a call. You can text as well. 9696. Have you ever hidden money or wealth from a partner? Or maybe you've been on the other end

and you've found out that someone you're dating is like super rich and they didn't tell you. For like a while. Or a year in this case. CDM's Fletch, Ron and Megan. So a woman on TikTok has bragged that she's been living with her partner for a year and he doesn't know that she is the landlord.

So he's paying rent to her because she owns the building. He doesn't know that. Wow. Which would be fine initially in a relationship if she was worried about judgment about how wealthy she was, but they've been living together for a year. You'd think it's kind of deceptive, isn't it? Yeah, you'd think now would be the time to say something, right?

Yeah. It's not that I don't agree he should maybe pay rent or whatever, but you've got to be honest about it. But maybe rent could be cheaper. I am your cute boyfriend. Saying, after a year, how do you not know anything about your other's financial situation? But I know people that have been together for like 20 years and they have separate bank accounts.

That's so crazy to me. I know people that have been together for like 20 years and they have separate bank accounts. That's so crazy to me. I know. Or like one person was always in charge of the money and they like might not have even known how much they earned. Yeah. They're just going out the door. Wow. I mean, I couldn't imagine that because you'd want to be all over the bills.

Yeah. Yeah, we've heard from some people that have had money, kept money secrets from their partner, financials, little indiscretions, etc. Niamh, good morning. Did you hide some money from a partner? No, mine kind of hid from me. Oh, okay. I was dating this bogan boy for about six months,

and I paid for everything. Yeah. And then the first time we went out to his family's house, we rocked up, and it was like a $4 million mansion. And was he able to pay for all this stuff all along? Yeah, and he didn't tell me. And I was like, oh, is this why you don't want to move out of home? Well, this was the first time he saw his house.

Yeah, yeah. He'd just been living with you. Suddenly he rips off the bogan attire and he was like, hello, sweetheart. It was to see if you loved me for me. Now will your money man be my princess? He's dressed like he's in Bridgeton. He just used to come in and meet me wherever we were going. And, yeah, no, I'd never been to his place.

And then, yeah. Did he drive a fancy car or anything? No, no, not at all. It was a chunk of junk. And then did you stay going out from the, or were you just like, nah, I can't do this? No, I stayed going out, but it ended for other reasons, but yeah. Okay.

And did he start paying for more things when he saw the mansion? Yeah, he had a bit of less of an excuse. Wow. I was like, just text mum if you can't afford dinner, and he's like, ooh. Oh, I guess he said throw it in the space. Oh, wow. Brilliant. Throw it in the space. I would, though. You've paid for everything for six months. It's his face. Oh, wow. Brilliant. All right. Throw it in his face. I would, though.

You've paid for everything for six months. It's his turn. Thanks, you cool knave. Catherine, do you hide wealth from your partner? Well, I don't necessarily hide money from him, but my husband is pretty terrible with money, and I'm pretty good with money. What are some examples of how bad he is with money?

What's he done? One night he spent $800 on a night out with his friends. $800. We did not have, might I just say. So, he could not be trusted. Yay for credit cards. Okay, and

then, so you have to what, drip feed it to him? Yeah, so if I just gave him money at the start of the week, he would spend it all by Thursday and need more, so I'll drip feed him money every second day, and that's looking pretty well now. He's like a Labrador,

except it's not dog biscuits, it's money. Yeah, totally. Wow, okay, and so he's just got no idea about the finances? He has a general overview. It's not like I, you know, am hiding anything. Everything is pretty equal. But yeah, he just doesn't have any kind of self-control

or future planning. So he gets an allowance. Exactly. He is. He's a man Labrador. Catherine, thanks. You call some messages in. I made lots of money in Perth in the mines.

I had a whole lot of savings. Bought a house. I had a whole lot of savings. Bought a house. I had a partner that thought I was no good with money and left me because she thought I was poor and going nowhere. But I owned the house we lived in. Yeah. But never told her, so she thought I was renting the house, where she lives rent-free, by the way.

Wow. Wait, she lived rent-free but didn't question it? Like, she just... She thought he was just paying the rent for both of them. Yeah, but then also after a year it was like, it doesn't feel like you're going anywhere and you're poor, but you've been paying my rent. So I don't know, that's really confusing.

She doesn't sound like a very nice person. No. Yeah. Lots of people doing it though. I found out my now ex-husband earned $1,000 a month more than he told me. It was when I was cleaning out our house when we divorced due to him having an affair

that I found his pay slips and he'd been using that extra $1,000 a month to fund his affairs. Wow. That's a lot of money. Yeah. I always tell my partner

I didn't get a bonus this quarter but I get my bonus but I just hide the money from them so I can spend it on myself and not put it into the kitty. Yes. That'd be brilliant. But how do you spend that kind of money on yourself and not put it into the kitty yes but how do you

spend that kind of money on yourself and you're like oh i don't know where such and such came from this is you asking this question i mean you're like how would i spend a thousand dollars a month and hide it from my partner how yeah one pair of shoes that go to the back of the cupboard and you're like no I've had them for ages they've always been there yeah sure yeah okay I sent money to my friends in Sri Lanka without my partner's knowledge and got busted I did that because

one of them had lost the job and couldn't work never again because my ears are still bleeding from the air full I got I'd never do it. My partner owned a second house which she was landlord for

and never told me. The rent received from it went into a separate bank account so I had no idea. How long was that marriage? I only found out about it when I read a letter about one year after we got engaged. We're still together now. It did make me feel like I'd been lied to but she admitted that sometimes

she didn't even tell me she was visiting friends when she was actually doing a house inspection oh she didn't tell me she said she was visiting friends but she was actually doing a house inspection on her rentals

but do you think that's because she felt yeah yeah so from him until they got well that's what she said she said I didn't want to

disclose it at the start of the relationship but then when we were going strong but then it got to the point where when I did find out it felt deceitful. Yeah.

But then yeah, that is a hell of a predicament to find that perfect Goldilocks zone of not too soon, not too late. Good luck. Play ZM's Flesh, Fawn and Megan. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Today's fact of the day is about the sun.

Okay. That massive ball of incandescent gas that coming soon will burn you in 12 minutes. So wear sunscreen. Oh, yeah. But not today. Not today. Pretty much all over the country. Not today, sun.

Well, I've seen some passes covered in snow on the South Island. Mount Hutt as well. Right. A bit of dusting there. Well, fingers crossed those in ski fields in Level 2 can get open, practice the restrictions, and people can enjoy that. And those ski fields can make a bit more cash. But the sun, basically what powers the sun is nuclear fusion.

Okay. At the core of the sun, hydrogen is turned into helium. See, that's why the sun speaks like this. The sun can talk. Hey, Earth, hot enough? Not hot? Not hot? Too hot?

Four hydrogen atoms fused to make one helium atom. Okay. Okay. Keep that in mind. Four hydrogens fused to do one helium. Because while we're all putting on weight in lockdown, the sun is losing weight. Oh, that skinny bunny.

The sun burns 564 million tonnes of hydrogen per second. Okay. Crazy. Yeah. Would you not agree? Is that the fact of the day? Yeah, that's crazy. The loss of mass, because then that results in

so that 564 million tonnes turns into 599 million tonnes of helium, and that means that it's losing 4.3 million tonnes per second. The sun. Yeah. Just another thing to worry about. Wait, what? It's going to run out.

But how come there's global warming then? No, that's completely different. That's the gases. Oh, the gases. A trap in the heat. But this is just about how much. So the sun's going to go away. Correct.

When though? Not now though, eh the sun's going to go away. Correct. When though? Not now though, eh? Am I going to be... Should I get my... Should I bother with KiwiSaver? Yes, just put it away. It's not our most immediate threat. Okay.

It is burning 0.000000000000000000000000000000 2% of its entire mass. We're fine. 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, Second, it's burning as much energy as 4 trillion atom bombs like the ones they dropped on Hiroshima. Oh, wow. 4 billion of those. That's why it's hot. Yeah. What I want to know is, what about out the other way? We're only over on one side of the sun at once. Yeah.

Could we put a mirror behind it? Oh, yeah. It would toast us. Maybe that would be too much. Because, you know, the other that's just shooting out into space, not warming anything. I'm basically comparing it to a log fire maybe that would be too much. Yeah. Because, you know, like the other that's just shooting out into space, not warming anything. I'm basically comparing it to a log fire in a family home. Yes.

It's really burning there, but there seems to be a lot of wasted energy. Put some solar power panels out there. Yeah. And then run some long cables back to Earth. Yeah, that's a great idea. Okay. So today's fact of the day is the sun is losing 4.3 million tonnes per second. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day.

CDM's Fletch, Ron and Megan. Last night, half past seven. Yep. Half past seven. Half past seven. Half past. Half past. Half past. Last night Hapa seven Hapa seven Hapa seven Hapa seven Neighbour rings and says Hey there's just been somebody skulking around In our section that came through your paddock

On the farmlet Man I never understand How people have the balls To break into someone's house, wander around someone's backyard. How about seven? Wander around someone's paddock. People will still be awake. He's so ballsy.

Our neighbour's South African, so he gave chase. Oh, yeah. I was like, what are you going to do? He's so used to chasing people. He's like, I was so pissed off because he scarpered this gap through the fence and I got in the ute and then I went left, but it turned out he'd gone left and then ducked back when the car was parked up there and then they were gone.

And I was like, what would you have done if you caught them? He's like, run them off the road. I was like, Joe Boone here, mate. You just get the number plate and then stop. And then call the police. Yeah, be like, help. Because wasn't, didn't someone on a neighbouring farm let have a sheep or a cow slaughtered? Yeah, another neighbour who I messaged afterwards, yeah, he had a sheep slaughtered on his property.

He came out. They snuck on. They snuck on and did the butchering on his property. And then took the, like, the chops. And that was, yeah, so that was like one week. They came back the next week and did a calf not that far from his house they did their butcher on and they leave their head and all the bits that they don't want to eat and then i don't know phil back oh see that's another reason your south african neighbors shouldn't chase like they've got knives yeah but i don't

know what he's got i don't think he's not taking anything with him. So what, the only South Africans chase barehanded, you know what I mean? So the old mate neighbour came over. So that was talking

and I messaged and I said, oh, hey, just letting you know because he had had stock slaughtered on his property and then I saw

a headlamp coming so I was like, well, I'll go and safely distance of course and make sure just tell him what has happened and yeah

he had a gun so don't He had his gun but he's licensed to have Yeah but it was like wild. So 7.30 I was like 7.30 so early and again a great insight from

my South African neighbour he's like but 7.30 is also probably the busiest time in your house. You're doing the dishes. If not, you're eating. You're watching TV. You've got it up loud. Like the kids aren't quite in bed yet. So you're not like being quiet.

Because if you were in bed and quiet. You'd hear people outside. And you'd hear your animals. Yeah. Wow. They are so smart. So there was stuff. They're so savvy.

I know. That's what I mean. Yeah. That is crazy. wow, they're so smart. So there was stuff. They're so savvy. I know, that's what I mean. Yeah, that is crazy. So, yeah, I don't know. Maybe this is just a warning that if it was you, the guy at the back's got a gun and the guy at the South African at the front, we don't know. And that's scarier to me.

That's scarier. Yeah. There's a South African with an unknown weapon. It could be anything. It could be a laser gun. We don't's a South African with an unknown weapon. It could be anything. It could be a laser gun. We don't know. We don't know, yeah.

He might have exchanged it with Mr. Sweaty Man. They don't like surprises in the night. They famously don't like surprises in the dark. Play ZM's Flesh, Fawn and Megan. This is bad news for us as early risers and people who don't get a lot of sleep during the week and you're like, oh, I'm just sleeping at the weekend. Or I'll just catch up on sleep when I have a holiday. You can't have a sleeper and your body's like, hey, wake up at 6 o'clock on Sunday and you are now hungry.

Or is it you wake up when your alarm goes off and you're like, oh, go back to sleep, go back to sleep, go back to sleep and can't. No. It takes more than a week to recover from 10 days of poor quality sleep. Oh, wow. Okay. So, yeah, you're not going to catch up with the weekend. So even in, I reckon a lot of people with level, there'll be a lot of people now that are in level two now that have been in the level three and the four bad sleep for the

last few weeks. Yeah. Because people stay up late. Because you don't, what are you, not waking up for anything, are you? You're totally out of your rhythm. Yeah, just binging series until like two in the morning. The travel you might have to usually allow for to get to work, even if you're working from home.

The travel's gone and you don't have to get dressed, so you've got a bit more time to... And then if you're like, oh, well, what does it matter if I'm tired? Well, it affects your memory. This is what sleep deprivation does. It affects your memory. It affects your reaction skills.

So, I mean, like, imagine all these people who are, like, really sleep deprived who are driving. I'm never going to be a Formula One driver, am I? Or a fighter pilot. For many reasons. Are you calling me fat? No, that was not one of them. You were.

You were. You were saying I'm too fat to fit in the cockpit. I thought it was just lazy. They're like, Warren, you've got to turn up for your race. And you're like, where's Warren? And then I come around the corner. I'm ready. And then I'll catch up like Lightning McQueen.

Yeah. So if you're having bad sleep, how much time do you need to get right? It takes over a week, so that's why... For 10 days of bad sleep. Yeah. So effectively, it sounds like it's one for one. What do you mean? Well, if it takes over a week to make up for 10 days of bad sleep,

let's say it's 10 days to make up for 10 days of bad sleep, 10 days of good sleep. So a weekend's not going to help you. You're chasing the dragon. Yeah. Piling on the sleep deprivation. Good luck with that. ZDM's Fleece Warner Megan.