ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Megan Podcast -9th August 2021

Episode Date: August 8, 2021

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The ZM Podcast Network. Clay, ZM's Fleets, Vaughan and Megan. Hello, welcome to the Fleets, Vaughan and Megan show podcast. It's thanks to McCafe. Grab any size McCafe coffee for only $4. Conditions apply. Just discussing with Executive Intern Anya what we're going to get her for housewarming presents. She's just come in here demanding housewarming gifts. Demanding. Yes. Yes. Megan, you're going to give her one of... I'm going to get her a variegated philodendron that I've propagated.

Yes. You're propagating a lot of plants at the moment. Variegated means it's got white spots. Yeah. Like two-tone. Philodendron. First thing that pops up. I've got a few of those if you want one.

Do you feel like a bit of a stealer? I'll just take anything. Sort of a large, broad leaf? Yeah, I'll just take anything. Sort of a large broad leaf? Yeah, I'll just take anything because I'm out. I'm down to like three. I don't know if I want to give you my babies. No, I've changed. I can do it.

I can do this. No, you haven't. You just said you're out. Meaning all your plants are dead. No, but I want to go again. I'm ready. Jesus. His head is heartbroken.

He's ready to love again I've got all these pot plants and they're empty and I need to fill them. And I've got a sour thistle that's out in the garden. That's a son of a weed, but it does, I believe it's from some sort of daisy family. You can put that in a pot, break a little bit off the milk that comes out, put that on a wart, cover it in a band-aid, the wart will disappear.

Oh, wow. That's nature. So instead of medical, Megan's doing for the looks, I'm providing a medicine plant. I'll just give you some nice champagne glasses because every house needs champagne glasses. That would be great.

I was kind of hoping for like some Le Creuset sort of maybe some stoneware. Oh, Jesus. Fuck off. Le Creuset on my budget. Have you seen how much that actually costs? It's LaCroisset. It's a croisset.

Oh my God, Jen. Not when you buy four of them. It's the LaCroisset. Yeah, no, shit. No, shit. Those things are fucking... Hundreds of dollars. They did a Star Wars collab.

Yeah, they did. A couple of years ago, and there was that little pot that looked like R2-D2, and I was like, oh, I love that. And then I saw a magic cross I was like I wanna have that Yeah

It's quite expensive That's why you get married You get all that shit When you get married Okay so I have to pay Like what 20 grand to have a wedding Yeah

To then get a free mug Who's buying Like who say Wedding presents You'd have to like Yeah my sister got a few Good lord Did she set up a registry?

No her friends just know her well And did they all chip in? No doctors Cash money Rich friends it's where it's at I'm stuck with you lot Maybe give some to the nurses Money that is

Not like a receipt Don't hand a nurse and cook Where I'm like Here you go sweetheart Something to do on the weekend Thank you Rachel Good morning Welcome to the show Fleet, Schmorn and Megan

Two minutes past six And a chilly start This morning As you would have heard Rachel just mention A lot of snow. Yeah. The dessert road closed currently, and the ferry's cancelled as well.

The dessert road covered in icing sugar. With a couple of strawberries. And a cherry on top. Yeah. Why is the ferry cancelled? Is it iced in? Is it iced in? Is it frozen?

Obviously the wind and stuff I didn't imagine it was iced in I was just trying to create a little What else? What about your Lindus? What about your Arthurs? What about your Crown? All of the Rangers Were you not paying attention to Rachel on the news. She just

rattled them all off. No. Okay, yeah. What were you doing instead? I was trying to get my headphones out of the bag because you said headphones, headphones, like that. And so I was like I better try to get these headphones out of this bag. This is what Megan and I deal with on the daily. Headphones, Vaughn,

come on. Headphones, headphones. The show's about to start. Headphones, Vaughn, come on. Headphones. Headphones. The show's about to start. Headphones. It's negative 7.1 in Twizzle. Yes, coldest place in the country at the moment. So Cook Strait ferries were cancelled on Sunday. And yes, you might want to check this morning. But yes, she's not looking too great.

West Coast is looking okay, if I might, if I may. I'm just having a look at the med service map. Nelson's cold, but looking okay. Yeah, low single figures around the country this morning. Very cold. Kaitai, the warmest place at the moment, 9.5. Barmy. Barmy.

Barmy. Barmy. Barmy, 9.5. The top six is coming up on the show before seven. I would like to personally welcome to the country my new best friend and maybe my new dad, Larry Page. How old is Larry Page? He's probably not even old enough to be my dad.

No, see, he's one of the Google guys. Eight richest men in the world. He's 48 years old, so if it had me at the tender age of nine, I'll be happy to call him Uncle Larry. Sure. He's a New Zealand resident. Yeah. This is kind of the news that he owns an island in Fiji.

Yeah. Flew to New Zealand. This is controversy. Yeah, had a sick kid, didn't he? Yeah, so flew to New Zealand for treatment. So, yeah, has New Zealand residency. I've got the top six things I could do for Uncle Larry to earn a million dollars. I mean, this is a new country to him.

He needs to be shown around and stuff. Of course he does. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Is he married? Is his preference women? He is. He's married to Lucinda Southworth. Okay.

So you just get your hands off, please. I was just inquiring. She's an American scientist, researcher, and philanthropist. She's super smart, too. Yeah, and she does charity unlike you. I like to think if I was that rich, I'd do a bit of charity. Enough to warrant me a philanthropist. Yeah, right.

Okay. All right, five past six next on the show. UK fire crews were called out to an unusual case. ZDM's Fletch Vaughan and Megan. It's LAB on ZDM, Fletch Vaughan and Megan. It's 12B on Zedem, Fleets, Fawn and Megan. It's 12 past six. Well, our fire crews in Cambridgeshire in the UK received a call of distress over the weekend. A dash hound in distress.

A sausage dog. A sausage dog. I saw a sausage dog crossed with another dog recently. Oh, okay. So it had the long... What dog? One of the ones, I think it was a terrier, like a Scottish looking terrier because it had the ears and it had the face of the Scottish terrier, but it had the long ass body of the

sausage dog, but then the long fur. Like if you've ever seen dogs in Rarotonga. Really? They're really long and low. Yeah. And the rumour is that the Queen's corgi. Now, well, we've disproved, we've talked about that before, haven't we? That's rubbish. It disappeared for 20 minutes and then came back and it. Nah, well, we've disproved. We've talked about that before, haven't we? That's rubbish.

It disappeared for 20 minutes and then came back and it was like... Okay, let's go. And that's why rarotongan dogs are odd. Have a corgi element. Could you cross a sausage dog with a husky? Anything. As long as the smaller dog is the father. Because the mother has to give birth to it.

I believe. I feel like we've looked this up before. Oh my God, look at a sausage dog husky. Oh, it doesn't look happy to be alive. Sometimes you say it. Oh man,

there's some of them that are just like looking at you like, I shouldn't have happened. Yeah, yeah. I am a genetic abomination. Husky corgis are pretty cute. Pomskies.

No. No, that's a Pomeranian and a husky. No, yeah, but I've seen corgi huskies. They're super cute. Those are two wildly incompatible dogs. They look cute. Anyway, well, the fire crews were called out to a house because a sausage dog inserted itself into a wine rack.

What would you call this, like a wrought iron? Yeah. It looks like a gate, but it's one of those ornamental kind of wine racks that you'd put on the bench or on the floor. It got its shoulders through, did it? Yeah. And then you couldn't get any further and couldn't go back.

And the owners were just panicking, so they called 911. And it took fire crews 30 minutes to free Millie the sausage dog. And, yeah, photos. How did they free her? Jaws of life. And they just snipped the raw iron. No, no, they had to snip the raw iron, yeah. Ooh.

I feel like sausage dogs would get stuck in all kinds of places. Well, yeah, they're very long, aren't they? Yes. They've got the pointy nose. It goes in and then kind of gaps itself. Were they bred purposefully for any hunting? Maybe scooting down a hole? I don't know.

Maybe they were bred. Because most dogs started out with a breed. With a breeding purpose. Maybe they were invented to stop drafts under the door. They'd just put them up against the doors at night. You know, and draft the old

English houses. Dachshund is literally German for badger dog. They were bred to hunt badgers. Their short legs kept them low to the ground to track the scents and their narrow bodies allowed them to crawl into the burrows looking for badger dog. They were bred to hunt badgers. Their short legs get them low to the ground to track the scents, and their narrow bodies allow them to crawl into the burrows looking for the badgers. Despite their small size, they're brave and fierce. Over time, they were bred with different varieties

to hunt different types of prey. I'm pretty sure. And now the only thing. We were talking about dog breeds recently in the lads chat, and I'm pretty sure in Europe, they are the most responsible for dog bites. Really? Additioned.

Additioned. Well, that makes sense now. They're little. And they go for the badger. And they're fearless. Additioned. I'm just going to search sausage. Sausage dogs are the number one culprit of hospitalized dog bites.

This seems unfounded. They're so little. Yeah. And you know, 75% of dog bites to human faces were a result of a human leaning down. Not like squatting. Yeah. But like leaning over.

Right. So leaning over a dog, it finds that like an aggressive move of dominating, you're dominating them so they defend themselves by, God, imagine going to hospital because you've got a dash hound bite. Maybe they really don't like things called sausage dogs. That's the good thing. For me, I don't have the flexibility

to bend over to a sausage dog's height. It would jump and I'd already be a few feet away so I could just be like, ah, naughty dog. Do you think the New Zealand police could be using these for... What?

Police dogs. For viciousness. For finding badges. Well, they could go for the Achilles. Train them to go for the Achilles. Good luck running with a Dachshund locked onto your Achilles. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Megan. So Stats New Zealand have said that sales for antique and secondhand trade

have jumped to $55.5 million in the three months to September 2020. That is up 29%. Is that because are we saving money? Saving money. And buying like secondhand stuff? Also, they say it could be done to sustainability. It's economically better. It's better for the environment, isn't it?

Yeah, yeah. And I guess, yeah, people trying to save money. And that you can haggle. Yeah, yeah that's true I'm always haggling going to the church shop I'm like come on what would Jesus do yeah you give them a full haggle how much you want with this what if I get two Jesus would give this to me Jesus actually flipped up flipped over a whole lot of tables at a market once he said it was disgusting how everybody was so money driven. Now, let me have this for half price. Yeah.

I can't haggle anywhere. If there's a price tag on it, that's what's, you know. Yeah, right. That's the other thing. Take the price tag off. They can't remember what price they put on there. No, because op shops are real strict on that because they are used to people like you. Yeah, right.

They're like, no price tag, no sale. But I'm wearing my Holy Cross outside of my T-shirt and my Jesus Saves T-shirt whenever I used to people like you. They're like, no price tag, no sale. But I'm wearing my Holy Cross outside of my t-shirt and my Jesus Saves t-shirt whenever I go to the op shop. I'll do anything to save a bit of money. I know you will. But op shops are getting a new fit to make them look a bit swankier, but also

Trade Me, clothing on Trade Me, the average sale price has increased from $22 to $29 this year. So lots of people getting on Trade Me to buy clothes. Yeah, well, that's good. Again, like, you know, it's secondhand stuff. Good for the environment, but also, yeah, I guess you're saving money.

I can tell you that Country Road was the most popular search on Trade Me. 14,000 searches last week. Country Road. The Country Road. Right. Can you do that thing when you do a listing if you're not selling Country Road

you just put Country Road into the listing somehow. I hate it when people tell that. They tell you off for doing that. I hate it. Times have changed. I remember when Trade Me was in its infancy

they'd release their top 10 searches and it was Roxy. Yes. Always Roxy. Always Roxy. Always the surf brand Roxy. Playboy was up there because people would look for Playboy Bunny.

Back in the day. I'm speaking like 2007, 2006, 2007. God, we need to get, Trade Me needs to do a historic top 10 through the like, the top 10 Trade Me searches over the history of Trade Me. Get trade me on the phone.

Get them on the phone. Millie Sylvester, the spokesperson. Get Millie on the phone. Get Millie. We need a top 10 through time. Yeah, I just Googled what's trending in June, but it doesn't say what June.

I don't know if that's this June or... Probably this June. Yeah. So what else? Did it say what are the other top 10 searches On our trail Or is that

Just one part of the story I just know The top three for clothing Okay So Country Road 14,000 was number one Karen Walker Was 9,000 searches

And Lululemon 7,000 So this is how In the past week If you were selling Something that wasn't Country Road Karen Walker

Or Lululemon Are you going to say Who's getting Second hand gym gear Yeah Yeah but I'm kind of Thinking You know like Active wear You're not always If it wasn't Country Road, Karen Walker or Lululemon. Are you going to say who's getting second hand gym gear? Yeah. Yeah, but I'm kind of thinking, you know, like active wear. You're not always just going to the gym sweating.

Or you buy it. Still though, it's got somebody else's imprint on it. You know, like you wear those sorts of clothes and they, you know, there's a bit of memory in them. And then if you've got a big booty, it remembers your big booty. The tights are like memory foam. Yeah. To an extent, right? It's like when, you know, like if you're a smaller dude

and your girlfriend likes wearing your hoodie and she puts the boob marks in it. Yeah. Oh, my God. My ex used to always say that. Don't wear it, you put boob marks in it. You put boob marks in it. You do.

You put boob marks in it. You put boob marks in it. And then when you go back wearing it, there's a little bit of a boobie, and it makes you look like you've got the moobies. Yeah. It's not a thing. Like, wear it a couple of times, it's pretty much yours. With your big boobs?

Get those big boobs out of here. Play ZM's Flesh, Fawn, and Megan. An engineer sick of his, he doesn't use the word sick. He says he just has an indecisive girlfriend and they spend a lot of time. So he's sick of her. Browsing places online before

they, so it's not just like what do you want for dinner? Yep. It's where should we go for dinner? And then a whole lot of time invested in browsing menus. Yeah, so he's sick of her indecisive nature. And so ahead of their anniversary where they'd set up a $20 gift limit on their anniversary present, he decided his present to her would be time invested in creating a program that

would randomly select places to eat in New York. This is where she's studying and he's working. Yeah, right. So, yeah, it just kind of like it goes through and it finds everywhere that's open and then just that place. He may have invented the best thing ever, like a Tinder for food.

Yeah. Won't work. Because I don't always know. You go and then be like, no. Yeah, I don't always know what I want, but I know what I don't want. Yeah, but that's Tinder. Which herein lies the problem. That's brrr and then be like, no. Yeah, I don't always know what I want, but I know what I don't want. Yeah, but that's Tinder. Which herein lies the problem.

That's exactly what Tinder is. Yeah, yeah. Just keep going. Because your partner will be like, what about this? No. What about this? No. And it's like, I don't know what I want, but I know what I don't want.

Okay, you can refine it. Okay. So you can just be like, brrr, random. Okay. Or you can be like, Mexican within five miles. Brrr. Ah, yeah. miles. And then it will find that. But see the problem maybe in New York because there's so many

places. Yeah and they're all like so packed in. Yeah but when you live somewhere like for me I know where all the Mexican is but it's just if I want that or not is the problem. But that would be a good way to discover something new you know. If you were like what good way to discover something new, you know? If you were like, oh, what's Italian around here?

Yeah, and your normal, like, Italian place is like, sorry, no seats. You'd be like, Italian. But that's just Google, though, isn't it? Yeah, that's the thing. This story's on a news website, and the first comment is, wow, hooked on API and pulled some data. So exciting. For you non-technical people, this is an insanely simple thing

to do and first year computer studies students would likely do this in a couple of hours, depending on the UI, which wasn't shown. I don't know. I don't even know what any of that means. Who is that a-hole? Josh Brown. Okay, Josh. You jerk.

CDM's Fletchvorn and Megan. Well, it's all over It's done It's done Dame Valerie Adams carried the flag for New Zealand in the closing ceremony A very light amount of athletes remained Yeah and no crowd Nah No crowd because of COVID Only like officials and stuff

Not like a crowd crowd A dusting Nah. No crowd because of COVID? Only like officials and stuff. Yeah. Not like a crowd crowd. A dusting. But yeah, over the weekend, there was the end of the... Because I heard people saying that it was kind of a controversy that it even happened, the games. Yeah. Yeah. I'm actually glad it did now.

Yeah, I really enjoyed it. It was so nice. Yeah. And I mean, we did so. Yeah, I really enjoyed it. It was so nice. Yeah. And I mean, we did so well, didn't we? We did do well. That's why we're all happy. Our most successful games ever. In medal tallies.

In medal tallies. Not golds. We got seven golds. The Los Angeles Olympics in 1980. I've just done a Google. In 1984, we got eight golds. And all like names that you'll know, like people like Mark Todd, an equestrian. Wow.

Russell Coote's got a gold in sailing. Who knew? And Ian Ferguson, Paul McDonald, the rowing. We did really good in the rowing that year. Yeah. Yeah, but not as many medals all up. Right. We got 11 medals at that one.

Total medals more. And before the Tokyo Games, Rio was our most successful Olympics, wasn't it? 17? We're getting better. We're getting better. We're getting better. But we punch so far above our weight. Like, I think over the weekend at one stage,

we were in the top 10 on the medal table, and we finished 13th. Is that right? Or 12th? Top 10 overall? No. Top 10 overall. I feel like we finished 11th.

What? Isn't that insane? We were never going to make number one on the per capita. 13th. Nah. Because of San Marino, that tiny island nation. Yeah. Yeah.

They got us. They got us there. 13th, just after Brazil, which is a huge population. Yeah. And the last hosts. Yeah. Then Canada, Italy, Germany. So then you're getting into the massive nations.

Go us. Cuba got seven. Cuba's just behind us. Huh. Cuba doing very well for themselves. What did they win their goals for? What did you win your goals for? A bit of boxing.

And, yeah, a bit of boxing, a bit of athletics. Did you see the guy from India who got their first track and field gold medal ever, and it was for javelin? Oh, no, I didn't. And he threw it, and then India just erupted. He was like, oh, that was good. I feel good about that. I think I've got it.

Yeah. And then back home, just chaotic eruption of celebration. Oh, that's great. And his dad was walking around a crowd, and everyone was putting lays on his dad. I'm like, ooh, hold on. You didn't do it. Yeah.

We made him. Those are your son's flowers. Those are your son's celebratory things Yeah, so Lydia Ko adding to our medal tally over the weekend with the bronze and the golf Yeah, that was nice Yeah And that's the only medal that really got added Over the weekend

Over the weekend What an Olympics It's good stuff Yeah So to quick recap Bronze for Hayden Wilde in the cycling, silver for Brooke Donoghue and Hannah Osborne in the double skulls, silver for the men's sevens, the all-black sevens,

gold for Kerry Geller and Grace Pendergrass at the coxless pairs, Emma Twigg got a gold in the single skulls, silver for the women's eights in rowing, gold for the men's eights in rowing, bronze in tennis for Marcus Daniel and Michael Venus, Dylan Schmidt in the trampolining, which I'd say would be the most surprising Olympics medal because I didn't even know we did. We do double bounces.

We do crack the egg. We do. Take the pads off and see who can smash their teeth out on the side of the trampoline, but I don't know we did it competitively. Then the Black Ferns Sevens won gold. Dame Valerie Adams, bronze. Lisa Carrington's Hall of Medals included a gold in the K-1 200

and with Caitlin Regal in the K-2 500. Peter Belling and Blair Tewkes got a silver, just missing out on gold. David Nika wins an Olympic bronze for boxing, and I finally learned how to say his last name. Tom Walsh got a bronze in the shot put. Lisa Carrington gets another gold medal in kayaking. Elise Andrews, silver on the bike, as well as Campbell Stewart who got a silver on the bike,

and Lydia Ko, a bronze medal. Oh, fantastic. I can't wait to see them all come back and start endorsing garage doors, meat products, cars. Toothpaste. I reckon the cricketers should give somebody else a go at heat pumps. I reckon they're bad enough with heat. Yeah.

Okay, you're fair call. I reckon give it to the sailors, because then they can talk about the breeze that blows out of the heat pump. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Good, good. It's good to have an angle. Yeah, great to have an angle. I mean, what are cricketers' angles?

From the bustling ZM think tank, this is the top six. Google Larry Page, New Zealand. You'll get Larry Page, Google co-founder, granted New Zealand residency. Google billionaire Larry Page has been granted New Zealand residency. Google co-founder Larry Page is a New Zealand resident, says the government. He is now a New Zealand resident, says the government. He is now a New Zealand resident. There was talk about how he came

to the country from a Fijian island he owns because his 12-year-old was sick and needed medical attention and New Zealand was the closest place. Yeah. Yeah. And talking about with closed borders and stuff, can the super rich kind of skip the queue?

What's the deal? It turns out the answer, yes. The answer is yes. But now that he's here, there are some things he'll need to know about being a New Zealander and that's where I step in with the top six things I could do for Larry Page to help him settle in for a few million bucks.

That's just your service fee, is it? Yeah. Okay. Yeah, right. Number six, I can change his laptop's default search engine from Bing. I did this for my mum.

She was still Bing. Bing. I was like, Christine, get with the times. Let me change that to Google. They got rid of Bing yet? Nope.

Is this still a thing? Yeah, it's still the default search engine in Microsoft. Oh, get rid of it. Some products, yeah.

Number five on the list of the top six things I could do for Larry Page to help him settle in for a few million bucks, show him the best fish and chip shop in his neighborhood. Oh, yep. It's easy. You do a bit of a walk-in, give a bit of a look at the cleanliness. See what the fish of the day is. Yeah. Chuck, look at that menu.

They're doing a deep fried scallop. Yep. Do they have a potato frittata? Yeah, I always judge it by the good crab sticks. You know, you're not a fan of crab sticks, but I love crab sticks. Don't tell me they're not real crab.

I know that. It's not real crab, man. We all know that. Order a fish of the day, bite into it. If it's got a lovely crunch, you're on a good, you know, but if it's just a bit soggy, Larry, let's go to the next place. Okay. Like the king's Bite into it. If it's got a lovely crunch, you're on a good, you know, but if it's just a bit soggy, Larry, let's go to the next place. Okay.

Like the king's taste of me. Number four on the list of the top six things I could do for Larry Page to help him settle in for a few million buckaroos. Teach him all the lingo. Oh yeah. Because Google Translate

does not have a Kiwi setting. No, it doesn't. I could teach him all of the words that people seem to get confused about when they get here. Because Americans get confused.

They come here and they think we're saying sweet ass. Yeah. But we're just sweet ass, bro. Sweet ass. Yeah. Sweet ass. See, that's something I can help Larry with. Number three on the list of the top six things I can do for Larry Page to help him settle

in for a few million buckaroos. Show him the way that Google Maps doesn't know about. Because Google Maps is always pretty keen to take you on a sealed road. Yep. I can get you there in five minutes less up the gravel road. Yeah, but that's

fraught with danger, isn't it? Is it though? Live a little Lowry. Yeah. Number two on the list of the top six things I could do

for Lowry Page to help him settle in for a few million buckaroos, I'll let him use my spare Netflix log on. Okay, yeah, that's good.

I've got one there. Every cent helps, eh? Yeah. Yeah. Help him out. And speaking of which, number one on the list of the things I could do for Lowry Netflix log on. Okay, yeah, that's good. I've got one there. Every cent helps, eh? Yeah, yeah. Helping him out. And speaking of which, number one on the list I could do,

of the things I could do for Larry Page to have him settle in for a few million buckaroos, let him park his caravan on my lawn for a few weeks while he gets on his feet. Yeah, that's a nice of you. That's the sort of guy, I really want him using the inside toilet, though. Just because there'll be lots of coming and going. He might be a midnight wheeze guy.

I'll just tell him to go wheeze on the lemon tree. Oh, yeah, perfect. Perfect. Larry's lemons. ZDM's Fletchbond and going. He might be a midnight wheeze guy. I just want to go wheeze on the lemon tree. Oh, yeah, perfect. Perfect. Lowry's lemons. ZDM's Fletch, Ron and Megan. I received a last-minute invite on Saturday to the rugby, which I'd forgotten. No one told me they were even playing.

I feel like you say that every time. You say that every single time. No one told me the All Blacks were playing. No one said anything. Right. Do they have to run their schedule past you, do they? Would be nice. I honestly had no idea.

I was in bed. At seven o'clock. You don't run in rugby heavy circles. No, I don't. No, I don't. I mean, you only work in an industry where you should know what's going on, like the radio, media. I couldn't tell you what happened in that 80 minutes of rugby,

or I could tell you about the Val Kilmer documentary. Just watch that. Oh, my God. I've heard it's really sad. It is real sad. Because he's sick, right? He has throat cancer. Yeah, right.

Got throat cancer. And so now he has this big thing. He has to, like, block the hole. He's got a hole. Oh. Oh, my God. Remember those vacuum cleaners? What?

Well, you had the little thing on the... What was the purpose of the vacuum cleaner hole halfway up? I don't know. I've never known. And then you'd slide it open and it would... It would just like reduce the suction at the end. You just put your finger in there. Yeah, you just put your finger in there.

Was it to clear something out? Maybe. I don't know. So he's got one of those and he has to... Oh my God. That's horrible. And you think about Val Kilmer was in like Top Gun. He was in like Doc Gun. He was in like

Doc Holiday. He was Batman. He hated Batman by the way. Oh did he? He always dreamed of being Batman. He hated his time as Batman. Right. All these like legendary roles.

Right. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Oh that was a great movie. Yeah. And it just goes into like his life and stuff which was behind the scenes a bit rough.

And then how he's living now with his... I just want to clarify I did a wheeze. You did a whee wee? Well done. No, wee snigger before, and that's because, not because of his condition, that you've like completely turned rugby into talking about

Val Kilmer. It's a great skill Vaughn has. It's called a tangent, and... Hang around. But I wanted to talk about the fact that I received an invite to this rugby game from a friend who had a last minute ticket

hours before it kicked off. Oh my god, someone cancelled. But in their defence they did say from the outset look, straight up, I've had a cancellation, do you want to come? Okay, so they were up front about it. They were up front about it.

But I was a little bit like, well, this went, if you'd invited me like a few days earlier, I could have cancelled a party I was going to. That would have been great. Would you have cancelled a party? No. You wouldn't have cancelled the party to go to the Olympics. Maybe.

I don't know. No, but it was like a corporate box. Oh, yeah. Is this a top-tier friend that you would have expected to be number one call-up? No, I wouldn't have expected to be number one call-up. But it was, yeah. And they were from the outset, they said this is a last-minute call-up. Okay.

But, you know, when you get those call-ups and you know you're not a top-tier first ask. And they try and palm it off as like, yeah, no, this has just happened. You're definitely first. Don't you lie to me. Don't you. Yeah. Don't you bullshit me. Executive Internania,

didn't you go to a wedding where they had a last minute bridesmaid? Yes. Change aroo? Yep. There was a disagreement about two weeks out from the wedding and the maid of honour

was no longer the maid of honour, nor invited to the wedding. That's a massive. And yeah, I believe a family friend got the call up instead. You know if you're getting asked two weeks for a wedding to be a bridesmaid that you're not the number one pick. Yeah. But wait, did an existing member of the.

What was that? No, I was just saying, would you do it? Because you know it's surrounded by drama. Yeah, probably not. Was an existing member of the bridal party called up? No, I was just saying, would you do it? Because you know it's surrounded by drama. Yeah, probably not. Was an existing member of the bridal party called up? No. Fresh.

Fresh meat went straight to the head of the table. Yeah, yeah. So I would have imagined everybody would have stepped up. Like a game of four square. The bride eliminates the queen. Now everybody just moves up a square. Everyone gets a promotion. Yeah, there was only one other bridesmaid, so. So they had one other bridesmaid and they're like, we're going moves up the square. Everyone gets a promotion. Yeah, there was only one other bridesmaid, so I don't know.

So they had one other bridesmaid and they're like, we're going to get someone else. Maybe she didn't want to do it. I don't know. Maybe she wasn't cut out for it. But I thought, could we take some calls this morning? When did you get a last minute call up? When were you the last? And maybe they didn't say, but you knew.

Yeah. It's obvious. Like whether it was like Last minute to be a bridesmaid Or just last minute to tag along On a holiday Yep Or an adventure

Like Fletch The Cinemar What cinema I meant to say theatre Like if they had a theatre ticket To see a musical performance Oh okay Yeah right

Okay And they were like How do you want to go to the That was a good example from you Do you want to go to the... That was a good example from you, Vaughan. Do you want to go to the theatre tonight? We're a good example. Yeah, and you'd be like, do you want to go to the theatre? Yeah.

And then you'd be like, did you just purchase this ticket? Before asking me if I want to go to the theatre. Good job, Vaughan, on your example. It's a good example, Vaughan. It's a ticket to an event. Much like your rugby game. Yeah, yeah. It's a ticket to an event. It's a ticket to an event. Much like your rugby game. Yeah, yeah. It's a ticket to an event.

Good example. I've got a ticket. They bought the ticket for somebody else. Yeah. Yeah, because if you're getting asked on the night of an event and somebody has a ticket. Just don't say event. Say theatre, for example.

Theatre, for example. Yes. Then you know you're a last minute call up. So it was a great example. The theatre. I would say of all the examples. Probably the best example this morning.

Someone out there was like, I didn't have a story, but oh no. No ideas were referenced. Because I got the last minute invitation to the theatre. The theatre that time.

0800 DALS at M. Give us a call. Maybe you were the last minute call up to a theatre. A theatre performance. A ticketed, I must again reiterate, a ticketed theatre performance. 0800-966

when were you the last minute call up to an event? Such as a ticketed theatre performance. We're talking about when you've ever got the last minute call up, perhaps to a ticketed theatre event. Again, no. Again, not specifically a ticketed theatre event

Yeah, I got the last minute call up to the rugby But you couldn't go But I had plans, otherwise I reckon I would have been keen for that It's free They just say that now Only because it was a corporate box And it's a corporate event, there's free booze and food Exactly

Tracey, what was your last minute call up for? Two weeks before a wedding I got a message by an old flatmate to ask if I wanted to be a bridesmaid at her wedding. An old flatmate? Yeah. But you weren't invited to the wedding initially? No.

Do you hang out? What kind of friends would you consider yourself to be? Well, she lives at the other end of the country now, so no, I don't really see her that often at all. And did you do it? Yeah, did you accept the petition? Yeah, of course. Wow.

Was it more because you wanted to know what the drama was? Maybe a little bit. How many people were in the bridal party? There were four of us, yeah. Okay. Oh, okay, okay. So why did you get the call-up? What happened?

Originally, her sister was going to be a bridesmaid, but when it came crunch time, she couldn't fit the dress, so she got it. It was a wardrobe issue. What? Why did they order a dress that wouldn't fit her? Or did she fit it and then didn't fit it? I think she planned to fit it and then didn't hit the target.

Oh, yeah. I've got a couple of pairs of jeans in my cupboard. I've got a few target jeans. Yeah. Gold clothing. Yeah, yeah. Thanks for your call, Tracy. And similar story, bridesmaid last minute call up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Thanks, you're cool, Tracy. And similar story, a bridesmaid last minute call up.

Yeah, definitely. A very similar story, actually. A really good friend of mine was getting married and I knew that I wasn't a bridesmaid because she had family members and then another friend who kind of won that. So there were three of them. But probably three weeks before the wedding,

one of the family members kind of had a crisis, a midlife crisis, and decided that, you know, she was going to do other stuff. And she flew to Australia. And, yeah, like, see you, bye. And so my friend asked me if I would be the fill-in. And I was honoured. But what she didn't take into account was that three months earlier I just had a baby and they had already brought

the dress which was a size 10 and even though I could fit it everywhere the boob area was just so tight because Megan would appreciate that. I was still breastfeeding so yeah, it was a greateding, but I had to

take off every hour to do some pumping just to sit that dream. When you were like, Megan would appreciate that, I was like, I didn't know Megan was a boobs woman. It was so tight in the breast area, Megan would appreciate that. She is a perv, I'll give you that She's inappropriate Wow, she's always gawking Wow, but you still did it I did do it, yes I was very proud of myself

Amazing, Anja, thanks for sharing some messages in Somebody said This seems to be the most popular situation, getting called up My girlfriend was a last minute bridesmaid. Received an apology from the bride saying, I'm so sorry, I didn't even think about you.

But when the first bridesmaid pulled out, you were the first person that came to mind to be in the bridal party. Yeah, right. But it was like really last minute. That seems to be another one. Somebody said, I came out of a movie in Wellington and somebody said, do I want to go

to a ticketed theatre event really it was the Harry Potter Symphony August New Zealand Symphony August performance which was in a theatre and both ticketed

thus tick in the boxes of being a ticketed theatre event and I went I had 30 minutes to get there so I was definitely like

somebody else pulled out but I got there but I got there yeah But I got there. Yeah, right. And I'll tell you what, just a strew of other text messages from people who were invited to do theater events. Last minute. Last minute. Yeah.

You don't want to read them all out. I had to get doled up because that'll take you too long. You've got your Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. Okay, yep. Mary Poppins. Yep. Madagascar. Yep.

The Musical. Thank you. Ticketed Theory of the Year. Yeah, good. Okay. Richie Valens. Sure. What's that one called?

Jersey Boys. Jersey Boys, yeah. 721. 57% of people are guilty of doing this in their online shopping. I'm one of them. CDM's Fletchborn and Megan. 57% of people say they doing this in their online shopping. I'm one of them. CDM's Fletch, Ron and Megan. 57% of people say they're guilty of cart abandonment. So they have items in, this is online shopping.

You put stuff in your cart and then you're like, maybe you get to the shipping cost and you're like, I'm spending $120, but I'm not paying $7 shipping. You abandon. Yeah. Cart abandonment. Why are they making out that this is some big problem that's like putting someone out? Like it's not an actual

shopping trolley full of stuff that you're leaving in the middle of a department store. It's not even as bad as throwing on three pairs of pants. I always feel so guilty when the person at the store is like, I'll put those back for you. You're like, oh, yeah, okay. Because I can't remember where I got them from.

I don't fold things very well. And you don't know how to do their special folds that they do so well. They do such a special fold. They don't care if you bought them or not. They're just, you know, they're just working. But I still feel bad because you hand them a massive pile of stuff and you're not buying any of it. Yeah, you're like, I'll just take that.

It's a pair of socks. You can put all the stuff back. I think it was like the rise of online shopping and then the psyche behind why people are not following through with the purchases. It was the endorphin. There's been studies, right? The endorphin hit of like loading up a trolley and looking at all and being like, and then just exiting it is as much as actually purchasing it.

Is it? Without the post-purchase regret of when it arrives, you're like, I didn't need this. I do it all the time. Especially if I am coming home from having some drinks. You load up the shopping trolley and thank goodness most of the time I don't follow through with it.

But you're like, oh, look at everything I'm going to buy. And then you just close the cart. And then you get an email being like, oh, hey, babe, you forgot to purchase this thing. You left something in your cart. How about 10% off and 50% off shipping? So that's how I found out that that was a thing.

Just because you close the cart down and you're like, and then suddenly they're like, would you like 10% off? And you're like, I want 20% off. It can wait. Yeah. But do you find that gives you an endorphin hit if you shut the car? Yeah, it does.

Wow. Okay. And then depending on how many vinos you had, sometimes you do press whoops a daisy by that. And that's a surprise in the morning. And then it arrives at work and you're like, I do not remember buying that. That's how I got that knife last week. Yeah. That's a cool knife, by the morning. And then it arrives at work and you're like, I do not remember buying that. No. That's how I got that knife last week. Yeah.

That's a cool knife, by the way. Okay. That knife's awesome. Yeah, right. Okay. So how many people are doing that? 57% are leaving things in their online shopping carts, abandoning the carts.

Because imagine abandoning an actual real cart. What sort of piece of crap would do that? It's me, Producer Jared. Yes. Imagine our shock and disgust this morning when we're talking about the statistic pre-show.

We think, well, let's talk about that. And Producer Jared pipes up and says, I did that in real life just yesterday. Yep. Real life. You loaded up a trolley. Well, it wasn't loaded up. There were maybe ten items in there.

And you were what? You were down the supermarket aisle. Yeah. We were at a different supermarket than the one we normally go to. Okay. And we just took umbrage with so many things. What were you taking umbrage with? Well, it was like a stampede.

It was so busy. You couldn't even move you went on a welcome to supermarkets no it was sunday late morning okay well yeah there's there was no need for it to be that chocker okay right so you took umbridge with other people in the supermarket right um and then they didn't have any schnitty. They didn't have schnitty? They didn't have schnitty. Schnitty is... That's like... They're moneymaker because it's thin carts of meat

that would not otherwise be great carts of meat other than cooking it slow. Schnitty is actually moneymaker. Did you press the doorbell? I've always wanted to press the doorbell. No, no. They also didn't have a manned butchery. It was just a big shelf. The butchery's out the back. You've got to press the doorbell. No, no. They also didn't have a manned butchery. It was just a big shelf.

The butchery's out the back. You've got to press the doorbell. Some people don't like to see carcasses being carved. I like to see it. I do too, but it's not for everybody. And it wasn't just Snitty. There was nothing crumbed. It was all...

Oh, my God. Where are you? I love it. You're such a boomer. You're one of those... Yeah, you need to go to one of those Faro Fresh or one of those. It was nothing crumbed. It was nothing crumbed.

Nothing battered. The crumbed stuff's like the marinated stuff. It's because it didn't sell yesterday. So this supermarket's got no problem moving stuff, moving produce. And then they didn't have the Middy's vegetarian dips. Well, every dip's vegetarian. No, some of them have gelatin in them. Found that out yesterday. Wow.

It's good for you. It makes your hair grow. You're all going crazy on your bloody two islands little buggered collagens. Eat some gelatin! Your nails will go nuts for it! What do you think it's made of? It's made of hooves.

It'll make your hooves grow better. We've got little hooves It's made of hooves. It'll make your hooves grow better. No, it's not all made of hooves. We make the hooves. We've got little hooves on the end of every finger. And every little toe. What else was wrong with the supermarket? Their frozen stir fry mix, the only one they had,

had little pieces of pineapple in it. Oh, my God. What is wrong with you? What stir fry has pineapple in it? I don't know. It was like the supreme stir fry selection or something. So you decided that you'd had enough because there was no crumb snitchel and there was pineapple in the stir fry. You abandoned your trolley and walked out.

Well, they're lucky I didn't tip the bloody trolley over. Wow. What was in the trolley? Because everything you've described so far you couldn't find or didn't want. So what was in the trolley? Because everything you've described so far, you couldn't find or didn't want. So what was in the trolley when you abandoned it? Potatoes, onions, currants. Currants?

Currants. I think there was some ricotta. Oh, that's your only sin. Everything else could be returned, no harm, no foul. I felt a little guilty about the ricotta, but then I noticed the giant mass of people walking towards me and I said, nah, screw it. I'm not going back through the...

You worked at a supermarket. Did you ever have to put back stuff that people had abandoned a trolley? Yeah, but the thing is, I love that job because it got me off the checkout. So really, I'm helping people. Well, that ricotta's only got 20 minutes before it starts going manky, though. Disappointing, producer. though. Disappointing, producer. Sorry. Disappointing.

I love that his shopping list is just like so boomer. Snitzel. So boomer. Stir fry. ZDM's Fletch, Ron and Megan. Someone just messaged in, hearing before that I said my seven-year-old saw something on YouTube and wanted to do it.

It wasn't a yes day. There's a movie and like, have you heard of yes days? Yeah. Your parents can't say no to any requests you make for the day. That's madness. I'm never agreeing to one of those. Well, parents are doing that. Because my children are monsters. Some friends of mine did this recently and their children's

request was like, the zoo and food at the bakery. And I was just like, my kids are just little careful. That's just what they expect on the bakery. And I was just like, my kids are just little. That's just what they expect on the daily. Yeah, yeah. Spoiled little monsters. My kids' yes day would be stuff like, let us paint the house.

Yeah. Or I want to drive your car into the pool. Yeah. Madness, stuff like that. So, no, there's no yes days at our house because they'd be out of control. Yeah. Madness, stuff like that. So no, there's no yes days at our house because they'd be out of control. Yeah. August saw something on YouTube

that was like one of those annoying voiced over hack videos where I don't know if the people who were starring in it were originally like Russian and then they get an American to like voice over it and it's like, we made a thing. So the whole situation was how to turn a pizza box into an at home movie snack tray.

Oh yeah. So this was the long game. She wanted pizza the night before, mini pizzas that was in the lead up to the movie day the next day but she didn't really have any interest in watching like a specific movie. She just wanted to make the movie snack box.

And then, so, made Sade take her to the supermarket so she could pick her treats. And then make the movie box. And I said to Sade, why did you get a big bag of lollies? Because they just ate them all.

I was like, that's what I do. I get a big bag of lollies and I just ate them all. I was like, that's what I do. Yeah. I get a big bag of lollies and I eat them all. So they sat down and I was like, well, interestingly enough, here you are. You've made your tray. Like the pizza box had a hole cut in the top and that was where a drink sat. And then another hole held a little plate with like lollies. Oh, so that's the hack.

You shut the pizza box. And cut holes and then put bowls in. Yeah. And it can hold and you can sit with it on your lap. Okay. I mean, it's an absolute recipe for disaster because one move and that drink's going over. Yeah.

So they had the lollies and everything and they sat down. I was like, what movie are you going to watch? And they were like, um, and August was like, oh, I don't know. I hadn't really thought about it. I was like, it's a movie day. So they watched the high school musical for like the 8,000th time. They only watched half of it. And they only, Sade said, literally when they finished the lollies,

they were like, well, you can turn that off. It's all about the snacks. Yeah. Just ate the lollies. Right. And then put their boxes on the floor and disappeared to another part of the house. And I walked in, I was like, what's happened? You can't just abandon your movie.

This isn't the actual movies where you can just drop things on the floor and someone's going to take care of it with a vacuum cleaner. So, yeah, just cut a pizza box. Made a mess doing that. Well, at least she's onto YouTube hacks, not pranks. I'm glad to see it move away from the pranks onto the hacks. Very much so. But, yeah, it was never about the movies.

It was never about the movie day. It was about lollies. And, no, we won't be doing a yes day ever. I kind of want you to just see what she comes up with. Just offer it up to her and see what's on the cards. Yeah, it would be like, okay, can yes day include lighting things on fire? No. No, it does not and cannot.

ZDM's Fletch, Ron and Megan. This is figures from Stats NZ. Now, I don't know if COVID can be completely blamed for this. No, no, that's the rule is for the next 10 years, we blame everything bad on COVID. Yep. Pukus. COVID.

COVID, yeah. So the number of couples getting married in New Zealand has dropped and COVID could play a part in that. Obviously, it's been hard. There was a period of time in New Zealand where it was hard for us. But most weddings have gone ahead. I've seen so many people get married lately. Yeah.

So there were a total of 16,779 marriages in civil unions registered last year. That's down from 19,000 in 2019 and 20,000 in 2018. So it's gradually on the decline, marriages. And 50 years ago, the number of marriages in gradually on the decline, marriages. And 50 years ago, the number of marriages in civil unions was 27,200. So yeah, gradual decline over 50 years. Less people in New Zealand

are getting married and they're getting married later in life. So back in the 70s, the average age was 20. When you accidentally got them pregnant. What? For women, 20. When you accidentally got them pregnant. What?

For women, 20, and for men, 23. In 2020, the average age for a marriage or civil union was 29.5 for women and 30.6 for men. So we're getting married later in life. 30.6? Because I was reading a story this morning that women are giving birth later as well in life. So I, because I was reading a story this morning that women are giving birth later as well in life. Just doing everything just a little bit later.

Yeah, more women giving birth in their 40s. Yeah. And also the teenage pregnancy rate has halved in 20 years. And the, Wow. And the rate of women in their 40s giving birth has gone up 30%.

It's like talking about it more. Stay with me has gone up 30%. It's like talking about it more. Stay with me on this. It's like talking about it more and having an open conversation with people reduced the rate of accidental teen pregnancies rather than ignoring the possibility it could happen and promoting instead complete abstinence, which up until then wasn't working. Now, that's a wild theory.

That's a wild theory. That's a wild theory there, Vaughn. It's like talking to teenagers like they're adults and expecting them in turn to have a grown-up approach to sex. It's too much of a wild hippie approach. Back to the old way of pretending that if we don't tell them about sex, there's no way they'll ever discover it. Divorce rates are down as well. So less people, but...

Yeah, but that's because less people are getting married in the first place. For every thousand existing marriages in civil unions, there were 7.6 divorces. And that was higher, 10.1 in 2010. Huh. I suppose it's getting later, right? So you're making 10.1 in 2010. Huh. I suppose it's getting later, right? So you're making a decision later in life. It's more likely to be a decision that you'll... Not likely to change who you are

as a person. Yeah. Because if you think about yourself at the start of your 20s and then at the end of your 20s, the guy at the end of the 20s would not have liked the guy at the start of the 20s. And even now that I'm getting to the end of the 30s, the guy at the end of the 30s would not have liked the guy at the start of the 20s. And even now that I'm getting to the end of the 30s, the guy at the end of the 30s would not have much liked the guy

at the start of the 30s. And I tell you, he would have liked even less the douchebag at the start of the 20s. Play ZM's Flesh, Vaughan and Megan. Yesterday I decided to get a bit creative. Story being that there was a big windy storm on Friday night and it huffed and it puffed and it blew our little pig's house down. Yes, like the, sorry.

He got it. He got a childhood reference. He wasn't completely deprived of everything childhood. No, because remember, I didn't know that game, the duck, duck, goose. I didn't know how to play goose, goose, duck. There's been multiple things we've talked about and you're like, no idea. Like just regular childhood stuff. No, I don't like Disney movies.

No idea. Yeah, even the ones that came out when you were a kid. Yeah, and I just never saw them. I've got no idea what you're talking about. So there was a huff and a puff, because basically the pigs were living in our daughter's old little playhouse thing that they had. Oh, my God, that's so cute.

Like this plastic playhouse. Yeah, it was pretty cute, except it had boarded up windows because you know how the kids' playhouse has... they had. Oh my God, that's so cute. Like this plastic playhouse. Yeah, it was pretty cute except it had boarded up windows because you know how the kids' playhouse has a lot of windows. I remember that thing.

I got in there drunk once, didn't I? Yes. That's right. And you could get in it and you could, as a human, stand up

and look like you were a walking house. Yeah. That was great. Except it was a little bit too wide. You could get your hands out the window

but not like your full arms. You couldn't wear it to a party, for example, where you came dressed as a house. Yeah. It was just a bit too big for that. But anyway, I boarded up the windows because they'd flap in the wind. So the piggies had some, you know, privacy. But so it did look like an abandoned house. Yeah.

Like a ghost house. But the piggies were living in there and they loved it. Yeah. And then there was this monster bang and the house was in pieces. And I was like, how did this even happen? It was a tornado, maybe a mini tornado. A mini tornado. So then the house became the house from The Wizard of Oz.

Except it wasn't Dorothy and Toto, it was Hamlet and Herman, the piggies. So they ran for the hills because they were terrified because the house got blown down around them. It was literally like they didn't have a third brother to run to, you see. Yeah, yeah. Who had built his house out of bricks. So yesterday I thought, well, I can't. They're in the chicken coop at the moment.

They're not out in the open. With the chickens? Yeah, they get on very well. Bacon and eggs house. Oh my God. Oh my God, you do have bacon and eggs ready to go. Bacon and eggs under one roof. Oh no.

So I thought I'd better make them a new shelter. Bacon and eggs under one roof. Yeah. So I thought I better make them a new shelter. Okay. A more fitting shelter. And Sade said, oh, I found one online for $800. It's a kit set.

What? I was like, exactly. We ain't spending $800. I've got knick-knacks, paddy-whacks all around here. Give a man a bone. Give a dog a bone. Give a man a hammer

and some nails. I'll make them a... So I went out. No volunteers to help me. So then it's like the other nursery rhyme, the little red hen. I was like, does anyone want to help me mill the grain? Everything's a nursery rhyme in this.

That one went over Fletcher's head. Yeah. No one would help her. And then at the end, when she made the bread. The big bad wolf comes and eats it. Incorrect. Wrong one. And no one helps her make the bread, but they want the bread. And big bad wolf comes and eats it. Incorrect. Wrong one. And no one helps her make the bread, but they want the bread. And she's like, you could all. Yeah, right.

No bread for you. She doesn't use the F word. And neither did I, by the way. I self-censored that. So don't bother complaining that someone used the F word on the radio. So I went out and I built this pig shelter out of just things we had lying around.

Okay. Pellets for the floor and you might be thinking, well, the pellets will rot. No, they won't because they're sitting up on some half round posts so they're up off the ground.

Okay. So it's up off the ground. What if there's a flood? It'll float. Okay. Or it should be terrifying for the pigs. Floating pigs.

Oink, oink, oink. And so then over the top, I've got a roof, and then I had some old roofing iron. I actually, you'd be impressed, I made like roofing joists. It's an angled roof, so the water runs off. It's an angled, I cut some wood I had lying around, so it's like a big triangle. Right.

And then I put some wood between it to hold it on. Does this thing look horrible? Oh, right. Do you know how much it cost me? How much? Zero dollars. That's great. Zero dollars.

How long has it lasted so far? Three nights? No, no, no. It was built yesterday. First night. Okay, okay. I can't confirm that it's even in one piece this morning. Okay, right.

That's good. But it cost zero dollars. So I would like to know this morning, the best thing you've made for $0. Do you know what else I made you today for $0? What? Two pies. They were leftover pies.

But you would have originally bought the pies. Leftover pies. It was all leftover stuff. Yeah, but you originally bought the pies. We originally bought the stuff. Okay, well, that doesn't count. Because that's not $0. It was a zero. It was stuff. Yeah, but you originally bought the pies. We originally bought the stuff. Okay, well that doesn't count. Because that's not zero dollars. It was a zero, it was stuff. What was in your leftovers

pies? So, um, leftover barbecue chicken nibbles. I stripped them, the bones weren't in them. Okay. I stripped them off and gave them a blur in the blender. And then some, just What, like liquid chicken? No, no, no, no, no. Sade bought this blender and it doesn't turn things to mush.

It chops it. You know how blenders, you know how food processes. Oh, yeah, food, yeah, yeah, okay. Every food processor I've ever had just turned stuff into muley. But this actually chopped it into like choppable pieces. Right. Magical. Why didn't you just chop it yourself?

Because Sade bought the food processor. Oh, yeah, okay, yeah, yeah, cool. So then it was just like all the leftovers. Like we had some broccoli that was starting to go a bit soft. Right. You know how broccoli goes a bit soft? Yeah. Chuck that in the food processor, and then there was like some spinach,

and it was starting to get a little bit like, oh. So that went in the food processor, and it all went in the pie. And then we had some leftover cheese from a cheese board. That went in the pie. Leftover potato gratin. That went in the pie. And then we just had pastry left from some other endeavour Some other pastry endeavour

Right, okay I saved my family a lot of money yesterday And what thanks did I get? Nothing! Did you keep going on about it like you are now? You know what I ate for breakfast yesterday? What? The ends of the loaf

Because they were just wrapped up in the plastic bag And left in the fridge And yes, you will refrigerate our bread Absolute hero Fathers everywhere Because they were just wrapped up in the plastic bag and left in the fridge. And yes, you will refrigerate our bread. Absolute hero. Fathers everywhere. I salute you for eating the ends of those loaves. Because they dry and they don't toast very well at all.

No, they don't always chuck them out. But yeah, wasteful. It's a thing to us. I'm not going to eat them. I'll feed them to the chickens or the pigs. But I'd like to know the best thing you've made for $0. Just of stuff you had lying around. Or you can tell us a story about how your dad does this all the time. Because it's dad territory. Megan's not going to have the pigs. But I'd like to know the best thing you've made for zero dollars. Just of stuff you had lying around. Or you can tell us a story about how your dad does this all the time. Because it's dad territory. Megan's not going to have a story, are you?

No, I don't. No? I tried. I don't. Alright, give us a call. 0800 DALES AT M. Talking about the best thing you've made for zero dollars. Maybe just stuff hanging around. You're like, I can make something out of this.

Your mum's saying at the moment, Megan, while Mr. Toyboy's away on tour, is she making things happen for free? The only thing I can think of is she just is an absolute water warrior. So we have water containers all over the place. Oh yeah, because she showers with containers on the ground at home, right? So while you're waiting for anything to heat up, you have to fill up a container of water.

And then we can use it in the jug. We can water the plants. We can put it in the washing machine. It's good. She's an eco-warrior, but it's a lot. It's a lot of extra work, but there's got to be something in that. Yeah. All right, well, the best thing you've made for $0.

Yeah, we want to know what you made that cost you nothing. Claudia joins us. Claudia, what cost you nothing? So I'm like a fully grown adult and I'm flushing. Congratulations on fully growing. Yes, thanks. So I'm flushing right now and instead of like buying all the ingredients like flour and sugar because money, I'll just go around to my parents' house

and just make everything because I've got everything there. Yes. And so like this weekend I had to make like a cake and a couple of slices and stuff and it didn't cost me a dime. And they always have so much ingredients all the time. It's like never-ending flour.

But truthfully their cinnamon expired in 1989. But they'll have, like, real left-field ingredients, too. Like, I mean, yeah,

like, same sort of, in the same sort of breath, they'll have, like, all these cans and stuff right at the back of the pantry

and they'll be kind of, like, going a little bit rusty around the edges and you're like, oh my gosh. Yes. You and mum,

Wadis, has changed their logo three times. Yeah. They're actually back to this logo now. Claudia, thanks for your call. Alex, what cost you $0? So we were looking for a goat house, and we were looking online,

and those A-frame ones, they break in a fortune making those. So I decided that we had a couple of pallets around and a sign, and I whipped up one myself. Oh, does your... I made our goat house for nothing, too. I used the old children's swing set. You know how they're in an A-frame and then had a corrugated iron and just put it along the sides, and that goat house is... And do the goats use the swing?

Yeah, they do. They use the slide. Right. But what sign did you use, Alex? It wasn't a real estate sign, was it? No, it was just a sign that was laying around the house. It was an old business sign that's not even... Right. Okay, so good. Zero dollars, much like the new pig house.

Ben, what did you make for zero dollars? I made a super cute little nursery shelf for our nursery out of scrap wood from downstairs. Oh. There's a few people there taking advantage of scrap wood. You can't go past the pallet. You can't go past the pallet. I did end up using the pallet for some of it. Yeah.

Where is everyone getting these pallets from? Side of the road, baby. Oh, your side of the road. What does that mean? Like side of the road. No, places, businesses that get stuff delivered on pallets from? Side of the road, baby. Oh, your side of the road. What does that mean? Like side of the road. No, places, businesses that get stuff delivered on pallets.

Yeah. Just put them on the side of the road. Yeah, they do because they want them gone. Some of them can't be returned. Some of them can be returned. The big tough ones,

I asked the lads at the local hardware store. I said, what's the deal with this one? Because that looks sturdy. And they said, no, you pay a bond on that one because it's too tough

and the timber's all treated and everything. Right. So that's got to go back. Somebody else said, my husband's a tradie. He takes scrap wood and offcuts

that are meant to go on the skip from building sites and brings it home. It's good. This is recycling. It is. It's good. And makes us stunning furniture from it.

Ooh. Almost all of our furniture is homemade. Ooh, what's the sofa like? A pallet. A splinter's in What's the sofa like? A pallet. Splinters in your car. A pallet with a bag of pink bats on top. Nice.

I tell you what, the amount of people sickeningly messaging in they made their babies for nothing. You don't know how much those things cost when they come out. They start taking and they don't stop taking. They're expensive. You made them for nothing. Babies are the original

shaving razors. You get the original thing for nothing and then they cost you a fortune every time for refills. Somebody else said that they don't think we should talk too much about going to your parents' house and stealing all their ingredients through baking because they don't want their parents cottoning onto it. Oh, right.

They go around to see mum and while they're there, they whip up like three batches of baking and then disappear with two and a half of them. Mums love it though because they get to see you. Yeah. They get to tell you where ingredients are. Mums love that. Mums love saying, it's where it's always been. Which one's the self-raising flower, Mum?

She's like, it's got an S on the top of the container. Bless them. Play ZM's Flesh, Fawn and Megan. Fact of the day, day from J.J. Abrams Okay The director And he did Lost, the TV show He's done a couple of Star Trek-y wars

He's done Star Trek, he's done Star Wars He's done both the Trek and the Wars Okay Almost unheard of. And it is about the origins of the phrase with regards to movies being blockbusters. Okay. Blockbusters. Blockbuster movies.

So the earliest usage of blockbusters was just after World War II. And there were advertisements about movies about the war. Yeah. There was one called Bombardier, which was about a bombardier. Bombardier? Bombardier? I don't know the spelling difference. I might be saying the same word two different ways there.

And it was called the blockbuster of all action service show, action thrill service shows, because it was about a plane that could drop bombs that would destroy whole city blocks. Oh, right. So it was a blockbuster. Oh, wow. And the movie was so big and on a grand scale with the sound and the music.

And you know when a blockbuster is a blockbuster, it's not an indie film, it's a big blockbuster. Yeah. Big budget. Yeah, big budget, big blockbuster. There was another one with the Marines at Tarawa, is's a big blockbuster. Yeah. Big budget. Yeah, big budget, big blockbuster. There was another one with the Marines at Tarawa is what this movie was called.

Hits the Heart like a two-ton blockbuster. And again, it was another movie with the big title sequence at the start and big sound and everything. So then it kind of got used a little bit in movies, but then it translated to a few decades later,

a blockbuster was when the line for the movie went around the whole block. Ah, because it was so popular. Because it was so popular, it would go around the block. Right. And previously had been a blockbuster. They could take these movies about taking down a whole city block had become blockbusters. Yeah.

And now the queues were around the block. So the new meaning was you had a blockbuster on your hands. If it excited people to the scale that they would line up around the block to see it. Right. Yeah. Huh. And Star Wars, the first, New Hope, or just Star Wars as it was known

when it was released in 1977, was the first, like, modern blockbuster that they started using it again. Right. Wow. In a non, well, I mean, it's a Star War, but it's not a traditional war sense. So today's fact of the day is that a blockbuster got its name from a movie that would make people line up

around the block. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. It was a show that was filmed partly in New Zealand after a pandemic happened, guys. This pandemic has... I know, I know. It is on Apple TV+. It is out now. The show is

called Mr. Corman and joining us on Zoom, but also in our country, Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Hello. Yeah, Kia ora. How long... Kia ora. Brilliant pronunciation. How long have you been in New Zealand? Because obviously Mr. Corman was filmed here, but have you just

stayed? We've stayed. We just finished post-production here. We did the whole darn thing here. We got here last autumn, around October, and like I said, just been so grateful to be here, both in my work life as well as the friends we've made and the family community that we've ended up with. I just can't say enough lovely things about our time here in New Zealand. There's a warmth and like a team spirit here that I just think is a little different than where I'm from.

And I'm very, very grateful to be here. Is it me or has your accent softened a little bit and you've come around to a bit of a Kiwi? You don't sound as American anymore. Yes. Have you fallen in love with any Kiwi foods or treats or ways of life? Oh, yeah, kumara. Oh, yeah. It's huge in my house.

Greatest sweet potato. It's slightly different than what we call a sweet potato. It's a little different, kumara here. Yeah.. Fries. Deep fried, yes. Kumara fries, yes. So you actually started pre-pandemic filming in LA and then you had to move here. It was never the plan to shoot it here, was it? That's exactly right. Yeah. We had already written all of our scripts and we had shot three weeks of our show when the pandemic arrived in Los Angeles. And I got to hand it to my producing partners at A24. They had this idea and they called us up and said, how would you feel about moving to New Zealand?

And I just about hit the roof because it sounded like a dream come true. My wife and I had already been talking about New Zealand because, look, you guys handled it. And I think it's a real tribute to the people here in New Zealand. I mentioned that there's like a community spirit here where people are willing to make personal sacrifices for the good of the group. And I think that's a big part of why the virus got handled here. And I admire it a lot. I feel like the United States could learn something from you guys. And again, just feel so lucky and grateful to be here. Well, you would have heard us call ourselves the team of 5 million,

but we can count you as part of our team now. Yes. 5 million and 1. Glad to be here. Thank you. Did that make it hard filming? Because a lot of it's in LA and I'm watching it and I'm pretty sure I saw a cut from LA to a Bunnings

and I'm watching, I'm like, that's definitely a New Zealand house. I'm like, but then I'm like, that's definitely an LA house. It's very, I'm watching, it's hard to pick. You've done well. Well, thank you. Thank you. Those transitions are mostly hidden. It was funny because, you know, we were, I was working with a production designer named Brandon Heffernan, who's you know, he's he's worked on The Hobbit.

Like he's like very, very skilled. And we're using these techniques of movie magic that would normally be, you know, used to make these fantastical worlds of Middle Earth. But but we're using them to make, you know, Van Nuys, which is like a kind of a normal suburb of Los Angeles where I grew up. But I think we mostly got away with it. Some of the Kiwis in the audience might spot, you know, a certain street in Petone or whatever. But for the most part, I think you won't notice. So the themes which I noticed, especially in episode five about social media, it hits kind of hard. It's kind of confronting.

Is that how you feel about social media yourself? Well, look, I think social media as a technology is a wonderful thing. I think people should be able to connect to each other on, you know, via digital technology and form form communications and communities. And that's all great. I do think, though, that some of today's social media platforms, because largely because of how they make money with advertising, they create these sort of trends towards narcissism and tribalism and extremism and authoritarianism and hatred and misinformation that are, yes, that are real problems. And I think that we as a generation, we have to correct those. And I think they won't change until we

ban mass surveillance advertising. Something I just wanted to mention with you personally, I remember a long time ago, you called yourself a feminist. And that always hit really hard for me. I was like, that is so awesome to have a guy who's like, yes I'm a feminist and I also saw that you credited a lot of New Zealand success to having a female run the country so yeah

I'm just a fan for sure my wife and I often times curl up and just watch her late night Facebook feeds where she's like talking about the wicker chair or whatever what's it called, First house. Is that where she is? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. She's, she's really fantastic. It was funny. Cause when we were, uh, actually when we were in MIQ, uh, there were presidential debates going on in the United States between Trump and Biden.

And then there were the presidential, uh, the prime minister debates going on in the United States between Trump and Biden. And then there were the presidential, the prime minister debates going on between Jacinda and I'm forgetting. Judith Collins. Yeah. And the level of discourse was just like night and day. You know, the two guys were just like throwing mud at each other and not saying anything substantial at all. They were like two kids. And then these two ladies were speaking about, you know, having substantial discussions about policy. Like this is what a presidential debate should be. It's maybe

less like entertaining, like reality TV, but it's, this is how a democracy ought to run. And I really take my hat off to this country. Thank you so much for your time. Are you planning to stay or do we have to kick you out? I hope I get to say yeah i i really love it here and you know whether whether we leave and come back or whatever but i i just i can't say enough nice things about new zealand and and i'm really truly grateful for getting to be here so thank you play zms flesh phone and megan and that was the end of last week. We had quite the dramatic retelling of a pop-up purchase. A string of pearls. Which, um...

I can't keep them alive. I've given up on that as a plant in my house. They're very hard. Apparently too much water... Can make them rot. Friend of the show, Johnny Dropoff. Remember Johnny Dropoff? Yeah.

He just messaged in saying string of pearls currently being propagated in his house in test tubes. Like a row of... Who's got what? A test tube holder. His wife's in saying string of pearls currently being propagated in his house in test tubes. Like a row of test tubes. A test tube holder. His wife's propagating strings of pearls in test tubes. He brought that home from the school chemistry lab. I don't know where you got a test tube stand from.

Yeah, weird. Okay. Wow. And he's propagating them. Apparently they're very sought after at the moment. They've got a string of pearls. Well, that's why. Jared was after one last week.

Well, he was after a string of pearls. Well, that's why Jared was after one last week. Well, he was after a string of pearls. So, and when you arrived, your plant aficionado wasn't there. Your plant dealer. I was trying to make it sound less like a drug dealer, but your plant expert wasn't there. His partner was. She said he's not here, and then he flies in. He's breaking up with her.

He's throwing stuff in the car car and he screams down the road. Yeah. Well, I don't know who was breaking up with who, but a kerfuffle had been had and a moving out was in process. Wow. But you did get your string of pearls? Yep. Okay, how did that go at the weekend? Did that settle into its new home? Yeah, I think so.

The middy's kind of the professional. I just am the courier. Do you want a bit of wormweed? Yeah, actually, yeah. You want a bit of wormweed? Yeah, actually, yeah, we'd love some. You want a bit of wormweed? Yes, please. I'll bring you a little bottle of wormweed. Because you've got your worm farm, don't you? The worm farm, yeah.

Does that make your house stink, though? It's outside. Is it outside or inside? You're not, like, weeing on the carpet. Oh, the worm farm's outside. No, just the tiniest. Here's the other thing. Oh, my God, of course your worm farm is outside.

What? It's a stink. But I don't want Jared to be in his bedroom. No, you use the tiniest bit of wormweed. Pouring wormweed all over his pot plant and then his room stinks. Don't over wormweed. Just pour this bit of wormweed. I'll bear that in mind.

I went to see my plant guy again because we wanted an inch plant. An inch plant? An inch plant. An inch plant? What's an inch plant? Because, you know, I'm all about the string of turtles now. What's a string of turtles? It's like a string of pearls, except it looks like little turtles.

Oh, I'm propagating an inch plant at the moment. If you're just trying to show after a busy weekend in the garden, the panel is just discussing propagation and what plants they'd like to propagate next. They propagate super easy, BT does. This string of turtles looks really cute. I know, that's why I'm all about the string of turtles. Oh, that's lovely.

How did you find you had success propagating your inch plant for anybody wanting to propagate their own inch plant? You can just chop a wee branch off and put it in water. It roots very quickly. I found it sprouted roots within six days. The trades can tear Zabrina as that's otherwise known. Of course, the inch plant. Oh, my God, string of turtles are so cute. I know.

I'm all about the string of turtles. Okay. When I get my string of turtles, I'll propagate you your own string of turtles. You wanted an inch plant, so you went back to the dealer's house. Now, what was it about the inch plant that attracted you, Jared, was the lovely purple hue in the middle of the leaf? No, we've actually already got quite a lengthy inch plant, but I wanted, because we want to repot it,

but I want to put more in the same pot. More of a foot plant than an inch plant. Right. Put that off and put it in the same pot. More of a foot plant than an inch plant. Right. I'll put that off and put it in water. Yeah, I don't trust myself. Okay, so you mean... Inch plant also has a horrendous racist name as well that we don't call it anymore. Does it?

Yeah, that's why I didn't call it that. You call it inch plant, not the other name. I'm imagining it's one of those names we're going to have to tell our mothers not to call it. Yeah, okay. Okay, so what happened when you went back to the dealer's house? Well, I asked, like, should I meet you in the regular spot? And he was like, yep. And I was like, hmm, that's interesting.

And then I rocked up and they were happy as Larry, both of them in there. They're back together. They're back together. They're on the mend, guys. This is great news. Great news. Okay, don't do the creepy voice.

From everybody here at the plant panel, we're very happy to hear two plant propagators. Did they hear you talk about their breakup? Yep. Were you what, reignited the flame? Maybe, potentially. You were both being silly. Ah, yeah. So if they're listening,

hey guys. We're talking about you again. Talk to them. Vaughn will have some issue here. They're going to have to restart the clock on their relationship. Yes, how long were they broken up for? A few days? They can't say they've been together for however many years. Now they have to restart. Alright, I'll talk to them about that.

Unless they can say we've been together five years with a brief now they have to restart. All right, I'll talk to them about that. So they've been together two days. Unless they can say, we've been together five years with a brief moment of a break. A brief hiatus. Just a brief hiatus. A brief break. So two stints there. Yeah, two stints. We've been together for five years in two parts.

I will also accept that, but I won't accept them saying we've been together five years because some of us have been in relationships for a long time without a break, and it's hard work. You've got to work at it. But we didn't take a break And some of us It's disrespectful

It's a streak It's a streak Right You know what I'm saying They broke their streak For example if you Snapchat Remember Snapchat A streak

Snapchat Snapchat Snapchat Snapchat Snapchat streaks Why couldn't I say that Is it a stroke It's an aneurysm

Remember you and Mr And I've just got the plant. Remember Megan and Mr. Twig? We did a Snapchat streak for like forever. That was epic. Say it again. Oh, remember all that time you wasted? You're the only one still using Snapchat on the show. Well, for sometimes.

No streaks though, eh? No, they don't hang around long enough, baby. I'm churning through. You've got one on your watch now. Get out. I'm churning through. You've got one on your watch now. Get out. I saw this on chat. I got it. ZDM's Flashborn and Megan.